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HOME FROM
-: r- a 1 ni if wins." '.fa storm
. A M ..f -leov M tin- ll-I '. :
..::.! r-i ut th.; c.gi; of tho
I vrinc .- .MiT'.-i I i :
i, '-ail'- I Hi- Ji-U tliMie-
r l twitt'T'-d niion.- -r
elg'-il ii p the lnu.. grow
-a.""! working e;ime on
lrean.ed in the thi-ket
.-t -hirr ' d out in the wlu-m
I lowing b' -iile the farm
-.tig rose faint and sweet :
ii tvld of roses that gr-w
V JV V AAA A.
Hi ROZELLB DIAMONDS.
: lll.l.f N f
inn
ill.
in;' ".I';.';,- iii li
vent i.f growing
i.r jltst the 1 . i ; 1 , -:
lit sttn I .111' k when
bo dolic llll'l lio-
.;y'hing; and in the
where the satin-
f 1 1 - t ! r. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-1 1 f 1 1 1 1 V
I- faded to It.lllil
mi I
girls were play
bill!'," tln-ir voices
; i;.-l into u sort of
they I jt- 1 to dis-
1 Ih v rushed fu ami
. ir men iiuciit, cut-
tinklcs of silvery
Mi; in;j dusk, until
ii peal of u bell
i i- hull. Then
il m tin' reioi -in''
I K
at.- Godfrey.
whispered
docs giggje
ked over the
Mai g.-ry.the
w it
;ii I
s f
Maiy Mellon,
the ((ivi'- ion.
' home, Kate and
. !. isi ies t., lie
v ; .rue. Emily,
lire - the logs
t iainst 1 !,e lire-
'(!.oi-iielieil;
lain.- stood in
a ea'Mlle.
. II
-oaU-.l
she.
!a Ii.
to lie
w ants
Sli
Mis; V.ivx.
-ill Mary,
i ; i i : i t ! : 1 i .
iea nit
ii I i :
live.l liero
..Uome oi l
-tie -so.lii-
eeeentrie.
i' lit" II, lil
iy money,
I like a 1
m-haiil.'
I ami ho!
..OM-l t.l
ver spent
r Lrraiolnn
eadiv
uliile
ement
luaiil.
I'ollv, th:
work a-i'l helj.e.l Aunt
I r .Mary.
e emlu'-e t hisV Wh v ilo
th
llie italile
au.-e then
l,i .
Melieii l.ir.U in t!ie i
i !.e.-aife lhe parent
est !!t
l.ir.ls
' i r. a' I v hen Ma; y as
"ami i : it li her annt.
i i he rirh," said Mrs. Mel
:i -h.- h e. Iie'l ill that el l
.'ut 1 1 . t ' i i : i for (0 years. "
- he ha.ln't it t.. s'peml,"
Mira.i.la M. lien.
! must have it! " :;iii.l
u !
"ti-1
Mfre.l, lhe
tlie Ho.'lle .li.i
ina!nle -ave her
ut
the
a noiit
l.ail
!i I. mi
f th.
i'!l.'el
it Ve.s.
lis N,
J-'relle
n. the
iml.lie.
i i
Mira'i.la.
fain ii v.
e.i: K'i.l
if I!..
i.N, imli
Ih.t
hen I
them I'll helieve
' hle.l Miramla.
' '-'i. all this has nothing to
he -iiie-tion,- sai.l Mis. Mel-i'-hiMel.
"oiir father's
Mieliiie has a-ked Mavy to pi
i'e t 'i i fl for an imleiinitely
'. an. I Mary must pi!"
- poor little human tlower
n--pla:ite.l fr.nu u larp-,
'inly of I.hvs and f;irls. living
i!:i'. t . the solitudes of u
ni'iy house, standing lieliind
1 ! .omlinrdy iiiars in a
I'i.iiu.
I l'"!l v took city upon Mary,
-ted to Mis. ' Kozelle that
il.orhood trirls should
ep her company.
1 to u place like this,"
Ill to k
iu't u-
Ho-elle shook her
1111-
e-cai.p
lecisive
"I
th
eiuhhorliood i.'irls
and I won't have
Jilt, houc
l iloillLT lo.
, was con lined
Uj'stairs, ami
w It, iu'ii Tolly, driv-'li.couselit-d
to MJavv's
I.'l'
: paniotiship.
iii ask l'.milv
r..
k to come here.'' she soldieil.
- '.ad sleep with me. and she
" !:;:icli; ami I feel myself stif-
i ' 'an old woman here alone.
1 'i ie :!1 never know."
'' ii ie. under ow of solemn
l.milypit aeuaiutol with
'iirey, th" minister's daueh
i Kate introduce.! pretty 'Mav-
"u: and the .uartet contrived
1 ' iii-mst es hugely, always on
' ! under their hreath."
Ih'.'lle timls this out. 1
. ." -aid Polly,
never sliall iin l it out !"
if. in chorus.
;ue was erv cross this
ii Mary ran apprehensively
d that I
tniil v.
dow n lielow?"
-o! rv that the footstool i
over." faltered Mary, j
u 1 he tire the logs turn- j
tit-' dou-s, and-"
n't vnii l.een up here he- j
imperiously .
1 the ,
't Ihli
!d .ho
!; :t w as so lute.
I'.mp!" -aid Mrs
Ko-
-t v.ur I mok
ed, and w hen she had
VOL. II. NO. Hi.
THE FIELD.
liy the farmhouse whono i;able loomed
wan ;
And mother would meet us In welcome wo
KIil'W, -. r.o
N he,, t!i time to cease working cam? on.
We are toiling on still, though on different
ways
r'rom th- ones whore we labored wh-n
young,
And U'.t with the carelessness known in 'he
When Hope her sweet mcl,'i(.s
lite lliillra nro 1, ......... ;
il seeinein lY.An
then
but the toilint? will some time be done
Then peace will again smil, upon us
when
, J-'.Tm.'1"" to c"'",s' working am on.
Will I. Hale, iu Chicago Times-Herald.
Ai2
i.lvHKST liKAVKS.
read the old woman to sleep, she
I. ..'..il, ,r .. t 41... .1.1 l!l
she .-at
n "u "".I inue ngures on
the lamp shade, woinlering wonder
ing how Aunt Ja-qiie could ever have
l.een youn and pretty enough to
dance with the first president of the
luilliant Parisian court; wondering
where the famous Kozelle diamonds
were kept; wondering why wmt
Jucpie had not shown them to her
when she displayed the quaint con
tents ol the tlat jewel drawer in the
Japanese caliinet thin old gold
chains, fantastic brooches, more or
less l.roken, saucer-shaped lockets and
bracelets of curious make, but never a
precious stone in the lot.
The dead-pild eardrops, like min
iature globes, were aiming the most
modern thing among the articles, but
the whole collection, Alary jeeringlv
told herself, was not worth live dol
lars. "I wish she would show me the dia
monds!" thought Mary.
And at that very instant Aunt Ja. que
awoke, with a little start.
"I was dreaming about the llozelle
diamonds," said she, sharply peering
toward thebandy-leggedJapauese cab
inet. "Mary!"
"Ves, Aunt Jacque!"
Perhaps the time was come at last.
"Look in the tall blue vase on the
right-hand coi ner of the mantel. Is
there a key there?"
"Ves, Aunt Jae.pie."
"Uli, then it's safe! But the dream
was so ery, very vivid. King for
Polly. I feel like going to lied."
Aunt Jacque went to bed as usual.
I he next morning she did not get up.
She was not sick, she said onlv
tired.
but the doctor shook his head and
gave orders that the house should be
kept very quiet.
"Miss Pmily w ill have to go home,"
said Polly. "And Miss Kate und
Miss .Margery inusn't come here any
more at present."
Imily succumbed to circumstances
and went to stay with Kate Godfrey
for a few days before sho returned to
the city. Kate w as going to have a
party.
"i di, if I could only have something
nice to wear!" sail Kmi'y. "Those
gold earrings of madam's! For one
ni'.;ht. Mary! She's lying quite drow-
j sy and unconscious; she never would
know. And I am so shabby and poor
looking among all Ka'e's friends!"
An 1 Mary, over-persuaded, crept
into Aunt Jaeque's room, took the
gey from the blue vase, unlocked the
drawer, mid abstracted the dead-gold
knobs w ith velvet fingers.
I'.mily uttered a cry of joy.
"Oh, voii ure so sweet, so good!"
said she."
"Be sure you bring them back to
morrow," adjured Mary.
"I'll be ipiite sure," said I'milv.
Tlie next morning Aunt Jacque sud
denly roused herself out of her dream
like torpidity.
"Who is there?" said she.
And Mary answered:
"I am, Aunt Jacque!"
"I dreamel," said the old woman,
"that some one was tampering with
mv jewel drawer. (So, Mary, and see
if the key is all safe."
Ami Marv, pale and trembling,
obeyed.
"P.i iinr it here," said Mrs. Kozelle.
"Let me see it. Aye, that's right.
Take good care of the key.ehihl, Let
it never go out of your sight. The
diamonds are there the diamonds that
1 mean to give to you!"
"Aunt Jacque!" gasped Mary.
"Yes," nodded the old dame "yes!
You never suspected it, did you? The
dead-gold drops are hollow the great
sparkling stones are inclosed inside
them. The diamonds that I wore that
night when 1 dance 1 at Versailles,
' with Kugenie de Montijo opposite me
! in the set. This old house and the
j diamonds are all that is left of the
great Koelle fortune, and they are to
be yours!"
j The dew of perspiration broke out
on Mary's forehead as she listened,
and no sootier had Mrs. Kozelle fallen
1 asleep again than she called Polly to
I take her place, ami hurried across the
i meadow s to the ( Sodf rev house.
Kverything was in the wild disorder
incident to the morning after a party,
i Kate, just dressed, came yawning to
i greet her.
1 "Where's Emily? My, didn't you
j know? (lone back to Xew York in
I the the o'clock morning train. Ke-
ceived a telegram that her mother was
j sick. lHdu't even go to bed after the
j party."
"id she leave no message for me?"
j "None that I know of except, of
j course, her love ami all that sort of
j thing. Isn't it too lad that she should
! be hurried away like this?"
j Mary wrung her hands. What was
I to be done? Suppose Aunt Jacque
j should insist on seeing the jewels? She
, hurried to the railway station and tele
j graphed to Emily to send the earrings
j at once, and then returned to Kozelle
! Croft with feeling that can better be
; imagined than described,
j "It was my ow n fault," she kept re
i peating to herself "my own fault !
j And I alone must bear the punish
I meut!"
The day passed slowly on, and no
message came. Aunt Jacque waked
and slept by turns, talked about the
tlrst president and beautiful Eugenie
de Montijo, called Mary by some lov
ing name, and then drifted back into
the darkness that borders on the un
seen land.
But presently, as Mary sat by the
fire in the saloon, drinking her tea,
while Folly kept watch and ward up
stairs, the shrill old voice called out,
in plainiy audible accents:
"The gold earrings! Bring me the
gold earrings, I say! Mary has the
key. Tell Mary to bring them here."
The girl started up, clasping her
hands and turning very pale. The
punishment had descended upon Ler
at last.
At the same moment a hand tapped
at the window glass. Margerv Dixon's
bright face was closely pressed against
th.; casement.
"Open, Mary open!" cried the
sweet, fresh voice. "Here's a little
package Em Hardwick left with me to
give you, and I haven't had a chance
to come over until now."
The K o.elle diamonds at last, in
their unpretending shells of plain
gold and the cloud was lifted from
poor Mary Mellen's heart.
And Margery Dixon could not
imagine why Mary was crying so hys
terically as she took the trinkets from
her hand.
"Is she so bad as that?" said she.
"But you know she was very old."
It was true. Miss Kozelle w as "very
old." She died that night; but be
fore she died she solemnly gave into
Mary Mellen's hands the Kozelle dia
monds and thedeeds-of-gift of Kozelle
Croft ami all its lands, in the presence
of the doctor and old Polly.
The girl w as not much of an heiress,
that was tru; hut to her the thing
meant wealth.
"Father and mother and the chil
dren shall come and live here," said
she, ecstatically. "And perhaps some
day, when I have laid oil' my mourn
ing, I can go to a party and wear the
diamonds!"
For, as you will see, Mary Mellen
was but a girl, after all. Saturday
Night.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Parchment used on the best banjos
is made from wolf-skin.
Friendship, Me., has a great grand
mother but lifty-three years old.
Ten regiments in the British army
publish each their own newspaper.
About $10,000,000 in gold is now
concealed in the teeth of people iu the
world.
The various countries of the world
now use 13,400 different kinds of pos
tage stamps.
The latest thing in locks is one
where the keyhole is iu the centre of
the doorknob.
Three million five hundred thou
sand steel pens are used throughout
the world every day in the week.
A merchaut in Copenhagen was
line. I 10 crowns for having used the
American Hag as an advertising me
dium. A Minneapolis genealogist reckons
up four billions of persons between
William the Conqueror and one of his
descendants now living.
Detectives detailed to look after pro
fessional shoplifters always look to see
if their suspects are wearing gloves.
A "professional," it is declared, never
works with his gloves on.
A man well up in dog lore counsels
intending purchasers of a puppy to
let the mother of the puppy choose
for them. In carrying them back to
their bed the first the mother picks up
will always be the best.
Public story tellers still earn a good
livelihood in Japan. In Tokio six
hundred of them ply their trade, pro
vided with a small table, a fan and a
paper wrapper to illustrate and empha
size the points (if their tales.
In Germany when the vote of the
jury stands six against six the pris
oner is acquitted. A vote of seven
against five leaves the decision to the
court, and iu a vote of eight against
four the prisoner is convicted.
In Japan, small children of the poor,
who have the gift of straying and uc
nurses to look after them, are safe
guarded by the simple precaution of
hanging labels round their necks
which tell their names and addresses.
The most wonderful statue in the
world is in Yokohama, Japan. It is a
seated image of the god Dia-butsn,aul
its height is sixty-three and one-half
fe.et. The total weight of this great
statue is tons, rive hundred pounds
of which is pure gold.
The National Bank of Commerce oi
Tacoiii.i, Wash., set out to sink a well
under tlie building. Some twenty oi
thirty feet below the surface the work
men came upon some cooking utensils
and a skeleton, and inquiry revealed
the fact that the spot had been an In
dian burial ground.
The palace of the king of Siam is
enclosed iu high w hite walls which arj
a mile in circumference. Within there
are contained temples, public offices,
seraglios, stables, for the sacred ele
phant, accommodation for 1000 troops,
cavalry, artillery, war elephants, an
arsenal and a theatre.
K. P. Browning, discovered in Ne
vada, Mo., as the champion skunl
hunter, has become the champion frog
catcher, getting lift y frogs in half ar
hour. He uses a pole with a hook or
the end, and, riding into the frof
ponds on horseback, yanks out auj
frog that shows himself.
;t His lee Water ICath.
"Please tix me up an ice wate:
bath," said Dr. Fernandez of the Citj
of Mexico to Clerk Green of the La
de.le hotel recently.
"We don't have them," said Mr.
Green sympathetically, as he noticec
the great beads of perspiration stream
ing down the Mexican's face.
"Can I provide an ice water batt
myself?" inquired the doctor, as lit
proceeded to mop his face w ith a iYesfc
handkerchief.
"Certainly."
The Mexican called three bell boyt
at once, and iu short order a hug
chnnk of ice was afloat in a bathtul
full of cold water. Fernandez re
mained in the bath until the chunk o:
ice was melted.
"Well, did you enjoy your bath?"
said Green, when Fernandez appearec
at the counter looking as cool as a cu
cumber.
"It was good for a while, but th ,
ice melted, and then the water got st
hot I had to come out, replied Dr
Fernandez. St. Louis Eepublic.
An umbrella insurance company i:
the latest thing in Loudon. The com
pany iusures canes as well as uni
brellas.
MARION. N, C, FKIDAY, AUGUST C. 1897.
A Magistrate Convicted of Com
pounding a Felony.
OLD NORTH STATE CULLINGS.
Big Revenues Soldier Pay an Old
War DebtMaking Money Out of
Poultry.
The railroad commission on the 27th
issued the following circular:
From and after the 1st day of Sep
tember, 1897, the Western Union Tele
graph Company shall not charge or
collect more than 15 cents for trans
mitting any message of ten words or
under, exclusive of date, addres add
signature, beween any two points with
in the limits of this State on its lines,
nor more than one cent for each addi
tional word.
Whenever a message is sent over two
or more telegraph lines owned, con
trolled and operated by separate and
distinct corporations or individuals, the
joint rate shall not exceed 30 cents for
each message of ten body words or less,
exclusive of date, address and signa
ture, between any two points within
the limits of this State and one cent for
each additiional word. Effective Sep
tember 1st.
Telegraph companies other than the
Western Union Telegraph Company
shall be allowed to charge and collect
20 cents lor a message of ten body
words or under, exclusive of date, ad
dress and signature, between anv two
loints within the limits of this State,
on their respective lines and not more
than one cent for each additional word.
Effective September 1, 181)7.
The following figures give some idea
of the great volume of business done
in the Asheville office of the internal
revenue. The statement covers from
July 1, 18!)t5, to June 30, '97:
Lists 2!),8."3 4S
Spirits 581,231 44
Cigars and cigarettes 4,848 30
Ni'' 601 86
Tobacco 1,055,872 39
Special tax 15,059 01
Total
SI, (187,592 43
The amounts by months
July, 18ll!
August, 189C
September, 1896
1 ctober, 181M5
November, lsjifj
December, lSDii
January, 18)7 ,
February, 1S'J7
March, 1897
April, 1SH7
May, 1S'.)7
June, 1897
follows:
..$121,172 28
.. 126,400 38
.. 152,414 83
. . 147,283 83
.. 135,(i;8 0l
.. 1(51,211 25
.. lGii.OOS 07
. . 143,4d5 2ti
.. 144,949 17
. . 120.81 9'i
.. 131, (557 !5
.. 1315,424 52
Total SI ,(587, .192 48
The collections at the various offices
for the year were:
Winston gsso, 114 (50
Statesville 4(i;,:i:ii) 91
Asheville 21,07t) ol
Mt. Airy 122,0'ili 315
F. E. liege, chief of the poultry de
partment of the State Experiment Sta
tion, is arousing much interest in "fowl
culture," in the State. He says the
chickens and eggs produced are now
worth more in cash than any agricul
tural product. The raising of chickeus
for the Northern markets is a profitable
and growing industry. I n one dav re
cently 40,(HI0 chickens weie chipped
from two points to the Northern mark
ets. Several county poultry associ
ations have lately been formed and the
Buncombe Association has just been
incorporated. Poultry fairs are to be
held at Shelbv, Asheville and Chnr
lotte. In the Superior Court at Concord, D.
M. Widenhouse and M. M. Furr, both
of No. 9 township, Cabarrus county,
have been convicted of coiuposinding a
felony. Mr. Furr is oueof the Populist
magistrates. He has been dejiosed
from otliee of justice of the peace and is
to b; deprived of any oliice of lion or or
public trust in the Srtate of North Caro
lina and to pay a line of .-50 and the
costs. Mr. Widenhouse was fined 620
and the costs. Both have been given
notice of appeal. Never in the history
of Cabarrus has such charges been
brought against her officers. Charlotte
Observer.
During tlie war Jesse Snatherly, a
Confederate soldier from Montgomery
county, saved the life of a New York
soldier who was wounded. The woods
had caught lire and the Federal sol
dier called for help. Snat'ier'.y took
him to a safe distance and provided
him with water, lie has sent Snatherly
Ss,,o.
The railway commission increases
the valuation of all the divisions of tho
Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern and
the Seaboard Air Line; it decreases the
valuation of the Atlantic and Danville;
the others remain the same; the in
crease on l ail ways, steamboat and tel
egraph lilies is about $3.0'W.(.;0'.
While Dep.:ty Revenue Collector Hill
and a posse were making a raid on
moonshiners in Lenoir county they
were fired on by ambushed moonshin
ers. F. T. Harper was hit by four
buckshot and sorionsly injured. Arrests
will follow. The moonshiners are
known. The still was destroyed.
Tt is said that under tho new lew do
pictures or coupons ecu be put in
cigarette boxes or in smoking tcbacc )
! ackai;es and the statement is made
that this will throw a lot of people out
employment.
The truck crop in the eastern part of
the State has proven very remunerative
this season, and the Gol.tsboro Arsrus
says that along the line of railroad be
tween that place and Wilmington large
quantities of strawberry plants are be
ing planted.
The "gold fever" has spread from
Stanley county into Kowan. Some
good finds are being made.
representative Linney has introduc
ed a bill to reduce the tax on distilled
tpirits to 70 cents per gallon.
The Kaleigh correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer learns that the
Heck estate of Kaleigh owns 1,0T
acres of laud in the Klondyke region of
Alaska.
Governor Russell hasbcea invited to
attend the annual Washington birthday
dinner of the Connecticut society at
New Haven, Feb. 22nd.
L. L. Love, of Pennsylvania, con
templates putting up a large rolling
mill at Salisbury.
Ashetille has changed its time fiom
eastern to central, to conform to the
railroad time standard.
KE.VH1NQ AT FLAT ROCK.
! Judge Sintonton Will Decide in a Few
j Days What Constitute an "Orlglual
Package."
j The Columbia (S. O.) Register of the
j stu 8".vs the hearing in the original
: package cases was held yesterday at Flat
Rock, X. C, before Judge Simontonf
but no decision was rendered nor was
, the least intimation given as to what it
would be. Attorney-General Barber
was present, representing the State:
Mr. P. H. Nelson, of Columbia, repre
senting Meetz as agent of the Portner
Brewing Company and I'feifer; Mr.
Shumau, of Greenville, representing
Payue, of that city; Messrs. li. A. Hob
good, of Charleston, and P. A. Wilcox,
of Florence, representing Stackley, of
that city, as agent for Gugenheimer &
Co.
The main and practically only ques
tion before the judge, was what consti
tutes an orignal package. The various
attorneys practically had the same case,
and contended that the bottles in a
package shipped into the State were the
"original package." In the case of
Stackley, of Florence, it appears that
the stuff was shipped to him is bottles
packed iu a car and it was contended
that each one was plainly an orig
inal package. To both of these
positions, the attorney general took
exception, contending that the
box in which the bottles were shipped
was the original package, and not the
bottle. He contended, further, that iu
the Gugenheimer shipment all the bot
tles in the car substituted the package
and must be sold as such. Very volum
inous authorities were quoted by all of
the attorneys, and the judge seemed to
be deeply interested.
Mr. Barber opened and was followed
by Messrs. Hagood and Wilcox and
Mr. Nelson closed. The attorneys re
turned from flat Rock last night and
all expect a-decision within a few days.
TOHACCO MKX SQUEAL.
The Moisture in Their Leaf Will IIae
lo He Paid For.
A dispatch from New York says the
new tariff bill has caused a panic among
tobacco importers, and they declare
that one short paragraph in the new law
means a loss to thorn of thousands of
dollars everj' j-ear. The paragraph is
a part of section 33 of the act which
compels importers to pay duty on to
bacco at the weight at which it goes in
to the bonded warehouse. This takes
from the tobacco men a privilege that
has for many years been accorded to
them by the tariff laws. Under the
Wilson act and previous, imi ortcrs
have had their tohacno reweighed at the
time of its withdrawal from bonded
warehouses, and on this weight duties
were collected. Tho weight of tobacco
is greatly reduced during the bonded
period by evaporation. Experts esti
mate that the importers save S25 to $40
a bale on Sumatra, and some times as
high as $70 a bale on Havanna leaf, by
payintr on the dried-out tobacco. Im
porters w ill now gain nothing by de-la-,
but must pay duties at gl.85 per
pound for tho weight at the time of its
arrival. They estimate the loss to im
porters in New York alone will be :?500,-
000 a -ear.
TALK OF A CLOTH COMHIXE.
An Kxperiineiit That Will Likely lie
Tried in the Kast.
A dispatch from Fall River, Mass.,
says when the cloth business is dull,
and the prospects for dividends poor,
the stockholders feel privileged to make
suggestions, which explains vhy there
has been more or less talk of late con
cerning a cloth trust. The proposition
has been advanced to pool issues in
managing the mills, reducing expenses
regulating the supply according to de
mand, and the introduction of other in
novations. As nearly as can be ascer
tained, it is not tho idea to group all
the factories under one head at the out
set, but to experiment with four or
five companies. One agent would dis
poso of tho output, and the services of
middlemen iu the shape of brokers
would be dispensed with. It is claimed
commissions take too much out of the
mills, and that the drain is unneces
sary. Xew Civil Service Regulation.
President McKinley has promulgated
an amendment to the civil service rules
providing that there shall be no re
movals from positions subject to com
petitive examination except for just
cause in writing, to which the accused
has had opportunity to make defence.
This also includes all within classified
service and all employees of the cus
toms house office, one employee in each
internal revenue district to act as cash
ier or chief deputy or assistant collec
tor, all subject to competitive examina
tion. Has Carried Out Its Pledges.
At a dinner at Boston, given to Sec
retary Gage, he makes a speech on tar
iff and the money question; he says the
administration has carried out its
pledges as to the former and "the
breeze of prosperity brings comfort and
restoration" and that the administra
tion can be relied on to carry out its
pledses as to tlie money question, that
it will not be idle in this respect.
The Virginia Prohibitionists.
W. T. Run-lick, State chairman of the
Virginia Prohibition party, has issued
a call for a State convention of the
party to meet in Lynchburg on August
20th, to nominate candidates for Gov
ernor, Lieutenant-Governor and Attorney-General.
All Virginia Prohibi
tionists will have a voice in the pro
ceedings. Tariff Hill Printed.
The first copies of the tariff act for
circulation have been received at the
doenment rooms of the Senate and
House at Washington. The bill makes a
pamphlet of seventy pages. There will
be fifty-thousand copies in all to be cir
culated by Congress.
Islands Shaken by an Earthquake.
The islands of Antiguo, Si Kitts nd
Guadeloupe, Jamaica, of the Leeward
group, experienced a severe shock of
earthquake at noon on the 2?th.
Swept Away in a Sudden Flood.
At Prattsburff. Steuben county. X.
Y., aolondburet flooded the village and
caused damage to the amount of $10,
000. Bridges and buildings were wash
ed away in large number, y4 many
people were imperiled.
Warned Not to Start Before Spring.
The Colonial office in London has
warned intended gold seekers that it
will be useless to start for the Klon
dike before spring, as the journey is
possible only in tae summer tim.
TrLc
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Dun's Explanation of the Shutting
Down of Big Cotton Mills.
COAL AND IRON DIFFICULTIES.
General Improvement Reported The
Foreign Demand for Wheat and the
Advance in Price.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade for the week ending. Inly 31st,
says. Dispatches from almost every
Northern city of imiortance, report
without exception, improvement in
business, and from Detroit to Seattle
and Portland splendid crop prospects.
The task of adjusting the business and
industries of the country to condition
created by a new tariff law has pro
gressed with gratifying rapidity and
ease. Even the increasing strength of
striking coal miners probably forwards
the adoption of the uniformity plan,
w-hich promises to remove most of the
causes of such struggles. Some eon
fusion is caused by events seemingly
contradictory by closing of large cotton
mills when many other works are start
ing, and by a decline iu some prices
when others are advancing, but the
balance is unmistakably on the right
side.
The most important events since the
passage of the new tariff, which wa.i
generally anticipated a week ago, has
been the marked increase in foreign de
mand and advance price for wheat.
which has risen 4$ cents during the
week, with Western receipts for the
first time exceediog last 3-ear's, with
Western railroads besieged for cars,
and with Atlantic experts of 1,71,7:W
bushels of Hour included for the week,
and ti,351,17S bushels m four weeks,
against 0,9l7,8t!5 last year, with heavy
contracts for shipment, exceeding
1,200,000 bushels on a single day. Liv
erpool reports a shipment from Amer
ica to Northern Bohemia and French
markets. Excited speculative sales
have little influence.
The fact that corn exports exceed last
year, although the price has advauced
to 32. M7 cents, is further proof that for
eign demands are not subsantial. With
crop news still favorable, producers
may probably realize something like
jf.so, 000, 000 more than last year on wheat,
which means a great difference in pur
chases by agricultural States. Corn
also advanced 1.25 cents and cotton a
sixteenth, though reports as to yield
are good.
The industrial sky is partly clouded
by coal ami iron difticultieu, and by the
closing of some large cotton mills. Hav
ing run for months far ahead of consum
ing demand, on cotton bought at com
paratively high prices, tiie mills see
ahead a large crop ami cheap cotton, an. I
it is but the rational way to halt the
production and clear oil' accumulated
stocks, at the season when vacations are
common and begin the new year on its
own basis.
'I he woolen manufacturers nuswer
wholesomely and xoderatly to tlie new
tariff conditions, and while the opening
of lightweights below about 1 in cost
has met a very encouraging demand,
the advance in pricesasked is not largo.
Delay in the iron industry is partly
because a steady rising demand does
not yet raise prices. I u some products
prices are a shade lower notwithstand
ing a larger demand, owing tocompeti
tion between works, but Bessemer is a
shade higher. In structural work,
plates, sheets and bars for the enor
mous operations of agricultural imple
ment works, the demand increases, as
it also does for rolling stock owing to
the abundance of crops.
The failures for the wet-k have been
23i in the United States, against 2x1
last year, and 28 in Canada, against 40
last year.
DINOLKY VKKSIS WILSOX.
A Comparison of the Xew Tariff Law
With the Old.
The comparison of the present tariff
law with the Wilson Act authorized by
Congress has been completed. It was
made by Chas. H. Evans, who hasbeen
engaged in the preparation of all the
tariff bills with w hich Congress has
dealt since 172. The comparison is
made in rates expressed in ad valorem
terms between the present law and the
Wilson law. The statement places the
average duty rate under the new law
at 54. iii! per cent, ad valorem, as against
an average of 40.10 under the Wilson
law, the average being figured upon
the basis of values in l'.lii.
The statement shows the following
increases in percentages: Chemicals
from 2. 53 to 30. r,7 ; wools and woolens
from 47.112 to W. 54; silks from 41. SUS to
532.41; earthenware and glassware 35 to
52.47; metals 39.11 to 41I.24; sugar 40..i4
to 74. lit; tobacco lO'.MKi to 121.'. Hi; agri
cultural products 22.4 I to 3!. 4" ; spirits,
etc., il.54 to JS. 83; cotton manufactur
ers 42.75 to 52.33.
Some of the increases expected in
revenue are as follows: Chemicals from
?5,i;i!l,23'J to 8,423, 084; earthen and
glassware from 88,00(1,83!) to 12,303,
14; metals from 13.1!r,,41G to 817,47,-4-2;woods
from S005, 749 to S2,43l,53ii;
sugar from ?21),910,703 to $54, 207, 4 2;
agricultural products from .7,727,'14
to $14,587,000.
These estimates are based upon the
supposition that the value and volume
of imports will remain the same.
Preacher Sentenced to Penitentiary.
W. M. Dubges, a Baptist preacher,
Mason and iolitician, at Macon, Ga.,
was sentenced to live years in the
Iieniteutiary for embezzling of school
funds.
Taken to Kaleigh for Safety.
At Kittrell, N. C, a negro named
George Bodie made a criminal assault
upon a Miss Cartlett, white, ln-yeurs-o'd,
and had to be taken to Kaleigh for
safety. In the meantime the Governor
was telegraphed as follows: "Terrible
rape on white woman has been com
mitted. Negro is in jail. Will you or-dt-r
fpeeial term of court upon request
of commissioners and etition from citi
zens?" Governor Russell at once or
dered a special term of court to begin
August H'th, Judge Brown to preside.
Spalding Found Guilty.
At Chicago, the jury in the third trial
of Charles W. Spalding, treasurer of
the Illinois State University and presi
dent of the Globe Sayings Rank, re
turned a verdict of guilty. The present
trial was on an indictment charging
Sliding with hypothecating $25, m in
ouuty lends.
SpaldiDg's punishment was fixed at
imprisonment in tLe penitentiary. He
will make a strong fight before he goes
to the penitentiary, and w ill carry the
case up to the last court. The duration
of his sentence will be settled by the
prison board of the State.
1 Tcr Year, in Advance.
NEWS ITEMS
SoiiOu-rii Penrit Pointers.
In court at Winchester, Va , two law
yers had a dispute and one struck the
other with an inkstand iurhetiug a dan
gerous wound.
Albert II. Heit., a well-known phos
phate niiuer at Charleston, ace deniuily
shot and killed himself.
The national association of Dental
Examiners and representatives of tho
chief dental colleges met at Old Point,
Before the Tennessee Par A
tion Justice Walter ( lark. :
Carolina, delivered au address; he ad
vocated man- changes iu the federal
constitution, which he says is now un
democratic. A cotton mill at Natchez, Miss., sus
pends work for waut of raw cotton.
At Starke, Fla., Henry Crosby killed
himself Ith poison; his wife also took
iKJison, but her life was caved.
In Charlotte, N. ('., d iring the past
year 2t'j new buildings have been
erected, and there are now being built
112. 1 "esi.les this, two cotton factories,
the Louise mill and the webbing
factory of Mr. A. C. Summerville have
been built, the line new courthouse has
been completed, and a large number of
business buildings have been remodeled
until they are practically new build
ings. The News.
Operators in the Middlesboro, Tenu.,
district have given a raise of 10 per
cent, per ton to miners who have re
solved not to join the strike.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has
refused fo interfere iu thecase of John
Tyler Cooper, former Mayor of Atlanta,
and later clerk of the county commis
sioners, convicted of embezzling funds
of the county, and Cooper will have to
serve three month's imprisonment, to
wnien he was sentenced by the court.
A syndicate is about to close tho pur
chase of most of the coal miues of East
Tennessee; the price is about $.i,0(io,
000. and if successful over 3,000 miners
will be given employment
There is a rumor in Laurens, S. C,
that Ex-Senator Irby is to draw out of
the Congressional race and help Ex
Governor Evans.
The Virginia Populists may tender
the nomination of Governor to Tyler.
Prof. P. II. Patterson, an educated
and influential negro, was murdered iu
a church iu Montgomery, Alii.
The Banister Baptist Association
(colored) in session at Houston, Va ,
adopts resolutions denouncing criminal
assaults on white women, and the class
of negroes who commit them.
The attendance at the Tennesee Cen
tennial Exposition last week numbered
45,3H8.
tiovernor's Guards, of Austin, won
the interstate drill at San Antonio,
'lex. Neeley Zouaves won the Zouave
prize.
Dr. Scott, brother-in-law of Governor
Bradley, superintendent of tho Eastern
Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, has been
declared unlit for the place by the
grand jury, and his removal demanded.
An insurance company has withdrawn
its business from Greenville, X. C. ,
Pitt county, because it did not deem it
safe to continue its business in a town
controlled by negroes.
General Lafayette MeLawK, the odd
est surviving Confederate major gen
eral, died Sunday at Savannah, Ga ,
aged 70 years.
The Stewarts in the Methodist church
at Albertsville, Ala , finding their
church revenue insufficient, have levied
au atinual tax of I0 ou each tobacco
chewing member of the congregation.
The plan is said to work admirably and
to bring in a goodly revenue.
It is reported that Florida . ill get
some relief from the bated water hy
acinth. A red spider is sai.l to be rap
idly destroying the plants.
President McKinley has appointed a
negro Collector of Internal Revenue for
Georgia.
Nashville, Tenn., is soon to be iu
telephonic connection with the entire
South.
The Young Business Men's Associ
ation, of Richmond, Va., have resolved
to invite the Grand Army of the Repub
lic to hold its eucamument iu the above
city in
'Tlie erection of a twenty-ton cotton
seed oil mill will be commenced at La
vonia, Ga., at once.
AH A Iiout tlie .North.
Tn the 10 to 1 saloon, at Texai kana,
Ark., J. W. Foster shot and in
stantly killed Kiley Balthrop, a mer
chant The Democrats of Maryland held
held their State convention; liarmonj
prevailed ami everything went as Gor
mau dictated; it declared for bimetal
lism without specifying any ratio.
At Yonkers, N. Y., fire destroys a
factory iu which were working ;Oo men
ami girls; there were no casualties.
William R. Valentine, a well-known
Brooklyn newspaper man, who claimed
to be the author of "Casey at the Bat,"
died at Oyster Bay, L." I., aged 3
years, of abscess of the brain.
The Brooklyn Jockey Club announces
the Junior Champion Stake of .815,0
for 2-year-olds, to be run in ''..
A lodging house that will cost $'150,
000, where working people can find
comfortable homes at cheap rates will
soon be completed in New Vork.
AtTopeka, Kan., A. Hubbard, who
was convicted of embezzling .8,0'Ki as
receiver of the Hamilson Printing Com
pany, has been sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary, by Judge Hanson.
M IhccllaneoiiH.
Forty steamers have been chartered
in Atlantic iorts to load grain for Eu
rope. Missionaries in the Tien-TVin district
of China fear an uprising of natives ami
possible massueree of Christians.
The partial eclipse of the sun, which
was visible in this part of the 1'uited
States, on the 21th, ft the last solar
eclipse that will be visible in this put
until May 27, i;'o.
Two coaches of an excursion train
went through a trestle near Marietta,'.
No one w as killed.
The British Government has leciin-l
to interfere in the execution of the
the sentence of Mrs. Florence May
brik, on the ground that there i- no
reason for a change of judgement iu the
matter.
Armor plate makers decline to f urni-h
the Government the plate desired at
$3o0 per ton.
The following cadets have been sp
rointed to the Military. Academy at
Wett Point: Fifth district of South
Carolina, Isaac C. Hough, of Camd.-n ;
alternate, RollieC. Harier, of Miudcii,
fourth district jt Louisiana.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Brussels streets are n w sprinkled
with a diluted disinfectant.
J The New York Board of Health has
passed an order requiring o!:o ;a every
f.r street cars to be a closed car.
Incases where n.itur, intend that
( insects shall feed on tlo.vers at night,
. the flowers they select n:o all oi Ji
! white color.
( The tartar on human teeth is filled
: with aniiiialcuhe, which are destroyed
by vinegar. Vineg.tr it-e!f contains
' d-like insects.
I1'. 1 'srs. Fa' u Faxon have madit
collections of nearly ,'ity species of
North American Sjh.imi or peat
mosses, with many va icties, in all 172
specimens.
Brooklyn is to have an electric
fountain which will ha.e a throwing
capacity of 100.000 gillons an hour.
Colored in can descent lights will bi
used for pn-o.iutic e'Vccts ou p.m g- ca;
variety of (-prays.
Statistics published by Dr. Loddn
regarding the use of hernia in diph
theria shows that in lO.tHM eases treat
ed iu eighty-six hospital in Europe,
Australia, J.ipau and America, the
mortality was twenty per cent., in
stead of 1 1.:; per cent . under the old
method, while in :7'.' case- treated iu
private practice the i.i .vtality was but
7.8 per cent.
The fascinating id. a th:t each dis
ease genu has its ore sp. ciiic poison
ous principle, its t.in. is attacked by
M. A. Cli.triin, a French biologist. Ho
show s from experiments t hat a singh
micrdlie species i: :iy prod I -. several
palling,', ,ic i-n.n;uiiri Is '.'uc bacillus of
pus, for I'isluuce. yielding sever nl
w hich arc e:t -ily di.-ti:!;;iis'ie I by their
prolotige I e lects.
The so'amsliip Aic'ii'ta Victoria, of
the Hambuig-Auicric in (. inc. has been
lengthened about sixty fe d by th in
sertion of r. new ci'.'tio i ii'iiidship."
Her mast s h ive b vi i v-1 epped a id
her funnels place 1 further apart. Ile-horse-powi-r
has a's.i b. "ii increa-el
by about 150J, which, it is expected,
will enable her to nusk- twenty knots
an hour in-dead of ei ;'.i r-.-n, as hereto
fore. After the spring pr mi'u- in th" vine
yard, wafer is se 'ii tris-Uiii'j down tho
stems, and iu France this is poetically
called the "w eepiitg of t lie vine." Pro
fessor Co. nil, a hotanbt, has recently
studied this phenomenon, and lie mys
it is due to the abundant absorption
of water by the roots of (he vino in
hprimdime. The w.iitr is forced
through all the bram-lic and st"ins tn
their very tips, a id where liny ar.i
cut by the primer ii, oozes out like
teardrops.
The 1'iilirit. Sloio.
Everyone knows that Ceylon is
famous fu- the amount of pieer and
rare precious stones found iu the sands
of its dried-up river beds. Among
these is one called "('hlorophane," a
rare varietyof II nor spar, which. shines
at night with phosphorescent light.
There has long been a tradition among
tho natives that a certain species of
cobra make:! use of this stone to attract
insects in the darkness; indeed, the
name ghen it is "mijakalb-r." or eobrii
stone. A scientist recently resolved
to test this wonderful story during u
stay in tho island, so offered any
coolies five rupees to point out a stone
carrying cobra. In about a week au
old Tamil came iu and offered to show
him one. He followed this guide ami,
sure enough, there under an immense
tamarind tree he saw a little point of
steady, greenish light, and could
faintly distinguish, behind, a cobra
coiled and slowly waving its heal
from side to hide. It would havj
been desperately dangerous to ap
proach the reptile, and the coolie
begged him not to do do, Faying that
next night ho himself would yet tin
stone. He did so, and in rather
clever fashion. Before dark bo
climbed into the tree, carrying a largo
bag of ashes. After nightfall thu
cobra turned up as usual, and de
posited its treasure, which it carried
in its mouth, before it. Thereupon
tho coolie emptied bi-i bag of ashes
over the shiningobject, and the fright
ened reptile, after a wild but fruitless
search, crept back into the jungle.
The coolie descemb-d, searched tho
ashes, found tho stone, and receive I
Lis promised reward.
f'irprrn-k-r of f .inir--l Air.
Tiie noisiest firecracker yet hasbcfii
approved by the Ne.v York Board of
Fire Commissioner. It is w .irranie I
to make more noise than the Chun .i
kind, and to burn no awnings. It has
no reaction and no after alfects. It
explodes with great force, and fills tiie
air w ith large quant it iesof noise atrl
lots of atrawboard, but no spark.
It is a plain United States fire
cracker, composed of one-third of
chloride of potash and two-thirds of
compressed air. The explosion of the
chemical burst the chamber of com
pressed air, and the result is an ex
plosion which combines the delight fut
nerve-annihilating properties of t!.e
cannon and the pop gun.
This cracker is lighted byiii'aus f
a fuse, just as is the Chinese cracker
of commerce. The r.ir chamber w i'l
not t-xph d ; if it is si .od on end or if
the cracker is held in tiie hand.
This American invention leaven no
sparks, for tho tiro does not cling to
the tough strawlrf.ard us it does to ti.o
porous rice paper ue I by the Chine
maker. It conist principally of a
pasteboard tube filled w ith compressed
air and stopped with a cork. Wash
ington Star.
Vi-rjf Large lfsr.
Nero, a dog owned by Wayne Paihy,
of Rutland, i said t i Ie the largo-l
canine iu the world, t-.-iys the Verm L
Ph i-nix. He tipped the scales Fri'h y
at 207 pound, and would utid'jubp- I y
have gone ten poan Is better th.ee
week ago.
Nero is a handsome half German
and half English mastiif, fawn brindln
iu color, hi huge hea l being of a tri
fle darker sha le. He is as agile a-nl
lively as a cat. He makes a splendid
watch dog, but is a kind and affection
ate animal.
Mr. Bailey borght him at West Rut
land when be wa six month old; he
is now four years old. At ht time of
purchase Nero weighed 102 pounds.
The animal stands up from thu
ground thirtv-five inches and girth
; fifty inches. The dr;g's neck is unu-o:-'
ally large, measuring thirty inche, and
from tip to tip he measures six feet
five and one-half inches.
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