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I Ths Messenger J Prints . the . News J '. i s'Tik'ht aiterby the peo- J , .,? M -Howell, Yancey Bun- , i. if. liutberford, Burke n:. ; . ther counties In Western . r;:. i Hroiiiia. and la there- ; i, Coort Advertising Medium. I.-.:- f .riiiehPil on applioation. ? Ai.irs, r -SIXD013XX1T0X- JOB PRINTING 5 i TO THE MESSENGER, J ZXarion. H. C. j Promptness, A ecu racy, Naatnaa and Good Stock Guaranteed. Letter Head, Note Heada, Bill Heads, Envelopes, Circular, Card. Poa- J J THE MESSENGEB, , Marlon, N. O. -HHHH- VOL. II. NO. i!. MAUION. X C, FIMDAY, SEPTEMBER .'!. 1897. lrice$l Per Year, in Advance. Printing. J 5 1 i H . ; m l Interesting Facts j A' it Klondike. F it ENOUGH TO FLOAT r , .is A!l the States Kast of ,, i a nd Nort h of I he Oh Jo, .; irginia and W. Virginia. .M ' interesting facts about ; :' in A task it arc taken cm dil., Times-Herald, .it i i ; ? ! 1 1 as eon veying more . any other article wo i : 1 1 1 one-half times as ; t::n-s as large as all of New '; as the South including . .. ""( us idi the States east of i;i nd north of tho .udhig Virginia anl West - .ii Francisco east of onr .,:. is 2',0:i0 miles. lijhtt mountain in North oi.l forest-covered glacier i ' !! is oim of its greatest lust yellow ceilar in the i i ;itn'-t seal llsheries. 1 1 -. 1 1 - - t su i moil li slier ies. i i u.i.s tlmt bout Xewfouud- ; i:ii cst river in tho world. ' . i.ng on a hunk of the Yu : i win its month cannot see i is twenty miles wide 700 . ip mouth." : , ti il.utuncs it is navigable . ; 1 liii.i t ho 1 nnnbe. ,: : tii.m tl:i! La Plata. . i i ii.m tin- riuoeo. .... '..:. one-third more water '!: l..i. ' . i i- iic It lifteeu miles from re -old in its basin than any ' r is heantif nil y blue to its v. v.h tli.' White river, 1,100 its mo lit . i 1,100 miles west oflla- -.. i i -iii gold is estimated at $- i --.-try t inptive force for the i ' L n-;it fissure veins is overy- i Ii ut in Alaska, i .iiM Ik? worn next tho body, 'rii ami then furs. should bo taken to prevent loud them produces lcetaldis I :il.f medicine. . brans are good portable food, glasses nliould not bo forgot- V :,!(. are mosquitoes so numer- I are two kinds of poisonous .. air no sunken in Alaska. air j ! ut l fill. The llesh re- :..'. - horse llesll. i ... . ii ui' stuck companies organizod t. l usiiii'-s in Alaska aggregate It i i.ibable that within twelve u."!i!i.'. I'awKou City will be within !.! -i.it tloiu .1 uticuu. :t iiM-nl and Northern Alaska ti.. : i . i ; 1 1 i is frozen b a depth of 200 -: ' fall in tlie iuterior is very light i :t:.-!lrs or SO. I : heaviest rain and piiow are on t: - .. !. ast coast. u Ian I contains liner spruce tiui- l-.i r- low ti'inpeiature gold filling in ( nil contracts and fulls out. I'se v- Lorn iii tho southern latitudes 1 i ie insane in the long dark. !.::.. a chess board and men. They l i ut liemeiit ia. i !. i. calcine chest should hod pills, t. '.ui eniture of 75 degrees below ' ' :i l i ell 1 ecorilecl. '' ii -rts below .10 there is no t- its good as a house, and is v tri is needed except when the ' I ! v. s t other times a sleeping i . " c i s all purposes. ' -'..w rapids ice forms only '' tidek. and there fishing is ' it: other places it vtill roach -10 I' ' i.ul. season here twilight lasts . an. I almost anj- kind tf work I i' i1'. io and grouse are common t , ;..t snow or ice. Melt them. ! a temperature tho inside of the icliiiies fiee.es. This is lo- v 1 frost burning. " ' ' 1 n ;ingei s use cold water. ' i lathe only the feet and face. ' Mi.ler blankets in summer or '"' .a: ism. .:..er all land not mountain is t is ice cake, overhead 22 , 1 " 1 gets lice, lioil under- ! ire.'v sleeping bags. 1 ti.e ice puck is hear a half- v- 1 : t i-'.aeer minor can pan dry. i t '-.l ist" is as big as wheat. -old is tine enough to float. ' ' '''ii uiotos and then fur. ; ' it.rno is virtuous, the Cbilkat 1 : . t'.a-.i rapacity will drive the : to Am-rican territory. - a intn police are highly efficient. t;.'" ' ;, er "ill be the future locomo- . 1-'s are wonderfully intelli- T.' ; 1 !'' ' -'' f selection and hered- !: ' :,ut:V' -t Much decayed fish. -i-e a!! honest. It: .s.u.ds of miners from other na- ttul.s U ; ' :.'. :... companv leads in Alaskan ,-'r"w s ushig'h as a man's bead. ..c v .g, ta',lt.s can be raised. A" streatus show true gold fissures. ,. 'h - ; enty .f Hour. l?uy all you j.'.' ; ,;i ed, then buy more. Last a iaiiti killed himself because he a , '' i omul of baking powder and ' ,( ,,f Couirress communities ' ' :l" make their own laws. , '." ' ''' a fairer trial anywhere, '",; 1 '' "M'ter execution. h'hr .-acht-R ou platforms six feet J't'u- Wolves. It will pay you to wait a year or two. It costs 1,000 now and will cost 8200 then. All distances are gigantic. It is 2,000 niles from Sitka to Klondike. A boat leaving Dawson September Joth is chased to the mouth by freezin" tvater. All wood in the Aleutian Islands ?rew on glaciers in Alaska. Whole forests break into the sea. Some streams are bridged by glaci srs. Some wood is beautifully polished by glacier action. Avalanches in the interior are un cnown. Owing to dryness there is not much sufieriugfrom the cold. Take a 40-80 rille with telescope lights. One small tribe makes $2,500 a year "roiu silver fox skins. They are worth 1200 each. Exposed portions of the body freeze in three minutes. Enough library. One Bible, one Shakespeare. Snow-shoes are not needed in the mine country. Ruy mines from discouraged min ers. Trading companies vili- not carry s?oods for competitors. Next year competition will briag aowa their prices 50 per cent. Meals on the boat up the river cost 81 each. Men who have pone this winter to make their living sawing wood will not have time to say much. NORTH M'AIK PICK-UPS. Concord has a fruit jar famine. AtAsheville on the 2'id wheat was quoted at 1. At Salisbury a wagou factory is to be established boo u. 'J he silk factory at Greensboro has not yet begun operations. ( rders have been issued for the ar rest of tramps on tho Seaboard Air Emo. A steam laundry is to be established at Concord by V. A. Wilkiusou and i'. L. Kobbins. Local shippers of Winston held a meeting to tako action regarning dis criminative freight rates. The Winston tobacco board of trade have organized a fair association nnd will hold a tobacco fair this fall. Mr. Avery C'asbiou was killed at a saw mill ia liurke county, a plank Hying up, striking him on the head and fracturing his skull. The labor bureau is sending out blanks to secure information regarding the lum ber industry in this State, particularly as to saw mills. The State's first bale of new cotton was marketed at Morven on the 21st; weighed 4(1 pounds, classed good mid dling, and sold for f cents. The Eayetteville Observer says Louis Robinson, formerly of that place, now of .Florida, has invented a machine for printing in colors. The agents in the lield who are work ing for the Agricultural and Mechanical College say they expect to see nearly 400 students present next term. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, of Cabarrus county, agreed to live apart after a quarrel because she would not take patent medicine pills. Her husband left. Albert Kussell, colored, is under ar rest at l'ayetteville, charged with at tempted rape upon Emma Wright, a deaf negro girl about sixteen 3-ears old. Ed. I'urvis, charged with the murder of Fireman JUackwell, waived examina tion at tho preliminary trial at Dunn, Harnett county. He has been carried to tho Cumberland county jail for safe keeping. 1 r. J. ( '. Kilgo, president of Trinity Col lego, delivered his famous lecture, Christum Education, in Charlotte, Sunday, Aug. 22, to a large congrega tion in the Tryou Street Methodist church. Judge Simontou, in a letter to United States Court Clerk Moore, at Asbeville, says he has concluded to hear the Capo Fear and Yadkin Valley ltailroad mo tion at Asbeville, on Thursdaj-, Sep tember 2d. llaleigh's water-works cost $22;?, 000. A private company built aod owns it. Much stock is held at Jayton, Ohio. There are 1-10 public and private tiro hydrants, and about 1,000 water takers. The company has issued 100,000 in bonds. W. 1. Ihitchelor has retired, after seventeen years continuous service as chief clerk to the Secretary of State. A. 1. K. Wallace succeeds him, and 1 . 11. Center, I'opulist, of Harnett, is made assistant clerk. Mr. Hatchelor served under four Secretaries. Governor Eusscll has subpoenaed 1). A. Tompkins, F. S. Spruill, 11. C. II oilman and Herbert L. Norriss as witnesses to appear before Special Master Kerr Craige at Salisbury at the hearing September 7, of charges which the Governor makes, or is trying to make, against the ex president and di rectors of the North Caroliun Railway. - Kaleigh Correspondent Haltimore Sun. A V A K KAtiINK OS. Advanced Price of Wheat fausrs in creased Shipment. The Rock Island road is experiencing a car famine, particularly on its lines in Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. It also has all the grain it can handle At South Chicago, where it delivers the largest part of its grain, there are 1,0 cars of corn on the track. There has been more corn sold for September delivery within a fortnight than the road will be" able to haul. Tho St. Faiil. Northwestern and Rurlington have all they c.1 do. The Chesapeake V Ohio has" all its cars employed, and has leased 1,01)0 more. Farmers throughout Central and Western Kansas are using every means possible to get their wheat on the mar ket at the present high prices. Teams block the streets oi many towns, and mills and e!evato:s are crowded totheir utmost capacity. 1 he railioad yards in many of the larger towns are blocked with lea led ears which cannot be moved. The shipments were never be fore so large. As a result of the boom of wheat, several large sales of farm property have been made, and holders have increased values 2 per cent. Millions in a b isliery oniMne. Edwin Corbiu, of Chicago, 111., has closed a deal amalgamating the United States and Canadian Lakes fisheries companies, whereby the control of Iweuty companies passes into the hands of a British company with tfl.OiiO.tniO capital. Yti: Coibitt. who is 111 Lon- .1 ... ,...lt. ... ti. I'llitr.l St.-lt.'S II. 't 1 cli. accompanied by a stall' of F.ntish I I'n'.ants to initiate tho. eonsoli la 1 tion. At Winston Adjourns to Meet Next Year at Salisbury. FISH COMMISSIONERS MEET. Columbus County Kxelted Mineral Company Incorporated Other North State News. A Charlotte Observer special from Winston, dated 20th, pays: ' -The State Sunday School Convention closed to night, with a strong and instructive address by I'rof. Joyner, of the State Normal School, his subject being "The C lunch's Opportunity in the Sunday School. " At this afternoon'.i session E. A. Ebert, of Salem, was elected secretary of the StaV Association. The executive committee is as follows: Rev. W. M. Curtis, of Kernersville, chairman; N. R. Rrcughton, Raleigh; Rev. A. 1). Thaeler and J)r. W. J. Conrod, Winston; F. S. Rlair, Guil ford College; Rev. Howard Rond thaler, Salem, and II. N. Snow, Dur ham. Tho next convention will be held at Salisbury. A mass meeting of all the Sunday schools in the county was held here toda3 There were about eight thousand people in the proces sion. J t was an inspiring and cheering scene, the Sunday schools resplendent with rlyiug banners and badges, nurch lug by sacred music dispensed by sev eral l ands. The schools were gathered at a large warehouse, where the mass meeting was held. Timely addresses were made by distinguished speakers attending the State convention. Just before adjournment attention was directed to the banner of the first Sun day school in North Carolina, that of Hopewell, Lutheran, which dates from IsiOT. The Winston-Salem schools served picnic dinners to all of the visiting schools. " The fish commissioners of Catawba river met on the 24th instant, and after careful investigation, decided the Coop er fishery near Monbo Mills, a com plete obstruction to the passage offish, and the contract was made for the opening of said obstruction, ISO feet on one aide and ;$0 feet on the other side. Tho whole of the stream on the east side of Long Island, extending up to the Rrown Mills, is declared to be the fishway of the river, and must be kept open. A fish passage will be construct ed over the dam of the Rrown Mills without injury to the water power. The commissioners are to meet at Mount Holly on the 2iith and continue their investigations, The river will be opened for fish without injury to any water power. There is great excitement in Colum bus county by reason of the conviction of Luni Harris, colored, of the murder of a white man, John Scott, two j-ears ago. Jim llayues, uncle of Lum. is convicted of the same murder. Testi mony and their confession implicate some prominent citizens. Scott was shot down at his mother's window after supper. Two shots woro fired in quick succession, and he fell dead. His mother, in rising from the table to go to his assistance, received some shot from the second discharge of the gun. The body of a negro boy about 10 3-ears of age, emploj-ed by the Norfolk and Carolina Railroad Company, as a trainman, was found lloatiug in Tar river, near Rocky Mount, on Tuesday morning last. The negro's skull was badly fractured, as if he had been killed by a blow at that place. He was seen last on Saturday evening in com pany with an unknown negro. The negro is supposed to have met his death by foul meaus. TheMariou Democrat says that the North Carolina Mica and Mineral Com pany has been incorporated, capital V0."000. The company will operate in Turkey Cove, the business to be the manufacture and shipping f lumber for building ships, (."has. S. l'ipes, of East Raugor, Me., and Chauucey L. Hawkins, of Woodside, Long Island, N. Y., are the principal factors in the enterprise. J. C. L. Uird is one of the incorporators. It has been decided by the State Hoard of Education to make the appor tionment '. cents to each child between school ag'es this year. There are, say, .110,00 such, and about :?10,000 will be thus required. The State Superinten dent says that in the larger counties this extra apportionment will prolong the school term three to four weeks, and less time in counties where the population is small. Alex Gilmore is outlawed in Cumber laud county for burglar-, and the county oilers !?21 reward for him, dead or alive. At tho request of the county officials (iov. Russell offers 100 re ward. Gilmore is officially reported to have completely terrorized.the people of two tow nships, particularly the women, and is said that they are afraid to in form on or arrest hi 11. The Standard Oil Company is erect ing an oil plant at Rocky Mount for the purpose of supplying the city with oil from their tank wagon. In connection with the same they will make that place a barreling statiou so as to ship oil to the surrounding towns. The Winston Tobacco Hoard of Trade has organized a Tobacco Fair ssociation, and selected an executive committee to formulate plans for a big tobacco exposition the 1st of No vember. . Lumberton is enjoying a business boom. There are five or six new brick stores going np, also a new depot for the Carolina Central. The people nre very much excited over the prospect of a railroad from Lumberton to Marion, S. C about fifty miles of which, if is said, is to be built by a Philadelphia company. There have been two attempts tc wreck the train of the North Carolina Lumber Company's railroad, leading from the timber lands to the company's mills at Tillery. Halifax county. A re ward has been offered. Deep interest is felt in Raleigh in the proposed Morganton and Rlowing Rock Electric Railroad. A party of citizens of Raleieh have cone o Rlowing Rook to attend a meeting of citizens of Wa tansa and of Globe Valley, in Caldwell county. Work on the preliminary sur vey besins next week. The State board of tax equalization has issued subpoenas for the sheriffs of thirteen counties, who have failed to send in property assessment lists. Charlotte is to have another pants factor3. Capital to the amount of $10, 000 has been subscribed. SOUTHERN BIILIi OPERATIVES. Cotton Mill Operatives May Organize if an Attempt is Made to Employ Negroes. A special from Charlotte, X. C, to the New York Evening Post says: Or ganization among the cotton mill ope ratives in the South, often vainly urged by emissaries from labor unions in the North, ma3- follow as the result of the attempt of a few mill owners to employ negroes. It isnecessa- in self-protection, some of the operatives say, and the3" add that an eit'ort will be made to organize a union wherever there is a cotton mill, to which unions colored people will not be admitted. In At lanta, where a weak union was thought to have been potent in preventing the employment of negro women in a cotton tuiil, the membership has doubled since the incident. It is also announced that the mill operatives will ask for legisla tive action against the emplov'iuent of children and fixing the limit of a day's labor. If the efforts at organization succet J, relations ver different from the amica ble ones of the past may prevail be tween employers and emplo3-es, and the Southern cotton manufacturers may lose the advantage they have enjoyed in freedom from labor troubles. SAVANNAH TO HE HIKE PORT. There Will He No More Quarantine Charge There. Savannah, Ga. , will be a free port before tho cotton season fairly 6tarts. All quarantine charges will bo removed and the commerce of the world will be invited to come into that harbor with out paying anything for the attention given it at quarantine. A majority of the members of the board of Aldermen favor doing away with all quarantine charges for vessels. They believe the way to increase Sa yaunah's commercial business is to let the ships come there at as low cost to owners as possible, and acting upon this belief they have decided practical ly that all charges for fumigating, in specting and cleaning bhips shall be abolished. SOUTHERN sTaI'E FAIRS. Secretary AViUon is Expected to Visit Them This Fall. Many invitations addressed to Secre tary Wilson to visit State and county fairs during the approaching autumn are being received at the agricultural department in Washington, a large number of them being from the South ern States. The invitations from this section express a desire to have the secretary inspect tho agricultural con ditions and to have the benefit of bis advice as a practical farmer after 6uch inspection. It is known that he ex pects to go to Nashville during the fall, anil it is considered probable that he may so time his visit there as to take in some of the fairs in the neighboring States. MORMON ELDERS. Utah Sends a Delegation to Worte in Alabama, Georgia and Carolina. A special from Chattanooga, Tenn., of the 24th, sa3Ts twenty-four Mormon elders arrived from Utah today and registered at headquarters in this city. They are to be distributed at once throughout A Iabama, Georgia and South Carolina. There have been more than 200 of these elders sent here this year so far. They say that they are being received with better grace than they used to be and that the faith is growing in the ter ritory mentioned. Strength of Our Army. According to officers of the war de partment, the present enlisted strength of the arm' is now nearly p to the full number allowed b3' law and can be easily maintained without any un usual activity on tho part of the re cruiting officers. The material now secured is of a higher standard thau tho army has ever had, and owing to the regulations designed for the com fort and happiuess of enlisted men, the department predicts that this year will show fewer desertions than for some time past. Iioom for the Illind. Superintendent John Russell Young has decided to introduce into the new congressional library at Washington a department for the blind. The library already contains a large number of vol umes in blind letters, and it is Mr. Young's intention to make a complete collection of raised letter books. A reading room will be set aside for this department, which will be the first of its kind in this countiy. George Will Not liuild. The Asbeville (N. C.) Citizen has re ceived a letter from Charles McNamee, with George Vanderbilt at Vaubeck, Germany, denying the recently widely published story to the effect that Mr. Vanderbilt intended to build a 100,000 hospital in Asheyille. Mr. McNamee says the story has no foundation in fact. " Father's Terrible Vengeance. In Talbot county, Ga., E. E. Low was discovered by C. E. Womble in a compromising position with bis daugh ter. Womble fired on Low, but xnissed. Low ran, but Womble pursued, and coming upon him beat his brains out with a stone, killing him instant-. He then went to the" police headquarters and surrendered. Roth men were prominent farmers. Rryan to be at Nashville. At the request of (iov. Silas II. IIol comb, of Nebraska, and the Tennessee Centennial Commissioners of that State, Oct. 8 has been set apart as Ne braska Day at the Centennial. Hon. William Jennings Bryan has promised to be in the partv- of Nebraskans who will attend the Exposition on this occa sion. Killed by a Folding Bed. Al. Hankins, a widely known sporting man of Chicago, was killed by the col lapse of a folding bed. Corner Stone Laid at Lee Camp. At Richmond, Ya. , on the 21th, with a military parade and Masonic ceremo nies, Pickett Camp. Sons of Confede rate Veterans, laid the corner stone of one of the cottages they propose to erect at Lee Camp Soldiers' Home. Governor O'Ferrall was the orator of the occasion. His oration was devoted princally to war histor-. 40,000 People in Line. There were 40, (H4people in line in the Grand Army parade, at Buffalo, N. Y. President McKinley was at th bead of the procession. tlPE'S GREAT S1T1. . Needs Millions of Bushels of Wheat, I Rye and Potatoes. SHOULD ANYTHING LIKE THE Figures He Realized, More Than One Half of All the Farm Mortgages In the U. S. Can Be Paid Off. European advices to the American Agriculturist show a shortage this year in the European crops, as compared with average crops as follows: Wheat, 300,000,000 bushels; rye, 321,000,000 bushels; potatoes, 1,000,000,000 bush els. The heaviest shortage in rye is in the countries of the largest production Russia, Germany, Austria and France. In these countries, also, is the heaviest decline in potatoes. The seriousness of the situation is emphasized rrom the fact that rye, far more than wheat, is depended upon as a bread stuff' b' the European masses. No part of the world, apparently, has a consid erable surplus of cereals, except the United States and Canada. The potato crop in these countries is found by the American Agriculturist to be about 21 per cent, less thau last year and may be still smaller. The United States has no potatoes for export, but if prices go high enough the United States can spare 240,000,000 bushels of wheat, :tOO,(Hi!,000 bushels of corn, 100,000,000 bushels of oats and 10,000,0110 bushels of rye -a total of 010,000,000 bushels. This will be the biggest export ever nade of American grain, it is just About enough to offset Europe's needs for wheat and rye. but where is she to find a substitute for her enormous shortage in potatoes? Must she not take every bushel of foodstuffs that America can spare? In the twelve months ended on June J50, 18.(2, following Europe's shortcrops of 1S.M, the foreigners bought from the United States Hour and wheat amount ing to 225,000,000 bushels, at an aver uge export price above 1 a bushel; of corn, 177, 00t), 000 bushels, at an average value of over 15 cents a bushel; of rye, more than 12,000,00') bushels, at an average of !)1 cents a bushel. The American Agriculturist thinks the foreigners must expect to pay these prices this year, as the export supplies in other countries that were available in ism are exhausted now. It even looks to a possibilit- of 2 wheat. A canvas of the farmers in the centres of commercial production has shown that the farmers are very firm holders. 'I hey think that they control the sit uation and sa' they want to net at their local shipping stations for wheat, rye and potatoes,rJl a bushel ;corn 'M cents; outs 21 cents; hay 12 and 15; cotton '.; and 10 cents; tobacco, TO to 150 per cent, above last .year 'it sales. Should an3-thing like the above fig ures be realized, more thau half of all the mortgages on all the farms in tho United States cau be paid off this year INCREASE OF EXPORTS At Southern Ports, While Those of New York Fall Oil. "Ihe forthcoming annual report of the bureau of statistics will show the per centages of the aggregate exports of the United States for the fiscal -ear ending June o0, 1807, at 70 of the principal cus toms port. It is shown that the exiorts from the port of New York have fallen trom 40. 2 per cent, of the whole in 1805 to ;17. 2 in 107. Boston's exports were 0.41 per cent, in is:i; and 0.00 in 1807. New Orleans has made a gain from 8.47 per ceut. in 18ii5 to O.Oliiu 1807. Balti more alio increased her exports from 7.12 per cent, in lsyo to 8. 11 per cent, last year. This increase is said to be due to the large increase of the ship ment of corn. The exports from l'hila-dr-lj hia increased from 7.52 per cent, in 1.m; to 8. 15 per cent, last 3-ear. This iucrer.se is said to be due io the recent exceptionally large shipments of wheat. Theie w as also an increase at San Fran cisco front 2. 70 in 1804 to 3.77 in 1807. Galveston, Texas, increased from 4.12 per cent in 1800 to 5.54 last 3'ear and Newport News, Virginia, from 1.08 in lOii to 2. 10 last jear. l'uget Sound, Washington, increased from 0.78 per ceut in 1800 to 1.1:5 in 1807. Norfolk and Portsmouth, Ya. , increased from 0.77 in 1800 to 1.77 last ear. Chicago increased from 0. 15 per cent, in 1800 to 0.22 per cent. Iast3-ear. In the matter of imports New York shows a falling off from 04. 12 per cent, of the whole imports of the United States in is:iii to 02.80 in 1807. Boston shows an increase from 10.10 to 11.80 per cent. New Orleans increased from 1.74 to 2.17. Baltimore fell off from 1.7:5 to 1.40. Philadelphia increased from 5. 02 to O.2.). San Francisco fell off from 5.41 to 4.50. Chicago fell off from 1.00 to 1.51 per cent. THE NEXT ENCAMPMENT Of the Grand Army of the Republic to be Held in Cincinnati. The G rand Army of the Republic, in session at Buffalo, N.Y., last week, was one of the greatest of recent 3-ears. The reports presented showed that more than seven thousand members have died within the 3-ear just closed. Pensions, palrioitc institutions and the public schools received particular attention in the commander's address. The selection of the next place of meeting resulted on the first ballot 520 for Circinnati and 214 for San Frau cisco, in 180. J. P. S. Gobin, of Lebanon, Ta., was elected commander-in-chief. The Situation in Uruguaj. The last mail advices received bere from Uruguay showed that a reign of terror existed. Three lieutenant colon els, six majors, ten captains and many lesser officers bad been eashierad "for complicity in the revolutionary move ment." Generals Vasques and Tajes, in command of the southern frontier, had resigned. The Montevideo papers, in referring to the military dismissals and resignations, state that the govern ment censorship prevented the signifi cance of these acts from being known. Lynching in Texas. At Belleville, Tex., a young negro named Bonner, who was arrested for criminal assault upon Mrs. Zachas, an at:ed white woman, near Wilhelm, was taken from jail by a mob of 200 men, and lynched in the woods about half a mile south of town. The negro confes sed the crime. Rats in the Corn. Kansas farmers have probably lost a considerable amount of their 200,000, iKit bushels of hoarded corn. Cribs have been found to contain 1,09 rats each, and many stores of grain have beeu discovered completely destroyed by the rodents. NEWS ITEMS. The Federal Conrt at NashTille,Tenn; , decides in favor of the railroads against the ticket scalpers. The smallpox at Birmingham, Ala., is confined to the negroes and is under control. Chief of Police Connelly, of Atlanta, Ga., is dead. The city council of Atlanta, Ga,, has adopted an ordinance requiring women to remove their hats in theatres. Mrs. J. W. Ward, of Angusta, Ga., claims 25,000 from the Medical College ot Georgia for dissecting her husband's body. At Greensboro, X. C, Luke Rich ardson, colored, was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary for attempt at rape. Norfolk, Va., first bale of new cotton was received on the 2:id, from Clio, S. C, and was consigned to W. 1). Roun tree & Co. It was graded strict mid dling and sold at 9 cents. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Yirgil S. Lusk receiver of the First National Bank of Asbeville, N. C. Senator McLanrin is much better, but is still unable to enter the canvass in South Carolina. The erection of a twenty-ton cotton seed oil mill will be commenced at La vonia, Ga., at once. The North Carolina State convention of the Veterinary Medical Association will be held at Charlotte Sept. 7th and 8th. The small-pox in Birmingham, Ala., has thus far been confined entirely to the negro quarter, and there have been few deaths. Mrs. E. II. Edwards, a woman mer chant of Graniteville, S. C, dropped dead in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel New Y'ork. It is understood that Governor Mc Laurin will appoint his brother to fill out the unexpired term in the Senate of the late Senator George, of Missis sippi. The Legislature of Tennessee at its next session will elect a successor to Senator Bate for a full term and also a Senator to serve out the unexpired term of the late Senator Harris. Major Mann Page, a prominent mem ber of the People's party in Virginia, has written a letter announcing his purpose to vote for Major J. Hoge T3' ler, the Democratic nominnee for Gov ernor. All About the North. For the first time this season, on the 2i;th, wheat reached :il at Chicago. Five children were drowned by the capsizing of a raft in Twos to j On tario. Nebraska and South Dakota promise a wheat and corn crop one-third greater than ever before. Three thousand cloakmakers and 1,5(0 coatmakers in New Y'ork are on a strike. Fire in Pittsburg, Pa , destroyed properly to the amount of 105,000; two firemen were killed l3- falling walls. Kansas farmers have sold 15,000,000 bushels of this year's wheat, but are building grauaries to hold the remain der. In New York on the 2irii wheat dropped to a point over cents a bushel below the highest figures of the year. B3-an error the Texas Legislature re pealed the law creating fifty-three judi cial districts, leaving but'one in the State. Cracksmen dynamited the postofliee safe at Hartford, Pa , and secured as booty 40 iii cash and a quantity of stamps. The American Window Glass Asso ciation, a strong organization along the latest improved trust lines, was organ ized at Chicago. A "spot cash club" has been organ ized at Valparaiso, Ind., for a crusade against tho credit system of doing bus iness. A crusade against tho coloring of im itation butter is about to be started at Chicago. A freight train on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad crashed into a passen ger train at Lima, O., wounding thirty excursionists. Miscellaneous. The Sugar Trust has advanced certain grades of refined sugar a sixteenth of a cent Ihe government of Peru has ordered its postage stamps made in the United States. There were 40,:r,o applications for lensioiis in the month of June. Japan will make n lot of demands from Hawaii before she will consent to arbitration. ' The Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F. has decided to bar saloon-keepers from membership. The Navy Department is arranging to make experiments in the use of oil as a fuel for magazine engines. A good 3-ield of fine wheat is re ported in the Cherokee Nation, where big planters are holding it for higher prices. California fruit growers nre busy handling the cherry crop, some of the farms realizing from s:;o,ooo -000. ' ' The Princess of Wales nnd the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schweriu will take the water enre made famous i- the late Father Kueipp. The Agricultural Department of the Government w ill experiment on the arid lands of the West with a Russian for age plant. The government will be urged by T. W. Keys, a Grand Army man, to raise the ironclad Monitor, which foundered off Cape Hatteras in 1';2. The French Government has asked for the extradition of William Ralfnsi, alias William A. Rellwood, formerly of Philadelphia, now iu prison at New York, for offenses committed in that city. Tho Mexican Government proposes to retain the gold mined in that coun try at home by imposing a heavy ex port tax. A board of army officers will meet in Washington on Sept. 21 to consider the location of the present force of artillery for seacoast defenses. The Citizens' Union and the leaders of the independent movement in Rrook lyn have determined to nominate Pres ident Seth Low, of Columbia College, for Maor of Greater New York. The first national convention of the American party, a new paliti.-ul organ ization, met in Druid's Hall, St. Louis, with about fifty delegates from nine States and one Territory present. COMPARATIVE FIGURES OX CRIME SOUTH AND SOUTII. SHOWS SOME STARTLING FACTS. William Call Cenana Itoporta to His AM In Kcfutlng Cliarcea of Lawlessness In the South. I have just received the third vol ume of "Compendium of the Census of 1830." Eight years have passed since the people made their returns and the time is nearingwhen they will be called on again. It takes a long time aud costs millions of money, bnt it is a big thing and diffuses knowledge amoi.g thu people, Tt is better that the money be spent that way, for there are no private schemes nor corporation sw indies in it and it gives employment to thousands of needy people. The census is the only mode of getting at the true condition of the nation's af fairs and a comparative view of the wealth, resources, education and mo rality of the people of the different states. I have been very much interested in these comparisons and feel prouder than ever before of my state and sec tion. For more than half a century the partisan and sectional literature of the north has overshadowed and hu miliated us with. unfair, untrue and slanderous statements. By these un christian methods of their press and pulpits their own good people have been poisoned against us and immi gration influenced in northern chan nels. Personally, I do not complain of this, for I esteem it a blessing that neither northern fauatics Sior foreign paupers have to any alarming extent infested our fair lands. The natural increase of our ow n people will soon enough occupy the south and secure to us a homogeneous citizenship that will continue to be the most moral and the most patriotic of any this side of the Atlantic. Not long ago an Ohio man bad the cheek to publish a letter about onr lawdessness and said it was amazing impudence for Georgia or the south to invito northern people to settle here. Well, we don't invite him nor any of his kind. An unknown friends writes me from Nebraska and Buys: "Call off your dogs. Let the yankees alone and blow your born for Germans. I have lived for thirteen years right here w here both abound and I will tako the Germans or the Swedes or the Swiss every time. The yankees have hated you for generations. They are loru hating yau and raised np in schools and churches to bate you. They can't help it. But these foreigners havo no such prejudices. They don't like your negroes, but have got nothing against yon. They nre a fair-minded, indus trious people and I have found them honest and kind and good neighbors whom you can depend on in timo of trouble." But to the census. Look at these figures tin crime and criminals in some of the states north nnd south in 1S00: Massachusetts, convicted criminals in prison 5,277 New York, convicted criminals in prison . Ohio, convicted criminals in prison... 2,!'0.) Illinois, convicted criminals In prison. M.nriS Total 2:1,540 Now deduct tho negroes 1,703 Leaving wliiti-i 21,715 Now let us tako four southern states: Georgia, whites 242 South Carolina, whites Mississippi 113 Virginia 32 Total fWl Now the total white population of the four northern states is 15,477,000, and the total white population of the four southern states is 3,000,400, be ing about one-fifth. The negro has been eliminated in both statements, and a the popula tion of the four northern states iH five times that of ours we wil! multiply our convicted white prisoners by live, which would give us 4,3:50 against '21,745. I said in a recmt letter that there were 50 per cent more of felo nies in New York or Massachusetts than in Georgia. I was mistaken. There are five times as many, which Is 500 per cent, and tkis is the ratio ac cording to white population. I tell yon, my brethren, this census com pendium proves an alarming condition of things up north, and it is high time our southern churches were or ganizing boards of missions and send ing missionaries up there. We send them to Mexico and China and Brazil and to the Indians in the west; why not to Massa chusetts and New York and Ohio, where crime and immorality prevail to a greater extent than in any civil ized country? That is just what Mr. Stetson said tho statistician of Mas sachusetts. His language as published was: "There is no country upon earth where crime is so flagrant and po fre quent as in Massachusetts." Her pop ulation is alont double our white pop ulation, and yet she has fifteen times as many white criminals in her pris ons and what is worse than all, my brethren, 748 of them are women. Just ponder over it and, like the prophet, exclaim: "How are the mighty fallen!" Only one white wo man in the jails or chaingangs of Geor gia and 748 in the I'uritan state of New England. What shall we do about it? What can we do? But this is not all that the census tells. In addition to this vast army of prisoners, Massachusetts has 700 juvenile prisoners, whi'e New York has 3,076 and Ohio 1,530. Then there are over 8,000 paupers in the four states, besides the thousands that are in private benevolent institutions. How in the. world do those states up north snpport such a vast army of criminals, paupers, tramps and non-prodncers? No wonder they want protection and lensions; no wonder they plunder the pnblic treasnry. They are obliged to do it. Ninety per cent of all the iniie3- that gos into it comes out into their jckets in some way or other, and still they are not happy; they want the other ten. But hnt is the relative condition of the common jHopIe of the sections? How about homes and mortgages and debts? It is the common people who constitute a state or a nation. They support it with their labor and defend it with their arms. In numbers they are as 500 to 1 of tho aristocracy. They all deserve to have homes homes of their own, unencumbered. A home menus more than shelter. It moans roses and vines and shade trees and fruit. Ask the po.r renter who in bumped alamt from phu-e to place every year. Ask his wife and daugh ters what they think of home. The census puts dow n 00.800 white fami lies in Georgia who have homes, and says that 00 per cent tf these are paid for and have noet.ctimhranee. Virginia has 07 per cent paid for; Mississippi and South Carolina X per cent each. Massachusetts has 175,000 families owning homes, but 37 per cent of them are mortgaged. New York has 400, 000 homos, and 41 per cent are mort gaged; hill the compiler says that more than 1)0 per cent of all the home encumbrance of the United States is in the north Atlantic and north cen tral divisions only 4 J per cent is on the homos of tho South Atlantic states. The mortgages on Massachusetts homes amount to ?!ifJ,Vls,l'.tt. Just think of it ponder it ruminate over it over one hundred millions of debt against the common people of one lit tle state having about double tho white population of Georgia. Can they ever pay it? New Y'ork is but little better, having $2 1.1,000, 0iM. In fact, tho whole north is covered as with a blan ket by debt, and tho millionaires are the owners of it. Debt! What a hard, unfeeling word it is. My old part nor was wont to say it has a harder alliter ative follow ing viz: debt, duns, death, damnation r :d the devil. Is it any wonder that suoli exponents as Dobs and George and Coxey riso up a:id plead for tho people -tho common people the toilers w h- havo 110 homes at all? Is it any won ! that strikes are made and the people carry blood in their eyes and desperation iu their hearts? Put yourself in their place, if you can, and then vi; i will feel an they feel. But, while we sympathize with them, nnd pity them, let us be grate ful that we live in this southern land, and are in the peaceful enjoyment of so many rich blessings. May the good liord preserve us front their crimes and their debts is 1113- prayer, RiLti Aiu in Atlanta Constitution. N. C. CROP III'I.LETIX. Irourht Continues Io Prevail Over Some Seel ;ons. The week ending Monday, August 2-'!d, was clointy and comparatively cool. Drought continued to prevail over somo sections, esecia!ly the ceu-tral-uorth portion of the State, but elsewhere favorable showers occurred, and tho rainfall on the 21st w as gen eral and er3" beneficial. Cotton has continued to shed in tho dry sections but elsewhere is very liuo. l icking has commenced. Fodder pulling has become general. Breaking land for wheat is progressing and fco'-ie winter oats havo boon sown. Eastkkn iMsrup r.--Drought con tinues to prevail with some severity only in Nash, Halifax and Northamp ton counties, and is cutting ciops very short iu those ccuntics. Elsewhere the weather was favorable this week, with cloudy weather and fcontle showers beneficial to all crops but interfering with fodder pulling, some being dam aged. Over "almost the entire eastern section crops are line; old corn is good; late corn fair; fodder pulling iu full blast. Cotton lias been damaged by drought, has shed considerably, and there are some complaints of rust, but it promises a fine crop yet; iu many counties it never was better. Cotton is opening as far north aH Northampton county. All minor crops, peanuts, rice, sweet potatoes, field peas, turnips, etc., are doing well. Ckntkal DisriitcT. The crop condi tions are quite diversified iu this dis trict. Drought continued to prevail this week in many counties, as Bun dolph, Montgomery, Warren, Durham, Chatham, Person, Anson, parts of Stokes, Richmond, Johnson and Yuko; inmost other counties favorable coa dition prevailed w ith plenty of rain, i he week was generally eloudy ami damp. Hail damaged crops in Stokos county on 17th. The rainfall on Saturday, 21st, was general over the district and very beneficial. Cotton is she bbng ba lly in the counties where drought is report ed, but elsewhere is very lino, full of fruitage from top to bottom; it is ojcti ing gene.-l3' and licking has com menced in the south. Jwith first new hide sold in Richmond county. I. at upland corn is suffering for rain; iowiaud crops fine; fodder being saved rapidi; some fodder cautrht by Saturday's rain tnd spoiled. Tobacco being cut, leaves broad and of good quality. Very large melon crop. Sorry win ter oatsand gathering eas progressing. " Wkktkkm Disthkt. -Although the following counties are needing rain, namely Burtie, Rowan, Catawba, Sur ry, Davie, Allegheny, Alexander aud Yadkin; unfavorable reiKrts are very few; over the greater portions of the district the week we find with showers, general on the 21, and generally cloudy weather. More sunshineis needed. Com is promising. Fodder pulling begun in south. Cotton looks fine and hn not abed much; it is owning. The to bacco crop, though small, will be good. Sweet potatoes and late Irish potatoei are looking well. Farmers are sow ing crimson clover, wiue winter oa'i and saving pea-vine hay. Breaking wheat land trenrl lrrai.es fine anJ plentiful. An ocean liner arrived. In New Yorx the other day a few minute ahead f a vessel it should have followed ili'o port, and It Is asserted that the iwn boats racwl. This Is denial by the o' flcers of Nith ships, but the captain of the winning loat proudly referred t- the fact that he had beaten his rival Into port. There Is a punishment for captains of w.-enu liners who race theil boats, but It Is seldom Inflicted. It is considerod a smart thinjr for these men to outstrip their rivals and put thou sands of lives In peril for the sake of reducing their ships' records by a few minutes. The companies connive at this and are as responsible for en dangering human life as are the cau talna. neaoon PoL7s "Brother Goodman, I fear, didn't stick closely to the irutlj l i commenting on the life and character of old Havenutlier. Imagine him ray ing he was an indulgent husband." Mrs. Iiobbs -W ell, wasn't h V I havt? often heard his wife declare lie never came home sober." Somerville Journal.