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nn 1 1 I R BION ECOBB 4,A DEMOCRATIC; FA31ILY NEWSPAPER." VOL. I MAKION, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1895. NO. 18, E THE Marion Eecora h the orly Democratic Newspaper fo McDowell county, and has a large cir cuVion in adjoining counties. It pub l iLes 11 the news without fear or fdvor, and Ij tJie organ of no ring or 1 q 1?. It ii the bold champion of the peo rights, an earnest advocate of the h"t Inten sts of the county of McDow r .1 and the town of Marion. Its adver tiirijr rtf are reaion'ib'e, and the ub cri ition price la $1.00 per ytmr in ad- If you want the best newspaper In the cunf r brimming full of choice reading mMft f;r buinees men, farmers, me hmiis, and the home circles of all fUe eubs'-ribe and pay for the I'.rconD. Ifyoudoa't, why just don't, n i the puprr will be printed erery Thursday evening ns usual. If jo 1 haven't enough interest In your r . inij's wellfare to sustain the best ad. T.a'e of iti diversified interests, and its r t et friend the newspaper yon need cot expect a 2-coluran obituary notice when your oi l stingy brines are hid from tho eje3 of progress in the ground. 0 All who owe subscriptions to the Hkcokd will be dropped from our list uj.lcfs they jj up nt onre. Yjtufc R . sj)t tfully, Trie Marion Record, V. MOIilMIKYf, Attorney at Law, Practices in tho Court of Mitchell Y .i y, 11 'inc-Mnbe, Watauga, Ashe; Bui rrmc mi I l'cdiral Courts. Tonsorial, WM. SWEENEY, Tr t c. il R.d Scientific Barber. Over Siip t:n 1 1 h 'ru store. ('all and see in !, in I pMiinie a .tUfuction in all in- SOUTH MUX RWLWAY CO. (i:a(Tckn system.) r'-iifern Tlrue t o'umbin and Tt. Kortti. ? crl h!ionn1, A in i: VI. IH?5 Xo r,fl No lo'o 38 j Daily iPally I T.oo a 11 So j 3.IS p ... 1 It. I.v. f.i p M 14 p j i 4 0 R..T) pj 1MJ y r Co. iUil 1.1 I I.v A ;.i.s " (i r i'ii Uie ... " 'l'r. n'm ... " Joi.i.s'pnv ...... r f ia L l'.''.! 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Supenutendent First Dl- l;'ti. Hrr.vil!.., Va. u b. Ill li:ic. Supi-rinteudent Second Di- Ii. liKEKX, Ufinral Suirintendent. '-!.invt.,ii. I. c. V ULA- Oeueral FasscDger Agent, ".-h!n;.'toil. I). C, BALTISIORE'S GREAT TUNNEL. It Took Nearly Five Years to Build and Cost $8,000,000. The Belt Line Railroad Tunnel, one of tho most remarkable engineering feat of motf ern time, which ha been built under Balti more from (Camden station to Bay View Junc tion on the Philadelphia division of the Bal timore and Ohio Railroad, a dLrtanoe of sev en and a half miles, was formerly opene4 for business Friday morning. Th flrnt train to make the trip under the new B -hetule was the royal bine express, No. 514. Hereafter there will b no transferring of passenger trainn across the Potomac RWer. It was in tended to hare the electrical equipment of the tunnel completed Jn time for the inaugu ral traiD, but the tbre en-trii locomotive s have not yet arrived and coke burning lo-o-motivea will be used to propel trains for the present. By the use of eWtric locomotiv3 (whi'-h weigh ninety-five tons ea'h) whi-n will probAbly be in readiness ly June 1, the tunnel can be ker.t free from smoke and brilliantly lighted. The conveyance of the current to eleetrie locomotives of such great power has never before boen attempted or even approached and much inter's, there fore; attaches to this part of the plant. Ia addition to doing away with the inconven ience and coasexjuent loss of time in making transfers by Meamer at Canton, the lit line will provide other faeilities, for which the Baltimore and Ohio Company has greatly felt the neod and will figure largely in reduc ing the annual expenses. There will also bo a great saving of time in passenger train schedules between Washington, Philadelphia and New York. The Baltimore nnd Ohio summer schedule, which will go into effect On May 12, will undertake t j run royel ldus trains ltween Philadelphia and Washington. In two and a half hours. The tunnel lias len in course of construction nearly flvo years, aud cost 8,000,000. A QUALKUTLK TRAGEDY. Four Men Shot Dead as the Result of un Old Family Feud. On the Main street of Ncwbern, Tenn., within ten seconds, four men lay dead. These four are R. W. Townsend and his son Beau regard and Abb and John Fulgham. The quadruple tragedy was the outcome of a feud that started two years ago, and grew out of a trivial dispute between the Townsend and the Fulgham families. It appears that young Fnlgham was having a hearing before a magistrate for an assault on Avery Townsend the week previous dur ing a family quarrel, ami as the evidence showed the assault unprovoked, a fine of t50 and costs attached was inflicted. At the con clusion of the court ImsineMs the crowd mov ed out, and near the door the Townsend and Fulgham parties came together. There were a few angry words, then weapons were, drawn and the shooting bpgau. In almost an instant the wholesale killing was done and the four men lay stretched on the pave ment. lO.OOO Men Striking. At Roanoke, Va., a prominent Fint Top op erator, in an interview said that 10,000 coal miners are on a strike in that region. The five mines at work employ small forces and use electrical machinery, which is a great labor saver. There is bitter feeling a:nong the miners because of the introduction of this machinery, and this, it is claimed, is the cause of thu strike, TKoors abe AMtF.n ron at fi-at top. At Charleston. W. Va., U. S. Marshal A. D. Gardner received a telegram asking for pro tection in the Riueflcld coal region from strikers. Governor MaeCorkle, of West Vir ginia, has been asked liy the Governor of Virginia to allow troops to pass through the State en route to that part of Flat Top Coal field which !:' in Virginia. Serious trouble Is expected. Northern Farmers Coming South. The fact that the Northern papers are no ticing the movement of Northern farmers to the South shows that the movement has al ready attained lare proportions. The more tin y sav about it the greater the movement will become. A'vl with the immigrant will come industries of one kind and another. Ten years hence th" appearance of tlw S mth will ie verv different from what it Is now. Aikvn (S. (",.) Reorder. SFAB AliD AIR LINE R. R NKW IIISTK. Xtw r ute to Oa'l-dte, Rile:h, Wil mi'g oii, Richmond, Norfolk, W'a-hinir n, Baltimore, ami the Kns. A'k to Atlanta, New Orleans and all points in T xas ninl the Snithwctt. Memuhis. Kansas Ciy, Denver and a' I point' in he (Ireat West. For M. Fob! rs l .me Tables ajd '01 ft rates wri'e to 15. A. NKW LAN I). (Jen. Tr.v. Pass. Aent, Cl.arl tte, N t l.e-ve M ri..n .. (' A: ('. t" s m Charlotte S. A L 1150am Arrive l.'ali igh 0- pm Wilmington ii''inn Atlanta " J ' 0 p ro . r.A. Xkwunh. '!'. .1. Amkmson, r p a. i p a. Professional fiarbc. L. 0. BIRD Attoxet akd Couhskllox at Law. Marion, - N. 0. Practices in &U courts, State and Fed eral. Special attention given to lave tigating land titles ani collecting claims. UrOffice on Main Street. JUSTICE & JUSTICE, Attorney! at Law, Mrrion, - N. 0. E. J. Justice is located here. Office is upptr room of Fleoiming Hotel. JAMES MORRIS. Marica, N. a R. S JficrJ. LL. Ashex iile, N. C MORRIS & M'CALL, Attornevs ct Law. Trscfice In DcDowell. Ruth-rfrr1. Pls, Vanpey and Mitchell cru-ities, and in the Unite trtatea ircuit Court at Aheville snd Ptstcsvillc, and in th Supreme Court of the Ft te. Busi ess promptly attended t", THE LATEST HEWS. GLKAXIXGS FROM MANY POINTS. Important Happening, Both Heme and Foreign, Brief) Told. Flaanrlal. The Appalachian Bank at Lit; 6ton Cap. Va., has eiosed its doors. It ia atate.l that all claims will be paid la full. According to the financial Review, twen-t-n re million dollars were lost during 1834 through bank embezzlements, defalcations and other forms of swindlings. This has de rreased the visible wealth of the banks in ex actly that amount. At Charlottesville the reassessment of real estate, just completed, shows an increase over last year's values of (95,910. Bine 1890 the Increase of values has been 364,774. The Htandard Oil Co., at Tittsburg, Pa., has further depressed the market by naming $1.80 as Saturday's price. In Oil City the oil market opene.i at fl.85 and then dropped to tl.80 offered. Pittsburg oil market opeueV at tl.80. Labor. The Norwalk (Conn.) Mills, manufacturers of woollens, employing two hundred Lands, put in force the old scale of wages from which a reduction was made during the businrst depression. In the "sweat shop" investigations in New York, a woman has just testified that sht works 19 hours' a day for 30 cents. She is al her toil from 6 a. m. till midnight, and last week earned f 1.50. M. Oreary, of the Oil City (Pa.) Tube Mill and Oii City Boiler Works, has notified hit employees that after this week wages will b advanced 10 per rent. Big demands for pipe, machinery and boilers following the advane In oil and drilling operations have caused the increase. The two concerns pay from t45, 000 to 150,000 monthly and employ 1.000 men. At St. Louis, the strike of the Garment workers is at an end. The strike was for bet ter quarters, not for the Increase of waget and a satisfactory agreement has been drawn up and signed by the clothing manufactnren and workers. The employers agree to fur nish quarters for the workers which will be approved by the State factory inspector. Crime. Jas. Young, janitor at the court house, shot ant killed his wire at Hassierville, Ind. lit then drove to Brazil, Ind., went to the court hous and shot himself dead. Mrs. Martha Wallen, of Blak water, Le county, Va., stabbed Mrs. Lane Walla.je tc death with a pitchfork. The murder was th outcome of jealousy. The bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer Crizek. of Mount Clemens, Mich., have been notified that there is a defalcation of funds amount ing to about f 10,000 and they are requested to make the shortage good. A trial was In progress before Justict Mayes, Claiborne county, Tenn., in which Grant Toore, a tough character, was defend ant. Bill Carroll was a witness, and Poor accused him of swearing to a lie. A quarrel ensued, in which Poore shot Carroll, from the effects of which he diod. Poore was ar rested. Legislative. In the New York Assembly at Albany. Mr. Ainsworth introduced a resolution bitterlj condemning the administration at Washing ton for not enforcing the Monroa doctrine iu the English-Nicaragua complication. Tht resolution passed 91 to 15. After a lengthy discussion, the Tennessee Senate, by a vote of 14 ayes to 17 noes, re jected the Jeffries fee bill, limiting th( fees of all State and county officials paid bj fees tf 3,000 per annum. A powerful lobbj of county officials have been working against the bill. The House passed the bill requiring the teaching in the public schools of the ef fects on the human system of alcoholic drinks and narcotics; also a bill appropriat ing 50,000 to build a negro department ol the Eat Tennessee insane asylum. Miscellaneous. In New York the consumption of beef ha fallen off SO per cent, since the advance In price. At the session of the Alabama State Sundaj School Convention at Mobile the secretary's annual report showed that there were 226,711 scholars in the Sunday schools of Alabamf and there are 470.000 children between tht ages of five and twenty who are not in thest schools. Foreign. The price of flour in London advance three shillings per sack, the extreme quota tion ladng twenty-seven shilling per quarter. A dispatch from Ostrog, Russia, says that half of the town of Dubno in the Government of Volhyna has been destroyed by Are. Th village of Sommerseig, near Frankfort Germany, has been destroyed by Are. Sixty five dwellings were burned and many per sons injured. The Chinese Emperorhas ratified the peac treaty with Japan. The Bauzy, France, dam disaster was du to the carelessness of State engineers, whf should have condemned it. Legal. The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals re fused a writ of error in the case of Cbas. Morgansfleld, alias Morgan, the Aoula Creek train robber, and the judgment of the Staf ford county court stands. Morgansfleld must now to go to the penitentiary. Cotton. The total sales of cotton for the past weel a rejorted at New York were 7S.OO0 tale American. f,000; trade takings, including forwarded from ship-side. 75.000; actual ex port. 8.O00; total import, 44.000; American. 38.000; total stock, 1,676.000; Ameri-an, 1,-' 565.000; total afloat, 147.000; American, 140. POO. Speculators took 3.S00, and exporter? took 21,000. Washington. The whole attention of the Internal Rver ue Bureau is now centred on the income tax. and it is very evident that the returns frore the districts already heard from ase both un satisfactory and disappointing. Instead ol there being a delinquency of twnty percent, whii h the d-partia-nt thought tea days age would be a Itrwra! stimAte. it looks now a. if it would reach twenty-live per cent., ot one-fourth of the ettir r'Vftue expected to be realizM fron th Iat. rowdier 3IIIIs Bloxr Up. At South Acton, Mass., Friday morning, one of the powder miiis of the American Fow der Company blew up. A few minutes later a second mill situated a hundred yards away also exploded. Fire caused by the ex plosion spread to the third mill known as the Corning mill, and ia a few minutes it blew up and was also destroyed. Five persons are believed to have been killed. The mills were ten In number, spartad from each otter and enclosed by high board fences. The explosion of the firs mill set Are to tte surrounding fence, and the aaes soon i?rf-ad to the second milL In fifteen minutes Lter the first explosion three of the mills ia 1 ben destroyed. The list of drod is as follows: Chas. O'Neill, fr.. of Mayn&rd, Mam., unmarried; Nelson Uorton. of Acton leave a widow and several iuV.reo; Fred K. Win-low. ot South Acton, narried; Cna. Estes, of South Acton, un narried; A. Eater, of South Acton, leaves a sridew utd ux children. Income TAX Illegally rAio Justice White's View About the Hun dreds of 3Iillions. The dissenting opinions of Justices Harlan and White, "of the Supreme Bench, In the income-tax decision, were distributed at Washington on Monday. That of Justice White comprises nearly 20,000 words. After concluding that a tax on rents is not a tax on rl es tate, he says this on the necessity of strictly preserving the continuity and consistency of judicial decision: "The injustice and harm which must al ways result from overthrowing a long and settled practice, sanctioned ay the decisions of this court, could not be b-tter illustrated than by the example which this case affords. Under the income-tat laws which prevailed in the past for many years, and which cov ered every conceivable source of income, rentals from real estate, nd everything else, vast sums were colleetHd from the people of the United Stab's. The decision here ren dered announces that those sums were wrong fully taken, and thereby, It ems to me, cre ates a claim in ei4uty and good conscience against the government. for an enormous amount of money. "Thus, fiom the change of view by this court, it happens that an aet of Congress, passed for the purpof-e of raising revenue in striet conformity with the practice of the government from the earliest time, and in aecordance with theoft-rejeated decisions of this court, furnishes the occasion for creating a claim against the government for hundreds of millions of dollars. I say creatinga claim, because if the government be in good con science bound to refund that which has been taken from tho citijiens in violation of the Constitution, although the technical right may have disappeared by lapse of tim. or because the decisions of this court have mis led the citizen to his irricvous injury, the equity endures, and will present itself to the conscience of the government. This conse quence shows how necessary it is that the court should not overthrow its jmst decisions." DEATH IN THE WINDS. School Children Among the Cyclone's Victims. At least flfiy people are believed to have been killed in the terrible cyclone that passed over Sioux City, Iowa, and vicinity, last Fri day. No one as yet can tell how much the loss of life is, or how evtensive the damago until reports rom the outlying districts have been received. The telegraph wires In the devastated section are all down and authen tic information is hard to get. Three school houses are known to have been demolished, and two teachers and several pupils killed. The names of those known to be killed or missing are; Mamie 8. Haggle and five brothers killed near Sioux Centre; Mrs. John Kerster, near Sioux Centre. Her child was blown away and is not yet found; Anna Mars den, teacher in the Coombs school, near Iron town; Geo. Marsden, brother to A una, teach er in another school, near Irontown; Chas. Marsdeu, killed near Sioux Centre; Mrs.! Post, killed near Sioux Centre; Rudolph Schwudefeger, aged 21, killed by lightning, near Southerland; Peter Stimmer, killed in his house, near Lawrence by lightning; two children of L. T. Coombs, killed near Sioux Centre; Mrs. John "Waterman, killed near Sibley; child of A. Verhoff, killed at Bloux Centre. John Patterson Win. Itadiches, Mrs. lt. A. Smith, (i. F. Biiing, Mrs. Herman Bel kt m, II. O. Neider, Frank M. F. Hayt, J. Jameson killed. The towns of Sioux Centre, Irontown, Orange, Perkins, Dean, Hull, Sheldon, Alton, Ashton, Sibley and Lemars were almost directly in the path of the cy clone. A pitiful feature of the disaster is the num ber of youthful lives lost by the cruel winds. Three schoolhouses near Sioux Centre were destroyed while school was in progress and at each one from three to ten children were carried from a quarter to half a mile before they alighted. Two little daughters of Jno. Kester, a farmer near the Sioux Centre, were picked up as they were leaving the school house and dashed in a wire fence where both were killed. One house was carried over the tops ol treeeif across the Sioux river and set down without the stoves being upset. Trees fourteen inches in diameter were twisted off or torn up by the roots. The damage to property will reach nearly $ 100,000. THE CHRONICLE'S FIGURES. Comparative Cotton Statement as Set Forth Hy At wood, Violet A. Co. The New York Financial Chrouicle Satur day morning shows as follows : In ware houses at United States ports, 517.'6o2 (of which New Orleans bad 209,000 and New York 213.000); stocks at 31 interior Southern points, 165.000. againtt 17(1.000 last year. In other words the visible supply in warehouses in this country nt the interior and at ports is on'y ilS.000 more than last year, but 551.000 less than two years ago, when the crop was 6.700.000. Total exports since R-j.teml.cr 1st, 6,195. 66. against 4.781.112 last year, but the visible supply of American in Euroje and afloat for (treat Britian and the continent is only 224.000 more than last year, whereas we have exported 1.414.000 more : consequently European spinners have taken the difTereu in excess of lar-t year's amount that came in to sight for the week ending Friday. 45, 000 against 4H.0OO. and the total in sicht since SeptemW 1st, 9,423.000 ajainst 7.126.000 last year; whereas all that is left of in sight more thau a vear ago in thiscountry is, as we show above, 9'J.OOO. There is 51.000 less of visihle in America than two years ego. whereas Hie amount that ha-coTe into sight in exess of that season is 3.195.O00 l-ales, Tli world's total visible of American is 415.000 larger than lat yar. Iut there has hen '.rouslit Into si?ht of Amrietn more than la-t year 2,207.000. The world's spinners havt? ab sorbed the difference or 1,)2,000 more than a year n;o. 31 III News. O. II. Sampson A Co., of Boston, have com pleted a new 10.000-pindl mill at Green ville, S. C. The Y. W. To Mfg. Company, at same place has laid off the ground for a new 20.000-spindle mill, and let the contract for 10.000 spindles to hegio on. Lancaster, S. C, is te have a f 200.000 cot ton factory. Col. Iyry Springs isengineer insr the enterprise. Th- Carolina? will rabe 100.000, and the rest will be secured North. Mr. H. S. Chadwlck addressed the p-ople of Lancaster several day jo on the' subject and awakened considerable- interest in the matter. H reeomniecdM the building of large mills and the rr.fttnifa--tiinr.ir of a fine quality of goods. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. Several ca-es of iall pox har? be-n dis co vered in the necrodivr en Frank lia tre-t, New Orleans, rr -yn't;is in a yvvl deal of exeitmert. Hllxt, 3119 Gtng's Murder, Gets a Life Sentence. At Minneapolis. M.na., on SUurday, Claus B'lit. who was awrfttirg trial for the murder orCittaria Gine'. plislsd "guilty" before Judce Pond. cLaa'i his plea of "cot gmii." lilt a sio.-t tisia was ta'&en for the proceeding, as ll.i&l fcai evinced h:s desire to eb-iage nis plea an 1 bis wiliiAigne-, to do so befon? M iv 1 r.u. th-r d.te 13. wy y t lor his trial. J'iXt vr.v. then ecr- - i to i'o prisonmcnt lor hi-. The farmers and fS'-v. t.b- 10? this country have lire etuj ; va'ao.'i ut -iJ,-208,767.573. SILYER THE ISSUE. HON. HOKE SMITH ON MONEY. The Issue In the Next Campaign WU1 Be Silver Mono-MttaltUm. Secretary Iloke Smith, of the Interior De partment, was interviewed at Mod, Oa., by a reporter of the Telegraph on the financial Question and defined the differences of opin ion on the currency question existing in the country at present. He thought that during the next twelve months a thorough discus eion of the money question would be pre sented all over the country. This discission will be limited, he thought, to the proposi tion for the unlimit'si coinage ef silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The Secretary divided the 1-eople into three classes gold mono-metal-lists, silver mono-metallists and oi-metallists. IV) did not think that the gold mono-metallists were strong enough to become a factor in the campaign, but that the issu would be for and against silver mono-rnetallism. n thought that the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio by this country alone would mean nothing more or lefts than silver mono-metallifemt for if, under that System, the price of silver bullion did not materially advance, no other metal would be presented at the mints lor coinage. The real question, the Sscretary thought, was whether or not th free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 would advance the price of silver bullion so that it would bear the relative value of gold ef 16 to 1, which is the proposed ratio. If It would not. then the country would not have a bi metallic currency. The Secretary reviewed the history of the country's currency afid said that both Jeffer son and Hamilton recognized the fact that the ratio of coinage must be fixed upon the commercial value of the metals in the mar ket. In 1873, when free coinage was sus pended in the United States, the silver in a dellar was worth morn than the gold in a gold dollar, but since that time, the demone tization of silver by other countries has al lowed its value to drop to the price which it will bring for manufacturing purposes. The value of an article must be controlled by the demand for its use and the supply to be consumed. The facts show that the de mand lias practically ceased while the supply Eas almost trebled. This is true-, in spite of the fact that since 1879 the United States has coined more silver than in the eighty years prior to that time. "Can any one," asked the Secretary, "study these facts without concluding that if this enormous issue by the United States was insufficient to steady the fall of silver during the past twenty years, unlimited coin age by the United States alone would not be sufficient to restore its bullion value now? It is, therefore, not offensuve criticism, but only a statement of a logical conclusion, when I insist that unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 means silver mono metallism. Under such a law, all the silver product of the world would turn to our mints. and then would come the silver heretofore manufactured into cheap wares. Again, sil ver mining would Increase and the exhaus tion of resources would be threatened by the exchange of silver dollars for the bullion. "With free coinage we would virtually change our standard to one worth only one- naif the present standard and the commer cial value of a dollar the world over would be only 50 cents. While commodities might sell for twice ai many dollars, their real val ue would remain unchanged. The entire country would be confused, until by accur ate test the true value of the new standard was ascertained. The result would be a ces sation of trade and the cautious business man would involve himself In no contracts. This uncertainty wouid create serious busi ness troubles and the practical suspension of all enterprises. He could see no benefit from the change and none especially to those who worked for wages because they were always the last to be recognized in Increased wages under the use of a depreciated currency. The proprie tor of an enterprise would insist that em ployes should taXe the risk. He did not be lieve the change would benefit the debtor class, because so many loans havelecn made on the gold basjs and the debtor would l obliged to go into the market and purchase gold with which to meet his obligations. As to other debts, if there were any danger of silver mono-metallism there would be no ex tension possible. Reasoning on these lines, he could see no benefit even if the cbaiige were brought about. One class insisted that the leneflt would be in the inability of the employes to exact double vage8- To thete seftish em ployers some benefit might come but it would te found that after the final adjustment to the new conditions prices would be nominal ly increased all around with no real benefit to anj'body.' He doubted the proposition that other countries would fall into line, following the action of this country. If that were true the standard would deproeiate and debts con tracted during the depreciation would in crease as the value of silver increased and the class sought to be benefitted would again be burdened. The Secretary thought the agitation of the question was checking the return of prosper ity but he hoped the confidence that the question would be defeated would prevent serious injury. In conclusion Secretary Smith said: "I have no doubt that the next President of the United States will bs opposed to the unlimi ted coinage of silver at 16 to 1." SILVER IN TEXAS. An Address Issued to the Democrats Culling a Male Convention. An Austin, Tex.,dipat-h says: The 16 to 1 silverites in the pres. nt legislature, led by Railroad Commissioner P.eacao. ifued an addrej-s to the people of Texas, whi h places the monetary question tefore the "r,w,- and j will cause the drawing of the line as I' twn j the gold standard men and the silv-ntes In 1 Texas. The prwlm.itiori whi' h is the wor I of Commissioner Ik-aqai. reviews thehi-tory I of silver sp-ew from the earliest date down I to the present date. Or-t Mr H laid on the faet that it it money whK-h the p-oi .le are clamoring for and demanding at the hands of the governrtiPnt. A convention was called to meet in Fort Wrth on Auga't 6th, and in the meantime pre-:n t ui't:iir ar? called for July 20th to elct delfgat- to the Fort Worth convention. Tht pro-iamt.on "t forth that inamu'h astbeisne is to b on to a floish that all 16 to 1 silverites mut foli'-'j'e their leader ant enter the flarht and stiy ia it until tht final Waterloo, in IfeC. which ittlsut who shall be the victor. They taW?" oc-asron to tore Cleveland and the national I nj'.'ra-y vry aivrely and point out that the time 19 now ripe for a-tion i th- .-;lv ntr in Texa ever waat to e-m t lUtix ngbts. j .22.7 Per Capita In Circulation. ! The Treasury circulation statciet for j April showAhjit during the month the cirru j lation of all Linds of money in the United i States increased SI5.21?.730. matin 7 tbe to ! tal in circulation May lt, 4l.5ie.4.3.iM. or I 1 22.37 per capita. A coinparej wuii jay 1 j IbH, the total circulation baa deirea'sd j t 000,000. Shot Derause fe Surrendered. At Hjana. L-tittiaat Tlentlse Gil!ga Gonxa.. of i!ie gorerrment amy. was shot on Tntirs-iay in ivt,;!iv with tLe finding of a court mania'. bfcnt. f his baring 'ap itulatej to the in..ireuts at fimon d La Yuc5, in the G.iar.t4iiis.o dlstri-t. G-.u-bs was in cote?. ad of tSe fort at Itam-ia de La Yaua aud nrrfci-rM tt to the eremy after a rtarge t y tu-t au r. ILLINOIS FOR SILVER. Free Silver rrevaJU as Epidemic 1 hrowghoat the State. A dispatch from Chicago, says: The coun ties are beginning to act on the call of the state executive committee lor a state conven tion to deride the party's policy en the finan cial question. Everything so far is for silver. The gold bugs do not display any strength at an. The Clay County (TiL Democrats held a convention to elect five delegate to the State Monetary Convention. Every to was hip was fully represented. Resolution were unani mously adopted Instruetinjr the delegates to vote for the unlimited free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Enthusiastic speeches were delivered by the chosen delegate. The Democratic central committee of Put nam County has issued a call for a conven tion to be held May 20. The committee op posed tree coinage. The Indications are that the County Convention will favor it The Bond County Democratic central com mittee ordered a primary to be held May 11 to elect delegates to a convention on May 1. The committee unanimously favored free eoinag at 16 to 1. The Democrats ef Morgan County met In convention and selected twelve delegates to the monetary eonrentlon to be held at Snringfleld on June S. Resolutions were adopted strongly advocating the free coinage of surer at the ratio of 16 te 1. Tha D raocrats of Effingham County met Saturday and selected delegates to the State Convention at Springfield on June 5. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That this Convention Is in favor of the free and unlimited coinage ol silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and that the del cgafs to the State Convention be instructed to vote accordingly, first, last and all the time. "R-solved, That this Convention "approves of and commends the action of the State Democratic committee in calling the Conven tion at Springfield, June 6, for the purpose of getting an expvjsion of the party on the financial question. Nincty-flve per cent of the Democrats of this county are in favor ol free silver. The democrats of Jasper county have se lected delegates to the silver convention at Springfield on June 5th and gave them the following instructions: "Resolved, That the democracy of Jasper county favors the use and coinage of tioth gold and silver without dbv-rlmlnatioa against either metal, and demands that the mints of the United States be ojened to the full and unlimited coinage of silver at a ra tio of 16 to 1,- independent of the action of any other nation; "Resolved, That the delegates from Jas per county to the state convention le, and they are hereby Instructed, to vote as a unit and in favor of adopting !n said state demo cratic convention a resolution similar to the foregoing, in expressing the sens of the democracy of the state of Illinois." The democratic county central committee met at Marshall to take action in regard to the silver convention to be held in Spring field in June. The democracy of this county are ten to one for silver as a money standard, and it is safe to predict that a silrer delega tion will be sent to the state convention. June 6th was fixed for the date for this coun ty to act. KI8SOCBIA5S ALSO FOB SILVEE. Wednesday night thirty of the democratic members of the Missouri house met In cau cus and adopted the following resolution: "Resolved, Ttr.t we, the democratic mem bers of the hous of representatives, thirty eighth general assemby, favor the free coin age of silver at a ration of 16tol." The vota on the resolution stood yeas 22, ayes 9, not voting 4. The caucus was Intensely ex citing and much bitter feeling was shown by the participants. AN EXPERT FORGER. S. C. Dickson, or Greenville, 8. C, Has Been at It For Years. At Greenville, 8. C astounding develop ments resulted 011 Wednesday by the arrest of 8. C. Dickson on three warreutscharginghim with forgery. The warrents were sworn out by Gorce A. Norwood, president of the Greenvillo Savings bank. Irickson Is the h ading real estate dealer of the city and has been doing a large business. It is learned that for twenty years he has been carrying on an elaborate system of for geries, his forgeries Iwing eonflned to the character of papers isel in tbe real estate business. H- would make deeds to himself of imaginary lands as well as of real tracts, signing fictitious names to the same. He th-n used them as eecuritUs in borrowing money. He forged mortgages on real estate to swure forged notes payable to himself and deposited these with bankers and mon ey lenders as security for loans. The number f fosged aud false deeds will nev;r le known, as he kited, taking up old forgeri wdh new ones, lining new names and new lands for ea'h transaction. When pressed by the holders of his I'I'er he could always produce new deeds and new mort gages to renew the old. The loses of hold ers of his forced pa-r will amount to from J 12.000 to f VO.OnO. Dickson did not give the t3.000 bond re,iikri for his appearance at court and pleading guilty to the indictment, be waa jailed. TIIK DKHT STATKSIF.NT. A Net Increase In tbe Public Debt ot Over Nine Millions. The debt statement lsued at Washington shows a net Increase in the publi- debt iej cah ia the Treasury during April of f,10V 857. The Interest bearing debt increase! 42,349,950; the non interest tearing del de crcard 4339.433 and cah in the Treasury decreased 47,039,345. The balance of tbe several class ot debt at the close of tusl ness, April 30th, were: Interest bearing dbt 71,201,V10; d'-H on whih lntret hae ceiwed slne maturity 11, 75I.M0; d-M bearing no Interest S,"01,24'i total 41,09a57,ai. The errtift''te and Treasury notes offset by an eoual amount of cash in the Treasury outstanding at the end of the month were: 45i,6W,624, a de-reee of tlS.-MS. The total raeh In the Treasury was 47-17,442,335. The gold reserve was 431,217,14. N'rt rah balanee 4 '"9,570,772. In the month there was an increase in gold coin and bars of 4511, 657, the Utal at tbe elo-te being 13.IWfi53. Of silver there was aa in-reaee of 4553.95. Of tbe rurplns there waa in national bank depositories 4 16,777,077 against 4Hf224,16-l at tbe end ef the preceding month. TJIE CUBAN REVOLT Skirmish vrlttr Insurgents la which The Leader are Uadly Worsted. The staff correspondent of the United Press at GuaatAuamo. Cob rays: A fore of Government troop, undr command of Maj. Tegerlso, made aa attack upon a I -end of in kunrent at Ramon de La 9 Yaguaa. A des perate fight ensued, whirb resulted ia tbe total route ef the rebel, with a los of evrn-ty-two killed and a Urge nun.ber wounded. The Govtrnment fon kt ix killed aai three wounded. Oomn landed at La Mar, a point about thirty rulW evU of Ouat tana mo, on the south cot. The Conde de Tena dito failed to intererf th party at rea, and one thousand Kpanisb Xroop failed to bead thea off 03 land. Gomez i cow in the Inte rior, and a party ol tcurgrnu ander Pere-g-uito Perez, OBCrvicg arouad Guaitta&atno, caa upon the cc-lurua of Limaccas under LWt. GoL Loch at YLx.aV GayabeL The taairger.ts artarSted tLe Government troop, and reports of the encounter vary. OfflcUl Govemsent report tnat ten rebels were killed or wounded, and a quantity ef arms, powder, ram p uteuniU, clothing aad food captnrt-d. Death From Licking nn Knvelope. S.Friehelmer, forn.eiiy a millionaire mer chant of New Yorr, died at Chicago from bbod-poUoning as a result of cutting his tongue while licking an envelope. WITHIN OUR STATE. NEWS FROM 31 ANY COUNTIES. An Abducted Girl Found. The Atlanta Constitution of Toeaday tells of the finding in Gainesville, Ga.. of pretty Mary xJrvsoo, who was ab ducted about two weeks ago from her home near Franklin, Macon county, by her brother-in law, K. A. Henry. Tha Utter being wild, his father-in-law, old man James Bryson, bad se cured the separation of his daughter ard the yotiDg man, Henry, perbap for spite, then persuaded the youngest dangbter in the Bryson family to run away, telling her he would secure her work in Atlanta. He placed her, however, in a boarding school at Gainesville, and went to Atlanta him- aelf. where be bis lieen cantnrcd. snd sent back to North Carolini girl was glad to go back home. TLfl George Mills Hanged. George Mills waa banged at Jtaleigh on Friday. He mordcred hia niece, Iana Wimberly, near Apex, Jane 19, last. He was arrested the following day. Last September be was tried. He road a confession, aud on this tho girl'a father. Jack Wimbcrley, waa ar rested and tried for bis life at tbe Jan nary term, this year, but waa ac quitted. Mills at the September term, appealed to tbe Supreme Court, which, in March, affirmed the sentence of tha lower court. Governor Carr then issued bis death warrant. Mil! wrote last March a long statement. In thi-s be repeated what be bad previoos! stated, this being that! bo killed tbe girl, incited to the crime by bcr father, nd that he bated to offer aDd yet see her father go tinpunifched. Mill de clined to write auythicg or to make any statement aa to bis affairs. Illicit Still Seizures. Tbe revenue officer made two raid on Thursday. In Richmond county Deputy Gibson got an M)-gallon illicit still, but Frank Urown and Thomaa Levister, its owners, escaped. In Rockingham county Deputie Davia arid Smith captured two stills, each of 83-gallons capacity. Since January 1st of this year do less than 94 illicit distilleries have been seized in this district These averaged abont $200 in value. It is a record-breaking array of seizures within bo abort a period. Revenue officers captured a large blockade distillery, four mile west of Mocksville. Tbeowncrof thebusineaa, Joaeph Atwood, was also captured and brought to Wimton. Telegraph Overcharges. Tbe railroad commission ordered the Western Union Telegraph Company to cbargo only 25 cent tbe State rate for messages to or from Eliza beth City. The Supreme Corit na taioed tbe commission. Tbe company disobeyed the contl by charging &0 cent for a roesssge from Raleigh to Elizabeth City. The Raleigh manage? said he bad no instructions to do other wise. The fine is not less than tOO nor more than 0fl. Settled but Appealed. In the case of the deaf-mute school flsiust the deaf, dumb aud Mind in stitution, involving tbe question cA which ha a right Jo the John Kelly beqnest, tbe cout at Rahrieh decided that the money must be dividtd be tween the scliocls of white and colcied deaf-mutes. The -ahite deaf-maU school appeals to tbe Supreme Court. e - Concord'f William Tell. Concord has a "William Tell. Willie Hall, a graded acbool boy.wa boldicg a leaf for George Hsll, another graded school boy, to tboot with an air gnn. George's aim was bad, for ioctead of bitting the leaf, be plugged Will in tht ' Cotton Factory for Catavrba. Messr. Ode II and psrty, including Messrs. Duke, were in Hickory Sstur day to look after tbe ettaLlisbtneot ot a cotton factory on Ctlswba tlrer op posite Hickory, -ahich was recently purchased by Mmrs. OdeJl through Mr. John X. Dcbanron. The total rsinfsll at Rslelh daring April was 7.95 inebca, which waa the largest amount in 25 years. Tbe property of tbe Guilford Cotton Mills, Greendoro, wa sold at anettou for $3,000. This property baa been covered with law-suita fur some time. Tbe revenue collection in the Ral eigh revenue district for April were S?3,160, this being a high figure foi the month. For the fiacal year tb col lections will exceed 81,000,000, which breska the record. This is exclusive of tbe income tax. Winston sbippd99C,012 poncdiof taannfsctnred tobacco during ApriL The stamp revenue collections aggre gate $59,760.75. Tbe shipment last month were an increase of 153,603 pound over April. 1894. Tbe stamp collection for April, 1893, wera also $0,216.20 more than during tbe aamo month last year. THAT KAXSAS TOKNAOO Demolished 2 If ooutes and Killed 10 Persons, Cattle, Ktc. A di patch frora HutchJntoa, Kas., sayst The money Iom resulting from ia&t week's cyclone will probably reach 1225,000. Physi cians from Wichita wclI to th scene as soon as lnteiloce of tbe storm reached that place. Everybody ia the track of th storm lot everyttlsg and outaide aid will probably have to b asked for. The fury of tne stem seems to ha v don its worst ix mile west of Halfttead. Near tbe Frtzzlle home dead eattle. horsen. hopa and chickens are aeatter eU ail over tbe fields. Tboee wbo first saw the disaster com in say the cloud made very slow progree. It seemed to waver In ona direction, then in another. Abont twenty five residences, nearly all of them Urge, were completely destroyed. 10 penens were kiut ; . J