North Carolina Newspapers

7 1 ARION ECORD. "A DEMOCRATIC! FAMILY NEWSPAPER." VOL. L MARION, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1V1895. NO. 3 0 M i ad COTTON FOR A HUNDRED YEARS lf r KS AM) FLUCTUATIONS. QftJlf .IS''1' Willi V kJLIU T Tht Th.in Nyw and That Supply He "ulates Them. , , n "the prices o! cotton for , lithe Department of Agrl- i ! hi 'oiincs of preparation fot issued Thursday. The :-r- li'Tiiii and ends with two i . j - rtsiit events in th history ( i -r-. the introduction of Whit- .;, it-.',) anil tho production of p the world has ever seen, i m l I'lWf-t aprpg) prices of ' i , I'mt'-'l nt.(t.tAs, the exports to p-. 'V.i' siiply and consump i I :t it. s, Great Britain and 1 .it" tjivcn for each year, 1 1 f i'i.-1's that iiave led to i i in i ri'-' M from year to year, t , ;i ... rii of tables In which ,1 iL'iip-s ar presented the '.lie- numerous data relating to - :i. i from time to time in the oiiiimption of cottonin i '""Hitrii-3. Those are so i j.p'si-nt u bri f historical ri I rvlii'-tiou nnd consump l i it'-.l St.-it", during the pant t . 1 1 1 . show that prices of ,.i ) . 1 1, so low during the past u'Ti-during th dcade from t f Hi l' ..'ii tm"iit has been to .ii. tin ;i valuaHo work of refcr 1 j r lie limi, consumption and m i, ;i n I other numerous facts ii 'ii, fr nil wiio are interested planting or in the cotton :ttl oijilitions of the market i t'i- d.-.-ado from 1840 to 1850, !i l ii -i - t rop ever made up to villi.' largest accumulation of r -vii ics-o'd in Liverpool, caused ti,.- .,wi'st avi-rage for ten years, li-- '" I'liiiiiiig of tlio heavy accu- l t i !.s in Kiirupe during the .it-, which li'd to an extraordi- in prices." -l pi i. i- pi r pound in New York. v, .t i t 7-h .'cuts, iii 1S50. and tho i t , in liJand 1815. Shepper I ini'lilling in tli at year us low ag 'uitinucs 1hs bulletin, "mld- ii tt 'ii n a-hed as low as 4 1-2 v nrl-ans. and there is on file in l-.i I'- ril-t' It' l-i r i! :'i .li i-t fi v t.irv !.- In I'!" In-I t:..:' ! 1 1 fc II ll'l. !' I 4 ' ::!-. "I:, I-'.' 'i::i;-t'. 1..I c-ll' - III '. 'V II' III I i.t i.f Agriculture a letter Bhow- 1 T - T ' I ip ii-i. county, Alalama, planter ir 17 lial "s of cntton in Mobile at l ie piico currents of the day ling 1o lair cntton in N"w Orleans v 4 -l H cents, and in Mobile ir, .! Ill cents per pound." I" ' I to 1h" lustrum ended with i '.mi that th highest price per -a V.-rk was 10 5-S cents in lS'Jl, t "i '.'-Hi cents, the nn-sent vear. the tiiafi'Ui in prices shows i' .rii'iiinlcil to 1 cents per '.7 t 1 I j c-nts; in 1805 to 1.21; .17. mi I in Ism; to only .86 of a ill' -i "li record. I i.i.!.;kaimiic ticks. of tic r..ioii tailors employed by con tr.i :.! iii N"v York city, Brooklyn and li-"rtnsMil". fully 12,000 are" now out on a 'trik T I c:tif .. u III V !... , fH'-turc' it Steel Mills at Bridgeport, rhi h closed down in lti'JJ. startHd nn y. ' m pl..ing 1.400 men in the niann--tc rails. Sl11 'li itl.rcak of cholera in Japan '!' "r" 1 ii t',000 cases of the disease aud . i . i ,. I'll" scourgi is raging in Core.-i '' I en th" I t i,. Tung lVniusula. 1 li" .1. 1, '.it" to tin Democratic conven ti ii w. ... M-I.'cted at the countv convention H-l :it W. I wt,.r city. Iowa. They were not I' -' i t-l as to the silver question, but are ' i'i'"-- t .. ire coinage. Tin' '-ii." - upp'v of cotton for the world 1; -'.''Il.l-j I, ales, of which 2,57.1,682 are v' ' eiiLMU.-t 2,I20,50 and 1.41.S.70 re--(-iiv.'lc i,.,, i year; receipts of cotton this '' -U in'c'ior towns 2.172; crop iu vi.l -.'.r.Tl.l.M. 'ititi. Tc.. Crovernor CuUHrson '' 'Lav att' iaoon issued n proclamation I' t il ;' , , f the t'.-i l.ett-l'-it7.simmons tight. -' r' ili.it it is a flagrant deflaueoof law wi'M ring ,.,. p,, t,. upon and foster a ' 1 'I'-'i-dience of all law. At p. ". .. th" 'J(X) employes of the i i furnace were granted on "iid increase in wages of 10 I'lii- niak"s an increase in their :i p.-r cent, since the 1st of May. . of ls'ij win soon le resumed. '"'ii. l'i.. the pnddlers of the "ti "om I. 'I ti v Ijhvc been iiotitle.l 1 1 , , "T t. in heir w.iifcs from f2.50 to i t " t:o into effect t once. This - iii .dv.i'jee therein a few --. icc-ived at the War Depart -i vtou.on Monday from the seat i t' outiles .'ire of an eneouracinir ll I: I'lic il.-nial of the reported ma-sn-1 -on - Hole is followed by reports i nature Hint is gratifying to the it. I'm. I"r date of July 27 General r 'd' crai.tis Adjutant General Vin tic intends to accompany the troops h"t I, ake to Jackson's 'Hole. The M i u, . r-leram says, are in good oondi-''-' t' ti miles through the Teton Pass. u ' i iiic s of the Eighth Infantry left '"-'; Saturday evening with the intention n M!ic a f.,rce,l march to Market Lake. li I- ill" Mirnose of the n,nuTOmnl h j "' ii' iimiioiini I.A.'Jlll.'U t'.,. l ''I''f-'ber 18th. the opening day of """lU ii notalile occasion in the r; ,; " f Atlanta and of the country. The -''"t:-'-rw.i will gather and await with tCJ "M'- t ancy the sigual that will open fliH '" to 1 h, iight-sers of the world. r.f ,'r" W1" u" eonnected with the throttle l..j, ''" !,,u mam"KHh engines, all of tho . - vm.i I... placed on the pullevs. the flags t,'",rMr',r'icwith the breeze, in their attempt '" '"iiiselves, dead silence will reign. . ' ,'1''n. like the lii-htnimr's stroke, the ii i.u. - and International Exposition 3!tt i ' "mo' f,nil. with a lifelike move- tV'hets will slowly turn, and the wir',11"' ''"'''ling will be ojiened to the ' It willl," an impressive scene. "'.X S t-' 41IU.V i.'vti;imhv n-nn V i iiicr Kills his XVlTe and Oaughter ""d then Shoots his Head OiT. "'"" r.radshaw, a farmer, living si.x:ea '-t "f Paris. Texas, who has lecn in f'-r some time, entered his house tgun the other evening and shot tJj ('f" '" ,," back as she was at work in u' 'li-u. ne then shot his four-year-old ' Jiflit' -r. why wad in another room. Tho b), "art-. struck uer in tne head anj literally t ..ff. If'in Bradshaw than reloadel his i,,w' ",lt '"to the sitting room, and laying H0. " U1H noor. placexl the guu In his Mtc."t' trigger with the result of tiv.f! .'''"Itating him4f. No other mo !iraiJ , u", terrible deed can be given except did r . nH'1 rown weary of living and 0 Ji ant to leave his wife and child. THE GREAT TEN' DAYS' DEBATE Between the Author of "Coin's Fi nancial School' and Ex-Congressman Itoswell G. Horr. The Horr-Hirvey dubate, at Cbica-o, Ihursday was marked by a more than usu Wly Kiir0 eneountftf. ftlr. I!rr called his opponent's attention -4? .slatemf'nt which lie had made in his -ritieiBm upon Senator Morgan, wherein be stated that the silver do'lar- of 412 l-2graiu3 were largely coined previous the demouetl tation of Bilver in 173 and alter the parage of the law of 187.1, making sutidiarv c0in ge rjf value than its scignorage. 'There tore he ioferr-d that Henator Morgan was mistaken in stating that none of the 412 1-2 lollars had been coined from silver mined ir thiscountry. Mr. Harvey says th.1t the old dollars of 412 1-2 grain were coined for the People d Nevada and California- notwith standing that at that time the bullion was worth mow uncoined than coined. Mr. llorr then denie that th'-se dollars were coined from silver mir-erl In this country and sent to the mint for that purpose. Congress had provided that foreign coin should lie received by the government at a certain fixed value, and further that eiicn coins should not be again put Into circulation but should bo re- '!M1 at the mint. The report of the direc tor of the mint showed that over five mill ions dollars in silver had thus accumulated, having been round In the gold during the process of assaying it. At this point, ll.irvey challenged Itorr's statement, 6aying that he had not brought his authorities with him end therefore his arguments were entitled to no standing iu the debate. He then handed Mr. Horr a statement of the director of the mint, which he said reported tint during the year 1870, 412,402 silver dollars had been coined at Carson City. Mr. Harvey again called his opponent to task for not confining his remarks to the order of debate originally agreed upon, and said that he would not be diverted Irom this order. He then entered upon a discussion of primary and credit money, saying that an over-issue of credit money caused a drain upon the primary money for redemption purposes. An example of .his had just been witnessed in this country in ' the issue of bonds by the present administration for the purpose of maiiitiining the gold reserve, Mr. Harvey s ii ho had received a letter within the Inst few days from a large New York manufacturer, in which tho writer stated that all the money the bank sent him to pay off his men was iu silver certificates. Mr. Horr took his opponent to task for makiDg a mi-take in his figures by 400.000 regarding the amount of silver dollars coined In 1H70 at the Carson City iniut, and asserted that the mint report, from which tho silver champion had tpioted, had sustained Mr. Dorr's proposition. Mr. Horr added: "Up to this momt'Ut, Mr. Harvey has not said one word Upon the real question in debate. He bis not successfully controverted a single statement of mine. He has nowhere proven any act of bribery or the influence of money in a single step taken during the progress of ..the bill through Congress. He or no one else will, becausethere was nono." There was an attendance of less than 100 listeners on Baturdiiy when Mr. Horr inau gurated the next to the last session of the sil ver debate iu Chicago. Mr. Horr opened by quoting a report of the lluance committee of the United States Senate for tho purpose of ihowingthat gold had not appreciated since 1873, and challenged his opponent's sincerity In basing his arguments in this matter upon Saubeck's tables, which aro compiled by an Englishman and based upon English values. In his reply to these charges Mr. Harvey produced an article written by Mr. Horr in (tnswer to a correspondence which had ap- ? eared in the New York Tribune, in which Ir. Horr scofTed at the idea which ho has frequently advanced in the political debate that human labor formed a trustworthy Standard of value. Mr. Horr's reply to the Correspondent, as quoted by Mr. Harvey, foncluded with these words: "Your system jeems so absurd that I can hardly treat it so berly." Mr. Harvey said he was accused by ois opponent of finding fault with men and tonditions for the reasons, as he charged, ihat the silver people delighted to do so. Mr. Horr has contrasted against that the better Jisposifion in man that loved to look on ihlngs that are pleasant. Mr. Horr's inap propriate language consisted of words that Bight be addressed to slaves but not to free hen. Mr. Harvey, In defending his use of :he Sttubeck table to show the decline in prloes of staple articles since 1S50, attacked lheAldrich table, which he said was made partly by the help of Edward Atkinson, tvboso bias could be judged by the fact that 3ehad recently said over his own signature lo a Chicago paper that the proper way to leal with a silver man was to hit him over the head with a club. Yet that report showed I decline in prices of 30 per cent, below 1872 Ind 8 per cent, below the price of lSi'.(. Mr. Horr n-cused his opponent of being tricky in quoting one sentence from the arti le which he bad written for the New York Tribune and as assuming that it showed the fist of the whole article. What he said in refercuce to the man's theories being ridicu jous did not relate to his measure of value at 11. It was his attempt to substitute a paper dollar based on nothing with which to do the business of the country. Mr. Horr added ''that is where Harvey will land yet. The dis ease that ho has never dies out. What he wants and what these people are after is to destroy all property and to put this nation on li Bociali-ti" and anarchistic basis.' Cries of "no" . Mr. Horr: That is right. I kii'-w you would understand that." Mr. Harvey: "There is not one scintilla in thisdebatettiat authorises you to say that." Mr. Horr: "I say there is one scintilla in it. and I say that up to date you have got applause from the audience, your part of it only, when your arguments tended to show thai vou think the whole society of this country ought to be destroyed." (Cries of "no.") Mr. Horr: "I know what I am talking about. Now as to banks, why is it that Mr. Harvey b-e'.s called upon to enter into a tirade against banks and to indulge in such a torrent of aluise again.-t bankers? I can hardly conceive of a greater, tinre wicked misrepresentation of facts than hav crept into the talk he ha given us up to the present moment. No nation has Iweu as pros perous as the United Stall's since 17.." Mr. Harvey present-d his opponent with a table of failures in the United States during the last .'58 years and declared that th" en dit system of money would a vount lor every dollar in those failures. AN EDITOR SENTENCED To Fine and Imprisonment for Criti cism of a Public Ollicer. At Asheville, N. C, in the case of II. CI. Ewart, Judge of the Crmiual Court, againt Erank E. Robinson, editor of the Citizen, for contempt, the editor appeared Saturday. His answer to the charge of contempt was that the editorial complained of did not represent the proceedings of the court un fairlv. The criticism was made in pursuance of the rights of the press under the Constitu tion of the United Stabs, anp North Caro lina as well. The editor further denied that he intended any contempt of court, and, under decisions of the Supreme Court ot North Carolina, it was lelieved by all the attorneys that this purging of the defendant settled the matter. " To the surprise of all present, however, Judge Ewart, after a long decision from the bench, during which he displayed great feeling, ended by sentencing the editor of the Citizen to pay a flne'of $250 and be imprison ed in the common jail of Buncombe county Jor thirty days. Bail was fixed 'at $2,000, and in a few minutes the bond was made up by the leading citizens bankers, merchants and others of the city, and the editor was released from the custody of the court, i An appeal was at once taken to the Supreme Court of North Carolina. The case will be lought by the best talent i n the State, SPECIAL DAYS At the Cotton States and International Exposition. The lift of special days at the Cotton States and International Exposition Atlanta is be ing rapidly completed. Many of the largest organizations in the world, and almost all the States will have special days. All organ izations o'f national reputation, and having wide membership, have ben invited to come to Atlanta to ti.-it the Exposition in the fall, and are requested to communicate with the Exposition authorities in reference to spe cial days, following is A list of the days that have so far been decided on: S-pt. 18th Opening Day Liberty Bell Da v. Sept. l!th-Georgia Editor's Day. S"pt. 2"tb Kentucky I'ress Association. Sept. 28th New England iVoman's I'ress Association. O . 1-t Missouri Tress Association, South ern Mining Convention, Texas Press Associa tion. Q-t. 2 1 Georgia Bar Association, South Carolina I'ress Association, Southern Mining Convention. O t. 3 I. Georgia Bar Association, South Carolina l'r'ss Association. O.-t. 4th Georgia Bar Association, foiith Carolina Tress Association. O 't. 5th -Tennessee Day. O "t. 7Lh National Irrigation Congress North Carolina Day. Oct. Hth National Irrigation Congress, American In.-titute Mining Engineers. O -t. inh Chicago Day, National Irrigation Congress, American Institute of Mining En gineers. O't. 10th Farmer.? National Congress, Women's National Council, American Insti tute of Mining Engineers. O.-t. 11th Farmers' National Congre?3, Women's National Council, American Instl tute of Mining Engineers. Oct. 12th Farmers' National Congress; Women's National Council. Oct. 11th Farmers' National Congress, Women's National Council. O 't. 15 Farmers' National Congress, Wo inen's National Council. Oct. 16 Fanners' National Congress. Wo men's National Council, Bankers' Associa tion of America. ! O' t. 17 Hoad Tarliameut, Women's Na tional Council. ; Oct. 18th Commercial Traveller's Day, slaughters of Revolution, Boad Parliament, , Oct. 19th Virginia Day, Orator, Gem Daniel; Daughters of Revolution. ; O' t. 21st Connecticut Day, Heidle's Or chestra. Oct. 22d Georgia Association of Manu facturers, Seidle's Orchestra. World's Fair Lady Managers. rOil 231 President s Day, Seiuie sOrches-, Ira. . Oct. 24th City of Washington Day, Women's National Press Association, Inter national League of Press Clubs. Oct. 25th South and West Trade and Grain Congress, Seidle's Orchestra. ! Oct. 26th Educational Congress. Seidle's Orchestra. Oct. 27th Pennsylvania Day. Oct. 28th Educational Congress, Plant Bvstem. "Oct. 29th Educational Day. Oct. 30th Wesleyau Female College, Edu cational Congress. Nation.il Association Household Ecouomics. ; Oct. 31st Educational Congress, National Association Household Economics. , Nov. 1st Educational Congress, Louisiana Day, Women's Federation of Clubs. i Nov. 2d Women's Federation of Clubs, Women's Educational Congress. , Nov. 5th Women's Christian Temperance Union. j Nov. 7th Daughters of Confederacy, Southern Female College. Pennsylvania Day. Nov. 8th reabody Noiiual. Nov. 8th Dele ware Day. Nov. 11 Association for Advancement of Women. Nov. 12th-Georgia Day. Women s Tress Chilis, Grady Day, Georgia Editorial Day. ' Nov. 13th International League, Women's Tress Clubs. Nov. 16 Kentucky Day. Nov. 20th Letter Carrier's Day. Nov. 21st Connecticut Day. Nov. 2Hth South Carolina Day, Library Day. Nov. 29th -Lucy Cobb Day, Library Day. Dec. 3d National Brickmakers Associa tion. i Dec. 4th National Brickmakers' Associa tion. Dec. 5th National Brickmakers Associa tion. Dec. 6th-Rhode Island Day. Dec. 10th Woodmen of the World. Dc". nth Woodmeu of the World. , Dec. 2Sth International Folk Lore Af?o eihtion. 1 Dec. 29th International Folk Lore A?so eiation. MILL, BUILDING IN THE SOUTH. This Year Promises to be an Important One for the Textile Industry. The Louisville Courier-Journal , says: Last winter Massachusetts became so alarm ed over the prospect of losing her cotton mills that a Legislative committee was sent down South to investigate the extraordinary advantages offered by this new manufactur ing region. This committee was followed by another of mauufucturers. While their in vestigations were not wholly discouraging to New England enterprises, the manufac turing States of the South were given an ad vertisement of priceless value. The resu't is seen in the American Wool and Cotton Re porter's list of the nt-w miils under construc tion in the United States during the first six months of the year. The showing is a remarkable one. North Carolina takes the lead with thirty-one rew mills and a uuml r of costly enlargements of old plants. South Carolina has twenty-two. Georgia fourteen. Alabama live, Texas and Virginia three each. Arkansastwo and Lou isiana one. Pennsvlvania comes n"t tc North Carolina, with twenty-nine new plants, and New York, with twenty-three, flut-he.-nhead of South Carolina by a bare rose. Massachusetts has only nineteen, and New Jersey exactly as many as Georgia. This year promises to le an extraordinary one for the textile industries. Tho numix-i of new enterprises tgun during the six months is 201. while for the p.rst six month? of 1S:1 it was only 116. and the total for the year was but 263." The prortion of cotton hvlls in the isn5 plants is very Urge, there lieing 73 of these to 38 woollen, 57 knitting. lCsilk and 17 mi."el!aneous. Not only does the South build a flee pro portion of these new mills: she also hassom of the largtt to her credit. The principal ones aro the (ieor::ia branch of the M i-sa-chusetts Cotton MUK at Rome, with 30.0rtf snindl-s and 1.000 looms: the Hampton. S.r. Cotton Mills, with 50.rto spin-lies and 20C looms, and a Jfl.OUO spindle mill at Granby, S. C. It is hard to guess how mu"h this vast out- lav of capital means to the whole country. but esiecialiy to the South. Manufactories have leen so scarce down this way that few co a long distance; but th' will not al ways be the eas". Then this activity in miM building mean a great awakening in the texile Industrie and l-'tter prices for raw products. Inthe face of the new clip wool is advancing rapidly, rising 2 cents a pound last week, although the import ar remark My heavy. Cotton i certain to go up. too; but even if it did not the idanters would profit indirectly by having the new ma-fcvt Ht their doors. The South will never hold all the cotton mills in the Union. For a long time yet Massachusetts will retain her ceptr. Snl her advantages an t-oomirg apparent to the world, and in the future she will ca; f.j;e the majority of the new enterprise?. August Belmont pureha-sed Hastings, a two-year-old colt, at the Gideon & Daly sale of horses, for f 37.0Q0. LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. GLEANINGS. FR03I BIANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. Newsy Southern Notes. PhiiJp Norman Nicholas, the murderer ot, Wilkibson and Mills, by drowning them, was hanged in tHe Hen rj.-o county, Va., court yard Thursday. James Breeden was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Mitchell, of Sevier county, near Seviei villet Tenn. Breeden was resist ing arrest aud started to shoot the deputy sheriff. It was flexlly decided lh3t Dallas, Tex., is to be the scene of tho Orbett-Fitzsimmons fight. The match w.'l take .lace in the DiJIaj A'.tiletio Arena cu the morning of O.tober 31t next. Abe Small, the negro a nested at Baltimore a week ago charged " With th murder In Savannah, Ga., of ro,:ceman Neve, con fessed theenmeaud w is taken to Savannah lor trial. Neve was trying to arrest the negro when he drew a revolver and shot the oflicer dea l. Three of a quartet of negroes who broke juil in Fcrnandina. Fla., Monday were sur prised late Thursday night in the scrub of Amelia bea-li ly jm.-si's commanded by three sheriffs. They refused to halt nud were tired upon, when they ran straight for tho ocean and plunged in. No trace eveept a trail of blood on the beach and three hats has been found of any of them. In Louisiana it is proposed to insert a clause in the new Constitution which will disfranchise the majority of the negroes of the State by requiring that all voters must pay taxes upon at least two hundred dollars. As a majority of the coionHl citizens in Lou isiana do not pay taxes it is evident that they would not have much to say iu the govern ment of the State if such an amendment should prevail. Weekly Cotton Statistics. Total sales of the week 51,000, American 51.0i i0; trade takings; including forwarded fromshipside 52.000; actual export 8,000; total import 24,000, Americon 11.000; total stock 1.44",.00e, American 1.131,000: totel afloat 47.0'J0. American 31.000; speculators took 401, exporters took 1,400. Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities. The M. C. A. building at Washington D. ('.. was burned on Wednesday, together with all its contents. Loss f 25.000. Dynamite instantly killed three men and sr-riou.-ly injured a fourth on the drainage cnual Chicago on luesday. I he accident was caused bv a premature explosion during the process of tamping. The dead are: Wm. Kelly, of Marquette, Mich, Tho. Soaker, of Chicago. Joseph Smith, resi dence unknown. The injured is Matthew Ilealy, thirty years old, severe scalp woUnds. The Silver Movement. At Portland. Oregon, twenty replies have been received from the chairmen of county Democratic committees in the State by the secretary of the State central committee iu reply to the circular letter asking their views as to the policy of calling a state convention to pass upon the silver question. Most of the replies are ambiguous and not fully ex pressive of the desired or;eion. The chair man of Multonomah County, the largest in Oregon, is opposed to the convention pro posed. The race for the Maehell plate at Gatwick, London, was won by the American horse liiuquet. Tin Saltan has granted amnesty to the Armenian political prisoners unless they are r.:so charged with common law offences. At Toronto Out., the coroner's jury on Thursday rendered a verdict of murder against Holmes, who is charged with the killing of the Pietwl girls. With all the constituencies save two heard from at London, the new House will consist of 333 Conservatives, 70 Liberal Unionists, 161 Liberals, 65 auti-Parnellites and 12 Par nellitcs. 4 Labor. The Buffalo, N. Y, Furnace Company has increased the wages of its 500 employes 20 per cent. I he works are running night and Jay. The Glastobury Knitting Company, at Manchester Green. Conn., has notified its employes that, beginning Aug. 5, the 10 per cent, reduction in wages, made in 1894, will I e restored. Crime. H'nrv R lin, a young farmer living near M.uich' ster. Iowa. Sunday night in a fit of it. sanity, shot and killed his brother. At Columbus, O.. William Taylor was exe cuted iu the state prison Thursday midnight for the murder and robbery of an old farmer. Miscellaneous. According to the latest returns of the Indian office there aro 218,253 Indians in the United States exclusive of Alaska. One hun dred and thirty-three thousand four hun dred and seventeen of these are living on reservations, 98,632 of whom support them selves. The total self-supporting Indians is 212,900. NO MOKE SEED. Secretary Mortuii Aboli-lii That Di vision of the Department. S -eretary Morton has i-: . .mi! on order al'idishing the see.l division i f th" Agricul tural Department to take effect O t. 1st. by which dale W. E. Fagan. chief f the divte-i-n. by the sau-e order is dire -ted to have iLs work wound up. The alwilishiug of the seed division will throw out of employment ten eope. l-ides the chief, at pm-eut. aud wiil result iu de priving fully K0 mow of occupation during ! he bu.-y sea son the winter months when jt is ieeetarv to send out the bulk of the jc'-'ds. The chief has a salary of 2.ou a year. There are two clerks at $1,200 and pight at 40. The extra force employed in the winter season is paid at the rate of 1.50 jierday. It is probaMe that Mr. Fagan will .apKinted to another branch of the ser vice after his resignation as chief of the seed division takes effect. The Alabama Populists. The executive committee of th Fopuli party in Alabama met in Birmingham ci Thursday. Capt. Kolb, the Kev. Ban Adams. State Senator Goodwin. Franl Baltzeli and many other leaders ot the part were in attendance. CoL I). 8. Troy, oi Montgomery, was present as an invited guest and delivered a speech, which was vocifer ously applauded. Among other things li said that, in his opinion, the right of self government in Alataraa could only be re stored through the Populist party. The report of the committee on resolution! as adopted claims that the executive com mittee has no iower to commit the party to policy that contemplates fusion with anj other political organi-Tation; that the candi date of the People's larty for Governor should be an avowed ropuu.-t and untainted with the financial vagaries of John Sherman and G rover Cleveland. They are cordial invited to cixperate with the Populists, and Jt is hinted that minor places on the ticket may be given th ?:n. Doth wings of the f-aity appear to be sa Lulled with the rcswliitions. A CHEAT KICK CROP. A 10,000,000 H-.iliel Yield The Largest Crop Ever Kalsed In America. The laid circular from Dan Talmage'e Son has this to say about the coming rice crop: We hand herewith present condition of and prospect for the rice crop in respective States. It cannot as yet be said to be assured as contingencies may arise which would cur tail promised outcome. I., however, there should be a continuation of previous favor able circumstances, w II give a result fract ionally in excess of 1392. Estimated yield 10,000,009 bushels treble amcuDt grown prior to the war and boulle that of any year since: Nohth Cabolia. Under the contrary conditions crop got a late and poo start. Plant has ma le fine growth past month and promise now bc'.terthanexi-ected. Estimated yield 200,000 double that of any year nince. South Caboli. Along the Cooper Ashepoo, Combahee andronpon riverseveiy circumstance conductive to the prosperity of tho plant Acreage larger than last year and a liner crop, both as to quantity aud quality, confidently looked for. Further north, Tee-Dee, Santee, Wmvinaw and Black rivers, chances much less favorable. Fields under water during almost entire month of March, April and May Only by use of powerful steam pumps could any land be drained sufficiently to be seeded earily. Few havingsu-'h facilities, planting generally delayed until June and with limited time, work performed iu a crude imperfect mau ner. Some fearing blight by early frost decided not to plant at all; the result iu latter eection will betwo-thirdsaverage. Estimated yield 850.000 bu.-hels. Georgia. Conditions fine: well advanced considering late start. Only doubt expressed Is in regard to the fate of Mav rice.and there Is more than usual, when the birds strike it In September. Estimated yield 450,000 bushels. Louisiana. River crop promisingand will greatly exceed last year. Under heavy tin 1 almost continuous rains tin past month: plantations, abandoned a? too expensive to" work or because readylo die. have come to life again with unexampled vigor. The sto -k is good, tall and heading heavily, but gias rank and product will lie mere seedy on the average than ever before. Texas, Florida. Alabama and Mississippi Good progress, but the first named only of commercial prominence Estimated yield $'),000 bushels. SOUTHERN PROGRESSION. Large Increase Id Railroad Traffic, Especially In Coal and Iron Regions. Reports to the Manufacturers' Record show a large increase in the traffic of Southern railroads, and especially those in the coal and iron regions. The Alabama Car Asso ciation reports having handled nearly 21,0'K) cars iu June .against 12,000 in June of last year. The improvement in railroad affairs is bringing to the front a large number of railroad extensions of existing systems and also ipiite a number of short lines, which are being organized in many parts of tho Houth, every State being represented. The number of cotton mills organized for the past week is even larger than usual and includes two mills to cost $200,000 each at (ireenslxjro, N. C, and two laoro being worked u p at the same place, but not yet de finitely assured; a 200.000 mill at Lumlwr ton. N. ('.; a $100,000 nrll at Toecoa. C.a.: an increase if capital of over $200,000 for the enlargement of a Tennessee mill; a fOO.ooo mill company at Salisbury. N. C.;a new nnd iu Alaltama; a $50,000 mill at Athens, Ga.; a large knitting mill at Newport News. Va., to turn out 'JO!) dozen garments a day; a pro jected mill to cost $100,000 in Texas, aud a number of enlargements of established mills at different points. Other imnortaut events for the week include the letting of bids for eontra- ts for Mcii.sive wfiii rvep; uoi-ks .inu pier lor ini Southern Railway at Norfolk! it $100,000 sewer pipe company in Texas j contract for nine miles of belt railroad and gram eleva tors and cotton com presses at New Orleans a $300,000 cigar and toba"e) company in Florida, and a number of miscellaneous ea '.ei prises in different parts of the Houth. A TRAIN HELD LT. Six Mounted Robbers Do Their Work Expeditions!-. An express train on the Like Shore and ftlichigan Houthern Railroad, was held up by Sis masked men Wednesday midnight, at a lonely place iu the woods known as Reece Siding, between Archibald and Striker, Ohio, the train stops there to l"t the eastern ?x press pass. The lit b'n; train was ap proaching wh n the robbery took place. The roobers were mounted and rode out of the woods, which are dense ani close to the track. Conductor Hailing, who was stand ing near one of the coa -lies, was ordered Inside at the point of a revolver. Admission to the express car was obtained by the same means, and the messenger was forced to open the safe. Tic auiouut reported to have been obtained by tin-ni is said to be $3,000, but it is believed that a iiiuch larger sum was taken. No attempt was made to mob-st the passengers, many of whom knew nothing ot the occurrence. When the thieves had Bee u red the contents of the safe they rode qiiictly away. London's Juvenile Horror. Robert 3rj l Nithauiel Coern1'?, ! ro tpcftivily 13 aud-11 years, who munb-rel their raoHiT about three, weeks ago l y sl.ibbing her while she was a-.'eep, and lived ?n day- in the ho-iw; with her decomposing body, w-'." arrainej in the Policy Court at I.r'tid ui. The police authorities announced tliit they would not charge the youMrer brother with participation in the criire, but would id him as a withes. Natl.-ini'-l was then iacel Inthe witn-?3 lx. and told of his brother's hiving bought tbe dagger with wbi'-b the killing was done, lie di 1 not see his mother killed, but heard ler groan, and wet,t into the room and looked at her while she w.n dying. H,? brother admitted to him that it was hi who had killed her. The magistrate committed the cider brother. Robert, and the half-wilte 1 man. Fox, who was arrest"'! with the boy. for trial on the charge of murder, and held Nath.:i:el as a Wiln'--,3. AN APALLIN; DISASTER. HO Soldiers Perish. Men In the Car Drowned Like Rats In a Trap. A frightful accident, in which IP) f-'A-iin erL-hed, occurred on the rail-ocd rcor.irg from Ko'e, Japan to Osaka. A traia cf I wenty-three ears P-turniug to Kobe with 100 Japanese soldiers, who were returning from 'China, was running along the seawall, on whi -h the tracks as they approach the city are laid, an immense sa b-ajied over th wall, separating tbe train and deraiiiaj; tb engine and eleven cars, which plunged off the wall intv the bay. Most of th rr.cn i a tbern mere drowned like rats in a trap. Somo of th-j men wh manage.! to get out ot thj ears while they were in the accident were da-hed to death against the walL Three Roys Killed. J. Waters Bhindon, agM 13 vears. J. Gay Brown. 15 years old, and Charles E. Lynch. 15 years old, were killed nr Riverdabs'Park station, frevfral mil- from Washington on the B. O. 1L K. Thu youngsters were walking on th north-bound track. To avoid an ap rroauhiag train the boys sU-pped on tut tooth-bound track, directly in front ot a fast moviag "Royal Blue" express train. Ail . tare were iatanUy killed, their bodies 1 being trightfuMy maagled. WORTH STATE CDLLI1IGS. TAR HEEL DOINGS IN 31 ANY SEC TIONS. Four New Milts In Greensboro. The Uevolation Cotton Mill Com pany ami tbe Proximity Manufactur ing Cam j 'any are the names of two big enterprises just incorporated at lreeusloro. The capital stock of each .Company is $200,000, all of which has be eu paid in. Two more mill project Lave been farmed in that city and will probably be incorporated this week. 4 . A Cannery in Lexington. The Prosperity Press and Reporter, says: Mr. C. C. Shiry, who lives Wyond the river in Lexington county, is preparing to run a cannery at his place this season. This is a step in tho tight direction. One of our greatet needs Is diversified industries to get us out of the despotic clutches of King Cotton. A Resort for Northern Invalids. James W. Tufts, of Cotton, who recently purchased 5,000 ncres ot land near .Southern Pines, Moore county.is erecting a village as a winter resort for northern invalids. A con tract has been made for fifty houses and A ciisino to bo ready by October Ibt. A street railway in contemplated from Southern Pines to the property. Caterpillars in Large Number. Caterpillars have made their appear ance in Cumberland and llobcson couuties in myriads and are eating and killing the leaves on the oak trees. Id this same section two years ago cater pillars were so numerous that several times they crawWl on the tracksof the Carolina Central railway and stopped trains. Another Cotton Mill. Contracts have been made for the delivery of material at Concord for an other cotton mill, the third under way there. Material is also being deliver ed at Durham for an addition to the Erwin cotton mills, work on which be r;itiK Monday. This will now employ 500 persons nnd when com i.bted wiil employ 1,000. - - - General Return of Prosperity. Marshal Carroll says there is a gen eral return of prosperity in North Carolina, mi imdatice, of which waf lie fact that when lightning struck a Way no county ploughman last week, the poor fellow, clad iu nankeen breeches, had S00 in greenback on his person . The Review sayfl the Reidsville Rag Factory was sold by the receiver, A. II. Motley, Jr., at auction a week ago nnd was bought by Mr. A. Sharp, of I ptIindlemati, for SI, 000. The machin ery ami equipments origiuuuy com Bbout $12,01)0. Whitecaps met with ft fdiarp repnlso the other night in Caldwell county. They went to James JeuWiih's In mi so tud "called him out. He instantly ap peared with a Run and fired into the tnob, badly wounding Columbus Jonca. The mob lied. The increase inthe assessed value of railroad property in this State is gratifying. There are 3,(517 miles of 'ine. The Atlantic Coast Lino has 717, the Southern 1,00:1, the Seaboard Mr Line CG5, aud miscellaneous roads 1,172 rni!es. Assessment of the railways in North Carolina whs completed nt Raleigh. The total is $24,500,000, the increase over last year being $723,000. There are 3,000 miles, and the increase dur ing the year ended June 1 was 42 miles. The $f,0,o00 fctock for the now spin ning mill to be built at Salisbury, has now nearly all been unbscribed, and several hundred thousand bricks have been purchased for the building. It will be pushed through rapidly. Two revenue deputies made a raid in twelve miles of Weldon, on the lloa tioke river, where they destroyed a 14- gallon illicit brandy distillery and !Z1 hogsheads of pumace of apples, peaches and blackberries. The Mayo Mills is a corporation lately organized at inston-halem, . The company will build a mill of 15,- 000 spindles at Mayo's Falls, on the Roanoke Southern. It is said that Arthur Tucker, the bov who t-hot a captured convict while handcuffed in Montgomery county, has fled to Cuba ami joined the insurgent. Hop culture is a success in this Ktt Before the war bop were crown for Lome use. They rijen in August. Nearly all of the capital idock to i cotton factory to be located in Lum l-4bon, has been subscribed. Cotton 31111s Coins lp. Tbe cpiritof bnilJing cotton mill in North Carolina is undoubtedly sgwi mignry of the future of the SUte. Our information mthat one isin contempla tion at Niw HoiHi Mi Iii. and th jHople of Oxford are abo discuing the idea of t ret-ting a cottou null theie. It is to be hojed that 1k4j of theae enterprises will eoon materialize. Although Granville county is famous rs n tobacco growing section, there are laud in tbe county adapted to all crops and tbe time was, so some of the oldest inhabitants ear, when Oxford ut cotton market. This na over half a century ago. He Married a Queen. Iiifhop Turner sends notice U his chnrthes that George SpradSin has U en married to n African jueen and ill oon arrive at lUleigh to vifut re itivta. .. o The Iff ro al Aflaata. Tbe negro commissioners to the Cotton States International Exposition have issued an address to ths colored people f the United States calling on them to redoubt their efforts to tnaktths display of their lives at Atlanta's great Exposition. After citing tbe fact that tbe Exposition committee has complied with their promise, th eomiris f iouers call ojon the negroes to do their daty, 1-vause North and Booth will be there to them, and they should make their mtmowt endeavor to have such aa exhibit as they are ea jiablo of making. The address urges every n''gro who can send anything of cmiit to the rac for an t bibit ttt fted tt dirsctlv. Harder Itetalu From th Tip" jim. 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