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i. i- - ! r Maxton A DEHOCBATIC JOCBNAL THE PEOPLE AND TQEIB IKTZBEST. i . , , ' ' ' :. ' " ' ! ' VOL. III. NO. 48. MAXTON. N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1889. j Slioo A YEAR f '1 TOWn DIRECTORY. B. Ff McLBAN Mayor. ENOCH BURNS, j LEACH, j D. JOWER8 J. CURRIE, V Commit siontTS. J. P. SMITH, Town Marshal LODGES. KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No. 1,780 maets on second and fourth Wednesday's at 7. 80 P. M. J. B. WEATHERLT, Dio tatorr B: F. McLEAH, Reporter. FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE Council meets on Tuesdays after stcond and - fourth Sundays at 7.80 P. M. A. MeL. MORRISON, President. ; T. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.90 P. M. WM. BLACK, President. MAXTON GUARDS WM. BLACK. Captain, meets first Thursday nights of each month at 8 P. M. CHOSEN FRIENDS? meet on second and fourth Monday in each month.- Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W. Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. SILVER STAR BANp, Wj S. NICK ERSON Leader, meets ach Monday nnd Thursday at 8 P. M;. MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIY8, meets every Friday night, except first in each month, at 8 o'clock. ROBESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY H McEachern, President. W VV McDiormid, 1st Vice-Presjdenl Dr J D Croom, 2nd Vic President. A P-Brown, Secretary. Wm Black, Treasurer and Depository. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Rev Joseph Evans, Rev H G HOI. D D, Rev J S Black, Rev P Meeks, Rev .1 FFinlayscn, Jos McCollurn, J P Smith, Duncan McKay, Sr. N B Brown, Dr J L McMillan. AUDITING COMMITTEE. J P Smith, D H McNeill, J A Humphrey PIto of next meeting Luraberton, N. C. rime of next meeting Thursday, May aoth, 189, at 11:30 o'clock a. na. Bible and Testaments can be purchased of Wm. Black, Depository, Maxton, N. C, at cost. ' AH churches and Bible Bocieties in the county Invited to send delegate. Forward all collections to Wm Blaok, Treasurer, Maxton, N. C. . CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN, REV..- DR. H. G HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath at 11 A. M. Sunday School at 10 A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock . ; I METHODIST, REV. W..?, 8. HALES, r Pastor. Services second Sunday at 4 I P. 31., and fourth at 11 A. M. Sun- day School at 9 80 A. M. 1MAXTON LITERARY SOCIETY I meets every Friday evening at 8 o'clock. MAXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M. meets 1st Friday night in each month at 8 p. M. GENERAL DIRECTORY OF Robeson County. Senator. .1. E. Purcell. Representatives, f Hamilton McMillan.4, ) D. C. Regan. ' ) ) J L -McLean CVintv ( 'ommcssioners, IJH'McEaehe W J Regan, IDA Buie. S. ('., ('. B. Towhsend. Sheriff, H. MeEacheij. Tax Collector, R. O. Pitman. Reg'r Deeds. S. W. Bennett. Trensurrr, W. W. McDairmid. 1 Rev. J. S. Ivey, Board of Education ' J. S. Black, S J. S. McQueen. Fupt. Pub. Instr'nj. A. McAlister. Coroner Supt. of Health, Dr. RF Lewis According to Dr. Pliny Earle, the cure of insanity is becoming.;, more and more difficult v. It is said: that less than-, thirty per cent, of the pe.tierits recover. ; i There has been a -great, increase in the demand for candy in Knglarid, owing to American importations. Caramels and two hundred -other UpmU of American candiea arc in arrotvinn firr.nnrl . Sror- Und is a very targe consum r of one par- ticu. laro.adv. called "Slim .tip." The BmiU"tic finieic. thinks thai those of 'us ot yet fifty years of age have prob- sbW lived in the inost important and in tellectus! progressive period of human history -Within this half century," it sry. --the following inventions and dis coveries have been made : Ocean steam- afcipss street railways, elevated railways, telegraph lines, ocean cables, telephones, phonograph, photography and a core of dcw methods of picturemaking, aniline lcrs, kerosene oil, electric light steam are-engines, chemical fire-extinguishers, psthetics and painless surgery; gun- cotton, nitro-glycevine, dynamite, giant ponder, aluminium, magnesium, and other new metals ; 1 electro-plating, spec trum analysis and spectroscope; audi- Phone, pneumatic tubes, electric motor, dectric bells, typewriter, cheap postal 8Jstem, steam heating, steam and hy draulic elevators, -vestibule cars, canti lever bridges. All positive knowledge f the physical constitution of planetary stellar worlds has beca attained fokia this. period," - ANNUAL SESSION or southerh pbesbytebiahs. The Woodrow Qnestion Again Seta the General Assembly by the Ears, The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church re-convened at Chat tanooga, Teen., Monday morning. The standing committee on Sabbath observ ances submitted its report, denomina ting the greatest foes to the Sabbath Sunday trains, Sunday saloons and Sun day newspapers. A motion was adopted restricting each member to five minutes time on the re port to be submitted on the co-operation of the Northern and Southern Assem blies. Asheville, N. C, was selected as the next place for meeting, Charleston, West Virginia, being second choice. The Rev. E. J. Latham presented the report of the committee appointed to examine the minutes of the Synod of South Carolina. This report precipitated a warm discus sion of. Dr. Woodrow and evolution, which has been brewing since the begin ning of the session. This committee rec ommended that the minutes be approved, with one exception, and this related to the Synod's action with reference to the Presbytery of Charleston. This Presbytery, after the meeting of the last General Assembly at Baltimore, passed resolutions announcing that the Assembly had declared the views held by Dr. Woodrow as to origin of man's body to be contrary to the standard of the Church, that the decision of the Assem bly was conclusive, and that all further contending against that decision should cease. A committee appointed by the Synod of South Carolina to examine the minutes of the Charleston Presbytery reported that the action of the Presbytery is pass ing this resolution was "unwise, irregu lar and unconstitutional, being an en fringement of the rights of free thought and free speech." The report was adopted by the Synod. The committee of the General Assem bly, in its report upon the minutes of the Synod to-day recommended : First, that the action of ' the Synod in regard to Charleston Presbytery be ap proved so far as it declares action of the Fresbytery to be unwise; and, second, that its action be disapproved together with all its reasons in so far as it declares the resolution of the Presbytery to be ir regular and unconstitutional. The Rev. J. C. Whaling, of South Carolina, took the stand and moved to substitute for the report the following resolution : Resolved, by the General Assembly, that the minutes of the Synod of South Carolina be approved. This presented the two sides of the Woodrow controversy. 'Mr. Whaling spoke for half an hour until the time for adjournment arrived. Tuesday's Session. The chief business of the Presbyterian Assem bly to-day was the report of the Committee on Co-operation between the Northern and Southern Assemblies. At the night session reports were received from the returned missionaries as to work in$the field. The committee's report of the case of the Presbytery of , Mecklen burg, versus the Synod of North Carolina, na, sustained the Synod. Wednesday. This morning, reports were submitted favoring the removal of the office of the Executive Committee of the Foreign Missions from Baltimore to Nashville. The report of the Committee on Overtures from the United States army, that the Presbyterian Church fur nish a more effective service to the army, was read. Dr. Woodrow said: "Time was onCe when we in the South, would have felt a delicacy in dictating to the United States and I fear this is a step in that direction." The Woodrow question was taken up and discussed several hours. , The night session was devoted to a popular missionary meeting. Four Men Killed. Four negroes killed and. five or six wounded, some of them fatally, was the result of the fights at the mines near Bir mingham, Ala., in one day. At the Champion mines, on the miner al railroad, fifteen miles north of the city, Dan Green, a negro gambler, was shooting craps with a crowd of miners. He worked off a lot of counterfeit silver dollars on the miners, and when the character of the coin was discovered a fight followed. About fifty shots were fired. George Sap and Jasper Burnett, colored miners, were killed and several other miners wounded. Green was wounded, but made his escape. In the woods near the Coalburg mine5, ten miles from Birmingham a crowd of negroes were shooting crajs. A quarrel over the game ended in a tight, in which John Wesler was shot dead by some one unknown. Some of the other players were slightly wounded. At Coalburg, Matt Rogers, an ex-convict, wasshot'and killed by P. J. Stith, the prison warden. Rogers had a grudge against the warden for alleged mistreat ment, while he was a convict and threat ened to kill him. He called Stith to one side, saying he wanted to speak to him, and as the warden started toward him, Rogers shot at him, and the warden promptly returned the fire, and shot the negro through the body, killing him al most instantlv. Over $2,000,000 are paid annually into Philadelphia church treasuries for pew -nta in the different hous of worship The output for the Lake Superior iron tnines during the year 1888 wai 5,025, -79 ocs.tont. Q laest ever known. LEND The Military OaHed On to Protect Them From Mob Vengeance Seven nejrrocs near Richardsville, Cul pepper county, Va.. went to the resi-J uence oi a juguiy rojieciauir ruutairu colored man last Saturday, and bound him hand and foot, and they then pro ceeded to outrage his wife. Afte r par taking of whiskey they had brought, they, discovered the little ten-year-old daughter in the second story of the house, to which she had fled. They brought her down stairs, and accom plished their purpose. They left the old man bound, and his wife and child in a pitiful condition, and threatened to burn the house, and . threatened to cut out the tongues of their victims, if they divulged the perpetrators of the crime. The helpless victims were soon found by a passing friend, and the alarm was given. A posse of whites and black started in pursuit, and captured the vil lains near the scene of the assaults. They were taken to the county jail, where they are guarded by a strong force. An at tempt was made Saturday night to break the jail and lynchthem. but guards frightened the party off. The wife is in a critical condition. She. may recover, but the child is dying. The military are now in charge of the jail, as more attempts were made to force the jail and lynch them. John 0. Calhoun's Estate. - Charleston, S- C. The great Clem son will case has virtually come to a close, although the Court has not yet rendered a decision, and the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College may be regarded as already an established fact. The State takes about $80,000, subject to the terms of the Clemson will. When the argument began on Saturday Chief J us tice Fuller intimated that he would pre fer first to hear all the contestants' coun sel. It was expected that the counsel for the State would be heard Monday, but on the meeting of the Court it was passed over and another case taken up. The inference is that the Court had made up its mind, and the Chief Justice is en gaged in writing out a decision in favor of the State and sustaining the Clemson will. This decision will give the Fort Mill property, the birthplace of John C. Calhoun, to the State for the establish ment of anricultural and mechanical college. The. entire property is variously estimated to be worth from $80,000 to $100,000. Under the will there are to be seven trustees appointed by Clemson's executors and six by the State. The Legislature, at its last session, made pro visions for carrvinir out the will. Killed His Wife. A frightful tragedy occurred at Chat tanooga, Tenn., Monday evening that for grim deviltry outdoes anything in the way of crime known. A short time ago Louis Bird, a well known colored man of bad character, induced a bright young mulatto girl, the daughter of an indus trious machinist, to elope with him. Af ter some three months of a very unhappy married life, the girl discovered the worthless character of her husband and left him, going to the house of her pa rents. Bird went to the house, and call ing his wife to the door deliberately stabbed her to death, and then cut his own throat. The mother of the unfor tunate girl appearing on the. .scene at that moment, the brutal murderer made an attempt on her life. From weakness he could not run after the woman, who turned, screaming to flee, but seizing a huge rock, 'he hurled it at her head, and immediately dropped to the ground. He will die. A Fund for Furman University. The executive board of the American Baptist Education Society, which con cluded its work in Boston on Monday, has donated to Furman University at Greenville, S. C, the sum of $7,500 for the .additional endowment of that .insti tution, provided South Carolina Baptists will will raise $20,000 to add to this i airfoil nt given bv the Soeictv". The sum given is a part of the fund donated foi distribution to such institutions by Jno. D. Rockefeller, the great Standad Oil millionaire, and out of sixty-five sfipfVli ca tions for part of the fund, Furman Uni versity was one of the eight colleges to receive a share. The trustees of the University will, no doubt, accept the of fer at the next meeting, and have no hesitancy in saying the $20,000 will bt raised bv the time called for, De embci. 1890. Freeing Out the Small Men, The elegant Caldwell hotel, just com pleted at Birmingham, Ala., at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars, is to be j sold at auction within fifteen day;. Dr. j Caldwell, president of the company, of I fered to buy the hotel at tnce. but a ! number of the Movkholdf rs insisted on a I public sale, and the building will lc sold : i r t rv e in a coupie oi wivks. i ne resuii oi inc sale will le the freezing out of the mi nority stockholder,; and the hotel will then be furnished and opened. The hotel is the finest in the South, but Jias cost so much money, it is doubtful if it ever pays the interest on the invest ment. The Musical Oonventio'?; The eighth annual musical convention of Virginia and North Carolina was held at the confcrvatoiy of 'music in Peters burg, Va. Gov. Fowle, of North Caro lina, with family, was in attendance. Reports of the growth of musical associ ations throughout the two Spates were lavoraDle. . The railroad business is increasing -t tn almost increditable rate of peed. SEVEH NEGRO E NEWS AND NOTES FOB 1TOHET. Tennis dresses axe made - with redin gotes. Miniatures are beingfrevived for orna ments There are ladies who pay $35 for theii corsets. Ladies' boot heels shouMl measure one inch high. Greek drapery is driving tout the Em pire style. There are 1400 Sisters of Charity ia this country. Green is decidedly the favorite color j of the season. Round and belted waists remain is fashionable favor. Grey cashmere house dressesihave rests 1 of pale pink crape. Lace will be just as much used as ever for summer gowns. Wigs may be worn by some of the ladies this summer. Striped flannel as thick as adlanket is used for bath robes. Kid gloves come in a variety of colors o match cloth gowns. Tea gowns are more closely fitted t the figure than formerly. The bridal veils worn by very young ladies are always of tulle. 3Ime. Clemenceau, wife of the French diplomatist, is an American. The Connemara cloak was first adopted in London by Lady Dufferin. Nothing looks more old-fashioned than a dress with a large bustle. Mrs. George B. McClellan is to remain abroad for an indefinite period. The bustle has diminished so in size that it is not worth talking about. Ladies' walking boots are made with tops of cloth to match the costume. Some ultra-fashionable ladies have monograms worked on their sun um brellas. The Geological Society of London has rejected a motion to receive ladies as members. Miss Nellie Cushman is said to be a fine mining expert. She is known through out Arizona. Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer is the fairest and youngest presiding officer that Sorosis has ever had. Spring sky is the fanciful name of a popular color. It is a dull leaden color ! reflecting silver lights. Mrs. Robert Goelet, of New York, has a fortune oL $3,000,000, which her hus band made in hardware. Little girls wear turned down frills of embroidered muslin in the neck and sleeves of their best dresses. Notwithstanding the encroachments of polonaises and redingotes, round and belted waists remain in favor. The bottom of redingotes is never bor-; dered and the trimming is always per pendicular and on the fronts. Few entirely black costumes are now seen. As in former years, they are left to those who are in mourning. A Belfast (Me.) woman has entered a machine-shop to learn the trade, and proves atremarkably apt apprentice. Young Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, has just set out with his new wife and a steam yacht for a two years' bridal tour. It is not surprising that the Princess of. Wales is losing a little of the bloom of ; youth, considering that she is nearly forty five, i Tha "woman with the iron jaw," of circus fame, is a resident of Ridgeway, Penn. She has traveled nearly all over the world. Effective combinations of seasonable colors are chestnut brown with ecru, mor dore with biege, garnet with old rose, green with white. The Empire hat, with its broad brim in front and cut closely across at the back, bids fair to be the favorite shape the coming summer. There are many new cotton stuffs for summer. They come in all shades of red, ii blue of different tints, in pink, in gray and in lavender. Miss Maxse, a girl of sixteen, the daughter of Admiral Maxse, of the Eng lish navy, was the first lady to ascend the Eiffel tower in Paris. Very full frills of plaited lace or rib bon, hke the Medici ruffs, will be a fa vorite neck finish for dressy corsages is the season advances. It is said that it will scon be fashionable for women to wear wigs instead of curls, crimps, braids, waves and curls, "all my own hair, you kaow.M Black in combination with colors is 5till favored, but the two-tone effect now so popular have ' already modified the former craze somewhat. Worth, the great Paris milliner, de clares that American women know how to wear their clothes better than any nationality that comes under his hands. One of the prettiest of new brooches represents a section of fence in bright ; gold, with bars half down, and at the base a bunch of daisies in white enamel. The women ol Louisville, Ky., have organized an equal rights association, the object of which i to advance the educa tional, industrial and legal rights of women. The most popular colors for gloves are the golden brown, orange and grays. Of the hitter there Js a great variety silver antique, spring sky, RusUn gray, acier rod nun's gray. ALLEN T. RICE. Sudden Death of the Newly Ap pointed Minister to Russi. Taken Sick in New York as He Was Abont to Sail for Europe. ALLES THORNDIKX RICK. Hon. Allen Thorndike Rice, recently ap pointed United States Minister to Russia, died at 4 o'clock the other morning at tha Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, of oedema glottis. The disease is a peculiar one, an ag gravated form of quinsy . Mr. Rice's death was altogether unex pected. Having been appointed United States Minister to Russia by President Harrison he was about to sail for Europe, and had already engaged his passage when taken ilL He was sick, only three days, and expired on the day after he was to have departed for his post at St. "Petersburg. Sketch of His Life, Allen Thorndike Rice was best known as the editor and proprietor of the Xorth Ameri can Review. He was born in Boston in 1853, of wealthy parents, and at eighteen years of age went to England and entered Oxford University, where he took his degree in 1875. Returning to the United States he entered the Columbia College Law School, but never practised law. He purchased the North Americnntiieview inltstV, and has since made it one of the best known of American periodi cals. In 1879 be organized the Charnay expedi tion to investigate ancient civilization in Cen tral America and Mesico. In 1884 be bought a controling influence in Le Matin, a news paper of Paris. Ke edited "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln," and contributed to "An cient Cities of the New World." He also ad vocated the Australian system of voting. In 1880 he was the Republican candidate for Congress in the Tenth District of New York, against General Spinola, and received the support of the "Henry George part v." He came within 527 votes of an election, ftis defeat was attributed to the treachery of the party leader to whom the conduct of his can vass was intrusted. Mr. Rice exposed the treachery, and caused the expulsion of the accused leader from the party organization. Mr. Rice was the proprietor of a large cat tle ranch in Kansas, which brought him a handsome revenue. He had an extensive knowledge of literary topics, and was also an accomplished linguist, speaking fluently the French and German languages. His con versational powers were uncom monly brilliant. He had a strik ing personality, being tall, well built and proportioned, dark brown hair, with eyes of similar color. His manners were polite and engaging, and he was very energetic and a hard worker. A habit of speaking rapidly, especially in an animated conversation, often led to stammering. Mr. Rice possessed an inherited fortune Hhat was estimated at several minions. He never married. Both his parents are dead, and he had no brother or sister. The Marine I Conference, . The following countries have thus far accepted invitations to participate in an In ternational Marine Conference to be held in Washington, beginning October 1C: Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark. Russia, Belgium, Mexico. Brazil, Chili. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Hawaii. Japan, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, S(ain. Sweden and Norwav, Uruguay and Honduras. The United States will be represented by a board of sevenr persons, and it is expected that the larger" rowers will have about the same number f representatives. The smaller countries, it is thought, will general ly be represented by their Ministers, issixtl by one or more technical experts in tije sub jects before .the Conference. The American Board has frame 1 a prora-mme of vii.ict. to be considered, and this has ben iiiad public. The proceedings ill in Vnlih War on Gophers. The striped and pocket gophers that abound throughout the West at prent threaten to become a formidable pest to farmers i j por tions of Iowa. Already it has become neces sary to begin a war of extermination to pre vent the rapid encroachment that these bttl animals are making on the crops. In a numberof counties a bounty of five cents each has beea placed on gopher traJps. This has resulted in the active labor of fann ers' sons to secure gopher icalp for the bountv. In Bonce County thus farthi fcprm over 13. 000 scalps have been prevntd anc paid for by Ccrntv Auditor EverhafL who has drawn over 30"0 warrants on th county treasury, a number larger than i wi Hy dra wn during thentare year. Squirrels liaised by a Cat j Some few weeks ago Hussell Kice, farmer living near ScotUburg, led., found a nest of fire young squirrels in the woods and took them home and placed them in care of the family cat. The cat at once adopted the squirrels and raised them in the same manner as she would have done her own young. The squirrels are now half-grown and deeply attached to their foster-mother, and when separated from her the other day and placed in the court -yard park, they acted almost like kittens, but are fast learning to climb the trees in the manner of their nature. Cincinnati Eqirmr. There has been a marked decrease rn the Bonlanger excitement at Paxil fiocf tbt Generals tvX from the scene. i r : ! Al congress of nations. Hanj Governments Accept the Units d States' Invitation. It now seero probable that tb-.merican International Conference which i to be held in Washington in October will be a success so far as a fuH re pretentatkMn cf the different countries is concerned. Alrrad-, ,y a dis patch to the New York Tribvue, the follow ing Government have taken steps in tbat di rection, and most of tbocn hacr ofScially In-, formed the State Department of their accep tance of the invitation. Mexico, Guatemala Salvador, Honduras. Nicaragua. Ctta Rica, Colombia. Ecuador. Peru, Bolivia, fhili. Ar- rtiiM RepubKr, Uruuarand Vxue!a. is j expected tha Mexico will be represented by several delegates: the ArW tine Republic lv threw delegates. Chili by two delegates, Veoexoei by t wv UelejaU.. and the other countries UAnid bv tme dele rate each. It it hanlir proiable that the Republic of Hayti. will be represent!. The conference or Currew will U composed of some forty delegates, ten of whom will represent the United Ktatcs. On matters which are voWfupon each country will be entitled to only om vote. The dele gates from the United State are: John B. Henderson, Missouri; Cornelius X. BU. New York; William Finckney Whvte, Mainland; i Clement Studebaker. Indiana; T. JerTerwoo uooiwe, .Massacnusrii; ttit.m itenry Trescott, South Carolina; Andrew Carnegta, Pennsylvania; John It. li. Pitkin, Louisiana; Morris M. Estee, California, and John F. Hanson. Georgia. The first sitting of the contVrenc? will b held on October 4. and it is expected that the i sittings will continue for a number of weeks. as many important u(j-i.s are io oe con sidered. Among them are : Firzt Measures that shall tend to preservr and promote the prosperity of the several American Staves. Second Measures toward th formation of an American Customs Unimt, under which the trade of the American nations with each other shall, so far as poMble and profitable, be promoted. Third The establishment of regular and frequent communication between the ports of the several American States and the ports of each other. Fourth The establishment of a uniform system of customs regulations in each of the independent American States to govern the mode of importation and exportation of mer chandise and port dues and charges; a uni form method oi determining the classification and valuation of such merchandise in the ports of each country, and a uniform system of Invoices, and the subject of the sanitation of ships and quarantine. Fifth The adoption of a uniform system of weights and measures, and laws to protect the patent rights, copy-rights and trademark of citizens of either Hintry in the other, and for the extradition of criminals. Sixth The adoption of a common direr coinage, to be issued by each Government, the same to be legal-tender in all commercial transactions between the citizens of all of the American States. Seventh An agreement upon and recom mendation for adoption to their respective Governments of a defiuite plan of arbitra tion of all questions, disputes and differences that may now or hereafter ariae 1 between them, to the end that all difficulties and dis putes between such I nations may be - peace fully settled and wars prevents!. Eighth And such other -.ub.iecU relating to the welfare of the several ' i tales repre sented las may be presented byany of said States which are hereby invited to partici pate In said conference. j A Wide-Awake Tarheel. Onejof the most extraordinary suits on record! was instituted in the Superior Court j at Raleigh, N. C, by W. T. Hodge, a citizen of Wake county. It seems i that about twenty years ajro statute was enacted requiring all railroads operating in that State to make annual reports of business to the (iovernor of the State, aDd failure to make such rc-c ports piade the railronds liable to a en alty of 500, which should go to any cit-. izen who should sue for it. The statute has never been olwierved by the rai!rradsf and Hodge instituted suit against forty railroads to get the enalty. If suc cessful he will gain an aggregate amount of $20,000 j Azlee Kelfc. At I Painted Ca?e, a town of Texas, near the Southern Pacific, some Indian and Aztec relics have bet a found. These have been described by a correspondent of a St. Louis paper, who, among other things, speaks of a number of brass in struments and weajjons, snd of silver armor for the legs. On these an owl was, in each instance, carefully engraved. Gold and silver pendants were found, and bits of tin currency shaped like the letter T. Bones of the ocelot were there too, the animals used by the Aztecs in tht chase s i The Texas Cotton Crop. The present report of the Texas cotton crop embraces replies from two hundred ana fifteen points in one hundred and six counties of an an average date of 3Iay. 18, covering the entire agricultural por- tion of the State, and U.bf far the taot encouraging import r ver ivied at this season of the yeir. Never La the jjtos pect for cotton looked !ttr. AH of the replief are extremely favorable, and if the present condition continue a very large crop will be -aAily made. Flood in Miooari flnnd Itiver. ChiHicotbr. Mo. Is greatly swollen and the bottoms are flooded. Great ditnagp and some lo of life is report!. Three Uarm and wag ons were found lodged ia driftwood around the bridge at Jimtown, three mUes jsoutbeat, and taken out, two of the teams alive. It i. feared the driven have perished. All fern boot on Grand River; have been washed away, and tha bridges are unapproachable. In 1888 the United States manufac tured 14,000,000 pounds of tobacco, 400,000 pounds of inufl, 4,000,000,000 Cg3, tad 1,500,000,000 dgtrettci. ! )
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