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Maxton J A DEHOCBATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE ACT) THUlk ntttltfiSf . VOL. III. NOi 51. MAXTON. N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1889. S 1.00 A YEAR ; ' ' TOWN DIRECTORY. k F. MoLKAN Mayor.; A. J. BURNS: 0. n. BLOCKER, W. 8. BYHNEB, W. J. CURRIE, Comxnia; ioners. W. 0. HALL, Town Marshal. LODGES. KNIGHTS Of HONOR, No. 1,720 meats on second and fourth Wednesday! at f .ZO P. M. J. B. WKATnBRLY, Dio taHrr B. P. Mr-LEAN, Reporter. Y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.80 P. M. WM. BLACK. .President. MAXTON GUARDS. WM. BLACK. Captain, meets first Thursday night af fach month at 8 P. 31. CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on aeoond and fourth Monday, in each month. ArjMiH Shaw, Chief Counselor; 8. W. Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. SILVER STAR BAND, W. S. NICK KRSON JHiIf-r, meets each Monday and Thursday at 8 P. M . J MAXTON 'LODGE,- KNIGHT OF PVTHIYS, meet evpry Friday ;night, axcept first in earn, month, at 8 o'cilooa. ROBESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY H"MeEachrn, President. W W McDiormid, 1st Vice President. l)r .T T) Oroom. 2nd Vice President. . A 1) Bruwri, Secretary. Wm Black, Treasurer and Depository. fcXF.CTTI'VE COMMITTEE. Rev .Tom ph Evans, Rev H O Hili D t, Rev J S (lack, Rev O P Meks, Rev 3 F Finlayson, Jos McCollurJi, i J P Smith, puncan McKay, Sr. N Drown, Or J L McMillan. , AVr!TINfi COMMITTER. J P Rmith, D II McNeill, J A Humphrey! Pta.ce of next meeting Lumbertonj N. C. Tim of next meeting Thursday, May 80th, 1W, ot 1 1 :) o'clock a. m. Bible nnd Testaments can be purchased of VYm. Black, Depository, Maxton, iW. C, at coat. All churches and Bible Societies in the county invited to send delegates. 1 Forward all collections to Win Black, Treasurer, Maxton, N C. CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN, REV. DR. H. O HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath at 4 P. M. Sunday School at 10 A. 31. Prayer meeting every Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock . METHODIST, REV. W. 8. HAtES. . Pastor. Services second Sunday at i P. M. , and fourth at 11 A. Mi Bun- day School at 9 30 A. 31. MASONIC. 31AXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M.i meets 1st Friday night in month at 8 r. m. ! GENERAL DIRECTORY OF Robeson County. tach Senator, .L F. Payne. j Representatives, T. 31.: Watson, S I). C. Regan. F. McRae, . P. iMoore, Stancil, 3IcBryde. 8. Oliver. w B. T. J. County Commissioners, 0. S. C, C. B. Townsend. Sheriff, II . McEacheri. j RegV Deeds, J. II. Treasurer, W. W. Morrison, ! i j Mcpairmid. ) J.A. McAllister n ' '? J. S. Black. Board of Educatio .US. McQueen. f Supt. Pub. Instr'n, J. A; McAlister. : 3 Coroner, Supt. of Health, Dr. RF Lewis The Argentine Government is con templating the repurchase of some of the public land in onlcr to resell it in small lot to actual settlers. I At prjesent a private land , pr:it ion i oitcring land to immigrants n :ir IJahpi Blanch at $20 per acre on twenty years' credit, with nine jHT Ccnt. o:i deferred payment of instalments, the company agreeing, to ' furnish seeds, tools, animals, provisions, etc., to the amount of $1000 duf iug the first year at a fixed price, with interest as tbove. -; ? The Philadelphia Pra says: 'fA New Hampshire paper which has Inch study. Ing the problem of insect pests declares that one-third of the product of khe far mer's toil is devoured by these plagues, and predicts that the earth is about to I wing into the age of inects, as it has al ready passed through the" ages of fishes ind reptiles and is now in the; age of mammals. It suggests that the best wy to figb these winged enemies of the far mer, most of which are night rfyers, is to light torches and bonfires in eligible places, let them fly into the flames and burn them up. The wellrknown tendency of insects to fly into a fire is relied on to make the plan effective. A betJter and cheaper way, however, would1 be to ibolish the shotgun. Let insectiverous biros multiply, as they will if not killed by sportsmen, and the insects will be killed off better than by fires. The far mers are largely responsible for their own misfortune, for they permit shooting on their lands, and too often indulge in the alleged sport themselves. The way to lave thejrcrojg to spare. the birdj." SOUTHERN SPRAYS. EROH YISGIHU TO TEXAS, . Items of Interest Gulled from Many Sources. SOUTH CAROLINA The melon crop will be in about the 20th of July, and from the present out look there be a good crop. A total of 415 carloads of lumber has been received at Rock Hill for building purposes since January 1st. The transportation companies are in capable of moving the imqdeiise peach crojp. The yield is reported large from all sections. Columbia has collected and forwarded $1,219.31 in cash about $500 in provis ions, clothing, etc., for the Johnstown sufferers. The Black ville Loan and Savings Bank stock is about all taken at home, and by the middle of August the amount of stock required will have been paid in and the bank will be in full operation. A little child of John It. Cooper, who lives rteat the Fairfield line in Kershaw county, drank some concentrated lye on r riday, wlych resulted in the death of the child the next day. In the state railroad commission's monthly statement, of eaming3 for May, Hf the 2d rortd.1 included. 20 stidw-tf gross increase over the corresponding year of $78,038.00, and 9 show a gross decrease of '$2H,'.l.)0Al ; Compared with the same month last year, the total passenger earn ings have failed off $."it,242.98, while the total freight earnings have increased $09,329.94. The earnings of the several toads of the Richmond and Danville sys tem have increased $35,367.03. A thunderstorm, resulting in consider able damage to property; occurred in Newberry county, Tuesday. On one farm a cow was instantly killed onitndther the oi ncrib v;h set on lire, but the flames were extinguished before much damage was done. On Noah Wilson's place a colored boy leading a mule to the stable was prostrated and stunned, while the mule was iustantl.y killed by tho stroke. On John Wertz's farm a team df four mules were struck, two being killed and one crippled.' The negro driver was thrown from the mule he rode and stun ned, his hat being torn to shreds and his clothing much injured. The barn of George 3teWhorter, in the tOwn- was Struck and set on tire. Despite the heavy rain and the efforts of the fire de partment, the building and contents were totally destroyed. One mule was killed by the .stroke and its body consumed in the flames. TENNESSEE. The Nashville Relief Society purchased for twelve thousand dollars a large build ing on Cherry street, near Broad, and will turn it into an industrial school and and home for girls. Nearly all of the purchase money has been secured, James W. Warren, aged nineteen, and watchman on the steamer E. T. Holmes, attempted to step into a skiff from a steamer while the latter was in motion, at Nashville; the skill careened and Warren fell into the river. Being unable to swim he wai drowned. A monument is to be erected in Nash ville in honor of- the late Gen. B. F. Cheatham. Gen. Cheatham wos one of the bravest and most dashing officers of the Confederate army of the Southwest, and after the war tilled, with credit, sev eral important civil offices in Tennessee. The various applicants for the post- mastership of Nashville were thrown into j excitement by the announcement that Postmaster J. II. Currey had sent in his resignation, to take effect June 30th. Dr. Currey's term does not expire for some months yet, and the anxious applicants were not making any efforts to have him ousted. Now that he has resigned,' all are hustling for influential' supporters. One of the candidates is on his way to Washington, and others are making preparations to start for the capital city. At last, after nearly two years' waiting, the famous damage suit of Rev. Freder ick Howard for 50.000 damages, against sixteen prominent Baptists and three newspajHrs. for defamation of character, is to be tried at Jackson', Tenn. The jury was chosen and sworn. A severance was obtained by the defendants for G. W. Jarman. president of t'y Southwestern Baptist University, and J. G. Cisco, editor of the Forked Deer Blade, each to l tried separately from tin- others. The sever ances were withdrawn, and all will Ih? tried together. Great interest is manifest ed throughout that sectiou in the case. VIHCfNlA. Heavy rainfalls are reported from Petersburg, and fears were expressed of another freshet. The. trial of the negro Paul Keys, for committing a felonious assault on Alice Ballard, the six -year-old (laughter of 3Ir. Arthur Ballard, a respectable citizen of Fredericksburg, which occurred on 3Iay 4. 1889, began in the Corporation court of that city and concluded Wednesday evening. The jury after au absence of seven minutes returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to hang on September 6th. The German Baptist annual convention convened at Harrisburg. The question of the use of tobacco was brought up, and it was again decided that its use was against the teaching of Scripture. It was decided to be improper for brethren to join the farmers' alliance, carpenters' as sociation, etc. After vigorous protest it , was declared that members should not ; work In tobacco factories or raise tobacco, and it was further decided that it was wrong to use tobacco except for medicinal purposes. The session closed with th reading of a message of love and sympa thy from the brethren of Denmark and Sweden. FLORIDA. Edgar 8., John W., and Hugh D. Auchincloss hate incorporated the Flori da 3Ianufacturing Company, which will do a general manufacuring business in cotton products at 3Iadison and Lake City, Fia. Capital $150,000. OSOEGIA. The first carload of melons billed In South'- Georgia was captured by the Georgia Southern railroad, in Lowndes county, at Valdostd; Three Cats of fiae. Urge melons' wele shipped in different directions. Alexander Henderson, colored, was hanged at Bainbridge for the murder of Henry Jones and his seven-year-old daughter. Henderson broke down on the scaffold and confessed his guilt. He cried good-bye to all just as the drop fell. His neck was not broken and he died from strangulation in fourteen minutes. f he case of the S'tate.vs Elijah Baugji, Wesley Florencej George Smith and nil liarri Robertson", charged with an assault with intent to murder, afler & three' days' investigation before Esquires Swords, Robinson and 3IcElrany, at Law renceville, culminated in the committal of Baugh and Smith for the offense of V')ht4"-hf-k tfa tlimr li orribA Soturiloxr and Robertson left the countf tod his thus far avoided an arrest; End of a Useful Life. In the death of Dr. Andrew Simonds, dne df the mo'st conspicuous figures in ihe history of Fort Bellevue, South Caro lina, has passed away. l)'f. Simonds had been a confirmed dyspeptic nearly all his life. A few days ago he was attacked with inflammation of the bowels, which rendered a surgical operation necessary. This resulted hi his death. Dr. fcji ulond's history is a romance. was a native of Abbeville coiinty and a con nection of John C. Calhoun, of nullifica tion fame, his mother being Jane Hamil ton Calhoun. In lb60 he married a daughter of John A. Calhoun. He be gan life as a school teacher in the west at the age df 18 years. He had never opened aLatiiibook in his life. "vThen he was called Upon to teach Latin he. learned it. ind kept just ahead of his pupils as long ts he taught them in the classics. While I ii the west he boarded with a physician, from whom he succeeded in getting him self qualified to practice! medicine. Fi lially he abandoned both professions and turned his attention to mercantile pur suits. In 1839 he retired from business with a fortune. About this time he en tered the banking business. The State Legislature had decided to establish a branch bank of the State in the upper section, the parent bank being in Charles ton. This was entrusted to him, and he established the bank in Abbeville. It was at his suggestion that the moneys and assets in the mother bank in Charles ton were sent to him at the breaking out df the war in ISO 1. He saved them all and returned them to the State in the fall of 186.5, w ithout the loss of a single dol lar. It was after the waf. however, that his remarkable career' began. He organized he First National bank, of Charleston, in 18H.5, was elected president and tilled the office till his death. At the expira tion of the bank's charter, a few years igo, the stock was worth many times its oar value A new charter was obtained and Doctor Simonds of late has run the bank almost alone. He is said to have been the richest man in the State. He was a firm believer and a large investor in United States four per cent bonds. It Was only within the past few years that he went into real estate. He was vice president of the National Bankers' asso ciation and a frequent contributor to the columns of journals devoted to finances. The value of his estate cannot be correctly stated but it is thought it reaches largely into the millions. His eldt son. An drew Simonds, Jr.. married a popular New Orleans Wile. 3Iiss Daisy B. Rux. There arc two other sons and a daughter. Killed a Preachers Son. John Cummins has Wen arrested at Parkersburg, W. Va., for the murder of Joseph Smith, a son of Rev. Jonathan Smith, a Baptist clergyman in Roane county. Young Smith had completely won the affection of Cummins's wife, and her refusal to longer live with her hus band is believed to have led to the trag edy. The Treaty Signed. The Berlin deliberations on the Samoan treaty are at an end. Dispatches received at the State Department at Washington state that the protocol was signed by all the commissioners in Berlin. It is now understood that the agreement originally submitted to the State Department was J found to W satisfactory to the Pres-ident, ; to Secretary Blaine and the rest of the Cabinet. Died of Lockjaw. George Hand ik y. a teamster, died at the charity hospital at Birmingham, Ala. of lockjaw, caused by the kick of a mule. Handiley was tryintr to put harness on a voung mule, when it kicked him in the face. His injury did not appear to be. serious, but lockjaw ct in ana ne aiea id a few hours. Collectors Appointed. The President anioicted to be collector of customs T. Jeffcrsi :i Jarrett. for tb4 diituct of Petersburg. a. ; iiovm email for the diiirict of Btraulort, S. C. THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH. What is Being Dose to Advance Oqj lis teria! Interest, A woolen factory will be established at Jackson, Mis. The ternx? A:ainfcre will establish a pine straw bagging factory it Rrverdale, N. C. The phosphate and marl deposits in the James river will be developed by a stock company. The Goldsboro, N. C, Light and Pow er Co. has leen incorporated, and will erect an electric light plant. Philadelphia capitalists have purchased 400" acres of html Wear Jefferson ville, Va., md iniend io starfc w manufacturing own. J. it. Ay'cck; T. E:. Thomas and others have formed tt ffocS? company to build a cotton seed oil mill1 t Wedge field, S. C. The Danville and East Tennessee rail road company organized at Danville, Va. They will build a line from that city to Bristol, Tenn; J The Newport News fc Mississippi Vsl- I I . j i i lej rtmroati t-uuipuuy nave euiuuieueeu rhe ereetirrr f naw machine and car shops aVMeirtpTlisV Tfcftri. A New York syndicate? ha bmjght 70,000 acres of laud in the South, and are maturing plans for the development of I he, TOHlnS nd 8team. coal, timber, etc., j lz -j. Till o l c i ? cr uiiruuiavwui r t w f I matt MTanrurm nr T" tt rt . UstEin; Fla,- GAxaL: Tlfc t. Johns & Indian Kiver Ctfmtr Co. will build a canal from the St. icW fryer to '.ffeeIn dian river, about 1 1 miles. 'th'y Jare having surveys made, and expect to com mence excavating in the fall. .Fx'OHENCK, Ala., Water Works Y. F. inman", 6f J?e York, has purchased the Florence Wafer 7oths fr $20,000, and has offered to furnish Utd ci!y T'ith. water sufficient for a population' of 40, 000 people if given, a contract for 25 years at $7,500 per year. CAftTERJTJI'LE, Ga., IRON AND 31 AX- gIanese Mines.- A. O. Granger, of Phila delphia, Pa., and associates,- v?h have purchased the Etowah property in Barfcvr county containing 17,000 acres, will de velop the iron and manganese and organ lie a etoefc eompany for that purpose. They Will addprt hydraulic mining. Amdttg' the oher important enterprises fepofted are the enlargements to locomo tive works a"t Richiriond,- Vd.f at a cost of $750,000; a $600,000 New Ertglatid com pany to build a1 fown in Georgia"; a $1, 000000 machine cdmpany in Louisville; $100,000 mining company afnd $100,000 lumber company in Kentucky; a $100,000 lumber company in North Carolina; $100,000 fibre manufacturing company in Texas; the sale of 8,000 acres of land for $70,000 cash for early development; the commencement of a bajWd -wire fence factory in Louisiana, the first in the South, &c. These are but a few of the leading enterprises for one week, but they illustrate the great work which is going on throughout the South. Instead of slacking up in this forward movement with the appreach of summer heut, there seems to be an even increased activity. Solidly, and with quick step the whole South moves towards a period of greater prosperity than has ever Wen known in this country RIOT IK 0HIN4. The Girls' Sohdol of the Preshyterian Mis sion LootecL There was a riot in the northern psrt of Pekin, China, and the girls' school, belonging to the Presbyterian 3Iission, was looted by the natives, but no foreign ers were killed. The same spirit which broke out in Chin Kiang exists in all. the Chinese cities. It doubtless arises mostly from popular discontent with the Chinese Government, ingeniously fostered by the conservative and reactionary element of the official class, which, for the present has a marked ascendancy in the imperial counsels. There is no indication of a change for the Wtter. In addition to having compelled the Throne to recall its sanction of the extension Tien-Tsin-Kaip ing railroad to Tung Chow, fourteen miles from the capital, it has also succeeded in compelling the Viceroy to order the de molition of the iron bridge just finished by the French engineer. Theveriet, a'-ross Pei-hoat Tien-tsin. They say it is in the way of the junks. It is said that nothing except a cuali tion of the great Asiatic power will evei open China to modern improvements. Two Boys Drowned. Two white boys. Jimmie Freeman, 8ed 11. and Louis Miller. 15 years, were drowned in the harbor at Charleston, S. C, Thursday afternoon, while out yacht ing. Thev were, on the yacht White Wins with a party. The boys were knocked overboard by the main sail hooui 3Iillcr must have In-eu stunned by the blow, for he sank immediately. Freeman ank before aid could reach hhn. Yung Miller b a son of F. W. Miller, a well known reporter, for many j ears connected -with the old Charleston Courier and the News and Courier. A Harrison Man from Way Yonder. An old gentleman named Israel Town send, of Virginia, called to pay his re spects to President Harrison. On hi card was inscribed : 4 'Seventy-four years old to-day; voted for Harrison and Grange in 1836; Harrison and Tyler in tfUO- Harrison and Morton in 1888. Am not an applicant for any office. The President saw him for a few sun I uto. NORTH AND WEST. HEWBT r pehb BY TELEQ2AP2L Being A Oondczxtkn cf &aFri2dsalII&9 pesingi in Different Ststa I ! Th ribs crop looks line. 8 VOAB m airing is nearly over. 0SOK8IA has fifty-five cotton mills. Siaif is exceeding ly rich in mineral. CovpiirnE anarchy prevails in Crete. Thk Illinois Legislature baa ad joornad. F&ajrcx is suffering from severe storms. ttLtyois has a new compulsory education law. i Thk number 6f Arug stores in 81 Louis is 835. ' j Cubans express a desire fm a little hero role. j Florida is not afraid of yellow fete? tbi year. Kansas Citt was visited by a severe storm. Tttb ifasssyriittsrtts Legislature has ad journed. Thx United States Treasury sorphis is ooo,o: New CV-r ATts badly needs a good system of drainage. A treaty between' 5&xko and Japan1 has been ratified. CiifCLXKATi talks of securins feat-iraF gflfcs by pipe lines. Thi harvest in Northern Texas is under' full headway. Great Britain is spending $30,000,000 on sew iron ships Trte prospects for the Egyptian cotton crop are ffrfraraMe. Paoua, Kfi.,- b4 rented its city park to a carpet renovator. An early fall trade is exp"d by jobbers and manufacturers. Bab ley is beginning to be sown for vfteMr pOstate IB the 8outh. ALMOST 4O,0d0 (Don will bo engaged in tak atafefce Coming CeUstM. REPo4?'rom tbe growing; grain in the West continue MvorafMkr. The latest trust that tf form tit ia the West is the castor oil trust. It is proposed to lay a cable from Ostetjd, Belgium, to the United States. MtLtlJLtit service has been made obligatory fn dli tfre notmal sebvjols of Chili. Chinese Ji? sajd to be pouring into Cali fornia oyer the 5f tiiieew border. The present season s DeTrfWitflr poach crop is estimated at 5,000,000 basket A railway has been completed to tbe top cf Mount PUatus in Switzerland. TfteSlE re an even 200 patients in the Yankton (u&kOktf Insane Asylum. The total crop of kr oranges for the season just ended was 2 , 200,-000 boxes. The, number of Russian visitors V tb Paris Exhibition is said to be unprecederifal Over a million Italians have settled in tfto Argentine Republic in thirty-three years. SofcTKEHN California has shipped thirty per cent, more oranges this year than last. The- recent frost has destroyed over one fourth1 Of tbe grape crop of New York State. Harvard' grdates 235 young men in her academic departrnem b9 year. Yale turns out 127. A factory for making attar" (A rose and other flower essence is just being established at Atlanta, Ga. TflB citizens of Seattle. Washington Terri tory, have resolved to widen their streets and erect flre-propf Mrf Wings. The acreage of spririg beat seems to have declined in Wisconsin and Mkwwota owing to the ravages of tbe chinch bug. A bill has been presented in the Legisla ture of Jalisco, Mexico, for the prohibition to that State of bull and cock fights. Washington Territory's Constitutional Convention will be composed of forty-six Re publicans and twenty-nine Democrats. Many farmers in Oregon are literally throwing away potatoes; much of tbe last crop remains in the bands of the producer. While in the act of receiving tbe third de gree hi a Masonic lodge at W krhita. Kan., Dr. James Lr. Lawrence fell dead with heart disease. Twenty years ago the British army num bered 187,000. Now there are 211,000 men of all arms, including those serving in tbe colonies. The Australians have forbidden the slaugh ter of the kangaroo from January 1st so May 1st, of each year, on account of its value as an export article. There is a rumor that the Mexican Con gress, in setTet session, is considering the question of ceriing lower California to the United States. It is proposed to establish a penal colony on the Isla de Pinos, abolishing tbe peniten tiaries in the different cities in Cuba; also a workhouse for vagrants. The leading gas eompany of Chicago is making arrangements for replaning its pres ent supply ot manufactured gas with natural gas from the coal regions. There are said to be 15,000 typewriters employed in Chicago, ninety-nine percent, of whom are stenographers. Over seventy-five per cent, of them are worun. The fresh fish trade on the Atlantic coast is all broken up. A Providence iR. I.) dealer, who handled 4OJ0 barrels last spring, says he lost at! leart fflOO. Th public taste runs to meat. i "Work or the Samosn Conference In Berlin Accomplished. The agreement negotiated by tbe Comxni nonenf to tbe Samoan Conference for tbe settlement of affairs in Samoa has been Bgned; by all the members of the Conf er Anierica having abandoned her principal objections u, tbe agreement previously ar rived at, the plenipotentiariea bad only to make une&eauil modtflcatks in tbe word ing of Ibe draft. The draft guaranUjes an ao touooKKis administration of the island under the joint control of Germany and America, England acting as arbitrator in the event of difference arising. Tbe Samoans ara to -t their own King and Viceroy, ami tf be rejreseated in a Senate com posed bf tb principal chiefs and Chambers elected by the people. Same is to bare tbe right of levying duties of every kind. Tbe agreement also stipulate that tbe Germans Khali receive a mouey indemnity for their k-ssot. Aspecialeourt will be appointed to deal with the land question. The Americans made tbetr adhesion ooo4j ttooal up"n the ratification of the agreement bv tbe United Stales Senate next December. Tbe status quo will, therefore, obtain in Samoa until December.- ttci. josrra McAdex. wbo died recently in Bruuwrk County, Va., was tbe oldest Metbddi&t minister in tbe Soutb. Ba was ninetv-Sve years old. and hidbafntl tm THE LAB0B WORLD, THE Western evl trade l tn dulL THE strikes in Bobmi ar sreeswtbsg. ; BctLOTXO activity was never greater. Machinery t driving oat hand labor. Vaxxntine, !eo , has an Indian bod car rier. 'f An expert electrician commands SS0Q a xnpnta. Distress prevails everywhere fa tbe in destrial centers. Th trouble among tbe Vienna employe have been settled. Omaha carpenters make all their porccaaes at a co-operative siflre. The Western wire and steel nails tnaao , facturers are very busy. The volume of jJnp-building work U xrm larger than it baa been for ytars. f Thekz are ten shoe-peg factories ha tbe United States, employing about 900 bands. ' In New York tbe stone masonry is mostly done by Italians; ugikiuuen and Irfsbmaa lay the brick. j Inx planters of Martinique, in tbe French West Indies, allow their laborers a noon Urn recesret two hours. . About 10n.uUQ.O00 feet of spruce, 000 man and 100 horse aix credited to &e Connecticut River lumber drive this year. An interesting attempt is Unng made to re vive the once-nouriKhui w atehmaking indua try at Prescott, in Laneaihiiv Kngland. Miss Ida Van Ettkx is about to organise a button workers union in New York dtyr as this trade is wholly control ed by women. Over 500 persons gain a living in electrical employment in San Francisco. Thepay for eVtvical supply work ranges from $3 to $& a day. , An agreement with the waiters has been made by a fnembers of New . York oyster ' houses to abolish Sunday work from June un til September. A State organization is proposed by the) journeymen barbers of Pennsylvania, where by they hope to entirely abolish Sunday work in their business. In all. the trades,! except plumbing, the) bast workmen, those who omraaod the) steadiest employment in New York, are those of fortiga birth. ( I Certain descriptions of Ialior in the United States, suca as the building of aqueduct and ' bridges, f or Jierly done by Irishmen, are now carried out by Iulians. , New York locksniiths and railmakers de ma; d nine. hours and eight on Saturday, tiltiehers $12 per week, helpers fO, and for' . Sunday and holiday: w ork double pay. Since January 1st there have been re ported 2M strike, involving T5.110 strikers, against 380 strikes ; and 111.201 strikers in 1S88, and 511 strike and 212,317 strikers faa live months of 188 7. The stonework of the future will be dona with a recently invented pneumatic tooL This tool is light arid portable, powerful in action, and ha a continuous onward move ment, . requiring only to be guided by tb hands. j . A railroad publication issued in Isew York says that the failure of the locomotive engineers to down the 'Q' roads on their rtrike has taken 1000 men out of the order, and that it will be ten year3 before it will ba as powerful as before. A STROTf ni"vement Ls in progress among The miners of Pittsburg to do away with the' 'pluck me" store, r ston-s on which tbeT' have orders instead of being paid fa cash. They want cash payment, and say they will, not permit any stoppages of wages for store goods. '. j 1 There are special factories fa Paris for, making children watches, which employ hun dreds of hands. Thirty million are annually-' produced; in other Word. Paris provides! every year a toy-watch for every child ba-, tween five and ten in France, (iermany, Rosv .ia. Great Britain, Italy ami Austria. THiRTY-five housekeepers waiting in one small intelbgenc office in Boyton the other day showeil that the domestic ervice diffl ctuty is still urttVl, ae lady confessed that she had spr:it: ea--h ilay fv nearly twOj weeks in the mme rKvupniion of "huntin;' for a girl, " and that ?he was ' apparently as far from her obie, a v r PK0MLKEST PEOPLE. THE Crar refuses to visit Berlin. Admiral Porter is seven ty-x years old. Editob M cra t H a lste a d is in Germany. Mrs. Cleveland is learning to play tb .iolin. Henry Clews, the Wall street broker, ha . rritten a novel. jErntRsoN Davis was eignty-one yeara . 4d June 3, 189. Cyrcs W. Field began life as a clerk fn aw !few England store. a ' Brete 1 1 arte ha tak"n up bis permanent residence in London. , Lord ZrrLANDv the nw Irish V'faeroytwiil, s?rve only one year. It is rumored that lr.-y!.i-nt Diax will vtait e United Stat- next fall. Clara Barton, d'reidf-nt of tbe Red Cross? . Association, wa trrn in Maine. Sib Edwin Arnold, author of the "Light t of Ajda," istvirning to thi country. ViCE-pRJEsiDr.NT.MoRTo.v w U'ortning an extensive property v. it in Washington. Thz first ff liTng An?nrans in tbe estl- ciation of Eur"em na'ion w Buffalo BUL - Kate Chase Spraoce is writing a bios-, ' rapbyof h-r father. th late Chief Justice Chaoe. KiNGLAKE. the English hinbian who ia. now seventy-ght jrar old, u not fa gooCT bealtb. Joseph Pclitzer. c.xer of tbe New York? J World, once a-cted an nok'T on a Mississippi, steamboat. Edison, the electric! inventor, is said to. have amassed a fortune of !2,0OOkO00(by bi faventions. ! Jnc Keene. tbe fataous manipulator of. wheat corners, ooce drove a milk wagon fa sV California too. His Rotal lit'iBxz3 Kino Malxetoa, of; R-. baa develop2 an inortbnate desire fOS beer and pretzels. John Davis, tbe whofcale dry goods man, b tberiebcet man in Mukocit, -his wealth bemg estimated at 22,,(jy. i J Hon. K. J. Gat. of IiiHana. who died, tbe other day, was the re-". mania tho South. He was worth OH,jxk '- . Edison says it cot him tbirty-ti va cents s mile to learn tbe gam of poker on a trafa from New York to Ctkaago not long ago. HrrTOLTTr. tbe winner of the Hartiaa coo test, is a .Tioat inveterate mnAur. HatsiMTcr 1itijoat a strong, black cigar between til i'P- j Tra Mavor of Griffin, Ga.. is probably tho youarest city exectruve fa tbe coon try. Lj name is Stewart and be is but twenty-ihres years old. I PorncAJmtK Genxral Wanahajcxx 1j the only smooth-faced man to tbe CaoiaeS and looks ccuidrably younger than as J iotber of tbe eight. I General Gkxxly. of tbe Signal Berrfc?, : is afflicted with rbeumatbtm fa a mfkS fcrr?. and grim! r rarer to this aO!itlontoi sUXflrjanrrrinsTi -
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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