The Maxton7 Union,
A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR IOTTERES,
VOL. IV. NO, 7.
MAXTQN. X a, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1889.
$1.00 A YEAR
TOWN DIRECTORY.
1 B. F
McliEAN Mayor.
A. J BURNS,
0. JIL BLOCKER,
y Commkl
Vf. $ BYRNES,
If. X CURRIE,
sioners.
ft. 4- HALL, Town Marshal.
LODGES.
K NT f I ITS OT HONOR, No. 1,720 meets
on second and fourth Wednesday s at
0 P. M. J. B. WEATHEKLY, Dio-
tatprr B. F. MeLEAN, Reporter.
i
Y. t C. A.. meets every Sunday at 7.80
P. M. WJI. BLACK, President.
3IAXTON GUARDS. WJL BLACK.
Captain, nwt first Thursday nights of
t4'U month at F. M.
jj()SKN FKINDS meet on second
arL fourth .Monday in. each month.
aI?i S! aw, chief Counselor; 8. W.
pSlrham, S cretary and Treasurer.
SIlIK STAR BAND, W. 8. NICK
KliSOX Leader, meets each Monday
Hull Thursday at 8 P. M.
MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF
PVTJIIYS, n)cefi every Friday night,
xcejjt first in each month, at 8 o'clock.
ROBESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY
H Mc.Eachern, Pres-ldent.
W V McIMormid, 1st Vice President
pr j D Crotmi, 2nd Vice President.
A fj Brown, Secretary.
U'ni Black, Treasurer and Depository.
EJKCI'TIVE CO MM ITT EEL
Rev! Joseph Kvans, Rev II G Iflll, D D,
IW J S Pluck, Uev ) P Meeks,
Ki v .1 V Fiiilavsr n, Jos McCollum,
J I'SinPh, Duncan McKay, Sr.
N B Brow ii, Dr J L McMillan.
Af'DI UNO (OMWrTTEE.
J I' Sijiith, I) 11 McNeill, J A Humphrey!
I'lfujv if next iiieetintr Lumberton, N. C.
TiiMt';f next ineting Thursday, May
JJOth. HV.. at 1 1 o'clock a. tn.
ItlLs mill ''.'staniHiits can be purchased
of Wrju. Black, l)ejository, Maxton, N. C,
t nsi.
Alljt luin h"s and Bible Societies in the
rountk inviteil (om ml delegates.
FoitwHrd .-ill collections to Wm Black,
7'rwt.
( HI ItCIIES.
P1U
SBVTKHI AN, liEV. DR. II . G'
11
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11 II I., l':i-for. Services each Sabbath
ntl 1 P. M. Sunday School at 10 A.
1 j a t meeting every "Wednesday
ufit i n"n sit 5 o'clock .
MEtlloniST. RKV. W. S. HALES.
v. Services second Sunday at 4
M . .-iftd (,'urth at 1 1 A. M. Sun
v S lito'l .-it : 80 A. M.
MASONIC.
MAXTOR L(:?GE a. F. & A. M.
mtjets lr Friday night in each
irttitlr at s i. m.
fvM.NKTtAL DIRECTORY OF
Ilop.MsoN County.
Beiml"!'. .1. F. Payne
RpnsnitMtivcs, T. M. AVatson.
S D. C. Itegan.
) E. McRae.
I W. P. Moore,
o'injtv Commissioners, , B. Stancil,
T. McBrvde.
r 1 I J. S. Oliver,
f. S.ji'.. C. B. Townscnd.
IherijT, il. MrEachen.
Reg'riDccfU, J. II. Morrison,
Tmiriurcr. NV. W. McDairmid.
) J. A. McAllister
BoarrJ f Education " J. S. Black,
S J. S. McQueen.
lupt
Pub. Instr'iv J. A. McAlister.
CororiorA Suj.t. of Health, Dc. T 1 R
T
if w York ILrnld has discovered
that
'"relish hdies take n, great deal
mort
' interest in olitics than the wives
and
do.
dauffhfers of American candidates
njm--iruviy trade secrete have died
withjtheir possessor? One such case has
just ()ccurred at Find lay, Ohio, in the
death of Frederick J. Seymour, the
Superintendent of the American
Aluminum Company. He was the in
ventor of processes by which aluminum
couli hv extracted from common clay.
Sa secret he udded some chemical to a
fluid mass of the clay, which enabled his
felloe workmen to wrest the valuable
n from the earth. He died of a
Phytic stroke ;md had no opportunity
kv-eal his scent. The stockholders
company! among whom are General
RussU a. Alsrer :;nd Senator Palmer, of
toichjiraa, jt js s;iul NVm onipi0y chemists
tjudeuvtr to rediscover the secret
A
kti! -known lady of St. Louis, who
p-u abroad for more than a year, was
has 1
"Nus-ne at the time of the recent visit
f p
that
In d
'--sidi-nt Carnot andMme. Carnot to
hoted old citv of the French coast.
eribin.r in inr-ii1mt nf ti "FVfnch
ijltnt's tour she savs : "A deputation
ci s
A.
"T from Sortel, as Avell as of
Bou!
f-ne. waited on Oarnot and his wife,
!'Jtt.
ud Mrae. Carnot nresented in turn
i
ier Cheeks to h. VJccAfl which tn nfuM
ou'i havc beeu antidemocratic. But
,0t Ohly did one sailor he from whom
vomjuet had been received avail
lf of t,
eprv blessed mother's son of that
f bailors stenoed forward and
iutthe Mrst ladv in the French Re-
firstonone cheek, then on the
THROUGH DIXIE.
SUMMABY OF SOUTHERN HEW&
happenings of Gpecial Importance From
Virginia to the Lone Star State,
KOltTII CAROLINA. :
Matthews Gibbs, supposed to be the
ldest man in the State died at his home
lear Center Sabbath morning. Mr.
Sibbs was 103
iheer old age.
years old and died of
The State Farmers' Alliance Convened
n annual Session at Fayetteville. At
cast 250 delegates were present repre
icnting all the counties of the State.
Elias Carr was elected President to suc
jced Capt. S. B. Alexander. President
VIcCune, of the National Alliance at
tended the convention and delivered an
id dress.
A live panther has been seen by several
jersous, and chased by dogs in the
ieighborhood of Stevens' mill, five miles
!rom Asheville.
Senator Vance held a re-union of the
nembers of his old Company at Ashe
rille and thence proceeded to Gombroon,
lie Senator's country home on Black
Mountain where the soldiers spent two
iays with their old commander.
O. P. Heath, of Lancaster, S. C, and
3enj. Heath, of Monroe, will open a
Drivate banking business in Charlotte on
Sept. 1, with a capital of 100,000.
Stimsou Bros' saw mills at New Berne
rvere destroyed by fire Sunday, with
learly a million feet of lumber. Loss,
130,000.
A boiling well has been discovered at
lackson Springs.
S OUT II CAROLINA.
At a recent meeting of the York
Uounty Alliance a plan was submitted
:or the establishment of an exchange
jank, to be known as the York County
farmers' Alliance Bank, with a capital
Jtock of $25,000 to $200,000; business to
egin when $5,000 are paid in. Certifi
cates of stock is to be paid in equal in
itallments, beginning September 15th,
unning 4 mouths, $2.50 per month. The
question as to the location of the bank
Nas not decided, but the impression is
.t will go either to Rock Hill or York
rille, with the chance in favor of the
.atter.
Col. A. P. Butler, State Commissioner
)f Agriculture, sent word from New
York that the New York Cotton Ex
change has agreed to grant all that he
had asked on behalf of the cotton
planters in regard to the tax on cotton,
lamely, that the Exchange fix prices on
aet cotton regardless of the material used
for covering. This settlement of the
question is highly satisfactory to the
cotton planters, as it will prevent any
ioss in the use of cotton bagging as a
mbstitute for jute, and will operate as
mother nail in the coffin of the jute
a-ust.
Sheriff Sally, of Orangeburg, went to
Columbia to draw the reward of $100
offered for the arrest and delivery of
George E. Boyet, who killed Ace Bissell
tn Orangeburg County last June. The
money will go to two travelling
ietectives, who read of the reward in a
letective newspaper and spotted the
man at Waycross, Ga. He came to the
3tate without a requisition.
Thirty-eight vessels are now on the
aigh seas bound for Brunswick. A,
jrcat number of these are foreign barks,
ind will take cargoes of naval; stores for
ill parts of the world. About sixty
jquare-rigged vessels are chartered to
load here. The cotton season will open
with three British steamships,
TENNESSEE.
Saturday at Limestone, on j the Nola
ollucky River, in Tennessee, on the farm
where he was born, there was a celebra
tion of the hundred and third birthday
of the far famed Davy Crockett, fron
tiersman, humorist, bear hunter, politi
cian, story teller, Congressman, bush
whacker, soldier, Tennesseean, and
Texan, who was put to death at Fort
Alamo, by order of the Mexican com
mander, Santa Anna, during the Texan
war o Independence. Among the guests
will be R. P. Crockett, of Texas, the
only living son of the frontiersman, and
the onlv living grandson of Col. IL H.
Crockett, of New Gazeuy, Ark.
As Chief of Police Gaston, Of Jackson,
was walking around the jail Wednesday
morning he was fired upon by negroes,
receiving ten buck 6hot in his face and
neck, lie will die.
GEORGIA.
The lower house of the Legislature has
passed, without a dissenting voice, a bill
declaring that the 19th day of January
ghall be a public holiday in respect to the
memory of Robert E. Lee, who was born
On that dav. Of course the Senate will
also pass the bill, aud Lee's Birthday will
become the most interesting and impor
tant of aH the holidays in Georgia.
The House committee on railroads
practically killed what is known aa the
Olive bill. This bill was aimed at rail
road consolidation, providing the for
feiture of the charters in certain cases. It
was an extreme anti-monopolistic measure
and was opiosed by the conservative
business men of the State, who urged
that such a measure would keep capital
out of the State. The railroad commis
sioner tabled the bill. It may yet pass
in some form, but before it does it wiU
be shorn of all dangerous features. Rail
road nu n all over the country, it is said,
have watched the progress ot the bill
with deco interest.
The cotton cohi press rates will naraiy
be changed at the port of Savannah for
the coming season. They are" sixty-five
cents for foreign and fifty for coastwise.
The Central's directors are divided on
this question of reducing the charges,
but no change is expected.
The Augusta, Ga., Orphan Asylum
was gutted above the second floor by
fire Sunday. The building cost $140,
000 ; insurance $60,000. No Urea wrt
lost.
VIRGINIA.
Dr. James L. Cabell, senior member of
the faculty of the University of Virginia,
died at Overton Tuesday morning.
l)r. J. B. Wortham, a prominent citi
zen of Winchester committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head. The
ball went in the right temple, lodging
under the skin of the left. He attended
church Sunday night, and was found in
, his room at 5 o'clock Monday in bed,
undressed, with the pistol in hi3 hand.
The act is supposed to have been com
mitted between 12 and 1 o'clock in the
morning. Dr. Wortham was a native of
Huntersville, Ala. He was a surgeon in
the Confederate army, and remained at
Winchester after the war. His wife
died several yeare ago. He leaves a
daughter, 18 years of age.
News from Drake's Branch, Charlotte
county, says that a negro attempted a
criminal assault on Saturday upon an
orphan girl living in the upper part of
the county. The girl fought with such
desperation that she awoke the lady with
whom she lived, and the two locked the
negro fiend in the room and kept
him a prisoner until help arrived and
cecured him. His name, was William
Blankcnship and he was about 20 years
old. He was promptly commit ted to jail,
whence he was taken in the- night and
hanged to a tree.
Col. John R. Charlton, of Montgomery
county, who died last week, lacked only
two years of bein g 100 years old. He
was an uncompromising Democrat, and
has voted for every Democratic nominee
for the Presidency of the United States
since the nomination of President Mon
roe, his last vote having been cast for
Grover Cleveland in November last.
The Winchester paper mills have been
sold to the American Strawboard Com
pany with headquarters in Chicago. The
present management, Messrs. Wissler &
Co., will continue to operate the mills.
OTHER STATES.
At Carbon Hill, Ala., Harvey Speck
killed Berry Adair with a revolver,
shooling him three times. The trouble
grew out of Speck's demanding payment
by Adair of a small account the latter
owed him. Adair was a quiet and
peaceable man. The slayer escaped.
On Saturday last George C. Placoy, a
farmer in Henry county in the extreme
southern part of Alabama, found in the
woods near his house the decaying body
of a beautiful young woman. The woman
had been dead several days and had
been killed by a blow on the head, which
crushed her skull. The clothing wms all
of tine quality and fashionable make.
There was no jewelry or any article
about the body by which it could be
identified. No -young lady in that
region is missing, and no one answering
the description of the body has been
seen in that neighborhood. The Coroner
had the body embalmed and is holding
it for identification.
The story is told of ex-Congressman
Charles M. Shelley, who represented an
Alabama district where the negroes form
a large majority, that he once gained .his
election by an arrangement with Fore
paugh to exhibit his show at Selma oa
election day. Free excursion trains were
run from all parts of the districts to
Selma, and all the negroes admitted to
the performance without price. Seven
thousand colored brethren availed them
selves of the privilege and lost their
votes thereby.
Fire at Jacksonville, Fla. , destroyed
nearly a whole block of buildings in the
western part of the city, known as
4Lavilla." The fire caught in the beer
depot of the Christian Moerlein Brewing
Company, of Cincinnati, Louis Lohman,
agent. This building, Tom Baxter's sa
loon, Darling & Company's general store,
Albert Shaw's store and a house, and five
small negro tenement houses were de
stroyed. Fire at Florence, Ala., burned thetwo-
itory brick store of Mrs. Schall. It
originated in R. C. Pickett's store, and
caused a loss of $10,000.
A Fibre Revolution.
Assistant Secretarv of Agricul
The
ture, Mr. Edwin Willis writing concern
ing the jute culture question says: ttThig
department has taken great interest in
the manufacture of fibres in the past,
and has been encouraged recently by the
manifest interest in the subject through
out the country. There is no doubt
that the JScmtli can produce jute in large
and paying quantities if capitalists can
be induced to invent in its culture and
manufacture. It looks as though we
are on the eve of a fibre revolution, in
cluding flax, jute and ramie. Machines
are being iuvtnted that are solving the
question of manipulation and manufac
ture. Just to what extent the govern
ment shall further experiment h a ques
tion that must be submitted to Congress.
If Congress at its next sosion shall rec
ognize the importance of such a step,
and will ifivc U the appropriatiou for it,
we should most heartily take up the
., - iii bolve the jute question.'
There is a steel grain steamer prying
between Buffalo, N. Y., and Chicago,
called the America, which carries
104,000 buiheis of corn on one trip.
NORTH AND WEST.
HEWSY E
BY TELEGRAPH.
Being A fVmHc nf th Prfnfafl "fay
penings in Different States,
Tbm TidnltTof Idfammotfc, Pttuu, waa
visited by snow storm. The ground was
completely covered.
IIichaxx and John llorphy, two brother,
aged fire and six, respectively, while sailmg
their little boats near Bioomfleld, JT. J., fell
hfo the Morris Canal and were drowned.
Ebet 8. Axxjhc, ex-President of the Forty
second Street and Grand Street Railroad
Company.of New York city, who had pleaded
guilty, in the Court of General Sessions, to
the fraudulent issue of stock of the company
was sentenced by Judge Gildersleeve to four
teen years imprisonment in State Prison.
Aw explosion of gas in the crockery store of
T. J. Macable, rfew York city, killed Ja
cobs Morris, aged seventeen, and wounded
twenty-five other persons.
Damagk was done by flood in North nfl
South Carolina.
Glanders is raging among car horses at
Chicago. Thousands have died.
Supreme Cocut Jtstice Stepkex J
Field was arrested at San Francisco, Cal.,
charged with being an accessory to the mur
der of Judge David S. Terry, and released
on habeas corpus proceedings in $5000 bail.
. The jury at Purvis, Miss., returned a ver
dict of puilty of prize fighting against John
L. Sullivan.
At JaeUson, Tenr-., Henry Prewit, an ex-
cowboyfrom Texo?, shot his young wife
through the nock, iuflictinj; a fatal wouhdt
wounded his mother-in-law, and then shot
himself through the head, dying instantly.
The Montana Coast iititional Convention
finished its work. The North Dakota Constitu
tional Convention decided upon Bismarck as
tho permanent Capital of the new State.
The Navy Department has ordered the
payment to Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia,
of $10,300 on accouiit of the new gunboat
Yorktown. This is tho last regular payment
on tho vessel.
Acting Postmaster-General Clarksojt
awarded the contract" for furnishing postal
cards to the Postofflce Department for four
years, beginning October 1 next, to Albert
Daggett, of New York.
The Department of State has been in
formed that the Nicaragua Government has
appointed Senor Don Horacio Guzman, the
present Minister to the United States, to rep
resent Nicaragua at the Congress of Ameri
can Nations to be held in October.
Turkish troops are hastening to Crete to
suppress the insurrection there.
Ex-King Milan has consented to allow ex
Queen Nathalie to visit her son, Xing Alex
ander of Servia, several : times a.year and to
reside in the palace during each visit.
VETERANS IN A WRECK.
Hails Spread Under a Pennsylvania
Train Willi lW.al ISffect.
An excursion train on the Butler branch of .
the Wet Pennsylvania KaiLoad, loaded with
veterans returning from the reunion of the
'02d Regiment at Butler, was wrecked at
SarverF, f?ven miles east of Freeport, Penn.,
two passengers being instantly killed, three
or four others fatally injured and twenty
live more or less seriously hurt.
The dead are: Mrs. Duft an old lady, resi
dence unknown; Farrell, child, Butler; W.
Powers, Iaurencevilie. Penn.
Thewreck was caused by tho rails spread
ing on the end of a small bridge that spans
Buffalo Creek, the timbers on which the rails
were laid leing so rotter, that the spikes had
been forced out the side by the weight of the
train passing over them.
The rails plowed through fhe second car
and the escapes were miraculous. One lady
had her dress cut from th wrist to shoulder:
another lost a small piece of her cheek, a third
had her chin cut and many others in the
second car narrowly escaped?
The train consisted of n smoker, day coach'
and combination coach. The engine stood
about 100 yards from tho "wreck still unin
jured on the track. The smoker was smashed
in splinters and fell fifteen fet down the em
bankment. The front tmck of the coach was also
thrown over the embsnftment, the hind
truck remaining o:i the track. The combi
nation also remained oii the track. Of the.
twenty passengers in the smoker one was
killed and nineteen injured, it being a marvel
that all were not killed.
At the wreck the siht was truly heartrend
ing. On either side of the track, for a distance
of neariy a quarter of a mile, in
jured veterans were laying on cush
ions and, in eocne inntancs, on the
bare ground. Women and children,
wounded and l.cspnttered with blood, sat
and lay around pieces of th wreckage.
The doctors and oth-rs on the relief train
at once set to work to care for the injured.
a .aemarx&oie Uaxa.
Gkeenville, S. C. Special. The
nej;ro who was shot througn the head by
Hal Power, at Anderson, a few weeks
a,To, had the ball extracted, and is in a
fair way to recover. If he does, the
medical men of this section say, it will
be one of the most remarkable cases on
record. He was shot in the center of the
forehead, the ball lodging just in front
of his left ear. A large quantity oi
brains oozed out from the bullet hole,
and no one at the time of the shooting
expected him to live. At this writing h
is doing well, and may survive.
The Colored Question in Mexico.
City or MKXicovia Galveston. The
Vuz di Mexico says petititions against
negro immigration to Mexico art
shortly to le circulated throughout thl
country. Several proprietors refuse tt
sell land to negroes. if. T. 8wk
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VIRGINIA DEiiXJRATS
Hominate Oapt p. J, tfcjunney,
Farmville, Tor Governor.
of
The Democratic State Convention met
at Richmond Wednesday morning of
last week. The platform was adopted
and candidates for Governor were put ia
nomination: Philip Wat kins McKmney,
Richard T. Beirne, Samuel W. Yenable,
James II. Tyler, Charles T. O'FerreU and
Judge John T. Harris. One ballot was
taken, but without a nomination being
eilected.
A second ballot was ordered Thursday
morning after the assembling of the con
vention. Jlefore it had proceeded far
delegations began to break to McKinncy,
and amid great excitement, vote after
vote was added to the total, piling up
for him until he had enough to asiikj
his nomination. Then, before the ballot
could be completed, a motion was mado
and unanimously agreed to, nominating
Mr. McKinney by acclamation.
J. Iloge Tyler, of Pulaski, was nom
inated for Lieut. Governor, also by accla
mation. The convention completed its labors
by the nomination of 11. Taylor
Scott, of Fauquier, for Attorney Gen
eral. Mr. Basil 1$. Gordon, of Fredericks
burg, was elected chairman of tho State
Democratic Committee, vice lion. John
8. Barbour, who resigned.
THE rLATKOKM.
The platform congratulates the pcoplo
of Virginia on the wisdom and success
of Gov. Lee's administration; deprecates
the re-opening of the State debt question ;
praises the Democratic party for having
fostered the public schools system of the
State; favors immigration for building
up and developing tho agricultural re
sources of tho State, opposes convict
labor being placed in competition with
free labor; declares in favor of fostering
the oyster industry of tho State; en
dorses the national Democratic platform
on the internal revenue and tariir laws;
and favors the immediate alolitiou of
the tax on tobacco and fruit brandies. It
further favors complete remonetization
and free coinage of silver and advocates
a law placing the agricultural of the
State under the eoutrol of practical far
mers. It also recommends a revision of the
laws imposing taxes on land, with a view
to relieving any unjust or unequal taxa
tion; and advocates an appropriation 'for
disabled Confederate soldiers and wid
ows. The twelfth and last plank declare
that Democratic and white supremacy in
the State is paramount- to the turiif ui
any other consideration.
j Adjourned sine die.
BRIEF SKETCHES.
Capt. P. M. McKinney is a lawyer ol
Farmville, fifty-five years of age, an ex
Confederate and a candidate for Gov
ernor against Fitz Lee in 18S5. lie waa
the Democratic nominee for Attorney
General in 18S1. This time he went
to Itichmond leading the string with
many committed delegates. Capt. jIc- j
Kinney is rich in popularity il not in j
other worldly possessions. Ilaviug can-
vassed the Mate frequently he is known
on the hustings.
J. Hoge Taylor, of Pulaski county, is
a progressive farmer, about forty-three
years of age, who has t-erved in the
State Senate and House of l)elcg:itcs,
and is a prominent member of the Far
mer's Alliance.
AqneerCorefor Sunstroke.
Senor Catarsi, a fruit dealer who does
business on the south side of Fulton
market, New York, told an Evening Jun
reporter recently how victims .of sunstroke
were treated in sunny Italy. ''Take the
patient and prop him up straight in a
chair, then fill a glass with ice water,
place a towel over the top and press it
down on the person's head, holding it so
tight that the water won't run out. All
the heat in the body then becomes con
centrated in the head, and' is gradually
drawn out by the water. The
water soon grows warm, but the
glass must not be removed until it boii.
This is not a fairy story I'm telling you.
If the glass is kept on the head long
enough you can see the water bubbling
inside. The length of time required de
pends on the seriousness of lm cv?. Ti.!
worsethe sunstroke the quicker the water
boils. It is a sure cure."' Mr. t'atarsi is
a man of intelligence. He is educarH
and his wife is a school teacher. His
remedy is a remarkable one.
Largest Area of i'iale G!a .
An ambitious firm in IJosto.i recently
determined to havx the laru't-: area
plate gloss in their show window . ;V
in the country, and M.-nt their nit-r i a
great crystal establishment in Pant.
When the question, of ehim.ut wa
brought into the l,rgaiu n tr.iu--dip -r
sailing vessel could k- found v.hi n uuii
take the huge plates of glov ou board
through its hatches. Th r fore t jt jar-
chase abroiid was nin:jdmvd. 1 Li'M
the suggestion tir.t ti:- ouJ.d r
manufactured iu Indiana. Th- oi.i-r.. t
was made with Indi-'i:: i mi..
and the gia--s was irnn liij : L U". tiaeu
arose another dii'-ultr. Tut . : r;
pane must Ik.- tnin-j'rt--i upnv.it in a
frame. The height of ;h ab vt
the railroads was found, and it ni.s
covered that no rajlr:ul in li- country
would thus transport it to ik ilu!.
Consequently the ambiiiou- vri-.t v.-
obliged to abandon lA- '.r r,fl,
contented them?Ivt- rita r.eo-ia!
windows.
Tlie T.n,- iuiIL c
is tura-
ing out 30,000 yaxda of coUvu b-Soing
J ll 4
IT tat a Bnll Fl?ht CesU.
The cost of one of the corridas may bm
safely reckoned at not less than (7600.
There are generally six bolls killed, sod
these avenge from 350 to $500 each.
Horses ;n-e contracted for, andareboogbt
at simply "knacker' prices ; sometfaaSS
as n.uxiy a t ver.iy-five are done to de&.
There are t:i--n!ly three espadea, a&d
the-c. v it'.i th-sr cu&drillas, may be takes
one with unother, at about 1250 eada.
Thei! there is a very large number of SSV
sist;iut and attendants. A very heavy
rent is p.;;.i fr the plaxa, and the GovrrsH
mciit tax. or ixmtribution, is also
considerai.k' item. The 4 gate may be
esti;natd, given a "full house" and it
is almost .1 .ays fairly filled at soxm
I .-vni'told that as regards Um
ur.fi::: u famous j'spada may make that
viur. rit-i, a very famous cspada, thoe2i
hardly more Uuiii a Ikj for he is still la
his twjc'Uy -fourth year has already, tt
only tlie beginning of the season, sigasd
enL-uiiments for sixty-four corridas, at
$1 1 uu v:u-h ! When it is calculated that,
at thH outside, his following will Ml
take in t :hr.:i alout 350 of this, tbst
amount that i-; left appears a very ttSt
salary for a man or, to speak more O0T
rtctly, a lad who probably had a dif3
culty in -attaching, his signature to his
contracts. .17 the Year Round,
f
E 0. Bremen's Ti
In the State Firemen's ToumssKai d
Rrfleigh the Capital Hose , Cotapaay, c$
Raleigh won the State cbjunplonihio la
the hand reel races, running one fasnarsd
and fifty yards, laying one hundred tZ
of hose and throwing water ia thirty
seconds.
In the steamer contest the AtUntio
Company, of New Berne, got trpttcsa
snd threw water one hundred iett la
three minutes and thirty-eight seconds.
The foot race between Wm. Pltxaao,
of Columbia, champion of South Caro
lina, ami Thomas Daniels, of New
Berne, champion of North Carolina, one
hundredand fifty yards course, was won
by Pitman.
Tiu' State Firemen's Association elect-'
.d K. . Knglehard, of Raleigh, presi
dent, and adjourned to meet next year
it Charlotte.
California Mnd Springs.
1 ' nu:d s
-icinir or volcanoes of Cali
fornia arc in the southern part of the
Stau-, in the valley of the Gila River,
rise count, -y there is principally an slka
iid'' dr.-ert. a::d it was supposed that the
laud va- once submerged by the SCSw
riie nivA -;iriiigs or volcanoes are in a
circular an a of about half an acre, de
nrov'd several feet below the surround
;n:c land, :nd supposed. to he the bed of
a s ilt ; k.- left by the retreating gulf.
Here ii;-re are numerous little coves,
Jirec or fv:r feet in height, of soft earth,
from v. !;: ii there is a constant discharge
-A carbonic and hydrosulphuric acid gas.
rhc-e coves, after a time, sink into the
iarih and new ones are thrown up. The
mail oh-ihnes arc very hot, their tem-p-raturc
lauding at 125 degrees in the
tuia:,icr lime.
Prefern J Primitive Methods.
A very p"t uliar individual, who has
bei a living the life of a hermit in the
wild ot ooesoM Township, in Pen nay 1
vanhr, is : e:i unearthed by the Board
of Direct ,r of the Poor, arid brought ta
the aiie.r : e. He owned a small tract
of la,.;l i:i the lonely locality, and for
the last four years has lived alone, re
fui: . z t i ht any one, and subsisting ea-
ftrely on corn meal, which he raised him
elf t,d irroijsml iu a primitive mill of hie .
.own iiianufaeture. . He Ixdieved it was
neces.vtry he should live on this diet in.
ordti-that he might gain heaven. He
belu ; i in m lf-inrl'cted punishment as s
means of ; rare. As he was likely to
come to .v..nt through his pcculiAritiee,
at t hXjjjJ t of his relatives he WIS)
taken 'in fiarV- bv the authorities.
Chicago licr ill.
Oslrh-h Feather Very Hlfh.
"ioi ji!uiiics are now worth 100 a
puii id.'" .ili a well-known New York
In -tri ''! feathers to a Nine re
porter the ot;r day!
A lilt!-inquiry ltd to the discovery
that a ear o, s, uo the same qualityof
,lu:n-s no.-. .!iit!g for 100 sold for fZ5
u -iv) j r pound". The market for ostrich
feath'r- H erv strong, and dealers aatSd
pat. tUt it hey" will sell for 140 or 150
i r ijouti l before we see cheaper prices.
Weiio not u'ct the liest quality of
hiunes in il is country at any time, as
they invarioly f.!l for more tooney in
England than they do here.
A I.V.1 Belie Accidentally Ellsd
johtr F. Stokes, the wife oft
,,r;4.:..,-::i oluutcr at MtGbee'i Landless
li;.;.. v.J inaptly killed bTfll
ii -An a 'i.d tory window of hex res4
d-n-e. '1'v.i -Uv evening. j
IT ; L ,r maniage. about 15 Jt
, ,, -4 Moke. was perhaps the most
,;..;,;;. r.t -ie?y Ulle in the Booth.
, v, ;i, the daughter of the late Mflsa
v.'ohc -. one of the wealthiest slarf
u i.cr 3 n the country.
'i he fir. in the United 8tte
iIik first six months of the year
ar- ded over 70,000,000, agalait a
-iotii! ... of bat 461500,000 for the
-me rio.I Ut year. In loatof.'ltfe
and Urnof property through ihtt
agtcie the first half of 1889 has bess
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