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The Maxton Union. ; r - A DE30CBATIC JUUUNAL THE PEOPLE AND TIIElIt INTEREST. 'C)L. IV. NO. 12. MAXTON. N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1889. 1.00 A YEAR TOWN DIRECTORY. H. F. McLEAN 3Iayor. A. J. BCRNS. 0. IL BLOCKER, W. S. BYRNES, f Coinmis; sioners. II ! , . lr Mill Jij V. ;. HA LI., Town Marshal. lodges. KNIGHTS (T HONOR, No. 1,720 meets m m cnrxl Juki fourth Wednesday's at ?.:uP. M. .!. R. WEATHERLY, Die-1 :.r..rr B. P. Me LEAN, Reporter, j Y. M. A . , iii' t every Sunday at 7.30 I. M. WM. BLACK. President MAXTON G LARDS. W.M. BLACK Captain, meets fir-. Tliui. y night of each month ;.: s 1. M. f II'ISK.V FRIENDS meet on second i',d f"iiith Monday in each month. Ar-'i- Shaw,- Chi-f Counselor; S. W. I'-.r'r am, Secretary and Treasurer. !l..) i;STAR RAND, W. S. NICIv-;,.!.'-' N Leader, 'meets each Monday Thursday at Sj I M. ' To. V ' LODGE, KNIGHTS OF !'i'!HIVS, meets every Friday night, i ... :t !ii.-t ii! each month, at S o'clock. poiikson count? bir'le society ! I .M rn, Pre-Merit. V SX M1 tiormid, lt Via- Pn-Mont. ! i .1 I) (,'fo m, :Jik1 Vice-Prsideiit. I) !!r.in. S-rrctary. W'm Cluck, Treasurer and depository. KK I "I IV K "oMMITTF.K. !:. v .!. I'.v.uis, Khv II (i Hill. I) I), Iv J S ;1m.-!:, RmV ( P Meek, licv J FFinlayM n, - .! s MeCollurn, .) I'Kmoli, Duncan McKav, Sr. N L brown. DrJ L McMillan. ,i in inc committi:!-:. I I' Smith, i II M .1 A Humphrey' I'larc i rit- r iin-'tin- Linnlx-i-ton. N. C. I line of next ine'fin -Thursday, May "Mi. at Ih::it ..'.TmT a. in. Hidlt-s Miiil 7'."-t:nii :iLs cum !) purchased I Win. Mack. Depository . Maxtoii, N. C, M cot. A iJ Inn -chi-s ;wi1 Bilili' Societies in the : i T 1 1 V invitl t ' II 1 leli-i;ates. 1 '. i v.nrd nil ollc-ti'-us to Win black, 7i-;.MiiT, MaAt'.n. X C . nn iu res. rni :si;yterln, rev. dr. il g- HILL. P:c!or. Services each Sabbath ,t i P. M. Si'.nday School at 10 A. M. I'rayi r meeting; every Wednesday ifl i l rn i. hi :i I " 'el ck . AHITIIOIMST. REV. Y. S. HALES. r.i-!r. S. i vices second Sunday at 4 "p. M.. n!i I.. mill at 11 A. M. Sun l:.v :'. ; ! .-it ; :' A. M. MASONIC. M X inN l.olMJE A. F. & A. M. niMt i -. Eiiday niht in each tim' - I. ,r. 9 i..' !; L DIRECTORY OF i',';kmin - Coi'NTY. Sn;.ri.r .1. F. P;ivne. ?.' ' ntati ( s. ) ' M. Watson. V 1). C. Reuan. i E. - V. M Rao. W. P. Moore, Cci:.t Coiiiinissioiicts, ' 1. -Stancil, ! T. McRrvde. i J. S. Oliver, C. S. C.. C. P.. .'.v.-ns-nd. Si, el ill. II. MeEa hen. t )ceii-. .!. H. Alorrison. i r. W. W. McDainnid. I .. A. McAllister ' :' Education " .1. S. Black, S .. S. Mc(ueeu. !'! i. Instr'n. .1. A. McAlister. To., H. .in i ('n Hi uV Supt. ot' Health, Dr. F Lis K Per. ! l : , i ! -n 1 1 l'c.irsons, of Chicago, . : t- .!. 1'nf-uitc f that city, v.iiiiin a s-hort j)eriod, 8700, 11 ; t ,i;n-.nional and c-haritable in :u,:; -. 'hi. important donations , :-.-!"ii,ini,i ;,i iVIoit College, lOO.- 1 Like Forn-: I'niv.isitv, S.O.OOO riD.noM x the Chicago .--ainarv, C0.U0( to the i I 1 . and ?:?, 0(10 to '.fii's i'hrist iasi Association. i an t t lie i hu .: : n.u institutes cii!!li;ion that an r.: is.-d ;r them from v. uo accomplished a . rc n i ! i )!.'. i - M M ; iit T n eai a 1' :::;.: ,. 1 . 1 1 college,' KtVS i v. iii ii I have made it. d a ce:it from iue ;.irv of the-American Colon- . ty has recently collected and j -'me very interesting facts' 1.- it.. abet. ( 1 ( 1 . , division f Africa and its ', European colonists. Eug- .:, uty st.i,.d 1,000,000 square e..uutiiu Egypt; Germany has mare miles and claims 200,000 Franee has 700.000- sipiare miles j d i- idlv at luiring -territory ; Italy ; hel i rself to land in Abyssinia; African Company is and the Cougo Free Mg progrcs- it- forging ah- ad. European capital i'i'1 eiuornvise i d t he results ire rushing into Africa, have been very remark- ai.'.e. In eighteen years '200, 000. UOO worth of -ens have been exported, liiitish traiie with the country amounts r2r.OdO.0l",i annually and that of i. e t. sdp0.u00.MK. - Telegraphs v, railrv ...Is ar;' overrunning the regions 1 : it d l.v the Europeans, and the pro i d railroad by the Livifigsfn Falls p.-cted to lievelop Central Africa. Xy"' more th.an 4.50O.O00 square miles u: L'.i.ehed to s0:r.e foreiiru THROUGH DIXIE. SUMMABY OF SOUTHERN HEWa .iappsnings of Special Importance From Virginia to the Lone Star Stata. TEHNESSEE Every gambling house of Memphis wa closed Wednesday night on warrants i- sued by the judge ofthe criminal court Anna Evars, of Memphis, whose hus- baud is a prominent Republican jolitician 01 cojor, nas sueu Patrolman Conway lor $",,000 damages for -having called her 4 'Aunty" tne term beinir considered a reminder of slavery d tys. Registration for the coming city elec- tion ia Nanville, Teuu., shows that over 4,000 voters, mostly colored, neglected the duty, and areas a consequence dis franchised. The colored voters seemed generally indilferent. The Evansville & Chnttarooga Rail road Company have secured f'J2o,000 in county subscriptions ami engineers will probably soon be at work running lines preparatory to active work. This road wili furnish a dircci line between Cnatta uooga and Evansville, Ind. Knox county has voted a subscription of $100, 000 to the Knoxville it Northwestern Railroad, which insures the early com mencement of construction. It will ex tend to the North' Carolina state iine, and will be with blanches 00 miles long. The Memphis Cotton Exchange has re jected the rates of tare on cotton bales covered with jute and cotton bagging respectively which were fixed by the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. VIRGINIA. Col. Thomas .1. E vans, one of the best known lawyersof Virginia, died at Rich mond on Friday last aged 07. He had represented Richmond iwice as a mem ber of the Legislature- before and since the war. ' He was a colonel in the Con federate army, a promincut mason, and noted for his social qualities. A murder was committed on Saturday night on the farm of Sam .Jones about lour miles from Culpepper. It seems that some neuroes were havinjr a Satin day night ''cake walk" at the house ol James Fitzgerald. During the evening one of the negroes present kissed the. wife of Fitzgerald, whereupon the latter seized his gun a- d tired at his wife, tin whole charge striking her in the side, making a dread ful wound. She fell and expired in fifteen minutes. After com mitting the deed Fi tzgeiald coolly walk ed up stairs and went t) bed. He wa arrested and is now in jail. David Harfeld, of New York, was ar rested, at Richmond on a telegram from Inspector Byrnes, charging hini with bigamy, llarfeid has u wife in New York and has been living in Richmond with a woman he introduced as his wife, lie was taken back on a requisition The following convicts were received at the State prison Wednesday-: William Jenkins, Culpepper, three years, horse stealing; James Williams, alias James ivissey, one year, third conviction ol petit larceny; and-5 Robert Jones, alias W. S. Chilton, two years for forgery, Lynchburg. The Craig Mineral railroad, .of Vir ginia, which the Chesapeake fc Ohic roilroad has undertaken to build will open up a very tine mineral and timbei country heretofore-' inaccessible. Some active industrial developments will doubtless follow the opening of thif line. FLORIDA. The Jacksonville board of State Tnsti tutions awarded the contract for State printing in classes R and C to thyTimcs L'uion and in class A to C to C. W. Da costa. The State formerly elected a State printer but since Uic printing has by law been let out to the lowest bidder competition for it hus been very sharp. H. M. Flagler, accompanied by Drs. Anderson and Smith of St. Augustine, has left for Indian River ounty on a tour f investigation, which may result in important railroad and caual enterprises. The Central Wharf Co. have com menced work on a wharf at Pensacola to be 1,000 feet long. Orlando capitalists have incorporated llic Orlando & Not thwestern Railroad i Co , capital stock 00,000, to , r;olroait from Oilamio to Foi build a Forest City; five miles of road from Mayo to Forest v built is owned by the Company, ; Cottoa Crop Figures. The Commercial and Financial Chron icle has issued its report of the total cnp f last year. It makes the total crop 0. .139,02 bale.. 82,525 less than for 1887 s Tlie -A-fi-'ht of the crop was 3.4 37.- iw no'mds"" against:. 3,400.00 s. 107 pounds of the vear before. This shows 1 , I i Heavier average weigui ht muc iu, iue year ending August ol. l?v. Oi ihe crop 1,042.745 'bales were c.x norted forei'Mi. The most gratifying -how mg, however is the increase ol cot ton . manufacturing in the South, thc total for 19 being 480,003 bales and for 188 143,373 or 7.02 per cent of thc total crop for 19 against 6.31 per cent for ISSk Geogia was the greatest con- iinm r of cotton of the Southern States, with the two CaroTinas next. An nnaly sis of the rep rt shows that the S uthem manufactunts iiavc incrtacI their ca pacity 200,0l0 spindles, or about 16 per cent. I while the Northern per ceutage of in crease is much smaller.: It is remark able how cloe the authorities have come to the total -rop. A. B. Shepperson the statistician of the New York Cotton Ex-ch-inge makes the cotton crop for 188 s9 1 ooi bales more than the Chronicle makes it. frrJYTTn TJirDQT i T t a mrpmnm t r -x, raTemenU lorn up by the liiYors n the Streets. Rain began to fall at Jackson vi lie. Fla.. before dawn Tuesday and continued without cessation all day. A few min utes before 5r. U. a black cloud was seen rolling toward the city. Its veloci ty increased as it approached and the wind became almost a hurricane. Sud denly the cloud burt, and a perfect del uge of water descended upon the city, its volume beiog greatest in the territory bounded by Newman. Forsythe and Laura streets and the St. John's river. In less than ten minutes the streets i were Hooded, the sewers and surface! drains being wholly iymlenuaie to carry-1 ing it oil. J he pavemttt is of ri-.cufar ! cypress blocks, acd the water forchi- its ! way beneath them, made the surface of ! the streets undulate like the wav of the ocean. Teams and pedestrians brrke through and water spurted into I fho .i5r Ti.-;tk ti.ya ! -. V.. ...I.... , VUV UU 1T11JI l.4ltl Surface streams ran down Fine, Ocean i nd Hogan streets like a mill race, wash- j lug the paving blocks up into piles and j in some instances carrying tnem down ! almost to the wharves. Ray, street, from Pine to Market, is a mass of di.-lo- ' cated paving blocks and is impassable The police and firemen have roped it ol! iO tuevent accidents Street car travel v n Ray street is suspended. Many stores were flooded, and unpaved thorough. fares lave been gullied out in many places o as to be temporarily impa-ssabie. The damage will reach several thousand collars. Sergeant Townsend of the ITnitcd States Signal Station reports the rainfall the greatest on record lor alike dura 'ation. At Pablo Beach on the Atlantic :oast the tornado struck the resort hotel, Murray flaii, and shattered it, "At this point a bo7 named Prince OVNcil with a horse and vehicle were lifted into the air and blown nearly 200 feet where they were found ten minutes later. The boy vas killed outright, being terribly oruised aud uuin-ded. OLD WORLD NEWS. A fpocial embassy sent by the Sultan of Zanzibar to the German Government has arrived in Berlin. Landore steel works, at Swansea, Eng., have been destroyed by fire. The French Municipal Commission has decided that the votes cast for Gen eral Boulanger in Montmartre in the re cent elections are null and void, and he has declared M. JolTrin,. labor candidate, who received the next highest number of votes, elected. The Commission has also nullified the votes cast for Henri Rcchefort in Belleville. The sensation over the ep isure or frauds in the Naval Department of Ger many, continues despite the efforts of thc Emperor to prevent publicity. There were several additional artists at Kiel in connecticn with the affair. Eighteen thousand German miners em ployed at Sankt Johonn have addressed a petition to the authorities of Bonn, setting forth their grievances and asking that measures be taken for their redress. The Bolton, Eng.. Cet ton Association litis resolved to support the employers in resisting the cotton corner by waving its operatives during the fortnight's sus pension. Death of Gei. D. E. Hill. Gen. D. II. Hill, the gallant eonfed. r te cavalry leader of the lflte war, died 1:1 Charlrtfe, N. C, TunMksy evening at V :30 o'clock. His remains were d p..s P.ed at Davidson College, with military nonors, the Hornet's Nest Rillemeu at Vudinr in a bod v. General Hill was born in York county. 5. ('., July 1821, ami at the age of P went to W et Point, with Gens. Longt:ec graduating in .', and A. P. Stew r.t. and also will; Gins. I.)i ul! i-i and Reynolds, liis foisin the late v. :o . bc des other nun who alterwanl- atlaineil ? militarv proininen. . brth in the rmi citrate and federal annus. Atttr (i ail nation he jervtd as Li nti nant in the h C S artiilerv in Fort Kent. Me.. h )ltre.ss Mo .. '.-ai leston. ;roe Savannah ami He v.a tw"u e bicvdtcti in r.e Mexican war for gallantry and ir.e: i jiions srvice. After the war o:th i Carolina jreentcu 1 word. In 1J4S (ier him with a gold ied to Mi Isabella Mornsoi: During the civil war he w as in the !:: tics arouiid Richmond and at M Iveni Hill, aad at hi"::esb r'o or South M-.:i aiahe 'ncl 1 bach. v. :;h his divi-.s'.-n ( : 3,0OO, Mi l.'h dnn's w '.i lie :.rmv until L i Had safely Jo-.sed the Poti ri;;ie. Mrs Marg:UL't J Preston tailed this battle i herinopy lac ..f the late war. Being jrom ted to I.ieutenan' Ginen! lie v.;w scit t help Bragg, aud Major Archer Anderson s.- that at Chicu ualigua tren Dili's di i-ion did the stub- . Ljrnet righting if th - war. I After the war Gtii Hill w p..;-;it;.t '"of the L'nivtTsity ot Ar.a'.s.i a;.-l in j ,.s5 resignetl that poi;:oi to ::' pt t; e prtsidt-acy of the Jlil!edgi.vi': . f. A; j i icultural a: d Mech .nical . I t muaimd ur.til to nn r?h .-. ' i wa .ii .oci ' U oy h a j .ud went to t'i:r!v.:tc, ! i.nelltled by the cl.a.: g'. I He pnsscd ji:''t: ;! v av." jy It. -.!! '.u be U?ld thc i.tariv ' .st w ;s liea.u lo t title. The total production of pig iron antl tei-l, in tons, in England during 1SSS ivas 11,304.170. The United Suites pro iuced 9,3S7,17S tons. t . I ,M INDUSTRIAL ERA.i S0HG OF THE ADVAK0T5G SOUTH Encouraging Statistics Compiled by Lsad ing Trade Journal, The Chattanooga Tradesman has com piled reports of new industries estab lished in the Southern States in the nint months of IbU, ending October 1, and it demonstrates that the .remarkable de velopment in industrial lines that ha been in progress in the South for two years continues unabated. It is con . .... sPlcuu also lor tne aiversity ol plants ? Ping nine months a total of 2,4lf '""ft" established, against 2,052 for thc corresponding period last year; 10 agricultural implement factories S barret factories, 11 breweries, 72 brick works 10 boot aml shoc ketones, cai woFks' r fanning works, 29 cigat and tobacco works and 137 cotton ano woolen factories were organized during nine months, 51 of them Lv'.he past quarter; 22 cotton compresses were or ganized during nice months, 5 distiller ies, 100 electric light works, 51 fertil izer factories. 1 OS flour and grist mills, 14S foundries and machine shops, 49 of ' them in the Pas.1 three nionths; 30 blast furnace companies were formed during nine months, against 21 in the same pe riod last year; 1G gas companies and 04 water-works companies were incorpo rated : :) glass factories, 55 ice factories, 19 natural gas companies, 89 oil wells. 21 potteries, S rolling mills, 494 wood works and 40 miscellaneous industries were incorporated in nine months, alsc 25 railroad companies and 198 mining companies. The Tradesman says that the returns show uniform expansion throughout the South m all industrial lines. The past thirty days hav witnessed the forma tion of the strongest development of companies yet organized in the South ind they will see the production of more substantial advancement than has yet jeen recorded. WHAT Till: MAMTACTIT.F.ns' RECORD SAYS -The Manufacturers' Record publishes its quarterly review of the South's in-du.-.irial progress this week, showing great activity in the organization of new manufacturing and mining companies. In the last niue months there were 4,052 new enterprises ctabl'shed, or 1,111 irj excess of the same mouths in 1888. Ir these the total amount of capital and capital stock represented is $154,849,000, or :j:!, 139,000 more than the amount in vested during the iirst nine months of l.sss. Virginia leads with $22,395,000, Kentucky 20.:I72.(00, Texas 19,494, nOO, Alabama siO, 7-19,000 and Georgia $15,..,,000. A PROTEST FROM GOV. F0WLE. His Excelleccy Does Not Want Geronimc. in North Carolina! Wastiinotox, D. C. Officers of th War Department and agents of the In dian Rights Asso iatin, are arranging the purchase of a large area of land whict the association intends giving to Geroni mo and his band of capl ive Apaches, now at Mt. Vernon barracks, Ala., as a future home. The land is on the mountainous western border of North Carolina, con tiguous to Tennessee, from which it is separated by the great Smoky Mountains. It is populated by a band of Cherokee In dians, who refused to move AV est with the rest of their brethren and were per mitted by the Government to remain in North Carolina. A colony of Quakers set-, tied with the Cherokees and established an Indian mission there. INDIAN SETTLERS NOT WAf TED. Rai.I-ioii, N, C. - Some days ago Sec ! retarv of War Procter wrote Governor Fo'wlein regard to the projto-ed removal of Geronimo, arul his band ol Indians, from Mount ernon barracks, Aiaoama, to We.-tern North ('andina. (iovernor Fowle wrote a reply. He says that such settlement of these Indians in Western North Carolina would create great dissatisfaction, particularly if their location should be in the western part of the State on the lands to be purchased by j the Secretary of War. i These lands, he says, are not reerva I tion lands but wire bought from the ! State by the Cherokees, who arc now j few in nuuiln-r and v ill soon disappear, j and thc lands will then le sot tied by ; while people. The Goeroor in conclu sion suggests to Sec retary Proctor that ' t in-1 in1, i t:i Decolonized in Vermont, cer tain j ttioas of that State beiog now a! -::d"i. - bv the white jfpulation. The Gover'i-'i' informs the set retarv that - no iiap;u. r spot.'eould be chosen for bis narp- es. Cm:eJ by Religion, iu ,mi C. IL, Va. -Intense excite mei.t was cr atetl liere Thursday night d..r.: g a ( l.ur( ii m-itiug by the apjKrar lii!'..- .-. Amv tic"-s, a small colored girl, -i in , rcgalion ii'-urisiiing a razor. Mm. wo;ucn and children rn in all di- j ri'.:"i:s. Sr.:e women fainted, some I L.Liid in the mud aLil the girl waf : -.oa in pi.-s..-;.iii of the church, hei j ecs glaring a., i her slight fig-ure rtm- j I . i r t v.ith fn: . Wi en he find driven I the p.-ro:j from thr chvrch she ciied out Now I 'A.u.t t" see the devil." She wus fii.-kflv -overpowered by two co? staid-. s. ani an examination sh-.wi-l that she was in a rtlisriou es;.t, v a:.d w;-s looking Ur the devil. uiiov tit'. -at s.ic hnd taken a vow to cut. j It v . - fortunate that the congngition i 1 - i In f.. re hrr as !ie hsd leen toid that th devit wa- iu some people, and khe de-ii-ucd cutting them ojen to get at him. PERTAIHIHG TO P0LITI0B. Sesnlts of the Serend States' Ooaren tions. Fall Elections. Political Botes. The constitutional amendment of Ken tucky received a majority in its favor ol 31,931. Gen. James IL Chalmers, is the Re publican nominee for Governor of Mis sissippi. Judge Yasser was nominated for State treasurer but declined John H. Lynch, a negTO was nominated for Lieu tenant Governor, and W. E. Ilollison is the nominee for Secretary of State. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention met in Fremont Hall, Has tou.. Lieut. Gov. J. Q. A. Brackett was nominated on the first ballot . s candi date for Governor. Wm. IL Haile, was nominated for Lieut. Governor. The rest of thc ticket is as follows : Secretary ol State, Henry B. Pierce; auditor, Charles K. Ladd; treasurer and receiver, General George A. Marden; attorney -general, Andrew G. "Waterman. The New York Republican? met at Saratoga and the following ticket was chosen : For Secretary of State, John L. Gillert, ofMalone; comptroller, Mar tin Y. Cook, of Monroe; State treasurer, Ira M. Hodges, of Rock laud; attorney General Janes M. Yarn urn, of New York; State engineer and surveyor. William P. VanRensallaer, of Seneca; judge court of appeals, Judge A. Haight, of Buffalo. At Lamonte, Missouri, Saturday last, s tariff reform picnic was attended b 5,000 people. Robt. C. Davidson was nominated fo: mayor of Baltimore by the city Demo cratic Convention. He came into the convention recommended by the Busi ness Man's Democratic Association. The others whose names were up were Mayor F. C. Latrobe and. Col. C. S. Wood. Davidson received nine votes of each ward, and his nomination was ratified by acclamation. The Philadelphia Democratic city nominating conventions wcio held. Dr. James II. Cantrell was nominated for coroner, Major Most s Veale for clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions, and the Republican nomination forjudge of the court of common pleas, SamueJ W.. Pen ny packer was endorsed. . New Mexico Wants to Co;uo In The New Mexico State Constitutional Convention has closed its labors at Santa Fe. It was decided to li.st submit the proposed constitution to Congress, and if that body should passnn enabling act, then the constitution shall be votid upon by the people wilhiu' ninety days there after, but if Congsess refuse to act. then the constitution is to be vMed upon at the next general election for delegates in Congress. The convention uiemoiial ized Congress for an extra grant of pub lie domain for school jurpost s, and ap pointed a committee of one from each county to prepare an address to the peo ple, and also one to Congress urging upon them thc necessity for the ad mis sion of New Mexico as a State. Murder and Suicide. Alfred Burnett and Allen Fetters, young white farmers, near Columbia, S. C, had a difficulty about a young white woman named Carrie Black. The rivals met at church Wednesday night when Fetters asked Burnett to walk ofr with him in the woods to talk over the trouble. A few minutes afterward two shots were heard. An investigation dis closed the lifeless body of Barnett with two wounds in the region of his heart. The murdered man was unarmed. Fet ters is still at large. Carrie Black upon being informed ol the murder, swallowed laudanum from the effects of which she died Thursday morning. A posse has gone in search ol Fetters. fligh Point of the Blue Ridge, The top of Roan Mountain, 0,:J02 feel above the sea, is a plateau about a mile long by half a mile wide, covered with a luxuriant growth of grass. The plateau is called "The Bald." On it is a hotel largely patronized by hay fever sufferers. The bour.lary line of North Carolina and Tennessee runs through the dining room of the hotel so that a guet, can eat his dinner with one foot in North Carolina and the other in Tennessee. The win dows of the hotel command views of mountains in Virginia, Keutucky, Ten nessee, North Carolina and South Caro lina and Georgia. A Story of Ls. In his acdres tefore thc veterans &t 'there-union at Wayne: villc, Gen. Vance narrated a nice little s V try :Jxut Gen. Lee. When our men were pr.hicg through a Pennsylvania town, a )ouijg nd pretty girl stood t n a porch bravely nd defiantly waving the Sums and fsirinr-s in the vorv fare f-I the "rebth." - - -1 - When Gen. Lee canic H ! I 'J, th. re doubled her activity; the 1 r tve old gen eral, with iningleti iralUutry. aduuratioo for thc girl's ccurage, ami iove for the old fig, uidcr which i e had himself often fought, raivd Lis Li aad bowed a reverent salute. Interesting Mc.e By Colcii feoplo Very much interest n ctr.tered in a tew deiarture by the blacks tf ToJd iiunty, Kentucky, and 3Iontgocaery .cunty. Tennessee. They Lave organ -irci a stock conqaay with a capital of 125,000 aaJ will hold a county fair, be ginning October lOt'u Every officer kiid employe is a bhick man. Only cx.1 .red jcopic cau Ci.ncr.tt for prcmimuJ, A-hicb amount Uj 410,Wji. Fifteen bun drtd doiiars ar oCcted for purse in the u xu2 races, and ouiy -.sinxiK owned and ridden by negroes can enter. The blacks -ie taking iramenc interest ia aHair tad thousands will attend. THE BAILEY O0TT0IL A'Hew Grade of Oottoa lkE is Beisg Watched, Cottoa planters In North Carolina are watching with particular interest the practical test, on a largo scale, of the ' merits of what is known as thc "Bailey" cotton, whidi takes its Dame fsom Hoc- . tor Bailey, a colored man, who was its discoverer in HVrnett county in 18S5. Tne stalk resembles that of ordinary cottoa, but is stouter. Thc leaves differ -.- widely from those usually seen. They are long nd shaped like a hand. The flowers are of a huge size, and m arc , the bolls. The seed arc huge and very black,, vbile the ttaplei nearly, as , long as that of sea island cotton, and U silky t in texture. It was at first thought that this cotton was the result of a cning of the okra plant with ordinary cotton, but it is now known that this idea was erroneous, and that the discovery is that of a new variety of upland cotton. Cajv tain Octavius Coke, a well known plant er near Raleigh, has several acre of thc "Bailey" cotton in growth, which is now maturing. There is an offer of sixteen cents per pound for the cotton, which is all to be specially grnnod. The seed will all be handle! by the llrinlcy Cot ton company, of Raleigh, which sells county rights. The plantation of Cap tain Coke is upland, but a few miles went of there this cotton is being tested on bottom land. -: An inspection of the plants shows that they ate heavily fruited and have 6tood remarkably well the try ing ordeal of a cold and wet summer. Thc Sweating Sickness. Once England was attacked by a seri ous epidemic, the sweating sickness which was so called lecause, in the words of an old writer: "It did most stand inc sweating from beginning to cmHng." It first made its apjiearance in England, and! was generally known on the Continent as the 4 'English sweat." It wa observed generally to spare foreigners in this coun try, and also to bo specially fatal to Englishmen when it appeared abroad; and it was surmised that the immoderate use of beer, then so common in England, rendered its inhabitants particularly sus ceptible to the disease. Beginning; in 1485, in the army of Richmond, after ward Henry VII., it spread quickly over the country with most fatal results. It seems to have been a species of violently inflammatory fever, which sufluscdV the whole body with a fetid perspiration r! the crisis generally occurring within twenty-four hour, of the first 1 seizoreJ Like most other epidemic, it was 'Spe cially fatal to healthy, vigorous menr'in. the prime of life, and hardly oono pec cent, .of such recovered. In London,j'" where it raged with peculiar violence,! two Lord Mayors and six Aldermen died; in one week. This first outburst' con tinued its ravages until the cndofthe year, its cessation being nearly coincident with a violent tempest on New Year's Day, 14S0, which was therefore sup posed to have caused its disappearance.. Further outbreaks-of this epidemic oc curred in England in 150G and 1517, -when again london muttered severely-; . and in 152S and 1529 not only this coun try, but also France and Germany, and, in a less degree, Holland, Sweden and. . Poland, were visited by the fame pestil ence. The last apearam:e of the sweat ing sickness in England was in 1551, when the disease was jwirticularly virulent in Shrewsbury and the valley of the Severn. Chamber a Jvurual. A Peculiar Sweet Potato Vine. Colonel James E. Richardson, of Maie street, has in his window a queer com bination in vegetation. Some time if April he planted several sweet potatoet in some large boxes that stood on hi) window sills. At the proper time ths vines came up, and on one of them several beautiful little morning gloria shot out their ?oft-colored petals. Tb Colonel, who is a great admirer of jTer) thing in the plant line, examined then carefully.-and thouzh he was an ex perienced sweet tato raiser yet thl anomaly puzzled him. Several scientific men have examined the planU and cas give no solution. Graashopjrni havi frequently sat on sweet potato vines, bui this is the first instance where morainf glories were em known to select thl vine as a home. Cincinnati Euauirer. A Karvel of Modern Engineering. ' W. K. Beard, Master Carpenter of the Pennsylvania Railroad, performed hi third great bridge-moving feat on a re--cent morning, aioving the iron bridge over 31111 Creek near Lancaster, Penn., in twelve minutes. In fifty-eight minute from the beginning of the work sv freight train and two engines passed oyer th -bridge which is two hundred and jifty eight feet long and weighs twenty-live hundred ton. It was moved forty-fire feet by one hundred men and seventy eight trestles and rollers, jacks and cranes. i ard moved the iron bridge over the ( onestoga, tear Lancaster, August 7, lf?77, in fifteen minutes, Sem Terb World. There wm a mUtrial in the It-s ease. A Iiiler t plosion u curred at a saw mill in IStrrlin. P., and John Pritx, Ed ard Pritz, Oliver lto, David Ro4 ' ind David Baker were killed. The Chiwgo court j-nt another vieary day without obtaining a juror in the Cronin case. Judge JleConnel! said be was not entirely pleased with the men going through the box, and" if necessary he would adjourn court for a day in or ler to give the bailiffs a chance to visit . the whole county and bring in represen tative citizens. ' i
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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