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A DEHOCBATIC JGUBNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR iXTEBEST.
VOL. IV. NO. 51.
MAXTON, N. C TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1890.
$1.00 A YEAR
TOWN DIRECTORY.
B. F. MeLEAN Mayor.
H XV McNATT
.). iL BLOCKER,
W. S. BYRNES,
W. J. CURRIE,
I
Commis
ioners.
A .! Bt'RCK, Town Marshal.
LODGES.
KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No. l,720jmeets
n -r.-cr.nd and fourth Wednesday's at
'V.:iOP. M. J. B. WEATHERLY, Dic-
H, F. McLEAN, Reporter.
Y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.30
P. M. WM. BLACK, President.
MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK.
Captain, meets first Thursday nights of
each month at 8 P. 31.
rJUOSEN FRIENDS meet cn second
'ip'i fourth Monday in each month,
Vnrus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W.
Parbam, Srcretarj- and Treasurer.
-MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF
J'V'nJfYS. meets every Friday night,
-cpt first in ea?h month, at 8 o'clock.
i.'OHKSON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY'
i:. v J A Smith, President: E K Proctor,
I . - . Nt -ec Pres. . Dr J D Croom, 2nd V
A f) Brown. Secy , Wm Black, Tree,
.n l i poHtary; Ex-Com. Key H G Hill,
I' J, L S lownsend, JJ P McEocRern, J O
"'"ut;h. H McEocbfrn: Auditing Com., K
' McRae.O II Blocker and B D Caldwell.
nXFXUTIVE COMMITTEE.
-' Jrph Evans, Rev H G Hiii, D D,
R-v J S Black, Rev U P Meeks,
ll-v -I P Finlaysou, Jos McColluni,
-' P Smith, Duncan McKay, Sr.
N B Brown, Dr J L McMillan.
A L'DITINCi COMMITTEE.
.) P Smith, D II Meill, J A Humphrey
Place of riext meeting Lurnberton, N. C'
Tim') of next meeting Thursday, May
:-"th, lsvj, atll::jf o'clock a. m.
Bfhlt'siKi 7'estaments can be purchased
; U'ni.. lilaok, Derxisitory, Maxton, N. C,
'r '-i,t.
Ail churches and Bible Societies in the
i r.t.y in vited to semi delegates.
F'nuvnnl all collection-? to Win Black,
Vr'-HunT, Maxton. N C.
(HIUCHES.
i'RKSP.YTERIAN, REV. DR. II. G
IJIJ, P;c-tor. Services each Sabbath
t 4 P. M. Sunday School at 10 A.
M. l'rayer meeting every Wednesday
it't'Tiioon at ) o'clock .
METHODIST, REV. J. W. JONES
I'astor. Services each Sunday at 11
A. .M. Sun-ov School at 9 30 A. M.
MASONIC.
WANTON LODGE A. F. & A. M.
meets 1st Friday night in each
oioJth at S p. m.
r.ENERAL DIRECTORY OF
Rop.f.son County.
Senator. .1. F. Payne.
ViMi-f-Ttat ives, T. M. Watsou.
s D. C. Regan.
) E. F. McRae.
j W. P. 2Hoore,
k nj ( i.mniisioneis, B. Stancil,
j T. McBryde.
! J. S. Oliver,
i S. ('.. ( ' . B. Townend.
Klu'iiiT. II. .McEachen.
Rcur Decd.-.-.L II. Morrison,
Ticii-urcr, W. XV. McDairmid.
.1 J. A. McALlisteT
p.i:u-d ut K. I nation f ,; J. S. Black,
J. S. McQueen.
Sujii. Pab. Iustr'n, J. A. McAlister.
C .ron.-rA Sunt, of Health, Dr. F Lis R
Stanley says that if he could get o000
tTvo-gallon jusr' into the heait of Africa
they would buy him 10,000,. 000 ::cre? .i
land and 500 wives.
It is predicted that by means of elec
tric motois a few years hence passengers
may step aboard a train in New York at
30 o'clock in the morning, and eat a live
o'clock diuner in Chicago on the same
Uav.
The Chicasro Etrald allege tfcat a new .
ilLsh in Paris, the invention of a famous
rook, is horse curry. It wa suggested
rr.erhaps by the well-known udsge that a
fchjrt is sooa curried.
ITcry Yl. Stanley has an article in
' ; ' ueaiing with some of the most
...ving and exciting incidents of the
'M-fJition for the relief of Emin Pasha
Mr Stanley expresses admiration of Emin,
- .viiig that before his final deposition
Lrain acquired great power, which he put
to good purposes. He had increased his
-'re of knowledge and was a model of
tv t and civility, but he developed senti.
i . :u to a degree which made him incom
I tent t ... live up to his support. Refer
i.t.g to tli.- treatment of the natives, M.r.
.-.uley says the habit of regarding the
i ' oi igines as nothing better than slaves
i'. be utterly suppressed before any
f- e'ance of civilization can be seea
':g theui. After describing some
f-:ive raids, he says: ''There is only one
r n.- ly for these wholesale devastations
r African aborigines, and that is th
K combination of England, Ger
u:y, France, Portugal, South and East
A-'i a and the Congo State against thl
-i tro iU( ti,,n of gunpowder into any pari
continent, except for the use o
! : v-ients, soldiers and employes,
7--z upon
every tusk pf ivorj
it
there is not a single pieci
u has been gained lawfully.
" I'Gun.i weight has cost theliftf a
NEWS SUMMARY.
FEOH ALL 0YEE:tHE 80UTHLAJTD;
i
Aooidesta O&lamltiee Pleasast ffewi anr1
Fotea cf Indmtiy,
! VIBGIHIA.
Judge Henry W. Thomas died at Fair
fai Court H(use, in the seventy eighth
year of his age.
.Before the j war, as a whig, and since as
a democrat, he served several terms in
the legislature. He was a member of
the commission thai visited President
Lincoln in 161, with a view to averting
hostilities. During the war he was sec
ond auditor cjf the tte. After the war
he was a member of the court of concilia
tion, Alexandria circuit, and still later
lieutenant governor. For half a century
he W83 one 6f the Heading lawyers of
northern Virginia.
A considerable sensation, was created
in Richmond: by Richard E Owens, a
young man abjout twenty two years of
age, who attempted to kill Miss Xannie
Snaw and aftetward shot himself. He
called on the joung lady, who had pre
viously informed him that he must cease
to visit her, ai-d proposed to take a
walk. She declined, whereupon he drew
a pistol and said :
"Here is wLere I will end your lifer'
Miss Shaw jumped aside betore the
weapon was discharged and the ball miss
ed its mark. She retreated to an adjoin
ing room and fastened the door. Owens
fired a ball intd his left breast, inflicting
a dangerous wbund. He was arrested
and placed uncitr bond.
About two miles from Tappahannock
a dissatihed colored nurse, about four
teen years old, saturated the clothing of
Mr. George Martin's little fifteen mouth
old daughter wjth kerosene oil and fired
the same, according to the verdict of
the corner's jury held over the body.
The child only lived a few minuses after
the parents discovered the fact.
Surveyors are at work for the tremen
dous steel plant to be put in operation at
Radford. Six i one-hundred ton furn
aces, it is said,- will be needed to run
this plant.
TENNESSEE.
Meagre reports of a killing at Buffalo,
Perry county, have been received. Wil
liam Lugen, Robert Arnold and a man
named Owen, left Dock Stewart's to at
tend a debating! society at Bone's Spring
All were under the influence of whiskey,
and were shooting along the road. Al
ter leaving the society they renewed the
shooting, but no attention was paid to
them. About 11 o'clocK five shots in
rapid succession were heard, and next
morning "William Lugen was found on
the roadside with a 32-calibre bullet in
his neck, and a 38-calibre bullet in his
breast, and Robert Arnold with two 38
calibre bullets in his breast. A piscol
was tightly grasped in his right hand.
Four chambers were empty. Owen stat
ed that he left them before the killing.
He is not to be found now.
Parker Harris, I E. D. Carr and Hardy :
Ballard, colored, and Frank Brenisb,
white, were hanged at Memphis.
The people of Humboldt are very much
elated at the prospect of the Missouri.
Tennessee & Georgia Railroad being
completed in the inear future. Property
is advancing rapidly. The population
of the town is growiug steadily. A large
number of ney buildings are being erect
ed and the city presents anair ot" thnf :
andprosperity.
The supervisor at Nashville gives in
official figures of the population of Nash
ville at 72,000.
NORTH 0AK0LINA,
John W Walker, of Raleigh proprietor
of the Oak City clothirjg manufactory,
which sold its products in all the south
eTn states, has assigned for the beneat
of his . creditors. 1 The firm's business
had, in the paat Itwo years, fallen off
greatly. The liabilities are in excess of
$20,000, mainly! to northern firms.
There are f 10,000 of preferred debts,
all to home creditors. The assets are
nominally $14,000 but hardly more thau
half that amount Will be realized.
Thos. R. Duncan has been appointed
postmaster at Clotho, Henry H. Falkner
at Macon. Wm. R. Reed at Fairmount,
and Izzariah Nobl at Repose.
The lightning Las been doing some
disastrous work in this State. A house
was struck near
people burned, an
Winston and ihree
d in Rowan county a
barn was strueld bv s lightning and
burned, a large q'uauiitv of bay being
distroyed.
While J. C. Gann, an aged farmer,
was returning ffom Winston to hiij
home, at Prestoniille, Stokes county, a
few days ago, his team i ran away and
threw him between the hounds of the
wagon, in which position he was dragg
ed a quarter of a mile. He was dead
when found.
The knitting mill plant ,at Oxford
since the enlargement will give employ
ment to 100 or 125 worm and girls.
Durham county, it is said, will harvest
the biggtit crop of corn that it has fince
the war. The price is estimated to be
only two dollars per barrel next fall.
T,iphtnin struck a tree on the rjlanta-
tion of J. J- Crump, in Chatham county,
and a lot of negroes have dug great J
holes about the place trying to find the j
thunder-bolt that tore up the ground. J
A band of highway robbers have j
been operating in the country . near !
WilmiBgton.
SOUTH CAROLINA. ;
Carpenters in '.Greenville have strock
for ten hours with the same pay thej
have been receiving for eleven and a
quarter hours-
rumor has it that the Acsmsta
Railroad Company has only bought tie
paanngtr franchise at Columbia of th
old road, for which $40,000 was paid.
The unknown and missing Ashle?
J unction murderer it is said has turned up
at Boardman, in Southern Georgia. Hs
has been doing some promiscuous shoot
ing. A posse which went out to arrest
him were forced to retire after several of
the party had ' been wounded. As
usually described he had hU Winchester
rifle and belt of cartridges along with
him.
Napoleon Levelle, of Charleston, whe
killed bis wife and nearly murdered his
uncle on February l?th," has been con
victed to be hanged September 5th.
Mr. Fishbeck, who has charge of thaV
part of the census which has reference tc
the indebtedness and mortgages of the
I State, expects ta complete the work bv
The abstractors have completed their
work in ail the counties. The most
tedious and difficult part of the work is
to commence. The abstractors wiil be
gin their work in what are designated
as the "inquiry counties." In these
counties an effort is to be made to ascei
tain the causes which lead to the giving
of mortgages The!iuformation received
will, of course, be confidential, and
only for the use of the census.
Mr. Fishbeck said that the records
show that South Carolina has remarkably
few mortgages. There are only two
counties iii the State in which 3,009
mortgages have been recorded in the
past ten years. In all the other counties'
the numbers haveTeenNveTy"much less.
The enumeration made by theYab3tract
ors includes all mortgages matle in ten
years, including those cancelled.
Alexander Noisette, a colored boy,
was sent to -jail at Charleston on the
charge of murder. The testimony be
fore the coroner shows that Noisette and
another negio boy named John Worthy
were quarreling in the suburbs. During
the quarrel Noisette got the head ot
Worthy between his knees and then
drove an iron pin into his skull. The
other negro boys witnessed the affray
Plato Worthy and Thomas Reddy.
None of the parties were over eighteen
years of age.
A most heartrending accident occur
red at Columbia. Messrs John Stork,
W. H. Casson and Olin Barre were pre
paring to fire a salute with one of the
old guns on the Fair ground, when the
picCi was prematurely discharged, taking
oI the right hand of Mr. Cas3on and
horribly mangling the other two men.
Mr Barre was horribly burnt and woun
ded ail the way from his waist up. His
clothes wert alt blown off him, his face
and head crushed into a jelly by the
fore of the blow, and both his arms
were literally blown to shreds.
GEORGIA
Two freight train conductors, after
bringing in their trains to Thomasvilie.
struck, and causeH a bad blockade ot
watermelon trains. The strike was caus
ed by the conductors having been kept
constantly on the road for nearly a week
without rest.
Congressman "Grimes, has had 5,000, 000
shad planted in the streams of his dis
trict,
Twenty-eight thousand acres of wild
lands are to be sold for taxes at Blark
ville, TJnion county, the fir3t Tuesday in
September next.
Contracts have been let for building
the Albany and Cordele railroad.
Fine specimens of iron ore have been
found on Mr. W. G. Park's land in Banks
county.
The people of Brunswick are indig
nant over tne false report recently circu
lated, that a case of yellow lever existed
la that city.
There was a serious cutting affray
about six miles south of Carrolfton. J
R. Hilly and Dunlap Music were under
ths influence of mountain dew, and got
into a fight in which Music was badly
carved up with a knife by Hilly. Dr. W.
L. Fitts, was called in and dressed the
wounds. He reported a dangerous cut
acros; the throat, and several places cn
the body. Music will recover.
OTHER BTATES.
Huntsvilie has secured a gigantic
cotton mill, the capital stock c f which is
one million dollar?. It will manu
facture cotton and woolen goods, and
fabrics of all descriptions from raw
material. About eight hundred hand?
will be employed, wnich will require, it
is estimated, eight hundred new resi
dences, and add from three to five thous
and population to Euntsville. Work
begins very soon on the buildings for
the factory.
Selma, A collision occurred at Caler,
caused by an engine backing into a
uasseneer train. A colored woman was
killed, several children were slightly
injured, and a ladv passenger was badly
hurt. A severe wind storm swept over
the country. One man was killed by
lightning and considerable damage was
done to crops.
The Hon North Dickerson has bttn
chosen by the usutl majority to succeed
John G. Carlisle as Representative in
Congress of the Cth Kentucky district.
Birmingham, Charles Cato, whit,
shot and killed Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell, a
megress, and then blew out his own
brains. Four hours later William Tatum
shot and mortally wounded Mary Barnet
his mistress, and blew out hU own
brains. Jealousy coii'.el beth crims.
The wife and daughter of Rev Mr
Brannan, at Dadeviile, were thrown
from a buggy. The daughter was killed
and the wife fatally injured.
Milwaukee, Wis.
160,000.
has a population oi
The
THE EXECUTIVE MANSION.
DOtfSSTIO
- ' THE
ABSA2TOE22XNTS
WHITE KOTJSE.
A7
Tie Chin ana Table Cutlery Tne
Cooks and the Kitchen A Com
plete Laundjry Table Linen.
After breakfast, which always occurs
exactly at 8 :30, Mrs. Harrison sees the
steward, McELim, and gives him the or
ders for the day, says iCss Grundy in the
New York World. This means that she
tells him whether there are to be guests
and whether she wishes any changes
made in the decorations of the private
dining-room. He arranges the entire
men.u for the day, does the marketing
and oversees the servants. Unless it is
the housecleaning season that is all the
time Mrs. Harrison gives to her kitchen,
but you may be sure she has just as much
interest in everything going well as a
young matron when giving her first din
ner, and she says that the only difference
between her cares now and when she waa
a private citizen is that she does not need
to worry over the preparations for enter
taining. She has introduced numberless changes
which give a home-like air to the private
dining-room. One of these is to have
the table for breakfast and luncheon
spread with napkins instead of with one
large cloth. It gives the table, which is
a large round affair of very light oak, a
dainty effect. Every dish has a pretty
doily and in the centre there is always a
bowl of flowers.
I wonder if this country has any idea
where its china is kept. There isn't a
gentleman's house in the land that has
not better accommodations. There it is
all the elegant ware which the former
mistress of the White House gathered
with so much pride and in the face of
so many growls from the Congressional
Appropriation Committees which sup
plied, the money tucked, crammed and
jammed into an unfinished closet which
would hardly kennel two mastiffs. No
wonder that so much of it is broken and
nicked, that each succeeding mistress of
the White House almost sheds tears over
the ruin of the thing most dear to a wo
man's heart, rare china. Until President
Arthur's day there was not even this
closet, all the valuable china being stored
in the basement; but he had this closet
cut from the little hallway by the ele
vator. There are two rows of shelves
about three feet deep, and there the
three sets which belong to the service
are kept, one-third of them being on the
floor. Mrs. Harrison says that of the
1000 pieces, made at so great an expense
in the Hayes Administration, there are
not more than four hundred left. Wo
men all over the land know how it is
not to have enough silver knives and
forks to go round, and they have all felt
the ancuish of seems the most distin-
guished guest get the plated one by mis-
take. But who would uream that the
White House would not have enough
knives and forks to go around, and- yet
r it Is true. Every time fifty people set
down to a state dinner there two of them
take their bouillon from plated spoons,
their terrapin from plated forks and cut
the fillet of beef with plated knives.
It i3 a horrible thought, but there are
only four dozen genuine silver knives,
forks and spoons in the butler's pantry,
and by the most skilful ingenuity .they
cannot be made to do duty for fifty people.
There is one set of knives and forks in
the sideboard which ha3 a history, for it
cost a President his re-election. These
are the gold knives and forks which Van
Buren added. and when the people learned
that the public moneys were being taken
to put gold spoons in Presidents' mouths
they promptly defeated him. Now, the
truth of the matter is that they are not
gold at all, and the people were hasty in
their judgment. They are solid silver
washed with gold, and it was only a few
years ago in President Arthur's day
that they began to wear off, and disclose
the hoax. He had them re washed, and
they are still used on state occasions.
They are small, fine-bladed and much
more delicate than those commonly in use
in this day. Many of the larger pieces
of silver date back to Madison's day, al
though no memoranda have been kept,
and it is hard to tell when things wero
purchased.
The busiest place in the whole Execu
tive Mansion is in the basement, over
which Dolly Johnson, the colored cook,
presides. Dolly i a tall, fine-looking
woman, light of color and probably not
much over thirty. President Harrison
secured her a short time ago from Ken
tucky, and, from all accounts, Dolly
knows how to suit a Presidential appetite
much better than the former cook, Mme.
Pelouard, whose fanciful French cooking
was not at all to the plain American
taste. Mary Robinson makes the pies,
bakes the bread and fries the crullers,
and is the assistant of Mistress Dolly
Johnson, who confines her ambitions to
brewing soups and basting meats. The
two can get up a dinner that wouldput
Phillipini, Nicolini and all the other
$10,000 chefs to the test. Delmonico
has no more juicy meats than Dolly draws
from her oven, and Vanderbih's own
chef cannot put up a better pitstry than
Mary. They both wear tidy dresses of
Dutch-blue calico and big white aprons
that cover them from head to foot, but
neither of them wear caps, as the hut
suggestion of livery is unallowable at the
White House
There are two kitchens in which Dolly
Tn.nnn ran csjtv oat her dream of f
cookery, one under the private dining
room and of, the same size and the other
under the serving-room and butler pan-
try. The first is used when a state, fila
cer is under way, and in the tecond th
preparations for each day are made. Tbi
kitchens are as neat as a pair of pint, but
they haven't the appointments of the
kitchens that axe now added to fiv thou
sand dollar houses, and one cannot help
wishing that the people who do so adore
the quaint, historic White House would
get a peep into these dark, iUy furnished
rooms. The upper floors of the quaint,
historic White House are bad enough,
but the basement would be condemned
by even a modern building inspector.
Across the hall from the kitchen is the
steward's room, a large apartment under
the state dining-room. It is tastefully
furnished with carpet and chairs sent
from the upper rooms, and contains a
large desk, rhcre Mr. McHim enters the
marketing in books as large as it takes to
enter the deposits at the Treasury. He.
comes in about 11 from the Centre Mar
ket, where everything in the way of
meats and vegetables are bought for the
White House, enters these purchases and
each month draws up a summary of the
month's expenditures, which I have
h'eard are of a size to make an ordinary
man whistle "Razzle Dazzle," with all
the mournful intonations of that pathetic
song. The wails of the steward s room
arc lined with closets which can be put
under lock and key for he has charge of
every valuable in the White House and
has to give a pretty sum as bail for their
safekeeping. Beyond the steward's
room are tne sleeping rooms and on the
opposite side the big furnace room,
while at the extreme end of the hall is a
billiard room v.-here a President and his
opponent frequently chalk the cue.
But the laundry that is worth seeing,
for a cleaner room cannot be imagined.
It is large and light and off one corner is
z little carpeted ironing room. There is
au old-fashioned New England fireplace
there which was built in tne vrail as ur
back as the time when Abigail Adams
came down from Boston and -nrcte back
such gruesome accounts of the ''barn
like" East Room, which she could put to
no better use than to dry her clothes.
This fireplace is still used for heating the
boiler for the Monday's wash, which oc
curs as regularly here as in th? farniiy cf
any orderly citizen. It is formed of hard
baked piaster and looks as though it
would easily stand another century. A
large laundry stove stands in the middle
of the zoom covered by two terrac, of
"flats7' which the three white '.vrnie
Johanna, Mary and Miss Grass kesp
changing the live-long day. Tney are
tidy, pleasant-faced women, and can out
do Ah Sing in the polishing business.
There are thirteen reguiar house servants,
although eight or nine more are em
ployed about the grounds and conserva
tories. There i3 still another room where one
can cet an idea of Mrs. Harrison's house--keepine.
It is the iinen closet onlhe
second floor. The linen Was-.formerly
I k t in the daEap cloS3 in -the 'steward's
I b t 3Ijs. Harrison noticed one day
that there could be a closet amply large
made behind the elevator and she had
the space walled in, shelves buiit. and
now the White House has a catchiess
linen closet. It is under the care of
Josephine. Mrs. Harrison's maid, and a
whiff of it is like a breath from a meadow
in May, for it is kept so clean and sweet.
Everything is initialled with 'U. S." in
white iinen, although one set of napkins
has the initials in white, with a faint line
of red. The napkins are all a yard
square and of the finest damask. Mrs.
Harrison has added to the stock since
she has been in the White House, and
there is one set of dinner iinti that was
used at the first state dinner that is as
fine and soft as silk.
Gradual Extermination of ttirdf.
It is not necessary to tell any one who
has any observation of the matter that
the past six or eight years has witnessed
so complete a destruction of bird life in
this section as to amount almost to exter
ruination. Let any one who remembers
how our fields and forests ten or fifteen
years ago teemed with the American and
French mocking birds, thrushes, wrens,
jay and catbirds, woodpeckers, yellow
hammers, sparrows and the several gaxnt
birds, take note of how few may be seen
nowadays in the longest ride he may taki
along our roads, or longest stroll amid
our woods. One cannot fail to tee thai
there are no birds compared to the num
ber that existed a dozen years ago. Truly,
the roads are lifeless, and the woodi
are silent so far as the absence of birds
can make it so. A few years ago the
mania for making egg collections pre
vailed among the boys from one end of tbi
country to the other ; simultaneously witl
this, fashion decreed that the thing U.
do was to decorate the ladies1 hats; anl
between the two, what is the result f
Louisiana Farm.
A Creamatory for Paupers.
Philadelphia Las spread out and sur
rounded the Municipal Hospital for
contagious die&jse, where also there is
& j -otter held fur the burial of paupers,
and it i evident that the hospital will
koon h:vf ro be removed. As a prelim
inary to euch removal the city has
erttted a crematory on the grounds,
where Ui the bodies buried there will be
(onumed. The cretnatbry was tested
tuid will be kept running continuously
until all the bodies now buried in pot
ut'i ctid hve been consumed by fire,
i: i; the-T-roiotd to sell the site fos
buiidirg purposes. Huihiufte Sbxr.
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ttOMts farmers are ictiuirsr that
raQroad property in that State be zst
far taxation at its actual value.
a uovoiENT AQAnrar benoe;dia&
A Great Uprising in Bereral of the Stv.a
tdOrcrthttw the'PreriientJ
Sas Astoxio, Tex., Reports j which
are absolutely reliable, have re ached San
Antonio of a seditious revolutions!?
movement going on in the states of
Hex! co, bordering on the Rio Grande.
Papers however incndiy to Mexico sn?
the Diaz administration can no longer
suppress the news. The movement is
not conthed to any one locality, but it
is undoubtedly wide-spread. jit i
claimed an evidence of Diaz's intentions
very shortly cf declaring himself dictator
af Mexico. General Reyse, governor of
Nuevo Leon, heretofore a not very tkroi)
supporter of Diaz, has been offered thu
portfolio of minister of war, aud hs
had tLe effect of quieting his discontent,
and Governor Gerza G&lan, of CoanUa,
who has always been an avowed enemy
ef President Diaz, has been in the City
cf Mexico for the past several months,
where it is claimed that he is being re
strained by foice, amounting almcst to
imprisonment.
All telegraph lines in Mexico are under
rigid control. of the Federal government,
and it is practical to get any
direct information pertaining to thu
uprising now in progress in Nuevo
Leon. Tho cause of the trouble is the
strong centralizing tendencies of j the
Diaz government which, as far as the
order states are concerned. j
Constable .Martinez, of the state of
Nuevo Leon, with an escaped Mexican
arreited and convicted here a few days ,
ago, returned and describes the threat
ening of governmental affairs observed
all along his route from the Rrio Grande
to Saltillo. He says that at nearly every
station and side track along the Mexican
National railroad he saw crowds of men
con ere stated and excitedly discussing
the advisability of joining in rebel)
ion
against their federal government.
WISE TT0BDS.
To bear is to conquer our faith.
All powerful souls have kindred with
each other.
A man never forgives a woman foi
making him feel silly. j
The more honesty a man has, the j less
lie affects the air of a -saint.
No man but a blind man ever passes a
mirror without looking in it. j
A model wife is one who thinks her
tnsband knows more that her kin. ! 7-
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Eveiy man is a hero to some woman ;
every woman is a heroine. .to some man.
The birthdays of his children are a
man's landmarks pn the road to old age.
When a man finally succeeds in making
liimself famous his wife gets the credit of
!
Nothing pleases a man so much as tcj bo
told, that an old flame, since married, ia
still admiring him. j
A woman can be. paid no higher com
pliment than to have her husband spend
all his time with her.
No woman was ever so homely that a
man does not defend her looks after he
has heard that she admires him.
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When a man gets famous it would seem
that every man. in the country used j to
play marbles with him at school. j
It'is with flowers as with moral quali
tiesthe bright are sometimes poison
ous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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He who gives pleasure meets with it;
kindness is the bond of friendship, and
the hook of love; he who sows not, reap
not. ' I
The trouble with the men is that it in
easier for them to die for a girl before
they are married than it i to get up and
light the fire for their wives after they ajra
married.
Transpertinr Crops In Palestine. ,
The plains of Sharon grow very fins
wheat. If Palestine and Syria were
under a proper government, and furnished
with good means of transportation, the)
might export a great deal of grain. As
it is, the cost of bringing the crops tc
the seaboard from the interior is im
mense. Everything has to be carried
upon camels, which are big eaters. Three
bushels make a toad, and, for a dUtancs
of a few hundred miles, the camel will
eat one bushel and it will take another
bushel to pay his driver, so that t&i
shipper has only a third of his profits, ic ,
say nothing of the cost of raising the
three. There is now a splendid roai
from Jaffa, the seaport of Palestine, U
Jerusalem, and there is talk of building
railroad between these two points. Thi
distance is only forty miles, and thi
twenty miles across the plains of Hharoi
are almost level. Anuruan Agricviturfy
An Old Confederate Shoe.
The editor of the Greensboro (Ga.y
HeraU-Jourual has an old Confederated
ihoe, maaufactnred for the Government
in 1862, just before the war ended. The
sole is fully three-quarters of on inch
thick and is made of poplar wood, evi
dently shaped with a hatchet or drawing
with s strip of rawhide, running entirely
around the shoe, the leather being held
to the sole with large carpet tacks. The
upper is of rough cowhide, dressed only
on the inside. Atlanta Constitution. '
Term 5n C was the first State to join the
original 13.
Flat foot tny ? remedied by a rurgi
eal oneratier.
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