North Carolina Newspapers

o I i j i AM I II I fl A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VII. NO. 27. MAXTON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1893. GLOO A YEAR. , The average revenue per ton per train rni'e last year was just a little less tHaa nine mills. In the South, states the Atlanta Constitution, it was a way below the average. These great steel warships of modern device seem to be the deadliest engines ever invented, for those on board of them. They have never been known so far as to do any particular damage to anybody else. The Chisina Kan was one of them, lately built ixtrjthe Japanese Gov ernment in France, at an extravagant cost, and fitted out with all the modern improvements. It had a collision not long ago with an ordinary steamship, the Ravenna. The Ravenna proceeded on her way without having to put into port for repairs, but the Chisina Kan went to the bottom with such inordinate speed that of her crew of ninety souls but sixteen could be saved. If one of these tremendous engines could be brought against U3, the only thing nec essary, it seems, would be to ram it with a skiff, and send it to the bottom. ! Sorrows have accumulated upon thl Administration to an extent greater per haps than any other in the history of the country, writes the Washington corre spondent of the Montgomery (Ala.) Ad ,vertiser. The little son of Presiden Pierce was killed in a railway acciden on the trip from New Hampshire to the inauguration. Mr. Lincoln lost a soi swhile he was President, and was assass iratod at the beginning of his seconi 'term, and the same fate befell Presiden Gar field. A number of distinguished people, including one or more Cabin officers, were killed by an explosion of i cannon on board a ship on the Potomae during Mr. Tyler's Administration. 2Ts Administration, however, ha3 had si many sad surroundings as the present one. It will ba recalled that the house of Secretary Tracy was destroyed by fire and his wife and daughter wore burned to death in the ruins. After a long ill ness the wife of Mr. Halford, the Presi ;dent's private secretary, died. Whih IMr. Blaine was Secretary of State hii 'favorite son, Walker, was stricken down and never recovered, and soon after his retirement from the Cabinet, within a ;week or two, another son, Emmon 'Blaine, died almost without a moment'i warning. His daughter, Mrs. Coppin ger, also died while he was a member ol the Cabinet, and one of his sisters. Sec retary Windom, of the Treasury Depart inentjWhile in New York to make a speed at a banquet died at the table. Tut chief usher at the Executive Mansion, Mr. Dinsmore, died within the past year In the President's own household sor rows came thick and fast. A sister o his wife has died within the past year or two. Mrs. Harrison, after patient suffer ing, breathed her last in the Waits House, and was followed a few dava offer hr her ran orahl father. p mmum mmm f . .A a" r . Mi; ";!!'$ ' , ' 1 ' ' f" (U?- ; ill S 1 ' H t - 4 -3 Sw 't ..-,--..-V . .' . ' ' THE N. C LEGrI8LATUEE. What They are Doing in the-General Assembly. Bill TJpon Bills All Intended for th Good of North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C 24th day. Senat bills introduced : To legalize the mar riage of Rev. David George and Mary Aon George, of Yadkin cc untj ; to ex empt J. M. Guyther, a wounded ex-Con-federate soldier, from taxation as a ped dler in any county of the State passed its third reading. The bill to prevent the de traction of certain game birds (it pro hibits the shooting or trapping of par t idge3, doves, etc., from the passage of the bill until November 1, 1893.) Sena tor Leach offered the bill in view of the great destruction of birds by the late very severe weather. The bill was amended to apply only to Halifax, Vance. Warren, Chatham and RobesoD, and, as amended, passed its third reading. House: To make 10 hours a day's labor for persons under 15 years of age employed in factories; persons oter that age can work by the hour over 10 hours ; to impose taxf-s upon all foreign corpora tions, or joint stck companies doing business in this State; to secure the right of trial by jury of damage caseswhere rail ro:ds occupy lands in cities or towns; to incorporate the People's Bank of Kins t'.n; to abolish the tax on marriage licenses; to give the railroad commis sioners control of the telephone com panies doing business in this State. The bill to incosporate the Carthage fc West ern Railroad came up with a favorablo report, and pi-s .'d. Ex-Governor Holt was a pronioent visitor to the House, &nd occupied a s?at Hy Mr. Holt, of Ala mance. Bills passed incorporating the Winfcton-Salem and Charleston Railroad, allowing it 300 convicts, to be paid at the" r teof 125 a year, quarterly in advance and to amend the charter of the Roa r.oke, Norfolk & Baltimore Steamship Company, whose boats will ply in Pam lico and Albemarle Sounds end thq Chespeake Bay; to amend the charter ol the Moore County Railroad, giving it power to extend its line and build branches and to consolidate with the Moore County Forwarding Company to incorporate the Burlington & Siuth western Railroad, from the North Carolina Reilroad to the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad. The committee on judiciary reported favorably the Senate bill repealing the old act for "processioning" lands, and enacting a new law on that subject. Mr. Harris, by consent, introduced a bill making the destruction of forest trees a misdemeanor. The bill to enable land owners to establish the boundaries thereof passed final reading ; as did the one to rrgulite the height of fences in Bladen county ; the one to provide a water supply for psblic buildings; the one to regulate tha bui'ding of wharves, and the one re quiring county superintendents to en quire into and report the number ef deal mutts The bill giving to justices of the peace jurisdiction in eases of cruelty to animals was tabled ; as was also the one prohibiting county commissioners and magistrates holding office more thar two terms. Bills passed final reading allowing Rutherford county to levy taxet to build a jail. The bill to amend the school law bo as to make the county su perintendent ex-officio chairman of tha bsard of education and the bill to make the expectoration of tobacco on church floors a misdemeanor went to the table, though an effort was made to secure the passage of the latter measure. Raleigh, N. C. 25th day. In Ih Senate the following biils were introduc ed: For the erection of the county of Scotland ; to allow corporations to be come sureties; to establish a nava! battalion of the State Guard. The bill to allow the commissioners and justices of Rutherford to purchase a frm for paupers passed its "third reading. The bill to provide stenographers for the several courts of the State ; it provid s that the stenographers thall receive $1, 000 per annum for Superior Courts, an'i $500 for Criminal Courts. They shall b? appointed by the judge and can be r moved for cause. Under a call forth; previous question the bill faiied to "pass its second reading ayes 5, noes 37. The bill te establish a motto for the State of North Carolina, "Esse quam videri," passed its third reading. The bill to provide a seal for the register of deeds passed its eecond reading. House: A Bill was introduced tc piovide that the license taxes on bar rooms, billiard alleys, etc., at resort shall be collected only for the time thej are kept open for the use of visitors. 'I he bill to abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics came up and was the theme ol discussion for an hour or more. It pas sed ayes 56, noes 34. The following important bills passed third reading: To incorporate the Winston-Salem & Charleston Railroad ; to protect birds in Halifax and Warren ; to incorporate the Burlington & Sauth Western Railroad ; to allow Rutherford county to levy s special tax to build a jail; to give par ties desirous of obtaining service ol summons the right to make the sime by p il. cation, in spite of chapter 120, Acts .f 1890; to provide for garnishing per tons non-resiients either as provided bj chapter 130, Acts 1892, or sections 126 or 359 of The Code. Raleigh, N. C 26th day. The fol lowiug bills were introduced in ht Sentte: To detach a certain piece ol land in Stokes county and award it tc Forsyth; a resolution of request to oui Senators and Repiesenfativesm Corgress to vote for the Nicaragua Canal passcc unanimously; the bill fo 'allow licensed diuo-gists of Marshall, Madison county, to tell liquor on prescription of phytic ians, passed third reading; the bill t piovidti for furnishing and completion of the executive mansion, (it provide f r the appropriation f $2,500 foi furniture and $1,500 for completion oi the mansion.) passed its third reading. Ii the Houie bills were introduced To protect the consumers of illuminating oils and to provide for the inspectior and sale of the same, allowing no oiU t-. be sold uoder a fire l3t of 120 degrees to amend the charter of the Atlanta, Asheville & Baltimore Railroad ; to pro ject baggage of travelers by common c 'UVv mce; to allow Buncom'ie to fund its county debt. Bills passed thiid read infi incorporating the town, ol Hirj&Eton, Rutherford county ; to forbid bodies ol men known as "detectives," from going armed ; to amend The Code in regard tc bigamy; to appropriate $500 annually tc the Guilford Battle Ground Association. The bill to amend The Code in regard to liens was tabled, as wa3 one amend ing it in regard to chattel mortgages. A bill also passed making it unnecessary for the privy examination of a wife to be at the same time as the executim of s deed by her husband. An important bill passed, making amendment in the land law. It is to allow the trial of the issue of fraud in the conveying or en cumbering of lands not exceeding in value the homestead before the latter is determined . It allows the trial of this issue of fraud and allows no sale until the homestead is determined. The bill to make three years' absence from the State a cause for absolute divorce passed by a unanimous vote. Mr. Vance's sheep husbandry or "dog law" bill came up. Just as soon as the word "dog" was read tie House began to laugh. The bill pro vides for a tax of $1 on each dog and re quires the latter to be listed as other property; the tax to go to the school fund. The committ'e on agriculture made a report in favor of the bill. The bill was fina'ly re-cjmmit ei to the com mittee on agriculture. Raleigh, N. C. 2?th day. Senate: The following bills were introduced : To incorporate the Bank of Laurinburg ; to prevent note-shaving ; to compromise and settle the bonds issued by the State for the Chatham Railroad. The resolution calling upon the bursar of the University of North Carolina to furnish financial and ether statements relating to the Uni versity for the past ten years, and bien nially hereafter, passed its third reading. Bill relating to ceitain rights of married women ; the bill was widely discussed. Senator McDowell in the course of his remarks said that he never could recon -cile the matter of women not voting. It was certainly coming. (The bill extends the time for women who now have the right to bring suit to the 1st of March, 1894.) Senator Jones favored tne bill the present law was adopted when wo men were little more than slaves. Let us put women where they belong on a plane of justice. The bill failed to pass its second reading. The bill to incorporate the Citizens' Savings Bank at Wilming ton passed final reading. Houss : Bil's were introduced to pre vent the organization of secret, oatn bound political organization, ("Gideons' Bmd" being named as among' these) making membership, etc., in such a fel ony, punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 and imprison ment for not less than one year nor more than five year?, such person to be forever after ineligible to office; to make it un unlawful to abduct children under IE years of age, instead of 14 as heretofore; to amend the pension acts by making them apply to cases where the soldier died from wounds in 12 months after Lee's surrender, April 9, 1865; to require persons putting up barbed wire fence? alongside a 'highway to put up a plank or continuous rail on the top thtteof. The bill to forbid any person calling him self a detective to carry concealed weap ons passed third reading by a unanimous vote. A bill to require the State Board of Education to prepare and publish uni form text books also came up with an unfavorable report and was tabled; Bills were tabled exempting private libraries from taxation; amending chapter 15 of The Cede regarding corporations; pro viding for a state inspector of liquors. The bill forbidding the employment ol children under 15 years for over 10 hours a day in factories was tabled without debate, The bill to protect l-ndlords by constituting unpaid rent a lien on household effects, etc., was a'so tabled. Raleigh, N. C. 28th day. Senate. Bills were intioduced: Asking for the establishment of a colored normal school in Clinton, Sampson county. Seaator Battle introduced a resolution asking for appointment of a committee to consider the matter cf a department at the peni tentiary for the manufacture of car wheels. The bill pending that certain money voted the Guilford Battle Ground Assooiation shall not be paid until 1895 was taken up. An amendment was adopted and the bill passed its third reading (under the previsions of the bill, the association can only draw $500, or $250 per annum for the next two years.) House. Bills were introduced: To repeal the act prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors; to provide for tim ber inspectors in Buncombe, Madison, McDowell, Mitrhel', and Yancey; to es tablish a colored normal school at Dur ham ; to allow persons under 21 years of age to change name if the parents or guardians join in the petition for such change; to amend The Code by provid ing that no days of grace be allowed on any draft, etc., unless otherwise stipu lated thereon, but that the same shall be due and payable as therein expressed on the day named, without grace; bill to take effect in one year after ratification. Tbe House then went into debate on the bill appropriating moneys to the Guil ford Battle Ground'Association and pass ed the bill a3 amended (not over $500 is allowed to be drawn from the two years ending in February, 1895.) The bill f r allow fhp. npnnlfi nf Strikes r.ountv to w " ' - f f J J "pote on the question of county govern ment was taKen up, witn an aaverse committee report. The vofe was ayes 57, noes 18. Republicans voted against tabling, as did aho the Third party members. . Raleigh, N. C 29th day. Senate. Principal matters were: A bill to de tach certain territory from Stokes county and add it to Forsyth was tabled. The bill to pay solicitors an annual salary was passed over informally. The bill making judgment due on personal prop erty a lien was tabled, on the ground of unconstitutionality. Among the biils introduced in the House the chief ones were as follows: To require fire escapes to be provided in hotels and lodging houses, two stories or more in height; the escape to be a rope ladder, knotted, an inch in diameter; to amend The Code in regard to partition of land ; to amend the act incorporating the Bank of Commerce at Fayetteville, by making the name Bank of Cumber land, the charter to run for 60 years; the capital sock to be $100,000; to give ths town of Seaboard the benefit of local option; to amend the charter of Raleigh, by extending the boundaries and allow ing the issue of $50,000 in improvement bonds. The report was submitted on the inauguration of Gov. Carr. The ex penditures of the $500 appropriation were shown to be $383. The material used in decoration have been turned over to the Quartermaster General. Adopted. Bills passed, amending the charter of the Peoples' Bank of Asheville; repeal ing th? charter of the town of Kill Quick, Edgecombe county ; to amend the char -tei of the Commercial Security Company and changing its name to Southern Fin ishing and Warehouse Company ; to le galize the marriage of Rev. David S. George and Marietta Myers, of Gaston county; to allow the commissioners and justices of Madison to fleet a tax col lector; to incorporate the Bank of North Carolina for 99 years, its location being at Lumberton. By consent Mr. Cook introduced a bill to give portions of Cumberland county the stock law. The following bilU were ratified to-day and are now laws: To incorporate the Burlington & Southwestern Railroad; to incorporate the Beaufort County Bank; to allow Harnett county to sell the county ' home property ; to incor porate Keiford, Bertie county ; to in corporate Hatcher Lodge, A, F. & A. M. To incorporate Wacj; to allow Burke county to levy a special stock law tax in Lower Fork township; to enable owners of land to establish boundary lines thereof; to incorporate Fallston, Cleveland county ; to allow Rocking ham county to levy a special tax; to incorporate the town of Inanda, Bun combe county; to allow Rutherford county to lev y a special tax to build a jail. To incorporate the Boone and Blowing Rock Turnpike Company; to repeal the act establishing the Edentn graded school ; to 1 allow Anson county to issue bonds for the purpose of com pleting and repairingMts c jurt house and jul; to establish. Jason township, Greene county; to incorporate Siloam Academy; resolution instructing m am bers of Congress to vote for the Nicar agua Canal bill; resolution calling for a financial statement from tha bursar of the University. She is Black One Year and White the Next. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Canton, Miss. A woman appeared on the streets here who attracted much attention. . She has a perfectly white face and hands and short kinky hair, with the features of a negro. The woman said that she was born black'and remain ed so until she was fifteen years old, when she suddenly turned white, remaining so for one year, when she turned black again. Since that time she is alternately white and black, not alone ic 6t-Ots, but changes color entirely. She is fairly in telligent, and says she has never had a spell of sickDes3 and has never taken a dose of medicine. She live3 near Sallis Station, on the Canton and Aberdeen road. She says she cannot stand the sun at all, and wears a double veil and heavy gloves. She says if the sun shines on her skin for one minute it causes it to blister at once. She has been examined by physicians, who are unable to account for the change in her color. Easy on Boys. North Carolina Teacher. At a recent board school examination for girls, one of the tasks was an essay on boys, and this was one of the compo sitions, just a3 it was handed in by a girl of 12: "The boy is not an animal, yet they can be heard to a coasiderable dis tance. When a boy hollers he opens his big mouth like frogs, but girls hold their toung till they are spoke to, and then they answer respectable and tell just how it was. A boy thinks himself clever be cause he can wade where it is deep, but God made the dry land for every living thing, and rested on the seventh day. When the boy grows up he is called a husband, the grew up girl is a widow and keeps house." Justice liamar's Successor. Washington, D. C The President nominated Howell E. Jackson, of Ten nessee, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice L Q C. Lamar, deceased. Iloweli Edmunds Jackson is a Demo crat. He is an ex senator from Ten nessee and at pres2nt judge of the United Statts court for the district embracing Tennessee. He is a native and lifelong resident of Tennes ee. He i3 remember ed at the Capitol a a man of quiet, uoassuming manners, gentle, well liked and distinguished for fairness and judicial consideration of the ques tions arising here. Charges Criminal Libel. Memphis, Tenn. Speaker Ralph Davis, of the S! ate Legislature, swore out a warrant against A. B. Pickett and re porter I. K.'Underwood, of the Scimitar charging criminal libel. The two men were released on a bond of $500. On Saturday the Scim'tar published a story about Davis, who is a criminal lawyer, agreeing to get a bond made by N. Simon for Jacob Lachman, a house burner, re duced from $5,000 to $2 500 and taking a big free. Davis is a young lawyer and a prospective candi ate for Congress. Custom Officers' Salaries in the Two Carolinas. Washington, D. C. The estimated salaries of the North and South Carolina cus'oms houses for the fiscal yfar ending June 30, 1893, furnish.d ii Congress by ths Treasury Depaitment, are: Beaufort, $1,200; Edentou, deputy and inspector, $1,920; Newberne, deputy and four in spector', $2,605; Wilmington, collector, deputy, etc , 10 in all, $11,207; Beaufort, S. C, collector, deputy, etc., 7 in all, $5,067.50; Charleston, collector, etc., 12 in all, $14,435; Georgetown, S. C, 2 in all, $1,000 The Liaet of the Juno's Survivors. Chableston, S. C. Capt. William J. Burke, a well known Charleston pilot, is dead. He was the sole survivor of the Confederate steamer Juno, commanded by Lieut. Philip Porch er. The Juno broke in half on the voyage hence to Nassau, and sunk. Capt. Burke and Engineer Dent were forty eight hours on a skylight, and were picked up and car ried to Nassau, where Dent died from the effects of the exposure. j DmENEWS. The Beloved South Gleaned and Epitomized. All ths News and Occurences Printed Here in Condensed Form. Eggs are selling at 35 and 38 cents per dozen in the Shenandoah Valley. J. J. Davis, of Stovall, N. C , killed three deer last week with two shots. A $100,000 cloth finishing plant will be built at Greensboro, N. C. Chicago capitalists will put $5,000,000 in a bridge half a mile long across the Mississippi river, near New Orleans. The Columbia, S. C , Cotton Mill Com pany, has been chartered : capital stock $700,000. The City of Charleston has taken $2, 000,000 of the South Carolina State bonds. Tbe Louisiana Lottery Company is to be removed to Honduras, and Gentrals Beauregard and Early will still be at the wheel. A new phosphate bed has been discov ered in Orangeburg county,S. C, which, it is thought, will prove one of the rich est in the State. Three Mormons, with proselyting in tentions, have been roaming about Char lottesville, Va., lately. They have been refused the use of the court-house and other public buildings. Jefferson Davis's remains will . be finally interred in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va. , on May 30. The monu ment to his memory will be erected in Monroe Park, that city. A new railroad is projected to build from Winston, N. C, to Charlotte and southwardly into South Carolina. Ap plication has been made to the North Carolina Legislature for a charter. Nearly all of the light-houses and buoys in the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, Chesapeake bay and Hampton Roads have been carried away by the ice. Georgia cotton planters are consider ing the proposition to meut together at Augusta and agree upon a fixed reduc tion of cotton acreage. The Supreme Court of appea's at Rich mond, Va., reversed the decision of the Hustings Court of Alexandria in thcase of Jeff .. Phillips, convicted of killing George Smith, July 22nd, 1891, and sen tenced to be hanged. They had a big spelling bee in Raleigh, N . C, the other night and W. G. Burk head, Esq.. principal clerk of the Senate, was the last man to sit down. Used to be in the newspaper business, you sea. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson and his charming family will attend the ses sion of the Teachers' Association at Uore hesd City, N. C, in June. The Leaksville, N. C, Cotton and Woolen Mills, heretofore conducted by J T. Moiehead & Co., have been sold to the Cone Export and Commission Com pany. The 4 one Company is now known as the Plaid Trust. Tbe Halls, Ga., Weekly announces the following as its subscription rates: "One year, two bushels 'taters; six months, two gallons sorghum ; three months, one quart sweet mash invariably in ad vance. " James T. Hatton, aged twenty-three, committed suicide at Abington, Va., Tuesday evening by shooting himself in the head. Despondency over his failure to get employment seems to have been the cause. He was a Dice young man and had some money. Fire at Norfolk, Va , Wednesday night the commission house of B. G. Pollsrd, and the Farmers' Alliance Exchange, on Roanoke dock was destroyed by fire. The total loss was $70,000. Between 3,000 and 4,0 ,0 bags of peanu's were burned. In 1889 the North Carolina Legis'ature passed a law forbidding the hunting of deer in Caldwell county with dogs, and until this year the law has been pretty well obeyed, with the resu't of multiply ing the number of d. er in the county. It is estimated that t ere are over one hun dred head that range in the Northern and Western sections. The fertilizer companies of South Carolina have already purchased from the state $20,000 worth of tax tags, and the demand continues at the rate of about $650 per day. This is far in excess of former receipts at the same time of the year. The total amount of the fe. tilizer tax is about $35,000 or $40,000 per year. There is every indication that it will go considerably ovrr th it amount this year. At Forest City, N C, Ardelia Dean, 9 year old daught r of Stlina Dean, while playing with others around the Forest City Manufacturing Company's shops, was caught on the shafting and whipped to death before the machirery could bs stopped. Nine citizens of Rock Hill, S. C , havf formed a Tobacco Growers' Club, and have engaged an xpert fiomNorth Caro lina to "coach" them. They intenl to do their pait toward diversifying crops, and with Rock Hi l'a cbaracteris ic en ergy, propose to make that city a centre of tobacco culture Should their ex periment this year prove successful they will establish a "tobacco warehouse in Rock Hill. Here is a new indu try for S 'Uth Caro lina. A state commission has been is sued to the Limeh u e Company, of Edgefield, "ahose object is ti do a gen eral agricultural, milling, mechanical and merchandise business." The company who purpose carrying on this diversified business or businesses, is mainly composed of women . It is siid that the demand for cotton hulls at the oil mill in Greenville, S C , has become so great as to exct ed the sup ply, and the mill is obliged to buy hulls from other mills to fill its orders. Four years ago the value of hulls as food for stock and manure was practically un known. At present about ninety tons of coitonseed t. re consumed daily, and from thirty-five to fifty carloads of cot tonseed meal: a week are shipped from Greenville. ; R. C. Barklev and R. C. Harleston, of Chirlest-j-rT, S. C , have leased 2,000 acres of ricj land for five years from the Hamilton I, isston Investment Co. They will tke a -killed force of hands to work the property, and will go extensively into the cultivation of rice. The property leased is in the vicinity of Lake Tohope kaliga, Fla. , and has, it is said, never produced less than seventy-five bushels of rice to the acre. A queer rabit story, which beats "Un cle Remus" at hia best, comes from Davidson, N. C. , via the Atlanta Consti tution. "Mr. John Hediick killed a very laree rabbit durinc the snow. It had a large raised place on the inside of the left leg, which he cut into and found be tween the fle?h and hide two leather winged bats, which were full grown. The bats were fastened to the flesh of the rabbit by a leader or something similar. There was not a broken place in the hide until Mr. Hedrick cut it." Says the Richmond, Va., Times: More and more the plantations, graperies, and orange groves of Florida are passing into the hands of Northerners and Englishmen for an enervating climate will destroy local energies in time. The "crackers," or native population, are improving un der education, but they do not grow fast mentally, and their farming is confined to a little planting near their cabins. Naturally they are a 6imple and hospita ble people, with a speech fomewhat tinctured by nero dialect. Besides fruit, Florid has a vast wealth in her phos phate beds, which are of unmeasured ex tent, but one capitalist says that tiuce the investment of $30,000,000 in ph ;s phate in the South the business has bec i overdone, and there is no demand for phosphate land at present. There is a lage trade in alligators' teeth in the South, for they are treasured as mementoes by tourist. In Jackson ville one may have them mounted with aluminum, gold or silver as vinaigrettes, and they are sometimes prettily marked and tinted. A good many boars' teeth -ere sold for those of alligators, but the difference between them i decided, th se oi the boar curving into a quarter ci-cle. while those of the alligator are rounder and nearly straight. Apropos of both animals, there is nothing that 'gator liks better thai fresh pork and he will toddle three miles from water for a Florida r zorback. In cool weather he burict himself in mud and becorms dormant until it grows warm. Hunters still make a living by killing bim for bis hide and teeth. The killing of alligators from the decks of river 6teamers in Florida has been Stopped bv law. Served With Notice to Quit. Topeea, Kans. Just before the House adjourned, Speaker Dunsmore, Populist, arose and handed to Speaker Douglass, the Republican presiding officer, a sealed communication. Dunsmore said he de sired Doug'ass not to make its contents known until Wednesday, and exacted a promise from him not to reveal its pur port. Then both houses Agreed to ad journ until 9 o'clock Wedaesd ty morn ing. A 8 soon as adjournment was had both Speakers rapped for order and an nounced a caucus in the evening. These caucuses considered the contents of the communication haudr I the Repub lican speaker by the Populist speaker. The letter is notice for the Republicans to quit. It sets forth that the R publi can house is an illegal body; that the Republicans are obs ructionists, delaying the business of the II usc, and notifies Speaker Douglas that he and all the al leged Republican clerks and officials must withdraw and no longer attempt to usurp the powers of tbe Popu ist House, which is the only legal House of Repre sentatives. Winter in the North. The oldest inhabitant of pretty mucn every section of the country offers hU testimony concerning the severity ei the recent cold snap. Nantucket, Rhode Island, people aver that it beats anything known there for the past forty 3 ears. The island has been for some tine cut off from communication with the rest of the world except by oble, Vineyard Sound is full of ice, and the revenue cutter, Samuel Dexter, made a nine days' trip ol four miles in that region. Fishermen along Lake Erie have no memory of such ice as now stretches in an unbroken field from Detroit to Put in-Bay. The entire lake archipelago is froz n about and teaois cross tbe mouth of the Detroit River. People who have drivea out fif teen miles from shore on the lake say that beyond the point to which t- ey ven tured the ice extended as far as they could see. Therj is an unprecedented number of wild fowl in Southern waters, driven hither by the cold weather. John Brown's Bible. Mrs. 'Eaaiiv Blessinff. of Charlestown. parties the Bible which had been pre sented to her father by John Brown, ol Harper's Ferry notoriety, while the lattei was in piison at the former place. Among others of Charlestown who are in pos session of relics of Brown are Andrew E. Kennedy, who ha the receipt ef Mrs. John Brown for the body of Brown, which was delivered to her at Harper't Ferry. Capt. Gaylor own the sabre used by Brown in marshalling his black co horts, and Mrs. Capt. W. L- Harrington still owns the strap on which Brown' rifle was hooked when he was captured by Capt. Hanington at Harper's Ferry. Skeletons Unearthed. Fredericksburg, Va. While ex cavating in his yard for laying water pipe, Mr. Jacob Grind ler, who lives on Han .ver Street, extended, near Marye's Heigh's, unearthed the skeletons of s'x Union soldier?, who fell in bittle here in Jftv, 1863. Major Thomas D. Mc Alpinj! superintendent of the National cemetery, was notified.and, being convinc ed by the Union buttons that the remains were those of Federal soldiers, he took them in charge, and will have them re in erred in the National cemttery. A Burning- Coal and Coke Train: Richmond, Va. A special says that a collision occurred at the long tunnel near Mill Creek, on the Elk Horn div i ion of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, caused by a section of the coal train breaking loose and running into another train following. No lives were lost, but there was great damage to property. The wreck took fire, which was communi nicated to the coal and coke. The tun nel had to be flooded and it will be sev eral days before it will clear. IN A DOOMED LIGHTHOUSE. Keeper Thomas' Thrilling Story o. Escape from Wolf Trap. Norfolk, Va In an interview witl John William Thoma?, assistant kcejci of the Woif Trap light station, whuh succumbed to the ice Tst wt f-k, ho Miyi he had an experience calculated to quick en h'-n wits and open his weather eye, ano will doubtless be lemembcred ns tho mi prerne event of his life. Mr. Thomat was alone at the station, which i ic twelve feet of water, and three miles froir the shore. It is not easy to appreciate the dreadful forebodings which tilled his mind as day after day he watched the thickening icv, conscious as he was of th great peril which environed him, his dis tress signals unnoticed, with that vast field of ire tipunding its mighty puwei against the pilesaid gathering additional strength every ranment as it ovi hipped and piled up against the doomed struc ture. To pray in s'.ich a crisis wa? a mna' natural thing to do, and pray he did. long and feivently, nad he fc l nsaured, for it wa not very 1od before he de scried in th; distance the smoke of 8 steamer b. tiling with the ice. Slowlj bhi proceeded alonp un!il, getting abreast of thsatition, she wai stopped by the thick ice. A'thouh the steamer wa; s -rue lnlf mile out toward the ship chan nel, the nervy keeper determined tc abandon the station to its impending f ati and make the effort to reac 1 her. (let ting upon the uutrie 1 ics lie proceeded toward her, waving his hat to sst tract thi attention of those rn b ad. Wher within hailing distance he cr c l out lust ily to the offker in command, and wai told to come aboard, which he did ii safety. On leaving tbe stf am 1 hi, her up tin bay for the shore he broke through the ice in eight feet of water and came neai being drowned. Tradition has it that V -i Trap de rives its name from the. f taudin of the British man of war Wolf on ;he bar dur ing the Revolution. The lighthouse if ashore at the cap s and the lenses aie iu Richmond. IT WAS MISCARRIED. A Richmond Registered Let ter Found in a Big Fieh. The St. Louis Republican is lesp infci ble for the following: "The largest catti-.h ever capture 1 or the Mississippi was caught about thrc; ycais ago, two mil's from Cairo, by i coloied fishermsn," f-aid John O. Harvey, of Murphysboro, lib, nt the Lindell yes terday. -;ile was a monster, sure en -Ji-gh and more resembled a wh-le th-n a cat fish. The eoloied people had be.-u talk ing for a long time- nh-out hv'rg seen big fish in the wafers. They had shot n him repeatedly, eind had set nil sorts c) trot lines to catch him without sm-e-ess. "Fianlly there came a lise in Ih ; 1 ,vci, and when the wateis uceded from the swamp back cf tin liver the ti-h -.va.' grounded and capture I. He weigh d ;S1 pounds, and when cut op n there was found ii his stomach two fUh hooks and a line, a ten penny nail, a gold ling, anc the most eurious thing 'if al! --a regis tered letter addicssed t the Hon. Wai ter Merriwether, of Richmond, Va . which had been lost for two weeks, fine which had given the postal antho itic; unbounded tro'ible. The cpiestion wa and is, How did that letter ever liod iff wav from the po tal car to the fish'i mo'.ith?'-' SOAP BECOMING A LUXURY. The Price Haa Risen and Threaten' to Go Much Higher. Philadelphia. J'a. The latent whkl soap is advancing in pric if continued will soon place that aitule among the luxuries. One month ago it advanced 25 cents p:r bor, about two weeks ngo 1 further advance of 1-j e:ents was added, and Friday the wholesalers were placing orders at an advance of DO cents on the box. Manufacturers and deal n say the top price has not et b en re hed and hesitate about predicting anything except that the outlook at present points to a still further rise. The advance is clue to a scarc ity of ot tie and hogs, which has put up the prie of tallow and lard Tallow and lard, which a few months ago were exp u-ted to Germany, aro now boingscn . bi'-k to this country, where they meet with t ready sale at a price which makes it de sirable to import them . All lubricating and ratchin ry oils advanced, and coltokne aad other v ge table oils have also advanced on accoum of increased consumption. The vegeta ble oils are being largely fcubstitu 'ed foi animal fats, both f r miking soaps and for lubricating purposes THE WALL STREET MONEY KINGS The Pool in National Cordag-e Divides Profits of $2,600,000. New Youk. N. Y. A meeting wai held in a well-known Wall street office after business hours at which f 1,370, 00C in cash was distributed among those present by James Ii. Keene. The e-cca-sisn was the distribution of the profits that have accrued from Mr. Keene's bull campaign in the stocks of the National Cordage Company. The at'endance at the meeting was not large, 3 et it included all of those who have co operated with Mr. Keene in one of tie most successful operations he has evr made; for besides tbe cash profits divided, Mr. Keene te ported that the combination had qu:ck assets of the value of $1,200,000, making the total prcfits of the deal nearly f 2,800, 000. A Perilous Escape. Four young men of Onsncock, Va., started last week to walk across Poco moke found rn the i e, which, when they were about five miles out, bioke up, and" the cake n which they were drifte d out on the recediug tide. The csl 1 wind blowing strongly tossed their frail craft in a very dangerous fashion. The block drifting near tbe maiu pack, the yours men tried to make their way across on the brok-n ma'i. The largest block; were not over five feet equate, and often times they had to lie down to avoid Le ing toppled off into the water. Finally, after being on the ice fourteen hours, they were rescued.