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A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS.
VOL. VII. NO. 38
MAXTON, N, 0., THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1893.
SI.OO A YEAR.
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NORTH CAROLINA SQUIBS.
27ewsy Gleanings from Cherokee tc
Currituck.
A sturgeon weighing 321 pounds
-was on the Greenville market last
Faiday. It was caught in a Dutch net
below Washington.
The North Caro'ina Corundum Wheel
Co. have completed their -f 150,000 min
ing plant at Sylva.
The Farmers' Alliance have opened a
general merchandise store at Durham.,
capital $5000.
The pos' office at Clairnionf, Catawba
county, was burned recently and Elmore
Cloninger, the deputy postmaster, ha?
been arrested and bound over to the
Federal Court at Statesville, charged
with embezzUng thj money anil stamps.
John F. Lifsey, who killed hi brother
in-law, Chas. Key, at Garysburg last
December, was tried at Northarnptop
court last week, and the prisoner was ac
quitted. Senator P.-nsom was of counsel
in the cane and received a fee of $1,000.
Fire at Kinston burned tea residences
and a church. The wiud was very high
The less i3 cstimted at $29 000. The
business p.rt of the town was Dot affect
ed. The lire burned itself out.
At Raleigh Frank Batchelor, a son of
the Hon. Jo.eph B. Batchelor, while out
driving complained of a pain in his heart
and soon afterward expired.
Abner Adams, of Watauga county,
sold a beautiful curly walnut tree the
other day to L. L. Couccill, of the firm
of CouuciU, Taylor & Co., of E'.k Park,
for the sum of $ 135. The tree measured
three arid one-half feet through at the
stump and is said to be curled from the
roots to the end of the topmost twig.
Such trees are of fabulous value. Mr.
Councill may realize $1,000 or $1,500
for it.
Hoke Smith's Patronage Court.
From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Washington, D. C Hoke Smith has
introduced a novelty. He has establish
ed what miodit be called a patronage
court. Finding himself besst by the
importunate friends of rival candidates
for a certain office, Secretary Smith in
forms them as fast as they call:
"Gentlemen, I will seta time when I
will hear you in regard to the qualifica
tions of your candidate."
He consults a memorandum book,
which7 might be very well entitled, "the
effice -seekers's docket," and makes an
entry, of which the following is an illus
tration :
'Saturday, April 8 Governor of
Oklahoma, 1 p. m."
When the day and the hour come round
the friends of the candidates assemble
in the Secretary's office. The private
secretary acts as outer guard, and informs
all comers on other business that Sec
retary Smith is engaged. Promptly,
when the little hand and the big hand on
the clock indicate the appointment.
Secretary Smith leaus back in his big
cha'r and asks :
"How many candidates are represented
for this office?"
The partisans announce their candi
dates in turn. The Secretary keep3 tab
on the fingers of his left hand, bending
down a finger as each candidate is an
nounced. "Five," h3 says, looking at the fingers
when the names of entries ceases.
"Now, how much time will you re
quire?" There is a hasty canvass in each group
and then some scattering suggestions.
"Well," says Mr. Smith, "say an hour
for each candidate. Will that be enough?"
Usually it is enough and t more than
enough. Secretary Smith calls the name
of the candidate first in alphabetical
order and the candidate's friends go at
the biographical business with zeal.
Secretary Smith is patience in a big arm
chair. Hour after hour the praises are
sounded. When all have finished the
Secretary announces that his decision
will be reported to the President of the
United State?. The patronage counties
adjourned. Four sessions of the court
were held during last week. Each was
devoted to the office of a Territorial Gov
ernorship. The hearings were very
spirited. The only thing that occurred
to dampen the ardor of the proceedings
was the complete reversal of one of the
decisions of Secretary and Judge Hoke
Smith. After a long and heated debate
the friends of Mr. Lett got a verdict of
the court that he was the man for Gov
ernor of Utah. Two days later the
President nominated Caleb West for
that office. Since then the partisans of
Lett have been making f arcactic remarks
about the patronage court.
A Lady Did the Carving.
The d?sk which Mrs. Gotten and Mrs.
Kidder North Carolina World's Fair
Commissioners', had constructed as a
memorial to Virginia Dare, the first white
child born in America, was made of
white holly from Roanoke Island, Vir
ginia Dare's birth place; was designed
hy Silas McBee of Sewanee, Tenn., and
carved by Miss Kate Cheshire,of Tarboro.
This desk is a tribute to the memory of
Virginia Dare, from the women of this
State, and will be sent to the World's
Fair.
SHUT OUT THE BRIGGS MEN.
Ill Fueling ia thi Cincinnati Presby
tery Over General Aesemb y
Delegates.
Cincinnati, O. A very b.ttcr feeling
ing has been developed between the
Smith a::d orthodox factions of the Pres
byterian Church ova' the action of
the conservatives in n fusing to give
the Briggs men a sing'e delegate to
the Gecer-1 Assembly, although they
repiesent a 1-Tgj minority of the mem
bers of the Church and ministers in this
Presbytery. Tec Rev. J. L.Taylor, ons
of the leading liberal ministers, said that
the other side were trying to boycott him
him and other rninist- rs who believed
that the Scriptures were not absolutely
without error. Everywhere he went to
deliver sermons or addresses he learned
tint anonymous communications of warn
ing had preceded him. It is said that at
least five of the wealthiest churches in
this viciu'ty have threatened to refuse to
pay their assessment for the delegates to
the General Assembly, because the men
chosen are regarded as bigoted beyond
any of the ethers who were named for
delegates.
The orthodox side is also raisins a
howl. They clrrge that the liberals have
circulated stories of difference! in the
orthodox church. s, which threaten to
lead to disruption aqd have led some of
the mini ters to resign. It i3 conceded
by every one. except a few hotheads
among the orthodox, that the Presbyter
ian Church ia this section i3 in a bad
way, and that if the Geceral Assembly
convicts Dr. Btiggs there will probably
be a schism.
The orthodox declare that they can,
under all circumstances hold the churches
but th'8 is as vigcrously dinied, with the
assertion that the cour:s have declared
that, unless there is sDmethirjg in the
chatter of a church binding it to some
particular form of worship, it can with
draw at any time by a majority vote of
the memb.rs. Several of the wealthiest
churches in the city are not bound by
any such restriction?, and two of them
are said to be getting ready to secjde.
' Philadelphia, Pa, The issue of
Brlggsism involved the Presbytery of
Philadelphia North into fever heat at its
second day's session in Germantown. The
excitement was precipitated by Franklin
L. Shepard, an Llder in th First Pres
byterian church cf Germantown, w?ho in
troduced an overture to the General As
sembly not to c nsider appea's from the
Presbytery, but to direct that they be
made to the Syned in the regular course
so as to keep up the dignity of the Synod.
Dr. Brigg's r atne w; s in everybody's
mouth in a few minu'es.
Elder Shepard thought Dr. Briggs was
"an injury to the church," and if he re
mained it might cause clismption. The
Rev. John Peacock thought the Synod
of New York ebuu antly ab'e to look af
ter the Briggs case .
The Re L F. Benson said his blood
boiled wh u he s.w Presbytery after
Presbiery ask the General Assembly to
convict Dr. Briggs. He thought the
Presbyterian ch rch s v cic large enough
to boll him. Hie Rev. Chart-s Wood
thought Dr. Br'ggs would be silenced in
the end. Eld r She; ar I withdrew hi
ie:olution.
PEACE LIGHTS ON BELGIUM.
The Country Barely Escapes Most
Dirteful Calamity.
Brussels, (Cablegram.) A nation
yesterday on the verge of civil war is to
day completely at peace. The air of ter
lible suspense lrke that which hangs over
two great armies about to be hailed
against each other has vanished. The
escape from a dreadful slaughter was by
the smallest chance.
The plans of the revolutionary leaders
are now becoming knon. They counted
with good reason on turning the gun3 of
the" regular army, reenforced by the
mob, against the Civic Guard and the
police. The conflict would have been
one of the most sanguinary in the history
of the Government, and tbc raoarchy it
self would have been almost ceitainly
overthrown. Then would have come
Communist reign, foreign interference,
and endless complications for all Europe.
It must be admittei that the leaders
of the revolt have remarkable control
over the people. The orders to return
to work have been almost universally
obeyed, and there ha3 not been the slight
est disturbance.
The agitation for universal suffrage
without plural vetiug will be continued,
it is not likely to lead to any such crit
ical situation as that of Wednesday. If
the demand is not granted by the present
Parliament it probably will be the first
Chamber cho-en under the system
adopted.
Fighting in Salisbury.
Salisbury, N. C. There was much
excitement on the streets about 2:30
o'clock, caused by a personal encounter
between Mayor T. C. Linn and Town
Commissioner D. M. Miller. The diffi
culty occurred about the purchase of a
rock crusher by the town, Saverai blows
were struck and the faces of both gentle
men were considerably bruised. No
weapons were used, but Mr. Miller ac
cuses the mayor of having drawn a pistol
and a pair of brass knucks on him.
COLUMBUS CARAVELS.
The Arrive Towed by the Spanish
Fleet.
An Excessive Amount of Gunpowder
Burned Again.
Fortress Monroe, Va. The three
Columbus caravels arrived here at 10 :30
o'clock Friday morning in tow of three
Spanish war ships, and were received
with great thunder of salutes and display
of flags from the counties represented by
the fleets. They dropped anchor at the
end of the American line of vessels.
The day could not have been more
beautiful or the scene more impressive as
they came in the road, decorated from
jib-boom to taffrail and with the flags of
Castile and Aragon and of Queen Isa
bella standing out and fluttering in the
gentle breeze. The little fleet was tum
bled about on the Virginia coast Friday
in a lively fashion by the northwest
wind that blew all day, bat it managed
to make the Capes early in the morning,
and, after taking pilots aboard, preced
ed in.
At the head of the fleet was the unpro
tected cruiser, infanta Isabel, towiog the
flagship Santa Maria, which displayed
tha fhg of the admiral. Behind and a
mile eastern came the torpedo vessel
Neuva Espana with the Nina as hei
charge, and in the latter's wake was the
big black protected cruiser Reina Re
gente with the Pinta. They were towed
by at least a quarter of a mile of hawser
and looked like so many ducks sitting on
the water with the feathers of their tails
plucked. When off the fo:t the stars
and stripes were thrown out and were sa
luted by the leader, the fort quickly re
sponding. Before the Santa Maria was abreast of
the Phi'adelph;a, the Dutch frigate Van
Speik rau up the Spanish colors and sa
luted them with thirteen rounds. Then
the Russ'au ship, General Admiral, com
menced to salute and later every flagship
in the harbor houorel these curious look
ing cra'ts and the country they came
from.
SANTA MARIA, FLAGSHIP OF COLUMBUS.
THE NINA.
SOUTHERN NEWS BRIEFS.
Items of a General Nature and Other
States.
Although n.arly three decades have
elapsed since the peace of Appomattox,
there are still 163 of the 493 general
officers of the Confed.racy surviving.
Ther j is a horse in Florida that be
comes wildly excited and unmanageable
whenever any one app caches him having
a breath that smells of whiskey. He is
not a Kentucky horse
Gov. Brown, of Marylaad, is the only
one of the Southern Governors who takes
the least pain3 with his moustache. The
ends of it arc twisted and waxed in truly
French fashion. He is also the most
faslronably dressed and stylish-looking
of the Governors.
While Sam Small is writing poetry foi
an Atlanta newspaper his old rival, Sam
Jones, is still beating his record in sav
ing souls. A revival conducted by the
Rv. Jones at Bowling Green, Kj-, last
week, resulted in the "profession" of re
ligion by 2,500 of the ungolly of that
city. Bishop Key, of the Southern Methodist
Episcopal Church, who was recently
married at Shermaa, Texas, to Mrs. L.
A- Kidd, president of the North Texas
Female College, the ceremony biug per
formed by Bishop Galloway, i3 a little
over 50 years old and is said to be the
finest looking of the Southern Methodist
Bishops.
The liquor dealers of South Carolina,
it is announced, will fight the new dis
pensary law of the State from th lowest
court to the highest,
VIRGINIA HAPPENINGS.
The Latest News Items in the Old
Dominion.
A new bank has commenced business
at Martiusvill-1, known as the Farmers
Bank.
Both the Presbyterian and Episcopal
pastors at Abingdon resigned last week
Rev. J. J. Loyd of the latter having a
call from Lynchb arg.
OUie Brown, a 12 year white boy of
Richmond met his death Thursday by
falline; und' i a lumber wajon.
The eightieth anniversary meeting of
the Virginia Bible S ocity was held lsst
week at the Grace-street Presbyterian
church Richmond.
The Roanoke Ma;hin3 Works lias re
ceived orders for eighteen locomotives,
thirty cabiu cars and two wrecking cars,
the whole aggreg iti ig about $208,500,
in value.
The Governor has granted three par
don3, viz: J. W. Fairfield, sentenced in
1890 to 10 years for stealing; Jacob
Smith who had served one out of three
years for grand larceny ; Walter Miller
who was sentenced in 1878 for 22 years
for house burning.
Augu t 9th has been named as the day
for the gathering of Virginians at the
Chicago Fair. On tint day the two hun
dred and seventy-fourth anniversaty of
the assembl ing at Jamestown of the first
lepresentative leg slative body of Ameri
cans will occur.
A Richmond newspaper expresses the
hope that "a real Confederate dinner"
will be served at the Memorial Bazaar.
Such a spread would comprise "rye cof
fee, "slapjicks, sorghum, Nassau pork,
rice soup, p otato pie and other d.-licac'.es
that pleas y& the palates of the boys when
thev got big boxes from home."
140 Mults Burned.
Atlanta, Ga. The City Stables were
destroyed by fira and 140 muWs perished
in the flames. Lo:s $30,000; insurance
$10,000.
DAMAGE CASES COMPROMISED.
The Railroad Adjusts Suits Growing
Out of the Eostian Bridge Wreck.
Statesville, N. C. All the suits
against the Richmond and Danville Rail
road, growing out of the wreck at Bos
tian's bridge, near Statesville, on the27th
of August, 1891, in which 23 persons
were killed and 30 wounded, have been
compromised. There were 13 of these
casc3 in Iredell Superior Court and the
following amounts have been allowed in
each case :
Death claims J. C. Brodie, $5,000;
W. M. Houston. $5,000; Chas. G.Weber,
$5,000; Miss Ophelia Polk Moore, $2, 000;
Mrs. Susan Pool, $2,000; Hugh K. I ins
ter, $2,500; A. Davis, $1,200; Rev. J. M.
Sikes, $3,500.
Claims for injuries J. F. Holler, $5,
000; Mrs. Naomi Hayes Moore, $1,5C0;
Miss Louallie Pool, $1,500; O. W. Law
son, $1,000; G. W. Bowley, $1,000.
Messrs. Bingham & Caldwell and R.
Z. Linney were attorneys in the Linster
and Davis cases and ex-Judge D. M.Fur
ches in the case of Rev. J. M. Sikes.
Messrs. Armfield & Turner were attor
neys in the other ten cases.
There were a number of suits entered
at Asheville, Salisbury and other places.
We understand that all of these have
been compromised. The Lexington Dis
patch understands that A. L. Siok and
wife have been allowed $5,000. This
case was in Davidson Superior Court.
We have nGt learned what amounts were
allowed in the oth?r cases, but it is safe
so say that the wreck, first and last, cost
the Richmond & Danville Railroad at
lease 100, 000. '
PALMETTO CHIPS.
News and Notes From Here, There &
Everywhere in South Carolina.
The Girls of Converse College, Spart
anburg, had an Arbor Day all of
their own last Friday, and planted many
trees.
Work on the Cathedral at Charleston
;s progressing None but Charleston
workmen have been eDgagcd on the
buildiDg,
Farmers1 barns are being burned by in
cendiaries through Spartanburg and Or
angeburg counties.
The Charleston, Sumter & Northein
Railroad Co. is enlarging its Sumter ma
chine shops, putting in a foundry, blast
furnace, etc.
The Home Insurance Company of Co
lumbia has decided to go out of business.
The compeny has been in business for
about three years.
Work ha3 begun on tha extension cf
the Atlantic Coast Line of their branch
from Sumter to Reniini, 2) miles south
west, via Orangeburg, to Denmark, con
necting there with the Siuth Carolina
and South Bound Railways.
Mack Shrtton, a while convict from
Charleston County, mado his escape from
the penitentiary Thursday. He was un
der a two years' sentence for burgla;y
and only had seven months long r to
serve. He is a skilled mechanic and made
himself a duplicate key, which he used
to unlock thedoDr to the post from which
he escaped.
The sinking fund commission of South
Carolina, which had power granted ly
the legislature aoout a year ago to assume
control of and lease the oyster beds of
that State, has now taken the matter in
hand and is granting leases to responsib'.e
applicants. By a wise provision of the
law each lease is for twenty years, and
during each year the lessee is required to
replant one-twentieth part of his territory
thus insuring the replanting of the entire
area by the time the lease expires. The
rental charged will vary from ten cents
to one dollar per acre annually.
A New ProfessionThe Cutter-Out.
From the Saturday Review.
The world is over-populated with ami
able, good looking young men: highly
educated, healthy and wholly incapable
of earning their livelihoods. No inge
nuity can provide berths for all of them,
but some might be employed as "cutters
out. " This is a new profession. The
duties of the cutter-out are few, s:mple,
and agreeable. He or she has merely to
make love and to ride away. Thus, put
case that some one's daughter, niece, or,
it may be, favori'e cousis, has become
engaged to a man who is not liked by
the family. To resist her choice is futile.
Opposition merely fans the flame of pas
sion. So you send a note or telegram to
the central office of the "Society for the
Utiliziti in of Johnnies," aud they de
spa'ch a cutter-cut. He is young, hand
some, agreeable, perhaps a lord or an
honorable, a baronet, very likely. His
duty may be explaiad in a word hs is
to cut out the young lady's affianced
lover, to make her out of conceit with
that disagreeable person, and then to re
tire gr..ce'ully to s me outlandish part
of the globe. The sch me is peculiarly
valuable to parcut?, but any one may
make use of it. Of cou se there may also
be, and should be, fema'e cutters-out, to
be slipped at young men who have en
tangled their affections undesirably.
Lord Algernon is fond of thi rector's
daughter, cf the garment's daughter, of
whom you will. Instead of crying if
you are his lady mother, or shearing if
you are the Duke, you tend up tj the
central depot for a rea'ly first class cut
ter-out, married lady preferred. In a
very few weeks the rector's daughter, or
the g-rdenr's daughter is aj disconsolate
as Calypso, and then the cutter-out d's
appeais, carrying with her the respectful
homage of the family whom she has res
cued. THE NEW RAILROAD UNION.
It Enters the Field with a List of
Officers and 11,000 Members.
Chicago, III The members of the
various labor organizations that have.been
in daily session during the past week
perfecting the new national railway order,
which will be known as the American
Railway Union, finished their preliminary
work.
The officers elected are: Executive
B?ard Eugene V. Djbs, George W.
Howard, W. S. Missemer, S. Keliher,
W. H. Sebiing, L. W. Rogers, F. W.
Arnold, Henry Walton, and J. A. Clarke.
The Board elected the following
officers for the year :
Eugene V. Debs, President; George
W. Howard, First Vice-President; W.
S. Missemer, Second Vice-President, and
S. K'.liher, Secretary.
It has been decided that the Eastern
country will be divided into districts,
and one member of the Executive Board
will be assigned to a special district,
which will put nine organizers into the
field at once. The entire membership of
th3 Order of Railway Carmen have al
ready voted to join the hew order. This
wii! start ths new union with 154 lodges,
having a membership of nearly'' 10,000.
Late Newt Briefs.
A Sylvauia, Ga., merchant, who has
a lot of crinolines left over from the old
days,has placed them on sale in his store.
A diverce wa3 recently granted to a
woman at Paris, Tex., and five minutes
later she faced the judge with another
man and was married .
Suits for $207,000 have been file 1
against the city of Atlanta, Ga., by peo
ple who claim that their health has been
injured through miasma from the city
dumping grounds.
Joseph R. Combs and wifo, of Hous
ton, Ind., were married thirty-five years
ago. About a year ago differences arose
and they were elivorced. On Saturday
they were remarried .
The ladies of Dresden have been hold
ing a riding tournament, the honors of
the joust being won by a young English
girl, Miss Theresa Brooks. Her final ex
ploit wa3 the driving of a pair of horeca
tandem while riding her own horsa at full
speed.
While being transferred from the prison
at Bankins to Newport, in Georgia, a
prisoner leaped from the tra;n while it
was going ct the rate of thirty-five mile
an hour. The train was iustantly stop -ped
and a search made, which proved
unsuccessful .
Out of one hundred men whom you
will meet in Tobasco. Mexico, scarcely
ten are able to read, and two out cveiy
three are held bv their creditors as slaves
for debt. There are about 500,000 Mexi
cans in this form of s'avery. The peo
ple often fall into debt through paying
the exhorbitaot marriage fee asked by
the pries, and another large fee i3 ex
acted at the baptism of each child, each
baptism requiriug the entire wages of at
least two weeks.
SWALLOWED a"wHEAT BEARD.
But Pen.nell Would Have Got Well if
His Bull Hadn't Oored Him.
New Brunswick, N. J. Frank Pen
nil', one of the best known farmers in
Middlesex county, d'ed at Franklin Park
of lo kjaw. About a week ago he in
haled a wheat beard, which lodged in
his throat and caused much irritation.
Efforts of physicians to remove the b.'ard
were fruitless, but the man might have
got well had he not had an experience
with a fina Holstein bull on Fiiday.
The animal his always been regarded
a3 tarn--, but on Fiiday, as Mr. Fennel!
was le iving the forty acre fk-ld on his
place, he became conscious of the rapid
approach of the bull f ora behind. Mr.
Pennell made for the fence ns fast as pos
sible. The bull Wds nearly upon him
wh u he was within a few feet of the
fence. He. dropped down, hoping the
enraged auimil would rush by hiin. The
bull did pr ss him, just ttepping on hi-;
riht arm. Then Penuell jumped np and
attempted to gain the tenc-J. The beast
turned ( n him, and one of his horns
was jammed into the man's ntck. The
anuimal theu rushe-d off in another direc
tion. Mr. Pennell was able t j stagger
to the house, where the sight of the ter
rible wound in h's neck, and his pale
fvee cau-ed his w:f ; to, faint. The four
young children ran screaming from the
ho'.ise.
Physicians said that despite the wound
made by the buM they might have saved
Mr. Pennell's life, but for the ailment in
his throat caused by the wheat beard.
Lockjaw set in immediately, and he died
Xn terrible agony.
EX-PRESIDENT DAVIS.
His B idy to Leave Nw Orleans on
May tb.3 Twenty-Eighth.
Au Atknta dispatch says: It is an
nounced that the bjdy of Jefferson Davis
a ill li - in state here on th; 29th day of
May while en route to its fiaal icsting
pla.f. at Richmond. It is officially an
nounced by the committee of Fulton
Co;nty Confederate Veterans' Associi
tion, cf which Mr. Davis was one of the
two honorary membe;s Henry W. Grady
being the other that the body would
leave New Orleans on the night of May
2Slh, accompanied by an escort from
the Louisiana veterans.
Montgomery will be reached early in
the morning of. the 29th. The funeral
train willariivein Atlanta about4 o'clock
on th? afrcrnojn of the 29th, and the
body will be conveyed to the State capi
to', where it will remain until about 7
o'cloc-c, leaving at 8 o'clock for Rich
mond. The Confederate Veterans' Asso
cia'ion wil', in a body, meet the funeral
train and sccompany the remains to the
capitol and back to thi depot. - A com -rnittes
will go on to Richmond with the
coaimii tees from Nev Orl ans and Mont
l msry.
ONLY $40,000 LEFT.
A Million and Three Quarter Dollars
Goes to Europe.
TVASinwroN, D. C The Treasury
Department was advised that during the
day $1,750,000 in gold had been with
drawn from the New York sub Treasurj
for shipment to Europe by a steamer
sailing Tuesday. .
The day began with $1,790,560 in free
gold in the Trea ury. Daducting tha
aimunt ttken out there is now left $10
560 of fr.c gold in the Treasury. The
Trcas lry officials are encouraged to hop3
that by Sat-ardaf, tha n-xt shipping day,
the' free goJ:l may be increased to a sufii
ci- nt sum tt meet the export demand.
Secretary Oarlide continues to decline
to talk on th? situation.
Florida "Will be There.
Jacksonville, Fla. -In a westbound
freight over the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad there are fifteen cars
loaded with Florida products and manu
factures for exhibit in the Florida State
buiUlir.g at the World's Fair. They in
clude agricultural and mineral products,
many varieties of woods, educational
Avork, art exhibit, fruit, (natural and
preserved.) bitanical specimens, etc.
State Commissioner A. O. Jackson will
have most of this materia! in place be
fore the opening day ef the Exposition
SERVIAN COUP D'ETAT.
Alexander Arrets His Itft-ms and
As'unu's thf Crown.
KINfJ OK JJEHVIA.
Oil'! of tin boldest jolitieal stroon that
tns htartl"d nw iTii Kurn k w.i tin coup
V t it of youi! r A'-'xnn ler, Kin oC Ktvpi,
iy uhic', in one night nn 1 witli'.ut Mo.l
lid, li nnvsto 1 tho tli run H"i-nt - who
v,': o fiOministerim; the (lavornmont ilm in
i i ;nino i'y, nut hal liimslf ann-imtul
C ' ii r. in tin; catha mil at HdIlt.i 1 Hoi
:i!v s-ev'-sitoen years old, Init is a well-uVvel-.pd
nud si n-i'le la !, ! a.rvns t. i v -u
;hly api.reci.at'i tho high responsibility
v-iling upon biiii.
A FATAL SERENADE.
A Farmer, Newly Wedded, Kills Twc
of His Annoyera.
Toi'KK , Kan. --The front ii.-r H 'a of
ciebrating it wedding by the beating of
tin pans and tiring of guns was re-puiiM
ble for three deaths at a chiiiivn neat
Ness City. A young fanner by tlio name
of Ander-on ai mariicd, and brought
his biidc to the little cottag'ihi- ha 1 pro
vided for her. A number of hoo llumi
in the community thought it would b
proper to give them a iei; pli .n.
About lifty oalhcied uioimd tbi' plaro
st midnight and o iiiiieneed ii. iking
d sf'iiing no ses One o-.vboy had bor
rowed a doubled ba'ieYd shotgun which
was b ndc 1 with bu k-hoL lie was
drunk, and, it-stead of hhooting in the
air. died I oih loads at (he fram'j of the
cottage. Anderson ami his wife uartow
ly escape! bving killed.
Anderson grabbed li s shotgun, opened
the door and Hied both ban els into tho
crowd, kiiling two of his neighbors and
te ijusly wounding a thirl. The dead
wire tikcu to livir houses, and thy third,
who will die, is bving cared for by An
deisou. TO EXCLUDE ULSTER.
A. Move to Leave tho Pi ovince Under
Imperial Itulo.
London, (Cabh-giaui.) -An iuipeitant
jtalenient is made iu legard to the Irish
Home Rule bill. It is to the effect that
when the bill leac hes the committee stage
i large section of Radicals will su.jj.ort a
proposal to leave thv counties of London
derry, Aritiim, Down and Armagh, in
the province of I'lster under imperial
rule.
These be'ng the coinitiej in which the
Unionist element is Mi ngest, and an
ragouism l the Irish Hoia-j Rule bill
therc''or pron-mru-cd, it is considered
doubtful that Mr. J !: istony would as
sent to .such a scheme, even if the Irish
Nationalist mmbc-is are wiliio,' to do so.
Ihe prop.v-.itio a mc:r.s a divisi m of Ire
land, and the hi h L-gidature created
jnder it would rcpi'-s"nt only a poitioa
f th? cciui rv.
No More Gold Certificates.
Secretary Carlisle Saturday dnectcd
the 6ub -treasurers throughout the Uni ed
Statej to issue no more gold certificates
at present. In doing so he simply obe,e 1
the law, which provide that, thy Sec
retary of the Treasuiy fclnill suspend the
ivsue of 8u:h gold certificates win-never
the amount of gold coin and g del bullion
in the treasury reserved for tho rcdemp
tio j of United States notes fall below
$100,900,000.
In explaining his ac ion on th:s sub
ject, Secretary Carlisle said that while
$ 100,000,000 gold reserve , had not yet
been reached, he was fo close to it that
prudence dictated that no more gold
jertificates would bi issued.
Keeley Strikes It Rich.
Chicago, Ills. Unl sj some un
foreseen obstacle co-Jiei in the way t he
famous bichloride of gold cure fordrunk-eone-s
will pass out of ths hands of th j
Leslie Lejley Company. The price to be
paid is $10,000,000 and a New Voik
syndicate of capitilists h the purchaser,
and. all that is necessary to consummate
the sale is Dr. Kceley's signature to th i
contract, in which he agrce3 not to enter
into the same business again.
A World's Fair Horror.
CmcAoo, III. Wlii'c one of the heavy
gungs forming pat t of the Government
exhibit at the World's Fair was being
hohted into place the tackle broke and
the gun fell on two of the men a1- work
upon it. J. W. Walker was 11 ittened
into a pulp, raid fcrp'l W. J. Kearp was
badly unshed. The gun weighs four
teen tons.
The Young Man's Age.
Se. retary C uli-le's advisers are men of
jt.uug years and of evca younger ap
pearance. Hamlin, fust assistant sec
retiry of the tr asury, is Z'i and looks
Eckels, comptroller of ths treasury,
s 3i, smooth-shaveu aud boyish, aud
W. E. Curtis, the other assistant secre
tary, is 33.
A New Phase of the Insanity Dodge.
Louisville, Ky The attorneys of
.4. R. Sutton have decided to account
for his pro ligioin lyiag nd erroneous
figures on the ground that he is and has
b?eu in;ane. The defence, so common
in murder trials, has the attraction of
novelty ia a trial tor forgery,
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