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rite j v., - . 4 5i f. r 'Sift My Jl A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VII. NO. 48 MAXTON, N. 0., TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1893. SI. OO A YEAR, Hi lift. LIFE IN FIJI. A PICTURESQUE DOT IN THE GREAT PACIFIC The Lazy Fijians and Their Style ol Existence A Native Drink and Its Curious Effect Proud of Their Hair ONE-HALF of the world does not know bow the other half lives:' audit is sur prising to find how little it enres. Take, as a striking example, the thousands of human beings scat tered all over the great Pacific Ocean If you "cross it, take the trouble to glance at a chart and you will see that you are threading your way through a myriad of dots, which are the perma nent homes of peoples having their own language, characteristics and cus toms. Not only so, but they are really the most independent people in the world and exemplify what one might call primitive or instinctive agriculture. That is to say, if a vessel never touched their shores it would make very little difference to the great majority of them. This scarcely applies to the Fiji isl ands, about which I have something to write. There are two towns in this little colony, one the cool and pictur esque Levuka, and the principal one the hot but lively capital of the group, Suva. A steamer arrives every fort night from Sydney, and once a month vessels come from both Melbourne and Auckland. During the sugar season there are extra steamer?, occasionally men-of-war for coaling purposes, and numerous sailing vessels. Although the Fijians number over 110,000, it is a matter of great difficulty to get them to sign agreements to. work. One cause of the trouble is because out of their earnings their chief will prob ably expect something and their rela tives the rest. They dislike work also, and are spoiled by the leniency of the British Government through its repre sentative, Governor Thurston. In re turn for that jn-otection they do next to nothing. They pay taxes in pro duce, which does not entail much work to cultivate and no burden on them to find. The principal articles are tobacco, cotton and copra, and this latter is for the most part shipped to Europe in vessels chartered in the Australian colonies. Copra is simply the flesh of the cocoanut, cut off the nut and dried in the sun. It is put into sacks or emptied into the hold of small cutters or schooners. These vessels may be seen coming in daily from all the outlying islands while the tax season is on. As soon as suflicient copra is on hand it is taken out of the receiving sheds in sacks, which are afterward emptied into the large ship, which they fill, if possible, clear up to the hatches. Then off to Marseilles or Lisbon to await instructions, as it is generally sold "to .arrive." On the voyage home the copra usually loses four or five per cent, by drying and the depredations of rats and cock roaches. It soon reaches the crushing machinery where the oil is extracted and the refuse sold for pigs' feed and other purposes. The export of cotton has decreased on account of difficulty in getting it picked, but some of the districts stil send it for their share of the taxes. The tobacco prepared by the natives ia Bold to the storekeepers, who retail it again ; it is fit only for their own use, being, as a rule, badly seasoned and very strong. It varies in price accord ing to its scarcity or abundance, rang ing from ten cents to twenty-five cents a pound. To turn to the natives and make thsir style of existence plainer, let us sup pose ourselves to be in a small village of say thirty men and as many girls or women. At daylight on a working day ten might be told off to go and do some work, in their, small plantations. At auout ten or eleven o'croTiK tneee ten would return, bringing yams or taro sufficient for a day or two. This taro is a species of root, and when roasted is not unlike new bread, but of a grayish color. The yams are splendid eating and grow to a great size. I saw one weighed on the island of Iutuna which turned the scale at considerably over 100 pounds. While these men were away the others would be preparing an oven by build ing a fire in a hole, lined with stones. The dirt is cleared away, banana leaves b re thrown over the stones and then the food laid on. If any strangers are present or if it be a special day the fare includes a pig and sundry native pud dings, made with cocoanuts, arrow root, etc. The third lot of men might be carry ing thatch or some special work, but would most probably be smoking and drinking kava, which is the National drink. Kava is the dried root of a species of pepper tree and is prepared with great ceremony. No large meet ing is opened without it and no busi ness among the natives considered complete if the kava has not been made. The performance of making the kava is not edifying to a white man, who, as a visitor, would be expected to take a drink of it. The "grog," as we call it, is handed to girls who are seated fac ing the biggest chief, and having a large wooden bowl in front of them. They put the stuff into their mouths and chew it. When sufficiently masti cated they throw the pulp into the bowl, add water, strain it and hand it around with great pomp to all the men present, beginning with the chief. Large quantities of kava are also con sumed by the white residents, as it im refreshing and non-mtoxicating. When being especially prepared for whites it is not chewed, but grated up. Although there is no alcohol in kava, it is possible by drinking it to excess to lose control of one's legs, and I have frequently seen men staggering about after a night of hard drinking with their heads perfectly clear and their eyes bright. There is still an idea that cannibal ism has not died out entirely in the mountainous districts. No doubt the desire for human flesh is still extant, but the police are too vigilant to give much chance for eating it, and only one or two cases have been heard of in years. In addition to this the natives are all Christianized more or less, and the Wesleyans and Roman Catholics have a good influence over the great majority of them. Twenty years ago, at the time of the war in the mount ains, things were in a bad way, and no person or property Avas safe. Almost all the men wear their hair long, but as it is very strong it stands straight on end. The girls, on the other hand, cut theirs short, unless very young indeed. To a Fijian the great est part of the disgrace in going to jail for a misdemeanor is having his hair cut. Nothing offends them so much as curious strangers touching their locks The armed native constabulary, when walking along, look like men with well trimmed bushes on their heads. The force numbers fifty or sixty, and ia drilled by a white sergeant. San Fran cisco Chronicle. FUU. Tea and coffee are well termed "luxuries of the grocer kind." Texas Siftings. A drop of ink will make a dude think if it is spattered on his trousers. Newburg Register. Don't speak lightiy of the graduate ; he ; knows a great deal that you have forgotten. Elmira (A. axe ito. "Bridget, did you hear me call?" "Yes. mum ; but you told mo the ether day never to answer you back." Tit Bits. The Daughter of an Editor "Why did you reject him?" "He was not accompanied by stamps. " l ife's Cal endar. While the man who seasons janpago may not be a philosopher, he often has a sage air about him. Buffalo Courier. 'Those were indeed good old times ! Whenever a knight saw his creditors approaching, he simply pulled up his drawbridge.' Mamma Oh, dear! I can't find baby's picture book, and I've looked everywhere for it." Papa "Never mind; give him the morning paper.'"' Boston Transcript. The papers are now full of benevo lent suggestions about fresh-air schemes, but none of them include any hints concerning the hand-organ. Philadelphia Times. "It's strange that your children are not the least afraid of the animals in the cages." "No it isn't; they have been brought up in a flat with a jani tor." Chicago Inter-Ocean "You always get the best attention in those parlor cars. Do you fee the porters ?" ' 'No, indeed ! I found a cheaper way than that. I bought my own car." F. B. Q. Monthly. "This is not altogether the kind of house I counted on," said a suburban resident, showing his new residence to a friend, but the architect says it suits him. Philadelphia Record. "I never knew any one who hated mankind in general to the degree that Binkles does, ' said one student to an other. "Hum. That explains his purpose in taking up the profession of dentistry." Washington Star. The "baby King of Spain Has ceased to amuse and entertain his sub jects by his infantile graces, hears the Argonant, aad has become a weakly and uninteresting child of larger gro wth. As be becomes more mature, he gives evidence that he has inherited the weaknesses of profligate ancestors. Officially he is Alfonso the Thirteenth, and the croakers think there is an omen in the unlucky number. POPULAR SClENCt. Trie black diamond is so hard that it cannot be polished. Three hundred thousand earth globes Mould be stored inside the sun. Science says that one cannot bq etung by a bee if the person holds his breath. The microscope made by the Munich (Bavaria) Optical Institute for th? Chicago Fair magnifies 1 1,000 diameter i 6nd is worth $8750. In certain parts of India cocoanut. trees, once almost lifeless in appear ance, have been made to yield abun dantly by placing salt at the roots. The kudzu Tine is probably the most rapid-growing plant in the world IS belongs to the bean family, and will easily grow sixty feet tall in threo months. The remains of a gigantic race of extinct human beings have been dis covered near Vasa, Minn. Each had double teeth in front as well as in the back part of the jaw. The wonderful influence of the sun on the earth is shown by the fact that in less than three minutes, during which the last eclipse was total, tho temperature fell three degrees. The skeleton of the "whale lizard," discovered in Alaska last summer, weighs 2400 pounds. This is tho tecond of the species so far known to science. It had both legs and wings. It- has been found that bicyclists ??&o ride to excess are afflicted with a catarrhal laryngitis. Mouth breath ing and the rapidity and pressure with which large quantities of air are forced hito the larynx are said to be the cause. Charles Toope, who has taken a prominent part in the attempt to abata the smoke and fog nuisance in Eitg land, suggests the application of char coal for purifying the air of houses located in infected districts all ail admitted to be passed through thin canvas bags containing crushed char coal. The Canaigre root, which belongs to the dock family and grows in a wild state in New Mexico, has been found to contain such a large proportion of tannic acid as to suggest the develop uient of a new industry for that Ter ritory in the erection of factories fo$ the extraction of this important in dustrial product. A granite wall eighteen inches thick will lose more heat than a brick waJl the same thickness. A frame buildings plastered on the inside and covered with paper, felt and sheathing on th outside, will lose seventy-five per cent, less heat than a brick wall of the same thickness. A frame fepuse bui$ without paper-felt covering on th outside will lose twenty-fiv per cent, mere heat than the same house iS Covered with felt. U.I I 11 ! I H " ' A Cinderella's Honeymoon. From an article on "The Enipr?RSot Austria," written by one "f the ladies of her Court for Harpei b Magazine, we quote as follows The incidents of her Majesty's early marred life, on which history is singularly silent, nevertheless go far to explain her great dislike for Vienna and the Viennese, and her almost passionate lore for all that is Hungarian. Of course the story of her betrothal to the Emperor is well known by all. A marriage had been arranged for him with her eldest sister, and the young monarch arrived at the castle of his future father-in-law for the purpose of being officially be trothed. He, however, fell madly in love with Princess Elizabeili, the Cin derella of the ducal family, who was yet in short dresses, and breaking off his engagement with Princess Helen, he married the younger sister. A far grander alliance had been looked for by the Viennese, who con sidered that the impoverished family of Duke Maximilian, who was not even a Royal Highness, was unworthy of so great a distinction. Consequently the young Empress was, during the first ten or twelve years of her marriage, treated with coldness nay, even with disdain not only by the public and by the haughty and arrogant Austrian aristocracy, but also by the members of the imperial family, and in par ticular by the Archduchess Sophia, tho Emperor's mother. The latter, who was a very talented and strong-minded woman, exercised an enormous influ ence over her son's mind, and became intensely jealous of her lovely daughter-in-law. Indeed, she went so far as to head the cabals against her, distort ing every action of her faultless and noble life. The New York Mail and Express claims that it was the first to use the expression "Old Glory," as applied to the Stars and Stripes, the former ap pellation being not almost as cornmm as tho lattejr. . . ILL ..ill I -iJ!i- yr-N LIVK STOCK At the World's Columbian Exposition. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. The Latest Happ3ning3 Condensed and Printed Hera. Prof A.M. Muckonfuss, of Charles ton, S C, h;s been elected professor of chemistry at Millsap College. Jackson, Miss. II ; graduated at Wofford in 1889. Prof. W. II. Hand, superintendent of the Florence S C. schools, has been elec t ed priucipal of the Chester graded schools. He is a native of Gaston county, N. O, and graduatad at Chapel Hill. J. M. Roach has been elected county dispenser at Columbia, S. C. The fol'owing prices for liquor are announced there: X rye, $3 per gallon, 75 cents per quut, 40 cents per pint, 20 cents per half pint; XX rye, $3.50 per gallon, 90 cents per quart, 45 cents per pint, 25 cents per half pint. Mis Stonewall Jackson 13 at present visiting in Farmville, Va. There is a house in Salisbury, N. C , owned by Frost, built by Fries, the lumber of which was furnished by Snow. Ilackburn & Willetts, truckers at New born, N. C , shipped a few days ago, 2,500 boxes, five carloads, of cucumbers. A dispatch to the Ncsv York Tribune Loin Honolulu says tho adherents of the provisional government are begiuning to look to England to annex the islands. Senator Colquitt is a surprise and a disappointment to the Georgia politicians ?o.Jie months ag) they had him dying, nd now he announces tint hs is a can didate for re-e'ection. He will not have a walk over, though, for Governor Nor then, ex-Congressman Henry G. Turner and Speaker Charles F. Crisp sre all anxious to fill the seat held bj him. There i some talk of running Secretary Hoke Smith as a Cleveland candidate. None of the other candidates takes any decided stand in regard to silver, though they all lean towards-free coinage. During the single yeir of its existence the Young Mens' Business Lagu of Memphis, Tenn., has succeeded in secur ing four new factories for the city, pay ing 300,000 yearly in wages and adding 2.500 to the city's population. The grain elevator which the Chesa peake & Ohio Railroad has contemplated erecting at Richmond, Va., will soon be built. The structure is to be 40x100 feet in size, 108 feet high, and bo built of corrugated iron and mineral wool. Dr. J. A. Hodges, of Wilmington, N C, has been elected to the chair of iuatomy in the College of Physicians And Surgcous, of Richmond, Va., and has accepted. The Knoxville, Tcnn., street car line is in the hands of a receiver who an nounced Monday that no negroes would be allowed to ride on the cars yesterday, the 4th of July. "The negroe3 announc ed their purpose to ride and a clash was expected. A.N ENGLISH MiNE EXPLOSION. Of 130 Miners in the Pit Not One Has Been Taken Out Alive. London, Cablegram. An explosion occurred in Ingram's colliery, Thornhill, irorkshire, where 130 men were at work. A relief party soon reached the bottom of the thaft, where bodies were found, but the mine drifts were badly blocked by the debris and filled with foul air. Oper itions were suspended several hours, when the relief party again descended, tnd working slowly into the mine, found lead bodies lying in heaps. Many were brought to the surface, but work was igain suspended on account of foul air. One hundred and forty five men and boys went into the mine before the ex plosions. No living persons have yet been taken out. The scenes at the mouth jf the pit are heart-rendering, Latest in North Carolina. The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad has decided not to pay its regular July dividend because of having to pay heavy back taxes to the State. Trains are expected to run between Wilmington and Newbern on the Wil mington, Newborn & Norfolk Railroad (nearly completed) in August. The Fayettcville Gazette says tnat "Bolbj" Gillespie, colored, was taken from his house near Hope Mills by some white and colored men rcceatly and given a thrashing for having "blown" on a certaiu "gall-berry still" in that neigh borhood. Warrants have been sworn out for several of the offenders. Assistant Bishop of North, Caroling Raleigh, N. C The Rev. Joseph B. Cheshire, Jr., rector at Charlotte, N. C, was elected on the thirty-niuth ballot As sistant Bishop of the Protestant Epis copal Church for the Diocese of North Carelina. Mr. Cheshire was born in Tar boro, N. C, in 1850, and graduated from Trinity College in 1870. He studied law and practiced several years. He has been rector at Charlotte since 1883- w.sa if --m ncra o . PAVILION PEFFER TURNS STATISTIC AN. Ho Will Haye a Lot of Figures Abaut Agriculture to Present to Congress. Indianapolis, Ind. Senator Peffer, of Kansas, is in town. In an interview, he 6aid: "I am going to all the State capi tals in the Union gathering statistics on agriculture to present to Congress when it meets in September. I have been through the West and North, and am now working my way eastward. After that I will attend a meeting of the Senate committ.e, and then return to Kansas." "Will Congress meet before Septem ber?' "No. Washington is too warm a place in the summer, and most of the members would oppose it." 'What action on silver do jou antici pate at the next session?" "The Sherman law will be repealed the first thing. The effect of this will be to destroy both the old parties ami build up a new one. The new organ ization is to be composed of the People's carty mostly, and it will receive mny recruits from both of the oth- r large or ganizations, which are now closing iheir ca'cers." " A New Process for Gold Extraction. One difficulty which ha3 always been encountered in developing gold properties in Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama h ss been that at a little beneath the sur.'ace the gold beaiing ores became su'phu.-ets, and no satisfac tory process for ireating t'.em to extract sma'l amounts of gold have been found The sulphuret ores are in larg? quanti ties in all of there Stdes, carrying from ten to fifty dollars or even more in gold, the problem being, therefore, to handle a large qu mtity of meterial and secure the small proporiion of gold in it. Recently A. M. Beam and Hugh Cal houn, with J. S. Hamilton, of Athens. Ga., have been cxpei imcnting with p new process which they have patented, and engaged Prof. N. S Pratt, the well known chemist, of Atlanta, to examine and report upon it. In his report Pro fessor Pratt states that th ; experimental plant was under his direction for one week. The ore used was quartz carry ing a considerable nuantitv of pyrite. A sample showed it to contain 0.95 per cent, of gold, silver and copper, the val ue being gold $32.14, silver $1.91 -total coin value of one ton crc f 35 05. A trial run yielded $12.10 gold, or 37.83 per cent, of the total, and ano hcr run gave $12.40. After passing through the new process this ore yielded $25.55 gdd The process, it is understood, is not complicated nor expensive, and if such results as this may be had in regular practice it will do much toward develop ing the gold prop rties m these Stages, I i .If R:UJ -mm AX 01.D DUTCH WINDMILL. At the World's Columbian Exposition. To Abolish, the Revenue Office. Abingdon, Va. Official notice was received here Thursday morning by Deputy Collector Paul E. Hayter thai the office of internal revenue at this place is to be abolished on the 30lh instant. Owing to the large decrease in collect ions the department has deemed is dis continuance proper, and ia consequence the Hon. P. H. McCaull has ordered zM the stamps, with other Government prop erty of the office, to hi3 headquarters in Lynchburg. The patrons of thi3 office will hereafter have to purchase revenue stamps from the Roanoke office. The American Bi-Motallic League Called to Meet. Washington, D. C Gen. A. J. Warner, president of the American Bi Metalic League.issued a cill for a national jonvention of that Leigue to meet in Dhicago August 1st to continue as long is the convention may direct. "All nembers of the league are urged to at tend, and all who are in favor of main lining the money of the constitution and ppcsed to the establishment of the sin gle gold standard in the United States, ivhhout regard to pirty, are invited to rttend and participate in the delibera- j ions f he convention." V "'n ii ill?? THE COTTON LOUSE. Remedies for Riddance The Lady Bugs Doing a Good work. Experiment Station, Raleigh, N. C. Every season as soon as tho hot dry weather begins in earnest, the Experi ment Station receives complaints of the damage caused to cotton plants by a small re4 mite which most farmeis call a louse. This is scienti 't ally known ns totranychus tolarius. It is a tiuc mite which lives on the under surface of the leaf covered by a white silken web. It inserts its beak into the veins of the leaf and sucks out the sap, causing the leaf to turn red or browu in spots, producing whit is often called "rust." The leaf eventually withers and falls off. This little pest is so small it gener.illy escapes notice until its presenc-3 is made known by the rusty appearance of the cotton leaves. Remedies: Prob.ii !y he most satis factory remedy is to te.d nv;n thr.-ugh the fields with bapke s r bags and p'ek cfT all rusty leave?, carry them away with their infesting mites and bum them. As they live on the under Bide of the leaf it is difficult to use- ray against them unless one has a nozzle that w ill throw the spray upwaids. Fueh a noz zle attached to a T rod is made by the Field Pump Co., of Lock port, N. Y. A reliable ready prepared emulsion can be bought of W. 8. Powell & Co.. Annapo lis Junction, Md., as cheap as any one can make it. The tobacco decoction w 11 al-o de stroy tiHsc mites. It is made hy boiling tobacco sttms or powder in water fur half an hour at tlr; rate of one pound of tobacco to three gallons water. It will be more powerful if stilphur is used in cr nnectiou. Mix five pounds of flour of sulphur with ten pounds of ficsh lime and boil together in five 'o ten g Hons of water for half an hour. Add this, boil ing hot, to twenty gallons of diluted to bacco decoction and use at once. In stead of boiling lime and sulp'u ', sul phide of lime may be houg'.t at the s'ores. One pound of this powder should be w ell mixed with one quart of ord 'nary soft ;oap and the whole then stirred into twenty gall uis of the hot tobacco de coction and used at once. Should the weather turn wet those mites will soon disappear as they are unable to with stand much moisture. A sample of infested cotton leaves just received shows that the beneficial in sects, lady bugs, are already destroy iug the lice, and hence it would scarcely pay to purchase a spraying outfit at this date. Gerald McCarthy, Entomologist, N. C. Experiment Sta tion. BULLETS FLY and LAWYERS FLEE A Murderer on Trial Attacked by His Victim's Husband. Texarkana, Tex. While iLe examin ing trial of S. E. Lec for the killing of Mrs. Jesse Hile, which occurred iu this ;ity some time ago, was in progress be fore Justice Edwards, Hale, the husband af the deceased, entered the Court rjom with his twi little daughters and ai vancirg to where Le was sitting in the prisoner's dock, set his children down, ind, drawing a 55 calibre Colt's pistol, Dpened fire on the slayer of his wife. Hale fire 1 five times, the second shot tricking Lee in the thigh and making a dangerous wound. Lee owes his life to i large stove, bihind which he took refuge. The scene in the Court room was a wild one, Judges, lawyers and witnesses taking refuge from the flying bullets. Hale was pliced under arrest ind Lee's trial postponed to await tbe re mit of his injuries Trie .Farting Was Affectionate. Cranston's N. Y. Mr'. Jffrson Davis, her maid and Miss Winnie Davis departed from Cranston's Mom! iy morn ing over the New York Central. They go direct to Karragan ett Pier, R. I., where they wiiliemaia dining the season. All the guests of the hotel, including Mrs. Grant, took their leave of Mrs. Davis last night. The paiting between Mrs. Grant and Miss Davis was very af fectionate indeed. Mrs. Davis snd paity, in company with Miss Mary D. Pel1, drove to West Point and witnessei the parade last evening. After their return to the hotel Mrs. Davis remine in the large arlr during the entire evening snd sat con versing wiih Mrs Gr.-u.t most of the time. The Cotton Milling Industry of South Carolina. Edgefield Chronic! . The cotton mills of South Carolina iave added nearly $21,000,000 to the jvealth f the State ia 1891-02. The ralue of the raw cotton consumed was (6,821,480, aad of the finished material 27,284,920. When the statistics of 1893 94 will have been completed, the esult will certainly be astounding. A Conference On the Silver Situation. Brussels, Cablegram, The Belgian government is reported to be about to convene the Latin Union States for the purpose of considering what action they shall tike in view of the recent fall in silver. This will precede the reassem bling of the inter-national monetary conference. HUNG AN INNOCENT MAN. Suffered Death for a Murder That Was Never Committed. Fatettevillk, Ark. Saturday's de velopments have rendered sensationitl a supposed murder case that has long been disposed of by the hanging of an in nocent man. In 18G0 George Wfctkins, with a come ly young wife, moyed from Kansas t a cmnty adjoining thin and settled on tho homestead of Andy Hedgepeth, a weaUhy planter. Watkins soon became aware of unholy relations between Ilcdgfpe'h and Mrs. Watkins. The two men went to market in lledgepeth's wagon. Hedgepeth returned alone. The sudden absence of Watkins excited sus picion and Hedgepeth und tho woman v ere arrested Tho woman, at the trial, stated that she and Hedgepeth had agreed to kill her husband, but denied any knowledgo of the murder. The evidence was circum stantial, but in a stroDg and unbroken chain. The case was carried to tho Su preme Court, reversed, and at the second trial Hedge-path wa3 again convicted and hanged. It is learned by ITedgepath'a counsel that Watkins is living in his old home in Kansas, where he has been all the time since his disappearances Prayer Answered While lie Prayed. Arru-STA, Ga. The winds of Thurs day night's storm settled a religious wrangle by summarily blowing down tho house of worshlo where the wrangle took A O place. For weeks the members of the lirown ville Iluptist Church, in the southern part of (he city, have been engaged in a dispute over a choice of pastors. Through trials and tribulations the Rev. White, far removed in color from his name, did build this church. After the house of Go I sto d complete, and the church members pronounced it good, a bright mulatto fieologian came to the neighbor hood, smi'ed upon tho females of tho congregation, and announced himself a candidate for pnstor. That this yellow parvenu churchman should receive any favor from his fl ck made the Rev. While iudi.nant. He prayed that this house of worship which he with his own hand', had built should be destroyed, thus ending forever the audacioiu cla'ms of his mu'atto opponent and the wrangling of his ungrateful congregation. Shortly b fore last night's storm, while the clouds were growing dark and tha distaut thunder rolled, the Rev: White continued to pray. The fury of the blast increased, the rain fell, tho flood came, ind smote that church, and by the time tho Ucv. Whito stopped his petition tho :hurch wai destroyed. There was f 15, 300 damage. The negroes of that whole section are terrorized over tho visitation. A Gun Cotton Factory Blown Up' Newport, R. I. Fire broke out in the gun cation factory at the government torpedo station on Goat Island. Most of the gun cotton w;; removed from the building, but before the re moval was comph te the fire reached a small quantity rcmaiuingand it exploded. Frank Laughliu and Jeremiah Harrison, cmp'oyes in the factory, were killed, and Michael Reagan, John T. Harrington, Ensign Capehart and several others, whos'j names have not yet been learned, werclni't. Cipehart's injuries are not serious. All the other injured and the two men killed are citizens, employees and nsid- nts of Newport. The gun cott-n building was leveled to the ground. A Dead Man at the Throttle. C it ester, Pa. The fireman on a fast freight train on the Philadelphia, Wil mington & Baltimore Railroad observed that the engineer did not skek up in rounding the curve near here, and clamb ered up to the caboose to see what the trouble wa3. He made the startling dis. covery that Engineer Craig was dead at his post. The fireman quickly reversed the engine and brought it to a standstill in front of the Chester ftation. When -the train stepped a few milts corih oi here, Craig was apparently all right. Factories Closing Down. Indianapolis, Ind. As a result of th continued stringency of the money market nearly 5,000 men empiojed in various manufacturing industries in this city are out of work. The majority of the man ufacturers have a large amount of man ufactured product on band, but the de mand has fallen off in every class of business within the last month and col lections re so slow that many factories will close down while others will con tinue, but with reduced forces. Neatly every factory in the city is dis charging some of its men and many of them say that they are colbcting barely enough money to keep up their pay rolls. To Expound Mohammed's Faith.. New Youk. Abdurrahim Effendi, an Egyptian of rank, is in the city. He has i mission to propogate the Moslem faith n this country, ne will assist ex-Consul lexander Russell Webb in establishing olonies of Egyptians in the South and in building mosques in this and other ;ities.
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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