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A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS.
VOL. VIII. NO. 16
MAXTON, N. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1893.
SI. GO A YEAR.
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The very latest computation puts at
$559,000, 0" the value of the real
estate and buildings owned by the City
of New York. In 1871 the estimated
value of the city's real estate was
$267, 000; 000. The assessed valuation
of the city property is $205,000,000.
The fall is the time of the year when
the country demand for broken-down
street car horses is the greatest. Dur
ing the cold weather the animals get
used to their rural surroundings, re
cuperate, have only enough exercise to
keep them in condition and by spring
are able to accomplish the heavier
tasks of plowing and harrowing.
The increase of nearly 350,000 So
cialist votes in Germany since 1890 is
an astonishing gain, and the total So
cialist poll of 1,S00,000 distances by
more than half a million votes the
polling strength of any other party in
Germany. "It must not be expected,"
comments the New York Independent,
'that this greater progress will be
kept up, but nevertheless one who
studies the German politics has got to
keep his sharpest eye on the progress
and platform of Socialism. "
Senator Perkins, of California,
ascribes his popularity to a simple
little method he has adopted. He says
that he has a habit of asking every
second or third man he meets for the
time of day, and immediately setting
his own watch according to the in
formation given him. Senator Per
kins asserts that the wear and tear on
his own watch and the compliment
paid to that of his constituent are re
paid by the latter 's vote and his sup
port in different ways.
Immense and rich deposits of nickel
carbonate with cobait and copper have
been found in Floyd County, Georgia.
The development of bauxite near
Rome, the county seat of Floyd, has
attained a world-wide reputation.
Sixty to eighty carloads of bauxite,
containing from fifty-two to fifty -five
per cent, of oxide of aluminum, are
shipped throughout the United States
for various chemical purposes. The
aluminum works at Rome, Ga.,
consume twenty-five tons of bauxite
per day.
When the historian undertakes the
record of this year of our Lord, ob
serves the New York Sun, he will have
a curious entry to make of commer
cial disaster almost unprecedented;
of great naval, military and civic dis
plays, to which all the world hs con
tributed ; of a gigantic enterprise in
honor of the discoverer of this contin
ent, conceived, executed and brought
to a successful issue by the ability and
efforts of the men and women of a dis
tant city ; of an enormous sacrifice of
human life by railroad disasters and
atmospheric disturbances ; in short, of
a general hurly-burly pervading all
parts of the country, which its rulers
were unable to control.
The JVew JTork World observes: We
are apt to imagine that America is the
land of progress and Asia the land of
regress. This i3 doubtless true, as a
rule, but every now and then we are
startled to find that the Mongolians
have ideas also and sometimes act
upon them. This statement is borne
out by a recent report made to the
Japanese Government on the state of
agriculture in that country, and advo
cating, among other things, the es
tablishment of agricultural insurance.
Mutual insurance that is, "a fellow
ship, the ningle members of which are
all insured by that same fellowship"
is also advocated. The report shows
that the Japanese are wide awake.
The recent disbandment of several
companies of Indians, who had been
enlisted as soldiers in Uncle Sam's
army, seems to have been due more to
the difficulty of finding recruits than
to any real opposition among officers
to the employment of the red man in
the ranks. The Indian himself does
not take kindly to the restraints of
discipline, and misses the freedom of
Ins roving life ; hence, he will no
longer enlist, but while he is in the
Government's service he appears to
discharge his duties an well as can be
expected from him. He does not like
the routine of drill, and he cannot be
depended on to stand in line of battle,
but he makes a good scout and skirm
isher in short, he shows ftll the weak
nesses and virtues of th& savage. The
great argument in favor of taking him
into the regular army is still as strong
s it ever was, tho experiment with
fcim not having weakened it in the
least. It is cheaper to pay him for
being on good terms with us than to
'5ht him, and, even if he will not take
Mndly to rules and regulations, he ia
esne to become a more tractable being
y subjecting himself to them even
W, rfectly.
CYCLONE LORE.
A METEOROLOGIST GIVES HIS
THEORY OF THEIR CAUSE.
The Popular Belief That Electricity
Is the Immediate Origin is an
Error How to Avert
Cyclones.
D. TITUS, President of the
National Chemical Company,
X a eentleman who has had
thirteen years' practical ex
perience as a telegraph manager, and
in such capacity has studied electrical
disturbances and kept a record of them,
because a part of his duties, after
twenty-five years of observation, and
having visited nearly every locality
from the lakes to Utah, is free to state,
says the Minneapolis Tribune, that no
phenomena in connection with cyclones
bad ever come under his observation
that could be explained as originating
through natural causes.
The statement was brought out be
cause in a late issue of the Tribune
there appears a communication from
Mr. Stone, of Pine City, Minn,, in
which he predicted that the next
generation of man will be compelled
to dwell in caves in order to avoid the
increasing electrical disturbances upon
the earth the so-called cyclones.
"The popular belief that electricity
is the immediate cause of cyclones is
an error. " Mr. Titus said to the Trib
une. "All chemical action is based
upon the operation of the law of heat
and cold. There can be no chemical
action without heat. A drop of water
coming in contact with a piece of iron
cannot oxidize into the oxide of iron
rust without generating a certain
amount of heat. It is the operation
of the law of heat and cold that causes
the ocean currents. Cold water is
heavier to the square inch than warm,
hence the cold arctic currents follow
the deep sea beds and channels toward
the equator, dispersing and forcing
the lighter warm water to the surface
and to the poles, where in turn it be
comes cooled, returning again to the
equator through the deep sea beds.
The same law that governs the water
of the earth governs also the air. Air
and water are both liquids. The air
can be seen to flow like water by hold
ing a sharp piece of glass in a strong
current of air.
"From the Gulf of Mexico to the
North Pole and from the lakes to the
Rocky Mountains is a vast extent of
country crossed by no mountain chains
to intercept or retard the velocity of
air current. The extent of this coun
try ia equaled by none on earth. Gold
air being heavier to the square inch
than warm air, the cold air, when com
ing in contact with a warm, current
from the south, always predominates,
forcing the warm air into the upper
current.
"The cause of cyclones is the meet
ing of a head wind from the North
with a head wind from the South. They
meet like two vast armies of men. The
pressure at the point of meeting ia ao
great that the air, by compression, be
comes heavier to the square inch than
wood, or the human body, hence either
one will float in the same manner that
wood will float in water it floats be
cause it is lighter to the square inch
than water. Place water in an ordin
ary wash bowl and remove the plug
an it will be observed that in passing
out the water forms a circular reaction.
Air being a liquid does the same in
passing either upward or downward ;
hence the funnel-shaped spout of the
cyclone center. When two immense
bodies of air coming from opposite
directions meet, the only egress is up
ward and sideways, and in passing up
ward ii forms the funnel the same as
water passing out of a wash bowl down
ward. The theory that a cyclone forms
a vacuum ia absurb. Withdraw air
from a glass jar with an air pump, and
a feather withi& the. ..xBcjanm. .formed
will drop with The same velocity as
lead, or, on the other hand, you can
compress air until it is heavier to the
square inch than wood, in which case
wood will float in tne air. The lifting
power of a cyclone is caused by the
compression or density of the air, and
second by its velocity. Combining
the power of density with that of
velocity, which occurs at the center or
funnel, no power can resist it. The
feeling of suffocation or difficulty in
breathing when near the track of a
cyclone is caused from the compression
of air.
"Several years ago a cyclone picked
np a man and his wife, each having a
child in their arms. They floated along
together for the first mile or two and
then separated. The husband was
dropped to the ground lightly without
the slightest injury either to himself or
child, while the wife drifting into rari
fied air, dropped with great force and
was killed. Ilad they been carried in
consequence of the velocity of the
wind they would have been carried at
a speed of not less than 100 miles per
hour, and destruction to both would
certainly have followed. They simply
floated in consequence of the density
of the air. In olden times unexplained
phenomena were attributed to one of
the gods or the intervention of divine
providence. At the present day many
would-be scientists lay what they can
not explain to the doors of electricity.
Electricity has no lifting power except
in connection with the dynamo or
helix ; in other words, except when
harnessed by man.
"Several years ago e, cyclone picked
np two spans of the railroad bridge
across the Missouri Eiver at Omaha.
They have never been found, being
probably dropped into the quicksands
of the river and passing from sight
forever. I was in the capacity of
train dispatcher at the time, sending
orders to a stock train at Kearney,
Neb. The carrying away of the two
spans of the bridge broke the
wires and disconnected the main
batteries. There was no more
electricity in the air , at that
moment than is experienced in an or
dinary thunderstorm. Had there been,
it would have interfered with the work
ing of the wires. On the contrary,
however, the electric disturbance was
so slight that it did not interfere with
telegraphic communication with the
West, and I did not learn of the ac
cident to the bridge until some time
afterwards, although it was scarcely a
mile distant. Soon after this occur
rence a certain Professor Tice, of St.
Ijouis, wrote a long-winded article on
tho subject, attributing the cause to
electricity. He might as well have
charged it to the heathen gods. I waa
working the identical bridge at that
identical moment, and I know from
practical knowledge that no unusual
electrical forces were at work in the
air. A person who has given electri
city any thought can tell from his own
feelings whether the air is heavily
charged or not, but, if in doubt, he
can easily settle the question by rub
bing his fist over a piece of paper
placed upon a table or smooth board.
If the air is heavily charged the paper
will become charged and stick to any
object, the wall or celling."
"To avert cyclones," says Mr. Titus,
"plant trees. If eabh farmer would
cultivate a line of trees running east
and west along hia south section line
it would break the velocity of the
winds near the ground and force the
cyclones into the upper air currents."
Typesetting Machines.
In typesetting machinery the appli
cation of mechanics to the art of print
ing is reaching a culmination. It is
stated that during the last twenty
years upward of nine million dollars
have been expended in bringing the
art of setting types by machinery up
to its present state. Now, for all plain
work, typesetting machines are avail
able. In the London Times office a
curious arrangement has been adopted
for the composition of the stenographic
notes of the Parliamentary reporters
in the House of Commons, in which
typesetting machines play an impor
tant part. The stenographic notes are
read directly to the operators of the
machines, instead of being transcribed,
as was formerly the case. Men at tel
ephones in the "House of Commons
read these notes to men stationed at
receivers in the Times composing
rooms, who in turn read them to the
typesetters. In this way these notes
can be set up almost as rapidly as they
could be transcribed by an expert
typewriter ; and it is said that the
number of errors that creep in are not
so numerous as to make the work of
correcting proof much greater than
by the old system, while a consider
able saving in time and expense is ef
fected. Engineering Magazine.
Artificial Ice Surfaces.
A successful system of producing
artificial ice surfaces has been inaugu
rated in Paris, and is available in large
areas at all seasons of tho year. Ab
explained, the machinery consists of
two ammonia ice machines, driven by
two fifty-horse power steam engineB ;
this ice apparatus has pumps which
force ammonical gas into water-cooled
condensors, liquefying the gas, which
then passes into large reservoirs,
where it expands with the production
of cold, the same gas being pumped
back and used continuously. In the
application of this system for the for
mation of a skating surface, a rink has
been constructed sixty by 130 feet,
having a floor of cork and cement,
upon this being laid three miles of
connected iron pipe ; through thig
pipe circulates a solution of chloride
of calcium, an uncongeable liquid,
which, by passage through spirals in
the refrigerating reservoirs, is cooled
to some five to twenty degrees below
zero. The water over the pipe is thus
kept frozen, and daily sweeping and
flooding insures smoothness.
CHEESES. .
HOW THE MOST POPULAR VA
RIETIES ARE MADE,
In Europe Cheme is as Much a Staple
Food as Bread Roquefort Is
Ripened in Caves Swiss
Cheese Making.
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RELLAT SAVARIN once wise
ly remarked, "A last course
at dinner, wanting cheese, is
like a pretty woman with only
one eye"' and at once France bowed
to the fiat, cheese became fashionable
and dairymen grew rich.
J udging by our menus of the most
popular great dinners the favorite
cheeses among American people of
tone are Roquefort, Brie, Edam, Ched
dar, Swiss, Cheshire and Stilton.
To show how Roquefort cheese ha?
grown in popular favor within a few
years, permit me to state the following
reliable facts ; The total manufacture
of this favorite French cheese in 1850
waa 1,400,000 kilos; in 1880, 2,700,
000; in 1870, 3,500,000; in 1880,
4,500,000, and in 1890, 5,600,000.
Pliny mentions Roquefort cheese in
one of his works, demonstrating that
this favorite has a reputation extend
ing far back into dim antiquity. It is
made from the milk of the Larzad
sheep and goats, jrincipally from that
of the former. In the year 1866 it is
recorded that 250,000 out of a flock of
400,000 supplied the milk for 7,150,
000 pounds of cheese. The very fer
tile pasturage of these animals is an
immense plain, eight or ten leagues
across. In the evening, after the re
turn of the sheep from the pastures,
they are permitted to rest for an hour
before being milked, after which they
will yield the milk more readily.
From May 1 to the middle of J uly the
yield of milk is largest, and each ani
mal gives nearly one pint. After the
shearing, the flow of milk diminishes.
The evening's milk is heated to boil
ing and eet aside. In the morning it
is skimmed, heated to ninety-eight de
grees, and mixed with the morning's
milk for coagulation. After the curd
has been divided by stirring with a
paddle, and the whey drawn off, it ia
well kneaded wirth the hands and
pressed in layers into molds with per
forated bottoms, and usually a thin
layer of moldy bread is put in be
tween each layer of curd, the object
being to hasten the ripening by sup
plying the germs of the green mold
peculiar to cheese. The bread for
this purpose is made before Christmas,
of equM parts of summer and winter
barley, with considerable sour dough
and a little vinegar. The moldinesa
is not sufficiently developed in it un
der three months unless hastened by
warmth. When moldy enough it is
ground, sifted, moistened with water
and kept from contact with the air un
til wanted.
The curd remains in the mold under
pressure three or four days, after
which the cheeses are wrapped in linen
and put to dry. They remain in the
drying room three or four days, after
which they are taken to the village of
Roquefort, where the ripening is com
pleted in a very peculiar manner.
This village is situated in a deep, nar
row gorge, with high, precipitous walls
of limestone rock that overhang the
houses, and often immense boulders
may be seen between the houses which
have fallen from the rock above. This
wall of rock is filled with caves and
fissures, from which currents of cold
air come without cessation, and it is
vaults constructed in these fissures
that the ripening of the Roquefort
cheese is carried on and it would ap
pear that the peculiar characteristics
and excellent quality of this singular
kind of cheese can only be obtained by
ripening in these vaults. The currents
of air are quite cold, so that in the
hottest weather their temperature is
kept at from forty-one to forty-four
aegrecs. xiiose vaults wnicn are so
situated that the currents of air flow
from south to north are believed to
yield the best cheese and they are con
sequently held in the highest esteem.
The cheeses are brought in at all
seasons by the shepherds, and are
bought by the proprietors of the
vaults, sometimes the purchases being
made several years in advance, so sure
is the demand for the cheeses when
ripened. They are carefully examined
when brought in and classified accord
ing to merit. Salt is sprinkled over
them, and they are piled up one on an
other for two or three days. Then
they are taken down, the salt and brine
rubbed in, piled up again and left for
a week. They are scraped and pared,
pricked through and through with
needles driven by machinery, in order
to accelerate the molding, and after
this they are left in piles again for fif
teen days, till they become dry and
firm in textnre and begin to be cov
ered with mold. This mold, by its
brilliant whiteness, its length the j
filaments being sometimes six inches
long its. succulency and the thickness
of its coating indicates the quality of
the cheese on which it grows and the
suitability of the vaults in which the
ripening is perfected. v-
The Swiss Gruyere is a favorite
eheese upon the continent of Europe,
and is called Swiss because it was
originally made in Switzerland. It is
now also made in France, Germany
and other countries, including Ameri
ca. It is mostly made in huts, called
chalets, high up among the Alps, in
the time during which the pastures on
the mountain sides are accessible and
the chalets habitable, say from the
melting of the snow in May to the end
of September.
The milk, partly skimmed or not,
according to the quality of the
cheese desired to be made, is put into
a great kettle and swung over a
gentle fire, where it attains . tem
perature of seventy-seven .degrees,
when the kettl9 is swung off the
fire and rennet is added to tho
milk. When coagulation has ad
vanced far enough the curd is cut into
very fine piece. The kettle is again
swung over the fire, and the curd is
taken up in small quantities in a por
riDger and poured back through the
fingers, whereby it is still more finely
divided. Each particle much be fully
exposed to the action of the heat in
the cooking process which ensues up
to a point when a temperature of
ninety degrees has been obtained. The
kettle is then immediately swung ofl
the fire and the waste of curd and
whey stirred for some fifteen minutes
longer, and if the cooking has been
properly performed the particles of
curd have the appearance of burst
grains of rice swimming in the whey.
The curd is then collected in a cloth,
and all the whey is carefully expelled.
The salt is next rubbed, from time to
time, on the outside of the cheese, care
being taken to discern when enough
shall have been absorbed. This salt
ing process is sometimes continued for
one or two years, at intervals of a
week. The Gruyere cheeses are com
monly three feet in diameter and
weigh over one hundred pounds. A
successful cheese of this kind is like a
soft yellow paste, which melts in the
mouth, and is filled with cavities
about the size of a pea, one or two,
say, in each square inch of the cheese.
Connoisseurs will tell you that if these
cavities are greasy the cheese is im
ported, but if not the cheese is Ameri
can, as we cannot imitate the foreign
production in this respect.
One of the most delightful of the
solid cheeses, and one which has
grown in favor because of its merits
within the past twenty years, it the
small, round Dutch known as the
Edam cheese. It is called after a small
but flourishing town of that name
near Amsterdam, in Holland. In size
and shape these cheeses resemble can
non balls, anTT " when Hry they are
nearly as hard. They have perhaps
been made more widely known by the
story that during the seige of one of
the cities of Holland the supply oi
cannon balls gave out and Edam
cheeses were used as a substitute.
New York Advertiser.
Thk Vivisector Held Up.
One of the most curious expeditions
ever planned by man was that once
undertaken by Dr. J. C. Bunting, of
Portland. During all his life he had
been a close student of the philosophy
of digestion, and for the purpose of
his investigations he hsd that remark
able Canadian, Alexis St. Martin, in
his care for twenty years. In order
to clinch matters and provide facts
for the doubting Thomases, Dr. Bunt
ing cast about for some one else upon
whom he might continue to experi
ment. He could think of but one plan,
and that was to go into Africa, buy
two slaves, and operate upon their
fcomac hs. By opening the body near
the fifth rib . and perforating the
stomach, a condition could be pro
duced similar to that existing in the
person of St. Martin. Therefore the
doctor purchased his supplies and
sailed across to Tunis in the north of
Africa. There he hired a native chief
with forty of his followers, paying
them a liberal retaining fee and prom
ising alluring largess when the trip
should be ended. They set forth. The
doctor carried $5000 in his inside
pocket, and the chief probably lay
awake four nights thinking about the
matter. At any rate, on the fifth
night he sneaked into the doctor's
tent and delivered a little address over
the muzzles of two pistols. When he
had concluded the doctor passed over
bis ducats and the chief passed over
the border along with his renegade
band. They helped themselves to
such supplies as suited their artless
and unenlightened tastes. The doctor
came back without a retinue, but with
a deal of experience that will never
appear m a medical work. Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
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THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
Raw Materials all Put on the Free
List
by the Committee.
Washinoton, D. C The turiff bill
prepared by the Democratic members
of the Ways and Means Committee is
now given to the public. It deals en
tirely with the customs and adminis
trative branches of the subject. The
internal revenue portion is left in
abeyance.
The duty on castor oil is reduced
from 85 to 35 cents per gallon, and
the duty on linseed oil from 32 cents
to 15 cents a gallon. Pig lead is being
reduced from 2 cents to 1 cent a
pound and lead paints are correspond
ingly reduced.
Plain white pottery ware is dropped
from the schedule, and decorated ware
is reduced from GO to 45 per cent. ; un
decorated, from 55 to 40 per cent. In
common window glass ware duties av
eraging 100 per cent., a reduction of
more than one-half has been made in
all the larger sizes.
Iron ore is pnt on the free lint.
Pig iron reduced from 86.72 per
ton, which is from 50 to 90 per cent.,
a rate somewhat higher in proportion
than the rest of the schedule, because
of cheap freight rates on foreign pig
it being a favorite freight on westward
voyages. Steel rails reduced from
$13.44 per ton, now 75 per cent, to 25
per cent. Tin plates are reduced to
40 per cent, ad valorem, more tlinn
one-half of the old rate. Cheaper
grades of pocket cutlery are 35 per
cent; higher grades, 45. Table cut
lery is put at 35 per cent. These are
very substantial reductions from pres
ent rates, which, being specific, reach
in some grades of pocket cutlery as
high as 90 per cent.
Both copper ores and pig copper are
made free. Nickel is free. Lead ore
has a small duty of 15 per cent. Pig
lead is 1 cent a pound. Silver-lead
ores are restored to the free list.
Unmanufactured lumber is free.
Manufactured lumber is put at 25 per
cent.
On sugar the duty is reduced to one
half on refined, and the bounty of one
eighth of a cent a pound repealed,
leaving raw sugar untaxed for the pres
ent. On tobacco the present taxes of $2
and 82. 75 a pound on wrapper leaf have
been changed, to 81 and 81.25 per
pound, and 45 and 60 cents per pound
on filler tobacco. Manufactures of to
bacco are put at 40 cents. Cigars are
reduced from 84.50 per pound and 25
per cent, ad valorem to 83 per pound.
Ijive animals are put at 20 per cent.
-Barley is reduced from 30 cents per
bushel to 20 per cent., which is about
12 cents. Breadstuffs are made free.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs and
like food products are untaxed. Salt
is free.
In cotton manufactures substantial
reductions are made, especially on
cheap cloths and prints, and the exist
ing system of taxing a count of threads
in the square inch is retained. Hemp
and flax are made free; dressed line of
hemp and flax 1 and 1 J cents respect
ively. Burlaps of cotton and grain
bagging are put nt 15 per cent., but
when imported for covering articles to
be exported, are duty free.
Wool is made free.
Cloths and urese goods are put at 40
percent. Clothing at 45 per cent.,
rates higher than the commitee desir
ed but deemed temporarily nec
essary they say, because our
manufacturers have so loug
been excluded from two-thirds of
the wools of the world that they will
have to learn the art of manufacturing
with free wool. A sliding scale is
therefore added by which the rates in
the woolen schedule are to come down
five points, with the lapse of five years.
Carpet?i are put at 25 per cent, for
Axminister, Moquette and Wilton; 30
per cent, for Brussels, while common
grades go down to 20 per cent.
The bill provides that the duties on
wool shall be removed March 1st, and
redued on woolen goods July 1st. In
the silk schedule the reduction of rates
is smaller than in cotton or woolen
fabrics.
Sole leather is reduced from 10 to
5 per cent.
Other principal additions to the free
list are the following: Bacon and hams,
beef, mutton, pork, and meats of all
kinds; binding twine, borax, camphor,
bituminous coal, coke copper in all
crude forms, cotton ties, iron ore,
cotton seed oil, agricultural imple
ments (cotton gins named) salt soap,
building material (except marble) lum
ber, timber and wood.
REMOVED THE WRONG t f.
A Surgeon's Mistake Which Ceprived a Nor
folk Man of his Sight.
Norfolk, Va About two weeks ago
a young man, employed in the chops
of the Seaboard Railroad in Ports
mouth, while at work was ptrnck in
the eye by a small piece of rteel, and
the ball was very badly cut. The fight
was entirely destroyed and he was ad
vised to visit an oecnlist in Baltimore
to have the eye taken out. He did so,
and after examination the physician
stated that the best he could do would
be to furnish him a glass eye. He was
put under the influence of drugs and
the work commenced. After the ef
fect of the drug passed off, the young
man awakened to learn that he was
8tone blind. The doctor had cut out
the wrong eye. The unfortunate me
chanic had been married only four
weeks, and his young ' and beautiful
wife is prostrated.
Congressman- Charles O'Neil, of
Philadelphia, died Saturday night.
He was the "Father of the House,"
its oldest member in &trvic, Jtd near
ly so in years.
A BRILLIANT TELLER.
His Carelessness Secure'! His Acquiftat of
the Charge of Embe? zlement.
Roanokk, Va. If. F. Loving, for
mer paying teller of the First National
Bank of this city, who was indicted
October 23d for embezzling 83,500
from the funds of the bank, was ttied
in the Huntings Couit to-day n:id no
quitted. The jury returned a verdict
of not guilty after fifteen minutes
deliberntion. The prosecution failed
to prove that Loving actually took the
money or that there hail been a real
embezzlement. The evidence was to
the effect that Loving, while teller at
the bank, was careless and negligent
and often in cabhing checks would
over-pay large sums, sometimes paying
out as much as $1,000 in excels of tho
face of the check presented. It waa
Fhown to be likely that Loving made
this rniistake ami when he found tho
(shortage in his accounts, falsified tho
figures, hoping to hide the matter tem
porarily until the shortage could ho
made good. The verdict, which was
in accordance with the instructions
and the evidence, was received with
applause by the audience inthecouit
room.
THE NEGRO PROBLEM
Congressman Murray of South Carolina A
vises His Colore' Brethren.
New York. The Brooklyn Literary
Union, a colored organization in that
city, hehl one of its monthly reunions
at Evere tt Hull, in Willoughby street.
T. McCantH Stewart presided. Tho
feature of the evening whs an address
on the negro problem by Congressman.
G. W. Murray of Sumter county, S.
C. He said that too much time ha I
been spent in declaiming against the
wrongs of the colored race and too lit
tle in practical work for their redress.
The element of color made the a
malgamation of colored people, with
others difficult. American shivery,
lasting through 200 years, hud. effaced
every vestige of the independence
which freedom bfgot, and even caused
the deformity of the race physically.
Color was the result of countless ages
of climatic influence. Mr. Murray
advised his colored brethren t work
like the white people and spend their
money like tb;rn.
Very Modest--Only Wanted $25 .
Washington, D. C. Among thecul
hrfi at the White House was u young
man, who explained to th usher th;t
he had come to ask President Cleve
land for 825 with which to purchase a
horse and wagon. He was inoffensive
and made no resistance when an offi
cer was called to conduct him to the
police station.
He gave hi name as John W. Kor
tum, and f fated that he was a farm' r
living at 'Mantua, Gloucester county,
N. J. He is being h H awaiting tho
arrival of friends.
This whs Kortnm's third visit, to th
White House, his first having occur
red three weeks ago. On both !ievi
ous occasions he was persuu d 1 to re
turn to New Jersey, but the third visit
caused his arrest.
A Politican Becomes Preacher.
I)anvill,e, Va. J. Sydney Peters
has joined the Methodist Conference
in session here, and asksto)e assigned
to a church.
The application of Mr. Peters elicit
ed lengthy discussion, becar.se of tho
following facts: The applicant is a
very bright, brainy young man nml n
politician of some note, he having been
one of the bright members of the State
Legislature. He has been rather wild
and dissipated nut was converted about
six months ago. He is cultivated and
before the examining board ho stood
at the head of the class.
FOOLING WITH A REVOLVER.
A Mother, with her Baby in her Arms, Acci
dentally Kills her Husband.
A special from Buchanan, Ga., says;
William Schell, a prominent citizen of
Bremen, was accidentally shot and
killed by his wife. Mrs. Schell picked
up the pistol and was playing with it
and an eighteen months-old bahy,
when the pistol .vas discharged, tho
ball passing through her husband's
body near the heart. The only words
he uttered in reply to her question, if
he forgave her. He replied, "I for
give you," and expired.
Sues a Congressman for Beard.
Lincoln, Neb. Congressman W.
A. McKeighan, of the fifth district, is
sued for a good sized board bill by A.
J.Hoover, a proprietor of tho Hotel
Lindell He charges the legislator
with procuring board and lodging from
January 4 to February 'It'., and during
that time failed to pav uuv charges.
Business worries are sai l t 1 " lo
calise of twelve per cent, of fhe fi.sp,
of insanity