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ifTT T IK J I ? 1 o 1 39 II 1 M JUS? A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR IN TEREST8. VOL. VIII. NO. 50 Within a district having an area of thirty square mile?, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, there nro more centenarians than in anj of Khe United States. I Russia is said to have 137,000,000 more acres of land under cultivation than the United States, but these sta tistics are supposed, by the New York World, to be misleading, if not wholly false. The rich frescoing on the walls ol the room of the Committee on Naval Affairs in the Capitol at Washington attracts a great deal of attention from visitors. Conspicuous on the walU are a half dozen female figures, which show remarkable artistic skill, and ara also wonderful for the peculiar beauty of the face and form of each figure. It is apparent at almost a glance that one model served for the whole group. The painting was done by Brnmidi, the famous Italian artist, and tha model was the artist's lovely wife. GOLD FOR EXPORT. HOW THE YKTjTjOW coin pre PACKS FUU A VOYAGE. The Ceremony Incident to Taking It From the United States Sub Treasury Its Steamer Berth a Stout Wooden Keg. The Russian Ministry of Justice is considering a system of providing State-paid people's attorneys for the gratuitous defence of the poor in criminal and civil cases. The argu ment is that wherever the State pro vides a prosecutor, it ought also to provide an advocate for the accused. This practioe already exists in Austro Hungary in tha form of ex-officio counsel; but this i3 for criminal cases only. An association exists in Vienna to provide counsel for tha poor in civil cases. The credentials of Thomas Staples Martin, tha next Senator from Vir ginia, which have been presented to the United States Senate, were en grossed upon a huge sheet of bristol board, nearly three feet square, to which wera attached several yards of light blue ribbon bearing the golden eeal of the State. The letters were beautifully executed in pen and ink, the body of the credentials appearing in ornat8 script, while the important clauses and words, such as the new Senator's name, were made prominent with all the decoratioa of which the artist was capable. The late President Carnot was noti fied nearly every day during his term of office that he would be assassinated. More than 2000 such threats reached him in seven years. As the Atlanta Constitution observes he literally faced death every day, and yet he went about with a smiling face, shirk ing none of his duties, and making ore of the best rulers that France ever had. The French President was a great man, a brave man, and made of the genuine martyr stuff. Few men could have endured his mental strain for so many years without breaking dowf. It would be hard to find a nobler example for all men in what ever station who bear great responsi bilities and have important duties to discharge. Life was sweet to Carnot, but he never weighed it in the balance against prinoiple and duty. The daily threat of murder never caused him to waver or halt. He lived and died without fear and without reproach. The iiirect and indirect losses caused by the recent strike will perhaps ex ceed $100,000,000. The President f one of the largest railway corporations in the country is reported as saying : The earnings of the railroad companies of the Western roads fell off in two weeks an average of at least twenty five per cent. The pay rolls that were stopped will represent a loss to em ployes of, let us say, at least six times as much as that suffered by the com panies. Hundreds of factories were obliged to close from lack of coal or coke. The wages lost in these were five times the amount lost by the manu factories. The beef companies lost hundreds of thousands and California and other fruit crops were either tem porary or total losses. The following is not an unfair recapitulation of losses, 1 think : The UnitedStates Government. ...1,000,000 Loss in earnings of railroads cen tering la Chicago 3,000,000 Loss ia earnings of other railroads. 2,500,003 Loss by destruction ol railway property 2,600,000 Loss to railway employes in wages 20,000,000 Los3 la exports, pro luoe and mer chandise 2,000.006 Loss la fruit crops 2,500,000 Loss to varied manufacturing com panies... , 7,503,000 Loss to employes 35,000,000 Logs to merchants on quick goa Is 5,003,033 Total .$31,000,000 To this must be added loss from what would have been increased sum mer traffic and manufactured goods for the coming season. The fiEftl shoeing will eas'ly be ,iO'" than "X (iTHEN a New York banker wants to Bend $1,000,000 V V to Enrope.he tries first to buy bills of exchange on merchandise; but if he cannot get these, or if the rate of exchange is too high, then he must send the amount in gold coin. The banker draws $1, 000,000 in greenbacks from the bank where he keeps his account, and takes these bills to the Sub-Treasury. Tfc.ey must be gold certificates, Treasury notes, or United States notes, as silver certificates and National Bank notes are not redeemable in gold. The banker therefore usually appears at the Sub-Treasury with a pile of green backs about five inches high, contain ing a thousand $1000 notes. He goes to the office of the Assistant United States Treasurer and informs that official that he desires to draw $1, 000,000 in gold. The latter answers that he will have the coin ready, say, in two hours. The banker then goes to the receiving division and pays over his pile of greenbacks to the receiving clerk, who gives him a receipt for "a package of bills said to contain $1, 000,000, subject to count." The receiving clerk counts the greenbacks and finds them correct. No shortage or excess has ever been discovered in any of these gold trans actions with the bank3. He then takes the bills to the curreney vault, where the j are again counted by the vault keeper and placed in the vault after the amount has been recorded and charged to his account on the books in the cashier's offlce. The receiving clerk gives notice to the coin division that $1,000,000 in gold is to be with drawn, and the paying teller of hat division then makes out a draft on the gold vault for that amount. There are four men who have chargo of the coin vaults, and each vault: has two locks. Two of these men have a key to one lock, and the two others have a key to the second lock, so that there must always be two men at least present in order to get into a vault. The gold is kept in the west vault, and it is thither that the vault-keepers go with their $1,000,000 draft to get the coin for the banker. Tney ara ac companied by two laborers, who bring along two low trucks, on which the gold is to be piled. In the vault the coin is stored away in bags, each of which holds $5000. These bags are piled in iron compart ments tliat are just large enough to accommodate one hundred bags. They are ticketed, showing what denomina tion of coin they contain, and when and by whom the contents were last counted. The vault count is con sidered correct, and no further count is made at the time of delivery. The bags are piled on the trucks and checked off by the vault-keepers. Each truck will comfortably carry ono hun dred bags, or $500,000. The entire draft of $1,000,000 can thus be easily carried on tho two trucks. The gold is wheeled into the coin division from tie vault and held there nntil called for by the banker, to whom it is de livered upon presentation of the re ceipt which ho holds. When the banker calls for his gol 1 at the time appointed, the two small truck that were loaded in the vault are wheeled out into the lobby of the coin division, where the bags are transferred to a wagon that waits at the Pino street entrance. For con venience in loading five Treasury bags are placed in a large canvas bag, which is fitted with handles. The gold is taken in the wagon to the banker's office, where it is weighed. At the Sub-Treasury the coin was counted, not weighed; but the Euro pean bankers only accept our gold at its weight, not at its face valus. The reason for this is that with gold ia circulation there is considerable nat ural abrasion, but our laws mako a gold piece legal tender for the face value, even if the abrasion amounts to f.ae-half of one per cent. Now $5000 in gold coin weighs 2G3.75 ounces troy. Its medium weight to be legal tender would be 267.41 ounces, which is a discrepancy of 1.3 ounce. On? ounce of gold is worth $20.75; there fore, if all the gold pieces in a $5003 Treasury bag were abrased to the minimum point allowed by law, the coins would be legal tender in thief country for the full amount of their face value, but would have an intrinsic or European value of only $4973,78, showing a loss of $20.22 on the $5000. If in $1,000,000 all of the coins were gi aedicxa irfiglit the fiwereparicy MAXTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1894. I. CO A YEAR, would amount to $5244, or to more than the entire contents of one Treas ury bag. As a matter o! fact, how ever, our gold sees so little use in cir culation that the abrasion does not amount to that much. The average weight of a $5000 bag as shown by the records is 268.40 ounces, troy, the full weight being 268.75 ounces. Of ceurse even this slight difference in weight cuts into the profits of the banker, for he must rr? aood tha deficiency in Europe. After the bags have ben weighed at the banker's office, and the record has been made, a cooper is called in, and he packs the precious bags in stout wjeden kegs bound with iron hoops." Ho puts twenty bags, or $100,000, in each keg. For a shipment of $1,000, 080 he would consequently require ten kegs. These are then sealed and marked, and carted down to the wharf The load is a pretty heavy one, for as each bag weighs eighteen pounda four ounces, avoirdupois, the two hundred bags in tho ten kegs weigh 368ft pounds, or almost two tons. Tha kegs are turned over to the care of one of the officers of the ship, who places them in a strong room in the hold, the door of which is locked and sealed until the vessel arrives on tha other side. In onipping gold to Europe the banker suffers other losses besides tha possible short weight from abrasion. In addition to the expense of insur ance and transportation, he loses tha interest on the gold while it is ia transit. The interest on $1,000,000 for eight days, at the present rates, would be about $500. The insurance) rates are ninety cents per $1000, or $000 on $1,000,000. The freight charges are one-eighth of one per cent, for anything under $500,000, and seven -six ty-four ths o f one per cent, for anything over that. This would make the charges $1075 for the ship ment of $1,000,000. The cost of ship ping that sum of money, therefore, figures up about as follows: L033 ot interest......... - $500 00 Insurance . 900 00 Freight charges ....... 1075 08 Cooperage, cartage, etc 60 00 Total $2525 00 This total is slightly more than one fourth of one per cent, of $1,000,000. Of course the banker cannot afford to stand that loss. He must make it up in some way. He does this by sell ing exchange at a higher rate than the nominal par. The nominal par for exchange on London ia 4.86 to 1. Add one-fourth of one per cent, to 4.86j and you get about $4.87 9-10, which is the figure at which the banker must sell his exchange in order to come out even on the trans action. To make a profit he must put the price up even higher. The rates of exchange on the market for the past few months have been $4.88 and $4.88$ for bills payable at sight in gold coin. Frequently bankers sending gold to France are able to avoid the loss of interest in transit. When the rate is high this is an important item. When the Bank of France is anxious for gold it will accept as equal to a deposit in Paris a cable message stating that so many dollars in gold have been placed aboard ship in New York, con signed to the bank. Harp'er's Weekly. Lightning Disslpalors A good many years ago, some one advanced the idea that a wire netting spread over the roof of a house and properly anchored in good conducting soil is an effectual bar to injury by lightning. The claim is that there is what is called a state of electrical stress. This is broken by the flash that descends through an electric air column that extends from the clouds to the earth. By the use of copper latticework, with upright points placed upon roofs, the electric current is at tracted and carried through the metal conductors and safely conveyed into the earth without doing any injury whatever. It is, however, of the ut most importance that the anchorage be of the proper sort, as upon this de pends the safety of the dwelling. Tha Ledge WILD R1TS. With the Umbrella. The foul air at the bottom cf ft well can be lifted out in the following way : Tie a string to the handle of a small umbrella, open it and lower it into the well ; draw it up, carry it a few yards away and tarn it up ; repeat the operation twenty or more times, till a lighted candle will burn clearly at the bottom. Tho poisonous carbonic acid gas, which is heavier than air, is lifted out by the umbrella. New" York Journal. A gas well at Montpelier, Ind. , has changed its tnne, and oil flows rely from its mouth, , i TJIK MANY SPECIES INDIGENOUS TO AMERICA. Those That Infest tho House Are of Foreign Extraction Cave-Dwelling Rodeits Rats With Bushy Tails Iilke Squirrels. "Wz EN the first houees were built in America there were no rats to inhabit them. No house rats are native to this continent. All of the rodents which infest our dwellings are assisted immigrants, fetched over from Europe in ships. We have about twenty species of rats that are indigenous to the country, but not one of them lives in houses. They do not seek the neighborhood of man, as do the foreign species, which may be regarded as human parasites. ' The sperker was Dr. C. Hart Mer- riam, the well known naturalist. He added : "Our wild rats live in the woods and, deserts. They differ in their habits according to the regions in which they reside. Commonly they build over their nests great piles of rubbish for a protection against pre datory animals. Sometimes they gather heaps of stones for this purpose. The brown footed wood rats of Cali fornia erect stacks of brush and sticks, which are sometimes as much as six feet high. Occasionally these stacks are put up in trees, but usually they are on the ground, leaning against a sappling or placed between two trees. Skunks, badgers and coyotes have hard work to dig through 6uch a chevaux-de-frise. "The desert species often build their nests among the rocks, or they will pile over then thorny yucca leaves, cactuses and other spiny things. Many of them live in caves in the faces of cliffs. Wherever there are caves in the West you will find rats. The floor of the cave is covered ordinarily with an accumulation of dead branches of thorny shrubs and cactus needles. These cactus needles are so sharp, and the punctures made by them are so painful, that one cannot enter such a cave on hands and knees without spreading a piece of canvas or other cloth preliminarily. It may be imagined what an excellent protection they afford against predacious mam mals. , "The cactus needles are found by millions, the collection very likely representing an accumulation of cen turies. The rats live in crevices of the rocks within the caves. "These native wild rats range clear across the United States westward from Pennsylvania, in which State one species is found. This species is the biggest in the United States, the size of the animal being as great as that of the largest wharf rat. It is the near est surviving relative of a fossil rat that inhabited caves in America per-' haps 100,000 years ago. The species multiply as you go southward. In the north, as far as Hudson Bay, you find the bushy-tailed rats, which have; tails like squirrels. They are known as 'pack rats,' because they steal or 'pack off with everything they can; get hold of. One reads a great many? stories illustrating the intelligence of ! rats ; but from all accounts these pack rats would seem to bs the most clever' of their tribe. Trappers and campers out in that part of the country tell in- : numerable stories about them. They will steal knives, forks, spoons' any-; thing, in fact, that is bright and por table carrying the stolen articles to their nests to play with. j "That they are conscientious about leaving something in payment for what they take, however, may bej judged from one story which I hap pen to recall. A hunter, who told the yarn to me in evident good faith, had gone to sleep for the night, leaving his knife stuck into a log. His dreams were disturbed by noises which he could not account for. Finally, by the fitful light of the campfire, he saw a couple of rats sitting upon the log in which his knife had been left. The knife was gone, and the rats were try ing to put a piece of stick about a foot long in its place. They were making an effort to get the stick to stand up in the crack, but not having the skill required to insert it properly, it fell repeatedly, making the odd sound which had puzzled the owner of the knife. "Pack rats sometimes come into houses on the frontiers. The wild rats of the woods and deserts do very little damage to agriculture; they live in regions where there is not much in the way of crops to devour. In the deserts they live on the seeds of desert plants, such as the screw bean. Death Valley is full of rats. We found a new species there that climbs the yucca tree. It is probably tho only mammal that is able to Ac complish this feat. The trunk of the yucca tree is clad in an armor of spines, which project downward. But the rat literally gnaws his way up the tree, making a spiral la Ider as it goes. In the deserts the so-cailed kangaroo ; rats are plentiful, but they are not real rats. "Our native rats belong to a differ-, ent group among mammals from that! which embraces the European rats. The black rats were the first to come to this country from abroad. They have been driven out by the gray wharf rat3, so that one sees them com paratively seldom nowadays. They are still found in parts of New Eng land and extensively in the Southern States. The roof rats of Europe so closely resemble the black rats that some naturalists believe them to be the same species. They exist in some portions of the Eastern United States, occupying the roofs of houses. For thatched roofs they havo a special predilection. The biggest rats in the world belong in the neighborhood of Manzanillo, a port of Western Mexico. They are reddish in color and attain a length of twenty inches." Washing ington Post. Fame Through an Accident. At a certain railway restaurant in Berwick, Me., tho eating of the sponge cake served there used to be regarded as an event of consequence inseparable from travel over the Eastern Railroad. The Portland Transcript tells of the odd origin of the delectable compound : "Along in the sixties the dining room at Berwick was kept by a Mrs. B. One day she was mixing some dough for a cake when she was sud denly called away to another room. She left the dish of dough on the table and her little daughter, a child of five or eix years, in the room. Wh6n she returned she found that the child had emptied into the dish an article (the name of which I am not at liberty to mention). Knowing that it was not in jnrious, Mrs. B. decided to put the cake into the oven and bake it as it wa3. The result wa3 the Berwick fsponge cake in all its glory. It was praised by all who ate it, and when the next batch was made the same in gredients were used. The cake be came famous, especially with travel ers. They would buy whole loaves and carry them on their journey, oi take them home. Mrs. B. retired from the railway dining room business fifteen years ago, having made a com' fortable little sum of money, largely from the sales of the cake. For many years she kept the secret. Finally she was taken very sick and sent for her 6on -in-law (the husband of the girl who 'discovered' the cake), and told it to him. Subsequently it was sold to a baker. The girl who discov ered' the cake is now the wife of a well-known Boston railroad man.' Vaccination and Smallpox. It may be of interest to tho oppo nents of vaccination to learn the fol lowing fact3 from the epidemic of smallpox in Pennsylvania. There re sided in Danville a family consisting of father, mother, three sons and four daughters. The parents were pro tected by vaccination when the recent epidemic broke out ; none of the chil dren had ever been vaccinated. One of the local physicians, in whose store one of the daughters was employed, becoming acquainted with the facts, advised the girl to be vaccinated and send her brothers and sisters to him for the same purpose, The sisters all came and were vaccinated. The brothers all refused. All seven chil dren contracted the disease within a short while. All four of the girls had mild attacks of the disease al re covered without any bad effects. All three of the boys died. It is to be hoped that those who publicly talk against vaccination may be able to reconcile such facts with their con sciences. Philadelphia Press. Ravaged by Rati. From Ostrogoshsk, on the Volga, it is reported that the whole of that dis trict is being ravaged by rats. These rapacious creatures are described as swarming over the country in millions, and the damage already caused by the invasion is approximately assessed at upwards of $1,000,000. Military as sistance has been sent to help the panic stricken people in the whole sale destruction of their innumerable enemy. It was observed, as a curious sign of some coming untoward event, that during two or three weeks every ;at in the district gradually disap peared. The fugitives all took the same direction, and have, in theii turn, now become a sort of lesser pest in the Governments of Saratoff and Astracban, --New rle.aryi Picajoae, A STRANGE STORY THE WOES AND MISHAPS OF A VIRGINIAN. How he is Trying to Regain His Stolen Money. The Park City, Ky., Times says that t man has been in that city for a few lays who tells a rather sorrowful tale if misfortune. His name is Pierce Smith and he is a Virginian. The jtory goes that several years ago ho 'as in that section and on passing ihrough stopped, to do some work at a farmhouse. He is a landscape and louse painter, and while at work for ;he farmer lost or had taken from him i one-hundred-dollar bill that he had laid up for a rainy day. He went to ihe city and reported the matter and mcceeded in recovering his money. Then he returned to his home at 31adesville, Va., where he had some Droperty, which he converted into nouey. He went to work in the mines it that place and loaned the mining :ompany about $1,200. While at work n the mines he was struck on tho head oy a large shaft and so badly hurt that ais mind became unbalanced and he vas sent to a lunatic asylum for treat ment. After a time his reason was re jtored and he was released from the nslitution and sent back to Glades fille. To his surprise the mining com jany denied ever having borrowed any noney from him and all his papers lad been destroyed and all evidence )f the debt obliterated. Among the noney loaned the company was the flOO bill which he had lost and re :overed in Kentucky. It seems that f lie can prove that he was the pos lewsor of the bill he will be able to jhtablish the fact of the loan to the lowpany of the $1,200. The bill in uebtion was an old one and had been orn in two and mended. This, with he number and all, makes it easily dentified, and his business in Park 3ity was to see if the bank with which le did business and through which the ost bill was returned, could not make iffidavit that he owned the bill when n Kentuckv. Ho secured the desired kfndavit and other desired evidence tnd has started back for Gladesville. Je walked all the way from Virginia tnd started on the return trip on foot. rVlien asked why he walked, he replied hat he had plenty time and could ave money by walking. His fctory i s somewhat extraordinary one, but hose who know him and remember the ir cum stances of his losing and re overing the $100 bill are inclined to redit it. NEW ENGLAND STRIKE. 11,000 COTTON MILL WORKERS AT VEW BEDFORD IDLE. They Hare Qiite Large Sums cf None) to Draw from, and can Hold Out. New Bedfokd, Mass. The cotton operatives have inaugurated their general strike, and nearly 11, 000 nro idle. The machinery of but live of the twenty-seven niilln in the city is in operation, and it in thought that theue will soon bo chut down with the others. The manufacturers have nothing to sey. Secretary Robs, of the Spinners' Union, stated Monday morning that the members of his union have lined up for a long struggle and confidently expect that it will be of six monithV duration. The strike promises to be the most important that ever occured in the textile industry in MasmichuHettH. Tho manufacturers must fight perfectly or ganized unions, Borne of which are fairly wealthy. Notable in this par ticular is the Spinners' Union, which has a fund in its treasury aggregating at least $30,000. Tho spinners have voted, however, not to touch any of this money for a nrjnth. The bitua tion in New Bedford in quite different from that in Fall Kiver. In the hitter city, print cloths are manufactured for the most part, and there in a larger btock of goods on hand. Here, how ever, tho mills manufacture a finer grade of goccls and some of them have orders which would keep the mills busy for several mouths. C0RBETT AND JACKSON. SIOUX CITY WANTS THEM TO FIGHT THERE. The Offers Accepted, but Mayor Fletcher Says He Will Not Allow It. TO M PHERSON AND WALKER. The Atlanta Veterans of Both Sides Will Erect a Joint Monument. Atlanta, Ga. The Confederate Veterans' Association took the initia tive in the erection of a joint monn ment to the memory of Gen. McPher son of the Federal army and Gen. W. H. T. Walker of the Confederate army who were killed in a few yards of each other in the battle of the 22d of July, 186-1. The Grand Army post of Atlan ta will join in the movement. The scheme is to raise $200,000, one-half by each side, with which a heroic double equestrian statute will bo erect ed upon the spot whare McPherson fell, Gen. Walker is to face the North, and is to be elaeiung hands with Gen. McPherson, whose face will be to the South The project has been under considera tion for several months, and cor respondence already held with Feder als and Confederates throughout the couutry gives promise of success. The joint monument was suggested by tne tower t the memory of Wolff and Montcalm in the Governor s garden in Quebec. Masonic Triennial Convention. Topeka, Kans. The twenty-ninth stated Triennial Convocation of the Boyal Arch Masons of the United States convened here at high noon. Ihe fi&ht between rival cities for the meet ing place of the next convocation is well on. Southern delegates want it to be held in Atlanta, while the Eastern men are divided between Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Virginia delegates are pressing the claims of Washington. Receipts of New Cotton. New cotton received at New Orleans includes 4,731 bales from Texas and 22 ! bales from the Mississippi alley proper. : Ihe first bale of cotton for Columbia, 3. C, was purchased by D. Crawford k. 3on. It was classed as strict middling, weighed 548 pounds and brought 7 cents per pound. The crop prospects around Calumbia are very good. The first bale of new JNorth Carolina cotton was brought to Wadesboro by W. H. Odom, who is the Populist can didate for clerk of the court there. Sioux Citt, Iowa. Corbett's mana ger, William A. Brady, has telegraphed his acceptance of the Sioux City Ath letic Club's $25,000 offer for the Corbett Jackson fight. Jackson telegraphed that he would accept if training ex penses were guaranteed him provided the fight did not take place. The guarantee was made. "I will not permit this prize fight to occur within the corporate limits of Sioux City," said Mayor Fletcher, in speaking of the effort to make tho match. "What is more, I doiibt if it n ill be allowed to bo fought on Iowa 3o;l. So far as my jurisdiction is con cerned I shall unalterably oppose tho novenient to have the battle fought aerc." Coming to God's Country. A Raleigh, N. C, dispatch says that a great influx of Westerners is looked for in North Carolina during tho next three months. II. II. Stoddard, of Kearney, Neb., has just anived ut Raleigh as the advance agent of a large colony of Nebruskans ho intend corning iu the fall, most of whom will follow the dairy business. These peo ple say it is too cold out there, and that they have become satisfied that they can do better inthc South. Gcorgt K. Sherwood, of Kearney, Neb., wiitot' to the North Carolina con!l)iKHioIl' of agriculture: "You have no idea of the number of farmers in this section who have decided to go South. We huve had a failure of crops out here for three years in succession, and tho failure this year is complete. If our Western farmers could buy some, of your Southern farms on tusy payments, you would be surprised ut tho large number that would go." fwenty-Six Tons of Silver Around the Altar. Mexico Citt. The erection of tho nngnificent canopy over the high altar f Our Lady in the shrine of Guadalupe i5s been completed. The pillars to mpport it are each of a solid block of tolished Scotch granite weighing rcvi n ons. The diameter of each pillar in " eet, and the height 20 feet. The altar rill be ready for dedication on Dee. 1 2 Guadalupe day), and will be the most ilaborate and costly one in America. The additions to the church edifice will lot be completed for nearly two years it the present rate of progress. When inished, the ehrine of the Lady of Suadalupe will be one of the notable Catholic church edifices of the world. The solid silver altar railing weighs wenty-six tons, and many millions of lollars are in other ways represented n the palatial place of worship. The Western North Carolina railway was sold at Statesville, N. C, to the Southern Railway Co., for $500,000. , rhe latter company has also purchased ; the Knoxville, Cumberland (xap & , Louisville R. R., running from Knox- ville to Middlesboro, Ky., at Winston, I X. C, the Northwestern rsorth Caro lina railroad wan also sold to the South ern Railway for $250,000. Divorce Case in High Life. Mrs. Lyman, of Ashcville, N. C, who was a Miss Cunningham, of Rich mond, Va., is suing for divorce, m Buncombe countv, with Maj. Clarke Springfield of Richmond, as attorney. The highest mountain in the West ern continent is Mount Sovato, in Bo livia 21,234 feet, or about four miles. The Big 4 railroad depot at Cin cinnati, O., burned; loss $500,000. From Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Raleigh, N. C. James H. Jones, colored, who was President Jefferson Davis' coachman and who drovo tin four horses to the catafalque here in May of lat-t year when Mr. Davis' body was here, has a cane which Mrs. Davis sent him. The head ia of stag horn, from a buck killed by Mr. Davis on his Mississippi farm. Jones, who for many years lived here, how lives at Washington, having a place in one of the Senate document rooms. He was a few days ago offered 5200 for the cane but said he would rather go in the poor house than hell it. On the cane is thin inscription: ;In grateful memory. From Mr. Jefferson Davis." A Hypochondriac Commits Suicide. Alexandria, Va, Henry Dniuger fiel l, a prominent and wealthy citie; fatally shot himself in the right temple at his residence in this cit' Tuesday morning. Mr. Danigerfield had been n hypochondriac for some time mi l his family were preparing to tnk him t ) Cold Sulphur Springs this after noon. He had been afllieted with insomnia. He has a wife and five children. Mr. Daingerfkld, who was about 50 j-ears of age, and was a man of considerable wealth, owned "Spi ing iield," a fine estate in Fairfax county.
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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