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Toapt Utestioa gitm to U tnuinMi. ON DECK. NEW FIRM. JEW GOODS. 1' OAIA AlfD saw JONES kfe MORTON l5 TOU wnnr GROCERIES AND COHFECT GKERIES. ' WhT jmtdddB Him of ftMb OuAol Hut. CmumI Omds,; etc. , and ttjl itook o2 BaMav Usayf and Fancy Groceries, d 1m paijMM kmlnc a .apply of rank sad ale BUTTER AND EGCO, Airf all kind. rfdihj, CHEAP FOB, CASH, la u aatta, and we h0i Know nootbar rnl . OaU and aaa PEOPLE ARE BAITY. Mia Drj Goods, Gmenfaa, Shnoa. ., SO LOW tkU lir notTa an astonished. Before bnjinc, aan aad eee ny Mock of RT GOODS GROCEiURE HAM, MXAL. BO0TS, FLOUR, - 8ITOKS, CUTLBRT. MOLASSES. BACOX. ; 8HIP STOTT. A a!mnt aS-firrtMnf 'nerJal by the paop'4 . BMr-ncil and m before barbie-.- E jrmr ilvnouitr. f -j J.i W. PiS wVl ba it Hamlet, S-0. is, totels, M M& Casei JA9. u. nurumiiiSQN. j WApBSBORO, N. O .!rS t'vk, all aikaa and prioet, alirara oai band. uraora ui tciveraDU fl.lad on tiilrtr 1 r miDotea aotioa. ROCKINGHAM, N. Th? table will alwinrs ba exppiied with th Imt th j RATES t 1' t hoard por n:ith. ugo fMtra vnammn, inr munu, .... .... . . . . . ard per week, frtwn ...M.I0t 1 Hirvrrora ,..4-.. 0 janti 'M tf WADE5B0R0, N. C. D. Al McGKEGOR, JU B., Principal. . : f. . ; v.-- . j JAMBS W. KtoOO, A-J. lOHS BSSSIB W. MARTTH, . ' AaateUaaa. MBS. J. M.. HARQRATB7 . 1 The Snrhut T&rwi ill boa-ta Honda. Jaarnan t. UN. tuitton, per month, $1. At, and 4; taaaio eitrt, fl o pe. aanaam. month. BaattoTtlaaa-ayeJy Web Fttmrtaal ; 4- THE STAR OF BETHLEflEff.' A Tarleible Hmn I .Ik ply Aiptlia Rmi ta BrtaThtea JatetOeBil tkaFvlar Sky. : ' pVom the Prorldenoe Journal. " A oorrespotodenk of the Journal uks "where to look for the theory that the o-oalled 'Star of Bethlehem' is now member of ' the starry family and at stated periods retarns to the sight of mortals f The theory eoaeerniDg the Star of Bethlehem is based on a pbetioal foundation, harin' little to rapport it. In the year 1572 Tycho Brahe, a Dutch astronomer, ( diaoovered a new star near Oaph, in the eonsteUation Oassiopea, It increased hi brilliancy nntil it was as bright as Tenos and eonld be easily seen at noondays It continued to shine brightly for a month, then tpmSmdij grew dim and in sixteen months disap peared from Tiew. It was looked npon as a new creation or a mm on fire, and the, general; opinion was that it wonld. never again shine in the star depths, Forty years later the telescope, was in vented. When it was turned to the po sition in the -"heavens occupied i by the biasing str a minute star was found near the identical spot. Thk telescope t&jr is still there and is doubtless the saine one that blazed forth In 1572.! The diAooTxary that it existed led astrono mers to search astronomical records, and it was found that similar bright stars had appeared in the same region of the sky in 945 and 1264- Counting back three periods from 945 we - are brought to the near vicinity of the birth of Christ, .' About twenty-four of these temporary stars have appeared in the last two thousand years, subject, like the star in Oassiopea, ? sadden outbursts, followed by a return j to their ' normal inslgnin- cance. PDmHO.r-A dramatic paper tells '' of a man whose livelihood is. gained by painting the faces of amateur acton and actresses. Nearly all of the professionals do this work for themselves. He gets $9 ' a night at an evening entertainment, and has entire charge of every face that goes on the stage. For $2Q he will provide all neoessarr wigs and whiskers, . He goes to the .theatre at 7 o'clock, selects a room, places a chair in front of a mir ror, and u ready for work. The men jure easily treated. ; As a role,all they heed is a little rouge on their chins, shaded eyebrows, and whitened foreheads. The make-np of . the-women is much more difBcolt.. A man is tumaily so astonished by his beauti&ed ' appearance: after he has been: painted that he has little to do beyond admiring himself in -theft glass. 1 The reverse, however, is true of society aotreasea. They are never satisfied, f r i , i - m lw HAMLET I0E1VE5 m l ; ': .T. -a Ml -t eee mm. ' 1 SaU BAmilJM9 inireiwc AIM IHSTITUTE, MECEXiKNBURG ii ON OHRIiOTTB, IN"- O. MANUFACTURES AND X3CETH IN STOCK j Steam Engines and Boileas. ! TracMon Engines. , j Saw UUls withTariable Frietion TA. ' Wheat 1H1 Outflta. .. I Com MmsPortshla, Separators, Threshers and Horse Powers. . . j Beapers, Mowers and Bakes . Steam and "Water KpesBraiw Fitting RZSPARS PROMPTLY Address, ' JOHN E. M. 01 IIA! KINDS, AT BOTH I have the largest stock of WILL NOT I3E UNDERSOLD. i .. 7- ,, ,-: - i .; 7 .-7- . . - !''' -' ' n ; ? ' ' ' - i I . ' . S ' Can fill orders promptly for cheap Chairs, Bedsteads, and anything in the Font tare line. t& COFFINS, METALIO CASES AND BURIAL SUITS Air WAYS ON HAND. Send for cuts and . Wnite Front, next to Wittkowsky WINTER. VESTMENTS MUST LAID A AND Lighter. Ones Donned. igi3P.RiraG.OD8 Handsomer now Purchased bY Our Representative in New York City, AND ABJLTVtNa WEEKL1, DlELIADLE GOODS, Lowest Prices CONSTANTLY IN STOCK; A NICE ASSORTMENT OFl mm FANCY GBOCEB! Flour, MeaL Meat and Salt, Sugar, Coffee the oar load, from New Orleans, and Canned Goods in great variety. '"Dixie Boy" and Watt Flows, Steel Flows, Hoes and Shor- r, els, Hames, Traoes and Collars, Bridles, Sad- I , i " ' i dies, Lines, Backhands, etc., and Evorythlng Needed by an Agriculturist. Wikcuji CWs asi -u- !..... :. . .... "Eclipse" Cotton Seed Planters, Thomas Sheeting, R B;H ills' SnufT, ' ... ; j .7 .. . reparation It factory prioet v A P. Coats' EVERETT, WALLi & 77 -T- ':-:7 7' ; 7- ;- ' 7.?. V .-j-. '. .j - I'7..T' Rockingham, H. C. WOR ATTENDED TO. WILICEO, Manager. WHOLESALE AND EETAIL. any house in the State, and X prices. & Barneh, CHARLOTTE, N. C. BE- S IDE I Than Ever . behtq C0BHE6T STYLES ! Guaranteed. and Tea, Butter and Lard, Molasses, by Old Hickory Wagons, '. - r . j.. . . Harrows, Pee Dee Plaids, Eockingham Spool Cotton, and Horseford's Bread CO., ANDREWS BTTAXI8TI0S OW FKSTILIZEBS. areulwr No. 65 of the State Commissioner of agncruwure nu been received, being aa analy es and utatistias of ecmmwrdal fertilizers in PSte analysed and admitted to- m1 In GeoiKU daring the seaaoa of 1883 84. During this iea there wars inipected 151,849 ttns as againnt 125,577 tons last year. The balance paid Into the Stats treasnrv for the nreaant season is 162,133.92, an inoraue of $ll,mM as compared wito 188283. A TEXAS FISH 8TORT. Texas came to the front with a fish story last weak; which seemed hard to beat. It claimed that a sea fish was found in the street of sn iniierior town, one hundred miles from toe ooast, after a heavy hail rtorm. The peoo-liaraj-ity of tae fish wu that it was afire and flopping, j ThiB was a hard story to beat but Massachusetts came to the fronfoli Tuesday ana teus one that makes Texas blush.. . It is claimed that after a rain storm at Pawtueket over one hundred eels were foundina mndy puutue. - - i . NlTHO-OIiYC KK.IN S PIXX18. Pills made from a preparation of nitro-gly-eerine will core heart disease. Bo says a medi cal Journal. That niteo-glyeerine will effectu rida person not only; of heart disease, or any other ailment, is not questioned. It will remove the1 patient as far from the disease as necessary to effectually relieve the disease of the patient.' As a remover, nltro-glycerine tsies a high rank. ' A rank so high, in fact, that an inquisitive person has been sent out of sight by it. However, nitro-glycerins pills. while effectual removers, are too much so to in spire entire confidence in their caring power. 7- . i ..- KXNQ TEKEBAW. Xing Tneebaw, of Birmah, it wiU b recol lected, recently poisoned his wife and her mother, and married his wife's Bister. This was bad enough, but he has been guilty of still more horrible crimes. At the ags of twenty when he ascended the throne he caused all of his relatives to be put to death. One of his brothers was killed by flogging, another had his limbs broken and was buried alive, and an other was blown to pieces with gunpowder. At another time the young monster was very sick, and fearing he wonld die he caused seven hun dred people 'to be burned alive. Recently this bloody king announced that he had reformed, bnt his latest exploit will eauw his sincerity to be doubted. I INSTITUTION OF TRAINING. An institution that has long been needed is at last to be established in New York. It is an institution for the training of and the gradu ating of actors and aotreasea an American Conservatory of Dramatic Art. The building, which is now in course of construction, will contain a theatre with a seating capacity of eight hundred. It will have a large stage fitted with all the appliances of a firat-dass theatre; a rehearsal room and several rooms for recita tion and practice. The classes will be formed into stock companies subject to the discipline of the Vst profr-rcna! iheVr-s, am! H to be present ' aravmaiio director of the Kadiavm Square theatre. Mr. Sargent wfQ have a corps of assistants in the various branches of the profession and the result of their work can net ba other than of good in American drama tica TOrXJANO IPC FLORAS) A. The supposed volcano in southern Florida has at last been investigated For wiasey years a thin smoke rising rrohT the everglade region has attracted attention and it has been rumor ed that it came from Indian oampfires or from a volcano. Tarious expeditions hare been or ganised to solve the mystery, hut the explorers found so many difficulties in the way that they were forced to turn back after a fruitless search. A short time ago Captain Asher fol lowed the Ancilla river, hunting for cypress logs, and in the course of his Journey saw this cloud of yapor and determined to find bnt what it was. In one of the swampi he found a number of large, black rooks, rising out of the water. "Some were worn in the shape of basins and others were huge, hollow shells, all filled with strong sulphur water supplied from subterranean sources. From these arose the mist or vapor which has so long pnasled the outside world. '. ,o . ' CONFBRKNOB CONCERNING EGYPT. The conference of European powers, caHsd ait the instance of England to Consider the condition of Egypt, especially ths regulation of its perplexed finances, is now in session. The policy of Gladstone in Egyptian affairs has been rigorously .assaulted by the opposition in parliament, and he has narrowly only escaped defeat ta important measure. Aa this fight is increasing in intensity and about to culminate in a vote of censure, it is shrewdly surmised that the conference has been called to meet in London in time for Its deliberations to influ ence the action of Parliament, and to divert the threatened final assault on the Administra tion. France, Austria, Germany 'and Italy have sent representatives, who are to agree npon a plan for the adjustment of Egypt's finances. No doubt, however, other questions of a serious political character will be oomW ered. This will force a suspension of decisirt action to the British Parliament, and give the Administration time to repair damages. , cmtBT riiANT. Tears ago; In a conservatory in London, says a well-known florist, a century plant, generally supposed to have attained the age of 100 years, began to show signs of life by sending out a stem in the center, which grew from seven to eight inches daily. It at once began to attract general attention. The stem grew larger every day. The plant was moved from place to place, for the glass roof was not high enough, until as a last resort it was placed under the cupola. Before many days the stem reached the cupola roof, and, in order that its progress might net be retarded, the glass was remoTed and the roof raised. When the' stem had attained a height of about forty-five feet, if I remember rightly, it stopped growing, and numerous small branches, grew Out of the mam stem, each of which was topped with a cluster of magnificent greenish-yellow flowers, forming a sohd bush of beautiful flowers of about ten feet in height It seemed to me all London flocked to see that flower, and it was the topio of con versation ererywhere. The American aloe, or century plant, aa it is eommonly known, will sometimes bloom when but twenty-five years old. It altogether depends upon the care. At times it will not bloom nnless it has attained tne age of loo years, bnt there are mot many aloes in Northern climates which attain such an age. ' 7:'' ( 7 . . . 77-7 ' vr . THE FATHERLAND'S BABIES. Parents have to be humble pretty often here in Germany, writes a correspondent from Ber lin, for a family of five or six children is con sidered a moderate one, ten Or a doaen being so common as not to excite any : remark, and the number being large cmly when it, rises to nearly twenty. Hence it comes about ihat all the baby perambulators that, one sees on the streets of a German city are great wicker-work; affairs, built expressly for two children - not twins, mind you who are too young to toddle about on their own legs, and into which, if needs must, a third or even fourth tired little Teuton may be crowded. : There is nothing in this world like foresight and ' preparing for future emergencies, even in such a simple mat ter as baying a baby carriage, for it is a pretty constant occurrence in German married life to have the baby carriage going aQ the time with two occupants, so that when one first gets on German sou and sees the army of nurse girls trundling their perambulators, each one with two children arranged so that a little flaxen head peeps out from beneath1 the covers at each end, one is surprised at what he considers the great number of twins in Germany, and all his preconceived ideas the twins are a compara tively . seldom human accomplishment disap pear nntil he examines more closely into the matter. . i ' XONG DEBATED BUT DJBSEB.YSD. presented a gold medal the other day to George Bead, who formerly chief of the life-boat post at Deal, as a reward for a heroio act which Bead perform ed twenty-two years -ago. In 1862 the Ameri can ship Annie Hooper: was wrecked off the Kentish" coast, near Deal, and Bead and his men, by the exercise of great skill and daring, in which Bead especially Imperiled his life, succeeded in rescuing the entire crew , of the doomed vessel. In ; replying to Mr. Lowell's eulogistio speech and accepting the medal, Bead said that he had only done his duty, and that in fact the circumstance had made so lit tle impression upon him that when he was no tified that he was to receive a -medal he had almost rorgotten the eocurrenoe ef the wreck ftnd rescue. True heroism if always modest and self-sacrificing, j The consciousness of hav ing done one's duty to God and man, in grand as well as simple matters, is sufficient reward for men of the Bead and our own Rhodes' Stamp. Still we are glad to notice that our government, in the: most conspicuous and pub- 1 Uo manner, recognizes the grandeur of a heroic action,, especially in the rescuing'of life in shipwrecks. . 7 7 , ' FIGURES OF THE FISCAL YEAR. The footings of the fiscal year can be approx imately given. The redaction of debt will be $100,000,000 as against f 157,000,000 last year. The interest-bearing debt will stand at the close of the year at about $1,340,000,000, of which amount only $20,000,000 will be subject to call. If the present rate of redemption is maintained, there win not be a redeemable bond at the end of the fiscal year in 1888, and a gap of five years .will follow in which the debt redeemed most be purchased at market rates. The revenue of the goternment has fallen off about 7H0.000.00Ok The receipts from internal revenue wiU be about 20 000,000 less and the loss from miscellaneous sources, such as land sales, etc., will be' about 15,000, 000. The custom receipts show a reduction of about $15,000,000. Wo are import'' ng lees than we did last year. ; The total of dutiable im ports for the ten months ending April $0, 184, $383,931,208, against 428,891,742 in the corresponding period of the?previous year. In wetOT months Jarm there was redartfon In avssage rate of dntyts per cent, the loss in wistom receipts is accounted for. Iiii estima ted that the value af merchandise imported daring the fiscal year win foot up 465,000,000 aad the value of merchandise exported, $725, 000,000.. The so-called "balance ef trade" is therefore 80.000.000. against 9aooaooo brt year. WehandowieathnstB6sia peonle. .and beyond thai lEere is nothing espeejafiy un satisfactory in the foreign trade ef the Oaosiag rear. Bukwhere, as a matter of cariosity, la the 60,000,000 that we nave accumulated ac cording to the statisticians daring the year ? Europe has not settled in specie, for we have exported during the past year more specie than we have imported. The ehanoes are that Mr. John Boach eonld, if closely poshed, tell where the immense sum has ogne to. Nothing short of the rack or thumb screw would be apt, ever, to draw the truth on this point oat of A HBBMC HPMOH. A Hill Destroyed by the Bnrsi ine of Iti Steam Boiler. Persona Killed and Others InjnrecL Many A tturnm boiler explosion bcciured a few eveningBnBin the flouring mill of Behren St Haefer, aear Bryon, Ohia About forty men were employed in the mill at the time and the explosion, was so terrible in its force that the "arge structure was blown almost to atoms, and among its debris were buried twenty 7cf be employes, eleven of whom were eAU'wated m a dying condition. It was found that seven, men were killed and three others mortally wounded. Beside these about eight etner persons were seriously injured, while nearly every man in the mill waAnore or lew hurt . . The force of the explosion was so great that pieces of the boiler, machinery and stones from the wall were hurled through the air a distance of a quarter of a mile. One piece of the boiler, about three feet square and weighing probably more than a hundred pounds was sent flying through the roof of a house at that distance from the milL : It took nearly the whole roof off, and the falling tim bers serious! y injured Miss Nellie Winter and George "Winter,, two or its occupants. Edward rnrster, tiia engineer, was thrown learty three -handled, -feet He was terribly acalded and mangled, but lived for three ncurs. E. R. Ayers. his assistant was hurled thraagh the roof . three hundred feet away, ine-rortof extricating the injured was not eomUete'i until this morning, and while the work carried on; women and children whore fathers" and husbands were buried in toe debns, filled the air with their lamente tiona The seen throughout was a oitiful one. 'i i Experts and Imparts. The Chiet of the Bureau of Statistics in his eleventh monthly statement reports that the excess of the ralne of txports ever imports or of imports over : exports of merchandise was as follows t , Month endeA'May 31, 1884 (excess of im ports ) $7,818,669;. fire months ended May 81, 1884 (excess r exports), 19,544,165; eleven months ended May 81, 1834 (excess of exports), 71,561,046; twelve months ended May 3L 1884 (excess of exports), 61,120, 430. 7 The total ralnes of the, imports of merchan dise for the twelve mouths ended May 31, 1884, were 680,820,442, mud for tbi preceding twelve months 721, 079, mr a decrease of 40,75 ',699, . -7 7 7 'J he value of the exports of merchandise during the twelve months ended May 81, 1884, were 741,440,877, and dui-ing the twelve months euded May 31. 1883k 820,666,557, a de crease of 79.125.680. --.',-, - 7 An Eaemy mt WlhlHass, v . ' '. A sensaUorL. was created in St. Petersburg by the receipt of telegrams from Odessa an nouncing that Captain Gerdzey, a prominent officer of the gendarmes, had been assassinated by Nihilwta His body was fooad with a bullet hole in the temple and a dagger sticking in his heart, .with a. note pinned to his coat which left no doubt that the mur der was the work of nihilists. Particulars of the affair are eagerly sought but are very dif ficult to ; obtain, as the police endeavor to preserve : as - much secrecy as possible. Captain GerdBey, who was a capable and .courageous official, had specially devoted han telf to grappling with nihilism, and had tins inourred the bitterest, hatred of the membeas of that body. His murder has produced a ennsatian in Bussla equal to that of the aesas-s'jiatiOK-jf Lieutenant Colonel fiudeikm, aad forms the universal topis of conversation. . - matte SUttee. Tn EepubHcan National committee organ- gl-f.0 PennrrirMisHirinan, ani Bamuel Fessenden, of Connecticut, secretar. rB annual boat race at New London, Uona, between crew of eight menrepre 8nfang Yale axul Harvard colTegaa, was wou mtlfJi7 X18 crew.Twho came in feSEtt ahad of their opponents, and rowed the three miles in the fastest time on recort for American college crews. , Tmi Bt Petersburg bank, of Clarionmiii 2 Crun'.' 5adered one of the strongest, wanktog institutions in the State outside of the cities, has failed. Twilybs lives were reported lost during the recent heavy storm-along tlw Atlantic coast Near Barnegat, Mass., the schooner L. and A. iRWxsoek was run ashore and went to pieces. ,lhe captain, males wife and three sailors were drowned. - At'Somer Point, NJ., "nine Italian laborers wtr J trying Jo cross an inlet when their boat upset and six out of the nine were drowned. Another man was drowned m Egg Harbor inlet r i Set. men were injured, two fatally, by the premature explosion of a bloat while ex lnS tor a roadway at Johnstown, Befobx a convention of teachers of the deaf and dumb, in New York, a deaf girl gave a wonderful illustration of tlie perfection to which lip-reading can be brought By the movement of a speaker's 1 pi outlined in shadow on a wall she was ent b ed to de cipher the words uttered. South and Weak . Thx Indiana Democratic State convention, held in Indianapolis, nominnted Isaac P. Gray lor governor, together, with a full ticket Ohio Democrats, at their State convention In Columbus, nut a fnll tit.t n ! i j headed by James W. Newman (renominated) lor secretary of Btate. , j dandWing several white women near L-aieaonla, Miss.. Aleck Leach, n minnvi ram, was hanged and his body riddled with bullets by anumberof lynchers. . j . Thbxe persons two men and a Woman Wfll t w by a boiler explosion in a planing At tiie Soutli frimt . . . - - wk-am.w a vav aasosa ""i j ie present State officers were renom inated by acclamation. In A rtnno. Ko TWn. gS! have nominated ex-Attorney-General Hughes for governor, together with a fuU ticket, and in Florida tue Democratic, btate ticket is headed by Mi. Perry for gover nor, i. 7 The Official Vote for nraiEmvannan in fha ro.. cent Oregon election is as follows: B. Her man tKepublican), 2S,6W( votes; Meyers (Democrat). 23652. AVomffl'ijfTr. unumi. msBt For, 11,233 votes; agninst, S,176. . FTVn THOUSAITD spoctatoivi n itnessad the asmgimr of Dock Walker icolundk for th murder of Lucius Grant colored) at Texar- sama, Ark. . Etavxit men were injured, some fatally, by a boiler explosion in a saw-mill end car factory at Toledo, Ohia A srrarBXH of horse thieves hare recently b pen captured and unceremoniously killed by cow-boys in Montana. 1 j JAioa Bubo?, of Franklin county, Ga, interfered in a quarrel which two of his daughters were having about some article of dress while preparing for church. One of the daughters Lela, seventeen years old seised an ax and killed her father, bhe was taken t jail . ( j; SsTvet persons were iilled.anJ three fatally tiideliii -r7; "N hiju?p.i l.v aV.ik-rv-.T.i!:.fe,;,,p ba ik-.irins miil r -ar Oryon. coi-i. taut wju um-) asii.i'ii'evi. " , ' ' Wfiablitjrfoti. Thk investigation of the accounts of J. O. P. Burnsido, the defaulting disbursing clerk of the postoffiee department, shows a de ficiency oT about fi 4,000. f 7 Tbx Mississippi contested election case of Chalmers against Manning has been decided in-favor of Chalmers, i who appeared at the bar oT the House sod. took the oath ol offlca. Tbx postoolce department has completed the readjustment of the salaries of postmas ters. Toe number of presidential postofiicef. Is 2,285. The salaries of presidential posf masters amount to XS, 831,1300, as against $3,707 500, paid under the previous adjust' ment in October, when there were 2,195 of&k ces. The salaries of the eighty postmasters of the first class amount to $i4,y00. Sxcritakt Folder has issued the 139tr caQ for the redemption of $10,030,000 of th three per cent, bonds. . :s. 5..-, . ... Bscbittakt CSAirbtAt appeared before ths Senate committee on expenditures in the nub ile service and made a statement regarding the recently discovered frauds in his depart ment. The secretary explained the methods of transacting business in his department, and showed how the frauds had been committed in the bureau of medicine and surgery by means of false vouchers for goods never delivered. Thx army appropriation bill, as agreed upon in conference of the committees of both houses, with the exception of the clause regu latinKthe conromsation to subsidised railroads for army transportation, appropriates $21,' En H. JMurrat has been nominated by the President to be gorernor of Utah. Gilbert A Pierce, of Illinois, has been nonn'naiwd to .. governor of Dakota, and John EL Km reed, of Nevada, to be governor of Alaska. Thx Senate in executive session confirmed the nominations of Eli H. Murray, of Louis ville to be coventor of Utah, and Henrv F. Pickles to be collector of customs- for the district of Delaware, PBJEsmsirr Art hub has appointed Cornel- fcms R. Agnew, of New York, and Merrill E. Gates, of - New Jersey, as members of the Board of Indian commissioners: also. Com modore William T. Sampson. United States nary, and Professor F. A7 P. Barnard and Cleveland Abbe as delegates to the Interna tional Mridiau and Time Standard congress, to be held in Washlncton on October L The President has approved the act estab lishiiig a bureau of labor. I ' I roreisrn.- '. J , CoxcEBXiiia the appearance of Asiatic , cholera at Toulon, France, Mr. Frank H. Mason, our consul, telegraphs to the State de partment that the disease was knpt a secret for some time. In ten days there were thirty seven deaths. Mr. Mason says: : " The deaths are oqually divided between civilians and the military, and are chiefly among the aged ot young. The question whether it is Asiatic or . sporadic cholera is still undecided, bat the foraier is probable. There are hopes of checking the epidemic by sanitary precau tions." i7 f An election for a member of (he Danish Diet for Copenhagen resulted in the choice of a tailor namxi Hohti, a leader among: the socialists.-. . ' . ' j .-. - Foub THOOSAKD Chinese . resulars' in trenched themselves at langson lonquin, in violation of tho recent treatj , and attacked 700 French troops as they were on the march, killing i 7 and, wounding 42. The French troops repulsed tne attack and routed the Chinese. France will demand satisfaction.. El Mahtji, the False Prophet, is reported 60 have been repulsed with heavy loss in an attack on Khartoum, where General Gordon is entrenched. 7 ..7'77, - J: : A most disastrous hailstorm has occurred in Erivan, a province of Southern Russia. The hailstones were as large as goose eggs-i The rivers were dammed, seventy houses were razed, and property was damaged to the amount of'SOQ.OOO rubles. Forty Uvea were lost. , The nineteen prisoners, charged with the murder of five Orangemen on tit Stephen's Day were all acquitted in St John, N. . F. amid intense excitement. -i Firks are made at inght in the streets of Toulon, France, to purify the city and pre vent the spread of the plague, j ..,1 : Thx city of Panama is full of thieves and bad characters and murderers and robberies m i AeqaanV Several "attempts have been made to fire he city, as well as AspinwelL . . Laboc numbers of Jews are. emigrating from Polai d to Ameiija. Thx elections in Portngal for members of the chambers of deputies resulted in a large majority for tho gunniaijut . - . - "Wht Is ft," gaid ten ex-gtrfernox to an old aoquaintanoe; '"that when I son out or ofljce yon never apeak to me f "Be-H icnnsr, the Acquaintance replied; "whefe fvxi are in offloo yon never speak to file. V t'Bpnrkms. Bank of England notes have been passed in Montreal and la Chicago aad Milwaukee. , 7 Three children were burfted to death in aestrncnon 01 their home near lout! es town. Ohio. ,,:. : . -A ' A woman was murdered, by shooting in Philadelphia. - The murderer was drunk. One of the Indians in the Buffalo Bill Com- mnauon was snot at Trenton. . Dirers are now to be employed fa circum venting the starfish in the oyster beds of Long Island Sound. i Forest fixes are raging fa Massachusetts and Maine. ; Tke IsspertaUea ef Paaper Laber. 1 Benator Blair reported to the U. a Senate favorably, and without amendment, the bill recently passed by the House to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States. The Beport says that.' althoneh thera lraMnmin futnna nf f the bill which might well be changed or modi neu, 11 u reported without amendment m order that it may not fail of passage during the present season. - Among the amendments which the committee-say they would have especially recommended is one providing for the substitution of the words "manoal labor or manual i service " , for the expression "labor and service.". This amendment th report says, would accomplish the purposes of the bill and also remove objections, which a sharp and unfriendly criticism may urge against the proposed legislation,' but aa the opinion that the words will be construed to mean substantially this, they made no changes. The Indians on the reservation in north-: ern Montana are dying of starvation on ac count ef the scant food supply at the agency. I The wife of Bishop Henry W. Warren, of the Methodist Episcopal Church endows with 100,000 a school of divinity in the Denver University, to be calli d after her former hus band, Mr. Biff, a Colorado cattle king. A railway train, whose air-brakes did not work, ran down a steep grade through a bridge into the James river, near Lynchburg. The passengers narrowly escaped drowning. s-L terrific boiler explosion occurred at 8 try-' ker, Ohio, in the flouring mills of Behren A Haefer. About forty men were employed in the mill at the time, and the explosion was so terrible in its force That the large structure was blown almost to atoms, and among its debris were buried twenty-sereh of the em- - Sloyees, eleven of whom were extricated in a ying condition; others are seriously injured. The scene was a sad one. 1 The remains of a drowned man were found floating off Fort Hamilton a few days ago who a fewears Ago was a notably wealthy man of New York city. . Special reports in. regard to the cholera in France give a greater number of deaths than - the official returns report, and the truthfulness of the .latter is distrusted. M. Rncbard, Chief of the Naval Health Department reports that the number of victims at Toulon are eight to ten daily, that the aggregate deaths are 14 in the navy and 31 in the town, and that there are 62 patients in the naval hospitals. A mosquito plague at Mar seilles increases the gloomy sxpect. A thou sand fires have been kindled m various parts of the city "to disperse the pest Gibraltar now refuses entrance to French ships. A fire at Matanzas destroyed three ware houses. Seventeen hundred hogsheads of sugar which were stored in the buildings were burned. The total loss is reported to be 450,000, partially insured. The Theatre Royal, Edinburgh' was totally destroyed by fire. No lives lost --At Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, there j was a severe storm Monday. Three persons -re killed by figrUtnipg end t .ii - e aw a 'X Ce into collision at Warren point, County Down, Ireland. Two Orangemen were arrested. One Nationalist was stabbed almost to death. The two officers guilty of desertion were gtot Saturday at Gerona, Spain. The shops of erOna and Baiveloca arc dr sped in mourning. Thousands of people assembled in front of the house of the Governor and compelled him to telegraph to the government asking for a com mutation of the sentence. Ths-Phaadelphia rrichitt team -wea by five wickets by the Gentlemen of Hamp shire. i . Grave suspicions are entertained in Egypt as to the loyalty of the Mudir of Dongola. The road between Massowah and Kassala is re ported to be open. The appearance of cholera iu Marseilles has created quite a panic in that city. Profes sor Virchow criticises the French authorities for what he terms their defective precautions. Reports from Hanoi state that the French fleet has received orders to bombard Chinese porta. The dynamite fright has taken full posses sion of the officials of Frankfort-on-tbe-Main. The police of that city uy that the place if a nest of conspirators and is, in fact the centre of the socialistic propaganda of all Germany. a child was drowned at Dell's Island, Md., by being blown overboard in a carriage. Before delegates to a convention of teach ers of the deaf and dumb a deaf girl gave a wonderful illustration of the perfection to which fip-reading can be brought By the movement of a speaker's hps outlined in a shadow on a wall she was enabled to decipher the words uttered. . Mr. William A. Beach, a noted New York lawyer, is dead. He was born at Saratoga Springs on the 18th of December, 1809. Ta Ktarht Hear Bnl. " A long debate sprang up in the House on the Eight Hour law, arising out of the favora ble report ef the Committee on Labor of a bill providing for the adjustment of accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics. After the discussion, on motion of Mr. Hewitt (DemA of Ala., the first section was amended so as to read as follows: That whoever, as a laborer, workman or mechaaic, is hereafter employed by or on behalf of the government of the Unit ed States shall be paid for each eight hours he has been employed as for a fall day's work. On motion of Mr. MoMiHen. of Tennessee, the second section was amended to correspond with the first section, so as to apply merely to the future. It was stated by members that the bill as reported would take 30,000,000 from the Treasury. . .ii " " , isfr- 9 JTudah P. Benjamin's Domestic Life. . j.--"- There were some exceedingly carious) and interesting incidents in the donieetio life of the late Jodah P. Benjamin. He married early in life a very beautiful wo man. Bhe did something that offended the society of New Orleans. Mr. Ben jamin was much devoted to her, and it wounded him keenly.. He spent years and a vast amount of trouble and money to win back for her her place in society, bnt he never sncoeeded. Onoe he gave a grand ball in New Orleans; all the men invited came, and not a single woman. That crushed his hopes then. When he was; elected to the gtmate he brought his wife to Washington arid sot 'up a mag nificent establishment. : The old grudge against his wife won remembered, and he again found himself obliged to go in society without bis wife or to remain in seclusion. He sold his Splendid house held effects at a .great loas, gave up his house, and said despondently to a friend, "I am bankrupt in heart, purse, and reputation." His wife then went to Paris where he snpported her in splendor and visited her often. Hia own tastes were of the simplest kind, and his personal expenses hardly a tithe of his grt earnings. He knew how to charge clients, and often peaoribed with a relish hia plan of making a fee. "First," he said, "I charge a retainer, then I charge a reminder, next I charge a refresher, and then. 1 charge finjeher." He was exceedingly liberal, and had no love of money for money's sake. His law offioe in London was the darkest .and dingiest ftrannv imaginable! There were two rooms, one tolerably comfortable, which, was oconpied by his . clerks, and thr other absolutely meagre, . occupied tVia rret mrist himself. Is-Was a fr.. orite resort of Southerners, grimage to-the shabby little was reliirioualT performed every Southerner who visited L "lOTMARJ OF OONGRESi v-7f:.:. " ; , ... - .. w Senate 7-; .. .) .The Senate passed the legislative, executhsi- ' anii judicial appropriation bilL wlthanarnansV ment providing that no spwehea not actually' delivered in the Senate or House shall be print- ... ed fa the Congressional Record, and thaleuctt ' speeches shall be printed just as they were spoa -en, except verbal cornectiona made by their au thors. The bill appropriated 21, 7,360, asi increase of $t,037.4SS since it came from the House. Of ihe addition, $15,000 was for tb , 1 purchase of Mrs. Esawett's psinting of the V ' . electoral commission.... The House Dill est-,4 tending to water transportation routes tssa provisions of the statute hitherto applied tw land routes only, regarding the immediaW transportation of dutiable goods was jsaemtt The annual deficiency appropriateasa tail, ' emropriatirig $7,823,691 an increase ef L 094,692 over the House bill was reported. ..J The conference report on the invalid parwlfff' - hill was agreed to Mr. Mahone rwportod; favorably, from the committee on eduoatiosa and labor, the bill to provide for the adjust ment of the accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics, arising under the eight-aoav law. The bill provides that all persons who have been employed as laborers, workmen, or mt ; chanics by or on behalf of ttie . government of the United States since June 25, 1868 (the date of the act constituting eight hours - -day's work),6hall be paid for each day's work ' " at the price per day as regulated by private parties in the vicinity in which the work wae performed, without reference to the auaa ber of hours work .required by such par ties; and that all claims for labor mperformes! in excess of eight hours per day shall be ref era red to the court of claims, to be adjudicates! upon the basis that eight hours constitute m . 1 day's work and are to be paid for as above tated ; all judgments given against the United States fa favor of claimants for the amount found due to be paid as other judgments est the court of claims against the United States. Mr. Blair, from the committee on education and labor, reported favorably and without amendment the bill recently passed by the House to prohibit the importation and mtgn. ' tion of foreigners and aliens under contract Or agreement to perform labor in the United. States. . . . .The general deficiency appropria tion bill was taken up. On motion of Mr. Hale the district attorney was authorised to pay Charles H. Reed, of Now York, a aum not exceeding $3,000 for services as counsel for the defense of Guiteau. With these ex- captions the bill was passed substantially at reported. .... Discussion on the river and har bor appropriation bill followed, without ao uuu. 7 7 wimagaai; House. - .. t Mr. Bingham, from the committee on post offices and poet roads, reported a bill fixing at two cents per ounce or fraction thereof the rate of postage on mailable matter of the first dass..i Mr.Oates,from the committee on pub lic lands, reported adversely the bill to declare forfeited certain lands granted to Alahama te aid in the construction of railroads.... The : House, by a vote of 121 to 77, rejected the bill to forfeit the land grant of the Backbone rail road of Louisiana. Mr. Valentine, of Nebraska, arose and called attention to a speech of Mr. McAdoo, of New Jersey, on the establishment of m soldiers' home fa the West, and said that in the Record Mr. McAdoo had taken occasion to print as part of his remarks a newspaper . aisparcn containing me names or native land wionopolists, among which appeared that ot John A. Logan as owning 80,000 acres of land. Senator Logan had desired Mr. Valentine to . say that, so far as related to him; . the statament was falsa Mr. Valentine ao- cused Mr. McAdoo of an abuss of privilege. ' Mr. Cannon moved that the Record' be so amended as to show that the speech of Mr- . McAdoo was not. actually delivered in the H tiiid ji.-m .Mt-i that .Mr. M-.'Adoo bad . not I :;.( the i .):'. t- to avow on tl e rJo(rrlf.4 McAdoo dafecided his courage, and de clared he did not retract a word of the -printed speech The list referred to had beea , printed all over the country months ago, ana not a worn or ueniat '"Sef rom Logan. Sev. l! sttjWfwhwata era! member 'Z'x. the Cannot to ether sfvk-.' A althonpf 4 ..j fag di ; Th - ..- artasl concur in ....The con. resolution 1884 CO poi up motion leged qui New To: the table .... On motion - of Mr. HopT ; Pennsylvania, tnenouse went into .7 v..:; ;. tee of tho whole on the bill toadj,v'.V.. ''7' " wages of workmen, laborers and meLi:.-V .under the eight-hour luw The bill pro.'-L7 EOT the settlement .of claims for labor by tbi ; Icourt of claims, since June 25, 1868, on tit v ' basis of eight hours as a day's work, attl -v . same rate as paid for similar work by privc' . v taartiea. regardless of the time reamredf ' ' s" y,li;7ri:"7 ": '.-7 Vt,,!7; to ty-., :: - ' SstM :'. was agretr- f" : : 7 '?ch i H.-WfA.'- r't; pies are te? V .7'7.";'!'--i'v 7V.ii 'vi uttcai disci, i&v-;., .r54; yy,,'-- , -I'll fiz as tneunnij.;-';'.'13iii...i?'-. 7. , ,i ... ,?'-;'' to eorKct the recoru-U - 7V:-5iYA sstion. upon motion of Mr. i ci . 7' ky i 7 rk. the whole matter was laiA. -'xV&t-.v"'?1 pay's work by such private parties. Mr,f,ji.'i,i enng, of Massachueetts, spoke in snpp;' hfy&&fy i1 and Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, 7 V iV v,, the bffl. General debate was eoBtiwM- aavnnai nonrs. wnpn tna reaainir nv a-: j; -.v'.'t. t ;.7 f '... t reaf.-T-HW.' was besrun. The first section was ame so as to make it applicable to work hereaft performed, and without proceeding furti the committee rasa. 4 - 7::' The National Banks. A KEW BANK BILIi IOTBODTCSD UTTO OOF geess rrs pbotibioits. : .. i . -ifJT , t .':?,' ' Bepresentative Buckner introdnced a ' bill to amend the National banking laws. It provides that the capital stock, of banks may be increased from time to time by depositing the full amount of the increase and securing tho approval of the Controller, provided that before issuing a certificate the Controller shall 7 be satisfied that the increase of the capital is required "by business, and is not made to pay existing liabilities or to avoid an assessment on the. share- holders. The bill amends the law rela tive to the misdemeanors of bank offi cials to read as follows : 7 "That every president, cashier, teller, clerk or agent ef any association who embezzles, abetracta or wilfully mip -im plies any of the moneys, funds or credits of the association, or who without author ity from the directors issues or put in circulation any of the notes of the asso ciation ; or who without such authority issues or puts forth any certificate of de posit, exohange', makes any acceptance, loons (or discounts) or assigns ; on any note, bond, draft, bill of exchange, mort gage, judgment or decree (or who with out such authority makes any loans or discounts or in any way( uses the credit of the association); or who makes any false entry in any book, report or state, ment of the association with the intent,; in either case, to injure or defraud the) association, or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual -person, or to deceive any officers of the association or any agents appointed to examine the affairs of such aiaociatioo, and every person who, with like) intent, aids or abets any officer, clerk or agent in any violation of this 'section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be imprisoned not less than fire years nor more than ten. ; - ' : The bill further provides that every banking association shall make to tho Controller five annual reports,, which shall give the resources and liabilities at the close of any past day specified by the Controller. The resource shall exhibit loans and disoonnta beuevedljood; ; : J loans and disoounta sw.vV.i?-'; V '.". and doubtfnl v X ... .r ?l ir Vv s rmmrfmMh -and V f y -tJ Vi ' te,mXZ$i -"-jf7 f: -At: '.fr- few.".' V 'ieK -n 7... , w 1. -i-i-v"
Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
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July 31, 1884, edition 1
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