North Carolina Newspapers

.' . - if ! 4 1 ' - " 1 KOCKINGHIm; .C1SD CO., N.C,, THUBSPAY, AUGUST 58. 1884. i , : : : r - , " , , '.mmr. .mrcy;rf ittokwuts. n" FRANKLIN MoNEIL, ATTOfJEY AT LAW, y ROCKINGHAM, N. Q. ' SS SS'tai Biohmo,"S' BoWjn., Aio ud WALTER H, NEAL, ATTOfcjNEY AT L.WV, LAUtlNBURC, N. C. V Will npAiitt 4 t5:u j J ': Wy.wvw,UWuu'iTt)uutu oasiness, ' wonisbed, Aetata basing, oll aat hn BV tiOODS ; GKOCERIKS HATS, BOQT3. SIIO.KS, CUTLEHr. UEAIi, i tioi:rs MotASists. BAco?f, ship stutf; And almwt erebina need by the petite Hn Burn tool nl MB ma bf ora buvinir tr in K. toyonranuiU4' 1 - -J. W. PARKS. ORDER YOUR 'Coffins, Castets, an2 Barial Cases .. ' j lOF ' "' j .AS. O. HUTCHINSON, fidive stock, all ricoa Ordens by teJoph filled oii-tlurty minuta aoSc! BARHES HDUSBT flu ROCKINGHAM, N, C. ; rbetablo will alwas be Bmpplied witA tha best tha uket &3ords. j SPATES j -i - ' ' ute board per month ...U.tl2 5' rd with room, per month i... .: . . li nu ra per wejc, iTonj.. ua artl per 'lay. from . -1 . j al i rf- ----- . -. TO. - ) to Djrle menu l.L ., ; j J. H. BAKSES, Proprietor. jam a m u ITUTE, , WADESBORO, N.C. A. MCGREGOR, A.' B., Principal. iloo: 'a. n e, ai.OO pe." annum. J 113 dt month.. or further partionlari apply to tht PrinoiDal. , IGJiORASCE ABOUT POSTAL CARDS. The !tltnkcii that nre Made in Chviic . them am that Urentiy II ill tier llieir umuinri. ! , "Postal jcard eorrespondentd make a gooa many mietakeg. Jf fliey knew -4S?S&:4 pile of cardb are thro-n ' away,- and why would be more' care'nl," said a Post Office clerk as he pitched a baneful of postal cards- intoi'the waste basket. "What is the rouble with them?" "Eviiry one hd something pasted on the correspondence side. It is allow able to paste on. the mailing side the address of the person to whom the card is sent, bnt apything pasted on the message side renders the card nr mail able. On the mailing side there must be nothing in the form of an advertise ment. " , 1 ' j. " 1 "If pictures ara drawn on the message sidei will the card be sent ?" "Yes, nnless tpe picture is of a char acter which would send the- artist to Sing Singf. However, there 'is a great deal of complaint about dunning and abusive rhjessages. It is popularly be lieved that it is a violation of the. law to send scurrilous epistles iu this way, but it is not The belief s founded, on Judge Benedict's . decision, where $5,000 fine was imposed several years ago. The law in not now in force, and a man can abuse! another to his heart's content." j "Can a postal card be returned ?" "Correspondents of ten try to do that, but it is against ;the rules of the office. To make sure, one-cent stamp. they often stick on a That won't work either. If a twoi-oent stamp ia put on, it will pass inspection. By putting on a one-cent stamp, however, a postal oard may be remailed to the person to , whom it is addressed, if it does not find him in the first instance. One thing about postal cards ought to be known to poor people who have friends abroad. We have stacks pf international postal ' cards unused that may be sent to almost , any citron Great! Britain or the Conti nent. Even in the few instances where they are used,, they are , apt to be sent to the . country which issues them. This is not allowed. They Can only be sent out of the country which issues them," N. Y. Sun. , A youno man once consulted old Commodore Vanderbilt to tell him of losses sustained by dabbling in stocks. The story told, the Commodore said : " Sonny, don't ever TJiy what you can't pay for, and don't Bee what you haven't oU" 1: .." ! . ' ; ' .! . Kbeoseke was first used for liehtanc : .ta:;bt(bkivi'':-.o:-'' lSlfi "-JEW: GOODS, i V HAPPY ANSON INST pr i ,.f f iw. mnill MECKLENBURG IRON WORKS, CHARLOTTE, O. MANUFACTTUREa AND KEEPS IN STOCK Steam Engines and Boilers. Trac Hon Engines. . ' Saw Mills with Variable Friction Feed. Wheat Mill Outfit. . ' ' ' Corn Mills PorUble. Serarators, Threslaerg and Horse Powers Reapers, Movers and Rates 1 , I Steam and Water Pipes Brass Fittings ' ;. v f Ml Klffll AT BOTH WHOLESALE AND RETAIL I have the largest stock of any hon&e in the State, and f - WILL NOT I3E UNDERSOLD, Can fill ordars promptly for clicao Chairs, Eedetcads, and anything in the Forni tnreline. W COFFINS, META1AO CASES AND BURIAL SUITS Al WAYd ON HAD. Seiid for cuts and prics. White Front, next to Wittkowsky & 3aruch, C1IARLOTTE, N. C. WINTER VE3TMF NTS -AmVrii l" If! LA ID ASIDE I Lighter Ones Donned. R EW SPR1 Handsomer NOW Purchased by Our Representative in New York City, AND ARRIVING WEEKLY. RELIABLE GOODS, CORRECT STYLES ! Lowest Prices Guaranteed. CONSTANTLY IN STOCK TO 1ID FANCY Flour, Meal, Meat and Salt, Sugar, Coffee and Tea, Butter and Lard, Molasses, bj the car load, from N ;w Orleans, and Canned Goods in great variety. "Dixie Boy" and Watt Plows. Steel Plows, Hoes and Shov els,, Hames, Traoes and Collars, Bridles, 3ad . .. dies, Lines, Backhands, etc., and. Everything Needed by an Agr icu Iturfst. .':r ' soe ad Child's asi "Eclipse" Cotton Seed Planters, Thomas Bheeting, E It- Mills' Snuff, " & P. Coata' reparation at factory prices EVERETT Rockingham, N, PROMPTLY ATTEjrcED TO. HJJiIlKES, IVTanager. SSIDREWS, - --v-. " i - i - : AND- fi3C COODS Than Ever, BEING A NICE ASSORTMENT OF Old Hickory Wagons Harrows, Pee Dee Plaids, Bdckingham Spool Cotton, and Horseford's Bread i i KEffi WALL & CO., o, laTestatews notes. gs of Interest to All. ome and Abroad. M.f mousana troone or me Warsaw ns- between F oen echeloned along the roady be takew '?-ieiIliw'ce and Warsaw, tha route to . J- the Czar, u-rvSiawaouB fire occurred Monday at Ma Mra.tn town of Asia Minor. A thousand sliona. aiundied houses, four hotels, three mosqnes he municipal palace were destroyed. a not has occurred at Klirnoff, Euasi" ihewoijjjen attacked the shops of the eld iJelievera, wn(nn tney denounced as orBe Bnin, -he content of th? shopf ere earned ofTA Qj person was lulled two were woijadf The Trj UTV ScmrAH -TlOW A dfirr Wire cta rvt in tfxiiuon dnrintr h eavati months p?or JaSY 1 amounting to abour M9.rnm.ru - -v i . . ' r improving tne harbora of Lake Sa- periofrTt ""fw i portion or Lake Mti rSwsfiSf e8tunate8 01 t for nfixt: year V $786,000. ' -A .80 Called "bftSAmnt V.il.. n v.- robbed over forty houses in Harlem, N. Y., in Ave months and who has succeeded admirably in keeping ont of the handsf of the police, was captured at hit, work. A wagon load of stolen property was founo.TA ,0nie. , A dispatch from Reading Pa., Says: Dur ing Wednesday night John lHowoQ, aged forty-fire, an insane man, and an umwte of the Connty Hospital, killed Jhomas Louth, his roommate, by battering in liis head while Louth was asleep. Louth was found dead in the morning. He was eighty years of age and came here from England. As Flowers is a lunatic he will not be tried for murder, but will bo con fined in the iron-clad cell. A severe thunderstorm visited the' region of Beatrice, Neb., before daylight Wednesday morning. Lightaing struck" the farm house of Nathan Miller, mar Maryville, Kan., killing his four daughters while asleep. Their ages weie seventeen, thirteen, nine and seven re spectively. The mother is in a critical condi tion from her bereavement. : Bags and hides in the cargo of the Cha teau Atargaux ran the blockade of quarantine, au officer of the steamer declaring thut there was no such cargo on board. They were dis covered at the dock in Brooklyn. On Tuesday a station agent on an Iowa railway was killed by a negro whom he had ejected. A mob in Borne pursued a burglar in woman's clothes, caught him, and hanged him. i j Rags from Marseilles shipped in May last iannot be bawled in the United States. . 1116 bones of Captain BaUard, a hero of the naval engagement between the Constitu tion and two English vessels, were buried in the Naval Academy Cenatery at Annapolis, Md. i Texas fever has caused th &th and slaughter of hundreds o.f cattlo in .ia8 Missouri and Illinois. ' The Commercial Bank of Brazil, Lud., and the Bamum Wiraworks, of Detroit, Mich., failed. A lynching party in the JFs West, after capturing a party of horse thieves, hanged the two leaders and turned the others over to the authorities for trial; A surveying partv, consisting of W. O. Johnson, John Eastwood, B. J. Eardon, and F. Bieakley, were drowned in Spanish River,. Canada. The Brushy Creek bridge, an immense epan, seventy-five feet high, and situated with in twenty-five miles of Austin, Teias. on thn Rt.-,,,. -,T; Jivf. ---; -.; -;; i - 1 - r - utbruuun. As a result aU the trains on" that toad were blockaded. 7 Our Southern frontier is to be strictly guarded to prevent importations of yellow fever from Sonora, Mexico. I The Texas fever is still agitating Western cattJ;? market. j At Saratoga on Wednesday, a portion ol die committee appoint' d by the recent Demo cratic National C invention for the purpose of notifying the residential candidates called upon ex-Governor Htndricks at his hotel and formally discharged the duty imposed upon them. ThirVice Presidential nominee re onded in suitable terms, j h arrest of two Americans In jfexico Canseo indignation among the American colon ists, unta u WM shown that they were un worthy men -ho had broken the laws. At the reqnest of the United States government they nere released. : , A gallant young man from New Torkeity lost his life at Kingston, N. 1, while saving i lad from drowning. i , 8 A police officer was mnrared ia Minne apolis by. three roughs. f - Three train wreckers were arreted near Lynchbnrg, Ya. - Whisky sent to Canada to avoid the pay ment of the tax will bo mulcted fifty cents pex package before it ia agam; imported to this coon try. J- S. C. Harrison, of the broken Uir rtsons Bank, and receiver1 of the Indiana Banking Chmpany, his been arrested for em? beialing $95,000 in Indianapolis. A surveying party of four persons were drowned in Spanish Biver, Canada, Tuesday. The Notification Committee of the Dem ocratic -National Convention for officially apprising Governor Cleveland of his nomina tion for the Presidency, accompanied by the National Committee, wa'red Upon the' nominee at the Executive Chamber on Tuesday and performed the miiuioa ith which it had bv-en vested. CoL Vilas, of Wisconsin made thoad drfas. Qov. Cloveland respouded briefly, jnd stated that his formal letter of acceptance wonid be given in a few days. Thre Frenchmen from the cholera dis incti of; France were among the immigrants on the Gallia to New York. They were al lowed to land by the Health Officer, because he believed; they were going to Houth Americs. The men are at large ia New loik. -t is reported that Hartmano, the nihilist, has committed suicide in Paris. Daly, the dynamiter ! arrested in April in Birkenhead, has been indicted by the Grand Jury, ; The English government is ready to con firm the ; confederation of the Australian oolo nies and; the annexation scheme. - The cotton worm is ravaging the cotton orop in Lower Egypt The . prospect is very poor. - The NflVis now much lower than at any time since 1878, when 40,000 persons per ished from famine. A. dispatch from - London says . Mrs. Weldon Received a verdict of 1,000 damages against Mr. Temple, the medical man who had declared her insane.,! . "-Warsaw is placed under martial law in an ticipation of the visit of the! Emperor of Rus sia to that city. The leading bankers, merchants.and man ufacturers of Berlin are leagued against Bis marck's cole nial plans, i ; A passenger sfearoer on the Volga River, 1 " VITVUWJ ITCIO The S;berian pest has appeared at Gats ciima. A committee fe.s been formed, with lmce Scliakoffsky at its head, to enforce vig orous sanitary miasures to check the spread of toe disease. The entire northern shore of Lcug Island Bound is becoming built up with summer cot- t XbeTA T"5 "tsaian flowing wells are bemg used to run a grist milL -Eighteen members of the Salvation Army were arrested at Rochester and locked up toi nngig whtle parading the streets. wit,Al?1?lkely, colored charged r-IS8 "me. taken frin jail by a erowc of mttaans and lynched The colored people of La Granp. naa a cake waJlc. fini,. ,ii ..j r9 Iiak . . .. " V V. UB1 b.HIK 1 I PHI. tmU ti tV -- i iuu gams was nearly1 a piece of the cake, which aroused great in diKna.ion He was taken out by fix mei wlK wLi' "d "0,iveJ7lo laK when he was left weltering iahis blood. "J1'6 ndir of Dongoia telegraphs that re-, ports havt reached that city to the effect that General Gordon has capturod Berber, i r P'kstwas attacked at Witepsk, Russia, ledby aaob to nn attack on the houses of Jews m ttmt place. The military dispersed the mob and made several arrests. The priest escaped. . i , aiUUUI. .Tin Xmhart . I. ,- 1 . 7JIZZ TI: eierspurg, nave been. The French m.n-of-war lying off Fooonou ! ' WMEWS NOTES. ::fE? suuihiskn jvutes. ?ifiiiJiiWMil tl Eiutcrn suid -VIia4l States. Ex-Govkrnob Josn P. Bt. Johw sent a telegraai from Rochester, N. Y., near which he had been addressing a campneeting, to the, committee at Pittsburg, accepting the nomi nation of the JJational Prohibition convention for President .. r r; Exv&nob Walteh Harrtmatt, o KewWieb.ftpa,died,a few days since a "WameirN. H., ged tityeyen years. Ho caje rat of the civil war a general,' and , was ctfid governor in 1867 and 1868. ' Miss Mart C. Aulters.. the betrothad of Dr. Ossian Terburgh, who committed suicide at Pittsburg, Perm., a few weeks ago by taking prussic acid, shot herself in Leechburg, Perm., inflicting a fatal wounA. The boUer of a locomotive on the LeT"gh Valley railroad near White Haven, Pe"n- ex ploded n-ith terrifflc effect Jacr Hassell, engineer; John Armbruster, foman; John Hassell, t rakeman, son of erigineer, and H. S. Smtvb, a telegrttpb operator, were in sttly ki?A -A fixvW' traim ran into tho wrecked locomotive, and thirty cars were de troyed. Fifty-Osb wen of all nationaUties, white and black, were arrested near Pittsburg, Penn., and lodged in jail, charged with an outrageous assault on Lizzie Bradley, a young woman of unsound mind, wjUo had been en ticed from her home, and was wandering abcufe the country when discovered by her as sailants. Tins committee of notification appointed by the national Democratic committee to inform Governor Cleveland of his norrtinatiou for President, waited upon bim ia the ex ecutive mansion at Alruuiy and discharged its duty. Govaaor Cleveland in a speech accepted tho nomination. UeTVolf & Swan, New York stock brokers, have failed through the thievish operations of one of their customers W. E. Scovil, a sten ographer employed by Lord, Day & Lord, lawyers. Scovil stole about f 200,000 worth of Mr. Day's securities, substituted counterfeits for the genuine ones, and forged Mr. Day's signature on tlie genuine stocks. The committee of forty seven who had in-" formed Governor Cleveland of his nomination for President by the national Democratic convention, performed a like duty : toward Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Democratic nom inee for Vice-President, at ' the Grand Union hotel, Saratoga,, j N. Y. The ceremony was almost a repetition of that on the previous day in Albany. Cot onel Vilas made the addrts informing Mr. Hendricks of his nomination; Secretary Bell read the official letter of notitication, and Mr. Hendricks responded in a short; address ao cepting the nomination. South and Went. Victor Eloi (White), for the murder of his wife, and Kendrick Holland (colored), for the murder of Hannah Glover, his reputed wife, were hanged from the same gallows simultaneously at New Orleans. After 198 ballots ex-United States Senator Thomas M. Norwood was nominated for Con grffci in the First Georgia district. Iowa's colli crow is estimated at 300.000.000 , bushels the biggest ever-known in that j State. - t The tornadoes which wrought such havoc j to various portions of Wisconsin, Dakota and i Minnesoii have been followed by hailstorms wiially as (VMtnictive to croj). Many sheep. Kg cud calvi-i were killed, while i horses rnd t.ttlo Nsuffvred sevei-elv. Many bridges were swe.pi wT and flocks of sheen killed. Hailstones as big v,enVffgs fll Near Tower City, Dakota, the oamage wag estimated at $100,000. CROP reports from Ohio, Indiana anq Ken- in years. Corn has snffered from drought, htrt recent rains have rescued it, and the yield will be an average one. During a wrestling match between two negroes at Plaqueniine, La., one threw the other with such force as to break his neck, killing him instantly. Tiie Ohio Greenbackers,, at their State con" vention on Dayton, nominated a full ticket, headed py Peter Harrod for secretary of Btate. - - Cojlojtei. J. 8. Muepht, president of the Mobile Life Instu-ailce companvi w9 shot and killed at his residence near Alofcile, by Reuben Tripp. The shooting grew outof a dispute ver land trespassing, and Tripp was arrested. A steamship collided with and sank the propeller J. M. Osbom on Lake Superior. The propeller's mat-v a flreman.cook and five deck 1 hamis were drowned. , Skviw horse thieves were found hanging to trees at the mouth of the Musselshell river in Montanr. Cowboys had done the hanging. A flood in thevallevcf George's creek in the eastern part of West Virginia, swept away fronjp twenty to thirty houses at Bar ton, a small mining town, and caused a loss of from eight to fifteen lives. A-fusion ticket of Republicans and Green backers has been nominated in West Virginia headed by Edw in Maxwell (Republican) for frovernOh Toe remainder of the State ticket is made tip of three Republicans and three Greenbackers. Di,RlNa a severe thunder-storm lightning struck the farmhouse of Nathan Miller, near MaryvilJe, Kan., killing his four sleeping daughters, aged seventeen, thirteen, nine ana seven respectively. Waahtngtait. CdicGRissitajr William W. Culbbbtsoi?. representing the Ninth ETentckny district. While at his room in the National hotel at WTashington, where he had been stopping a few days, , attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. The weapon was fired five times, but only two of the shots took effect the balls furrowing along the skull without breaking it, but inflicting serious Wounds. Excessivo drinking is given as the cause of Mr. Culbertson's attack upon himself. Culbertson is a native of Pennsylvania, had been in the Union army, and in the Kentucky legislature ; was once mayor of JLshland, Ky., and had been a delegate to the last - three Republican national conventions. ; The surgeon-general of the marine hospital service, having received information that the yellow fever is spreading in Sonora, Mexico, has instructed the inspector at Nogales. Ari zona, to use extra vigilance to prevent its in troduction into the United States. Treasury figures show a shrinkage of the currency in circulation during the seven months prior to July I amounting to about $32,000,000. Ik view of the threatened Asiatic cholera invasion the national board pf health has directed its executive committee to fully in vestigate all matters bearing on that subject. Foreign Cam, is to pay France $5,000,000 as indem nity for the recent attack of Chinese force upon a body of French troops in Tonquin. Twenty persons were drowned by the cap sizing of a pasjonger steamer on the Volga river in Russia. England's hop crop this year is pronounced a failure. A meeting of the emperors of Germany an 1 Austria and the czar of Russia is about to lake place at Alexandrof, Russia. Hkjtbt M. Stanlev, the African explorer has returned to England frdm Africa, A disastrous fire has occurred at Marash, a town of Asia Minor. One thousand shops, two hundred houses, four hotels, three znos jues and the municipal palace were de stroyed. ". f Up to the 1st inst about 2,300 deaths from cholera had occurred in France. . A mob in Roma, Italy, pursued a burglar In woman's clothes, caught him and hanged him. - ! A HORRIBLE DISBASB. Sing alar Complaint Supposed to have been Caused by Diseased Meat. . . The surgeons at the Connty Hospital, Ghi cago, have under treatment Mrs. Murphy. 21 years of age, who ia suffering from a horrible disease which afflicts cattle aud is known as "dampy jaw;" It is in the form of an abscess on her jaw, and was at first supposed to be an ordinal j abscess, but microscopical examina tion proves the contrary. ' The abscess was found to contain vegetable parasites identical with those found In abscesses on cattle. It u supposed to have . been caused by eating the meat of cattle navmg the disease 1 -meat of cattle havtog the disease. Anopora-. wtnerait fb,iiU' : : 1 tion wiflbe perfetriaed shortly. Tlie ex- 1 jbaoUjns4- ij&tri i 1 cites twi interns as it is. the fir- ry$ii&'.my i'mJn' ported in .Umi thcM Talk of a bagging factory at Griffin, Ga. - Cord wood sells for nine dollars percrd in ixey nest. The average monthly wages paid farm nan 's in Georgia is $9. 83. , ; There is going to be a thsapLd acre cocoa palm grove in South Florida A glass factory tacot twenty thousand dol lars is to be erected at Horrilton, Ark. Eighteen hundred homesteads have been en tered in Florida during the past year. The streets in DeLand, Fla., are being cov ered with sawdust by the town authorities. Key West imported over three thousand gal tons of claret wine -from Havana last month. . It is said that the peanut crop this year in the South will amount to three million dollars. The Mississippi carries annually to the sea eight hundred and twelve billion fivo hundred million pounds pf mud. s With her cattlo upon a thousand hills, Texas people eat more oleomargarine than they eat A large colony of immigrants from Germany recently arrived in Louisiana to settle on lands in tho northern part of that State. Selma, Ala., has seventy-four artesian wells. Some of them flow excellent mineral water, and every atream is pure and healthfnl. Alabama's output of iro -a IS 70 was less than 4, 000,000, in 1083 819,000,000, an increasi ' of 400 per omit, in four years. Arkansas proportion of the fund to be dis tributed under what is known as the "Blair bill," for educational purposes, will amount to over $2,400,000. A single English syndicate owns 4,600,009 acres of land in Texas. Foreign capital alto- S ether controls an aggregate of 21,000,000 acnes l the State. The Scientific American says' the best of hickory nsed in the arts, where toughness is required, is obtained from North Carolina and East Tennessee. It is stated that Lake de Funiak, Fla., is set tling up with a class of farmers from Iowa and Wisconsin, who will engage in raising sheep, cattle, rice, sugar, pecans, olives and grapes. There are about 300 men engaged in killing alligators in South Florida. The hida and teeth of the 'gator is what's wanted. The year's business will bring to that section about 48,000. Immense quantities of plates made from the common gum tree ground up into wood pulp, pressed, are manufactured in Newborn, N. u., and are daily shipped from Norfolk to points all over the country. Southern planters are now preparing for a decisive test of a cotton harvester on their next crop, and should the result be favorable, it will probably work changes greater than were caused by the introduction of the cotton gin in the prices of cotton. . .i In the middle of the main street of Aber Seen, Miss., are artesian wells several squares apart, which supply the city with water. Ev ery well is covered with a large pagoda, and the ground beneath is paved. The water runs from spouts into troughs, and passes off under ground. The South poBSes in her varied and Vilu-able-j woods the basis of enormous future weejth. The manufacture of cabinet woods ai d furniture in the South can be made one of itr leading industries, as the material is al most unlimited and the water power for fac tories abundant. A stock company has been organized at Montgomery, Ala., with paid up opitl stock of $30,000 for an extensive manufactory of soap, ball potash and axle grease. Cotton aedil wilLt&kji.tLe JSfSS? offl and grease, ti ' -i k fr r't i. . i ' u!tvprjit fi ii the or leacttng Dusiness men. Jay Gould says that the Southern States are increasing beyond all precedent. Cotton man ufactories are being established in all direct ions, and in Florida manufactures of furniture, eto., are numerous; things that they used to have to depend on the North for exclusively, they now make for themselves. ' The cattle interest is becoming immense, the growth of which can scarcely be measured by estimate or figures. The great trunk lines of the Missouri Pacific railway will be taxed to their utmost to furnish transportation for this already vast and increasing traffic. It is esti mated that from the first of this month to October not less than 1,000,000 head of cattle will be shipped over these lines from Texas to Northern points. In this no estimate is made of horses, sheep and swine that will seek north rn markets. In reference to tee cotton industry in Au gusta, Ga., which has been represented f s in a serious plight, it is now stated that all the mills are running in full, and the Sibley mills are about to increase their capacity by new machinery. Two out of the ten mills have de cided to reduce their wages, but it is claimed that these two mills pat higher wages than ' any of the others. The real cause of the trouble is the short cotton crop of 1883. Many of the Southern mills did not buy sufficient when cotton was low, and the present high ' price does not make them particularly anxious to Work it tip. Mills with an abundant stock Of cotton will go right along, , HEWS FROM EGYPT. Five Hundred People Killed Geo. Hale. Gordo A despatch from Suakim saysi r friend fy tribes oh the mainland, near Ac have been massacred. Five hundred persons were killed. Seventeen thousand rebels are ground Suakim and make nightly attacks upon the town, coming within short range of the garri son. The sailors and marines landed, but the rebels fearlessly danced and waved their spears in broad daylight within two miles of the fort." A letter from General Gordon, dated June 11, emphasizes the necessity of his remaining to protect Kaasala. He says that his soldiers are in good spirits and are only waiting the rising of the Kile to destroy the rebels. A merchant who left Kassala on June 21 says before starting he read a letter from Gen. Gordon to the Mudir of Kassala, dated June 11 According to this Geu. Gordon was safe and had abundant supplies of provisions and ammunition. He was snor of money, however, and was raising funds by issuing bondag He was hemmed in on all sides by rebels. As soon as the Nile rose his intention was to equip steamers, at Kassala, the merchant says, there were supplies of pro visions sufficient to last fave months X population at Kaddarif have joined the Main The inhabitants of Doneoia. through t Mudir. have sent a dispatch to the General commanding at Assouan, declaring their alty and expressing regret for their waverir ui the paBt. The telegram is regarded s proof that the Malidi's influence is wan" , ; ., An Arab trader who has arrived r 'i.:X' irom Amarar says it wjkj rtporKju , Osn an Digma was killed on July 18 ; bar of theBishareen tribe, whose V', ; man stabbed because he refused u'-i nbela. tsfivs. - - RUM AND UBATH OJi Tllh ..;'', j, ' Two Men Killed by n I.ocomvv Arcnmenta tor tho Prohlbittj' ', ' The east bound passt nger train o.fa 4 em North Carolina liatlroad ma v Jr tr p Sunday, killing two men witV of two miles. ' At Johnson's ferry, near Asl 3 K. a grog shop by the raih-oad t '".'! " the platform a white man nayj was performing a shike .(';;.'.'.', train . approached. The '", t. . " .' .; mountain dew that Press t"i irh s-.f and when he saw liik mxmW W $ -" ': '' ' .KiA ? 'M the opposite side or tl,e t ,:f :rp:: .Ht''P, A' : ,'V,r'. . V;.Vf , at the approaching train HiVri. '.v -V- 'i:"tt t.';'';-- ' ' 'V- J-':i I'if'rrjJi,i-t-si" .-4 '..;& ''Ci?'V'---:'1:i-"J?i'5i'"''iS"w'' V2j',:' 'acres the track to catehtt': Hegavea bound, and toj&V ; 'I vv; $ ' -VSC ' ! -P-1 -V v: leap the engine struck f . . ' ', pi,.Vf -?- iT-S;, 40 '..V ' f -' : iSC 5: V- Yf - ward. Hefehiuanct&4,V 4&Wf was mashed tok i"'-' body was broken.. WtMh V v f'j.V, Mf.M? &n ? '?M:tU'k V' 4m?m HL W his pocket coveK-Ma''-; r.;fe: W ttmw ,,m 0$k'mm m k After the reril-'M'.''v--'-: tram proceed ? iif fk mt php' &:.f? two miles mfrm$i4k SM$r :mi 0;:MJm plied and it he spoke .m:"Ami reter,Fore.h;,m;, 4'itn&&f? a spree t&? ' -' Being ovetei .?S.-..'U. aU6J-J!v twa" at WashingUiL The Philadelphias have thus far played twenty men this season, fcix pneners nave been tried and five catchers. Corkhill, of the Cincinnati club, has made the wonderful record of thirty-six games in the right field without an error. It will now be in order for pitchers to watch Buffinton, of the Bostons, in order to discover that peculiar drop which he alone has. The numerous clubs in the country are training schools for players, and talented ones ought to improve their chances to get into the big leagues, which will b the enly survivors some day. H ackkttv of the Bostons, and Ewing, of the New Yorkers, wear the two heaviest mass in the League, and probably in the profession. They were made to order for thoe two catchers, and tho wire is much larger than that ordinarily used. r While deadheads were enjoying a game at tho Boston club's ground, Boston, from the toils of telegraph poles "v, somebody came along and p'" the poles black as far as cni no reached. It is perhaps need less to add that there was no patent dryer in that paint The clothes of the pole-toppers showed it after they had come down. Aw exchange, speaking of the invention of baseball, says: "JSow theganie is played by young men who play it as an avocation, who are called professionals, and who receive large pay.' A contest requires the exertions of eighteen men of exceptional skill aud endur ance, one umpire, two managers, and usually the services of an accomplished surgeon. The ball Is a combination of cast iron and India rubber nearly as hard as a cannon ball, and propelled as rapidly. To occupy the grand stand of a baseball park is a da ngerous pro ceeding, while the players take the ball and their lives in their hands at the same time." At the end of the fourteenth week the rec ord of the League clubs in the championship race was: Clb. Won. Lout. Clubs. Won. Loot Boston 50 Chicago 35 33 Providence..... 4- 80 Cleveland ., 24 44 Buffalo. 44 2T Philadelphia 80 60 New York 40 89 Detroit 17 62 The record of the twelve Associations clubs up to the 1st was u (Hubs. Won. Lout- I Club. Won. Lott T 39 41 43 44 60 Metropolitan'.4T Louisville 42 Columbns 42 Cincinnati. ...42 BL Louis 39 Athletic S6 i uainmore . . . . si 20 Brooklyn 24 Toledo 21 Allegheny.... 20 Indianapolis.. 16 Washington.. 12 20 20 23 In the Eastern League the record was as fpl lows,: nnh. Wjn. Lott. I Clubs. Won. lost Wiimingten....41 8 Virginia.. ......23 AcHv. 24 21 I Newark.-. 22 2T Trenton .,..25 25 I Allen town ... . .16 29 In the Union association race the St. Louis team held the winning lead, the Baltimores being second, and the Bostons third. In the Northwestern League race the dis bandmentof the Bay City team materially ad.TOaoc..'. Jl, Grand jUapids club, Saginaw being second and Quincy tnifd. MdSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Emma Abbott, the singer, has become very rich. A English lord is to go on the New York stage next winter. vClara Louise Kellogg has besm dined in i iojc application of Hme, Patti v V1 Mar quisoa Ob-ux for divorce will be theqrst ca8 tried uiHler new divorce jaw raris. Christine K.lsson a Patti is to get $4,000 per niit in tlus country next sea son her services ai, certainly worth $3,000. . Mrs. Langtrt'b xt season in America di not begin until Juiuary 5. She will have f out iww pieces and thry, new Enellsh actors. It is suggested that Aoe Oaoes and Ed ward Hay would, make a popular combma tion. Gates and Hay wot gustain tho big gest Sort of a team. Tmt play called "Shadows a the Ureat City," produced recently at McVjcK.is thea tre. Chicago, is understood to have bean aam ly the work of Mi. Joseph Jefrerson,the actor, although his name does not appear in conn. titm with ifC "'"""! It is now dennitefy settled that Mr. Abbey controls both Mme. tJernhardtapd Mis Mary Anderson for this country. Both 61 themwul be brought over a year from the coming an tumn. and Mr. Abbey's agentB are already elf gaged in booking time all over the countryj x Marie Roze and Minnie II auk have been f in Paris listening to Heilbron in Massenet's "Manon Lcscaut" Marie Roze if to give the epera in English at London, and Minnie Hauk will sing it in German at Vienna in the au- tumn, and in English in this country next 'year., 1 ; ' The Worcester (Mass.) Spy says that Mrs. Isabel Fassett, of Albany, who has met with marked success in oratorio in Europe, will sing in a festival in Worcester. The state ment ta made that she will sing nowhere a in this country, but will return at once to Eu rope. '- t r Miss Mart Andkhso says that eh in tends to excel anything ever done by Mr. Ir ving in the rti-ing of "Romeo and JBL1t. She has brought several sketches and plots for stage sets from Italy, ana me tr.uj.- h" ' are 1 ow busdy at work preparing for her fan campaign, Private advices fro? Europe declj " Miss Emma Juch an r. ifl?L,rof at- the .nroose aru now in Bayrt ViW " AiMl te'Khno- the WfS"""1" mil enterxam- . gpQji us iao ujov to u--, ---- - . -svith a ti. ,.trv. bnnzinE MilV- it. imw,rijinf. KinirerR. the PUT- DU" f g to give German opera in New York I5 "y". rand scala FIGHTING FOR LIFB. ferrible Scenes at the Collision 01 (no GUon and I-axham. iV survivors of the British steamer Lax lri which collided recently with the Spanish Drr Gijon, not far from Corunna, report Sn0rtly after ite ' P , ,&miK .Vtff'y.LWiWir'i- .v.--',' -r. . ' jr:i.;;?:i- -:.M:'v;':'M,V v reach 1875. The Tennessee mountains afe becniinlC fashionable as a summer resort among peopw 10.000.C00 ba&tsVi.-Wb3ft4.. A f in the South. . ; - During the first six months of the current year the sum of ffia,221,000 has been invested , in new industries iu the South. , . Jf There are 1,002 hotels in Switzerland, with 58,137 beds. There are more Enghsh travel- .. ere than of any other nationality. tn.contribute 57.000X ' 000 bushels to the 600,OM,000 busheta of tbi - i country's next estimated 'b0&.iWyf&$'j. Cuban taxes for the current year amount . to $30,000,000, while the ; value of her sugar ; f '. ; crop for the same timo is only $35,000,0 X). " . The assessed valuation of the real and per- 4 : "y. . v sonal estate in the city of Philadelphia ia j. $583,612,083, an increase of $13,15,43 over : t 1883. - ' -; Virginia is to set down this year for 2,100, 000 bushels of peanuts, Tennessee for 250,000, and North Carolina at ,135,000 bushels. - According to the returns for 1SS3, just issued, there were in Ireland at the'close of that year, 7,752 schools under the jurisdiction of the national educational TOmim-ssion. Two Danes have undertaken the task of paddling, in a skin-covered canoe, from Alaska to San Francisco, a distance of about 2,600 miles. The canoo is nineteen feet long and covered with tho skin of sea lions. A tear ago, Miss Knowles, a fdxteeii-year-, old girl of Deep River, Conn., was taken sick. On convalescing she found that she could eat nothiug but milk and fruit, a singular diet,1 that she has continued to the present tima. Her health at present is excellent. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Lieutenant Schwatka, the Arctic ex plorer, has resigned from the army. Congressman Abram S. fiKWirr, of New York, has gone on a trip to England. Pierre LRiksJiRD has built in Jersey City a library tor thwfreo use of the 3,500 opera tives in his employ. Thomas Ewino Sherman, the oldest son of General Sherman; is now one of the scholastic brethren of the society of Jesus at Nashotah, Vis. The newspapers are mentioning: the some what curious fact that Mr. Biahio was for a time a teacher in a deaf mute college.and Mr. Cleveland was a teacher in an asylum for the blind. Ad'miral Cooper's flag has been lower? r at Portsmouth Navy Yard, closing hu liant official record. Admiral iuco su' cunad so the commana or ine iorxu nu .v: squadrou. :s'vc. mi maun o-'-t: v o a roce at the house het -.npying ti.o Indon. Several Wc. , 'receptioh"jf 111 . and musical people were presei. ceedlngs could hardly be termed ; , TttTPF.RTSWOOD, or V - , . v ,fi: i j v .;.-h(Yi th nn VV. ETvorto inan 1; Ma'Honrv 1TI JU.ei(KUI'Ut? efUx 10 -' most magnificent in the world. O00.000. 1 A table showihe the lengtC of se; parliament of tho most eminent EngliaV men- now living contains tne lonomnr Mr. Gladstone, fifty-one years; tK viile, forty-seven years; Lord Jol : i forty years; the Duke of Arg,.,' Kimberley, iach thirty-seven "'; Derby, thirty -eix years; Lor thirty -one yours ; Sir Staffr twenty-eight years ; lord Ha eoven years, and Mr. ; Cl'j years. Lord Granville v".j, tune in otlice, twenty- ; ?: ' and tho longest in t years and two monf. '. r'"T-V been in office twe- . i.'f months and in tlie it-' r ' w r. 1 '-' THE ARCTIC . The Meeting Between J.'?.' HU MolheJ-v ;' The Arctio sarvivors met wiifyi ception at Portsmouth. When tht-.: barge was seen to leave the Tenii Mrs. Greely and her two brothers, ; C. A. Nesmuth, sitting in the sv Commander Schley said to lieut. s x ' Lijutenant, 1 wouia 11&0 wr .t.in for s few momcr' I schley entertained .Lieut , tion aoout arc'--. peculiar signal wb"J. whistle to Jj. ; was on board reaoblfld A1. hnr bl am . -n. " i:i.i. whoi". .'raw shook with teembii-j r inatant she entered. SSunander Sohley left the room, leaving the . , T l.niimanl ion a separatea coupio v Greely was sitting with his back to the door, but when Commander Schley bo abruptly left him, he , turned and at the same instant saw his wife enter. With a loud cry that was more Eke a gigantio eob half smothered, Lieutenant Greely bounded from his chair with eyesgleaming in loy at the sight matgladdened them. Mrs.Gree ly. talL dark, and stately, sprang forward to meet her husband, crying, ''Arthur! Ar thur homel" After Mr. and Mrs. Greely had been alone for twenty minutes, her brothers were called . in and cordially and tearfully greeted their brother-in-law. . It was noticeable on board the Thetis that everybody shed tears when Mrs. Greely entered the cabin where her husband rtA in the afternoon the mother Of Lieut fiwAiv mc from Kewburyport, and was - taaen at uuw - ,',;v u, ? n ",;"' -Vis I '.'i 'tm. :'iv y.t. -1'" xvm yuf ovi f BA'UOIL I p-.tJi - : is