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Vi.V ffrtiiiriiwiihnrrri-ii.itiMlwl.ii'rf m i-1 lat i '..da, . ' '-'O Vf" fr M ? , 'it J n ' r IGHMO KW H 12. II. C. WALL, Editor and Projprietor TO DEMOCRACY WE PIN OUR. FAITH. $1.50 per Year, in Adranco. -pr ' : 'i 'V5'' NO.'580.. .v si VOL. II. NO. ;10. ROCKIKGH AM, RICHMOND CO,, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1884. WHOLE : ; ' t .A 3: i i' i V- ft' 'l V i - - . ATTOUNETS. ' FRANKLIN McNEIL, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, ROCKINGHAM, N. C. "Will rtranlrA in Rfarimnt1 T? nYt mm ,m Inimi anil l4oor eouutiea.', . . WALTER H. NEAL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAURINBURC, N. C. win IVampt attention given to all businass. j . W. JOSKS. T. O. MOKTO. ON DECKi NEW FIRI3. ? 'NEW GOOtfS.; ." oaLl and seb I JOKES & MOIITON 1 EN YOU WAST V ' GROCERIES AND COKFECTIJNEHIBS. Kt, Canned Guoda, etc.. and a fall nock oi : Heavy and Fancy Groceries, ;Ahd also parpose koeping a supply of fresh and nio BUTTER AND EGGS, "Ab J all kinds of ediblea. CITKAP- frnTi nisa !. uwrtto, and we shall kuovr nu other rul ., (Jail aid tea H lj K!lrhTGtXid, Gr)c(:;ea, Slines, etc., SO'I.OW (hat Hi. x- n;ttv;6 are ajjtuuidked. . Beiure buying, call aad i i4 btuck of .t ky uoods CROCERIKS HATS, BOOTS. SHOES, PUTLEBY, , MEAL. , ,QUR, MOLASSKS. BACO.V. 'SHIP STCTF. " And alnjttet eycryihia necdol by tho penp!. ;! Bi nrti' tictl aud n.o befure bayiiiE. I' frill be Uiyoi.r.(vin:aKe. J. VT. PAKKS. . iniu jit; . . . f Hamlet, K.O. ORDERYO UJES, Gcffiiis. Cast&is, Bnrial ' Cases OF JAS. C. HUTCHINSON, - : Niiiij iifiuuies nutice. mi mm Mm EOCElJTGHAM, N. C. The table will aiir&TS be siDsliod with the be?t tht KATES; Taf-le board per month............. 812 5' B-Kird with nra, per month.. B'krd rr week. frum..... .$3 6J to J 6 tJ Bard pe dur, irum ....... ...... .81 &U to i 3 10 tiiUgle uiea!'.. iknlS '84 tf J. H. BARNES. Proprietor. . S1L. JOHN AKD DAHIELS.! The Prohibition Candidate Accept " the domination. - j . 'Ex-GQvernoriJohn P. St. John and WCliam D aniels,the Prohibition nominees for President and Vice-Pretjident, were formally notified at C iiba Y. , by a corhinittea of their nomina tion. 3Ir. St. John replied as follows: ';!'" . "Iu i-otivinj this, formal notice 6"f my nomi nation for tiie highest ollice within the gift of the people vy the national convention of I the ProhiLiJ-ion party, permit me, notwithstand ing the distinction was neither sought nor de sired by me, to assure you, in view of the .jiAanimity with which it was given, of my high appreciation of the very great honor it confers. There are more political parties id the field to-day than there are political issues. Upon too great questions as to what should be done wth the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a bev erage, both the Democratic and Republican party are united in favor of making the tariff permanent, while the Prohibitionists demand -JLhiat it sh iU be forever placed under the con demnation of the laws of the land. Thus an issue is clearly made, and I think it safe to say, the only one to-day that really reaches the heart and conscience, o the citizen. Upon this issue we , go to the people, the . source of all political power. Let us appeal to reason rather than: to prejudice. JLet those resort to personal abuse ankf scandal who have nothing better to up hold their cause. The Prohibition party was not organized as a mere threat or menace. It is the outgrowth of a 1 rapidly-increasing : sentiment against the great evil, of the age anjevil that the old parties dare not attack, but against which this young pai-ty of the people, in defence of the homes of the nation, na4 entered njton a warfare that shall never ceiie so loli; as the flax of- our country waves its protecting folds-over legalized draui shoj. Iu this struggle, let us ver re nichrter that we are accountable to God, that ourrduty to him. is paramount to our allegi ance to anypolitical party; that political ties will never in His sight excuse a ballot for any party that does not stand up fearlessly for the right. The home will have nothing to fear if thefpeople vote as they pray, vi Mr. Daniels also made a-speech accepting the poniuuttion for vice-president. " j A Short Crop of Day Reports to the New England Homestead from 8251 points, covering the lirilirth. Provinces, Heir England, ami New York, indicate that the hay crop jcut harvested is nearly 30 per cent, less than last year. The average yield of the several sections is as follows : Maine, 75 per cent.; New Hampshire, 65; Vermont, 61; JlaafcachuHortH, 74; Connecticut, 63; iihode ,. Island, fe6; New York,. 77; and the Provinces, 82. I Average for the whole section, 13. Prices are higher than last year, when the crop was i very heavy in the.great shipping counties. . ! I Mnny fanners will either have to sell stock or buy bay. . Cattle will, therefore, be some what lower than one year ago. The drought in Northern and Central New England is ex tending fou h and west. The -make of butter and cheese in Vermont and in the great cheese sections of New York State will be much cur tailed No material decline in the price of .tees products is, therefore, probable. i Dr.. Eenbfen Garter' writes us that at Jong ago a a 1865 be made an effort to establish in- IVasbiDgton, D. C, an in- 4 stitttion in ivbich the teachings ot Heredity nbOull have a permanent places then, again, in the winter and spring ol -4879 in, Philadelphia he undertook to iorganize a-$ociety for the purpose of tawaltning attention to the subject oJ (Heredity. .He says he-has been much pleaded .with the reports of, tbe parloi meetiogs duiing the past winter, an4 the more so, because twenty years ago he was considered fanatical, cranky and crazy for advancing precisely th pamj fiewi,?rf Foot's Monthly. '-' HAMLET THRIVES : ' - ' -A5D- THS PEOPLE IRE HAPEYi 3 i' MECKLENBURG IRON WORKS, MANDFACTUBES AND KEEPS IN STOCK Steam Enginea and Boflers. - : Traction Engines. .. v. v Saw Mills with Yariablp Friction Feed, x ' ' ' Wheat Mill Outfits. - . , - Corn Milla Portible, V Separators, Threahers and Horsa F&wera Reapers, Mowers and Bakes :. Steam and Water Pipes-Brass Fitting RE PARS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Address, JOHN WINTER VESTMENTS -MUST LAID A -AND Lighter Ones Donned. WSRiHG GOODS Handsomer Purchased by Our Representative in New M Ciiy, 4.ND ARRIVING WEEKLJL. RELIABLE GOODS, Lowe st Prices . CONSTANTLY IN STOCK A NICE ASSORTMENT OF Ml AND FANCY GICEBIES! Flour, Meal, Meat and Salt, Sugar, Coffee and Tea, Butter and Lard; Molasses, by the car load, from New Orleans, and Canned Goods in great variety t "Dixie Boy" and Watt Plows, Steel Plows, Hoes and Shov els, Hames, Traces and Collars, Bridles, Sad dles, Lines, Backbands, etc., and Everything Needed by an Agriculturist. lbs asi Child's and Old Hickory Waps, "Eclipse" Cotton Seed.Planters, Thomas Harrows, Pee Dee Plaids, Ewkingham Sheeting, E B- Mills' Snuff, ' A P. Coats' Spool Cotton, and Horseford's Bread ... reparation at factory prices EVERETT Rockingham, N. O. BURGESS , WHOLESALE BX BgTAIL Furniture B cdding9Malircsscs Chairs, Etc. OH A.RX1OTTE, N. O A TOLL Cheap Bedsteads, Lounges, Parlor and Chamber Suits. COFFINS OF ALL BINDS ALWAYS ON HAND. AIarc8tookof toraltare is aew being boofhtln the Vortttm markets. Prompt ttteotwo giren to crder ', - '-' ?, WILKES, Manager. BE- SIDE! Than Evor . CORRECT STYLES ! G u a rante ed . WALL & CO., NICHOLS, DBALEK DC ALL KINDS OT STOCK OX EDITORIAL NOTES. y - Paper Shirts. ' Paper shirts, are a new invention. . The bosom of this novel garment consists of seven layers, of which one can be torn off every day, Oa the blotting-pad principle, exposing a clean white surface in its place. A still more enter prising inventor is now trying to perfect a plan for printing installments of a sensational novel ol thrilling interest On the back of each of the lay-as. He shrewdly expects that, hav ing onoe commenced the tale, the wearer of the pad-shirt will be unable to wait a day for the next installment, and so be tempted to peel off the successive layers of bin shirt front at more frequent intervals. v. ; , m ' XTow a Counterfeit Can be Detected. A circular issued bv the United Rr,at.Tr.fl-! ttry wbunterfeit Detector states tliatthe u.' tomuenen ten-aollar Treasury note, which was recently reported as of the series of 1873, is of 1875 instead. In some respectsthis coun terfeit is veiy well executed, while in others the work is very bad. All Treasury notes of He series of 1875 are printed on the fibre paper known as the Wilcox patent The fibre has Jhe appearance of coarse black hairs scattered fhrough the paper, without regard to regular ity, and may readily be seen in the open panel on the back of the note. The counterfeiters ould hot get this paper, but an attempt has een made to imitate it by printing black hnes pa the surface. The difference between the plack lines and the fibre can be readily detected jby the use of a magnifying glass or by tearing tho paper across one of ths fibres. In the border at the top of the genuine note, thej rords s "This note is a legal tender for ten' jiollars," are distinctly separated from each J&ther. In tbe counterfeit the letter "a" and vord "legal" form one word as do the two' svords "for" and ten." The last four letters bf the word "printing" in the line below the one referred to are in italics in the counterfeit,' rhile the balanoe of the "line is in Boman., 5The red ink used on the counterfeit is poor' and of brick-red color, while the ink on the Isriginal is of a bright carmine. The geomet rical lathe work in the upper left hand corner ipf the counterfeit surrounding the "X" is good, while that on the upper right hand cor ner is very poor, and the lines in the work can not be traced as they can in the genuine bills. Da the back of the counterfeit tbe word "This,", beginning the phrase "This note is a legal tender," tin., is printed "Tms." - There are other slight errors in the printed law on the back of the counterfeit. - There are no coun terfeit ojahe series of 1869, 1878 and 1880. y - Bw 8ponea are Taken. The Vessels engaged in this business vary In pize from fire to sixty tons. These vessels are Supplied with small boats or "dinkies", one boat to every two men. There is one man extra who cooks for the crew and takes charge of tiheveesel while the small boats are spong ing. 'JJhe outfit of a small boat consists of a ispong Khook attached to the end of a long pole, watW glass (this is a wooden bucket with fthe bottom moved and a glass inserted in its 1 "mllir'il, pot, while the other is In the bow of the boat, man nil breast lying over the gunwale a little jto one side, looks through the water-glass with Orb head in the bucket, which floats upon the 'purfacs of the water. The water beneath the Iglass is calm, and objeots are magnified so llhat one can see distinctly all objects upon the bottom in water six or eight fathoms deep, )and over an area that will cover a quarter of ian acre at one view. The sponges are usually attached to rocks upon tbe bottom. When the man looking through the glass sees one, he plunges the pole with the hook attached,' to the bottom, fastens it to the sponge, tears it loose, raises it to the surface, and places it in it he boat. If, after being severed from the bottom, it is dropped from the hook before it reaches the surf aoe of the water, it sinks and Is lost; but once reaching the surface and com ing in contact with the air, it floats for a time. Each sponge is enveloped in a thin, dirty look ing membrane, and the sponge itself is full of animal life, jelly-like in appearance. These are placed upon the decks of the larger boats until a sufficient quantity is obtained; then ithsy are placed in pens or krauls made in shal low water.. Here they remain from four to Ken days, according to temperature, preparatory io the cleansing process, which is accom plished by thoroughly beating the sponge with 2a dab, and af 'erwards carefully washing all by this time the filth out of them. They are afterwards strung into bunches averaging 'about one and a half pounds. They are put npon the market in this condition. Key West buys about eight-tenths of all that are taken in Florida waters. They usually bring about one dollar and fifty cents a pound. There are supposed to be about three hundred sail vessels engaged in this business upon the va rious spongebars in Florida waters. "" 4 A Year of Plenrr. The crops this year' are unexampled. In abundance, variety and excellence . they are without parallel. It is truly a year of plenty. Jn cotton, grasses, corn, fruit, vegetables the yield has been enormous. Will the surplus w nave made be prudently gathered andeare rully husbanded ? We fear not. The south ern farmer is not a great saver. The vsry afflueneeof his soil and the mildness of his climate has made him careless and lavish. It is hardly too much to say that millions of bushels of peaches will rot on the trees in the southern country this year, and millions of dol lars be sent out of the states next winter to buy canned and preserved peaches from the north. Rich and succulent grasses will waste by the thousands of tons for the lack of curing and our stock be wintered on western hay at f 20 a ton. Even corn itself will be fed lav ishly or wasted. ad next year the farmer will buy corn of his commission merchant and pay forty per cent interest on the money. There as no computing the value the rich crops of. snis year would be to the south if they were prudently used and the surplus carefully put away. Many a farmer will make enough corn to do him two or three years, and fodder, that if cured properly would be sweet and whols some food for his cattle four years hence. If there were ensilage pits on each small farm,' they might be filled this' season and enough forage laid away at a nominal cost'tocafry forty or fifty cattle through the winter If our surplus peaches, pears, tomatoes, berries and vegetables were preserved or canned or pickled, we would keep millions of dollars at home next winter that is now sent away for the refuse of other markets. If our grasses were cured v and . packed, we should not have train loads of western hay draining our farm ers' pocketB and impoverishing onf state next falL The bant is tbe important feature In southern farm economy this year. The nays rick, the ensilage pit, the : fodder-stack, tha preserves' closet, are the - points to whioh the farmer should address himself. The crops are iaseured in exceeding fullness and variety. Han ( and beast cannot 'possibly exhaust them. - It 'is a simple question as to whether the enormous I surplus will ba wasted or saved, jf it is aJgdjj fl will stand as a resource against th e possiols" short crops of two or three years. If wasted, this grand harvest that providence seems to nave exhausted itself on, will result in simply a" short ' season of lavish-eztravaganoe, and j then empty barns, poor stock, and another season of dependence. That man is the bene factor now, who leads the way in saving the surplus of the season's richness, and who makes plain the methods by which thepnw duce not needed for the present, can be stored away cheaply and safely, to supplement the harvest of the poor seasons that must follow this wonderfully rich one. v'v -' ; 1 ; Camphor Drops for Cholera. (. : As the season is upon us when attacks of cholera morbus and kindred diseases are pre valent, we publish a simple remedy which was Issued in handbill form by the Hibernian Prints me Office. Dublin. Ireland.' dnrinr the aavArA citation of the cholera in 1836, and was the mean, of saving thousands of .lives. It was also used with valuable effect i ?. ita would advise its use -again should that epi demic visit our shores. In any case, however,' no harm could be done by having it in the hoase during the warm months : 'Tssolve one ounce of camphor in six ounce of spirits of ttine and give a small bottle of it to any in telligent person in your neighborhood who will undertake to administer it to his poor neighbor when they ire seized with cltiilera or any ,f its symptom, without deviating iu the slightest -decree from the following instruc tions : When any person is seized with symp toms of cholera, such as vomiting, purgnig, Sudden weakness, coldness, cramps or spa-.m.', do not give hiiu brandy or whisky or any kill of medicine whatever, put him to bed st once, covering him warmly, but nr.t overloading him with bedcltlp, cud as soon aa you pos sibly can kt the patient take two drops (not more) of the camphor mixture on a little pounded sugar in a spoonful of cold or iced water. In five minutes after let him take a second dose of two drops in the same way, and in Ave minutes more repeat the same thing. He 1b then to wait ten or fifteen minutes to see whethev.or not there is a sense of returning warmth, with a disposition toward perspiration and manifest decrease of sickness, cramps, etc., etc.,. when, if necessary, he mutt take two drops, as before, and repeat the dose every five minutes until twelve or fourteen drops havd been taken. In administering thisiemedy'you mmt particularly observe that if the patient takes anything of any sort or kind, t-xcept cold or iced water while the medicine is Intended to operate, its Whole effect will be destroyed, for the least foreign medicine neutralize! the cam phor, which is given to cheok vomiting and to produce a free, warm perspiration. The use of cold or iced water is given on the ad'ice of the late celebrated and successful Dr. Prldock, of London, who always allowed his pitients to drink cold or iced water, as it tends tc promote free perspiration, and also the abunlant dis charge of yellow bile." The patient nust not be allowed to rise and expose him or herself to the slightest degree of cold and "shooll not be tormented with baths, steamings or mbbing of any kind, bnt permitted to lie stil, as he will fall asleep when perspiration cones on, and after some hours will, with God' assist- 25. awake well, though weak and utngiiil " -X - . i'4k feverish, in -rhlcb ?aie h may ret a u. Bay ft lesr.poonrui o; powder ot!J'dzmiJhtnl ! peppermint water or weak sal volatile ( and water to wash it down, but must be kept quiet, taking only a little soup, broth or gruel fur a day or two. LarrJ Ponsonby, wrfIs-to his brother, the Bishop of Perry, stated thalt to his own knowledge these' camphor drops uad proved to be a certain cure for cholera, bcth in France and Germany, whenever taken in time, and the curie is generally effected before it is possible to procure a physician that t, in less than an hour, ) LATEU NEWS FOUB Hungarians two men and their wives were found with their skulls fracftured in a shanty near Dubois, Perm. Robbery was the motive of the crime. . A fire which broke out in a stable at Cynthiana, Ky., resulted in the death of one man a stable hand and thirteen blooded horses valued at $25,000. : ' A serious negro uprising was reported to Atlanta from Dawson, Terrell county, Ga.. and the governor of Georgia ordered several companies of militia to the scene of disturb ance. A train conveying the military to Dawson was wrecked near that town by ob structions that had been placed upon the track. The trouble grew out of a determina tion on the part of the colored people to pre vent the hanging of a negro who had be?n sentenced to death for assaulting a while Worn;. 11. The Btuk of has su-jpofcilo , 1 u r, at "Windaor, Ye de; -.-H 'om will pro" ably be paid in full. Investigation shows that millions of acres of the public domain in the "West have baen fllogally fenced in by cattb rximpaaies, while additional millions have been fraudulently entered at the government land offices, and thus been taken possession of. In many cas a entire countiehavebeen Illegally fenced in or fraudulentlyentered. 1 A world's convention of the Young Men's Christian associations has been held in Ber lin, about sixty delegates from America at tending. ' , Advices from Western Africa say that smallpox is raging at Coomassie, in Aslian tee. The king f the country recently died, and 300 subjects were killed at the funeral in his honor. , A new king has been appointed, and tha Ashantee chiefs have asked that the country be annexed to the English possessions because of his notorious cruelty. Cholera is on the increase in Italy, numer ous deaths and many new cases being re ported in v arious places daily. The Chinese arsenal at Foochow was de stroyed aftwra three hours' bombardment by Admiral Courbet's French squadron. The firing began at' two o'clock in the afternoon and ceased at; eight p. M. Seven Chinese gunboats were sunk and two escaped. Only one Chinese battery replied to the French fire, but did no damage. The European set tlement was undisturbed. A rata in Rawa, Austria, destroyed 300 houses and rendered 3 000 people homeless. Fire has also destroyed 114 dwellings and 327 farms in and about the large market town of Roiwadow, Austrian Galicia. The harvest, which bad just been gathered, was all con sumed, I: Germany and England have another cause for quarrelling in regard to the appropriation of territory in West Africa. ' A Caste llamare corresnondent cables that there is an alarming) increase in Italy in num- ub ux uuutera cases. Soldiers from Berber report that 636, Egyptian officers and soldiers are in the hands Bf the rebels, who treat them as slaves. The rebels pray for the Mahdi instead of for the' Sultan, and declare the Turks heathen ' who are to be killed or expelled. - B. Weinrich, a large sugar dealer and re finer, of Vienna, has failed for 4,000,000. Overproduction of beetroot sugar, which has declined ten shillings per ton, is the cause of K. Wcinrich's embarrassment, LATEST NEWS NOTES. Happenings of Interest to All, At Homeland Abroad. The Nebraska Bepublican State Conven tion nominated James W. Dawes for Governor With a full State ticket Ex-Senator 8. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, who Was nominated for President of the American Party, at the Convention held in Chicago on June 20 and 21, has withdrawn in favor of St John. j The Anti - Monopoly Greenback - Laboi Party of Illinois nominated Jesse Harper for Governor, with a full Statt: ticket. ' Gov. Ireland, of Texas, was not arrested by a United States marshal, as proposed, be cause the latter found his warrant inoperative. The Second National Bank of Xenia, Ohio, succumbed to the effects of speculation in grain. Richard Tweed, son of William M TWo. of New York, died in a madhouse in Paris. R no nroperty. ' ! A negro named Jones was hanged at Daw son, Ga., for a criminal assault. Messrs. St. John and Daniell, candidates of tbe National Prohibition party for President and Vice-President, were formally notified of their nomination, at Cuba, N. Y. The payments from the TJ. 8. Treasury during August amount to $25,000,000. This in cludes about 10,000.000 on account of pen sions and about $2,500,000 on account of. awards made by the Court of Conmussioners of Alabama claims. . The dory in which Traynor expected to cross the Atlantic is now at St. Pierre, Micque lon, badly smashed. , The school at Maridale, Ont, was the scene of a double tragedy, the principal shoot ing the second teacher and himself. A bond call for $10,000,000 was issued from tho Ua ted States Treasury Department. Commander Merry's official report of the sinking of the Tallapoosa is published. One of her men William Jones reported lost was saved on the Gate City. Efforts will be made to raise the steamer. , The People's Bank, of 8t. Paul, was robbed Of $10,000 on Sunday. A Norwegian vessel from New Orleans put into Peneacola Bay with yellow fever and. was sent to Ship Island. " . Hie American corsnl at Marseilles reports a pitiable condition of destitution in that city from the (fleets of the cholera, and appeals for aid from the cit teens of the United States. Propositions have been presented by the United Telegraph lines to the Postmaster 4en eral in view of the plans for the establishment ot a postal telegraph system. The Boss Bunders' Association, of New York, informed the Bricklayers' Union that if the Union would work te hours a day until March next, the Associ'ton would pmm' accept nine hours a a day's work after that time. The bricklayers will accept this propo ttirion and it is thought the strike is over. Two young laduswere drowned at Ball's Mai.d, N. J., by their team backing their car riage into a can tl feeder. Captain Heahr, of the revenue steamer Corwin, lately cruising in Behring Sea and the Arctic Ocean, confirms the reported loss of the schooner Alaska, with all her company, six teen men, while on the voyage from Godwin Bay to San Francisco last October. At Topeka, Kan., the State conventions of the democrats and resubmission repnblicans united upon a State ticket. The leaders of a new sect of Faithists at Chicago were arrested for cruelty to children. - -Gomez, the cook of the Julia Baker, whose captain was murdered at sea, arrived in New York on the Cienfuegos from Nassau He has a family in New Xork and waa coming home. Vni d ntaLfeii' 'u i'-'hatan R"--rived' at the Brooklyn' AavV lafd, liUVUlg UU board the remains of J. A MacGahan. Ensign Capehjrt is convalescing and no 'second case of yellow fever has appeared at Key West. The Vf S. . secret service division is in pos session of a new counterfeit ten-dollar note. The note is on the Third National Bsnk of 'Cincinnati, Ohio, and made its appearance in ' that city Monday night, ft is of the series of 1882, with the brown or chocolate colored back The vignettes on the face of the note have a very coarse, scratchy appearance, but the back is well executed and calculated to deceive. The U. 8. Treasury Department decides' that the supervising architect in planning public buildings must be limited as to cost by the amount appropriated by Congress. . A contract to furnish the Post Office De partment with envelopes has ber auuulled, 1 because the articles differed were of inferior quality. iLl'Xit tireely has been invited to attend the meeting of the British; Association for the Advancement of Science to be held in Quebec. At West Point Cadet Logan, tried by court martial on a charge of unbecoming conduct while on guard duty, was acquitted and has re turned to duty. j Advices from Washington set forth that millions of acres of public domain in the West have been arbitrarily fenced in by cattle com panies, while additional millions have been fn-.udulenily entered at the government land offices, and thus taken possession of., At a meeting of the Central Labor Union, in New York, protests against inviting General Butler to review the Union Square labor parade were presented on the part of several labor organisations. It was decided not to in viifi General Butler. Fifty Indian children from Albuquerque. N. M, are now en route to the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. The Webster County Bank, at Marahfleld, , MO., was compelled to suspend by reason of too heavy speculations in grain. The wives of nearly five hundred striken arrested in the Pennsylvania bituminous coal district for conspiracy demand support from the authorities on the ground that they are penniless. j The Dominion government has refused permission for Wyoming cattle to be shipped to England through Canada. 'Heavy frosts have taken place in Few England and Western New York, and mnch damage to crops has been done. Buckwheat has suffered severely. . During a fight between Italian laborers at Dixon, 111., several were wounded. A will was admitted to probate in Phila delphia that disposed of $1,000,000 in just four hnes. Many valuable horses were burned ' at Cynthiana, Ky. ' , The hog cholera, which caused snch a heavy lofs in that section last fall, has re appeared near Hamburg, Pa. A large num ber of swine have died already. A tfeamer came in from the Mediterranean and heir master says no health officer came on board to ask whether or not the ship had brought the cholera with her. Captain J. W. Norman, ice master of the Thetis, of the Greely relief squadron, denies that he ever told any person or led any one to believe from bis conversation that cannibalism had been practiced by Lieutenant Greely and his command, newspaper reporters to the con trary notwithstanding. In Maddlefield, N. Y., a farmer named Clayton, while suffering from the effects of in temperance, took his two-year-old son from the house into the yard and snot him through the head. ' - y : Tho Foo Chow arsenal, in China, was de stroyed after a three hours' bombardment. The French fleet sustained no damage. A number of Chinese gun boats were sunk. t Thirteen peasants in the village of Andre jewka, near Odessa, have been attacked with symptoms similar to those of the rinderpest Two of the patients died. Troops have formed, a cordon around the village, f An outbreak has occurred at Kutais, in Transcaucasia, owing to a report that the Jews had stolen a Christian child. The mob as saulted the Jewish quarter and made threats of a general massacre of the Jews. The rioters only desisted when the child was found. Three thousand nine hundred and ninety two is the number now given as that of tbe victims of the cholera in France. No advance was attempted on the city of Foo-Chow itself. The French fleet cannot as cend the river any farther. 1 . In the English account there is no mention of the kw of the two French, ironelada re-' - - r . ,' 1 fin. - . . a 1 , 1 A spy reports - that General Gordon has 9 gained a considerable viotory at Khartoum. A schooner came in collision with the United States steamer Tallapoosa on Thursday niht off Cottage City, Mass.; the latter imme diately Bank ; the schooner was damaged ; four persons belonging to the Tallapoosa were drowned, one officer and three of the crew. A costly memorial shaft in course of erec tion over the tomb of the late Governor E. D. Morgan, at Hartford, Conn., was completely ruined by the wooden structure which en closed it takiog fire. A dispatch from Shanghai to Renter's Tele KKuu Agency nrs: The lYmioh loss in the bombardment of Foo Chow was 7 killed and 14 wounded. The Chinese loss is estimated at 1,000 killed and 3 000 wounded. The Chinese man-of warTargun was exploded by a torpedo after it had fired a broadside at a French tor pedo boat. The boiler of the latter was ex ploded by means of hand grenades thrown from the Yargurl, after which the boat was sunk by u Voit to prevent its being captured by the Chinese. A telegram received from Shanghai ftates that 80,000 Chinese troops, who bad been secretly massed on the frontier, suddenly in vaded Tonquin. and. after desperate fighting completely annihilated the French troops in that province, the Chinese losing several thou sand killed during the different engagements 1 which followed in quick succession. ' According to the above dispatch the massing of this large force on the frontier of Touquin had b eh going on for some time, under the supervision of rxperienced military leaders, and so well did they condu. t the affair that the French commanders w-re unaware of ths proximity of any well-regulated Chinese force until the latter swept down npon them like an avalanche, with tbe above result. The French troops, it is snid, fought desper ately and repeatedly charged the Chinese lines, but as fast as the latter were broken into they closed up again with remarkable military pre cision, and many hand-to-hand encounters en sued, the French finally succumbing to over whelming odds. The reports of the destruction of the whole Chinese fleet are confirmed. The French lost, five men, hiclud ng an American pilot, 'who was killedtbn board the heavily armed French war ship Volt. The French fleet Buffered no damage. Admiral Oourbet's next step will be - .to destroy the forts in the Min River, between the arsenal and the mof of the river. He will then, it is thoug", join Admiral Lespea before Kelung nd arrange with him for the occupation of tfc.t pUce. It is alo thought that an expedi ion will be sent fiom I'onqutn into Yunnan at the end of the wet season unless China accepts France's terms: The French are elated at the display of ChK tieoe pugnacity, becwiRe it win induct to pro tracted hostilities, in which case mij the cap ture of Pekin will effectnally eud the wi. j9 efitJt of tie situation in to cause an cnornuma increase in stocks at Hons Kong and to gener ally paralyz the imoot trade. Night traffic on the (. an tou River iu prohibited. Among the Chinese, who are wholly unprepartd for war, there is a bitter feeling. They denounce the malpractices of the provincial Governors trad will hold them answerable for any collapse f the national defences The cholera is decreasing in Marseille.; and Toulon, but i" increasing in the provinces. The Chinese Minister to France hm re ceived his passports and the French Consul at Pekin has hauled down his flag, everything pointing to a war between tbe two count rios. Advices from East Africa state that Ot ...iivriir.r 11, 7,iuiihe.2i conn trv have revolted a-,:.t i,:iits: fr wor.aue u ckti:-- 1 .15 h..-).' d IOV. 1 Mr. O'Neill British Vice SHOT, SHELL AND FLA7IE8. The Chinese Fleet and Foe-Chew Arcena! Destroyed. Dispatches from English sources confirm the' news of the French raccesses at Foo-Chow. . w hen Admiral Courbet ordered his ironclads, to open fire he was gallantly responded tony a squadron of ten China-e gunboats on the, River Min. These were officered by Europeans, and the Chinese gunners served their pieces well, but the ca'ibre of the guns was too small for the si it to inflict serious injury on the French. JcJJtjr and Ue discipline was perfect rom the moment the French guns got the range on the Chinese boats a pitiless rain of iron was kept up. In vain the Chinese craft steamed hither and thither. One by one they , went down with great gaping hoi s in their sides, until seven of tho well-fought gunboats had snnk with the dragon-flag still flying. The remainder were captured for want of un wounded men to' serve the guns. The French fleet now moved np the river and took position opposite the great arsenal of . Foo Chow. Its flanking forts and water bat teries replied at first with some spirit; but the, French sheds were dropping beyond tliem in the arsenal itself. A tremendous explosion that shook the earth showed that a French t hell had fallen into a powder magazine. From t at moment the Chinese firing ceased, lor three hours the F.ench guns poured a storm of shell upon the areenal, ' which was now on fire in several places. The 6ignai to cease firing was at length' given, and it was seen that the place was ut terly destroyed. Toward nightfall several detachments of sailors and marines landed without opposition. The Chinese batteries were deserted and the place was in the hands of the French. TBS FKAJVCO-CHflXESE WAS The Fleets Ordered te Benbard Fee-Chew ud Destroy the Arsenal. 1 Admiral Courbet of the FreDoh Navy, has been instructed to bombard the arsenal at Foo Chow and to land a detachment of troops and ( destroy the war material and stores accu mulated there, which are of immense value. This action is 1 intended as a reprisal for the action of the Chinese at Lang-son. At the same time the French off Kelnng have been ordered to oc-upy the port and tuc coal mines s security for the indemnity demandod by France. The indemnity, however, according to the pronouncement of a momber of tbe Chinese diplomatic corps, who was interviewed, the French are not likely to get This Chinese attach ee declared that the Pek n government would never recognize that it ' owed France a sou as indemnity for the Lang-on affair, which was a pure misunder standing. The bombardment of Kelnng and Foo-Chow, he said, had only tended to in ten fy the determination to reirist Prance's oVij.ancU. Vicomte de Semalle, the French representative at Pekin, immediately after lowering the French flag at tbe legation, started for Shanghai COMM JUfDKB BGHIJET SPEABS. The Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War having b. en in consultation at tbe Navy Yard, Brooklyn, with Commander Schley concerning the Greely relief expedition, from them the following reliable statement relative to the recent report of the treatment of the bodies of the dead of the Greely polar expe dition is derived: From the revelations made by exhuming some of tbe bodies inferences have been drawn that incisions had been made in all the bodies and that portions of the flesh had been used either for food or for bait for catching shrimps. The following au thentic extract from Commander Schiey'sreport now being prepared for the 8- cretary of the Navy, shows a portion of the remains to have been so treated, but that those of Lieutenant Lockwood, Sergeant Israel, Sergeant Linn, Private Schneider, Sergeant Cros and the Esquimau, Christiansen, were absolutely whole and untouched., . , , , , j in preparing the bodies of the dead for transpoatiun in alcohol to St John it was founcfthat the bodies of six of them (Lieuten ant Kisliitgbury, Sergeant Jewell, Pnvate Whistler. PriVate Henry, Pnvate Elhs and Ser n.w.mi h hum ent and the fleshy . . . ,tTlt All parts reniovea to 1 . 1 . n. ff ms otoer The burning Shamokin, accident were diggi gangway, fortunate xue spreaa 01 tne cnoiera iu itary is caus ing riots among the peasants and lower class of townsmen. The Russian government Is thinking of establishing polar stations at the points touched by the crew of the Jeannette. The loss of China at the bombardment of Foo Chow is estimated at 1,000 killedand 3,000 wounded. ' General Wolseley is to command the relief expedition in the Soudan. Kllled br Fire Das... ' t ' f f ' . t ? V ' V 5 ' t - i 3 of theBuekridge comery, neai -f . - in, , v. A l .'-S Pa, was atteuuea ny mgm ; f 1?,-,?' Jf,? , fi': eight miners lonng uieir x , , ,rlt,.'j, t !, ing a hole. from, the (ire- 7 t fi'p r . t Vi! "V I i 'iV 4MI into the Dumuig mine, wy( tt . s 1 t ',6 1 A vv ,r 4'i; - j.;- men were lolled by fire t- . , r t . ? ,V Y .. it y SOUTHERN NOTES. -H , .'-.;; Base ball is plaj-ed on Sunday in New Or leans. ' I ' j Vickslurg, Miss., is soon to 'have another); miUtary company. i 1 In portions of Mississippi thectrtton is shed- ding for want of rain. j I ' ( t Kentucky has beat ker best wheat record i this year by 3,000,000 bushels. A pumpkin vine 90 feet long is growing in '. garden, in Bowling Green, Ky. ; - A Miss McCoy is in jail at Dardanelle, Ark.,' charged with killing her infant. j j A seventeen and a half foot shark has beer caught in Matanzas river, Florida. An Issaquena, Miss., county farmer ha 1,300 acres of cotton six feet highl. ; '' Saloon keepers who keep open Sundays in Atlanta are lined $50 Monday morning. A .Cleveland and Hendricks pole, 120 feet' high, has been raised at Blackbui g, Va. . - A hot spring that emits steam and sulphurio' vapor has been discovered at Usyka, anus. ft i Rum is made from sweet potatoes, in Louiri-j ana. Several barrels of potatoes yilA a Darrwr Of rra. j ! Norfolk, Va., packers' and dealers are mak-I lug big preparations for the coming oystetl season. J ; A Jacksonville, Fl a., tipple measured -eleven and a half inches in circumference and weigh-;, ed seventeen ounces. . ! The taxable property of Savannah is $19,-: 661,814 ; real estate, 1 12.616,202'; stock, per-' sonal, etc., $7,145,112. ' H From one-eighth of an aore this season. Dr.) G. H. Symnies, of Peru, Fla., .gathered, 2,5004 pounds of crow-foot hay. While out hunting a few days agoMesfafE. Pj W. McCants, Frank Glover and Ben Williams,' of Colleton, S. C, kilted four bears. I Sir tons, or 1,100 gallons of honey wor! hipped from Rock Point, La., to Shreveportji ,. a few days since. It sold for fifty eents a gal-l Ion. ' Mr. J. W. Brown, who lives near Limonia,t Fla., made, on unfertilized light hammock land, 766 bushels of good corn on forty-fire) acres. A Mississippi man has begun work nnder a' patent intended to strip cotton seed of its' busk and pack the kernel in a solid oil cakei for shipment. ' ! j A graceful dancing master at Macon, GaJ named Gorman, ungracefully burglarized a private residence, , and was incontinently aanced into jail. A Georgia paper, viewing the' opening of! cotton bolls, cheerily remarks : "The South'sj own fleecy snows are beginning to whiten the mil-tops ana plains. j Work on the Terrell asylum at Austin, TexasJ"" il progressing well, and the building will ba completed as required by the contract. Of ""''' toe 200,000 appropriated, $112,000 has been drawn out. . 1 At an inland Florida town last week Indiana Jt ero present with their gaunt dress, and tnw f wis, and two or three Indian children. Thew ' ' wre reserA'ed and quiet, cutting mocoasinsi . and maVng bead purses. 1 , ; I Many Georgia farmers are in distress, owX ing to their inability to meet obligations' Incurred in. the napt t-m t tuduig companies. Much of tH. money waiil.-! Crowed at 14 per tht 'thtrP. r t per tht interest. vort Sumter has liton.11. .n. fi !,.. . . '4ovanmr , -".. uaea. xhe' ..miMW,m. re' ;''-" frfim Winm ,- ' eet souare at the base, to oe i the shaft for the monument ordered by thai Charleston Light Dragoons, and wiU be erected in Magnolia cemetery. I j ... ':. Mr. C. W. Wieeking. of WalhaUa, S. C, has; this season sold from his vineyard, containing 12 acres, 80,000 pounds ef grapes realizing! from six to ten cents per pound. Besides, itj 4. utiTna.td ha will make from six hundred tol eight hundred gallons of wine. He will realize $175 per acre net The vines are three old and will become more valuable. ..fl. General Leroy Pope Walker, HfSii in the Jefferson Davis Cbnfedei .f.Ofe &':r,n SgA who gave the ordejfiS-?';. recently, after a brief illness. ft'i was President of the Oonstitatlonal.Jiv?,si' tion of 1875, which framed the pnaeiiqrtrt&iyf: tntion? .' . ' ' ; U - -j;. 1 ,'' Proft Stevens, of the Smithsonian InatiKff"j 4f Has gone Wlin aparty i expiorera vj vnmjuj .i, s gion of the ciin ana cave uweuers collection of relics and curiosities tc to the New Orleans Cotton Centennial Tha oTntnrationa will ba m Arizona and.New Mexico, and conductli3vv.j;': part, among villages never before visitci;t' Mr. Sam Hing, a wealthy Chinese mer$S": 'iH: of El Paso, Tex., and a respecible young laoy ny ine name 01 hubs veque, were married at New Orleans the other day. The young lady, who is said to be really beautiful. was neatly' attired, and the happy husband; was dressed in a black broadcloth, nut His! lnnir-nUt nf hair was earef nil v. ' eoiled nnl! placed on the top of his hoad. ' Mr.'Iing huf M: hoAn irwaifii in uumi iit-aa at zvi ruu lur fuimsv - h,' ;rr. TTfl furnishes sUDDlies and labor to tha' workmen on the Texas a Pacific Bead at that end. He has amassed quite a lanresumof! inongv 1 ... t-! ' , , PROMINENT PEOPLE Bewekai. B. F. Bctlkr will1 b sixty-six years old m JSovemoer. j; , Ths Queen of Rome has hairsrty inches long, and tWck In proportion, j GoTxmroB Clxvxlaitd has a sister who has been a missionary in Ceylon for thirty years. . Jon 1? B. Gouoh was a slnfflef of oomie songs in New York before he Became a lec- I'' turer.. 1 l ' LriUTENAirr Gbbelt Is tturSy-nlne years a!, old. Is, tall, thin, dark, with bine eves and f; black hair, very i.cor oightad, on n?'-iB- Victor Hugo still reteina the bUdts Of his e'5." prime by rising early, living absVsmiously, "1X working only in the forenoon and dtlng most b of his writing standing up at a high iouk. B Pkesidext Arthur state dinnftrs, las winter, are said to have svrrpassed tho p van by any of his predecessors in costliness. The nine he gave last season averaged $500 etch. The great-grandmother of George B. tc Clellan, Mrs. Samuel McClellan, planted three elias in Wcodstock, Connecticut, for 1 1 1 1 l. . A . l.n l.flA rif joy, wnmi one ueara ium iju v vuvwxw v. ITirnrtrin nnrl t.hev are now the finest elms in the town. .j . . .- i In hi 3 housohoid expensta,! Jay Gould spends fifty thousand dollars; ilr: Tilden, al though a bachelor, spends more; August Bcl- .1 Ihrtnoont A mom's eipeusjss 010 a uu.ucu ...uud.. ti. , ...! W TI Vomlrrhitt.'K rfi ffllll U X9VK amount to two hundred and fifty thousand. . jfyV. , A Shert Hep Ctopf t Eeports from 200 hop-' rowing towns In New York. Ma ne, and the Province of Quebec ntcj cate that the crop is at least one-lonrth rfiol of the av. rage, but this is believed to be - nnderstiuia:. Ine av.:i ages for each State are as follows: Maine, 78; Vermont, 80; Que bec 70 and New York, 70. Buyers havo been Projecting here and there, offerin 25 to 30. ctt)t a pound. The growers, however, are ginrialh confident of higher prices and are , . dispoed to hold for 35 to 60 cent t Especially it this the case in New.Xork, where 40, and even W c nts have been offered in a few in stancte for new hops, and where tbe growers are wUl posted. Old hops are pretty mnch out of the growers' hands, only an occasional email Jot being reported in New York. Tho- , new crop is of extraordinarily nne quauiy, nee. wind, and rust naving aone verr nine u r 1 V' " , 1. t,v; ; . , 1 4 0- B m Ivl r !- Vft f;, Vi fit 5 'Z 1 i ft i -'AV
Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
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Sept. 25, 1884, edition 1
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