North Carolina Newspapers

my 4 , DEVOTED TO THE IUTEBESTO OF COUYUP0X2T iHTD BBUIIBY7ICII COTJITTY. . i . i YOU trTio.!lH., if' f MUCK FIVE CENTS.' THE : STATE ' CAPITAL. LEADING TOPICS 07 THE Y7EEK AT RALEIGH. 4 Rai.kigr, X. C June 23.The peni untutry is rauiredlo-be aelf -aupport-ing. To make it tw, the most constant care is necessary aa well as favorable weather which permits out door work. In any riod of bad weather the re. is a marked falling off in receipts. Du ring the past quarter the receipt ex ceedod tlie expenses about $1,000. Theconditiotrof Charles M. Bushee, the (irand Sire and head of the Odd Fellows of the world, lias "attracted wnle-fpread attention. He was stricken with paralysis on the 1 1 :h inst, and though it was at first stated that the attack was of a mild nature, it soon lK'caine apparent that his condition wax dangerous in the extreme. Last Sunday his death was hourly ex ported. Yesterday there was a sort of rally. It is a great while before the next campaign, .-but- already many people are talking about the coining man for jovernor. Some say he will bo Thos. M. Holt, while others name Geo. V. SanoVrlm. It is no secret that the latter is orwill be a candidate for the nomination and that he is a very strong man. (Jovernor Holt has not been ranked as a tit rung speaker, but rather as a man of acts, not words. Yet his HH'ches at the University Commence ineiit ami at the Teachers' . Assembly eviiud the fact that he is also a man of ideas. The Assembly this year has U;eii a great success The attend ance is the largest on record, it js asserted. Of course not all those who attend are teachers, but .people who avail themselves of the wonderlully -low rates to pass some days at the seaside. At each of the summer resorts all over the country the barroom plays a prominent part and the consumption of more or less cooling beverages is an item of interest to the visitor and of. profit to the landlord. Hut at More head City there is so far this season no bar and no drinks save those which the guests of the hotel take with them fromjiome. This state of tilings. i.. due to the prohibitionists and the County Commissioners, who have put their heads together. The Commis sioners refuse to grunt license, though thy hotel ficoplo offer to f ay the total taxes of the town for two years and a bonus besides. The State Board of Agriculture had an interesting meetings Jastjveek., If reelects! all the officers of the depart ii lent. The reports made by the latter were very satisfactory indeed. The trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College also met last week and elected the faculty of that institu tion, besides electing two additional assistant professors. The legislature voted $10,000 a year to the college, this sum to bo usea solely for build ings and equipment. A decision was not reached as to what should bo done with this year's fund, but at another meeting soon" to be held it will be de cided that a dormitory building and improved heating and lighting appli ances for all the buildings shall be added. It is interesting to note that they will make a complete exhibit of its work at the Southern Exposi tion in October and November. The board of managers of the World's Fair for this State met last Friday, Gov Holt calling it to order. It elected Elias Carr president M rs. George W. Kidder vice-president, T. K. 11 ranoc secretary. anoL Peter , M. Wilson executive commissioner. Upon the latter falls the heavy work of securing the State' exliibits, providing for their transportation to Chicago and their display there. North Carolina has secured a large and well located lace in the main building. It will select for Chicago the cream of its ex hibit at the Southern Exposition at .Raleigh. The board of managers will meet again October 2 1st. The number of inmates of the Con federate Soldiers Home heje has in creased to thirty and a number of ap plications for admission are 6led. Money is needed to meet the urgent requirements of this worthy institution The merchants of the State are pre paring for a great fight on the question ofthe right of the State to impose what is commonly termed the "merch ants purchase tax.' It is clearly an unjust tax.. Thinking members of the legislature so regarded it, but the greed for money made them again levy the tax. The fight will now be ' in the courts and will conducted with sys tem and vigor. Able counsel are en gaged. ! : ' y'l-- 1 - ' NOllTH CAROLINA. Mew Clipped , From Valuable ExdutBgrn - From lUm Old North Mtat. : ' """Crops have been doing finely the past week. They are yet quite small for the season but prospects look more favorable Eastern Reflector. Our people expect to have quite a celebration here on the 4th of July, and a grand time ;isf anticipated There were 5,000 barrels of jotatocs shipped from liere last week. Wash ington Progress. The crops in this immediate vicinity are not at all 'encouraging. . Farmers say that the crops arc much behind last year, and even as much behind as in 1889. However, the very tavoiable weather during the past week has. done much for them, and the farmers are more hopeful. Scotland Neck Demo crat. The continued wet weather has caused about one half of the early peaches to rot, ami has likewise seriously damaged the grain? crop. A number of revenue officers left here on Thursday on', a raid through Moore and Montgomery counties. They cap tured only one still, which -was in Montgomery. Carthage Wade. The Gingham Mill for Charlotte a fixed fact The financial commit tee presented Mr. Fife with a purse of $1.000. Tho (5 rand Lodge K. of P. was held in this city last -.Wednesday, the 17th inst. The report of the '.J rand Chancellor shows a large gain in membership and many lodges organ ized during the past year. Tho order is in avpry prosperous condition, and rowing,Tapidly ' The farmers are in the midst of wheat harvest this week and the crop is turning out quite well it will be at least an average crop. The warm days and nights are bringing the cot ton and corn out of the kinks but they are wofully over-run by the grass, and the farmers can't get to it on account of having to save their wheat. Tobacco is really the only crop that is in good shape. Landmark. The Russian Jew purchase is about 25 miles from Lenoir, in the heart of the mountains on the waters of Wil son's Creek The settlement, if it should be made, would be made, would necessitate the building of a railroad from Lenoir via that point to Linville. In a town that lays no claim to having no "boom" on Lenoir is mak ing very substantial progress. Work is plentiful and new enterprises are daily springing up. -Lenoir Topic. A number of the merchants of Fay etteville met in the market house here last Thursday, to hear; the report of the canvassing committee, appointed at a former meeting to ascertain what amount the Fayetteville merchants would contribute : to a suit to be brought for testing the merchants' purchase-tax. The report showed a subscription of about $130.00, and Mr. F. It Roseiwas appoiuted to rep resent . Fayetteville on the advisory committee. Fayetteville Observer. Dr. W. A. Lash, of Walnut Cove, has been unanimously elected Presi dent of the C. F. k Y. V. railroad, to fill the unexpired term of the late Col. Julius A. Gray. Dr. Lash is a pro gressive young man of considerable ' wealth, popular and energetic aud has for several years been a leading direc tor of the road. We learn that he will remove from his home at Walnut C"ve to Greensboro and make his home at the latter place. News-Observer. - ' 7ASHfflGT02T ITEW8. OATZZEHED BY THE "LCAOXZnS Bran AL COTITirTOSIDIIOT. Washixotox. D. C June 22. The condition of the United States Treas ury has been much talked of during the last few days, the fruitful source of misstatements not to give the hun dred and one stories that ; have been told on both sides a worse name. Tb democrats hare . declared that th 1 much prophesied deficit was an actual fact, wh'ikflhe repablicans hare been just a emphalicai in ftatin that .the Treasury, had plenty of available cash on hand. Neither of them hav stated the facts just as they existed, without exaggeration, because .they " were, on both sides, trying to make political capital out of what should really Iiave nothing to do with partisan politics. However, it is hardly fair to saddle all of the blame upon the politicians, when much of it is chargeable to the style in which tin rreasury statements are made up. For two days - this statement made it appear that the U. U. Treasurer bad given checks for nearly a million dollars more than tlie amount of available cash in the Treas ury, hence the democratic stories of the Treasury deficit, when as a matter of fact the Treasurer had $26,000,000 on deposit with National Hanks, which was certainly just as much available cash as is a private individuals bank deposits, besides, there was in the Treasury more than 20,000,000 m fractional silver hence the republican cry of plenty of money. There is no deficit, and there is not plenty of money; the real situation is midway lietwoen those statements, but as all the big payments that will be due for three mouths have now been paid, it is fair to infer that the Treas ury surplus" will, increase vary rapidly during the next ninety days. Among the questions to be considered at the Cabinet meeting which Mr. Harrison called, lefore going to Capo ' May Point with Mrs. Harrison and the children, for next Friday, it is under stood, will be the form of Treasury statement to ;-be nsed; and it is hoped that it may lie decided to change it to a plainer form, so that neither side can take advantage of it for political pur poses. Every patriotic citizen, . no matter what- his! political prejudices are, should bo in favor of divorcing out financial system from, partisan politics. .... As was expected the North Ameri can; Commercial Company,!, which is the exclusive lessee of the sealing prii vileges in Alaskan waters, has filed notice of its intention to put in a claim against the Government for the amount of it; losses by reason of not being allowed to take the stipulated number of seals during the season of 1800, when it only took 20,000, while its contract allowed it to take 60,000. For that it claims $400,000. This season when it is to .only-'Uowod to take 7,500 iCwitt probably claim a larger amoifut. It is believed that the administration is, favorably inclined to pay trig ihts company 'back the nioney that it had actually paid out Mr. Blaine rs credited with having said as much but it is hardly probable that it" will even entprtam the idea of pay ing the enormous sum asked for which doubtless includes anticipated profits had the full number of seaU been taken. Tlie "National Democrat which has been in financial straits for some time, has suspended publication.. It is thought that a" very large amount of money has been sunk by its pub lishers. It has been regarded as a Cleveland organ. A gentleman high in the councils of tlie democratic partyaid to me to-day that Mr. Cleveland was backing repre sentative McMillin of Tennessee in his fiht for the speakership of the Several persons were injured id Hon. ; lie was of the opinio that many were arrested. Mr. Cleveland's help would not prove) t It is announced that Gen. Da Fun very beneficial, because, while he had isoca, President of Brazil, will shortly a very large following it was entirely ; pay a visit to Europe, personal and not of a nature to be The great banking house of Muri transferred. letta &Ga, of London, Eng., is said to There l much speculation a? to the be in financial straits. effect of the new European silver pool upon the purchasers of silver bullion by the Treasury department. Ohio politics is exciting the greatest interest here jnst now, and in several respects it is certainly puzzling. For instance, the democrats seem disposed to concede UcKsnley's election as gov- ernor and to concentrate their efforts upon electing a majority of the legis lature, at least that's the way they talk. The republicans are in much doubt as to the actual relations be tween Senator Sherman and Ex -Gov- omnr PimVu anil la. - L- i merits of either man. FOREIGN NEWS. "O -: Urlrt tiff I lay Dbs tm thm OMWri4. Signor Corte, late Italian Consul at New Orleans, has prepared a report on the New Orleans affair in which he alleges that the Italians killed belonged to no particular society but were mur- ' dered simply because they were Its!- ians and competing with natives in the labor market. Parnell has been ordered to pay $.t,5(0 costs in the O'Shea divorce suit - , ! Sir Win. Gordon Cuinming's share of costs in his suit against the Wilsons in the Haccarat case were $12,500. A public funeral of the victims of the victims of tlie terrible railroad accident at lUle. .Switzerland took place last Wednesday aud wa& attended by the entire population. The Chatnlter of Deputies, Pari., has voted '$300,000 for measures against the locust plague in Algeria The police i-f Birmingham have expresseil themselves as fearful that the Priuce of Wales will meet with hostile demonstration in the streets when he comes there to openrthe' new law courts on July 21st. Sixty earthquake shocks were expe rienced Thursday last throughout the province of Bengal, India, and many buildings were destroyed. The steamer Queen which lias ariived at Victoria, B. C. from Sitka reports tliat the He venue cutter Bear has reached Alaska from Icy Bay bringing news of the drowning of Lieut. Robinson and four of the crew of the Bear and A. C. Moore of the Russell party. They were drowned while trying to make a landing at Icy Bay- , . . The Court of Inquiry investigating the Manipur massacre has found the regent guilty of warring upon the forces of the Empress of India, and sentenced him to death. Sir A lexauder T. Gnlt, formerly High Commissioner for Canada in England is dangerously ill of influenza. An artificial lake 1,000 feet long, 350 feet wide and 80 feet deep, forimd by the Martell glacier iu Tyrol valley Switzerland, burst its confines last Thursday and flooded tlie valley. It is thought that there will be no loss of life as the accident had been expected for some lime. The damage to prop erty will be immense. Another terrible balloon accident has been added to the long list of cas ualities from that cause. - Four work men employed on a balloon, -which was being inflated, at St. Petersburg, were carried upward through '.the carelessness of the people holding the ropes. - The balloon burst after reach ing a great height and the men were dashed to the ground and mangled beyond recognition. The U. S. flagship San Francisco returned to Iqmque, Chile last Monday and left for the South on Tuesday. - The omnibus men's strike at Bor deaux led to rioting on Monday last. A mob of citizens sided with the strikers and a force of cavalry had to he called out to clear the streets WEEKLY NEWS SUHMABY. HAPPENINGS IN TUTS COUNTRY FOR THE PAST 7EEXL Thttrsiar.Jcsa.ia. A fine Confederate monument was unveiled at Pensacola, Fla.T yesterday. The monument is of granite and is situated in tlie center of K. K. Lee square, eighty . feet above the waters of the bay. It is over fifty fect in height. Fourteen military organiza tions of the State took part iu tlie ceremonies. ...A serious accident occurred Tues day on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad near Boone, il, caused by tram wreckers Jacing a tie on the rails. The express train, consisting of an engine and seven cars, plunged into the Coon river. Five or six tcrsons were killed and many more seriously wounded. M. Bondheim & Bros., retail cloth iers at Richmond, Va. have assigned. Liabilities, $25,000 and assets un known. One million dollars has already lieen subscrilied to the stock of the Pan American Transportation Company chartered by the Alabama legislature to operate steamship between the ports of this country and those of Central and South America. The capital stock is $10,000,000 with the privilege of increasing to $1 00,000,000. Friday, Jane 19. McKinley is the Republican nomi nee for Governor of. Ohio.' Governor Pattison,' of Pennsylvania vetoed the Compulsory Education bill yesterday. Crops in Iowa have been badly damaged by the late rains which have been very heavy. The Rock Island railroad at Casey is washed out and other damage is reported with some loss of life. A large lumber shed in course of construction for Straus Bros., at Berkley, near Norfolk, Va., 272 feet long and 130 feet wide, was blown down during yesterday's storm. Four men were injured. The will of the late General Albert Pike, (J rand Commander of tho Scot tish Rite Order m of Masonry, of the Southern jurisdiction, has lieen filed in Washington. The Chicago Trades Unions will send a letter to President ..Harrison asking that in all work done by the Federal Government in connection with the World's Fair tho eight hour day be recognized, all disputes settled by arbitration. Saturday, Jona 29, Meyer k Dickenson of Philadelphia, in their suit against the Government for excess of duties levied on material used as hat trimming were yesterday awarded $632.40. This suit was a test case and according to tlie verdict the Government is made liable for between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 collected from other merchants throughout the United States. Johann Most, the Anarchist was yesterday sentenced in New York, by Judge Cowing, to one years imprison ment. About $1,250,000 damage was done by a cloud burst at Utica, I1L, on Thursday last Not a manufactory or a home escaped injury of some kind. Water rose from one to six feet in different tarts of the town. R. G. Dun k Co's weekly review of trade says: While crop reports con tinue remarkably favorable, the vol ume of business at prominent trade centers is not as large as it has been in other years at this time, due in part to the exceptionally hot weather. Crop prospects have improved during I the past week, particularly in the South-ru and Northwrfetern rrgin Failures for lh wrk 253 against 244 for the corresponding jcriod La&tyear. Sunday, Jon 21. A terribly destructive cyclone and storm passed over portion of Arkan s a and Kaii.a yo!rdayt ' dtv.trt,yin crops and carrying away liousra, barns and other buildings atd causing con siderable loss of life. " Tlie Nestor Mock and several other buildings in Marquette Mich- were destroyed by fire on Friday night lasL The total loss will amount to about $125,000. Five men received serious injuries at the l ure." : New York banks now hold $16, 060, 175 in excess of the 25 per cent. rule. . . ' t .. D. P. Grier & Co., one of the largest grain dealers in Su Louis, Ma, have failed. , T latest report from SecreUr Blaine at Bar Harbor is that he is steadily improving in health and is better now than at any time during his illness at New York. Tho damage by Thursday's stoi nr throughout Illinois is even greater thsn was at first supposed. The new iron bridge over Mill Creek, ovep300 feet long was washed away. The loss in crops will bo vory great Uoaday. June 2. A dispatch from St Joseph, Mo , says that theMississippi river is higher than for several years and still rising. All Government wbik along the shoro has lieen aliandoued arid the Govern ment fleet moored in places of safety. Many farmers havo lost thftf crops by the overflowing river. ' J. Richardson, a shoe manufacturer at Reading, Mass., has discharged all of his lasters owing to tho demand for an increase of 36 c nts made by tho listers' Protective Union. Rev. 'J.Wesley Hill, of Ogdcn, Utah has lieen - ihdicleil for hbel. Ho is charged with writing and publishing letters charging criminal conduct upon Rev. Sam. Small in conuoclion with the funds of Uuh University. The ainomit certified tn by the Adjutant General as tho expense of maintaining and transporting of triia during the coke region riots in Penn sylvania, is $35,029. Tnesday, Jnna 23. . The Florence National Bank, of Florence, Ala., closet! its doors yester day. Tho bank's adairs ars said to le all right and .the 'officers say they expect to resume- business in a few days. Brigadier General A. G. Blanchard diet! yestertlay in Now Orleans, ag-l 81 years. ; Seven convicts attempted to escape yesterday from the stockade of the prison at Colo City, Ga. They over powered the guard, killed two and wounded another and secured their gtinsl Four of the convicts were fatally shot and two of them, negroes escaped. ' - A Holbrook, Mass., dispatch says that Whitcomb& Paine, who turn out about one hundred cases of calf boots per day, will this week close their factory indefinitely owing to tho unsettled state of business throughout the country. Anton Karl, an old and trusted dis bursing officer of the United Slates Geological Survey at Washington, D. C, has been arretted, charged with the embezzlement of $3,600 of Gov ernment funds. Wednesday. Jana 24. The striking car drivers of Grand Rapida, Mich., have returned to work- Tlie Hagat Bros. diAiiilery at Pekin, III., has been swallowed by the whiskey trust At a meeting of the New York State Farmers League held at Albany, yes terday, the Tli i rd party Movement was unanimously condemned. Tlie Agricultural Department at Washington, lias commenced in skin exrrriuMnts in artificial rain produ cing, an appropriation ui $7,000 hav ing tr-a made by lb lsi CoMgrRs for that purpus. At tlie suggestion of Pennsylvania's District Attorney Graham, ex Treas urer liardley's sentence has been in definitely postponed, until a further investigation has been made into hit MTOUIt. r i 1 1 1 1 i f i I t 1 f 3! If If! i i! i i i