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SPECIAL COEEESPONDEOT. 1
W'akhinv.tox. D. C August 3
.Senator Gorman has gone to Saratoga
l ut his Presidential' boom is being
very carefully groomed by his friends, .
-and the present program is to push
iiim to the. fronts as a compromise be
tween 1 1 til and Cleveland who arc
lxtU. according to the Gorinan figures,,
already 'out -of the race. The pro
gram ps stated lierw is to straddle
everything except the tariff and even
on that issiie-Ujere tarojiwaaypeoift
who remember the time when Gorman
was classed as a l;protectionLst" demo
crat, but since thedeathof exSpeaker
Kaudall there K?em to be no recog
nized ''protection" democrats.although
during the", last " session of Congress
Representative Flower, of New York,
was several til nek charged with voting
with his republican .colleagues ou the
House committee ou Ways. and Jdeiius
iijmiii tariff matters. , , ,x ?
The silver people are to'lie referred
to Mr. Gorman's herculean efforts to
pass tins frte coinage bill in the Senate
1 it winter, and the anti silver popta
tu the masterly manner in which he
manipulated thing at the recent Mary
land Democratic Convention so as to
prevent the placing of a free silver
phuik in its platform. .In-) short to
burrow the expressive phraseology of
.lotu s, he pays the freight," Gorman's
1m mum is to le worked on the "get
there" principle. There has been some
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ijuiei iaiK among uuj visitors u me
Farmers' Alliance headquarters here
nlniiit tlic tut it. Mr. (iiirinflti took in
keeping the free coinage plank out of
the Maryland platform, and- unless
tiny are mistaken some awkward
questions are io be asked when the at
tempt is made to start the boom a
I'oomiug in the South, where the sen-
Uinent for free, coinage is "practically
unanimous.
It all the resignations from the
Cabinet billed by the special corres
Mtnleiits of Washington during the
last four days had really. Iteen handed
in, .Mr. Harrison would find it. difficult
to get. a, quorum of. his Cabinet.
Among the gentlemen retired from
puUio life without their consent an
Secretaries Xoble and Tracy, Postmas
ter General Wauamaker au Attornc
General' Miller.' Denials direct from
all the gentlemen named except, Sec.,
retary Noble, who is out of reach of
the telegraph, were obtained, and in
his case the deuial of his assistant
secretary and of Private Secretary
Halford, but the resignations are still
on; the able correspondents who are
trying to earn their salaries maintain
ing that they know more about it than
me oiuciais ineni5eives no, aui one oi
t hem goescrfftr J2PT tastatG; tlfariio
matter whnt'anvwie nav s;iv to the
contrary, he has positive knowledge
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liihi ,ecnnarv-ixoies nsignaiioii nai
Ikh-ii in Mr. Harrison Jiands fur four
months. .
The rccipiucity recoi
rd may fairly
. .
he saiit to have been broken when
official proclamations of two treaties,
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that with Spain for Cuba and rorto
ICico and that wi.h San Domiugo are
issued within fort v-eitrbt hours of each
other, and it is hinted iu Slate Depart-1 fire which occurred m thitcity, on j! considerable number of our busi
ment circles that there "are more to tne J'tn of July. An entire block j mt.n Jeft this morniug to attend
come before long September 1, is was consumed and some buildings j the tobacco convention at Morehead.
the date the twomentioied will .r0across the street from the fire, received There were thirty-two deaths in this.
into effect,
There is one amusing feature of the
unmistakable RLune boom Which the
meeting of the Republican National
Executive Committee; Jiere last week
precipitated ou th -country. It u
known to those familiar wjth the
undercurrents of poRiics'tJiatbe men
who first started the iJlaiao ball- to
rolling, did not do. so bocausethey
wished to see that gentleman nomi
nated, but because ,they saw in it an
o port unity to sidetrack or wreck the
Harrison train lor '02, and now they
re considerably chagrined t discover
that the matter lias been takrn out of
tlieir hands, and that while they have
for the time being blocked the Harri-i-un
train, they have aroused a senti
inejit in the great mass of their jarty
that is loudly demanding the nomina
tion of Blaine. Chaxuzcs in political
feeling are so many and so sudden in
this country, that it would be a reck
less man who would attempt at this
time to say who would be nominated.
but every truthful chronicler is com
pelled to record the present Blaineisb
aspect of things republican.- , . , an
If the G. A. R. is not moved to
come to Washington, flor its 1892
en cam
pment, by the mammoth solid
invitation in a satin lined Rus-!
silver
sian leather, box, the key of-which is
of solid gold,- which the citizens com
mittee hai actT)etriik4'then lot!
oi iieipic nercaoonis wm very niuciri
disappointed., s i( , - '' v,
' Sicretary Foster is tho only Cabinet
officer in- town to-dav-v MHiwJiUe
the assistanU are playing at "Jbeing
heads df the big? J(?parii n cuts; and
between ua, some of them are .exhibit
ing heads that are nearlv as big as
tJieir denftrnnentjt '
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It is stated here that the Treasury
department has lx.en asked to investi
gate charges of undervaluation of
imports against the Collector of Cus
toms at El Paso, Texas, but no confir
mation can be had at the department.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Sewn C'llpt-1 Friim Valuable' Kiiliaugt-
From th Old North State.
Some .of the parties who are entitled
to the Direct Tax, have - received
checks on the State Treasurer for the
amounts due them. Farmers , Advo
cato. J
'..Much progress is being made in the
construction of the Wilmington
Onslow railroad. The way is cleared
about 18 miles' north of Jacksonville.
Over three hundred hands ". are . em
ployed in the work. Smithficld Her
aid. :'- i . ' r ?' "v"j' '" ; - "", '
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There are1 no' less than to ton
gins in six-miles of this place. Oui
graje growers are shipping large
quantities of.gra.pes to Northern inar
Uet.s. Apples and peaches of a salable
quality are very scarce in this section.
Mt. Olive Telegram.1 ; : , -
The Lenoir and Ltuvillo Valle
Kailroad is lM'ing rapidly pushed on to
completion, ami track, has .bee.n laid
U'3-ond the Vineyard, I a distance ol
three miles. Trestles across the creekf
at G. M. Goforth's and at the Vine
yard have been built. Leuotr, Topic.
The building boom in Gtlldboro 1.
by.no means at an end. There ar
stveral new residencts in course of
construction in different sections -of
the city, m addition to those that have
recently beeii noted iuithese columns
and that are now Hearing completion.
We go forward. Goldsboro Argus.
Mr. II, A. 'Still well Rurdett, brought
to the Democrat office, on Wednesday,
the slate used by General Andrew
Jackson d n ring h is school boy days.
It is not unlike, the slates used bv the
i , -, , t ,iQ,. v. m
children of the present ila, except m
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thickness. It is" . alxuit nine-"inches
wide, and nine inches long, and one
I M 4VIV, ailVI IllilU 4iV-iJ
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Hiuarier oi an men nuciv. mxim .u i
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was broken in one corner, -otherwise
Mt. ic wi'll nnnmi i harlntte IJv?im-
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rrat.
The Argonaut. Rocky Mount, con-
I ta,s an accut this week.of,a . serious
ja severe sourcmiig. :in-u..mB
j estimated to be in the neigldx)rhool
of $25,000 As the Argonaut says,
the fire will be a benefit .to Rocky
Mountaiebiiro..bujldings which
were of wood, will be replace! with
handsome brick structures.
The furnace branch "of the Cape
Fear & Yadkin; Valley; railway was
completed last week and the first tram
passed over tho roatl Saturday. 1 he
lITAt UttW.ii!;ciawioo v wv
r
o r,,ln v-if. tl
line were President Lash, Capt n. L.
r. 'T linlw Un
Kase, aud Ctpt : Jam6 V. Albright,
Xow tiiat the diffirulty of getting
building material to the Steel aud Iron
Company's plant has been removed,
the work of constructing the furnace
will go rapidly forward. -Xorth Slate,
THE STATE CAPITAL.
LEADIUO T0PIU3 OF THE V7EEK
AT EALEI02L
IUleioii, X. C, August 4. Tlie
continued rains of the past week have
proven a serious drawback to almost
all kinds of business. There is abso
lutely nothing doing in the mercantile
i:w. ti, ... . i t i
UVU"J WP1C uru
Work' endeavoring to keep the grass
down, and the ladies in town are com
, A 4 ? tton with the iHate Treasurer y ester-
no abatement of the wet season. Last , . a. , - . .
f. -- , ; 'dav, Uiat onicial informed your cor
Saturday tliere was a continual down-; ' . , . ... ,
y , . respondent that there was still a Urge
lour from early in the murmng tuitiH t . , . , i ,
. . I , , , , amount of bomls yet unpresented,
nightfall, deluging the streets, and Ul , , , , i i
. . ',. , , ., although ho had causetl its widest
causing heavy floods m the creeks of ! , T . , , ,T ,
,. - advertisement io . be. made. lie has
the surrounding country. Several! , , -,-' ,
. . , . ' no idea where the bonds are, or, wlio
bridges have loen swept awav and V . - , . , , .
. , , . . ;arc the holders, .but it can be pre
two or three mill dams broken. The ? , , . .
, , - , sumed that the bulk of t Item are in
crops in the low grounds especially i ., . , - , . .
, . . . , J the hands of the foreigners, wtio are
have Uen injured, and much damage - . 4. A
,, , , 0 : awaiting the vain expectation of better
1 lie Sheriff of this county had quite
a set back during-the latter part of
last week, when, m olicdichce to an
order from the lioanl of County Com
missioners, lie attempted to collect the
t ' it. :-t'.'i rr 1
.ueicuanis i,urcuase i ax, umier
"Schedule R." He was met by a
prompt refusal on the part of many of
our business men. He therefore sus
lended the attempt until a meeting of
the Hoard, which took place yesterday.
It is now understood, that something
iu the nature of a compromise has
been effected, and the merchants will
pay the tax with the understanding,
that," in case the Supreme Court shall
declare the law unconstitutional, they
shall be entitled to rebate.
The work of preparation for the
coming exposition is vigorously going
on iii all the departments. At the
grounds, all is bustle, and everthing
is getting in proper trim. Mr. Patrick
is eneVgetically pushing the work for
ward, as is .evidenced by the huge
amount of mail matter being, every
day sent out and received. The street
railway has leen laid fiom the corjo
rate limits to within a few hundred
yards of the gate of the grounds, and,
u less than two weeks the cars will be
running. Tha track for racing has
been all grade I, ami fresh coats of
paint are lieing given all the different
halls, in fact the entire surroundings
have been renovated.
An order has leeu given the Steam
Manufacturing Company, of Philadeb
phia, for a large automatic engine
with which to run the machinery in
the mechanical department of the
Agricultural College, and it will be
ready and in osition before the open
ing of the next session. The new
dormitories have also been com
menced and will lx completed in about
three weeks, the outlook for a large
i ncrease, in atteiidance . is first rate, .
'' This morning, t two 3oung men,
Messrs. Will Wynne and Neill A.
SpCTJce-ieft tlie1 north door of the
Stajp House, for a bicycle trip to the
Xorlhfcrn and Xew Kngland States,
large crowd was Jresent to see
them off They will go through Rich-
iiioud, Washington and Haiti more,
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direct to Xew York, which they claim
they, will reach in a week. '- Roth are
j fme wheelmen and expect much eclat
? jr0m' their uirJertaking.
j city auriug um monui oi juiy, n
whites and 18 colored. There were
m, Gf typhoid which is unusual,
very lanre crowd of excursionists
- ! Will leave here to-morrow morning for
5 Richmond, Va they will return Fn- J
day night.
It is not now expected that Gov. j
"olt will occupy the new Executive
j mansion, oe.oreu.eu MU,c,ci00ft Iersom
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i 10 oe niue 10 iue uunuiuii.
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Warrants ou theTreasurv for direct
- tati in tn this moriilnL'. aLnrreirRtu
about $$70tbob in round numberi-.Tlie j ' mnn'
I rush of applications has considerably I The Uruguayau (wvcnimetit has
j subsided. - jksued a decree extending for one
It really seems to be a difficult mat- j month the payment of all claims against
terto entirely fettle up our ante bejluwjtbc Xational Rank. During this period
indebtedness on the Uis of the Act th.- RoUie will 1 ck-sed.
passed by the General Assembly,
known as the Act to compromise and
settle' the State Debt. It would appear
that tlie holders of these securities
have had ample time in which .to take
al vantage of the terms proposed,
which are, surely as liberal as could
have been expected of the State;
plundered as she was by the carpet
bag regime of 1 8C8. They have, how
ever, to a considerable extent held
tiack, notwithstanding the Legislature
lias on two occasions extended the
provisions of the law. In conversa
rms. 1 he provision of the law will
expire in July 1892,and the Treasurer
is by no means-certain that they will
be further extended. Xo State of tho
late Confederacy has offered its credi
tors fairer terms, and certainly no
more liberal proposition should be
expected. '
FOREIGx"xEWS.
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ltrlcf MmtlouiiiK uf th Dolnjpt in the
(Mil World.
. The death rate from .cholera! at
Mecca, is increasing. It is now 140
per day.
Striking street car employes at Ton
louse, France, are giving a great deal
of trouble. Thursday morning all
the kiosks on the principal thorough
fares were' demolished, and they also
tried to destroy the tracks of the horse
car road. The military were called
out and dispersed, them, injured a
numlier of -jeope and,. made some
arrests.
William O'lirien and John Dillon
were released from Galway jail last
Thursday morning.
It is reported, that Fiance will
largely red tie . her " tariff on Russian
corn, and will impose a prohibitory
duty on Indian in order. to encourage
the importation of Russian corn. :
Vesuvius is again ilia state of erup
tion. The lava has reached the village
of Hio del Cavallo. i : .
A "lO.OOO cotton fire ccurrel on
Friday in Grandy stret, LiverptMl.
Stiversd thousand Uiles. were burned.'"
TheQuenof IWgium who Ha Imhjii
seriously ill is recovering ami her phy
sicians declare that she is now out of
danger.
Fifty-four hundred Russian Jews
arrived 'at Hamburg last week.
Several Chilean war vessels are crui
sing ofl the coast of Portugal.
Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of IJrazil,
has suflerel a relapse and is confin-jd !
to his ImhI at Vieltv.
A Indon siHial savs: There is
considerable alarm in Home over
rmiutwof the impending closing of the
ti...i. i.. in : . ..Li
t
Catholic institution and it is said that
Pope Leo has advanced 2,000.000
francs, and thus averted the threatened
disaster.
Fifty five hundred Italian sailed
from Genoa for America last week.
The targe commissary depot of the
Cierman army at Pathenow, thirty-
j four m,ies from PoUdam, was struck
hy lightning on Tuesday and entirely
destroyt-l by fire with all its contents.
1ti.. Ifw is imAti-d to be abot
i It has been decided by the Govern-
ment to annex to Berlin all of the
inearust suburbs, the combined jopu-
which AWOUIlU to aUout -00f.
A cable from Hobartatown says that
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itlio lUnr fit V n Iltottin&ljiuI . I -
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Itched in I K 3 attd haYing a capital 01
jY HEWS SUIHIAHY.
nAppniriiGs m Tins cototiiy
FOR THE PAST
Thursday. Jn2y 29.
Tlie . town of.. vVnstin, Ncv., was
visited last Tuesday by a destructive
cloudburst, doing damage to the
amount of $10,000.
James Gordon Uennett, of the Xew
York Herald, has been indicted for
misdemeanor in publishing details of
the electrocution of the five murderers
iu Xew York. . , ,
- Fred. C. Havetneyer, the fontwier of
the well known sugar firm, died Mon
day at his home at Trogg's Xeck,
Westchester county,' Xew York, aged
84 vears. He leaves an immense
estate.
Advices from Ohio and Indiana.
state that the oat cropislving rapidly
destroyed by grasshoppers.
W. S. Russell, arrested at Rochester,
X. Y yesterday, 'coufessetl that for a
year he had made a living by stealing
bicycles. He sayfe that he stole fifty
within the year.
Anna Milner Woods died at Cvnth
iana, Ky., yesterday, aged 98. "She
was one of the original followers of
Alexander Campbell, in founding the
Church of the Disciples.
Friday, July 3L
Au unusually sharp schock of earth
quake, was felt at San Diego,, yester.
day morning. It lasted several seconds.
Spring's saw mill, sash factory, and
a la;ge quantity of lumber were
burned, at Vicksburg, Miss , yesterday.
Loss -$0f 000;' insurance $20,000.
John E. EprH'S. manager of the
Western Union Telegraph (.'ompany,
at Suffolk, .Va., was shot at from
ambusli, Wednesday night, by some
unkuown person, and instantly killed.
Two larie store's and five other
buildings were destroyed by fire, early
yesterday morning, at Hranford, Fla.
It is said that the fire was started by
burglars.
A Chicago '.dispatch says; After a
strike of nearly four months for an
eight hour day, tjie ship carpenters
have begun to return to the ship-yards,
and the long and desperate labor cou
test is believed to be over The mwn
returned without conditions and
applied for their places.
Saturday, August L
R. G. Dun & Co's weekly review
of trade says: Rusincss continues
dragging and dull In commercial
circles there seems to be a very general
and growing confidence that the bufi
ness of the fall will be large and profi
table, and some improvement is seen,
but not enough - as yet O justify
sanguine views. Failures for the week
2 1 7, against 2.7J for last week.
Rev. Prof John Tndinnick, jtator
of the M thodist Episcopal Church, at
I r. m f ft k
? ,HU,Uou' v a,,a oi ine uni
versitv of the South and member of
the Alabama Conference, died yester"
day morning.
Xearly $.'0 000 damage was! caused
at Rinninirhatn. Ala . Thursday nuzbi.
J by the explosion of fifty kegs of gun-
powder in the A labama Great South
era depot. Tlie deiot was fired by
incendiaries.
A man named R D. Wheldon is
under arrest at Portland, Ore., charged
with trying to swiudle insurance com
panies out of large sums of mouey.
He procunxl the insurance while
living in Riruunghatn, Ala.
Sunday, August 2.
Xew Vork banks now bold fl9f
4 S 1,350 in excess of the requirement
of the 2i per rent rule.
It is rejorUil that the cotton crop
in Alabama and Mi&tiaippi is being
greatly damaged, by the cotton worm.
The Rev. Kbeaezcr Junkiu, of Hous-
ton, Texas, a brother in law of Stone
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wall Jackaon, fell dead yiVverday onLjemi u,ey tada right to accord
board an East, Tennessee L Georgui
train, while near Johnson City, Tenn.
A ctIh!oi' curred Fridav night !
on tlie South Carolina Railway. . TUm
engineer and fireman after reversing
tlie engine, jumped and were both
killed. None of the passenger were
injured.
E. Holland & Co., shoe manufac
ture, of Richrstor, X. have maIo
an assignment to Janics R. Doyle.
Liabilities amount to AoO.OOO.
Kirby, the cashier of ; the City
Xational Rank ol Marshall, Mich , who
fled with 100,000 six weeks ago, has
been caught at Scdalia, Mot
Monday, Aneut
Five store, comprising the biggrft
s i m m ' t
mocKiii ltiugeiiaie, tlie largest subtirb
of Chattanooga, Teun., were burned
to the ground yesterday mornir g.
'Hie loss will exceel $20,000 aad b
said to liave been caused by incrudia-
rie. r
cychme struck the town ol Che
cotah, Indian Territory after 1 1 o'clock
on Saturday night, doing many thou-
sands of dollars damage tu growing
cropland destroying s.'verslUttkliitg.
s far as known no ersaav wrr
seriously injuretl.
ft a
mob has attaktnl the OnuJiaamll
Grauite Mneltmg erk.t at Omalia,
Xeb., ami is driving out the wonkmeti.
The indict are jiowerless audi great
damage will result as tho finis are un
lirotiftiHl Tli tntib lk oiii'iimli Iiiik.)
rel strong and di unk.
Sitgel, Coojr k Co 's immenso rdatU
dry goods More on the wutheaC corr-
ner of State and Adams street, Chicago;
was dam'htl by fire early j'rsterd ay
m rning to the amount of about
Al'fWtn fA MM .. . . .. . .1.
five employes in the establish mmtaU
the time all of whom escajied.
Tuesday, August f.
Abraham 1 lacker, a dealer in com
mercial pajier and a member of the-
fifm tif A llnr-Xtr Mt t Arm imnda.
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i;iiiiiilBnioi iiii-i tiiBUM Ul I rK,.
has matle an assignment. His liabili
ties are estimated to be in tho neigh
borhood of $1,000,000. He is said to
have handled pajor to the amount of
$15,000,000 annually.
The Weeks House, an old landmark
at Palmer, Mass., was destroyed by
firo early yesterday . morning. The
guests, who numbered aljotit 3J, had
barely time to escape with their lirvs.
Iter. Mr. Williams, a retired Congre
gational minister, was burned to death.
ine u. i trcuu i.oun nas rn
dered a decision In the famous Cooaw
case, in favor of the State of South
Carolina.
A dispatch from L&uriuburg, X.C.
says that McDougald, t)w suspected
murderer of Simeon Conolv, lias been
arresterl at Albany. Oregon.-" He will
be brought back for I rial as soon aJ
the necessary requisition icrs go
forward.
Wednesdar. Aueust 5. f
A M'ugation has leen caused In Al
liance ri rclett in Kansas by the publi
cation of open letters from W', A.
HarriM ' and C W. Shutn, firomioent
kvlrs in the Peoj4ai' rty, protest
ing against the subtruaury adWne.
Clans Sprckhsi is makimt thing
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IVWtPHIU iV U1 HUM.
price for net cash, at lbiladelhia, JU
now 3.'J'2 cents, the lowest on record.
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Fire was diacorerei yesterday at
Cltarloton in the hold of th Rntbh
Uamhip Ticlierbut, loa)el with iron
pyrites from Pancrau. Portugal. The
cargo will probably be a total Io. It
ts valued at $13,000.
Rirmirigham, Ala will aorure the
million dollar steel plant. Its citizens
were atked to subscribe $150,000 to
ward the capital lock of the crq ora
tion and $102,000 have already been
raucd with the otlier $ IS.000 in eight
- Indictments Iuvh buea found sgnnAt
the projrietors ol aeven of Xtw Vork
great dailies, charging them with mis
demeanor in publishing more of the
recent electrocution of the four mar-
ing to law.
Tut Soi niKa? UxAutM $1 a yea