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VOL. 2.-NO. 39.
THE AVOKLIVS NEWS.
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A ondknsed summary of
A WEEK'S DOINGS
i ,rlii- In I'ennHylramln. Terrible Gale
the KnglUh C'oant. Donn Piatt
1H-I. Flftr-eii Hundrril Houwii
IJurned In China.
Till :itSIAV. XOVKMIIEK 12.
A fire at Augusta, Ga., 3'estcrday morn
;nr destroyed property valued at $125,000
jr,riilingJwo store buildings.
Ii griiie is prevalent at Plainfleld,
Cuiiii., and is causing a grwit deal of suffer
ing there and in the surrounding country.
Five stores with their contents were
burned at Han Antonio. Texas on last Tues
day night. Ixiwj 47,000; insurance $24,000
The lOth annnal session of the Virginia
Methodist Kpiscopal Conterence is now
"hnnir held at Petersburg, Va. Bishop J.
C. K- ner, of New Orleans, presiding.
Kensington, Penn., a new town twonty
imh-s north of Pittsburg, was visited by a
rvclone". Tuesday night, which wrecked
nearly every building in the town. No loss
(.f life reported.
( 'olh-ctions are being taken up in Charles
ton, S. C, colored churches for the purpose
of raising a fund to employ counsel to de
fend the ten negroes in Laurens county
under n.-ntence of death for murder. One
hundred and fifty dollars has been raised
thus far. '
FOREIGN.
Kussia intends to build a Iihc of forts
along the Chinese frontier, and to increase
tin- number of officers in Central Asia.
Another terrible gale net in Tuesday
night sweeping the south coasts of England
and Ireland. The storm extended north to
Scotland- Many lives have been lost and
much shipping destroyed. The heavy and
inccsKimt rains have caused many of the
rivers to overflow,, ruining crops and inun
dating towns.
FKIOAY, KOVKM1IKR 13.
Hev. Dr. C- Kentlock Nelson, of Bethle
hem, Penn., has been elected Bishop of the
Kptstopal Diocese of Georgia.
Twenty tons of powder at Miller's Sta
tion, Iml., exploded on Wednesday night,
doiiig damage to the amount of $75,000.
No one was injured.
Col. Donn Piatt, the well-known news
paper man, and founder of Belford's
Magazine, died yesterday at lus home in
.Mankheo, Ohio.
Tlie California National Bank of San
Diego, Cab, has closed its doors tempora
rily. Inability to realize on securities is
alleged as the cause.
F. II. Smith & Co., ship brokers and
commission merchants of New York city
have made an assignment. Liabilities $300,-000-
The firm have preferred creditors to
tlie amount of $120,000.
FOREIGN.
The storm of Wednesday did great dani-
age in Spain, France, Portugal, Holland
and Belgium.
The epidemic of typhus fever in the
fever-stricken districts of Russia is spread
ing rapidly. The d ail' mortality already
runs up in the hundreds.
Thirteen hundred houses were burned on
October 3rd, in Hong Kong, China, and
the following day two hundred more were
destroyed in the same manner. Thousands
of .people are thus rendered homeless. '
SATURDAY. KOVEM11EH 14.
One hundred thousand dollars worth of
T'rojH'rty was destroyed yesterday morning,
by lire, in the town of Silver City, Iowa.
Hon. Allan G. Thurman celebrated his
Tth birthday at Columbus, Ohio, yester
day. There was no celebration on account
of Mrs. Thunnan's recent death.
The fire on the coal docks at Duluth,
Minn, took a fresh start yesterday morning.
The docks of the Northwestern Fuel Com
pany are on fire underneath the coal which
4sjblazing fiercely.
The World's Convention of the National
W. C. T. U., is now in session in Tremont
Temple, at Boston, Mass. Three thousand
delegates are present. The report shows a
mcmbersbip of 153,402.
H. G. Dun & Co's weekly review of trade
mvs: Business has entirely recovered from
the slight disturbance caused by the Mavc
rick bank failure. Trade is large in volume
for the season and in many lines, especially
at the West, largest ever known. At the
South cotton receipts are very large, but
much is held because of low prices. Fail
urvs for the past week 291 against 266 for
last week. ,
FOREIGN.
Eleven miners were killed by an explosion
winch occurred in a coal mine near Essen,
Germany.
Sixty members of the Russian nobility
have been arrested charged with being in
conspiracy against the government.
The Italian rice crop is 8 per cent, greater
than that of last year. The wine crop is
also abundant and of good quality.
hlXDAY, NOVEMBER 15.
Senor Montt, the Chilean minister, was
yesterday formally presented to the Presi
dent by Secretary Blaine.
Tlie New York Associated Banks now
bold $9,392,150 in excess of the require
ments of the 25 per cent- rule-
Several points in Iowa report that snow-
has been falling for several hours and that
the indications are for a big snow storm.
The Leland Hotel, on Michigan Boule
vard, Chicago, is reported to have- been
sold to a syndicate of New York capitalists
lof $950,000. , x
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at
ittsburg, Pa., now holds the record for
making steel rails. In twenty-four hours,
ending at C o'clock yesterday morning.
,907 tons of rails were turned out.
W. F. Baird, ex-vice-president and mana
ger of the Bank of Madera, Cal., is, it is
reported, short $100,0)0 in his accounts
and is also guilty of-issuing forged checks
and drafts to cover his shortages.
The Cheyenne' National Bank, at Chey
mie, W)'oraing. has closed its doors. Its
labilities are $200,000. The bank i3 solvent.
The1 closing is due to the failure of the
Calif onra Bank, at San Diego, Cal.
FOREIGN'.
Dispatches from Berlin state that there
are no grounds for fearing a financial
panic.
Three persons were killed and several
injured in a collision which took place yes
terday on the railroid between Home and
Turin. The wreck of the two trains blocked
the road for several hours.
nfOKDAT, NOVKHKKlt 16.
The Bonner & Bonner banking house at
Tyler, Texas, lias failed for half a million
dollars. Thi3 was one of the oldest banks
in the State, having been in business over
twenty years.
The Sandwich Savings Bank, at Sand
wich, N H., lias closed its doors. The de
posits amount to only $59,000 and a careful
estimate shows that depositors will realize
90 cents on the dollar.
Several inches of snow fell at St- Paul,
3tinn., yesterday. Reports from various
parts of the Northwest indicate that the
Storm is general . At Morehead three inches
of snow fell and a blizzard is threatening.
The White Star steamer Tauric ran
ashore on Dry Homer Shoals, just outside
New York harbor on Saturday night. She
was deeply laden with grain and cattle.
After being lightered, the big steamer was
pulled off ou Sunday afternoon.
Cleveland, Ohio, suffered from a $200,-
000 fire last night. One fireman was killed
and two others seriously injured. Five
large buildings w ere burned- For a long
time the fire threatened much more serious
consequences, but by hard work the fire-
lwen succeeded in clicking it.
FOREIGN.
Forty thousand miners in the north of
France declared an immediate strike j-es-terday.
The failure of the principal bank at
Winterthur, a Swiss manufacturing town,
has caused a panic there.
TUESDAT. NOVEMBER 17.
Richard L. Haig, a well-known citizen
of Charleston, S. C, committed suicide
yesterday at that place by shooting himself
through the heart.
The St.- Louis Republic a three column
article by M. K. Curtis, M. I)., showing up
Gen. Dryenforth's "experiments" in rain
producing in Texas. v
W. J. Florence, the well known actor, is
very ill of pneumonia at Philadelphia. His
life was despaired of on Sunday, but he is
much better to-day, and his physicians say
he is out of danger.
News has been received at Rio Grande
City, Texas, that the Mexican government
forces have been defeated at a place about
twelve miles from Mier, on the road to
Guerrero, by revolutionists under Catarino
Garza. Several soldiers were killed.
Every precaution is being taken in New
York City to avert the threatened water
famine. The commissioners of public
works have issued peremptory orders to
inspectors to carefully watch in every
direction and see that no water is wasted
The available supply is not sufficient for
this week.
FOliEIGX.
The London dock strike has collapsed.
' Prinee George, the second son of the
Prince of Wales, has been seriously ill of
enteric fever. The latest bulletin of . the
physicians, however say, that he is now-
making satisfactory progress toward re
covery.
WEDNKSUAY. NOVEMBER 18.
Four business bloeks at St. Louis, Mo.,
were destroyed by lire yesterday, involving
a loss of over a million of dollars.
The Middlesex Quarry Company, of
Portland, Conn., has closed down until
January 5th, on account of a lack of busi
ness. They employ 260 hands.
Herman Greenbaum, an employee of the
Bergner fc Engel Brewing Company, of
Philadelphia, has-been held for embezzle
ment on his own confession. His stealings
amount to about $12,000.
The Minneapolis Glass Company's whole
sale house and Lindsay Bros, agricultural
implement establishment, at Minneapolis,
Minn., w ere burned to the ground yester
day. Loss $200,000.
The Supreme Council of the Farmers'
Alliance met at Toulinson Hall, Indiana
polis, Ind., yesterday. The meeting was
called to order bv President Force of the
Indiana Alliance, 120 delegates were pres
ent and about $00 spectators. The chief
topic of conversation is the Third Party.
FOREIGN.
It islexpected that Austria w ill in a few
days repeal the prohibition on the im porta
tion of American pork.
Lord Salisbury is said to liave intimated
to the Turkish ambassador in England,
that England is now ready to reopen nego
tiations for a convention to regulate the
affairs of Egypt.
Reports from Russia's famine stricken
districts continue to show great suffering
and want among the poorer classes. The
Government is said to be doing all in its
power to help the sufferers. .
SOUTHPOET,
OI K CRUISERS.
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THE EUKASDS WHICH ARE 1
TAKING TIIK3I SOUTH. j
Activity in the Nary Yard, The Petrel'
Changed Or.ler. Will Admiral ;he
rardllie in Command? Denial
In Washington.
Washington', Nov. 13. Admiral
Gherardi's friends say that it is prob
ably true that he urged upon the de
partment, wten he was here, the ao-
pointment of himself to command the
United .States fleet in the Southern
Pacific, in case of hostilities with Chile.
Some of the men who have heard
this report have obtained the impres
sion that President Harrison does not
expect to secure an expression of re
gret from Chile. They also believe
that he was not correctly represented
when it was reported that he would
declare war upon Chile. What he
did say, it is now asserted," was that if
Chile did not manifest a decent dispo
sition before Congress met, he should
ask that body to authorize him lo de
clare the attitude of Chile as hostile,
and that he be empowered to use
the army and navy to compel an ac
knowledgement and an indemnity. -
The United States cruisers Atlanta
and Bennington, now at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, were yesterday, supplied
with complete sailing charts for South
Atlantic and South Pacific waters.
The charts were sent to the two cruis
ers from the main ilydrographic Office
in Washington. An accompanying
orderdirected the commanding officers
of the two vessels to turn in to the
Ilydrographic Office their North At
lantic charts. Each ship retains, how
ever, general charts of all waters on
the globe. The fact that the Atlanta
and Bennington have received charts
of Chilean waters leave no doubt in
the minds of their officers as to the
destination of these two cruisers.
Yesterday afternoon all the short-
time men on the Atlanta and Benning
ton were being removed to the receiv
ing ship Vermont and Jtheir places
filled with full-service seamen. The
period of enlistment is three years
Should it happen that men are in a'
foreign station when their enlistment
period expires, they can claim, under
the terms of their enlistment, free
transportation to the United States
and an increase of one-quarter of their
pay over and above that which they
ordinarily receive. In order to avoid
this additional expense, care is usually
taken to send only full three-year men
to foreign duty.
In the present instance considerable
regret is being expressed aboard the
Atlanta over the loss of some of the
best gun captains in that ship. The
time of these gun captains has nearly
expired, and now that they are being
sent aboard the Vermont, gunners
comparatively inferior are to replace
them. The Atlanta ha3 enjoyed the
reputation recently of possessing some
of the best gunnery men in the navy.
The Atlanta was to have come out
of dry dock late yesterday evening,
and her place was to have been imme
diately taken by the Bennington.
The Atlanta could go to sea to-day,
but it is not likely that she will sail
before Sunday or Monday. The Ben
nington can sail Tuesday.
With the departure of -the Atlanta
and Bennington for Chile, the Ameri
can naval force en route to the west
coast of South America will consist of
the cruisers Yorktown, Boston, Atlan
ta, Bennington, and Charleston. The
last-named vessel is under orders
from China to Chile. The Baltimore
is at present at Valparaiso. , The
cruiser San Francisco is en route to
San Francisco, Cal., to have her bot
tom cleaned, when she will again sail
for Chile. The cruiser Philadelphia
is now at St. Thomas, W. I., ready to
sail for, South America on the receipt
of cable orders. The corvette Kear
sarge is also at St. Thomas.
The cruiser Concord, now at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, has received
a full supply of North Atlantic charts.
It is evident from this that it is not
the present intention of the-Navy De
partment to send her south. The war
ship Chicago, also at the Brooklyn
yard, has received no further addition
to her chart supply. The Chicago is
carrying North Atlantic charts. The
cruiser Newark, now at the Boston
Navy Yard, is reported as ready to
sail It is still claimed that she will
be sent to the Brazil coast with Rear
Admiral A. E. K. Ben ham on board
This is - hardly believed possible in
view of the fact that Acting Rear Ad
miral John G. Walker, a junior flag
officer, is afloat and in command with
N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1891.
tjte Chicago as his flagship.
Furthermore, it is known that Act
ing Rear Admiral Walker protested
against being given the Newark as a
flagship, claiming that the vessel was
not fitted up for such duty. In con
sequence, naval officers are not readv
to belieTe that Secretary Tracy Will
assign Rear Admiral A. E. K. Ben
ham, an officer senior to Acting Rear
Admiral Walker to a vessel which the
latter protested against having as a
flagship.
It is the general impression here
that just as soon as the arrangements
are perfected for a demonstration of
force before Valparaiso, Rear Admi
ral Gherardi, now aboard the Philadel
phia at St, Thomas, will be directed
to assume chief command.
The commander of the gunboat Pe
trel was telegraphed at Santa Lucia
to proceed from that point to China
by way of the Suez Canal, instead of
going by Cape ilorn or the Straits of
Magellan and Valparaiso.
NORTH CAROLINA.
New Clipped From Valuable Ki change
Front the Old North State.
Sam Jones was paid the sum of 1,.
200, and 8800 for rent of auditorium,
and $50 for the benefit of Sam Jones'
orphanage. Prof. Excell realized
handsomely from the sale of his books,
Songster. Charlotte Democrat.
A Ibji train on the Western North
Carolina Railroad was wrecked at the
Murphy junction near Asheville, Tues
day, aad two black men were killed.
A slide occurred on the mountain di
vision of this road, east of Asheville,
Tuesday night, and delayed trains four
hours. Landmark.
The Mary Smith-Morehead will case
has been compromised by the parties
nterested. The full details of the
compromise cannot now bo stated, but
enough is known to lender it certain
that the University of North Carolina
will receive under its terms, between
3.3,000 and. 840,000. News and Ob.
. ... .. ...
server.
The Charlotte Chronicle says that
petitions are being circulated asking
that the sentence of Alfred Dowles,
the negro burglar, be commuted to
imprisonment for life. The petition
has been signed by a number of per
sons. Another petition, with numer
ous signers, has been received from
Georgia.
After thirty months of prohibition,
the Messenger. Intelligencer says, Wades
boro again has a place where whiskey
can be obtained. The closing battle
was fought last Tuesday, and whiskey
was victorious. It was a battle of
giants. Mr. D. A. Covington repre
sented those opposing license and
Messrs. Robinson and Walker the pe
titioners. The plant and stock of the Ashe
ville Furniture and Manufacturing
company, doing business near the
freight depot, has been attached by
Sheriff Reynolds, on warrants sued
out by the National Bank of Asheville
the Battery Park bank and Western
Carolina bank, of this city. The
claims on which the attachments are
based aggregate nearly $40.000.
Asheville Citizen.
The citizens of Forsythe voted
down the proposition at the election
f6r the issuance of fifty thousand
dollars worth of bonds with which to
erect a new court house. The returns
show that with the exception of Wins
ton not a township favored the ques
tion. Gen. LeDuc informs us
that about the 1st-of December he
will declare another 20 per cent, divi
dend to the depositors of the People's
Bank. - At the Federal Court in
Wilmington. Judge Seymour presid
ing, the grand jury found a true bill
against Mr. 'EL F.Moore, ex-President
of the broken People's Bank of this
city. Fayetteville Ohsercer. ,
A suit case has been entered here
in this county against the Richmond
& Danville Rail Road Company, for
damages amounting to $1995. The
case is where the R. R. Company put
a man. named Ramsey, off the train at
Princeton. It seems tha he had
bonght a ticket at W ilson for Raleigh
by way of Seltna. The trains being
late he went to Goldsboro under in
structions from the agent at Wilson
who told him that his ticket would be
good that way. He refused to pay
fare from Goldsboro to Selmaand the
conductor put him off the train. He
now has sued for damages. The case
will probably come up next week.
SmithjielJ Herald. . . .
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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EX-SKXATOK VAX WYCK OX
ALIilANCE MATTEKS.
Ex-Oorernor Foraker In Waahlngtou. The
Chilian MlnUter rrnenlcd to the
President. Alliance Convention
Col. r oik for a Third Party.
Washington, D. C. Nov. 1G, 1S91
Ex-Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska,
now in Washington, who has cast his
political fortune with the Farmers'
Alliance, is not one of those who be
lieve the alliance movement to be only
temporary. He i(says: 'Sorae folk
are saying that the Alliance has gone
all to pieces. That is not so, and they
will find it out next year. I don't
know just what the Alliance will do.
but they will do something to make
themselves felt in the Presidential
election, and, mark what I say,
though, from various causes, there
was a falling off in the vote they cast
this year, the great working body of
the organization is all right and will
be found pulling together next year."
Ex-Governor Foraker. of Ohio, who
is here on professional business in con
nection with the selection of a site for
a public building in Pueblo, Colorado,
has for once disappointed the newspa
per correspondents who expected to
get some sensational interview with
him concerning his fight with Sher
man for the Senatorship and the
scheme to deprive Senator Brice of
his seat. His talks for publication are
entirely moderate and conservative,
lie says lie is a candidate for Senator,
but as the election is to le by the
Ohio legislature, and iot by the news
papers, he has nothing to say of his
prospects. About the Brice matter
he pleads ignorance, and says that it
is a question that belongs to the U. S.
Senate. Could any body be more
discreet? He called on President Har
rison and also on Secretary Blaine, but
as the administration is understood to
favor the re election of Sherman, it
could not have been to ask aid in his
Senatorial campaign. w
The latest news froid Brazil is a ca
blegram to their minister here, which
says that the republic is not nor has
it been in any danger, and that tran.
quility has been entirely restored.
Secretary Foster, will, in his anjiual
report, upon which he is now at work
recommend several amendments to
the National banking laws and an in
crease in the number of bankl exami
ners. He will also try to snow that
the public clamor against the govern
ment officials on account of fradulent
failures of national banks in Boston,
Philadelphia and other towns is un
just. He , has undertaken no light
task.
President Harrison's Thanksgiving
proclamation was a little late in being
issued this year, but the date has be
come so thoroughly a fixture in the
public mind that the proclamation has
come to be looked upon as an almost
useless formality. The fourth Thurs
day in November would probably be
just as generally observed, even if
something occurred to prevent the
issuing of the Presidential proclama
tion. Senor Montts .credentials having
arrived Secretary Blaine on Saturday
formally presented him to the Presi
dent as the Chilian minister to this
government, and the usual speeches
of courtesy were exchanged. Senor
Montt has never wavered in his belief
that everything would be settled in a
satisfactory manner, and now that his
brother has become acting president
of Chili and will soon be regularly
elected president, his influence is like
ly to be all powerful with that govern
ment. .
All of the prominent National
Farmers, Alliance officials have gone
to Indianapolis, where the annual
convention of that organization is to
meet this week. Although the final
determination as to what, if any. ac
tion the Alliance is to take in the
formation of a national third party
will not be known until the national
conference, provided for at the Cin
cinnati convention which launched the
! people's party, to be held at Washing
ton on the 22nd of next February,
shall be held, there are many who be
lieve that the action of this week's
convention will really settle the ques
tion. Col. Folk makes no attempt to
conceal his sentiments, . which it is
natural to suppose will be influential
with the convention. He favors tfce
formation of the third party.
It is denied by those in authority
that there is any foundation for the
statement made in Italy and cabled
over here, that this government had
accepted the responsibility for the
killing of the Italians in New Orleans,
and would pay indemnity to the fami
lies of the men. It has from the first
been believed that President Harrison
would call the attention of Congress
to the matter and perhaps recommend
the payment of a small sura of money
to the families of such of the victims
as werjej Italian citizens, but there has
been no official action of any kind
taken concerning this matter sjneo
last Spring. It is probable that the
Italian government may have author
ized some such statement for the pur
pose of explaining to its own people
it contemplated action of sending its
minister back to Washington,
The professional wire pullers are here
in force engaged in working up the
claims of the various candidates for
Speaker, in fact there are more wire
pullers than Congressmen.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
A Steady ProgrrM of the Work ta the
Varloaa Department.
A Londoner wants to exhibit spe
cimen copies of all the newspapers of
the last two hundred years.
The U. S. Potters' Association, now
in session in Chicago, will arrange
while here, for an exhibit at the expo
sition. The Governor of New Jersey, ac
companied by the State Commission
ers is in Chicago, to select the site for
New Jersey's building.
England, France, Austria, Switzer
land, Belgium and Germany will be
conspicuously represented in the Elec
trical Department of the exposition.
. .
A Portuguese artist iu wax figures
proposes an exhibit at the exposition.
The suggested display will be some
what similar to Madame Tussaud's
in London.
The Sch wabische Merkur of Stutt
gart, says that the Central Association
of German woolen manufacturers has
nominated a commission for the
World's Fair.
A lady missionary to Siam has been
in consultation with the board of lady
managers this week, touching the
interests of Siamese women at the
World's Fair.
The Foreign Affairs Committee
passed a resolution on Friday recom.
mending the appointment of a com
mission, to be nominated by the Director-General,
to visit southern Europe.
The W Oman's building no longer
monopolize the roof line on the Worlds
Fair site. The Mine3 and Mining
building reached it several days ago,
and the great roof trusses are rapidly
going up.
A set of china presented to John C.
Calhoun by the Emperor of China
will probably be exhibited at the ex
position. Several interesting Colum
bus relics are also in tho possession
of the Calhoun family.
Si-Henry Wood, recent royal en
voy from England, has made a report
of his work in the interests of Great
Britain it the World's Fair. The report
recommends the appointment of wom
en on England's commission, to work
with the board of lady managers.
Signor Bodie, one of the leading
statisticians of Europe, has expressed
a desire to attend the exposition for
the purpose of study. As Italy has
not accepted the invitation to partici
pate, it is probable that an official in.
vitation will he Riven Signor Bodie.
A German horticulturist offers a
complete collection of South American
orchids to the exposition for $C00.
He is now in South America making
a collection for the German Emperor,
and makes the offer through the
World's Fair Commissioner.
Mrs. Lucas, lady manager for Penn
sylvania, has appointed Miss Florence
Lewis, a talented, highly cultivated
young colored girl, a member of her
auxiliary committee. Miss Lewis is
also one of the press representatives
of the Board of Lady managers in
Philadelphia, .
A somewhat novel item, allege! to
be cabled from Chicago, is reproduced
in the Pfalzischer Presse to the effect
that newspaper 'correspor dents and
reporters, regularly accredited and
desirous of visiting the exposition can
obtain free transportation on all the
railroads.
The Berliner Lokaianzeiger alluding
to the interest in the fair, manifested
in Berlin says that it is understood
that the entire organization of the
imperial opera of Berlin is to come to
Chicago in 1893 to give operatic per
formances, in the music hall to Vo
erected on the exposition groojjds.
PRICE FIVE CEHTS.
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
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A CORRESPONDENTS VIEWS
ON RALEIGH AFFAIRS.
A Marker by Xoa!erm Oot. Holt aa4
rmw' Alllaoeo. Important
Hallway XoTvnaenU. Tfco later
Stnto EspoalUoa,
IUljcigu. N. C, November 17. The
negro now is fully up with the worst
class of white men. He is rather
numerous as a moonshiner and when
neighbors who do not fancy the de
moralization caotod , by tho illicit dis
tillation of whiskey shorvr the location
of his still ho adds murder .tohie other
offences. A terrible instance of thia
train of crimes has just occurred right
here in Wako county; negro moon
shiners having waylaid and aasaasina
ted Simeon Ulley, an inoffensive ne
gro, and shot him dead as he rode in
his cart along a public highway.
Governor Fowle marked deep and
clear the new feeling toward the
moonshiner; once a sort of hero, now
a scoundrel who violates the law and
debauchee the morals of the comma
nity. Where there is a moonshine
distillery low people and bad habits
will always be found," and people who r
might desire to clear away the law
breakers fear the torch and the bullet. .
Gov. Holt has the best of good feel
ing for the Farmers' Alliance,, and en.
dorses all its views save as to the sub-
treasury plan; that plank npon which
so many alliance men are divided in
sentiment. A correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun came here last week
and with rare carelessness imputed to
the Governor language which the lat
ter never uttered nor thought of utter
ing, lneuovernor is always frank
and direct and whenever he says any
thing he meats something. The cor-
respondent made him attack tho Alli
ance and Col. I'ollc. liewsnaner
-
people ought always .to bo careful as
to what they-say about public raon.
In this case the correspondent never
even interviewed Gov. Holt.
Important railway movements are
now on foot, which mark some events
of importance to the entire State. The
new coast line, for such may be term
ed the Norfolk, Wilmington L
Charleston road; the linking together
of tho Capo Fear k Yadkin Valley and
the Norfolk Western and the fast
approaching finish of the Seaboard
Air-Line; the rapid extension of the
Atlantic Coast Line into' new territory
all mark a new era in railway plans
and contests. For tho building of a
little line will sometimes cause the
greatest effects. In proof of this tbert
is the construction of the Oxford k
Henderson road, and its acquirement
by the Richmond & Danville system.
This little lino has caused the construe
tion of hundreds of miles of road and
no end of hostility between the Rich
mond & Danville and the Seaboard
Air-Line system. The State profits
by all these conflicts, of course.
The Inter-State exposition has only
two weeks more of existence. If the
unfavorable season is taken into
account, it is readily seen that it has
been a decided success. The average
daily number of visitors to the city
has been 1200. These have been of a
good class; above the average of those
usually attending fairs, Lc All this
has resulted despite a very unfavor
able season. Had tho year bca like
1890 twice as many people would have
been here. Bat the exposition has
done good. It has brought many
people, and useful people too, to the
State. .-V . '' ,
To-day the State Auditor began to
send out the 4682 pension warrants:
As has boeen stated, the amounts are
less than they were last year, owing
to an increase of 400 pensions.
The reports made by the railways
to the railway commission are wonder,
fully complete. The office system is a
thorough one and the commissioners -report
will be something well worthy
careful reading. Tbe59 railways and
branch lines make a good showing.
Tlie richest of all is of course the pow
erful and admirably managed Wil
mington L Weldon road. It has
$1,800,000 sulcus. The commission
in this State has a great deal to do.
far more than ia other States. It has
to assess the property of all the hoes;
to regulate the railway, express and
telegraph charges and to look after
the general interests of the public in
connection with all these. It must
act as a sort of buffer between the
railways and the people. It is cer.
tainiy of mutual advantage.
The supreme court has pushed quite
rapidly along its business this term,
aided by a light-docket. It has given
very close attention to the most im
portant case before it at the present
term, the legality of the merchants
purchase tax.