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VOlIKO- 41. SOUTHPOBT, N. C, THTOSDAY, DECEIXBEB 3. 1891. PBICE FIVEmTTS.
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FOIC UALTIMOKIv.
Oiw-of tin- HntloiHi Attending the Wll
utinvton Bnk Failure. Th Cahelr
TelU Hl Frl-nd He ed ttet
,Mnt fl.OOO Now Short.
Wednesday morning of last .week
th! Kin-t National bank at Wilming
ton !"-'' 1 its dor8- Tnat niKnt tno
V&hnur, II. M. Bowden left, nor have
hiii' whereabouts yet been ascertained,
lie wme friends understand that
j,e was going to Goldsboro to rest. lie
Irfiuirht a ticket to Baltimore, but his
friends express the belief that he has
ifoiio to some place where letters and
t.i.fTHis cannot harass him. Ji.ver
since the bank began business Mr:
iowvcn has been an official; first tell
er, then cashier. Year after year he
did two men's work. Worry told on
hiii). Two weeks ago he told some
friends that he must get away. Bank
examiner Allen, who is in charge of
the broken bank says that Bowden
owes the bank only $5000 or $6000
md that this is all covered. His ac
count.0, the examiner further states,
are all right. Uowden s mends say
he is mentally overstrained, and ex
press much sympathy. Of course per
sons say harsh things and see nothing
in commend in his action in running
under, fire. The city papers have
made no mention of his flight, this
silence being it is said, for reasons
given by business men. But a plain
statement of facts hurts nobody, and
the Lkadkk has a way of printing the
news.
The amount involved in the? failure
is said to closely approximate:' $350,-
000. Tyt course the depositors are the
jKojile who "get in on the ground
floor," as the phrase is. Whatever is
t be had they get, and it is said theyj
will tret dollar for dollar. The bank
examiner promises a statement Mon-
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day. The bank had long been in a
had condition. Too much kindness
to borrowers was the prime cause of
this, it is said. A new bank will be
established and in tho loner run the
city and section will gainr- Wilming-
ton is standing .he failuro well, only
one failuro has resulted. There have
htrn many proffers of aid, but these
have been declined, with thanks. Mr.
isowdon ios8 ins entire property in
the failure. Laukanse.
POST OFFICE SERVICE.
Cmiada'N Chief Pout-Office Inspector in
New York.
Mr. M. Sweetnam, chief post-office
inspector of Canada, is attending the
conference of post-office inspectors
now in session in this city. He has
been nearly forty years in the Canadi-
an postal service and speaks in strong
terms' of the many improvements
which have been introduced into the
United States Post-office during the
past twenty years, and particularly
within the last half dozen years im
provements introduced and worked
out by the able and efficient officers
in charge of the various branches.
Mr Sweetnam regards with special
interest the inspection and railway
mail branches of the service, and says
that every section of the postal work
is conducted in an admirable manner,
and that all through the service there
seems to bo a vigorous and united
vicici inumuon vo mase me unueu
States Post-office meet all the reason-
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ableand necessary reauirements of the
rroMora r.nl. ir.
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While he considers that the Canada
lost-office iswell and carefully, equip
11 and managed, ho admits that
several alterations in its working de
tails have been prompted by methods
adopted by the United States Depart.
ment. He is evidently very much
gratified with the attention and assist
ance extended to him by the officers
of the Department in Washington and
elsewhere. The in
opinion, are well nullified for their
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Muuca, nuu navp nnnA at Ant worif
in the direction of onnn; fmrfii.
lent concerns, which have been an
unmixed evil not onlv to a lanre por.
tion of the eommnnitv h,,t also to a
consi.lpmKio oo
ployed in the mat.
From what has rn cmthered from
r
the inspectors Mr. Sweetnam's visits
to Washington have been mutually
beneficial. The Canadian chief inspec-
tor regards the post office in any coun-
n
trir oo u i. e ,l. 1. 1 . :
w'j o a ui u lie u (j I ine uuuiic eerviuu
which should necessarily receive the
careful and constant attention of its
j
brightest and most capable officials.
Mr. Sweetnam was asked whether
the Canalian people were anxious for
NEWS.
strongly disired to maintain pleasant
and neighborly relations with the
united States, but annexation or any
thing of that kind finds little favor
among any considerable numoer ot
them. They entertain respect and
esteem for their American neighbors,
but they are unmistakeably loyal to
their mother country, Great Britain.
A good deal has been said and writ
ten concerning the McKinley bill, as
affecting the trade relations between
Canada and the United States.
Whatever may be the effect of that
measure, said Mr. Sweetnam, the
Canadians are not dismayed: they
realize the fact that Congress has a
right to enact such laws as it thitks
right and proper. If the United
States markets are practically closed
to Canadian surplus barley, horses,
cattle, &c, the Canadian people un
derstand that they must find other
outlets. Disability in this connection
simply sharpens invention, and gives
rise to efforts in other directions.
With regard to reciprocity, said the
inspector, it goes without saying that
the people of Canada desire to trade
with the United States on fair and
reasonable conditions.
NORTH CAROLINA.
New Clipped From Valuable Ki change
From the Old North State.
The strongest wind for years struck
our town Monday morning. It was
almost a cyclone. It did very little
damage however. The southwest
corner of the tin roofing of the new
hotel was blown up a little misplacing
a few brick, but no serious damage
done. It also disturbed the tin roof
of Miller Bros. & Winkler's new store .
a little. Wilkesboro Chronicle.
We regret to learn that Mr. W. C.
Taylor a prominent and esteemed
citizen of Whitakers has assigned for
the benefit of creditors. Liabilities
4i
about $20 000, assets, real and nomi-
nn.1 between 30 000 and SU0.000.
Preferences about $10,000. Rocky
Mount bank among the preferred
crfiditors to the amount of 1.500.
Tight money and short crops cause of
l&WxxvQ.Arqonaut.
On Tuesday morning the trestle
across Black creek was discovered to
be on fire by Mr. Zack Wellons who
lives near by. It is thought that It
caught from a spark from the mai I
train that which passed that morning,
It was beemnim? to burn rapidly
when Mr. Wellons found it and he
had just succeeded in distinguishing
the fire when the north bound freight
came alone. Swift field Herald.
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11VU V V Obui 111 S . niiv Av
struck the town from the southwest
about 8 o'clock Monday morning. The
rain fell in such torrents for 10 or 15
minutes that one could not see across
a street, and the force of the wind
was such as to blow down the barn on
Mr. A. A. Colvert's premises (the barn
smashing a buggy as it fell) and Mr.
Thos. Barkley's barn on Green street.
The newspapers report the blow as
having been pretty general over the
State. Landmark.
Rev. N. M. Jurney, who purchased
the Jones Mill property on Newport
River, has employed carpenters to
erect a twenty-five hundred dollar
Lrliib house. The sportsman can find
more came of different kinds upon
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tms property man upon any otuer
tract, nf the same area in the State.
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Tl.0rv.nd i nnn of the lartrest and
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COI1UUU5 tt lrut V ai ICIT wi uon. i
bear, wild turkeys and quail also
abound in large quantities.
The Jones Mill tract has been con
sidered among the most valuable prop
erty of this section for years. -ln-
He Seaside,
THE BOND INTEREST.
"All taxes which shall be levied
upon and collected from said railroad
bv anv county, city, town
or township under the general reve-
j- .ii... onH
nue acts as lruiu uwjci cinz-v-uo
nrnnertv. upon anv real or personal
property belonging to said corporation
and situated within said county, city,
town or townships, shall be set aside
L ,'etinct f.mH nH annlied exclu-
bv the nroner authorities there-
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of. if said countv. city, town or town-
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ship shall have subscribed to the capi-
tal stock of said company and issue
bonds m payment therefor.to the liqui-
dationand payment of the interest
l : Vvt. ;.ol1Ayt ok
i aaiuiug sju u iu
count of such subscription so long as
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said bonds shall be outstanding and
remaining unpaid."
I Sec 13- Charter, Brunswick, West-
era & Southern Railroad.
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WHO WILL BE THE NEXT
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
Farmer' Alliance Official Call I'non
Preldent Harrion. ConcmMiiea Be
ginning to ArriTe. Free Trade
With HawaiL
Washington. Nov. 30. 1891. Presi
dent Harrison may or may not have
been greatly surprised when he was
called on by President Polk and
Messrs. J. F. Tillman and II W. Ayer,
of the National Farmers' Alliance, but
in ten minutes from the time those
genuemen entered the portals otthe
White. House there were a dozen po
litical 8tories concerning their visit
flying along newspaper rownone with
a firmer foundation than the imagina
tion of the relater. Your Correspon
dent saw the trio just after their inter
view with Mr. Harrison and in re
sponse to questions was smilingly in
formed that they had meiely called as
dutiful and patriotic citizens to pay
their respects to the President. There
is reason to believe however, that
they took occasion while paying their
respects to say something about the
vacancies on the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and the desirability of
the Alliance having a representative
thereon.
Although this is the last week of
the Speakership campaign there is
just as much doubt as ever as to who
iS to be Speaker of the House. Each
0ne of the five active candidates there
are a number of dark horses will tell
you that he is confident of being the
man, and that confidence is reiterated
by each and every one of the friends
of each candidate . Four of them arc
dead wrong in their calculations, and
mav be all five are. as it would create
no great surprise If, in case of a pro-
tracted fight in the caucus, all of them
were dropped and some man like 1
Wilson of West Virginia, nominated
Things are very lively around the
several headauarters: members are
coining in on every train and it is ex
pected that they will all be hero by
Wednesday. Ihen it will become
largely a question of management,
The Senators are taking sides in the
contest to a considerable extent, and
Crisp is credited with having secured
Gorman's active aid. If this be true
it adds largely to Crisp's chances of
winning, as there is no man in Con-
gresswho approaches uorman
manipulator ot men. springer is ap
parently developing more strength
than anybody had given him credit
lor naving; tnere is a Dig ueiegauou
from Illinois Here working lor mm.
Henry George is an in terestea specta-
tor of the fight, and while he says he
has no influence with any of the mem
bers he is nevertheless doing lots of
talking for Mills. Jerry Simpson is
seen everywhere and he says that the
Alliance men will vote for a candidate
of their own, but some of the Alliance
members from the South have already
announced their intention of going
into the democratic caucus and it will
not be surprising if they all do so.
Candidates for minor House offices
are multiplying and it is noticeable
that many of them are ex-members of
the -House. Somebody said once that
an ex-Congressman always became an
office holder or a lobbyist, and he
was pretty near right. With few ex-
rontinns thev "become one or the other
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and jn cases both
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ine silver question is giving tue
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QemOCimS 88 IDUU1 UUUUiu a i"c
Speakership, lhe tree coinage aemo
crats, under the lead of Bland, of sil
ver dollar fame, are on the rampage,
and it' is said that fearing that they
mav cet left in the nomination of
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Speaker they will introduce the resolu
tion in the caucus before the balloting
commences oledzinir the House to
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pass a free coinage bill. This the
Eastern members of the party do not
want done. If such a resolution comes
up in the caucus it will certainly t
be
1 curried bv a decisive maioritv. While
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there are lota of democrats wno
arc
perfectly willing to have the silver
question let aiono ior ame wra
few who will dare to vote against such
a resolution if it is brought up in
caucus.
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treaty now m his possession ana
Senate ratifies it, the United States
will have absolute free trade with one
country and that country will have
i t ho came wim us. ine couniry is
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Hawaii, which has had a representa
Uvo here for some time engagea in uie
negotiation of this treaty. Probably
this negotiation nas oeen ine iouuua-
I tion upon which the.nnmcrous stones
about the annexation of Hawaii have
been built. The ratification of this
treaty would, as far as commerce is
concerned, put Hawaii on " precisely
the same footing as any State in the
Union.
President Harrison has about com
pleted his message to Congress, being
now engaged in revising and polish
ing it up with the able editorial assist
ance of private Secretary Halford
whose long experience as a managing
editor makes him a valuable assistant
It has been some years since a Presi
dent's message was prematurely made
public, and, so long as the present
precautions are continued, it is impos
sible to be done without detection,
Rumors of a rumpus between
Postmaster-General Wanamaker and
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
are plentiful, and the reticence of all
parties makes it look as though there
were something it.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
A Steady Progreaa of the Work in the
VarioiiH Departuientiu
Ha-waii, otherwise the Sandwich
Islands, has decided to make an exhibit
at the Exposition.
Mrs. Lucas, Lady Manager for Penn
sylvania, has appointed Miss Florence
Lewis, a young colored girl, upon her
Auxiliary Committee. Miss Lewis
is one of the press representatives of
the Board of Lady Managers in Phila
delphia.
The National Farmers'-Congress, at
its recent session at Sedalla, Mo.,
heartily indorsed the World's Colum
bian Exposition
It is announced in the Berlin news
papers that the entire organization of
he Imperial Opera Company of Ber-
m, Germany, will come to Chicago in
1893. :o give operatic performances in
the Music-Hall to be erected in the
Exposition grounds.
The furniture manufacturers of
Chicago have taken steps to make a
collective exhibit in their line, and
they promise that it will open the
eyes of visitors.
The government of Russia has deci
ded to haul exhibits for the Fair at
lalf rates on all government railroads,
and at the same time it has suggested
o private companies that they make a
ike reduction. A like arrangement
has been effected in Germany.
Hugh Price, one of the Wisconsin
commissioners, has made arrangement
for securing for the World's Fair a
a mammoth corkf pine, a tree which is
growing rare in his State. It is twen-
y-four feet in length, and will scale
2,500 feet. One plank is sixteen feet
long, three inches thick, and forty-
four inches wide, without a knot or
blemish.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles will be grand
marshal of the parades, civic and
military, connected with the Exposi
tion, including the parade on the occa
sion of the dedication of the Buildings,
October 12, 1892. Miss Harriet
Monroe, of Chicago, has been chosen
to write a commemorative odo for the
dedicatory ceremonies.
An additional appropriation of
$500,000 tb SG00.000. is what the
Board of Management of the Govern
ment Exhibit thinks will be necessary
to insure the exhibit at the World's
Fair on the scale intended by Congress.
The members will try to have this in
cluded in the Treasury estimates.
Oxford University, England, has
expressed its willingness to send an
eight-oared crew to the World's Fair,
provided-a competition can be ar
ranged with American college crews.
The Government Department of
Agriculture is taking steps to make a
very elaborate exhibit of every kind
of wool clipped in this country. The
Department will issue a small pam
phlet upon each branch of the exhibits
it will make, containing information
not widely known, and of great prac
tical value to agriculturists.
Professor Ives, of the Art Depart
ment, reports that the artists of Russia
are deeply interested in the Exposi
tion, and have promised him to send
tn it a fine collection of their best
work.
Four hundred railway lines have
alrpftilv agreed to return exhibits to
the Exposition free of charge.
The native flora of each State and
Territory will be shown at the Expo
sition, under the direction of Chief
Thorpe, who has enlisted the Lady
Managers to undertake the collection
of specimens.
Tine SorrrnroKT Lkader$1 a year,
THE WORLD'S NEWS.
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A CONDENSED SUM3IAUY OF
A WEEK'S DOINGS
Grala Blockade at Baflalo. B. O. Daa
C' Weklr Review. BebeUle la
China. Gold Weather Vp North
SalU Affalaat the Lottery.
THUR.SDXY. NOVEMBER tQ.
Typhoid fever is prevalent at Man
chester, N. H., and several deaths have
occurred.
The Dallas Dressed Beef & Packing
Co's entire plant, at Dallas, Texas, was
destroyed by fire last night Loss,
$200,000.
There is a great grain blockade at
Buffalo, N. Y. It is estimated that
there mre 2,00vi00 bushels of grain
afloat there and the elevaters are un
able to handle it owing to a scarcity
of cars.
G. Cassard k Co., the big provision
and pork dealers of Baltimore, Md.,
have made an assignment for the bene
fit of their creditors. ; Their liabilities
will be about $150,000.
Ten cars of a freight train on the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad plunged
over a bridge at Cincinnati, Ohio, yes
terday, causing a heavy loss to the
railroad company.
rOHElOX.
The Courts of Justice in Belgrade,
were badly damaged by fire yesterday.
Many valuable documents were de
stroyed. The Right Hon. Edward Robert
Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton, British
Ambassador to France, died suddenly
on Tuesday, from heart disease.
Brazil's new president has sum
moned Congress to meet December 1 8,
to resume its functions. The dictato
rial policy of Fonsecahas been aband
oned, much to the satisfaction of the
people.
FRIDAY, KOVKMBKK 27.
The Mexican demand Jor American
corn is expected to reach millions of
bushels owing to the failure of the
Mexican crop.
The great Yale-Princeton foot-ball
game took place yesterday in New
York. Yale won bv a score of 19 to
Over 40,000 persons witnessed the
game.
The most disastrous fire which has
occurred in St. Albans, Vt, for many
years, took place yesterday morning.
The total loss is estimated at about
$150,000.
The funeral of the late Gov. Hovey
of Indiana, took place yesterday morn
ing at Mount Vernon, the services
were taken in charge of by the G. A.
R. The funeral sermon was preached
by acting Gov. Ira J. Chase.
Ten of the men accused of violating
the anti-lottery postal law, at Sioux
falls, N. D., put in an appearance at
the New Orleans court yesterday and
gave bail for their reappearance in
March next at the South Dakota
court.
FOREIGN.
Seville, Spain, has been flooded by
the overflow of the Guadalaquiver,
and railway communication with
Madrid has been stopped.
A circular1 has been issued by the
Russian government to the governors
of the various provinces of the empire
notifying them to forbid Jews to buy
corn.
There were large accessions to the
ranks of the striking French coal
miners yesterday. The strikers reject
the mining companies terms for arbi
tration. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28.
A. J. Branch, a former railroad
president, has been arrested in Los
Angeles, Cal., charged with forgery
of checks to the amount of $300,000.
The immense cigarette factory of
Goodwin k Co., New York, was
burned yesterday. Throe hundred
girls employed in the factory escaped
safely.
John A. Pizzini who died last night
in Richmond, Va., was an old journa
list and was at one time resident vice
consul of Italy, and served in the First
Virginia Confederate regiment.
R. G. Dun k Co's weekly review of
trade says: A week broken by a
holiday, has shown the usual charac
teristics; weak speculation, active re
tail trade and moderate wholesale
business. But the great factors which
go to make material prosperity are
unaltered. Money is in ample supply,
industries are fairly employed, crops
moving with freedom and receipts are
remarkably heavy, failures for the
past week 295, against 2S5 last week.
roarioN.
The Archbishop of Annecy has
written a letter similar to the one
which caused the prosecution of the
Archbishop of "Aix. It is expected
that the government will take notice
of the letter and cause its author to be
prosecuted.
A Berlin cable says: The Secretary
of the Treasury said it was expected
that there would be a deficit of 8,000,-
000 marks during the present fiscal
year. The yield derived from customs
showed the defeat of commercial trea
ties in restricting exports.
hlSUAY, SDVEHBEB -
Two persons were killed and thir
teen others wounded in a collision
which took place yesterday near Toledo
between a Flint k Pere Marquette
locomotive and a Lake Shore passen
ger train.
Exports of specie from New York
for the past week amount to $931,155
and imports for the same trme amount
to $595,63.
Reports from fifty Minnesota points
show that the weather for the past
day or two has been very cold and is
growing colder. At Duluth it is zero
and at Moorhead it is 18 below. At
Winnipeg, Man., it is twenty below
and growing colder. At Boone, Iowa,
it is fifteen below.
Examination of the securities held
by the firm of Field, Lindley k Co.,
New York, which failed Friday.shows
that the firm had rehypothecated
stocks to the amount of one million
dollars. Young Fields mental condi
tion is said to be very serious and ar
ran gem en ta are now being made to
send him to a private insane asylum.
FOREIOX.
Richard Power, Parnellite member
of Parliament for Waterford city.diod
to.day. fie had been married only one
week.
Advices received in London from
Shanghai state that the rebel forces in
Manchuria have defeated the imperial
troops sent to suppress the uprising
in that region. Six thousand men
have been sent to oppose the rebels
who are marching on Pekin.
MONDAY. NOVEMBER SO.
W. W. Butler; son of Senator M.
C. Butler, ot South Carolina, died
yesterday at the Arlington Hotel in
Augusta, G a. He was stneken Satur
day morning with paralysis :of the
brain.
In addition to the two persons killed
in Saturday's accident on the Lak'o
Shore railroad at Toledo, Ohio, five
others have since died and several
others cannot survive their injuries.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis alleges that
the Belford Company have not lived
up to their agreement in publishing
her husband s memoirs and has sued
them to recover royalties on the sale
of the book.
St. Paul has i raised a guarantee
und of $50,000. and wi'l construct a
wigwam to hold twenty thousand peo
ple, if the Democrats will -hold their
national convention in that city.
foreign. -King
Christian of Denmark, was
given a cord'al greeting by Emperor
William at Potsdam yesterday.
The steamer Circassia, from Mon
treal, had her stern damaged by a
collision in the Mersey, on Saturday,
with the bark Ulster.
The striking miners at Rive do Gicr,
France, captured the Aguerande mine
yesterday, renamed it the Bertholet
mine, and intend to resist any attempt
made to dislodge them.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1. f
Tacoma, Port Townsend and Olym-
pia, Wash., report distinct shocks of
earthquake felt on Sunday.
The Mississippi river at Galena, 111.
is frozen solid from shore to shore.
The weather is the coldest there over
known in November. Last night the
hermometer fell to. 10 degrees below
zero.
The First Presbyterian church at
Columbus, Ga., was completely de
stroyed by fire on Sunday afternoon
just after the congregation, had been
dismissed. Loss, $40,000; insurance.
$15,000.
The main building, library and
several small buildings belonging to
the Straight University for colored
people, was destroyed by fire at New
Orleans yesterday morning. The build
ings were owned by the American
Missionary Association of ew Y ork.
The president, secretary and eight
other employes of the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, appeared yesterday
at New Orleans, before U. S. Com
missioner Wright, to answer an indict
ment found against them, at San An
tonio, Texas, on a charge of violating
the anti-lottery law. They gave bail
in the sum of $10,000 each for their
reappearance at the next term of the
U. S. Court at ban Antonio, Texas.
-TOBCIGX.
Small-pox is again epidemic in Hon
duras and Guatemala.
It is reported that the Russian
authorities have decided to purchase
all grain held in distressed districts
and then giveeverybody enough grain
to support life. T
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER t.
A fire at Palatka, Fls.. yesterday
destroyed the ice factory belonging to
L. a and L. J. Carova. Ixms $18,000 ;
insurance, $12,000.
The man McDougald, on trial for
the the rauider of his uncle, at ray
etteville, N. C., was acquitted by th
jury yesterday.
Indian Agent Bennat began the
payment to the Delaware Indians of
$457,000 yesterday. Every man, wo
man and child in the tnbe is to receive
$540. j
A special dispatch from Wilcox,
Arozona, says: The Apaches are on
the warpath and have committed sev
eral depredations. One man has been
killed and another wounded, the sett
lers are arming to protect themselves.
Train robbers secured $15,000 from
the Adams Express car on the St
Ixmis k San Francisco railroad yes
terday. The robbery took place near
St. Louis, Mo.
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
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A COItUESPONriENTS VIEWS
ON RALEIGH AFFAIRS.
Xartaera E4ltar at taa Expaaltaa, Twa
Bay rrom ta Daalh. Ir atatUa
ta Maaw. Cailtaa mm fatrfelu
Ial a Twa CataaHa.
Raltioh, N. C. Doc. . 1. -The
Exposition after two months of fairly
sustained interest was formally closed
on Saturday.
The young ladies who havo been
employed as clerks and stenographers
made presentation of gold pens to
General Manager Chilton and Secre
tary Patrick. There was the usual
speech making and this pleasant epi
sode formally closed the Exposition.
It may be said to hare been a success
though not on So large a scale as was
anticipated. The attendance was
quite large and kept up to the very
ast. On Saturday there were fifty
editors hero from New York and .
Pennsylvania. From first to last there
have been as many as 200 Northern
editors in attendance and they have
been evenly divided between Demo
crats and Republicans, I havo talked
with many of them. Tho Republicans
almost to a man say that if they lived
in the South they would join, the
Democratic party. , It is significant to
me that out of perhaps 25 New York'
Democratic editors with whom I talked
every ono is in favor of tho nomina-
tion of Governor Hill , for President.
They belie vo in his star and say that
lis power to carry New York is un
questioned, if ho wants tho Now York
delegation they say ho can get it. As
to Cleveland, they say ho may carry
the State if nominated but that it
would be doubtful, and that in no
event can he carry the State, for the
nomination if Hill wants it. None of
them think that Flower will be in tho
ield and that Cleveland and Hill will
bo the only two names considered.
There is no statement made public
yet as to whether the Exposition paid
or not. but I take it that it must have
paid very well, better than at first ex
pected, with $10,000 to start with,
running it upon an economical basis
I do not see how it could fail to pay.
There is talk now that tho Exposition
will be brought to this city and made
permanent though this is extremely
doubtful. The city has been asked to
give the use of one of its public squares
for ten years where the Exposition
can be held. Permanent Expositions
as a rule are failures and there is no
assurance that this ono would not
share the common fate of others.
President Polk, of the National
Alliance, is here. He looks quite
well and talks hopefully of the Alli
ance, lie denies that tho oriraniza-
tion was committed to the Third party
at tho Indianapolis meeting and says
that the question of parties was not
discussed in the Alliance, and that
many false reports were sent out from
the meeting. He denies that he said
he would stump North Carolina
against Cleveland if he is re-nominated
but says he could not vote for him.
A meeting of the big lights of North
Carolina will be held here to-day and
it will be attended by the State Presi
dent and Lecturer and every district
lecturer in the State. I havo talked
with some of the lecturers and I do
believe they will go out of the Demo,
cratic party. '
I Two negro boys were found frozen
in the snow near Henderson Sunday
morning. They were about eighteen
years old; and getting drunk on Satur
day night they went to sleep near a
man's house who refused to take
them in and were found dead in the
snow Sunday morning.
A white woman died here yester
day, aged 104 years and on the same
day near Winston a white woman
aged 100 years old. She was the
mother of fourteen children and bad
descendants down to great great-grand
children.
Interest centers here this week in
the question as Jo whether the Hoard
of Agriculture will make an appropri
ation to have an exhibit at the World 's
Fair. It is held on one band, that the
Board have no legal right to make
the appropriation and on the other
that it has. The World's Fair Com
missioners meet here to-day, and to
morrow the Board of Agriculture
meets.
Rev. J. M. Asbby preached bis fare
well sermon before Conference, San
day night. We hope however this
will not in fact be bis farewell sermon.
Mr. Ashby has done a good work
here, and we hope be will be returned
to finish it Clinton DepartmenU