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DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK COUNTY. VOL. IV.-NO. 6 THE. WORLD'S NEWS. -:o:- lA CONDKN8KI SUMMARY OF il, WEEK'S DOINGS Dufci for tb Printer. - Big Fallnr In JHkiUM. E. F. Shepard Dead. Ter rible Cyclone. . CettoW Strike Ended Famous Murderer Kape. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2. A. dispatch from Austin, Tex., says that the House lias passed a bill requiring the railroads to provide separate coaches for whites and negroes. Enough money has been raised at Phila delphia to purchase about 2,000 volumes for a library for the Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers,-at Colorado Springs. Tompkins, Fassett & Croker, wliolesale grocefWt Elntra, N. V.. have failed. As sets, about $125,000. The liabilities are greatly in excess of the assets. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has se cured a clear right of way into the grounds of the World' Fair. The Illinois Central heretofore was the only road having an entry into the grounds. An explosion of mill dust in the immense Planet Flouring Mill, at Litchfield, 111., destroyed the entire building valued at over a million dollars, including the mill proper and two grain;eicvators which con tained 20,000 barrels of flour and 200,000 bushels of wheat. About forty, dwellings were wrecked and the shock of the explo sion was felt twenty-five miles away. One man was killed and twelve persons injured : ' ' FOREIGN. Thd Mayor of Moscow was assassinated yesterday, by a man named Adricanoff. The assassin was arrested. Another bomb explosion took place in Rome yesterday and still another was bare ly prevented. Six bombs were also thrown in the streets. No arrests have been made M. Baihaut, convicted of Panama Canal fraud, was sentenced yesterday to five years Imprisonment, to pay 750,000 francs, and the loss of civil rights. THURSDAY. MARCH 23. Ice dealers at Cincinnati, Q., and Coving ton, Ky., have combined with a capital of -.113,000,000. Ex-United States Senator EH Saulsburyy died yesterday afternoon at Dover, Del., at the age of 75. . Henry Cussons, who diedjit Richmond. .Va., an Tuesday, carried life insurance amounting to nearly $100,000. The University at Knoxville, Tenn., ao three-story brick buildiug, was burned to the ground yesterday morning. Professors and students had a narrow escape for their lives. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says that the Platte river is again out of its banks. It has carried away nine bridges and is spreading over the adjacent country. The cotton acreage convention met yes terday at New Orleans, had a business ses sion and adjourned after- mapping out a line of policy. It resolved that in the future cereals and other products should be raised incpnjunctiou with cotton if the prosperity of the South is consulted. FOREIGN. Negotiations are said to be in progress which will bring to a speedy end the long cotton mill strike in England. The British warship Undaunted, com manded by Lord Charles Beresford, went ashore recently at Alexandria, Egypt, but was floated off with two of her compart ments full of water. FRIDAY. MARCH 24. Gibbs fc 'Allen, shoe manufacturers of Grafton, Mass., have failed. Their state ment shows the liabilities of $82,000 and nominal assets of $56,000. f Dobbins & Dazy, cotton brokers at Nash ville, Tenn.', and who have branch houses at St. Louis and-New-Orleans, made an assignment ysstcrday. Liabilities about $700,000 i Capt. Deering, of the schooner Louis Olsen, was convicted at Monterey, Cal , of smuggling 29 Chinese into this country He was given one year in jail and fined $14,500. . , The towns of Tuuica,. Cleveland and Tupelo, Miss., were eutirely swept away yesterday by a terrible cyclone. Many lives were lost. The hamlet of Kelly, Tenn. was almost destroyed by the furious storm - Col- Robert W. Gillespie. General South ern Agent of the Mexican Central Railroad well known throughout the country, espe cially among railroad men, died at New Orleans. Wednesday night, of paralysis. FOREIGN. - Queen Victoria, Princess Beatrice and her husband. Prince Henry of Battenberg, have arrived at Florence, Italy, and are guests of King Humbert. The Russian Government has suspended the coinage of silyer rubles on private ac count, because the silver ruble is now cheaper than paper. The court of arbitration to adjust the difficulties between Great Britain and the United States in relation to the seal fisheries in Bering Sea, is now in session at Paris- SATURDAY, MARCH 5. The Southern Land and Lumber Com pauy, at Dry Run, Ark., has failed. Liabi lities $200,000; assets about the same. " Dispatches from the southern part of the Indian Territory indicate an Indian upri sing imminent mong the Kiowas, Otoes, and Missouris.J They have been dancing for a week, and are performing old-time superstitious cruelties. Col, Elliott F. Shepard, editor of the New York Mail and Express.died suddenly yesterday afternoon at his home in New York. His death wa9 caused by the ad ministration of ether by his physicians w ho were about to perform an operation upon him. Details of the terrible cyclone of Thurs day, which passed over portions of Missis, ippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, come in rery slowly. Bowling" Green, Ky., Mem phis and Nashville, Tenn., suffered severe ly. Dresden, a suburb of Nashville, was entirely wiped out by the storm and fire R. G. Dun & Co'a weekly review of trade says that the condition of trade is less altered than might have been expected, in view of the extraordinary weather for the season, the scarcity of money and other in fluences. Failures for the past: week in the United States and Canada 243; against 231 for the corresponding week last year. FOKEIGN. The Duke of Bedford is dead at London, aged 41 years He leaves property valued at $50,000,000. The English House of Commons yester day passed, by a vote of 276 to 229, a reso lution that in the future all members be paid for their services in Parliament. A prolonged meeting of the master cotton spinners and their employes was "held yes terday at Manchester with the result that the employes have decided to resume work on Monday and accept a reduction in wages of seven pence in the pound. SUNDAY, MARCH 20. An earthquake shock lasting thirty sec onds was felt at Helena, Mont., yesterday. The Associated Banks of New York now hold $9,243,000 in excess of the require ments of the 25 per cent, rule- Allen B. Morse, of Michigan has been decided upon by President Cleveland to be Consul at Glasgow, Scotland. One hundred thousand dollars worth of county records in the Register of Deeds' office, at Newton, Kan., were destroyed by burglars last night. Recorder Smyth, of New York, yester day imposed fines aggregating $20,000 on citizens who failed to respond to their names after being summoned to serve on the jury. -Seven thousand coal miners in the Monon gahela Valley will return to work oa Mon day night, thus ending the longest and most stubbornly contested strike in the Valley. They struck against a reduction in wages of i a cent per bushel and now so back to work at this reduction. Total visible supply of cotton for the whole world is 4,009,885 bales. of'which 3,523,685 bales arc Ameriean, against 4,504.229 bales, and 3,932,229 bales respectively last year. Receipts of cotton this week at all interior towns 25.125 bales; Receipts from plantations 37,060 bales; stock in sight 5,949,300 bales. FOREIGN. President Carnot has signed the decree raising the French legation at Washington to the rank of an Embassy, An assault was made yesterday, at Rome by a workingman. on King Humbert. The fellow threw a stone, narrowly missing the King. He was promptlv taken to prison. MONDAY. MARCH 27. Utah Mormons are fasting preparatory to dedicating on April 6th. their $40,000, 000 temple7 which took 40 years to finish. W. W. Stout, postmaster at Morrillton, Ark., has disappeared, leaving a defalca tion, the inspector says, of several thous and dollars. The Commercial National Bank, of Nashville, Tenn,, suspended yesterday. The failure of Dobbins & Dazey last week crippled the bank. The bank has a capital of $500,000. The Government of Spain, through the State Department, has officially tendered to the United States, as a gift, the repro duced flagship of Columbus, the Santa Maria. The boat will probably be brought to Washington, after the exposition, for permanent exhibition. It is said that the prospects are good for a strike this spring in the coke region around Connellsville, Pa. II. C. Frick and Andrew Carnegie practically control this region. The number of employes Involved in this strike would greatly exceed that of the notable Homestead strike. . FOREIGN. The yarn spining mill of the Rivett Co , in Stockport, Eng.', was burned yesterday. Loss, 250,000. . M. Blondin, sentenced on -March. 21, to two years imprisonment for bribery in con nection with Panama Canal frauds, is suf fering from incipient paralysis. TI7ESDAY, MAKCH 28. H. Irving Iatimer, the famous Michigan matricide, has escaped from the State's prison at Jackson by administering a powerful drug to the uight keeper and gate keeper. He then possessed himself the keys and walked out. One of the men has 6ince died from the effect of the drug. Two more Xash ville banks, the Mecha nics Savings Bank, and the Bank of Com meice, the former with a capital of $500, 000 and the latter having a capital of $250,- 000 have closed their doors. Great excite- ment prevails as it feared other banks are in financial straits. KOBEIGN, The International Socialist Congress, will meet at Zurich, Switzerland, on Au gust 6, and will last for one week. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that ter- nble floods are reported along tbeVolga and Don and contributing streams, cover ing thousands af acres with water, and eausmg much loss of life. Ill; M HERTS PERIL :o:- RKLHASEI) MUUDEREU ATTEMPTS HIS LI FK. An Angry Populace A 1 must Succeeds In Lynching' Him. Anarchists Bony at Rome. Mure Infernal Machines Found. Wanting to Officials. Rome, March 25. An attempt to kill King Humbert was made this evening by one Berardi as the King was returning from the Villa Bor- ghese, where he had been spending the day. The missile thrown by the would be assassin missed its mark, and, before a second attempt upon the King's life could be made, several persons rushed upou the assailant and held him fast. There were a irreat many people on the street at the time, and as soon as the facts of the case became known there was the wildest excitement. The assailant was promptly taken in hand by the police anil conveyed to prison; otherwise he would in all probability have been killed by the angry multitude. He is said to be a religious fanatic. An immense crowd assembled and cheered the King with frantic enthusiasm, and all the way to the Palace the scene was like a tri umphal progress. King Humbert gracefully acknowi edged the ovation and was Evidently deeply moved by the evidence of loy alty on the part oT his subjects. The authorities have made inquir les regarding Berardi's history and have asiertained that he ?was sen tenced to imprisonment for sevcii years for a murder committed a num ber of years ago In 188 2 he was re leased from prison and emigrated to America, the authorities thinking that they iiad got rid of him forever. Berardi, ho.vever, recently returned to Rome, but his presence did not at tract attention until today. He lias pretended, since his ai rest, that his intention was only to insult King HuniDert, not to harm him. because the King declined to be reconciled to the Pope. He also claimed that he had been engaged in forming missions for the liberation of slaves in China. The police are trying to ascertain whether he had any accomplices. At Modena. today, the jury ac quitted 24 Anarchists, who had been on trial for taking part in an Anarch Jst riot at Villa San Michele, in Octo ber last, The riot was a desperate affair and several persons were killed. The acquital of the accused has caused surprise and some indignation, r -.'. ' as tending to encourage similar law lessness London, March 25. Mail advices from Rome prove that a very inade quate idea of the dynamite campaign of the Italian Anarchists has been communicated by telegraph to the outside world. A strict censorship is ney's Channel, and each has a sepa exercised over all dispatches by the rate circuit. Three wires are care Government and everything likely to funy insulated and carried from the cause a panicky feeling is suppressed. power station to the end of the chan The seriousness of the situation! is nel in one cable. There is placed a shown by the fact that three regiments -junction box." from which the wires from Northern Italy are on their way are carried separately to the three to the city and that furloughs have buoys on the north side of the chan- been suspended among all the troops ve an(j a similar cable conducts the in the immediate vicinity. electric current to the buoys on the Although not a day has passed with- south side, out the finding of bombs by the po- Capt. Schley's plan is to have a lice, all the authorities declare that single circuit running to all of the the attempts of the dynamiters have' buoys in any harbor and supplying practically ceased and that all except each buoy with the required amount a few ot the most venturesome An- of current by the use of converters archists have left the city. ; Much of similar to those emnloyed on land to this deception is practiced merely to supply incandescent lamps from an allay the growing uneasiness of for- arc lamp circuit. This, he believes, eign sovereigns expected to be pres- will effect a great saving in the cost ent at the silver wedding of King of maintenance as well as in the cost Humbert and Queen Margaret next of construction. month. For instance, tremendous ef- At Chicago it is proposed toj light forts are making to suppress the news the entire harbor wjth electric buoys, that a bomb was found on Wednesday There will be a circuit seven !niiles evening near the house of Herr Von long, and a taper cable fourteen miles Bulow, German Ambassador to the long, made under the Captain's chrec- Vatican. tions, has already leen shipped .here. An infernal machine was received A power-station is to be built and by the Austrian Secretary of Lega- equipped with sufficient dynam 5 ca tion on Thursday, but ho discreetly pacity to supply the circuit wiih an referred it to the Inspector of Police, electric current of 1,500 voltage, and who has been detailed to open sus pected packages sent to tiie State de partments. On Thursday evening a cement bomb, wound with heavy wire was found against the wall of Admiral j Brin's house, in the Paiezzo Odescal- chi. The attention of a jKjliceman was attracted by the burning of the fuse. He extinguished the light and 10 , 1 thrt I. .mill tt f a T-w-ili.f -fiRil . where an examination showed that I enough explosives had been placed in j it to wreck tno wh0Ie house. j rector of the Universita Delia i . , ' Sapinza received yesterday morning I box marked -Books." The excep-a SOUTHPORT. IT. C. THTIRSDAY, MARCH 30, 1893. tional heaviness of the box excited his suspicions, and he gave it to the po lice with the request that they open it. Upon removing the bottom of the box the police found several small tubes of explosives which would have been set off by a spring and hammer had they lifted the cover. On a slip of paper within was written: '-Best wishes to the Papal Bigots, from the International Association of Anarch ists.' A similar infernal machine re ceived at the Ministry of the Interior was packed with a leather strip, on which was printed inj-ed ink: "Blood, Fire and Revolution, to help the great cause of Humanity." Many .officials have received Warn- - ' ings that thev will be killed liefore May 1, and in all the departments of city and national Government the number of guards has been doubled for their protection. The approaches to the public buildings swarm with detectives, ami nobody who fails to give a satisfactory account of him self can hope to get near the public offices. The police have shown them selves utterly incompetent; Although searching day and night for the stores of dynamite upon which Anarchists are drawing, they have accomplished nothing. Since the explosions of a year ago they have paid little atten tion to the Anarchist?, and therefore do not know which way to turn to arrest the plotters. In Rome the de velopments of the coming week are awaited with the keenest anxiety. CAPT. SCHLEY'S INVENTION An interesting invention is to be. conducted by the United States Light house Department in connection with the Chicago Exposition, which, if suc cessful, will add a great safeguard to harbor navigation, especially in the thick fogs. It will provide for such ;i inarkinif of nairow channels that they may be traversed in the thickest weather with absolute safety. The experiment is to be the employ ment of .electricity for a system of lighted and alarm buoys. The plan is an invention of Capt. AY. H.Schley, United States Navy, who is now in charge of the Third Lighthouse Dis trict, with headquarters at Tompkins ville, S. I. Capt. Schley, who was the commander of the Baltimore dur ing the Chilean troubles, will leave for Chicago to day to superintend the arrangements for the experiment, and he expresses great confidence in the success of his invention. The onlv buovs now lighted bv , . . , r, . electricity are those which mark Ged- ney's Channel in the lower New York bay. The system used is inefficient and is impractical for extensive use because of the expense of mainten ance, and the fact that it can be used only on short circuits. ; There are six lighted buoys in Ged witli the converters at each ouoy it will be possible to have the lights of differing candle power. The estimated cost of the experimental plant is $25,000. Capt. Schley says, if this experi- ! ment is successful, he will ask the j Government to authorize him toj ; mark the channel from the outer end : 1 1 e tr flll-rnlfll ! ItA Qml ; ' r . . the Narrows with these lighted buoys. He woidd place a red light on one side of the channel and a while light on the other. Besides the lights an electric bell would be placed upon each of the lighted buoys. WASHINGTON NEWfc -o. TIIK NEW ADMINISTRATION BEGINNING- YVKLLl Uaelea Pnblle SwtmU BeJC DismlMMxl. The Oftlee-Seeker. Sewat OSIeUU Will Nut Be KltJ Till tKe fWgw lar SeMioa. Appointments. I W ashikgton. March 27. The new auiuiuiaiiaiiuu. ukc a new oroomi sweeps clean, jbut the sweeping is only just begun, and there is so much rub bish that needs sweeping into the re fuse pile, that it would be risky to predict the final outcome of the sweep ing. However, that should not pre vent credit being given for what' lias been done; the promises of what will be done can at. Few, if any, prac tical men of affairs ever transacted any business of magnitude with ;he Government without becoming con vinced that there was need of reform both in the' method and manner of doing business in the Departments; that there Was too much red tape and too many employes. It was this sen timent that caused the adoption of! an amendment to an appropriation bill' at the last session of Congress, ap pointing a joirit Congressional com mittee to investigate the departments and report as to how the meth ods may be improved and the number of employes re J need without detriment to the public service. This sentnnfnt has also Imhmi adopted- by the admin istration, ami a number of useless em ployes havej already been dismissed from the Treasury and Agricultural Departments, and the promise made that the sinecures and barnacles i are to be weeded out in all the rest of them just as fast as the heads of Mie departments can locale them. W iat has been done is a step in the right direction, and it the administration will only keep its promise to put I lie departments on a purely business iba sis it will deserve the thanks of evury tax payer injthe land. But it is no easy task, as those familiar with ihe situation know, for the sinecures uud the barnacles are the very ones who have the stiongest "pull," both po lti cal and social, ami more than one ad ministration j has failed in sincere at tempts to oust them. The daily scenes at the White House are very amusing to the ew who have nothing at stake and who don't care a! brass button who gets the plums; the fun isn't so apparent to the waiters and hopers. To fully en joy the thing one must have been here from the beginning of the adminis na tion, when Senators and Repieseata tives stalked into. the White Hejuse with a sort of I've-got to-have-'em while their admiring constluents fol- lowed with an Oh 1-am-all right smile. Several attempts have been made! to have State delegations act in concert in recommending men for appoint- ment, but all of them have been abah doned and it is now a question of ev ery Senator and Member getting what ever he can, whether the other feljow gets anything or not. The applicants and their Congressional Dackers hive all dropped their over-confident jair and they jnow approach President Cleveland in a Please-may I-havp it style. The last three weeks in Wash ington ought to have convinced j. ny outsider who has been here, of ,he folly of becoming an office seeker, but candor compels me to say that they haven't, and that some who werejai first merely onlookers have allowed themselves to become office-seekersl The new order closing the offices of Members of the Cabinet to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays, the days on which the Cabinet meets, is not ot ponu 1, office lar, either: with Congressmen seekers or business men who wish to see these gentlemen. On . Mondays President Cleveland sees no one, un less by specul appointment- Senator Martin, of Kansas,savs that he has assurances that the populistiof his State will be recognized in distribution of Federal patronage.! he ot- V IliiSiailUlUg LUC JllJJJltaoiuiJ, to the contrary. The threat of the Republican Seha tors to resort to filibustering if the Democrats attempted to elect the offi cers nominate4by their caucus, wiil, it is believed, result in postponing the election of the officers until the regu lar session. A number of Senators are not disposed to take part in any j rnnrrnvprsv thev have made ar rangements to leave town as soon. the vote is taken upon the question seating the appointed Senators, gardless lof whether the Senate s adjourn or remain in session. ; re- ! all The old superstition about , its 1. Pg ba li.(-k" for a ITnitod States Senator to build a house in Washinjj- I ton is recalled by the announcement that the elegant residence erected til Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, not three years ago, has been leased for a period of six years beginning the first of next June, to Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, who is to keep up the repairs, pay the taxes, and pay an an nual rental of $6,250 for it. The rent is considered cheap as the House is valued at $125,000. The President will to morrow send to the Senate another lot of nomina tions, but the Cabinet officers have been very secretive about them, and it looks as though they would keep their secrets well until the time for publication. j So far as can be ascertained thejre appears to be no reason to look for any New York State nominations out side of the Post Office Department.arid in that Department Mr. Maxwell may find some occupation for persons who desire to serve the country and the party in the small Post Offices. There are still some visitors who are not quite clear in their minds about the policy to be pursued, and who will see the President to be bet ter informed, though they are not djs posed to hurry him in any policy he may have to carry out. Mr. S. P. Sheerin, of Indiana, the Secretary of the Democratic Nationid Committee, said to night that there seemed to le a general confidence 'lii the President among Democrats and - I Republicans, and far lets eagerness and hunger than there was eight years ago. Mr. Sheerin thinks that the Indiana nominations thus far made will turn out to be more ac ceptable than was at first believed, arid there was little reason to look for a disruption of the party for any disap pointments that may have been cause to men-who had favored the unfortu nate men who were not named. Mr. B. It. Sinalley is here' and will make a fewdepartment visits to-morrow, lie will call upon the President and Secretary Lamont. and may ask - i the President whether Postmasters are to remain unditurbed, who be- came Presidential officers after they had served tart of a term in the lower classes, or if it will be expected that they shall give way after they have served four years in any sort of jm office.' He reports the New Hamp shire Democrats as being very pa tient, and as able to get along com fortably for some time without the encouragement of Federal office. There is reason to believe that when the preliminaries are arranged there will be as complete a change in the Interior Department as will be re garded necessary to equip the depart ment with men who will carry out the policy of the Administration. Frbm some remarks made recently by Fee retary Smith, it is assumed that he believes that there are some useless offices in the "department, and tnat the axe may be used to good purpose in cutting off Republican heads that will not be replaced by the heads! of Democrats. there were quite a number oinews paper men among the postmasters nominated. John P. Ker, of Ashe ville, N. C, is the business manager of the Asheville Citizen, and James H. Brown, of Newman. Ga., is the ed itor of the Democratic paper in that place. He has been informed by the department that he can continue to write lor his paper, out must reiin quish active control. Thomas II Craig, of Athens, Ohio, is the editor of the Journal, and .was appointed through the influence of Senator Bnce, despite the protest of Retire sentative Grosvenor, who claimed privilege of appointment, Athens the be- ing his home. The Democrat he fee omihended was chairman of the county committee, hut did little o j no work during the campaign. Lewis Green, of Logan, Ohio, is the editor of the Hocking Sentinel. The Senate has confirmed the nora Of Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of General Land Office, and Horace the II. Lurton, of Tennessee, to be United States circuit judge for the sixth judicial circuit. k Frank Leverett, nominated to be marshal of Georgia, has been a pijom inent county official of Putnam county for five years. He resides in Eden -r An1 r o a mrln wrA V tr oil r f the I delegation except Speaker Crisp, who as ' " , i had a personal friend and constituent of i . . r I in the race. William H. Seaman, ot Wisconsin, was nominated to be United States district judge for the eastern district of Wisconsin. , . PRICE FIVE CENTST STATE NEWS. :o: CO U N'T K It FE IT E Its LAN I EI IN .JAIL. Suicide at Ashcrllle. Gleadoa A n.ir Hallread Track-Laying. Fire at Cro atan. GoTenmcnt Dredging- at Fish ing Creek. Canning Accident. A Durham firm has built a buggy out of various North Carolina woods for special exhibit at the World's Fair. Raleigh Chronicle. D. D. Adams, the well-known brick mason, committed suicide in the coal cellar of his home, 384 West Hay wood street at 11. o'clock, Monday, by cutting his throat with razor. For several months oast Mr. Adams' health had been poor, and at irregu- ar intervals his actions gave evidence that he was insane. Asheville Citi zen. Mr. John Abernathy, of Bethany township, met with a painful if not serious accident while out hunting Saturday afternoon. He filed his gun when the breech pin flew out, cutting a considerable gash in his forehead and filling his eyes with powder. Up to Monday he had been unable to see out of either of his eyes sinco the ac cident. Stalesville Ijandinark. In a few days the work of laying the track will begin on the Glendon & (iulf railroad, which is graded from Gulf, in this county, to Fair Haven, in Moore county, a distance of 10 miles. The rails have all been purchased, and will at once bo useo in laying the track This railroad will be a link in the proposed load from Durham to Charlotte, and will be owned by the company that will build that road. Chatham Record. The government has appropriated $15,000 for dredging Fishing Creek and preparing it for navigation. A few -days ago Major Stanton and Capt. Schuster, of the Coast Survey, made a trip up the creek and investi-' gated the possibilities. They will clean out the creek as far as Daniel's bridge near Enfield. Drawbridges will be put at the various crossings along the creek, and the work will commeuce soon. This will be a great advantage to the people along the stream, as it will give them easy and quick shipment for their goods. Boats will go .'10 miles higher up than they have ever gone! Scotland Neck Dem ocrat A serious fire occurred at Croatan Wednesday. Fire got away from a farmer who was burning oft a portion of a field and destroyed several miles -of-fencing about all that there was on the plantation of Messrs. Gray and. Bnce. A Du Four and H. A. Brown, and it was with difficulty that the houses on the plantations were, saved. The fire broke out in the morning and the whole neighborhood turned out and worked hard, j-et it was late in the day before it could be subdued. The loss is considered to be about four or five hundred dollars. New Berne Journal. Last week in order that a certain lot in the cemetery might be cleared and arranged for the interment of a body, it became necessary to exhume , two corpses that were buried there. One or them was the scout, a member of Capt. Ashby's Company which en- camped near Clinton. While hero he sickened and died and his remains were interred in the cemetery. When his grave was opened last week,it-was . found that the pillow which had been placed in the casket was in perfect condition; but the strangest thing was the position of the corpse, which was lying face downward. Sampson Dnn 'jcrat. Two young fellows from Iredell county reached Salisbury Tjesdayand pretty soon landed in jail. They tried to work the money raising scheme. They had cut the figure 20 from old Confederate bills and neatly pasted them on $1 bills of current issue, and fortified with several raised notes, they invaded that town afid began opera tions. At the very first move, they came to grief. One of them went into a barber Ehop and got his shoes shmed He gave tho boy a $20 bill to have changed. The boy went out and very soon ! a policeman came in and had the two young men in charge. Besides three raised bills, he found that each carried a pistol. They were fined $50 each for carrying concealed weapons, and were placed under bond to appear at the next term of the Federal court for counterfeiting. One f the two had enough gooJ money to pay his fine but could not give bond, and both went U jail. Charlotte eirs. . I
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