DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK COUNTY.
VOL. IV.-NO. 12.
SOUTHPORT. K. C THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1S93.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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THE WORLD'S "NEWS.
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U .t'ONDESSKI) SUMMAltY OF
A WEUK'S DOINGS
IJIr IlMl l Muonahiasrs. Cntiyle HnrrW
Executed. Cordnge Trust FalU. Gn-
r&l RoMcrui Resign.' Cyclone
In Texwi nnd Indian.
wkunlWat, MAY 3.
President Cleveland has requested Theo
dore Roosevelt to withdraw his resignation
;$lr. Roosevelt will therefoie continue to
aerve as Civil Service Commissioner.
The Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago
rallroadjwas sold yesterday, at Charleston,
at private auction, for $555,000, to Charles
E. HelHer. representing bondholders.
The' tfn ited States Leat .her Com pan y , or
Trul,-Las been uctX$orZc&i vcitfc a-apiul
stock of $190,000,000. It is a combination
of nearly all the sole leather concern? of the
country.
A tire which, started yesterday morula
in the Louisville Power Co' six-story
building destroyed that structure and a
number of others. The loss will be more
than $500,000.
.The largest haul of moonshiners ever
made in West Virginia by internal revenue
officer f was gathered up yesterday in Mc
Dermott and Wyoming counties. The
prisoners, forty-five in number, are now on
their way to Charleston in charge of a
strong posse of United States Marshals and
guards.
FOBEIGN. i;
King Benhazin, of Dahomey, -will fuh
mit to the French, abdicate, and accept a
pension.; ... -
Nineteen thousand hands employed in
the jute mills at Dundee have gone out
; , on u strike.
The Prefect of Marseilles has suspended
' for one month four Deputy Mayors, who,
while wearing their insigniu of office, par
ticipated in the May Day demonstrations.
THURSDAY. MAY 4.
Wilford Woodruff, President of the Mor
mon Church, is seriously ill at Salt Lake
City, Utah-
'' First fire at the World's Fair took place
yesterday. It was a slight one at the Casino
and resulted iu very little damage.
Ex-President Harrison has been elected
commander for the ensuing year of Ohio
Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States.
The College of Bishops, of the M. E
Church South began its annual session at
Kansas City, Mo., yesterday morning. It
is a secret session which has for its object
the arranging of the plan of Episcopal visi
tation for the year.
Mrs. Anna Maria Young, widow of a
Revolutionary soldier, and the oldest pen-
sioner of the war for Independence, died at
Easton, Pa., yesterday. She lacked four
months of being 100 years old. Her hus
band died 50 years ago.
A break occur ted yesterday in the great
reservoir at Lewiston. O., letting loose an
enormous volume of water- The reservoir
contains 17,000 acres.- Great damage was
done by the flood to crops and hundreds of
houses were partially submerged. No lives
were lost.
FOREIGN.
Official announcement is made of the be
throthal of Princess May of Teck to the
' Duke of York.
The whole of the Island of Sicily was
shaken by an earthquake yesterday Tele
graphic communication Is interupted and
the damage donel-annot yet be ascertained
A Havana dispatch says: The Governor
General has declared Santiago de Cuba in a
6tate of seige and warns the rebels that
only a surrender within erght days will se
cure exemption from punishment, which
means death.
FRIDAY, MAY fi.
Five failures were announced yesterday
oa the New York Exchange.
Cincinnati furniture factory employes
numbering 10,000 men threaten to strike!
("apt. Richard Park, a hero of three Arc
tic, explorations, died yesterday at St.
Johns, N. F. .
Gov. Flower has denied the application
for clemency for Cariyle !W. Harris, the
wife murderer, and Harris will be electro
cuted during next week.
Amid a number of other failures recorded
'yesterday- on the New York Stock Ex
Change, the Nati.mal Cordage Trust, capi
talized at 435,000,000, was placed in the
bands of a receiver. .
l ue Episcopal Convention in session at
Boston has chosen Rev. Dr. William Lau
rence, Dean of the Theological School at
Cambridge, to succeed the late Dr. Phil
lips Brooks as Bishop of Massachusetts.
The blacksmith shop of the Cincinnati &
Southern Railroad, at Chattanooga, Tenn
was totally wrecked yesterday by the blow
ing out of a cylinder head. Two men were
Instantly killed and three others injured.
" POBEIGX.
Marshal MacMahon, ex-President of
France, Is seriously ill of influenza: He is
85 years -old.-
The Bank of Victoria and the City and
Commercial Banks, of Melbourne, Austra
lia, have reopened their doors.
Shipping trade is blocked at Bristol,
Eng.. all the union dock laborers having
gone out on a strike against the-m ploy
meut ot non-union men.
SATURDAY.. MAT .
Edward, W. Lecompte.Secretary of State
of Maryland, died yesterday of consump-
tion, aged 62 years.
President Cleveland has appointed Mrs.
Annie B. Kenna, widow of the late Senator
Kenna, postmaster at Charleston, West Va.
vice H. C. McWharter, removed.
John A. Johnston, who some weeks ago.
shot John A. Upchurch, Deputy U S.
Karshal, at Raleigh, N. C , gave himself
up to the police at Richmond, Va.. yester
day.
Wilmington, Ohio., was struck by a
heavy cyclone yesterday afternoon". Every
church iu the town but one was badly
wrecked and many houses were damaged.
No one was killed, but several people re
ceived serious injuries.
R, G. Dun & Cos weekly review of trade
says that at nearly all points the backward
season and bad weather, with slow collec
tions, give cause of complaint. Through
out the South business is fair. Failures
for the past week in the United States and
Canada 243; against !S0t for the correspond
ing week last year.
KOBEIOX.
It is officially announced at Madrid that
all the Cuban Insurgents bare surrendered.
Repeated earthquakes have been felt
throughout Eastern Sicily in the last thirty
six hours! Many of the villages have been
deserted. Mount Etna shows signs of
eruption. .
The destruction by fire is reported of the
British steamship Khiva off the Arabian
coast. A large number of Mohammedan
pilgrims lost their lives.
Sl'XUAY.MAY 7.
During a severe storm yesterday at
Liberty, Ind.. several people were etruck
by lightning and killed.
A. D. Jones of North Carolina, was ap
pointed yesterday by President Cleveland
to be Consul General to Shanghai. The
salary is $5,000 a year.
E. W Carmack.editor of the Goinniercwd
and W. A. Collier, editor of the ApjtcaX
Atalandie, of Memphis, Tenn., have been
arrested for engaging in a duel.
Secretary Carlisle has received the resig
nation of Gen. W. S- Rosecrans, Register
of the Treasury, to take effect on May 31st
The General resigns on account of con
tinued ill heal tli.
The Mississippi river is rising rapidly at
Arkansas City, Ark., and a break in the
levees is feared". A break in this vicinity
would flood thousands of aeres. To add
to the already imminent danger a heavy
rain is falling.
Total visible supply of cotton for
the whole world is 8,(583,306 bales.
of which 3,108,106 bales are Ameriean,
against 4,116.911 bales, and 3,452,711 bales
respectively last year. Receipts of cotton
this week at all interior towns 13.351 bales
Receipts from plantations 9874. bales;
stock in sight 6,223,674 bales.
FOREIGN.
Ex Minister Robert T. Lincoln sailed
from England for New York yesterday.
Italy will, it is stated, spend about $20,
000,000 on her navy next year.
German Chancellor Caprivi has resigned
and Count Von Eulenburg has been sum
moned by Emperor William to Potsdam
and will probably succeed Caprivi as
Chancellor.
, MONDAY. MAY 8.
Ice in the Fulton chain of lakes, in New
York, is still sixteen inches thick.
Mrs. Elise Depew, wife of Chauncey 31.
Depew, of New York, died at her home on
Fifty-fourth street, New York, yesterday
afternoon.
A cyclone did great damage yesterday
at Gainesville, Texas. A train standing
near the town was lifted up, turned over
and dashed into a ravine.
Col. Ward H. Lamon.who was President
Lincoln's private secretary, died at his
home in Martinsburg, West Va., last night
His health had been failing for some time
past.
An explosion on board a Mississipp
river steamer, at Wolf Island, 24 miles be
low Cairo, Illinois, scalded six persons to
death and fearfully injured about twenty
others
Edwin T. Swift, teller in the Binning
ham National Bank of New Haven, Conn
who has been employed by the bank for
the past twelve years, was arrested yester
day charged with the embezzlement of
$10,000 from the bank..
FOREIGN.
Eight-hour demonstrations were held in
many European cities yesterday.
Sir James Anderson, who commanded
the Great Eastern during the cable laying
of 1865 and 1866,died yesterday at London,
Eng.
Rector Ahlwardt, the obstreperous mem
ber of the last Reichstag, has been arrested
and returned to prison to serve out bis sen
tence for having libelled the Loewes, small
arms manufacturers.
TUKSUAY. MAY 0.
H. H. "Warner, the well known patent
medicine man of Rochester, N. Y., made
n assignment yesterday.
Carlyle Harris, the wife murderer, was
electrocuted at Sing Sing prison, New
York, yesterday noon. He protested his
innocence to the last.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi has sent
two companies of militia to Brookhaven to
guard the jail. It was feared that an at
tack would be made upon the building in
an attemot to rescue some White Caps con
fined therein.
FOBEIGN. j
A cable from London says that Mr.
Gladstone has offered the place of Poet
Laureate, made vacant by the death of
Tennyson, to art critic John Raskin.
FINANCIAL PANIC.
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POLITICIANS TO BLAME
SHOULD THERE HE ONE.
Extra Session to Kettle the Financial
Question. Undesirable Populists Say
"I Told Yon So." Chinese Exclu-
slon May Be Unconstitutional.
Washington., May 8. "If there is
a financial panic in this country," said
a Senator famous for his conservatism
n everything, during a private con
versation, "it will Indirectly chargea
He to the o!iticians who are more
ntejitupon carrying oht their theo
ries than upon the welfare of the
country at 4ary;e. There exists not
the slightest reason for a panic, ami I
regard the flurry in Wall street which
las crippled the cordage trust and
several other similar concerns as lene-
ficial to the country rather than in-
unons. There was a time when the
operators in Wall street were rt-garded
as controlling factors in the finances
of the country, hut it has long since
gone by. and to-day they are known
for just what they are gamblers.
They got up the recent scare for the
sole purpose of frightening the ad
ministration into issuing bonds, and
in the end they iecaine its victims,
and they have few sympathizer? and
deserve fewer.'
While there is no apparent connec
tion between the slump in Wall street
and the condition of the National
finances there is no question that the
situation in Wall street is toeing used
as an argument by those who are try
to persuade President Cleveland to
all an immediate extra session of
Congress, to d-al with financial mat
ters. On the other hand, some prom
inent men who two months ago were
strongly in favor of an early extra
session now doubt the wisdom of call
ing on They argue mat in tlie"pre-
sent unsettled state of public sentiment
regarding (inance it would but add to
the stir to have Congress meet ami
fail to aree upon any financial mea
sure that would meet the approval of
the President, and those who ought to
be best informed on the state of Con
gressional sentiment insist that such
would be the certain result of an extra
session at this time.
Representative Boen, of Minn., a
"middle of the road" populist, says
the present situation vindicates the
position taken by the populists in the
last campaign as to the rear issue,
which" they contended was finance,
and not the tariff. Mr Boen believes
in the remonetization of silver at full
legal tender value.
There seems to be a general impres
sion here that the Geary Chinese Ex
elusion act will not result in the de
portation of any of the numerous Chi
namen who ignored it and refused to
register. There are two reasons for
this opinion, one being that the Su
preme Court, which will hear argu
ments on the new law this week, will
decide it unconstitutional, and the
other that the administration will.
even if the law be declared, constitu.
tibnal, not attempt to carry out its
provisions. If the administration is
opposed to the law, as it is said to be,
it has a good excuse for not carrying
it out by shipping the Chinamen back
to China, in the failure of Congress to
appropriate sufficient money to pay
for their tickets; but should the Su
preme Court decide it unconstitutiona
no excuse will be needed.
The long expected fight between
the New York factions for the federa
patronage of New York city is ex
pected to open in a few days, and both
sides are already well represented
here. Tammany has by no means
abandoned the hope of getting the
pestmaster and collector of the port,
the two places which control the bulk
of the patronage, but the anti-snappers
are confident that they will get neither,
There are reasons for believing that
these appointments have been delayed
because Mr. Cleveland has been try
ing to find men who while not being
exactly identified with either faction
will le in a i.ense satisfactory to both,
or will at least prevent either from
claiming that it was recognized and
the other "turned down.'"
Washington has a stone cutters'
strike on hand, the trouble growing
out of the refusal of the employers to
agree to certain demands made by the
men, one ot them being for a weekly
pay day, instead of fortnightly, and
another reducing the numler of ap
prentices in each yard to two, with
out regard to the numler of men em
ployed; the old rule allows four to each
yard. There is no trouble about
wsjf's, as the men have leen receiv-
ng forty five cents an hour for eight
lours work a a a v. i he strike is a
ery serious thing right in the midst
of the building season, and the men
say they will not return to work until
their demands are granted. Attempts
are to ie made to bring men in from
other places.
The postponement of the reassem
bling of the International monetary
conference until next November ex
cited little or no interest here, as no-
body seems to expect that it will
amount to anything practically at any
time.
CLOSED ON SUNDAY.
Chicago. 111., May 7. Within the
precincts of Jacksor Park to-day there
were more seagulls than human be
ings. Without the gates, however,
60,000 people vainly clamored to get
in.
Excursion trains brought a large
numoer of country people into the
city, and most of them went out to
the park, expecting to be admitted.
They were sorely disappointed. The
day being clear and moderately warm.
lowever, they gradually found their
wav to other amusements". Buffalo
Bill s Wild West Show, which is sit-
uated within a stone's throw of the
park, accommodated 18,000 people
during the afternoon. As many as
5.000 more were turned away.
The saloons in the neighborhood
were crowded, and merry go rounds
and other catch penny devices secured
liberal patronage. There was more
drunkenness in the vicinitv of tiie
Park than was ever known before.
Brawls were. numerous, and 'he police
had their hands full.
Last Summer the fair grounds were
visited every Sunday by 25.000 jieo
pie. Even after '25 cents admission
was charged the same iiuiuImt ot peo
pie visited the Park, and during the
late W inter.after 50 cents was charged.
15.000 people paid to go inside' on
pleasant Sundays This L shows how
much popular. interest there is in the
fair among the common people, whose
only chance to visit it is on Sunday.
It is especially noteworthy that the'
crowds seeking entrance to dav were
orderly.
Less than 5,000 persons were inside
the fences. They were nearly all
workmen engaged in rushing the in
stallation of exhibits and the comple.
tion of booths in the buildings. The
strictness with which the rule exclud
ing viiitors was enforced may be
judged from the fact that at noon Mr.
Tucker, Chief of the Bureau of Ad
missions, refused to admit the foreign
naval officers, who are here on a hasty
trip. Thev telephoned to the fair
grounds, asking if they might not be
permitted to inspect the grounds and
buildings to-day. Their request was
courteously but firmly refused, and
they went to Buffalo Bill's show in
stead. - Orders had been issued to keep
out everybody whose presence was not
absolutely necessary. All the em
ployes who could be spared were re
fused admission, and even the depart
ment officials had to explain why they
should be allowed to go in.
A Government wagon delivered a
load of mail matter at the Post Office
within the grounds. Next Sunday
and succeeding Sundays, if the .same
rule is in force, the Government mail
waon will not be allowed to pass the
gates. The reason for this is plain
the Government put itself on record
as withing to have the exposition
closed on Sundays. It is only the ex
pressed desire of the Federal Govern
ment which keeps the gates closed.
The local Directory wants them open.
And the Directory is of the opinion
that if the Government is a Sunday
closing Government, it should trans
act no business of any nature within
the grounds on the first day of the
week. If it tries to do so, the Direc
tory will see that it does not.
There will be a big fight the coming
week over this Sunday-closing busi
ness. The law will be invoked to open
the gates, and no doubt the Sunday
closing people will make use of the
same means to keep them closed. It
is not easy to see what the outcome
will be. To-morrow night the fair will
be open until 1 1 o'clock, and there
will' .be music in all the band stands.
The buildings will be illuminated and
the electric fountain will play.
Wilmington, Del., May 7. Sixty,
year-old Sarruei Morrison, of No. 1113
Brandy wine street, dropped dead in
Kiugswood Methodist Church to-day.
An old time "experience" meeting
was in progress, and in telling his ex
perience Mr. Morrison became greatly
excited, and an attack of heart disease
was induced.
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NO MORE
O FFICE-SEEKE11S.
A StvichtfrMrl Letter Which tUya
That Hi Flluc U Exhausted. ;
Xothlas Like It Krr Kanwi lie- 1
for. .Politician Aght.
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President Cleveland last niirht issued
a formal announcement to
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the effect
that he would hereafter receive no
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office-seekers at the White HouseJ
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The notice was in the following words
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Executive Mansion,
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It has become apparent,
months' experienc;, that
after, two
.the rules
heretofore promulgated regulating in
terviews with the President have
wholly tailed m their operation The
time whica urider those rules was set
apart for the reception of Senators'
and Representatives has leen almost
entirely spent in listening lo applica
tions for office which have !een bej
wildenng ;n volume, perplexing and;
exhausting m their iteration, and imJ
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possible of rememh ance. j
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A due retsarjJ for public duty, which!
must be neclected if! the present con-j
ditions continue, and an observance of
the limitations' placed upon human en j
durance, oblige ine1 to decline from!
and after this dale all personal interi
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views with those seeking appointment
to office, except as I J on mv own mo-!
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tion, may especially invite them. The;
same considerations make it impossi-j
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ble for mo to receive those who merely
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desire to pay their respects except on;
the days and during the hours especi!
ally designated for that pu i pose. j
1 earnestly J request Senators and
Representatives to aid me in securing
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for them uninterrupted interviews bvi
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declining to introduce their constitu-i
enls and friend' when visitimrthe Exj
ecu live Mansion during the
hours
Appli-
designated for their reception.
cants for office will only
prejudice
their prospects by reptating impor-
tnnit
Washmg-;
ton to await results
j Grover Cleveland.
The late hour at which fhe Presi
dent issued his semi-official
proclama
tion last night did not prevent the;
tenor of its contents fiom
becoming
The very)
the Presi-:
know in the hotel lobbies.
boldness and uniqueness of
dent's action staggered evtiyoody, and
the six or eight Congressmen who;
happened to bo found by Post reporters
wanted a chance to! get their breath:
before making any utterances for pub i
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lication. Jn other words, they were
looking toste which way the cat would!
jump next. Men from the bouth, the!
North, the East, and the West were;
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equally cautious. It is evident that
they regarded the man in the White!
House as one who hews to his own pre-'
determined line, let the chips fall
where they may.
It could not be learned
last night
President;
whether the action of the
was the result of his personal deter-j
unnation, or whether he had consulted
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his executive advisers. It is not gen-
erally supposed that
the latter knew
nothing of the announcement. The
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circumstances that have lead to the!
issuance of the order an I order, by;
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the way, that is without a parallel in
American history are familiar to the
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public. J j " J ;
On March 6 the pressure began.
It
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has lasted, with little intermission,!
until the present. Day after day men
who wanted office and were backed by
their Senators,! men who wanted office
and were backed by their Representaj
tives, and men who wanted office and
were backed by nothing save their own:
trust in their own abilities have
thronged the north-facing slope of the
White House grounds and insisted!
that they be given audience. There
has never been anything i like it in
American politics, and there will never
be acain. The crush
at one of the in
sufficient exits of a theater
nearest like it Through
building is
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it all the
Executive has made no sign of impa
tience, j
He has listened with an infinite pa
tience to many, men who had little tcj
.say. He had welcomed with cordial
obligingness 10,000 Democrats wbd
have labored in the earnest belief that.
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they had only to ask and the London;
consulate would be granted. He has
remained upon his feet like the veriest
dry goods cleric in the United States
Like the veriest dry j goods clerk b
has pulled down his stock time and
again, and unrolled it for the inform
tion of people who
He has had a unique
would not buy
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experience, en
joyed it whiie the novelty lasted, and
has grown tired of itJ Theday of the
OLKVELA'XI) IS
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office-seeker ' mt the White Hous?, so
iar as Mr. i.ieveunu is concerned, has
passed.
WThile President Cleveland's order
barring office-seekers from his presence
henceforth, unless specially invited,
has aroused the ire of that class, it is
not confined to such persons. Senators
and Representatives themselves say
that if he had promptly olieyed the in
junction of the American people to
turn the Republicans out Mr. Cleve
land would have been spareo much of
the annoyance of which he so com
plamingly speaks.
However Mr. Cleveland may feel
about it, there is no doubt that Secre
tary Carlisle and Secretary Hoke
Smith are sound on the question, and
firm in the faith of putting Democrats
in office.
Secretary Carlisle, afraid of his own
well-known tender heart, but strong
in the conviction that his party ad her
ents should have every office that can
legally be turned over to them, has put
his clever and resourceful son Logan
forward to attend to the distribution
of the patronage, and Logan is doing
it -to the Queen's taste." while the
father looks approvingly on with his
beaming Democratic eye.
In fact, it wasieported around the
Treasury Department today that Sec
retary Carlisle, when some of the
chiefs of division whose resignation
had been called for complained of the
short notice, said: -'You received
notice on the 8th of last November in
tones loud enough for all to have
heard."
And the woik goes on with spirit.
Treasury chiefs of division and high
grade clerks who have served in that
department for many years are being
swept out to make room for Demo
crats, while men who were retained
on the score of unusual efficiency by
Secretaries Manning and Fairchild
are not considered now.
And so far as the Civil Service law
will rnn it. Secretary 1 loke Smith, of
the Interior Department, has got his
ax sharpened to a keen edge.and seems
leased at the smoothness with which
it removes Republican heads. !-
To a prominent Democrat who
called to ask the retention of a Repub
lican friend, Secietary Smith said:
'I'm surprised that you should plead
for the retention of a Republican.
Now, that's not the way to assist me
in getting rid kof them. I believe
there are Democrats capable of filling
every position in this depart ment.aucr-
I want to get these Democrats in.
That's my policy, and I look to Demo
crats like you to aid and sustain me in
carrying it out.
George Bartle, of Virginia, who has
kept the great seal of the State De
partment since Daniel Webster's day,
has not been reduced from his $1800
snap to a $1200 clerkship as errone
ously published.
Civil Service Reformers are greatly
stirred up by the removal from the
Treasury Department of George Stur-
tevant, who never voted in Ins life and
was born in office almost.
Third Auditor of the Treasury Hart,
of Ohio, tired of waiting for his sue
cessor to be named, is going to quit
anyhow and give the President a hint.
Benjamin Fleishman, of Philadel
phia, to day filed at the Treasury an
application for a position as Special
Treasury Agent.
It appears that all captains of the
watch in the various departments were
put under the classified service by Mr.
Harrison just before his term expired.
When Secretary Morton, last week,
appointed a captain ot the watch to
succeed the man discharged at the
Weather Bureau on account of his ap
propriation of public property, Mr.
Morton was informed that he had no
authority to make the appointment,
the Civil Service Commissioners noti
fying him that the order of the Presi
dent came too late to be inserted in
the last annual report and rules of the
Commission
BOUGHT OFF THE LEADERS
Madrid, May 7. It is reported that
the collapse of the revolt in Cuba is
due to the Government's buying off
the leaders. This method was adopted
during the last revolt because it is
cheaper than fighting.
The Government tound it impossible
to bring about a decisive battle with
the gueiriila bands. The rebels hid
in the forests and murdered all soldiers
straying from the army, which was
decimated, moreover, by malaria and
typhoid iever. The Sartoiius brothers
are land owners in the village of Ye
lasco. They weie easily bought, owing
to the coldness of the population to
ward them.
STATE NKWS.
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HESTIfi UCTI VK C YCXON E AT
OXFOHIVX. C.
Accident mnd Fire l Gaatonl. AmIm- .
uirat r Haliri. Receiver f Clin
ton Loan AaeocUtlon Paying I' p.
Lrr Truck Shipment.
The Winston Sentinel says that the
outlook U very encouiaging for the
Hotel Zmzendorf recently destroyed
by fire.
j A cyclone 6truck Oxford on Wed
nesday afternoon, destroying about
fifteen buildings and damaging other
property. Other towns suffered in
like proportion ...
Mr. W. A. Dunn began on Tuesday
the payment of the first dividend that
has been declared by the suspended
Clinton Loan Association. Holders
of certificates are receiving 33$ per
cent, on their deposits, and Mr Dunn
is; kept busy in paying out to each his
quota. Sampson l)cmocmt. "
Fiiday the steamer Newberne of
the N. N. & W. Line took out alout
2,500 packages of truck principally
peas. The Sir. Neuse of the E. C. D.
Line took out 4,600 packages of peas
and G0U crates of asparagus, turnips
and cabbages. The total shipment
for the day was about 8,000 packages.
Not a bad shipment for April! New
Berne Journal ' .
While Mr. J. M. McCall, a guard,
was out with a detachment of convicts,
last Saturday, three of them, Brown
VVallace. Will J, Robinson and Joe
Bogaiu broke and ran into the bushes.
Mr. McCall unloaded his shot jjun at
them. Joe Bogan escaped, but Wal
lace and Robinson fell to the ground
after running about half a mile. Both
of jthem were seriously wounded, hut
not fatally. Charlotte 7iW.
i . ...
jTwo little colored boys, Otho Tur
ner ami Arthur Hauser, got2 into a1
difficulty in the vicinity of the colored
i
graded school buiding last Friday, in
which the Turner boy cut Flauser
with a knife, making a gash six inches '
n ilength on the right side of his breast
and extending through the ribs. The
wound is serious but not dangerous.
The boy was bound over to court.
Statesville landmark.
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Joe Carson, aged about thirteen
years, son of Mr. J. H. ('arson, who
ives about a mile north of Pilot
Mountain, was accidently shot by ids
brother Bob on Tuesday morning of
ast week. They were fooling with a
32 calibre pistol when it was suddenly
discharged, the ball striking Joe in
the breast, about two inches below the
heart. He is dangerously but not
necessarily fatally hurt. Mt. Airy
News.
Mr. J. S. Spencer yesterday morn-
ing received a telegram from Mr. S.
B. Tanner, of Henrietta Mills, stating
that fire broke out in the lower end of
the warehouse Wednesday night, and
a part of the building and COO bales
of cotton were consumed. The origin
of the firo is not known, but it was
supposed to have occurred from com
bustion. The loss is fully covered by
insurance. Charlotte Observer.
Mr. T. T. Gaskins, the largest lum
ber-mill owner in this county made
an assignment last week, with Captain
J. M. Grizzard, of Halifax, assignee.
Mr. Gaskins mills are located on the
Coast Line, near Halifax, and gave
employment to a large number of
hands. He carried on an extensive
saw mill business and owned about
twenty miles of railroad over which
he handled his logs to the mill to
be converted into lumber. Weldon
Sews.
Mr. Robt. Queen was accidentally
shot in the breast and face last Thurs
day. He was out squirrel hunting
with his two sons and Lee Friday, Jr.,
when a gun in the bands of his son
Edmund Queen was discharged with
the above mentioned result- One shot
struck Mr. Queen in the eye. inflicting
a j painful wound. Drs. Smith and
Reid were summoned but on making
examination did not think the injuries
were serious. At last accounts he was
doing well. Last Sunday night,
Mr. John N. Hanua's barn was totally
destroyed by fire. His cows, three
horse', corn and roughness were
burned with it. Only a wagon and
harness were caved. The loss without
insurance of any kind, falls heavily on
Mr. Hanna at this time of the year.
Aj subscription paper was started by a
neighbor, and friends in Gastonia and
elsewhere subscrileJ liberally for his
assistance. The Cre is thought to have
been of incendiary origin. Gastonia
Gazette.