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. - i ' " ! 1 DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK COUNTY. ESTABLISHED 1890. SOUTHPORT. N. C. THUESDAY, APRIL 19. 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 217, 5 I er n. tOt It. w THE WORLD'S. NEWS. A CONDENSED SUJIMAttY OF A WEEK'S DOINGS Southern Floar- for Europe. Lars e Fire at Buffklo. Verdict In tbe Pollard Breckinridge Case. Prominent Con federate Dead. ; WKpNKSDAY. APRIL 11. , The Ferris -wheel will soon be erected at New York. , An entire block lias been se cured for that purpose. Keeling & Corbin.dealers in leaf tobacco at Danrille, Va., failed yesterday. Liabi lities 17,000; assets $10,000. ' The caucus , of Democratic Rcpresenta-5 lives which gathered at Washington lastj night adopted resolutions to carry out the! party's pledge to repeal the tax on State: banks. .A train of twenty three cars, loaded with flour, left Chattanooga yesterday for ship ment from Port Royal, 8. C, to Liverpool, Eng.. The amount is 5,850 barrels and is the first shipment of flour to Europe from! a nort south of Norfolk. FOREIGN. Queen Victoria will formally open Man Chester ship canal on May 21. An accidental explosion of dynamite ati Doemitz, Germany, killed eight workmen yesterday. .THURSDAY. APRIL 13. Miss Helen E. Dodge, one of the corapi lers of the Century Dictionary, died yes terday at Bloomficld, N. J., aged 70. Coxey's army, after marching twelve . miles yesterday over the mountains and through snow, encamped last night at Chalk. Hill, Fa. The Congressional committee investiga ting Judge Jenkins abruptly closed its in quiry yesterday at Milwaukee because wit nesses failed to appear. Yesterday's storm along the North At lantic coast was the worst storm of thq season- The wind blew with terrific force at New York and there was a heavy fall of snow. Great damage was done to pro perty on the New Jersey coast. . FOREIGN, Twenty -eicht merchant liners are on the naval reserve list of the British Admiralty, against 9 hist year.. The steamer Apollo, from New York February 11, for Antwerp, has been offl cially posted at Lloyd's as missing. VANCE IS DEAD. -:o:- the United States during the past week. A proposed Massachusetts law makes the keeping of bucket shops a criminal offense Judge Goff, sitting in the U. S. Circuity Court at Richmond, Va., yesterday, entered a decree for the foreclosure and sala of the Richmond & Danville railroad. A J If. Douglas, a former customs in spector at San Francisco, has been convic ted of opium smuggling and sentenced to' one year in jail and to pay a fine of onea thousand dollars. H Rriff-adW Rpnprnl .T 11 TvptcIiaw wlina " 2 v-li t a- x v u n i: served in the Mexican war. also with tbeS'jeuuiou ' "uriu aiullua' Confederates in the late war.diedyesterdayRdied at his residence, 1627 Massacbu- NOItTH CAROLINA LOSES VALUED STATESMAN. Sketch of Hi Life and Services. . Senator Ransom's Touching Remarks. Raleigu in Mourning. Immense Crowd. Interred at Asheville. Washington, April 14. Senator at his home in Camden, ! S. C. after a; lingering illness, aged 72. ; FOBEIOX. Director Manclair, and an employe or the United States Bank in Paris, named Nicholson, have been arrested on charges of fraud made by some of the depositors.' The affair has caused a great sensation in the American colony. setts avenue, at 10:45 o clock to night. The Senator had not been in good health for the past year and early and for part, of the session of Congress was compelled to abandon his sena torial ! duties anL, take . a trip to Florida in. the hope of recuperating. His trip proved beneGcial and on his Sunday, april is. Hreturn to Washington he was able tor The Associated Banks of New York nowHa while to partially resume his official hold $80,831 .000 in excess of the requirejfdutieB. menu ot tnc 2a per ceni. rule Hig improvement, however, did not K , David Dudley Field, one of the mostcontinue long and for. the jast few weeks he has been confined to his house. He was practically an invalid, prominent men in the country, died sud denly at New York, on Friday, aged 89 years The West End Land Company, owning suburban property valued at $400,000 near. Nashville. Tenn,. has made an assignment The famous' Pollard-Breckenridge case was brought to an end yesterday. The! jury, after being out about one and one- half hours, brought in a verdict for $15, 000 for the plaintiff. The case will be appealed. FOREIGN. The Egyptian Cabinet, unable to agree with the Khedive, has resigned. - Leading Jews of London propose to ex elude from the synagogues all the Hebrews guilty of usury The insurgent admiral, Mello, with 150w tropps,have surrendered to the government bf IJraguay, and the rebellion In Brazil is practically at an end. FRIDAY. APRIL 13. Itev. Thomas Bvrne, of Cincinnati, O., has been appointed bishop of Nashville, Tenn. Two more bodies have been recoveied from the ruins of the Memphis tenement house which collapsed on Sunday, mak ing seven in all. One thousand employes will resume work at once as the result of the settlement of the troubles that have affected the tailor ing trade of St. Louis. Mo., for the past two months. . The American Glucose Works, the lar gest of its kind in the country was de stroyed by fire at Buffalo yesterday. The public fish market and other buildings' were also burned. Loss over a million dollars. FOREIGN. Two notorious anarchists having a loaded bomb in their possession were arrested yes terday in Rome. : David Wiener & Sons, merchants, at Vienna, have failed.with liabilities amount ing to about $2,500,000. SATURDAY. APRIL 14. It. G. Dun & Co , report 218 failures i MONDAY. APRIL 16 Congressman W. L Wilson left San Antonio. Texas, yesterday for Austin, to visit Governor Hog. He will leave for Washington in a few days The steamer Briscoe, which, left Ham burg on December 6 arrived at New York yesterday having been twice in distress on account of tempestuous weather. A New York dispatch says that the Direct Cable Company announces that pri vate cable correspondence has been restored with Brazil, Sao Paulo, and Rio Grande do Sul, and between Brazil and Argentine. Rev. Spruille E. Burford, nastor of the Episcopal Church of the Intercession, ad New York, died yesterday mornine, aged 55. Dr. Burford, at the breaking out of the late war, became adjutant general of! the Louisiana forces and served with great' credit throughout the war. FOREIGN. A Berlin cable says that Rubenstein. the composer and pianist, will soon retire from public life and will pass the rest of his days on his estate in Russia. ! but has lately been able to receive a few intimate friends and superintend the looking after of the interests of his constituents. During the past week he has been reported as doing as well as could be expected and the serious change for the worse to day was wholly unex pected. Shortly before 1 1 o'clock to day he had an attack of apoplexy and be came unconscious, regaining consci- ousness only a few minutes before his death. ' . " TUESDAY. APRIL 17 The N. K. Fairbank Co.. of Chicago. tiled a suit for damages at. Macon, Ga., against W. L Henry for infringing theirl trade mark on "cottolene." The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 4,000,001 bales, of which 3.360, 801 bales are American; against; 3,896,34 bales, and 3.369.147 bales respectively last year.. Receipts of cotton this week at all interior towns 83,819 bales; receipts from the plantations 36,698 bales; crop in sight 6,904.205 bales. The ancestors of Zebulon Baird Vance, as far back as the family records can be traced, were sturdy Irishmen in County Tyrone. It is written in the family history that Andrew Jackson, of Mahrafelt mar ried a daughter of John Vance, and emigrated to America where a son, Andrew, vas born, wlu afterward be came President of the United States David Vance, grandfather of Zebu Ion B. Vance, was wounded at the bat tle of King's Mountain, where the British leader Ferguson, was killed His son, David, was the father of the lamented subject of this sketch. David Vance, who lived in Buncombe county. married Margaret Myra Baird, the daughter of Zebulon Baird, a trusted and honored citizen of Buncombe, and member of the State Legislature, and the issue of the marriage were two sons, Robert Brank Vance, Jr., named for his illustrious uncle, who was killed in a duel by Samuel P. Carson, as the result of a quarrel between the two men, brought on by the successful election to Congress of Carson over Vance: the other son of Zebulon Baird Vance. Zebuion B. Vance was born in Buncombe county, North Carolina, May 13, 1830; waseduca.ed m Wash ington College, Tennessee, and at the University of North Carolina; studied law, was admitted to the bar in Jan uary, 1853, and, was elected county attorney for Buncombe county, the same year: was a member oi the State House of Commong in 1 854 ; was a representative from North Carolina n the Thirty fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses; entered the Confederate army as captain in May, 1861, and was made colonel in August, 1861; was elected Governor of North Caro. lina in August, 1862; and re elected August, 1864; was elected to he United State Senate in November, 1870, but was refused admission, and resigned in January, 1872; was the Democratic nominee for ther United States Senate in 1872; but was de feated by a combination of bolting Democrats and Republicans; was elec ted Governor of North Carolina for the third time in 187C; was elected to the United States Sonata as a Democrat in place of A. S. Merrimon, Democrat; took his seat on March 18, 1879; and was re-elected in 1884 and 1890. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1897. Washington, April 15th. Senator Ransom, the dead Senator's colleague addressed the Senate as follows: 'A great man has fallen in our midst," he said. "A great patriot, a great statesman, a great speaker, a great thinker, a great actor lias passed away from our sight for this life. He died at his post of duty, with his complete armor on, with his face to the front, courageous, :hopeful, useful to the last. Sufferings did not break down his proud tepirit, dim his "noble intellect, nor shake his fearless forti tude. Full of years, but still in the strength of his eminent faculties. crowned with exalted honors, but still animated with yet higher aspira tions and promise of doing good, physically wrecked ana overcome with incurable malady, he stood firmly in the line of his comrades and at the last moment serenely gathered his robes around him and stepped with the dignity of a Senator and the faith of a Christian from earth into heaven It looks as if by some prophetic in tuition' ho had returned from the spring flowers and genial skies of Florida to lay down his sword and shield on the very altar of his country. . "If he had faults," he continued, "they were bold, brave, open faults, and are forever eclipsed and forgotten in the fulfillment of a great and glori ous life, and in the magnanimity of a noble nature. u At the hour of 9 to night the committees of the two Houses of Congress, the entire delegation of the State of North Carolina, and the special committee from the State, with the sad family and friends, will leave the capital of the Star Spangled republic and bear the remains of Gov Vance through the sister State of Virginia to the beautiful capital of North Carolina, and thence to take them to his burying ground on the mountajji side, overlooking the blue torrents of the French River, and m sight of lovely Asheville, and there leave them in the shade or the ever green, and in the mirror and melody of flowing waters, to sleep with his patriotic fathers. And as the clouds at evening hanging upon the. bosom and eternity towers of Black Moun CONTINUED ON FOCBTH PAGE .WASHINGTON -:o:- OJTK MORE WEEK OF SPEECHES. SET The Breektnridre-PUart Trial. Senator reffer'a Position on tbe Tariff Mill. KequeaU for Cople of HUT Tariff Speech. Democratic Caaeu. Washington, April 16. One more week of set speeches on the tariff bill, and then the actual fighting will begin with tbe taking up of the schedules of the bill for consideration. It is not possible to even make an intelli gent guess at how long he Senate will take to go through the bill, as every schedule in.it will be bitterly attacked by the republicans and many of them by democratic Senators. Senator Smith, of New Jersey, made it plain in his speech today that he stands very nearly, if not quite, upon the same tariff platform as Senator Hill. However, it is by no means certain that either one of them, or of the other democratic Senators who are known to be opposed to portions of the bill, will in the end vote against it Many believe that it is the amend ment of the bill, not its defeat, that they are working for, and that whether they succeed or jnot they will on the final vote support the bill whatever its condition may then be. Several prominent republican Senators have privately expressed that opinion. Representative Breckinridge's at tempt to get vindication from a Wash ington jury was an ignominious failure. The jury rendered a verdict in Miss Pollard's favor, awarding her $15,000 for damages. It is generally believed here that the verdict is all she will get, as it is understood that Col. Breckinridge has no property that she can get at. The people of W ashing- ton have not taken sides with Miss Pollard in this case, although the sen timent against Col. Breckinridge has been intense and the verdict is gener ally endorsed. Col.' Breckinridge says he has been treated unfairly by the public, and reiterates his determi nation to make a fight to be returned to Congress, and, it is said, instead of taking his seat in the House, will in a few days go to Kentucky and begin a personal canvass of his district, seek ing vindication from His constituents. Senator Peffer's position on the tariff bill is thus, in a nut shell, sum med up by himself: "I am opposed to the bill now before us, because it dis criminates against the people I repre sent; because it removes the duty from the farmer's wool while retaining it on the manufacturer's cloth, and be cause, while I favor the income tax as a good step in the right direction, this bill does not go far enough. The bill, taken as a whole, I do not re gard as any improvement on the law now in force, and as to wool and sugar it is much worse." And Mr. Peffer .very truly and significantly added: 'How many votes will be cast when the bill is put upon its pas page will depend on what changes aie made in the meantime." Senator Hill's tariff speech easily double discounts any speech yet madej on the subject,' so far as circulation is concerned. Requests are being re ceived from all sections for copies of the speech and it is being sent out by thousands. Whether this demand is 1 i caused by curiosity or by endorsement of the sentiment uttered bv Senator nil! is more than any one in Wash ington can truthfully ' undertake to say, but that it is pleasing to Senator Hill and displeasing to tne adminis tration democrats is evident. Senator Mills has been it is reported selected to make a specific reply to Hill's speech. If it is made it will probably be verybitter as there has been bad blood oetweeh the two men ever since Hill denounced Mills in the i demo. cratic caucus at which the revision of the tariff bill was ordered. ! 1 The decision of the democratic i i caucus to count a Quorum in the House was not a surprise to close ob servers of things in that body, not withstanding repeated assertions of prominent Democrats, including Speaker Crisp, that they would never do such a thine Everything had tended that way since the regular ses sion began. Ex-Speaker Reed and the Republicans have made no secret of their desire to force the counting o the quorum if possible, and the nam ber of Democrats who openly j advo cated such a 6tep has constantly in creased as the necessity became more urgent, and the j virtual tie-up whicl has been on for more than three weeks, with the exception of two orl three hours, was the last straw Something had to be done or else the majority must confess to the country its inability to carry on the public business. That something was the action of the caucus authorizing the committee on Kules to prepare ai i rule for the counting of a quorum and to compel the attendance of mem bers. The Democrats are, of course, taunted bv their opponents I who .i charge them with having surrendered It is the general opinion, however, that the Democrats have done the best thing they could under the cir curastances. They cannot be taunted any more than they have been for their inability to do business because rof their failure to keep a quorum o lithfiir own. Now' as an offset to the Ia - , . , taunts they at least have the satis faction of being able to do business without first obtaining the consent of the minority. J ; Official ficures received at i the Treasury Department this afternoon from the New York and Boston sub- Treasuries show the Government lost about Si2.000.000 in the export. ofJ gold on Saturday, leaving the gold. in the Treasury at the close of busi-l ness to-day $103,95C.000, or nearlyi $4,000,000 above the reserve. Official figures obtained at tbe Treas STUAWIIEIIIUESA11E BEING SHIPPED FItOM XEWUERN. STATE NEWS. :o:- ury to-day show that for the nine months and a half of the presenU fiscal year the expenditures have ex ceeded the receipts by $63,000,000, that the working currency balance of the Treasury is $22,000,000. Lumber aad Dry Kila lluraed Near mat- ton. A Peculiar AeeldeaU Old Cla Counterfeiter Jailed. Proeperowa Hosiery Tara Mill. A large number of Chath'amiUs attended Federal court at Greensboro' ast week. Blockade whiskey was the cause of their attendance. Chatham ! : Record. ' The capacity of the Raleigh hosiery ' yarn mills, which now have 8,000 spin dles, is to be doubled - -Mr. James Boy l4na, of v Ralegh, hat a colt for which he offered $1,350 when it was a a V was only two days oio. ruieigu North Carolinian. iv- Ij. Morgan and J. F. Pruner were brought from Asheville tor trial at Federal Couit in Greensboro this. week. Their case for counterfeiting was duly disposed of yesterday both were sentenced to five years in the Albany penitentiary. Union Repub lican. The dry kiln and about 30,000. feet of lumber, belonging to Mr. A. McF. Cameron, in Neck township, were burned Monday evening about 7 o'clock. The saw mill caught fire but was put out before any damage was done. The fire started in the dry kiln, which was too hot. No insur ance. Kmston Free Press. Miss Ida Moblin had her shoulder dislocated last week in a singular manner. At a quilting, wben the quilt was finished, some one of the party attempted to spread it over her "as the first to marry." She threw np her hands to prevent being covered, but in the scuffle her shoulder was dislocated. Kings Mountain Pro- gress. Mr. Robert Whitley has two pieces of cooper money made in 1803. It ia n good condition. One pieco is a cent and is marked one one hundredth; the other is a half cent and is marked one two hundredth Ho found this money while tearing down the old house in which Mr. Josiah Strickland ivedj many years ago. Smithfield Herald. Small shipments of strawberries bave;been going off for several days from I the farms of Messrs. W. r. Crocket and Fred L. Bray. Mr. Bray's strawberries for some cause came out of the cold in better shape than those on any other farm around New Berne The average loss is about two-thirds of the! crop while he will lose only about' one-fourth. Newberne Jour nal. I MrJ Geo. F. Bason, who has roturned from i a .trip through Forsyth and Guilford, the fruit district of the State,! says that one can scarcely esti mate the amount of damage done by the late freeze. In many instances, the limbs of trees were killed. The nurseymen have tried tosaye tbe trees by sawing off tbe limbs, but most of the trees are injured beyond remedy. Charlotte News. 11 cr , I OCKSGGC II ! V IvJ FREE A $20 Brass ami Onyx Lamp, silk Shade given away when you have purchased one hundred dollars worth. Get a card and have it punched when you make a purchase. i Imported Wash Fab rics. Printed Dimities sold elsewhere at 15c our price 10c '- Fine Batiste printed Dimities 18c j Printed Hopsackings worth 15c for 11c per yard j French Organdies worth 2-c this week at 124c French Percales .widest made, fast colors worth 18c sale price Vlic . Frf rich Percales new patterns only 10c Foreign Ginghams only 15c fast colors. worth Ci.)C Best grade of Imported Ginghams 30c HH - j .-- . ! m v. J. vV 7. J. A iV i A Jf i iV A vV A' .i i A W 1 Handkerchiefs. 1.000 dozen all VHnen handsomely embroidered Handkerchiefs worth 25c. sale price 12 Jc. ! Gents plain white Hemstitched Hand kerchiefs 12ic. Gloves. 1 000 pairs just opened. Tan, Black and White Glace Kids at 89c per pair. White Chamois Kids.large pearl buttons, edged with colors, price $1 worth $ 1.50 Solid colored Glace Kids, large buttons, only $1.00 .y - ; Corsets. A $1.50 Corset this week for $1 . 65c Corsets this week 45c W. B. Corset at $1.75, 6 hook, length. pcneci nt, perfect wear. & Mr 0 OUR ASSORTMENT FOR THIS SPRING ! IS WITHOUT U DOUBT THE LARGEST AND FINEST EVER BEFORE SHOWN. UR PRICES ARE POSITIVELY THE LOWEST. WE HAVE MANY UNQUESTIONABLE BARGAINS FOR THIS WEEK AND ADVERTISE NOTHING BUT WHAT WE KNOW TO BE ABSOLUTE FACTS. ORIGINATORS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF rDV nnnnQ ll(i MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON. N. (V ATZ k POLMT It He FUEK-An Oak Table, Book Q Cage or MukIc Ilack made of Q quarter oak elven away when Q you have made $23.00 In cah Q purchase. 55 Braid and Trimmings. New Crochet bilk Trimming. 20c per yard worth 30c. IJands of Silk and Mohair 1m$c worth 25 Narrow Jet GimpSt 25c Design 1-Mc 30c Design 15: 45c Iesien 25c Laces, Torchons. Special He worth 12c 11c worth 17c 15c worth 25c Narrow Val Lace 25c per dozen jards. Tfeautiful assortment' of Point de Gene Effects at 10c, 15c, 18c. 25c, ,35c and 50c per yard. Fridly is Katz & Polvofft's Bargain Day. but those Southport people who cannot get up to Wilmington before Saturday j oods at Friday's Prices. T OOK OUT FOR A CHANGE OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT. tcan get 14 Hosiery 4)c Ijwlite' Fast Ulack How?. 25 cents. 50c Black lIoHe37c. IJalbrism Hose at 2- worth 40c." Gents' Half Hose worth 25c. onlf 15c. or $1.50 ier dozen. Black colors and Bal- briffgan. The balance of tle damage atuffi pur chased from F. Itheinatein & Co., and Morris Bear & Bro., resulting from tbe re cent storm j which we were obliged to pack away during our Spring Opening, will be sold at what we paid for it. I .
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