DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK COUNTY.
ESTABLISHED 1890.
SOUTHPORT. N. C. THURSDAY, JUKE 21. 1894.
WHOLE NUMBER 226
IKE WORLD'S NEWS.
A 'CONDENSED SUMMARY OF
A WEEK'S DOINGS
Sultan of Morocco Itead. Hig- Fire at
Krt Wlman Fouxl Cwiltjr
fctock Yard at Jcney Clt Barned
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WEDNESDAY. JUNK 13.
Baltimore, Md., was swept yesterday,
by a severe wind and hail storm, a number
of persons were injured in wrecked build
ings. '. :
Columbia. S; C-J has decided to issue
licenses for the sale of beer and wine, the
statutes prohibiting the sale of whiskey
and brandy.
Miners in PennsylvaniaOhio and In
diana have retJutiai'i the uxn promise
their leaders at Columbus, Ohio effected
and will not return to work. .
Five hundred Coxeyites at Bismark. N.
I)., are causing trouble in their efforts to
get East, all trains are run through the
city at full speed to prevent their being
boarded by the army
FOREIGN.
The death of Muley Hassan Sultan of
Morocco, threatens the peace of Europe,
three nations have sent war ships to Tan
gier.
The towns of Granada and Almeria,
Spain, were shaken byin earthquake yes
terday. Many houses were destroyed and
several persons killed
THURSDAY. JUNE 14.
' A parlor car was unearthed yesterday
at Johnstown, Pa., having been buried by
the flood of 1889. ' 5
The Union Stock Yards at Bennings,
Washington, D. C, were destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss $125,000
The estimated loss to coal miners in one
section of Ohio, alone, since April 21,
from the strike is $21 6.000
Charges of embezzlement of $5,000
caused the arrest of E. II. Greve ex-clerk
of the Fourth National Bank of St. Louis.
Granting a writ of error in the Indiana
polis bank wrecking case,1 Justice Harlan,
at Chicago, ordered the release under
bonds of F, A and Percival Coffin
FOREIGN,
A band of counterfeiters, just arrested
in Hamburg, Ger., had baffled discovery
for five years
At Panama yesterday a fire broke out
destroying 300 houses with estimated loss
of $3,000,000; 5,000 people were rendered
homeless by the fire.
FRIDAY. JUNE 15.
A fierce 'fire in the "paper district" in
New York yesterday, caused a loss of
$200,000
Judge William Walter Phelps is lying
at the point of death at his home in Engle
wood. N. J.
Confession of pension fraunds, which
netted $18,000 is made by J. M, Taylor, of
Tahiequab. I. T.
Reports received at Washington y ester
day, state that the Corean rebellion had
ended, due to the arrival of Admiral Sker
rett on the cruiser Baltimore.
An examination of the Schenectady, N.
Y., Savings Bank revealed a shortage of
$10,000, Teller August Henke, after being
questioned disappeared and his body was
found the next day ia the aqueduct
FOREIGN.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, died in
London yeslerday, after a lingering illness
aged 73
A sailing vessel carrying 110 Irish labor
ers was capsized yesterday in Clew Bay on
OUR COMPETITORS FIND THEIR WATERLOO.
OBEAT REDUCTIONS ON A
$40,000 STOCK OF DRY GOODS
The beauties of which attract the buyers from far and near.
We have just opened a car load of merchandise purchased by our
buyer of a bankrupt dry goods dealer at fifty cents on the dollar.
km i hmi
NO. 116 MARKET STREET.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
the west coast of Ireland,
only
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saved
SATURDAY. JUNE 16.
K. G. Dun & Co's weekly review of trade
says that there were 232 failures in the
United States during the past week .against
313, last year.
The soft coal strike in Pennsylvania
which tied up 50,000 men is over and the
strikers in Ohio are expected to agree also.
After a twenty days chase, H. II. Wil-
kie, who absconded from El wood, Ind.,
with $50,000 was caught at Columbus,
Miss. I
The trial of Erastus Wiman, in New
York, for forgery in the second degree
ended yesterday in a verdict of guilty ac
companied by a recommendation for mercy
A party of 14 children in a flat boat were
upset in the Kentucky river near Waco,
Ky., yesterday. Jack Sewell working near
by, by herioc" efforts saved all hut one
Child. ! . .
FOREIGN.
The plague in Hong Kong is said to have
all the symptoms of the pest which ravaged
Europe in the Middle Ages; 1 .900 people
have died of it already.
SUNDAY. JUNE 17.
The school census just finished in Chi
cago gives a population of 1,562,796 souls.
The Associated Banks of New York now
hold $76,376,575 in excess of the require
ments of the 25 per cent, rule
The fourmile eight-oared shell race be
tween Cornell and Pennsylvania on the
Delaware river yesterday was won by Cor
nell by 5 lengths in 21 minutes 12J seconds
The Central Stock Yards and Transit
Company's big abattoir in Jersey City.N. J.
caught fire yesterday morning and the
building and its contents were destroyed.
The loss will be $1,500,000 which is be
lieved ;to be covered by insurance.
The total visible supply of cotton for the
world is 3,113,000 bales, of which 2.512,
900 bales are American; against 3,183,573
bales, and 2.582,273 bales respectively last
year, j Receipts of cotton this week at all
interior towns 9,738 bales; receipts from
the plantations 6,664, bales; crop in sight
7,232.338 bales.
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I FOREIGN. :
The; Greet bark Agitos and the Russian
steamer Marussia collided and sank in the
Sea of Azor recently, twenty-four seamen
were drowned. i
MONDAY. JUNE 18.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dilly, of Excelsior,
Wis., have been arrested for counterfeiting
Three men were killed and two seriously
injured by a bolt of lightning at Menomi
nee, Mich., yesterday-
The coal strikers in Ohio have practi
cally agreed to the compromise scale of
wages and are expected to resume work
to-day
Henry Ferguson and son, who were
driving in a wagon near Greenville, 111.
yesterday were caught up by a cyclone and
carried half a mile,they were both injured
The1 works of the Chattanooga powder
company at Chattanooga, Tenn were scat
tered for a quarter of a mile yesterday by
the explosion of 720 kegs of powder, the
report was heard twenty miles away.
FOREIGN.
China and Mexico have practically adop
ted a reciprocity treaty and a great exodus
of Chinese to the republic is likely.
I TUESDAY. JUNE 19.
One thousand men were thrown out of
work yesterday by the closing down of the
Mount Claire shops of the B. & O. R. R.
The organization of the Southern Rail
way Company, the successor of the Rich
mond & Danville railroad, was effected
yesterday and Sam'l Spencer was elected
president.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
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YOUNG RANSOM ASA SUGAR
SPECULATOR.
Suicide of au Ex-Rpreentative. Bonds
for liullding Road. A New National
Banking:, Coinage and Currency Sv
ItilU Quay Hand in Sugar.
Washington, June 18. Had the
Senate investigating committee
brought out the fact that Senator
Ransom's son had been speculating in
the stock of the sugar trust before the
testimony of the Havemeyers and
other sugar trust magnates was taken
it would have created a sensation;
but, after the statements of the sugar
kings concerning the method of
smoothing their legislative path by
making liberal contributions to both
of the old political parties and of their
coming to Washington to get the
trust taken care of in the sugar sche
dule ot the tariff bill, it could not
be expected that the bad taste not
to give it a worse name of young
Mr. Ransom in using a part of the
money he received from his 6 a day
sinecure, as clerk to his father's com
mittee in speculating in a stock the
value of which would be affected by
his father's vote would create a sen
sation. It was but the splash of a
minnow after the blowing of whales.
There is a general feeling of sympathy
for Senator Ransom, j
Senator Quay's cool confession of
speculating in sugar stock and his
Tweedly manner of saying in effect to
the Senate ".what are' you going to do
about it?" together with the Ransom
episode were about! the only inter
esting things brought out by the
committee's adoption of Senator Hill's
suggestion, to swear all of the Senators
although all of them, except two or
three absentees, have been asked a
series of eight questions covering any
possible connection or knowledge they
might have of speculation in sugar
stock. Among the absentees is Sena
tor Gorman, who has been on the sick
list ever since directly after the sugar
schedule of the tariff bill was reported
to the Senate. j
The suicide, Saturday morning at
his residence here of ex-Representative
Thomas M. Bayne, of Pa., was
about as unexpected' a thing as could
have happened. Since voluntarily
retiring from Congress Mr. Bayne
has lived here in handsome style,
devoting his time to special enjoyment
and study, and few ;men have made
more friends., or, as ex Speaker Reed
aptly put it, "deserved more." His
health had been bad for some time
and in a fit of despondency following
a hemorrhage of the lungs be shot
himself. !
The Coxey bill providing for the
building of roads by the issue of non
interest bearing bonds by the govern
ment has been introduced in both
branches of Congress in the Senate
by Mr. Pefler, of Kans., and in the
House by Mr. Geary, of Cal. and
Coxey and Carl Browne have been
granted hearings by the Senate com
mittee on Education! and Labor, but
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their arguments made so little impres
sion on the Senators that they now
speak of the Senate as the twelfth
juror does of the obstinate eleven.
The supply of food at the camp of the
Coxeyites is once more short very
short and appeals to the public for
contributions are being made. These
appeals bring in less and less each
time, and it requires no prophet to
predict that the time will soon come
when they will bring in nothing, and
the men wili bo compelled to scatter
in order to obtain sustenance. Even
those who are in sympathy with the
objects sought now say that nothing
can be gained by keeping several
hundred idle men camped in the
suburbs of Washington. If anything
can be accomplished anywhere it is in
the Congressional campaign and
elections, and not in Washington that
can be done. Galvin's men have
made a leisurely start on foot for the
Pacific Coast. - ,x
The sub committee of five selected
by the House committe on Banking
and Currency to prepare a bill pro
viding for a new National banking,
coinage and currency system, to be
reported early next week, are hard at
work on the bill. Jt is given out
that this bill is to be as nearly free
from partisan politics as it can pos
sibly be made. It seems that there is
a possibility that the bill reported will,
instead of providing for a new system,
merely provide for the formation of a
non partisan currency commission to
devote the rest ot this year, to an in
vestigation and the study of the
question and then report the result to
Congress. Representative Coombs, of
N. Y., introduced a bill providing for
such a commission sometime ago and
Treasury officials have been urging
the acceptance of the idea. The silver
men, while not objecting to the idea,
regard it as an attempt to head off
any silver legislation at the present
session of Congress
W ell, that everlasting and tire
some tariff bill has not yet been voted
upon in the Senate, and there is no
probability that it will be during the
present week. The wool schedule
has been already worked for nearly a
week and although an attempt is now
being made to force it to a vote there
is no certainty that it is going to
succeed. There is no indication that
the delay is going to be favorable
to the sugar trust. On the contrary;
the final adoption of the sugar sche
dule appears to be daily growing
more doubtful, as the sentiment of the
people in all sections of the country
becomes better known here. As a
straw showing the effect of this senti
ment it may be mentioned that a
proposition has been made by one of
the majority Senators to avoid the
humiliation of having the House
smash the whole schedule by modi
fying it before the bill leaves the
Senate. The free sugar sentiment is
apparently stronger than ever in the
House.
The official report of the trial of the
greatest plate that has ever stood the
ballistic specifications of the naval
ordnance department was made Fri
day. The armor accepted under this
trial is 600 tons, curved Harveyized
nickel steel one.
MOURNING GOODS
KATZ & P0LV0GT.
1 1( Market Street.
SPECIAL SALE
BLACK GOODS.
54 inch Ladies Cloth 69c, worth $1.00
40 inch double Chain Serf e 39c, worth
00 cents
46 inch double Chain Serge 59c, worth
89 cents.
Surah Finish $1.43, worth $1.75
40 inch ArmureJe Foi, 85c worth $1.25
' 46 inch Silk Finished Henrietta 79 cents
worth $1.25. 40 inch 69c. worth $1-
40 inch Surah Sere 49c worth 65c.
Prcstley's Silk Warp Henrietta $1.43,
worth $1.75
40 inch Batiste all wool Silk Finish, 49c,
worth 70c, 40 inch 59c, worth 75c, 42 inch
75c worth $1.
I 49 inch Wool Challie 59e, worth 75c
Xunsveiling Veilings at 50 per cent below
cost. This offer is limited to three days.
Cotton Mourninc Goods, plaid and
striped Black Organdies 10c, worth 15 to
20 cents.
French China Silk Finished Batiste 30c.
quality only 15c
French'Mull, 47 inches wide, worth 75c
only 39c per yard.
MORGANTON. N. C.
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THE GEM OF THE UPPER
CATAWBA VALLEY.
A City of Krflneiunt, Culture and 1 -limited
Hospitality. Historic Associa
tion. State Institution. Meetinc
of the X. C. Press Association. '
Tq the casual traveler passing over
the Western North Carolina railroad,
the call of "Morganton,"as that station
on the road is reached, would attract
no special attention unless the traveler
knew of what lay beyond the little
station building, in the charming
little city of Morganton. .
, Built on a range of wooded hills,
thirteen hundred feet above the sea
level, with its handsome residences
and beautiful grounds, Morganton
attracts at once, and as the place with
its many charming surroundings be
comes better known to the visitor,
the 'appellation "Gem of the Upper
Catawba Valley," seems most suitably
bestowed upon this city. ' ,i
Morganton has much in its history
of interest to North Carolinians,
being for a long time, so to speak,
the Capitol of Western North Caro
lina, the Supreme Court of the State
holding its' sessions there, thus gath
ering within its limits many persons
of refinement and culture, and estab
lishing business interests that made its
citizens prosperous. Looking across
the! beautiful Catawba, the visitor
sees the .Quaker Meadows, the home
of the McDowells, whose struggles
during Revolutionary times are still
of absorbing interest among history
lovers J . t
The same spirit of perseverance of
local pride, that distinguished the
people of Burke in years past, as well
the; charming hospitality and refined
manners, are to day notable charac
teristics of the citizens or Morgan
ton.
"Swearing allegiance Burke" isjno
idle and passing oath among those
who have its best interests at heart,
and it is this hearty cooperation of its
people, men and women, that has se
cured for Morganton the State Hos
pital for the Insane, and Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, and is likely to secure
more institutions in the future. ?;
The visitor to Morganton must
visit both of', these State Institutions
and see the(admirable system and care
with which North Carolina's unfor
tunates are treated.
The largest tannery in the South;: is
at Morganton, its bills tor bark alone
amounting ' to thirty-five thousand
dollars a year.
The Waldensan settlement, eight
miles from Morganton, a little com
munity just started, deserves the
attention of aH Christian people of the
State, and until these colonists can
become self-surporting, as they Boon
will j be, . every assistance ought to be
extended to them .
No town or city could have shown
such an interest in the arrival, and
given its guests such a reception as
was given the Editors of the State
Press last week at Morganton. From
BLAZERS, CAPES,
ETON SUITS
AT HALF PRICE.
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the time o f their arrival until thei
departure the editors were given a
perfect ovation, and many an editor
to day wonders what he had done to
ment'such an enjoyable time, and be
ille recipient
lity.
of such pefect hospita-
The first afternoon in Morganton
the Editors were taken in carriages
and shown the beautiful views around
the city, also a visit to the nearly
completed Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
where Pro. E. McK. Goodwin very
kmdly showed the new building to
many of the visitors.
Mayor Pearson on the night of the
same day threw open his handsome
home and gave the Press a very
pleasant reception, and later the young
men of the city gk.70 .a. full dress ball
in the public hall in honor of their
guests, the Editors.
The next night, the Chamber of
Commerce of Morganton gave one of
the finest banquets ever given the Press
ot the State which was admirably
presided over by Judge J. G. Bynum.
The menu was excellent, the music
good, and the toasts well responded
to. ;
On the last afternoon excursions
were given to Black Mountain and the
Waldensan settlement the Editors
having the choice of either trip.
The business sessions of the Press
were attended with good interest, a
number of excellent papers read and
matters of particular importance to
the editors transacted.
President Uurbank presided at all
the sessions, and a number of visitors
from among the Morganton people
took an active interest in the Asso
ciation's proceedings-
The following officers were elected
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for next vear.i
President V. C. Erwin.
First Vice President C. L. Stevens.
2nd Vice President W.F. Marshall
3rd Vice President V. C. Dowd.
Sec. and Treas. J. B. Shernll.
Orator John R. Webster.
Poet Andrew Joyner.
Historian E. J. Hale.
Executive Committee- W.C. Erwin,
president; J. B. Sherrill; secretary; S.
A. Ashe'J. A. Thomas, II. A. London,
E. E. Hilhard, Thad R. Manning.
Delegates to the National Editorial
Convention W. S. Herbert, J. T.
Britt, H. A. Latham, Rev. W. L.
Grissom, Alternates J. B. Sherrill,
H. T. Hernck, J C. Tipton, R. A.
Deal. j
Greensboro was selected as the next
place of meeting. . The following reso
lutions offered by Mr. W. F. Marshall
and enthusiastically adopted by the
Association, well express the feeling
of the Editors towards the people of
Morganton. j
'The twenty-second annual session
of the North Carolina Press Associa
tion having met in Morganton, the
New World's 'city of the violet crown,'
and having experienced on every hand
nothing butj the most courteous
hospitality and the most regal enter-
tain men t, be
Association,
"Resolved,
it, therefore, by this
That for the cordial
reception, the unrestrained hospitality
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I H ERMSD0RF FAST BLACK HOSE
For Men,
Women
and Children
MEN'S HALF HOSE.
25c Black This Week 1 5c.
35c Black This Week 25c.
50c Black This Week 3 for $1.
CHILDREN'S HOSE.
20 cents Fast Black 15 cents.
25 cents Fast Black 17 cents.
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40 cents Fast Black 25 cents.
LADIES'S VESTS.
20 cent Quality 10 cents.
25 cent Quality 15 cents.
40 cent Quality 23 cents
50 cent Quality 39 cents.
MEN'S FURNISHINGS.
Nobby Line of Men's Negligee Shirts
96 cents each. !
75 cent men's balbrigan Shirts and
Drawers 39 centsL
1.000 50 ind 75 Ties this week 18c.
HOUSE FURNISHING.
40c Knotted Fringe Towels 23c
25c Linen Towels 12c
75c Bleached Linen Damask 49c.
$4 and $5 Linen Lunch Sets, 1 Cloth and
1 dozen Napkins, for $2.&y.
Our Entire Stock ofJMattingDat NewaYork Cost.
STATE NEWS.
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A FINE SHOWING FOR THE
TRUCK FARMERS.
A Uood Crs Report Irons Cola as bus Co.
Some Tall Blackberry II u tars. A Long
Chase lor a Crane. A Chance Ahead
" For Shad In the Yadkin.
On all sides we hear that croos
have never been better at this season
of the year than at present, with the
exception of cotton. Whiteville
News.
The casting flew in every direction,
one piece tearing a big hole in the
foundry and another making a simu-
ar hole in CapUin Jl'jfehbop. M t.
; Airy News. 'H.r . vo-
On application toThe different trans
portation lines, and without going into
close calculation, reveals the fact that
about 25,000 barrels of potatoes had
been, shipped from this, port up to
Wednesday evening. Washington
Gazette.
The grape crop in the gardens and
vineyards will be short on account of
the freeze, but it is said that the crop
of wild grapes this year. waa never
excelled. These grapes make excellent
wine. Charlotte News.
The tallest blackberry bushes that
we ever saw were found, a few days
aE y some boys on ex-sheriff
Brewers farm, near here. There
were two growing up a tree, and one
measured 25 feet and the other 24
feet in length. Pittsboio Record.
A few days ago J. K. Spaugh tried
to oreak up an old iron retainer and
emy loyedjdynamite to do the breaking.
He used about a pound ot dynamite
and now all that is left to tell the
tale is a piece of casting about the
size of a flat iron and a big hole in the
ground.
One dry last week 316,000 young
shad were turned loose in the Yadkin
near the railroad bridge. As it is
shad nature return at spawning time to
the river in which it spent their
childhood days, so to speak, the pros
pect for fishing ought to, be greatly
improved when the small fry grow
up. Lexington Dispatch.
"No good!" is the universal answer
of farmers when questioned about the
wheat' crop. The harvest began the
first of last week earlier than usual
on account' of the condition of the
crop. The "bearded" wheat is re
ported much better than the 'smoth
head," and what there is of it will
make trom a half to two-thirds of a
crop. But unfortunately there is
much more "smooth-head" than
"bearded" wheat in this county.
Statesville Landmark.
A whooping crane, measuring C
feet from tip to tip, and standing 4 1
feet in heightb, was killed last week i
by a colored man at Belo's pond .
Jerry Respass is reported to have run
it down after it was shot The race
is said to have been a lively one and
lasted several hours. Jerry was out
on the water works property in search
of snails. He will have Maj. Young
to "momnt" the crane for him. -Winston
Sentinel.
LADIES' HOSE.
20 cents Fast Black 15 centsT
40 cents Fast Black 25 cents.
75 cents French Lisle AH cent.
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WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT
10c India Linens 8c. .
15c India Linens 10c.
20c India Linens 15c.
25c India Linens 18c.
15c Checked Nainsook 10c.
20c Checked Nainsook 18c.
'60c French Nainsook 39c.
12 yards of Long Cloth for $1.50
50c Pkiue 40c 40c Pique 25c
25c White Duck 15c 40c White Duck 20c
Lace Department- 1.000 yards of Point
Venesse Insertion in batter color, black and
white, worth 25 to 50c 13c per yard
Great Drives in Laces Our 18c assort
ment embraces lines worth 30 to 40c
Embroidery DeparUaent 75c and $1.00
Children's Shirt Flouncings at 48c
30c and 40c Swiss Edgings at 19 cents
per yard.
We ask a call from every Soutbporter.
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