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2 THE RALEIGH DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1897- MANY PEOPLE ON THE 60-A HAPPY MARRIAGE. The New Hanover Court In Session True Bills of importance by thcl6rand!Jury Cases of Interest. Special to The Tribune. Wilmington, X. C.f April 29. Mr. J. C. Caddell, representing the Biblical Recorder, was here last night. Mr. A. S. Hufham, a nephew of Mr. M. C, Benson, of this city, was fatally injured Tuesday while felling a tree at Heading Bluff, about twenty miles from herf. A portion of the tree fell upon Hufham. He died Tuesday night. Mr. J. C. Stewart and Miss Ida E. Thompson were married last night by Rev. A. D. McClure. Mr. Stewart is the engineer at the compress. : The contested will case of T. W. Strange, administrator, vs. Leo. Haid has been compromised. The suit was commenced in the Superior Court over a year ago. Mr. Bailey Farmer and Mfss Stella Burnett were married last nlght at the residence ot the brides uncle, Mr. Geo. D. Riley, corner Sixth and Church streets. Rev. A. D.. McClure officiated. Rapid progress is being made in clearing , the many cases off the crimi nal docket. His Honor, Judge Sutton, reserved his decision in the case of Xfl Sharpiess, colored, who shot "and killed Sam Register March 17th last. The charge against Sharpless is man slaughter. . ' A true bill of murder has been found against Simon Prince and .Henry Shephanl for taking the life of one Walt'-n, l'embleton, colored, a few weeks ago. Prince and Shepard, both negroes, are still at large. A true bill'" has been found against B-n Smith qnti Dan Parker, both col order, for the murder of Charles Jones, a white- sailor, early in the year. Par ker is at large but Smith is in custody. J). II. Sutton, 'Esq., and John Gore, Ks'., have ben appointed by the court to defend Smith, but the case has been eontmueil till the next term of court, which will probably be a special term iit June. . The case against Fred Howland for malicious destruction of property is set for hearing at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. This cave is the 'fire-bug" case, so-called. Our people were somewhat surprised yesterday to hear that the Supreme Court would adjourn Saturday next, and therefore would not be able to hear the mayoralty cases next week as proposed. The greater part of our people, regardless of politcal belief, arc .anxious to have the muddle straighten ed out and the . question of who's who definitely settled. Strenuous efforts are . to be made to prevent the cases from going over to the fall term of Supreme-Court. H. W. P. COL. MOSBY. A Recent Letter Explains HislReasons'for Supporting Grant. Atlanta Constitution. John S. Mosbv is not . expected to live. He. was to participate in the (Jiant memorial ceremonies, but' was thrown trum his mie-tr 88 J in a. i uiia a; them has been in last week and since a serious condition. The career of Mosby was one of the most daring and - picturesque in the Confederate lines. Few' men were 'more, interesting or conspicuous than he. As a raider-no one could equal him, and it-was a frequent occurrence for him . .. -.1 . L . ' ----- 7 ' W . V V, i A H rout before they realized what had happened. Mosby was a man who al ways did the unexpected. -lie began his career at college by shooting down a fellow student, for which he was tried and imprisoiil .While in prison he took up the studv ot law. Atterwarns ne was pardoned . And nllled himself vltli ' Vi the Confederacy, for. which he fought with the fury- of a tiger. He was lor a time under Joseph E. Johnston on the cavalry picket line, but he was too independent in nature to remain long there and soon organzed a band of men, who were the bravest of the brave. He was for a time a scout un der General Stuart," and guided that officer on a raid to the rear of Mlv Clellan on the Chickahominy. Mosby never feared tire. He was full of furi ous defiance and. was pappiest when rushing into the front of a-dangerous encounter. He haunted Hooker. In the wilderness he stuck to General Grant and harassed him to such an extent that it was necessary, for a large body of men to be sent to dislodge him. Mosby was promoted through all the v. ... l-, . . i, , . , - . i . : . v . . 3 : ! . . . i it. iixutvn iv iucii in oitiiuin fjciieiiti. lie was considered the most fearless, of all fire-eaters during the war. Thus came the great surprise when in 1ST2, Mosby during the Greeley-Grant ' campaign, announced his support of the Republicans. He had supported a re construction candidate before, but this time" he came rlatly out. Later on he supported Hayes and received the ap pointment to Hong Kong as Consul. For this he has been censured. Just on this line there has recently appeared in the Virginia papers a let ter from Mosby, which -will be of his toric interest in that he seeks to justify ms position, rie claims that he is vindicated because , of the curses heap ed upon Cleveland. The. letter was written to a friend in Staunton. Mosby says: "I did change politics chmged. my pontics because Politics, said Burke, circumstances. I had "is the science of sense enough to see the new. political conditions that had arisen in the South, and the courage to defy popular pas sions and prejudices. I did not, ac cording to the cant of the day, 'go with my people." Judas Iscariot did. If they had followed me I would have led them to victory. The world moves, and I had to move with it. My support of Grant was a no -wider departure from what I had been than General Robert K. Lee's when he asked Grant to endorse his petition for amnesty and pardon. -.General Lee simply changed in conformity with circumstances." The letter,, which is long, concludes as follows: "The people of Augusta remember when A. H. H. Stuart and John S. Baldwin were bitter foes of the Demo cratic party: they lived to see them become its leaders. They made as long a leap as I did; they didn't realize it, because nearly everybody went with them. A few lunatics criticised them. If my motives were sordid in support ing Grant I paid dearly for it. This ought to satisfy the Virginia peopie, especially as I shall never disturb them, again. It is true that six years after I announced my support of Grant Mr. Hayes appointed me -Consul Pt Hong Kong,' the only office I ever held. I have no idea now of. acting the part of Timon and spending my life in re proaching fortune, but those acquain ted with the facts will say that the emoluments of that position were a very inadequate compensation for those T lnct Kxr Viono-incr thA. rnJnrs nf ' Viics (my) nolitical coat. . "In a public letter in 1876, advocating the election of Hayes, I said: I know very well the measure of denunciation which the expression of these senti ments will receive from the people in whose cause I shed my blood and sacri ficed the prime of my life. Be it so. t wait on time for my vindication It has come. The curses that are ring ing on Cleveland are a vindication ot me. Virginia is no longer my home. If friendship for Grant be treason to her. she has at least the consolation of knowing that my name is not heard when the roll of the children she has honored is called. " 'And be the 'Spartan's epithaph on me Sparta has many a worthier son than he. "Yours truly, - "JOHN S. MOSBT." SAVED HER LIFE BY A KISS. A Rejected Lover Wounds a 6IH and Then Spares Her Ltfe-Hls Suicide. Fresno, Cab, April 30. The worst crime in California, since the murder of Fix members of the McGllncy family near San 5ose by Dunham, was com mitted early this morning at Red Banks, in this county, by James Brooks, a farm hand, who dangerously wound ed Mrs. John Quails and her daughter Lulu with a shotgun, and then com mitted suicide. Brooks was formerly employed on Quails ranch, but was discharged because he annoyed Lulu after she had rejected his love pro posals. The man became crazed with disappointment - and threatened to shoot the girl.- whereupon her father had him placed in jail. Recently, before Brooks sentence had e-xpired. Mr. Quails went on his bond, and the -prisoner was released. He went to work ten miles away. At two o'clock this morning, in the absence of Mr. Quails, he broke open the door , of Mr. Quails' house with a hatchet. Lulu heard the noise and, getting up, met her discarded lover in the hall. "Say your prayers,", he shouted, "for I'm going to kill you." The girl pleaded for mercy, but when her mother appeared Brooks calmly shot the woman down. Lulu sought refuge in the bedroom, holding the door, but the maddened man broke down the door, and, despite her plead ings, shot her, the charge shattering her right arm. Then he grasped a hatchet and prepared to finish his work. "Don't kill me, Jim," pleaded the girl. "If you love me, Jim, don't kill me." Brooks hesitated for a moment. "Well Lulu," he said, "kiss me and I - won't." Kneeling beside the prostrate form. Brooks received- the price of his com promise, and, turning away, left the house. He set fire to the place, -but the flames did not spread. He went to the barn, fired the building, and then shot himself. This morning his charred body was found. It" is thought that both women will recover. Better Times for Farmers. y Louisville Courier-Journal. Wheat has gone up to something like the figures warranted by statistical conditions. The May option sold at $1 a bushel, in St. Louis Saturday, which is the highest price reached for six years and "cash wheat" has brought as hight a $1.03. As the storage points in .this country and Europe hold only 130,000,000 bushels against 180,000,000 a year ago: 19S,000,000 two years aeo: 21G, 000,000 three years ago, and 221.000. WO four years ago, it is apparent that ! t na titvf . T-!lt k , , . . . "tAi wjj i"i uiuig a gooa price, regardless of any prolongation of the uraeco-1 tfrkish war. It will take enor mous crops this year and next to keen xo.io irom oeing a prohtable year to wneat growers. If there should be general war it would be worth its weight in gold, but this is neither ex pected nor desirable. Last week stock cattle sold as high as a4 cents a pound in Kansas Citv and the markets everywhere are firm. Herds have "been allowed to run down since 1893, when the maximum number was slaughtered in four great Western cattle centers. In 1896 there was falling off of ll1, per cent, from the ngures oi lyo, ana so tar this year there is a decline of 3 per cent over the same period last year. The proposed tariff on hides may be hard on the shoe-buyer, but it may add something to the share of the cattle-breeder, and hides are already very high. Cattle are worth considerably more now than year ago, and they are likely to rise still further. Sheep are dearer Viow than ''for three years, and the market has an upward tendency. Flocks are much smaller than ih -1896, though the process of re building has been commenced. Mutton is more in use and wool may go up un der- the tariff. Hogs are low on account of the im mense supplies of corn, but corn will mend with wheat, and pork must go up too. Low as hogs are there is still a small profit in swine-breeding. Any ad vance in price would materially add to the profits of the farm. The corn crop isthe most important that is grown, and represents from two to three times as much money as the wheat crop. - u e have had two enor mous yields in succession, and the sur plus conjoined with the great business depression has made this valuable grain a veritable drug on the market'. We cannot go on producing such im mense crops year atter year, and in the meantime it has served the pur pose of opening us up new outlets abroad. The amount of corn exported to Europe this year is very far in ex cess even of what was sold in 1893. It may result in a permanently enlarged demand for the grain. Eventually with advancing prices in live stock and . general business development, corn will again become profitable, pay ing the railroads immense sums for freight and permanently stimulating the transportation business as well as adding to the rewards of agriculture. Cotton is still king in the South. It is selling now at a figure which affords the planter a fair margin of profit, since he has learned to produce it at less expense than formerly. The visible supply last Friday night was 12S.304 bales less than on the same date in 1896, and was a falling off of 1,155,5SG bales as compared with the same date in 1S93 and of 827,364 bales as compared with ISiM. This 'shows that there has, been no overproduction of cotton. A big foreign war would affect this great staple .more or less injuriously, but conditions are now such as to indicate no reduction in price during this year. A cotton crop can not be restricted or increased at will. Already it seems that the floods will cut down the pro duction to the general benefit ofthe planter. More and more of this great staple is beipg worked up at home, and thus cotton is a steadily increas ing factor in " our prosperity. Viewed from nearly every standpoint the outlook for the farmer is becom ing more encouraging. Wre have divine assurance that seed-time and harvest shall not fail, and if our crops do not continue in over-abundance we are sure of enough and to spare. The mis fortunes of India and of time Levant will insure to our benefit. Unquestion ably a -better day seems dawning for our great agricultural interests. 1 C I III i ASHEVILLE'S MUNICIPAL ELECTION PROS PECTS 6 RATIFYING TO THE PARTY. Major Red I ins' Official Bond-New Rectot Assumes Charge ot Biltmore Church Interesting Items. Special to The Tribune. Asheville. N. C, April 29. The. city election will occur May 4th, ajid as the date approaches, the Republicans grow more confident of success. The party leaders claim a majority of 200 of the qualified voters of the city. So far the campaign has been of a mild nature and" without special incident. After making arrangements to give a surety company bond Major W. W. Rollins, who has been given the local postmastership, was informed by the department -that half of his bond would necessarily be of a personal nature. This Major Rollins has secured and forwarded the bond to the capital to day. Major Rollins expects to suc ceed Postmaster Kerr in a few days. Rev. R. R. Swope, D. D., the new rector of All Souls, the Biltmore church, has arrived here and will at once take up his parish duties. All Souls church was erected and is at tended by Geo. .W. Varrderbilt. Mayor W. J. Cocke has brought suit against Jacob Seligman, "Little Jake," of East Saginaw, Mich., for $10,000 dam ages. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant, through his agent bank, protested a demand' for $1,920, when, the plaintiff contends, nothing was due on the note held by the defendant. The case came up before Judge Ew art at Hendersonville, who granted a temporary injunction restraining the disposal of the collateral to the obli gation, alleging that this collateral was the only property held in this State by Seligman. The case was set for further hear ing before Judge Ewart at Asheville May 10. The plaintiff is a very wealthy man and some time ago visited for several weeks in Asheville. A large number of voters who desire to vote in the approaching municipal election were challenged. The Repub licans challenged more than one hun dred, w hile U Democrats only made about thirty ciiZMenges. A trame of baseball will be played tomorrow on the local grounds be tween the Knoxville and Morganton Deaf Mute clubs. Both teams are strong ones. The story recently put in circulation to the effect that the Southern Kail wav Company is to build a line from Murphy, X. C, to Cleveland, Tenn has proven to be nothing short of an absurd fake. The distance over the proposed new route would only be about twentv-three miles shorter than the present route, while the cost of building the new road would be enormous. The first excursion of the season is to come to Asheville tomorrow under the management of the faculty of Carron and Newman College, Mossy Creek, Tenn. W. A.'H. Elkin Items. Special to The Tribune. Elkin. N. C April 29. It is very warm and drv todav. Wheat is sti 11 lookinsr fine. We have made severa enquiries as to the fruit crop and from what we can learn there are some apples yet, but peaches are about all Life insurance agents are taking the dflv here. It seems that a shell na bursted down the road and scattered as many as three up here, one o. vxiiirVi is Mr. T. S. Sprinkle, of Salem he Eauitable. He raiH to Mrs. Col. A. B. Galloway $2 044.00. The Colonel had carried this policy for about seventeen years and paid in $1,100.00. In the meantime he hrl drawn out $400. so the Colonel had the protection for seventeen years for the $1,100.00 and his widow now gets the $2,444.00. Just prior to the Colonel's Heath "Mr. J. D. Suttenfield, ot the mu tual Benefit, got a policy on his life for $2,000.00, and this amount has been settled With the widow. Your correspondent has just learned of a shooting scrape that happened yesterday at Wilkesboro. The parties are Ruff Henderson and R. M. Hackett We did not learn the particulars, but it is said that Henderson shot at Hackett and missed him, and as he wpnt to shoot the second time some one eot hold of his pistol and prevented his shooting. It seems to have been an old grudge. Prof, and Mrs. Brown and Miss K. Orosrlose were called to Virginia ves- terday by a telegram stating that Mr, Grosclose, the brother 'of Mrs. Brown and Miss K., was dead. We were very sorry, indeed, to hear of the young man's death. The Elkin Telephone Company is on a boom. They have orders for several new phones and also will soon have night service. BILL. In the Orchard. Sad as the flutter of the birds among The trees about the green gra.ves of the dead So sad the sunbeams of the summer, - flung Athwart the home whence happiness has fled. The hollyhocks loom yet in scattered wise But up the. walk Old faces come no more; Amid the haze about the fields, dove- cries Ring minor-chords of sortie far tor rent's roar. Old favorites among the orchard trees Put feebly forth their leaves amid the new, Where the last member of ther house hold sees Some rose set there by hands now hid from view. There long ago one walked with him and planted; There romped their children in their careless mirth; There later he and Woe stood hand in hand, And brooded o'er life's cruel "Earth to earth." Almost as strange and distant seems the gone As things that now tradition only throng Old trysts on lighted roofs of Babylon, And days when Sodom heard fair woman's song. The day slips by, and still the old bent form Lingers among the leaves' pathetic . stir Who knows but spirit voices lend their charm, Unheard by all save that .lone loiterer? " And, haply, brooding there he catches, Of a reunion down the future years. Where Peace lies lissome by the sacred streams, And God In love shall wipe away all tears. I CTho Greatest Diving Feat. San Francisco Examiner. The greatest diving feat ever attemt ed was that of the raising of treasure that sunk with a steamer near Seal Rocks, New South Wales. News has been received here that every box of sovereigns that went to the bottom has been saved by men who worked under the sea at a depth of twenty-seven fathoms. The names of the divers are Briggs and May. At times they were subject to a pressure of seventy to seventy-five pounds to the square inch, causing them great suffering. The Catterthun was wrecked in August, 1895, while on the voyage from Syd ney to Hong Kong. Fifty-four of her crew and pasengers lost their lives, including brave Capt. Shannon. The vessel's cargo consisted of produce and 10,000 in sovereigns. MM I MM M MM MM' All Down But One" BLACKWELL'S DURHAM Stands the Test ' -Because it is the BEST x BLACKWELL'S DURHAM .TOBACCO CO.. Z DURHAM, N. C. . T 4 ORIWK HEARTY Any man who wants good liquors Beers or Cigars can get them at any hour during business hours at H. K. JOYXBR'S, 114 East Martin St -Quiet House and Polite Clerks. OUR SEEBS We have the largest assortmen of Garden Seeds in the State. ALL VARIETIES IN BULK Our Seeds are Fresh ! Our Seeds Grow ! Our Prices are'Low ! Out-of-town people invited to write for prices. SIMPSON'S PHARMACY, Pullen Building, RALEIGH, ISJ. O. THERE cfymonu IN THE FIELl. IS A "Mil TrJi Device u? aero If you wish to avoid those annoying jolts, increase your enjoyment and save your wheel, ride a CUSHION FRAME BICYCLE. Write for Catalogue and -Facts." RICHMOND BICYCLE CO., . Richmond, lad. New Yor. 97 Chambers Street. - Architect and Superintendent, RALEIGH, N. C. Architect of buildings of any deccrlption. "Ml J 'W.V I I 1 II I I A ProomiDinieiiTi'E in Raleigh and all parts of the for Bicycles. A new lot ofthe Christy Anatom - . i just been received; they are the acme of saddle coritr;-.-t:0' you are invited to call at our store and see them. Julius Lewis Hardware Co. air Of Q RE S ee RT B I (B Y Q L e s Were shipped from the factory in one shipment to Mew York act-nt. t only Solid Train Load, and the largest bicycle shipment ever made. ' This shows their great popularity. Seventy Thousand Uicvit !h:l . .. The Factory is hard at wor&, but is about three weeks behind on t ! -r. ' ' SUY A CRESCENT OF s- . Tliomas H. Brigjvs iV JSon THE American Bonding and Trusi Co OF BALTIMORE CITY, BALTIMORE, Ml) , OF SECOND AND THIRD CLASS; POSTMASTERS. . Will also give indemnity bonds to INDIVIDUAL HOXDS MEN who are required by the government to go on the herd? of FOURTH-CLASS POSTMASTERS. Bonds of bank officers, clerks, county and city' officers, dis tillers storekeepers and gaugers, contractors, administrators gaurdians, etc., furnished at reasonable rates. For full information write to R. B. RANEY, General Agent for North Carolina, Raleigh, X, Q Or apply to local agents. . A beautiful line of millinery j ust received . at The Lyon Racket, and the ladies are in vited to come in and look; if they look we feel sure they will buy. We are going to give bigger bargains in Millinery this season than ever before. Lyon Racket Store, 16 E. Martin Street. CHAS. F. BULLOCK, Artistic Sign Writer J- Signs for Professional Men a .Specialty verything Good to Eat and at rices to suit any - Pocketbook P Best Staple and Fancy Any and all kinds. e have anything You mav ask for. w THOMAS PESCUD, The Grocer. 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