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- THE PUBLIC LEDGER. OLD NORTH STATE What Has Taken Place Within Her Borders From Hountains to Sea. Burlington is to have a baby show on the 4th of July. The Monroe Enquirer estimates the Union county wheat crop a1 oneihaU. The Statesville Landmark says the wheat crop in Iredell is practi cally a failure and that the reports from all crops are discouraging. At Maiden John Wilkins was struck by lightning aud killed. Elisha Holder was killed in Davie countv, aud Malt. Crotty perhaps fatally hurt. Tho Scotland Neck Democrat says that Mr. Wiley Cherry, of Halifax. 77 years old, learned to read while coufied to his bed with rheumatism. The Visitor s.ys there are 27 cases of sickness among the opera tives of the Caraleigh Mills, at Raleigh, live of them being typhoid fever. The Newborn Journal Sf.ys that Rev. N. M. Jurney, of Mt. Olive, raised this season on a quarter of an acre of land i barrels of Irish potatoes, which left him a net profit of $7; sr iifierull expenses had been paid. The Monroe Ki.quirer says that never within tho memory of the oldest inhabitant have the crops been kept ns freo from grass as they havo been this year. One can travel for miles aud novor see a grassy field. The Dem cratic Executive Com mittee of the Sixth District mat at Lfiuriuburg and selected Lumberton as the place, and August L2zd as the time, for hold ing the convention to nominate a candidate for Congress. The Kinston Free Tress says that Mrs- E, P- Cox, of that place, committed suicide last Monday by jumping head-fore-most into the well in her yard which con tained about seven feet of water. She was a sufferer from chronic dyspepsia and it had unbalanced her mind. A sad death has occurred in Pasquotank county. Edward Bury, 22 years old, while on his way home in a buggy, fell out and was caught in the front axle so that he was dragged two miles by the horse, which ran away Bury's neck was broken and searchers found his body in the road. At High Point, June 23. Joe Jackson, a white man and desper ate character, while resisting ar rest,stabbed Chief-of-Police Hoff man in eight different places. The wounds are of a serious nature. Jackson escaped. He has given the authorities a great deal of trouble, and the people are in dignant and excited over the affair. A posse is following him. The Shelby Review says that a 15 months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bonner, who live near Ellis' Ferry, Cleveland county, met a horrible death last Saturday. Mrs. Bonner, after kindling a fire in her cook etove, went out to milk, leaving the child by itself. When she returned she found the child lying near the stove, burned to a crisp quite dead. A shooting affair in Johnson county, Lucian F.owers, a white farmer, while intoxicated, quar reled with tho wife of Hannibal Corbett, (colored) about the way she was ''chopping' cotton. Her husband took her part and Flow ers advanced towards him with a pistol. Corbett; thereupon shot him with a gun loaded with buck shot and twelve struck him, break ing his arm in two places. One shot entered his nock. Wadesboro MessengerIntelli goncer says: An amusing story is told in connection with one of the meetings held in this county last week to pray for rain. A brother, who was called on by the preacher to lead, after praying earnestly for rain to save the famishing crops, closed his peti tion in this way: "And oh Lord, give ns some money, too.'' We hope the last part of the brother's prayer will bo answered as bounte ously as was the first part. Tom and Calvin Coley and a ne gr3 named Perry, who were con victed of the mvrder ot a Jewish peddler in Franklin about three years ago, and were to be hanged July 13th,escaped from Louisbur; jail on the morning of June 25fch. Jiev. Mr. Morton together with j dlor Piunell, entered thej iil to hold religious, services with the prisoners. On opening the eel door the prisoners grabbed Pin nell, pushed him behind the bars and'locked him up. Mr. Morton grappled with one of the Coley's, but the negro Jknocked Morton down with an iron bar. Ihe ,Co Jey's have I een captuied, but the negro is s ill at large. Morton was p linfuliy but not seuousJy injured. A rich vein of gold has been struck in Monroe county. Raleigh has the mad dog scare, and is killing out its curs Two illicit distilleries were cap tured in Chatham county. Surry county is out of debts and has $2,000 iu the treasury, Chatham county will in future maintain its public roads by taxa tion. - Sharpsburg township, Iredell county, has 17 persons over 80 years old. The naval mili'ia of this State gets this year a government allow ance of $1,053. Arauce memoral meetings in aid of a statue have been held in forty counties. Favetteyiile re joices in a pig with six distinct feet, and an extra foot on each leg. A ten foot fouviuch alligator was caught in the Neuse river about New Bern. The Review tells of a king fish on the Wilmington market that measured three feet from point of nose to tip of tail. Wm, T. Uackstall, of Windsor, had thirty sheep killed in one night by dogs belonging to negroes living in the town. The Wilmington Star has re ceived the first North Carolina cotton bloom of the season. It camo from Maxton Monday. Fred. Douglas, a nesrro pension agent of New Berne, has been dis charged from practice in tho In terior Department for taking ille gal fees from his clients. Tho Mt- Airy News says Cy. Watson, of Forsyth, and Lieut. Gov. Doughton, of Alleghany, may oppose Mr. Bower for the Democratic congressional nomina tion. John Oartwright, who murders ed Joel Candle in Yadkin county, some two months ago, died in the jail at Yadkinville, of pneumonia, from which disease he has been suffering since surrendering him self to justice. Press and Carolinian says: Th9 Waldensiau colony at Valdese, Burke county, N- C., will have completed the hosiery mill now being erected by August 1st. These energetic, thrifty people have already built some forty new houses, cleared much new land and pitched reasonably good crops of corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, etc. It is probable their crops this year will not supply their necessities, but they expect by another year to engage quite ex tensively in agricultural pursuits, raising all farm and garden pro ducts much in excess of their own wants. There was a large meeting of the Prohibitionists of Buncombe county in Asheyille, June 23. A platform was adopted declaring that the liquor traffic absorbs the people's money to the detriment of legitimate trade to the extent ot $900,000,000; that three fourths of the crimes are traceable to its work, and that all the other poli tical parties are prostrated before its influence. It demands a change in the present county government of the State; that all officers exe cuting a public trust shall be elected directly by the people; ad vocates a change in the State elec tion and road laws, and in the special locaKoption laws o! this county; the abolition of fees; the free and unlimited coinage, of silver (1G to 1); government con" trol of railroads and telegraph; restriction in immigration; cquali zation of taxation according to tho ability of tho citizens; no more government bonds in peacetimes; direct issue by the government of legal tender money for all pur poses, without profit to private individuals or corporations; and equal rights to all, with special privileges to none. All lovers of God. home, and country are invit ed to join. Breakinridge is really getting too bad. Speaking of the fact that a reputable farmer's wife had sent him a basket of flowers, with a touching note in which she hoped that he would he successful in his race, he said: "Bat there is nothing strange about it, for was not woman last at the cross and first at the tomb of the blessed Master, who came to save jusfc such sinners as I ? Yes, sin ners are the ones who are loved, and it was for the love of sinners that the Son of Man suffered and died on i the cross." It does seem a? if the more Breckinridge talks the smaller the chances of his election ought to be. Bncklen'N Arnica Salve. The best salve In the world for Out Bruises, bores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, tapped Hand?, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Euruption?, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. . Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. Q. HalL may28. NORTH CAROLINA' POPULISTS. Qualifications Aare Prescribed for Those Who Wish to Vote Marion Butler, president of the National Farmers' Alliance, presid ed at the meeting of the Populists1 State Executive Committee in Ral eigh, N. C., June 22. The plan of organization was revised. A new feature is the system of election of committees, each set of committee men electing the one next higher. The bassis of representation of state conventions is made one to each fifty yotes cast two years ago,' and two delegates at large from each county. The committee prescribed qualifications for elegibility to pri naries. These are of interest, and, is Butler says, they outline the plat form the party will adopt. They areas follows: Those who oppose the present fi nancial system of Democratic and liepublican parties, who favor free and unlimited coinage of silver six teen to one, who favor the further increase of currency with legal ten der money of banking corporations, those who oppose having the exec utive and legislative departments controlled and dominated by trusts, monopolies and combines; those who oppose the present Democratic elec tion methods in North Carolina, by which many citizens are disfranchis ed, and the votes of many after heing cast are thrown away or m s counted; those who favor more economical administration of the government, county, state and na tional, and who are willing to co operate with the people's party to secure those reforms, are entitled to to and are invited to participate in all primaries. The committee called a state con vention at Raleigh for August 1st. Invited Senator Stewart and ex Congressman Tom Watson to attend and make public addresses. The matter of fusion with Republicans was discussed, but no action was taken. President Butler says the state convention will not act on the fusion question, so far as making any recommendations. YOUNG RANSOM'S SIKiAR SPE CULATION. The New York Sun says: There is no similarity between the McPherson family's investments in sugar and the investment of the Ransom family. It surprises us to see that the two cases are by some minds confounded. Senator Ransom's son George went into a bucket shop and bet $10 that sugar would go up. The young man apparently had no other motive than the impulse to be real devilish. He certainly was not gambling with the idea of achieving of fortune at a single stroke. He did not consult his father. The Senator knew no thing about George's little flyer un til a few days ago. George had no tip from his father; it is absurb to suppose that if inside information had been' lying around loose in the Ransom establishment George would have been playing sugar for any ten-dollar limit. The size of the transaction is the strongest possible guarantee against scandal, as affect ing the Senator. There is absolute ly nothing in the affair to show that the North Carolina Senator ever had the remotest idea of indulging in stock speculation of any sort, much loss turning to priyate advantage the opportunities of his official post. That George should be caught visiting a bucket-shop aud risking $10 of his own hard-earned money is a matter of purely personal con cern to Senator Ransom; it effects him in no way officially. It is one of the incidents of paternity. The Senator's statement before the investigating committee was manly and straightforward, and it should increase the respect in which he is held by the public. THE TOBACCO SCHEDULE In the Senate the tobacco sched ule in the tariff bill was adopted a few days. Paragraph 184, as it came from the House and as reported by the Finance Committee, imposed a duty of $1 a pound on all leaf to bacco suitable for cigar wrappers if unstemmed, and $1.25 if stemmed. The Jones amendment was to strike out the paragraph and substitute the following: "Wrapper tobacco unstemmed, imported in any bales, package or bulk, $1.50 per pound." Mr. Jones, on behalf of the Fi nance Committee, modified the amendment by making the rates $1 on unstemmed wrapper tobacco, and $1.25 op stemmed (House rates). After discussion, and at the sugges tion of Mr. Vest that the amend ment remain as originally proposed, $1.50 and $2.25 per pound, (to save time and let the matter be consider ed afterVvards in the Senate), the Jones amendment as originally pro posed, was agreed to. In the next paragraph (185) the following substitute was offered by the Finance Committee and agreed to: "Filler tobacco, unstemmed, im ported in any bale, box, package, or ia hulk,35 cents per pound; if stem med, -50 cents pound," with various provissions. The next paragraph (186) re mains as in the House bill 40 cents on tobacco not specially provided for. The next paragraph (187) was amended so as to make the duty on snuff 50 cents instead of 40. The next paragraph (188) was amended to read: "Cigars, cigarettes and che roots, all kinds, $4 a pound and 25 per cent." advalorem. Paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as herein imposed upon cigars'" WASHINGTON NEWS. A Newsy Letter From Our Regular Correspondent. The end of the tariff bill is in sight. It is now believed that it will be set for next Tuesday and passed by Thursday. Then it will go to confer ence of the two houses. Opinion is divided as to its disposition there. Much opposition is expected to a good many of the Senate amend ments. The sugar schedule especi ally will be fought over bitterly, as the sentiment in the house is largely in favor of free sugar. The Income Tax will pass all right as there is a large majority in both houses for it. Senator Hill led the Republicans all last week in the Sen ate, in violent opposition to it, but it passed by about 10 majority, all the Populists voting for it with the Democrats, and Hilt and the New Jersey Senators voting with the Re publicans against it. The debate during the week took some violent and personal turns. Senator Allen took occasion to call old Bill Chan dler a "Baboon," and on the follow ing day a very bitter altercation en siled over it. Senator Hill referred to the ill-breeding of Senator Harris' Tennessee plantation manners, when Senator Harris retored that they were at least equal to the slums of New York City, and took occasion also to inform him further that it would be a long time before the Democrats would go to N. Y. for an other President. Business will doubtless look up when the Tariff is settled, as the bm den of all newspaper correspondence and interviews seem to hinge on this question, and manufacturers are anxious to start up and resume bus iness, and give employment to their idle capital. It is said that there is more gold, lying idle in the New York banks, than there is in the United States Treasury. The strike shows some signs of abating and will probably be declar ed off in a few days. This was get ting to be yery serious, as the sup ply of coal was about exhaused, aud the want of it was interfering very seriously with railroad and steam boat navigation. In many instances trains and steamboats were tied up and could not make their accustomed trips on account of it. Nearly all the trouble and lawlessness was caused by Huns, Italians and other laborers of foreign extraction. It really seems we have all of that class of immigrants we need and it is time to stop the anarchist and socialist foreigners. The Pension Appropriation bill, as passed by the House, shows a de crease of nearly $25,000,000. It was believed and stated that last year's appropriations would be short some $15,000,000, but under the careful administration of the Democrats the revision and rejection of illegal pen sions, &c, this deficit did not occur, but on the contrary some $10,000,000 extra was saved. There is a disposition to retrench and reform in every way, in every department, and it looks now as if it will result as it did before, after 4 years of Democratic administration; that expenses will be curtailed, a de ficit in the Treasury turned into a surplus, taxation reduced and ever thing be Jeft in a good condition for the Republicans if they should be so fortunate as to win to squander and provide for their jmrtizans by the thousands, more than are actu ally necessary for the well-being of the government. It will be turning back the wheels of progress several years if the people are so blind to their interests as to ever again trust the Republicans in power. The contest of Moore vs. Funston has been decided in the House by the seating of Col. Moore, the contestant. We hope the Williams and Settle contest will be settled soon. We know that if Williams wins, as he should, it will be hard on Toinmie, and the attitudes and poses of grace for the benefit of the galleries will be denied him, but we have no doubt his innate effrontery and gall will lead him in pastures new, where it may be he might probably accom plish something for his country or his constituents. Another contingent of Coxey's army is expected in a few days. Tbiss ill probably be the last, as the dis position shown by the people here to discontinue feeding such people is having a very depressing effect, and those on the way have a knack of running up against U. S. laws and getting jailed. . Bfefore the - Senate Investigating Committee last week Senator. Ran som appeared and stated that he had never bet or gambled in stocks of any kind. When asked as to any of his relations or associates, he stated that his son and Capt. Barnes, a messenger of the Senate, had inve-t-ed jointly to the amount of $25. This was unknown to him at the tine and for some time afterward, as it occurred on the day in which he was in Asheville at the burial of Senator Vance. This is looked upon as rath er a joke here, as no one would think of such a thing as the Senator com mitting any act of this kind. Dui ing all his long and honorable ser vice as Senator for 24 years, no breath of suspician has ever tainted his character. His opportunities of unlawful gain have been many and great, and he might today be a mi1 lionaire, as are some of bis col leagues, had he chosen to take ad vantage of the opportunities within his reach. Yet amid all these chances and temptations he has trod the path of honor, and no dollar has ever found lodgment in his pocket, save those paid over the counter .of the paymaster of the Senate, for honor able and useful service in the inter est of his country and constituents. Long may he live to represent his people, an honor to his State, his country and his name ! What a con trast was the course of Senator Quay who openly avowed that, he spec ulated in sugar stocks and others because he chose to, and because he thought he had a right to. From our standpoint, somebodys sense of honor and right is badly blunted and it is not our Senators either. R. L. B. Itch on human, mange on horses, dogs and all stock, cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by J. G. Hall, druggist, Ox ford, N. C. Last Cli e! Last chance at the A. Lanclis & Sons' stock of goods while it remains in the A. Landis store house. I will move it to my store on the cor ner of College St., July 1st. From now until that time I will give you GREAT bargains, as I haven't got room for all these goods. I will sell Furniture, and Crockery, and a great many other goods at half price. Respectfully, LESTER E. WRIGHT. june21 lm. Notice ! THIS IS TO NOTIFY TUB PUBLIC THAT 1 have purchased from Mrs. Amauda Roes, widow of the late Charles Ross, of Bras field township, all her interest in the estate of said Charles koss, that 1 am responsible for the pay ment of any debts now owing by said estate, and that I am entitled to collect all debts due to the said Charles Ross deceased, or to his estate. All persons interested iu the foregoing will please make payment to me WM. E. ROSS. Henderson, N. C, June 18, 1594. je22-4t. Administrator's Notice. HAVING BEEN DULY QUALIFIED AS the adm nifti-ator of the estat-i of N. C. Lyon, deceasi d, nc ti :e is h rby given to all per sons indebttd to said estate to come forward and settle the same at once Per-ons holding tlaims against said estate will present them tome for payment on or bej fore the 21st day of June, 1895, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. 2'his June 21st, 1S94. A. A. LYoN, Administrator of N C Lyon, deceased. A. A. HICKS, Attorney. juue22 fit. Valuable Mill Property For Sale. BY VIRTUE OF A POWER VESTED IN ME by a a deed from John C. Davis and his wife Sallie H. Davis, dated the 2fith day of January, 1893, and registered in the office of the Register of Deeds oi Granville county, in Book 37, Page 190 I will on Monday, the 2nd day of July, 1894, at i h? courthouse door in Oxford, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the land described in the said deed, the same being an undivided one third part of the Oxford Flouring Mills, situate in the town of Oxford, adjoining the lands of Maj. T.-B, Venable and others. For a more ac curate description of which reference is made to the deed aforesaid. May 31st, 1894. junel-4t. J. S. AMIS, Trustee. Sherilf 's Sale of Land. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECU tion to me directed on May 10th, 1894, from the Superior court of Granville county, jn the case of A. W. Graham, adoi'r de benis non of Pe terson Thorp, dee'd, agaiust Dr. Wii'iam Thorp, under which the homestead aud person 1 pr p erty exemptions of the defendant have been as signed to him as required by law, as Sheriff f Granville county, I will expose to sale at public auction, at the court house door in Oxford, N. C, on Monday, July 2nd, 1894, at 12 in. to the h!gh est bidder for cash, all the real estate of said de fendant lying in Granville county, North Caro lina, except his said homestead and desc ribeu as follows: Lot No. 1. In Walnut Grove township. Con tains about 650 acre; west of tLe Berea acd Goshen road; adjoins the lands of Miss Lucy Thorp, J. G Shotwell and otheis, it being the residue of the home place- after tnking oft' 112 acres for a homestead Lot No. 2. In said township; part of the old Duncan tract; contains ouehundred acres; lies south of the 138 acre homestead tract; adjoins the lands of David Duncan, Mrs. Eliza Brodie and others. Lot No. 3. The mill tract; lit s North of said 138 acre homestead tract and south of the Wm. Thorp 400 acre tract, on which P. Thorp now has mortgage; also in Walnut Grove. Lot No. 4. The said 400 acre tract lying North of the mill tract and east of the home place and homestead tract of 112 acres, ou which P. Thorp has a mortgage. Lot No. 5 In said townehip; contains about two hundred acres L itely belonged to P. Thorp, Sr., dee'd, and is lot No. 3 in the division of the lands of said P. Thorp. See Book of Or ders and Decrees of Granville county No. 3, at fages 40-4 for an accurate description of said and. This, May 30, 1894. W. S. COZA.RT, junel-4w. Sheriff of Granville Co. TWO PAPERS FOR- ONE PRICE. BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH IB WEEKLY ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, We are enabled to offer it with our own for ONE YEAR for $1.50, clubbinsr subscriptions to be sent to this office and accompanied by caeh. LIBERAL PRIZE OFFERS. 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