North Carolina Newspapers

i ft.- . v . v r - v - . v. ... . . . - -v THE . th'e' . Weekly Sun WILL BE DEVOtED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE FARMERS OP ROWAN COUNTY", i - . ; Subscribe at Once. 1 Weekly Sun IS ONLY f 1 PEE TEAK. 1 Strictly In Advance NO FARMER SHOULD BE WITH OUT IT, ' -A. Ffl,m 1 y . Newspaper, Devoted, to 'tlie "best Interests of IOTxran Co-unity. VOL. 3.--NO. 26. SALISBUliY, N. C.i WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30. 1899. Price, $1 per Year .' '.. -r '. ' j-,' I. J ' I II J I I . ': - M ' A K 1 1 I A '. 'Ill & Jv. ' V 'A . A. EDITORIAL SQUIBS. The War Department has is sued an order for the return to the United States of five battal f ions of troops now iu Cuba. The first Monday 'in Septem ber is Ijabor Day. There will be . no special observance of the day in this State. The crew of the Olympia, Ad miral Dewey's flagship, will prob ably be allowed to march in the parade in Washington in honor of the Admiral. Colonel William J. Bryan contributed 1 ,250 towards a fund of $38,000 raised to employ a spe ciartrain to bring home the First Nebraska Regiment. The new batlle srhip Alabama, the most formidable vessel of its type ever built for the navy, will ro to sea next week and be tested by the builders.' . Arrangements are reported to be maturing in New York for the organization of a corporation with 50,000,000 capital to buy and op erate retail stores throughout the " country'' J r -Admiral Schley has accepted an invitation to attend the Alaba n ta State Fair to- be held on No vember 7th, provided he shall Dot have been ordered to sea before J that timer. The increase in the army and the campaign in the Philippines cause heavy demands on theTreas ury:v War taxes will not be re duceJ and a bond issue may be re- " quired... . e Atlanta Constitution says the ! eeling that there will be no v opposition to Mr. Bryan in the Democratic party is?; rapidly be coming as unanimous as his re nomination will be. p . As long as the United States inijports .more "than , 132,000,000 worth iof cotton goods it is useless to talk of too many mills in the . United'. States, .pertinently sug Jgestd'te""aaBacturer8 Records . The American Agriculturist asserts, that out of the 52,000 ttu dents in the 200 colleges and uni versities in this country 21,0C0 are from the agricultural classes. And very few of them go back to the farm. Gen. Merritt expresses the ' opinion that with 5o,000 troops - Gen. Otis will be able to put down the "rebellion" in the Philippine1.' UUlue uucs UUL Ycumicjf vro Oil record as to the time- take Otis to do -'l he resignation of Thomas- B. Reed as Congressman in the first Maine District was received by Governor Powers yesterday. The resignatisn is to take effect . Sep tember 4th and it has been accept ed by Governor Powers. Secretary of War Root has been advised by some Southern Senators and Representatives to enlist negro regiments in the South for service in the Philippines. War Department officials are op posed to negro volunteers. The Filipinos, it is said, have lotsof casbTand ammunition, are in fine condition, and will open the campaign this fall with undaunted spirit. TLe end of the war is not yef in sight, but on the contrary, may drag on for many years, -Genearl Olishas applied the exclusion law- to Chinese, barring ti.am fi'nm the Philinoiues. It IS L11V1 l hp Mi-tin r on his own re trumsihiUlv and leceived no in r1" . " , structions from Washington tol i -i.: !n trmt on. Mr. James Bowron, vice-pres ident.of the Tennessee Coal, iron and Railroad Company, and one of the best informed men m the e,.fk -Aklmraa alone has UUUUll, - - iron ore enough to supply every ton required by the United States fpr the next SliyeaTS. -The Greensboro Telegram says "Mr. McKinley hopes to nnuiue greater part of his new volunteers inPennsylvania and Kansas. The Southern boys are not so loyal in tho enterprise of conquest tfs their northern brethren. There is get- ting to be a good- deal of con- scfcnce in this business, too." .PL. tv...u..c., if the x im uui uuhj ouu - - war is not ended in -a year from -iw.w-1 indit. i imnossible to see how it,-n ever W.n.e to an end Hurler the management of Otis- the Republicans need not go to the Or,r;riot0 fnr leadino-Tnpmhorthoir nwn nnr ty agree that the Democrats will have a walk-over in such an event. -We wonder now if Miss Lil lian Clayton Jewett. of Boston. win pie ner on to unto ana pro- fll 1 I y-vi cure the relatives of the two ne groes "shot dead in a buggy by Urbana officers" for making way with some harness. By . snch -ac quisition thfs talented young Bos ion lauy wm nave curiosities in her "company" from both sides i mason ana uixon s line, ootn un der one tent, says the Charlotte Observer.- , Everyone is looking forward to a lively session of Congress next winter, for Republicans as well as Democrats are expected to tire hot shot into the administra tion for the policy pursued in the Philippines. Senators lloar, Wel lington and Mason, all Republi cans, are known to be outspoken in tbeir opposition to the Presi dent in this matter, and their ranks are being added to every day. It is estimated that the tobacco crop in South Carolina this year will reach 20,000,000 pounds, worth from 4 to 26 cents a pound. It is only in the last few years that to bacco has been cultivated in South Carolina as a money crop, but the farmers 'find it more profitable than iraising five-cent cotton. Moreover, the cultivation of wheat in the Palmetto State has been so successful that the acreage will likely be doubled this year. Secretary of War -Root yester day returned to Washington from his visit to the President at Lake Champlain. That the campaign in the Philippines is to be pushed vigorously and promptly is evident from a remark the Secretary made to the reporters. He was deter mined, he said, that every man be longing to the twenty regiments of volunteers now being recruited shall eat his Christmas dinner in that country. The Republican - papers have been telling the , people that the last Legislature ; imposed a tax on all farmers who brought wood to town to sell. The News tells of a test case in Charlotte that dis poses of the Canard. A Mr. I andle was arre' ted on the charge of selling woo? without a license the charges , being that he was guilty of violating section 52 of the Revenue "Act. The mayor of Charjotte dismissed the complaint, homing that it did not apply to fcirmers who cut their own wood , ,', . Senor .Jose, the member of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies who has just been arrested at Barcelo na for embezzling 1,500,000 pese tas from a railway company, should place himselfi. in communication with Captain Carter, who was con victed more than a year ago fr misappropriating over $1,000,000 from the United State Govern ment. The Captain might impart to his Spanish emulator valuable information as the manner of evad ing punishment through the aid of powerful governmental influences. Philadelphia Record. The Fayetteville Observer very wisely jremarks: The war making power under our law, the Congress, has not declared war against our late allies, the Filipi nos, yet the President is waging war against them. If there were a Democratic House, he would be ""peached anu it tnere were a ...... Democratic Senate be would be convicted and deposed. The pre tense put forth by the President that we must lower the flag in de- 1 fun! l.nfA.n U CIU..: : mo -l iiijiuo& is ui u I WAKrht.. n lna m n'ollinnf.i- tliof " All that is necessary is simply to declare to the Filipinos, that we mean to give them independence aod the war will cease. The New York Journal of August 22 printed an interview with William Jennings Bryan in which he expressed himself fully and unreservedly upon all the lead ing issues now before the Ameri can people. The interview was written by the noted newspaper correspondent James Creelman, wij0 prefaced it with some per- sonal observations from which this a taken: "1 have known Mr. Bryan for many years, and in the campaign of 1896 I traveled nearly 18.000 miles with him. although I did not support him with my vote, He is today the same sober, de liberate, intense American he was in those blistering days of roaring multitudes and political upneavai. There is not a shadow of turning - 1 or evasion in his conversation. Unlike Mr. McKinley he 'does not shift his ground to suit the occa sion. , The Lynchburg Advance cor dially invites Picquart and Drey fus to these shores when they wind up their affairs with France. It says: "Yes, come to the United States. There is room enough in this country for all sucn men as you are the more the better, Dreyfus, too, if he can ever escape from the toils of his enemies, can find an asylum in this country, which is still the 'land of the free and the home of the brave.' We know how to honor true courage and real nobility of character, even in an . enemy. W itness the uni versal esteem in which Admiral Cervera is held by the Americans. He fought us bravely, but he was a manly magnanimous commander.! and. everybody in the United States is ready to do him honor." The peasants of ' Southern Russia believe, that the end of the world is at , band and are giving up their jobs and going home to their villages to . spend their last days. What with famine pestilence and crushing taxes, life can hardly be attractive in the communities of Southern Russia, and the ending of such a world as they find themselves in may be to them an attractive idea. The idea that the order of nature is about to change suddenly does not seem particularly strange to ignorant persons who have given little at tention to the study of nature. Such persons do not perceive the immutable laws underlying the course of eveats, or see thatT great changes like the ending of the world are accomplished by slow, imperceptible steps, continued through millions of years. The reduction of the eai th to the condi tion our of moon will arrive, but it will be ages after the Czar and his Empire have been forgotten. Money in Poultry. . Wilmington Star. We read much about our great crops of wheat, "cotton, corn, their value, &c, and little of the poul try business; which amounts to more in dollars than either wheat, cotton, or corn, and it goes right along all the time without much fuss5 or feathers, although there are lots of feathers in it, nor much cackling, for all that is done is done at home, and are simply an nouncements that the egg produc ers are attending to business. And they turn out in the course of a year work of immense value, as will be seen by the following fig ures giving the value of various crops for the year 1896: Earnings of Poultry, $290,000,000 Value of cotton crop, 259,164,640 Value of wheat crop, Value, of swine. Value of oat crop, Value of potato crop, 237,938,998 186,529,745 163,655,068 78,898,901 Value of tobacco crop, 35,574,220 This is the value in" money of the eggs, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, &e.t marketed, as gath ered from reports considered re liableand does not include what was consumed on the farms, which would add very materially to the aggregate. This industry differs from others in the fact that it is practically a self-running one, requiring no large investment in plants, nor es pecially, skilled labor, and very little money save when the poul- try business is pursued as a spe cialty. But these are very few, scarcely enough to be counted, when we consider the immense volume of this business. But this aggregate isn't any thing to the proportions this m- ddstrymight attain, for there are scores of farmers who never send eggs or poultry to market to the one that does. It is a business that is left principally to the wo men and children, being regarded as too small for .the men to bother with, and yet if the men did both- '.1 "jJl ! . er witn it tney mignt get more ney out of it than they do out of the crops on which they labor hard. s Married in a Vault Mr. Andrew Bowers and Miss Mary Myers, of Fair Grove, Dav idson county, came to Winston this morning, secured a license and were united in marriage, the ceremony being performed by 'Squire Beckerdite at 12:20 in the vault adjoining the office of the Register of Deeds. Winston Sentinel. NEWS OF THE WEEK. . - THURSDAY. Scarcity of foodis.increasing in the Filipino territory- The battleship Kearsarga will be given her builder'A -trial trip I September 5. . Martial law has been decreed at Hilversum. Holland, where riot ing has broken out. lhe Filipinos are showing a great deal ot activity along the northern line of the American ad vance in Luzon John H. Greene, an Alexandria, Va., lawyer, who was under ar rest for assaulting his wife witba hatchet, died in jail yesterday. A' rumor was current in various Paris newspaper offices late last evening that Presideut Loubet bad been assassinated at Rambouillet. It was untrue. The steamer Alfonso XIII sailed for Spain from Havana, having on board 432 Spaniards, who are be ing repatriated at the expense of the Madrid government. On account of a broken propel ler shaft, the, Clyde steamer Onei da, from Wilmington, N. C, for New York, is anchored fifteen miles south of Absecomi, N. J. A life saving crew has gone to the Onei da. - '" I' Reports from Southern Russia say that the current rumor of the approaching end of the world is causing a panic among. the unedu cated classes. Workmen are Ieav ing Kharkov in large numbers, wishing to spend what they con sider the last days in their village homes. Factory owners have asked the police to stop the emigration in order to prevent the ruin of businesss. Five men are dead and 10 wound ed as a result of a fight last night between gendarmes and disap pointed Cuban soldiers at Cue vi tas, three miles from Santiago, where the payment of the Cuban troop's is progressing. A report that the United States paymaster was to leave Cnevitas alarmed the men who had not been paid and they became ugly. A Constitution Athens, Ga., gays: storm ever known special "The from worst passed here over this city last night. Mary Echols, a negro, was killed by lightning and $10,000 damage was done to property. On lower Broad street the water was nearly two feet deep and the basements of many houses were flooded. Ac companying the rain was a large amount of hail. This fell with, great force, smashing widow panes and skylights. Much property was destroyed." FRIDAY. Three persons were killed at a railroad crossing, at Seabright, N. J. Scattering skirmishes are tak ing place along the American lines near Angeles, Luzon. Admiral Dewey has secured permission to land the Olympia's men at Villefranche for drill pur poses. It is reported that President Kruger demands that Great Brit am snail reunquisn an suzerain rights over the Transvaal. The Filipinos, it is said, distrust General Otis and look to Admiral Dewey as the American most like ly to be able to effect a tettlement with them. ""There is a great scarcity o water around Watertowu, N. Y Appeals have been made to the State for a supply from its reser- I voirs, out tnis nas Deen reiusea as it has none to spare. For some time past trouble has been brewing between the Richard and Kite faction in the vicinity of Lake Butler, Fla., and yesterday the Richard faction assault ed and murdered Deputy Marshal Kite, whose followers in turn killed M. E. Roberts a Rich-' ard sympathizer. , Twenty berdics, used for many years on the streets of Washing ton, were shipped from that city to street-car strikers at Cleveland, O., last night. On their arrival a regular 'bus line will be established on Euclid avenue in f opposition to the big Consolidated Company. This will be the first attempt by the strikers to run 'busses , on the Euclid line. J A special from Newport News, Va., of yesterday says: Mrs. Georgia L. Borneman. wife of - . CD , Charles F. Borneman, proprietor "of a bakery here, has eloped with a negro named George Waddell, who is almost coal black. The outraged husband traced them to that city, but there lost track of them. 1 Mrs. i Borneman left be hind., a five-vear-old child. The Bornemans came here from Staun ton, Ya., about two years ago. ,' SATURDAY. .f-fthe payment of the Cuban gratu ity fund will soon be suspended. tFrank Howell, aged 73, mur dered his wife and then 'committed suicide at Webb City., Mo. Emperor William, it is definitely stated in Berlin, has refused the resignations of the Prusian Cabi- net. : In Baltimore, during the month of July, 1032 children died, half of whom were under five years of age. Trunks containing the corres- jKmdence of General Jimincz have been captured by the Haytian au thorities. Two new cases of yellow fever at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, were re ported to the Marine Hospital service yesterday. A 'special from Washington says among those added to the Dewey reception committee yes terday, were Cardinal Gibbons. Many of the Spaniards who are eaving Havana tor ft pain cause rouble by hurling insults at Cu bans just before their departure. Harry Johnson, a negro, 35 years old, was arrested in Wash ington yesterday for criminal as sault on Mrs. Ada Hardy. He confessed the crime. A great railway accident occur red at Santiago, Chili, yesterday. An entire passenger train fell into the river Mapocha, which runs through the city, and many ives were lost. Lieutenant Jar vis, of the reve nue cutter Bear, reports that he found -a great deal of sickness and lestitution among gold seekers in camp at Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. Eighty-three persons were taken to St. Michael. By a stroke of lightning, during a thunderstorm yesterday atter- noon, the Epworth Methodist Episcopal church, at Edgewood, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, and two residences on adjoining lots were set on fire and completely destroy ed. Yesterday was a day pof anxiety and intense excitement among the white people at Darien,; Ga. About 1,200 negroes are there, armed with all kinds of weapons from itchforks to rifles. They out number the whites five to one, .and if Donegal is lynched they threat en to massacre the whites. . The negro Donegal, who was arrested for assault, started the race war. - The Labaun correspondent of The Reuter Telegraph Company at London, cables that reliable news received there direct from Manila, states that an indescriba ble state of anarchy prevails. The Americans according to these ad vices, occupy a radius of 15 miles there.. Around the town of Illoilo they occupy a radius of nine miles, and around Cebu they occupy a small radius. The rest of the com pany, it is added, is in the hands of the Filipinos. The corresion- dent also says it is reported that the Filipinos have murdered ; the crew of the steamer Saturnus The steamer Saturnus, of the Conipa- nia Maritime, coasting under the American flag, was beached under the insurgent treacbes, at San Fernando, and burned, on Augus 2nd Killed Instantly. Mr. Samuel Cook, book-keeper and treasurer for the superin tendent of the new cotton mill which is being built at Abbelon, near Mayodan, met witn a sad death last evening. Mrr Cook spent the day in Win ston on his return from a visit to his home at Danville. He left here on the N. & W. train at 5 o'clock and when it was nearing Abbelon, Mr. Cook, thinking the train was not going to stop, jumped and was killed instantly. The train was running quite fast and it is thought the young man fell on his head.- Winston Senti nel. . . STATE NEWS. Gastonia has voted 150,000 of bonds for water works and sewer age and 115,000 for electric lights, A company that will employ forty hands has been organized to work a monazite mine near She! by. - Mr. Frank Hill, brother of Drs. Joe and David Hill, of Lexington, died at his home at Germantown Tuesday. Two Waldensian boys, aged and 14 years respectively, sons of Jean Gings, have left their homes. Their mother is in the Morganton Hospital. Last Tuesday, near Robinson ville, Graham county, a 13-year old boy named Keller killed a bear that weighed over 300 pounds. Asheville Citizen. Aunt Jennie Martin died on Wednesday at her home near East Bend, Yadkin county, at the age of 93 years. She lived to the fourth generation of her descend ants. The Fayetteville Observer says that in 71st township hail fell Tuesday night three inches deep, some of the stones being as large as hen eggs, cotton was com pletely stripped. A brakeman on the Southern railroad has sued that road for 160,000 damages on account of n a broken leg that had to be ampu tated at the hip' joint. The suit is brought in Smithfield, John ston county. Rev. J. F. George, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Win ston, has resigned to accept a call to Rockville, Conn. His resigna tion takes effect October 1. Dr. George had charge of the church in Winston five years. The Sun received a letter from a friend at Gold Hill this morning saying that the new railroad from the depot the the Union Copper Mines would soon be completed, and that everything was boonrino;' about th "Hilt." - f A sad accident occurred Friday on Almond's creek, five miles above town. Mr. Henry Yearwood has two boys, aged 10 and 12 years, and the latter had a gun in his hands, when it went off, the load striking his brother in the head, killing him instantly. Murphy Scout. Up to date 141 men have been enlisted by Lieutenant Settle, U. S. A. at Raleigh for the regulars and volunteers. Of these 67 chose the volunteers. At present more are enlisting for. the volun teers than for the regulars, though but a little while ago the reverse was the case. ells the Watauga Democrat of a petrified hog that was unearthed by high waters on the Yadkin re- cently. The hog died some years ago and was buried on the bank of I the river, and when washed out recently, it was found to be thoroughly petrified. Hughey Oxendine, a Croaton living near Bules, probably has the tallest corn in the county. J. J D: McAllister measured one tlt th nthr dav which was ISl feet 8 inches' in height. The dis. tance from the ground to the first M, f w,rn wa 1ft w iW Lumberton Robesonian. The Wilmington Messenger says the storm on the coast last week brought the highest tide seen there for 20 yeaas and that had the wind come with the tide there would have been no hotels and residences left along the coast, but fortunately the wind was com- ing from the north when the tide was highest and the sea roughest. So far this year 22 cotton mills have been granted charters by the State, as follows: Gaston, 1; Rockingham, 3; Davidson, 1; Forsyth, 1 ; Alamance, 3; Lincoln, 2; Richmond, 1; Moore, 1; Edge combe, 2; Cleveland, 1; Halifax, 1; New Hanover, 1; Wayne, 1; Cabarrus, 1; Cumberland, 1; Guil ford, 1. lUe W llmmgton Otar s corre- spondent at fenead s t erry, Ons low county, writing Monday, tells of the drowning of .Mrs. John Everett, which occurred at Ev erett's mill, near Snead's Ferry, Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Mrs. Everett was being ferried across the mill pond in a flat which was being used temporarily while repairs were being made to the mill dam. A mule attached to the cart- in which Mrs. Everett was riding became frightened and hacked the vehicle off the flat into the pond. It is stated on reliable authority that in a short time Superinten dent McBee and other officials of the Seaboard Air Line will confer with a committee from Greensbo ro relative to running the Sea board through to that place. The proposed line will run up Haw river to Haw river station, thence through Graham, Burlington and Gibsonville to Greensboro. 'The Enterprise learns that the Southern Railway Company will be asked to run no more special trains on Sunday of Yearly Meet ings at High Point. This w ill do away with the train from Asheboro on that day. This step is deemed necessary in order to prevent the large crowd of tough characters, who take advantage of the low rates, from attending the meet ings every year. Sid Eaves and Jim Turner, two prisoners in jail, make a brake for sweet liberty Monday when Mr. Owens went to take their dinner to them. On opening the cage the two rushed at him, and snatched he keys from his hand, opened the stair door and were making fast time for freedom. Lizzie Moore, the colored cook, seized Turner and notwithstanding the stick he carried,, held him until Owens got his pistol and compelled him to surrender. Eaves made his way out and was caught across the street by Kim Miller and C. Miller and held him until Sher iff J ustice arrived, when both were taken back to their quarters, and made safe if not corfortable. Rutherfordton Vindicator. Henry Nance, who lives near Union vi He, had an experience last Saturday which he does not wish to have repeated. He came to Monroe and bought a lot of dyna mite to use in well digging. He put the dynamite in his buggy and started for htmfe and-whetr ab three miles from town his mute became frightened and ran away. While the mule was dashing along the road Mr. Nance was thinking of that dynamite. It is needless to dwell upon the fact that his whole mind was on the explosive substance. The mule ran against a tree and Mr. Nance was thrown a considerable distance and when he struck the ground he thought that he had experienced a "blow up" instead of a "come down." The mule broke away from the buggy and left the dynamite unexploded. Monroe Enquirer. Horrible Murder. Of a horrible murder at Char lotte this morning's Observer says: In passing through a strip of woods near the Victor Mill yes- terday, shortly after noon, Mr. Jim Scipple came Hpon- the dead hodv of a neoro woman. The r- woman's clothing had been torn into strips and the ground about was littered with fragments. Her face Lws blood anJ her sku11 was T. . ' .A . rl tlve at tDe v lctorL M d imme- 1 J' aL. J u : C 1 Tl . 11 1JU" lice were velT 80011 at the scene' The body was identified asthatpf 1UWI? wrougeu co.oreu Kirl who amved here Wednesday from greens boro, and wno nad ngured in a magistrate s court that afternoon. As soon as the body was identified, the work of running down the murderer was made easy, and almost before the news of the murder had become known, the man charyed with the crime was in the city prison. His name is William Truesdale, and he is from Camden, S: C, though h pump herp from Greenshoro. where he had been employed as a waiter in the McAdoo House. This is the third murder that has occurred in these woods. Some years ago a white boy was beheaded with a mowing scythe by a negro who robbed the body South Carolina negro was killed there over a game of cards, the cards and the pistol with which be waa shot being left by his side. The Ethics of the Case A. 1 Clara I suppose now that - have broken off the engagment should return his presents. 1 Maud Not necessarily. should certainly wait until I was engaged to some : one else. De j troit Free Press. 100 DEATHS IS EASTERN N C The Storm Also Destroyed 60 or 70 Houses and a Number of Churches. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 24. Ac counts of the havoc wrought by the recent storm continue to ar rive from the region around Albe marle and Pamlico Sounds, where most of the casualities occurred. As tbis section of the broad waters is the artery for small craft from the region tributary to Chesapeake Bay and as far north as Philadel phia to the north Georgia coast, the number of vessels traversing these inland seas is always -great and it is even yet almost impossi ble state Brow many were caught in the storm and anything near the number that will fail to answer roll. call. Masters of crafjfs in from the re-- gion state that some small schoon- . ers, pungies, sloops and fishing craft were wrecked ashore, broken up, sunk or turned over are to be seen almost hourly in a trip throuh the sound's and it is now thought that the total drowned will run close to 100 if it, does not over reach it, while at least, on Swan,1 Hog ,and other islands in the vicin ity, at Portsmouth, Big and Little Kinnakeet, Ocracoke and smaller points, fully 60 to 70 bouses,, four or five churches "aSil : numerous stores, barns and warehouses were either washed away or damaged beyond repair, and as a result numbers are homeless and desti tute, -and fnany others have lost their crops! and flocks. Stock and implements and the fishing inter ests have suffered greatly. In a few days a fairly complete report can be made, but at present ru-" mors out weightrue statements and an accurate footing of the damage cannot be reached. Burned Herself to Death. , Parties who arrived in Charlotte Tuesday morning from Providence township brought news of the ter rible death by burning of Mrs. W. M. Matthews, about 12. o'clock' Monday, . night. The Observer .tfl&jSslllEd liy sufferinc bOdilv and mentally for ' weeks past, and the members of her family, fully aware of her con dition, had been keeping a close watch upon her movements, fear ing some irresponsible act. After. the family had retired Monday night, Mrs. Matthews, escaped from the house and shortly after ward her husband and children were aroused by loud screams. Rushing out of the house, they saw Mrs. Matthews running wild ly about the garden, her clothes blazing fiercely. Before they could reach her, she bad fallen to the ground. Her hair was burned, away and blazing strips of her clothing were clinging to her roasted body. She died before she could be carried into the house. Her arms and the upper portion of her body were badly charred. No one saw Mrs. 'Mathews leaver the house, and all that is known ' of the affair is mere speculation. It is believed that in her demented condition, she poured kerosene oil " upon her clothing and then set herself on fire. Mrs. Matthews was the. daugh ter of Mr. James Houston, of Union county, and was about 45 years old. She had five child ren. Negroes Not Allowed in a 0. H. Town. Washington "Post. "The town of Fitzgerald, Ga., which was built up by G. A. R. men from Northern States and tbreir descendants exclusively, does not allow negroes to become in habitants said Mr. O. B. Giddings of Savannah, at the Normandie. "This may seem to be discrim inating against the black race with a vengeance, but so far there has been no complaint at the operation of this muncipal exclusion act. and there is no probability that it will be modified or repealed in the near future. Fitzgerald is rather unique among Southern towns in this regard , for I do not know of a another in which the negro is abso lutely barred. What the penalty for violating the will of the Fitz gerald whites would be I am not informed, but so far no negroes have been rash enough to try to force themselves into the town." The wise man who boasts of his wisdom is a fool. The average man's tastes, are just a short distance in advance of his income. v s it i