North Carolina Newspapers

IE ilBBDR HRL FOTLISHED SVEHY TSUHSDAY BY 1 1 STEWART, Editor and Proprietor. SALISBURY, N. C. PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $1.50 &ix Months 1.00 'three Months 50 Advertising Rates by Contract, Jieasonable. Entered in the Poat-OIiioa at Salisbury & ecoud-clasa matter. .Newfoundland has taken to agriculture. It produced the past year hay and pota tee3 to the value of ..tSSSLOCO, and buttci to" the Value of 00,000.- The fishing industry is very precarious, and the re sort to agriculture seems to be thy- on!j hope, for the colony. , 3Irs. Elizabeth Carroll, of Warren; Ind., claims to have been born in Penn sylvania in 1774. Her husband was a soldier in the war of 1812. There is good reason to think that Mrs. Car: oil is really 1 1 :J years old, although she is. m active a? a woman of sixty. The Time.i or India .'ays that a general, order is about to be issued by the commander-in-chief directing that cavalry,' like infantry, shall henceforth cheer when charging. It is suggested that when colonels give out their commands on other matters, soldiers might also be permitted to express their approval by a "hear! hcar!J! The world's ceil' supply seems to be increasing rather than diminishing. A vein of coal sixteen feet thick has just been found at Whitcwood, Dakota, twelve feet below the surface, and sev enty feet beneath that another vein more than" three "times as .thick has been dis covered. TJie coal id gaid to be as good as any in the country. A Western judge has decided that a stockman occupying the public domain as a cattle range a -quires no right to the came that will enable h'm to prevent other stockmen from turning loose cattle on the- range, even though the first oc cupant has developed the water on the range and lias it ful y stocked. The potato crop of the United Slate in 1887 aggregated 131,000,000 bushels on an acreage of 2,:500.000. whirl. yield per no re of llfty-six b the last nirrllf I'dlro -.- .0 .. w j m j j uo' Irj uci potato year. ,,i - - n lion id that season, the yield vfatH, 123 bushels, raised from 2,289,273 acres, which was . vield of nir.ety-oue bushel? per acre. A Chicago clothing manufacturer s;iy? that he is 'obliged to pay jiarticular at tention to the hip pockets which he put; in trousers destined for the Western trade.; His Kans.is and Iowa customers demand a pocket capable of holding a quurt .flask, but for the far West trade the pocket is made deep and narrow, with an unusually strong lining, so that a pistol will tit snugly in it. The riiglish Bo irJ of Trade has made t report, in wiii;h it alleges that the number of p wipers in the country now arc 'only 21.7 to the 1,000, while in 1870 there were forty o the 1,000, and that the total miiJil.er luu fallen from 900,000 to t;!)r,0i.''i. while the population has increased by .-.,700,000. In London, it is alleged, there are now only twenty-one paupen to 1,:0 inhabit.ints. . .TusticeJatia.i-cii, of Kalamazoo, Mich., has a pimot tint he wouldn't sell for its weight in silyc. On five different occa sions has this intelligent bird saved the house from being burglarized. The last time wftS'oa a '.event night. The burg lar got the door unfastened, but when he r pened it the parrot a-ke l, in a stern and hur-h voice: "Hello, there ! What's tho matter ?" The burglar didn't answer, but fell over himself in his desperate hurry to get away. '"The general climate of England h favorable to the dev el cpn-.e riofcancer, rays tho -Loudm Standard. "Out ol every million deaths from all causes, ihoe from cancer number about 30,000. This proportion is only exceeded bj phthisis, old age, convulsions, bron chitis. pneu.nonia and 'debility.' Next to consumption, cancer is tho most fatal 1 of all the constitutional diseases; and it has been steadily gaining ground foi more than twenty years. The deaths from cancer r-cr million of persons living were in 18'j2, GJl; in 1872, 431; in 1831, 520; in 132, 532; in 1833, 540; in 1831, G00; in 13.i3, 5GG, aud are now tlose upon 000." . Michael C ah:".!, of San Francisco, ia well known in Washington. As far back 3 18 he scut his application ''for a patent- for his rain-making invention to the patent oTice, and as often as the law repaired renewed his caveat by paying $10.- The drawing which accompanied the application was a marvel. It repre sented tae rising moon an 1 the setting tun, a b.-.lioo.i, a man smoking a pipe find a hu'.e run-storm.' Whea (ahiil finally went to Washington it did not take long f,,r i..,e o.Bcials to confirm the:r previous imp;-er sion that he was' a crank. At the, same nine they guard his crazy ideas with gr-.it care andtre.it the whole inal'.e.' with a.:msing seriousness, because hh.-.s not legally abandoned his absurd c-lai-n. Con:::i .-ioner Ilallis particularly inclined not t allow Cahhi to be made ppotjt of l . ih.. papers. "You may laugh at me," i.e s..:d, "but I have no doubt that the time .s I I come when man will be able to bring rain out of the sky whenever i i'iA.roi ix Ait srt There is- a -tnan in the Kansas Peni tentiary who, beginning with a term at Sing Sing years ago, has served his time in regular succession in the penitentiaries of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich igan, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal says : To give some idea of the vast amount of new money which will be put into circulation from the bureau of engraving and printing during the coming fiscal year, Treasurer Hyatt j estimates the different denominations a- follows : Five-dollar United States not's, $15,000,000; ten-dollar notes, $20,000, 000; twenty-dollar notes, $30,000,000: fifty and one Tiundred-dollar notes, 0, 000,000; five hundred-dollar and one thousand-dollar rotos, $8,000,000. The silver certificates are estimated as fol lows: one dollar, $24,000,000; two doUars, $16,000,000; -five dollars, 000,X00 and ten dollars, $20,000,qO Madame Patti is not -the only singer with a castle to call her home. Minnie Ilauk owns a castle among the Swiss mountains, where she spends her vaca tions.- t was at one time used as a fortress, find the stout walLg are six to eight feet thick. The room are large, but are so -svcll filled with furciture, and the walls so thickly hung with pictures, that they seem quite cosy. Here Madame Ilauk keeps the trophies of her career, S.nd here her husband stores hii ethno graphical collection. Three fine dogs are Madame Ilauk's especial pets, and she is very fond .of roaming the moun tains, while they follow at her heels or bound up the steep paths in front of Jier. The -contested poi&ts in tli3 fishery trouble between the United States and Canada, and jnow engaging the attention of the authorities at Washington, are: 1. Whether the United States has a right in the British fisheries, independent of treaty provisions. 2. What a-s the rights of American fishermen under the con vention ot 1818, and under the laws of navigation and trade. 3. The "Head land Question," which is incidental to the other two questions. The British hold that the line must be drawn front headland to headland, three miles from shore. This interpretation would exclude American fishermen from the bays which indent the coast deeply and are the resort of the fish. The Americans say that three miles from shore means upon a line par allel with the shore, and three miles dis tant at every point. Consequently all bays more than six mile3 wide at thc mouth wouid open to American fisher men. The editor of Bern rJsVs says that "a movement is on foot to have a granl celebration in New York on the one one hunelredth anniversary of the inau guration of George Washington as the first President of the United State?. During this session of Congress a bill will be presented which will declare April 30, 1880, a public holiday. Hon. Abram . Hewitt, Mayor of New York City, anel a number of other prominent t citizens, have formed a committee, and com menced making arrangements for th? celebration. This will be one of the greatest events in the countryv It is fit ting that the ceremonies on this occasion shall be impressive. The inauguration of Washington was just as important an event in the history of the lllnited States as the signing of the Declaration of In elepenelence, or the drafting of the Con stitution. The completion of the Consti tution would have been fruitless without ratification, and to elo this it tocJc months of labor. The machinery of the Consti tution could not be set to work without the .President. bucu commemo; a' ivc. celebrations a'c a good thing for the country. They serve to keo alive oar patriotism, and hold before our eyes the greatness of the American Republic. In these days when anarchism and socia'iV.a have so tainted the minds of hundred and left a dark page upon our country'--history, something should be clone to im press upon the minels of the people tint the Republic is still "the land of th: free," and that no one will be permitted to take from us that freedom for which our forefathers fought, and paid se dearly."' - Bismarck's Favorite F'ower. Prince Bismarck, of Germany, like Napoleon and other great men, has hi3 favorite flower. . It is neither1 move noi less than the common red blooming heather. As long ago as lSG'U when traveling in France he wrote to his wife as follows: "Chambord Castle, in its present eleserted state, reminds me oi the fate of itsowneV In the spacious halls and vast saloons the toys of the little Duke of Co:'dcaux form almost th; only furnitnre. Tile siiaSy coUriyartis appear like so many descrteel church yards. From the tops of the towers on: enjoyes a fine view, but wherever one looks one sees nothing but silent forest s and heather as far as the honzOii no town, no village, no farmhouse visible near the castle nor as far as the eyn can reach.. From the inclosed samples o! of heather you will see how beautifully blossoms here! the purple flower I love so much the oniy flower in the royal gar dens. Swallows are the only liviug creatures in the castle, which is even too lonely for sparrows." Christian al Vorl. Noble-me a Y'ho Work. A quiet-lookUng Montana millionaire remarked from beneath his big Lata? the Astor House yesterday that the Ur.st seemeel to catch all the bogus British noblemen. The mines and the moun t:U!:s, sild he, get the genuine articles. The .supl-rintcnd.Mit of the Lexington nvme, at Butte, M. T., isthe youngest son of a noble hou wears kid gloves down into the shaft a silk underclothing all the year ro'.ir iBut there's not a miner in his force of o fO men who knows more than he, about the formation they are working, or who could lick him in a rough-and-tumble fight, for that matter. So nobody ever ridicules his gloves. Under him, as an expert assayist, thers is a noble young Frenchman who has held high. official position in China. Good, hemest fellows they are, who earn their money and invest quite as much as thej spend, and they never mention their titles, either. New York Sun. WASHINGTON, D. C. TACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT MEN AND THINGS. WStnt Onr National Inw .linker are -twepartinentnl liossip .Movement '.'President nsd Mrs. Cleveland. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate 3Ir. Allison, from" the trommittee on appropriations, reported DacK tne House bill to carry into effect the provisions of the act of the 2nd of March, 1887, in regard to ' experimenta stations at agricultural colleges. Flat on the calendar. On motion of Mr Quay, the Senate took from the caleudt ami passed tne Dill increasing the pen sion lor-total deafness to thirtv dollars month (from thirteen dol'ars), and allow mg a proportionate rating for partial deafness. The Senate then took up the bill giving a pension of $2,000 yearly to the widow, of Gen. John A. Logan, pass ed it almost unanimoush, and also grant ed by the :same vote a pension to the widow of Gen. Frank P. Blair. The Senate then took up the Blair education al bill, butcon proceeded to the consid eration of executive business . . In the House, the morninc hour was consumed in debating Ue bill affecting the title to a small tract cf land in Kansas, reserved ior some jew l ors Indians, who never occupied the lands. The bill was finally passed. The committee on foreign affairs was discharged, and at its own renuei-t. from further consideration cf the bill, in corporating the Maritime Canal com nan v, of Nicaraugua, and the same was referred to the committee . on commerce. The speaker pro tern stated the regular order to ue the consideration of the resolution setting apart February 21st, after the morning hour and aeh day thereafter. until further order, for the consideration of bills reported from the committee on public buildings and grounds, not to in terfere with revenue or general appropria nuu uiiis. r uiDusiering motions were then entered upon, but were repeatedly A .1 1 " 1 . . . vuieu uown amia muen noise and con fusion. Among the petitions and memorials presented in the Senate and referred, were the following: By Mr. Brown, of tne JMedical society of Georgia, to have .surgeons' supplies and instruments placed on tne tree list. Ihe resolution offered by Chandler some days ago,- calling on the navy department for information as to the purchase of plans and specifications in foreign countries ; as to changes from the original plans in the construction of shins of war ; and as to contracts made for ships and ordinance since the fourth of March, 1S85, were taken up. The first of them was aelopted, and the second referred to the committee on naval affairs. - As to the third, Mr. Butler moved to amend it so as to substitute 1880 for 1885. A long 'discussion ensued, many senators arguing against the propriety of putting into the bill amendments that would have the effect of delaying its passage ; Mr. Hale defendeel his action in offering amend ment on the "round that the Senate had pist ovprpilod-lhe, Tin9itir.TIwbio the nrt- propriations committee had taken on the subject (not to add any items to bill as as came from the House) and also on the ground that the secretary of the navy stated that the appropriation was abso lutely needed. The Senate confirmed the nomination of C. II. Way, of Georgia, consul-general at St. Petersburg; C. C. Litchfield, postmaster, Abingdon, Va., and R. M. Gardner, Christiansburg, Va. In the House, Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina, from the committee on judiciary, reported a bill to amend the internal revenue laws. Placed on the House calendar. A resolution, with the accompanying preamble, was adopted, as follows: "Whei eas. It is alleged that certain individuals and corporations in the United States engaged in manufactur ing, producing, mining or dealing in the necessaries of life and other productions have combined for the purpose of con trolling or curtailing the production oi supply of the same, ancl thereby increas ing their price to the people of the c-oun try, which combinations are known as associations, trusts, pools, anel like names; and, Whereas, Snch combinations not only injuriously affect commerce be tween the states, but impair the revenues tf the United States, as derived from its duties on imports ; therefore, Resolved, That the committee on manufactures, be and the same is hereby directed to inquire into the names, number and extent of such alleged combinations, uneler what ever name known, their methods of com bination of doing business, their effect upon the prices of any of ithe necessaries of life and of all product Ions to the peo ple of the country upoij its internal or foreign commerce, and its revenues from impost duties, together vith any and all other matters relating to the same which may call for or suggest legislation by Congress, and report the same to the House, with such recommendations as said committee may agree upon, and for these purposes the committee on manu factures is authorized to sit eluring ses sion of the House, ro employ a stenograph er, to administer oaths, examine witnesses, compel the attendance of persons, and the production of papers. GOSSIP. The Interstate Commission is after the express companies (espcciaUy those of the South), and the companies are using all the influence they can to cause delay in the investigation which is to take - - LTJ place. A delegation of the House of Repre sentatives from Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, 1 ennesseC and other tobacco-growing states held a meet ing, and decided to unite in a request for the removal of J. R. Dodge, statisti cal! of the department of agriculture, on account of defects in his' estimate of the tobacco crop of last summer. The Maxim automatic gun is on exhibition- in the navy department. The gun Duly weighs seventy pounds, and it is claimed that TOO shots a minute can .10 tired rrcs; rrom it. It is fired by the operator ng a pr-ring and is fed from belts holding on.t-j hundred cartridges each, which are contained in a box under the middie of the guii. A re-'-cntion was given by the Tresi dent and Mr :s. Cleveland, at the Executive -Mansion to i:;e members of Congress arm !u?uecs ot tho district and United States courts. The finwprs -in.l j mansion was decorated with jotted plants 'as usual ana mnsip w;is furnished bv the Marine band. Mrs. Cleveland was assisted in receiving by Mrs: Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Don M.Dickinson, and presentations were made by Colonel Yvilson. The House judiciary committee unani mously approved and will report to the House favorably a substitute for the bill to amend the internal revenue laws, in troduced by Mr Henderson, of North Carolina. 1 1 its present shape the bill abolishes all minimum penalties for the infraction of revenue laws, and confers an the courts discretion in the imposition t f punishment -within the limit fixed by the" statute and greatly changes the pres ent excise laws. Senator Ingalls will not accept f.ny qi the gavels which have been presented fo'i the use of the Senate. The gavel now in use is a piece of carved ivory and has erve 1 as the Senate gavel as far back as the memory of the oldest attache extends. Speaking of the gavtl which is without a nandle, benator ingalls said the otner day.: ' 'A s a matte r of fact that gavel neve r had a handle. It is in justas good condi tion to-day as ever it was. Its origin arid its history are not known bevond'the fact that it is a section of an elephant's tooth. benator Hawlev has received a letter from 3Ir. Stpniak, the well known ilu w-n revolutionist, protesting auamst the ratification of the proposed cx'iaclitioii treaty with Russia by the Senate. Stpniak Bought an introduction to bena tor Hawkv while the latter was in Lon don during the past summer, for the pur- pobe oi luaKing inquiries whether he would be given an opportunity to sfate his views on the proposed treaty before the foreign relations committee of -the Senate in case he should visit America, this year, r-s he at that time contemplated doing. Senator Ilawlcy informed him that he presumed the committee- would grant him a hearing. He has now re ceived a letter from Stpni k. savin;,' he will be unable to make the propos' i trip. NORTH CAROLINA K. OF I. Titer Thoroughly Indorse the Ulair Educa tional Bill and the Pennsylvania Strike. The North Carolina assemblv of Knights of Labor met in annual session at Greensboro, Congressman John Nich'i ols, state master workman, presidin One hundred and fourteen delegates anr' officers were present. Reports --gri made of the strength of the order that during the past year it had doubled its membership. It is estimated that it now has over 30,000 members. The assembly unanimously adopted the following reso lutions: ""Whereas, There are now in the state of Pennsylvania thousands of our Drotners who have been forced to strike against the oppression of the Read ing railroad company. Resolved, That while we do not'believe in strikes, ex cept as the last resort to which we be- leve Knights of Labor employed on rail roads and in the mines of the Reading railroad company have been driven. Re solved, That we regard this as directly against, that terror of liberty monopoly ana that while the battlefield of this great struggle is in the state of Pennsyl vania, we believe the principle involved is right food, clothing and shelter for men who toil to create the wealth of this country and their right to organize for their own improvement and protection, iesolved, That Knights of Labor of North Carolina are looking with deep solicitude and heartfelt sympathy upon the manful struggle of our brothers in Penn- ylvania, that we will encourage them and helpthem financially to the extent of our aculity, believing as we do that their ca ,e is our cause, liesolved. That we call on all local assemblies in thi3 state to cj, their brethren in their strug- theoltl a tuuJ uc auie immeuiaieiy. All crieas i;r n. i -ui -Dmcers witn one or two exceptions, fre-elected. John Nichols was re- we-its as master woritman. l he various taine are equally divided between white i t a . office inorea. Among the resolutions ana ca. were the following: In adoptef the Blair educational bill ; favor-dorsinftano-fi nf method tn ppot. TTnitpd ing a cremators direct by the people; States se?nring a government telegraph ; strongly fae discussion of politics in the state assenc? r 1? A T Tk VftmtTTV1 Ana Yet Her HnsbaifutVua ut an most Cut to Pieces. A shooting affray occurred at Knox ville, Tenn., in front of St. John's Epis copal church, which resulted in the wounding of three men, one of them fa tally. As James F. Rule, city editor of the Knoxville Journal, was entering the church, accompanied by his wife, he was accosted by three men, who walked up to speak with him. He went to the op posite side of the street with them, when all four stood talking some minutes. The three men were John West, William West and a friend of their's named Goodman. They attacked Rule on account of a com munication which appeared in the Jour nal, reflecting upon Dr. T, A. West,-' city physician, and father of John and Wil liam West. Rule refused to eive the name of the author of the communication, or to make any satisfactory answer to the question. Hot words ensued when John West struck Rule and attempted to bea.i him to the ground. Rule drew a revol ver and shot John West through the body. William. West immediately fired on Rule, the ball passing through llule's wrist. John West then cut Rule in the back seven times. William West placed his revolver at Rule's forehead anel fired, but Rule knocked the pistol up, receiving only a scalp wound! Rule then fired two more shots, one of them taking effect in the shoulder of Goodman, who seemed to be attempting to separate the combat ants. A number of men rushed out from the church, and stopped the bloody fight. William West ran away uninjured. Rule was able to get up and walk to the church, but John West was carried home in a dying condition. Rule's injuries are not dangerous, and Goodman is not seri ously injured. Rule's wife, who had en tered the church, knew nothing of the difficulty until all was over, the organ having drowned the noise of the pistol shots. fSEVEUE UAlLIiOAO ACCIDENT. Two passenger trains collided at the seventy-three mile post, on the Savannah Florida & Western Railway. Three men,' an engineer, fireman and train hand, were killed. One entire train and two Pullman coaches v.'ere destroyed. The dead engi ner, William Divine, -was a native of Savannah, Ga., and very popular. The train was running in two sections, fivtt minutes apart. The forward section was; composed of empty coaches. The second section was the legular train. ' A freight train was side-tracked at the 73-miie post waiting for the regular to pass. The first section stormed at the turnout to cool a hot journal, and v;s just moving off' the second section crashed into the '.hen rear coach, ccmplcteiY telescoping it. Oil set fire to the car.' In an instant it v. as in flames. Th . tire communicated to th- next coach forward, and that was burned. Before it could be got under control fivo coaches in all, two of which were Puii rnaii sleeper.--, were destroyed. Engineer Divine's section was running at full speed, when the collision occurred, but in spite of that the shock was hardly felt' in the rear coaches. THE AUT OBJECTED. A school teacher in Chatham county, N. C. attempted, to whip one of his pupils, when a grown female scholar, who was an aunt of the other scholar, pulled a pis tol and shot twice at the teacher, whe ran out of the school house, and was shot at again, the last ball making a hole in his coat-tail. SOUTHLAND D0TTINGS. INTER ESTINO A7i II S 1 TEMS FOR Bvsr The Sneiat, IJeliirinin and Temnernnee World-Projected Enterpris-s-JInr-rijigen, Firrs. Deashs. Etc. Chancellor P. H. Mell, of the Univcr iity at Athen.srASa., is dead. The grand jury at- New Orleans,' La., has clecided that keno is not gambling within the meaning of the statute. A bottle of corn whiskey taken from n drunken man in Atlanta, Ga., while on the mantiepieceof the oiice station, ex ploded., with tUCTIbise of a small cannon. Deputy Sheriff J. M. Autry was shot and instantly killed near 'Tuscaloosa, Ala., while arresting Jim Semmes, a ne gro. The negro fired from his house just iis he reacheel it. The jail of Edgecombe couu ty, North Carolina, at Tarboro, and the old Steele Creek Presbyterian church in Mecklenburg-county, North Carolina, were des troyed by fire. . While engaged in his office. Col. V,'. D. Gale-, one of the best known citizens ol Nashville, Tenn., was stricken with total paralysis, and is not expected to live. He served on Gen. Lconidas Polk's staff dur ing the War. The celebrated trotting stallion, Happy Medium, valued at $40,000, died at Lex ington, Ky. He was foaled in 1863. Thirty-nine of his get have records of 2:30, or lower. He was of Ned by Gen eral W. T. Withers. Hands up; I am a detective I" were the words used by Albert Knott, a young colored man who had summoned Fred. Patrick, of Atlanta, Ga., to the front uuur. v un nis naneis out, ratricK cap tured the bogus detective. J. M. Frazier, who was for years treas urer of the Mobile & Georgia Railroad company, left Columbus, Ga , for Mexico to accept the position of auditor of ac counts of the construction company of the Mexican National railway. George Bankston, who is alleged to be the most expert burglar and cow- thief in Atlanta, Ga., was shot and daugerously wounded on Decatur street, between Col lins and Calhoun, by Patrolman Wooten, from whoni he was trying to get away. It having been announced that the printers who recently struck on the Courier-Journal, of Louisville, Ky., proposed starting an opposition paper, W. N. Hal deman, proprietor of the Courier-Journal, tendered the strikers full associated press dispatches six months frce of charge. Marshal Tom Brown, of Kingston. Tenn., shot and instantly killed favlor Bowlin. During the day Bowlin had been arrested by Brown, "and when he gained his freedom he said he would kill Brown on sight. He went to Brown's residence and attacked him, when Brown shot him through the head with a pistol. Charles G. Minnigerodc. a prominent citizen of Alexandria, Va.,in the railroad supply business, committed suicide at his residence by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. He was a son of Rev. Dr. Minnigerodc, of Richmond, Va., was at one time a Confederate soldier and served on Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's btafL He leaves a wife and eight children. " Golclthwaite Graham, a well known citizen, for many years deputy sheriff of Montgomery, Ala., committed suicide. The deceased had been drinking and re marked to his son : "I'm going to kill myself. Old man Workman went by the laudanum route, ana i u ao tne same. He was noted for courao-e and in: and whrm not d rink in o- 2nfSt0foPy i,i fir i rf"rT'r'J"m i uic 111(111. white wan, a dov aDout a ween oui. t 1 til was found lying in a basket covered with worsted shawls, at the front door of J. T. Butler, in Hamburg, S. C, opposite Augusta, Ga., just across the river. The foundling was placed at the door after midnight, and when found was alive, but only lived an hour afterwards. The night was intensely cold, and it is though! the infant was frozen to death. 'V Governor Lowry's Vetoing the constitu tional convention bill, passed by the Mis sissippi Legislature, has created quite a happy sensation among-the-people. Con gratulatory letters from many of our mo.st prominent citizens, have been sent to the plucky governor. The ' opinion prevails that all the objectionable features can be eliminated by means of amendments, thus saving the enormous expense necessarily attached to the formation of a new consti tution. : ItlN; A SOUTHJEIIN IEA1. A man giving the name of Joseph L. Peal, and stating tht he was a I umbo and flour merchant of Bethel, N." C, called at the central polic e station in Phil delphia, Pa., and informed Chief of De tectives Wood that lie had been duped out 'of $210 by a confidence man. " Mr. Peal said that a few weeks ago he re ceived a letter at his home from a man in New York, named J. II. Word, who gave his address is 150 Mulberry street, (care of Barber). The writer informed Peal that he had a lot of greenbacks which had been printed from stolen government plates and which he would sell to. Peal at a liberal discount. Correspondence fol lowed, and Ward informed the Bethel merchant that he would meet him at the Pennsylvania railroad station in Phila delphia. Mr. Peal met the man ana obliged him with $210. Next morning he began to think romcthing had gone wrong and told Ids story to the police, nd left for home- it; IITY ODD. p. C. Martin, a prominent man ol Cahiwell county, X. C, gives particulars of some remarkable manifestations at his house. He says that about, two months ago his little granddaughter informed Mm that stones were falling in the house. From that time this phenomenon has con tinued. The stones have been seen to fall in the house by various pcisous, and they are from ten pounds weight down to a quarter of a pound. They fall ap parently from the room, and do not in dent the floor as they would do if dropcd from that height. In some cases they ap pear to project themselves from the side of the room. The first ' observation of this strange phenomenon was at the o'.d Martin house. The family moved about a quarter of a mile to a nev,r house of Martin's, end the stones fell there. Then they moved into another house, und yet the fall continued. A VENBETTA.. The vendetta between the McCoys, ol Pike county, Ky., and the Hatfields, of Logan county, W. Ya., has grown to such great proportions that it has been found necessary for the officials of Logan county to call upon Governor Wilson, of that state, for aid to suppress the parties en gaged in this local warfare, in order to protect the good people of the county and to stop the feud. Several militia com panies have proffered their services to aid? in suppressing the troubles. CONFLAGRATIONS. Dnrlns Extreme Co!d Wmtlier a Xw ber or IIooe Were Burned. The vil'age of Aisone, in Laly, has been almost whollv destoyed by fire. Two persons were killed and many injured. Tie inhabitants arc destitute. A de fective fine in the four-story building of C. G. Ilusscy, occupied by Urling& Sons, me rchant tailors, and Heer. n Brothers, manufacturing jewelers, Pirtsburg, Pa., resulted in a fire which burned fie-cel. v- j. for eight hours, and occasioned the loss of $'M0, G00. 'ihe total loss w s 2S.V oOO. on which there was $200,000 in surance. The magnificent country home of Overton Lt-a, situated five miles from Nashville, Tenn., on the Granny white pike, was totally destroyed by fire, to gether with the fine library, many costly paintings and marbles.1 It was the finest out of town home in the county, and y as built only five yeais ago. Maloue, Frank dn county, N. Y., was visited by a terrible fire. It commenced in the crock ery store of M. C. Fuller, situated in the Empire or Howard house biock. Owing to the hydrants being frozen, no Vhtei could be obt-.ined from them, and long delay was caused from the fact that con- nections had to ue maue v.uu me river, ami water forced -up by steamers. Dur ing the burning of the Howard house, an exp'osion, presuma' ly of ga, occur red, blowing out a portion of the b;ick walls, and killing Isaac Chester, a prom inent businc ss man of Mah-ne, who was coming out of the bank, a-:d injuring several others. The whole Empire block, including the hotel, opera house, and all the stores in the block, were completely destrojed. A fire broke out in the upper story erf the south wing of the four-story brick building in Brooklyn, N. Y., oc cupied by St. Johu'S Roman Catholic orphan asylum. The building is on St. Marks avenue, near Albany avenue (in the distant suburbs), and is occupied by 400 or 500 children. A fire broke out in the hospital for the ruptured and crip pled at Lexington avenue and Forty-Second street, in New York City. The hos pital contained 163 crippled children under treatment, but all were removed safely. One domestic was suffocated, and the building was badly damaged. T M. Gamage had the misfortune to lose hi' dwelling, barn and stables by fire. In the stable:there was several fine horses, one of which was very badly burned. Mr. Gamage thinks it was the work of some malic ious person. The large build ing occupied by the York Daily publish ing company as a printing office, D. - J. Welsh, clothiers, and R. F. Polock, jew eler, in New York Citv. was burned. The loss is 50,000. The chamber of commerce, in Peoria, 111., was partially destroyed by fire. Itwas insured for $40," 000, which will probably cover the loss. Every business house in the town of Walnut Cove, Stokes county, N. C, was burned. The fire broke out about ten o'clock in the store of John C. Bai ley, and was due to a defective flue. Fire broke out in the job office of the Chattanooga, Tenn., Commercial com pletely gutting the job office, md flooding the news loom, press ind counting room with water. The vVe.tern Union telegraph oriice and inights of Pythias hall, in the same wilding, were badly damaged. The jreat printing and binding establishment f H. W. Rocker, in Spii- gtield. I l.,was lestroyed by fxe. Tie . building, ma :Iii:iery and stock aTspjajrota! loss. " The )lant was one of -the most complete in :he West, and. the 'estimated loss is over 75,000, while its insurance was $35,000.' 15 AD PLACE TO 83IO KE IN. An explosion took place at P. A. Stow man's store at the -'Pines," near Green Pond, N. C, in which Aaron O'Brien was terribly burned. A negro in passing the keg of powder dropped a spark from his pipe in th keg, which exploded, casting consternation all around and ruin to the building, tearing off the weather boarding, some shingles and completely ruining one gable end of the house. Five Dr -six -customers, most of them. negroes," svere severely bruised and burned. Mr. O'Brien had Ids hands and face terribly burned before he got outof the building, but in his wouuded condition aided in rescuing the others from the wreck. AMERICA'S NEVV CARDINAL. It is agreed upon in Catholic ecclesias tical circles that Archbishop Williams, ol Boston, Mass., will be made a cardinal at the consistoiyin March. Other changes : Rev. -Dr. Cappele, of Washington, D. C, will probably be promoted to the vacant archbishopric of New Orleans; a new archbishopric will be created out of the archdiocese of Milwaukee and Bishop Ire land will become the new archbishop, and Dr. O'Conncll, rector of the Ameri can college, in Rome, will succeed Bishop Keane, of Richmond, when the latter as sumes duties in the new university at Washington; FAMILIES OF ANARCHISTS. The rioneer Aid and Support Associa tion, of Chicago, 111., has decided to fix w eekly payments to the families of the executed Anarchists at $8 to each of tb widows, and $2 for each child, where there arc two children, and $1 for thel third child as in case of Mrs. Fischer. Itj appears that the families are better oft now, financially, thm they ever were1 while the husbands and fathers wcnJ alive. Mrs. Parsons recently bought aj gold watch for which she paid $05, ancl bought an expensive plush cloak. A It O If J II DEAL.. George L. Homing, a butcher of Ches ter Pa. . filled a pan of seapple with "Rough on Rats," and placed it in the ice box, for the purpose of making whole sale slaughter of the rodents infesting his place. He forgot to tell his man about the doctored pan, and one of hu agents, Newell Carr, took the scrapple along with him on his regular rounds; a dozen people who had eaten the poisoned meat were prostrated, and several ol them will clic. ADVANCING VUICE. The sugar trust gave of "its power v. hen it Sierck & Co., of close -th-ir refinery. another evidence ordered Moller, New York, to Oue cf the of the firm said that the shut-down would not occur until the raw sugar on hand had been used-up. In .the meantime the tirm notified its tmnl -ves to look out for new jobs.' The whisky trust having been completed, its directors, at Peoria, 111., raised the price three cents per gallon on high prooi spirits. WILL. NOT CBET. ' The employes of the Thomas Coal com pany refused to ' obey the order of the joint committee to cease work, and the Kelly Run mine was in full blast. The company issued a notice that they would continue working right ahead. The Wil liam Penn Coal company has also arrang ed to resume work, and are confident of their ability to keep in operation, not witn non-union, but regular employes. THE BUSY WORLD PHOTO OR A PH ED BY THE EVER. PRESENT NEWSPAPER MAX. Tbe European rowers Frepitring for Ureat Struggle IrUU Aflalm-siorm', Railroad Accidents. Sniriilcs. etc. There is a fuel famine San Francisco, Cal. in the city ol An explosion of melinite occurred in a factory at Zurndorf, Hungary, killino three persons and wounding twelve. News from Winnepeg declare that the deficit in the accounts of the late govern ment is now found to reach overhalf a million dollars. Local option was carried in Allegan county, Mich., by over 1,500 majority. This makes fourteen counties that have voted for local, option in Michigan-. A startling plot for the wholesale lib eration of the prisoners confined in the state penitentiary, at Jeffersonville, Ind. was discovered recently by Warden Patton. The Toledo, Ohio, Anarchists have is sued a call for a meeting to be held "soon. The call is in circular form, and bears the ensanguined motto: "Blood, Bombs or Bread!" The people of Beardsly, Minn., are so desperate that a number of farmers drove into that place after fuel, and there being none, tore dowjtjjhe, railroad, -oinpanyli snow fences and liauled " away several loads. ( Havana, Cuba, is in a turmoil, and on the verge of mob violence, owing to unscru pulous.acts of the government. In one day there were twelve murders, one suicide, eight highway robberies and four stabbing affrays. - 1 An explosion occurred at a dynamite factory near Jenkintown. Pa. While four men were making cartridges,' a large can of dynamite exploded. The men were all sent sailing through the air. One was killed, being nearly blown to pieces. The other three were badly crippled, but may live. - Owing to a mistake by the signal sta tion, a fearful collision occurred on the Oeste railroad, that runs from Havana to Vuelto Abajo district, Cuba. A passen ger train collided with a freight train 17 miles east of La Ilcrradura station. The engineers and firemen of both trains were instantly killed, and their bodies terribly mangled. Forty passengers, more or less, were badly hurt. An explosion occurred in No. 5 pit, Wilmington colleries, B. C, by which upwards of fifty lives were lost. A man who was standing one hundred yards from the pit at the time, stated that when the cxplosionoccurred, a dense mass of dust and smoke shot into the air, and the fan house and the wood-work in the shaft were destroyed. By prompt action 103 men out of 160 in the mine were saved. It is feared the others are dead. GOitfG FURTHER SOUTH. The Scheme Which on Indiana Man U Agi tatlng Among Colored People. Col. A. A. Jones, of the Indiana auditor's office,, who is connected with the latest proposed exodus' of negroes from the Southern States to South America, talks freely about the scheme. He is an active friend of movements for the ' -improvement of the condition of his race, "and was engaged in the first exodus of 1879. He accompanied Gov. Chamberlain, together with severaLoihexroung colored men, to oojitfi. Carolina from Massachusetts, and entered heartily into that movement. "This exodus," he said, "will be effectu ally pushed and by May 1st we expect to have our first party on the road. There are no headquarters as yet. The move- ! ment is very young: less than a month 5 old, eo iar as active vvoik is concern ctJ Headquarters will be established, -probably iu New York. ,rVnaIl have three agents in CiircrrrTati ; one at St. Louis, and one at Chicago. I am agent at thi3 -point. We have some of the best people in the country interested men who are willing to go down in their pocketsfor the relief of their oppressed brethren. We have some colored people in this country pretty well fixed and they are committed to the work. There is no fixed -. amount of capital. We wish to accom plish by the exodus, first and foremost, . protection. This is not a ques tion' of politics at the bottom, although it will, of course, have some po litical bearing. The colored man has de veloped and made-the South what it is, and the white laborers coirtu not ana cannot do the work that our people do. Southerners will find a difference when they have to use white labor. We have selected South America for ft location because of its climate and adaptability oioil to produce such articles as the colored people are accustomed to rais ing. We have investigated tho country and received favorable reports. Ourpeo- pfe do not want to come North ancl West, because of climatic conditions, and be cause the prejudice against the black race follows them even there. In South America, as well as in other parts of the world, the color of the skin does not bat one out of the race for the best. We shall start our emigrants from" eastern points. I can't speak more definitely now than to say that a boat will run to Brazil, and will carry passengers at $14 a head., Certain ly that is cheap enough. We have agents at work in the South now, and wc shall get as many emigrants as possible out ol Mississippi and Louisiana, while not neg lecting Missouri and Kentucky, and il there is not a big emigration, therefore, next Bummer, then I miss the guess." OKATrr PANCED. A dance was given at the house of John McClure, in York county, S. C, and was largely attended by Loth sexes. As tne festivities pro.res-s-d liquor circulated freely among the reveler?1, and about midnight a free fight ensued. many, the lights were blown out, pistols drawn, enrl n!t rlnwn shots lived. V hCU the smoke Shelby, N cleai ed awav, Jim warn, 'n fmlid '-lvirvr dead -tt ,.t was upon the lloer, with a bu'ict mrougu iut heart. Several other persons were slight ly wounded. Fo'it ritcnintTiox. In the Massachusetts House of Repre sentatives the constitutional prohibition resolution was passed, to be engrossed in concurrence with the Senate, by a vpte of 100 to 70. An amendment proposing to substitute the word "alcoholic" for "intoxicating" was rejected by a vote ot 83 to 137. The constitutional amend-, ment will have to be passed by a two thirds vote in both branches next year be fore its submission to Se people at the polls. . . At a recent meeting of learned men m Berlin it was said, as a fact, that when a bee has filled his cell with honey and has completed the lid he adds a drop of f ormio acicl, which he gets from the poi son bag connected with the sting. To do this he perforates the lid with his etbg. The aoid preserves the honey.