VOL. II.
SALISBURY. N. 0., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY T, 1883.
NO. 19 .
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THE SONG OF SONGS.
a man thet 'a fond p' music,
An' w'en folks are not around,
I kin make our old accorjun
Squeak a mighty takin' sound;
An' thet banjer hangin' yander,
With its gentle plink, plank, plink,
Pyears to git plumb at the bottom
Of the deepes' thoughts I think.
Does me heaps p' good on Sundays
'For the pray 'r at church is said,
'Jes to stand an' hyear "Old Hundred
.Soarin' fur up overhead?
An' I most kin spy the angels
Leanin' 'crost the gate up thar,
r When Old Abrum Blackburn's darter
Leads us in "Sweet Tour o? Pray'r."
jLfcet yoi sh'u'd want to see me
W 'en I hev my bro.adesr smile,
Tou must ketch me in the kitchen,
W'en the kittle 's on-, the bile !
Fer I claim thar ain't no warLlin'
Ever riz on red-birds,' wings
Thet kin holt a taller candle
To the song the kittle sings.
Seems ez ef my soul gits meller
In the kittle's first sweet note,
Till I fancy weddin' music
Screakin' f'om the iron th'oat.
Sech times, ef I squent my eyes up,
I kin fahly 'pyear to see I.
Old man Abrum Blackburn's darter '
gmilin' thoo the steam at me!
Eva W. McGlasson, in Century.
THE DOCTOR'S NEPHEW.
EY EMMA A.
OPPER.
Cora alighted
from.
Philo Wilson's
high, and narrow and
somewhat rattJy
uur-oJ uuu bUiC uown .on a log witn a
sigh of relief, while Philo hitched his
horse to a tree.
It was not an enticing thing at best to
go to a picnic with Philo Wilson - but
the picnic itself. wa9 preferable to the
drive thither. There were distractions
at least, and, with good luck, a chance
for a brief escape. But driving six
miles with him, making spasmodic at
tempts at.conversation while he sat in
his usual open-mouthed but tongue-tied
silence, tall and lank, uninspired and
uninspiring driving with Philo had no
alleviating points.
Fairly at the grounds, then, Cora
shook out her white dress and straight
1 .1 A. J , I
ened her chip bonnet and even smiled a
little Avith the buoyancy of youth. The
picnic was large, she noted, gaily.
There were the older people gathered
sedately together among a group of
birches. Cora's father and mother were
among them, in black broadclcth and
alpaca,- and. they looked over at 'their
pretty aaugnter ana philo with placid
smiles. . ;. .
They approved of Philo; he was
'steady," and their practical concern
went no further. Cora smiled back at
them. And grouped about the long
board platform, where there would be
dancing later, were all "the girls. '
Cora deserted the log. v
"I'll "go over where the rest are1," she
Said. , -
And fJhough Philo, who was a bit of a
despot under his phlegmatism, did not j
look pleased, she hurried away.
"The girls'-' were gushingly glad to
. Bee her, after the manner of girls. -
.'You look lovely !" said Kate Miller.
"What did you bring?" said, Margy
Fuller. "I've got an,angel-cake,but it's
perfectly horrid! It isn't white a bit,
and the frosting "
"You know it's splendid, Margy, "'said
Cora, laughing; "yours always are. Isn't
that Dr. San corn's nephew?"
"The girls" did not look around it
wasn't necessary. They had him already
well fixed on their mental retinas, by
reason of sundry furtive glances the
handsome young fellow, blue-eyed and
black-haired, in a loose jacket and sand
shoes and. a' soft cap, who sat talking to
Sadie Sanborn and' Sadie's beau atthe
other end of the platform. They burst
into a subdued inquisitorial chorus. "
. "Oh, do you know ' him?" We
thought, of
course, he's a relative, be
ith Sadie." "Isn't he lovely,
cause he's with
anyhow;'
"He is very nice-looking," said Cora,
faintly tinted a3 to her round cheeks.
"Ves, he's . the doctor's nephew. He
was here last summer, but only for a
week or so; and the doctor was in to see
lather one evening, and brought Mr.
Hill with him, and we got pretty well
acquainted. He'd run over and play
croquet real often, and one day we
went" . -
But a little
rupted her :
excited tnurmer 1 inter-
- "He's looking at you!" "He's bow
ing!" "He's coming straight over here.
Coral" ' ... , '
. So he wa9, with the eager smile with
which, young .men have greeted pretty
maids since the world began, and with
an impatient, outstretched hand.
Cora's ringers smarted, in truth, under
lh.e pressure it gave them. ' v
"Miss Gilman," he said, finding a seat
beside her (and "the girls" edged away,
awed by the nearer presence of 'the
doctor's nephew;. "I have been looking
. for you, do you .know I came only
yesterday, or you'd have seen me before.
,How are you, Miss Ciilman? You look
well! And! the croquet ground is it
there?" V.. p '
"Ves, it's there," she said, smiling up
at him. (Philo had been buttonholed
by Hank Lee, at a safe distance.) "I've
improved, Mr. Hill. Will you believe
: it?"
r& v" cried, in humorous alarm.
"Why, you used to 'whitewash' me
every time as it was. We'll play some
thing else this year. Miss Gilman ta"-,
or jackstones, or something I'm proficient
in
They laughed delightedly.
How nice he was! she thought so
bright and jolly ! "
bhe was a little
frightened. to find
itiucuiuL-reu an aoout mm.
And he she couldn't tptTwlvit.
it- i.: t v 7., - " "
K th v F" hG WaS l00kin
at her with verv cfarpr pvpo onri o
almost excited. 'She dronnerl h or rtn n
iu,-f " 71? TJ ,
her cheeks pinker.. " '
."I remember it all, you see. What a
good time we had, Miss Gilman, -now
didn't wei the day we went off black
berrying? You haven't forgotten it?
You had on an old -blue dress and a
snaKer, ana some gloves of your father's."
t I a IeW back hl5 head 1Q boyish
And
-He grew suddenly .sober.
"I did enjoy
that week, Miss Gilman,
over in my imagination
Ti ..
I've uvea .it
often enough
since. If it hadn't been for you, Miss
Oilman, I shouldn't have come here this
summer 1" he ended, courageously. "But
Pm in for a month here now." i ' . . 0 '
I She looked ,&t him breathlessly, her
heartbeating hard. j
. i Did he mean it? But she knew he
did. And he hadn't an idea of Philo's
existence. She wished that she had not.
The doctor's nephew rose impulsively.
"Come, Miss Gilman," said he ; "don't
let" sit here pokily. "VVe never were
poky, you know. Let's have a ramble.
Isn't there an ostensible purpose an ob
ject of interest, or something V-
j bhe smiled, with an inward - conflict
of gladness and misgiving. '
I "There's the willow arbor, down by
the marsh; it's pretty there," she fal
tered
j Hank Lee had released Philo; he was
turning this way, with his loose gait,his
jhands in his pockets.
"I love willow arbors." cried the
doctor's nephew. . "It there's anything
I've always adored and yearned for it's
a willow arbor. You'll go V ,
"1 don't know," said Cora, wistfully.
But Mr. Hill knew. Philo Wilson, at
any rate, stood the next moment staring
after their disappearing figures.
! It was not quite eleven by Mr. Hill's
handsome time-piece when they started;
(but it was fully one when they got back,
j They had forgotten the picnic, almost,
wandering among the willows in some
thing more than contentment, and it was
a dire necessity to have to come back to
it,
"But thev'll be having dinner, you
say?" said Mr. Hill. "And they'll feat
at that long table, all together? Well.
I'll get a seat by you, by hook or crook."
j But dinner was late. The fiddlers had
arrived, and been pressed into early ser
jvice. The platform was filled with
jwaltzers to get up their appetites, they
said, while their elders waited hungrily
for that process to be completed.
! "Ah!" said the doctor's nephew,
blithely. "Will you give me -'the first,
jMiss Gilman, and as many more as your
card will permit?"
They were laughing at that as they
;went toward the platform. But they
did not ascend it. Philo stood on the
lower stair, like a spider in wait for a
flv.
. "It's" about time, seems to .me," he
Observed, his dull face lighted by a spark
bf anger, "i've b'en lodking round for
you for two hours. I guess I'll have
;the first dance., if you just as lief.
There was sharp resentment
pale-lashed eyes.
j Cora bit her ted lips, her face aflame.
But she spoke quietly.
S "Mr. . Wilson was my escort, Mr,
Hill," she said. "I- -I"
I She could not finish. She tried
to
smile, but her lips only trembled,
j The doctor's nephew looked 3Ir. Wilson
over from . head to foot, and bowed
silently, a little paler than his wont, and
turned away. -
"I didn't mean to make you mad,"
said Philo, better disposed now that he
triumphed. "But I was kind o' put
out. Your folks didn't like it, neither.;
I told 'em you was off - with him. Wal,
let's have a waltz," he concluded, con
scious of extreme magnanimity.
'I shall not dance," said Cora. ,
Her pretty eyes blazed scornfully upon
him. He had told ''her folks." She
could have laughed if -she had not been
so hotly miserable.
"You will find
What did he think? !
me a seat, if you
please," she said.
But Philo did not hear her. His eves
were fixed on a figure at a little distance
a figure which walked unsteadily with
swinging arms.
"Jem Murray!" he muttered, amazed-
I The eyes of the entire picnic were,
focused on Jem Murray, and. with equal
bewilderment. Jem alone was uncon
cerned. He was the chief blot' on the
town's respectability; a brainless fellow. ,
half shoe'taaker and half vagabond gen
erally idle and never sober. How Jem ;
Murray had got to the picnic was a 1
startling mystery; but he1 was there un
questionably, and as unquestionably
drunk, j
i His progress was not barred; there
was some 'hesitation about barring it.
lie swaggered on, marking, his course
wjth amiable comments.
".Xishe day, nishe plashe, nishe lot o'
girls. Keep right 'long" for the fiddlers
had . irresolutely- stopped "keep right
'long; goin' to have a danshe m'self."
i He was grinning with the pleasure of
this vague notion. It took clearer form
in hi3 muddled head. . . ' ' j
1 "Goin' to have a darishe," he repeated. '
'Here here' sh girl now:" j
I He was standing before Cora, his i
blinking eyes on her blanched face and I
his shaking arm extended. !
She caught at her companion des
peratedly ; but Philo backed off, his face
as pale as ner own. He had never
"tackled" Jem Murray, and he did not
care to do it now. '
"See here, now," he began, weakly.
But .Tern was oblivious,
j "Wal, 'm waitin," he observed
M He touched Cora's sleeve: but he did
I no more. He was laid on his back theJ
i next minute by a sharp blow on the
face, and the doctor's nephew stood
threateningly above him. There were
ihalf a dozen others meditating the same
act, but the doctor's nephew had dis
tanced them. .
; Philo stocd open-mouthed. Cora was1
nervously crying, but Mr. Hill's arm was
through her's protectingly.
. Jem Murray was got on his feet and
hurried away by a score of hards, and
the hero of the occasion had an approv
ing group around him, and Cora's father
was of the number. . '
"You did that mighty neat," was the
"I could not see a lady insulted," the
young man responded, a little stirfiy,
iwith an eje oh Philo,. and .Philo grew
'red under "it; I .
i !
Cora's tremulous fingers faintly pressed
j her companion's arm
i lyuiiiu i:erut my gin, saiu. ner iarner.
I in 1. ; - 1 1 t r il
i iuuic an upsut. jir. mii, you ve got
' W gratitude," he declared, courteously,
t . ' .
"Vnil'ro D linen Tr TT;i1 n 1 t
Mil. U)OVl, Jll. VUU C KOL
i I out mere was someinmg in His voice
1 ;which made his daughter look up at him
f as he led her away, j -
"lou saw it," she said, anxiously. ....
! "Yes, I saw it. So did your mother.'?
Her father cleared i his throat. I don't
know as I care about your having much
more to do with that young Wilson. I've
always been in favor of him, but I guess
.he ain't all I reckoned he was
Coming
' off with that
.! . . . " . r - -
to fitrht mv own hattlpa
Arid Ktnn H i r rp
there like a calf just now when he ought
to X stirring, Wal, I don't just admire
a cojpvard ,
Cora" laughed gaspingly.
"Nor I !" she cried.
"But that young Hill, now."'
father, emphatically "he was here last
summer, recollect?"
-"Yes," said Cora, guiltily blushing.
"Wal, seems to me he's the right kind.
Showed some spunk., he did showed
the proper spirit! Fine vonnw man t
Wonder if he's making much pf a stay
to the doctor's?" he speculated, with a
show of indifference he did not feel.
How could he? The fine young man
had not seemed indifferent to his
daughter, and he had some paternal
wonderings.
." "I think he is," said Cora.
She wiped away the last of her tears
and sniiled, for the doctor's nephew was
coming toward her through the trees.
And her mother was getting out the
luncn-oasKet.
Philo Wilson did not appear at the
well-spread dinner; nor was it very
strange that he did not escort Cora to
the next picnic, for before that annual
gathering asain took place, she was
generally known as "the doctor's niece."
Saturday Hight. ' '
"wiSlTwORDS.
Cultivate charity.
- True eyes discover truth.
There is nothing as royal as truth.
Without hearts there is no home.
The most effective coquetry is inno
cence, j
Simplicity and luxury are equally en
joyable. Life is too short to crowd it with re- j
sehtments.
Knowledge is dearly bought, if we
sacrifice to its moral qualities.
It is easier to vanquish a man in an
argument than it is to convince him.
We find self-made men very often, but
self-unmade ones a good deal oftener.
Comparison, more than reality, makes
men happy and can make them wretched.
Iso great characters are formed in this
world without suffering and self-denial.
The existence of life is sometimes
measured by the memory of its burdens.
He who reforms himself has done some
thing toward the reformation of the
crowd. -
A mfirplv faJlfin p.nemv mav ris ao-ain.
J J J 0 I
m m3but the reconciled one is truly van
quished.
If we did but half we are able to do we
would be surprised at the sum of our
diligence. : r
When a man learns how ignorant he is
he is in possession of a valuable piece of
knowledge.
You cannot dream yourself into
character; you must hammer and forge
yourself one. ,
Men will wrangle forj religion, write
for it, fight for it, die for it ; anything
but live for it. .
Branding 'U. S" 911 Deserters.
Under the old systerh, lin the United
States Army a man caught and convicted
of the crime of desertiori was branded
by tattooing the' letter D on his left hip.
He was at once recognized by that mark
?.n Presentia? bimself at a recruiting of-
fice for examination. The brandino- svs
; tem was abolished by law, and since then,
i it is always ditJicult and often impossible
: for the recruiting officers to tell old de
: serters when they turn up a?ain for ea
; listment at different stations. I have
' hea-rd my men speak of others who had
deserted and re-enlisted over ten times.
They had told pf one man who had been
in and out the service eleven times, and
of another who had a record of thirteen
enlistments. These aie no doubt extreme
cases. . !
Branding was abolished because it was
considered degrading. The old system
; of flogging perished for a similar reason
; many years ago. I am in favor jof brand
i ing, and wouldjmake it an honor instead
! of a stigma by haying the letters U. S.,
! or some distinctive mark tattooed on
every sold er, ofiicer, and private, j The
i mark could be plac ed on the arm as well
; as the hip for the purpose. I think if I
1 appeared before! my men with the brand
; exposed to their view the idea of degra
! dation would quickly vanish. Then, if
a man deserted and presented .himself
again for re-enlistment or was captured,
his discovery w-ou I'd be a very simple
matter. A large proportion of the de
serters get' caught sooner or later, but in
the meantime they co t the country a
large sum of money. My remedy, I
think, would not only be an economical
measure, but absolutely certain as a
means of detection.- Ne.c York Times.
A Cunning Restaurateur.
Why do you keep it so blazing hot?"
inquired, a patroa of the proprietor as he
entered a restaurant. "Because it is cold
outside," replied the proprietor. After
the patron had left the premises the
restaurant proprietor confidingly made
.the following confession to a newspaper
man: "You see, I've been in'the busi
ness for a quarter of a century, and my
experience has taught me that under
ordinary circumstances men devour
more food at a. single meal in piercing
cold weather than when the outside
temperature is moderate. When I first
embarked in the eating-housel business
I was green enough to economize in
wood for heating the premises,imagining
I was thereby saving money, bat i soon
discovered my mistake as the patrons of
my restaurant devoured such inordinate
quantities of food in winter that bank
ruptcy stared me in the face. It was
here 1 learned ja lesson from a cook, and
through which I have since acquired a
snug fortune! My cook ate barely
enough to sustain life in a canary bird,
and 1 inquired the cause'of his lack of
appetite. He replied that it was due to
his being constantly employed about a
hot fire, and remarked that if I would
keep my restaurant red-hot in winter my
boarders would not consume one-half
the amount of food. I tried the experi
ment and soon, found that whereas I had
heretofore saved probably $20 a month
in fuel ,by half-freezing my boarders,
tht I was saving at least twenty cents
a meal in the'decrease in the amount xf
food each , one consumed while the
premises were (kept jed-hot.'' Virginia
(Nec.y QQronicle. 1 .
The Sultan of Turkey is considering a
scheme to establish a State bank in Con
stantinoplej with a German as manager,
the" idea being to diminish the exclusive
privileges of the1 Ottoman bank.
THE SOUTH '
AT LARGE.
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A GREAT, ERA OF PROSPERITY
AND PROGRESS IMPENDING.
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THE LABOR FIELD FABJTEKS AXD BTTST2TES3 KEH
ACTIVE SOMETHING ABOUT RAILROAD ACCIDENTS,-
JiTJBDEHS, SUICIDES, FIRES, ETC"
ALABA3U. -
At North Birmingham, Tuesday,
George Avery, a colored furnace laborer,
was brained with an ax and instantly
killed by an unknown negro who es
caped. j
Sixty persons, mostly capitalists, and
owners of property at Port' Payne, Ala.,
fifty-one miles southeast of Chattanooga,
left Cincinnati for that locality. Most
of them are from Kew England, the
train having started from Boston. They
are equipped for making a permanent
settlement there.
J. W. Dele, a respectable white citizen
of Montgonierv, died suddenly from the
effects of a; dose of chloroform. The
drug was administered by a physician
for-the purpose ot performing a surgical
operation. Dee was in very delicate
health, and 'his pystem being too weak
to resist the? influences of the drug, he
died from its effecti
f ARKANSAS.
John M. f Clayton, brother of Powell
Clayton, was assassinated at Plummer
yille by some unknown person who fired
a loaa oi uuch-miuu uuuug" '" "
breaking Clayton's neck and killing him
instantly. '.Mr. Clayton was candidate
for Congress at the recent election
against' C. R. Breckenridge, and had
served upon Mr. Breckenridge a notice
of contest of his seat in the Fifty-fit st
Congress. Nothing has become pullic
which in any manner explains the mur
der. A bill was presented in the Senate
at Little Rock, authorizing the governor
to offer $5)00 reward for the an est of
the murderer or murderers.
t Fl.OItID.. 1
Fully three thousand people were
present atPthe opening of the Florida
International and Semi-Tropical Exposi
tion at Ocala on Wednesday. There wae
u procession two miles long, and the citj
was beautifully decorated.
V KENTUCKY. ,
Schultz teach, city treasurer of Mays
ville, has riot been seen there foT several
davs, and ilt is believed he ha3 left to
escape trouble. The City Council dis
covered ani aparent shortage of $4,200.
I LOUISIANA.
White Cips have made their appear
ance in Louisiana. They are reported to
have whipped and driven off "several ne
groes at New Iberia.
I MISSOURI.
By an acc ident on the St. Louis &
San Francis co. Railroad near Springfield,
three men twere instantly killed and five
injured, fohr fatally. A switch engine
moving live stock cars jumped the track
and went down an embankm :nt, carry
ing ten mep. with it.
A fire was discovered in the upper
part of onl of the great storage ware
houses of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Association, situated at Ninth and Pes-
talpzzie streets, St. Louis, and in a few
moments tremendous explosion took
place. Immediatelv afterwards tne m
side friimdwnrk- nf tlip warehouse and
nearlv 200L00O bnahla nf barlev and
malt, whicn it contained, were envel
oped in flames, and for three hours the
entire establishment was iti great jeop-
ardv. The loss is &29n OOO. whicn i
r j v l
covered by insurance.
NORTH CAROLINA.
In the Legislature, on Thursday.aii im
portant bill was introduced to make the
penitentiary self-sustaining. It makes
an appropriation of $75,000 for each of
the next tWo years, and requires all the
earnings 6f the penitentiary or of the
convicts to be turned into the state
treasury. ' There shall be, if needed,
paid out to an amount not to exceed
122,000, including $75,000 regular ap
propriation.
TENNESSEE.
John P.f Long, the oldest and one of
the foremost citizens of Chattanooga,
died on Wednesday after a lingering ill
ness. He? was one of the pioneers wno
laid out the city, having located there in
1836, when Chattanooga was a wilder
nets, inhabited by the Indians.
George Schoff ner, a bright colored
man of &0, was arrested at Nashville,
for stealinrg, and confessed his crime and
went to jail. He was given $300 by his
employer Sn Huntingdon to deliver, and
instead of delivering, got on the train
and came .to Nashville. When found he
had bought two small saloons in Black
Bottom, and was running them both.
t - MISSISSIPPI.
The colored people of Jackson, held a
large meeting to answer the charges
made by he grand jury that crime and
criminals were shielded and law officers
were prevented froi ferreting out the
wrongdoers. Resolutions denying the
allegation were passed.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Mrs. MaWIda Frelinghuysen, widow of
the late ex-Secretary of State Frederick
T. Frelinghuysen, died at Newark, N. J.
A great ' wind and rain storm prevailed
on Sunday on the English and Irish
coasts. Several buildings at Queenstown
were unropfed by the wind.
A railroad accident occhrred Sunday
near Groenendale, Belgium. The train
bound frSm Brussels for Namur struck
the pillar f of a bridge near that place,
causing the bridge to collapse. The
traia was carried down with it, and com
pletely wrecked. Fourteen persons were
killed outright, and fifteen others were
injured, t
Police tnspector Martin wa3 killed at
Gweedorej, couoty Donegal, Ireland,
wnile trying to arrest Father McFadden.
"A party of police, under Inspector Mar
tin, surrbuuded Father McFaddeu's
chapel diiriug strvice, and when the
priest 'appeared at the door, they made a
rush for him. The people came to his
rescue, and Father McFadden escaped.
He had'niearly reached the door of his
own house when Inspector Martin caught
him by the coat. At the same instant
the inspector wa3 struck with a stone on
the bapkt of the head. Tne inspector
fell and died Boon afterwards.
PEN PHOTOS OF
WASHDsTGT0K
UV1JXUS OF THE "OUT'S" AND
WHA T TEE "IN'S" PROPOSE.
CONGRESS.
Quite a lively debate .took place in
the Senate on Thursday about Samoan
affairs, and Mr. Reagan said that he agreed
with' Mr. Frye, that there was not a
fourth-rate European power "that would
have stood what the United States gov
ernment has stood from Germany." The
President's Message relating to Samoa,
read in the House on Wednesday, was
read and referred to the foreign relations
committee. After some unimportant
business, the Senate resumed considera
tion of the diplomatic and consular ap
propriation bill, the pending question
being on the amendments referring tc
Samoa. . . .In the House, Mr. Springer oi
Illinois, called up as the special order
the Oklahoma bill. Mr. Grosvenor, of
Ohio, made a point of order that by lea
eon of adjournment Wednesday, the bill
had lost its privileged character. The
Speaker overruled the point of order,
holding that the bill was privileged
under operation of the previous ques
tion. The bill having been taken
up, Mr. Yoder, of 'Ohio, moved to
reconsider' the vote by which the
House agreed to the Payson soldiers'
homestead amendment." Lost. - Mr.
O'Farrell, ot" Virginia, moved a recon
sideration, and Mr. Springer moved to
table that motion, pending which the
House adjourned, j
NOTES.
! Sir Julian Pauncefote, permanent un
der secretary of state for the foreien of
fice, litis been appointed British minister
to the United States
The President nominated to be post
masters, John H. Davis, Tallapoosa, Ga.,
Mrs Jennie R. Livingston, South Pitts
burg Tenn. ; Fiorina A. Hines, Suffolk,
Ga. . ; -
The third annual convention of the
American Shipping and Industrial League
has begun its session in Washington,
General Joseph Wheeler, its president,
in the chair.
Harry L. Ryan, Secretary Bayard's
stenographer, has been ordered to pro
ceed to Florida to obtain the election
certificate of that state for use in count-'
ing the electoral vote of , the Union.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, has
ruined the &ight of one of his eyes by
his creat labors on the tariff bill, and his
physician informed him that it
would be necessary to remove the organ.
The President nominated Jesse D.
Abrahams, of Virginia, to be comptroll-
nr:ii! r rr
er ot currency, vice iuiaiu u. ncu
holm, resigned, and Mis3 Mary A. Du-
senbury to be postmaster at concoru,
N. C. '
Mr. Candler, of Georgia, is making an
effort to have all persons charged with
violations of the internal revenue laws
in his district pardoned by the Presi
dent. There are 150 of these men either
in jail or out on-bond.
It is authoritatively announced that
President Cleveland will Teturn to the
state of New York to reside, on the ex
piration of his term of office, and will, on
March 5th, resume the practice of his
profession in New York city, navmg as
sociated himself as counsel with the law
firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & Mac
Veagh.
Col. Carroll D. Wright,"
nf tho department of
commissioner
labor, sub
mitted to the Secretary of the Interior
bis fourth annual report, which deals ex
clusively with the subject of "working
women in the great cities." ine report
shows that the working women in the
great cities are practically girls. The
average age in all the cities comprehend
ed is twenty-two years ani seven months.
The highest average age is found Jn
Charleston, S. -C- twenty-five years and
one month; the lowest average in St.
p:iul twenty-one years and five months.
It is found, however, that the concentra
tion is greatest at the age of 18. The
average weekly earnings by cities is
gvenas follows: Atlanta, $4.05; Balti
more, $4.18; Boston, $5.64; Brooklyn;
So 76; Buffalo, $4.27; Charleston,
4.22: Chicago, ? -; - wucjomiu,
$4.50; Cleveland, 4.63;
apolis, 14.67; Louisville,
Newark. $5. 10 : New Orleans,
Indian
$4.51;
$4.31;
New York, $5.85; Philadelphia, $5.34;
Providence, $5.51; Richmond, $3.93;
St. Louis, $5.19; St. Paul, $6.02;, San
jFraneisco, $6.61; San Jose, $6.11; Sa
vannah, $4, 90 ; all cities, $5.24. The
report covers 342 industries, in which art
employed 17,427 women.
, WHAT
Commander
LEARY SAYS.
I Leary, of the warship
arrived at San Francisco,
Adams, which
Cal., from Honolulu on Thursday, in at,
interview said: "lnere was a great
commotion when I was at Apia. I went
down there with all kinds of orders suit ed
to a time of peace, but when the war broke
out, I threw tne orders to the wind;
There was a meeting of consuls aboard
the German warship Adler, and at the
meeting I said to the Germans: , 'Now,
just let the natives fight it out between
themselves.' Oh, no, they could not do
that. Thev said they had proclaimed
Tamasese king and they could not leave
him now to fight alone. "Then I said. '
would take a hand in thi3. If you per
sist in aiding Tamasese and fighting for
him, I will participate, and I pulled the
Adams in ahead of the Adler, and would
have done my part in the fray if-the
Germans had decided they must have it.
I had made up my mind that the Adams
could throw some shells, toc - At this
thev eased down, and promised that it
should be 'hands off.' "
FINE GUNS;
A trial of the dynamite gun which is
to compose one thiid of the armament
of the Vesuvius, took place at Fort La
fayette, New York harbor. The con-
tract required that 50 per cent of tho
shells fired should fall within ah area 50
by 150 at a distance of one mile or,
mole, ui tne eigne sneiis nreu, luu
foliwithin the allotted snace. thus ful-
SllJfoff the terms of the contract.
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GEORGIA ITEMS.
Atlanta has ordered a new set of iron
cells for her .station-house. j
Two hundred colored people in At-
SChooL'.'. . . '".'' '';
Rev. George Macauley, the oldest
Episcopal minister in Atlanta, died "of
paralysis on Wednesday.
Uncle Clabe Trussell, one of the oldest
Methodist preachers in the state, died at
Villa Rica. He was about eighty-eight
years old when he died. v.
Echols, of Covington, who, it . is al
leged, murdered Thomas and assaulted
Cohen, of Madison, two men who had
won fome money from him at gambling,
was refused bail by the Supreme Court,
at Atlanta, on Wednesday.
A blood-besmeaTed postal card, signed
"Jack the Ripper," was received by Mar
shal Dart, at Brunswick, stating that he
was in- town and would commence his
murderous work Wednesday night. No
attention was paid to the card until at
night,, a negro woman of -the lower class,
rushed intoTpolice headquarters with the
collar of her dress torn off, and several
scratches on her face. She said that on
her way home from a neighbor's house
in the northern part of the city, a man
suddenly sprang from around the corner,
and commenced cutting at her.
The Woolf oik murder case is before
the Supreme Court at Atlanta, and Col.
J. W. Rutherford, j for the defence
claimed that the character of the wounds
inflicted upon Capt. Woolfolk, Richard,
Charley and Pearl and the position of
the bodies are all opposed to the idea of
one man doing the work. These wounds
were ' made with both the blade and
head of the ax. "Our theory is that two
persons commenced the attack that they
were negroes that they killed uaptain
Woolfolk first, then Mrs.: Woolfolk. that
as Richard ran in thev both attacked
mi.
him. As to the motive of the negroes to
commit the crime, Capt. Woolfolk was
unDODular with them."
. A WITNESS FOUND.
A lady on a train said she had heard
a negro boy say he had left Birmingham,
Ala., because he knew who killed the
Hawes family. The lady was unknown,
and a search for her began. She was
found and described the negro. Then
the search for the negro began. It
lasted for days, and 1,'800 miles - were
traveled. When the reporter came back
with the negro, they gave an entire page,
less a half column, to a description of
their work, and le.s than a column to
the negro's statement. The negro was
finally tracked to Opelika, and found to
be a relative of Fannie Bryant, one of
the allesred accomplices of Dick Hawes.
He savs Patterson, the nephew of Fannie 1
Bryant, told him that he helped awhitei
man kill a lady, and he knew it. "I
thmio-ht ha was feelinsr bad, and did not
ask him much about it, because when I
did he was scared like. It seems like he
was a going down to Aunt Fannie's of a
Saturday night, and he passed her house.
A white man with a club hit her, and
she broke and ran from him. He hol
lered to Aunt Fannie to hit her, and she
knocked her down with a brick, and
then the white man came out and fin
ished her. Then he said they took her
through the woods. That night I was
going home, and as I got near the base
ball park, two white men stopped me,
and put pistols each side of my head,
"and asked me where 1 was going. I told
him I was going home. They cursed me,
and said if I. didn't go, I would get
killed. I couldn't tell who it was in the
base-ball. park, then. There was some
people there?' The witness denied that
he knew more than this, but afterwards
admitted that ho saw lanme
have a. big roll of money, and
said that Mr. Hawes gave it to her."
A story is told which, if true; forms the
most damaging link, in the chain of evi
dence" against Dick .Hawes. A negro
woman named Julia Pope has been con
fined in the county jail some time "on the
charge of larceny. . She is one. of the
cooks at the jail, and also gathers up
the clothing from the different celis for
the laundry. Julia recently overheard a
conversation between Dick Hawes and
Albert Patterson, the nephew of Fannie
Bryant, who is also held as au ac
complice in the Hawes muraers.
She sass Hawes saia to oueisuu,
"Albert, vour Aunt Fannie i ha3 "gotten
us all in here. Her tongue lis too long,
nnd she has fiiven the whole snap away."
Albert Patterson denied that he had ever
had any couversation with Hawes since
they had been in jail. Jailor Minis says
that Hawes has always manifested great
anxiety that Albert Patterson and the
. -r- i t X. L.
woman, x annie liryanc, ue Kepv ujan,
and not allowed to talk to each
other. Until recentlv, Patterson haa
been kept in a cell, but a few days iigohe
wa3 let out in the corridor by one of the
rustles bv mistake, and was soon talking
to Fannie Bryant, who was in the yard.
Hawes then sent a message to Jailer
Mims to lock Patterson up. Hawes re
mains as silent as ever, refusing to talk
to any one except is attorney. Re
cently Faonie Bryant has become very
restless and apparently ill at ease. L
WESTERN WHITE CAPS.
White Caps have made their j appear
ance rear Acrian, Mich., and the. Prose
cuting At?ojney is now investigating.
Notice written m red ink, one side orna
mented with skull and cross bones and
the other with a barrel, on which it
written the word "tar,'' have been Te
Ceived by several eitizens ot the village
of Tecumseh. Ihe following is a sam
nlev: "Lodge of White Cap?, Tecum
seh : Sir We have organized a lodge ol
White Cr.ps for th improvement of so
ciety in Tecumseh Now, if you don't
go ty work and support your wife as i
white man should, we will make Tecum
leh thf l:ottPft town vou ever uvea m
Lodge- of White Caps," No. H 432."
A HEAVY HAND,
Dispatches from Auckland regarding
Samoan Islands sate, that German naval
Koon notified to search all
vessels in Samoan waters for contraband
articles. The Germans have P"
the SamoanTtme, a paper ptlished in
the English language at Api l
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THE OTIED STATES.
The rounS house of the Gulf. Colors Ja
lnd Santa Fe Railway Co., was burned.
Loss $100,000. The fire was caused b
lamp explosion in the waste room. .
A change of venue has been crantetl-
In the case of boodle t Alderman Clearr;.
of New York, .to ! Broome county. . ot
which ' Binghamtou is tho ; county seat.
At Berlin, Germany, it is reported that" '
it is not expected that "German military
operations in Samoa will commence un
til sumcient rein foi cements are sent to
the islands. At present, there are at Sa
moa three German,- warships with, an .
available landing force of 300 men.
Lake View, a thickly settled suburb
of Chicago, 111., is undergoing an epi
demic of typhoid fever, caused by tha
contamination of its drinking water from
the sewage of Chicago. Many deaths
have occuned, and there are several
hundred fever patients in the little sub
urb. " -.'!.'-. i i
The lockout of two thousand miners -and
company men who struck at Spring
Valley, 111., ten days ago, seems to be at
an end, the Spring Valley Coal Co. hav
ing decided to reopen two of its mines..
Ihe strikers have fully conceded to the
company its right to hire men and dis
charge as many men as they see fit. :
Henry W. Adams, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
who took the place- of one of the striking
railroad employes, was murdered by be-.
ing thrown from an upper story of the !
car Btables while asleep. For safety, he !
slept in one of the stable bins, and led
by an unfaithful watchman, four men
picked him up as he lay sleeping in his,
blankets, and threw him through a win- ,
dow to the sidewalk.
Boone Marlow, who killed Sheriff'
Wallace, for which offense his four
brothers were recently mobbed, waa
killed in the Indian Territory by John
Demickson and Tom Beavers, They ,
tracked Marlow to his hiding place,.
and. covering him with their Winches
ters, ordered him to throw up his hands-,;
Instead of surrendering.1 he reached for
his six-shooter, whereupon Demickson
and Beavers fired upon him,-killing him
Instantly. ' 1 , ) .
Mrs. Mackie Rawson, pf Chicago, Vl.r
wife of the millionaire banker, -who i
j
aeatn, was acquitiea. airs. av ,
motive
ing was
the activity of Whitney v jfZ
lawyer, in working up, testimoj Tla
smirch her reputation. . Only two. ballot!
were taken, the jury finding m favor of
the defendant on the ground that she had
been rendered temporarily insane at the .
time the deed was committed.
The working force on the steel cruisei
Charleston, at San Francisco, Cal., has
been largely increased." " Her engines and
boilers are all Inl and her boilers are be "
ing cemented. The. carpenters are bus
fitting up the saloons and state; rooms."
Painters are hard at work giving hex "".
iron sides a coat of a lark slate color,
and blacksmiths and mechanics are tc
be seen crowding her . decks. Her giins v
are much heavier than that of any Gef- .
man man-of-war at present in Samoan
waters. v . s- '
Archduke Rudolph, Austrian crowc
prince, and -heir apparent to the throner
died suddenly on ' Wednesday, neai
Baden. His death is supposed tc.
have been caused by apoplexy." .
Archduke Charles Louis, the emperor's
brother, is now heir presumptive to the
throne. He -has three sons, Archduke
Francis, Otho and Fedinand. It i, f j
stated that Archduke Francis Aresrgnei "
his "right to the succession," upon inherit
ing the Duke of Jlodena's property, and . ;
that consequently Archduke Otho is -the
oext heir. It is thought, however that -'
Francis' resignation was j only condi- - "
lionaL " ! ''.
DEADLY DUEL.
The news leaked out on; Sunday that '
a beautiful young baroness committed)
suicide by taking poison at Meyerling,
A.ustria,at the same time that the crown,
prince took his life. . The two acts were
committed almost simultaneously. Jn .
connection with this the following i
told: Crown Prince Rudolph of Austra
was killed in a duel by Count Fran
Clamgallas. The crown prince's wit
nesses were Count noyos and Prince
Coburg, his brother-in-law. The count'?
witnesses were Prince Ferdinand King
key and another nobleman. The duel
was fouuht in a little wood
near Baden. The crown prince
was wounded r and transported ' to
the nearest castle, 3Ieyerling. He died
iti the evening just at the hour when his:
coming was anxiously awaited at ft state-
dinner m the Jiatburg. ine crown
prince had been paying attention to the.
Countess Clamgallas nee Hoyos, Jhe
wife of the man who killed him. for the
last tix months. The whole affair has
been largely suppressed by the "Austrian - .
court, but it has leaked out through
some noblemen who were compromised
in the affair and had to leave the coun-j
try. The: emperor, who knew of thcr
whole affair, hs, it is said, fully ap- t -
proved his son's behavior. . j ' i
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COTTON. K
For the week Ending last Friday, tho
total receipts have reached 155,354.
bales, against 177,821 bales last week, and
149,178 the previous week; making the
total receipts since the 1st of September,
1888, 4,474,367 bales, against 4,533, 627 '
bales for.the same period 1887-S, show
ing a decrease since September 1, 1888,,
tf 109,20:) bales. ,
WOLVES DEVOURED HIM,
During a violent storm, an Indiaav
named Jim Willis started for his homt
on horseback, in the Territory. WiIIU
was under the influence of liquor, and ii-v
is supposed fell off his horse. His body
was found in the Blue Prairie. i Th-;
wolves had devoured a portion of
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