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VOL. III. SALISBURY. N. C. ' THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1890. NO. 17. Out of the 880,000,000 of whieh tiw population of ' China is, according to the latest official statistics, composed, about one in 10 is engaged a bricklayer a tailor, one in 140 blacksmith and one in nine a -washerman, -while about one in 100 is a carpenter. ore, OB IQ lUU is mason, trae in 120 is in agricult- ot Ex -Queen Isabella, of Spain, thinks hat Providence is no longer with roy alty. Dom Pedro was an ideal mon arch, but revolution swept hiiri away. No matter what a monarch does, re marks the Atlanta Constitution, sooner or later he h?iS to go into exile. If he is liberal the evolutionists find it all the easier to dethrone him, and if he is se vere that k made a pretext for an up rising iAil that keeps Spain quiet is tip.hat the nnp.pri rprrpn t iq a Tr'hiinnr l o J o and the Spaniards are too chiv- widow, alrous to annoy her. "I feel like a laborer of a Saturday evening returning home with his week's work done, his week's wages in his pocket, and glad that to-morrow is the Sabbath," is the modest message' to his friends of the De Soto of Africa, Henry M. 'Stanley. lt fchows the longing for rest after his arduous . and dangerous labors which the world can sympathize with," says the New York Telegram. ''Whether the intrepid General of Civ ilization will consent to accept the post of Governor of East Africa from the British Government U problematical.. If he does it will be from a sense of duty, for the man is evidently longing for rest. : - Some of the effects ,of cocaine seem to the Chicago Herald worthy the at tention' of those exacting people who are not satisfied with the ordinsi",.. .sj&i'tg and 13 One in a al- be-little drus. the cocaine eases reported "medical journal of a recent date ways scraping hu tongue, lieving that he is extracting black worms from it. . Another keep3 his flesh in a continuous raw state in his pursuit of .cholera microbes with which he believes that his body is filled." 1 A physician who fell a victim to the habit ts ateS lialy looking ,for cocaine crv.hfien'V, n. There would AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT TEE FIFTY-FIRST GR.ESS IS DOING. con- APronrcnEKTs by president hajvrison MEASURES OF NATIOSAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. ' fCn ain't si 111" " . " ' VT'vjsSf'I'MMi ubt that cocaine is a The Senate on Wednesday resumed con sideration of the bill that was discussed Tuesday to require the superintendent of the census to ascertain what percentage of people own their farms, the number of farms under mortgage and the amount thereof. Discussion was 'kept up for near ly two hours, going largely over the ques tions of the tariff, of silver, of over pro duction, and of steamship subsidies. The bill was recommitted to the census com mittee. The senate then took up the cal endar. - The Blair educational bill having been reached, Mr. Blair demanded its reading in full, and the secretary proceed ed to read it. After sdme discussion it was- arranged, by unanimous consent, that the bill be postponed till Monday week, and be then "unfinished business." By a strict party vote, the house elec tions committee on Wednesday decided to report in favor of unseating Jackson, democratic representative from West Vir ginia, declaring Smith, republican con testant, entitled to a seat. This is first of the seventeen contested election cases which the committee has disposed of, and it was the first One upon which argument was heard. The senate, in secret session Wednesday, resolved to make public the San oa i treaty negotiated in Berlin last spring, which has already been published, and the pro tocols, showing the result of each day's meeting of the commissioners. In trans mitting the treaty to the ' senate on Janu ary 6th, the president says: "I am pleased to find in this geneal act an hon orable, just and equal settlement of thf questions which have arisen during tht past few ears between the three powers having treaty relations with and rights in in the Samoan islands." Judge Stewart's federal prison bill was under discussion nearly all of Wednesday in the house. Amendment after amend ment was, however, offered and the bill was not voted upon. - Judge Stewart made the opening speech. He said five presidents and. two attorney generals had recommended such prisons. .He stated the cost of keeping prisoners under the present system to be- $400,000 annualy, which is the interest on ,$10,800,000 at four per cent. That his bill only required an outlay of $1,000,000, and that the prisoners would be self-supporting:. The bill will, in all probability, pass. Then the president and attorney General, or sec retary of the interior, will lave to decide upon the locations. St. Xo lis, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Birn ingham, and other 'cities south of the thirty-ninth de gree vt ill contest for the Southern one. The ways and means committee has fi nally begun the preparation of a tariff bill working, upon the lilies of the senate iThe rapid colonization of I Weitern cities is recalled to the London Saturday Review by the wonderful de velopment of the Transvaal, South Af- ytica, during the past eight years. Eight years ago the Transvaal Was almost en- - tirely in the hands" of the Boers. Now 1 -ish settlers exceed the natives in thehiffK considerably more than fifty they gw up . vet these suttlerj life for ftpmselves. " treated men and women . - . ". . , childhood o-' of couatry JS 8tronsiy their bein"- e English breast,, as is TAeniAt all -Uhe fact that Englishmen to go to the distant fields of South m in aiil wri some atfoptec are a? OOQ sections ol that bill were opted entire with the exception of the1' clause relating , to rattan and J chair canes. which had been1 attacked byfa number of persons before the committee, and has consequently been held uplor future ac tion. The schedule, senati bilL covering books and paper, was also laiopted. This action is preliminary and a ules adopted will be subje when the bill is completed Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, offered a resolu tion increasing the membership of the world's fair committee from nine to thir teen, and providiner that the committee shall have jurisdiction over all questions relating to the fair except that as to lo cation. The location is to be determined as follows : On one day the representa tives of competing cities shall present their claims, and on- the following day the members shall vote their choice of lo cation. Referred to the committee rules. ? Immediately after the reading of the iournal on Saturday ...the house went into committee of the whole, on the customs administrative bill. Mr. McKInley of fered the tallowing .as an additional sec tion : Any merchandise deposited in any public or private bonaod. warehouse may be withdrawn for consumption within three years from the date of the original importation on the payment of duties and eharges to which it inight be subject by law at the time of such withdrawal; pro vided, that nothing herein shall effect or impair existing provisions of the law in regard to the disposal of perishable or explosive arucies ana provided iurtner, that this section snail not apply to any article which has been exported from the United States and re-imported Is given the right of ballot by the consti tution of this country, and to remedy the wrong and evils, which they complain of by reducing representation accorded in the house of representatives to tnat ex tent in which suffrage in the southern states, and especialbTn Virginia, is prac tically 'denied and .ropressed. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM POINTS IN TEE SO JJTE. AT J. GENERAL, PROGRESS AJTD OCCTTBBKNCES WHICH ABB HAPPENING BELOW MA SON S A2TD DIX02T8 LIKE. Tenn., round Thursday figures of the sched- to revision on) T: !"r X. ca to find o opportunity for invest fat, rather than crosi the Atlantic week and find equal opportunities the tAnited States. In the English mind there is a hope which. has almost broadened into a belief that the Trans vaal must in time fall under British domination, while. there is of course no possibility of such a change - regarding the United States. ... In th opinion of Frank Leslies the influx of the English into the Boer country means but one thingthe predominance of the Eng lish race and that pre dominance must speedily be fatal to the the Boer. - government of This V to be of -When thi P The vastness of the Brazilian terri tor j is too little appreciated. It is as large as the entire territory of the United Sta'cs, provided Alaska be not. taken, into consideration. It has a coast line of 4000 miles; from Pernambuco to its n frontier is some 2400 miles. st territory has been estimated out one-fifteenth of the surface earth not covered by water. vastness is borne in mind, aa whenMt is remembered that the country is much in the position that the United States was in immediately after the Louisiana purchase, or say, at any time, prior to the construc tion' of the great transcon tinental railroads; that as be tween thickly populated points there existed almost impassable, mountains or forests of 'inconceivable density and al most endles5 extent; that North and South Brazil have between them abso lutely nothing in common except their lanTuae that there are no railroads O 3 whatever which traverse the e3untry throughout its length in any direction; that the telegraph system has bejen little developed; and that, coastwise com merce even is as yet very incompletely developed, it will be realized, says writer in the New York T'm(t,- how difficult of establishment a cohesive" federal republic will be; and that the irreat danger which attend! the present entTise ia the breaking up of Brazil r into a number of republics. A fire, in Nashville, night, caused a loss in $120,750. . The tril of Mrs. Cora May Scales Mor ris began at Wentworth, N. C, Friday. Mrs. Morris is charged with having caused the death oi her husband by chlo roform, August 19, 1889. The libel suit over the grave of Mary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericks burg, YaM happily terminated by the de fendants in the suit making a gift of the property the .monument association. It is reported that gold has been found in large . and paying quantities on the farm of Mr. Burrell Higginbotham, neai Chulafinee, Cleburne county, Ala., and that he has been offered -in cash, $50,000 for his farm." The Mississippi house of representetives in session at Jackson, spent two. hours Thursday discussing a bill calling a con vention to make a new constitution. The race problem is the bone of conten tion. ' The executive committee of the Charles ton, S. C, chamber of commerce on Sat urday adopted resolutions indorsing . the tonnage bounty bill, now before congress, to encourage, the building of American ships. . . Thirteen distilleries of T. J. McGibben, at Louisville, Ky., who was buried on -Saturday, have shut down, McGibben appointed, no administrator, and there was nobody to take charge. About 300 men were thrown out of work.' The Atlantic and Danville railroad, from Norfork to Danville, Va. , was form ally opened Thursday by special excur sions from points along the line to Dan ville. The road is 207 miles long, and gives Danville a direct route to the sea board. The principal labor agent at work in North Carolina is quoted as saying that since September he has removed from North Carolina 19,000 negr'-js, and says that 35,000 is a reasonaWy estimate of the number who have left jjfrorth Carolina in the past thirteen monthl. The committee appointeby the Nash ville, Tenn, Commercial cluA, called on Governor Taylor Friday, anv4 urged that in cae ne caitea an extra si Aion, to m- CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM TEE TELE GRAPE AND CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN PROM DAT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, FROM TARIOCS SOURCES. TO DAI CULLXD of wind on NOTES. The comptroller of currency has au thorized the first national bank of Besse mer, Ala., to begin business with a capi tal of $50,000. The senate committee on ,naval affairs held a meeting Friday, at which, after considerable discussion, the committee decided upon the policy which will gov ern it during this congress in the work of building up the navy. This is, in brief. that great line-of-battle ships like the English Ben Bow should be constructed at once. Majority and minority reports will be submitted to the senate. Valenta, Brazilian minister at Wash ington, on Friday, received the following cablegram from Ruv Barbosa, Brazilian minister of finance, dated Rio Janeiro, Januarv z4tu: "Capital for a great na tional banking institution, to- be. known as the national bank of the United States of Brazil, was subscribpd to-day within four hours. The capital is $100,000,000 Valenta regards this as a crucial test of the confidence of the people in the stabil ity and permanency of the new republic. A delegation of colored men from Vir ginia, . were before the house committee on -. . . . . ... . the election of president and vice-presi dent baturdav. to talfi about the opera tions of election laws n Virginia. They tormed a committee appointed bv a con vention of colored people held in Rich mond, December 17th last, to present this matter to congress, lhe address con tained some statistics concerning a election frauds and outrages said to have been perpetrated in the' state of Virginia in the last election, and earnestly appeals to the lawmakers of the nation - tc change the existing national election law that it shall be no longer in the power o anv registrar or other election officer to disfranchise arbitrarily any voter to whom r e There has been a great storm and rain in southern England. The hostility of the German press to the Samoan treaty is still outspoken. Sixteen miners' families were evicted frt Walston and Adrian Pa., Friday. Influenza has been so prevalent among members of the Quebec legislature that no serious work has been done in the housi so far this season. - Dispatches of Friday say: A. terrifio storm is raging all over Central Austra lia. There has been a heavy snow fall in Bohemia. The. four story brick block, Nos; 85 to 101, Bristol street, Boston, Mass.V owned by the heirs of William F. Paul, was gutted by fire early Thursday morning. Loss is estimated at $100,000. The publication of the Samoan treaty in Berlin has led to its denunciation by the German press of both parties. Dis patches received at Washington say that radical and conservative papers alike call it a "German retreat." The little town of Utica, HI., number ing 2,000 people, which wras so nearly wiped out by fire last snmmer, was again visited by a terrible conflagration Tuesday morning. Nearly all of the business part of the town was completely wiped out. At a Portoguese meeting, held at Rio Janiero, Brazil on Tuesday, it was re solved to suspend, business with the Eng lish people, and to send a telegram to Lisbon, stating tl at members of the col-, ony there are prepared to make any sac rifice for their native country. The non-partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Xinion at Cleveland, SO., on Thursday affected organization and adopted the name of the National Crusa. ders. Mrs. Allei G. Phinney, of OhiOj was elected president, and Mrs. Walker, of Minnesota, vice-president. .. H. M. JacksOn, former paying teller ol 'e sub-treasury at New York, who ran away with $10,000, and who pleaded guilty to the jfcharge of embezzlement a few days ago,as on Thursday sentenced to six years' imprison ncent in Erie county penitentiary, and" to pay a fine of $10,000, the nmount he embezzled. At a meeting of Vhe dealers in India rubber connected wifh the London cham ber of commerce-, -ff Tuesday,, it was re solved to memorialize the marquis of Sal isbury against the rmonopoly established by the Para government and the export duty it has imposeVl. It has transpired that sixty firms ha; already petitioned the government on this subject. Adam .rorepaughi; the veteran circus manager, died Thurlay night at - Phila TRADE REVIEW. COLDER WEATHER MAKES THE COJfDITIOH OF BUSINESS MORE FAVORABLE. - R. G. iBunn & Co.'s review of trade for the week ending Jan. 25th, says: Business has a decidedly more favorable appearance. Colder weather has brought a general increase of activity and im provement in collections. The heavy dis bursement by the treasury for bonds have brought easier money markets, and sev eral troublesome labor controversies' have been adjusted. The prevailing siekness, though seriously interrupting trade and industry in many quarters, is distinctly abating at the east. The official state ment of the iron and steel association is particularly gratifying, because it shows that contrary to the general impression, unsold socks in the hands of makers, and the warrant company did not increase during 1889, but actually decreased 16, 300 tons. The production was 7,064,525 tons against 6,489,738 in 'the previous year. Adding imports the total con sumption of pig iron in this country will probably prove to have been about 7,750000 tons against 6,688,744 in 1888. A gain of more than a million tons in the year over the largest consumption ever previously known, fairly explains the advancing prices in the face of the un precedented production. THE WOOLEN BUSINESS. has been little improved for all grades by the colder weather and fairly' active , for cheaper cassimers and worsted, with some gain in heavier woolens. Cotton goods move fairly at firm prices, but the rise hi material begins to cause some dis turbance. Speculation in cotton has marked up the price Half a cent with sales for the week of 1,100,000 bales and receipts for the week slightly fall behind, while ex ports slightly exceed last year's. Except in cotton the speculative markets show no unhealthy activity, though money here has been decidedly easier. The decrease of $4,00,000 in cash held by the treas- ury, and the rate ioij; money on can naa declined to 3 per cent. Foreign ex change is also a shade lower at 4.86, and increaeinff cold reserves at the banks of England and France give more confi dence. In the foreign, trade: some im provement is observed in exports i at New York, which fall only six per cent, below last year's for January thus far, while the decrease in imports is seventeen per cent. But the exports of wheat have been de cidediy small since the recent rise, and flour shipments are light, while even corn exports appear to fall behind those of last year. Keports irom other cities are gen erally mOre satisfactory for the week. Most reports note an improvement in weather and in trade. Businfess failures occurring throughout he country in the last week, number for the United States, 295: Canada, 43; total, 338; agdinst 336 last week. on. governor l ay ioinccoraea ine. ittee a patient hearing? and prom- that in case he decided to call an ex- ession he would indudb the subject. dispatch from Raleigr, N.' C. , says : astweek E. C. Day, of iPennsvlvania, as married, at IlendersonA N. C, to a ady. from Mississippi, who hd advertised or a husband, tne two naving agrcea to meet at Raleigh. It was a brief court ship, and the honeymoon has 'come to a startling end. Day went over to Oxford, and has been arrested there on a charge of forgery committed in Clarksville, Va. The legislature of South Carolina has enacted a law that hereafter no allowance shall be made for breakage or draft on cotton, and whenever it is agreed be tween buyer and seller to deduct the tare on cotton bales, it shall be sixteen pounds on bales covered with seven yards of standard cotton bagging and six ties, and twenty-four pounds orl bales covered with seven yards standard jute bagging and six iron ties. R. M. Long, a Guyandotte county, Ky., constable, was murdered and his wife desperately wounded Monday, night by a band of ruffians who broke into their house. Friends of the murdered man believe that' a gang of desperadoes, against whom he had warrants for "moonshin ing," committed the deed. Others be lieve that it is merely a continuation of the Ilattield-McCoy fued, , as the victim was related to the former family. Mrs. Long's wounds are believed to be mortal. A TOBACCO COMBINE. ilelnhiaPa Jttr.-Forepauffh. manv ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION FILED A HUGE CONSOLIDATION. FOX 'Articles , of incorporation were filed Tuesday in the secretary of state's office by the American Tobacco company, which; at Trenton, N. J., is to consolidate a number of companies. The capital stock is fixed at $25,000,000. l The number of shares is 400,000. Of said stock ' $15, 000,000 is divided into 400,000 shares of $50 each, which shall be general or com mon stock, and $10,000,000 is divided into 100,000 shares of $100 each, which shall be preferred stock, and said pre ferred stock shall entitle the holder to re ceive each year a dividend of eight per cent, payable half yearly, before any dividend is set apart for common stock, or so much of the eight per cent, as the profits justify. The amount with which the company will begin business is $10, 000, divided into 200 shares. . THE FATAL BLIZZARD. PEOPLE BEING FROZEN TO DEATH AND THOUSANDS OF CATTLE PERISHING. A GREAT RACI n anrl rs ago emoarKei in .. which he was together the most m &r a trpi-i a -ran f Vl tune w-liich is esti- illion dollars. Flathead lake in of thirteen Indians lake near what ia island, on Sunday channel is narrow, ice is of sufficient the weight of a hu- of them broke through their ponies, were CIRCLING THE thS in the. circus busin very successful, gett; extensive circus which he amassed a f mated at more than News comes fro Montana, that a band! attempted to cross known as Wild Hors afternoon, where th, and apparently th thickness to sustai. man being. Fivj the ice and, " ith drowned. B. P. nutcbirrson, known as "Old Hutch," board of trade speculator, of Chicago, has been victimized by his set tling clerk, acting in collusion with a clerk of W. P.' D&kmson & Co., another firm, whose office t on the same floor with Hutchinson. Rumpr places the amount variously from $75,000 to $40,000. Dickinson was also lobbed by his clerk, placed at $7,000. Bith clerks have gon to Canada. BOYCOTTING ENGLAND. THS BUSINESS MEN OF PORTUGUESE CITIES RBSTRICTING TRADE WITH THE ENGLISH. The Commercial association at Lisbon has resolved to do its utmost to prevent or restrict all trade or commercial inter course with England. The inhabitants ol Port Setubal, forcibly prevented a Portu guese merchant from shipping goods or an English steamer, which, therefore, sailed without any cargo. Many Ameri can, French and German commercial travelers at Lisbon are making the most of the opportunity afforded to replact English goods in Portuguese markets bj goods from the countries they represent. Four thousand merchants paraded the streets Tuesday night shouting : "War tc Englandr . SEABOARD FARMERS ORGANIZE AN ALLIANCE . AND ELECT A FULL QUOTA OF OFFICERS. The Seaboard Farmers' Alliance was organized at Charleston, S. C, Saturday. The following officers were installed: President, W. G. ITenson; vice-president, John S. Horbeck; secretary, E. L. Roche; treasurer, S. C. Henson; lecturer. E. L. Rivers: assistant lecturer; II. B. Lee, doorkeeper, J. H. Ligon; assistant doorkeeper, T. G. Hamlin; sergeant-at-arms, Sandy Bee: business agent, E. T. Legare. The farm ers on its roll are those on the sea islands and on what is known as the neck. They raise sea island cotton and truck- News from Tacoma, Washington,' re ports that at least ten human beings and thousands of cattle and sheep perished in the blizzard which began with " the year and raged over Washington for a week. Reports from Colville reservation are to the effect that cattle are dying by the hundreds from starvation and thirst, and that the ground is covered with over two feet of snow on a level, and that in some places is drifted mountain high. The keeper of a atage station, a mail carrier and eight cattle men are known to have lost their lives in the storm. The cattle men estimate that they will lose one-half of their herds this season. A 11-year-old son of Lawyer Flint, of San Francisco, shot himself because he thought he was going to get a whipping. A GOOD PLAN. COTTON KILLS AT FALL RIVES, MASS., TC ADOPT THE PROFIT-SHARING PLAN. Managers of a - number of big mills, ai Fall River, Mass., have been watching the result of the profit-sharing experiment at the . Bourne milL and v it is stated, on good authority . that a number of milla contemplate doing likewise, for the incen tive offered keeps the help from leaving, an evil with which every large mill haa had to contend. " tic- One of the first bills introduced in Congress at the present session provided for the expenditure of $126,000,000 dar ing the next twelve years for coast de 16B06S. GLOBE IN BEV JNTYrTWO SWIMMERS OF SINGAPORE THEY AXUB THE MOST SKTLXFTJL DTVSBS IN THE WORLD. Select sittings. ' Last November the New and the Cosmopolitan Maeaz," same city,' each sent out one o correspondents for a tour l world. Besides being a trip iL est of the papers named, it a race between the two youi 1 t k World oi the Lheir lady und the he inter- as in reality ladies, and Plunging Down to tne Bottom of the Sea for Coins Holding Their Breath Under Water. . V The people of most tropical countries bordering on the sea' are generally very skillful in diving , and swimming, says Thomas W. Knox, in the New York World. In the islands of the South Pa cific the natives, and especially the women, will swim two or-three miles with little fatigue, or apparently none at all, and will "easily distance the best swimmers from temperate regions. All through the Malay Archipelago this pe culiarity of the people is apparent, and a credulous person might be excused foi believing that the Malay race is amphibi ous and has webbed feet and hands like the duck, or goose. . - Th most skillful diving and swimming that I ever witnessed in any part of the world was at Singapore, the capital of the British province, known as the Straits Settlements. Singapore is only eighty miles north of the equator, and consequently is ne of the most sub tropical of cities. Overcoats are un known there except as curiosities and the beds in the hotels have no covering be yond a pair of sheets, and the traveler generally restricts, the use of these to the one that he lies upon. The natives wear very little clothing other than a wisp of cloth around the loins and a smile or a scowl on their faces; when one of them wishes to put on style he dons a shirt and thinks himself a ''swell" of the first de gree.. ' At the landing place of the mail steam ers when I. was departing from Singapore there was a swarm of divers surrounding the vessel on the water side and afford ing great amusement to the passengers by their antics in the water. The men were" dressed in the loin cloth already mentioned, and had a veneering of cocoa nut' oil on the visible parts of .their bodies to keep the water from soaking in. As for the boys, they wore nothing whatever, not even the smile or the cocoanut oil which appertained to their elders, probably for the reason that oil was dear and the youthful skin was sup posed to be impervious to moisture. They were in boats of the dugout pat tern l. e., hewn from the trunk oi a tree and some of the craft were barely large enough to contain a single individ ual. The way in which they managed to get into these boats from the water evinced their skill Quite as much as did the diving; an American or Englishman, unless he had had long practice, would have' upset the boat to a certainty, but these brown-skinned Malays sprang in with the utmost -ease, and without the least apparent risk of an overturn. , . We began by throvsicg copper coins which, theyi at nrst ietusea, men did. bat the bovs went " and so the rcten were o tear Mist con- thi mc lime oi starting ana imcir progress over tne wona nas oeen minutely noted from the day of their embarkation. Miss Nellie Bly represented the World, and' Mrs. Kate Bisland the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Miss Bly reached New York Saturday at 8.40 p. m., being just 72 days, six hours and eleven minutes in cir cling the globe, thus breaking all previous records. Miss Bly's trip from San Fran cisco to New York was most exciting and attracted wide-spread attention. All along the route she was received with regular ovations, and given every attention. At New York Miss Bly- received a most royal welcome. The moment of her arrival was heralded over the city by the firing of cannon and large delegations of citizens congregated at the station to meet her. In fact, all New York accorded a grand ovation to the plucky young lady who, alone and unattended, accomplished the , marvelous feat of breaking the record for' fast traveling. Miss Bisland, at last accounts, was still cm. the ooean, homeward bound. CONVENTION OF MINERS- IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS. The United Mine Workers' convention held its session Friday and Saturday, at Columbus, Ohio. The final report of the Committee on constitution was made, and the constitution adopted as a whole. The revisions of the articles are : Coal fields are to be divided into divisions,, or dis tricts, and a state union may be organized when more than one division exists. The following officers were elected : Presi dent. John B. Rae, Pennsylvania; Vice President, W. II. : Turner, Ohio ; secre tary, treasurer, Robert Wi thorn, Ohio; auditor, J. H. Kennedy, Indiana; execu tive board Patrick McBride, Pennsvlva nia; William Scolfe, Illinois; R. F. War ri$n, colored, Ohio; John Kane, Indiana: W. C. Webb, t Kentucky. Resolutions Were reported and adopted favoring the immediate enactment for the abolition ol the company store system ; that the safety of the miner is of highest importance, and that the most improved machinery should be used for the protection of life, therefore indorsing the Shaw machine, recommending its adoption in all mines oj the country. HERR MOST IN CUSTODY. THE WELL-KNOWN ANARCHIST AGAIN THE HANDS OF THE POLICE. IN A New York dispatch says : Herr John Most, anarchist, whose conviction and sentence to one year in the penitentiary was affirmed Friday by the general term ofvthe supreme court, was arrested on Saturday by detectives from the central office. He was captured as he was leav ing the house of Mrs. Ida Hoffman, who was on his bond, pending the decision of tae general term. Most was convicted of ubing language intending to incite a riot, while making a speech at a meetinjr of the anarchists held in November, 1887, to dt:3unce the hanging of the Chicago an- T . Tt 1 "11 1 At . . -isu. ins counsel win asit tnat ne Df tted to. bail pending the appeal. after them. liged to follow suit or get nothing. "When only a few divers' are about, the otrfers happening to be awav on fishinsr excursions or other occupations, the men tefused absolutely . to dive for copper, basing their refusal on. the ground that tl ey cannot see the dark metal in the watir. This is a trick to induce the- offer of the more valuable coin; if any 'copper is tossed to them they decline to touch it, but gather it in as soon as the steamer has gone. Whenever a coin was thrown half a dozen men and boys would dive for it; nine times out of ten it was caught before it reached the bottom, and very often it did not get a yard below the surface be fore it was in somebody's hand and im mediately transferred to his mouth. The water was thirty feet deep and very clear ; the bottom could be seen with ease, and a small object lying upon it was readily perceV "Hie." Sometimes some of us at tracteoretiStion 'of "the divers in one directijvwhile another of the passengers dropped a few. coppers overboard else where so that they could get to the bot tom. When the money was safely down its position was indicated and instantly they began-a lively race for it. A dozen were in the water at once and there was a spectacle of rapidly wrig gling legs in the direction of the prize. We looked for a fight of some kind under the water, but there was nothing of the sort. The hand that first closed upon a coin was allowed to keep it, and no body remained, long in the haunt of the fishes. We did not think to take the time of any of the divers, but we thought some of them remained below for not less than sixty or seventy seconds on several occasions. Residents of Singapore say these div ers have been known to hold their breath and remain below for fully two minutes, but I have no documentary evidence on this point. It used to be said that the pearl divers of Ceylon could remain six minutes under water. Admiral Hood, of the British Navy, timed them- carefully with his watch and did not find one of .them remaining below for more than one minute. As our steamer moved away from the dock at Singapore one of the passengers took a double handful of copper coins and scattered it as though he were sow ing wheat in a field. All the boats of the diveis were emptied of their occupants in an instant, and as our speed increased we saw the men and boys coming to the sur face, each with one' or more coins be tween their teeth. This was our last sight of them1, but we had reason to re member their exploits, from the circum stance that until we reached Point de Galle there was a scarcity of copper coins on boards the steamer which amounted practically to a famine of small change.. In Austria there are 247,000 more males than females. " Forty hogs and eighty sheep have been eaten by a lynx in Stark County, Ohio. There is a factory in England which makes 5,000,000 tin soldiers yearly out of sardine cans. ' ; A Philadelphia merchant has put ont the sign : "Esculent Repository.' The establishment is a grocery store. , So many clergymen have now homes in i ' m am -V A. aT ll A . tne streets west oi .Boston vximmon tnat the cicetious refer to old Beacon -Hill as Mount Zioh. v ..y--1 J; Sottth Africa farmers are greatly an- no veil oy oaooons. ine animais kiu their fhcep. rob their beehives and' down'lruit trees. 7 : ' A cnzy quilt just finished by Lizzie W?.ver. of Bridffeton.Penn.. tains 30,075 Pieces and has been in works forty-sbren years. ; Nine girls iifefc-iamily or.Jun MLs-4 ' ter, of Ewan'l Mills, Gloucester County, IN. J., aggregate izuu pounds in weight. The oldest (a but fifteen years old. A lion kn the Philadelphia Zoo suffer ing from wie toothache, his keeper ad ministered! laughing gas, put the beast to sleep and feafely extracted the offending molar. There is aWarm in New Hampshire, owned by Vhe Cheshire Improvement Company, which ; contains over 7000 acres, and furnishes employment for 115 persons. f A plague 'of monkeys afflicts t Tanjore,' in Southern India. The creatures do bo v much mischief that ah official monkey catcher receives a rupee for each monkey captured.'. . - ' . - One of the items in a bill received by the selectmen of Eastport, Me. , for the maintenance of an estrayed Eastport ' pauper by another town was $10 for pop corn cakes! - , V Five hundred people engaged in a bear hunt near Uniontown, W. Va. , the other day, and succeeded, after a long chase, ' in killing the brute Fifteen dollars was offered .for the skin. A tramp six feet and ten inches in, height was locked up in the Auburn (Ni Y.) Jail for ten days recently. He gave his name as John Winar, but would tell nothing of his past history, ; . . John Fisher, a painter at Roach fs ship yard, Chester,' Penn. , went home the- .. other day to find himself the father of twins. Mrs. Fisher is one of a family of thirteen, and ten of them were bom twins. . ; .. : . . A family at West Bethel, Me. , consisf of a couple of eighty-five and" eighty V and do most of their work. But they dfK keep fifteen pet cats. I a peculiarly shapea if bv workmiki on"T.o was -7 ck The story is an old one of the party of tired travelers who entered a house dec orated by a jculiar sign, and demanded oysters. "This is not a restaurant," said the courteous gentleman who met them; "I am an aurist." "Isn't that an oyster hun 4 outside the door?" asked one. "No, gentlemen, it is an ear." The American Bank Note Company prinis 20,000,000,000 postage stamps per Tear. Oilier nfiarfmorcantown. W. Yf t f.t1v resembles a moccaM 1 and it was supposed to be the il fan? pedal extremity of some ffianfi dian who chased buffaloes ..and toh hawked his enemies in prehistoric a&ly A horse employed in a lumber mill Guernville, Cal., for the- last twelve years to haul away the sawdust has be come so well acquainted with his work that he goes from one hopper to another, through intricate passageways, without a driver and never strikes a post. He be gins and quits work by the whistle, the same as the men. - .' Some Learned Titles. m a tx - i ' X loose fashion to denote generally iv out any reference to a, university. From the loose way in which it is applied to conjurors even it has grown to be a name without dignity and without definite meaning. Originally the term was con fined to an officer in a university whose dlltir if VM 4rt inctrit atlvrta svr matt "' lectures on particular branches, of lerrn If ing. In the early days aLriavcriaitir h uegrees conierrea on students were licenses' to act as public teachers. - Now they may be divided into classes simple certificates of attainment by competent officers or authorities, attesting either that the school granting them has ascer tained the fact by examination, or- that the common fame of the individual is such that the conferring body takes it for granted ; licenses to teach the branch with which the holder is certified, to be. ac quainted, and licenses to practice a cer tain profession of "art. As an academical title Master of Arts is believed to be the oldest. By the canon of a council, held in Rome in 1126," we read of the1 ap pointment of masters and doctors. -Gregory IX 1227 to 1241 is said to have instituted the inferior rank of bache lors to denote a candidate who had un dergone his first academic trials and was authorized to give lectures, but wa not yet admitted to the rank'of an independ ent master or doctor- It is now the lowest academical honor. Master of arte is the highest in the faculty of arts, but . subordinate to that of bachelor of divin ity. These titles' to be valid must be conferred by some competent authority, some institution of learning. New York Telegram.' . - . . ; A Remarkable- Memory, 3 udge Hilton is a : remarkable man who is wholly misunderstood. He pos sesses, probably, the most comprehensive memory of any man who now or who ever has practised at the New York bar. His knowledge is almost encyclopaedic. vuowulc iruu llOU ixragut a Dlfc oi lace or a piece of catpet "at any of the Stewart stores within the last fifteen years should take a sample to him he would tell them who made, the goods, how they were made, where, the- chemical" or mechanical process necessary, and the. various elements of cost- which went to make up the total charge for manufactur ing the goods.- PhUadelphia Prest, Iowa's com crop of 336,000,000 bush els is worth $75,000,000, and would fill a train of cars 506r miles in length. Ii would gie five bushels to every many woman and child irv the United States,
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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