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VOL. III. SALISBURY, N. C. ' THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1890. NO. 21. ill: 1" '"4 Sr-i j, A. 'NECESSITY. Some there must e wlv must bear the Dar ken and the loss, Some there must be who must wear the thorny crown and cross. Some there must be who must pace thro' battle and thro' blood, Some there must be who must face the over whelming flood. Some there must' be who must dram the bit ter, bitter lees, , Some there must bewho in pain must wrestle on their knee Some there must be who must feel the fierce onilausht of f ate. Some there mast be who must kneel unheard outsiJe tus g-atf. Some there must b who must work nor goodly suerdoh. ask, r . Some there must toa who must shirk the un rewarded task. Some there must bo who must lay their hopes the altar on, - '. Some there must be who must say "Thy willjjiot min, be done." Susie 3f. Best, in Philadelphia Eedger. I THE ENGINEER'S STORY. BY AUTHUIl DODGE. Yi Did you ever hear of a railroad Presi- hj ent running as fireman on an engine? ?4w'ell, I know, of one who did, and, if tidniVe got time to listen to it, I'll tell u the story now while I smoke this ar you were kind enough to give me. jit wa along in the summer of '85 that rig;as firing on a single track, one-horse "retioAi that 01113 UP f rom Junction City u pugh Georgetown, a matter of a hun manes! an-d ten miles. The road was most- il lie cwuea y man nameu incuioru ji;ia!!i l. laeford who was president Superiuieudent .all in one. I had filing on the road for two years ; all the time with one engineer 'Hunter bv name, and a finer man op ay a , jy. for I was clean head over ears in s to uu uix preny uaugmer uiuuy.; uuu ,. ii i i j. -rti J Kvould ly waiting for a bit of raise in my make her Mrs. Jim Martin. 2 , ' l I didn't see any chance for that Tf. - here I w.iJrf- .dlUa i like to leave ' - wj-afji another road, for that would takefme away from Molly. . One day Bob says to me : 'Jim, ain't you and Molly never goin' to get married?" 4 'Just as soon as I can get my raise, fays I; "but I don't sec how I'mgoing to get it here." "Why don't you go and ask Billy!" cays he. You see Billy was what we always called Mr. Thedford behind his back, of course, for I .warrant you we were mighty pohte to his face. "He won t do anything for me, says I, "for you know either one of the elean ers up to Georgetown would be glad enough to jumplnto my place, and he ain't a-going to give me a raise just to please me." ! "Well," says Bob, "it won't do any j hurt to try it." v So next day I washed up and went to the companyls offices and asked for Mr. Thedford. After a few minutes he sent word for me ifiat he would see me, and in I went. There he sit a lartre, heavily built man, with larc siue whiskers and a pair of gold rimmed eye glasses on his nose. " "What is it my man? I'm very busy," says he. So I up and told him what I. wanted. "How much are you 'getting now" says he . . "Forty-five a month," says I. ' Then he pursed up his ltps, and hemmed-and hawed a little, and says: "I don't see hew we can give you any thing more, my gaod fellow. Yours is not a very resjirAsrbie position ; merely one that require' little bodily strength. And we can ftl plenty of men who . would be only V) glad to take your place at that salary." With that he turned to a letter he was wiring, and I knew I had no more business-there. I tell you I felt sore to be told it I'.'dr.'t take much to know how to fire an engine,!ind I came mighty near throwing my job up and trying to get in on an other road.' . But Molly persuaded me to hold on a itflc longer. Now before I come. to the particular point of this yarn I Want to tell yod a little about the road. I have said it was & single track road running from Junc tion City to Georgetown. The latter place was a little town of five or six hun dred inhabitants ; butn summer a great many Chicago people carae up there, and so I suppose the road paid. Anyhow, Thedford, who had a summer place there, was rich enough to run the road for him lelf alone, if he wanted to. Bob lived, at Georgetown and I boarded with him. Our trips legan at eight in the morning, and we generally ran the hundred and ten miles in five hours. Then at three in the afternooa we came back, getting home at eight. As soon as we reached the round-house at Georgetown our day's work was over, for the cleaners took the engine then, cleaned and pol ished her and laid the fire all ready to start next morning. Well, as I said, I hung on to my job, hoping that something would turn up that would give me a lift, till one day in August. The whole,, summer had been uncommon hot, but that day went ahead of anything I ever saw. Of course, while we were running we had a breeze, but the minute we stopped it seemed as if we were in a furnace ; and naturally, work ing as we were near a hot fire, didn't improve thingstany. ' On the home trip Bob was taken sick and had all he could do to hold out iili we sot to the home " station, -when he got home as soon as possible. After the train was emptied I ran the engine to the round house, ex pecting to go straight home and wash -up. But when I had run the engine in, the first thing I saw was my two cleaners laid out on a heap of ashes, dead drunk. Here was a pretty mess, for it would cer tainlv take me until midnight to set the machine: in proper trim i forethe -next day's Tua: and a hot, greasy Job it was in any weather, but on such 1 night as that was it was frightful to think of it. However, there was no help for it, and I started in. ' I had barely made a begin ning when I heard some one coming in the door. Looking up, ( I -saw it was Billy Thedford. In a very excited voice he asked where Hunter was. "Home," I said; "and so sick he can't hold his head up." ' i "My God!" said he; shall be ruined !" j Then he went on to say that if he wasn't in Chicago the next day, some deal, I think he called ;it, would fall through, and it would cost him a quarter of a million. I ! "There's a train goes through Junction City at. 11:33 that'll get you to Chicago ! in time," savs I. "What good'll that do me r says he. '.Tve been away for two days, and only just now got the telegram,. If Hunter was here he might get me down; but as it is, I might as well go. home, and let the money go." - i ! . "Mr. Thedford," says I, "Bob is sick, but I can run this machine to Junction City in time to connect with the train you want ; but you will have to fire for me, as my two cleaners are drunk, as you see, and there isn't another man in this village " knows the engine from the tender, hardly." 1 hope the Lord has forgiven me that lie, for there were two or three men that could have fired all right', but it struck me all of a sudden that here was a fine chance to get even with Billy, and let him see whether it took any know-how to fire an engine for a hundred and ten miles. It so happened that we had woodefl. up on the home trip at a little si ati on three miles from Georgetown, so we had plenty of fuel aboard to make the run with. I I "Can-you do it?" says he. : "Remem ber, it is a hundred and ten miles, and it is 8:30 now, so you have only two hours and a half to make the run that generally takes double that time.". I 1 v "I can do it," says I, -"if you will just jump aboard, pull off your: coiat, and do just as I tell you." I I No sooner said than done,? and in ten minutes we had the old engine on the turn table, turned her around, and were off. . "!'! ' 1 If the Toad was rough when we ran at our usual speed, that night, making double time, it wag just awfuL As we flew around the curves it seemed as if we should leave th track at j every turn of the drivers, and the poor old machine rocked and swayed so that,; used as I was to it, I could hardly keep on my seat by the lever. If it was hard on me, what must it L have been to old Billy? T nrn I hnrHlir Iroon friim flnrrhinfr in his face, as I watched him,and heard him j used for fuel. . The heat of the weather, added to that of the furnace and the unusual work,, made him look as if he was; in a Turkish bath. The water ran down his face, his stiff white collar hung down on his s-iio.iiucrs iiihj a wci lag, ouu uw umu"- I ful smooth shirt-bosom looked as if some out had thrown a pail of dirty water over hirn. His hands were torn and cut, from handling the wood, and take it all to etker, he Avas the most unlikely looking railroad President j I ever saw. ! Once in awhile I had tor shout at him I to lay the wood more even in the furnace, nd would tell him he would get the knack of it in time. Whenever he tried to rest I told him we were losing steam, and if he wanted to catch that train, he mustn't letup on the work, ) If I had thought to hitch a car on when we started, we could have run much smoother; but it was too late to think of that now, and so on we rushed, now through woodland, now past grain fields, lurching first to one side and then to the oher, until I expected every minute to land wrongside up in the ditch. Howevef, j; luck was with us that night, and we pulled up at Junction City at jnst eleven, j Poor old Billy could hardly climb down from the cab, but he managed to gasp out: "Come to my office at two o'clock next Saturday.? . I learned afterward that, finding the Chicago train was behind tirae he hunted up a clothing store and rigged himself out so as to look , like: a civilized man, which he didn't when he left ne. I managed to find a fireman' who 'was i willinc: to make the run back-1 with me, and I finally got home at thiree o'clock, and finding the cleaners a little sobered up, got to bed as soon as possible, for I was clean played out. I told (Bob about my trip next day, and thought he would die laughing to think of old; Billy play ing fireman. But all he said was : "I'm afraid that'll settle your hash, ; Jim, for he'll find out that iyou worked uim more than was needed." j The next Saturday, at two o'clock, I reported at the President's j office, won dering whether I was going to be re warded for my extra work or kicked out for my impudence. j I When I entered the office,! there sat the old man spick and span as j ever, and showing no signs of his hard, work. "Well, young man. says he, "you helped me out the other night, but I wouldn't go through the same experience again for ten thousand dollarsj At the same time I think you were trying to get even with me for not doing as yod asked me to about your salary, and, I j have con cluded that this road can dispense with your services." ! ' At this my heart went down into my boots, for I can tell you it isn't an easy thing to get a new job when ! you can't bring a recommendation from your last place: , Then he went on to say: "I have a letter here, from the Super intendent of the Chicago and Western, asking me if I can recommend to them an engineer who has a sharp eye l and cool head, to run their new fast night ex press. I have written in reply that I can recommend such a man, one James Martin, who will report for service Sep tember 1st. The pay will be one hundred dollars a month. I may add to you privately that I shall never apply to you for the position of fireman. Good-day, sir." That's all there is to my stoy,"- Molly and I were married, and went tie Chicago to live. I took the new train, and have brought her in on time every -trip I ve run; so you, can see I've a pretty good record with the company. I've never seen Billy since, and I dont believe he wants to see me; for Bob told me last time I saw him that they all called the old man "Martin's Fireman;" that he knew, it, and naturally didn't like it. There s my mate signaling ior me now, sir, and I must go, New Tori Ledger. European Armies. Ifappears that it is practically impos sible to ascertain the fighting strength of the Germany army when placed on a war footing, On account of the complicated arrangements by which portions of the territorial forces are worked into the strength of the regular corps. The present peace establishments of Germany, France and Russia, are as follows . Ger many, 884 battalions, 465 squadrons, 364 batteries, 1500 mounted guns, 10,457 officers, 468,409 rank and file. France, 26,763 officers, 534,100 rank and file, 480 field batteries, with 2080 mounted guns. Russia, 848 battalions, or 386, 312 infantry, 32S squadrons of cavalry, with 57,416 men; 344 batteries of field artillery, with 1542 mounted guns and 61,SS0 men, 3 Z battalions of engineers haying 18,977 men, besides 31,130 men of the 4 'train" service, making a total of 562,500 men. To these should be added288 squadrons of Cossacks num bering 51,944 men; 112,850 local troops and 72, 634 reserve men, which will bring up the strength of the Russian peace es tablishment to. 799, 928 men. The Rus sian forces wnen on a war footing are estimated as follows. 994,460 men of regular troops, with 4030 pieces of ar tillery; 280,810 reserve men, with 640 guns; 137,730 Cossacks, with 240 guns of their own; and 189,500 supplement ary reserve men, with 384 pieces of ar tillery. This estimate is exclusive of local troops. The war footing strength of France is estimated at "about" the following: Active army, about 2,000,- 000, dividedinto ten classes, according to age 1,022,000 of the territorial army, divided into five classes, according to age; and reserve troops, divided into six classes, numbering 762,000, the total amounting to 3,784,000 men. A Delicate Operation on a Lioness. Yesterday morning Keeper Havens, of the Gress Zoo. performed a very delicate operation. The silver lioness, "Mollie," chewed up a piece of raw beef , which the butcher had chopped up with a cleaver, leaving some fragments of bone in the flesh. It the custom ot the keeper to give any Done at all. In this instance a sharp sliver of bone pierced the lioness' gum on the out side of the jaw, next to the cheek, just below the left eye. The place swelled up and festered, and the animal suffered a great deal of pain. Her head was swolen, and she was unable to eat. Yesterday morning Keeper Havens went to the cage, and by coaxing the lioness, he got her to lie down, and then he slipped ropes over her fore feet. stretching them to either side of the cage and tying them securely. ' 4 'Mollie" kicked and struggled until the keeper fondled her awhile. aa After she was se- cured he entered the cage all alone, and, taking her head between his knees, he.. cut a small incision in the cheek, took his lanca and drew out the sliver, an inch in length. He did the work all alone, and no one else was present during the performance of the operation. . Yesterday afternoon, after she had been released several hours, he visited the cage, and she met him with a grati fied look, holding the wound up to the bars of the cage as if she were glad that he had performed the operation that re lieved her, and she appeared as docile and kindly as a kitten, although she had been fierce and resentful before. At lanta Constitution. Biting Its Own Body. Bill King, of Fairburn, GaM has -. t horse that has hydrophobia from all ap pearances. The horse at intervals has spasms or paroxysms. It bites its own legs and feet an'd breast. It is terrible to behold how it fastens its teeth in its own flesh and tears the skin and flesh from its bones. King says the horse bit him on his arm, but he did not think anything of it until his horse became un manageable and he tied around his neck a rope and tied the rope to a tree in his lot. The horse would catch his leg in his mouth and bite and pull it until he threw himself on the ground, then ne he would .turn and wallow on the ground for some time, then he would get quiet, gently get up and stand still awhile. In a few minutes he would commence his antics again and bite the tree near him, then the rope and then he would bite his breast and pull the flesh off in strips, then he would catch his legs and pull and bite the skin off in strips, then he would catch his leg in his mouth and pull and jerk until he would fall to the ground. Every one was afraid, to go near him. Some suggested bleeding, but no one was found who would under take the job. Your correspondent and others suggestel that the horse be shot and put him out of so much suffering and pain. The last seen of Mr. King he was hunting for some one to shoot his horse. Atlanta Cvruliiution. The Costliest Book Extant, The Vatican Library, at Rome, cele brated for its thousands of valuable. books, has a copy of the Hebrew Bible, for which Pope Julius, in 1512, refused $125,000. The would-be purchasers were a syndicate of rich Hebrews.' They did not exactly offer Julius $125,000 for his biblical treasure, they simply told him they, would 'give its weight in gold. As the book weighs 325 pounds the offer made is equivalent to the figures given St. Louu MejmUie. . r AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT the fifty-first QRESS IS DOING. con- irPOESTMENTS BT FBXSIDE5T KABBX903T MEASURES Or RATIOS AL UOtlSTAKCX AKD ITEMS OF OEKERAL EfTJEHEST. The resolution heretofore offered in the senate by Mr;i Chandler, calling on the attorney-general for information as to the assassination bf W. B. Saunders, deputy United States marshal in the northern dis trict of Florida, was taken up on Wed nesday and Mr. Pasco proceeded to ad dress the senate in explanation of the facts and circumstances of the case. Mr. Pasco had not concluded his statement when the hour of 2 o'clock arrived, and the education; bill came up as unfinished business. MrL Blair, however, yielded the floor to Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, on whose motion! the senate bill appropriat ing $100, 000 for a public building at Fort Dodge, Iowa.jwas taken from the .calen dar and passed Mr. Call calling attention to the fact that this was the fourth pub lic building till passed for Iowa at this session On motion of Mr. Stock- bridge, the isenate bill appropriating f 100,000 for a public Duiiamg ai Lansing, Mich., was taken from the calendar and passed Mr. Blair then resumed his argument in favor of the education bill. In the house, on "Wednesday, Mr: But terworth, of Ohio, from the committee on patents presented a favorable report upon the bill providing for the appoint ment of representatives on the part of the United States !to the international indus trial conference at Madrid, Spain, April 1, 1890 Mr. Rowell, of Illinois, chairman of the committee on elections, crave notice that he would call up the JWest Virginia contested 1 election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton for consideration next Wednesday Mr. Iieid, of Iowa in behalf of the judiciary committee, called up a bill to regulate the sittings of the! United States courts in the dristrict of South Carolina, and it passed. The house then went into committee of the whole for consideratiou of the bill authorizing the appointment of an as sistant secretarv of war. The bill was favorably reported from the committee of the whole to the house, and the Oklaho ma bill was taken up. The remainder or the day's gession was occupied in the dis cussion of the Oklahoma bill, but with out action. . . . j&iturday afternoon, March 22d, was set apart for delivery of eulo gies upon the late representative Edward j. Ray, of Louisiana, and Thursday even ing, April 3d, was fixed for the delivery of eulogies upon the late representative S. S. Cor. nf Xew York- SOTES. The president on Wednesdav nominated Wm. F. Bowers supervisor of the census for the4 second Georgia district. Senator Edmunds introduced a but Baturday to punish parties interfering with United States officers in the dis charge of duty.j The house amendment to tne Din to i have statistics of' mortgage indebtedness obtained in thej next census was non- concurred in," and a conference was asked, j The first assistant postmaster general on Saturday appointed the following fourth- rlftSH postmasters for Georeria: At Good- win, Franklin countv, E. L." Cawthron; at Round Oak, Jones' county, J. W. Turk, The President, on Friday, sent to the saaat the following nominations : Post masters Virginia, Charles R. Lee, Ber ryville;' Florida Edward C. Weeks, Tallahassee ; Mississippi Henry C. Grif fin, Natchez; Alabama William T. Ew ing, Gadsden; Georgia Madison Davis, Athens. j The reports of the action of the body upon the British extradition Wednesday, and which was printed in the papers, was the cause of the question being consid ered. Among the measures suggested as likely to accomplish the desired end, was one to entirely clear the senate wing of the capitor during executive sessions of all persons except senators and those em ployes whose duties require them to be present. The news of the arrest ol seventeen citizens of Sharoin, Ga., charged with con spiracy and intimidation against Post master Duckworth, caused 'considerable comment among the Southern members Tuesday. As soon as Representative Barnes heard of lit, he went to see Attor nev General Miller, and asked an "expla nation. The attorney-general replied that he had ordered! the arrest on charges based upon representations made to the department that there was interference with a United States officer in . the dis charge of his duty. The senate has confirmed the following nominations : Supervisors of census : Alabama, J. R. jWilson, fourth district. Florida Charles L. Partridge, fifth dis trict. Georgia Isaac Beckett, fifth dis trict; W. A. Harris, sixth district; Ma rion Bethune, fourth district; O. C. Ha ley, first district. Mississippi E. Al drich, first district; J. E. Ousley, third district. North Carolina C. P. Lockey, third district. South Carolina F. W. Macusker, fourth district; S. J. Pointer, first district: D. 1 Yates, second district. Tennessee 11. IL llinicie, iounn aisinct; J. R. Walker, fifth district. Postmas- ters: Alabama Andrew J. .LocKe, Eufaula. Georgia L. H. Peacock, Bain bridge. Florida F. A. Harrison, Pa latka. Mississippi James W. Lee, Aberdeen; Edmnnd H. Thompson, Wes son ; Joshua Stevens, Macon. North Carolina Mrs. Ada Hunter, Kingston. Virginia, H. Anderson, West Point. A LOSING GAVE. George Yon aiem devoted to that old lady you werel with. Is she a near, rel ative l t ! - -'-''.:. Gus Hist I Til tell you now it is. She is tbe mpther of Miss Beauty, and I've alwsyff heard that the nearest way to a girl's A jbart is through her mother's. That's wli0 I'm so sweet on.tho old lady. See?" 7C ' GeoxKfu Humph! Yes, I see. I played Hat game, too, when I was young, if , -, y . Gns-fiTes, and you married the girl, didn't iaf : Georr-e True. ' But the old lady took such, a fancy to me that she has been living with me ever since. New York Weear. A GOOD SHOWING. NEW XNTKEPniSES STARTED IN THE SOUTH I WrrHTXAWAEK. The list of new enterprises organized in the south during the week show un predented activity in the sale of mineral and timber lands in large tracts and or ganization of a company with local and outside capital to build new, towns and establish new industries. This activity is general, extending from Virginia to , Texai. Among the large enterprises re ported for the week is a $1,500,000 coal andiron company in Birmingham, the contract for buildings for a $500,000 cot ton mill in Florence, Ala., purchased by Alabama capitalists ; of two furnaces and mineral property for $900, 000; a $500,000 cotton mill in Arkansas, a $250,000 car-building company in Atlanta, a $250,000 brick and title works in Brunswick, a $200,000 phos phate company in Florida, $200,000 cotton mill company in Georgia, $10,000 pulp making in South Carolina, $100,000 cotton mill in North Carolina, $200,000 cigar ette machine company , in Roanoke, Va., twenty new iron furnaces at Pulaski, Va,, two others at Johnson City, Tenn,, one j a i, liriswji, uy rciujiouio uuu ""wwo, one at uegstone uap, va., anu a large number of others taking shape at other points. Gigantic enterprises, requiring many millions of capital, backed in many cases by capitalists in Europe, as well as in the north, are being formed for opera tions in the South. THE PLOT EXPOSED. DASTARDLY ATTEMPT TO POISON A JAU FULL OF PEOPLE. A dispatch from Pike ville, Ky., says Ellison Mounts was hanged here Wednsdaj for participating in the murder of Miss Alaf air McCoy and her brother After the execution the officers found a plot which, if successful, would have resulted in the escape of the prisoner and the probable death of a number of tho guards of the jail. Through the confession of the jail cook the discovery was made. The Hatfields had paid the cook $200 to place a drug in the food of the jail guards the night before the execution. The drug was found to be strychnine. The cook was immediately . arrested. All the outlaw gang have fled to the mountains of West Virginia, where it is sure death for of ficers to follow. All the lawless persons who are responsible for this outrageoui affair are from West Virginia. Tht sheriff is having the necessary papers ar ranged to secure requisition for the would- be murderers, and every effort will bt- made' to bring them to justice. Soulc they be brought back durinjr the Dresent intense excitement every one of them would be instantly mo L bed, as crazed with indignation. the people art WYLY ON TRIAL DICK HAWES REITERATES THE STORY Ol HIS CONFESSION. The preliminary trial of John Wyly. charged with complicity in the Hawet murder was begun at Birmingham, Ala., pn Wednesday. Hawes, the condemned murderer, was placed upon the witness stand, tie simply reiterated the story first published called his 4 'confession '' He said he gave John Wyly $200 to put his wife and daughter out of the way, and said all the other stories and letters written by him were false. After all the evidence was in, the court announced the defendant discharged. The decision was received with three cheers by the crowd, and nearly every one present pressea iorwara to congratulate Wyly. The courtroom was crowded to its ut most capacity, and lumdreds Qf jadigc took advantage of this their last oppor- xuniiyTr-to see tne notorious murderer. TO CLOSE THE FACTORIES AND TO KEEP THEil CLOSED UNTIL A SET TLEMENT IS REACHED. The members of the Manufacturers' association of Woburn, Mass., at a meet ing Tuesday night, voted to close every leather factory represented in the associa- uon ana to Keep tnem ciosea until tne men return to work at the factory of J gregation of universal inquisition has is Beggs & Cobb. This means an enforced cued a decree signed by Cardinal Monac idleness of nearly two thousand men as a result of the recently adopted price list. ine rqenuiacturers, it is claimed, have an i.J "3. - J 1 5 -aI auopiea ana are now paying ine price iisi of the arbitrators and are living - Btrictly up to the letter of the decision of the board, which Was practically an increase in wages over what the men formerly ob tained of about 5$ per cent. They claim, however, that the men are not doing as they agreed to do, and that they have re peatedly violated the agreement. MUST BE EDUCATED AND CAPABLE OT READING- AND WMTTN0 V BEFORE THEY CAN VOTE. A Pierre, S. D., special to the 'Picnutt Press, says: "In the senate on Tuesday bill was introduced to amend section 1, article 7 Of the constitution, so that it will become necessarv for any person to be caDable of readine properly any article 0f the constitution or any section 01 com piled laws before being a legal voter. r Eel Family's Migration. About four miles from Norwich, Conn. Is situated the village of Hallville, on one of 'the tributaries of the Thames River; During the present fall it be came necessary to repair the dam which furnished the water-fall for a large wool len mill owned by Hall Brothers at the above named place. - T In taking away the dam live eels were found in dry dirt three feet below the surface of the road bed and twftve feet from anv water. One of tbeae eel weighed one pound and a quarter, and they were very lively and seemed all rifrht. aa the men who examined them took them home, had them cooked and ate them. We place this on record, knowing the parties who have furnished us the data to be absolutely truthful, says Wade's Fibre and Fabric We have in our time chronicled some remarkable cases of eel migration and other facta connected with their peculiar life, but this beats anything we have ever yet known in raf- tceaoe to toe eel xamuy. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE GRAPH AND CABLE. TELE- THIXGS THAT HAPPE3T FB03C DAT "TO DAI THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CUT.T.EP, FB03C VARIOUS SOURCES. The anniversary of Washington's birth day was generally observed. Juhn & Adler, overall manufacturers, of Baltimore, failed Thursday. Governor Hill, of New York, signed the world's fair bill on Thursday. . A boiler exploded in the sawmill of James Hunter, near Richmond, Va.', Sat- uraay. inree persons Kiiieu, six wounu- 1 mm 1 . J ed. . The Paris Herald says President Carnot has decided to pardon- the Duke of Or leans, and send him under escort to the frontier. It is the intention of the Russian , gov-; ernment to commence at once' the con- tction of several larcra iron clads and cruisers. . ' . Jeremiah. O'Donnell was on Saturday convicted of jury bribery in the Cronin inai at unicago. ana sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. George Dowell, of Chillicothe, Mo., set a gun trap for a thief. Mrs., Dowell did not know the .trap had been set and walked into it and was killed. William Crock, of Adamsburg, Pa., at tempted to dry a stick of dynamite hy Dlacin2 it on a stove. Result, one man killed and a house blown to pieces. Tour weess ago K. E. H. Smith, who represented the Corbin Banking Co., of New York city, and who naa opened a large plantation store at Elmy, La., dis appeared. An investigation of his affairs, which closed Wednesday night, shows a deficit of $40,000. A cablegram from London says: Pas senger steamer-Coral Queen, from Gath erbury, nas been suns: on ruvcr Tees in Collision with the Rotterdam steamer, Brifieo. All persons' lncludincr captain and officers of the Coral Queen, have been landed. Sixteen lives reported lost. The Manu factruTtri Record. giTes facts and ' statistics showing that the exports from twenty leading Southern ports were $66,959,738 greater In 1889 than in 1888. 1889 nearly doubled those for 1888. It was reported at New York on Satur day that the modest sum of $1,000,000 I had been off ered by a syndicate, through the law firm of Tracy, McFarland, Ivins, Boardmann & Piatt, of No. 35 Wall street, for the franchise of the entire na- I tional league, -which embodies ten clubs, A fire at Toledo, O., early Friday morning destroyed the tin box and fruit can factory of E. P. Breckinridge & Co. A. H. Holderman's elevator factory, and James B. Bortz, junk dealer, and badly damasred Pope's theater. Loss of tne theater $105,000; insurance $90,000. A dispatch of Tuesday, from Baltimore, Md., says: A. Brehmi & Co., importers, German street; H. P. Towles & Co., fur nishing goods, Baltimore street ; and 8. A. Welsh, notions, .Lexington street; nied deeds of trust -for the henefit of their. creditors. The bonds filed are respect ively $24,000, $40,000 and $1,000. An Alliance Land Exchange has been opened at No. 511 Ninth street, north west, Washington, D. C, for the purpose of aiding Alliance farmers in the south era states in selling their surplus lands to the best advantage. The fee for entering the land, when not less than. 100 acres, is One cent per acre. No other charge is made. v At New York, Thursday, the grand ju ry handed indictments against George A. Pell, James 'A. Simmons and ex-Presi dent Wallach, of the Lenox Hill bank, charged jointly witn conspiracy in defying the State banking laws. The charge against Fell, bimmons and Wal lach was grand larceny in the first degree, in taking $31,000 wortli of bonds. The Western Watchman, a prominent weekly journal of St Louis, on Monday, printed a letter from its Roman corres- nondent in wnicn ne says that the con- and published in the official organ of the Vatican, abolishing the leaten fast and abstinence this year. Exports of specie from the port oi New York last week, amounted to $!, 266,780, of which $572,180 was in gold and $694,600 in silver. All the gold and $7,500 in silver went toSouth America, and $687,100 in silver, was hipped tc Europe. - Imports of specie for the week amounted to $34,150, ol which $10,2 was in gold and $17,940 silver. The Pacific mail steamer, China, ar rived at San Francisco, Friday, from Hong Kong and Yokohoma, Chiaa. The people state that the storm which swept along tfoshu coast on January 24tn, was very disastrous. About 1,000 fishing t. between 2.500 and 3.000 fish- I ermtn drifted out to sea, and nine hun dred of these - boats, with all the men aboard, were lost. KEEP IT DARK. Master Bobby Henpeckt Papa, what Is a bacheior f . i Para Henpeckt A bachelor, my son, is a man to be envied, but don t teu your mother that I said so. Boston Courier, A PEOVEEB WELL ETDOBSED. "Bememfcer. my bor. that time is monev, ana you must use it to the best ' said old Parrott to his advantage. nephew, at the conclusion of an hour's harangue. " I will try to," replied the . scape grace. Ana as ne jooKea as tne aina old man's fifty-dollar check, in the hall way, he murmured : " Jughty-three cents a minute : that hours been well employed." Life. The wealthiest class in the United States is considered to be vastly richer than the wealthiest class in Great Britain, The average income of the richest 100 Englishmen is about . f 450,000 ; but the average fnvi income of the richest 100 Americans cannot be less than Cl, 200,000. . THE DAM GIVES WAY. A GREAT, DISASTER Ut ARIZOH A- -uxm PEOPUB DBOWXDD. The fin large storage dam built across- Passayampa river by the Walnut Grov Water Storage Company, two years ago, at a cost pi $300,000, gave way. Saturday morning under the great pressure of thor neavy noou ana swept every uung before it. Forty persons 'are known to have lost their lives, and! th dam which held tho water back was 110 feet long at the base ana 400 feet at the top. It was 110 feet thick at the base and ten feet at the top, xorming a lake three miles in. length by three fourths of a mile wide and one hundred and ten feel deep. Of those known to have been drowned were: J. Haines, wife and four children ; II. Boono and daughter, John Silby, Joseph Reynolds, Mrs. McCarthy.and a McMillcr. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE 'SOUTH. 6EKERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES JVniCH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA SOS'S AKD DIXON'S LI3E. Officers of six cavalry companies, ol Virsriniamet in Richmond Wednesday and organized the first regiment of Vir ginia cavalry. ; : Fire broke out Wednesday morning in. Levy & Wolf son's crockery store,' Jcr Orleans, and four stores of tne 'louro block, on Canal street were burned out. Captain John C. Cheney, a prominent Alliancemen, has been elected general manager of the Southern Exposition aC Montgomery, Ala.,and will probably iden . 1" . 1 All Al ? . I- Jl. uiy me Aiuancemau ui vuc suuic wuu its agricultural exhibits this fall. i The managers of the Scmi-Tropical ex position, a Ocala, Ha., have generously set apart Tuesday, February . 25th, af "Alliance Day," on which all Alliance men will be cordially 'Welcomed without the usual card of admission. The MississippLsenate on Friday pass-' ed the" lie? nee bill repealing the law re- quiring a deposit ox $zo,uuv Dy eacn in surance company doing business in the State; also the bill making changes in tho triets. The Progressive Farmer, at Ralefrl , j& C, edited by President L. L. PoT rof the National Alliance, has entered! Ion its fifth volumeIt h?Jt-iyzyu& a firetsOass Alliance aidf armer's journal, and has won deserveducess all along the years that have pnmrrT--m A meeting of colored citizens was held Thursday night at Nashville, Tenn., i which it was decided to - begin the publication of a weekly newspaper there it an early date, me capital stocK wui not be less than $10,000, and of this $3, 000 has already been taken. , 1 Saturday night at midnight, at one of the largest government distilleries of J. B. Lanic, at Salisbury, N. C, a boiletf exploded with fearful results. Two men were killed, two others fatally injured and several others seriously injured. a The distillery building was blown to pieces. The explosion shook tne eartn ior miiea around. ' A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C, says:- It is learned that the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad" will build a lino . from Bennettsvillc, S. C.,-to Charleston, on the south, and also build from, : Mi. Airy to some point on the Norfolk and Western railway oa the west. These connection's, when obtained, will make it one of the most .important roads in the. state. . ' General Charles E. Hooker, member of congress from Mississippi delivered an address at Baltimore Saturday night be fore a large audience, and under the aus pices of the Baltimore .Light intantry, u. S. A., on the life and character of Jeffer son Davis. Mr. nooker, in closing his address, advised all southerners to give hearty allegiance to the ' reconstructed government . , A C08TLY 8 MOKE. TOBACCO WAREHOUSES BURNED Ef RICH V XOKD, VA. Batarday night fire was discovered pro ceeding from the windows of the Durham rtx . M 1 . A A, " 1 otemming ana looacco iaciory at iucji mond, Va. The fire spread with fright I ful rapidity, and the adjoining factories of Alexander, Cameron & Co., and Came ron & Tyer were soon a mass of flames which the firemen were powerless to sub due until the buildings and contents were destroyed. The factories burned were all four story brick buildings. The loss of Cameron & Tyer is estimated at $200, 000; Durham fertilizing mills, $20,000, fully insured. THE GRIP IN MEXICO, TERRIBLE WOSX OT THE UA&ADT ASfOKdf THE POORER CLASSES. 'Private letters from Mexico state that the grippe has been more widespread and persistent in its ravages there than any where else on the American continent. A letter dated the 14th instant and received at San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday, says: "The progress of the influenza here and its results have been truly ter rific The greatest fatality is among th poorer classes, who live generally in houses which afford no protection against the elements, and they have died abso- 'l . l! fir A m- Just now the supply of cfnns-Sk' exhausted and many bodies have bees buried without them, n . GEORGIA TO AUSTRALIA. A SCBOOXEB LOADED WITH OEOE0IA fCIl LOUSES WILL SAIL FOn ADELAIDE. V A special of Saturday from Savannah, Oa., says: There is a large schooner now in the river loading with lumber lot Ade-: laide, Australia. This is the first time, so far u can be ascertained, that Georgia pine has been sent to that great island,; many thousand miles away. Large quan tities of ft are shipped to South America,' and occasionally some foes to Europe. The new departure in this growing export will be watched with much interest. r ( i r 1
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