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'C - 7 ; VOL. III. SALISBURY, N. C. ' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1890 NO. 49. 3" nniur tut L JLlLili BALIS BURY , - All THE MTIOML CAPITAL Work 05 the FiFTr-FmsT congress. lKOCEKMN8)F THE HOCSEAITO SEKaVfc BBIEf1KYA)ELIBiaiATI)J OTSK TXK8 O MOMKXTOrS taTTERRST TO tIK COJOtfOX'COUNTBY. fOTOS. T&ellckihridge et -case, from Arkansas, -was taken up in the bouse Dnesddy and discussed at lengtk. . The 3Bsewant over until Wednesday, and Mr. Cannon took the floor a a statement rela it5eto the appropriations anadte by this session of congress. Mr; Sayers, a mem toerof the appropriations comniittee, re MewJthe naneial rfcuation from a ;6cratic standpoint. The Breaker n- ounced the appmtnient of Mr. Flick, of Iowa, as a mctosfoer -of the Raum inves tigating committee, in place of Mc Smyser, of Ohio, resigned. .,. '1 he house Uhen, at 5 :45, 3jorDed. In the senate, h Tuesday, - Mr. " Evatfts presented a resolution of the Buffalo merchants exchange favoring reciprocity not only with nratitms -south of us, tout also with that om the "north. The bouse bill in relation to lotteries was reported from the portoffice 'Committee, and placed on the calendar with notification bySaw vcr that be would ask for its considera tion as soon -as the tariff bill passed. KLt. Quay gave notice that he would ask the senate Saturday, the 13 b, to consider the resolotions TohUrve to . the deat'h of Samuel J. EandalL The tariff bill "was then taken iu-pnd tbe sugar schedule 'con sidered. TSLt. Carlisle gave notice that be would aiowe to -strike rut aU paragraph relative to sugar bounties. Mr. Hale of fered the Teriprocity amendment of which be bad given notice on the 19th of June and aaareesea tne senate iupon it. The senate at half past nine o'clock, took a recess until o'clock. In the bouse, on Wednesday, during the absence of Speaker Reed, on motion of Mr. -Gannon, of Illinois, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, was elected srcaker pro tern.' On motion of Mr. Blonnt, 'of Georgia, a b.Al was passed authorizing1 the construction of, a- bridge across the Sa van ri very he Middle Georgia fc Jlatfroad Company. The house then proceeagq to the further considera tion of the Clayton-BreekiirndgQ case. amte Among tbe speak ere wbs mt. Kenned y, of Ohio, who drew from the details of the Clayton-Breckinridge case the conclusion tbat a federal election law should be en acted. He made a fiery attack upon the senators who have been opposed to the Lodge bill. His speech was the sensation ' of the day. The Breckinridge case then went over, and the house adjourned. In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Call offered a- resolution, which was referred to the committee on foreign relations,. . declaring that the murder of General Bar- rundia,..on the steamer Acapuico, dv inn " authorities of Guatemala while under the grotection of the flag of the United tatcs, was an insult to the people of tbe ft United States, and demanded prompt ac- v tion bv tbe covernment of the United States for redress of thaf injury and for security agaiust a recurrence of such cases. ' The tariff bill was then taken up, the 6Ugar schedule being under consideration. Mr. Edmunds addressed the 6enate. Coming to the Question of reciprocity, Mr. Ed munds recalled the history and practical operation (injurious to the United. States) 01 tne Lanaaiau reciprocuy irwiiy oi 1854. Mr. Morean addressed the senate . . . , a ;i iir.i -x in support of the amendment befetofore rroDOsed by him &s a substitute for Mr. Aldricb's reciorocitv amendment. It pro vides for a duty of 8 per cent ad valorem on corn, wheat, rye, parley, oats, nay, straw, potatoes, cotton, live domestic animals, and on asses, mules and horses. and that when any of such articles are exported a premium of 3 per cent shall bo paid on their value 'to the owner. Mr. Evarts was the next speaker. He had several good words for the policy of fosterinor postal and steamship suosiay bills, and then went on to speak of the various reciorocitv amendments, and to criticise them as being objectionable, un der the "favored nation" clause of inter national treaties. At the elbsj of Mr. Evarts' speech a message from the presi dent in reirard to international arbitra tion was presented, nad and referred tn tn the committee on foreicn relations. Mr. Grav consumed the remainder of the time of the f cssion in a peech, upon the general subject of the tariff. Mr, Gray closed his remarks at 5 :30 o'clock, and a recess was then taken till 8 o' clock p. m. In the senate, on Thursday, imme- dihtelv after the reading of tbe journal, thr tariff bill was taken up under the agreement limiting the discussion. on each subiect to nve minutes ior cacn senator. 'After some aiSCUSBion, iu pre siuiug oui- rrr iii. lncaTits) tfnuoUnc a that the gen eral debate on the tariff bill had .closed, with the exception of the reservation of a dav when the final vote'is to be taken. and when twa hours' time is to be allowed each side. The sugar schedule ' was laid n side informally, and schedule I "Cot- tnn Manufactures'' taken up. All amendments iu this schedule . were re jectcd. Schedule J, relating to flax, hemp, jute and their nianuiacmro, was taken up, and an amendment reducing the rate on flax not hackled or dressed from 14 cents per pound to r $20 per ton, was . agreed to The next amendment was to reduce the duty on hackled flax from 4 cents, per pound to $40 per ton. Agreed to. The committee's hmeudment to paragraph 349 relating to bagging for cotton, reducing the duties of .1 G-JO cents and 1 8-10 rents ner vard to 1 3-10 And 1 5-10 cents was agreed to. No other amendments to the schedule, except cemmutee amendments, were successful. Tho end of the dutiable schedule was reached ivithont .i break' iu the programme. -The sugar schedule and several other para capias which were passed over informally SSnfn for action. 1 After a brief escci tlve session, the senate adjourned. . -..tlie house, on Thursday. Mr. Cum- niings, ot New York, rising to a question of rrivilrnrp protested in a lengthy and sarcastic speech, against his "blacklist in"" by the famous Cannon resolution. Mr. -Cumnimgs was frequently inter rupted bv Mr. K-rr,of Jowa, and Mr. Dun ncll, of Minnesota. At the conclusion of Cumm'ngs' speech, Mr. Lacy, of Iowa, called up the Clayton-Breckinridge elec tion cise. Mr. O'Fcrrclli of Virginia, argued in favor of the contestee, and paica high eulogy upon the character of the sitting member. , Mr. McCarthy, of 1 New Yotfe, revived the testimony in sup ( pert of ,fds view that Mr. Brecicinridre was dly elee'ed. lie criticised the ac tion of the subcommittee which had befi sent to Arkansas, declaring that a majority of the members had gone to that &cate with the sole purpose of unseating the sitting member. Mr. Tracy, of New York, also spoke in favor of Mr. Breck inridge, od was followed ag. MeRae, of ArSafisas,wno maae aa cucnoo attack mwn Powell Clayton. Alter a speech by Mr. Maish, of Penwylvinia, in favor tbe minority report the case went over The. house then cdjourned. KOTES. Tbe jresident,on Wedneslay, transmit ted to congress the recommendations of the iBtcTnatkjual American conference, oTrchiirg international atbitratioa, to getber with tbe letter of transmittal from Secretary Bla:,nc. 'Orders were issued 'by the navyde nflrrtmrnt Wednesday for the United "States steamship Kearsage, now at lew Tork, to prpoceed at once to AspinwalL It iis sapposed.tb.at this action grows out of tbe reports -of the railroad strike at that iplftCC, The-president, on Wednesday, aomi- Tiated Jobn W. Ross to be commissioner of the District of Columbia, to succeed Mr. Hiiies, resigned. Mr. Ross is At ipresent postmaster at Washingtoa, and his acceptance of tbe commissiosersbip will create a vacancy in that office. With tbe addition of the new member, Mt. Flick, f Iowa, to replace Smyser, resigned, the special house committee in vestigating the charges against Commis saoner Raum, resumed its labors Wedses day afternoon. The session lasted two hours, and was devoted to a. discussion of qucstionsof pTecedure. No testimony was taken. Actios Secretary, Wharton on Wed nesday, sent the following tejegram to tbe widow of General Barrundia in reply to her message to the president Moday evening. .."The president desires ine to say he has received your telegram an nouncing the death of jour husband, General. Barrundia. While deeply jmpa- thiziotr with you in your affliction, be awaits the official details ot , the occur rence neressary to determine.- his action in regard thereto. The' matter, you may be assured, win receive tne most carerui attention." SUPPOSED TO BE RUBE. TRAIN ON ROBBED THE L. & N. HELP CP AND NEAR FLOMATON, ALA. A Montgomery dispatch says: The nor th-bound pa isenger train on the Mo bile and Moatgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, was boarded at Flomaton about, 10 o'clock Tuesday night by a train robber, who held up the train on the trestle over the Escambia river, just north ot Flomaton. At the point o! a pistol, he compelled the engineer to go back and brealc in the door of the express car. After this was done, he commanded the express Mess enger to lay down his pistol, open the express safe and deposit its contents in a sack winch he furnished for the purpose of containing the plunder. During all this time the robber kept up a fusilade with Pistols, firing, it is estimated, at least fifteen fhots. The robber got away with the contents of the safe which, it is stated, did not amount to a great deal, though the sum stolen is unknown. The work is credited to Rube Burrows, IT WAS A FAILURE. THE fSTRIZISG CAKPENTBR8 OF CHICAGO ARE AT OUTS. A Chicago dispatch says : The carpen ters7 strike aica m it Dorning, ana on Wednesday there were less than . 700 car penters wno refused to go jo work on Tuesday morning still out. President James O'Connell, of the carp<ers, coun cil, has been forced by toe dUbqatenL of memoers oi tne union to resism. ne ac tion of the strike committee In ftjthoriz ing carpenters tio are receiving 37f cents an hour to return to work has been severely criticised. A committee was ap pointed to visit the carpenters' council and vigorously protest against any of the men being allowed to return to work un til all the men receive assurance from their employers that .tbe' union scale of figures would be paid. 1 here is con fusion and chaos in the rank and file and consternation among the leaders. The employers asseTt that ther have all the men they want. ASLEEP SEVEN DAYS. Tiis STRANGE RESULT OF - BROWN PAFER. DIETING ON A dispatch from Moncton, New Bruns wick. S3vs: Etta Simpson, aged seven- teen years, went to sleep a week ago Sua- day and has not yet awaKcnea or nKen any nourishment" Miss Simpson has for some months had a mania for eating brown paper, and would consume a large bag, such as used in grocery stores, at a single meal. She has eaten scores of brown pnper bags, and it is mpposcd this mauia has somethiug to do with her ill ness. About a year ago she slept lor live days, but was awakened wbiie being bled by her medical attendants. HE LOVED THE WIDOW BUT TilE WniTECArS VIGOROUSLY jected: on- A dispatch of Thursday from Kansas. City, says : Whiteeaps so brutally beat and maltreated J. Z. Smith, a preacher, who lived in a lonely piece of woods at l?eno, Kansas, that his life is despaired of. f..18 a?ul, V I x - . the. only objection which the ;Wccaps hacr to mm was tuai ue uuu pronoseu niarriago to a wi 'ow of forty-five years, who lives m aas neigaoomoou. TEXT BOOK , BE VI S ION. . Teacher of Natural History (to a class of young women) Is it true that animals feel affection? J . Young Woman Yes, in almost all cases. . . Teacher Name the animal that feels most affection for man. Young Woman "Woman! New York ? Ucrld. PI pit TJDC 1 1 IT I IJflD T AflLliiiia ALLlriHUfi UUIfitti NEWS 6F THE ORDER MEMBERS. AND ITS WHAT 18 BEIKO DONE DT THS TAMODS RECTIOK8 FOR THE ADVAXCEME3TT OP THE GREAT ORG AXl Z ATIO JT. LEOI8I-A-TlOIf, KOTES, ETC. Six of the Congressman from Gorgl'A will be elected by Alliancemen. There are 60,000 colored Alliancemen in the United States $50,000 has been put into a change in Georgia of colored men. state ex-Alilance- So far twenty-five per cent of tbe mem bers elected to the next Georgia legisla ture are Allliancemen. , " William J. Rogers was on Wednesday nominated for Congress by tbe Democrat of tie Second North Carolina District. H is tbe Farmers' Alliance candidate. The New Mexico Alliance, No. 118, has passed a resolution that they will not harbor of fellowship any person who does willfully refuse to pay or satisfy aH just demands against them. The story v going the newspaper rounds that the Missouri State Alliance refused to endorse the sub-treasury plan. ; It is, untrue. Tbe sub-treasury plan did not come before the body for consideration at all. The next meeting of tb National Far mers Alliance and Industrial Union will be held at Ocala, Florida, la December next, and it is confidently expected tbat 84 states will be represented at tbe meet ing. The latest oensus report gives the New England States a population of 4,425,000 I and 26 repTesentatives' to congress; and to the 8tate"Of ""QeorBria. South . Carolina and Alabama 4, 737, lqO and 25 represen tatives. ' . , The outl for the success of the Alli- anc more nt is growing brighter every day, n A t 1th: tauvyng the oppositioa of xne papet x uraw meir support iiom the the Alliance. Indepmd- ent Advo A coloredViarmer8' Alliance has been organized ivliIouston c.untv, Qa., with E. L. Storing president, and J. T. Noble secretary. The most prosperous negro farmers of that section have joined the order. The day is just approcbing when the southern cotton grower can say to the monied manufacturer, "If you want my cotton, pay me what it is worth: if not, you don't get it." Thanks to th gTeat Farmers' Alliance. - - ... Of the leading propositions which the State Alliance had under consideration was the establishment of an Alliance warehouse in Lynchburg. Capital stock 1100,000, and a State Exchange with 1200,000 capital. The State Farmf rs' Alliance met at the Agricultural and Mechanical college. 140 delegates were present, representing 1,510 sub-Alliances. The report of the execu tive committee shows a rapid growth in the Alliance during the past year. lvme Democrat, (Stockville, Miss.) They do things vigorously in Minneso ta. Recently a subordinate Alliance of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union was organized in Pipestone, the first in the State. Since then a member has bought out a newspaper, Christened it The Farmers Leader, enlarged it in rize, and gone to work to furnish a local literature. The State Alliance meetings for the year are nearly all adjourned; and en courogiug reports come from alt over the field. Each of these grand divisions of tbe army of reform has made progress, and it is apparent that a more perfect consolidation will be effected at the Ocala meeting of the national council next December. National Economist. The Fotttiern Alliance lanta, Ga.,) says: "Hold Farmer, (Ai your cotton. The price is tumbling because the -speculators have retired the money from circu lation. Don't market your cotton at so low a price. You can hold your cotton as long as they can hold their money. They nave sold cotton short and have contracts to fill at good prices. Hold the cotton and you will get its value." The Cobb county, Ga., Allianoe has re endorsed the resolutions against the use of jute bagging passed by the ginners of chat county last year. They agree not to use or buy for their tenants or customers to use any jute bagging. And they also agree not to patronize any merchant wbo buys and puts on sale this season jute bagging to defeat the farmers' movement against its use. The Climax A dtochte (Climax Springs, Mo.) says: "Some of our Democratic-(.'onstitutional-howliag congressmen don't iike the manner in which the Farmers' Alliance is sitting down on them. Hence buncombe re-olutions are being freely of fered in Congress declaring that the in tegrity of the house demands that the truth Gr falsity of certain charges pre ferred against them by Alliance newspa pers be inquired into. , . .The Farmers' Alliance organization is for self protection. That means of protec tion to alTwho produce, anil consumers, svhich will cause prosperity and . happi ness throughout the entire country. This grand organization proposes to leave or freeze none out except the millionaire, the politician, and such as has left the poor oppressed farmer and the foiling Basses out to ravishes of monopolies ind d:snonorable political combines, which has brought all honest labor to ruin and beggar. Union. :'- The Jacksboo, Texas, Sentinel says: "The f amenmovement in the South has assumed proportions that it brs now become -e?farJ. for iiewsjinper eorre- ipoh3ehts to" open fEeir campaign of lying. Tbe Washington fakirs who cook, up specials' for the New York dailies are loaded to the muzzle with charges against the 'demagogues who work upon the cupidity of the Southern farm era.' It doef not require much thought to dis cover how these fellows know o much about tbe daily happenings hundreds of miles away. The office holder is getting very uneaay." " - Tbe Alliance Union (Eureka, Kan.)says: "The fact is well known within tbe Al liance, and the politicians of both parties arc beginning to realize it, tbat tt AUi ajvee nas accompiianeol wnat r,tfce sword, the press and pulpit failed to do. The Mason and Dixon line, on which the bloody shirt has been bung every four years, has at last been obliterated. The stock in trade of the politician has been to wave the bloody shirt and keep up sec tional strife and hatred to keep tbe peo ple divided, but tbe cotton planters of the South and the farmers of the North and. West have bid the old parties good bye and united for their mutual interests. The bloody-shirt gang now seek to create dissension and strife within tbe industrial organizations by defaming-tbe character and reputation of the Alliance leaders." At tbe annual meeting of tbe Virginia State Alliance, held recently at Lynch burg, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: : "Whereas, Alliances are shaking hands across the Potomac, across the Missis sippi, across the rugged peaks of the Rockies, and, far grander still, across the "bloody chasm," across Mason and Dixon's line; and whereas conscienceless politicians in our nations! Congress have advocated measures and expressed senti ments to arouse old sectional feeling' en gendered by the war Therefore be it Rooked, Thajt we, the State. Farmers' Alliance of Virginia, do intend to grasp with tighter AUianee grip the hands of our Alliance brothers in the North, deter- mined to bold together with locked shieldp, in spite of all efforts to KStise prejudice between ns, until tbe financial emancipation of laborer and producer is accomplished." J' The State Convention of the armors . . . . . Alliance of Texas wrestled with kio sub- treasury scbetoefor severfc? days The Dallas Ncw9 of the 28tb reports tle fol lowing os the resolution offered : m "Whereas, The finances of ougov ernment are so adjusted tbat monej: can not be obtained by tbe agricultural , and laboring people upon which to trsisact their business without paying such enor mous rates of interest, that rt'iV sure to bankrupt the farmers and laboring people of America, and thereby destroy the re public, and. Whereas, Relief from this impending ruin must-be speedily bad; and Whereas,' The Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, at its December meet ing, 1889, held at St. Lours, Mo., did demand" : 1. The unlimited coinage of silver. , 2. The passage of what is known as the principles and the purposes of the sub treasury system. . . Therefore, be it resolved by the. Farm ers' State Alliance of Texas, that we en dorse these demands." The resolution was adopted by a large majority. DESTROYED BY FIRE. BrjttJrES HOUSES IS mAVtATHA, KA.XSAS, AXT A JUTE FACTORY IN NEW TORK . " A dispatch from Hiawatha, Kan., says: The worst fire ever known in the city broke out at 1 o'clock Wednesday morn ing in William Horner's livery stable and in less than three hours it had destroyed two and a half blocks in the business cen ter of the city, causing a loss of at least $150,000. The greatest loss was the First National bank building, owned by Congressman MorrilL The vault, con taining $50,000 in currency and many valuable books and papers gave way under the intense heat, and its contents were entirely destroyed . TOTE FACTORY DB8TROYEP. Fire broke out in tbe . iute-bagging factory of Peter Young, at Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday at noon. The factory was entirely destroyed. The fire then spread to the kindling-wood factory of Hendrick Heletke, fmmediately adjoining. The wholesale grocery story of Dlahn Brothers, on the other side of tbe jute-bagging factory then caught fireii Dlahn Brothers carried a stock of groceries valued at $lo000, all of which, with the building, was totally destroyed. I The total loss by the fire will be about $200,000, partly in jured. ' A RAILROAD DEAL. TUB CKNTRAL AXP EAST TEXXB6SEE GOB BLE UP THREE ROADS. . Thej Central of Georgia and the East Tenuessce have bought up three railways. The Central, it is understood, after con siderable ngot atkm, secured the Chatta nooga, Rome and Columbus railway and the Chattanooga and Macou. This makes two more Georgia roads for the West, Point ! Terminal. The most important deal, however, is the one by which the East Tennessee, also a part of the West Point Terminal, secured the Monon route; or the Louisville, New Albany and Chi cago. It gives the Terminal a line intc Louisville over the most popular road nmning into that city, enabling it to fight its g eat rival, the Louisville and Nash ville, on its own ground ; and a line into Chicago, making a triangular systenffron: Ncrfolk to Savannah and Brun'swick', ace from these Georgia ports to Chicago anc T.ake Michuran. TROUBLE IN PANAMA in coxsEqrfcxcE STRIKE IX OF A GREAT RAILROAD PROGRESS THERE. A cablegram of Wednesday savs : The strike on the Panama railroad continues. The strikers wilk' not allow work to be done by outsiders? The telegrapb wires were cut scveraLtimes, and attempts were made to tear up 'he rails. Proops have bcer sent to jfjlon to maintain order. SteameB will foobablT be detained on both sides o) tbe tsthraus In. conseqO of the" strike. . . . &c TELEGRAPH AMD CABLE. W H AT IB G O IN O ON I N TH E BUSY WORLD. A EUanf ART OP OUTSIDE AFFAIBS 003t- DEXSBD FROM KEWST DISPATCHES rBOX UKCLE BAU'S DOMAI3C A3TD WHAT THE CABLE BRINGS, The strike of miners at Brussels, Bel gium, ended Wednesday. It was reported Thusday that there are cases of Cholera in Madrid and Barcelona. A banouet was given Thursday night, at Munich in honor of Dr. Peters, the African traveler. - ; Henry George addressed ten Relegates to the one-tax convention ia New York Tuesday night. , Coal miners in Belleville, HI., district nave g. ne on a strike for 2 cents a bushel for digging coal. It is now reported that tbe liabilities of Potter, Lovell & Co., of Boston, will kgregate $5,000,000. Memorial exercises of John Boyle O'Reilly were held in Fremont temple, Boston, Tttesday night. ' "" The Panama strikers hare returned to work, the Company agreeing to- pay them the former rate of wages. : , The trades-union congress in session at Liverpool, Thursday, voted in favor of an eight-hour working day. New York city will ask for a re-count of the census, claiming that the enumera tion fell short by about 200,000. E.Gov. E. T. Noyce dropped dad in tbe court bouse at Cincinnati Thursday morning. Apoplexy was the cause. The sloop Petrel capsized outside of the harbor of San Diego, California, Tuesday and six persons were drowned. The state board of arbitration of New York, on Tuesday, began its investigation into the causes of the New York Central strike. Suit is about to be brought against the New York restauranteur, ; Delmonico, for violation of the game ; laws, - in ; baying partridges for sale out of season. . "Since Tuesday -lastV there have jbeen forty -eight fresh cases 4jf cholerikatJtor?" Egypt. Advices from Mecca ar(Txxf the effect that the city is free from cholera, A dispatch from Prague, Germany, says: A bridge in this city over the Mol daux, on which there were a . number of persons watching the flood in that stream collapsed - Thursday. Thirty perso- s were drowned. ; The state treasurer of Connecticutt has formally notified the selectmen of towns , of that state that the tax usually levied by the state on towns will not be called for this year, owing to the flour.ehing condition of the state's finances. By the explosion of a coal oil lamp, 'early Wednesday morning, a house in Philadelphia was set on fire and Mrs. Sarah-Mclntyre, sixty years old; Mamie Mclntyre, ten years old, and Annie Logue, seventeen years old, were burned to death. A Chicago dispatch says: The great strike of the journeymen carpenters, which opened Tuesday morning, is an uncertain quantity. At neither tne head quarters of the journeymen nor bosses was it known to what extent the order to quit work had been obeyed. A Paris dispatch of Thursday says : Alex andre Chatrain, the well-known French novelist, who wrote in colaboration with M. Emile Erckmann, over the nom de plume of "Erckmann-Chatrain," is dead. Their most famous work, 4iLc Conscrit," is a classic in every language. " Sawyer, Wallace & Co., exporters ef breadstuff s and cotton, and dealers in leaf tobacco, at 18 Broadway, New York, made a general assignment Thursday. It is estimated that the sum total of the nomi nal assets wilVreach $1,700,000, and that thehr chief losses may reach $1,500,00 . General Car Accountant E wings, of the New York Central road, reported Thurs day, that the blockake which had existed in the vicinity of Albany, on account of the strike, was effectually raised, and that everything was now running smoothly on the Mohawk and Hudson River divisions. The wice .v and children of the late General Barrundia, who was assaulted on an American steamer by the Guatemal ans, has sent a dispatch to President Har rison, protesting against "the outrage of which they are the unconsolab'le victims." The president has referred the matter to Secretary Blaine. A Vienna dispatch of Wednesday says: The Moldau river has flooded a portion of Prague, and has dofite much damage' to the country between the Boehmerwald and the confluence of the Moldau and Elbe. Many villages in the Danube valley are partially submerged. Tbe authorities are taking special pre cautions. The strike of the employes at the Westinghouse works at Pittsburg, Pa., was terminated Wednesday by the men returning, to the Bhogs and requesting their old places. This action is the result of a meeting of the strikers, where it was decided that, inasmuch as they could not hold out any longer, they had better go back to work. ;JThe strike affected about 1,200 men. A Pittsburg telegram announces that a combination of window glars manufac turers has been formed, which will con trol all the factories in the western and northern districts immediately, and all the factories in the United States ulti mately. The pending tariff bill increases the dutic3 on window glass, and by pre venting importation will give the combi nation a monopoly. A Chicago dispatch says: Between 300 and 400 men of the striking carpen ters returned to work Thursday, and the strike is practically at r.h epd. Yaflpua questions are mooted, however, amtisg the strikejs. In some quarters, it is hinted that the non-union men will be persuaded to join the union in order to get bettei wages, and that the fight will be resumed within ten days. . SHOULD BE A DOCTOR. Phrenologist Mr. Ryestalk, your son has a decided inclination toward the medical profession. . . Mr. Havseed WelL be rter Lev. He's one of ths bitterest piljs ye ever seed. ... . LIFE AND LOVE. Life is & garden fair and free, But 'tis love that holds the golden key, - For hand and heart . '; Once held apart, Life's flowers are dashed with storm of sor- :-. row; ,'.-," And bloom to-day may be blight to-morrow; Then heedless ever of wind and weather, Let life and love be linked together. Life is a diamond rich and rare, But love is a cluster that dances there; -,: For hand and heart ' Once held apart. Life's jewels grow dim in the. breath of sor ; .'"'row, ..' "'- .;. . And diamond to-day may be dust to-mor-iow; Then heedless of the wind and weather, Let life and love be baked toother. Life hath a fair and sunshine face, But love is a beauty that gives it graca, For hand and heart Once held apart, rhe sweetest cheeks are paled with sorrow, And blush to-day may be blanched to-morrow; ' rhen heedless ever of wind and weather, Let life and love be linked together. " HUMOR OP THE DAY. Watered silk An umbrella. A blacking box One in the eye. A skylight The sun. Prison, Mirror. , The silent majority is not the popular lide. . Charged with dynamite A party who gets the explosive on "tick."- Detroit Free Press. - - . , , ' With the angler it is more a matter of knowing - just when than just where to draw the line. Detroit Free Press, y "I tell you, travel develops a man. If he has anything in him it's - bound to come out in travel." - "Particularly ocean travel," Puck. The patient horse has euclured for ages, but the patient wagon-has been? known; only since the intioduction of the ambu-r lance. SZmira Gazette. . V"": v you cnjoyJthis refrain i't&jafer$' much. The more you refrain the better I like it." Musical Courier. " . Speak lovingly, my dear girl. If you should have to eat your own words, you know, they'd taste all the better for being sweet. Boston Transcript. He ''The fools are not all dead yet." She "That's as true as you live.' And he couldn't understand why she empha sized the "you." 2feu Tori: Herald. , Cumso -"Jaysmith is penurious, isn't he?" Fangle "I should say he was! He won t even laugh at a joke unless it is at some one else's exnense Enoch. - 4T- TIa was frnm far rff V.ncrlnnA And he loved with vows in si;h3, And while he dropped his "hV i Why, the maiden dropped her eyes. Philadelphia Times. ' A learned writer declares that butter was unknown to the ancients. This makes it harder than ever to account for tbe flavor of some we have tasted. Mer cury. "Gentlemen," said the orator, "go along our wharves from one end to the other,and what will you find ?" 'Water, " remarked the practical young man in the crowd. Light. "Who is happy oa this mundane iphere," sneeringly exclaimed Pessimus. "The girl with her first engagement ring," triumphantly replied Optimus. Jewelers' Circular. , . . Judge "Have you ever seen the pris oner at the bar! ' Witness "Never, your honor ; but I've seen him when I strongly suspected he'd been at it.'' BingliamtoH JSader. ; Bioodgood "It's dreadful to suffer from loss of memory,' isn't it?" .Wild- man "Dunno. It depeiHs un howl much money a fellow has uorowed." 1 tiurunfftot Free tress. . Robinson Crusoe "Well, Friday, what have we for dinner to-day?" Friday "Goat soup, goat chop3,boiled goat, roast goat - " Robinson Crusoe "Don't, Friday; I can't go't!" Puck. A German scientist -is confident that chemistry will yet enable us to make bread out of wood. American lumber men not only make their bread out of it, but their butter also. New Torkt News. It happened one time that a Mr. Felliu love with a maiden and kr. ; And he said, '"Ha my wife f And bring joy to my life P She said, "No but I will be your sr." Chicago Post. Chicago Teacher "Yes,corned beef is one of our most famous exports. Now, who can tell me what stands next to corned bacf?" Bostoa Little Boy (tri umphantly) "Cabbage. " - American Grocer. "Papa's Home To-night" is the title o! a new song. So the old man has yielded at last. Let's see, it must be about fif teen years since they began to coax him with "Father, Dear Father, Come Home." Chatter. The conversation turned on the danger of being buried alive, when the youngest toddler in the family ventured to suggest, "Well, ma, you never will be buried alive. You vsnore so when you are asleep." Hartford Post. Inventor "I would like .to interest you in a little invention by which sheep can be shorn by electricity." Broker (turning to the ticker and looking at the quotations) "My dear sir, that's just what l am doing." Texas Sitings. Bookkeeper "Excuse me, please, my nephew died three days ago." Employer (who is somewhat familiar with the little game) "All right, Mr. Culpepper, you may attend the funeral. Died, as usual, on first base, I suppose?"--Drv Goods Chronicle. Mrs. Newmarried "Charley, I don't like that new girl of; oura. She doesn't half sweep the rooms. -Why, I don't believe she thinks of sweeping behind the doors!" Mr. Newmarried "Oh, don t she though! She sweeps every- thing behind the uoorsl" Lawrence . American, , F THE SOUTH. DRIEF NOT1?EnK'iMnrV.i E8TINQ NATURE. P1THT ITEMS rXOM ALL POINTS VX TMC BOtrrHEBjr states that will bktk- TATjr THB BBADEB ACCIDENTS, ritsJLA, FLOODS, BTC The town of Cocoa, Fla., on tbe Indian river, was nearly destroyed by Are Tuts- ' day. ' t A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C, says: Captain Thomas Clancy Evans, one of tbe most widely-known editors in the state,; died at Reidsville Tuesday morning Sales of leaf tobacco at Danville, Va., in Anstwerel,n8,fi33P0undsorabo,,t ; half the sales of August last year. Saks . for eleven months of the tobacco year were 23,927.000 pounds, a decrease as . compared with the same period last jcar-- ofmqoo gw& ' eteran? day wulbe one of the great est days of the Piedmont exposition. An attractive programme has been prepared. It will be on Thursday. Ociooer 28a, All the great lining Confederate generals will be invited, ind a large number of them, will be present. A f For the toUon year ending Augusi 3fr Montgomery oott on receipts were 144, 045 bales- tr Uargest of any year in Its' history. TL pearest to it was in 165 when receipts T14V44' , hand is-055 baHjlrVPts of ton in August wVlX for that month. BtOCK OU new cot- The scaffolding in a building in . New Orleans gave way Tuesday afternoon pre cipitating five men to the ground. Har vey, a carpenter, was instantly killed; William Ray and Henry Albricht, paint ers, fatally injured, while Leroy Smith and Tom Peterson, also ainttrs, were " painfully injured. v ".";', ; A dispatch from Raleigh; N. C, eaysr The Injury to, cotton by the rain is be-; Coming great and a reduction of the crop will result; The rains of August hurt the .crop : which was forming during tho earlier part of the month, and that rust, which attacked the crop earlier than usual, has badly affected the top crop. , A dispaU-b qf pdneedaW from Nasb ' vJ?p" TlBn l ri3WrVM-Al-iilLi -a, ( tion, says: All he counties have now been heard fronl on the official vote for supreme' court judge. The " total vote polled was 202,817. This is more thaii 100,000 less - than usual. The vote was divided as follows: Lea, 132,294; Smith, C9, 074 ; East, prohibitionist, 40 votes ; Lea's majority, 62,271. ,p, APensacola, Fla., special, of Thursday says the Flomaton train robbery has pro duced intense excitement there. Rube Burrow was reported to have been seen at Milton, twenty miles east of that cityr and at 2 o'clock a special train, with Su perintendent Fisher, Route Agent Arnold, several express company , detectives, and: a possee of deputy sheriffs from Alatama, have gone in pursuit. A special from Mannincrton. W. Ya - says : Early Thursday morning a freight tram ran Into tbe pickup on the Jialti more and Ohio, just east of Mannington, causing a terfible wreck. Engineer Cor dell and an unknown man were killed and sixteen cars piled on top of each: other. The wreck took fire and the cars and contents were almost totally de stroyed. :T4 The directors of the North Carolina. Steel and Iron Company was completely reorganized at Greensboro, Wednesday, and new arrangements have been made and hew plans formed. Contracts ' for furnaces will be let -and the work of erecting them begun at once. New life is to be inthused into the company, and tbe announcement of the organization and the early commencement of work will revive the boom at Greensboro. A dispatch of Tuesday says ! The col ored citizens of Chattanooga are making; up a party of seventy-five of their race to emigrate to Liberia, . about November 15th. Meetings in the interest of tbe movement have been held to work up the scheme. Thomss Peek, agent of the col onization society, who resides in Wash ington, D. C, arrived in Chattanooga Tuesday. The society expects to secure at least 1,000 negroes for the African, emigration expedition from Chattanooga and vicinity. Colonizing Foreign Horses in' Ver xnont. "" Dr. J. Seward Webb, of New York City, has just received another importa tion of European horses. This last lot is a splendid collection of massive-shouldered, strong-necked, big-thighed, Per cberons, and very handsome beasts tbev are. Dr. Webb will send them at once- to his farm in Vermont. There, a few weeks ago, some twenty Danish h were sent, which were the very p? s the animals for sale in Dennu- S' J Webb has sound ideas abon- ifully " equally sound ideas provement of hbrsesf-B ' - F' J ft r .'JO UV'iUU. the ira- going to experiment, aiF-Cne thinks3le Yermont climate is the best ia the world to develop perfect specimens of horse flesh. It will be a very costly experi ment, but Dr. Webb does not mind a little matter like that, especifl.lly as be i not doing it to make a fortune, but to show some other, fellow how to make a. fortune. Philadelphia Press. 'Wiring" a Hue 3-Joint. What is commonly called the knec-enp . writes a physician in the Boston Herald, is a small, triangular bone situated at the front of the knee-joint. One ef "its purposes is to protect the joint j another is to favor the action of certain muscles. When this bone is broken across the parts are separated by it3 attachments. To bring them together until they aro united is always a ditHcult operation,' ' unless tbe fragments are wired together. .There are certain fractures which tan not be treated in thi3 way, but in tboso' which can the method Ihould be em ployed, for tT promises .by far the best; , results. Not only is recovery more rapid than where other procedure? aro used, but the victim suffers the ieast pos sible discomfort. When the keep-cap is broken and tbe physician advises "wir ing" the patient ought by all means, in his own interest, to unhesitatingly con. sent to the operation A " . if I A AJ Mr ( -Z-7J7.
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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