North Carolina Newspapers

JJ- 12 : 5 VOL. V. SALISBURY. N. CL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10,. 1891. H NO. 10. t TOM i jo-Jem l II ill NA I i A I I II i 1 1 - i t THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. Fire at Plainfield, N. J., destroyed property to the amount of $200,000. The private bank of M. N. Wills, of Lamar, Mo., made an assignment Friday. Mr. Lemimer, president of the Inter national League of Peace, of France, died Friday. ? A fire in Philadelphia Sunday night gutted the four-story building Nos. 719, 721 and 723 Vine street. Dispatches of Friday reveal the intelli gence that the epidemic of influenza is daily spreading in Berlin. Bellefonte, Pa., iron and nail works, limited, suspended Saturday with liabil ities aggregating $302,000. The Paris Official Journal publishes a decree 'authorizing the importation of American pork into Prance. A dispatch of Friday from Brazil, Ind., says the miners are gradually returning to work in the block coal mines in that .district. Mrs. Delia Stewart Parn ell, mother of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, sailed Saturday for England, accompanied by her son, John Parnell. Friday's dispatches state that a change for the worse has occurred in the condi tion of Dom Pedro, ex-emperor of Brazil, who is suffering from chills complicated with diabetes. - The Sterling wagon works; at Sterling, 111., were destroyed by fire early Wednes day moraine. Adam Spies, the vxo prietor, says the loss will reach $100,000, covered bv insurance. The Sterling Gas works were also damaged $25,000. A London cablegram says: The suit of Countess Ru3eell for separation from her husband, Earl Russell, which has been the social sensation of that city for a week, terminated Friday in a verdict against the countess. The lady is also condemned to pay the costs, which are very heavy. A Philadelphia dispatch says: The 4 o'clock express on the Bound. Brook route from New York, Thursday after noon, collided with a gravel train near Flemmington, N. J. Six persons, said to be railroad employes, were killed and a number injured. No -details of the accident are obtainable. A New York telegram of Saturday says: The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 4,163,817, of which 1,780,517 are American, against 3,057, 127 and 2,578,327 respectively last year. eceipts at all 'interior towns 225,426. Receipts plantations 318,083. Crop in Bight 5,002,717. y , A cablegram of Sunday "from ra elates that out of eighteen archbishops and sixty -seven bishops throughout France only six have refrained from open adhesion to the archbishop of Aix against the . government in the matter of the decree forbidding bishops to leave their dioceses without permission. Ninety-seven per cent of the creditors' of the Chicago branch of S. V. White & Co. of New Yoik, who failed several months ago, have accepted the firm's proportion to settle for 50 cents on the dollar. A petition to order a receiver to begin making settlements on this basis was filed Tuesday in the United States circuit court at Chicago. A dispatch of Saturday from Utica, N". Y., says: Hiram D. Wilson, of Glen Falls, who was sent to the state hospital some time ago, is not the bomb thrower who made the attempt on the life of Rus sell Sage as has been reported. The man is still an inmate of the institution, which he has never, left since he was in carcerated. A London cablegram of Sunday says : The committee of the English bondhold ers of the Ohio and Mississippi bonds have obtained legal opinion of the validi ty of the English vote in electing three directors charged to carry the policy of union with the Baltimore and Ohio. The counsel they have employed advise them that there is not the slightest doubt of the legality of the vote, and that if the case is carried to the courts, English bondholders are sure to triumph. Suit was enterred Thursday, afternoon acrainsfc ex-Mavor Richard Pearson., of. Alleghany, Pa., for embezzlement. He, is charged with retaining $740 of work- house and jail funds. Comptroller JamesB. Brown gave information before Alderman McMasters. The ex-mayor was arrested and furnished bail in the sum of $7,000 for appearing next week. The charge against Pearson is similar to the one ; preferred against Mayor Wyman. The Richmond Terminal's preferred stockholders held a .meeting in New York Wednesday. After some discus sion over current rumors the following resolution was passed : "Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed who shall represent the interests of the pre ferred stockholders, and who shall take such steps to protect the interests in volved as in their discretion may seem necessary." In occor dance with this resolution the following committee- was appointed : H. B. Laidlaw, Rudolph Keppler, John McAnerny, William H. Goodby and II. E. Alexander. SEPARATE CARS For the Races is Advised by the Gov ernor of Yirginia. : A Richmond, Va., dispatch says the legislature convened at noon Wednesday. In his annual message the governor says: There is a vry general demand for separate stations.' for the two races throughout Virginia and the south. I would advise the enactment of a statute requiring every railroad company to pro vide separate coaches for the accommo dation of white and colored passengers and separate accommodations at passen ger stations,, all of equal comfort and convenience. When travel on the road is not sufficient to require two coaches a single coach should be so divided by partition as to secure separate accommo dations. The law should be enforced by suitable penalties. A MADMAN'S FREAK. Hurls a Dynamite Bomb' at Russell SageDeath and Destruction. At 12:15 o'clock Friday afternoon a poorly dressed man, carrying a brown satchel, entered the office of Russell Sage, at 71 and 73 Broadway, New York, and demanded a private interview with Mr. Sage. "W. R. Laidlaw, Mr. Sage's clerk, told him that , Mr. Sage was busy ana could not be seen. The man persisted and continued to talk in a loud tone, Mr. Sage was in an inner office and came out to see what was the matter. He ask ed the man what was wanted. The man said: "I demand a private interview with you." Mr. Sage replied that it would be impossible for him to see the man then, but be might possibly do so later in the day. The man continued to demand a private interview then and Mr. Sage ordered him to leave the office. A TEBRIFIC EXPLOSION. On this the man dropped a leather bag which he carried, and an explosion, which shook the entire block, instantly followed. Mr. Sage was thrown across the room and stunned. Mr. Laidlaw was also thrown across the office and had one leg badly lacerated. A stranger was thrown against a partition wall, and was so badly injured that he subsequently died. In Mr. Sage's office at the time of the explosion were Colonel J. J.Slocum, F. U. Osborn, C. W Osborn, F. C. Men zies and B. F. Norton. Mr. Norton was badly injured and was taken in an ambu lance to St. Vincent's hospital, where he died. Pieces of several bodies were picked up on the second floor of a build ing near the scene of the explosion and placed in a firo department life-saving net. : ; When the dynamiter entered Mr. Sage's t ffice be handled the clerk a 'card which bore the name "II. D. Wilson. " It appears from investigation that Wilson had a companion when he entered the building and inquired for Sage's office. Benjamin F. Norton, who was blown through a window, a clerk in the office of Sage, was removed to Chambers street hospital, where he die5 while under operation for fracture of the" skull. THE CORONER'S EXAMINATION. ? The coroner made an examination of the mangled remains of the man found in Mr. Sage's office and from the mass of flesh and clothing took a seven-chamber bulldog revolver. This was all that, could be found by which an identification could be made. MR. SAGE'S STATEMENT. Russell Sage made the following statement to Inspector Barnes: "I came out of my office, having been sent for. I found there a man with a satchel. He handed me a card bearing the name of H. D.Wilson. He said he came from John D. Rockfeller's, and at the same time handed me a type-written letter in a sealed, envelope. It was addressed to me. I opened it and fotiud that it was a nmxeH -upon me Tor -the" immediate Twr- - ment of. $1,250,000. The letter stated that if the money was not given up at once to the presenter of the letter, that he would blow me, himself and the en tire office up with dynamite. I read the letter, and, placing it in an envelope, handed it back to him and turned to go into my private office when the explo sion occurred." A LATER DISPATCH says that is now believed to be a fact that only two people were killed the bumb thrower and B. F. Norton,' Mr. Sage'e private secretary. It was said that frag ments of at least three bodies were found, but this cannot be substantiated, and no one else is known to be missing. So thoroughly has Russell Sage recovered from the effects of the explosion that he has just announced his intention of re suming business at once. Colonel Slo cum, Mr. Sage's cashier, says that the report that securities and bonds had been blown through the windows of the office into the streets is untrue. About ore hundred thousand dollars' worth of securities are missing. DOM PEDRO DIES. But no Official Recognition of the Fact is Taken by Brazil. . Cable dispatches of Sunday from Rio Janeiro say that the news of the death of Dom Pedro met with no official recogni tion in the Brazilian capital. A number of merchants and shopkeepers in Rio Janeiro closed their places of business out of respect for the ex-emperor, but otherwise the death of the former ruler of Brazil was marked by no demonstra tion of any kind. The king of Portugal, in a telegram of condolence to Countess d'Eu Princess Isabell, daughter of Dom Pedro, offers the use of the vault of the Bragnanza family for the burial of the emperor. Dom Pedro was fully possessed of his mental faculties till the end. During Friday forenoon, being conscious that ho was nearing death, he had maes cele brated in his bedroom. During his last hours the ex-emperor repeatedly exhorted his heir, Princess Isabell, to pray witn him for the peace and prosperity of Bra zil. He passed quietly away; His body has been embalmed and other prepara tions made for the funeral. A NOVEL PLAN Adopted by, Farmers for Raising the Price of Their Cotton. A dispatch from Charleston says : ' The cotton farmers of Greenville county, S. C, have adopted a novel mode of raising the price of cotton. At at a mass meet ins, held Saturday, the following resolu tion was adopted : Resolved, That we, the cotton produ cers of Greenville county, and other citi zens, thereof, agree to assign all cotton, to be made in this county in 1892, to the county commissioners, or other officers to be elected by ther voters of the county, and will deliver the same at such place in the county as may be diree'ed by said county commissioners, provided the said county commissioners, or other officers, pay for the same in cash or county bonds at 11 cents a pound for middling, and less or more for other cotton, by class or grade, 1 cent a pound to be reserved for expenses, etc. The county commissioners referred to are the fiscal officers of the county, , and the proposition to piy for cotton by issu inn county bonds is noveL THROUGH DIXIE. I NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. South Carolina has been awarded a gold medal by the board of directors of the Augusta exposition for the excellence of its exhibit of natural ana manuiac tured products . ' Sales of loo6e leaf tobacco in the Dan ville, Va.. market during November reached 2,307,600 pounds and for two months ojt the tobacco year 4,659,365 pounds, showing a decrease as compared with the same months of 1890, of 3,380, 320 pounds. In the United State's court in Louis ville, Ky., Wednesday, on the complaint of the Central Trust company, of New York, and other creditors, the Rich mond, Nicholasville and Beattyville rail road was placed in the hands of a re ceiver.' The liabilities aggregate nearly three million dallars. A Nashville dispafen says : The cer tificate of election as a member ' of con gress to represent the second district was issued Thursday by Governor Buchanan to John C. Houk. The official returns from the recent elections show the total vote to be: J C. Houk, 24,095; J. C. J. Williams, 7,829; W. H. Henry, 211. The citizens of Senoia, Ga., have or ganized a banking company, which will be in operation within sixty days. It will be known as the Farmers' and Mer chants' Bank of Senoia. Work is being rapidly pushed on the bank building, and it will soon be ready for occupation. The bank will start with a capital of $25,000. A meeting of the Eli Whitney Monu ment Association of Augusta, Ga., was held Saturday and it was definitely de termined to celebrate the centennial anni versary of Whitney's great invention, the cotton gin, next November, during Augusta's great cotton exposition, by un veiling a handsome monument. It will be a magnificent monument ana will cost at least $50,000. A Nashville dispatch of Thursday says ; That it is the intention of the state offi cials to return the convicts to the East Tennessee branch prisons within a few davs is now conceded. Acting under the authority recently given him, Super intendent Wade has employed a number of guards and is securing more every day. The 300 men at $40. a month will cost $144,000 per annum. ' A Nashville dispatch of Saturday says: The investigation of the interstate com merce commission into the charges against the Louisville and - Nashville railroad - has been con eluded, .the only 'man examined being Stuart R. Knott, first vice president and traffic manager of the 'Louisville and Nashville railroad. -" The written testimony will be sent to Wash ington and be submitted to the commis sion. Eight of the nine distriet alliance lec tuters of North Carolina held a meeting at Raleigh Wednesday. President But ler and the state lecturer were present. A plan of work was mapped out and the lecturers will visit all sections of the state. Strong resolutions against party action were adopted, and the lecturers will not advocate independent party action. This means much for North Carolina. r A Chorlotte, N, C, dispatch of Wednesday says: J. M. Benson, treasu rer of Bladen county, has absconded with $6,0P0 of the county's money. Benson has for sevaral years held the position of treasurer of his county, and for the past two years has been largly engaged in the mercantile business at Elizabethtown. His' store has been headquarters for the alliance of Bladen county. A Jackson, Miss,, dispatch says: The Clarion oh Wednesday re-published an editorial criticism from The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, in which ex-Governor Lowry and General W. H. McCardle are brought sharply to task for omitting, in their recently printed history of Missis sippi, any direct reference to Mrs. Jeffer son Davis. The Clarion defends the his torians, and refers to the fact that Mrs. Davis in her book failed to refer to many distinguished Mississippians, and named six. CRASH ON THE RAILS. Three Trains Piled in a Promiscuous Heap--Seven LiTes Lost. A dispatch from Worcester, Mass, says : A most terrible wreck occurred on the New York and New England rail road at East Thompson at 6 o'clock Fridav morniner. caused bv the collision of a south-bound freight with cn east-bound freight going over a west-bound track. The Long island express was passing on the other track at the time and all three trains were piled up to gether. Engineer Tabor of the Boston train, and his fireman are reported killed ; one passenger on the Pullman is reported burned to death and many were injured. The cars almost immediately took fire. The accident is said to have been due to an open switch. Two of the injured pas sengers have died, making seven deaths O far. The fireman, as well as the en- g'neer of the steamboat train was killed, oth trains were running eastward on parallel tracks and came together at full speed at a cross-over, the switch being probably broken. The freight crashed into the side of the passenger train. PRESIDENT POLK Says That the Third Party Was Hot In It" at Indianapolis. President Polk was in Raleigh, N. C , Monday for the first time since the Indi- apaoolis'convention. When asked about the report of the ,lsplit3," going over to the third party, etc.. be said- there was no truth in the statement. The conven tion was large and enthusiastic, and a more harmonious meeting was never held in the United States. He further said: "The third party was not mentioned in the convention at ail, and the body never gave it a single thought." railroads of the country. Statistics Showingr Gigantic Strides in Construction and Trafae. The third annual report on "statistics of the railways in the United States," issued from the office of statistician of the interstate commission at Washington, gives comprehensive statistics covering the operations of railways during the fis cal year ended June 30, 1890, and a state ment of earnings Ind expenses for nine month ended March 30, 1891. A marked feature of this report, which adds greatly to the value of its statistics, is the map ping and division of all statistics in ten territorial groups, by which differences in conditions of operation in various parts of the country are clearly brought to no tice. Comparisons rendered possible by this report show marked differences in different parts of the country. MILES OF RAILS. . " ' The railway mileage in . the United States on June 30, 1890, was 163,597 miles ; increase in rail way mileage brought into operation during the year was 6,060 miles. Michigan showa the largest in crease in railway mileage during the fiscal year, being 459 miles, and Georgia comes next with increased mileage of 437 miles. Group five, made up of Ken tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, shows an increased mileage of 1,370 miles during the year. The number of railway corporations on June 30, 1890, was 1,707, of which 927 are operating companies, twenty-two comDanies reoreeentinz 1.646 miles, have been re-organized during the year, and thirty-four companies, representing 1,905 miles, have merged their corporation- ex istence into the other corporations. The crross income of seventy-four com nanies is $837,000,000 out of "a total cross income of all the railways in the country of $1,041,877,632, or 80. per cent. The total number of locomotives in used is 29,928, of which 8,384 are nasaencer locomotives and 16.140 are freight locomotives.- This shows ten freight locomotives and nve passenger locomotives for edch 100 miles of opera ted line. The number of cars used in railways of the United States is 1,164, 138 or 744 per 100 miles. THE ARMY OF EMPLOYES. The total number of men employed is 749,301, being an increase of 45.551 over the number employed in 1889. The 154, 404.06 miles of line which are made the basis of statistics in this report are rep resented by railway capital to the amount of $9,459,444,172, equivalent to $60,481 per mile. Assuming that the remaining mileasre is capitalized at the same rate the total capitalization of railway prop ertv in the United States would be $9,894,483,409. The increase in railway capital for 1890 over the railway capital for the previous year isi f444,Z68,78. Of this amount $250,000,000 at least is due to the increase in capitalization on lines already in existences . The number "of passengers carried dur ing th year was 402,430,865. The ag gregate numbet of mile traveled, by all passengers, was 11,847,785,617, or an average journey of twenty-four miles. The number of tons of freight carried during the' year, covered by the report, was 636,141,617. CASUALTIES. The total number of persons reported by railways as killed during the year was 6,320, and the total number reported as injured was 29,034. Of the total num ber killed 4,451 were employes, 285 passengers and 3,584 were classed as 4 'other persons In this latter figure are included a large number of suicides. Of the total number! injured, 22,390 were employe?, 2,444- passengers, besides 4,200 unclassified. If the number of em ployes killed be assigned to the total number, it appears that one death occurs for every 306 men employed on the rail ways, and one injury occurs for every thirty-three men employed. The largest number of casualties occur to men en gaged directly in handling trains. Thus, while the trainmen represent but 18 per cent of the total number of employes, the casualties sustained by them account for 58 per cent of the total casualties. A passenger riding continuously, at the rate of thirty miles an hour, might ex pect immunity from death by railway ac cident forl,700 years; but an engineer, brakeman or conductor, under the same conditions, is liable to fatal accident at the expiration of forty years. The report recommends that express companies, water transportation com panies and rolling stock and terminal companies be required tc furnish railway statistics to the commission. IT FLOATS. ' Uncle Sam's !few Cruiser, New York, Launched. A Philadelphia dispatch says: The United States armored cruiser . New York was launched Wednesday af ternoon at 2:35 o'clock from the yard ol the Cramp Shipbuilding Company in the presence of 15,000 people, inchaded among whom were the secretaries ol the navy and interior depart ments, . United States senators, : con gressmen, high naval officials and representative business and professional men from all parts of the country. Miss Helen Page, daughter of J. Seaver Page, secretary of the Union League Club, of New York, broke the traditional bottle of wine upon the great steel rail of the cruiser as she slid from her wooden cradle into the Delaware river and cris tened her New York. When the New York is finished, she will be the most formidable cruising vessel that has ever flown the stars and stripes. NOT SATISFIED. The English Holders of Tirginia Bonds Kick. A London cablegram says: Several interviews were had Tuesday with lead ing English holders of Virginia bonds in regard to the latest plan for funding th state debt. All of them were bitterly 'opposed "to the plan of settlement. Coooer. secretary of the committe oi I English holders, sail that only an out- a i line of the proposition had been cabled, Until the full account which was coming to England on the steamer Etruria wat received no meeting of English hold en would be convened. In the meantimf every opinion that he had heard ex pressed concurred that the proposition untenable. TRADE NOTES. Business of the Past Week as Reported ; by Dun & Co. The business failures occurring through out the country during the last seven daya, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., umber for the United States, 304; Canada, twenty-six or a total of 330, against 295 last week. The only change observable in the condition of business is a gradual improvement. One sign of an unfavorable character is" that collections at some points are slower; and harder than usual, particularly wnere tne low price of cotton leads the holders to defer ... .'LI. Tk..l 1.1..' selling as long as po&aiuic xwb ai mo principal western points, collections are very satisfactory, larger traae centers reporting most favorably in that respect, and there is less difficulty at eastern cities, though at the south some embar rassment continues. THE MONEY MARKET. Money is not particularly stringent anywhere, though rather close at Nash ville and Montgomery. " Speculative markets have tenaea downward on the whole. Cotton has acrain declined a sixteenth to 8.06c, with sales of 653,000 bales at New York, and Sortreceipts still far exceed tne extraor inarv receiots of last year. Southern markets are overioaaea ana a . - - , r, j a atrlnpencv at some points is caused dv delav in realizing, prices oeing unsaus faotnrilv lour. At most southern ports the low price of cotton causes a set-back ana Dullness is oniy iair, iuuuu an aviu mond it is improving with tobacco sec tions. THE IRON MARKET. Thar is little new in the ereat indus. tries, for while the tone of the iron mar ket imnroves. and there is more inquiry for rails and bar iron, with larger sales of Trier, the price is deDreFsedby the at- temDts of some southern makers to real iza. Trade in cotton sroods is perhaps a shade better, and in boots and shoes the factories are well employed. 1 A PROHIBITION BILL For the State Has Been Passed by South Carolina's Legislature. A dispatch of Saturday says: The house of representative?, on Saturday, passed, by a vote of 40 to 34, the prohi bition bill. The bill absolutely prohibits the sale of beer, liquors, wines, etc., in any portiqp of the state, or the transport ation of it by railroads, express . compa nies, etci under heavy penalties. It was passed after a bitter fight lasting two davs. The law is said to be framed on that now in force in Iowa. It is gener- allv believed that if this bill becomes a law it will divide the democratic party in the state, and result in the complete en franchisement of the negro voters, who will be called in to take part in the state and national campaign next year. : CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYES. The Commission Makes Its Annual Sf port to the President. A Washington dispatch of Saturday savs: The civil service commission in its annual report to the president states that the classified civil service now con tains 84,000 government employes. From July 1. 1890, to June 80, 1891, 5,206 applicants were examined for de rjartmental service at Washington, of whom 8,337 passed and 1,869 failed to nasi. The reoort calls attention to the extension of the classified service to in clude a portion of the Indian service, and says that this extension is especially important as for the first time applying fie principle of non-partisan appoint- . . 3 ments to me inuian service. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. (Groceries. Coffee Boasted Arbuckle's 20 V.a 100 lb cases; Lion20c; Levering's 20o. Green Extra cnolceslc; cnoice good 19c; lair 18c; com mon loc. Bngar uranuiateac; on granu lated c; powdered 5?c; cut loaf fyp white extra C 4Vc: New Orleans yellow clarified 43c; yellow extra C 4c Syrup New Orleans choice 4850; prime 3540c; common 3035c. Molasses Genuine Cuba 8538c; imi tation 2225. Teas Black 8555c; green 4060c. Nutmegs 7580c. Cloves 2530c. Cinnamon 1012Jc. Allspice 10llc Jamai ca ginger 18c. Bice Choice '7o; jrood 6c; common 56c; imported Japan 67c. Salt Hawley's dairy $1 60; Tirginia 75c. Cheese Full cream, Cheddar 12c: flats 12c; skim "White fish, half bbla $4 00; pails 60c. Soaps Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs $3 00a 3 75; turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $200a2 25 tallow, 60 bar, 60 lbs $2 253 50. Candles Paraflne 12c; starl0c. Matches 400s $4 00; 300a $3 OOa 8 75; 200s S2 00a2 75; 603, 5 gross f3 75. Soda Kegs, bulk 5c; do 1 lb pkgs 5&c; cases, 1 lb 5Kc, do 1 and lbs 6o, dolb 6c. Crackers XXX soda 6c; XXX butter 6c; TCTX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior 7c; lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9o; corn hills 9c Candy Assorted stick 6c; French mixed 12o. Canned goods Condensed milk $6 00 a3 00; imitation mackerel t3 95a4 00; sal mon $6 00a7 50; P. W. oysters 92 20a2 50; L'.W. tl 60; corn $2 00 a2 75; tomatoes 91 60a2 50. Ball ootaah $3 20. Starch Pearl 4c; lump 5cf nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $5 00. Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 001 40; quarts $1 501 80c Powder Rifle, kegs $5 50; kegs $3 00; kegs 91 65. Shot $1 70 per sack. Flesir Grain and Meal. Floor First patent $6 00; second patent $5 75 ; extra fancy $5 00 ; fancy $4 75; family. $4 I0a$4 20. Corn No. 2 white 60c : mixed Oats No. 2 mixed 44o ; white c; Kansas rust proof c Hay Choice timothy, large bales,' 95c; No. 1 timothy, large bales, 80c; choice timothy, small bales, 95; No. 1 timothy, small bales. 90c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 80c. Meal Plain 60c ; bolted 53c Wheat bran Large' sacks $J ; small sacks 91. Cotton seed msal 91 30 per cwt 8team feed 91.35 per cwt GriU Pearl $3 75. J ' Caantrv Pradnee. Eggs 25c Butter-Western creamery 25a 30c; choice Tennessee 20a22c ; other grades 10al2a Live poultryTurkeys 10c per lb; hens 27a30c; young chickens, l&rre 18a20c : small 15al8o. Dressed poultrr Turkeys 14 al5c; ducks 14al5e; chick ens I2al5. Irish potatoes, $2 OOa $2 50per bbL Sweet potatoes 40oa50c pr bu. Honey-Strained 8al0c : in the comb 10al2c Onions $3 OOa 3 50 per bbL Cabbage lalc per lb. Grapes, 40a60c per basket. PrTfsiBs. Clear rib sides, boxed6c; ice-cured bel lies 9c Sugar-cured hams Ual2c according to brand and average; California 8c; break fast bacon lie Lard Pure leaf c; leaf 1 refined none. - Cattan. -Middling 7c. Market quiet.- ' Bangins and Ties. Bagging 1 lb 6c; 1 lb 6c; 2 lb 7c; 2 Arrow Ties, $1 45. HE RUINED HIS PA. Another Chapter of the Field Failure in Sew York. The New York Sun of Wednesday morning says: Edward M. Field, who wrecked his firm, stripped his father, Cyrus W. Field, of all his possessions and upon whose life there is insurance to the amount of $600,600 attempted suicide. In what manner he sought to kill himself is not recited in the papers on which he was committed by Judge McAdam, of the superior court, to the Veinon house at Mt. Vernon. Drs. inch and Ingram, the well known insanity experts, declare under oath that Field is a maa man, uangerousDoia w muwcu and others . Cyrus W. Field, the father, who it is feared. is dving. has been absolutely stripped of his possessions by his mad-son. The following story came from tne lips of the impoverished man himself on his sick bed and is repeated by a friend wno heard it: Three days after the funeral of -Mrs. Cyrus W. Field Edward entered his father's sick room and told him some of his difficulties. He did not tell his father the extent of his trouble. He said he must have money to tide him over for a snort time. Cyrus . ieiu airectea that the key te his strong box should be . handed to Edward, and the told his son : Here is the key of the box containing my securities. Take enough of them, my son, to help you throusrh vour troubles." .Edward JJieid took the key a,nd furthermore tooK every tecunty in the box. The mystery is where all the money nas gone. kae. amount of securities taken was in the neighborhood of $300,000. Cyrus W. Field has not been considered a very rich man since his heavy losses in .1877, and this was why he said this was all he had in the world. AT ALL HAZARDS Governor Buchanan Says that the Con victs Must be Sent Back. A Nashville dispatch of Monday States that in an interview, Governor Buchanan says that' "the convicts shall be returned to the mines if it takes every able-bodied man m the state to do it?" -"When will they be returned, gover nor?" he was asked. "That I don't know yet." , "Willou send a military guard with them!" "I cannot tell you that. I can simply say that the convicts shall be returned to the mines if it takes every able-bodied man in the state to do it. Ia not that enough. I" , Although the governor was reticent, from other sources information was gath ered concerning the matter. The lesseei have made a demand upon the state for the convicts. This demand was answered nromntlv that when tbo convicts had been captured they would be returned if supplied with a sufficient guard and proper quarters - Proper quarters will be built at once. This will take about two weeks. The question of guard required not a little consideration. It comes pre'ty straight that the present in tention is to provide about fifty men each fox Briceville and Coal Creek and 100 men for Oliver Springs. All of these will be in the pay of the lessees. Twenty-five at each place, it is thought, will be militiamen deputized to do guard duty. ' - ' ' t AN EXPLOSION OF GAS Causes a Big Elaze in Jersey City , Buildings Gutted. A dispatch fom .lers f City says : An explosion of gas caused a disastrous fire at the Jersey City terminus of the Penn sylvania railroad Friday morning. The company recently completed a magnifi cent train shed on a grade wi'h the street elevated road, constructed from the river to Bergen bill, and were constructing new waiting rooms and ferry houses to correspond. The old wooded office building in the ferry house, was turned into a temporary exit for' east-bound train passengers and the officials moved their desks into a. five-story brick build ing fronting on Exchange place. It was in this exit that the explosion occured, at 3:40 o'clock, and the surrounding woodwork was instantly ablaze. On the interior portion of the depot building the flames'" spread rapidly. The flames from the old office building mounted up ward until the wooden railing and sides 'of the unfinished waiting room were ablaze. The fire was then carried along the huge pine pipe casing to the new office structure. This consisted of five solidly built struc'uref of brick, 15x48 feet, and five stories hih. The second floor of the easterly buildinsr was used as a baggage room, and others being merely bare walls. The four floors above the baggage room and two buildings on west were cutted. - the OVER SEVEN THOUSAND People Were Killed by the Earthquake in Japan. A cablegram of Thursday from Van couver, B. C, states that advices from Japan, via steamer Empress of China, gives later news regarding . the great earthquake of October 28th. Careful figuring now places the number of dead at 7,560, and the injured at 10,120, with 87,630 houses wholly, and 28 625 partly, destroyed. ' Over 440,000 people have been rendered homeless and destitute. Many curious freaks of the earthquake have been noticed. In one plce a fissure swallowed up four persons, who have re frained visible, but whose rescue has proved to be impossible. Fortunately, the weather remains mild. Rain or cold weather would cause terrible distress. THE WALLS FELL And Killed Fire Men Outright Man Others Hurt. At St. Paul, Minn., Friday afternoon, a foree of men were engaged in clearing awav the debris of the burned building formerly occupied by Farwell, Ozum & Co., and Griggs, Cooper & Co.. when one of the walls fell with a terrific crash, kill ing five men instantly and injuring twen ty others, some of them severely. Five bodies have been taken from the ruins, and it is thought five more are under the walls. MORE TRAIN ROBBING. 4- This Time the Adams Express Compaay is the Loser. One of. the most daring train robberies that has occurred for years was perpe trated on the St. Louis, and San . Fran cisco, road, almost within the limits of St. Louis. Mondaj night. When passenger train No. 3 on that road left the depot at 8 :25 o'clock, it was just twenty five minutes late. ; The limits oz the city n been passed and the engine was pre par in to make up for lost time, when three a t m men, wno naa Doaraea tne trim at uw Orchard, climbed over the water tank i coal, and covered the : fireman and gineer with revolvers. The engineer . was ordered to stop the train near U lea dale, and, as additional inducement t him to obey orders, three men, wbo wen in ambush at that point, opened fire ost the train with rifles, but whether thej succeeded in wounding any one has not yet been learned. When the train he been brought to a standstill, the engineer and fireman were ordered down from us cab, and, after detailing two of the band to keep guard-over thsm, the other four men started back for the express car, in which was the safe of the Adams Express Company, containing about fif teen thousand dollars. BRAVE MESSES QER, Messenger Mulrenen, in charge of the car, naa observed tne siacKenrng up ot the train and had opened the door of the car to see what the matter was. Suspect-. ing something; wrong and becoming sue- Eicious of the men advancing towardi im, ho hurriedly closed and secured the door just as the men reached it. The robbers first tried to induce to opee. it, and, failing, tried to pry it open, bat the stout door foiled all . their efforts, and j after spending about ten minutes in this work they put a charge of dynamite under the door and blew it open. As soon as the door was broken men leaped into it. Mulrenen made a brave resistance, but the robbers tinned on- him. and. after beating him into a condition of passivity with the butts of their revolvers, begaa operations on the safe. This did not long resist their attacks, and after riffling; it of its contents the guard was called off: and the sextet of desperadoes took to the woods. J ' Estimates as; to the amounts secured vary widely, ranging from $20,000 ts $50,000, but ! nothing definite is yet, known on this point. Superintendeit Damsel, of the express company saya it will be several days before -the exuet amount can be ascertained. , ; . SEVESTT FIVB 'THOUSAND. Wednesday's dispatches from St. Louis state that it is now evident that the Adam Express Company will lose about seventy -five thousand dollars by robbery of the! "'Frisco" night express car near Glendale, on Monday night, , by six masked men, and the bold J'hold up" is rapidly developing into criminal, sensation of the first order. The safe of the express company was completely rifled, and, although Superintendent Damsel placed the loss in the neighbor hood of twenty thousand now known that the safe more than that amount, no clue to the robbers. dollars, it contained far There is still A BIG DROP In Bichmond Terminal Sloek---fT Lowest Notch. A New York dispatch says: Tuesday was a dismal day for everybody interested in Bichmond Terminal, and particularly for the holders of the common stock. That choice 'specimen of the stock ex change commodities sold down to 9, tbm lowest price it has ever touched, and was) at this low : watermark when the gong sounded at 3 o'clock. Wall street is al ways ready with explanations of unusual occurrences, and reasons for Tuesday's bad break in Richmond Terminal were ia. abundant circulation. Some of the stories were very unsavory. One was that the advisory committee' of able financiers, nominated the other day to examine into .the Terminal affairs and formulate a pla ior me permanent aajusimeni; oi , lis finances, has made a preliminary investi gation and haa given the opinion that ass assessment of $10 a share on the commoa stock of the Terminal would be abso lutely necessary to save the concern. ' This report created general alarm and the stock in consequence tumbled heel over head. I Dynamite! Factory Demolished. A dispatch from Nyack, N. Y., -says: The dynamite factory at Haverstraw waa blown up Wednesday afternoon. Tbm shock was felt for many miles. The en gineer and three workmen employed isi the building were blown to pieces, and another man who was in a boat on the river some distance from the wrecked building, was also instantly killed! How Bees' Know Each Other. "AH the animals which belong to a herd, and also the bees in, a hive, front 20,000 to 80,000, in number, know each other," says Profesaor Combe in hia System of Phrenology, and from this fact the author attempts to show fha bees possess the organ of 'form," by means of which they, are enabled ts recognize every individual composing ths vast army which goes to make up colony. But the fact is that bees do nefy drive an intruder away or kill him be, .cause they know him by his size, form Ot color, but because bis scent Phivo odor) is different from their own. This is soos , found 'out if we attempt to unite tw colonies of. bees without the preliminary manipulations known to all intelligent apiarists, for a slaughter, at once begins. A peaceful and harmonious union, now . ever, is easily accomplished if the be keeper first proceeds to "unite" tbeiv odor by spraying both ; colonists aliksj with peppermint water, or in some other way of his own. Bees thus prepared never fight when united. New York Voice. - . j ... ;., . , . i . ' : EASILY OVEKCOXZ. Mamma There is something aboat Mr. De lUche's manner of walking that E greatly dislike. j Grace That may he, but you should remember, dear, that he can always anoru to ride. i