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kl 11 Ms ni m III III. 112 m ww m A 4 VOLUME II. WASHINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1887. NUMBER 33. W to 1 DIRECTORY. MAILS. Vorthcrn and Greenville Due daily 8 p. Lioses at iv p. in. North and South side river mail L Mondav, Wednesday and Friday at Jul- i' -i. n rn : i m. Closes m iimuwing mornings. Mce hours 9 a. m. to 10 p, m. Honey viuw auu Uraer ana itegisiry uepart- lent J a. in. to o p. m. STATE GOVERNMENT. Governor Alfred M. Scales. Lieut. Governor Chas. M. Secretary of State William Stedman. L. Saun- Vaditor W. P. Roberts, fri usurer Donald W. Bain. M. Attorney General -T. H. Davidson. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Commissioner John Robinson. ecretarv T. K. Bruner. Ciieaiist Liianes v . uaoney, jr Gemral Immigration Agent-J. T. COUNTY. ghcntT and Treasurer, R. T. Hodge s. Superior Court Clerk G. Wilkens. Renter of Deeds Burl on Stilley. Surveyor J. F. Latham. Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock, hair'n. J. T. Winflcld, F. R Hodges, B. Hooker, H. N. Waters. Board of Education J. L. Winfield, v v 1 1 n T-V l fchir'n, r. 11. Jonason ana r . u. tiuu- ord. Superintendent of Public Instruction -Rev. a at naming. Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T. pyloe. CITY. K:ivor C. 51. Brown. Clerk John D. Sparrow. Treasurer W. Z. Morton. Chief of Police M. J. Fowler. Couneilmen C. M. Brown, W. B. llorton. S. K. r owier, Jonamanriavens, fy. II. Howard, Alfred D. Peyton. CHURCHES. Episcopal Rev. Nat. Hardin?, Rec- br. Services every Sunday morninghind krsr.it Sunday School at 3.30 p. m. Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent. Presbyterian Kev, S. M. Smith, pas tor, services every unuuy uiormug auu si(ht. Sunday bchooi at 3.30 p. m. Jperintemlent, Jas. L. Fowle. Methodist Rev. W. R. Ware, pastor, services every sunuay morning ana ev- emu::, superintendent, arren Mayo. undoy School 3.30 p. m. TE.VrERACE MEETINGS. Pc rra Club Regular meeting even jTue'iav n: T ht at 7.30 at Club Rooms. JT.C U. Regular meetings everv fcaay, 3 p. m.,' at Rooms of Reform Cub and Union Prayer Meeting every in iown nail, at E.dU p. m. Meeting in Court House every 2d aursdav night in each month. LODGES, Or: Lodge, No. 104, A. F. and A. M. peeti at Masonic Hall. 1st and 3d Tues- y nights of each month E. S. Hoyt, M., R. T. Hodges, Secretary. Phalanx Lodse, No. 10, I. O. O. F. fots evrrv Fridav nio-ht at their hall ertRumbey, P. N. G., J. R. Ross, pecretarv. Washington Lod?e. No . 1490, Knights P Honor. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdav ins at Odd Fellows' Hall A. P. Fabtnc. Dictator. J. D. Mveis. Reoor- J. R. Ross. P. Renorter. Chicura Council, No. 350, American j(?ions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and & Thursdav nights at Odd Fellows' Pal'C. M. Brown. Commander. Wm. fl- Ch'Trv. Collector Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and adit-s of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th goaday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall Fm- M. Cherrv, Protector, T. B. Bowen. secretary. Excelsior T.r,rW "N"r 21 0 G. k) . Iee's 1st and 2nd Tnesdav nights at PddFell Fan: er, Wm. Cherry, Secretory. pe Mutual Live Stocl Insnraace Jcipany, of Washington, N- C pHCE, COENER MARKET & SECOND STS Opposite the Court House, Washington, n, c. Washington. Mutual Benefit Insurance Company. "BARTERED BY THE LEGISLA TURE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Is3ues Policies on Life. ' Health and fCcidents risks; also Fire risks taken, Office, Opposite the Court Housa WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AGGO STORE i SH, WILLI AMS,Prop'r. f3!sA23nt for Ralph's Swbs! Snufl A Brands of Snuff Cigars and Tobacco. VerytMng in the Tobacco line, and Ne 3ood8 constantly on hand 7 :1 :ly TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Fastern and Middle State. A Buffalo dispatch states that during the recent heavy storms on the Lakes fifteen ves sels were wrecked and seven lives lost Great mountain fires on the Blue Moun tain range in Pennsylvania have destroyed much valuable timber. The New York Court of Appeals decided adversely to the Henry George Labor party's claim to the fifth election inspector in the Metropolis. Eight State tickets in all were nominated in New York. Henry M. Jackson, cashier at the United State Sub-Treasury, is a defaulter for over $10,000, and has fled to Canada. Two convicts werekilled and three wounded, one mortally, while trying to escape from prison at Yuma, Arizona. Superintendent Gates was badly wounded. Sonth and West. Snow has fallen to tho depth of eight inches in Michigan. The flames have swept away twenty-six buildings, including the Court House and jail, at Spencer, W. Va. A battery of six boilers exploded at tin Lawrence Iron Works, Boonton, Ohio, kill ing four men and injuring about thirty oth ers. Henry Benhayson, a San Francisco dentist's assistant, has poisoned himself, leaving a confession that he had killed his Bister, Mrs. Cecilia Bowers, two years ago. The murdered woman's husband, Dr. J. Milton Sowers, is ut present under sentence of death for the crime, the principal witness against him having been Benhayson. At Billings, Montana, the thermometer a few days ago registered fifteen degrees be low zero. There are' 500 cases of typhoid fever in Cincinnati . The counties of Hidalgo and Starr, Texas, are overrun with Mexican banditti, who are i. i . . . . .... bteaiing uorses anu people, th3 latter held for ransom. Mayor Latrobe has been re-elected in Baltimore after an exciting canvass bv a ma jority of 4,275 over the Republican candidate, who was supported by Democrats opposed to Senator Gorman. Jefferson Davis reviewed a procession of 5,000 Confederate veterans at Macon, Ga. Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, or dered militia to Terrebonne to suppress la bor riots on sugar plantations in that parish. The corner st me of an equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lea was laid at Rich mond, Va., with exercises consisting of a procession of ex-Confederates le 1 by Gener als Fitshugh Lee and Wado Hampton. .Ma sonic ceremonies, an oration by Colonel Charles Marsh anil the reading of a poem by the late James Barron Hope. Governor Semple, in his annual report, estimates the population of Washington Terri tory at 1-:J,G!1.). There are about lii.0il,iHM acres of agricultural lands in the Territory yet nnsurveyed. The completed miles of railroad number l,0lJ. A leading industry is the salmon fisheries. The taxable property is given at $50,600,000. Washinston. Robert H. Hooper, for fourteen years Vice Consul General at Paris, has cabled his resignation to Washington, thereby ending the long and fierce contest lo: that position. The ex-Confederates living in Washington visited Richmond in a body to attend the un veiling of the Lee monument. The members of Lincoln Post, G. A. R.. of Newark, N. J., on a visit to Washington, were received by the Prasident in the East Room of the White House. Foreign. The Walker coal pit at Newcastle, Eng land, is on fire. Three miners wore rescue.!, terribly burned, five were taken out dead, and the twenty-one remaining in the mine were rescued. Mr.s. Greer, a widow, aged fifty, her S3n William, aged twenty-four, and an adopted daughter, aged nine, were burned to death in their house at Clearwater Station, New Brunswick. Queen Victoria is a grandmother azain, her favorite daughter, Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Battenburg. having given birth to a girl. A plot to kill Prince Ferdinand of Bul garia, M. Stambouloff and M. Natchovitch has been discovered. News has been received of Stanley's ex pedition in Africa. Tho expedition had ad vanced nearly ) miles, and had mot with a friendly reception from the natives in a hitherto unexplored region. During a heavy storm off Cape Horn the British bark Balaklava had lr.ne men, in cluding the mate, washed overboard and drowned. The Scotch will son I another yacht to America next year to compete for the Amer ica's Cup. In Paris five Englishmen have been arrested charge! with forging securities of the Southwestilailroad Company of Kansas. A Chinese transport was lost during a typhoon, and 280 Chinamen and five Euro peans were drowned. The village of Cadiz, Spain, has been de stroyed by tire. Mr. Wilfred Blunt, arrested at Wood ford, Ireland, for speaking at a proclaimed meeting, has been found guilty of violating the Irish Crimes act and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. A "dynamite scare" prevails in London, and public buildings are closely watched. LAWLESSNESS IN THE WLST. Texas Terrorized by Bandits Out rages by Renegade Mexicans. Governor Ross, of Texas, received a letter from the county judge of Starr county stat ing that that county was invaded by bands rf hnnriit rm.l nntthroats. and that the local officers were no werless. Numerous instances of atrocious crimes were mentioned. The judge further stated that the authorities the Mexican side are ready and willing to ao everything in their power to rid the county nKaractovc nnii are OillV waitino betaken by the United States for action to 1 Ml or oy.iexas. trovernor Ross replied as follows: "Prior to the receipt of your communication, whicn was the first one reaching me from an official which source, I had ordered a ranger torce to ine relief of your people. Rest assured that the full power of the State government will Oe exercised in your behalf . " Advices from the Mexican frontier declare that the outrages committed near Lake Guz man and Corvalitas were not done by Indian but by renegade Mexicans disguis d. I he rades of the Apaches have been so disastrous n Umes past that a report that they are aain out deters ranching parties from pur suing cattle thieves ana smugglers, giving sich outlaws opportunity for escape with Seir booty. The agents of the Apache res ervations report no Indians absent without leave. L DEVELOPMENT OF SHEEP RAISING AND WOOEEN MANUFACTURES. Interesting Figures From tho Bureau of Statistics. T printed report of Colonel W. F. Switder, Chief of thn United States Bureau of Statistics, on wcr' and manufactures of wool is now ready for distribution, and is considered by the Bureau to be one of the most valuable documents it has over put forth. The report makes with its appendix a volume of three hundred pages. It gives a history of the development of sheep raising and wool manufacturing in this coun try. The report shows that the number of sheep in the United States rose from 19,000, 00:) in 1840 to 51,00 1,000 in 1884, but declined to 45,0;K),000 in 1887. This marked decline oc -in-red mainly in the Southern and West ern States, notably in Texas, and is attributed in great part to the decline in the price of wool since 1884. Great Britain, being the leading wool market of the world, has always been, the report says, the principal market for pur chases of wool. Turkey and Russia have also been important sources of direct supply, but the Argentine Republic is now, next to Great Britain, the foreign source of supply, followed by Aus tralasia. The imports of wool rose from 1, 715,9(.) pounds in 1823 to 114,0;8,0:30 pounds ing 1887. The increase in wool imports has about kept pace with the growth of Ameri can wool products, both having about doubled since 1800. A series of tables illustrates the increase in products and in importations and the relations between the two, as for example, from to 1858, lfil, 000,000 pounds were produced and 43,000,0 JO imported; from 1874 to 1878, 195,000,000 pro duced and 45,0( 0,000 imported; from 1882 to isso, 297,00 3,000 were produced and 92,000, OJO imported. From 1822 to 1831 the annual imports of wool in manufactures averaged over ,000,0' K) in value, or more than sev-cnty-one cents per capita; while from 1832 to to 1S41, they reached o er H,000,'JOO, or eighty-four cents per capita. The value of the United States woolen product of 1850 was 1525,0)0.000 in round numbers, and of imports $19,000,000. In 1880, the product had grown to 8101,000,000, and imports were valued at $31,000,00), be ing $3.91 per capita. Thus, while the product of woolens in th,; United States has increased since 1850 nearly seven-fold, the imports have increased about sixty -two per cent., but the consumption per capita has doubled, which the statistician says indicates in a striking manner the ad vancement of wealth and comfort in the style of living among the people of this country. The statistics of imports and exports of woolens in the trade of foreign countries show that the United Kingdom Is foremost in the foreign trade in woolens, the imports during 1885 amouning in value to $49,000,000 and the exports to $1 15,000,009. France comes next with imports of 49,000,000 and exports amounting to $78,000,000;. Germany next, with imports of $25,000,000, and exports of $51,000,000. ' There has been large decline in the woolen trade of Great Britain since 1S74. This decline, the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade attributes in part to the high foreign tariffs which, it is claimed, shut out the manufac turers of Gi-eat Britain from for"";n markets. about noted people. The Duchess of Sutherland is an enthusias tic collector of bird's eggs. Evangelist Moody is about to begin re vival meetings in Leiii.vilie, Ky. I-N-Senatmi Jonks. of Florida, is still m Detroit, a;i' is j-.itferiir: from biv.in trouble. CEXKIiAL. S'V-tx i weighs , i(K) p ju:v feet aroun 1 the iod a,-:i::c n:n a st-v?r that and meus ire-; over eiirhfc iiir: l" l et o.ei'gv'mun in church is sddto be the Rev. t!u Unitarian C. A. Bar- Dr. tui, of Boston. Masa-'husetts. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is said to havo declined an oiler of '. .).oi)J f.r one hundred lectures, to be delivered in this country. Seven United States Senators visited Eu rope the past summer: Palmer, btockbriuge, Hale. Frve. Spooner, Auirich and liawley. Two sons of Charles Dickens, Alfred Ten nyson and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, are settled as real estate agents and brokers in Australia. Secretary Bayard is reoorted to be en gaged, to Miss Sophie D. Markoe, a lady about forty years old, and an employe of the State Department, at Washington. The names of Abraham Lincoln and Gro ver Cleveland are on documents relating to the transfers of a certain piee of land in Fairmont, 111. Lincoln's signature was writ ten in 18.)iiand Cleveland's m I8T0, John R. Stetson, a Philadelphia hatma ker, emploj's Soo men, women and children, and has a Sunday-school of 1,000 scholars in collection with his factory. The chapel where the school meets cost .40,0(S0. A:.iid a brilliant display of diamonds at the Rothschild wedding, in Paris, lately, the Grand Rabbi of India omdaz-de I every one else present w.th n o-:t a half pint of first water gems that he had stuck about his turban. Rev. Charles A. Berry, a young English minister, preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, recently, and made a very favor able impression. It is believed he will be chosen as the successor of Henry Ward Beeeher. Rear-Admiral Worden, Commander of the Monitor in the fight with the Merrimac, is living in Washington. He is seventy years of age, but looks younger. The wound he received at the Monitor and Merrimac battle not only impaired his sight, but has left him always subject to severe headaches. He was retired from the navy in lSSti on full pay, and is thus in receipt of $6,000 a year. COLORED K. OF L. They Strike in Louisiana, and Refuse to Let Others Work. A general strike occurred on the sugar plantations throughout the large portion of the sugar belt of Louisiana. Negro laborei s, under the leadership ofK.of L. had demand ed an advance of twenty-five cents per day, the present price being $1 and rations. This being refused, the negroes became violent and refused to let others work. Gov. Mc Enory received a dispatch from J. J. Schaeffer, a Terrebonne planter, stating that his plantation wras in the hands of the strikers and asking for assistance, the parish author ities being unable to protect him. Thereup on the Governor ordered a detachment of militia to the scene of the trouble to act un der orders of civil authorities. A detach ment of artillery left New Orleans for Terre bonne with a Gatling gun and three inch rifle. S IE WOO KNIGHTS IN REVOLT. Delegates From Thirteen States De clare War Upon Powderly. The dissenters from the action taken at the recent Minneapolis Convention have declared open war with the Executive Board of the Knights of Labor and have issued their declaration of independence. On returning from the convention about thirty-five delegates, representing thirteen States, stopped in Chicago and determined to bring about a reorganization of the order. They elected a Provisional Committee of five members, of which Charles F. Seib was made Secretary. A long communica tion was drafted at Secretary Seib's office, and was forwarded in circular form to the Knights of Labor all over the country. The circular says: Our duty to the working men and women demand that we at once reorganize the order of Knights of Labor on a bas s which will secure the autonomy of the tra les and .the sovereignty of the ' districts in all per taining to their trade and local affairs, and to prevent it from being used in the future as a machine to fill the coffers of designing and unscrupulous men, as it is by those now in power. We afiirm the following to be the reasons that have compelled this serious ac tion on our part. 1. The general office has become a luxur ious haunt for men whose chief aim is to benefit self, pecuniarily and otherwise, and is no longer the Jerusalem of the humble and honest Knight. 2. There has been for more than a year (be ginning prior to the Richmond sessioman un derstanding, which, for lack of a better word, we will call a conspiracy, for the purpose of holding the salaried positions,elective and ap pointive, in and under the General Assem bly. ;i This conspiracy has used the secret channels and the funds of the order to manu facture sentiment for certain members and against others. Certain persons sometimes called "General Lecturers," "General Or ganizers," "General Instructors," and general many other things, have been paid extrava gant sums, both as wages and expenses, when their chief work was to "fix75 certain dis tricts. The lobbyists of railroad corporation? would turn green with envy did they know the superlative excellence attained by these bloodsuckers of the Knights of Labor." 4. Organizers1 c om iLssions have been re fused to members who were kno wn to dis agree with the methods of the ring, though the applications were indorsed by the dis trict assembly to which applieauts"b3ionsed, and commissions have leen recalled because of the refusal of the holders to fall down anil worship the powers that be. 5. District and local assemblies have been suspended or expelled and deprived of a voice in the General Assembly because they were known as opponents to the policy of the con spirators. Conspiracies have been hatched against dissenting members by the aid of corrupt tools in the district assemblies or loeal as semblies, or both of such members. ?. The records of the General Office have been fixed and decoratec so as to rule out or admit, as the case might be, General Assem bly representatives. 8. Men have been Admitted as delegates to the General Assembly who clearly had no constitutional rights to seats, while others have been refused upon technicalities con trary to pre 'eient and established custom. In all cases the test was for or against the ring. 1). (A) Many thousands of dollars of the orders funds have !een illegally expended frequently against the earnest protests of honest and law-abiding members. (B) Extravagant hotel bills contracted by the families of general officers have been paid out of the order's funds, as have familv laundry and bar bilis. id Funds have been given and loaned to officers and their frieii Is for their own per sonal use. (D) General officers, org mi iers, and lec turers have not only been paid li!era! -al cies and allowed heavy expen-es from the ueiv-.d treasury, but have charged additional sams to the locals and distriets. 10. Honest men devoted to the cause of labor have been made the scap goats of the blundering high officials and driven in dis grace from the movemenr. 11. Efforts made i.y Ase their condition have b en ring. It is charitv to sav n ones to better ;ra: ','e 1 by the for no meaner reason than in response to the clamor of the common enemy of labor. 12. The boycott has been used to injure the labor press, union establishments, and the products of Knights of Labor an 1 union labor for the sole purpose of "downing'' workingmen and women who could not be used by the conspirators. B5. Persons who were not members of the order have been provide!, for personal reasons, with lucrative positions in the general office. 11. The constitution has bn altered in an illegal manner; it has b en tampered with, and measures inimical to the interests of the order at large have been railroaded into what is called 'daw." lo. War has been waged by the adminis tration ring against trade-; unions and trades districts. The motto of the ring has been, "Down with trades distriets; exterminate the trades unions." This in spit;? of our obli gation to extend a helping hand to all branches of honorable toil." It. Nearly every important strike or lock out in which the general officers interfered was lost. 17. As a result of this blundering, wlshy washr, incompetent, and stupidly arbitrary p tlicy, the membership of the order has de creased 217,S24 members in one year. 18. In spite of the decrease of memberehip, they have increased the annual expenditures of the general officers to $500,000. 10. There was no itemized account of re ceipts and expenditures either issued quar terly, as had formerly been the custom, or to the General Assembly. 20. In the General Assembly, arguments were met by buncombe; gag law was reduced to a system by the use of the previous question: outrageous decisions rendered; appeals and protests ignored, all for the pur pose of covering up the rascality of those in power. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A Train in Florida Cioes over an nm-bankment-Several Injured. The east-bound train of the FL rida Rail way and Navigation Company was ditched five miles east of Tallahassee on Thursday. The engine remained on the track, but the passenger coaches fell off the embankment and turned upside down. The following is the list cf casualties: E. S. Crill, State treasurer, severe injuries to the back, bruises on limbs and bad cuts ononis head. He was taken back to Tallahasse, his home. Chas. T Hopkins, of Jacksonville, internal injuries- front teeth were knocked out and tace severelv cut. Felix H. Hamm, Warren, Polk county, East Tennessee, left leg crushed somewhat and injury to spine; cuts on head, also Robert Fed, newsboy, shoulder-blade fractured and severely bruised. Ten othei passengers were badly shaken up and cut, some by broken glass. All the injured will probably recover. TIE NATIONS ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERIN TENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. Facts About the Methods of Educating , Indian Children. From the annual report of John B. Riley, Superintendent of Indian Schools, which has been filed with the Secretary of the In terior, it appears that the aggregate ex penditure by the Government for the educa tion of Indian children during the year was $1,095,370. The whole number of Indian children between the ages of 6 and 16 years is 39,821, of whom 14,932, or about 37 per cent, attended school some portion of the year. At several agencies nearly all the children of school age attend, while at others less than one per cent, are at school. The Superintendent deprecates the lack of ystem in the matter of text books used in Indian schools, and says that it renders futile any effort made by the Indian Bureau to direct or control the school-room work. He recommends that a uniform system of text books and study be adopted. Mr. RUey favors the policy of teaching only English in the Government schools. He says that he has tried to impress upon teach ers the importance of giving the study of the language constant attention, and adds that he has found schools where the pupils, although they had been in school for several years, could not speak English so as to be under stood. The report says that too much stress can not be laid upon the importance of prepar ing native teachers, and to this end suggests that a normal school department be estab lished at some of the larger schools. The Superintendent makes the following recommendations : That an industrial boarding school be es tablished near the Missouri River,adjacent to the Sioux reservation; that schools be pro vided for the tribes in Nevada; that Congress be requested to provide for the education of 100 Indian children to be selected from the tribes living in the State of New York ; that a Commission be appointed and empowered to make a thorough examination of the whole subject of Indian education, with the view to systematizing the methods and increasing the facilities as may be deemed necessary. A judgjTuses his fists. He Resents the Publication and Black ens the Publishers Eyes. A personal encounter took place at Louis ville, Ky., between Judge William B. Flem ing and Bidderman Dupont. The latter is propriet r of the Post and the Commercial, both of which have been making editorial and local assaults upon Judge Fleming. The climax was reached when the Commercia published an article stating that Fleming and a number of other prominent citizens had raised money to spend during the Guber natorial campaign for Gov. Buckner. They aid this it stated, by negotiating a one thou sand dollar note, which is now due, and which, it is alleged, they are trying to induce the Governor to pay, on the ground that the money was for legitimate campaign expenses. The article proves to have been a falsehood and was resented accordingly by Judge Flem ing. In a conversation some days ago Dupont had intimated to Fleming that no more as saults upon the latter should be printed. They met, and the judge upbraided t..e pub lisher for his want of faitn. Dupont made an evasive reply, and becoming infurated, Fleming struck him twice over the head with a cane, after which they clinched and had a short struggle. When separated Du pont had two black eyes, but Fleming was not hurt. Both the men are prominent, J udge Flem ing having recently declined President Cleve land's appointment to the Chief Justiceship of Arizona. Duponis very wealthy and is larsrel v engaged in manufactures. The story that Gov. Buckners name was affixed to the note and that the latter had allowed . it to go to protest is w. oily without foundation. UNCLE SAM $10,000 SHORT. A Paying Teller of New York's Sub Treasury Gone to Canada. The sub-treasury at New York has nocv its representative in Canada, in the person of Henry Jackson, its paying teller. He has gone with exactly $10,000 of Uncle Sam's money, but there is this satisfaction for the Treasury officials, that Jackson might have taken more. He did not, however, have ac- cess to the vaults, as more stringent rules concerning admission to the vaults were mrde under the present assistant treasurer. Jackson took the money, as Assistant Treas urer Cauda, said on Saturday, the day of his departure. His cash was carefully exam ined on the day previous, and foun t to be correct. On Monday morning tho discovery was made and measures taken to intercept him, his default meanwhile being kept a se cret. Mr. Cauda said: "I know no way that has been devised to prevent the paying tellers in banks or other institutics from taking part of the money necessarily c m mitted to their charge if they are dishonest. Jackson was appointed in February, 1879, and was recommended by several of the most influential men in the city. Be was previously in the National currency Bank and other financial institutions occupying a smaller salaried position. When he was first appointed he was promoted successively until he reached the position of paying teller at $3,000 per annum under the present assis tant treasurer. He was self-possessed and a capable man." Jackson was not under bonds,so Mr.Canda will have to bear the loss. Mr. Cauda spoke of the default of 185,000 under the Assistant Treasurer Millhouse of several years ago. showing that this is not the first loss of the kind to the treasurer. RUNAWAY AT A BURIAL. The Corpse Uncoffined and Hurled in j a Ditch, and the Preacher Seriously i Hurt. j At a funeral near Sycamore, Ohio, th j team attached to the hearse ran awey, an ; the vehicle was smashed to pieces. The coffin was dashed to the .round, the lid torn ; off and the corpse rolled into a'ditch by the j roadside. Other teams took fright and a general name ensued. W omen tainted ana men -i.imrr! from thp PArriRfres. were ma ontno-lpd in t':ft eenerrl wreck and several persons were in jured, The Rev. Mr. Howells, who was to have conducted the funeral exercises, was perhaps fatally injured. thanksgiving-day. President Cleveland balls on the Peo pie to Offer the Usual Thanks on Nov. 24. The following proclamation has been issued by the President. By Vie President of the United States: The goodness and the mercy of God, which has followed the American people during all the days of the past year, claim their grate ful recognition and humble acknowledge ment. By his omnipotent power he has protected us irom war and pestilence, and from every national calamity ; by his gracious favor the earth has yielded a generous return to the labor of the husbandman, and every path of honest toil has led to comfort and contentment; by his loving kindness the hearts of our people have been replenished with fraternal sentiment and patriotic en deavor, and by his unerring guidance we have been directed in the way of national prosperity. To the end that we may. with one accord, testify our gratitude for all these blessings' I, Grover Cleveland, President of the TJnitei States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 24th day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by all the people of the land. On that day let all secular work and employ ment be suspended, and let our people assemble in their accustomed places of worship, and with prayer and songs of praise give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all that he has done for us, while we humbly implore the forgiveness of our sins and a continuance of his mercy. Let famihes and kindred be reunited on that day, and let their hearts, filled with kindly cheer and affectionate reminisences. be turned in thankfulness to the source of all their pleasures and the Giver of all that makes the day glad and joyous. And in the midst of our worship and our happiness let us remember the poor, the needy and the un fortunate, and, by our gifts of charity and ready benevolence, let us increase the num ber of those who with grateful hearts shall join in our thanksgiving. Tn witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twelfth. Grover Cleveland. By the President: Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State. AN EDITOR MISSING. He is Assaulted by Saloon-lteepers and Soon After Disappears Suddenly. W. H. Reynolds, the youthful editor of a bi-weekly Prohibition paper, called the Sun, Which was established at Hoily Springs, Miss, several weeks ago, has disappeared. Unti about Sept. 1, last, Reynolds was a resident of Topeka, Kan., and represented himself as the city editor of the Times of that city. He also claimed to be a nephew of the late Rob ert Toombs, of Georgia. Upon ai riving at Holly Springs he rented desk room in the office of the South, where he set up his print ing establishment and issued a small sheet, of which he was editor, compositor and prin ter. , He made a bitter attack upoi all persons in town engaged in tie liquor traffic and their supporters, and after two issues of the paper two saloon-keepers assaulted Reynolds and beat i,im severely. His assailants were arrested and their trial set for Monday of last week, but on the previous night Reynolds mysteriously disappeared. He told some of his friends that he had been warned to leave the place and on this account a rumor of foul play was circulated in connection with his disappearance. An investigation was begun by some of the leading citizens, showing that there was no truth in the theory of foul play, and that during his b. ief sojourn in the place he con tracted a few small debts, including a bo rd bill of some 30. A letter was received by Sheriff Miller, dated Wall Hill, Oct. :20, in which the writer said that he had seen Rey nolds passing through that place on foot with r.o baggage. Inquiry at Reynolds's boarding-house elicted the fact that he had in con versation with several persons, expressed fears that he would be killed, and 3aid that he had received orders to leave the town. During the night of his disappearance the boarders heard several pistol shots near the house. Employees of his printing office said they knew that Reynolds's life had been threatened. There was no indebtedness that they knew of, and he had said that nothing but death would stop the publication of his paper. ANARCHISTS INTERVIEWED. 'Capitalists and Their Courts Demand Elood, and They May Havs t. "Oh, I have grown almost nt to the result,'' remarked Anarchist A. R. Parsons to ex-Justice Barker, who talked with the condemned men at Chicago. "Hope and fear have almost worn themsdves out and I have become callous. "So have I," murmered Mrs. Parsons, who was by his side. "The capitalists and their courts demanded blood, and they will no doubt have it on Nov. 11." "The workingmen and their friends will demand blool for blood, and they will, no doubt have it afterwards," continued Parsons. "Blood for blood,"' whispered Mrs. Parsons. "What hope is there from a United States Supreme Court that sends f or State officers and consults with them as to the question of jurisdiction? Thai is what our Supreme Court has done in this case. Did it ever do so in any other case i The judges, w ith their solemn mummery, are put there to decide questions for themselves. But, bah!'" and, with a wave of his hand, Parsons signi fied that the interview was at an end. "Do you think the Supreme Court will interfere in the Anarchists' case'" a World reporter inquired of one of the most promi nent attorneys in the city this morning. "I do not. " Everything indicates that the judges have found nothing to warrant them i in sending the case back. Had it oeen at all clear or probable that the court would find j cause to interfere, Justice Harlan would i have heard the application for the writ of i eiTor without hesitation. It has never hap- I Dened but OUCe before that the full Benen - has heard an application of this kind j ! j A bcok by Nina Van Zandton t ie subject of anarchy was put upon che market some time ago. Parsons today announces that he has just finished a book on the same subject
Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.)
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