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t ' - ; Qfit THE JOllftNAt. fi. X.E157S3. C.T.S1SCCCX, Fwpristflr. Local 8rportf. A-nts, 2K. CL, wiwWm sttr. Vice :. w ; nnqnestionmbly ia the . blood of fome people. A daughter ot the Prince oCWtles is said to be cigarette fiend. Miss Conguelo Vanderbilt's wed ding gown is said to be " dream of joj'Vwhicb, it v&nj be a consolation lor her to remember should her lite : with the-, "juke" turn into a horrid nightmare. There isn't mnch choice between , the defeated and the elected candi- dW in the eyea of the loafer who - re ' waiting to be askod to drink - after election. : ; '- " ' - Dr. John Bull is worrying him- -- eelf most te death about that piece of ". China swallowed by the Rnaeian bear. . He would like to prescribe - an emetic, but dares not until a con- " saltation approves. '""-Bob. Lincoln may be right about the Presidency being the greatest ..misfortune a man can have, but the two gentlemen now living who are best is formed on that subject are apparently willing to undergo four mure years of Presidential misfor- : tune. . ?.- Some people are disposed to re gard the holding of that Washing ton mass meeting to express sympa thy for the Cuban revolutionist on - - Halloween as significant, of the ghoatfioees of Spain's last grip on America. . . Tlie managers of the Atlanta Ex- - poeitioa, realizing this Cuban busi ness to be dangerous to handle, - postponed the date for the pro posed Cuban day from Not. 6th to December 17th, which probably means that there will be n Cuba day at the Exposition, " The newspaper cartoon is a good thins; when proper? done, but the man who are doing some of them ; ought to he arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses, if thej get paid for them. -.'There is a growing belief that 'Campos, the Spanish general in Cuba, is an American politician in disguise.' His talk certain! r indi- catss it. "f The physician in charge of the "-"Woman's Hospital in Foo Chow, . . China, ia Dr. Anne Walter, a Miss ; jseippt woman. There is no country "'. &b. a&rth now where the plncky American woman is not doing mis- ; sionary work of some kind. - The mother of Abdul-Azii, the " new young Sultan of Morrocoo, bids fair to'hare as mnch swav as does the -Empress of China. She is . woman of great talent and boundless , tact, and her son is said to consult .' her before taking any political step "i -The lady witness had become : picturesque in her testimony, and ; the attorney had called her down in ' a wy that had made ber- mad all :'er. "Confine Toaraelf to facts madam," he said in conclusion Tery ' well," she replied tartly "von are no gentleman. How does : that strike you?" . - j f n respect to the manner of teach- in sr: the modern drift is towards ; education by the senses,rather than, y as of old, through, the intellect sole y. We have come to see that boys rf jd, girls learn faster, more easily, jp.oTe fruitfully, by being taught by ' the ere and hand, than if made to ' i acquire all knowlege 'through the ;v apeotaclea of book. . In is ooncep . tion is a return to nature in the -- best sense, and has many indirect .-advantage. It makes learning delight; it imp'iea physical training ' as the instrument and correlative ' of intellectual culture, and it has - fewer dangers to health than the ' more ancient methods. THE 1QSTJMF2TT TO TARCX. . ' 3Tew Is a Favorsble Tin ler tke Work, . . u to Let Each CMatj ef ike State irrked V a4 Caatrikate as a . " 1 CMaty is a xvi Plaa. - J Hon. Z. B. Vance; the honest and ' ' 'f incorruptible statesman and patriot " ' deserves all the honor his native - "L 'State can heap upon him. The ' State has produced no man whoa ' ' the State could more fittingly hon- - - , or or whom the great masses of his v countrvmen. to whom he was ever V -' . true would- more delight to honor, ' We would be glad to see the move- : . -' ment for a monument to mm - ; worked through now without delay : " and heartily favor a strong effort in " A r that direction. To work the State s "'. 'by counties, letting leading citizens ' 1 . of each county work up the coutri . ? buttons from their county would be an admirable plan. The Raleigh v . News and Observer has this to say in v - 4 recent issue in favor of now going ahead : . " . - One thing at a time. V" The Confederate monument has . ..v been 'completed, paid for, and dedi x cated. ' . ; - The State Fair has been held and II that now remains is to distribute - . s the premiums. - t v , There is no political campaign to engage the attention of the people, " '. " and no election for a year to come. y -u. - The time has arrived for an earn est, concerted movement looking to , ; ; the erection of a bronze statue ol " s the -greatest man Nerth Carolina ' . V baa produced. Shortly after his death a Vance Memorial Association ' r V .wa organized and step taken to "raise the necessary money, but for h 'some cause the agitation was allowed - Vvto wane, and for some time past r nothing has been done. The peo " pie are in better condition than for " years, and there are at least tell - - thousand men who would gladly give a dollar if approached. Tbe : laea hate nnderUken the troik ia 4 patriotic manner) bqt they will nev er succeed anless the women take hold and organize the. movement. Will not the press keep the plan beforo the people, and will not thew- people unite to put in imperishable brass a statue of the man whose life all the youth can be taught to "emulate? We cordially eudorsc the follow ing note from Mr. Battle, nml com mend the action of Mrs. N. W. Kay, of Fayetteville, to the patriotic men and women of every county in the State. If every county in the State. If every county had one woman who would do as much as Mrs. Kay, and one man who would do ad much as Col. W. II. H. Cowles, of Wilkes, has done, the money could be easilv raised within the next few months. Mr. Battle writes: Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 20. Editor News aud Obsorvei : I ask that you will publish the letter I hand vou herewith. It is from a good lady, of the town of Fayetteville, who kindly uudertook to raisa some money for the pro posed monument to our grfcat and honored Vance. The Treasurer of the fund, Mr. Joseph G. Brown. President of the Citizens' National Bank of Raleigh, has, as yet, only about tGOO in bank to its credit. The collections flagged last year for several reasons, principally because of the verv hard limes, ana me jaci iiiai mo iiu-s Memorial Association were pressing collections for the monument to our Confederate dead. The times are some better now, and the monument to our heroic dead hHS l-tfii erected and id for. It is therefore time now that the friends of Vance anil nearly every good man aud wornau of the riUte. without regard to par ty, was his friend were pressing for the erection of a suitable bronze statua of him in our Capitol Square I have obtained nor mission to publish Mrs. Kay's bitter, which enclosed the check, as a reminder and an incentive to others, men and women, to do as she has done. Money sufiioieut to ensure the early erection of the statuo oueht to be collected this fall. I hope other papers throughout the State will publish Mrs. Kay's letter. Very respectfully, R. H. Battle Fatktteville. N. C.Oct. 17, '!6. R, H. Battle, Esq., Raleigh, N. V. Dear Sir: Inclosed I send check to roar order for 126, which the rood citiaans of Cumberland have subscribed on the Jiat left with me for the purpose of raising funds to erect a monument in honor of the lamented Z. B. Vance. Hoping that the State will enable vour committee to secure a handsome one. I am, very respectfully, Mrs. N. W. Ray BEAUPOBT INSURANCE CASKS, She UeraU's Aecoaat ef the Close of the Trials Hf Id, and Extracts from IU t'eatsieats. Court adjourned Saturday. There were only two of the Insurance cases tried. These were for forgery and the defendant's were acquitted in both cases. We gave our readers a synopsis of the first cases in our last issue. The second was similar. Abrams the Insurance detective and Mariah Hamilton an ignorant old negro woman whojbad the appearance of being crazv, were the witnesses for the State. James Hamilton, Mariah' husband, was called on the stand for the State but in reality made good witueas for the defendants. The jury stave 1 out all night aud next moraine brought in a verdict of "not guilty." The jury was com posed of men none of whom live in Beaufort. They were above the average jury in every respect, there being among them as intelligent men as you ordinarily find on any iary. But strange to say whom they brought in their verdict Judge ura ham did something which Judges don t ordinarily do and that was to remark: "Gentlemen I am glad I am not responsible for your ver diet." It is the duty of the Judge to pass on questions of law and it is ahe duty of the jury to pass on questions of facts. Each department of the courts has its special work to do, as a co-ordinate branch of the court. Two intelligent gentlemen from New York, who are disinterested parties and who heard all the evi dence in both of the cases, remark ed in the presence of Herald repor ter, that the Insurance companies would have to produce better evi dence or they need expect to convict anyone." Cpop motion Judge Graham re moved the criminal cases to Jones county and the civil ones to Craven where they will pe tried next spring (Jourt has come and gone and the wonderful insurance frauds amount ed to an acquittal of the defendants in the cases which were tried this week. About fifteen great Insur ance companies jumped with both feet on a few of our citizens and undertook to quote the elegant lan guage of one of their expert witness, to send the last d-n one to the penitentiary if it cost ten thousand dollars a piece," and then jumped off again. The prosecution adds another in sult to the long list ol raise accusa tions against the good people of Carteret by alleging that these cases cannot be fairly tried here and our sister county Jones is requested to kindly take our dirty linen and wash it for us. And now there is a current rumor that these defendants have been given to understand that if they will give up their claims against the Insurance companies that these prosecutions will be dropped. Where the rumor started or how true it is we do not known. Nor do we have the slightest doubt that a compromise of these civil suits in the courts would result in the full restoration of these de fendants to their freedom and liberty. Beaufort Herald, Oct. 31. TO PROTECT THE AMERICANS. The Tsrklsh U vera neat Aets Upon Miaistcr Terrell's Beceat Reeaest. Constantinople, Nev. 4. The Turkish government has again in structed the governor of Bitlis to protect the American missionaries at that place. Owing to the disturbances, the American missionaries who have been engaged in relieving the suf ferings of the Armenians at Sassoun decided t postpone operations and seek safety at Bitlis. So few of us know when we aid enough. have WONDERFUL ANIMAL REMAINS In the South jihatc Carolina Neds. Phos- Embracing 24'J,O:0 Aires Containing Fiv! Hnndrrd Million Tons-Three! Parallel Btds or Strata -The Selen-1 title Signification-List of Remark able i-keletous Hones, Teeth, Shell, 1 elc,, Found Therelu. , i 'If any person, prompted by curi-' osity, or by enthusiasm in t ho .liter ests of science, shall chance to visit any one of the twenty-tive phosphate . works near the coast of South Car olina, he will discover a very 'ancient and iish-likc smell.' The: emanations, however, are not all rr rish, although the eourue ot tins; olfactory disturbance is in great part j from deposits of tish whose usclul- uess, except lor tertilizers, was outlived many ages ago. There are, 1 in certain localities, whose distribu tion covers a tract reaching from1 Charleston to Beaufort, and extoml-, in from ten to fifty miles inland, great beds of marl, overlaid by de-' posits of phosphate rocK ana eartn, 1 aud many of these latter overgrown by trees of ancient growth, where ' relics of tish, reptiles and moHusks' are found in jreat variety and abundance. These are freely min gled with the remains of sea mHrn-; inals and animals, of wnieh some 1 species were long ago extinct and also with fossil wood, resin and , other metamorphosed substances. These deposits were disookeied some twentv-rive years ago to ho most valuable for agricultural uses, aud it is their exhumation and prep aration for market which rivals in pungencv the exhalations of a cod livor oil rendering establishment. They are found not only on the land but in the beds of rivers. As a rule they lie about eight feet under ground, but a pocket has been struck at a depth of seventy feet, while bofiug a well at Charleston. This latter ascertained f not i most im portant from a scientific point of view. Deposits occur usually in three parallel beds or strata, abont one foot apart and from lurea to eight feet below the surface, with occasional outcropping. A thick stratum of pure green marl under lies the whole, although marl is found with phosphate nodules im bedded. The land rock, as it is called, existg in rough masses or nodulea distributed throughout the soil and earth, but in river beds it is compacted into a pavement or reef from ten to twenty inches ttiick and is taken out by steam dredges in two-ton masses and afterwards broken up Into sn;alj lurnps by ma chinery. The river rock is darker than the land rock, the former being a dark gray or bluish black and the latter having a yellowish or pale brown color. There are thosy who put value upon fish only when they are fresh, but while fresh tish will certainly supply temporary al: mentation to the human body, these mortuary preserves will produce crops whose hundred-fold food contributions make the ratio of fresh fish utility almost inappreciable. These con tain uniformly an average of from 55 to Gl per cent, of tricalcic phos phate and from 5 to 11 per cent, carbonate of limo aud yield from GOO to 800 tons per acre, costing 4.50 per ton to produce. There are various estimates as to the ex tent of these deposits. They have been traced over ;2-i0,oo0 acres and somd estimates have placed the total as high as 500,000,000 tofis! The eoonomist, looking at this mine of richness from a com mercial point of view, carefully calculates its duration aud the chances of competition from other similar deposits, of which discoveries of less extent have already been made in Alabama, North Carolina and Florida, but when wo consider that these same deposits are com posed in large part of animal re mains, whose organic matter is so little decomposed as to he most offensive to the sense of smell, one is appalled in contemplation of the wholesale destruction of life, and dazed by the vast aggregation of the living creatures which were. South Carolina has a very compre hensive exhibit of the fossils which have been exhumed from these phos phate beds. Some have scarcely been changed from their natural appearance. I took the trouble to make the following list of specimens as they appear in their cases, to wn: Sharks' teeth in great abundance, some minute ana others immense, measuring full five inches in length: vertebra? of sliarKs: dental plates of sharks. Snouts and skulls of sword-fish and other Xiphiidie. leeth, ear bones and vertebra' of whales. Vertebra5, dental plates, fins and tails of sundry fishes, some of the tins showing the ravs very distinct- Flippers, bones, beaks and shell plates of turtles. Alligators's skulls and jaws with teeth remaining in them. Oysters, round clams, conchs. periwinkles, barnacles, amonites, encimites, trigonia and many other varieties of shell-fish. Jaws of reptiles with teeth re maining in them; vertebra of ditto. Ribs and shoulder blade of mana tee. Teeth of elephant, mastodon, horse, hog, bison, tapis, bear, mylo don, zeniglodon, inegalosaurus and sundry saunaus. Bones of mastodon, including thigh, pelvic neck and head ;ones, and spinal process. Leg bones of buffalo, horse and deer. Deer horns: claws of animals: ribs, vertebr with spinal attachment, joints of thigh bone, vertebral caps and facings, shoulder blades, parts of skulls, etc. Hoofs and foot bones. Tail of megatherium; bones of birds; coprolites or exciement of mammalia, very large. Fossil palmetto and other woods; fossil resin; fragment of water-worn post-pleiocene marl; a mass of coral with phosphate nodules imbedded. Here is a defunct menagerie worth looking into and investigat ing. Here are mingled together in one vast Golgotha the organic repre sentative remains of several distinct geological periods, many of those remote being as well preserved as those more recent, aud they include land and marine species, animals, birds, fishes reptiles, mollusks and infusoria. How came they to be collected together in the same place at three successive periods? What was the fatal attraction, and what' the sweepiti1 calamity which in-1 volved them in one common! destruction, and for which there 1 was no escape for birds that fly, or! fish that swim, for reptiles which love the mud and the lagoon, or for ponderous strength to resist the! mighty forces? Even the clam . succumbed! Here is fruitful field for scientific investigation if per- j chance any devotee be found to venture where none seem to have j escaped. But in addition to all the , foregoing remains, the dredges have! brought up from the river beds I Indians arrow heads anil fragments of rude pottery, a human lower jaw j with teeth set in place, a Spanish ' dollar of 1?'J5 (barely one hundred; years old), some brass buttons and a full set of apothecaries' weights, widt h look almost like new. All thes. date. The on i: are and comparatively recent be readily determined, i ie.s its oh l. testimony Ciiai;i.! 1 1. U. LOCK. The above is an extract from an article by Brof. Chas. Hallo k which appeared in the American Angler. The (piestion I'he otiestions which he propuiuii in the last paragraph as! to the on LTiii of these great deposit wore answered by him in a subtie (pient part of the same article in the Angler and have boon copied by us in the concluding part of the item about mammoth teeth having been uneaithed in Onslow county, X. (.' It appeared in the Daii.v :;n! oi Saturday ami U aieo in the Wkem.i . SWEET FOTAfO RAISING. At a Cost ot Only l;ive Cents a Bushel Flat Cultare K rommonded I'o'atoes from Vine Cuttings K ep Belter thfjn from SjiruulJ Sweet potato culture and keeping. I, i e 11" l 1 he old plan of pulling up ridges n I c with a hoe to set out potatoes on has nearly gone out ol use, but it is still the custom of some people to throw the rldgea up as hifh as the plow will do it, but 'those wto have tested the work arc learning better than to plant on hih ridges; especially if dry weather is likely to prevail. My plan is to throw two light furrows together, after land has been broken and made fine and on this small ridgo sot the sprout or vine. After a few days I split out the middle with a cultivator one time to a vow and about ten days from seU ting I side the plants with the culti vator stirring the ground almost as completely as if siding corn, very little hoe work being needed; one good hand will do all the hoe work needed for one acre of potatoes in pue day, if land is not picked by hard rains my second plowing is done with Stonewall, or other long sweep siding plants again just as they are beginning to run, if ground is pack ed hard 1 run cultivator again, the third aud last plowing is usually done with a small wing turning plow throwing dirt lightly to the plants, seven or eight furrows being sufficient to do all the cultivation necessary after plants are set. Potatoes, like cotton will not bear neglect but must be worked at the right time to be successfully culti vated. Whore land does not have to be fertilized to produce a good crop it is practicable to make and dig a crop of potatoes at a cost not exceed ing U cents a bushel. I have just dug half an acre set the last week of June and first week of July, after a crop of early or truck peas aud housed 100 bushels which has cost only five dollars in all work done including digging. I cultivated an acre besides tiie half referred to, and this having to be fertilized cost a little more, and potatoes were not quite as good as those that followed peas. All the potatoes l put up for win ter use aro from vine cuttings, feed ing early all set from sprouts as the latter do not keep in winter near so well as those from cuttings. Since putting up potatoes from the vine instead of sprout, I seldom lose two per cent, from rot. 1'rother farmer try flat cultivation and get vines early as possible for late keeping. D. Lake. Bel lair, X. C. MfXICO GREATLY EXCITED. Afraid of Annexa'ioii to the United States. An Alleged Hot on the Part of the Catholic Clergy to that End Has Stirred Up f arly Feeling to the Very Highest Pitch. Mexico City, Nov. Party feeling is being stirrred up over an alleged plot on the part of the high er clergy in favor of secret annexa tion to the United States. It is charged in Liberal papers that the late Archbishop Lahastida had be fore his death planned to erect here an American Catholic church, which should be built with American money, and should be American in the personnel of the clergy attached to the church. This was to be in the nature of an overture to the Catholics of the United States and a manifestation of the desire of the Mexican clergy to bring about a close understanding. It is now averred that Bishop I'la rigan and other great Catholic dig nitaries of the United States was to make the strongest possible bid for Catholic support in the Northern republic, and also to indicate to the masses of the Mexican Catholics that they had powerful friends in the United States. El Notioso newspaper charges that the late Archbishop Lahastida imprudently divulged his annexa tion ideas to a fervent Catholic, wdio received the proposition coldly, re marking that he was a patriot before ho was a Catholic. Monitor llepnblieanp, liberal in politics, but always in opposition to the government, says in a leader to day: If these things are triW, it is plain that the clergy notwithstanding the harsh reproaches and terrible accu sations of history against them, in sist on perpetrating more crimes against the fatherland. Their mateful tendencies are unchangeable their sinister labors luive no inter ruption, and the clergy will contin ue always a grand hypocrite and traitor to Mexico. Improper and dctkieiit care of the scalp will cause gmyness of the. hair and baldness.. Escape loth by the use of that reliable specific, Hall's Hair Ite-uewer. DDRRANT FOUND GUILTY. Of Blanche Lam-out's Murder, Tbe Jury Was Out Only Twentj Mln utes aud Arrived ac a Verdict on the First Ilallot Hi d Excitement in Court-Durrant Was 8tsrtled, bat Managed to Maintsiu His Accustomed Ca'm, While Ills Poor Mother Broka Dowo Completely To be Sentenced Friday. San- FiiAxcisco, Cal., Xev. 1. Theodore Durraut, assistant super intendent of Emanuel Baptist Church Sunday-school, was to-day convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont, for which he has been on trial since July last. The jury was out twenty minutes, and arrived at the verdict on the tirst ballot. As there whs no recommendation of moroy. the punishment was fixed at death. The scene in the courtroom when fthe vurdiet was announced will never I be fore'otteu by those who were present. Judge Murphy finished his charge t :):.'Ju o'clock, and the jury at once retired. Mrs. Durraut and the prisoner talked and laughed together as if an acijuittal were a foregone oqik-Ui sion. They were guv rounded by half a doei) fiieiuls, and the con versation was animated when it be came whispered about that the jury had agreed upon a verdict. In an instant a hush fell upon the little circle that had gathered aroiv,d the prisoner. Dnrrant's faue, always jialln, assume, a ghastly huo, and lii mother was speechless. Then the door at tlio rear of the room opened and the jury tiled in and took their seats in the box. intense excitement fol lowed. VVIIEX TH K .TLKY IV, The courtroom, although tilled to I iti utmost capacity, was almost as j quiet as if it had been vacant. Judge I f, ,,,. ,i,r, i,.i ,im in , nnu uau in ilk iu 11 10 , 'i i i j. i fhinn wra vjs Riimmnnrwl mil Took , . , ' ., , , , Morris asked the usual question as to whether tho jury had agreod upon a verdict. 'Foreman Warren Dutton arose and replied in the afllrmati ve. "We, the jury," said he, "find the defendant, William Henry lhoodore Durraut, guilty of mur der in the first degree." As the aged foreman, pale and trembling, read the words which settled Durrant's fate, a o rum bling iinjse (ilp the roar of a mob arose, rrom tho rear of the court room. Tho next moment mon were cheering wildly, while women wept hysterically in excitement. The biii li IT rapped loudly for ordor, but the tumult continued for a minute before anything like quiet could he brought out of the disorder. When District Attorney Barnes arose and asked that a day be set upon which the sentence of death should be passed upon the prisoner Judge Murphy said that sentence would be passed next Friday. MI1S. I t" it K A XT BROKE DOWN'. During the tumult that followed the announcement of tho verdict, Durraut and his mother were lost sight of, except by tho low who sat nearest theni. As tho last words of the verdict were uttered, Durrant made a spas modic effort to arise to his feet, but before he could do so, his mother with a half sigh,, half motin, thv-ew her arms around his nook and sank back into her chair. His mother's grief seemed to make Durraut for get his own position, and for the next few minutes, he sat with his arms around her neck, trying to soothe her. Durrant recovered his old-time composure as soon as he left his mother, and prepared to return to the county jail. With his overcoat swinging carelessly over his arm, he walked leisurely out of the room, i twirling hia slight mustaohe with apparently as little concern as if he were merely a spectator, instead of the vriucipal figure in the exciting scene. MISS UMOXT j RELATIVES RE.lOICE Aside from tiie spectators. Mrs Noble, Blanche Lament's aunt, and Maud Lamont, the dead girl's sister were apparently the happiest persons in the room. When the verdict was announced Maud Lamont arose from her seat clasped her hands, and then cried from sheer excitement Mrs Noble mixed smiles with tears and shook hands with a number of friends who crowded around to congratulate her. As soon as Durrant started to leave the building the crowd gather ed around the door out of which the prisoner usually came to reach the prison vad. Fearing violence, he was taken out of another door and driven by a circuitous route to the county jail. hue it is not thonglit that sny error has been committed, the defense has embraced every oppor tunity to take exceptions to the rulings of the court. Gen, Nicher- son took exception to three features of the district attorney's argument to day. He also took an exception to the judge's charge. THE BATTLESHIP INDIANA And its Wonderful Power? can Pierce 22 Inches of Steel at a Mi e -Can Fire ti.SOO Pounds of Shot on to the Enemy at one JMa-harffe. In niacins (he Indiana upon the list of available warships in the Cnited States navy, the naval board will make the most important and sijrnilieant addition to our lighting strength on the seas that it has ever known. In the Indiana we shall possess, for the first time, a flrst class modern battle ship that can challenge comparison with any other armorclad afloat. The displacement of the Indiana is 10,500 tons; that of the liov a! Sovereign 14,900 tons; and yet tho American ship can throw a much heavier weight of metal at a single discharge. The cause of this vast disparity in size is to be found iu the different nature of the duties that have to be performed by the two types. The Indiana and her class are called coast defense vessels. They are designed for home waters, and their operations will be carried on as far as possible within easy reach of the home coaling stations. Consequently they will not need to carry more than a limited supply of coal, ammunition, and general stores. On the other hand, the world wide distribution of England's maritime interests and the aggres sive system of warfare which she has always aimed to carry on, seeking out and running down the enemy at d sea, necessitate tne building of .bat tie ships of great coal endurance aim capable of carrying at large Sup ply of ammunition and stores for extended cruises at sea. All this necessitates an increase in 6ize, and hence the mammoth proportions of such ships as the Koyal Ccorge, which, when fully loaded, displaces 10,50(1 tons. The United States navy baa no colonial interests to protect, and her battle ships are designed for the special purpose of guarding the home waters. For their purpose they are ideal ships; and ship for ship, they will be fully the equal of an European leviathan in a naval duel. The Indiana is 34S feet long flft feet beam, and draws 'JO feet fully loaded. A belt of steel inches thick and T feet G inches deep pro tects her at the water nne, feet ; inches of this being above and I feet below water. Above this belt of steel is a Ktl deck, :i-4 inches thick, which, with the side armor, will form a kind of huge inverted box, under which will be placed the "vitals," i. v., the engines, boilers, and stores of powder, shot, and shell. At each end of this armored box, and standing upon the steel deck, is built up a large "barbette," or round tovir, of solid steel. IT inches thiek, within which will re volve the two steel turrets, IT inches thick and 20 feet inside diameter. Each turret contains two steed guns, of a caliber of 1:5 inches, and -10 feet long, weighing 0 tons each. These four guns oan each throw a shot weighing 1,200 pounds a dis tance or TJ miles, and can pierce : nohes of steel at a distance of a mile. The Indiana could be oft liock away Beach aud throw shells into New York City. A little distance behind these two main turrets, and placed one at each corner af the above mentioned ar mored box, aro built up steel towers with armored steel turrets revolving at the top of them, in each of which are placed two 8 inch armor piero ing guns. This is what, in battle ship parlance, is known as the secondary battery, and it is just here that the Indiana shows such a pre ponderance of fighting strength over other warships. In every other bat tlo ship of foreign navies the secon dary battery consists of guns of G inch caliber or less. These guns are not armor piercing, and tho range of their destructive effect against a plated ship is limited. Not so the 8 inch giiU3 of the Indiana. They lira capable of piercing at close range all but the very heaviest armor afloat, and in a naval duel they would be the decisive factor of the fight. These eight guns are carried at a height of twenty-six feet above the water line, and could be fought in the heaviest weather without be ing interfered with by the breaking oi heavy seas over the ship. Between the 8 inch guns, and standing on the steel deck, are four C inch guns, which have a broadside and dead foro and aft fire. In addi tion to the heavy ordinance, the Indina carries no less than thirty smaller gnus, ranging in weight of shot from tho i pounder down to the bullets of the Gatlings, She is provided with tubes for tho discharge of tho deadly torpedo; and, last but not least, she has a powerful underwater ram for rip ping up the enemy's hull should a favorable opening occur in the con fusioe of a naval fight. To recapitu late, the Indiana offensive strength is represented by four 13 inch 50 ton guns; eight 8 inch IS ton guns; four 0 inch 5 ton guns; thirty smal ler rapid fire guns; 18 inch dis charges for torpedoes carrying 150 pounds of explosive. The guns are bo advantageously placed tha,t, at a single discharge, she could hurl 0,800 pounds of shot into the enemy, with an average velocity ol 2,0o0 feet per second On her trial trip, which took place on the 18th iust., she develop ed a spoed of 15:01 knots over a thirty mile course, which is over half a knot in excess of the contract requirement. She was quick in an swering her helm aud showed good stability, two most important feat ures in a battle ship. BOHUE SOUND CORRESPONDENCE, Hood NVws In Farming, FlshiDg and Mercbandiz ng School Items aud Personals. Very good news in the shape of a copious shower of rain last week, things look lively again. Farmers cannot complain this year, because they have had no bad weather to bother them in housing their crops. Crops aro uearly all in now and hogs are in the fields pop ping peanuts in high glee. Still some cry hard times, hard times but it will be so. Merchants around seem to be do ing well iu their line, John A. & Elijah Weeks, S. B. Holland, Frank Sanders, &c, seem to be busy doing something, tho latter has an enor mous trade because he deals in the main staple of the county, viz, fish, oysters, ducks and clams. Lots of fine trout are being caught in lsogue Sound, and gener ally they are large size. Mr. Tom Smith caught last week several hun- Ired, a negro named Hovt caught 500 at one drop, and they weighed 3 lbs. each, they sell now for 2c lb. Clams worth about 50c bushel. Miss Ola Garner of Newport is teaching school at Black Jack school house near Mr. Joe Watson's residence. Miss E. Switzer of Beaufort is teaching at Rocky Hun school house near J. A. Weeks, Mr. G. W. Ward is teaching Welcome school house, near Ur. Sanders. Mr. Benj. Tavlor who lately got his arm broke going to Beaufort court is fast improving. Mrs. Sallie Sanders wife of Dr. J. W. Sanders, is a little better at this visiting, but his symptons are not much better. Mr. Ed Perry and wife of beau- fort are boarding at Dr. Sanders, Mr. Perry is one of the boss men at work on the dredge boat in Bogue Sound here. Mrs. Fanny Russell, wife of Mr. M, Russell here, has gone to Wilmington, M. C, to visit her daughter Mrs. Capt. Robert Jones, who lives there. Mauy surmises and surprises are made and heard by the citizens around in regard to the court cases at the last court held in Beaufort last week, the opinion of many is. Nothing more will come or be heard from in the insurance cases removed to Jones coanty while others think the parties are gailty and say that when there is so much smoke their must be some little fire. It is just abont so in the U. S. Court at New Berne in the case of Dr. Sanderb. No one here believes the Dr. guilty of the charge alleged against him and great indignation is felt by the citizens generally. EXCLUDING THE NEGRO I South Carolina's Plan to SJiurt Out the Ignorant Voter. TILLMAX BILL WILL GO THHOUGH Ordered to a Third Reading: in the Constitutional Convention by a Decis ive Majority Negroes Vote Against it So idly, & do Likewise Thirty, seven Whites Text or the Measure as it Win Donb less He Incorporated in the Constitution. Ciii.rsiKu, S. C, Nov. 1. After ! five days of debate Senator Tillman's 'suffrage plan was ordered to its j third reading by a vote of 01) to 7. A great muny members were absent, j but as they were paired the result I would not have been changed. 'I here were no nensational incidents, but nearly every men:ber took oc casion to explain his vote before the ballot was taken. It has been a foregone conclusion for two days that Tillman was goiDg to win, for every amendment to his plan was promptly voted down. Following are the sections of the article on suffrage, upon which all the debate has been had. The other parts of the article aro unimportant, and will cause no discussion: Section 4. The qualification for sutrrago shall be as follows: Resi dence in the State for two years; in tho county one year; in the election district in which the elector offers to vote, four months, and the payment. six months before any election, of all poll tax then due and payable; Provided, however, That minis ters in charge of an organized church, and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in the State, if otherwise qualified, Ke-gistration which shall provide tor the enrollment of every elector once in ten years; also an enrollment during each and every year of every elector not previously registered under the provisions of this article. MIST UNDERSTAND THE CONSTI TUTION. Up to January 1, 1898. all male persons of voting age applying for registration who can read a clause in this constitution or understand and explain it when read to them by the registration officer shall be entitled to register and become electors. A separate record of all persons registered before January 1, 1898. sworn to by the registration officer, shall be filed, one copy with the clerk of court, and one in the office of the Secretary of State, on or before February 1, 1898, and such persons shall remain during life qualified electors unless disqualified by the other provisions of this arti cle. The certificate of the clerk of court or Secretary of State shall be sufficient evidence to establish the right of said citizens to any fu ture registration and tho frauchise under the limitations herein im posed. Any person who shall apply for registration after January 1, 18&8, if otherwise qualified may be registered. Provided, that ho can both read and write a section of the Constitution, or can show that he owns and has paid all taxes collecta ble during the previous year on property in this State assessed at kiOOor more. Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, proof, of the payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed against him and collectable for the previous year. The general assembly shall pro vide for the issuiug to each duly registered elector a certificate of. registration; shall provide for the renewal of such certificate when lost, mutilated, or destroyed, if the ap plicant is still a qualified elector under the provisions of this consti tution, or (if applying for registra tion) who can read a clause in this constitution or understand and ex plain it when read it to them by tbe registration orticer shall be entitled to register and become electors. A separate record or all persons registered before January 1, 189S sworn to by the registration officer shall be filed, one cony with the clerk of court and one in the office of the secretary of State, on before February 1, 1898. and such persons shall remain during life qualified electors, unless disqualified by the other provisions of this arti cle. The certificate of the clerk of court or secretary of state shall bo sufficient evidence to establish the right of said citizens to any future registration and the franchise under the limitations herein imposed. Any person who shall apply for registra tion after January 1, 1898, if other wise qualified, may be registered Provided, that he can both read and write a section of this constitution, or can show that he owns and has paid all taxos collectable during the previous year on property in tins State assessed at $300 or more. Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, proof of the payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed aeainst him and collectable for the previous year. TAX-PAYINO PROOF REQUIRED. J.he ueneral Assemoly shall pro vide for issuing of each duly regis tered elector certificate of registra tion, and shall provide for the re newal of such certificate when lost, multilated, or destroyed, if the ap plicant is still a qualified elector tin der the provisions of this constitu tion. or if has been reristerel as provided in sub-section C. Section 5. Any person denied re gistration shall have the right to ap peal tho Court of Common Cleas, or any judge tnereoi, anu inence 10 the Supreme Court, to determine his right to vote under the liminta- tions imposed in this article, and the general assembly shall provide by law for the correction of illegal and fraudulent registration, voting and all other crimes against the election laws. What is called the understanding lause is to be of effect only until January, 1898, in order to allow all who cannot read and write, or who own $300 worth of property, to re gister. It is claimed that this clause is to be so administered by managers as to register all white men as few negroes as possible. The friends of the measure say, however, that it can be honestly enforced, and even then few negroes could pass on ac count of their geieral ignorance, but that a vast majority of the illi terate white men have intelligence enough to understand a clause in the constitution when read to them, and will be registered. ! The negro members have all con tended that the clause would never j be honestly enforced, and they ex pect but few negroes will under stand in the judgment of the super visors of election. The negro mem bers had nothing further to say tonight, but voted solidly against it. The thirty-seven whites who voted against it, did so, as they said be cause of the property and ednca tional qualifications, which they were opposed to under any circum stances. After the vote, which was taken at 1 1 :.'H), tho convention took a re cess until Tuesday. MICH ADOAUOLT NOTIII.MJ Eud oTthe (Ireat Prize Fight Scheme CorbMt and Fitzsiuimous Agree Sot to t ight In Arkansas and are Din fcarged' Little Uock, Ark., N,.v. :; At n&on today Assistant Attorney Gen eral Hemmingway appeared in the Circuit court and stated that the State had received assurances that that defendants. Fitzsimmons and Julian would abstain from anv un lawful undertaking in this State; that on this assurance the State wmp willing to dismiss the peace warrant case, the understanding being that if the defendants violated their pledges the case should he reinstated Mr. South, for the Governor, stated that this was satisfactory. The court said that the desired order won Id be entered, and the case was accord ingly dismissed. .Neither l-'ilzsim-mons nor Julian were present. The Attorney General then pro ceeded to Chancellor Martin's court. vvneie a similar maViou wan maoe and granted as to Corbett and Bra dy. This leaves the pugilists free from legal restrictions, except as to the injunction issued yesterday, which still holds good and will be used should there be any attempt to pull off a light. Corbett left for Hot Springs at 3 o'clock. It is understood he will get li is baggage together and leave for the East within a short time. The Fitzsimmons party will stay in Lit tle Kock and give a show on Mon day night. There is still some talk of a fight at El Paso, but little stock is taken in it. COVE CORRESPOND rNCE. Religion Ncx Persona' Deaths and Other Happenings. Rev. A. L. Ormond returned home last Fridpy from an extended visit to his old home in Green coun try. And filled his monthly appoint ments at Asburyand Epworth, near here Sunday. Rev. Henry Cunningham filled his quarterly appointments at the Free Will Baptist church near here last Saturday and Sunday. Rev. J. W. Rose returned Tues day from filling monthly appoint ments at Truit and Friendship churches, lie reports one addition to Truit this trip. Miss Rella K. Rose returned home Tuesday from the Spring Garden section. She reports a most pleasant trip. Miss Julia E. Charlton left Sun day for Jones County, where she will teach a public school in Hot Neck. Master (Jordan Avery, son of John Avery, had the misfortune to get his arm i roken last Saturday evening. He was driving a mult cart, the mule dodged aud threw him from the cart. Also master Andrew Daughter son of Mrs Emily Daughtey, was thrown from the same cart and badly bruised. Mr. William Gloviner had the. mis fortune to lose a son about two-ycars-old. lie died last Friday even ing of dropsy, he was buried Sunday evening. Rev. Mr. Cunningham preached bis furnal. Women, Men never get tired of talking about them, fighting about them, thinkiner about them: and thev never will. Men laugh at them but love them curse them, but bless them; marrv them, but abuse them: lose them and mourn for them. Men try to appear at their best before a srood woman. A bad one can set them at a com retire exam ination in wickedness. Men still occasionally think they are the masters of women. But degrees the truth is getting to pretty well understood. by be Men like both the new woman and the old in fact, but in theory tim fault with both. Men demand that women shall b better than themselves. And women fulfil the demand, though it is not very just. Men are in tho hands of beautiful women helpless. Tho woman deserve the more credit by using their powei mercifully. Men claim to be tho lords of crea tion: and so they are. But 1-ord knows how much their lorshii amounts to. N. Y. liecordor PENSIONEKS INCREASING. They Now Number Over a .Hill loo and Take $140,000 of the C'aantry's Money Annually. Judge Loehren, Commissioner of Pensions, has en omit ted his annual report to the Secretary of the lute rior: It shows that up to June 30th 1894, there were 9C9..j14 pensioners, and during tbe year 39,185 new pen sions were granted and 4,iJ0b re stored that had been dropped from the rolls, making an aggregate roll of l,012,'.:jo. There were ueaths aiJ 14,57a pensioners dropped during tbe past year, mak ing the number on tbe rolls on June 30th, 1895,970.524, an increase dur ing the year of 980. Unless further pension legislation is enacted, the commissioner thinks that tb ayn-prition of $140,000,- 000 will be sufficient for the nav- mentof pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891'.. The esti mates for 1897 are the same an for 1890, except an additional $3,000 for better quarters for the agnt at Buffalo, N. V. The lead pencils used by the peo ple of the United States every year cost about $2,000,000. vigor am Easily. Qslokly, Parauratly RettoraC IVerro-msBMa, "Mlltfc and aU the tr&lm of evil Iran aarly airor r latar uoesw. th results ol overwork, alohoois. worry, v oto. Full stren-rth. dTl- later epment ana too riven to Terr onu fLnd nortioo a OI Ul bod J. Simple, nat- M,. 1 mMtJlAlla ImntMlL lm urovamsinl bmiiu liar Imiii-Mliila .000 refaMmcM. Book. -cpltvsAtioa Aftd proofs ttuUlodl (OMkiott) Cvos ERIE HEDIQAL 00., Buffalo, N.Y. Tm The Only One To Stand the Test. liov. William Copp, whose father was a physician lor over fifty years, m New Jersey, and who himself s 1 1 1 many years preparing for tli inaotwe of medicine, but hhImw- j i i e i i 1 1 y entered the ministry of tin M. K. Church, writes: "I am um to testify that I nave had analyzed all the sarsaparilla prepara tiou.s known in the trade, but AYER'S is the onlv one oi them that I could recommend an a blood-purifier. I have given away hundreds of bottles of it, as I consider it t In safest us well as the best to be had." Wai. Corp, Pastor M. E. Church, Jackson, Minn. To)( ONLY WOELD'g FAQL 'Sarsaparilla When In doubt, ask for Ayer's Pills CHI NAM KEKELLION UKOWINU. Li II ii (.'limit; Appoint, d to Tuke MiftMircs lor Im !nppi esslon. St. Pi;i i i;. lii itt;, Nov. 4. The rebellion id the Dungans in tho Northwest portion of China, is cs tendin'' senoii.-dv, and now euibiacn the whole of the province of Kansn. 'I'he Chinese government has dis patched al 1 t he t n .op of the garri son of Kashgar to t he scene of the uprising, and has appointed Li Hung Chang, imperial coniniiusjoner extraordinary, to direct measures to Siippress the rebellion. Jumped O IT Miigara Falls Bridge. N i ah a it a Falls, N. V., Nov. 4. At 5::t0 o'clock t his afternoon James Haifa, of Philadelphia, committed suicnie oy jumping iroin tne Driage into the rapids. i he body caught on a rocK a snori distance anove me falls aud was hanging there at 10 o'clock to-night, but no effort waa made to recover it. liana bad been banging about the city for several days and bad on more than one occasion said he would jump into the river. Mmiy people, when u little constipated, make the mistake of u si tin saline or oilier drastic pinalivt-s. All thai is Deeded is a mi 1I dow of Aji-i'h Pills to lestore tbe refiu'iir movement of the boweU, aud milute will do the rst. They keep t lie system in pt-rlert or'er. l.lvlnf In Bum. I.iviu;; in barns is solhl romlort, eom p .rol t.) our houww lief .re in furnace lires hit halite. I. Tin Uiseoiuf'trt of U lin in :hi tmliHlcl room it Imd enough I. ut the cold Unit ielluWR is trt) times w.ii'e To -it sewinij up day with Ibe feet cold to sit shivering iu nn offle or in ii ili;iufj,lii y leelure or aniLSetneiit hall, ia cften i quivilerit to a winter's trirkne&a -" la the miijKt of tin st tUngers, if. you have d your poektd a bottle of "77," nn oeca- ' sional doce will prevent you U king cold. "77" i ures CoUi- (inppe, Influenza, Calurrh, Pain-; an. I Sorrurst in tlie Heaid an. I Ciiest, LVuu'P, S re Tliroit, Qenernl I'rosiiatioii and Fever. "77" will "break up" a i-tui.Uoin cold thnt threatens to ' iian;; on" all winter. Dr. Humphrey' puia up a SjKciijc loi errry iliawase. TUvy are dear rib- d in his ManuHl, which is sent free. Small bottles of pleasant pellets lit jour vest pockei; ?ohl by druggist, or sent on receipt ol price, 2." rents or five for 41.00. Humphreys' Medicine Ctmi - : 1 1 1 y , 111 it 113 William St.. New York. I3e i-iire lo 'jet Humphreys'. It Free Pills. Send your aiiihcvi to H. K. Bucklen & Co , (.'hicago, and yet a Irn: box of Dr. Kind's New Life I'lll-. A I rial will con vince ou of their meii's. These pilU are iiisv iu action Kiel are particularly eftVc live in tti; cure of 'Jonsi ination and Hick Headache. For Malaria and Liver trou bles they have beeu proved invaluable. Tiicy arc guarantee) I to hs perfectly tree from every deleterious substance- und to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken lv their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowel) ervaily Invigorate ihesvstem. Itesuiar aiza 86c. per box. Sold by F. 8. Duffy, Druj-gist. 4. Don't, Don't, Don't. -., j Dou't pay if 1.50 to Imve a mainspring pui m your wuk'li when you can get it .lone for iu or 7.' cenls. Don't pay $1.50 lr denning when you can pel it done fur 75 centx. II. u t a 25 cenls lor a linn.l or a g'ass on your w;iteh when 1 only charge 10c. Don't $.'.,'0 Cora pur ot spectacles wh n 1 will sell you a pair of the beat niii.iein the wi ld lor $ 1.50. In bhort price my riufs, watch chains, watches, clin ks, cuff buttons, stuils, tic , lef'ore yon buy. It will not hurt you to Koinparc prteeN. All work warrau'eit lor one year. KveryihicL' in mv line guaranteed to eive Nitlislm'tioii or money gladly rel'nmtsd. Haxtkr tbe Jewels-. 95 Middle St., (Sign Gold Eagle.) FINANCIAL MOUNEM J. A. BEY AN, TH03. DAlrtXLS. President, Vlos Pr 0. S. &0SISTS, Cashlsr. THE NATIClTAL BAKE Of New Berne, N. C. INOOBPOHATED 1866. Capital. S100.000 08.168 Surplus Profit. IIRK(TOH!s ' Jas. A. Bryan, 11108. Daniels, Cuab. S. Hhvan, J. H. Hacb-BUkm, Jno. Dunn, L. habvky. G. H. Roberts, K. K. Bishop. 'armers & Merchants Bank Began ImsinesH May, 1891. 'apiliil Slock paid in, 175,000.00 8.000.0'. - :i,500.t0 -Surplus, liiKhvide.l I "oil Ls, OKFICEi: II. ("t'TI.KK. I'reaideot. Vice Pres. Cashier. Tell-sr. Collector. W. S. ('h hwick, . W. Dkwkv, A. II. 1'owki.i., F. M AT Til I- W ft, Wit Ii well Cslahliahed conueelions this Kank is irepurt-tl to oiler till aecoumw Hi.n.it. nt wild eoiiservalive bank iti nig. Prompt and e.aretul attention iriven to colleeiions. We will be tllenHn-l lo mi rMlinn.l n-llh tho3e who mnv coutemnlKlK mukinir changes or opeuing new accounts. Thob. a. URKBN.r-res. Wm. Duns .Vloe-Pres II. M. G roves, Casbler. CITIZEN'S BANK O IT JfTTO-W rBBHHSTBl, A GKNEKAL banking T. O. BUSINESS DO The Accounts ot Ranks, Ranker. f!nn.m at.lons. Farm. -in, Merchants anil otbera re celveil on favorable terms, frompt and car tol attention Klven to the Intel Mit ol our oua tonieiB. Collections a Specialty. BOA HI. o- DIRECTORS. Fer.linan.l ITlrich, E. H. Meadow. J. A. Meadows, Chas. Dully. Jr7 Samuel W. I pock, James Redmond. S1,?.8. ,,-iow,er' CnM Bstsonsmin. William Dunn, Mayer Haha. E. W Smallwood. Thomas A. Ureaa. Ubo. N lvea, m C. K. Fov. W . F. Crockett. (2 (9 ' i ;' s ax f 5