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ilic Carolina Baniur. l)c Carolina Saniur. I rtiiMsiiEf) i: Vi: n v r n i d a y A DTMTTVca KATt. j . HENRY T. jlfJC Editor, j Kites of 'Srt;s.:i;iiT!ox: WW .. urn atim. ltao I fn. tlo. 4 in ia. fita Ilia. 2 lu. T5 1U J 73 4 (.9 loo a so to 9 w) 123 tog Sou Sou 4UU Toy s taw 8 OO 1 00 4Cv M 1. v One copy, one year, ? aix mouth?, ' three months, $1 50 75 40 " Ou eg ? &J 11 lie 3 go -i 13 00 ss oo L. too THE OLD XOBin STATE PORETER." Entered at the Postoffice at Tarboro, N. O., as jccoad-clas m .t'er. 8. TARBORO, N, C, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1889 5 Cents Per Copy. i v iii VOL. I. NO. t f ( e ti It fom. of .healing citizen, of W..1I.; In "ton have Oetermined to found . Kitttr..! ntrlrin t,a V rrr f 'ript Vil!. 1 ; . : irt..u.i J one of the most picturesque localities in the environs of the Capital. The site has ben selected, and legislation will be aked by Congi ess while the land can be had at a rea-onsb'o price. Indians in the t'niUd States last year cultivated 237,'2 acre of laad and raVd ;2',r ".-,! bu-he's of wheat, 031,012 bushclsof OTfi, 51;', 1 j; bushels of oat3 tod barky, .",21,010 1 ushels of vegeta bles, nd 10 !,-$ torn of hay. They aUoowr.cd 2.',-',TU horses and mules, 111,40; head of cattle, -.'0,4 71 swine and 1,117,27:1 she--, The man vtr, chums to bo the most rtdefacd L-.re tVcf in tnt world is " now under "arievt nl I orensberg, Kan. His name is Wa h'ii.:lori Waterman, and lie is seventy-eight jcars of age. lie ac knowledges the theft of 10 hordes in Kansas aloio. nnd th? audio-ii its of the State arc willing t. admit ti at he baa (uude off with iive I i n, that many. i . I rihe ai icultural outlook for IQ.yj 19 alicady be-coning a subject of interest. 3 his is natural in view of the results of the pan rroj year. The ' speculative position of cotton Ins improved on the slower movement of the crop to the ' points of shipment. Indications for an increased acreage in 1S arc promising. I and the im m:y b- ?aid of wheat, as a ' cunscjiicnrc of the pre-ent high" specu lative prices. il if if physical I uMie atten- CU.t 'i! l" i 1 1 ( tion t ban e v. r Hi If 1 -r. t- ;ii iliis country. Ilarvnid n -i -it y ha 1 nt H0,C00 for ihe U'lwiii -t;;'-ut of ,l ; A rnhers, $ ijo,. t.OO; .1 1 r:ii- loi)v. - 00); .'o'htM 1 15 kins, ; i , CO-, Vale, iiincc l-i i -HO, i.u.i 'u: ar proposei to sjieii'l .'O,1-', The preparatory choo!i .and nth pUriioM. ti;- a '! ia'iom arc also amount for '.lio same Tho p;cduttio- t;f oats in the Cnitcd Fttitcs shnwi a g:e;i? increase. In the last e.'ht y an the nvcnii; crop ha beeu 1 .no ',0 -0 bit.-;! th.' aga'tisi an average of ".l 1,0 )0,0;; j for the ten years preceding. IIi'm inneise,.' asserti tho .New Yoik ( l , r r, iso ing to the re- quiremchts 'ct tho iinrea-e.l number of horses, to th substitution' of ats for corn in the South for fccJing horses, and 4to the moru cnc al i of oatmeal as food for man, 'I h ) aieu of the oat t'eld ,ha also increased proj-ortionately more than that of wheat and corn, and the ' price hows a e-ii proportionate decline, i 1 It is a bad sign, remarks ihe Atlanta 'Cunti-a'i.i, to tee our cities growing "much faster than tho State and country tat largo. J ls.a Kcw V(rk am, Brook. lyn contained one te th of the popu'a tioa of the State. Now they contain j more than ot-tlrr l. It is estimated that twenty years hence New York will t have 8,.-0',t,im, I hih.dclphui 750, 000, and Brooklyn and New York 4,500,000 i together. The crowding of a dispropor , tionate share of our population into largo cities is a great evil, nnd it will increase .the gravity of some of tho social an3 I economic problems now pressnig for a r oiution. ' It seems perfectly certain, predicts the New Yoik lhml1 that th? productive power of the wheat lauds will be very greatly reduced long before H00. unless Vho profits of the wheat grower are so I much augmented that he will be en- j abled to improve his lands by the liberal use of choice fertilizers. It is asserted ou the authority of the- Department of Agricultural Statistics of Indiana that in lst there were -123, 000 tons of pot ash and 87,000 tons of phosphoric acid jtakeu from the soil of that State in the production of the year's crops, white only 1051 tous of phosphoric acid and Hty-five tons of potash were supplied to the soil by nil the commercial fertiliz ers sotd iu the State. Such drainage of any soU cannot long continue without impoverishment. Since the foundation of the Govern- ment Congress, according to the New O F ..b .v, kujj X. . 1 I York Tribune, has met only nine tii i i in the first few months of a new Adm I futration- ooly eight of these have b ' ftt?lnna iAnAt nAnl'vn . imes m in ly eight of these have Wen t - - -vaoiuus, iiroocrij sneasiujf, ana tra Di).-. T V , I only seven of them furnish a real com I parison. The season which began oa March 4, lol, the day of Grant's first inauguration, was' held under a law passed to thwart the supposed purposes f President Johnson, and soon after re taled, as was the session which began .wo years before on the same date. Fol lowing Garfield's death General Arthur ; called Congress together to settle the j Presidential succession, but this is not . Parallel casa. The wtn o. which supply a reasonable analogy were called as follows; March 4, 17SV, to set the Government in motion; May 15 17UC, in response to Frcjich threats May 22, 1800, in connectioji wjth an ex pected adjustment "of-our relations with Ireat Britain ; May 21, 131?, during the far of 1812; September, 1837, to meet he financial crisis: May 31, 1841, to pply the Whig policy and principles to ae monetary situation, and July 4, 301, to provide for the defence of the nioa. .- "iu CC9SIUOS - ftQRTH AND WEST. newsy items by telegraph, . . . ' i f If Being A Cc ndenaation Of The Princip Hap- peslngs In Different States. Four thousand men wiil bn affected by the reduction of puddler's wabes in uie 1'ittfeburg iron fields, i At Alexandria, linn, John L wes hanged for the murder of Chas C at Brandon, Minn, en the night o lift i n a July I 10, 1888. At Tecumsetb, Mich., Frank L fil vers shot his wife and two daughters. Edith and Ada, aged 11 and 9j respec vely, auu iuen bqoi nimseu. j John Shannon, a Frenchman i.i . 1 1, 1 who resides at Bradenville, I'a, . fc?flttcd suicide Saturday night, 00 acrdv :t of threats made by alleged Yh.ite Ca The main portion of th ; Park (', 3. entral Hotel, at Hartford, Conn.' fell 3 ondav morning, kill;nj? fifty people, an 1 dis aiding and fatally injuring many more. Nearly the . entire business nor ion of Ttork apMs, Iowa, was burned oA Sun- uay. iwentv-one nrms were out. I.os $?h,00J, wi-.h but lit suranc. Mrs Eanotry ban dccideel to Shakespernau jlays in London urnod e lay in for a i New season, hbe will shortly", leavd 1 oik lor London, but she says sic will soon return to appreciative' America Herman F Kcldcl. Jr., artner f the , and firn. ol Wilhaui hnale . jSr Soi TTl TT 1 t r-t . .. ... . 1 . . . . 1 I HjT-t i iu- iiiiu: wan roopis in lork, ,-committed 8 ucide I cailr rtuiiuay morning lu lxf wareroo shooting himself through the heai V 1 ....... . . I - 0 s, by 1. II.. T . r i r t i i.. iiiuuu i.. 1 1 uDuaru-plater, widow of the late John F Slater, t amous ioi ins muniment tfllt ol SI, 000 POO to oouuicru ireeumeu, died j in No Conn., Friday morning, of pn walk, tumo- nid, aged atniut GO years. Five thousand live hundred mer .li.'.'.ln..a . . . .1... , were uiKiuaiguu iiuui uie :Rnai wot ks at lavermlla, Panama, on S iturdav, contractors continue to curtail thi work inn on alt the sections. There is a military force on the line at the cihal to maintain order. j Wm Clark, aged 05. a veteran bf the war of 1812, has received an inv tat ion from Gen Harrison to visit his hj me at Indianapolis, or after March 4 at V ash- ; . ington. Clark, in tho campaign d uie inaians oi tne jNorthwest, in served under William Henry Harr 1811, son. FOREIGN NEWS KiDg Otto of Bavaria, has been proved to be hopelessly insane. The Spanish Republican Generil VI'-"' lacamplha is died in prison.! j English people, frightened h? thy .'iots in Rome, re leaving the city in crowds. i j Four more persons have been ar rested at Gweedore, Ireland, in connection with the murder of Inspector Martin. Seven blocks of buildings in Ma iches-ware- ir, England, composed mostly ofj noose, nave teen elestroyed b V hre. tie toss 13 itU,U00. j The British ship Anglo Indii, from ouaiiguai, lor the Phillipp:ne I has bten wrecked at Formosa. . of the crew were saved. j - . j . The English Pari lands. part Thursday, and the Queen's speecjh was read .rora the throne in the preseite of pened - iaigc ahscmoiage ot members o houses. i both Germany wiil demand of tho In i ted States Government that it arrest and punisn luein, the American whoih Ger many charges with haviu? leH the Mataafaites in Samoi at the tima f the repulse of the Germans in Deelember last. Mr Gladstone it-turned to E gland great I ueday. lie was welcomed bv . . . . j throng of people, en j a delegatiol from cue iianan colony presented bin! an address. In replying to the ad with dress. uiaustone said that he had ' left ful Italy in body but not in spirit beati- A dispatch feom Hugh !A Din more. American consul General at Seoiil .the fam- capital of Ccrea, says: "Aiterribl ine prevails in the southern port! Corei. People are reduced to ta em of e last extrtmity and many are starving of assistance is ursrent and relief should le cabled." j Need funds Sensational Marriage Mor City, Ia.Thomas L 0 riffcy, who was the lirst Judj?e of this onntr. and who has s:nce held many pd of trust and honor. is-defendarJi sitions tin a breae-h of promise suit brought h Misg Sallie Me Conaghy, of Dakota CitvU Neb. just across the Missouri River frcm this city. The damages claimed an $20, 000. - The lady has just turned her thir-ty-niuth birthday, is prepossessing, and is housekeejHT for her brother, a kcll-to do farmer. Judge Griffey owns j a big farm adjoining her brother s, an 1 lived there for several years. 5 j M is McConaghy allege! th it the Judge made love to her and April 7. 1837, promised to marry her "if ie ever married again." But the Judge, lt spite his seventy-two years, woed and won a blooming young school teachei ami moved to the city. Several attempts at compromise are faid to have leen made, in which the Judge offered 500 t j have the matter dropi-ed. This was iot ac eerted and papers were served FrU iy. " j . he Judge, talks freely of th ! cai-e, but "denies that ha ever made 1 ve to iss 3IcConagby or asked her t marry him. On the contrary, he aiys she at various times broached the subj ct and Improved, her leap year preroga ive bv asking hiii to marry her but hi never consented. , The President Friday j mornijig ap proved the bill to admit as .State; of the u nion, ashington, Montana, North uaKota and South Dakota. V There has been a great increati in the production of oats of late years in the uoiiea owe. Wnshington fiiosslp. The President has signed the Nica rauga catal bill. The Presideht's last public reception brought a crowd to the Executive Man sion Friday. Probably 5,000 people filed past and shock hands with tec President. The President . has granted the appli cation for the pardon of Geo. M Bain, Jr., the .Norfolk bank embezzler, why was sentenced in March, 1S83, to five I years imprisonment. , - A telegram was receired by the Secre tary of State from Mr. Hubbel, United States minister to Japan, saying that he had signed a treaty of commerce amity and navigation with Japan. - Dr. I). V'. Bliss, the well known physician who gained a national reputa tion on account of hh connection with the cae of President Girfieid, dud in Washicgton Thuratlaj morningxf paral- sis, followed bv cerebral hemorrhage. The President directed the discharge of Lieutenant Landon P., Jouett, United Istates navy, with one year's fty. This officer was examine d for promotion and was found m, rally disqualiritd. He was given another trial but failed to meet the reejnirements of the service. The l. comptroller of Currency has de clared a third dividend of ten er cent in favor of the creditors of the State National bank at Raleigh, N. C This makes in all 40 per cent ou the claims preivetl, amounting to $313,827. This bank failed on March 27, 183. A holiday bill is working its way through the U. S. Senate, 'which pio vides that all existing holida's shall continue as legal-.holirlay, and ia addi tion the people shall celebrate the first Monday in September as Labor Day nnd every Saturday afternoon between June 13th and September loth;, Rumor Las it that Mrs. Cleveland will make a ml 11 venture into magazine liter ature !oon after her retirement to private life, and that the readers of the j Century need not be surprised to fiud it in one oi their forthcoming numleis. Kicbard Watson Gilder, ths CenturvV editor, is a close friend of the Cleve landa. ; t The house in Wasliinot.n xvliw . Mr Blaine has leased, the old Stewart man sion, has had an interesting history. It was built about 1820 bv .Commodore Rodger?, then, with Commodore'Decatur, ; .r.i- i . r ' one of the naval commissioneis. It was for years a fashionable boarding house, and William L. Marcy lived there at vaiious times. Then, after various vi- cissitudes, it became the Washington Club House, and into it was : carried Philip Barton Key when he was shot to death by Daniel E. Sickles , ; Among the amendments reported by the Committee on appropriations and agieed to by the Senate were the follow ing: For protecting. the s-ite of tho post offlco building at Key West, 3,000; making appropriations for n light house service steam tender for the 1st light house district, 135.000; for, 2d district, 180,000; Chincoteague, Va., buoy de pot, $1,250; Portsmouth, Va., depot, (additional land) "$10,000; Bush's Bluff, near Norfolk, $40,000; Diamond Shoal. I off Capo Ilatteras, N, C $50,000; North uiver isar, xn. u., fa, 000; steamer for light house service in North Carolina, $35,000; Hilton Ilcael, S. C, $5,000; Fernandina harbor. Florida, $1 750; Pascagoula River ranges, Mialssippi, $10,000; fixing the total cost of the li brary building r.t Washington at $5, 500,000, exclusive of appropriations heretofore made; inserting an item of $32,945 for a sewerage sj stem at Fortress Monrce, Va. Moonshiners Defy the Law. The moonshiners in the western moun tains of North Carolina become more and more troublesome every clay, and are, in many sections, becoming defiant, and declare they will res-ist officers unto the death. It is reported that a move ment has been on foot for some time among these lawless .mountaineers to organize strongly, and that the organi zation is now perfected, but ho the leader is cannot be.learned, as they are exceedingly shy of strangersj "it is plainly evident "that they "propose to manufacture and sell illicit liquors des pite laws ami revenue officers. Among the more enlightened class of mountain eers it is argued that the revenue exacted by Uncle Sim is an outrage, and they elo not heed it on that account. They say for fifteen years after the war thev piid it as a '-war tav." but thev claim it is ' n t now necessary and consequently they kick against it. Advices from South Mountains, in Cleveland County, say that revenue officers, who have Let n raiding there, have received threatening letteis from mountaineers, telling them they are or ganized, and intend to resist any attempt mae7e to arrest them or destroy their business, and they will not spare life to cairy their points. Tfcey warn . the officers, under penalty of death, to leave the mountains. This crganization among miners is becoming alarming, and it is now gone to such tn extent that it will be hard to break up, She Robbed the Mails. Hattie B, iStevenson. a pretty and styl ish dressed loung woman, was arretted in Welsville, TJhio, tn the charge of robbing the mails. She was chief clerk in the Wcllsville postoffice and is ac cused of stealing checks and monev ag gregatinir $500. When arraigned be fore Judge Wilkes m the United States Court Miss Stevenson plead d guiltv of embezzlement and was leleased " on $1,000 bail. j There is but little poetry in a gas bill when the metre is out of order. : I- A Fa ml I r Frolic. ALL OVER THE SOUTH NET7S THOU EACH STATE. Fanner's AUiaceeAxtlTe Notes of AceidsaU, -Ete, Classified. HOBTQ CAKOLIHA. The Rev Jamei Gibson, a colored preacher, -was drowned In Sugar Creek in Mecklenburg county last Sunday. He undertook to walk across the creek op a. log, "and when about the middle of it he fell and was swept downstream. The witcr being very high, hi3 body has not yet been found. There are no new developments in the t.Mmiu jrouj uie oiai, due learned thattr-.!r".r. agents are trying to indu.3 hun T-red to leave negro exodus from the State, but it is now Wake county. It U estimated that dunncr the wee?k about six hundred left the eastern counties. In Wayne county, where se rious trouble was feared, everything is now quiet, and the negroes who were trying to leave are now going back to the farm. A very interesting ca-- wa3 before United States Commissioner D G Max well, in Charlotte, Tuesday. A young man by the name of V? II Martin, who had been arrested at Gold Hill, in Rowan county, was tried for using the mails for the transmission of improper literature. Failing to procure bail for fl.-lOO, he was sent to jail. 8jme three year ago Henry was engageel in the same business at Rock Hill, S. C, and was sentei c.d to serve a term in the Albany penitentiary. This termunedauihe 19th of last November",' and Henry at once returned to Ms old calling. tlias Ward, a negro who is to be hanged at Jackson on the 8th of March. s a desperate character and has desper ate friends. During his trial and for several days after the jail was constantly guarded by twenty-five armed men; and now He has been taken to Warrenton for safe keeping. He is a member of the colored Knights of Labor, many of whom" live in Northampton county. It is fear ed that a rescue will be attempted when he is taken back to Northampton for execution, and to prevent any such at tempt and to preserve order troops will ue oruereu 10 attend the execution. rri . ? ...... i-icir presence will doubtless prevent wnai might otherwice be a serious not. Governor Fowle and staff, with a par ty of prominent gentlemen and military escort, attended the fish, oyster and game fsirat New Berne. The Governur was tendered a reception and an address 1 welcome was made bv Major Peter son. Ia the evenmor the Governor was tendered a reception by the managers of T nrL -. -1 ... . iuo 1 an. ma ouiicungs 01 tne lair were thrown open. They are the handsomest m tne state, ano tho exhibits are re markable in point of variety anei beauty. Tho Governor formerly opened tho fair and delivered an address. Senators Vance and Beck arrived on Wednesday. On Wednesday Governor Fowle went to 3Iorehead City, and drove the last spike in the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail way. SOUTH CAROLINA. The next Legislature will be asked to form a new county, with a couit house at McCormick, from portions of Abbeville and Edgefield counties. The valuable mills about three miles from Laureas, belonging to Capt G W Shell and Mr A II Martin, were destroy ed by fire. No insurance; loss $3,000. Two incendiary fires broke out in Granite-Ule Wednesday night at the same time T" dwellings and stores were destroyed, d at $13,000, half in sured. The "Wilson and Summerton Railroad was oj encd lor business. It runs from Wilson's Mill, on the Central Railroad, to a point very near Summerton, a dis tincc of thirteen miles. Brigadier General 3 J Lee and his staff with a company of the N G of South Carolina will attend Harbison's inauguration. A colored company from Charleston will hIso attend. Robert Hoser, a negro, who was chas ed by Sheriff Hunters from Lancaster county, S C, to Monroe, in Union coun ty, N C, and who is thought to be a member of the Gardner-Gregory gang of horse thieves, was captured at Monroe and is in jail. Tho agitation over fertilizers among the Farmers' Alliance In" South Carolina continues. They propose to use no com mercial fertilizers unless they can get them at manufacturers' prices, freight edded. It is likely that 50 per cent less would be med at any event. The Manchester Manufacturing Com pany has been incorporated for the pur pose of erecting mills, etc, on Shaw's Creuk, near Aikeu for the manufacture of cotton c loth, yarn, pine straw bag ging, rope. etc. Capital stock $200,000. On night last week two men went to the house if Milton Williams, colored, who lived near Ninety-Six, and threw rocks on the top of his house. When he came to the door the asaaasina shot and killed him. There were two of them, but were not recognized. Miss Sallie Tolbert of Black's S C, doped with W W Thorns, connected with the Western Union Telegraph com pany, and they were married Sunday a week ago, at Grover, N C. He deserted ler at Augusta Tuesday, and she now discovers be has a wife and familv at Goldsboro, N C. At a meeting of the attorneys for the creoitors ot me rapine Uuano Company held in Beaufort , two receivers were ! chosen Mr m M Mills, the late man-! K Ui 1 -ciuc. uiiata, ana Mr Henrv A si smith, 01 Charleston. In tbA cit Court at Beaufort the case of the State of South Carolina against the Pacific Guano Company was bgun. GEORGIA. Turpentine farmers are elated over the rise in turpentine stock last week A. W. Lewis, for fifty years an em ployee of the Suth Caralin railroad was run over and killed by an enr.,ne Wed nesday at Augusta. 0 Dr. A J. Pinson, a prominent physi cian and druggist, o t Atlanta, dropped ded in his store on baturdsy from !art I Wnrk ha been renewed In the man , ganese tninet near Tunnel inn again, - . and, it is said, are showing up better than ever. Atlanta has decided to enter the Southern League, and elected Capt. "W. IL Joyner, chief of the Atlanta fire de partment, President. The entrance of Atlanta insures the succefi of the South ern league. The cluba now in the leasfeue are: New Orleans, Mobile. Mem phis, Nashville, Charleston and Atlanta. A cyclone passed over Bnrke County ? Monday morning. Thomas Steveni and son, and Mr. and Mrs. . Meaders, were tinstantlv killed. Another ton ot Mr. Stephens was injured. Georgia's new capitol at Atlanta is nearly ready for occupancy, and the Legislature, which meets July 1st, will hold its session in it. The cost of the building was about cue million dollars, and it is conceded to be one of the hand somest and most commodious State capl tols in the country. With the excep tion of $33, WX) expended for stone in Indiana, nearly all the material was furnihed from Georgia, the marble costing $40,500. In all nearly $700,- 1 000 was spent in Georgia, including $ 400,000 for laror and superintendence. The building was' erected under the direction of a commission appointed by the State, and the expenditures were Kepi witnin me appropriation. FLORIDA. i The sticond season of the Sub-Tropi cal Exposition at Jacksonville opened ormauy Wednesday. It has been discovered that a noble man named Sir Francis Osborne, the fourteenth baronet of his line, and re lated to the Duke of St. Albans is eking out a poor iivlug at a small town named Acton on the South Florida Railway, w.orking as a common laborer at the rate of one dollar a day. Mr. Henry M. Flager has built what are p robably the finest tennis courts in the world, on the grounds of the Alca zar, one of his Mpsrish hotels at St. Au gustine, Fla. A tennis tournament will be held on March 12, at which the prize will be a silver model of the ancient city gates, valued at $1,000. Abram Wilinsky, drummer for a Charleston clothing house, had both feet crushed by jumping from a train at Jacksonville. Amputation followed. He is a married man, with a wife, three childien, and no accident insurance. He will probably live. His feet were buried by order of the Isralelitee, in the city cemetery, by an undertaker. John G Borden, of New York, a win ter residenl of Green Grove Springs, Fla., has offered a premium of $1,000 for that city or town in Florida, which, cn July 1, 1889, shall exhibit the most cleanly condition in public and private premises. The State Board of Health, about to be constituted, are to act as judges, and St. Augustine and Green Cove Springs are to be debarred from competing. The special session of the Florida Legislature adjourned Friday after having passed the committee substitute for the Senate bill Instituting a State board of health.. The bill has been signed by the Governor and the board must be appointed within thirty days. It consists of three members and they appoint State health officers The bill is not all that was hoped for, but meets with general approval throughout the TENNESSEE. A lare delegation of ReDublicans of Chattanooga left Nashville to fight the Democratic scheme to redistrict the citv of Chattanooga, which is being consid ered by the Senate Judiciary Committee. At Nashville, Tenn.. the Union Stock yards were burned Friday afternoon. witn mc eight ftorv brick and frame store house, dwellings and stables. Loss about $60,000. Judge E A East, of Nashville, will have direction of the financial affairs of Vanderbilt Universty until the late Bish op McTyeire's successor as chairman of the board of trustees is chosen. The trustees of Chattanooga and Grant Memorial Universities, the latter located at Athens, Tenn., have agreed upon the consolidation of the two schools in the name of the U S Grant Memorial University. This means the location of the Central Unieisity for the education of whites at Chattanooga. The building at Athens will be usd for a preparatory school. The schools will be under the direction of the Education al Society of the M E Church and have property valued at $400,000. Natural gas has been discovered at Kerrville, Tenn., on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, twetty miles northeast of. Memphis. The gas is found at a depth of fifty feet, ami the volume es caping is very great. The well in which it was accidentally discovered by work men digging for water, was lit Last week 1 and continues to burn freely, making a brilliant light. An Ohio expert who was brought there to examine the well, saya the gas is stronger than at Lima and Toledo, Ohio. There is considerable excitement over the dis oovery. VIRGINIA. At Winchester, after a trial lasting eighteen days, Joshua Lamp has been acquitted of the rauHer f Jonathan Mason. Both were youths ot 19. State Senator David F Houston, of itoanoice, a , fell dead at Lancaster. Penn., on Saturday, on his return from visit to Harrison in the Anti-Mahone interest Canon Hartley Carmichael, of Hamil ton. Ont,, has received a call from tfe vestry of St Paul's Episcopal Church, of Richmond, Va , to be rector, vice licv Dr. Charles Minnegerode. St Paul's is the wealthiest chuich La the city. Fire in the yarJs of the Tunis and Serpell Lumber Company, in Norfolk, damaged the mills and a large stock cn hand, to the extent of $50,000, fullj covered by insurance. The kindling es tablishment of Joo C Kaeneth was also badly damaged, to the extent of $3,000. A young mnl.it to girl named - Nellie Wh te attacked Thoxnrs Gray on ihe - stret in Norfolk with . . 111.1 razor and cut ! in:m so severely tnst he died from hi "Jul ". "uap.res tast Gr&r h. a ry htd m uwuv JOT ttulted. The murderess i ia custody. ALABAMA. A race war has broken out at BriJf-,i mines, twenty milea north of the nniS SiwlV of tbe B,rnilnS Further particulars of the cvclone n Sunday nigral in Shelby, ar tgJ f persons were hurt, but none killed Two residence and several ne-ro cabins weriJ blown down. The Governor of Alabama has rcau pointed for the third term Hon Henrv Shorter, of Eufaula, presided of the rail load commission for the full teru. of six years. The Legislature of Alabama has uii H 4 without a dissenting vcj'oe a bill whUh reduces the tax rate from -dvc tv 4 mills for the year 1891 and iu 4 ,mif4 for the tax year next following. WEST VIRGINIA The boiler of John Jenk's saw u.iu at Murphy, Pleasant county, W. Ya burst on Saturday, killing six 1 arsons 1 1 1 : 1 r t i- - The unexpected his happened, and John E Kenna will succeed himself in the United States Senate. Two ballots were taken F.riday, the first giving Goff 44, Kenna S3, scattering 14. Another ballot was ordered, when Dorr, the man w ho has heretofore ben making all the trouble, arose, and in a short speech ex plaining his tast action, voted for John E. Kenna. Kerr, the Union Labor man, who had vot d for Goff, also changed his vote, to Keuna, w hich made the re quisite number. Carr and Kirk, Union Labor men, voted for Goff. The vote, as announced, was: Kenna 40, Goff 4'; whole number of votes cast 91. KENTUCKY, i Col James A Wood died at his horn in Bloomfleld, aged 74 years. Col Wv. went to Texas iu 1835 ami tookpart in the rebellion against Mexico, rfe was at the massacre of Alamo, and with two others escaped they being the only sur yivors of that bloody event. Miss Maggie Sykes, a school' teacher near Lcesburg. abandoned her school through fear of n negro na ned Wash Mack. He attacked her in the school room at noon, while tb.3 children werj at pdy, and the teacher sated herself from violence by ringlngihj bell till tho children rushed in. she is the fourth teacher who has been driven away from this school by Mack, and the neighbors propose to lynch him. ' OTIIKtt HTATX. The world's visible cotton supply ia 2,793,071 bales. ' The . New Orleans cotton palace was thrown open Monday night. Four Democrats reaigned and four Republicans . rained their srata in tl, Arkansas Legislature Monday, the seats having been contested on the ground of fraud, aud the refiort of thn eWHnn'a committee being favorable to the Repub licans. r Wesley Thomas, a neoTO. at tyrant d to assault M iss Kate Pinkston at Vick-- wnirn tha ia. .. V . . V aiierwards Ivneiici ciiun. .m f uvuiae o7 tent Littleton with a handsome tcstimo nial for his courageous conduct. Harrison's Cabinet. Gen. Harrison's Cabinet, in the opin ion oT leading politicians, will be consti tuted as follows: Secretary of State James G Blaine, of Alas vi a ' Secretary of the Treasury William tiiuuuui, vi Minnesota. Secretary of War Jerrv Rusk, of Wis cousin. Postmaster General John Wanama ker. of Pennsylvania. Attorney General W H n Miller, of Indiana. SeSlJ.l.ary.r the Nt J John R Thorn- ub, 01 iiunois. -Sen.t.ar5' J. he Iatcrior-Cen John -ooie. or .Missouri. w?Tcrc"rJ. 01 Agriculture Warner tinier, or .ew lork Georgetown'. Centennial. The closing session Friday of the C lennial anniversary of the founding of the Georgetown College in the District of Columbia, wn marked by two nota. ;en X, - aaureas. by President v-.eve.aau .na me t loaing address by Cardinal Gibbons. Tl . , . . uc exercises closed with a solemn academic session in Gton Memorial tr , vCrt ai,ir an "WreM by Rev E II W eUh. the Chancellor of th. fri.rr Uy on -The Law and The People," the degrees were conferred and the diploma presented by President Cleveland Paper Doon. The paper doors now coming into use are claimed to possess the advantage over wood of neither ihrinking.sweliing cracking nor warping. They are formed of two thick paper boards, stamped and molded into panels and glazed together with glue and potash and then rolled through heavy rollers. After being covered with a waterproof coating and one that is f reproof, thev are painted, varnished and hung in their utual way- Burlington (JV. J.) OasetU. Over a Billion Cigarettes. Virginia manufacture! 40 Ml 545 pounds of tobacco in 1S99, tnd of 'this exported 9.793,000 pounds. North Car oUna manufactured 13,237,772 pounds, a total for the two States cf S9.149.317 pounds. The two States made over 1.0W.000.000 cigarette. Iaat year, cr one half the total production of the country, while of manufactured tobacco they tarned out about thirty per cent, of the entire amount made in the United Wolvea. coyotes and swifts as so nu merous in Gray Cousty, Kan.. that tie farmers hare petitioned the Board of Commissioners to oer a bounty for their SJL termination. Nine elevated railroads are proposed for Chicago. W M,ss but he was prevented by John Littleton, another negro, who se curcel Thomas after n ilrnMta fiv. ;n HOUSIi AND SENATE. D0LN03 AT WASTTnjQTON, D. C. PrC4dias Of T. L.t a4laa 0f Tiftiua Uaiud gutM Cofra called up the bill' to provide f,r tt: better protection of our seal, aod salmon fihcr,eS cf Alaska, which was divud MiriDcCnmi,UJ t0 tLc CVffila:tt The Republican ra.ceMfulIyf.hu teredagaiast the fonMeraik.a of tls California election cscof Sulivan KVkn) agsmn Fclton (Ucp). by refrai.in d vote when the ce wa. C1U 1 upf,r consumption. ThU develop 1 u ,. ncec.f Huonsra mj the Hou- i. Jurned, lutl.Dt wereJopTM a.piinif. ia 1 1. nsnie of the nation, the nam- n l., -s. 'WWninwh s ronspuuouh cnaerted r,th the Northwest t rrituti 'nd with sminent rrvu-e U h' vu." and countiy, Uth at Louie and l.n.al assigmrx it a plar, lQ ,Le LaM ,.f Representative-, and rtturning ihankt to tne doners, the peeple of tU State . ( ."in uigan. The credtntils of Senator Cull jtu f. r Lis new rvnatorial trim. wcre preatt'l and read. The Senate pHd thr- H,y.w. bill provide f,.r taking the eleventh c.-o. TiiM.iv Hoi si; Th? di.u-i.n . f the dirett tat bill wupied a'm -t the e titiro dy. Rcpre-er.tative Butt, r worth iutr.Ju, a j .mt r. -.hit .,n anthrii:g th- Pn ,i d-nt t mite the m Hilars .f t!!(. !.,. lianunt . f ihr Ioanni,.n of raru.U and tU- cal nu ta . f the several i.un(M t- vi-it the I nittd State, aiid api.ro prutiDg fliO.OOO f. r the txus. v Sen u k. - The Sundry Ciil S-rit Bid was read, and am-ng the sou ui ments off, red wss one t par Mm Wsite the midnw of th- ('Lb f Ju-tire. the balance ..f a year- salarr. whiib' oil adopted. An amecduient. sppr. printl .ik 4 0,0.-0 each foratatuts t.f Gn Philip II. Mun dan and Gen John A l.o;Mn, in Wash iugton, i4 agreed t... and S,.naor Datdel gave li. tke that aftr all tho committe amcuduieiits were di-jo.d of he would off. r a tda.Lar aiiKislment Jor statue of Gen YViLTi. 1 J S tt tlan.o. k. Without c. mj htiog the bill the Senate adjournel. Wkdnusoay. Hcsc Mr Springer presented the conference njrt on tt territorial bill which provides f r the admusion of the States of North t.ikot, South Dakota, Montans and Wnkhin ton. The territory of Iakctt 1 tnb eiiviJcd orrfe'itlTtfoTilvTn. .n- dard parkllel. Each of the new S:at- is to le entitled to one RtprtiKnia ite in Congress, except South Dak ,t.i. wM h is entitled to two Rtpreeotativ. The report was adopted im J upp!ae ou both sides of the Chamber. The House then neat into a cou.m"ttce of the whole o!n the 1 ot cfSie apprpu aUonbilL At the evening session the H.-uk-passed tho following bills: F.r tho establishment a customs dbtrittt t.. known ns the district ff Toiupn. Fia; x extend the limits of the to:l- 11 -n de, trict of Memphis, Tenu;Socte bi 1 t . authcriZtt the contructi'u ef a hiid,' acrot,s Coosa River, Ahilaru. Lt Jackn. Ala; Senate bill for a light ttati.m u m Catherine Island, Georgia; ieait bill for aMight house on Dlaui 1 Sv off Cape Hatteras, N C, (n ti.endiui-nt fixes the appropriation at50'),000. aud makes the acceptance of the work frm tbe contract or coud.tioi.al up -u th . success of the light. Sesatl, Senator Hoar motiLc I resolution reporteel by Li-n jest .ay u to Southern elections so as not to r.'.jUir.? its reference to the committee cn con tingent cpen?e, and as to n.o lifi 1 !t went over till to-morrow. The Senate then resumed then nunjl the consid eration of the sundry civil a; proprit i,,u bill. TnrRsi.y Hot sE The 4 orifiea? rcportonthe Lrfgialative. et. entire ai.d judicial bill was agreed to. 'Ihe de ficiency apjiropriation bill wk t.k. u u- The Senate to !ay c nldrcd Lr i 1! the resolutien in relation to the e-h eti n in Louisiana and the ucdry mil a; ; r -priation bill. Pending dicuiion of the atneij.imrr t appropriating $3,,0f",0 for the .ip-r. of an arrrorriate ccirbration of the . u- tennial of the Conktitutloa of the Ur,;t 1 States the Senate adjourned. Fp.IDT--H 'Csk Samuel J. lUn im'l gained a victory e v r Mo'U 4 T.t. i . securing the reccgnitin of the Internal Revenue l-i.l I t 31 r. ji if. addition, the Speaker Las pro f.:wd t . recognize Ran la.1 at any t:m lef Tj th end of the M-sio3. to n.ke a tw-U-ju t go into a Coiamitle-. ' ' the Whole t conider the rerecu- bill. An evening 03 n L I f c r t f . .- consideration of private peLV.on b.li Senate. Mr. Dirie! tri-tttd t th - Senate the nethion of A. Ii. B a!r - 1 other citizens cf Virinia. akirg th: tbe provisions of the iLtcr-M:: com merce art be ctfecded to eipr- ci. panic, lie aau-u 10 n f-: Mr. Harris objected. The agricultural apprtpriati b . was taken up, and, after brief dic-ioo. was aaol. The House amcJrr.e&t tv tc - bill for a iMtsIcn to Mrs SUn 10. r - noa concurred ia ar.d a cocf-recre or - dered. Adjourtel. Th ont-ation of carrjit oa tn j work ia freeiicg weather L eac 'rd - good deal of attention among a :. Hi:. since the publication oT an orr.cial rt -o t to the Brttiih Goercjnnt by a rrpft sentatire in Copenhagen, from jh cn 1: sppeard that brick walls areU l ia ttaf city in winter wiin perieti u-m, -' onlv creation taken Uing to us freily slacked lime in the mortar, that it may be warm waea put a. The Judges of the Supreme Cocrt cf PenaylvanU now wear o-acit jjowna.
The Carolina Banner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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March 8, 1889, edition 1
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