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I jljc Carolina "Banner. o if l)e Carolina Qanncr. n i gfSuSHETi EVE U Y FRIDAY. HENRY T. KING Editor. Kates of Scbschiptios: i m. : ADVKtmnta IUTX3. Sfac. 1 tiro, iiiau lmo. Smo. Cuvx 12a 1 ia- "5 1 25 2 UJ 4 iX) 6 ft) 10 CO 3 in- 1 75 . 2 2i 4 ft) 7 So li ij 30 0Q i ii hi ill hi it , ,.,.T, one vc-ar, - - ?i ou II 73 40 Entered at the Postoffice at Tarboro, N 0 , m second-class mater. The committee of Australian scientists, tppointed fo investigate - the discovery of M. Pasteur for' the extermination of rabhits, reports that it found that rabbits a-hich had been inoculated with the virus f chicken, cholera or which ate food (rhich had been infected with the virus iied, but that the disease was not com municated by one rabbit to another. Modern dredging machinery Las so re juccd the cost of digging deep and wide tarsals by the system of endless chain and icoops and inclined chutes, that this work can be done for les3 than one-half tie proportionate expense required when the principal canals of this country were due- A three-mill tax now would go further iu the accomplishment of such txuxxatir.iS work than a six-mill tax (Fould have gone at that time. - Duoliii. Ireland, has had a remarkable Jjg tae. in one of its courts. Two men iaimt'i the same dog. One, to prove Ai owner.-hip, told the animal to fetch ais cane. The dog obeyed. The other said :ht he had owned the dog in Asia, where be had beard onty-.Hiridostanee spoken. 50 in that language he told the dog to fetch hH hat. The dog obeyed. No re port of the decision of the Judge has yet Dcen rcrnvt-'l i" this country.- Says the Chicago Xevca :' "European cnusiciarH conn to this country in droves very spring to ;r;.nd . r through our cities md toot their woful wind instruments for jtnall fining: mid beer. Then they go buck home late in the full. Four hun ired of them arrived at Castle Garden in snc immigrant vessel the other day. Yet tome people wonder why so many thou iands of Americans habitually spend their rummers in Europe." It N said, in the I'M MM Ocuetie, that eaili win fifteen people out-of every JOOd marry f each 1000 men who inarry Mil are bachelors and 139 are . widowers, -'while f each 1000 women .only ninety-eiht have been married be fore, uikI i)02 are spinsters. Twelve -minnaes out of every 100 are second '- -marriage. The average age at which men marry is about twenty-seven, while the average aye at which women marry is ibout twenty live years. Mrs. Hvtty liretn, once one of the wcwdest operators in Wall street, is per haps the richest woman iu America, her wealth being estimated to be anywhere from forty to fifty million dollars. She inherited ten millions from her father, Edward Mott Robinson, who laid the foundation of his fortune in the whaling business, and this lias grown to its present proportions through her judicious invest ments and careful saving. Her husband, E. H. Green, had coined money in the China trade before he married her, but his wealth is modest compared with hers. He is nearly six feet six inches tall. The eouple have two children a boy and a nirl - ami their place of residence is known to but few. Most remarkable statements are those 'made by Professor Rein, n scientist, who has leen investigating the material re icources of Japan. They reveal a national frugality and economy of a inar relous type. The area of - Japan is less than that of. California. Its cultivated land is less than one-tenth of its total ercage, yet iu products support 38,000 OUU. The United States has about 60, 00,OOU population. Iu Japan 2500 persons subsist from each square mile of neu land. uch oircumstauccs must from necessity r preservation be provident, painstak- "e, nara-working, ingenious and frugal, he .laps -appear to deserve all these djectives. Agriculture with them is aurally market-gardening, because the Wl1 1? r'e4viired to produce more than any -""-i j-mre m the world. , Mr- Fr'deriek A Saward, editor of the C rnj jrn.u, who is the acknowl edged authority on all questions concern Kg coal jToduciiun, prices, transporta f n4 etc., in his interview of the trade or USS says: "The annual production 3f coal in t he countries for which de- are at command is now set down 4S0.000.00U tons; of this quantity the tountrxes furnishing the larger portion -e the .lahed States, Germany and Great Cntain. In the United States there vr&s total output in the past year of over IW.000..W0 tons, the State of Pennsyl furnishing about fifty-five per cent. 5f this grand total 38,000,000 tons of coal and 33,000,000 tons of soft luminous coal. The trade is growing terever a line of railway exists, though &e increase is greater in what one might rm the older States; there is more coal in Pennsylvania, New York and Ne England, both for industrial and Somen!, j.urposes, yet the growth in the Ptjearin the interior and the Southern has been remarkable; this will be a from due study of the statistics. In Plte of the inroads made in some por Uons o the country by the use of natural fuel the output in the States, Jich would naturally be most keenly 2ected, has been larjze." ,4 i tli t ,. . three months, f rriT T VOL. I NO FURIOUS FORREST FIR S. I - Great Destruction of Property eeota and Wigoonain. in Minn- Fuiious forct rc Lave! Ljfcii 1 isconsia. fcod an imaicusc ynoun'. ct damage done. For rr tin c j Ihrec side? of Dlduth the Cre ragwJ, aai many' country residece3 wcro burn ext. On the Hf-rmn rtn rXA raar- PuluUi every dwelling for fourmikl was de- Firoyccl. It Tiras f(arcl that some lives had Lccn lost, .13 ir.cciJDinir fanners 1 (mortal a vast tea of fire sm?epin evcithingibeforeit A tugb wird Mow wbich intuXa it imijossi tle for any hecdwoy to 1-e made a einst the lire. It Lad iiup4y to bum until bere wai nothing moro for it to Ues-troy. t Several houses wu'o LnnicJ njar- Spirit Lake. A laree number of telfjTaph poles wc-i 0 burned and communion Lien was iuterfenW vnth. In some places. t,o, tics on tha tra4k burred out, making it dangerous to move trains. South of Afchian.i, "Wis., for 150' lniles the forests w?ie ablaze. On the Fond-dju-Lac In dian reservation mors than f20,C00 Jworth of skid led logs were liurneil ; Other ijsses ag gregating 10,0tX) also occurred on the reser vation. Cumberland, Wis., was almost sur rounded by fire. Thole v-os aggreiato iiO -GOO. - j , ' North of Gran U.buj-p, Wis., the ire swept tLo country, destroying eveiything iu its path. Along the Isortheni 1'acifij in tho neighborhood of Cromwell the Tamarack forests were on fi re. Nc ar IJ i nckley, M inn., Thoirjs Campbell and lnwt Ixjjivell were surrounded Iy fiie, aud finally tieir camp oullitwafs but ncd alout them, 'tbey took refiipo 011 half an acre of plowal ground, but were fatally burned. Four yol e of cat tle perishf. ?: ' A heavy rain for a few miuntas in the vi cinity of Dnluth cleared the atmr sjhere of the l;cr.vy s;noke and cheeked som vliat tho forcrt fires in tiiat neighborhood ,! but tho shower was local and tho fires in most direc tions continued to rage. A lumbe man who arrived from Ashland, Minn., on 1 113 North ern Pacific Railroad, raid there was but littlo rain there r.nd it did no good. 21e) x Carlton titaliou, "Wis., tho house. 'barn and cntiro Clants cf the brick yard of F. H. Ar ygar were urncd. j t Superintendent Green, of the Iforthern raciiic, icport j little rain, and tha country covered with snioko from tlio burn ing v-ocd.. An engineer 1 on tho night tiain on the St. Paul ar d Duluth Railroad rays that 011 tho ran Trom Mis tion Crook to Duluth, sixty miles, :hsro was no need of a headlight, tho tracks being liglitcd up by the flamea. j The damage to srttlers and fami?rs and to lumbermen will bo great. "A grc it deal of stock is destroyed. 8cveral lum er camps iiavc been burned out. ! I The Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting o. the 1. M, I). A. bevea hundred delegates were fin attend ance at the opening. of the twdnty-eighth ojuuiu conveution cr ine xoiin Jisn s Christian Association, held in Pb iladelphia. The convention assembled at 11 o clock, and the morning was devoted to organizing. The convention was called to ord r by S. H. Blake, of Toronto, tho Chairman f the lact meeting. f ;--( The Committee on Permanent Organiza tion reported the following nomi lations for officers, which were unanimously confirmed: President Humphrey Tlh- CI aniberiaiii, Denver, Col. ! - j Vice-Presidents John E. Irvin , St. John, ICew P.nmswick : 'Dr. Frederick V. Kelly, Mcntraal; A. S. TTocdwo.-th, Bost n; Charles D. Alexander, San 2'Vancisco ; ! Professor Charles W. Dabiwy, Jr.; Knoxvdle, Tenn.; William E. Higraan, Siou- City, Iowa; Charles D. Meigs, Jr.. Iudianaprlis; Walter McDonald, Kansas City; Francis W. Ken nedy, Philadelphia. i i Secretary George B. Townsen 1, Chicago. Assistant Secretaries Harry t Kinpottr, Minneapolis, and H. O. Williams, Richmond, Va. j . President-elect Chamberlain was escorted to the chair and was warmly greeted, not only by General Howard, but by the delegates. Mr. Chambsrlain raid he thoug ht the com mittee had made a mistake in se ecrinj him to preside, knowing that ho was ijot the man to lead the convention. He would, however, ask Divine guidance, and hoped t ) succeed. The prominent foreigners wha attended tha convention were M . H. Kodder, of Lon don ; Baron Von Stcz-clr, of B arlin ; Karl Fries, Stockholm; E. Horfe: Seer etary of the Zurich Association; Robert Burn Secretary of the Aldersgate Branch of :he London Association ; Robert McCann 1 National Secretary for Ireland; Viscoun ; Michima, J apanese nobleman of Tokio, a ad John T. Swift, Secretary of the associatk n which is doing in Japan the same work thz t Secretary McConaughv is to do in India. j President Francis W. -Kennedy delivered an addr ess of welcome to the vi siting dele gates. The other speakers of tb e first day were Albert B. Monroe, of Nev .York, and John T. Swift, of Tokio, who disci ssed the ob ligations of American young men to their brethren in foreign lands and W. A. Hunton, Norfolk, Va., who spoke of the w ork among colored men. f I In the evening Frances L. Patton, D. D., President of the Princeton College, made an address on modern unbelief among young men, ana iaier a reception tooKroiace ar tne Academy 01 fine Arts. ! ' Foreign. The soap works of Messrs. William Uibbs, London, En; burned. Loss $500,000. 1 David and land, were Jjf the British House of Commons the budget recently introduced by Mr. Goschen. Chancellor of the Exchequer, whs passed by a large majority. M. Eiffel, the designer and builder of th Eiffel tower in Paris, was receivted, with his employes, by resident Carnot. Count Tolstol the Russian the Interior, is dead. j Minister of The attendance at the Parid Exposition has thus far averaged 71,000 perlons daily. The Commander of 'the British cruiser Rapid has hoisted the British flag over the Suwarrow Islands, w hich lie in the Southern Pacific Ocean northwest of the (Took Islands. Thb deficit in the Italian budget will amount to 110,000,000. j j I- the British Housa of L rds the bill legalizing the marriage with a - deceased wife's sister was rejected. Th s Prince of Wales, who was present, votei with tho minority in favor of the measur . Ax auctioneer of Stuttgart jty, named Bosch, suddenly became insane, ind seizinga hatchet, killed his sister. H then rushed into the street and killed a passe -.bv. After a desperate struggle the znadi ion was can tured by soldiers. I f Tetje Samoan Commissioners, Messrs. Kasson, Phelps and .Bates and lieutenants Buckingham and Parker, went t a Prince Bis marck's palace , in Berlin and were intro duced by Count Herbert. Th Prince was extremely cordial and spoke in fcnglich He said he was glad the conference was progress ing so favorably. He hoped they would soon bring their labors to a successful close. A conflict has taken place at Essen, Ger many, between the striking miners and the muitary. 1 nree strikers were killed and five wounaea. j An Aeronant Meets His Death. - Prof. St. Clair, in attempting to give his leap from the clouds kt the fair ground park at Houston. Tex., lost bis grip on the parachute and fell to the eartn. Ho was killed inatanll.- 'THE TARBORQ, WORTH AND WEST. NEWSY ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH. Being A Condensation of the Princinal Han peninga in Different States Faxine is spreading in China. 5 Dakota, has ever 1200 churches. There are 20,030 Masons in Maine. CtTBAir iron ores ara being boomed. Trajcps seem to be on the increase. There are 21Z league bicycle clubs. Gold has been discovered in Siberia. - The exhibitors at Paris number 30,000. Arrests of nihilists continue in Russia. Chicago has 102 public school buildings. Texas has fiXty-tigh- farmer legislators. Capitalists are booming oil in the West. The coal trade is all broken up ia Canada. Michigan bxis an anti-Chicago dressed-beef law. A SAVAGE York. ' dog bit eleven children in New Penxstxvaxia June. votes on Prohibition in There Paris. are about 100,000 Americans in Forest fires are consin. raging in northern Wis- About 30,000 men are employed to coerce Ireland. Census officials do not come under the Civil Service act. The Mayor of Guthrie, Oklahoma, has been burned in eSigy. , Th3 coronation of the King of Servia will take place in July. There are 80S ex-soldiers drawing pensions for total blindness. The ;rop of apples will be much smaller than that of last year. " , Massachusetts illiterates form eight per cent of the population. A rush has now begun from crowded Okla homa to South Dakota. There are twenty-eight Washington coun ties in the United States. The production of anthracite has fallen down to 500,000 tons per week. 1 The Samoan Conference will probably conclude its work early in June. St. Louis proposes having a six weeks' electrical exhibition in September. It is stated that the Czar will within a short time, be crowned King of Poland. The pear crop will average light in conse quence of its" greatest enemy, the blight. Two-TKL3Js o the railroads of the country are dopg no more than clearing expenses. All of the sreat buyers of drygoods or American concerns have gone to Europe. There i3 a syndicate of paper makers in Great Britain which controls all the mills. The first boy born in Guthrie has been named George Washington Oklahoma White. Senator Ino alls thinks an extra session of Congress will be called, probably in Oc tober. During the past three months 3500 mer chants and manufacturers failed in the United States. " f There are said to be about three hundred colored students attending night school in Knoxvilie, Temi. , , r - In San Bernardino and Los Angeles Coun ties, Cab, 409,000 orange trees have been p. anted tms year. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Hamburg has played Mozart's "Figaro" 100 times. Charles Gounod, the composer, will not come to America. Emtt.t. de Najac, the great French dramatist, is dead. The play "Robert Elsmere" was a failure In New York city. Joachim, the violinist, has composed bis third violin concert. Memphis, Tenn., is to have & grand opera house costing $150,000. Sir Arthur Sullivan is composing the music for a grand opera. Marie Van Zandt is coming to America next season in Italian opera. The Duchess of Cambridge left Tosti, the composer, an annuity of 11500. ; Clara Louise Kellogg will make a con cert tour through the West very soon. The death Is announced of Thomas James Serle, the English dramatist and actor. Mozart's opera "Die Entfuhrung'' has JOeen produced in Greek at Alexandria, Egypt. The new Wagner theatre near Paris is nearing its completion. It will seat 350 listeners. - r ... i Mrs. Shaw whistled $15,000 out of the public last year, and expects to make it $20, 000 this year. . Mrs. Langtry, the English society act tress, proposes to tour England and Australia next season. Billy Birch is to be one of the end men I j 11 , -n-z r L ,rrr Ar I ing minstrel troupe. , I Lotta, the volatde comedienne, is the only f woman on the stage who has a fortune I amouniAng to 51,000,000, I Onx hcttdred and fifty students from Finland will form an orchestra and pla v their uauuxuu lucwuita at iua sr oris exposition. Sionorita Gaerieui Salvixl daughter ui tuo musinous Italian trageaian, has dis- nnguisnea nerseu as a clever amateur actress AdelIxa Patti has discarded her New Orleans niece, and the diva's new pet is Nicolini's youngest daughter, who is with her in souta America. Director Staxtox, of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York city, has renewed his contract with Hans von Bulow, the pianist lor nerr: season. - ; Sixes March 1, 4888, there have been sixty one divorces in dramatic circles. The most important are Pauline Hali. Fanny Daven port and Maggie Mitchell. A STVP2 of the theatre notices the Afri can is not .such .a popular . character on the stage "as formerly, whife ' tile " Irishman s iinunual'y a source' of pleasure. - GrATB. AJCBcao -the German theatrical mrr.ager of New York city, has engaged Mrnst Possart, the great German actor, for ono hundred performances nert season. LrrTw: PjttLi Spooxxs, the seven-year-old son of the "VVisconrin cnnior. has an extra ordinary talent for music. He can hear an opera one 2, conic; home and repeat every air or it. . r ... - AT tha Iloytl Theatre at Munich they are going to try the presentation of Shakespeare's plays with scenery and stage fittings as nearly as possible a reproduction of those with which the plays were originally produced- " Carl, Rosa. Xhe great English, opera manager, died in Paris - few days agb. The deceased was the husband of the famous Parepa Rosa, and was forty -seven years old. Mr. Rosa. was-a-violinist, i Mixxir; Hack, according to a report printed in a German paper, made a disastrous failure in Posen recently, -While singinr "Carmea"T the audience rose en masse and hissed the American star until she lift the stage. A Matter of Abbreviation. Quoth a sad young physican named Proctor, As he sealed to his grocer a letter: 'It sometimes occurs Tm his Dr., But oftener still Pm bis Dr." . - Harper' $ Jtatar. OLD NORTH STATE FORE Y N. p., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1889.. JEFFERS0H DAVIS "RTTPT.TTyi To the Assault Made Upon Him bj Gen eral Wolaeley. : The following letter from Jefferson Davis was written in reply to a request made by E W Cannack, editor of the Nashville American, for a statement in reply to GeneralWolseiey 'a article in the North American Review for May, criti cising Davis' course as President of the Confederacy. The letter of Mr Davis is as follows: Beacvoir, Miss., May 8. Mr EW Cormack My Dear Sir: Your kind let ter and copy of the North American Re jlew of this month forwarded by you, have both been received. I comply with your request for a notice of the article by General Wolseley, which is contained in that Review. Supposing that.yu have only desired a reply to the paas&ges specially directed against myself, it will b so limited. A year or so since that tame writer published an article contain ing matter purporting to have been gained by intercourse with General R. E. Lee, while his guest during tha war between the States of .the American Union. To those personally acquainted with General Lee, who know his charac teristic discretion, his strict regard for official courtesy and personal friends, his confidential relations which had lung existed between him and President Da vis, it was incredible that he should have seized the opportunity afforded by the arrival of an itinerant foreigner to make such statements as' would afford material for the cynical criticisms of the article referred to on the administration of the Confederacy. For the manifested hostility to me I could imagine no cause, unless an gre -gious vanity had been wounded by my failure to notice his presence in our country, a presence which it is most probable was unknown to me. My reply then made to his article ex posed his historical errors, his baseless fictions, and he acknowledged that I had previously known nothing of him save through his large promises ana-small Ferformance on a memorable occasion, n the article to which you now call my attention the adjutant-generaL of the British army, "Viscount Wolseley, with increased venom, renews his attack uoon me and opens it with the mean cover of a hypocritical pretension of sympathy. His arrogance heretofore exhibited, was so extreme as to be harmless and merely provoke contempt, while it suggested the inquiry of a pupil of old, whether he thought knowledge would die with him. Where, when or how did I ever ex press the opinion "that 10,000 Enfield rifles" would suffice for the Confederacy ? Where, when or how did I then refuse to receive "366,000 men" offered for Confederate service? - Where, when" or how was the "East Indian fleet ever of fered to me? What means were rejected by me when proposed Xf others, for placing the finances of the confederacy of a sound basis? These are the snerifi- cations of his arraignment. Where are the proofs? He expressed regret that no answer was published in the Centurv, to go forth with the indictments against me, but was he restricted to a rehash of the articles there published, and to views evolved from his internal con sciousness? Why, if he wished to know the truth and tell it, did he not consult more authentic sources of information, such Admiral Semmes' "3Iemories of Service Afloat," or "The Secret Service of the States in Europe," by Captain James D. Bullock, naval representative of the Confederate States in Europe, or the History of the Confederate States Navy, by J. T. Sharpe, C. S. A., or the report of the Major Caleb Huse, charged ! with the purchase and shipment "ordi- I nance and ordinance stores,-or ot Gener al J. Gorgaa, chief of ordinance depart ment, or the reports af the treasury, war uu navy laepariments of the Confeder acy, or the signal refutation bv Se eretal ries Miminger and Treholm, of the silly reflection made, after the war. nnnn th Confederate Gpvernment, for not having BCl me cotton crop of 1861-64 as me oasis 01 a public credit. In these and elsewhere, except In the writin p-s of "u"u"'u cuemiea, or our disappointed candidates for executive favor, is to be found the concurrent evidence of prompt tucrgeuc ciions to secure large im " , iiiuuilioii. an at the same time. hvthairrniv poriauons of arms and ammunition, and resented policy of enrolling only men 0 could be armed to draw from the large amount of nrimfo rmo in country, weaoons to .mnlomnt a-t ' , 1 . rr; ' nciency wnen rn Confederacy was or ganized. Respectfully and truly, Jefferson DAvra. A Costly Smoke, T T-I . . f ... ' . jauica luuuias, u re man in tne' em ployment of the Charleston and Savan nah railway, went into the oil and waste storehouse of the . railroad at Charleston and while ". there . con cluded to take a smoke, t , Ie filled his dudeen.with.-his pet tobacco struck a match, started the pipe going ana men larew me matcn : on the floor. Alter tnat ne nad no inrtner- interest in the proceedings. He ecared-' Hh-lns life, leaving a f 50 gold watch - in hir vest pocket and Jis - situation "Jehind him. The srorehouse.andan- adjoining 1 : 1 jj - . . . . . o uuiiuing were toiaiiy aestroyeu, togeth er with about forty bales of cotton and a car load of coal belonging to the Georgia Pacifiic railroad., Total loss about 14,000. all CAwrd by insurance. . - -- 7 Baptists of the South. The tbirty-fourth.session of the frriv. third year of the Southern baptist Oxjn vention - assembled in Memnhis Frid.t- morniEK with Ely, luded in touching termato the death M ur.jimes Jtsoyce, so- ions nrrsident -r the Convention. '-, - - - , v," -Six hundred andseyxnty two - delo- gates were enrolled from the -Statt-a of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida. i'Arm Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland Missis sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texa. Virgin, District of Columbia and Indian Terr itory. : .; Dr J P Greene, of St LouU deliver! the annual convention serman f o--an1 overflowing audience. . a ne procceaiDes were orenei relifftous exerciassaV.Yica PrirU?, , of HissourL inabeHar:lrrV"sK EE. A Public Printer and Two Ciiril Ser vice Commissioners Selected. The President haseppomted Freak W. Palmer, of Illinois, to be TuUic n-iater; Theodore Roosevelt, cf New York, and Hugh S. TLoropron of South Carolina, to be Civil Fcrvioe Commissioners; Arthur L. Thomas of Utah, to bo Governor of Utah; Elijah Sells,of Utah, to he Secretary of Utah; I-Ulswci Lh Ihipett, of Utah, to lo Surveyor General cf Utah, and sixty-one Precidential pofctuiastci-K, iuchtding Alcxaiulc-r C. YarcLat Tientou, Iv J.. vice E kford Moore, removed. ArthurN. 1 bourns, appointed Governor of Utah, is a mcuiber of tho Utah Coin mission and is taid to bo tlicroufihly familiar with .the Mormon question. He is a native of Pittsburg. lit 17 hj was. apjiuintcd by President lb. yes to bo ScreUu-y of Utah. Tlieodnrc Koo?vclt, appointed a Civil Service CoiiirtiisMouer, i 3 thirty years of age and a native of JCcw York city. He gradu ated from Harvard and was admitted to the New York Bar, but has never actively prac tised his profeisiou, preferring tlie nioro j6tnrig .sviwsof politics and of aJventnro 00 Jil Western raucU. Ilo was elected to tlie Afrtnbfy in 11. Tn 186 he feot tho TtcpnblicsH nomination for Mayor of Now York, and made a fight against Abrapt S. Hewitt and Henry George but was defeated, F. W. Palmer, the new lnblic Printer, was boru in Indiana ia 1627. Ho learned the art of typesetting in New York city, iuui was pub lisher and editor of tho J tunc town (N. Y.) .ovrwor. Il.c was a Iew York Assemblyman in 1S52-I, and went to Iowa in 1S5S, be coming editor cf the Dubuque IHmta. He was State Printer of Iowa eight years from 1SW, - and rei ved in the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses from "Iowa. After loaviu Conpress. Mr. Palmer bought an interest in the Chit ago Inter-Ocean. He remained with the Inter-Ocean until he wai appointed Post matter of Chicago by Presi dent Hayes, which position he lllled during the Administrations of CarOeld and Arthur. H ugh fS. Thompson, ono of the CivU-Ser-v ice Connnksioners, is tho well-known As sistant Secretary or the Treasury appointed by President Cleveland. He wa3 bora in Charleston and is about fifty years of ago. lie was elected Governor, of the State, which oflif e he resigned to accept the Assist ant Secretaryship of the Treasury. Presi dent Cleveland in February last sent in his nomination to the Senate for the office to which ho Jias just been appointed, but it was not confirmed Contested Election Mr. JIoble7, c!erk of the House Committor on Elections of the Fiftieth Congress, Is dili gently at work arranging, printing and docketing the papera received in the con tested election cases which will claim the at tention of the Committee during the Fift first Congress. These papers, together with Exhibits m tho sixteen cases which have al ready been certified to the Clerk of the House, are very voluminous, requiring no less than 259 packages to contain them. The following are the cases submitted: irfare. Con'tatantn. Virginia Virginia Virginia Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi "West Virginia. . . South Carolina. , Tennessee Arkansas . -TTaddiU and Wise. . . Langston and Venable. . . Bowan and Buchanan. . . Chalmers and Morgan. . . Hill and Catchings. . . Kemaghan and Hoolter. . . . Atkinson and Pendleton. ..MUlerand Elliott. . . Eaton and Phelan. . .Featherston. . .Goodrich AnH P.nlTvlr Florida. inaiana Posey end Parrett. Connecticut i. Seymour and Miles. - Maryland. Compton and Mudd. Alabama Threat and Clark. Alabama McDafiieand Turpin. Nothing is knovm of the course which the Committee will follow in dealing with the Arkansas case of Clayton versus Breckin ridge Clayton having been assassinated while the work of taking testimony was in progress. No papers in the case have been received by tho Clark of tho House. Alto gether the wori oi' the Election Committee of the next Eouss promises to be very ar duous, and it vill vate diligence on the part of the Committee to disnose of all tho cases before tac riuizataon of the Congress. Distribution of the $100,000 Appro prtation Made by CoiiRress. The "War Department has just completed the allotment of the $400, 000 appropriated by Congress for the equipment of the militia. The allotments are based on the representa tion of the States and Territories in Con gress. The distribution will be as follows: Alabama, $0492.70; Arkansas, $6554.89; California, $7594.16; Colorado, $2S47.81; Connecticut, $.'6)5.62; Delaware, $2847.81; Florida, $3797.08; Georgia, $11,391.24; Illinois, $20,883.04- Indiana, $14,239.05; Iowa, $12,340.51 ; Kansas. $8543.43; Ken tucky, $12,340.51; Louisiana, $75&4.16: Maine, $5695.62; Maryland, $7594.16: Massachusetts, $13,289.78; Michigan, $12, 340.51; Minnesota, $6644.89; Mississippi, $8543.43; Missouri, $15,188.32; Nebraska, $4746.35; Nevada, $2847.81; New Hampshire, $3797.08; New Jersey, $8543 43; New York, $34,173.72; North Carolina, $10,44L97; Ohio, $21,833.21; Oregon, $2847.81; Penn sylvania, $28,478.10; Rhode Island, $3797.08; South Carolina, $8543.43; Ten nessee, $11,391.24; Texas, $12,340.51; Vermont, $3797.08; Virginia, $11,391.24; West Virginia, $565.62; Wisconsin, $10, 441.97; Montana, $2847.81; Washington, $2847.81; North Dakota, $2847.81; South Dakota, $3797.08; Alaska, $3501.11; New Mexico, $3501.11. The regulations provide that requisitions for militia supplies must be made by the Gov ernors of States and Territories direct to the .Secretary ot War. Robert flail Morrison Dead, .-Dr- RobeitHa.il Jlorrison, the first President of Davidson College, ' N. O., died Monday morning, May 13th, at the age of 91 years. He was one of the bet Lhnown men in North Carolina and wan the father of the widow of -Stonewall Jackson, of the.wife of Gen. David H. Hill, orthe wife of Col. John E Brown, of the first wife of Gen. R. Barringer, nd of "fher 'first wife of Judce Averv ef ihe Supreme Court of North Carolina. ine remains were entered at Machelah, Lincoln county, X. C. Dr. Morrison was born Seft. 8. 1798. He was-a graduate of Chapel Hill University.- ne received his degree when only 20 years old. Several men who have since been governors of North Car olina were his classmates. President Jas. K. Polk and Bishop Grten were also hia classmates. Dr. Morrison waa the Isst survivor. - TheVirf ftch-trUh Congress. Tbe Erst Kcotr-h-Irii Cowrres in th his. tory of either side o. U?-Auantis -ppeoed few days " acu, et Columbia, Tc-m.. with a. larze attendance of defegate. - It had been called to orania a permanent ScoZcb-Lruh association, and tcrinaufurate tha collection ot data for a history hicix -t&all .sbow the influence of the Scntcb-Irfoh race on Anerv . can civilization.- -Amonr those present were:" Hon J. tractor Knott, of Kentucky; Colonel Aleck alcClu-e. of the PbxtaUefrjhla Times: R-r. W. John Hall, of ' York; Henry W. Gradv, of tike AUaxrta ConMiiut ion, and Senator Vance, of S"orth Caroiuta. On the second day .there- wu a reunion of Union and ' Confederate soldiers of Sootcb In&hbiood. at which ex-Ooveraor John C. Brown, of XashTHle, Tepresenid the Confed erates, and Corporal Tancer the Union sol diers. The delegates ale visited In a body "The Eerxnitaee,n the home of Andrew Jack son, the greatest of tjcotgh-Iruh Prwtentj. , 5 Cents Per Copy. I 3 00i NEGROES BAPTIZED. The Eesnlt of the Great Revival (king 0a in Richmond. Richmond was almost wilhltl. ' adult negro inhabitant Sunday ' entire black, population had Jt Unk. Of theses Ilivtr to ?ee thebi gest baptum ever known among the col ored churches. About 300 weri put un der the water, and many more are to follow. This is the first reTult oAhe unprecedented revival going on there for three weeks m tlie colored churched The scenes during the past wetk tulmi nated in such wild chantini?,. to ik companiment of hand shaki'ne a to render sleep impossible in manv pnrts of the city, the hot weather seeming to add to the intensity of their religious fervor No colored ptrson, nu matter how irre ligious, daces refns taking the hand of one just converted. By daylight the entire- negro popula tion was up preparing to. attend the ua ion baptism, which was to begin at 10:30. The crowd in attendance is es timated at fiom 20, COO to 30,000. The converts marched in procession through the streets, many of the women wearing white robes, and some of the more opu lent attired in Directoire gowns. The Rev. John Jasper, the invincible anti Sa tan slugger, who has regularly, once a month, hurled the moving sun anion " his missiles at the arch-enemy, towered fcix feet one above the vast' concourse, and though 71 years old, his voice is the strongest, and his roll of converts the largest. . The three ministers stood in the river, three lines of peninents moving to them at a time, and. the groans and shouts, the ecstatic ejaculations that rolled over the vast multitude surpassed anything of the kind ever heard in Richmond before. The police, to prevent disaster, had to scatter the crowds from the bridge. Hundreds were not able to get in sight of the water. This is only the begin nig of similar baptisms. PROGRESS OF COTTON PLANTING. The Report of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture for the First of May. The prospect of cotton planting is re ported in May by the Department of Ag riculture at Washington, D. C. On the first of the month 87 percent of the pro posed area was planted. This is one point earlier than the average of years. Only Virginia, North Carolina and Flor ida report planting slightly later. The per centages are: North Carolina, 74; South Carolina, .86; Georgia, 87; Florida, 94; Alabama, 87; Mississippi, 88; Louisiana, 89; Texas, 90; Arkansas, 86; Tennessee, 84; general average 87. Returns generally made the com mencement of planting earlier. In many instances dry weather has prevented germination and replanting became nec essary, some correspondents note the fact that an early beginning does not insure an early ending. Complaints of retarded germination are common cast of the Mississippi and in Texas delay of planting and germinating, and of re tarded growth and cultivation from ex cess of rain of that planted in February. 1 uc area planted early, where subse quent other conditions have been favor able, was being cultivated a second time in the more southern blt; breadths less advanced weie being chopped out at the report. At the same time the re- f lantrng of poor stands was in progress, u more northern latitudes planting was less advanced. The recent temperature has been too low for the best growth and -wuMiuon 01 tne plant. The rainfall In the third week of Anril was in exresa remedying previous deficiencies, but has omce oeen oeiow normal through a large vi me cotton territory, the deb cieocy being relieved locally and par tially by well-distributed showeis. WISE W0EDS. A sharp tooth for hard bread. Constant repetition cloys the taste. Handle the pudding while it is hot. Luxury causes physical degeneration. Good management is better than rood income. The man who talks for others exhibits personal neglect. The means of obtaining the truth is common property. Before trying to make others honest be honest yourself. Everybody could succeed their own business. . at minding Disappointment is often the only thorn that guards the rose. A rare man is he who is uncooked by the power of conceit. Slander is a slime which envious people throw on others better than theniselves. . Flags, brass bands and firework, may influence weak minds, but they are not real arguments. Knowledge, like , resrxnsibility in proportion to the amouni ODtained. , Don't drwnA n , . , ' v uurrovca ideas any more tnan you would second hand clothes. be content with Protect the QnaiL The quail destroys more insects and gives greater protection to the, farmers' fields and crops than any other -thered friend that walks the ground or fans the air," says Professor A. J. Cook in the New York Tribune, "and it takes for itself ai most or frejt'or jalaed seed for all tho good it does.,,, the 'writer of this eulogy is none too entiuuiastie. The quail or bob-white (called partridge Is New England) is a very valuable assist ant to the farmer. . Some of the States Michigan is one make it a criminal of fence to kill quail at any season of the year. It would be wise for all States te do the same. There is a rapidly grow ing public sentiment in favor of protect ing otxr birds; so, if such laws are passed, their enforcement is almost sure. Mbs Davenport, an Irish lady, ij the governess of the King of Spain. 5w 3o $oa 10 cm liua r 00 ,V) 4 SO ?.Vi nujju 4)OU 9 00 It SoU- 3Trt Vcii '.Oifl 6 In. 11 In. ti in. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A good many natural will, are being found in Kentucky. Man can be aSicted with 1145 dilTcrtat ailments known to medical science. There are said to be more than 00a Hundred thousand varieties of butterflies. Bone ashes enter more largely into the making of phosphonis than anythicz else. 8ome species of cuttknAh are said to be able to change color with the rapidity of the chameleon. A vein of hot mineral water has been itnick in the Aim (Mich.) saniurium at a depth of 2S76 feet. Ammonia gas is said to W more Urirely nsed for the making of artitkul ice than for all other purposes combined. A scientist calculates that the time re quired for a body to fall frcm tb m W distance to the earth would te atwui four days and twenty hours. Tho Standard Oil Company has ab sorbed the big Chicago gas trut and will manufacture gas from oil brought through the pipe there from Lima. , Four locomotives are being made" at Baldwin's Locomotive Works. Philadcl phia, to run by soda instead of coal. Soda engines are used in some irU of Europe. Vanadium is said to coft $12,000 per pound; rirconium, $7900; lithium, tho bghtestof the metals, 17700; rhodium, f2500, and iridium, the heaviest substance known, $1200. An eight-mile tunnel, sixteen feet in diameter, is to be dug through a moun tain in Norway through which w ater will flow carrying logs from the forest to thu other extremity. The system to relieve street traffic in Paris, as proposed by M. Berliner, consist substantiaUy of a system of subterranean cast-iron tubes, 18.4 feet in diameter and 10 miles ia total length. The tanning of boa constrictor kias has for some time been an interesting oc cupation pursued by certain parties in Hamburg, N. J., tho material being principally worked up into potkttbooks. The electricians of the Pari Kxpoition have, it is said, devised a nuthod by which the waters from .hidden fountain will be illuminated by electric light, with the result of producing very elaborate and artistic effects in color. The bright star Canopus emits more than one thousand five hundred times tho light of our sun. Sirius is at such a dis tance that its light occupies nearly nine years in reaching us, and its real bright ness is that of sixty-three suns. In a length of only 78 miles, a railway on the French Island of Reunion has four tunnels aggregating nearly seven, mile, with many deep cuttings and Lich em bankments; 43 large bridges, including jse of 1C40 feet and one of 1312 feet, together with 1100 bridges and culverts of less than 33 feet. In the juices of the hr tilth y ttomach Mons. J. K. Abelous has found nine new forms of microlx-s ia addition to seven previously known. These microbes muit play an important part in digestion, but their principal effect ujon the food seems to be after it has postH-d from the stomach into the intestinal tract. It is reported that a process Las been invented for extracting tilk fibre from the mulberry leaf without the intervention of the silk worm. Tlie quality of the silk obtained is declared to - equal to the best silk worm product.- It is an Ameri can invention, and if as &uoccsful as is anticipated, will work a revolution in the production of silk. The storage battery will ooa come into general use for commercial purj.oes. The electricians have s.bout completed their arrangements and many of them predict that Fteain powcr.exce-pt as a gen erator of electricity, will in a few years be generally abandoned. They also pre dict that electric air shifw will alv 1 as common in the early part of the i,( T.l entury as water craft. are at present. The Cloudi Rained Mnd. A heavy rain fell at Green Iiay, Wis., recently, bearing with it a larpe quantity of mud, which soiled garments on.th line, the windows, tops and i-id's of houses, and everything facing the eat, from which direction the rain earn-. Many have laughed and tcoutcd at the idea, but the fact has been -ubliih-d beyond a doubt. Sergeant Schley, of th 'Signal Office, says that be measured the water in the rain gauge, without noticing any peculiarity. On turning it out th: water was black and inky in ap-.earar.ee. On the roof was deposited a foreign sedi ment, which closely rtembles emery powder. When wet it is bhukuh in color, and when dry U an impalpable powder of a dark gray hue. He will make a special report to the rUal Service Bureau at Washington, andwdl. send some of the powder for italykis. ChvtiQo-Time$. A Ioj on the Wltnc- Stand. The trial of the notgd Indim h; f, Jack Spaniard, for the murder of Dcjruty United States 3far hal William Irwin, was held at Fort Smi h, Ark. One of tl firrt Government witnesses called wa mongrel dog, Rattler by name. Thj Government attempted to prove tL&t Rat tler was the prisoner's dog. having been seen in the neighborhood of the spot where the m order was committed. The defendant denied ever havisg . .a tLs animal, but the dog s affectionate greet ing to hi pW marttr madyi-tka a di-r-eJU witness. ' The animal picked him out of a crowd. Pearl Younger, a daughter of the noted Bell trr. d . Cole Younger, the . Kansas desperado, is a witness in the case. Wuhmetim hiar. Hanged fur Earglary. Les Carson, alias Charlie Armticn, colored, was hanged at bhelby, N C . lathe presence of 5,(00 pet pie on Mon day. Armstrong was convicted and senterc ealto be hung for burglary c trmlited at the house of Mrs. AngtMne Dean Lj h's own testimoay. "
The Carolina Banner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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