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1 l)c Carolina Sautter. fcHuSIJED EVERY FRIDAY. HENRY T. KING Editor. f)t Carolina Bamur. AnviTtscfo Ratks. 1 Urn. S tim. In.. Soul Urn 10 00 15 00 20 00 25 00 so m 44 00 60 00 1 in. 2 in. Sin. 41a. Sin. 6 La. 11 in. In. RA.TE3 OF SOB8CBnTI02J: 75 1 &5 1 T3 200 3 00 8 So 550 900 1 300 200 300 2 25 4 00 3 00 5 00 400 700 4 5U.7 50 400 6 00 7 00 10 00 T 50 13 00 10 00 15 00 U 50 80 00 15 00 23 00 25 00 4W00 One copy, one year, six months. i three months, $1 50 75 40 THE OLD NOBTII STATE FOBETEB." Entered at the Postoffice at Tarboro, N. 0.f a second-clasa matter. VOL. I Nq 38. TARBORO, N, C; FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4,1889. 5 Cents Per Copy. noon wo 12 50 IS 00 85 00 5500 WW fi ! i I ' AnKiii'' the small industries of the town of Newberne, N. C, is an, ink fa torv. The enterprise, it is said, has already attained paying proportions, anil the concern is now shipping its j.rou uct to a number of States. The Indians are not making much trouble now, and it has been decided to establish a small fish-propagation station it each army-post ' out West. The soldiers- can-do what little work is necessary ind guard the growing fish. The Fish lkuuniwioner is going to look over the ground and make plans for putting this k heme into operation. It is a new idea tnd has everybody's ', approval" so far, lave, perhaj.ii, the soldiers'. .Nearly everybody abuses the postal car-!, but nearly everybody uses it. At the stamp windows in the New York postofliee there is a constant call for them, and all c lasses unite in making the .demand. The chief complaint against them, the postal clerks say, has been on the ground of" size. , The "way some people cross and recross their line is quite a study. .For years there, has been th-nmiid for. a- larger card, and now the department is going to grant it. The new i:id is to be considerably larger than any yet issued, and will, the Graphic thinks, lead to an increase in sales. It b aNo a j.lcasanter and lighter shade, tnd a irreat deal smoother to write on. Th.re was much significance lo a re mark recently made by the representa tive of one of the largest stove manu fnc tiucrs in Pennsylvania : "I used to have a splendid trade down South," he saiil, "but the Southern stove manufac turers have taken much of it away from me. I ucd to have customers in Texas who bought by the car-load, and they still buy by the car-load, but from the Southern manufacturer, not frorii me. If I did not have an established run of 'custom here in the North, stove making .would not pay as far .as . my Southern trade I'oes."- It is imly a few years ago that the competition of Pennsylvania stove foundries rinsed tip most of the foun dries along the Hudson river, and now Southern stove foundries are fast prefs ing Pennsylvania foundries to the wall. While Mr. Kdison is himself receiving decorations and honors, one of his agents at .the Paris Exposition is preparing to get a taste of the French law. It seems that he made some pretty bold statements accusing the Paris papers of publishing or suppressing interviews for money, and oruc of the journals of that city threaten to make him. prove his words. His first offense was given, it is said, through Jhe praphophonc, to which the agent told his story, and which repeated the de famatory statements to President Carnot when he visited the Edison exhibit. The interesting legal question is suggested whether proceedings should be taken for lander or for libel. The inscription ;on i plastic scroll by the recording needle of the instrument might be considered writing in the broader sense of the term, while the speech which gave the needle motion, and in which the rcord reveals lUelf, is addressed to the ear and not to lhe eye. This is only one of many prob toin,, says the Washington Star, that might coino up to vex the lawyers through the extensive use of an apparatus whose cluef recommendation is its ability to "talk Lack." ' ' . . AU the nations of Europe are making: ligorous effort to "extend their colonial possessions in every part of the world, ind a French journal commenting upon their rivalry in Africa takes occasion to tell the extent of France's sway. abroad. From the . liiimvs furnished it appear that France is making considerable 5 pro gress in the acquisition of colonial power. tVhen this century began she had only a !ew small possessions left, Great Britain, iaving taken from her the finest of her Jolonies. Mow, observes the Courier &urwi,'she owns countries with apopu ktion'of 27.000,000, having begun the ew era of cohmnial enterprise with the tonquest oTtMgcria in 1830. These in tludo Algeria.' Cayenne, New Caledonia, fc&uiboJia. Tonquin, Anam, Tunis, Madagascar, Senegal, Cochiu China, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Reunion. It is true that none of these compare in koportanccwith the British colonies, and a . -. "ttr sou ami climate do not promise nuch for the future . ,. but they show that uuee is not til posed to be left out. while the 1 ivisum of the remainder of ne earth s surface is going on. France' tolonies are not worth a great deal to her to the way of trade. Their total amounts to about . 1 80,000, 000 a year, of which France gets not quite three-fifths. The Vger part of this is furnished by Al geria, and nearly all the remainder onies from the Indo-Chinese possessions. The French are brave enough to fight for and acquire territory, but they are ot adepts in developing it after it has tome into their possession. Their colo nies never thrive like those of the British, lad even under the most favorable con- X1E. SUMMARY OP SODTHEEH HEWS Happenings of Boecial Lnportinoe From Virginia to be Lone Star State. NORTH CAROLINA An executive reward of tw hundred dollars is offered for the apprelension of J. N. Carter, alias Jim Carthy, who stands charged with i the murder of Walter Chatham, in Horry cdunty. A reward of one hundred dollars is also offered for John Cox, a necrrp. who is charged with having. committed murder in Jones county. j Dr. Richard II. Whitehead Demon strator of Anatomy at the University of Virginia, has accepted ! the position of Professor of the Med.:. tichodl in con nection with the new State Atirieultural ana Mechanical College. -., ..-.. nri T"i t d -- I ' - i ue nev. ii. i. I'earson closed a week's succe..ful evangelistic dervieesi at Charlotte. He dedicated the new $30,000 i. JJi. u. A. building, the auditorium of which is called Pearson Ilalll in mem ory of the services he rendered them in times past. j I j The ownership of the Catawba Gold Aline at King's Mountain is inl 'dispute. The matter is now in the Gaston Super ior Court and is destined to be k lengthy case. f m . . .! ine coroner s jury in me jviorns case. which has held Keisville in k slate of highly wrought excitement sjince the death of the deceased, rendered their verdict that D. E. Morris came to his death by the use of chloroform adminis tered by his wife, Cora Scale Morris. She has been arrested and is in lhe hands of the sheriff. 1 John U. Johnson, Seventh Nlorth Car olina district, has been appointctl a cadet at the Annapolis N aval Academy. SOUtE CAROLINA. 1 j The revival services conducted by the Jtev. ' lhomas II. L,eitch in the Washi. ton Street Methodist Church an Colum bia, continue with increasing interest The Governor of South Carolina has appointed about twenty editors to repre sent the State at the Raleigh State Fair. ' JJurana Li. Arrants has declined to qualify as postmaster at DeKaluJ in Ker shaw county. A hew office wks estab lished at this point several months ago, and Arrants was selected as postmaster. He failed to accept the appointment. and the office has never been fully es tablished. As no one is suggested for the position the office will proiably be abandoned. j j At the Convention ' of Fruitgrowers, which convened in Black ville hist week, and wdiich organized a Fruitgrowers' Association, Mr. P. Ill Loud i Jr., of Williston, wras appointed to - isit the several towns in the fruit bel ; and or ganize sub-associations, j j The . Governor has commute 1 to six months' imprisonment the sei tence of Ann Byers, colored, who was c mvicted at the March term of court in Spartan burg county for highway robbery and larceny.- She was sentenced I y Judge Hudson to eighteen months in the peni tentiary, j A commission was issued to he An derson Ware House . and j Manuf vcturing Company, which is to have its principal place of business at Anderson' Court House. The scope of the charter is to be a broad one, allowing the company to erect and maintain one or more ware house, with sheds; own and operate all machinery for manufacturing j cotton cloth or yarn ; ginning cotton, f. rinding corn or other grain; to manufac Lure fer tilizers and compress cotton. ' "he cap ital stock is to be $20,000, with the priv ilege of increasing to $ 100,000, vhich is little enough to do all they ask for. A commission was issued toth : South ern f ruit Company, of (Jhirleston, whose business is to export, buy and sell foreign and domestic fruit and con duct a general produce business TENNESSEE Every4 gambling house of Memphis was closed Wednesday night jon warrants is sued by the judge of the criminal court, Anna Evars, of Memphis, whose hus band is a prominent Republican p olitician of color has sued Patrolman Coi way for $5,000 damages for having cal ed her "Aunty' tne term beiDg considered a reminder of slavery days.) - Registration for the coming c ty elec tion in Nasnville, Tenn., shows t lat over 4,000 voters, mostly colored, neglected the duty, and are as a consequei ce dis franchised. The colored voters seemed generally indifferent . j The Evansville & Chattanoogj Rail road Company have secured $325,000 in county subscriptions and engineers will probably soon be at work j running lines preparatory to active work. Tl is road will furnish a direci line between Cnatta nooga and Evansville, Ind. I Knox county has voted a subscription c f $100, 000 to the Knoxville fc Xortli western nauroaa, wnicn insures the early com mencement of construction. Itlwill ex tend to the North Carolina state line. and will be with branches CO miljes long. The Memphis Cotton Exchange has re jected the rates of tare on cottoA bales 1 1.1. A 1 .. J iucreu wnu juie ana cotton bagging respectively which were t fixed Rry the -iew urieans uotton Exchange. GEORGIA.' The rsational Passenger anl Ticket Agents Association met in Atlatta. It was agreed that the next contention. which will meet on the second l ucsday in the in March, 1890, should be held city of Mexico. Several new members were elected. The Abbeville aud Waveross c pinpany has been incorporated in Georgia by J. L. Maynord, A. C. Fisher and ot hers, to build a railroad front Abbevill south east to Way cross, about" 80 mi lei. The capital is placed at $100,000. Abbeville is on the Savannah, Americus an Mont- gomery. j .ciuesi viiunenam. tne nnri list, was killed by a blow from thfc fist'of Tom Branch at Atlanta on Wednesday pugi- Ixjiaucu K.nocj&ea mmnguam out ing his neck. I T ! 1 a TT . . - . V break- I THROUGH I UI General Manager M. 8. Belknap, who leaves the Central Railroad on October 15, was presented with two handsome services of silver' at Savannah. One present was from the engineers and the other from tHe officials of the road. En gineer Smith and A. L. Lawton, Jr., made the speeches, which were listened to by a room full of railroad men. The plate presented cost $2,000. Governor Gordon honored a requisi tion made upon him by Governor Seay of Alabama, for the arrest of Col. J. D.' Williamson, Col. Pat Calhoun, Major Jack King, of Rome, and Capt. Harry uacjtson, an engaged in the recent duel, and also to E. E. Bruffy and E. W. Bar rett, the two newspaper men who are wanted as witnesses. The gentlemen, upon beinc arrested, all rrave their wnrH of honor to appear in Jlontsromerv on Monday, where they will ask to have a suitable bond fixed. VTEGINIA. Col. Thomas J. Evans, one of the best known lawyers!of Virginia, died at Rich mond on Friday last aged 67.' He had represented Richmond twice as a mem- uer oi me legislature beiore and Pince the war. He was a colonel in tho Con 1 f . 1 r . . . a . federate army, a prominent mason, and noted for his social qualities, j A murder was committed on Saturdav night on the farm of Sam Jones about four miles from Culpepper. It seems that some negroes were having a Satur day night '4cake walk" at the house of James Fitzgerald. During the evenincr one of the negroes present kissed the wife of Fitzgerald, whereupon the latter seized his gun ar d fired at his wife, the whole charge striking her in the side, making a dreadful wound. She fell and expired in fifteen minutes. After com mitting the deed Fitzgerald coolly walk ed up stairs and went to bed. He was arrested and is now in jail. David Harfeld, of New York, was ar rested at Richmond on a teleirram from Inspector Byrnes, charging him with bigamy. Harfeld has a wife in New York and has been livincr in Richmond with a woman he introduced as his wife. lie was taken back on a reouisition. x The following convicts were ' received at the State prison Wednesday: William Jenkins, Culpepper, three years, horse stealing; James William, alias James Kissey, one year, third conviction of petit larceny; and Robert Jones, alias W. S. Chilton, two years for forgery, Lynchburg. 1 The Craig Mineral railroad, of Vir ginia, which the Chesapeake & Ohio roilroad has underteken to build will open up a very fine mineral and timber country heretofore inaccessible. Some active industrial developments will doubtless follow the opening of : this line. ' FLORIDA. j The Jacksonville board of State Insti tutions awarded the contract for State printing in classes B and C to the Times Union and in class A to C to C. W. Da- costa. The State formerly elected a State printer but since the printing has by law been let out to the lowest bidder competition for it has been very sharp. H. M. Flagler, accompanied bv Drs. Anderson and Smith of St. Augustine. has left for Indian River ounty on a tour of investigation, which mav result in important railroad and canal enterprises. The Central Wharf Co. have com menced work on a wharf at Pensacola to be 1,000 feet long. Orlando capitalists have incorporated the Orlando & Northwestern Railroad Co., capital stock $200,000, to build a railroad from Orlando to Forest City; five miles of road fjm Mayo to Forest City now built is owned by the company. OTHER STATES. At Winona, Miss., a mob of about two hurdred men entered the jail and tipok Sol Purnell, a negro, and hanged him to the Illinois Central railroad , trestle. Purnell was accesed of assaulting the 12 year-old-duughter of a prominent citizen of that place. He confessed attempting the assault. A mail train on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was stopped at Buch Alumna bridge near Mobile, Ala., and robbed of $2,500 express money and a number of registered letters. A Texas exchange says 44275,000 pounds of bacon were imported into the grand old county of Rusk last year. It was paid for with cotton. The Georgia Pacific Railroad has let contrast for a 40-mile extension through the Yazoo valley country, the great cotton-producing region of Mississippi. OLD WORLD NEWS. A special embassy sent by the Sultan of Zanzibar to the German Government has arrived in Berlin. Land ore steel works, at Swansea, Eng., have been destroyed by fire. The French Municipal Commission has decided that the votes cast for Gen eral Boulanger in Montmartre in the re cent elections are null and void, and he has declared M. Joflrin, labor candidate, who received the next highest number of votes, elected. The Commission has also nullified the votes cast for Henri Roche fort in Belleville. The sensation over the exposure or frauds in the Naval Department of Ger many, continues despite the efforts of the Emperor to prevent publicity. There were several additional arrests at Kiel in connection with the affair. Eighteen thousand German miners em ployed at Sankt Johonn have addressed a petition to the authorities of Bonn, setting forth their grievances and asking that measures be taken for their redress. The Bolton, Eng., Cotton Association has resolved to support the employers in resisting the cotton corner by paying its operatives during the fortnight's sus pension. The Chicago court spent another weary day without obtaining a juror in the Cronin case. Judge McConnell said he was not entirely pleased with the men going through the box, and if necessary he would adjourn court for a day in or- the whole county and bring in represen- tauve citizens. AN INDUSTRIAL ERA E0NG OF THE ADVANCING SOUTH. Encouraging Statistics Compiled by Lead ing Trade Journals. The Chattanooga Tradesman has com piled reports of new industries estab lished in the Southern States in the nine months of 1889, ending October 1, and it demonstrates that the remarkable de velopment in industrial lines that has been in progress in the South for two years continues unabated. It is con spicuous also for the diversity of plants. During nine months a total of 2,416 industries was established, against 2,052 for the corresponding period last year; 1U agricultural implement factories, 9 barrel factories, 1 1 breweries, 72 brick works, 10 loot and shoe factories, 8 car works, 50 canning works, 29 cigar and tobacco works and 137 cotton and woolen factories were organized during nine months, 51 ot them in the past quarter; 22 cotton compresses were or ganized during nine months, 5 distiller ies, 100 electric light works, 51 fertil izer factories, 108 llour and grist mills, 148 foundries and machine shops, 49 of them in the past three months; 30 blast furnace companies were formed during nine months, against 24 in the same pe riod last year; 16 gas companies and 64 water-works companies were incorpo rated; ;3 glass factories, 55 ice factories, 49 . natural gas companies, 89 oil wells, 24 potteries, 8 rolling mills, 494 wood works and 34G miscellaneous industries were incorporated in nine months, also 25 railroad companies and 198 mining companies. The Tradesman says that the returns show uniform expansion throughout the South in all industrial lines. The past thirty days have witnessed the forma tion of the strongest development of companies yet organized in the South and they will see the production of more substantial advancement than has yet been recorded. WHAT THE MANUFACTURERS' RECORD SATS The Manufacturers' Record publishes its quarterly review of the South's In dustrial progress this week, showing great activity in the organization of new manufacturing and mining companies. In the last nine months there were 4,053 new enterprises establ:shed, or 1,111 in fYrfcia nf t hp amt-lA ntr.ntlia in 1Qttd T these the total amount of capital and I capital stocK represented is $154,849,000, or $33,439,000 more than the amount in vested during the first nine months of 1888. Virginia leads with $22,395,000, Kentucky $20,372,000, Texas $19,494, 000, Alabama $16,749,000 and Georgia $15,557,000. CLOUD BURST AT JACKSONVILLE Pavements Torn Up by the Rivers in the Streets. Rain began to fall at Jacksonville, Fla., before dawn Tuesday and continued without cessation all day. A few min utes before 5 p. m. a black cloud was seen rolling toward the city. Its veloci ty increased as it approached and the wind became almost a hurricane. Sud denly the cloud burst, and a perfect del uge of water descended upon the city, its volume being greatest in the territory bounded oy .Newman, Forsythe and Laura streets and the St. John's river. In less than ten minutes the streets were flooded, the sewers and surface drains being wholly inadequate to carry ing it off. The pavement is of circular cypress blocks, and the water forcing its way beneath them, made the surface of the streets undulate like the waves of the ocean. Teams and pedestrians brrke through and water spurted into the air with great force. Surface streams ran down Pine, Ocean and Uogau streets like a mill race, wash ing the paving blocks up into piles and in some instances carrying tnem down almost to the wharves. Bay street, from Pine to Market, is a mass of dislo cated paving blocks and is impassable.. The police and firemen have roped it off to prevent accidents. Street car travel on Bay street is suspended. Many stores were flooded, and unpaved thoroughfares have been gullied out in many places so as to be temporarily impassable. The damage will reach several thousand dollars. Sergeant Townsend of the United States Signal Station reports the rainfall the greatest on record for a like dura ration. At Pablo Beach on the Atlantic coast the tornado struck the resort hotel, Murray Hall, and shattered it, "At this point a boy named Prince O'Neil with a horse and vehicle were lifted into the air and blown nearly 200 feet where they were found ten minutes later. The boy was killed outright, being terribly bruised and mangled. Cotton Crop Figures. ' The Commercial and Financial Chron icle has issued its report of the total crop of last year. It makes the total crop 6, 939,082 bales, 82,525 less than for 1887- 88. The weight of the crop was 3,437, 499 pounds, against 3,406,063,167 pounds of the year lcfore. This shows a heavier average weight per bale for the year ending August 31. Ib59. Of Lhe crop 4,642.745 bales were ex ported foreign. The most gratifying showing, however is the increase of cot ton manufacturing in the South, the total for 18S9 being 4S6,C03 bales and for 1SSS 443,373 or 7.02 er tent of the total crop for 1889 against 6.31 per cent for 18S8. Geogia was the greatest con sumer of cotton of the Southern States, with the two Caroiinas next. An analy sis of the report shows that the Southern manufacturers have increased their ca pacity 200,000 spindles, or about 16 per cent., while the Northern per centage of increase is much smaller. It is remark able how close the authorities have come to the total crop. A. B. Shepperson the statistician of the New York Cotton Ex change makes the cotton crop for 1SSS 89 4,000 bales more than the Chronicle makes it. The Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany enjoys an income from all sources of about 360,000 a year. PERTAINING TO POLITIOS. Results of tie BeTeral Statea' Conven tions. Fall IBeciions. Political Notes. The constitutional amendment of Ken tucky received a majority in its favor of 81,931. Gen. James R. Chalmers, is the Re publican nominee for Governor of Mis sissippi. Judge Vasser was nominated for State treasurer but declined. John R. Lynch, a negro was nominated for Lieu tenant Governor, and W. E. Mollison is the nominee for Secretary of State. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention met in Fremont Hall, Bos ton. .Lieut. Gov. J. Q. A. Brackett was nominated on the first ballot as candi date for Governor. Wm. H. Ilaile, was nominated for Lieut. Governor. The rest of the ticket is as follows : Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce; auditor, Charles R. Ladd ; treasurer and receiver, General George A. Marden: attornev -general, Andrew G. Waterman. The New York Republicans met at Saratoga and the following ticket was chosen: For Secretary of State, John L. Gilbert, ofMalone: comptroller, Mar tin W. Cook, of Monroe ; State treasurer, Ira M. Hodges, of Rocklaud; attorney General James M. Varnum, of New York; State engineer and surveyor. William P. VanRensallaer. of Seneca: judge court of appeals, Judge A. Haight, of Buffalo. At Lamonte, Missouri. Saturdav last, a tariff reform picnic was attended bv 5,000 people. Robt. C. Davidson was nominated for mayor of Baltimore by the city Demo cratic Convention. He came into the convention recommended by the Busi ness Man's Democratic Association, The others whose names were up were Mayor F. C. Latrobe and Col. C. S. Wood. Davidson received nine votes of each ward, and his nomination was ratified bv acclamation. L The Philadelphia Democratic citv nominating conventions weie held. Dr. James H. Cant r ell was nominated for coroner, Major Moses Veale for clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions, and the Republican nomination for Judcre of the court of common pleas, Samuel W. Pen nypacker was endorsed. A PROTEST FROM GOV. F0WLE His Excellency Does Not Want Geronimo in North Carolina. Washinoh, D. C Officers of the War Department and agents of the In dian Rights Association, arc arranging the purchase of a large area of land which the association intends giving to Geroni mo and his band of captive Apaches, now at Mt. Vernon barracks, Ala., as a future home. The land is on the mountainous western border of North Carolina, con tiguous to Tennessee, from which it is separated by the great Smoky Mountains. It is populated by a baud of Cherokee In dians, who refused to move West with the rest of their brethren and were per mitted by the Government to remain in North Carolina. A colony of Quakers set tled with the Cherokees and established an Indiacrmission there. INDIAN SETTLERS NOT W ANTED. Raleigh, N, C. Some days ago Sec retary oi war Proctor wrote Governor owie in regard to the proposed removal of Geronimo, and his band of Indians, from Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama to Western North Carolina. Governor Fowle wrote a renlv TTo says that such settlement of these Indians in Western North Carolina would create great dissatisfaction, particularly if their location should be in the western part of the State on the lands to be purchased by the Secretary of War. These lands, he says, are not reserva tion lands, but were bought from the State by the Cherokees, who are now few in number and will soon disappear, and the lands ' will then be settled by white people. The Governor in conclu sion suggests to Secretary Proctor that the Indian be colonized in Vermont, cer tain portions of that State being now abandoned by the white nnnnlatinn The Governor informs the secretary that no happier spot could be chosen for his purposes. - Death of Gen. D. H. HilL Gen. D. II. Hill, the gallant confeder ate cavalry leader of the late war, died in Charlrtte, N. C, Tuesday eveuing at 4 :30 o'clock. His remains were depos ited at Davidson College, with military honors, the Hornet's Nest Riflemen at tending in a body. w General Hill was born in York county, S. C. July 1821. and at the went to West Point, graduating in '52 with Gens. Longstreet and A. P. Stew art, and also with Gens. Doubleday and Reynolds, his foes in the late war, be sides other men who afterwards attained to military prominence both in the con federate and federal armies. After graduation he served as lieutenant in the 4 th US artillery in Fort Kent. Me., Fortress Monroe and Savannah and Charleston. He was twice brevetted in the Mexican war for gallantry and meri torions service. After the war South Carolina presented him with a gold sword. In 1818 General nill ww mar ried to Miss Isabella Morrison During the civil war he was in the bat tles around Richmond and at Malvern Hill, and at Boonesboro or South Moun tain he held back, with his division of 6,000, McClellan's whole army until Let had safely crossed the Potomac. Mrs Margaret J Preston called this battle the Thermopylae of the late war. I Being promoted to Lieutenant General he was sent to help Bragg, and Major Archer Anderson says that at Chica maugua Gen Hill's division did the ttub bornest fighting of the war. After the war Gen Hill was president of the " University of Arkansas and in 1885 resigned that position to accept the presidency or tne AUiieugeville, Ga, Ag ..cultural and Mechanical college, where ( he remained until two month, .c- I he remained until two moctha aro. when he was compelled by ill health to resign and went to Charlotte, trusting to be bnefitted by the change. He passed peacefully away and the last was' heard to utter were, ''nearly there." J OVER THE WIRES. IMPORTANT NEW FROM ALL POINTS Gathered and Condensed In ReadabU Styie for the Public. Jacob Fitzgerald, a delegato to the sw York Republican State convention, dropped dead while on his way to Saratoga where the convention was held. The cotton goods manufacturers of Mexico arc said to have agreed to buy all their raw material in the United states. The market for raw sugar is declining A London cable says, "U-tt sugar, which short time ago was quoted at 29s. 6d is now 13s." This will reduce the price of sugar. ... The Minnesota Meat Inspection Law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which opens the state throughout to the sale , of dressed beef from Chicago and Kansas City, and practically settles the validity of the law compelling inspection on the hoof. Rev. T. II. Good wis,' formerly pastor Mass., has brought suit for $lo!oo0 for consniracv atraiust John S P. conspiracy agaiust John 8. Brookes a iii i ' wen-Known grocer, ana also postmaster and a deacon in the church, and Horace S. Crane, clerk of the church. The trouble arose over refusal of the church to give the Rev. Mr. Goodwin letters of dismissal and recommendation. Philip Lepnard, whose lody was found in the river Sunday morning at Providence, R. I., was murdered "in a drunken row in some saloon. Country roads are often paved with good intentions. There was a heavy froet in the vicinity of Bellows Falls, Vt., the first of the sea son there. Crops were generally in hand and the damage is small. Wilkie Collins, the famous English novelist, died Tuesday at his London home, after a long illness. He was born in January, 1825. Little William Defordt was seized with a fit of hiccoughing at West Hoboken, N. J., and fell back in his chair dead. The publishing house of Bel ford, Clark & Co., Chicago, 111., and New York, failed Tuesday and a leceiver was ap pointed. The assets amount to $100, 000. , Snow has fallen on Mount Washington for the last few days and is eighteen inches deep. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the issuing of the emancipation proclama tion by President Lincoln was celebrated Tuesday from Maine te California, E. II. Piatt and John Allen of New York city, have completed their long horseback ride across the continent. They reached San Francisco four months and about four days from the time they left New York William Henry Smith, the manager of the Associated Press, has purchased the Chicago Times, it is said, for $250,000. A syndicate of New Yorkers are backing him in the enterprise. The editorial staff of the paper is to be reorganized by ii&-t:m men selected lor that purpose .At iiarlan, Ky., courthouse tidit prisoners by means of a hand spike re raoyeu a log of the jail wall and made their escape. Two of them were mur derers. rr - - ine man-ot.war Ossipee sailed for nayli with ralcrick Douglass, the new luiuisicr to tiiat country. i ne ponce commissioners of Kansas tity have ordered the chief of police to police to suppress the Salvation Army in that city. The order was issued on ac count oi the numerous cases of peace dis- iui uui-u m me Army's headquarters. varies n. Halsey, of Hunteville, has been elected general manager of the rorth Alabama Improvement company. A special from Erie, Pa., savs a party of thirty young people went out into the Country in a band wagon for a picnic. On their return the driver, being under the influence of liquor, drove over a bank, throwing tho horses, wagon and party over a precipice forty feet in height . All.wero badly' injured and Iatritk Flaharly, of Springfield, and James LNeyland, of Erie, were so badly r --i ohfil -. . . . ..c. lULcmany tnat they cannot live. The Colorado Mining Exchange of Denver adopted a resolution to investi gate the constitutionality of the act re stricting the coinage nf .silver. Dr. Lichtenstein, a physician of Birm jngham, Ala., was cowhided in Lis office oy airs. Kobert Funk, wife-of one of the wealthiest Gcrmats in the city. The Doctor had been treating Mrs. Funk for some time, and on Saturday she visited his office alone. After ehe had been in the office thrt time she ran out scream ing and hurried away. Tue-day morning the entered the Dnc tor'a oflice accompanied by her husband, and drawing a cowhide from the folds of her dress, hit the physicUn several blows over the head and shoulders. Mr and 3Irs Funk then turned and left the office without a word. The lady charges that on PtnrU-r n- Lichtet.-tcin made improper proposals o I her, but he indignantly denies tl . charge. Toe Doctor recently raiced considerable local notoriety by ex peri rnentinr.n himself with the Brown-Se-quard thxer. He was made violently id by the experiment and for a time his life was dctj.ta.ircd of. Interesting Move By Colored People Very mu lt intf rr-et is centered in a new departure by the blacks of Todd county, Kentucky, and Montgomery county, Teinc sce. They have "organ ized a tot k comjany with a capital of 25,00O and -Hill hold" a founty fair, be ginning October 10th. Every officer and employe I. a black man. Only col ored jec pie can com for premiums, which amount to $10,000. Fifteen hun dred dollars are offered for purse, in the horse race, and only animal1 owned and ridUen LJ n-groes can Miter. The blacks e taking immense interc-rt in the affair and thousands will attend. A boiler expioion occurred at a mill in Berlin, Pa., and John Fritz, Ed- ward mtz, Uuver Jtoaa, JJaviU and David Baker were killed. Ross J j A FAIR QltlL THIEF. Etta Robinson in Jil (or Horn iag. List of Hex Thefts. 8tnl. Parker, m ro, W. Va. -There U now m progress here the trial of a seventeen-year-old girl named Etta l otCTt. is accused of horse stealing. SmoM. go Etta was voting her brother thl adjoining county of Putnam, ho is a IaafJem,pl03rcJ -Thona Ilmdly, ?n! r ! 7 real e-U,.a OWDcr- One mora ng Etta was musing, and also a fine horse belonging to N.thsn McCoy. After .ScarJch 'or some days the ho.e was n;." t, -', l-oMion near tha Ohio River. While her pursuers wer debating what to do with her, Etta dashed into the Ohio, still on horseback, and endeavored to swim across. She was captuied and whilr bny mumed to jail tol.l how he had traveled fifty miles alono through a strange country after night. She was placed in jail but broke out and returned te her brother, when McCoy took pity on her youth and re fused to prosecute her. A short time after a horse belonging to a farmer named Smith was misting just when the low country in the Kana- I w trSkto ihlJlf' . The horsa the water and umuaj uoiuuuana tne horw were found in a hollow. Tho girl had swam the stream, a mile wide, on horseback. She slept out at night, living on what she could steal. For tha second time her youth protected her and she was not prosecuted. Six weeks later, she stole a horse from Lowis Losley. She was jmrsued across the Ohio, captured and brought back to the Putnam county jail. She was con fined there several woeks, in which time her winning ways won her the confidence jailor, who allowed her many privileges. Two weeks ago he awoke to find the fair maid had gone, having cleverly mado hr escape, by cutting through an old wall. It was afterwards found that she had stolen a su't of men's clothes, and taking the stable key had stolen a fine horse in the jailor's possession, and fled the country. For ten days Alf. Burnett, the defective, and posse scoured the country in vain. She was finally caj tured with the horse near her old home. During her escaiadea she had lived on berries, corn ar anything sbo coul I find, and wandered through the wildest terri tory. . This young adventuress does not steal from any other motive than simply tha love of excitement. Her face glows with youth and apparent innocence. Her education and manners have not been neglected and she is neat in her attire. Her youth and beauty have created a vast deal of sympathy in her favor and somo of the most prominent citizens of. Putnam county are interesting themselves to secure her release. The trial will probably last a week. n. l.A . THE BAILEY COTTON. A New Grade of Cotton Which Watched. is Being Cotton planters in North Carolina art watching with particular interest the jiractical test, on a large , scale, of the merits of what is known as the 'Bailoy" cotton, which takes its name from Hec tor Bailey, a colored man, who was its discoverer in Harnett county in 198-. The stalk resembles that of ordinary cotton, but is stouter. The leaves differ widely from those usually seen. They are long and shajx d like a hand. Tho flowers' are of a large sice, and are the bolls. The seed are large and very black, while the staple is nearly as long as that of sea island cotton, and is silky in texture. It was at nr.t thought that this cotton was the result of a crossing of the okra jilant with ordinary cotton, but it is now known that this idea was erroneous, and that the discovery is that of anew variety of ujdand cotton. Cap tain Octavius Coke, a well known plant er near Raleigh, has several acres of the "Bailey" .otton in growth, which is now maturing. There is an offer of sixteen cents per pound for the cotton which is all to be specially ginned. The seed will all be handled by the Brinley Cot ton company, of Raleigh, which svel 1 county righta. The plantation of Cap tain Coke is upland, but a few mile, wert of there this cotton is lx.ing tested on bottom land. An inspection of the plants shows that they are heavily fruited and have stood remarkably well the try ing ordeal of a cold and wet summer. New Mexico Wants to Coma In The New Mexico State Constitutional Convention has closed its labors at Santa Fe. It was decided to first submit the proposed constitution to Congress, and if that body should paxsan enabling act, then the constitution shall be voted upon by the jeopIe within ninety days there after, but if Congsess refuse to act, then the constitution is to be voted upon at the next general election for delegate in Congress. The convention memorial ised Congress for an extra grant of pub lic domain for school puroes, ana ap pointed a committee of one from each county in jrejarc an address to the jo j.le, and also one to Congress urging upon them the neres.it y for the ad mi sion of New Mexico as a State. Harder and Euicide. Alfred Burnett and Allen Fetters, young white farmers, near Columbia, . C, had a difficulty about a young white woman Earned Carrie Black. The rival, met at church' Wednesday night when PttUr. ask.d Harnett to walk eff with him in lh- woods, to talk over tha troublr ' A few minute afterward two shot'" -e heard. An investigation dU-clot-i lifeless body of Barnett with two wounds in the region of his heart. The murdered man was unarmed. Pet-' ters U still at Urge. Carrie Black upon beirig iofi.rmed of the murder, .wallowed laudanum from the effects of which he died Thursday morning. A posse ha gone in search of Petter.. Work has been commenced on the Minsral Wells & North- Weatherford, we Urn liailroad to run from Weather- ford, Texas, to extensive coal mines near there.
The Carolina Banner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 4, 1889, edition 1
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