North Carolina Newspapers

OLINA B ANN THE OLD NORTH STATE FOREVER." VOL. 2. NO. 40. TARBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1890. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. Ci&R ! L ERo A Cabinet Minister of Health is seri- c'J'-J- proposed for England. The New York Time notices that '; development of agriculture in tbe c,uth is keeping pace reasonably well v.it.i that of other industrial pursuits." I: n j) pears that the oyster industry of Vir -lull, like that of Maryland, is tle ( i. i tr to such aa extent as to suggest fi.i i.rgf-nt need for legislation toencofur- r-c. i 'anting. X V; theory that good apples cannot be -- the South seems, to the St. I ;.; Si'ir-S'Vjlng$i to be dispro7cn. Ap ten and twclva inches in circumfer ?!jc. arc raised as far toward the equator t, ,?o;icrn Florida. , 'i he Heiigolander has a singular dis- ik; v feeing a soldier, either on land or ' id. In the course of live years, in spite -,f ttuip.ting high pay, only four islanders imve f nttred the British navy, aud one ! of , these, stricken with homejickness, fcooai-jftthe service. ;r in wants but little here below," is rct.uaiy the motto of so.ne natives in Inlii. A man of forty being recently ?x 'iv.HiCd before a magistrate at lianga I m:c Kt ttcd that he earned daily a quarter, linn anaa (about two and one-half cent by bottling ginger beer, and that he was quiteatisfied. with his wages and (o-itlOIl. ' The establishment at Pullman of new en 1 extensive works for the manufacture of electric motors is," thinks the Chicago iWici, "an event of more than ordinary interest and importance. It means that I he age of electricity as a motor for the projiulsion of street railways is about to dawn, au2 that Chicago will take the -lend in bringing about the change from t'l'l-fahioned methods." ' Edward Palliser, tho well-known in-' vcir.or of the gun and shot of that name, Ln written a letter suggesting that, in view of the annual obstruction to com merce between Europe and America cance l by icebergs, it would be of de-t-Mfd benefit if an arrangement could be entered into between the English and American Governments to have men-of-wnr cruise during tha iceberg season of thf; year along the steamship route across the northern Atlantic for the pur pose of destroying these great masses of ice. The Vashington Star says: "A New York doctor has upset the traditional t-cntimchts of civilization by advancing the argument that cannibalism would im prove the human race morally, mentally mid physically. Ho argues that pork is more demoralizing than a diet of beef, that beef is more demoralizing than Loricflcsh, that horseflesh than moakey and po on upward through tho grades Of ftnia-.al intelligence until man himself be comes his own diet, and on that he would i Utain tho perfect condition. Theoreti cally the doctor is no doubt correct and hU argument is plausible, very plausible, but will tho learned gentleman argue to ft conclusion on a diet of Congressmen! Had he based any of h'.s calculations on a luprescntative roastt" It is calculated that tho new bridgo over ' Jtho Hudson at New York, which wi'.l be the greatest engineering feat of tho century, will cost about 40.000,000. It will-take ten years to construct it, and will be a third longer than the East River bridge and twonty feet higher.but tinlike the former, it will bo of the cantilever type. Storehouses will bo located be neath tho great structiri Freight cars will unload by means of chutes into these, and ships will load direct from them or direct to the cars. The grand union depot, a part of the structure, will bo a colossal structure of steel capable of ac commodating all the trains that now cater New York and Jersey City. It ill be large enough to hold twenty tracks side by side, and will be 1300 feet in lenertu. A field for philanthropy in this coun try, states'tho San Francisco Chronicle, U the establishment of asylums for epi leptics. Although theso unfortunates are i.tx nltcred by thousands in this country there is not a single asylum for their treatment. Tho result is that the epilep- . tic children of the poor, who cannot be taken abroad, are soon turned out, of In f i::e aslyums and hospitals as cured, al though they ' may have received little leaerlt." Few employers care to hire tiiera because they are not to be depended N upon, and as a consequence they become loafers or criminals. The men who leave hrge su ns for the founding of univcrsi-t-tr? to bear their name could do far more Kod were they to endow a few asylums tor epileptics. Those who have estab-l-'ied the kindergarten system in this -:e and the Home for Feeble-minded 1 .'.'! ren have aided California more than tii'j rich .met who have given of their Uuii'jus for higher education. THE NEWS. The corning mills of the Do pont works near W'ilkesbarre, Pa-, exploded, but no one was hart. The Board of Jmli sioners at Mohawk elected Dr. Gate', president of Amherst Co presidency of the conference, to caney caused by the death of Gen li. Fik, Cornelia Miller an in Commis- Merrill E. lege, to the fill thera- ral Clinton 1 Priscilla Field, wives of London bankers ho (ailed a month ago, were arrested in Ne4jYork on a warrant of extradition, charged with receiv- ing stolen property, amounting to fciO.OOO.-- In a collision in the bridge tunnel n St. Louis, lienjainin Ingram and John Livi cruNhed to death. -Burglars bid w open tbe safe in John Siler's store and sthle govern merit bond to . the value of $6,Oift.- Theo dore Sweigert, an employe of the 1 ount Holly. Paper Company7 mill at., .Carl bf , Pa., was instantly killedy Ceingucrsh kl in a fly- whecl.--Jion. J7 T pewjRjidge of the Cottamon Pleas Cojt. at Sandusky! Ohio, was instantly killed by a train while Hunting. A mortgage of four and a half million dollars was filed for record in Erie, Pa., py the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad Company- Justice .Grogau, of Went Troy, N. Y, disci Urged John Kieruan, charged with train-wreqking, there being no evidence against hiui-j- Fire de stroyed the Pillow and Herscy Mahafactaring Company's mills, in Montreal, iloss, 180,000. William II. Behrieber, the I Columbus, Ind., bank embezzler, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of njOO. Four men robbed a train near Schell City, Mo. At Pacific Junctiol i, la., two Clark was engines collided and . Engineer killeil. The Michigan japreinif Court has declared the Local Option Liquorllaw of that Stateconstitulional. 'William WL-st, colored, was convicted in Washington, Pal of rourHsj in the first degree. Wni. Peteii, of Lukia Townfhip, HI., is .dead. ! He m ighed four iiundred jfmnds. A drunken ndiau shot iinl killed E. I. Hairer aiid Wiu. Itice, near Oklahoma, I. T. Thomaa Greening, a Cameron, Mo., farmer, killed liijl Lopman, while the latter was firing hi- baijn.- -Itemi La Moutaeue has been convietill in Sher- brooke, Que., of the murder of j Napoleon Michael, his brother-in-law. James Atkins, a lawyer and Tlcpnblican politician of Savannah, Ga.. was Uo'und dead from heurt disease in his'office. f Jano Ka- jando, a Hungarian, was ; arrestee in Perth Amboy, N. J., charged with complicity in the murder of Jotsepa Hepncr, a boarding-house boss in Uucks county. Pa. Thd finding of gold in Northern Ontario has caused great excitementiamong-the Canadians.! Nathan Willcf, a farmer near Norfolk, Cm., has been arrested charged with murdering ll.Ii. Wood ward, in Anderson county, Texai, seventeen years ago. Win. Sprngue, Jr., the only son of ex-(Jovernor Kprague, f of Iihfcde Island,. committed suicide at Seattle, yashington. -The books of ex-City Tren urer Fitz- Patrick, of Terfa-If a ute, Ind., short n shortage of $l522 for his two terms in oflice, most of the money having been lost, in nolitbrs. Attorney General flunt, of Ulin pis, has de- cidedahnt tho law docs not permit companies to act as agents for the he express potteries in that State. J. C. Forsytho. peer tary of the at Mucon, unknown ndinn con ,k. The Normaudale' Lumber Company, Ga., was shot ami killed by an assassin. The eighth nnmial iercuce opened at Lake Moho eighty-first annual meeting of th American Hoard of Commissioners of Foreign iIisions opened at Minneapolis. Michah V. Norton, of Skowhegan, Mc , was leutcucqJ to state prison lor lite for tho murder . of IMrs Anna Collcy, his housekeejhjr,- I$y thi explosion of boilers in a sawmill in Musketou, Mich., the mill was demolished and six men hurt. A three-year-old son of Mr. Ja nes Duflin, of South Ui thlehem, Pa., s cho'n -d to dea:h on a grain of coffee. 111 11. Oii cr, a news sgeut. in a Quarrel with J. 11. lslai ion over a eat on a train between tlloanoke aud Lyneh- burg, shot the latter. C-S. ball and Uros.' wire mattress factory, in llnrridibu. g, Pa., was destroyed Lv fire. Less . tOXmO.- Pauline Hall, t e nctrts', hides her diamdnds in her Hoc kings and other garments ov r night in her dres-ing-room. Tuesday jiight the dres1", in the sleeve of which was secreted ler jewel, was stolen from the theatre. LyX i found in A pawn shop in Philadelphia Mrs. Mary Rautzihn, of Leavenworth, Ks has confessed that she and Chartes Isensoa had planned and carried out the her mother. Ten meu v?ere bio murder., of K-n to atoms by nn explodoa in the Ilosario (Cal.) gold ndjana has Australian mines. The Supreme Court of decided that the provisions in the election law requiring ninety day ti residence ist be tax- in the count y, and that voters m payer, are unconstitutional. highway 1 four rob away. man in Anderson, Ind., committcj beries the sarae evening and go The Academy of Mu ic in Pittsbuh was par tially destroyed by tire. At Teed mseh, Ala., a man named Handy killed his wi jfe and bru- tally beat lii daughter,' one of whom will die.- Nenr Waynesboro-;a lioraer Glis son killed Tom Joyner. -7-In Wkrthen, Ga-, J. Thomas Tanton was assassinated. The commission appointed by the legislature to make a survey will ak the state if Pennsyl vania to complete the hip can.4l. Mary and Eliza McGunigle were tntiiilered near Cumberland, Oct. Narcisse Lkrocque is charged with the crime.- Philio; Flaherty, aged eTen years, committe! suicille in Phila- delrhia. Companies are beind ornizeJ to open up enormous coke fields ia the vicin- ifv of Fairmont, W. Vs.- It ia nlw thought that the war in passenger rates ia the West may soon spread to the Eastern rolds. Tbe new cruiser Newark made her initial trip on the Helaware. In the Mohonk conference the separation of church and statelin work of educating the Indian was advjocated. Washington Hitter, theclcrk who disappeared from New York as an .embezzler, was ar- rested in Texas and takes back fir trial Founder's Day, in commemoration of Asa Packer, was celebrated at the Lehigh Univer sity. In the annual session of the Ameri can Missionary Board, Chairman IWalker, of the principal committee, ' stated I that there were many churches not in sympathy witutne board, and that the present ystemj of examin ing candidates should be modified! TllK Frenbh cabinet has charged M. Roche, minister of Wm merce. to frame me a toiii 10 oe Depities. fixing introduced in the Chamber of a maximum tariff upon exports ibto r ranee. and pivintr the covernment powrr to make nnipu:inr. to those Countries W hose goTern- menta in their tariff laws favor ducts. . '' : renclipro- Tub blackest adTersitj zaay bear ur to prosperitj. RUBE BOHMS KILLED. The Desperado Shot Whila Trying to Escape. A ConnterTeltrr, MnrJfrrr and m. Moon hlnrr A Camr of Crime that Tr- rorlxect tbe Konlhtra P-op!r. Rube Burrows was shot ani killed in the .Linden, ( Ala., jail the other morning by the sheriff and guards. At night Barrows was placed inside the sheriff's office in the tail nnder the guard of McDuffee, one of his captors, and a negro named Carter. The other captor waat the hotel with the money found on Burrows. The outlaw's hands and feet were tied. Durrows complained of hunger, MeDufTee answered that he had nothing to eat. A pair of saddlebags, taken fronOhe prisoner, were Jyiug in the corner of the room. I have some crackers in my saddlebag, if you will hand them tome," iiid the outlaw. ; McDuffee did io without' opening them. Burrows instead of the crackers drew forth a pair of pistols and covering MeDuffee and the negro, ordered them to untie hirn, which they did, and keeping them in front of him, he walked out the front door. He then nkked for his money, and started to the hotel to re cover it of Carter who had it. The men opened fire and Burrows was killed, while Carter received an ugly wound in the breast. Kube Burrows' life furnishes an exciting piece of criminal history. He was born in North Alabama about the beginning of the war of the rebellion, and is about twenty-nine years old. His first crime was committed when he was nioeteen years old. A companion and he were out hunting one day, when a dispute arose over some trifle, and Burrows killed him. There were no witnesses to the killin?, and Burrows claimed that he did it in self-defense, and was released. Vernon, Ala., is his home. It is a village situated away up in the mountains of North Alabama, remote irom civilization. The inhabitant- of the vicinity are a set of lawless and reckless people. Along in 16S3, when Burrows was a mere youth, he organized a band of thieves. He was their captain. They made whiskey and sold it to the farmers up in his neighborhood. They had spies out around the still, and whenever a stranger appeared he had to give a very clear account of himself. One or two deputy marshals have been left over there in their efforts to break up the gang. Burrows, it is said, tried counterfeiting money, but was unsuccessful, and gave it up. His next escapade occurred Hear Pine Biuff, Ark , three years ago. lie,1 his brother, Jim Burrows, and Nick Thornton robbed an ex press car of $2U,U0 '. Jim Burrows was cap tured, prosecuted iu the Arkansas courts, and sentci-ced to the penitentiary for twenty years. Alter that bobbery Kube and Nick Thornton concealed themselves in a little hut in the mountains near Vernon. If they were sus pected of being the robbers, 110 officer was ever brave enough to beard these two des peradoes in their den. After a while they came out from their fort and resumed making whiskey, and it is said that they were experts at the business. They made money by their illegal work, and their families and sweethearts lived in the height of mouutain style. On the night of December 13th last, as the north-bound Illinois Central express train No. 2 was pulling out front Duck Hill,asmall station midway between New Orleans and St. Louis, the engineer was ordered to stop his train two hundred yards north of the station He obeyed, and a man jumping from tbe en gine, with the engineer and fireman in front, with hands up, marched to the door of the ex press car and demanded admittance. The express messenger, in his fright, responded to the robber's request to help him in the car. The conductor, P. B. Wilkinson, stepping on the outside to see the cause of the halt, was commanded by another robber, who, up to that time, had been unobserved, to return to his car. Wilkinson appealed to the passen gers for aid in driving the robbers away, but, instead, they all crowded under their seats, with the exeeption of a young man, Chester Hughes, who borrowed a Winchester, and went out to help the conductor. Hughes was hot down and died a few minutes afterward. Wilkinson had exhausted his cartridges and returned inside. Meantime, the robber in the express car proceeded to business, ami while filling his pouch with valuables, whistled some lively country tune. Thirty-five thousand dollars was the amouut the robbers gott The country soon swarmed with detectives and sheriff's passes, so daring was the deed, and as one of the robbers resembled the no torious Captain Bunch, the crime was at once charged to him, but even he wts not captured, and they afterward found that they -were on the wrong scent In July, 1SS0, Burrows ordered mai-ks from a Chicago firm under an alias. He directed them to be sent by mail to Jewell, a Postoffiee near Vernon. Nick Thornton went after them, but as they were registered the Postmaster refused to deliver them to any other than the party to whom they were addressed. Bur rows then came. He met with the same re fusal. Old man Gardener, the Postmaster, became angry at Burrows'threatsand ordered him away. Burrows killed him. Some women who were near rushed in as soon as they heard the shooting. He tipped his hat to them as they entered the door, and selecting the left looking one in the crowd, threw his arms around her 1 ek and implanted a very heavy smack on her lips. He then quietly walked to his horse, tipped his hat again and galloped away. '' Burrows and Thornton then left the conn try lor a short time, but won returned. In nn attempt to arrest them shortly afterward an officer was shot down, but reeoveretL They kept hiding around after that until a few weeks ago a detective happened along in that country. He caaght little Johnnie Burrows, a nephew of Rube, and ho gave the whole snap ittiout the Durk Hill roblwry a way, tell ing all hIkmU how the outlaws lett home and how liny returned. The robber heard of this and they again left. Noone knew where they had gone. Since that time many efforts Imve been made to cap ture Burrows, but no officer has succeeded in laying hands on him until now. A sheriffs posse had several desperate fights with him in Blunt county, in Oeto!cr, and in one of .them James Delcno was killed. AN OZARK MURDER. A tJeorgla Farmer Charged with Pois oning Ills hole Family. Clayton Lloyd is in jail at Ozark, Ala-, on the charge of murdering his wife and four children by administering rat poison to them. He is a farmer of prominence, but his previous d sperste exploits bad brought him iuto trouble. About a year ago he escaped from jail and made his way to Texas, wLere he seemed to mend his ways, and gained the affectionsof a young IaJy.wbo agreed to become bis wife. Her friend, however, discovered tbe existence of his family in Alabama, and the match was broken ott This seemed to have furnished the motive for the murder of his wife and children. Lloyd returned home, and, being a fugitive from justice, be was conceaieu py nis wne. ane me cauuren Cora Lee, aged ten; Lambert, aged seven, and Richard, aged five, fell away from the table and died in a few minutes. Mrs. Lloyd and the baby, Emory, aged two, were taken deadly sick, and both died. Mrs. Lloyd lived long enough to tell of the presence of her husband, who had disappeared from the boose as soon us he saw the ihree children fall dead. In vestigation by the coroner was at one began, j retailing in a verdict to the effect that "we, the jury, find upon examination that the de- . ceased family came to their deaths by poison, s administered by the hjuU of one Ciajtoa j Lloyd." Lloyd was captured in Donaldson 1 ille, Ga-, where he vigorously resisted arrest. CABLE SPARKS. J-sriii J. Jokarskx, of New York, has been acquired of using seditions utterances in Berlin. It is proposed to declare a regency in Holland in consequence of the serious illness of the King. The Spanish cabinet has decided to suspend the new Cuban tariff until after negotiation with the United Mates. Sexob Ferkao, to whom was entrusted the tak of forming a new Portuguese cabinet, has failed in tbe undertaking. TllR strike of the cart men at Liverpool is disturbing trade. Merchants are unable to remove their goods or to deliver them. The trial of the polietmen for alleged assaults upon civilians at Tipperary has begun, the testimony showing great cruelty on. tbe part of the officers. Negotiations between the English and Italian governments for the delimitation of their respective spheres of influence on the Bed sea litteral have been resumed. A dispatch from the Cungo State saya that the authorities r-itead to issue a decree imposing new taxes principally on merchan dise, between Matadi and Man ley P00L Six thousand miners employed" in the collieries in the counties of rile and Clack mannan, Scotland, hare warned their em ployers that they will strike unless their wages are advanced fifteen per cent. Ma. Couktxet, member of Parliament, in a speech at Beltabt, said be had travelled in the south and west of Ireland and in Donegal, and he had concluded that the cases were very few in number where potatoes were a total failure. The Austrian newspapers are ; full of angry articles on the new American tariff, which receives more downright abuse than genuine criticism, and the government is trying to allay the excitement over the measure. The visit of the Czarewitch to the Sultan lias been postpoued until the spring. The Greeks at Constantinople are jubilant, and attribute the postpouement to the Czar's disapproval of the Porte's attitude toward the ecumenical patriarchate. The committee appointed at Rome, Italy, to arrange for the proper representation of Italian art and industry at the Chicago world's lair, has found that in view of the new United States tariff law, very few Italians are willing to send exhibits to Chicsgo. England has demanded of the Portuguese government an immediate settlement of it 4 claim for indemnity for the seizure of the British African Lakes Company's steamer James Steveuson.wiiich was illegally captured by Lieut. Azevedo Contiuho a lew months ago. The conference of Irish nationalists called by Mr. Paruell met at Dublin and named a drpiitation to visit America and make a plain statement of the situation of affairs in Ireland, and made an appeal to friends of Ireland everywhere, and especially in America, for aid for the tenants who are in desperato ttraits. The St. Petersburg Noyoe Vremya gays that (ierinany having failed to induce Russia to recognize Prmce Ferdinand as the lawful ruler of Bulgaria, has advised Austria to abandon for tne present her design toyobtain recognition of Prince Ferdinand by the Euro pean powers. Mr. Gladstone, writing in support of the liberal candidate at Eccles, declares that every one voting for the conservative candi date will be responsible lor the employment of bullets and batons against legal and peace ful meetings in Ireland, which would not be dared or tolerated iu England. Owing to the closeness of the vote in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, on the question of the revision of less than luO out of a total vote of nearly 24,000, the Bundesrath hai summoned a conference of liberals and con servatives with the view of effecting a settle ment satislactory to both parties. WORK AND WORKERS. The Erie Railroad Company has refused the demands of the men for higher wages. It is stated that the miners of the Monon gahela district will demand an increase of half a cent per bunliel this month, and that if the operators refuse to grant it, a strike, affecting CojO miners, will result. ; TiiEitrike of the silk ribbon weavers in Johnson, Cowden fc Co. 's mill, in Paterson, New Jerse3, is ended. The weavers returned to work at the old wages. The 6trike was against a reduction of 10 per cent. The New York, Lake Eric & Western Rail way refused the demands made by the em ployees. These demands numbered S3 and related to a schedule of pay and regulations to goveru the employees of the road. The miners, trammers, lumbermen and all underground employees of the Lake Ageline mine, IshpemingMich., have gone on astrike for shorter hours. It is said thattheemplovees of other mines will make similar demands. A IK.rATCH from Wilkesbarre, Pa-, says that the coal trade in that section is improv ing, and that the coining winter will be one of unexampled aetivity amongniiningcireles. Repairs are being made in the Murray and Stanton shafts of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, and as soon as they are put in working order they will start on full time, giving employment to 1500 men and boys. The striking miners at Ishpeming, Mich, bare apointed a committee to submit a pro r sit ion for a compromise to the mining com pat.ic. The men are good natured aud or derly, but have compelled every man to leave the underground workings of the mines. No Httempt has yet been made to interfere with the pump or engine houses, and the surface men have been working as usual, but unless the miners resume work soon many of the urface men w ill have nothing to do, and, if the strike is protracted, tbe surface men will be induced to strike also. FIVE MEN DROWNED. fhelr Hoat Caplzes nil All mn Iot A Molbrr'a shock. Five men were drowned ia the river near the Sluice and the Knickerbocker Ice-boose, it Kinkora, N. J-, by the capsizing of a boat They were: Solomon Fletcher, aged thirty two; John Fletcher, aged twenty two; Angelo Fletcher, agfd twenty-four; Cheafus Merry, sged forty-three, and Alonso Cannon, aged twenty-to. The first three were brothers. The men were bringing twenty-three large piling, each aboutj Iwurteen feet long, f rota ilver Lake ice-hoa. in an opeu boat with a tingle sait. In attempting to make land be twreu the ice-housa and the lttiee the bow sprit of the boat struck one of the dogs of the farmer. The sliock of this and the s ift car rent of the waters of the siaiee caused the buat to careen ;uid the heavy pilings to shift to on' side, oT-rturning the craft. The men sank at otiee, and, altuonh several persons witne eed the diater, the attempts made to save their lives were unavaiiins. Only the bo-lie of Angelo Fletcher and Cheatas Merry were recovered. The l-e f the former was badly cat by tbe gates of the sluice, and the bitter had a gaping wound ia one side of his neck, apparently from on? of tbe large iron spikes projecting froa the franieaork of the slo.ceway. Tbe aged mother of the Fletchers, when in formed ot the drowning of her son, vw at the head of the suurs in tne second story of ber home,nd was so overcome, that she fell to the rt or and saasiaed a compound frac ture of the arm. She was picked up ia aa uucon'vriou coniti n, and a detor, who was sent tor, pronounced her in a dangerous con dition. Merry leave a wife and two children, and CanuoMj an ged mother soie sappott be was. 1 he luen were all said to have Ueea sober and ind uLri as. BLOWN HP BY POfMR. An Explosion oa the Banks of tlie Brandywine. ttpaita Mill Preprrljr Drlrf(d, awtd Twrlt Pmnt Kaawa to Ilav Bc-n KIIM-Manr I u j a rc-ct. Several startling exp?oions in quick suc cession some counted five, others seven at S.30 r. Mn announced to Wilmington, eL, a disaster at the Dvpont Powder Works on the Drandywine. The wildeit rumors prevailed, and the tele phone and telegraph offices were besieged by people who had friends or relatives at th works. It is knorn that 12 persons lost their lives. Several others are missing, and it is . feared that they, too, are killed. Many ot ters were seriously injured. The dead are: Martin Iolnn, James Dolan. William McGarvey, John Hartygan, William Deunison, John Iirtr, Thomas a iul John II ur like, Patrick and Ko lyugbevty, William Cireen and John Newall. Of the killed tue bodies of three only have been recovered. Mrs. llos? Ikmgherty was found dead in her attic. The Uxiy of Will iam McOarvey was found with bis head com pletely blown off, and the body of Green was found unmasked lying near the magazine, where he had been engaged soldering a pow der keg. The Dupont Powder Mills extend along the Brandywine, chiefly on the west bank and close to the water lor abort two miles. They are divided into the "Cppfr," "llagley" and "Lower" yards. "The lormer is three miles and the latter five miles from Wilm.ng tou. At the "I'pper" was the office and busi ness headquarters of the company. There are about fifty houses inhabited by employees of the po wder mill clustered there, and they are all wrecked. The force of the concussion even broke windows in some parts of Wilmington, four or five miles away. The office of the Dupont Company is a complete wreck and six miles are in ruins. Several members of the Dupont firm were injured by falling wall and broken glass, but none of them seriously. Among the slightly injured are Eugene Dupont-the head of the firm; Francis G. Dupont and Charles I. DupouL They aud several clerks iu the office were cut by fragments of broken glass, but none of them seriously. HOW IT HAPPENED. The first explosion occurred in one of the preparing mills, communicating fire to the drying mill, which was instantly blown to .pieces. The magaziue, containing 30 tons of powder, next exploded, causing the great loss of life. William 11. Green, the head of the shipping department, was soldering a can of 3rismatic powder. lie was considered one of the most careful men in the dompauy's em ploy, and was the only man who did tin's sort of work. The theory of the caue of the ex plosion is that his soldering iron became too hot, thus igniting the powder in the can. The head of William McGarvey, his helper, was blown off. Martiu Dolan, aged 05, a powdf r niaker, was blown to pieces. Patrick Dough erty, a powder-maker, was killed in one of the milts. John Newell was killed by the ' forceof the explosion. The others- were killed in and about the destroyed buildints. All but one of the dead were employed by the company. Thirteen were severally injured and twenty-seven slightly hurt. All the dwellings and company's buildings were built of stone, most of them only one story high, and to this fort unate circumstance many persons owe their lives, for the reason that if the buildings had been constructed of lighter material they would have collapsed entirely. Immediately alter the explosions a I large building known as the "refinery," located near the centre of the village, took fire. It was lite or death to the whole population that this tire should be extinguished before it com municated with the powder the building con tained. Taking their lives in their hands the Dupont fire brigade fought the flames which had caught the roof. It was touch and go be tween sue Jess and destruction, but the fire men won. Had the roof fallen in it is doubt ful if any man, woman or child in the vicinity would have escaped death or serious injury. About frO families are rendered homeless by the disaster, and many of them were so dazed by , the terrible events of those few seconds as to seem har-ly conscious of where they are or what thy ale doing. The injured are being gathered into thehospiia building appei tain ing to the works tnu are receiving such surgical and other aid ns they need. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. A despatch from Darlington, Iowa, says that La Grippe has struck that city again, t Two deaths have been reported. The boiler of a gin bouse at Lnella, near Griffin, Georgia, exploded, killing Isaac I5re-d , and John Iteid, and fatally injuring John II. Stillwell, owuer of the eugine. j A LI. the buildings oa the Minnesota Ex perimental Farm, at Hamlin, were destroyed by -fire. The fire was caused by the exp!osion of some chemicals. Lo-s, fOW; insurance, f20,JUQ. j Owing to an open switch a pasenger train , collided with an engine on the Northern Pa- cine liailroad, near Helena, Montana. Engi- ' neer Macr was killed, and his fireman was severely injured. j DrniNG a fire in a grocery store in Hi. Louis, a tank of coal oil exploded. John lirady, ftoa Pn'aski and Jennie If errick, ' were so badly injured that it is feared they will die. Eight others were injured, six fire men and two spectators, j AN explosion cccorred at the saw mill of the Ducey Lumber Company in Muskegon, Michigan, as the fireman was getting up steam. Four of the six boilers ex ploded, f ! - I i- . ot-. Ml an.! I. t - t n IP if,. V, K . . U . . i boilers f;r from their foundations. iix men were injured one, firman Yerger, fatally. The cause ot the explosion was low water. Drp.INO a race at tbe fair at Canton, Ohio tbe stallion Ilismark. valued at t5.M aad owned by William Myers collided with a bnry which was hing driven aerosn the track. The shafts of tbe buggy penetmted the horse's breast, killing him tactanfiy. Myers, who was driving, was thrown and trampled upon," and is supposed to be fatally injured- - The tow 1 of Cheviot, Ohio, is lighted by gasoline at eight. On Frid y night "Edward Conner, one of the lighter, started on his trip on a light cart drawn y one hor-. In the cart were W pint cans of gasoline. AttheCnt lamp one of the cans became lighted. The wb de lot exploded. Horse and man caught the banning fluid. The mtt, badly burned, was thrown from the wasrn, while tbe borne, on fire raa through the streets bbu! be dropped dead. Two freight trains on the Santa Fe road, collided sear Ethel, Missouri. The trsia going east was loaded with Texas cattle. Sev eral steers were killed, anl other eweaped from the care Tbe latter became enraged when they saw the deal on-. Tbe traiiAarn escaped unhurt, but had a bard tiro t- get out of the way of tbe angry steers. Tbe cat tle had to be abet befe the -rew coj J J jr-t near tbe wreck. Tnonunda of dollars worth of freight aad rolling wi were destroyed- DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Frarfal DUaalrr las a Callforstt Gtt Mia Teat Meas Blows to Altai. New has been received frtta Rsria g4J mine, 70 miles inland from Mst.'a. of a terrific explosion which oeearred there. An American named , Mr Joe, wlo rame from Napa, ( ala., was working with tiioe Mexicsr. ia a G-fA level tear !lemarr. which contain 1 sereral Luwifft poocfl ot dynamite. Thi expbid in -ire ay, and the tea mea were biowa to atoms. SOUTHERN ITEHa ITTEJlESTIVtl SEW coi rit.v.t Flt.-iJl MVXV SOtmCKV Baeca Vbts. Va is osraalxirr a f re de partment. The Prebytrr:tns a ill erect a chareh t eot f 15,tM at Doe-a Vista, Va. A North I m syndicate has con ft acted far the const ruf tion of a street railway ia Wjrthe viie, Va. The American Society of Mehaleal Ea rincers will be In rwn ia ilicnmond, Va-, irom Nurerubt-r It ti 14. Lewis Itall, a we'.l-known eitiienof Nela eouuty, Va, shot himself to death with a doubled arrdrd shot gun. The secretary of the North Carolina state farmer allianee reports a gain of nearly loar huaured sub-alliances since January last. Arrangements have been perfected for an tlectric street car tyMrm in Durham, N. t logo into operation about the firlof January next. " Joseph Clements, aged Cti years, while re lairing a roof at New Orleans came in contact with a? electric wire aud was instantly killed. ' The water works t Warreaton, Va-, have been competed and et-t, proving a eooi pi etc succvM, the supply being ample for all demands. . ' J The Chesapeake and Ohio Kail road has awarded a contract for the erection of a handsome paM&euger and freight depot at iiasie City, Va. . Thomas Roman of R!oomington, MdL a Baltimore and Ohio fireman, tell from hi engine at Piedmont, W. Va, haying boUtfeet terribly mangled. A autlful gold hone-shoe is ofTered by Stewart aud Watson, of Philadelphia, for the bent horse raised iu North Carolina on exalt lion at the state fair. The large grist mill and box factory of .. II. Walker, at lleiJsviilr, '. C, was touPy destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at f-io,AAf and the insurance fiJ.UWX It haa been settled that the college for tie colored people of the state will be located at Lynchburg, Va-, and the site has been selected. The building to be erected will cost a tut too.Ooo. The ladies In charge of the Confederate Veteraui Fair enterprise, at Dauvilie, Va., have issued a circular announcing that the fair will begin November 11, to continue for several day. A piece of the pole on which floated the flag on the capitol at Richmond, Va., during the etsions of the con !edera te congress has been ftlaced among the curiosities in the tate ibrary iu lUieigh, N. C Col. M. D. Hardin, formerly professor of chemistry at the Virginia ili.itary Institute, has been elected chtvf professor of chemistry of the "Cleuison Agricultural College," of Pendleton, SSouth Carolina. The North Carolina fund for the purpose of placing headstones at tho graves ot confeder ate soldiers in the cemetery at Fredericksburg, Va., is daily increasing, aud the necessary amount will soon be raited. There is a movement on foot in Richmond, Va-, to bridgo Broad street for a diataoce of uinc squares, to do away with the steep hill which has to be climbed in that portion of the city, the cost of which will be about $5w,iXX Col. Frank G. Kuffin, second auditor of the State, announces that of the t27,A.J0 of Virginia securities outstanding 21,U.JU,WJ have been pooled under the Oloott plan, and he thinks tnere will be f'2,tKXi,0u0 more by t.o end of the mouth. In Salem, Itoanoke county, Va.. In twelve mouths, 3 IS houses of all kinds have beeu built or in the course of erection, including 211 residences, Wj buildings for stores others, and other bri.ding purposes, and S'J for vari ous manufacturing enterprises. Lynchburg, Van i to have a great sham bavlic during their fair. Filtccs or more mil itary corn panics from different sections of the trtte intend to participate, tti' r movemciits duriug the engagement being nirecUd by sig nals from a tower on the grounds. The new peanut factory to be built at timith field. Isle of Wigbfr county, Va, will be quite a largo one. Its dimensions will be bj by 110 feet, four storits high, and equippd with the very best and latest improved machinery. Last year the busines in peanuts there amounted to over f50U,O00. The ladies ot tbe Memorial association have taken in hand the proposition to erect a monument to the North Carolina soldiers killed in the civil war, and the matter will be vigorously pushed iu the different counties of the tate. it is proposed to locate it on the Capitol square in llaieigb. The cotton factory at Italeigh, J. C, is running day and night with a large number of hands, and yet the superintendent says it cannot keen up with the constantly increasing orders for pu 11 yarns. 1 he plant has thus far ll proved a luccciu beyond the highest expert lion and another factory is almost certain ia the near future. --Work is rapidly progressing on the new railroad from the JUleigh &, Augusta Air Line to EgTpt, in Chalnam county, N. C. There are about two hundred eon ;cia doing the work ot grading J he road branches out from the Air line near Kau ford and will run near the coal mines aud brown-stone quarry of the Egypt Coal company. A fire at Fairmount, W. Vs, df-stroyed the wood-working establishment of U. A. C ay ton Co., Ott's blacksmith w k, N. C l)ickersons residence, and several st sides and other small buildings, and badiy damaged the raxi-tce of A. L tlayden and several other buildinc The low will exceed t J-V', abvot onc-thidof which is covered by inura.."e. Hears and deer are Tery pbntlful la tba Ibmai hwainp, Va and old resident say they are more numerous thsa for many years. It i 1.0 unusual thing to see deer drinking from the canal, and several boatmen hate taken dying shot at them. The bear causes the Uiamal i-warap farmer much trouble, play ing haroe with bis growing corn crop, and numeroo c-.tcUr are being made in lb' bear trap, w hich are aeatter'-d throoijb Use fiebts. The Kanawha Valley is oa the verge of an oil exrit'roen; that will probably rival that of sny of tbe other fields la the slate of Wet Virgiuia- For month rtm nave t-wn arouM-J taking lear. aad irg tracks tate lK-en s-curei at several p'aort. wells l.at e bet a put down and two of them, Located in the Elt Kirer -Valley, a short distance. b"re Chariftown. it is said, hare strsek oil. It i und-rt l bre that the well at Wia fiei.1, i'utnara county, has eome in, aad b-a plurg-d opto await plpifcg. The bg Forepaoh eireas. enroete to Prk-rbrj from CamWrlattd, 4opp-J at C-rkbrg, Va, f r to hoars to water tbe i.rimsis. Out: 11 s which time tbe show mea rn eagel to 'Cghta and rowdy im a?4 look paw -'oo of the town. Saronel Laaghlia, of l;ri Jgeptrt. Coon., and li.hard Wbiteaea J, of l..ade:ph;a, iffti etmr1ri with the Uow, gt inut troubi-, v tf Whitehead drew a latvr s l yearly sevrre-i Lavgblm's head .'rota lit U'y. licghlia cut Whttehesyl horribly, bt bia owo woaai were fatal. Wbitt head ia a critical eoaditioa. Pr.s'.Jer.t Kimball, of tbe Norfolk aad W. tr IUi'rd, it l said. Is gotg to erret t.i3g-!ki6-eai traop-sl granite tower on the it-j (t WooLan 1 I am, in I:'Boe, Va, IW I- part the o er bat e doasted a site. 1 t.i y ci of the twer ts to frerr aa r'.r.g r"rd ff the pro-rrews of Ho aoka t,s.i tU lrsi7!ag Lttle viitageof Ksg Lick ,t.i it hiLatS! ia ls4Jf3u the L.janok fi-:iwi h tntisUaiats. The motive f ri'lif in the elo Ideatlseatioa af the N- f k a&4 Weatrra liailroad with Loa ut growth. WBILK misers at IlamboUt Mbae, sear Jamestown, Coloraio. were eating tmuth the other d-y, ieral sticks of gjsat jwer ex-plo-i-J, ailliwg Mack Mil, Hugh M'jrga ad tlarry Alkiausoe, aad badiy iajwrtsg Thomas iiicbardaoa. FIVE HDHDRED P3RISH. Ill Sinking of thu Turkish Frita wrlr rwtalta wflb t) I by WhUU ?laar Tarki vrr tro a-l T tll I rr fr:fIMl.. Tbe steamMp ftelirie jat arrival t Francico, trrty.fur ad a balf dy from H1? Koaj-.and lifter n dy fr.t-. Yokihrask. Coorvrning the t.f th Trkjh fti.tt Lrt;Bgrwal, Jf sncc t-ajn pUce the tv of the diu tier to the npl; n f th b .? f during a r!c Accvrklinc to the rpft f survirora who irr bru;ht to Kt", .ibe frigate left Yokohama fiHrodwr t'th ( r Kobe. Oa the K-th a gale prar.g op :! Ki'.. tnoski, miles fnm YVoham. sid abrvy H rtiuBtng. Suddenly a irrrih w heard, and all w r.nluii..n. the i.i-:i a I of!icer were mmily tx-U.w tit the birth, an i they imajrdiatrly ruhrd up f. fin I 1tnl .1t. tnainrd of ihe -el w aa t ..tin Jet ing, Caj l. All Ury waa e-eti n the tri !." f-t a mnnsfdt wtit tamp iu hi (pn.l.Ai 1 wr. hrart trf 35avt jfMrin 1 ia l.c,-app-arcl n-5 as seen no m.re. Navijjai.n 0.'ii-:r Nwf t Hey also prnheL The chief cut 51 err w a almost the first to die. llewruttr out t he cabin to the engine -roii jut tx'?r? the t h- .! and was literally blow n to t-!n. I !. -t was soon full of debri. in whu h t: ica fought and struggle! for life. , it!!i Pj; the admiral, was swimming twrl the shrv, when he was struck on th lu-a 1 by a j r and sank. Out of a total of sit hundred sul, but St officers and fitly -seven of the r rr w rv&hed land. Many i th-e ar b.!!y injured that they are mt eie-texl to r-coirrr. I h Vt-aael was an old onr, and ws f.-riurrtv ur-t a a training ship. The rn-.tua n f I nc lish make aud Ure the dasc of 1.VV It. a frigate in overhaulel lef.re she tan-l fr Japan, and it waa intended that lbr iiii.it f the voyage ahould be mad uu-lrr al. In consequence ofher poiisg !nrc iu the Su Canal, necrMiiatiug doekmg foe rrpnir, at. 1 her detrution in quarantine at Y W..l.ama, ;t account of cholera atfowrd, all taking iio months aud making a change in the origiisil !!att neceaaary. hulnj liojia wrre 'peneil or the relief of the survivor, and tl Js aneae and German gunboats lent all the tista.no Nsaible. I p to the i f .rj t 1 i- ber IZJ Corpses had l-.-en recoverc'l, aisd rut of the aur i vors had leeu reiuovet to Ku'! for medical treatment. The vel, luiha Maru. which fonnderct during a trale S'pteintwr l'th, torth r with Captain Frahm and hllf iuf-11, waa thf latot addition to the flei of Nij.hou Yun n Kaih Company, and was the strongest rariirr of th Coast. 1 he v ! waa built at llrnfrew , nitd Ct .kl,(sm. it waa retorted thnt thr sihnJ ship Younabn Maru) belonging tt the n company, has b-.n loat iu Kit channel, mn 1 that only five lives were sstrd out of thirty on board. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Lt:oiTIMK, ex-Preidentf rhe Hrtian P.i- fiublic. is writinga history of the rti nta whiHi ed to his downfall. G E X K ItA L Itl Tt.l U I fond of cl dtplng . and is hinilf an aectmpliahed cotk. can broil a oftrr to n tutu. TltK ortciual of l.nsrfillow'a wVi1!a Illckmith" ia Henry t'raiicia More, imn , still living at Medfork, M. JoilK Ja Hi AI!Mti:nu A KTfjR. the bur-' Jreardd son of William Waldorf A!r, had , lis name chaured to John Jarob A'r. CuNfiKKSM.MAN Jiilf 1-lU - I t t..o f XI chuetta( ia accomaiiie I in -i hi amj-ascn-ing byhis wife. V ! u h rpr-nk h- ir a seat on the platform, and ahr i n,;,ki l. rl fully as shrewd a politician b h r hnt-rid. .GfXTAV FlJK YTA'i, the mt d,! i oga h J of (iermaii noveIil, live in the prt-Hy town of Wiesbaden, where he wrupi-a lintnismf villa. He la now n tall, btoa !-l.ool-Jc'd man of fifly-eight, with a frit, healthy r and fair l.;i r. FKASK STH KToV, the novt 11, li v- in a roonir hou at iladiM.n, N. J. a mrthudiral maw in his literary wrV,drotiiia -tlie early iart of each day to hi wriii. At times be ufl-rs from w-ak ryr. a,d on iu U ocasious he dictates hi aton- to in wiir. Qi'KKS ClltiI"TlS A, of pain, S f.od of tie opera, but dialikea apl-ariii I"-! .re titi audiences, hf.e ovrrrotjia this di(!i-uliy by having her chamlx-r cottii-i"l by irbphot. with the opra boua-, snd in t i uf liitena to the performance without batirisjt' appear before the public (iyvKExm III i.J-fc of N-rw York, U ou- i f the wfret of platloriii 'tk-r. 11-lci. the quality of vrufathy, ard hi tjllera nc - re lt Studifl with a llr to .rffloclii(f an immediate efj-f. Thc-re i nothing t j'ti faneous or grae-iul in his p'.atf rm oratory. Ewi'EhOK WlhMAM, of (Jffmiiif, Sa if portel to have given away no lr than decoratioiia dorlijjf thtwentr-foar hour that be spen. with tbe King of th !! s r.w. t tend, the ditritution rangii.g - front the Grand Crowa of the Jtl Igle iwn to th JUbbon of tbe Orier of Merit. KlJTO JIt"MSKIIT'i bair ha h--ojri .'- white, raudi U the ditrrM of Htef M ar.-u. rite, who is ifi't antioua tht br I ut4n 1 should follow the 'sample of !, f:h. r. us. 1 the fsahioo cmtmn among ly I'o i ..n- tee officer, and dje hi hir. ll r pUs-iu wer, however, of no araii, I'l;l5rr.Mi MrTTr t;yr-M"s rlrvr di'jt.vr, Antoifif tte, who wsi tnsrr:l h t r? f ,- it Count Waldtr;. Wri v.A- rt. dird tj t 1 drttly la at week at Vji., tt'-tn ,-f tbe h-art. . T'be d-c-l 1 ' i ' waa sr.. merly popular in Wdhw !!;, t. -ber ban iom fijfare and contrr.d.otn! t- . ity fully atont-d U br 1 vi -r..6i braaty. M. At,rftoK Ut tirt evereJ from hi rrcrot tlln but iy egg-d In new (.'ml a w:i : , t?,s lattt t brfngiattn 1 J f'rtbi.i:.o- I hraJfe. Ia the fortb-eouiior work the qu$oti t -divorce will be anaiyrl. jtrtUy l i reSriontotb itutoii ,t rt.il trtn . -tiff;!i who have Ua j-f tJ by la. M. 1 st is now in his t Ch&pro. r iJc refreatoa the back of tLe eije n-r .'of t !l. Ttt E Coaetw of A frdrrn. w ho e-f;f t i hyt 1 SO m orb to the popn5rifyof br hj' vice-royalty of Irr'ib! during' the lit.i. miisUtrstioa of Mr. (jlhv,t,'t i to U n eJstr. A new pnny monthly tn -t w. i t yowag womea u mail,r, ia t,j j i,t ,U out at te rtt'i ( tbe J -ar bis hr thp i3i;,f Of the JIaddo 1 1 t2 AV.li'4 wh.cfi his ow grown to sach djnifcawrfsa a to t,r 1 a organ of its own, aid the tVs!, w president of tbe aorlJoo. w i'l a-lit t. 1 i.ts Coaarws vitiud iti roststry two v-ra . - WOOLi'OLK TO BE HANGED. ttawwtt mf lt Trtt f ! . ito Ktllvi T f. ,1. In the Iltitiitva coji.tr j';.-rfir fV'-.-t s.t Prrry, T'rji t. Woolfo'k oi ------ i titit -tteerJ Lu be L 5 1 r.l ftj lt t,- r .' ,' sW tW taarder of t t-ii.btr of fo u: h-t '$ CamUy ia Ihbb eooaty ia Anut, I ). the aiA'Lt of A4at T, ! "', W .-4' - 1 t s sse, anJ, g4g from fwa t r a in i. . father's fc-, aw.ir herd erry tt- , h j.-.. anal while they a'rpt. "fh"y wr-re h f . . . rpnotkrr. thrre u.f itrr, t.'.r h;f roti-rr., o- itf'.it iu arrc m i ao t. s-rJ :.!, Mr. H ot .; ir-t wtiit hr- I. 1 . ... . iy aet.tcate she. Id tt Urf jw.uk -d, i ?Sa siti: "NoJhir.g st all, only I sta t. f iM . cwt b it; tdJ I to'iM mat h ti.'i !. - t !. y Cr- thu urrwidt 1 m, I't t- t , lu rrftite mf atttkuet." t