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is, 1. w PEACE ON EAJiTH ANP GOOD WHA TO MEN. OL. Ill WADESBORO. N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17,1897. NO. 34. t IK I- 'J J: fit X of Interest Gathered From Different Points. HE DREADED SAN JOSE SCALE .. a. ii Appearance Murder In Jlitc H'll CotJIltv-.Slllt for in ilgfS -Vance's Picture. I lhe fallowing bulletin, has been sent u t by .tRie North Carolina Agricultural xpeuiiicntal Station: "The Experi announce that Krut S&ition regrets to dreaded San Jose scale has" reached arolina. Bulletin No 1 .'50 de- he character of this destructive damage which it has done to industry in other States and is likely to do in North Caro- Tlrilgss it is stopped at once. It is d in the bulletin that from a single hnee billion inftects may result in la season. Although these scale klo not move from one place to K of their own accord, vet thev own by the.wind or else carried eet of - birds to other orchards hot infested. Such is the rapidity of pcrease that these orchards will soon ge coveted and the trees will be destroy - in a very shortwhile, besides being 4 1-siajniiujr menace toother localities, dine Horticultural Society, aided by the I'Ory ni-Station, lias prepared a bill .A ; jjWdrioh is now being considered by the ijfgish ture, the purpose , of which is f appoint an unsalaried commission to jpre'veni the introduction and spread of illc;hlK sts. There are other insects and -jtuhgoiu pests, as bad as the San Jose Heale. 1 J he commission, if established, event large losses in horticul- jiral aid agricultural crops from other S- vome ot; these nests are: The button boll weevil, now nroeecdine- iw Hid from Mexico and Texas; the ypsy.inoth(to destroy which the State saejiusotts, jias already spent )).; the tobacco leaf miner, a re diHeoveretl insoct of most de- pently t ructi e tendency, and the peach yel men nas practically ruined the rchards of many States. ' The kbove mlletin contains a copy of the i before the General Afisemhlv mil no It IS lH lieved to be one of the most ini- tforvan R for, c that the Legislature has before bnsitk'ration. - The K t-rwiiuoui, oiituuu, at ivaieign, i&r a nhmber of years past has been de- V l'ifll'IrYin-.. '.J A . T" 1 1 Ilopiijg a sugar corn that would have 1 Y rfrthe - - Vie prierities of field corn adapted to this latitude, combined with the table ;uVIit f ordinary sugar corn. It is I relieve! that character! ?tlcs.f uk- g ;,: croBjS ai enow permanently fixed. The j .Ration desires to place a small package ;(f the porn in the hands of careful par- t4es wljo will give it atrial and who wijl Itomi? e to report results next fall. This v$toiihl riot be planted near field corn. '-'T ai plicants who will agree to the ' above conditions and will send four cpnts iur return postage and expense of , - rilailiiiL', the station will be glad to end mekages as ' long, as the supply ! Wsts. Apply to the North Carolina gSrricitltural Experiment Station, Iial- : f h, K. C. any special appointment. President ihlev rece'ived the entire m'ember- iip Cj (iovernor lUisse l's staff. HThe as in full dress uniform, headed l iV A Ijutaut-Cieneral A. D. Cowfes. eception by the President was M3.()st tf out cordial and pleasant, lasting I twenty minutes. Special enquiry lade bv the Presidnt of (rnvrrinr ; KustMI and bespoke of his pleasant re lemK)rance and regretted his absence. Jn tjilkincr leave of the President Gren. Cowles expressed.the hope that his en t!e aid ministration micrht be as bright 'id .successful as thedav of his inaiifrn. r-ution.' je.!-s has been received here con r ftrmrng , rumor of a murder near Mon- ivzinna,.in Mitchell county. It seems $iat pVIilt Daniel and Kam Fortner, who uiUtVrei-warni friends ana lived tosrpthpr lifew da.ys ago visited a "blind tierer" itlnl became intoxicated, after which tfiev fell out. Milt Daniel had a pistol ,vvith only one cartridge. He shot and ; distant lyjvil led Fortner. He was cap ijired and placed in jail to . await trial : in the spring, term of 3Iitchell court. :;fortner -wis a quiets peaceable citizen, ; hile Daniel is said to be a desperate ctnVfacter. V ! I The trial of Bradley, administrator, Vjs. the Ohio Hiver & Charleston Kail ;.fa.d,at Marion, has begun. This is a '4eniper pt Uld Irort, at Henrietta last war, Avhile'she and her 'daughters were ;b'in.g driven across the track in a.car i?age. Jle suesihe railroad company .ld the liveryman for $.15,000. There ;j a similar case pending on account of tie killing of one of the daughters at tyt)'same time. ' T . i The handsome oil; painting of the la iented Vance, now on exhibition in ti.e rotunda of the capitol at Ealeigh, Jtllntmues to attract much attention. iii is an exouisite Avork of art. bv Mr. 4M! (iueri Vj and is greatly admired by .al. ' It would be a graceful and fitting nt on the" part of the Legislature to j'Jtlir chase this portrait. Senator Vance as for niany years the idol of the peo ffe of North Carolina, and his memory f ift-nem m loving remembrance by all. m : ;m U The- , Kaleigh Chapter of the laughters of the Confederacy have de cded "to make the Jefferson Davis Memorial the object of, their efforts to 'raise funds. "The Private Soldier of sorth Carolina" will be ihe subject of this year. ias been he JSIemorial Day address :-iprairi Thomas M. Mason ;tiuested to be the orator. M he faculty of Davidson College has woEen the representatives ' from the ju rljr. clstss w ho are to speak for the ora Mr's medal at commencement. They : fle as follows: From the Pi Society, SH. Hines, R. A. Lore, H. W. Wil- ,pin; N,orth Carolina; Eu Society, F. C. 1 Iteby , Georgia; W. L. . Dick, South ironna; w. J. Uarrison, JNorth Caro ia. ' Wilmington is at present one of the pneipal point along the coast for the Hpment of lettuee. One day last week thee car-loads of very fine stock vvere ehlped. fl 3ills Enacted During the Closing Days of the Session, WliWAY LEASE! BILL KILLED. ro Iease Convicts Between July lGth and March Ist--Insan6 Asylum Ap- prlpriations 3Iade Votes of Thanks SENATE. FWid ay. Senate met at 10 o'cTck. mobg the bills to pass were: To re- luirfe firms to register the names of ers; to provide forthe mainten- oart incej of the State penitentiary: to re'gu- Rio uu iiaumues 01 siocKuoiuers, etc.i in banks chartered bv t'h StHtb in q- abljsh a board of control to manage he convicts and road system of Meck- enbjurg county; to amend chapter 427, aws; of 1895. bv etrikinsr out Polk 30tfijity. Passed. To promote the oys ter industry in the1 State: to amend 3hapter 341, laws of 1891, to remove ob structions from Catawba river. Passed. 10 extend time to drkranize th Bunk r.f if4Tfof i'Ke Uoke, teiating tttiepay 3f jurors. Passed. For the relief of It m the commissioners ied. of Surry county. Pas 1 he. bill to encourage the local taxa tiorf t i 1 i t . sr ior puouc scnoois was taken un imlf discussed, and finally referred to a special committee, j AS, the afternoon session, among the 0111s to pass were: Isot to allow clerks n the Superior Court to give legal ad vice, unless m the official duties of his office. To aid the North Carolina Roll mg Exposition. The joint resolution iskmg Congress to rebuild j;he public irsenal at Fayetteville. The bill to al sow clerks of the Criminal CouFts to take probates of wills and conveyances was tabled. The resolution appointing i commiuee to consider The Code com mission was tabled.! The bill to place uieverand and;(iast0n 111 the seventh songressional district and Yadkin and Davie in. the eighth icame up and failed to pass by a vote of m to 22. The bill to include all the names of pensioners in onW bill passed. There are one hundred and thirty-four soldiers on the usv, ana sixteen widows, in the reve Que act section 341 was amended bv suijs.iug out a gauon anu inserting ne gallon, and it passed third reading. At the night session bills passed to amend The Code, relatins: to fertilizer analysis ; to amend th r.ct incorporating me iuoore uounty sand Western Rail road Company; to create a State board of equalization composed of the rail road commission. I The special order) was the bill to re vise and consolidate fr j charter of Wil son. It was tabled;. Saturday. Senate met at 10 o'clock. The appointment of trustees for the .Normal and Industrial school, J. Moye, of Pitt; Jj A. Blair, of' Ran dolph; A. S. Pearee, of Granville, were confirmed. i Among the bills; disposed of were: To amend the election law; to encour age local taxation fpr the public school fund. t appropriates $50, 000 for three years, and allows j school districts to vote for an increase of taxes to the amount of $250, the State Treasurer to duplicate the amount raised. The vote was 41 to 8. The bill to amend the charter of the asylums at Raleigh, Morgan ton and.Goldsboro. The appropriations to the State in sane hospitals were reduced. This is the appropriation bill which gives $100, 000 to Morgan ton, $63,000 to Raleigh and $43,000 to Goldsboro. These amounts were reduced to $90,000. $55, 000 and $40,000. j A resolution for the purchase of the portrait of the late iSenator Vance was introduced, appropriating $500. The price of the Dicture is $1,000 Mr "Rol lins, of Buncombe, stated that the friends of Se-ator Vance in Raleigh would furnish $500J thereby making up the price. The resolution was adopted unanimously by; a rising vote, ' j: The bill to amend the charter of Char lotte was reported unfavorably, but the minority recommended that the bill do pass and the bill was placed on the cal endar. - V j ; ' ' ' I f A bill passedfto provide for additional county commissioners. j . At the night session a bill passed to prerent minors from entering bar or billiard rooms. Tj) require laborers to be paid - at not longer pesiods than two weeksiailed to pass. Monday. The following bills and resolutions were disposed of: Resolu tion for final adjournment Tuesday, March 9th, at 12 14., passed; to assist m the maintenance of Pigford Sani tarium for treatment of consumptives, passed; the bill to jcreate a State board equalization, which was tabled i Satur day night, was, on! motion of Mr. Ray,! taken from the table and passed; to prohibit co-habibition' between the races past over on account of D PKESIDENT McKlNLEY'S CABINET. iuorum not fvotlngj to .prohibit Jive I tock running1 at large in Cross Creek ; kwnship, Cumberknd county, passed; k increase the power of the railroad ;ommissionei6 in regard to inter-State iommerce. ' 7 'T At the night session JLyon introduced 1 bill requiring all surety companies to leposit surety; with the State Treasurer. This surety tci give surety against loss, ina to keep an agent iin the State on vhom process; of law. may be served. The bill to; regulate fire insurance jompany rates by not allowing com panies to charge any more tnan is iharged in Virginia, ) passed, as did the oill to appropriate $5,000 to the colored Agricultural and Mechanical College. Tuesday. Seriate met at 10 o'clock. Mr. Kamsey offered a resolution that ihe General Assembly adjourn sine die Wednesday,' March ! 10th, 1897. Mr. Maultsby offered a substitute that the Senate do no consider any - more bills r resolutions,: and. that it adjourn im nediately after ..the ratification of the Jills that have, passed. Mr. McCaskey nateu inax hb waopposea to the reso Utipns, as the Senate bad already con jurred in the "one From the House to ad journ at 12 mi toaay. MrJ Grant took the same groundiand both of the above resolution erel withdrawn, and the resolution to jadjcftirn today was made enecuve. ' ( j The follpaj-lls and resolutions passefW e charter of the coun g the publio roan a tv SFif Clrcui-n nr;i son and Pmrv--Cnonz'e the commis sioners of . Mitchell , countv to levy a special tax; to improve the public roads of Wake county 3y extending the im provements threa miles; to work the public roadsbf Nforthampton county by taxation; to ailow Tyrrell county to sel tie debt and levy J a special tax; to levy a special tax in 'sjtock law territory in JSTash county resolution to pay James H. Young $250 sforelection contest; to regulate the liabilities of stockholders in banks chartered by this State and to forbid the loaning of more than 10 per cent, of its capital stock to one person corporation or company. - ' Mr, Ray offered a resolution that a vote of thanlts of the Senate be I. I " )- - 1 i ed to Lieutenant-Governor Chas. A. Reynolds, the presiding officer, for the distinguished ability . and impartial ind courteous bearing whieh he has manifested towards all the Senators during thpir ideliberations in the ses sion of 1897. J' j . : The Lieutenant:Governor spoke feel ingly in reply, and the Senate ad lournei. f . I 1 f HOUSE. Friday. House met at 9 o'clock. Cook asked leave to introduce a reso lution. There was objection, so it was notj introxiuced, as unanimous consent was. necessary. This was a resolution asking the Supreme. Court to pass upon the lease bill. " Among the bills to pass: to amend the! charter of Burlington; to protect fishing machines i in Roanoke river, Washington County ; to' Yno'.ect fish in Watauga; to;make wire fences four feet high lawful fences in Robeson; to pro hibit the sal of liquor in Hyde; to fix ferriage charges in Gafeton; to charter Gladstone Academy, Gaston county; for relief of Sheriff Ricks, of Nash; to give the State Treasurer discretionary power as to paying out appropriations, so he can pay them quarterly, . or semi annual ly, instead of annually; to allow the people to vote on an extension of the limits of -Lexington: to allow Polk county to vote , on local option ; to in corporate Swain County High School; to allow Lenoir county to build stock law fence alnfe .Wayne county line. ine Din w maKe ine ftDDrocriation for the Cullowhee Normal ? School in Jack- sou county, j $,ooa instead of $1,500 passed its radingsJ ; The bill to cteate the office of cuting attorney fori the Eastern Crim inal Circuit; was defeated. At two minutes before norm Rntrm of Cumberland, member of the com mittee to investigate the 1prsa of fha North Carolina Railroad, called up the Senate substitute the bill. In order to prevent the House from substitute to the lease Speaker Pro Tern Cook declared the" House adjourned and refused to order a division when demanded, f and then the House got riotous and started to elect Dr. Free man speaker, but everything Bucn a muss tnai iney had to 1 : - .1 I It 4 O " "'J JJ. lad to adjourn until 3 o clock. s . At the afternoon session the Ipara Kill was again taken , up and it was finally decided, to take a vote on th mattr Saturday, Whether the Supreme Court rendered indecision in i the matter or not, by a vote of 61 to This bill, it will be remembered, is one the House bill substitute."---; At the night session abill ti Amend t.ha charter of Salisbury passed. 4fl tn'il. nfr- Murphy had spoken vig0roiElsv against it. 1 The bill was introduced hv snn. tor Ramsey. A commit he. WA.it Jinrwinf- ed to confer with the Sena.t on the educational bill. : The bill -pass ed to place au nre insurance companies under the jurisdiction 0f theSecretary of State and give him Power to enquire VidolpK into rates and providing that rates on farm buildings shall not be higher than in Virginia. The! bill to appropriate $5,000 additional for the Colored Agri cultural and Mechanical Collegedmss ed; This was a substitute for the bill to pay the college $10,000 as its propor tional share of th United States land script fund. The omnibus liquor bill passed. ' The bill came urj to take the asylums at Raleigh, Morgnton and Goldsboro out of present hands and give them to the co operationists and allowing the Governor to appoint the directors. Fassed second reading. Saturday Houjse met at 9:80. Among the bills to pass were: To in corporate Red Springs Seminary. Cun ningham's bill ti prevent taxing of property twice wai tabled. A lhe public printing bill was dis- cussed at some finally decided by leave the matter o length, and it was a vote of 54 to 45 to awarding the Dublin printing to the Governor's council. Grant's bill to ajipointa police board for Goldsboro was passed. The lease substitute bill of the North Carolina Railroad, introduced by Grant, being a special order, was called up and the following opinion of the Supreme Couit was read: 1'Your resolution is before us. Precedent and the courtesy due to a coordinate branch of the government impel us to respond to your request. Without expressing any intimation of opinion, either way, 4?to lease itsToaO :is Nested In Jkh aJUrt Carolina Railroad HCompanv py its charter, we are-' of " opinion that the powerj if it exists, is now vested iuj the stockholders, and the provision in section 5 bf the bill submitted to us, which makes the validity of a lease i dependent upon its acceptance by the board of directors would be an amendment of the charter transferring power from the stockhold ers and invalid, unless accepted by the stockholders in general or special meet ing assembled. ! ! (Signed) "V. T. Faircloh, "Chief Justice X.J C. , for the court. " After the decision was read Several amendments were made and the mat ter was thoroughly discussed amid wild scenes of cjonfusion and: at 12 o'clock the House:was as far from pass ing the substitute as ever : aifid ad journed. I I Monday House met at 10 o'clock. After considerable debate and amend ments the House voted to table the Grant substitute I for the Senate lease bill, the vote being 4!) to 24. The Golds boro police commission bill was killed. The bill requiring names of all partner ships to be registered under penalty of a misdemeanor ($ 100 'fine), was j tabled. The election bill ( Maultsby 's) came over from the Senate (acomiromise on the Dockery and Grant bills). It was read. It makes sweeping changes in? the law of 1895. On third reading McKenzie demanded the yeas and nays. The vote was yeas G4, nays 1'.', Democrats voting no. Mr. Dixon, ; Populist, voted no. On Mr. Cook's motion the tote was clinched. - ' " . I- At the nignt session the machinery act came over and, the House concurred in the Senate amendments, i J One of these is. to use the word "conclusion" in connection with tax titles. I i The bill to provide for the maintenance of the penitentiary came up, making condi tional appropriations of $25,000 for 189? and a like amount for 1898. After con siderable discussion the bill passed. The bill to appropriate $, 000 to "North Carolina 011 Whet-ls" Avasn't ratified: The cigarette bill was tabled.! Tuesday. House met at 10 o'clock. A bill to appropriate 15,000 to the Agricultural and: Mechanical College for a hospital and new boilers came up and' passed third reading. I McCrarv tried to obtain leave to introduce a biD to allow convicts to be sent to the pub lic roads, instead of tothe penitentiary; counties using them to pay charges. Rut the House refused to suspend the rules. The next bill was on! the same line. It is to allow the superintendent of the penitentiary to lease out the con victs for road woj k between July 15th and March 1st. After debate it passed third reading. ' At 11:30 a resolution was adopted that no more bills be passed. Nothing re mained to be done but the ratification of bills. j ! The Senate amendments to the in sane asylum bill were concurred in. They reduced the appropriation ffc 1.500. ' - ' The bill to require insurance com panies to charge no higher rates on farm property than is chargejd in Vir ginia passed, after being supported by Cunningham. Bills passed: To work Rockingham's roads partially by taxation; to provide for working Wilson's roads by taxation. On Mr. Dockery's motion tho prin cipal clerk was directed to mark on the back of bills not enacted on, "Not act ed on for lack of ijme. " Crews offered a resolution of thanks to Speaker Hileman, which was unani mously adopted. I ! J-netoenate resolution to adjourn sine die at 6:30 p. m. was concurred in. One of ttie stens Pori JrwT recnrf,efl "y th park ke?pnr or roriidna. Ornm 1 .u'. Ai.f 1 Idnd, OregoD. are shed iintWintlex.1 who saya that the deer BILLS BECOME LAWS. List of the Measures Pi9ed From February 22nd to 26th. From February 92 to February 26, bDtli inclusive, the following acts have been ratified and are now laws: Directing the State Library trustees to distribute the Colonial and State Records; to provide for working Maoon county's public road3 by taxation; to incorporate the town of Roanoke Rap ids ; to stimulate local taxation for com mon schools in the' rural districts (by use of $30,000 of board of education fund); to restore to the control of the State of North Carolina the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad; to define du ties of local boards of State, colored normal schools; to amend the charter of the town of Springhope; to reduce rates of pilotage for Cape Fear river and bar; to allow Rutherford county to levy a special tax; to give deputy clerks of the Superior Court power to probate deeds and conveyances; to provide cotton-weighers for j Wades boro, Morven and Lilesville; to pro vide for convict labor on Rutherford's roads; to protect all fish in Banner Elk river, Watauga county; to allow ex press matter to be carried on Sunday trains; to extend the time for settle ment of State and county taxes in Bun combe for 1896-'97; for the relief of late Treasurer O. A Durahfe, of Brunswick eoun;y; to provide forand promote the oyster industry inr-,u-,siate; to pre- certain"C6hi jr of Clyde, HaywoV. allow Brunswick countyV". ja8pecial tax; to allow Yancey to levy a special tax; to allow Nash to levy a special tax to pay debt; to levy a special road tax in Guilford; to incorporate the James Baker Lumber Company ; to incorpor ate the town of Oak Ridge, Guilford county; to allow Alleghany to levy a special tax; to Mlow Mitchell to levy . a special tax ; to provide for the print ing of the laws of 1897; to allow Cas well to levy a special tax; to allow Cumberland to fund its debt: to amend the charter of the Atlantic ' & North Carolina Railroad and the North Carolina & Western Railroad; to in corporate the Bank of Brevard; to in corporate Elizabeth Female College,! at Charlotte; to establish graded schools at Monroe; to incorporate Mt. Moriah Male and Female Academy; to pro tect birds in Randolp and Davidson; to incorporate the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias (colored) ; to in corporate the Stone Mountain Railroad; to give the judge of the Western Cif- cut, Criminal Court civil power; to prohibit the use of Dutch or pound nets and fish traps in Neuse river; to allow Anson to levy a special tax; to establish a stocU; law in part of White Oak town ship, Bladen county; to amend the charter of Selma; to extend the time to compromise, commute and settle the State debt; to amend the charter of the Southern Trust and Guarantee com pany; to allow the people of Chatham to vote on the road tax question; to amend the act relative to Littleton's public schools; to appoint trustees of the Presbyterian Church at Louisburg; to place McDowell county in the Western Criminal Circuit; to prohibit hunting on any lands in Yadkin save by consent of owner; to allow the grandchildren! of certain ex-slaves to inherit and become distributers of their estates; to give the white deaf-mute in stitution at Raleigh $34,500 additional appropriation to allow the county com missioners to select four cotton-weighers for Raleigh, i CAROLINA. LBy Miss 8. Jessie Wilbur, Manson, N. C, who can supply copies of this sortg, with music, on application. Talk of Italy's sunny skies, Of Norway's midnight son, e Of .Switzerland's grandest scenery, England's fame by Shakespeare wod. But grander far than these I know, Is Caro lina's strand, Her dancing strehms, her wave-washod shore, And snow-capped mountains yrand. .!-,..?; : CHOBUS. Carolina, Carolina, tbe beautiful Land ot the true,. -Carolina, the dutiful land for you. What ' was ancient Borne or Greece With Carolina com pared? No martyrs needs this land of peace, Hero sorrow by afl is "shared. Our gallant men surpass the world. Our girl3 are peerless too, Our women pure ae the starry sky, And good, serene and true. . CHOBUS. every other . land on earth, Confined If their treasures rare, And old N. CL withheld hei own, There'd be no treasures there: And air their boasted beauties With one fair land were shared, Naught would our Carolina loose, Were she with it compared; ' CHOBCS. f- Incendiary Remark. . She Do you think smokeless pow- der will ever be used In war? He Yes; when I accused Miss Red key of using.it the other evening we immediate went to war. Washing ton Times. ' v . ' . THE WORST ON KECOR1 Later f2epof ts from tbe Storm-Swept The storm which raged throughout the Middle West Thursday night is un paralleled, not only for the extent of territory over which it raged, but for the amount of water precipitated. At Cincinnati the rainfall reported by weather bureau officials amounted to 5.38 inches, and floods are reported from almost every telegraph station from Pittsburg on the east to Kansas City on the west, and from the lakes to the northern boundary of Tennessee. In some instances the wind reached the velocioy of a hurricane, and much damage to dwelling, barns, fences, orchards and forests has been reiorted from various points throughout the dis trict. Throughout southern Illinois, In- I diana and Ohio the damage to railroad property in tne form of washouts, maK iug tramc Impossible, and in wrecks caused by softening of roadbeds is im mense. A not inconsiderable loss to the peo pie, as a whole, will be caused by tho washing awa- of bridges and roadways, which have been built in the rural dis tricts at a cost of millions of dollars, and which in too many cases have beeu totally destroyed. Owing to the demoralization of rail way traffic the mails local to the del uged district have been greatly de layed, while the through service over the trunk lines, East and West and North and South, has been badly crip pled, greatly to the annoyance of the vast business interests involved. The estimates are that considerably over $1,000,(KK); worth of property has been lost in the vicinities of Cincin nati, Dayton, Jndianaolis and tit. Louis. MRS. BrtKCliEK DEAD. Passed Away On Tenth, Anniversary of Her Husband's Death. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher died Mon day, the tenth anniversary of the death of her famous husband, at her home at Stamford. Conn. She was 85 years of age. Mrs Beecher had been sinking steadily since Saturday noon, and dur ing the twenty-four hours preceding her death had been unconscious. Sev eral members of the family were at tho deathbed. Eunice White Bullard Beecher was born in West Sutton, Worcester county, Mass., in 1812. Her father was Dr. Bul lard, a physician and farmer. She was educated at a seminary at Hadley, Mass. , and became acquainted with Henry Ward Beecher while he was a student at Amherst College. Their engagement la6ted! seven years. She became the mother of ten children, but four of whom are still living. During the lasi. uted a number of articles on deefcT topics --to -vriu.u publications. ShaJ published a work entitled "Letters Jbrom Florida, and also a limited edi- tion of a book named by the publishers "From Dawn to Daylight," Her life during her husbands ministry at Ply mouth Church in Brooklyn was, for the most part, one of quiet domestic happi ness, and in the days of his troubles she stood by him with unwavering af fection and loyalty. Acreage .Reduction Advised. At a meeting of the Texas liranch of the American Cotton Growers Associa tion, at Waco Texas, Hon. Hector D. Lane made a speech urging the neces sity of decreased acreage. He gave figures to show the danger of overpro duction. E. S. Peters, president of the State Association, made an address on farmers raising their own supplies. He urged the necessity of more corn. An address was issued appealing to all the cotton growers to reduce their acreage, to raise more food crops and to patronize home-industries. Cabinet Sworn In. All the members of the liew Cabinet met in the Cabinet-room) adjoining the President's office, Monday morning when, according to arrangements, the Chief Justice was expected to adminis ter the oath office. The oath was administered to the Secretary of State, and to the others in rapid succession in the following order. General Alger, Judge McKenna, ex Governor Long, Mr. Bliss, Mr. Gary and Mr. Wilson. y j Sew Battle Ships. The Navy Department will in all probability issue advertisements for bids on armor for the battleships Ala bama, Illinois and Wisconsin, upon which Congress placed a limit of $300 per ton. It is understood that no time fpr the delivery of the armor will be specified, which will permit concerns without the necessary plant to compete for the work, and install the necessary .machinery as the delivery progresses. j A Clean Pick Up." j President McKinley will have thej disposal of 106 Presidential post-offices which Mr. Cleveland had figured ou for the outgoing administration and for which his selection of postmasters had been announced. These represent the full list of postoffiee nominations made by Mr. Cleveland dnring the session of Congress just expired and which the Senate failed to confirm. i Shoemakers Strike. 1 tundred employes of Williams & Clark, shoe manufacturers, Lynn Mass., have struck by order of the ex ecuhve board of the Boot and Shoe Union. Conferences were unsuccess ful in an endeavor to persuade the firm to return to the scale of wages paid be fore the cut of 20 per cent, last fall. To Re-organize. The Southern States Freight Associ ation, which largely controls the rail loads passing 'through the territory south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi, is probably on the eve of re-organization. 3Ir. Bryan at kittle Rock. h At Little Rock, Ark. , a crowd of 10 - j AAA - - . i uw or 12,000 greeted Hon. W. J. Bryan Governor Jones and General James C Tappan, Speaker of the House an" pearedon the stand with the distin guished speaker. NEWS ITEMS CONDENSED, Southern IVocil t'oiuters. The Seaboard Air Line will ?nurction with New Orleans have i Hon. W. J. Bryan's visit to Nah vilje was the caiuse of a second ovnt joo. He a.Idressod .XX) ieopIe. I Th Kentucky legislature Hiets ju a few days and the rl I senatoiisl Uzht cf the lust session will In? rouoTtv. j , File destroyed more than a tniljimT feet of lumber in the South N'orjolk ( N'a. lumber vards. Loss $,', 000. ! - Mitjor Nathauiel R. ChainblisH of Molina Ala , uieu suddenly- of hvaiti failure in the cathedral at KultimonV By moans of contesting seats of Spu ators the silver men hope to prevent tlni ' 'puization of the Kentucky l.egMa, ture. - .i-.-n: t.":i t 1 11 1 1 vtuiiam rtiipairicK, ine-oldest rnani in deorgia, died at CarterHville. afei H years, lie enlisted in the ConTud erate army when he was 7'2 years ok and fought through it. A Louisville ,& Nashville northbomu last mail tram was held up bv Hit masked men three miles from ("alora Ala. , and a number of valuable tjack aires secured. The passengers were no molested. Near Augusta, G a.. Tip Frsy isho ii:iiji-'i .ai 1 ... i aim Kinni 111s oroiuer, ui i rsv. in a dispute which occurred at a dance . John all, one of Ijvuohbiirg'A wealthy citizens, died suddenly whity siting for a' train at a depot 111 ;tha city. . j i. M. Walton, an architect, of New Decatur, Ala . was fouud dead hf hi bed at the St. Nicholas hotel. New York. Governor Bloxham, of Florida, ! api pointed Col. John A. Henderson, of I allahassee. United States Senator U tili the vacancy, ponding an electing !v the Legislature, which will moot ui April. j ' California Supremo ('ourt denio Theodore Duraut a new trial. j , The Spartanburg (S. C.) Iron Work has been burned. Not one dollar' 11 p 1 t worm oi machinery was havod. ja&! S50,000; insurance .?10,(XK). Win. C. Halo, lh-o missing preside!) of the Southern Mutual Building I am Loan Association, at Atlanta, (in haf been indicted by the grand jury for enU lezzling $"5,2t? of the funds of the: asf sociatiou. I Bains throughout Kentucky ha caused numerous railroad washouts; aud is said to havo been the heaviest in years. A cyclone struck Nashville. Tenn I, injuring . sovoral buildings, iucludiug the McKendree Methodist church AH About the North Kx-Un jtcd StateH Senator Dolph, 01 Oregon, is dead. lhreo persons, lost thoir liveR incendiary fires in Brooklyn, N. Y. An entire familj' was extirpated by measies at loiuca, ills. The compulsory education bil paed tho Indiana legislature, ha . 1 . (5erf. Julio Sanguilly, recently re leased from imprisonment in Cuba, has arrived in Now Yoik. i The attempt to settle the strike at the Globe ship yards, Cloveland, O., has failed and the 'strike is still on. Thomas W. Bram, convicted at Bos ton of the 1ark Herbert Fuller mur ders, has been sentenced to hang Juno 18. i The recent heavy rains have caused exceedingly heavy losses in Indiana. Tho railway and telegraph companies are the chief sufferers. The Park theatre, the oldest play house in Indianapolis, and one of tho bust known in the country, was de stroyed by fire. It was .owned by Messrs. Dickson k Talbot, .who esti male their loss at $100,000,. with insur ance of 832,000. Keports from one hundred towns in the northwest indicate that another great snow storm is raging, perhaps tin; greatest of the wiflter. . L A notice has been posted at the Na tional tube Works, McKeosport, an nouncing ah average reduction of wages of 10 per .cent. Every department is in cluded in the reduction, affecting 3,'Mt 1 1 n. The workers have accepted tho cut. . j', i lie electric power house of Jthe Union rJ taction company, .at Philadelphia, op erating a half dozen linos of trolley cars, has been destroyed by fire. At Boston an explosion of gas, which leaked, from two great six-inch mains which cross the subway .at the corner of Tremont and Boyleston streets, kill ed six, injured two, probably fatally, and nearly fifty" other liersons: , Near Zanosville, O. , three men were killed and two fatally injured by a wrck ou the Baltimore and Ohio rail road. At Oshkosh, Wis., fire destroyed the extensive wagon factory of Streight k Co. Loss SlOOjOOO; covered by insur ance At Nw York, Tommy West, of Chi cayo. defeated Joe Wolcott, of Boston, the hitherto invincible welterweight, in their .') round bout at the Broadway tu!etic Club. - Miscellaneous. Eight men were drowned in a mine at Dover, England. Representative manufacturers of spool cotton in this country havo formed an association to be knowu as the American Spool Cotton Manu'factu-1 rers' Association. Consul General Lee in a cablegram to Secretary Olney from Havana, Cuba, says: "All quiet.; No excitement here now. I hope to secure the promise of trial of all Americans imprisoned. ; hose found innocent to be released, and those guilty to be sent out of tho island.' f Senator Woleott, of Colorado, who sailed for Europe January 2d, has re turned. He went abroad with the hope of promoting an international Congress of bimetallism. He said his visit had been a very satisfactory and interestiug ono. ( 1 . 1 i it
The Plow Boy (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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