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VBUSHBD BT ROANOKE PCBLMUNa Co. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Thomas Husos; Business Mavaqer VOL. 1. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1889. NO. 23 ' THE NEWS. A remarkable revival is in progress in lha penitentiary at Kingston, Oat, nearly one hundred criminals having been converted by Hunter and Crowley, the Canadian evan igeltet. Firuat Rockford, Ills., did 130,000 Mraage. Whihkey and politics caused the murder of Joseph Giit ert by William Dixon at Buffalo, N. Y.- Two children of Jero tniab Shaw, of Haverhill, Maes., wero found dead in a sandbank. Byron Jones, a mine drive- bosKjin the Luz?rne region, commit. e Suicide by throwing himself down a shaft Woe hundred feet deep.- The reorganiza tion plan of the Cotton Oil Trust provides for tiie Issue of $21,000,1)00 common stock and $15,000,000 preferred stock. -A fire in J. Wise Norton's house in Wheeling, W. Va., destroyed hundreds of land document, hicli will causa great inconvenience to , 'property owners iu West Virginia. Thos. Garrett, a merchant of Greensboro, N. C, committed tuicide on a railroad train. Dr. Mary Weeks Barnett, of Chicago, has sued Frances E, Wiliard for f 50,000 da mages for circulating defamatory statements about iter.' i-'i'he steamer Faralay is laying the Siew Western Union cables from Coney tfabsttd to Canso, M. 8. The failure of the Labrador fishery and destitution of the flsh 'eimen arc attributed principally to inroads of American and French fishermen, who u ed trap-nets and other engines for the whole sale destruction of fl;h. The stone combine in the West is trying tfl get possession of the q tarries at Joliet, III. "J'he trust h is a cipltal. of t2,0J0,0O0. Fire tt Rock Elapid-i, lx, destroyed a number of buildings. L issea C3 J, 000. Several valua ble horses ieris led in a fire on E. H. Doug law' Grand Vi.-w Stu 1 Farm, near Franklin, Tenu. A Cmadian smuggler, who bad been converted umier Moody, sent the evan gelist a check lor to be turned over to tnj government as restitution. George Seidoro's binding works and the Allentown Piti Works, at Allentown, Pa., wered stroy od by ftre. Loss $10,000; no insurance. Iu quarrel among farmers in Camden county, 31 o., 12 i ward Hurst andW. B.Green were killed. The body of Charles J. Reed, for merly a prominent politician of Naw York, wa found iu th Missouri river near I-jds-pendeuc?, Mo. Drink bid wrecked his life, Extensive real estate swindles have ben discovered in Minnesota and Indiana. -Thi Anarchists of St. Louis hive issjeda revo utionary address to workingmen to at tend a memorial meeting commemorating th banging of tneir Chicago brethren. Pres ident Harrison, bv touching tho telegraph instrument in the White House, opeaed thi bouchjrn Exposition at Montgomery, Ala. --Eight persons in a street oar narrowiy escapiJ beinij dash xl to death through a c ire lest driver oot cheesing bis horses neir a bridge draw, in Caloago.- Thi village of Luther, Mich., was nearly destroyed by fire. 3jsj $5D,00J." -Mrs, Hiram Wilford, of Kirasoy, III., was burned todea h by a coal oil lamp explos.on Charles Boker, aged tairtejn years, of Treuton, Tenn., was acci dentally shot and kilted by a companion wbi.e bird shooting. An electric light cur rent did more damage in New York city, roasting a horse aud injuring tho driver and a ioltce sergeant. Edwin Cooper, town ireusurer of Greenfield, Wis., killed his 1 I!2Sqj moulder strike lu Pittsburg has been settled iu favor of the men. The election contest in Montana has Deen settled in favor of tha Republicans, who will con trol the legislature. By the explosion of the boiler of a tUhiug steamer offLiwIs, DjI., the engineer and fireman ware Bcalded. Five men were burned to death by molten metal in the Colebrook furnace, at Lebanon, The Sauth A nerican visitors were I'iven a warm welcome at ths old mansion at Ashland, Ky., which was the home of Henry Q0y. Four ranchmen perished in the re ts Dt blizzard in Western Colorado, being caught in the storm while driving cattle to wards Texas. Joseph Smith murdered Hattie hie, his couiiu, to whom he was en gaged to bo married, at Streator, an I then committed suicide. Haggel Westbroou, a farmer of Kent couuiy, Mich., whilj insans from financial troubles, murdered his wif and three daughters and committed suidide. Heavy rains and snows in the Western States. Workmen found three skeletons tinder a house at Foola, Kansas, and each hkull bore the traces of bavin.; been crushed in by a heavy blow. Two hundred miners nt Odin, LI, went on strike for higher wages ani cheaper supplies. Now the authorities at D illas.Texas, think they have captured the murderer TascotL A bunco steerer, who tried bis game ona New York newspaper re porter, soon lound himself in jail. Charles J. CarisoB, son of the owner of the cottage in which Dr. Croriin wa murdered, also identified in court Martin Bu. ke as the man Williams who rented the cottage. Earth quake shocks were felt in Missouri and Illi nois. Congressman John M. Wiley, ol New York, was robbed of $700 by a bell boy at a hotel in Buffalo, N. Y. Josiah "ritz during the Prohibition campaign in New Jersey, sold his inn near Belvldere, and the I'lfeat of the amendment so prayed upon his mind that he hanged J himself.- PreKident Harrison has issued proclamations admitting North and South Dakota as states. Mate Frank Maxon, and four of the erew of tho water .'odgf d schooner Jennie Rosaline, from Kavnnah for Providence, were rescued by the schooner Flora Rogers and taken to Charlebton, Mrs Jennib Gutenberg, ol Brooklyn, launder arrest as a witness in o peculiar case of the suicide of an Austrian Jew, who leaves a letter stating that the woman lold.hira her husband had disappeared with money h had eutrurted to his care, and advised biin to commit suicide. -The vil lage of Copenhagt nnenr WatertownrX Y.r was swept by lire. Loss $25,0QJ. Slier.fl Reynolds and two assistants of Florence, .Arizona, while taking eight Apache In iiani in prison, wsre rv:rJere 1 by tt.vlr pri'icrs A Review of Our Agricultural Industries, A Nnmber of Recommendations by the Secretary The Inspection of . Meat The Sheep nnt Wool In dustry. The annual report of tne Secretary of Ag ricultural. The Secretary makes the usual references to the work of the several scien tific and other divisions in his department, and in addition he deals at length with cer tain r'ains for the thorough reorganization of the Department ot Agricultural, and sug gests S3veral uew features in tha interest of the development of agriculture. The report calls attention to the fact that the first ef forts toward a reorgnn asitiou were hampered b cause o surprising fact that the appro priations for the current year were iiiid en tirely upon the basis of the organization, no account tieing takeu of tha entire ctunge in the status of the depart merit. The Secretary insists upon the necessity for th re.ief from this embarrasHment, and for edi q uate appro priations to enatle bini to meet what be be lieves to be the oblig itions of the depart mant to the country. Tne Secretary anticipates a portion 0 bis plan of reorganization in the estimates for the furthcoming fiscal year. He says that the aggregate sum asked tor in his estini .li-K must not be measured by what is past, .but by wbat it great agricultural c.un try should do towards "sustaining, pro.tc-.-iug und promoting a cat ing whicn liesatthe foundation ol its prosperity and power." A striking contrast is drawn between this amount and the appropriations for agricul ture mudt by thist; countries which the re port says "are the most uctive competitors of Amerio m farmers in the world's market." A comparison sriowsi that Great Britain np propriMt s for i gr!cultur:, f 1,500,000: Ger nniny, 2fJ,0')t); Braa.l, $0,uou,u00 lorag ricu turu tinti mines; France, ts,uou,0uo and Austria more tbau 4 000,00 Jl The bfcretary finds that the provision for an assistant stcreury in the new law was a wise one, and hnhus utilized this, he says, by taking advantage of the President's choice in selecting a geutlemau, "combiuiug a know ledge of scientific, agriculture witn trained executive ability," to divide the Department into two graid divisions, ono embracing ad ministrative aud executive work, the other purely scientific work. ' Many localities in the United States, espe cially in the North and on the Pacific roust, are known to be specially Miitablu to the pro duclijn o( a sugar beet rich in saccharine matter. The interest in this su Ject devel oped by the. success. ul experiments iu Cali fornia will Uiinet by the publication during the coming winter o. a full report on tne beet suxur industry in the United States. The Botanical Department is to b. specially occupied in an efTort to solve the problem of increasing toe fortge yield on th.j 300,00,000 acres of the arid region outside of possiole irrlgitton by pronAting tin- proiuctivt ness of ti e grusoes now growing there. To aid in this work, and in procuring a productive gra-s for the Southern States, the department proposes to undertake experimental work specially devoted to this subject The report urges the duty of the govern ment to assume a more definate euperv.sion of sixh forest areas as are still owned by It, aud as occupy a position ot importance in the regulation of water flow aud of other climatic conditions, and emphasizes the im portance of the le.ations which the forests bear to th-j problem of irrigation in the arid lands and ot their immeuse annual product. THE S5KK1 DIVISION has received the Secretary's special atten tion, and he announces some changes in the manner of purchasing seeds, and his deter mination to closely Ooserve the products of other countries, in order that the seeds of such are found to possess singular excellence may be secured and experimented with in this country. The employment of a compe tent expert is also coutein plated, one who can efiicteutly perform the insjHjction aud nom-juoiature of cereals. A supply of five varieties ot Mediterranean wheat, und a. so of B.-rniuda grass seed have been ordered fiom Europe, the latter being specially de- gmd tor the Southern states. MEAT INSPECTION. Tha language Used by the Secretary in re gard to a national meat Inspection law is pointed and vigorous. The necessity for in spection at time ot slaughter is: first, to en ab.e the authorities to promptly locate any cattle diseuse centers, and secondly, to avoid the anomaly of leaving the inspection of our in ?at products to the olficials of other coun tries, thus giving foreign governments some show of reason for the claim that they bave better oppoi tunities for learning of uisease among American cutt e than are enjoyed by our own government. He accordingly advo cates "such an amendment io the law under which the bureau is ut present organized, as will provide for such official national inspec tion as shall guai unte- the fitness of our meat products fr focd consumption under the seal of the United States government. Authority and means are also desired to enable the department to exercise a close supervision ot the economic side of the cattle markets, tho characteristics of stock com manaing the highest price, variations as to age, freight and quality, and all tacts bear ing upon the cattte. industry, which will en able the bureau to supply to farmers cucb Information as it is impossible for them to obtain for themselves. WOOLAND SHEET. The sheep and wool industry receives rpiv cial consideration in the report. The growth of the mutton interest is referred to as one to be givaily encouraged. As to wool grow ing, the reduo ion of the tariff in lS-vl is earnestly deplored. To it is attributed tho great reduction In the number of sheep, which, has since then fallen df by about seven million head, wh:ie th importation of wool has increased frotn ?,:j.'iu,iirtt pound in 1884. to 13rt,4s7,rJJ pounds the past yar. "On behalf of this industry," s-iys the S-c-retary, I recommend tbee facts to yon. and Hhould they be submitted to Congre.-s, I ask for them intelligent and careful consi 1 eration." In conclusion the report submits figures showing the importmee of agriculture, which produce an annual yield of nearly four thousand million dollars employing on the lire million farms teu mil ion persons, repre senting a population of thirty in. llion p.-ople, while the value of liv stock alone is esti mated at $2,507,000,000. That agriculture underlie all other industries, it alone mak ing our vast commerce possible and rend -r-ing tha product of our mines valuable, jiis signs to it the first place on considering the well-being and prosperity of our countr,). Refering to agricultural depression, the re port does not undertake th delicate duty of onr legislators in diagnosing it causes aid analyzing prnpod panaceas, hut tb ruht f the former to the lullest enjoym-nt com patii le with the right of his febaw-citisjiis, of ; the liencflt of the protective system, is earnestly insisted upon. '"For alt eui'h ar ticles as our'own soil c m produce, the far mer. Justly hum the protection which wilt iiiiturti to'biiu , all the beueiits of our Uouiw umrKot." The I).-p-irtmnnfcof A'ricult i;r Uanr.'her rthoif ''lie;"- r1--l v !( ct ' (...' "'1 must be 'energetically and judiciously di rected to aid the farmer by supplying such en application of science to agriculture as will enable him, rapidly growing in intelli gence and self help as te is, to increase the yield of every tillable acre fifty per cent , and to greatly increase the area of tillable lands. ' The report concludes with this ear tcg exhortation; "The great nations of Europe strain every nerve to make sciences the handmaid of wir ; let it be tha glory of tha American people to make science the handmaid of agriculture," DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. A 6-year old d mghter of Mrs. Sullivan was choked to death by swollowing a toy balloon in Cincinnati. Simon Barney, engineer, and James Mov ies, fireman, were kihed by the bursting of a mine boiler at Archibald, Penna. A large brfck dwelling In course of erection in Pass;ic City, New Jertey, tumbled down, bnrying 10 wurkmeu. All were injured. One of the large pulp grinders in the paper plant neir Appletou, Wisconsin, burst, and killed i'Yaui Clark, Superintendent of the work. Secretory Proctor has granted tha suffer ing settlers in North Dakota, noar Fort Tot ten military reservation, permission to se cure wood irom the reservation. The boiler of a steam thresher exploded near Gratton, Dakota, killing Isreal 3hep pard, the owner. The engineer, fireman and another man were dingerously woundel. William Kennedy, of Catas itiqua, Penna., was drowned wnili attempting to cross the lyjoish river in a boat to th Thimas Com pany's iron works. The boat was swjpt over a dam, A coal train on the Illinois and Indiana Southern Riad was ditched near Sullivan, tuJiiua, uy a broKen rail. E.igineer W. Evins was killed, and an unnnown tramp was tatally hurt. A ptsenger train and freight train on the Noriolk and Wet-ni KadroAd collided near Liberty Statio i, Virginia. Two train m-sn wero killed and two injured. B-ith engines and five cars wero wrecsed. Government engineers arrived at Johns town, Pa., to ascertnt i the oust of widening and deepening the channels of the stream p issiug tnrou h th c city, and to erect tem porary bridges over thi same. While Mrs. J. Ellis wa outdrivirigin Den ver, Colorado, tue team ran away and col lided w.ta a cable c tr. She was thrown com pletely over the car, lauding on b jr head on the track on ths other side. SU was fat illy injured. Two wewt-bound freight trains on the Erie Railroad were wrecked neir Otisville, New York. Both tracts were blocked. The wrejk caught Hm, cutting off telegraphic coinuiu uication. Samuel olo.it, of Midd.eton, was killed, and seve.ru! others wero injure!. A freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicigo R ill road ran into tue limited express near Beaver Falls, Pa. A brakeman uanifd Rjeters was killed and En gineer JJjuiruerty and Fireman Carr w-re badly injured. Home of th passengers re ceived slight injuries. O ie of the boilers of the Bellaire blast f uruace, at B til lire, O.iio, exploded, causing damage to the mill und adjoining buildings estim itid .at $2J0,000. Two other boilers cracked, the bo.lei-room was wrecked and one end of the nail factory was demolished. A portable boiler on a farm near Hamlet. Indiana, burst, killing Adam Mann ana bererely scalding five others. ENGULFED IN MOLTON IRON. Six Men lloasfed Alive by a Bursting I'uriiire. Au ap mil ing accident occurred at Cole br-ok Furuaco No. 1, at Lebanon, Penna., by which six men were roasted to death and two others so burned that they will probably die. It was almost exactly like the accident which happened a tew weeks ago at the E igur Thompson Ste l Works, when Cap tain Jones lost his lite, but was much more ieidly. The furnace began to work badly, consid erable (dig escaping, u I at 5 P. M. a gang of men were clearing up the debris around the bottom of the stack. Suddenly tha furnace burst opeu and the iron and slug, melted by the wuite heat until they flowed like water, burst forth and engulfed the workers with a torrib e roir and the flimes leaped 100 feet high to the furnace head. Theavah.n ;he of liquid fire flew in all direc tions, thirty feet in the air and its spread was i.cjompanied by a series of detonations that suoo.t the earth. Six men were instantly killed, four leave wives and children. John Snyder, foreman, and another workni in, were working at the ton of the stack, and escaped with slight burns by jumping on the roof of the stock hou i As soon as possible, streams were turned upon tbemoultoo iron and the burning nuild i ,r, and a largo force of men begin to clear away the debris to recover the bodies. The first nody found had no semblance of a hu man being. The I gs aud arm were burn, d uli' and tbd truiik lookei like a piocjof char coal. It is believed that the bodies of three jif tno men have been entirely onsum!. All the killed were Americans and have tiimilies. The furnace was ownxl by Robirt H. Col. man, the Cornwall millionaire, and was coiiei lered one of the best in the country. STARVING INDIANS. Destitution on the Wind River Reser vation, Wyoming- Tbe20U0 Indiana occupying the Wind River reservation, just South of the Yellowstone National Tark, are actually in want and many will die of starvation before Spring, Their beef rations is but three-fourths of a pound per head as against a pound and a half issued to each Sioux. Then th.'se Indians receive tbeir meat on the hoof in the Fall, subj set to shrinkage, vbich is often 50 per cent. The tribes on the rervatiou a yeurngoagreed to waive sugar and coff 1'ations if theisauiof beef and flo.ir was increased, but the only portion of th deal consummated was the withdrawal of mgar aud coffee. Their allotment of fl iur in insufficient and tho contractors delay its delivery. At th Wind River Agency are remnants o! the sere j t Ind.nu tribes, the Shoshone and Arapahoes. They have agricultural imple ments and nor es, and many wonld farm, but they can not ruit irrigatin ditcn -s aud nave no money to buy s ed. This j ear a number cultivated small tracts, but defective ditches and an early front caused the loss of tbeir crops. Even now the Indians ara reduced to Jeperats straits. . The game has left the country and they eat diseased carcasses and domestic animals. .-.. But for the infl ienc of Chief Washakie, of the Shoshone, raid upon range cattle would be frequi'tit. Governor Warren has venfliil the tacts by a visit to the Bouncy , r.n l will t iucJ t..-:n bcf-ire th- Ificrr" r l Features of the Business Sit uation Reviewed. Moderate Checks In the Movement of Merchandise anrt Nome Money. 8trlna;eney--Rumors of Railroad Beats Fn tor Stockholder. Spicial telegrams to BradstrqeVs point to further moderate checks in the movement of general merchandise from first to second bands, but the bulk of interior jobbers' needs are thought to have been filled. Even now the volume of general trade is in excess of that of one year ago, total of October's clearings at fifty cities being the largest on record for one month. Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Boston Pailadelphia and New York each report moderate decliue in the distrit ut ion in some line. The drouth in Louisiana has hurt the sugar, and unfavorable weather in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri has some eft. ct upon interior trade. The mild fluctuations in tha Cnicago bog prod uc; market did not prevail here, pork leaving off steady and lard only 1 points down. At Western centers nogs closj lower, but cattle are stea ly for better grades. It educed calls for steam tonnage for the Black Set and Me.ii terraue in trade, especia ly lor iron ore, as cat 1 il from Loudou, resulted in weakness in tonnasce ratus, which shows itself here. At New Yurk funds are in sort 'supply and the call loon market is feverish. This is due in part to November disbursements, and is regarded as temporary. Prices of leading corrals have advanced, wheat being ap Ule. Indian corn, an2, and oats, M i beat receipts at primary mrkvts aie neer but holders are firmer, aud ocean steam freights weaker. The gain in price is in. the face of decreased exports and renewed buying by London of Russian fu tures. Lighter interior and forward move ment ot corn, but better home and foreign demand stimulated prices, wnile oats sym pathy, ij. Wheat flour did not change much In pnc. 'l ty exports of wheat (vaA flour as wheat) ths w.ek ag-regata 1,50J,352 bushels, anainst a,197,400 bushels last week, and 1.34J.814 bushels of the like week last year. Total exports, July 1 to data, one third of the current cereal year, are 34,34 455 bush els, against 40,240,000 bushels in the like foar months of 1863. Foreign shipments are de clining sharply, as they did one year ago at this time. .! t R iw sugar shows signs of weakness again on pressure to sed, and refined has gone off HX easily. European crop advices favor boilers. Otbeisdo not. Ooifeeoptious have declined about 3i40 points on improved Brazilian crop reports. In distributing chan nels the movera.nt isJight at irregular prices. Teas, for good qualities, are quite steady, in price. Inferior grades bave sold off some.JJ.oveuient xXouisiana rice is Jiiggsh nod pr.ces arweatr. irada witn dry goods jobbers atNew York and Boston is quiet, bat compares well with last year. Cotton goods are in active de mand at agents' hands for Spring delivery, and prices generally firm. Woolens are to light demand. Heavy-weight goods have begun to move at a sligot advance. Interior woolen markets are aotive and higher. At the seaboardroaaufacturers are snowing a slight renewed interest. The outlook for woolen goods is unchanged. The business tui.ures during the last seven days number, for the Uulted States and for Cauada 'Si, or a total of 201, as com pared with a total ot 2i5 last week aud 223 tne week pievious to the last. For the cor responding week iast year the figures were 275, representing 213 in the-United States anu 'Si in Canada. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Prince Bismarck is troubled with insomnia lie h is tried an orris root pillow, but is still wakeful. Secretary Rusk has develop3d a great fondness for chrysanthemums. He always wears one now in bis buttonhole. F. E. Spinner, formerly United States Treasurer, is now 88 years old. He is living in Mohawk, N. Y., bis native place. Dr. Dwight L. Moody is said to have pro pounded in a recent sermon the dogma that nobody who pliys progressive euchre can hop to go to Heiven. Sir Julian Goldscbmidt, the well-known London member of Parliament, was hand somely entertained by the New York He brews, at DelmonicoV. President Harrison seldom attends the theatre. He l not nearly as fond of the drama as Ex President Cleveland, who has become a confirmed "first-nighter." Mrs. Lou se Chandler Monlton has been visiting Lady Ashburton at her country home in co;land, and her pen cannot do jus tice to the beauty of the place or to the charm of h?r hostess. The German Emperor's stvle of after-dinner oratory is precisely modeled on that of a commander in the field. He calls his sen tences out in a series of short, sharp shocks, as if they wer so many words of command. Admiral Kimberly, in command of the Pacific SquaJron, has been in service forty years. He is now on his way to San Fran cisco, and will be succeeded by Commodore Brown, commander of the Norfolk Navy Yard. President Car not of France is an entha siaxtifl Shakespearian scholar, lie bas plies of manuscript containing his notes on the Shakespearian plays.and he has translated in to French" Macbeth, ""Romeo and Juliefand "A Winter's Tale." Carnot is not a Bacon ian, but is willing to acknowledge that Shakespeare was a magnificent p!agrist. - Chinese women are entering the field of reform. Some of the roost prominent women in the "Flowery Kingdom" have formed a society to prevent the bandaging of the pedal extremities It is appropriately termed the "Society of the Heavenly Foot. Sir Lepel Griffin, who wrote a book de nunciatory of the United States, has Given up bis portion in India, and has dec!ded to go into English politics. Next month be is to marry Mis Marie LoonoM, wriiv he re cently met at Hamburg. She is the daughter of a merchant o Naples, and is related to the Canon of Winchester. Word bas been sent around to the London dailies asking them not to print any reports their correspondent at Athens might wire about the Prince of Wales'., health. The pipers ail obeyed the fargesUon. A medi cal report received in London says that the effects of Bright's disessa are beginning to be obvious, and the result of bis voyage to Ejypt will be watched for with deep anxiety. ; Probably the largest returns, everything considered, that comes to writers ara thoaa which are received in Royalties for text books for scbojls. Tk lata Prof.: EiUs Loomls, of Yale, was supposed to Bo a com paratively poor man, yet, bis estate, on pro tate the other '!av, revealed weilth that is pretty noar ?.V.a),U0O. This represents the r- turi'-. rc : ' -t in y.yalf .. foe I text- SOUTHERN ITEMS; INTERESTING NEWS COSIPIIjISD FROM MANY SOURCES. An immense new flouring; mill Is being constructed in Huntington, W. Va. D. Williamson, of Indianapolis, pur chased a early walnut log from a Logan county, W. Va., man tor 3,G00. Roanoke. Va., has ten miles of street railway in operation at present, and eight more miles will be added in a few mouths. Patrick Healy, thirteen years of age, while trying to jump on a B & O. freight train at Piedmont, W. Vj. , slipped and bad bis leg cut off by the wheels. . T. J.' Parson's saw and grist mill, near St. Clem nt's Bay, in St. Mary's county, Md. , and the finest mill propel ty in the county, was destroyed by fire. No insurance. Mark Crump, son of W. O. Crump, a leading jeweler of Trenton, Tenn,, wnile bird bunting, fired at a b;vy of birds and blewoutthe nrai sof bis companion, Charley Barker. The boys wore about 12 years obi. At a dance at Valley Mills, W. Va. , Frank Seisk and Kirk Padget engaged in a row about a girt, and Semk fractured Padget's skull with a poker. The wounded man will likely di-i Two men named Love and Gallihowe, living a few miks Irom Abingdon, Va., be came involved in a difficulty, whicn resulted iu Lobe's shooting Gallihowe through thi body. Hon. G. F. Weber, member ot the legis lature from Morgan cjuuty, W. Va., wni.e feluiig u tree sustained a iructure of one of bis lens. The injury will conflue him to bis oed for several weeks. A Mary Wa-hingtOn Monument Assooia turn was formed at Frederickburg, Va., c jui p.6ed of ladies, in response to the one loaned in Boston, Mass., and communicated to th mayor of Fredericksburg. 1 The Charlott sville, Va., Industrial and Land Improvement Company have declared a bemi-nnnual dividend ot lour per cent, and has a surplus besides. The company hai only been in existence six inoul hi. ' A three-year-old daabter of Filmcrj Wilson, of Western, W. Va. , was acciden tally killed by her father, lie was cleaning bis gun, wneu the weapon was discharged, the child receiving the contents. A man named Whitmore was struok by a Shenandoah Valley train and iustantiy killed. Tne accident occurred near Natural Bridge,- Va. He att inp ed to cross the track in front of the aproacuin train. An Australian searam named Gallinachi fell from the mainmast bead of the British steamship St. Asopn, lying at the wharf at Konolk, Va., and recoivod injuries from which bodied, having crusbe.i h.s skull. The representatives of Northern capital ists have laden leases ou several farms near Cbr.stiansburg, Montgomery county, Va., with the expectation that development will suow-tde presence of irou ore In large quan tities. diaries Reister, a rag picker, was found at the loot of a bluff in WnedJing, W. Va., with bis nck broken. It is supposed that he walked over iu the darkness from the end of German street, which ends at the edge of the bluff. A terrible tbunJer storm passed over Danville, Va.,accouipinied by a phenomenal downpour of rain, in the nature of a water spout, flooding streets and cetters. Th s was followed by a cold snap, the thermometer droj pmg to forty degrees. A Ore at Weston, W. Va., destroyed an entire square in the business part of the towu. Nine families were made bomel.ss and sev eral business firms turned our. The total Iobs on buildings aud stock will reach $40, 000, with only $1,000 insurance. A twelve-year-old son of Jonathan Frai- ley was killed in a terrible manner at Catoc tiu Furnces, Frederick county, Md. H was thrown in I rout of a train of four empty ore cars that were bein hauled to the mines by mules, and wascrubed, dying in a few hours. His limbs were severed irom his body. James Hawthorne, a blacksmith of Nor folk, Va., about seventy years of age, wnile returning to his borne riding on a streat car, slipped aud fell under the car. His head was cut in several places, and various other inju ries inflicted, trom the effects of which ha died soou afterwards. A bad wreck occurred near Pulaski, Va., caused by tho failing of an insecurely fasten ed car-door. A general smash-up ensued, and seventy-five cattle were kiileu or badly in jured. The company purchased the whole nerd at market prices, disposing of them as best thcy could. The loss to the company it very heavy. Tbe two tanks for the Jackson well at Mannington, W. Va., have been placed in position, and as soon as the five plugs are drilled out its true capacity will bt known. A leak in one of Che plugs causd a stream of oil to t'C thrown one hundred feet higher than the derrick. The site o! the old Athenaeum it Wheeling, W. Va., has been sold, ami Hie purchaser proposes to erect a magnificent music hall on it. Before it was burned, in 1868, the Ath3 rseum was one of the finest theavtrs in the West, it was built in the fift-es, and Maggie Mitchell opened it. During tbe war it was used as a barracks for Confederate prisoners. Logan county, W. Va., bas an area of e:ght hundred tquare miles, with one town, Logan Co iri-.Ru-ie, with a population of three hundreJ. There is only one church tuiUing in the county, tnd taafc was erected by a private individual. Tbe nearest railroad station to the county seat is fifty-five miles, and goods are takerf in push boats to the county, there being no roads. Dens a forests covers this hilly country, but the bills are full of veins of coal, vary ing in thickness from four to twenty-one feet. THE BLIZZARDS BEGIN. Rnilronda Blockaded by Know In Ne brnka Cattle Perishing. A heavy suow storm played huvoc with tbe railway telegraph wires and tbe overland trains generally in Nebraska. Tbe fall of snew is about six inches, as reported from several towns in Western Nebraska, while in Wyoming a blizzard is prevailing, and it is feared that a blockade will compel tbe sus pension of trains. Telegraph wires on the Burlington are broken at several points west of Omaha. The trainson the Elkhorn Branch were delayed more or lers, owing to tbe heavy fall of snow in the territory traversed by that road, 'i h snow isrenorted to have fi. len a f ju W.sl as V.'lintiue. and at tbe lat ter poms it is reported thit the mercury ii rapidly falling, and a cold wave prevails. J DxavKR,Cou The snow storm, which bas been raging Jorty-eigbt hours, has ab-iced. All trains are delayed aud te egraptitc com munication with all easttrn point d ;stxoyed. Three hundred miles tast oi h. re over fifteen miles of telegraph lines have been completely wrecked, wbiU in Colorado the damage U fruits nd had -a trees is considerable. Uepcrc from thtf vouih say that tiiesicrni bas drifted tti0U9:tui1s of c.tttJeaud horse of theirrangs into the south s-t, a-v.t tliut tiundri"! c f the v .!rs,f 1 'v ? !:.'iJ i i t J;. I ir-i. CABLE SPARKS. M. Tscherniscbewski died at Saratoff. Tho dock laborers of Anwerp ara on a strike. , . ; , . Members of the Parnellite party have col lected 20,000 in Australia to advance ths Irish cause. . . ' ." The German man-of-war Kaiser, with Emperor William of Germany ou board, left the Piraeus for Constantinople. Tbe total number of women and girls killed in Templeton's cirpet factory, Glasgow, by tbe fall of the roof ii thirty. . Twenty persons were killed and injurM by an explosion at a dynamite depot at Fried richshustte, nesr Beutben, Silesia, Dr. Schweinfurth, the African traveler, expects Eniin Puba and Stanley, the ex plorer will soon arrive at Mpwapa. Tbe river Powe and its tributaries bave overflowed tbeir banks. A portion of th city of Verona, on tbe Adige, is flodod. At Mpwapa, Capt. Wissman met messages from Stanley, the explorer, who will likely reach that placj about tbe middle of Novem ber. v t ; - The Swiss government has prohibited th holding of meetings by the Salvation Army and has closed the halls occupied by the Sal vationists. During a, deb itv in the Richsta?, on the budget, Horr Von Benningssn said Germany would stake everything toenable her to wae a possible war victoriously. Ilerr von Maltsahn. seoretary of state for the imperial treasury of Germany, has been found incompetent for the post be occupies and will withdraw from office. The wall of an unflniahed building fell upon a carpet factory at Glasgow, and fifty women and girls were buried in the ruins, forty of whom were killed. Minister Pbelps writes to Mayor Grant, of New York, favoring the World's Flr at New York rather than at 'Washington, tbe seat of the sovernment bere?reunts. Tbe strikes in the Mons district of Balgium now nnmber eight thousand. In a manifesto issued by them the owners of the coil mines r.'fus3 to grant tha' demands of the strikers. Tbe F.garo, of Paris, says the marriage which had been arraigned between Prince Murat and Miss Caldwell bas been aban doned, and that tbe lady will sail for New York. . . The visit of tha Princ3 of Wale to Egypt ii considered in France as an effort on tbe part of England to increas ber prestige on tbe Nile and to reaffirm his right of a protec torate over Egypt. Bishop Virtue, of Portsmouth. Eng.; will represent bis country at tbe celebration in Baltimore of the one hundredth anniversary of tbe establishment of tbe Catholic hierarchy in the United States. The Czar bas refusod to recogniz) Prince Ferdinand aaa ru erof Bulgaria, and will not accept any form of settlement of the Bulgarian question which excludes Russia' claim to the right to select tbe bead of the new government - Tbe Spanish budget show that tbe revenue of tbe government is 803,100,000 pesetas, slightly , exceeding tbe expenditures. Tha government will raise tbe tariff on flour and hops to effect tbe conversion of re ieem&bie, bond?. . ul; . ;.;-';,. Lord Salisbury, the English premier, ha 6eut an emphatic protest to Berlin against tbe declaration of a German protectorate over a portion of the east coast of Africa, main taining that the British East Africa Com pany bas acquired rights ever the territory. A Russian newspaper states that Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, and M.Stambouloff, who is actiDg as regent of that country dur ing the absence of the Prince, disposed of national property and mortgaged tbe Bul garian railroads in order to secure tbe re cent loon. A DAY OF THANKSGIVING. The President's Proclamation Sets Apart Thursday, STmber 2R. The following proc.amation, setting apart Thursday, November 23tb, as a day of nation al tbankszivintf. By the President of the United States: A PROCLAMATION. . A bigbly favored people, mindful of their dependence on the bouuty of Divine Provi dence, should seek fittinc occasion to testify gratitude and ascribe praise to Him who is tbe author of their many blessings. It be hooves us, then, to look back with thankful hearts over tbe past yeer, and bless God for His infinite mercy in vouchsafing to our land enduriug peace, to our people freedom from pestilence and famine, to our husbandmen abundant harvests and to them that labor a recompense of tbeir toil. i. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of tbe United States of America, do earnestly recommend Thursday, the 2tkb day of this present month of November, be set apart as a day as national thanksgiving and prayer, and that the people of onr coun try, ceasing from the cares and labors of tbeir working day, sba 1 assemble in their rt spective places of worship and give thaDks to God, who lias prosper d ns on our way and made our paths the paths of peace; be seeching Him to bless tbe day to our present and future good, making it truly one of thanksgiving for each reunited home circle as for the nation at large. Iu witness thereof, I bave hereunto set ray band and caused tbe seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this first day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of - the independence of the United States, the one hundred and fourteenth. (Signed) Ben J. Harrison. By the President, ' James G. Blainx, Secretary of State. markets! . Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,$4. (53 a4.85. ' Wheat Southern Fultx. f4iS4: Corn Southern White, 42a42J. cts, Yellow 40a41ctt. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 25aftJcta. : Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania. 54a55cts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 12 50o13 00;Straw-Wheat,7.00af8.00;Butter, Eastern Creamery, 19a25c., near-by receipts 9al7cts; Cheese Eastern FancyCream. 10' allK cts., Western, 10al0 cts; Egs 24 a24; fobaoco Leaf Inferior, la2.iK, Good Common, 3 00a4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 Good tofinered,8a9; Fancy, 10atl3. f xw York Flour Southern Common to fair extra,$&10a5.15; Wheat-Nol W bite 8.3 a$3:Rve State.51Ja52;Oorn Southern Yel'low.38aS9M- Oats-White, State Jifjai cts. ; Butter-State, lia.3 cts. ; Chee.se-StaUi, SaMK cbM Eggs 21a22 cte. Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.25o4.75: Wheat Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 80)tfatl; Rve-Pennsylvani R.Sa56cts:Corn Southern Yellow, 4041 'cts. Oats 'JJ);aJJ9 cts. ; Butter -State, IvktJS cts. ; CheesGr. Y. Factory, 9at cts.' Eggs State, 24)tfa25 cts. CATTLE. BiT.TTMORF Beef, 4 00a4 1.1; Rlw. $3 0' a4 AO. Hosts ?4 25a 4 4", MEW York Beef $5 OOaC 0il;Sheep-t3 a5 25; Hogs M.20a4 V I-:- r Li'--- TY-'y ;! l TO-; tn '. i -1 i i
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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Nov. 15, 1889, edition 1
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