North Carolina Newspapers

Published by Roawokb Publishing Co. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Thomas ncsow, Businkss Makaojek VOL. 1. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1890. NO. m THE NEWS, The store of Jacob Fryman, at Millport, !'., was destroyed by fire. Catarrhal pneumonia has developed among a herd of Battle neai4 Lancaster, Pa. John Wes ley Elkins, a boy twelve years of age, was tentencodjo imprison meat for life for mur dering his parents in Des Moines, la. V 1 I . u.nuvji un u, vi hjb r. Ti. VDD(CD OOUU1 Dakota, protests against the passage of the prohibition bill now pending because it da , (ilea theuse of wine for sacramental pur-posas.P-i-l'osimaster L. E;, Darling, of Schi scton, Wig., lias been arrested, charged with robbing the mails. Michael Schieber, the Herman murderer, who escaped at Corfu, N. Y.,from a. moving train has' been re- ). captured. Revi W. Pettitand Mrs. Elma C, Whitehead, ot Lafayette, Ind., have been srrcBted on the charge of murdering the preacher' wife. George JA. LanKstaff, of C.arence, Ala., was arrested in Toronto, Ontj charged with stealing $1,100 from the Bell, Telephone Company. Mrs. Folly Osgood, who celebrated' her one hundredth birthday January 10, died of the influenza. Win. T, Day, ex deputy United .States mar. Fhal in Kentucky, committed suicide bytak. . ing morphine. Thomas Rainey, a Texas ranchman, died of influenzi, whereupon his aged father blew bis brains out. -The mill and works of the Freemin Wire and Iron ' Company, of St. Louis, were destroyed by hip. inn lassumwers lounuub at oaieui, N. J,t has been settled, and the men will at once return to work. Judge Newman, of tha United States Cjurt at Atlanta, has de cided that the state of Goorgia cannot col lect taxes for the Pullman Sleeping-car Com pany. Michael Fopoff, a Kusian refugee, murdered Mary Fetrikovasky, a handsome Russian , girl, in New York. During a row over an election at Johnson City,Blanoo county Texas, Ben Cage shot and killed Zach. . L'njd.By an explosion of natural gas in Pittsburg a house was wrecked, one person was killed and several others injured, Geo. W. Wright . of Philadelphia, charged with embezzling iSS.OoO while supreme treas urer, of the Order of Tonti, has entered a plea of guilty.- Judge G. W. Early, State Senator from the Fifth district of Virginia, is dead. The telephone company in Chi cago removed all their instruments from municipal buildings because they had not been paid for their use. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that a. rail road company can charge a passenger extra , fare when he fails to buy a ticket. Wil. liam Brurfy and Isiao Lock wood, two prin tei s, were found unconscious in a room in New York from inhaling coal gas. Brady died, but Lickwood may recover. In Washing tons, Edward L. McClellun, a car penter, shot and killed Henry Benton. The Boston fire marshal finds tnat tb big. I rpi. 1 LI... 1 1 . . 1 :i . t o-t Ait u rnj Muquu av j tiuo iuivivu t u v uvavvu Electria Time Company, and recommends the need of municipal control of electric wir.'s.' Judgu Troop, of YVinfleld, Kas., fined two newspaper publishers and an edi tor S100 for commenting on bis decision. Unless there is an improvement in th coal trade, all the Reading collieries may shut down Jacob R. Shanta's store and the pott ifllae at Mont Ma bo, Pa., were destroyed by fire.--A reign of terror exists in Han cock county, 111. Wild animals that are ... i. i . i . i r - .-v . . ; - nr Mastering cows, goats, &c Four men were drowned near, Burlhuton, III., by the team which they wore riding I a .king over a binlt. Thomas Dwon.was instantly killed jn Newburgb, N. Y by an electric shook, , A f relgnt tram on the Heading Railroad ran into a landslide, near Shamokin, Fa., killing Eog'neer Clark Hoffman. The acpH mnf.ltcr nn1 tflti n rt lanf-Khara nf T.llthflr . rnrtiirrir, tji i hvh phchuliu iruiu iiihii hvc McCalmont were bnrned to death at Union ville, Mo, Peter Oglesby, a nephew of ex Governor Olesby; of Illinoi?, accidentally IHIIpiI hirrwnir while hunt-.incr n Afir T"Anver. Col. County Coustable R. M. Long, of . Guyandotte, Ky., was killed and his . wife mortally wounded by some parties unknown. Fivo Indians broke .through the ice at Flathead L'ike, Montana, and were drowned. Charles Bergeron, of Chippewa Falls, , Wisconsin, has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for marrying his niece. Governor Abbett, in his message to the New Jersey legislature comes out flatfooted In favor of ballot reform. A negro, raur" deied Morr's Parry, a car-driver, in India napolis, Ind., Biol) bU moneybox and es- caped. Two masked men held up a pas senger train, near Tulare, California, and secured several thousand dollars. A bar mee ting of attorneys who practice in United States CDurls was held in Boston, to take measures to carry, in to effect the President's tnesrage referring to an intermediate United States court. Negro striken in Apalachi fvila. Fls.. killed one of their race who insis ted on working. James Johnson, a notor ious criminal, has been arrested in Trenton, N. J., cliarged with robbing the mails. Chinaruen are to be put to work in New York in the place of Italians and Irishmen, By nn explosion of natural gis at Snickle Fo., Mrs. George Gibbs was fatally burned. . John Gorley and three children perished ' by fire in SB. John's, N. F. By an acci dent on the Alabama Midland Railroad, En gineer Baleigb and Fireman F oirlost their lixes. Charles Galliere, a New York ped- lr is sleeping himself to death. -The Tit 11s town o Utica, III., has almost been wiped out by fire.- Tbe Coopers' strike in Chicago bas resulted in a victory for tha strikers. Tas French Government has bestowed tha m:vir "Chevalifr du Merita Agricole" ii ;ion Mr. James Cheesmau, of Decrfoot j.''ar,n, iSoiithhoro, Mass.. for his services on the juVy of tho Paris KxpoAitlou, where ha represented 1'ho Agricultural Department of the United States Government. , A Ihts thief, meently arret-l at Konti H'Uo, lllino;?. bn.i a snap on his r-rson with t:j-a rou!s taAi k;-'i cue ny wLIt M tKe ttolf.i ),,;i ii Ufi?r. Tli"l ' I'J i'..-jt''Jin e.:; 1 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, ncDfUe Ncsiilona. 21st DAT. Mr. Hale, from the Census Com mittee, roportod ; back adversely thi bill to require tha Superintendent of the Census to ascertain what percentage of people own their own farms, tbe number of farms under mortgage, and the amount thereof. The Senate then took up tbe bill intro duced by Mr. Butler, providing for the em. gration of colored persons from the United States. Mr. Butler addressed the Senate upon it, and Mr. Hoar replied. Mr. Blair also spoke against the bill, which went over with out further action. Mr. Teller presented the credentials of Wil bur F. Sanders and Thomas C. Power, es senators, elect from the State of Montana, They were read and referred to the Commit tee on Privileges and Elections. The Senate then proceeded to the consider ation of executive business, and at 4. 15 ad journed till Monday, , 22nd DAT. Among the petitions presented and referred were the following: From the American Federation of Labor, in favor of the Blair Education Bill. Also from other sources in favor of a Bervice pen sion law ; to prohibit speculations in grain and other farm produce. Among tbe bills introduced and referred were the following: By Mr. Hawley. To promote the adminis tration of justice in tbe Army. By Mr. Frye. Exempting coattwise nail ing vessels piloted by their own mabtsrs from the obligation to pay Stats pilots for services not rendered. - Mr. Pasco then proceeded to address the Senate on the paragraph in the President's message relating to Federal control of elec tions. sjskd Dat. Among the bills introduced and referred were the following; ' - By Mr. Jones, of Nevada. To discontinue the coinage of 3 and $1 gold pieces, and of three cent nickel pieces. Tbe bill ndverseiy reported from the Cen sus Committee to ascertain what pero ntage of tbe people own their farms, the number of farms under mortgage, and the amount there of, wai taken from the calendar in order to give Mr, Berry, who had introduced it, an opportunity to state why the bill should be passed. . It was stated in behalf of the census com mittee th tt there was no hostility to the pro posed inquiry, but that the addition of new mitter would delay the census. The friends ot the measure tj ake of tbe ahuormal depre -8 on of the agricultural in er.S'p, and claimed that to provide a remedy ic was first neces sary to ascertain the extent of the evil. . Tbe bill went over wittout further action, unMl to-morrow. Mr.' Piatt, from the Committee on Patents, reported the copyright bill, and it was placed on the ca'endur. The Senate then proceeded to bills on the calendar and passed the following: Senate bill to promote tbe efficiency of the enlisted force of the Navy. Senate joint resolution (ranting authority for the removal of Apache Iudian prisoners and their families to Fort Still, Indian Terri tory. - . ', After a brief executive session the Senate at A30 P. Mi adjourned. Ilonse Sessions. ISth Dat. Mr. Dorsey, of Nebraska, in troduced the Knox bid tor providing lor a permanent Natioual iiank circulation. Re ferred. The House considered the World's Fair mat ter. A report from the Committee on Rules placed tho matter in the hands of a cpecial committee of thirteen. A m nority report leaving it with the Comraittert on foreign Affairs was substituted, and the matter in that shape defeated. ' 19th Dat. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, intro duced a bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers and sailors incapacitated for the pert ormanca of manual lubor. Referred. Mr. Mills, of Texas, introduced a bill to ex tend th 3 trade and commerce of tbe United States, and to provide lor full reciprocity be tween the United States and Mexico. Refer red. The House by 144 to l'J'J tabled the motion to reconsider the vote by which it had refused to substitute tbe amended World's Fair res olution for the original. Mr. Flower, of New York, introduced tha New York World's Fair bill, and it was re ferred to the special committee, when ap pointed. Tbe House then went into Committee of the Whole, (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair,) on the bill to provide for town site en trios of lands in Oklahoma. . 20th Day. After the appointment of tn3 World's Fair Committee. Mr. Oates, of Ala bama, offered a resolutio-i to pay members fortheir salaries prior to November out of tbe JS.1,000 in the custody of the Unifed States Treasurer. He asked immedtiate con sideration, butobj.c5ionbeinz mada,the res olution was referred to the SilcottGoinnut tee, as was one by Mr. Stone, of Kentucky, to pay out tho special deposits ou the Ser-gent-at-Arms office. The folio wing bills and resolutions were In troduced awl referred: a , By Mr. Butterwortb.of Ohio. Defining op tious und futures, and imposing a special tax on dealers therein. By Mr. Morrow, of California. To-pro-hibit absolutely the coming of Chinese into the United' States. ';j . By Mr. Cowles, of North Carolina. To re peal tbe tobaccj tax. The House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair) on the Oklahoma Town Sue bill. Several amendments 'were adopted, and tbe committee rose. ' Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, from the com mittee on the eleventh census, leported back tha Senate Dill increasing thj miuimum conv pensation ot supervisors o( census trom $500 to $1,000. Passed yeas, K5; nays, BS. Tho House at 5 o'clock adjourned. 21 ST Day. Mr. Crain, of Texas, offered t resoiUO.Mu directing the Committed on tb Judiciary to report within ouu week whetm i tbe lata sergeunt-at-arms was a disbursing ofilcer, and if so to report a bill providing f oi tbe payment ot salaries of members. Refer red. The following bills were introduced and re f erred s liy Mr. Bingham, of Fa. (by request,) np propriation 0,O0O,U00 tor tue purchase bj the Government of an improved uducjtioaal system. . . The House then resumed in committee o the whole the Ok ahomu town site bill butn: progress was made and the committee rose and the House adjourned. A FAMILY SUICIDE. Two JTay Die of the Effect of Oxalic Acid A German's Despair. Frank Fitrley, a German shoemaker. 71 years of age, who lives In Buffalo, N. Y., with his widowed daughter, Mrs. Myers, and her 10-year old daughter, in a fib of despoa dsincy, proposed to his daughter that they should ail eud their livi.s by poisoning thm. salve?, aud, bavin; some oxaJio acid in ths house, dni?4ed tbe coffee. All three drauk :.f the ccllee. the cluid beta tho on)y one j ,.,orr,!!t of whit th whs dumj. "iV.',r!"V, ho u f.-iid t have a ti rritia totn- -:, 'l'.'.j W. :- i'a Ciil i3 The Prevailing Illness Affects All Branches of Commerce. Unseasonable Weitthor Likewise Has a Rntber Depressing Influence I'Pon the Movement of Staples. Special telegrams to BradatrecVs report an iregular movement of general merchan dise. Unseasonable weather made itself felt most of the week, and the epid.-mic of influ eDz vhad an appreciable effect at the larger Eastern cities. There is no noteworthy im provement in distribution of staples at Bur lington, Iowa; Kansas City, Detroit, Cincin nati or Pittsburg, but demand has been stim ulated by colder weather at St Joseph, Omaha, Chicago and St. Paul. Groceries and boots and shoes appear to be in moderate demand, and mercantile col lections generally are slow. Trade is de pressed at San Francisco by renewed rains. At New York, wool, drugs, tobacco, cigars and fruits are quiet and unchanged. Dry goods present no features, and hay and pro duce and hats and caps are quiet, The latter trade has suffered some from tbe prolonged open weather. Building materials are active and prices tend upward. The New York stock market closes dull and firm, without significant changes during the week. Reports to BradstreeVa of stocks of Indian corn at 47 storage points East of the R-cky Mountains, January 11, aggregate 15,023,893 bushels, only 150,41)2 bushels more than were held Decern oer 28; oats, 8,781,053 bushels, a decrease of 920,2'J7 bushels sibca December 2d; barley 3,339,509 bushels, an increase of 45U.7J3 bushels within the fortnight, and rye, 1,737,183 bushels, an increase cf 37, BCD bush el''. The official report (31 storage points) indicated an increase of 2,733,71)4 bunnels of corn, a decrease or 217,734 bushels of oats and a decrease ot 142,523 bushels of barley over a like period. Exports of wheat and flour from both coasts this week, aggregate 1,731,5'JO bushels, against 3,317,221 bushels last week, and 1,301, 640 bushels in the second week of January, lbKi). Total exports, July 1 to date amount to 58,&4,427 bushels, against 55,232,000 bush, els in a like portion of 1838 '89, and 80,125,000 bushels in 1887-'88. There has been a decreased output of flour on increased stocks at home and abroad and shaded prices. Wheat has been in better de maud for export within a few days and prices are up c. Corn being offered more Ireely, is depressed 11-4c There is less inquiry for oats and option prices ar j )a0 off. Heavier exports in the near future- ttr promised. Moierata activity only is reported by cot toa goods agent at Hew York and Boston. Seasonable goods are dull, owing to unfav orable weather, advanced ctage of the season, little or no reassortment demand and full stocks in retailers' hands. Collections are not satisfactory. Prices arn changed but little with tbe exoeption of print cloths, which are active at a decline of 1-ltto. Wool is dull and heavy in price, and carpet wools are partic ularly inactive. Raw cotton is l-16a5-l(5c higher In all leading markets on an active de mand. ... Tha business failures during the last seven days number, for the United States 305, and for Canada 31; total, 336; as compared with S73 last week and 322 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the fig ures were 839, 284 in the United States, and 48 in Canada. WORK AND WORKERS. Detroit wicker-basket makers get from $5 to $10 per week. A few make f 18. . Tbe Toronto unions will support candidates who favor city ownership of street railways, The closing of a colliery near Price Grove, Pa., owned by tho Reading Coal and Iron Company throws 700 men out of work. In Kansas, the Farmers' Alliance.'tbe State Grange ana the Knight or Labor have formed an offensive an 1 defensive alliance in business and politics. The Farmers' Alliar.c alone numbers 123, 000. Judge Wallace has decided that the Ameri can Sugar Refining Company of California has forfaited its charter by joining the sugar combine, and be has also rendered j jdgmeut for 15,000 and cobts against the company. John Burns, England's great labor agita tor, bns replied to the invitation of the Amer ican Federation to visit this country in the I interest ot cne tignt-nour movement..-' ia states that bis health will not permit him to come before May L ' A boycott forced a San Francisco boss to unionize his cooper shop. He had declared that he would rather have his right arm cut o:f than employ a union man. : Now he wants to join the union himself. Word comes from Chicago that there are indications o' another strike at thestoak yards. Tbe men are dissatisfied with tbe con-, tract they were obliged' to sign at the con clusion of tbe tormer big strike. Henry George's theories are having a prac tical effect in Toronto, whereamotiou was carried by a public meeting in tavor of as sessing all land within the city at the full Gelling value at whiwb it is held by the own ers. A number of aldermen supported tbe motion. The striking shoemakers of North Adams, Mass., are suffering. The American Federa tion of Labor has issued a circular calling upon orgauizl labor generally to rally to the support of thesi men whose devotiou to principle has bi ought hunger and sickness to tneirhomes. - In Cincinnati tLere is a central labor or ganisation, called tbe Municipal Congress. Its purpose is to watch public officials, and exercise its influeucj by means of petitions to legislative bodies, it is claimed by its leaders that 30,000 Cincinnati voters can be reached within ten duya. Trade-unionists, K. of L., Nationalists, aud Single Taxersare represented. "A happy New-Year" surely is that of th employee ot the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, and "by th j same token" just as happy au occasion is it to the company, lor on the day before Christmas a ten per cent, un solicited increase in wages was announced to take effect iu all departments of mills and mines on January L ' The House committee on labor bad under consideration the bid to adjusG the pay of inochaniCi', laborers and otuers under the eight-hour law. After discussing tbe bill somewhat th committee adopted a resolution calling upon tue huads of the several execu tive departments for information as to the amount that would be required for such ad justment, aud the matter went over until that iiiiornntioa isootained. The Craftsman, the otllclal organ of the Typographic! Uuioo, it iu last issue says: "Another and a most powerf ul ally of tut employes of tbe government printing otlice iu their efforts to nave ttiy wages restored to the old rate is tOd American federation cf Lator. The executive council of this body, in uocordauce with the legislation ot th re rout convention, has instructed President Goujpers to coirtmunicat with President Harrison in reierancn to this m iliar." The s' riling minors of tha C'icrlorol Cig- trict (' i, mi in 1,-ive r--!-'.'i ivcrv, V-.-i , SOUTHERN ITEMS; INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED rilOH MANY SOURCES. Granville, N. C, is to have a large brick factory. The Hessian fly is injuring the oat crop In Cabarrus connty, N. C. In Iredell county, N. C, wheat is knee high, and peach trees are iu bloom. Two miners were crushed to death at Focaboatai, Va., last Wdek by a fall of coal. -Thomas Curran, of Ben wood, W. Vs., was cut to pieces by a Baltimore and Ohio engine at Moundsville. John Horn, of Iredell county N.C.,while squirrel burning, fell out of a tree and sus tained probably fatal injuries. The falling off in receipts of cotton in Rileigh. N. C, has now reached nearly ten thousand biles, as compared' with last sea son. . George W. Strole, of Page county, Va., caught in the Shenaudoah river, a German carp which weighed fourteen pounds and two ounces. Milliard E. Cook, while out hunting near his home at Vineland, near Wilmington, N. C, was icstautly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while he was crossing a ditch. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Lynchburg, (Va.) Cotton Mill Company it was agreed to increase the stoak irom $203,- 000 to (275,000 and spindles from 6,000 to 10,000. A wreck occurred on the Georgia Pacific Railroad near Birmingham, Ala. Engineer William Dirry was killed and several other persons were seriously and perhaps fatally injured. -President Kimball, of the Norfolk and Western Road, says the improvements which his company projects at Roanoke, Va., thia season will add at least 3,000 to tbe popula tion of the city. Engineer Jno, Wiley, of th"e Baltimore and Ohio Road, was cut in two by bis own engine at Wheeling,. W. Vs. ' He tried, to get off while the engine was in motion and fell ou the track. Mr. F. V. Staub, of Frederick, Md., has an old spinning wheel in his possession wiiich was made In 1793, ond has been in the Staub family ever since. Ic was the property of Mr. Stauo'sgreat-granJfith.'r. . The Longdate Iron Company, in Alle ghany county, has just bought for 140,000 the Big Hill iron propet ty, near Gala water, Bote tourt county, Va., on the Richmond and Al- 1 jghany Railroad. Grading on the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad in Carolina county, Md.,was begun last week. Oae section o hands are grading from Preston to the Choptank river, and the other from Preston to Hurlock's. Harry Samuels, proprietor of the Daisy cigar factory, Nw "iork, committed suicide at ThomasYiile, Go. Ha shot bimaelf in the room at the hotel. Business depression was tbe cause. He leaves a wile and ctiildren,who live there. The crust over a cave on tbe farm of Mrs. Henry Bruner, near Frederick, Md., gave way beneath a team of plow-horses, precipi tating the animals to the bottom, a distance 6f about forty-fava feet, In tho prohibition Cht at Lynchburg, Va., tbe wets carried the city by seven ma jority. A vjry jarge vote was polled, aud nearly equally divided bet wee u the whites and blacks.' . A great dial of money wa spent ou both sides. The grand jury of Petersburg, Va., failed to find a true bill against General Win. Ma hone, charged witn the felonious shooting and wounding of II. P. Harrison with intent to kill on tha evening of the 5th of November last, and tbe prosecution was dismissed. The, Clinch Valley (Va.) Cjal and Iron Compa y have decided to erect a muck bar and rolling mill and wrought iron pip works at R ch'a'ids, on the Clinch Valley. extension ot ttio Norfolk and Western Railroad, 38 miles west of the new town of Graham. - J. P. Silver, of Glenville, Harford county, Md., has received from the Paris Exposition a diploma awarded to bim for six ears of corn raise! in 1888. Tbe com was culled silver yellow, in recognition of tbe producer, and the ears were about fifteen inches long. A young child of Mr. H. C. Biser, near Jefferson, Frederick county, Md.", while play ing with an old umbrella handle, fell down a few steps and out a large piece of flesh from the roof of his mouth, the iron handle run ning into his mouth while- tailing ' making a SrkJusv0Jipi,.- .., -The Supreme Court of Alabama dismis sed the appeal of Hawes, the wife and child murderer, of Montgomery, Ala., and sen tenced him to be banged February 28. It was an attempt to lynch Hawes that caused the riots a year ago, when six citizens were shot by the sheriff. Lizzie Turner while attempting to pass between an uncoupled freight train, at Fred ericksburg, Va., on the Richmond, Fred ericksburg and Potomao rallroid was caught between the cars as they were bing bucked together and was almost instantly Killed. James Joseph Boyle, the 'ex-Catholio priest, who was convicted aud sentenced at Raleigh, N. C, to be banned for assault upon the organist of the Church of tbe Sacred Heart in that city, was granted a new trial by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, which held that the court beiow erred it its instructions to the jury. Miss Ida Spenoe, a young lady of Dayton, Tenn., who was bitten several weeks ago by a oat suffering from rabies, died1 with hydro phobia. Shortly after the young lady was bitten she had a madstone applied to the wound, and it was believad that she would recover, but the stone did no good. Some wealthy citizens' of Pitt county.N. C, are interesting themselves in the con struction of a canal thirty miles long, from. Bethel to Tar river, near Pactolus. It will develop about thirty thousand acres of the most fertile lands in North Carolina and mil make available an Immense amount of the choicest timber. Jack Ramey, who has been tbe terror of Scott county, Vs., was killed a few days ago while resisting arrest. Ramey bad committed many atricious murders. State and county officials have offdred siveral hundred dollurs for his capture. Revenue Ofilcer Sam. W. Wax and a posse decoyed Ramey into am bush. Surrender was demanded and refused. A fight followed in which Ramey was killed his brother fatally Injured aud his father wounded. G. W. Fort of Wades boro, N. a, has the greatest curiosity in the.way of pups ever be fore seen in these parts. He ban a litter of four, two of which are well formed while the other two are genuine monstrosities. One of them is coal black while the other is blaci with a white ring around its neck. Neither of them has any fore legs, their bodies being perfectly smooth where ttteir front supports should be. But tbe most remarkable thing about these pups is their heads, which are almost exactly like tbe head cf a lare rat. The most phenomenal yield cf corn ever produced in America has been awared tha priz-?:of $;00 o'frred by the Amrr-ippi Ajrr cmivfisi lor tue largest crop ot fs;!.(d corn Krown on one acre in Itvy.t. 'i l t-ron was wnhin a fraction of " bii-!n.s, gireti j filit, wl;J':U sarunk tJ V inu-io.s, wr-ffi It . j rt' nt :t v :.'u '-.:(". v t'ri 1 l.;7 X ; I: : f - State" Board of Agriculture donbled tbe prise, making the award 1,000. This crop was grown by Z. S. Drake, of Marlboro county, South Carolina. It is nearly twice as large as the greatest authenticated crop ever bfore reported. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Madame Albanl is ill at the City of Mexico. James Gordon Bennett's hair is almost white. . Neil Burgess, the actor, was at one time the J proprietor or an art store. It is related that when Mr. Calvin S. Brioa went to college he often found it hard work to pay his necessary expenses. Holmes, the novelist, is thirty-five years of age and masculine in appearance, and smokes on au average of sixty cigarettes a day. Mr. Gladstone has bad six private secreta ries, each of whom now holds a political post Their salaries aggregate $50,000 annually. Governors Beaver, Abbott and Hill will each receive $10,100 as their salary, and this is tbe largtst sum paid to the gubernatorial office, . Young John Jacob Astor, Jr., is the rich est young man in the United States. He paid his barber the other day $19.75 for a single shave by mistake. Bryennios, Archbishop of Nicodemia, has found in a Turkish library at Damascus a manuscript of the New Testament dating back to the fourth century. Pietro Marcolln, who has recently died, is the only mendicaoe who was ever allowed to beg in St. Peter's, at Rome. The privilege was gran ted by Pius IX and tbe begger leaves a fortune of $10,000. Senator Ingalls recently received a letter from a theatrical' manager asking him to write a play with tbe United States Senate as a back-ground. Ingalls has not answered the communication. Mr. Jacob H. Schiff , of New York, has just made a gift of $10,000 to Harvard University for tbe establishment of a museum for tha study of theliteraiure, history and remains of the Semitic peop.es. Ward McAllister talks as unassumingly as he dresses. He has a funny babit of inter spersing his remarks with, "You see, don't ou,know; you understand," but they seem to come naturally to him. ' CarlLumbo:z ungallantly says: '-There is a taying that Australian lauies have no .beauty, the birds don't sin, the flowers don't smell wnd tbe dogs don't bark. I can safeiy testify to tho Uuta of this saying." Mr. Rebisso's equestrian statue of Grant ihas beeu accepted by the Chicago Citizens' 'Committee. The pedestal for it in Lincoln Park, Chicago, is nearly finished, and tbe dedication will take place some time next summer. i Arch Duke Joseph, of Hungary, who is a great student ot Gypsy-love, is of the opiuion xbat tue siopea ot tn Himiiaya Mountains were the homes of all the Gypies at present In Europe, where their first appearance is traced to tne year 1417. 1 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Rev. Sam uel May end the Rev. S. F. Smith recently dined togetuer in Boston. They were gradu ated from Harvard in the tumous class of 'Jtiy. Eleven members of tbe class survive, tue greatest of whom is the genial old auto crat. ' Mayor Fitler, ot Philadelphia, is a great first-nighter. No prominent theatrical com- pany plays in Philadelphia without receiving jluu recognition of the Quaker V'.iy uij m Mr. Filler is very critical and seldom gives a word of praise to even high Histrionic talent. The richest man iu Russia, Count Scher emu, a jew, is alout to produce Puschkin's play, "Boris Goduuo w," iu his own bouse, and has spent 30,000 roubles on scenery and cos tumes. The performers will be uoble ama teurs, and the royal opera will supply the music and choruses. , ' Next to the late Judge Kelley, Samuel J. Raudall has been in the "harness" longer than any other living Representative. He was elected to the Congress next succeeding that In which Judge Kelley made his debut, in 1803. Following close upon Mr. Randall is Mr. O'Neill, of the Second Pennsylvania district. ' Edmund Gosse has written to the London Timet urging the lovers of Browning to take 'stop looking to a memorial . tablet to be placed in his late residence. He says: "Before the zeal of tbe public subsides, let us have on the front of 19, Warwick-crescent, one of those graceful and unobtrusive roundels which are to highly appreciated by strangers in London." VICTIMS OF GAS. Oue Man Killed Outright nutl lvo 1'frnoii! F.UiUly Hurt. An explosion of natural gas about 9.31 o'clock in the morning completely wrecked a three-story frame dwelling at Pittsburg, Pa., killing one person almost instantly and seri ously injuring eight others, fivj of whom may die. The explosion was caused by a leak in tha cellar. About 9.30 o'clock Mrs. Ringur started down into tbe cellar with a Itgbted candle. Butore she n ashed the foo; ot the stairs the gas ignited and a terrible explosion iollowed, wbicn shook all buildings in tbe vicinity. The bouse was lifted from its foun dation ant blown to piecs. At tbe time there were 10 persons iu ih j buildiup, and ail but au infant wre more or l.'ss injured. John Slip was the brat taken trom i he ruin1'. He was ingbttuliy burned and mangled and unconscious, uyiug iu a tew minutes aiter his rescue Mrs. Kinger was buri d in the drbris and was seriously burned. Mr. aud Mrs. Melcher, an aged couple, were asleep oa theftbird flxi at tbe tr.uie, aud were buried in the ruins. The old lady's injuries are serious. An in fant was tateu Irom the ruins uninjured. It was nestling in its cradle, and had not re ceived a scratch. "markets. i Baitimotie Flour City Mills, extra, $4. 23 W4.50, Wheat Southern Fultz, 78ab0; Corn Southern White, i:6.i28 cts, Yellow 3Ha40c Oats Southern and Pennsylvania BSaiJlcts. , Rve Maryland & Pennsylvania minfiKnts. : Hav Marvland and Pennsylvania 12 50a 13 00 ;Straw-VV beat,7. 50a ti. 50; Butter, Eastern Creamery, ?oa'J8c, near-by receipts 10a20cts; Cheese-Eastern Fancy Cream. W;( all eta., Western, 10aI0X cts; E;g? 14 ala; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la$3.0u, Oood Common, 3 00a $4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 Good to fine red,8a$0; Fancy, lOaili New York Flour Southern Common to fair extra, $,J.&0aJ.8.'i: Wheat No I Whito boVaS?: Rve State. &7aGJ; Corn Southern VeilowJiiaSO?'. Oats- VV hite.Stateli.sK cts. Butter Sutut, 15a33 cts. Cheese Staoe, Val01 cta-i V-en 24a4i cts. ' Philadelphia. Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.5n4. 75: Wheat Pennsylvania and Southern Red, fclVaSJ; Rye -iVnnsvlvauia liSaiWo; Corn-Sou tui'rn Yellow, !i7a57ct Oats liasi;' cts. :Butter-Stat,a--iii;ts. ; Chouse Y. Factory, Oil),1 f CM." E;js State, 1&&15J-1 cts. ; -CATTLE. EalttvT'-itie M-f. 4 5Jn4 75; Shwp f 3 73 n"i 7:i- H s,. i 73 i 5 IX). iv;-:'v Vwii'i r.i-t t fjCdS 5;'.liep-i I Hi r.5v.;'li 7.'-UO. Ka? r :. i v- - f -1 1 ; 1 ' ' " '-""- DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES; Four men were killed and several otherw' baJly injured by the premature explosion of a blast at a camp, near Johnson City, Tea nessee. Misses Lou Asbury aud Lizzie Bowles, Wil liam Rose and Daniel Asbury weredrownod whilo boating in a lake about fourteeu inilea from Caunl, Illinois, J. II. Murphy, a homesteader near Fla vieau, forty miles f ram Chippewa Falls, Wis consin, was f rozju to death. He is supposed to have been druak. Henry and Martin Rsiuius, section hands on the Pennsylvania Kanroa1,were run down by a light locomotive near Wheeler Station, Indiana, and were instantly kidod. Prof. Charles A. Clark, Principle of the AibiOJ Academy, of Milton, Wisconsin, died of what is beleived to have been hydropho bia. Ha was bitten by a cat la March tasU The boiler of a steam shovel used by the Pittsburg and Like E le Company in exca vating at FaUstou, Peuna'., burse, lujuring 14 men, one of whom, Wesley Francis, cf Pitts burg, died on the way to tne hospital. . Several cars of a train on the. Wyoming Division of the Union Pacilij Railroad were thrown down an embankment at Hampton, sixty miles east of Evanston, Utah, and eleven persons were injured ; noneiat&lly. : The breaking of a wheel on one of the car of an empty coal truiu on th New Jersey Central Railroad caused a wreck ac the Grant Avenud Station in Pl&iuheld. Twenty cars were wrecked and thirty others badly dam aged.- A freight train on the Philadelphia and Reading R lilroad ran into the rear of nothr freight train at Sovdertown. Con ductor JohnDdifenderfer was killed and sev eral of the crew injured, and tha locomotive and teu cars were wrecked. Mrs. Jane McDermott, of Pittston, Penna,, while delirious trom illness attempted suicidt by jumping into tha Susquehanna river. Tne screams of her little daughter attracted the atteutionof an officer, who frustrated the woman's attempt. Thomas Link, a hotel proprietor, of Am- sterdam, New York, cut ois wif t'n throat, in fl.ctiug fatal iujuries, and tlu n committed suicide. Mrs. Link's aged mother, hert broken oer the tragedy, attempted suicide, but was prevented. Three hundred persons at "Carmi, Illinois, have been obliged to leave their Uouis ou ac count of a sudden rise iu tbe Littie Wabasu river. The river is out of its banks, and the northern part of the town is flooded to a depth ot 2d f jet in soun places, aud from 75 to 100 houses are submerged. Three young children of Carl RogalinskI, of Erie, Penna., were suffocated by tue burn ing of their borne, during the absence of tueir parents. Tbe lira was caused by the act ot a drunken brother of Mrs. Rogalinski'd, in lay ing his lighted pipe ia a bed. Tne drunken mn escaped. ; SNOW-BOUND TRAINS. Xailroad and Tologr3li Comutm&lea tiou Interrupted, j . The snow blockade iu the VVetand North west is oue cf the most complete on record., Not only has travel become an impossibility on tbe western divisions of the Central aud Northern Pacific, but the telegraph compa- nies are t qU!li Buffw'rers, an 1 every through wire is down on both these routes. , The only means ot telegraphic communication with the Pacific coast now is by the indirect routa of tae Southern Pacific, and tha volume of business transacted is necessarily limited.' Washington and Oregon are shut off from communication with the entire world, with tho exception of one littie zig z tg wire that still ticks leobly between San Francisco and Portland. When thiswiregoesdowntueso tw.7 Nor i h wester n states will be further a way from New York than Caina, so far as telographio communication is concerned, as the trains aro not ruuning and tbe snow blockade readers it impcssiple for the telegraph fores to reach tbe scene of the break. The Western Union repaireraare snowed up at a hilt' dozen points in tbe West, and there is litt e prospect of renewed communication uutil the railroad have mastered the elements. The suomv block ade on the Central Pucihc ad isat Emi grant Gup, near the summit of the Sierras. Eight westbound train i are snowed in, and the prospect of tbe road being opened in the next forty-eight hours is poor, us the-snow plows cannot work through the freezing ice, and tho force o? shoveiers is imtdt-quate. There are 1,500 men at work, but as the snow is seveu feet deep ou the level and f alhoaile 1b the cuts, the work of clearing the track while tbe snow falls is tremendous labor. Tbe Southern Pacific Road has been badly injured in the Tehachepi Mountains by wash outs, and beyond Los Angeles the floods have done much damage. The only unobstructed road now is the Atlantic and Pacific, but as this depsnds on th Southern Pac.Co connec tion between the Mohave Dasert and Sou Francisco, and on the washed out Southern Pacific lino between Los Angeles aud San Francisco, travel on that may also bo delay ed at any moment, as it has been rainmj heavily in Southern California for days past, while it is snowing in tbe north. Snow is still falling throughout the West, so that tho prospect is by no means encour aging. ... A TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA. Mr. De Forest Allood Killed by 2r. . J. II. Si. lloliuea at Home, . 1 De Forest Allgoo J, president of Tr.on Fac tory, one of , the wealthiest institution of North Georgia, was shot an i instantly killed at 8 o'olcck the other ev.n n? by Dr. J. B. 8. Holmes, his brother-in-law, and one of tbe most prominent aud popular of Georgia pby siciaus. Mr. Allood had long cherished ill will towards Dr. Holmes for some business matters between them and had frequently threatened his life. Dr. Holmes had voided Mr. Allgood for years and wont out of town to avoid meeting hioi to day. Mr. Allgood cuuie down irom Trion Fac tory to Rom on au tvniug tram aud waited for Dr. Holmes in his oilioddoor. D:-. Hoiuies, who hnd a vaue warniug, sought to reach his otlice by tbe back streets. When tue party drew up in front of tha afilce Mr. Allgood advanced witsi drawn pta. tol ou Dr. lioiuies. Tue iattor shot Mr. Ail t,ocd twice with bis double-barreled shot-sun, loaded with bird shot, both shots taking cf -feet, tb-a first cutting the carotid nrtery n.i the jugular vein, and tbe seooud breauii'g th uto.li completely. Mr.. A!lico 1 fell at the first snot, t; j, rose, stiii trying to draw his pistol. Wmm received .bo second shot he tell ou hii fa" a and instantly expired. - Dr. Holmes exciaimod: 'I was force-1 1 " it to sivo my ou l.te. I ata sorry, s ,or. " but Lit) bunted me down, and lor ifco !.;; toy wife and ruy sou I hd to kill h-.u. '' Holmes immoii.a i-dy siirr.-'ra..-it.l t- i ani :s rivstui ; u his t'a a, -.r:- ChHr; of n. d-y.--L'r s.4s-r:."i, U lo jiiM.r-i s .) 1 1 -.'! t"- t - '.v; v i r.y l:i : 1 ' ' "