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Published by IIoanok Publishing Co. Thomas IIusoit, Busibeds aScaxaiixk ,'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH", VOL. 1. PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FKIDAY, APRIL 25, 1890. no. m. XII r M DR. TALFTAGR Sua Noted Brooklyn Divine's Sunday . Sermon. tiabjcett "Duties and Responsibilities of ; Easiness Alcn." , : . Text: "I t' wmyht, it is naught, mxth ' fhr buyer; but when he in gone hie way, then he boasteth,'1 Proverbs xx, 14. ' Palaces are not such prisons as the world . imagines. If you think that the only time tings and queens come forth from the royal v , fates is in procession and gorgeously at : . . tended, you are mistaken, Incognito, by day or by night, and clothed in citizens' apparel or the dress of a working woman, they come out and see the world as it is. In no other way could King Solomon, the author of my text, have"known tverything that was going . tin. From my text I am sure he must, in disguise; some day have walked into' a store . of ready made clothing, in Jerusalem, and stood near the counter and overheard a con versation between a buyer and a seller. The IKTchnnt put a price on the coat, and the , lustoiner began to dicker and said: "Ab- Hud! tbet coat is tint, worth wlint vmi a sir "iorits Why, just look at the coarseness of the fabric ! Wee that spot on the collar! , Be sides that, it does not fit. Twenty dollars for that? Why, it isn't worth more than too." T'uey have a better article than that and for .1 cheaper price, down at Cloathem, Fitenm & . ' a v .r r.i 1 ,1 tl . . i t IT 1 J n . the merchant; "don't go on? iu that way. I want to still you that coat; I have some pay- difference. You asked twenty dollars, and I price.' noa saw the customer with a roll under his wrm start and go out and enter his own place uu.-iuio.ss; aua esoiomon, in disguise, ioi lowed him. . He heard the customer as tie unrolled the coat say : "Boys,! have made : h great bargain. How much do you guess I save for that coat?" "Well," says one, wish . lug to couiplinunt his enterprise, "you gave thirty dollars for it." Another says, "I should think you got it cheap if you gave twenty-five dollars." "No," says the buyer , In triumph; "I got it for fifteen dollars. I beat him down aud pointed out: the itnperf ec- -tions until I really made him believe it was , oot worth hardly anything. It takes me to make a bargain. Hal Ha f Oh, man, you ot the goods for less than th9y were worth y positive falsehood; aud no wonder, when Solomon went back to his place and had put oil his disguise, thit he sat down at his writ ' ing desk and made for all ages a crayon -lirctri-in rr VAil "MP fa n.iiAiht ir IB rani.hl' ath the buyer; but when he is gone his way,. then he boaateth," t -There are no higher styles of man in all : the world than those now at the head of merchandise in Brooklyn and New York and In the other great cities of this continent. Ibeir casual promise M as good as a bond with piles of collaterals. Their reputation for integrity is as well established as that . tf Petrarch residing in the family of .5 Cardinal Coiouua, and when there was great '. nistm-Dance in tne rainiiy trie cardinal caned all his people together and put them under : aath to tell he truth, except Petrarch, for - when he came to swear the cardinal put ., tway his book and said : "As to you, ' Never since the world stood have there been so many merchants whose transactions can stand the test of the Ten Command ments. Such bargain makers are all the more to be honored because they have with- ttood year after year temptations which have Hung many so nat and dung them so hard that pfln iiattai mnnveM t.h Amea( vaa ' Vhila aLl positions in life have powerful besetments vto evil there are specific forms o allurement w(ch are peculiar to each occupatiou and . jro ijssiettv-and ib will . be useful to speak of , tlie peculiar temptations of business men. ,. First, as in the seenoof the taxt, business men are often tempted to sacrifice plain v truth, the selleivby exaggerating the value of f oods, and the buyer by depreciating them. ' Ve cannot hut admire an expert salesman, fciee how hj first induces the customer into a mood favorable to the proiJW consideration of the vahiii of the goods. He shows himself to be an honest and frank salesman. How . carefully the lights are arranged till they . lad just right upon the fabric! - rlginning wlrh goods of medium quality, i he gi'aduaily advances toward those of more thorough make and o more attractive pat , tern, Uow he watches the moods and whims o his customer t With what perfect calm-, riess he takes the order and liows the pur chaser trom his : presence, who goes away having made up his mind that he has bought the goods at a price which vill allow him a r living margin when he again sells them. The : goods were worth, what the salesman said . . tbey wera, and were sold at a price which, will not make it necessary for the house to fail every ten years iu order to fix up things. But "with what burning indignation we think of the iniquitous (stratagems by which poods ara sometimes disposed of. A glance at tht) morning papara shows the arrival at one of our hotels of a young merchant from one of the inland cities. He is a comparative Btraner in the great city, and, of course, he must be shown around, and it will be the duty . of some of our enterprising houses to escort -hint He is a larx purchaser and has plenty of time and money, and it will pay to be very . attentive. The evening is spent at a placeof doubtful amusement. Then they go uackto the hotel. Having just come to town, they must, of course, drink. A friend, from the ta.ne jnerenntue establishment drops ia, and Uide and geuero&ity suggest that they ut jst - drink.' Business prospects are talked over, 'and ths stranger is warned against certain ' dilapidated mercantile establishments that. va about to tail, and for such kindness and tnaguftiumity of caution against the dishon esty oi' other brnJiiAsa houses, of course, it is exacted' tiiy will, and so they do, take a drink. 1 ' ;.. ' : - OUier merchants : lodging in adloinin? -o jms find it hard to slew for the clatter of 1 w.-ant -. and the course carousal of these . ' ia.il fwilowa ""ell mut'.' wares louder. But t ey .sit no ail niaht at the wine cup. They nusB sco tnH sights. Tuey stagger forth with fl'.u.Kid and eyes bloodshot. The outer gcies of hall open to let in the victims. Th-1 wm.ch of lost souls flit among the lights, -in'l tli-j iws of the cavousrs sound with the rumbling tiiundersof tha damned. Farewell to ail tb- s-anctitiei of home! Could mother, -,.--tr, father, slumbering in the inland lion.-", in soma vision of that nizht catch a jciimpii of tU ruin wrought they would out " tiicir hsir vby the roots' and r'ta Dm tonxuw ti.l the blood spurtod, fr:.ri,.ik;v- out: "God savt him!'' 'w nat, s' pj)'i-.e you, will rome upon such 1 "iut'-s f-tajil-h-.ieiits and there are huu-ji-",',s -f :';n:n in t he citU's. Tl.iy may boast .f f vt.ulwu awi they may h'.ve au un-j-:-(.H-f-.l-p:p 1 rtv.i of buyers, and the name of . li.-i.'-i lr.nv i a t.'rrfjr to all rivals, and trom t!-.'M tLri'fy r-ot tiii may siir;g un 5,; i ,i ;.!.'!'.. -i : i iii'..(,r tril.tji, ail-L t'l ll.e i art ; . . ; t:i(i i i- -y it-.-ivn ;-t-- t'.ui.r uia-.-i- . . ..; ) ('.- i '!-!.'! ! .1 r. ' .. . ...it :... i i . 'l it f But aturws in gatowtntf wmewiwrtrf or those men, and if It does not seise hold of the pil lara and iti one wild ruin bring down the tem ple of commercial glory, it wiil break up their peace, and they will tremble with sickness and bloat with dissipations, and, pushed to the precipice of this life, they will try to hold back and cry for help, but no help will come; and they will clutch their gold to take it along vpith them, but it will be Bnatched from their grasp, and a voice will sound through their soul, "Not a farthing, thou beggared spirit P' And the judgment will come and they will stand aghast before it, and all the business iniquities of a lifetime will gather around them, saying, "Do you remember this?" and, 'Do you remember that? And clerks that they compelled to dishonesty, and runners and draymen and bookkeepers who saw be kind, the scenes, will bear testimony to theif nefarioua deeds, and some virtuous soul that once stood aghast at the splendor and power of these business men will say, "Alas! this is all that is left of that great Arm that occu pied a block with their merchandise and overshadowed the city with their influeuce, and made righteousness and truth and purity fall under the galling fire of avarice and crime." , . t ' While we admire and approve of all acute ness and tact in the sale of goods, we must condemn any process by which a fabric, or' product Is reoresented as possessing a value which it really does not have. Nothing but sheer falsehood can represent as perfection Doots that rip, siiks that speedily lose their lustre, calicoes that immediately wash out, stoves that crack under the first hot fire, books insufficiently bound, carpets that un ravel, old furniture rejuvenated with putty and giu? ana sold as having been recently manufactured, gold watches made out of brass, barrels of fruit the biggest apples on the top, wine adulterated with strychnine, hosiery poorly woven, cloths of domestic manufacture shining with foreign labels, im ported goods represented as rare and hard to get, because foreign exchange is so high, rolled out on the counter with matchless dis til a v. Imported, indeed I but from the fac tory m the next street. A pattern already unfashionable and unsalable palmed off as a new print upon some, country merchant who has come to town tq make his first purchase of dry goods and going home with a large stock of goods warranted to keep. , : Again, business men are often tempted to make the habits and customs of other trad ers their law of rectitude. ' There are com mercial usages which will not stand the test of the last day. Yet men in business are apt to do as their neighbors do. If the majority of the traders In any locality are lax in prin ciple, the commercial code in that commu nity will be spurious and dishonest. It is a hard thing to stand close by the law of right when your next door neighbor by his loose ness of dealing is enabled to sell goods at a cheaper rate and decoy your customers. Of course you who promptly meet all your business engagements, paying when you promise to pay, will find it hard to compete with that merchant who is hopelessly in debt to the importer for the (roods Durchased.and to the landlord whose store he occupies, and to the clerks who serve him. Thsre are a hundred practices prevalent in the world of traffic which ought never to be come the rule for honest men. Their wrong does uotmaka your right. Sin never be comes virtue by . being multiplied and admit ted at brokers' board, or merchants' ex change. Because others smuggle a few things in passenger trunks, because others take usury when men are in tight places, be cause others deal in fancy stocks, because others palm off worthless indorsements, be- :ause others do nothing but blow miouies. in not therefore, be overcome of temptation. Hollow pretension and fictitious credit and zommercial gambling may awhile prosper, but the day of reckoning cometo, aud in ad dition to the horror and condemnation of outraged communities the curse of God will come, blow after blow. God's will forever i ad forever is the only standard of right and wrong, and not commercial ethics. ' Young business man, avoid the first busi ness dishonor, and you will avoid all the rest, the Captain of a vessel was walking near the mouth of a river when the tide was low, and ihere was a long, stout anchor chain, into one if the great links of whici his foot slipped, and it began to swall and he culd not with iraw it. The tide bexau to rise. The chain ;ould not be loosened nor filed oft in time, Kid a surgeon was called to amputate the limb, but before th-j work could be done the tide rolled over the victim aud his life was gone. ,..!' :. ' , ' .' - , And I have to tell you, young man, that !ust one wrong into which you slip may be a ink of a long chain of circumstances from which i you cannot be extricated by any in genuity of your own or any help from others, and the tides will roll over you as they have over many. When Pompey, the warrior, wauted to rake possession of a city, and they would not open the gates, he persuaded them to admit a sick soldier. But the sick soldier after a while got well and strong, and he threw open the gates and let the devastat ing army come in. One wrong admitted into the soul may gain in strength until after awhile it flings open all the avenues of the immoral nature, aud the surrender is complete. - . . Again, ' business men are sometimes tempted to throw olT parsonal responsibility upon the moneyed institution to which they belong. Directors in banks and railroad and insurance sompanies sometimes shirk per sonal responsibility underneath the action of the corporation. And how often, when Bonis banking house or financial institution ex- lodes through fraud, respectable men in the oard of directors say: "Why, I thoughtall was going on in an honest way, aud I am ut terly confounded with this misdemeanor P The banks, and the fire and life and marine insurance companies, and' the railroad com- E a "litis, will not stand up for judgment in the lit day, but thos9 who in them acted right eously will receive, each for himself, a re ward, and those who acted the part of ne glect or trickery will, each for himself, re ceive a condemnation. Unlawful dividends are not clean before God because there are those associated with you who grab just as big a pile as you do. He who countenances the dishonesty of the firm, or of the corporation, or of the associa tion, takes upon himself all of the moral liabilities. If the financial institution steals, he steals. If they go into wild speculations, he himself is a gambler. If they needlessly embarrass a creditor, he himsalf is guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the uninitiated, he himself is a defaulter. No financial institu tion ever had a money vault strong enough, or credit stanch enough, or dividends large enough, or policy acute enough to hide the individual sin of its members. The old adage, that corporations have no souls, is misleading. Every corporation has as many souls as it has members. Again, many business men have been tempted to postpone their enjoyments and duties to a future season of entire leisure. What a sedativei the Christian religion would nt w all our business men if, instead of post poning its uses to old as: or ' death, they would take it into the store or : factory or worldly engagements now! It Is folly to go amid the uncertainties of bukuMS life with no .to1 to help. A merc hant iu a Now En.'xlan,! villa tre was standing by a hir-ie, and the l.orse lifted his f.vjt to stamp it in a g1 nf a:td the mt.r'tiii.t, to e.-.-ape ibe solas'!, fctr'-e-l Sato (;. (1,1,11- ,-,f t,n i;!,.!!;'!'.! I,(t1 1 t LU! agSUt !-,-;i: "Is- T"ii i -r.p ')-.; t-i ruiiow vtq:' fire,' tenrafaek".-tlMOh,f iiIth ior;: : .;;t ! ..If:-." i:- 'i - : house that had been insured wan humeri Was it all accidental that the merchant, to escape a spiasn rrom a norse s loot, stepped dential, And what a mtehtr solace for a busi ness man to feel that things are providential! What peace and equilibrium in such a con sideration, and what a grand thing if all busi ness men couia realise it I Many, although now comparatively strait ened' in worldly circumstances, have a goodly establishment in the future planned out. They have in imagination built about twenty years ahead a house in the country not diffi cult of access from the great town, for they will often have business, or old accounts to settle, and investments to look after. The house is large enough to accommodate all their friends. The halls are wide, and hung with pictures of hunting scenes and a branch of antlers, and are comfortable with chairs that can be roiled out on the veranda when the weather is inviting, or set out under some of the oaks that stand sentinel about the house, and runtling in the cool breeze, and songful with the robins. . There is just land enough to keep tbem in . terested, and its crops of almost fabulous richness springing up under application of the best theories to be found in the agricul tural journals. The farm is well stocked with cattle and horses, and sheep that Know the voice and nave a Kindly bleat when one goes forth to look at them. In this blissful abode their children will be instructed In art and science and religion. This shall be the old homestead to which the boys at college will direct their letters, and the hill on which the house stands will be called Oakwood or Ivy Hill or Pleasant Retreat or Eigle Eyrie. May the future have tor ev,..-r br.siuoss man here all that and more b.siiies I But are you post poning your happiness to that time? Are you adjourning your joys to that consumma tion? Suppose that you achieve all you expect and the vision I mention Is not up to the reality, because the fountains will be brighter, the house grander and the scenery more pic turesque the mistake is none the less fatal What charm will there be in rural quiet for a man who has thirty or forty years been conforming his entire nature to the excit ments of business? Will flocks and herds with their bleat and moan be able to silence the insatiable spirit of acquisitiveness which has for years hid full swing in the soul? Will the hum of the breeze soothe the man who now can find his only enjoyment in the stock market? ; Will leaf and cloud and fountain charm the eye that has for three-tonrths of a lifetime found its chief beauty in hogsheads and bills of sale? , Will parents be competent to rear their children for high and no'v Pur" pose, if their infancy and boyhood and girl hood were neglected, when they are almost ready to enter upon the world and have all their habits fixed and their principles stereo typed? No, no; now is the time to be happy. Now is the time to serve your Creator. Now is the time to be a Christian. Are you too busy? I have known men as busy as you are whe had a place in the store loft where they went to pray. . Some one asked a Christian sailor where be found any place to pray in. He said: "I can always find a quiet place at masthead." And in the busiest day of the season, if your heart is right, you can find a place to pray, Broadway and Fulton street are good places to pray in as you go to meet your various engagements. Go home a little . earlier and get intro duced to your children. Be not a galley slave by day and night, lashed fast to the oar of business. Let every day have its hour for worship and intellectual culture and recrea tion. Show yourself greater than your busi ness Act not as though after death you would enter upon an eternity of railroad stocks and coffees and bonbons. Roast not your manhood before the perpetual fires of anxiety. With every yard of cloth you sell throw not in your soul to boot. Use firkin and counting room desk and hardware crate as the step to glorious usefulness and highest Christian character. Decide onoe and for ever who shall bo master in your store, you or your business. .. ' . Again, business-men are often tempted to let their calling interfere with the interests of the soul, God sends men into the business world to get educated, just as boys are sent to school and college. Purchas3 and sale, lost aud gain, disappointment and rasping, pros perity, the dinhonasty of others, panic and bank suspension are but different lessom in the school. The mare business, the more means of grace. Miny have gone through wildest panic unhurt. "Ara yoa not afraid you will break?" said some one to a merchant in timo of great commercial excitement. He replied: "Aye,I shall break when the fiftieth Psalm breaks, in ths fifteenth verse: 'Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will de liver thee.' " The store and the counting house have de veloped some of the most stalwart charac ters. 'Perhaps originally they had but little sprightuhess and force, but" two or three hard business thumps woke them up from their lethargy, and there came a thorough de velopment in their hearts of all that was good and holy and energetio and tremendous, and they have become the front men in Christ's great army, as well as lighthouses in the great world of traffic. But business has been perpetual depletion to many a man. It first puiiea out ol mm mi ueusvuieuix, ua cut amiability, next all religious aspiration, next all conscience, and though he entered his vo cation with large heart and noble character he goes out of it a skeleton, enough to scare a ghost. . ' !" Men appreciate the importance of having a good business stand, a store on the right side of the street or the right block. Now, every place of business is a good stand for spiritual culture. God's angels hover over tne world of traffic to sustain and build up those who are trying to do their duty. To morrow, if in your puce of worldly en gag meat you will listen for it, you may hear a sound louder than the rattle of drays and th shuffle of feet ami the clink of dollars steal ing into your sonl, toying, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you." Yet some of those sharpast at the bargain are cheated out of their immortal blessedness by stratagems more palpable than any "drop game" of the street. They make invest ments in things everlastingly below par. They put their valuables in a safe not fire proof. They give full credit to influences that will not be able to pay one cent on a dollar. They plunge into a labyriuti from which no bankrupt law or "two-thirds enact ment" will ever extricate them. They take into their partnership the world, the flesh and the devil, and the enemy of alt righteousness will boast through eternal ages that the man who in all his business life could not be out witted or overreached at lavt tumbled into spiritual defalcation and was swindled out of heav3i2. Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New "York in 1835. ' Aged men tell us that it beg gared all description. Some stood on the housetops of Brooklyn, and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets and threat ened to obliterate the metropolis. Butt the womtnercial world will yet be startled by a greater conflagration, even the last. Bills of exchange, policies of insurance, mortal gs v'Kmdsaud government stv;urities vu ba oou'-ainifxl ia o lick of the ine. The Boursw and the United BtaW mint will turn to ashes. Gold will run moiwu into the dust of tie B'rcat. Exchanges and granite block cf m?rchanf!he wsis ikll with a cra-h that wt'l lit';" tre axrVi tremble. 1 The Bafciune; no of thgrmtlhf wfllihow; the yichtetios ttat'UTt toyAbr-tbroflea; up and take possession of them. ' The toils of business life, which racked their brain and rasped their nerves for so many Tears, will have forever ceased. . "There the wicked cease front troubling, and the weary are at rest." :-" FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. - Hon. Beastons. &9tu Day Immediately after the reaiing of the journal the House resumed the consid eration of the contested elecion case of Wai liell rga'nst Wise. Mr. Hatigen (Wis.) and Mr. Dal eh 11 (Pa.) spoke in fa vtr of i he con testant, and then Mr. Wise (Vs.) took the floor in his own behalf. After further discussion, a vote wn taken on the minority substitute resolution declaring the seat vacant audit was debated yens 119: nays 133. The ma jority resolution, declaring Mr. Waddell en titled to the seat, was then adopted yeas 134; nxy 12 ', and that gentleman appeared at the bar of the Houe and took the oath of office. Publio business was t en suspended and the House proceeded to pay fitting tributes to the memory of the late James Laird, a represen tative from Nebraska. :' ' S)0th Day. An air of sadness pervaded the House Chamber when the Speaker's gavel called the body to order. Draned In black. and ornamented with a handsome floral de sign, the seat so long occupied by Mr, Randall recalled to members the fact that their old colleague had passed away forever. Mr. O'Neil then offered the following reso lutions: "Jteaolvfd, That the Ilouse has heard with deep regret and profound sorrow of the death of tne Hon. gamual J. Randall, late a repre sentative from the State of Pennsylvania. "Jtetolved, That a committeriof nine mem bers of the Ilouse, with such iiietnberi of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to at tend t he funeral of the deceased. "Resolved, That the House do now adjourn." The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the Speaker appointed the following com mittee: Messrs. O'Neill, Carlisle, Manner, Holman,Cannou, Forney, Springer and Reilly. The House then adjourned. .. .'91ST Day. The naval appropriation bill was tue fiist business before the House. The amendment adopted by the committee striking out the clause providing for th construction of three coast-Jine battle-ships was rejected ye s 104, nnys 132. An 1 attempt to reccnmil jailed, and the bill was passed. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the co.nmittee on rules, re ported a reso.ution for the immediate consid eration of the bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States. After a short discussion Mr. Mills of Texas, offered an amendment providing that of the additional circuit fudges (17 in number) one half shall be appointed from each of the polit ical parties. Lost yeas 69, nays 119. The bill was then passed yeas 131, nays 13 the Spisker counting a quorum. DAY. In the morning hour a bill was called up amending the Alien Land law. so as to permit foreign capital ti be invested in minds of gold, silver, lead, tin, cinnabar and copper. It was discussed by Messrs. Hoi man, Chipman, Buchanan, Anderson and Hrecki nridge. Pending discussion the morn ing hour expired. Mr. McKinley (O.) from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported the Tariff bill, and it was ordered printed and referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. Carlisle(Ky.) presented the views of the min ority, end Mr. McKcnna (Cal.) presented h individual views. Ordered printed. The House then went into committee ot the whole Mr. Payson, (111.) in the chair on the Mil itary Academy Appropriation bill. After a short time ocennieo in its consideration, the committee rose and the bill was passed. Mr. Bergen, (N. J.), from the Committee on Elec tion, called up the contested election case of Posey vs. Parrett, from the First Indiana dis trict. The committee reported unanimously in favor of the sittinar member. ..... Senate Sessions. 80tk Day. M. Hawley, from the Select Committee on the Quadro-centennial Celebra tion,-reported back, with amendment', the House bit for the World's Fair at Chicago, and said that it anything was to be done in the matter, it should be done at once. Montana, election' case was discussed until adjournment. 818TDAY- A number of public building bills were reported ar.d placed on the calen dar, and the Honse bill fir a $200,000 publio building at Ban Jose, liauiorma, was passeu. The hill to transfer the Weather Bureau to the Departmentof Agriculture was a'so passed, and goes to the Ilouse. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. - 82KD DAY. The message from the llonse announcing the death of Mr. Randall, and the appointment of a committee to attend his fu neral having been presented and read, Mr. Cameron rose, and in a voice tremulous with emotion, said: Mr. Pretidfvt: The announcement just made of the death of my distinguished col league, Mr. liandall, will produce sincere sorrow in the hearts of every member of this Senate, irrespective of party, I offer the fol lowing resolutions: lletolved. That the Senate has heard, with deep regret and profound sorrow, the an nouncement of the peath of the Hon. Samuel J. Randall, representative from the state of Pennsylvania. j 1 : Itmdvfd, That the Senate concurs in the the Resolutions of the House of Representa tives for the appointment of a committee to attend the funeral of the deceased, and that a committee of five on the part of the Senate be appointed by the Vice President. ; The resolutions were agreed to; and Sen ators Quay, Allison, Dawes, Vporhees and Kustis were appointed the committee on the part of the Senate. As a further mark of respect to Mr. Ran. dall's memory, the Senate then at 13.50 ad journed, till to-morrow HAILSTONES 13b WALNUTS. More Heavy Storms In Illinois and lndt ana-Damage to Crops. A most unusual fall of rain raised the streams out of their banks and carried away many bridges on country roads. In Bloomington four inches of rain fell in less than au hour. There was a-remarkable fall of hail.- The ftcnes were as large as hickcry-nuts and wal nut. The storm s uth of Bloominpton seems to have been more Bcvere. The glass In the preenbouss in the city was demolished by the hail. At Minicr, seventeen miles west, nearly every glass in town was broken. The country between Minier and Bloomington wasdelugea, and considerable injury whs done to the Chi cago and Alton tracks. Piles of ties were floated awoymnny of them b-dng lodged on the rails. The young wheat and garden vege tables were crushed flat Kajieakee, 111. The storm was general throughout Kustern Illinois, and was accom- anie:l by hail and a brilliant electric display, 'or a half-hour the rain fell so rapidly that the streets were overflowed. The storm will put farmers behind in their work for some time, as well as injure the grain now in. Pekin, lr.L. A very heavy full of rain ac companied by hail, reached here. The water fell in torrents, flo-vding ihe tf reels and many ftore cellars. Jlails:ones as large as walnuts fe 1, damaging trees that are far advanced. Covingtok, INI- Cue of the u.ofct severe windtforms, aecomr-ftrded by ra n anlhuil, visited this city. Hailstones l'irge as w&l n iH covered the prone. 1 to uii ih of fniir n- i-iVji' iin5.f'. V.vny v i'vl-.-w lit-.Tswer olislit-d, urri emiiriM'flamii (k-ue t THE NEWS. The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniver sary of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion closed at Philadelphia with a reception in Philadelphia. Three Polish miners in Hunt ington, Pa. weie killed by a fre'ght train. Charles A. Fort was arrested in MillvillN. J, charged with outraging his own child. E. T. Barham shot and killed hi father-in-law, W. Ball, in New . Kent county, Va. General Master Workman Powderly, in his testimony before the con2ressional investiga tion committee, stated that the general ten dency of immigration was to degrade labor. A number of interesting pipers were read be fore the convention of working girls in New York. -John L. Owens, cashier of Gibbs A Co., of San Francisco, is missing. His accouLts are $10,000 short. Prof. E. B.Craig a bal loonist was severely injured in Topcka, Kb., by falling to the ground, Prairie fires are raging near Chippewa Falls, Wis. Albert Martin, of Plsinfield, N. J., died from the ef fect of a dose of paris green. United States Marshal Cox, who was shot in the Che okee Nation, is dead. -The Warner House, at Sea Breese, N. J., was destroyed by fire. A de cision of the New York Supreme Court, sitting at Rochester, has nullified a state law giving preference to veterans in the matter of ap pointments to office. J. W. Middltton, of Davis county, Ky., is booking for his bride and his nephew, both of whom disappeared with $7,000 of the old man's money..' The Michigan Central Railroad Company proposes to run a new limited Vestibule train between New York and Chicago, reducing the time to twenty-three hours. While Daniel Reardcn and James Cronin were returning from a funeral in Me'rose, Mass., they en gaged in a fight, in which Reardon stabbed Cronin. probably fatall v. Samuel F. Pier son, president of the Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Eastern Railroad, is lying serious ill at his home in Philadelphia from the effects of over mental work. Judge Andrews, of the Supreme Court of New York, has denied Evangeline Hamilton's application for ali mony pendingRay Hamilton'ssuit for divorce. The Buffalo Spring and Gear "Works, of Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. Loss $15,000. Mrs. Peter Monaghan and Herman Heinricks, of Newark, N, J., were horribly gored by a cow.-. Heavy rain and hail storms a d considerable damage in Illinois aud In diana. At Kingston, Ont,, Whitecaps blew up with dynanvte the house of Miller Mcln- tyie. The jrand jury of Minneapolis has been investigating boodle charges against city officials, and as a result two alderman and the city clerk have been arrested. The Mer chants and Traders' Produce Exchange of Nashville, Tenn., made an assignment. Lia- bilities,$100,000. TheGilbertStarc'a Works at Des Mo'nes Iowa, were burned. Loss, $100, 000. Three employes were burned to death. The body of a man mnrdercd in Copen hagen and shipped to Racine, Wis., in a cask, was dicoveied in New York, cn the opening of the cask by the authorities. The National Linseed Oil Trust has been changed into a company, but still continues a monopoly of that bnsiness. The congregation of the First Baptist Church of Joliet, 111., is divided on the charges against the Bev. Whitman, the new pastor from Prince Edward Island. The Northern Pacific Railroad machine shops at Ellenburg, Washington, were destroyed by fire. Loss. $100,000. Severe earthquake shocks at Panama. Two revolver shots were fired into the resi dence of Rev. J. W. Southwell, who has been prosecuting saloon-keepers at Sioux City, Ia. All Chicago gaming houses have been closed. Kn-Klux outrages have leen re vived in Missouri, and two of a gong, who went to the house of an old man named Hol land with the intention of whipping him, were shot and killed by his fourteen-year-old son. Bonsfield & Co.'s woodenware factory at Bay City, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Loss, H50.C00. The first annual convention of the Association of Working Girls' Societies met in New Yor . It is stated that the Norfolk and Western Railroad Compony will shortly control the Virginia Beach Railroad and Hotel Company Captain John A. Coke, brother of United States Senator Coke, was killed In Mecklcnberg county, Va. Lizzie Loetter, a working girl of New York city, obtained a verdict for $10,000 damages against the Elevated Railroad Company for injuries. The miners and operators of five states were represented in convention that a-scmbled in Columbus, O., to consider the wage question. The mutilated body of Owen II. Hughes, who was probably mnrderd, was found on the Railroad track near Roanoke, Va. The wife of Paul Witte, of New York city, and. her paramour have been arrested for shooting her husband. -The boiler in Ozen's saw mill at Gladwin, Mich., exploded, instantly killing II. M. Corey, the engineer, and bis son. The luteot trust schema is said to be asyndicatc to control all the lithographic plants in the United States. TWO KU-KLUX KILLED. The Fourteen Year-Old Son of Victim Comes to Ills Father's Rescue Two of a gang of four masked Ku-KIux who visited the residence of an old man named Holland, living ne ir Doniphan, Mo, for the purpose of whipping hira, were killed by Hol land's fourteen-year-old son. Edward Gillam, Jr., one of those killed, was the son of a prom inent and well-to-do farmer of that section. The other, Alexander Gate wood, bore an un enviable reputation. - Upon the arrival of the Ku-Klux at Hol land's house, one of the gang held the horses while the others forced" their way into the dwelling. They knocked the old ir.su down and were kic'niiig him wh.-n the lty j hxhI fire on them with a dout le-barreled shotgun, killing GilhiTii. Gatewood attempted toshoest the boy, but his pun raided fire, ,md the lad empiinj the content" of his s.-cond fc-urei ir.to (laie'.vood's breatt. Th isirn ran -ut cf ihe hounc, hut "i:r. ? -"d f. M n:i 1 l,iy sJl fcli'Kt, djing- fsi;f j"! I y c.f.. :' I'-1 v :. ;i i i l1!' t-.-'fii-ii:;'. 1 i;t ixl :'.;; (- l.i-i' .li.L-ivi,; t i", tii known. All Further Details of the Wreck cf 03 Stealer Qnetta. She Strikes a Sunken Rock and Sinks In " a Few Minutes One II mi tired and Thirteen People Drowned. The steamship Mariposa, just arrive! atfJsn Francisco, from Australia, brings additional details, of the wrecked steamer Quetta, o3 Thurdah Island. About nine o'clock on the evening of March I, the passengers, who wera holding an impromptu niusicale, were startle ! by the sudden slopping of the engines and thu f rating of the vessel's keel onthesunken r-.w-k. n less than three minutes the Quetti had sunk out of sight, leaving 291 peop e struggling in the waves; some were forne under by the tangled riggin, and other, more fortune, cJins ingtothe floating wreckage. One hundret and twelvelives were lost. 126 whites, only 30 escaped; while of the 165 negroes, 82 sur vived, many of the whites being imprisoned iu the staterooms. Captain banders states that he was on tb? b. idge when the veel struck. He rushed forward and ordered the boats out. ' He found the boat settling. He had just time to climb the rigging and jnmp into the water when the vessel sunk, Af;er a-h"lf hour ne wrs picked up. The rock on which the vessel struck is not on the chart, and is right in the trak of the course recommended by the admirality. which states that toere are twelve fa horns of water there-, - ' Thrown From m Steamer. .' The steamer Handy Boy, of the Bay Line river steamers, running between Saginaw nd Bay City, Mien., while hound down, ran into the t lint and Pere Marquette Railroad bridge, carrying away all Ker upper works. She whm sixty feet west of her proper course in the channel. Carelessness on the part of those in charge is given as the cause of the! accident. Captain Do son got ashore, and escaped, although police are searching for him. George Little, engineer, and Ed Trump, t&e man at the wheel, are in jail. Reported, drown d; Miss May Haight, aged twenty-two; ' Mrs. Catherine Kevins, an old lady; two women and one man unknown. No bodies have yet been recovered. A number of passengers were, slightly injured. J. W. Thompson was badly hurt and taken to the hospital. It is estimated that there were thirty people on the boat at the time of the accident, and they , were all swept into the river. VAST WALlToF WEALTH. Wonderful Discoveries Made in th Grand Canon of Colorado. . Colonel Stanton, commander of the recent exploring expedition in the Grand Canon of the Colorado river, makes publio some inter esting preciou." mineral discoveries which his party made in that far-famed canon. It now; appears that the whole raion why Harry McDonald deserted the expedition wus on ac count of these rich discoveries. He quit the party in the canon, and made . his way to Knaub, Utah, where he made known the new finds, organized a company of prospectors, and they are now in the canon in force, the news having leaked out and a general stampede-' bein? the result. Mr. Stanton has afinese lec tion of minerals as well as coal, marble, etc. He says that four hundred miles of the canon shows a wealth of the precious mineral. The top walls of the canon show quartz vein1 in places and assays from specimens obtained on the trip down the river demonstrates that these veins are remarkably rich. The action of the water has worn smooth the sides of the canon, and the vein of matter is clearly dis cernible. Placer gold is found nearly the en tire length of the river. Every point panned produced color, and in places the .bars were found to contain coarse gold in surprising quantities. In one place south of Lee' Ferry veins were found which had evidently been developed in a crude wny by the Indians, perhaps by the now extinct race of Astocs. Mr. Stanton says the placers can be easily worked, because there is no lack of water faciliti s. A shortdistance below Lee's Ferry the expedition ran across old Jack Sumner, a member of Major Powell's original expedition, 1869, washing ont gold in a primitive way, and taking out from $o to $1 per day. Sum ner, aged with the twenty odd years he hts spent in the canon, is still looking for the im mense mineral outcroppings which ware din covered by Major Powells expedition in ln.W. Col. Stanton ia of the belief that he has relo cated the bonanza so much talked about by Powell's men. ' DESTRUCTIVE FOREST FIRE. Young Timber Burned North of Plea it vllle, N. JM and the Town In Danger. The most destructive forest fire. that hnit visited this section of the country for the latt fifteen years brok e out just Jforth of this town. The fire spread so rapidly that in less than one hour it was over three miles in width and about five miles long. The whole town of Plcasantville was in danger. Large gangs of men attempted to fight thft fire, but they were lorced to stund back aiid . look idly on, owing to the intense heat. Oc casionally when a flight puff of wind struck the burning timber the flames shot upward several hundred feet, driving the fighters back on a run. At 6 o'clock all efforts to get within half a mile of the fire proved futile. All the even ing the fire continued to work its way dawn toward the town, but owing to the light wind at sunset the fire had worked ifs way into the cexlar swamp, where it played sad havoc. At a rough guees the value of theynun? tim bcr destroyed will r.aeh fr m $-'5,0t.K) to $.ln,. 000. Several houses which stand back in the pines were burned. '. " MARKETS. HAtTiMOBE Flour City Mills.extrs.flS.i (3 $4 50. Wheat Southern Folts, Corn Southern . White, 4ilf C iiic, Ye) low :ifj!.3oJ;c, Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 27C'l'32c Rye Maryland and IVnmsvlvanin ootilbl c. Hay-Maryland aud Pentis vi vtiTiia 12..Vj(u,.fl00. Straw Wheat, 7.V(i..Cd. Butter Eastern Creamery, lW$22c, ucar-hy receipts 12ft He, Cheese r.a&ti-ra Fancy Cre.m, lKllJc, Western, tffji.Kio. Eriya 12('(ijl2io. lobacco, Leaf Interior, t!tS2.A), Good Common, S.0un.?l.u0, Middling, f . ,-i".uj. ood to fine red, kOud. iaiicy, liif iiii.j. New YOTiKFloiir Sutlii'rn CuMin" 1 1.? fair extra, l'.50(Vi,2.S;). Wheat No. 1 U tSl'ifcWtj. p.ye stjite EiiC'i' 00c. Corn - -'i-ern Yellow. .WJOv&'c Unt Whit, ;!c 28i!(?f,2!Ue. Butter State, aril"-!. L".co Siate H;-$101c. 'Eg;s U Pnir-ADEi.FirTA Fl.u;r rp.; K- ' fancy, 45''t;4-ro. Wheat. Penr4?!":-:-v : Southern Red, fit. 1; re lii... ' ,Vf'i.tk)e, Corn fc'oMhrrn VIlov, I, Oats 31S'j.CJo. i'.'iUtr ; i . Cherse New i'oik Faaiorv, I fc'tste, ir;cj.nu. CA1TJ.1!. TUT1 ivr.f , tt; - " f iy :7. it ir- f
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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