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FCBLI8HED BY llOANOKB PUBLISHING Co.' "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR . TRUTH. " C. V. Aubbon, Business Manage p. VOL. II. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1890. NO. 13. THE NEWS. Train robbers attacked an engineer and fireman near Trinidad, Col. The railroadmen were severely wounded.-; Thos. II. Church, the fourth mayor of Grand Eapids, Mich., is dead. Chicagoans fear a bread famine, ow. ng to the bakers' strike. -Thecloakmakers' Sitrike in Philadelphia has been settled. The ilabortrs won the light Jeremiah Mdller, a wnodchopper living in the, North Mountain, , killed his wife and committed suicide. Jeal. ousy was the cause. Diphtheria hns become epidemic at Red Bay, a settlement on the Labrador coast. Many have died.- The 'Postoflice at Newport, R. I., was robbed of $4000 worth of stamps. In Louisville, Ky., Tetcr McCrary mortally wounded Annie Slakin because she refused to marry him. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company paid the Inst instalment on account of the purchase 'of the main Hue of their road from the state of Pennsylvania.-' Pittsburg is threatened with two strikes, involving ten thousand men. . The celebrated Blythe will case was set tled in San Francisco by a decision in favor of the illegitimate child of the decedent Kelly Stewart, colored, was hanged in Live Oak, Fla., for the murder of John Hawkins. Stephen B. Billings tried to kill his in- valid wife at Eatoutown, N. J. In Brad dock, Pa., fire broke out in a Hungarian set tlement and thirty-eight' houses were con sumed. Captain Robert Boyd, of the navy, vdied at New York of heart failure. The Secretary of the Treasury refuses to allow the wife of Dr. Langdon, a Chinese dentist, to land at San Francisco. The director of the . mint authorized the payment at New York of one million dollars ($1,000,000) in gold bars in ; exchange for gold coin for shipment to Europe. George Francis Train will try to beat the record for a trip around the world. ' The bodies' of two children were found in- the woods near Chebeague, Me., that hRd fyeen apparently burned. A young stranger in Duluth was brutally murdered by an un known man. Burglars robbed the ticket office in Denver, Col., of $1,500. At the Atlas Engine Works in Indianapolis, two laborers were killed by falling girders. It is charged that the citizens of 'Birdstown, an - oil village in Ohio, have conspired to burn the town so as to convert it into an oil field. Samuel Warrington, of Laurel, Del., lost three children. His misfortune made him insane.- -Edward Hake, of St Louis, is miss ing, and so is $4,000 of his father's money,- -Merrill Edwards ; Gates ; has been 'elected president of Amherstr -Fire destroyed the business portion of the town of Seneca Falls, N. Y. John Kibber killed his brother William by accident at Waynesboro, Va. Eugene Coulfield, of St. Louis, shot and killed his stepfather, who had assaulted him.- Lewis Dew. Washburne, of .Minnesota, and Gussie Buckman, his niece, were drowned in Lake Minnetonka. Two men were killed near Greensburg, Ind., by a boiler exploding. -A man named Knight, herding mules for railroad graders on Leopard Creek, Col., shot a horse from George Hastings' farm and es caped. : : - ' - Sunday night's fire ruined Wallace, Wash Not a business house is standing. Loss $412, 000. Detroit's population is 207,791; Louis- ville's is 155,756. Anton Nowark, amolder, shot his wife fatally at Cleveland, and then killed himself. Enumerator Louis ; Hig man, of Minneapolis, charged, with not re turning his census schedule, has been held for the grand jury.- Ernest Woefel, a well known member of the Economist Society of Pennsylvania, died from the efiectsof an elec tric shock. Rev. David Plumb's residence, atCale,' Ind., was fired by incendiaries, and he was burned up. -Three cottages were burned at Virginia Beach, and several per sons narrowly escaped death, The steam ship Franconia, bound from New York to Fr nundina, went ashore near the latter place and was burned to the water's edge. Reports from North Carolina and Southern Virginia indicate that the tobacco crop will be good. -The gross' earnings of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company for June showed an increase over the same month last year of $99,000. -Two boys named George Hubler and William Morrow were drowned at Pitt ston. Pal The dye works of John J. Hayes, at Camden, N. J, were burned; loss $15,000. President Harrison sent in a special message against the use of the mails by lotteries The number of applications for penson under the act of June 27th which, up to this time, bos; been received at the Pension Office ap proximates two hundred and aixty thousand. . During the past fiscal year the interval revenue collected amounted to $143,504,693. -Representative Oates, of Alabama, wants the House to investigate the charge of the Rational Economist, the organ of the Farmers' Alliance.thatthe Silver bill was gotten through Congress by corrupt mean -Three children were killed by an Erie train near Patterson, N. J. Texas fever has appeared near Chi- capo- THE CENTRAL AMERICAN WAR. I'll. Latest Deport, from Guatemala and Sun Salvador. Geronimo Pou, agent of San Salvador, says in the eleven battles delivered to date the Salvadorians have come out victorious. The rest of the Guatemalan army is fleeing in all directions' towards the interior, and not a single Guatemalan soldier is left on the frontier. A revolution against Barrillns has broken out in the Eastern Department. Several well known generals head it and thedown-fall of the present Guatemalan Government is con sidered more than probable. BurrilJas is pleading for foreign intervention in his favor. Mr. Jacob Baiz, Guatemalan Consul Gen eral in New York, has received the following despatch from Minister Dieguez, of Guate mala, at Mexico: - - "? , ' ;, "Gautemala accepted war provoked by Ezeta. llanduraa, Nicaragua and Costa Bics, figned treaty with Guatemala to demand i "siuaation of" Ezeta and to re-rsfaMisu. if gtl imrornia Salvor," r ; " 1,000 PEOPLE KILLED- Result of the Two Days' Bombardment at Buenos Ayres. 9,000 nprted Wonndd The City It Tranquil One Indication of Peace- Light Upon the Situation. During the insurrection at Buenos Ayres, the ironclad fleet which had joined the revo lutionary movement bombarded the city for two days. J . . , , Serious damage was donetomany buildings, especially those iit the vicinity of the Piaza .Victoria. : i , One thousand persons were killed and five thousand were wounded. The shipping in the port sustained no damage. The banks are open but the Bourse is still closed. A pri-ss censorship has been estab lished. The formation of a cabinet of con ciliation is under discussion. The city is tranquil. Disorders continue in the agricultural dis tricts. The great Southern Kosario railway has been torn up in places. Troops have been dispatched to protect the workmen repairing the road. Traffic is suspended. The report that it is intended to establish a forced cur rency is denied. ' , The London Timet' Buenos Ayres dispatch says: "Financial chaos and anarchy reign. A bill postponing the payment of bills for one month has passed the Chambers. It requires the President's signature to become a law. Notaries refuse to protect bills on the ground of the existence of a state of siege. . Great pressure is applied to compel Celman to re sign.".. ' A dispatch received in New York from Buenos Byres via Galveston, says: "Tele graphic communication with Buenos Ayres via Galveston is reopened." The officials if the Mexican Telegraph Com pany in New York say the fact that this mes tage came over the Transandineline is an in-, dicatinn that peace - reigns throughout 'the Argentine Reoublic. . A letter from an an American merchant doing business in Buenos Ayres to his firm in New York throws a jrood deal of light on the present situation. Hesnys: "The present reason for the depreciation oi the currency lieina want, of confidence in the present government All their past promises were pie crust made to be broken. They are looking out for number one and no one else. They go into all manner of expenses merely for self-benefit or peculation. "As an instance, they are putting down Nicholson pavements in several of the prin cipal streets of this city, ripping up good granite pavements which would compare fav orably with that of any street in New York. They are doing the same in a back street simply because the president owns a house there. They are cutting a magnificent avenue through the heart of the city, paying property-owners fabulous prices and tearing down a market which costs several millions two or three years ago. ;"In fact, they are managing their finances as a prodigal son and on 'tick.' European bankers see all this and won't lend them any more, for the day of reckoning must come. Not being able to get loans has caused them ; to cut down the city improvement, Ac, ex penses from $20,000,000 to $10,000,000. Be sides this, their banks, with their enormous capitals running away up into the millions, are rotten. ' - "The president of this republic has legally no more power than that of the United States. But a this and all other Spanish-American republics are in point of fact nothing else but military governments, he does as he pleases. He controls his own as well as the legislative and judiciary parts of the government. Those he cannot buy are sometimes assassinated iq the public street, and by day. - "These asea-sinations have not taken place in Buenos Ayres, but they frequently occur in the provinces, the papers giving the most bitter details of the affair, executed; of course, by roughs who are never punished. The re sult is a senate and house of representative! solid to a man for the President." WORK AND WORKERS. The stone cutters in Joliet, Illinois, have gone on strike for an advance in wages. They are now receiving $3.60 per day, and want $4 The Morocco Manufacturers' Association in Lynn, Massachusetts, has declined to es tablish a nine-hour day with ten hours' pay' A general strike is looked for. The City Passenger Railway Company in Wilmington, Delaware, surprised its employe! by granting them an unsolicited increase ol 7i-per cent, to their wages. The Board ol Directors decided to make the use of a portion of the current surplus earnings. - A despatch from Bloomington, 111., say) that a number of conductors of the Chicago and Alton Kailway, making their headquart ers at Reed House, Slater, Kansas City and St. Louis, have been discharged, and it is said that others will also go. The company has been doing some detective work that has re sulted in the conclusion that a number of sit uationrohould be at once vacated. The officials of the Santa Fe Road havt agreed to abolish the classification of passengei conductor over the entire system; to givt uniform pay of 125 per month without regard to length of service; to pay for time lost by trainmen on account of delays occasioned by anything beyond their control: to pay foi time lost where the men are called upon U report tor duty and are not sent out at once and to pay for 100 miles on all runs less that 100. : The Board of Delegates of the Building Trades will organize a general strike against all work in the public schools in New York city, "owing to the employment of non-uuioi painters by irresponsible sub-contractors. About 1000 men in various trades will b called out altogether. , "There is great indig nation among the unions at the practice ot sub-letting contracts, which breeds bad wort and bad workmen." DAMAGE BY A CLOUDBURST. An Alabama Valley Flooded and JKach .' Property Destroyed. A cloudburst which caused immense dam age, occurred just above the mining town of Horse Creek, in Walker county, Ala. The creek of the same name runs through a narrow valley and it was on this stream the cloud butst occurred. The valley was flooded to a depth of three feet and a nuruberof houses were swept away,' All the coal chutes ot the Horse creek All ing Company were nestroyea ana tnirty-pve car loaded with coal were scattered dowjfihe valley. Over a mile of track, belonging to the Kansas City, Memphis and Rirmin Jiara Railroad wns swept away, but the main line was not serioustly damaged. - No lives were lost, but there were mJy "narrow evapwi in the town. Down the valf -y Ih'I.iw the town feni-eg and cropa were svfpi itw.'iv and some live stock drowned.''-' I ha toul damage is estimated at fiOO.Qea V FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. cnate Session. 163th Day. The Senate resumed consider ation of the Tariff bill. Air. Morgan, of Ala. and Air. Colquit, of Ga., spoke against the bill, and Mr. Hoar, of Mass., repliedT On motion of Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, the House amend ment to the "Original Package" bill were non concurred in. and a conference was ordered. The Senate-then proceeded to the considera tion of pension bills on the calendar.. Bil.'s were passed allowing Mrs. Crook, Mrs. Fre mont and Mrs. McCleilan $2000 a year. The Senate then adjourned. . ' 167TH DAY. The Senate passed a bill pen sioning the - surviving officers and men of Powell's Battalion of Missouri Mounted Vol unteers raised during the Aiexican war. A motion was then made fixing the meeting hour of the Senate at 11 o'clock, which was carried after some discussion with the under standing thatthe hour for adjournment should be (J o'clock. The Senate then resumed con sideration of the bill to transfer the revenue marine service to the naval establishment At 2 o'clock this bill was laid aside and the de bate on the Tariff bill was renewed. Mr.Vpst Addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. The reading of the bill by paragraph lor amendment was begun, the first schedule be ing that as to chemicals, paints and oils. No quorum voted on the first amendment made, and the bill was laid aside and the Senate ad journed. 168th DAY.The tariff bill was again the topic of discussion in the Senate. The first important "address was that of Mr. Jone, of Arkansas, who spoke in opposition to the bill. Some of the remarks made by Air. Gorman brought Air; Hiecock, of New York, to his feet. He declared that the Republican party had pledged itself toprotection.and hecalled upon his brethren to fulfill their pledges. Mr. Blair tpoke in the same vein. Alessrs. Voorheesand Reagan made speeches in opposition. The bill was then laid aside and the Senate adjourned. " 169TH DAY.The Tariff bill was taken up, and Mr. Morrill addressed the Senate. At the close of Mr. Morrill's speech the consid eration of the bill by paragraphs was contin ued. The Tariff was laid aside and the con ference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was presented. After some debate the report went over until to-morrow. The Senate then adjourned. 170th DAY.The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was taken up, discussed for an hour and a-half (chiefly on the subject of the street railroad companies and theirshortcomings)and agreed to. The Tariff bill was then taken up, and its reading by paragraphs was continued. To Almost every paragraph, as it was read, Mr. McPhersou offered an amendment reducing the duty, each of which was rejected by a party vote. . Four pages of the bill having thus been disposed of, the Senate, at 6 P. M., adjourned. House Session. . - 175th DAY. Mr. AIcKinley, of Ohio, from the Committeeon Rules, reported a resolution directing the Speaker to appoint a committee of five members to investigate the charges brought against Pension Commissioner Raum by Representative Cooper, of Ind. Adopted. The House then went into committee or the whole Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair on the Senate amendment to the Sun dry Civil bill. General debate followed. A number of Senate amendments were formally non-concurred in without discussion,' until that appropriating l 0,000 for a lightship and fog whistle on Frying Pan Shoals. North Carolina,' was reached, when Mr. Breckin ridge, of Kentucky, moved concurrence. The House, on division, refused to concur, and the same fate met a similar motion by Mr. Elli cott, of South Carolina, in behalf of a light vessel at Martin's Industry, S. C. Oher amendments were discussed, and at 5 P. M. the House adjourned. 176th Day. A motion made by Mr. Can non, of Illinois, that the House go into com mittee of the whole for the further considera tion of the Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was antagonized in the interest of District of Columbia legisla tion, but prevailed (yeas 134, nays 43), Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, taking the chair. The recommendation of the committee on appro priations were agreed to without much fric tion, the bone of contention, the Senate irriga tion amendment, being passed over until the other matters were disposed of. Mr. Cannon made a strong effort to throw into conference the Senate amendment increasing the appro priation for publication of the official records of the War of the Rebellion from $152,100 to $235,000, but was defeated; theHousedeciding to concur all the democrats, with a very few exceptions, and a large number of republicans voting to agree to the amendment. Without disposing of all the amendments the commit tee rose, and the House at 5.10 adjourned. 177th Day. The House went into commit tee of the whole on the Senate amendments to the sundry appropriation bill. The most in teresting event of the day was a bitter attack upon Speaker Read, made by Mr. Struble, of Iowa- The committee having concluded the consideration of all other amendments recur red to 'the consideration of the irrigation amendment, which had been passed over tem porarily. It was agreed that the debate on this amendment should be limited to four hours; and the committee then rose. The House, then, at 4.50 adjourned. -. x 178th Day. Mr. McComas, of Maryland, called up the conference report on the Dis trict of Columbia appropriation bill, Mr. Con lion, of Illinois, resigning his right to call np the Sundry Civil bill, for the reason that sick ness in Mr. .McComas' family necessitated his speedy return home. The conference re port was agreed to, and the House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Allen, of Michi gan, in the chair, for the further eodsideration of the Senate amendments to theSundry Civil Appropriation bill. After speeches had been made by Messrs. Cummings, of New York, and Cannon, of Illinois, the committee rose without . taking action. The Speaker an nounced the appointment of the following ! members on the committee to investigate the i charges against Commissioner Raum: Messrs. Morrill, Sawyer, Smyser, Goodnight and Mar tin of Indiana. Adjourned. . . 179th Day. The House went into commit? tse of the wholer Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the chair on the Senate amendments .to the Sundry Civil bill. The entire afternoon was consumed in a discussion of the Senate irriga tion amendment. Many amendments were proposed to this amendment, but the ultimate result was that the Senate amendment was non-concurred in. The committee then rose and reported the bill to the House. Without disposing of the bill the House, at 5.25, adjourned. NINETY-EIGHT BODIES FOUND. me Long List cf Victims at the St. Etlenne Mine Explosion. The Pelissier pit at St. Etienne, in France, in which an explosion of fire damp occurred a few days ago has been cleared. Fifty-nine of the persona who were at work in the pit when the explosion occurred have ben rescued. '''.. The bodies of the victims of the explosion, lumbering 8 have been recovered. Vice-President Morton ims entered a number of his thoroughbred cattle. and sheep for the New York and New England Fair. STEAM IN COLLISION. Several Lives Lost by a Disaster on Chesapeake Bay. An Exenralon Boat ' and a if or folk J Steamer Crash Together Wear Balti more Four to Eight Persons Dead. , Tht excursion steamer Lonise and Bay Line steamer Virginia, were in collision in the Patapsco River several miles below Baltimore. The Louise, the largest excursion steamer on the Chesapeake Bay, was bringing to the city about fourteen hundred passengers from Tolch ester, the excursion resort on the East ern shore of the Bay, twenty-five miles from the city, about 8.15 o'clock she was passing the bend this side of Sparrow's Point and was making her way np mid-channel. The weath er was thick. Suddenly the steamer Vir-. finia, of the old Bay Lline, on its way to Old oint Comfort and Norfolk, approached and in the confusion there was a collision. The Virginias' bow cut into the Louise abouttwenty feet aft of the wheel house, pene trating eight feet, smashing a gap fifteen feet wide and entering the main saloon, which was filled with women and children. Inde scribable excitemennt followed. Four per sons were killed, four are not expected to live, and nine are missing. Captain Bohannan of the Virginia, savs: "We had passed Fort Carroll about one min ute when I saw a large three-masted schooner under sail bound up. I was then heading southeast by south one-quarter south. I ported about three-quarters of a point to clear the schooner, when iust then I saw the steamer coming up behind the schooner. The steamer blew two whistl es, starboarded her helm and opened her ' green light out full. I imme diately stopped and backed full speed astern, and blew several short blasts of my whistle as a warning or danger signal to the advanc ing steamer. To these the steamer did not reply. I could not change my course in re ply to his two whistles, for I was then under the bow of the schooner. It was a miracle that she did not run into the Virginia, but by gooa seamansnip or ner master she got by. I had to run this desperate riSJL ju iiijf cuui i w yi even i uuimi iuiv wi steamer at full speed. The steamer, which proved to be the Louise, was when first sight ed well off my portbow, and about one mile away. I next saw her come from under the stern of the schooner, and when I saw her green light open full upon me, I said to my mate: 'John Mason, that steamer can't clear us.' ' ' - ' ' Soon afterward the collision occurred. The headway of the Virginia was nearly killed by the time the two vessels came together, but the Louise was going at pretty fair speed. The Virginia struck the Louise about the after starboard gangway; but we were going so slow that we were turned nearly around the stream, and when we drifted apart the Virginia nearly headed up the river. It was unfortunate that when the vessels came to gether the passengers rushed to the side I struck. I shouted for them to go to the other side; but those nearest the rail and in most danger were prevented from moving by the crowd that crushed against them. , The Louise was carrying 1.450 passengers, and the scene on board was an awful one. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. A passenger train on the Monon route struck a coV near Lennox, Indiana. The en gine was thrown into a ditch, and Engineer William Strope was killed. : By the explosion of a threshing machine near Princeton. Indiana, Andrew Cretsinger and Charles White were killed, and Thomas Meehan and Hugh M. Narrow were fatally in jured. - . - Two freight trains collided at Tigerton.Wis consin.: Fireman Seiras, Fireman Buckley, Brakeman Seymour and an unknown brake man were killed, and the two engineers were injured. In A collision between two freight trains at Antego, Wis., Brakeman Seymour and Fire man Simms were killed and Engineer Ray was fatally hurt. Engineer William Laing had both legs broken. Smaxx-pox is reported to be epidemic on the Mexican side or the Rio Grande, 25 per cent of the population of Piedras Negras and over 200 people in Nuevo Laredo having been attacked by the disease. The flouring mill of Mead Brothers, at North Jackson, Ohio, was wrecked bv the ex plosion of a boiler. George Mead, the engi neer, and William Thomas, an employe, were killed, and William Mikesell was fatally in jured. . A passenger train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was wreel ced near Limon, Col.? by going through abridge, a por tion of which had been washed away by a freshet. The engineer was killed and fifteen others were injured. According to a telgegram from Boston, the damage in New England by the present drought is now past recovery. Most of the dis tricts have been without rain sufficient for a growing season for weeks. Corn and tobacco on the lowlands are still in fair condition. Pastures are drying up, rendering the early feeding of stock necessary. Streams are low and the beds of shallow creeks are dry. Grass ib the only abundant crop, and a large yield of excellent hay has been cut and secured. The second crop is of little value and will not be cot, except on bottom lands, .v Joseph Carroll set off a species of fire works called "devil's chaser" at Red Key, In diana, and sparks flew into a can containing 14 pounds of powder. The grocery 6tore of Carroll & Horn was demolished and these per sons were injured: Joseph Carroll, hand torn off and skin all burned off from his wai6t up; Daniel Welt, bank clerk, seriously, but not fatally cut about the throat; Harry Manor, editor Red Key Timet, wrist slightly cut In front of the building were John Taylor, Cor nelius Watson, Matthew Atkinsou and John Lake, all slightly injured by flying glass. A MIELION-DOLLAR FIRE. Fifteen Acres of Smouldering Rains In the Heart of Seneca Falls, X. Y. A terrible conflagation occurred at Seneca Falls,N.Y. At 3 o'clock in the morning fire was dis covered in the Pen Building, & structure against the erection of which an earnest pro test was made because it was feared it would prove a fire-trap. A few minutes after the flames were first discovered the wholo building was ablaze. Everything possible was done to save the adjoining buildings, but all in vain. Fifteen acres right in the centre of the town, where stood hundreds of three-tory brick buildings, are covered with smoking, smould ering ruins, and fully $1000,000 worth. of property has been destroyed! Among the buildings destroyed was the splendid Phoenix block, in which were the electric light plant, the electric railway plant, the postoffice, express ofllce, the Heville print ing establishment, the Courier, the Sander gr!n,; furniture wsrerooms nod the Western IJeIqh tK-graph office, -. :-. ; . SOUTHERN ITEMS. nrrERESTiira news compiled FROM MAJfY SOURCES. Ths Episcopalians will erect a church at Busaa Vista Va. -Danville, Va. is worried about the insuffi ciency of it water anpply, Cara have commenoed running on the new street railway in Charleston, W, Va. The town council of Suffolk, Va., has ordered the erection of a town hall and market house to cost $15,000. - The , law library of the late State Senator Heaton, of Loudoun, Va., will be given to Richmond College. r . . The Fincastle (Va.) stone and marble works have reorganized, the capital stock being $100,000; $75,000 of which is taken. . A gentleman in Durham, N.C., has a watch made of gold dug in Chatham county in 1825. Six watches were made at the time. -The taxable property of Forsyth county, N. C, thia year will run up to $7,000,000, being nearly half a million iu excess of 1889. Bedford City, Va:, voted a subscription of $50,000 to the Bedford and James River Rail road. There was but one vote against sub scription. A North Carolina company with $100,000 will build at Glasgow, Va., brick business houses and other buildings to cost from $40,000 to $50,000. . ... Edward McCullough, a blacksmith of Char lotte, N. C, who went crazy over the preach ingof Rev. Sam Jones, has gone to the asylum at Morganton. On the 12th of August Fincastle.Va., will vote on the question of subscribing $10,000 in stock to the branch railroad from Fincastle to the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. The people of Henderson, N. C, have voted against the proposition to subscribe $40,000 towards the building of a railroad from that town to some point in Nash county. During a heavy thunder storm, lightning struck the barn of Mr. Washington Benuer. Charleston, W. Va., consuming the barn and its contents, and causing a loss of $2,000. A. J. Williams has sold twenty acres of land in Rye Valley, Sraythe county, Va., on which a very fine quality of lead ore is found, to a Baltimore and New York syndicate for $10, 000 cash. Mr. George Bell, living near St Paul's, Kent county, Md., has raised this year a crop of about one thousand bushels of orchard grass seed. His crop last year cleared him eighty five cents per bushel. ! Capt J. R. Jordan sold 150 acres of land on the north side of New river at Radford, Va.,to a syndicate for $40,000. The West End Rail road Company sold 85 lots to a syndicate at prices aggregating $25,000. ... Statements just issued by the five national banks and two savings institutions or Frede rick, Md.,show the individual deposits therein subject to check at the present time to amount to something over $2,000,000. ; ; The Lynchburg, (Va.) Industrial Society at a meeting decided to arrange for an extensive military display at the next fair, including competitive drillabetween the different volun teer organizations in the State. The truckers of Norfolk county, Va., are already planting seed potatoes and sowing Scotch kale and getting ready to sow the fall crop of turnips. Next month all the truckers will sow their kale and spinach and put in seed potatoes. . Frank T. Heintz. an itinerant German sil versmith, late of Baltimore, was cut with a knife, shot and robbed of a valise containing several silver watches, tools, etc.. and money, while traveling the public road leading from Port Royal to Fredericksburg, Va. Little Alice Curtis, the renowned midget, of Mason City, W. Va., has died of brain fever. The child was Bix months old, healthy and well-formed, yet the greatest weight she ever attained was two and one-half pounds. At birth the midget weighed only fourteen ounces. A contract has just been made with the North Carolina Car company, of R&leigh, for one hundred freight cars for the Georgia, Car olina & Northern Railroad. Several large sized coal-burning locomotives have also been contracted for with a company at Portsmouth, Va. ; -'M : - A wonderful poplar tree has recently been cut in Logan county, W. Va., on the banks of Pigeon creek. The log measure 97 feet in length, is 63 inches in diameter, cubes 1,090 feet, or 21,125 feet board measure. It is proba bly the biggest log ever cut and sent to a saw mill in one piece. ; A block of beautiful granite, weighing 49, 950 pounds, taken from the quarries of the Petersburg Granite-Quarrying Company, jn Dinwiddie county, Va., was shipped by rail to Richmond a few days ago for use in the erection of the Soldiers and Sailors' monu ment in that city. - , 5 The May hail-storm played havoc with the wheat crop of Mr. Charles R. Hardesty, of Clarke county, Va. He had four hundred acres in wheat, and before the storm struck it he confidently calculated on 8,000 bushels. He did not realize quite 2,000 bushels, or less than five bushels to the acre. , A corps of engineers is encaged in survey ing the proposed connection of the Lynchburg and Durham and Norfolk and Western Rail roads at Lynchburg, Va. - The line will pass on the southwestern confines of the city. If this line is built it will complete the connect ing link of the belt line. There were never finer prospects for good crops in Henry county, Va. The recent copi ous rains came in time and everything is now in prime condition. The wheat is being thrashed and the yield is much better than was expected. The oat crop is short, but more hay has been saved this season than ever be fore in the history of the couuty. FIRE DESTROYS A TOWN. 1,500 People In Wallace Said to be Homeless The town of Wallace, Idaho, the great min ingcamp of theCfflurd'Alene mining district, has been completely destroyed by fire- At 7 P. M. the Union Pacific train despatcher at Tekoa, Washington, received word from the Western Union operator at Wallace that the town was doomed and the fire'getting near his office in the Union Pacific Depot, and that he would have to move his instruments out at once. , . An official of the Union Pacific received a dispatch that the entire town was destroyed, with the exception of the depots of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific Railroads. Through the operator at Wardner it haa been ascertained that the fire started' in the Central Hotel, and burned north and east over the entire business part of the town. A private dispatch says 1,500 people are homeless. ; The town of Wallace is situated one hundred miles southeast of Spokane Falls, and is probably the most flourishing mming 'own in the Northwest. JOAQUIN MILLER has built three quaint cottages in the mountains back of Oakland, LV. In one ft those he shelters his wile and such of his '.;Mmi s live under his inau- f nee, in a" i H- i vother live find the third li- ' - CABLE SPARES. FIRE destroyed the town of Hammerfest, is Germany. . Smallpox is decimating the population ov villages in Egypt.. A French expedition is being organized to, explore Central Africa. Many persons were killed in the town oi Elonim, Russia, by a hurricane. CHRISTIANS fired on a party of Turks near Canea, Crete, killing fire of them. , A sojt of ViotorHngowasslightly wounded in a duel with M. Menier in France. .. The residents of Heligoland have prepare! a farewell address to Queen Victoria. The new constitution of Brazil elosely re sembles that of the United States of America, after whicn it was copied, ; CATTLE, horses and sheep are dying by the thousands in the province of Riazan, Russia, from the Siberian cattle plague. MR. Baker, a Wesleyan missionary, who was premier of Tonga, has been expelled from that country by the native chiefs. During Emperor William's visit to Russia he will not attend the military manuevers in .Volhynia, as it was first understood he would. James Mansfield was arrested in London on information furnished by a detective, who charged him with forgery in the United States. ' ' The council at Paris of the government of San Salvador has received a dispatch confirm ing the report of the defeat of the Guatema lans. . v . Capt. Keller, of the German army, who issued a pamphlet in which he apersed the forces of his country, has been deprived of his rank. ".: ' Viscount Dcnlo, son of the Earl of Clan carty, is suing in London for a divorce from his wife, Belle Belton, a former concert hull singer. . ' THE American schooner William Rice, from Cape Ann for Iceland, has been lost at sea with the entire crew, numbering sixteen persons. : . A ncmber of army officers have been ar rested in Argentina for complicity in a con spiracy to overthrow the present rulers of the republic. - The Proprietors of the newsnaners on tha Island of Malta have been excommunicated for printing articles abusing the Pope and the Bishop of Malta. . . The sixtieth anniversary of Belgian inde pendence and the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Leopold was appropriately ob served at Brussels. MESSRS. RlGGS and Reitlinger, Americana, have been elected Knights of the Legion of Honor of France for their services during the Paris Exposition of 1889. THE French minister of foreign affairs has failed in his effort to induce European powers to collective action against the American cus toms administrative bill. THE Bulgarian government denies the truth of reports emanating from Bucharest of the execution of commissioned and non-commissioned officers and soldiers, r OWING to the discovery of a revolutionary plot in Buenos Ayres the Bourse of that city is demoralized, and the palace is guarded by thousands of troops and policemen. The government of Uruguay will probably raise the custom duties 10 per cent, make them payable in gold, and will devote tha fund thus raised to the redemption of psper money. . M. Lattb, a member of the French Cham ber of Deputies, baa protested against the government of his country permitting an Eng lish company to establish what he considers a monopoly of the sardine industry. Catherine Wood, who made it a business to rob her fellow passengers on the Atlantic ocean steamers, waa convicted in Liverpool of stealing a diamond ring belonging to a Mrs. Vanhouten, who waa a passenger on the teamer Etrnria. THE DTTERNAL REVENUE. A Ntatement of. the Operations of thm " Bureau Daring tbeXast Flteat Tear. Hon. John W. Mason, Commissioner of In ternal Revenue, has submitted bis prelimi nary report to the Secretary of the Treasury on the operations of his bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1890.V It shows that tha total collections from all sources during the year were $142,594,697, as against $130,894,434 for 1889, or an increase of $11,700,262. ' The cost of collecting this amount aggregated 4, 100,000, exclusive of the amount expended for printing internal revenue stamps,as agai n -t $4,185,728 for the previous year, or a decrease of $85,000. The percentage of the cost f t col lection is a fraction less than 2.9 per cent. The cost during the previous year was 3.2 pr cent- ' . . . A statement is appended showing the aggre gate collections in the several districts. The largest sum collected in any district was by the fifth Illinois, aggregating $22,355,689; the first district of Ohio is second, with $10,953, 675; first Illinois third, $10,371,324; followed by the fifth Kentucky, $8,902,796; first Mis. souri, $4,586,397; twenty-third Pennsylvania, $3,829,985; sixth Kentucky, 3.300,403, and first Pennsylvania, $3,336,039, The statement also gives a table of the as gregute collections by States, which pltioes Illinois iu the lead, with $34,876,691; Ken tucky second, with $17,059,42; New York third, with$16,224,321,0h!o fourth, with $13, 430,972; Pennsylvania fifth; $9,732,217; thtu Missouri, ? 8,062,294; Indiana, $6,250,981; N e vv Jersey, $4,206,722; Virginia, $3,516,195, and - x uu r.n x Albeit, oi uiunix, w ueu ue tronizes his own hotel and restaurant, pays hU way like any other guest; but never ''tips" a waiter. ; " -'i- :. ' ; :-. . KAjESsTIS.- :: i . . Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra. i.ff $5.00. Wheat Southern Fultz, 900 1-7. Corn Southern White, 5052c, Yellow, 5052c Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 4045c Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania 3556c. Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 12.00$12.50. ... Straw Wheat, 7.50(aj.v.V). Butter Eastern Creamery, 1516c., nenr-r y receipts 12(2jl3c. Cheese Eastern ForW Cream, 994e,, WestrnV 89Jc. Egsrs 16f4 17c Tobacco, Leaf Interior, 1(3; $1.50, C-o l Common, 4$5-00, Middling, 6ffi$8.00, ood to fine red SCIIO.OO. Fancy, 10(&$13.00. New York Flour Southern Gl fo choice extra, 2.60$3.25. Wheat No. 1 Wl. its 9899c. Rye State6860c. Corn South ern Yellow. 4344c Oats White, Stats 3"i40c. Butter State. 17(f$18c Cherie State, 7(a)8c. Eggs 14l14jc. Phil'adfxphIA Flour Pennsylvania fancy, 4.256"c$4.75u Wheat, Pennsylvania and (Southern lied, 951 96c, Rye-Pennsylvania, 66&7c. Com Southern Yellow, 41(ij42e. Oats 4748c. Batter State, - m !,17c. Cheese New York Factory, lOfJIOic. Kggs State, 1717e. t . . - : CATTLE. -. j Baltimore Beef -a.?;'. $4.50. Shfvp iSHa.i.W..- Hons 4,yWt New York Beef -fLS'.v- 4.70. PI r,T J." ! .i.'. if- ! ; . I' i - r f ! nTtTVBeef" f !"' -i -i-7:X H ' ' -
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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Aug. 8, 1890, edition 1
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