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PtTSLISHfD bt Koakoxb Fublibhiho Co. "FOR GOD. i OR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. C. V. W Acsbon, .Bcsijibus Makaskr. VOL. II. PLYMOUTH; N; C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1891. NO. 37. THE NEWS, f Clnbs of the Farmers' Alliance have been organized . in Delaware. Abram Ornauer, of York, Pa., is charged with poisoning his rife. r-Geo. E. JIcGee, of Wilmington, Del., killed himself because his wife was absent. -i -Edward IL Horner, a New York banker, arrested on the charge of fiolatingthe lotterylaws. Earthquake shocks in Chi- huahna, Mexico, caused a gallery Jn a convent to fall, killirifj six person.- Two coal miners ' were fatally injured by a powder explosion in Pans, 111 In Denver, Col., Hnrley McCoy uissaulted Chief of Police Hawley. McCoy ws fatally wounded, and Hawley killed. Leonard Perrin, the wealthy New London banker, was convicted of complicity Jn a bank robbery. John Turner, for the murder of Schmidt in Cincinnati, was sentenced to im prisonment for life. John A. Hart mayor of Chattanooga, and among the wealthiest Tennesseeans, is dead. John C. Hall, of nn Franoisoo, confesses to an embezzlement of trust funds amounting , to $150,000. A gigantic conspiracy was discovered in Phila delphia whereby the sugar companies and government employees had conspired to de fraud the government. Austin Corbin re igned the presidency of the Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Company, and A. A.'Mc Leod, president of the Philadelphia and Read ing Railroad Company, was elected to the josition.- The Court of Appeals of New York has decided in favofof Ross R. Winans, in the suit for divorce brought against him by Alice O'Keefe, ruling that there 'never was a marriage between the two. "Pour men were'killed by the giving way of a shed at Victoria, B. C- Hanley fc Co., commission merchants of Helena, Montana, have assigned. Mrs Jane Mulliua shot and killed her son Henry near Crab Orchard, Ky. . Zoe Gayton, an actress, is walking from Ban Francisco to New York on a wager. The three-year-old dunghter of Henry Beaver, f Indianapolis, died of hydrophobia-- , James H. Andrews stabbed to death Levy Landsdown in Columbia, Tenn. George M. 'Bartholomew, former president of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, returned to Hartford, Ct., confessed embezzlement and was sent up for one year. The Connecticut State Senate swore in the Democratio candi dates to the state offices. Governor Bulkley declined to be present at the inauguration and all the state officials refused to hand over their offices Rev. J. R. J. Milligan, of the Allegheny Reformed Presbyterian Church, "was placed on trial by the Pittsburg Presby tery of the Reformed Church, on the charge of heresy.- John Youngman, a Chippewa Indian, convicted in the United States Court of criminal assault on a' five-year-old girl, was sentenced to be hanged on April 3 at Madison, "Wis. By the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive near Ashland, .Pa., Martin Saeger, tho engineer, and a brakeman were killed. The Ward line 6teamer City of Washington, from New York for Havana, put into Norfolk in a delapidated condition, having' been nearly wrecked in a terrible storm. Two of the crew were killed and one pnssenger hurt A Wheelingcourtawarded $10,000 damage? to a' child "two years old for injuries received on the Pittsburg, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad, Rev. Evan Wat kins, a missionary, was convictedin Wheeling of assaulting a young Jaly. -' r Prof. Young,of Princeton.ihas been awarded the Janssen prize for his discoveries in spect rology. Eva Hamilton appeared in a New ;YcrJ court to contest Robert Ray Hamilton's will. The North Carolina State Senate re nominated United States Senator Vance, and adopted a resolution instructing the North Carolina senators to work for the financial re forms advocated by tho Farmers' Alliance. -Heavy storms in New England andliigh tides caused considerable damage. Rev. J. J. MankeV and Rev. J. J. Sampson, Metho dist ministers, filed a suit for. damages in a Chattanooga court against. Rev. T. T. Carter," editor of the. Methodist Advocate, charging defamation of character. The Senate Interstate Commerce Commit tee has reported favorably a bill modifying the anti-pooling section to as to permit lim ited pooling of traffic. , - The railroad presidents have agreed upon r commission to regulato transportation ques tions. The fifty-third annual meeting o the stockholders of ths Philadelphia, Wil mington and Baltimore Railroad took place in Wilmington. A by named Williams, a mail carrier, at Werton.W.Va.j when arrested, on the chvge of robbing the inail?, implicated bis father.- Deputy United States marshals arrested five Chinamen at a grocery store, in New York oity, and captured six y half-pound boxes of prepared con'tnhand opium. . rd APPROPRIATION BILLS. Sfeape lu Which The? Are Sow-No River and Harbor Bill. . The appropriation bills are. in 'a fair state of progress in th House, though only two billsproviding for expenditures on account of pensions and fortification have actually Raised that body. Four other appropriation bills are on the calendar, and, as soon as the shipping bill is nut of the way, will be brought before the House, and, it is believed, passed without much, delay. These four bills are those for the District of Columbia, the array, the Military Academy and the navy.' One ether bill the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial has almost been finished in 'sub committee, aod Mill he reported to the House be lore that body is ready to act on it. This leaves only the Hun dry Civil and Deficiency 'Appropriation bills to be reported by the regular Appropriation Committee, and all the ' estimates are not yet in upon winch to base ttra various items of these measures. The preparation of the 'Indian, Postofiice, Agri culture and Consular and Diplomatic Appro priation bills has not yet been commenced by the respective committees to which tney are entrusted, but as each committee has only one appropriation bill to report, and as legislation on appropriation bill is forbidden by the rule, there should be no difficulty about bringing in any of them on short notice. It has been decided not to report a River and Harbor bill this session, so that ths appro priation mensure which usually takes np the greatest amount of time can be- eliminated from a revirvof the situation, THE FAR IS OVER- Four Thousand Hostile Indians Lay ing Down Their Arms. . Kicking Bear, the Supposed Leader of the Hostile Band, the First to Give Vp HI. nine. Dispatches were received by General Sco- field from General Miles announcing the end of the Indian troubles in the West General Miles snyr: "The entire camp of Indians are now at the agency. They moved in three columns while passing under the guns of the com-, mand." General Miles thinks it fair to estimate their number at not less than 4,000 people. He says he has directed the chiefs to have the different bands gather up their arms and turn them in, which they are now doing. He continues: "Kicking Bear, supposed to be the leader, was the first to surrender his rifle, and others of the same character will follow his example. Of course many of the young men may hold back and may cache then: arms, but I believe the disarm iog will be Complete. Both officers and men have exercised and maintained a most com mendable discipline, patience and fortitude. All are gratified with the result. It will re quire some time to get the Indians under full control, bnt everthine is movinsr in a satin. . factory manner. The troops under General! ui uuao uiira iuuvcu lurwaru mm are now in three strong commands with the Indians, up wards of 7,000in the centre, the whole within the radius often miles." In reply to the telegram sent to General Miles considering the time of the departure of the Indian ''"legation for Washington, Gen eral Miles s ys "There is .. necessity of haste. I do not' intend to send delegation until this matteri is entirely settled here and Indians do as t have directed, whicli directions they arc now, complying with in every respect. This In-' dian war I now consider at an end in the most satisfactory manner. A more complete sub mission to the military power has never been made by any Indians. The report that any have escaped is simply not true." General Schofield received a telegram from General Miles as follows: "In order to restore entire confidence among these Indians I have found it neces sary to send a delegation to Washington to receive assurance of the highest authority of the good intentions of the government to ward them. This will answer a double pur pose, namely, satisfy them, bridge over the transition period between war and peace, dis pel distrust and hostility, and restore confi dence. It will also be a guarantee of peace , while they are absent. I ask that my action may receive the approval of the department by telegram. Everything isprocressingsatis factorily, and I can see no reason why perfect peace may not be established." By direction of Secretary Proctor, General Schofield sent the following reply: "The Secretary of War conferred with the I President and the Secretary of the Interior in regard to yoor proposal to send a delega tion of the Sioux chiefs to Washington, and they approve of your recommendation. The Secretary of the Interior has sent' an agent to conduct them. It is desired that the dele gation be as small as possible, five or six, or not more than ten. If the delegation has al ready started, telegraph at once the number, route and commanding officer." TEXT OP THE SILVER BILL. A Free Coinage Measure Free From National Bank and Bond Legislation. The silver hill, as passed by the Senate, is a free coinage measure pure and simple, free from all the national bank and bond legisla tion contained in the J financial bill. With the exception of slight technical amendments and the omission of the provision for covering into the treasury the national bank redemp tion fund, the bill is like that passed by the Senate last year, which was the basis of the compromise embodied in the present law. The text is as follows: 4 . "An act to provide for the free coinage of gold and silver bullion, and for other pur poses. "That from and after date of the passRge of this act the unit of value in the United States shalL be the dollar, and the same may be coined of 4l2i grains ot standard silver, or of 25 8-10 grains ot standard gold, and the said coins shall be legal tender for all debts, pub lic and private. "That hereafter any owner of silver or gold bullion may deposit the same at any mint of the United States, to be formed into standard dollars, or bars, for his benefit and without charge; but it shall be lawiul to refuse any deposit of less value than one hundred dol lars or any bullion so base as to be unsuitable for the operation of the mint. "Sec. 2. That the provision of section 3 of 'An act to authorize the coinage of the stand ard silver dollar and to restore its legal ten der character,' which became a law February 28, 1&78, is hereby made applicable to the coinage in this act provided for. "Sec. 3. That the certificates provided for in the second section of this act shall be of de nominations of not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars, and such certifi cates shall he redeemable in coin of standard value. A sufficient sum to carry out the pro visions of this net is hereby apjroprinted out of any money in the treasury rot otherwise appropriated. That so much ot the act of Juiy 14, 1SU0, entitled "An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of trensnry notes and for other purposes" as re quires the purchase of 4,500,001) ounces of silver bullion per month be, and the same is hereby, repealed. "Sec. 4. That the certificates provided for in this act and all silver and gold certificates already issued shall be receivable for all taxes and dues to the United States of every de scription, and shall be a legal tender for the paymeot of all debts, public and private. "Sec. 5. The owners ot bullion deposited for coinage shall have the option to receive coin or its equivalent in the certificates provided for in this set, and such bullion shall be sub sequently coined." - . . UNDER AN AVALANCHE. Houses Crashed and People Killed bj the Frozen Mass. Information received in Vienna, from Sera jevo, the capital of Bosnin, shows that a se rious disaster has visited Livno. An ava lanche crashed down from the mountains close by'that place, and a number of houses in the town were completely buried in the fnow. The immense weight of the snow crushed the houseR upon which it fell, and their occupants were buried in the ruins of their dwellings. AtteniDtB were immediately made to reeovt-r the boljes of the di-ad and to extricate the living. So tar the rentiers have succeeded in re-covering the bodies of sevVn tecn persons who were crushed to death. In addition in li e Jenl they have lemoyed liuujler cfpei'.oas who iwo tevtrt-iynv ireX TOTY-HRST CONGRESS .. Senate. SOth Day. The financial bill occupied the attention of the Senate again to-dsy. Messrs. Blackburn and Morgan made addresses. SlST Day. Mr. Sherman, from the com mittee on foreign relation, reported a bill to amend the act of February,1889, incorporat ing the Nicaragua Canal Company (authoriz ing the issue of bonds, guaranteed by the United States.) It was placed on the calen dar, and with the accompanying report, or dered to be printed. The. financial bill was taken up, and Mr. Morgan concluded his speech begun yesterday. The conference re port on the bill to carry out in part the pro visions of the act to divide the bioux Indian reservation was presented and adopted. 32D DAY. Senator Quay introduced a bill to preventiforceand fraud at federal elections. The financial bill was taken up again to-day, and Messrs. Allen, Berry and Coekrell made speeches in favor of free coinage. 33d DAY.This was an exceedingly inter esting day in the debate on the financial bill in the Senate. Mr. Sherman, the first speak er made a four-hour argument against Mr. Stewart's amendment He was followed by Messrs. Allison and Evarts, both of whom spoke on the same side of the question. The last speaker of the day was Mr. McConnell, who argued in favor of tree coinage of silver. The hour tben being late various suggestions were made as to an extension of general de bate, and it was finally decided that Senator Jones, of Nevada, Ingalls, Gi bson. and Hiscock should be allowed to address the Senate in exteoso, beginning at 10 o'clock, after which the ten minute debate shall be entered upon. The Senate then, at 6.15 o'clock, adjourned. 34th Day. The Senate met at ten o'clock, and five minntes later, when Mr. Ingalls rose, the galleries had begun to fill. In half an hour they were crowded, and they remained so durinir the day. Mr. Installs spoke for two hours. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, followed Mr. Ingalls in support of the amendment His speech closed the general debate, the Senate continuing under the ten minute rule. The bill was then reported to the Senate, and the amendments made in committee of the whole were agreed to. Then Mr. Vest astonished the Senate by bringing forward as a substi tute for the bill a purely free coinage bill which provides that the unit of value in the United States shall be the dollar, to be coined of 412 grains of standard silver, or 25 8-10 grains of standard cold. Mr. Aid rich moved to amend the substitute by adding thereto the national banking feature of the original bill. Lost Yeas 33, nays 34. Mr. Vest's substitute was agreed to without division. The bill as amended was agreed to Yeas 39, nays 27. Mr. Hoar called up the elections bill in order to make it the "unfinished" business for to morrow. The vote resulted in a tie yeas 33, nays 33. The Vice-President cast the decid ing vote in the affirmative, thus carrying the motion. The Senate then adjourned. 35TH Day. On motion of Mr. Gorman, the House bill to revise the wages of certain em ployees in the Government Printing Office was taken from the calendar and considered. The matter was not disposed of at 2 o'olock, when the elections bill came upas "unfinished business." . Mr. Evarts addressed the Senate in favor of the bill und spoke Kir three and three-quarter hours. Mr. Pasco obtained the floor and the bill was laid aside informally. Mr. Hoar gave notice that to-morrow he should ask the Senate to remain in sess on until the, bill was finished. Atter a short executive session the Senate adjourned. House 29TII DAY. The legislative appropriation bill was reported and placed on the calendar. The House then went Id to committeo of the whole on the army appropriation bill. Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan, chairman of the com mittee on military affairs, explained that the bill was purely an appropriation measure and contained no general legislation what ever. The amount carried was $24,639,000, or about (400,000 more than the appropriation for the current year. Pending debate, the committee rose, and, public business being suspended, the House proceeded to the con sideration of resolutions of respect to the memory of the late James P. Walker, of Mis souri. After eulogistic addresses by Messrs. Baker of New York, Mc.Millin of Tennessee, Buchannan of New Jersey, Wilson of West Virginia, Stock bridge of Maryland, and Whitelaw, Frank, Wade, Stone, Kinsey, Heard, Neidringhaus, Nansur, Wilson and Dockery of Missouri, the House, as a mark of respect to the! memory of the deceased, ad journed. 30th Day. Mr. Dockery, rising to a ques tion of privilege, offered a resolution reciting the fact of the reference of his "silver pool" resolution to the committee on rules, and the fact that that committee had refused to re port the same, and directing the committee on rules to report the resolution to the House for its consideration. After a long discussion the resolution was agreed to. The House then went into committee of the whole on the army appropriation bill, but rose without taking any action. 31bt Day. The nouse spent the most of the day jn committee of the whole on the army appropriation bill, but rose without taking fiial action. The debate was some what enlivened by Mr. Lodge, of Massachus etts, who replied to Mr. Stone of Missouri, who, he claimed, had made slighting remarks about him during yesterday's debate. Mr. Stone replied, sarcastically and the matter was dropped. 32d Day. The House, in committee of the whole, Mr. Dingley in the chair, after adopt ing an amendment to the Army Appropria tion bill providing that land grant railroads shall receive for army transportation but fifty per cent of the prices paid to them by private parties tor similar services, passed the bill. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was then taken ud. On motion of Mr. Mc- f Comas, after discussion, debate on the bill was limited to Ave Hours, i'ending debate, tho committee rose. Oa motion of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, Senate bill was passed for the erection ot a public building at Staunton, Va., at a cost of $75,000. The House then ad journed. 33d Day. The free coinage bill passed by the Senate was presented to the House and laid on the Speaker's table. Later it was re ferred to the committee on coinage, weights and measures, of which Mr. Wickham, of Ohio, is chairman. The Speaker announced the appointment of the following committee to inv stigate the silverpool question: Messrs. Dinsdey, Payne, Howell, Dockery and Oates. Mr. Dockery was excised, and Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, was appointed in his place. The House then went into committee of the whole on the District of Columbia bill, but rose without taking any action. SIBERIA SCOURGED. Thousands Dylng on all Sides of the "Black Ueath." A dispatch from .Tobolsk says that the ter rible scourge known as "black death" has reached the city of Tobolsk, the . capital of West Siberia. t The whole of Asiatio Russia, from Samar kand to the mouth .of the Obi, is suilcring from the scourge. Thousands are dyinsr at Ohdork, ;i"r the mouth of tho Obi, owing to the lack' of phy sicians. It seems nii;iot hop- less to try to check the : :ead '.fti-' ieiii i'ul Cucatf. SOUTHERN ITEMS. OTEItttSTlNG NEWS COMPILED FROM MAX V SOtmCES. Charleston, the capital of West Virginia, Is to have a new hotel, to cost $125,000. Warrenton, N. C, is looming up as a to bacco market, as abont three million pounds were sold theie lust year. Alexandria Va., has over 200 manufactur ing plants of various kinds, which give em ployment to over 3,000 men. . The Eaer Lithia Springs, in Pockingham county, Va., have been purchased by Col. A. G. Dickinson, of New York. All the stock has been subscribed for a national bank at Martinsville, Henry county, Va., which will go into operation this month. James Parrott, an employee of the Rich mond and Danville Railroad Company, wa run over in North Danville, Va., and crushed to death. John Foutz, a farmer of Bedford county, Vs., who had been missing since Christmas, was fouud frozen to death some distance from his home. Gilmer county, W. Va., has lately had anew town to spring up within her limits named Danville, located on Fiuk creek, about three miles from Troy. The reported outbreak of the Brnmfield McCoy vendetta in Logan county, W.Va., and the killinir of six men is entirely discredited by later information. During the year 1890, in Charlottesville, $168,675 wa invested in new buildings and improving old ones, an increase of 50 percent over the previous year. The Charleston, (W. Va.) . improvement Company will erect a hotel there to accom modate 150 guests. It will be built on a com manding site a short distance north of the B. and O. depot. . Three colored boys held for hocse-hreaking and confined in the Caroline county, Va.. jail,' tore up a piece of timber from the floor of their cell, and battering a hols in the wall with it, succeedeJ in effecting their escape. A syndicate is being formed to control and operate all the big marl beds on the James and Poraunkey rivers, in Virginia. Among those interested in this project are a promi nent railroad magnate and politician of na tional note and New York capitalists. J. A. Tennant, of Norfolk, Va., has recently been offered $1,200 for a watch which has been in his family 172 yars but the offer was de clined. On the dial is engraved "William Tennant, 1718." The watch was made in Lon don, and still keeps good time. Something of a sensation was caused at Danville, Va., by the finding of a human hand on the Midland Railroud in North Danville. It was a delicate looking hand, and evidently cut from the body of a white woman, but where it came from is a mystery. In attempting to dispossess Alex. Gowans on the Crozer Coal Companv's property, at Elkhorn, W. Va., Detective Eugene Robert son, who is also a deputy sheriff of McDowell county, this State, was shot and seriously wounded by Gowans, and in return shot and instantly killed Gowans. A terrible contagion resembling glanders broke out among the horses of Samuel E. Williamson, at Spring Mills, W. Va and six fine animals were obliged to be shot to pre vent the spread of the disease. The carcasses were then bnried at a depth of four feet by the advice of the veterinary surgeon. Two children of Rufus Rakes, who resides near Meadow View, near Lynchburg. Va., aged seven and eight years, were burned to death a few days ago. The parents weie away from home, and the bouse caught fir from some unknown cause. Nothing was found of the children but their heads and por tions of their chests. A young man named Ti P. Einwiddie, in attempting to jump from a rapidly-moving train at Lawyer's Depot, Va., on t ie Kich inond and Danville Railroad, was hurled to the ground with terrific force. His head struck a piece of timber and his skull was crushed in a horrible manner. The scalp was torn from the forehead and hung over his face. It is thought his injuries will prove fatal. A widow named Sheehy, over seventy years old, living along railroad track at Duckworth, Doddridge couuty, W. Va., was instantly killed by Purksburg accommodation. She was gathering wood, and slipped downin front of the engine. Her body was flung about fifty feet, and dropped on the steps of her cottage. Richard Murdoch, while hunting in the woods near Fort Tobacco Station, Md., killed a large white owl, which measured five and one-half feet between the tips of its wings, and was much larger and heavier than what is known as the swamp owl. Mr. Murdoch sent his curiosity to the National Museum at ashington to be stuffed and preserved. In his address, President Henry M. Russell, of the West Virginian Bar Association, re ferred with indignation to the West Virginia statutes relating to the organization of cor porations. He quoted recent law writers who mercilessly criticized West Virginia statutes. He characterized West Virginia as the snug harbor of roaming piratical enterprises, and said the existing conditions were a disgrace, which the legislature ought to at once wipe out The mystery hanging over the death of W. T. Parker and Brack Bailey, who died sud denly near Raleigh, N. C, turns out to be a case of poison. Parker's wife, who furnished the men whiskey, has been arrested. A post mortem examination disclosed the presence of strychnine in the men's stomach. At the same time and place a negro was found killed with a gun in his hand and a dead rabbit pear by. By a fire at Owingsville, Ky., fourteen houses were burned. Loss $50,000; fairly covered by insurance. At Winchester, fire destroyed the Opera House block, Losses: Opera House Company, $16,000; Mrs. Ford, milliner, $4,000; Mrs. M. Simon & Co., dry goods, $9,000; McGibney Family Concert Co., wardrobe, $5,000. The postofiice was in the building and all the mail was destroyed. Chesapeake and Ohio express, due in Lexington, Ky., at 5.45, went through a trestle three miles east of stepstone, and Engineer A. E. Hillburn.of Huntingtou, W. V., and Ed. McNeil, of Kilgore, Ky., were killed. Hill burn's body was lound and removed to a sleeper. The body of McNeil could not be found, and as the engine, tender and express were burned, it is supposed that bis body was consumed in the flames. None of the pas sengers were hurt Mrs. M. L. Wells, president of the Southern Womnn'a Christian Temperance Union As sembly and Training School, is in Asheville, N. C, and the formal transfer to the associa tion of twenty acres of land at Skyland Springs has been made. A contract has been let for the erection of a pavilion with seating eapucity of 25,000, and the assembly will meet in their new structure on July 19, and con tinue in session thirteen days. A large attend ance is promised. Twenty-seven of the worst prisoners in the county jail, at Chattanooga, l'enn., who had revolted and refused to enter their cells from the corridor, have been starved into submis sion. The janitor mid assistants, armed with Wincheteis, hud been on duty in command ing posts, hut force nor bloodshed was not neeiied. The naog was headed by Bud Gor don, in for the murder ot Deputy Sheriff (ioriion, and several of them would stop at nothing t j gnm .their ireedom. Mrs. Wilon and Mr. Miller, two women residing on the banks of Ten Mile Creek, in Tyler county, W. Va., quarreled at the home ot Mrs. Wilson over theoirculation of a scandal, and agreed to fight it out in the kitchen, without any spectators. Each seized a butcher knife, mid a terrible combat ensued, at the end ot which each were badly used up. . When fon ml both were bleeding profusely. Mrs. Wi sou's injuries, it is believed, will result fatally. Her opponent was not so badly hurt. Dr. McKinney, living near Frederick, Md., having read the account ot a 'war relic in pos session ot the Chicugo Libby .Prison commis sion, t-onsistin'j ot two bullets that had met in their flight and become welded together, hunted through hi stock of valuable war relics, and ioun-J two bullets that had been united exotlv the same manner. They weighed one onnce apiece, and were found at Gettysburg by Corporal Warner, of the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania regiment, of which Dr. McKinney was surgeon. Mrs. Cross, wife of Charles E. Cross, ex president ot.the defunct State National Bank of Ilaleish, N. C, is circulating petitions asking Governor Fowle tor the pardon ot her husband, now serving out his sentence on the public roads. She has secured the signatures of nil the editors in Raleigh, having already obtained many from other sections of the state. Many members of the legislature have also signed. The utmost sympathy is ex pressed for her, and it is confidently expected that the Governor will give the matter fa vorable consideration. CROP YIELDS AND CONDITIONS. A Small Product of Wheat and Corn Daring the Past Year. The estimates of the product of corn, wheat and oats, of 1890, are completed by the statis tican of the Department of Agriculture, make corn aggregate 1,489,970,000 bushels; wheat, 399.262,000 bushels. The area of corn, which was slightly increased in planting, was re duced by utter failure and-abandonment by more than six million acres, the area harvest ed being 71,970,763 acres. The average yield per acre was 20.7 bushels, and the supply for consumption per head of population is 23 bushelx, or 11 bushels less than last year. The rate of yield was lower in 1887 and 1881, years of very severe drought. The aggregate wheat urea is 36,087,151 acres, nearly tne time as in 1879, and the yield per acre 11.1 bushels. These are measured bush els, of a quality gradingsomewhat lower than usual. Past records have shown that the annual difference in weight of the crop are not often more than a pound above or below the average weight for a series of years, the lowest for several years being 56 5 in 18.S8, and the highest 58.5 iu 1887. The yield per acre is the same as in 1888, when the product was nearly 416,0 O.OtX) bushels, and with two ex ceptions is the lowest rate daring the past de cade.. Tbe area In oats was 26,431,309 acres, and the yield per acre was 19.8 bushels. This is only 74 per cent of the average of ten years past, which was 26.6 bushels, and the smallest rate of yield ever reported by thi office. The December condition of the growing wheat crop is returned at 98.4, and of rye, 99. This is better than December returns for two years past Along the Atlantie coast a slight depreciation is noted as the result of excess of moisture in some localities, making planting late, and giving rather small growth before the advent of freezing weather. In the Ohio Valley the season was generally favorable for seeding and early growth, and the plant en tered Winter quarters in promising condition. Some damage was done by the Hessian fly, especially in early-sown fields. Condition m Missouri and Kansas was variable, local in jury trora drought and fly combining to some what reduce the State averages. DEVELOPING THE SOUTH. The Work of a Great Combination of Southern Developers. Much attention has recently been directed to the South on account of the Southern Inter-States Immigration Convention which convened in the city of Asheville, N. C, on the 17th of last December. That convention was composed of more than eight hundred prominent Southern business men. An important part of the business of the convention was the unani mous adoption of a resolution asking for five hundred thousand Northern men to come South during the next twelve months, and make their homes with the native people. A Bureau of Information was established, the business of which is to furnish information free of cost to all persons in the North. Hon. John T. Patrick, of Raleigh, N. C. was plaoel in charge; tbe plan adopted is practi cal, and will save the Northern man much trouble in finding reliable and trustworthy information. The plan is, in brief, as fol lows: A local ogauization is established in each Southern town; a descriptive pamphlet is prepared by each organization. Northern men wanting information write to Hon. John T. Patrick, Raleigh, N. C, giving in detail what they wish to know concerning the South, or any part of it These letters are printed by Mr. Patrick and sant to each of the towns, and fn turn the Secretary of each organization corresponds or sends cir culars to the enquirers. In this way one let ter from a Northern man wanting informa tion puts him in possession of much valuable knowledge, which, corning from the official organizations, can be trusted. If a man should want a farm, water power, site for mills, a gold mine, a tract of timber land, or a win ter boarding place, he can, by one letter, get the choice of many placoa. AN UNDSUAL ACCIDENT. Every Passenger on u Electric Car, Which Jumps tho Track, Hurt. There was an unusual accident in Pittsburg, Pa., the other night and the escapes were remarkable. A car on the Second Avenue Electric Line, crowded with passengers, jumped the tract and fell into an iron mill yard on the out trip, about 10.30 o'clock. No person aboard escaped injury The car was bowling along at a good speed when, as it rounded a curve about 100 yards past the Tenth street bridge.it leaped from the truck. Over the big timber guard it flew and into the fence. This it tore away, and then toppled into the mill yard, about ten lcct Ik-Ikw the street with a great craslu It was all done in an instant, and no one had time to jump. .Several were knocked sense less, and all were bruised and cut with broken vluss. The cur M as smushed to splinters. DEATH BY ELECTRICITY. Lit lie Uoy KllUit by Touching m Charged Guy Wire. The 15-ytiir-old kod of Councilman J. D. Sullivan, of Lynchburg. Va-, while walking S ii tne id rcct, laid hi hand on a guy wire from sni lUftric imlit pole ;md was instantly killed. A i in ;i 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 w h i endeavored to release SuU M'Kin ilieuire was knocked down but t',ciipi d injury- STATE OF TRADE. Business Improved at Philadelphia and a Few Other Large Cities. .. weMMawHa 1 Activity In Woolen Goods The A. Till able Wheat-Satisfactory Rallroatd arntngs Money Easier. Special telegrams to BraMtreet't show that there has been as yet no general revival from the period of inactivity customary at the opening of the new year. The exceptions have been at Boston, Philadelphia, Cincin nati and San Francisco, where the revival of demand in leading lines has given rise to de cidedly more activity relatively than has been observed elsewhere. At Boston rubber is higher, leather is stronger, and dry good are in improved demand. At Philadelphia there is a better request in nearly all lines, noticeably in pig iron prices, which are a shade better. There is a better feeling in wool, and cotton tends upward again, but woolen goods are as depressed fta pre viously. Groceries, notably coffees ab.d teas, are firmer. n . The movement of sugar and rice from Louisiana plantations to NewOrleans is quite free lor the season. But at Memphis, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul, and Duluth, trade ia quiet, the weather having been unseasonably mild. Lack of snow in Minnesota and Wis consin baa affected logging unfavorably. Re ceipts of cattle at primary markets are heavy. Arrivals of hogs are free at Omaha, and prices are 10 cents lower. IiAROE STOCKS OF WHEAT. Wheat at Saa Francisco is firmer and lc higher per bushel, with free exports butlarge available supplies on the Pacific Coast Wash ington, Oregon, and Idaho available' wheat, with that in San Francisco call-board ware honses, eqaals nearly 13,000,000 bushels i. early twice the available stocks there a year ago. At the East wheat has gone off 11 cent per bushel on expected continued increases from week to week of available stocks of wheat, weaker cables, and freer selling. Sup plies increased 647,000 bushels east of the Bockies last week, and the outlook is for aa other material increase this week. - Special reports to Jiradetreet't show that export of wheat (and flour) from both costsof thellnited State and Canada, for the week equaled 2, C7t$,000 bushels, against 1,031,000 bushels the preceding week. " London, Melbourne, and Auckland cables, giving totals of available tupplies of wheat in Europe, afloat therefor, u4 in Australia and New Zealand, furnish a total, which, added to domestio and Canadian available stocks, both coasts, indicate a total of 115,000, 000 bushels, as compared with 120,000,000 bushels one year ago. DECEMBER RAItBOAD EABS1XSS. December gross railroad earnings were satisfactory, gains by 131 companies over December, 1889, amounting to 6.5 per cent. Aggregate earnings for tbe month were $33,- 055,718, and the mileage was 84,328, an increase of 2-6 per cent Decreases were more numer ous and large gains of greater volume than in November last Heavy earnings in that month point to a large movement in all lines, except cereals. Cotton rail shipments were heavy. The Pacific roads make tiie best showing. For the year 1890, 129 companies report total earn ings of $464,239,134 on 85.678 miles ot track, a gain on earnings ot 8 6 per cent and mileage of 2.7 per cent, over 1859. Every group of ru'ds snow a gain, the largest increase being in tiie Southwestern and the smallest in the trunk lines. Bunk clearings at fifty-five cities for the week are $',282,197,394, an increase over this week lHt year ot '5.4 per cent. New York city's deirings, which constitute 6U1 per c-ii'. ot tne grand total, are more than those for th t same period last y ar by 2.6 per cent while at fifty-four other cities the gain is 9.4 p r cent. ' Business failures reported to Itradttrtct'a number 391 in the United States this week, a!Hinst3'J3 last week, and 354 this week last ve:ir. Cmada had 43 this week, against 21 1 1 -r week. The total number or failures in the Unit 'd States, January 1st to date, is 637 ntaiiist 66J in two weeka last year. THIRTEEN LIVES LOST. Two JSteamertJ Collide and Sink In the Firth of Forth. The steamer Britannia, from Lei th, came into collision with the steamer Bear, from Grangemouth, in the Firth of Forth, Soot land. The Bear sank immediately, her crew hav ing no time to launch a boat or make any effort whatever to cave themselves. .- Of the fourteen men on board the Bear twelve went down with the vessel. Tbe two others were rescued by a boat from the Britannia. . After the collision tbe Britannia, which was badly damaged, transferred her forty-five passengers to the steamer Thames, ana wns then taken ia tow by that vessel, the two steamers proceeding slowly in the direction of Leith. They had not gone far, however, before the hawser connecting the vessels was snapped asunder, and before another line could be car ried to the damaged vessel she gave a terrific 1)1 u nee. and sank benenth thn wavpo. Fortunutely, the crew had put on life-belts after the collision with the Bear, and all with the exception of the chief engineer managed to keen firnt until ihv srra niiL-il tin iv boats from the steamer Thames.. The chief engineer weut down with the ves sel and nothing was seen of him again. MARKETS. 1 Baltimore Flour City Mills. extrn.$5.00 $5.25. Wheat Southern Fultn, 9.V01.O3. Corn Southern White, 58f((j59c., Yellow, 66(a)58c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania 47(c5,50c Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania 79&8 c. Hay. Maryland and Pennsylvan'a 10.00$10.50. Straw Wheat, . 7.00(3 $8-00. Butter Eastern Creamery, 2Hfj$28o, pear-by receipts 19iMc Cheese Eastern Fancv Cream, 10U)jc, Western, 89ic .Eg'.' 3 (o27c. Tobacco, Leaf Interior, ltefl.iu, Good Common, 4rfl$5.00, Middling, 6f8.00, Good to fine red, 9($$11.0O. Fancy 12(?13.00. New YORK Flour -Southern Good to choice extra, 4.25$5.85, Wheat No. 1 Whits 104fi105j. Itye-State S860o. Corn-Southern Yellow, (Wi59ic. Oats Whit, Stat 19150c. Butter State, 2.X"i26c. Cheese State, 7(rt9Jc. . Eggs 27r28c; Philadelphia Flour Fennsvi vania fancy, 4.25fri$4.50. Wheat, Fennsyl vair.a and Southern Ked, J.011.00i. Eye- miylvA oia, 6fi(rt,.'i7c. Corn Southern YHiow, B-V. Oats 16Srj,'J9e. Butter Stste, 27 'V.!v. Cheese New York Factory, lOQIOJo. l'gs State, 29(j30e. CATTLE. ' Baltimoktc Beef ).2.W;.75. fc'heep l5ittoio.H). IIocs-H.25i,!M'.i" . Skw York Beef c.hOi!.7.0i.i. Sheep l.tx i,J .7.5. flors T4 ''. ...:". E--T I.IBEIM'Y Keef 4 ' $1.7' I. FN'?- I.OuOfW.V. Lp-3.0r jf. v
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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