C. V. w Au8Bon, Busm&ss Manager;
PrBLlSHED BY. lJoANOKi PCBLISniSQ Co.
"FOR GOD. 'FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.
NO. 40.
VOL. II.
K PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1891.
' .. ' THE NEWSL -
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r" The First ArknosasValley Bank at Wichita,
"Ks., closed ita doors. The assets are said to
be sufficient to pay alIlaWlitjef.--The Iowa
- Temperance Alliance'continues Ita war upon
the . saloons, having secured '', injunctions
against a number of the proprietors. The
Pennsylvania, legislature has taken action
toward ascertaining the causes of the recei t
mining disasters. The Farmers Alliance
of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee
has established an interitate co-operate busi
ness committee. The Wabash Railroad
Company has cut down clerical force and
made a sweeping reduction in 'salaries :
6anford B. Whaland and Mrs. Little Hamp
ton, both" of whom deserted ..families and
eloped Iron? Uarrlsburg, Ky., were arrested
at Vincennes, Ind. ' The' woman attempted
nijeid.-A party returning along a moun
tain road from a funeral near Shenandoah,
Pa, were thrown from a carriage, and two
children fatally injured. A mortgage of
512,000 has been placed on the Weldon.'Ill.,
farm, on which Jit George J. Schweinfurth
f nd his disciples,- In Decatur, 111., William
II. Crawford was convicted of the murder of
Mrs. Line Matthias, and sentenced to death.
The city poor house in Waterville, Me.,
was burned, and one of the (inmates perished
in the flames.- The largest and richest vein
Vf tin ore has been discovered near Durango,
Mexico. -Constables made a descent upon a
Chicago gambling house, but were beaten off.
The Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance
Company, of Chicago, has been placed in a
receiver's hands.- Jennie Bartb, a maniac,
was scalded fo death in the Kalamazoo Insane
'Asylum-while being given a bath.- -Owing
,to the shortage in the state treasury, there is
no money to pay the Arkansas legislators.
J. W," Toombs, "of Manitowac, Wis, com
mitted suicide, v ,
Wm. Swisher was killed and John Kelley
bmily burned in the ammonia plant of Tamm
Bro,' glue works in St. Louis. JohnBoud,
a Mitchell (Ind. negro, has been in bed 27
years. Though well, lie refuses to get np .be-'
cause his mother sild the farm. A Barry
(III.) binkeman killed, himself by running a.
red-hot p tker through1 his body. Au epi
demic of diphtheria is raging in Adair, Iowa,
inv loiisoii ;atfU lire insurance com
pany of C'bicHgo hai made an assignment.
Three iicgroes confined in the town jail at
Friar's Point, Miss., were burned to death.
George Bradley, the first patient to be inocu
lated with Koch's lymph in thiscottntry.djed
in New Haven. The her steel cruiser
Newark formally .went into commission nt
Cramp's ship yard in Philadelphia'. --An
ilrtmni - 1 - 1 1 . 4
nricniyu, as iimuu vy an uiianuwu uiuii lu
murder Lena Marks near Utica. N.Y. The
roiling; mills at Bradsboro', Pa-, have closed
iown. Lewis Kurtz, a Jersey City school
, boy, exploded a cartridge find was severely
injured. A Grand Army post has been es
tablished in Hamilton, Out- John Y. Rus
tel, aged eighty-one. years, was suffjeated in
s Imruing house in Petersburg, Va.- The
World's Fair Association of Chicago will call
lorr an additional subscription of S.'i.OOO.OOJ of
ttock. The contract has been let.fur the
construction of the Danville and East Ten
nessee Eailr ad lrom Bristol to Danville.-1
The .New York and. New Jersey Terminal
Railroad Company, projectors of the scheme
to tunnel under the Hudson river, filed ar
ticles of incorporation et Albany. John
Tyson, a prominent St. Louis grain merchant,
upended. Link Waggoner, a desperado,
defied a mob who broke into the jajj at Clai
borrfe, La ', to lynch him, and shot two of the
men who wanted to kill him. .
. Charles; Zeigler, u prominent resident of
Adams county, Pa., died at the acre of fifty
nine years. In a coll iVion on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Bailroad an engineer
and a fireman "was killed.- -The Wisconsin
legislature has repealed the Bennett law.
An explosion occurred in a New Castle, Col.,
mine, and seventy-five : miners narrowly
escaped. -A large number of fishermen were
adriit on the ice in Lake Huron, and it is
. '1 . .. . . . - . . .
tesreu a score'pr more'bf them have perished-
Dr. V. C. Lancaster died at Kntixville,
.Tenn.. of -blood TJoisonin'r. the result of nei-
chnrles' large nail manufactory at Towanda,
Pa., was iestrqyed by. .fire., Los $3."),0'J0;
insurance $35,'0OOJ.- Ex-Fenian officers have
buying cartridges in Kansas City for
, .. Jther the Guatemalan government or i
STirgents pt that country. -rlhree, brothers
named Engmark havo been arrested in Chi
cago lor robbing their employers of $10,000
worth of jewelry. The war ships Chicago,
Dolphin and Yorktown will go to : New
Orleans at the time of the Mardi Gras festivi
ties. The steamship Newport encountered
a terrific storm on her trip from New York to
Colon, and suffered s-onie damage. -Engineer
f Robert Brown whs killed in a collision near
East Rochester, TZ..Y.-. - Judge II;' J. Ewing
mortally wounded a. burglar who was going ..
through bis house.- Tlte East Texa Fire
Insurance Company, of Tyler, Tex., wen t into
.rnltMifiir liniiirltj timi v-ThAmnRP. Wrifiil.
side, of New Burnshle, III., committed suLir'e
in the presence, o his fiancee. CnleV.
Morrell, a well known journalist, died in
Washington. Russell C. Canfield, of Lu
ting, Mich., has confessed to the murder of
,NJlie.GriEu. bis adopted daughter.
BITTEN BY A RATTLER.
A lonng Knglloli Toniltt rtcaetvc III
Bab.Blu in Florida. ,
Edward Bosunquet.onof a weal thy banker,
of London, England, was bitten by a rattle-'1
MtnUe, near Dnytona, while Tiunting, and is
beyond hope of- recovery.' The snake struek
him on the inside of his left leg, above the
ankle
. Evelyn Walker, his companion, carried
hinion his Mmulder to Daytona, meanwhile,
IntlcHvoDiJg to suck the poison iiom the j
wound.. i
It nppears ihnt Mr. Walker had a sore on I
hi lip and nlorhcd some of the poison. H"
became pa-ually mralyred, but later he wai
2onsi4rt'-i out of dinger.
Overwhelmed by Water in a Coal Mine
at Jeanesville, Pa.
A Hole Drilled Into u Overhead Mope
"Which Hart Been Abandoned and
Flooded Five Years Ago.
4 A Dispatch lrom Hazleton', Pn., says:
Eighteen men entombed in watery graves
marks the result of the mosit awful mine hor
ror that has ever occurred in this region.
Jeanesville, the ; pretty litttle mining village
of J. C, Haydon & Co., two miles across the
mountains from" Hazleton, is the scene of the
disaster. ' v ,. , . , ,'.
At 11 o'clock,' while Charles Boyle and
Patrick Col of Leviston, were- engaged in
drilling a hole in their chamber in the lower
lift of No. 1 slope of J. C. Haydon & Co., at
Jeane-ville.they broke into the old No. 8 slope
that has been idle lor five years and bad been
flooded to thejnouth with water. Win. Brislin,
a driver, was driving at the bottom of the
slope when he felt the wind coining and cried
out, "Boys, run for your lives or we will all
be drowned."
In a mnment the force of water' came, and
Brislin barely escaped with bis life. Besides
him six others were saved. ,
The water rose rapidly, and before any at
temptrconkl be made to rescue the rest of the
workmen, flowed in, and in five minutes' time
the s ope, which is 62 i feet deep, was filled to
the mouth, and eighteen men had perished.
The news ofthe disaster created the wildest
excitement, and the mouth of the slope was
soon thronged with people frantic in their
efforts to obtain information ot the inmates
ot the mines. When all the men who escaped
reached the surface and it was known who"
the lost were, the excitement increased, and
in less than half au hour hundreds of men,
women and children gathered aronnd the
slope, and the terrible scenes of anguish that
ensued cannot be depicted. Wives imploring
piteously of the miners standing by, who only
knew too well the fatal result, to save their
husbands from the terrors of a watery grave.
Little children crying for their papa who
would never return; relatives, and friends
ringing their hands in sorrow and distress and
appealing to a merciful Providence.
The weather, which was bitter cold, did not
have any efiect toward diminishing the-trowd,
and Messrs. J. C. Haydon & Co. soon had a
large force of men at work, under Master
Mechnnis Rude, placing pumps in position.
One was got in working order in a very short
time, and black and sulphurous water was
being forced from the mouths of tne hugb
column pipes at the entrance ot the slope. A
large duplex Cameron pump was also in
working order by 7 o'clockf, and every miuute
takes 1,500 gallons from the slope where the
men are entombed. The firm of Haydon &
Co. -will pump the water out as rapidly as
machinery placed in position can do the work.
How long it will take is a question, since no
definite idea of the volume of water can be
ascertained. Some ot the miners say it will
take four weeks before the bodies can be
readied, others say twice as long, since all the
water tnat had collected in the abandoned
No, 8 slope wiU;run into this lift of No. 1 slope,
and will, ot course, have to be pumped out.
Mr. Brislin, one of the escaped miners at
the bottom of the slope, said: "J was waiting
at the bottom of the slope for a trip to come
out. Suddenly I heard a loud noise, and J
thought it was tiie trip coming out Then a
frightful blast of wind came and knocked me
down the gangway. . I cried out to James
Griffith. Then the wind blew his iigtitout
as suddenly as it did mine. I tried to run tor
the siope, but stumbled and tell. Then John
Boyle aud John Neems came running out.
Neems's Jamj was 'burning, and through the.
aid of Neeuife's light we got to the slope. The
water came pouring after ua as we ran. We
got to the slope and :theu the light went out..
We clambered up as fast as we could, and the
water came rushing alter us, rising very
quickly. In five minutes the water raised
08 yards to the mouth ot the slope, the pitch
of which is 83 "
The civil engineer in charge of the Jeanes
ville mine was a man irom Pottsville, La
Fevre Wotnelsdorf. Many theories are ad
vanced ps to the cause of the disaster. Some
charge it to neglect to notify the workmen of
the dangerons proximity of the water. The
slope in question where the accident occurred
U a new one, which was sunk from the bottom
.of a workod-out slope. The latter has been
flooded for at least sixteen months, and only a
few of the old miners knew ot the presence of
the great body of water, and many a time had
the remark been made that if the lower gang
way workings were driven up too near a
dreadtul accident would be the result. None
of the workmen had any idea that the work
ings were driven as near, to the water as they
were.
Imprisoned in a Flooded Mine.
WhKesbarre, Pa. A cave-in occurred
at 8 o'clock A. Al., in No. 3 s tope at Graud
Tunnel, opposite the river from Nauticoke.
Three men are shut in, and as the place is
filled with water1 it is supposed they are
drowned. They are Polanueia and names
thus far unknown. .
NINE CHILDREN CREMATED. ;
Awful Remit ofthe Earning of a Moscow
Orphan Asylum.
A terrible fire occurred inan orphan asylum
in Moscow.
The building was burned to the ground, and
most horrible scenes were witnessed ar the
youthful inmates were being rescued.
As it was nine children were' burned to
death, and a number of others were to se
riously injured that their lives are despaired
of.
- : . MARKETS. '
Baltisiob H! FlourCity Mills, extra. $5.00
$5.4J Wheat Southern Fultz,1.001.02.
Corn Southern Whiter, 686ie., Yellow,
j8fo,60c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
jj8Si51ie. Rye--Maryland and Pennsylvania
8182c. Hay. -Maryland and Pennsylvania
10.2o$10.75. Straw Wheat, 7,0U$S.W).
Butter Eastern Creamery, 2829c., near-by
receipt ,1920c. ' Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, 101Uc, Western, 89ic .Eggs 25
(S2Go. Tobaceo.Leaf Inferior, lSl-60, Good
Common, 4$5.00, Middling, 6$8.00, Good
to fine red, 9$ll.0rt. Fancy I2iil3.00. .
New York Flour Southern Good to
choice extra, 4.25$5.85. Wheat No. 1 White
t04I05. Rye-State 5860c Corn South
ern Yellow, 60ifi0Jc. Oats White, State
62J524e. Butter State, 2526c Cheese
State, 79Io. Eggs 2828ic. .
Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.25$4.50. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, .01J1.02, Rye-Pennsylvania,
5657cv- Corn Southern Yellow, 60
6(ic. Oat 60a60Jc. Butter State, 27 28c.
Cheese New or k Factory, 1010Jc Eggs
State, 2728a '
CATTLE.
Baltimore Beef 4.50fa$l 75. Sheep
S.50f4$-1.7fl. ffoflfs-w&50fi$$,l75.
New YOBg Beef ti.i!0ffi;.?7.00. Sheep
4.00$.3.6U, Hogs 3.40 $ 1 .( X i.
EASTLiatETV Beef 4.10f.;, s-i.70. Sheep
FIFTY-FIRST C0NGRES3
' Senate.
48rn DAY. There was a feeling of pro.
found sadnes in the Senate this morning
when the Senators, already apprised ofthe
death of their old-time colleague, met at the
usual hour. In the opening prayer' the sud
den death of the secretary was referred to by
the chaplain. The journal of yesterday was
then read, and as soon as the reading was
ended Mr. Morrill rose and, in a voice tremu
lous with emotion, said: "In consequence of
the recent calamity which has visited ns in
the! sudden decease of a former eminent
member of this body and a distinguished
officer of the government, the Secretary of the
Treasury, I move that the Senate do now ad
journ." The motion was agreed to, and the
Senate adjourned till to-morrow. .
49th Day. The House resolution for the
appointment of a committee of nine to attend
the funeral of Secretary Windom was laid be
fore the Senate, and Ai r. Morrill offered a reso
lution for the appointment of a committee of
seven Senators to join the House committee
in attending the funeral, and to take such
action as may be appropriate in honor of the
memory of the deceased, and to manifest the
respect and appreciation of Congress for his
public services. The resolution was agreed
to, and Messrs. Morrill, Washburn, Sherman,
Allison, Harris, Payne and Gorman were ap
pointed. The army appropriation bill was
then taken up and after some discussion was
passed. A number of. bills of minor import
ance were then disposed of, and at 443 the
Senate adjourned. " v
; 50th Day. The Senate began the consid
eration of the fortification appropriation bill
this afternoon. An amendment to reduce the
apprftpriation for gun and mortar batteries
for the defense "of the harbors of Boston, New
York,, San Francisco, Hampton Roads and
Washington from $1,000,000 toK750,000 gave
rise toa lengthy discussion. Mr. Dawes stated
the reason why the reduction of the appro
priation had been recommended. It was that
there was an unexpended balance an hand tor
the same works of $1,221,000 which, with the
aum recommended, would make within $4,000
of $2,000,000 to.be expended. - The amend
ment was agreed to. Without making any
iurther progress wit h the bill the Senate went
into executive seasion and at 5.30 adjourned
until to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock.
51ST Day. House bill to amend Section
180 of the Revised' Statutes (in reference to
temporary designations to fill vacancies in
case of the death, sickness or absence of heads
of departments) was reported back with a
substitute. The substitute amends three sec
tions of the Revised Statutes on that subject,
and limits to 30 days the period of such desig
nation, except where the duties are exer?ised
by the assistant seoretary,in which case there
is no limitation. After some discussion the
substitute was rejected and the House bill
passed; The consideration of the fortification
bill was restarted, and the debate on that
measure consumed the remainder of the
afternoon. Final action was not taken.
v 52d Day. The consideration of the fortifi
cation bill was resumed, and after a number
of-amendments had been considered the bill
was passed. The Senate then proceeded to
the consideration ofthe Military Academy
bill. There, was but one amendment (and
that one to the araonnt of $5,000) offered to
the bi 1. It was agreed to, and the bill passed,
the only delay being the timeconsnmed in its
reading. The pension appropriation bill was
then taken up and wentover as the unfinished
business. The Senate then proceeded to ex
ecutive business, and at 5 o'clock adjourned.
53i Day. The pension appropriation bill
was taken up. It appropriates for pension!
for the year, $133,173,085; foT fees ana expen
ses of examining surgeons, $1,500,000; for sal
aries of 18 pension agents, $72,000, and for
clerk hire, $300,000. All the committee amend
ments having been agreed to, the bill was
passed Mr. Stewart not offering the amend
ment of which he had given notice to insert
the free coinage bill as part ot the pension ap
propriation bill. The Senate tben. ou motion
of Mr. Blair, took up the House bill to pro
vide for the adjustment of accounts of labor
ers, workmen and .mechanics arisiug undet
the eight-hour law. Mr. Morrell said that the
bill was too important a measure to be con
sidered and disposed of in the mere selvage of
a day. He desired to address the Senate upon
it to-morrow morning, and he asked that the
bill be laid aside informally. It was so or
dered. After passing a number of bills of
minor importance the Senate at 6.15 ad
journed. ,
lionise
46TH DaY. The chaplain of the House also
referred to the death of the secretary in a
touching manner. On motion of Mr.MeKiu
ley, of Ohio, appropriate resolutions were 1 hen
adopted, and as an additional marl; of re
spect the House adjourned. The Speaker ap
pointed the following committee to attend the
funeral: Messrs. McKinley, MiU, Dunne,
Holman, O'Neil of Pennsylvania, Forney,
Vandever, Blount and Snider.
47th Day. In the Houmj to-day the Mili
tary Academy appropriation bill was. passed .
withoutfurther opposition. The Houoe then
went into committee of the whole oh the dip-,
loinatic and consular appropriation bill. io
action was taken, and after wm discussion
tiie committee rose. On motion of Mr. Mc
Kinley it was ordered that the House shall
meet at 2 o'clock on Monday in-order to en
able members to attend the f uneral of the late
Secretary Windom. Public business being
suspended the House proceeded to pay tribute
to the memory ofthe late Lewis atson, of
Pennsylvania. After eulogistic addresses by
'Messrs. O'Neil and Stone of Pennsylvania.
s Holman, Boutelle, Herbert Payson, Mutchler,
riair, MCAfloo, L.acey,tirosuis, liay ena Aiaisn,
the House, aa a further mark ot respect to the
memory of the deceased, adjourned.
48th Day. The chaplain, in his prayer,
made a feeling allusion to the bereaved family
of the late Secretary Windom. The message
lrom Ihe President relative to the succession
in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury
was read and retcrred to the Committee on
Ways and Means. ' Senate bill was passati, on
Eiotion of Mr. Edmunds, of Virginia, for the
erection ol a public building at Roanoke, Va.,
with an amendment limiting the cost to $75,
00O. Mr. J. A. Ownbey then appeared and
annouueed that he was ready to testify in the
silver pool in vestigation. He was remanded
fo the custody of thesergearit-at-arrastoawit
the further order of the House. Adjourned.
49th Day. After the approval of the jour
nal the House proceeded to dispose of various
matters of private business on the Speaker's
table, referring the measures to appropriate
committees or sending them to conference.
Later in the day the House went into com-"
roitteeof the whole Mr. Payson, of Illinois,
in the chair on the diplomatic and conuSar
appropriation bill. During the debate a long
discussion arose on the Barundia case. No
action was taken. . .
' 50th PAY. The House concluded the con
sideration ot and passed the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill aud then ad
journed. , '
618T DAY. The Hue decided to day that
for the remainder ofthe session it would in: et
at H A. M. The sundry civil appropriation
bill was taken up hy the committee ot t he
whole. The consideration was smoothed'
ing until the Worlds Fair paragraph haviiisr ,
been reached, it was agreed (owing to the late,
new of the hour) that its debate should he.
wtpoued until io-monow. Mr. Bland, of
Mi iuri, offered rv silver free coinace anie:i'
im-i;t ti)t!ic pnrajM 'iiph providing for, the
coinageof gold and silver coins. Mr.Dlngiey
of Maine raised a point of order agaiust ttie
amendment, and the debate which followed
was entirely technical in its character. Pen 1
ing a decision the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
rARMERS' ALLIANCE COUNCIL.
I'he Presidents. Urging the Free Silver
and Sub-Treasury Bills.
The presidents of the State organizations of
the National Farmers' Alliance met in Wash
ington, the purpose being to formulate certain
measures to be presented to Congress and to
map out some feasible plan for disseminating
the literature of the council for educational
purposes.
The meeting was called to order atlQo'cleoV
with President Polk in the chair, representa
tives of the following States being present:
Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas and
Pennsylvania. The omy business transacted
was the appointment of a committee on silver
legislation.
At the evening session the committee on
iilver legislation submitted the following re.
port:
Retained-, That we. regard it as a high duty
enjoined upon Congress by the constitution
to provide for the unlimited coinage of both
the precions metals, gold and silver, to the
end that the people of the several States may
ue provided with a circulating medium. We
express our surprise, regret and indignation
that this duty has been so long delayed and
neglected, contrary as we believe, not only to
the duty we have mentioned, but to the best
interests of the masses of the people who are
Hiifi'erings the pangs ot poverty and stagnation
of business caused by a want of sufficient cir
culating medium. We believe aud charge
that such delay and neglect has been occa
sioned by an undue influence in our govern
mental policies by those whose interests it is
to contract the currency and subserve monop
olies and money lenders. We, theretore, urge
upon Congress, the demand heretofore made
by the National Farmers' Alliance and In
dustrial Union for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver upon the same terms and
conditions that gold is now coined. We ex
press our earnest condemnation of the exer
cise ofthe arbitrary power which prevented
a fair consideration of a free coinage bill at
the last session of Congress, and, in this con
nection we give expression of the hope that
the free coinage bill which passed the Senate
during the present session and is now being
considered in the icommittee on coinage,
weights and measures of the House, shall not
be suppressed, but shall be speedily reported
back to the House and enacted into a law.
With proper respect and deference to our
Representatives on the committee in the
House, we say that any efTorts to unduly de
lay a report on that bill so as to prevent
action thereon by the House in the few re
maining days of this Congress will merit
and will receive still further condemnation
by the farmers and laborers of this country.
We have waited many years for the simple
justice of having both. the precious metals
restored to free coinage, and hereby declare
our determination' to press the fight on this
line until this relief is accorded to the labor
ing and producing masses of our nation, and
to hold responsible the men, irrespective of
party, who obstructin any way the legislative
enactment of this just measure so strongly
demanded by the laboring classes of all patf
ties. . .
The report is signed by J. H.vMeDonaldj
nVlU1tmon Ttxlt narcno TT h2 T-T a 1 1 4f a ar I a 11 ft
Frank McGrath, Kansas, T. S. AdairtsLouJs
iana, Maun Page, Virginia, and W. SrMc
A lister, Mississippi. 1
DEATH OF CHARLES BRADLADGH.
Tiie Celebrated Free-Thinker and Rad
ical Passes Away.
A cable despatch from London, Eng., saysi
Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, member of Parlia
ment for Northampton, who has been critically
ill for some time past, has just died.
Mr. Bradlaugh was born September 26,
1833. Owing to the extreme poverty of his
parents he ceased attending school before h
was eleven years old. He developed an early
taste for politics, for at the age of fifteen he
appeared as an orator before street audience')
during the political turmoils of 1847-8. Ii:
1858-9 he gained considerable, notoriety by
editing a journal called The Investigator,
which was soon suspended for want of capital,
and in which he published bis radical opin
ions on religion and other subjects. He was
now well known under tbe appropriate nam
of "Iconoclast," which he signed to all hit
writings. A year later he established "The
National Reformer," which met with success
and increased his reputation as a writer and
debater.
In 1868 he was a candidate for Parliament
in Northampton, and has been prominent in
pubiio and political life ever since. Mr.
Bradlau gh's republicanism was of an ad vanced
type, and .lie was in favor of the establish
ment of a commonwealth after the American
model.
Mr. Bradlaugh end was quiet and peace
ful. He was insensible when he died, and
seemed to sufler no pain. The immediate
cause of his death was uremia. The funeral
will (ake place on Tuesday. There will be
no funeral procession, no show of mourning
and no religious service.
A FIGHT IN A STATE HOUSE.
The Treasurer of Georgia Smote the
Ntate Geologist.
The office of Georgia's State Treasurer in
the Capitol building was the scene of a pugil
istic encounter between Treasurer Hardeman
and State Geologist Spencer. . The latter had
called upou the Treasurer on official business
Hardeman accused Spencer of gruffness in
tpeech.- "
"It is a falsehood, sir!" ejaculated Spencer.
Scarcely .had the sentence been completed
when a stunning blow from the arm ofthe
Treasurer sent the Geologist spinning across
the room. Tbe second round was a grapple.
By this time other State officers had rushed
in, to whom Spencer shouted: "Wbydon'tyou
part Us?''
Spencer had a meeting later with a young
son of Treasurer Hardeman, but friends again
intervened. There has been friction between
these officers for a long time overborne matter
of punctilio.
. KILLED NEAR HIS BRIDE.
A Most Cowardly and Brutal Murder
Committed In Kentucky.
George Best while returning from Ilarrads
bur to Cardwell in a buggy with his young
bride overtook a friend who was unable to
manage his spirited horse.
Best got into the dog cart with the man and
left his wife to drive his bucgy.
Soon alter three Holliday brothers rode up
and deliberately shot and killed Best in tbe
presence ot bis bride.
Bet's brothers are in pursuit of the mur
derers. It is supposed the cause of the kiMing
was a dispute thtu occurred a yciir so.
TRADE OF THE WEEK;
A Noticeable Expansion of Trad
Everywhere Reported.
,JIaker of Dress Gooda Busy and Btaplei
' in Fair DemandThe Wheat Mr
: ' Wet Active Boaluras Failure. . .
Special telegrams to Bradstreel't point oni
only a few instances where general trade hai
expanded noticeably during the paet week
In industrial lines makers of seasonable dross
goods at Philadelphia are running their ma
chinery at full capacity, in some instance
being reported behind on orders. Cincinnati
wholesale . clothiers have distributed lart
Etocks, aud look confidently ahead to a profit
able season.
1 Jobbers in boots and shoes, hats and caps
dry goods and rubber goodsatlcndingintenoi
jciiies, Chicago, Omaha, and St. Louis, report
those stanles in a fair demand, with rathei
Jess activity in groceries, drugs and hardware.
flice is taken readily at advancing prices at
ne South. Delays by Louisiana planters in
making contracts with factors lias checked
general trade somewhat in New Orleans.
, Ttie decline in the Winter wheat states de
mand for gene al merchandise hnsstimulated
wholesale houses to extend their territory,
jUinatia particularly having ielt tne neeu.
Coider weather through the West has stiinu. -
lateit general trade s.me. Southern buyers ,
ot dry goods appear backward. Cotton goodii
prices are firm, except as to prit.tcl'jtli,which ;
are weak. i
The Winter's trade in woolen's lacks snap.
Wool is in only fair demand, with steady
prices. Cotton is less active and 1-lGo. lower
on increasing pressure of supplies. ,
BUSINESS FAILURES. ,
Busineos failures reported to Bradstreet't
number 271 in the United States this week
against 357 last week and 286 this week last
year. The total January 1st to date is 1531
against 1C2S last year.
Bank clearings at fifty-five cities in the
United States for the week are $!)9 1,028,003, a
decrease from this week lust year of 1&7 pr
cent., pointing in part to the effect on trade ol
the storm which wrecked the telegraph ser
vice at Eastern cities. New York city's clear
ings, which constitute 58.3 per cent, of the
grand total, are 20.8 per cent, iess thau those
for the same period last year, while at filly
lour other cities the gain is 2 per cent.
The stock market has been improved !a
tone and temper by decreasing prospecta of
disturbing financial or other legislation. The
money markets generally throughout Ihe
country are exceptionally easy.
THE WHEAT MAB&ET. .
Wheat opened by inclining to strength on
reported short export surplus, after which it
weakened. Renewed strength was lent by
the 1,000,000 available supply decrease. But
later, the market having been oversold and
exports increasing, prices turned sharply up
ward and trading became quite active. The
gain on the week is fully 4 cents per bushel,
while Indian corn, on reduced request,, fell
away 1 cents and oates i cent per bushel.
The decrease in available stocks, United
States and Canada, both coasts, was 1,435,000
bushels against 1,575,000 bushels last week,
and 1,025,000 bushels in the like week of 1S0D.
Exports of wheat and tiour from both coasts,
including Montreal, reported to Bradstreet's,
equal 2,093,143 bushels, against 2,205,000 bush
els last week, and 1,613,854 bushels in the like
weelif last year. Total exports, both coasts,
July lbt to date, equal 58,730,773 bushels,
airainst C2,52G,722 busnels in 1888-89, and 83,
416,885 bushels in 1887-88.
Our own estimates, added to Beerbohm's
tota s, furnish a total of 350,008,000 btisheU
available on January 1st, 1691, in Australia,
Europe, and afloat tor Europe m the United
IStatea, aud in farmers' hands in the United
States and United Kiugdom, as compared
with 410,856,000 busnels January 1st, 1890,
40S,'880,000 bushels 1880, and 399,256,000 bush
els January 1st, 1888.
HEAVY ANNUAL EXTORTS.
The value of the foreign trade of the United
State in 1890, was the heavhst onlrecord, tha
exports exceeding eveu those of 1SS1. Gains
over 1889 and 1881, respectiely, were 3.7 and
3 per cent. The value of imports was also
the heaviest year by 7 per cent. Larger ex
ports of breadstuff and provisions offset
smaller cotton and petroleum shipments, the
combined exports ot these four great staplei
exceeding tboss of 1889 by more than 6 pei
ceuu -
STARVATION IN KANSAS.
Families laving on sixty Cent a Week
Chop np Fnrulture for Fuel.
A heavy 6now storm has been raging in
Northwestern Kansas for nearly three days,
and the reports which are coming in irom
those counties where most of the residents of
the unproductive farms are destitute, are har
rowing in the extreme.
In Decatur county the Commissioners have
given the suffering families orders on stores
for provisions to the amount ot CJ cents per
week. This rule has been followed in several
other counties where merchants would take
county orders. This small sum is all that the
people have had to keep themselves from
starvation. They are suffering from intense
cold, and many of them have been compelled
to chop np their furniture tor fuel.
Governor Humphrey hascaued all surplus
coal at the Penitentiary Miues at Leaven
worth to I e shipped to the needy counties for
distribution. The need for relief is more
pressing than ever, and unless fo.nl, clothing
and fuel is sent there in large quantities,
many deaths may result.
BAPTIZED IN HER OWN COFFIN-
A Singular Cat of Resuacltatlon at
Yellow Spring, Ohio.
A singular case of resuscitation occurred at
Yellow Springs. .
A consumptive, Mrs. George Tyree,' died
to all appearances, at least and an under
taker was summoned. Before he arrived
however, Mrs. Tyree revived and said she'
had come back to be baptized. '
So plaintive were her appeals that her wish
he granted that the attendants sent for the
Rev. W A. Gross. He at first refused to per
ioral the ceremony, bat finally consented and
withtheaidof Mr. Tyree immersed the woman
in the metallic coffin whichihad been prepared
for ber burial.
Mrs. Tyree began to '"grow stronger at once
and is much improved and on a lair road to
recovery. ? , - .j . . . j -, .
Lord Tavistock, the successor tothetitlcs
and esiat.es of the late Duke of Bedford, is
a d to be excessively pnrse-prond. As he
has an income of Sl.SOO.usW a year, it can't be
S denied lie ba o good deal to be proud of.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
IXTEMKSTIUXi NEWS COMnXKI
FROJI.MASY SOUIICES, ,
Thero w'ere bnlydeaths and 438 births in
Braxton Coiinty, W.a-i J" yr Jn PPU'
lation .oi4,000. : ,
The" Odd-Fellows of Richmond, Va., will
erect a raoniimeiit'to the late Judga E. 11
Fitzhugb, who held a high position in the
order. . i. '
There has Hot been a wagon to or from
Dunmore, Pocahontas county, Va., since the
15th of .December, an account of, the depth oi
the snow. "
A few days rgo Rev, J. W. Stiff, pastor of
the Methodist Church at Chesterfield Court
House, Va., shot and killed a deer while rid
ing in a jumper. '
Dr.W. J. Head was shot and killed at
Aodalusta, Ala., by Dr. Cicero Jones.
surrendered. The shooting was the result or
a business quarrel. '
The new road from Germantown, Md..
three-fourths of a mile east of Pen-Mar, to
Buena Vista, Va., is under way, and Blue
Ridge Summit is to have a $3,000 station next
spring. , ,
A mail carrier, named Hinchman was
snow-bound in the mountains of Randolph
coanty, W. Va., in a li'tle hut. for nearly
three weeks. He was finally dug out by a
rescuing party." . s .
A 'benevolent citizen of Norfolk, Va:, who
refused to allow his name to be made public,
has donated 30,000 to the Boys Home, which
will be spent in erecting a handsome ana
modern building.-' , .
A lump of .pure, gold weighing eleven
ounces without any gravel or dirt about it
was found at the if earne and Hathcock mine,
near Albemarle, N. C It was found only a -few
feet below the surface.
Captain D.M. Moreeock, of Halifax county, .
N.C, was killed by a, railroad train near
Effingham, S, C. ' Heiwas a conductor on
the Wilmington, Columbia and Augasta rail
road. He is supposed to have fallen from
his train. ..
Ihe shipments of manufactured tobacco
from Danville, Va., last week were 183,003
pounds. The shipments for the nerth were
1 fl5iT vt) vtsiti
ttie week were -very large, and prices remain
very firm without material change. ;
The contract 'for rebuilding the mill of the
Cumberland (Md.) Cement and Manufactur
ing Company was given out last week, and
the work will be begun at once. The new
mill will bo built upon a larger scale and
suppliedwith improved machinery and greater
capacity. . '
Benjamin Pattersonwho died in the Hart
count) (Git.) Poor House, was a blood relative
of Betsy Patterson, the wife ot Jerome Bona
parte. He was 79 years old and had the dis
tinction of being the tallest man in Georgia,'
being seven feet high. A special coffin had to
be made lor him. . '
A steam boiler at Thomas M. Nunn &
Bro.'s saw mill, near Mont Bethel Church,
Holland, the engineer, and Robert S. Morris,
a prominent farmer. John Nunn was dan
gerously wounded. and Thomas M. Nunn and ,
three other men were injured. .
In a drunken finht at Cascade, Pittsylvania
c-iunty, Va.,Tom Matthews rushed on Harden
Eanes with a long knife and cut him across
the face and abdomen. Lee Eanes then drew
a pi-tol and shot Matthews in the arm and
abdomen. Matthews and Harden Eanes are
both desperately wounded and the latest in
formation from them is that both will probably
die.
A chartcf was issued' to the Pennsboro and
Auburn Railroad to run from Pennsboro, W.
Va , to the Gilmor , county coal fields, a
distanco of 60 miles. Work will begin at
once. The road is a link in the proposed
Black Diamond system of railroads, to ex
tend from Cincinnati to the Atlantic seaboard
via Central West Virginia. , -
A team of six horses, drawing' an empty
wood-waon, while about to descend a steep
hill on the side of Cntoetio Mountain, Md.,
near "High Knob," became frightened at
something aud ran away, dashing down the
Mccp grade at a fearful, rate, several teams
making narrow escapes. from collision.' One
ot the borscs fell down and the wagon passed
over it, injuring it go badly that it died the
next day. The noise made by the wagon and
horses was so great as to be heard by persons
over a mile away. 1 ' ,
One of the most sensational cases in the
criminal annals of West Virginia has just
come to an end in Whe'eling. " About four
mouths ago the City of 'Huntington, Ironton
and other points, ca. the Ohio River were
flooded with bogus sAvey coin.; Detectives
were put to work, and ''"tonally arrested Mrs.
Gertrude Russell, the, wife of a prominent
ciiiien of Athens coun!y,,Ohlo. Mrs. Rusel J
was tried and convicted; lut obtained a new
trial. Recently she .Wearac insane from
brooding over her troubles. - .
The last three months, have secnaremark
nble revolution in manufactures in the Ohio
valley, more than iour-fifths of the immense
plunts located in Wheeling, Bellaire, Martin's
ferry and between Wheeling and Steuben
villo, Ohio, having been compelled to aban
don the use of natural gas- on-account of its
scarcity, and return .o coal. It is estimated
that employment will lie given to 3,000 men
in mining aud transport! ngx-on.1 by tbechange,
wbieh atlccts plant employing 15,000 hands.
Nearly $3,000,000 invested in giS plants are a
complete loss. ' ' ' ,
At a meeting of the nnte cenitnUee on
military affairs held in Raleigh, N. C,it was
unanimously decided to report favorably on
the bill incorporating the confederate soldiers'
home located at Raleigh; give it six acres
of state property known as camp Russell, and
to make an annual appropriation. The com
mittee was officially. in furmed in behalf of
the veterans' asoeiatieDi that not only -would
it take charge ot the maintenance of the
home, but would make iuch-an appeal to tbe
fcopio as will secure an endowment lor it.
t is "further the 'special purpose of tbe as
Bociafimi to extend aid' to ef cry needy soldier
who has a family.
-The supposed suicido of 4l-year-old Mary
Dolan at the home of her foster-father, John
Morau.in the northwest so barbs of Nashville,
Tennessee, has developed into a case ef mur
der It was claimed at first that the girl had
taken strychnine and had fractured her skull
by falling, and excitement has tun high, as
the coroner's jury developed new facta. The
jury rendered a verdict of murder at tha
hands of John Moran, The latter -returned
bomeentheeveningof tbecrime inadrunkt u
condition and becoming enraged at the sup
per which had been left for him, be struck
the unfortunate grl with a hatchet in the
forehead, causing alniont instant death. Mora 11
ua a Mrs. rnuiips, wno is accuseu 01 wii
an accessory to the crime, are in jail,
THE late George Bancroft was a good r.n
of huRiness, in which respect he was uchke
nine literary men of the ten. Though he whs
!;ever ecouonicat iu his living expeies, he
ktt a very snug fortune. As an illustration
ofthe enthusiasm of his old aye, it is related
that he took up the study of Shakepeire
when 87, and prosecuted his new pursuit wr.h
ail the urdor of youth.
GOVERNOR RrssELL, of Massch".,-"",!.
rides on horseback to and from ttie "
Jlouie every day.-