THE TIMES-VISITOR
i NUMBER 8662.
RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY EVENIYtf, AUGUST 30, 1898
25 CENTS A MONTH
HARMING CONDITION
Pent Trains Carrying Oar
Sick Men.
?RIENDS ARE ANXIOUS
Edict Issued bv f hlnese Emperor to
Protect Missionaries -2,000 Sick in
Porto Kiooslck from Chlca
oaaga Taken to l-hlladclpbia
By Telegraph to Tha Times-Visitor.
NEW YORK, August 30. Much com
cern Is manifested In the welfare of the
Eighth New York which Is reported
coming home In a most pitiable condi-
tion.
The train with the troops will proba
bly arrive about one-thirty. Telegraph
reports say the condition of the men is
terrible and It is greatly alarming to
their friends and relatives. Arrange
ments were hastily made this morning
(or their reception. Hospital arrange
ments have been made for one hundred
.thirty men and ambulances and other
conveyances will be on hand that every
possible attention may be given to the
troops.
VERITABLE PEST TRAIN.
By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor.
UTICA, August 30. The Eighth New
York arrived here at nine o'clock this
morning. The men are suffering in
tensely. Forty were too sick to leave
their birth. Some are at the point of
death. Cries of delirium were plainly
heard as the train passed. It is a ver
itable pest train. There is only one
physician In charge of the huudred and
thlrty-slx men, who have been refused
outside assltance.
SICK IN PORTO RICO.
By Cable to The Times-Visitor.
PHILADELPHIA, August 30.-The
yacht May, arrived todav from Porto
Blco bringing report of the interna
tional relief commission. She reports
that out of sixteen thousand troops on
the laland over two thousand are now
lck with various diseases, also a large
number of cases of typhoid fever. They
bo say that better accommodations
for the troops are needed at once to
prevent great loss of life.
CONDITION AT MONTAUK.
By Cable to The Times-Visitor.
MONTAUK, August 30 Conditions
Are rapidly Improving and there is
much less suffering among the troops
here, but it has been suggested that
the regulars receive more care. The
troop ship Hudson arrived this morning
with six hundred of the first District
of Columbia volunteers aboard.
THE CREW SAVF.
By Cable to the Times-Visitor.
CHARLEVOIX, August 60. The
crew of the steamer Superior were res
cued from Beaver Island by the steam
tr City of Charlevoix today. The Su
perior sunk off Gull Island three days
Ago and the crew took to boats and
safelv reached Beaver Island where
they remained for fortv-eight hours
without food or shelter until discovered
jy the City of Charlevoix and brought
aere.
THE WAR IN EGYPT.
By Cable to the Tlmea-Vlsltor.
CAIRO, August 30. A brigade of
friendly Arabs under Major Stuart
Wortley, which has been pushing
round Ohundram with a view of cut
tins; off the retreat of the forces of the
, Khallfra had its first brush with the
enemy on the bank of the Nile captur-,
Ing five men and a boat laden with
grain. Dervish scouts are now fre
quently sighted. The ' whole Anglo
Egyptian army has reached Umtarlf,
thirty- miles from Omdurman, and will
move the camp ten miles nearer to
. day. The gunboat Mellk has been
wrecked on the river during a terrific
and storm.
? "MAY WE BE GREAT. "
'"By Cabie to the Times-Visitor.
y THE HAGUE, August 30. The Queen
,t Hclh nd la a proclamation Just is
ted uDiin the occasion of the end of
;er regency, her daughter Wllhelmlna
coming of age today, expressed pleas
ure at seeing, the whole nation ranged
;s Joyously around the throne of the new
. Queen and thanks the people for their
loyalty and loving support Conclud-
k bag, she says: "May' our country be-
ooroe treat in everything In which a
ewnall nation can be great"
l v . W0,000 LOSS BY FIRE.
''By Telegraph to Tha Times-Visitor.
JMABBTVTLLE, ' Aug, 10. Several fur-
ntture and harware stores In Bank Al-
fey ana College street "Were destroyed
tT fire this morning. The loss Is estl
l coated at half million.
HOSPITAL SHIP AT BOSTON.
! Bt Teeeavw to 1 Tisnes-Visitor.
I BOSTON, August SO. The hospital
hip Eav State arrived this morning
i-Wltfejaje hundred sick from Santiago. .
FED THE SOLDIERS
Second NCt Volunteers fr,
Oirce .EWive Sqnare Meal
, A Brunswick, Ga., Bpecial to the At
lanta Constitution Sunday morning
says:
' The citizens of Brunswick today ten
dered a mammoth barbecue to 2,000
soldiers, and their guests- now in camp
at St. Simon's Island. This mammoth
affair was conceivd as a way in which
to show the volunteer boys how much
the people of this section appreciate
their patriotism in going into service.
The barbecue drew visitors for miles
around and was the biggest thing of
the kind ever attempted in the south.
Thirty-five cords of wood were consum
ed in barbecuing 4,000 pounds of meat,
and In addition to that the carcasses
of beeves, sheep and other animals,
there were countless chickens, hundreds
of cakes and barrels of iced lemonade
served to those who had been livini;
on hard tack and corned beef for so
many weary days since they were mus
tered in. The Third Texas companies
and the Second North Carolina regi
ment, all under .command of Colonel
Burgwyn, were the guests, and in hon
or of the day the prisoners were re
leased to feast on the bounties. The
barbecue tables covered two acres of
ground and were stupendous in every
way. One hundred and eighty ladies
served the tables as waiters and at
the conclusion the day was celebrated
by a grand ball.
There has never been a happier day
in camp than the one in which the
Texas and North Carolina boys were
the guests of the people of Glynn, and
every one who visited the camp during
the day was more than pleased at the
successful outcome of it. Colonel Bur
gwyn says it Is the best treatment they
have ever received, and he and his
men will never forget it. Major Taylor
of the Texans, says that the reports
that his boys will write home of their
treatment In Georgia and in Brunswick
especially, will read like romance.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
Mr. N. b. Broughton returned from
She.by this morning.
Prof. Will Jones of Norfolk, is spend
ing a fed days with relatives here.
Mrs. Henry Briggs Is reported sick
at her home or. West Eedenton street.
Miss Bessie Whitaker left todav to
visit friends In Eastern North Caro
lina.
Deputy Jack Shelburn left Raleigh
this morning for Eastern Carolina on
official business.
Miss Mattie F. Womble, of Norfolk,
Va., is visiting Miss Gertrude Royster
on Hargett street.
Mr. Joseph Ferrall, who has been
spending his vacation In Virginia, has
returned to the city.
Mrs. Laura A. Winston, of Morgan-
ton, is the guest of Mrs. T. H. Briggs
on West Eedenton street. i
The Isaac Pitman Shorthand Club
will meet at the home o Miss Susan
Marshall tonight at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. James H. Lassiter, Jr., of Hen
derson, Is visiting Mrs. R. C. Badger.
ing a few days with relatives here.
Dr. Hughes, of Newbern, returned
home today with his children who have
been quite ill at Millbrook.
Mr. David Allen, of Forestvllle, is
stopping with his father, Mr. J. W. Al
len, on North Dawson street.
Rev. A. M. Simms, D. D., and wife
have returned from a month's visit in
the mountains of Western North Caro
lina.
A Swain county talcum mining com
pany was Incorporated by the Secreta
ry of State today. The capital stock
Is placed at $5,000.
The lawn party to have been given
In the rear of the postofflce tonight
has been postponed on account of the
Inclemency of the weather.
All the members of the infant class
of Central M. E. church are Invited to
meet at Mr. W. M. Brown, Jr.'s.,
Wednesday afternoon at 6 o'clock for
a -Watermelon cutting.
Among the visitors In Raleigh today
is Hon. F. G. du Blgnon, of Georgia,
who is here to appear before the Rail
road Commission. Mr. du- Blgnon Is an
ex-President of the Georgia- Senate and
one of the most prominent men In his
State. ';
, Col. Thomas M. Argo left this morn
ing for Smlthfield where he will attend
Johnston county court thiB week. Col.
Argo goes as counsel for the plaintiff
Strickland In suit for damages against
the Atlantic Coast Line resulting frpm
an accident near Smlthfield la April,
1897.
Mr. R. L. Prempert representing
N. M. Url & Co., of Louisville, Ky.,
left Raleigh this evening for Havana,
where he will personally Interview
Captain General Blanco on his retire
ment from the island. Mr. Prempert
will extend an Invitation to General
Blanco to spend the winter In Raleigh
at his suburban annex to Capital Club
building; recently purchased by Mr.
Premnert for "entertainment of his
friends.
THE CITY ABLAZE
The Light Committee Have
Solved the Problem
JUST AS LIGHT AS DAY
After a Scientific Wrestle in Darkness
Light was Seen and the Brilliant
Idea of the Chairman Fcllpsea
the Hun.
It Is a pleasure to state to fne pub
lic that the chairman of the light com
mittee has Just completed an elaborate
report which will be submitted to the
Board of Aldermen Friday night. He
has been studying the subject of light
and has fully digested its many sub
divisions such as the Potential Energy
of Gravitation of Scattered Fragments
of Matter; the Kinetic Energy of Cur
rent Electricity or of an Electric Dis
charge; the Potential Energy of Chem
ical Affinity; Friction; Sudden Great
Compression of Gas, etc. The com
mute have made various experiments
with limelight, gaslight, lamplight,
candlelight, firelight, magnesium light,
fluorescence, phosphorescence fireflies,
glowworms, and incandescent radia
tion", and have concluded that all these
are geometrical optic delusions. The
committee will recommend the pur
chase of a number of non-explosive
headlights to be worn bv the police
men and a sufficient supply of hand
lanterns to u'aee four or five on the
corner of each square of the city for
citizens to use when needed. These
with the large number of moonlight
nights, the committee think will do un
til their succeessor are elected.
Mr. Chairman Correll informs us that
as soon as the Hargett Street Tramway
was completed he secured a pass from
Chairman Drewry of the Street Com
mittee and made a flying trip east,
where he succeeded In closing a con
tract with the man in the moon for the
periodical lunar light. Chairman Cor
rell also suggests it may be prudent for
our citizens to wear smoked or blue
goggles for a few nights, until they
become accustomed to such dazzling
brilliancy, else a luminous sensation
may be excited by irritation of the re
tina or of the optical nerve.
RAILROAD COMMISSION.
Session Today AVas Dull But the
Speeches Were Good.
Chairman Caldwell and Commission
ers Pearson and Abbott were in their
seats promptly at the appointed hour
for convening court this morning, and
held an unusually uninteresting session
of the Commission. No rulings or or
ders were issued during t' morning,
the entire session beine consumed by-
speeches.
The extra charges case Involving in
directly the war revenue tax was
brought up and argument was con
tinued on that subject this afternoon.
A BIG SHIPMENT.
Messrs. J. R. Ferrall & Co. showed a
Times-Visitor reporter a letjier from the
Schlltz Brewing Company, 'Of Milwau
kee, informing them of a shipment of
67 car loads of Schlltz beer to Manila.
This shipment contains 489,600 bottles,
and the 67 cars made a train of three
sections which run through from Mil
waukee to San Francisco, where It will
be loaded on the steamship Grenada
for Manila. Messrs. J. R. Ferrall & Co.
are the agents for Schlltz beer In this
city.
WEDDING TONIGHT.
At LaGrange tonight will be the
greatest social event that has occurred
In that section In many months. Miss
Lilly Rouse, one of the most popular
young women In Eastern Carolina will
be married to a prominent young man
of LaGrange. Mr. A. Dughl today ex
pressed to Miss Rouse's brother sea
sonable delicacies to be served at the
wedding supper tonight.
OPENS THURSDAY.
The Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege will resume work -on the 1st of
September (Thursday). Students de
siring to enter the Freshman class will
present themselves for examination to
morrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Many Improvements have been made
In the engineering and electrical depart
ments this summer and a chair of Bl
ology and veterinary science has been
added and a skilled specialist elected to
tarry tfeta important work. V -
CLARK OR ROLAND
Successor to Captain J W
Coop r Named
COMMISSION SIGNED
The Name of ibe Successful Applicant
"Not Given Out Hitch in Some Claims
Presented to ibe Government by
North Carolina Officials.
IV 4s a .matter of speculation among
outsiders as to the name of the suc
cessor of Captain J. W. Cooper, resign
ed, of the Second Regiment. For some
reason unknown to the public the name
has been withheld, though there Is no
doubt that the commission has been
made out and signed for twenty-four
hours.
Lieutenant Roland and Adjutant Da
vid Clark were thought to be the ones
most likeiv to receive the promotion,
and it is believed that one of tue two
was successful.
There was one dlfticulty in the way of
promotion for Adjutant Clark. By the
iaws governing trie volunteer army
there may be tnree battalion adjutant
and one regimental adjutant in each
regiment, but when either battalion
adjutant dies or is promoted the posi
tion of battalion adjutant lapses and
no successor can be named. This would
be in the way to the extent of cutting
down the number of promotions to be
made and I am informed was the chief
argument against Adjutant Clark.
Lieutenant Roland has the endorse
ment of every line officer in the regi
ment and it is not thought probable
that jjhe Governor will ignore such
strong recommendations.
Just when the name of the successor
to Captain Cooper will be named is not
known, but it is thought that by
Thursday the news will be officially
given out.
HITCH IN ACCOUNTS.
It is not officially announced but it
is known that the accounts sent to the
War Department from North Carolina
were in manv instances made out In
bad shape, and since M-r. J. C. L. Har
ris has been in Washington many ac
counts, among them the claims of the
Railroads, have been returned to the
State authorities to be placed In proper
shape. This will delay the matter of
paying the claims though it is possible
that many will be approved and paid
before these are returned. The various
claims returned are today being made
out in proper shape by the proper offi
vials. TO PROTECT MISSIONARIES.
By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor.
TACOMA, August 30. The Chinese
Emperor has issued an edict to the ef
feet that if the European and Ameri
can governments will endorse the mis
sionaries their converts in the empire
will be fully protected. He says that
in this respect the Shlnese officials have
heretofore been derelict. He issues this
edict as a final warning, declaring the
determination that there shall be no
more riots.
AX EDITOR DROWNED.
By Cable to The Times-Visitor.
ROCHESTER, August 30. Miss Fan
nie Beck and Charles C. Herrick, ed
itor-in -chief of the Law Company Op
erative Publishing Company of this
city were drowned at Windsor Beach
Lake Ontario last night while In bath
Ing.
PROGRESSIVE FIRM.
Messrs. Thomas and Campbell have
given their patrons another evidence
of their progressive spirit. They have
added another department to their
mammoth furniture establishment in
the Robbins Building on Martin street.
In this department can be found a
complete line of picture moulding,
frames and cloth for window shades
and now Messrs. Thomas and Camp
bell can supply the public with any
thing I nthis line on short notice.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS ILL.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of the
great Confederate Chieftain lies dan
gerously 111 at Narragansett Pier, R. I.,
where, with her mother, Mrs. V. Jeffer
son Davis, she has been spending the
summer. At a consultation of attend
ing physicians held on Saturday, her
illness was pronounced to be gmtrltls.
Miss Davis is deeply enshrined in the
hearts of all Southerners and prayers
for her recovery will be offered m
thousands of sympathetic hearts.
'I TELL YOU NAI"
L. F. W. Ssnda an Interest
ing Communication
Mr. Editor: I have: read the fallow
ing; tangled means of a complaint, and
your editorial remarks thereon. Let
the poor inaoeent read and learn to
enjoy a Joke rather than spew out his
renom:
To the Times-Visitor.
ad. today i a hot day, but not quite
a hot m it urn yesterday.
I think them that apoke of yesterday
being so hot ought to think what they
are saying When they speak so sinful.
But theas, as natural beast, made to be
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the
things that they understand not, and
shall utterly perish in their own cor
ruption. I tetl you. Nay; but except ye
repent, ye shall all likewise perish. But
the heaven and the earth which are
now, bz the same worda are kept in
store reserved unto fire against the day,
of judgment, and perdition of ungodly
men. Both earth and sinners wait for
tha fire of the last day. For the wage9
of sin is death.
L. F. W.
It is indeed grievous to see the dispo-
tlon that pervades mankind. There are
so many self-righteous, over-conceited
creatures who torture innocent humor
into sin. Thev are those who see
through a glass darkly. Wonder if
their sanctification permits their lily-
white conscience for a moment to dwell
upon those memorable words, "He that
s without sin among you, let him first
east a stone."
No doubt "L. F. W." is a learned
theologian, but ever, by the side of
eminent learning there is a nitch where
malice loves to sport. It is a quit
rent which the learned owe to us small
wits; it is an Indemnity for the shade
they cast upon us, and we seize upon
it by the title of amends.
I do very much respect "L. F. W."
and admire his learning and his can
dor; but when I think of the odd ex
cursions (by the D. B. and F. E. Tram
particular genius or specie of this child
of nature, I must either laugh or .lie.
But I have the consolation to think,
that after all "L. T. W." has said, no
body is a bit thewiser.
The membership of the Ananias Club
is not composed of a set who are ab
solutely pure in their own eyes, self
conceited, over-righteous, or so sanc
tified that to laugh is sinful..
But the organization is made up of
a jovial aggregation of intellectual gi
ants who have won distinction in the
community for their dazzlingly bril
liant accomplishments and capabilities
for embellishing the most improbable
or impossibel imaginations into para
graphs so neatly attired in a garb of
simplicity that he or she who reads
will appreciate, relish and enjoy the
harmless prevarication, unless the fal
lacious goody-goody, external self-
conceit, self-righteous, sour grape reli
gion they pride themselves upon repu
diates these lucious morsels of white
lies as repulsive to their sanctified
stomachs.
When "L. F. W. criticizes facts that
have been presenter by a member of
the Ananias Club he Is really in greater
danger than is a pointer dog in Dr.
Burns' Dower garden about the State
House, or an unprotected female or
child ir. the presence of an Aldermanic
Billy goat. He is leaving terra firma
and piunginghe headolng Into an ocean
of wonderful adventure, and should he
escape capture by a mermaid, he may
hang up his drooping garments as an
offering to Neptune, and never tempt
his wayward fortune more.
I would not be so sinful as to attempt
to answer "L. F. W." for I am not a
member of the Club, having been ex
pelled for once telling the truth, but
only a natural biped who does not wish
to be taken and destroyed. Nor would
I desire to make the attempt for pay,
because "L. F. W." says that would be
death. Yet, I will borrow courage from
dispair, and though I prefer being ig
norant and simple rather than to ap
pear too learned, self-conceited and
over-righteous, I can only add, that
before I lose myself in the labyrinth
through which I have attempted to
tread, that I may not die in the learned
"L. F. W.'s" debt, I shall make my
will, which is that all concerned shall
mourn for me the members of the An
anias Club to erect to my memory i
simple shaft engraved thereon, "He
could not tell a lie;" and as item two
it is my will and desire that from the
sale of my personal effects a fund be
created for the purpose of purchasing
a pair of long ears for "L. F. w.
W. Y. L.
OFF FOR COLLEGE.
The Raleigh Male Academy will toe
well represented again this year at the
various colleges of the State. In addi
tion to the students now in college from
the Raleigh Male Academy this famou
school for boys will launch the follow
ing upon the arena of college fife this
fall: Mcssi 3. Joseph Cheshire, Jr., Ivey
Lewis and Steadman Thompson to th
State University and Mr. Henry Powell
to Wake Forest.
The next session of the Raleigh Mai
Academy will open next Monday morn
ing ana parents who hare sons to eau
cate cannot do better than to pla
them in this academy under the in
structlon of Mr. Hugh Morson and his
able asaitaata. -
ABOUT THE CROPS
Just
Too Much Rain for
Good Crops
COTTON, CORN, TOBACCO
Crops Somewhat Backward and Short
and Inferior to the Crop of Last
Year Report Issued
1 oday.
The Weekly Crop Bulletin for the
week ending Mondav, August 29.1898,
says:
"The weather during the week ending
Monday, August 29th, was more favor
able for the growth of crops and for
farm work, especially throughout the
central and northern portions of the
State and west of the Blue Ridge;
but in the south the conditions were
not satisfacton . The Hist three days
were clear and very warm, the maxi
mum temperature reaching So and 95
degrees. The mean for he entire week
averaged above nurmal, the excess
amounting to as much as five degrees in
the central portion. Showers occurred
everywhere the latter half of the week.
and too much rain is still reported from
southern .counties, especially from the
southeast portion of the State. The
heavy rains on the night of the 20th
caused disastrious freshets in counties
lying bewteen the Catawba and Pee
Dee rivers, chiefly in Stanly, Cabarrus,
Mecklenburg and Union. During the
fair weather at the beginning of the
week considerable improvement oc
curred in many crops, and farmers had
opportunity to save fodder and hay
and do some fail plowing.
Cotton has improved here and there;
Is reported as fruiting well In some sec
tions. A good deal Is open on light.
sandy soil; some has been picked and
ginned and new bales have been put
on the market; but picking will not be
come general until settled weather
comes. Over the most productive cot
ton counties the crop has not im, sved;
shedding forms and bolls contiues, and
rust has increased materially.
Corn is maturing well. It has been
injured on bottom in the south portions
by freshets. Foddet pulling is under
way. but the work has been prolonged
by showers, ind while miicn has been
saved, there are many reports of loss
or damage. Tobacco hi. suffered in
some sections from wet weather, where
it is yellow or rotting in the hills (Yad
kin, Granville, Davidson). Better cures
than expected are reported from Fop
syth, Rockingham and Guilford coun
ties. Over most of the east and souf
portions of the State curing is finish
ed and the crop is on the marke.
"Turnips are doing very well, Rict
is heading nicely. Field peat verj
fine; many are ripe and ready for pick
ing. Late cabbages and toma'oes an
nearly a failure. The grape tod if
short and inferior as compareu Witt
last year. Hay making is going on
briskly where possible, but there re
mains much hay to bo cut. Fall 'ilow
ng progresses slowly."
SHOWERS TONIGHT
For Raleigh and vicinity showers- to
night; fair, warmer, Wednesday.
Although the weather continue
cloudy and threatening over the soutl
Atlantic States, the storm in the Gulf
has seemingly nearly ,'issipated. The
rainfall has bee' .ight. except local
ne(II. ---- at cotton region sta
tions, especially in North Carolina
(Goldsboro, Weldon). The cloudy
weather is confined to the States bor
dering the Gulf of Mexico and the At
lantic ocean.
Over the entire interior of the coun
try, fine, clear and warm weather con
tinues. The highest temperature waf
degrees at North Platte yesterday.
A period of warm, fair weather is pra
bable.
SICK FROM CHICAMAUGA.
By Telegraph to The Times-Visitor.
PHILADELPHIA, August 30. A hor
pital train arrived this morning wit
sick from Chickamauga. The men are
In a pitiable condition. Ambulance
were in waiting and took the troops to
the city hospitals.
Mrs. William Allen, who has been
visiting relatives in Hillsboro, has re
turned home.
A number of Baptists from Raleigh
who have been attending the Baptist
Sunday School Chatauaua at Shelby
returned yesterday and this morning.
The camera has become exceedingly
popular in Raleigh siace Mahler'B Sons
placed them before the people of this
city. To those who purchase from this
firm Mr. Louis Mahler has given free
instruction in the use of the camera
until many amateurs have almost at
tained the skill of a professional.
Lieutenant T. B. Christian came up
from Raleigh yesterday evening on the
4:43 train. He has finished his work
and will leave for Jacksonville this
evening on the 4:45 train. Lieutenant
Christian says his stay In Raleigh has
been verv pleasant but he is glad to
go back to camp and be with the boys.
Durham Herald.
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