North Carolina Newspapers

H Commercial 1'rlntttiff r. -fl Ittf 1 Ir I'ays m Uiv Letter Heads, Bill HeailM, Noto Heads, Statements, BnsinoHS Curds, Envelopes, Exeonted Neatly and Promptly. -THE TEOrLE- jj hh invitation to trado with you. g " The Lout way to invitu tbemis to ad- Rj vertiso ia - . a THE TIMES. ELKIN, N. C, THURSDAY. APRIL 9, 1896. HUBBARD & mi Pablisks- NO. 26. WALTER S, SELL, Editor. -I f: VOL. IV. i si , ,.. - . - 1 " . TBNLIYES LOST IN A FIRE A Four-Story Tenement in Brooklyn Proves a Death Trap. THE WORK OF AN INCENDIARY.1 One Man Escapes to the Roof From the Top Btory, bnt Wo Sound la Heard From Any of the Other Ten Italian. Who Slept in I That and the Third Story Thrilling , Itecltal of a Survivor. , ! Brooklyn, April 2. Fire broke out short ly before daylight yo.'forrtay morning In tho four-story tenomcnt nt No. 36 Uajon stroet, in the heart ot the S'rath Brooklyn Italian colony, and before It was Mtingulsbnl ton persons wore burned to death. The flames did tholr work swiftly nnd surely. Only seven people out of seventeen cssapod them, and all tholr effects were destroyed. The . building itself was completely gutted, even the panels ot the , doors being burned through. Following are the victims: Nlcolo Tralln, aged thirty year?; nminlclc Tralln, ngod twenty-four yearn; Lucia Tralia, aged twenty-four years; Trillin's baby, aged eight days; August Buono, ngod forty years; Maria Iluono, aged thirty-flve years; Fannie Buono, ' aged five years; Johanna liuono, aged eight een months; Lucia Calabria, aged eighteen yecrs; Cainolo Maratto, aged twenty-five years. It seomed strange that so many shonM bavo perished in so small a (Ire. The build ing was not a larga one aud the damage to it Iwill beooverod byn few thousand dollars. IA flre escape in the roar of the building of- fared a way out to tho inmate?, and tho fire men were on the scene promptly with a dozen engines. But before their eyes, and tfthe statements of several of them nreio be credited, almost without their knowledge, a holoeaust wits going- on while they were bending their energies solely to putting out the flames. One ot thein said it was fully an hour after they arrivod before they knew that a scene of death was being enacted Within the walls of the smoking brick tene ment. There were no screams of distress, no out cries of any kind. The inrnatesBimply smoth ered and were burned to death like rats in a t tran. The position of their bodies when they wore found showed that death had not come by the painless, meroifnl . processes of suffocation. They had been awakened to the realization of their predica ment and had sought in vain to avoid it. The ooaies were piled tn heaps by the rear w.-.iows, as If the panlo smitten people had sought escape there nnd had boon stricken "down. One or two were in an attitude of prayer. The impra33 of agony was shown on the limbs of all, and the devouring fire had burned every vestige of clothing from them. Only one victim, a glr1, had any covering on When the firemen reached the upper stories, and the bodies were seared almost beyoni recognition. There were two incidents of escape. John Calabria, who lived with his wife, Lucia ' Calabria, an.dhlsparon,ts-in-law,taeBuonos, on thetop floor, broke through tiie smokn and flame to the Are escape, and instead of going down it, clambered up to the top and swung himself by the gutter of the adjoining honse to safety. He wai unable to rescue his wife, and he said that she had died in his arms, while he was half oarrying her to the window. Be left behind him to their fate his fathor-in-law nnd mother-in-law and their two children. Calabria is of a small, nervous bnild, and could scarcely have sustained the weight of anyone on the narrow, perpendicular iron ladder whioh did duty as a flre escape. He said the rounds were heated red hot when ho seized them, and this mavexplaiuthe failure of the others to follow his example. Meanwhile another trilous scene was be ing enacted two flights below, where Joseph Esposito lived with his wife Maria, and four children, over the grooery and fruit store eonauctea Dy mm on the street floor. Carl Esposito, a bright lad of thirteen, told how his family escaped. "My mother does not sleep well at night," he said, "and early in the morning, while all of us were abeJ, she was awakened by a craokllng sound like a flre makes. 8he start ed up and then she saw the flame through the door outside and tho smoke ooming under the eraoks. My father was going to open the door to lead us down the stairway, bnt she said we could not get out that way. By this time we were all awake. Then my father opened the front window and we crept along tho cornice over his grocery front to the butcher shop at No. 40 Union street, which my uncle, Antonio Esposito, keeps. There we were let in at his window. We were all in our night clothes." The origin of the flre is not known. Wilat is known is that it broke out in the hall on the first floor and swept up through the stairway?, outting off at once all avenues of escape. It is a curious fact that there had been another flre of the same kind half a blook down on the other side of the street, and that the engines had only left the scene half an hour before they were rocaJiod to the second flre. , THE PUBLIC DEBT. There Was a Net Increase of 5,!i74,782 lu the Month or Starch. The debt statement for March issued by the United States Treasury Department ehowB a net increase in the publio debt, less oash In the Treasury during March, of tS, 274.78J. The Intel est-bearing debt increased ,ob,iu; tne non-interest-bearing debt decreased $579,447, and cash in the Treas ury Increased 8,934,741. The bal anoes of the several classes of debt at the close of business March 81, were: Interest-bearing debt, 887,404,140; debt on which interest has ceased since ma turity, tl.eSQ.SlO; debt bearing no Interest, 374,9iO,Sol; total, $1,213,984,001. The cer tificates and Treasury notes offset by an equal amout of cash in the Treasury out standing at the end of the month were 562.902,253, an increase of $4,357,980. The total cash In the Treasury was $874,968. 947. The gold reserve was $100,000, 000; net cash balance, $171,641, 748. In the month there was an increase in gold coin and bars of $4,189,711, the total at the close being $171,885,709. ef silver there was aa increase of $1,665,284". Of the sur plus there was in National bank depositories $27,010,993, against $24,394,556 at the end of the preceding month. ; Haytl's Ketr President. ; The National Assembly of Haytl elected as President General T. Simon Sam, Minister of War and Marine in the Republic, Affairs in J me country are in tue most peaceful condi tion. Three Men Rob a Train. " The eastbound cannonball train No. 6 on the St. Louis and 'Frisco Railroad was held p three miles east of Lebanon, Mo., at 1.05 o olock a. m. by three mask6d men and the safe blown open and robbed. The rob bers held up. the engineer and fire man, stopped the train, and with tho engineer in front of them marched to the ox press car. Tnemewsenger refused to open np and the door was blown open with dyna mite, the safe cracked and its contents re moved. The passengers were not molested. The engine was detached and ran by the robbers to Sleeper, where it was abandoned. The Wells-Fargo officials at St. Iilg say the amount of money obtained by the men wag oniy $1277. FIRST OF 1 ELECTIONS , Republicans Carry Rhode Island bj 10,000 Plurality. A VERY APATHETIC CAMPAIGN, Only Six Democrat Elected to the Iiflsla. tare The Democratic Cities Swept Dj tho Republicans Although He Is Re elected, Governor Wppltt's riurallrj Was Reduced The Causes. raovicENOE, It. I., April 2.-Rhode Island yesterday olooted a Governor, Lieutenant-"Govornor.-Seorotaryof Btate, General Treas urer and Attorney-Oonoral. . The elnotloS resulted in the usual Republican majority. The following State officers were elected: Governor, Charles Warren Llppltt; Lieutenant-Governor, E. It. Allon; Seorotary of State, Charles I. Bennett; General Treas uror, Samuel Clark; Attorney-General, Ed ward O. Dubois. The' oontost was ono of the dullest cam paigns in the history of tho State. Tho total vote was somowhat larger than last year! but this was due to a movement against 1J cense in Providence j The entire Republican Stato ticket is elootj od by something like 10,000 plurality, and tho Democrats have only a small representa tion in the Legislature. There are eight Democrats in the present Legislature, but the noxt will see but sis. The otty of Providence, whioh went Demo cratic last fall, goes Republican by over 2000. The same is true of the Democratic cities of Woonsookot, Newport and Central Falls.' Each of these cities has a Democratic Mayor, who was elected on local issues. The Republican campaign was fought on the issue of ''Proteotion to Amerrican indus tries." The Democracy made almost no fight a all. In some of the towns the eleotioo was permitted to go by default, no candi dates for the Legislature being placed in the field. The plurality of Governor Lippilt was re duced somewhat, and this is attributable to a number of causes. In the first place, the Governor is not well liked within his own party, and in the second place, he came out for MoKinley against the avowed sentiment of nearly all the prominent mombors of his party, as well ns the rank and file. The Assembly will be vory strongly Re publican in both brandies. T his was as ex pected. It was thought that the Demoorats would reduce the majority of their oppo nents in the House ot Representatives by the election of a number of mombors from the city. This was prevented, however, by the introduction of the ltconse question. The liquor dealers supported ths Repuolicans. When the Demoorats heard of this they sout the word around to vote for no license, and as a result many thousand votes were piled up in favor of absolute prohibi tion. This was revenge to a certain extent, but the Demoorats did not got the Assembly men they expected. In the city of Woonsookot the Demoorats made a game fight and wore defeated but by small pluralities. The rosutt was tho same in all the oitfos. BISMARCK'S BIRTHDAY. A Great Crowd Celebrated It In th. Castle Park. The eighty-first anniversary of the birth of Prince Bismarck was celebrated at Frled riohsruh, Geimany, with great enthusiasm. Tho weather was oloar and cold, and the sun s'aono bright. ' From the railway station, the Po9tofflce, the castle gates, and many private buildings flags were flying in pro fusion, nnd by noon there were many other evidences of a general celebra tion. Crowds of villagers and string ers assembled at the entranoes to the fe3 raiNos BisMincK. castle park, whioh wore guarded by gen darmes, Who rigidly exoluded the publio. The bands of the Ratzeburg Chassours. the Hamburg Seventy-sixth Reglmont, and the Altona Tutrtv-flrst Regiment arrived at 11 o'clock, at which hour a cartload of flowers arrived at the castle, togetuor with a great number of presents for the ex-Ohancellor. The mail brought a package from Naples containing a present from the Emperor. Three special trains brought 2500 persons to take part in the torchlight prooession In the evening. The paradors, with bands playing, marched to the oastle and halted in front of the oostle torraoe. At about 8 p. m. Prince Bismarck, attired inthe uniform of a cuirassier, over which he wore a gray cloak, appeared upon the terrace and was greeted with enthusiastic cheers by the thou sands assembled to do him honor. The bands played a thanksgiving hymn, after which Herr Staelin, a merchant of Hamburg, delivered an address thanking the Prince for what he had done for Germany, which, be declared, would ever be faithfully remem bered. Prince Bismarck returned thanks in a brief address in which he quotod the words of Martin Luther that "the good will of one's neighbors is a necessity for a German Chris tian." Before retiring from the terrace Prince Blsmarok, uncovering his head, said, in a trembling voice! "My body is unable to stand long fa tigues," and added, in faltering tones: "My heart goes out with you." At this tho wo men sobbed, and the men cheered and shout ed: "Wiedersahen." "Wiedersehen," and these cries were continued until the last of the crowd had taken thsir deoarture. The present of Emperor William, which was forwarded by mail from Naoles. '"con sisted of a small photograph of thu'Emperor and his family, upon which was" Inscribed in pencil! "First of April, 189 Wllhelm, Iin- perator, Bex." ' 7 . - Governor Hughes Refused to Retire. The Interior department authorities at Washington, on- reeeipt of., a telegram from Becretary of State Bruce, of Arizona, that Goven or Hughes refused to vaoate his offioe, sent a telegram to Huubes, advising him of his removal, and to Bruce, instructing him to take possession of the office as ActiDg Governor under the law. Where Rleached Blondes Are Plentiful. It is eald that every man, womafl and child that lives at Point San Pedro, Ca!., is a bleached blonde. This peculiar condition of ailairs is duo to the chemicals used In the punuuj fcuiury at Umi piaoe. TAR HEEL NOTES. TUB SETTLERS' CONVENTION To Be Held at Southern Pines Pro mises to Bo a Grand Success. Mr. John T. Tutrick writes as fol lows: "Tho Southern States Settlers' Convention at Southern Pines in May promises to bo of the greatest advan tage to tho South. Hundreds of lot tcrs nre pouring in from all sections of tho South, indicating that tho liveliest interest is being taken by natives as well as settlers. Boards of trade and chambers of commerce are arranging to send delegations and some of them are going so far as to prepare samples of manufactured goodM, and in Florida duo town is to Bond a delegation of Northern settlers with an exhibit of early fruits and vegetables. They1 pro pose not only to talk np their section but to show it np by actual exhibits. The rutes from the North insure a large crowd of prospectors. Tho round trip rnto. from Boston and New York, via steamers, innluding meals and state rooms is less than $16, and tho round trip from Baltimore is lees than $7 for the entire round trip to Southern Pines.' The water route in May, you know, will be most delightful, and many who are thinking of coming South prospecting will avail themselves of this opportunity to get down at a very low coBt. The Northern editors are to be cxtonded free transportation from Boston to Southern Pines and through the South, and many write us they will attend the convention." KENTUCKY WHjIi BB THEBH. The Governor of Kentucky comes to the front with a list of twenty dele gates to the Sonthern Statos' conven tion. The Governor shows himself alive to the beet interest of the South, and will do all in his power to further and make a success of this important work. He feels, as does every earn est thinker, that this convention will do more toward the upbuilding of the South at large than any step that could bo taken at this time. The conven tion is to be held at Southorn Pines, May 5th. - TOBACCO CULTURE. A Tar Heel Farmer Gives His Expert ence With the Weed. Mr. D. V. Davis, of Fork Church, in a letter to the Louisville Home and Farm gives this information in regard to Davie county and tobacco culture there: This county is situated in that part of the State known as Piedmont, N.C. It is very well watered, having several streams that go to make it up . Davie is bordered on the east by Davidson county, the old Yadkin rivor being the dividing lino. This rivor, as is shown by the geography, becomes Great Pee Dee within the State of South Caro lina. Davio does well in the produc tion of wheat, corn and tobacco, to bacco being the leading money crop. Cotton is also raised to some profit. I have been raising tobacco for thirty-five years and have been study ing the nature of the weed all the way along and have decidedly learned that there is a certain time to cut tobacco better than others. Twenty years ago I discovered this, bat to find the exact time in each year it has taken twenty- two years. There is a sap in tobacco, as in a tree. When the sap. raises in tobacco it runs the oil out and ia very sorry. When the sap is ontof tobacco there is nothingin theplant butoil. It seems to be fat, and if then out would bo vory profitable. Tobacco continues to make these changes as long as it stands on tho hill. Tobacco raisers of any experience at all will agree with me on these matters. You have experienced cutting tobacco one week, when it may cure up all right, and then cut off tho game piece tho next week, and it will care up sorry. Our Bonded Debt and Income. Tho bonded debt of the State is now as follows: 4 per cent. ooubu1s$3,347, 750; 6 per cent. North Carolina Knil road construction bonds $2,720,000; total $(1,007, 750. The interest on the 4 per cent, bonds is $133,910, on the 0 per cent, bonds, $1G3,200; total $297,110. The income from the rental of the North Carolina llailroad will be $225,015, and if all this should be set aside to meet the interest on the bond ed debt (8297,110) there wsuld be left a deficit of only $72,095 to be provided for by taxation. There are old bonds outstanding which will require the is sue of $270,910 in 4 per cent, bonds, provided these are presented be fore January 1st, 1897, when the fund ing act expires. North Carolina Banks. There are iu this State, according to Chief Clerk Denmark, 89 banks, of which 27 are national, 40 State, 16 private-and G savings. Tho loans and discounts are $12,954,278; the total ro pources $20,007,330. Tho capital btofk paid in ia $2,880,000 for national , banks, $1,080,435 for Stale banks, $291,000 for private banks, aud ?T?4,315 for savings banks; total, $5,':il(i,750. The total surplus fund $1,074,607; undivided profits, $529,981; national bank notes out standing $073,075; individual deposits, 55,058, 73(5 ; iu national banks, $3,293,- 721 ; in State banks, $701,511; in pri vate,' $718,617; in pavings; total f?8,.r);;0,149; United Statos deposits, $99,402. Do Higi Taxvs .Make Low Props J "There is not an articlo that we ruike to-day mado possible by a pro tective tariff that has not been cheap ened by protection to ,tue Auieriom consumer." Hon. William MoKinley. If this is true, why do Major MoKin ley snd the high tariff press denounce the Wilsou tariff becaU.se, they pay, it has lowtret prices? . Protectionist claim that onr wool y;rowin' inuti -try was .mad pnsHible bj tho tariff. Vi:l the Ohio Major dare tn tli tlt tannin oi Lis Su(i that thou- u.oul li bet-u cheapened by protection? LATEST HEWS IN BRIEF GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS, Important. Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Biefly Told. . Southern News Notes. A bis fire at Brunswick, Ga., de stroyed the docks and warehouses of the Plant (system, ana oiner property, The two massive boilers of the Planters Oil Mill at Greenville, Mise. exploded, wrecking the mill property and eausing the death of five men and the serious injury of half a dozen others. Lieutenant Col. Wm. H. Forwood, Maior Blair D. Taylor and Cuptoin M O. Wvetb. all of the Army Medical Department, have been detailed represent that branch of the servioe as delegates at the annual meeting oi the American Medical Association Atlanta, Ga., May 14th. The Eagle and Phmnix Cotton Mills at Columbus, Ga.,-have shutdown throwing 1,700 employes ont of work, The shut-down was the result of strike by the 270 weavers. The weav ers prevented others from taking their places. The cause of the strme was cut of 10 per cent, in the wages of th weavers. After a week the strikers' places will be fillod. The Southern Baeoball League will be composed of New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Birmingham, Atlanta and Columbus, Ga. The season opens April 16th, and each club plays 105 games. Accordiug to the scnedtle eaoh team will travel the number of miles as follows bus 4,330; New gomery 4,623: Mobile S,998;Colum Orleans 4,446; Mont Birmingham 4,732 Atlauta 4,753. South Pittsburg, Tenn., with 8,500 people, is without postoffice facilities. owing to the pique of J. J. Inglo, who, it is charged, was dismissed for incom peteney. Peter Bradehaw, toe new Cleveland appointee, took charge of the office April 1st, and is now dis tributing mail from over the tops oi several big dry goods boxes. The old fixtures, consisting of an elegant outfit of lock boxes, desks, tables and safe. were the personal property of the re tired postmaster. Ho refused to rent or sell them to his successor at any price. Northern News Items. Ten persons perisbed-fey suffocation in a Brooklyn, Is. x., tenement house fire. Lippitt, Republican, has been eleot- ed Governor of Khode island by a plurality of 10,000 The Southern New .England M. iu. Conference has endorsed the plan of admitting women as lay delegates. The color line was distmotly drawn in the New York M. E. Oonfereuoe on the proposition to put a negro on the bench of Bishops. The boiler of a portable saw mill, owned by Fredrick Groves, of Miamis ville, O., exploded. Two men killed and three injured, one fatally and the other senously Five desperate men attempted to hold np the West bound express on the Baltimore & Ohio at Bremen, Xnd, but police went to the rescue, and after a desperate battle three of the robbers were wounded and captured Washington. Tho Haytien legation at New Vork has just received a cablegram announc ing the election of Gen. Tieresias Si monsam, Minister of War under Hip polyte, as President" of Hayti, and that the country continues perfectly quiet. The President has further amended the civil servioe rules by placing under the classified servioe the assistant attorneys and law clerks of the De partment of tbo Interior, This order includes about thirty persons whose salaries range from $2,000 to $,700 per annum. The official figures of government re ocipts and expenditures for March show a deficit for the month of $1,250,000 and for the year to date of $19,000,000. The receipts for March foot up $26,- 1000,000, a slight increase over Maroh, 1895, and about the same as for Feb ruary, 1896. The President sent to the Senate the following nomination: William A. Little, of Georgia, to be Assistant Attorney General, vice John Hall, re signed. Little' was several times bpeaker of the Georgia House of Re presentatives and afterwards Attorney General of that State. Representative Dingley, chairman of the committeo on ways and means. stated that from present appearances Congress could adjourn by the 15th of May. Be was not prepared to say that an adjournment would be reached at that early date owing to the pos sibible contingencies, bnt he saw no reason why ajonrnment should be de layed after June let Foreign. ' At Friedrichsruhn, Germany, the eighty-first anniversary of tho birth of Prince Bismark was celebrated with great enthusiasm. Oklnlicniii Don't Wiint Greer Counl v. Tho fjupnuno 'Court nl Guthrie, O. T. refused t' recognize (ii-n r e.umty, just added to Oklahom i l y t't Supreme ix.urt of fjm JJnlte:! Htnte, as a county and ntmchi-d to Oklahoma 0C0 m ies nway for ja ii.-uU pllr. pows. - Thislenves th-i i-.iiulv as an mo-, g.lflized territory Mih 20 n.uruVrers amply,,,,, for writ of tutti -s,u umij.v. ... ... (,,,., wiil prevail. - ITtlcn. N. y., has rnt 1 200 signatures a'iitis 'in ft netition with a ou'fefr ecu to be rung at t.frt everv nli-ht. THIS l''IFTY-FOl!KTH CONGVIKSS A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both Houses. THE SENATE. MONDAY. The bill to annrove a compromise and set tlement between the United States nnd the State of Arkansas, arisiug out of mutual claims for the principal and interest duo on State bonds held by the United States and for lands claimed by the Stato under the swamp lands act and other nets, was taken up in the Senate Monday and was passed al ter a debate lasting a couple of hours. No other business was transacted except the passage of some bills on tho calendar that were unobjected to, including one for a pub lic Dulldlng at Indianapolis to cost ?2,U0u, uuu. TUESDAY Mr. George occupied nearly the eutiro ses sion of the Senate Tuesday In an argumen against tho claim of Mr, iJupoiittothu vaeai seat In tho H niuo from the (State ot llela ware. About half an hour wns given to the con slderatlon of the poptofllce appropriation Dill. WEDNESDAY. In tho Senate on Wednesday Mr. Butler, of Aortn Carolina, introduced a bin, wiiien was reforred to the llnuuco committee, providing taat payment of notes, bills, checks, etc. shall be In legal tender money, Irrespective or any stipulation In tho contract, lie ex plained that his object was to stop gold mortgages and gold notes. It did not iilteot existing contracts. A committee of conference was ordered on tho legislative appropriation bill, and Messrs, cuiiuni, Tenor and Call were appointed eon. lerees oi me aennte. A resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Call for an inquiry by the oommlttee on public lands as to the patenting of unsurveyod lnnds in Florida, was laid before the Senate and referred to the oommlttee on nubile lands. The postoffice appropriation bill was taken up, the question being on the amendment reported by the appropriations oommlttee, allowing $80,000 additional compensation to the Ooeanio Steamship Company for carry ing the mails from Sun Francisco to New Zoaland aud Now South Wales. At the sug gestion of Mr. Allison, chairman of the oom mlttee on appropriations, the amendment as to the Oceanic Steamship Company was pass ed over without action and the rest of the bill was procoo,:od with and agreed to. Mr. Allison said, however, that he expected to have dual action on the bill Thuradny as it Wfca expected that the Senate would not be in session pn uood j rlilay. THUHHDAY. Most of the time of the Senate Thursday was dovotoji to the discussion of the right of rar. Jiupont. of Duleware to a seat in that body. No vote was taken. Tho remainder of the day's session was taksn up in the dlsoussion of nn amendment to the postoltloe appropriation bill, relatlne to the consolidation of suburban postofnees and changing them into stations nnd sub stations. No result was reached and' the Senate adjourned until Monday next. THE HOUSE, MONDAY. In the House Monday the Senate joint res olution Was agreed to annotating Bernard R. Green as successor to the late Gen. Casey as superintendent of tho new Congressional jjiorary. Tne sundry civil appropriation bill was then taken up in oommlttee of the whole, alter notioe had been given by Mr. Hitt, that when the appropriation bill had been dis posed of ho would present a conference re port ou ine uuDan resolutions. After pass ing over iweiye pages or tno pin tan House adjourned. TUESDAY. The sundry civil appropriation bill was consiaorea oy tne House l uesdnv. A ooprerenco w is ordered on the legisla tive, executive and Judicial appropriation U1U. WRnNRSDAT. The House devoted the whole of Wednesday to the consideration of the sundry civil ap propriation uiu. THURSDAY. On Thursday the consideration of tho sun dry civil appropriation bill was i.ranrtenllv olosed in the House, and the bill was passed as reported from the oommlttee of the whole. Mr. Hitt reported from tho commlttoe on foreign affairs the resolution asking the Pres ident to transmit to OoncreiW r!1 nnmwiuind.' enoe in ine oiate department sinoe Decern-' or intervention by the United States in the: affairs of Venezuela, and it was agreed to. I vbiOay. On Friday before the Cuban matter came up. the House passed 88 private pension bills, whioh bad been favorably aoted upon at previous Friday night sessions. In the course of this part of the proceedings, Speak er Reed reversed his famous ruling in the Fifty-Bret Congress which has been the sub- eot of so muoh controversy, and declared .bat a majority of the actual membershiD of the House constituted a quorum. In the Fifty-first L'ongnvs be hold that it required a majority of tho actual membership of the Iiotiso constituted a quorum. In the Fifty first Congress be held that it required a ma- oritv or ail tno members elected to the House to make a quorum irrespective of yananoles. Mr. Hooker, of New York, reported the rivor and harbor appropriation bill for the year ending June 80th, 18117, which will be called up Monday. A ulll was passed asking the construction of a bridge across tho Mississippi river at St. Louis. Mr. Hitt called up the report ot tho con ference committee on the Cuban resolutions. The report recommended the adoption of the resolutions as passed by tho Senate. The report was nsoussei at length, but no vote was taken. It is probable that the resolutions will be adopted Saturday. A COTTON MILIj STKIKK. A Itcductlouof 10 Percent. Results in 400 Weavers Going Out. For the first time in the history of Colum bus, Ga., a strike has ocourrod there. The Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Compauy gave notice to their weavers that on Ap il 6th a reduotion of about 10 per cent, would be made in their wagAs. The weavers were greatly incensed at the proposed cut, an in dignation meeting was held and a committee from the weavers called upon the oflleers of he company and protested against the re duction. The committee was informed that the company would adhere to its intention to make the reduction, whereupon about 400 woavers walked out. The strikers held anothor meeting BDd It was resolved not to return to work unless the old scale of pay for weavers was restored. A few months ago the weavers pay was voluntarily in creased. The Cotton Crop Movement. Secretary Hester s New Orleans cotton ex change statement: Somi-weekly movement at thirteen leading interior towns: For '93, receipts 15,516 bales; shipments 26.7R9 bales; stock 240.413. tOfsL. ttota MJSZi&iitx. ments 64,800 bales; stock 241.041. For '90, receipts 11,17; snipmonia in,uzu; uiuun tvo, 173 bales. ' Secretary - Hester's cotton crop move ment from September 1st, 1895, to March 8lBt, 1896, shower Fort receipts 4,786, 683 bales against 7.357,601 last year, 5. 459,002 year before last and 4,53,819 for the' same time in 1893; overlands to mills and Canada 725,876 against 974,523, 739,527 and 767,081; interior stocks In excess of Kertem ber 1st, 254.337 against ara.WW, 182,797 and 255.303, Southern mill tukiugf, inclusive nt consumption at Houtherc ontports, (.i.u.mi against 60995, 55.25 atnl SltM.".; crop in ebhtat close of Mjn'h. W.M' ngainst 9,194,927, 6,816,951 anl i..u,".iu-?, erop brought into siunt for U" muulh of Mnrch 875.605 against (iOJ.Oi 5, 300,94:J aud iVjul What is Castorla is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Oylum, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless Bubstltuto for Paregoric, Drops Soothing1 Syrups, nnd Castor OH. It Is Pleasant. Its guarantee Is thirty years use by Millions of Mothers. Castorla destroys Worms nnd allays foverishness. Castorla prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castorla relieves teething troubles, cures constipation nnd flatulency. Castoria assimilates tho food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural h?ep. Cas toria is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. Castoria. ) 'Castorla Is an excellent medicine fbr chil dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effeet upon their children.'' Dr. G. C. Osgood, lVowell, Mass. "Castorla Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day Is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup afld other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Dr. J. F. Kincheloe, Conway, Ark. The Centaur Company, 77 Southern Railway. 01 PIEDMONT AIR LINE. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. Ves. No. .-.S Daily Jtt In No 361 Northbound. Ja.t. 8, l8oo. No. 12 No. 18 K Sua .Daily Dai-y Lv. At'untJ, V. T " Aiittnlu, K. T Norcnss " liuford ... " Gainesville . Lula. ' Cornelia " Ml. Airy " Toecoa ... " VeHtuilnster " Heurca " Central " Greenville . .. " HiiarUniuirg. " GalTneys " JiU.i'ksl.iiig .. " Kind's H... " GaBtcuiia Ar. Ci.arlotto " Duuvillo WO.lin loop 7 .'.0 a 8 r. ) a 9 ; . a In liJ a l'J4ia 11 u! a 11 it a 11 20 a 1 1 IS a l.:2i p 4 .,, p .' X- u li 2i p 7 I K ;i 7 4. 't li 12 ;i 2 25 p 201 R 2iii 2 Gil a ;i if) a a i 4 0 IZ! p 1 1 1 2 lo p a 22 li 4 Mp 4 .ill p :,.t) J p 6 n p li 211 p 11 15 V i 4:. p C 3D I t 114 p V blip b l:i u ti ih a 1 OM a 7 M a 7 Ma 8 '-'0 p 1 0i) a 6 3) a 1 .0 i Ar. Uiciumutd.. li OJa i)40 0 10 a Ar. Washington VI a KUaa lu a U W u u 4 1 ' 11 2 . p J on a C 20 a i'.nltm'u. i Ft 1'Iii1h'N:1i.'.I.i ' KiwYork... Ves No. 37 i 'Ully I Bt.M! N.,. M, Daily Southbound. No. 1 1 D.,i:y o. 1 7 K Kim I.v. N. V., 'UK. 4 ail p 1 12 1", n 0 ;w ) i i v(l a U ill ii 0 a lu 43 i j 1 1 1., a I'Mlailnliilila. llaliiui'iiu.... Washington Lv. liielniHuid . 2 00 a : M .V, 2 (M a Lv. Danviile ( liarUitto Gas iii i la. . . Kmi-'h Mt . .. liiai-i'.Biiurg .. Gallreysi. . .sp.iftaui.urg (i ree' lilu... . t cn.ral Kcnoen t ut mluHrer TolTUH Mt. Airy ( ornella.. . . I.nla Gainesville .. Illilol'il NiH'tU'OHd u jj i 10 tiajj, 7 00 a 12 an p 1 00 i 13 p 1 10 i 2 IS i 3 O. i 1 1 4 10 p 0 1' I. t'.up ti 2.' p (i . 6 p ; 4i p 7 4.p B 12 p ;,, p U 0? p IMp 1.1 .'('I p ii ::.) p 10 4J a 11 :i; ii 12 M p 1 10 p 12 10 a 12 ..) a !- 1 ( a 2 ,l a J 0,) a 8 oil' a Ilia 4 oo a 0 :.1 a 7 20 a T -I- a d a u :o a 8 :.) a 3 31 p Ar. Atlu na, K.T. 0 2 I a ' A a. III. p. in. ".U" ioo:i. ".V niiit. .Nov 37 and "KWartliliiKtr n ami SouiluveMicrn Vestibule Limited Tnion;li Pullman -le.n-rs between New Vork anil Icv Oi leans, via Wa-h-inton, Atlanta and .Mimi.iroiicrv, au.l uUo be tween New Vork and Mempltid, via WusUiuuio, Atlanta and I'.iruii.ighaui. 1 lining cars. Nos. 35 anil 33 -United Sta'es Fast Mall. PulU Iftan skepuiK cars neiwetiit Atlauta, aow Or loans and iMew Vork. Nos. 11 ii ml 12. Pullman gleetlne: car hotwtta Richmond, Danville and Greensboro. W. H. GREEJf, J. M. CULT, Traffic M'g'r, Washington, D. O lien I Hupt., Washington, D. C. If. B RIDER, Superintendent, Charlotte, North Carolina, A. TTJUK, B. If. HARDWICE, Gen. Pass. Ag't. Ass'tOen'l Pass. Agt., Washington. D. O. Atlanta, Ga, r. P.K - t.TIl A PATENT f fore prorrfpT anwr and an bmiert opinion, write to M CNN eV .. who have had nearly nftj Tears' exnenenoe In the patont bnsinetw. umunira tlonn ntrtetljr confluent idl. A llRnHhonk of In forirat.I'm concerning 1'ntentn and bow to ob tain them -ent fret. Alo a catalogue of mechau- wai qnn aptomtno nnor, pn- ttr. Parents taken thmneh Munn ft Co. receive ecial notice in the rimlUic AmerirRii. and ua are brought widelr before the public with- ent ongt to the inventor. This splendid pajier, lr-mi wVir. eituramlv lllnptrate;!. has bT far t he i tiVi RIGHTS. largest circulation of anv scicntinc wors m tbe world. a vear. Sample cooie- sent free. iinildinE Kdltion. monthly, f 130 a -oar. Wnirle copies, cents. Kvery number contains beau tiful plates. In colors, and photographs of nw bouaea. w itb plans, enabling builders to ahnw tbe lalertl ilcfilmip and secure coutno'ta. Aildrena OU., KlW YOHK. ail BueAUWAH Carlisle's l'ort liconilng Labor Speech at Chicago, a Secretary Carlisle's address on April 15th. at Chicago, it is stated, will be purely non partisan. It will be devoted solely to a discussion of the ."maneial problem in rela tion to labor. It is stated in Washington, ihnt several niifreprertentatiODS of the nature! of Secretary Carlisl"'s addn'scto bodeliTenl before ortranized labor bodies and nt thir invitation, have recently appeared in the jiuuiiu iaiuie, ,1 ii riff n i 1 V I E A Castoria. "Castorla Is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Archer, M. D., m So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. V. "Our physicians in the children's depart- ment have spoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria and although we only have among out medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." United Hospitai, add Dispensarv, Boston, Mass. Allen C. Smith, Pres. Murray Street, New York City. CAPE FEAR a YADKIN VALLEY K'X. John Iteoelvor. CONDENSE SCHEDULE. ! In Effect Deo'r. 8th, 1895. KoaiH bo?). No. 2. Dally, ieave Wilmin;:t's...,-j- 7 2? - lArrive FayettSW?;;,. f..;,;.10 85 " Leave l'ayettWe ....10C5 . heath FayevlllO Junction 10 7 " , &eVB Sftoford 12 19 p. m. Leave Climax. ........ ,, a ,'a. ... a 25 " 'Arrfye flreeniibor$..-iV: 2 58 " Lea Oroosboro..t,; (, 8 05 Leave Btokesdale .....; 8 59 " Arrive Walnut ! v r'. . 4 31 " Leave Walnut Cove ... ..,'. ;. 4 88 " Leave Rural Hall. 517 " Arrive Mt Airy .. 6 45 " BOOTH DOttND. No. 1. Pally.' Leave Mt. Airy a 85 a, ia, Leave Rural Hall., v.iv.T.","..;... 11 05 " ' Arrive Walnut Clova... .11 85 " Leave Walnut 0V.. .11 45 " Leave Stokesdala ....12 12 p. in,' Arrive Greensboro 12 6B " Leave Greensboro,...'.'... ....... 103 " Leave Climax ...".182 " Leave Sauford .,.8 19 " Arrive Kayettovlllo Junction 4 80 " Arrive FayottovWe 4 33 " Leave FayattevlUe 4 45 " Arrive Wilmington 7 55 " MOUTH BOUND No. 4. 0ail.v . ,. 6 25 a. tn. Leave Bennettsville Arrive Maxton Leave Maxton ........... Leave Red Springs...... Leave Lumber Bridge'.. . . ... B23 ... 929 ... 955 ...10 12 Leave Hope Mills 10 85 Arrive i'ayettewio iu on - - SOUTH BUONU, No. 8. ratly Leave Fayettevllle 4 88 p. m, Laave Hope 'Mis... ..i.t,.. ..... 4 58 " Leavt Lumber Bridga..... 6 20 " Leave Red Springs 5 42 " Arrive Maxton 6 12 " Leave JJaxton 0 13 M Arrive Bennettsvllle . , 7 24 " MOBTB BOPND. (Dally Except Sunday.) No. 16, Mixed. Tjave Ttamsenr 6 45 a. m. Leave Climax 8 85 '" Arrive Greensboro 9 20 " ..' U'u UreniiHboro 9 " Leave Btokesdaie 10 60 Arrive Madison 1160 - SOUTH BOUND. (Daily Except Sunday.) No. 15, Mixei Leave Madison. 12 25 p.m. Leave Htokesdule 1 28 " Arrive GroeusUord..., 2 85 " Leave Groeusbofo............... 310 " LeuveClimax.. 8 65 " Arrive IUitnseur 6 60 " HOBTB BOUND CONNECTIONS al Fayotteville with Atlantio Coast Line for all points North and ?ast, at Banfqrd wltll thu BeaHoard Air Line, at Greensboro witH ,tho Southern Railway Company, at Walnul Cove with the Norfolk 4 Westeu Railroad for Winston-Salem. sootS bound connections i at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk i Westorn Railroad for Roanoke aud points north an west, at Greensboro with the Southern Rail way Company for Raleigh, Richmond add all points north and ast at Fayettevllle) with the Atlantio Coast I-tne for all point South; at Maxton with the Eaboard Air Line' for Charlotte, Atlanta and all points soutk and southwest, 1 W. E. KYLE, . W. FRY, Oen'l Fas, AgMiL Oen'l Uanasi. ilIGn GRADE COTTON TARNS, WARPS, - TWIMES, KNITTING COTTONS, , . ELKIFJ, N. The Charlotte Observer DAILY &. 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