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VOL. IV. WALTEA B. BELL, Editor.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 30, 1896.
HUBBARD & ROTH. MMan- NO. 29.
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The
Strongest- Spanish Line
Stretched Across Cuba,
Yet
SOLDIERS SUCCUMBING TO HEAT.
TWO NAV!E RUSSELU'.
Slat
and
AH the Available Spanish Troops Are Be
v Ins; Used to Maintain a Wall of Men
Across the Narrowest Fart of the Island
Value of the Barrier From Military
Standpoint Hospitals Crowded.
' Havana, Cuba, April 21. General Weyler
has succeeded in accomplishing what Mar.
tines Campos attempted In vain. He has
bull: a (rocha across the Island and kept It
Intaot for two woeis. Tha". the present
trooha la formidable even the insurgents ad
mit, but they profess that it alarms them not
at all.
When . Maoeo passed through Havana
province to the west, and Weyler stationed
10,000 men along the twenty-one miles from
Mariel on the north cjast to Majana on the
south, he cabled to Madrid announcing that
tha second In command of the insurgent
forces was penned up in the western prov
ince. After staking his reputation on the abso
lute impossibility of Maeoo's crossing; ho
round tnat derashed parties of from 100 to
800 insurgents were getting through the line
stwill.
He then brought all the troops from other
fewts of the island that couid be spare;!,
eaving the eastern and middle provinces
with forces barely sufficient for garrison
duty, and practically suspending active
operations in all but the westorn province.
The concentration raised the foroe on the
trocha to 28,000, and gave 6000 more for use
in flying eolumns, noting in conjunction
with those on the line. The troops were set
to work erecting forts, digging trenohes and
building barricades.
The work has been pushed night and day,
and the best trocha Spain has ever built in
Cuba now oonfronts Maceo. Through the
Wily country south from Marie redoubts
have been built for artillery upon every emi
nence. Between Guanaiuay and Artemisia, along
the middle part of the line, forts and blook
houses, with earthworks between, have been
' aonstrueted. From Majana to the south
Boast, through marshy land, is a broad ditch,
baoked by stockade, with block houses at
Intervals.
Conventions In Massachusetts
Rhode Island Indorse Him.
At Boston. Mass., Ex-Governor William E.
Russell was Indorsed for the Demooratld
nomination for tha Presidency by the Demo
cra'ic State Convention, As he was also in
dorsed by the Rhode Island Democrats. Mr.
Russell starts in the raoe for the nomination
With two States at h s back.
John W. Corcoran, Chairman of the State
committee, called the 124S delegates to or
der. John P. Thayer, of Worcester, was
EX-OOVEBNOB SCSSELL.
(Named by Massachusetts Democrats as their
candidate for President.)
made Permanent Chairman. John E. Rus
sell, George Fred Williams, J. W. Corccr&t!
una james w. Donovan were chosen del
gates-at-large to the Chicago Convention
Ine platform adopted declares for sound
money ana against free silver coinage, i
aorses tne Cleveland Administration, de
nounces the Republican party for coquet-
iiuk wuu iue American rroteotive Associa
tton, ana presents Mr. Russell ns a oandi-
aate.
i 'At Providence, R, I., the Democratio Stati
Convention was not the tame HtTnir it nrnm,
ised to be. When tha name of General Olney
on; i a co.vukss.
CUBAN INSURGENTS REPULSING SPANISH CAVALRY.
General Arolns, who is in oommand of the
troops on the line, says the insurgents can-
sot cross without tremendous losses. The
troops are under arms night and day, but
though they have waited two weeks Maoeo
uas not attacked the line. .
This faot has raised a question as to the
value oi tne line irom a military standpoint .
. To maintain its strength at all points leaves
aniy a few thousand men who can
be used in aggressive operations.
Maeeo's own forces, with those of Bandera
son ueigaao, number about 15,000 men.
they have been in the hills around Leohuza,
uneen miies west oi tne trocha, for two
weeks.
Meanwhile, the main bodv of SD&nish
troops holds the trocha. Maximo Gomez has
accept ea tne situation and has directed
Maceo to remain in Pinar del Rio province.
Several large insurgent oolumns have been
ordered into Havana province from east.
une oi inese columns, numDering 6000 men
from Santiago province, has arrieved, and Is
now noar Quiviean, twenty miles south of
tnis city.
Gomez says he is satisfied to have Maoeo
remain in the western provinoe, as It keeps
25,003 Spaniards stationed on the line and
prevents tnem from Interfering with opera
tions in other parts of the island. Gomez is
said to be willing to have the Spanish troops
noiu me une udui me rainy season sets in,
by which time they will find It verv un
healthy spot. Reports are already being re
ceived oi npanisn soiaiers suocurablng to
the heat, and between the wounded and the
sick there are fully 15,000 now in hospitals
on the island.
DISTRESS IN CUBAN TOWNS.
Concentration of Population Adds to Dan
ger of Famine.
Ha v as , Cuba, April 21. The situation in
Cuba is heart-rending. The poverty is ap
palling. Famine stalks through this naked,
desolate land.
The bread question will presently become
as Important as the political question. Prep
arations for relieving the suffering of the
non-combatants must soon be made. Women
and children from the interior continue to
flee to the United States on every steamer.
The benevolence of Americans will soon
be tested or thousands will starve, for every
thing is being put to the toroh. Before long
nothing will be left of ones smiling
conntry bnt ashes.
Reports come from all parts of the island
of much distress resulting from the concen
tration of the population in the oitlea and
the desertion of the fields.
A letter from Cartagena says the people
are in a terrible condition. There is no work
tor the men and little food. In Trinidad fish
sells for thirty cents a pound and meat has
Inoreased two and one-haf cents a pound.
In Sanoti 8piritns cbareoa' formerly farty
cents a bag, is now J1.4'. All food has ad
vanced equally in price. In Sltio Grande
many families are living in tents erected in
the middle of the streets.
Colored Boy Lynched.
Jeff Gardner, oolored, about twenty-one
year of age, went to the home of Joseph
Burrows, a few mile, north of Karreu, Ark.,
and found nobody there except the children.
He fastened the eldest girl with a rope and
then carried her to the Salico bottoms,
where ehe was kept for several hours.
It was late in the afternoon before the two
were found. When the miscreant waa or
dered to surrender he attempted to run and
was shot in the leg. Though wounded he
made bis escape inio a sage field near by,
and it was sometime before he was found.
On being captured he did not deny anything,
end oniy wanted to know what was to be
done with him. He was lynched, The girl
l in a critical condition.
Arnold was presented as the first delegate to
iue national uonvenuoa an antagonistic
muiomimi vras commenced. iuchard B,
Comstoek, Miles A. McNamee, George w!
Greene. Jesse H. Metoalf, James F. Van Alen,
David 8. Baker, John H. Tucker and John
E. Conloy were elerted delegates. The plat
form adopted indorses President Cleveland,
deolares for sound monev and presents to
the National Convention William E. Russell
as "one who will make an ideal candidate
and an ideal President."
THE LOUISIANA ELECTION.
Mnnlcl-
Itesnlts of the Vote for State
pal Officers.'
The April election was the Most exciting
and surprising ever held in Louisiana. The
election was for both State and city offices
The municipal contest in New Orleans was
between the Demoorats and the Citizens'
League, an organization which set to work
to reform the city government, and which
nominated not cnlv municipal officers
but members of the Legislature as well. Re
turns at midnight showed a maloritv for the
league of 9272 in a totat vote of 30,000 count
ed. They indicated thai it had carried the
city by 14,000 majority, elected the Mayor,
Counoilmen and other municipal officers,
and every one of its candidates for Senator
and Representative. Th mnat anmriai.......
suit, however, was the discovery that New
Orleans, which has 37.000 registered white
majority, has gone for Pharr, the Republi
can candidate for Governor, by 300 to 1000
msjortty, against 22.272 Democratio ma
ority at the last election.
The news from the narishe.
but showed heavy Republican gains nearlv
everywhere. The earlv indications
to a Democratio majority of 22,000, against
62,690 in the Presidential eleotion oi 1892
and 86,918 In theState election of 1888. The
vote for Governor is oountftlby the Legislature.
InaneleetdonMifflnnltvat Ar.iite nr
Populist oandidate for Governor In Tnri.
pahoa, and a Democrat named Wade were
killed.
Killed by Lightning;.
Christian Anderson, a teamster, living at
Cassidy Park, just outside Greenwich, Conn.,
gave a family reunion at his bouse In honor
of the arrival of his mother from Denmark.
Fifteen persons were seated about the table
.it supper at half past 8 o'clock p. m., when a
oolt of lightning from a heavy shower passed
luruuKu an open winaow, striking Anderson
and killing him instantly. The bolt struck
Anderson in the face. No one else wl in.
jured. A widow nnd two children sulMve
tne dead man
Connecticut's Oldest Woman Dead.
Mrs. Emily Robbins Talcott. the oldest
woman in Connecticut, died at her home in
West Hartford. Bhe was bnrn in vn,o,fl0M
i. on Christmas Day, 1790.
A Byiiopsis of the Proceedings of Both
Houses. .
THE SENATH.
MONDAY.
On Monday in the Senate Senator Prltch
ard introduced a bill to pay a war claim for
tl. 691 to J. IZ. Johnson, administrator of
Henry Johnson. The Loekhart and Shaw
and Walsh contested election cases has been
postponed till May 4th. Senator Prltchard
will support in the Senate the item in the
Iudian bill paying $15,000 to the estai.es of
McLood and Erwiu, attorneys for the Eastern
Cherokees.
fcisDAlr.
On Tuesday In the Senate Senator Prif.ch
ard introduced a bill appropriating $70,000
for a flrst-elass light bouse at. the pitoh of
the Cape Fear, 18 miles to sea.
His pension bills for Silas B. Hensloy and
Sarah E. Cotton were favorably reported
Senator Butler Is assured of a favorablo re
port this wei'k on Mb bill to build mouumonts
to Generals Davidson and Nash, effectuating
resolutions of the continental congress. Ho
may get 5,000 or more than he asked.
WEDNESDAY.
The Benate on Wedn'esday discussed the
uestion of sectarian schools for Indian chil
dren. It ended in the adoption of an am"d-
mout onerea dv Mr. uocuren. rno Din as
oame from the House appropriated $1,835,000
Increase by the Senate to 1,33H:000 for
the support of day and Industrial schorls for
children. This appropriation was accompa
nied oy a provision absolutely pronlbttlug
future payment for the education of Indian
children in sectarian schools.
THUBSDAY.
Unanimous consent was asked by Mr.
Call to have the joint, resolution, heretofore
offered by him, requesting the President to
send ships of war to Cuba for the proteO'
tion of American citizens taken up for con
sideration and action; but on the appeal of
Mr. Piatt, Republican, of Connecticut, not to
press tne request at tnis lime, air. Call said
he would withhold his request for the pres
ent, but he gave notice that as soon as the
Indian appropriation bill shall be disposed
of. he will move to have his joint resolution
taken np and acted on.
FRIDAY.
In the Senate on Friday Mr. Bacon, Dem
ocrat, of Georgia, offered an amendment for
the payment to the Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition Company of Atlanta,
Ga., of the unexpended balance
1'about 13,000) of the appropriation
heretofore made for the govern
ment exlnoit there as agreed toi
The followiujg bills Were passed: Senate bill to
$250,000 to Richmond i ollege, Richmond,
Va., for use and occupation and injury of
building by the United States troops for
eight months beginning April, 1861; Senate
bill appropriating t20,50O for a lighthouse at
St. Joseph's Bay, Fla.
SATURDAY. -
The Senate Saturday made brief work of
the sundry civil bill. When it passed the
House it carried appropriations aggregating
$30,000,000. The Senate appropriation com
mittee reported It back with an addition of
$5,000,000 largely made up sums necessary
to carry on work on public buildings and
river and harbor improvements and courts
for the whole twelve months, instead of for
six or nine months. The committee also
added $2,000,000 more, so the bill as it passed
appropriates in round figures $37,000,000.
Among the amendments adopted were: In
creasing the limit of cost of the publio build
ing at Savannah, Gu., from $400,000 to $500,i
000. Appropriating $15,000 for a post office
building at Fortress Monroe, Va., and also
? 12,053 for the purchaso of additional lund
of the military cemetery at Key West, Fla.
LATEST HEWS
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS FROM MANY frOmTS
tHfi MARKETS.
Important Happenings. Both Home
and Foreign, Biefly Told.
THE HOUSE.
MONDAY. ,
Mr. Willis, Republican, of Delaware, offer,
ed in the House a resolution authorizing and
directing the President to Invite the commer1
cial nations of the world to join in an inter
national monetary conference, to be held at
as early date as possible, for the purpose of
establishing an international standard of ra
tio between gold and sliver money. A com
mission of nine is created three to be mein
' era of the House appointed by the 8peaiW;
three to be Senators and three to be ap
pointed py tne rresioent. une nunared and
lifty . thousand dollars is appropriated to
ward the joint expenses of the conference.
Representative Linney has introduced pen-
-ion bills at $12 monthly (or Gtllomlel L.
Smoot, Hezekiah A. Wood, Washington
Hayes and Kebecca Coffey, of Wilkes, and
u l. uoney, oi watauga.
TUESDAY.
Representative Skinner, of North Carolina,
Introduced joint resolution In the House on
Tuesday to submit to a direct vote of the peo
ple of the United States next November, the
questions t 1, Shall coDgress enact a free
coinage law at 18 to 1? 2. Shall the consti
tutlon be amended so as to provide for a di
rect vote for President, Vioe President and
Senators ? 3. Shall the constitution be
amended so as to provide that taxes be im
posed as congress deems proper 7 It gets
arouna mat direct tax decision. 4 snail
congress provide for an Income tax law?
WEDNESDAY.
In thfl House on Wednesday two Pension
puis were returned to tne senate by the Pres
ident without his signature. Green countv.
Texas, was transferred to the Territory of
Oklahoma. In accordance with the reoent de
cision of the Supreme Court declaring it not
a part of the State of Texas.
THURSDAY.
By a vote of six ayes to two navs. the
House committee on Territories agreed to
the report favoring a bill admitting Okla
homa to statehood. Beyond passing a few
private billB the House transacted do busi
ness, except in the discussion of seneral pen-
flon bills.
FRIDAY.
The general deficiency pill, as it passed the
House, contains the followintr item of inter
est: To refund to the collector of customs,
Beaufort 8. 0., for repayment by him to the
persons entitled thereto the sum im nosed
and imposed and collected in the case of the
schoouor Phantom for a violation of R. 8.
4336, sinoe remitted by the Secretary of the
Treasury $100.
SATURDAY.
The House Saturday discussed the advisa.
bility of closing the debate on the pension
bill, but It was decided to continue the same
for a few days. So soon as the pension bill
is out of the way the bankruptcy bill will he
tiken up. The bill by which Confederate
soldiers, wbo later served in tne Union army.
may ivo ijcuai'juru, Yi as LrilK'lSeU Dy JSlr.
Groevenor, but ne said he would support the
bill however, for the good things there were
in It.
Southern News Notes.
Taylor Harmon, a Negro murdefer(
is to be hnngod at Charlottesville, Va.,
on Juno 27tb. v
The Georgia . Railroad Commission
has failed so far to upset railroad con
solidation in that State.
The Confederate Veterans of South
Carolina held their re-union in
Charleston. Thousand cf old soldiers
were in attendunoe. , !
The Asheboro and Montgomery
Ruilroad Company, of North Carolina,
baa recently been granted a charter by
the Secretury of State.
Gustavius A. Eohn, who has had
charge of a large millinery establish
ment in Europe and America com
mitted suicide in Richmond, Vs., last
Thursday.
Two inventors of Remington, Ind.,
have invented a glass coffin and they
say there is a yearniug desire for glass
coffins all over the country, which
thus far has had io go unsatisfied.
The railroads in the Southern Pas
senger Association will charge 29 cents
hereafter for carrying a bioyole in the
baggage car. i his is a uniform rate
for all distances.
Hon. 0. M. Busbeee, ex-Grand Sire
of the Odd Fellows of the world, will
deliver the address at tbe laying of the
corner-stone of the main building of
the Odd Fellows of the Orphans Home
in Goldsboro, N. 0.
The Seaboard Air-Line has issued a
very attractive pamphlet, with a hand
some picture of the Robert E. Lee
statue in Richmond, Va., in regard to
the re-union of United Confederate
Veterans at Richmond, June 30 to
July 7.
KEW YOBK COTTON FUTURES.
Cotton, aulet: middling uplands. 8 8-lfl
middling gulf, 7 15-16: Futures, quiet and
steady. Sales 91,800 bales.
April 7.73 Sept ...7 38
May ,..7 73 Oct 7 28
June :..7 76 Nov 718
July .7 78 Deo 7 18
August 7 65 Jan 7 23
LIVEEPOOt COTTON MAfiRET.
Cotton, easy. Middling 4 11-18 d. Futures
Steady. Bales 41,000, Including Amo lean,
H.uuu.
Aug. 4 Sept... 4 11-61
Apr May.. 4 19 , Btfpt Oot. .. .88-64
MavAJune.418 Oot A Nov. . 616-64
Juiie 4 July. 4 16 Nov & Dec 3 69-64
CHICAGO OIUIN AND FBODUCE.
wheat May 656
corn May 80j
oats May M
pork May 8 72
tAKi Muy 4 95
bibs May 4 43
July-
July
July
July
July
July
HOME COTTON MARKETS. -
Char- Col
81)?
20X
8 02
5 10
U5
lutta.
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Char-.
uralita. lf'ton
1H 7
Hi
7
1H
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Good middling..,.
Strict middling
Middling
Strict low middling
Low middling
Middling fair
Fully middling
AT OTHER TOINT9.
CoTTON-Mlddliug quotations: Augusta
quiet, 7 9-16i Norfolk. firm 7 11-16
Charleston, steady, 14; lloston, quiet 7!
S ivannah, quiet, 7 9 10; Baltimore, nominal,
8; Philadelphia, quiet, 8 3-18 Wilmington,
quit-t 1; New Orleans, easy 7 11-16,
SEA ISLAND COTTON.
Market quiet with sales of 125 bags. The
quotations are:
Medium flue 21o
Fine 21o
Fully fine 26o
'.'xtra fine SOo
BALEIOH COTTON MARKET.
Middling 7
Strict middling 7!
Low
He Is Ordered
DIAZ AT LIBERTY.
the Island ol
The 8t. Lawrence Over Its Kank. '
The water in the St. Lawrence Riyer rose
higher than during the great flooi of 1865
the highest on record at Three Rivers'
Canada. An immense loss has been sua!
tained by farmers, barns being carried away
and hogs, lumber and cord wood swept down
the river in large quantities.
New Trial for a Murderess.
The New York Court 1 1 Appeals has granted
a new trial to Maria Barberi, sentenced to
death In New York City for killing her bo
irayer, Dominioo Oataldo. In its oplo'oa
tho Court says that Uecor ier Guff s attitude
-uring tbe trial and uls charge to the furv
were nnfalr to tbe defendant. ?
to Leave
Cuba.
The Rev. Albert Diaz, the American Bap
tist mifsionary and his brother, Alfred, whe
were arrested at Havana, Cuba, have beer.
st at Liberty, but have been nrdererf tt
leav the country. ' Messrs. O'Leary and
Dawlny, delegates respectfully of the Phila
delphia Bulletin and Harper's Weekly ol
New York, who were arrested at Matanzai
have been released on bail, which was fur
nished by the American vice consul.
Salmon For Japanese Waters,
A supply of Columbia river salmon spawn
la soon to be sent to Japan, the government
of the country being anxious to ascertain if
the salmon can be propagated In Japanese
waters. There are some salmon in Japanese
rivers, hut the fupply is far short of the de
mand. The fish commissioners have agreed
to furnish the eggs, which will bo taken to
iapan and placed in an artificial Jake, nea)
Yokohama.
Governor Budd of California, will spend
his summer vacation on tbe United 8tate
monitor Comanohe, which was recently
turned over at San Franelnen tn 'h.
xveserve. ine governor is In poll
and has learned that it would make
avaiiauie pleasure orart,
Northern News Items.
Linford L. Bliss. 65 vears of aire,
was killed in Philadelphia, Pa., by an
electric wire.
The long-expected distribution of
World's Fair diplomas and medals has
begun at last.
In .the District Court at Denver,
Col., Madame Warren has been ac
cepted as a juror.
Three persons killed, several injured
and much .property destroyed in Ohio
by a cyclone last Monday.
Nine thousand maple trees are to be
cut up in Maine this summer, to fill
an order for 1,600,000 shoe lasts.
The frosts for the last ten data ere
uncommonly severe throughout Call
fornia, and the fruit crop has been
destroyed in some sections.
Charles Pustolka and Louis P. Herr-
man( JNew lork (Jity murderers, were
put to death by electricity in the pehi
teutiary at Sing Sing last Wednesday,
In the trial of Scott Jackson for the
murder of Pearl Bryan, at Cincinnati,
O., a clay figure, clad in her dress was
set up in the court, but objected to
and removed.
The Greater New York bill has been
passed oyer the vetoes of Mayot Strong,
of New York, ond Mayor Warster, of
Brooklyn, by a vote of 78 to 69. The
opinion is that Goveanor Morton will
sign the bill.
The New York Herald says that the
ice trust control all the ice sold in New
York and Brooklyn. Families are
forced to pay 40 cents a hundred
weight for ice. The price this time
last year was from 20 to 25 cents.
Washington.
The nomination of Gen. Fitzhngh
Lee, of Virginia, to be Consul-General
to Uavanna, has been confirmed.
The United States Senate has passed
the bill appropriating $150,000 for
publio building at Portsmouth, Va.
Vice-President Stevenson will de
liver an address on the occasion of the
Commenaameut of the University of
North Carolina, Thursday, Jane ith,
and will also deliver the diplomas to
the graduates.
Foreign.
Last Thursday was the third and
final day of the celebration of Shakes
peare's birthday at Stratford-on-Avon,
England.
African mining companies will soon
develop the old workings described in
"King Solomon's Mines." The mines
are in Matabeleland.
Spanish newspapers maintain that
the United States has semi-official ly
approached Spain on the subject of
political reforms in Cuba.
A serious conflict between Christians
and Turks has occurred in the island of
Crete. There were two days fighting
and fifty persons were killed and
wounded. The Cretans have appealed
to Greece for aid.
A letter has been received from the
American missionaries is Bitlis Turk ey.
stating that the American relief agents
were permitted to select the times and
placet! for the dibtiibution of relief to
the distressed Armenians.
middling , 7
BALEIOH TOBACCO MARKET.
Smokers, Common 8
" Good 6
Cutters, Common 10(5)15
" Good 10W20
" Fine , 2028
Fillers, Common Green 2(S 3
" Good .- iS 6
" Fine 6;gl0
Wrappers, Common 10(a)18
" Good 2080
" Fine 3560
Market strong wKli good demand for all
grades.
EALTIMOBS PRODUCE MAKEf
Flour. Dull; Western superfine $2.30(S
2.60; do extra $2.G0(3.25; family $3.u0
3.80; winter wheat patent $3.904.15
spring wheat, patent $3.75(83.95; do. spring
wheat straight $3.50K8.65.
Wheat S'.eady; spot and April 71:
May 71S)7l: July 71i-71; No. 2 red
; Southern wheat by sample, 75; do
on grade, 7174.
Cobn Easy; spot S535; April 35 V
85V; May asasj June S5V" bid; July 86
steamer mixed, 84(&34; Southern
white edrn SokO: do yellow corn 36
36,'i.
Oats Steady; No. 2 white western 26
SfiV; No. 2 mixed Western do 24K25,
Rye Dull; No. 2, 404l for near by; 42
j iur western:
Hay Steady; choice Timothy $16 bid.
naval Stores. .
Wilmington. N. C Rosin firm, strained.
opi.iu; gooo straiueu. vi. id; spirits ol tur
pentine, firm at 25. Tar firm, at ,90j
cruue lurpenune nara , sou, ; virgin
Cotton Seed Oil. Quiet and steady)
Ijiuuo uiuue 4i,(a.z4; prune crude I o O milts
1719; off grades 19);ffi20; butter grades 26
28i prime summer yellow 253; prime white
zo(axy.
Coffee Spot Rio quiet; No. 7, 138i; mild
1.., 1 mas .rt ' '
iuiuv; uuruuva lotga.
IIICE.
The rice market was steady at Charleston,
Tne quotations are: Prime 4W4: Good
Fair (33j-4; Common 2(g3.
What is
Castorla is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants
and Children. . It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substltuto
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by
Millions of Mothers. Castorla destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castorla prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castorla relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castorla assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural feteep. Cas
toria is the Children's Panaceathe Mother's Friend.
Castoria.
Castoria.
"Castorla Is an excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good etTeet upon their children."
Dr. G. C. Osgood,
Lowell, 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 and other
hurtful agents down their throats, thereby
ending them to premature graves."
D&. J. F, Kjncheloe,
Conway, Ark.
"Castorla Is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me."
H. A. Archer, M. D.,
ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
" 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 om
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 Hospital and Dispensary,
Boston, Mass.
Allen C. Smith, Pres.
The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, New York City.
CAPE FEAR & TABKI.N VALLEY R'L
Joan Gill, Receiver.
COHDENSEtTaCHSDULE.
In Effect Gec'r. 8th, 1893.
KOBTH BOONS.
WEATHER IN THE COTTON BKLT.
'Weekly Report of the Unfled State
Department of Agriculture.
Virginia Richmond: Warm weather ol
past week has been of great benefit to fall
and spring seeding, grasses and gardens,
winter wheat has improved; corn planting is
being pushed In central ; and eastern
sections; tobacco plants flourishing; Iruil
blooms abundantly.
North Carolina Raleigh: Extremetj
warm, bright weather, with drought, Lot
yet serious, but delaying germinution; re
ports not so discouraging as anticipated;
farm work made much nroirretiH nnd nmnI
are doing fairly well; olton up in South
and tobacco nearly laro enough to trans
plant; shipment of truck and strawberrief
continue.
Souin Carolina Columbia. Hut
early corn Up; lata flurh and cotton do not
Rerminutt' welli grain looklnir falrlv well
except spring oats, which are dvineout:
larm work advanced and minor crops lnrgi-lj
planted; pastures lrencrnllv lmnrnv,.,i. tt
planting slackens, being too dry.
Georgia-Atlanta: Weather
tensely hot and dry; farm work well up and
bulk of all crops planted, but germluatlon
and growth at a standstill for
ture;corn generally very good stand and
some fields being cultivated; wheat and oats
suffering for rain; fruits very promising.
TehnesaeeNashvill: Week very favor
able for planting and for irrnwinir viola
tion i corn mostly plauted; all growing crops
la fine condition; cotton planting process
ing favorably; tobacco plants looking well
fruit prospects excellent; good rains in
western divif ion 13th; rain much needed.
Wilmington
Fayettevllle ;1..
Fa vel to villa
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SOUTH BOONS.
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Leave ureensDoro,
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Arrive jrayettoviiie
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, . . 7 26 a. u
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PIEDMONT AIR LIN8.
Condensed Scbedult of Passenger Trains.
Northbound.
Jan. I, 1 896.
SILVER COINAGE COUNT.
health
a verj
Elected a Female Ticket
The enfranchised women of Ellis, Kas,,
scored a sweeping victory at the recelt mu
nicipal election. A complete ticket el wo
men candidates was nominated and all were
eleeted with the exception of Mrs. Clara
Sheldon, candidate for police judge, who was
defeated by a majority of five. Mrs. M. A.
Wade, proprietor of a large millinery and
dry goods store, was elected mayor, and Mrs.
Viola Gainlor, Miss Lillian Hussey, Mrs.
Emma Shields And Ella Newcomb were
elected members of the council by average
majorities of twenty. The women named
their ticket "law and order," and they pro
pose to enforce the proWltipn law to the
letter,
Opinions From Many States Show An
Irresistable Trend Toward Free
Silver at V hlougo.
The Journal of Now York, has received
from the Democratio leaders in nearly every
State in the Union opinions as to the proba
ble strength of silver or gold in their dele
gations to the national Democratic conven
tion at Chicago. Many of them also discuss
the probability of the adopting of a unit rule
by their delegations.
Tnis canvass seems to show that tbe west
and south will be largely for silver, while the
east and middle States will declare for gold,
or at any rate against free silver.
That tbe results foreshadowed by this can
vass are most important in politics cannot
be gainsaid. These opinions from their
character clearly indicate that a crisis in
financial matters will be reached when the
Democratio convention assembles and that
the silver men will very likely control the
convention.
The deductions from all these reports can
be seen by a glance at the following table:
x SILVEB
Southern State West Virginia, Virginia,
North l arolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Tenneese, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas.
Webters States Illinois, Missouri, Kansas,
New Mexico, Colorado, M6ntana, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Califor
nia, Oklahoma (Ter).
OOLD.
New England States Maine (divided). New
Hamshire. Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
Middle States New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland.
Western States Wisconsin, Iowa, Minn
esota. Southern States Kentucky.
Doubtful Stntejv-Indiana, (divided,) Obio,
Ijlaboms, Florida,
Lelyi FayettevlUe 4 45
Arrive Wilmington i oo
KOItTH BOUND.
No. 4. Pally,
Leave Bennettsvllle.,,, 8 25 a. m.
Irrive Maxton.... 8 23 "
Leave Msjtton 8 29 " .
Leave Red Springs 9 55 "
Leave Lumber Bridge 10 1 2 "
Leove Hope Mills 10 35 14
Irrlv rayeitevillo 10 52 "
socm bcond,
Ko. S. Dally.
Leave Fayottevllle 4 88 p. in.
Leave Hone Mills 4 69 "
Leave Lumber Bridge 6 20 "
iBSve Red Springs 6 43 "
rriVd Maxton 6 12 "
,6. Ye Maxton 6 13 "
rrive Bennettsvlllo 7 40 "
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(Daily Except Sunday.)
No. 18, Mixed,
Learre Ramseur 6 45 a. m.
Leave Climax 8 85 "
Arrive Greensboro 9 20 "
Leave Greensboro 9 35 "
Leave Stokcadule 10 50 "
Jirrivo Madison 1160 "
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(Dally Except Sunduy.)
No. 15, MIxel
Leave Madison 12 25 p. to,
Leaf Stokesdale 128
ArrlV9 Greensboro...... 2 35 "
,eav Greensboro a io "
leave Climax 3 65
'Arrive RamSUur 6 60
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he (Seaboard Air Lino, ct Gro-nsUiro with
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:Cove with the No'rfolk & Wwten Railroad
for Winston-Silcm.
SOCTH BOUND CONNECTIONS
t Walnut Covo with the Norfolk It, Western
Railroad for Roanoke nu J points north and
est, at Greensboro with the Southern Rail-
J-ay Company for Raleigh, Richmond and)
11 points north and eaati at FayettevilU
with the Atlantlo Ccast I'ne.for all point!
South; at Maxton with the E -aboard Air Line
for Charlotte, Atlanta and all points routa
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Gen'l Manager.
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The Duke and Duchess of Manboroutrh
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