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THE TIMES.
ZHSHHSZSHHEEnSZHSHSRS
VOL. IV. WALTER S. SELL, Editor.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE II, 1896.
& ROIL Publish:!. NO. 35.
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FIGHT FOE A FREE GOBI
Patriots Defeat Attempts of Spaniards
' to Cross the Duaba River.
GENERAL LEE IN HAVANA.
.We New Consul-aeneral Arrives la the
Cuban Capital' An American Boat
Loaded With Filibusters and Amina
nltlon.'TBS a Race Off th. Cuban Coast
That Las'ed Several Honrs.
Havana, Cuba, una t 3eoM Fitzhngh
Lee, of Virginia, who was appoints! United
States Consul-General In this olty on the
resignation of Ramon 0. Williams, arrived
here early yesterday morning by the Plant
Line steamer Mascotte. The steamer was
anet by a gayly deoorated tug, npon which
were Messrs. Williams and Bprlnger, Dr.
Burgess and Ssoor Z tldo, representing the
Captaln-GenaraU The party boarded the
K ascot t a and extends I a oorilal wdloome to
Baneral Lb. Gsueril Gradley Tyler John
Ion and a number of other Americans and a
targe -jrowd awaited General Lee ashore.
On the wharf he was reoeived most respect
fully. There were no demonstrations, and
be entered a handsome onrriage, with the
CYCLING NOTES.
Toe ollps seem to be growing In favor.
New Jersey has two women's bloyole clubs.
Coasting contests are beoomtng common.
A Women's bloyule olub has been organized
in Atiantio uity, n. J.
Blcyollng is increasing the church attend
ance in the rural districts of Maine.
Tandem wheels are steadily growing In
popularity among New York and Brooklyn
riders.
Max O'Bell says that nothing but heaven
can be prettier than an Amerioan girl on her
bloyole.
At Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the other day.
a oount was made, and 49,000 bicycles passed
in two hours.
New York and Chicago Inventors have pro
duced leather tires, but they are very slow in
making headway on the market.
Inasmuch as the bicycle will carry eight
times its weight ovsr twelve mile an hour,
superiority over every other vebiole Is
claimed.
During the afternoon of Deooration Day
wheelmen passed a given point on the Coney
Island (N. Y.) bloyole path at the rate of
4500 an hour.
New York City branohes of the Y. M. C. A.
have tabooed participation in Sunday con
tests. This action followed closely on a
similar declaration by the Chicago branohes.
The next General Assembly of Connecticut
will, it is exoeoted, be asked to pass a bill
taxing eaoh wheelman 31, the prooeeds to be
used for keeping the roads' in good condi
tion. Arthur P. Cory, a son of George H. Gary,
of Lynn. Mass., has started on a tour of the
world on a bicycle. He will pedal to Ban
CUBITAS, BEAT OP THE PATRIOT GOVERNMENT IN CUBA.
(A small settlement in the province of Puerto Principe, Central Cuba. The place is about
score ot miles due north from the city of I'uerto Principe and about twenty-six
. miles due west from Nuevitas, in the sam province.)
coachman and footman in Bmor Zildo's
livery, and was driven to the Hotel Yngle
terra v
Advices from Baraooa report that engage
ments have recently taken place, between
Spanish forces and bands of insurgents on
the banks of the Duaba River. Owing to the
heavy rains lately the river was greatly
iwollen, and Its crossing was rendered diffi
cult. An attempt was made, however, by a
Spanish oolumn to reach the other side, but
the troops were attacked by insurgents, with
the result that one soldier was killed and
two were wounded. Tne insurgents'
loss is put at twsnty-four, but is
believed to be greater. Contln
ning their march along the river, the
Spanish on May 27, again attempted to cross,
this time by the ford at Buenavista, but they
were again attacked, and Major Gonzales
Moro and eight soldiers were wounded and
perished in the river, being unable to regain
the shore they had left, while a Captain, a
lergeant aud two privates were wounded, but
raoceeded in reaching the river bank.
Drders have been given for the re-enforoe-tnents
to be sent to the oolumn by boats,
but this will be difficult of exeoutlon owing
- to the condition ot the rivers. A force of in
surgents made an attack upon Candelaria,
but they were repulsed and oompelled to re-are.
FLED FROM THE CRUISER.
rhe Three Friends Fired on by a Spanish
War Ship.
Jacksonville, Fla., June 4. The steamer
Three Friends, which left this port on May
13 with a heavy cargo of arms and ammuni
tion and 100 men for Cnba, returned vester
Aay morning after a successful and exciting
trip under direction of Captain N. B. Brow
ard. Bhe landed every man and every car
tridge into the hands ot a strong band of ln
targents in Santa Clara provlnoa, Ion the
loutb side of the island.
On Thursday, May 28, when dawn broke,
Cap' ain Broward saw behind him. hull upon
the horizon, one of the Spanish cruisers.
They spied each other about the same time,
tor is soon as the Three Friends qulekened
tpeed, the cruiser also did so. There was a
ash from her bow gun which brought 100
Soared men to the deck ot the Three Friends,
but the missile fell abort.
It was a race then for life. Captain Brow
ard knew that the breaking of a pin would
Bean death for him and all his men, and so
he put on steam gently, but finally found it
necessary to make his stokers work frantl
sally to outrun the Spaniard. Shot after
shot was fired by the cruiser, until out of
pure exasperation Captain Broward bad a
twe!ve-pound-r loaded and spoke bank.
The gunboat perceptibly slackened speed
tod by noon the mtlilarytop ot the Spaniard
fas below the horizon astern. The rest ot
be voyage was plain sailing, the cargo b
g tended in a covered bay at night
Martinet Campos Arrested.
' Matieid. Spain. June 4. During a recent
private discussion of affairs in Cuba between
General Martinez Campos, the predecessor
ft General Weyler as Captain-General of
Cnba. and Gen ral Borrero, the argument
became animated and finally developed Into
a hot quarrel. A duel was arranged. The
Captain-General ot Madrid hastened to the
spot, arriving just as the prtn lpals were be
ing placed in position. It was only with the
greatest difficulty that he suoceeded in stop
ping the affair before either ot the oombat
ants was wounded. General Martinez Campos
and General Borrero wen finally disarmed
andseDt to their residences under arrest.
Am Indian B hoots His Wife.
Hoses Coniockety, an Indian of the Catta
raugus (N. Y.) Reservation, shot and fatally
wounded his wife on the reservation. Con
stable Cowdry attempted to arrest the Indian
a few hours later, and the latter resisted.
Cowdry fired at him, the bullet taking effect
in cjne of his legs.
Bering Sea Treaty Rati fled. 1
A cablegram from Ambassador Bayard In
formed Secretary Olney that ratifications of
bo Bering Sea claims treaty had been ex
changed in London. The treaty will not be
tnade public until Its promulgation in Lon
don, as it is desired t have it appear simul
taneously la Great Britain and the United
States.
Oil Spentlng Fifty Fact High.
The biggest oil well in the Indiana field
has Jost been struck in the big woods near
iVan Bursa. When the drill was pulled a
stream cf oil six inches in diameter spurted
like a fountain for fifty feet above the der
iiiok. The drillers were compelled to put the
fire out of the engine and move it away.
Man If arriee Bli Step-Mother.
' Joseph Dnquenne and his step-mother,
Mrs. Sophia Duqoenne, both residents of
Coffen, were united in marriare at Hlllp
boro, ilL, a few evenings ago. The bride is
ten years older than ber former stepson and
fsTceeot hnaband.
Francisco, and sal! tbenoe to Japan. The
trip may oooupy Ave years.
"Bicycle fever," or "fatigue iever,w as it
Is technically termed, has been discovered
to be a very unpleasant resultant effect of
hard bletcle riding. The physicians of Lon
don nave aisooverea this new disease.
A good way to proteot a bioycle lamp from
dust, when carried on a long day's run for
use returning home at nigbt, is to nave
small bag of the proper size made to fit over
the lamp, with a drawn string at Its mouth.
At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen the
other day it was estimated that there were
259,000 blcyoles in Mew York Olty alone, and
that they represented an investment of not
less tnan thirteen ana a nan million dollars.
Hartford. Conn., has two mounted police
men as a nucleus for a bioycle squad, and
tliy are doing good work in arresting
"soot-oners. Tne day is not far distant when
the bioycle squad will be a part of every po,
lice department.
Many country papers now contain appeals
to wheelmen to can in at Sunday-scnooi
strawberry festivals and eool off by eating
a plate of cream and strawberries, thereby
aiding a worthy object and at the same time
Deneuttng themselves.
An enormous crowd witnessed the opening
ot the new Charles River oycle track at Bos
ton. E. C. Bald and W. D. Banger distin
Kulshed themselves. In the professionals
13am won the nan mite, nylng start, tn l.ui.
the mile open in 2.15 8-5, the handicap In
2.22, and went an exhibition mile, paoed by
quintet, in tais time: yuarter, .81 2-0; tnirn.
.41 1-5; half, 1.01 4-5; two-thirds, 1.21 1-6;
three-quarters, 1.31; mile, 1.69 1-5.
Thirty thousand persons were at the lrv-
lngton-Mllburn roal course in New Jersey.
Decoration Day. There were 163 starters in
the twentv-flve-mlle road race, which was
won by R. M. Alexander, of the Hartford
Wheelmen. W. V. Neville, of the Vim Biovole
uiuo ot Newark, was second. Charles Had-
field, of the Vim Bloyole Club, finished first,
nut was aisqualinea lor having been paoed.
Monte Boott won the time prize in 1.08:21,
He broke all road records -from five milei
up from scratch. The greatest handicap
was 12 minutes IS seconds. Seventy-four
nnisnea.
THE NATIONAL CAME.
Pitohor Inks has been released by the Phil
adelphia Olub.
Doyle is onoe more playing first base for
toe isaitimorea.
Tebeau, of Cleveland, leads the first base
men of the country.
Rhine, ot Cincinnati, is the pitching phe
nomenon of the year.
Clark and his batting eye strengthen the
first oorner of New York's infield.
The Cinolnnatis are stronger than they
were last year In Peitz and their pitohers.
Umpiring in the Nation al League is about
as nearly perfect at this time as It ever has
been.
Boston's hitting has been altogether too
weak for a team with ohamptonshlp aspira
tions. The aeaaon's record thus far shows that
the fielding has Improved much more than
the batting.
"Silver" King, formerly with Bt. Louia
and the New Yorks, has been signed by
Washington.
Catcher McCanley. of Washington, claims
that in seven years he has been injured, but
twtoe behind the bat.
First Baseman Caroy, of ths Syracuse (N.
Y.) team, recently accepted twenty-two
ohanoes in one game.
Louisville has shown within the past two
weeks that the strongest clubs ean no longer
elass them as easy game.
Bohoeh, who took Daly's place at Brook
lyn's aeoond base, played seven straight
games before he maie an error.
The Chicago Club has an Invaluable man
in Lange, its centre fielder. He Is a first rate
batter and well up to the mark In fielding.
It Is understood that Pleffer. released by
New York, li merely on trial with the Chi
eagoa. If he ean play well enough Anson ean
nse him.
Wilson's back-stopping still takes the
fancy ot the New York crowds. There la no
catcher in the League excelling tlm In all
round work.
"Pitchers will be scarcer than ever next
season." says the veteran "Tom" Brown.
"The five-loot Impost is putting them out of
the bust neat, to my mind."
Latham, released by St Louis, bas
dropped Into a minor league. No National
Leajrue olub offering, be had to sign with
the So rani on (Penn.) Club.
Holler, the Baltimore pitcher, whose ex
ceptional work last year won for him a name
among the first in the land, is proving a
tower cf strength again this season.
''Kid" Baldwin, for several years Cincin
nati's erack eatoher, was arrested, a few
days ago, with a gang of tramps. He is said
to be a wreok. A few seasons ar.o he received
a salary of f ?000 per year, .
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
HE 18 IN FULL SYMPATHY WITH
TIIK SHOP GIRLS
And
Heartily Commends the Move
ment for. Their Relief.
Let the good work go on. The shop
girls of Atlanta are now allowed to sit
and rest their weary limbs for a brief
time when not waiting on customers,
and their working time is ont at 6
o'clock in the evening. This is a re
form that means muoh to them, and onr
sympathetic people will all thank the
Cbamberlin house for starting it The
girls have not demanded it, nor have
tbey uttered a word of complaint, but
we know they get tired, very tired.
and sometimes tbey are sick and some
of them have work to do when they
get home. But they never strike no,
they had rather suffer and endure and
always look cheery and try to be happy
and coDtenteii. I nave wondered why
they did not organize and choose their
leaders and sometimes get on a strike
and walk oat and make demands on
their employers like the men do.
Ao, they will , not do that,
It is not their nature, and
for that reason, if no other.
those who employ them shoald be all
the more considerate. Every shop
girl and every shop woman has an in
dividual history, and oonld tell a tale
of sorrow or misfortune, ard some of
them would be intensely sad and pa
thetio if written and published. Many
of them belong to that class who have
seen better days maDy are orphans
some nave a widowed mother or an in
valid sister to support. All are depen
dent and have no bright prospects of
bettering their condition in the years
to come. Some of them are not
strong, and often go to their work
with a headache, or a heart-ache
but they must not complain
sad fnoes or sick faces or very homely
ones ere not wanted. I know four sis
ters who are shop girls at different
places. , The eldest is only sixteen,
They have neither father nor mother
nor brother, bnt tbey live together and
work by day and comfort enoh other
by night.
borne merchants are hard task
misters; "only a shop girl" is their
motto, end their servioe is worth what
it will bring that much and no more,
Tbey fix the prioe and keep it there.
There is no promotion in wages, I
know one who kept a girl down to $20
a month, bhe was refined, diligent,
cooBoientions and popular, and had
been reared a lady in all respects, but and but little is
she was only a shop girl, and ont of
meager wages must pay for her board
and 'clothing. Not an hour did nhe
ever lose but by and by she was t ff.T
ed $J0 by another house, and then
and not till then, did her employers
propose to increase ber wages to the
same amount Why did they not do
it before L knew another large,
wealthy house that gept a young man
for three years, promising at intervals
to raise his wages, but it was
only a promise. At last he quit
and sought other business, and
then they offered him nearly double
what be had been getting if he would
come back. That is what the prophet
calls "grinding the faoes of the poor
Why wear a poor girl's life and health
away by feeding her on hope noti it
turns to despair? Only a shop clrl !
a young iaay who had once been in
dependent was forced by the common
calamity of these bard times to become
a shop girl and she toM me that the
hardest thing to bear was the stately
coldness of her former friend the
lack of familiar, sooial recognition :
when tbey traded at the counter they
hardly knew ber they said good morn
ing, bnt not in the sweet old way,
After Job had lost his property, he
said : "But now they that are younger
than I hold me in derision whose
fathers I would have disdained to set
with the dogs of my flock."
It is the same old story of sooial in
sincerity. A man never knows who
are his friends until misfortune over
takes him. Thank heaven I there are
some exceptions to this rule, and these
shop girls do sometimes find some
body to love them and share their sor
rows. There is nothing, more unbe
coming to woman than her disposition
to rnle money into her social set and
rule poverty out No real, well-bred lady
will do it My observation is that
this foolish vanity is generally in
dulged in by the shoddy aristocrats
those who have nothing else to their
credit exoept money those whose
fathers got rich by questionable means.
Feachtree is lined with many such, and
so are the fashionable quarters of all
cities. This folly is mainly a feminine
one; the men are not given to it; no
man dares to snub another because of
his poverty, or his humble origin.
With men there is no aristocracy
exoept that of intellect It is re
lated that when Douglas and Lin
coln met for the first time on the
hustings, Douglas, who was a great
aristocrat, said he had not had the
honor of an acquaintance Tith his op
ponent, and, in fact, had seen him bnt
once, and that was when he was selling
whisky behind the bar in a cross-roads
saloon. When old Abe rose to reply,
be smiled from ear to ear, as lie re
marked. "That's so, my fellow citi
zens. That is the only time I ever saw
him until now. He was on one side
of the bar and I was on the other. He
took a drink and I took the money.
We are about even. on that, score."
What's the difference? A nice, sweet,
well-mannered girl or yonng woman
who waits on the customers in a large
dry goods house is on one side, of the
counter and a ricn aristocratio lady is
on the other. One had money, the
other had goods and they exchanged
that's all. Which is ahead in the
omedy vf life od which will be ahead
when the play is ended and final judg
ment is rendered? With one life is a
lasnionable farce; wnn the other a
struggle for bread. "Give ns this day
our daily bread" is her morning
prayer.
The position of these workii. gjra
is a hard one at best, out kind words
and fair wages soften it down greatly.
Tbey beg for these plaoea and get
them, but why women should not be
paid as mucb as men for similar ser
vioe I cannot nnderstand. My in for;
ination is that they are paid about
half and the exployer's excutm is that
com petition' Is very great and as others
cut rates they must do so, too, for la
bor is worth osly what it will bring
and a woman's labor can be bad cheap
er than a man's. . That is not a good
rxonse. It is not to the interest of the
employer to get labor on such terms.
Twenty dollars a month will not keep
youDg woman in good health and
good clothes and leave anything for a
sick mother or a child, or for a doc
tor's bill. A big-hearted, generous
man will inquire into the condition of
every female employe he has, and as
far as possible make it nis own con
cern. JThey are, as it were, his wards
for the time, and he cannot escape the
responsibility.
Before the war there were no shop
girls, but for thirty years this great
transition has been going on, and now
the south, like the north, is full of
working girls. The children and
grandchildren of those who onoe were
proud and independent are now forced
to become their own bread winners.
There is no percepfion for them. It is
daily food for daily labor. The rich
are growing richer by short cuts and
questionable means, all of which in
their last analysis come from the earn
ings of the toilers and grind the faoes
of the poor. Widows and orphans
whose husbands and fathers left them
stock or bonds in a great railroad have
lived to see it wrecked by the unscru
pulous schemers and by the tiiue the
wreckers had done with it their
stock and their bonds were worth
less. Daniel Webster got a fee of
$10,000 for making a speech in
the Myra Clark Gaines case, and it
was noised by the press as an enor
mous fee, but now a common lawyer
gets $50,000 for bringing the money
of a wrecked railroad into court An
incorporated company accumulates a
million dollars surplus and asks the
court what to do with it. There was
no fight, no contest, but the lawyers
who took the decree are awarded
$75,000 for bringing tho money into
court. Beoeivers and lawyers prey
upon the oarcasses of corporations like
buzzards upon the carcasses of brutes,
left for creditors or
FATAL FETE
AT MOSCOW.
FRKB FOOD AND AMCbLMENT.
What is
The Result is that a Thousand Persons
Were Killed and Many iDjured
In the Wild Rush to be First
At the Feast
stockholders. These are the things
that fill the people with distrust and
disgust and paralyze industry and in
timidate capital. I know a lady and
she is sitting near me now whose father
left her $10,000 of stock in a railroad
in Alabama, it was good stock and
had good prospects, but the schemers
got it into court and had a reoeiver
appointed and it was wrecked aud sold
to tho bondholders for a song and she
lost everything but the certificate.
When she comes across it now among
her archives I hear her humming that
sweet old song, "This world is all a fleet
ing show." But let the working girls
cheer up and alwayslook on the bright
side. If tbey can t get married let
them look around and see how muoh
misery marriage t rings now lew wo
men are happily mated. Encourage a
cheerful disposition, and if yon can't
be happy, be as happy as yon can
Trust in the Lord and do good. It is
not all of life to live nor all of death
to die. There are many blessings that
cost us nothing. I never pass by my
neighbor's (Mrs. Field's) front yard
that is radiant with beautiful flowers
but what I think how cheap they are
to me. It is a good idea to sometimes
think of that poor little boy whose
mother covered him with straw one bit
ter night and put an old window shutter
on the straw to hold it down.
"Mother," said he, "it isent every
little boy that has a shutter to hold
down his straw, is it?" And there is
some oomfort in a Persian proverb
that says : "Blessed are they who have
but little, for they shall not be en
vied." Bill Ahp, in Atlanta Constitution.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
There Will Be 15,000 Seats in the
Coliseum Seating; Capacity.
The Democratic national sub-committee
concluded its business Monday In Chicago,
111. The local committee is still short four
teen thousand, dollars of the guaranteed sub
scriptions. The money will be forthcoming
from the guarantors if not from the subscribers.
There will be fifteen thousand seats in the
part of the Coliseum which is to be used for
the convention. The speaker's plat
form with the accompanving seats for
the press will be on the east side of the ball,
midway. On each tide and in front will ra
diate in amphitheatre form, with a gradual
rise, the thousands of seats for delegates and
spectators extending to a line level with the
galleries. Only a few seats are to be put in
the galleries because the committee consid
ers 15.000 a big audienoe to handle, consider
ing the animation which is expected to per
meate the deliberations oi th Democratic
host.
TO PROSECt'TK THE S. A. V.
The Postmaster Oeiierat Tarns the
Case Over to the Department
of Justice
Postmaster General Wilson bas turned
over to the Department of Justice the case
of .the Seaboard Airline Railroad, recom
mending the prosecution of the officials of
that road, if, In the opinion ot the Attorney
General, such action is advisable. Tbe pa
pers in tbe case submitted to the Department
of Justloe allege that the Seaboard Air L!d"
is guilty of an attempt to defraud the gov
ernment by padding tbe mails during tbe
montn oi Juaren last, during which month
the teat of weighing of mail matter over that
line was made in order to form an estimate
of the amount of mail matter carried by the
roaa, wnion would enable tbe Postofnoe De
partment to make a four years contract for
such service and fli the raft of ooapeasauoa.
The popular fete ot the coronation cere
monies, at which between 400,000 and 500,000
people were fed and Indulged In all sorts of
merry-making, was held Saturday on the
Hodyasky Plain, opposite the Petroffsky
Paiaoe, and was thesoene of the first fatal
accidents that have marked the eoronation
festivities. This free feast, which has always
been the popular feature ot coronations, has
hitherto been the oocasion of a great deal of
crowding and good-natured fighting tor
plaoes on the part of ths hundreds of thou
sands of guests of the olty, but no suoh
gathering was ever witnessed on the Hodyn
sky Plain as that whloh assembled. The
crowds, whioh began coming long before
daylight, finally became so donse and so
eager to obtain aooess to the free food and
beer and the free amusements that they
oould not be controlled. . Men, women and
children were thrown down and tramnled
upon, and were either badly injured or killed,
while others had their lives crushed out of
them by the fearful pressure of the vast
crowd.
The feast was held In the presenoe of the
Czar and a distinguished company of guests,
who occupied seats in a large pavillion es
pecially erected and elaborately decorated
for the oocasion. Tbe great Hodynsky
Plain, whereon Napoleon massed his troops
before marohlng into the city of Mosoo, Is
flanked on three sides by the exhibition
buildings and the Mosoow race course, and
extends indefinitely into the country. Upon
it besides the multitude of people who en
joyed the hospitality of the city in eating,
drinking and indulging in all sorts of games
and witnessing various performances, were
encamped a vast army ot soldiers, consisting
of 63 battalions of Infantry, 80 squadrons
of cavalry, 7 sotnlas of Cossacks and 14 bat
teries of artillery, which the Emperor
will review on June 7, the last day of
the festivities. The part of the plain devoted
to tbe festivities was directly in front rf the
paiaoe. This wide grass covered spaoe was
enclosed with Venetian masts hung with bunt
ing, flags and shields, bearing the arms ot
wo various cities ana provinces oi uussla,
and within were booths, tables, open air
theatres, merry-go-rounds, circuses, swings,
etc., almost Innumerable. Surrounding this
were hundreds of wooden booths filled with
with food, suoh as bread, cakes, sausages,
meat pies, caviare, etc.. and in eaoh booth
was an immense barrel of malt liquor or
mead, the food and drink being free to all
who would come and partake of it
Throughout the night there was a constant
sti earn of people making their way to the
plain In order to be in the forefront when
the food and presents were ready for distri
bution, and so dense a mass of humanity as
had gathered there, even in the early hours
of the morning, was never before witnessed
in Russia.
Everything progressed smoothly until the
distribution ot the food and gifts began.
Then the people in the rear began to! -crowd
forward, but the polioe and soldiers a locked
them, and for a short time their was compar
ative order.
Boon, however, theorowd In the rear again
become impatient, and surged forward
despite every effort to hold them back. Bar
riers had been erected in the vicinity of tbe
booths to prevent exoesslve orowdii.g, and
under ordiuary circumstances these would
have been sufficient for the purpose. The
people in front were swept against the bar
riers, where the enormous weight of the
surging mass in the rear was thrown directly
against them. Mad with pain and fright,
the people who were crushed against tbe
barriers struggled to get away, but their at
tempts were fruitless. Suddenly the barriers
gave way and the immense throng swept
forward. Hundreds ot men, women ana
children were thrown down, and to stumble
and fall meant death or serious iujury, for no
power oould check the crowd, many of whom
were in a condition of panic' The authori
ties were helpless, and for a time the scene
baffled description. Many persons were
killed by being crushed against the barriers
before they gave way, and a great number
met their death by being trampled upon.
The loss of life will exoeed 1,000. Borne re
ports place tbe number of dead as high as
2,ouu. The (Jrar has ordered a donation of
1,000 roubles to be paid to eaoh family that
bas lost a membec
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Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It Is a harmless substitute
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It Is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by
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Castoria.
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Da. G. C Osgood,
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"Castoria is the beat remedy for children of
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instead of the various quack nostrums which
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SB. J. F. K.1NCHELOE,
Conway, Ark.
Castoria.
" Castoria is so well adapted to children that
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known to me."
H. A. Archer, M. D.,
in So. OrJord St., Brooklyn, N. V.
"Our physicians in the cbildren'a depart
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and although we only have amoug out
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CAROLINA'S UNIVISRSITY.
Vice-President Stevenson and Many
Distinguished Guests Present.
The commencement exercises of the
State University at Chapel Hill were
the most auspicious ever known in the
history of the institution.
The chief event of the occasion was
tbe visit of Vice-President Stevenson,
who arrived aooompaoied by General
Cox, secretary of the United States
Senate. Misses Leulia Stevenson, Ju
lia Scott, June Harden, Julia Harden
and Lucy Alexander. The Vice Pres
ident and his party were met at Greens
boro by a committee of tbe trustees
headed by Lieutenant-Goveruor
Docgbton, and also other prominent
gentlemen who escorted them to Chap
el Hill. The Vice-President was ev
erywhere given hearty greeting. The
opening event of the day was the
speaking of five members of the senior
class, which began at noon, and in
which E. G.' Allzbrook won the ora
torical prize. The first-honor men
are John C. Eller, William K. Webb,
Jr.. John N. Canada aud Edwin C.
Gregory.
The presentation of diplomas was
made by Vice-President Stevenson,
who afterwards delivered an address of
forty minutes' length. He was given
an extremely hearty reception when he
entered Memorial Hall, escorted by
President George T. Winston, of the
University; General Cox, Governor
Carr, and other publio men and trus
tees of the University. He was intro
duced by General Cox, who said that
North Carolina always delighted to
honor Vice-President Steveneon.
Thelatter's address was almost en
tirely historical, and was read from
manuscript. It contained not one po
litical reference. He eulogized tbe
University and its work, and declared
that intellect and not force will govorn
the country.
At the close of the addrees tbe v ice-
President held a reception, and 1,800
persons shook his hand.
The University bas closed the most
prosperous year in its history, having
631 students on its rolls.
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CONDENSED SCHEDULE.
In Effect April 12th, 1896.
NOBTH BOUND.
No. 2. Daily.
Leave Wilmington 7 25 a. m.
Arrive FavBttHville 10 35 "
Leave Fayettville 10 55 "
Leave Fayetteville Junction 11 05 "
Leave Saiiford 12 22 p. m.
Leave Climax v 2 25 "
Arrive Greensboro 2 56 "
Leave Greensboro 9 0b "
Leave StoUesdale 3 59 "
Arrive Walnut Cove : 4 31 "
Leave Walnut Cove 4 38 "
Leave Kurul Hall 5 17 "
Arrive Mt. Airy 6 45 "
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Dally.
Leave Mt. Airy 9 35 a. m.
Leave Rural Hall 1105 "
Arrive Walnut Cove 11 35 "
Leave Walnut Cove 1145 "
Leave Btokesdale 12 12 p. in.
Arrive Greensboro 12 58 "
Leave Greensboro 103 "
Leave Climax 1 32 '
Leave fiauford 3 19 "
Arrive Fayetteville Junction 4 30 "
Arrive Fayetteville 4 33 "
Leave Favetteville 4 45 "
Arrive Wilmington 7 55 "
KOETH BOUND.
No. 4. Daily.
Leave Bennettsville 8 45 a. m.
Arrive Maxton., 9 45 "
Leave Maxton .....9 50 "
Leave Red Hprincs 10 12 "
Leave Hope Mills. 10 45 "
Arrive Fayetteville.. 10 59 "
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Leave Ho'pe Mills 4 63 ".
Leave Red Springs 5 42 "
Arrive Maxton 6 12
Leave Maxton 6 13 "
Arrive Bennettsville 7 20 "
NORTH BOUND.
(Dally Except Sunday.)
No. lfi, Mixed.
Leave Ramseur 6 45 a. m.
Arrive Climax 8 35 '
Leave Greensboro 9 20 "
Leave Greensboro 9 35 "
Leave Stokesdole 10 50 "
Arrive Madison 1150 "
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Leave Stokesdale 1 28 "
Arrive Greensboro 2 35 "
Leave Greensboro 3 10 "
Leave Climax 8 55 "
Arrive Ramseur 6 60 "
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west, at Greensboro with the Southern Rail
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