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^JVOL. VIII. CHESTERFIELD C, H., 8, cJtl^jfciDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1892. NO. 35*.
M BjpFof the University Hettlement
jfcutfew York is to aid the aid*
* U neighborhood, "without in*
' ,heir #e1f rMl>e?t/' and no
i^^Hpnuung ?h* an assumed.
Ml in i ^ f _-u -?
m^MHousekeepers kfow "boneless ooa Kh,"
and now a nA*ab? ?* the TTMted
Wes Fish OomrnisS^>a anaounoes that
tflsbqtaoless shad is ir prooess of stoVaeloa
and well adrand*1 toward completion.
He does not l^8* his bones in the
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eryie way m sue coa,www,
y^jut by careful bre^HHB^gSh**11?*
| The Seeretary d^C^roMtiry has reV
queitod tlid SSos^Hr of Stato to in'
struct the United 3tft?? couiular o.1uh
everywhere to refuse to oerllfy invoice*
of goods oa lad aftet September 1st ae>
less the m#rcWaudt?t is laroloei after the
metric systeojy This aotloa ie taken ec
Information rr?oelved from the ooasale at
P*qi? end Lyoni, who say that the
t 4tavino" sy?lom of measure meat now ie
na? In ^ raace oa invoices of goals ie
' tended (or the United State j, facilitates
j frauds on the Custom House, and thai
/ the metric system would greatly slraplly
/ ' commercial transactions and facilitati
? comparison of invoices and prices*
' A man up from Venezuela, when
lbef hare beau cutting one another's
throats in a revolutionary matinee, says
of that unhappy country's warriorei
"FalstafTs ragged regiment waia't in it
with the soldier* down there. They are
the hungriest looking creatures ytru over
saw. I've given pennies to them on the |
streot. They wear linen breeches and
an undershirt, and whsn they come into
town they wrap their blankets around
them to cover their nakedness. They
^ carry old flint-lock muskets. There
are a few Remingtons and Winchesters,
but mighty few. They have maohetes.
inflbhete is a sort of big butoherknife
without a point. It is about three
laches wide and thirty inchaa long, aad
pretty heavy. hey out wood and kill
snakes and enemies with machetes.
Bomeof them have shoe), but the moat
of them wear a leather tola with a strap
\ across the heel and too. The bare heels
and toes stick out."
[ not LfTOOSTOH. KDWAIB Him
? Bennettsvilie, B, 0.? Cheraw, ft. C.
Livingston M ?tva *,
attorneys at Li-W.
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Will practice in all the Courts of
lhi<. Fourth circuit.
W S. JACKS IN,
?Proprietor of?
Uherfew Livery 1 Sale Stables
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r wag&vs, bug a ibs, harness,
road carts, Etc., Eta.
er-*e an tilling the cheapest oneb?irae
wagons on the market, and our road
art* art the best in use for the money.
Call on iuS for prices bofore buying elseI
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PRINCE Sl STEVENSON
Ittarneys-at-Laws
\ CHERAW, 8. C.
Prince ?fc Stevenson. partners in litigated
cojurt practice in Chestci field and
I Malboro; counties W. F. Stevenson
will be dt tbe Chesterfield office the first
Mondayt and Taoday thereafter, and
he third .Thursday and Friday, thereafer
?f . ujjt month.
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Lawest Unrfbh( Rata*
, .y OIVKM OH APPLICATION.
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0. Allen Huggina,
I OKM'AI. SUHGEON,
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O. L. Vlck,
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ANOTHER MONEY CROP.
Jig Culture in the South Easy and
Profitable.
Rai.bioh, N. O.?The New York papers
ay fresh figs are being shipped to New
York from California If this is so why
can not we here in North Carolina send
them in much be'ter condition. To-day
(July 22d) figs are retailing in Raleigh
markets for twenty-five cents pec peck
and the crop from now until frost will be
very large. I am going to make an experimental
shipment for the benefit of our
growers and believe thu they can be
shipped in strawberry boxes and crates
just as well, or better, thAn strawberries
are. Figs all over Eastern North Carolina
can be grown as successfully and of
as fine quality as anywhere in California,
and if we once get our slow people stirred
UD to their intercut in the mutter then
are aure to "git there1' in the end. The
interest in the flg crop is increasing here
I hare distributed in the last thee years
ovdr 0,000 fig trees from the North Caro
Una 8'fttion of our thirty varieties of the
choicest figs of Italy and the Levant, and
am beginning to see some of the results.
| We have had recently San Pearo figs,
which weighed a quarter of a pound each.
These were of the fir*t crop, which is
always largo in size of fruit. Those early
figs set in late autumn and remain dormant
all winter and swell out i& spring
when the winter is not so severe as to injure
them. Many of them get nipped by
frost and the early crop is never so large
as the later ones. -The second i r main
crop is now coming on, and is unusually
abundant, and will be until frost
I havo suggested to onr growers and
wish to repeat it here, to take the figs
when ripe, but not too soft, wtap each
in tissue paper and pack snugly in
strawberry boxes, and tnen pack in crates
not longer than thirty-two in a crate, and
I am sure they will reach the northern
cities in good order.
| A number of ftfrmers have written to
ai^ for directions for drying figs. I have
found the following the best plan : Take
tfell-ripeued, figs, make a strong lye of
hardwood ashes. diD the flora in the lv<*.
rinsq nnd wipe dry with a soft cloth,
and dry in any of the cheap, portable
evaporators. When dry pack in boxes
just as figs are packed aoroad. A lye
made of washing soda will answer, but
is not so good as wood ashes lye. The
object is to removo the ucidity of the
skins. The figs can also be treated in
this way aud then instead of drying,
fireserve them in the old-fashioned way,
o syrup: Put them up in glass jars with
neat lithograph labels and they will "sell
like hot cukes." Many a southern lady
could make money in tliis way. A little
ginger root with theut is an improvement.
Here it an industry whieh our Southern
people ought surely todevelope.
I met one of our leading farmers to day,
a member of our Board of Agriculture.
He said that our work here has brought
ahout a wondHul enthusiasm tot-tlm
Sure of cav P*5*"? T?e
that jD , is section more ?re being sown
than *e"ever knew. Formerly from his
station a upml er of car loads were shipped
annually to New Orleans for seed,
but this year they were hard to get at
any price, as the farmers were using
the seed on the'.r own land. I had great
difficulty in getting seed pease wanted
for parties North wno are taking aa interest
in the cr^p. Here is another open
ing for our Soutl rn folks. Hundreds of
farmer* are trying these pease in localities
too far North to ripen them well. They
are finding them valuable, and the demand
will annually increase. Our farmers
should grow them not only for the benefit
of their soil, but for the sale of seed. You
cin not go wrong in this matter. There
will be a greater demai)d every year for
this valuable crop and our growers should
be prepared to meet it. At present the
balance of the trade is against the South
and many goes away from us northward,
but it is in our power, with tbe wonderful
variety of crops we can grow to change
all this, get the balance on our side and
thus make the money stay here. Qrow
Kcase for sale of seed, grow pea<e to feed
ogs and stop sending money North for
bacon; and, finally, grow pease to prepare
your land to grow more of everything
else. All through tho upper Piedmont
country of North Carolina, there is the
finest wheat soil, naturally, in this country,
and the people are attempting to grow
cotton whei^ wheat oq pease fallow would
bring them more mod'ey, and would enable
them to keep stock and make manure
and nil the products of the dairy. I
ate to day chees&made at our experiment
station by Prof. Emery, finer than can be
bought to-day irt Haleigh at twenty cents
per pbund. All of Piedmont N. C., can
tnako good cheese even if they can not
make a market for butter. It will be y
happy daV for the hill country when the#
nutf t An nn mrvafr ihnfr lan/la nnrl
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SiMiTtn for Iron ^^HRNrgioia.
Richmond, Va ?I^^^^HE'ry Court
Wo. P. McRae, of^^^H^, and S. 8.
Patterson, of Richii^^Hwere appointed
receivers for ail the *^Wof the Supreme
Sitting of the Order of tjic Iron Hall and
its local branches in this 8tate. The assets
of the order consist of funds 6n deposit
in banks and moneys in the hands
of the officers of the local branches in
the cities of Richmond, Norfolk and P$
tersburg aod at other points in the State.
Bess and Clover Heads.
Baeh olo /or head is a ootnpound aggregi
tion of flower spikes or tubas, the
whole number averaging about sixty-Ave.
Each of these contain sugar hot to exceed
the live-hundredth paft-of a grain.
Therefore the proboeit of a honey bee
must be inserted into 500 of theee clover
tubes before one single grain of honey
can be obtained. Think of the labor involved
in the mighty task of oolieetiag
one eound of soon sweets. There are
7000 grains in a pound, aod as honey
cootains tbreeTowrtbs of its weight of
i dan a tlL* m u al t
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ALLIANCE BEADING.
Prtiident Butter's Annual lessags.
To tha Worth Carolina 8tat* Alliance
in 8?ion at Qresnsboro.
To the if. O. Farmer?' State AUia nee i
Brbtqrkk:?Ono year ago you placed
your banner in my hands. You placed
me in the front of the N. C. division of
the great national army of reformers.
It was a position of tro>ne >dou% responsibility
and I truit I felt in n large degree
the gravity of the situation. It wai
at a time when the organization was entering
the most critical period of its existence,
a time when wo and our principles
were to be subjected to the supremest
crucial test The year has boon a stormy
one. Every day, Sundays cxclu led, the
Are of the enemy has been poured npon
us with mcrciKss force and in an unscrupulous
manner. Tho money powei
nu leit no stone unturned to crusb the
movement and dowu the cry of the weak
for mere/ and the dem tad of freeman fot
ju tice
Today we me t again. Let us set
what has bee* accomplished; what the
present status of the orga i/.ation is, and
what is our duty in the future. Every
reform movement has its various stages of
growing and development.. Many of
those movements sooner or later reach
the stage of disintegration and decay.
This has been the case when the cause
has been slight or local or temporary ot
when the people failed tr And the trur
cause for a real wrong, and therefore
could not apply the true remedy. Thi
caose of ihe present movement is deep
roo ed and wide spread. It is one that
in a large degree affects nlike every laborer
and wealth producer of the whole country
A portion of those suffering from th?
blighting effects of some great influence
caused tnem to organize to study tbc
situation. They formed themselvt s into
a great vigilance committee to search for
the cause, a cause that made them poorer
while each worked harder created more
weal h, a cause that has made poor the
people whoso labor has made their country
rich. Since this class of men and
this cond tion existed in every quarter
n.t a. ? ?i? '- .1?
?> tug WUUHJ, VI1C uignuiin'iou toon
spread over the whole country. For
vears the cause or rather the causes have
been simultaneously searched for and
studied from Maine to California and
from tho lakes to the gulf. The cause
or part of the causes were found. The
whole organization agreed on them The
) U'llic generally agreed that the evil
causes existed We then appealed to
the law makers of the country for a rem
cdy. Great sympathy was expressed
for our condition, but no remedy was
offered. The organization then formulated
its own remedies for each cause and
appea'ed to the la* ntakers to give us
these remedies. They found fault with
our remedies. We then demanded that
they should give those demanded or
l ciuuig belter. ' That waia 'fair." For
if the wrongs exist, if unjust and oppressive
laws are on the statute books, it is
the duty of our law makers to give us
relief, to give us our remedy or a better
one. Up to date the demands of the
people have been ignored, while every
rcquat of the monopoly corporations and
the ino.iey power has been promptly
agreed to. We have just realized that
the organization cirae too lato for justice
to be gotten by petition. * * *
THE RALEIGH CONFERENCE.
On April 17ch I called a conference of
me Aiiniuce oi tne State through one
representative from each county. I did
it in the interests of our principles and
the cause .of r. forin. While at times during
the year innny of us (though a unit
in thought) have differed in judgements
as to methods, yet today the organization t
is practically a unit in action as well as
thought.: 1 b lievo that the (guidance of
* divine hand has turned whnt at times
seemed to be mistakes, into blessiDgs.
Our seeming error* have proved to be the
essence of wis Won, for by what methods
couid we have have been stronger than
we are Sudsy} Therefore let us at all
times have that chat i y of opinion for
each brother, for we may honestly diffet,
that we have a right to expect from each
other brother.
DBSTfl Or CO!.. POLK.
During the year the organization. National
as well as Slate, has suffered an irreparable
loss, and each member lias felt
a sore berea%pm nt by the untimely death
of our great and beloved lender, Col. L.
L. Polk Wo have never knowu a purer
man, nor has any organization ever been
blessed with a more ardent, devoted and
loyal leader, yet his charity toward thoae
( who differed with him in opinion, and
1 his spiri . of fairness toward those who
opposed him was almost superhuman.
His urea', work and his magnificent example
lives after him. and is today an
inspiration to every informer havo (ho
corn-age of his co ivictions and to carry
on the work for humanity so grandly
and heroically begun. Let us build a
fitting montira nt to his memory, but bis
greatest monument will be the olace ho
noias in tue hearts of his people Let
his Inst words ever be the motto of the
hour, "Do jour duty."
JUMPING FOE LIFE.
The Big- Hotel st White Sulphur
Springs Destroyed
Ashkviixk, N. C.?The Belmont
Hotel, st White Sulphur 8| ring?, Are
miles from the city, was destroyed At midnight
by a Are which broke out in the
laun 'ry and spread with great rapid itv.
There were nearly 200 guests in th?
house a* the time, many of them jumped
from the windows. Mis. Dr. Von Ruck,
of Asheville, was badly injured, and
died Thursday morning. Charles Urecn,
of New Orleans, bad a leg d slocAted.
Clerk Henderson nlso had a le< dislocat- I
ed, aud a colored nurse a leg broken. A
few others were slightly bruised, but none
seriou'ly hurt. A<l the guests lost their
baggage and some of them .other personal
belongings. A good many diamonds
and a goed deal of money were loet in
the fire, numbers of those in the building
ssosping only in their night clothes. The
guest4 made their way, es best tney could,
to Asbetille, where they were fhade Com|
fortable. *
The hotel property was owned by s '
corporation and leased to Dr. Von. Ruck
The building w/? erected at a oust of
I {oS'onitl1141 * inaorsucs of |W,
THREE STAT^tSlEFa'
Telegraphio Dispatched Fro* Many
Points of Interest
The Fields of Vitfial |?rth uM
South O&roliM fcufMIl
aiesnedFW
There nre nbout cut on ft
strike At Pocahontas at present.
The nAtionnl archery toiToaracnt be. no
at Old Point Comfort * Thursday, an
nearly all the clubs la the United Suite
hare representative* present.
Col. John M. Brook en brough died ai
bin residence in Richmond He w a 02
years of age ai.d a native of iiiebmond
county. Ho commanded the 40th Virginia
regiment in the war tip to Qettys
Mrs Ye, wife of tha'Q^pan secretary,
has cot-been well for son^^nonths | nst,
and will leave WashinH^M^Ptemher 5th
for a visit to her homevZiVrea, to v hich
co'in'ty she will be accompanied by Miss
Davis, of Abingdon, Va.,fwho will go as
a missionary. they wi'l sail flcptembei
17th from San Fiancisco.. . v
A fa al and sb gular accident occurred
on board the train a ter it left Quantico
for Frederi ksburg Saturday evening, by
which a colored woman bad h- r neck
broken Sbe wasou hrr v j?y fr in Washington
to her home, acar 1 hooka stfition.
After the train left Quantlco she Attempted
to pass through the ?ar, when
by a sudden lurch of the train she was
thrown viol n'tIy agnindt the buch jof one
The residence of R. 1). Ross
at Asheboro was burned Tuesday.
The Rowan CountT Fair will be held
in Salisbury October 4-7.
Guy Maxwell, ag?4 23, was drowned
10 Lake Fortyth atytMiavl.otie, Friday
A you g lady, MJim Ka^ iPat'er, was
killed by lightn'ng at F*nJUjrVi Turuout,
Brunswick county.
The aggregate valuation >vWU?e property
in Forsyth coontv, is b?wa by th?
taxlisters, is $?,ft?9,A% jfine property
held by the whito cllt|$p*lto rated at
17,400,608, and the a^Srffl people at
$122,723.
Dr. Kemp P. Bailiff theVState Un
irersity, has accented M invitation to
deliver the historical a&cff&l at Raleigh's
centennial celebration on October 19th
11 s tubject as assigned by the committee
will bi "The Fiist Hundred Years of
Ruleigh."
The convention of oystsp' growets was
held at Ocracoke last week. Resolutions
were adopted and ordered to*be present
d to the Legislature nety winter that
tho oyaterman were opp^sd to scraping
or dredging of any kind on oyster
grounds.
Two Second AdventAtV* man and his
wife, havafbeen '"SP'r^S r"""*in(jat
Christian chaple, in LCnoif county, for
about three months past. I Their church
now has * membership of al)out 140. The
meetings are very seusatioiwl, the people
fulling on the floor in ttancei, -.'in. Three
young men of that sectioai hava been ordained
ministers of this ehsreh.
SOUTH OAROXdHAt
Charleston has quarantined against tht
cholera.
jL.ieuc. uotntnanuer wml W. Hhodet
has been ordered to dutjaf the Mftl ?Ution
at Port Royal, SC.- '
The acreage of sea islanAcotton fas the
State is 12 to 15 per csolUeM than las*
A little boy named Joh^Jleldow was
drowned in Colonial LskeiMOharl^teu,
Thursday. W ,
Fairfield county fair wA be held at
Winnsboro October 2T-28%Whe 'Rich*
land fair will open at ColdBGia on Nov.
The Geo getown Kice]f<Jt has recently
put eleven Kngleburg rtce bullera i?i its
mill at a coat of $4,000. Tho acreage in
rice is increasing. ,?r ;
OTHJBB "TAIflfr. N
A coroner's jury at NsSlivitV, Teup , I
Investigated the ldllicg of J Fl. Taylor,
a horse thief, and returnees verdict that
Sheriff Hill was justified in killing the
man.
A man at Macon, Gn., has a $10 note
of the State of North Carolina, printed
in 1788. While he is rather proud of his
treasure ss a curiosity he cannot help cal
cula'ing the compound iatcrest he tins
lost by the money lying there uneinp ojyed.
To Invite Senator Hill to Topeka.
[From the Kansas City Titles.]
Topbxa, Kan.?The Knisas Democratic
Flambeau Club of TopeV* at a m?etI
ing voted to invite Seuator David B. Hill
| of New York to visitTopefcfthis fall and
I > be their guest For. tbi^purpose the
* following committee on Xvitatinn ?
I appointed with order* to toport at the
I next regular meeting: '.fudge John
Mar in, Major R L. lk>fr<n, C. K. Hoiliday,
Jr.. Eugene Hagan, lugeae Wolfe,
S B. Isjohart, the Hoi M Tlccry, Rankin
Mason, John Mileham/ and A. J.
Arnold. ^
ja tndlan* Beanp in Bo^th Carolina.
RocKTiLua. IkD ?Jan. H. Morrow, a
well*known horae jockey elf Washington,
waa arreated and lodged in jail here charged
with producing abottio# upon a wo
man at Columbia, 8. C., some maniha
ago and from which it is reported alio
died. A letter waa received by the au
thoritiea bene aome weeka ago to keep a
lookout foe him; as he had been indicted
for the offenee at Columbia.. The South
Carolina authorities have been notified
by telegraph. l
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Two Roads Didn'CT Sign.
Ati*amta,Ga.?The SwUmo) Steamship
and railway Association a^Krned after
nearly all the roads of VirApia, the Carolinaa,
Tennessee, Georj^^Aod Florida
signing, the Cinciuna^^^^Mpr" and the
Alabama Grnat South^^^Bigfailed to
sign the agreement. ^^^^Mrink baa
aevan days in which td^^^^Ahis mind
The impress on am>ngl|^^^Ktatbert is
that thaw will be a JjHflBooycitt of
tbe*0 roads unless Major Flnlt givain. ?
The Strika Bnded.
BinrTAl.o. M. Y.?Tho switchmen's
strike la officially fltolaiwd off. Effective
At midnight
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A ROMAN^ BULL.
The Pope Dismisses Cardinal 11 ug 1
giero in Disgrace.
All Germany's Sons Must Learn the
Art of War. Bays Xmperor
William.
Rotfs, Italy. - Great excitement 1ms
been caused by the dismissal of Cardiunl ,
Ruggiero, Prefect of Financial Alfa:rs of 1
the Pro^ngnnda.nnd who has lteen looked
upon as the probable sncces-or of PopLeo
XIII. It is said tl at the Pope himself
ordered Ruggiero's dismissal, being
convinced, as a result of inquiry, that
Ruggiero, and not Monaiguor Folchi,
was the really guilty - putty in connection
with the misinvestments, to use a mild
term, for which Mo; signer Folchi was
diunis ed from the Paunl service about a
year ago. The diYUTOsnl of Folchi was
brought about, it is said, by Cardinal
PlfanrisSA ? ffrtlslll tsrae H t .. S ..
**H6A,V'V & vivm i*i i?/?-v?ininuti iniu
to the Pope, nod hnd con' rol of the Pupal
unds. It was alleged that, io the winter
< f 1890-91, Monsignor Folchi, supported
by Prince Buotioompagni and B*ron
Lszzarooi, resolved, in order to sa\c tinBanco
di Roma, in which the Vatican
held 10,000 out of 12.0C0 shares, besides
other securitits, to establsh first iu Paris
and London, nod afterward in Rome
Berlin and New York, a syndicate of
Catholic bank*. with the object of abso
blng the iitinncinl societies of Rome
tli t were known to be m a disastrous
condition, and to icatore them to vitality,
while at the same time laising the vnlmof
the depreciated securities. Above all
they wanted to save the Banco di Rotua.
intending,as they eventually did, entirely
to reconstruct It. The scandal arising
out of the aftatr has already been made
imblic. Later investigations appear to
have exonerated Folchi and implicated
Huggiero. There is great excitement in
church circles, and it is generally bp
icved that a tremendous scandal >
awaiting disclosure.
Bkrlin, Okiimany.?It is announced
semi-ofllcially that the Emperor's speech
at the Emperor Fran Josef's banquet liabeen
misquoted and distorted, and that
the declaration that he has been credited
with making against Caprivi's military
bill was ODly a conditional one What
the Emperor really aaid was that the
Oerman people could not expect to have
the service-term reduced to two years un
less they were willing to pay for it. The
numerical increase of the army, in sccoid
ancc with the two-year service pi n
must be accompanied by increase of np
propriations, otherwise the efficiency of
urmy would be impaired. If the people
refuse to grant such an increase the Emperor's
preference was for an army of the
present size, rath r th?n for one of more
men yet with inferior equipment and discipline.
A CLOUD-BURST AT ROANOKE
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Over $100,000 Damage Done and a
Kan Drowned.
Roanoke, Va.?A cloud burst over
this city at 0.80 Monday night and rain
fell in torrents over four houts,filling cellars
and lower floors of business houses
on Campbell and 8alem avenues and Nelson,
Jefferson, Henry and Commerce
streets. Doors were burst open, windows
crushed in by floating debris and goods
washed away. The loss in goods damaged
will reach $100,000. Many buildings
are seriously damaged by the un
d rinining of foundations.
Barney Smith in trying to cross Salem
avenus stepped into au excavation for a
sewer ana was drowned. Policeman
Peck lost his fo iting there and fell in and
was pulled out insensible. It is said
that other people have been drowned,
but the report cannot be verified. Men
> nd horses travelling the flooded streets
were compelled to swim.
The electric light station was flooded.
The electric cars are not running. and it
will bo a week before light* ancT power
for the operation of machinery in many
establishments can be supplied.
The storm was confine J principally to
Roanoke. Six miles westward there was
only a sprinkle. Farrae s two miles
South of the city were nloughiug, and
north and east the rainfall was very light
Waa Afraid He'd Be Elected.
Jackson, Mus. ?The Rev. J. H.
Gambrell, the Baptist minister who was
some weeks since nominated forCongiess
in this district by the People's party, has
withdiawn. He gives the strange reason
that he thinks he will be elected if he remains
a candidate He says he cannot
afford to give up his chinch and go to
Congr sj, and that his former ci ndidacy
was foi tlu* purpose of assisting in the
reform inovemci.t. His reason is tlu
thenie of much diverse criticism.
Richmond's Chamber of Commerce.
tiiCiiMOND, Va.?The come--stoneof
I lie chamber of committee was laid iu dti^
dasonio form at 3 o'clock. The grand
?>dge of Masons a* 3:30 proceeded to the
? U\ corner Main and Ninth streets, the
K- iglits Templar actiug ns escorts. The
address was delivered by Colonel John
IV Purcell in behalf of the chamber.
A Mountain Cave Hospital.
Mrmpiiis, Tjcnn.?A special from Coal
Prruili aiva 11 mnnntainnnr ovrtt'nrl lioro
b inking information of the discovery of
n ho pital in the mountains a few miles
from Coal Creek which the miners have
im rovised into a cave. He says he saw
21 deud bodies there and a large number
wounded. _______
Used Her Dress to Take Her Idfis.
New York, N. Y.?Mary Burns, aged
/82, of 42 Christie street, was arrested on
the Bowery last night for being drunk
s* d dis rderly. She was locked up in
'the station house and this morning was
found dead. She had torn her dress into
sh i ds and hanged herself to the bars of
the window.
To Prison for Hugging Oirle.
Nyack. N Y.- Ju-tice Matthews of
this place seut John Lampkeof Brooklyn
to Rockland county jail for two months
for hugging girls on the street.
.First Frost in New Hampshire.
Concord, N U Aug. 23. ?The first
frost of th ? season pro yd led it) thii
laity this morning.
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THE DBEAD CHOLERA.
(J. S. Government Precautions to
Prevent its Coming Here.
People Dyini By the Thoueande in
Oermany. Persia and
Buaaia.
Washington, D. C.?The State Dep
rtment received further advices re'ativc
to the cholera, of a very disquieting nature.
The vice consul general at Teheran,
Mr. Fox, son of a prominent newspaper
man at Washington, D. (!.. na\s the esti
mated deaths in Persia are 35,000; 5,000
in Mesched, IS,000 iu Tabriz., 8,000 in
Teheran and 10,000in other'plnces His
appeals for assistance to the American
hospital in Teheran have already been
maac public. *
The consul at Hamberg telegraphs that
A 1 iL tsl At. - A .fA_ 1 U A 1 L
me ?um nuea 01 wai city uuiuu may i
Asiatic cholera hu been prevalent therfb
since August 18th, and t h jtf- <fp 10 Ab?uat
83d there were 891 cases and 75
deaths. Nevertheless, the fact of the existence
of cholera thero was denied, u,>
to August 28d, just as it is uow also denied
at Havr.,*. The attempt to suppress
accurate informs'ion occasions much uueasineis
to health officers here.
THE DREAD pestilence in hamburg.
Hamburg, Germany. ? One hundred
and sixty-nine bodies of cholera victims
are awaiting burial in this city. So great
is the terror caused by the cholera that
it is d fficnlt to get men for the work of
burying the dead and many assistants of
undertakers have deserted* their places.
Business is prostrate and shipping is going
to other ports.
So serious u the panic thnt Russian
immigrants now in the city lind it ditli
culty to procure food, as everybody tries
to avoid them.
At Altena the army surgeons have been
ordered by their superiors to assist the
civilian doctors in caring for the cholera
victims.
an! whip in a state of terror.
Antwerp, Holland.?The excitement
in this city over the outbreak of cholera
is increasing. There little doubt that the
dise- ec was brought here by vessels from
eastern Europe. The first victims were
dock laborers. They were taken to the
hospitals, where the doctors stated that
it was ordinary cholera nud th t nothing
was to be dreaded from it. The disease,
1 1 At I I* 1
uumuTcr, aurcau nuu iin: (iiidih; uccjiiur
alarmed. The first victims died almost
immediately after entering the hospital
and the appearance of the bodies showed
the disease to be Asiatic choh ra.
london moving against tiie ciiol.kra
London.?The health commTtce of the
municipality held a meeting to consider
precautions against the cholera. It was
announced that all the steamship lines
proposed to suspend their immigration
tiaffic until the danger from cholera:
should be over.
re MAS xkached Albion's sitobjcs. '
London.?The Asiatic cholera has arrived
in England. The steamer Gemma
from Hamburg has entered at Gravcsend
bringing several cases of the plague.
Two women on the steamer have died
from the cholera and another victim, a
man, is improving. The news causes
great consternation at Gravescnd.
Paris.?At Havre forty-eight fresh
cases of cholera and 21 deaths are reported.
RUSSIAN TRADE CUT OFF.
Konigsbbho. ?The government has ordered
the suspension of all traffic on the
Russian frontier except at Eydtkumen
and Prostken. A multitude of intending
emigrants have been stopped at points on
the frontier and driven back to Russia.
FEARFUL CHOLERA MORTALITY IN RUSSIASr.
Petersburg.?Thursday.
ing to the official returns, Jjjfere were
0,822 now cases of cholenv^figainst 5,070
on Wednesday. Ycstvrd^ there were
2.077 deaths reported against 2,748 for
Wednesday. In St. Petersburg there
were N>nnrt/)d Ifl.t n?w oi
r-- - ?uu ait
deaths.
steamship votaqk8 affected.
London. ?1The Hamburg A nu-rican
steamship Columbia will not proceed to
Hamburg She is unloading here and
will start for New York 011 Saturday
The steamship Normandie, of the same
line, will not be allowed to land, it is
said, although she declined to take on
board 400 emigrants who applied for pussage.
"No Mormons Need Apply."
Richmond, Va. ? Pursuant to adjournment
a meeting of the citizens of Hanover
county was held at Weaver Dam depot
on Saturday to take into consideration
the "Mormon settlement." It was re
solv?d that no Mormonism would Ire tolerated
and a committee was appointed t ?
acort the Mormons to the border of the
county which was promptly done, and
upon promise of the elders not to return
they were released.
Ran Away With Hia Mother-in-Law.
Salem, Va. ?A citizen of this place
has been placed in a curious predicament
by the nc'ion of his sou in law. The
latter, who lives with his father-in law
and works at the mines of the Snleiu
Furoa- ce Company, returned 1 nine a few
nights ngo and eloped with his motherin
law. The 'ather in-tnw Ins ins ituted
a silk for divorce on the gr..11...I <>i desertion.
Mr. Cleveland Won't Oo Stumping.
DC7.7.A IID'H MAY, MAS*. -KXPresident
Cleveland has felt oblige.I to
decline nil invita ions to jnnkc political
speeches. from whaccr put of tlie
country they come. He does not expect
to make a political sp eeh (lMiinu the
campaign.
Charleston, 8 C., is tnak'ng soundings
to d*epen its hnibor, so as to admit the
biggest ocean ships.
Dr. Le lie R. Keeler, of bi ch'oiidc of
god fame, has sued the L itdon Ijancet
for libel.
Ih Louisiana Lotteiy w ill remai . New
Orleans.
One man out o.' every twenty-five
copies hU own ho\m In Eaglto<l?
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. PRETTY POLITICS.
Interesting Events {from All Over
The Field.
Nominations For Congress and Stats
Tickets Made at a Lively
Rate.
A convention of Ohio Democratic colored
men will be held at Akron on September
15-10.
Lynchburg, Va.?The Democratic
nominating convention for the Sixth District
nominated Hon. Paul C. Edmunds
for rc-elcction by acclamation.
At Richmond, Va., the Third party
district met and nominated Walter E. \
Orant for Congress. ^
II jli'ilu inn illn, Yfl , iftf ^ ?|f|
Poiigreasionarconvention for the Fifth
nominated Claude A .Swansea of Pittsylvania
county. ?' . , ^^5
Rat.eigii, N. C.?John S- Henderson
was renominated for Congress by acclamation
by Democrats of tb<* Seventh District.
Frank Koonca is nominated for
Congress by the Third party in the Third
District.
The number o! voters registered in
Mississippi and entitled to take part in
the November eleeticu is about 80,000,
of whom 0,000 are negroes. It is estimated
that 94 per cent. of the negroes -?
failed to register.
Col. \V. P. Ilreekcnridgc has Ajecu
oflieially declared the Democratic nominee
for Congress from Ashland district
in Kentucky, no cundidate having appeared
against him.
Senator IIulc stated in nn interview
that Mr. Hlainc will, If physically able,
deliver two or three speeches during the
cuinpsign in Maine; otherwise he will
express his views in a letter. v~" The
"Washington Democratic
( invention at Olympia nominated II.""?'?
>'ntvelly of Yakima, for Governor; J. 1ft.
Monday for Cougress; II. (\ Wi son for
Lieutenant Governor, and II. K. Ilannn
and II. W. Blinker for the Supreme
bench.
During the session of the Kentucky
Legislature a Senator said that any man
who said the journal was incorrect 'died
from the tip of his ljing tongue to the
bottom of his black, bribe-taking heart,"
and that he was astonished that the Senate
would tolerate such a member who
camo into tho Senate "bleary eyed and
incapable of comprehending the business
before it." When he was called to order
ho "disclaimed any iutention of being
personal."
TWO PUGILISTS IN A ROW.
Corbett and McCaffrey Nearly Coma
txyBlows?The "Chip on the
Shoulder."
? XT X' r..i T Tt -T \
J 1 flllK, n. J. JUUK'.t ?|. I
belt. the California pugilist. and Domi- v
neck McCaffrey, who is now acting as
boxing instructor in the Manhattan Club,
nearly came to blows at the Madison
Square Garden.
McCaffrey came to the garden to accept
an offer that has appeared in several
papers by which Corbctt was to stop
McCaffrey in 4 rounds on September 12,
at the Manhattan Club. Corbctt denied
that he had made any such offer, whereupon
McCaffrey exclaimed: "Why, it
has been in all the papers." at the same
time tapping Corbctt on the arm with a
folded newspaper he was carrying.
"Don't you touch me!" cried Corbctt,
excitedly; "keep that paper off of me!"
"Does it hurt you" asked Domineck
sarcasti :ioij?JV7" At that Corbctt made a
i$mrtig*fhrough'P draw back his right
MSnd for a blow, bit' his better judment
prevailed and he onlj remarked: "Don't
try to monkey with me9r l'ff chuck you
out of that window." \
"I guess I can protect mj^dV replied
McCaffrey. v_
Curbctt flnully offered to ItoT^L-Caf n) |
frcy four rounds before the Club giving
the largest purse, the man having the "
best of it to get the decision and
would bet the amount of the nurse that
he would knock Domincck out. McCaffrey
unswcred that he only intended
to accept Corbett'H original proposition
and after a lot of talk it fell through.
TILLMAN ELECTED.
South CArolinas's Present Governor
Carries the Primaries.
Com .miua, S. C.? Returns are coming
in slowly. The towns arc largely in the
majority for the Shcppard or Conservative
ticket: whereas Tillman and his ticket
have their chief strength in the country
districts. Iteports coming in from the
towns put Shcppard in the lead.
At the Democratic primaries in this
Chester county Hemphill, for
Congress, carried the county by 400. Tillman,
for Governor. 500 majority.
Returns indicate that Tillman has carried
Greenville county by from '100 to 500
majority.
The indications arc that Tillman will
carry York county by not less than 700
majority. The race between Hemphill
ami Strait is so close that it is impossible
to my who will get the majority. Hemphill's
friends are most hopeful.
A feature of the balloting in Columbia
was the refusal of the managers of the
..l.w*:.... nllnm 1 If I f?^l. I *
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vote. Col llaskcll is the mini who led
the independent Democratic inovenicnt.
ngainst Tillinnu two year* ago. When
asked if he was entitled to vote he replied
that he had been a Democrat nil his life
and had been a member of a elub for ten
years. Being asked if he would pledge
himself to abide the result and support
the nominee he replied ' [ decline to
pledge myself to abide the result of the
primary and to support the nominees of
the party, such pledging at the primnry
e'cctioiis being against the fundamental
principles of a republican form of government,
against the rights of free men and
in violation of Bonn i Democracy."
MacRne Associate Justice.
Hai.kioii, N. C.?Gov. Holt has appointed
James C. McRae, of Fayctteville
to be Associate Juat'ce of the Supreme
court, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Judge David Davit.
Henry W. Grndy, only son of the la
mooted Henry W. Grady, will enter the
fniveraity iu Virgiuiu la October.
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