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The sun., 1889-11-13
OrnltholoGIst. In Convention.

The seventh annual conference ofthe Amerl-
can ornithologIsS' Union begun Yesterday morn.
ing in the Museum OF Natural History. Among those
present were tho HicoPresdents of tho Union Msssrs
Elliott CSnos and Robert Ridgeway OF Washington,
Treasurer William butcher OF this city Charles +.
hatchelder' Ghas b. Cory and Vim. Brewster OF Cam.
BRIDGE Or. Edgar A. WeurnE U. S. A.. John H. sage OF
Portland, Conn George b. 6ennett OF Erie, Jonathan
Dwight Jr and Frank ". Chapman OF this city Dr. J,
Armory JerieB OF BoSton, L. Bedding OF Stockton Cal
Louis A. zerega, Ernest T. Thompson, Leyerett NJ.
LoomiA and MrH Olive ThoTno Miller. Tho next con,
KreBB will be held Ia Washington.
The sun., 1889-11-13
GlblIn E1peets . Pardon.

Unless Gov. Hill again intercedes. Sheriff
Pack will to-day for the third time set the death watch
on young Charles Gblu. who killed Madeline GoeE In
February 1885. The date OF his execution Is now nxod
for Nov "a Oblin does not believe that he will die ON
the gallowL He has gained NIFTY pounds since no has
been Imprisoned In tho Tombb and he keeps . scrap
book In which he preserves everything he hdS in the
newspapers about his case go,
said Yesterday, "Snd think ho will pardon me-"
The sun., 1889-11-13
She Has Pound msr Boy.

Judge Bartlett Of the Supreme Court has
granted Mrs Mary Dough writ OF hAbeas corpus for
the production in court OF her son Michael aged IS
years whom after an EXTENDED search she has foune
In the House OF Refuge RAndAlls Island. The boy
" a. Committed as q VAgrAnL without notice to her or
her husband. MIRA Cough says that her husband pro.
vidsA comfortable home, aud that she knew nothing
et me proceedings until her boy had been on The
lalAnd sons uInS,
The sun., 1889-11-13
says sho Was Assaplted and shot.

BRocKToN. Nov. 12.-Mrs. A. +. Boswerth OF
East Bridgewater says that whilo walking from Whit,
man to Brockton about O'Clock last night she was
ovsrtakon by a man named Tyler, who offered her
seat in his buggy Tyler, she says drove into lonely
assaulted her and then hTod ~ her with
Voyer The bullet passed through the wGmAns neck.
making severe wound Mrs, BosWerth made her way
tho house ot her mother hrL ueoIg0 WIthsTsl, on
lAWTSneO street BEookioh
The sun., 1889-11-13
STILL ANOTHER WITNESS.

Mr.. Foley or Eieht,-eIghth Street Adds His
Testimony TO the LOnS Line.
"My trouble dated back 'sa from severe case Of
pneumonia contracted while working In the mines
Then followed rheumatism, and after going under the
care several different physicians went South whore
remained several months and received some bencnt
All this time had trouble with throat severe cough
headache. and pains In chest Physicians told me
had consumption and that frightened me. took COD
liver oil and all kinds OF medicinsA but grow steadily
worse"
The sun., 1889-11-13
JustIcs ,stecLIer Max sIt.

The General Term of the Common Pleas ds-
cdeS that Justice Alfred stecker OF tho Fourth district
Civil Court may in brought recover penalties
for violation OF corporation ordinances although Louis
btsekleT the Corporstion Attorney, is his brother
The sun., 1889-11-13
A PhonographIo Postal Service.

=, CITY OF MEXICO. Nov. 12. via Galveston
Mr. Connery the representative In this city OF Thomas
A. Edison. hI9 made contract With the overnment
The sun., 1889-11-13
NOT WHAT IT SHOULD BE.
lElLLING OFF IN SUBSCRIPTIONS TO
THE GUARANTEES FUND,

mt Stin the Grand Total r. Well 81 To-
ward Four Million, and the Week II Sun
Young While the NotTveary
There was drop yesterday in the sub
scriptions TO the Worlds Fair Guarantee Fund
hardly 100000 being raised. The sum Of t24.-
Oso came in through the Mayors ofice which
was largely the result OF Mayor Grants appeal
Harper & Bros. made up $4,000 Of this sum.
In tho other subscriptions reported yesterday
was one OF $1,000 from @. NJ. Lampson & Co. Of
London. 1t came through Franklin s. Gun,
ther. II. b. Clafin 4 Co.'s employees sub
scrlbed an additional $6,76S yesterday, bring
ing up their total to t22,l6S. This is the sum
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

WEDDING OUT THE NEGRO
The Way They Manage to Get
Rid of Him in Sherman's
State,

Bad on Sherman. At Reley o., q
state OF affairs is brought to light
among the farming communities of
this county, produced by the now
famous "Arnett law Formerly
farms had numerous colored tenants,
nut since the passage of the Arnett
bill, which made mixed schools, the
colored tenant farmer is gradually
being . driven out. Whenev bis
lease upon the land runs out, he is
quietly informed BY his white land,
lord that the latter has another man
for his place, and upon applying to
other farms in the same district. he is
certain to be refused In this man~
ner white farmers gradually, without
violent or harsh means. remove the
colored people from the community,
until there is not one left in school
districts, and the law, which was in
tended to benefit, does positive in-
Jury to the colored man.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
Patents Granted.

To the citizens Of the Southern
States during the past week, and re-
ported for this paper by q. 4. Snow
q Co., Patent lawyers, Opp. U. s.
Patent Office, Washington, ID. c.
w. Z. Beveridge, Baltimore, Nd,
Steam cooker, K. ii. Collyer, New
Orleans, La, Decorticating fibrous
plants, A. Conacher, Augusta, Ga ,
Aair pump, W. p. Cutter, Baltimore,
Nd, Sail, A. Dahlgren. Nashville,
Tenn, Yarn beam or spool, w. A.
Dutton. Rural Retreat. Va, Cultlva.
tor, w, T. Forbes, Atlanta, Ga, Ex-
tracing oil, w. Hassman, Richmond,
Va, Tire heating apparatus. ". Hos
hall. Little Rock, Ark, Planter, L.
Karthaus, Huntsville, Ala, Watch
handspring, G. W. Lindsey, Balti.
more, Md, Stencil frame, NJ. II. Nc
Dowell, Lexington. KY, Fire back
plate, A. Mclean, Belington, W. Va,
Car coupling, P. II. Mishler, Hagers.
town, Md. Portable fence, L. c. Ro.
berts, BroadfOrd, Va, Tiliing draw,
er, j. II. Schenkel, Baltimore, Md,
Lamp attachment, J. Softer, Balti.
more, Nd, Soldering machine. +. w
Sylvan, Savannah, Ga, Musical in
strument attachment. NJ. Toulmin
Baltimore, Nd, Electric railway gate
g. w. Trahsn, Houma, La, Hand
water sprinkler, o. Wells, Eewberry
5. O, Car coupling, 8. J. White
Beardep, Ark, Reversing gear, J. s
Williams, Beaver Dam, Ky, Ca
wheel, J.D. Warrington, Lexington
KY. Railway signsl, II. z. Young
Seville, Fla, Tile machine.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
A GLOUCESTER TRAGEDY.
Various C0njectures as to the
Cause of the Homicide.
Baltimore Sun.

Joshua F. Ross, the lawyer and
politician Of Gloucester Courthouse,
Va, who is under arrest charged with
shooting and killing his uncle, Mr..
George Hughes, was married in
August, 1888, to a daughter Of Mr..
Francis M. Shiplev, 9l3 North Full
ton avenue, Baltimore. The young
lady's name was Miss Rhoda Shipley.
Mrs. Shipley, the mother OF Mrs.
Joshua Ross, says that her daughter
and Mr. Ross had been aqIainted two
years previous to their marriage. At
the coroner's inqueRt Ross is reported
to have made the following statement:
"On Thursdsy, he said, his wife call
ed at his Office remaising some time
and speaking about their domestic
affairs, telling him of her troubles,
saying that his Uncle George had
offered gross insults TO her by max.
ing improper advances. This outrage
Was more than he could stand, and
after having made his wife tell him
all that bad taken place between her
and his uncle, that afternoon when he
left bis business he went home and
10 his uncle's chamber and demand.
ed of him the truth, and that he
(HughesJ told him all that had hap
pened. He asked Hughes ifhis wife's
statement was correst, and Hughes
replied yes, and Ross said, in conclu
sion: "For that / killed him." A
prominent citizen of Gloucester
county is quoted as expressing the
opinion that q quarrel, which is re.
ported between Hughes and Ross .
tew days bef,re the tragedy, was
about the will Of Hughes, that Ross
thought his uncle had made q will
and had devised him (Ross) all of
his properly, and when his uncle told
him differently he became angered.
II is said that no will has been found
ameng Mr. Hughes effects. Ross
yrs member of the Virginia legis.
lature."
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

A hitherto unpublished chapter in
the life Of Edgar Allan Poe will ap
pear in Harpr's Magazine for
March. The old lady who was .he
heroine Of this early love episode oi
the poets gave Mr.. Augustus Van
Clcef permission to write down and
publish her "reminiscences Of IL prov !.
ded her identity should not be reveal.
ed. She declared that the portrait:
of the poet which 10 reproduced in
this Number Of Rarper's was ''tht
best Que she had ever seen, and had
bic expression" She died In the
West In 1887, over seventy years old
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
Missing Links.

The United States are eating more
oranges, lemons, bananas, hgs aud
raisins thin any other county on
earth.
An English tug recently towed II
ship from the south coast of Brazil to
Greenock, Scotland. a dIstance OF
about fur thousand mics. 1t Is the
second longest tow on record.
Two men in Texes had a dispute as
to what "prO bone pu5lico" meant,
and they settled it 10y carving eaca
other with knives. The term means
just what it did before.
The kerosene USED in Dakota
freezes solid at seven degrees below
zero, and it is as much a part of the
household work to melt the cake OF
kerosene as it is to wash the dishes OF
sweep the floor.
Sylvanus Cobb only wanted an hour
to lay the plot of a story and pace
his characters. II would have been
harder for him to write a school com
position than q serial to run for
twenty weeks.
Peter Hastings and Anna Smith. Of
Utica, had been married fifteen min
utes when he called her liar, and
Anna clawed one OF his eyes almost
out, and walked seven miles to her
fathers. house.
Olive Logan has been looking into
the domestic economy of the French,
and she finds it to consist in doing
without things. She says they m Ike
nothing go further than other people,
unless it is talk
jersey City has abolished its news
boys home. II was found that the
boys used it for Ioadng place and
that fturfiiths of its / dgers were
boys who ran away from home an i
bad no IT al need TOR its couyeniences
A tramp contied in an Illinois Jail
dug a hole in the wall. ani could
have passed out had he been willing
to remove some of his clothes. He
had on four shirts and two Is. ami,
rather than part with them, he re.
maired in the Jail.
A subscriber to q western paper
asks, How long does undlsputed
possession of AN umbrella confer q
rightfLl title t1 its ownership Iii:
a fine legal question which the p,s
SCISSOR of some one else's umbrella will
settle according to conscience.
A d adbeat, who had but sixty
cents 10 his name, took blatk checks
went from store to store in Cairo aud
made purchases OF over S40O, filing
out II check in each case. A mar
who signs his name TO chegk witt
a great flourish is supposed to be
rich.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
THE NEWBERN FAIR.
FORMALLY OPENED BY
GOVERNOR FOWLE.
The Entire Exhibition Contains
More than 10000 Articles.

Messenger i3tn,
Everything passed off most satis-
factorily at the opening Of the fish,
oyster aud game fair here to day. The
weather was peri ct and the attens
dance large. Gov Fowle was es-
corted TO the fair ground at 10
O'Clock. and after Rev. Dr. L. y.
Vass b ID otferei the opening prayer
was very gracefully introduced by
Clement Manly, Esq, of this city.
The Governor made brief but
vigorous speech, in which he said
that injustice had been done Eastern
North Carolina, and that what was
needed here was equality and justice
of treatment. THIS he asserted lid
only be secured In one way. and that
was by the creation Of Railway
Commission, which would prevent
discrimination against any particular
section. Eastern NOrla Caroline
should demand a commi ,sion.
The Governor was kly>A very
hearty reception He formally
opened the fair and then viewed the
entire exhibition, which contains
more thai 10000 articles. The
buildings are owned by the Fair
Association, and together with the
grounds. are admirably fitted up.
The display Of fish, oysters and
game are by far the best eyer made
in the State, while those Of field pros
ducts, woods, poultry and in the de-
partment Of taxIdermistry one of re-
marsable excellence. The Fair is a
revelation even TO the natives OF this
section.
Great numbers of people are arriv.
ing, and th, usands will be here to.
morrow and Thursday. On the lat
ter day the Legislature will come in
q special train from X leigh, and will
be bahquetteS At the fair grounds.
The veterans of the Burnside ex.
pedition arrived on u steamer from
New York Tuesday.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The assailants ofSecretary Bayard
are absurdly Inconsistent. They find
fault with him one day for bullying
foreign powers, and the next for fail.
ing TO assert the dignity of our cuun
try. The truth is that President
Cleveland's foreign policy has been
uniformly sensible, dignifed and free
from bluster, but marked by frn
patriotism and sound common sense
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
Il NAV become The fashion 10 O

Il may become the fashion to go
north IN winter. Bijornstjesne Bi.
Jornson, in an article which will cps
pear in Hdrpsr'S Magazine for March,
says that he cannot understand why
people who travel for the sake Of their
health do not choose the winter time
for o visit 10 Norway. "And then
the airl' de exclaims. "There are
no bacteria in that air."
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The Chicago Herald says: at will
take o years salary Of the King Of
Samoa 70 buy o ton Of coAl." In the
United States, where the people are
assured during municipal, State and
national picking time that the people
are the sovereigns, we can say that
over ten Of the sovereign. are in the
same boat with the X. Of 8.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The Newton Enterprise says: A
few weeks ago Mr.. Rec. the dttcc-
tive in the employ of the bondsmen
Of ID. c. keCver and other Kccvers>
vile refugees, started Southwest to
look for them. Few krew that he
was gone until last Friday. when a
Telegram WIS received from hims'a,.
ing that he had arrest d DC. kctv.
er in Sherman. Texas. lie is now in
Jail at that place. and will BE- b ought
back to Catawba a. soon a. the r,p
per requisition papers can be arrang.
ed,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
NO 81.
EXEUNT EXODUS.
WAKE COUNTY NEGROES
WILL NOT GO TO KAN
SAS.
The House Passes the School
Bill Asked for by Citizens
of Raleigh.
Me 'seRger 18th

Messenger 18th.
Many af the negroes in this section
who Were disposed, a few days ago,
to join the Kansas exodus movement
have backed down, and it is not now
thought that over a hundred or 80,
all told, will leave Wake county.
The passage, in the Houae of Rep-
resentatives yesterday, BY a large vote
on the second reading. of the bill 10
submit the school question to a vo;e
of the people of Raleigh township will
be a"capted as test that its act will
become law. Petitions have circus
lated during the past few days for
and against 1t, and received a large
number of signatures. If left to the
people, it will certainly be C .rried, as
the colored people and non. property
holders will vote almost unanimously
for it.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
The Cabinet Harrison Selects

The Cabinet Harrison Selects.
Mondays Indianopslis News, whose
editor is q near personal friend oi
Gen. Harrison's, says there are ex-
cellent grounds for stating that the
eight Executive officers have been
decided upon and that, unless it IS
deemed advisable to change the list
between now and March 4, the nomi-
nations OF the following named will
be sent to the Senate:
For Secretary Of State-James G..
Blaine of Maine.
TIeasury-William Window, ol
Minnesota.
war-Jerremiah Rusk, Of wiscon-
sin.
Navy--John r. Thomas. of Illinsis'
Iuterior-J. w. Noble, of Missouri
Attorney Geheral-W. IL. Ii. Mis-
Ter, Ut Indiana.
Postmaster General-John Wana-
maker, of Pennsylvania.
Secretary of Agriculture War
ner Miller, Of New York.
II is believed that this is the list
now. and that Il will stand unless
Mr.. Miller declines the Agricultural
portfolio,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
Curious Things of Life.

DR.. ID. ID. Reynolds, of Rockford,
Mich wears buttons made of $50
gold pl' ces on his clothes.
Piivate detectives are now em.
ployed to watch the gifts at fashions
able weddings iii Philadelphia.
A company has been formed in
Ne" YORK which proposes to make
machines for the deli. cry OF postage
stamps automatically by dropping a
cOlH IN the slot.
Five years ago good specimen of
a mummy could be obtained in
Alexandria tor So. rhe price has
now advanced to SIS, with 81 extra
for a real old veteran.
St. Louis has got hold of nan
who has stolen twenty eight horses ia
si1 months, and ne is not only eighty.
two years Of age, but lame, near,
siSnied and suffering with asthma.
a church at Atmont, Mich, raises
money in a novel way. A box is
placed in the church and the menu
6ers on their birthdays drop as many
pennies in the box as they are years
old.
Forty tons of stone have been left
on scaffjld fifty feet high in Mark
Lane, London, for two years past,
ani the people have just woke up to
the TACT that they may feel some.
thing drop.
Peter Clark, an Obi, lad, hung to
a beam on railroad bridge while q
train of forty.six freight cars passed
over his head, ana be says be couldn't
DO it again for the best cus;ard pie
ever made.
A Boston artist ha. had an eloquent
irlbute paid to him by game cock.
lie painted the bird 50 naturally that
1t became excited when shown its
likeness aud with beak aud spurs.
destroyed the picture.
A Mississippiau boasts Of having
hai tile ague for twenty.ssven
straight years With only one break Of
three weeks. He set out to beat the
SHAKES at thsir own game, and there
are l5O pounds left Of him yet.
Living in Japan is very cheap.
You eau rent a big house, keep three
servants, have u drive every d4y, and
live off the fat Of the land for s. per
week. In addition to this the ma.
tivss w"l take off their hats to you.
John Leibenderfer, of Beaver Falls
Pa, bled to death rs a result of hay.
ing tooth pulled. Several physi.
cians attended, him, but were unable
to check the flow Of blood. He was
strong, healthy man in the prime
Of life.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The Greensboro Workman says
A little daughter of Mr.. Eugene
J, hnston, Of Salisbury. died from the
effects Of strychuine poison on the
18th inst. She and some other chill.
dfen had been playing Doctor, " anu
by some means they had access Il
some pills containing strychuine. Mr.
Johnston little daughter died died
within an hour;
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

London cabman was arrested for
excessive cruelty 10 his horse by
whipping Upon consepting to give
evidence against the cab owner from
whom he hired the horse, he himself
was discharged and the owner was
sent TO prison for q month.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The Philadelphia Record savs
Eenery George has planned to make
three months tour TO l. gland,
Scotland and Ireland for the purpose
Of Occurring on the land questien. lie
will sail on March 2.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27
Tobacco Used In Europe.
Uhlands woehsns nn.

The total tobacco consumption Of
Europe is about 2t pounds BY each
inhabltant In the Netherlands the
proportion is little over 7 pounds to
each inhabitant; in Austria Hungary
3 8 pounds In Denmark, 81 pounds,
in Switzerland 33 pounds; In Bel.
gum, 80 pounds; in Ger many, 3
pounds; in Norway, 90 pounds; in
France. 81 pounds; in Sweden
nearly 2 pounds; IN spain, Ii
pounds; in Great Brltaia aud Ireland
|. "a pounds; in Italy, | 25 pounds
and in Russia, Ia pounds. In the
United States the proportion is saiC
10 be greater than that Of any Euro
pean country except Holland-4i
pounds per Inhabitant. The larges
revenues derived from tobacco or,
those of France, Great Britain
Austria. Hungary, and then SpaiI
and Italy.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The New York Tribune says: A
bill before the Nevada Legislature
makes il amisdemeanor for any wo
man TO wear o hat Of any theatre Of
greater height than three inches.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

1he Washington Critic, says: Ia
a report # Mrs. Clevelaud's recep.
iion the writer speaks Of Mrs Cltve.
lat d : 81 nder II tie arm" The re-
porter must have been thinking Of
somebody else.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The L ienton Fisherman Ermer
says: The Norfolk nnd South, rn
Railroad is building q Passenger dc.
pot at this place. Good!
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

Tie Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle,
says: Never before we're there so
Nany new enterprises on foot in the
south, covering such wide. wide
range cf industries and so free from
sp' culative booming. The South is
at work and the future is full Of
promise. We have but to work
practically in order 10 realize the
prosperity that awaits the South in
Tue very near future.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-27

The Memphis .1ruiunce SAYS: The
better rlan tor Democratic journals.
seems to Us, would he TO wait until
the rrcsid' ut has chosen bis Cabihet
aud announced ms policy. Then his
adm iuisttatton should be approved
It wise and con Icmned ifotherwise.