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The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
HASN'T CHANGED.
Rather Have the Small POx Than tn e
Swell Head
by United Pre- 81

New YORK, March 21.-Tnos- A. Edi-
son, in a reply TO letter from Mr..
Fred Catlin, manager of the coming
''fast sending tournament, intermated
that lie might have drifted too far away
from his early telegraphic ass ociations
to be interested in such matters, writes
as follows: Il hope | haven't changed
a particle. I'd rather have the small
pox than a swell head. Put me down
for twenty FIVE. Yours,
THOS. A. EDISON.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
whose faithful attention this movement
has been committed.
Signed ". T. KORNEGAY,
JOHN F. CROWELL
J. A. CUNNINGGIM,
Committee Of Trustees

y. a. CUNNlNGG1M,
Committee Of Trustees.
After considering the communication,
the Raleigh committee came to the fol-
loving conclusions:
''WHEREAs, We are informed BY the
board of trustees of Trinity College,
through their committee, that they have
received very liberal offer from the
city of Durham to locate said college at
that place, which they think it to the
interest of the institution and church to
accept, III case the city Of Raleigh will
release them from the contract existing
between the North Carolina Conference
and the city of Raleigh, and send a re-
quest for such release; and,
WHEREAS, We are informed that if
the release be granted, so that the offer
OF Durham can be accepted, the opposi-
tlon heretofore existing to the removal
of the college will be withdrawn, and
harmony thus secured; and,
WHEREAS, We believe that the gener-
Gus offer from Durham is made, not in
a spirit of rivalry or antagonism to Ra-
leigh, but in good faith for the imme-
diate and future good of the college and
church in the whole State; and,
WHEREAS, We, as friends of the
college, believe that if located in Dur
ham it will be in the midst of those who
are, and will continue to be, it's STRONG
EST FRIENDS and most ABLE and WILLING
supporters, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That we, the committee,
representing the city of Raleigh. while
we would be delighted to have the col
lege here and are willing to perform our
| part of the contract for it's location here,
would not stand in the way of a better
offer and thus hinder it's usefulness or
retard it's progress, and therefore here
by grant the request of the board of
trustees and consent to release them and
the North Carolina Conference of the
M. E. church South from any obligation
now existing to remove Trinity College
to Raleigh.
This resolution was adopted by the
Raleigh committee, subject to the ap-
prcval Of majority of the subscribers
to the Trinity College fund. A meeting
of the subscribers will be held next
Monday night, in the mayors Office, to
finally determine the matter.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
Weekly Business Report.
tBy United Press. ]

NEW YORK, March 21.-R. G. Dun's
Report of Trade reports the following
failures for the last seven days: For the
United States, 215; for Canada, 40; to-
til, 255; compared with 260 last week.
For the corresponding week of last year,
the fgueres were 221 in the United
States, aud 20 in Canada.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
A Hotel for COlOred People.
fBy United Press. !

WASHINGTON, March 2l.-The House
committee on military affairs to day or
dcred favorable report on Representa-
tive BOwden's bill authorizing the con-
ruction of hotel for colored people on
Il government reservation at Fortress
Monroe, Va
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
TO GOVERN AS WELL AS REIGN.
His Mission to Be.
(By United Press.)

LONDON, March 21.-In an interview
to-day respecting the position OF the
German liberals under the new govern
ment, DeBarn berger, the lead Il of that
party in the Reichstag, said: Emperor
William II conceives his mission to be
not merely to reign, out to govern
This was the beier of MS grandfather
before him, and it is very far from
proven that his father had fundamen-
tally different ideas of the functions of
the Prussian monarcy. The Prussian
constitution, and the constitution of the
German Empire, leave to preroga iv' S N
incomparably wider field than it occu-
pies in the English system.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
DROWNED HER CHILD.
The Crime of ColOrcd Woman at
ingtOn.
Especial to the CHRoNICLE)

Especial to the CHRoNICLE.)
BURLINGTON, March 21. 1890. -Coro-
nor Freeman held an inquest over the
dead body of colored infant, about ten
miles north of here to-day. The verdict
was that the child came to it's death by
drowning at the hands of its mother.
She was arrested and committed to Jail
without bail.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
AN OVATION FOR THE PRINCE
A Compliment From Germany to
England.
[By United Press.]

BERLIN, March 81. Emperor William,
in company with the Empress Frederick
and other royalties, received the Prince
of Wales on his arrival at the railroad
station to-day. AS the Prince stepped
from the railway carriage, the English
anthem was played by the band. The
Emperor wore the uniform of the En-
glish dragons, and the Prince of Wales
that of German general. The En-
peror and the Prince, escorted by com
pany of cavalry, proceeded in a carriage
to the royal castle, the route to which
was crowded with people who cheered
and cheered the royal personages to the
echo
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
He Will BE Hanged.
lBy United Press. |

NORFOLK, Va, March 21.-Henry
Curtis, colored, was found guilty in
Portsmouth TO day OF killing 7. P.
wamer, druggist of Norfolk county,
last November by knocking him in the
head with club. and will be hung.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22

fBy United Press.l

LEXINGTON, Va, March 21.-The
death of General f. H. Smith,
ex.superintendent of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, is announced this even
ing, from stroke of paralysis. He
was seventy eight years of age aud
West Pointer, class of thirty three.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22

IBy United Press. /

LONDON, March 2l.-The collers are
greatly elated over the successful issue
OF the strike. Work is being resumed
at all the mines.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
To Die by Electricity.
IBy United Press.l

NEW YORK, March 21.-Jas. A. Slo-
cum, the base ball player, convicted of
the murder of his wife, was to-day SEN
fenced to death by electricity on some
day during the week beginning May 5th.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
CHURCHMEN DEPOSED,
A Bishop Suspended on Charges OF
Falsehood, SIander, &c. 1.-Two Other
Bishops 9tThrOWn OUT
[RY United Press. |

READING, Pa, March 21.-Bishop ].
J. Esher, of Chicago, has oeen found
guilty Of all charges, falsehood, slander
and reviving old difficulties, for the pur
pose of creating dissension in the church,
by the committee o. ministers who have
been investigating the charges for the
past three days. They recommend that
Bishop Esher be suspended as a bishop,
and as minister of the Evargelican de-
nomination, until the general conference
in 1891 Bishops Doods, OF Cleveland,
and Bowman, of Allentown, Pa, have
already been deposed.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22

Howell CitiZen.l

Churchman (sarcastically, to agnOs-
tic)-i suppose you call yourself a
searcher after truth
Agnostic-Yes, that is what I call
myself but | don't find much
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
[By United Press.]

New ORLEANS, March 21.-An anti
lottery league has been organized by a
number of prominent citizens for the
purpose of preventing, if possible, an
extension Of the charter of the Louisiana
Lottery company.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22

The Mayor of st. Louis to be Impeach he'd
--For VetOing Cheap Gas.

IBy United Press.I
CHICAGO, March 2l.-A Tribune spec
ial from st. Louis, No., says: 1t has
been discovered that there is we'll or
ganized movement on foot to impeach
the present mayor of st. Louis, E. A.
Noonan, and it is now said that impeach-
ment proceedings will be begun within
u few days. The occasion for which is
the veto of the ninety cent gas BILL
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
Typhus Raging in Bolivia.
(By United Press J

SAN JOSE, COSTA RIGA, March TO-
Typhoid fever is raging in La Paz, Bo-
livia, over 5000 cases being reported in
a siE..lc week.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
ANTI-LOlTERY LEAGUE.

Citizens of New Orleans Organize-.TO
Prevent an Extension of the Lottery
harter.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
NOT REPUDIATED.
.'Biily" Malone Still i'm the Ring.
Aud is to Have an Easy Nest.
lBy United Press

New YORK, March 21.-A Washington
special to the Evening Post says that
the administration has decided to ap-
point General William Malone, of Vlr
ginia, to be Uousul General at Paris, in
place of General Rathbone. No con-
lirmation or denial of the dispatch can
be had in official quarters.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22

The Salisbury Watchman says that
Messrs J. NJ. Harrison, J. S. Houston
and J. A. Stewart have just bought and
carried to Rowan county jack that
cost 81 900 in Kentucky.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
Older Than the Pyramids.

With an antiquity %rivaling, probably
exceeding, that of the pyramids of Egypt,
and a reputation scarcely inferior. it is
remarkable how little notice has been
taken of the death of the colossal dragon
tree of Oratava. This gigantic. hoary
headed vegetable veteran died almost
suddenly a few years ago, and may he
said, like the d~eacon's old masterpiece,
to have gone Ito pieces all at once-all
at m and nothing iirst-just as bubbles
do when they burst" After Il babyhood
of centuries, decades of maturity and a
decadence of ages, it does seem pitt
able that the departure of this wonder of
the world should have evoked little or
no comment.
When Alonzo de Lugo, the conqucror
of Teneriffe, came to Oratava, in 1893,
he spared the tree, but, scandalized at
the profane mysteries which had taken
place in its interior, lie converted its hol-
lowness into a chapel for holy mass.
Humboldt, i'll 1900, gives its height as
appearing about fifty or sixty feet, and
its circumference near the roots at forty.
five feet, and the diameter of the trunk
at ten feet from the ground is still twelve
English feet" and he computed its age
ut 10000 years. Tho opening was SO
large that a table was placed in it round
which fourteen persons could seat them
selves, and a staircase in the interior
conducted the visitor up to the height
whence the branches sprang.-London
Globe.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
nLapp Wolf Hunt.

The Swedish Laprs live entirely with,
by and upon their reindeer. A Lapp who
owns Il thousand deer lisa very rich man;
But as taxes are assessed upon the num-
Der of deer, he is inclined to under esti-
mate his herd. The most dangerous enc
my to the herd is the wolf, who, if dis
posed, can kill thirty deer ina night. A
band of wolves can make q rich Lapp
poor.
When the SNOW is deep and soft, andit
is announced that wolf tracks have been
seen in the neighborhood of the deer, the
swiftcst unners on snow shoes prepare
for an exciting chase.
The wolf may have a start of n mile or
two, but the track it leaves in the deep,
soft snow is so prominent that the hunt
ers can follow it at their best speed. The
wolf, though he may run fast, has but a
slight chance of escaping the short men
who, on snow shoes, rush through the
wood, dart down steep hills, and jump
from lodges several yards in height.
Each hunter does his best to outrun
the others, for the wolf belongs to tho
Lapp who strikes the first blow. AS
soon as the leading hunter is close enough
to the wolf, he gives it a heavy blow
across the loins with his strong, spiked
snow shoe staff. If there are other
wolves to be pursued, he kills it outright;
if not, lie disablcs it, and waits till all
the hunters have arrived, before giving
the death strokc.-Youth's Companion.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
To Pump Down Ozone.

Sir Edwin Chadwick, known in Eng
land as 'the father of sanitary SCIENCE"
in a recent interview said: 81 do so be.
lieve in fresh air. My pet project, at
which a correspondent in the papers
laughed some time ago, is to build great
towers in our cities and pump down the
ozone from above; there is a wonderful
American machine for pumping which
actually makes 1900 revolutions in a Sec
ond. Well, that would soon purify a
neighborhood. At the base of St. Paul's
there is no ozone; there is at the summit.
How often my government clerks have
asked leave to take home their work,
finding it impossible to do anything in
the poisoned air of the great public of.
fees. This system, about which l have
consulted NJ. Eiffel himself, who thinks
very highly of the idea, would effect a
revolution in the health of our great
cities. On a very smallscale it has been
tried and found to answer perfectly upon
some of the great liners atsea."-Boston
Transcript.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
Thinking Aloud.

a lady relates that n bitterly cold
winter day she was hurryins toward the
railway station, after a days shopping
in the city, intending to take a certain
train for her suburban home, when she
suddenly remembered a very important
purchase she had intended making, and
had forgot while in the stores.
To return for it would make her miss
the train, and of necessity reach her
home alarmlngly late. She stood on a
street corner debating the question of
returning, and had no idea she was talk
ing it over to herself, until just as a tall
schoolboy turned the corner she thought
and said aloud, "Well, now, I believe 1
will"
"Well, now, I believe I would" said
the young man, in a tone Of sympathetic
banter, as he passed along.
"lt must have seemed very absurd to
him." said the lady, in telling the story,
ITO see me standing on that freezing cor
ner talking SC amiably to myself"
"That reminds me-" said a listener,
"of a little incident in my own expert
ence. I was waiting my turn to buy
stamps at a postofice window, when
heard an old gentleman in front of me
murmuring to himself: 4 suppose the
folks will say she's too young, but if she
likes an old fellow like me-
"'Why, she c~artainly ought to take
you,' said I. Icouldn't help it.
HE looked around, blushed like g
girl, glanced at the letters he had in hi
hand, and walked on to take his urn in
buying stamps, with his ears fairly burn
ing. That was the last I saw of the ole
gentleman and his little romance."-
Montreal Star.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15

Until the acquisition of Alaska by the
United States it was a wonder where GER
tain wild fowl went when they migrated
from the temperate chimes on the ap-
proach of summer as we'll as snow birds
and other small species of the feathcrcd
tribe. 1t was afterward found that their
habitat in summer was the waters of
Alaska, the Yukon river and the lakes of
that h%yperborean region. a reporter
lately interviewed c. j. Green. of Nor
ton Sound. Alaska, and he confirms the
statement of Dali and others. People
wonder where the wild fowl come from.
said he. They see the sand hill crane,
wild goose, heron and other fowl every
spring and fall pursue their unwearied
way, but, like the wind, they do not
know whence they come or whittier they
go. Up ON Golovine bay, on the north
shore of Norton sound. is the breeding
place of these fowls.
All the birds in creation, seemingly,
go to that country to breed. Geese.
ducks. swans. and thousands upon thou
sands of sandlill cranes, are swarming
there all the time, They lay their eggs
in the blue stem grass in the low lands.
and if you so up the river q little way
from the bay, the noise of the wild fowl
is almost deafening. Myriads of robbins
and swallows are there, as we'll as mill
ions of magnificent grouse, wearing red
combs and feather moccasins. This
grouse turns rs white as snow in winter.
You can kill dozens of juicy teal ducks
or grouse as fat as butter balls in a few
moments. The wild Rowland bears live
on salmon berries and huckleberries,
with which all the hills are literally COW
ercd.-Asterian. .
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15

whats that for?" asked Moung
Gyee, a little, wizened up man like a
dried monkey.
"a pillow for the head" I replied.
GA wind head bag" said Moung Daw,
promptly, and his remark elected a uni
versal murmur of "Houkbah! houkbah!"
which might be freely translated, "Ah
yes; of course, of course"
The pillow was now gently taken from
my knees and passed slowly from hand
to hand, pattcd and pinched, squeezed,
smellcd, tasted and bumped on the floor.
Eyes were applied to the nozzle, but
they could make little of that, and after
the pillow had passed about the entire
room. receiving rs much criticism as a
new fossil in the hands of learned So
ciety, it vas respectfully placed by
Moung Daw at the top Of the spread
blankets, balanced OF end against the
wall, where it continued to receive silent
admiration.
'Show us how it is done,' was the next
demand.
I yawncd widely, but unscrcwed the
top and returned the curiosity to Moung
Daw, who forced out the air in the faces
of his friends, to their great satisfaction.
Youths COMPANION,
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
Exploles Very Easi1v.

Iodide of nitrogen is the most sensitive
substance in existence, and when in a
dry state explodes from the weight of a
fly descending upon it, or on being
touched with a feather. 1t also explodes
if allowed to fall from the height of a
few feet upon the surface of water. 1t
takes the form of a black powder. Tri-
chloride of nitrogen is another substance
very easily exploded, the direct rays of
the SUI alone being sufficient to bring
about its explosion with an energy far
exceeding that of dynamite. Light as
sists it in explosive powers, for whilst
it has Il great antipathy to all kinds
of vegetation and explodes Immediately
upon coming into contact with them, it
is never found to do so in the dark or GU
dull days,-Moutreal Star.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
The Human iar

Few people realize what a wonderful
ly delicate structure the human ear real
ly is. That which we ordinarily desig-
nate so is, after all, only the mere outer
porch of a series of winding passages,
which, like the Hobbies of a great build
ing, lead from the world without to the
world within. Certain of these passages
are full of liquid, and their membranes
arc stretched like parchment curtains
across the corridor at different places,
and can be made to tremble like the
head of a drum or the surface of a tam
BOURNE docs when struck with a stick
or with the fingers. Between two of
these parchment like curtains a chain of
very small bones extends, which serves
to tighten or relax these membranes,
and to communicate vibrations to them.
In the innermost place of all a row of
white threads called nerves stretch like
tho strings of a piano from the last point
to which the tremAlings or thrillings
reach and pass inward to the brain.
A wonderful piece of mechanism, i'll
deed!-St. Louis Republic,
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
A Banner of nattlesnake Skins.

y lady residing on the west side has
perhaps the most unique banner that
has ever been seen in Kansas City. 1t is
as beautiful AZ it is unique, and is priced
by its owner for its beauty and oddity.
1t is made of the skin of an enormous
rattlesnake, with a background of plush.
The snake skin was sent the lady by a
friend who lives in Texas. 1t is beauti-
fully tanned, the back being colorcd and
coveted with spots resembling small
scales, which on the background of
plush look for all the world like mosaic.
The skin is over five feet long without
the head and tail, and fourteen rattles
denoted its age. In the widest part the
skin is nine inches in width, thus show
ing that in life tho rightful owner of the
skin which now adorns the lady's parlor
must have been al ugly customer. A
letter which preceded the present states
that belts made of rattlesnake skins are
much worn by the young ladies of Texas,
and arc a common article of a bellies up
parel.-Kansas City Times.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
MIR. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis.

Tho bearing of the old couple toward
each other when the husband was nearly
an o~ctogcnarian and the wife not far be-
hind him was that of the old school.
Mr.. Davis was as dcferential to his wife
as if she were presiding at a tournament
in the olden time. Mr.. James Rcdpath
once visited the Davis home at Beauvoir,
and thus spoke of that home life:
"N1rs. Davis is several years younger
than her husband, but does not fear to
speak of herself as an old lady, She is
quite as noteworthy a parsonage as her
husband-a woman of large brain and
great heart, highly educated, of marvel
GUS insight into character, with the rar-
est conversational powers, bright, brill
liant, witty and sympathetic. Mr.. and
Mrs. Davis have been married forty
years; but their honeymoon does not
seem to have reached its first quarter
yet, and certainly there has never been
an eclipse in its history. 1t was delight
full to be u witness of their mutual affec-
ton andto hear them address each other"
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
Speculative Theories of ponu,ot,on.

In a paper contributed to Science, Gen.
NJ. G. Meigs calculates, upon the past
ratio of increase, that in 1890 the "pos-
sible" population of the United States
will be 1929, 357, 900. Of this enormous
prospective population lie estimates the
inhabitants of African descent at So, 957,-
900, or 1 to every ii whites.
As the whole area of the states and
territories, including water surface of
lakes and rivers, is nearly 1000, 00G
square miles, the figures of Gen. Mcigs
would give 1923 inhabitants to every
square mile in the United States in 1890.
This is a greater areal population than
that which is contained in any country
in the world at the present day except
little Belgium, the inhabitants of which
number 481 to the square mile. Even
hoary India has only 81 inhabitants to
the square mile; and for every square
mile in the teeming Chinese empire there
are only "a inhabitants.
But experience has shown that, be-
yond amusing the Spectator in the
cries, such calculations have little value.
Except in stationary and half civilized
countries, like India and China, rational
tendencies are constantly operating to
prevent an excess of population from en-
croaching on the means of living. The
early growth of a new country such as
the United States or Australia affords no
criterion for estimating its population a
century or a half century hence.
There are vast and fertile regions in
Africa, South America, and other parts
of the earth that are yet %unpeopled; and
the means of cheaply distributing sur
plus populations are. rapidly increasing.
Long before 1890 the people of the United
States may be stirred by the same I'M
pulse of emigration that tends to arrest
the growth of populations in most of the
countries of Europe.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
John Isright's Tombstone.

The gravestonc which now marks the
last resting place of John Bright, in the
Friends graveyard at Rochdale, is re-
markable for neatness and simplicity,
and just in keeping with what he desired
should be placed at the head of the
grave of his late wife. 1t is white mar
bic, but only two feet six inches in length
and two feet in breadth, bordered with a
plain groove all round the margin, and
the lettering is of plain English charac-
tiers, the wording being: "John Bright,
died March 81, 1889. Age, u years"
This simple record and unadorned stone
lies horizontally at the head of the grave,
and soft green grass now covers the re.
mainder. A similar slab of marble, of
the same size, marks the place by
his side where his late wife peacefully
rcposcs, bearing the inscription: "Marga-
ret Elizabeth Bright, died May 10, 1878.
Age, 81 y~ears."-New York Tribune.