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The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10
PETERBOROUGH PARAGRAPHS.
Judge WOmack Makes Fine Impress
siOn---The Farmers Have Fresh
HOpes.-.But Their Losses will be
Great..POiiticai Gossip.

siOn---The Farmers Have Fresh
Hopes---But Their Losses will be
Great--P oiiticai Gossip.
Especial Cor. Of STATE CHRoN1CLE)
Chatham Superior Court is now in ses-
sion, Judge Womack presiding. The
crowd attending court has been small.
1t is very busy time with farmers, and
very few came, except those whose busi-
ness compelled an attendance. The
criminal docket was very full, but mostly
of minor offences, retailing without Ii
cense occupying very prominent posi-
ton.
Judge Womack has made very fine
impression on our citizens His charge
to the grand jury was not very lengthy,
but it was sTRENGTHY. 1t was a very
clear and pointed exposition of the duty
of grand Jurors, and was delivered with
grace and force. He presides with the
ease of veteran, and is firm and pa
tient, and never exhibits even the signs
of irritation. The high reputation he
has made on the bench justifies the wis
dom of his appointment. We trust that
he will long be retained in the position
he now fills so we'll 1t would be unwise
and unjust to set him aside for an un-
tried man. 1t is due to the Democratic
party, to the executive, and to Judge
Womack himself, that he be his own
successor.
The late refreshing rains have given
our farmers new hopes and fresh inspi
rations. But failure in the growing
wheat and oat crop is staring them in
the face with depressing effect. The
best of our citizens say that there cannot
be more than fourth of a crop har
veated-many say not so much as that
Personal observation of the crops be
tween Pittsborough and Burlington
leads this writer to think that these re
ports are not exaggerated. Many OF the
fields will not make as much as the seeC
that was put on them. The late frosts
killed off all prospect for fruit crop
and this will be very serious matter tt
the people of Chatham. Verify, tn,
farmers are having hard time of it
They need relief; need it now and neet
it badly. 1t behooves them to lool
wisely TO their legislators, and selec
only such men as are in sympathy will
them, and will give them such aid a
can be granted by time ly laws.
Our Sheriff and Register Of Deed
will not be applicants for re election
They have served the people long an,
faithfully, and now retire of their owl
accord. There are three excellent gen
tlemen spoken of as the successor Q
Sheriff Brewer G. W. Foushee, 0.
johnson and Spence Taylor. Eithe
would make capital officer. Quite
number are mentioned for the position
of Register OF Deeds, the most promi
nent are c. r. Scott. 0, A. Hammer
Carson Johnson, and James Tyson
They are good men and true, but on
one can be elected. 1t is said that on
efficient clerk Of the Superior Court,
M. Holt, will have competitor befor
the Democratic convention for the non
inaiion. As for the legislature -the1
is not much talk There seems to /
two or three gentlemen that are wanted
but they do not want the place. Bl
Chatham will send good men to til
next Legislature.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10
AN EX.ROMAN PRIEST,

But Now IL Methodist Minister. is Miss
ing From His Home.
BY United Press
MONTREAL, May o. Rev. Louis Mar
tin, an ex-Roman priest, but now a
Methodist minister, has disappeared
from his home here, and his family are
unable to get any trace of his wherea-
bouts. By some it is believed that he
has been abducted or that he has been
prevailed upon to leave his home and
family and return to Rome, and there
renounce his new faith and once more
promise allegiance to the Holy Father.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10
THE COLORED QUESTION
In the Episcopal Church-.HOw it
StaudS.
[By United Press. ]

CHARLESTON, S. c., May 9.-The
Episcopal Diocesan convention of South
Carolina to-day by two-thirds vote of
both orders first rejected a motion to
insert the word "white' in the consti
tuition, and then adopted an amendment
which practically leaves the one negro
clergyman, now in the convention, his
seat, but precludes the admission of any
other negroes.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10
THE LEAPHART LYNCHlNG.
startling Developments in the Case.-
Some of the Lymehers Arsested-- And
charged with Murder.
(By United Press.

COLUMBIA, s. c., May 9. The devel-
pments in the Leaphart murder an
! aching case are very startling. 1t ha
zen found that the affidavit and letter
vat we're filed in the Governors offic
: nd upon which Leaphart was respite .
,re forgeries. j. T. Graham, who v;s
l.eaphart's lawyer, and W. J. Miller. a
,otary public, we're arrested to. night,
aarged with being connected with the
lnrgeries. Action has also been taken
against the men who lynched Leaphart,
aud three of them have been arrested
,n the charge of murder. Their names
IRE, s. G. Caughuran, Richard WookS
and Psarce Taylor. The attorney gen
eral is personally attending to the mat
tor, and will do all in his power to bring
The lynchers to justice.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10
STRIKING X. r. EMPLOYEES.
They Resist the Eleven Hour Day.
and Drive OF Hands Brought to Fill
Their Places.
iBy United Press.

iBy United press.l
NASHVILLE, ky., May 9-The strike
on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
reached here, and all section and gravel
pit hands quit work on account OF the
new order compelling eleven hours work
per day. An attempt was made yester-
day to fill the strikers places, but the
negro strikers arrived with guns, pistols
and clubs and drove the other negroes
off. 1t is reported that the road will in
woke aid from the State troops.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10
~ was the Work Of One Of the Patients.
(By United Press.

MONTREAL, Que, May 9.-There seems
TO be no doubt but that the Long Point
asylum fire was started by an incendi-
airy, aud that it was the work of one Of
the crazy inmates.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10

CHICAGO, May 9th.-Between 5000
and 1000 carpenters returned to work
this morning.
The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-10
A SAD CASE.

Y.M. A. Leader Shot and Kiiled--
While Fleeing From a House he h>h
Attempted to Burgiarize.
by United Press.
ST.. LOUIS, May 9.-Henry kunoll,
President of the Singing Society, OF st.
Matthew's Evangelical church, and a
director in the Young Mems Christian
Association were shot and killed On
Wednesday night, while he and COM
panion we're fleeing from carpenter
shop where they had tried to commit
burglary.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
HIS DYING CONFESSION.
Dick Hawe's-Statemeht About killing His
Wife and Daughter.

Dick Hawe's-Statemeht About killing His
Wife and Daughter.
The written confession of Dick
Hawes, the notorious wife and child
murderer, will never be published in
book form, as was expected. The
following details, which are contained
in the confession, clear up some of
the mysteries of the crime, and are
now made public for the first time.
Hawes states in the confession
that he did not contemplate the mur-
ders until Friday night before they
were committed on Saturday night.
1t was then his wife refused to leave
the city, as she had promised to do,
and the plan of putting her out of
the way for good WAS quickly decided
on.
Detectives have hunted in vain for
the conveyance Hawes was supposed
to have used to remove her body to
the lake, and his confession clears up
that part of the mystery. His wife
and children were induced to drink
liquor until both were intoxicated,
and then, under some pretext, they
were taken to the lake and murdered
on the banks, and their bodies were
thrown in.
They were not killed at the house,
as 1t has always been supposed. He
says the negro woman, Fannie Bryant.
who was convicted as his accomplice,
assisted him from beginning to end,
and when the bloody work was finish
ed. they swore n terrible oath never
to betray each others secret.
The confession admits that Fanny
Bryant told the truth in her testi-
mony that Hawes took little May
from her house on Monday night.
May would have been murdered on
Saturday night, but they could not
induce Ter to drink the liquor, and
ano..c" plan had to be adopted to
get rid of her
In concluding the confession Hawes
wrote that he fully deserved the late
in store for him, and he wanted no
one else to die for his crime.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
A WILD ROE.

Passengers OH an Express. Have n sensa.
tion-An Engineer Lockcdin Mad Fire.
mans Arms-A Thrilling Story of Hair
Breadth Escape from Death.
JANEsvILLE, Wis., Jpy 18.-The
passengers on the Chicago and North,
mostssA eIrrnas had Wild ride yes
terday while struggle for life and
death was going on bstween the fire.
man and engineer. On the floor OF
the locomotive cab lay Engineer
Steve Hobetting, powerless in the
grasp of maniac. The insane man,
his face blackened by coal dust, his
clothing stripped from his body, in
the life and death struggle, brandish-
ed n wrench, which he had clutched
from the engineers tool box. Both
his arms were i'll the grasp of the de-
spairing man beneath him. but the
men on the depot PLATFORM at Cly-
man, one OF the towns through which
the train passed, could see That he
had nearly freed himself, and that
IN another moment, unless some helm
should come, the murderous blow OF
ChO W1SUCh WOttlu lull.
The maniac was Fireman C.L.
Hastings. Near Watertown lie had
stepped from the cab to the tender
to cool off. He did not return, and
Engineer Hotetting reached back
from his seat, pulled aside the cab
curtain, and looked out As the cur
tain moved aside Hastings bounded
In from the tender and clutched the
engineer about the neck, and threw
him headlong to the swaying foot
board. There the two struggled as
the train dashed on at full rate of
speed.
The engine left without fresh fuel,
was slowly losing steam, but rushed
on at a rate that could mean nothing
less than fearful tragedy at the first
switch.
AS the train swept past Clyman
without stopping the passengers and
train crew realized that something
was wrong, and party hurried for
ward. Writhing and struggling
among the blocks of coal on the ten
der, they saw the engineer and his
maniac aseailant, The latter was
AcnoWeled and taken to the bag.
96sBschr. X moment utter He FAM
ted CONSCIOUSNESS did not return
until t&slye hSsRgshad elapsed. The
hot weather e S2Sen as>the cause of
ms insanity, end there are fears that
he cannot recover.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
a Wonderful Stone.
(Greenville News.)

KINGSTON, Ga, July 14.-Mr. John
McCraney, lvingnear here, has found
q most wonderful stone. While
plowing on sandbar in the Etowah
river, he saw something shining
with the most brilliant of lights Just
to one side of him. He stopped his
plow and went to pick it up. Itwas
a clear white stone, the size of an
egg, rejecting in one way all the col
ors of the rainbow. Turning it over
the colors took on the character of q
spirit level, following each other up
through the centre of the rock till all
were gathered in one end. MIR. Nc
Craney has been offered 81, 900 for it
but refused it. He will take it to
Atlanta to have it tested. 1t may be
a diamond. 1t emits perfectly
white light in the dark.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
WOMEN LAID BRUlN OUT.
Brave Fight Of Two Molus River Matrons-
Both Unhurt;

VANCEBoRo, Me-, July 17.-There is |
still little of the old time pioneer |
spirit to be found among the women
of the present day who live in the
sparsely settled regions III this sec
ton.
1t has cropped out no more plainly
than in thrilling incident at Molus
River, a provincial town, few nights
since, in which two women were the
heroines. Roderick Mcdonald, who
lives in one of the remote parts of the
settlement, was absent from home,
leaving his wife and sister as the sole
defenders of his household, and most
s9l{f sHGsessfAlIX sSSf did they ueh8X, that hey
were busy about their household
duties, were suddenly attracted hya
believing among the cattle N che.
barnyard. They listened for'a mo-.
ment and were convinced that the
noises were those of terror among the
animals.
Without the slightest hesitation
the women armed themselves with
the only weapons at hand, an axe and
u pitchfork, and sailed forth to meet
the foe, and most formidable op-
ponent they found.
Only few steps had been taken
before they saw an enormous black
bear, who stood aggressively await
ing them. At either side of him lay
an OK, which had fallen under his
heavy blows, while the rest of the
cattle were huddled closely in one
corner of the yard, believing piteous-
ly in their fright. The women lost
no time. 49,.
Mrs. Mcdonald, excited ut the
sight of the dead animals, rushed at
the bear with n pitchfork and thrust
| it deep into his neck. A roar of
mingled anger and pain followed, and
with a sweep of his paw he struck the
weapon from her hands and sent it
rattling OH the other side Of the
| yard.
The other woman had not been idle
in the meantime, and as the bear
made this movement she struck at
him with an axe, disabling one of his
forelegs, Mrs. Mcdonald ran for her
pitchfork, recovered it, and the two
plucky women then went at bruin with
hammer and tongs. Mrs. Mcpopald
worried him with thsspitchfork in
while, hsrEcon1n&a aion did deadly exD-
teuti0n with the axe y.
is Tho battle was short and sharp,
land the bear was dead in few mo-
eents. He was very. large and old
rave conssasFs6 hik NJ g55d B sSBe4s ye1lA
The women had their clothes badl,
torn, but beyond n few scratches anc
the fright, suffered no injury.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
A DANGEROUS Trick

COLUMBIA, S. c., July 14.-On Sun.
day night party of young negroes
finding John Robinson, a fifteen year
old boy, asleep on bridge near the
outskirts of the city, they determined
to play trick on him. A quantity
OF heavy paper was procured and
saturated with kerosene oil, and Sc
curely tied around the naked legs of
the sleeper. A light was then ap.
piled. The boy sprang up and the
flames ran UP his legs. He screamed
'Yor assistance, and 4 wHite man liy,
ing near by, with his hands, tore the
burning paper and clothing off. The
boy is very dangerously injured,
and his rescuer had his hands serious,
y burned.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
What Congress Has Done.

The present Congress cannot be
charged with not having done any
thing. 1t has done much. Much
that will have to be undone, and
much that the people will have cause
to regret. It has doomed to de-
~ r2nss sbsenexseem-
phshed by half dozen wars and the
wisdom OF 100 years of statesman
ship. 1t has done too much. The
people should give it an eternal rest,
If they are ever again permitted to 60
to the polls and vote.--Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25

that are st1etching across il. When
l was a lad l used to go out to the
railroad track and put my e& down
on the track, and 1 could hea athe ex-
press train rumbling miles aWIy. and
coming on; and today, my friads, if
we only had faith enough. we could
put our ear down to the gray. of our
dead, and listen and hear in the dis
tance the rumbling on of the chariots
OF resurrection victory. o. heaven!
Sweet heaven! You do not spell
heaven as you used to spell, it. You
used to spell it heaven, heaven.
But now when You want to soell that
word you place side by side tie faces
OF the loved ones who are COLE, and
Ill that irridiation of light and love,
and beauty and Joy you spell it out as
never before, in songs md hahelujahs.
der D9i fhes u soa %hSFe 81 e4s asssssE sss III
at the thought of this reih{on! OH!
how much you will have tGtell them
when once you meet item! How
much you have been Through since
you saw them last! On tie shining
shore you will talk it all over. The
heartaches. The loneliness. The
sleeplcss nights. The weeping until
you had no more power to weep, be-
cause the heart was withered and
dried up. Story of vacant chair, and
empty cradle, and little shoe only
half worn out, never to be worn again,
Just the shape of the foot that once
pressed it. And dreams when you
thought that the departed had come
back again, and the room seemed
bright with their faces, and you
started up to greet them, and in the
effort the dream broke and you found
yourself standing amid-room in the
midnight-alone. Talking it all over
and then, hand in hand, walking up
Eaff3{ saaTh in the light. No sorrow,
NO tears, death. Oh, heaven!
beautiful heaven! Heaven where our
friends are. Heaven where we ex-
pect to be.
Oh, how different it is on earth
from the way it is in heaven when a
Christian dies! We say "Close his
eyes" In heaven they say, "Give
him palm" On earth we say, 'sLet
him down in the ground In heav.
en- they say, "Raise him on 9 throne
On earth it is, Farewell, farewell.
In heaven it is, "Welcome, welcome
And so 1 see Christian soul coming
down to the river of death, and he
steps into the river, and the water
comes to the ankle. He says, "Lord
Jesus, is this death?" "No," says
Christ, "this is not DEATH" And he
wades still deeper down into the wa
ters until the food comes to the knee
and he says, "Lord Jesus, tell me-
tell me, is this death?" And Christ
he wadsy s.di fHtlieF Jfc}aS SssasF 5hs
wave comes to the girsic Sand The
soul says, 'Lord Jesus, is this death?'
"No," says Christ, "this is not" And
deeper in wades the soul till the bill
low strikes the lip, and the departing
one cries, "Lord Jesus is this death?'
"No," says Christ, "this is not" But
when Christ has lifted that soul ON q
throne of glory, and the pomp and
Joy OF heaven came Burging to its
feet, then Christ ssys: ''This, oh
transported soul! This is DEATH"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
IL Requires q Head.

A.: preaching don't require much
head work"
b.: "That's what I thought until
read in paper the other day that
colored preacher had conquered q
stubborn mule by butting him"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25

During marriage ceremony Q
Gently in church at Christians oure,
Va, goat deliberately walked n
and interrupted the ceremony by Civ
ing the groom grand send-off wiS4
his head. The bride fed to the pulpit
for safety.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25

"A special to the Louisville Even.
ing Times from New Albany, Indi-
ana, says: The Gosport accommoda-
tlon train on the Menon route COLI
ded with freight train at Smith
will, flag station eight miles south
OF Bloomington at $50 o'clock. Ten
lives are lost.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
Two freight cars loaded with six

- WO IIcIEIIU CtlTS IOHIUU WICN Blk
teen tons of powder exploded at
Kings Mills, o., Tuesday afternoon,
causing the explosion of the cartridge
factory, which set fire to Thea nround-
ing buildings, about ten of which
were destroyed, and killing six per-
sons and wounding twenty men and
women.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-07
CONFIDENT REFORM ERs,

This strange world needs a great deal
of reforming, and, fortunately, there are al
ways in it a great many reformers. One of
the latest bands of reformers calls itself the
Farmers alliance, and 1t has started in bold
aud confidently. It wants, for instance,
moro money issued directly by the govern.
ment to the people, without the Intervention
of interest charging agencies. 1t wants the
government to take charge of all the money
OF tho country ana make IL pisnsy, 50 IuaS
its benefits may be enjoyed by all the psople
upon fair and equal terms. It also wants
transportation controlled by the government
in the public interest, so that it may be
cheap, certain, safe and equal in Its burdens
and benefits. AS to land. the alliance de-
mands only a readjustment of the
land system, so that all the public
lands may be speedily disposed of to
settlers under the homestead laws;
the abolition Of alien ownership;
the taxation of vacant land to its full value;
the protection of homesteads from seizure
by creditors, and longer time for redemp-
tion of mortgaged lands. 1t seems not to
have occurred to the farmers that the present
low price of most staple farm products, OF
which they complain previously, is due to the
fact that more of those products are raised
in this country now than our people can con-
sumo profitably, or can sell at satisfactory
price. If the policy of putting homeste aders
at once ON all the public lands now vacant
should be adopted, the over-preduotiou
would be increased and the farmers would
be in worse condition than they are now.
1t is pity that the time is 20 out Of joint,
but II may fairly be doubted that "inAa.
tion," government management Of railroads
and cheap lands would set in entirely right.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-07
Monday, april =, 1890.
wOmAN AS AM INVENTOR.

Not an inventor of plausible stories, but
an inventor of machinery, etc. There are
said to be In the model room of the Patent
Office, enough corsets to hold the frames of
every woman in Washington, and enough
bustles to put new springs in the chairs of
both houses of congress, and the bulk of
these patents are taken out by women. But
Woman has invented some very useful ma
chimes. A New York woman, the wife of
banker. while twisting some worsted, hit
upon the idea of applying little system Of
her own to a larger field, and she invented
a machine for twisting wire rope which she
sold for $25, 900 and a royalty upon future
sales. Another woman has invented profit
able improvement in excavators and
elevators. A Massachusetts girl has in
leaves of books, now used by the leading
publishers in this country. A Pennsylvania
woman has invented . machine for putting
iron hoops on barrels, and another woman
from the same state has invented a valuable
Improvement in stereoscopes and another has
patented useful feature of locomotives. But
Woman is chiefly noted for inventing jar lift
ers, bag holders, fish beners, raisin seeders,
washing machines, skirt lfters, pie lifters,
ironing boards, griddle greasers, dustpans,
crimping machines and every kind of device
for improved clothes. It is we'll that this is
so. Man ought to have some chance to make
himself useful.