The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-01-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ARlOCS ITEMS OF INTEREST
GATHERED, AND BRIEFLY
STATED SINCE OUR LAST
ISSUE.

Aigiers has had violent earth
quake.
A lymph factory il Ia bc started
In New York.
There are over $50 ehildrca in the
Oxford orph IN Asylum.
Thousands are dying In Siberia nr
the scourge known "a "blaek death"
Nearly four hundred thousand
emigrants were landed i'm New York
last year.
The late census gives the value Of
mortgages In the United States AT
500, 100000.
Probably, for the good OF all bar
ties, the Indian and Berriny SEA
troubles are ended.
a bill providing for So 900 pub.
lie building ut Reidsville has been
signed by the President.
George Bancroft, the historian.
died on the evening of the nth. lie
was over ninety years old.
The New York Herald gives this:
Speaker Reeds Motto:-Be sure
you are wrong. then go ahead.n
a negrh woman stabbed and in-
stantly killed negro man at Max.
ton last week about n petty Quarrel
over ten cents.
The American National Bank of
kansas City closed its doors Tues
day. .he capital stock of the bank
Is Sl,2oO.O00. No statement Of liab!-
ilties of assets has been obtained.
There Is one chance yet fl for
The Force Bill boomers. If they
can't get through their bayonct rack
ct in the South they can volunteer
and go out and fight the In iians.-
viii. Star.
A bill for the relief of colCred peo-
pie, introduced i'm the Senat, yestcr-
day, was referred TO the &c .mittce
on Foreign Relations. This Is pro-
bably the unkindest cut Of all. A
RepuDlican Senate, too.-Washing-
ton Star.
The young men Of the country are
leaving the Republican party by
hundreds. Give Us a few N ore
Force Bills and there won't he any,
thing left Of that party except rem
lnlscence and a few petrifactions
N. y. Herald, Ind.
Judge j. A. Warden of Chaitan-
ooga, in drunken spree last Sun
day, killed his son-in-law and sho.
ms only daughter. Judge Warden
Is one Of the best known LAWYER i'm
Tennessee. The tragedy was sim
ply the result of crazy drunk.
Tee latest from the Irish tangle il
that Mr.. Purnell will retire and o.
Brien or Dillon take the lead. Mr..
Mccarthy, who beat Parnell's man
Scully at Kilkenny, is to be asked
to retire in favor of Mr.. Dillon, ns a
peace-ofiering.-Wii. Star.
| During last year the w. Duke
Sons shipped from Durham 706, ,siO,-
900 cigarettes, while from New York
they shipped 267 ,O5s, 500, making a
total Of 993 ,o66. 500. In smoking
tobacco the figures were: Durham
9l4,al5s POUNDS, New York 2,7G9.-
1884 pounds.
Friends Of Mr.. Wannamaker say
he las lost s2, ,O00, 900 by gong into
the cabinet. This does not lnciud.
what he threw into the contribution
box 10 help elect Harrison. lie has
also lost good deal Of peace Of
mind and possibly some of his re-
, iigion.
In the Democratic caucus at Alba.
ny, n. Y, last Tuesday evening
Governor David B. l.ill was nomi-
mated for United States Senator TO
succeed Senator Evarts. Hill Is an
able statesman and shrewd p,liti
cian. Also Senator Evarts was
nominated the same day by the Re
publican caucus TO fill the same po-
sition.
Two engines were badly wrecked
on the Western n. T.. Railroad on
a last Monday. Both trains were
moving at fast rate, but by quick
< action OF the engineers the speed was
, Somewhat checked. Both eryines
were badly wrecked and two car.
e rartly demolished. Several were
painfully hurt, ibut no Que was seri-
, ously injured
The Chronicle has all along cui,-
1 tended that Republican Ailiarce
!. man was an impossibility. II. car,-
!, not be both, because their platforms
are diametricaliy opposed Mr..
Pritchard Is an earnest and t,.,c4,tn.
promising Republican,, and 4s such
Is acting wi h entire consistency III
. voting sgainst the Alliance d. nands
! Raleigh Chronicle.
! The Republican leaders In th.
Senate seem bent upon the destruc.
!, ton of their party. ALI right, LEI
> 'em go ahead. Net only can ,lt
country stand the death Of the Re
publican party, but it can afford, in
= view Of the general benefit thereby
:; conferred. to give the corpse grand
u funeral, and will proceed to 10 it in
: the early days of November, 1892.
Is The Indians kicked against being
l. cheated and starved and the result i
afi Indian war, and an absolute de.
mand that the Indians shall lay
down their arms and make. com
paint afterwards. In the mean.
!, time British seal-fishers are catching
% what arc claimed to be American
,e seals and have been doing it fol
IN years, and thus far only some letters
l. have been written about it. II the
ID Brittons were only few thousand
= and didn't have any war-ships, il
might be different.-Wil. Star.