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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STETKs,
. EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
VIM. p. HensZey and others VS.. The Lang
don Henszey Coal Mining Company and
In the above entitled cause, the under
signed having been appointed a master ito
said company and the nature of said In.
debtedness and the order and proritysof
all liens against said c. mpanV, and any
other special matter which he shall DB re-
quired TO report by any party to these pro-
ceedings And he shall further give notice
by publication once week for four weeks
u, some newspaper published in the city OF
Raleigh, and in some newspaper Published
In the county of Chatha 4, il any, 20 all per-
sons having claims OF any kind or descrip'
tion whatsoever against said company to
file the particulars of said claim before the
said Ed. Chambers Smith, and giving furth'
er notice OF the times and places where no
will reeeivv proof of said claims. or evil
dence against sad claims NOW, in pursu'
ance of said ore er notice is hereby given TO
ALI creditors of the said defendant. me
Lanpdon Henszey Coal Mining Company, to
present their claims TO me nrop' riy Yerined
at my office in the Pullt n building, Raleigh
N. c., on or before Saturday November FL
1896 or they will be barred from partictpa-
tfOa in funds under the control OF the
court in this cause.
Company will flIe verified statements set
ting forth the class, denomination. number
and amount Of such bonds, whether they
are owned absolutely by the claimant or
have been hypothecated or are held in
trust, &C
And all parties claiming any interest In
any If the bonds or other indebtedness Of
the said LaDgdon-Henszey Coal Mining
Company will file verified statements set
ting forth the nature of such interest, how
acqui ed, &c, &c
And all persons claiming a lien OF any de-
scrtptlon on any of the property OF said
Langfon Henszey Coal Mining Company
Will file verified statements specifying the
amount of such lien and the property ON
which ir is claimed
Motto is further given that at my said Of
fee IN the Pulien building in Raleigh, n. o.,
at 10 O'Clock IN /, on said 2lst ay Novem.
Der, l shall proceed to pass upon sald
claims, and oppoI tuntty will be given TO az
pa es claiming any Int rest in disputed
claims to present proofs Of heir interest
ED. CHAMB ERS SMITH,
Special Master,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03

SEhHIIE
SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE
To Atlanta, New Orleans, Norfolk
Richmond, Washington, Baltimore
Philadelphia, Boston, New York
Schedule in effect January %, 1895
TRAINS LEAVE RALEIGH:
1926 A Nj. DAILY
"Atlanta Special Pullman Vestfbuls
Richmond, Washington, Baltimor~
Philadelphia. New York, and all points
north. Buffer drawlng-room sleeper
and Pullman coaches Atlantis to Wash.
ington, parlor cars Washington to New
York, Pullman sleeping car Monroe to
Portsmouth. Arrives at Washington
1o:45 a. M, Baltimore 10 neon, Phila-
delphia $3.50 p. M, New York 1853 D.
m. Also for Portsmouth, Norfolk, Old
Point and local stations Seaboard and
Roanoke railroad.
1881 A. M. DAILY.
For Henderson, Weldon. Suffolk,
Portsmouth. Norfolk and intermediates
stations connects at Portsmouth with
Bay Line for Old Point and Baltimore:
with Norfolk and Washington Steam.
boat company for Washington; with
N. Y. p. and " railroad for Philadel-
phia and points north; also at Weldon
with Atlantic Coast Line for Rich.
mond, Washington. Baltimore, Philae
delphia and New York, and with Scot
land Neck Branch for GreenviIle.
Washington and Plymouth.
Pullman sleeping car Atlanta to
Portsmouth.
5:35 A. M. DAILY.
"Atlanta Special Pullman Vestibuls
for Southern Pines, Hamlet, Whining.
ton, Monroe, Charlotte, Line@lnton
Shelby, Chester, Clinton, Greenwood
Abbeville. Athens, Atlanta, Augusta
Columbia, Macon. Montgomery, Mobile
New Orleans, Chattanooga. Nashville
Memphis and all points south and
southwest; through Pullman Buffet
sleepers and day coaches Washington
and Atlanta, connecting directly ii
Union depot, Atlanta. with divergina
lines; also Pullman sleeping car Ports
mouth to Monroe.
3:4O r. M. DAILY.
For Wilmington. Charlotte, Chester,
Greenwood, Athens. Atlanta and all
intermediate stations. Connects ~
Union station Atlanta. with diveTging
lines. Pullman sieeeping car Ports
mouth TO Atlanta
TRAINS REACH RALEIGH.
From Norfolk, Portsmouth ana
points north via Bay Line and N. z P,
and N. r. r., Petersburg, Richmond
and Washington. Baltimore, philadel
phia, New York and Boston, also from
Greenville, Plymouth, Washington, N
c., and eastern Carolina, points via
Weldon.
1921 A. M. DAILY.
"Atlanta Special" Pullman Vestibuls
from Atlanta and points south,
Athens, Abbeville, Greenwood and
Chester.
1895 A. M. DAILY.
From Charlotte, Athens, Atlanta and
intermediate stations.
$50 A. M. DAILY.
atlanta Special" from Norfolk
Portsmouth. Henderson. Weldon, Rich
mond, Washington, Baltimore, Phila'
delphia, New York and the east.
Magnificent Pullman vestibulea
trains. No extra fare.
Apply to ticket agent, or to
Fl. S. LIZARD. Sol. Pass. Agt.
Raleigh. N. G.
e. ST. JOHN, Vice-Pres. and Gen. M'g'R.
Fl. w. B. GLOVER, Traffic Manager.
T.. J. ANDERSON, Gen. Pass, Agt.
V. E. M'BEE, Gen. Supt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03

Statesmen to sell cigars on credit; gooo
- pay; expenses and the State agency OF
exclusive local territory given to E1gnt
party. Address p. o. BOX 1884 New YORK
CITY
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03

The portion Of Judge Russell's record
that We have selected for exposure this
morning carries us back some four years
q, mose. to the time when Holden was,
governor, and claimed authority to sus-
pend at will all the laws of the State,
Just as they were suspended when Sher-
mans army occupied the State IN 1900;
to the exciting times that preceded the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03

Russell to Mr.. MurrilI referred 10 IN the
above:
Wilmington, January 7, 1870.
e. Murrill, Esq:
Dear Sir.-I was in Philadelphia when
you were in Wilmington; received your
letter on my return. / suppose you have
advertised my property again, as you did
last year. / have appealed to Legis-
lature for relief from what, as you very
well know, is an unequal and outrageous
tax. Messrs. Scott and Allen assure me
that it shall be attended to. The bill
think, will pass as soon as the Legisla-
ture meets. / am willing to pay you
about what / think the tax will be when
corrected, and | wish to ask your indul-
ence on the balance till it is settled.
would have paid you had | been here,
and if you refuse me any accommodation
win have to pay the whole amount now
| have this to say, however. Your past
conduct towards me has evinced much OF
a disposition to annoy and Cypress. You
advertised property last year without
good cause, and without giving me warn
ing, and that too, when you had had mon
ey of mine in your hands for weeks, and
when you knew that | expected you to
take my taxes out of it. 1t is true that
Mr.. Hubbard took it from you, but you
knew that he did it without my authority
and you might, at least, have informed
me before distraining. The request
which now make is a reasonable one,
and one which you would not hesitate to
grant to any other property holder in
your county. / say this much more to
you: You are holding your office in VIC
lation of the Constitution and laws OF the
United States, and have thereby subject
ed yourself to a criminal prosecution in
the Federal courts. Ordinarily this
would be none of my business, but ! am
not in the habit of receiving injustice
without attempting to repel it, Now, If
you seek in this way to annoy me, shall
be under the necessity of seeking to annoy
you. do not say this for the purpose of
influencing your course, but simply to do
that which you did not do for me-to
give you notice, and fair notice, of what
may be done.
Yours, etc,
DAN'L l.. RUSSELL, JR.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03

The following is the letter from Judgt
Russell to Mr.. Murrill referred to in tbs
above:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-10

Greenpoint, Long Island, with three or
four others were arrested, convicted Of
treason-felony and sentenced to penal
servitude for life. Several Of these men
have been set free since, and there re-
mains in prison John DAILY, Alfred
Whitehead, James Wilson, one Curtin,
DR.. Gallagher, Patrick Flanagan and
John Devany, with one or two more.
James F. Eagan, who was released in
January, 1898, and Is the American del
egate of the amnesty association Of
Great Britain, has been informed that
Daily is already released and that Gala
CHER. Whitehead and Devany are soon
to follow, and he believes that all the
Others will soon be released. Daily was
elected to Parliament from his native
city If Limerick at the last general cleo
ton, though. of course, the election was
declared null and void. He Is in broken
health, and his friends accuse the Chat
ham prison authorities of poisoning him;
he was transferred to Portland prison in
1891. Four of the prisoners to be re-
leased are said to be insane All of these
men were hot-headed and Unbalanced,
and the coolest of them was probably
the American, Gallagher who was the
OTSdHlzeI VI the ny hoiiiieS pAoeo "AAtSA'
were exemplified in the murderous ex-
plosion in the houses of Parliament and
other occurrences of the sort. Not only
the force party, but other Irish patriots,
have endeavored to make martyrs of
these foolish and wicked murderers, but
the rest of the world regard them in
their true light, and they were of the
greatest injury to the real interests of
Ireland Had it not been for the Phoe-
nix Park assassinations and the dyna-
mite explosions, Mr.. Gladstone and Mr..
Parnell would probably have succeeded
in procuring good home rule bill and
starting Ireland on new course as q
seh-governed member of the British en-
pire.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-10
WORLDS SUPPLY OF SILVER.
Only the Annual Production Avail
able for Coinage.

prof. Denslow, in New York Journal)
Will II be in the power of debtor to
take $4,000 in any form and pay debt Of
$4,000 with 1t instantly?
l answer, No! Not at all, nor at any
time.
If he takes $4,000 in gold and holds 1t
on special deposit until that $4,000 in
gold climbs to 100 per cent premium In
coined American silver dollars, then, II
that event ever happens, he may. But
that event may not happen in twelve
years, in which case his loss of interest
would be $4,000. and may never happen
at all.
If he takes his $4,000 into Mexico to
buy $4,000 in Mexican dollars, to bring
them to the United States mint to be re-
coined into American dollars, he will find
that brokers have long since run up Next
can dollars up to par, in anticipation of
just this demand The same would be
true of Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombian
and all other South American silver dol
lars.
The whole silver coinage of European
nations would afford him no opportunity
for speculation, for that is all at par now,
though 1t is all coined at ratio of 1914
TO /, and, consequently, in bringing It
per dollar more of silver to get the same
coinage value in America that he has in
Europe. This amounts to fine OF three
per cent. on the recoinage of European
silver IN America. Tie cdHHot pay OH his
900 debt with $4,000 in gold or silver
coin by buying the product Of silver
mines anywhere unless that product
shall remain at the same price it Is now,
in the face Of the offer of the United
States to coin 1t all up into American
silver dollars. This, of course, 1t could
not do. Would the market price Of sill
yer bullion and Of all old silver used in
the arts be damned peremptorily up to
par? Let US see.
The old silver which has been used
In the arts. in plate, jewelry, watches
prize cups coats Of arms, etc., is al
ready far above its coinage value by vir.
tue of the artistic labor. grace and
beauty which have been combined with 1t
The old silver which has been used In
coinage Is already at par with gold
throughout Europe and Asia, and Is only
at bullion value in few Central and
South American Governments which
have no stock Of it, at the best, to speak
of, and whose minute supplies Of coin
would bound up to par or near 1t, with
out an effort, II free coinage were enact
ed in the United States.
Hence, what is called the worlds sill
yer furnishes no supply whatever fol
the American minis from the held-ovel
stock. The whole supply of silver fol
coinage would be the annual product
henceforth.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-10
BEER BOTTLES SOLD For HAY.
A Thrifty Farmer Found Out by One
of His Customers.
rWashinRtnn Postl


A load Of hay was purchased at the
Centre Market last Saturday ana a
weigh-bill given by the public weigh
MASTER certifying the gross weight to
be 1888 pounds, the weight of the wagon
1853 pounds, and the net weight of the
hay to be 2.440 pounds, which, at IS
cents per hundred, amounted to 1882,
which amount was paid by the purchas-
er to the owner, who sent a colored man
TO deliver the hay to the barn Of the
purchaser.
When the wagon was unloaded four
cases and two bags were discovered in
the bed Of the wagon filled with beer
bottles, and the purchaser suspected
they were put there for a fraudulent
purpose, and required the colored man
to drive back to the public hay scales
at the Centre market, and went with
him on the wagon, where the weight of
the wagon and beer bottles was found
to be 1000 pounds, 205 pounds more than
expressed on the weight-bill by which
the load of hay had been paid for, and
upon removing the boxes and bags con-
tanning, upon the count of Patrolman
H. r. Warren, 176 bottles, the weight Of
the wagon was 1875 pounds, so that the
purchaser had paid for 225 pounds of
hay which was represented by beer bot
ties, and the boxes and bags containing
the, and had been defrauded to the ex-
tent Of $1.23.
The bottles and boxes were dry and
dusty, and, as the owner sells several
loads Of hay weekly at the Centre Mar
ket, 1t Is likely that these same beer
bottles represented 225 pounds Of hay
each time, and have been paid for by
every person to whom this honest
farmer" sold hay this season.
1t appears to have grown into Gus
tom at the public hay scales in this
city to weigh hay wagon once and
the weighmaster's book, in which it Is
recorded, and this was done in this par
ticular case.
1t will be readily seen from the above
facts that while the weighmaster HAY
be perfectly honest this system of weigh
ing affords full opportunity to the dis.
honest, who haul hay to this city fol
sale, to practice without fear Of detec-
ton such a fraud upon buyers of hay
as described by carrying weight"
1t is undoubtedly true that very few
purchasers of loads Of hay ever see II
unloaded, and even II they did, 1t would
be simple matter to so conceal weight
about the body of the wagon as to es.
cape detection, unless suspicion were
aroused and search made.
1t Is thought that the detection and
exposure of this fraud at the haymar-
ket will make both the public weigh
master and purchasers of hay exercise
much more care to guard against such
frauds that are so easy of preparation
and so readily increased to much larger
amounts than were disclosed in this par.
ticular case.
This "honest farmer" from near
Colesville, Montgomery County, Md.
will have occasion to explain his selling
beer bottles for hay in court.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-10
The old yirginia Reel.

In the sunny autumn cleaning, when the
fire begins to sing,
And I look between the ivies that about
my cabin cling;
At my lonesome little garden, where the
ruined roses lie,
Like heap of tattered beggars fallen in
the weeds to die;
And the chilly winds come droning round
the chimney and the caves,
And along the narrow pathway drive the
dry and withered leaves,
And the crazy mill Is silent, and q mist
hangs Ger the wheel,
Then l seem to hear the music of an old
Virginia reel
Very sweet and very merry, very faint
and far away,
Now / hear the ancient fiddlers on their
strings begin to play;
Keeping time with swaying bodies, and a
kind of whispered Groom,
Till host of dainty slippers follow to the
dear old tune
There is Mistress Jennie Weaver in her
gown of yellow silk,
With the crimson coral shining on her
neck and arms of milk;
Even Lady Betty Fairfax deigns to tap a
scarlet heel
To the merry, merry music of an old Vir-
ginia reel
Lady Betty, Lady Betty. all your pride
is dust and mold,
For the worms have bred and nested in
your locks of paly gold.
Mistress Jennie, with your laughter, and
your ribbons and your beaux,
And the hearts that you have broken, are
as dead as yonder rose.
alone am left to mourn We, poor and
palsied, bent and gray,
Mumbling Ger the vanished glories and
the joys of yesterday,
When / had a gallant lover and my heart
to him was leal,
And we gaily danced together in an OLD
Virginia reel
All, the instruments are shattered, and
the strings are snapped in twain,
And the fiddlers have forgotten and will
never play again.
Twas the creaking of the branches or
the shingles to and fro
That recalled to me the music and tn.
mirth of long ago.
But above the stars eternal in theil
faded p.nks and blues,
with the powder on their ringlets and tn,
buckles on their shoes,
I shall see the beaux and sweethearts II
a long procession kneel,
And their harps will play the music o.
an old Virginia reel.
Minnie Irving.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-10
Good as Well as had in Everyone.

I have contended that there are good
tendencies as we'll as bad in everybody,
and that the two extremes OF the social
scale are not inherently so very far apart
in a moral way. But 1t is conceded that
the conference.-the moral sense-refects
the individual environment. 1t Will fur-
Their be conceded without argument that
the time of Elasticity during which con-
science is forming is the childhood and
adolescent period of the individual. Now,
what is the environment In which these
habitual criminals are usually reared!
Why, an environment of crime. Jeers and
curses are the first sounds to greet the
infants ears. By example, II not by pre-
cept it is taught that the object of living
is to. secure as much as possible from one
fellows with the least possible return; that
sin consists in being found out; that a sue
cessful and undetected crime Is the most
laudable of acts. Wax to receive, marble
to retain, that young mind was craven
deep with the lines of wrong living. A
subtle poison permeated every cell of his
pody, what wonder If 1t thenceforth gave
contrary to all experience to expect Il to
do otherwise, for the environment which
counts in moulding us is that which we
come in immediate contact with during
the formative period of live. The highest
thought, the most elevated morals, of any
generation, are, in a sense, the hot-house
cultures of that generation. Just in pro-
portion as they rise above the average I'M
derstanding and morality of the time,
they tend to become unstable. The lower,
the more primitive, instincts lie deeper In
the grain of the organism. Left to itself
the organism will revert to them as surely
as the dollhouse plant run wild reverts to
its primitive forms. In the one case just
as much as in the other, careful training
is necessary Il the best results is to be
obtained. The flowers of the human mind
do not bloom on human weeds.-From
."Can the Criminal be Reclaimed?" by Dr.
H. S. Williams, in North American Re-
view for August.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-10
steel-Pavins Found a ton.
(City GoYernment.l

WHY 1OVcIuIueul.J
A novel experiment in street paving
Is about to be made in South Park ave-
nue., Chicago. Success means q reyo-
luton In the present methods of pave
ment laying, bringing with 1t a greatly
increased period Of serviceable wear,
with resultant decrease In the ex-
pense of maintenance. What Is of even
more Importance 1t means virtual de-
fiance to the attacks of those piratical
individuals who, under the plea of max
ing repairs, seem to find an almost fiend-
ish pleasure in digging UP and tearing
to pieces new pavements.
Some time ago an inventive genius
produced what Is called expanded
STEEL" This is simply a thin sheet of
metal with Sits cut In it and expanded
lengthwise by forcing these Sits into
acknowledged apertures 1t was first
used only as substitute for lathing
In the construction of buildings, but
now 1t Is to become part of a new
method Of laying asphalt pavements,
and will be given its first trial on South
Park avenue. 1t is proposed to have
steel sheets of one-haf inch in thick
ness cut into large sized strips, and
then expanded under powerful pressure
These sheets will be inserted railways
In the concrete base by first laying four
or five inches of the stone and cement
mixture and then covering the entire
surface with steel, and over this steel
In turn will be put the rest of the con-
be compressed by ten-ton rollers and
the concrete mixture forced into the
interstices in the steel sheets, the whole
when solidly set forming foundation
which will not only afford much great
er weight surface than the old
system, but furnish as we'll an effectual
barrier TO the picks and axes of the van
dals.
2, Damage to the top coating Of an as
phalt pavement causes but small ex-
pense or annoyance nowadays. Time
was when repairs to the top could only
be made by tearing up a good-sized Sec
ton of the pavement. and relaying it
entirely, and even then the job was
seldom satisfactorily done, as il was
almost impossible to get an even surface
on the patch.
Now when the top coat needs fixing
man comes along with an ingenious
gasoline contrivance, something ON the
principle Of a plumbers blow furnace,
except that 1t is mounted on wheels. He
shoves 1t along over the spot to be re-
paired, and the fierce heat directed
downward, quickly softens the asphalt
so 1t can be readily smoothed over by
the rolling machines or hand weights,
| and an even surface secured. Repairs
have been made Of late in this way on
West Monroe and Adams streets and
the change from the old plan is pro-
nounced welcome one by the residents
| on these thoroughfares.
| 1t is only when the base or foundation
Of the pavement is cut through or dis
| turbed that trouble is now found in
| replacing an even surface, and this, 1t
Is expected, will be obviated by the use
of the combined steel and concrete base.
The difficulty of cutting through the
mass will force the making of water,
sewer and gas connections before the
pavement is laid, and where this Is not
done 1t will be cheaper and easier to
| tunnel under the street from the side
walk than to tear up the pavement.