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ATTEMPTED Suicide.

PORTSMOUTH, Va, Dec. 26.-About
two weeks ago a well dressed man
arrived here from Washington, D. G. e,
and took room at the Hotel Ports.
mouth, giving his name as George
W. Fechner, and afterward formed a
copartnership with N. Seymour to
sell jewelry at auction. Fechner
spent all of yesterday in his room,
and nothing was seen or heard from
him until this morning about eleven
o'clock, when the chambermaid went
to his room and found it locked. She
reported it to Manager Jay, who went
upstairs and smelling gas broke the
door open. Fechner was found on the
bed in an unconscious condition and
nearly dead from having inhaled the
gas. Physicians were summoned and
worked on him until 8 o'clock this
afternoon before he was pronounced
out of danger. A letter addressed
''To Whom it May Concern" was
found in his room, in which Fechner
said that not having treated his wife
and daughter right this would be his
last day on earth. It was dated 7:30
p. m. and requested that his body be
cremated and his ashes thrown to the
wind. The would-be suicide also left
= sealed letter addressed to the mayor,
tho contents of which the latter de-
clined to give out. As soon as Fech-
ner is able to be moved he will be
taken to Jail for safe keeping.
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A Fool Judge.

AsHEv1LLE, N. G., Dec. 24.-Last
July The Citizen of this city forcibly
and earnestly commented on the re-
moval by Judge 81. q. Ewart of the
criminal court of murder trial from
Buncombe county to Henderson coun-
ty. The Citizen said, among other
things: ''That the removal of the case
to Henderson is unnecessary, expen-
sive anda reflection on the intelligence
of the people of Buncombe." Judge Ew'
art at once hauled the editor OF The
Citizen into his court for contempt,
and sentenced him to pay fine Of $3.50
and be imprisoned in the county jail
for 80 days, though the editor purged
himself of contempt. An appeal was
taken to the supreme court of North
Carolina, and that court has just rem
dered its decision. The opinion is
favorable to The Citizen, the supreme
court finding that Judged Ewart was
nj error and that there was no con-
empt in The Citizens editorial.
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Even in One 81 Years Old!
Mrs. Loa Person. Madam:

Mrs. Joe Person, Madam:
1 cheerfully forward you my Testimonial
of the good effects of you invaluable REM
edy. Ihad been laid aside part Of two
winters before I was crushed by q bale OF
cotton falling on me. After being able to
sit on my adjustible chair, my feet were
swollen tight to the knees, and l suffered
also with Rheumatism l took four or five
bottles then, and rel, eyed 1t, but 1t was not
expelled from the system, as I believe 1t to
be now. When purifier Of the blood,
tonic or an Alternative IL needed, l have
found your Remedy all you claim for 1t III
Rheumatism, ETC., and also when connect.
ed with general arrangement Of the system,
even n one 67 years old. Last spring !
began on 4 dozen bottles of your Remedy,
and am now clear Of Rhemstism. Another
thing like about your Remedy is, 1t Is put
up In round bottles holding an honest pint,
bottles without indentattons In the sides
and edges, which Sem to be large enough
but are abont one. third short. The botan
ical Ingredients used know to be OF fine
remedial properties I am glad to say that
what 1t has done for me has caused the,
first deposit Of your Remedy at this plasz
TO 20 like hot buck wheat cakes and
maple syrup. Many about here seq
have nearly a. much to say about
has done foG themse ves.
l am sincerely and grateful
JOHN Il. PREs1
Coddle Creek, Cabarrus
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.Raassurad bx olney.

LONDON, Dec. 81 "A New York
dispatch to the: Daily News says:
There is a rumor that Secretary Olney
has sent q private telegram to Lord Sal
isbury, assuring him that the passage
of the commission bill is not to be con-
strued as hostile act. The Daily
News says editorially on this subject:
There is nothing Incredible or sur
,prising in such an announcement.
On the contrary, it would be highly
honorable to. Mr.. Olney." The Daily
News says further. "Our Vienna cor
respondent has reason to believe that
Lord Salisbury is negotiating with
France and Holland as owners of
American colonies to join in protest
against President Cleveland's action,
which has slready been condemned by
Spain. We should be inclined to
doubt the wisdom Of any European
alliance to meet demands which have
not been supported by cool and sober
opinion in America"
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Struck by q Blizzard.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Dec. Pa
blizzard struck this city early this
morning and continued with increas-
ed violence until at neon the streets
were almost impassable and the tele-
phone and electric wires wero in a
tangled mass. Not a telephone is in
working order in the city and at least
so poles are broken off or toppled over.
One horse was killed and several per-
sons knocked senseless by coming in
contact with live wires. Large gangs
of men are at work trying to get the
wires off the Streets but the storm is
is increasing in force and bids fair
light tonight.
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THE GLAD NEW YEAR.

We shave watched the old year dying,
We have felt 1t icy breath,
We heard the wind chant sadly
The requiem at it, death.
Within our hearts we count the time,
So ve'y pOnr are We,
So little do we feel the reach
OF our eternity.
We look and. loi afar doth stretch
The vieioD Of year.
We see d. ais the vi0lets blowing
And to the listening ear
lsSorpe the chirping Of tie robins,
Ap0, we know the gladstone spring
VIII cone again 9TH all her treasures,
And flowers and sunshine bring.
And so intwine the violets and holly
With the coming of the year.
The vi0Iets sneak 0f spriDgtime,
The holly Chri tmas cheer
Then bpgiD the journey onward
KNOWN & nauRi # fear,
Keeping sunshi g In the heart
Throughout the glad New Year.
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Spartanburg, Dec. 26.
Defeats All Competitors.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Secretary
Herbert today formally awarded to
the Newport News Company of Vir-
ginia the contract for building both
of the new battleships for one of
which the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco was a competitor The
award of the contract has given the
Secretary great concern for the reason
that he desired if possible to meet
the intent of Congress that one ship
should be built upon the Pacific
Coast, and he has made it the subject
of a special report to the President,
showing how he was absolutely
obliged by the law to make the award
to,the Newport News Company. In
this report Secretary Herbert says that
the board of bureau chiefs recommend
ed the rejection of the Cramps bids
based on their individual plans; which
recommendation he approved. He
says; =.
plans were as follows: Cramp &
Sons, one ship, 50, $4,000: two ships,
50, ESQ, 900 each. Union Iron Works,
one ship, $2,74O, 900; two ships, $2,,
100000 each. Newport News Ship
Building and Dry Dock Company.
one ship, $2,350, 600; two ships, $2,-
230, 900 EACH. .s,.,.r -
1T will thus be seen that there is a.
great disparity between the bids.
We're it not for the section of the law
appropriating for these ships, which
looks to the construction Of one of
them on the Pacific Coast, there would
be no room for argument, and the
Newport News Ship Building Compa-
ny would undoubtedly be entitled to
both. The peculiar wording of the
law authorizing the construction of
these ships, however, has rendered j
necessary to examine into the
question very carefully before
reaching conclusion. The Act re-
quires that one of the ships shall be
built upon the Pacific coast, subject to
the proyiso that if it shall appear to
your satisfaction from the biddings
for the contracts when the same shall
be opened and examined by you that
the proposed battleships cannot be
constructed at fair cost upon the Pa
cifc coast, that is, by the Union Iron
Works, you may then authorize the
construction of such battleships else
where. that is to say, by the lowest
and best bidder-the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com.
panv-" .E...
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Street Car Held UP.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26.-Four
masked men armed with rifles held
up Mission street electric car from
Ingleside at s o'clock last night and
robbed two employees of the Pacific
Coast Jockey Club of So, 1000. Ruben
N. Clark, who carried the pouch con-
tanning the money, was shot in the
leg. John Bronner, another employe
of the Jockey Club, and Policeman
John Josephs, also received bullet
wounds, neither of which is serious.
Clark's wound will probably cause the
amputation of his leg. The robbery
occurred in a lonely place eight miles
from the city. ~.
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Beginning to Quake.

LONDON, Dec. 27.-The Vienna cor
respondent of the Daily News says
that Spain has already notified the
British Government of its opposition
to President Cleveland, and it is be-
lieved that the four States, Great Bri-
tain, France, Spain and Holland, will
form quadruple alliance to protect
their American possessions against the
United States.
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To Fortify Fort Sumter,

WASHINGTON, Dec. A.--It is learned
that the recent visit of Major General
Miles to Atlanta and other places in
the south was in connection with the
subject of coast defense. The initia-
tive will be taken with the $75, 900
available for improving the defenses
or Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor,
and project to equip it with 10-inch
guns is under consideration.
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M forI ICI.n.da... q

The Mauch ester Courier, Of date
tDecember 24tla says that orders have
been given at The Woolwichl and Dav.
export arsenalsi Tor q large qnantity of!
ammunition, together with q great
number Of magazine lilies Martini
Henry rifles, and other guns for ship
ment to Canada in January Il also
learns that the defenses are to be great.
ly strengthened. While all express
the opinion in Toronto that thersl
will be no war between the United.
States, a number strongly advocate
precautionary measures on the part of
Canada, such as military organization,
and arming at all vulnerable points
onthe lakes and at the crossings of
Niagara, Detroit and st. Lawrence
rivers. ~
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Preserve Peace.

BosToN, Dec. '23.-The American
Peace Society of this city, which in
cludes as its members Hon. Edward
Atkinson, Hon. Robert Treat Payne,
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and others, to-
day at meeting passed the following
resolutions:
"War between the United States and
Great Britain is a moral impossibility.
Neither nation, surely not our nation,
can be guilty of the awful crime of
attacking the other.
'"Threats of war by the United States
were worse than stupendous blum
der. Christianity, civilization, hui
m1anity condemn the war and threats
thereof. -#.-
Justice between nationsis good and
especially by the powerful to the weak.
Magnanimisy inspires our country to
seek Justice for Venezuela from Great
Britain. The Monroe Doctrine meals,
first the safety of the United States,
and secondly, the protection of this
hemisphere from European oppression.
But our safety is assured beyond ques
ton by our power. But it is incon-
ceivable folly to SO extend the Monroe
Doctrine that boundary disputes of
ancient origin, growing out of the
doubtful documents or data beyond
our ken, must imperil the peacefulness
of the country,
"Our government has done well to
intervene by honor, diplomatic appeal
and protest, including urgent requests
for arbitration. After diplomacy has
failed two great nations must always
arbitrate if the quarrel be grievous.
"The exact Venezuelan boundary
sinks into insigniicance measured
against the peace of the English-speak-
ing people principle. War between
them would check civilization, infame
malignant passions, infict immeaslre-
able suffering on the masses Of the
people, the millions of workingmen
and women, even nowstruggling hard
to earn bread for the families. #
1.-THE golden rule condemns war and
these threats Of war. The rulers of
both lands are in fault. Both nations
must recede. We are between two ma
tions of brothers, leaders of the world
in Christian civilization is impossible.
We appeal to the Christian conscience
and common sense of our people to do
all in their power to maintain inviolate
the existing and steadily growing sem
timents of amity and peace between
the English-speaking nations"
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COllisisn,

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 26.-Two South
ern freight trains came into collision
near Chattahoochee to-day. Fireman
D. Woods of Birmingham and w. O.
Shale of Atlanta were killed, and En-
gineer Roberts was probably fatally
injured. Three tramps were more or
less injured.
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Cotton Statement,

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 26.-Cotton ex-
change statement: Semi-weekly move
ment at 10 towns in 1895: Receipts
73, 141 bales, shipments 60,766, stock
462, ,357; same time in 1894, receipts
101, ,906 bales, shipments 49, stock
460, ,232; in 1898, receipts 81, 452 bales,
shipments 81, 993, stock 376, ,069.
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.rha paneers of the peep.

LONDON, December 25.-The French
steamer Emile Eloise has been sunk in
a collision at Algiers. There were
thirty-four persons on board. -Four
were drowned. The rest were saved.
The British steamer George Pyman,
from Aarhaus, is ashore on the rocks
near Aberdour, on the Firth of Forth.
Scotland. All efforts to get her off
by tugs have failed. ~ III, j:.5 ?
The British steamer, Mobile Capt.
Leyland, has arrived at st: MICHAEL 3
from Hartlepool. A steamer pipe on
his vessel burst. She sailed from New
York December 9.
LONDON, December %. "A dispatch
from Kingstown, Ireland, says that
the English bark which was reported
in distress off there yesterday is full
Of water, and that wreckage from the
vessel is coming ashore. The men on
the bark are huddled behind the deck
house. SO far ali efforts to rescue
them have been unsuccessful. The
PooIberg life boat crew have made
several vain attempts to reach them.
The traWler Sunrise, of Aberdeen,
has been lost in gale with all hands.
The crew consisted of five men.
LONDON, December 25. The turret
ship Rupert, which sailed on Decem-
Der 81 from Plymouth for Gibralter,
has returned. She had a terrible ex-
perience in the gale. Her turret flaps,
which were supposed to be water. tight,
were useless and tons of water were
shipped. Incessant pumping for for.
ty-fve hours alone prevented the ex-
tinguishing of the fires. The vessel
made barely eight knots. Accounts
of disasters multiply. yt
HALIFAX, N. s.. December pa
dispatch from New iFoundl8nd says it
has now been learned there were In
all twenty-five persons on the ill-fated
schooner Victoria, Capt. Bradbury,
believed to have foundered with all
on board of Cabot Island, on the New
Foundland coast. Among them were
a family named Noseworthy, husband
and wife and five children. The stem
of THO Victoria has been picked up at
Horse Island.
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Thirty Drowned.

PARIS, Dec. Pa dispatch to The
Figaro from Algiers says that by the
sinking OF the French steamer, Emile
Heloise, yesterday through being run
down by tho British steamer, BeIlero-
phon, 80 of her passengers were
drowned. instead of 4, as at first re-
ported. Twenty-Five of the native
persons drowned were native Alge-
rians., g..
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The Passing Of the h, n, New =, ! iYear. !.

The Passing of the New Year.
It has no doubt often occurred to
you, fellow traveller on Times coach, !,
that the milestones of New Years Hy
past much faster now than they did
in the early stages of your journey:
What an interminably long wait it
seemed to be between the first New
Years day of your memory and the
second. Perhaps you were 6 or 8
years old, then and in school for the
first term. If so, New Years had it's
sorrow as well as its JOY. for it was
the last day of the midwinter holidays
and next day you had to begin; your
wrestling with the intellectual iarith-
metic and the geography and maybe
with the elements of the English
grammar. Look back now and pity
yourself. Do not make the mistake
of most of our acquaintances and de-
clare that particular New Years to
have been the happiest of your exist
ence., PshawI 1t was perhaps the
most miserable. The fact that you
have forgotten your childhood's mis-
cries does not make it true that you
had none. E..
It was several years after that be-
for the New Year began to move ap-
preciably faster. Perhaps it was not
till your sister and your pretty dark
eyed cousin began to chaf you about
the silky down upon your upper lip,
and your portly comfortable father, in
speaking Of some doings of yours Of
which he did not approve, referred to
you as q foolish young man." Then
you noticed the fight of time, I'll be
bound. No. one had called you a
young man" before. You were
ready to forgive the governors child !,
ings for that. You rejoiced that al
though you were very young indeed
you had yet been called "a man. r. .
At that time you had great respect
for your own opinions on most mat
ters. You began to shave forthwith,
and you fell into the habit of calling
your chum, who was of about your
own age, "od man.
If any one called you my boy, you
felt resentful. Tt seemed SO utterly
out of place. But YOU, had not vet
learned that manhood brings with it
certain definite and sometimes heavy;
responsibilities. 1t is possible you
discovered this significant truth very
soon afterward. thoueh perhaps it was
not till two or three more New Years
had nassed At ali events the knowl.
EDGE came to Won, with somewhat bf g
shock-nossib}v II nleasant po}ssbiy
otheruisa = a. al svsnts IS waa nf;t
| lnnn after .that that Won foumd ait 81
that vo,,r knowledcs WAS NOT uniyer.
sai I and yo,lr wisdom was not .infaili.
HE ~ IA I'-,g Ts72s I.5.1 I.5,.
And aver since the Nav Years have
Anun bv faater and 1faeter 4 ftar
awhiie your c;rth crew oreatar Then
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Inyeterate Counterfeiters

FRANKFORT, KY, Dec. pa coun-
terfeiting outfit has been found by the
penitentiary authorities in the posses
sion of James Holt and James Ballen,
convicts. The two made their, dies of
plaster Paris while in the prison hos
.pital. Z
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Miners ON a Strike.

DEN1soN, Texas, Dec. 1.-THE min
ers at Lehigh and Coalgate, Indian
Territory, to the number of three
thousand, have gone on a strike. 1t
is thought every mine in the territory
will follow suit. Serious trouble is
anticipated.
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SENATOR. Chapdleridtroduced in the
Senate g bill appropristing $100, 900, z
900 to strengthen the military arma-
ment Of the United States. Represen.
tative Grout introduced "a similar bill
in the House. n, 8, IS
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STICK TO ITS PURPOSE.
The Dispensary Law Should Curtail the
Sale of Whiskey.

Sale of whiskey.
Editor Register: Kindly allow one
of your readers to express few
thoughts through your valuable paper
in regard to the control and sale by
the State of Intoxicating liquors.
SUI ely a great responsibility now
rests upon the Reform party, which
inaug lrated the present system, as to
how we shall manage the liquor bust
ness, SO that the best results may fol-
low and no serious harm be done.
The dispensary law was wisely con-
ceived and evidently drawn with much
care, as evidenced in the various Sec
tions of the Act, especially section IL,
and if carried out according to its true
spirit and plain meaning-not opening
the flood gate to sales-then the law
may prove to be of incalculable good,
especially in preventing many who are
too much inclined to the use of liquor,
from getting it.
The trainers of the dispensary law,
I am persuaded, had no low design
(sucb as to make money for the State)
in enacting a law giving the State con-
troll of the liquor business, but had in
view the best interest of the whole
people, and the protection of society,
as well as to reduce the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors, which was having such
baneful influence. tits well remem-
bered that the State had voted prohi
bition. Our Legislature, seeing the
difficulties attending the enforcement
of such law, wisely q hope) adopted
the present law giving the State con-
troll as compromise measure.
If the law is operated and enforced
according to its plain features and
provisions, and for the best interest Of
all concerned, it vii. hardly fail to
give satisfaction, but will prove to be
the best solution of the liquor question:
In view of all the surroundings, will
it not be we'll for our Boards Of Con-
troll, and all concerned, as far as is
reasonable, to try to check, or reduce,
the sale and use of all intoxicating
liquors? -
Let us not be drawn into wrong.do-
ing, under the misapprehension thatit
is necessary to place liquor in con-
venient places for the public, in order
to keep down the blind tigers; but let
us, rather, enforce the law, and obey
it strictly ourselves In its true spirit.
Thus the law will be more highly
esteemed by our best people; and we
will not so often be put to the blush
in seeing, drunken men 60 away from
the places where we are proposing to
control the liquor business.
The opening of more Dispensaries
than is really necessary in any com
munity does look like we were reach
ing out for more business, for revenue
Let us not yield to the seductive ;nau-
ence and mistaken idea that more dis
pensaries are necessaryto keep down
''blind tigers" but stand firm on the
principle of right, and endeavor to
make the law what it was designed to
be, relief to our people and a bless.
ing to society. !
REFoRMER. i
Spartan burg, Dec. 26.