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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06
STATE NEWS.


Rev. Clarence Dixon, d. d., will begin
revival services in the Shelby Baptist
church on the 18th of April.
T. B. Justice, Esq, a member Of the
Rutherfordton bar, will enter the min
istry of the Baptist church.
The commissioners of Wilson county
will put in freproof vaults for the
county's records, at a cost Of $3,862.
Mr.. IT. G. Eccles tells the Charlotte
News that $250,000 modern hotel is
to Ice built in Charlotte, the funds to
be supplied by Northern parties.
The Emory (Texas) Messenger pays
a Ugh compliment to the argusnent in
an important case made by Mr. w. III.
Clendenin lie is native of Alamance
county, and is succeeding well in his
new home.
One of the best informed Populists
in the county told us last week that not
over one-third Of the Populists in Gull
ford could be induced to vote for Settle
again under any circumstances, His
emphatic antagonism has cooked his
political goose. Greensboro Patriot.
The whiskey distiller who defied a
church congregation and its pastor in
Union county is whipped and has sur
rendered. The people pay him for his
plant, and he retires from that section.
They would otherwise have utterly de-
stroyed his property. The people had
a jubilee yesterday in honor Of their
victory.
The Concord Standard says a new
$4,000 cotton mill is to be erected, and
it is proposed to issue 100000 worth
of bonds to pay 81 900 debt, buy the
water works and electric light plants,
put in sewerage, and open new streets.
Every town ought to own its own lights
and water, and no town as large as
Concord ought to be without sewerage.
The commissioners of Edgecombe
county, decided on Monday last to
build an iron and steel bridge, about
600 feet long, across Tar river at Tar
boro, and appointed Capt. 0rren VIII
liams, John f. Shackleford, DR.. Julian
Baker and w. II. Fountain committee
to get up plans and specifications, re-
ceiye bids and award the building Of
the same. Plans and specifications will
be in the hands of the committee, and
the contract wiz be awarded on the
18th instant.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06
BUcKLEN's ARNlcA sALvE.

The Pest Salye in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
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pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refund
ed. Price rs cents per boz For Sale
by John Y. MacRae
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06

Az a meeting Of the directors Of the
Morganton Hospital, MIR. }. II. Sawyer
was reelected president Of the board
of directors Of the Western Hospital
at Morganton, and .. r. Sawyer tex
officio chairman), /. /. Davis and i. II.
Whitener were reelected as the execu-
tive committee. J. A. Dickson was re-
elected clerk. The action transferring
Chatham patients to the Raleigh asy-
lun, and those from Rebeson to the
Morganton Hospital was approved.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06
HEADQUARTERS FOR
OFFICE SUPPLIES.

your orders with us. Duplicating machines,
Monographs, photographs, Typewriters,
&c, &c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06
ONE MAN WAS DROWNED.

Bridgeport, Conn, March THE
barge Nile. Of NeW London. sank short
Iii after midnight last night q quarter
of a mile southwest OF Pennfield reef.
She was the second OF Il towbound
from New York to New London. The
wind was blowing a gale and the Nile
sprung a leak, parted her hawser and
sank in few minutes. Fred White, Of
Norfolk, Va, was drowned
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06
The LARGESTSToCKlNTHES STATE

Writing papers, envelopes. box papers,
legal cap papers, 70 ls cap paper, pen and
pencil tablets, note books, mucilage, inks,
ink stands mucilage stands &c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06
Labor Saving Devices

Letter files, invoice files, FLEEING cases,
hleing cabinets, pigeOn-hOle cabinets, docu-
ment files, document envelopes, letter bas-
kets, waste'paper baskets, letter scales.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Asheyille, n. C., March !.
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WE MAKE A SPECIALITY OF
OFFICE SUPPLIES.

Sealing wax, check protectors, eyelet ma.
chimes, paper fasteners, gum labels, string
tags, shipping tags, bill books, bankers
cases, pass cases, letter baskets.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10
Snakes AMI IN. Art of War.

Some of the stories coming from
Cuba these days are both amazing and
amusing. IT is asserted, among other
snakes as firebrands. Snakes of
non poisonous variey are very plenti-
full on the island and the Cubans, so
the story runs. are catching them by
hundreds and thousands. The insur-
gents dip them in crude petroleum
grease, set them ON fire and then re-
lease them in the sugar-cane fields. To
fully appreciate the effect of this, 1t is
necessary TO consider the fact that at
this time of year dry leaves cover the
ground in the cane fields to the depth
of several feet, and these leaves are
primarily as dry as finder.
THE blazing snakes, as soon as re-
leased" says one account, would
make their way as rapidly as possible
amid these leaves. toward the center of
the plantation. leaving a trail of fire
in their wake. Imagine a hundred of
these reptiles thrown almost simultan-
eously into the fields of a great plan
tation, and the havoc they would cause
can better be imagined than described.
Each of the snakes. which act as fire.
brands, will, under ordinary circum-
stances, crawl distance of several
hundred feet before either Kidding
itself of the fire or being roasted to
death. Tt can easily be seen that a
hundred streaks of fire. each passing
two hundred feet through a substance
like finder, can cause a confiagration
OF almost limitless extent"
The snake in the hands of the Cuban
insurgents is indeed a formidable wea-
pom. But there are some features of
the description of the fearful use to
which they are put that seem to sug-
prest a snake story.
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Turkeys Inferno.

Fresh revelations of the tortures to
which the Turks subject their Armen-
ian prisoners are a story of horrors
Prisoners who have managed to escape
say that no conception can be formed
of the cruelties practiced by the keep
ers of the Erzeroum prison. Torture is
reduced to a science. 1t is the delight
of these brutes to inflict the most ex-
cruciating agonies on their charges, to
find out how much pain can be endured
without the destruction of life. Es-
capped convicts and Armenians assert
that not all the prisoners who have
been executed i'm Erzeroum have been
beheaded or strangled with cords, the
Turkish modes of capital punishment,
but that they have seen some of them
thrown into a gaping shaft. which was
filled with sharp spears, upon which
the victims were impaled. The blood
curdling cries and groans OF poor
wretches who were not pierced in a
vital point by one of the spears would
keep the prisoners whose cells adjoined
this place of torture awake all night.
Death in their case came horribly
through sheer exhaustion and starva-
ton.
AS a rule the Erzeroum prison is
overerowded. Often men are compelled
to stand up most of the night against
the dirty. Shiny walls of their cells.
exchanging sleeping places with their
fellow prisoners on the cold. bare floor.
Half the Erzeroum prisoners are not
criminals, but iHofrensive Armenians.
AS an example of the pretexts under
which these unfortunate wretches are
arrested and imprisoned may be quot
ed the case OF a Protestant tutor who
received a seven years sentence for
having permitted one of his pupils to
sing a song which was regarded as OF
a seditious nature by the authorities.
The food in the Erzeroum prison
consists of two pounds OF black bread a
day for each inmate. with as much Of
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10
FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1896.
Phases of the War Cioud.

According to yesterdays London dis
patches, the German press is backing
down from it's warlike attitude towards
England. The Pail Mall Gazette says
stems have been taken "in the highest
quarters TO obtain by family influence
a full explanation from Emperor Will
liam" and that German newspapers,
official and seml-official, are tumbling
over one another in their anxiety 20
explain that the tension of relations
was the fault of England" We don't
know very much about the German
newspapers. The Montana Stats Zeit-
ung and the Great Falls Herold are
the only ones on the Standards ex-
change hist, and we are not sure wheth-
er these rank as official or semi official
in the Fatherland. II they are tumb-
ling over each other I'm their anxiety TO
explain that the tension of relations
was the fault of England, we have not
observed it.
We see no necessity for tine German
press to adopt any such tumbling pol
icy as reported. There were many bet
ter reasons why the English newspa-
pers should do some ground and lofty
tumbling with reference Ito the Monroe
doctrine. and they seem to be doing
it quite rapidly of late. At any rate
they are not half so belligsrert In tone
as they were two weeks ago, and we
have no family influence" pull on En-
gland either.
There is less swapping and snarling
he
thoroughly impressed with the gravity
of the situation. 1t would take very ut
tile to provoke Germany to declare war
upon England. Kaiser Wilhelm is a
warrior, or he thinks he is, he believes
On militardsm, he is thoroughly con-
WINGED that besides his large army and
admirable navy he has God on his side:
and on very many accounts he would
like to immortalize mis- reign by a great
brilliant. spectacular war. Things have
so shaped themselves. too, that Russia
and. through Russia. France, and as for
that matter. nearly the whole world rs
backing Germany in her quarrel with
England. 1t is well. therefore, that En-
gland tipped the wink TO her majesty
and that steps were hastily taken in
the highest quarters" to pull the kaiser
off and cool him down.
One thing is certain. all the 9th
er governments ON earth are unit
ing i'm cordial hatred and deep
detestatlon OF England because
of her graIb-all policy. There
may be no war about II. but England's
policy of bluff and buster and brag
must be changed. The world Is tired OF
1t all The German emperor's cham
pionship of the Beers means simply
that the principle of the Monroe doc
urine in it's essence must be extended
40 the affairs of countries the world
over.
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to a writer in the New York Journal
the habit of boarding seems to have
been induced by ages of misgovern-
ment. during which oppression and
violence have been rife. No feeling OF
safety existing. 1t was natural that
the natives should adopt the practice
OF reducing their wealth to a concen-
trated shape and hiding 1t. Thus, in
case of emergency, the family savings
In hard cash were always within easy
reach and robbers or other enemies
were not likely to get hold of them.
Meanwhile, century after century the
exports of India have greatly exceed
ed the imports of that country. and,
consequently. an uninterrupted stream
of gold and silver has flowed thither.
During the thirty-three years ended in
1892 India imported and kept about
s625 zoo, 900 in gold. The country is in
deed a bottomless well, into which
stream of treasure perpetually flows.
draining all the rest of the world.
1t is estimated that the worlds an
nual consumption of gold in the arts,
chiefly in the manufacture of jewelry.
is somewhere between $50,000,000 and
$50, 000. 900. Probably about $1,5o0,Ooo
worth of gold coin of the United States
is melted yearly for such employment.
This government makes fine gold bars
of five ounces and upward for the use
of jewelers. and other manufacturers.
Similar bars are turned out by private
refineries. OF such bars $10,0O0,0O0
worth are bought and used in this
country every twelvemonth.
A French authority has figured that
at the end of three centuries from now
the cemeteries of the United States will
contain gold to the value of $150,000O0O.
represented by tooth filings. Every
year the Americans have $500, 900 worth
of the yellow metal pounded into cavi-
ties in their teeth. All of this is buried
with them when they die. Some day,
perhaps, companies will be organized
to mine the cemeteries and recover the
gold secreted in the jaws of dead an
cestors. The yield of gold in 1895 was
the largest in history-about 100000
900. OF this the United States pro-
duced about $50. 100000.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

Senator wolcott brings good tidings
of the growth of silver sentiment in
Europe. There is hardly an intelligent
land owner in Europe who is not BIZ
metallist, he says. In France the
statesmen of the day. the manager OF
the Bank of France and public opin-
ion strongly favor bimetallism. Plans
are formulating for bringing the va
rious bimetallist associations of Eu-
rope into closer relations. and concert
ed movements towards an interna-
tional agreement are to be begun in the
French assembly, the German reichstag
and the English parliament. But with
all the activity the bimetallists are
displaying in Europe, Senator Wolcott
confesses ne is not encouraged to look
for satisfactory results. at least not In
the immediate future. He Is undoubt-
eddy right in his conclusion that who
ever invites this country to await Eu-
ropean agreement before opening up
our minis to silver. offers no hope of
definite relief"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The movement toward the municipaliza-
ton of quasi-public works seems to be
spreading. Before the Boston city coun-
ell is a petition from the East Boston
Trade association for the establishment
of gas and electric light plants in that
section of the city to be maintained by
the municipality 1t is supported by many
prominent citizens who think the expert
ment worth trying.
A method of silvering mirrors. produc-
ing mirrors of much create brilliancy
than those made by ordinary processes.
has been discovered by Herr Hans Boas
of KEEL 1t is based on the fact that when
a heavy metal forms the cathode of
vacuum tube containing a trace of hydro
gen, the electric current volatilizes the
metal. which is deposited as firmly adj
herent and highly polished layer on the
walls of the tube.
The fact that Egypt is going to be more
fashionable this winter than ever before
is shown by the number of bookings at
the hotels. The hotel keepers say that
five years ago they had about 1000 people
in Cairo for the winter, nine-tenths of
them English. Last year there were 5000.
one-half of them Americans. This year
the hotel keepers estimated that they will
have at least 10000, and the American in
fiux will be larger than ever before.
A man who claimed to have seen Wash
ington, and who really believed that he
had, no matter how other folks treated
his assertion, died last week in Baker
county, Georgia. He was a negro known
as Jim Hail. and was reputed to be at
least 125 years old. There is no doubt he
was an exceedingly old man. He used to
declare that he had driven his master to
the polls to vote for General Washington
on the occasion of his first election as
president. He was in every way honest,
and worked, supporting himself. up to the
| time of his death.
| Judge James F. Harvey, of the Mont
gomery circuit court, Charlottesville,
| Ind, is about to establish a new court
rule which will practically do away with
the professional juryman." who has
| been such an annoying curse to all courts
| in Indiana from time immemorial. Judge
Harvey proposes to guard against this
class by ordering the jury commissioners
to draw the regular panel of ~ and then
either four or six additional talesmen
| who can be called in to take the place of
those of the regular panel excused by the
court. The sheriffs declare that the pro-
fessional jurymen become more numerous
every year, and are most annoying, rem
dering a sheriff's position, especially in
! election years. most embarrassing.
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CURRENT COMMENT.

II Dr. Jamison had succeeded would his
act have been repudiated by England? On
the contrary would not the Transvaal
have been Incorporated in the British en-
pire?-Buffalo Express.
A large Connecticut wooden mill which
has been idle for five years, has again
started up. as a bicycle factory,-Syra-
cuse Courier.
Throwing more responsibility upon the
banks is just what the people object to.
They want their financial system to rest
upon responsibility that will not break IL
the banks do.-Binghamton Republican.
There is an assurance of stable govern
ment in the position taken by Chairman
William r. Morrison of the Interstate
commerce commission regarding the con-
templated railroad pooi.-St. Louis Re
public. na-s
1t is in order now for the new poet
laureate of England to issue an ode
explaining why his country doesn't go to
the help of the Christians against the
Turk New York Journal. s-
BENJAMIN Harrison finished nearly two
cords of wood during the recent war ex-
citement.-Boston Globe.
1t was in the year III that John Paul
Jones, commanding a ship of Is guns, APP
peared on the British coast and made a
raid. on the town of Whitehaven. The
Declaration of Independence was then
but little more than a year old. II Eng
land is counting on immunity from attack
at her own doors in case of war with this
country. she has forgotten the grit and
enterprise of American sailors.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Mr.. Olney may have no presidential as
pirations, but ii will do no harm for lead
ing democratic politicians to keep an eye
on him.-Chicago Tribune.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10
Gnd.

Russia's remarkable offer of $780,
ooe. 900 in gold to the United States has
aroused curiosity as to how much
more she may have in store and how
on earth she came by IL all. The fact
Is, Russia has been boarding gold with
the pains and patience OF a miser for
a great many years until her treasury
now contains $3.50. 900. 600 She has been
withdrawing from circulation not only
the product of her own mines. but
also the foreign coin and gold bars i'm
ported into the country. Hardly any
gold leaves Russia. while she receives
annually from the outside s60,000,00
TO $50 OO0. 900 worth of IL. Thus she
has got together a gigantic heap OF
specie by draining the channels Of the
monetary circulation of the world. 1t
is generally supposed that Russia has
been getting all this gold together as
a war fund. Together with this motive
IL Is probable that she has also been
boarding for the purpose of improving
her financial credit among the powers.
Great as are Russia's gold posses
slons, they are not nearly so large as
those of India, where the process of
boarding has been going on ever since
the days of the Roman Empire. 1t
was estimated in 1855 that during the
half century ending in that year India
had boarded 81. SOC. 000. 900 OF gold and
siIver-nearIy one-third OF the worlds
- 49, aFr4N - .
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

should Cleveland Have Third
Termg' dIlustrated). Hon. Michael ID.
Harter Romance" a poem. S. Reid.
The Origin of the Opera" J. F. Row
botham. "a Winters Tale" Saint Anne
D'Auray," illustrated. Henry Haynie.
Right" a poem. Samuel II. Low. "A
New Years Prayer" a poem. Albert
Joyce Gen. Hooker's Resignation" NJ.
Z. II. Bessie Dean" a poem. Albert
Doyle The Spoiler In Florence" illus
trated. Bernard Morgan. Richard Oh
ney." illustrated. Michael r. Hennessy.
Ann Bell" a sketch. X. =. Mcgee. "A
Love Wish" a poem. Marie NJ. Pursel.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

Portugal announces that she will re-
main neutral in the dispute between
Great Britain and Germany. Now If
Lewis & Clarke county and a few other
powers will take similar action the sit
uation will be much simplified and the
tension greatly relieved.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

In the associated press report of the
Northern Pacific proceedings at Helena
yesterday we read the following incred-
ible statement: Attorney w. F. San
ders was asked IL he had anything to
say. He replied in the negative" AS
we have received no information that
Colonel Sanders is suffering from a
stroke of paralysis. 1t is painfully APP
parent that the associated press has
been miserably imposed upon.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

THE Carcass and the Vultures." Illus
trated s. Millington Miller. M. ID. Sea
Longings," a poem. Julian E. tombstone.
AN Atlantic Cable Station" illustrated.
John III. Wilson. THE Mound Builders
of America" Ill, illustrated, The Mar
quis de Nadaillac. Departments: Edito-
rial. women's. Children's. Question Box.
Book Reviews.
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the polluted water as he may choose to
drink. II a prisoner has friends he may
drink If a prisoner has friends he
may receive a food supply from
them. If not he may die for all
the sultan cares. This accounts for the
numerous suicides that are reported
and of the many that are not reported.
as there is no such thing as accurate
prison statistics in Turkey.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

We agree with the esteemed Inter
Mountain that Senator Mantle is re-
vealing great and gratifying gifts as a
bridge crosser. and we are not sure that
his distinguished colleague from Mon
tana is not anxious to display his abil-
tiles as a bridge jumper.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

The esteemed Salt Lake Herald an
nounces that it will present two gold
lined silver cups to the boy and girl
first born after the signing of the
proclamation admitting Utah to state
hood. We greatly fear the Herald is
violating the lottery laws. To be per-
fectly fair and square to all the people
of Utah 1t should have announced the
prizes some months ago. q
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10
TO ADVERTISERS.

The Anaconda Standard guarantees It's
advertisers a bona fide paid circulation.
Daily and Sunday. three times greater
than that of sny other newspaper pub
lished In the state of Montana. Advertis-
sng contracts viii. be made subject to this
guarantee.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

Class in elementary arithmetic:-If
there are fourteen anti-silver demo-
Gratis and twenty-six anti-silver repub-
licans in the United States senate, how
many columns will be required by a
pro-silver republican newspaper TO
explain that the only hope of silver lies
in the republican party.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

Dave Browne was finally confirmed
yesterday as collector of customs forthe
district of Montana and Idaho, but the
Helena dispatches do not note that the
residence of the Hon. Thomas c. Power
was brilliantly Illuminated last even
ing -frI tfa-s
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

Senator Carter thinks the silver re-
publicans in the senate should act
as a unit one way or the other" IL
Carter could have his way, depend
upon IL il would be the other"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

The Marquis of Queensbury is COM
ing to visit his son, Sholto. in San
Francisco this winter. Life in San
Francisco is growing to be one grand,
sweet tear.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

If the United States goes to war we
would not swap Mr.. Thomas A. Edison
for the whole kit and kaboodle of Eng
lands battleships. He will invent
something that will knock her whole
navy into grease spots.