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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01
SEWBERN's TRUCK SHIPMENTS.
Mr.. W. w. Clark Docs not Think y. X
y. G.. INDUCTION WEI b, Compromised.

Mr.. w. w. Clark. of Newbern, was
here yesterday on business connected
with the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad Injunction. He says he does not
think the matter will be compromised,
the terms offered by President Hancock
and his directors to the private stock
holders not being sufficiently liberal
Speaking Of the opening of the truck
season. Mr.. Clark says the crops are
fairly good and shipments are being made
at a lively rate The city is full of rep
rpsentatives of Northern concerns solicit
ing cons:gnments of truck. Prices, Mr..
Clark says. are very good. but there IS
some indication of break in them,
though apparently there is no reason for
a decline in price. The market is not
glutted and there is no competition.
Charleston is out of the market and
Norfolk has not yet come in, there being
| exactly weeks difference in each one
| of these three places.
Shipments during the week have been
very heavy, consisting principally of peas
and cabbage though turnips and cabbage
are also being shipped. Both the raj
roads and steam boats are taxed to thelf
utmost capacity. Special truck trains
| have recently been put on. The ship
ments began Monday and have been in
| creas:ng ever since.
| The recent frost did considerable dam
| age to the truckers in some portions of
| Eastern North Carolina. Fruit growth
| was cut off about 10 per cent. Irish
potatoes were cut down to the ground on
most of the farms. but will come up
| again. The yield will not be as large as
| it would have been had they missed
| the frosts. and though this crop on most
| farms will be retarded, it may find a good
market when shipped. The peach crop
was cut off about half.
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there is the quart measure, the gallon
measure, the peck measure, the half
bushel measure, &c. / have not time to
mention the various departments of
work. but we were much impressed with
the systematic grading of the work.
another thing that impressed us very
much was the neatness of every depart
ment. The atmosphere of each room was
pure. The various teachers desks were
decorated with beautiful flowers and
great many growing plants in some of the
rooms.
I'VE had the pleasure of shaking hands
with the teachers, and l do not hesitate
to say, even from a few moments OBJ
servation, that each one of them is a
model teacher. In fact think any lady
or gentleman who holds position in
this school must necessarily be model
teacher.
The manual training of this school
is certainly one of the most interesting
features of the whole school. The hand
is trained as well as the head The pu-
pills handle the saw, the plane and various
tools as well as read Latin and Greek,
and solve problems in Adgebia.
Superintendent Toms secured a car
rage and carried us over to see the col
ored graded schools. The building is
new and of such character that the col
ored people must have friends in the city
of Durham This is the spirit we like
to see in our people. The colored peo-
pie are among us and it is to our interest
as people and as State to help edu-
cate these people Here we found the
same system of instruction as we found
in the white graded schools.
After looking through the colored
schools we were sent out to Trinity Col
lege, where we were most cordially re-
ceived by Dr. Kilgo, Profs. Flowers, Bas-
set. Merritt and other members of the
faculty. We enjoyed the company of
these gentlemen for some little time, al
though it seemed quite short. We did
not have the pleasure of going through
Trinity College for want of time
Il know of few places more greatly
blessed from an educational point OF
view than is the city of Durham"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01
EUROPE THIS SUMMER,

Two charming SELECT tours to EU
ROPE this summer. THE ''ITALIAN
PARTY" leaves New York July 9th; the
"SWISS PARTY" leaves July 7th
visiting the MOST NOTED SCENES
and CITIES Of the WORLD. The
tickets include EVERY. NECESSARY
EXPENSE of the trip. and an EX
PERIENCED CONDUCTOR will ac
company each party under the manage
ment of well known tourist firm Of
THOMAS, COOK & son, London and
New York. EXPENSES VERY Low
everything F1RST-CLASS. Never &
BETTER OPPORTUNITY offered for
visiting EUROPE with so much CON
FORT and PLEASURE and so LIT
TIE EXPENSE. WRITE AT ONCE
for illustrated itinerary and FULL
PARTICULARS as to MEMBER.
SHIP in either party to EUGENE G.
HARRELL, RALEIGH. \. c.. CORES
pendent for THOMAS COOK & SON
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THE DURHAM GRADED SCHOOLS
Supt. Mebane Thinks the Bull City
has Abundant Cause to be Proud.

Supt. Mebane Thinks the Bull City
has Abundant Cause to be Proud.
The State Superintendent of Public In
struction, Mr. c. III. Mebane, and the
Secretary of the Teachers Assembly,
Mr.. C. j. Parker, spent yesterday IN
Durham. They went there to see the
great work that is being done by Su-
perintendent Toms and his assistants IN
the city schools. They came back yester-
day afternoon delighted.
l asked Superintendent Mebane what
he thought of these famous schools. Il
was very much pleased he said. Il
was surprised and delighted. My expec-
tations were more than realized. Well
NAV Durham he proud Of her schools.
mr.. Parker and | went up there to
inspect them. We were most cordially
received by Superintendent Toms. lie
carried us through the different depart
ments and kindly explained the workings
of each First we entered the room where
are the little girls and boys from to 3
years Of age.
in this first grade room We found
bright interesting children all busy at
work.
I'VE examined here copy books that
were very neat and the writing remarka-
bly, well done considering the age Of the
children. We heard these little ones
read Understandings, that is the children
seemed to take in the thought and ex-
pressed it to us SO that we could catch
it also.
1--WE were carried on into the differ
emf rooms and were much pleased with
the work in each department and the
methods used.
1.-The children have not simply to rat
tie off from memory, pints make
auart. 4 quarts make gallon, &C., but
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CHAMPION LIGHT WEIGHT.

kid Lavigne Takes the Worlds Hon
ors. III 25-Round Mill With Eddie Con-
= nelly. Who Heard His Lullaby in the
Eleventh Round.
New York. April 30.-George Kid
Iavigne. of Saginaw. Michigan. is still
the lightweight champion of the world.
Tonight in the Broadway Athletic Club
before 5000 people. he met and defeated
Eddie Connolly, Of st. John, \. Il. Both
men weighed in this afternoon below the
stipulated weight Of 133 pounds, and they
were matched to box for % rounds to
decide the worlds championship. The
battle was fast and furious. but at the
end of the eleventh round Lavigne had
Connolly fought to IA standstill, after
sending him down five times in succession
with right swings on the head and jaw.
Connolly gained host of friends by his
gameness, on getting to his feet in a cou-
pie of seconds each time but these efforts
were unavailing. and he staggered into
the corner ut the end of the eleventh
round hopelessly beaten. Joe Choynski,
who was Connelly's principal handler,
saw that the fight was over, so far as
the Canadian was concerned, and would
not permit Connolly to subject himself
to any more punishment.
Referee Roche had no alternative but
TO award the winning hOnors to LavIgne,
which the Saginaw lad earned cleverly.
Lavigne's second were Sam FitZpat-
rick. Benny Murphy, Jim Ryan and Tom
Tracy, while Connolly was handled by
Choynski. Jimmy Kelly. Dick Moore and
Billy Smith.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE ARRIVALS

J. A. Owens. Baltimore; J. S. Hillabrant,
Thomas l.. Hillabrant and wife. n. Y;
p. A. Rhodes, Boston; II. X. Wheeler,
n. Y: George II. Owens, John E. Wood
ard, Wilson; J. +. Exum, Jr., G. e. Elk
um, Whitaker's: 7. r. Hendrix, Va;
VIM. Mccarthy, w. w. Clark. Newbern;
Irwin Watkins, Richmond; w. r. Muir
ray, n. c.; II. X. Williams. \. Y; r. s.
Elliott. Wilmington, Del; l.. III. Morris,
Philadelphia: Walter r. Hihgan, Rich
mond: II. J. Noble. Selma; II. s. Adler
Baltimore: John II. Mayerdirck, Phil
adelphia; w. Il. White Fl. s. Fullwood
city; r. G. Dunn, Wake county; w. T.
O'Brien. Durham; II. II. Lehman, city
+. B. Tyson, Carthage; John A. Oates
Dunn: f. G.. Porter. n. c.; Fl. NJ. La
ner, Baltimore: G.. w. Seitz, Nashville
Tenn; Mrs. Minnie II. Bagley, city
James II. Pou, Smithfeld.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01
NEW LAWS NEARLY COMPLETED

Nothing Has Yet Been Done in Regard
to the Public Printing Next Year.
State Printer Stewart said yesterday
that the new laws We're all ready, except
the index. The Secretary of State is
having that made, and it will be com
petc in a few days. Mr.. Stewart thinks
that this will enable him to have the laws
ready for distribution by the 10th of May.
In this connection it may be stated that
the Council of State has not yet held Il
meeting for the consideration of the State
printing, as was provided by the last Leg
isla ture. Messrs. Stewards contract ex-
pires July LIST. 1t is not yet known just
exactly on what basis the new contract
will be awarded. This will probably
% made known by the Council of State
eforc awarding it, so that printers may
IL; H. diligently.
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SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS.

The Supreme court yesterday after
noon completed its work for the term and
adjourned sine die. 1t will now take a
vacation until the September term. The
term just closed has been an unusually
short one and the docket has been more
completely cleared up as the court went
along than is generally the case.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01
WANTED.

The Sun Life Insurance Company OF
Canada has number of good positions
open for the right men. District man
ayers and special agents in the Ordinary
and superintendent and solicitors in the
Thrift department wanted. policies for
ess than one thousand dollars classed as
Thrifty Apply to
J. r. JOHNSTON,
Ianager for North and South Carolina,
Raleigh, n. G..
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ate this attempt to carry them perma-
nently into the Radical camp. There are
very few Populists in Raleigh. OF these
few those who are ready to dO/anything
to get an office-follOwing Ayers exam
ple-will vote against the Democratic
ticket and good city government Those
who are not Office-mad will vote against
the Jim Young Frank Stronach ticket.
But these are so few that, so far as the
result is concerned it makes no difference
how they vote. The only effect of Ayers
letter is to show that he still stands where
he did last November--un agent of the
Radical gang.
REPUBLICANS KICKING.
While the ex-Populist chairman is writ
ing for the ''ring-tair' ticket, some Re
publicans are kicking. One of them said
Yesterday:
Il will not vote for Stronach or cay
of that ticket. In a speech two years
ago Frank Stronach said he was a Demo
If there is Populist or brindle- in
this hall, the door is open, and he had
better leave the hail. j don't want no
Pop. or Brindle-tail or Republican in
here. | shall never stoop so low as to ask
a negro to vote. There are white men
enough to rule this town. Why does
Mir. Stronach stoop so low now as to
ask the Republicans and Brindletails to
vote for him."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01
Seizure Sale.

BY authority vested in me under sec
ton $3.50, will offer at public sale on
May 10, 1897, at II o'clock M, the fol-
lowing property, seized from Ray and
Brother, in the Fourth district of North
Carolina, in default of payment of taxes
and assessments: Is packages of corn
whiskey, two copper stills and fixtures.
Sale will take place at north door of
United States building, in the city of
Raleigh.
f. NJ. SIMMONS,
Collector.
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BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Don't forget to attend the Birthday
Tea at the Branson House next Tuesday
evening, May 4th, for the benefit Of Cen
trail Methodist church. An excellent mu-
steal programme has been arranged, and
everybody should go. Refreshments
free
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A BASEBALL GAME TO-DAY.
The A. and NJ. College Nine and the
Guiford College Team to Cross Bats.

hooters can go out and root to their
hearts content to-day, for there's going
to be another good game Of baseball at
Athletic Park this afternoon. The A.
and NJ. College team, of this city, and the
Guilford College nine will handle the
sphere, and they will do it in splendid
style.
Both teams are good ones, composed Of
splendid men, well trained and in the
pink of condition. The game will there
fore be rafting good one. Don't fail
TO 90 out and see it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-01

After all it is Nature that
makes the cures. Only now
and then she gets into a tight
place and needs the helping
hand of science. When the
right thing is needed to check
diseased action and start the
organs and tissues on the way
to health, SCOTS Emulsion
comes as the helpmeet Of
Nature. 1t feeds, nourishes,
strengthens; and it does this
all round-the Hypophos-
phites act upon the nerves;
the Cod-liver Oil feeds the
hodv For sale by all druggists,
Bailey Brothers "OLD BOB" To
bacco Is the best chew on the market.
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KITTRELI, NJ War Oh z@as, 16s-
MRS. PERSON:
hereby tender you my Cessiin5E@y 10 thEe
real worth of your remedy sunessa wftks
an ailment peculiar to our sex, unSal. by an
cident, be- gan to take your reme6y~ I hSsec
taken -four bottles, and an to day IN geCas
health better than for years. moss1 cheeHn-
fully testify to- it did for me.
Yours truly.
MRS. X. d. HtsB.H Ksz .
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-12
ARE ALREADY FIGHTING AMONG
THEMSELVES.
Twenty-One Cents a Pound Charged by
Indians for Carrying Outfits The Real
Situation as Described for "The
Calls" Readers.

JUNEAU, ALASKA, Aug O. Wild excited rushed
the steamship George W. Elder from Portland last night Not
head the COOL With nlamed maginaion many has
tened to buy grain sacks and other recep bring the Konde
gold Bill Wioughby discoverer of "Sen
City" mirage, said, "Them elers is crazy"
They like All throwing themselves
ban snowy interior seemingly without thought of the hdshps
before Them Juneau lastchance town the way to the
diggin's.
variety heater last night gold-seeker induced part
with exchange for the note of the ladies waiting He
gave young lawyer find the He looking
for both until the boat sailed Others of the tongs going
Konde to gold by the sau have never been away from
home before.
blockade Dyea Skagaway daily growing
points 90
the sumA The crowd estimated high by conservative
Juneau who there for the sole purpose of
making inspection of the situation The outlook is certain
will Yukon
and others will winter the route to Dawson City
Some discouraged the prospective failure of getting their supplies
packed and being unable to do the heavy work themselves
starting in ght' with insufficient outfits This great
of life, and, at best, privaon of the seveest kind.
The of ndescrbabe disorder and confusion There
of fights question precedence in en-
plyg packers That there have
dered remarkable taking the excited minds gen.
era scramble to beyond the divide and floating the
Yukon between its hills of gold
More arriving get away Miners
the ground ten days ago still here days work by pack
trains makes peceptbe difference in the size the piles
oande Experienced pospectos who have Yukon
fore returning their homes will spring
Prices per pound for packing rising 50 steadily pres
emily Creek
The price pound to Lake Bennett the Cco
Pass
making force in collection duties.
cutter passed up last night with large number of horses and
police on board
Charles W. Young, wealthy po
nee from Dyea to-day. He said
possible all that stuff the summit this fall
be found the country handle freight
rate the rush is keeping up"
Next spring Mr.. Young will iron operated
from of Chicoot Pass
lift supplies from Sheep Camp the summit distance and
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-12

REDDTNG, Cal. Aug. 1.-THE
gold excitement was revived with
renewed vigor here tonight by
the receipt of news from Coffee
Greek to the effect that $4,000
more of gold dust and nuggets
was taken out yesterday after
noon from the pocket out of which
the Graves brothers took their
$4,000 last Saturday. They left
in charge of their claim a man
named Carter, who at one time
was a partner in the claim, and
Garter proceeded to work the
claim as soon as the Graves boys
left, and late yesterday afternoon
he encountered another pocket
and in less than five hours took
out about an even $4,000.
There is plenty of gold in sight
and all indications point to the
taking out of a million from that
single vein.
REDDING, Cal, Aug. 11.-News
has just reached this city QO12
P. NJ by private source of another
exceedingly rich discovery Of gold
on Morrison Gulch, about two
miles from the scene of the Graves
brothers discovery. 1t is said
SIS, 600 was taken out this after
noon and that two miners, whose
names are not known here at
present, are taking out gold on an
average of $40 to the pan. This
strike is on the same vein of the
Graves Blue Jay claim and is sup
posed to be an extension of the
same.
When J. B. Graves was told at the
Golden West Hotel last night of the re-
ported big find made yesterday in his
mine he said that he was not surprised to
hear of it. he had no direct information
of the occurrence from Henry Carter,
whom he had left in charge, but he
stated that Carter had been given author
ity to work the mine during the absence
OF the two brothers, and he added that he
thought it very probable that the report
was true.
Graves knew of no mine in Morrison
Gulch which was being worked within
two miles of his claim.
He had heard, however, Just before
leaving for this City of rich strike made
by Murphy and Burgess on Hickory Creek,
about sixteen miles above his claim and
on the opposite side OF the creek. At that
time the two men we're reported to be
taking out from $50 to 500 to the pan.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-12
which was operated by the Pacific Coas.

which was operated by the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company.
The Mexico was valued at $175 600. She
left Seattle on July 25 for Dyea and Skaga-
way with nearly 400 mine s and pros
pectors on board and heavily laden with
freight. She reached Dyea on the 29th,
and after unloading steamed on her home
ward VOYAGE from Alaska. The passen-
gers numbered seventy-three, and were
principally Christian Endeavorers and ex-
cursionists from Eastern points and Alas
ka. There were slxty-six in the crew. On
Wednesday, August 4, the steamer left
Sitka, and that night encountered heavy
fogs, but in the early morning the fog
cleared and when the accident occurred
the steamer was run9ing at the rate OF
ten miles an hour with an apparently
open sea.
Pilot Cornell, who was formerly on the
Topeka and has been running in Alaskan
waters for five years, was on the lookout.
It was at point in Dixons Entrance at
4:30 O'Clock Thursday morn ing when the
Mexico suddenly and without warning
struck hidden rock that wrenched off
her keel. Two hours later the vessel was
When the shock came the engines were
reversed, but inrushing water and the
settling of the boat at once satisfied the
officers of the impending danger of the
craft. The passengers came pouring out
of their staterooms 10 inquire the cause OF
the trouble. Some of them had been
rud ely thrown from their berths by the
shock, while others had been hit by flying
water bottles and other articles which had
been thrown down.
==As soon as the passengers learned the
cause of the trouble they began to make
preparations for taking 10 the boats.
There was no panic or disorder. Every.
thing was done in a quiet and orderly
manner, and within an hour and half
all the passengers. with what baggage
they happened to have in their state
rooms, were In the lifeboats. The women,
when going down the ladder over the side
of the steamer 10 get into the small boats
sang Christian Endeavor songs.
w. II. Lewis, one of the passengers,
says that in less than half an hour after
the shock the hold of the steamer was
filled with water and the baggage was
/(o,f ,a9 ;,.I Io1s
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-12

larat, weiching 2l66 ounces and valued at
SAL SS2. The Australian nugget has for
years been exhibited as the biggest ever
discovered. The Blue Jay gold slab i'm.
measurably surpasses also two other great
nuggets, the next IN size and also for
many years paraded as modern wonders.
These are the Ural nugget, found in the
Ural Mountains, Siberia, Weighing 1900
ounces, and the Vicount OF Canterbury
nugget, found at Berlin, Australia, May
81 1870, weighing 1120 ounces and va ued
at $22, 000. Casts of al! these nuggets are
to be seen at the State Mining Bureau.
Trinity's newly found nugget, which Is
destined TO arouse great interest in Cali
tornla gold mining, is, or rather was for it
Is now broken in pieces, of the shape of
beavers tail. 1t was feet long, 16 to Is
inches wide at the wider part, inches
thick at the big end and / at the smaller.
81 am sorry broke this when I got the
drill under it, said J. b. Graves, .'for l
wanted to get it down here in the solid
piece in which we found it. However,
when it did break we got mad and broke
the rest, too. The biggest piece we have
now is worth about $4,000. The gold has
been minting SIT 90 and $l7 67 an ounce.
1--WE were two greenhorns when we
commenced. We had never mined, and
didn't know anything about it. How
ever, whenever we got out OF money in
any way it seemed we could always find
some IN the Blue Jay.
"Our recent discovery was by an open
cut twenty five feet lonS. There ,ls soft
porphyry on the hanging wall and green
on the foot. The gold laid right on the
footwall, on the right-hand side. We had
TO stope little and get TO the upper end
OF it,
"We got out at once 1853 pounds avoird u
pols, or about 200 troy of gold, and there
is N more in the face of the mine yet. | es-
innate that there was from $42 600 to
SAB. 900 at least in this compact mass.
Besides all this there is another ledge
twenty-five feet away from this that l am
sure is just as rich. We have ninety-six
acres in our claim. These KIondlke
mines are not as rich from all can learn
as the claims up there. Jack and Joe
Strude who own the Orc Grande, near US,
have taken out about $500 900 in the last
three or four years, working in desultory
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-12
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
The Gigantic Slab in the Blue Jay
OutcIasses the Famous Aus
traIian Discovery.

The brothers r. B. and J. B. Graves,
who made the great discovery of a nugget
or solid piece of gold worth over $42, 900
in the Blue Jay mine, Trinity County, ar
rived here yesterday. They brought about
$40, 900 worth OF the gold along with them
and the remainder was cached near the
mine. It will follow shortly. The gold
brought here was immediately taken to
the United States Mint for coinage. The
miners are row at the Golden West Hotel
They are two young married men, natives
of Red Bluff. They went TO Coffee Creek,
Trinity County, with a band of eighty
cattle in 1890. The hard winter which fol-