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The evening times., 1899-07-04
MACHINERY IN GERMANY.
Number of Motors in Industries Rap
idly Increasing.

Number of Motors in Industries Rap
idly Increasing.
Consul Monaghan transmits the follow
ing statistics to the State Department rel
ative to horsepower machinery and en-
gines in Germany, and, the opportunity for
the increase of sales of American makes:
The employment of motors in industries
is rapidly increasing in Germany. From
1875 to the present time the number of
concerns using motor power has increased
sevenfold, the horsepower. three-fold or
fourfold. According to the census of 1895,
3,421, 1914 horsepower was employed Of
this power 2,715,O7S was put down to
steam, 629.065 to water The 8, ,421, 1874
horsepower represents only the real power
put forth, not the indicated or possible
power. 1t seldom happens that an engine
or motor is used at anything like it's in
dicated capacity. The power used in ag-
ricultural pursuits, railroad river, harbor.
and coast transportation, etc.. also the
great central stations that supply power to
other concerns, is not taken into account
in the foregoing. The German railroads
employed in 1895 1877 locomotives 16,107
on the wide-gauge roads and 270 on mar
row gauge). Giving the wide-gauge- e-road
engines an average Of $50 horsepower, and
the narrow gauge $50, we get for the en-
pire's locomotives 7.2sS.O00 horsepower.
Among the farmers of Germany Tin 1894
'95) 259,364 farms used steam threshers,
1,696 steam plows, and 26, 900 milk centrifu-
gals with power. Ocean steamers l,06D
had in 1896, s01, $50 horsepower; river,
harbor, and coast steamers Q,530) had
III, 1850 horsepower. These figures IRE all
for 1895, and there has been a constant in
crease since. i am not sure that there is
not field here for our better class high
grade engines The tendency everywhere
is toward steam, water, electrical, and gas
powers. Engines, if cheap enough and
good enough, ought to go as well here as
with us. The demand is not decreasing.
Agricultural machines most of which had
their origin in our country, are initiated
how successfully only one familiar with
the machines can say. II we work half as
hard as do Germans, we can conquer mar
kets in Russia, the East, South Africa,
Australia, etc, where our machines are
almost sure to succeed, price for price
against all others. =. - = -s~.a-
The evening times., 1899-07-04
RUSHING THE SHAMROCK.
She VIII Take Her FIRST Spin in Two
or Three Days.

Southampton, July 4.-The Shamrock
rests at anchor two miles from Southamp-
ton Harbor, and her crew are working as
fast as possible to get her ready for sail
ing Her sails are not yet aboard, and it
will be two or three days probably before
she takes her first spin. Reports about
steel gaff are correct. The yacht has now
a steel gaff, main boom, and mast, while
her spinnaker boom, bowsprit, and top
mast are of wood. The present spars will
not be changed before the trial sail. 1t can
therefore be taken that the Shamrock wi
begin her career with her smallest rig and
see how it fits her. If the present main
boom is her 110-foot spar, which is to be
doubled, then the only extra canvas will
be on a longer topmast, which she ought
to be able to carry. The Britannia is in
dry dock here, getting her bottom newly
coppered. 1t is expected that she will be
ready in a few days. Her captains orders
are to get her ready as soon as possible.
The evening times., 1899-07-04
a Strange Marriage Custom.
(From Lore and LependD


1t was an old idea that husband whose wife
at her marriage was clothed only in a sheet, or
in the most elementary linen garment, was not
in any way liable for the debts previously con-
tracfed by her. Our parish registers and local
Traditions give ample illustrate of this
quaint idea. AT Chiltern All Saints, Wiltshire
is the following entry: John Bridmore and
Anne Selwood married October 18th, l714
the aforesaid Anne Selwood was married in her
smock, without any clothes headgear on
Similar occurred at Gorton Gree in 173s.
at Ashton UNDERLINE in l171, and at Otley in
1905. Avis Birmingham Gazette for 1877
rouches for extraordinary story according to
which bride disrobed in the vestry and ap-
peared at the altar without the amount of
clothing by the ladies in the above cases.
The latest example of which the present writer
knows comes from Lincolnshire. The register
of Gedney has this commonplace entry: "Dec
End, 1872, David Wilkinson, full age. bachelor
labourer. of Gedney," 10 ''Susan Fararn. full
age, widow, of Gedney.' Local tradition sup
plements this brief account by relating that the
bride was dressed in sheet stitched about her.
with holes cut for the passage OF her bare arms
The evening times., 1899-07-04
FIREBUG INDICTED.
Six Charges Against "a boy in Lynch
burg.

Lynehburg, Va, July AIN the corpo
ration court yesterday the grand jury re-
turned six indictments for malicious burn
ing against James Johnson, the juvenile
frebug.
Arthur Derr. brought here from Wash
ington on a charge of embezzlement, was
allowed bail in the sum of 81, 900.
The five Sisters of Charity, who have
conducted the School of the Holy Cross
since last September, and are the origi-
nators of the Ladies of Charity Society,
left yesterday for Emmittsburg, Md. the
home where they all gather at the close
OF each school year.
In the clerks office of the United States
district court this morning a petition was
filed by the New York, Chicago, and Bal
timore creditors of Mrs. Nettie Enock,
doing business in Roanoke and Salisbury,
who assigned in Roanoke last Wednesday
for S2S, 10, praying that service of this
petition together with a subpoena, as pro-
vided in the acts of Congress relating to
bankruptcy, and that she may be adjudged
by the court TO be a bankrupt within the
purview OF the acts.
The fifth tennis tournament for the
championship OF Virginia, in both doubles
and singles, began here today.
The evening times., 1899-07-04
A self-Protecting Umbrella.

(FrOIn New
Here is what l believe to be the only UNI
brelIa of its kind in New Orleans" said law
YER who has an office in the shopping district.
81 bought it in Germany year before last, and
nobody can open it except myself. Do you
notice that little keyhole in the slide? Here's
the key on the other end OF my watehchain and
until it is inserted and turned the thing is abso-
luteIy immovable Anybody else would find it
harder to raise than a Kansas mortgage On at
least a dozen different occasions the umbrella
has been stolen, taken by accident, if you pre-
fer the term, but it always found its way home.
You see my name is cut in the handle, and the
umbrella itself is well known to all the attaches
of the building. When they stranger
struggling with il in the doorway on a rainy
day they promptly confscate the property, and
bring it back. 1t is such good scheme I'm
surprised the idea hasn't been generally adopted
in this country" f+e
The evening times., 1899-07-04
Rail- Refu.ed "kidu wnnko.

Parkersburg W. Va, July 4.-"Kid"
Wanko the Washington. Pa. pugilist who
is in Jail here charged with striking the
blow which caused the death of Felix
Carr, Of st. Albans, w. Va, was given a
hearing and held by Justice George A.
Drennen to answer before the next Grim
inal court grand jury, bail being refused
by the Justice Application for the young
mans release on writ of habeas corpus
will be made by his attorneys before Judge
Jackson. of the criminal court. The tragic
ending of the affair will cause much
trouble for all concerned, as the penalty
for each conviction for those arrested is
not less than ten years in the penitentiary.
G. L. Fries testimony before the coroner
was to the effect that his contract with
the parties for the use of the park called
for a boxing contest, and he submitted
the contract to Sheriff Wade and Prose-
cutting Attorney Laird before the battle
began ~
The evening times., 1899-07-04
1.nam,,,s Serious Fall.

Carlisle, Pa. July 4.-Winfield Scott
Conrad. lineman employed by local
telephone company, fell from the top Of a
forty-fiye foot pole and sustained severe
injuries His right leg was shattered and
was amputated. One of his wrists was
broken. and he also sustained internal in
juries. Conrad is thirty-seven years old
and has a wife and family in Harrisburg.
He is a son of Gen. Winfield Scott Con-
rad. superintendent of the Soldiers Or
phans' School at Scotland, Pa.
The evening times., 1899-07-04
END OF LABOR TROUBLES.
Cumberland Steel Workers Accept a
Schedule and will Resume.

Cumberland, Nd, July 4.-The wage
scale with the steelworkers has been ad-
justed and the employees of the Cumber-
land Steel Mill. which shut down Saturday
pending the settlement, will resume work
tomorrow morning
The tin schedule has not yet been de-
cided upon, but a prominent tinworker
said today that he believed all differences
would be settled within ten days. The
tinworkers here were in secret session yes
terday There is no hard feeling, the
differences being purely of a business
nature.
The evening times., 1899-07-04
The star of Destiny.

Mr. John Dillon, Nationalist Member of
Parliament for East Mayo, must have
startled the House of Commons with his
remarks on American expansion yester-
day. He objected to a grant proposed for
the further fortification of Halifax and
Bermuda, on the ground that the Ameri-
an-Spanish war must result in the ulti-
mate annexation OF the British West In
dies TO the United States, to which coun-
try il was evident that nature intended
them TO belong.
Mr. Dillon argued forcibly that Ameri-
can possession of Porto Rico, and pracu-
cally of Cuba, had wrought such economic
changes in the relations of the Antilles 10
the commercial world that the British ISL
anders would soon be compelled to throw
in their lot with the Republic; the only
alternative being frequent subsidies from
the home government, which Englishmen
would soon get tired of paying.
The Irish leader also said, and very
pertinently, that ii did not look consistent
for the people who preached an Anglo
American alliance at the same time TO
continue the policy of costly and elaborate
Notifications, the only object of which
could be preparation for possible hostili-
ties with America. In this view We are
/ quite in agreement with Mr.. Dillon; but
! England, while of late years always hold
| ing out olive branches to US in the form of
! jug-h handled arbitration treaties and ether
! inducements to brotherhood, has never for
/ a moment ceased TO push the work OF per-
/ fectins her line of bristling guns around us
! from Esquimault TO Newfoundland. Every
time we have increased the battery force
or tonnage of our Atlantic fleet a more
than corresponding increase has been given
! 10 the British naval force in the same
waters, and the like has regularly hap
pened on the Pacific side of the Continent.
These things may have amounted only
to condolences; but it is hard 10 over
come an American opinion, born OF mil
( lion experiences, that, when one sees a
man with whom he has had differences
( and is likely to again, loading his gun, It
! is ume to load two guns. The advent OF
the Anglo Saxon alliance viii not be has
tened by further British fortification
/ against the United States.
The evening times., 1899-07-04

Senator Chandler sententiously observes
that the people can restrain the trusts
That is quite true in this democratic
Government; but will the Senator point
out to the people how they can restrain
the trusts as long as they are betrayed
and bamboozled by their chosen represen-
tatiyes?
The evening times., 1899-07-04

1t might be well for young men who in
dulge in the cheerful practice of exploding
cannon crackers under passing street cars
to know that, in China, such ebulIitions of
innocent patriotism are rewarded with de-
capitation. This shows that We may even
learn some lessons in civilized government
from the Chinese.
The evening times., 1899-07-04

The Administration persists in its con-
tinuous farce comedy of attempting to
make Sampson the hero of Santiago. The
name of Schley was the chief attraction
at half dozen or more great celebrations
of the glorious victory yesterday, but Mr..
Mckinley and Secretary Long were blind
and deaf TO these. Their eyes were glued
on a little affair at Newport, and it was
to Sampson alone that they sent congratu-
lations
The evening times., 1899-07-04

Former Governor Hogg, of Texas, is an
nounced as one OF the features OF the Tam
many celebration today. The committee
on arrangements certainly cannot have for
gotten 10 provide him with an end seat.
Like other Statesmen the Texan is on the
watch for Presidential lightning to strike
in his neighDorhood- After ALL Bryan
might not be renominated, and then think
what a glorious Democratic battle cry
..Hogg and Harmony would be!
The evening times., 1899-07-04
He Understood.
From the Cleveland Plain Deal

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"You understand the necessity for making this
report as favorable as possible?"
''I think do
''Of course, we don't want any downright "
ing about it-you understand that. But we want
it-well,; as optimistic as it can be made
81 know exactly what you want; used to be
Q census enuInerator up in Chicago,
The evening times., 1899-07-04

The first thing Alger knows he may
have to fight Pingree harder than McMi-
Ian for the Senatorial prize. There is no
way to tell which way Pingree will jump
The evening times., 1899-07-04

Governor Bushnell and the other Uit-
landers in Ohio, appear to be waiting for
the return of Dom Mark Hanna before
presenting their list of grievances.
The evening times., 1899-07-04

Dreyfus sensible and manly course since
his return from DEVILS Island is as dis
appointing to the American yellow jour-
nails as ii is to the mercurial Parisians
The evening times., 1899-07-04
The Chicago Druggist.

(From the Chicago News)
Mrs. Leary-I want to git some quinoine pills
Clerk-Those with coats on them, / suppose? !?
Mrs. Leary-No; thin with thor coats of.
Clerk-0h, 1 understand William, bring out
some OF those quinne pills in their shirt sleeves
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
Nicaragua Yields.

New York, May ga Washington
dispatch to The Herald says: 1T was
learned today that Mr.. Merry, minister
To Nicaragua, has informed the state
department that the Nicaraguan gov
has relieved General Torres
from the command Of the department
OF Bluefields. The minister also state
that he understands the American mer-
chants at Blueields will not be COM
PEELED TO pay double duties. as original
ly exacted.
The removal of Torres is the result
OF representations made by Minister
Merry complaining OF the harsh treat
ment Of American citizens at Biuefieids
by that official. The retention Of the
cruiser Detroit at Bluefields and
the dispatch OF the gunboat Vixen TO
that point are expected to convince the
Nicaraguans that the United States
will permit no trifiIng. Now tina the
Bluefields trouble has been disposed of.
IL Is understood that the Detroit will
be ordered north Immediately upon the
Vixen's arrival"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30

not poor, having written Shakespeare
plays for him, it is a fact that in 1893.
"a, 600 visitors paid admission to
Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford
and 10000 visited h cottage of his
wife al Shottery close by.
There is a growing opinion in Eng
land thai a war in the Transvaal, in
Africa, between Great Britain and the
Dutch Beers is very probable.
There were three men lynched in
Texas because they shielded a murder
er. James HUMPHREYS and two sons
were murdered by thirteen masked
men.
The negroes are fast fleeing from
Griffin, Ga. on account of the white
caps threats. a military company is
on guard. A dispatch says Of the
company:
They passed a comparatively quiet
night last night, with only a few calls
on the sentinels. But ii was learned
today that the Labor Union Band haC
armed men watching the sentinels al
night from ambush, and a single shor
fired woul have been followed by
fusillade."
Michigan is to try a graduated in.
come tax. The Chicago News makes
suggestive comment as follows:
This form of taxation is popular
with all those who have an income be
low the limit of taxation, and is cor
respondingly disliked by such as fal
within the number Of those who ar
assessed"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
THE GAMBLING MANIA HAS BEEN
RELIEVE

A very unnatural, feverish, unsound
condition has existed in the Wall street
operations for some time. Bulling the
market has been the game. Fortunes
lave been made and lost in a few
hours. Prostration to the gamblers has
been universal and the whole country
has been affected by the operations. the
wild grasp at fortune. There is now
some reaction. The bulling has had it's
best days for the present time at least.
The top rung in the ladder Of success
and speculation has been reached, and
an unsettled market will be the begin
ming Of less crazy speculation and
the opinion now to which the leading
Wall street houses nave come. 1t is
time that this were so. The wild rush
for Investments in stocks las Quieted
down, and sober judgment is once more
ascendant. The credulity of the gam
bling public is either satisfied or ex-
hausted. The rapid rise in stocks is no
longer confidently prophesied and
eagerly accepted. After the long n
severe storm Of speculation there is a
calm n the clouded sky is clearing
once more. The Boston Transcript says
Of the passing Of the boom,' that
"the market again has two sides; it has
been found that there is a limit to
wholesale bullish manipulation, and the
era of reflection and of judgment has
returned. This is as it should be-" and
it adds with no doubt proper informa-
ton that it was as silly to shake mil
lions out of the value of American
railway and other properties on the
death of n man, even so great an
operator as was Mr.. Flower, as it was
to boom various trust and other stocks,
copper as well as others, on the fiat of
another great operator" For the pres
ent at least the intense gambling ma
nj. is allayed, and once more men can
find the ground under their feet instead
of walking on clouds.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
Iuter.CoIIegiate Field Contests

New York, May 27.-The inter-colle-
giate games on track and field which
were concluded this afternoon at Man
haitian field were highly successful and
the championship honors remain in
Pennsylvania, the Blue and Red win
ming nine Of the thirteen events. In
Kraezelein the Quakers have a won
derful athlete. He simply rolled over
the high and low hurdles and won cas-
lily in each ven He clipped one-fifth
Of a second OF the intercollegiate rec
ord made by himself, but even this
splendid exhibition was outclassed by
his performance in the running broad
jump. In this event he established a
worlds record OF "a feet AZ inches. ].
w. r. Tewksbury, from the same COL
lege. captured the spirits in faultless
STOLE. and while he did not go within
2-5 OF a second Of Weifers record, he
all the other contestants Just
a handfly az did the Georgetown flyer
in former years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
REJOICING IN CANADA.
Two immense Mortgages

Washington, May 27.-The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company placed or
record here today two mortgages COW
ering all it's property, rights and ftan-
chises. They cover the largest amount
of money in any transaction ever re-
corded here. The first is a prior lier
mortgage to the Mercantile Trust Com
pany, of New York, to ecure SIS, ZOO. 00t
il bonds payable July /, 1925, with 81
per cent. interest, payable semi-annu-
ally. The other mortgage is to the
United States Trust Company, Of New
York, and John A. Stewart, to secure
s165, 900, 900 in bonds, payable July i
1S48, with 4 per cent. interest, payable
semi-annually. The first mortgage car
ries s37, 500 in revenue stamps and the
other S31, 900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
kitchener,s st7lpire

By October next Lord Kitchener ex-
poets to complete his railway to Khar-
toum, after which time free rade will
be proclaimed in the Soudan. All i'm
ports are to be admitted free of duty,
English goods having no advantage
over the wares of other countries. The
country is poor and it is desired to per-
nit the people to supply themselves
with the adjuncts of civilization as
cheaply as possible. The transportation
rates on the railway from Cairo to
Khartoum will be a little high by rea-
son Of the cost Of coal used in the loco
motives, but only a fraction of the
camel rates of former times.
A duty of 20 per cent. will be levied
on certain exports, as gum arabic, ETC.,
Tor revenue The Soudan is
now paying taxes as willingly as taxes
are ever paid, the rate being much less
h the Khalifa exacted, the amount
being fixed and the time of payment
adapted to the popular convenience.
Under the old regime Of the Mahdists
the tax was variable. according to the
needs or caprice of the tax gatherer,
amounting in extreme cases to 100 per
cent. Vast regions were depopulated by
the merciless exactions of the greedy
Baggaras.
Lord Kitchener legisIates by decree.
He is a sort of English car, having no
parliament to sass him and no cab-
met to consult. Whatever he says goes
throughout the wide Soudan, the sole
restraint upon him being the necessity
mer and the Queen, who will see to it
that he does not transgress the limits
OF Anglo-Saxon legislative propriety.-
Baltimore Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
BREVITIES

A negro, Charles Colquitt, attempted
to ravish Eugenia Dooley, white, wa
tried, found guilty and sentenced to
twenty years in the .penitentiary Of
Georgia He failed in his assault.
1t is a bad law when it goes low
enough to tax the very living of a fam
lily. North Carolina has such a law.
Northern papers are now prophesying
big results from the census next year.
Some are rash enough to put it as high
as So 00, 900. We stick to Is. 00O, 900. The
treasury department guesses it's now
over 75,0 600, 600.
While the fools are talking of Bacon,
who could not write any verse that was
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
An Editors Pass

One of the beauties and charms Of
an editors life is his dead-heading if
on all occasions. No one who has ever
Toasted on the sweets Of that bliss
can begin to take in the glory of its
happiness. He does 800 worth of adj
Vertising for a railroad, gets a "pass's
Tor a year, rides $25 worth, and then is
looked upon as a head head or half
blown dead-beat. He "puffs" a concer
troupe $50 worth, and gets 81 in COM
pllmentary tickets, and is thus pass
ed free. If the hail is crowded he is
begrudged the room he occupies, for
II his complimentaries were paying
tickets the troupe would be so much in
pocket. He blows and puffs a church
FESTIVAL free to any desired extent, and
does the poster printing at half rates.
and rarely gets a thank you" for it.
1t goes as a part of his duty as an
editor. He does more gratuituously for
the town and community III all the
rest of the population put together, and
gets cussed for it all; while in many
instances the man who donates a few
dollars to a Fourth of July celebration
baseball club or church, is gratefully
remembered. Oh, it is such a. sweet
thing to be called an editor. He passes
free" you know.-Printers Ink.