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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-16
STATE NEWS.

The North Carolina Baptist this wee
prints the pictures of eighteen of TIL
Baptist members of the General As
Sembly.
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Office: News and Observer Building,
Fayetteville Street.
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desires, and he will not be modest in
his demands in a matter which involves
his own future and the life Of his party
in North Carolina. 1t will not do for the
advocates Of the amendment-Cthe men
who carried the State last November
by almost superhuman exertionl-to fall
into sense of false security. The
amendment can be carried. the amend
ment will be carried but il will be
necessary TO begin early to answer the
fairy tales that its opponents will scatter
far and near
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Entered at the postoffice at Raleigh
n. c.. as second-class matter.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-25
THE CHESTER MURDER.

Chester. July 24.-Coroner Davis says
that Houghs preliminary hearing, which
will come before Haddam justice, will
not be held Tuesday, as at first ar
ranged, and possibly not before Thurs
day. The coroner's report is not yet
ready, and he does not expect to hand
it in before Tuesday, or perhaps We'd
nesday.
Another missing link was found in re-
laton to the Chadwick murder case,
Sunday. Ii was the blade of Chad
wick's razor, the whereabouts of which
has been a puzzle since the several
broken pieces of the razor handle We're
found on the scene of the tragedy.
Elmer Holmes of Chester found the
blade shortly after the early morning
rain, lying in the soil in the potato
patch, about thirty feet in direct
line from the stone wall where Chad
wick met his death. The supposition is
that it was thrown there, probably by
Hough, as it was not on the line fol-
lowed by him in dragging the body.
When it fell, it buried itself in the earth
and was disclosed by the rain.
For about a third the length of the
cutting edge a piece is broken out,
and probably the small fragment now
in the possession of the coroner is
part of It, No blood stains are notice.
able on the razor blade proper, though
the microscope may betray them, but
on the shank are stains to which par
ticles of sand adhere, which have every
appearance of being blood. OF the
handle, two pieces are in possession of
the coroner and the ends and cross
piece We're picked up by somebody in
Tylerville.
The probabilities are that Chadwick
drew his razor right on the scene or
the first onslaught by Hough and that
it was there that he cut the latter with
1t, then started to run and was over
taken within sixty feet, just north OF
the ice house, and killed.
The bicycle owned by Harry Chad
wick, which was found tied to his body
VIXEN it was recovered, was taken to
Middletown, Saturday, and was added
to the gruesome collection now In the
custody of the clerk of the superior
court. The wheel Is badly broken and
has a quantity Of grass hanging to 1T,
with which it came in contact at the
bottom of the river.
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NEWS OF THE ARMORY.
New Equipments for Many Compani'

New Equipments for Many Companies
Nom Commissioned officers of Blues
Appointed.
The Blues held their regular monthly
meeting at the armory last evening and
completed arrangements for their an
nual clambake which Is to be held at
Merwins Beach July o. The company
will go down in special cars, leaving the
green at $50. They will be accompa-
MED by large number of ex-members
The day will be given up to athletic
sports and the usual events, such as the
potato race, tub race, etc, Will be IN
dulged in. In the afternoon, after the
dinner has been thoroughly masticated,
the company will witness baseball
game between two picked mines. The
appointments of non-c commissioned Off
GERS as announced at the meeting We're
as follows: Corporals, Clarence Hunt,
William McDermott, Thomas Kinney
CORPORAL P. F. O'Meara was advanced
to sergeant.
The Naval Reserves received their
new outfits yesterday afternoon Inc
uniforms are somewhat different from
the old ones, inasmuch as they are OF
the regular navy pattern and of much
better quality of goods. The old uni
forms will be kept by their owners.
The City Guards will resume drilling
the first Wednesday in August. At the
regular monthly meeting on that even
ing they will complete arrangements for
their clambake which will be held at
South End September 3. They will also
make arrangements for camp at the
same meeting.
The Signal corps will receive all their
eouipments to-day, Lieutenant Hotch-
kiss having given notice to that effect
Yesterday The equipment will include
pistols, flags, uniforms heliograph, tel
egraph machines and bicycles
The Second section, Machine Gun
battery, held a meeting last evening"
They have received new overcoats.
The protest of Westvf1le citizens in
regard to the state range at Westville
has been finally attended to, and Mr..
Fowler, who is in charge of the grounds
has changed the direction of the range
The 5OO-yard butt has been shifted and
the firing line has been moved nearer
the fence The changes are source OF
great satisfaction to the protesting par
ties
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middle of the street was constantly COW
cred with liquid sinking mud, three or
four inches deep. . The walkers are
despatched from head to foot. me
natives, however, brave all these disa-
greeables, wrapped up in long plqe
coats, like dressing gowns, wearing
brown stockings and perukes, ouSh,
red, and frizzled." Concerning oxford
Street our author makes false prog
nostic: THE shops of oxford Street VIII
disappear as the houses are sought
after for private dwellings by the rlch'
soon will the great city extend itself 10
Marylebone which is not more imam a
quarter of league distant. AT present
it is a village principally of taverns, IN
habited by French refugees. our
traveller sees but four houses in Lon
don which will bear comparison with
the great hotels in Paris. To the lncon-
venience Of mud, he says, must be
added that of smoke, which, mingled
with perpetual fog, covers London as
a pall.-Genteman's Magazine.
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TraueIlers' Gmide,
New York, New Haven and
Hartford Il. X.

ooAAN AAJ ioSo
| FOR NEW YORK-*4:O5, $3.50, x6:1o.
x7:0O. $500. 1910, $3.50, "s:S5, x10:SO a. m.
1890, 1906 1880 (parlor car limited),
1875, 900, $3.50, 800, $500. *4:17, 4:3O.
$40, 1920 h35, $50, *7:1O $50 SIS
bridgeport accommodating, *910, 9:15
p, m. Sundays-*4:05, 1850, xS:00 a. m.,
| $3.50. x4:30, x6:15, %7:10, 1910, $3.50, 1910
p. m
FOR WASHINGTON via Harlem Riv-
er--*1:05, *11.50 p. m. daily.
FOR BOSTON via Springfeld-*1: 10.
x10:1O, *11:O5 a. M, *1:45, $3.50 p. m.
Sunday-*1: 10 a. M, *5:52 p. m.
| FOR BOSTON via New London and
Providence-*2:1O, 1920, '11:35 (parlor
car limited) a. M, *12:05, "2:47, +4:15,
1853, "6:55 p. m. Sundays-"2:10. 1920
a. m, *12:O5, 1855, +6:55 p. m.
! FOR MERIDEN, HARTFORD,
SPRINGFIELD, etc.-*1:10, $40, 500,
x1O:1O, *10:50 for White Mountains (flrst
stop HartforD, :05 u. M, 1910 "1:45,
3:1O, 500, *5:52 (6:15 to Hartford), 500.
1000 1l;15 Ito Meriden) p. m. Sundays
-*l10 a. M, 1910, $3.50, 1928 p. m.
NEW LONDON DIVISION
For New London. etc.-*2:10. 1920.
1:b5, $3.50. 11.05, "11:35 (parlor car limit
ed) a. M, #12:05. *2:47, 300. *4:15. 4:20,
%4:55, 5:15, Ito Saybrook Junction). 6:15.
"o:b5, 9:l0 (Guilford acc) p. m. Sunday
-2:lO, 1920, $3.50 a. m.. *12:05. *4:55.
1855 p. m.
AIR LINE DIVISION
For Middletown, Willimantic, etc.
7:45 a. M. 1856, 1898. sos .. m. Sum
days-7:15 p. m. Connecting at Mid
dletoWn with the Valley branch and at
Willimantic with Midland and Central
divisions and G. v. R. r.; at Turnerville
with Colchester branch.
| NORTHAMPTON DIVISION-
For Shelburne Falls, Turner's Falls.
| Williamsburg, Holyoke, New Hartford
and intermediate stations-7:5 80 q. m. and
400 p. m. For Westfield and intermedi-
ate stations, 5:57 %. m.
For Pennington, New Hartford and
points this side-7:50 a. m, 1904, 400.
| 5:57 p. m.
BERKSHIRE DIVISION
| For Derby Junction, Derby, Ansonia,
etc.-7:O0, 500, 1885 q. M, 70 100, 2:39, 1851.
$685. 1850, 11:20 p. m. Sundays-s:10 a.
m. and $3.50 p. m.
| For Waterbury-7:0O, $500, 9:35 a. M.
1900, 2:S9. 5:35. 1850, 1920 p. m. Sum
days-S:10 a. M. 6:15 p. m. (via Nauga-
tuck Junction)
For Winsted-7:oo. 9:s5 a. M, 2:ss. 5;s5
| |'ou p H. SundayS-8:1O q. nj. GID p.
m. (via Naug. Junc.)
For Shelton, Botsford, Newtown, Dan
bury, Pittsfeld, State line-9:35 q. m.
1857 p. m.
For Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, Cincin-
natl, st. Louis, Chicago and the West
via Bridgeport-6:10 a. M: via State line
1886 a. M, 1857 p m.
For Litchfield and points on Litchfleld
branch (via Derby Junctionl-9:35 a. m.
1857 D. m.
*Expless Trains. xLocal Express.
| C. T. Hampstead,
| General Passenger Agent.
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E0ITND BY SAUL.

Tn 1894 a regiment of Confederates
from South Carolina were marching
north to ioin Lee While in North Car
o,ina they camped one day on two oppo-
site hills. between which road ran 1t
happened that an old Methodlst
,reacber a strong Unionist, lived in
that vicinity. Early the next morn
ing the preacher mounted his mule and
trotted down the road, meaning to Pass
through the camp to show his con-
tempt for the "rebels." He was very
old man, with stern face and long,
white beard, which, taken with his
white hair, gave him an appearance
decidedly patriarchal.
"Hullo, fellows here comes Father
Abraham" called one soldier to a COM
rade on the opposite hill, as the old man
rode between them.
mo, he isn't" shouted back the
other; "he's Father Jacob"
The old parson stopped and shook the
finger of scorn at the laughing soldiers.
'I am neither Father Abraham nor
Father jacob" he cried A knot of
soldiers gathered about him,
"Well, who are you, them" persisted
his tormentor. 1T is no use for you to
deny you are out of the Old Testament
somewhere"
The old man rose in his stirrups and
waved his hand towards the camp in
comprehensive contempt.
Eyes, l am out of the Old Testament
sure enough" he roared. I'm Saul, the
son of I<ish, looking for his fathers
asses, and I've found them. '-Argonaut
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DOG-RACING.


The dogs employed for racing are
generally whippets, i. e. miniature grey
hounds. They vary considerable IN
size, and are handicapped in the races
according to their weight; the lighter
the dog the longer start he gets.
The racing is managed in the following
manner: The dogs are held on to the
marks allotted to them by the handi-
capper and when all are ready the own
ers or trainers of the dogs run up the
course. AS they run they wave white
towels or pieces of callco-technlcally
known as "the rag and attract the
dogs attention by whistling and calling
to them. These men are obliged to pass
a mark placed about ten yards past the
stands either behind the dogs or one
side of the course close to them. The
start is effected by the firing of a pistol,
and the dogs being released run as fast
as they can towards their owners or
trainers. AS these men are standing
ten yards past the Winning-post, it fol-
lows that the dogs are running at their
best pace as they pass this spot. Each
dog is distinguished by wearing a col
ored riband round its neck, and the
judge usually stands in hole in the
ground so that his eyes may be on
level with the dogs as they pass him,
Directly the race is over the judge
hoists a colored flag corresponding to
the color Worn by the winning dog.
A word as to the way in which the
dogs are started for race. They are
not merely released by the men who
are holding them on their marks" The
man in charge of a dog generally
kneels with one knee on the ground,
and holds the dog by the scuff of the
neck until the starter gives the signal to
"get ready" The man then takes a
firmer grip with his left hand of the
loose skin at the dogs neck while with
his right hand he holds tide dog up by
the root of the tail so that only the dog S
front legs rest on the ground. The
front legs must not be beyond the mark
from which the dog is to start. AS soon
as the pistol is fred, the man "throws"
the dog off. The object of this throw
is to enable the dog to fall at once into
his stride. If the dogs were merely
slipped, in all probability they would
not go "clean" from the slippers hands,
and in scrambling to get off they might
slip and thus lose all chances of winning
the race 1t will be easily understood
that there are a right and wrong way
of throwing whippet off the mark,
and that the wrong way is the easier of
the two A good start is worth several
lengths to dog in a hundred and sixty
yards race.
The exercising of the whippets Is ted
ious wark, since the dogs must be led
out for their walks. The trainer usually
commences the day by giving his dogs
their liberty for half an hour. He then
takes them up, puts on their leads, and
goes off for walk Of from six to twelve
miles The length of the walk varies
according to the dogs constitutions, and
the amount of time that the owner is
willing to subtract from his usual work
ing hours. But whatever length the
walk may be, 1t must be steady and
continuous; 1t will not answer the same
purpose to let the dogs run loose and
follow as they please.-Royal Maya
viJ1p
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Continued from Fifth Page.)


Endorsement of the minister of public
instruction, adopted for school and
popular libraries, and selected by the
city of Paris for distribution as a
prize" The story has reached the
fourth impression in Paris.
A new volume in the Teachers Pro-
fessional Library, published by the
Macmillan company, New York, for
sale by Judd, price 81, is entitled "The
Physical Nature of the Child and How
to Study It." The author Is Stuart FL.
Rowe, Phi. D., supervising principal OF
the Lowell district, this city, formerly
professor of pedagogy director of prac-
tice in the State Normal school at Man
kato, MINI. This is practical book
containing chapters on sight, hearing,
touch, taste, smell, muscular sense,
temperature sense, motor ability, enun-
citation, nervousness, fatigue, disease,
habits of posture, habits Of movement,
growth and adolescence, school condi-
lions affecting the child's physical ma
ture, home conditions affecting the
child's physical nature.
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HOPE FOR THE HAIRLESS.
The Gold Of Alaska, 1t Is Said, Puts a
Crop Oh the Paldest Head.

The Gold Of Alaska, 1t Is Said, Puts a
Crop on the Baldest Head.
The experience of Roderick Dhu
Smith, who recently returned from the
Klondike region with a big budget of
experience, quite little sum of money
and a head of hair which almost quail
fies him to take an engagement as
Circassian girl in a circus, Is of espe-
cial interest to a large contingent of his
fellow men and women. For be it
known that Roderick, before making
his periloue way to the Arctic regions,
though otherwise pleasing to look upon
and still on the sunny side of 40, was
the owner of a head of hair which made
theatre ushers, whenever there was a
ballet on the programme escort MIN
down to the front row without even
glancing at his seat check
While this might have been consid-
cred an advantage by some people 1t
was not pleasing to Mr.. Smith, who is
an essentially modest man and averse to
being made unduly prominent on any
occasion. 1t is said, too that his bald
ness was the real cause Of his starting
out in search of gold, since he spent all
patrimony in the purchase OF hair re-
etorers, and it was necessary for him
to do something, no matter how des-
perate, to retrieve his fallen fortunes.
Be that as it may, he went to Alaska,
and, after a two years residence there,
he returned a modern Samson, as far
as chevelure is concerned, and he de-
clares that the transformation is en-
tirely due to the rigors of the climate
in that quarter of the globe
1.-THE intense cold kills all germs and
microbes" he asserts, land stimulates
the scalp, and Nature does the rest, y
and he proudly exhibits his lionlike
name as proof of what Nature can do,
when she takes a fancy, unassisted by
washes or oil or unguents.
P. j. Mcleod, who has spent twelve
years in Alaska and the Northwest,
although he has not the pleasure OF
knowing Mr.. Smith personally, and did
not, therefore, see the sprouting and the
bourgeoning of his especial crop of
modified epidermic cells, still corrobof-
ates his story as to the virtues OF that
, frgid cline as hair producer.
MY hair always was thick, he
says, $50 I cannot speak from personal
experience, but the way dogs put on
hair up there is a caution. They get as
shaggy as Shetland ponies, and now l
think of it, l never saw a bald-headed
fellow anywhere around there. To tell
the truth, they all look, after they have
got to work, as though a razor and a
pair of scissors were far more needed
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REMARKABLE PENSION CASE.

William w. Andross, pension attor-
ney at Rockville, secured last weak a
pension of SIS a month for Mary Mix,
aged seventyfive, of Rockville, widow
of John Mix, late of Co. r, Twenty
fifth Connecticut volunteers. The Sc
curing of the pension developed che Of
the most remarkable cases on record at
the pension department, and the WASH
ington officials have taken great in'er-
est in it, giving Mr.. Andross all posi-
Bile assistance.
The case has been under investigation
for ten years in many states in differ :
ent parts of the country. Mrs. Mix was
formerly the widow of Michael Long Of
Rockville, a member Of company F,
who died in the service May, 1853. Mix
as soon as he received his disch lr5e
from the company went to Rockville
and married Mrs. Long. In three weeks
Mix left his wife and she never heard
from him against for twentysiX years.
About ten years ago Mr.. Andross
started an investigation to ascertain if
Mix was dead He found the address
Of all the surviving members OF 60. =
and opened a correspondence with them
to see If any one could give him infor-
nation about the missing man. He at
last found a man who had discovered
the body of Mix on battlefield, as
proved by papers which he found on the
body and included letter from Judge
Dwight Loomis of Rockville, now Of
Hartford, addressed to John Mix, THIS
seemed good evidence that Mix was dead
bu: when Mr.. Andross was in Washing
ton. soon after, he was surprised to tird
that a man claiming to be John Mix
had secured a pension in Ohio. 1t was
then thought that this man must be an
imposter, and government experts We're
sent to Ohio to find out, and ascertain
that he was the real John Mix
The papers found on the man on the
battlefield were explained by the fact
that when Mix was in New York the
house he was in was burned and he
lost all his clothing and papers. 1t is
supposed that the papers were stolen at
that time by the man who was later
found dead on the battlefield with them
on his body. In the meantime Mrs.
Mix married John Deitle, but as Mix
did not die until three years ago. this
marriage was void, Mix being alive at
that time.
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than hair restorer, and l think a mis-
sionary barber would do good work
among them.
G. H. Henderson, who has claim on
Dominion Creek, and has been up in
that vicinity for two vars, heartily
echoes Mr.. McLeod's sentiments. There
is something about the intense cold, he
asseYerates, that makes the halr on
man and beast flourish nightly. Dan
druff and falling hair are unknown IN
that part of the country, but he thinks
that the fact that people are too BUSY TO
bother with their hair" has something
to do with it's unusual growth.
The man who is vain enough to put
his time in on trying to increase the
thickness of his hair" is this gentle
mans decision, will generally manage
to IVORY off what little belongs to him
naturally. He will scrub it and put
fertilizer on it, and stay awake nights
thinking about it until his head is not
as furnace and burns the roots OF 1T
to ashes, and end in getting up the
shiniest kind of a bald head, but up
there it is too cold to fool that way, and
the hair gets a chance for its life.
j. S, Woodstock, an Alaskan of five
years standing, puts in his testimony
in regard to the efficacy of good freez-
ing weather as hair rejuvenator or
resurrector, and another gentleman re-
Gently returned from the Arctic gold
fields, who, not having made his pile, y
as yet is averse to having his name in
the papers, says he is seriously consid-
ering the praticability of establishing a
hair sanitarium in some reasonably &C
cessible spot, where he will, for a salts
factory consideration, entertain bald
headed guests, and tell them pleasing
little tales about Alaska.-San Francisco
Call.
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A FRENCH OPINION OF LONDON
IN 1866.

| In the year 1865 a Frenchman, who
| did not give his name, visited London
and afterwards published In Partisan
account of his visit. Il reached Lon
dom" he says, towards the close of the
day and at last, quite by chance,
| found myself settled in an apartment
| in the house of the Cruisinier Royal in
Leicester Fields this neighborhood is
| filled with small houses, which are
| mostly let to foreigners" On the fol-
| lowing day he walked down Hoborn
and the Strand to ST. PauPs; then
crossed London Bridge, and returned to
his hotel by walking through Southwark
and Lambeth to Westminster, "a dis
trict full of mean houses and meaner
| taverns." The localities named have
not greatly altered their character since
then. In another place our traveller
SAYS: Gwen from the bridges it is i'm
possible to get view of the river, as
the parapetG are ten feet high :.
| The reason given for all this is the in
clination which the English, and the
Iondoners especially, have for suicide.
1t is true that above and below the
town the banks are unprotected, and
offer an excellent opportunity to those
who really wish to drown themselves
but the distance is great, and, besides,
those who wish to leave the world in
this manner prefer doing so before the
eyes of the public. The parapets, how
ever, of the new bridge (Blackfriars),
which is being built, will be but of an
ordinary height. Suicidal tendencies
must indeed have greatly declined
since the most recently erected bridges,
the new Westminster and Blackfriars,
have particularly low parapets!
OF the streets our author says: 'They
are paved in such a manner that it is
barely possible to walk or ride on them
in safety, and they are alwaye extreme
ly dirty. -. The finest streets .
would impassab BILE were it not that on
each side . footways are made from
four to five feet wide, and for commune
cation from one to the other across the
street there are smaller footways ele-
waited above the general surface of the
roadway, and formed of large stones
selected for the purpose. . . . In the
finest part of the Strand, near st.
Clements Church, l noticed, during the
whole of my stay in London, that the