North Carolina Newspapers

"y ' ' " iimm in mi a ' rrii ''"af r-ir-- y-i 1 r r-- - - lER.'" Issued Weekly. . PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. ASHEBORO, N.cT, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4 1904. $1.00 Per Tear 5 VOL XXIX. ASI I ft' fey- ft S Bryant, PrWat J- B. Cole, Cnhier Bei.uk of Randlema.n, Randleman NC Capital paid in. Protection to depositors, $20,000 40.000 Directors: S. (5. Ncwlin, A. N. Bulla, W. T. Bryant. C. L. Lindsey, N. N. Newlin, J. II. Cole, S. Biyiint H 0 Barker anil W K. Hansen. BRITTAIN & GREQSON, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Asheboro, - North Carolina. lit rXHleral Court. Pionipt aitc-tuton to Utliianl all kliula. Joining niuuUui, J. A. Speitce. HAMMER & SPENCE, Attorneys - at Law E. MOFFITT, Attorney at Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. PRACTICE In nil the Conn. S.s-lul attention Klvrn faiat'ltletm-iitof estate. Office near Court Houaa. 'Phone !. O.L. 8AFP, Attorney-at-Law. ftMttM ta BWtt an FaxUral Oanrtt . OwporaUoa, Oomacreial tad Pr- Law. Ail baalaaa pronnili .MnMla k B. tloi, Pr.tid.at. H. J. Armfleld. YiotrPraaitlant. W.J. Arnflald. Jr., Cubier. RANDOLPH. Asheboro, N. C capital . .$25.000iiO Wa ata bow prepared to do a Reaxrtl banking badaaaa; aad w. solicit tbc aeooonta at Brsaa, eorporatioua uJ ladiTidmala of Baadolpk aad adjolslug aooatiaa. Director I II Worth. W P Wood, P H Morn. 0 0 MoAlirter. 0 3 Cox. W F Rt 1 dltfc A M Rnkiu. W H W.tki Huru Park Baal Hoffltl, OHt'n, AWE OmL DiI E Aabary, Jcu a Farkia, WJiraUaU. ktWKi. BO YEARS V CXPFRIENCK Tftaoc Mpwa Qiarana ConmaMTi As. MM inn stay MKIi aacanatn our ottntnti paa UoMatrtiotiiafHlal. jUsaSOOl on Patanta ant fre. OKIeat arwr, ,ur .:uru. Scltdf fic American. a vi-a.. HhM waatlr. laraaat l t-nfoorav.aiba.aL SU brail I naaadeaiara. ..r MMiuile IneroaL Tcrwa. 93 a It You Want The Best Laundry Sam. Your Laundry to the Old RabafaU Charlotte Steam Laundry. They are bettor prepared to do your work right than any Laundry in the btate; and do it ngbt, too. Xave your bundlea at Wood & Mortfis'e atore. Bwket leaven TutwUyi and retarua Friilayi. W. A Com N. Agent WINTER, RESORT SOUTH , BKACIIEU Bt SOUTHERN RAILWAY. The fiwfc.ru Railway auuunni ! aW of Kiid-ta1p wtnlrr Ku untoa ti-k.'H trsli Um iflf'lnairaaoMauithl!toiUt, bmluiiliif OrtoUir 1 ttc whiter rranrt, of North ami ffofcth Camlf na, noinia aiut fic-lrta ara rjl'llly Itnil tlMwe in wten h ot hmxh or btaamir. In tl-) MttUw m'v ;t. Ih n.ad tvmwim am Inurhurvt. N t. H. V- AujU'la. 8aviriah Bnuifwlck. Jrkly l. Ai.ffttMifta. OrnMHid. firtfMia.Pa)iD Hmrh. loick Icrlinr. Kwnl aiwl Tamt. flm.t ftW Uie nwirta of liawa h cuua. iwat maeimx via HoauMra RaHwar. Ttr.k.?m oa aal Ol to an fiirr7,lln April V9, OM, ItmitrH tiiwuni onlll llnY tl, ftttMira Katlwav artiii, '.niuil tenia aarvlr. r.tut tt M,t Pw;tmi trswitit IUi-ub larpInK .nu mfsei thwxtk'lt twiHc.n pt-tnt'lfll clUm to..l ft t)-ftyw r tr aeaksa, WHi f r. -4 for um ouutk.-t ktitt .lar.ara oi tit Ira-. rurtitec ituwraa- ) WeprOTrUy obtain n?iinl ixinlrn , fra report on MMentalJlllr. Ttr fr bona, f asm WASHINGTON LETTER, uuurrcy new jersey a traitor nil Malicious Designs Interrupted Money Issue Dead flreat Opposition to Mr Bryan. SiH'clnl ConvsaoinleiitD Courier. WiidhingUin, I.). C, February 1. Tlie state of Mew Jersey bus been looked upon ami is one of the pivo tal states in the cuinpaign of this year. It is one of the states that the Nomocracy must carry in order to win the election. The leaders' of the party hcxe in the uutioua! capital have had their eyes oil that state for some timo and have been watching developments over thcie. Thoy real ize, as does every man w ho has any political knowledge of the situation lu that? atate, that tho democratic party of the state New Jersey has been singularly unfortunate during the past six years from the fact that it has had at its head us executive an assistant republican in the person of William B. (Jouiiey, of Patteison. Gourley wilfully mid deliberately misrepresented the sentiment of his party at the meeting ot Uie iteniO' cratic national committee at this city on January VJ, by declaring himself ana Ins state tor Cleveland tor I'rsi- deiit, when he knew that New Jeisey would have none of Cleveland, or any man or plan in the least tinctured with C'lt'Yolandisiii. And to make his action the more abhorrent to the democrats of New Jersey, (iourley was the only member ot the JNational Committee who publicly declared himself for Cleveland's candidacy. In un interview published in the Newark News of January 12, (iour ley, not content with betraying the party in his own state, pau! his re- sjiccts iu characteristic style to the great democracy of the South, which always has been loyal and true to the principles of JclTcrsou and Jackson, in the following term.. William H. liourley is ttie man w ho has madi a laughing stock, a by word and a rcmoach of the New Jer sey democracy since 1S'J8 by turning over the machinery of the state to the republicans and their trust mana gers, ot whom lie is eaul to ue, auu believed to ue, the pant tool. This is the same man who, in 1002, prevented the Democratic Con gressional Committee from assisting Mr. illiam lluglu'S, the democratic candidate, financially, in order to carry his own district, but despite the fact that (iourley told Chairman tiriggs of the Democratic Congress ional Committee not to give Hughes a tsnt, and who, on that account did not receive a cent, he nevertheless was triumphantly elected on his own merits, (iourley lives iu Paterson, in the same town and district as Congressman Hughes and the sem blance of a congressional couimittee in this district w hich he assumes to control, hardlv raised its baud to assist in the election of Mr Hughes; but on the contray, tho committee beadiiiiarters were closed practically during the entile campaign. (iourley is the same man who, dur ing the congressional campaign of lWi, and while posing as chairman of the democratic central comuiiitee, refused to pel mit the space in the street cars of 1'alerson, ulready paid for by a regular udvcrtiser, to be used for Congressman Hughes bene fit when donated to him by a friend as a campaign contribution. I he real democracy ot rew jer sey has borne with Gourley up to the limit, and his attempls to deliver them to the Cleveland-Olney move ment, coupled with his insulting re ference to the South, sounded his political death-knell in the Garden State. He will soon receive such a humiliating lesson as few public men have been called iton to bear, and he will deseive all that ho gets, (iourley is a fitting champion of Cleveland for his highest ideal and deepest hop is to destroy the party which he so falsely claims to lead. I prefer to throw bouquets rattier man brickbats in this correspondence, out if I have to hurl tho latter I know how to hit a bullseve. A carvful poll of the democrats in Congress falls to reveal any consider able number of them who agree with Mr. Biyan. Moro than nine-tenths of them are opposed to making the money issue prominent in platfrom or even mentioning it at all. They say that tho money issue tor the lireseut is a closed issue. That the lutlux of gold to this country on account of the new gold strikes iu the Klondike and other places, the failure of crops iu the older countries and the money dumped into circ-ula tion on accout of the lau Spanish American war, has proved conclu sively- the democratic contention id those two platforms that there was not enough metallic money iu circu lation to do the busiosss of the coun try on, that this increase of the gold bas supplied me place oi me Burer for which they contended, that the cousofjuence was what they contend ed it would be. vu pronpemy Thia refusal to acreo with Mr. Bryan iu hi idea of what the next Dlattortn should be nas auracwu widespread attention here to the re cent interview with Hon. William llandolph Hearst published in the Chicago Tribune of January VJ. in that interview Mr. Hearat outlined what he believed to be the vital issue of the next campaign and he struck a note of ivmrmthr in the minds and hearts of the majority of th demo cratic leaders, when ha aaid: "The main issue of a party of the people is to atteniog to tba business before the nannle. "In this country of sudden Croat development : the one dominating isdne-amada to by me truau them el res is the trnst uaue. CUABLE3 A. EDWAKDS. . WIDE AWAKE RANDLEMAN. lis Mssiifuc&ris" Esifrr!::: Graded Schools Its Work. One who visits Randleman cannot fail to be impressed with tiio com mercial spirit of our age. lie will see the smoke of factories and hear the buzz of machinery, lie will see men, women and children going hur riedly, to and from their work. In fact ho will sec hero in the heart of Randolph county a little town that is turning out manufactured pro ducts trait are being carried into every part of our country. It is simply amazing to see the work that is being done; to seo the amount of raw material that is being converted into articles that contribute to the happiness and the wellfaro of tho human race This spirit of commercialism is nt all that wc limt in Kaiidleman For whatever may be said against the materialism of our age, the com mercial spirit is nl ways followed by a revival of learning. It was the commercial spirit of thestatians that discovered tigs continent. 1 was a trailing company in liOitdon that settled it and out ot those scattered settlements has giown a nation whose skill iu manufacturing; whose rapid ity iu transporting and carrying on Commerce has surpassed the civilized world. The Now England States are reaping the fruits of commercial prospeiity in au educational system that in training an 1 equiping tho laborers for more efficient service. And as North Carolina is becoming a manufacturing statu we, too, ure begining to realize that our laborers must be educated if we expect to imiiiiifiU'turo products that will sell in the markets of the world. The lEuudlemnii manufacturers, are wide uwako and intelligent enough to seo this nnd hence we liud here, among the mill men deep and a growing interest in eJu caiion. J hero is moio interest, man-j ifested upon the part of the peopl iu their public schools than is mani fested in any other mill town I have known or red of iu tho State. They are all anxious to aid tho teachers in any way they can to build up and improve the school and while the building is small and is hardly large enough to accomodate half the chil dren, yet the teachers are laboring and doing the best thoy can under tho circumstances. No toucher can do the very best without modern conveniences. Aparatus is us neces sary in a school us it is in a factory. The teachers here know that, yet they do not murmur. They go straight ahead with their work, feel ing that it is their duty to serve the little ones even under disadvantage. The Itundleman people may well congratulate themselves on securing such u trio of young ladies to in struct their children this year. We truly hope they mav always have such. For with such teachers iu a modern school building no town in f'e state would surpass liandlciiian iu educational work. The new building, we hear, is not to be dreamed of much longer; it will soon bo n reality. Then the hundreds of bright and interesting boys and girls of his town will be given u chance in the ruco of life. i on people have done well, von have done what you could in the nast. Itut (rod has called you to do greater things iu the future. He has laid it upon your heart to help educate and hiing up tho children of this town in the light way autl to see that they are not carried off into vice uud crime through ignorance and superstition. Hill you meet tho re sponsibility ? Andrew Jackson's Birthplace. "For many vears the people of South Carolina claimed that Presi dent Andrew Jackson was a uativa of the Palmetto State," said Mr. Charles Price, a lawyer of Salisbury, l., at the icw VWI.ard. 'This claim, however, was never well founded, for in truth, the hero of New Orleans was born within the limits of North Carolina, very close to the State line, and tho evidence of his nativity has been so ideally establiseed that I believe tho South Carolinians have finally agreed to waive their former contention. Up to IP. 0 there was standing in my town the modest little one-story wooden structure in which Gen. Jackson studied law. "When the Philadelphia Centennial came on the pressure and inducements to remove the historic old building were so great that it was taken to that ex position, a thing that should never nuve been - allowed. Washington Post. HIS LAST POEM. The weary yean have itmarct awar. Ann l am ihk a rniki atutin little dill I, )tlrvo( i.lur. W ith IoI.ImI ban.l. and lrmi brain, Alt to triT lDoUirnt knee I rr-to 'Now 1 lay Die uowu lo nlOL-o. Half umleMtaiHlina-, vairuc and dim. Through chlhlb.ti arm utat Molt ivix-al The truMful mwurt atml to iittn. Aa fclowly, no,ldina littuti!e?i At once an nmntMP anil o awet. I Dray Uie Lord my aoul to keep. 1 But now. faint ahadowa come ro m. Half wonder if Mune harm may fall. When ave In dnmlM-r'a mystery rnr mm 01 arcajnina at rm- tan. But drr.Kidly tlie a,adn 1 make -If 1 abouUldie beinre I wake." 1 hear mother aetata low. And took Into her loving eyua, Sorely no terror 1 oaa know Tlmt In the "ratline h-aven in. Sh'Kild the Wt-lii eor.l ol living hrettk - I pray tlia Lord my tout to lake.1 The snow is with. in yet and the fun and frolic among the young and older onea coutiune. There ia much coasting these moonlit night on the mil back oi St. ungues . SVM JONES' LETTER. Sam Jones Writes of Texas, Cotton Canal Sentiment. Atluuta Journal. Since my last week's letter I have been as far south in iexas us Hous ton and left the state vesterday, com ing east from Vernon, in the 1'an- hanilie. and 1 am sure from all I could gather that Texas is more proijpeious today than any day in her history. She has more money and is doing more business, in spite of lioll weevil, and so-called short crops, uud I think by the time they get the trost bitten bolls all threshed and ginned out they will have about a three million bale crop; and they had the best and fullest corn crop they have had for years. But it looks gloomy indeed for the wheat crop. No rain since the tirst ox Sep tember, and most of the seed wheat in the ground having never even sprouted yet. The sa:ne is trui of Oklahoma Territory, and the wheat signs ure not good anywhere in the winter wheat-belt, and 1 keep telling you wheat will go toadollui a bush el before May 1st. Already it's gone from 70 cents to 81) cents, uud still climbing. I um now iu Ilobnrt, Oklu., it town of six thousand peo ple, new nnd seemingly full grown. I he farming interest is growing, but thn population w ill have to live on siukors and drummers lor some vears. Kail roads are new, towns are new, farms are freshly broken prair ie lands, nnd suckers are necessary to keep the thing going until they get down to business. Cattle are u Irag, and that s the largest industry as yet in ihe territories, but further ast agriculture is older and the prosperity more substantial. 1 met many persons in lexus w ho said that the boll weevil was u bless ing iu disguise. In southern Texas, whe'-e the weevil has been longest, the people are tuininc their utten- tion to rice and cane, trnits and ve etables, and in eastern Texas, lum ber, fruits and vegetables have made them rich. Texas can go out of the cotton business and grow rich in n few years on other products of their rich roil. This country of the southwest ants the Panama caual dug ami no foolishness about it. 1 give vou few extracts from the Dallas News. On Senators Bailey and Cuherson's iittituUe on tho subject. C. . Goff, of Gainesville, Texas, writes to the Dallas News as follows, of da'e of January 18th. Tho homily 'of Senator Jiuiley on the moral duty and respousibilty of nations is real mousing in the light of history and thu present degeneracy of politics and so-culled statesmen. The most amusing of the senator's arraigineiit of tho president is the implied threat tlmt ho will resign before he will vote to ratify the ca nal treaty. If memory serves us correctly the senator made a similar threat iii u moment of unrestrained jealously. Hut did ho do it ? Will he do it now and let Governor Lan ham appoint a man w ho knows and will respect the wishes of the De mocracy of Texas. Of course not. lho treaty will be ratitied and what is tho use of opposing it. campaign on that lino will put a millstone around the neck of Democ racy that will drown us in sight of tho haveu of victory. J lieu, again, from the same issue of The News, Mr. P. II. Freeman, of Sherman, Tex., savs, "Will the people who rule in the Lone Star State allow the mighty Moods of commerce which won billow through her great ports and the lncuinpant ble opportunities now presented to be swept from her grasp forever, be cause liar senators are splitting hairs to thegallcrici.' Let thovmceof the people of Texas come thundering over her broad plains and teilile Holds and say unto her congressmen her voice is for progress and the great Panama canal. ill iexas turn her back on her destiny ?" In my judg ment, if the people of Texas hsliev ed that the opposition of her sena tors would defeat the canal, then, there would be a howl raised in Texas that would send rats to their holes. But the people will settle with the senators later. Governor Hogg is getting off some dog and rabbit stories that point to the tact that he might later along take another hand in Texas politics. Of course, the 1 anama - canal treaty will be approved and the ditch dug, but if southern senators and congressmen were to lie parties to defeat, and hud defeated it, then, their names would be Dennis, It is ruining out here todav, the tirst in months, and prospects for more lam ami lug rains in north Texas and Oklahoma would be worth millions to the wheat crop. Cotton now 14 emits, loti see now I will get 15 rents for my immense crop of eight bides. N glad I held; and I will gradually turn it loose until 1 sell it all finish mv tour of lectures at I-awton, Oklu., Friday, the 22d Theu home for a few days. Jan. 21, 1904. Sam P. Joxr.s. Scateace Sermons. Work trains the will. Liberty is iu love of the law. The painful ia not always pious. A good errand make, a short load It is the heart that make a head- wav. Faith will break through all forma, A short cut man seldom rat-ves anything great. The world is not saved by the things we do not do. It ia always easy to forgive other people I enemies. NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS. Frm 1790 to Date A List Worth Pre '; serving. Mr. J. II. llt-Klweo, of Statesvillo, was recently in the town of Kdenton, Chowun county, uud while there ho copied from the records the follow ing list of Governors of North Caro lina: 171 0, Charles Eden. 17211, Sir Kichard Evoiard Hurt. MUM, Gabriel Johnson 1753, Matthew liowuii. It 04, Arthur Dobbs. 17G(i, William Tryon. 1773, Josiali Martin. 1777, Kichard Caswell. 1780, Aimer Nash. 1782, Thomas Burke. 1784, Alexander Martin. 178ft, Kichaid Caswell. 1788, Samuel Johnson. 1790, Alexander Murtin. 1793, Kichard D. Spaiglit. 1790, Samuel Ashe. ""lrtS, William R. Davie. 1 91', Beujaniiu Williams. 1802, James Turner. 18U5, National Aiexandei. 1807, Benjamin Williums. 1808, David Stone. 1S10, Benjamin Smith. 1811, William Hawkins. 1814, William Wilier. 1817, John Branch. 1820, Jesse Franklin. 1821, (iabriel Holmes. 1824, Hutching 'G. Burton. 1827, James Iredell. 1828, John Owens. 1830, Mont ford Stakes. 1832, Duvitl L. Swain. 183,", liielinrd I). Spaiglit. 1837, F.dward B. ITndly. 1844, John M. Morolicad. 184.1, Win. A. Graham. 1849, Chas. Manly. 1850, David S. lieid. 1855, Thos.' Bragg. 1809, John W. Illlis. 18(11, Warren Winslow. 18(12, Henry T. Clark. 18i;2, Zebu Ion B. Vance. 18U5, W illiam W. Iloldeli. 1 HUH, Johnalhnu Worth. 18G8, William W. Iloldeli. 1871, ''odd li. Caldwell. 1874, Curtis II. Brngden. 1870, Zebulon B. Vance. 1880, T. J. .larvis. 1884, Alfred M. Scales. 1888, Daniel G. Fowle. 1890, Thomas M. Dolt. 1893, Klias Carr. 1897, Daniel L. Bussell. 1901, Chas. B. Avcoek. MONTGOMERY NEWS. From the Kaamiuer. The school lit the Mountain Spring School house is progressing finely under the excellent manage ment of Miss Nettie llarrett one of Troy's most popular young ladies. Air Sam Ingram has gone to (ia.; and Mr W D Martin, one of our best bovs, is on the mail service from lli'scoc to Abel been. Col 11 F Simmons writes his friends from Florida, that ho is en joying gootl health, breathing the balniv nil of the land of fioors. He expects lo return to Troy late in tha sp-nig. Mrs A .Mel'onaiil, ot uocKing- haui cnine Friday to spend a few days with her daughter, M;ss Susie, who was sick last week, but is again on duty at the academy. rress Steel, a respectable colored man living near estai. uiru oi consumption Friday, uud was buried with Masonic honors in the colored burying ground here Sunday. Wo learn that the material tor the Dnrhim ami Charlotte railroad bridge over Little Hiver is at the river and that work on the trestle leading to the bridge is going slowly but steadily on. He ure still en couraged. Our teachers meeting at r.ther Saturday was wtll attended by the citizens, and good was accomplished. At tho close a vote of thanks was given to our County Superintendent, for his Dl-'ii ot conducting it; aim also, thanks were extended to their kiiitlness and hospitality. We are indebted to .Miss .Mamie Smart for bringing with her Satur day from W'adeville Misses Lillic Bruton, Liliie Monioe, Mattie De Berry, and Ben lull Hurley. A more pleasant ami beautiful 'il.trtette Miss Minnie could not have Jselected iu town, ami we trust the welcome given them here was such as to in- luce them to come again. District No. 2 (Green Springs) m Hollingswoth township, has raised tel. dollars by private donation and forwarded the t-ame to the County Su erintendent fulfilling thereipure-nie-. ts of the act providing for rural libraries. This county is entitled to only five more libraries under that tict'aud we would be glad to see them taken at once. There has been conauleranle sick- ness and several dentbs in and around Troy within the last few days. The colored race sit-ins to lie given to con sumption, und during that extreme cold weather pneumonia in both races wa so common that it seemed al most contagions. Three Collins in one day is the record of one of our undertakers. Cheap Settler' Tickets. On January 19tb, February 2 and Dlth, March lit and 15th and April 3rd And 19th, 1904, the Frisco System (Saint Lonis and San Fran cisco Railroad) will sell reduced rate one-way and round-trip ticket from Atlanta, Birmingham and Memphis to points in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas. Oklahoma and Indian Terri tories and Texaa. Write 8. L. Par- rott District Passenger Agent, At lanta, Ga. REMINISCENCES OF KANDOLI'll. - 1 Mrs. Simila Eliza Aiiord ) 'j;ho history of Ntuih Can ma In 'Minu 1 "ol,,w wit" f'l'igv "P"11 1,1 ter of Flora .McDonald and Mullie Hell and 1'ioni what is said of Mrs Gains wo mv drivi n to the t oncltiiion that the liist-irian means to be under stood us saying !ie never had an equal. Tho Briti.-h historian m-ver liies in his praises ami eulopi.-s mi (Jtn-en r.nzaiiolli, so in tit-li -o that it i- i-rv clear that the Untisli people think that the world has never proilmv-1 a woman conul iu unv wav to Oiic'-n ! Klizaheth. The French historian can scarcely find language stituig ciioii-h to ex press the exalted ol.iiiinii mat the French hae of lie- .Maid of irleans. ' They tou believe that tmr . .u-e has never jtn.tl m-. I a woman cpui! to the Maid of Orlean. Ami the name of Dolly Payne is familiar to all the Anient , m "people ami uo word are too strong to ex press their admiration of Dolly Puvne ami they av all lcudv that she stands at tin- In ad of the "class," nnd very mauv doii'l hesitate to say that no hotly is equal to Dolly ravno. And w hue these w-oiin-n w women of good coinuioii-i-cii.v.- "i horse suiise (1 will call iM lor want of a belter inline. All these women got their con spicuous places iu history from veiy slight circuiiitaiftes. Concealing Chin lef, K Iward the young pretender from the soldicis of George 1 1. after the battle of Ciilloileii, is what gave Flora McDohild her bright place in history. Mattie Bell was a good biave woman and took a lirm shiml fur our coun try against the British in the war of the revolution her lirm stand against the British and the Tones give her a place in history that will go tiown ami be read as loinr as bravery has an admirer. Thousands of women did I lie very same thing. And Vet no mention is made of tla iii. The -Maid of ( irleans (.loan of A reel rode her line horse on the battle licit! anil took charge of t he I- re u-h arinv and cheered till the French soldiers. And that made her a great name. Dolly Payne was the wile of a President ami a good and intelligent woman. And that made her a great name. These facts prove that the pen of the historian is not always correct. Ill the county of i!ainlolp!i there once lived a modest, iuteii, taal Christian woman by the name id Semila Kliz-.i Alford. She wa- born and raised and died in liaiidolph county. She was th; daughter of the late W'illimii L'-acli it man of erv superior, native itt.il i t v, it i - -;:;tl that Chief Justice Mai-ha'il hud no stronger mind than William Leach1 anil his wit',.. Mrs Alf.tnFs u.othei was a lady of very superior i',!ell i-t. Then it leed not bo a ni-.itter ef anv suprise that. Mrs Alford wa- p is-v--sed of a giant mind. She was a .-i-ter of Gen .1 M I .each. Mai tin I-t aeh and Julian F. Leach. She hail twnj sisters Margaret and I'artheiia. All these brothers and Msleis were peo ple of tha very first oid -r of talent. The subje.-t of this !-keeh u.is married to Dr .1 li A 1 for. I in lie year 1K35. And raised a family of live children two sons r.iul three daughters. One .-on and mic daugh ter died young. And the olh. r son. Dr II M" Alford died a lew y-ar-ago in the priii 'of lite. Two daugh ters are living at Trinity in-.ir their old home and both ait happily mar ried and are very intelligent Chri-I-iiiu hulies of extensive reading and t.avel. One of them has been m in-,-the water ami .-tood by the tomb of Shakrpeaie, and stood upon pod oner occupied by Robert Bui lis. No won der thev ar smart tht-v are daugh ters of 'Semila F.liz "Alford. And had her hand sad h,td to guide them in early yesrs. Intellectually she wax equal tottnv body the level ray which should leave her forehead would light but few brows of women or nn-ii on the earth. She did every tiling well that she ever tried to do. A large number of students at Trinity college boarded at Dr Alford's. and it is not saying too much to say that Mis Alford, wife dul about as much to make the boys nieii as the great Craven one of the best educators if not the very Itost that the world has , Ver produc ed. The great women. Flora McDonald. Mattie Bell, the Maid of (irleans, Queen Klizabeth ami Dolly Payne did nothing that .Mrs Alford could not have done. But to enumerate things that these women could not do and Mis Alford could, would make volumes as largo as the dolus daybook. She knew how to do every thing, she could have inani'gcd Iao'p or Grants army. Her reading win extensive ami routined to good luniks Site read a few novels but onlv classi cal ones lit) ten cent novels were found in her library. It mav 1 said of Mrs Alford asa writer said of Dr Johnson that the world will not sec her like again. '. Trinity, January, l'.m-l. Central Falls Items. The sick of our town tire coin ales ant. Mr J V Hamilton our pupa organ agent is on a southern tour. Miss Snvdcr, of the Piedmont Music Co., stopped over iu onr town recently. Messrs J Worth McAlister and r 1, . Ti,. d ovpn.nt, and went bird hnntinff i. w r f .... ,i.;t.i I,;- i,r..iv.or ti:..k !:., i i, i. ...j t T..U ' iVaiu:! I I Franklin nlle .pent Sunday 'andfwm High Point came down and Monday m onr town. WROTE "THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG." Death of Mrs. Annie Chambers Retchum Wlm Once Dciied (lie Whole Union. -New York, .January 27. Mis Annie Chambers Kt-tcliiim, author of "Tin: Bonnie Bine Mag," one of the most famous war swigs of the Coiifei.-ra-v, as well as of many other poems and prize writings, died today til St. Vincent's Hospital, lifter less in a wi ck's 1 1 1 1 (.--.-. in lief eightieth tr. .Mr- Kot -hum t. rod; "The Bonnie JJlue l-'iag" iu Memphis, Tciiii., in Imi;;!, about the time of the battle of Shiloh. when lief hus band l.eunidai ixeti liiim, I hell adju tant of tin- I liirty-i-ighth Tennessee, ivecive,! a w ouud w inch ic-iillcd in hi.-, death. "A Battle Call," a song contemporaneous with "Tlio Bonnie Blue Mag." was aUo written in M al this time, and was an other favorite among the soldiers of the Confederacy. V. hen Memphis was occupied hv the Federal troops. Mrs Ketcliuiu re tiised to take the "iron-clad" oath of a! It giaiiee an was banished from th city by the military authorities. She returned to New York from Hon.j about a year ago, und at thu time she was seized by hei linal illlle.-s, silo was preparing a book on her life-long fiie.-td, the tctiesS; Charlotte L-'ush-iiiau. -Mrs Keti-hiiin t mile of a long line f dintiugiiUhcd Virginia and Ken lucky ancestors. Her nearest sur viving relatives aie her daughter, Mrs M W li.tit, und tlnee draiul-i-hildrcii, of Louisville, Ky., and her oniv nephew, Kcv J)r 1! Stuart Chiimbi rs, of I hi.- city. The fuiior- i! will be held here "Friday after noon. .News and Observer. A Letter From Alabama. iue Hi!!, Ala., January 27th, '04 Being .-cparated iroui my old homo un! friends ami being tl) anxious to ee some ul them and to talk with ilieiu fac- t i Lev. and being denied this privilege by so great a distance take this method of coniiiiunicat g with them in regard to what I think of this coiiuiiy ami that through w Inch I passed iu coming here. 1 saw iiolhiirg of the country lying lict.eeii Hi::h Point ami At- aiitii, li t., it b.-ing in the night .lieu 1 paised, but from Atlanta on re b id day light, so I could view hat part lying immediately, on the ail r-'.i.l, and I mii-t ,-av that from Atlania to Aiuviston, Ala, we pass- in e- of the poorest lauds 1 liny wheiv; too poor to in.iki- good bilel, without fertilizing. It stems to nie tli.il the engineer na-iy when pa-sing through that dry'ini!-!. luve been led by some liunlei of tii.it country who kiie-.,- eveiv foot, of it and looked for id ioui. I tin.- poorest portion of it lor the location el' that road, as: fa:: tlid in locating his road from A-heboio to Bi-e-ie, shunning all points w here there were any lauds that wo. i!d sprout, peas, and finally located on tii.tt portion where James ltt iiiiiii ii-eil to say I lie sod was put mi the bottom iii-liad of the top. I ;i tin-road from Atlanta 1 aw to native for, -t except, open acres of iilin-k j irk hill-ides the black jacks i:o' much higher than in V head, and l.-okid to lie at least one hundred ,.m;s old aii'l verv much decayed. I it, some cotton and corn stalks anil ei v ,-i.oi l. I 'did "in it sec-a piner ol a.!, tiee that was large enough to take ti ll rail- to lite cut. About II of tie' lands i,'' that country had ecu cleared and lail'll out in the as oi liaverv. I sitw some fruit !-,', of a very iiife; ;"!' quality as to l.c. It lo. i.'ed to me us I would us ion plant fence rails with a view of .! boring fruit from th-in in the itnrc iis to p.aiit apple of peach in s. Now " strike the mountains ml I am bd to think i .f what "old i,ui' l.'iev Bill?,. id about liociug un f u- old in. in Elijah Jackson, t hoeing one whole day she did not tid as much dirt us f lic could curry i her apron ami iiol bleak the We now come to Anni.-ton Ala. Aunistoii is located in a valh-v along he f. t of it range of mountains t'.ie Aunistoii li-iiii Works oh- VV he,,: .in a great p u lioii of their iron ore. t hii-i aboiii ten thousand inhabi-;.!,!-. V e i.iv over lure about two hours ami 1 look in as much of the e at 1 could. The depot here is a of roil eh rock, presenting a -li appearance on the outeide. On the inside it is plastered and pro- a ii-v neat appearance. Ihis Seems to be a fairlv live place. I but few petqde around the de an, I on I tie streets. This town, it v, of lis inhabitants have shown the be.-t taste in it urriingcniunts of iu streets and buildings of any 1 I- sw, and ispeeially where there iv eiich tood chaiici-3 for better existed. Houses scattered pnunis- -!v like hav stacks over a large meadow. This reminds luc of the location of Asheboro, when .tnd where one hundred pounds of bacon from the pint-rooti-r hog was offered to the commissioners iipcointed to locate the court house by un old man named Henley if they would locate tho court house for Randolph coun ty near the old Hoover spring rn-ar Allan Wooddcl's where the court house now stands. Lest mv communication be too ay long I will quit for this time. I wiil write again soon nnd tell yon of this country mid its people, K F Rush, Sb. ?S tu6 freeing of the pipe at the water tank Monday morning, the regular train did not leavi until .after o'clock. The yard engine v"". FRUIT TREES THAT BEAR FRUIT. Do your spring planting iu March. Write for free illus trated catalogue, also pamph let on "How to Plant and Cultivate un Orchard." Gives all necessary information. Everything ' Fruit, Shade" and Ornamental Trees. Fine stock Silver and Sugar Ma ples. J. 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