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Durham if inn JL -iiii. liECOKDER . QODS SPOKES MAY BE FOKCrOTTES. p'cPTIIOaifi WHICH A.HK WB1TTKX OK 1'KiyTED STANDS RECOUP. VOL 72. 7 " '"' DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY , JULY IS' 1891. NO. 27 HigKt of all ill Learening Power. a Li jessaa ABSOLUTELY PURE Judok R. A. Hill, United States Judge for the Northern district of Mississippi, will soon retire. He was appointed by President Johnson and is 81 years old. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. W. A.SLATER &C0. NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS. FiRST In The FIeld WJfi HAVE JUST OPENED A FINE STOCK OF FINE CLOTHING, F URNISIIING! GOODS, HATS. , - ' . Our line neck-wear is the prettiest you ever saw, and our line of HATS in all shapes will be sure to please you. . ! ivciirjiuuer you nao u nye iu,inn ;n i ciannuc ;ui rw We trust by fair dealing to in ;rit a share of your patronage. Be certain to give us a call when you come to Durham. W. A- SLATER & CO " WRIGHT BUILDING, Next door to Post Offic. FARTHING '& DUKE. WHOLESALE " Dealers in GroceriBS,DryCoods. Notions, Clothing, c:c We carry in stock everything joq can find in any general store. We carry large .stocks of W.L.DOUGLASS Shoes, Satter & Lewis & Cos , Shoes. OLD HICKORY 'nd Piedmont Wag ons an Road Carts. Obcr'a Fertilizer The Na tional and Durham Dull Fer tilizer. TU most good for the lent mon FAETHING & DUKE. OJitlUl . v. C. for Infants Cmmtm to a wt mMfmM k (tlUM UiM fraaaaiMMMWpartartaajirpraMrlptica kaawBtoM- H. A. turn, M. D., 1U OalaH K, BmkJra, K. T. TWiaM),Catiirit,bnnlHnrikl P IBaHM as vail klwrwn that It m-nm 9wU af .-WMriul'ia toaadofaa It Fw aralh. atohaat I'amill.b.avautaa.B CaMuria liuia aan wc " Vattaa Inm,ft P., n Tor CHf . tM tmtat BfcMal( Urns Caurek. U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. ij, 1889. Powder M. Flammakion, the French astronomer, declares that the climate of Europe is growing colder. . - Mks4 James G. Blaine, Jb., believes, it is said, that rheu matism has made her a cripple for life. . . Itch on human and horses .t u : i is. on s. utes by Woolford'n Sanitary i lth othf manufacturers our read f n;ia Riri era would perhaps be n'lle to form w VIVIII il 11- v & Ja a 7. lufViVt by N. M. Johnson & Co., Drug gist, Durham, X C. ap tf SleeplenHUfHS, nervous prostr .tion fits, St. Vitus dance, nervatitiiess, hysteria, headache, hot flushes, iierv oui dvsr-epia. confusion, are cures by Dr. Miles Nervine. Trial bnt teU and fine books free at Year' ys drugstore oradilres Dr. 51 iW Med adieal Co.. Elkhhart. Ind. Aak mf far W. Daarfaa Sfcaa IT aal far aala lu oar alaee )aar mmirr la ara4 far eaialara. arcar I mr Crarv. aa4 rl IbfM lar lai. , irTlkli Sit M UTITlTK.tJ WHY V. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE cmMCN Tm BEST 8HOK m m wuhld m thc mniif II 1 iml" mhim, with o tm-kt or rl lhrw In kr tifv-ti mmtm t h tm Him rwtl, MtltMk m4 r. nod 4W"-ttwsw m mtk mor ar f this Wn4r I Kan aihsr mn'fnelMrr, H qutvU b4UR4 f rMtlt tnm 4uu l- CR, l4iilMt" tlMii-rwrtf. IfwffitMtMtf S " -r rWr-t fur '.!( 4Uta Vnmcb tiHw11 )! whk-ti wh4 trm Utj 41, A Imm4-p-mr4 W rll fkmr, Bi tmXt, l liH. rHmf.ullf kfHt ilnrauM. 7vr Wot t. r inTt m t mm nrd m ejs tm msl rVw mMf frum tiHkVilL rllf ktfti rurmwri, Kiln4 M 7va anl lfi rr,nmil wwthm; rrlf, arnM, anh int hftvj thrnp aulsmv titt tM(tKn. itw Mir will w ycr. SAff rttlf iMbrii.TalwrWflTtM thi tr; M Irlnl lfl mrmttmm iMutm tMt 1 ' in.i 111 ,iM ukm en m mm4 H.rkt.iM-. trrf Btrm$ duriM.iA TN.MW tea ii..iaivm,riajmrM...rti.wa.a. HriVal a. tM umt mm rSlSrtt'B?'- I nril.a I.M. Ila.-rar4 . al iinfHrtf1 alxam rmUf from tV U l.attloa 1 U. J.a mat fn lltMrHi arf lfct ftw H j ft orf it ur A til. I ! Inn.- rm lint W. h tMmsttn hb u4 FOlt SALE BY FAUTHING & DUKE, DUUIIAil, X, C. and Children. Hlarla. figaj (VWa faiiai, hwwiai'a, than-to, Kniriaun. Jia) W.vwa, (t,B ataap, aa4 yrnairtaj 41. Vidwu. toJurtMf kMdkaUoaV a..i f tiaaa aaaataa4 fmir faaanna. ftiyl thill alr armuatia a " It baa is,arialir arudauad .aiaaaiil Kwnti r. rmst, B4 "Th Wtotkrof,,- Mk ttm m4 Tifc Am, KavfarkCilf. pi IS THE Tm Cvwaea Cawiin, ff Meaaaf Snuar, To. The Agricultural Bulletin Gives an Insight into the "Customs" of .the State Department. ; COM MH-UONKK ROIUVSUX AVD MR BATTLE TAKE A HAND THE BKAUTY Or THEIR CON SISTENCY, ' A KIk PIhIi ot Food for the People to IMlCPMt. We have anxiously awaited a com munication from Commissioner Rob inson answering our inquiries in last Monday's issue, and we feel assured our reader would be glad to hear from him again on that subj'tct. But somebody, (we suppose Mr. Robinson or Mr. Battle,) lias sent us two mark ed copies, both same date, of the De partment "Bulletin." We are ob liged to the sender, whoever he is, for be furnishes us food for thought and what we read in the Juno "Bul letin," purporting to come over the official signatures of Commissioner Robinson and State Chemist Battle, suggest a few more questions which we desire to ask. We notice that Mr. Robinson and Mr. Battle have devoted nearly six ; columns of the "Bulletin" to the "X. j C. official Farmers' Alliance guano, i manufactured by the Durluun Ferti I bzer Company." This "Bulletin" ar i tiele starts ..out with a preliminary statement which reads well, and we quote it: "The Department of Ag- ricultureis charged primarily v.ith the inspection and control of commer- cud fertilizers, in other words, it is charged with the protection of the purchaser of fertilizers against fraud, do matter in what form fraud may appear. The Department is always impartial in its action, and endeavors to treat all alike." Now we like that word "impartial," and if Mr. Rob inson would answer our former ques- tions upon this branch ofthe"cus- . ., ; nmant ,- ,1 .!;,, torn of the Department lnd.aluig ers would perhaps their own conclusions from the facts rather than have to take the bare as sertions of Mr. Robinson of his "en deavor to treat all alike." In this very June issue of the Bul letin" (page Sand lo,) the Deport ment professes to publish all the an alyses of goods of all manufacturers which have been "made since the is sue the May Bulletin, 1891,' and the whole number of such analyses is forty-four (44), including in that number only (4) four of goods miide by the Durham Fertiliser ComjHiny. Now, out of the forty -four analyst of goods of all the Companies the Bulletin shows there were twenty one (21) nearly on k Half of the wholes-found to be below the guar antee of the respective manufactur er. We find, for instance, that a sample taken at Warren ton of goods other than Alliance goods, having a 'guaranteed'' commercial value of $23.00 per ton, being analyst!, the State Chemist "found" only 19.10 per ton, making f.1.90 per ton below guarantee. A sample of goods made by this same Ann, taken at Saxon, N. C, and guaranteed at 17.60 per ton, analysed only 1191 per ton, being short or below guarantee 4. 59wr ton. But we have another where the deficiency is even greater : null, ana ine -uuiKaui mw uun a Hintle taken at Roxboei, N. C , of . , , I mMalit. ther than Alliance KOOUH, o . , IwhMt the niannfa.turew gtiaranUed I , jn,if Ixm. llwntinlvaia 'fminil" at 34.40 tier ton, the analysis "found only 28.2 u-r ton, it being short or below gnaranU (6.11) MX IXL LARS "AND FOURTEEN CENTS. Now, Mr. .Tbibiiuwn, w are told tliat you have seised and brought suit to confiscate the Alliance good of the Durham Fertiliser Company at Oxford, which, by your analysis, 'show less deficiency than those of other manufacturer aliove ciU'd, we ; ank you it) the name of the "im par tlol Commissioner you profew to be, have you ised the goods of these conipaiiK-s alw.t If you have not, then why not I Have you ordered them to refund the deficiency to the pun-hnscn t If not, why not t An other qitextion in this connection, how many lots out of the whole twenty-one fun! ,n bo deficient have y5u seised anyhow 1 Have you seised a single 1 of goods m.inufac tund by anytsNly else except Alii an goods of the Durham Fertiliser Company, or ever ordered any other company to make good the deficiency by paying It back to the purchaser t Do you excuse yourself on the ground that you liad to make analysis first In order to discover the deficiency bef ire you could seise, and when the nnly sis disclosed the deficiency the goods had "been consumed ? Then why didn't you' treat the other com panics as you did tne furnam com pany and detain their goods to awa:t the analysis as you did in Oxford i You say in reference to theee OxCor.l goods that "acting under instructions from the Department the Inspector withdrew from salo this lot of goods, fenijino xs asaltsih, for which he drew sample from the 1ktalved goods.".' And yet you undertake to excune yourself for non-porfrmance of duty in this regard by adding a foot note to these analyses and say : Note. Several analyses, (yes 21, or nearly one half of them) show val uation materially lower than the guarantee. The Inspectors were in structed to search for other lots for analysis and detention but have not been able to find the goods," Why didn't you detain the lots from which you took the samples "perfdingthe analysis 1" "What became )ot those goods anyhow, while your Chemist was making the analyses f Did you let the bird go whfle you held only a tail feather in your hand 1 You made sure of the "sample" howcter, and now add to your.J'noto" "The analy ses are placed in the hut above as the only means available for teaching the case." And why the "only means available 1" There is but on answer to that question because the Depart ment did not do its duty and detain the goods of the other manufacturers as it did the Oxford shipmer of the Durham Fertilizer, Company,, "land ing the analysis." And yet the De partment has the assurance to say it is "always impartial in its actvn, and endeavors to treat all alike." If you detained for analysis one manufacturer's goodft'why did you not detain for analysis the goods of others also! A beautiful object less on to show the IMPARTIALITY of the Department! And a fine illustration of Department methods, adopted to protect the purchaser! Publish the deficiency in the Bulletin, indeed: and then call it sqiio're between the manufacturers and the purchasers, but in order to be entirely fair and impartial towards that 'particular Dnrhiim Fertiliser CmpaniT'lze their goods' at Oxford, and wder them to refund 8.43 per ton at Me banMvUle, and dont torget to pub lish any deficiency of theirs in the Bulletin, likewise, also, in the bar gain. Truly a nice way w auminw ter the law "impartially and treat all alike." : The reader of the Bulletin article referred to, will observe that Mr. U. B. Battle, State Chemist, has put in his oar and written a piece following Coinmiseioner Robinson's, tohelp out Mr. Robinson and the Department and in his article he has undertaken to prove that the President and Secre tary of the Durham Fertiliser Com pany lied in their published state ment when they said with reference to their Mebanesville goods the words, the use to guess at it and by mere onotedby Dr. Battle, to-wit: "0ur.ruein2 atumiot to contradict the explanation of this matter is that! this particular lot of goods had 650 pounds of animal bone (tenting over thirty per cent bone phospliate) in it, which, while it is much more valua ble as a fertiliser and cost us consid erable nwre money, does not sliow ..... .1-1 I- ,M a phosphate would do." ti . .n.,it.i,, on.i'n stamina wnicn you euvpnasise Doctor Battle then cntK ismg and ni . Wn,w.-lflir&wiin,J,r ..mJ commenting on Hie noovo quoieu statement of the President and So retary and in order to prove it to be i mnde by Commercial chemist or false n Yd- "Tim sworn UUinemV l,,w n,,t "hrKwl with ofiicHd con false wys. Ilio sworn wu in. in iu no fvtu. dear 'Doctor. 01 me fmp.TiiHcnu.m puny gives me loiiowmg as me fok at La by which tho Mebane shipment of Ute FarnHtv' Alliance guano was made: "Iml pounds 9.li 373 6VI lou ' Amour A Co.. Tankage, 217 He protuds: "Tliere is ho evi dence of any animal bone whatever being ued in this formula, except what may Is in the Armour Tank- age, wntcn won iijati 10 luruisii ine aminonia in tho fertiliser. "If Al.1. of this Tankage hod been animal bone there would be furnish ed to the Mebane fanners not 650 pounds to the ton as the President luted, but only 6is pounds to the ton." Utop right here, Doctor Rat tlei when and where mid to whom did the President of the Durham Fertiliser Coinpnny pres'llt Hint there was 650 pounds of animal bone To THK Tos in that Mi-bane shipment? Rcml your quotation again and read itcari-fully, every word, and do yon find the word "ton" in it at all t The words used by Mr. Morgan, the Pres ident, ar "This particular Lot of good . lis 1 050 pounds of animal bono" u:id you undertake to make him say a "ton" of these goods bad 630 pounds of animal bone, a tiling tie did not say. Ho ;iid that this particular "lot" of good made ac cording td the kokmula his superiff teintant showed you, and .which you are unkind enough to publish in full for the benefit of other manufactur ers, containing 2175 pounds, when the figures of the ingredients are ad ded up (which you omitted to do in writing your article for the Bulletin) these goods had 650 pounds of ani mal bone testing over thirty per cent, bone phosphate. Your 1 argument upon your "ton" theory and calcula tion must, asany man of ordinary in telligence can see, fail to the ground and goes for nothing, because you have based it yoursolf on false premis es. Does it take 2175 pounds of fertiliser to, make a "ton" by the standard of "official control" at your I Department I Any where else it is understood that it takes only (21)0(1) two thousand pounds and not (2175) two thousand one hundred and seventy-five pounds to moke a "ton" of fertilisers. Surely you liave not been making your estimates of commer cial values referred to in your analy sis and estimating 2175 pounds in stead of only S0OO pounds to the ton? So," Doctor, when you undertake again to prove respectable gentlemen to be guilty of lying would it not be better for you yourself to quote their language correctly! Would it not give your own words more weight with all fair minded critics? Do you deny that this animal bone would test "over thirty per cent of bone phosphate as Mr. Morgan represent ted it would! If so, you only have to refer back to your own ana'ysis in t'10 May Bulletin and look at your own foot note to see tliat by analysis then and there made' it contained 30,99 per cent of bone phosphate or phosphate of lime, which you did not include in the valuation as you your self tin re state. You say: "It is not likely that as much as one-fourth of this tmkag - i:i the Mebano Alliance goods is ; !;!;.'-- 1 of animal bone." How do you know! Have you an aliscd this lot and found it 'different from yo-.ir May Bulletin of same arti cle which shjwdd 3J.9J percent of phosphate of lime? Or have you compared it witn another sample of anim tl bone of another manufactur er iu the May Bulletin which ran only 81.40 per cent of phosphate of liine! Or have you compared it with another sample of Bone Meal, or an imal bone, in the June Bulletin which ran 45.63 per cent of phos phate of lime! Or have you made any analysis at all of the Mebane ship ment for pbospliate of lime from ani- tn.il Kino' I) v-tir. i!o Villi rrcillv know the composition of Annour s tankace? If so why don't you quit If so why don t guessing about it and instead of say ing it may ba or it is sot likkly. say ! it. ia uhrtivn In- nnulrtiiu! Wlmt in published statement of the 'President! Do you think it right, and impartial Dont eo off half cocked. Doctor, by misquoting the published state ment of Mr. Morgan and thus being lied into error yourself draw wrong conclusions as to whew ewi though you have setup in your Derttnent arerleased to say "H is uscUik to compare this standard with analysis thnl "wisdom sliaU dk with you As much as you undertake to dis credit chemists not cluirged with "official control." if you will read Commissioner" Rohinson's a,rtii-le again (June Bulletin p;tge 6, nhout middln of second column) you will see Mr. Robinson says he acted "upon an analysis made outside of the Kate" and immeliately an Inspector wiu sent to McIkum with instructions u draw a aompleof the fertilisiT, and to withdraw from sain the whole lot un til an investigation could be had and an official analysis mode." You and Mr. Robinson do not win to accord in your estimate of the value of outside analysis made by those nt charged with official control." The Commissioner and Slate Chemist work ttwther so beauti fully in administering the "custom" ot tlie IVpartnu'nt it would n-ally be unforiunnto and distressing to have them wnamtl upon anything either in life or d'-alh. If you can n4 is persuaded to write us agAiu. Mr. liiliiiiMjii, pl','tse do not for-t to send us a copy of your next liul letin to keep us posted as to your "impartiality" in deiditig with the North Carolina Ofllcbd Farmers Alliance Ouano. Miss Jose Hill and Mr. P. F. Carrikcr were married in Con cord last Saturday morning. The bride was seventeen and the groom fifty-two years old. wu. your oinciaiiwiuonuju.uKi Parting from Savannah, Ga., 5 TTTi Z t'Llt r . wi harcconnoction over the (Savannah and Western railroad THIS ALLIANCE AT. WO UK. A Secret Manifesto llearl' tr on , Wheat tron. S Chicago, July 7. The Far mers Alliance is about to un dertake the experiment of or ganizing the farmers of the country upon a scheme of com pelling the payment of corner prices for the 1891 wheat crop. An official manifesto has been prepared with great secrecy and will bo placed in the- hands of every member of. the Farmers' Alliance, calling upon him to withhold a part or all of his friends and neighbors to do the same until such a timn as the necessities of consumers at home and abroad will force-the payment of prices satisfactory to the producers. - The various farmers' organ izations have a membership of nearly six miinons, ana all 61 thorn are expected to fall in line with the alliance, and to in duce others not members of any of the societies to do the same. The circular is practically of the relative force of an order from Qompers and Powdcrly for a general labor strike, the far mers being drilled up to an ap preciation of th overwhelming advantages or co-operation. The circular is lengthy and sets forth with elaborate statis tical detail the fact that the farmers of. America have been skinned out $:)00,0(X),000 in three years through the machinations of short sellers, that Europe has tno shortest wheat and rye crop of the cent iry, and that condi tions are providential for a trust. . The farmers are directed to resolve that a minimum price of i os 1 X'..... v 1. :.. ' .1 i f 111 luis-is muueruie and couservate. and that they pledge themselves not to mark et their wheat at lower prices anu then only sparingly under the direction of state committees constituted for the purpose of keeping posted as to supply and demand, and strong reasons are urged for the belief that tnis policy will sooil elevate prices to the dasired limit The move is likened to a strike with the difference tnat the working men loss money .every day the strike lasts while the farmer makes money, and that the out come is always doubtful with the workiugmen while in this instance with the farmer it is certain. In the body of tho circulrr is a letter from Professor (i. K, Dodge, government statisiciau, estimating the crop of 1301 at seventy-nve to one hundred million bushels, under the "absurd" 0tR),()U0,(WtJ bushel bear estimate with a possibility of 12.r,0Hi,0it) bushels less. This is Dodge's first climate of the crop. The circular is decidedly sensational in its significance. A New Line North and Mouth. Tho Charleston News and Courier says that there is talk of another big railroad deal which is to connect the South wjth the North and West. into Florida, then moving North it intersects the South Carolina railway at Lee's on its way to Columbia, andthence to Monroe, N. C, via the three Cs, where it intersects the(Jeorgia, Caro lina and Northern road. Then the line gs straight on through Lexington to Winston-Salem, MartinsvilV, Rocky Mount to Roanoke, Va.,0tf"er the Shenan doah Valley road, now the pro- jnrty of the Norfolk and Wes tern 10a 1, to Shenandoah Junc tion, connecting with tho Balti more and Ohio railroad, where direct communication run be had with tho West and North. IVrt'cH-ioii or lUihviij Tr.ivel. The inauguration, by the Bal timore and Ohio, Philadelphia and Reading and Jersey Centra! Railways of the famous "Koval Blue Line" between New York and Washington via Philadel phia and Baltimore, was an evoutof tin greatest importance to travellers, and it is very grati fying to chronic le the irrvat suc cess and popularity it litis at tained. It deserves it ki i.i.y for it is emphatically the best line ever run uetwirn the two cities. We say the iu:st from pers'inai. experience, tor we have travelled over it and its competing lines, and when we say that over the "B. tiiV route the highest realization and perfection of railway travel is attained, we are but giving it just praise. Its trains are the safest, the finest and fastest in America and are "run on time A vcsuuuicd limned express, euuipiH-d so completely and luxuriously of to leave nothing to be desired, is run between New York and Washington in each direction in exactly five hours, which is not only the fastest time ever made between the two cities but is the iuolest train in America, and the splen did road bed of the route per mits the speed with perfect safety. One can realize what a fast train this is when it is considered that the distance from Jersey City to Washington is almost exactly the same as from Boston to New York, where is six hours is the fastest time ever made between the latter cities. The Royal Blue Line's train from Jersey City to Wash ington performs 'the journey in four hours and forty-eiirht minutes. Notwithstanding the superior equipment and train service of this line, no extra fares are charged on any of its trams, raiatiai day coaches accompany all its trains, open to the public at the regular. fare, and only the usual charges are maue ror accomodations m sleeping and parlor cars. mere are six "Koval Blue Line" trains each way, daily, between New York and Wash ington. All of them are com posed exclusively of vestibuled cars, protected by Pullman's anti-teloscoping device, heated ' by steam and lierhted bv the Pintsch gas system. e heartily recommend this route to all our readers and ad vise them to take it and none other, for it is not only the best as regards speed, luxury and equippraent, but it exacts no extra charge on any of its trains. Christian Leader. A2, 000,000 Mortgage. The Richmond nnrf Danville Railroad Comi.anv has filed a deed of trust to th Hentrnl Trust Company of New York, giving me company a mortgage on the property of all its lines rorine amount 01 sj.ikhj.oik). Not many concerns can civa such a mortgage, and still a fewer number could overpay it. Step by step this gigantic com- ruj ra niuDuiujj us luuueuce and tightening its cold iron grips upon weaker .vessels. Concord standard. T Limit Cotton Production, The low price of cotton is causing great dissatisfaction among the planters of South Carolina, and they are talking about limiting the production by a decrease of acreage, in plowing up one-fourth of the present crop, and by various other devices. The Farmers' Alliance, of Malboro county in that state has adopted the fol lowing resolutions: 1 hat we pie dire ourselves to plant only ten acres of cotton to the horse in 1892; provided we can get the co-operation of all the cotton states, so as to dtferease the production of cot ton, and so obtain the due re ward for our labor. Second, That we request the state alliance to call for a con vention of the cotton trrowers of the south, irrespective of class or color, to meet not later than December 1st next, to con sider the same. What is it that makes a true gentleman? This is what some one has said "A eentleman is just a c.EXTi.K man no more, no less: a diamond polished that was first a diamond in the rough. A gentleman is gentle. A gentleman is modest. A irontlenun is courteois. A gentleman is slow to take of fence, as being one who never gives it. a gentleman is Blow to surmise evil, as being one who never elves it. A cvntlo. man refines his tastes. A een tleman controls hU speech. A gentleman deems others better than himself." w tn Brief, Winston is to have a Red Spring factory in the near fu ture. The Raleigh News and III. server is to be greatly improved. 11 win oon nppear as an eight p.ig.j paper. Mr. A. A. Hicks has Iwn elected Mayor of ( Ixford, to fill out vv: late L. u. Smith a unex pired tt'rm. The ViNon Phvsicians Sup ply is the name of a new com pany recently incorporated at Charlotte. Mr. John Register, who has be living at Keyser. Moore county, for aonie months, wa found dead near that place sev eral days ugo. The cause of his death will always be shrouded in mystery.