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! -- , - . .: i -- -. : - -..-!- 4 .. . , - -' . .- ; A v 'A J. A. BONITZ, Editor and Proprietor 1 "For us, Principle is Principle Right is Right Yesterday; To-day; To-morrow, Forever." Published Semi-Weekly $3.00 a Year v ' VOL. XXII. GOLDSBORO, N. C, MONDAY lANUARY 25, 1886. c NO; 28. r 'I'IMELY INFORMATION.' State Agricultural lepartment. jj ' ' ' - ' Wherein it Fulfills Its Mission and Wherein it Does Not. There has been a great deal said of late detrimental to the State Agricul tural Department, and in several in stances tue management has been se verely criticised, and apparently with in, bounds. This has induced the lRaleigh'5f Chronicle to inquire into the conditions and workings of "the Department. We regret that our space does not admit of the Chronicles full report, Covering, as it does, five col unins or more. The Chronicle says : . j hlAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS COST. ' Tt was difficult to ascertain the cost of the Department.' This was due to the fact that the State Treasurer is ex officio Treasurer of the . Board of Agri cultural, and that while his accounts are audited annually, a statement of the entire expenditures of the Agri culturel Department is made only once in two years ready for the Legisla ture. To; ascertain the cost" for the nast five ivears we had to add up the cost- per lonth and the following is the result : From May 2, '79 to Jan. 1, '81, $41,413 13 From Jan. 1, 'HI to Jan. 1, '82, 42.040.09 From Jan.'l, '82 to Jan. 1, '83, ' 89,42.05 F'rrim Jan. 1, '83 to Jan. 1, '84, 50,777. II From Jan. 1, '84 to Jan. 1, '85, 49.824 71 '1 Total cost'for five years, $233,526.08 Makmsr an average cost per pear of $44,705.21 Now .has the work been worth that amount. to the btate ! That is the question the tax payers want answer ed,! and that is -the question the Chron irit is trying to throw some light upon. Where theSioney comes from. i. There are between 75 and 85 fertili zer, companies' doing business with merchants in the State and all of them arejrquired to pay a tax of $500 for ihe privilege of selling their guano to our farmers. The Department really, don't Icost the people a cent, and to that reason as much as to any otjher do we attribute the extravagance. About! $45,000 has been raised each year from guano men. It is estimated that tHe kmount this year will be $40,- ' On thfi ditnrifl.l in.tra r f thi tia- ij per we make a suggestion regarding I this tax. Keaa it. . i f thecommissioner's office. At one time, in adlition to his regu lar salary, Commissioner McGehee re ceived a salary from the Agricultural Department of the General Govern ment. He does not receive this amount now, and his salary is two thousand dollars, without any perquisites, says Mk? McGehee'. Th0 Board gave I its assent for the Commissioner to receive this salary. He was also at the same time in receipt of a salary as Bond Commissioner. Was it right for one man to hold three offices and receive pay from each at the same time? The law provides that a man cannot hold a U. S. office! and be elector, or be, a J us tice of the Peace and Judge of an In ferior Court.. Is there any difference? We see but little. One office is enough for any man, especially if the salary of that office will support the incum bent. Mr. McGehee's duties are to get out a bi-eunial report for the Legislature with the assistanceof the others in the Department, does whatever the Board idirects him to $o,' gives any informa tion! desired relating to the State, is well informed as to our resources, tie s a. courtly, jjolished gentleman; a Ijissicarscholar: and an uprignt man. Ie makes a good impression on peo- ftrvrgitnTg two titate; vvim an tnis e is not the most progressive of men; s conservative to a rauit; ana aoes lot make himself felt as he ought and ould and should. He does but little jyvquaint the people with the work iat th Department does, xnorougn- y-eapable ot making elegant and poi nd addresses to the farmers and iner them information on agrioul- urkl matters, he rarely leaves his of- ce and has not addressed the farmers n practical topics half a dozen times ince he has held his place. Now the hrontcU believes he ought to magnify spfntfe, ought to go out among the armers. and show them that the De- art merit is run in their interest, and fot'c'oiifine himself to merely-clerical Kork which can be done bv a man ho has not a third of Mr. McGehee's apacity. , . there is almost universal complp.int taong the farmers that the Depart ment does them no good. In this they re mistaken but if the Commissioner ould go in every county in the State nee a vear and make an address to fiefnrmerson th woTk,the complaint ould soon die and the people would lvor the Department, economically imiuistered. In addition to the Com- Pisioner a Secretary at a salary of f '-OO. is' employed. Mr. Peter M. ruson is the present Secretary. He Ja allowed $150 .last year in aldition ftis salary on account or his services 'U.he New Orleans Exposition. It is that he hadlextra work to, do in uPping and packing thefexhibits, but leorlier part of the time he was in e& Orleans euiovincr what most men f u!d call a nleasjint vacation, with ist enough work to give him a good i'ltite. Why, then, should he be iJ more than the contract when his tlf-s were not more exactiner. but 'jniore pleasant'? But it was the s money and it is a well known ;u'( that there is not so erreat ne- s'ty in being economical with these "Is, as when one is handling his KJi money! - In addition to receiving' lt in CMSh ortra T- V Ln av. "'S including sleepinsr car fare, were paid by the State. When wtleigh he pavs his own board at ew Orleans his board was paid by Ift V..... mi " 1 . . Ji'vie. inat wasa saving to him J '4 he was paid $150 extra. Such be tolerated. . TE EXPERIMENT STATION. j e 13 one branch of the Depart- IV l DlrifA T1 cnncr.n 1 4.11 i Jn Experiment Station of which 7,.3.0, is Di rr lms Department is a neces- cessity, because the revenue derived to run the whole establishment comes from a tax on fertilizers, and a license cannot be granted to sell the guano until a competent chemist pronounces it valuable. Dr. Dabney was glad to show us the record of his work and the details of his mode of working. Everything here is neatness and we could but ad mire the methodical arrangement of his letters," results of analyses, and other business papers. Here not five cents is spent for a cake of soap' (and they use lots of it, agreeing with the learned j Prof. Winston that a man ought never to economize in soap,) or twenty-five cents expended for a whisp brush (why should the State pay for a whisp brush? Is it one of the chemi cals?)Cor any other item, without a re ceipt being filed in a book kept for that purpose. HISTJORY OF THE STATION. When: first organized the Experi ment Station was located at the Uni versity. Here some work was done but the rumor was that the Director and most of his assistants spent a good portion of theirtime hunting. Never theless in two years 1878 '79 under the former director, who was a first class chemist and has made a young fortune jsince he left North Carolina by assay work, oo specimens were analyzed, and the cost of the Station with three tassistants was $3,835.31 per year see report or Experiment Station for 1879. In November, 1880, the pres ent Director was elected at a salary of $2,000 a -year. In October 1881 the office was moved to Raleigh. Before moving there were four assistants who were paid $75, $60, $37.50, and $30 per month respectively. When tbe office was moved to Ral eigh the salaries of the assistants were increased to $83.33, $83 33, $50, and $50 respectively. The total expendi ture from April 1, '81 to April 1, '82 was $6,122.33, and the number of an alyses was 450. In 1882, the salaries of the two $50, a month men, were in creased to $75, and a negro man em ployed at an expense of twenty dollars ;a month. The total expenses from iApril '82 to April '83 was $7,831.00 The number of analysed 459. From April '83 to Jan. '84, the expense were $5,250.' Dr. Dabney's salary was increased to $2,500 which salary he still receives. By act of Legislature all servants were paid one dollar a day and the hegro's salary was raised to $28 per mbnth. From Jan. '84 to Jan. P85 the expenses were $11, 198, of which amount $2,714 was expended for th' phosphate survey in the Eastern part of the State. In this survey 71 beds were explored, and 139 examined and samples drawn and inspected. Num ber analyses 642. During the year 1885, from Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st inclusive, $7,839.05 was the amount expended by the Experi ment Station. The number of analy ses were 520.' i A COMPARISON OF WORK DONE. I Under the management before Dr. Dabney took charge (the first years of the station) from April 19th 1877 to Dec. 16, 180, only 1,000 analyses were made. For the two years, April 1877 to April 1879, $7,670 was the amount expended; and in these two years the number of analyses were 378, making each analysis cost the State a fraction oyer $20. Three assistants were then employed at salaries of $849.83, $562.50, and $210 respectively for two years work. ThG Director received $2,000 a year. From April 1, '82 to April 1, '83, un der Dr. Dabney, 450 analysis were made at a total cost of $6,122.33, an average cost of $13.60 per analyses. The next' year the total expenditure was $7,831.00, an. average cost of $17.06 per analysis. From Jan. '84 to Jan. '85 the cost was $11,198, the num ber of analyses 642; making an aver age cost of $17.44. During this year $2,713 were expended on the phosphate survey and ought not to be included in the estimate. 'Deducting that amount the cost per analysis was $13.21. During the year 1885 there were 520 samples analyzed at a cost of $7,839.05. an average of $15.07. The cost for the last two years was remark ably low and is a reduction of $7 and $5 per analysis respectively over the cost of 1878-'79. PRESENT EXPENSES. V The salaries now paid by this Sta tion, per month, are: Dr. C. W. Dabney. Jr., Ph.D. $208.33 B Von Herff, Ph. D. 83.33 H. B. Battle, B.S. 83.33 F. B. Dancy, A. B. 83.33 W. A. Withers, A. B, 60 00 Clarence Busbee. . 12 00 Servant. lo.w The other allowance per quarter is : For annaratus and regeants, $200 00 For stamps and stationary, .0.00 For incidentals (including wnisp brush, soap, &c) 90.00 For fuel, 22.00 Tho following newspapers are sub scribed for And paid for by this De partment, (ought the State to pay this bill?): ! Science. &5.00 a vear: W. Lumber man, $2.00 a year; American Naturalist, $4.00 a year; Am. unem. uecora, .wa year; jiyniEiiuure n,,yt;ii , Tab. Journal $2.00 a yeaiH Country Gen tleman $2.00 a year; English Journal $4.00 a year, and N. C. Live Stock Jour nal $1.50 a year. An allowance of $1,200 has now been made for printing the Directoi's Re ports. TjET THERE BE REFORM. We feel no hesitation in saying that good work is done in.this Department, but the work ought to be done with fewer men and it could be well done. This was demonstrated when Dr. Djabne.y and one of his assistants sometimes two were absent frorathe office two or three months at theNew Orleans Exposition and the work did not suffer, j In these hard times econo my is the ! watch word and the $7,bUU required to run the Station ought to be reduced to the lowest possible sum. Iiet the Board consider the propriety of , reducing the incidental and other expenditures at their next meeting. In his estimate1 for the next year's ex penses Commissioner McGehee puts the expenditures of this Department at $8,125 an excess of $325 over 1885. This will not do. The amount expend ed ! ought to be reduced instead of in creased. In this day of hard times, when all men employed by private firmsare workingon small wages, there ought 'i to be no increase in the salary of public officials. The Chronicle, in urging economy, does not advocate penuriousness. F.rst class chemists are entitled to good salaries and the State ought not to try to get them for a song, but we recog nize that there is a duty to tax payers, as well as to officers of the State. We advocate no reduction of salary of chemists; we do advocate a reduction of the force to the lowest number pos sible so that good and efficient work will not be Impaired. TRADE AT HOME. A Few Timely Suggestions on "Home Helping." Charlotte Democrat Looking in this line, we submitted reflections with regard to the patron age bestowed by many of our citizens, who are not dealers, on northern mer chants. Our object was to show that an occasional article might be pur chased in this way at a lower rate than the home price, yet. in the long run it does not pay. Occasionally a Northern firm will run off some article they happen to be long on, or it is getting out of fashion, or by way of advertisement, at reduced rates. Ordering such goods is always haz ardous. In the first place the cash must always accompany the order, then the goods may be damaged and note well this fact if they happen to be out of the goods ordered, they will send something ele. They never return the money so long as they can hold it. The party ordering can nev er be sure of getting what he desires. Ask any of the many ladies, who are in the habit of buying in this way, if this is not the orthodox and frequent return they get from the Northern merchants: "We regret that we are just out of the exact article you order, but inclose these goods7 which we trust will answer your purpose." Again, when postage or expressage is included, it will be found it is about as cheap and much more satisfactory to buy at home, where the goods can be compared and examined and whin you can be certain you buy . exactly what you want. When you. buy from a home mer chant there is no leap in the dark. You know exactly whatyo'u are doing. One of our most prominent and en lightened citizens told us a few days ago, whilediscussing this very subject, the following, as showing the views as held by Northern merchants: "1 sent n order' said he, "to a friend in New York himself a lead ing merchant to have filled. It was for matting. My friend went to a large dealer in that line of goods and left the order. When the stuff came it was rotten and not at all what I wanted . I wrote to my friend recounting the shortcomings and asking a change, r that I might return the goods and receive my money back. My friend was indignant that I should be so shamefully cheated and treated. He went to the dealer and stated the case, telling him I would be perhaps a good and constant customer. The matting man laughed in his face, and told him he would do nothing, that he didn't care for and didn't expect to sell a cus tomer but once. Selling off his old goods to distant customers constituted his profits and this, said our towns man, ''was all the satisfaction I ever got." . We have no doubt this is the way Northern firms work off old goods. Distant customers are at their mercy and can't help themselves. All the favor and advantage are with the Northern men. Every man is entitled to a living in his business and our merchants sell goods as cheap as can be found in the State. When favors are requested of our home merchants they never fail to re spond. Then, it is the part of 'our people to help the merchants, who ex tend the favors. When a subscription is carried round for any charitable purpose, or when help is soueht for the public benefit, our merchants, who are all public spirited and generous, are the first appealed to and never in vain. These are plain facts. ' Our people especially the ladies should ask themselves what they would do were it not for the home merchants. Let us all pull together and help each other. Yes, all very true, and timely talk. Our friend of the Democrat might go a little further in his . reasoning on "Home Helping." The newspaper is supposed to be the index, finger of a town's prosperityand thrift. The ed itor is expected to push the , town; he must puff every enterprise; help every charity; talk to bring trade to the mer chants and watch with eagle eyes ev erything that might prove disadvan tageous to the community. And yet, how many f the very men who are most benefited by the editors increas ing efforts, think of patronizing their home printing office? Ed. Messen ger. v Walking skeleton. Mr. E. Springer, of Mechnnicsburg, Pa., wtitns: ,4I was afflicted with lung fever and abscess on lungs, and reduced to a walking Skeleton. Got a tree trial bottle of Dr King's New Discovery for Consum ption, which did me so much good that I bought a dol'ar bottle. After "using three bottl s. found myself once m re a man, rmrlpt.elv restored . to health, with a hearty appetite, and a gain in flesh of 43 llbs.' Call at Kirby & Robinson's Drug Stor-and get a free trial bottle of this certain cure for all Lung Diseases. Large bottles $1.00. - THE ENGLISH IRISH QUES ! TION. " -' 1 - P L The Situation Stormy, Chaotic and Uncertain. English politics turn on - Ireland. The situation is stormy, chaotic There is no certain data for. any thing. Perhaps J the views of the New .York Times correspondent are as likely -to be correct as any presented. We con dense from a late cablegram. Both the Duke of JVestminister's incoherent outburst and the Review- studied utterance show that the land ed interests of Britain are - prepared to smash the party, and to invoke violence, ven, in their effort to create a Whig revolt big enough to ! crush Mr. Gladstone. , -J' A cloud of rumors, confessedly emanating from Tory sources, mean while impute to tho Government the most sinister intentions in regard to coercion in Ireland. The commonest of these is that Lord Wolseley will be sent over with a dictator's powers to put the whole of the island under martial law. If he went it would not be as Viceroy, which office has been left vacant, but as a sort of Cromwell in the commission of the landlord of Ireland, and their marplot lackeys in Ulster are energetically plowing; the land for this expected harvest of bayo nets. If the Winter does not end in terrible bloodshed it will be no fault of theirs. Meanwhile, with one accord Judges in the West and South of Ireland are signing writs of eviction by,the hundred. There is apparently more destitution than since the awful Win ter of 1879, the tenants having spent the most of their little store of ready money in going into the delusive-land courts and the laborers having ; had no work whatever. Already famine and scenes of violence are beginning to be repeated. Mobs of starving men are breaking up the meetings of the Poor Law Guardians with; de mands for food. Dead bodies are being found at the rcadside waited to the bone. It is at such times as this that a single Judge in Kilkenny issue over 200 writs of eviction in one day. involving the tearing of the roofs from over the heads of at least a thousand human beings and this is a sample of what is going on in 15 counties. Of course this means dis order and excitement, and the killing of landlords and bailiffs. In logical sequence this will also mean an erup tion of virtuous wrath from the well fed English members of Parliament and a vote of wholesale coercion whjtch will be precisely what the landlords want, and here you have an idea of the enlightened English rule which the eccentric and impracticable Celt is foolish enough to rebel against. It is impossible not to blame Mr. Gladstone for something of all this which now threatens the worst and most grievous results to both coun tries. If a month ago he had said frankly what was in his mind, his party would not now be in a position of wavering fright, ready to be stam peded by the bellowing of the Whig oligarchy and the threats of the Ulster Orangemen. He trifled with the situation. Mr. Chamberlain tries in vain to re new public interest in his three acres and a cow scheme. Nobody discusses his speechi There is only one ques tion Ireland and on the partrician side of that question are now arrayed tremendious potentialities, compared with which the opposition to the Fran chise bill was a veritable army of straw men. Even the Queen has been brought bodily and visibly into the ranks. Her belated decision to open the ses sion in person is as clearly a part of the anti-Irish crusade as if she had proclaimed the fact by trumpets and heralds at Chairing Cross. Then the hint is artfully circulated that the Queen intends stopping in London several weeks, receiving more freely than since the death of the Prince Consort, which involves a great accession of popularity to the Crown, an immense profit for many lines of business, a wholesale shower of honors, and a general welding to gether of the rather scattered Court and the landed forces. All this will be done primarily to uphold Lord Salisbury's Ministry, but a scarcely secondary object will be by impress ing the new Liberal members with the idea of any concession to Ireland. It is mournful to have to make a confession that this organized appeal to the flunkyism of England is likely to succeed. If there were fewer social parasites and political demagogues among the Liberals in the House it would not, but one can count almost on one's fingers tho men, like John Morley, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Cowen, whom it is safe to predict will not be overborne by this concerted pressure. THE PRESIDENT'S DIGNIFIED STAND. The committee of Democratic Sena tors appointed by the Senate Demo cratic caucus to wait upon the Presi dent and find out what course he in tends to pursue in case the Republican Senate shall ask his reasons for remov ing certain Republican office holders, were informed by him that he had his duties to perform and the Senate had its; that he had nominated the officers referred to, as was his right, and that the Senate had the right to reject their confirmation; that the Senate was en titled to an inspection of all the papers relating to the nominees, and that nothing should be done to hinder it'in that direction, but that if it should ask for the reasons which had induced him to remove officeholders it would be transcending its duties, and that he would feel compelled to refuse. Unlike other cathartics, Dr; Pierce's Pellets" do not render the bowels costive after operation, but, on the contrary, es tablish a permanently health action. Be ing entirely vegetable, no particular care is required while using them. By druggists. . THE DRUMMER'S TAX. A Few Reflections Upon Commer cial Taxation Generally. Since the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, declar ing the Michigan drummer's tax un constitutional, many inquiries have been received by State Treasurer Bain as to how this decision affects the North Carolina law; to which he replies that it does not apply here from the fact that our law is not dis criminative. We presume that the opinion of Treasurer Bain is correct, but it occurs to us that the very ele ment of our law that makes it conform to the constitution is the one that renders it unjust. For we cannot con cede that it is fair to impose as heavy tax upon the j home merchant, who already pays Several taxes upon the same goods, for the privilege of solicit ing trade within our own borders, as upon the merchant of another State who has no special interest in us or w th us beyond the amount of money he receives from ns. We know that taxes are necessary for the support of the Government and we raise no objection to them in so far as they are necessary for this purpose; and yet it is evident that there is too much tax upon our home merchants. Take the Goldsboro mer chant, for instance: He is required to pay tax upon goods purchased and then a second tax is exacted upon such of these goods as he may have in stock on the 1st day of June, which tax must be paid twice once to the State and county and once to the city; he is also required to pay to the city a tax upon the sale of these goods; and if he con cludes to Rend a representative out to solicit orders,! he must pay a fifth tax, to the State, of $100.00 per annum for the privilege. Can any one doubt that this multiplicity of taxes is burdensome to this class of our citi zens? At the last session of the Legisla ture an effort was made to have the tax on purchases abolished long pe titions from various, sections of the State were presented but all to no avail. We do not accuse our Legis lators of wanton injustice in this mat ter, but the failure to repeal the bur densome tax was due probably to the fact that there was not a sufficient num ber of business men in the Legislature who appreciated, from experience, the extent of this burden. Further steps will probably be taken in the next Legislature for the repeal of the pur chase tax, which we hope will be successful. WHAT IS GOING ON ABROAD The Irish Question An Extreme ly Threatening Aspect of Affairs. The discussion of the question of Home Rule and other concessions to Ireland still continues the chief theme of English politics. The effect of the solid phalanx of Irish Nationalists in Parliament, and the published state ments of what they would demand and what would be granted, has been to lash the English public mind into a state of savage anger, and to excite many manifestations of an ugly tem per. The English newspapers are. filled with letters advocating the making of examples of all the Irish leaders, who are generally described in these com munications as "ringleaders of the re bellion." "The rebellion is not sup ported by funds raised in Ireland, but it is an Irish-American conspiracy," cries out one correspondent. Henry M. Stanley publishes a letter over his own name, in which he ex presses his horror at Parnellism in these words : "Had we of the North listened to the South" as England now listens to the Irish separatists, where would the American Union be? We didn't listen; we fought!" A promi nent Parnellite, answering Stanley, does it thus: "Is it because this Welsh adventurer as a Confederate soldier was taken piisoner of war by Gen. Thos. Francis Meagher that he hates Home Rule and Irishmen?" The violent utterances of the Duke of Westminster, who recently declared that the man who pioposed a single further concession to Ireland was eith er a fool or a traitor, has been follow ed by an article in the Edinburg Re view from the Duke of Argyle, in which he makes a fierce onslaught on Mr. Chamberlain and the Radicals for their position on the Irish question. The London Times in a spirited lead er declares the Irish question must re ceive the immediate attention of the new Parliament, and warns the Con servatives that disaster awaits them if they attempt to shirk it. It adds that it cannot be doubted that they would obtain an immense majority in favor of maintaining the integrity of the empire. The Freeman's Journal in an article on Home Rule says: "It would be idle for the Irish people to disguise from themselves the necessity of calm ly p eparing for a catastrophe. . The concession of our claim for self-government is inevitable if the Irish peo ple cannot be driven by force or will from their present lawful, peaceful, constitutional, but determined atti tude. An English Government before now has, in a similar situation, resort ed to the horrible expedient of delib erately driving our people to despera tion for the purpose of maintaining its rule. In face of the utterances of the English press and of the letters advo cating martial law, which the leading journal of England has not hesitated to publish, in face of rumors every where rife, in face of the threat that Loid Wolseley will be sent over to dragoon the country, in face of the resignation of Lord Carnarvon, and the ground upon which he came to his resolution, and in face of our own knowledge of the utter, want of prin ciple of some members of the Admin istration, we cannot' forbear discuss ing the possibilities the inevitable result wnich would be of a character that no one having the feelings of a human being could contemplate with out horror." The following news and views are compiled from various sources : t Both parties agree that the condi tion of Ireland was nevermore alarm ing than it is at present. Earl Cow per's warning that the country was on the eve of the most formidable strike against rent yet seen is already justi fied. The League has organized com binations among the tenants over a large pait of the country. It under takes to fix a percentage of reductions of rents, and prohibits all payments to landlords who refuse to accept the Lieaguo scale. Judicial rents, held according to enforce payment by legal means, are resisted bv orcanized force. The landlords, on their side, are or ganizing also. The Dufee of Devon shire, Lord Hartington's father, own ing 0U.U00 acres in Ireland, has ac cepted the Presidency of the Irish De fense Union. The most urgent ap peals have reached the Government. Meanwhile, with one accord judges in the West and South of Ireland are signing writs of eviction bv the hun dred. There is apparently more des titution than since the awful winter of 1870, the tenants having spent the most ot tneir little store of ready mon ey in going into the delusive land courts, and the laborers having had no wotk whatever. Already famine and scenes of violence are beginning to be repeated. Mobs of starving men are breakings up the meetings of the poor law guardians with demands for food. Dftad bodies are being found at the roadside wasted to the bone. It is at such times as this that a single judge in Kilkenny issues over 200 writs of eviction in one day, involving the tearing of the roofs from over the heads of at least a thousand hu man beings and this is a sample of what is going on in fifteen counties. Of course this means disorder and ex citement, and the killing of landlords and bailiffs. In logical sequence this will also mean an eruption of virtuous wrath from the well-fed English mem bers of Parliament and a vote of wholesale coercion which will be pre cisely what the landlords want. 1 THE STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. x Meeting ot the State Board of Agriculture. Raleifh News-Observer. This board met again yesterday, all of its members save two being present. Those in attendance were: Gov. Scales, Messrs. K. P. Battle, W. G. Upchurch, W. R. Williams, John Robinson, A. "Leazar, w , F. Green, R. W. Wharton. Burwell Blanton, Azanah Graves and Matt. Moore. The two last named are new members. The board had Wednesday hoard the reports of commissioner McGehee and State chemist Dabney. Yester day morning commissioner Patrick read his report on the work done in the immigration department during the jear. The report was lengthy. Tho committee on the- experimental farm made its report. j A committee, composed of Messrs. W. S. Primrose, W. II. , Dodd, E. R. Stamps, F. O. Moring, G. E. Leach, J. S. Wynne, Oct., Coke, and Rev. F. L. Reid, appeared before the board in regard to the industrial school, and its location at Raleigh. This com mittee, of which Mr. Primrose was the spokesman, made a very liberal proposition: This was in brief, the gift of $5,000 in cash, a lot of an acre iu the city of Raleigh, the exposition buildings entire and twenty acres of land adjoining. The board received a telegram from Kinston, making an offer of $10,000 in cash conditioned upon the establish ment of the industrial school at that point. There was no new proposition from Charlotte, which made one at the De cember meeting. The board went iato executive session yesterday after noon, adjourning at G:30o clock. This morning it meets and expects tojp ceive the full report of its finance committee, which has besn carefully examining the vouchers, &c, of the expenses, &c, of the New Orleans display, and , also of those of the chemical station. It is expected that to-day defi .ite action will be taken upon the matter of the establishment of the industrial school. It was inti mated last evening that it would be established and located here. The committee appointed to make inqui ries in regard to the cost, & ., of the experimental farm submitted the re sults of its investigations. Its report will probably be acted on to day, and it is understood that the farm will be established near this city. A LOBBY FOR $50,000,000. Washington, Jan, 18. The first great lobby for the improvement of Western waterways put in an official appearance to-day. It is an adjourn ed meeting of the conventions held at St. Paul and New Orleans early in the Summer and at which resolutions call ing for an appropriation of $50,000,000 were adopted. These Western dele gates swarmed about the Capitol this afternoon and will be, here some days yet, howling for the old flag and an appropriation. On a pinch they will worry along without the flag. A trood many more are expected and it is de signed to make a forward movement on the treasury all along the line. There are three classes nmong them--one for the lower Mississippi, one for the upper Mississippi and the Missouri and the other for the Heunepin. The more sanguine and enthusiastic are for the whole lump, the Eads job and all. They had a hearing before the River and Harbor Committee to-night. Bo lily pains and accidents will occur not only "in the best regulated fdmillesn but everywhere and at all times v T here fore k ep Salvation Oil convenient. Price twenty-five cents a bottle. - Use Lister's Fertilizers for Wheat. W. S. Farmer. THE 11LAIR 1IILI. How the North Carolina Me in bers Stand. Stff Correspondence of the McescDjrer. Washington, D. C, Jan. 18, 18S0. The Blair bill is beginning to excite attention here. The Southern rrem birs of Congress, especially, are inter ested, and seem disposed to favor the measure without regard to tbe consti tutional doubts some think involved in the measure. I have taken some pain.-i to ascertain two facts the probable fate of the bill and the opin ion of the North Carolina delegation as to the prospect of its passage. 1. The bill is likely, to be reported favorably. It may I e reported with slight amendments. If reported, if will pass after full discusshvn in the House. ' " 2. The North Carolina members nre2 in favor as a whole to the bill, some of them as being satisfied it is the best that can be done. It is Well to give the reasons of those who do not feel easy of the constitutional ques tion. The General Assembly, by nearly a two-third vote, has instructed the Senators and requested the Repre sentatives ,to vote for the measure which passed the Senate in the last' Congress. This Is regarded, in con nection with the voice of the peopler expressed through other, channels, a resolving all except the mo.t serious doubt of power. If the bill shall be amended so as to make it even slight ly more palatable, these doubts will be entirely resolved., As I have said I have good authority for stating the position ot the delegation to be in favor of tho bill. Mr. Johnson per haps expressed the Southern idea when he said this morniug, I would give the pedple the benefit of every doubt, if there be a doubt. Seventy seven million of dollars with which to build up our schools, edueato and make good citizens of the "wards of the nation," and through all this im prove the whole condition of our peo ple, cannot be rejected or fine-spun distinctions " Mr. Henderson said: "I made my campaign in a large : measure, upon the issue, audi have seen nothing to change ray opinion. I do not regard the matter as involving doubt at all. As am original proposition, to levy taxes for the support 6f schools, I would suppose it asj unconstitutional. But the money has been collected under j the regular constitutional owerp of the Government, and un- er the precedent, especially that of '37, in the distribution jf tho surplus to the; States, it can be appropriated for any purpose. .Certainly Calhoun, Jackspn and others are good authori ties. They were strict constitution lsts, as I am. The right seems, per fectly clear to my mind, even with out precedents." .! EQUALIZATION". Of Tax Valuations In North Car olina. - This important subject is now re ceiving the attention it has long de served.: No question is of more in terest to the people than the ouestinn of taxation as it concerns all classes and occupations. The Raleigh Visitor of Thursday states that the committen appointed by the recent legislature for the purpose of considering the ques tion of equalizing the burdens of taxa tion, was in session atrain on Wednes day, and much advancement iwaa made towards securing the purposes in view. The question of a division of the State into taxj districts was un der considerwtion, and the most feasi ble plan appeared to be that of dvid. iug the State into tax districts com posed ot from eight to ten contiguous, counties. A board j for each district is to be appointed consisting of the chairmen ot the boards of commission ers of the counties comprising the several districts. The boards shall elect one of their number chairman ' who shall by virtue thereof, be a mem ber of tbe State board of equalization. the district boards shall equalize tax ation iu their districts, as tar as prac ticable. The plan for railroad taxa tion is to apportion, the rail way track in the several counties through whiclt tho railroad runs, as also tho rolling stock in such counties. The- ennitat stock is to be appointed in the khdio way, and no stockholder is to be re quired to pay any tax on his shares of stock, as the corporation itself is the owner of all its property and rhou'd , pay taxes thereon, jjust as an individ- ual does on his property. The systems-' of Illinois and Kentucky have been tuorougniy examined and appear to; be best suited to rorth Carolina. A. very difficult question, which the board has to come extent considered, is what provision there should be in. reference to the sale of lands for un paid taxes. An examination as to the operation of the present syiste!ra here shows it to be very defective. The loard is also giving special attention to its powers and duties as a board of equalization. BALTIMORE'S ICE BLOCK ADE. Baltimore, January 19. The water approach to Baltimore is still blocked by ice, and up to . noon no vessel of any kind had arrived. It is warmer, however, and tracks will be opened' by the ice boats. ! i " ' - i Choice Southern Dishes. South ern pe iple used to bo famous for hos- 1 pitanty and excellent cookery, Miss iiuciaiuo a. iroiuu uas JUM UegUIl I series ot articles in The Houukeever which are to embody all the choice- ' recipes treasured tor several penera-- 1 tions of an old Virginia family. Any- i taay wno would nice to see the num- l v. it- a . T iwi wuimuiug me ur&i ui mis series will receive one free by sendintr a postal card to Buckeye Pub. j Gd. J minneapous, Aiinn. 7 t ( v ' 'v r It. i V .0 lA
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Jan. 25, 1886, edition 1
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