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J. A. BONITZ, Editor and Proprietor. "For us' Principle is Principle-Right is Right-Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow, Forever." Published Semi-Weekly $3.00 a Year VOL. XXII. GOLDSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1886. NO. 30. FEDERAL. AID TO EDUCA- TION. What a Northern Republican Paper Thinks oi It. STew York Evening Post. The revelations of illiteracy in the South made by the last national cen isus produced a profound impression I upon the country. Government in the United States is wielded by millions of voters, and the success of such a sys tem obviously depends upon the intel ligence of these voters. Every ignor ant ballot is. a threat to the commun ity, and government by suffrage, where a majority of those who enjoy the suffrage cannot read the ballots which they, cast, violates the very the ory upon which our -whole system is based. Yet it is shown in io&u that in a number of Southern States nearly or nuite halt' of the voters were illiterate. About three-ifths of South Carolina's population are negroes, and 78 per cent, ot the male negroes were unable to write their own names, while 1G per bent, of the male whites were as badly off, making 52 per cent, of the whole number of s both races. Mississippi, with nearly as large a proportion of .negroes, was in almost as alarming condition, i(') per cent, ot her male ne groes and nearly 12 per cent, of ker male whites being unable to write, or about 47 per cent, of all her voters. Louisiana's population is almost equally divided between the two races; of her negro voters 80 per cent, and of her white voters 15 per pent., being 47 per cent, of all of both colors, were illiterate. In Alabama the proportion reached 40 per cent., and in Georgia 45, while there was not a single State of the States in the "black belt" where the ratio of ignorant voters was not so large as to justify most serious ap prehensions. Of course such a state of'things could not continue perma nently without grave danger to the Republic. j As they emerged from the destitu tution in which they were left by the war; and the only less disheartening period of corrupt carpet-bag rule, and consequent race hostility, the South ern States began to develop a public school system. But the States were sitill poor, the mass of ignorance was Vast, and progress was slow. It was plausibly urgejl that the exigency was sl pressing that outside assistance must be furnished, and that the Fed eral Government ought to come to the rescue of the South. The assertion that such action would be unconstitu tional was to be met by allowing all the States to share in the appropria tions, while the expenditure of, the largest share in the South was to be injured by making the amount allow ed eaeli State defend upon the num ber of illiterates. Theso arguments pfovjed effectual to secure the passage by the Senate in the Forty-eighth Congress of . what is known as the Blair bill; proposing to appropriate ofer. $100,009,000 during a period of ten years for distribution among the SjaJes upon this basis. The bill went 'through the upper branch by a vote of ': to 1, 20 Republicans and 13 Dem ri.jr.its supporting the measure and 9 Democrats and 2 Republicans oppos ing it; but it was never taken up m "the House, and lapsed with the end of the session. Senator Blair has reintroduced the bill, and another strong effort will be niade to secure its enactment in the present Congress. The majority in its favor was so strong in the last Senate that there is little question of its pass ing the upper branch again, and its friends profess confidence that a ma i ritv can be secured for it in the House. Not only for its immediate consequences, out also, and much more, for its far-reaching bearing upon the relations of the Governmen to the mares, ue proposition is per haps the most Important which will come before the 'present Congress. The plea in fajjvor of the bib, as we have said, is plausible, but we believe that it is fallaciohs, because it takes a short-sighted view of the future, llli terney is a bad thing for a comnTcrfiity, but it is not tne worst tning. it is important for the South that its pres eni ignorance should be dispelled as soon as possible, but that is not the most important thing for the South The vital element of any success that 1-. Worth achieving in this world is self reliance. .The man who works his own iway to an education may not acquire it as soon or get as good an education as one who receives it at the hands of charity, b-ut it will be worth a great deal more to him, and he will be worth a ureat deal more to the community. The; same principle holds as true for the State as for the individual. The American colonies developed into in finitely stronger commonwealths by reason of having to make their own .way! in the world than they ever could havli become by the most fostering care of the mother country. ; Wfhat was true a hundred years ago is true to-day. Illiteracy in the South is a terriole evil and its removal will le a vast work. The burden must be ai'hejavy on-f7ir the South to bear, and h would be temporarily a greatSrehef to unload a share of it upon thebrojid should rs o& the general Government, bit the edumtion of its coming voters is the Hrstluty of an American com monwealth. It is not the business of She general Government, and nothing oulil be more demoralizing to a State hau the. assumption of its own duty In .whole or in part, by the authorities at vVashint n. Undoubtedly more Sourjhern voters will be a. le to read ten years hence if the Federal Govern ment expends $100 000.000 upon South ern schools, but the South can much better afford to have fewer intelligent voters ten years hence than to have purchased that education at the ex pense of its own self-reliance and self respect. lhe truth is that the Southern ftf...,. i i . "la,PS aitsaireauy provintr Their catiac- i uir V KraPP,e Wlth. thls Problem alone. I Take tor example South f!rftlina which wasn the most desperate con- uition. In 1874, under carpet-bag rule, they were only 110,416 pupils in 1 1.1!. . .1 1 T - -- a . i t ner puonc scnoois. in 1054 tnemem ber had, increased to 185,619. In Mis sissippi me numoer ot pupils rose from 166,204 in 1876, to 266,996 in 188J. In r lorida ten years increased the annual, roll or scholars from 20, 911, to 58,311. There is not a State where the gain has not been most errat lfying. In most common-wealths the percentage of children of school age who attend school already approaches tnat m the JNorth being, for instance, 65 per cent, in South Carolina and 68 per cent, in Maine and the defects of the educational system are that the teachers are not so good arid the terms not so long. But these defects can be rbu7u :r-J ".rZ uvciuumc vy luv growing prosperity o the South, which wilfeUfe i btates to raise more monev tor the schools. It must be remembered that the South has but just begun to rea lize the possibilities of her future un der freedom. Every year will find her able to do more for education than the year before. At first the whites had to bear the expense of teaching both races, put alreadv in GenrmM. tViA Dut aireaav in Georgia blacks pay into the Treasury most of . cj what is spent upon colored schools Northern philanthropy may Avell contribute to the work of education in the South; the more Peabody and Sla ter funds, the better. But let not the nation make the fatal mistake of teach ing the bouth to depend unan tho. Federal Government for the mainten ance ot its schools, and thus to lose that quality ot self reliance which n6 amount ot education to short order can make up for. : The best friends of the bouth are those Southerners who recoernize the fnllv of this eVvH--cio-r.f ed policy. The Noth feels crenerouslv toward the South; it is in danger of yielding hastily to its first impulse in this matter. The most effective onno- sition can be made by Southern men who base their opposition unon the ngnt ground, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. lteport ot tlie Expenditures by the Agricultural Department. The Finance Committee of the Board of Agriculture presented the following report : To the Board of Agriculture : T 1 j . . . ' j-uo uuuerMtmea committee on hnance beg leave to submit the follow ing report. They met the 19th of Jan uary, 1886, and have eriven most nains- A 1 . . . . " . iaKing aitennon to every expenditure and disbursement of the dena.rtmfTit ior tne past hscal year, from Decem ber 1, 1884, to November 20, 1885. and find pleasure in renortine- that- th vouchers presented by your officer: and employes correspond exactly and fully with the entries on the books of the State Treasurer, and that the vouchers and accounts itemized show that the money has been properly ex penaea with some small exceptions, amounting in the aggregate to less than five dollars. " Your committee have given many nours stuay to the expenditures in con nection with the New Orleans Exposi tion, lhese expenditures ere made partly by the Commissioner of Agn- cunure nere ana partly by the Com- l. i. -l ... .. uussioLiei in coarse ar !ew uneans. oitliot ilr I Iq hrtoir rv Mi. X T XX7l w v.. . Mm ,u. stu. a our commiuee nnas aounaant eviueuce in ine accounts renaered ot hjc tieai uimcuiiy as well as reSDOnSl- bihty of the work performed by the Lommissioner in charge at .New Or- jeajs. j.uey are aoie ro say to vou that the money appropriated by the uepartment was not only disbursed properly and so accounted for by these gentlemen, but that the money was paia out tor proper purposes. In regard to the expenditures by commissioner lucliehee, the commit tne hnds that the organization of the exposition working force was judic ious, with the exception ot the em 1 n . pioyment ot one agent tor some two months at New Orleans, in disregard of the rule adopted bv the board. In regard to the expenditures by Dr Uabney while m charge at New Or leans, the committee finds that he ex pended the money in hand with judg ment and care, providing, in econo mizing the expenses of living, a mess house for the accomodation of our agents there, and charging the depart ment with no expenses strictly per sonal to himself. Dr. Dabnev's naners were so well kept as to make their ex amination a very easy task and thev show that he is square to a cent with the department and the State for his exposition work. In regard to the expenditures by P. M. Wilson while commissionei in charge at New Orleans, the committee find that he exercised good ludgment aud skill in the management of a very difficult and complicated business and that he has accounted for every cent that he received from all sources for the Exposition. This committee finds satisfactory evidence in the study of the details ot this Lxpositiou work ithat the allowance addifional to Mr. Wilson's salary, made by the Board, for extra and responsible service in onnection with the Exposition, was entirely wise and just. In regard to the regular expendi ures of the several sub-departments, your committee- hnd that they have een within ihe appropriations allow ed by the Board and in the main weie ut and proper. Your committee submits that the Board should restrict the employment !t extra clerical help m the sub-de partments of the Commissioner and State Chemist. i W . G. Upchurch, Jno. Robinson, A Leazar. Turn the Vagrants Out! The wenk stomach is said to be the odging-house of many vagrant diseases. These can be turned out by strengthening the stomach, and the digestive organs in partner partnership. There is no strengthener T-..ro T-,. Ti;ttQTa Soft, onnnH,, and sure. Mrs. Henrv Corning Hartford. PFAnrrioT!.An T?moi-a i-ai.v me of "general weakness and dyspepsia, and made me strong." AUTOCRAT MANY. Jr It- An Insolent Speech by liismarck in the Reichstag. Berlin, January 28. Prince Bis- marck to-dav, in a debate in the Prussian Landtag on the expulsion of the roles from Germany, made a re markable speech, occupying two hours in its delivery. lie said that the primary cause of tne Government's action was the dis loyalty of the Poles to the German Crown. They were, he said, constant ly engaged in intrigues against the Government and had made themselves a steadv annovance to PrnSi Rv THE I " " v ArJ I siroKe or Daralvsis. and would hp lJbll?ry to reZnZV&T position m the German Parliament, they effected a majority against the Government, and the Crown could do nothing less than either deny the de mands of such majority or else de stroy the evil element which made the majority possible. Polish agitation in r i -i i , . Gerraanv Bismarck said, had always appeared to him an element of danger and had comDelled him to keen rlns I watch upon Kussia. The Poles had been constantly and not always un successfully endeavoringto set foreign states against Prussia. "Hence,7' continued the Chancellor. "We have determined to buy out all the real estate offered, by Polish nobles in Prussian Poland and place German colonists on the lands hitherto occu- J V. 4.1 - 1 1 J 1 . -r pteu uy me expeiieu people." in or der to make the colonization insure permanently to the benefit of the em- out? iue coionisis win oe DrohiDited c i- i m. . from marrying Poles. The cost of the dr milUai-o i o v-n ikTv ccc no : .rrT,TT y r--"..; but the " 1,1 "V wuiv l U till ten per cent, of this, a loss made ne cessary by the exigencies of the case. buying out an alien class and reselling I . U.l XL . ., i" vjcimfius, wuue me gain to tne em pire will be immeasurable. The Gov ernment," spoke out the Chancellor with great animation, " will never con cede the restoration of Poland nor a hair's breadth in that direction. The Poles played a suspicious part in the Kulturkampf. Whosoever refuses to help protect and maintain the State is not entitled to claim anything from the State. As for me I am ready to save my country although it cost me my head and honor. If anybodT dares to attack rrussia's frontiers I shall say, like Gladstone, 'Hands off.'" Keterring to the insinuation that the Government's religious prejudices had great influence in its treatment of the Poles, Bismarck said : "Religion is in no wise connected with the ex pulsion. As a pohev of kindness had failed it became necessarv to reduce the rolish element in Germany and increase the German element. This is the real reason for the expulsions, and the Government has determined to persist in this work despite the Op position of the Reichstag, and in con elusion I will say that, before allowing the fatherland to be endangered. T would counsel the Emperor to make the r ederal Government independent of obstructionist tactics in the Reich stag so- tar as the constitution and laws of Germany would permit for I would hold any minister to be a cow nrri hr eimnM iiac;tdtQ ,t,u .lit . . . , . . J tning to save his fatherland from dano-pr " Th a ChannU cnaanU ;a ti, p in;) tnrin r,f nFortmr, i tl, ltal to-nigiit. It is generally conceded that the sneeeh is ennallv nanahl i.f being interpreted to foreshadow either a dissolution of the Keichstaer or a coup d'etat. The occasion of the speech was the discussion of a resolution introduced on Saturday last expressing satisfac tion at a passage in the speech from the Throne promising measures for the protection of German interests in east Prussia. Herr Achenbach moved that the resolution be adopted and the motion was supported by Herr Weser. Dr. Windthorst opposed the motion. After Bismarck's speech the discus- sion was adjourned until to-morrow. VICTORIA'S VIEWS. A New Ministry or New Elec- tion Imperative. London, January 28. The Boston Globe's representative has cabled to night as follows: Lord Salisbury is at the Osborne house this evening conferring with her Majesty. It is be lieved that the question of issuing royal writs for a new election will be considered in this conference. If her Majesty is convinced that a fresh ap peal to the people will result in an increase of the conservative strength, there is no doubt that she will take this step rather than perform the hate ful ceremony of sending for Mr. Glad stone and asking him to form a minis try. Her repugnance to Mr. Glad stone, which at first was hardly more than a part of her instinctive dislike for liberal people and principles seems in late years to have strength ened into personal dislike, for the man who is associated in her thought and feelings with the defeat which clouded the last days of her favorite statesman au almost idolized friend. Disraeli, to whose political audacity she owes her title of India; but if she is advised by Lorn Salisbury thai in an election following so close upon the defeat of the conservatives the moral effect of that defeat will favor the liberals, it is thousrht likely that she will yield to the iuevitable and summon Mr. Gladstone. It is hardly possible that any other man amoncr the liberals would consent to under take the formation of a government even if asked to do so by the ' Queen. The tormer occasion some years airo, yed the when Lord Hartington essa tasK, diner in many respects rrom tne present one. Certain measures chm- pioned by Mr. Gladstone had then been discredited, and there was at least the shadow of an excuse for 1 1 A . a n m 1 ignoring his natural claims to leader ship. , But he is now in the position of having just led a victorious move ment and though, the .Queen may allow nersonal ffihnes to inflnonna her, and summon another statesman it will be a remarkable thing if the one called upon will venture to so far aisregard precedent and traditional courtesy as to attempt to lead the 1iVtTll trAT.4OT .tC1 C 4- r. aV 1 J 3 i,;p-" :Z "C" ' I W. 1. Cm J. HO. I 1 V H t & LI 1 1 VV I PI i IrO f RECEIPTS OF THEATRICAL STARS. Philadelphia Times. Late this afternoon I found myself in a group of prominent theatrical managers. Mr. W. H. Rayden, who manages lom Keene, told me that I rapiuiy geuiug- oyer ms his star was ii i March. Next to Rayden sat Marcus Meyer. Mr. Abbey's representative, who has travelled with all the leading attractions this manager has controll ed. He and Al Havman, who man ages Baldwin's Theatre in San Fran cisco, but who is spending most of his time here, got to comparing notes about the average business of the great actors who have appeared in this country in the past few years. Hayman started the gossip by saying that Mapleson's Opera "Company, with Patti and Gerster as stars, sang in San Francisco to $160,000 in eigh teen performances, or an average of $9 000 a performance, Mayer said, considering the expenses, he could beat that. "Christine Nilson," said he, "sang, in San Francisco to $27.- 440 in four concerts, on an average of $7,000 a performance. Patty, during u .,." -rr ' r; I uci lit. -i eu isii u eiueui Willi Ull. AhtlPV saT1 tn omoMm. irrrJ?: utus s xusuiuie, over on the Back Bay. That engagement in Knetnn an. 1t next one in Philadel phia brought Mr. Abbey out ahead of a $20,000 loss when he put her into opera, bpf-aking of big receipts," said Mr. Maver. "Mrs. Lan&rtrv hr first season under Mr. Abbey, played to $239,000 in twenty-six weeks, seven performances a week. Bernhadt dre w into Mr. Abbey's box office $396,000 in twenty-five weeks, playing;six .time a weeK. rattl in the enn-an-dmpnt flrct referred to, in twenty-two- concert and twelve operas, drew ! $226,000. Neiftnn in fiftv-eiyht con eer t-s lrmi $208,500. Edwin Booth played to $280,000 ia twentv eisrht weeks, at $1.50 a seat. Henrv Irvin olaved to $'305,000 in twenty-seven weeks" Th ese are. the larerest receipts ever known in this country. These figures amaze one not accustomed ta. dpal with theatrical matters. Think of six . stars, with an averaereVork of twenty-six weeks, in one season earn ing $1,781,500. BOYCOTTING THli MAI -LORYS. iiie Labor Troubles iri flalvos- ton, Texas, Break Out Afresh. Galveston, Jan. 28. The executive committee of the Knights of Labor District No. 78, which comprises the entire btate ot lexas, issued an order today again boycotting the Mallory oieamsnip company. This action re vives the disastrous labor difficulties )f last November, which beeran in the boycott ot tne Alallory line. I he dimculty originally arose from the substitution of colored for whit longshoremen on the 3Iallory wharf nere, because the white loncrshoremen demanded an increase of wasres and struck. The November boycott re sulted in very heavy loss to the busi ness interests ot Galveston, and was hnally settled by arbitration. Lhe agreement set forth that. "Whenever Capt. Sawyer, agent for the Mallorys, needs labor in addition 4- 4-K c ii .i - i" ujc uumuer oi men on rons mis day, he give preference to men who were at work on the wharf at the time of the strike." The Knights in their boycott decree f to-day declare that as the'Mallory through Sawyer, have refused to com ply with the plain requirements of this agreement, they therefore "de clare a boycott asrainst said Mallorv Company, and do order and recom mend that no freight nor other matter be handled by members of this order coming from or going to the said Mal lory line." Local assemblies are requested to discourage members from patronizing any oue who receives or ships freight by the Mallory line. The boycott has caused great surprise. Its effects have not yet been felt by the railroad com panies. The difficulties in the way of arbitration seem far greater than in November, and a prolonged struggle with the trreat carrying companies of Texas is apparently opened. WESTERN WEATHER. Nine Persons Frozen to Death Indian Territory. in Fort Smith, Ark., January 28. From a man who arrived here to-day from Sans Bois, Choctaw Nation, it is learned that January 8 two families of i overs, consisting of nine persons, were caught in the blizzard of that date in a vmst prairie about 20 miles from Sans Bois and were all frozen to death, together with their teams, con sisting ot tour horses, lhey were! j traveling in the direction of Muscogee. 1 Nothing was found in their effeets to tell who they were or from whence they came. They were found on the 9th all frozen stiff in their wagons and their teams trozen in harness. The locality being remote from tele graph lines the news of their terrible fate seems to have been confined to the immediate neighborhood where they met tbeir dea,h' Functional derang ment of the female sygtem js quickly cured by the ue of Dr. K. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription." It removes the pain and restores health and strength. By all druggists. A full and beautiful line of Colors in Embroidery Silks. tuool Silk and Twist, I-. .. . . a Mro V. W Mnrr'o t 3 "FOK MEN ONLY." How Sam Jones Waked Up tbe Cinciiinatians Last Sunday. Last Sunday afternoon Sam Jones spoke to 5;000 men in Cincinnati. His sermon was one of great power, and when he finished nearly er man in the house stood up to be i rav ed for. 'V Among other things the evangelist said: We shall take the ten command ments as a basis, largely, of the pres ent discussion. I don't are whether you say God or Moses or Hume, the historian, wrote them, the citizen or this country who does not live up to the level of the ten commandmei t deserves to be in the penitentiary. (Applause. There cac be no sia-h thing as sate political movements or social reform that is not bottomed on the ten commandments. ; Of all the Sabbath-breaking towns in America, let me give them to you in their order; San Francisco, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco first, then New Orleans, the very cess-pool of hell itself, and next comes ' Cincinnati. With your theatres and bar-rooms and other places of amusement turned loose and your base-ball upon the Sabbath you may put the red flag down yonder on the Cincinnati South ern track, and when that engineer comes thundering around The curve ana ne sees rat rea nag two hundred 11 ,i , rr . . . I jrrtius on, ne win reverse uie engine tT.tM.l.. 1 n - . II 1 " aim out on wvery ounce or steam pres sure, and he will burst that boiler into ten thousand pieces before he will run up within one hundred feet of that red flag. That red flag means death ind destruction to me and all the passengers on that train, and I tell vou all when you come sweeping arounuiue curve or ftaODath desecra- 1a1 n-fi. .. - c iiou. ana lusreaa or Your citv tmwm- 1 a 1 i. the law they uphold r.he law-rirpalrprs I toll tmn n-li. - . . . . . . V V 1 . I t III 11 . I tell vou when luo """Kt iwMus names or your courthouse lit up the k,es, God ran llll lilt! If 11 HI I'M II fll ii liu t n . ii .- i , ,, . v iiuii. .. aurau ui yuu. i ten vou renow citizens, you wi ucvci tuuu UU f IIJLUeill ill I S "V l"c J"'" oi me law is upheld and every violator of the law . I i 1 i 1 " i peuaiiv. iei nimneaimno u-.t .i r-1 1 u 1 ! , m Porest applause. W1U,6UC1 iU Lreuieuuouis T- T- T- -A . I A - r? T nT-vii -k-vMnn C- 1 . i. produce them in Atlanta next Sab- vjv u & tvruai t ii. v vl LI will rp- i oatu, me wnoie concern will sleen in jau that night. In Ueorgia! In Gecr- gia we have a God and a Sabbath, and thev are as sacred to us as nnr wives and our children, f Great an- - piause.j 1 T 1 - You may call me narrow and call X? 1 I a. 1 .1 mi me luoi, uui near me io aay: he day is coming in your history an.i mine vwieu you win sianu up iiKe a man and say: ''Jones, you are right. lou are right.77 bam Small, talkiner about one ot the clubs in this eitvlLe Fevre. McComas. and f!nnnn that he had been in when he was here before for he was a club man when he was here before, but Sam is doiner right, and you can't get him within a h o nan mue or ine ciuo now. Well, oam saia io me: "iuy lather gave me a tatal stroke when he crave me jjiuu worm or siock in a club in the ti 1 Al l . t . 1 11..mlv ' ' city ot JNew Orleans. My father pre- sented me with stock amounting to tiUU, in the cluo 1 learned to dissipate, and 1 was ruined, aud I scarcely ever could have been recovered but by the grace ot uod." lhe difference be- t ween a clubjind a bar-room: Bar- rooms are for vagabondish drunkards, ana duos are nust a little re just a little behind They will soon make vagabonds enough out ot them. Mr. Jones here read a lengthy pass- ere rrom tne seventh chapter ot the book of i rove bs, and said: "Oh my congregatn.n, this world ot licentious- uess all around us. A man in a cer- fain town said to me, 'Mr. Jones there is not a pure boy left in our citv.' 1 said to him: 'Sir, it one-half of our society is corrupt, oh, when will the ndalwaveof licentiousness begin to sweep over ine oruer nair or society, a 1 i I t n . I Oh, if our boys are all impure, then when will this wild beast crush our laughters' virtue, and our mothers be no longer pure!' God, let ray sweet hildren with their precious mother sleep in pure erraves before sucL a wave ever comes to the United States of America." Applause. ADVERTISING NUGGETS. Don't expect an advertisement to bear fruit in one night. Breail is the stff f human life, and advertising is the sraff of business. You can't eat enough in a week to - v v. ........ w -'-- i ast a year, and .vou can t advertise on hat plan either. A thing worth. doing is worth doing well. A thinir worth advertising is worth advertising well. The enterprising advertiser proves that he understands how to buy, be- cause in advertising he knows how to People who advertise only once in three months forget that most folks cannot remember anvthiug longer than about seven days. A eon-ta'it dropping will wear a rock. Keep dropping your advertise ments on the public and they will soon melt under it like lock salt. Quitting adverti-ing in dull times is like tearing out a dam because the water isiw. Either plan will prevent good tunes troru coining. 11 toucan arouse eur.osny oy an advertisement, it is a great point gained. The 'fair sex doa't hold all j V a . the uriosity in the world. t do business without ad vertising is like winking at a pretty . e 1 .r. . ... un a pair 01 greep goggles. Y.u mav know what you are doing, bu -bodv else does. 1 Ti. 1 ii.i . ins mistitivcii uuuoii mni inne1 st .ie .n an eligiole location, surround- ed by attracti ve signs, is a suDerior advertisement; for the experience of , - ' , uilirartlcomant - fnir tlia C most enterprising merchants is, that it pays better to spend less in rent and more on advertising. Enterprisicg people are beginning to learn the value of advertising the year round. The persistency of those who are not intimidated by the cry of "dull times," but keep their names ever befor the public, w 11 surely nlace them on the right side in the end: A man's sign offers a mute inven tion to those only who pass his place of business; his circular can only reach those to whom personal atten tion is given: but his announcement in a newspapergoes into the highways and byways, finding customers and ompelling them to consider his argu ments. A COLO GRAVE. Ten Lives Lost in the Colorado Mountains. Dknver, Jan. 20. A special frokn Aspen says : &now has been fallni continuously for three days, and co V- ers tee ground to a depth of almokt three feet. This afternoon, as the 4 o'clock shift was waiting to go on, at the Aspen mine, the men heard a noise, and looking up saw a snow slide coming down Aspen mountain. They made a rush for the dump and got under it, thus saving their lives. The slide struck the shaft and engine houses, completely demolishincr them. ter. The engine and boiler WPr nun imiiug nuuu .n,ose, mine carpen- I. - - . " " "-WW vdaman-ed. Thppnmnr -oo i,.,M under the boiler, which was bm-ied under ten feet of snow. He was after ward recovered alive. John Leonard, one of the owners of the Conomara mine, and several other men, were near the shaft house, but escaped with only a few bruises. At 5 o'clock the fire bell announced the occurrence of hmother slidp. thitim t vTo;.. 1 - . V- 1 1 IbilluUlUIJ t : i i .i . t .T rlrilTUVC Tmrifll lni vmln,. 1 1 i i . . - ., n haA Gf snow, near the Acquisition mine Seven men who started from In here .1 L.,oi?, iu iciuni piuuli, nave IP Jf iiir 'ifirnjri wi f 4...Hn . . . . . . I . . not since been heard from, it s sun nnswHImt Hmirnn thin c wlo r-r.A 1, .... 1 m te pass since thev strt1 TUru was another slide ,Ur rmn .ni,l I . .. - - --... y' n All the avalanches followed in the track of th on tliro too o.. killed five men at the Kalleio mine. COMMIT- IxbfiiS. The fo lowing is a ht nf tliA nK committees of the Senate and House committees on aDDroDriations on the remikr annronrijitinn Killa fnr l O r r a t J X a, 11J V fiscal year 1887 Lrt'V!TUa,te Messrs. Allison, Dawes and Cock rell; House Messrs. Holman, Town shend, Cabell, Cannon and Butter worth. Sundry civil: Senate Alii sou, Hale, and Be.k; House Randall. foruey, Burnes, Rvan, and Lontr Deficiency: Senate Hale. Allison and Cockrell; House Burnes. Adams. District of Columbia: Senate Plumb, Dawes, aud Cockrell; House Wilson, Adam, Le Fevre. Henderson, and ' Ryan. Fortification Senate Dawes. L.ogan ana liorman; House Forney. Kandall, llollman, liutterwoith and It van. Pensions Senate Locran. Dawes and Uorman; House Town sbend, Cabell, Wilson, Long and Henderson. Agricultural Senate Alahonc, Plumb and Call: House Hatch, Green, Winans, White and Price. Army Senate Logan, Plumb and Gorman: House Bragg, Viele and Steel. Consular and Dinlomatie. Senate Allison, Hale and Beck: House Committee on foreicrn affairs. H. R. Indian Senate Dawes, Plumb and Gall; House Wellborne. Peel. Skinner, Nelson and Perkins. Military Academy -Senate Locan. Mahore and Call; House Wheeler, Ermen- trout and Neglev. Navy Senate ILde, Logan and B-ck; House Com mittee on naval affairs. Post Office Senate Plumb. Mahone and Beck: House Blount, Kiggs, Taylor. Bing- ham and Wakefield. River and Har- bor Senate Committee on com TT merce; nouse committee on rivers and harbors. The italics indicate North Carolina members. AN 'RNOr.TSIT fl A RTNRT (TRTRTR Resign The Salisbury Ministry After Defeat. London, January 27. Lord Salis- bury had an interview with Mr. Wm. Henry Smith, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland this morning, that gentle- man having just returned from Dub- tin irliarA itqc crnrn in x'ioil i t I . " " " o.TVf in iiou luoi , Subsequently a meeting of the Minis- ters was held, and then a Cabinet Council, at which a decision was reached that members of the Cabinet should at once proceed to Usborne and tender their resignations to the Queen, The crisis excites but little intetest. Everything is quiet and the only no- ticeable effect is a slight weakening iu the market. THE MUDDLE IN OHIO. Washington, January 20. The Ohio Democratic Congressmen at a conference last night, prepared and sent a telegram to John O'Neil, presi dent pro tern, of the State Senate at Columbus, declaring that after consul tation among themselves and with the best informed parliamentarians it was their unanimous opLion that the rul ings and acts of the president of the 0no Senate are revolutionary and a .rnat:nn ne i J . V : fffi1 ffi S?. ?.ot to be submitted to. Nearly all of the Democratic members of the Ohio State Senate have telegraphed Congressmen that they intend to resist to the last 1 W tfilTVt t WVt ItA iltnn 1 " .a. 'rti rr VtZ"T;"V ur&TOllT&ry . action ot the Lieutenant Governor. - Large Assortment of Ne M lr R18Sian Circulars Walkine Jackets &nd c nata -rVtK' : . Prices. v "oi nuivu nc aio Oilrrinir aL lAlvV t - . . i TT J. Metzger & Son. THE 31 EN HAD EN I N I USTItY An important : ami Successful Enterprise. Cor. Kalelfrh 8tte Chronicle.) Kixstos. N. C, Jan. iv-The Men haden Industry of Carteret county is perhaps as liltle known and under stood as ay great industry in our State. It is familiar to many that a certain member of the Legislature, some years ago, seriously objected t any legislation in favor of the fishing interest of the State. "For," said he "they are catching shad-yes, shad and making manure of them." That man was wise, like a great many other men aie, and talked by sound. For he, like others, had no doubt heard these fish called, as they are ollen. shad or more familiarly, fat backs, and he took them to be the veritable white shad. They are unliko any oth er fish. They are of the same genu with the shad and resemble the white shad in shape and live like they do by suction. Its length is from 8 to 11 inches. The color of the upper partn is greenish brown, the lower is silvery and a black spot on the shoulders- iho whole surface iridescent. This des cribes a fish not very palatable and i valuable only for .oil and manure as: one fish is considered equal to one shovelful of barn-yard manure, and the oil is regarded by many as superior to linseed oil for painting'purposes. It is not knowii where they spawn certainly not in fresh water, but some where in the ocean it may bo off the Gulf of Mexico. At least they start north in early spring and follow the. coast as far up as New York State, and, perhaps further, and then thev return in the fall. They are poor anil without oil in the spring, but very fat in the fall. They will perhaps yield upon an average 0 gallons per 1,000 of good rich oil. FACTORIES. ' Within three miles of Beaufort is located Charles P. Dey & Bro.'s largo aud well equipped factory. It is unlike any other factory you ever saw. " A large house containing tanks through, which steam pipes go and into which the fish are placed cooked by steam and then put into a hydraulic press." This process separates the oil from the fish the oil passing through other pines into another department and the fish is placed into a well constructed railway car and carried some distance to a large platform to dry for tcrap. They havo invested in buildings, ma chinery, steamers and boats of all des criptions, over ($25,000) twenty-five thousand dollars, and have capacity of working over ten million fish an nually. Near by is the-large and c. m modious factory of Chadwish, Jones X' Cr Tf line .nnnnll.tk . . " by this firm and they are enlanrinirits capacity for manipulating fish. These two factories alone employ between fifty and a hundred men. A little higher up the river is the factory of Howland Bros. Then there are two or three more smaller factories in the county. The whole industry in one way or another employs over three hundred men, and pays out annually to thH laboring class over ($50,000) fifty thousand dollars. There are from fifteen to twenty sail vessels and ono steamer employed in the business. You can very easily see how an indus try of this kind tends to build up the county and make the waste places bloom and blossom as the rose. . Those who visit Beaufort and Car teret county, especially that part that stretches along the sound, and look chiefly at the soil for wealth and sus tenance go away with the impression of poverty and want, forgetting tlmt her resources ot iood and plentvfaro in the water that wash her shores WHEN AND HOW THE FISH ARE CAUGHT. Chiefly at sea, rantrintr all alonJ tho coast from Bogue Inlet to Cape Look out; from a quarter of a mile from shore to three miles at sea. Vessels varying in carrying capacity from ;,000 to 200,000 fish, sail up and down the coast in search of the fish. The hey fish always go in schools that is the do and can be seen on the surface of the water at some distance. Theso large vessels carry with them two small row boats containing a purse net. One boat takes one end of,the net and the other boat the other end and they row around the school of fish. dropping off the net as thev go and literally surround the fish. Bvmeans oi a rope auacuea io me bottom of the net, the fish are pressed up and then dipped out with small nets into th large vessel. A steamer with acarrv- ing capacity of 200,000 is often hmdd at one haul, just the way I have des- cribed. The oil obtained from these fish is- used for tannintr purposes and also in rnii TJin r I.. ...... .1 ;H I . . i uuii. luu nti ju in u.cu iu ilih mnn- u factory of fertilizers. Its value for such purposes consists in the larim amount of ammonia it contains A sample recently sent -Dr. Dabney by IJev liros.. contained nitrnrror, ..,-1 to ammonia 13.78 percent., and nhn- phoric acid 4.00. This fish srap can be nnrplmkn,! from the factories fr about $25 00 per i vu, auu cnu ue manutactured by any farmer so as to give him a better and cheaper fertilizer than he buys from abroad. But there is nothing like getting shoes from Boston and meat from Chicago. N. M. J. A cold of unusual severity which I took last autumn developed into a difficulty decidedly catarrhal in all its character istics, threatening a return of my old chronic malady, catarrh One bottle of Ely's Cream IUlm completely eradicated every tymptom of that rainful; and pre- -vailing disorder E. W. Warner, 105 Hudson St., Iioceester, N, Y. I ly 8 Crean Balm is the be t medicine for Catarrh I have ever used. -Mrs. O. Wood, Mexia, Texas. Great addition to the Crockery and Glass Ware department, at t M. E. Cabtex & Co's. I Picture Frames of all kinda, sold cheap . at Fuchtler & Kern's. Motto Frame 5 cent. t 1 r 1 I 4
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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