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Established 1867. For us, Principle is Principle Right is Right Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow, Forever." Published Semi-Weekly $3.00 Year VOL. XXII. - GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1886. NO. 63. THE ADMINISTRATION. North Carolinians at the Nation al Capital. What They Say of the Popular Judgment on the Ad- ministration. i Staff Correspondence of the Messenger. Washington, May 22. Visitors from North Carolina speak of the pop ular dissatisfaction with! the long re tention of Republican officials m the States and at Washington. They are not agreed in their testimony as to what the people actually say. But there is a concurrence in statement upon the general fact that a majority of those who express themselves lame somebody for the non-removal of the chiefs and of the Republican em ployees in the collectors and marshals' officers. Some of ; these visitors take about the position, that Gen. Cox does: they sustain the President and hope for purification of the servicer by mea$s of gradual changes. They would be pleased1 to see more removals now and many more shortly. They think that the Civil Service statute is not so bul as the extension of the principle too far. It is enough that the competent clerks at Washington and in the larger post offices and Custom houses are rei tained. This, class of objectors are, however, not so large as the other, the men who always have been opposed to the Civil Service reform principle, however applied, and who have be come more and,more indignant as the time of occupancy of offices by Re publicans has been protracted. The Messenger has been from time to time informed of the state of opinion here and of the views of visitors. The course of the paper in sustaining Mr. Cleve land's general course has by no means fettered its correspondent, who has given the facts accompanied some times bv criticism. There are two clearly defined fac tions in the party, and if the Messen ger has seen fit to approve the views in the main of one of these the other has no ground of objection without giving up its own right to choose pol icies. The Messenger and its staff is one 1thinks it is wise to execute the Civil Service law while it is a law, without grumbling or attempt at eva sion. This is the President's policy. Wisdom dictates that a party should support its platform and chosen repre sentatives. The President is endea voring to carry out the declared pol icy of the party A large element, both in and out oflthe Democracy, up holds him. Now, while the right of criticism undoubtedly is unimpaired, the obligations of citizenship require that we should all seek to do justice to the public interests and give the Pres ident and his advisers the benefit of at least our charitable judgment. Ev erybody who sees Mr. Cleveland is im pressed by his good sense and his sin cerity. Placed as he is, he merits the forbearance of the public. If he does wrong, he should be criticised. But there should not be any desire to crush him because he cannot agree to aban don his professions and change his policy before it is fairly tried. Patience all around is requisite. On the part of ..many there has been no' patience shown to the President. The desire to get control of the administration in the full sense is natural. It must ac tuate the heads of the administration uite as much as the people. Many causes' have conspired to retard the desired event. We saw the pressure made before the President was inau gurated. A. party out of power twenty-four years was in no plight to make a clean sweep in a month or two months. It would have been suicide, such as that of Alexander when he drank the inordinate quantity of wine. It was absolutely necessary to wait some months, meantime removing the incumbents as need was or as ifcould be done with safety. That the work has been slowly done and that perhaps not enough has been done, is admit ted. For this there are reasons. The inexperience of some of the new offi cers has caused delay in the routine work. A gentleman who has business periodically with a certain depart ment, and who is not a Civil Service Hemocrat, tells me that the new ad ministration is not as quick by half in getting the business dispatched. I have heard the same thing from oth ers. It was to be expected. New men, however efficient, require time to learn how to conduct the public business. It has always been so. It will always be so. The point I wish to enforce is that the President desires to have as little of this delay as possi ble so far as it may be compatible with other public interes s. He would make the chief officers Democrats be cause he would rely more implicitly on 'his own than on the opposition party for assistance, not because he would reward this or that man for party ser vice. In his view the efficient Demo crat is the right man for office. I- Recent conversations with mtelli Hnt men in the departments and ,;ith roy fellow correspondents, some of wom have a wider range of observa tion than mine, induce me to say again that the chiefs of division land chiefs of bureaus ought to' be removed o make room for men who are in sympathy with the party in power. I have made no howl about it, because howls are only evidences of pain, weakness or despair. But the truth requires that the fact should be pre sented again and again until the nec essary removals are effected. Some t these precious Republicans can surely be dispensed with now, after lhe lapse of fifteen months. A cabi net minister has said, it is true, that Qe hadjnot one man among his chiefs whom he could spare. But surety he ust be mistaken, because he has as Qch ability and back-bone .as some t his predecessors had, and theyj got along after a few weeks or months without the services of the officials W found in possession. Civil 3er ice reform does not require a re vol u- un in ! our institutions bv whieh i De mocracy shall give place to something we different. True reform consists in separating the officer from partisan machinery. But it does not mean that he shall belong to the other party. No such nonsense was even conceived by a thoroughly sane Democrat. 1 C. W. H. FltGAKS OF THE CYCLONE. Wonderful Stories of the Doings of the Wind in Ohio. Reports of the Ohio cyclone of last Friday show the remarkable freaks that these wind storms play with hu man life and property. In the house of George Hoffman was an eight-months-old baby. It was picked up by the wind, laid in a feather bed, and the whole business, babv and all, was carried one hundred and fifty feet. It was then deposited and a log was thrown on either side of the child pinning the bed to the ground. Afterf the storm a search was instituted forr the baby. One of the searchers heard; it cry, and, following the direction in dicated by the sound, found the little p6t, and restored it uninjured to the arms of its distracted mother. Mr. Curtis Hall, Jr., of Neptune, re- Eorts that he saw straws that were lown into old oak trees. A bed in the house of Andy Ginter was blown into the fields, and three children in it were carried along with it. All of the furniture was blown out of George Fox's house. Feathers were stripped from chickens on the farm as clean as though the fowls had been prepared for the pot by a cook. The chickens were caught by an obstruction that held thera for the wind to operate upon them. William Stevenson says that he saw the cyclone approach. It looked like' a great black ball in the act of rolling over the surface of the earth. It came along with frightful velocity, and made a noise louder than the roaring of a .hundred thunder peals. It was a clear night everywhere but in the wake of the fearful monster. It was about a half mile wide, and it twisted immense trees off at the ground as though they were pipestems. It cut crops of grain and grass off as clean as a mowing machine, and in instances stripped trees of bark as a hungry Italian would peel a banana. George Fox's wagon was carried half a mile. The tires on two wheels were each cut in two as with a sharp instrument, and each partly straight ened exactly in the same shape. At John Grimm's dishes were carried and driven into stumps so that they could not be pulled out. LABOR AND ANARCHY. Manly Protest Against Anar chists by a Leading La bor Journal. From the Chicago Knight of Labor. Anarchy is a foul weed. It drew its life from the putrid sores of a corrupt and effete monarchy; it flourishes only in a foil composed ot ignorance, sloth ill a i mi ana aeaa men s oones. ine progress of its journey is traced by the blood A Til 1 ot its victims, its leaders are men without hearts and its followers men witnout neaas. its aoiaing place is the den of the tiger and the hole of the cayote, fit dwelling for such human monsters! Its weapons are the des tructive torch and the deadly bomb Its face is so hideous that it dares not show itself in the pure light of God. It seeks for its converts among the dens reeking with filth, corruption and the fetid breath of the drunkard. Ino honest man can afford to recog nize it; no pure man will be lured by its false and'dirty doctrines. Its em blem, the red flag, is bathed in the blood of babes and" women. It has no home and no fireside; it recognizes no law but the law of gluttony, licenti ousness and lust. It flourishes amid howling wolves and screeching de mons. In the pure atmosphere of our great America, the home of the op pressed of all nations, it cannot and it must not be cultivated. . Knights of Labor, we have a high and holy mission the elevation of our brother toilers but if such thing can be, we have a higher and holier one in wiping out from the face of our be loved country this foul blot on the es cutcheon of the world, this hideous demon anarchy. THE METHODIST CONFER ENCE. Ric'HMOND,May 21. The Committee on Church Extension recommended the following persons to constitute the Board of Church Extension for the ensuing four years: Hon. J. S. Lith gow, Louisville, president; Pressly Meguian, Esq., Louisville, vice presi dent; John W. Proctor, Esq., Dan ville, Ky., treasurer. Managers Rev.W. T. Harris, D. D., Memphis Conference; Rev. T. B. Carroll, D. D., Denver Conference; Rev. C. J. Van deventer, Missouri Conference; Rev. H. C. Settle, Louisville Conference; Rev. Samuel K. Cox, D. D., Dalti more; Rev. J. C. Morris, Southwest Missouri Conference; Rev. O. P. Fitz gerald, Pacific Conference; Rev. M. H. Neeley, North Texas Conference; John Oebacker, Esq., Louisville, Ky.; Hon. C. S. Grubbs, Louisville, Ky.; James H. Carlisle, L.L. D., South Carolina; James G. Carter, Esq.. Louisville, Ky.; . John L. Wheat, Louisville, Ky. Report adopted. The following will compose the Book Concern for the ensuing four years: James Whitworth, W. H. Morgan, E. H. East, Nathaniel Bax ter, Jr., R. A. Cong, T. D. Fite, S. G. Keith,William Morrow, Jordan Stokes, John A. Carter, A. S. Andrews, T. S. Wade and T. M. Cobb. I.J. John was elected on the fourth ballot secretary of the Board of Missions. Rev. Dr. J. B. McFerrin was elected Book Agent. , Conference will adjourn sine die next Wednesday. . . Oa Exhibition to-day only 537 pieces 8wiss Edgings from. 10 to 89 cents per yard at t - H. M. Stroube's. CONDITION OF CROPS. The May Report The Mortgage System. From the full report of the Affricul- tural Department the Messiner takes the following, furnished by its Washington correspondent : Cotton planting has been delayed by cold rains on the Atlantic coast and by overflows on the Gulf coast. The proportion to be planted in May av erages 20 per cent. In average years the proportion does not exceed 14 or. 15 per cent. The stand is necessarily defective on wet areas, but replanting id rapidly filling the gaps. The pro- f)ortions already planted are as fol ows: North Carolina, 73; South Caro lina, 82; Georgia, 83; Florida, 94; Alabama, 80; Mississippi, 76; Louis iana, u; Texas, 84; Arkansas, o; Tennessee, u. The plants that have appeared are generally looking well, though some what backward tor the season. In this respect condition declines quite regularly from the - seaboard tto the Texas border, being most unfavorable in Louisiana, where the first half of April was cold and wet. The stand is as yet defective. The first regular re port of condition, June 1, will be as early an indication as will be of ma terial value. The following statement shows the proportion planted as com pared with former years, and with the average : Proportion planted May 1. 1886. 1885. 18f4. 1883 1882. North Carolina, 73 70 45 35 75 82 80 60 75 85 83 80 68 73 86 94 95 95 96 98 80 85 75 83 86 76 85 76 82 75 77 82 77 81 71 84 81 80 85 80 75 79 70 72 76 77. 77 52 67 77 South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Lousisana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, General average, SO 80 67 74 81 The following suggestive notes, which show how difficult it is to grow anything but cotton, are appended : JNortn Carolina. Jones: ten per cent, more cotton cause, the lower price calls for more cotton to raise the same amount of money. Bad policy, but it prevails. .Louisiana. feliciana: Ihe acre age of cotton will be somewhat in ex cess of last year from the fact that planters are generally in debt, and forced to raise cotton as the only avail able means of navment. Mississippi. Simpson: More cotton planted this season than any season before, owing to low price and in debtedness. Tennessee. Gibson : Disposition to reduce the area of cotton, but the scarcity of money and financial press ure overpowers any tendency to aban don its culture. The May crop report indicates an improvement in wheat during April of two points, with a geneva! average of condition at 94.9. There is no marked change anywhere, but a slight advance is noted in the Ohio Valley7, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, the (Jarolinas, Vir ginia, and Maryland. The May aver age last year was 70. The season has been favorable and the crop is more advanced than usual. The averages in principal States are : Ohio, 97; Pennsylvania, 95; New York, 96; Michigan, 91; Indiana, 98; Illinois, 92; Missouri, 101; Kansas, 07. In the Southern States there appears to be a decline in wheat growing; the area is small, and condition, though improved, not very high. The past winter was very unfavorable for winter gram in these btates. A correspon dent m Georgia declares the winter freezes were the worst in fifty years. The growth is late, the plants scatter ang in too many fields. Yet well ferti lized areas are reported in fine condi tion. One correspondent gives the low price of cotton and the need of ready cash as a reason for decline of wheat growing and the use of the land for cotton. Another says that, since cotton has declined 10 per cent., it is necessary to increase 10 per cent, to get the requisite money. That logic, if influential in the general practice, will keep the cotton States poor. A BURDEN UPON AGRICULTURE. ' A mortgage is a blessing when it enables a poor but industrious young man to secure a home and a profitable business and to pay for it in sure and easy installments; it is a withering curse when it makes production dear and difficult, consumes a crop before it is made, and renders indebtedness hopeless. The system of advances by mer chants or brokers upon growing crops is especially dangerous and disastrous. It is not usually a prevalent practice, except in districts where a single crop dominates rural industry and brings ready j oney at any time, rendering borrowing easy and encouraging the habit of spending before earning. It has been prevalent from time immem orial at least for forty years, from personal knowledge ,of the writer in the cotton States. No product of agriculture is more surely a money crop in any part of the world than cotton, and none more promptly traverses the ways of com merce. It has therefore become (with perhaps one principal associate maize) almost the sole product of large districts of country, rendering neces sary the purchase abroad of supplies of all kinds, agricultural and indus trial, and their original cost, long dis tance transportation and wholesale and retail profits, render them exceed ingly expensive. It is selling the cheapest cotton in the world and buy ing all supplies at enormous prices a practice with which only fertile lands, abundant crops, and persistent industr ry can save from bankruptcy. In the Northwest, where wheat is a specialty and tjie predominant crop, tne mortgage appears to be one of the essential equipments of the farm. The extent of indebtedness there deserves future investigation , '";. ' ' ' f Our "correspondents have ""-so fre quently referred to tfiis burden upon agriculture, advances secured upon ; the growing crops and permanent in debtedness resulting mainly from this practice, that the State agents of the cotton btates have been asked to state the facts and make some estimates of the extent of the evil. Asa result the following answers are given : By P.P. Duffy, State ag-ent, Winston, N. C.J In my opinion a large majority of planters, especially in the cotton belt, are more or less in debt for money, but especially for protUions, fertiliz ers, &c, furnished bv merchants to help them make, the crop. The legal rate of interest in this State is 6 per cent, per annum, but 8 per cent, may be eharged upon agreement in writ ing, uut the planter pays much more than this wav: When he needs as sistance from the merchant the latter agrees to advance the supplies to a certain amount, taking a mortgage on the coming crop, pavable when the crop matures. He then charges the farmer his own figures for supplies, from 15 to 25 per cent, more than cash price, thus compelling him to pay a heavy interest without, perhaps, re alizing the fact that he is paying in terest at all. When the notes mature the farmer must sell regardless of price, and thus loses again by forced sales when prices may be low. The rate of interest in the books is 10 per cent., which they deduct in ad vance. The average rate of interest paid on advances by merchants, in the opinion of those familiar with these methods of doing business, is not less than twenty-five per cent. While it is very large, I do not know the extent to which this furnishing of supplies is carried on, because they are private transactions, the terms of which are generally known only to the two parties interested; but from my observations, and conversations with intelligent people who have had opportunities to judge, I believe that at least one-fourth of the cotton erop in this State is sacrificed to meet the interest arising from this kind of in debtedness. The farmers, as distinguished from the cotton planters, do not suffer to the same extent, not confining themselves to any one cropland not being com pelled to go as heavily in debt for ad vances. When they buy on credit, as many of 1 hem do to a greater or less extent, they of course have to pay credit prices, whieh would form a con siderable rate of interest when figured out in dollars and cents. This record makes a burden .of in terest that is unendurable. The esti mate of North Carolina is 25 per cent., including the advanced priced of sup plies furnished; of South Carolina, 15 per cent.; of Georgia, 50 per cent, in terest on pastdue indebtness; of Flor ida, 16 per cent.; of Alabama, 50 per cent, increase m price ot goods and 20 per cent, on mortgages; of Mississippi, 15 per cent, on advances, without re ference to increase of priees, and 10 per cent. on!general indebtedness; of Louisiana, 15 per cent., besides high er prices of goods and more for advan ces by country merchants; of Texas, 12 per cent, nominal interest for sup plies charged at excess of 25 to 50 per cent.; of Arkansas, 10 per ceut. by contract, on supplies charged an extra profit of 40 per cent. 1 hese are the averages assumed by our State agents as the cost of interest on advances secured by crop lines. It appears that a large proportion of cotton planters are in debt for cur rent supplies, and that the loss result ing amounts to five million dollars per annum in some btates, and absorbs nearly or quite all the profits of pro duction; while the soil is wearing away , with the lives of the cultivators, for the benefit of the commercial class. MOUNT OLIVE SPLINTERS. The shipping of strawberries has ended for this season. They are re tailing on our streets at 5 cents per quart; 3 for 10. Mr. Bryant W. Herring, of Louis iana, is -visiting relatives in this sec tion. Dr. G. D. Roberts and Mr. Ed. Smith, who recently came from Flor ida, both formerly of this place, re turned again a few days since to the "Land of musquitoes and alligators." We would like to inform your La Grange correspondent that the head ing of our communications is not one of our make. We refer her, (how did we know it was a her) to you, Mr. Ed itor. If it pleases her and you any better we will take "Chips;7' however, tee are very well satisfied with "Splin ters.'' From the preparations, the mana gers of the Mount Olive High School seem to be making, we expect a cred itable entertainment the current week. Peter Farrior, a colored man, re ceived a right severe cut on the arm by one of the small saws in Mr. W. P. Hall's saw mill, while working in the mill one day last week. Elias Broadhurst, colored,lost his right band a few months ago, in the same mill by putting it too close to the large saw in raking away the saw dust. He had been warned against the danger. We were asked a few days since by one of our "fair ones" if we had seen "Amos,'' and when we asked "Amos who," the reply was "Amo3 Guiteau." How does that compare with the "lady who carries the rabbit foot and the gentlemaL who carries the doll foot." How it Was That Five Portlanders Get $15,000. Mr. Rufus P. Bacon held one-fifth of the ticket which drew th capital prize of $75 000 in The Louisiana State Lottery Drawing- of April 13th Some of his frienUug8rted that they purchase some tickets In The Louisiana State Lottery. They purchased one-fifth of ten different tickets, payinff therefor $10. When they got the tickets, each selected two tickets haphazard, and if either ticket drew, the amount was to be divided Detween them all. On Wednesday last a telrrain was re ceived, statins that ticket No. 2524 hfcd drawn one-fifth of the capital prize of $75,000. twi Icnd (Me.) Argut, April 21. A large and beautiful line of Children's Carriages just received at tf ' Fochtlrk & Kerb's .Lister's Tobacco Fertilizer for sale. ' t . W. S. Famxx A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. The Wife ot Hon. Georce H. Pendleton Killed. Mrs. George H. Pendleton, wife of our minister to Germany was killed in Central Park, New York, on Thurs day. The account is thus given in the btar: At 3 n. m. vesterdav Mrs. Oeorcp H. Pendleton, wife of the Minister at the German court, and her daughter, Miss Jane Francis Pendleton, left their home at 104 East Thirty-fifth street for a drive in the Park, intend ing to make a few calls on the way. They drove a single horse, hitched to a Victoria hired from the livery stables or isowies Lo., at Lexington avenue and Thirty-third street. The driver of the carnage was Hugh Reilly. They passed through Thirty-fifth street to Sixth avenue, and stopped at No. 913. rom here the ladies drove up the avenue to Fifty-sixth street and into the park. Before reaching the riding academy, near Fifty-first street, the horse became unruly while passing near the elevated railroad. The driver had no difficulty in subduing him, and as the mam entrance to the Park was reached, about 4 o'clock, he became ordinarily quiet. The carriage rolled down the Park drive until near the Mall. Here a wagon, coming behind, started the horse by its rumbling noise, and he began to rear and back. The driver took a firm grasp upon the reins and braced himself. The noise from the wagon behind continued, and the horse tnen ooiteu. ine driver was jerked from his . seat over the-dash-board and thrown to the ground. The horse then began running. About 300 feet from the Webster statue, the ladies, who had become so frightened as to lose their presence of mind, leaped from the carriage, which was swaying violently from side to side. Miss Pendleton, who was on the right of her mother, jumped first and landed on the turf bordering the roadway. She struck on her head and back. Mrs. Pendleton leaped after her daughter, and on the same side. As she leaped she lost her foot ing, and struck the bard roadbed head down. The horse continued running until his course was checked by the shrubbery that lined the roadway, and was stopped bv the little son of the park shepherd, Patrick Conway. Policeman Conway saw the horse run, and reached Mrs. Pendleton's side almost as soon as she fell. He' tried to revive her, but failing, left her and hastened to Miss Pendleton. After a vierorous rubbing, "she raised her arms and opened her eyes. The officer called one of the park wagons and the ambulance from the Presbyterian Hospital. Mrs. 'Pendle ton's body was removed to the park arsenal and Miss Pendleton taken to the hospital. Coroner Messemer was summoned as soon as the body reachec the arsenal, and last night he held an inquest. He found no one, to blame. Edward Goodall, manager of the stables, testified that the horse had been in the possession of Bowles & Co., for four years, and was not in any way vicious. The harness was found to be all right. The Coroner found that Mrs. Pendleton had died almost at the moment of striking the ground. She sustained a compound fracture of the skull and concussion of brain. Dr. Shearman. hou?e manager of the Presbyterian Hospital, reported Miss Pendleton's injuries assevere, but not necessarily fatal. Frank Pendleton, the son of the dead woman, was notified of the ac cident by the coroner, and gave direc tions for the disposal of his mother's body. It was taken last night to the undertaking rooms of W. L. rerris sexton of Zion's church, and a cable dispatch sent to Minister Pendleton at Berlin. Mrs. Pendleton was 01 years old, and was married in 1846. She was Miss Alice Key, daughter of Francis Scott Key, the author of 'The btar span gled Banner," and a sister of Phillip Barton Key, who was killed by Gen. Sickles. She was the niece of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. WAR DECLARED. New England Fishermen Buy ing Cannon for Defense Portland, May 20. The excite ment relative to the seizure of fishing vessels belonging to this and other New England ports by the Canadian authorities is more intense than has been known for many years. There are large interests held in the fishing fleet by the merchants of this place, beside many in other cities and towns on the coast of this State. There is a very pronounced sentiment in the community that the government offi cials at Washington have been exceed ingly derelict in their plain duty unr der the existing laws in the premises, and prominent merchants have tele graphed and written to Washington, giving full and emphatic expression to their views, and urging prompt action and reprisals. The question of arming all future outgoing fishing vessels meets with great favor, and this plan will undoubtedly be adopted. It is asserted by those who know Capt. Doughty, of the schooner Ella M. , Doughty, that had his vessel and his twelve men bjeen armed, the Cana-j dians would have had a desperate fight before capturing them. It was the grandfather of Capt. Doughty who,havinghis fishing schooner seized several years agp, sued the Canadian authorities until he recovered full pay for his vessel and exemplary damages. A meeting of prominent citizens, and members of the Porland Fishing exchange was held yesterday, at which resolutions were adopted to arm yes sels leaving port for the fishing banks. Orders have been sent to Boston and New York for small cannon of modern make, and for full supplies of repeat' ing Winchesters, witn which to suit ably equip the fleet. Dispatches hay e been received from Boston, Glouces ter'' and other fishing ports of (New England, stating that all vessels of their fleets prepared to will be fully armed audi at seizure. This communitv is fullv aroused and the proceedings of the exchange hjave been telegraphed to President Cleveland, Secretary Bay ard, Senator Frye and Congressman rteea. -4 DOWN jWITH SOCIALISM. r Baltimore, May 22. Editor Afexsenoer: T rpAd with mnnli interest and pleasure, in vonr last ia- sue, your comments on the imperfec tion and "inconsistencies" of our "im migration I4ws," suggested by the re cent outrageous actions of the bloody assassins in; Chicago, Milwaukee and xsew iork. l thank, and congratulate you on yojur bold and honest po sition. When the press become uni ted and earnest on this subject, as a ffiW fnlV ftffl Tinw. tVlOn tlio a ,-ra politician will have to do his duty and yui iuc!it3 scuuuureis in prison wans those already here and pass rigid and effective laws to keep all such outside ot our country who are not here al ready. Yoii of the South, where but few foreigners are to be found and they or a respeciaoie class, have but an imrerfect ida nf iht An and free country is in. Anarchy and Lommunistn are grow ing in our larere cities with ranid strides. In the opinion of all honest men wno nope to Jive by legitimate industrv. thiev should h snnnroaapd . . . . at once, either bv death or life im- pnsonment.j When men publicly de clare that thev are as mno.n entitled to our house as you are, and that if you iiol uiviiue mat mey win Kill, you; when they iare found with arms, dy namite hnmVlS n nil nVi OT tovr!Kla nr. plosive missives of destruction un mistakably to destroy innocent lives; what remains to be done with the wretches, but to hang or imprison them for life? If our legislators will not act, then our hope is in the firm ana unitea .action ot an intelligent fress, wnich tortunately makes pub ic opinion. Merchant. EVOLUTION. The Southern Presbyterian Asseui blv. now in session at Augusta, is at tracting a great deal of attention and I f O C 1 t a OTVkl I n A1 Intl.. The principal question before the As sembly will be Dr. Woodrow's eyolu tion theory and the subject of marry incr a deceased wife's sister. Over tures have been made to the Assembly frnm seven Pre.eVvteri f rr u Ao, vrnr- . m.j . . W . ance on the subject of evolution. The special committee to which the matter has been referred is under stnrvl tn have a large majority of its members in opposion to evolution, and their re- nort is erneclted to be verv decided. - x t - -" - port is expecited to be very decided llr. WnoflroTO is a mem her nr the As sembly, and Mhen the time comes will doubtless present his views and sup port them in an address. He is now on trial and will not be mentioned in the report, but of course every body knows how the question came up, aud there will be a great deal ofi curosity to hear the Doctor's exposition of his peculiar ideas. He had already stated that he will not attemnt to teanh his views nf the question if the Assembly decides opinion ot evolution will b2 changed in the least. TTe Anmmittee will rrrh ably make their report on Monday morEing, and a lengthy discussion wiil doubtless follow, especially if there snouid be a majority and a minoritv report. The assembly is composed of learned and earnest J 1 a! J- Al men, anu wnaiever decision tuey may reach will be after mature and care ful consideration. The result will be anxiously awaited b members of the Presbyterian Church all over the coun- A try. SOUTHERN'PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. F. Bryson to Tte moderator of the ri ii t- 1- a. 1 oouinern rresayieria.il general assew Vlr wliih mat' in A ntrnsra. Ga. Thursday, Dr. Glenn, of Alabama, declared that Dr Bryson had not kept Wif . V u. .p v 7 - be expected to keep the assembly in good form. Thie vote on the second ballot was; Bryson, 55; Hunter, of Mississippi, 49. A resolution was offered by Dr. ArmstroHg, of Virginia, that a special committee be appointed by the moder ator, to whom all overtures asking for a deliverance on the subject of Gene tic evolution be referred, with instruct ions to feport at las early a day as pos sible, i The resolution was adopted unani mously. This presbytery opposed the cry of Dr. Woodrow, and Dr. Arm strong, assisted by- Wirt Henry, of Richmond, grandson of Patrick Henry, urn hora ocntpiall'v to make this fiVht. nwn house in nrrier. Ann con in not u.xs aw. -' - 7 - Dr. Armstrong refused the nomination tor moderator on mis gruuuu. iue Tlr IT M RdV. mond, of Alabama, to-day preached tne opening sermon, nis suujeui uciug 'Orthodoxv.'' i i PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. A rriTvri CI Af axr 'X) Trio Prp- byterian General Assembly convened to-day and organized by electing Rev. Dr. J. H. Bryson;, of Alabama, Mod erator. ! Rev. E. A. Ramsev. of Nashville. and Gov. J. H. Marve. of Viruinia, reading clerks, j A resolution was adopted reierring the nnef inn nf evolution to a snecial committee, to report as soon as possi- Die. S&.!S!$ livare' hv Dr. IT. R. Raymond, of Alabama, on 'Orthodoxy." Large numbers or. delegates con tinue, to come in. LapibsI Now is your time for cheap Gossamers. Child runs at 95 cents,' worth $1,35. Ladies .$1,25, worth $1.75. Call at once on Mrs. E. W. Moobe. DUPLIN NEWS AND NOTES, uax uuv rains me pass week. r Crops Were Dever tn nr a rrrm icinn he same period than at Brecon tk oat crop is specially fine. Transplanting of plants, tobacco,, potatoes and vegetables, has been the uiucr ui uusiness ior a week- Tlio acreage in potatoes will be larce ; to- oacco may not claim so many fields as 1 4 U 1 .A. 111 J i ;cnr, uui n win receive more at tention, and the farmers hone tnr better quality of the weed. Messrs. O. P. Middleton and John James are to open a business at Hun- ter btore on Goshen. They will keep . a stock of general merchandise and I buy all kinds of produce. A remarkable country is this of ours. For weeks we have enioved pease and strawberries, and now that they are no longer luxuries, we have oeans ana potatoes. Uod has done too much for our people ; we would be better off if it were not such an easv matter to gain a living. Mr. Ii. h. Jsewbury, of Magnolia, was the first to ship whortleberries. He was one day Ahead of the Warsaw merchants in his shipment. For sev eral vears the berrv trade nf Dunlin has been large, and Sampson may look ai 1 1....a1. n i 1 1 . i 1 1 c inures, ur iupnn win laKe tne lead in 'hi hlnea w The junior Principal of the Warsaw High School hks shown us a letter rom his friend. R 6V. R. T. Tlrvan. nf Chinkiang, China Mr. Bryan reached vninKiang in January last and began the study of Chinese at once. The first of April he was able to translate me nyrans into the Chinese language, and now leads the singing in the Bap tist Mission at Chinkiang. Mr. Bryan asKs me uapiists or tne Eastern Asso ciation for $150 to buy an organ for his mission. ' We are confident thai they will raise the money. Contribu tions for the organ fund should be sent to Mr. D., S. Kennedy, Warsaw, JN. KJ. Mr. T. B. Pierce, one of the mn.i energetic men in the State, has quite recently piacea in position all the ma chinery necessary for the manufacture of baskets and crates. -The work of manufacturing began last week, and we learn that evervthinrr is rnnninir on smoothly. We hope to be able soon to give a more extended notice or Mr. rierce s varied enterprises. Last week was a notable one for Warsaw. It witnessed the closing ex ercises of the Warsaw High SchooL This event, always interesting, was doubly so this year. One year ago the future of the fichool was anvthinf Vnfc plight. The building had been burned;, the country was financially prostrate bright. The building had been burned t it. & a n nd a nourishing town in central North taroJina waj offering every induce ent J? move the Messrs., Kennedy from Warsaw. Firm in their convic tions as to the ultimate success of the- school, and assured of public favor,, the principals set heroically to woik. to build a new house and htiengthen their hold upon the community. It is not going too far to say that they ac complished both. The house r a more imposing structure than the one burned, stands to speak for itself, while the patronage and interest taken in the school ppeak for the other. The commencement proper was on Thurs day, the 20th inst. At U o'clock m.. Rev. J. M. McManaway, of Wilson,, delivered the annual address upon the subject, "Woman's Rights." Without having notes, we fear to attempt any thing like an outline of the speech Mr. McManaway made no claim that, we should not cheerfully accord the fair sex, while we would be better men if we tried harder to secure them the rights that are theirs, Mr. McMana way has a reputation as a forcible, scholarly speaker, and it is a pleasure to state that his reputation suffered; no damage by his effort at Warsaw.. The exercises by the pupils of the school were creditable indeed, even better than on past similar occasions. The school will open its fall session on August 30, with the same teachers The trustees, at their annual meeting: last .veek, decided to aid the principals in their noble work by the erection of another spacious building. This new building is to be ready for use by the fall session. We predict a grand, future for the Warsaw High School. INDIANS ON THE WARPATH El Paro. Tex., May 22. John Mar tin, a freicht conductor on the Souih. ern Pacific-railroad, states that much' excitement prevails at Dragoon sta tion, Arizona. It is feared that hos tile Indians are in the surrounding -country. While the train was at the station, four saddle horses, bereft of riders, and a pack mule ran in from the adjacent mountains. The animals were wild with fear and had evidently. been under fire. Search was at once beerun. and the bodv of a dad white man was found within a mile of tb station. It is believed that the men who rode the horses were killed from behind the rocks. Tombstone. Arizona. Mav The renecrade Apaches have broken im in. to small bands and are raiding cnntK. eastern Arizona murdering and pil- 1 : : . J rr. . mgiuK iu vanuus uirections. i nereis little security outside of the town. Over 40 persons have been killed within the last six weeks and others wounded. Unless tive measures be taken. Geronimo and his band will slaughter as many if not more men than were killed durinrrtheir last raid. A petition has been sent to Congress that the bill of Delegate Ream, offering a reward for .the cap ture or death of Geronimo and the other chiefs, be immediately passed. TOnnVl an' A vn I mm CI. Tie Bert In the world tar Cuf. Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Bores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all 6kin Eruptions,' and pos itively cures Piles, or no pay required.' It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Kirby & RoWon. Goldsboro.N.C.
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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