: ;THE_GLEANEB*
GtIAHAM N.C. March 11 1879
E. 8. PARKER, Editor.
Congress iomimi in extra usslou
tl»is day w«tk, by proclamation of tbs
The Democratic caucus hM douifirt
(hat the LagUlature shell adjourn next
Friday. The pay ot members stopped
last Seturday.
The President vetoed the bill to pre
vent Chinese immigration to tbie country
unapproved the bill reducing the tax
on tobacoo. The reduction ot tax on
tobacco to 16 eents will take place the
Ist day of May.
B«VALItVIR tUUTMII.
Will there be any more eqaallty or
Justice In a fixed license tax tor lawyera
than there was in a fixed license tax lor
luerchanta?
u It eqnallty tor the lawyer whomakee
live bnadred dollars ■ year to pay the
Mm* tax as tbe lawyer who makes ten
tlmn*»iHi doll an a year, any more than
It U lor th« merchant who sells » thousand
dollar* a year, to w the MOW as tlie
tnercbant who Mile twenty thousand?
Legislators aw very readily the Injnetlce
and inequality with respect to merchant•
esn they eee It with reepeet to lawyers!
Would not a tax In proportion to income
be as likely toooaform to that principle
of eqality that should rafalate taxation
a*a fixed lloense tax?
M9MIT
It waa chartjed that certain perron* in
terested in the pnhlie printing wade
threats and promises to influenoe meoi*
hern of the LefkUtnre in eeieetiag n
' public printer. A committee of Benas
tore with Senator Dortch an chairman,
waa railed to inveetigato the matter
and report. ThU oommtttee took evU
denoe and reported last Saturday. It
found aa a fact, that 00l Walter Olark
and Qeorga a Jordan, did make threats
and promiaes with a view to control the
printing.
The negro ambers of tbe LegUUture
wrote GOT. Jarvta ft note asking an
interview with 111* Excellency, in regard
to the intereet and welfare of their vaee.
The Governor wrote them a latter
granting their regoeet snd the interview
ZKSS&SgM:
the only mn means hy whW. their
eouditlon could be bettered, and they
were exhorted to work oat their own
impreremeit. Tl>i« advice may be n
little old but it le good for both white
and blaok. They ware aeeared by the
Governor that eo tar ae in hta lay they
sh->ald en)oy every privilege guaranteed
to them hy the conetitndon and laws,
which ought to he eatietoetory. Their
attention was called to the fhettbat some
of those who wettftmnwl to give then
political poller, when they tbonght by eo
doing they ooahl serve partisan ends,
are now Csvering their disfranchisement,
becaaee of the increased political power
their beta* votom givee to the opponents
of the special frienda of their early
freedom. Will the negro never oeaae to
he a dlatnrbing eleaaaat ia the pontics of
unr country? He now haa all th& rights
and privileges of anybody, and yet he re*
gacds Ids own Intereet a* ft distinct
frem others.
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V«Ut LltMLATeas ,T.. f
The constitutional Unit o t sixty dsy s
expired Saturday. The revenue lew,
the school Uw,theem*opri«Uee for the
ro»
peoples moaav, only iu so for ae tbe dlfs
fcrcnt officers W the Assembly en oon
cerned. We will, M soon u passed,
give oar readers such outline ot the rew
euue and sehaol laws, with saeh other
act* as are of genera! or special Import
ance to t hem, as we may be enabled to.
That the present Legislature has been a
Isbcrions body cannot be questioned.
fpl. 0 * inamliTi Kmnivk# ma naaal aYhai»li
JLll h i iDcmtwiv liiwugni no grcm cipcnv
ence to their task la equally certain.
That they bare been anxious to do somes
thing for tbe interest of the people Is well
evidenced, and that some of them M
not been wholly anmiadfoi of a little
elwep notoriety for themselves Is equally
u«)l established. We sll perhaps oefo
plain too much. While tbe Republicans
were In power we had so much to com
plain at. that we formed a bad habit of
faultfinding and grumbling. We might
have had a much woree Legislature, and
Ed tliat we might have bad a better, let
u* remember tbat we seldom have the
• best of anything. The difficulties con
nccted wl'h legialatlou just now are not
appreciated. We beta never had, since
| please. We feel charitable, and guess 11
is a pretty fair LegtoleTdra.
The Lefcisleturatos passed' an ail
! making it a misdemeanor to oerr) con
concealed weapons, alter the fim of next
, July, we believe. We are no advocate
of the habit of going armed, but we pre.
diet the law just enacted will be a dead
lotter on onr statute book. Persona
will o&nUune to carry (heir pistols,
disks aud bvwie knives when they think
there is occasion therefor, and If they
should use tbrra, and tbns be discovered
in carrying them, the misdemeanor for
so doing will be lost in the grosser
crime of using or attempting to use
them. It is but a short time since we
read oi a Western Judge who was
charging the grand jury to proeeat all
persons who violated the law by carrying
emceaied weapons and to gfre
emphasis to his remarks be leaued
lor ward in his judicial seat, when his
own pistol fell from his pocket, dropped
to tbefioor, fired from the jar and pat
a ball in bis own leg. We donbt whether
the law will result in any good. We
think it will be paid very little attention
to. Our good people carry so weapons
now, unless they feel specially called
do so. and tho bad will continue
tocarry them eoneealed.
STecx t.aw.
Dr. Mebane writes as thai he hoe had
Aleaaaaoe added to the list of counties
whoa* people may vote for or against a
stoek law—tbat ie a law making it a
crime for a man's pig to gat out of hie pen
—both on the part of the pig and the
man, Jhe pig laying himself liable to ar
rset and oonfinement in a pound,and the
asan to e fine and imprieenaeat ia the
so meson jail of the county. There were
several petitions in tavor of such a law
ssn+down, and the Dr. ooneluded there
oould be no harm in leaving it to the
The bill reqnnee the commis
sioners, if petitioned ao to do by one fifth
of the voters in the county, to order an
~ election held en the first Thutadajr in
i next August, and If a majority of the
. Totes of the oounty are for the law then
Us provisions shall regulate the oonduot
of pigs and people in Alamance. There
are other provisions in roopoot to town-,
ships- We will publish ths bill entire
as soph ee we can get it, and what we
say about it here ie only from what we
seppooe ia the bill as we have seen it
printed in some of our exchangee. The
only objection to an election Is the ooat
and the little excitement. There ia no
earthly chance of a a took law being
adopted in thia county, as long aa it is
left to the people. A thousand majority
will net tell the extent of its defeat.
"HSiiliririrAX,
A letter from our feithfbl Representa
tive, Dr. Mebane. infornu ns that the Mil
empowering onr oounty authorities to
reaasees and ooHeot taxee on the property
of the North Caroline Reiiroad Company
and the Bachmond and Danville Bellroed
Company, tor the years 1869 to 1876 in
clusive, hea passed the Hoaao. it having
before peeaed the Senate. It will be re
numbered that these two corporations
failed te Met mush of their property lor
taxation, claiming tbat It wae exempt,
until by a late decision of onr Supreme
Court, it wes held tbat tbeii exemptions
were eoaflned to very murosr limits,
compared with their cleims. This back
tax when collected will re* materially
* lP h? aeon "
taxable property of the county, which
before. A man in the gallery opened his
month and rebuked grave Senators for
their desarntft ni of the holy day. The
made a law the Saturday before te pre
rem running traine on Snnday, enjoyed
yexenrton tothe aeaahore, on dead
tMMMucicets. and the jWM of the State, 1
try, has been rebuking" tbns, *boti| P fer
Inconsistency and a disregard oftbeSab*
bath. Onr members rHfin*t go.
The first of a colony ,of Hollanders
has arrived in Mewberne. They ere to
cultivate the Speight and Donnell lands
in Craven coentv.
t i A nITIBINO AUD iNCeHINO MM-
I The Wilmington tOor, In every way an
>| ably and well conducted and pre
-11 eminent as a candid Journal, whose edi*
j rrrr? IBCD ** wori, [ y ° r
> j Senator, has tbh to say of Judge Itorri
: St l%iinieu M^UWhed^^Ssates^Senator
from North Carolina expires. A more
faithftil, conscientious, devoted Senator
utvar sat In Congrsee. Judge Mei riinon
has taken high nutk as a jurist in that
body-., a gentleman t superior legal
mind he ranks with the lorwuost men.
We have known personally moat of tlio
leading public men of North Carolina
daring the last veara; we have beard
them on the hastiugs, in the forum, or in
public assemblies; ae have read their
public addresses and political discussion*,
and we iiave this to say, aud that quite
deliberately: in the campaign of 1872.
when Judge Merrimou was the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, be msde a
magnificent canvass, ills speeches were
exceedingly full aud able. We consider
ed tbein fuller, sounder, abler than any
we hail heard. His apeoch at Trinity
College, the ouly elaborate one we heard
was one of extraordinary-force, breadth
aud clearness. We heard Gen. Leach
tell nim that the last tWo boors of the
speech was Ibe ablest lie bad ever heard.
We beard President Craven tell him that
it was not only the ablest speech he ever
beard, bat it was the ablo»t_Jhtellectnal
effort of anv kind to which be bad ever
lis'.eued. We know that Judge Sldpp.
Maj. John Hughes and others who heard
hi in repeatedly gave it as their opinion
that there had been no such speaking in
their time. This wa« the opinion of some
el tbe best furnished editors ot the Stat:.
As to Judge Mammon's speeches in'
the Senate we hava this to say, and that
too quite deliberately; if aay of the' able
Senators who represented North Oaro-.
lina ever delivered abler apeechea in that
body, then we have failed to rend them.
W* hare read the apeechea of Gwatori,
Badger, Graham, Cliuginan an others,
and we can recall no speeches that were
so thorough, so elaborate, so full of mat
ter, so exhaustive of the subject, as
Judge Morrison's two speeches on the
Louisiana matters.
Judge Merrimoa has been in the Sen
ate j* years. During those years
many oatrsgee hava been perpetrated
upon the righta ol tbe people and of tbe
States;during that time many evidenoee
of oorruption have come to light. , No
maa aver iu the Senate haa borne Mmoelf
better. There has never been tbe slight,
eat breath of suspicion to taint or mar
bia fair character. He has literally lived
unspotted from the world around him.
Ha has shown himself an honest man,
without fear and without reproach. He
leavee the Senate with a name a synonym
for integrity and conscientiousness, with*
out having a«y of the vices, great or
small, that generally tftgefc p*rejnr less
to public men. As a statesman. his
moral and political life ia aa pure as that
of Fohn Milton's, the pareet of all great
man known to tatters.
llis successor is a man of brilliant
record and splendid prestige. He goes
to the Senate troin the Governor's obair
of a great Btate. He has mors national
reputation than any of our pabUc man.
lie has great versatility ot tatouta—
culture, humor, wit, eloqnence, poetic
sympathy, and literary skill.
Senator Vance ia a man of rare pacts.
-He has judgment and prudence among
his otlier gins. That be will bear him
self well in th* new arena aad gather
freab laurels too we do not doubt.
Our new Seuator will neither be rash
nor unwise, lie will seek no word
combats, we imagine, but when oecation
offers he will make good his reputation
as an eloqtmnt and gifted speaker, lull of
resource, cunning offence, adroit, wary,
sell-poised. He will carry no heart
strains upon the point of his sword.
LI«IMkAVeiIS~W|t«»IIT WAX.
The Otmrver. In its last Tuesdays Is
sue, after reviewing ibe couditlon of leg
islation of the present session, aud noting
the Impossibility ot the work accessary to
he done, to be accomplished by the expi
r|pon of tbe sixty dare (which expired
last Saturday) lot which members of the
Legislature can draw pay, haa soma reas
ons to give wherefore members should
•Jtet regard a short stay without oompeu-
Mtion as a very great hardship; especial
ly when the necessity Is great. We re-
Irfint a portion of the article. After re
giting tbe necessities of a prolonged see.
agin The Observer says:
These things being lb, our friends will
liubtless agree with us that they may
five a tew days to tbe Btate, free ot ex
pense to the Stale, inasmuch as their pay
M33| percent, more than waS paid to
flfegialsiors belore the War. They wiß
Kderetand us: thereto no sugKosttaii
that their pay be reduced; It to little
enough in all conscience, sfnd ought to he
more rather tbaa less. It to not lutimat»
ed to them, as baa been said by some ol
fbem in regard to others, that the honor
fir their position should be their reward;
Badger, and Bragg, and Rvfla, and
laid. Is quite enough far their services:
nA a flKmt thov ahmiltl rrflrrl thftft iaiutUfiO
■ lU* 'tlJws a 1119y UllVlllVl tfscat* a**
bacon was 11 eeuts par pound, wbHe In
1678 it to 64 cents; corn 90 oents a bushel
In 1860
aid that white
•or Graham eonld take his $8 per diem
and bay only 27 ponnda ol bacon, or •
bushels of corn, or 917 pounds at notion,
aadeo ably l iwpnaems^to^ancestral coun
ty should not have $4 per diem ie* tbe
same servtoeaud bay with it «0 pounds
ot baaon, or eight bushels of corn, or 50
pounds otoottou: nor with anv such
view to it recalled to tbem, as lately it
waa to other public servants, that at no
time within tbe memory of man would
ready eash buy so much prorlsiou or
. ■* _ . _ . _
clothing, and (hat board is M loir or
Jowe* than it was iu 1860. Nothing of
all ibis recalled from tfic speeches and
newspaper articles spread broadcaat oyer
the Si ate, except to remind out friends oi
the record that has been made for then
and their party; and that with aneb a
record U Will not do tor the Democratic
party to r> before the people hi the yiem
and important conceal! of 1880, if their
representatives, who retrenched and re
tonned ali hat themselves, left their work
unfinished H> save a few 1»f the err*
pounds of bacon or corn or cotton Ktal
iheir largely Increased pay may Have en
abled them to buy. ,
No. Not a word of this hi mkt hi a
spirit of unkindneas or teproach. On
the contrary thia newspaper believe*
eoonomy to be the duty, the party duty
ot every Democrat, for it twMe that the
doctrine of the Democrntie party le
that lawful taxation consists alone in
depriving aclrizen of hie property for
the pub'.lc good, and th it to take
property lor other than tiuaeasafy ex
peuse* i* highway robbery under ttra
forms of law. And, M was said above,
thia newspaper Is deeply Itounden to
the Dcmoeratic Reprosuntativea of tbu
people by the confidence reposed in it,
by jlie bestowal, and mere than all lor
the principle which they distinctly and
markedly and ahuoet unanimosMly en
dorsed, and in'the maintenance of which
thia writer liad a hard and sometimes
hitter halt year's struffle against hnbha
of newspapers and ' public notions ot
at their datles that had grows up in
Nor'h Carolina during the few years lie
hail been uneonueetod with the pro*
femion in which he was barn and bred.
All that this newspaper seak* if . the
eoceeasof the Democratic party. It i»
emphatically a party newepeper. which
on questions ot polio? reooguizes the
party's will as an authority from which
there is no appeal. it hopes that its
party friends will reeogniae the ajaitit
in which it siwaks and the motive
whleh prompts it to speak; and. with
out ootiaultation with any oue of them,
it believes that they will do their tall
duty to tlieuiaelves their party and their
State, at whatever sacrifice of in
clination or eeuveaiaue e may be peces
WAaaiHUTON tITTIB,
WASHINGTON D. C. I
March 4 1879. $
«
In the Senate on Sunday there were
half a dozen men, ali perhaps honest in
their belief and conscientious in their ac
tion, who unnecessarily and wrougly iu
tttifered with the transaction of tl'ie put
lic business. The first was the man in
the gallery, who denounced the Senate
i tor laboring on*the Sabbath, quoting
scripture to the efleet that it should be
turned into Hell, with all the aathns
that iorget Clod. The next wae Hoar, of
Massachusetts who brought Jefferson
Davis into the deliberations of the oeus
3e. Then came Blaine, who, whatever
se he lacks, has a wounerlul power or
aggravating others. Thou Lamar. mOal
the oouwknii This accomplished Senator
always makes good speeches. But the
occasicu was unworthy of the Sennte.
ard I doubt not most of the actors would
like to see the record of it expunged from
the journal.
Iu dealiug with the District of Colum
bia Congresu has been unexpectedly be
hind, but most ol the schemes organized
lor the benefit of District men or ••rings"
hare been killed. Iu this respect the
fortyJßtth Congress will stand a ell, not
only as regards the District but thecoun
trv. it may have been lavish in the
expenditure ot public jnoney, but It has
not been corrupt.
Capt. Ends deservedly gets a modifica
tion of bia jetty coutract, by which lie
can get pay tor a large portion of (he
work already done. ibo Brazilian
Steamship, Northern Pacific end Texas
aud Pacific Railway Mils are defeated.
Among the oilier scliemes defeated vu
0110 to re-orga;ii*e the pension system of
the conntry. It wm in effect to establish
points In each staie—sixty lor tbe whole
couutr y~*to which applicants for pension
umst come with their wit tiesses. The
extreme hardship of the case is this.
There are abont 120,000 pension claims
now on file, and a large number are be*
iug filed every year. This gives 2,000 to
each post or place where the claimanta
and their witnesses would assemble. Tbe
witnesses are iroin four to ten in each
ease. Thu« there would be some 12000
or 14000 people to visit cafch post, with- j
ont any know ledge of tbe time when
they could be heard. Tbey might have
to remain on expenco for a month or
more. Senator Voorhees of the Senate
committee on peuaione and Represents*
thrto Uice, of Ohio, chairman ot Honse
committee ou pensions, both Democrats,
defeated tlse bill. Sena)or* Blaine, Conk
ling and ll«niliu were the only radical
Senators of prominence who voted agfclust
it. The radical party seems willing to
pay them. It is iu favor of tbe pension
law, but Hke ensign Stabbiua. ''agin its
enforcement."
jr~/ SOI.ON.
A* INDISTBIOUS CMIIIIU,
[Washington Gazette.] ,
One at the inoet industrious commits
tees of the House during the present
session has been tbe com.r.Hte on lu>
dian affairs, nndor the leat of It capable
and indefatigable chairman, Hon. A. M.
Scales of North Carolina, to whoao
labors much of what has been accomplish
ed is especially due. Some very Ink
portant legislation has been recommend*
ed by this committee.
From the Wefrn Reporter we learn
that Kope Ettas Esq., a prominent laws
yer of Franklin, had the nuefortnae to
have hie now and elegant dwslliM hmm i
ed. It wsa jnst completed, and" cleaned
oat cad Mr. Eliaa bad only moved a
reft of hit furniture into it. Tbe loea
a heavy one. Some suppose the fli*
the work of an incendiary awl others
think it resulted from smokers who Ware
about the building theday hsfcra.
An explosion of nitro-glyrine, a! Dutch
Gap on the Jamaa ri*er, below Richmond
resulted in the death of Mr.
government contractor for widening and [
improving Dutch Gap, and five or dx
negroes engaged m tbe wcrk. j
JHO.O. REDD, ' T.N.itoAN, JOHN STADLER JOHNSTON
lleary Co., Va. Casfcall Co., N. C. Rockingham Co., N. C.
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Farmers newikl&kjrasehouse
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the Farmer* end Planters of Viftfnia and North Carolina: The undersigned, as the proprtt
* funis waw uiox WAxnafVM .
beg to call attention, to Rssupeilor advantages of
location, sales room, lights, & accommodations,
for both men and teams; and for comfort and convenience generally. Ths proprietors an
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M * B " r wbo,e ttae aDd • ttontion »• AerUoA
FBI HIGHEST PRICES.
guaranteed. We do not spenHate in tobacco, and pledging ourselves
to look lI.MRI.V to the sales, and to handle carefully any tobacco sent us, or taken in. own.
or. may rest asanred that their Interest will not suffer in ottr hands. Promptness and fidelity our
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application.
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IF. ItARbMMAVXJST, M **•*■ fin
1879 1879
Ingtiul Bare a ixult
Boots, Shoes 8f Gaiters,
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Prices lower than ever.
I respectfully call MM attention, of the people
of Alafnanee ud adjoining counties to the fact
that I have just received a large add complete
dock of leather, and shoe findings, which I am
prepared to man hp pnvnptty, and with satis
faction to all. I have all the latest styles
both for
Ladies ftftd Gentlemen
and Ido none bnt first class work. Repairing
done ueatly and promptly. Thanking the public
for the patronage so generously bestowed 68
me in the past, and promising my best efforts to
merit a continuance of the INH, -xaii i
Graham, N.C.
Wghop East of the Court House-
Durham
Tobacco-market,
REPORTED BT
H.A. BBAHS,
PROPRIETOR OF
Beams Warehouse.
Durham JV. C. March 1 1879.
im.
Dark, , . I*to»
K * 1 ' BkIUHT MIHR,
Common,
Medium. T to i
Good, J. 10 to 14
Fancy, 18 to 85
RED LBAV.
Common Dark, lKto2J
Good,' 8 to ft
Common, 9 to 12
Medium, 18 to 80
Joe, 522L F
.wsr»erar rvsst
demand for fine wrappers at satisfactory
prices.
TTcen make itooev faster at work for ns
U than anything else. Capital not requir
ed; we w(ll start you. tIS j>er diy at home
made by the industrious. Men* women, and
boys and girls wanted everywhere to work
for us. Now is the time, fco«tljr outfit and
terms free. Address T*ob A Co., Augusta,
Maine. '
Ayer's
Hair Vigor,
For restoring Gray Hair to
U natural Vitality and Color.
A rlrtaalnir
store the hair where the follicles are
destroyed, or the gUnde atrophied
|,&'sSShS
hafr with a party aedimeat, it wiU
KfsWtesa
tiro m turning gray or falling off;
tor a mtK^f
HZm DRESSING, 4
be found so deeir
bric, and Vet UsUlonff hair"
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