North Carolina Newspapers

: 1 " " ' ' V Tl iJE DURI1VC;' THE CAMPAIGN fifty Tents. IE MIES jO:- Dumxc; Tin: v CAMPAIGN "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THF GOD'S, AND TKUTIISV -FOR- ,-.; i VOLUME 18. WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, AUGl 23 1888. NUMBER 30 IBM WlLSM MfWAEfMA , . :: ' i BILL AltP'S LETTER THE HOOM AT VILLI' CARTERS- Making it Hot the Town. Property on the Rise. Farm trt Alliance, Jir union, etc. It is pretty Lot around these parts, but we are fixing to make it hotter. The furnace work has begun. We are going to cook iron and .then make it Into staves to cook bread and meat and make it into steel rails for our railroads to haul us something to c 3ok. It takes a power of hot work to keep these poor carcassed of oars in good condition. I would have been a rich man but for this everlasting cooking business that never stops nor tires. But we are all built that way, and 10 the business goes on. The furnace ball opened yes terday, and Dr. Pratt-and. Mr. Martin are busy looking ovr the ground and directing the surveying and leveling and platting and locating. Very . soon the grading will begin, and there will be plenty of work for the' toilers. The white man will plan and the negro wjiU execute. He will 6hovel inn dig and lift and drive the iteel and mine the ore and lay bare his brawny arms and sweat and toil, and crack his jokes and sing his song and eat his humble fare aud enjoy his rest and never complain. It is most astoniahing ; how much life and vigor 'these manufacturing industries instil Into a community. .Even the . prospect of them is awakefning and stimulating and everybody moves around with a livelier step and a brighter counten ance. 'Major,' said art old lady friend to me, 'do yo.u think the boom has come sure enough?' Oh yes,' said I, 'there is a right smart boom down town .' 'And can 1 get any more tor my ' property ?'v 'Oh yes,' said I, vooa property iiKe yours is in demand, do you want to sell ?' ,'iUess your soul, no I don't want td sell. I expert to live and rtle right here,, but I jut want d to feel like my property was worth more than i(t"was. . 'Oh, yes,' said I, 'the tax as easors will convince you of that, I expect they will nearly I doable your taxes for the next year.' So there is no pleasure Without its pain. The real estate men are cir culating pretty lively now try ing to get options. That is a new word to the children and BO I had to explain and tell them that it I was willing to ell my home for five thousand dollars, I would -say to one of ne real estate agents: if yon- ell my place within ten days you may nave an you get over five thousand dollar.-.' So then he would have an option for ten days, 'i'he.-e real estate men are all ho anxious to get hold of property to sell for other peo pie that they pay something for these options. One asked Mr. White what he w6uld take iol his lot aQ3 workshop, and he said he would take eight hundred dollars. 'What will you take for your option V said the agent. 'Twenty-five dollars,' said Mr. White. 'For how long ?' said the a:3nt. 'Until ran down,' said Mr. White as he hammered a. way on a bureau. Our people won't give long op tions now for property is rising pretty fast. . If is now up to Just about its prime cost. Two years ago a storehouse that cost two thousand dollars to build, could have been bought . for fifteen hundred with the lot thrown in. That same store house and lot will bring twenty-five hundred now. But property can't be boomed . be yond its fair value iii Carters ' ville. There is too much of it. There is not a town in Georgia that has such beautiful suburbs for improvement. Situated on high plateau with gentle I rolling eurf ace and good drain age and beautiful views of the . Surrounding mountains and fast 'flowing streams on every aide, she offers inviting homes aud good business prospects to those who are seeking homes, hp matter whether they come from the. North or from the fouth. The Pratt Henderson company that have just located their steel works and. mangan ese works here are delighted With their selection. Mr. Mar tin said to me yesterday : 'You hare the loveliest and most at tractive country 1 have ever Been.' That company made a thorough inspection of all in t j. . . .... Tiling localities around us, from Sheffield to Birmingham and chose Cartersville, and Will invest $100,000 here: at once. Within three months farming lands adjacent to the town have risen from $40 to $100 an arjre, as was proven by a guardian s saio at public out , firy last Tuesday. 'Ihere will be a demand for the products of these lands,, and the last crop of cotton is now upon them that will ever ba seen There will be more consumers than producers. Mr. Camp, who farms near Kome, planted ten acres in sweet potatoes Jast year and netted eight hundred dollars profit. What encourage ment is there to a hen to lay eggs at ten cents a dozen ? Cobo says she Is too much ashamed to cackle, and Just drops it and goes along. Now, we expect to see before long a hundred teams hauling Iron ore and manganese to our farnacesi and hundreds more digging and! mining and working in the furnaces, and they and their families will be hungry three times a day, and want watermelons or " peaches or apples between meals. The stove factory is to follow the furnace, and we are going to make horse shoes, and nails, and axes, and - stone - hammers, and most anything else that can be made out of iron. x- Evan Howell says the finest turnout he saw at Long Branch last summer was carrying a man he supposed was Vander bilt, or Astor, or an English lord or a French count, and so he got out of the way quick and took of his hat as the fel low passed, and then he found out he was a Connecticut chap, who had made a fortune mak ing hairpins. I believe I will make some hairpins or fish hooks or carpet tacks or buckles or buttons or something. I think that' Ii could keep busy making such things for my own family. Good gracious! If I was a merchant what a splen ¬ did trade I would have from one family. '-' We have contracted for wa terworks1 and gas works, and the next I thing will be an ice factory and a street railroad, and we are just obliged to have a railroad to Gainesville with a branch going up to Coosa- wattee. One industry calls for another and all of them will help the farmers. They need help. It looks like everything now at every reunion they call for his child, his only child tYe daughter of the regiment and ste comes. If there was arother war I believe, they would give Miss Lena a sword and fol'ow her like the French followed Joan of Arc. As Miss Winnie Davis is the daughter of the confederacy, so is Lena Woofford the -daughter of the regiment, and she meets with them and presides at their bari quet, and the old soldiers rev erently kiss her hand and shed a patriotic tear for auld-lang syne. All this may seem child ish and sentimental, but a man who does not appreciate it has not got enough patriotism in his bosom to defend his own fireside Bn.L Ari POLITICAL ECHOES. Small, A' Raising Flag gets help but farming. I 'see that those everlasting rascals up North have formed a bag ging trust to "put up the price three cents a pound, and that will take a million and a half more out of the farmers' pock ets. Most every business has a trust, a pool, a combination to speculate upon the- people, but the farmers can't get trufted at all, unless they mortgage their crops and pay about fifty per cent, for advances. The mer chant advances forwards but the poor farmer advances back wards. A mercnant tola me that he had to charge big inter est on account of the risk he took in advancing the risk of drought and storms and catere pillars . and boll-worms the risk of dead horses, and' stolen mules, and the farmer dying, and his widow gobbling up the crop, and lawyers fees, and doc tors bills for the last sickness, and a money panic, and a war in Europe-- ., 'That will do,' said I; 'I see' it all now. I didn't know it was so risky. I. don't think you charge enough. You ought to do like Dr. Wild man did when he cured a nig ger, of the smallpox. He just took the whole nigger for pay.' Our people are watching the Farmers' Alliance with a good deal of interest. Can they do anything, and will they do it ? Many efforts have been made heretofore to unite the farmers for their mutual Benefit and have failed, and , now we have anxious doubts about the alii T-k A. . V Am m ance. am mayDe tney nave a better plan. Experience is a good schoolteacher. If they were mean enougn 10 iorm a cotton trust for two years and noia an tney maae, wnat a howl there would be ! It would not be so mean either, for they make the cotton, and if it costs eight cents a pound to make it they ought to have twelve and a half cents for it. But those speculators who get up corners and trusts, and monopolies do not make anything that they deal in. They are like the vampires that hover over the weary traveler as he sleeps by the way, '.; and fan him with their wings and suck all his blood and leave him to die. A man who will plot and scheme a corner on the neces saries or lite is a thousand times more guilty than one who steals to supply his own wants. The chaingang is too good for him. We had another reunion here yesterday a gathering of ,the survivors of the old Eighteenth, General I Woofford s regiment, the one he raised when he was a colonel, and the one that al ways claimed the right to lead the brigade when attacking the enemy. It is .wonderful how a brave commander can infuse his fighting spirit into his men. I went to school with Tatum Woofford and my earliest recol lection of him was when he had a fight with a bigger boy because the boy imposed upon a little boy and kicked him for nothing, and Tatum took it up and whipped him. When he was sixteen he ran away from school and went .to Mexico to figbt the Mexicans for imposing on Uncle Sam, and later on he went to fighting Uncle Sam for imposing upon us. He never did like imposition. How well his soldiers loved him was These mechanics aud labor- Droven bv the wav ther follow ers will want something to eat. 1 ed his lead in every battle, and A dozen lineman were busy for two hours yesterday raising a new telegraph, pole on Seventh street. When they began dig ging the hole an old chap came along and inquired: "Going to raise a pole eh?' "Yes." "Guess IM1 take it in. I alius did believe in opening the campaign early.' He sat down on a door step until the pole was up, and then as some of the men were going away, lie inquired; "Isn't there going to be any speech?' "We don't generally have any," replied the man, "but you can make one if you wish." "Would -it be. putting my self forward? . "Oh, no." "Nobody engaged, eh?" "No one." ; : - . - "Say, you!' he' 'continued as he squinted aloit. "whicn party is it?" "The telegraph party.' "Oh, shucks! Somebody move we adjourn, tor I aon t vote that ticket!' Detroit Free Press. Republican party will win.'- If the Republican party wins In North Carolina -because of Democrats going into I this - 3rd party movement, .those Demo crats will be responsible for the corrupt management of our State government that would be certain, to - ensue... -Free Press. ." - . ?' fci-i. '.- J Will Thomas P. Devereaux kindly inform us how many carts will be required to com plete a line extending from here .to the moon? Will he J. N. Staples, of Greens- give, us also the. capacity for nauung silver aoiurs-jtor. eacn cart that he had reference Jo a few years ago, when he stated that no less than a string this long would- . be required to transport all the money stolen by the Republican party? We ask this information that we may approximate the vast sum of stolen cash for which the G. O. P. is responaible.-Fayette-ville Journal. ORIGINAL, STOLEN AND OTHERWISE. What We Glean From the News paper World as it Floats in Re view before Vs. Col. boro, has been invited to speak in Indiana. At Boone, N. C, Judge Fowle was met by 400 mounted men with white hats and bandannas. SSOULO THE FAE!CES TAS3 STOCK IN POLITICS. "" ' NEWb OF -A WEEK WHAT IS HAPPENING IN , JUE WORLD AROUND US. A rr iutry.'d rrjtorl of the news us tialhvrrtl from the columns of our contemporaries. State atnl Natiotuil. In Edgecombe, Halifax and Warren counties several color ed Democratic clubs have been organized. "MY GOD AEEENATHY." The World truthfully says it does not promote American interests to tax the people $120, 000,000, a year in excess of the needs of the government. We Knew You'd Come. He pudiates the Third Party. Ee- Totacca a: a Preventative of Hog Cholerai Dr. J. I;.- Hums assures us t hat tobacco- is a sure pre ventative cf hog cholera. He has not lost a hog since he be gan its-nsi with his hogs five years sco.IIe takes the common leaf tot acco, crumbles it up and gives about half a' tea-cup full to each hog. lie gives several doses of this at intervals of about a week during the spring None of his killing hogs have shown any feigns or worms or boils on' tlie entrails. His neighbors' hogs' have been swept oil with cholera while hip have remained - perfectly healthv. The remedy is cheap and easily' tried, una the doctor is perfectlv confident that he ha's at'lat found a- specific. T .sometimes look at a pretty boy and think wnat a pity it is that he is bound to grew up and become a man and get mar ried and drunk aud wicked and do all sorls of horrible things. Ind when you look at the blue eyed. fair-Laired little female child and thiisk that some day sue is going to be a pretty wo man with a tight-laced waist, a tailor-made suit, false hair, and a touch of paint on her face ; that sha is going to fib and flirt and deceive and marry the wrong man and have lots of trouble well, you can't help asking : 'What is the use of it all ?'- San Francisco Chronicle. We think Moore county is po litically getting very healthy. We saw Democrats from many sections of the county Wednes day and they are in good spir its. Sanford Express. The Warreuton Gazette says Franklin, Vance and Warren will unite in a grand Demo cratic Mass-Meeting at Jones' Springs on the :25th of this month. 2000 people are expect ed to , be present. 5 Senators Daniel W. Yorhees and M. C Butler spoke in Ashe ville Monday of last week. About 3,000 people heard their eloquent presentation of the claims of the . Democratic par ty. Much , enthusiasm was created. v The so-called Prohibitionists of Wake county have nomina ted a ticket. The platform adopted declares for protection. The negro who was nominated for coroner refused to accept the honor. The convention was a farce. The Sampson county Demo crats uominated the following ticket: Senate, E. W. Kerr: House, Dr. W. B. Murphy and W. E. Stephens: Treasurer. J. R. Beamon; Register of Deeds, O. F. Herring; Sheriff. J. M. Spell, Coroner, Dr. Cooper. There are 52 County Alliances in I thin State and 1 013 Sub-Alliance. A MAN'S SUCCE'N At the earnest solicitation of many friends, and after mature and prayerful reflection, I beg to withdraw my name as can didate for Superintendent of Public Instruction on the Pro hibition. ticket. In the length ening shadows of evening, near- ing my 'three score years and ten,' the esteem of my friends is more tnan ever dear to me This, I am suie I should lose in a measure by my candidacy, while I am now convlced that evil would result thereby, both to. Prohibition ana to my friends and fellow citizens in the State. I think my friends in .North Carolina will testify that during my life I have nev er hesitated to follow where duty pointed the way. The nomination came under the guise of duty, and I accepted. I now plainly see that this present Third Party" movement will not only imperil the white man's supremacy in the South ; but it will damage the cause of Prohibition almost incalculab ly. Since the war, when I vot ed at all, my ballot has always been cast in favor of Demo cracy; and as I am now, and always have been, in full sym pathy with that party on every question, except that of license, if, as it is plainly to be seen, one of the old political parties must triumph in this, contest, I oli a 11 nnt. ullnw mvuplf tn-h used as an instrumentality Mi putting my friend9 in Horth Carolina under the dominion of negro rule. Hence, I hereby decline the candidacy and with- draw from the Third Party, and earnestly recommend my life This Is the Ticket of Edge- loug friend and brother, Mai. S. combe Democracy: For the M. Finger, who is a Christian Senate, J. A. Vis; for the House gentleman, a Prohibitionist and A. Braswell and J.A. B. Thorne; a scholar, to all my Prohibition Sheriff, W. T. Knight; Treasur- brethren in the State. er, S. S. Nash; Register of In the present situation, I Deeds, J. J. Pittman; Coroner, earnestly advise the with- W. E. Sufi-ir: Survevor. T. H. drawal of the Prohibition tick- We clip the following from The Southern' Alliance which contains much solid food for thought:-' "Our readers will pardon U3 for asking what : eeemg po insldidue a question ' 1 as nt&nd at the" head of this article. : We do not men to be1 insidious in anything said' in this -paper. What we do mean by the above heading.'will be made plain by by what we now ' ask you to w""-' . man iwemy Tuo State library has :0,000 vol j,-. UM. uccu a ieiiueiicy urne? on it Mielvos. if 'n&U .4joiniaott.practWi Charlotte in to hav a public i V ""i(ciiiciii ui iimu- ou:IUit; tb.it will cost fSi,0i. suairs ia vus nana oi a lew towu and city politicians chiefly to 1 flwppra onI nfKA- ntvifAn.itM als not always of sufficient ,lln:f,tl& 1. Importance to be kept busy un- ciev Tu ,i " tn tne saying : was so common that it failed to . awaken tho " ?nier stone oi cotton lac alarm which its' Import would J01"?' J L,."lMlVR ,a Soory wa laid warrant, that "town rings and ,a' AUU"ua- lawyers are running the politics! 1'ev. K. O. lVarson will tosiu of the country." Now we beg to hM va,1K l,Nt,c work ,n Wins oa say tnal we have never been " w lUB u'Bfc U1 Di'cmuer. in sympathy with any disposl- The VOVa and VO.u North Caro tion to charge any class of our M'na rclft3 are in tho ires. liotb fellow-clt tens with auy inten- 1111 lHi ,e:,1,.v UT. 5'ptemlH-r 1st. Hon of - unfair dealing, or of Washington is to have a nw presuming to ignore any class public fcchool building. It will be or to trespass upon the ritrhts 70x:;o tfet. two atones bigu and of the farmers. But freauent Cos -,000 flippant sayings concerning the We loam froni tbe Mexteugrr competency of farmers to th.it Wilmington b.n a. dot bin & manage politics or fill political 1 factory wbicb tutus exit 150 pairs stations together with the very ot rants per day. common practice of eending The receipt or cotton in ltalcigh lawyers almost exclusively to to date from Sut ruber ut. 187. our State Legislature and to are G4.7CO bales; Kanif time last .National Congress 10,973 bushels of corn were f'uip ped from the depot at Lenoir ixom January 1st to July Slst, and yet mere are tnouftanua leit to tb county, and the best proopect for i Dig crop tbis tall tbat wm ever seen. Vr tl A" a lcuow iever nas made it ap. per.rance at. J act rod rule, Fla. Th health authorities are taking actirs mens to stamp it out. All tbe Southern tovus tbat are likely to ba iatected are quarantined apaiast Jacksonville and it is boped tbat there will be no epidemic A big Iiremen's Tournament U to be held in Greensboro on Sep tember 12tb and 13th, and a very elaborate programme baa beea ar- rnfl. Tbe Confederate toon a ment is to be unveiled, sod tbe orth Carolina State Firetnen's Amtociation is to be organized. Cash priEPH will be offered lor tbe firemen's contest. From varion tec'iom ofthia and tho adjoining counties, bats tbe Henderson Gold Leaf, we bear glowing reports of the crops. Up Und corn is tmrry, cotton ts small and tobacco is anything but satis factory. Reliable erona tell ns tbe tobacco crop in going to be a niot diapoinling one both ia quantity aud quality. -:o:- THE LKSSON MAI- uan's suvcrss. TI! Cherry. The people over North Caro lina appreciate the fact that their only hope is in the Demo cratic party and they will con tinue that party of honesty and good government in power so king as the parties continue to be composed of the men they are to-day. et in North Carolina, and the support of Democracy in the present contest. We cannot af ford to impose negro supremacy upon our fellow citizens. In an off year, (next year, If Col. Geo. Washington Jones told the mob the other night how' the KreeQback party prv posed to take the wealth from tue ricn ana industrious men, and the cheers were loud principally from loafers. But tie colonel never told them that times would be better with them, if they would quit loaf ing arourd town, cursing the Democratic party, as they wait foi. -the greenback party to fl f f a A11I1 t TTT TT71 fll m Y dTT 1XJJA tt V. V tii 1.1. J a bU J j and go to work. Hundreds of planters are looking for hands every day and can t find them. inis lsiwiiat is the matter, my brethien. vou dease.) 1 earnestly beg all good men of all parties to unite with me, outside of politics, in putting this infamy of all in famies, the liquor traffic, out of our State. T n tm n sxwrr a n s1 wn a n frtQf In the Democratic Senatorial of mv life lies in the cast : how Contention of the 2nd District, it has been consecrated to hu- held in Washington, N. C. last manlty, the people know. And Wednesday, A. H. Lucas, of in this fieht against the arch Hyde, and H. W. Stubbs, of enemy of earth and heaven, Martin, were nominated for the though my sword be pow erless Senate, by acclamation. Large, as Priam's, it shall strike for has led to the reflections contained in this article. If, in these reflection we are unjust, and if there be no real cause for fair-minded criticism implied, then we fball congratulate ourselves and the country, and be content to leave our politf : 1 interests Just where they bciwiig-, viz: in the hand of every good end true citizen regardless of avocation or professional calling. As we read the signs of the times we are impressed that the farmers are beginning to1 rei!iz,e that they have been too frequently used as a means to an end by political aspirants, who knew but little of the real wants of the farmes, and of legislation necessary to enhance and magni fy the agricultural interests of the country at large; and we be live we now see that the farm ers are beginning to realize as n'ever before, that they area prime factor in the politics of the country as well as in the monetary affairs thereof. Out of Lthis recognition has grown or rmore properly, is growing, a determination to throw the weight of their great, power ,'nto tbe politics of the country and have a real voice in State and National legislation, which egislation may greatly set for ward, or hinder and embarrass the great interests of our farm ing citizens. Of course we. Go not mean to intimate that no awyer or professional man is capable of serving fn political pheres in a way that wonld promote the farmer's interest. Many of them are farmer.- themselves, or have been, or they are of sufacient intelli gence to know th wants of all classes of our citizens. These men do the country a grand service, but farmers as a class, have not had, within the last twenty year, '- that kind of egislation that was healthful and helpful to the farming jcar, 01, .I 7 b:i!ci. A lire in Chattanooga, Tenn., last week, destroyed $l)0,i00 worth oi property, killed ten ivrsons and wounded fur other. . Mr. Henry C. Moore, Register or Deeds of Duplin county, i.s the first to send in hi abstract of listed taxes lor the year 1S&3. The Salisbury Press reports a canteloupe that measures 41 inches Tto Tluri Tarty a lSstaia. li Sam Was Ihote Uf .V. r of 1mn7 Mrn try It oibl Hare More Svmfnt f u If more fathers woul 1 ti!;- a courne with tLelr t-nn firi:. toone my father t c v.; me,' observed one ef tb a ic Ing business tnen of Iv : s the boys mbcht think Lar 1 J. the time, but they'd t:.-- them la after life.' -What . of a course?' tre ith-l V . ; ; I was a youn? fellow r.f trr: . -two. Just out cf coUiv, : eit 1 r . . !i til C T1 imporunce. i Enw v.- !- was well on, and my 1. .. i , full of fooli.li nottM: t: : ing a good time end .--t - . lots or money. l&U r u i peeled father to eliii ousiness, alter Id vv-,..: round a while at lha cla' , ; j with fine hor.el!oh. I..r . wise man, father paw thrraj : my folly, ar.dreM red t j rrc vent my Hflf dt-htrucUrt. :: possible. lf the boy's tr.-'l ;Lc nem stun m him let Ui.i r i-at harmonious Convention great enthusiasm. and V It is stated that the National Republican Committee will flbod the State with Republi can speakers and monev. and try to capture the State. Is this the legitimate result of Dockery's trip, North? It seems so means harder work for us and we must not forget it. : God and the Right. Yours truly, K. L. A BERN ATU Y. Special Cor. State Chronicle. THE COLOR LINE How The Negro's Are Solidified. A iiKL-ourr.ij was enthused over the election returns the other night, and rapturously embraced his sweetheart as he exclaimed: "Oh, I belong to the associated press.' ; "Well,' she renlied, as she returned tha hug and smack and re -arranged her hair, "you need not he t-o electrical over it, and pie ttte matter.' John Chinaman, my Jo John, When we were first acquent. 'Twas said that you must go, John, And yet you never went; For' I stood by you then, John, Through thick and thin, you know, And you'll stand by me now I think, John Chinaman, my Jo. Alta California. . "color so a It was. his first visit to the city. As be stood on the curb stone shaking Lis sides with laughter he was accosted by one of JS'ew Haven's finest : WLat'd the fun stranger ? Fun ! Can't you see it ? Just look how that thing pointing to a. watering cart leaks ; why the blamed old fool won't have a drop b'i't when lie gets home. New Haven News. j.hrouh t lu: efforts of Congress man .S;int:;o,;s a-"daily mail has been ehfuWuihed from Kinston to llookoi toif via I Hen field.. We are unable to iearu when tbe route coalmen ecs. ' The Advance knows that the Well, Democrats, it Republicans draw the color line on me negroes on every possible occasion. It is by means of this same line," that 'they denounce bitterly when uttered by Democrat, that the negroes are made to vote the Republican ticket like a flock of sheep. The Louisburg Times has this to say on the subject: If every true white man in Franklin, or in the State, could hear some of the boastings, threats and in timidating language of certain colored political bosses in this section, we do not believe that there would-be a corporal'i guard of them, who would con descend to so to the polls and vote for the Republican noml I nees. The writer heard one of these bosses talking to a crowd of colored men a few days ago, and in the conversation he made some pretty heavy threats, and gave as his opin ion that every negro that vo ted the Democratic ticket this hung, or The News-Observer has a letter from Rev. Geo. W. San derlin in which he thanks friends for expressions of sym pathy and explains that his 'sickness, though tedious and quite exhausting, was at no time very serious." He has made himself one of the most popular men in the State with astonishing rapidity and tjbo- ple everywhere will re1oie in year, ought to be his partial recovery . and gladly I words to that effect wvicome mm out again. Going into the Prohibition 3rd party because you are die satisfied with both the present parties is dodeinir. You can. uu mctouy avuia responsiDili- ea tning an ty. Wither the Democratic or Free Press. in circumference and wVinus 27A pounds. It is a beauty. The Atlantic Coast Line have ordered twenty Ualdwin passenger locomotives to meet the increased travel over their road. Mr. James. S. Hat tie, revenue agent for. Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, has made his headquarters at llaieigh.' The lloidsville Iiitiea have con pie ted a n-w anno; v. It is lighted by electricity and will he oueofth most elegantly fitted arsenals in the State. .China is preparing to fight l""g- laud, on account of excluding Chi nese from lSritish Colonies. The Chinese army is said to number 13,000.000. A hi .ek hotel, four fctrirs with 110 rooms, is neariug completion at Mt. Airy. Tni.s Is the fourth hotel at Mt. A:rV, and it has iiad the raihoad Muce May only. We s e fr.im the Sanford Ilxpre that the Farmer-.' Alliance or Moore eouary came together and -.iihrcnU-d ?ij,MX to build a small cotton mill at Carbonton. The New Uerue Journal ?ah Hyde county has raised a large onion crop - this ear. Oiih party raised three hundred bushels from three riu.irters ol au acre. The Frankl:niville Manufactur ing -Company made 3.1..VS7 bag and 8, ."(0 warps doling the moutb of July. Tln se mills c.m consume 125 bales of cotton per tuanth. . Japan is again agitated ny earth quakes. Houses were baiied .fif teen feet bi-ncatli red mud aud ashe.s aiid hundreds'of jieople were killed. The people wre hutlering terribly. nteresta of this country. We Th n.n.wrin r.nui ir r. think we see a tendency for the ports a tobieco fttnlk that contains better, and without assuming u leaves and treasures 7 r,.,.t i,iCu. to be the political counselors of One leaf was exactly 3 feet long tne farmers, and sincerely ana -it mcin-s wide. 1 he plant n 1. Ther are no reascnable grounds of hope of success to the party, surely not on of the candidate ei recta to b I elected. Ilelva Lockwood'a li ' 1 eir& father ray U 1:. chances for election are almost er ODe ' worked hai .3 r r as good. No voter will expect my money, and I d.ut in. 1 toi-avo his vote if lie casts it to let Ned wjuander it tnd with the Third irty. Some himself besides.' Tht : may vote that ticket to "rhow day he came alon and 1 i .C l their colors", and that they may me remarking, 'Ned, f. appear f-puuky, tut is it wise? that money, ppen l it t y 4 The Third party will not choose, but understand Xhit measure the strength of much; it's the last dlLar of v.: 7 Prohibition in either the money you can Lave till yi j State or Nation. 'Many true prove yourself capaLle t f i;.: Prohibitionists will not vote ing money, and taking earj f the ticket, because they know -t on your own 8X111. It tdWr vote-r will be lost tlie mo ley in a Port cf, a u , 1 !cal Option law, as we manner, and ptamuercl A, have it, and as others may 'I why I want U g i:.U have it, irrants us all we ought business. to a.-k for at present. Jocal "Business! exclaimed fr.tlr Option law in North Carolina contemptuously, 'what do ; i Kives 11s the opportunity of know about managing i i : proving by actual experi- tlle business? And laiLtr 1 f t merit that Prohibition la a so-1 men toponaenni Li.-- v. cial. moral and financial bene- Ajl(i that $j0 was the li t u hoping, that aa a class we will be too wise to be drawn into political strife, or that we will be so incautious as to be drawn into dlsoussionu of any kind that would engender strife or discord, yet we would say that with concert of action and by allying your selves with good men of all classes that you may have, at an early day, a more potent voice in the legis lative halls of our State and national government, that will be highty promotive of all the interests of our commonwealth without regard to class or call ing. A better day Is coming to this broad and heaven-favored land of ours. All hail the day! We beg to sayin conclusion that all we mean by writing the foregoing ia, that farmers need greater protection as a class, which protection and help must come from their own ranks as they phall rise up and unite themselves with all classes of good citizens in all the callings of life, and secure an ad ministration of State and Na tional politics that will be equitable to all, and oppressive to none." . Patron Waiter, how's this. How's what? I found this cigar holder in the soup. Well, well! I'm glad of that. Pve been hunting for the hang- hour. Detroit Work has been commenced on the Itoanoke and Southern ltaihoad at Winston. A force of 100 men are employed. The Raleigh Recorder says : 'The only section of the State re porting favorable ami satisl.ictory crops to Commissioner of Agricul ture BobinsoD is thnr along the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Uail road from near Green 't'Oio io ilt. Airy. The Kalei'h 15iandard Guano Company, of this c::-. has offered a premium of live ions oi' their oest fertilisers to th f ,iuiers' sab-alliance, which will in.ke the best exhibit of agiieultn'.ti pro da eta at the next State fau. jet growing Ti;e Ox find l'oruhhgi't learns th.it Opt. A. II. A. Willkinis has lecentU 'veeii ii.ade pretddrnt of a const 1 uc am company to build a railroad from Martinsville, Va., to Wiuwlon, this State. The Monroe Knquirer-Kxpress says crop prospects are encourag ing. The recent ralus came just in time to save cotton and young com and even much of the early coin has been greatly b?netittel. We oaq hum the Washington Progress that Mrs. Sarah 0ens, who was convicted as an accessory to the n urder of her husband near Creswell, about two years ago, and sent to the penitentiary for life, is dead. From the Stato Chronicle w, learn that at a meeting of the Jus tices and County ComiuisMioiie: last week it was decided to bon-.v .10,000 for county purines, to !c exiveiuled chiefly in finUhin j coun ty bridges. Oar New 15trne friends are mak ing preparations for tbe fair at that place this fall. The last oue was hurriedly gotten up but was a splendid success. With arupie time for Jpreparatnu their next will eclipse anything of tho kind ever seen by our people. The peniteullarv authorities re port 1,:5C3 convicts in the State Angit t, a shown by the reports made by the various officers in charge of (-quads, ccc. Ihere are :;C4 in tu ieuiteutiarv and at the Oaks aud Cooke farms, near here 100 011 Western1 North Carolina railro.idMurphy division ; -Si at the quarters in Iray- 7 at those in Horse llidge; 228 on the western division of the Cape Fear & Yad kin Valley railroad; liQ on its eastern division ; 183 on the con tmr.t work in IInvwool cotintv on the Carolina. Knoiville & Western 1 mother and railroad ; 57 on the V llson & Florence "short-cnt," aud on the Plymouth turnpike. Of all the convicts only about 70 are women. fit to the people. Any commu nity, 'large or small, that de sires to live under Prohibition can do eo by vote Of the major ity. Other States can have the same laws if they want them. 3. If we had every of3ce, State and National, filled with Prohibitionists, they could not render the cause any better service. Prohibition must be entrenched behind a mucn more favorable public senti ment tan exists now, to control the Congress - and Legislatures of our general aud State gov ernments. What would the mere fact of the President or Governor being a Prohibition ist amount to, so far s the pub lic weal is concerned? 4. A change of administra tion now would be followed by great confusion. Now while the Third party cannot hope to elect its nominees it may turn over the government to Republican hands. The mana gers of that party are shrewd enough to know that much de pends on thorough organization of the party and they will see to it that no Republicans vote the Third party ticket. JEsop tells us in fable, "That a dog was swimming the river with a piece of beef in his mouth. He saw the shadow of the beef and thinking that it was a gen uine piece of beef much larger than the one he had, he opened his mouth and grabbed at the shadow." It is to be hoped that l)emocrats will not be so fascinated with the shadow before this Third rarty move ment as to let go and lose the present administration. 5. A change of administra tion would be a loss to all. Perhaps no President ever had more influence over Congress than Cleveland. Certainly no one his ever had more fully the confidence of the public than he. Men of means would refuse to let out their meney t) circulation or to invest in building manufacturing estab lishments for lack of confi dence in the government. A money panic would be the re- ey my father ever gave 1.1 , u:i at his death I received my j ,i: t of the property. I fiU and bitter then, felt that my fa ther was a stingy old fvvy. mentally resolved . U pro c him that I could livo wiihr his money. I.e had s.rou 1 : pride just what ho ii:l suppose. For three day I ! ed about to find a"-,;. make lots oi money; 1, ; found no such chance., r.i length, I accepted a c! rl: .. in a large retail -lorc it ' : ' 1 year. Another bit -4 ir.L stinginess at this tiu ' demanding ?2 a week' f r : board through the tr -.. the end of my fir-t 1 . aside ?200, and the ' : my salary beinj ra' .J. I had $ SUO laid by. t i. . d red cents meant iaor i thctee days than f previously. Attheetil, . vears' clerking I went to 1 father with 1,50 d i.,y u anaasaea lili u La v. us v.. ing to help me enter Even then he would me borrow the m ney, f. at6 per cent inten d, i am called a uccfu.i man, and I have tuy lti.t r J A mans, lor Uio.-e i.t.- .1.: 11 -denial, self re? erl l . 1 independence which l.c , me cut the inanhMl in .. "Years afterwards ; told me it cost Lira lLol. . struggle of Lis life t j hard on Lis toy; but he it was the only course Ij 1.... man of me. Many z tii.i laughed over the 2 b . I t I 4 1 t .The Charlotte Chron r late raios have r..uM chaDge in driving away i" ency and bringing -herr.i: tbe farmers of that t.- --. cotton and other rn -s " v ed greatly blnce v.pM-s bave fallen. In niati;. crop is expected, hiU in 1: may tbe crop be ex;tud below the average. - .an .aU suit aud it would continue probably through the next four years. Kev. J. C. Kowe, a sensible preacher in the Le noir Topic. Young man, ma!:" . r ;"d such that it can never ! i l j of you that any rfmpi!!y j-.ti may keep is more reHai; z, 'd elevating and pure lh?.u V.i. you enjoy in moments solitude. This advice, if fo"-vr- ed. will make you useful ; -d happy. A stranger stopped at the gate of a Missouri farmer and asked for a drink of water. When he had drank he turned to the farmer and said: 'Things have changed with me. A short time ago I was re spected by all who knew me. I wore the finest clothes and went into the best society. My position was one of great in fluence.' What business were you In?' the farmer asked. 'I was the managing editor of a St. Louis newspaper.' The farmer wheeled about and, catching sight of his ton in the yard, exclaimed: yt.tbar, Jim, tell your W .11. .. v.- gran maw to locx themselves up in the store room, and then untie tbe dog, Jim, ez quick ez you ken.' Arkansaw Traveler. Zalaba, Fla., Jujf-: N.K.V1SAM.1.S Co.: I have been uting 1.. my family as a VI- '. ; Llaving never nwl ar:y : . to equal it. Kesj-cc'.Ja.V". V iL Laws. Extract from a l.xt:-t p. s. I bought ; u : : vour Botanic V.'.,t. l; tl.u 1 friend 11. D. Ua'Ird, a bellcS. C I have t,x i three week. It ap;v:- . me new lite and new . there is anythinj tl: it v an old mau you'i'g u r am willing to m Ii 1:. 1 and houll.v re'un.ii - t liliXHl lUlm. ltUH;i 1- it M v At!..: t. - a e l v f v