North Carolina Newspapers

Fond oi M Seein mh mm mm ye5 Well to see sights that will please' the eye and .suit tue pocket book; we advise you to take a look at the 'Sillt " of Baraiqs Kow open to you at the CASH RACKET STORES. fljey are :. sights worth seeing, worth buying. Not confined to jny one line ot goods but all. this little city such a variety ofr goods at prices quite so ridiculous. ;:: ,: - J ; V ' ' X-u v . ; V: -y l-; ' . life and Gents Furnisfiings, Laces, Corsets, Motions, stationery, liardwaTe and i ' - , -... r- Tinware, Soaps, Brushes of all Kind, We can knock competition clear'out of sight. (Excuse Come, see for yourself. , V the ;lang J. M LEATH, Manager The Cash Racket Stores, Corner nash and Tarboro Sts. STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS. : ".''.--' Clowns Ouoiat sons of the Xevr York and , l'luladelphia -Exchanges. Xdv YtisK. A1.!-, 2?. The transactions, in !txksf(id:;;r. while on a moderate 'scale, were Mi il.Tnli11Tl'fl. witVl tlt SlfHV?tV . 1T1 . KTVt.J. Fw the. first i',:;i-- the market appeared to wifctTOh sonic degree of . spirit the improv ing financial outlook, .which i chief! v baser! on ----- ...... ..it.. J .V. i J 11 ,A 1.3 i axaiipn of the present stiffness in money and i the commercial paper market. Closing bids:' Bate: more & Ohio- l:Jl4' Cba. & Ohio L& Hudson B,L.&Yvr ... tie . . . feErie W w .-i t ".ass i JIHKl ...Ufl 13' as Lehigh Valley New Jersey Cen . N. Y. Central. .... Pennsj'lvania. . . . . . Reading; St. Paul ........ i. W. N. Y. & Pa . . . 28 M 92 50 Win- General Markets. - 'PHILADELPHIA. All". TTlrvnr afpalv w superfine, Sl.'Wg&lo; do. extras, $2.152.30; fflnsrlvania roller. clpar. STM- rln rlr. &' 3.-23.-' Wheat ouiet. but firm : Aii- C6t,6P ''d.Jic. -Oom Irvwer A n trti a.'-2 A'iir'ft t& its steady : AiwiKt rv -oiLr. Wair . B.5ij ,( 14. Lard steady ;we.stern steam, T'- 2- Beef steady : eitv faniilv. .i.5:irffil0. Pork -" ".10. Butter steady ; western do. creamery, HV-i'lGc1. : do. T.1!!-'-.: F.Uin.':'1fiU'- imitaKon II1 ;, 16 1 i'e. : Pennsylvania cream- extra, ii)e": do, firsts, 17((tlSc. : do.- . 1 r n i Ui IV Mil it . ,ol. ; sman, Oi tfflrr . .1-., - .. n."", 1 .- - (i,oe. , iuu siams, lWiic. fiafaiW. v... t-.. !., ,J s? , -v --vt vv xoriv anu. rennsyivama, J-a :wt, r;i fresh, 12' v'a 15c. - . " A'YEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED ere 1 W.eif-anK.,. UJ prints Sonets. Chi Sc. : s-.t. 0. . A Presentation of the Issues of the Present Campaign. PE0TE0TI0N, M0IEY, EE0IPR00ITY. A Large Portion of the Letter Devoted to the Free Silver Question He An nounces Himself as Opposed to Such a Folicy. CAXTOXrO., Aug. 27. Major McKinley's letter of acceptance was issued yesterday. It is in part as follows : Hon. John M. Thurston and others, 'members of the notification committee of the Republican national conventions-Gentlemen : In pursuance of the promise made to your committee when notified of my nomination as the Republican candidate for president, I beg to submit this formal acceptance of that high honor, and to con sider in detail questions at issue in the pending campaign. For the first time since 1S"iS, if ever be fore, there is presented to the American people this year a clear and direct issue as to our monetary system, oC vast impor tance in its effects,' and upon the right .settlement of which rests largely the financial honor 'and prosperity of - the country. It is proposed by one wing of the Democratic party, and its allies, the People's and .Silver parties to inaugurate the freejuid unlimited coinage of silver by independent action on the part of the United States at a r.itio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. The mere declaration of this purpose is ;i menace to our financial and industrial interests, and h:is nli)vly create I uni versal alarm. It involves great pen! to tn credit and business of the couutry, a pe our products, or our property, we should receive in return money which is as staple and unchanging in value as the ingenuity of honest men can make it. Debasement of the currency means destruction of values. No one suffers so much from cheap money as the farmers and laborers. xney are tne nrst to reel its pau enects and the last to recover from them. ' '. The silver question is not the only issue affecting our money in the pending con test. - Not content with urging the free coinage of silver, its strongest champions demand that our paper money shall be is sued directly by the government of the United States. This is the Chicago Dem ocratic declaration. The St Louis Peo ple' s declaration is that "our national money shall be issued by the general gov ernment only, without the intervention of banks of issue, be full legal tender for the payment of all debts, public and pri vate," and be distributed , "direct to the people-, and through lawful disbursements of the government." 'Not satisfied 'with the debasement of our coin which would inevitably follow the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, they would still further degrade our currency and threaten our public honor by the unlim ited iafcue'of an' i- vvie ? Li paper cur- ,eneyt A gra ViLt-. e r our .-financial, ;' I tan ling and c $j , oul-l h irlly be con-; eeived, and every ,xitriOjic citizen should be aroused to. promptly mat and effect ually defeat; it., ; , ' , . '"" ; It is a. caue for pai,nful regret and so-! Ucit'nde that' - an. effort is being made by ; .those high in tha counsels of '"the allied parties to divide the pe;pls of this country into classes and create distinctions among us, which in fact do not exist and are re nusuiint to our form' of government. These T-RK. Aug. 28. Steers active ; oxen, TctuJ y s nrm - native steers,:.- ?3.7U4.d5 ; fiavi.3-60 ; bulls' dry cows, l-wT halves steady and higher ; veals, $4 W rs an(i buttermilks, $3.304. S4-Ctre-y st,-a1y ; lambs lower ; sheep, $2.50 Wer t 4-5.55 ; one car load $5.75." Hogs Wme tT-n a., Aug. '28. Cattle strong; tad (y.v,., : r - ommon, $acgj3.&u ; duus, stags CV v Hogs fair ; prime light, $3.7o hrvJ' 1 J,!t"um, ,70fffi3.75: common to lair TO ; heavy, $3.258.40 ; roughs, steady ; .prime, $3.6o3.80 ; common, $22.75 ; : common to lt)i5' UftioO; veal, calves, $6.256.50. ich is e '-'. mjfbe, lmDrisonmeni ioi. " f.r n ' : . , "... -. a J r- Anrv ,1 : 1.1. f,,lo The former, certainly, preferable were It not that ,yf Pv- UUid be r Sar . :-ul.aipariua can always come 10 stren th and happiness. If Tuesday, Aug. 25. A -dispatchifrom Havre announces that M. Ribot, ex-premier of France, has sailed for America. Ex-Governor Francis, of : Missouri, was appointed secretary of the interior" by President Cleveland, to succeed Hoke Smith. Secretary of the Navy Herbert was the guest of Hon. J. R. Roosevelt, secretary of the American embassy, at Windsor Forest, .Eng. , "' '. . ' ; Three additional suits were brought at Lancaster against the Pennsylvania Trac tion company for damages growing out of the Chickies trolley disaster. The Chicago mail train on the Pittsburg and Western -'.railroad was wrecked at Valencia Station, near Pittsburg, by two : freight trains colliding at the time the : mail trai n was passing. Many passengers were injured. Wednesday, Aug. 26. : John C. J31ack was nomindtcd by the : gold Democratic convention for governor of Illinois. ; ' v - j ' Bill Doolin, the last of the noted out- j laws of the southwest, was killed by ; deputy marshals at Guthrie, O. T. ' Charles Church, junior member of the . private banking house of C. J. Church & Co.. of Lowell, Mich., shot and fatally wounded his wife and then committed t suicide. . At Nevport, R. I. , yesterday Harry t Payne Whitney, son of the ex-secretary of ' the navv, was 'married to Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, eldest daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. ' I Baron Fa va, Italian ambassador, was in ! conference for some time yesterday witn Acting Secretary of State Rockhill conr cerning the ly nching of Italians in Louisi ana several weeks ago. ' Thursday," Aug. 37. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., sailed ior Europe on the steamer Majestic yesterday. The dry goods house of Hilton, Hughes & Co, New York, established by A. T. Stewart, assigned yesterday. Ex-Mayor Cowherd, of Kansas City, was nominated for congress by the Democrats of the Fifth Missouri district. , T?ir' rAco Aff Arthur, of . Washington. D ifiont.in nitv vesterdav. lie was on the bench at the trial of Guiteau. Friday, Aug., 28. General Harrison -addressed a great meeting of RepubUcans in New York city last night. . The palace of the sultan oi so grave that conservative .men every--where are breaking aw.iy from their old party associations and uniting with other patriotic 'citizens in emphatic- protest against the i.la'tform of the Democratic national convention as an assault upon the faith and honor of the government -iTi.1 tbo welfiire. ,f the. neoide. We have had few questions in 11 the lifetime of .the. republic more serious than the one which is thus presented. , The character of . the money which shall measure pur values and exchanges and settle our balances with "one another, and j with-the nations of the world, is of such primary importance and so far reaching in its consequences as 'to call for the most pr insvaking invest' tion. and. in the end, a sober and unprejudiced judgment ;it i:ie polls. AVf nust not be misled .by phrases nor deluded by false theories. Free silver would not mean' that silver dollars were to' l o freely had without cost or labor. It Would mean the free.use of the mints of the United States. for the few who are owners ' ofi silver bullion, but would make silver 'coin no freer to the many who are engaged in cither enter- prises. We have, coined since 1S7S more than four hundred millions' of silver dollars, which are maintained by the government at parity with gold, and are a full legal tender for the payment of all debts, public and private. How are the silver dollars now in use different from those which woufd be in use under free coinage? They are to be of the same weight and fineness ; they are to bear the same stamp of the government. Why Would they not be of - the same value? I, answer: The silver dollars now in use were coined on account of the government, and nGt for private account or gain, "and the govern ment has solemnly agreed to keep vthem-' as good as the best dollars we have. The government bought the silver bullion at its market value and coined it into silver dollars. Having exclusive control of the mintage, it only coins what it can hold at a parity with gold. '.-The profit, represent ing the difference between the commercial i value of the silver bullion ' and the face value of the silver dollar, goes, to the gov ernment for the benefit of the people. . ! These dollars, in the particulars I have named, art? not the same as the dollars ' which would be issued under free coinage. They would be the same in. form, but dif ferent in value. The government would have no part in the transaction,', except to coin the silver bullion into dollars. Who would then maintain the parity ? Wliat woijld keep them at par with gold ? There would be no obligation resting upon the government to do it, and if there were it would be powerless to do it. The simple ? truth is we would be driven to a silver ; monometalism. These dollars, therefore, would stand upon their real value. Until international agreement is had it is the plain duty of tne united tetates to uppe-ils to passion '. arid prejudice are be neath t!ie spirit, and intelligence of a free pepLand should be .met; with stern re-. bukoi' by those they are nought to. influence, ' and I . believe they will be. Every attempt j'to array ,'clas.s . aiinst'.- class, "the classes I against, the :aas-ev' section against sec- ril ti,oh, labor against .. capital,'.- '.'the poor a-z.-anst thvj.ricli-' or interest against inter est in the LTa: r 1 States is in the highest; revenues were col-. which was constantly Yon , ' - . j . Tne palace or tnesuiu."- "irrl r LO J. J. Hnvett the jeweler, ana is a mass oi rui . Mrs. Henry warn uwu her 84th'birthday yesterday. She has just recovered from a severe illness. ons, a big line. M. T. Young maintain the gold stanaara. ic is tne recognized and sole standard of the great commercial nations of the world, with which we trade more largely than any other. Eighty-four per cent, of our for eign trade for the fiscal year 1895 was with gold standard countries and our trade with other countries was settled on a gold basis. It is not proposed by the Republican partv to take from the circulating medium of the country any of the silver we now have. On the contrary, it is proposed to keep all of the silver money now in circu lation on a parity with gold by .maintain-, ine the pledge of the government that all of it shall be equal to gold. This has been j the unbroken policy of the Republican I party since 1378, It has inaugurated no new pd'ey. . j If there is any one thing which should be free from speculation and fluctuation it is the money of a country. It ought norsr t.n hpt the subject of mere partisan noDtention. Whe we nart with our Ulwr badlv as thev have suffered. The ReDub degree repreh-jn sible. It is, opp.osad ta the" mil i o.n.il 1 nsii n6t;' an 1 interest and should be resisted by every citizen. --..We are not a nation of classes, but of sturdy, free, independent and honorable people, despising the demagogue, and never, capitulating to dishonor. This ever recurring effort endangers, popular gov ernment and is a menace t6 our liberties. It is a mere pretense to attribute the hard times to the fact that- all our cur rency is on a gold basis. Good money' never ' made times hard. Those who assert that our presen t industrial and financial de pression is the result of the gold standard have hot- read American history aright, or been c -.refill stue.its 'of 'The events' "of" recent years. We never had greater pros perity in this, country, in every field of employment and industry, than in the busy years .from 188 J to during all of. which time this country was on a gold basis and employed more gold money in its fiscal and -business operations than ever before.- We had, too, a protective tariff u u de r wh i ; h a n i pi : lected for the gove i .. j-'. ... i applied to the payment of the public debt. Let us hold fast to that which we know is good. The only measure cf a general nature that affected the treasury and tempera-'; irlent of our people passed by the Fifty- 1 third congress-was the general tariff act which did not receive the approval of the president. Whatever, virtues .may be claimed for that act there is confessedly one which if does not possess. ,' It lacks the essential virtue of its creation the raising of revenue sufficient to supply the needs of the government. It has at no time pro vided enough revenue for such needs, but it has caused a constant deficiency in the treasury and a steady depletion in the earnings of labor and land. It has con tribued to swell our national ' debt more than $262,000, 000, a sum nearly as great as the debt of the government from -Washington to Lincoln, including all our' for eign wars, from the revolution to tne re bellion. We have either been sending too much money out of the country or getting too little in, or both. We have lost steadily in both directions. Our foreign trade has been: diminished and our domestic trade h&s suffered incalculable loss. Does not this suggest the cause of our present de pression and indicate its remedy?. Confi dence in hohie enterprises has , almost wholly disappeared. It is not an increase in the volume of money which is the need of the time, but an increase of the volume of business; not an increase of coin, but an increase of confidence : not more coinage, but a more active use of the money coined ; not open mints for the unlimited coinage of the silver of the world, but open mills for the full ahd unrestricted labor of American workingmeh. The employment of our mints for the coinage of the silver of the world would not bring the necessaries and comforts of life back to our people. This will only come with the employment of the masses, and such employment is certain to follow the re-establishment of a wise protective policy which shall en courage manufacturing at home. Pro tection has lost none of its virtue and im portance. . The first duty of the Republican party, if . restored to power in the country, will be the enactment of a tariff law which will raise all the money necessary to con duct the government, economically and honestly administered, and so adjusted as to give preference to home manufactures and a lequ.vte protection to home labor and the home market Our t farmers have been hurt by the changes in our tariff legislation as ser verely as our laborers and manufacturers, lican platform (declares in favor of such encouragement to our sugar interests "as j will lead to the production on American ' soil of all the sit gar which the American. people use." 1 Another declaration of the Republican platform that has my most cordial sup port is that which favors reciprocity. The ; splendid results of the reciprocity arrange ments that were made under authority of ; the tariff law of 1890 are striking sugges--- tives. The brief period they were in force, in most cases only three years, was not long enough to thoroughly test their great values, but sufficient was shown by the . trial to conclusively demonstrate the im portance and the wisdom of their adoption, f The, declaration of the platform touch--ing foreign immigration is one of peculiar importance at . this time, when bur own laboring people are in such distress. I . v am in hearty sympathy with the . present legislation restricting i foreign immigra tion and favor such extension of the laws as will secure the United States from in vasion by the debased and criminal classes of the old world. ' The soldiers and sailors of the union should neither be neglected nor forgotten. : The government which they served so well must not make their lives or condition harder by5 treating them as suppliants for relief in old age or distress, nor regard 7 with disdain or contempt the earnest in terest one comrade naturally manifested in the welfare of another. The declaration of the Republican plat form in favor ! of the upbuilding of our merchant marine has my hearty approval. The policy of discriminating duties in fa-i vor of our shipping which prevailed in the early year?1 of -our history, should be again adopted by congress and vigorously ' supported until our prestige and suprem acy, on the seas is fully attained. Nothing is better calculated to give strength-. to the nation at home than to in crease our inll.neiice abroad and add to the permaneaby aud security of our free institutions, t hen the restoration of cordial relatio as between the people of all' section s and parts pf our beloved country. If called by the suffrages of the people to assume the du lies of the high office, of president of .the United States I shall count it a priv-, ilege to aid, cen in the slightest degree,, in the j-romotijim of the spirt of fraternal regard, which1 should animate and govern the citizens of every section, state-or part of the repubiic. ', MR. BRYAN'S DAY OF REST. The Candidate's Iirief Respite from th Activity of Campaigning. Jamestown, N. Y., Atig. 31. Mr. and. Mrs. William J. Bryan enjoyed a day of' ease yesterday after a week of campaign ing which has included speeches in the largest inland cities of the state, in two or three fanring i enters and many short ones from car platforms. ' Two or three" made by Mr. Bryan each day. and the in tervals between have been spent in travel ing by trains) and carriages. The week with him was la lesson of Unremitting tur moil, pushing; through crowds, riding af ter brass bantls," with fireworks .flying or cannon roaring in his cars. Even in the quieter moments at hotel tables and in car seats, therrf have always leen a dozen people at his elbovr to shake'hands, to try to talk politics or tell him how the cam---paign must be run. Ke' has even had to wield a fork with ' the left hand while -' writing autographs with the right. Despite this continuous strain, Mr; Bryan was looking almost .-as ' fresh as week ago when he appeared in the hotel dining room yesterday. His voice has lost most of the huskiness which at one. stage "of the tour threatened to bring it to an end. He and Mrs. Bryan went to the First. Presbyterian church, 'where they listened to a sermon by Rev. G. M. Colville, in the morning. Afterward they drove to Lake wood on Lake Chautauqua, twelve miles from here where they were entertained by Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo. Wherever they stirred curious groups gathered about them. Today Mr. Bryan leaves NewYork state, probably to return in October when he will speak in Brooklyn and other places. i Troops Xeeded at Ontonagon. ' Oxtoxagox, Mich., Aug. :$1. The sher iff has telegraphed the governor of Mich- , igan to send militia to quell disturbances here, and two companies of the Fifthregi-. menf, state militia at Houghton, were notified by the governor to go to Ontona gon on the sheriff' sj .call. . ; Trouble has " arisen over the distribution of supplies tr sufferers from the recent conflagration, and many deeds of J vandalism have oc curred. Barrels of liquor have been stolen from the rains of saloons, and lumbermen, and Polish laborers (have become drunk. Threats have been niade against the live of the foremen of; the Diamond Match company, and incendiary fires are destroy ing houses. i ;. j Killed by a Fellow Lunatic. ' Pittsburg, Aug. 31. Samuel .Wallace, ah insane patient ait the Dixmont Insane asylum, died at 2 o'clock in the morning in the hosnital denartTnp'ntfrnm tha ofTofo of an assault made during a murderous frenzy by a fellow insane patient, Harry Heinbaugh.' The killing was done with a. tin utensil, Wallace having been beaten to death. Nothing was done to the slayers he being an imbecile. A little stricter watch is kept on him than before. The dead man was 62 years old, and was a. charity patient from Butler, Pa. He was a married man, having & wife and family . at Butler. To make the hair grow i a natural color, prevent baldness and keep the scalp healthy, Hall's Hair Renewer was invented, and has proved itseli successful.