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VOL. XXI.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1891.
NO. 50.
THE LAST DAY.
DIRECT TAX LAW.
STOLE HISWIFE AWAY.
THE CENSUS
THE VANISHING NEGRO.
PLANT FOOD CROPS.
A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT WILL BE IN
THE WHITE HOUSE.
A "second advent" conference was
held in New York on the 5th and con
tinued by those. "prophetic students" who
desire to properly observe prospectively
"the anniversary oi'l liferent day of days."
Their formal announccmcDt states this :
"The antioipativc amiivorsary of
Christ's second advent in the air on
March 5, 18!Ki, to raise the deceased
saiuts and translate the watchful, living
Christians to Heaven without dying.
This is discovered from the fact that
April 11, If 01 , is shown to be the end
of this age as beiog the end of the 2,1545
years from the command to Xcheiniah
to rebuild Jerusalem in Passover week.
Sit.au 15. 0. 414 5, and also as being the
end of the forty-five years (1,15:55 minus
1,290) from the Crimean war treaty of
jeace ratilied on the last day of Passover
week in April, (Nisau) 1856. (See
Daniel, viii, 11, ix, 25, xiii, 11-13.)
Therefore in the future literal day fulfill
ment of these dates, the 2,345 literal
days will begin with a renewal of the
sacrifices in Jerusalem, and also with an
other future command to rebuild Jerusa
lem on November 8, 181)4, at the exact
distances of 2,345 days before April 11,
1901, and the 09 weeks of literal days
being determined or divided off from the
commencing part of these 2,545 days will
necessarily commence also nu tho same
day, Thursday, November 8, 1894, and,
'ereforc, will reach unto Messiah, the
. )inee's second advent, when He shall be
idea covenant to His people on Thrus
March 5, 1896."
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
THE KINE DISTRICTS AS APPORTIONED
BY THE LEGISLATURE.
The Congressional districts, a'tersome
changes and altt-iation and much discus
sion and disagreement were settled upon
as follows:
1st Beaufort, Camden, Carteret,
Cowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford,
Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington.
2nd Bertie, Kdgeoombe, Greene,
Halifax, Lenoir, Northampton, Warren,
Wilson and Wnync.
3rd Bladen, Cumberland, Ptiplin,
graven, Harnett, Jones, Moore, Onslow
and Sampson.
4th Chatham, Vauce, Franklin.
Johnston, Nash, Ilandolph aud Wake.
5th Alamance, Caswell, Granville,
Guilford, Person, Durham, Orange, Hock
ioghatn and Stokes.
6th Anson, Brunswick, Columbus,
Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Pender,
Richmond, llobeson and Union.
7th Catawba, Cabarrus, Davidson,
Davie, Lincoln, Iredell, Montgomery,
Rowan, Stanly, and Yadkin.
8th Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe,
Burke, Caldwell, Forsyth, Cleveland,
Gaston, Surry, Mitchell, Watauga and
Wilkes.
9th Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Gra
ham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson,
McDowell, Macon, Madison, Polk, Ruth
erford, Swain, Transylvania and Yan
cey.
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THE GOVERNOR TO PROCURE CERTIFIED
COPIES OF THE TAX LIST AND NOTI
FY PERSONS OF THE AMOUNT DUE
THEM.
The following is a copy of the act
passed by tho General Assembly in rela
tion to the Direct Tax Law:
The Gt iicnd Asmully of North Caro
lina do Enact:
Sec. 1. That the money paid into
the Treasury of the State by the Gover
nor under the terms of the Act of Con
gress refunding tho Direct Tax, shall be
held in trust for the benefit of those per
sons or inhabitants from whom the taxes
were collected, or their legal representa
tives, as provided in said of Congress.
Sec. 2. That the money received by
the Governor as aforesaid shall be rc in
vested by him in North Carolina 4 per
cent, bonds, and all the expenses of car
rying into effect provisions of the act
shall be defrayed out of the interest ac
cruing upon said bonds.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of
the Governor to procure from the prop
er department at Washington certified
copies of the tax lists and other evidence
of payment of the direct taxes to the
United States by persons or inhabitants
of North Carolina, and to notify such
persons or inhabitants, or their legal rep
resentatives, of the amount due them un
der this act. The Governor shall, as far
provide for the repayment of the direct
taxes to the persons eutitled thereto, and
not to n agent or attorney. All claims
under the trust shall be Tiled with the
Governor, together with proper proof of
the qualification of any cxecuter or ad
ministrator, where the person from whom
the tax was collected is dead. Upon
proper proof the Governor shall draw his
warrant in I'avor of the persou entitled,
and the same shall be paid by the Trcas
urer of the State.
Sec. 4. No agent or attorney shall
demand, collect, or receive more than five
per centum commission upon the amouut
collected, as compensation for any service
rendered to any claimant for any collec
tion under this act; and any person vio
lating this section chall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Sec. 5. That all claims under the
trust created by the act of Congress above
mentioned shall be filed with the Gover
nor within six years next after the ap
proval of said act on March 2nd, 1891;
and all claims not so filed shall be forev
er barred. And all moneys remaining
in the Treasury arising from said fund
at the expiration of the six years, shall
be covered into the Treasuiy as the prop
erty of the State.
This act shall be in force from and af
ter its ratification
A DOG TOURIST.
Railroad Jack is the property of a
West Shore couductor, who took the
dog with him daily when young, until
the animal finally started on a tour on
his own account. Ho met friends every,
where, and soon received a silver collar
in the Union depot at Albany. He
boards only first class trains and stops off
at fashionable resorts. On Wednesday
he walked about among tho fashion at
Tuxedo, having come from Buffalo on
the Erie Tuesday night, Monday he
spent at the Falls, and last week did the
prominent towns in New Jersey. Only
recently he made a tour of the great
West. He is a handsome Scotch terrier,
a little aged but dignified. He will ac
cept nothing except from tho hands of
the railroad men, and fares sumptuously.
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A SENSATIONAL ABDUCTION CASE
RE
PORTED FROM ENGLAND.
AD abduction under most sensational
circumstances is reported from Clitheroc
twenty-eight miles from Manchester.
As Mrs. E. Jackson was leaving a church
in that place, a carriage drawn by foam
ing horses, and containing three men,
was rapidly driven up, and stopped near
tho lady, who was seized upon and forci
bly conveyed inside the vehicle. The
carriage containing the abductors and
then their victim then drove rapidly away
with friends of the lady in vain pursuit.
The abducting party finally alighted be
fore a house in Blackburn and conducted
Mrs. Jackson insido the dwelling. They
then proceeded to barricade the doors
and windows of the house, and stienu-
ously refused admittance to the party of
pursuers, who had followed them into
another from Clitheroe.
It has been learned that the principal
abductors and the occupant of the barri
caded house in Blackburn is E. II. Jack
son, who is the husband of the abducted
lady. It seems that three years ago pri
vately married the lady, when Miss Hall,
and that she is the possessor of a fortune
of 25,000. After the marriage Jack
son went to Australia, returning, howev
er, early in 1889. But the lady then
absolutely refused to live with him. Jack
son thereupon obtained a high court or
der for restitution of conjugal rights,
notwithstanding which his wife steadily
refused to live with him. and he resorted
to abduction.
After the abduction crowds of people
surrounded Jackson's house, which they
threatened to storm in an etlort to re
lease Mrs. Jackson, but the chief consta
ble warned them that in so doing they
would be guilty of a breach of the peace,
while Jackson himself, from a window of
the house, shouted defiance at those out
side, saying he had a large fyrcc ready
to resist any attempts at rescue. Both
sides were on the alert throughout last
night and to-day. The police have sue
ceeded in maintaining order outside the
house. Mrs. Jackson's solicitor has ob
taiued a warrant against the abductors
for assaulting his client's sister at the
time of the abduction, but the abductors
still remain barricaded within the house
and cannot be arrested. Crowds of peo
ple are watching the house.
Provisions were ordered by telephone
to-day, and on arriving at the house,
were hoisted in through a window. The
husband of the abducted lady declares
that he is prepared to stand a seige for a
month, and he has the law aud the right
on his side
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Ottawa (Kan.) upholster the other day.
When taken apart there were found be
tween the back and the cushion 47 hair
pins, 3 mustache combs, 19 suspender
buttons, 13 needles, 8 cigarettes, 5 pho
tographs, 217 pins, some grains of coffee,
a few cloves, 27 vest-buttons, G pocket
knives, 15 poker chips, a vial of homeo.
pathio medicine, 34 lumps of chewing
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OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES.
From the census bureau we have the
population of the State by counties. The
aggregate is 1,617,947, an increase of
218,197 over tho census of 1880. 12
counties Camden, Caswell, Duplin,
Edgecombe, Granville, Halifax, Jones,
Lenoir, Orange, Perquimans, Tyrrell and
Warren show a decrease.
Counties. 1890. 1880.
Alamance, 18,271. 14.013
Alexander, 9,430 8,355
Alleghany, 6,523 5,486
Anson, 20,027 17,994
Ashe, 15,028 14,437
Beaufort, 21,072 17,474
Bertie, 19,176 16,399
Bladen, 16.7C3 16,158
Brunswick, 10,900 9,389
Buncombe, 35,266 21,909
Burke, 14,939 12,809
Cabarrus, 18,142 14,964
Caldwell, 12,298 10,291
Camden, 5,067 6,274
Carteret, 10,825 9,784
Caswell, 16,028 17,825
Catawba, 18,089 14,946
Chatham, 25,413 23,453
Cherokee,' 9,976 8,182
Chowan, 9,167 7,900
Clay, 4,197 3,310
Cleveland, 20,394 16,571
Columbus, 17,856 14,439
Craven, 20,533 19,729
Cumberland, 27,321 23,836
Currituck, 6,747 6,476
Dare, " 3,708 3,243
Davidson, 21,702 20,333
Davie, 11,621 11,096
Duplin, . 18,690 18,773
Durham, 18,041
Edgecombe, 24,113 20,181
Forsyth, 28,434 18,070
Franklin, 21,090 20,829
Gaston, 17,764 14,254
Gates, 10,252 8,897
Graham, 3,313 2,335
Granville, 24,484 31,280
Greene. 10,039 10,037
Guilford, 28,052 23,585
Halifax, 28,908 30,300
Haroet, 13,700 10,802
Haywood, 13,346 10,271
Henderson, 12,589 10,281
Hertford, 13,851 11,843
Hyde, 8,903 7,765
Iredell, 25,462 22,075
Jackson, 9,512" 7,343
Johnston, 27,239 23,461
Jones, 7,403 7,491
Lenoir, 14,879 15,344
Liueoln, 12,586 11,061
McDowell, 10,939 ,836
Maeon, 10,102 8,064
Madison, 17,805 12,810
Martin, 15.521 13,140
Mecklenburg, 42,673 34,175
Mitchell, 12 807 9,435
Montgomery, 11,239 9,374
Moore, 20,479 16,821
Nash, 20,707 17,731
New Hanover, 24,020 21.376
Northampton, 21,242 20,032
Onslow, 10,303 9,829
Orange, 14.948 23,698
Pamlico, 7,146 6,323
Pasquotank, 10,743 10.369
Pender, 12,514 12,408
Perquimans, 9.293 9,466
Person, 15.151 13,719
Pitt, 25,519 21,794
Polk, 5,902 5,(102
Randolph. 25.195 20,836
Richmond, 23.948 18,245
Robeson, 34.493 23.880
Rockingham, 25 363 21,744
Rowan, 24,123 19,905
Rutherford, 18.770 15,198
Sampson, 25.(196 22,9f
Stanly, 12.130 M,5u5
Stokes, 17.199 15 353
Surry, 10 281 1 5,3.(2
Swain, 6.577 3,74
Trsnsvlvania, 5,881 5,340
Tyrrell, 4.225 4,5 15
Union, 21.259 18,or.O
Vance, 17.581
Wake, 49 207 47.9 19
Wa.ren, 19,3-:0 22.1:9
Washington, 1C200 H.'.KS
Watauga, 10.011 8.16H
Wavno, 2(1,100 24 9.1
Wilkes, 22,075 19 1 1
Wilson, 18,044 lfi.oiil
YUin, 13 790 12.VJ:)
I Yancey, 9.490 7 "J4
TFIE SO-CALLED NEORO PROBLEM NOT
IIOLHINUII1S OWN IN POPULATION.
The census figures havo just destroyed
an old and tenacious notion regarding the
numerical status of the negro in the ag
gregate population of the country. All the
States have not yet been heard from, but
the record is sufficiently comprehensive
to allow a fair estimate to be made of
the increase of the white and black races,
staled separately for the last ten years.
When the second National census was
made, in the year 1800, it revealed a
growth of 35 per cent, in the white pop
ulation of the country and of 32 per
cent, in the black, in the preceding ten
years. In two or three decades since
then the increase in each race touched
somewhat higher figures, but the tendency
in the last thirty years has been down
ward. Between 1880 and 1890 the
growth of the whites has been, approxi
mately, 20 per cent, and that of the ne
groes 13 per cent. Stated differently, the
negro constituted 19 per cent, of the ag
gregate population of the country one
hundred years ago, and held that ratio
until 1810, when he dropped back to 18
per cent. He receded to 17 per cent, in
1840, to 10 per cent, in 1850, to 14 per
cent, in 1800; to 13 per cent, in 1870,
aud to 12 per ceut. in 1890. A hundred
years ago the black man, broadly, speak
ing, numbered about one in five of the
inhabitants cf the country, while to-day
he does not reach one in eight.
The social philosophers who have been
looking for a great negro wave of popu
lation to overwhelm ultimately the white
race in this country, will see that no en
couragement for this idea can be obtained
in the censue reports. Already some of
them are beginning to take the opposite
view, and to predict the negro's speedy
extinction. He will disappear, they say,
as the Indian is disappearing, and will
leave behind him no trace of his exist
eice. This judgment finds as little war
rant in the facts of the case as the other.
While the negro is decreasing in propor
tion to the aggregate population, he is in
creasing numerically. There are more
black men in the country now than there
were ten years ago, and there will be more
ten years hence than there are now. Still
the question as to whether he will even
tually disappear altogether holds a sub
ordinate place in practical politics. The
main consideration with statesmen and
economists is that in the general expan
sion in population he is not holding his
own. He is steadily and rapidly falling
behind in the race with his white neigh
bors. As a force in legislation his in
fluence is waning. The black bogy which
a few fanciful persons in the South and
North had conjured up is destroyed ef
fectually and permanently. Practically
speaking, the negro problem ia a thing of
yesterday.
POISONS IN COSMETICS.
it seems to be the fashion tor young
ladies with pimples and blotches on their
face to make experiments with various
cosmetics. Madame Piffypaffy advertise:
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The continuous rainfall from Decem
ber to March has prevented the farmers
of most of the cotton belt from preparing
their land for either corn or cotton. In
a resume of the situatiou in the Gulf
States and Mississippi delta, tho Atlanta
Constitution concludes 4that the coming
cotton crop may be much shorter than
last year's. Mr. S. M. Inman, of Atlan
ta, of the great cotton firm of Inman,
Swann & Co., estimates the falling off iu
the total crop the coming season on ac
count of a wet spring at 500,000 bales.
In his interview, as given iu the Constitu
tion Mr. Inman says the cotton crop of
1890 was 1,000,000 bales larger than
that of 1889, and 1,250,000 bales greater
than two years ago. The annual increase
of the world's consumption is about 400,
000 bales at present. Last year was a
phenomenal season for the entire cotton
belt. The crop of 1889-90 was none
too large for the world's needs and prices
ruled high, but the last crop was too
large by half a million bales; hence the
present low prices. Should the crop this
year fall short half a million bales of that
of last season, there would be a consider
able advance in prices. It is too early
to forecast the possibilities with reasonable
accuracy, but should tho rains continue
a few weeks longer there will be little
question of a smaller acreage, a shorter
crop and higher prices.
While the cotton crop of last year was
greater by 500,000 to 1,000,000 bales,
the corn crop of the United States was
short 500,000,000 bushels. The con
sumption of this grain never diminishes,
but is largely increased annually. Even
should the next crop be very large, corn
will probably rule high on account of the
great shortage of 1890, and should there
again be a small crop, prices would be
higher than for many years. The daily
increase of the South's population ia
consumers not engaged in agriculture
has already had a very perceptible effect
in increasing the demand for all kinds of
food. For whatever the farms and gar
dens can supply there is a market. With
the prospects for cotton what they are
and the outlook indicating high prices
for corn, it will be true economic wisdom,
for every Southern farmer to try to raise
this year a surplus of food products be
yond his own needs. Every Southern
planter should raise his own corn this
year. With a big corn crop and with
high prices for a moderate cotton crop,
Southern farmers would be in exce.knt
financial shape next winter. Manufac
turer t Record.
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