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WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1892.
NO 40
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fcOTTON ACREAGE.
vCNl'KlX TH lUSCfSS IT CALLED
AT MKMI'IUS JA.NL'AKV (!.
important meeting was held in this
La (!, Exchange, December 29th,
icuss the plain? for reducing the ent
ire. Remarks were made by a
Jer (if cotton factors and other lead-
iiiessmen,einphasizing the necessity
lrtailiiig tlif next year's cotton crop.
e following resolutions wore uuani-
y adopted:
BEiiKAS, L lio Augusta Uotton JV-t-
;e desires in every practical way to
the interests of farmers, and there-
buiote tne general auvaneenient nt
Lutlr. and
nereis, It has become very evident
the production of eottou by
jern planters exceeds this demands
world's consumption at a rcmuuer-
pne uu it tnerciore
5 .lived, That a convention of Cotton
ers, Aiiianeemon, Merchants, Cot-
actors, Presidents of the several
lultural Societies, Commissioners of
iulinre in the Cotton Statis and
Bers of the Cotton Exchanges in
bin, the Carolina?, and other Cotton
Is. bo called to meet at Augusta .on
ih of January, 1892, for the pur-
bf a convention being orgiuized to
lerate with and assist the planters
&llianceuieu in formulating some ef-
re plan to curtain the cotton acreage
lieve the burden now resting npou
ui'icultural interests of the South.
Le meeting was earnest and largely
iJed. Three delegates were selected
e Memphis meeting to ba he d Janu
5th. lie date nf the convention was select
rilh a view to securiug the benefit of
ial railroad rates given to the Augus-
nnual Carnival of one cent a mile of
miles and one fare for round trip for
Iter distances.
kll.l.KI) 1V DVXAMlil'.
E MAYOR OF MOliGA.VTOS MEETS
HEATH IX A TltAC.IC MAXNEK.
Mr. WkcrTate, navor of Morgan
i, met his death in a tragic manner. Ho
mayor of the to.vn, and ou the day
"re Christinas a man who was 'drunk
Jf put in the guard house. When the
Jujiut subcr ou the next day he was re-
M and in the afternoon while tht
le boys were Bring crackers, the drunk
man put a dynamite cartridge under
w Tate's office, and when it exploded
t Tate was seriously injured and the
fat part of tbu house was damaged.
t.Tate was removed to his house and
Won the same niirht. Mr. Tate was
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attorney at law, 05 years of age, and
F a cousin of Mr.S. McD. Tate.
fie latest information we Lave is that
' rxur jercr it still at large. He had
ro employed on railroad work and
Wit the dynamite with him to Mor-
Fun. Kvery effort will be made to cap-r-
llit eriiuiua!, and wu hope he will
ap!rcd and punched to the fullest
it of the law. It is the first use that
wlerer in this State has mado of
Nttiitc.
THEs;v)ll) OK COLUMHLS.
' 15 said that the identical sword
I1 Columbus wore when he first placed
wet on American soil is now in this
JtrJ- It is the property of the Mus-
P of Salzburg, Germany, and was bor-
p'ur exhibition at the Chicago
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fteiontrs who were sent to Germany
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FOSTER'S FORECASTS.
JANUARY WEATHKIl WILL HE THE
WOUST OF 1IK0UNT VKAH8.
My last letter gave forecasts of two
torm waves, one to eioss the continent
from the 21st to the 25th, and the other
from 27th to :51st.
We now come to deal with January
weather. The most interesting weather
events of the month will occur after the
l")th, whu some of the worst winter
storms ot recent years will occur. Ihe
last days of January will not bo soon be
forgotten by those who live in the west
ern part of the great valleys, for a nota
ble blizz in! will visit thut section not far
from the 28th.
The first part of January promises av
erage weather. A storm wave will be
due to reach our Pacific Coast about
January 1. It will cross the Rocky
Mountains about the 2nd, the great cen
tral valleys from 3rd to 5th, and reach
the Atlantic Coast about the Uth.
This storm will become very tierce east
of the Alleghenics about tho Gth, and
the gales on the lakes and the Atlantic
will become very dangerous to shipping.
It will probably take a northern mute
causing quite warm weather in all the
Southern States during its journey acroi-s
the continent, and the cold wave follow
ing it will not be severe in the westarn
part of the great valleys, but in Canada
and on the great lakes the cold wave will
be quite severe.
The cold wave following the storm
will cross the Rockies about the 3rd or
4th, the great valleys about the 5th or
(ith, aud on theb'th will reach the great
Northern Lake, causing at least a light
blizzard. This high barometer will con
tinue at considerable force as it moves
on to the Atlantic on the 7th, following
in the path of the low.
The Suuthei u Slates will gat some rain
from this storm, but the disturbance will
not greatly aff-je'. that, section, and the
precipitation will incline toward high
elevations. Louis ille Courier-Journal.
SOUMi;i PKItlOLKHM.
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FOR FUEL.
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fuel purposes, the crud3 oil be-in mixed
with a chemical, compound equal to about
15 per cent, of its weight, and then being
subjected to mo:t heat of 212 degrees,
after which it is dried at a high tempera
ture and compressed itite the form of
bricks by a powerful press. The fuel in
this form, when burned in an ordinary
grate, presented a bright flame of intense
heat, without, giving off any liquid, and
leaving but littic ash.
The tests made are said to have been
very .successful, the blocks being equal
to coal io heating power, without being
liable to spontaneous combustion, and
giving do clinkers when burned.
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An ache in your head
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A taste in your mouth
Like a Buffalo coat,
A feeling you note
Of lameness and drouth
That's the grip.
A burning sensation,
That makes your eyes weak,
A struggle to keep
Back a vivid oration
That's the grip.
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ALLIANCE NON -FAHTtSAK
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SAYS I'HKfcl l)i;.'T liCTLF.lt IN Till;
CLIXTOX CMYASIAN.
Those who know r.nythin;:; i!out the
Alliance know that it is not ant! can never
be a political party, for the day it should
attempt to be, it would din. This its
enemies know hone,' they arc very anx
ious for it to give up its great work and
objects and-descend to the level of a
political machine. In this event the ma
chines might live as other party machines
do, but the Alliance would bo dead, its
true work would sUu. and its miss-ion fail.
Then what is the lgitimatu work of the
Alliance? It is educatbn, e iucnSion,
education! For any reform that is bene
ficial and permanent must bo the result
of education. With the Alliance parlies
are not an object, but. may ba and will be
a means and a method. But when the
individual is educated ho can be trusted
to find the means that will brinir about
the reforms. If any one or all parties
should adopt Mid advocate the refoims
demanded by the Alliance, still the or
ganization would exist and remain sepa
rate and intact, from thetn all, and keep
up its campaign of education as a lessen
of reform, for without some such reserve
aud moral force through which all wealth
producers could unitedly express their
non-partisau demands any party would
soou be perverted and degraded, as have
been the great parties of Jefferson and
Lincoln. In short the Alliance is above
parties, but its members will enforce, its
demands by the ballot through sonic
Pi"ty" '
WIIU.N IVASOillltM UOltXJ
Although it is now nearly twenty
ceutuiicd hinw the birth of Christ the
Christinas makes al! facts concerning his
ualivity and birth ciicuiootances of ab
soibing iuterest. Speculative and phi
losophical writers have long siuce estab
lished the fact that wo have no proof
that December 25th is the date of the
birth of the Messiah. At oue time the
beginning of the Christian era was sup
posed co conform with t tie grout event
above mentioned, but it has been pretty
clearly established that Christ was not
born on the day we celebrate as Christ
mas or at any mtier time during a winter
month. The day now unanimously
agreed upon by scholars is April, not
April 5th of the "year of 1," but April
5, 4 B. C. This error in our mode of
reckoning time is supposed to have arisen
from the fact that the dating of time
"A. D." was not introduced until about
the year 527 of the Christian era.
A SOX' OliVOTION.
1I0W HE FULFILLED A PROMISE MADE
lilS MOTUER.
Mr. Addison Coffin Wednesday placed
at the grave of his mother a marble sub
with the following inscription: "Alcthea
Colli o; widow of Vestal Coffin. Boru
4t.Ii mo. llith, 1793. Died iu Indiana
11th mo. 2d, 13'Jl. Buried in her
wedding dress, made in 3817. Brought
back for burial according to promise by
her son, Addison Coffin, at tho end of
forty years. A widow for sixty five
year3."
How many men remember and fulfil
tbe promises made their parents ? Here
is one man, who promised his mother
when she went with him to Indiana forty
years ago, that if he survived her her re
mains should be brought back aud laid
to rest besido her husband. Greeusboro
Record.
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SCOTLAND NECK
FARMERS
I.T.OR A I'.KDLT'K!) ACrtEAHF. IN COTTON
AND DIVERSIFICATION.
Honie weeks ngo tho "Scotland Neck
Farmers' Alliance passed resolutions call
ing of the Alliance and till others interes
ted iu agriculture on the 29th to deliber
ate in open meeting the subject of reduc
ing tlic acreage in cotton, and the substi
tutes fur cotton,
That meeting was held in Temperance
Hail iiei'i) yesterday. A large audience
of f.mnerf, merchants, lawyers, doctors
and men of every calling assembled and
participated in the deliberations.
The resolutions had been published
evcral weeks in the Scotland Neck "Dem
ocrat, and it was generally known that
the meeting would le held, consequently
there was a large attendance ly persons
of this community and visitors from other
Alliances and other counties.
Discissions were free and easy wi'h
an interchange of views on the surjei-t
of reduciu'' the acreage iu cotton and
falling upon some substitute.
Mr. W. II. Shields was chairman of
the meeting and opened with remarks
well timed and stated the objects of the
meeting.
Mr. H E. Milliard, editor of the Dem
acrat, through which the meeting had
been published from time to time, was
called upon and responded on the line of
advisitiLr tho farmers firt of all to
make their home supplies, lie intro
duccd the subject of rice culture and the
rai.-ing of wheat.
Messrs. John L. Whitehead and S. W
Edwards, farmers, gave their experience
in rice culture. In some instances they
stated that the cultivation of rice aud the
returns had beeu very satisfactory.
Mr. W. A. Dunn, a lawyer, said he
was not a farmer, but took occasion to
say that he was in sympathy with the
farmers and was ready and willing to do
anything he could to help them improve
their depressed condition
Mr. John T. Lawrence, an aged far
mer, urged all to make their home sup
plies. He said that when he was a young
man he started farming on supplies for
one year, and these supplies have lasted
him through a long life of successfu
farming.
Mr. R. E. Hancock, a successful far
mer, said that his indepeudeDce as a far
mer is due to the fact that he has all the
while made bis own supplies. He offer
ed resolutions recommending that the
farmers reduce the acreage in cotton one-
half.
Mr. R. II. Smith, Sr., a farmer of a
life-long experience, thought resolutions
were not needed, but that the farmer ean
improve his condition by diversifying
crops and by trucking in those things
for which he can find a ready market.
Dr. M. T. Savage, physician aud far
mer, thought that it is good to raise
home supplies and not impoverish the
soil by depriving it of vegetation by
planting cotton so long on the same
land.
Mr. A. W. Early, of Bertie county
a farmer and lucieoiiiit, iji.l t.iat a u:
plan is to make homo supplies first, what
ever the price of cotton. Resolutions
would not effect much, but tho matter of
personal judgment as to what crops ought
to be raised, attor Home supplies, must
renulate the crop.
Rev. L. M. Curtis said that his obser
vation uj a minister was that the iude
pendent farmers of the land are those
that raise their own supplies.
Mr. R. H. Smith, Jr.. lawyer, thought
that resolutions properly shaped touching
the matter of acreage wouk! I' l l! Hi t.ie
reduction and the needed uiwriy U
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crops.
Hon. W. H. Kitchin made some well
timed remarks, urging the farmers to
stop making cotton at a loss. His re
marks, ns well as those of all who spoke,
were well received. -
The concensus of the meeting w as vciy
pronuuueed iu f avor of reducing the acre
age in cotton, diversifying the crops and,
first of all, raising home supplies. There
were no resolutions formally passf-d, but
all were agreed on the questions discuss
ed. It is thought that good will result
from the meeting ?.n that cotton will
u i ''i;.'i'i be king in this community.
Correspondence Raleigh Chronicle.
BOSEURDETTE.
ONIONS, AMULETS AND PERSONAL
LIll-
ERTY.
There is Roinething painfully clinging,
and at the same time diffusive, about even
the most innocent looking oti'on. Mixed
with tobacco aud whiskey half a peck of
onions in process of exhalation have been
known to put out tho lights in apolitical
club toom.
School teachers have ever been mar
tyrs in these afflictions. You are too
young to know anything about it, my
boy, but before such delightful and ex
cellent temples of learning as flaveiford
College Gramnicr School wore dedicated
to wisdom in the country places, your
old father can recall the time, when if
there was any rumor of whooping couj. u
or scarlet fever or anything of the su t
iu the neighborhood, every child in tr.
district was at ouco decorated as to t' 1
neck with a little flannel bag not unlii
an Indian's "medicine bag," containii;.-
brimstone and assafoetida. This amuL
was believed believed?
It was known to ward off fevers of a'
kinds, coughs, colds, croup, pleurisy
eczema though we spellou is as a mon
osyllable then horn ail, quarter crack.
spavin ringbone, bliud staggers and spring
halt. And when we all got together and
sangtheopeningbyuininasmal! room,
made tropical by the burning fiery fur- ! sreporteil to a meeting ot the board
race of a Franklin stove, heated "one j ,f trustccs at Goldsboro, N. C, in Novetu
seven times more than it was wont to be; n:rlast-' At tl,llt rac'e,ino tho whole
heated," the effect was appalling How
the teacher of that day ever lived I don't
know. He must have had a none like a
winter radish. I suspect that , in self do
fence he wore an amulet himself.
Well, all these things arc features of
personal liberty, which is a scared thing.
But they are not all a part of my personal
liberty, ray boy, nor of yours. If a man
delights in "chawing" tobacco, that's all
right. 1 don't object. The Arizona
Indians eat snakes I don't care. But
they can't fry their lizards in my skillet
and they can't boil their Christmas pup
in my bean pot. And on the same broad
platform of personal liberty I protest
against tlio man who "chaws" using my
standing room for bin "expectoratoon."
An old black pipe, reeking with farsmell
ing "nigger head," may be balm to my
neighbor. Heaven bless him and add
comfort to the pipe if it be a comfoit; I
won't lift a hand to take it away from
him. But I don't have it in my dining
room; tbe headmasters wou't allow it in
the grammer school, the great railway
companies won't permit it on their trains,
save under arbitrary regulations, which
are almost rigidly enforced. The woman
who muffles herself up to her ears in furs
and then complains that tbe car is warm
has a perfect right to open a window.
But she mustn't let a cyclone of dust and
cindors and icy wind and flakes of snow
come sweeping back into my face. She
must keep all these to herself, with her
window. I am a firm believer iu nay,
I am an apostle of personal liberty. But
while the other follow is claiming all of
it, 1 want some of it. About four feet
square is ?ntih for mo. That ua t very
much to ask.
Iu that limited area I waut to control
the diet, vcntilatiou, light, heat and per
fume. Outsidn of that people may eat
what they pioiise aud go around knock
ing things down with their breath, but I
will knock the stuffing out of the onion
laden lung that dashes itself against the
living wall of my little Sparta. Unless,
of course, th invader is bigger than I
i am. i. Lou. I aapnose, 1 will have to
i Hrnd it. But tho first chance I get I
will stick a gum shoo into his heater.
We used to get half holiday that way in
the high school at Peoria. Principal
Coy should be thaukful tliatwa weren't
"onto the onion racket" in those days.
Be as broad as the earth, my boy, as
libera! asthe sun, as steadfast asthestars;
give up everything, until the other fellow
deiunudicverytuiuu; tlwi entrench your
self in your own kingdom and let him
bring on hia siege train.
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ar tho best I ever saw.
TJSE BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
A STATEMENT FHOM TIIK COMMITTEE
KIIOWINd CONDITION OF TI! E ENTER
PRISE. Messrs. N. B. Broughton, 0. Durhnui,
W. N. Jones, W, C. Scarboro and W.G.
Upchureh, constituting the local ctinmit
tee in charge of the matter of the Baptist
Female University, have issued through
the financial secretary, Mr. J. i. Boone,
a statement to the contributors to the
proposed institution, showing the progress
and condition of tin: enterprise. In this
statement the committee say:
The citizens of Raleigh offered to the
trustees of the University $2.",0"0 and a
site to secure the location in this city.
The trustees canvassed all the propositions
and decided to locate the institution in
Raleigh; and after looking at nil the availa
ble suburban sites. selected the presecUoca
tion, including the Pulleu, tho Grissom
and the Adam lot.?. They agreed that
if tho citizens of Raleigh would pay for
the above-named property they would lo
cate the institution thereon.
The members of the hoard who were
citizens of Raleigh, afttr consultation
among themselves and with many of our
ritizens, agreed to accept the proposition.
After a thorough canvass to secure the
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funas to pay tor tne me, trie necesst-ry
I -mount was not obtained, llns result
"tbject of the University was fully dis
missed and the trustees unanimously
agreed to stand by their decision to locate
i he University in Raleigh. They also
expressed their preference for the t-ite al
ready chosen; but appointed a committf
o: live of their number, residents oi' Ra."
ciiih, to whom they entrusted the matter
of changing the rite if necessary, and to
whom they gave instructions to collect
and use the funds already subscribed, and
to sulk-it other funds in and outside of
Raleigh, and to make such purchases as
might be necessary, and press the wcik
committed to them as rapidly as possible.
The committee met a few days after their
appointment, and after ascertaining that
they could obtain the vacant lot of the
Leu. II. Adams property, adjoining tho
Pullen lot, unanimously agreed oa that
plan; and have purchased taid lot at a cost
of 2,000, paid the money for it and ob
tained a deed therefor. The Grissom
lot has been purchased and paid for at a
cost of 52,100, and the Pullen lot has
been contracted for at a cost of 310,000,
of which 815,000 has been paid leaving
a balance duo of 87,000. The late pur
chase of the Adams lot gives a key to
the situation, so that we have tbe very
site on which the building would be
erected, even though we owned the whole
square. We now have two acres of
ground.
Collections are now being made
as rapidly as possible to finish paying
for tho Pullen lot. There arc good
subscriptions, sufficient when paid, in the
hands of the finam ial secretary, to finish
paying for this lot.
Thecommittte are greatly encouraged
with tho progress of the work already at
tained, and hereby dc-rirp to nsk all those
who have subscribed to this enterprise to
psy tbfl'r subscriptions as soon as possi
ble, tho end that the Pullen property may
be paid for at the earlit-st possible, mo
ment and a deed obtained therefor.
When this is done work will be com
menced upon the building.
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The promptness with which
Cherry Pectoral stops a hackir
aud induces refreshing sleep is
marvelous. It never fails to
relief, even in tho worst ca?
and lung trouble, and is thi
for whooping tough.
A doctor recommends
preventive of the grip, ar
may be observed, is gres
adus foT many kinds of '
thi: com filtrated essence i
Wer's
tigh
Air.vser thisQ.ucs
Why do s.i many penp'
us seem to prefer to sufl'i
miserable by Inuigestio
Diiziu-jis, Lo- of Appc
of tbe food, Yolh'V" ski
we vr,; sn trir!:--ir.k'l
; aiu..u to-cur j t hem. .
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