North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXII. NO EXEMPTION FAST TSrtlS. FLUSTERED POLICEMAN. THE CANNING INDUSTRY. ABOUT STATE RAILROADS ADVERTISEMENTS. FROM TAXATION ON THE UUASCH LINKS OK THE W. & W. 11. U. Tho Supreme couil lia.s filed it decit ioa iu iho mutter of the taxation of the Wilmington hii1 Woldon railway. The case wan brought by injune'u.ii a"ainst the hheritf of Halifax county to restrain tho collection of taxi on the branch railroads. The court holds that the exemption of taxation in the original charter does not extend to the branch roads. The charter, as oi iinallv grant ed, was" for the ei'tistim'iion of a railroad from Wilmington to ltukih, a distance somewhat over 100 miles, with a capita' stock of 8800,000; an act parsed iu 18:55 authorized clianue of terminus to "come point on llnanoke l'ver" and un incuase of the capital clock to 1,5110,00(1, und the road was accordingly built to Halifax, lot miles an I thenee by tlu acftii-i;ion of the Halifax and Weldon railroad to Weldmi. The decision cays: "We do not think section 'I'l (of the charter) extends to the branch roads the exemp tion which is conferred upon the main line from Wilmington to llaltili, which U granted by sectiou l'J, i'or several rea sW which are enumerated. 1. Tlu object of the bounty was to se cure a railroad from the capital of the State to in piincipal seaport, Wilmiug- tOD. 2. The branch roads nof exceed the main Hue iu length. In it;;.' .nearly -30 miles, as against 151 in the line limn Wiliuiuytou to Ilaliiax i.tul !V,r exceed tho $200,000 of bra iK-h ro:ic centem plated by the act of IS'.Y.i Had the iitaie iutende l to exempt the branch roads, it is apparent fititii the limitation in section 21 of the capital stock for tho purpose to 200,000, Unit it was not in tended to authotiz i an unlimited number of miles of branch roads, and the conse quent exemption of an unlimited quanti ty of capital from bearing its due share of maintaining the burdens of civil t;ov erutuent. 3. An act passed in 1SG7 authorized the plaintiff to open bei jks for subscrip tion to build branch netds to the amount of 25,000 per miie. T!.i. miirht ho deemed an extunsi.iu of the- riijit to build branch lines, but this act contains no ex eoijiti n I rum taxation of the biauch lines or of the additioual capital thereby au thorized aul they wju'd not be exiiuptaJ if built thereunder. 4. The act of li?'., section 33, pro vides: "If the company shall not have completed the main road from Wilming ton to Ualeiah iu twelve ye .rs thereafter then the company shall forfeit so much of the rights and privileges hereby created us confer upon the said company the the power of extending the poiut at which it shall then be constructed; but they shall not forfeit their property and privileges in any manner as tj so much of the road its they have completed." Noticed' the br.iu;;h roads were cither k- ffia or finished wifliiu said twelve years. One of Id miles it: length was built in I860, and others siuce the adaption of the constitution of lfcu'tf, which forbids the erant of exemption iron:, taxation by reqiuiug tha; taxation shall be uniform and ai valorem. If the biaticheo were an integral part of the main line, thtir cods ruction was not authorized after the h' of twj!veyeu-s. If they do no' f.d! under the liumatinn it is qucsiiouable whether the rilii to build them was n t lost ifud.r the general uet by "non user" for twj ver.is aita the compleioti of the laa'a hue. The braneh roads of the plain tiff are not only not exempt from tax-t tioabjt it is not cletr th.i " their c;.m 'traction Inn beeu undir Wairantoi' law. flic failiiio ul'llij Su.e io col!ut.l U:at cauuot be taken as an abandonment of its rht. No such projumpiijii exists agains. the sovcrcigj. The tjctfof lS!o must be limited by 'J'- tlon.titutijti of (lie rua'.u, then in oree, wbioh contaiii-'a proi'Uioii fui'oid diu -ui iu iKj ies aui perpiituiiies." Tiie , --onstruotiiui placed by Mate courts upon 'be con-titmi .u an laws are hold biu-.iing '' h the L-d.-rj; curt. Wi.ethr th.s l'fi'vision has reference sole.y to the pro Qibut.ju of roatric.i jus upon alienatioo, or whether viewed dn the-light of the hUto T ofits adopti in and judged by the eon ,eit it meant, as has been suggested, to Prohibit tho graut by the legislature of , perpetual and exclusive privileges, is a matter which is not now befoie. us and which cannot be brought before us in this 'lateral manner. The WiH t, lt f W. k Vv. r'Ul1 a i "oiiiinnv, nop-iilant, vs. B. 1. A b-.ok, shetiur. ' OEr:UITION OF TI1F, I'ROPOSKD WF.MiK NOSKi) KLECTKIC CAHS. Elc.clricol World. The standatd schedule time of all through ears on the proposed Chicago and t't. Louis electrical railroad will be 100 miles per hour. The trip from St. Louis to Chicago can, therefore, be made in from two and u hull to three hours, It will bo unnecessary to travel at night; therefore no ihmugh passenger cars will be run after I) o'clock p. m., the tracks being reserved at night for high-claaS freight, express and mail. Tho car is long, low, compact, light, but strong, having two pairs of driving wheels, each of which are driven by a separate and distinct electric motor. Tho whole weight of the car, with its passen gers and the two electric motors, comes upon these two pairs ot driving wheels, and is, therefore, all available for traction or adhesion between the rails and the wheels, through the agency of which the car is propelled. The top of the car stands only nine feet from the rail, which is three feet lower than the ordinary street car. This brings the eeutre of gravity very low and near to the track, which decreases immensely the danger of jumping the track. It has a wedged shaped nose or front i'or cutting the air. which has the ell'ect of decrea.-dug the air resistance (a most im portant faciei in hinh speed iocouioti'jn) and ol helping to keep the car down on the ir.ick. The moiii man stands im mediately back of this wedged shaped front and between his department and the rear wheels is the compartment for the accommodation of the passengers. In the rear of this is a separate compartment for mail and high class express. The driving wheels are six feet in di aineter and are capable of making five hundred revolutions in one minute. Tho weight of the entire car with its motors is but ten tons. HI IHDU T CKIt UMOXY. A good story is relattd of the lion. E. Lawless, a former member of tho Louis, vilie bar, aud who came to this City from Glasgow, Ky., says the Chicago l'ress. He was a "long-winded" talker, aud when he arose to make an argument he didn't know when to stop. Ou one occasion he was making a speech before Judge Bal lard, in the United States court. Ho had spoken several hours, aud the Judge aud everybody else were thoroughly tired out, though they were helpless. At last Judge Ballard beckcued his brother, Jack Ballard, to him. and implored him to stop Lawless if he could. "Oh, that's ea:-y enough,' replied the brother. I'll stop him inside of three minutes." There was a good deal of curiosi'y to see how this could be accomplished, as the orator seemed to be nowhere near the end of his speech. Jack Ballard took a pencil and a sheet of paper aud wnote : "My Dear Colonel: As soon as you finish your magnificent argument I would like you to join tuo in the clerk's office in a bumper of fine oil bourbon." The note whs handed to the orator, who pau-e I at the eud of a soaring period, drew his glasses from his pocket and read the note. He put it in his poeket and said: "And, now, if it please your honor, aud gentlemen of the jury, I leave the case with you." He picked up bis hat and was in the clerk's oilice in about a minute. .... -a-, im me? SliUoh's t'i'.'i8iin!tiou Cure This is bevond oiiestion, the most successful Cough Medicine wo have ever sold, a few doses invariably cure the worst cases of Cough, Croup aud JBrouohitis, while its wonderful success iu the euro of Consumption is without a parallel iu the history of medicine. Since its first dis covery it has been sold ou a positive guarantee, a test which no other modi cine can stand. If you have a cough we earnestly ask you to try it. Trice 10c, 5o,!. Hud SI. If y-rnr lungs are n, chwst. or back lame, use Shiloh's Luroua Blaster. Sold by W. M. Cokn. THE MAN WITH A THERMOS! ETKR TALK ED HIMSELF OUT OF PEBIL. At 1 1 o'clock the other night a pa trolman on Jeffernoti avenue found a man seated on the stairs in a public hall way, and ho at once called upon him to come dowu and out, says the Detroit Free Press. "Bid you wish to see me?" blandly in quired the man. 'Certainly I did. It's against the law to roost in there " ''Boost.'' Boost? You are mistaken, sir. I was not roosting in there." "If you can't pay for a bed why don't you go to the central station and get a ticket to the lodging house," continued the ollieer. "My dear sir, who or what do you take me for?" "For an old vag trying to find a place to sleep," was the blun' reply. "Ah, I see. Well, you were never more mistaken iu your life. I urn no vag, and neither must I seek my bed in a hallway. Do you see this?" "Yes it's a thermometer," replied the ollieer as he examined the article, which was a common 15-ecnt instrument. "Can you tell how the mercury stands?" "It's (i degrees below freezing," said the officer as he turned it to the light." "Exactly. I've made a failure of it. You see, sir there is a man in a basement down here whom I am going to give the awfule.- t 'icking a human being ever got in a'l his born days I wanted to do it to-night. I alw.y- fi,'ht at 13 above freezing point. I sat dovu on the stairs in there with the thermometer next to my hide. It registered 6 degrees below; that's a difference of 13 degrees against me.. I can't get up to tho temperature, and therefore I can't fight Got to put it off until a south wind raises the tem perature." "What are you giving me?" demanded the officer, as the man began to walk off. "The straight thing, sir. livery man knows hi nisei I best. At 1 .'5 decrees above I can fight a whole mountain and come out on top. At C degrees below I should be a licked man iu fifteen seconds Therefore it's off for to-night. Tra la, old man! See mo again after a thaw has set in!" A NATURAL SPHINX. In Surry county, North Carolina, there is a mountain whose outline dis plays a startling likcncF.s to the Sphinx of Egypt. It is iu the northwestern part cf the State, just east of the blue Ridge range, and lie3 prone upon the Piedmont plains. At a distance of teu miles the figure is the exact counterpart of that of aci'jrantio lion, itsbodv at right angles to the precipitous ridge, and with head reared aloft as if iu the act of rising, The head aud neck are id' solid rock several hundred feet iu height, the shoul ders and breast which support them be ing finely rounded off by nature, aud seeming half-buried in the grass of the surrounding meadows. 1 Whcu looking at the figure, although removed twenty five miles distant from it, the thought haunts one that it must be a thing of life and intelligence. The Governor of North Carolina. State of North Carolina, Exocutivo Department, Raleigh, Feb. 8th, 1692. j Jas. II. Webb, Sec'y, 1405 N. Y. Ave., Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: In reply to yours of the 5th, I have to say that 1 have used your Electropoise occasionally, and have always found reliel trotn r use. 1 have not had au opportunity to use it as I would like to have done, as I was so situated that I could only use it occasion ally. At those times, however, 1 have always had gnod results. Very truly yours, (signed) Titos. M. lloi.r, Governor FOK DTSTMCPaiA, Indigestion, and Stomach dtsordf rs, use EikuvvN1 nio:v iuvtkrs. All dealers keep a, ii per bottle. Genuine has trade-m&rlc tnd oioesed red line on wrapper. OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO TRUCKERS A UOOD THING, TOO, KOIt OTHER FARMERS. Mr. S. M. Sindall, of Baltimore, has sent out a valuable article on the canning industry, in which ho shows that there are now 20,01)0 factories in operation in forty-one States, and giving employment to 1,000,000 persons during the canning season, while thoso directly and indirectly concerned number about 4,000,000. The concluding portion of Mr. Sindall's paper will be read with special interest io the South. He says : "In no part of the country has this industry brighter prospects than iu the South. Of all sections which I would look to for great success the South is the one. The climate is altogether suitable, your labor is cheap, aud not a single case of canned goods should be manufactured iu the North and brought to you for consumption. The North has lived for years on tho blindness of the South in this particular. I want to see your pro duct put in hermetically sealed packages by your own people, and at your own canneries. It is time that tho business men of the South awakened to the im portance of a broad spirit of oucourage ment to all enterprises that look to Southern advancement. As great as has been the work of the Southern peo ple as a whole in the marvellous develop ment that has been going on for five or six years, too many have stood idly by and waited, hoping that others would e ime in and lead such enterprises aud let thotu uruw rich out of it. "Most of the developments which are makiog the South prominent as an in dustrial field have been the result of plucky Southern effort. Let them keep up the motion. I am like others who are at all conversant with Southern affairs, a strong believer in the Southern States as a field for progress aud development and wealth-making in the near future. In vestments such as I speak of pay hand some profits, besides being of much bene fit to the eity or county where the factory is located. The capital required for con ducting this business is small, the cost of the machinery being so moderate that in our own State many farmers operate their own canning factory in connection with their other duties. "The statements as to the percentage of profit iu some cases would be in credible if they were not authenticated by unquestionable testimony and amply substantiated by ascertained facts. With sufficient capital and proper management, there is probably no other business known combining such large profits and so high a degree of safety. Take the entire pack, throughout the entire canning districts of the whole country, of the last season, so small is the stock of canned goods on baud that the holders can well afford, if they desire, to wait until Spring to dis pose of them. The demand fir consump tion increases disproportionately to the supply. This country is large; facilities for distribution are increasing, aud the trade for canned poods is growing. In every household it is a portion of the daily rations. It is cheap, ready for use, and iu all respects is desirable. With out it there are portions of our country that would be f'rerd to snhsi-t on salt meat nnd bread. To the camp, the mine nnd the manner it is now indis pensable. Take the couutry at larye, and I venture to assert that the j ack last year does not exceed thicc tilths ot an average one, and that, ton, f face cf little or nothing being tarried cer flow the former season." Anwscr tlils(iiesUoii. Why do so many people we see around U3 seem to prefer to suffer aud be made miserable by Indigestion, Constipation. Dizziness, Loss of Appetue, Coming up of the food, Yellow skin, when for 75c. we will sell them Shiloh's Vitylizer, guar anteed to cure them. Sold by W. M. Cohen. Many Persons r.-0 broken down from overwork or houeehoid cares. J'rown's Iron Bitters ReMM-"ie 1 system, aids diction, remove caccm u uuj, I and cures uiakrio. uet genuuo. FACTS FROM THE ANN'I'AL REPORT OF TIIE RAILROAD COMMISSION. There are 07 railways in the State, with a total mileage of 15,432 miles every county in tho Slato being penetrated by one or more roads, savo Alleghany, Ashe, Clay, Dare, Graham, Hyde, Pamlico, Transylvania, Tyrrell, Watauga, Yadkin and Yancey, 12 counties. The taxable property of the railways was assessed in 1890 at 8112,321,704' and in 18'J1 at $18,423,298; showing an increase of 101,594. An interesting fuiture of the admirably complete report, which contains (130 pages, is a summary of the capital stock, earnings, etc., of the roads. This shows that the capital stock is $30, 911,313 in North Carolina. The fundi d debt in North Carolina is 838,584,974. The current liabilities arc 33,879,47f) The gross earnings in Ni;th Carolina in 1891, year ending June 30. were 88. (151,625, and the operating expenses in this State for the same period were $5, 532,841. The report covers the canals. These are the Albemarle fc Chesapeake, 15J- miles in Currituck; the Fairfield in Hyde; the Norfolk and North Carolina (Dismal Swamp); the Clubfoi t aud Ilcr lowe, in Craven aud Cartiret. There are tables showing the total v-.lue of the 3,432 utiles of railway track, which is 810,407,270, of rolling stock, 1,082,021 ; other prope.ty, $524,750. No valuation per mile is given officially for the Sea board (fc Roanoke, Raleigh & Gaston and Wilmington and Weldon; in a foot" note 810,000 jier mile is set down as the value per mile. The report gives a remarkably complete history of each railway, showing also its organization, officers, pn pcrty op" erated, capital stock, funded debt, assets and liabilities, income account, earnings from operations, general balance slice mileage, terminal points, surpluses and salaries, freight traffic, accidents, etc. COMB OK. I think we way overthrow the severe sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts, and in the Church also, by realizing that all the denominations of Christians have yielded noble institutions and noble men. There is nothing that so stirs my soul as this thought. One denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adoniram J udson; another yielded a Latimer aud a Melville; another yielded John Wesley and the blessed Summerfield, while another de nomination yielded John Knox and the Alexanders men of whom the world was not worthy. Now, I say, if we are honest and fair-minded men, when we come up in the presence of such Churches and such denominations, al though they may be different from our own, we ought to admire them and we ought to love and houor them. Churches which can produce such men, and suh magnificent martyrdom, ought to win our affection at any rate, our respect. So come on, ye five hundred thousand Epi-copalians in this country, and ye niue hundied thousand Presbyterians, and ye two and a half million Jptii!?, aud ye nearly four million Methodists come on ! Shoulder to shoulder we will march for the world's conquest; for all nations are to be saved, and God de mauds that you and I help do ir, For ward, the whole line1, Dr. Talmage in N. Y. Observer, HEADACHE," Indigestion, Biliousness, DYSPEPSIA, Aud all .Stomach Troubles are cured by (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Ivtassiuui) Rheumati.-m is cured by P. P. P. Pains and aches in the back, shoulders, knees, aukles and wrists are all attacked and conquered by P. P. P. This urea!, medicine, by ito blood cleansing propel ties builds up and strenghteus the whole buetj . Nothing is so efficacious as P. P. P. at this season, and for toning up, invigo rating, and as a 8treugthoner and appe tizer take P, P P. It throws off loe malaria and t.uts you iu good oouditioc Abbott's East Indian Corn Paint cures all Corns. Warts and Buuious. For ..ul-i uy W. M. Cohen, Drug j -t. Weldon, N. 0. G 4Kk n n 14 i 11 Q. Your Liver? Is the Oriental wilufaticn, kiiowii); tliitt jrood health rannct exist without ti healthy Liver. When tho Liver i.s torpid the Dow els lire fciwjxgisli inn! con I'tipated, tht.i food lies in the etoi:i:u:!i nmli gestcd, oi f.o nin; I.I10 blood; frequent heticle.cho ensues; a feeling of lassi tude, despondency end nervousness indicate how the whole r-ysleiii it do r.mged. tSiiiimciij Liver KegTiiator been tho means of restoring more people to health and happiness by giving them a healthy Liver than any agency Lnov.'ii on earth. It actd with extraor dinary power and efficacy. NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED, Ah ,n jroniTfil family remedy for dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, C'ouutfpatitm, etc., I hardly ovor una anything elao, awl have anvcr ben dis appointed in tlio effect produced; it seems to li almost a ncrfoct curu (x a!! diMsauunof tha Slou.icii uuu Bowels. V. J. JIcElhot. Ilacoii, Cla. ffS! Everybody invited to pay us a visit it once. Our stock of i?f$s qooos iu liedford Coids, Broadclothcs, Casbmereg Pl.iids and all tlie Novelties of the season aiij ready for inspection. MATCH. We have the best slock of CLOTHING FOR MEN, BOY'S AND CHILDREN In town. OOOD FITS aud STYLISH MAKI'X lii; Assortment of SHOES iu all grades. Latest New Yoil: H A" GENT'S FURNISHINGS. I goods and anything yon will W will sell goods as cheap and you as good values as anyone in town. ' Respectfully, ; HART & ALLEN. 3-12-tf.