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THURSDAY,
May 121904.
Washiiizton Letter.
Rnssians Retreating.
Shan Hai Won, May 8. It is
Emperor has received a dispatch reported here that there has been
from lien. ivuropatKin giving me severe ngnting- at ren uauj
report of Lieut. Zassalitch of the Cheng-, in which the Japanese
Russian losses in . the battle of were victorious. They took many
Kiu-Lien-Cheusr. The report prisoners.
II. A. LONDON. Editor.
T'ttt- rax?a ifamQ B'Prfl nn hlished'harelv two of the forty
: ,i.1;ina,.0 InsfwAPfr on things it came prepared
i lwi tlm The required
dark days of Fusion
this State and made
j wait upon party exigency.
a striking
'a
Democracy
individual who was chaplain for
the penitentiary for awhile under
Fusion misrule, and whose expos
ure is still remembered by all who
read the papers then.
The other item was that our
Democratic directors of the peni-
Tbe Battle of Kia-Uen-Cheng.
St. Petersburg May 8 The
rrmmnur Heeular Correspondent.
Washington, May 5, 1904.
Tlio HnnrrrPSS which "has done
nothing but spent money" has
A states that Major General Kas-1 The Russians are retreating1 to
two islands of the sea. Beyond tahlinski was injured in the head ward Hai Cheng thirty-two miles
makin-appropriations it has done by a stone. The brunt of the east by north of New Chwang,
Ol III ty ngllllli, VJTCiJ. jaooaiiiku oajio, auu aic cvuuuaiiu iuo
to do ; was born by the Eleventh and side of Liao Tung- peninsula.
- - t- , lit mi 1 1 a -1
legislation must l weith ltme itegimenrs ana tnei un xnursaay ana oaiuiuay oi
Four. Twenty-second liegnnent. xne last week tne Japanese lanaea
misrule in fovI.:f 'rio rmlipd for admission fighting was so desperate that 10,000 men at Kinchau $ay, 10,-
m'iit i ii. . TT..:.r!in Qn-n4-rcs ti,q,t Qn "Russian regiments were oblisred 000 at Foo Chou Bay, 7,000 at
wait The Panama canal zone is to make several counter attacks , Pitewo They occupied the towns
in a state of anarchy. Laws it and to cut a way for themselves ; of Wa Fun Tien and Pu Lantien
o-ravelv needs; but It can wait.! with the bayonet against their and destroyed several miles of
Alaska is practically without enemy, who was five times stron-; railroad. Heavy firing has been
! courts of justice and Senator Kel- ger man u e xtussiaiis, uuu WHS m m uuCUUuU u
declared the other day m sum-wite-a uy j """ ii , " r
ath that Congress tillery. nave ueen seeu leceuuy.
In this right, so terrioie, out xne isolation 01 xorc .armur is
ious for the Eleventh and complete. Sixteen Japanese war-
elfth Regiments, the losses in ships protected the landing of
, ... -. , v i i - . -rr n t ,i : i
slio-ht, obstruction which n-; mieu were .oui uuiuwb, luwumug iuup9 m, am wu OJ, u.c-
n.;Mi..: j. flip commander of the Lleventh ms-a sweeping-hre over the nar
KTYITT S ff 1 1 7 1 lH III 1.1 HI I m nun 1 IJ ' I f U L " -
f n,-0r011t tlm snhW from snrffld-1 and 481 non-comrnissioned ofecers row isthmus
iuo-.') But Alaska can wait. Porto
Ricaus will enjoy for a
reports of the enormous mortality tram to arrive there. ood is
1 imi -l ji ! -l Tr 1 1 mi., i
among the artillery norses, auu scarce ai iuucKuen. xne iroops
contrast between those days and
the present.
One item was that Bev. T. B.
Babb had made a speech in the
Republican convention of Beau- i son
fort county, in which he had made righteous wr
fierce onslaught upon the State d "not done a dam thing" for j in
. L. L, I Alaska. (Allusion was thus prob-!ioii
mocracy. This is the same . u e tQ the tiuker'a dam a'Twel
i- i i i . r t-.i - .. ... .. -t-iii.
and men, and a chaplain,
while i 700 were eft ou tlie "eld
longer their inability to be natur
alized as American citizens or to
practice law. Congress must hur-
before the soldiers
while disembarked. Seventy-five Bus-
sians who were wounded in this
Gen. Zassalitch confirms the fightings were brought on the last
fVio m-nfita of! rv home. Porto liico can wuit.
the penitentiary, bought up the Tlie people were promised that
. . .. . , , , , , the trusts would have a terrible
$U,uuu worcu oi uonus wuicu iiciu
been issued for the purchase of
the penitentiary farms.
Thus, one item showed that the
same old gang who disgraced the
State during Fusion misrule were
again striving to capture our
ood old State. The other item
showed how differently the peni
tentiary is now being managed
under Democratic rule. Let Dem
ocrats, who are becoming weak
kneed, think of these things.
concludes his report as follows:
"Our losses on April 30 and
Mav 1 al together amounted to
are eating bean cakes.
Tokio, May 8, 12 in. Last Fri
day, after sharp cavalry skirmish-
.i,ui;t, iv,f ti,a tmotQ i,v 70 superior aud subaltern ofhcers'es at Erhtaitsu, bautaisu and
criven notice" that they can wait. ! and 2,384 killed .wounded or tak- other places, a detachment of in-
fplt tint to tflfklp1 en prisoners, xnis total, i,uoi, iantry oeiongmg 10 uen. ivuro-
A negro has been elected as one
of the two delegates from the Dis
trict of Columbia to the next na
tional Republican convention.
This is very significant and proves
that the Republicans, wherever
the negroes can wield any political covered that he had vocal organs
Republicans
any of these matters was playing
with the fire dangerous business.
Uesides, they hadn't time.
It has been settled at last that
Mr. Hearst is not confined to The
Journal and American as a means
of expression. He was cornered
in the Judiciary Committee the
other day to defend his resolu
tion calling for the punishment of
the more rapacious trusts, and he
showed clearly, in a few well di
rected sentences, that he knew
what he was talking about and
could give the committee a varie
ty of points. He was self-possessed,
tactful and vigorous, was
not too dignified to iise slang or
too grave to crack jokes, keeping
the purpose of his resolutions all
the while in his mind. It was dis-
power, divide political honors
with them.
Neither whites nor blacks can
vote in the District of Columbia,
except in electing delegates to the
nationarconventions of the politi
cal parties. Two delegates are
allowed in the national llepubli-.
can convention and two in the
national Democratic convention,
and when the Republicans recent
ly elected their two delegates, of
course one of them had to be a
negro!
As long1 as negroes were allowed
to vote in North Carolina they
were elected delegates to all Re
publican conventions a3 well as to
Congress and the Legislature, and
if they could vote now they would
still be elected not only to Repub
lican conventions but to the Legislature.
ki's army took Fen Wang Cheng.
The Russians before retiring
exploded the magazine, but left
were left on the battlefield, but it
is not known whether they were
killed or wouuded. .
"In consequence of the heavy large quantities of hospital stores,
losses in men and battery horses ! which are being used by the Jap
aud the difficulties encountered! auese hospitals. Refugees from
in the roadless country, it was al- jthe woods and small villages are
most absolutely impossible to . constantly surrendering. .The
brine away the guns and machine." j Russians buried many of their
dead.
Natives in the city of Fen Wang
Cheng say that last Monday the
Russians carried about 800 wound
ed through that plce and their
casualties probably were above
3,000.
St. Petersburg, May 8. Gen
The list encloses an exact state
ineut of the forces under Zassa
litch. Gen. Kuropatkin says the
Japanese forces were" five times
greater and far superior in artil
lery to the Russian forces.
The casualties show that one
fifth of Zassalitch's command was
Last Tuesday was "Memorial
Day," which is observed on every
tenth of May in memory of our
Confederate dead. That day is se
lected because it is the anniversary
of the death of Stonewall Jackson.
On that day appropriate memorial
exercises are held in most of the
towns in this State, and they
ought to be held in every town
and village.
Although nearly forty years
nave elapsed since the close of!
the war, yet the memory of our
fallen heroes is as fresh and green
in our hearts today as nature's fo
liage, and as fragrant as the beau
tiful flowers with which lovin"
hands bedeck their graves.
The Japanese have thus far
been successful both by land and
At last they have Port Ar-
sea.
thur hemmed in by land and sea.
A large force has been landed in
the rear' of that city and cut off
aud even lung power, aud was not
merely a "yellow peril." His ep
igrammatic remark about the
Attorney-General having sat on
the coal trust evidence for eigh
teen months "like an old hen try
ing to hatch a door knob," has ta
ken its place among the tropes of
history.
Columbian University in this
city is being revolutionized. To
avoid the ambiguity occasioned
by the resemblance of it name to
the Columbia University of New
York City, the trustees have re
solved that it shall be known as
the George Washington Universi
ty. Moreover, it will be moved
from its present site half a mile
southward, down back of the
State, War aud Navy Depart
ment; aud it will get enough for
its old building opposite the
Shoreman to erect several far finer
ones on the new locality. Eight
magnificent marble buildings will
be constructed, surrounding the
site of David Burn's cottage, and
it is believed that the University
will assume a new position among
the educational institutions of
America.
The old Riggs Bank, opposite
the Treasury, is being demolished
and the historic structure is now
little more than a memory. It was
built by Nicholas Biddle duriug
Monroe's administration and shel
tered the famous United States
Bank. Its public functions ceased
when Robert B. Taney, by direc
tion of Andrew Jiickson, removed
the deposits. On its site will be
erected the most spacious finan
cial temple in Washington.
A couple of mouths ago Governor
Taft, procousol of the Philippines,
told your correspondent that he
was in favor of freedom for the
Filipinos when they were "fit for
it." Now. he charsres the hun
dreds of statesmen, scholars and
college presidents with "intermed
dling" because they favor self
government there." Intermeddle,
indeed, upon what meat doth this
our Caesar feed? Is this the lan
guage of a servant of the Repub
lic? The enforcement of the exclu
sion act against Chinese immiirra
placed out of action. The Eleventh Kuropatkin has sent the following
and Twelfth Regiments lost more , telegram under date ot May th:
than half their men in the fight. "Lieutenant General Zassalitch
The third battery of the Third today reports that the enemy's
Artillery Brigade was almost an- cavalry and units of their advance
m hi oil nsinc eio- itv-pif it oriinrr ocpnnipf renwanr- Unpin
killed or wounded, and seventy-
two out of one hundred and ten
horses. The second battery of the
Sixth Brigade lost (figures miss
ing) in killed aud wounded and
todav.
"Two companies and two squad
rons of their force proceeded to
ward Caliandiapu-Tse. Our cav
alry and uuits withdrew toward
one hundred and eight out of one Schliudjane. A third division,
hundred and ten horses. The . advancing by the valley of the Ai
river, occupied a position near
Khuandiapu-Tse and posted bat
teries to fire npon Feng Waug
third battery of the Sixth Bri
gade lost t.venty-four killed or
wounded and forty-three horses.
Of the machine gun detachment
only twenty-six were not killed or
wounded. !
The name of the priest of
the Eleventh Regiment who
led the gallant charge, and
who was amoncr the wouuded. is
H. E. Ticherbackofisky, of tl.ei
Orthodox Greek Church.
Gen. Kuropatkin says that no
prisoners were taken by the Jap
anese, but he admits that seven
officers aud 579 men were left on
the field, but it is not known
whether the- were wounded or
dead. The only leam of bright
ness in the dark cloud overshad
owing the East lies in the official
information from Major General
Pflug that Port Arthur is not yet
blocked by the Japanese. How
this information was obtained the
officials will not say, but they in
sist that it is reliable.
Just Let US
you
Something:
Carry Your Wool
HEADER
And set the Highest Market Price for it.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Democratic convention of
Chatham county is called to meet
at 12 o'clock on Tuesday, the 24th
day of May, 1904, for the purpose
of electing delegates to the btate,
Congressional and Senatorial con
versions, and for such other regular
business as may come before it.
The primaries will be held in the
several precincts at 3 o'clock p. m.,
on Saturday, the 21st, for the pur
pose of sending delegates to the
county convention. Each precinct
can send as many delegates as it
may deem proper, but will be allow
ed to cast only the number of votes
allowed under the plan of organiza
tion. The primaries will als'o elect five
committeemen for each pre:inct,
who will also attend the convention
for the purpose of electing an ex
ecutive committee and a chairman.
May 10th. 1904.
II. H. HAYES,
Chairman Ex. Com.
16
to 1 SALE!
Selling Sixteen Buggies and Harness Where Other
Dealers Sell rw - ma
My stock is going fast, so if you wish one of the finest Buggies or
Harness at cost come in and take your choice. Tyson & Jones, Cort
land, N. Y., Brockway, N. Y., Watertown, N. Y., Corbett. Any Buggy
or any Harness at Cost. Not one Buggy, One Set Harness, but
Six
CarLoads At Cost!
One of the greatest blessings a
modest man can wish for is a good
reliable set of bowels. If you are
not the happy possessor of such
an outfit you can greatly improve
the efficiency of those vou have'
by the judicious use of Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They are pleasant to take and
agreeable iu effect. For sale by
G. Pv. Pilkington.
$15 to 25 saved on Carriage, $5 to $10 saved on Buggy, $3 to $5
saved on Set Harness.
Collar Pads 10 cents, J Jg? Cow Chains 40 cents.
Felt Collar Pads with four hooks on for 25 cents. "500" Bridle Bits
for 5 cents each for choice. Hames, Traces, Single Trees, Back-bands,
Plows and Plow Points at cost, 2500 Mower Sections at jic each.
Rivets free. ::::::::::
I vvish to close this stock out soon'; these will not always
be here at cost, and you will have to pay for the Buggies
and Harness when my stock is all gone.
0 You May Never Have Another Such Chance
to get pick of my stock. Some dealers may tell you I am not selling
at cost. You ask him if he will meet the pi ices I am making on Fine
Buggies and Harness. You pay your money and take your choice.
Henry M. Stanley, the noted
African explorer, died last Tues
day, at his home in the city of
Loudon.
all further communicniion iw ! firm IS flPPnmriHniojl TvifVi
land. No provisions or reinforce- i abuses. A case is before the Im
ments can now reach the belea 1 migration Bureau here of the edi
guered fortress. The harbor has ! J 9Li!f5 p,?,,-er 5.n gun
X lOUllfllU. XlllCi HVlLlg 111 tlilS
country many years he went to
jreiun on ousines3 ana on ins re-
been, after several attempts, sue
cessfully obstructed by sinkin
ships in the channel. The latter i turD was forbidden to laud, on the
feat was a most daring one
was accomplished in the face
most destructive fire from
liussiau batteries.
and
of a
the
ground
Judge Walter Clark's brother,
Mr. E. T. Clark, of Halifax coun
ty, has renounced his Republican-1 San
ism and has returned to the Dem-sight of his
ocratic party. He was a fusion
senator in the Legislature of 1897,
and until last week was chairman
of the Republican executive com
mittee in Halifax.
There are many others like him,
who will return to the Democratic
,arty, when they see the same old i is wiflin
1 1 1 - . 1
mac ne was neitner a
teacher, a merchant, nor a tourist,"
as the law requires. He protested
that he was a teacher, being an
editor and also a teacher of a Chi
nese Sunday school. Knox and
Cortelyou have combined to turn
him down, and he is at this mo
ment imprisoned on the wharf at
Irancisco almost within
pioperty, and has
been there for four months.
Senator Burrows' committee
investigating the Smoot case has
adjourned its hearing indefinitely
but will go junketing to Utah.
Miss Clara Barton is ver3T anx
ious to get out of the tangle re
sulting from not reporting or au
ditinsr the
Republican leaders getting con
trol of the Republican party. The
Republican party in North Caro
lina is still controlled by the old
revenue ring and federal officers.
Red Cross funds. She
to compromise if she
can remain president.
Severe
storms in Texas.
week, killed several persons
destroyed much property.
last
and
Young Wentz's Body Found.
Bristol, Va., May 9. The body
of E. L. Wentz, discovered in the
mountains near Kelleyview, Wise
county, Va., Sunday afternoon by
Have Raleigh, a miner, employed
at Blackwood, Va., while hunting
a lost cow, lies tonight identically
as it was first seen, aud around it
stand a guard of twenty-five men.
The place in which the body
lies has recently been burned off
by forest fires and his hair and
clothing scorched. The body is
lying about thirty feet from the
mountain path and is now easily
seen for a hundred feet. Last fall
wl-en the searching party was
111.1 1 iii 1
neia, tne spot was mciaen oy un
dergrowth and leaves. The color
of his clothing is so much .like
that of the logs upon which the
head rests that the searchers fail
ed to find him last fall, though they
passed within 20 feet of him.
Numbers of men have - recently
passed near the spot without dis
covering the body, though from
all appearances there seems no
doubt that it has lain there all the
time. Hundreds of people visited
the spot last night and today.
Heroic Act of James Shay.
Scran ton, Pa., May 8. James
Shay, engineer at the Blue Ridge
colliery, did a heroic act last
night. With flames all about him
ti 1
ana a nose company .piayiug a
stream of water to keep his cloth
ing from taking fire, he stood at
the lever in the fiercely burning
eugind house and safely hoisted
15 men to the surface. A mo
ment after he staggered out of
the building with his face and
hands badly blistered, the roof of
the building falling in. The en
gine room, house and tower were
completely destroyed.
A young white man from this
State, who is employed in the
government printing office at
Washington, objected to a negro
setting type from the same case
with him, but . was told he must
leave if he objected, for Roosevelt
would not allow any distinction
between the races.
Cheng, counting upon fiudin
our troops there.
"The Japouese advanced slow
ly and very cautiously upon Feng
Wang Cheng.
Government of Panama Canal Strip.
Washington, May 9. The Pres
ident's formal instructions to the
caual commission were issued late
this afternoon. They are embod
ied in a letter to the Secretary of
War. Among other things the
commission is authorized to make
all needful rules aud regulations
for the government of the zone.
To establish a civil service for the
government of the strip; to make
aud cause to be executed after
due advertisement all necessary
contracts for any and all kinds of
engineering and construction
works; to make rules aud regula
tions legardiug a comprehensive
system of book-keeping, showing
the state of the work, and expen
ditures by classes and the amounts
still available.
The inhabitants of the isthmian
canal zone are to be guaranteed
security in their persons, proper
ty and religiou, aud in all their
private rights aid relations, while
the municipal laws of the caual
M 1 1 It
zone are to oe aamiuisterea dv
the ordinary tribunals substantial
ly as they were before the change.
The commission is authorized to
appoint temporarily a judge for
the canal zone, to have authority
equivilant to that usually exer
cised in Latin countries by
a judge of a court of first
instance, and also to appoiut ad
ditional or appellate judges should
the public interest require.
Major General Davis, who is to
be the governor of the canal zone,
is directed to see 'that the laws
are faithfully executed, and is
vested with power to grant re
prieves and pardons. In sudden
exigencies he may call on any
available military or naval force
of the United States for assis
tance. The President urges the adop
tion of approved and effective
methods for the improvement of
health conditions on the isthmus
as was done in Cuba and Porto
Rico.
Cured His Mother of Rheumatism.
"My mother has been a sufferer
for many years with rheumatism,"
says V. H. Howard, of Husband,
Pa. "At times she whs unable to
move at all, while at times walk
ing was painful,, I preseuted her
with a bottle of Pain Balm and
after a few applications she de
cided it was the most wonderful
pain reliever she had ever tried,
in fact, she is never without it
now and is always able to walk.
An occasional application of Pain
Balm keeps away the pain that
The Farmer's
1 Friend.
BURLINSTGN, N. C.
she was formerly
For sale bv G. R.
troubled with.
Pilkington.
A FACT
ABOUT THE "BLUES"
What is known as the "Blues
is seldom occasioned by actual exist
ing external conditions, but in the
great majority of cases by a disorder
ed LIVER k.
THIS IS A FACT
which may be demonstra
ted by trying a course of
WORLD'S FAIR KATES
VIA
Seaboard Air Line Railway
To St. Louis, Mo., and Return.
On account of the World's Fair.St. Louis, Mo.,the Seaboard Air Line
Railway, in connection with the U. & O. Route via Uichmond and the
N. C. & St. L. Poute, via Atlanta, will sell round trip tickets to St.
Louis, Mo., at greatly reduced rates from all stations. .
Itates trom principal points as follows.
Season
Tickets
Charlotte via Atlanta 36.10
Durham vialiichmond 34.10
Durham via Atlanta 38.75
Henderson via Uichmond 34.10
Henderson via Atlanta 38.75
Iaxton via Atlanta 38.65
Pvaleigh via Richmond 35.60
Raleigh via Atlanta.
J8.75
Hamlet via Richmond 37.CO
Hamlet via Atlanta 37.60
Wilmington vialiichmond 38.65
Wilmington via Atlanta 38.65
60-Day
Tickets
30.10
28.40
32.30
2840
32.30
32.25
29,90
32 30
31.90
31.90
32.25
32.25
15-Day
Tickets
- $24.65
23.30
26.30
53.30
2G.30
26.25
24.SO
26.30
26.25
26. 5
. 25.25
26.25
LIMIT OF TICKETS SEASON TICKETS.'
Good to leave St. Louis up to December 15, 1904, will be sold daily
ommencing April 25th.
SIXTY DAY TICKETS.
! They control and regulate the LIVER,
i They bring hope and bouyancy to the
1 mind. They bring health and elastic
ity to the body.
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE?
Good to leave St. Louis up to and including 60 days from date
sale. Will be sold daily commencing April 25th.
of
FIFTEEN DAY TICKETS.
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Whooping Cough.
"In the spring; of 1901 my chil
dren had whooping-' cough," says
Mrs. D. W. Capps, of Capps. Ala.
'I used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy with the most satisfacto
ry results. I think this is the
best remedy I have ever seen for
whooping cough." This remedy
keeps the cough loose, lessens the
severity and frequency of the
coughing spells and counteracts
any tendencv toward tinwimnniii
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pany for the construction of two
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mencing April 25th, and continuing during Exposition.
COACH EXCUESION TICKETS.
On May 9th and 23rd, 10-day coach excursion tickets will be sold at
txy low rates from Raleigh $18.50 via Richmond and $20.80 via At
lanta. Tickets not good in Parlor Sleeping Cars. Tickets good to
leave St. Iiouis including ten days from date of sale.
MILITARY COMPANIES.
Special low rates for Military Companies and Bands.
Quickest schedule, direct routes, first-class coaches
Sleeping: and Dining Service.
For further information, call on or address us. Same
fully furnished.
Z. P. SMITH, T. P. A., C. H. GATTIS, C. P. and T. A.,
Raleigh, N..C. Raleigh, N. C.
and Pullman
will be cheer-
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Will state to our friends that we are at the same old stand and that
we are better prepared to serve you than ever before. Our stock is
complete in every line. New goods arriving daily. Our Chatham
friends will find it to their advantage to buy their supplies trom us.
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Have just placed an order for a nice line of Spring clothing which
will arrive in a few days. Call and examine our stock. The ladies
will find our line of dress goods second to none in town To make a
long story short, .we handle everything to be found in a first classs gen
eral store. Yours to Serve,
HUNTER MERCANTILE COMPANY.