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SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14 1891.
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New York Don It With Tramondons
/ Uproar—Tammany and tho Streets
The Senatorship—A Comparison
: ip l>eland's Favor—The New Con
■ .“oumptlon Cure, Ac.
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•v‘ New Yokk, Jan. 6,1891.
C. Consider]Eg the fact New York
is the noisiest city in all the world,
that from morning till morning,
from week to week, from season' to
season, the din of train and horse*
' cat and factory beats npon the ear
unceasingly; beats and beats nntill
tb. nerves are shattered and the
head aches, and one longs for a
nituodless solitude; it would seem
tfiiit wnen JNew i orkera wished to
yebbrate impressively anjr event,
■j they would cause all noises..to cease
urn! for a few moments at least, pre
serve a profound silence. - But not
: so. j Instead of keeping quiet they
redouble the noise. It was not
with dignified silence that they wel
comed Eighteen Huudred and Nine
ty-One, the first year of a new dec
ade. It was with ear-splitting up
roar. They did not even have the
decency to wait nntil the old year
dead, but filled his last mo
ments with their clamorous wel
come to his successor. With horn
pud bell and steam whistle they
made his death hour hideous.
For years it has been the custom
to ring the chimes of Trinity church I
at midnight of the 31st of Decem
ber. People come long ' distan
ces to hear them, and they are
indeed worth hearing, or they wduld ’
ho, if the town would only keep
still and let the joyous notes ring
through quiet streets and avenues,
echo and re-echo from tall houses.
; But the 'town won't keep still. :
Thousands upon thousands of men, 1
women pack the streets near, the <
' church and when the.chimes begin 1
: lo ring, they Blew innumerable tin j
horns and shout and whistle op 1
their fingers. So nobody hears the j
chimes. That is nobody hears them. 1
But up in the belfry is a big phon- i
ograph. It hears the chimes—aye, i
.. it swallows and digests tljem, ab- 1
sorbs them and writes dotvn in its
memory and afterwards it tells them
toother phonographs and so at
at last they reach the people, or
some of the people,
BAD WEATHEB AND BAD 8TKKKTS.
' The - weather, here since the
I middle of December has been sim
ply execrable. - The , streets have
been full of mud aud slush: I have
not seen them so bad for years.
Broadway is in some places like a
country road and an ill mended one
at that.' The people scrape the
mud from their shoes and clothing
and swear at Tammany Hall. But
what does it signify? They have
done jihe same before, over and over
again.. Next election it will be a
•wonder if most of them don't vote
6 to perpetuate Tammany’s rule, the
came asbver. - - - ..
WHO WILL SUCCEED EVART8 ?
Speculation is still rife as to
'.vliom this State will send to the
United States Senate as her repre
sentative in Mr. Evart’s plane. ,The
World wants Gov. Hill and' the
Herald continues to stull ify itself
by favoring Charts A. Dana. Some
other people talk of Smith M- Weed.
Of the three Gov. Hill is of course
preferable. The other two are un
tierstoood to be protectionists, and,
therefore, not Democrats. But
there are besides Gov. Hill, plenty
of men in the Empire State who
■ would represent her Democracy
creditably in the Senate, Roswell
P. Flower, for instance, or; Mayor
Chapin, of Brooklyn, not to men
tion lesser lights. Many are the
conjectures as to whom Gov. Hill
tvants to see in the place. Is not
this senatorial matter a bit of a hole
for the astute Governor? And will
he get himself out of it with his
usual cleverness? His friends think
so. "
< EVICTIONS IN A YEAR.
• r In the midst of the everlasting
talk about Parnell and the Irirh and
uume mis, accompanied by calls up
on Americans for money for'd the
Irish relief fund* eet.j ect., it is in
teresting to read in World,
(though the World is rather late
finding it out) that in a recent year
there were in New York,city alone
for non payment of rent than there
were in the Whole of Ireland during
the same period. Going back to
1880, the World says that in - that
year there were not in all ha-in as
many eviction processes served as
from a single district-court of this
city. Talk about'poverty in - Ire
land!- .w
LOOKLNO AJfTjfilt CATS WHILE OHEL
_ DSEX FREEZE. _
Outside there was snow on the
giuuuv. m nne cota ram was fall
ing. It was bleak and raw and ex
seedingiy disagreeable. It was the
Bret day of Jan. 1891—New Year’s
lay. Through the glass panel of
the hall door (all New York hall
loors have glass panels) I saw a
benevolent looking old lady come
lautioiisly up the slippery ” stone
steps. She hesitated just a moment
shen pulled the bell-liandle. ‘ A ser
vant opened the door and looked at
ber inquiringly. “There’s a dear
little cat outside there*” sdid the
rid lady, gently, “won’t you let it
,np»» “Yes,” said the servant with
i surprised laugh, and closed the
loor. There was room in the big
boarding house for the “dear little
jat. But “outside” many a dear
ittle boy and dear little gitl shiver
'd and shook on New Year’s day in
;he streets of New York with never
i word of sympathy from any liv
ng soub i ~
- kocb's tncvB. “ '
The experiments made in the city
10spt*als with. Dr. Koch’s^ lymph
lave been watched with much in
erest. It is rather too early yet to
lecide conclusively as to the merits
>f the Koch treatment; but the ex
jeriments here have at least had
;he good effect of stimulating medi
cal research in the direction of dis
sovering new methods of treating
lupposed incurable diseases. The!
vnrph is being experimented with
mses of cancer as well as -pulmona
T trouble.* The doctors express
nuch satisfaction at tbe rapid im
irovement under the use of the
ymph of a child afflicted with : a
;ubercular gland.
old dana's son.
As might have been expected,
Hr. Paul Dana, who was recently
ippoiuted (doubtless for his dear
■elutiye’s sake) park commissioner
by our Tammany mayor, is develop
ing great friendliness towards that
uoat selfish of all monopolists, Mr.
lay Gould. So much so that lie has
expressed himself as being quite
willing to allow said monopolist’ to
i grab of a large slice of New York’s
beautiful Battery Park for the use
>f Jhis elevated railroad. A small
portion ot that park is already oca
pied by Gould unsightly structure;
but Gould is not content with a
miall portion, lie wants a large
portion: some day he will want the
whole park. He- wants to put a
railroad “loop” there,he says, so as to
ivoid delay at the “L” terminus. Of
lourse he wunts-to-dd this simply to
accommodate the public and not for
the purpose of putting a little more
more money into his own pocket,
[f there were any inpney in it for
biinself, he would,' of course,’"not
hesitate to buy for his loop Some of
the private property adjacent to the
park, high-prieed as it is, instead x>f
encroaching upon the people’s pleas
ure-ground. But I hardly think
that Mr. Dana's influence in1- the
board of park commissioners will be
great enough to induce the board
to fovor Jay Gould’s proposition,
for the people of this town are
mighty, “down os’* the wizard and
his “L” railroads. D. T. D.
That Is a Hors* of Another Color; ,
tfne York Herat*. 1
' Senator Dolph, af Oregon, ought
to know better than to go into deep
wa er before he can learn to swim.
He is a good fellow and we like
him for some things, hut he ran
fool of Huatis and Morgan the other
day and there isn’t court plaster
enough in 'Washington to cover hie
wounds. '
He made a fine speech of the kind,
but a poor, kind, i Waving' the
bloody shirt on the floor of the Sen
ate, he read clippings from the
newspapers to prove that tho South
ern negro is simply the white man’s'
door mat. Then he shook his tawny
mane and gave a roar of disapproval
that thundered down Pennsylvania
avenue like a park of artillery.
The force bill, he said,, would
prove an evangel, of peace. It
would hurl the Southern tyrants
ou4, of their saddles, or words to that
effect, and with angelic finger-tips
lift the down-trodden colored man
to ms ieet. Urandpa uoar fairly
beamed -with good nature, and' Sett
atorEdmunds almost broke into an
icy smile, but checked himself in
time preserve his self-respect.
Then Mr. Eustis asked what the
honorable gentleman from Oregon
would do if that State was as thick
ly populated with Chinamen os the
South is. with illiterate voters.
Would Senator Dolph call for the
enforcement of a bayonet bill? He
asked for information'.
Mr. Dolph, wasn't giving infor
mation on that subject. These ir
relevant remarks were distasteful,
not to say painful. He had not
been' talking about Chinamen, but
about negroes who were dying to
vote the Republican ticket.
,Mr. Morgan also took au inning
as pitcher and threw a ball. If
Mr. Dolph hadn’t dodged, he would
be in the coroner’s office to-day.
Mr. Morgan quoted from the con
stitution of Oregon certain passages
which restrict the suffrage to
white citizens and then made
some highly improper remarks about
hypocrisy. •
Mr. Dolph caved in at that junct
ure and retired to the eloak room.
And yet there are some Incredu
lous people in the world who be
lieve there is no such thing as a
boomerang. Ask Senator Dolph;
be knows.
Summary of the Year.
Breorif.
The review of the year shows
great activity and prosperity
throughout the South. Summing
up the various points of growth and
development, the total assessed val
ue of property for 1800 is about
$4,500,000,090, again of $270,000,
000 over 1889 and of $1,600,000,000
over 1880. The number of Nation
al banks in the South is 590, with,
an* aggregate capital of $90,708,705,
an Increase during the year of 104'
banks and $104)35,000 in, capital.
Ten years ago the South had 250
national banks with a total capital
of $45,498,985. According to the
report of the United States Comp
troller, the net earnings of all
Southern national banks for the
twelve months ended Nov. 80,1890,
were $10,523,793 or an average of
11J per cent, on the total capital.
Only two Southern national banks
faild during the year, and both of
these failures were due to dishonesty
in management, according to gov
ernment reports. Daring the year
2.490 miles of railroad were ltuilt in
the South, against 2,295 miles in
1889. The gross earnings of all
Southern railroads for the first ele
ven months of 1890 were $100,864,
217, against $90,290,470 for the
Same time in 1889, an . increase of
$10,004,047. The total value of
foreign exports from all Southern
ports for the first eleven months of
$268,293,000, an increase of $24,
141,010 over the corresponding
months of 1889, while the increase
in the balance of the country was
only $4,834,477, the increase at
Southern^ ports being five times as
the combined gain at all other United
States ports. The production of
pig iron for the year foots up about
1,960,000 tons, or a gain of 395,000
tons over 1889, of 830,000 tons over
1888, and of more than 1,000,000
tons over 1887. The total produc
tion of cotton during the last six
years has been 42,000,000 bales,
worth, including the value of the
seed sold, about $2,300,000,000, or
an average of nearly $400,000,000, a
year. The consumption of cotton
by Southern mills was 549,378
bales last year, against 266,000
bales in 1885, again of over 100 per
cent. During the year 8,917 new
manufacturing enterprises, covering
every variety of industry from tack
works to steel works,-were organiz
ed in the South, making a total dur
ing-the last five years mover 17,000
new enterprises. .
EXTRATS-FROM GOV, FOWLE’S
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Massaga to tha Legislature.
He began with reference to the
STATS DEBT,
and in that connection mentioned
that now aH the legislation joyep
State bonds had been settled in our
favor; particularly the old Temple
suit, the Christian case brought- by
Baltzer and Tucker; and that the
bonds held by the United States
Treasury in trust had been paid,
£nd a suit to ascertain whether the
State was liable for interest on her
past due bonds had been decided in
onr favor.
me funding act ceased to be op
erative on July 1, 1890, and the en
tire recognizod debt of the State
ia now $6,939,131, of which $3,219,
100 is evidenced by 4 per cent. 1
bonds, and $1,720,000 by 0-percent.
bonds. The interest on the latter
is provided for by the lease money
of the N. C. R, R,, so the debt is
practically but $3,219,100.
He recommends that the State re
ceives $180,000 a year from the N.
C. R. R., after the payment of in
terest on the $2,720,000 is 6 per
cent bonds, the residue be invested
in these bonds.
The Treasurer’s recepts for 1888,
were $724,500.45, and expenditures
were $810,029.02. The receipts for
1890 were $970,761.31 and dis
bursements were $1,189,801.70.
The estimated value of property
in the State $227,000,000, being a
gain of ten million within- the last
two years. The Governor is of
opinion that there will be no neces
sity of an increase of taxation, if
we can obtain a fair valuation of
lands on a cash basis. There should
be a uniform rule according to the
true .value in money. But unfor
tunately this rule does not prevail.
At some places and in some sections
property ia valued on that basis,
while at other places it is assessed
at only a fractional part of its
real value. The difference in valua
tion works no injustice in county
and muicipal taxation, but in State
taxation it bears heavily on those
sections where a true cash valution
is assessed. There should be equal
ity in this matter, and a uniform
rule should be foliowod. As it is,
the result works injustice.
As a new assessment is to be
made this year, provision should be
made for a board to equalize taxa
tion. This might be done by au as
sessment by the county commis
sioners, which should be revised by
by a Board consisting of the State
Treasurer and Auditor and one
State assessor appointed for each
Congressional District. Give them
the power to revise the assessment
and seek to have the lands all as
sessed at their true value.
EDUCATION.
On the subject of education,
the' Governor expressed very
pronounced views. He cited
the provision of the Constitution
requiring—the commissioners—to
keep the public schools open at least
four months in each year, and re
ferred to the obstacle in their way
of doing that because of the limita
tion. . ii.
He indicated that the legislature
might find a way out of the difficul
ty, as the commissioners now levied
the tax for county purposes first
and left the school tax for the last
and the Supreme Court held that
they cannot exceed the limit for
school purposes. . i
The report of the Superintendent
of Public Instruction showed that
while the general tax in the United
States was $2.11 a head for each
school child in North Caroli
na it was only 40 cents. But in
one township the sum of $22,000
had been raised and it contained on
ly 4,648 children, being $4.49 * for
each child.
Hejreeom mends that the Hgisla
ture should compel the schools to
be kept open the. whole term
of four mouths, and that a law be
passed allowing any township to in
crease its own taxation and main
tain its schools even for a longe
period; and that the, school distric
or township that taxed itself ahouli
be credited in the State tax for edn
cational purposes with the amonn
it raised for that purpose.
The average term is now bat six
ty days, being three days less that
in 1888. The entire edacationa
receipts for 1890 were $718,225
The children of school age .nurnbe
588,688; the ^number ■ enrolled ii
332,533, and the average attendanci
is 203,100.
THB jnnVEBSITT.
The Governor expressed himseii
very warfhly in favor of promoting
education at the University, anc
mat lUBUbuuoa on a mor<
advanced footing. He recommend'
ed tbat it should enlist the warn
interest not only of its graduates
but of all tha friends of the common
schools in the State. North Caro
lina, he said, was the first State tc
proclaim in favor of higher educa
tion by putting in her Constitution
a provision for the maintenance ot
one or more universities, and
our forefathers did well in doing so,
But nojfr, how are we carrying oul
their injunction ? How are we doing
our part to advance higher educa
tion in Our day and generation?
It is reported to me that the Uni
versity property is a valuable prop
erty, but it needs essential improve
mements in buildings, in repairs, in
conveniences and in adjuncts of ad
vancing science. It has no new
building-—save Memorial Hall, and
that was not erected by the State.
It has a zealous, learned and faithful
faculty, and it is managod by e
board of trustees who are among
the wisest, most trusted and loved
of our citizens. If they have nol
done their duty, condemn them; but
is there not another body on whom
rests some responsibility for the
care and promotion of the institu
tion.
The provision of the Constitution
imposes a duty on the legislature
and it is binding.’
He recommended that a commit
tee be appointed by the legislature
to visit the University and ascer
tain not the least sum that [would
answer to maintain that institution,
but what was needed to make it ef
ficient, as it ought to be, and main
tain it as institution of the first or
der of excellence.
He spoke of the proposed estab
lishment of a Chair of History, for
which some of our own patriotic
citizens, together wiith a distin
guished graduate of another State,
had contributed $35,000.
TBAItfINO SCHOOLS.
He urged the establishment of a
training school for teachers, at
which both sexes could be prepared
for their respective duties. Now
their teachers often have to learn
by experience in the school room,
and at the expense of their pupils;
let them be fully and properly pre
pared before entering on their vo
cation.
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And in view of the possibility of
there being a cessation of railroad
work, he recommended that provis
ion be made for the employment of
the convicts in making jate bag
ging which would not bring their
labor in competition with other la
bor, and would be of advantage to
the farmers in-lowering the cost of
that article, while affording profita
ble employment to the convicts.
And to this end he recommended
that four per cent, bonds be issued
of such amount as would enable the
Board to engage in that work, and
to buy necessary land for farmers;
providing from the proceeds of the
work a sinking fund for their pay
ment. The Governor warmly re
commended the establishment of a
reformatory department in connec
tion with the penitentiary, for young
criminals. '
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The Auditor's report on pensions
next claimed attention. The inter
pretation of the word “indigent” in
the law had given rise to much
criticism, and had suggested to' the
r legislature to make a cbnsfruetior
t £°r themselves,'which would be Jfol
[ lowed by the Board of Pensions.
There jjere 4,051 pensioners, o
whom 2,522 widows; and the amoun
: disbursed was $87,496. Enkrginf
the widow class decreases whai
. the poor, indigent wounded soldier
t would receive. Only one county ii
the State has failed to collect the ta;
for the old veterans.
The Department of State has is
• sued 1,458 grants covering 134,00*
, acres of vacant public lands.!
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He mentioned tlfj appointment o:
Col. Andrews and Col. Keogh ai
Commissioners to the World’s Fair,
: and they had discharged their dutiei
’ with faithfnlness to the State anc
1 honor to themselves; and having
enlarged upon the resources oi
1 North Carolina he, recommended
, making an ample appropriation oi
not less than $25,000 for that pur
pose. I
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE
GIRLS?
Some Arguments In Favor of the Pro
. posed Industrial School.
Cor. 8tate*ville Landmark.
I was much interested in the com
munication recently published in the
Landmark in regard to the proposed
industial school for„tbe white girls
of North Carolina. The writer
frankly confessed ignorance as tc
fwhatj the girls need. It is just this
ignorance which perpetuates the
existing state of affairs.
Any plan to benefit the girls, the
women, the homes of our State,
must be extensive enough to reach
all these. For years the “well-to
do” have been looked after in a cer
tain manner—not sufficiently oi
nicelv—but they have received at
tention. There are, howeyer, hun
dreds of girls in every county whc
have not been taught anything
which could serve them in an horn
of need. No one is more willing t<
grant than I that home is the best
training school for^girls and boys
too, when the home is such that
proper instruction can be given,
And I am sure that country hornet
offer superior advantages in this re
spect. But any one who imagines
that all the homes of our State, or
any State, are thus fortuuate is
greatly in error. There are thous
ands of homes in which girls and
boys are reared to manhood and wo
manhood in the most primitive
styles Their simple bill of fare does
not afford opportunity for learning
to do such cooking as will com
mand good wages. They learn noth
ing of the arts of modern house
keeping. Are such homes the best
training school for boys? No! in
deed! They are hired to some of the
larger farmers or put out to learn
trades, and are provided with the
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege at Raleigh. The girls cannot
do as their grandmothers did.
Scarcely any one spins or weaves
now. The times are changed and
we are changed with them. Yet
society keeps trying to push the
woman’s foot into % baby's shoe.
These girls, those for whom neither
Church nor State nor home pro
vides, need to be cared for and put
in the way of doing something for
themselves.
Oxford is an orphan s home and
school, The two things are entirely
dissimilar. The industrial school
might be placed at Oxford, but cer
tainly the two should not be blend
ed unless indeed upon the Univer
sity plan. The industrial school
for which we are asking should be
similar to the institution of the
same name in Mississippi and that
of Georgia, the corner stone of
which was laid on last Thanksgiving
day. Other States have like insti
tutions and the interest in this
phase of education is becoming gen
eral. Before anything of an indus
trial nature can be introduced into
the public schools the teachers must
be trained, and what better oppor
tunity could be offered than an in
dustrial school combined with a
normal school? Young men have
an opportunity for normatbfHlf at
the University, colored mien and
women have normal schools sup
ported by the State, but the white
girls have nothing. Are not the
women tax-payers? Why should
the State make such discrimina
tion?
I should prefer that girls be
taught the New Testament to be
gin with in the middle and to the
end. I should also be glad for
young men to have the same train
ing and especially to have the Su
vMJurs “A* ye would that men
sboijld do uuto you, do ye even so
to them 8o thoroughly inculcated
that by the tune they get to be vo
ters aad members of the Legislature
they may be wiHing to treat the
girls of the State with somethin's:
like justice. B
Lastly if the choice really liea be
tween the “cotton patch and a
worthless man as a husband,” I
should say to the girls, by all means
take the cotton patch. Every one
who chooses the cotton patch is not
only benefiting herself and winning
the self-respect of her sex, but is a
real missionary to worthless men.
Men do not like solitnde, and if
they received less encouragement to
be worthless at the bands of the
women they would quit being werth* '
less; but that encouragement must
come before marriage. ,•
norm uaroiina's sons are
not all worthless. I fail to see why
the only chance for a nice, well eZ
ucated girl, outside the cotton p°fr»h
’» a worthless man. There are hosts
fine young fellows in Guilford. I
nope she is not alone among the
sisterhood of counties.
Better days are dawning. j< More
avenues of support are opening up
for girls. We want our industrial
school to lit the girls for the places
and to elevate the manhood of our
State.
n Mary Mendenhall Hobbs.
Guilford College, Jan., 2nd 1891.
Remedy.
Dr. Stickler on Koch’s
Dr. J. W. Stickler, of Orange,
"• J ’ “ celebrated physician of that
btate, has just gpt back from Ber-■
liu, and has been interviewed'-afr
;reat length by the New York Her
"l,L Iie brings with him some of
the Koch lymph, and speaks hope
fully of its success. We gather
from the long account that its cura
tive effects in laryngeal troubles are
pronounced. He says the disease al
most invariably responds to the ac
tion of the fluid. He says, and itja
important ;Bnd instructiveenough to
deserve copying;
“In instances of considerable tor
bercuiosis in the larynx the lymph
causes an alarming infiltration of
the soft parts of the organ—in fact,
jt has been so great some times aa
to require tracheotomy. This ex
citation of laryngeal tissues always
subsides in due time, and there
comes a period when no such
swelling follows the use. Laryngeal
ulcers have thus far been invariably
cured by injections of the lymph.
If any turbercle of the larynx, how
ever slight, even if situated on the
free border of the vocal chords, is
subjected to the lymph treatment,
the fluid will cause almost always
come changes in the conditions in
volving the locality and the ulcer
will disappear. The throat will be
left in a healthy condition as well.
Pr. Stickler says that many cas
es of incipient tuberculosis (corn
sumption) have manifestly improv
ed. Many have lost the pains and
gained in flesh aud strength under
its use. Some cases of advanced
phthisis were made much worse by
it, but others equally as advanced
were much improved, night sweats
disappearing and a gam of flesh re
sulting. He says that to him it
seems that >(m cases which are re
sponsive in this way, by repeated'
doeses carefully administered, lives
may be prolonged, even though rad
ical cures are not obtained. Be
sides, it must be remembered that '
these improvements hare been ob
served in patients under treatment
in Berlin, where the climate is pe
culiarly trying to consumptives.
Were the inoculations to be given f
with carefully solected climatic sur- -
roundings the benefits could not
fail to be much greater. A cure un
der these conditions—and I see ho
reason to the contrary—should be
complete and make him no more
subject to a recurrence of the dis
ease than he was formerly.” /'
Dr. Stickler has an American and
European reputation because of bis
experiments to discover1 some cure
for scarlet fever.
It'may be mentioned here as an
interesting fact that as tar back as
1857, an eminent medical professor
of Charleston, 8. C., still living and
highly esteemed, made disrovenes of
the bacilli, ni ted their constant re
currence and made drawings of
them. .It was 1882, before Dr. Koch
made his own independent and im
portant discovery. - - ,v -