Newspapers / The Democratic Banner (Dunn, … / March 24, 1892, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Democratic Banner (Dunn, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
1 ENTRAI H A G. K. GEMTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. " , ' ' ' " ' III ... . . M , .,. . I. $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance. VOL. II. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1892 NO 5. Times. "IIUSTLfcUS' AN D "RUSTLERS." Such Are the Citizens of tho Great Northwestern Cities. The keynote and countersign tf life in tho cities of the Northwest is the word " hustle." We have caught it in the East, but we use it humorously, just as we onco used the Southern word " ske daddle," but out West the word hustle is not only a serious term, it is the most serious in the language. One day, as I sat in the lobby of one of the great hotels in the older pair of twin cities, I heard two old friends greeting one another with ardent expressions of friendship and do light. They had not met for a long while, and each asked about the other's Lizzie and Fanuiu and tluir respective little ones. All of a sudden I heard one Bay: " Well, 80. yo;i to-night, I suppose. I have got to go." " Where have you got to go to?" tho other inquired, plainly disappointed that the pleas mt interview was not to bo prolonged. " Where?" the other oehool. "Why, to hustle, of cour.-o. I havo lost ten minutes standing hero talking to you. I'm going out to hustle." Tho word always jars upon tho ear of an Eastern man when it is seriously spoken, but it is preferable to that other expression once dominant in tho West, biit now all but abandoned. That was tho word "rustle." The noun a "rust ler" and the verb "to rustle" meant pre cisely what is conveyed by the newer terms a hustler and to lmstlo. At tho first blush, as thoy say out West, rustle s onis the better word. There is a hint of po3try in tho suggestion of the sound of m ving leavesUpon tho ground or of tho silken dress of a lady moving rapidly. Moreover, that was what the word was intended to convey, the idea being that of a man who moves so raitidly that the dead loaves upon th.i earth rustled as ho swept along. But in its origin it is a word of evil intent, for the cowboys in vented it and applied it to cattlo-thieves, rustlers being the swift raiders who" stole upon the grazing cattle on tho plains. an 1 rustled off with as many head, or beasts, as they could get away with. Therefore rustle is the worse word of tho two. But to one who lives whero neith er word is in familiar use here is littlo choice, since tho actual meaning of hus tle is not far different from that of jostle. Both imply a serious and even brutal lack of consideration for other persons, who are elbowed an 1 pushed out of tho. way by tho bustier as rowdies aro hu.st 1 d a'o.ig by tho police. Harper's Magazine. liedusf in Australia's Mines. In parts of Australia one conies' across a characteristic class in the shape of old miners who haunt the deserted digging, or tho hanks of gravelly-bottomed streams which hold some traces of the shining treasure in their beds relics of the old days of the mining craze, ancient hulks stranded whero the reflux of tho great wave of excitement and specula tion has left them. One comes across their hut snow and then in the thick scrub along the water courso, and finds in each a bronzed and bearded ho.mit who greets the visitor wish a sjuiot "Good-day, friend," as ho looks at him with lustre less eyes. The old fire of expectation and hope has gone out of these orbsj thoy show nothing but the settled and patient acceptance of disappointed hopes, which in the case of many weaker men, has caused madness or solf-distruc-tion. The history of many of these recluses wv.uid furnish material for absorbiug romances; of wild, ungovernable youth when home and friends were left on the other side of the world in the eager on set upon fortune in tho Australian fold diggings; of manhood spent in dark hhafts or under the blazing sun in rocky guliies amid the hopes and disappoint ments of an army of men who thirsted and gambled for gold; of an .!d age which had nothing but memories to live upon, when life was supported by tho few grains of gold which daily labor csuld still extract from the banks of tho improvised stream. The men who have experienced these vicissitudes are not, as a rule, drawn into companionship there by ; they prefer to live alone, nor .from week's end to week's end do they see or desire the presence of any other human leing. Lost in the remote wilds of the bush, they have acquired something of the shyness and love- cf solitude which characterizes tho furred and feathered creatures about them as silent as the songless birds, living lives as destitute of fragraueo-u3 tho scentless flowers. Tall War Stories. "I saw a fellow shot clean through the bodv by agiapnellshell within an inch of his heart," ho said. "Tho shell came out behind and killed a mule, but the poor fellow that was struck only gasped a littlo for air and then he kept on fighting just as fresh as over." The room became very quiet and several looked toward Tangle, who was present. Tangle arose and looked meditatively around. "I saw something of the same kind as that," he began. "It was at one of tho first engagements we had when we went to the front. Thero was a soldier who stood right beside me whowas struck square in tho head with a twelve pound cannon ball, aud, gentlemen, he never knew it." The old soldier who had told the first story looked a littlo sheepish and several laughed a little. Tut," some one thought to enquire, "didn't it kill him ?" Tanglo looked up, a littlo bit surprise 1. "Oh, yes, certainly it killed him," ho replied. "But, then, maybe it was all for the best. He might have lived to tell the story. It's proba bly just as well," he added, looking at the old soldier. Milwaukee Sentinel. Chicken With Three Legs. A curiosity in the shape of a chicken is now on exhibition at St. Francis. It consists of a perfoctly formed chicken with three lees, hatched about five days ago- one closely under the wing, one that is near the lower end of the back, while the other is in the proper place. The little fellow is y t alive aud healthy, looking, and while the side with two legs is ivn obstruction to navigation, he is ap parently enjoying life. St. Francis CFlaO Facts. - HILL IN MISSISSIPPI The Senator Makes a Rousing Speech At Jackson. He Defines and Eulogizes Pure States' Rights Before the Mississippi Legislature. Jacksox, Miss. Senator Hill 6poke in the hall of the House of Representa tives. Early in the afternoon the gallery had been filled with colored people, but they were cleared out by the police and room was made for the white men and for the ladies of Jackson. Some of the wives of the members were admitted to the floor of the House. The House was called to order by SjK.aker Stree at 1 :40 p. m., while at the other end of the cap itol Lieutenant-Governor Evans called the Senate to order. Five minutes later the members of the Senate appeared at the door of the House and were formally received, the Lieutenant-Governor main taining the platform beside the Speaker. A few minutes before 2 o'clock Governor Stone appeared, escorting Senator 11 ill. The whole assembly arose to meet them and the galleries antr floor fapplauded loudly. The Governor escorted Senator Hill to the rostrum where he took a seat beside the Speaker. "When the assemblies had quitted Gov. Stone. arose and introduced Senator Hill in a speech, replete with warm praise for his services to the Democratic party while Governor of New Y-rk. After the applanse had subsided Sena tor Hill spoke as follows: "I am deeply sensib'e, gentlemen of the Legislature of Mississippi, how rare jour bestowal has been of the disting uished honor which, with open pride, I come he.e to receive at your hinds and to acknowledge with gratitude. What statesmen of our great republic, the most venerable, the most renowned among the liviug or the dead, ia the flowering of his fame would not have travelled long for the gathering of such a leaf to bind with all its laurels. In this new world, where the people rule, shall we not brighten every tie that links our Demo eratic denominations, principalities and powers in the baiided sovereignty of an imperishable .union. I will trust your white-haired veterans, familiar with pub lic cares; I will trust the young man, who for the first time treads these halls and is burning to hurl his part in the service of the State, to know what thankfulness I shall ever feel, gentlemen of the State of Mississippi, to have been for an hour the focus of that reciprocal j,ood will which I owe to the favor and return to you ou behalf of the State of New York. There is good leason at all times for in terchange of thought between the peo ple of 44 States banded together for life to insure one .mothers liberty in the pur suit of happiness. But there is. excellent reason at the present time for such inter change between men whose political phi losophy aud practical politics alike are summed up in preserving for our own benefit, for times to come, the great Dem ocratic faith and tradition. It was never in such peril. Scarce ever until Novem ber two years ago and November next did popular elections put in issue such extreme danger, or so large deliverance. The ground upon which Democrats of the State of New York have their stand is the whole Democratic faith and tradi tion not some corner of it merely, not soma splinter of it merely, but the whole. This is the ground upon which I would see the Democrats of the State of Missis sippi, with all Deinocrata north, south, east and west, both of the regular organ izations and i he Farmers' Alliance unite and take their stand in the approaching contest. Other duties for auother day. For like the victory of Jefferson, th s union, this victory will close a chapter of history; will doom to final disintegration a degradieg party and will fix the direction of your political progress for tome decades in the century to come. Now, as in prin ciple, I depend for triumphs upon par ties aud the organization of parties. They create part es. It is the Demo cratic principle which created the Dem cratic party. In its union li s a grea cr strength than all its enemies combined, can ever finally subveit. It survives ev ery disaster. It is the great and most efficient or gan of the people's power. The Dem ocratic party is stronger than any man or set of men. No rua'i is ever dUpensible to its success, for its s rength n with the people. It is more powerful than any class, however numerous. Therefore it is large , toleraut, liberal, progressive. It inv.tes to its membership, to its con trol, all men who will uphold the Democratic faith and apply them to the people's needs. Continuing, Ir. Hill urged a close ad herence and ttrict construction of the constitution of the United States, which he said "was the standing marvel in the history of civilized men." The pow ers which grants it are few an specified, and it concentrates and centralizes these few. After t: century of the storm aud stress it remains almost wholly unruptur ed and ha? emereged-unimpaired from the torsion of our war. .It is not any legalized excursion by Congress outside the constitution whicu explains why we still live and move and have our being beneath its aegis. It is in spite of trans gression, not by help of them that we still live. We have not profited by them we have survived them. It is the old abridgment and the limitations of the functions of government to its own proper business despite transgressions; it is the distribution and devotion of its powers, despite usurpations, it is the prohibition of State powers; it is the declaration of State rights; it is the res ervation and surrender of the residue to tho states respectively of the people, which we have truly lived and still bear our life; it is individual freedom, not a government rule, which explains our swift expansion from a fringe of thirteen feeble colonies to a contiuent of mighty states. It is individual freedom, rot Republican force bills, not congressional leading strings, that wi'l enable you, the stronir and hitrh'v civilized race to guide forward your less gifted fellow citizen from the plane of equality before the law. the higher level of thrift, econo my, good husbandry, social order, self imposed and household virtue and thus transform the present difficulties and un shared burdens of the South in the tolid foundation of still more prosperous and more poweiful States. It must be ad mitted that for a few brief years our con stitution did not perfectly avail to insure domestic tranquility. That was in the last generation, and broken hearts must be healed by time or death, and one or two more generations must pass away. In doubling and redoubling jour in credible achievement of the past 20 years your magnificent progress in the productions of the field, farm, forest and mines, before it becomes palpable that war, with its devastations, its passions, its griefs may not, perhaps, have all been too high a price to pay for transmitting an insoluble political problem. Wc must live up to tLat constitution. New York should stand, by Mississippi and Mississippi by New York in its support. Every trouble, every disturbance that exists, every disaster that impends, and every daoger that is feared, throughout our whole land, not merely in some part of it, is the direct and obvious conse quence of Republican legislation in disre gard of the spirit of the letter t f our constitution. Not for one hour during the last thirty years has the Democratic party possessed, nor does it now possess, the power to reptal or amend those laws, the fount and origin of every present disturbance to tha general peace and prosperity. A little while the Democratic party bad the Senate ; a little while the executive ; foi longer periods ihe House of Representa tives but not for a moment during 30 years has' it had all three, so that till the evil producing laws havo been absolutely beyond our reach aud went on operate ing and are operating now just as if the overwhelming Democratic majority in the House of Representatives were a Re puclican majority. Senator Hill spoke at considerable length and made a fine impression on the large crowd that heard him. He was frequently interrupted by cnthusisas tic applause. SHE FED THE CHICKENS POISON. A South Carolina Womans Peculiar and Fatal Method of Thief-Catching. Columbia, S. C. Colored people living in the outskirts of the city have been greatly excited of late over the sud den inexplicable death of several of their neighbors. It is now alleged that an old colored woman living in that quarter, who had been losing many chickens final ly bought some poison and fed it to a few old hens, which would fatten them, but prove certain death to any dnd who ate thettt. One negro in the neighbor hood soon sickened and died. Shortly two or three others followed. Chicken Stealing in that neighborhood has ceased. A Week of Southern Progress. The Manufacturers' Record of March 19 contains thi following: "Reports from all sections of the South indicate a steady inflow of capital for investment in the new enterprises. The establishment of new industries, as indicated by the incorporation of compan ies, shows that a large amount of new mon ey is being placed where it will be of im mense benefit to the South The railroad situation is still complicated by the un uncertaintie3 of the Richmond Terminal reorganization, but present indications point to a plan that will place this sys tem aod allied interests upon a souudcr basis than hitherto, and relieve the properties of the great burden of obliga tions it was proposed to impose upon them. "The iron trade is strengthened by the consolidation of the two greatest pro ducers, the Tennessee Coal. Iron & Rail road Co. and the De Bardeleben Coal & Iron Co., and there is still a prospect of the inclusion of the SIoss Steel & Iron Co. in the deal. "Our record of new enterprises for the week shows the following as the more important items: A $125,000 electric plant at Richmond, Va; a $600,000 stockyards company at Louisville, Ky. ; a $00,000 school-desk manufacturing com pany at Newport, Ky. ; a $l,f 05,000 coal and coke company at Corinth, W. Va ; a $500,000 iron and zinc company nt Roanoke, Va. ; a $21,000 fruit-preserving company at Richmond, Va. ; a $100, 000 water and power company at Pales tine, Texas; a $2),00'J manufacturing company at Salem. Va ; a $1,000,00J manufacturing compauy at Baltimore, Md.; a $20,000 woolen-mill company at Salem, W. Va. ; a $310,000 phosphate company at Plant City, Fla. ; a $40,C00 brick company at Louisville, Ky. ; a $500,003 loan and trust company at Charleston, S. C. ; a $1,000,000 mineral and raining Company at Ilairiman, Tenn.; a $275,000 copper-mining com pany at Henrietta, Texas : au iron fur nace at Queen City, Texas; a $500,000 cotton factory company at Newport News, Va., and a $209,'JC0 coal and coke company at McDowell county, "W. Va." Th9 Columbia Primary. Columbia S. C. The result of the pri mary elections for mayor and aldermen is announced. In the mayorality race no candidate received a majority, and a sec ond primary was held Tuesday at "which W. C. Fisher was elected mayor. Col. F. W. McMaster, the present, mayor, was the other candidate and the result 8s reported by the mana gers gave him second place, but the ex ecutive committee decided the contest in Ward 3 in Sloan's favor, making Sloan second. The aldermen elected are: G. V. Allworden. Charles Nary, Henry Altee, saloon keepers; J. T. Barron, lawyer; Rufus Mulk-r, E. J. Brenuen, W. B. Lowrance, Joseph Allen, grocers; T. J . Harper, drayman ; Frank Ehrlicb, shoes; F. S. Faile, druggist. George Shields and Henry Ilennies will run orer. Inspected the Troops in a Confederate Uniform. A special from Louisville says: Adjutant-General Gross has created a sen sation by inspecting the State Guard in a gray Confederate uniform. He did this at Bowling Green last Saturday night. When asked why he did so he is quoted as saying that he had said he would uever wear the blue during his term of office. FARMERS' ALLIANCE. The Latest News Of And For The Order. "The Cause of Hard Times" Account ed For By a California Paper. The graded income tax sentiment is growing palpably stronger. If it can be crystalized so as to be brought to direct pressure upon the present Congress they may grant it recognition. Ben Butler declares hia-.self in favor of issuing all the paper currency the coun try wants. "Put," he siys, "the treasury stamp on it and send it out. It is the government's indorsement which makes money, anyhow." They have the right kind of girls up in Nebraska, says an exchange. At Sor toria a young lady won't dance with a young man unless he belongs to the Al liance, and the tripping of the light fau tastic has got to be done da the Ocala platform. On a fashionable night at the theatre in New York, from $75,000,000 to $100, 000,000 gleam from the boxes of the As tors and Vandeibilts in the form of glit tering jewels. Old Mrs. Astor, the lead er of the ultra fashionables, is described by the New York World as covering her neck and shoulders with diamouds esti mated at $2,000,000, and sitting smiling like a bride in the gaslight. Senator Peffer's eulogy of the .late Sen ator Plumb, on the 17th inst., awakened the admiration of his conferees. It cre ated a wonderful impression, and was re f erred to later by Senator Hale as "one of the most beautiful tributes he had ever h'-ard offered in the chamber." The Kansas Senator's laurels grow fast and thick. The committee of agriculture have ceased hearings upon the option and fu ture bill, and will shortly report it to Congress. It is admitted that the oppo sition have won concessions, but the sel ling of futures will be stopped, and no sales for future delivery will be permit ted, unless the article is in hand or par ties to such agreement are in a position to carry it out. By request, the demands adopted by the confederated organizations at their meeting in Washington last winter is printed below: 1. We demand the abolition fjf na tional banks ai banks of issue, and tis a substitute for national bank notes wfe de mand that legal tender treasury notes be issued in sufficient volume to trans act the business of the country without damage or special advantage td any class or caliiug, such notes to be legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and such notes when de manded by the people shall be loaned to them at not more than 2 cent per an num upon non-perishable products as indicated in the sub-tieasury plan, and also upon real estate with proper limita tious upon the quantity of land and amount ofmouey. 2. We demand a free and unlimited coinage of eilvef. 3. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alein ownership of laud, and that Congress take prompt action to de vise some plan to obtain all lauds now owned by aliens and foreign Syndicates and that all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the government and held foi actual settleis only. 4. Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, we demaud that taxation nation al, State, or municipal shall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of auother. 5 We. demand that all revenues na tional, Sttte or county shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the gov ernment, economically and houestly ad ministered. G. We demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax ou incomes. 7. We demand the most rigid hon esty and just State and national control and supervision of the means of public communication and transportation, and if this control and supervision does, not remove the abusts now existing, we de mand the government ownership of such means of communication and transporta tion. 8. We demand that the Congress of the'United States submit an amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people of each State; also the President and Vice-President by a popular vote. 9. Resolved, That this confederation of industrial organizations demand that in each State a Bystem shall be provided and faithfully executed that will insure an honest and accurate registration of ail voters, a free, fair, secret and official bal lot, and an honest public count; and we denund thai each State legislature shall E?ake it a felony for any improper inter ference with the exercise of the registra tion, ballot, or count. TOWN AKD COUNTRY. thpj'K a prejudice alius 'twUt country and town W hlch I wlsht In my heart wasent so. Yon take city people, junt square up and dc wn, Anl theyr mighty goud people to Know; And whare'a better people a-llvln' to-uay. Than us In the country? Ylt xood A both of us we're dlvorsed yon might tay. And won't couipermlse when we could. Now as nigh Into town for yer pap, ef you please. Is the what's called the w-oburlx. ter thare You 11 at least ketch a whiff of the breeze and a snll Of th breth of wild flowr ev'ry wbare. they's room for the children to p.ay. and J row. too And to roll In the (rasa, er to cllaib 7p a tree and rob nests, like they orient to do. Bat they'll do anyhow ev'ry time! My son-in-law said, when he lived la the town. He jest natch urly pined, night and day. Fer a sight of the woods, er a acre of ground Whare the trees waaent all cleared away. And be says to me onc't whllse a-TUlUni; us On the farm, "It's not strange. I declare. That we can't coax you folks, without raisin' a fuss. To come to town, visiting thare." And says I. "Then git back whare you sorto belong Ana aaiaune. too, ana yer inrre Little children. " says I, "thatdont know a bird song Ner a hawk from a chlcky-dee-dee. Git back." I-says-I, -to the blue of the sky And the green of the nekls. and the shine Of the sun. with a laugh In yer voice and yer eye . At hart j as mother's and mine. Well long and short of It he's compermised some He's moved in the snoburbs. Aud now Th-v don't haf locrii. when tney want us to come 'l aii-f we turn iu aud go anynow. Ker thare well, nicy's roui for the songa and per fUUM Of the grove and the old orchurd ground. And they's room for the children out thare, and they room Fer theyr gran' pap to waller n round! James Whitcomb Riley. CAPSE OF HARD TIMES. Vrent ira (Cal.) Unit. Our merchants solemnly contemplate shelves loaded with gxds and commer cial bills coming due while many of our best farmers are borrowing money to carry them through the season. The number of mortgages filed for record al most equals all other documents. The unemployed can find nothing to do and the army of tramps is receiving large ac cessions. Ort the other hand, our houses are full, farms are well tilled and har vests have been uniformly good for years Ventura county is rich in houses and lauds aud has rich goods in store. Why, then, is there universal complaint of a money famine? Simply because trans portation of our produce to the consum er is carried on at a price that is ruinous to us and that yields a profit of 40 per cent, to the railroads. This iand the in famous ombinationi of speculators who control the chief markets to suit their ca price, is the cause of the distress that has at last aroused the people to remon strance and peihap rebellion. If the business men are 'shrewd enough to see where their- interest lies they will join with the Alliance in demanding a com plete revolution in the financial and transportation system of the country. THE POLITICAL CALDKON. What I Occuring In These United States. Getting: Ready For the Great Bat tles of the Autumn Campaign. A People's Party was formed at Mon roe, N. C., last week. Omaha, Neb.,- The State convention of the People's indepe -.dent party will be hsld at Kearney, April 3. Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee has announced himself as a candidate for re nomination. Rhode Island Republican convention was held Tuesday and the sentiment was in favor of Harrison. This gives him five States thus far. Raleigh, N. C Capt. R. B. Pee bles has announced his candidacy forthe Democratic nomin .tion f r Atto ney General. Other candidates for the com in ition are Frank Osborne of Charlo te. Colonel Paul D Means of Cabarrus, Ed Chambers Smith of Raleigh, and C. L. Pettigrew of Plymouth. OrAxa Rapids, Mien. Gov. AYiuaus in an interview expresses himself as de siring to see Cleveland the party candi date for President. But he adds that it is his belief that neither Cleveland nor Hill will secure the nomi nation. If the candidate is t come from the West he thinks Boits is the man, and if from the East, then Gorman has the best chance. Nashville, Tenn At at meeting of the Democratic State Executive Commit tee, it was decided to hold separate con ventions for the selection of delegates to the Chicago Convention and for the nom ination of canidates for governor. Both c mveutions will meet in Nashville, the rirst on Thursday, May 26th, and the gubernatorial convention on Tuesday, August 20th. PoitTLANti, Me. There Is ft movement on foot looking for the formation of societies all over the State pledged td agitate for a resubmission of the prd hibitory iaw to the voters for recoasidef ation. A document in circulation states that the prohibitory law is detrimental to the business, social and moral interest of the Sttte of Maine, and calls for its repeal, while expressing a strong interests for the cau-e of temperance, which is re t irded, not helped, by the operations of the present system. IiAKEWoot, N. J. Ex-President Cleve land was seen at his home here to-night !y a representative of the United Prfiss .ind asked if t erc was any truth la the 4ory published in the New York Tele graph that he had written n letter declining to be renominated for the presidency, which he was about to make public when friends, whom Mrs. Cleveland informed of her husband's in tention, dissuaded him from his purpose. Mr. Cleveland denied the story in toto aud said it was made out of the whole c'.oth. : Col. L. L. Polk, president of the Farmf-rs' Alliance, was asked in Ral eigh, N. C-, a few days ago if he was in the Third Party movement He 6aid in reply that as far as he was concerned he was foot-!oose from all parties. He add ed, however, that the Northwest is on fire for the Third Party movement. He had several conferences and caucuses with Alliancemen during his visit to Ral eigh. Norfolk to Charleston. Weldon, N. C, Special The engi neers of the Norfolk; Wilmington and Charleston Railroad Compary have com- fdeted their work of surveying the entire ength of the r ad 232 miles, and are now engaged in locating the line. Starting from Norfork the surveyed route follows almost an air line to Charleston, passing through a section of country which is now almost without railroad iacilitiei. The surveys show that " the construction will be easy, the greatest difficulty to be encounted being Dismal Swamp, which the road run directly through. The main line will run through Norfolk county, in Virginia, Hertford, Bertie, Martin, Pitt, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pender, Bladen, Columbus and Brunswick in North Caro'ina, and Horry, Georgetown sad Berkley counties in South Carolina Among the larger towns through oriear which the route has been surveved are Wallectown, Va., and Yard ley, Cole raine. Windsor, Williamston, Pactolus, Johnston's Mills, Dover, Pink Hill, Washington, Point Caswell, and Wil mintrton. N. C . and in South Carolina. Conway, Frazer, Georgetown, Santee and McClellanrilla II is considered by many people ex tremely forward lor a young n.a? io aeuu a irl a valentine in leap year. POLITICS, CROPS, ETC. News From the Entire United States Reported By the Hon. Eli Perkins, Philosopher and Lrecturer. N. Y. City. On the Erie train last night was Eli Perkins, just arrived from an extensive trip down through the Southern States Yes," he said to a Sun reporter, "I am just from Texa and Missouri, via Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Biroing ham, Vicksburg, San Antonia, Galveston, the staked Plains of Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, sod Missouri, and I can give you the last news from the entire United States. What do you want to know?" "Well, how are the crops?" "The immense cotton c:op is swamp ing the entire South. They raised 9, 000,000 bales, and a million bales more than the world wants. The price has fallen from 10 cents to 5 in Texas, and the surplus is piled up around the sta tions with no one to buy it." "Who is hurt by the low price?" "The cotton merchant. Many farm ers s dd at eight cents, but ruin stares the Southern merchant in the face. The entire South is suppressed, and they cry out to the North for sympathy. I saw 80,000 bales piled up in Fort Smith. The Red and Brazos rivers are lined with it. The farmer's corn bin is empty, and the merchants who have not failed are not able to carry him through another crop. Meetings are ueing neia au over the south recommending tne restriction of the crop this vear." "How do they expect to restrict it?" Br putting in more sugar, rice and rnl - 1 5 1 a S corn, ine price aroppea too iaie ior a wheat crop. They are in trouble in the sugar country in Texas and Louisiana, because just as they want to plant more sugar Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky jumps up in wasmngton ana oners a resolution to take tne two-cent bonus on of sug r. Thi3 would destroy the sugar industry and throw a million more bales of cotton upon the market. Then South Carolina, which used to make 100,000 ban els of rice, and Louisiana, which made 900,000 barrels of rice, want a tariff against cheap Chinese rice, which has about broken up American rice planting." "What argument do they use in speak ing of a tariff on Chinese rice and Egyp tian cotton?" "Theysay: 'You Yankees put a tar iff on tobicco and wheat to he'p your farmer, and why can't we have a tariff on Chinese rice?'" "How is the winter wheat crop?" "I bring good news about wheat," said Mr. Perkins. "It is simply superb everywhere. I have not seeu such a stand of wheat in sixteen years. The last Government report was made when there was some doubt about wheat. But tnere have been recent warm rains from North Carolina to the Staked Plains in Texas, and every kernel sowed has come up. It could not be better in Kentucky and Tennessee, and the farmers in Texas, Ar kansas, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, In diana and Ohio have told me within four days that they never had such a prospect. The wheat is short. It hugs the ground, but it is even, and looks just as they want it to look for a splendid crop. Along the Atchison and Missouri Pacific roads, clear into Colorado, the ground is soaked with a long, warm rain. "Did you see any political changes?" "Yes; the Farmers' Alliance is peter ing out like the old Greenback party. They have all come out for free silver, w . a 1 and Weaver, the old ureenuack canai da'e, is their man for the Presidency. The Farmers' Alliance in Texas legislat ed agaiafct aliens holding property in the State, and millions of dollars were driven out of Texas. The Teians blame Gov ernor Hogg.the Alliance Governor, for all the depression in Texas Clarke, who is no v running against 4iogg win ue tri umphantly elected Governor. He says: 'Hogg drove out the Scotch and English aliens, and they now let their money to the Yankees a four per cent , and the Yankee comes down and lets it to the Texan at 10 per cent.' The Alliance fel lows in Kansas have so ruined the State by talk ng repudiation and free silver that almost all mortgages in Kansas are now written 'payable in gold.'" "What about the old Kouthern Demo crat?" "The old cast-iroa Democrat has given up Cleveland. The 'Stuffed Prophet' never enthused them, and now that he has spoken free silver the Democrats have dropped him. They have also began to talk about Gorman. They say Gorman can carrv the solid South and all the sil ver States because he traded his silver in fluence with Wolcott for votes against the Election bill.'" Did you see anything funny in the South?" "I found the Texan is given to making fun of the Arkansan. The Rev. Dr. Pritchett, President of the Normal Col Uop. t Huntsville. told me that he ask ed a passenger on the Tewas Pacific where he came from " Whar'd I kum fromT repeated the man, 'why, you're the twentieth man that'a asked that today. 1 Hum irom ax knnuw Now. do5r on vou. laugh !' " "At Texarkaua, where they burned the neero at the stake," continued Eli, "I saw a little Texas boy in the depot. Patting him on the Head, i askea inquir ing! v: ""'Are yoa a goo 1 little hoyV n " 'You bet I an.1 he said proudly. 'I'm the best boy in Texas; you ask mj father and mother.' " 'Do you say your prayers every dayT I continued. " 'No, not every day,' he said thought fully. 'I didn't say 'em yesterday, and I havn't said 'em today and if I get along prety well I shan't say 'em enny more 't all.' "'Whv notf1 " 'O, cans paw and maw 's goin' to live up in Arkansaw.'" The Washington office of the Western Union Tclecraph Company bas been known to send out over four hundred thousand words io a single evening. - HARBINGERS OF SPRING. Kewg Notes as Fresh as the Crisp Air. The Most Interesting Events Hap pening in Three States Chronicled Here, VIRGINIA. The Baptist church at Charlottesville has just celebrated her centennial. James O'Brien, the agent of the Balti more ami Ohio R. R. at Lexington, has mysteriously disappeared. The trucking interests in the vicinity o? Richmoud and West Point will be larger this year than ever. The Will of Wm. L. Scott, the mil lionaire founder of Cape Charles City, has been admitted to probate in North ampton county. He bequeaths all his immense Cape Charles property , to hia two daughters. W. L. Watkins, the oldest member of the Petersburg bar, died last Thursday. $20,000 life insurance will be paid to his heirs. . . Elbert Carrico is suing the ! 'Bertha Zinc. Company at Wytheville for f'20,000 damages for the loss of both arms. Boys set tiro to three barns near Lov ingston, destroying much tobacco and hay. A great fruit and flower exhibit will be given in Norfolk next fa'l by the Nor folk Pomological and Horticultural So ciety. The land tax books of the commission er of revenue for the year 1892 show au increase in real estate values of Danville of $120,000 as compared with 1891. NOBTH CAROLINA. The Baptist State Sunday School Con vent ou will be held at Winston on April 14th. A factory is to be built at Bessemer City to manufacture soap, dyes and stove polish. A lar?e amount has been subscribed to the Jellefsou Democratic Club of Wins ton. I - a Winston board of aldermen are discus sing the question of taxing all retail drummers The Guilford Battle Ground Company will make a lake on their grounds near Greensboro. Baptist revival meetings will be held iu Charlotte beginning with My 30th, under the leadership of Rev. fl. M. Wharton, a noted divine of Baltimore. Mr. Boj'd, formerly postmistress of New London, confessed on her death-bed that she committed the larceny for which her husband is now imprisoned in the penitentiary. A. great many fish arc being caught all along the Neuse river, and the fishing down at Morchead City on the coast is finer this season than for years. Over $2,000 worth were shipped from there in one day, recently . Judge John A. Gilmer died at Greens boro Thursday. His health had been failing for two years, having Bright s disease, and his end was quiet and peace ful. He was born A piil 22, 1838. Tho funeral took place Friday. The State Board of Pharmacy, in ses sion at Greensboro last week examining applicants for license to practice pharma cy, granted licc'nses to the following who passed the examination successfully: Jv. V. Howell, Wake Forest; 1J. K. Kyser and P. B. Kjser, Selma; II. 8. Sed- berry. Fayttteville; F. W. Parker, Ral eigh; Thomas N. Hill, Mooresville, And Mrs. P. B. Kyser, Selma. Mis. Kysel-jia the first lady in the State who has ever received license to practice pharmacy or who ever stood an examination. . SOUTH CAROLINA. Canning ' factories, are to be built at Aiken aud Brunson. The Carolina Midland Alliance Ware house and Banking Co , of Sciglingville, has beeu chartered. The survey of the Jonesville and Lock- hart Shoals Railway will be commenced in a few weeks. A dog case was tried at Spartanburg last Saturday. The plaintiff had a setter who was fond of egg, and when caught in the act of poaching last week, was fired upon, putting out nn eye. The Canal Dime Savings Bank has been organized at Columbia, with E. W. Robertson, president; A. L. Gaubcrt, vice-president, and G. M. Berry, cashier. The capital stock is $30,000. A little South Carolina girl, only 10 years bid, Miss Bertha Visauski, is rank ing quite a furore in New York City as a pianist. She lead the National Conserv atory Orchestra at the Madi-oa Square Concert lasU week. Columbia is Miss Bertha's home. The Superintendent of Education ad vertises the mf eting of the fctate board of . examiners, when applicants for State teacher's certificates will be issued, to take place April 1. During the past week the Penitentiary authorities have received convicts from the following- counties: Charleston, 19, Darlington 4, Lancaster 7, Sikmter 5, Pickens 2, Union 2, Hampton 1, Edge field 2. Out of the forty-two prisoners two were white. The Columbia Baseball Association, which will maintain a team in the South ern Inter State League, has organized with President, J. G. Bennett; vice, F. H. Stevens; secretary and treasurer, A. T. McCants; corresponding secretary, Clair Taylor. Pittrnan and Campbell will do the Upx work. The team secur ed is one of. the finest Columbia ever had. Bwygert will decline the offer to go with the Mobile "Southern League" in order to remain. On the estate of Lord Lurgan, county oLArmagb, Ireland, 608 tenants bought their farms for $1,100,000, the prices ranging from $150 up to $15,000. The Sultan of Morocco Laving been thrown by a white mule ordered the back of the contumacious beast to be bastinadoed. if : - - . ....
The Democratic Banner (Dunn, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 24, 1892, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75