North Carolina Newspapers

t. g. conn, ( I'l'BLISIIKK.) YM h. white, Euitors. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 Entered at the Post Office at Ma rion, N. C, for transmission through the mails, as second class matter. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1897. "WORK TO T II K STRAIGHT tl)CK." "Hew to the line," is a trite say ing similar to the above and they are full of meaning. As the hon- est, industrious workman wouiu observe, doing a dutitul urnrlmafuhin ! "HeW tO piece of the line and never mind about the chips," they are of small consequence. You are known by others to be at work, and that you are to perform it in a proper manner ; if any one carelessly, or intentionally gets in the way of the chips, it is their ,.-n rir.mw and thev will have to stand the consequences. You would not aim to injure one, but if he acts thus, he simply hurts himself. So might the master workman observe to others about him. This illustrates the work and duty of a public journalist. He has work before him, and unvary ing justice lays the straight edge beside all men alike ; or drops the plumb line by the side of the con duct of all men without regard to party or sect, and points the way to the writer : "Go by the lines." And as for this writer he knows no other guide for all but that of right ; and there is no question, whatever, but that he will ever be found trying to follow in that line. This may not please all, at all times, neither did we, nor do we expect that it will. If, after we rec ord, what is worthy of record, and in a broad, truthful, kindly spirit, and still some are displeased, we cannot go further just to suit them. When we have satisfied conscience, and tried to please our Maker, the rest is of small consequence. We do not thus write because of com plaint, but these are pertinent thoughts, we trust. Thus would we deserve and gain more favor from all classes of men, than to set out to do the impossible, wrong and foolish thing: try to please all kinds of men in all things at all times. A journalist has a work and a duty that he owes to all and to himself. FICTION AM NKWSI'AI'KKS. A rent writer in the New York Observer believes that the day of the novel is passing away. How ever this may be, there is much truth in what he says of the mod ern newspaper, which he believes is taking the place of the novel He is of opinion that the newspa per will not only take the place of fiction and usurp some, if not all, of its functions, but will be the instrument through which it will be forced from the field. The change, says he, is taking place now, as any one may note by look ing about him. The demand for newspapers has enormously in creased in recent years, so much so that with large classes of people it promises to supercede all other kinds of reading. The newspapers have greatly improved, cover a much wider field, make current history more readable, personages more visible, and describe inci dents and occurrences in a style which, however faulty from a lit erary point of view, is easy to read r.uucaiion increases, and with it the desire to know more of the do ings of the world. Men are more interested in seeing what real peo ple aredoingthanin reading about the sufferings and trials of imagi nary people. The newspaper is a panorama of the world, and, like the continuous photograph, a mov. ing panorama. The observer in looking at it becomes fascinated, and, once acquired, the taste for it cannot be shaken off. The reader finds in his paper all the stimulent or sedative he finds in theordinary novel, and, in addition, a distrac tion based upon reality, not upon fiction. Of course, to get the full measure of enjoyment from a newspaper, that is, to be interested in the daily history of three conti nents, the reader must possess some education. But, having that, his interest never fijgs and lasts for life. There is no doubt, more over, with increasing constituen cics, newspapers will undergo fur ther improvement, and so dispute the supremacy of the novel still more strenuously than they do now. The time will come when the owners of the great dailies will awaken to the fact that the great mass of their readers want instruc tion about facts, as well as the facts themselves; when accounts of occurrences will be carefully edited and explained. What in formation does a reader get from a brief mention of a battle in South Africa without knowing what the battle was about, or from two par agraphs relating to the same sub ject published weeks apart without knowing what has happened mean while.'' w nen these paragraphs are edited, when all the facts re- lating to the topic are given in carefully prepared notes, as they are certain to be in time, the news paper, with its hourly history of all movements, wilt swallow up all other forms of light reading. In deed, but for the vanishing distaste of women for newspapers they would seriously menace all fiction now. And it has turned out that "Jere miah Lamentation" Ramsey, as the Charlotte Observer has named him, has defiled himself with base pie! Who could have believed it? He sought and has been elected to the secretaryship of Agriculture, to succeed Mr. Thomas K. Bruner. For several months past he has heaped the most abusive lan guage on the minority Populists in his paper, the Progressive Partner, calling them scoundrels, dishonest pie hunters, etc., etc., and now he is one of the first to creep in and take a piece of pie. O, consistency the jewel is hard to find, it seems, when there is pie in sight. Through the intervention of Congressman Pearson a duty of two cents a pound on Mica has passed the House. It now goes to the Senate, which, it is believed, will pass it. It is supposed that this will open up all the mica mines; but wno pays tne tarin t is another part of the argument the consumer of mica, like the con sumer of woolens, pays the tax for the manufacturer. One main duty of a paper is to print the news of all when it is news, and for all : another is to cultivate a healthy public opinion as to material, educational and moral questions. On Wednesday the House of Representatives passed the Ding ley tarilt bill by a vote of 205 to 121. THE STOKV OF BAILEY. How the Attorney General Called Senator I'ritchard Down IJuney, Too, Talked. WashinRton Special, March 27th, to Ashe ville Citizen. When histriographers come to write the story of bow James M. Millikeu came to get the appoint ment a.s United States Marshal lor the Fifth district they will not treat the subject thoroughly un less tbey include an incident that occurre.l a few weeks ago. A strong applicant for the place was W. A. Uailej of Davie. liuiley, it will be remembered, had been hauled up for some Irregularity, more or less iuiportaut, with the government while he was operat ing a distillery some years ago. The case got iuto court at States ville, but Bailey got out of it iu a inanuer the details of which are not generally known, liemember ing these things when he came to apply for the niarshalship, Bailey ll.tt-footedly and with notable honesty declared he would not euter the race unless the facts in the case were laid before the proper authority. This was done, but if the historian is a Republi can ou the inside he will tell that when the facts were presented, they were accompanied by the state inent that there was nothing in them or some similar declaration, to put the inquiring oflicial at ease on the question. The scene shifts here and Sena tor Pritchard becomes an actor. He and Congressman Linuey took it into their heads that they would visit Attorney General McKenna in Bailey's interest. That oflicial received them with all the diguity becoming a member of the Presi dent's ofJicial family, and Senator Pritchard at once lit in. ltunning his fingers through his Trilbyine hair and striking an attitude that can be struck and maintained only by a .'orth Carolina mountaineer, he began his song. Accordiug to the Senator there was a unani mous detuaud in the Fifth district for Bailey ; as lor castoria, the children, cried for him. In fact, the wheels of progress would be absolutely reversed if the Fifth did not get Bailey. It was a ver itable Bailey day for the Senator, ami lie plead his case as fervently as he is wont to plead in the cases at the bar in his home in the Mad ison county capital. Beads of perspiration are said to have stood out upou the Sena tor's brow, and when he bad ex hausted himself, if not his subject, he sat down to give way to the "Bull of the Brushies." Liuney rose up in sections, and as soon as he could command all of him self gave some sunnlementarr thoughts to Senator Pritchard's address on "what I know about Bailey." It is true, he said, that Seuator Pritchard had said much in favor of Mr. Bailey, but he had by no means exhausted the sub ject. Mr. Bailey was the one man in the district preeminently fitted to fill the post ion for which he was an applicant. From the wilds of Wilkes to the gorges of Chero kte there was a great cry from the people for the appoiutnient of Bailey. His constituents wanted Bailey. "Therefore,' said Mr. Linuey, "we would urge upon you the appointment of Mr. Bailey to the niarshalship." Mr. McKctiua turned his eyes first upon the Senator and then upon the Congressman, and then .shoved his hand into a drawer at his side. "I appreciate, gentle men,'' he is said to have said, 'your desiie to give me all the po.vible aid iu making this ap pointinent, but don't you think it would be better to appoint a man against whom nothing like this can be fouud!'' As he said this the Attorney General drew from the desk the records of the court in Bailey's case. And the blow is said to have almost prostiated Pnichard. At any rate it was not verv long after this interview that Bailey auuouuced his withdrawal fioni the race in. faror of Millifcen. A HEN ROOST BANDITTI Infests Grassy Branch and Shakes Society. A MUCH MARRIED MAN. Corn Cracker and Borkafeelos Will Star: for Cuba a Soon aa the Roads Get Bet terThe Bee Gam Cue Still Being In ventilated. Correspondence of The Messenger. Owing to condition of the roads, Buckafeelus and I have not yet started for Cuba. But we shall soon be equipped and caparisoned as the law directs. My friend Burt Franklin, who claims to have been in every bat tle from Braddock's defeat lo Cus ter's overthrow, was to go with me, but has just married a giddy young tning agea ninety -eigin, and she may object. If excite ment were all I desired, it can be had in this region. The bee gum case is still engaging the attention of detective J. A. Lattimore, and he soon expects to bag his quarry. Uncle Billy Chitwood, the man who lost the bee-eum, has an abiding faith in the sagacity of "Julus, and the latter has made improvements on all the bcotiana Yard hureau methods, as well as those of the Pinkerton agency Tommy Elliotts dogs are in charge of a man who combines the callings of "hoss doctor" and weather-prophet. It is thought they will pull through. Their owner is taking a course of Burk hart's remedy and the faith cure. He says nothing soothes grief like Burkhart, as it cheers but never inebriates. We have a man somewhere be tween Cherry Mountain and King dom Come who has been much married, and yet is not legally married at all. Young and inex perienced, he and his fair bride got license in Rutherford and were married in Cleveland county. In about a week, after making a "bridal tower," as they called it, to Grassy Branch, a very knowing he magistrate informed them they were not married according to the "statyoots" in such cases made and provided. The bride groom said it wasn't his fault, that he paid "honest money for them license," and he was willing to go according to law. He hunted up another "Squire and brought the same to bay. The magistrate, with great unction and imposing ceremony, declared them man and wife, and invoked the Lord to have mercy on their souls and upper leather. In two more weeks a stickler for law and order in formed them that magistrate No. 2 did not have his disabilities an nounced, and the marriage was therefore void. The long suffer ing bridegroom swears that he is not playing base ball, and don't propose to be governed by three strikes and out. Nay, verily, he started in to capture a mother-in law. and will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. Another matter that has shaken society, is a hen roost-banditti that infests Grassy Branch, bome of the sober-minded and orderly walking have made complaint from time to time that men who had not the fear of God before their faces had invaded the privacy of their hen-roosts, and in con sequence some 300 chickens had departed for the undiscovered country. About a week since the local detectives made a capture. Some fifteen young white men and boys were charged with lar ceny and being accessories before the act. The detectives had feathers, earmarks and other clues in evidence. Deacon Jones claimed that his ancient dung hill rooster had given the signal of distress the night previbus, and the next morning part of his mor tal remains were in an old out house where these graceless scam ps held midnight carnival and feasted on fowls. The deacon said the features of his defunct chanticleer looked as though his soul had plumed its flight to where the wicked cease from troubling and the roosters are at rest. When asked to describe his rooster, he said the late lamented had no ear marks except a very short tail. That the venerable dunghill had dodged death in many forms dur ing revival meetings when minis ters looked on him with covetous eyes. That it was hard to realize that he had eluded tables where grace would have been said over his corpse tc tickle the palates of those who feared not God nor re garded man. the accused were defended by a man who unites the callings of sky pilot and hawker of poke-berry pictures. By his rude eloquence and knowledge of chimney corner law, he got a ver diet of acquital for his clients The magistrate said: "The law haint clear on stealing no how. Besides, I haint got my books. Then another thing: this here war rant charges larceny, when the evidence is they haint stole noth ing but chickens. I know they is a big difference between larceny ana stealing. men they is no direct evidence they took them chickens. Of course chickens was missed the nights they had them chicken suppers, and them fellers was seen with chickens that looked like them that is reported stold, but chickens all look jest alike. As their learned counselor said, the boys may have jest gone to them hen roosts to see if the chickens slept wiih their eyes open. I've always heered it is better that ninety and nine guilty men escape than one innocent man suffer 1 ne ruling ot this here court is, that the defendants is not guilty." The righteous deacon and his de tectives are very indignant. They say that fifteen of the ninety and nine guilty men have already es caped. The knowing he magis trate insists that stealing is not larceny, and don't propose to buage. One thing in support of the 'squire's decision is. that unless they could eat gourds and scenery, chickens could not live on Grassy Branch. Nothing there flourishes in the open air but gourds and voters. Gourds grow to an immense size and are the chief staple of commerce. They make good martin boxes, but the martin doesn't infest Grassy Branch. He stakes off a claim where he can make a living and support a family. The voters on this branch are as prone to vote radical as the sparks to fly upward. They eat green gourds, and use what they don't eat for corn cribs, wheat bins, &c. This does not re quire near all the crop, and their largest specimens are exported. Grassy Branch gourds are as cele brated as the big trees of Cali fornia or the Bourbon whiskey of Kentucky. One thing is certain unless the chickens of that region are somnambulists, and all walk to the same place, it looks, to a man up a tree, like there has been chicken stealing if not "larceny." The boys just turned loose may be innocent, but somebody stole chickens. Corn Cracker. Cherry M't, N. C . Mar. 26, '97. STATE NKWS. Bishop Duncan of the Methodist church, is in Durham and will preach there several days. It has been decided in Charlotte to call the Democratic primaries "off"' and let the mayoralty candi dates "go as you please. It is learned that Col. Julian S Carr's well-known farm. "Occonee chee." near Hillsboro. has been sold to wealthy northern men. It is said that Adjutant General Cowles is an applicant for the position of minister to Greece to succeed Minister Eben Alexander. Mrs. S. M. Hanna and Miss Lil lian Hanna, mother and sister of Senator Mark A. Hanna, are in Asheville, at the Kenilworth Inn. The building committee of the Capitol club at Raleigh decides to begin work on a new 20,000 build ing at an early date. The designs of a Massachusetts artist were ac cepted. Hickory had a fire last Friday about 1 o'clock. A. Y. Sigmon's dry kiln structure and two car loads of lumber were burned. The adjacent houses were in great danger, but were saved. Charlotte Observer : Judge Gra ham of Oxford, has a table that is entitled to be classed as a dis tinguished board. Calhoun, Clay, Filmore and Webster are all known to have set down about it to eat and drink. Capt. W H. Ramseur tells the Charlotte A'ercs that the car for the North Carolina Rolling Expo sition will be completed by the last of July or first of August. The city this car will hail from will ne determined by sealed bids. The highest bidder gets the name. Asheville, Charlotte, Raleign and Wilmington are expected to bid. Gastonia Gazette: Will Nolen, son A Dr. Nolen, near Crouse, for several days had been suffering with severe pain in the head, with more or less indication of a rising inside. Saturday before his death on Sunday it is said that his skull burst, the bones parting asunder. The sufferer was driven mad by the agony he endured. The de ceased was about 30 years of age and leaves a young wife and one or two children. The Raleigh A'eii'S and Observer says Treasurer Worth has about completed his plans for his "Sher iffs' Institute." It will be held at Morehead City during the month of July. The exact date will be determined upon later. It is the purpose of this meeting to instruct the sheriffs in regard to the reve nue and machinery act, so as to secure uniformity, thoroughness and promptness in the callection of taxes of all descriptions. A correspondent writing from Rutherfordton to the Charlotte Observer says : "The Box," a place of ill repute in the mountains near here, consisting of two houses, oc cupied by four women, has been cleaned out. A party of citizens burned the houses, including the women's household goods, and whipped one of the women. Two of the latter have left the neigh borhood, and two are in jail in de fault of the costs of an action be fore a magistrate. "The Southern Railway," said a gentleman in close touch with the legal affairs of the Southern to the Salisbury World Saturday, "has had suits to the amount of $500, 000 brought against it in the past 12 months in the State of North Carolina. One reason assigned for this condition of things is President Spencer's false ideas of economy. He has curtailed the expenses to the extent of cutting off some of the necessary em ployees and thus a greater number of accidents have occurred." NEWS OF THE DAT. Judge Sears, the Republican nominee for Mayor of Chicago, III., broke the divorce record by granting twenty five decrees in five hours. Burglars Friday afternoon broke into St. Patrick's church in Rich mond and stole the corteuts of the poor contribution box and the sacred vessels in the tabernacle. There is no clue to the perpetrators. The President Tuesday sent to the Senate the following nomina tions: Frank W. Palmer, of Illi nois, to be public printer; Alexan der M. Thackery, uf Pennsylvania, tf be consul of the United States at Havre, France. The United Press ' ssociation, the great news gathering concern, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors Monday to Frederick G. Mason, of Orange, N J. The assignment pipers were signed by Charles A Dana as president. A r.ew political party was launched in Nebraska last week. It is composed of members who have heretofore affiliated with the Re publicans, but last November v.ned f-jr W. J. Bryan fur Presi dert on the currency question alone. IThe Job Work. Ie-sengfr Office for RUSSELL AGAIN ENJOINED. Siraonton Grants an Injunction Re straining the Governor, Attorney General and New Direc tors of the ATLANTIC &N. C. RAILROAD From tarrying Out Ihe Protiiioni of Two Act of the Latt General Assembly Amending the Charter of the Atlantic North Carolina Kail road. Raleigh Correspondence, March 29th, of the Charlotte Observer. Saturday afternoon, in Charles ton, S. C, Judge Simonton, of the United States Circuit Court, granted an injunction restraining Governor Rt;ss-M. Attorney Gen eral Walser and the new directors of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, from attempting to carry into effect two acts of the last General Assembly amending the charter of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, which gives the Governor control of the man agemen' of the road. The restraining order is return able before Judge Simonton, at Greensboro, April 6th, the day af ter the hearing of the North Car olina Railroad injunction case. In the meantime the Governor is re strained from appointing a State proxy, as provided by one of the new acts of the late General As sembly. This morning Marshal O.J. Car roll served the restraining order and the papers in the case on Governor Russell at the executive mansion. They will be served on the Attorney General and the di rectors later. This action is brought by Mr. W. R. Tucker of this city, who is the largest private stockholder in the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad. The object of it is to have two acts of the recent Gen eral Assembly, amending the charter of the road, declared un constitutional. One of the acts gives the Governor power to ap point new directors and make such chanees as he sees fit. The other so amends the old charter that it takes the control of the road out of the hands of the private stock holders and puts it in the handsof the State's oroxy, whose presence is required at a stockholders' meeting to even make a quorum The old charter allowed the State 300 representation in the stock holders' meeting and the private stockholders something like 1,100, The new charter repeals this pro vision and eives control to the State's proxy. The Governor had not appointed the State's proxy but it was understool that he in tended to do so at an early date and organize the road. The in junction granted by Judge Simon ton now prevents him from doing so. The amendments to theold char ter are claimed to be in violation of the contract law of the United States and upon the ground the constitutionality of the new laws will be tested in the United States Court. The case will not come in the State courts at all. A till in equity, which com prises something like ico type written naees. was fi ed in the Federal Court here and a copy sent to Judge iimonton before the restraining order was granted Ex Judge Boykin and Armistead Jones represent Mr. Tucker Governor Russell said he had not read the papers served on him He said : I will appoint a State's proxy, if I choose, and when choose, I shall not ask any United States judge when I can do so. I have had no occasion to make any appointments. Dortch resigned six months ago. Mr. llryan Give a Part of the Proceed to the Sliver Cause. Lincoln, Neb., Dispatch, 22nd. Hon. W. J. Bryan will give one half of the royalties received from the sale of his book, "The iMrst Battle," to the cause of bimetal lism, and has appointed a commit tee whose duty will be to properly expend the funds reserved for that purpose. The committee is composed of the following persons : Senator James K. Jones, of Ar kansas ; Senator Henry M. Teller, of Colorado ; Senator William V. Allen, of Nebraska, and Hon. A.J. Warner, president of the National Bimetall'C Union. In answer to a communication from his publishers, W. R. Conkey Company, stating that 16,000 was due him as a royalty on the first month's sales, Mr. Bryan at once instructed them to forward $4,500 to Mr. Jones, Si, 500 to Mr. Warner, Si, 500 to Mr. Allen and $5 to Mr. Teller, and certified checks for these amounts were sent to day. r. Jones is to spend his portion in promoting the cause of bimetal lism through the Democratic par ty ; Mr. Warner is to disburse the money received by him through the channels afforded by the Na tional Bimetallic Union : Mr. Tel ler will expend his portion for the bimetallic cause through the silver Republicans, and Mr. Allen will employ his portion in advancing the interest of bimetallism through the Populist party. Mr. Bryan based his division o the amount to be expended on the fact that he rtceived 4.500,000 Democratic votes, 1,500,000 Popu list votes and 500,000 Republican votes, recognizing at the same time the work done by the Nation al Bimetallic Union as a non-partisan organization. An Affidavit. This is to certify that on May 11th. I walked to Melick's drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for inflamma tory rheumatism which had crippled me up. After ufing three bottles I am completely cured. I can cheerfully recommend it. Charles II. Wetzel. Sunbury, Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on Aujrubt 10. 1M4 Walter Shipman. J. P. For sale at 50 ct nts per bottle by Morphew & White. A game of base bail between Virginia an J Nrth Carolina at Chapel Hill Saturday resulted in favor ut Virginia i-y a score of 7 to 6. WASHINGTON LETTER. Representative Walker Vote and Talks ia Favor of Tracts The New Ex. Con, of the National Association of Demo cratic ClnbaE-ery Member of the Com mittee Supported the Chicago Plat form and Uryan aud sewall Other Washing ton News. From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington, March 1897. Although all the re pnbluMiis in the Hoiim! promptly 1 uid up to vote down li preseiifativo Do-k- eiVsverv lair 'isiiti inist amend ment to the Mclvi'iley tariff bill No. 2, that is lieiug lailroaded thiougli the House. pM.v.ding that whenever it should le shown to the satisfaction of the President that there existed a trust or com bination to control the price of any article n the dutiable list, the dutv on such hi tide should be suspended, only one of tl.eui has had the ncrw to stand up a lid openly defend the trusts. Repre sentative W alker, of Massachu setts, is the man who was not only willing to vote for the trusts but to talk for them, lie told the House that the great trusts re duced the cost of production, which was tiue, but when he added that tbey also reduced the prices to the consumer ue entered the realm of fiction, lie said that trusts were the natural outcome of higher civilization, aud pre dicted that all the railroads would eveutually be controlled by one. An attempt is being made by the democrats to get the time for de bate on the tariff bill extended, but it is hopeless. The edict has gone forth that it shall be passed by tbe House on Weduesday and as the votes are controlled by Czar Heed, it will be. Iu no business conducted by private individuals is the govern ment of the United States so di rictly concerned as iu the sol'cit iug of patents. When an ignorant clieut gets the worst of his dealing with an unscrupulous and tricky patent solicitor he is apt to regard the United States Patent Office as having had a share iu the busi ness. Knowing this, intelligent men in Congress are always on the alert to head off when possible tbe tricky schemes resorted to by some men who call themselves solicitors of parents One of these schemes is struck at iu the bill introduced by Seuator Ilausbrongh, making it unlawful for any solicitor of pat ents to offer an inventor a pre mium or prize as an inducement to him to pay bis fee to enter bis in vention iu a so called competition. Every member of the new Exec utive Committee of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, appoiuted by President Cbauncey F. Black, and directed to meet in Washington, April the 12th, for organization and a discussion of the programme to be carried out by the clubs, was a supporter of the Chicago platform and of Bryan aud Sewall. They were chosen for that reason and the members of tbe old Executive Committee who refused to support the party ticket ami platlorm last year, were dropped for the same reason. The Association is a strict party or ganization and will not recognize bolters in auy way. The following is the entire executive committee: Benton McMillin, Tenn ; G. II. Lambert, N. J.; D C. Smith, N. C; C. C. Ilichards, Utah; J. K. McLean, Ohio; E. B. Howell, Ga ; II. D. Money, Miss.; J. C. Dahl manm, Neb.; S M. Wbite, Cal ; E Murphy, Jr., N. Y.; L. L.Jack son, Md.; J. L. Mitchell, Wis.; C. J. Faulkner, W. Va ; W. J Stone, Mo.; G. F. Williams, Mas.; J. S Hogg, Texas, and J. C. Sibley, Pa. The following is the full toast to which Mr. Bryan will spe.-.k at the Washington celebration of Jeffer son's birthday: "Thomas Jeffer son we celebrate the anniversary of his birth not in the spirit of idolatry, but from regard and reverence for his political priuci pies." Representative "Champ" Clark, of Missouri, brought down the Houe by his retort to the asser tion of Representative Biotuwell that Jefferson stopped the coinage of silver and supported protection. Mr. Chirk said: "That is an his toric lie. It is on a par with the statement that Madison was a Federalist. The trouble is the histories are writteu by New Eng land people. There will never be any truth iu history until tht Yankees quit writiug history and the Southern people begin." Representative Dolliver trod ou some sore toes when be said in re ply to a lepubhcau charge that the democrats were trj ing to delay tbe tariff bill : " On the contrary, we are very anxious to reach some of the schedules of this bill before the final vote is taken. We under stand that there is an incipient revolt over there among some of the republican members from the Prairie States who want lumber left on the free list." Representative Griggs, of Geor gia, has offered a joint resolution for the amendment of the Consti tution, so as to give Congress tbe power to impose and collect an in come tax. The republican politicians are alter Secretary Bliss because be promoted a brother of tbe late Gen. Hancock, who is a democrat, from a 1,I00 to a $,000 poMtiou in the iH'iision office. Concerning the Teachers As sembly's next place of meeting the Raleigh A'ews and Observer if Sunday says : "Though it was de cided that nothing should be offi cially given out until Sunday morning, it is understood that June 15th is the date and More head City the place, providing suitable arrangements with the hotel can be made." During the winter of 1893, F. M. Mar tin, of Lorig Reach, V. Va.. contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In 6peaking of how he cured it, he says: "I used several kinds of cough eyrup but found no relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain 'sCuugh Remedy, which relieved me almost in etantly. and in a short time brought about a complete cure." When trou bled with a cough or cold use this rem e.iy and you will Dot rind it necessary U try several kinds before you get re lief. It has been in the market fur over twenty years and connanily grown in favor and popularity. For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by Morphew & White. Harklns to lie Collector Rollina Poet nea ter at Aahef lite. Washington Special. 27th alt. to Raleigh Tribune. In the matter of appointments it is not absolutely safe 10 say that anything short of a nomination and confirmation is "definitely set tled." The western district slate, as wired last night, was smashed to day. Harkins is recommended lor collector and not postmaster, and Major Rollins is recommended for postmaster at Asheville, and not tor the collectorship. This agree ment was made and clinched to day. It is entirely satisfactory to Mr. Grnt, who was a candidate tor the collectorship. "The arrange ment," said Senator Pritchard and Representative Pearson this even iug, "is satisfactory lo all, and the matter is now closed." In reference to Mr. Milliken's appointment, the statement is au thorized by Col. Buck Strowd that Senator Butler will make no objection. There is not a word of truth in the statements sent from here about a combination to defeat the appointment of Chairman Holten for district attorney, nor in the statement that Col. Harry Skinner is dictating the eastern appoint ments. THE FARMERS' MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPAI -:Of North Carolina.:- Farmers, Read This ! We give the evidence of those geutlemen who are members of tbe Catawba and Burke Branch of tbe Farmers' Mutual. What better evidence do you need in regard to the Association ! Nothing beats actual exnerience. Manv ol the leading men and most prosperous farmers are mem bers aud others are joining. ow is tbe time to investigate the mat ter ; you may save a bouse by act ing now. 1 ours wuiy, Haskins & Shekrill, ewtou, N. C. Agents, Fonta Floba, Burke County, X. C. Bet. M. A. Abernethy, Secretary and Tteasurery Farmer' Mutual, La taicba and Burke Branch : Deab Sir : I have just received a check from Mr. M. U.Shernll foi $69.12, balance iu full of the $335, tbe amount paid to me ou my loss by fire, which occurred January 15tb, 1897. My dwelling bouse (comparatively new) and smoke bouse, with nearly all tbe contents, were destroyed. Of course my loss was a great deal more than $385, but that amount was all that the Farmers' Mutual was bound for. I caunot find words with wbicb to express my gratitude to yon, Mr Sherrill, and Sheriff Lackey, Su pervisor McGimsey, aud tbe mem bers of tbe Farmers' Mutual, for such promptness iu adjusling, col lecting and paying the claim. And to those friends in Morgauton and my Burke couuty friends and neighbors, who were not members of our Association, who helped me. 1 want to express grateful tbauks And to my fellow farmers, 1 want to say.if you have not insured in the farmers' Mutual, do so at once, lor in this way we can assist the unfortunate in a systematic way. Suppose I bad not been member of tbe Farmers' Mutual, to day I would have been almost ruined. Now I am preparing to rebuild. I have just learned that Mr. Joe Dixon, of Caldwell county, bad bis barn, forage and three mules burnt up last week, aud no insurance. give this case as iu contrast witb my own loss. Were he a member of tbe Farmers' Mutual be would receive needed assistance. I bave felt tbat it was ror duty to say this much to the public in regard to tbe Farmers' Mutual, because it bas been a blessing to me aud my family, aad it is bat just and right to say so. S. B. Moore. March 18tb, 1897. Hickory, N. C, March, 1897. To Whom It May Concern : In October, 189., I bad my baru, three bead of horses, three cows, feed cutter.wheat harvester, mower rake, farming tools, buggy harness, wagou harness and plow gears de stroyed by tire. My loss was about $6o0. 1 bad no insurance on the above property, except the barn ; on tbat I bad insurance for $150 in tbe Catawba and Burke Branch ol tbe Farmers' Mutual. The Asso ciation was in its iufancy at that time, the capital stock being only about 845,000, but the members paid iu promptly aud the $150 was a great blessing to me in rebuild ing barn aud replacing my losses. I uuderhtand now tbat tbe capital stock of our Branch is about $400, 00'J (and that most of our leading fanners are into it). I recommend tbe Farmers' Mutual to my fellow farmers, for no one can tell when be may be visited by fire, wind or lightning. Fraternally, N. W.Propes. SEE WHAT REV. C. M. MURCHISON HAS TO SAY OF THE "FARM ERS' MUTUAL." Penelope, 2f. a, Oct. 2, 1896. Ree. M.A. Abernethy, Secretary and Treasurer Farmer Mutual, Co taicba and Burke Branch, Xeic ton,X.l: Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your favor enclosing amount due me from tbe Farmers' Mutual. I bad a double room building used by students who lioard themselves; 1 had it insured in tbe Farmers' Mutual for about one fourth of its value (it co.st uie about $150 when built), ami ou August 28, IS'jG, it was burned, and now in less than six weeks I have my money. I am xery much pleased with the work ing of the Farmer.' Mutual, aud do not he.Mtate to recommend it to my farmer friends as the best aud cheapest iusurariee t!iy can get, and it affoids an opportunity to aid a brother who may husta.u a loss. You and the Association have my thanks for pronptuiss in pay ing my iusi rai.ee U. M. MuficmsoN. G otton. With careful rotation of crops and liberal fertilizations, cotton lands will improve. 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