Newspapers / The State Chronicle [1877-1893] … / Sept. 27, 1889, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The State Chronicle [1877-1893] (Raleigh, 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
The State Chronicle Tuts State Chronicle lsEPlirS DAMELS, - . Editor. JOSEPHTJS DANIELS, Editor. It i t!e Leading Democratic News. wiper Published at the Capital of the Subscribe: S2.00 per Year. THE EDITOR'S DESK. COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE iTKRKSTI!S THE PEOPLE. The Chronicle Expresses Its Opinion on IVi-sihc Public Events and Questions it lutfri-yl Now Hefore the People. Tut: November Oentury is to contain a t w story by Mark Twain'. North I auolisa lynchers have ran a k. ii.Ka sng. Richmond Dispatch. The Dunn Courier is one jear old. It a paper of principles and its earnest and uml'itious young editor deserves well of the good people of Harnett county. 1 i.os't relieve a man is a true man wir !: mt some local attachments. The man ,v'i lines not regard and love his family ti -.-rer than any other family, cannot be a !i u'' man and cannot be trusted. Rev. C. l;;rha:n. The New York Mail and Express, Bro. ;!f tahu's paper, sas the third Louisiana district is -'naturally Republican, because a maj rity of its voters are black." But i;iev get as mad as hornets when we call their party in the South a negro party. Wilmington Star. The last Henderson Gold Leaf contain ed the gratifying announcement that Mr. Thi U. Mans'inu, editor of that paper, hid abandoned his idea of moving to Ali b.rna and would continue to reside in Henderson and publish the Gold Lt af. We are much rejoiced at this information. Mr. Massing is a favorite with the editors of North Carolina and they ought to hold a meeting and rejoice. Is Michigan the papers of both parties are vigorously denouncing the President f ir removing as 1. M. a lady whose reten tion was desired by all parties. She is the widow of a brave soldier is poor and is in b.id health, needing the attention of a physician. It was a cruel, heartless war fare, and is ia keeping with other work of tr,:s administration. Michigan will give a Democratic majoiity in 1892. S far Assistant Postmaster General Ci.ahkson has been caught in appointing as postmaster a burglar, a convicted keep er o' a disorderly house, a man who has twen punished for sending obscene litera ture through the mails, and a man who d es not live in the place where he is ap pointed (the law requiring him to be a resident).- N Y. Evening Post. And in North Carolina a convict in the peniten tiary was appointed a route agent. ... Mr. Eugene Harrell Is preparing a full historical account of the Teachers' Euro pean tour. The title will be "North Caro lina Teachers' Vacation Jaunt in Eu rope." It will contain four hundred pages, and will comprise some illustrations. Mr. Harrell announces in the North Carolina Teacher that several members of the party will each write a chapter, and to those chapters the initials of the author will be affixed. Of it friend, Geo. W. Charlotte, editor of the Siler City News, has opened a pho tograph gallery in his newspaper office, and combines editing with taking pictures. If a newspaper "is a map of busy life" as some one has said, why should not an ed itor take pictures of the actors as well as print the news about them? If he will low only add engraving to his establish ment, his fortune is made. We wi-h him great success. ... . . In REfiARD to the lynching of Stack in Durke county, there were fears that it would be done and Rev. R. L. Abernathy, I). 1)., President of Rutherford Co;lege, says the Spirit of the Age, took occasion before a large audieLcc, as-embled for di vine worship, to waru the people of that community against such a thing, advising them to be quiet and let the law deal with the accused. These were wise words, and the counsel of this bold and honest man of God ought to have been heeded. The negro exodus ia the most hopeful feature of the race question, for its result will be either wide distribution or dense colinization of their race. Wide distribu tion will completely destroy his political significance and colonization will segre gate him. Certainly the negro higeracan mean nothiug but good to the South. Let him go and in his stead will come white blood and brain. The South to day needs a million good white laborers and small farmers. Sanford Express. Heaven ueus those who help them selves. May God put it into the brain and urpose of this community to guard its young children so that youth may learn that "the light is sweet and that it is a pleasant thing for a man to behold the sun." May the piteous lament of the I'ropht t be unknown to this people: "There fore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst." Prof. E. A Alderman's Report. Ex Postmaster General Thomas L. James lias prepared an explanation of needed F rtal reforms, which will appear in the ' tober Forum. Mr. James declares that the railway mail service is twenty years behind the times and ought to be Tery greatly improved; that small offices near 'o one another ought to be consolidated under one management, so as to save ex pense; and that ocean postage ought greatly to be cheapened. Mb. Edward Wakefield, a member of the Australian Parliament, who has been elected and de feated many times under the Australian billot system, will contribute to this num ber an explanation of the practical work ings and of some defects of the system which has been so much discussed in this country. VOL. XIX. Tub Atlantic Seaside, published at Beaufort, says that the people in all that section of the State are highly pleased at the selection of Ma. W. S. Chadwick as President of the A. & N. C. R. R. It adds that "in one united voice the people of Carteret are echoing three cheers for Chadwick, and all praise and honor to Governor Fowle." Mr. chadwick Is the wealthiest citizen of Carteret county, and he has been the architect of his own fortune. Men who succeed at their own business are usually efficient public ser vants. Of course. Forakhr is indignant over the dismissal of Pension Agent Tanner. In a speech last week, the Governor of Ohio, referred to Secretary Noble, the author of the Corporal s downfall, as an "obscure cabinet officer." It will surprise our readers, as it surprised the editor of the Chronicle while in Ohio two weeks ago, to know that it is the young men in the Republican party in Ohio who are Foraker's chief supporters and backers. Of course the pensioners are for him, but his best support is young men. This is sadder than surprising for it indicates that South-hating is in many cases hereditary. - i THE ISSUE DEFINED. Extract from the Mississippi Democratic Platform J We must show the world that that race created to govern, and that has governed all other races where thrown in contact, will in Mississippi stand by the common civilization of the union which that race has constructed and maintained, and that it will never consent to be ruled by any othtr race as a race manipulated by rene gades. The flag of a Caucasian civiliza tion must float triumphantly at the South and in every section of this proud land and throughout Christendom. PENITENTIARY STATEMENT. We publish below the last quarterly statement of the Board of Directors of the Penitentiary. They are managing admir ably and this statement shows improve ment. In a few years this Board can make the Penitentiary not only self-supporting, but make it yield a revenue to the State, and the Chronicle believes they will doit. The following is a statement for the quarter ending Aug. 31st: Expenses. June 114,766 31 July 14,723.97 August 19,896.86 Total Exyenses. . . Earnings. June 15,874 58 July 13,345.52 August 18,516.00 I49.3S7.14 Total Earnings. . 47,736.10 Expenses over Earnings $1,651.04 In the earnings for August is included $2,878 51, 10 per cent, reserve from F. fe W. R. R. not reported before as earnings. P. F. Faison, President B. D. P. PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH. Extract from Report of the U. S. Commis sioner of Education. The increase of enrollment in the South central section shows an excess over the increase of population probably never be fore paralleled in a country bo long set tled. Since 1876-77, the increase ot en rollment in the public schools of the South has been 63 per cent. In regard to the value of statistics exhibiting the con dition of State school system, the report say.s their usefulness is greatly impaired by waut of uniformity in the work of the different States. Their sentiment in favor of free schools supported by public fund, is becoming each year more universally prevalent. The public school systems of the Southern States have been undergo ing an unprecedented development under laws adapted in each case to local circum stances, and are now practically all estab lished on a permanent basis. Colored children are apportioned an equal share of the school funds (except in the case of Delaware), and their sch ,ols are kept open as long and under as well-paid teachers as those of the white children. The funds for the support of these schools are furnished mainly by the white inhabitants, and after making due allow ance for all the sums that have been fur nished for thb education of the negroes through private sources of benevolence and through taxes raised by themselves, it may well be said that the children of those once held in servitude in the South are being educated by the sons of their former masters. The conditions affecting public educa tion in the South, the report says, make it necessary to maintain two separate school systems. Their population is made up of two distinct races and colors. The statistics show that 64 per cent, of the white population of school age are en rolled, while but 53 per cent, of the col ored population of school age are enrolled. The Size of Heaven. The twenty-first chapter of Revelations gives the measurement. The most inter esting calculation on the subject is that of Captain J. B. Sbarkley, a measurer of vessels in the Boston custom-house. He takes the statement in Revelation xxi, and figures it out thus: "And he measured the city with the reed 12,000 furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height are equal. Twelve thousand furlongs -7,920,000 feet cubed 497,793,088,000, 000,000,000 feet. Reserving one-half of this space for the throne and court of Heaven, and one-half of the remainder for streets, we have 124,198.273,000,000,000, 000 rooms. We will suppose the world al ways did and always will contain 900, 000,000 inhabitants and that a generation lasts 31i years, making in all 2,970,000, 000 every century, and that the world will stand 1,000,000 years or 10,000 centuries, 29,700,000,100 inhabitants. Now, suppose there are 100 worlds like this, equal in the number of inhabitants and duration of years, a total of 2,970,000,000,000,000 per sons, there would be more than 100 rooms 16 feet square for each an4 every person. A. BOUTHIRN FAMILY JVBWSPAfJiS ?OJT TOV Ai tOVSTSY, DSTOTJBD TO TI1A, WELl'AKS: Of NORTH CAKOLINA, AND TBS SOUTH. FAMOUS NORTH CAROLINIANS SOME EMINENT MEN WHO HAVE LIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA. Rev. Dr. Hntlmm's Sketch of "Thomas Meredith and His Times" Interesting and Valuable. We have been very much interested in reading a series of articles from the pen of "Bishop" J. D. Hcfham, of Scotland Neck, whicu have been appearing in the last few numbers of the Billical Recorder on "Thomas Meredith and His Times." The style is to us most pleasing flowing, easy and graceful English. The man he writis of was a conspicuous figure in North Carolina for many years and he wrought a work which will live as long as North Carolina is a State. The times were among the most interesting of all eras in the history in the State. We re gret that we have not sufficient space to publish the entire article. As we cannot do that, we condense the history ot Rev. Thomas Meredith. In the begin ning Dr. Hcfham says: In the old cemetery in Raleigh there is a monument of white marble, without or nament and of modest dimensions, placed there by North Carolina Baptists to mark the resting place of what was mortal of Thomas Meredith. It bears this inscrip tion: "This mouumtnt was erected by the Baptists of North Carolina in memory of their beloved brother, Rev. Thomas Meredith, who departed this life Novem ber 13th, 1850, in the 56th year of his age." But few of those now Jiving have seen it. It is not easy to find the spot. The present writer had a wearisome search when he first went to look for it nearly thirty years ago. Such is Meredith's burial-place. Almost as little is known of the details of his life and wrk, of the man himself, and of the place which he filled in the denomina tional activities of his time: all faded into the shadow of tradition; a mere appear ance in the gloaming; a bare outline, without symmetry or verisimilitude. To show what manner of man he was, what the service which he rendered to the Bap tists of the State, and what the debt of gratitude which they owe to him, is the ob ject of the present papers. Then follows an admirable review of the condition of the Baptist churches iu North Carolina for years before and after the coming of Mr. Merdith to Edenton which was in 1818. In 1794 there were 49 churches and 3,500 members. The leader of the Baptists was Martin Foss, "a singularly gifted, clearsighted, many sided man whose services entitle him to be held in everlasting remembrance, though even his name is unknown to this generation of Baptists, and others have received credit for the work which he did. It was he who welcomed Meredith on his coming and introduced him to the Hap tists of the State. Through the rtniiiu der of his life, they were tenderly at tached; and Meredith's sketch of him af ter his death is the best piece of literary work that I have seen from his pen " He had been a soldier in the Revolution ary War and was born near William-stou in 1762. He was a great organizer and in 1S03 began the agitation which afterwards resulted in the organization of the Bap tist State Convention. It was first a Gen eral Meeting of Correspondence. In I2G, Martin Ross moved the appointment of a committee to correspond with the associa tions of the State on the expediency of organizing a Baptist State Convention. He was Chairman of the Committee, and Thomas Meredith was a m mber of the Committee. Before the plan could bo car ried out Ross died. Dr. Hcfham says; To Martin Ros, faithful soldier of his country and of Christ, one of the ablest and purest men of that day, belongs the credit of having first seeu the need and laid the plan of the one organization through which the Baptists of the state east of the Blue Ridge have been woiking with such gracious results for well :.igh sixty years. Of Meredith's early life the accounts io not agree. This is certain: That he was the sou of a Pennsylvania farmer; that, in his youth, he went to Philadelphia, either to engage in biiniues or to com plete his educati n; that, while there, he was converted, baptized and licensed to preach; that, either there or elsew here, he received excelleut intellectual training. Beyond these facts, one cannot now speak with certainty. In 1818, in his 24th year, he came to Edenton. What brought him, whether the spirit of restlessness and adventure common to young men, or acquaintance with the business men of Edenton, or the desire to go where his services were most needed, or the advice of pastor or other friend, it is impossible to say. He was fortunate in the time of his coming and in the selection of a place. The denomina tion was in a state of transition, moving towards those great undertakings which make the decade from 1830 to 1840 for ever memorable in our history. He was in the foremost of our Associations, and near its foremost man who gave him cor dial greeting; gave him also the benefit of his own vast influence. His ordination took place in Edenton. At the instance of Martin Ross, he received from the Gen eral Meeting an appointment as missiona ry to labor in the eastern part of the State. Through the influence of some young la dies who were at school in Edenton, one of whom (Miss Georgia Sears) afterwards became Mrs. Meredith, he made a pro tracted visit to the church in Newberne, then without a pastor. His report shows that he was pleased with the church. The church was so well satisfied that he was settled over it as pastor so soon as the necessary arrangements could be made. Under his ministry there was steady but not rapid growth. A pastorate in Savan nah, Ga., followed. Thence he returned to Edenton about the year 1825 as pastor of the church in that place. Meredith carried on the correspond ence with the Associations relative to the formation of the State Convention. He arranged the details - prepared the plans wrote the Constitution and the address which was sent out. In 1830 the Conven tion was organized. The records show there were then 15,000 Baptists in the State, but Da. Hufham thinks there were many more. In 1834 Meredith moved to New Berne and became pastor of the Baptist church there. He was early convinced RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, that the agents and missionaries of the Convention were working at a serious dis advantage without a paper. He estab lished the Biblical Recorder and Dr. Hcf ham says: He had found his work and thence for ward to the eh so of his life he devoted himself to it with perfect singleness of heart. Of the unsuccessful effort to make it the Baptist organ of the two Carolinas; of his removal to Raleigh in 1840 in the interest of the pnpr, 1 need not speak particularly here. At his death in 1850, the Reorder was so firmly established that its existence has not since been impe riled. Its publication has been only once suspended for a few months in the wreck which attendod the close of the war in the spring and summer of 1SG5. Light and Shade. For the first few years Meredith taind editorial life very pleasant. The reading meu of the denomination, as the older minutes show, had been taking and work ing for the Watchman, of Boston; the Re ligious Herald, of Virginia; or the Chris tian Index, first published in Philadelphia but removed in 1833 to Georgia. Now that they had a paper of their own, Ihey were proud of it and of the editor. They wanted to be pleased; they were pleased. Work, uuder such circumstances, is a joy. But as the years went by, trials came pecuniary trials, which were hard to bear; personal trials, which were harder still. It is scarcely possible for a fearless, con scientious man of large views and lofty aims like Meredith to publish a denomina tional journal long without giving offense to a good many influential people. The reasons are manifest. It came about that at different times Meredith's relations with a number of prominent ministers in the State were strained or broken. While he was in the long struggle with mortal disease, when in 1850 he lay still and dead in his chamber in his couutry home near Raleigh, there were two Baptist pa pers besides the Recorder published in North Carolina. They were the Messen ger, Elizabeth City; and the Intelligencer, Wilmington. The publication of these rival papers ceased on the death of Mere dith. 1 hey had never paid expenses, and the Messenger entailed heavy loss, not only on the editor, but alsoou some of the leading members of his church who stood as security for him. The history of fifty five years shows that the i-Saptistsof North Carolina are loyal to the journal which their fathers helped to found; which they aud their children looked to for the de fence of the faith and for information concerning the spread of the Lord's king dom on the earth. - I c me low to speak briefly of Meredith as h Man. The pictures of him that I have seen justify the statements of those who knew him, that he was an unusually handsome man. It has been said that "he was the ablest tuau that has yet appeared' among the Baptists of North Carolina. The statement needs to be qualified He had a vigorous, well-trained, well-furnished intelU et ; courage, both moral and physi cal, in an extraordinary degree; great de cision of character; resoluteness of pur pose which took small account, of obsta cles or of opposition; patience which held him to his undertakings when otheis would have given up. His reasoning powers were of a very high order. He was deficient in imagination. A-t scholars, Armstrong and Dr. Hooper surpassed him. As a preacher, he was rated be--low Wm. Hill Jordan, McDauiel and Dowd by the poople of that day. There is no tradition of any great sermon preached by him at any of the. larger de nominational gatherings or el.-e a here. At the rcqut si of Dr S. J. Wheeler, I once examined a number oi his sermons which had been e!cc'ed with a view to publica tion. They were earefuliy piepared, sound and stroug, but wanting in many of the higher elements of effective preach ing. He was not a master of assemblies, iu debate or in handling an audience, like his old friend Ross or like Dowd. He could not conciliate and win meu singly like !r. Watt. Meredith was raised up for a special woik. This work ho pro.si eutcd with sin gleness of heart, nay, he put his life into it. He had faith iu the future of the Convention. He had faith also in his own special work. He may know, and if he does, it will heighten his joy, that the paper wh eh lie fonm'ed still livi.-; that its editorial managi n t nt is even Mipeiior to his own, and that the field ot its infill euco is far mote extensive than it was when the pen dtopped from his nerveless fingers. .. TO ATTRACT IMMIGRANTS. North Carolina Resources to he Exhib ited at the iortli. Messrs. T. C. Williams and J. C. Hester left Raleigh on Saturday with two sepa rate exhibits of the resources aud products of North Carolina which will be txaibited at Northern Fairs, chiefly in Pennsylvania, during the next two mpnths. The exhibits as made up, scarcely admit of anything like a fair description. Tliey consist of gems, building stone, ores, hard woods, nuts, seeds, grains, fruits, fabrics, cotton, and tobacco, in every form in which they ever appeared, all worked in this State, hundnas of manufactured ar ticles, seventy five different kinds of me dicinal herbs, display of silk worms, flies, cocoons and the manufactured silk, tur pentine in every form, the wonderful pro ducts of pine needles (straw) including cotton bagging and carpeting made from that article and hundreds of other thiugs, all produced in this State, besides many thiugs from other States. Either exhibit is a Fair in itself and is eminently worth siting. They are conveniently and com pactly arranged in cabinets, show-cases and packing cases, and will grandly orna ment a large space in any Fair Grounds to which they may be carried. Messrs. Hester and Williams will make a specialty of the exhibit of tobacco. They have samples of this weed which was sold in Raleigh last week for 70 per hundred, and which was produced on Wake county land whicn can be bougnt for $10 an acre. They also have samples of tobacco from Moore county which sold for $60 per huu dred, produced on land that could be bought for $3 per acre. The Chronicle Calls a Spade a Spade. From Harnett Courier.! We admire a bold and fearless paper that is not afraid to speak out, one that calls a "spade" a "spade," such a paper is the Chronicle, and the people of North Carolina owe Joe Daniels a debt of grati tude for his noble and untiriDg work. Humorists Are Benefactors. Henderson Gold Leaf. Who loosens up the hide of his fellow man and makes him laugh, is a benefactor to that man. A. & M. COLLEGE. TIIK FIRST SKSSION "11,1. ItFGIN ON Till ItSDAY, OCTOtiLit 31fci. What will be Taught ill this College Its Objects Its Aims Its Faculty and the Cost oi Attending. North Carolina commences, on Monday, Octob-T 3"-d, a new experiment in educa tional work. It is an experiment with us because with us it has never been tried. But it is an experiment well worth trying. This is au agricultural State. It must re main such. Minerals wo have and water power. They will be developed and util ized, but this State is destined to be al ways chiefly an agricultural State. This being so our legislators have sought to provide a school where tho farmer boys may be taught practical agriculture, and the town bns practical mechanics, while they are learning the three R's. We need in North Carolina better kuowledge of fertilizers by the practical farmers, a more thorough understanding by them of the needs of their land, and a better system of cultivation. Most of our farmers did not enjoy the advantages of education, either theoretical or practical. If they will give their sons a chance to learn how to farm upon the most approved plans by sending them to the A. & M. College, we will have better farms in the State and greater prosperity. We need outside money to help us till our surplus land, but we also need inside training of the b- ys. It is the object of this college to g.ve this practical training aud to make it exactly what the people of North Carolina need. We are assured that the fodder will not be put too high in the rack thattheoreti cal, literary, and ultra scientific studies will not be allowed to crowd out the prac tical, needed every-day teaching. The Trustees of the College have elected a faculty of gentlemen who come with the highest endorsements from their former fields of labor. They will all be at their posts of duty promptly, ready to impart instruction and to lend all their eueigies towards making the instruction thorough, valuable and practical. Much depends upon them in fact the future of the Col lege is largely in their hands. The people of the State are looking to them to prove that Industrial Education U able to make men more successful in farming aud me chanical pursuits. Qualifications of Students. The faculty has been elected and the building made ready for the reception of students. The number of free students is limited. Each county can send as many students, who pay no tuition, as it has members of the House of Representatives. For example. Wake county is entitled to four free students, Mecklenburg to three. Franklin to two, and Wilson to one. Ap plicants must be fourteen years of age; be of good moral charactir and physi cal development; be able to read and write ordinary English intelligently, and must be familiar with simpleanthmetic, includ ing the practical rules of the same, through fractions. Mode of Admission. The County Board of Education in every county will give a certificate of qualifica tion to the applicant or applicants who stand the best in a competitive examina tion, of which examination the Superin tendent, of county schools shall give notice. This certificate will entitle to admission into the College. Estimated Cost to Students. 1. county students. 1. Tuition, lodging in college build ing, furniture, &c, free. 2. Board t $s per month, per session 10 mouths . $ SO (X) 3. Washing at 75 cents per month (estimated) 7 50 4. Books, stationery, fuel, lights aud medical alteudaiiee for entire term 12 50 Total, U0 IK) 2. koi: other students. 1. Tuition per session f 20 00 2. Hoard at JS per month, 10 months bo 00 li. Washing at 75 cents, term 10 moutus 7 50 4. Hooks, f tationery, fuel, lights and medical attendance for entire term 12 .',0 5. For lodging in colletre nuiloing, room, lurniiure, bedding, &c... 10 (X) Total, i:u (to It will thus be seen that $10 00 a month will pay all the expenses of a student who wins the appointment by competitive ex amination. This places the advantages of college education in the reach of many. We hope that every county will, at least, send the number of boys to which it is en titled under the law. The Chronicle calls upon the educators and public men in each county to oriug this chance for cheap and good education to the attention of ambi tious boys in their counties, and to help them attend. 3IR. CLEVELAND MUCH PLEASED. At the Expressions of State Conventions on the Tariff" Question. New York, Sept. 23. A reporter for the Commercial Advertiser having asked ex Presideut Cleveland for his opinion on the action of several recant Democratic State Conventions in approving the tariff reform plank of the last, National Demo cratic Convention, Mr. Cleveland express ed himself as much pleased with these evidences that the attitude of the Demo cratic party on this question was still courageous, consistent and aggressive. He thought that the careful examina tion of the tariff question by the people was bearing good fruit, and that all indi cations pointed to the triumph of the Dem ocratic party's view of the subject. He added: "If among those counted as Democrats there are found timid souls, not well grounded in the faith, who long for flesh-pots, of vascillating shifts and evasions, the answer to their fears should be 'Party honesty is party expediency.' " The Blue and the tiray. There was a reunion of the army of the Cumberland, and Chattanooga, on last Friday on the edge of the famous battle field of Chicamauga in Tennessee. Fully 25,000 people were present. Gen. John B. Gorden, of Georgia, and other disting uished gentlemen spoke. -- Entire Satisfaction. Greenville Reflector. The appointment of Mr. Chadwick will give entire satisfaction in every respect. 1881). A DIVORCE CASE. Randolph County Has a Sensational Case iu Court. Ed rv Greensboro Workman. A ver novel case came before the court in Asl boio this afternoon. There was not M-nply one "woman at the bottom of it," hut, two women. The action was to annul the marriage of Sallie Albright to Dr. J. K. Lee, on the ground that Lee had another wife still living. A more sensa tional affair has not occurred since the days of Bowling and Branrock, which some prr pie in Guilford have not forgot ten. i he story is as follows: Dr. J - K Lee, a native of Mississippi, and a graduate of the Medical College of Ix)uisiana,came to Caswell county and af ter a time removed to Randolph county, where, in 1&82, he married Alice Vestal, a pretty young girl, who does not even now appear to be over 22 years of age. Dr. Lee became very popular as a physi cian, and drew around him a large num ber of friends. Meanwhile, however, there seems to have teen a secret trouble brewing which at last emitted sparks aud then grew to a flame, although for the ten months during which the doctor and his young bride lived together she is said to have represented his treatment of her as exceptionally kind and good when speaking of him to their neighbors. Lee, however, went to Illinois in 1887 for the purpose of procuring a divorce from his recalcitrant wife, and when, according to his Illinois attorney, the legal period had expired, Lee returned to Randolph and advi rtised in one of the newspapers that he had been duly discharged from his wifM here and was free to marry again. About, this time, as the story goes, Dr. Lee was thrown into the company of Miss Sailie Albright, daughter of Rev. H. A. A!hi int, of Randolph county, and Miss Albnght, "ii the strength of the Illinois divorce proceeding-', accepted Dr. Lee, and they Were married. Not long after these things some inter ested person instituted inquiry in the di vorce court of Illinois and discovered that Lee had not remained in that State long enough to make the divoree legal. Steps were then taken against Lee here and he was prosecuted for bigamy, and bound over to court in the sum of $500. He fled the country, leaving his securities to foot the bill. The case is now in a pecu liar shape, and to day the court house presented a strange scene when tho two yonng women made their appearance and sat down. It might be supposed that there would have been a degree of rivalry between the two women, but none whatever could be discovered, and they chatted together and exchanged smiles in the most pleasant manner. When the application to annul the second marriage was read both the beauties were called to the stand, and wife No. 1, whose divorce had been found a nullity, was a witness in behalf of wife No. 2, whose petition the court granted. What was calculated to shock the sensi bilities of the better portion of the attend ants was the evident lightheartedness of the two young women, who wore their holiday attire and were as merry as any two crickets on the hearth. What effect the appearance of Dr. Lee would have had upon the scene can only be imagined, and it was good for him, no doubt, that he was out of the way. Possibly we do not know the prospect which each of the young women had of marrying to better purpose at some future time, may have inspired them with hilarious feelings on the occasion. Halifax County on it Boom. Judge ('lark sold his hotel in Halifax last weik to Mr. Geo. E. Rogers, a wealthy gentleman of Boston, for $10,000. Mr. Rogers expects to make it a winter resort for Northern travellers going to and coming from Florida. He will add twenty rooms to the hotel, aDd it is said that all the rooms are already engaged. Mr. J. R. TilUry has sold his lumber plant, saw mill, and a large body of land af, Tillery, Halifax county, to a New York company. The company proposes to add a cotton seed oil mill and a large store. At Enfield a shuttle block factory is to be built this fall. The MeJoc vineyard near Brinkleyville, it is said, has been sold to an English company for $ 100,000. A cotton factory is going up at Scotland Neck and a $10,000 hotel. At l'obgo.-d, a new town where the Halifax & Greenville road is crossed by the Norfolk & Tarboro, many buildings are going up, and a large town is iu pros pect. At Weldon the litigation about the ca nal property has been finally and fully adjusted, and two thousand horse power will be utilized in running cotton facto ries and other mills in less than a year. This is good news from the fine old county of Halifax and it pleases the Chronicle to print it. Walter Page Does the Square Thing An Example for Clarksou. New York Sun of Friday. Col. Lloyd Bryce, publisher of the North American Review, was a complainant in ttie Jefferson Market Court yesterday against Printer John P. Dalton of 52 East Twelfth Street. Dalton had a copy of the subscription list of the North American Review, which he retained aud offered to sell to Walter H. Page, editor of the Fo rum. Mr. Page informed Col. Bryce, who in turn communicated with Inspector Byrnes. Dalton was held for trial. Not Tanner, But Tannerism. (Philadelphia Telegram.) President Harrison will make the most serious mistake of his administration if he fails to perceive, and act upon the percep tion, that it was not the man Tanner, but the thing Tannerism, against "which the universal protest of the country was made. Newspaper English. As the leaves of the woods change at the fall of the year, the earliest disappear ing first; so the old crop of words dies out and those lately produced flourish and are vigorous. Horace. Is Consumption Incurable? Read the following: Mr. C. H. Morris, Newark, Ark., says: "Was down with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and physic ians pronounced me an Incurable Con sumptive. Began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest medi cine ever made." Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says: "Had it not been for Dr. Kiug's New Dis covery for Consumption I would have died of Lung Troubles. Was given up by doc tors. Am now in best of health." Try it. Sample bottles free at Lee, Johnson & Co's. drug store. NO. 34. FROM MURPHY TO MANTE0. SOME THINGS THAT ARE HAPPEN. ING IN NORTH CAROLINA. What Has Happened in the Good Old State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted Its Readers. Postal Card News. The friends of the Chronicle in every section of the State are requested to aid us in making this de partment an accurate record, in brief, of the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send us a postal card whenever anything of public interest transpires in your neigh borhood or section of country. You will aid us and give prominence to your sec tion. Send on the postal cards. Editor. The BaDtist State Convention will be held at Henderson November 13th, An electric line street car ran over and killed a man at Asheville on Satur day. The Norfolk Southern railroad is in trouble. Suit has been brought to fore close the mortgage. The R. & G. R. R. has declared a semi annual dividend of throe per cent. Good we wish it was 12 per cent. The Trinity College Committee met in Raleigh this week, but did not seWt. a site. Plans are being prepared for the buildim.'. Mr. A. W. Kronheimer has began the publication of a newsv dailv nmur in Oxford, it is called the Day, and is uriguu auu newsy. ....Mr. H. W Warnr of T?vhaatA,- N. Y., has purchased 1,600 acres of land auu win cieei, ix sasu, uoor UU OlinU iaC- tory at Sanford. of the State Fair will nave over one hun dred assistants. He has alreadv annoint.- ed nearly that number. ... .The Dukes hav nut nr a nrivota electric light plant in Durham. It will light their factories, and th nrivat.o resi dences of the members of the firm. The Governor has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of Henry Winford, convicted of burglary in Row n county and sentenced to be hanged Occooer25th. The University has 180 students and not 175 as we published last week. We wish we could say that it had 500. There ought to be 2,000 boya in the four leading Colleges in the State. The Fair at Concord opens on Oc tober 1st and will continue through the 4th. Hon. W. M. Robbins has accepted an invitation to address the veterans on that day, and will certainly be there. . The Concord Times publishes a picture of Jumbo Jenett who weighs 649 pounds. He plays the fiddle and will be on exhibit at the Cabarrus Fair, Oct. 8th-l0th. : President Gambrill of onr new cot ton mill, says that with the aid of two Boston capitalists, he hopes to establish a mill in Reidsville within the next year for the manufacture of ginghams. Reidsville Times. A special train will be run from Raleigh October 9th to the Warrenton Fair. Bro. Foote writes the Chronicle: "Come down and look upon a lot of peo ple and a country that God made." We hope to be able to accept the invitation. Mr. Thos.C. Worth, of Randolph. has been elected President of the Greens boro cotton mill, and Capt. J. W. Fry, Vice-President. Mr. Worth has bought a handsome residence in Greensboro and will shortly move his family there. A man named J. B. Holmes, of Fairfield, 111., who travelled for a photo graphic house, was found dead at the foot of Lover's Leap, near Hot SpriDgs, last Saturday, ihe body was procured with great difficulty. Dr. W. A. Lash, Walnut Cove, N. C, writes the Chattanooga, Tenn., Tradesman that the Walnut Cove Lumber Company was formed several months ago with a paid up capital of $10,000 toerecta sash, door, blind and tobacco box factory. The Marion Free Lance claims that Capt. J. S. Brown, of McDowell county, is t he champion wheat grower of the State. His crop this year yielded 1,626 bushels. Ou ten acres he raised 444 bushels, an av erage of 44 2 5 bushels per acre, which is a splendid record. . . .The"Coon"who represents Wanama ker on the Oxford & Clarksvilln Railroad, and runs as route agent from Keysville to Raleigh, refused last Wednesday night to take on or deliver mail for Oxford, giving as his excuse he was sick and not to trou ble "dis nigger wid yer trash." Oxford Ledger. Two neighbors, David Call and Ja cob Cornatzer in Davie county had quar relled about a tract of land. Some days after as Call was riding along the road on horseback, Cornatzer came out of his barn and fired at Call who died after making the above statement. Cornatzer fled the county. Robert Haydn, editor of the Char lotte Chronicle, and C. F. King, a news paper correspondent, had a fist fight last Friday. Both were arrested and released on their individual bonds. Mr. Haydn attacked King for writing an article in a weekly paper in Gastonia, N. C, which the former took as a personal affront. The King's Mountain Baptist Asso ciation, pledged itself to support Rev. G. P. Bostic, as missionary in China, with the assistance of the Green River Associ ation. This Association gives seven hun dred dollars for this cause, an increase of five hundred and fifty dollars over last year. Mr. W. D. Moore has been bound over to court in a bond of 500 in Durham, charged with publishing a libellous letter. The Globe says that the alleged libellous letter in question, which wa3 directed to Mrs. J. T. Morgan, of Nash county, the sister ot Mrs. Petway, and wife of the clerk of the county court, charged Mrs. Petway with immoral and criminal con duct. - ....The Norfolk Landmark publishes the following special from Edenton: An drew Ward, a prominent citizen of Cho wan county, living about ten miles from that place, was found in bed beside his wife Sept. 18th with his throat cut from ear to ear. His wife says she knows nothing of the affair or who committed the murder. Much excitement is mani fested over the affair. Secretary of the State Farmers' Alli ance has received resolutions unanimously adopted by the Jenkins's Cross-Roads Al liance, No. 410, of Union county, denoun cing the lynching of Franklin Stack at Morganton. Stack was the trade-agent and treasurer of this Alliance, and the resolutions set forth the fact that he was a worthy man, peaceable, and entitled to confidence. They also demand that -his murderers be punished, not by lynchers, but in accordance with the forms of law. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUB. CO. SUBSCRIPTION : t2.00 Per Annum. Advertising: Kates I,ow. Forty-eight negro funilies left Wil mington last week on a special train on their way to the Delta region of Missis sippi and Arkan-.as. There was a bran new baby in the party. They are carried by immigration agents. Tho men were all confident of getting work down South at a dollar a day or better. Thev said they did not get enough wages at their old home, the majority not making over 50 cents per day. They said they did not expect to find battercake trees on the banks or rivers flowing with 'lases, but they did expect to get plenty of work at good wages. The people of Union county held an indignation meeting last week at w hich about 1,500 people were present. They denounced "the lynching of Franklin Stack, a citizen of Union county by a Burke county mob." Hon. I). A. Coving ton made a strong speech denouncing mob law in general, and this cas. of violenco in particular. The Governor was called upon to take action to bring tho lynchers to justice. The fifth resolution "Recognizes and appreciates the course of the Charlotte Chronicle in the matter and calls upon the press of the State to join in doing justice in tho case." Tho Durham District Convention of the Y. M. C. A. will lw held at Irham on November 15tb, 10th and 17th. The Convention will be composed of delegates from the Associations at Henderson, Ox ford, Kittrells, tho University of Nor:h Carolina, Wake Forest College, liingha u School, Raleigh and Durham. The Dis trict Committee is composed of Messrs. J. H. Soughgate, J. B. Whitakcr, Jr., .1. J. Stowe, Durham; N. B. Broughton, 11. W. Jackson. Raleiedi : J. R. Y nniiff 1 1. An derson, and the Presidents of tho As-oH- uons at tne university, Bingham School and Wake Forest College. Addresses upon Important topics will bo delivered during the Convention. . . . .The Marion Free La nee rerr.rds thrt arrest of Prof. L. F. Shu ford, a white school teacher at Carson's Chapel, in McDowell countv. on a ch.ir 'i of violat ing the person of the daughter of tho gnn- licluciu wiLii wnom ne was noaming. I tie girl told her mother, who for fear i f blood shed did not tell her husband till after the Professor left the neighborhood. The father came to Marion l:in lm hivn-,1 it, swore ont a warrant on which the Pro- lessor was arrested ana jailed. But hero the singular part of the story comes in. After being jailed, by an agreement be tween the prosecuting attorney and tha counsel for thedefeuce, signed by Shufo-d, that he would leave the count ry and never return, he was released. PURPLE AND FINK LINEN. How the Poor Darkeys are Deceived by the Agents. From Sanford Express The emigration agents have a'series of pictures which they give away. No. 1 represents a negro in Nor ii Carolina, working a new-ground aud sweating like a horse. No. 2 represents the same" Afri can. transDlanted to Arkansas or Missis sippi, standing in a field directing the la- V. C i , , ooi vi oeverai negro laoorers. jno. ;s represents him at home. e:u. d in a .mrw. ous apartment, his hands in bis oeLt while near him sits his wife, gorgeous as to apparei, ana witn ner ban is folded in luxurious eas3 upon her lap. The happy mau auu orotuer is repres nted as say ing: "I have rented out all my land at $7 per acre per vear and now I have not h - ing to do but be happy." Good News aud Good Advice. Waynesville Couri t. The preseut outlook for crons this ver has never been surpassed at this time of ine year, anil me natural inquiry of the farmer is "what will my corn be world; what will mv tobacco brine: what -.:m I get for my wheat; and how am I going to uispose or my products so as to get ready uiouey xor uiems ir t Duy cattle and teed them, the price mav cro down afxuit tho time I am ready to sell them, and 1 w ill lose money." Ana in anguish he exclaims: "What shall I do?" The answer is, turn your attention to dairying and small fruits. - . Advertising Pays Him Well. Special Cor. to Statu Ciiuonji i . k . 1 Ramseur, N. O., Sept. 7, '80. J find my "ad" in your paper pays me we'l. l'l;,t report sales to the following parties within last few days: II. C. Newton it Co., (Ali son Station, N. C; Byrd &Smith, Niehol.;. S. C; C. C. Cheek, Ore Hill, N. ('.; Jame ; A. Webb, Oxford, N. C. ; W.J. Parker, Cypress Creek, N. C. ; Henry Untitle, Wadetboro, N. C; Knoxville Furniture Co., Greensboro, N. C; N. C. Furniture Co., Winston, N. C; McDonald Bros., Aberdeen, N. C; H. J. & A. D. Mumj, Carthage, N. C ; W. C. Petty, Manly, N. C. My business is growing. Yours truly, A. W. E. Cauel. That' What They All Say. f Kinston Free Press. Mr. W. S. Chadwick, President of tho A. it N. C. R., is a good business man, and is very popular, we understand. l!is appointment is commended by nearly everyone interested. Mr. Clem. Manly, State proxy, is an intelligent lawyer and a clever gentleman. In him Gov. Fowio made an admirable selection. There's Nothing Like It. Wilmington Star. Bill Nye discovered that Asheville had a "broad expanse of climate," and now the Citizen has found a lady who declares that the "air is just like wine to her." The next thing that we expect to hear is that some shrewd fellow will put up a plant there and go to bottling that air. . . A Good Place To Live In. (Waynesville Courier.) Provisions that are necessary to come from the country are easy to get at all times of the year, and a man can live in this town well and support a large family on $200 a year at the very highest. Electric Bittern. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special men tion. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaran teed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood. Will drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price 50 cts. and $1.00 per bottle at Lee, Johnson At' Co's. drug store.
The State Chronicle [1877-1893] (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 27, 1889, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75