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ESTABLISHED 1808 Bet Paving AdTertlalrjs Xkedlnia. Try it. PAPER IN THIS SECTION. Our advertiseii acknowl edge its value. VOLUME 23. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINATHURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1893. NUMBER 4 Ifost Widely Circmlated L O I lit ill STATE LEGISLATURE. EPITOME OF ITS MOST 1 31 PORT ANT PROCEEDINGS Rspresentatirea of the People Sleet in General Assembly to make laws for the State. FOURTEENTH DAY'S SESSION. Senati. The senate was called to order at 10 o'clock. Mr.Scboolfield the senator from the Twentieth district, appeared to take the oath. The President stated that the certificate did not state the district from which the senator was elected and did not have a seal af fixed. Mr. McDowell moved, that as it was plain that Mr. Seboolfield had. been elect d, ha be - sworn in. This course was taken. The following billy and resolutions were introduced: . Mr. Olive A resolution looking to 'a more. thorough li.-aing ami collet tion of taxes. Mr. Pettigrew A bill relative to securing better title to land. Mr. .Pettigiew- A bill to secure the bettor building of'whf.rTs. Mr. Battle A bill requiring clerks of the superior courts to keep a record of tha names of justices of the peace. Mr. Olive A bill to protect per sons on lands ranted or leased for agricultural purposes. Mr. Olive A bill to better secure the listing and payment of poll taxes. The bill to determine" conflicting claims to real property passed its second and third readings. The bill in reference to the free passage of fish in the Catawba river passed its third reading. The bill extending the time for funding the state debt to January 1, 1805, passed its second reading. The bill to allow deputy clerks of registers of deeds to act in discharge of mortgages, etc , passed second and third readings. House Speaker Overman called the house to order at 10:39. ' Mr. Fuller, of Durham -To regu late the hours of labor in manufac turing establishments, making the legal 'time ten hours a day. FIFTEENTH .DAY. Seit The senate was called to order at 10 o'clock. Mr. Sherrill oflered a petition asking the incorporation of -Friend-, phip M. E. Church, in Catawba coun- ty- - ;' The house was called to order at 10:30 by Speaker Overmau. Mr. Barlow, resolution of instruc tion to our senators and representa tives congress in relation to the establishment of a- national park in Western North Carolina. The bill to abolish the present law requiring agricultural statistical blanks to be ailed out, Sec. was dis cussed at great length. Captain Kttcheu grew warm cn the subject. During his speech he dashed a little merriment over the earnest house by an anecdote on lawyers. Some lawyer once remarked to a farmer in the Captain's county, "An honest lawyer; is tno noblest wcik of God." "Yes. but he's the scarccsi,' was the reply. SIXTEENTH DAY. Saturday, The senate was called to order at 10 o'clock by Lieutenant governor Doughton. The following bills and resolu tions were introduced: By Mr. Mercer, a bill to allow the chairman of the board cf counts commissioners extra compensation. Finance. By Mr. Pettersou, a bill to amend ction 3752, chapter 57 of the code, regulating the fees of sheriffs. Ju diciary. Senate bill 52, to give justices of tht peace jurisdiction oxer the of fence of cruelty to animals, was taken np and the bill passed its third reading. Senate bill 129, to prohibit de tectives from going armedr in this state, came up and passed its second and third readings. House The house met at half past 10 o'clock. The following bills were Intro duced. By Mr. McNeill, a bill to amend the Cods inrelation to elopement. Ju diciary. By the same, a bill to amend the Code relating to divorce. Judi ciary. House bill 143, a bill to amend chapter 142, acts of 1851, relating to the hunting of opossums, came up on its second reading. The amendment was to strike out the county of Vance. The introducer of the bill, Mr. Wat son, of Vance, yielded the advocacy of the bill to Mr. Watson, of Forsyth, who said he willingly championed the cause of his friend from Vance. The amendment to ex empt Vance from the operations of the act of 1881 was just, That bill interfera with the ancient and com mon law rights of the people of that county. He did not know hov that bill came to pass; other Subjects of leas importance had received better consideration. That was the first time the o'possum had been legis lated upon in this body. He had been acquainted with'possum hunt ing since his boyhoob. He had followed it under the leadership of the only man who knew how to bunt'possums. He described the preparations for tho hunt, the torches, the noisy barking of the expectant dogs. He could give the whoop as they sallied forth, but this is not the place to give it. He does not know where the action of this legislation origonated; in the prolific brain, perhaps, from the sec tion represented of distinguished biblical knowledge from Buncombe. All traditions would point to the great abundance of 'possum in old times. They had much connection wiih the tower of Bablo and the origination of profanity in the build ing of that tower. Labor was wanted and it could not be had because of the abundance of 'possum. They hung by their tails from every per simmon tree. The son's of Han brought them in, and because there was no other way to get fiddle strings, they got them from the 'possun and danced to the music of the 'possum stringed fiddle, and wouldn't work. Cush was a greater man than Ham. He hunted 'possums in the absence of the 'possum dog; but ho was smart enough to get labor, built a town and bad passed laws against the huutiug of 'possums The outraged people broke for the country, and went everywhere and carried the 'possun everywhere. Some rrent to Australia, the loner legged kind,' and became the Kan garoo, which moved so fast that its tail couldn't keep up with the body. Cur 'possum came from Ireland, and there took on ths prefix O, He had cfteu . wp.ndcrfd what was the am brosia of the god. He had learned that it wavehowan made from the 'possums caught by Diaua in the hills round about Helecon. We kwow nothing about 'possums. We get a little knowledge of them from the songs suug to U3 in babvbood: Rock a-by baby ub the tr top. When the wind blows th cradle will fall. When the ree falls the cradle will fall. Down comes cradle, possum and ail. He hopped the house will favor the gentlemen from Vance. That will carry a blessing to his houie and his county. Tbev possum law, aa tht gentleman from Vance knew, gave great trouble during the last campaign. Mr. Anderson . moved to amend the bill by including Rockingham county. Mr. Watkins, by adding the county of Anson. The bill as amended passed by a ananimous vote, and was ordered to be engrossed. SEVENTEENTH DAY. Monday, Jan. 23 The senate was called to order at 3 o'clock this after noon. Senate bill 133, requiring county superintendents of public instruction to enumerate the number of deaf, dumb and blind children in their respective counties, was taken up, and the bill passed its second and third readings. House, - The house was called to order at half past 10 o'clock.' House bill 179, to provide a uniform rule of action against rail road companies for use and occupa tion; no suit3 for damages for use of land or rights of way to be brought within five years after such use, etc., on motion of Mr. Robertson, vr.s pissed over informally. Tlie Next Tarifl. Our Washington correspondent save, as follows: TEdariisle tariff bill." How does 4hat strike you as a popular title for the democratic tariff bill which is to be passed by the Fifty-third congress ? Unless a number of gentkmen who are in position to know they are in their calculations Senator Carlisle, whose re signation as senator will take effect the fourth of next month, is the man who will frame that bill. The great Success of the Walker tariff bill, framed by President Polk's secre tary of the Treasury, was, it is said, what induced Mr. Cleveland to fol low the same plan and entrust the framing of a tariff bill which is to be strictly in accord with democratic ideas, to his Soc. of the treasury. It is not to be understood or inferred that this move is intended to deprive the Ways and Means Committee of the next house of any of its rights. The idea is merely to put into the hands of that committee a complete tariff bill, leaving its members to decide whether it shall be accepted as prepared or be amended before being reported to the house. What ever one's opinion of this method of preparing the tariff bill may be, it caunot be denied that John G. Car lisle is by experience and ability specially well qualified to frame the democratic bill. He has for many years been a leading tariff reformer, and his name attached to the bill would of itself make it popular with the rank and file of the democratic party. " Arsom Meant Death. There are several degrees of arson but to be in the first degree the of fense must be committed at night and the building set on fire must have been inhabited. This was .the decree e-f arson which in the ante bellum days in the south was mado a capital offense. The severity of the punishment was designed to deter angered shiver from resorting to this species of revenue. It was so easy to fire a hmuseor touh a match to a barn that the utmost severity was employed in punishing such an offense, and, as a mtter of- fact, so effectual was the deterrent influence of the dreadful penilty that in the twenty-five jears preceding the war there were not half a dozen execu tions fo. . rson. Mrs. Mary Forest, widow of Gen. N B. Forest, one of the most fa mous commanders of the confeder ates died in Memphis yesterday. STATE NEWS. Col. L. D. W. Stephenson and Mr. O. J. Carrole are candidates for the marshalship of the eastern dis trict, of N. C. Mr. Kope Elias, exsenator from Mocon county, is a candidate for United States attorney of the western district of North Carolina. Yesterday, ex-Senator D. E. Mclver, of Sanfcrd, and Miss Kate Scott were united in marriage in the Methodist Church at Sanford. The ceremony was performed at 8:30 p. m. A few days ago Mr. G. P. Feel, reading clerk of the senate, was painfully burned. While dressing his c'othing caught fire, and.hefore the flames could be extinguished his left side aud arm were severely burned. Ou the 17th inst. the solicitor of the superior court of the Raleigh district, sent to the grand-jury a bill of indittment,3gainst S. Ottho Wilson, who ia taid to be the head of the band of Gideonitsa in North Carolina. The witnesses before the jury. were ex Senator Boll and Mr. Dunn ofTItJuderjou. A true bill has been found. A bill by Senator Vance to erect a monument on the Guilford battle field to Gen. Nathaniel Greene has been reported favorably in the seu ate. The bill asked for an oppro priation of $50,000; but as reported grants only $25,000. We suggest that $25,000 be raised by private subscritioD, and added io the eon gre?ioual appropriation "that, -we may be euabled 'to erect a monu nin somewhat commeusurate with the fame and services of reu. Greene, who was among the most iuimient of the military heroe3 of the American revolution. The Columbian Stump. In the United States senate the other daj- Senator Woolcott called up a joint resolution he had pre viously introduced directing the dis continuance of the sale of Colum bian postage stamps, and made one of his brief, breezy speeches on the subject. He was at a loss to understand, he said, why those stamps had ever been manufactured. He uotced that the Postmaster General sug gested in his annual report that he expected to receive 31,500,000 extra profits out of their sale by stamp collectors. That was a trick that might suit some of the little Central American States when they were a few thousand dollars "shy," but the United States was too big a country to unload crude and un usual stamps upon stamp collectors. Since the resolution was intro duced he had 'from many sources letters showing good reasons why it should be passed. Railroad clerks complained that the one-cent Colum bian stamp was so like the registia tion stamp that constant mistakes were being made by them and he had one from a physician who said that if the sale of tho3e sturrps were stopped the stamps might be used for chest protectors (general laughter). Ho hoped that the post office committee would take speedy action in the matter. ' Phillip Hroeks Dead. Boston, Mass., Jan. 28., Bishop Phubp Brocks died G;30 this morning, of tt&rt faslue. It was quite unexpected, the bishop having been sick only siDce Thursday. Hon. Lucius Q. C Lamar, asso justice of the United States supreme court, died suddenly in Macon, Ga., night before last. He was a great man. . THE ELECTORAL VOTE; It will not be .Shown on the face of the ltetani . Washington, January 21 Tbo certificate of all the etites of votes cast for President and Vice Presi- dent ought to be in the hands of the President of the senate by Monday next. At a matter of fact, 11 states have failed so far to comply with the. law by sendmg on their electoral certificates tby messenger, and many of these states which have complied with the law have done so in so slipshod a manner that if the late election hid been in auy way closo official ascertainment of the result undtr the constitution and laws might havo been made almost imposi ble and the whole government might have been thrown into chaos. One of the first things to be noted ia that many of tbo mcsngirs- purporting to bring on tho a?tio.i of their state3 have, coma utterly unprovided with, credentials. Kmsis is oua of the most conspicuous offjuders in this respect. An em'nont PopuhV, dele gated to bring on the vote of his "bleeding"' state, was presented to the president of tho senate by Sena tor !ffer, Congressman." Jeremiah Simpson and one of his colleagues, who vouched for him but their voucher, in the absenco of the slight est scrap of writing from the electoral, college, wan nok, tha kind of voucher, that the Treasury Department re quired in order to give bini his mil eage and peidiem for bringing on the i , t c? i rc it II.. i sorrowfully said: 'The. only thing kft to U3 is to pay his way back to Kansas ourselves and trust to tho frittf to rim!iu rRf nfi.' This is hot the onlv case of tho kind. Many of the packages brought by the messengers have had noth ing on the outside to. indicate their contents. Two states sent their votes to the President of tho United States instead of to the President of the semte. Idaho sent her vote to the secretary of state. It was a marvel of good luck that none of these packages were torn open and thus rendered invalid. Many state3 have failed to endorse on their package what it contained. Some messengers have been able to say that there was a sealed and endorsed package inside the outer envelops; in that case, the President of the senato ha? opened the ; outer casing and found the duly certified package inside. In other cases mes sengers have said they did not be lieve there was any sealed inner package; in these instances the envelope have been put in the senate safe and left untouched. They may contain electoral votes or they may not. The President of the" senate has only the words, of the messengers toassu,re him that these packages actually contained votes of states aa represented. Some one might have changed tha packages on them. Appointment mt Malituatti. Tho magistrates whose places will be filled by the present legislature are: NswtonJ. M. Brown, H. A Forney, W. C. Caldwell: Hickory, J. BrunP, S. E. Killian. Abel White ner; Clines, Q. M. Smith, P. K. Little; Catawba. S. C. Brown, O. F, Abernethy;3Jo,untain Creek, M. M. Gibriel, SifWi!kinon; Caldwell, J. D. Caldwell, S. L. Uuit and two vacancies; Jacobs Fork, G. M. Yo der, S. T. Wilfong; Bandy's, John Johnson, M. F. Hull. Of the aboT W. C. Caldwell was . appointed to fill a vacancy in a term which does not expire until 1895 and Sid Wilk inson one that expires in 1897. "Ob If there were bnt tenet. The griefs that us distress so! Ob, that blue skies were bluer. And the milk a little less so J"
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