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Stale Ubrary I T W E N T Y-T HREE J YEARS OLD I ; n h e Leading Our subscribers renew bccau3ethey apareci ate tha pap3r. Ojr ad vertisers renew, be cause it PAYS them ! PAFER OF W. N. C. i v5 VOLUME a IGKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1893. NUMBER 11 (GENERAL NEWS. It is said that Mr. Cleveland's first question about an office-seeker is, "I)os lie drink?' New York City experienced a real live earthquake just after midnight on the. morning of the 9th. No serious damage was done, but many people were frightened terribly. The English Society for the preven tion of cruelty to children,has received more money from theatres and music and concert halls than from all the churches in the Kingdom. It is said that Senators Hill and Mur phy have combined with Mr. Cleve land so as to beat Speaker Crisp, and elect an anti-silver man Speaker, and are to have the control of the New York City patronage. The Tennessee House of Represent atives, by a vote of 72 to 8, removed Speaker Davis and elected Julius Trousdale as speaker. Davis is the man who was debarred in Memphis, recently, from practicing law, for mal feasance as a lawyer. French politics are menacing. The moneyed and higher classes are now listening with approval to the clamor of the lower orders, the men of the barricades, and a revolution is looked forward to. A republic seems unsuit ed to the Latin races. They have nev er been satisfied without a master. A committee of the Tennessee legis lature reports against the convict lease system, and recommends the purchase by the State of coal lands and that the State go into the coal mining business. Also that the troops at Coal Creek be withdrawn and their administration there be investigated. . -. ' A colored planter, Rufus Haywood, Avas assassinated by a colored tough, Lee Walton, at Nita Yuma, Miss., last Saturday night. Five hundred ne groes took the murderer from the Sher iff, who had him in custody, took him to the scene of his crime, hung him to a tree and riddled him with bullets. Another Southern Outrage. Last Monday, in a court room at Nashville, Tenn., Tom Jones shot and killed Joe Winters, who was on trial for the murder of. Jones' father. Two of his shots li it John Thorp aud seri ously wounded him. There; was a "Winters' gang" in the court room,and they tried to bluff young Jones while he was on the witness stand. He saw their bluff and raised them. A Mitchell county man brought an immense live bald eagle to Morgan ton last week, which had been caught in a steel trap. The "king of birds" could not stand confinement in a cage, and died in a day or two after being brought to town. Mr. Emil Frisard, one of our local taxidermists, will mount .the eagle for the Piedmont Bank. Morganton Herald. The Rev. Mrs. Bartlett, of the Uni versalist Church, is said to have made the most thoughtful and appropriate prayer of any which Avere delivered during the late session of the Wiscon sin Legislature. ! This reminds us of the late Edward Everett, who was a Unitarian clergy man in his youth, and : was credited 'with having made "the most beautiful prayer ever addressed to a Boston con-? gregation." . j In 1773 the great-grandfather of Ga briel Montaigne came toLouisianaand, while killing a brood of young alliga tors cut six inches off the tail of one, which was allowed to live and became a kind of pet. Succeeding generations lived on the land first occupied, and spared the alligator, in whom they came to take pride as a family heir loom. He was named "old Shorty," attained an enormous size, and was shown to visitors. A few, days ago a stranger shot him. He was then more than 120 years old. It is said such rep tiles sometimes live to be 200 years old. Jedidiah Blanton was a farmer who lived alone near South Bend, Indiana, and went to town on his mule, Beelze bub, but twice a year to swap produce for supplies. He was a queer old man, and wore his hair two feet long. The last time he went to South Bend was about two weeks ago, and three days afterward he was . found hanging by his hair, dead, with his neck broken, from a linib of a bo is dare tree. His mule was grazing near by, and his pocket book, containing $1,G00, was found on his body. His name should have been Absalom, rather than that of his wiser brother. PRESIDENTS POLICY. "Yade ILainptoa No .Extra Session No Haste About Hawaii No Chronic office Holding. - report comes from Washington that Gem Wade Hampton has been offered his choice between United States Railroad Commissioner and Register of the Treasury, and has accepted the latter. NO EXTRA SESSION. President Cleveland, in a conversa tion is reported to have said that he would not call an extra session of Con gress, as the only object, the repeal of the Silver Purchase act, - could not be effected this year. Close times in money matters might make Congress men more -reasonable by December, and local theories and sentiments be lost sight of. Regarding Hawaii, the President, it is reported, deprecated overhaste, ! and said he would probably send a Com mission there. If it was then found that annexation was desired or desir able the treaty could be renewed. If other relations were preferable they would be recommended to Congress. President Cleveland outlined his policy with regard to appointments. He will select as few as possible of those who held office under his Ad ministration before. He wants, as a rule, new men and young blood. Mr. Cleveland stated this policy very plainly to several prominent public men who called on him today, and the emphatic declaration has carried con sternation to many hearts. At least 50 per cent, of those who held offices under Mr. Cleveland's first Administra tion want their old place back, and have been counting upon their past service in. office as a special recom mendation to the Administration. The President takes quite another view. Of course there w ill be excep tions to his new rule, but in a general way he wrill resist the importunities of those who have had places at the pub lic crib. He wants no office-holding class. ' . ' ' - " ' - ; -- . " ';... . BELL'S FIRST PATENT HAS EXPIRED. It is Thought that This May Break Up the Telephone Monopoly. The original Bell telephone patent expired on the 7th ult. This patent, however, covered an instrument differ ing in many respects from the Bell telephone now in common use and not nearly so perfect. All the later im provements upon the original instru ment are still monopolized by patents belonging to the Bell company, some of them having many years to run. It is claimed, however, that the expira tion of the original patent will bring rivals into the field, and that the exis tence of the telephone monopoly may be seriously endangered. The Bell Company, however, has followed the policy of buying up, for as small a sum as possible, all improve ments in telephones, with the view of controlling the field when its original patents shall have expired. At the same time there are several important telephone patents which are not owned by the company. One of these is a switch-board arrangement said to be more jerfect than any now in use. It is the property of a company organized in Chicago with a large capi tal and the proclaimed intention of entering the field as a rival when the original Bell telephone iatent had expired. ' '-..- A Pathetic Tale ofa Marble Stub. There is an unpretentious marble slab in one of the marble yards in this city which tells a story of ghoulish pathos. Two or three weeks ago a negro youth .ordered it to -mark the resting place of his lamented father. After the slab had been polished and inscribed according to directions the proprietor of the marble yard received a note from the youth who had ordered it, it .which he stated: "I doesn't want' da t marble slab now, ca'se de med'eal students done tuk pa up and we ain't got no grave Ur mark. Atlanta Journal. Toobasuba Swept from tin Face of the llarth. Birmingham, Ala., March 4. Meagre reports reach here of a disas trous cyclone in east Mississippi and western Alabama some time last night. The town of Toobasuba, Miss., was swept from the face of the earth; only two houses were left standing. It is reported that ten people were killed there. WASHINGTON LETTER. THE PRESIDENT OBTAINING INFOR MATION ABOUT HAWAII. j Financial Outlook Cheerful Chairmen of Senate Committee No Editor Need Apply. Washington, March 14, '93. Presi dent Cleveland has not committed him self on the Hawaiian question. This statement is made upon high and un questionable authority. The Harri son annexation treaty was withdrawn from the Senate because it was ob jectionable for several reasons. It was carelessly drawn, and some of its most important features were entirely too indefinite to be satisfactory, even if Mr. Cleveland had fully made up his mind, which he has not, in favor af annexation. What Mr. Cleveland desires is information, and that he is naw " diligently seeking. through Secretary Gresham, and from General Schofield and Admiral Brown, both of whom are familiar from personal ob servation with Hawaii and its popula tion. It is probable that a Presiden tial message on this subject will be sent to the Senate before that body adjourns, and it is also probable that it will be accompanied by a new treaty, may be of annexation and may be. for the establishment of a protec torate. But whatever is done the sugar planters of Hawaii will not be allowed to cash in their expectations. While the determination of Presi dent Cleveland not to re-appoint those who held office under his first adminis tration has been disappointing to in individuals, some of whom had iby hard work in the campaign earned the right to expect office, there is no doubt about the popularity ,of the move with the rank and file of the party, the men who have campaign after campaign fought for a losing cause, many of whom are now for the first time appli cants for office. They feel that it gives them a better chance at the loaves and fishes, and that it is but carrying out the old, old democratic idea of opposi tion to the establishment of a perman ent office-holding class. It shows too, that the lesson of the decay of the once powerful republican party has not been lost upon Mr. Cleveland. Secretary Carlisle finds the financial outlook much more cheerful and en couraging, although not yet satisfac tory, than when he first took charge of the National finances. There has been a let up in the demand for gold, and he hopes to escape having to choose between using a part of the $100,000,000, gold reserve fund or an issue of bonds. At present the free gold is accumulating quite rapidly in the Treasury. The caucus committee charged with the duty of reporting to the demo cratic caucus the membership of the re-organized Senate committees has about concluded its work although its report will not be made for a day or two, and it is thought that the follow ing list of chairmen of the most im portant committees is correct: Ap propriations Cockrell ; Commerce Ransom; Finance Voorhees; Foreign Relations Morgan; Inter-state Com merce Butler; Judiciary Pugh; Li brary Mills; Military Affairs Wal thall; Naval Affairs McPherson; Pa tents Gray; Pensions Palmer; Post Office and Post-Roads Colquitt ; Printing Gorman; Privileges and Elections-Vance; Public Buildings and Grounds Vest; Rules Blackburn; Territories Faulkner, and Indian Depredations Vilas. It is expected that the re-organization will be per fected this week. ; A rumor, of the important if true variety, is. floating around to thjP ef fect that President Cleveland had an nounced his intention to appoint no newspaper men to office, except in e:;cvpt;onal cases, and that he is par ticularly opsed to making editors post masterof small towns. The last member of the 'Harrfcon Cabinet bids farewell to Washington this week, in the person of ex-Attor-nev Gcr.erai Miller, ' the one who ex peered to have remained here as a Jutift- of t!i? Supreme Court. J ut Low long the extra session of tho Seiu.re v. Ill vontir.ue i? uncertain, lr.it.it L- ex; notation of some Sena tors tar.t it will remain in session un til about the fir.t of May. Amateurs among the Four Hun dred should be able to get up a vaude ville without calling in the aid of the professionals. New York World. I A Breezy Letter from Tf ashinton by ene ef as. Gaess ITho. New York, March 8, 1893. "It blew and It anew. It fris ad it thew." " This couplet but faintly expresses the state of the weather at Washing ton last Saturday. At an early hour that morning the writer knowing that there was little hope of getting within a half mile of the ceremonies of the capitol, took his stand at the gate of the White House grounds, determined to get a good view of the presidential part of the procession and waited in blinding sleet and snow accompanied with a fifty mile gale, and half frozen for two long hours. At 11 o'clock a carriage drawn' by four black horses with silver mounted Harness dashed out from the White House going towards the Arlington, where Mr. Cleveland was stopping, in a short tiuie it returned Rearing the next President. By this time the thousands who had patiently waited here since 7 o'clock in the morning were covered with sleet. Promptly at 11;30 the dozen carriages composing the Presidential party moved out through the west gate the first containing Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cleveland, the former on the right, following them came Vice-President Morton and "Our Adlai," their car riage drawn by four white horses in white harness, then canie Mr. Foster Secretary of the Treasury, and liis successor Mr. Carlisle, (Mr. Foster Secretary of State haviag gone to Europe, and Mr. Gresham his succes sor not arriving until Monday, were not in the procession), the balance of the two Cabinets followed in their re spective order. A close observation showed Mr. Cleveland stout and rosy, smiling as if pleased with . the world, and the balance of mankind, while one could not but pity Mr Har rison whose political career has been wrecked, in addition to his family be reavement; he wore a pinched and sad expression. A halt in the procession caused Mr. Carlisle's carriage to stop within a few feet of me, his face im pressed me as the strongest one in the Cabinet, the finances of the country are assuredly safe in his hands. Hoke Smith came in for quite a lot of at tention, one enthusiastic Georgian shouting "Howdy," Hoke! the "how dy" giving the fellow away as from the South. At the capitol Mr. Cleveland's friends insisted on his delivering his address and taking the oath in the Senate chamber, on account of the weather, but he insisted on facing the "zephyr," saying that if fifty thousand enthusiastic constituents could stand it, that most certainly he could. After the ceremonies the procession started on its return to the White House, Mr. Cleveland now sitting on the right, passing up Penn sylvania avenne he received a continu ous ovation, keeping him continually, lifting his hat, in fact he went the whole distance bareheaded, with- the thermometer below zero. Next came two regiments of regulars, infantry and artillery, followed by 8000 Penn sylvania Militia, with Governor Pat tison at their head; he and Massachu setts' new Governor attracted a great deal of attention, but "when the third division with the Southern Military came in sight with Fitzhugh Lee at its head, there arose a regular "Rebel yell," many of his old soldiers break ing the cordon of police and running out in the middle of the avenue to shake his hand. He rode a fine bay horse and rode it Jike a Lee. It was C:S0 before the last of the procession passed the reviewing stand. Mr; Cleveland had all this time been standing on the open platform, bare headed; truly, greatness has its bur dens. Our party called on Mr. Hen derson at his committee room, and found him up to his ellxrws in busi ness, .closing up the work of the ses sion, he being chairman of the com mittee on KJstoffices and roads the burden of the work falls on him. If there are any of his constituents who think he has a "soft thing" as member of Congress just let him attend a ses sion of the House, he will be convinced that it is no sinecure. While Mr. Hen derson may not have the gifts of ora tory, he lias won the respect and con fience of the whole House and is known as the hardest worker in it. It is very likely that the weather will continue cold in the neighbor THE IHAUGL'RAriOX. hood of the capitol for sometime, the coldest blasts will probably hit those patriots who stand ready to sacrifice themselves on the altar of their coun try, as it were. The Hickory delegation took in the show in good style, the crowd sur prised them some, the two "kids' wanted to know if it wasn't "court week" in town. Finally the inaugur ation, notwithstanding - the weather was a great success, and and fully dis plays the fortitude of the great Amer ican people when they can get to see anything for "nothing, free and with out cost. P. S.: Mr. Harrity is all smiles over the; victory and says there are no llie8 on Catfish, and that the next time he runs the machine" lie don't propose to trade for any "Sarspariller," in fact he'd rather have Andy Miller and Jo siah on t'other side. THE MILLENNIUM AT HAND. Lieut Totten cave fhut Shnrflvth TVumnet til - - - ------ t . . . viiwiiij . t m i t. , n ill Blow. - New York, March 14 In speaking of his work, Professor Tot ten stated today in an interview that he had not a shadow of a doubt as to the ac curacy of his chronological work, nor as to its particular accuracy within the .necessary personal qualifications of all human efforts. The report maintains that we are actually in the midnight hour specified in the parable of the "Ten Virgins." "The clock," said the professor, is still striking. The tenth stroke will end its sounding at the coming March equinox of the cur rent year. "After that none of the 'Virgins, need be in further doubt as to the 'time, or as to what or who is at hand." "Many facts," he continued, "as sure ne that we are at the midnight hour of the Christian dispensation, and I am sure that the seventh angel of the Savior's revelation to St. John is soon to sound the seventh and final trumpet, which lifts the veil from the mystery of God, but which is not to KJXJ I Ulll UCVH 1111 lltC 1111(11 11 lllliSV I, as commonly understood. In spite of misrepresentations to the contrary, I do not anticipate the end of the world, but the beginning of a new and better dispensation. I anticipate a crisis 'to morrow' and the millennium "the day after. -1 expect the first resurrection very soon, but not the second until a thousand years of golden age have .1 M - The professor set forth with great detail his reason for his belief. New Way of Molding a Home. March 10th. while a freight train on tlie Richmomd and Danville was coming from Lexington to Salisbury this morning it passed a countryman who was driving a young horse. Think ing that his horse would get frightened or Vi rrnin xrliieV rfin in t trio ntilili road, the man got down and started to tie him to a tree. In his hurry and excitement a mistake was made and the lines were placod by the country man around his own neck and fastened leaving the horse free. The horse did not get frightened and remained still, and of course the man being tied had to do so. Salisbury Herald. A Colore Girls' College Ilurnea. Little Rock. March 2. The Arkan sas Baptist College building, establish ed here six years ago by the colored Baptists for the education of girls, was burned about 2 o'clock this morn ing. About twenty students slept in the building, and they were compelled to jump out of the windows. Six were badly injured, and two of them, Flori da Neely and Hattie Turner, will die. The office of the Arkansas Vanguard was also destroyed. The fire is be lieved to liave been incendiary. New York Sun. Harper's Weekly, published March loth, presents a series of interesting and accurate illustrations of scenes at the inauguration of President Cleve land, prepared by staff artists sent to Washington for that purpose.' These illustrations include views of the inau gural ceremonies, of the inauguration ball, etc., and are accompanied by appropriate descriptive comment. The number also contains the usual variet j of timely articles and illustrations oi current interest, able editorials, viewt rt rVilniTiliLnn Finosition. an? choice fiction.
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