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brief opinions.
A bio A n iauce msM meeting is
iilltjdor the eighth of Agnt at
Uociy Mount. The fanaeri of
vNash and Edgecombe promwe to do
the thing up right -
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Yz are glad,:to note that the Fife?
Scheiick' affair, of Greensboro, has
iwen amicably settled. It was very
utifortnhiite for both parties, bnt
4reachi rH and lawyers, lik all other
' men,; are liable to rr. ' , $'.
The Ecommiit would like to pro-
poniid just one question' to the op
ponents of the Alliance demands for
cheap money. What makes the 4
. per cent, bonds, of the, United SUtes
worth, $1.254on the dollar? on
all answer at once. v' :; ; if
KxTiONAtLY, thfartneT andj la
borers were, never so thoroughly unit
ed. It has taken three or four years
of liard work to unite them, and there
-is no power on earth that can conrince
t'hem now that they hare acted the
i fwl all this time. Hickory Mercury.
Why do outsiders, generally, view
liwith sijspicion the workings of the
Alliiuice, when the by-lan' and coin
stltlitibn of the Order are so thorough
ly imbued with a spirit of peace and
good-Will to all? This suspicion is
utterly groundless, for the Alliance
means no harm to any on man, busi
jieMS or profession. ' , ' . i;
The indorsers, . well-wishers and
members of the Alliance Would dp
well to profit by the example of the
Democratic and Kepublican parties
in the determination and energy dis
played id uriiig'; political campaigns.
Iii the principles set j forth in the
constitution, be." steady and fixed,
The branches of, a tfee : nuy.iiiig to
and fro but the trunk must remain
firm. J ! : " , i v. : : !'
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A good many eft our State papers,
have in time past written ana said a
goxl deal about good 1 literature for
the iK'ile. We notice here Utely,
that' some, of 'the brothreu are send
ing out as supplements ; to their pam
pers, extra sheets, jcoiitainingsome of
the trashiest novels, we ever read, in
fact the jmatter is absolutely worth
less, ami! in1 no way can benefit any
one. Such stuff is written foi money
and effect:
" THE like- of real -estate booms
in
North Carolina has never been known
before. Kverv town of any note at
all lias had,', or is
ig to have, a
grand aut tiowale of lots. The hum
of machinery in towns $ud cities j not
qnly enlivens a popiilation, but it
adds value to real-estate and en
hances the value of everything..' fteal
estate and industries rise and fall
with each other. "
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It's claimed. by some, that henator
elect' lVffer of Kausas, 1 can't be the
si dent of this "land t)f ther free,,'
teeause He .is a alien; and hence,
accortliitg1 to our Alede nd , I'ersian
law,1iQ canno't"'get there .; But ac-jd-Kfcdrng
td this same law aliens . can
send t heir money over here, invest it
in '"property and by the 'power ''and
influence of the -same, can get all the
assistance and aid from the National
(jovernlneiit" they may ask for; so,
"what?s the difference?' ; '
THE iWA- County Farmer, (Mo.),
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says: "It you are an vuianeemau
koulielieve in Alliance principles,
jlf you -believe in Alliance principles
k ou are opposed to the nionW power.
f you are opposed to the.Jnoney
oVer,?youi ure an enemy to tne par
ies that protect this money poweft
!rhe power that controls the National
.anking system, the power .that pre
,uts legislation in the interest of the
farmer and laborer, thii power is the
Jnonev power. ' t is the man ;or the
,Thk ThomasVille, Allianre Re
porter, Ala., says: t he f tarmer wo
has been standing aloof aud wishing
Uie Alliance ; godspeed in its under
tlikiiiirs but never has attached hini
sllf to the oriler nor dome anything
' tlward securing the results accom
. hi-Til Wl lst besrm to hustle or
ll,-HVl ", O . .
lie win nor gei m ijuc
t 1 the victorj' shall bewip and the
I ittplo will ; ie' indulging in loud
hilars-over "the triumph, ine or-
r iieetlsyouit wants your aid and
Alienee. , -It. desire thei encourage-
lent your presence antiram woum
affonl. It is the duty of every far-
m er to Ijecome a member; it is or
g: n'ikil for you; it is fighting its bat
tl ' or your interest; it is ' making its
L-riiices for the promotion of you
w. Jfare. Come in and join the pro
ev sion and share souie of the glofy
of accomplishing oneif the grandest
aim most glorious huuicicukuw
thfe middle class in the history Of the
rid: The right hand of fellow-
p is extended with a cordial wel-
STATE HEV7
THE
DOINGS. OF OU
PEOPLE
BRIEFLY AND PLAIlf
LY TOLD.
HAPVXKIKC8
OF THE
DENSED.
Week Cos-
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Thel Flfe-Schenck affair at Greene
bora hju been amicably ttled. 7 'i'
II i4 learned that Ma jo r Duffy will
not tae editorial charge of the Pro
freativki Tanner'i r r U 7 '
tlnoi'of eMie'-Taylor,-Black
Creek, destroyed by fire... (...Biff mass
meeting lrmfer,sj Alliance lioeky
3Iount; August 8.......Prcjf. Middle
ton has fexceptedi the .PridencT of
the Durham Female InBtilute,rrWil
ton Mirror, , . i'- "''"''
i The prowd is still moving to Ocrar
coke.j.X..Th infant- cliild-bt Mr.
W. E. Hcovell died at (fcraooke xn
Friday last!. . . . We leani 1 that Mr.
Ci H. Sferline will estaW
A' ! 111 . X 1 1 f 1-
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Waln-
fcjetory jher at an early date.
ingxon iprogrees, . . j j - ;
j Thei jArtesians are -tll -r boring.
At over a hundred and tjwenty feet
they came to a rock which made
their progress slow... . . ..Tliere is dis-
satisfaetfon aitajk of disband
ment of the . Pasquotank Rifles Mil?
itary,; Cimany. JL City Ecmunnist,
" f TNroi enterprising Hibernians have
Vented a cottage on the jbeach and
ar aettiiag about prospectaig for the
treasure I alleged to have be ?n buried
in ffthe ifeinity .lr 7Capt Kidd, of
piratical fame." "the circumstances
aref such as to lead to this c inclusion,
i-f Wilmington Meenyer. j
j 7 A passenger train" on the ' Western
North Carolina division of the Rich
mond l & jDanvillef railr ad went
tkrough Metiers' trectle, neir Newton
one day last M-eek at -11 "o'clock.
Captain I LinsterjF the coijdrtctor in
charge.of the tran, r wasj instantly
killed, amd a negro brakunan was
fatallv iiiinred and it it sinbe jreport-
eti has uieo. -isiaie vnronicte.
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i .Iatham & Pender, hard
chants, Have made an assi
A new Tobacco warehouse
builU...i.WIIsoltI? LitHei
years, was drowned below Greenville
when fouhd he had been ill the wa
ter abowtlan hour. The - verdict of
the coroner's iurv was accidental
drowning. -A beautiful memorial
window' hjas been placed in th a Baptist
chnrch.Greenvitle Jlejkcto rf-
I Rev;' Patrick Hooks, ; of Beston,
N. C who. While on his uarerly
circuit which embraces Kinstolistole
Penny Davis' fine ox, was Jrecentlv
bailed Dili ofT Lenoir county J jail and
then wen to his church and preach
ed against ox stealing and for this,
bis! church will now i try 1 im for
heresy, ! Mfhile our next ! mperior
Court, unless he jumps bail, will try
him for iairceuy. Kinston S nthiej. (
Miss Blanche Allen disloct ted her
left arm by, falling from a chair in
which, she! was standing to ' hang a
lamp..;.; JMx- and Mrs. J. B Tilgh
man, Sr., yesterday celebrate il their
gulden wedding, the rfiftiet r anhi
versarv of ! their, wedding day; at the
nltl ! boniR ' nlaee. The eafme be-
tween Warren ton, ana veiuon re -
suited in a score of 18 to 14 favor
T 1
ware mer-
!
gnment......
is, 4 to be
acred 17
of Weldoii Weldon News, j .''.members of Congress ; whe without
A parlor car ha been , pi iced on! opposition allowed it to pass ! under
the A. & N. C.' rail road between the belief,-tf not assurance, that it
Morehead iind GoldsbOro....... , negro made no alteration in -the value of
upon a het of twWty cents,ld voured . Current coins, changed, the unit of
alive cat In East Centre strt tit yes- value fromsilver to gold
terday morning.,. .....Princeton had an j $atol "fi m the na
extensive fere on . Saturday, That! on March 30, 1876, .expressed his
r,.i l,;. o w'lnlr th T,ToAnin tr
i. i in iimm at a v w- .m.v
nf'-Mli
Geo. T. Whitley.
whicS
i located at the Midland fetation
caught fire from the engine roim and
in less than an hour the entire plant
uHxhurned to the ' firround. jUolds-
hont.Itoufjight. ! . I i 7 ' I
Prof. lace, of Nashville, was pre-
sented with a fUSJg- tiohs in 18T3, said id a speech deliv
the studenfs of the Carolina llnsU- S tinU 0.H in ! 1877:
a'iS a west pSs
""r, ,ui
and has been regularly entered
it tour vears course m
Military Aipademv at that plack.il...
Good reports, come from every di
rection as (to the tobacco cro An
other good! crop year seems aAtred.
iottoii is looking much better, ana
promises a fair -yield., Uorn lsgooo,'
and taking it all in all, ouri" peo
ple can. look fojrward-to an a bund-,
aiit harveatEock iotiut .Aft naut.
"i Dr. C. C. Christian had th 3 mis
fortuhe to'lose Ju Jmej black Inare
a few days ago...! .On tl esday
leveninsr of last wteic a very
cident occurred at tne nome Qi mt.
Snier I Cocbinan. ' which t resnlteU
the death of ; Mrs. Holla
horsed ad a Z mule were In
and -fair urr to a gate bfi t
and; Mrs.! Holland endeavo
to keep the horse from, passing
throuffh. i She threw up her
ihand
to scare the horse back; when
the
horse wheeled and kicked Mrs.
Hol-
land on the! head. Her head ancB
face.
were crushed, the bones beinsr brok
en and sheileft ? senseless, Soo
(land
i Mr X X! HrrtWii lias
contrlcted
to have erected on his lot dppo
Rite the oldl Planters : hotel binld
ing, on West Market street, a
storv brick, hnildinsr 40x60 feet
two-
A ' !delesratkli of about 30
ladies
railed on the saloon keepers
last
Thursday afternoon and mrosted-
them to cloie their places dtMruig
at i tiho Fif a. meoUosI
ffwo
of itheni complied with ihtfreq
-A factorv to finish shJ
iest
bobbins.andj spools is to oe erocteu
at High ; Point at once, The to
tal stock is $30,000. High fyint
is already the leadiug manufactur
ing town in the Statev......Kail -oad
connection., bfctwfeen this J -place , and
rhirWonliSi C.. ha been estab
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lished bv wav of the C. F. & i Y.
V. railway. JGreensboro -North St
ate.
no. a
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thef field
he liard
reU to
SDPPOBM FRAUD.
Batk Tarties Tf rpetaaUag tke Sil-
jrer Ostrafe.
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Tks History 6 the Bold Robbery Laid
Bare Republicans mid Democrats
. Deny Responsibility, hit Refuse to
Rectify the Eril.
(Gopjrrighted by the Reform Prens Bureau.)
- The silver question: is one about
which there is just now an immense
amount of talk, jbut, generally speak
ing, the discussion is based on limit
ed information. Too little is known1
Ybr the people of ' the history the
shameful history of the demone
tization of silver; in this country ; in
1873. . It is a record .which every
man should stndy. , C' .'-; 7,t77
From the foundation of the' gov
ernment up to 173 any person, hav
ing either gold or silver in . bullion
could take it to a United States mint
and have it conVerted' hi to f coin at
the money ratio fixed by the govern
ment. In 1873 jan .act ? was passed
by Congress which' deprived the cit
izen of that privilege. The title i of
this act was "An act revising; and
amending the laws relative to the
mints, assay ffices and coinage of
the United States." That . part of
the act whicK demonetized and de
based silver, and made gold the single
money standard (was foisted; on the
people in a way (which has never
been understood except by a few men
whose motive for enacting ' such a
law were as dark ias the methods by
which it was passed. . 1 " 3 !
Many of the Senators and Con
gressmen who voted for the! bill did
jso without knowing that it "would
displace silver as j one of the money
standards of the country, and these
Senators and Congressmen have pub
licly asserted that, provisions .which
are in that bill as it stands to-day
were not read and! discussed in . Con
gress, but were put ; in, in some way
which can not now be fully explain
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It would be proper after this as
sertion to present facts , to proves it,
and then the people may judge i for. j
themselves as to whether or not that
act was passed advisedly,5 accidental
ly, or otherwise. 7 1 : '";' r' ,; ! 'P
( Mr. Holman, of Indiana, said in a
speech delivered July 13, ; 1876:1 "I
have before me the record of the pro
ceedings of this house on the passage
of that measure a record" which no
man lean read without being ' con
vinced that the method and measure
of its passage through this House
was a colossal swindle. I assert that
the measure never had the sanction
of this House, and it does not possess
thermoral force of law.'7 ;
, Mr. Cannon, of I Illinois, said in
the House on July 13, 1876: "It
was not discussed as shown by "the
record, and neither members of Con
gress nor the; people understood Jthe
scope of the legislation." ; ' 1 i
Mr. Bnrchard, of Illinois, in a
speech made in the House J uly .13,
1876, said: 'The coinage, act; of
1873. unaccompanied bv. an v-written
1 report upon tne suDiecx irom any
committee, and unknown to Jthe
i utter surprise ai xne meaning oi me
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act bv asking: "Is it true that
there is now no American dollar; and
if so, is it true that the effect of this
bill is to be to make half dollars and
ouarter dollars the onlv silver coin
I which can be used as legal tender?"
' President Garfieldiwho was chair-
f ZTT -17 ' :
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nays, and nobody opposed the bill
that I knowof. It wis put through
as dozens of bills are n . Congress, on
the faith of the report of the x chair
man of the. committee; therefore; I
tell you; because it is the truth, that
I have no knowledge about it" J
Senator Allison said in the Senate
on February 15, 1878: . "But when
the secret history of' this bill.Qf 1873
comes to be told it will "disclose
the fact that the House of Repre
sentatives intended to coin both gold
and silver, and intended , to place
both metals upon ; the French ? rela-
'jtion instead of our-own.
7 On February 45, 1878, the fol
lowing colloquy took place between
Senator Voorhees and Senator Blaine
in the Senate: ' . . I '
Mr. Voorhees ! said: "I want to
ask my friend from Maine wheth-J
erI mav rail him j as one more
witness to the fact that it was not
general! known thatlthe silver was
demonetized? - 'Did he know as
Sneaker of the House, presiding at
that time, that the silver dollar
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was demonetized in the bill to; which
he alludes?"
' Mr. Blainer-I did
noftknow anv
thing that was in the bill at
As I have said before, little
a
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was
known or cared on I the subject
And now I should, like to exchange
7uestions with the Senator from
ndiana did he know? j
-Mr. Voorhees I very frankly
say I did not j 1
Senator Beck in." a speech in
Senate, Jannary 10. 1878, said.-
the
"It
never was understood by either House.
of vonsrress. i say jtnat 'wim
full knowledge of the facts,
newspaper, reporter and ' they
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are
the most visnlant men U ever saw m
nUoininir ' lnfnrmatlrtil- H-VrtVtrl
that it (the demonetization of silver)
had ever been done, v i
Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who
had charge or tne duj saia in a
speech made March 9, 1879: "In
connection with tne cnarge tnat i
advocated the bill Vhich ; demooe
tized the standard silver dollar,-1
say that, though the chainmm of
the committee on coinage, t 1 was
ignorant of the -fact that it' would
demonetize, the silver dolhu or of
its droppinsr the silver dollar from
our system of coins." HMk: Kelley
again jaid on May 10, 1879r' "All l
can say is tnat tne - committee ua
coinage, weights and measures, who
reported the original bill, were faith
ful and able, and . scanned its' pro
visions closely; i that as their organ
I reported it; that it -contained, pro
visions for both the standard Usurer
dollar. Never having heard till '.a
long time after its enactment; into a
law as the gubstitutidn in, the Senate
of the. section 'which dropped j the
standard dollar, I , prof e43g to - know
nothing of its history, but ' am pre
pared to. say that in all the j legisla
tion of this country there is no mys
tery equal' to: thedemonetixation.of
the standard silver- dollar of 1 the
United States. ' I have neer foimd
a man who could tell how it ,tame
about or why,' 77
& Pesident Grant did, not knoj that
the' bill V would demonetize ""silver.
He signed theaclvassiChief Execu
tive of the Nation, and at the same
time sent a special message to Con
gress advising the establishment of
two or more "mints at Chicago; i St
Ijouis and Omaha to coin silver dol
lars, when by the law he had just
siimed it was Provided: that no more
re
silver dollars shouldTbe coined. ;
This is ample sufficient to show
that there" has been some crooked1
work somewhere, but while the crook
edness is fully apparent it "has liever
been shown to whom the crime at
taches All this was made known
and. discussed in the7 Senate last
year, but there' was a resort to "mud
dling" wort, and the schemers man
aged in some way to have th maU
ter passea over.
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The bill as passed by the House
provided for tne coinage of the stand
ard silver dollar. It then went ..to
the Senate, where it was - "doctored"
while in the hands of the Senate fi
nance committee, of which ; Senator
John Sherman was chairman, and
when the bill became a law silver
was demonetized. ' ,
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After jthe fact was established
that there had been- a mistake ' or an
outrageous fraud the Republican
party refused to rectify it In5 fact
that party struggled successfully to
keep the robbery and fraud in oper
ation.' The leaders and. organs of
the Democratic party are making a
great furor over " this fact They
point to the fact that the members
pf theii party in Congress fought to
re-establish the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and point to the
fact that their State platforms have
free coinage planks.
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All this sojxnds very nrettv. But
just listen a moment. There is not
one scintiia "of sincerity"' or .honesty
in these representations and appeals.
In the first place, past records show
that the platform planks bf the old
parties prove to be rotten when J the
people stand on them. Yes, they
break, vanish, disappear. After
serving ' campaign purposes not a
splinter of them can be found... The
same Democratic leaders and organs
are pleading with the people to gup
port Gjj over Cleveland for the; Presi
dency,; and Grover; Cleveland has
openly .declared himself opposed to
tne free and unlimited coinage of-silver.
' Now where is the consistency
of these Democratic organs? ; .
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One of the principal demands of
the industrial organizations of the
country and of the people generally
is the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. .1 Under the circumstances
above given, which one of the old po
litical parties is likely to first estab
lish lit Already schemes and tricks
are being planned by old party leaders-
solely for the purpose of decep
tion. It has not been a - week since
a bureau reporter , "heard Some
of the southern leaders 'talking. One
of them said: "Yfes, we had , to in
corporate ; the Alliance ' demands jtn
our plalform last year to please pie
Alliance, and I guess we ll have to
do the same thing next year." , ' "
Thar s their scneme. They f want
to do something by which they can
hoodwink the people. They want to
keep them quiet, and will make any
kind of promise or pledge to do it,
bnt with no more intention of, carry
ing out those pledges than they have
of going to the moou. The entire
Alliance platform ' was incorporated
into a Democratic State platform
last year, but during the whole cam
paign not a single speaker, not n
single DaDer uttered one word in suo-
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port or advocacy of those special de
mands. How long, how long will
the people be deceived?
H. W. Ater.
Manager Reform" Press Bureau.
Washington D. C. V r 7 ;.
A THIRD PABTT II LOUISIANA.
Farmers Reaoaaee the Democrats-"
Mr. Farkerwa's Fllewiar
-.;.; :Ia NewOrleaas.
Xew ObleAxs, June 30. The
Montgomery Grand Parish Farmers'
Union, composed altogether of
whites, has declared for a third party,
and the members, formerly Demo
crats, bAve all7reiiounoed their alle
giance'to the Democratic partv. They
declare in. favor of the Ocala Hand
Cincinnati platforms and a v new
party. . The Alliance in three par
ishes, Grant, Cataheula, and Vermil
ion, have also bolted from the Demo
crats. In all these parishes there are
white majorities, and. the members of
the voters.
Jas. Ctorcoran died in the liospital at
Boston from the effects of having
wallowed ms false teeth.
The Queen Has conferred the dig
nity of the Peerage upon Lady 3Iac-
if
Donald, widow of Sir John Mac
Donald, late Premier of Canada.
; Chureneo Busbee,; the assistant
treasurer of the Buena Vista Va. sad
dle and Harness Company, has skip
ped. : The amount of his defalcation
is not known, i He .: is a native of
North. Carolina, r 4 ; ,
- ltobert TJkugherty, the imurderer
who knocked William Terrence and
his" own brother, 'James Dougherty,
in the head near Asheville, this State,
one darlr night, killing thei former
and wounding the f latter, has been
caught LvTexas. '; : v f . ; ' I . :
'' I !Eiwin BobtiC the tragedian, with
his daughter, fybrs., - Ignatius Gross
manj and,her - husband, has arrived
at hia coontrj bora .ItosaliudCot
tagc. .The famous' actor says bf will
remaiiihere at Karragansett Pier, IE.
L, all summer; He looks fairly, well,
though his gait is still uneven, and
apparently he suffers pain. ,,
'h: The ladies of the Christian Church
of Brushton, N. Yve the first ice
cream sociable; of the season on Sat
urday night last Forty-three per
sons who ate the ice cream were pois
oned. The pastor of the ; church
and two ladies have died, and all the
Iptheri are in a critical condition. ;
lb una uwnuuitiauv nuuuuuvtu
that General Jtbal A. Early has ac
cepted' the invitation of the Monu
ment Committee as the orator On the
occasion of the hnveilingof the Jack
son monument at this place July 2lst
His sabjeet will be the ' "Military
Achievements and Character of Gen
eral Jackson." 1 ' y ' t : I v?,,
' Right ifev. Ethelbert Talbot, now
Missionary Biahop to Western Idaho
and Wyoming, was last week elected
Bishop of (Georgia by the. Diocesan
Convention. The new Bishop is in
the prime of life and is thought to
combine those qualities most neces
sary to hia , success ' as head of the
Church inl this diocese.
At an enthusiastic meeting of cit
izens at Johnson 'City last week,
$100,000 t ubscriptoh to stock . and
$100,000 donation to the Proctor
Steel Company i was secured.' Peo-
51e are jubilant, as this brings to
ohnson City the largest; steel plant
in America and only one of the kind
using as ' it does the Russian steel
making process.
The second annual session of the
Southern Educational Association
will be held on i Lookout Mountain,
Chattanooffa. Tenn.. July 8-11. 1891.
Special rates have been given by aln
the hotels for the session aiid -all
who attend will have a delightful
trip. Round trip rates for one fare
have been madefy all railroads west
and south of Chattanooga.
The drought; in the province of
Madras, India,! continues, and all
hope of obtaining intermediate crops
has been abandoned. The land pre
sents a dreary scorcheji waste, and
the people,! so far as the poorer chiss
es are concerned, are', already suffer
ing acutely) f rom famine and from
the scarcity of drinking water. As
matters now stand, crops are iiot ex
pected earier than the months of
February. 1 j J,; -. ;...' ;--'. ; -.: .
The inhabitants of a large portion
of the Province of Verona Italy M-ere
thrown last! night into a state of .wild
excitement and fear caused by a se
ries of severe earthquake shocks.
The people were so alarmed that they
rushed out of their, house in the
.middle of the night ahd ran into the
open fields, expecting that t heir dwell
ings were upon1 the point of falling
upon them. Houses, were so shaken
that in several cases the; walls col
lapsed, and in others chimneys fell
through thelroofsaiid large cracks ap
peared in tne walls. 7
7 The Stahdardj commenting upon
French occiipatioii of the Province
of Luang Prabongy supposes the
movement lis a prelude to an event
ful attempt by the French to annex
SiamVwith i:he object of aiding Rus
sian designs in Eastern Asia. Con
tinuing, the Standard says: 'Snch
a proiect is certain to involve -antag
onism, on the part of China. Should
the project succeeu it wouia. unng
French Siank iii tb v proximity : with
British BurmahJ In the- present
temper of the French, it behooves
England to 1e vigilant" .
" The remains of I General A. P. Hill
were quietly removed last week from
Hollywood Cemetery, where they
have'rested for the last quarter of a
century, and placed in a receptacle
at the base of the! monument now
being erected to his memory in Hen
rico county, j The removal was made
under the auspices of Pegram's Bat
talion Association! Until the mon
ument rises to such a height as to
prevent the possibility of disturb-,
ance, the spot . rill be constantly
guarded by ajdetail of veterans from
the Soldiers' Home. '' '
The Colorado Desert Basin at
Salton Arizona, sixty miles west of
Yuma, is rapidly filling up with fresh
water from fsubterranean passage,
believed to . be connected with the
Colarado riyer, caused by the high
waters of ; last February. At last
advices it was converted into a lake
five miles wde. If the gubterranean
passage connects with the Colorado
above Yuma the lake will be over
four hundred feet in depth and over
fi f ty miles long, f If the waters con
tinue to rise jthe Southern Pacific
track will be submerged for nearly
one hundred miles and the great
desert of Colorado! will be converted
into a .vast lake. ! !
Tie Soill Is Forpi Atsai
Der Satixal Resairtes Are Iicx-
; ksvtikle. 1 '--';: r
Another Decade Will Witness
JvtloHs Developments.
Mar-
The followihg.from the New York
Herald is one of those signs which
come from the Northern press that
t he South is uo longer undervalued;
in fact, that it is being estimated at a
very high value. The error of the
North was that the Southern people
would not work; they were - too lazy
to work; j they ir ere too proud to
work, they w-ere fitted to enjoy only
the fruits of slave labor, and when
slavery was : extinguished then what
there was of Southern energy -would
collapse. Therefore the amazement
of the North is proportioned to its
misconception. It calculated upon
seeing one ' thing; - it is now seeing
quite another. ; It expected to 'see
the desolatlotvof the war perpetuated
in continued ruin and poverty; ; it
sees revival bf industry and." prosper
ity extended beyond what had ever
been attained. In other words, it
had ignorantly expected to see that
the hand of the Anglo Saxon had
lost its cunning, when in fact it finds
that that race is the same everywhere,
the same always in its conflict with
adversity, the same always in. its tri
umph over hard fortune. -?
When the Herald sees, as it will
see, how wonderful are the evidences
of Southern "rise and progress' then
it can appreciate the' force of the
aphorism it ascribes as the expression
of Southern sentiment; "the past is
nowhere; the future is everywhere."
; The Herald says: .
v : Statistics are said to be . dull and
stupid. That may be true as a . gen
eral thing, but when you take an in
ventory of your property and find
that you are worth just .three times as
much as you were ten years ago then
figures become more fascinating than
poetry and more thrilling than ' ora
tory. - : ;7:;.:.. 7. ' ';'
The South ' will , back us up in
these ) statements. When it pulled
itself together after the war it found
that it had nothing . but bankruptcy
and pluck as capital ; in trade. Its
motto was, fPhe past is nowhere;
the future is. everywhere," and it
drew its belt one hole tighter and
started in the race. ;
The statistics which represent , its
progress; are as exhilarating and
cheering as old wine. Its coal out
put twenty years ago was about two
million tons; now it is nearly eigh
teen million tons. Iii 1880 it thought
it was rushing alongat a breakneck
speed because it . had electric mills on
its streams and manufactured- one
Imndred and eighty thousand : bale?
of the cottoui it had raised; but in
1890, only ten .years later, it manu
faCtHred five hundred thousand bales
and made contracts for more mills. ,
Before the war the sleepy negro
lav in the sun on top of iron mines
whose value was only suspected.' Ag
riculture absorbed the people's at
tention, and they let the negro sleep
on. Now the mines are worked, the
bonanza has been uncovered, dreams
of wealth liave become an inspira
tion; the roar of the forge, the hum
of machinery are ' heard everywhere,
and old Pennsylvania is beginning
to tremble in her boots as she sur
veys, her vigorous and daring rival. '
The South has rolled up its sleeves
and proposes to be rich again richer
than ever. It has all the natural re
sources which attract capital and en
terprise. ' ' Young men from the
North on the lookout for a career
are making investments there, help
ing to develop the country, ahd they
all receive a warm welcome. The
tides of population, kept apart so
long, are mingling their waters, and
unless the politicians raise a row
there won't- be any North or any
South twenty years from now," ana
in their stead we shall have a united,
contented and prosperous country,
i i Therefore, ? hang the politicians
and let the good work;go on.
Tie Trie ltiatii. v
President L. L. Polk, of the Na
tional Farmers A 1 Iiance and I ndus
trial Union, in a masterly address
before the Ohio State Convention of
n.is organization at Columbus two
weeks ago presented some facts
which are worth ; repeating here.
Never before, said he, nave the cities
and great corporations proposed as
to-day; never before have there been
such opportunities .for grasping such
colossal fortunes; never' before has
agriculture been iii, such'a languish
ed condition. In 1850 the farmers
owned 70. per cent xf the. wealth of
the country; in 18C0 they 'owned 50
per cent of it; in 1880 . they owned
33 percent of it; and to-day they
own less than 22 per cent Little
over a quarter of a century ago. this
country had only two or three mill
ionaires, but now they are counted
bv the thousands. , "
" One-half of " the wealth of ' the
country, said Mr. Polk, is owned by
31,000 people, and the census statis
tics show that there' is a mortgage
for every 7 persons in the United
States nearly one for every family
on an average. f -
f To the advice from some of the
prosperous class, that the. farmer
should "work harder and live closer,"
the' Alliance President said that the
very .man who gave this advice
would in three i snort months pay
out more - on his family at ; some
fashionable . watering place, than
the average farmer spends on his
family in thirteen years. To the
argument that the law of supply and
demand is responsible for depressed
prices of farm products, it is a suffi
cient answer that less - per capita is
produced than i when, prices were
much better. The cry of tover
production" was eci nail v hoi low.
And two 'and one-iourth pounds
of wheat to what each person now
consumes; and not a bushel will be
left for export And thn there
are in this country 3,000,000 of
tramps and 5,000,000 who are either
lUmne or in want of nrotier nu-
trition as the statistical authori
ties mildly put it Over produc-
. - - ' O . i T v
pie of the country crave more than
iney are able to procurri while
those who are; even better-to-do,
every day of their lives deprive
themselves and their families of
that which would minister to their
comfort and good could they but
afford it? Such reasoning is hol
low mockerv. What we need is not
less production, but a . more equi
table distribution of what we
pro-
duce. &MMMJT Soutk.x ;
CAPT. KIDD'8 TQEASC&B
'BapMse -U'Dat Beea Bprtei
. ' the N. t Csast
Several weeks ago. It was announc
ed that a party of adventurers had
left Brooklyn for the Coastsolj Norih
Carolina, for the purpose of search
ing for a i great amount of r money,
supposed to. have been oonceaJed -by
Cajit Kidd of piratical fame. "
The party is now near Wilming
ton, on the, hurit 'The whole is a
very interesting jproceedin. HVe
give our readers the' followin 5 clip
ping taken from; the Wilm ngton
Messenger.. I
In accordance with the pr noises
to publish furthef particulars f about
the latest search for Capt Cidd's
treasure, we will begin by refrshine
the memory of our readers with the
f olio win cr information pubhs
a local item in the Wilmiuptoiil Cotn-
meretal of Jlay r21, 1873: j.
Andrew Jackson has beeu arrest
ed for Wounding Thomas Green over
at the Banks yesterday. The weapon
used was a jewelled dagger evidently
of some age and value, Which the
two participants assert was found by
them in the sand." , j
This of itself is of little" conse
quence, but certain well authenticat
ed circumstances make, it a sjtrong
connecting link in a chain of evidence
which gws far towards proving that
a Tast treasure has been' buried for
years somewhere along the strip' of
sand now known as Ocean view
Briefly, the facts are these:
Bauchier . died in a Liverpool
pital in 1805, leaving to one o
omcials, who had been very att
to hini. a bundle of -papers wit
ambigu'ous . remark that therel was
money in them..' They proved to
be'olu and faded parchments Writ
ten in J a ; Franco-Spanish, Jingo
which cost the receiver consilera
ble time j and trouble to decipher,
but the purport of them .all J was
that the j writer had sailed under
the famous ; Capt K idd and assist
ed at the burial of his wealth, .that
Kidd sunk his vessel several ; rinles
up a certain river and.bronghtl his
ill-gotten' gains down .to the coast
overland, l and that ' he had buried
it partly on a-sand-bar and partly
"on a small marshy island, cover
ed with dense, shrutjs and infested
with snakes." . ' . ' ,;. ', ,i '.
In 1863 these papers came into
possession of Hugh Flax man, ship
owner of -Birkenhead, who had been
for sometime previous 'mining Jthe
blockade successfully. ; He instruct'
ed one of his captains to-sail down
the coast of North Carolina in j his
vessel . the 'Craustowe' and' take
note of all localities agreeiiigxwith
the description given by the- jold
pirate. This - vessel . was grounded
on. tne oanics to prevent : capture
and tbVcrew swam to shore through
aj very heavy surf. ". The captain
turned up in Liverpool , ten years af
terwards, showing an .oia iqiaU
emmea fouhd by one of his sailori m
a handf uL of sand he had gnu
while endeavoring to make laud.
Hugh Flaxman died in 1881 1
ing. all his property to - two nep;
of Uunlin. who are now vim
Wilmington! They seem confi
that the' Hammocks is the-ma
island referred to and are preparing
to verify this by operating with an
ingeniously constructed boring in
strument It is curious to note that
for many years there has been a le
gend current in our neighborhood of
a treasure" ship having (been sun ip
the Cape Fear river. k Sometimes it
is called a man-of-war, and Black
river, is pointed out as its hiding
place; sometimes it is a Spanish mer
chantman blown up near Point Peter,
but all accounts co-incide 'as to its
containing specie. ' . . '
, In Old Brunswick churchyard lis
a grave with a Latin inscription calif
ing down a curse on the head of him
who desecrates it . In the late -'war
when the church was used as a hos
pital the Federals rifled all the other
tombs in search of valuables bnt al
lowed this to remain intact It was
examined by an antiquary of Charles
ton about ten years ago and found
in svintai n m. ImmIpb coffin filled al
most entirely with old rsirchmeutsj
in the same inizea vernacular oia
Liverpool documents. These 'were
never Wholly translated and it is un
known w'hat became of them' event-
uaiiy, ,oetv tney at leas inuicaie
tne writers were- lmuiutvcjv
ated with our river. .
The Oncers of the AeW York Life
Insurance Company have instructed
their counsel,' b illiam B. Ilornblowejr
to begin suit at once against the edj
torsi publishers and proprietors bf
the New York Times for $1,000,000
damages for ubet
Alfred
hos-
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Direct Taies fcr E3pc:zt3.
Te List sf These VTfe Tali It la
K Tkis fssstj, aci Wha Will
7 Cl It Cack.
The following i the list of tlo.
to whom the returiied Direct Tax i
due in this county. jAppUcatioHsfvr
its yment will have t U m.U
through Kd Pennington. Clock Su
perior Court for Kdpioombe county.
The. direct notice, nt out bv tin
Governor, give all the information
necessarv. ' , 1 .
Dijmticr No. 1. '
Kobt II Autin. 77 20: llobt 11
Austin (Mr CYenhaw), 10 01 Au-;'.
tin, Norfleet i Co, 73 G; I a id
Barlow, . 192 67; Jo II ltowdiu-h.
3 20: F L Bond. S3 20: X C JUnk.
39 40; 11 B Bryant .53 CO; JC H i
ker, SO wn Jas 1 liattle, lyt M; ni -Burnett
12 00; U 11 Bridrs.:M2 4:
Juo L Baker, 32 00; J
4 n Jno L Bridrs, 251 11; II I.
Brocket's est, 22 00; K Cromwrll,
18 DO; E Cromwell, 8 OO; Kpinitim r
Cromwell, 1 80; U T Clark. Ir.3'2t; "
II B Gotten, 12 00; J B t hthirs
18 40; John L Dancv, 4:1 4n; W I.
Dozier, 46 00; K Do'xif r' wt.. 5 31; "
Lemon 8 Dunn, 5r5lO; II Ho
lier, 8 00; II A lkwd, 15 f.o; L I.
Dancy, 30 72; John ti Diuiev, r,s;
Charlotte Dancv, 23 U4; Vhnrloit,
Dancv, 31 50; , W. Ft 1 ancy. 3. 4 r,::
C L Dickens et, 229 03;. J A Ku
gelhard, 22 40; Henderson Kdnioi.d
on, 2 08; 3Irs D M Foreman, Z-Mi
F D Foxhall's ett 10 50; S K
hall, 64 84; Jos II Hvuian, 121 47;
Seth S Hicks. 29 UO; Martha C Hv-
att, 2 00; H T Honk ins, 14 IM, H It
Hoskin 4 Bowditch, 32 (0; W S
Hunter for Xahcv, 8 0; Marv Horn,
8 80; T C Hussey. 18 60; WHow-V
ard, part of Howard & i'o. 740: s
Alice C Howard, 17 20; i H .lontfi.
47 7Sn J W Jonek 10 OO; CKarle. II
Jenkins, 14 00; B Jl Jacksob for A
C rarker, 20 40; A II JoIiiimhi,
10 00; V A Jones, ' 1 0 oC; CliarK-s
Joyner, 1 20; M(1 Joiien, l T.O;
Coffleld King, 84 OC; J I.lov!,
202 36; Jwiah Iwrenee, l li .38;" A 1
P Lawreuce,! 22 00; 1 C ''Lewis,
31 20; J W IJpseomb, 6 OO; H S ,
Lloyd, 4 8ft; J K Moon est, 30,40"; '
Margt A' McNair, 13 Janun
Mehegan, 1 8 00; J ' H Matliwton, ,
4 80; Thos A M cX ai r, -20 OO; A Iii
McXair, 29 20; Nathan Mathiwnon,
40 16: Thos NoTflwt, 33A7;'-Cha
K Xeal, 27 55; E C Neal & Co., 32 00;
John Norflt 26 68; Boliert NurtUtt, -1.52
40; ." Thomas Olierry, 14. OO;
Oberry 4. Dunu, 6 40; J' .1 Porter,
114 49; Naiicv Porter, 19 20; ill H
Pender, 80 72; I) Pendt r & Co. 32 no; s
J J B Pender, 32 40; X .T Pittman.
88 65; U G Pittman, 49 44: Skkkii
Peel, 4 00 Pender & Dancy' .20; 'Win
Pippell, 23 60;Jippeu, ' D'owd Ba
ker. 36 OO: L D Pender. 14 OO .Ihs .1
Price's: heirs, 12 IG.. W D Pittmaji, .
66 18; II II Howe, 10 00; Jas JI lJ.tl
mond, 61 60; K PiSharp, 14 21; V 11
Sliarji, 32 77; Baker Sutou.- 2 19 41;
E Shurley, 65 50; Ii A 'Sixer. 12- 0(;
K 8 Suggs, 80 00; Martlia M T rr 11,
16 00; i W & Vesta, Walker 9
ilrs AVhitleV and others, 4( W; r I,
Wihborne, 3 20; Mathew Wetld. ll, ,
Willie AValKton, 65 82; (i W Whit
field, 2 86; K C Williamu, 81 73; D
William 28 OO; J AV. White, W
J A Williamson, 1 8 OOj Win iZovfU-r,
8.00. . - ' - 1
i V DlHTItfcT No, 2. 1 . .
t Elizabeth Anderson, Il 90; t'ray .
Armstrong, 64 24; B ,B . Amutroii,
4 00. W S Battle, 929 63 Kemp P
Battle, 128 94; Turner Puttie, 453 o;
G W Barnes est, 1 94; li W Kun.c,
6 S- ilrslety liarriei, 13 25; W K
Bradley, 2 CO; ra Jtennet Brad lev,
4 64 W B Brake, 5 98; Wni Brakr,
a 82; Jeae Bullock; 2H 00; O D Hul- , .
lock's est, 141 80; W J Bullock, 7 l'l;
O D Bullock est, 10 88; W H Brus
welL 11 60; Xr Xancv Calbonn,
4 77; .Wni B Cos, 2;G 55; Crone &
Gay, 4 00; Alfred DautridL'e, 1 1 72;
W 'Dautridge, 29 38; J II Dranjfban,
10 72; Jesse Farmer, 2)80; K II
Flowers, 2 36; Elija Feeliui 12 00;
Gay Kinchin, Sr., .64; Eaton Guy'
heirs (John 4'av,) 40 89; X TJ.'av,
2 14; Mm 1 Piety Cray, 26 0M; Mrs
Olive Gav, il6; JJjGrifliii'sriit, J 40
Mrs M li Gray, 54 30-rS it Hargrove;
11 94; G W Ilammonds, 80O; Mrs
Sally Jordan,7 26; Johuathaii Joyn
er, 28 80 JnO yJ Killebrew, 20 .
B J Incaster, 23 56; Hantwvll
ling's est 9 04; JaniMj Mnllen, 2 2;
John Minor, U 34; W W Parker,
17 96; B L Petwav, 74 07; Puj? &
Parker, 12 00; W'uj Powell, 13 19:
Wm Proctor, 8 20; W C Proctor, .39
Absalom Procter, 9,60; John Prcx.
ter,?19 71; LL l'ro?tor, 7 2H; Fred
erick l'roctor, 8 67; Jesse Price, 8 43;
31 rs Phoebe Price, 4 04; Thonuu n
Pitt, 4 00; Harriett Proctor, 100;
W. B Kicks & Co., 1 8 00; BoU-rt
Hicks, 43 52; Jirs' Elizabeth Baf
fin, 1 20; D C Buffin, 1 96; .W E
Spicer's est 4 CQ, S L Spicer, 4 .32; 1
C W Spicer et Harriett' J Spi
cers est 8 00; It A Savage, 6 59;
Evelina Spicer, .80; -Martha Taylor, -2
-lO; P C Taylor, .08; Mr Lncretiai
Spicer, 2 10; Jno B Taylor 2 0);i
FJisba Taylor, I 76; J B Tbonuu AH,
Theophilus, Thomas; 24; W H
Thomas, 2 70; 'Sam ml II Thome,
20 00; B B Tunnell'iJ et, 2 0; .
Malachi 3Veston, 16 33; E L Wil- .
liford, 3 12; Capt Whit Willianu,
8 48; II GfYi "orsley, 4 18; H T Willi
ford's est, 6 34; 'A J Williford, 1319;
Wm Worsely's Hr. est, 59 43; Wni
Wowley Jr. U 36; Bennett Steliing,
2 02, MoseS Spicer heirs, .56.
DisTKtcT Ka 3.
" (ieo & J J Arnutrong, 7 04; Ilobt B
Braswell, 16 48 Collv 8 : Brauwell,
18 78; Isaac BraswelL 42 90; Jeremiah
Batts,47 87; Thos J Bras welt .99. r
jlary Bnuwell, 6 40; Thos P Braf
well, 5 28; Tho P Brasweil, 24 35;
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