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I : Fob th .Campaio ' I' " THE WEEKLY OBSERVER - r . : In Club of 5 or More till November ' 1 . - 15th at 20e. t . : .ft.fi. Fo THIS CitMCAf fC 1 ' THE WKESLY OK.,. .. . if II. " ! le!dbsof 5 or mure to :s., w CHARLOTTE, N. C MONDAY, AUGUST 29. 189. VOU Vn.NO,8. PRICE FIVE CENTS few JUMPING FROM FIRE FOR LIFE, BIO HOTBL F1KB BBAR ASHBTUXK, The Hotel at White Balphor BprlBa e- atrereS UeeaU JanapeA tram the Wle. , 4i-Om Life Lost, Bfaay Pwm la- : J a re All Baggece XtoetrereA. Special to the Observer. ' 1 - Abhxvii.i.b, August S3. The Belmont Hotel, -White Sulphur Spring, At miles from .this city,. wu : destroyed at midnight last night by a fire which broke oat U the laundry and spread; with greet rapidity. There were '''nearly'.'!: 800 ,"iruesU y in : the house at the time and all escaped with their Uvea, many of them by Jumping from the wisdom. Mre. Dr. Von Rack, of Ashevilie, wu badly injured, mad her later wu fatally Injured, and died this moralng. Charles Oreen, of New Or leans, had a leg dislocated. Clork Hen derson also had a leg dislocated, end a colored none a kg broken. A few others were slightly bruised, but none seriously hart. All the guests lost their baggage and some of, them other person al belongings. A good many diamond! ana a cooa aeat or money were lost in si the are, numbers 01 tnose in pvoatiU' I ing escaping only In their nlgbl Ythea, If The guesta made their way, as V I they could, to Ashevilie. where they were made comfortable. . v-.;i4 V The hotel property was owned. corporation ana leased to ut. von m The building was erected at a cost : $66,000 and there was insurance of $: 3 on it. - A Mm fr Cood Hoedf TotheBdltorof the Observer: , - I hare been trying for many years to find a general "plan'' for the construe tion of rood dirt roaoa la North Caroli na something that could be enacted into a general law.' Recently the citizens of Missouri hare had a ten days' road coarantion and discussed rery ably and fully the road question with tnb follow ing result. This "plan" may not exact ly suit all parte of North Carolina, but the general outline may well spply to the great middle section of the Bute, and gire the basts of some general law. -. Rtrrus Babbinokb. We reoommend that roads be classified into three grades or classes. ' Macadam, gravel or turnpike roads shall be of the nrst-class. Well graded or thoroughly drained dirt roads shall be of the second class, and ordinary ditched or graded dirt loads shall be of the third class. Roads of the nrst-class shall be con structed In sections of not less than one mile in "length, upon the petition of a majority of the property-owners abut ting on ths same and not less than S3 per cent of the coats thereof be paid by said property-owners or by voluntary sub scriotlou. Roads of the second and third classes to be built entirely at the cost . . . i 1 1 f .1 E . 1 ... . . . ioi tne county, uongresaiuuat uuu-iuia ur municipal towns, at nearly as practicable. Shall constitute road districts, and roads shall be as nearly as practicable looted . I on sectional or suoaivuuonai lines, ami I whea not practicable on these lines then I according to the geographical features I of the county, and each district shall be 1 la the charge of and under the control lot a roadmaster or. employe of the county, who shall be employed by and I under the control of the county court. , j I We recommend that all the dramshop licenses ne diverted to we nu iuuu vi the respective eountlss in which they are collected; that theoounty courts, in ad dition to a poll Ux, be authorised by 4n 1aw ml jxilliu direr! tu nnnn I the property o Ihe county not. exceed- - i i iiva tiaa Bua a vrvr. wm nrv aewaaw wv the ooasuJJSSfl&gy.01 tn.,.yPg 1 and tnua classes, ana uTcvy suu wiwrviost, to sayaotning or me such special tax for the construction oi i m.1l tt tlx flrt eluaSJltba VOterS Of the I mxiw nf tha flrat class as the voters of the county or any road district or districts tnereoi may oy a rota w doterminet the amount of such tax being Within the limit now permitted by the constitution. We would further call the attention of our lawmakers to the enormous amount of money annually ex pended by our Bute and the various counties thereof In the payment In coat la criminal cases, and would recommend that our laws la relation to the matter be so amended as to exempt the Bute from the payment of any costs la crlra inal cases except for the services of offi cers, and that the money so saved to the Bute, together with the Ux derived from foreign corporations, be diverted into a . general road fund to be distributed to the various counties of the Bute. . ? la view of the difficulty of raising money In the various counties by direct Uxstion wherewith to build roads, we submit to this convention the proposition of loaning the credit of the Bute to the , various counties to the extent of 10 per cent of the assessed value of ths property In said county In the way of a bonded In- debtedness for the purpose of building aid roads, and a submission of aa ' amendment to our constitution to ac complUh that end. .- r- , ) v; .. i.i ,?. . -, The tk efn W Twentj-Mlith -SsrlaU OUtrhit Menlaats OaadldaSas, ; Bpeoisl tb Observer. - J . Lexwotohv August 25. The Third party ; senatorial convention, composed ; of Rowsn, .: Pavldson and - Forsyth counties, met hero to-day to nominate two candidates to represent the twenty sixth ' senatorial district. Mr. 8. A. Earnhart, of Rowan, was chairman and , Mr, J no. Beard secretary. The - atten- r aanoe wassmaji. au iuo duuuu wj represented. Rev. Geo. K. ' Hunt, of Davidson, and Mr. Virgil Wilson, of Forsyth, were nominated. ( ' r . ' I , -! : ,,n. HkarlO Bom Uw His SpocUl U ths Observer. ': , IUndlkmak, August tS This morn Ing at 6 o'clock the residence of A. P. Ross, Esq, at Asheboro, N. C, was des troyed by fire, the origin of which is not known, but It Is supposed to have started from a defective flue. There is some In : suranoe but the loss is considerable. Mr. Ross Is' the present cfllclent sheriff of this county. . Will Suppar' Kohady Wh Is Weak aa Claveland aad Cam erlsl to the (ttMMJi-ver. . WiSbtoh, Aug. 25. A large Cleve land and Carr club wasorgani7.ed at El kin, Surry county, laat night. ArcHolu timi wm paps(ul,by the club ti, support no r ;iu fir o!T'ice unlrfg he plodded lilm et 'f to support the Btate and natlonul .I"u;""fi"lc non!noes and f.latfornis. THE ASHEYILLE HOTEL FIRE. BOMB DKTAILS ttltflS OOOUKBBNOK. UsS ml ska laJatad Wkara tka Flra Btartad-Baauaa aad laeMaats. Abrhld from the Asbavllbi OtUsea of Thuts- dar AftanMMHi. ' The Hotel Belmont, the fine three story brick hotel building at Sulphur ppnngs, nve mues west or Asnevuie, caught fire about 11:90 o'clock last night and wss totally destroyed. - At the time of the conflagration there were 138 guests In the building. It Is be lieved that all of these escaped with their uvea, a number were more or less in jured. . . -we louowing is a list or ttiose who were hurt during the Are: N. P. Strauss, Henderson, N. 0., both ankles sprained. . Miss Agnes Montgomery, New York, sunenng severely irom suock. Miss Abbie Moore, Ashevilie. concus sion of spine . and contusions about eyes. airs. J. W. itoss. fensaoola, Fla,, an kle sprained. '. , . Emma Kuffin, colored nurse, Ashe vilie, ankle sprained. v f R. O. Uenaerson. assistant room clerk. cm on nip. The ore was discovered by a number of male servants, who were in their ouar ters in a building about fifty yards from me noiei. inere seems to nave Deen no night watchman. Ed Oreen, colored, head waiter in the ordinary, was the first to Kfve the alarm. He states that the fire appeared to be in the engine room or isunurr. wmcn loinea eacn oth er In the basement In the northwest cor ner of the hotel. From there the fire quickly communicated with the elevator snart to the upper stories. - Smoke and names were pouring out of the win dows. :. 5- ; . '' As toon as the ' miesU were aroused they beran hurrylne. with a terrible fear to urge them on, through the smoke to wards the various exits. These were the stairways and the wide verandaa. Of the latter, there was one at the ground noor ana one. at two sides of the L shan ed buildingthe north and westat the second floor. ' There was none under the tbird sory windows, but several guests who were In the too floor, both men and women, jumped on to the second story veranda, and from there made their way uie gnrana uy way; oi tne veranua pports. - There were no fire cacaoes proper to the UsHldinir.but the halls were wide and the verandas easy of access to perhaps half the sleeping rooms. ' The flames made Dhenomenal nrnrreas And within half an hour after, the alarm was given the whole building was gutted. The rooms Of Dr. von Ruck, the nro- eriotor, were in the second story, almost nmediateU over the soot where the fire oriirinated. v.i-v,.. :.--.-., lr. von- Ruck had been In bed some time and says he was roused by shouu lathe building, lie hastily arose and dressed, and when he sterjoed into the hallway, he found It full of smoke, and bis exit by the main stairway cut off. Or. von Ruck grabbed one of the fire extinmiUhors ana ran to the elevator and undertook to subdue the flames, but finding this impossible, he returned.io rescue sua win. - y . . ,...v,:..s Mrs. TAB Rilfk. who u vra 111 mrmm sleeping in an adjoining room with her nurse. . ur. von kuck rusnea into tueir room and took his wife in his arms and started down a back aUirway or fire es cape. W ben be neared the bottom he rouna tuat me names naa cut mm on, and he was forced to carry his wife back up the stairs. On reaching the main hallway the smoke had becoma so dense as to be stilling.. He rushed throueh with Mrs. Von Ruck still in his anus, but when, he reached the head -of the stairway fell exhausted. Two servants were on the stairway, and they carried Mrs. von Ruck to a place of safety. Mai. McCreerv. of Columbia, S. C. one of the KuesU, said Thursday: I wouldn't Uke tlJSOO for the property I nflfe and myself had from death. Wur ..lui Knt iu mnmm wbm We were asleep but our rooms were only two doors from the elevator shaft and the crackling of the flames was what waked us. The elevator shaft was all in blaze then and. when we started to the stairway we found that our chance for etungout in mat aireciion was cut on. ust then It occurred to me that there was another stairwar at the other end of the ball and we made for that. Thi door at that entrance was locked and a had to kick It down. Aftor this we rot to the porch below and from thereto the round without an r trouble. We didn't carry a thing with us though, for we barely bad time l. make lt witn our reiy nau tune t.t maxe lt witn our es. My wife lost all her dresses and relry, and I lost my entire wardrobe, Bept what I have on and one shirt thai lives. ewi except 1 happened to nave around here at the laundry. We lost four trunks.": Mrs. N. B. Cohen, of Charleston, awoke to find herself in a most perilous posi tion in ner room on me second noor. im prisoned by the flames with her nurse and thirteen months old child there was nothing for her to do but to make nse of the window. Bbe stood by the opening for moment with her child in her arms and her frsntlo cries attracted the atten tion of those below. The situation was taken In at a glance by them and several pairs of strong arms were stretched out. "Urop tne cniiur came a Hoarse booth, It Is the only chance' y-cv Helpless as she was, Mrs. Cohen could but obey, and with only momentary hes itation she dropped the preclobs burden into the improvised cradle of human arms where it landed safely. ' Bhe and the nurse availed themselves of the posU and climbed down to the ground unhurt. One of the most serlouslr injured was Miss Abble Moore, a sister of Mrs.' von Ruck, bhe was compelled to lump irom the second story balcony to the ground, a distance of eighteen feet, suffering a sprain of the back and concussion of the spino, and receiving painrui cuts snout ne eyes. ; ...... ;.'?,.' Mrs. J. W.Ross, wife of Burgeon Ross, of the United States Naw. sUtioned at Pensacola, Fla., attempted to escape by means of the second story porch and is sa'd to nave lanen irom' mere to tne ground, t Her right ankle was sprained and she received several slight bruises. Bhe lost her entire wardrobe and a lot of valuable jewelry. : . ' Mrs. i. Kahn, ofqCharleston, 8. C clal ns to have lost $3,000 worth of dia monds In the fire. - v ' The property saved amounted to only about 150. " ...:;,'';". , if ', The Hotel llulmout was tue property of the West Ashevilie ' Improvement Company, the stock of which is largely owned by E. O. and J. I). Carrier. The main building was erected in 1H.S(1, and the eastern wing was built during the winter of 18U0. The coot of the entire structure, uniurnished. was f (10,000. Dr. von Ituck had the hotel leased for a period of 10 years from Octolwr at an annual rental of f t.noo. The furni ture was owned by l)r. von Ruck alno anil it was iuv'-ntoried at 1 i.OiH). There was f '!,h'1 liisiiranco on the bniM.:'ml .", ,0 on tlie furnituie. (""''.' ; TBB rBOOBBS OS THB CHOUUtA. . It Appears Naw AlMBlka NartkBaa. ' London, August 17. At the port of T V IT I i. I I I. k . sive shipping communication with Ham burg and other ports on and near the North Sea, a man and woman were taken sick last evening and developed symptoms or Asiatic cuoiera. Thirty Russian emigrants bound for the United Bute arrived at Glascow on Thursday by way of Hamburg, with the Intention of taking passage from Qlas gow to tne united outes. -; ': i, ka Waaltkr j Iram Barlla. Bxni-Jit, August t7. The Yosslche Zeitung has a dispatch from Hambarg savins?: "There is no annarent decrease in ue cnoicra u spite oi the cool weath er. The disease has appeared on the Islands in the Elba; Hundreds of wealthy people have left the city. The dearth of doctors is severely felt. Several nurses have died. The school attendance has dwindled materially." ; ' Barila Oeafasaes ta tka Cksleta. BsttLiir. Aneust ST. There is aow ao aouH mat Asiauo cholera u in ueriin. Three deaths are reported from what undeniably Asiatic cholera of a virulent type. - A ladyr while traveling from Hamburg, was seized with cholera and taken to the hospital. While the author ities are enforcing the most rigid sani tary precautions, they profess to be sat isfied that the cholera will make no seri ous progress in Berlin. - Tka nagve at Bottantaas. . RorRKDAM. Auirust 87. A woman died here of Asiatic cholera. The author ities are reticent as to the facU. but there Is little doubt that the disease came by way oi rumour g. All Thraa Baad at OravaMBd. London. Auirust 87. The third of three persons afHicted with Asiatic cholera brought ; to Gravesend on the steamer Gemma, which arrived on Thurs day from Hamburg, is dead. There are no signs of the disease spread-ir-g and the hospital authorities at Grave send believe that they have Uken effec tive measures to prevent the cholera from being communicated to others. CeaeaUaa at Trame Between Haaaknra ' ' aad Xaw Tark. - Naw Yore. August 87. General Pas senger Manager Emit Bear, of the Hamburg-American Packet Company Steam ship Line, stated this morning that all steerage traffic between Hamburg and New York had ceased on their line. " Maw Cases afChoUrs la Antwerp. Antwebp. Aug. 87. Notwithstanding assertions yesterday that there was no more cholera here, five new cases and one death have been reported since yes terday morning. ;; , Tka Harvest ef Death laereailag. 8t. Pktkbsbvbo. Au. 87. The offi cial returns of the cholera for all Russia show that yesterday there were reported 6593 new cases and 8263 deaths. This is aa increase of 631 cases snd 885 deaths over Thursday. In Bt. Petersburg 108 new cases of disease were reported ves- treday and 87 deaths, an increase of five cases and five deaths over the previous - .... .... Wkaiu Tkay SalaeS far Iadan, Wados'uon Messonxar and Intelligenoer. In this district. Dr. A. A. Mavnard. of Morven - township,' this county, was mubOOMWI' nil vtanlW'Vll lfV JUM ballot, Dr. Mavnard was put In nomi nation by Y. C. Morton, late of this county, but now of Rockingham, snd his nomination was seconded dv w. a. Pratt, of Anson. Dr. Mavnard Is a practicing physician and has lived In this county for about four years, coming here, we believe, from Wake county. He is the same Dr. Mavnard who narticinated in the Demo cratic county primaries and went as a delegate fiom this county to the JaU Democratic State convention. On re turning home from that convention he annonncecfthatjhe would support Carr for Governor, but we learn that he has since swallowed the whole People's party policy, nigger and all, and that he will support Exum for that high office. Dr. Maynard also a short time ago announced himself a candidate for the Legislature from this county, subject to the action of the Democratic party, but probably receiving Intimation from the assistant Republicans that they would give him something better, aa the price of his support, he withdrew his announce- ment. ;. ;'.' ' ;'.!.? I !"' r i Dr. Mavnard is a maa of aveiage In telligence, but does not possess ths abili ty that would lead ha Democratic party to even think of nominating him to so Important an office as Representative in the United States Congress. He proba bly sulu the Weaverites very well as ha is tne equal oi any oi tnem in turning political somersaulu and refusing to support the nominees of conventions in which he participated. ? Two rears mo ur. uaynara was an ardent supporter of Hon. 8. B. Alexan der for Congress, and we learn that only short time sko. wrote mm a letter in which he said that he was still for him. Now Is Is willing to sacrifice principle upon the altar of an unholy ambition. It Is amszing what strange and inexplica ble things men will be guilty of when once the greed for office gets possession of them. - " '- " . : Btlll Laaklac for a Leader. . Wade-boro Massenger Intolligenior. Just after the death of Col. Folk, the M & I. predicted that the People's party could not possibly succeed In North Carolina, for the good and sufficient reason that It had no capable head. That our prediction would come true, we have never had the least misgiving, but the outcome of their late Bute con vention has removed the last vestige of doubt from our mind as to the faU of the movement The ticket nominated w an exceptionally weak one, and the whole proceedings were of S most extra ordinary nature, proving - conclusively msi mere was a tout laca oi Drains to sruide the Infant party over the shoal that surrounded it on all sides. We are reallv sorrv for the misguided men' some of thein entirely honest who have seen nt to dosert tne wnite man s parry in the hour of tu greatest need. .They would not nroscnts uch a sorrv spectacle, if they only had capable leaders. As J udge Bennett truly said in his speech last Friday, they hive brought ridicule upon themselves, and there is no occasion for their opponenU to point the finger of scorn at mem. : , ' HowUTklaT K ' - To the BUHtor of the Observer: An' emerirencv arises In a family when some spirituous liquor is wanted. - One of the family is tent to a drug store to get some, lie or she is told by the clerk atthestoro that a prescription from a doctor must be obtained In order to gut the liauor. ' ' So a doctor must unnecessarily be consulted or a common drinking saloon must be entered to procure the liquor. Any quantity can be bought there with out the slii.'hteRt trouble Is it not "utruitiing at a gnat and swiiHowinnariiiiiel? ' Cofmief EHCY, II. i.i. ...-, An; ' 1 11. The VERY MEANEST THING YET. SBMATOB TANCB ,CMABK1 VV1TM , , HAVING DOMGKD THB BKB '-r-1 BILVBB VOTTB. , t ' ,.. m ,l ' Alllauemea Wka Betasa ta Vat tka "Be. Cana" Ticket Ckaraoterlaed aa Oawanta Maaaey aad Bkaferd at Tkaawavilla Tastarday Hake atralskt Third farty Bpeeckaeat aa Alllaaee rieale. Special to the Observer.! : - , ' ' TnoMAsTtixa, N. C, August 20. Three thousand people were here to-day to attend the annual picnic of ths David son county Alliance, Alliance Locturer Masseyand would-be-Congressmsn Snu ford made straight Third party speeches, consisting of nothing but buse of the Democrat lo . party, ' Massey said the meanest thing of the day when he charg ed that Senator Vance stayed away front the Senate chamber on the day the vote on free sliver was taken tjfi order to keep from voting. Not a thing was said against tha Republican party. Many Alliancemen wore disgusted that strict party speeches were made at an Alliance gathering. Shuford said if an Alliance- man voted anything but the "reform'' ticket he was a coward. , Col. Skinner was to have been at Thomas ville yesterday. As nothing is said of him in the foregoing special we infer that he failed to show up. Masaey's charge against Senator Vance is the most Infamous thing of ths campaign, and Bhuf ord's characterization of Democratic Alliancemen as cowards will .; cause a good many of them who might have sUyed away from the polls, to see him in November. Editor Dbskrys, TklreV Party NemlaaUeas la tha Ninth ' District. J 8polal to the Observer, v Asukvillk, August 80r-The Thiid party people of the ninth congressional district, in convention at Waynesville, nominated J. C. Brown for Congress and Geo, E. Boggs for presidential elector. Brown Is a sorehead Democrat and pros perous farmor of McDoweli county, and Boggs Is an old Farmers' Alliance Dem ocrat from Haywood. Neither Is consid ered strong. - V FOR THE CAMPAIGN ! OBOVKX CLlYElASD. WEEKLY OBSERVER. Tha newsiest, best Weekly published In the State. Every farmer ought to take it" . " . SPECIAL. WUl send the Weekly in clubs of 6 or more till November 15th for 80 cents. Send in your clubs at once. Weekly one year $1.00. AgenU wanted In every community. Send for sample copies. Must have 1,000 new subscribers. -' Address 'CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Charlotte, N. C. "Gar." Bxam prefers Basra Bala ta That We Have Baea Havlae;., Special to the Observer. Goldsboro, ; Aug. 85. Several prom tnent Democrats when reviewing here, this - afternoon, ., in the presence of 'Governor" Exum, the good done in this Bute under the past and present Demo cratic administrations and -the danger that threatens us in the event of Har rison's election, which undoubtedly means a force bill and negro supremacy, received the following response from the WeaveriU candidate:! would prefer negro rule or anything to the rule we havs bad heretofore." ';:;;'; Sv- These are the exact words uttered by Dr. Exum and will be substantiated by the editor of the Goldsbord Headlight C. JT. Rlvenbark, of Goldsboro; James M. Oliver, of Princeton! G. W. Pegram, of Petersburg, Var, and others; Since its utterance the doctor is sick, politically sick. HKnl(ht VaaTleted ef Barglary la tka . Btrst Uearee, , ' Bpeolal to the Obtcnrar. : Winston, August 85. Leouldas Mc McKnight was convicted la Barry court this morning of burglary In thel first de gree. Sentence has not yet been passed McKnight was tried for burglarizing the house of W. 8. Taylor in Mt. Airy year ago last last January and almost beatins to death Mrs. Taylor, an aged lady, whom he robbed of $2J2odSUe was captured (Wo weeks sgo In Virginia Th only hope McKnight has for bis life is the thought that Governors Fowle and Holt commuted to life Imprisonment the sentences of two negroes who com mitted a similar offence In Charlotte. : A Democrat who attended tho plcni at Hharon Thursday, sayt that, however the men in that nelghlxirhoou may be, the women are - straight Democrats, There is hope for any township so long as the women lu it remain Democrats. NO BTBCTBB OW THB IHAOINATIOm la a recent very strong article Web ster's Weekly of Rcidsville presented the following figures, with tha aoeompany- ing forcible comments: What is the situation in this State? The vote of 1888 was: Fowls. 147.935; Dockery, 1!!3,472, making a 'majority of I4,4au tor rowie. now la the event that every white Republican lathe Bute goes over to the People's party there will be about 115,080 negro , votes left. Take 85,000 votes from tha Democratic party, and the negro party goes Id. Every sane man knows that only a small per w cent, of the white Repub licans , will , leave ; their :,r part The majority will remain, even they ' have to submit to negro rule. So division amons: the white doodIo in the Btate eaa only result in negro rule. The negroes will not divide their leaders; see their opportunity and wiil Improve it. The negro vote can be solidified In a day. A toot of the horn by their leaders is aa that ts necessary.- We want the white men of North Carolina to think about these things. We ws jt them to decide whether or not they want to be rniea ny tue motley gang who are in control of the Republican party of North Carolina. Do you want that set to squander your taxes r , From the time that tho paroled soldier from the scattered legions of Lee and Johnston plodded footsore, but still more heartsore, up to the old homestead or entered the apparently deserted streets of his native town, more than twenty seven years sgo, thoughtful men, discussing the gravity of the situation and the magnitude of the perils environing the South, saw that the only hope lay In the white race keeping together in an alliance as close as that of brothers. It was a wise, prudent, accurate review of our position. It is equally so now. Except that the $20,000 disfranchlsemsst clause disappeared With "reconstruction,", the conditions re little changed. We have among the whites, as Josish Turner, Jr., said, "the fellow who has been hit in the stomach with, a pone of bread," and the other fellow who Is willing to bear the blow without flinching; we have, those who, though born among us, imbibed hatred of Southern institutions with ihelr mother's milk, and a few, marvelously few, are honestly Republican. The rest of that party is the negro rabble, . The negroes are absolutely powerless without a leader, Incapable of formulat ing or executing a plan, even of carrying on convention, without some guiding head or hand; but they accept leader ship with extraordinary quickness and can be solidified or "mobilised" with re markable readiness. The prominent white Republicans see clearly the pos sible danger of the Democracy snd their opportunity, and we can imagine the eagerness with which they are following the trend of events. o . . of their fat political heritage have re turned, when, by the help of the negro, they filled the executive chair, sat on the bench, pillaged the treasury at their own tweet will, msde laws, issued bonds and slaughtered the publio credit leaving to the black man, where he was so over poweringly strong that he would submit to no dictation, the complete control and dominion of the great and fertile coun ties of the eastern part of North Caro lina. May God preserve tbem from the fate which befell them twenty-five years go, hung over them as a pall, filled each day with grinding humiliation and wasted each night in watching and tears! Yes, that is what it means. Let But ler, Bklnner, Exum, Cobb and the oth ers foremost in the ranks of tha Weaver party indulge In what sophistries they m(y: the fact remains that tha fruit of their efforts If It bear fruit will be to re-esUblish . Republicanism, which In this and other Southern States mesns negro rule. y And then the day will come when they will call upon the mountains 'to hide them and the rocks to fall upon and crush them! A "Oarreetlea" Base urn Very Ugh To the Editor of tha Observer: In vour issue of the 85th Inst. I see an srtlcle In which Mr. James A. Wilson, of Long Creek, claims to have gotten in some fine Third party work while serv ing on the grand Jury of the last term of the Criminal Court, and In jostles to the grand jurors I will here state that Mr. Wilson wu not a grand Juror and that politics were not discussed by said jury: and had Mr. Wilson been a member of that body a nd had been, permitted to en ter into such a discussion I think he would hsve soon become disgusted with his so-caiied one worn ana wouia nave asked to be excused for the term. I hope Mr. Wilson will put himself to the trou ble to see what Jury he served upon snd make the necessary correction. . :.3'.;S;,Vr . Respectfully, fr".;.. A Jueob, rSome neonle are too particular. It is not material to ths purpose whether Mr. Wilson served on the grand jury or any other jury. The paragraph was written to bring out the jest about his having "enlightened" so many people while here attending court. It wasn't said that he discussed politics In the Jury room nobody would have supposed this prooawe. mere is very scant reason, therefore. Why ws should surrender val uable space to the above "correction." AUDITOR OBBBKVXB.J -nv' i : v. ;; . .", :., .,: V " they Hade a Haas ef It. ', , Webster1 Weekly. '',r The Third Dartmade a mess of It In ths selection of their Bute ticket, Dr. Exum is under indictment in Wayne county for carrying concealed weapons. Mr. Cobb, the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, was Indicted a few years sgo for presenting false vouchers as a deputy marshal. Mr, Long, the candidate for Auditor, defaulted as railroad agent at Salisbury, and it is said that Billy Smith, the president of the road, was afterwards asked to recommend him for a Federal position, which he did by entering on bis petition the statement that he wu a "bully Rrepublican. but a d d poor rail road agent." Another member of the ticket ran away with his brother's wife, carrying her touansia. , " Gen. Adlal E. Stevenson arrived home at ltloomington from Mew York Wed nesday night. . - - . MB IB IK A QUAMUABV. Huw baa? eauM t be with either ' .. Were tother dear charmer asr ' We may naturally suppose that Pres ident Harrison is now "wasting the midnight oil" on his letUr of acceptance. aad the poor maa is "between 8cylla and Chsrybdlsi" or, with less euphuism but more vigor it expression, he is certainly "Dot ween the devil aad the deep sea.' Protection and the force bill fairly bits ter the glossy surface of the White House sutlonery. tt it true that protection is, the very Uie of the Republican. . party, and has been given a hot-house fostering cars until It has blossomed forth into a gorg eous but deadly plant powering with over 7,000 millionaires some five-fold, ten' fold, twenty-fold,' an hundred-fold mil lionaires. Bat protection six months ago and protection aow are two differ' at things sa themes for the presidential nominee's eloquence. Now It standi in tha wsy handcuffed with the spectre of Homestead 1U ruined households, Us fathers of families shot down in the streets, its Invading body of hired as asslnt, Its camps of soldiery In time of peace, Its anarchy, misrule and suffering; Homestead the legitimaU outcome of the tariff policy which declares to the American people that Carnegie snd such men as ha must . be enriched beyond the wildest former dreams of man's avarice, with only the shallow artifice to cover it all that the "American laborer must be protected," while ever and anon the American laborer, goaded past endurance by the frulu of protec tion, turns upon his task-master with the tools of his trade upraised to Uke his Ufa. Surely in the depths of his heart the President anathematizes Homestead. But the force bill t If there be a man committed to It in all the great organiza tion of the "grand old party," from the humblest follower In its tanks to ths magnate loaded with gifts and flushed with honors, that maa now sits in the presidential chair. He has made it the first article In his political creed, declar ing, In response to the remonstrances of the mors prudent, that he would rather give up all else held dear by the party than ths force bill.: Never has it come more forcibly to any msn than it comes now to him that "lie who taketh the sword shall perish by the sword for protection might have delayed to precipi tate his defeat, but the .force bill will reader his second administration Impos sible. ' , ' Of course he expected it to cause dis may' and challenge opposition . In ths Bouthi this part of the Union is to him as a strange land, to be hated Bud perse- Indignant protest everywhere. Leading men in the North and West, t .tJ would never have B,,,, tn bomn oi negro uumiusuou in wv .i. i asking themselves whither affairs' - tending and what is to become f free Institutions, If the ballot tha very birth- igbtofthe American citizen Is to be deposited at the polls on the point of the bayonet. The more extreme of the party declare that It shall become a law, and Mr. Harrison cannot, if he would, now divest himself of the consequences of his tall endorsement of the bill. But he would not If he could. "Whom the gods would destroy they first mske mad." The force bill Is Benjamin Harrison's fata. . THB COMVBNTIOH AMD TICHJCT. The ticket nominated by the Demo cratic county convention hold here Sat urday challenges the support of the patriotic and thoughtful people of Meck lenburg. The day's work is one upon which even the intelligent Democracy of this great county has cause to congratu late itself. There will be no apologies to maks on the stamp for these gentlemen, nor apologies to make for the manner in which they will discharge the public du ties for which the people have pointed them out. The legislative ticket is s strong ons la every sense. Messrs. Mc Dowell, Erwln, Harris and Jetton srs all men of experience in public matters, all men of fine tense some of them of real ability and they will serve the county with . fidelity and credit , at Raleigh. As for the nominees for the county offices, each of them is a tried man la tha office for which he wu nora lnated yesterday. Messrs. Smith, Cobb, McCllntock and the others have demon strated their capacity and worth, and the people will conserve their own in tereste by continuing these, gentlemen In their several places. ' . The convention was a fine body of men men of a high order 1 of lntelll gence; earnest, patriotic, State-loving, country-loving Democrats. There wore many of them, too, and their spirit was all that could have been desired. The convention performed Its work decently and in an orderly manner and adjourned leaving no friction, and no arrows to rankle. The friends of J. II. Harnett, Esq., oonld not but have been a little dis appointed at his failure to secure a nom lnatlon for. the House, seeing that he led Mr, Jetton a little in the primaries, but location determined the questloa and neither Mr. Baraett nor his friends hsve cause to feel that he hu been reflected upon. . Were he the best and fittest man in the county for the nomination, it could not. under the circumstances and in the naCual course of politics, have gone to htm, and the Obsbrvib is frank to say that It would have been misfortune If he (Intelligent and worthy gentleman u he is) bad been nominated and the whole upper part of the county been left an renreacnUd on the ticket. ".' The convention acted with wisdom In all matters, u became the representatives of wUe constituencies, and tbo people will ratify its work in November. HEATER AT rt KASKI. TE.N.V. Tka Story ef His Hebbwry mu Op alike reepte-TkaMauieaaiKt A ' aivea-BvMeaee wklch Caaael lie l - ale. To the Editor of tha Obeet it. Havlnr aean In enmA nun., n , Of Gen. Weaver's conduct while in cim i at i uiasKi, lean., I wrote to the clerk of the county court for either a veriii. at . or denial of tha rh letter which I send you. . ery respectfully, . W. k. ABKMRKTnV. Rutherford College, N. C, Aug. 18,'Oi. riuiKi, i enn., Aug. 13, 1803. Mr. Will E. Abernetby, Rutherford, tV- regard to ths acts of Gen. Weaver wuU. ... f.M.v vwvm uaiui i me to answer. " I was between 15 and lti ears old when Weaver was here, and 1 .aow whereAf f writ an.f In .....n,.., .1 What I Shall write. I rfr tn a Lur sens of this county: J. p. May, presi dent People's National Bank; Z. W. Sw ing, sx-Speaker of the Senate; Flournoy Rivers, State Senator, J. B. Stacey, ex- clnrk and master nl Thomas hi. McCoy, sheriff Giles county; Col. Solon E. Rose, Dr. William Rattle, Dr. J. C, Roberts; 8. W. Butler, Judge of County Court; R. H. Ragsdale, county trustee, and L- E. Abernethy, presideut , Most of these men were here snd know the facts. The others know from reputation.- .,v,-;.; ',v -v ' The said Weaver seemed to have a perfect hatred for tha Southern people. Ha nil laved. Mhtuyi tumMuiul mini fied and abused our naonl In ' ln. aginable way. - ue aaa citizens arrested aad impris oned on trumped-up charges, and made to nartnhernlftaa i tm na.Uik fr!..,u of D. K. Cox pay $500 , for his release. m.r. vu ib ueao, vui nis son, ttd, ll. vox, Is living here and can testify to sat d facts. So can Maj. J. B. Stacev and t. '. E. Rose, friends af Our. art, of the money. He robbed Mr. Jasper Cox (no relation of Vr I) IT n .t 13,000 worth of spun thread. Juper kx is a reliable citizen or this county, and now Uvea nar Itnrfanlun, county, Texu. -, , . " i Ue robbed John P. Willirms, an old reliable farmar and aM.tlar Af ii.a krAt can war, of all his hogs and meat. Mr.. n imams postoince is this place. . lie had nr. H (" 1t,lu.i4 ti,l.n1.u arrested, and tried to make 'him pay toti) for his release, but after lm f mind nut. that the doctor . would not pay it, be turned him loose. The doctor Is now livlnr. aad will amvr bmw litA ( January 80, 186t, he made the following parties pay him the sums opposite their sanies I have the original receipt he gave my father, Charles C. Abernathy. All fit harilu. . ... A.. .1 . "" .IV. w, UCtlU M . . IV I . William Battle, who will cheerfully bear mm em: ..-.v ., Thus. Martin B3XA- II. W n...il. $10C; CbM C. Abernatby, Roltert. I'icuon. f JOW. J, It. newDUI, 11UI); J. ftl, Morris, ilollr navlil nnnl.V ir.a. 1) --I .......... ...w, ... Abernathv. iSCA Time II Ii,,l sofwi ,. Total, 11,10' -,r-" ':, ue claimed in his Order that it wu for the support of Union refugees coming Jf ? w J,af'iSnirWnIr- New bill, sun of J. H, Newblll, are living here and will answer any Inquiry. I could gire other Incidents, or acu nf aaid w..... u necesssry,; . Yours truly, , ; J. B. Abeusatbt. : ' lth Dlatrlet Iam. ai.i.. Bpeolal to the OSsslatlaaa. . Lbxihotos. Auirust Yr cratic convention to nomlnutoTw. didates to represent tha SOth senatorinl . district in the next Legislature, wu held ' here to-day. - Rowsn, Davidson and Far- ' syth counties were all represented by full delegations. A. H. Boyden, of Itowsn, wu mads chairman and W. M. Short ill. . of the Davidson Dispatch, and ' W. F. Burbanks, of the Winston Sentinel, were secretaries. E. B. Jones, of Forsyth, and W.8, Owen, of Davidson, wore nom inated bv acclamatfon. The nominem were present and accepted with ringing speeches. The convention was harp- -nlons and enthusiastic and all nrel.t success for the ticket In November.' ' The executive committee elected here to-day for this district is: Tbeo. F. Klutti, of Rowan, . E. Raper, of Davidson, and Samuel B. Snuth, or rorsyth. - , v A Oaa4 Haay Orer a Dwmi, At Rocky River, or No, 1 box. In Cabarrus county, from 110 to 115 white vrvaaai mvaa SS ai tl ta 1 1 vs jaetatt ' atiad K a ll.t. fvwa aaav uhswii vawfj eauav sav uiiu party hu been claiming there we only bKahI a ArviMi .. lianaiUivata f, le !... wvub w aavsvavaa uswiaw . JsA ium : precinct. As they seem to be Ignorant VI W HOT, W MM.'IIIUg W ,UU1I UlllU,, W confess to a heartfelt pleasure in Inform ing tnem mat m tuat precinct tnere is a Democratic club containing seventy six members, all dyed in the wool, and -the names of twelve others have been nanaeu in woo win join at me next meeting, all true blue. .',. For pure unadulterated claiming of the earth and all that la on it, commend us to the Third party. They are like the little tree frog: three or four of them will make u much noise u a hundred taieij uurem, uut wueu ins time comes for facts and figures their, numbers sre "awnnk" to the dimensions nf ftanatnr VlSOS'lfnll. C ;;', ; v.-,.vv-i ; Tka Bally at Matfkewe. The call, issued Saturday for t! meeting at Matthews this week, li cheery, snappy, aggressive iit--r that sounds good and n,ons a c j meeting. ."The true, tried and stru;: (it DamocraU of Morning Star," it says "will bave grand rally at Matthews, ou Thursday, September 1, Everybody is invited toeomeaud let every one that comes bring somebody else. The Demo cratic clubs of Mecklenburg and t'uion are specially and cordially invited to meet with us. lilslinguished speakers wil be present to discuss the Issues of the dsy. Division of time will be granted to speakers ofthe second, third or fourth parties. Speaking will begin at 1 o'clock. Ladles are cordially Invited." CeaCereaee at Sea. Btevenaua'a Home. Bloomihotoit, III., August 27. At a conference ' held this morning at the residence of Gen. Stevenson, which was attended by several Democratic leaders, James 8. Jbwlng, otlhis city, partner of the vice-presidential candidate, wag named u a meratier of the Democratic Western committee with headquarters at Chicago. It Is said be will bo the uiuu ager of the campaign. Aa Old Hlaletar Uoae. The Rev. James D. Hall, probably the oldest Prosbytorlan minister in Ale Urn burg Presbytery, died at liia home m(..ia ton county ou the 2 HU lust., at ti.e ad vanced ago of nearly 0J
Weekly Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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