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UOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, FEimUAKY 27, ISM.
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WASHINGTON LETT Kit.
From our Efjulwr Correspondent.
For rje Democrat:
Mr. Harrison haa allowed
himself to be beguiled by tlia
soft sinking of office-scek-trs
into believing that he
might again be the candi
date of his party in 1892.
This is daily becoming more
apparent and account h for
many seemingly queer ap
pointments. His idea is to
appoint only Harrison men,
and to carry it out, he has
already offended nearly ev
ery leadiug man in his party,
lt'is only afew days since he
refused to appoint a relative
of Secretary Blaine post mas
ter of a Pennsylvania town,
notwithstanding the fact
that Mr. Blaine had person
ally asked that the appoint
ment be made. This bit of
lunnov. for it can be called
nothing else, on the part of
Mr. Harrison, furmsnes lots
of fan for the politicians here.
McGintylias more show of
being nominated by the re.
publicans in 1892 than Mr.
Harrison has.
The democratic Congress
ional Campaign committee is
now fully organized for busi-
. ness. and in a few days head
quarters will be "opened in
1 bin city and the machinery
started in motion to capture
the next.TIouse ot Reprcsen
tntives. The following list of
members of that committee
' was obtained by your corres
pondent from the chairman.
It is absolutely correct, and
is the first given to the press:
IloswellP. Flower, of N. Y.
Chairman; T. 0. Towles, of
Mo., Secretary; J. X. Noma,
of Washington, 1). C, Treas
urer. Members: Oates, of
Ala.;MeRae, of ArkjClunie,
Cal; Grant, of Col; Wilcox,
of Conn; Pennington, of Del;
Davidson, of Fla; Carlton, of
(la ; Wike, of 111.; McClellan,
oflnd.; Hayes, of Iowa; Mc
Creary, of Ky.; Blancbard.of
La.; Putnam , of Maine ; Comp
'ton, of Md.; Andrews, of Mas;
Whiting, of Mich.; Hitt, of
Minn.; Hooker, of Miss. ;
Blund, of Mo.; Hauser, of
Mon.; McShane, of Neb.;Cas
sidy, of Nevada; McKinney,
of N. H.; Fowler, of N. J. ;
Bunn,ofN. C; Yoder, of 0
hio; Maish, of Pa.; Lapam,
of It. I.; Dibble, of S. C; Mc
Millan, of Tenn.; Kilgore, of
Tex.; Smalley, of Vermont;
Ver'le, of Vir. ; Voorhees,
of Washington; Wilson, of
W. Va.; Barwig, of Wis.;
Smith, of Arizona; Steven
son, of Idaho; Joseph, of
New Mexico and Coin ofU
tah. No member of the com
mitteehasyet been selected
' for either of the Dakotas or
'for Oregon. . The Senatorial
members of the committee
are Gorman, chairman; Mc
Pherson, Blackburn, Cock
rill and Jones, of Arkansas.
The gag rules under which
the present House will work
were adopted by a strict par
ty vote of 161 to 145.
If the Senate committee on
Privileges and Elections de
cide the Montana cases, which
were heard Saturday, on the
law and the evidence, the
democrats will soon have
two uiore Senators. At any
rate it is hardly possible, in
view of the poor showing
made by the republican con
testants that the majority
will ha vp the affrontery to re
port in favor of seating
them." The report will be
made this wwk.
Politics are to lx shelved
this week in the House, and
the Worlds Fair question
disposed of. The committee
has reported two. bills, . orje.
for holding the f air at New
York. Chicago or St. Louis,
and the ot her at Washington.
Tomorrows discussion is to
be taken Friday or Saturday.
The fight will be short out
decidedly interesting, as all
of the titles have lots of
friends on the ground whoop
ing things up.
The Blair educatioal bill is
the foot-ball of the Senate. It
was kicked aside last week to
pass the bill establishing a
Territorial government in
Oklahoma, but will b' b up
serenely, this week as unfin
ished business. A vote may
be reached on it this week,
but it is somewhat doubtful.
Mr. Harrison will have a
somewhat delicate dnty to
perform if a bill which has
passed the Senate shall get
through the House. It ap
propriates $2,500 to pay le
gal ffe to lh! firm of Porter,
Harrison and Fiwhback, a
firm of which Mr. Harrison
was a member. Tin; question
is, will he sign a bill appro
priating money for hi own
benefit, or will he let it be
come a law without signing
it? It's dollars to brass
buttons that he don't veto
it.
The republicans are not
having smooth sailing in the
preparation of a new tariff
bill. They started out with
the intention of reporting
the bill to the House by the
first of Febiuarj', now they
say they they hope tohave it
ready by the first of March.
The whole truth of the mat
ter is, the tariff reform idea
is spreading so rapidly that
it is getting among the re
publicans, and unless the
Ways and Means committee
report very different bill from
what Chairman McKinley
started out to make, it will
never be passed by the House
The new rules are pretty far
reaching but they cannot ac
complish everything as will
be discovered before this ses
sion euds.
The regular annual conven
tion of woman's right people
o pens h ero to m o rr o w .
Listen men and brethren.
The pension office asks for a
deficiency appro pratiou of
121,500000 to carry it up
to the first of July.
Washington, Feb 19.
Far better than the harsh
treatment of medicines wh'ch
horr'o'y gripe the patient and
destroy the coatir j of the stom
ach. Dr. J. McLean's Chills and
Fever Cure, by-mild yet effective
action, will cure. Sold at fhty
cents a bottle.
Exposure to bad weather, get
ting wet, living in damp local
ties are favorable to the contrac
lion of diseases of the kidneys
and b'adder. As a preventive
and for the cure of all kidney
and liver trouble, use thatvalua
ble remedy. Dr. J. II. Mclean's
liver and kidney balm. $1.00
ler bottle.
THE SOl'TIPS DEVELOP
MENT. There is no doubt of the
growth of the South in popu
lation and in wealth as a
w hole. The j n od net ions of
1800. will far surpass the
productions of 1.S80. The
population will be several
millions more, and the pro
ducts will be in proportion.
We are all concerned in this
matter. Men of enterprise,
capital and public spirit are
not alone interested in this
movement in this progress
that isso full of promise and
encouragement. The ad
vance has been mainly on
certain lines. While farming
has not paid as a whole;
while the farmers themselves
as a class, are not so well off
as they were in 1880, or in
1870, the wealth of the South
is far greater. Its develop
ment on certain line has been
very astonishing, even stu
pendous. It has developed
more rapidly than other sec
tions, all things considered.
The increase of its assessed
value is placed at 2,000,
000. In 1880 the number
of national banks was 220,
while now, it is 470. The
capital ten years ago was
$45,000,000; it is now esti
nmt d ut $70,000,000. Rail
road milage has gone up
from 18,000 to 40,1)00 ,:les.
In this lad lies the cause of
much of the development.
In 1880, the product of
coal was 0,000,000; in 188')
it is put at 20,000,000, Pig
iron was 390,000 tons; now
it is 1,500,000 tons. Saw
mills and wood-working con
cerns were 5,000, now there
14,000. The prod nets of for
ests in 1880,. were f 50,000
000. Gusscd now to be
more than double. Since 18
80, it is said 20,000 manu
facture g es t a bl i sh m n t s
have been started. The cot
ton mills in '80 were 1G0; in
1889, 350.
The forests and mines of
the South constitute a chief
scource of wealth. The area
of forests is immense, and the
people are in a big hurry to
dispose of them at a small
price to others from abroad
who will make the "big mon
ey" out of theai. The tim
ber is ot much importance as
to health, soil, temperature
and the fine woods ada pted to
furniture, car building, house
adornment &c. nre numerous
and in great quantities. The
North has used up its soft
pines and other woods and
the South is t he field to which
it is directing its eyes with
eagerness.
With all its advantages the
South ha 8 been, is still, and
will continue to be for deca
des to come '"the hewer of
wood and drawer of water"
for the North. The North
will manufacture all manner
of vehicles and farm utensils
all manner of furniture and
the hundreds of other articles
used in our houses all man
ner of clothing, jewelry, bric-a-brac,
etc.-all manner of
fire arms, machinery, etc.,
and sell them to the South.
So long as this continues
the South will not be inde
pendent, self-supporting and
progressive in the true sense.
The money Edison makes
by his hundredsof inventions
is in manufacturing them.
The money made by the
men who buy the raw pro
ducts of the South its cot
ton, wool, woods iron.etc, is
in manufacturing thvm and
selling them to the South at
Urn, twenty or fifty times
more than they paid.
The North cannot afford to
molest, to persecute, to de
grade, to destroy the
South. It is its "goose
that lays the golden egg."
It cannot afford to permit
hostile legislation to stop
the whir of machinery, the
the click of the miners tool,
the rush of the trains, the
sound of the axe in the for
est, or the cheery song of the
husbandman as he drives his
team afield. It will have to
put the breaks on the infatu
ated, bh'nd, false partisans
who are plotting to ruin the
South and to stir up inter
necine war.
The New York South says
of the outlook :
The present aspect of the
South is especially interest
ing to the capitalist and in
vetor, and to the manufac
turer on tho outlook for a
new and promising location.
Nowhere are there greater
oportunities for either. The
new tracts opened, will in a
years, by th?ir development
and the growth of towns, be
come immensely valuable-,
and the enterprises now
started will be foremost in
the field.
To the farmer, the South
affords abundant opportuni
ty, fine soil and a splendid
climate. The mechanic will
there find employment for his
skill, and energetic, thrifty
persons of all classes may set
tie on its territory with good
hope of success. The South
means all and more than
the West ever did, for ambi
tious young men bent on carv
ing out fortunes in anew
country."
Farming alone does not
prosper. The nesd of more
wisdom here is apparent. A
greater diversity of crops,
more indust ry more economy
less reliance upon others, bet
ter methods are just what
are imperatively demanded.
Then the Northern marplots
and incendiaries should let
the South alone, and the cen
cus of A. D. 1900, will show
grand-r and more startling
results than the present de
cade that will close in" June
next when the census of 1890
will be taken. Wilmington
Messenger.
RUSSEL.
Hon. W. E. Russel, thegal
lant young Democrat who
spoke so eloquently on
Thursday, is a splendid repre
sentative of the class of men
who now form the back
bone of the Democratic par
ty in the North and East.
We have been told time and
again that in the North the
gentlemen were to be found
in the Republican party, the
rougher elements in the Dem
ocratic party. That may
have been true in the past,
but the young men of this
generation are coming into
the Demociatic party.
"We get two out of every
three of the young men,"
said Mr. Russil while talk
ing politics with a number of
gentlemen at the Kimbal.
The colleges educate them
our way. They think, and
the thinking men are Demo
crats. Our hardest forces to
contend against are the old
farmers, who live about a
generation behind the rest
of the world. They are the
ones who are bound with
prejudices, but the outlook
grows brighter and brigh
ter each year. In the
last election we showed gains
in almost every one of the
country towns. The leaven
is working.
It is a treat to hear Mr.
Russel talk politics. It is
one subject upon which he is
most enthusiastic, and you
who heard him speak can
readily believe that when he
is enthusiastic he talks well.
Atlanta Constitution.
EDISONS INVENTIONS.
"Do you know." asked a
well posted man of a group
of citizens today, "how many
patents that man Edison, we
are all talking about, has se
cured ?" "A dozen, one man
answered; ten or fifteen, an
swered another."
"Just 493," was the reply,
"lie has 131 patents in tel
egraphy alone. He has 180
patents in electric lights; 32
patents on telephones 8 pat
cits on electric railroads; 21
patents on the phonograph;
4 pa tents on ore milling and
73 miscellaneous patents.
Besides all that, he has 300
applications for patents on
all sorts of things now pend
ing." "It is significant," contin
tiuued this citizen, "in view
of the fact, that Edison has
located offices here to treat
the gold ores of Mecklenburg,
that he already has 4 patents
for ore milling. It shows
that he knows what he is a
bout and has faith in his un
tertaking." Ther 1 is perhaps no living
man so well posted on elec
tric affairs as Mr. Edison.
What he does not know a
bout the world of electricity
is not worth knowing. Talk
ing in telephones, he says the
longest distanced telephone
is 750 miles, between Port
land, Me. and Buffalo, N. Y.
There are 170,000 miles of
telephone wire in the United
States, over whieh, 55,000
messages are sent daily, and
there are 300.000 telephones
in use. Two hundred and
fifty tnousand persons are
employed in the United States
in business solely depending
on electricity.
There are 100,000 miles of
submarine cable in use, e
nough to circle the world 4
times There are in the
United States, one million
miles of telegraph wire. The
largest electric light in the
world is a two million candle
power, at Houlsthom, Den
mark. Charlotte News.
Physicians prescibe Dr. J. H.
Mc.Lean.s tar wine jung ba'm,
ni it they Hud no trace of opium
or morphia, while its efficacy in
curing all throat or lung diseas
es is wonderful.
Ancient Th eh eh Thebes,
the ancient capital of upper
Egypt, "the hundred gated
city," in the province of the
same name, flourished in it
greatest might and glory irt
the time Itamceesthe Great,
fourteen centuries before
Christ. It is the 'No' of Scrip
tures; the passage in Jer.,
xlvi., 25, rendered the multi
tude of 'No' should be trans
lated "Ainmon of No", orthe
seat or dwelling of the god
Amnion. Several places, how
ever, seem tobethusdesigna
ted in Scripture. The ruins
of Thebes are situated 300
miles S. S. E. of Cairo, in a
valley formed by the Arabian
and Libyan mountains. They
occupy a space on both banks
of the Nile of about ten miles
in length and eight miles in
breadth. The city was twenty
seven or thirty miles in cir
cumference. Its site is noV
occupied bp several villages.
Stephens says:
"The valley of the Nile waa
not large enough to contain
it, and its extremities rested
upon the bases of the moun
tains on either side. The
whole of the great extent is
more or less strewed with ru
ins, broken columns and av
enues of sphynxes, collossial
figures, obelisks, pyramids,
gate-ways, porticos, blocks
of polished granite, and
stones of extraordinary mag
nitude, while above them, in
all the nakedness of desola
tion, the colossal skeletons of
giants' temples are standing
in the un watered sands, in
solitude and silence. They
are neither gray nor blacken
ed; there is no lichen, no
moss, no rank grass or man
tling ivy to robe and conceal
their deformities. Like the
bones of man, they seem to
whiten under the sun of the
desert. The sand of Africa
has been their most fearful
enemy ; blown upon them for
more than three thousand
years, it has burled the larg
est monuments, and in some
instances almost entire tem
ples. The alluvial deposits of the
Nile, however, as well as the
drifting sands have had much
to do with the burying of
those mighty structures of
the Egyptians. Ex.
What is the matter with
the South? We fear that a
-ertain element among us is
losing its self respect. Every
time an outrage is commit
ted anywhere between the
Rio Grande and the Chesa
peake there are a lot of fel
ows all over the South who
lold up their hands in holy
lorror and exclaim: "What
will the North think of this?"
Our dear nervous friends,
that is not the question.
Crimes committed in the
South are outrages on the
South and not ou the North.
They are blows at our own
laws and civilization and not
at those of the North, which
has enough to do to attend
to its own criminals. Incen
diaries of the Ingalls stripe
are not worth your notice,
and the broad-minded, patri
otic element of the North, for
for whose opinion alone we
fare, will be more impressed
by some earnest, dignified
work, in ferritiug out crime
and bringing the perpetra1
tors to justice than in auy
amount of protestation how
ever eloquent and verbose.
MorgaMou Herald.