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LETTER.
Troni our Bcgxilar ConapontieLt
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... It is fortunate foi the .coon
try that thepresent ndminiH
tration is frw from jingoism.
If it were not ' thfre v:)nld be
"ii Certainty of an itumediate
tariff wftrherwcen.'fhe United
States a the .'countries
" which 'have followyd the lead
of Jermany j n excluding
American' cattle and meat.
professedly on li y gi e n i c
on uds, "a lid p;iave danger
. t)f war of a more murderous
nature. Alt hough Secrctnr-
'.'ies Gresham and Carlisle
have heen confined -to Iheir
homes, by sickness foi . the
' greater part of the IukI week
', they have not escaped the
' pressure brought to bear on
them Sy the jingoists, to rei
taliate upon those nations
, (Jermany, Frame, Belgium,
the Netherlands and. Den
motk by' imposing the ten
percent additional duty nu
thorized by law upon all im
ports brought to the United
' Htates in vessels sailing un-
der the flag of a nation th'at
discriminates against Ameri
can products. -This m ny
eventually be done, but there
are several reasons why-the
administration has iio desire
to do it unless compelled ly
circumstances. First, it is
'-believed that a European
'combination has been form
ed for the expiess p'urpose' of
- trying to force a tariff war
in order to cripple the rapid
ly growing foieign trade f
the United Staff; second, the
Treasury is in no condition
to lose the. revenue which
must necessarily be lost by a
tariff war with the countries
named; third, the struggling
business interests of this
country could ill afford at
this time the entire loss of
the trade of thosft conii tries,
WASHINGTON
whi m would almost certain-
ly follow retaliation on the
part of this country, arid
lastly, these countries all de
clare that they are not dis
criminating, but. are onlynct
uated by a desire to preserve
the health of their ritiz ns.
Secretary Gresham believes
.. i n exhausting diplomatic
remedies before resorting to
retaliation; but if retaliation
- -is resorted to it will be car
ried out thoroughly and in
the end we shall not be los--.ersV
;' 1 The Rep'iblican editors who
-f)ae jaaiiped on Secretary
' Gresham because- of his re
ported efforts to get the gov
ernment of Great Britain t6
ettle its boundry dispute
ivith Venezuela by arbitra
tion have simply phown their
ignorance Every adminis
tration since that of Presi
dnt Arthur has endeavored
to bring about this- nrbitrn
tion, and in keeping up the
effort Secretary Gresham is
not introducing nnything
new, but merely endorsing n
policy which has been su pport
ed by four of hi predecessors,
', Frelinghuysen, Byard, Blaine
and Foster, and which is
creditable to him in every re
spect. ' . -There
is common sense in
the concluding words of n
statement made by "Assist
nnt Secretary Curt's. of the
Treasury, denying the seiiya-
tional statements .sent out
from.. Washington About the
Treasury, being cinbarrassed
by .reason of delav in the de
livery of the gold purchased
by the late issue of bonds.
Those words, which follow,
are especially commended to
those democrats . who are
fond of getting their news
from republican or assistant
republic nlpapprs : " T lv e
prosperity of the country will
be hastened, when some effec
tive method is formed xof
check ing'these alarming nr-ti'-leswritteti
by newspaper
correspondents and news
gatherers who are willing to
sacrifice the truth and their
own consciences if t hey ha ve
any to create n cheap sensa
tion, and phiy upon the feel
ings of .an. ;i!rendy over
wrought public."
-Chairman Sayers, of t he
House Appropriation com
mittee, closes his nnalysi" of
the appropriations made by
the Fifty-third Congress Aitli
the following'-Tohavecheck
ed the biennial billion dollar
pace set. by the Fifty-first Con
gress is an achievement in
itself. To have done not on
ly 1 hat, but to have reduced
ihe appropriation of theCou
gress below the billion mark
is a triumph vast in its tiro
portions and significant of a
let urn toeconomical and hou
est government."
The first fight in the ranks
of republicans of the Fifty
fourth Congress, is. already
on, the principals being Reed
and Cannon. The row began
over the Crisp complimenta
ry resolution adoptvd by the
last House. Mr. Cannon ask
ed Mr. Reed to offer that res
olution and when he declined
said he would do il hiniH-ilf,
and ht did. He also made a
Pew "ittinK remarks to Reed
.1 a. I.:. .1 . 'Pi...
about his churlishness. Tru
ro w has grown -since then,
and although Reed's election
to the Speakership seems as
sured, Cannon is sa'd to be
engaged in raising obstruc
tione't hereto and to be not
without hope that a combi
nation can be formed to beat
lii ii
Ex Speakf r Crisp, who is a
silver man and one of the
commissioners who willoto
the monetary conference, if
there be one held, says: I
have been greatly encourag
ed by recent indications of a
change of sentiment in Eu
rope toward silver, and I
have strong hopes that if an
other confeience shall beheld
practical results may be ob
tained. I would rejoice to sec
thenilver question elimina
tion from the Presidential
campaign.
Charlotte Observe.-: The Sena
tors did avwy worthy thing last
Saturday night in presenting
Lieutenant Governor Dougbton
with a silver service, and several
of them made very nice speeches,
political enemies as well as friends
testifying to his unitorm cjurte
sy, consideration, impartiality
and fairness. vVe do not recall a
case during the session ol excep-.
tion to his ruling. In truth, Mr.
Dough ton is an excellent man.
He is a lair.minded man. a strong
and level-headed one. who has fill
ed the office of bieuttimnt Gov
ernor with greet credit to himself
his party and the State.
THEaOWlUflG IXFAXY. ,
, Almost A Riot In the Hooset
News .and Olwerver, '
A most disgraceful and des
perate scene was enacted in
ihe hall of the House of Rep
resentatives last night. A
burly negro, apparently act
ing ..under the 01 der of the
Speaker, stood at the inside
door, and hclrT.it fast with
both hands, refusing to al
low either ingress or egress.
He was acting asdoor keeper,
and his purpose was-to pre
vent Democratic members of
the House liom leaving- the
hall.
Captain R. B. Peebles, mem
ber from Northampton,, and
Mr. Lee, member from Hay
wood, came ti the door, and
finding their way barred by
the negro, demanded to-be
let out. The negro refused,
and a'struggle ensued, which
came near producing'n iiot.
Several negroes standing by
rushed t- thejissistunce of
the negro door keeper, while
other by-standers took a
hand in. aid of rapt. Peebles
and Mr. Lee. About eight
or ten people became involv
ed in a violent struggle and
surged back and for th in the
House, some trying to pull
Capt. Peebles back m, while
others tried to open the door
ami push him out. Fortu
nately t tie door flew open
and heSvas released from his
position. Had notthestrug
gle terminated quickly, it is
likely that a serious not
would have resulted.
Thus the record of this leg
islatnre closes with the crown
ing infamy of a burly negro
door-keeper using physical
violence on Representatives
of !ha halls of the Legisla
ture. Never before has the State
been brought to su' h depths
of humiliation and infamy.
Not even in the darkest night
of Reconstruction was the
black hand of the Afiican
laid upon the shoulder of
men whom' the people sent as
their representatives.
What is the purposeot this
infamous violence? "
Is it to provoke blood
shed? ...
Is it to solidify the negro
by degrading and insulting
the whites?
Was it a conspiracy spawn
ed in the afternoon caucus?
Why did the House refuse
to have a white Confederate
soldier as door-keeper and
elect instead a burly negro?
Why did the General As
sembly refuse to adjourn in
honor of Washington and
Lee and yet adjourn in honor
of Frederick Douglass?
Why was a negro selected
last' night to use physical
violence on white Represent
atives? .There is some infamous
purpose in this dinholicrfl rec
ord. But it cannot be ac
complished. We warn tha colored peo
pie that they are being used
to kindle a fire that cannot
easily be extinguished.
And we warn the white men
who are using them tlmt a
day of reckoning's coming.
"We will appeal. toftesniv'
paid Mr. Ray last, night. And
there will lie no dmibt aboijt
the verdict!
" The South Earns Livlnj.
New Vork Suu. ,
A Philadelphia'"contempo
rary t'ins'tojdiscournge those
of the.. people ot the north
who would like to settle some
where in the southern 'States.
It warns them'that "the ter
rible fevers of some parts of
the South are far worse than
Noi t hern '.blizzards," and
that "There is danger that
many persons may be per
suaded intnsettliiig in places
where debts, mortgagesand
invalidism will be accumulat
ed ns-Rapidly as in the North
west."" Truly, indeed, a per
son is liable to catch fever,
or even fall into debt, any
where, more f specially if he
should settle m a fever-stiick
en region, or should "bite off
more than he can chew." But
there are vast areas- in the
Southern States which are
neither sw.-impy nor malar
ious; and we do not e? that
there is any moie need of
one's inruring obligations
wlyhh hecunnot meet, in the
South than in the North.
We have never ad vised any
body to iro South, even if he
cannot get along elsewhere.
We merely s iy that there is
plemy of Mi-able land. in sev
eral of the Southern States
which r,an be got ''upon rath
er easy terms, and that the
new munufecturing indus
tries of four or fiye of those
States may, at times, afford
go'od opportunities both to
capital and labor. .No man
should go to any part of the
country about which he is
wholly ignorant, for the pur
pose of settling in it, and ev
ery man should try to avoid
any debt which he is unlikely
tobeable to pay." A good
proportion of mankind have
a fair share of sound sense,
and seine of them are very
shrewd.
The South has suffered less
than the North during the
past two years of hardness.
Nearly all the people theie
have been able to earn a liv
ing, and some of thun made
money.
H AEEISOX HAS THE GRIP.
Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 9.
General Harrison is confined
to his bed at his home North
Delaware street today from
an illness which, though not
alarming, is liable to develop
serious complications. Last
Sunday he t iok'a long walk
about the city, and in the
evening was attacked by
sharp pleuretic pains that
caused him much suffering.
Ho, yielded to treatment read
ily, but on Thursday a se
vere attack of grip came with
the sudden change in the
weather.
His physician siid today
that while'the ex-president's
condition is not serious, he
must remain in bed for some
days.
Courier: A farmer near Man
Chester, Tenn., suicided the
other day because he was $9
behind in his church affairs.
It the same ruie should work
with delinquent subscribers
t!) .1 newspaper, every com
munity would bf thinned out
to an alarming degree. But
fortunately for the man who
subscribes to a paper, he gen
erally leaves hjs conscience at
ease regarding the pay.
The Monetary Contention.
1 he delegates appointed by
the senate and house of rep
reseii ta rives to the interna
tional monetary conference
are most excellent selections,
some of them the very best
that could have been made.
Those of the senate are John
W.s Daniel, of Virginia, Henry
M. Teller of Colorado, and
James K. Jones, of Arkan
sas. Mr. Teller is a republi
can ami the other two are
democrats. Those of the
house are Speaker-Charles F.
('risp, of Georgia, D. B. Cul
berson, of Texas, and R. R.
Hit t, of Illinois. The tw:
former are democrats and
the latter in a republican.
But all of them are strong
silver men. When the ap
pointment of the senate dele
gates came up the gold stand
ard men insisted that' the sil
ver members should put one
anti bimetallist upon the del
egation, but they refused to
do so, and very properly we
think; for in the fir'st.J plaee
there is no use of sending a
monometaliist to settle a bi
metallic question; and in the
jiext place it is highly prob
able that Mr. Cleveland, in
making his three appoint
ments, will give all to the anti-silver
nde of the question.
It was proper, therefore, Tor
the silver inemhi rs of the sen
ate to appoint a full silver
committee to represent that
body in the conference. It
was also proper for the house
to appoint silver men to re
present that body, for like
the senate it, is for bimetal
isni. When or where the confer
ence will be held, or by whom
it will be called, is not yet
known. But it is presumed
that, as both of the other
conferences will be called at
the instance of our govern
merit, most, probably Ger
many will fix the time and
place for the next. The soon
er it assembles the better it
will be all around, for if that
convention does not settle
the monetary question it will
be effectually settled in this
country by the people in the
election of 189G.
Thise who never read the
advertisements in their news
papers miss more than they
presume. Jonathan Keni
son,of Holan, Worth county,
Iowa, who had been troub
led with rheumatism in his
back, arms and shoulders,
read an item in his paper
about how a prominent Ger
man citizen of Ft. Madison
had been cured. He procur
ed the same im-dicme, nnd to
use his awn words: "It cur
ed me rifjlit up." fie also
says: A neighbor and his
wife were both sick in bed
with rheumatism. Their boy
was ova- to my houe and
said they were so bad that he
had t c do th cooking. I
told him of ('hamberlain's
Fain Halm and how it had
cured me, he prom red a "bot
tle of ir and it cured them up
in a week. Ftly cent bottles
for sale by V. L, Bryan.
Nashville, March 8. Col:
A. K. McClure of Philadel
phia, addressed a large and
representative audience last
night upon Southern devel
opments and he needs ba
the South. What th.; South
ern States needed he snid,
was p hold, frank and manly
snppurt of sound money and
an honest dollar.
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They jual custoal hoM in tyl mui fit. -Thsir
wearing qualltlM ara aitMirpaaMd.
fhi prlcrfl ara uniform, timpad an tola,
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The management of the J J
Equitable Life Assurance j;
9 Society in the nonnrrtnpnt ftf 5
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the Carolinas, wishes ato se-
2 cure a few Special Resident
5 Agents. Those who are fitted
g for this work willfind, this
A Rare Opportnmty
It is toot k, however , and those
who succeed best in it possess
character, mature judgment,
tact, perseverance, and the
respect of their community.
Think this matter over care
fully. There's an unusual
opening for somebody. If it
fits you , it will pay yo . Fur
ther information on request.
W. J. Roddey. Manager,
Rock Hill, S. C S
I'h'OFF.SSlOXAL
W. B.COUXCILL, Jh.
Attounf.y AT li.U'.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNOILL. M. I).,
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
J. P H0BP1IKV,
A170RNEYA1 LAW,
MARION, -.-'-N.C
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Will practice in the courts ol
Vfttuuga, Ashe, Mitclu II, McDow-,
and all rther counties in the
western district BSpecinl ntten
tion given to the collect ion o'
laiin?."&a
W. B. Coimcill !H. I). T. C. Blackbnrn.
II oo hp, N. C. Zicnrilie, N- C
Councill 8c Blactliurn,
&S-C:11s attended at all
houtsrOSk
June 1, '93.
E. F. LoViLL. J. C. FLETCHEK.
LOVILL & FLETCHER.
AT10IlNhYSATLA
BOONE, N. C.
tSP Special attention giveu
to the colletion ofclaimsr&L
OSr-aboxlaln'i Sys and. 8kia Olatntat
Is a rt4tin cure for Chronic Sore Dyta,
Graaulsted Eyo Lie's, Bore KippW PiIm,
Ectcma, Tetter, Salt Kheuru aud Scald Hoaii,
5 cents per box. For talo by drugglstt.
TO U0S8U0W1TBSS.
For putting a hone in a n beclthy con
dition try Dr. Qadfa Cord it ion l'owden.
They tone up th mtem, aid digestion, ear
loss of appetite, relieve constipation, oorreel
kidney disorder and destroy worms, giving
new Lfe to an old or over worked harae. 25
cecU per package. For ale by droggfrU.
FOR DYSPEPSIA,
IndlKratlnn, and Stomach dlmrlnn, take
BHOWXH IRON BI'lTKIU.
AH delcrt keea It, SI per bottle. Genuine baa
taado murk anil croaaed red uneeon wrapper.
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