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4 ; THE WEEKLY GAZETTE R - ss Rates of Advertising. ' ji One Square, one Insertion t CO E WEEKLY GAZETTE. A WEEKLY NEW8PAPEB 7 1 1 va square, one momn......... ( vu One square, two mouths 2 00 One square, tared months 2 60 One square, six months....... 6 00 - ... a nn JAMES H. YOUNO, Editor and Prop, A. J. ROGERS and J. D. PAIR Otnoral Trarqfing Agents. 7Liberal contracts made for larger Ml T vi uunuxvu vs. VOL. IX fiAfcEIQHi N. Cr, SATURDAY, JLY 31, 1897- NO. 21. y i " 1 " " ; -"' . U tf AY i;Hyi 0rt n - ' I. f ,f -J- f ,-. ii. - 1 111 - , ' g ' ' ' ' " : " ' - ' El N B FAX R PfllllVflV TflYt? ! inuilWlUlU IUUL1I11I lUALUe A Lower Rate for Telegrams, 15 Cents For Ten yVords. ' i -"' HERETOFORE IT HAS BEEN 25c. This Decision Will Undoubtedly Be Applauded by the People of The' State. . The Charlotte (N. O.) Observer says the State Railroad Commission at its meeting at Bound Knob decided to re quire the railroads of the State to pay n increased tax, and the telegraph companies to send messages at a re duced rate. ';. The Commission increased the valua tion of railroad property in North Caro- ; Jh 'OW.-OOO overxtfae" assessed .vaTaa Uoh in 1896, and the railroad com panies -will therefore be required to pay taxes on a greatly increased return. In matter of cheaper telegraph ser vice the commission placed the rate for a message of ten words or less at 15 cents. Tho rate has heretofore been 25 cents. - The railroad commission is very care ful to be just and fair In its decisions. It has made the most painstaking in vestigation in these subjects and -we have no doubt that these two decisions were justified by the findings of the commission, and they -will undoubted ly be applauded by the people of the btate. ' PRITCHARD AND PROSPERITY. lie Sees It In the Dingley Bill for the Industries of the South. Special to the Charlotte (N. C.) Ob server. Senator Pritchard looks through his political spectacles and sees nothing but prosperity in the Dingley tariff bill, lie is satisfied that its provisions Trill redound to the interest of the Southern people. Here is the way he figures it out: ' 'Now that the tariff bill is about to be enacted into law," says the Senator, "I feel sure that the country will experi ence a general revival of business in every branch of industry. Unmistak able evidences of prosperity are to ba seen on every hand and while I have not succeeded in every instance in se curing what I believe to be adequate protection for certain industries of the .South, in the main, I have gotten what our people have demanded. It is an ; admitted fact that the South has se cured a greater degree of protection for her industries in the present law than ""- has Wen accorded to us in any tariff oeasuro heretofore enacted. Take, for instance, the lumber industry in North iUarolina and other Southern States which wa3 almost destroyed by the operation of the Wilson law. "Owing to remoteness from the dis tributing points and the difference in the cost of labor in Canada and the United States it was absolutely impossi ble for the Southern lumbermen to uiccessf ally compete with his Canadian h ' competitor. So long as the Wilson law : remained on the statute book it was foli : ly for the citizens of our State to at l lempt to dispose of their lumber. The present law provides a two dollar rate Df du.ty on lumber, which will afford a market for the lumber of the North Car olina farmer, and will ensure the invest ment of thousands of dollars in the lumber industry of our State. ! "A rate of duty has been secured on iice which is entirely satisfactory to the rice planters of the South. This is another industry which has been lan guishing under the operation of the Wilson tariff. "A duty of arx cents per pound is placed on monazite, which will enable the farmers of North and South Caro lina to realize thonsands of dollars in the development of the industry. ' 'The bill provides for a most satis factory rate on wool, " thereby offering-an inducement to the people of the sheep growing sections. Many localities in North Carolina are well adapted to sheep growing and the . provisions ' in the present law make it possible for our farmers to now engage in this- business with the assurance that they will be able to derive a good profit. Kaolin is accorded a sufficient rate of duty to enab!ethe owners, of koalin jnjgeg.to develop the industry, securing the in vestment of thousands of dollars as well as the employment of our citizens at remunerative wages. Mica and all other minerals, as well as the agricul tural products of the South, are af forded a good rate of protection. "In addition to the fact that we are to have a general revival of manufac turing throughout the country the ' agricultural reports tell of unusual crops everywhere." . CHANGES IN POSTMASTERS. The Number About the Same As In the Last Administration.. The number of changes made in presidential postoffices between March 4 and July 7, according to the official figures of the Postoffice Department, was 416. For the similar period the changes during the last administration were 429. Of the number under the present regime the changes at 66 offices were based on resignations, 136 on ex pirations of . the commissions of in cumbents, 126 on removals, 73 by reason of the office being raised to the presidential class, and 15 on deaths of the postmasters. Included in the total are 78 cases in which changes were due to reports of postoffice inspectors. DIdn'tTike Ills Silver Utterances. A Providence, R. I., special says President E. B. Andrews, of Brown w t ;.. v. ...it o tafia? f n fhA fan- ulty resigning his office. The letter was in response to a communication sent to President Andrews by the committee appointed by the trustees and fellows, who at the time called him to account for his silver utterances. , . - t rtirieat. Catholic Priest. t T?oir Pater llaverman, the oldest Cathoiio priest in the United States, c 'rwir "W. .Y. Father Haver- man was born in the Province of North - Brabant, IloUanO, JJI h THE HOME OP BILL NYE. Summer Girl of Mountain Cities in the Land of the Skyv i Ashevitte, N. C.-July 24. -(Special I Correspondence Net ratltt from this place lived Bill Nye-alas, tKr. William, the people about here knew him well-and they have many queer stories which the$- tell bf him fcnd many which the humorist in his pengrination throughout this pic turesque region would tell to them. It was Nye who cave the memorahli account of how it was that Vander- JP&aed to settle in this rare and rarified section of the South "Qeorffe tjon," he said. "We have tastes of the same hue, often a dark brown. I'm long on gray matter; he has the Ion green. We pitched our tents side bv Bide this proves the greatness of men to say nothi nT of til A nnnntrv rfvnnrl about." J But Nye has passed, and there is no monument SavB a cottage far up the river. Vanderbilt remaineth. and like o,tJXrace1 hehas erected a monumert more enduring than brass. Since the visit of McKinley, when he refused to enter the estate unless an invitation was extended to the correspondents accom panying him, newspaper nien have1 rather risen in the estimation of Hard ing, the surly English sub-manager, and more extended courtesies are shown them. But Biltmore is onl v an accessorv fea ture of this luxurious section. It rep resents the artificial, and looking at if m this contrasted light with the limit less wealth of nature spread out in its grandest forms, the scene makes a study wV. T 1 a i . wjjiuu is interesting ana not soon to De forgotten. Asheville. mst at this season, rmnnni a the summer girl of the mountain cities. She gets on a cool shirt-waist, with a jaunty sailor hat and bedecks herself in the refreshing greenery of the season. She looks delightfully cool, and there is an air of comfort and serene satisfac tion in her manner that she can defy the blistering heat which wilts her rivals and sends them indoors. Instead of retreating from the sun, Asheville gets out and glories in it3 glare, for it is ieaipered by a stiff breeze which comes down from the crown of moun tains around; she goes a golfing, rigs up in wheeling costume for a spin, gets into tennis paraphernalia, or starts out on a jaunt up the river for a try at mountain trout. Just now Asheville is on the .veree of the summer season. For the next three months it will be a gay place gay in a summer wav. for the town is always lively and wears the air of prosperity throughout the whole year. The popular idea of Asheville is errone- ous. l had pictured the - place as a small mountain city, with two or three big hotels near by and Biltmore "and Ed McKissick m the rear ground.. In stead, here is one of the most metro polital towns in appearance in the South. The people have full enjoy ment of life. The business part of the city is in the bottom of a hugh basin scooped out among the mountains and eliced in two by the , Swannanoa and French B:oad. Here an mile ; of paved streets, put down, by the way, by. the late General Pierce M. B. Young, who secured the contract some years before he accepted his foreign appointment. From . these radiate driveways which stretch in all directions and penetrate the encircling hills and heights, reach ing far into, the mountains. It is on this range of intermediate hills that the residences and resorts have been built and on every protruding knob there is some majestic hotel or house which gives a good effect to the general scene. The Southern Railway has made a recent change in schedules, which puts in, trains from all sections at most con venient hours. The Macon people are taking advan tage of a train which leaves that city at 7.10 p. m. and gets to this place at 9. 45 a. m. The same train leaves Ash eville at 9 p. m. and arrives in Atlanta at 5.10 a. m., and in Macon at 8.15 o'clock. Arrangements for transportation be tween Charleston, Savannah and Co lumbia are equally convenient. The, train leaving here at 8.20 a. m. gets to Charleston at 8 p. m. . Drawing room cars have been put on between Jacksonville, Savannah, Ash eville and Cincinnati The train leav ing here at 3.05 p. m. arrives in Savan nah at 5 a. m. and at Jacksonville at 9.10 a. m, Leaving Savannah at 11.85 p. m. and Jacksonville at 7, the trip is made to Asheville by 2. 45 o'clock in the afternoon. Drawing room cars have been placed on between New York. Philadelphia, Chattanooga, Baltimore, . Washington, Salisbury and Nashville. Leaving Asheville at 3. 30 p. m. the trip is made to Chattanooga by 11.35 p. m. ; arriving at Nashville at 6.40 a. m. Leaving Asheville at 2.23 p. m. the trip is made to Washington at 6. 42 a. m. . to Baltimore at 8 a. m. , Philadel phia, 12.43 p. m., and New York at 12.52 p. m. Trains 15 and 16 carry through Pull man drawing cars between Norfolk, Raleigh, Greensboro, Chattanooga and Nashville. Leaving Asheville at 1.17 a. m., Chattanooga is reached at 7.40 a. m. and Nashville at 1:35 p. m. Leaving Asheville at 2.44 a. m., the trip is .made to Greensboro by. 8.30, Norfolk at 6. 25 p. m. Trains 3, 5 and 6, between Asheville and Morristown, make connections with trains to and from Memphis, New Orleans and the South. Double daily trains run on the Murphy branch be tween Ashville and Brson City. This change in trains give excellent connection from Asheyille with all points. ThTee trains come in during the day from the West, and three leave in the same direction ; three come in and depart from the South, and there are two out and in from the East and North. . JngL now Asheville, ds filling up. Crowds are coming in fromafi sec tions. The season is just on, and will be more brilliant than any of former years. Senator Tillman to Speak. Senator B.' R. Tillman, of South Car olina, has wired his acceptance of an invitation to speak in Mooresville, N. C. , on the 29th of this month, which is the day of the Mooresville picnic for the Barium Springs Orphanage. The Senator will prove a di awing card, and one of the largest crowds ever gather ed in Mooresville is expected. NORTH CAROLINA ILLITERACY Why Popular Education Has Failed ' in This Stati; . BY SUPT. LOGAN d. HOWELLj . . Of Raleigh Before the University Summer School-'The' Cdst df Edui cation, Etc. . The following is a brief synopsis of a paper read before the University Sum mer School by Superintendent Logan D. Howell, of Raleigh, on "Why Popu lar Education Has Failed in North Carolina:' In considering the esults of popular education in North Carolina, we .must compare this - State with air others in the Union.' One of the results of edu cation is Wealth. Judgefby this stand ard education in North Carolina has lamentably failed. For with the ex ceptions of South Carolina and Mis sissippi there is less wealth per capita in North Carolina than anywhere else in the Union. But South Carolina and Mississippi have over half their popu-" latton black. North Carolina one-third only, ' But the first object of education is to remove illiteracy. Judged by this standard our popular education has been an ignominious failure. In fact there- is no popular education here. For tho people are not educated. More than a third of those orer ten years of age cannot read or wite. Our con dition is worse than th&t of any other State or territory except six, nimely: Louisiana, South Carolina, New Mex ico, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. 2ut all these states except New Mexico have a larger per cent, of negro popula tion than North Carolina." Virginia and Florida also have a larger per cent, of negro population than North Caro lina, yet their illiteracy is less than ours. These facts are unpleasant to admit, but the most humiliating is this, that our State was nearer being the most illiterate in 1890 than it had been in 1870. It is true the whole amount of illiteracy was somewhat reduced. But we have been more laggard' than other Southern States. Florida which has nearly half its popu lation black has gone by us, eo that whereas in 1870 we ranked 8th in illit eracy, in 1890 we ranked 7th. At this rate it is only a question of time when North Carolina, the other States having educated their children, will be the home of the most illiterate people in the American Union. Shall we let this come to pass? Already it is the home of the most il iterate white people in the United States except in the Territory of New Mexico. Our State ranks worse in il literacy when we compare the white people of the different States than we count the negroes. This does not mean that the white people'of North Carolina are more illiterate than the negroes. It does mean that the white people of North Carolina are the most ignorant of all the white people in the United States except in New Mexico, and that the negroes of North Carolina have more education than the negroes of several other States. About one white person out of every four in North Carolina cannot read; to be exact, the illiteracy is twenty-three per cent. The enormity of this appears when we consider other States. Massa chusetts and Nebraska have less than one per cent, of illiteracy among their native white population. There are seventeen States with less than two per cent. Counting the District of Colum bia and excluding the Indian Territory and Alaska there are forty-nine States and Territories. There are thirty-seven of these that have only half as much illiteracy among their native white population as North Carolina. In other words the white people of North Caro lina are twice as illiterate as the white people almost anywhere else in the Union, including the States of Maryr land, Delaware, Missouri, Arizona, Texas. Florida, Misrissippi and West Virginia. We have more illiterate white persons than South Carolina and Georgia combined, more than Alabama and Mississippi, more than Louisiana and Texas, whose combined white pop nlation is twice as great as North Caro Una's. Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia and Florida, to gether, fall short of North Carolina's number of white illiterates, but their aggregate native white population is over twice as great. The cause of this large percent, of illiteracy is seen when we compare the scnool terms of other States with North Carolina. The report of the United States Commissioner of education for 1894 and 1895, gives the average length of terms of the public schools of the United States, one hundred and forty ODe daySj or over seven months. North CarolinaTs is the shortest term of all", sixty-three days. For twenty years we have been struggling in vain to teach four months m the year. AH the other States except Sonth Carolina, Alabama and Oklahoma, have more ithan a four months' term. The school terms in New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachu setts, Maryland, District of Columbia and Connecticut are three times as long as ours, mere are tmrteen otates that have an eight months' term or longer, twenty -four States that have a sevev months' termor longer, thirty-one State3 that have a six months' term or longer, this includes Virginia, Arkan sa?, and Kentucky; there are forty-one Slates (all but eight) that have five months' term or longer, this includes Ueorgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, West Virginia, Texas and Florida. Our position among the sisterhood of States is then this : in per cent of illiter acy of the whole population, seventh; in per cent of illiteracy of the natiye white people, second; in length of school term, forty-ninth; in amount ex pended for each pupil, forty-eight; in amount of tax in proportion to wealth, forty-third; in salaries paid teachers,, forty-ninth. I here can be only one excuse for suc' a condition enormous taxes for other things. But taxes in North Caro lina are not enormous. They are less thau anywhere else in the Union, ex cept in Nevada and Idaho. The tax rate for all purposes in norm uaroima is something over half the average for the United States. ' There is no pleasure in making puo lic such humiliating' fdcts abOut mt Stato except for the hope that they may arouse to action". . Fdr these cori- ditions exist, and JNortn. Carolina mueij face them. Shuttirig tmr , eyes to thera wil not remove them1; denying them will not change therii. .But having seen the cause Of our fail tire, we ought to know how to maae our pumic scnooio a success. Nearly hlf the school.population did not go inside of a school last year. But what was done by the other half ? Little more than lear the A, B. C's. Not half the children studied arithmetic. The av erage white teacher in North Carolina enrolls during the three months i she teaches, forty-one children But theif attendance is irregular, and if we should visit her school on an average day, we should find twenty-eight pupils present, only thirteen of theae. far enough ad vancsd to study arithmetic, only sevfn geography;, lour in graiam nr.an4.t'& in United States history. . Let us see what it costs to educate children in the different States. The average for the United States is $18.98 a year for each ehild. We spend upon each child only $3.40 a year. This is less than any other State, except South Carolina, which spends 83.29. The wealth of Massachusetts is five times as gieat as North Carolina's, but Massa chusetts spends for each child at school about ten times as much as we, $33.98. Seven Southern States spend for the education of their children twice as much a3 we do: New Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas and Arkansas. -' Our State tax is already one of the lai'gest, only six other States having a heavier on. But when we come to count the local taxes ard the general tax North Carolina drops to the lowest of all but six. There are objections that local taxa tion may suit Maine, but it will not suit our condition as an agricultural people. We hear men saying that good schools cannot be maintained among a popu'ation so scattered as ours. Local taxation is not peculiar to the North or to cities. Kansas and Nebraska are great farming States and settled only about half as thickly as N orth Carolina. Kansas has no State tax and Nebraska only three-tenths of a cent, but by local taxes Kansas .beeps its schools open six months in the year and Nebraska A y 1 1 A. seven. Amaijsas is noi as aenseiy set tled as North Carolina. Its tax rate for schools is two and a half times as exeat as ours, and two-thirds of it comes from local taxes. Arkansas1 school term is nearly twice as long as ours. None of the following States are so thickly settled as North Carolina and they raise all or nearly all their Bchool funds by local taxes, and all have an average school term of from five to eight months: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, - Wyoming, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florid, Louis iana. - -. Compared with other States south and west North Carolina is wen popu nlated. Scarcity of population cannot excuse our illiterate condition. Nor can we plead the negro as an excuse. Seven States (South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, rlor ida, Virginia, Alabama) have a larger share of negro population than North Carolina, and they all have a larger school term than ours, and all but Ala bama have a heavier school tux. Geor gia has 300,000 more negroes than North Carolina and a school term ten weeks longer. . Virginia has 75,000 more negroes than North Carolina and a school term twice as long and a school tax nearly twice as great as ours. Public School Election, Aug. 10. By act of the General Assembly an election will be held in every township in North Carolina in which there is no jocal taxation for school1 purposes, Tues dayAugust 10, for the purpose of im proving the public schools by local taxation. The State of North Carolina has ap propriated $50, 000 out of the general fund to be apportioned among the townships voting in favor of local tax ation. If a township votes a tax of 10 cents on the $100 worth of property and 30 cents on the poll, and thus raises $500 in addition to the usual school fund, the State will add $500 more. making the extra amount added to the school fund in the township $1,000. If the township raises $300, the State will give $300. If it raises over $500, the State will add $500. Any township that votes for local tax ation will, therefore, be sure to have first-class public schools. Col. J. S. Carr. of Durham, haS promised to give $500 to the school fund of the county that votes the largest per cent, of its votes for local taxation. Let all strive to get this bounty. Remember the day, August 10. Be at -the voting place and bring -your neighbors. To stay away will be equal to voting against this plan to feet good schools for only a small expense. The tax of ten cents on the $100 is only one dollar on a thousand or nve dollars on five thousand. Surely every citizen will see that thus the best schools can be obtained cheaper than any other way. J. W, Ballet, Hugh Mobson, L. D. Howell, t C H. Mebanb, D. H. Htll, Committee. N. B. Those desiring literature for information or to distribute, send to J. W. Bailey, Chairman, Raleigh, N. C. Miners Becoming Aggressive. The striking miners are becoming aggressive in their efforts o get the worktrs out, and trouble is feared ai Pittsburg. The backbone of the strike in the Kanawha district is broken. . Senator Pritchard announces that the civil servioe investigations by the Sen ate Committee on Civil Service Reform will be discontinued until fall. The sub-committee will visit Omaha in Oc tober and take testimony in the case o some alleged violations, of civil service law there, and Upon their return may resume their hearings in Washington. If it Ls feasible to Insure residences against burglary why shouldn't bank presidents be Insured against type writers? DlMiEY'8 InRIFF BILL A LAW he Senate Passes It By a Vote of 40 to 30, on Time, . ' 4 : i (juldKLV Signed by m'kinley. Greatest Enthusiasm Manifested. The President Used Dlngley's Pen. The 55th Congress Adjtftf rn. WashirigtoHi July 26th. (Special. ) The tariff bill passed its lSt?t legislative stage at 4 p. m. Saturday when tn Ssnate, by the decisive vote of 40 to 30, agreed to the Conference report on the bill. The announcement of the result wad greeted with enthusiast! o applause by tiifljcrowded chamber. This closed the abor for which the Fifty-fifth Congress assembled in extraordinary session, aild after stubborn resistance, at times threatening a deadlock, the Senate concurred with the House in a resolu tion for the final adjournment of the seBsiotfat 9 o clock tonight. -The iTesi- dent's messige for a currency commis sion was received, but the bill creating the commission was not acted upon. The closing day was prolific of a series of momentous scenes, each of which alone would have been of extraordinary interest. An analysis of the vote shows that the affirmative vote was cast by thirtv-saven Republicans, one Demo crat (McEnery), one Bilver Republican (Jones, of JNevaaaj, ana one jropuiwn (Stewart). - The negative vote was can oy ao Democrats and two Populists (Harris and Turner). Mr. Teller, silver Ke publican, and two Populists (Allen and Butler) were present and did not vote. Une ropulist (ivyie),ana one suver xve publican (Fettigrew) were absent without pairs, which was equivalent; 10 withholding their votes. Although the result was a foregone conclusion, yet this did not abate the eager interests attaching to the close of a great con test. Complimentary resolution s to the v ice- President, Mr. Hobart, were adopted and at 9 o'clock the final scene as en acted by the formal adjournment of the session. . The End in the House. Tha last neaninn of the House was mfivlrAd Ktr TTtt-ntr i nf orAafintT AVATltfl. T II addition to the final act of the Speaker in saixing his signature to me .uiugiey bill, a bill providing for the creation of a currency commission was crowded through in the closing hours. The House recessed until after the Senate had adopted the conference re port and one minute and thirty-one sec onds after the House reconvened the en grossed bill was signed and on its way to the President. The last step necessary was taken at the White House when the President affixed his signature at 4:04 , o'clock with a beautiful mother of pearl-handled pen, which Mr. Dingley requested the President to use. The President recognized the right of Mr. Dingley, though he laughingly commented on the diminutive size of the pen. He . . .. Ml then appended his signature to tne dih, tcVcd lha data and wrotfl "Jnlv 24th. approved" and the bill was an act. WEEKLY C03IMKRCIAL REVIEW. BHnt and Bank Cash Grows Alaa kia's Gold Fields. Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co. 's weekly review of trade for the week ending the 24th, says in part: "The end of un certainty regarding duties on imports gives greater confidence alike to those who have opposed, and to those who have favored the change. The great strength in stocks, especially in the Granger list, reflects a heavy crop. The remarkable rise in wheat, not withstanding the assurances based on heavy buying for export and belief that foreign demands will be good. must be added as another evidence of confidence, scarcely observed a week ago. The heavy increase in re ceipts of gold, whether from one side of the Alaska border or the other, swells deposits at the mints and in the banks of this country, and if the yields from these regions answer current expecta tions, they may be equal in influence to that of the discoveries of gold in Cali fornia. "The one retardirg force, the strike of the coal miners, has caused the clos ing of a new manufacturing works for want of fuel, but negotiations for set tlement are pushed with hope. "Since July 2d the price of wheat had risen 12 cents by, Wednesday, when a reaction of four cents was not surpris ing, but the close was cents advance for the week. "Corn exports are still heavy, 6,635, 395 bushels in July, against 2,421,999 last year, which perhaps reflects more certainly to the wheat movement the actual conditions abroad. "The textile industries have lost ground as the curtailment of produc tion in cotton for a time is really a gain The demand has increased, but the ac cumulated stocks of goods, must be re duced before importance to buy can be expected. "The failures for the week have been 227 in the United States, against 281 last year; and 28 in Canada, against 29 last year. ". Going to the Gold Fields. "On to the Yukon" is the cry in Can. ada, which has been struck by the gold fever. In Victoria men are mortgaging homes to raise money to enable them .to get to the gold fields. War Predicted. . The London Times predicts war be tween England and the United States and says confidential communications between Russia and the latter country are being exchanged as to the Alaskan boundary line. Lynched for Murder. At Coffeeville, Miss., Jim Sellers, a negro murderer, was taken from the county jail at Pittsboro, Calhoun coun ty; and shot to death by a mob. DEBS DISCOUUAGED. Some Miners in Favor of Continuing th Strike and Others Return to Work. Changes that have A3 important bear ing upon the coal strike situation in West Virginia have taken pkpe. Th State, taken as a whole, is against the strike for financial reasons. All strikers have been brought out under pressure of organizers and agitators elsewhere than in the Fairmont regions. Debs admits that he is sorely discouraged. Governor Atkinson thinks the strike will become general and hopes the men will win. Trouble,, and much of. it, seems to be in store at the Allison mine, three miles west of Canonburg, Pa. Six hundred Interfering strikers are looked for, and tie Sheriff and his deputies are ready to meet them. fi At Farmington, 111., the strikers are beginning to get ugly. They seized a freight train and held it for five hours. At Kenott!, W. Va., oae hundred men, who have been employed in grad ing on the double track fot the Chesa peake & Ohio Railroad, left for Elkborn to work in the coal and coke fields, thereby defeating the strike in, this Btate. At Wheeling, W. Va., there is little change in the local coal mining Strike situation. - Some of the miners who struck at the Glendale works have re turned to work, rather unexpectedly. About 125 of the 450 miners who are on strike at Collinsville, 111., held a meeting at that place to determine whether they should continue the strike or accept the advance offered them by the operators and return to work. They decided by a vote of 83 to 43 to continue the strike. All the miners in Alabama, except those at Blue Creek, employed by the Tennessee Coal and Iron and Railroad Company have returned to work hav ing compromised with the operators at 37 cents per ton, a reduction of zj cents. The same scale, it is expected, will be signed up with the Blue Creek miners. At Cincinnati. O. . tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen decided to raise funds for the striking miners, but to take no sympathetic action and to remain neutral as an organization. Senator Hanna. of Ohio, expresses great sympathy for the striking miners in the coal regions of Ohio, Pennsylva nia and Vv est Virginia. He is doing all he can to bring atxut a speedy settle ment of the troubles. He says that the President has not received a request to act, but would probably decide upon the matter when it was presented to him. A. & N. C. RAILROAD CASE. Simonton Continues One Injunction and Dissolves Another. The attorneys for Wm. ft. Tucker in his suit against Governor Russell, in the matter of the Atlantic & North Car olina Railroad, have received Judge Simon ton's decision. Simonton dis solves the injunction as to the first act of the last Legislature jegardmg .thle . ?.oed, but ho con tinues the IspincUon af1 to second act, which repealed the old charter, prescribed a graduated vote for the private stockholders and fixed the State's votes at 350. Under tho lat ter act the State would enioy 12,0U0 votes and the other stockholders 6,000, and the presence of the Stale proxy would also be necessary to make a quorum. The State would have abso lute control of the road. Under the judge's ruling tha act cannot be en forced. . AN ALABAMA WAR. Trouble Over the Killing of a Negro for the Usual Crime. A special to the Birmingham (Ala.) State Herald from Florence, Ala., says: A race war is on at Kiverton, Ala., a. town" of 600 inhabitants, and serious trouble is feared. A negro attempted a criminal assault on Mrs. S.L. Vaughan, an estimable white lady, but was beaten off, and the neighborhood aroused. A searching party is 6aid to have caught the fiend and shot him, but this they will not admit. After the lynching the whites became incensed and threatened to exterminate the negroes. Both sides are arming, and one white man is seriously injured. Mrs. Vaughan is in a delicate condition, and her death is momentarily ex pected. Talmage Loses Ills Pastorate. A Washington special to the Phila delphia (Pa.) Record says owing to dissentions among the members of the aristocratio First Presbyterian church. Dr. DeWitt Talmage will not return to Washington to take charge of his flock The majority of the members claim that Dr. Talmage has far from realized their expectations. In fact, the church has less members and is worse off finan cially than ever before, lie took tho associate pastorate under a contract, which has not netted him a penny this year. A Libelous Report. The directors of the Southern Build ing and Loan Association, of Louis ville, Ky., say that they do not owe Milo Abel, of Macon, Ga., $2,000 or any other sum due end demandable; even if we did, we have in bank over $8,000 with which to rt it. The as sociation is absolutely solvent, and the report sent out is a libel. Mrs. Lease for Governor. Mrs. MaryE. Lease has announced that she would be a candidate for the Populist nomination foi governor of Kansas next year. The constitution does not bar women from holding this office. McKinley Gets the Prize Melon. Wednesday the largest watermelon rown in the South was presented to .President MoKinley. It was grown in Georgia; weighed seventy-eight pounds and took the . prize of $25, offered by W. N. Mitchell, southern agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in a cc test participated in by the planters of all the melon-growing States. A Pine Wood Trust. The pine shippers of Virginia have organized with a view of securing bet ter prices for their product. POOR Ill'S ONLY HOPE. "Cotton Famine" Really a New Thing in North Carolina. RECORD FOR KILLING CONVICTS Death From a Dream-Convicts to Cut Cord Wood Must Ta!?e a Census of the School Children. Speaking of the Local Taxation Elec tion Aug. 10, one man says: "Taxea are too high already; I don't want to pay any more taxes. " But this man has children and wants to educate them. If he sends them to a public school like we now have, '.he school will last only twelve weeks. . He can not educate his children this way. They will never learn much studying: twelve weeks and not studying forty weeks. So this man decides to send his boy and girl to a private school How much must he pay? He mutt pay at least five dollars for the boy and live for the girl. This is a tax often dollars on him. But if he will vote for local taxation he will get good six months' school for the boy and girl and, for all the boys and girls he has at a cost of $1.80, if his rroperty is listed at $1,000; at a cost of $5.30 if his prop erty is listed at $5,000; at a cost of forty cents if his property is listed for $100; at a cost of eighty cents if Ms property is listed for $500. So you see this local taxation is tho poor .man's only hope of educating his children. The Superintendent of Public In ptruction sends the following U tbo county supervisors: "You and your county board of education will arrange to have the census f the school chil dren taken accurately some convenient time this fall. This must be done be fore the first Monday in January, J 898, because the apportionment must bo in ado by the townships and per capita. This census will be accepted at this office for the one required first Monday in June, 1898." He also says to the county supervisee: ."Ihe reorganiza tion of the public school system ol North Carolina, according to tho act ol the last General Assembly, is now com plete. The working force of the system consists of.the State board of education, the State superintendent of public in struction, the county board of education, the oounty supervisor, tho township committee and the teachers. We must make a success of our efforts to educate the masses in North Carolina. As head of the system for tho State, I shall ex pect much of you. The Raleieh correspondence of the Charlotte Observer, under date of tbei 22nd, says: "A carload of cotton all the way from ISew lora has arrived lor one of the mills here A lot of cotton owned by a lady was sold here ycsler- aay at cj cents, a ion oi j i"'ies, uo property of a Mecklenbu-yj nner, LxcightUift nto . ligare. H -iteii:h buyer was on board, ui "uhl" itt as it would cost 80 cents ' per hundred to bring the cotton hre from Char lotte. A 'cotton famin,'is really a new think in North Carolina. The suffering mill-owners ought to call on the govern ment to 'relieve the pressure' and have cotton sent here. " James Hamrick, a young man, died at Iron Station under peculiar circum stances. He was convalescent from an attack of fever. A work train on tho Carolina Central was engaged in load ing and. unloading railroad iron in front Of his house, aud ho dreamed that he was lying on the track, unable t move and the train was about to rum over him. The fright brought on hoart failure and he died. GreeiiKboro Record. A medal of honor has been awarded to Brevet CoL Andrew McGonnigle, of Asheville. N. C, whpat Cedar Creek, Va., while acting chief quartermaster of General Sheridan's forces operating in the Shenandoah Valley, was severely wounded while leading a brig.vle of in fantry on that field, and was coirunend ed for the greatest gallantry by Gener al Sheridan. At Kings' Mountain a burgular enter ed the residence of Mrs. 1. H. Bakor, and in his attempt to open the bureau she screamed, and he therefore choked her into insensibility and made his es cape from the house, but was caught and given a preliminary hearing and sent to jail. - - A' white man, named Fred P. How land, the supposed incendiary, whose acts of incendiarism havo cost Wil mington more tbau $100,000, has been found guilty at the recent term of the Criminal Court for that county. Sen tence has not been passed upon yet. In the Superior Court, at Raleigh, Berry Cook, colored, charged with mur dering by strangling. Rope Morgan, hia mistress, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary by Judge Robertson to twenty years at hard labor. Isaac Holderfield, an overseer cf con victs of the State penitentiary, says that he has been serving in that capacity for the past twenty-six years, and in that time he has shot ten convicts aid killed seven. Superintendent Smith will hire out most of the convicts, except those on the Wadefcboro farm, who will be put to cutting wood; he has a contract cow' to furnish 3,500 cords cf wood. It is claimed that the tobacco crop in the western counties will be small. Superintendent Smith, of the peniten tiary, says the Roanoke convict farm will yield this year 125,000 bushels of Corn from 6,000 acres, 6,000 bales of cotton from 5,5C0 acres, and besides there are 2,000 acres now in field peas. - ' - The farmers institutes, which are being held in many o. the counties, are also in the interest of the Agricultural and Mechanical college. It is now intimated that the Durham and Charlotte railroad may tass by Chapel Hill. L I ... ;. ,v . if - - i. V;... ". X x.
The Gazette [1891-1898] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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