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WOODS 81-KBX WAY BE FOBOOTTEff. BUTTIKMB WIUO ARE WRITTKJi Oil PItlNTED STANDS KECOKl). DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY . JULY d 1891- NO. 25 VOL- 72. Highest of U in Leavening Power 11 rv t-miwrnriu1 ABSOLUTELY PURE Emilia Do Leon, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Guatem ala, denioa that there is any scheme on foot for annexation. A syndicate of Cleveland (Ohio) capitalists has purchased 3,200 acres of land in Outonagon county, Mich., which is very rich in copper. .. W.A.SLATER&CO. 'NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS.; FiRST In The WK HAVE JUST OPENED A FINE STOCK OF T-IXR CLOTHING,- FURNISHING (JOOI)S, HATS. Our line neck-wear is the prettiest you ever saw, and our line of HATS in all shapes will bo sur to pimiso you. lUminW yu have a special iuviut. m to examine our stock Wa trust bv fair dealing to merit a share of your patronage, ltd certain to give us a call when you come to Durham. W. A. SLATER & CO- WRIGHT BUILDING. Next door to Pout Offlc. FARTHING & DUKE. WHOLESALE Dealers in Notions, Cbihing, etc We carry in stock everything jou mn 6nd in no j general ttore. Wc carry laro stocks of W.L. DOUGLASS Shoes, Satter & Lewis &Co.'s Shoes. OLD HICKORY nd Piedmont Wag ons anr Road Carts. Obcr's Fertilizer Tho Na tional and Durham Ball Fer tilizers. Th mt ztoU for the lut money FARTHIN3 & DUKE. dukimm, n. n. for Infants nous "ttMn m m rtC to nfcOcW ihat I nrammmA It M mp-rk to .nf pMrllo. hmTntowM." H, A. Iran, M. D., Ill to. Ottati Rt, BfWklf K. T. IW Mt MVllkM-.tlMtlt U. S. Gov'jt Report, Aug. 7, 1889. The principle busines blocks, ofllanford, CaL.were destroy ed by fire Friday. Loss, $100,. 000' .. ..... : ' . The next quadrennial confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Omaha in May 1892. , ?OUT2' B HOftSE AND CATTLE POWDERS HiW tW IW- H" . K f'jtm rowttrn m mr4. tint. iu l,.wwiiifmMiiif'MH Fmii Pri fftit ;,- IK r.iwu. P"..hT will te-rw un "' " t4 rrnm wh. per mil. tot Mkr U kuur 81 tlT CwWo rW m flf pr-wi Sm TY t)i.... ram It. ml i m ni. t Coitus rnwn wlu. .t Tnoru. BATED B. VOITTI. r.rl.l... SALTUiOM. MS. For Sale by W. M. Yearby, Durham. A party of seven colored per sons returning from a picnic were drowned white crossing a creek near Baltimore Saturday. TOOTINE" . Cnre tie disease that cause the offensive odor of the feet and arm pits, toimhens the skin and vents cliufing. Trice 50 ct. sale by all Durham Druggist. Ire For DU1UIAM BOOKSTORE BUY YOUR 1500KS AXiJ STATION" Ell Y AT THE Durham Book Store FltOM VJ. H. EO&ERS, Main Street., S3B and Child rcn.- fbnr fluinxA, lHMThM. knrMI, in w in 11 bm tattmif Bssni T. PiaoM. . t "Tb. WUiUifW." 1U lUMt M4 Tl At, Km York Ciif, Field THEIR EXPLANATION stat i:m est from t n duk II AM FKRTILIZIJK COM- I'ANY. AFullmi'l Prank Statoineni ol FhcIm Coneernlnyr ltcceut TriiiissctloiiH , Dckuam, N. C, June 2;l.To the Public; Men who follow other business pursuits natur ally shrink from engaging in newepaper wrangles, and ttie necessity therefore is our only excuse for this card. It is not every raise accusation that we would notice in that way: but the charge of puafd made by certain newspapers against the Durham Fertilizer Company, as it has a tendency to unfavor ably ait'ect the business of the Company and also the reputa tion of the several gentlemen with whom we are associated in the management of the business, we cannot under the circum stances permit the charge to go unchallenged. 1 We believe that most of the editors of theeveral newspapers who have published this charge did so in good faith, however much they may have subjected themselves to just criticism for allowing their papers to be used in the interest of rival 'manu facturers in their attempts to injure the business of our own company. Weolfer them, how ever, a test of their good faith to be subjected to the analysis of public opinion by presenting to them the facts in the follow ing statement with the oppor tunity to publish them if they really want to do no injustice but merely to serve, as they claim, the interests of the public. Now for the facts: Un the 2Gfh day of May, 18'Jl, the Dur. ham Fertilizer Company shipped by the K. & D. Kailroad to He baneville, N. C, three car loads of fertilizer, one to V . B. Cel lars, Business Agent of Pleas ant Grove Alliance, Xo 13i?$, Alamance county, and the other two car loud to J It, Smith, Busidess Agent of Kidgo- ille Alliance Ao. tbl, of Cas well county ilr. Smith was in Durham at the oftice of the Com pany on that very day, and per sonally urging the company to hm the goods as the season was arrowing late, and the far mers wanted the goods ut once. e had been buying tax-paid tags from the department in lalcitfh from time to time, and supposed we hud enough tags for this v, hicn was about our last shipment, and did not dis cover a deficiency of tags until we began to load fie cars on the evening of the 2;th of .day. e ut once, on finding out that we did not have on handenough tags for all the goods in these shipments, wrote the depart ment on the next day (27th May) enck sing our chec k of that date for the amount necessary. Our letter and check did not reach the department at Raleigh un til the next day, (Thursday, May 2Mh) after the goods had loft Durham, and we received the tags by express on the morn-' ing of May 2!)th (Friday) and on the evening of May 2'th, we gave the tags to the agent of the Richmond and Danville iallroad Co , at Durham, to be sent to the railroad agent at Mebaneville to tag the bags at Mebaneville. Ou the next day, being informed that the tugs given the agent were not sum ciont, we sent more and all this occurred before we had intima tion of any sort that the goods hud been detained for want of tags, or that anybody intended to detain them. Our first oill cial information of the deten tion of the goods was on Mon day, June 1st, when an official ;ctcr came from air. ltobinson, Commissioner. It is not pro tended by anylKHly, but that oniy a part of these gonds lack ed tags when tlny kit D irham, md lotheciiaiKetliat tliegou.l were so packed in the cars that in oiK niiig the car uoors the tagged bags only would be seen and the untagged baus were concealed in the rear ends of the curs, we assert it is not true and in corroboration we quote from a hater received by us from Mr. J. K. Smith. He writes 1 will also state that the re- tHirt that the sacks in f rant of the doors in the car were tagged and those at the bottom and at the rear ends were not tugged is false." He fuither says he was present when the cars were opened and he and those for whom the goods were pun-unw ed took out the first 140 sacks, and the party who originated this false charge, and Is travel ing salesman for another ferti lizer comnanv. was not there at that time at all. We might parties were anxious to get the goods as soon as possible, and some of them had to he hauled twenty miles f rom Mebaneville, and the nearest some eight or ten miles, and we thought we could safely get the tags to Me baneville before the iasi 01 tne goods would be haulod away by the farmers in their wagons. The total amount of the tags on the goods detained rvt Mebane ville was the magnificent sum Of TWO DOLLARS A NO TWELVE AND ONE-HALF CENTS, ' body will dispute the i we .have paid ' into" the ment more tax on t than any other mauun the State or manufactuJ cern outsidet of tUe Sli- selling goods in North Cai In fact we have paid tne ment between one-seventh a? one-eight 01 an tne tax coueci by it from this source ot tax tion. Would ny sane man believe upon this showing we intended to jeopardize our business and reputation for such a paltry sum as to dollars and twelve and a half cents? i ' But our lynxeyed. rivals in trade, finding this charge about to fall to the grouid by its own insignificance, start another of a more serious character, and charire that this particular lot of goods, being analyzed, did not como up totheguirantea siaua ard in one of the component in gredients. Well, what are me racis in regard to this matter? Our goods are manufactured accord ing to certain chemical formulas and every pounds of material used in the process of manufac ture is subjected to analysis by some 01 tue most competent chemists in the United States. The manufactured products be fore shipment are also analyzed complete at lesast vnce in every ten days.. We are lntormed that the Department in Kaleigh claimed that upon analysis by its chemist of samples drawn fromthisparticular lot of goods shipped to Mebaneville, uiere were one hundred ana mty- seven bags below the- guaran tee. This deficiency claimed was largely in f'rxvailable phos phoric acid." V Lile the - total phosphoric acid as shown by the Department analysis was largely iu excess of the guaran tee, it was claimed that tne 'avilable phosphoric acid" was under. Uur explanation ot this matter is that this particular lot of goods had six hundred and fifty pounds 01 annual Done ttestingover 30 per cent bone phosphate) in it, which, while it is much more valuable as a fe.tiiizer and cost us consider ably more money, does not show available phosphoric acid as acid phosphate would do. So we claim that in any event the farmer who used our goods sent to Mebaneville really got a more valuable and a more expen sive article of our goods than f we had used phosphate rock instead of animal bone. A word as to the market Value of boue meal. While the value put upon it by the Department is less than twelve dollars per ton, the market value of bone meal is from twenty -five to thirty dollars per ton. These goods wereaaalized by no less than! four chemists and every one of their analyses is higher in "A' ;1 1.1 Ui... ..,....;,. Ani.l'' lUn that of the Department, but it is fair to the Department to say that no two of them exactly agree, v e nave on our omce hies dozens 01 certincates 01 analyses from diirerentchemibU and from the department show ing the ingredient! in our goods to be above the guarantee and ou this very lot now in question some if the chemists reterred to put "Available riios- phoriu Acid" at tf.ilo that is to ay 'M above our guarantee. 1 hose analyses are kept on tile 111 the regular routine of our business and it would atford us pleasure to have them inspect ed by any of our customers at any lime. We would be glad to give these analyses in full in this curd; but to do so would make it too long for a newspa per article, suilice it say that our goods have alwuys hereto fore proven satisfactory to the Department, and this is the first and only complaint which ever reached us ami applies only to this Motmiievillo shipment and is only $13.14. But after all that has been published and said about this shipment of goods to Mebaneville, with full information before them; what is the estimate in which they are held by those who purchas V 1 aeiv v ed them? Their views are best expressed in their own language, ttONTIXCED OS SECOND PA0K) IIK ANSVEPtKP; WE REPLY. COMM13IONEll ROBINSON WR1TK Til K SUN A CAltll. OiixQiioatloii Entirely lanorwl Will tlu 'omiii!MlourTurn ou ......... . - Hume Mont Light. IIaleihh, Juno 2Cth, 181U. To tho Eiitor Duiuias Daily Run, Durkuu, N. C. : Dear Bib : A marked copy your of paper bearing date Juno 25th, 1891, has been sent to me with the request that answors be given certain ques tions; to which I cheerfully respond. silence might be misunderstood. To make clear just what my an- ers are intended to cover I quote -mentions: ' - s ' 'Will Commissioner Sobinson a whether or not he is directly irectly connected with a ferti- :-omptuiy !" er. I am not, and never eon connected directly or indi- witu any fertilizer company. Commissioner Bobinson an einan J". er'. Iamiu full and regular iDoes Commissioner Robinson kn istt that at anytime during the ex- o of t hat department that water wan. j-a u' from the same well twice, only one hour's time intervening, and sent to them for. analysis, and they pronounced one sample perfectly pure and the other unfit for use i" Answer. I kuow 191 such thing, nor do I believe it. ' 4. "Will Commissioner Robinson refer to his Bulletin for May and en Ughtenusa little on that! In that publication three samples of thesame kind of guano as the Durham was taken at Wilmington, Charlotte and Scotland Neck, guaranteed 127.60 per ton this is the guarantee, mind you. Lo! and behold, it is printed iu the department journal, that in the sam ples were found, the 1st, $26.25, 12.35 below the atandard. 3rd, $26.28, fl. 32 below, yet not a word is said about this." ;y "1.,,. ' ' - v'.:' Answer. This refers to Truckers' Delight, manufactured by the Chem ical Company of Canton. .The first analysis fc.'Jin, low, inspectors were ordered to draw new samples. Two samples were W-nt in about tLe time from different points. When the result from these were ascertain ed and it was discovered that there was a variation resulting in a loss to the farmers, two inspectors were sent out in search of that brand with in structions to seize wTierever found. There was but a very small quantity of this brand sent into the State, and our inspectors failed to find it again. We were unable therefore, to seize and thus protect the farmers, but we did publish to the world in the Bul letin this shortage, and it stands there a lastiug record against the brand. ft. "Another instance: In the same publication are three more samples, still worse. They were taken at Wadesboro, Fayetteville and Ral eigh, standard guaranteed $26.00. Found in sample, $24.05, $15 below. 2nd, $21-84. $4.16 below. 3d, $23.30. $2.70 below." Answer. This refers to Dey Bro.'s, FitJi Scrap. Fish Scrap k a fertilis ing mateiial and not a manufactured commercial fertiliser, simply ground dry fish, and iU fertilising value va ries from conditions wholly beyond the control of the manufacturers, de pending upon the condition of the material. Fish Scrap has a value of from 4 to 8 per cent, in phosphoru; acid for which no account in this claim was taken. To illustrate, the following analysis of Scrap are sub; mittod:' Station No. 109, Manufjioturer, Dey Bros., Nitrogen, 8.95, Eqiiiva lent to Ammonia, lu.s, 1'hos. Acid, 8.91. No. 222. Dey Cm., Nitrogen, 9.36. Equivalent to Ammonia, 11.21 rhusphoric Acid, 7.M. No. Ss7, Dey Bros., Nitrogen 11 35. Equivalent to Ammonia, 13.78, 1 Phosphoric AcM. 4.09. To ascertain the real value of r tsh Scrap, the value of the Mwisplsiric Arid sliould be added. It will be observed that as tlx value of Ammo nia increases the riiosphorie Acid decreases, aud vk versa. Thm1 tacts were considered at the time the analyses were made. It is clear Uwfore tluit no purchaser of this material has sustained a kiss. Very respectfully, John RoMSsoff, Coin. Ag. It affords us very great pleasure to publish Mr. Kobiuson card in this swue, for the Sen wants to turn on the liuhU and k-t iU readers see the true Inwardness of this whole fertili 1 A 1 if ser business. We regret, however, that Mr. Rob inson has seen fit to shut himself up. like a clam, by making no response whatever to whnt we considered out most important inquiry. We assort ed, on what we believe reliable and trustw orthy information that "In re- gnrd t) tho charge of untagged gu ano at Oxford, it is only necessary to state t!mt it has been the custom of guano manftfacturers to ship goods and then, send tags. It is done by parties outside of the State. Can the Agricultural Department deny this V Now, Mr, Itobinson,-. why.did you not answo'r this inquiry hi your card? Did it escape your observation! Were you in such a hurry to get your re ply to the Sl'N questions published in the Rideigh papers before reaching us that in your haste you overlooked it? ' Try il agiin. We beg of you to stand up like a man now and answer this inquiry.:"We repeat the question and answer it without dodging or evasion. Can your Department de- nytbl other manufacturers than tji Dilw''!Uu Fertilizer Company have slifi their goods and, after ship ment, bought tags and had the goods tagged after they left their factories? Oun you deny that with this informa tion before you, you have failed to order detention or seizure of such goods for that cause! Can you deny that in this very town of Oxford the agents of other fertilizer companies have paid for tags after the goods arrived in Oxford and even after some of them were delivered to farmers for consumption? We shall withhold some comments we intended to make until you answer the above questions, for reasons which must be manifest to you. You deny in your card that you are connected with any fertilizer company aud we are truly glad to get that information for our readers. Many of them had supposed, from your conduct, that you wen', and some of them even now are at a los to understand why it is that you, an Alliance man "in full and regular standing," treat alliau jo goods dif ferently and more harshly than you do other goods seize tlvmi for causes that are no offense in others. No inklligent reader can fail to observe with what alu"rity and caniestaegi you have undertaken to defend the confessed failure of Deys Fish Scrap to come up to guaranteed analysis. You say this fish scrap has a value of from 4 to 8 per cent. 111 phosphoric acid for which no account in this claim was taken. No w Mr. IJobinson was it "Available" phosphoric acid of 4 to 8 ier cent or was it insoluble phosphoric acid i No dodging plow. Why don't you stick to the analysit- we referred to. and took from the Bulletin, iu answering our questions; Was not the lot of goods referred to in your card sold upon a guaranty of Ammonia and fell below the guar antee? But why leave anything out iu the analysis? Was uot the sole object of the analysis to asccrtaiu the valve per ton ? Then why leave out anything in the analysis going fto make up value and resrt it Mow value if it was really up to standard iniarantced value! Is-that fair t the goods, to discredit them by leav ing something of value out in the published analysis and then offer an apology for so doing and now say to those who purchased them "no pur- baser of this material has sustained a loss? Is this the custom of your Deiwrtmeiit analysis? If it is. (and your card indicated it) then why not feed the Durham fertilizer Alliance goods with the same spoon; Don't they say, and everybody admit, that if there is any shortage 111 the analy sis of the Melmnesville goods in a par ticular ingredient isay Phosphoric Aeidi their good: analyze nhm- guarantee in other ingredient mm that the ground Imne in theMelsiues ville shipment iiiorethnncouiiterdml iiKed in value any niiegf.il icnvieuey in riiosjdiork Acid? Tlien why raiw this great hue and ry against the Allium! goods and for the like imii olfer ais-togies f.r Dey's Fish S-'rap? Is it the settled jsiliey af your IV piirtnieiit t m nduiiiiister Ibis law as to show nirtt.dity to t tie lo iii- iliwidvantage of the other? What weight an the public to iriv- to your analysis nnjli iw when pub iii.l iu v.nir "i?oii.-uii. now i auybisly to know when 4 to 8 j i cent, of a particular ingretlietit is i n oiit! Have you not discrediUil your own publixhi'd analysis by this con fekn hi your card! Is it at all won lerf.il then that your Department iseurreutly rep.rt ml to have rwvivwl a jug id water fur mudvsis into which the sender hud fjcrctly introduced a big dose of enic and it is said the analysis show ed pure and wholesome drinking wa ter? Was tho arsenic disclosed at all by the analysis or was it simply left out and "no account taken" of it. One more question, Mr. Robinson. 5Tou say you sent out inspectors to hunt for the Trucker's Delight goods and they could not find it again. Then why did you not order this company to refund the deficiency like you did the Durham company, at Mebanesville f You say you did "publish to the world irf- the Bulletin the shortage and it stands there a Listing record against tho brand." Why did you not also publish them in the newspa pers as you have done the Durham Company ! It is hardly necessary for us to re peat that what we want to see is fair play in these matters und we have put these questions to Mr. Robinson on our own responsibility, without the investigation of the Durham Company, and we anxiously await another card from Mr. Robinson. A Northern Opinion. The following is from the Journalist, a paper published in New York: "The South is a field for new men with new ideas, and new energy. Some pretty lively boomers have al ready drifted in that direction, but there is room for more. The man who goes South and grows up with the country has a far better .climate and as great an opportunity as in the West. lie has another advantage he is not going to new country. He will find men financially solid: men of ability and culture; men who make warm friends and generous rivals. He will find the climate delightful, living very cheap, and business of all kinds on the boom He will be among people who, if he is a gentlemen, he will find to be courteous, hospitable and ap preciative beyond any thing he every experienced in the North. With its natural advantages, it will one day, and that before long, become ouo of the richest and most prosperous sections of the United States. Those who go early and avoid the rusnwill be the first to share in the pros perity." The Philadelphia Record has just acf omplished the wonder ful feat of printing off an entire edition on paper made from a popular tree that was growing in the forest twenty-four hours before Here is the record of the experiments on detail: Chopping one and one half cords of wood, stripping and loading on a lioat, three hours; time consumed in the manufac ture of wood pulp twelve hours; manufacturing the wood pulp into paper, five hours: trans lating to Tho Keeord ollice, one hour and twenty minutes; wetting paper preparatory to printing, thirty minutes; print ing 10,000 copies, ten minutes. Total time from the growing tree to the printed paiHr, t wentv- rtwo hours. A self acting sofa, just big noiigh for two, has been paten t d by a Eastern Yankee. Ifjprop rlv wound up it will ring a bell at 10 o'clock, at one minute past 10 it splits apart, and while i ww half curries the daughterof th house up stairs and puts her U bed, the other half kicks the young mail out the door and locks it. Watch out boys! If you don't want to be landed In the front yard in such an un-ci-rciitoiuous manticr, you had better be sure that you are not 011 one of these self acting con cerns, or else Ivave when the clock strikes lo. " The Tefchcri Assembly at Morehead City passed a resolu tion adopting "the War for Southern ludeiiciulence' as a permanent name for the strug gle of ISOl-iJA between the stak'. W. Hciisingcr & Sous, dealers in furniture, at Louisville, Ky.t assigned Tuesday morning. Liabilities, fhj.OMU; assets, fl&,. 000, ute also that we knew that the
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