North Carolina Newspapers

VOL 72. NO. 36 DURHAMNORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY 'SEPTEMBER i6, 1891. J i.'.i HigHert of aU ia Leavening Power I It ru jjiiiiii It is known that wasps' 'neats often take fire, supposed to be caused by the chemical action of the wax upon the paper ma terial of the nest itself. May this not account for many rays terous fires in bams and out buildings t .. tl -KfHj NEW FIRF1! NEW GOODS,,!. Mrst $n '"The 'Mmlb ; WE HAVE iUSrOPENED A FINE STOCK OF j ; FINE O LOTII IN G F URNISI I IN G ' (iOOJ)$,: HATS.' Our line neck-wear is th prettiw tyoi vr saw, and our line or HATS in all shape will b- sure to pl-.'asu you. , J : . Ramooiber you have a special invitation to examine our stock. We trust by fair dealing to m?rit a share of your patronage. Be certain to give us a call when you come to Durham: W. A- SLATER & CO. !' WEIGHT BUILDING, FARTHING & DUKE. . WHOLESALE Dealers in J i. f f i . 1 i Notions, Clothing, etc Vl i I l I 1 1 1 S ' I T F "J- Ws ctrrv bi ftteck everMUJng you 7 bi t(tck everttUhi en Cod in any gnral lore. Wo carry Urg( jtoci &l) ..W.L. DOUGLASS :Sh&s,iisaUer& . , Lewis ', ic'Co.'s Shoes.' 0LD, HICKORY and Piedmont Wag-i ons and Boad Carts. 1 Oljcr'a Fertilizer The Na tional and Durham Ball Fer : Ulizers. TT ' it 'J fr l fc4 raaas? iDUBHAlf, n. c. TfTft t I 4 .for Infants MtMtahMValarfaiitaaMalJlfraatha. InmwaMsS aMMpartart ranlka liltlSM' . K. A. llmii M. IV, 111 Stk OafarS H, bnoUa, K. T. ."Va tan, tt 'Caawta,' an nUnl m4 ' M (MrMa aa al hanwa Hal a ama 1 tl mv,iiau.ai taaiiaiaiai H rr .,ki'.,.iy i45J I ta 0w I" ' ' 1 f 1 . . '!. . . a.. , , .,. .11 ., , a, . U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889." Tjhe. Massachusetts' ' rojiitif tion State Convention metfafc, Worcester yesterday and norni nated Cliarlea II. Kimball for ! Governor, Augustus R. Lee Jr.;' for Lieutenant Governor. JAJ fred W. Richardson foe Secre tary of "Stata, Mr?'Arm6trong forAndifor, andWplcott Har Iiu for 'Attorney ' General." ' j ,t. Next door toPostOffie . Itch on human , and horses and all animals cured in 30 min utes by , Woolford's . Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Bold by N. M. Johnson & Co., Drug gist, Durham, N. C. ap8tf BlplesHDrss, nervous prostration fits, St.- Vitna -lan,-iMrr-wti)ess, hyfiria, headache, h"t flu? hn, nerv oiin Hv(.i-):1. confusion, rc cun by. Dr. Mila'. Nerving Triial In tel's an8 Jim books firs at f Yearly drugstore or tddrvss Dr. 'Miles i.'ed adicsl Co., Elkhhart. Iud. Iralvr ( nn for rantlxir, win tlx 1 1 r . WM V ia THE 7. L.' DOUGLAS SHOE rrNfPrN TW BC8T8HOKMIHCtuil9OIIiliaoiiar 1 a .mmui. ..A with mu iiu bi nr frav thr4 1 kart u ! f th. bl t tall. llu r'w. tAr H 3P 9 MB r l-Orrmt l Vraat .i m whVIt I-.M frim tilt '. C1 HiU"rwrl Writ " d.l ai n.arf :el. tut .!'. tn b M.M 'T r- at Uili tl'-- t rMl M iujU .Ira. Mtlka (ma kslliilt (I. 1 4 n- tittmrf. lni!m4 wm cmi'h !) WlMi wu I trmtnrt - p. ihi. tW: wr. trial wtli rv . tr v.ry au.mtf f4 urat,M. 1M w h.v at tHpta a nmi wMI WMr M aUtar wall. riaval ! m4 ! -. ara liOlS anicti ktiMkmnrtokm Ibalaall kuUICV 1 i.ar.U.iw Myllan. a,laft u .41. a a fl..ao ft K t n ra tba bm t I all.-a Uat . 1- B-t.'a.' ,.w-.i.ratbatMt RnU'tutt t;h and W. ia Mnatklah VaM. 4 i 1 r. a- lt"Wi nc alfi. FOR SALE HY FAKTIIING & DUE, DURHAM, N. G. ' and Children. Aat m4al aajnv OnH ChBajtffla tLm 11ai a INarrtwwav EnnHalMM. kiM (in mkf, aa4 rtaMtaa St- WtlJWtotBa4fci4Mfc . 1 fir mt tout I tnt www'm'l'' ftmr IIMnrk,' mud ahall twr " ia an a II Jwf lavaturff prwluuaa kMHaMai - w a tro, f . pMaa, H. D arrkCitr. Omw. A W, Vfaiut a Va. ) :-.i''!-ii. Headinif Novels. , s ' ' Extremes should be avoided because they are generally re mote from truth. Some ; one has well said, that truth is ocated somewhere between two extremes. There are people who indiscriminately denounce all novels and novel 1 reading, and there are also those who go to the opposite extreme, but we prefer to choose a happy, me dium. " " . ' 1 Y ' We have read novels that not only- afforded -recreation' and pleasure, but also cultivated the mental' 'faculties,; aroused , the reader to the contemplation of all the virtues that ennoble and beautify huaiaii lif arid made hiftx ftffcL tbte ;presping obliga tions rested upon hira. to be good, brave, noble, pure and honor able in all things. On the other hand, we have read novels whose tendency was downward and ! corrupting. To ' approv the one and condemn the other is the , province of every fair minded man. f iv';'Vs j We have seen , newspapers, Cunningly and adroitly edited by wicked men,-, that could not enter a home circle and be pe rused by the children.- without gradually destroying a love of honor and purity leading them along a dangerous pathway that must ultimately end ia . their ruin, mere are, nowever, tnous- ands of. clean newspapers that are doing a grand work in edu cating both the young and the old, training them in all the duties that devolve upon true manhood. Because .ther are some bad newspapers, justice will not allow us to condemn all.., V.-:-3.;; - - The reading of trashy, sickly sentimental and "blood ' and thunder" hovels has done great barm, lne reading ot anything that makes- impure impressions on the mind cannot result in good to the human family. touch reading has broken up happy homes and blighted the brightest prospects lor useful- nebs. The books we read and the associations we form, and especially in early life, mould and fashion our characters. , Many parents have experienc ed bitter pains and anguish of heart because they placed im proper literature in the hands ot their boys and giris. The selection of appropriate reading matter for children is one ot the most important parental duties one requiring the keen est discriminating judgment and one upon winch hinges moment ous results.; , , : ; There are good and bad men. pure and impure literature, and novels, as well as other books. written by honorable and dis honorable authors. To repudiate all novels because some are bad is as ' foolish as to forsake all men and live a hermit's life, be- cause there are wicked men in the world. .Novels do not con stitute aH the bad literature. There are histories, biographies and other works that should not be allowed a place in the home in selecting reading matter of all kinds, we would counsel the same good judgnent that ought to be exercised in the selection of associates. Tub cenus of Canada has been completed." The returns submitted at Ottawa give pop ulation of about t5,00)fouo for the utire Dominion. r All the prov iucos show gains except i'rince hd ward Island, Quebec and New Brunswick, vhich show a decrease. Manitoba has grown from 4)0.000 to 150.000 In ten years and Winnipeg from 8,000 lO SC.UUV. ' ; The Board of Trustees of the Colored A. and M. College will meet in Kataigh on the 15th of October, to take definite action uiion the location of the college. They have propositions from Durham, Raleigh, W ilmington Greensboro and Winxton, rang lng from IS to 50 acres of " land and from $5,0o0 to $15,000 in mouey. - . , . , T ; , ' 5 ,, . It is said that of 4!8 men who had the title of general in the Confederate service only 184 are left, , u; r. licaurcguard is the sole survivorof those who hel the highest rankthat of f ul general. I , ' ' ' Ilia VelMwe. . ? i Mrs. Brown What " makes that baby cry so, Benjamin? s Mr. Brown (who is doing the perambulating act) I'm pinch IDS himl 1 !, ;! "Why, what in the world are vou doing that forr ' . "I can't keen awoke long enough to get hi in to sleep uu less he cries." Binghatnton Leader. - Btgluliiff of the Kunian Famine A clergyman writes to the Moscow Gazette from a village in the province of Kazan as fol lows: "Those who live in towns can hardly form an idea of all the terrors of tho prevail ing distress among the rural population.- We residents in the country have opportunities of seeing it at ifim quarters in all its terrible powen It is sad to watch - the ' Bight presented by an ordinary tick person, but it is far more 1 unbearable to look on a hungry, famine-stricken, and starving people Iu my parish there are individuals who have gonei without bread for two or three weeks togeth er, - and 'are , endeavoring to nourish themselves upon grass, and leaves of trees. When they get hold' f a morsel of black bread they" do not eat it themselves, but give it to their small children. ; In passing through one village thiB priest found sixteen persons in' the last stages of enteeblement and exhaustion from; hunger, , One woman of this number soon af ter succumbed to starvation. This village V umbered ,145 houses, and ia' only twenty were the neasanta eating: their usual food. The distress seems to be as great in 'other villages of the same district. From oth er reports which are to hand it appears that there is much ex citement among the peasantry at the prospect oeiore them. rom the Hi. James's , , The Cotton ricainc Trust. . Referrine to the neero cotton picking trust the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche says: ,, lhe conflict -oeiween- ine Colored , Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Pickers League" and the planters is now on, the bead 01 the overissuing a proc lamation forbidding members to pick cotton for less" than $1 per 100 pounds. Messrs. Polk, Alacune. Livingstone ana 11c Dowell have now a problem be fore them which; will require all their genius to solve, unless the cold weather causes the price of cotton to raise at once to such afigure that the farmers can afford to pay the price de manded br the pickers, as thew leaders vlvAax io have' ap peared on earth to reconcile the irreconcilable, it- will be inter esting to observe their methods in dealing witn tne present sit uation. No question of politics is involved, however, and , this fact may induce them to waive consideration, leaving the pick ers and the farmers to ficht it 0Ut.;, ; ; , A Remarkable Freak of Nature. There arrived in New York on Monday a handsome Hindoo youth named Lalloo Rampra sad Rhikarec, who is exciting much interest among medical men. .Projecting from his breastbone are the legs, arms and part of the body of another human being of miniature pro portions. According- to the New York Herald, au the doc tors who aaw Lalloo and . his little half brother Monday said that they could bo separated safely. They; named a New York surgeon, in tact, wno rould do it. This, It was aaid is where American ahdomtnal snrgery is ahead of European, for Lalloo and his little half brother have been through Eng land, Scotland and Germany, as well as Ilindostan, and all the foreign doctors have decid ed to leave them together. - Generuaa Toward the Ncgroc-s. Ashrvillb, N. C. September 10. The colored pwplo of Ashe ville have to thank George Van derbilt's mother for a bona fide gift of $10,000 in cash, to be ex pended in th erection of a twenty-thousand dollar xoung Men 8 Christian Association building, for the colored, and George Vanderbilt individually, for brick enough to build it. They have also to thank R. U. Garrett, of Asheviiie, and his friends for the fivethousand- dollar lot, on which the build ing will stand. 1 he building will be located in Eagle terrace, and work on it has already be gun in the same locality. . A twelve-thousand-dollar hotel for the colored will be built by a joint-stock company. AU of them reside in Asheviiie. . A Sugg'enMoua ' ' Grandfather Well, Paul, what would you like fur a birth day ftresent? Paul Oh, grandpa, buy me a telephone, to that i can answer the teacher's questions without having to go to school. PERTAIN CW-rO PAPERS., The Wilmliiirioii1 Messenger Comments Upon if'SnnTPa . .."." , ragraph. ' : ,,,1. ! Thr Dcrham Sum very appro priately says: ."If is the local paper that advertises your business, ' your schools, your churches, your numerous socie ties,' sympathizes with you in affliction and rejoices in your prosperity. In short, it is your local paper that mentipns the thousand and one items - in wheh yon are interested during the year, and which you do not find in the outside papers. -; And it is the armada that is expected to fight the battles of a community and avenge griev ances, real and fancied. ; And if W fails1 to redress a wrong through want Of public co-operation, it becomes the the Object upon which is cast the spleen and bile. i; It will be cursed if it says anything and it will be blasphemed if it doesn't.' 1 There is no telling how grandly bene ficial and 1 sublimely satisfac tory it is to have something upon which- Diame tor every tning may be thrown, - v in a community of a thous and there are just one thousand antipodal ways ; suggested ex actly what a paper should print and what it shouldn't each in dividual, of course, viewing . it from a miserable, selnsh stand point, as if he '. were , the only reader, and his the only sup- ?)rt that maintains the paper, here are always more men out side the office, who, in their own immaculate conceit, know just how a paper ought to be run, than can be employed lor love or money from professional ranks.' .- 7" ..., .. , ;.; , v A Newspaper Man's Dilemma. A pusher of the pencil went out to report a party the other evening where the home had recently been blessed oy a ba by. Accompanied by his -best girl he met the hostess at the door and after the usual saluta tions he asked about the baby's health. The lady, who was Site deaf and suffering wtb e flrrippe. thought he was ask ing about her cold, and told him that she usually had one every winter, this is the worst one she ever had: it kept her awake nights a good deal. Then noticing that ' the scribe was getting pale and nervous she said she could tell by his looks that he was going to have one just like hers, and asked him to go in and sit down. The paper was out as usual the next week but . 1 a I j. me local coiuion am not con tain any news of the baby. Ex. . 1 ' i.--. Uow the Dead Were DMrtbutrd Statesville Landmark: Capt P..C. Carlton, who interested himself from the outset in keep ing; a correct list of the killed and wounded, has made an in terestinar table showing the dis tribution of these throughout the train. Thus, in the second class car there were 9 persons, of whom 6 were killed and 3 wounded: in the first-class car: 27 il killed and .16 wounded; Pullman sleeper: 12-3 killed. 9 wounded; superintendent's pri vate car : 2-both wounded. Late Newa Not. Ex-Congressman Willian L. Scott is steadily gaining health at Newport. , 1 i, --: The railway postal clerks will hold their next convention at Washington. Ex-Congressman Charles , B. Clarke of Neewah, Wis., Is re ported dying at Thcreas, N. Y. Rich gold bearing quarts has been discovered ou the Atiko kan iron range at Pert Arthur, Gnt. , v . ; The Railway Clerks' Associa tion baa paid IM.ooo to bene ficiaries during the year, leav ing a balance of $4,319,35. The headquarters of the Aus tin division of post office msnec tors, in order to wage war more effectively . on ', the Louisana State lottery, has been moved to rew Orleans, La. At Georgians, Butler County. Ala., Josepn Touart, a mer chant, was found murdered vex- temay. at throat was cut and ' a ... his skull crushed, two negro tramps who are suspected cf the crime are being pursued by bloodhounds, A strike of freight conductors on the Nashville and Decatur division of the Louisville and Nashville , Railroad occurr ed Tuesday night, owing to the corapanya declining to rein state a man who wan dincharg ed for refusing to take out' hit train. Co-Oj)cratlin with tiio Farmera. A plan of co-operation. with farmers of the State has been instituted by which tho benefits of the N.' C. Agricultural Ex periment Station are brought more directly before their at tention. All of the pub-alliances in North Carolina (num bering nearly 2,:)uo) havo been requested to form "Experimen tal Committees," the chairman of which is to be in constant communication v,;ith tlx; Station Press Bulletins, as well as re gular and special bulletins and reports of progress of the feta tion, are sent to these commit tees, and the matters contained in them are discussed. A question-box is also used, iu which any member can deposit any question. After discussion by the meeting, headed by the Ex perimental Committee, the ques tions, if desired, can be submitt ed to the Experiment Station for answer. Tlwse questions may be embraced under any di vision of agriculture, kvery Grange in the State has also been asked to adopt the plan. From the number of Experimen tal Committees which are being expressed, the plan will doubt less prove, an unoounueu suc cess. It is gratiiyiag to note that the recent meeting of the ri, U. " Farmers btate Alliance at Morehead passed a resolution endorsing . the above plan of Experimental Committees for-J mulatedby the N. C Experi-1 mcnt Station.. For Dt'iiuwrattc 8uc:iis. . Col. J. II. Allf-n, of Louisville, Ky., while on his way to Europe was interviewed in 2sv.vt York, concerning Kentucky politics. lie said: "if ilr. Cleveland is nominated, the Kentucky Deiu ocrats will vote lot mm to a man, and so will every Demo crat in tho South. Thin is un - questionably truo. llmre are some Democrats who prefer another candidate, but when the convenUm meet,- should Mr, Cleveland be the. choice of the party,, as we believe he will, every Democrat ia the South and every other section 01 the Union, will buckle on his armor and fight for Cleveland s elec tion -We-admire Air Cleveland for his manliuess, ani hope he will sretthe nomination, because we believe he is the strongest Dem ocrat whose name has been men tioned ia connection with the Presidency. We have no fault to find, however, of those Dem ocrats who tumfc uiuerentiy We do not blame them to throw their influence iu favor of an - other man. Thay are not seek- ing the disruption of the Demo- cratic party, in tho event that they cannot nominate the man of choice, any mere than we are, should our man be unsuc- cessful. All Democrats are for Democratic victory, and they will cheerfully surrender per sonal preferences to this achieve ment. They will go into the convention divided as to who is the best man to carry the Dem ocratic stanilard to victory. They will leave the convection united in their ciiort to eiect united in tneir e iom to eioct he nominee, htmg under the uemocruuu uauurr unvia .v - tory is perched uw:i its folds. we are ready to uw au we can for our Dersoua! choice before the convention lueeU. Should another gt the nomination, we will stand roaay w uo au we can to elect bim. bvcause he is the representative of, Dcmocra- tic principle. UUi ahe feel- ing that governs tjvt-ry true Democrat, whetfcur he be a Cleveland or an aati-Ctaveland man. 1'ieveutiii I'rotit Tho New York Advertiser says tho manipulator 01 the elcmont are now about to turn their attention from rain-mak- v L ( K r, of but rarely, even when at liber of frost. Mr. L. h Knita-n 01 , ,uAt,uhu .(.inii a Chicazo baa written to Secre tary Ruk in r'gari t- the mat ter, suggesting .that tin mater ials uoa by CM I Dyrcr.f urth m irHlucujg rain tlu'V ovr prtHiuced rui ih Kftv'd as a tiieaus for "crcai.cg a urt of fog which will be a preventative gainst the ravugv ot trottt.' That is to say, the bombard- inent cf the ciouda will not be to the extent t. so rip them open that thu raius may defend upon the cirtii, bur, . simply "sort of f'.g " suiiicii-nt to keep oti frost, ihis is likely tore quite such delicato luarksman ship that the military may have to be called in and the whole proceedings transferred to the War Department. Now U the time to subscribe to Tuc Kecokpkk. A Kind Word for Every One. What a glorious earth this would be if every one would speak kindly one to another, and always -greet each other - with a bright smile. . We know a gentleman who lives in this town whose hair is the color of driven Bnow, and every day as ne goes ciowu street to his place of business, it seems as if every thing grows brighter as he goes along. . His smile is like a ray of sunlight aud he always , has a kind word for every one from the humble shop girl to the pre sident of the bank. It doubt less seems a small thintr to him to be always cheerful, out God alone knows th'3 good his kind words and brierht. smiles have done in this busy, pushing, wicked world. When the writer first took charge ' of this pa per Mr was the first man to congratulate him and wish him success. Everybody loves Mr, , the children idolize him and think there is nothing in the world like having a romp with him. What a grand thing if there were more like him. There are so many noble men and women in the world who hide tho beauty of character in them by saying unkind words, words which they would give worlds not to have spoken after it is too late. - Thus these unfor tunate ones go on blundering, through life making others mis- erable by saying sharp, cutting things in stead of trying tobu bright and cheerful and helping others to be better. Greensboro Patriot. -. A dispatch from Kansas City states that the movement of grain towards that city from the West, on its way to the sea board, is unprecedented; that loaded cars fill the side tracks for miles and miles, and that the men who handle grain are working night and day to facil itate the prompt movement of As the season advances this activity which is now so ob servable in the West will per vade the cities on the coast, and the flow of gold from Eurbjie to this country wm not only glad den the heJrt of the W estern farmer, but will also serve to stimulate trade in all its various branches. For causes which have not been fully explained, a great deal of gold was export ed from the United States to Europe during the past Spring and early Summer, but this will now all return, and if the reports of short crops in Franco. Germany and other Continen tal States be true, aa renortetl. t probable that the Hurnlua grain will brintr into the United States a sum aDDroximatinir that which will be received for the cotton crop. The balance of trade should be largely in favor of the United Etates the present year. BIO SXAKKS'A K AT CATCH- UK. ThcjrTiiVe tit PUr of Cata In Nome rariani uracil. A correspondent in Rio Janei ro writes that a pest of rats has become so formidable in- many rt, of Brazii that snake are r,t.mgfijucate4 to battle with i ttltt Vi,Pm!n The domestical- ed snake used for this purpose, he writes, "is a species 01 small a " V boa. at thick as a man's arm and about four yards long. They are sold for from five to evtsi francos in the markets of T?.a TumrtmHM.i Ratita - unit Mh '. dtici( It u a most lnof. . k,nsive ftI1(1 harmless serpent, and passes the day sleeping, carted up at the toot of the house stairs." At the approach of night the iboa begins to roam about the house itn noiseless quicrc ncssit throws itself upon the rollouts, seizing them by the neck with its teeth. Death is instantaneous. As the boa eats for the pleasure 01 the aiaugn- ter. These serpents become atuched to certain dwellings. and whn removed to other houses' frequently make their escape and return to the old hunting grounJs. ' "ror this reason, in the - hot ter provinces of Brazil,' where the rats are always innumera ble, t-ach hotie has its boa, whoae rat-killing powers are glorified as a special induce ment whenever the landlord iscs. Ax old lady of -Salina. Kas.. began her prayer ty saying: "o Lord, thoi has probably read la the morning papers how thy day was desecrated yesterday." In six years Rrazil has multi plied its debt four times.