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"J KNOW NOT WHAT THE TJtlTII MAY BE; I'LL TELL IT AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME.", Volume 75No 37, Durham, N. C., Wednesday, January 3.0, 1895. Established 1820 Working in Debt. Many years ago a large, intelli gent aud well to Jo shipper of loaf tobacco in Lynchburg, V. of hoi. rabio nanio, was a chief pa trou of our immcdiuto family as commission merchants of Rich mond. Tho shipper lost ou his invoices year in and year out and nlwiiva ponii)laiued accordingly of j - 1 w V his losses, and as often was re proved for : shipping, and at last was requested to ship no more to bacco at such ruinous 'rates and losses. This remonstrance, how ever, only brought forth the la conical reply that he was bound t) keep shipping and had no oth er way to support his family it seems to us that not only th IS Virgiuia shipper, but our Vir ginia and North Carolina planters, loe their wits alike. Tho planter who makes two aud three cent to bacco knows he is losing year by year, in money, 'labor, laud im provement, etc.; still he repeats the exhaustive process", with no expectation of improvement in quality or price. The lower the previous crop and the meaner, the more seems to be the incentive for planters to attempi still a worse prepared and larger crop the next season, hoping for some jnysUi ous luck to get them", out of the mire of debt. The time and la bor and outlay thus lot, if it were employed in enriching the farm, leaving out exhausting tobacco as a crop for several years, and then nuking, on the rented and pre pared laud, one good crop where three poor ones are now made, would give the world some rest ol poor tobacco, and would improve prices and profit and the farm, while planters could live oil the better and icara more by cxjri enee and practical application to other crops, that could be con sumed at best on the farm. There is no end to the diversity of farm products, and paying ones, but, like gold, they must be hunted for intelligently and mined out. Southern Tobacconist. Chairman Moltoa Chairman Hollon was inter viewed in Raleigh last week by a correspondent of the Statcsvillf Landmark. We take some ex tract: "There will in all probability be a sjiccial Sujicrior Court judge, at the Governor's command, to try cases ?icdily. For such a judgt there is a general public demanu and need. ""There will be a constitutional amendment submitted to the peo ple for ratification, engrafting cer tain cardinal principles into the election laws, litis will be the cul mination of the whole work of co ojieratiou of the two parties. The salient features of this amendment will be in regard to the manner ol holding the election and the mat- t rof registration. This amend ment will lie made one of the principal isnucs of the next cam paign, in awe the Lk.-moor.iUi oj pi; it. If ouch an amendment i not submitted the fruit of thi victory might bo noonjmopt away by a tidal wave or the restoration of a Democratic Legislature. "Much money is to be saved in the public printing, not so much in tho prices paid as in the lop ping off of a great part of the printing by the pes'age of the bill giving the county authorities the right to graitt charters, etc., thuf cultiiig off the incorjioration bilb, private measures, etc., which m, engross the time of the Legkl tire. cry many of such bub are thoroughly covered by the general law. "An effort will be made In the line of an extension of public edu cation by a plan for local assess ment by school districts, towns or counties.' The Great Suit " Tho contemplated suit against tho American Tobacco Company in North Carolina and other States, it is related that quite a smart jurist says that the fight will ho it issue as to which is the best lawyer, tho Attorney General or tho lawyers that the American Tobacco Company will retain for 10 defense. The American To bacco Company ; will furnish the best talent that money can pro cure, the is ortu Carolina suit cau't come up till April, and de cisions wilL muchdepend upon those suits against other trusts, now pending. Southern Tobac conist. ' Lynching; at the North. .Wheuover a case of lynching occurs at the South,' though for the most heinous of all crimes, it is always paraded at the North as evidence of our lack of civilization and want of regard for the rights and life of the negro. But when such events occur, as they fre quently do, at the North, 'and for crimes of tfar less magnitude, lit tle notice is taken ot them that quarter, even though the victim be a white man of their own blood and kind :vd 1 The most recent md diabolical case of this kind is just presented - in vIIolt county, Nebraska, where Barrett Scott, the ex-treasurer of that county, was overpowered by a mob of lawless citizens, shot while in his carriage with his wife and children, taken to the river m ar by, hung by a t rope to d ulhj aud his mutilated body thrown into the cold stream, from which it has just been re covered. The only charge against ' him was that ho was short in his treasury accounts, which pales in to insignificance beside the atroci- jus crimes that cause lynching in .he South. In speaking of this monstrous offense, the Washing ton News puts in the following well timed remarks: The victim of this lynching had ived honored aud respected. Doubts as to his guilt were enter tained, and yet a law mob of self- rigtcous conservators snatch him from the fide of his wife, treat him with the indignities of the lamnc 1, hang him till dead, and then cast the clay that held a living ul in its keeping into a frozen river. The Mwions of the Southern man are aroused by desecrations of virtue; but these Nebraska self-constituted saints are wrought to frenzy by a loss of money. Madness of materiality fades into coiitcmptibilily when contrasted with vengeance for a ruined home and outraged virtue. Oh! the inconsistency of a jcple jrho we a mote in the eye of their brother and fail to discover a beam hiding their own Infamy. Nebraska aud her sympathetic i.-ters should veil their counten ance!" in a mask sufficiently thick to hide their own shame. They should purge themselves from their own leprosy before leading a crusade agaiust tho wickedness of others. There are hundreds of good people in the State of Nebras ka, who, like the better clement of the South, condemn in the strongest terms such acts of violence. Uf OoaM'tCkildraa. An exchange says, the Goulds are certainly a family with some sensoof possibilities and respon sibilities of riches. George found it made a great business, a res pected and honorable position, a beautiful wife, and ft big family some of the things which make life worth living. , Edwin has (ol lo wed Lis example. Howard main tains that gaycty ' and revelry come before solidity, but he en joys lifo to tho full. Helen ha accomplished in charitable work what Dr. Park hurst has in poli tics. She hits completely reor ganized " two or three tenement houses, cured crippled children by placing them in hospitals and making difficult . operations fpos sible, and given hundreds of poor children nearer glimpses of heav en than all the ; missionaries who go to the' Cannibal Islands will give the savages from now to doomsday. Anna, the second and much engaged sister, believes in glory, titles, position and all the adjectives accessories which go with a 'brilliant match." But she has the low brow, the piercing dark eyes and the family charac teristics of common, sense and calm speculation, and is quietly studying law as well as learning how to enter a roon after tho footman has shouted: "The Prin cess of So and So." Reminiscences of Judge flangnm Prof. Stephen V. Weeks, who is doing a great service for North Carolina in Collecting data and writing a history of her great men, is at present engaged on a bio graphy of Judge Willie P. Man- gum. Statesville Landmark. A New Year's Query Business like a slaugter house, No matter whero you're tt, Is pretty full ol gristle, With a precious little fat; A little lean And lots of bones, And some of this And that A feast bne day, A famine next, No matter where you're at. The ups and downs are many, With a suplus of the downs; They come to one and all of us, In cities or in towns. We're up today, Tomorrow down,. . In palace Well as flat, And the question That comes home to all Is this, Where are you at? Now you are at in business What requires nerve and brains, To bring about the best results And show the proper gains; You got there, But your own reward Was neither this Nor that, You worked last year For every one else, And this (o) is where you're at New York Tobacco. Me RooMto Thar Last Saturday a Democrat of Concord wanted to go out in the country hunting. lie saw in town well known Populist farmer, and asked permission of nun to shoot rabbits on Lis place. lie was promytly and iwrcmptorily in formed that neither he nor any other Democrat could hunt on his land. Another lemocrat re marked that it didn't make any difference anyway, as he had been hunting for week and hadnt lumricda rabhit in a mile or a Pop's place ytt Times. Reform" The Itahsigh News and Observer has made an investigation of the number of clerks and other em ployes who bold places tinder the present Legislature. It says there are 21 more "laborers" than were employed by th last Democratic Legislature, one more assistant engrossing clerk and two more pages. "The total increase In ll payroll thai entailed," sayi the News and Observer, "amounts to $3,670 for tho session." And this is "reform." Let the work of "re form" proceed. THt conomontr iitt rmmr. In speaking of the condition of the treasury the Washington Post editorially sayiUiat it is no longer possible to disgaise or prudent to Ignore the fact that the condition of the treasury is gravely discbur aging. Neither can any intelll gent person hope for relief from any of the temporary and empiri cal remedies that have been pro posed.:. Nothing could be clearer than the fact that the trouble calls for constitutional -treatment and heroic methods. Primarily, the drain of gold from the treasury must be arrested, and, next, the conditions that favored and pro moted that draiu must be eradi- cated. .'.' ' la other words, it is necessary, first, that we replenish our stock of gold by an issue of bonds, and, secondly, that we provide for such an abundant national revenue that the motive for further depletion will be permanently removed. No one, we assume, now believes that any measurable relief is pos sible as a result of such home opathic expedients as have been resorted to within the past few months. Experience has shown us that to obtain $55,ooo,ooo or $57,000,000 gold by a sale of bonds is to change nothing. The gold comes in, to be sure, but it does not remain. There is not eaougb of it to restore confidence, and the o!d process of depletion, made so practicable by our currency laws, sets, in afresh almost before the ink is dry upon the signatures to the bonds. Within a 'fortnight the situation is as deplorable as ever. We have added $50,000,000 more to our debt, but the pold supply is as scant as thought nothing bad been done. The government might go on at this -ate indefinite ly, supposing that ti e bonds could be sold indefinitely,' and it wonld get no nearer a solution of the dif ficulty. . What is needed to meet imme diate emergencies is an issue of net ess than $500,000,000 of bonds s measure that will bring in a:) iiHu dauce of gold. We want a supply that cannot be exhausted within a month by the endless chain pro cess of redeeming paper -a supply so large that its mere existence will quit the apprehensions of the country and destroy the incentive of ha.y and indiscriminate with drawal. A loan that can be taken up by half a dozen banks or capi talists avails notaing, as we have seen. Now let us try the experi ment of a loaa that will be distrib uted among ' the markets of the world; that will embrace all classes of our people that will be too large for any New York syndicate to handle, and that cannot be robbed ot its ben licence within a month by the simple but effective expedi ent of the endless chain. Even that, of course, will not achieve a permment and final cure, or until we provide the treasury with a revenue in notable excess of its expenditures the forces of de pletion will remain In active and unceasing opt ration. But it will give the country a breathing spell of security and congress leisure for an intelligent and effective recon struction of our tariff and financial systems. We know, now, that we can maintain our gold reserve without difficulty, once we make it clear that the government has leached a solvent basis. All we need, therefore, is legislation which puts us permanently on that basis, and meanwhile, a supply of old that will suffice pending the de sired consummation. A tarrible boiler explosion shook Mcndota, 111., and the surrounding country for miles Friday afternoon. Six dead and seven injured are the known victims of the calamity. The explosion was In the brewery of C. Meaning & son's. The names of the known dead are: C. Keifert. David Cheer, David Wells, Adam BcrscheidU The news that U. S. 9. Raleigh was ordered to sail at 6 c! xk Friday night and that officers on leave In Boston had been hurriedly recalled, created considerable sur prise yesterday. The vessel did not get away until late yesterday evening. Commissioner Wallace, commandant of the naval station, said yesterday that there was no I jecial significance in her hurried drparture. The Kaletgn will join Admiral Meadow's squadron in Hampton Roads. MAYOR I N. LINK DEAD He Died Suddenly In Oreensboro Saturday Horning. A GOOD HAN 15 GONE Durham (lourni th DmnlM of Oas ot Hor But CltlKM, Cut Dowa la tho - Prion of Lit. ' Our community wit almost owtpt off ita feet Saturday morning when. tele (ram was received announcing the death of Hayor Isaac Newton Link. Man hurried here and there to ask : "Can it be ao ?" Alas! the dread tidings were only too true. , To all men it is allotted that they must die, and Mayor Link had answered the final decree. , For many rears he had been afflicted with a heart trouble, which became more pronounced as the years rolled by The day he left us to visit Creensboro his physician told hint that his hesrt was in a precarious condition, and told him to take good care of himself. Hi death proved clearly that the doctor's diagnosis was correct Saturday morniug, while riding in a carriage to the dejyjt in Greensboro, his spirit left hi body so peacefully that those ridiug with him knew not of its departure till the depot was reached. ' To be bora and to die is the common fate of all, end it is very tweet to die with the friendship of everybody to hal low your memory. No man in ourinidst, perhapt.enjoyed the friendship of all classes more thor oughly than did Mayor Link. He was a friend to the people, and the people were his friend. Twice they elected him to the aiayorilty of the city, and their loyalty to hiuj had not abated at the time of hit taking off. The deceased mayor was 46 years old, and front hit boyhood bad been loved lor his kind-heartedness. Mature age intensified this Cae trait of character, and bia great popularity may be ascribed to it. If yon accounted Newt Link as your friend you would never misplace yourconfidence. His heart was at big at hit body.aud nnkindnest was a thing unknown to him. . lie was man of honor. It be made yoa a promise, It was tare to be fulfill ed. If be represented anything to you as being true, yon miht count on it as beings certain fact. If be professed friendship for yon, yoa could never truthfully say that yon were friendless. Saturday hit corpse wte brought back to us from Greensboro. A large ctottd met the remains at the train, end the body was escorted to the nityor's office, which bad beea. appropriately draped, by a detainment from the Dur ham Light Infantry, and a large num ber ot citizens. At tn evidence of bit tterling worth, it may be stated that throughout the afternoon continuous stream of friends poured into the mayor's office to pay their respects to hit memory, and to take a last look at him, who, in death, teemed but asleep.- Msy Col rest bis soul in peace. wmshmoth umn. Washington, D. C, Jan. 2 Today in the house of representa tives Messrs. Settle and Swanson made two very good speeches, in support of their amendments to strike from the Sundry Civil bill fi 0,000 appropriated for those who inform on illicit distillers. Both gentlemen denounced this method of finding out violators of the in ternal revenue law. On its face.it encourages a very discreditable practice and offers a premium to the disreputable habit of informing on one's neighbors. If the ititernrl revenue officials ai unable to per form their duties hi backing moon shine whiskey, it seems to me it is much better not to have an army of spie paid to help them do so. Messrs. Settle and Swanson will lose nothing among their constiiu ants for the bold stand they have taken in this matter. Mr. Richard Busbce, of Raleigh, NT, C, has been appointed a cadet at West Toiut. Senator Jeter C. Tritehard took the oath of office yesterday after noon in the senate chamber. He was escorted to the vice president's desk by his predecessor ,ex-Scnator Jarvis. He did not intend to come here ' until next week, but was telegraphed for by his republican colk agues to come on at once and be present at the republican cau cus, which has just adjourned at the capitol. Senator Jarvis accidently christ cned him "Jeter 0. Philips" but after this, the formality of making hi m senator came off in good order. Immediately after be took the oath he was congratulated by Senator Chandler, Teller and others, who Highest of all in Leavening AE43UUXELY PURE will take him in hand and teach him the ropes. He promises to be an apt pupil. He is a fine look- ng man and as he strode down the aisle of the senate his moun tain brogans made the floor of the senate creak. There was an elegant dinner given to the diplomatic corps at the white house last night. It is the first state dinner of the sea son and all the foreign legations ere present. Last night at Metzerett hall Frank G. Carpenter, the well known newspaper correspondent, gave a very entertaining lecture on China. The illustrations of the Great Wall were marvelous." His pictures of scenes from .the court of the Emperor of China and his sketches of Li Yung Chang were very entertaining. A MUSICAL imKL Miis Ellen Beach Yaw is coming to Durham. Monday, February 4, is the date. " It is not frequent that the man agement of attractions in this city can offer such a high grade entertainment-as the coming of Miss Yaw, the wonderfnl high ranged soprano promises, to be. We give below a notice and scale showing the comparison with the highest notes of two noted artists : Such great interest has been manifested throughout the country concerning the remarkable talents ol Miss Yaw, the charming young California soprano, that we publish herewith an interesting illustra tion of her highest note in compar ton with the highest notes of two famous prima donnas : Yaw Darn When it is remembered that Cassie Rem only touched G on the the fourth, Di Murska F above the third, Christine Nilsson F sharp, and Pattl G on the fourth, Miss Yaw's voiee will be the better ap preciated by musicians. When Nilsson sang the high P. sharp in Mozart' "Magic Flute," her lis teners fairly labored between rapt ure and hysteria. Miss Yaw sings igh F sharp without the slightest eu'ort, and sustains the note with the sweetest quality. If any have supposed that Miss Yaw, with her trvclous range, is merely a rausi- ul freak, they are very much mis kej. Her voice throughout its entire range is sweet, expressive and sympathetic. She reaches the highest and lowest notes with CARL H. GARDNER TUNER AND REPAIRER OF PIANOS -AND ORGANS, Durham, N. C. Special attention given to repairing all kinds of musical instruments. Old pianos and organs stained and varnished and made to look new. Can give lowest prices and boat of reference. Satisfaction In every instance, speci men Work can be neen at my office on Mangttrn street, and I will tako pleasure in visiting adjoining towns or residences of parties in the country upon notification. jan-10. Power. Latest 17. S. Gov't Report much less effort than the ordinary singer, and sustains them with faultless accuracy. The expressions of a critic upon Miss Yaw's remarkable voice serve very aptly to define the sensation which fills the auditor when listen ing to her phenomenal ' pitch E above high E. He said : "Hu man comprehension may follow her voice to high C and fairly keep its feet on earth, but when the sev enth tone above that is vibrated with a clear, bell-like charm, it is then that one ascribes the effect to some supernatural instrumen tality; it is not earthly enough for our faltering concertion." In Paris the critics marveled at her prodi gious voice, as indeed did the fa mous Nilsson. - When Miss Yaw sangC above high C the great prima donna could not comprehend the great altitude and was not satisfied.that Miss Yaw had really reached th:s great height until she had struck the key on the piano. N. Y- Musical Courier, '94. mi MT HILLSBOtO. One of the largest fires Hillsboro has had in several years occured Friday night about 2 o'clock. The fire destroyed the residences of Dr. Hooker, Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Sal- lie Rosemond. We have not heard how the fire originated. 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