North Carolina Newspapers

Will Pay HI Expenses. . A special from San Francisco says: i'Chas. D. Lane, part owner of the Utica gold mine, announces that be will give William J Bryan financial sup port in bis advocacy of bi-met-allism. Tbe Californian will see to it that Mr. Bryan's trav oling expenses are paid, and tbe living expenses of himself and .family are paid during tbe next four years.! Mr. Lane is a very wealthy . mine owner, and is ample able to take care of Mr. Bryan and bis family. He has abiding faith in tbe democratic candidate for president, and. realizing that Mr. Bryan's in come is limited, thinks it is not fair fcr bim to bear the expen ses of a campaign in tbe interest of silver." ; ', Charged Wltb Hatband' Dealh. Norfolk, Vs., Nov. 11. Chas Klcbuhut proprietor cf the Mint saloon, was found dead iu his room this aflertoou. Death had beeu caused by asphyxiation. The gus jft was o;cii and the room could not be entered at ouco. The dead man was found lying , on a cot fully dressed. Kl. lmhu and bis wife have long lived unhappily together, and, a few mouths ago they executed a deed of separation. Since then however, they have again lived together, oud only yesterday the man was fined in the police court for oeating his wife. She l.u been arrested on smjicioo of suf focating ber husband while be was drunk. A TerrlblA Affair. jGiUAVILLK, N. C , Nov. 11 Yesterday, in tbe northern por tion of this countv, Mr. Wyati Meeka lost by fire a barn con taining seventy-five barrels of com "and five bales of cotton. Just after tbe fire tbe terrible discovery was made that two of Mr. Meek's children, aged 3 and 5 years, respectively, had per ished in the flames. It is sup posed tbe children went in the barn to play, and, setting fire to some shucks near the door, ran up on the corn, piled in the back of the barn. Tbeir char red bodies were found on the pile of corn after tbe building had burned down. A special from Winston to tbe Raleigh News and Observer tAjsthat Hon. Tommie Settle said Wednesday that he would not contest the election of Hon W. W. Kltcbin. This is much better. There has been entirely too much "contesting" the past few years and Mr. Settle will make more friends by letting the people say who shall r j re sent them than be would by go- Ing before a partisan fcongris and chesting Mr. Kitchin out of bis seat. No doubt he takes it very bard, for this is the first time be was ever defeated for cfllce. But then be could not stay In congress all his life and the sooner be gets acquainted with the fact that there "art others" the better it will be for him. t'Mba ami National Honor. Much has been beard of late concerning the national honor. Solicitude fc that is the noblest of patriotic sentiments, but sure ly tbe solicitude should extend beyond the question of our monetary standard. For more than two years a war has been going on at our doors the out com vf which ought to enlist the interest of every Ametican who is capable of sympathizing with the desire of a people to throw oil monarchical rulu and achieve freedom. The Cubans are making as gallant, as des perate a fight against tremend ous military odds as our own Revolutionary forefathers did. Suppose France bad been as coldly Indifferent to our cause as our government is to the cause of the patriots of Cuba, bow long might Dot the Inde pendence of America have been postponed? Yet the France which gave us money to pay our armies, and sent an army and navyjof her own to help us, was a monarchy, the absolute mon. archy of Louis XVI. To be sur, Louis bad his ends against England to serve, just as we have Borne business interests that cry out agajnbt the contin uance of the Cuban war, but high and generous sentiment was the mastering motive which brought France to our aid. Her philosophers bad imbued all classes of her people, including tbe nobility with an ardent love of liberty, f which we got the first practical benefit. Tbe United States is a republic, and it once was her policy as well as her pride to give words of encouragement to auy people that rose nguiust oppression and made our declaration of independence its own. That is stilt the dispo sition of the masses of this re public, but'our government has elected to ignore the popular voice as to Cuba and to listen to the voice of tlioso who, constiaiued by timidity or sordid personal in terest, urge nou intervention. The national honor is nothiug to these selfish citizens. Enthusiasm for auyt'.iiug save their own pockets seems mem sentimental folly to them. Are we a republic of shopkeej)- ers only? Is it solely questions f money that can rouse our souls? Does tlif tpectuclc of a neighbor ing people battling bravely for the same liberty that we ei.j y, and looking vainly to use for far less than weiifour hour of dire ueed received from monarchical France, have nothing to say to the natif ual honor of the United States? New York Journal. The ltcpubllcao I'rrna Aatunlahrd. The republican press is aston ished that the democratic party should be still alive and kick ing kicking strenuously, says tbe New York Journal. What the republican press says it wants is peace, a rest frdm pol itics, and in order to secure the Missing it goes right ahead talking in its campaign voire, ailing decent, law-abiding, hottest and patriotic American citizens repudiators, Anar chists, advocates of free riot and foes of the national honor Buck Fanshaw, who was bound to have piece in the cainp if he had to whip everybody in sight to get t, died too soon. He should have survived to plead the republican cause in 1800. HAM K 'TO Vol. The Oxford Ledger of this week has the fol owing to say editorially about tbe ovatic.i Durham gave Chairman Manh-y last Friday: "When Chairman Manly, who did such noble work for the cause of democracy in North Carolina, passed through Dur ham last Friday on his way borne .o Winston he was ten dered an ovation at the depot by the democrats of that pros pcrous and heroic city, headed by the gallant, warm heart d Col. Julian S Carr. Mr. Manly made short, patriotic sp'wcli. All honor to noble Durh; i county, its newspapers, demo crats and populisU, for grand victory iu behalf of the gifted Hon W. W. Kitchin, tho peer nfanvnian of his age iu the State I" - 0 Editor Bkitt, of the Oxford Ledger, is not to be outdone be cause Hanna and the plutocrals of Epchind have captured this government. He now has a cut o - . . f Hon. W. J. Bryan at the head of his editorial page and just Wait are these words: "for President 1000." Hebafioesil vcr man from his heart and the citizens of Oxford and Granville county should give, the Ledger their hearty support, Pushing the War in Cuba. The renewed reports that the United States was .about to inter vene in the Cuban conflict are not confirmed iu official quarters, uoi is there auy evideneo to indicate that at the present time the United States has uuder consider ation any change in its policy. The only available information reaching here is tint the Spanish military operations begun early in October, are about to go lor ward with greater energy thau at any previous time. Important result- are expected from this movement within the uext three weeks. There are now 25,000 more Spauish troops en route for Cuba. They will be distributed in the western provinces. It is expected that with these addition al troops in position thn four western proviucts will be com pletely garrisoned and occu;itd at every point by the government troops. The lull in operations within the last few days 'is explained by a circumstance not yet known. The insurgent leader Maceo moved to the coast for the purpose of receiving a pneumatic dynamite gun, which hud been landed with great dif ficulty. The reports reaching here state that the trials of the gun failed to show it to be foimidahle, the shot carrying only 500 yras, or less than the distance carried by rifles. Un der these circumstances Maceo has retraced bis 6tepa without tbe dynamite gun. Meanwhile the Spanish forces bave been divided into two main divisions, one in the south aad the other in the north of the isle nd. The main purpose of the troops has been to occupy the mountain passes, and this has proceeded so rapidly that it is asserted here positively that every ap proach and egress to the moun tain recess is now commanded by a heavy force of Spanish troops. This plan' of campaign is relied on to force the insur gents to fight in the open coun try. Washington PoBt. A High Prized KlM. Miss Lluw Heudrix bos just woe in the Circuit Court at Jack sonville at curiout suit lor dam ages which she brought against the Southern Railway, says the News and Observer. It seems that while Miss Heudrix was rid ing on that road bctweeu Annis- ton and Rome, (Ja., an impulsive conductor collected from her, bc sides the ticket she proffered bin, a kiss, which she did not profl'er all. The company declared that the young woman had been guilty of contribut ry negligence, in that she insisted on being quite uiiecessarily pretty, and further leaded that the corpomtion had not profited in the slightest de gree by its employes crime, as he bad not turned in the kiss will lis other collection, but the jury would listen to none of these ar guments, and awarded Miss lliu- lrix consolation to the amount of Tub directors of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, the last one in which the state now controls her interest, met at Morohead on the 13th to con- sumatc the turning over the wad to the Ooldsboro & Morebead City railroad company. For tunately for tbe people of the state, their action was stopped by an injunction of Judge Rob inson, sworo out by Hob nan- cock, of Newbern. Tho state has been pilfered of enough of ber public improvements', and we are clad that a halt has been called, even though it had to be done by as rabid a republican as Bob Hancock. Tbe idea that by surrender of tbe states in terest. it will take tbe roads out of oolites wont bold water, tt simply gives the roads power to control politic!. "DH1XK AND PRAY." A good story is told by an ex change of a Highlander who built a tavern near Abbptsford and called it "The Flodden In." He applied to Sir Valter Scott for a motto for the? siugeboard. The novelist suggested "Drink, weary traveler; drink: and pray." The man objected to bis bouse becom ing a kirk, arguing: "The more praying there is, the less drinking there will be, and I don't want that' Sir Walter suggested the omis sion of the letter "r" in pray, so that the motto might read,"Drink, weary traveler; drink and pay." With this the "mine host" was delighted, and hundreds ot his customers found out to their bit ter sorrow that whilst drinking ami paying go hand in band drinking and praying bave not even bowing acquaintance. The same is true everywhere. Will Demand a Recount. Minneapolis, Minn,, Nov. 12. It was announced today that the friends of John Lind, fusion candidate for governor, will de- maud a recount. dough's majority is now about 3,000. T! e basis of the demand is alleged frauds iu the Nortwest- eru part of the stale, and tI.o fact that a largo number of ballots were erroneously marked i'..r both tiie Bryan and Palmer electors, and were thrown out, wheu they should have been counted us to the resi of the ticket. These bal- ;ot, it is said, were almost if not entirely all for Lind. In this (Henu) county, alone, some two undred of these ballots were discarded. The democratic state committee is investigating the matter. SKXATOK TELLER TALKS. In an interview a few days ago Senator Teller, of Colorado, said: 'I would be very Impolitic for us to f ai w our hands now and make our intention plain to the opposition," said Senator Teller, when asked if it would be pos sible to pas? a tariff bill through the cominir. Senate without a silver rider. "I bave received several tel egrams from the eastern press requesting an answer to that same Question." Tbe senator continued: "But I have re frained from making a definite reply. Speaking for myself. I can say frankly, that I have not as yet made up ray mind re garding the comparative strength of tbe patties in the senatt. "No, the repub'icans will not urge or push a tariff bill when congress opens. It would be useless, for in case such a bill should be passed, President Cleveland would veto it. If the republicans are sincere, how ever, as they assert they are, a special session will bo celled and the Dingle tariff bill, or another, will be passed, in case such a thing irt possible. I do t.ot care to talk of the plans of the eilvir forces until I am fu ly advised." The Charlotte Observer wants to know "who got the $ 25,000 of llanna geid money wl eta was M-nt to North Carolina on the flection and which was guar an teed to fix the state for Me- Kinley" That is easy enough to anwer. Look around and we who did the most work for tho gold bug. Tiik Charlotte Observer says; Undo Strowd, tho populist con gress nan from the fourth district, said to a Raleigh News and 01 strvr rcorter Wednesday that he is iu favor of tho ic-cL-ctiou of Senator Prilchurd. Uncle Strowd is a friend of tho people and shouter for 16 to 1; Jeter is a tool of plutocracy and whoops it up for the cold standard. Yet free silver is the paramount issue and your uncle is its prophet. Is he no bcite than the balance of them? Heretofore we had thought ho was. WHKltE IS HAL AYKR? Senator Butler's paper of ,this week says: "Speaking now for the peo ple's party of North Carolina, and we believe for tbe nation, we take the liberty of serving notice on Mr. Bryan that if he desires to head the reform forces of the people's party in the next fight, he must do so under some other name than that of democrat. Tbe name has become a reproach and a stench among the people, and it will not be supported any more now nor hereafter." And again : "In the campaign just closed the people's party joined their forces with the democrats, and the democrats again played the people false grossly and bru tally falRe. We are done with them now and forever, and also with any man who seeks to lead the people hereafter under any thing that may bear tbe name', or bave tbe smirch of the word democrat on." There is no use for the pot to call the kettle black. Hal Ay r, the leader of the populist party, not onlyj "played" the demo crats false but also turned trai tor on the populist nominee for governor and tried to elect four gold bug congressman from this state. Think it is about time for bim to hush. GVTHItli: FOR THK SENATE. Almost every free silver man in North Caroliua, unless it is a few who want the office them selves, hope that the next sena tor from this state will be Major William A. Guthrie, of this city. The Washington Post, of the 10th instant, ha the followrjg that will be of interest to out readers: he belief is that tbe d i.o- crats and populists in the j Korth Carolina legislature win 1 unite on Uuthrie as senator Pritchard's successor,' said Col. Henry G. Williams, of that state, at the Metropolitan. "Guthrie was tbe populist! candidate for governor, but be cause bo advised bis people not to vote for republican candidates who opposed free silver, he in- urred the bitter dislike cf tbe mt(ld!e-of the-road populist leaders, who were anxious to carry out the fusion bargain that they bad made with the re publican". It was Guthrie's in fluence that caused Kitchin, sil ver democrat, to defeat Settle for congress in tho fifth dis trict. For this reason he is pop ular vith the democrats, and as they bave no hope of electing one of tbeir own faith, they will prefer almost anybody to Sena tor Pritchard, wbose backsliding on silver has rendered him very objectionable. Out of 170 members of both houses the republicans have but C(, the remainder being nearly evenly distributed between the other two parties. The repub licans will be able to comnirnd a certain per cent, of the popu list vote, becuuse of the feeling thut a contract was made when fusio.i against tho democrats was first successful, which would give Senator Pritchard another term. A majority of the populist members, howevt-r, will net fuel hound by that on derstanding if it existed, and will refuse to support any can didate who is against free sil ver. The republicans didn't do mcuh in the congressional elec tions after all. A statement in the Waabinaion Poet shows that they lost 37 members iu the next House, 15 of whom the nop; lists tret, while tbe (' "mo crats made a net gain of 23. But two go d democrats were elect ed. and the net gain of the sil ver forces, combining Demo crats and populists, is 36. But one negro is elected to tbe next congress and he is from tbe second district of North Caro lina. The footings shows 207 re publicans elected, I3O democrats and 22 populists. A BLOW TO THE SUFFRAGISTS The advocates of woman suf frage bave met with a great dis appointment iu California. A constitutional amendment con ferring the ballot ou the sex was submitted to the people by the legislature. It received, says the New York Journal, the formal platform indorsement of the Re publicans, populists and prohibi tionists iu their state conventions. The democratic party alone de1- clared against it. The proposal was supported by many of the most influential newspapers, and a vigorous campaign was made by Miss Susau B. Authouy, the Rev. Anna Shaw and other conspicu- ous suffragists. Nevertheless the amendment was beaten at the I polls. The exact figures have uot yet been ascertained, but it it is known that the majority against the extension of tho franchise to women is overwhelming. There is no part of tbe country where women are more agreeably cirsiouato view of an educated and cuinstauced than in California, The pioneer tradition survives, aud the woman who has no am- bition' to shine outside of what the old-fashioned call her sphere is treated with a chivalry that delights the truly feminine soul. But is evident that the average Californian, in spite of his gal lantry, prudeutly prefers assun ing the responsibility of govern ing woman to lettiug he govern herself. Seaboard Air-Line. Baltimore, Nov. 12. According to reports current today in local financial circles the hitch in the negotiation for the trausfer of the I stock of the Seaboard and Roanoke I Railroad Company, which carries with it the control of the Seaboard Air Line systeni, and the Baltimore Steam Packet Company, to t!e Ryan Thomas syndicates of New York, is due to the refusal 011 the part of the Seaboard's management to allow an expert examination of the books and accounts of the pro perty. When Mr. Ryan and his asso ciates obtained an option on the stock pooled with Messrs. Louis McLane, Moncure Robinson and urlge Leigh R. atts, it was agreed that if the annual report of President llouman was verinea oy an expert examination, the books were to be closed on a basis of $125 a share for the poolholdirgs, which amounts to alwut 8 300 shares, and ioo a share for t1e 2jo shares on which General John Gill oh. tained an option. It is said that the syndicate has all along been ready to carry out its part of the contract, and that it has the money 011 hand to pay over, but that thetuj8 cjty These are supposed to railroad people have persistently telused, and still refuse to produce the books. This is understood to be the status of the matter at pres. .nt, aud unless the books are pro duced before Monday, it is likely that the deal will fall through. President R Curson Hoffman, who returned from Portsmouth, Va., said in answer to a query that so far as he knew, there had been no change in the negotiations. As for tbe alleged refusal ou tue part of the mana emcnt to allow an examination of the books he said that he was in absolute igno rauceoiany mkokiumi. - .. -.1 VttifMtt i anmi-thimr BUt'iros- live iu the feust helu by thegolfat Wionobago Indians in bouor of McKinlev's electior. They eat up every dog tho tribo bad. Wu see lately a go!-! deal about advance in prices. A careful investigation reveals the fact that tho rise has conlined itself to storks of trust com panies. Labors products are no higher yet. Now that Palmer and Buck nor have proven themselves such excellent decoys, it would be perfectly in order for Mr. Cleve land to take them with him on his next duck hunt. But possi bly they would bo of more serv ice when he is loaded for gee so ENGLISHMAN'S VIEW. In a recent issue of The Lon don Truth, its editor, Mr. Henry Dabouchere, has some pretty homely and pertinent comment on the result of the recent nation al election in this country. For a foreiguer of his class he shows re markable knowledge of the condi tion of thiugs over here, and uses plain language in his expressions. After a short criticism of Bryan's financial views be says: "But the victors will do well to realize that apart from bimetal- ism there is a strong growing feel- ing in America against huge ac- cumulations of capital in the hands of individuals, obtained by means of trusts, which are really monopolies, and gambling with cogged dice in railroads. The greedy plutocracy, unsupported by au armed force, cauuot long hold its owu agaiust tho rights indvell being of all." This is tho calm and dispas- observant and outside man, whose interest in the question -is only that of a looker on, unbiased by prejudice or passion of a student of the worlds history and of hu- man nature. Though be does not assume the role of a prophet, we much Jear be has foretold the fate which is to overtake U. s country. Continuing Truth winds up the article with this statement of a fact, recognized as s..vb tbe world over, as a disgrace to our couLtry's fair name: "Americas worst product is its dollar-ocracy, whose laembeis bave nothing lo recommend them. As a rule they are i,nor- ant aud vulgar, building bit houses in order to dazzle by osten tatious entertainments. If the United States is not to become a dere plutocratic and olegarchy power, these worthies, which have increased and are increasing, must greatly diminish." There is not a United States senator, a congressman, amtmlier of the state legislature, an inteli- I gent farmer or day laborer who I does not rccoguizo the truth of the above, yet with the remedy iu t,eir tiaIui 8nd a chance given to administer it, for what iirnVAn nnv i.nAw. thuv rush rdition bent like sheep following the bell weather into the quick sands from which there is no rescue. Bryan to lecture. Lixcux, Neb., Nov. 11. Sat urday afternoon Hon. W. J. Bryan will deliver two lectures at the Funke Opera House in De hj8 opening guns in the four years' campaign for "bi metal- y)fiia which Mr. Bryan has promised to inaugurate. At 3 o'clock iu the afternoon the first address will be delivered to the Mary Bryan Club. At 8 p. in., the second will be given. ThU will be under tbe auspices of the Traveling Men's Club aud tho Bryan Home Guards. The Jester' Clioruc. "I'm getting a little weary of I this talk about achainlessbieyck-," 4aid the oatj. noiic-ian. 1 a IVit tUnk iW. . tuing m tt f" asked tbe awi 111 tbe "There nay be," answered the park policeman, "but it cetiainly is not the crying ueed of the hour.'' "What would you consider mote important ?" demanded the man in the golf suit. 'A voiceivss bicyclist," it-tpt-nd ed the park policeman; and ftietut of the man in tbe golf suit noticed that it was nearly fifteen minutes 1 before he yelled at some one to get out of his way, and that it was fully two hours before he aga'n attempt ed to descant on the beauties of I bicycles of any particular make. "By the way, what is Mand's husband worth?" "I hear that her father gave $3,000,000 for him."