diva wre WRftti tmm nr,Aiit nu.v.
"I saw enough during my
campaigning - tour down in
North Carolina to- make me
more convinced than ever tbt
the defeat of my educational
bill in congress was a laraenta
ble mistake," said ex-Senator
Henry M, Blair, of New Hamp
shire, at the Briggs House.
There is a vast degree of illit
eracy in the Old North State,
and the masses are in need of
the elevating influences of edu
cation to lift them to a higher
plane of citizenship. Federal
aid is essential in a majority of
the states, because the state
government are notable to cope
with the gigantic task of ban
ishin 'gnorace."
The failure of the Blair bill
did not sour the temper of its
kindly hearted sponser He be
lieves in his measure as strongly
as in the days ween it was "his
hobbp," as when it Beeined al
rarst certain of becoming law.
More than once it passed each
branch of congress, but favora
ble action was never taken con
currently, and when its author
disappeared from the senate
there was no one left to keep up
the battle Washington Post.
Commenting on tho ahove tho
Charlotte Observer says: Oil
man Clair is not a very good
authority as to the illiteracy In
North Carolina. In the first place
he has never gotten over the de
feat of his paternalistic measure,
and always keeps his eyes skinned
on the lookout for illiteracy and
the need ot education, so Unit he
can say "I to! J you so" to those
who accomplished the defeat of
.his educational bill. He i a lit
tle t io anxious to find illiteracy.
Iu the second place he was not in
North Carolina long enough to
judge of its "need of the efovaliiij;
i-flui-nce. of education." In the
third place the learned exwna
tor's audiences were not , of the
sort likely to afford him aglimj sc
of the n fit cultured or beat edu
cated people of North Carol inia.
We are fully aware of the needs
of the state in an educational way
but we do not care to have the
retired patriarch of New Hamp
shire till as what we must have,
lie is not competent authority
in there parts.
AS AKMKX1AX BISHOP TO IUK.
From the press dispatch of
the 18th it is noticed that Tor
Ish special tribunal has sen-
tenc d tho Armenian bishop at
Hossekeia to death. Ho was
condemned to death because
ouriog the late riots in Constan
tinople a loaded tevolver was
found in his house. The bishop
was absent from home at the
time and upon this ground an
appeal was taken against the
judgement of the special tri
bunal, but the Court of Appeal
has confined the sentence im
posed by the tribunal.
The damnable" Turks
butcher is the Armenfansby the
thousand vet when a "loaded
revolver'Ms found io an Armen
lan's home he is arrested and I
farcical trial gone through with
and he is sentenced to death. It
is a wonder that an earthquake
does not swallow up the Turk
ish government. It is a blot
and shame on the civilisation
of this, the 20th, century.
A ttAItR KKWSPArKIt BlltD.
Henry Walter, of the
Courier Journal, is a rare news
paper bird of political plumage,
which like the cameleon "hide,
chmges according to its sur
foundings After having but
the (owerful influence of his
papr to tiie many gods for their
ui.l ! pnrpw during the
campHlgn, bis observant one
eye sees how badly our national
' house has been rent by the con
flict. and fearful lest some of
the debris may cover him when
, the structure falls, be whiniogly
appeals to the corporate wealth
AJJ IDLE IMAGINATION, i
The suggestion Unit President
McKiuley may ask some sound
money Democrat to take a scut in
his cabinet is hoard here and
there, and speculation has gone
so far as to give the name of one
who might receive inch an invita
ion. Itisan idle imagination.
Such an innovation upon the es
tablished policy of the republican
party, says the Boston Post, will
never be made by W illiim Mc
Kinky. And it is just fls well
that this should bo so. No demo
crat would care to identify him
self with the olicy of a Hanna
McKinley administration. No
democrat, indeed, couM do this.
A great many democrats, acting
iu accordance with the dictates
of their individual consciences,
aided in the election of McKiuley;
but they did so not from love of
McKiuleyism, hut from hostility
to the policy of freecoiunge,which
his opponent represented. This
is as far as they go in that dir
ection. It is true that Presideut
Cleveland took into his cabinet
Judge Gresham, a republican. But
Secretary Gresham was at- al
points in sympathy with the dem
ocratic policy. 'Jlie monstrous
corruption practised iu tho elec
tion oflft88,lhe ruiuous monopoly
tariff of 1890, and the coquetting
with free silver had in fact driven
him out of the republican party.
There is no democrat who could
enter McKiulcy's cabinet as
Gresliam entered Cleveland's and
loyally and conscientiously serve
there.
Bad ftr M'lnmon.
WlXhTOK, N. C , Nov. 17.
Last nigbt u mob of 100 men
gatbored in front of tho jail and
threatened to whip or lynch the
jailor, 8 E. Iglas. The sheriff
and several of bis deputies wore
summoned and they quietly
caused the crowd to dibperse.
The trouble started last Sat
urday when the jailor dispersed
mob that was after his
brother.
During a negro dance in the
north of Winston last nigbt, a
big row occurred in which a
number of pistol shots were ex-J
changed. Two young white
men, Alex. Reed and Jaa. Pitts,
who were standing out in the
yard, were shot and perhaps
fatally wounded.
Bryan's Bonk,
Liscolk, Neb., Nov. 17. Wil
liam J. Bryan is preparing to
publish a book about the first of
next year, which will embody
an exhaustive treatment of the
silver question and bimetalism
emphasizing its importance as
an issue in 1900.
Mr. Bryan has authorized his
nublishers to announce that
one'half the royalties received
from the sale of the book wil
be devoted to advancing ibe
cause of bimetallism during the
next four years.
Tut Palmer and Buckner
ticket polled less than 2,000
votes io Ohio. In the Columbus
precinct, which boasts of Mr.
Outhwaite, Palmer and Buckner
manager, as a voter, not a
single vote was cast for the In
dianapolis ticket. Thero are
an ma charitablo people who
orofess 'to believe that Mr.
Cleveland's conspicuous Ohio
office-holder relented at the last
moment and voted for Bryan
andScwall.
Kaksas, the wilJest and . most
barbarous slnio in the Union, has
kicked against ilie brutal game of
football. The police regulations
of that town of lough citizens,
Cincinattl, will not permit it; The
laws of Florida, where Sullivan
and Kilrain battered each other
Ike Mexican bulla, does not per
mitit. And H would seem tha
the lime las arrived for the church
colleges Id North Carolina to cal
a halt on it.
A TOBACCO- PACKING MACHINE.
The Baltimore Sun of a recent
date has the following to say in
regard to an invention of a
former Durhamite:
"An illustration progress
male in mechanical devices is
afforded by the new and labell
ing machine on exhibition at
the shops of MurHl & Keizer,
200 North Holiday street. It re
ceives tobacco in granulated
from through its feed tubes,
weigh8the tobacco automatic
ally and accurately, packs it in
to bags, affixes the necessary
revenue stamp and trade labels
and turns out the finished pack
ages at a rapid rate. In the
whole process the assistance of
only two persons is required,
one to place the bags over the
tubes, and the other to tie the
strings. One of the machines,
it is said will perform the work
of eleven persons. The ma
chines are constructed for one
of the largest southern tobacco
factories, but they may be U6ed
for packing almost any article.
The invention was patented by
Mr. Rufus L. Patterson, form
erly of North Carolina, but now
of Baltimore, and has been as
signed to the Automatic Pack
ing and Labelling Company of
Durham, N. C."
The Boyhood or Grant
McClure's Magazine announ
ces for publication in the De
cember a paper of remini6censes
of the boyhood of Grant. Mr.
Hamlin Garland, the novelist,
who has long had in mind the
projoct of writing an intimate
personal life of Grant, has gone
down to Georgetown and Rip-
ey, Ohio, and Maysville, Ken
tucky, the towns in which Grant
passed hislifo until he went to
West Point, and by industrious-
y talking with every man and
woman there who had any per
sonal knowledge of Grant, and
by delving into the local records
and newspapers, has gotten to
gether a rare store of illuminat-
fact and anecdote: end out of
this perfectly new material he
has written the paper which is
to appear in the December Mc
Clure's. The promise is that it
will do what has never been
done before: exhibit the youth
Ulysses Graut exactly as be was
in bis humble life and surround-
in is In addition to collecting
information, Mr. Garland also
collected pictures, and some'
thing especially aare and inter
esting is promised in the illus
trations of the paper. For ex
ample, there will be given the
Arliest known portrait of
Grant, a portrait owned by Mrs.
Bocga (the wife of Grant's part
nerinthe real estate businesr
at St. Louis), never before re
produced or published, and quite
unknown to the public and even
to members of Crant's own
family
Vw labor-Having Machine.
Buffalo', N. Y., Nov. 20.-A
successful tost was mado here to
day of a machine that threatens
to revolutionize the casting of
raditors, and incidentally throw a
large number of men out of work.
It has taken a year to construct
the machine, and its cost has
been upward of 2,500. By the
old process one map could, with
the aid of a helper, turn out twen
ty to thirty patterns per day.
With a crew of ton men the new
mousU-r molding machine can
turn out 10") molds for flvofuot
radiator loops in thirty minutes.;
Tho machine has never been tried
upon other than radiator catlings,
but it can form the mold for apy
thing of which a pattern is made.
TitR latest is that the deal by
which it was said that the Sonth
era Railway Company was to
control the Seaboard Air Lino is
off, a majority of the stockholders
refusing to ratify the contract We
are clad of it The public inter
est demands competition io our
through lines.
A DISGRACE TO CIVILIZATION.
We are glad to see that the
German House of Representatives
(the Reichstag) has taken up the
question of the brutal "altitude of
the army officer toward the civil
ian. This attitude has irequent
ly been a cause of scandal and
j disgust to enlightened people
everywhere, says the Washington
Post, and lias, withiu'thepastfew
days, received an illustration of
peculiar force. We prefer to the
cold blooded murder by Lieut.
Baron von Bruscwilz;- of a work
ingman, Herr 8ii-bcmann, at
Carlsruhe.
The circumstances were, sim
ply, that the Lieutenant Baron
happened to be in a restaurant or
music hall simultaneously with
Herr Siebemaun, and the latter,
in moving his chair back from
the table at which he was seated,
had the misfortune to touch the
chair occupied by Lieut. Barou
von Brusewitz. It was wholly
unintentional, and was at best a
trivial thing. The Baron, how
ever, arose in a great: rage and
demanded from the workingman
an abject apology. This Siebe-
mann refused to give; alleging
that he had committed no offense,
and was under no obligation to
umiliatc himself upon such
slight grounds. At this, the hon
orable and chivalrous Baron drew
his sword and ran the .unarmed
workingmau through the body,
killing him: outright j A more
iufamous and croel assassination
was never heard of siuce.the days
of Nero. Aud, worst of all, this
has been indirectly condoned if
not approved in a recent speech
by the German Emperor a
speech that reads more like the
raving of a blood-thirsty maniac
than the utterance of a humane
and civilized sovereign.
GUST M1I.KS OX A WAK CLOl'D.
General Miles is fearful that
this nation will be plunged into
war with some foreign power
before very much longer. A
dispatch from Washington on
the l7tn. says:
While Secretary Lament pre
dicts peace in all his public ut
terances, General Miles predicts
war in the conclusion of the an
nual report of the board of ordi
nance and fortification, of
wbicb he is the president, which
he evidently wrote and which
was made public today. Gen
eral Miles sees the menaco of
war and bo asks for more money
for coast defenses, that " wc may
be ready to meet the emergency
which may arise at any time.
He continues: "In view of the
present serious aspect of Euro
pean politics it is only common
prudence for this nation to be on
its guard, for should a conflict
arise we are liable to be em
broiled with some power whose
navy, in the present defenseless
condition of our coasts, might
destroy or exact enormous ran
som from our chief cities." He
says, moreover, war will come
without much warning and that
it is about due now, if history
counts for anything.
'We should have a great war
at least c nee in a generation,"
says General Miles, and ft has
now been 30 years since we had
one. The comment in connec
tion with the known relations
between this country and Spain
is significant, and in view of
the efforts of tho War Depart
mi nt authorities to suppress all
refrence to impending trouble,
has excited much remark."
JonxR, Gkntkv, the famous
Not tl Carolina horse, and the
ohampiou harness horse of the
world, was sold at Madison 8uarc
Garden, Kew York, Thursday
nicht for fis.yuu. lie was
bought by Louis G. Tewsksburg,
who also owns Kobcrt J. and
Mascot This gives him three of
the (inert horses in tho world
Mr. Holt. Gentry's Xorth Caroli
na owner, sold him last year for
II,VV. .V ..MV VV.
2.01 J.
7 r.nn 1I Ima a waw
time to stop.
Some of the thin skulled,
crack brained editors of the east
are still crying out that those
who voted for Bryan and silver
aro "anarchists" and that they
voted for '-'repudiation," etc. It
is enough to disgust any honest
American, whether he be for
gold or silver.
It would be well for these edi
tors to remember that nearly,
or quite, one half of the voters
in these United States voted for
silver and when they accuse
this number of being "anarch
ists" they" tell to the outside
world that our country is in a
terrible condition.
Recently the New York Ads
vertiser had a very libelous ar
ticle on those who voted for the
white metal and the Washing
ton Post, one of the most honest
gold papers in the nation, voices
our sentiments exactly in the
.uiwiogparagrapn.wnicnwas
; - 1 ... 1
taken from the Post's reply to
me Aaveniser. 11 is as iouows:
voted tor Bryan did not "voe
for repudiation and anarchy."
The Southern people and their
fellow citizens in other states
who voted for Bryan are not
repudiators 01 anarchists. If
vthflttliA AHvprtiepr cava woro I
true this reoublic would be in
. j 1
imminent Deril. If six-thir 1
r
v. : tt:.j I
kcuiuovi iucu m buc uuitcu
Sfc-tes were in favor of "repudi-
ation and anarchy," theoutlook
wouid be darker than it was in
warf The Southern States that
roted for Bryan have very little
of the foreign element. There
are more anarchists on an acre
n New York City than in all
the South. The men of that
section believed that they were
acting not in opposition to, but
in accordance with, "the time-
honored principles of Jeflerson
and Jackson."
tt flpoma tn tm Vo iimA tnr
cessation of epithetical warfare
over the Presidential election.
loiirnala of London. Berlin and
Paris should set down the six
millions of Americans who
-...-j t I
voieu lor uryan as repuai-wrs i
and anarchists every decent
American would resent the in
sult. Is it less outrageous in
the metropolitan press of the
United States ?
Wholesale Murder, Not War.
There is no probability thatlemplified.
in trie is uu uiuuau!tiij iiiaticiui'iuivu. w nv..v. v.... j
Weyler can crush tho Cubans an's defeat was announced, but
t efore Congress meets, but there
is every probability that his ef
forts to that end will so rouse
public feeling in the United
States that a renewed and in
sistent popular demand for in
tervention will b? made. Weyler
is desperate. He knows that a
crisis has been reached, and
that only some measure of mil
itary success which can be made
to bear in the dispatches the ap-1
pearanceof brilliant victory will
save his reputation and give
President Cleveland an excuse
for continuing his policy of in
action. How determined the
Captain General is to make
head aeainft tho patriots is
proved by his order to the in
labitants ofjPinar del Rio Pro
vince, where tie is now oper
ating, to leave their homes im
mediately and move into the
garrisoned towns on paiu of be
ing classed and treated as
rebels. This means simply that
the rural population are given
the choice of being murdered
by the Spanish soldiers or dying
of starvation or pestilence in
the towns. It is an infamous,
a barbarous order, and worthy
of Weyler "the Butcher." He
takes no prisoners, and were it
not for fear ot the United State
h would set about suooressin-
tbe rebellion by exterminating
the inhabitants or the island.
island
As it is, the chances are that he
ui A, pnmnrh in thrt wav of
outrage and slaughter during
.ul t, i. ,
the campaign wbicb he is pros
the campaign wbicb he is pros
ccuting to shock civilization.
That is Wejler's specialty. But
that weapons and ammunition
cannot be readily obtained, all
Cuba would be in arms against
this modem uiavernouse. new
York Journal.
Thkrk are many things the
republican party are pledged to
do to which we object. How
ever, we shall not kick against
the prosperity and good times
they promised. Let them come
ahead
With corn at 21 cents., side
meat 3.75, in Chicago, and cot-
AM . n no XT . it 1. . 1.
Mill Ull I.OO IU tVlHi llUD
western and southern farmer
may be excused for not putting
on bis
awhile
Christmas smile yet
Jt ST to keep history straight it
is well to remember that in the
lata election Bryan got in North
Carolina over 150,000 votes. The
Palmer and Buckner electors
575, tho gold prohibitionist 635.
I The Soutbgate prohibition vote
851, or 276 more than Palmer
and Buckner got.
The news from Cuba y ester
rlav wan a-nnri Tha nrrrtennt I
J e I
and inhuman Spanish com-
mandant who B0 recently took
flrorvai nnmmanA nf th fn.oa
opposing Maceo's patriots has
had his pride and fame broken
in the first onslaught. He has
been badly whipped, and report
says, is on a retreat to the en
trenchments of Havana. We
rejoice.
... l.-t-j:
AOB, K coun ' "s
as citizens iour uuique cnaraciera.
Tt him within it borders the
" -
smallest married couple in the
United States, and also the larg-
est and tallest men from a phys-
,cal standpoint in Indiana; the
former weighs 500 pounds, and
the latter is but ? feet 3 inches
high and weighs only 7" pouuds. I
McClure's Magazine for De
cember will contain all account of
Nansen's hard adventures in get
ting 195 miles nearer the Xorth
in. .. . .1 . Ti
o
i oio man any oiner man. n
j will be written by Cyrus C.Adams
Lf n, vr Ynrk Sun. one nt the
best geographical authorities in
the couutry, and it will be illus-
u-iih nnrtRiita ot Xnnrcn
1
. .s,. f llia
snip wiiiun ana
without, and
other pictures.
The old adage, that misfortun
es never come singly is again ex-
Xo sooner than Bry-
the public must again suffer
from the writings of Mr. Edward
Atkinson of "Bostiug" the man
who professes to be up in political
ecouemics the man who knows
more thines which are not true
than tlm liuhinre of this couiurv's
....... w-.-r B
vast rnipulatiop. From sua. tire
some sophistry as he writes, may
I the good Lord deliver the widows,
orphans, and all unfortunates-
the country included
XO UKMoCltAT HAHAXVKIMW.
Col. Harry Skinner, who wa
recently elected from the Firs'
District to succeed himself, is in
Wahington,D.C.The Washing
ton Post quo'es him as follows:
Representative Harry .Skin
ner, of North Carolina, is at the
Ebbitt. "Politics in North Caro
Una." said Mr. Skinner, "havi-
taken a back seat, and business
has again resumed sway. Con
siderable interst is, o: course,
taken in the coming election of
a United States Senator, and
there will be several candidates.
I would not say that Senator
Pritchard cau be re elected, but
I am confident no Democrat has
any show. It is gen rally re
garded as certaiu that the re
publicans and populists will be
able to elect the candidate they
decide upon."
veT west. Fla.. Nov. 18.
I Passengers by the steamer from
I Havana, which arrived very
late, reported that General Lu-
que has been wounded in Finar
IT. ,. .
del Rio. A report was current
id Havana that Captain General
Weyler will return at once to
thecLy. The Spanish merch
ants and others on Muralla
street are very indignant over
the report.
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