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VOL. XVlT GOIiDSBORO, C. THURSDAY, JUNE 1571893. " KO. 110
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The Treaty With Russia-
The publication of the complete
text of the extradiction treaty with
Russia leaves the disinterested
reader more than ever at a loss to
understand the howl that Mr.
Kennan and his Rnssophobiac
triend have etirred up against it.
To begin with, a treaty is only a
promise to do certain things if they
appear to be the right things
to do iu any given ea?e, and no ex
tradition treaty could bind this
country to surrender a tngative
who ought not to be surrendered.
But the treaty goe9 beyond the
general principle and expressly
provides that the surrender ehall
only be made "upon such evidence
of criminality as, according to the
laws of the place where the fugi
tive or person bo charged shall be
found, would justify his or her ap
prehension and commitment tor
trial if the crime or offense had
been there committed." If we
surrender any one, under these
conditions, who ought not to be
surrendered, it will be our fault,
not lluseia's.
Looking down the list of crimes
for which extradition is provided,
we fiud none that seems likely to
interest one side more than the
other unless it be the fabrication
of "stamps snd maiks of public
administration' which is supposed
to include counterfeiting passports,
a privilege which if claimed to be
necessary to the safety of fugitive
Russians: But the fact that no
"American court would surrender a
fugitive merely tor this, even if hie
surrender were a?ked, and if he
' were an actual criminal who had
forged a passport to eseape,it would
be the original crime and not the
technical forgery that would count,
The treaty explicitly provides
that it shall not aply to political
offenses, and that "if it be made to
appear that extradition is sought
with a view to try or punish the
person demanded for an offense of"
a political character surrender ehall
not take placa." It is hard to see
how the rights of political agitas
tois could be better guarded. It ie,
of course, provided that an at
tempt against the life of the head
of either government, when the
attempt comprises murder or ass
baesination, 6hall not be considered
a political crime. This the dyna
miters object to; but why should
the President or the Czar have less
protection than the meanest pria
vafe citizen?
Whether there is any particular
advantage to be gained by a treaty
of extradition with Russia; except
as a 6tep in the general advance of
civilizition, may poesib'y be ques
tioned; but the treaty itself seems
entirely unexceptable, and neither
the executive that negotiated it nor
the Senate that ratified it need
fchrink from its discusaion. Phila.
Times.
Church and Sect,
Dr. Briggs is getting a great
deal of sympathy that is valuable
and some that he probably does not
unreservedly enjoy. The best coma
mendation to a man of his sort
must be from those in his own
household who understand and
sympathize with him; the comment
dation of all sorts of cranks and
coine-outers, who hail him as one
ot themselves, must be less gratify
ing. It is interesting to observe in the
reports of the Sunday ssrmons cn
this subject how the merely sees
tarian point of view is held in
common by the severely orthodox
and the recklessly heterodox. If
Dr. Briggs does not agree with the
prevailing opinion iu the Presby.
terian church, say the latter, he
ought to leave it and be an inde
pendent or start a church of his
own. It is not a question whether
Dr. Briggs is right or wrong, says
the Rev. Dr, Graham, a member
of the General Assembly, but
whether he believes what Pies
byterians believe," if he doe3 not
he should step down and out,
These comments, it will be ob
served, assume that the Presbys
terian chureh is merely a volun
tary association of persons who
agree in certain clearly defined
theological ideas derived by priyate
interpretation from the inerrant
Scriptures, and that any members
or others whose ideas are different
should go off with their bibles and
ferm another association for thema
eelvee, which would have equal
authority with the one they left,
ThiB is, of course, the view of the
men who have, as they put it,
emancipated themselves from all
ecclesiastical allegiance whatever,
and it is also the attitude of those
stern ecclesiastical disciplinarians
who have condemned Brigga. And
right here is thereal heart of the
controversy.
The leading question is not
whether the Presbyterian church
can hold a man who teaches that
Moses was not the sole author of
the Pentateuch, but whether it can
hold a man who believes in the au
thority of historic Christianity and
the institutions and sacraments of
he church as witnesses of the
faith and channels ot divine grace.
Dr. Briggs, as his writings show,
not only believes in the witness of
the church, but he beiieyes in the
Presbyterian organization as a leg
itimate. historical representative ot
the church. At this point he differs,
ot course, from those who hold the
episcopate essential to historical
continuity, but r.of, it would seem,
from the Westminister divines to
whose authority he appeal?.
O'early a man holding this faith
is not at libertv to walk out of his
church merely because he does not
agree with the majority. Tiie
ehnrch is to him not a voluntary
association, but a devine institution
and the only questiou for him to
determine is whether the branch
into which he has been born ie
what he believes it to be. If it is,
he is to stay in it and work to
bring it to a sense of its own mis
sion. But it must be said that the
Presbyterians are making it very
hard for Dr. Briggs to do this.
The Declaration of the General
Assembly "that reason and the
church are not to be regardei as
fountains of divine authority"
touches the root of the matter. The
differences about Biblical interpre
tation are incidental ; the difie
ence in the point of view is f un
damental acd radical. Phili.
Times.
Tha University Its Two New Profes
sors.
Two new professors-were elected
by the Trustees of the University at
the recent Commencement, om to
supply tbe vacancy made by the ap
pointmeut of I'rof. Alexander as
Minister to Greece, the other to till
the new Chair of Moral Instruction.
The State is warmly interested in
the University, and is coucrned to
know who are the men selected to
teach its youth. The two gentle
men recently selected will bring to
the Institution a strength of per
sonal character, a degree of learn
ing and wisdom, a power to teach,
and a finished schollarship that
make them worthy to be colleagues
of the emineut scholars who now
compose the Faculty,
Prof. Edwin A. Alderman, who
will conduct the Normal Depart
ment, is a native North Carolinian
and a graduate of the University,
being the valedictoiiau of his class
His exquisite literary taste and his
fine gifts as an orator were mani
fest before he left the University.
As Superintendent of the Golds
boro Graded School, Prof. Alderman
showed by practical example that
a graded school, can furnish train
ing not inferior to that obtainable
in private schools Kis pupil Geo.
P. Howell was the btst prepared
student in his class at the Univers
ity, was the best scholar there for
two years, he graduates this year No.
1, in a large class at West Point.
President Cleveland has recently ap
pointed Prof, Alderman one of the
Board of Visitors to the Military
Academy, and he is there now wit
nessing the graduation of Howell.
Under Alderman's management the
school in Goldsboro was probably
the finest public school in any
Southern State. Prof. Alderman's
work as a couductor of institutes is
well-known over North Carolina.
He is esteemed, admired and hon
ored by the entire State. Especially
is he cherished by the teaching pro
fession, who regard him as an orna
ment and a strength to the profes
sion. As Professor of History and Lit
erature in the State Normal and
industrial School for Women, Pro
fessor Alderman has shown a talen
and a capacity for work in the Pro
fessor's chair that are a guaranty of
his future in tht University. May
he long yield to the service of the
State the abundant riche3 of his tal
ents, his tastes, his energy and his
attractive pei sonal magnetism. Mrs.
Alderman, a sister of the late Prof.
Graves, will add a charm to the al
ready refined life of Chapel Hill.
The new Professorship of Greek is
Dr. Herbert Cushion Tolman, of
the University of Wisconsin. Dr.
Tolman, although yet quite young,
is a very learned linguist, and he has
already achieveda national reputation
as ar editor of books. He has
edited andpublished the following :
1. Harper and Tolman's Ciesar,
published in 1891, of vhich 20,00
copies have already been sold. He
was also Consulting Editor of Har
per and Burgess' Inductive Latin
Method, and Harper and Miller's
Virgil.
2. Kerr and Tolman's Gospel of
Matthew in Greek, published in
1892.
3. Tolman's Cuneiform Inserip
tions, with translations, . published
in 1893. . ..
:' 4. Assistant Editor ot ''Sanskrit
Inscription's", published id 1893.
Dr. Tolman's scholarship and
learning are of the highest order -His
power as a teacher is strikin.
He has the art of wining students
by a rm and sympathetic nature
One of his colleaguess says of him,
"He is a most acceptable teacher;
he makes the object interesting, eo
that Btudets crowd his class room
He is fertile in illustration, thus
keeping up the interest in the sub
ject taught, and showing good re
sults in the examinations. He is a
teacher of first-rate teaching qual
it'ea.
Dr. Tolman received B, A. from
Yale in 1S8S; Ph D.,1890, He was
Fellow at Yale 1S8S '90; Instruc
tor at Yale 1890; Instructor Uni
versity Wisconsin 1S91; Prof. Uni
versity Wisconsin 1892; Member
Eoyal Asiatic Society England
1893. Dr. Telman is a native of
Massachusetts,
Mrs. Tolman is a native of Fior
ida. She is described s "an ami
able, unselfish, attractive lady, who
is beautiful without seeming to be
aware of the fact."
Mrs. Tolman cannot endure the
cold winters of Wisconsin, and
therefore they desire to come
South. Thev are members of the
Congregational Church, and are
described as "deeply religious and
active in good works of all sorts,"
The University seems to have se
cured a rarely accomplished
scholar, a skilful teacher, an agree
ab'e and kindly gentleman, posso
e sing strong gifts of mind and
heart, and promising to do what
few men can fill worthily the
place vacated by Dr, E Alexander.
Raleigh NewsObserver.
A Reasonable Demand.
Editor Argus:
DeaeSib: the city authorities
have issued notice Stc. 3, as follows :
"That no person shall be allowed to
turn their waste water on the streets
or alleys, but shall carry it off by
pipes, connecting with the nearest
sewer, under a penalty of five dol
lars for each and eyery day it is al
lowed to remain in unlawful condi
tion." A most unreasonable and
unjust requirement and bears hard
on a large majority of the citizens of
Goldbboro. A very largo majority
can not comply with the require
ment. How is it possible to convey
by pipes to sever when there is no
sewer?
There are in some sections of the
city sub-drains, but no sewers suit
able as receptacles for slops and
liquid filth accumulations,
Whenever (if ever) there shall be a
system of sewerage in Goldsboro,
then such au order would be reason
able after giving timely notice for
providing pipe connections, but un
der the existing Btate of things it
would be gross injustice, to at
tempt to inforce such an ordinance.
In tbe interest of all interested,
citizens and city officials, I will re
spectfully suggest reconsideration
and different action on the part of
our city officials.
Let every ordinance created and
orders issued be such as can be com
plied with or enforced if necessary,
then there will be harm any of ac
tion aad no discord.
Sanitary work in the city is of
great importance and is something
that all feel interested in and should
willingly favor and endorse when
conducted upon practical, reasonable
and just basis.
In the absence of sewerage the
wisest and best thing to be done in
a sanitary point of view and for the
preservation of health in Goldsboro,
is to see to it that ditches, drains
and gutters are graded propeny and
opened thoroughly for conTeyance of
liquid; not only open once or twice
a year or season, but every week, if
necessary: (especially during the hot
season) this is best and all that can
be done until a system is established.
On premises where accumulations
become offensive to neighbors adja
cent and persons passing on streets,
as is often the case, require and de
mand the free use of lime and other
disinfectants.
I will, in conclusion, suggest that
our city officials or street superia
tendent carefully inspect the gutters
on East Centre street,, from Hotel to
Express office, and see if there can't
be some means devised to drain off
the stagnant liquid that ha3 become
an eye-sore to our citizens and dis
gusting to visitors, and the travel
ing public. If the services of a
practical civil engineer is requisite
to determine and establish grades of
draius, gutters &a., then the sooner
one is employed the better for the
health and credit of Goldsboro,
Citizen.
STATE NEWS.
Henderson Times: There are a
few peaches left by the frost in
some of the mountain coves in this
county. The fruit business in this
fection has been almost a failure
or several years,
Charlotte Observer: Miss Sallie
Nash died at her home in Uillsboro
Sunday at the advanced age of 83.
Deceased was a ' relative of Capt.
Fred Nash and Capt. C. Wither
spoon, of this city. She was Prin
cipal ot the tamons Na6h & Kol
lock School, for half century one
of the leading schools of the coun
try. North Carolina has produced
few more scholarly and cultured
women than Mies Nash. Hera was
a life of rare purity and piety, and
she goes down to her grave an
example to the women ot the
State.
THE UNDERTOW,
You hadn't ought to tlimea man for
things he hasn't done,
Fer bowks he hasn't written or fer fights
he hasn't won;
The waters may look placid on the sur
face F aroun',
And yet there may be an nndertow a keep
in' of him down,
Since the days of Eve and Adam, when
the fight of life began.
It ain't been safe,mybrethren,fer to light
ly judge a man,
He may be tryin faithful fer to make
his iife a go,
And yet his feet get tangled in the .fteach
erous undertow.
He may not lack in learnin', an he may
not want fer brains;
lie may be always workin with the pa-
tientest of pains.
And then go unrewarded, an, my friends.
how can we know
What heights he might climed up to
bat fer the undertow?
You've heard the Yankee story of the
hen's nest with a hole.
An how the hen kept layin eggs w ith all
her miffht and soul.
Yet never got a settiDg not a single egg, I
trow;
That hen was simply kickin 'gin a hid
den undertow,
There's holes in lots of hens' nests, an
you've srot to peep below
To see the eggs a-rollin whero they
hadn't ousrht to eo.
Don't blame a man fer failin to achieve
a laurel crown
Until you're sure the undertow ain't
draggin of him down,
Carrie-Blake Morgan.
EDWIN BOOIH DEAD.
Edwin Eooth, the great tragedian
died Wednesday morning in New
York. His lather Junius Brutus
Booth was himself a famous actor
of the preceding generation, and in
1833 Edwin was born at the family
residence at Bel Air, about twentv
Gve miles from Baltimore, Maryland.
At tbe age of sixteen he acted with
his father, and gained considerable
reputation. His first visit to the
South was made in 1856, and he was
warmly received by the Southern
audience?. His acting in Europe
also gained him great reputation.
In 1865 his brother J. Wilkes Booth
also an actor of fine talents, assassi
nated President Lincoln, and for
two years Edwin Booth refrained
from any appearance in public.
Then he played Hamlet in New
York for one hundred consecutive
nights, winning great applause. .
He continued on the stage and
was easily the finest tragedian of his
time. He was much esteemed as a
man. The last visitor admitted to
his bedside was Joe Jefferson, be
tween these two great actors there
being a close friendship.
It was during the Beason of 1858
9, while Barry Sullivan was making
his first visit to this country, that a
contemporary writer drew a rather
melancholy sketch of the young
tragedian at the Richmond -(Va.)
Theatre. Edwin Booth was the
star; his brother, John Wilkes sup-
poited him. bum van occupied a
private box watching the American
actor. Wilkesaw, or thought he
saw, a sneer on' the face of the Eng
lishman. When the curtain tell
he flew at Edwin like a madman, de
manding how he dared disgrace his
position and his country by appear-,
ing before the English actor in
his condition. '-Is it not enough,"
John Wilkes shouted, "that our
father s reputation should follow us
without such an exhibition as you
have given to-night? When I saw
the Englishman look at you I could
hate killed you where you stood!
Have you no shame, no pride in your
profession, no thought of the dis
grace you bring upon your country?"
Then, as the star made some sarcastic
response, Wilkes seized Jthe first
weapon that came to his hand, and,
maddened with anger, he dashed at
his brother, who could only seek
safety in the seclusion of his dress
ing room.
A few years later, when John
Wilkes Booth, only a few minutes
before had committed that great
crime that will make his name in
famous for all time, the old Boston
Theatre witnessed a scene still more
melancholy, in which Edwin Booth
was again singularly conspicuous.
The play was "Hamlet." The scene
was the rather ghastly one in the
grave-yard. The tragedian was evi
dently moved by some stiong excite
ment, He staggered and would have
fallen into Ophelia's open grave
had not one of the actors caught
him in time, "Bless me!" suddenly
exclaimed an old lady in the audia
ence, "the man's drunk." The wires
that night were weighted with a dif
ferent tale President Lincoln had
been assassinated.
Edwin Booth was an actor not of
the vigorous,, but of the subtle
school. -His fame will rest not upon
such parts as Richard or Ot7iello,
but upon his masterly lm persona
tions of Iago, Shyloch, Richelieu
and, before all others, Hamlet. Booth
was, first of all, in looks the ideal
Hamlet. "Hia email, lithe form,
with his mobility and intellectual
sadness of face and his large melan
choly eyes," George William Curtis
wrote of him nearly forty years ago,
"satisfy the most fastidious imagi-
ration that this is Hamlet as he
lived in Shakespeare's world. Curtis
found that his playing throughout
had an exquisite coloring like an old
picture. This, oddly enough, was
regarded as a point in his favor by
Clement Scott, of the London Daily
lelcgraph, who said that he "looked
as if he had stepped oct of some old
theatrical print in the days of elo
cution and before the era of natural
and real acting." Mr. Scott thought
his Hamlet an actor's Hamlet, a
Hamlet of point, a Hamlet built upon
the teachings of old schools and as
each a very admiring Hamlet, but by
no means an intellectual or ideal
Hamlet, But Palgrave Simpson, on
the other hand, instead of seeing in
Booth a slave of tradition, found
him constantly neglecting tradi
tional points and so eminently natu
ral as to be looked upon as an a 1
mirable exponent of the more ap
proved new school. The German
critics were almost without concep
tion enthusiastic
their verdict being
that Booth was Hamlet.
GOLDSBORO LEADS.
George P. Howell, of thin City, Graduates
"With First Honors From West Point.
The gratifying intelligence con
tained in yesterday's ARGUs,that our
young friend and townsman George
Pierce Howell, second son of Capt.
and Mrs. 11. P. Howell, heads the
graduating class of the U. S. Acade
my at Weot Point and easily takes
first honors, is an announcement
that should and does bring a pecul
iar thrill of pride to eyery citizen in
Goldsboro, while at the same time
carrying pleasure to every citizen of
North Carolina.
To win first honors in a graduat
ing class from West Point means
more than a temporary distinction;
It attracts the eyes of all nations
and holds their recollection through
the rolling years, for to the credit cf
oar great country be it said that no
iustitution-of its kind iu th world
stands abreast of West Point,
and no where else is true merit
more equitably rewarded or the
stuff that makes the man and
wins the contest more thoroughly
tes'.ed through all the years of its
complete and ' searching course of
study and physical and moral train
ing. Consequently the high dis
tinction that has been won by Mr.
Howell not only secures for him
widespread admiration but sheds
lustre upon the home where his
character was formed aiid the mother
who gave him his early training
and prepared him for an advanced
school course, as well as upon the
teachers who took up the work
where she left off and brought it on
up to itt brilliant culmination of
which we are now writing.
Not before in over half a century
has this honor been won by a North
Carolina boy, and only twice before
in the history of the institution. It
was carried off in 1838 by Wm. H.
Wright, and before him by Alfred
Mordecai, in 1823: and now by our
Goldsboro boy and the youngest
ever graduated from the academy,
being just 22 years of age.
Congratulations are in order all
round, and none are more hearty
than those of The Aegus.
Raleigh NewasObserver: Mar
ried. In this city on Monday even
ing Col, T. M, Argo to Mrs. Perry,
formerly Miss Spears. Rev. J, J.
Hall, othciating.
Lexinerton Disnatch: Severa
farmers have told us that the cornl
crop will be yery good, With a
good wheat and corn crop the
country can do pretty well.
Hendersonville Timesi There
are a few peaches left by the frost
m some of the mountain coves in
this county. The fruit business in
this section has been almost a fail
ure for seyeral years.
Durham Sun; Last night the
tram from Henderson "which ar
rives here at 8.45, ran over and
killed a.colored man at Bennehan
in this county. Nothing was
known about it until his mangled
body was, found along the track this
morning. The engineer and fire
man did not see him and passen
gers say they did not notice, any"
unusual jar at that point.
Mount Airy News: William
Wilmouth and Robert Canady, two
young white men from near Dob
son, were arrested by Deputy Mara
shal Brim last week for illicit dis
tilling. They gave bail in the sum
of $300 each for their appearances
at the next term of United States
Court.
Greenville Reflector: Next
Monday morning in St. Paul's
church memorial Beryices to Rev.
N. C.Hughes, D, D will be held,
condncted by the Rector, Rev. Al
bon Greaves. .Addresses upon the
life of Dr. Hughes will be deliv
ered by Col. Harry Skinner and
Maj. Henry Harding.
JUNE.
No other month my soul can fill,
And string my heart to tune.
And make life's happiest pulses thrill
Like June, sweet June!
How peifect every-length'ning hour,
How calm the sweet breathed noon,
Earth, sea and sky give bridal dower
To June, bright June!
Soft turquoise blue, the lambent sky,
Full-orbed the argent moon,
Bird, bee and stream make melody
For June, the perfect June.
Her beaty moves the heart 'till tears
Our aching eyelids burn;
Ah! long-gone friends, ah! happy years,
When all our life was June!
They woo us now like haunting song,
Or half-forgotten tunc;
Such mystic power to thee belong,
Sweet June, sad June!
Zula Camille Vaughan.
Hope, Arkansas.
A TERRIBLE DISASTER-
The Collapse of a Government Build
ing in Washington.
Washington, D, C, June 9. ,
Another tragedy, less national in
character but involving the loss oi
many more liyes and much more
human suffering, has stained the
walls of the old Ford's Theatre,
Washington, where Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated by J.
Wilkes Booth in April, 1S65, and
the horrors of the scene were by
no means lessened by the knowl
edge that a blunder surely in
this case almost "worBe than crime"
had caused the death of from
twenty to thirty persona at least,
and inflicted injuries upon fifty or
6i'xty more.
Evidene as found in the official
records appear conclusive that as
long ago as 1SS5 this building,
which the Government purchased
after Lincoln'6 assassination, and
used as an army museum, was of
ficially proclaimed by Congress an
unsafe depository for even inani
mate skeletons, mummies and
books of the Army Medical 3Iu
senm, for which a safer place of
storage was provided by act of
Congress. But notwithstanding the
fact that in the public press, and
in Congress also, continued atten
tion was called to the bulging walls
of the building, and its darkness
and generalnnsuitedlessness andun
safetiness, it continued to be used
tor the daily employment of five
hundred clerks of the Pension Re
cord division of the War Office.
With refinement of discrimic a
tion, however, between what could
be replaced and what could not
be so easily supplied, while the
clerks were trusted in the unsafe
buildiog, the original records were
retained in the substantial, fire
proof War Department building
proper. So the comforting official
assurance is given that while thirty
clerks may have been killed, the
pension records are all saved and
uninjured. The building collapsed
in the midst of an illjudged effort
to remedy some of its detects.
The moral of the disaster if
there is any is emphasized by the
fact that there are known to be at
least two great Government build
ings the printing office and the
Winder building annex of the War
Department-each containing many
more employes than were caged in
the Ford's theatre death trap, which
are in an equally dangerous con
dition. The hour of the disaster
was very shortly after the departs
ments had settled down for the
day's work. Workmen whose oph
erations under the building were
the immediate cause of the catass
trophe, had been tinkering upon it
for two hours or more; half an
hour earlier and few lives would
have been lost.
There were 475 persons, mostly
Government clerks, employed in
the building, and nearly ail of these
were at work when the building
fell. Excavation for an electric
light plant was being made in the
cellar of the structure a threes
story affair and, according to the
best information obtainable, the
workmen this morning had dsg
beneath the foundation supports in
front of the building, weakening
them to such an extent that the
walls gave way before they could
be jacked.
There were many very narrow
escapes from death. A number of
clerks whose desks rested directly
upon the line where the floors
broke away saved themselves, while
the desks at which they sat were
precipitated down the awful chasm,
Others who wete walking across the
room heard the ominous 60und and
stopped juBt at the very threshold
of death.
When the crash came those who
survived heard a mighty scream of
anguish from their comrades as
they sank out of sight, and then
groping in darkness- they found
their way to safety, trembling in
every joint with the palor of death
in their faces. No women were em
ployed in the building, but in a few
minutes after the crash the wives,
mothers and daughters of the vict
ims began to arrive. Within a very
few moments hundreds or more of
men, stripped tor the hot work,
jumped into the building and be
gan throwing ont the wreckage in
front and under the floors which
remained standing in the rear.
Those who were early on the scene
found the body ct a eolored man
in the alley in the rear of the
building, where John Wilkes Booth
had his horse tethered the night
he killed Lincoln. This was George
M. Arnold, well known colored
clerk, appointed from Yirgiuia.
He had been seen at the third-
story window. He was warned not
to jump, but despite the protesta
tions of numbers of people he
climbed ont, and lowering himself
from the sill let go. He fell upon
the cobblestoned alley, striking on
his head, and was instantly killed.
The list f the dead is as follows.
Unknown man taken from the
ruins at 5 o'clock this evening
evidently a clerk: George A len
Pennsylvania; George M. Arnold,
collored, Virginia; L. W. Boody,
New York; Samuel P. Barnes,
Pennsylvania; John Bussins, Dis
trict ot Columbia; L. Arthnr
Dietrich, Kentucky; Jeremiah
Dally, Pennsylvana; James R,
Pagan, Kansas; Joseph B. Gage,
Michigan; David C. Jordan, Mis
souri, M. M. Jarvis, Michigan; J.
Boyd Jones, Wisconsin; F. B.
Loftns, New York; F. W. Maeder,
B. E. Miller, New York; Howard
S. Miller, Ohio; J. H. McFall,
Wisconsin; F. G, Shuel, Kansas;
Wm, Sohriever, Maryland; H. S,
Wood and F, M. Williams Wis
consin. In the list of the injured there
are none from Southern States
A body found shortly after 5
o'clock was vaguely identified ton
night aa Dr, Nelson.
Laborers did not cease their
efforts until about 7 o'clock.
By this time they had reached
the bottom of the excavation
in the basement, and further
search seemed useless, as tie
debris in all parts of the building
had been entirely cleared away.
Some held that 2 laborers who were
at work in the basement at
the time of the accident were still
missing, but as the search had been
so thoroogh, nothing to warrant its
continuance could be shown. But
one body, that of Dr. Nelson,
was found daring the last seven
hours of the search, and those ins
charge of tbe work think it im
poesible that more remains in the
ruins. Work was therefore stopped,
the streets roped close to the
building, aud a police guard staa
tioned there for the night.
THE
PRESIDENT'S
ANCE.
DELI VEE
As the Philadelphia Times says,
the plain, straightforward deliver
ance ot President Cleveland has
accomplished much good by leave
ing none in doubt as to tbe finan
cial policy of the administration.
There is no possibility of misunder
standing the resolute purpose oi
the administration to recall the
government to a sound financial
basis and to maintain the public
credit at every hazard.
The emphatic declaration of the
President has halted distrust both
at home and abroad. Foreign m
vestors in American securities have
the positive assurance of our gov.
ernment that the degradation of
our money by the policy of the
free silver craze must speedily end;
and that is the one assurance that
must most inspire confidence
abroad in the safety of American
investments.
So far the action of the President
meets the emergency broadly and
fully; but there is a very general
beliei in legitimate business circles
that he could have accomplished
greater good by at once bringing
the gold reserve above the daDger
line and declaring that it would be
so maintained. j
The government is now under a
severer strain to maintain its credit
than are our general business in
terests. In former financial troubles
since the war, the government has
held a large surplus of money that
was thus withdrawn from the
channels of trade, and it could af.
ford relief by the purchase of bonds
to diffuse the money among the
people, Now the government is
substantially bankrupt, and it has
no hoarded money to throw into
the breach; but it' has resources in
reserved bonds, to '.maintain.' the
gold reserve and thus maintain the
public credit.
The general judgment of business-circles
alrke in this" country
and in the money centres oi'Europe,
is that the gold reserve of $100,000,
000 is tbe minimum of safety to
public credit. It wa3 nearly $100,
000,000 in excess of that amount
when Cleveland retired from office
in 18S9; it was nearly $10,000,000
lees than that amount when he re
turned to power in 1893.
It is now admitted by nearly or
quite all the public journals which
supported President Harrison, that
he sacrificed public duty to poli
tical cowardice when he refused to
maintain the ;od reserve and
failed to declare that it should be
maintained at any cost. Had he
done so, the present administra"
tion could not have departed frcm
that policy; but the fact that Har
rison" was unequal to his duties
cannot be pleaded as excuse for
Mr. Cleveland, If it would have
been right for Harrison to 6el
bonds, if necessary, to maintain
the gold reserve, it is right for
Cleveland tc do it now.
The credit of the government is
as sensitive as is individual credit
in finance, commerce, industry and
trade, and it must be maintained
with the same scrupulous care.
The gold reserve of $100,000,000
being accepted at home and abroad
as the mininnm to protect the pub
lie credit and float $310,000,000 of
Tresury notes, whenever the reserve
was reduced close to that sum the
danger line was leached and tho
danger signal was seen and felt in
ry money centre of the world;
and when the reserve was per
mitted to fall below the accepted
minimum, the government was in
the position of a national bank
that had encroached upon its legal
reserve and its credit was logically
impaired.
We cannot aseume that tho
President has not done the best
that could be done under all the
circumstances, as he is compelled
to view the whole field of financial
reform and act to attain the speeds
iest and best results. That ho
means to do so is not doubted, and
the delicate attitude of the new
Congress on financial issues, must
be considered by the administra
tion from the standpoint of exped
iency. If the purchase of gold by
the sale of bonds would prejudice
the effort for a sound financial pol
icy, as is quite possible, he is not
only to be excused but justified in
remandirg the whole issue to Con
gress, There is reason to believe that
the confidence that will be inspired
abroad by the President's deliver
ance will halt the decline of values,
make Europe again enter our
markets to purchase American se
curities, and thus stop the efflux of
gold.
PICKED UP SCRAPS'
News Items Gathered Here
and There for Passing
Perusal
Abont Eulalie Oh, give us a
rest I Swansea Gszette.
Magnetic Nervine, the great restorative,
will cause you to sleep like a child. Try- ii.
Sold by Robinson Bro. Goldsboro, N. C,
What a darling world it would
be if everybody were as polite as a
candilate!--Texas Siftings.
R, D. Taylor, Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
writes: "I have nsed the Japanese Tile
Cure with great satisfaction and success,"
Sold by Robinson Bros. Goldsboro, N. O.
President Cleveland found the
fish about as eager as are the office
seekers. Detroit Free Press.
The United States appears to be
making gold money foreign coun
tries. New Orleans Picayune,
Ladies, if want a pure,delicate soap for
the complexion, Robinson Bros. Drug
gists, will always recommend Johnson'a
Oriental Medicinal Toilet Soap. E&3
Booth Gone, to many a perform
ance of the play hereafter will
seem like "Hamlet" with Hamlet
left out.
When money is "tight" it pro
ves that it is abundantly able to
take care ot itself, New York
Recorder.
Bussell Sage will have paid full
face yalue upon himself when he
has settled with his lawyers.
Steep Brook Bazoo.
If you have sour stomach and feet bil
ious, and your head aches, take a Jap
arese Liver Pellet, it will relieve you.
Sold by Robinson Bros. Goldsboro, N. C.
The news from Rhode Island
makes It quite plain that Governor
Brown prefers the bold over to the
turn -over, New York World.
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