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Vol. XVI.
GOUDSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY PERBUARY 7, 1895,
NO. 64
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MUNROE WINS.
A Unanimous Report of the Com
mittee in His Favor.
A special telegram to The
Argus Thursday night conveys
the pleasing intelligence that in
the contest which J. E. Person,
a so-called and at present posing
Populist of this county, has been
waging for the seat of Hon. "VV,
C. Munroe, the Democratic rep
resentative of this county in the
lower house of the General As
sembly, the committee yesterday
evening filed a unanimous report
in favor of Mr. Munroe's retain
ing his seat.
This is as it should be, and The
Argus, in company with the De
mocracy of Wayne, rejoices that
Mr. Munroe has triumphed. But
the facts were all in his favor.
The following are the wit
nesses who appeared for Person
Mr Munroe intorduced none,
which is the more to the credit
of the fair election and the Demo
cratic triumph in Wayne, glo
roious old Wayne County: Sid
ney Deans, Green Everett, (col.)
W. G. Hollo well, J. F. Dobson,
Jno. W. Smith, Joe.W. Gardner,
N. G. Holloman, W R Moore,
and Z. P. Davis.
THE "VISITING STATESMEN."
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
o
DOINGS AT FUSION HEADQUAKTEKS
IN RALEIGH.
WEDNESDAY.
SENATE.
In the Senate the principal
new
Butler's Estimate of His Follow
ers. But there is one other reason
why this law (establishing the
Railroad Commission) should not
be interfered with at this time.
If the law were to be repealed,
it is certain that the corpora
tions interested would use every
resource within their power to
prevent its re-enactment by this,
or by any other legislature. And
whoever imagines that the resour
ces, withki the power of these
corporations, to delay, or to fin
ally hinder, the re-enactment of
a good Commission law, are
either small or ineffective, sim
ply knows nothing about the
matter. The Caucasian, , Jan.
24th.
Every member of the present
General Assembly, wh is not a
docile puppet, feels a deeply in
dignant at the assumed air of
guardianship of the five "visit
ing statesmen," who are kindly
looking after the legislation that
is to be enacted. The number of
independent men is so few, how
ever, that the mandate of the
Big Five is received as an oracle
by most of their followers. But
yesterday, when Mr. Ewart in
troduced the following resolu
tion, in regard to the proposed
county of Scotland, it was ap
parent that he was not the only
man who resented the airs of
superiority and coddling affeeted
by the Overseers:
"Resolved, That the entire mat
ter be referred to the comittee of
visiting statesmen now in this
city engaged in formulating coun
ty government, and election
bills."
The "visiting statesmen" re
ferred to by Mr. Ewart are:
Daniel Russell,
William Guthrie,
Harry Skinner,
Marion Butler.
They have undertaken to over
see the work ot the lieneral As
sembly and to prepare the bills
that the members may vote for.
Their kindness has not been ex
ceeded since certain "visiting
statesmen" went to South Caro
lina, Louisiana and Florida in
1877 and stole the electoral votes
of those States. Ever since that
time, "visiting statesmen" have
been in disrepute until the as
sembling of this Legislature.
Why not permit the members
to go home and quit the farce of
having them pretend to legislate?
WThy not pass a simple resolu
tion, declaring that the above
five men shall be dictators of the
State for the next two years,
and have done with the present
farce?
Mr. Ewart and a few others
may kick, but the men who have
hold of the "machine are deter
mined to run it in order to secure
permanent partisan advantage.
They are afraid that some of the f injuries received in the war
themselves,
bills introdnced were :
To let the public printing go
to the lowest bidder.
To amend section 2218 of the
code in regard to the encourage
ment of agriculture.
To reduce the fees for the pro
bate of liens.
To prohibit the sale of intoxi
cating liquors.
Bills passed as follows: To
abolish the inferior court of
Swain county.
To repeal the stock law in Pitt,
Pender and Pamlico counties
Forthe relief of ex-Sheriff Sut-
ton.of Bladan.
The bill to define butter and
regulate its sale was discussed
and passed. I's compels all
dealers in butterine, also mar
gerine, etc., to put labels upon
their packages; these labels to
show the chemical constituents
of each package. It was argued
in support of this measure that
it would greatly promote the
dairy interests of this State.
The vote was almost unanimous
in favor of the bill.
Kin
Swain and Mitchell counties
settle State taxes.
There was a very heated de
bate of the Senate resolution di
recting the committee on print
ing to at once draft a bill giving
the public printing to the lowest
bidder. Young and Henderson,
Republicans, asked for delay.
Populists, led by Hileman, de
manded action. The resolution
was adopted, 86 to 6.
Bills passed authorizing Hyde
county to levy a special tax, and
amending the charter of Green
ville.
FRIDAY.
to THEY COUNT ON BUTLER.
H. Tuttle
SENATE.
In the senate Rev. D,
offered prayer.
Announcement was made by
senator Cook of the death of re
presentative Williams, of War
ren, and he enlogized him. On
his motion a committee was ap
pointed to accompany the body
to Warren. Senators Cook and
Mercer were appointed. A motion changed.
might
We should not have been sur
prised to see this in some "plu
tocratic paper" engaged in mis
representation of the purpose of
the "Reformers. touch papers
are expected to impute bad mo
tives to the Reformers. But to
see Senator Marion Butler's pa
per state that the legislators are
so corrupt that "corporations"
could control the "truly good,"
and "delay" or "finally hinder"
the re-enactment of the Railroad
Commission law, is in the nature
of a surprise.
We.have not too high an opinion
of some members of this Legisla
ture, but we had not supposed
they were so completely under
the domination of ' 'corporations"
as Bntler represents them to be.
We had supposed that they pro
posed to abolish the Railroad
Commission merely to get rid of
Wilson and Beddingfield. We
had then expected the law to be
re-enacted and the two such
"Patriots" and "Reformers" as
S. Otho Wilson and J. C. Logan
Harris elected in their stead.
Such we understood to be
Ewart's purpose. But Butler
says they cannot be trusted. He
puts a stigma upon the men who
voted for him for the U. S. Sen
ate. The charge of corruption may
be true, but it ill becomes a man
who has been elevated to high
position to expose the venality of
men who have been his sup
porters. It is a dirty bird that
befouls his own nest. Baleigh
News & Observer.
be foolish
enough to want to keep the
promises made to the people.
This would not suit the overseer
and his henchmen, and hence
they are going to prepare all the
important, bills, and give Mr.
Ewart, and the other members,
who vainly supposed they were
elected to make laws, the privi
lege of casting a vote to carry
out the decrees of the dictators.
Raleigh News & Observer.
DEMOCRACY CXDEFILED.
A big ocean steamer, carrying
150 cabin and about 1,000 steer-
HOUSE.
To amend the charter of
ston.
To amend the charter of Albemarle.
To make a special appropria
tion of $8,000 for the white insti
tution for the blind, and $14,000
for the colored institution for
deaf mutes and blind, for the pur
pose of erecting new buildings,
To incorporate the Cargdon
Broaddus Tram-way company
To return certain old records
to Craven county,
To so amend the law that the
taxes will not be doubled for
failure to list, but only be in
creased 25 per cent.,
To allow widows relief, so those
whose husbands died at any time prayer.
Smith,
can receive pensions.
Bills passed amending the
charter of the Farmers Stock
Mutual hre insurance company
of Greensboro, so it can have
branches in each county.
A bill to give the policy holder
of an insurance company a lien
upon all its property real and
personal, in the State in
case of loss, where he has obtain
ed a judgment, was passed.
The debate of the day was on
the bill to create out of four
townships in Richmond county.
the county of Scotland, with
10,905 population. There was
no politics in the fight on this
bill. An amendment was adopt-
and
that the senate as a further mark
of respect adjourn at noon was
adopted.
A petition was furnished op
posing any legislation fixing the
hours of labor in factories.
Bills were introduced to estab
lish graded schools at Kinston.
To amend the public school
law.
To regulate the purchase
sale of poisonous drugs.
To make a loan to complete
the confederate monument.
To allow Charlotte to purchase
the fair grounds.
To incorporate the retreat for
the sick at Charlotte.
To better protect railroad em
ployees. To amend the code regarding
the prastice of medicine.
A resolution
tion committee to send a sub
committee to Edgecombe and
Bertie counties to investigate al
leged election frauds was tabled.
HOUSE.
At 10 o'clock the house met,
and Rev. A. D. Hunter offered
CHANDLER SAYS HE HAS DIRECT AS
SURANCE ON THIS POINT.
O
Pritcbard Talks on Several Subjects: Alex
ander Steals a March on "Objector" En.
jrlish: The Republicans Will Come out
of the Basements: Other Items of In
terest. Argus Bureau, )
Washington, D. C, Jan. 29. J
Strange to say the administra
tion currency bill will have the
support, contrary to what was
thought yesterday, of seven or
eight moderate silver Represen
tatives from the South and a few
from the West. Among them
are Bynum, of Indiana; Catch
ings and Kyle, of Mississippi;
Cabaniss and Tate, of Georgia;
Clark, of Alabama; and perhaps
two or three others. The chances
are now that the bill will pass
the House, but it cannot by any
possibility get through the Sen
ate even if the rules were
Senator Gallinger op-
allowing the elec-
posed the gold bond feature,
Senator Pritchard thinks only
those Republicans usually led by
Sherman favor the measure. He
himself objects to the gold bond
provision and the certainty of
contraction if the bill were to
pass in its present shape. Repre
sentative Alender rather likes
the feature which requires cus
toms to be paid in gold, but will
not vote for such a bill as this.
Kepresentative .Henderson says
it will bring no currency to
North Carolina, and would con
tract the currency of the whole
country.
It is now evident that the Re
publicans mean to organize the
Senate aftar March 4. Chandler
has received such assurances
from Marion Butler as to make
him claim the latter's vote,
which has been freely conceded
by the Democrats. The Repub
licans frankly say they want the
good committee rooms held by
the Democrats and that they are
tired of annexes and basements
At ten minutes past 12 to-day
Representative Alexander, find
ing Objector English was absent
from the floor, asked unanimous
consent for immediate considera
tion of the Charlotte mint park
bill, which was granted, and the
of Gates, offered a res
olution as foliows:
Resolved by the House of Rep
resentatives, the Senate concur-
ing, That we have head with the bill passed without a dissenl ing
deepest sorrow ot the death ot
Dr. S. A. Williams, the member
of the House from the county of
THURSDAY.
SENATE.
age passengers, was sighted a ed leaving to the vote of the peo-
few years ago off a harbor some pie m the territory out of which
fiftv miles awav from that to ifc is proposed to create the new
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tain naamaae a misiase in ms bate occupied three hours. The
reckoning, and but for the time- bill passed second reading, 52 to
y lifting of a fog, which dis- 38. Interest In it was great.
closed his whereabouts, would
probably have thrown his ship
away on a dangerous ledge.
Speaking of the narrow escape,
some days afterward, one of the
adies in the cabin said: "And
the worst of it was that there
were only boats enough for the
cabin passengers. Every one of
those poor souls in the steerage
would have been drowned!"
It never entered her mind that
perhaps in the struggle for life
the steerage passengers might
China and Japan.
London, Feb. 1- the Central
News' correspondent in Tokio
telegraphs the following dis
patch from Marshal Oyama, re
ceived to-day, dated from Talien
Wan:
"All the land forts at Wei-Hai
Wei wee taken. The enemy
retreated beyond Funglinchi.
The Chinese war ships were not
captured and are still firing at
us. I am inquiring as to the loss
es on both sides and am exam in
ing the prisoners and spoils
Two Japanese torpedo boats
have been sunk and an iron-clad
disabled. No foreigner has been
hurt. Wai-Hai Wai is quiet."
A dispatch from Hiroshima to
the Central News says that the
Chinese peace envoys were re
ceived by Premier Ito at the of
fice of the Prefecture this after
noon. Viscount Mutsu, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and the of
ficials of the Foreign office were
present and examined the ere
dentials of the envoys and mem
bers of their suite. Besides the
envoys only two Chinese coun
cillors and two interpeters wil
be admitted to the conferences
The Japanese Government has
appointed Premier Ito and Vis
count Mutsu as representatives
of Japan in the peace negotia
tions.
bills
The most important new
introduced were:
To amend the charter of Salis
bury.
To let the printing of county
exhibits to the lowest bidder.
To require all railways to re
deem unused tickets.
to curtail useless expenses in
securing charters by increasin;
the power of Superior Court
Clerks.
To amend the charter of South
Warren, who departed this life
at 3 o'clock this morning. That
a committee be appointed, with a
like committee from the Senate,
to accompany his remains to his
late residence. That we tender to
his family and friends our sincere
and heartfelt sympathy m their
sad bereavement. That the Gen
eral Assembly do now adjourn commends to
through respect for his memory, Alexander the
until 10 o'clock to-morrow. The
resolution was adopted.
Speaker W alser appointed on
the committee Smith of Gates,
Williams of Craven and McLean.
An invitation from Charles
Reizenstein, secretary and treas
urer of the East Carolina fish,
oyster, game and industrial asso
ciation, to attend the Fair, Feb,
18-23, was received. The legisla
ture is asked to attend in a body.
At 10:30 o'clock the House ad
journed. Some of the members
spoke in favor of meeting tomor
row at 10 o'clock and then ad
journing at once until Monday.
In opposition to this ltwas said
that just as little time as possible
should be lost, for otherwise this
Legislature would not only rail- days, his health being bad.
RANSOM ON VANCE.
CUMULATIVE VOTING WINS.
voice. The measure now goes
to the President and with Secre
tary Carlisle's approval, obtained
before the bill passed, the Presi
dent's signature is not doubtful.
Representative Alexander's
Cape Fear light house and range
light bill will be reported by the
House commerce committee to
morrow, he is assured
The postmaster at Antioch
Robeson county, resigns and re
Representative
appointment of
W. H. Phillips as his successor.
At the moment of adjourn
ment yesterday Representative
Crawford secured the passage of
his bill to muster in James Berry
Duckett. Mr. Crawford will en
deavor Friday night to secure
the passage of his bill to pension
Mrs. Col. Fagg, of Buncombe.
Representative Grady hears
that the people of Newbern de
sire a clerk to be appointed to
the public building superinten
dent and therefore renews his
nomination of Mr. J. B. Lane.
Mr. Thomas H. Sprinkle pro
poses to leave here and practice
law in Charlotte.
Zeb Harris goes to Raleigh to
night to spend thirty or forty
What Or. Kingsbury, Editor of the Wil
mington Messenger, and the Most Com
petent Literary Critic and best Judge
of Biography in the State, Thinks of
the Senator's Eulogy.
We have watched with some
interest to see what Dr. T. B.
Kingsbury, of the Wilmington
Messenger, thought of the superb
eulogy of Senator Ransom on his
late colleague, Hon. Z. B. Vance,
and in yesterday's Messenger, Dr.
Kingsbury wrote of it gracefully
as follows :
We have taken time to read
the address of Senator Ranson,
in the U. S. Senate on January
19th, upon the late Senator Zeb
ulon B. Vance, of blessed mem
ory. Of its kind it is a master
piece. We do not remember to
have ever read one of the very
many addresses in the United
States Congress during the last
fifty years upon departed mem
bers that impressed us more,
that was more complete,in better
style, that surpassed its por
trayal of character. Of course
it was warmly sympathetic, rich
in expressions of admiration, but
it was a really singularly accu
rate, thorough and most felicitous
analysis of the character and
splendid and manifold gifts of
the illustrious Senator and
statesman. It is one of those
addresses that deserve to become
classical, and to be pigeon-holed
along with those memorable ef
forts in oratory that illustrate a
century and give fame to a peo
ple. We do not exaggerate, we
think in the least in saying this.
We ao not aesire to be extreme,
but to state with candor what our
serious impressions are. We
have delayed two or three days
since reading it before writing of
it. We doubt much if a finer,
completer, more artistic and elab
orately wrought obitual address
has ever been pronounced m the
Senate. We read those on Clay,
Webster, Calhoun, Sumner and
many others, but none seemed to
us more admirable, more charm
ingly rhetorical, more exquisitely
happy in personal limning and
character analysis, more choice
in phraseology or more critically
accurate m style. Senator Black
burn declared ot it, in his own
brief address, that he 'listened to
the address delivered by his sur
viving colleague, and it went far
to remove the prejudice that
hold against these ceremonials
for never in all my life did I hear
the virtues, the merits, the worth
of a man more eloquently por
trayed, more fairly and truthful
ly put.
We have not as yet read Sen
ator Jarvis s (but hope to do so
but there is no comparison be
tween the beauty and grace and
'eloquence and thoroughness of
Senator Ransom s address and
those of the other Senators who
spoke.
THE POPS HELD OUT AND THE
GAVE IN.
have had something to say about! era Pines.
those boats. A strict and not
unfair line of demarcation had
separated the two classes on
board ship, each receiving the
accomodation for which he paid;
but when it came to discriminat
ing between the cabin and the
steerage, on a matter of life and
death, it is quite likely that the
majority would think that their
tickets were as good as those of
the minority for a seat in the life
boats.
The staunch ship United
States, registered A I, and with
the best record for speed and
seaworthiness, is not likely to be
cast away in the near or distant
future. It has weathered storms.
has fought with pirates and mu
tineers, and has always come
safely into port; tut there is
dirty weather ahead, and some
of the people on board, instead of I the provisions of the game law.
The bill to reduce the charges
for the sale of leaf tobacco in
warehouses was taken up and
was discussed at considerable
length, with wide differences of
views. It was stated by one side
that the farmers wanted the bill
passed and on the other that they
did not. The warehousemen op
pose it. Several amendments
were offered. The bill passed 35
to 5, without amendment.
HOUSE.
To provide for additional build
ings at the Agricultural and Me
chanical college, $ 15,000 for each
of the years 1895-96.
To allow persons who sell
horses or mules to take leins to
secure payment.
To extend the time for the reg
istration of physicians until
iy6.
To fund the debt of Wilming
ton by issuing $50,000 m bonds
To exempt Craven county from
To cure defects in the regis
tration of deeds by deputy clerks.
Tl'o prescribe the manner in
standing by to help in case of
need, are anxiously inquiring:
"Are there life-boats enough for
the cabin passengers?"
Dropping metaphor and com
ing down to State politics and to
cold facts: the day of the "trim- J petition from citizens of Wake,
mer" and "time-server" in the asking the repeal oi the merch
Democratic party in North Caro-1 ant's purchase tax.
lina is ended and the "unterri-J A bill passed after much debate
fied" are coming together with I extending for 60 day the time al-
no go-betweens and a glorious I lowed the sheriffs of Cherokee,
victory awaits us in 1896. j I Rutherford. Clay, Jackson,
road bills through, but put them
through by cyclone.
SATURDAY.
In the Senate the only new bill
was to secure an equal distribu
tion of the estates and effects of
assignors.
Senator Francks, of Onslow,
was elected president of the Sen
ate pro tem; the vote being 33
votes for him and 1 each for Sen
ators Adams and Rice.
Bills passed:
To establish graded schools in
Kinston.
To incorporate the Manufac
turers Mutual Fire Insurance
company.
To fix solicitors fees in mat
ters of receivership.
To extend the time for the be
ginning of work on the Cape
Fear & Northern railway.
Jams were tabled as follows:
For the relief of the sheriffs
and tax collectors of the State.
To facilitate the trial of causes.
Bills passed giving Farmer's
alliance insurance privileges.
to prevent preferences by in
solvent corporations.
Bills were tabled prohibiting
state officers from taking rail
road passes.
HOUSE.
Senator Pritchard speaks
highly of young C. J. Duncan, of
Beaufort, his clerk, who was
sworn in yesterday.
Dr. and Mrs. W. W. McKenzie,
of Salisbury, are here for a day
or two, returning from the
North.
Roxboro Courier: Mr. James
Ellis, quite an aged man, who
lived near Mt. Tirzah, dropped
dead at the store of Mr. Bowen
at that place last Wednesday
evening at about 2 o'clock. He
was an old Confederate soldier
and drew a pension from the
State.
Charlotte Observer: Tryon
Street Methodist church is to
have the organ of the city. It
has arranged to purchase a $3,
000 instrument. The builder will
arrive in a few days, and will be
gin placing the organ as soon as
it arrives. While the -work is
going on services will be held in
the church.
Graham Gleaner: Last Wed
nesday 22nd inst., about 7.30 p
m., the news flew over town that
Mr. T. J. Turner had died at his
home. Mr. Turner had not been
well for several riavs. H was
To so'amend the public school at work all day Monday, previous
which searches shall be made for law that the State superintend- to his death, at his lumber yard
lust ur sbumu piupei iy.
Young, of Wake, presented a
ent cannot construe it and force He had a cold which grew rapid-
iug wuuiy warus wj accept ms iy worse Tuesday and Wednes
construcion, and also taking day with decided symptoms o
away his power to select school pneumonia. The cause of his
bOOkS. I death was heart, failnro. T)nr!ispH
To provide for the registration was amember of New Providence
OI deeds or trust. I Chnstain church where the
re
CONTINUED ON 3rdPA,GE.
mains were buried Friday morn
1
RADS
But the Rads will Douhtless Pull the Pub
lic Printing J Plum. Kalelgh's Death
Rate Iarge. The bad Weather is Every
where. Other Items of General Interest
Argus Bureau, j
Raleigh, Feb. 2, 1895. f
The Populists have carried the
day about the county govern
ment squabble and peace reigns
again in the fusion camp. It was
a bitter pill for the Republicans
to swallow but they took it. The
'cumulative system will be em
bodied in the county government
bill. That the Republicans did
not give up, however, without
getting something in return is
evident. This will be seen when
the public printer is elected on
the 21st. Ten to one he will be
a Republican. The populists dis
played a great deal of firmness
in their stand for "cumulation"
and said that if anybody came
over it would be the Republicans.
The Republicans came.
To-day the monthly health re
port of the city of Raleigh is be
ing made out. 1 send you a sum
mary. The total number of
deaths in January was 24. Of
these 13 were white and 11 col
ored people. There were three
still births. There were 11 deaths
reported of children under 5
years of age. The causes of
death reported are interesting
and varied and range fiom acci
dent to consumption. Five
deaths resulted from pneumonia,
brought qn by "grip." The pro
portion of deaths to the popula
tion is one person in every 915.
The white proportion is one
615 and the colored one in 636,
The report is not as good as
usual, but this is explained by
the very bad weather that pre
vailed and the prevalence of la
grippe.
Governor Carr has received an
invitation to attend the ceremon
ies of the battle of Chicamaugua,
to be held at Chatanooga
will recommend the publication
of a small edition of the report
of the Columbian Dairy tests
conducted during the World's
Fair at Chicago in 1893. As
there will undoubtedly be a very
large demand for these copies, it
would be advisable for all parties
who desire this report to apply
at once through their represent
ative in Congress for it.
The weather people here say,
"Look out for cold weather." A
special cold wave warning has
been sent out.
Ths Outlook at Washington.
The outlook at Washington is
not promising, solely because
Caesar has a party, Antony has a
party, but Rome has none.
Our present financial troubles
come from three causes, which
may be briefly summed up as
follows:
First We have very bad finan
cial laws, passed by Republican
authority, which must be execut
ed by the President and Secreta
ry of the Treasury. They may
have been wise when enacted,
but they are now not only un
wise but fearfully perilous to the
public credit and private busi
ness, and new conditions compel
their repeal or modification.
Second The Democrats have
a majority in the House and are
presumably responsible for legis
lation. Their leadership has
been so imbecile that it doesn't
know what to do as a responsible
party to meet the emergency,
and if it did know, probably
wouldn't do it.
Third The Republicans have
127 members of the House, and
they oppose everything and pro-
in pose nothing. They prefer bus
iness and industrial distress to
wise legislation while the Demo
crats are in power.
These are the causes which
have prevented sound financial
legislation in Washington. There
are enough honest money Demo
crats in the House, who, if sup
ported by the honest money Re-
on the publicans, could pass a bill any
19th and 20th of next September, day that would stop the drain of
The Governors of every State in gold and restore public confi-
the Union have been invited to deuce in every business and m-
attend. dustrial circle, but thus far not a
This morning a young boyish Republican movement has been
lad, only 17 years old, was made excepting to oppose every
brought here from the country thing that has been presented by
and put m jail on the charge of the majority.
retailing whiskey without a
license. He is said to be an old
offender and a hardened criminal.
His name is Jack Sykes.
The cause of the delay of the
Seaboard Air Line train yester
day was caused by the breaking
down ot a locomotive, not oy a
wreck as rumor had it yesterday.
The Republicans could move
to amend; could move to substi
tute; could do anything to per
fect any financial measure before
the House, but they find the
Democrats divided by Populists
and Agrarians within their ranks,
as the Republicans will be when
ever they shall be called to re-
The day is a horribly damp and sponsible action, and they refuse
EXACTLY SO.
Mr. Robert Barr, a humorist
who made a name for himself in
American journalism under the
alias "Luke Sharp" and has
achieved a more enduring repu
tation in England under his own
name says:
"The United States is the only
civilized country in the world
that takes its literary opinions
from another country. Its atti
tude toward England in this mat
ter is abject, cringing, and, what
is more astonishing, financially
idiotic, for I am thoroughly con
vinced that some big fortunes
are to be made right here in New
York by the men who first real
ize that America can be as great
in literature as she is in business
and inventions."
As a personal experience, he
says that ne onerea a dook vi
sketches by "Luke Sharp" to
every publishing house in Amer
ica and it was rejected by every
j . 1 T T rtf " "A.
one ot them. lie onerea n,
under his undistinguished real
name, to an English firm, which
accepted it at once; whereupon
the author had offers for its re
publication by three of the Amer
ican houses which originally
refused to touch it. "I have not
the slightest doubt," he adds,
"that the great American novel
has been repeatedly offered in
New York, repeatedly rejected,
and at last burned in despair by
the disappointed authors who
then turred their attention to
civil engineering or the grocery
business."
Cleveland Star: Monanzite stil
continues to boom. L. A. Gettys and
W. B. Palmer, monazite buyers, hare
purchased 17,000 pounds within the
last five davs at an average oi oj
ranta tier rtound. some of it brineine
as hieh as 8 cents. Hunt and W at-
terson brought in six tons this morn
ine and will sell here today. Gettyi
and Palmer will ship a car load Fri
day. It requires about $3,000 a week
to pav for the monazite this one
im buys every week, j
dark one. Snow has been falling
at 'different times to-day, but the
ground is too wet for it to stick.
People who came in on the trains
eport that it is snowing hard at
different points on the line. At
Danville there was snow to a
depth of 3 inches and it was still
snowing.
Up to thi-3 morning there had ty, and has thus
been 260 bills introduced in the permit it to give any aid what-
House. The House met this
marning to get an early stort.
At 4 o clock this afternoon the
funeral services over the re
mains of Mrs. fc. u. Waitt were
held from Edenton street church
Rev. J. N. Cole conducting the
services. The church was
crowded with friends and rela
tives of the dead lady,
Among the prominent visitors
to the legislative halls to-day
was Rev. John C. Kilgo, lately
of South Carolina but now presi
dent of Trinity college, ne is
considered to be one of the finest
pulpit orators in the South and
is always greeted by large con-
regations.
The tobacco business, so long
all aid to legislation solely to
make the majority party appear
responsible before the country.
The man who is more respon
sible than all others in the House
to-day for the failure to legislate
on the financial question is Thos.
B. Reed, of Maine. He controls
the action of the Republican par-
far refused to
ever to remedial legislation.
Such is the situation at Wash
ington. Philadelphia Times.
Greenville Reflector: Mr. W. J.
Jackson, of this county, has re
ceived a check for $100 as a premium
for selling the best 200 pounds of
tobacco raised last year from Roy
sters Orinoco guano. Mr. Jackson
sold 229 pounds at the Eastern
Warehouse for $318.54. Pitt county
has won this premium for three
years. Mr. jacKson also naa some
fine tobacco on exhibition at the last
State fair and won three premiums
on it.
Chatham Record: The eyesight of
Mr. Eli Webster, of Ore Hill, has
been restored by a surgical opera-
neglected here, bids fair to soon Bion performed by Dr. Robert L,
become large during the whole Cayeness, of Coleridge, N. C. The
season and even the bad weather disease was cateract from which he
not effected the business to bad been blind lor three years.
any extent. Mr- "eDSier 18 now ? years oia, out
Anna Bell Maness, a White 0?J D1"C,"I T , 1
woman who has been confined in tlon OI ieeis young ana spry
the penitentiary for a year for n ,Twi5a v
concealing stolen goods, was re- P m IfTiV
leased to-day, her sentence hav-
She lived in Moore r:.T r".."ZZ
ing expired.
county and was returned there
this afternoon, tsae was radi-
ently happy.
One poor, lone farmer braved
the elements to-day and drove
here, through mud and slush to
the axle, with a bale of cotton
for which he obtained 41 cents
per pound.
To-day the university law
school sent down several appli
cants for license to practise law.
They are Messrs. Pruden. Jack
son, White, J ohnson, Long, Ury-
son and Bennett, As I informed
you, they stand their examinations
on Monday. The Trinity boys
come down then. The University
boys came early to be on the
ground and hold "quizes.
Much fear is expressed by
physicians that the "grip" may
become epedemic here. It is in
most cases of a mild form, but
some are very malignant, devel-
oping into'pneumonia. Jt
It is understood that the com
mittee on printing in Congress I
restoration of
beeu blind seven years.
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