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fa VtfY JOHNSON'S CHILL AND Fever Tonic. rrV MORGAN'S CHILL TONIC, Every bottle guaranteed to cure or money re funded at MILLER S DRUG STORE. Everyboby guaranteed or no pay "Wholesale and re tail at MILLER'S DRUG STORE This Argtjs o'er the people's rigffts, Doth an eternal vigil keep No soothing strains of Maia's sun, Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep" Vol. XVII. GOLDSBORO, N. C THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895, NO. 7 W . "!Y. fa fk It 1 A zO J A A v t UUR AVAVMiy LJJ AvVLi AVVU AvSAvvLJ CONVKSTION d.OSKl. The Southern liautists Make an Knd of Their Work in "Washington. Washington, D. C, May 14 The first business of the fourth and last days session of the Southern Baptist Convention a ter devotional exercises, was the report of the committee on time and place of next meeting. I was recommended that the con vention of 1896 be held in the First Church, Chattanooga, be ginning on the Friday before the second Sunday in May; that Kev. C. A. Stakely, of Washington, preach the annual sermon, with Rev C. Durham, of Raleigh, N C, alternate. Rev. F. S. Yeager, of Chattanooga, explained the terms of the invitation duly ac credited delegates will be euter tained at the homes, of the peo pie. The report was adopted. The report of the committee upon so much of the report of the home mission board as re lated to work among the colored population, was made by Rev A. J. S. Thomas, of South Caro lina. It stated that some work had been done by the board among the negroes in Kentucky, Oreorgia ana iexas ana tnat in some respects the work had been satisfactory. "The board is anx ious to do more for the negroes but there are so many peculiar embarrassing problems that the work has been necessarily slow." The committee emphasized these points: 1. The board will not under take work among the negroes in any State unless the State boards of white Baptists are in sympathy and co-operate with it. 2. It will not undertake work in any State unless the members are agreed among themselves upon the work to be done. 3. The colored people should be encouraged to pay a part of the salary of every teacher and missionary laboring among them. The best thing that can be done for them is to encourage them to self support in their church building and mission work. An extensive work cannot be done among them as long as Cuba, New Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, and perhaps other States so sorely need all the help we can give. 4th. The best work that can be done among the negroes is educating their ministers rather then evangelizing them. 5th. The Southern Baptists are in sympathy with the ef forts of generous hearted people North and South, who" have given money to establish schools and colleges in the Southern States for the negroes. 6th. We hope that the agree ment reached by the joint com mittee at Fortress Monroe will bring the colored Baptist schools established by our Northern brethren, nearer to the hearts of Southern Baptists. We are as sured that these schools have been a great blessing even with out our active co-operation, and that with our hearty sympathy and co-operation they will ac complish far greater good. 7. In view of the continued need of the negroes and of the press ing needs of our mission fields at home and abroad, and in view of the liberality ot our Northern brethren and the interest t-hty have shown in the education of the negroes, we assure our breth ren of the North that we shall be glad to see them contribute thousands for the education and evangelization of the negroes, and that in this good work .they will have the co-operations, sym pathy and help of our best and wisest brethren. For, while we are interested in this gr work, and are fully persuaded of its importance, we are unable at present to do for it as its needs demand. The Committee on Nomina tions reported names for mem bership of the several boards, and they were elected. Rev. Mr. Holt, from the committee on enrollment, reported that the membership of the convention consisted of 813 delegates on the financial basis and 402 represent atives from district associations; total, 1,215. There were present 762 delegates of the first class and 142 of the second class; total, 904. . A resolution submitted by Rev J. J. Hall, of Norfolk, Va., at the request of the Internationa' Peace Congress, recommending the establishment of a high court of arbitration among the nations, was adopted. Kev. M. M. Vann, colored, ' President of the American Na tional Baptist Uon vention, was introduced as the man who oc- . occupied the highest position in his race, and that he would oc cupy but a minute of the time of the convention, w hen trie mm ute wa up Dr. Vann said he hated to let his audience go for he seldom had such an oppor the colored people were intenses ly Christian and intensely Bap tist, and that what they lacked in knowledge and sanctified in telligence they propose to make up m zeal. The white Baptists, he believed, needed to exercise mose zeal. Since the Emanci pation proclamation, out of 4,000,000 colored people liberated then, a million and a half had been brought into the Baptist church, while out of 50,000,000 white people, aud after 200 years of work, but a few more have united with the same church. Dr. Vann created deep and fa vorable impression upon the con vention, and was listened to for a quarter of an hour. The fraternal messengers were appointed to the Baptist anniver saries in session at Saratoga in June, and the National Baptist Convention at Atlanta, Ga., in August. The Convention then adjourned sire die, with the singing of the hymn, "Blest Be the Tie that Biuds," and prayer by Rev. Mr. Waters. HOPE OF POPULIST DEFECTION. Gentlemen AVho See 1! right Skies. Washington, May 4. Collec tor Rogers tendered his official bond to-day, secured by the Fi delity and Deposit Company, of Baltimore, Md., in the sum of 120,00, the last $20,000 for dis bursements. He left for home to -night. His commission has been made out. It will be issued as soon as the bond nas been reached in its order of considera tion and approved by the SolicU tor of the Treasury. To-day certain vague intimations were repeated more definitely to the effect that Rogers was not Kope Elias' candidate in any sense whatever; that Kope was ex pected up to the last moment to declare himself a candidate. Those who make these intima tions may know more than the rest of us but the general infor mation and belief is that Kope Elias never intended to be a can didate. Democrats of prominence, fresh from North Carolina, think that fully 5 per cent, of the Pop-u-lista will return and 10 per cent, will abstain from voting and that Democracy will gain in other ways. Otho Wilso says that it will depend on what the issues are whether fusion holds next time. When asked what the Populist will do, if the Dem oorats nomiuate a free .coinage man on a free coinage platform, and the Republicans take the op posite course, he claims that the people are tired of party alleg iance and that the Democrats did not two years ago adopt' a free coinage plank or nominate a free coinage candidate. This non sequitur shows that Otho sees trouble ahead of his crowd. Otho thinks that no commission will effectually regulate railways, but that they must be owned by the government, and yet he draws his salary as a commissioner with great regularity. Representative Lockhart left last night. Hon. Charles M. Cooke and wife will return home to-morrow He is finishing up a hunt for ma terials for his sketch of the Fifty-fifth Regiment. E. C. Beddingfield, and Otho Wilson, of the State railroad commission, are in attendance on the annual convention of railway commissioners, and expect Maj. J. W. Wilson, the remaining com missioner, on a later train. Most of the North and South Carolina visitors have left, but some remain to finish sight-see ing. The New Collector. rne aispatcnes this morning announce that the President yes terday appointed Mr. Samuel L Rogers collector of internal rev enue for this district to succeed the late Copt M. E. Carter. The appointment is not a surprising one it was quite like Mr. Cleve iana to nave maae it. u. here is enough suggestion of the idea ot civil service reform, promo tion for merit, &c, to remind one of the man behind it. Mr. Rogers is of Macon county and is a young man he is in the 80s yet. When Mr. Kope Elias was appointed collector, two years ago, he appointed Mr, Rogers, then clerk of Macon Su perior Court, his chief deputy and he has held the position ever since, exercising the full func tions of the collectorship twice in the meantime-once while Mr Elias' case was held up in the Senate and again since the death of Capt. Carter. He is re puted a good business man and the appointment is no doubt an excellent one and one which wil give satisfaction to the district and especially to those having business with the collector's of nee. There is a suggestion in it, too, of recognition of Kope, which will aoabtiess oe very agreeable to that estimable gen tleman and staunch, friend o: Mr. Cleveland. Charlotte Obser BRIGHT COTTON PROSPECTS. New York, May 14. From information we have this even ing we anticipate a higher cot ton market at Liverpool to-mor row. We believe we have seen the lowest prices of this season and perhaps for many. Stocks of wheat, leather, su gar, whisky and oil have each haa their aavance. humoer is now taking a start in an upward direction, while American cotton, with more intrinsic value than any of these articles and more universally in use in the manu facturing world is low; and yet 90 per cent, of the cotton that enters into the manufacturing of goods in Europe and the United States is that of American growth against 65 to 70 per cent. in years previous to the current season. We speak advisedly when we say that if the South will only stand squarely to its promises of reduced acreage for the coming crop there will be consumed next year of American 190,000 bales weekly instead of 180,000 now, and after the approaching season large crops as weli as small ones will be taken care of by the consumers at prices sat isfactory to the planter. Ten States are being relied upon to clothe the countries named above, 90 out of every 100 people in whom put cotton gooes on their backs, and if they will hold fast to a small acreage for the crop of 1895-'96, the power to dictate the price will in a great measure be with the people who are to produce it. Atwood, Violett & Co. National Silver League. St. Louis, Mo., May 15. -It is likely that a call for a national silver league convention will be issued to meet in this city in March, 1896. The matter is being agitated by the local silver men and they laim they are backed up by the silver men of the west, and par ticularly so by the white metal people of California, who claim to be disappointed at the meth ods adopted by Gen. A. J. War ner, of Ohio, on his recent visit to California. The California Silver League finds fault with Gen. Warner for limiting his ef forts to an attempt to secure the unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The league contains a large number of Populists, -and they do not think any financial platform would be complete unless it in cluded a provision for an issue of greenbacks, and an explicit declaration against the National Banking system, and the issuance of any more government bonds. B. Follett, of St. Louis, is in communication with prominent silver men throughout the coun try, and if he. receives assurance that such a convention is oppor tune he will issue a call for it to be held here on March 16th, 1896. ISETTEK COTTON HALING. The Department of State has done good service by instituting an inquiry into the methods ot baling cotton in this and other countries. The advance sheets of reports from American con suls furnish much information on this subject and give hope of a reform which will add materially to the value of our cotton crop. All these consular reports show that American cotton arrives in Europe in yery bad condition and the fault lies in the way it is baled here. All other kinds of cotton reach European ports in better shape than ours. Egypt, India, Turkey and South America are far be hind us in the cultivation of cot ton, but they all prepare it for market much better than we do. The Egyptian bale, though much heavier than ours, is better cov ered, more uniformly packed and compressed more densely. uur interior baling causes great waists and increases heav ily the rate of insurance. A great quantity of American cotton is lost by fire every year by rea son of the shabby shape in which it is sent to the ports. It is very rare that Indian or Egyptian coiton catches ahre on ship board and it is very common for American cotton ; to burn. The loss we sustain in one way and another by reason of our care lessness in this matter is very heavy, and there is no, reason why it should continue. The ex pense of better bailing represents but a small part , of the cost of such bailing as we now have. Recently some experiments in new processes of bailing cotton have been made in Texas with favorable results. If the im portance of this subject can only be imrjressed. upon our planters and- cotton shippers improved methods of baling cotton would be adopted at once. The efforts of the state department in this direction are commendable and will doubtless produce practica COTTON MANUFACTURING. Rayid Growth of tlio Industry in China Aud Japan. Washington," May 15. The Department of State has received an interesting report from U. S. Consul General Thomas R. Jer nigan, of North Carolina, station ed at Shaughai, China, on our trade relations with that Empire. iMoung a railing on: in the im portations of domestic cottons from the United States as well Great Britain, Mr. Jernigan ad vances the opinion that the manufacture of cotton cloth by China and Japan is responsible ror the decrease. In lobd the first spinning mill was erected in Japan, with 5,456 spinaies; in 1886 there were six teen mills, with 43,700 spindles, and in 1893 there were forty-six mujs, with some 600,000 spindles. 1 he statistics regarding the in dustry in China have not been published, but a conservative estimate is that the end of this year will witness 360,000 spindles 3,000 Ioojqs, besides numerous cotton gins ready to operate in fifteen cotton mills. j.u japan me mui-owner pays irorn 8 to zvc per day in silver for mill hands, while in the United States labor, he says, is paid for in gold. During 1894 one dollar in gold has been equal to two dollars of Japanese silver, which makes clear, according to his reasoning, that the mill-own er in the United States is paying twice as much for labor as the "Japanese. Mr. Jernigan says that he does not wish to intimate that the price of labor in the United States should be regulated bv the price of labor in Oriental countries. but unless some standard of in ternational value for the pay ment of labor is agreed upon the products of the Oriental laborers will become a dangerous rival to that of the Occidental laborers. Silver, he says, is used by one half of the world and gold by the other half, and while wages in onehalf are paid iu a depre ciated currency and in the other halt in an appreciated currency. a rivalrv between the respective products of the labor of each is encouraged, with the advantage in the outset to the products of the laborers paid in depreciated currency, especially when the latter can supply his daily wants wnn such a currency, wrach he willingly receives and remains contented therewith. Such ap parent advantage is no longer offset by the supeioritv of the machinery heretofore employed in manufacturing- which was con fined to the other half of the world . now using gold. The same machinery is now used in China andJapan as in other coun tries. HISTORY OF THE LAST LEGISLATURE. Buy one. Only ten Cents. A neat, attractive pamphlet 160 pages, with ornamental cov er. devoted to the record of the last Legislature, the worst Leg islature, save that of 1868, ever assembled in this State. This book gives its record plainly and truthfully. It gives facts and names, and is thoroughly re liable. It has been prepared by some of the best Democratic writers in the State. Every patriot, every citizen and every Democrat should have a copy. Price 10 cents per copy, post paid. Lower prices by the hun dred. If not on sale at bookstore or drugstore, address ft. M. Uzzell, Printer and Binder, Raleigh, N. C. LIST OF LETTERS. Remaining in Post Office at Golds boro Wayne county, May. 11, 1895. MENS' LIST. B Sid M Bodder-, Willie Brown. C S T Cosson, Eddie Camden, Jno Covington, J T Cunny- mgham; J P Cutts, FDar den Cole. D L R Dixon. E L D Edwards. F Jas W Faison. G I WGoldsboro. H-J W Harden & Son. . A R ddleton. P J B Parker, Walter Perkins, w Lowell. 2. S Thomas Stanron. T T C Taylor, Thomas Taylor, w w j Whitley, Thomas Wig gins. Y R- II Yelverton. LADIES' LIST. B Gennie.Best, LizaBethie. 1) ary Daniels, ary A Dan- iels-- Sarah Darden, Sallie Dortch. . '. "v -..:..., F Kate Fodon. - .; ; arjtha I. ' Knight. ' Eftie ars. - ' R Sarah Randolph. S inJlm Smith " .. W Carrie White, Hosea ft. Wil. Jiains, W. 1). Williamson. Person calling for above letters will please say advertastxl and give date of same. The regulations require that one cent shall bo paid on all advertised letters. 1 ' - - , ; J. W. Bryan, P JL GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Of tUo Southerd Presbyterian CHurcli. New Orleans, La., May 17 A special to the Daily States from Dallas, Texas, says: The General Assembly met at 9 a. m. and was opened with devotional exercises by the Moderator. Af ter approving the minutes of yes terday's session, the Moderator aunounced the chairmen as fol lows: Bills and Overtures, Rev. Dr. J. R. Graham; Judicial, Rev. Dr. McCollie; Home Missions, Rev. Dr. Peyton Hoge; Foreign Mis sions, Rev. Dr. R. H, Fleming; Education, Rev. Dr. J. S. Lions; Publications, Rev. Dr. J. H. Nail; Colored Evangelists, T. C. Whalling; Sabbath Schools, Rev, Dr. Plunkett, Systematic Bene ficence, Rev. Dr. J. M, Brown; Foreign Correspondence, Rev. Dr. Lefevre; Theological Semi naries, Rev. Dr. Gordon; Narra tive, Rev. Dr. C. R. Hydes; Leave of Absence, Rev. Dr. Zhaney; Bible Classes, Rev. Dr. N. M. Edmunds; Auditing Ed itor, E. H. Owens; Devotional Exercises, Rev. W. H. McCol lough. . A beautiful gavel, made of wood from Jerusalem, was pre sented by Rev. R. C. Anderson, in the name of Dr. Wallis, Ameri can Consul at that place. It was received in a neat speech by Moderator Hemphill. Several overtures and other communications from Presbyter ies and individuals were read, by title and referred to committees. A telegram was received from the Texas States Convention of the Women's Christian Temper ance Union, which was read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Correspondence. i he report ot the Assembly's Treasurer showed a balance on hand of over 9,000. The report of the Secretary of the Home Mission Board was rad, as was also that of the Sec retary of Colored Evangelization. Both were less encouraging than those of the other executive com mittees. To-morrow night will be de voted to a special meeting in the interest of colored evangelization. There will be no session this af ternoon and to-night, in order to give the committees time to con sider the papers placed in their tianrl rI 1 1 o vo; 1 rf l-ic '.J . -V 4 I VJ ' UiA II J L I . A. LI I Assembly will begin to-morrow. The committees were all busily engaged this afternoon in arrang ing t he business of the Assembly. Interviews with prominent com missioners this afternoon point to the following as the probable action of the Assembly on sever al important matters to come be fore it: The principal question to be decided is organic union with the Northern church. Two extreme positions will probably be main tained. One party desire to in augurate a movement which willj ultimately lead, to actual union, but has no hope of final success this year. The other will not consent to even discuss the mat ter, considering it finally closed by the action of last year. A majority, however, are disposed to compromise. It. is not prob able that the change will be made in the plan of the .church with reference to the licensing of candidates for the ministry, al though several of the Presby teries have asked for change. In the appeal case of Dr. Green, convicted of heresy by the Pres bytery of Western Texas, the action of the Presbytery will probably be affirmed. Dr. Richardson, Secretary of Education, having declined re election, several candidates " are named for the office, the most prominent of these being Rev. VV. W. Mcllwayne, the Financial Agent of the Lowell Theological Seminary. No change is likely to be made in the other , Secret arvships, although there is a manifest disposition to do away with unnecessary officers. In iMemoriani. Died, at his residence, near Mt. Olive, on the 15th inst., of heart trouble, Mr. Needham H. Cobb, aged 61 yea-s. He had been a member of the Missionary Baptist church, at Mount Olive, for more than twenty years, and was honest and upright in his dealings with his fellow man Mr. Cobb had been married nearly thirty years, ana was a kind and indulgent husband and father. He leaves a wife, three sons, and two married daughters to whom he never was known to speak unkindly and incherishing no ill will human being. He died as he had lived at peace with all mankind. Sleep our father in Jesus sleep, For in bis arms none wake to weep. Thou hast crossed tne river deep. " And angels their sweet virgils koep, - . A Fill END. Mt. Olive, N. C. May 17, '95. Subscribe to The Argus a first "class family journal. Daily THE SKIES ARE HRIGHTEKING. During the last week two nf the largest iron and steel estab lishments m the United States have voluntarily advanced the wages of their employes ten per cenL. j.nese are the various Carnegie steel works, near Pitta burg, and the Pencoyd Iron Works, of Philadelphia. Earh ot these is the lars-est establish ment of the kind in its particular une, and tne tact that wages have been advanced without do mand from the workmen, and without any friction whatever Detween employers and employ ed, is one of the most honef nl in dications of the steady and sub- sLituiiaL growiuor industrial and business prosperitv. During the last month wo have noticed that over one hundred prominent industrial establish ments throughout the country uavo auvancea tne wages of their employes, and manv nf them have done it voluntarilv In some instances there have been disputes which have result ed in such increase, but the brightest feature of our industri- lmprovement is in the fact that fully one-half or more nf these leading establishments have advanced the wages of la bor without demand havine- been made upon them for it. lhe skies are brisrhteinn"-all around us. The financial and in dustrial depression of the last two years seems to have readier! the bottom and is on the re bound. Confidence is steadilv rowing in all commercial, in dustrial, trade and financial cir cles, and if we only had the ques tion of honest money definitely settled, this country would be on the eve of the most prosperous era of its history. lhe one cloud that hangs over us like a pall is the craze for cheap money that would demor alize business, destroy credit, re- uuce me earnings oi working men, and produce universal nnr- alysis and disaster throughout tue land, t ne tact that the growth of this fearful and fanatical senti ment has been, largely due to the general prostration ot business, is doubtless the truth, and there is every reason to hope that the brightening skies, which now pread hope and contidennfi in all industrial channels, mav speedily halt the effort to com mie national suicide by sinking to tne standard ot dishonest money. Let all, of everv political faith. unite to strengthen the hands of those who are struggling to maintain public and private cre dit and law and order. The only issues now betore the people are those of honest monev and the protection of person and properj ty. These are the great issues to be determined in 1896, aud whatever party shall most dis tinctlv present them will com mand the earnest support of this journal, and of hundreds of thousands of others regardless of their political predilections. l ne time nas come when the peo ple must be honest with them selves, and the first step in that direction is to make the govern ment command the confidence not only of its own people, but of the civilized world. Edwin A. Alderman as a Biograph er, Editors Messenger: I particularly desire to call the attention of your readers to the finest piece of biographical litera ture that has ever been produced by a North Carolinian, and one which ought to be especially at tractive to Uape i'ear people, as the subject was one of the lead ing spirits of the Revolutionary period, aud the author is Wilmington man. I refer to Edwin A Alderman's address at the Guilford battle of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. It is a pamph let of sixty pages, with an ap pendix, a picture of Hooper, etc., and is an elegant, scholarly description of the best educated scholar and orator of the day, by one of the most accomplished scholars and orators of his own time. rTotessor Alderman, who is professor of the Philosophy of Education at the University, has by this address placed himself in the front rank ot American writ ers, and has snowed, such capa city for dealing with subjects like that of this address as to make it his duty to do still larger work for the honor of his native State. I am very proud of him as a North Carolinian and a Wilming tonian, and am very sure that all who read this pamphlet will feel as I do on the subject. . A M. Waddell. May 16, 1895. " My customers holding tickets can get them honored at either of my foun tains under the opera-house or at my store corner Hotel Kennon. . ' C. F. GrIffin. 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