No soothing strains of Maia'sson,
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep'
Vol. XVII.
GOUDSBORO, 1ST. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25. 1900.
NO VSO
This AEGTJS o'er the people's rights,
Doth an eternal vigil kee p
STATE DEPARTMENT
Exercised: Davis' Tr'p to Africa
Brings on Consider ab'e Talk.
Washington, Jan. 22. Webster
Davis, of Missouri, Assistant See
retary of the Interior, has earned
the displeasure of the administra
tion through his actions in South
Africa. The suggestion that has
been made by cabinet officers that
a telegram be Sent Davis by the
President or the Secretary of the
Interior, requesting him to return
home at once or send in his resig
nation. There appeared to be a
warrant for Davis' pursuing such
a course, however, and the sugges
tion was not adopted. It. is the
general opinion in administration
circles that Davis is making h;m
self altogether too prominent, and
is seemingly not contradicting the
impression in South Africa that
he is going to Pretoria on a mis
sion from the Government of the
United States.
The State Department and the
Interior Department deny em
phatically the reports that Davis
has an official mission. At both
these offices the statement was
made to-day that Davis had not
received a word of instruction?,
verbal or written, about his South
African visit, and the State De
partment capped this . with the
announcement that it did not
know that Mr. Davis was going
to South Africa until he left
i
Washington. There is very good j
reason to believe that Davis bas
incurred the displeasure of his im
mediate chief, Mr. Hitchcock,
Secretary of the Interior. There
has been nothing in the press ac
counts to show that Davis has
been indiscreet in his utterances,
but there is a suspicion here that
Mr. Davis is inferentially giving
the impression that he is an em
issary of the United States.
The administration officers aps
pear to be really worried over
the visit of Davis to Pretoria,
particularly because he is going
tberp, according to report, in a
privatp car ot President Kruger,
While Davis has a perfect right
to go where he pleases in an in
dividual capacity, the adminis
tration fears that his official
status in Washington will not be
disassociated from his private
status in South Africa, and will
cause misunderstanding of th
purpose of his visit in the minds
of Boer and Briton,
Damage Done by Ci cus Fire.
Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 20.-
The damage wrought by the fire
at the winter quarters of the Bar
num & Bailey Circus here last
night was fully 125,000. An in
ventory ot tne stock which is
being taken to-day already shows
a loss of more than $100,000, and
Supt. Hutchinson says the total
amount surely will be 25,000
more.
The fire is believed to have
originated from a lamp left in the
car shed by roofers who have
been putting a tin roof on the
building.
It is supposed that some of the
varnish, oils or paint, of which
there was a great quantity in the
shed, took fire from the lamp.
The man who paid the tolls on
Senator Hoar's speech is the man
the people are looking for as keenly
as Otis is hunting for Aguinaldo.
JButler'a Cry toe Help.
"Mortgage all but your soul to
ANYBODY."
Coming from Senator Butler
and Secretary Thompson and
i
Auditor Ayer and Treasurer
Worth, not omitting Chief Clerk
Denmark and Bro. Cade, this ad
monition to "co-operate" with
any and all elements, without re
gard to race or color, to continue
the disorders and bad government
which humiliated and injured the
State from 1897 to 1899, sounded
like hollow mockery, the mere
echo of the wailings of departed
and departing spirits to ex-Librarian
Cobb, ex-Labor Commission
er Hamrick, ex-Railroad Com
missioner Otho Wilson and ex
Sheriff Zack Garrett.
This mortgaging-of the soul
business for office is just where
these last named statesmen drop
ped their watermelon. Pay-day
came in 1898 and the people fore
closed. Another pay day ap
proaches, when Senator Butler
and "his associates" will have to
pony up, and notwithstanding
those who have gone before did
not even save the homestead, the
Senator pleads with them to
mortgage all they have to help
him and those not yet retired to
"hold on." The statesmen on the
"retired list," no more than the
people generally, can see wherein
they are to be benefitted by
mortgaging themselves to keep
Mr. Butler in the Senate and the
devil turned loose to roam at will
throughout the State.
Exactly So.
Raleigh Post.
The Democratic party is the
friend of the whits man; not his
enemy. Indeed, being composed i
exclusively of white men, it may j
be said that it is the while man
himself, Aod are the white men of
North Carolina made of such
stuff that they will turn against
each other, and take away the
right of suffrage from each other?
Certainly not; and yet Butler and
his Executive Committee have such
a poor opinion of the illiterate
whites in North Carolina that they
are trying to persuade them to
believe this monstrous falsehood.
But the inherent good sense and
intelligence of the Anglo-Saxon
will prevail and it will be found
that our white men are not to be
duped like the ignorant negroes
have been dupe J in times past by
tneir artful leaders.
The Democratic party seeks to
promote the happiness, prosper
ity and welfare of the white men,
especially because they are all
whites together and because in
doing so, it best promotes the
welfare of the whole State. c
The truth is, the color line is a
fact. The negro stands by his
color; and the whites generally
stand by theirs.
The white race is fit to govern
themselves. The negro race is not
fit to administer government.
They are not fit to govern them-
selves, much less to govern the
white race.
The struggle in North Carolina
is to secure the beneficent, just,
intelligent operation of wise laws
and the domination of the superior
race over the ignorance of the
black race.
Is it not best so? Is it not prop
er? Let all the whites stand to
gether to secure this result. ,
Whan a Child Moved Ingersoll.
N. Y. Press.
Where a man of brains and
kindly thought met a little child
and was conquered by sweet ba
byhood and trusting faith is best
told by William Wordsworth
Goodrich, an architect of this city.
He never tires of telling the story..
and his hearers never weary of.j
listening: j
"It was on the 12th of January,
1898' he said, "when I occupied
a berth in a Pullman car coming
from Chicago opposite that occu
pied by Kobet G. Ingersoll. In
the next lower berth to his was a
woman and her babe. The young
wife, who was on her way to New
York, had her berth made up
early. She had prepared the baby
for bed, and as she sat on the
edge of the berth, the baby at her
knees, she taught the baby its
evening prayer, 'Now I lay me
down to sleep.'
"The child lisped the prayer as
only a baby can. As the words,
I pray the Lord my soul to take'
were uttered, who should be
standing with folded arms in a
very reverent attitude in the aisle
beside the bowed form none
other than Colonel Ingersoll.
"God bless mama, God bless
papa,
God bless
everybody,' the
and the baby
mother
lisped.
spoke,
"At the final 'Amen,' Colonel
Ingersoll clasped the baby in his
arms and kissed the child on the
forehead reverently, saying, 'God
bless everybody.' By this time all
of the car occupants were onlook
ers. The great Ingersoll held tjj.e
wee little baby, cooing in his
arms, and he was talking to it.
Pinally he laid the child in the
berth, saying; 'Good night, little
one; good night.' Quick as a flash
the little baby said, 'Dod bless
'oo.'
"Ingersoll's answer was, 'Yes,
veg God bless you
Metric System and M-ire Co;n.
Washington, Jan. 20. Secre
tary Gage was before the house
committee on coinage, weights
and mersures to day and spoke in
favor of the adoption of the me
trie system. Mr. Gage also refer
red to the need of fractional sil
ver currency. He pointed out that
at present the demand for frac
tional coin was so urgent that the
issue ran considerably beyond
the 50,000,000 authorized by
law, and he recommended that
the legal restriction be repealed,
leaving the treasury to deter
mine the proportion of fractional
coin necessary.
No Factions in Ohio
Chicago, Jan. 20. Governor
Nash, of Ohio, who was one of
the speakers last night at the
Sons of Ohio Banquet, said yes
terday: "There are no factions in the
Republican party of Ohio to-day.
The party is absolutely united
and I look to see Senator Foraker
re-elected two years hence with
out opposition. Ohio, always
strongly Republican in Presiden
tial years, will this year give
William McKinley the largest
majority in the history of the
State. The State is in a wonder
fully prosperous condition, and
the people are not going to turn
to the party which stands for a
reversal of present conditions."
New York is inflicted with a ma
chine politician, who is known as
"Lou Paine" and the unloading of
him is the toughest problem before
the State.
FIGHT ON THE TOGELA.
THIRTI THOUSAND BRITISH
STORM THE HEIGHTS.
Bosrs Hold Their Own: Fighting
Front Extends Over 1 Wen-y
M-iLs.
Pretoria, Jan. 23. Heavy fight
ing is reported Saturday for
twelve miles along the Tulega.
The British artillery fire was the
heaviest experienced during the
war. It is estimated that thirty
thousand troops were engaged in
the assault on Tulega heights oc
cupied by the Boers. The fighting
front extended over twenty miles.
The artillery fire met with no re
sponse until the infantry attacked
their positions. The British made
three assaults and each time were
vigorously repelled. The Boer
generals were Botha, Shalkburger
and Meyer. The British cannon
numbered over forty. Every time
the British stormed the Boer po
sitions they were reinforced by
fresh divisions, but their efforts
were fruitless. Yesterday hostiii
ties ceased and British ambulan
ces were busy for ten hours pick
ing up and attending the wounded.
The garrison at Ladysmith at
tempted t make a demonstration,
but the Boer outposts gave an
alarm and the attempt was pre
vented. Saturday night the gar
rison at Ldysmhh sent up rock
ets, probably as signals to Buller.
COUNTY CONVENTION CALLED
To Meet In Goldsboro on Saturday, tebru
ary 24. 1900.
Pursuant to the call of Chair- j
"XT !T i.1 T ,
man i. w joerry mo jLeunjuxa.iiu
Executive Committee of Wayne
, , t r i i
ty met to day at 10 o clock
coun
in the business office of the
Goldsboro Rifles and formally is
sued the call for the Convention,
which we give in full as follows:
Go dsboro, Jan. 20.
To the Democratic voters of
Wayne county:
Bv ord-r of the Executive
Ct maaii.:rf of this county, the
Couniy Convention is called to
meet in thi city on Saturday,
February 24, 1900, to select dele
gates to tut State convention
and to transact any other busi
ness that may properly cjme be
fore it.
The township and precinct
primaries will meet on Saturday,
February 17, 1900, except Oold
ooro, whic wi!i mi Friday
n'.b', February 16, 1P00, to se
lect delegates lor the County
Convention.
N. O'Bekry,
Chairman.
There are Enelish sparrows m
Natal, but they are not nesting this
summer it is summer there in the
cannon of either side.
A contemporary heads an article:
"Money in Cucumbers."The general
impiession heretofore has been that
they contamed only colic.
If Quay is to be admitted because
of a charming personality, then
Roberts should be, for he charmed
three women to Quay's one.
In his message to the Legislature,
the Governor of South Carolina said
that South Carolina is second only
Massachusetts in the number of cot
ton spindles, and that when the new
mills under way are 'completed, the
Palmetto State will be the greatest
cotton goods producer in the United
States. The businese has grown so
that the State no longer ships cotton
but is compelled to import it'for use
in the factories. This is a marvelous
showing and but illustrates the vast
possibilities of the South in cotton
manufacturing.
GENERAL NEWS
A row is on between the Paris
Exposition managers and our com
missioners there because, despite
certain alleged rules and promises
as to allignirent, Turkey is being
permitted to build its pavilion as to
overshadow the latter and make it
look like an annex or a side show.
However much sympathy may be
felt for the struggling Boers among
the American people. Congressional
action in their behalf certainly
would be in exceedingly bad taste.
How would we have felt had Par
liament by formal vote expressed it -self
friendly to Spain during our
recent war.
A bill has been introduced in the
JNew xork legislature to require
the date of the canning to be placed
on all canned goods. This is, of
course, to prevent the sale of old
goods as fresh ones, but it does not
appear that the measure furnishes
any means of preventing the fraud
o- dating the cans ahead.
There is much discussion as to
the probabilities of this year's cen
sus. Estimates vary all the way from
72,000,000 to 80,000,000. So far as the
real welfare and greatness of the
country is concerned, it doesn't mat
ter one whit which of these esti
mates is nearer the truth. Quality
and not quantity is the thing to be
coesidered.
William E. English, son of the
former Democratic Vice President
lal candidate from Indiana, has re
turned to the Treasury Department
a check for $1,173 sent to him as
pay lor nis services as captain ol a
volunteer company during the war
with Spain. He says he will not ac
cept pay for service to his country
in time of danger.
oome of tne cares of tne newspa
per editor are indicated in a suit
for $10,000 damages for libel
; brought by Solomon Buikhalter, of
jjaiayette, ma., against tne uauy
Journal, of that city, because m a
serial story running in that paper
the name of the late Mary Burkhal
ter is mentioned in association with
otlier characters m tee fiction m a
way, it is alleged, to cr.st obliquy on
the family name.
Objection is made by some of the
citizens of East Orange, N. J , to
acceptance of Andrew Carnegie's
offer of $50,000 for the building of a
library there, on the ground that
because nearly all the residents are
I wf11l-,r-fln .nc r.an hav all the books
1 .
j tbay want, no such institution is
needed. The acceptance of the gift
l involves tne supplying ot a site oy
: the citizena and the guarantee of
$5,000 a year to support the library.
The war in South Africa has di
verted attention from the operations
of the American army in the Philip
pines. Yet nearlv every day brings
fresh evidence of continued activity
there, and while there have been no
pitched battles, the aggregate of
shirmishes, each with its proportion
of casualties, shows that it is no
mere pastime in which our soldiers
are engaged.
The movement begun by the
Daughters of the Confederacy of
Virginia to erect a monument to the
poet priest,Father Abraham Joseph
JRyan, is one which will receive the
cordial endorsement of every true
Southern man, woman and child. No
nobler spirit ever lived than the be
loved poetlaureate of the Southern
Confederacy, as he was aptly term
ed. His writing, his deeds and his
memory are a precious heritage to
the Southern people,
A Pittsburg concern has received
an order for some wire glass strong
enough to walk on and fireproof, to
be used on the Tower of London.
Thus American visitors to the Tow
er will add to their recollections of
Julius Csesar, William the Conquer
or, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Walter Ra -leigh,
the Traitor's gate and the
Beefeaters, the memory of good,
solid Pittsburg glass with steel wire
wound with asbestos yarn imbed
ded in it.
The Republicans of Florida, al
ways early in the field in a Presi
dential campaign, held on Friday at
St. Augustine, their State Conven
tion for the choice of delegates at
large to the Republican National
Convention. They recognized the
"'color line" to the extent of choos
ing two white and two colored rep
resentatives. The proceedings of the
conversion were orderly and har
monious. There were r o contests to
be carried to the National Conven
tion at Philadelphia and no contro
versis over the instructions of the
delegates.
It is not surprising to observe the
name of Lord Rosebery cropping up
in the English newspapers and in
the London correspondence. His is
the one name that suggests itself
hopefully at the present juncture in r
Hmglish politics. There cannot be
any question that the present gov
ernment is sadly discredited by the
blundering conduct of the war into
which it was brought by blundering
diplomacy, and there is strong prob
ability that it could be easily over
thrown if the opposition had any
efficient leadership.
Commissions representing the
States of New York and of New
Jersey have made a joint report set
ting forth the disirability of preserv
ing the Palisades of the Hudson,
now undergoing rapid destruction
by the quarrymen, who find them a
convenient store of broken stone
for concrete paving and similar purposes-
The commissioners point out
the landscape value of this remark
able formation, the small amount of
land necessary to be acquired in or
der to preserve it and the ease with
which such a public reservation
could be made attractive and profit
able. A pleasant reminder of the past
comes from the action of the Penn
sylvania Legislature in arranging to
restore the lost, disintegrated or
buried monuments that marked Ma
son and Dixon's line. Two English
engineers, Charles Mason and Jere
miah Dixon, drew this line a few
years before the Revolution. Some
years ago it signified the bloody
chasm between North and South,
but today, through the blessing of
time and the wave of national feel
ing set in motion by the Spanish
war,it is only what it was originally;
the boundary between Maryland
Pennsylvania.
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Administrator's Notice.
The undersigned having: een ap
poiafr d anJ qualified as t dministrator
of Geo W. Sanderlin. deceased, all
persons having claims sgainst said de
cedent are hereby notified to exhibit
the same to me at La tjanpe, N. C,,
on or before the 20th day t f January,
A. D., 1901, and all persons indebted
to said decedent a'-e required to make
payment to me. Ihis btn day of Jan
uary, A, D. 1900.
S. J. Wooten,
Adm'r of Geo. W. Sanderlin, aeeeased.
Administrator's Notice.
Having qualified as administrator of
the estate ol Garry Ay cock, deceased,
all persons holding claims against his
estate are notified to present them for
payment oh or before Dec. 4th, 1900, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
tneir recovery; and all persons indebt
ed to said estate are notified to make
immediate payment to the undersigned
Dated and posted this 5th day of
December, 1899.
B. F. AYCOCK", Admr.
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