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This Aegtts o'er the people's rights,
Doth an eternal vigil keep
No soothing strains of Maia'sson,
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep"
Vol. XVII.
GOXlDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MA5T24. 1900.
NO 147
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GENERAL NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
News of tbe Stage, Social, Political and
Otherwise, Called From Oar
Dally Exchanges.
The Marquis ot Lome starts into
the duke business at the ripe age of
58, but he has quit writing poor
poetry.
Salisbury and Chamberlain come
promptly up to the footlights when
our Bobs are moving steadily north
wards. In its daily walk and the exple
tives that go with it, St. Louis is
slippmg backwards morally and re
ligiously. Lindley, the new capital of the
free State, is safe as long as Buller
stays on the other side of the Dra-,
kensbergs.
The Paris exposition is up against
a'war in South Africa and a presiden
tial battle in this country, but it pro- I
poses to struggle on.
The Cuban postal funds were loot
ed on the American plan, the old
Spanish plan being both slow and
comparatively unremunerative.
The office holders are the most
conspicuous patrons of Republican
conventions. Southern conventions
are simply gatherings of them.
The Philadelphia messenger boy
will have to be faster than his town
or messenger boys in general if he I
beats Lord Roberts into Pretoria.
Paderewski gathered in the course
of 96 concerts in the season just
closed $260,000. Birmingham was
a warm contributor to this purse.
Mr. Carnegie, in a recent inter
view, says he is "sure that Mr. Mc
Kinley will be re-elected and that
his second term will be better than
his first."
The missionaries are not yet justi
fied.in making contracts based on the
$90,000 the Turk owes them. He
may conclude to owe it several years
longer.
The capital of the Orange Free
State is here to day and there to
morrow. No capital appropriations
are required under such circum
stances. Emperor William of Germany has
promoted himself. He is now field
marshal' and he will now doubtless
proceed to decorate himself with
peacock feathers.
General Gatacre was not accorded
a triumph when he landed in Eng
land, but he got as good a reception
as Muthuen or Buller will get unless
they do something.
The people of New Zealand sent
Sir George White, the defender of
Ladysmith. a gold brick real solid
gold this time. On the obverse.
"You are another."
Chicago politicians are trying to
ascertain whethether Son Harrison
intends to run for governor against
Son'Tates. The son business is very
popular in Illinois.
President McKinley's carpetbag
politicians in Cuba will soon do their
correspondence from the jails of the
islands, except those that escape and
cannot be extradited.
Having settled the newspaper prob
lem, it is stated that the Rev. Mr.
Sheldon, upon his return from Eu
rope this fall, will take up the servant-girl
problem and end it.
De Wolf Hopper, the comic opera
comedian, has been engaged by
Weber and Felds and will have a
star part assigned him in the new
burlesque with which they' will open
the next season.
From Kansas City, and brought
by a man who has just been " there,
comes the disturbing news that
there are only, twenty-nine licensed
saloons in the entire town. This
will, of course, greatly increase the
baggage that the delegates to the
convention will find it necessary to
carry.
The ice trust managed to get in
one scorching day in New York be
fore it reduced slightly the price of
ice and the size of the chunk it was
necessary to buy.
Sir Thomas Lipton has cabled
$1,000 to be spent in purchasing
some of the cartoons in the exhibit j
of the Press Artists' League in New
York. Come to think of it, Sir Thom
as did get off rather easy.
If no guilty man escapes in the
Cuban postal scandal, as the admin
istration boasts, then the man who
put Rathbone of Ohio in office will
suffer. The name of that man is
said to be Marcus Aurelius Hanna.
Spain's weakness is basic. She
clings to a plan that calls for a small
educated class and a large mass of
illiterates. There is no hope fora
country made up in that way. Ala
bama should take warning.
The Khedive is coming to this
country, and the country will wel
come His Serene Highness, but he
should remember that outside of
Utah and our province o' Sulu
harems are not popular in this coun
try. James Belford, who, when in Con
gress from Colorado was known as
the "Red Roostor of the Rockies,"
has joined the Republican party
again. He left it to support Bryan in
1896, and says now he is back to
stay.
It is said that Towne, of Minne-
sota,,whom the Populists,. that is to
say, one set of them, h ave named as
their candidate for vice-president,
expects to be endorsed by the Dem
ocratic national convention. What a
giddy young man Towne must be!
A flunky administration organ
writes an editorial to congratulate
President McKinley on his recovery
from a bad cold. We may next ex
pect from the same source a disser
tation on the condition of the presi
dential toe nails.
Bronze life-size statutes of Grant,
Sheridan and Sherman will be placed
in Cullum Memorial Hall, at West
Point, if the fund which the profes
sors are trying to raise reaches the
proportions expected. President
McKinley has headed the list, with
$500.
Mrs. Langtry's daughter, who has
just made a brilliant debut in Lon
don society, is said to be as beauti
ful and as fascinating as was her
mother some twenty years ago,
when she went over from Jersey and
soon had all the London swells cap
ering about her.
Dr. George F. Shrady says that
no matter what happens in Wash
ington and other cities, tbe society
girl in New York doesn't smoke, be
cause it is bad form. Then he spoils
this nice little speech by adding:
"She would sooner drink a cock
tail." Charles S. Wilbur, superintendent
of the census for New York, refuses
to make the names of the enumera
tors public because they are already
in demand by advertises who want
to use them to solicit and push, va
rious schemes while they- are doing
their census work.
The New York Sun denies the re
port that Wellesley College is to con
fer an honorary degree upon Miss
Helen Gould, of New York. How
ever, Miss Gould is to be present at
the commencement festivities next
month, and a lawn party and recep
tion will be given in honor of her.
Somebody has told a lot of people
named DeHaven that a man named
Jacob DeHaven, who once kept a
hotel in Philadelphia, loaned the
government $450,000 in 1777 and
that the government still has the
money and the interest due. In an
swer to the numerous letters of in
quiry the Treasury Department has
been receiving about this, it has been
necessary to issue a circular saying
that no money for the DeHaven
heirs is in the treasury or ever has
been.
Richard Yates, the Republican
nominee for Governor of Illinois,
was a class mate of W. J. Bryan in
the old Illinois College.
Armor-Plate Carnegie favors, of
course, the re election of Mr. Mc
Kinley. He makes scapegoat armor
plate that the softnose shells scorn.
General Grosvenor has a rival in
the pre-election figure business in
the spirit of the late Daniel Webster.
So long as it is not Webster Davis
all is well.
The cable is silent as to the recep
tion the Duke of Marlborough will
receive at home. As a returning hero
he can proudly say that he saved
every valet.
President Steyn's latest capital,
Lindley, has also fallen, and his mar
gin for capitals is growing beauti -fully
less. He may yet have to fall
back on Timbuctoo.
After the Rev. Mr. Sheldon has
solved the servant girl problem, any
other little matters that bother the
American people will be attended to
on receipt of requests by postal
card.
Mansour, the horse that ran third
in the Grand Prix of Paris in 1894,
and came in only a length and a half
behind Match Box, which sold for
$75,000, is now pulling a public cab
in the streets of the gay capital.
Washington is stirred to the cen
ter, so to speak, by the social rival
ries of Mrs. Hay and Mrs. Hill. The
latter is holding her own, although
Mr. Hill is only an assistant to Sec
retary of State Hay. She scorns of
ficial rank.
Frank Jones, delegate at large
from New Hampshire to the Repub
lican National Covention, has offered
to pay the transportation and all
hotel expenses of all the other New
Hampshire delegates during the
time of the convention.
Although Chief Justice Brantley,
of the Montana Supreme Court, has
been appointed as one of the Judges
who are to select the names for the
Hall of Ftme to be erected in New
York city, there is no reason to be
lieve that the name of W. A. Clark
will appear on the selected list.
The "American employees of the
De La "Val Separator Conpay's
works at Poughkeepsie struck in a
body when the Sweedish flag was
hoisted to the top of the flagpole on
the factory, and they stayed out un
til the banner was lowered and the
Stars and Stripes run up in its place.
The reason why Admiral Dewey
has to pay the market price for fire
wood, while all the other naval of
ficers get it at a reduction of about
fifty per cent., is because of the Ad
miral's exalted rank. In the present
season, however, the ruling is of
small moment. If it were ice, now, it
would be serious.
Loch Lynn Heights, a little moun
tain town in Maryland, has had a
sharp lesson on the evils of politi
cal indifference. Only fifteen votes
were polled at the town election last
Tuesday, and when they were count
ed it was found they had elected a
ticket put up by somebody for fun
and composed entirely of negroes.
The election, it appears, is going to
hold.
The erasing of the name of Dewey
from the official sketch plan of the
new navy arch to be erected in the
Charleston Navy Yard to commem
orate the deeds of our most famous
sailors is causing indignation in
Boston and elsewhere. The order
for the erasure is believed to have
emanated from Washington. Con
gress appropriated $30,000 for this
arch last year.
How Mr. Clark, of Montana, must
envy Mr. Quigg, of New York! The
latter, yielding finally to what seem
ed to be a popular demand, tendered
his resignation as chairman of the
Republican county committee of
New York the other dav, but so
strong were the pleadings of the
district leaders to continue that he
was forced to withdraw his resigna
tion. The wrangle over the "Quo Vadis"
productions has been transferred to
London. Wilson Barret is using
mueL space in the advertising col
umns of the papers there to declare
that the Canby and Whitney version
being given at the Adelphi is unau
thorized, and that his presentation
of the play at the Lyceum is the
only proper thing. The legal rights
in the controversy appear to be
about as they; were in New York
case.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Joseph L. Bristow, who goes to
Cuba to untangle the knots tied in
the postal service there by Mr.
Neely and others, is a native of Ken
tucky, but for many years resided in
Kansas, where he was engaged in
newspaper work. For a time he was
priyate secretary to Governor Mor
rill, of Kansas. Mr. Bristow was ap
pointed as an assistant postmaster
general from Kansas" as the begin
ning of the present administration.
General Buller is getting his re
venge at last. The occupation of
Dundee is the first step toward the
reconquest of the British territory
seized upon by the Boers at the be
ginning of hostilities. . Kruger's ul
timatum was delivered on the 10th
of last October. The next day the
army of the transvaal invaded Na
tal, the "British garrison at New
castle falling back on Glencoe. A
battle eijed there a fewdays. later
and General Yule withdrew to Dun
dee, whence he retreated to Lady
smith on October 22. Then follow
ed the long siege of White's small
army at this point, which necessi
tated Buller's campaign for its re
lief. He arrived in natal at the end
of November and after three months
hard fighting he entered Ladysmith
at the beginning of February. Ihree
moths more he was waited for Lord
Roberts' conquest . of the Orange
Free State. That practically accom
plished, Buller has begun his move
ment to retake the northern angle
of Natal and thence to press on into
the Transvaal.
Fane - at Sermons.
The Chattanooga preacher who
recently officiated at the funeral of
a young soldier, who lost his life
in the Phi ip; ines and in the
course of bis remarks declared
that tbe soul had gone out of tbe
dead body that lay before him was
in hell, has given rise to a dis
cussion as to the propriety of fu
neral sermons. Some churches
prescribe a fixed form of burial
service from which their . minis
t rd aie not permittid to depart,
but in most of the Protestant
churchas the custom of preachiog
funeral 6ermons st'll prevails.
In performing such service
good taste is essential and is gen
erally observed. The exceptions,
however, are not infrequent,
though we have only once before
heard of one which was character
ized by such brutality as that of
tbe minister referred to.
There is no reason why a min
ister many not in any case avoid
cruelty to the living, even when
speaking of the dead of whom he
can find little tn say. The scrip
tures are full of words of conso
lation for those who mourn, and
it is not incumbent upon those
who speak over the dead to
recall their frailties, .faults or
sins. The fact that this Chatta
nooga preacher perpetrated an
outrage upon decency will not
change the opinion of persons
who approve the custom of
preaching funeral sermons, but
it does emphasize the necessity
that a minister of thegospel
should be a gentleman.j
ST MARI'S COLLEGE BURNED
Father Francis' Description: He
Thinks the Loss Will Be
$100 000, With On'y
$15 000 Insurance.
Correspondence Charlotte Observer.
,4Fire! Fire! Fire!" Such were
the terrible words that greeted the
102 students, reverend fathers
and brothers of St. Mary's Col
lege and Monastery this morning
at 4 o'clock. The Rt. Rev.
Bishop and all the monks had
just begun tLeir morning prayers
in the abbey cbapel when the first
tdarm was sounded by the night
watchman, who discovered smoke
belching forth from the attic roof
of the new college. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but the gen
eral belief is that it was caused by
spontaneous combustion from
sparrows' nests lodged in the
eave3 of the fifth story of the
college. Immediately after the
alarm was given all the students
were aroused by Rev. Fathers
Bernard and Aloysins and were
marched in a most orderly man
ner to the open air and then the
heroic work of fighting fire began
in a most systematic and success
ful manner. Underwriters' chem
ical fire extinguishers were used
on each floor, whilst a backet
brigade, headed by Messrs. Jno.
Marion and Andrew Brando!, vis
itors from Ashevil'e, was formed,
carrying water from the cistern,
tanks and laboratory, and no
doubt the abundance of water in
all the tanks alone helped save the
monastery and beautiful cathe
dral. Every one at the college
deserves the very highest praise
for the heroic work done, and
even tbe little boys worked like
meo, carrying away books, clothes,
etc.
The main building of the col
lege and tbe entire west wing with
tbe, magnificent tower are com
pletely destroyed. All furniture
in these two large buildings was
consumed by flames. Students'
beds, wardrobes, desks, library
and museum cases apparatus in
scientific department and the en
tire college library are in ruins.
The boys' trunks were stored in
the attic, all of which were lost.
So that tbe loss is greater than
can be estimated at this writing,
but it is generally believed that
the loss will reach fully $100,000.
The enly insurance on the de
stroyed buildings is $15,000.
At one time during the fire all
hopes of saving the monastery
were given up. So, many began
saving the valuables of the mon
astery, but God spared the mon
astery and church, though much
damage was done by water.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Haid, prosit
dent of the college, intends re
building at once, so that all will
be in readiness for the autumn ses
sion in September. At a cailed
meeting of the college faculty this
afternoon, it was decided to dis
miss the students early this week,
as the regular session was to end
June 12. Those who have attained
the required average in tbe grad
uating class will receive their dL
plomas. In tbe meantime until the
students are ready to go home
.they will occupy the monastery,
as the reverend professors gave
up their rooms to the boys.
Every one in Charlotte knows
what a benefit St. Mary's College
is to North Carolina, and Chare
lotte particularly, in an educa
tional sense as well as from a fi
nancial point of view, and a9 I am
a member of the Noble Order of
St. Benedict, and feeling a deep in
terest as well as filial love towards
my alma mater, I will appeal to
the generous people of. Charlotte
for assistance to help the good
bishop and the reverend fathers at
Belmont to rebuild the grand old
college. We should remember
St. Mary's College is not endowed
and never before was any appeal
made to help this grand institu
tion; and as North Carolinians
are daily awakening more and
more to the interests derived from
education, I appeal with confi
dence to the generous public ta
give liberally to this worthy
cause, and thus lighten the heavy
burden that rests on the shoulders
of the sons of St. Benedict in
North Carolina.
Rev. Francis Meter, O. S. B,
Pastor St. Peter's Catholic Church.
Charlotte, N. C, May 19, '00,
The Campaign Now Open.
Raleigh News & Observer,
The Democratic campaign was
formally opened when Chairman
Simmons announced the first ap
pointments and Mr. Aycock laid
down the Damocratic doctrine at
Burlington in April. Every day
since then the editors and speak
ers have been placing the truth
before the people, and the,, truth
is making converts daily to . the
cause of White Supremacy- and
the amendment, one and insep
arable. But one thing was lacking; the
illustration of Democratic doc
trine in the form of cartoons by
Mr. Norman E. Jennett, tbe
North Carolina Davenport. His
pencil did as much to restore the
Democratic party to power in
1893 as any other agency, and
the people of the whole State
will be grati5ed to learn that he
has returned to North Carolina
to devote a few week3 to help
redeem his native State from the
jeopardy of again falling into the
corruption and incompetent rule
of 1895-'99. As soon as the nec
essary material arrives, the 3en
nett cartoons will begin to ap
pear in these columns, and he
will "let no guilty man escape."
Recently Mr. Jennett has fin
ished work on important art ex
hibits that haye been sent to the
Paris Exposition, da holds a re
sponsible and lucrative position
in New York, where he is rapid
ly climbing to the top, and made
a sacrifice to como to North Caro
lina to take a hand in the might
iest struggle that has been wag
ed in his State oyer the most
important question in his gener
ation. Bat his love for North
Carolina is deep and genuine
and when he heard the cry of
white men "Come over and help
us," he comes to enlist his heart
and pencil and talent to make
better permanent conditions in
the old Commonwealth.
Love's burden may be heavy?
but there is never any complaint.
The father of a bright baty
can readily believe that smart
ness is hereditary .
A girl with a sunburned nose
is proof positive that beauty.. ,ia
only skindeep.
Never judge ja man by, the
clothes he wears; judge him Tjj
the amount he owes his tailor.
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