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No soothing strains of Maia'sson, Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep" VOI,. XVI. GQLDSBORO. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1900. NO 13 This Aegtts o'er the people's rights, Doth an. eternal vigil keep GOSSIP Kl WORLD. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM DIVERS SOURCES. News of tlie Stage, Social, Politi cal and Otherwise, Culled From Our Exchanges. The coal consumer near the hard coal districts pays not only the freight but all the damages. The football season is about to trample out what little life there was in the Presidential campaign. Chicago thinks Joliet is oversmart when it counts Chicago converts as a part of its own beloved people. It is remarked of Hanna that as a public speaker on the platform he has a habit of holding his hand out. Other parties give prominence to i 1-..J.,. 1 L 1.1 T 1 " 1 " 1 various suujfcijs, uut me jc.tu.uj.uj. tionists continue to claim that the paramount issue hinges on the crook of the eibow. "William A. Clark, the copper king, recently had himself photographed in the costume of one of the ancient kings of Ulster, from whom he says he is descended. An onion trust is now under pro cess of formation, according to the New Tork "W orld. It ought to be a strong one, and will make it more expensive even to shed tears. That ruling of a May's Landing N. J., judge that the remarks made in her sleep by a defandant on trial before him for theft may be used as evidence against her, has been greatly mitigated by the action of the jury in acquitting the accused. Tolstoi's new book, "The Slavery ot Our Time," which will be pub lished in England next month, is a sequel to the work that appeared some ten years ago called ''What Must We Do, Then?" and, like the latter, is an inquiry into the results of modern industrialism. Irving H. Harrison, a telegraph lineman, of Hackensack, N. J., has ridden a hundred thousand miles on a bicycle in less than four and half years in the pursuit of his daily labors. This is over sixty-five miles a day. Harrison generally carried a lot of tools and sometimes a ladder with him. Mr. Hanna went down town, in New York the. other day, to talk pol itics to the business men's meeting. It was one of those gatherings which, at the lunaheon hour, are held sometimes for prayer and some times for fun. On this occasion it was for fun, and the business men in a spirit of frivolity didn't do a thing to the great chairman. There is sometimes a complaint made that the legal profession is be ing overcrowded and that, as in many more vocations, the blanks are numerous while the prizes are few. It would seem, however, that in try ing to work out the complicated problems of modern life mankind is doing all it can to justify the com mon ambition to become lawyers. Comptroller Bird S, Coler, of New Tork, who was beaten in his race for the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor of New York State by Croker, has said in a speech to his fellow citizens that he might want their co-operation next fall. This is taken to mean that he may be a candidate for Mayor, and with the present con dition of affairs in the metropolis the intimation is sufficiently dis quieting to the Tammany crowd. Thomas and Richard Hodnett, of Australia, are fighting to establish their claim to the estate of their sister, Miss Mary A. Fitzgerald, who . amassed a fortune in New York as a modiste under the name of Mme Connolly. In order to raise money o rarrv rm fho fio-Tit. tTi twn lirnfh. v , , ers have mortgaged all legacies they Stay derive irom tne estate, tne value of which is estimated at $500, 000. If the suggestion now being urged by some of the Puruvian newspapers be adopted, that such Boers as are left unslain and uncaptured be in vited to make their homes in Peru on lands in the interior; and if the Boers accept we may expect that some of those South American rev olutions that are constantly occurr ing will in the future amount to something. Mr. McKinley's apologetic history of the war in the Philippines failed to present the military statistics of the operations in this Imperial do main and official figures are not yery freely communicated. Mr. Schurz, however, appears to have compiled some reports that are trustworthy, and he foots up the number of Amer ican soldiers killed, died of disease and wounded in the hospitals at over five thousand men. The statement of Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, of cooking school fame, that "the average American man is a saint" may be taken with a few grains of allowance, even when she explains that her belief is due to the patient way in which the man ac cepts badly cooked food' The enthu siastic lady probably has the average man with her when she says she would nave a law lor bidding mar riage to any girl who does not know how to keep house. An old idea in connection with rain-producing has been giyen a new application in France in the wine making district, where the frequent storms are very destructive to the grapes. A lot of cannon have been distributed over the section of coun try with artillerymen to work them at the expense of the government. When an undesirable cloud is seen approaching the guns are fired on a certain plan of operations and thus far have proved entirely effective in breaking up the impending storm. In this day of fierce democracy when universal education is ruining all the domestic servants many peo ple are employing Chinamen, instead of the Irish or Ethiopian. A China man comes high but is cheapest in the long run. Any sort of a China man costs a dollar a day, but he will be a regular Pooh Bah of a servant. He is the cook, chambermaid, house girl, washerwoman, scrub lady, waiter, dumb waiter, and bookkeep er. He has no nerves and is willing to work at all times. He belongs to no union, will not strike for higher wages and is as regular as clock work. A great man lives, acts and dies, having done many deeds, made some friends and many enemies. He is well known in his time, so well known that no one takes the trouble to tell who and what he is it is taKen lor granted tliat every one knows hira. No one chronicles the fact that the sun rose and set on a certain day, and to a less extent it is true of these lesser suns . A man is not really dead, says a philosopher, until every living person who knew him has passed away. Then the people left in the world suddenly wake up to the fact that a great man has lived and died and little is known of his real thoughts, hopes and fears. Such has been the case with Washington, Cromwell. Burns and others. Then the biographers get to work and each writes of the man as they imagine him to be, and the real man as God made him is never known, and posterity only knows that this man wrote this, and that one did that, while the things he thought of doing and did not do, and the things he said but did not write, the real thoughts of the man are lost forever. Do not suffer from Neuralgia, Sciatica, Rheumatism, and other pain when you can get a full sJza 25s. a bot tie of White's BlackLiniment at H il'u Drugstore for 15 cents. TO CUKE A COLD IN ONE DA 1 Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab I lets. AH druggists refund the money if it faila to E w. Grove's si- nature is on eacn dox. zoo. s3pi'jo A DIAMOND JUBILEE. THE FIRST OF AM, RAIL WAYS OPENED SEVENTY FIVE YEARS AGO. It Ran From Stockton to Dar lington in England, and Is Still in Use: The First Loc omotive. Where it May Re Seen. Just seventy-five years ago, on September 27, 1925, 'the first of all railways was opened; this is, therefore, the dianond jubi lee of the railway. And if the wheels of every locomotive in the world stopped for sixty sec onds, and every hideous whistle and every confounded bell was silenced, for sixty seconds in commemoration of the world moving event of five and seyeniy years ago, it would be infinitely worthier and more impressive than if all should stand still to mark the possible death of every railway president in existence! The first railway, as we now understand that method of trans portation, was the Stockton and Darlington line in England, 37 miles iu length, intended origin ally for the transportation of coal alone. It had been the pur pose to operate that line with horses, but the immortal Steph enson soon succeeded in intro ducing: the use of locomotives, and the first one used on the first railway now stands on a pedes- al in the splendid station of the Northeastern Railway System at New Castle, as thousands of Am erican travelers in Eagland have seen. The Stockton and Darling ton Railway is still in use, one of the busiest short lines in Eng- and, nd is now a division of the Northeastern, which itself is a link in the East Coast route between London and Edinburgh, over wnicn runs tne iamous 'Flying Scotchman," the fastest long distance train in the world. The first railway in America was built to supply the granite for the Bunker Hill monument, and was from graoite quarries at Quincy, Mas., to tide-water, a distance of five miles. It was begun m 1826 and hoisted Jn 1827. The eeeo&d American road was built in 1827. and extended from coal miDe t tb.9 Lehigh river at Maunch Chunk, Pa., a distance of nine miles. The loaded cars passed down to the river by gravity, and were drawn back by mules. The rails were timber covered with straps of iron; therefore differing soma what from the ninety-pound steel rails of the trolly lioes of to day. The first railway in the South was the South Carolina Railroad, from Charleston to Augusta, 135 miles, begun in 1830. By the close of 1830 there were twelve railroads in the United States, completed or in course of con struction. . All these roads were built for and operated ,by horse power, except the Deleware and Hudson Canal Company's line, which in the winter of 1823 29 received three locomotives from England, the first ever seen on this, continent. The greatest com pleted mileage in : this country at the end of 1830 was that of the Balijjnore and Ohio, 60 miles out of a total of 122, of which total 20 miles were in the South. 10 HANG. JUDGE VISIBLY AFFECTED AS HE PRONOUNCED THE SOLEMN WORDS. New Trial Was Not Allowed, But Sentence Was Suspended for Sixty Days to Give Time For the Appeal Which Will be Taken to the Court of Appeals. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 29. The motion for a new trial in the case of James Howard was overruled by Judge Cantrii 'to day and Howard was sentenced to haDg December 7 th. It was agreed that the attorney should be allowed to file their bill of ex ceptions in the appeal to tne Court of appeals any time be tween now and the third week in October. Howard did not weaken or ap pear agitated when the solemn sentence of the Court consigns ing him to the gallows was pro nounced upon him, but in answer to the usual question of the Court if he could show cause why sentence should not b.e proa nounced, he said in a firm, clear voice: I am innocent." He stood erect facing the court and listening intently to every word uttered by the judge, who was visibly affected by the solemnitv of the occasion and spoke in a voice choked with emotion. In overruling Howard's mo tion for a new trial, which oc- curred oniv a lew moments De fore sentence- was pronounced, the court said he did not consid er any of the matters sent up in the affidavits filed by the defense as sufficient as to cause a new trial. The testimony in question was as to a conversation between Henry YoutFey &.nd W. H. Gul ton, alleged co-conspirators, aad the court said: 'While the Court of Appeals has hald that, this sort of testi mony may be admitted as evi dence, I have grave doubts as to the correctness of that ruling, and if left unhampered by that decision I should not have al lowed that, pare of th. testimony to have gone to the jury. Bu the Court of Appeals is the high est judicial body in the State, and there is nothing left for this court except to follow the lines laid down by it." The other matters raised by the affidavits filed were, with one exception, relative to alleged remarks made by jurors prior to the trial, showing hostility to the defendant. Howard was then brought into the court room by JailerLaw rence, and was seated next to. his chf counsel, ex. Congress man W. C. Owens. The court, turning to the defendant, said: "James Howard, please stand up." Howard arose and listened in tently as the court said: "At the April term "of the Franklin county grand jury you were indicted, charged with the wilful murder of William Goe bel You have been represented by able counsel,-but in spite of this you have been sfound guilty. Have you any Nreason to offer now why the Cburt should not pronounce sentence upon you!" After a pause, Howard who had stood motionless, replied: "I am innocent." "That is a matter," continued Judge Cantrill, "that was with the jury and over which the Court had no control. I theref o re order that you be taken back to the jail and there safely confined until December 7th, when you will be taken by the sheriff and hanged by the neck until dead, and may God have mercy on your soul." The court then suspended the sentence for sixty days to give time for the appeal which will be taken to the Court of Appeals. After this Howard was re manded to nis steel cage m laii. INSURGENTS ACTIVE. Filipinos Operating South of Ma nila and Zambalos Province. Manila, October 1. The Fili pinos in the vicinity cf Manila have been more quiet of late, als though last Wednesday night there were brisk attacks at Las Pinas and Paranaque, South of Manila, as well as outpost firing at Imue, Bacoor and MuntinLuna. The American officers are satis fied that the alleged Amigos liv- mg in aad around the towns in question participated in these at tacks. Official reDorts have been re ceived of insurgent activity in Zambalos province and in Batan- gas province. Two emrmisnes oc curred during the week on the Bi col river, in the province of South Camarines. It is estimated that le insurgents lost ninety killed in the various districts. To civilian?, John McMabon and Ralph McCord, of Stn Fran cisco, who started on a business trip for Vigin aad Baugued, in northern Luzon, have not been heard from for three weeks. It is feared that they have been kill ed or captured by the insurgents. FAVORS ARBITRATION. Bryan Says It Is The Only Means of Adjusting- Labor Troubles. Crookston, Minn., Sept. 30. In response to a question io re gard to the advisability cf arbU traiian as the means of settling the strike ia the anthracite coal region Mr. Bryan said today: "Arbitration is the justifiable means of adjusting difficulties between corporate employers and their employes. While arbi tration is usuallv asked by the employes it ought to be accept able to the employers if they ba- leive they are treating the min ers fairly, and it ought to be de manded by the public generally, because every great strika affects ed the public at large even more than it does either the employers or the employes. Those who re fuse arbitration confess that they are not prepared to submit their arguments to an impartial tribunal. The Mines Are Empty. Hazelton. Pa.. Oct. 1. For the first time in years no coal went out over the Reading Railroad All the mines are cleaned up of their workings and are empty The thoroughnes of the strike was shown to-day. $10 in Cash Paid to anv nartv or parties who wll make affidavit to the fact that they have used White's B'ack Liniment and not exnerierced relief from its use A lull size 25c bo-tle will be sold for 15c. at Hill's drue store, in order to give evei'y one an opportunity to test its merits xor r amuy use, BRYAN 618 SCAX 1) IXAAT I AN S AND GER MANS IN THE NORTH WEST CHANGING. Then, Too, the Trusts Havo Raised the Prices of Many Things They Use On Their Farms. Duluth, Mian., Sept. 80. Hon. William J. Bryan rested ia Duluth to-day. He arrived in th's city from Oookston, Minn., at 7 A. M. With State Senator Coarles Bald win he attended the Pilgrim Con gregational Church, later dined at the Baldwin Hotel and called on Charles A. Towne's father. He also enjoyed a dtitre. In order to be on the ground in time Mr. Bryan went to West Superior to-night and will fapeak there at 7 o'oclock to-morrow morning, returning afterward to this city, where he will speak at 9 A.M. A trip to St. Paul and Minneapolis, in both of which cities he will speak to-morrow night, will begin at 11 A. M. With the full rest of last night Mr. Bryan is as good physicially to-day as he was when he left Lincoln, and his voice is in per fect condition. To-morrow is to be a big poli- tical day in Duluth. Speaker D. Henderson, of the bouse of Representatives, is billed to make an address in the evening. Both Democrats and Republicans are working to insure large attena dance at their respective gather ings. Democratic leaders in Mind nesota are practically united m be opinion that Governor Lind will carry the State, but theeleca toral vote may go to McKioley. Here and in North Dakota several of the best campaigner are Swedes and N rveiana who voted for McK n'.ey four - years asro and who volunteered to take the stump for Bryan this year, making speech? in their own languages. Noae ol this kind of work was done f ur years ago. In North Dakott there fire 25 Scandinavian Bryan ciubs, where there were rone in 1896. Let night Governor Lind rode with Mr. Bryan from C ookston to Winnipeg Junction. To your corretp mdent the Governor said: "I have at this time no definite idea of thevote in this State. 1 know, however, that there will be considerable change in Mr, Bryan's favor among all clas3es, as much among the Swedes, Nor wegians and Germans as among others. The Germans are aftect ed by the imperialistic issue al most entirely. With the Scand ioavians it is slightly different. They have no knowledge of the bur den of militarism and are not alarmed on that score, but are a peace-loving people, who hate war and bloodshed. For the most part they are religious, and they cannot see the occasion for the prosecution of a war that seems to them evil. The trust question also appeals to them directly Salt, barbed wire, implements, nails and almost everything they use has gone up in price to such an extent that they begin to feel the burden. Crop conditions have not compensated for ' this in
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