THE GLEANER
4
GRAHAM N. C. OCTOBER 15 1879
E. S» PARKER, Editor.
ABOUT %BB NOMINATION FOB
eOVEBNOR NEXT YBAB.
Just who will be the Democratic nom>
itiee for Governor next year -,ve do not
know;-and, if we did, should not tell it;
it would be cruel to do so, as only one
uian could be made happy t hereby, and
.dozens of others would lose the pleasure
of much delightful anticipation. We do
not propose to even indulge in conjecture
t»r speculation as to who will irost likely
be named tor that high office. That there
tiro aheady a number oi aspirants in the
Held, more than we remember to have
heard of before, especially at so early a
day, seems quite certain. That their res
pective friends, inspired by them, or of
their own motion, should' b» engaged,
ilir >ugh the press and otherwise, in push
ing their fortunes in that direction, is not
to be wondered at, and is perhaps not
improper. We arc of the so who think
the office of Governor of a sovereign
State, should never be lowered by being
successfully sought by second or third
rate men. The dignity ot ibe place, and
tlio honor of the State alike demand ihat
the position of Chiet Executivo should be
filled by the ablest and fittest. We all
hope and balieve that whoever is named
bv the Democratic convention next ycai,
as its candidate for Governor, will be
elected. That man should bo one in
whose moral worth, amf mental powers
the people of the State could feel a just
and honorable pride. There is 110 man
in the State who is too great and good to
bo Governor; and none should be, unless
he is from tho ranks of the greatest and
best. And, we mean in truth from the
rankß 0f the great andgoo'd. and not mere
ly from those who have, by one means or
another, achieved something of a rcputa»
tion by tpauaging to keep tbeuis&lves be
fore tho public, and obtaining newspaper
endorsement of their virtue and capacity.
N Tho whole State is the field to choose
lrom. iNo man within her borders 'but
should feel proud of the destinction ot
being named by the dominant political
party as its candidato for Governor. This
field from which tho next Governor of
North Carolina is to come should not be
circumscribed. And yet, there are at- j
tempts so to do. IT" 1 .
We hear of the nativity or habitation of
this man or the other as a reason why he
should ue mode Governor; and so with
other high and responsible positious iu
which the people are to be served. One
Uuited States Senator chances to be from
the Weat, theother must be from the
East; the Governor for one term is from
the East, then his successor must come
from the West; audeven in the selecs
tion of Supreme Court Judges respect
must be had to the particular portiou ot
the State in which the individuatechanc
ed to have been born or happeu to
live. Aud this question of habitation is
a prime one. The East or tbo > West, as
the case may be, cluiins this position, or
that position's a cry we have grown fa
milliar with, and heard too long. And
if kept up, it cannot fail to result disas ■
astrously, not only to the best interests of
the State, but to party organization, as
well. When the claims of sections ve'
recognized iu tho distribution of high
and honorable positions, there will cers
tainly follow combinations between ams
bitous men, of these sections, for thei r
own euds and interest.
Thle olWms of tho East or the West
are ooustautly being heard in behalf of
this man or that. We will not be un
charitable enough to conclude that the
narrower the field of competition tho bet-,
tor it is tor some aspirants, but,certain it
is, their fitness in. many instauces would
be less conspicuous if brought iu com
parison with others beyond their imme
diate section. Now, it is no more than
simple truth to any that middle North.
Carolina lias at least a fair proportion of
men who, by their intellectual capacity
and training, and their integrity, and in
all the elemeuts of character, are fitted to
serve the people in honorable and respon
sible position. There are men among
them who would inako good Governors,
and United States Senate rs, They do
wot love their State less because they
live iu Ms center, instead of near its bors
der. Yet, it this elaim ot sections is to
be heeded, no man who cannot claim eith
er the East or the West as his hativity or
his home, need cherish the worthy ambis
ti not becoming Governor of his State,
or her representative in ihe United States
Congress.
We trust that fitness and merit will
govern the selection of the Democratic
candidate lor Governor next year, and
that we shall bear less of where the man
was born and reared, or where he subse
quently elected to make his home. We
are tired of hearing place of birth, or of
resilience, urged as an influence in behalf
of any one iu connection with places in
which the peop'e of the whole State have
equal interest,. and which are fil'ed,
either directly or indirectly,by the people
of (be wliolo State.
SHE MPKK.IIK COURT Jllfß TUB
scuoai. Bil 1..
Some of ilie papers of (lie State have ]
seen proper to indulge iu what we re
gard as unjnst criticism upon tlio action
of onr Supreme Court mi what is known
as the School Bill case. An unim'xurGd
confidence in, at least, the integrity of
the judiciary is essential to good govern
incur, and criticism upon the decisions of
our courts, especially that ot lufit-,*. resort
should not be lightly made. Without
stopping to compare the merit of our
present Supremo court, iu point ot abilii
ty with its predecessors, we can .safely
say that no three Jucfge&cver sat upon the
bench with higher character lor probity.
If in their decisions courts err in mat
ters of >aw,»H is perhaps not improper
for those learned in the lawj to review
tlicui, and point out wherein the error
lies. Judging from someof tho criticisms
their Khfliois have a very erroneous tifen
of the duties ot our Supreme Cjurt.
With the merits or demerits ot the
School Bill, tho coiut had nothing to do.
Whether its provisions;were, wise and
good,, or foolish and bad were questions
with which the court eould not concern
itself. At the last session of the Legisla
ture a bill was introduced
public school's of flic State, and passed
both* branches, but by inadvertaiice, over
sight or omisiou of duty, to pdt the facts
as strong as they can possibly exist, it
failed 10 be signed by the President of the
Senate aud Speaker of tiro llonse. There
were two questions before the court:
Was the bill passed by tho Legislature a
law without the signal twos of the presid
ing officers of-tllfr two houses affixed dui>
ing the sesson of tho General Assembly?
lias the court the power to cure tho
omission of the signal ures by ordering
the officers now to affix them? These are
dry questions of law, involving tho du
ties of the law making power of the State,
and the maimer in which bills introduced
into the Legislature may be enacted into
laws. Tho opinion, as delivered by Chief
Justice Smith, is elaborate in its consid
eration ef those questions. It the court
has erred let some lawyer whose ability
! and ~„\will entitle his opiuions to
weight review the decision. And, it
done at all, let it be done upon the elevat
ed plane oflegal learning aud logical reas
oning. The court iu its opinion has cited
authorities and given reasons for its cons
elusions. Let these be attacked, if any
one feels himself competent to the task;
but until that is done, let us hear no
more flings at our Supremo Court, based
upon the supposed merits or necessity
of the law. The dry questions before
court were simply, was the bill a law,
and if not had the Court the p?wer
to make it a law. In answer to these
the court, at the close of a long an able
ofluiou, succinctly says:
1. Tlie signatures of tile President of the Sen
ate and Speaker of tlie House, by the express
command of tho Constitution, must Lc affixed to
an act of legislation during the session of the
General Assembiey, and are necessary to iu
completeness aud efficiency. •»
2. The judicial power cannot be exercised in
aid of an nuflnished and inoperative act so left
upon the final adjournment, any more than in
obstructing legislative action.
AOCia IN TOB VA9IPAION,
A matt calling himself Battler, and
claiming to be from South is
in New York, with ten hounds, which
he sayß are negro catching dogs; and he
proposes to show himself, and his dogs,
and how he has trained them to run
negroes, aud just how the things was
dpne in slave times in the South. is
suggested that this is one the modes of
firing the Northern heart against the
South, and to make the poor negro siill
further available as a help to Republic
can efforts to stave oif defeat. That
this man is hired to personify negro
catching in the South before the war, is
probably true, and alno that he is a
Yankee. We regard it rather as a
Yankee turn to make money. We hard
ly think a Southern oian would have
thought of it. However, Butler may be
in fact a Southern man, in the employ of
some Yankee money lover. That there
is Yankee in the thing somewhere is
self evident. It never would have en
tered the brain of a Southern man to
i make money in that way. Couldn't the
fellow improve a little, and show how
ihe ancestors of these Yankees caught
the ancestors of these negroes in Africa.
SNUBBED. —Some Southern Republic
cans awhile ago met iu Washington
City, for consultation as to a re-or
ganization of their party in the South,
and the campaign next year. Instead
of meeting encouragement, the press of
their party "North, plainly telles them
that they can have no part in shaping
the policy of the Republican party, or in
directing the campaign next year. John
Pool, and some others thieaten to extort
recognition for Southern Republicans, or
help defeat the party North. Southern
Republicans must keep their mouths
shut, and Southern Democrats must be
charged with buldozing, is the game.
Tne Goldsboro Messenger says that
the colored insane asylum at that place
is nearly ready for the roof.
Tlie Utes iu 1871 owned abeat one |
fifth of what is MOW Colorado, and in j
1872 they entered into a treaty witli tho
United States by which a portion of
their territoiy, in the vicinity of the
present city of Leadville was ceded to ]
the United States, in consideration of
$600,000 in yearly payments. In addi
tion to the money the treaty Becured to
them important rights and privileges,
especially in relation to protection Irom
ithe whites in the land unsold.. Now it
is said that not ouly l.ave the whites
been permitted to overrun 'their lands,
but not a dollar of the money lias been
paid. An Indian w»r is now npoa the
oonntry, the,result, in a great measure
at lea-»t, of tlie repudiation by the Gov
ernment of its solemn pledges. And
yet Repnbfienn papers ave daily charg
ing lepuJiation as a crime which the
Southern States alone ave bad enough
to commit.
INDIAN WAU. —It sesms quite proba
ble that (hocoumry is at tlie beginning
of quite an extensive and serious Indian
war. The recent attack by the Utes
upon the command of Mnj. Thornburjr,
resulting iu th,e death of that officer mid
the killing and wounding of quite a num
ber of his men, seems to have been lite
begfiiiwug of what is liko'y to prove a
long ami troublesome Indian outbreak.
While the result is certain, yet many
good men may die in its accomplishment.
It is said that other tribes are preparing
to join the Utes. The cause of the trouble
is alleged to bo the forcing of civilization
They did not like to work, and
preferred to go upon tho war path to
submitting to the requirements of thoso
undertaking to eivilize them. Their
forefathers did not work and they arc
slow to understand why they should.
I hey have been muttering and complain
ing tor a year, aud to add to their dis
content it is a%id government promisas to
them have not been kept scrupulously,
especially as regards the paymentof uion-
ley.
WASHI.HOTOR LETTEK,
W ABIIINOTON D. (J.
There are imperialists in this country.
They ure pushing the Grant boom, as
they would any other which had a show
of success, with all their might, but the
hardest work they have to do is to pre
vent the Ardent, hasty ones amongst them
from making indiscreet admissions.
There is quite a largo number of lie pub
licans who would rather have anything
else than a Democratic administration.
One of this cjas* at a recent meeting while
bewailing thy dark prospects of (ho Re
publican party, declared that Genl. Grant
was its only hope, and it was iietcssary
that lie should be made President and
should extend his owu term indefinitely.
Whether Genl. Giant has 01- has not any
ambition to be king or emperor matters
little, tor with the sentiment of consoli
datiou and imperialism that is growing
around him, it would not be very difficult
to convince him it he were again Prcer
dent, that the good ot his country requir
ed the wiping out of State lines, aud the
annexation of British America aud Mexx
ice. The figure oi Grant with his feet at
San Franeisco, and his head at the At
Untie, as giveu in the New York Graphic
of yesterday, overshadows all ol North
America, aud not the United States
alone. The Democratic party, well
grounded In tne doctrine that the con
tinued existence ot the States, and the
maintenance ol their constitutional rights
is necessary to the saiety of the llepub!i',
is the best hope for the preservation ol
republican government 111 this country.
The American people should be warned
in time against tlio already apparent de
signs of ambitious politicians
The Gale (Jity Guards, a fine military
organization of Atlanta, Ga., will arrive
here this evening, remain for one day,
and go North. They will visit Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York, Boston and
other Eastern cities. With them are the
' Governors of several Southern States,
aud other prominent citizens. They will
have, a hearty though quiot reception in
this city, and doubtless in other places
visited.
Prof. Lnnggton, U. S. Minister to
Hayii, speaks here toMiight ou the sub
ject of negro emigration from the South
to tho Northwest. He favors it, while
Fred Douglass believes it to be highly
injudicious, 'ihese are tlio two most
prominent negroes, or mulattos, (for
neither is a lull blooded negro) in the [J.
S. Both of them have large audiences ol
both blacks and whites when they speak
on this subject. There is a great deal ol
6eund sense in Douglass, while the Pro*
lessor has ' words, words, words" with
out eud.
[From the Milton ChrJn^le.]
Mr. J. B. Warren, (thtf son of our es
teemed friend, F. L. Warren, merchant
ut Prospect Hill, in this county,) who is
doing business with his father, and is re
markable for bis abstemious habits and
correct morals, went to Baltimore 'last
week to buv goods, and the morning af
ter his ajrival he took breakfast and went
forth to make hfc purchases; having
made a few purchases and cashed the
bills, his friends lost sight of him, and
failing to roturn to tho hotel to get din
net- and supper the excitement grew as
timo rolled on, and as lie was known to
have $2,600 on his poi'6ou fears wero en
tertained that he had been foully deall
with. Seven hundred police,(the papers
tell us) were on tho lookout.' His Uncle
iMi. Wm. Thomas, of Star Warehouse,
lanvillc,) being telegraphed to, immedi
ately went iu haste, while the telegraph
wires and the press flashed the mysteri
ous disappearance ot the young gentle*
man to the four corners ot the world.
But about the time Mr. Thomas arrived
the missing young man pnt in appear
ance on the cars lrom Pitteburg, Pa. It
seems that he had labored under mental
aberalion of the raiud (probably produced
by beiug drugged, or it may have been
from a threatened attack of typhoid fev
er,) lie bought a ticket unconsciously for
the far we>t, and when reason resumed
its throne he found himself in Pittsburg,
Pa., whereupon bo returned to Balti
more with his money ail right.
Yellow lever haerbrpken oat at Harris
sou Depot Mibs.
In our last iisae we mentioned the fact that
Mr. Samuel Coll rune hart bttsn ruu over by a
waijon, on thursday inorniair last, the team *t
t: c-ied to which he was driving. Mr Coltraße's
injuries provecf greuter than was at first sup
posed. On examination of his body, it was
found that all the ribs on lite left side were bro
ken, bia collar bone was dislocated, and his
lower few on the right- side broken. The
wounded m#n was taken to a house near the
; market, and medical aid called to him, bat he
was so badly hurt that he died abount 12o'clock
that night. M,r. Ooltrane had suffered from
' bronchitis for more than twenty years, and af
ter the accident it pained him so much to
cough th'it be of en suppressed a cough, which
basteneJ his death from a secretion of mucus
and bUiod. He lost a wife during the war in a
similar maiflver. She was on a wasjon load of.
Gaud, accompanied by the same son who was
present whan the lather met with»the accident
which caused his death,, when the oxen he was
di iviuglook fright and attempted tornn across
a stream of water The wagon was turned
over in the stream, submerging the mother,
and before the son could extricate her she was
drowned. The deceased was a resident of
Randolph county, and leaves a large family to
mourn his STATIC.
THE INSANE. —From a* circular letter
received from the Supvriuteuduut of the
Insane Asylum we learn that the Hoard
of Directors have established the follow
ing rules;
The Superintendent, in the admission
ofapplicanls into tho Asyfnwi as patient*,
shall consider the applications in the
Order in which they are registered in the
book kept by him for registering of said
applications according to section 14,
chapterr 101, ants 1879. No applicant
considered incurable by the medical
officers of the Asj lum shall be admitted
as a patient until all who are deemed
curable have been provided for.
2. No application made prior to the
passage of the act of 1879, shall be con
sidered unless the same shall have been
renewed since that tune.
That the Superintendent furnish
to the auTnorities of the several couu*.
ties respectively a copy of the forego
ing.
A WISE VKAVOR.
"Deaeon Wilder, I want yon to tell me how
you kept yourself and family well the past seas
on, when all the icst of ub have been sick so
uiueh, and have had the doctors visiting us so
often.
"Bio. Taylor, the Answer is very easy I used
Hop Bitters in time; kept my family well and
saved the doctor bills. Three dollars' worth of
it kept us well and able to work all the time. I'll
warrant it lias cost you aud the neighbors one
to two hundred dollars apiece to keep sick the
JW»e time." c „
"Deacon, I'll nse yon' medicine liereafteJ-."
The Charlotte Observer tells of a black
•negro, named Robert Johnston, who had
been living with Mr. Isaac Suecl, in
Providence township in Mecklenburg
county, who had a difficulty with Mr.
Sneel and left .him, taking bis, Mr.
Sncel's, thirteen year old daughter with
him. He went in tho direction of South
Carolina, dragging the child alter hiui in
his hurry. Tho father and brother of the
girl were in pursuit. Mr. Sneel is, a
white man respected in the community.
The Chicago and Alton train was robs
bed ol its express money ar Gleudale, fif
teen miles from Kansas City. Twenty
masked men did the job, aud kept up a
continual firing while tho messengers safe
was being robbed. The Messengor was
knocked down. About fllty thousand
dollars were taken. The agent at tho
point is missing.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
(IOSTETTE^j
Bitters
Disease, like thieves attack the weak. Fortify
your organization v. ith the Bitters, and it will
resist and baffle alike the virus of epidemics and
the changes of teui'.ierature which disorder the
constitutions of the feeble. 'I here is vitality in
it-. It is a piu e vegetable stimulant, a rare al
terative and anti-billious medicine, and has not
a harmful element among Its many ingredients.
For sale i>v all druggists and respectable
Dealers generally.
Lots For Sale.
HILTON.
By order of the Ik.ard of Commissioners the
lots in the town of Graham, belonging to the
County, wDI be sold at public outcry to the
highest bidder, at the court bouse door, on
MONDAY, 3rd of NOVEMBER 1879
on a credit of six months, title of property re
tained until pukchase money is paid.
The lots to W sold are three in number, and
known in the plan of the town as lots Nos. 15
14 and 27, only half of the first beiig for sale.
1 By order of the Board
T. G. McLEAN, Clerk.
Land Sale!
Being legally authorized so to do, I will sell
on the pren ises. on
THURSDAY. 23rd OCTO. 1879
the tract of land, adjoining the lands of Wil
liam Mebane, Joseph Tate and others, in" Ala
mance county, one mile east of Hawfields
church, and two miles southwest of Mebane
ville, known as the
BOW AN TATE PLACE
containing 180 acres; more than one bal. of
which is in its original limber. It is a well
located, valuable farm.
Persons wishing to examine the farm will be
shown over it, by calling upon the undersign
ed. who lives on an adjoining farm.
TERMS: One balfcaah, the other half, one
year's credit P ecured by bond, and the title re
served till full payment of purchase money.
SepL IStb 1819. JOSEPH T AX* Sr.
And old man, and young lady and old
lady, and those of uncertain age, and
children all
GO WEST
- -M
of the court house to the store
bearing the sign
J. W. HARDEN
To fc/ay .
YOUR GROCERIES
YOTJJTHARD W A RK
YC*Ht DRY GOODS*
' YfIUR SHOES A BOOTS .
YOUR HATS & CAPS
* YOUR READY-MADE CLOTniNG
YOUR LEATHER
YOUR BUGGY FINDINGB
. ? YOUR EDGE TOOLS
YOUR-NOTIONS
YOUR CROCKERY A GLASS WARE "V
YOUR TIN & HOLLOW WARE . \
I . YOLR LADY'S HATS A BONNETS
f " AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU WANT
r To sell
YOUR enil'KßNg, YOU It K««W, VOtIR BVTTIR,
VOIIR IVIIItAT. YOUR FI.OUR. YOUR OiT*.
YOIIBCQRN. YOVR PRODUCE. Of
KVEKV KliD. -J
72 TO tr. °° me and *** Jm w'HA,tl>ltN
i' ' m
CHEAP FUENITURE
• w x v-g!
My store-rooms and shops, arc only a few steps north of tho court boose, In Greensborey And I
ask the people of Guilford and surrounding counties to examine my stock of furniture aud uk the
prices, and then, if in their judgment ther can do better anywhere in North Carolina, I shall uo4
expect them to buy of me. My ttock iu part constats of.
suits, Dressing suits, Bedsteads, Oha;.~ Bureaus, Wash
stands, lables, Looking glasses. Folding chairs, Mattrasses,
Wall pockets and Book shelves, Book casea,
Wardrobes &c &c. •
■ $
■ All these and many other articles in the greatest variety, lrom common to the finest,
Burial Cases and Coffins
from common to the very finest, always on hand, in large number®, of assorted sizes, so that a»»
application can Ive filled at once. Also ,
BimrAL ROBES.
of all sires, beautiful and convenient, always on hand. 1 shall be obliged if people will call and looik
for themselves. ™ a GULLETT
5 055-79. ly. . Greensboro, N. C.
DID YOU EVER?
No, Never!
« t
WHATI METER?
well hardly ever
See a larger, cheaper more varied and complete. ¥
STOCK OF GOODS
nywhere , in ny market, by any body than
John Q. Co
•1 COMPANY RHOPS
have in store and are constantly receiving,
Tou can And about as near everething on their shelves, conntera and in their ware-rooms as
can be found in any one store in this country.
They Invite all who wish to look or buy to come. Their stock says, come; their prices say,
comr; their polite and attentive clerks say, come; their liberal price* for all kinds of barter say,
come; and, above all, the interest of those wishing to buy says to try
JOHN Q. GANT &o.
Company Bhops
The undersigned, Administrators of David W. Kerr, dee'd., will sell, at the residence of said
deceased, on.
Wednesday, the 12th day of November 1879
AND CONTINUE FROM DAT TO DAT
all the personal property belonging to bin estate, consisting of Cattle, Sheep, Hon, Corn,
Oats, Wheat, Fanning Implements, Household and Kitchen Furniture; and many other articles such
as an enterprising farmer had collected upon a well tilled and a well stocked farm.
HORSES
Thcie are fourteen bead, all valuable animals, In rood condition.
CATTLE , 4
There are some forty head, making as fine a herd as can be found, perhaps, in the State. Among
them are a number of choice milk cows, a number of fine beef cattle, and stock cattle. They are all
of improved breeds, and mostly of pure Devon and graded Alderney- These cattle have taken the
premium at every State Fair, since the wai.
SHEEP
About one hundred head of Merino and Southdown breeds, in flue condition.
Farming Implements
Of these there is a large quantity, a great variety and of the latest and most improved patterns.
All of the Property
is in flno condition, and the very beat of its kind. There ia no old plunder among it. To those who
knew the late David W. Kerr it is needless to say anything of the character and condition of hia
stock, and other property on his farm. He was the foremost farmer in our section, and and hia
stock, and everything on his farm are snch as might bo expected to be found upon the farm at m ♦
man who was known throughout the State as a successful farmer.
TMU» C U bbe.o re .h.pro,» rtJ l.».™i j:i wn;9os
v Administrators.
Sept. 29th. 1879. CHAS. J. KERR. (