North Carolina Newspapers

1 THE GLEANER. . ISSUED BVBRY THHB8DAT. GRAHAM, N. G, Aug. 25, 1898. HDB8CIPT10N, CASH IN ADVANCE: pne year 11.00. . -. umie editor will not be responsible for the views expressed by oorretpondunt. ADVERTISING BATES : One square (1 In.) 1 time 11.00, for each sub sequent insertion W cents. For more space and tourer time, rates furnished on applica tion. Local notices 10 ots. a line for first Insertion; subsequent Insertions Set, a ItiwH Transient advertisement must be paid lor In advance. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. Vemouratio Ticket. FOB JUDGES BUPERIOU COUHT; First DUtrictr-Ooorge II. Brown, Jr., of Beaufort. Third IMstrlct-Henry B. Bryan, of Cravi-n. vim, n;atrintThfiiL J. Suiw. of (Jullfortl, Sixth District Oliver H. Allen, of Ijtnolr. ' Seventh District Tuo. A. McNeill, of Bobcsun. SOLICITOR. FIFTH DI8TBICT: - Hobt. B. Boone, of Durham. FOB OONUBBrlt), FIFTH DIBTUHT: William W. Kllchln.of Ferson, Mass Conventio A Mass Convention of the Demo L emtio party of Alamance county is called to meet in the Court House in Graham on . ' SATURDAY, AUWW 27TII, 189M, at eleven o'clock, to nominate can didates for all the county offices and for a Representative in the Leg " islaturo. .Every wliito man wlio desires white government in North Carolina, and in willing to uso every practicable and honorable menus to restore white supremacy therein, and who propose to support candi dates pledged to effect that purpose, in the ensuing election, is invited to be nrcseiit and participate in the a nomination of these candidates. The Convention will meet prompt ly at eleven o'clock a. in. - By order of the Democratic Coun ty Executive Committee, E. 8. Pabkeb, Jit.r Ch'm'n, Pern. Co. Ex. Com. Regardless of locality, nominate only the best men for county of ficers, commissioners and the Leg islature. Lot evervono in lavor of white government in North Carolina at tend the Democratic convention here Saturday. Fowler's Falsehood Nailed. Durban Record. There is a paper in Raleigh culled , Home Rule. In a recent issue it contained a loiter from John E. Fowlor, in which reference was made to the refusal of tho Agricul tural Department to innko an ap propriation to the North Carolina State Fair Association. Mr. Fowler, in this letter, made the following statement: "Judging from the past, Messrs. Jule Carr, Vanderbilt and a few oth ers, would have gotten the money." Mr, John Nichols, . the secretary of the Fsir Associalion, takes Mr. Fowler to task by explaining that Mr. Vanderbilt exhibited at the State Fair after being earnestly re quested to do so, and that evei y dollar awarded to him in premiums must have cost Mr. Vanderbilt 110 in cash. . Referring to Colonel Carr, Secre tary Nichols says : "Jnle Carr,' as Mrrfowlef laiuil larly calls him, was president of, the State Fair for two yer.rs. How much that honor cost him I do not ' know, and perhaps no one else but himself. It is but justice to him to lata that while Carr was president, although his exhibits were very handsome, he absolutely refused to . allow any article of his to be entered in competition for premiums. After his retirement from the presidency, Mr. Carr .continued to make - hand some exhibits at the State Fair, but brfhas never collected a dollar for premiums. On" the contrary, Mr. Carr has offered premiums to be competed for by others, and it has been but a very short time ago that a handsome gold medal was made in the city of Raleigh and forwarded to a premium winner at Mr. Can's expense, and to a person in no way connected with him. There now stands on the books of the society to the credit of Mr. Carr all the pram iums ever awarded to him, and he has never collected of it one pen ny." Having been convicted of lying. will this Mr, Fowler hare the man hood to withdraw his mendacious -'aU.inenUf , - - . . : Newton correspondence Charlotte C 'i-vcr : , In Maiden last Friday 'x negroes came in and declared t' . !r intention of taking the town. Af.cr a while the racket began. , r ml whites , measured ' their 'is on the ground. Various us were used, and a knife j was broken off in the back of a of the negroes. The colored v w n the attacking party, DUt r : Ul. The town authori -1 two of the negroes, t in j '!. Wo. : men of North CaroiTnn., The Wilmington Messenger says: "In the year of grace 1869 -early in the year a rascal from tho North name forgotten, was editing the Raleigh Standard, Holden's old pa per, and then the organ of the ras cals who were junt beginning their plan to rob tho people and sow the dragon's teeth of anarchy and dis cord. This Northern seamp wrote an infamous editorial about North Carolina women who wore Demo crats, and it got so hot for him he was forced to flee the State to save his bacon. Those times were dis graceful times. J hero is a negro paper published in this city called theDailv Record. We have never before referred to it. Uut in its is- sue of Thursday 18lh, there is an ed itorial that casts n great slur upon the wives of poor white men, and in more infamous possibly than that foul editorial of that Northern white scoundrel in 189. We copy apart of what is said by the negro paper of thiH negro city and ask the white men, particularly the sons of wliito mothers, what they think of such dirty defamation, such a sweeping insult to all respectable white wo ineu who are poor 1 The intent of tho teaching is to justify the black brutes who commit rape nt tho ex pense of the character of every white wife in tho South whose condition is poor as to this world's goods. Uut hear this vile detractor and slanderer : "Poor white men are careless in the matter of protecting their wo men, especially on the farms. They are careless of their conduct toward them, and our experience among the poor white people in the country teaches us that the women (if that race are not more particular in the matter of clandestine meet ings with colored men, than are tho white men with colored women. Meetings of this kind go on for some time until the woman's infatuation or the man's boldness, bring alteu tion to them and the man is lynch' od for rape. Every negro lynched is called a 'big, burly, black brute , when, in fact, inanv of those who have thus been dealt with had white men for their fathers, and were not only not 'black' and burly', but wore sufficiently; at tractive for white girls of culture and refmcmont to fall in love with them, as is very well known to all." "Hero ho tells of his own 'expert ... . i i ence, and no lias uccn noiuing 'clandestine meetings with jioor white women, wives of white men. He charges that tho virtue of this clans is of as low tvne as those of negro women who are represented as ready for 'clandestine meotings.' Not satisfied with this statement he goes on to embrace girls of culture and refinement so fallen as to be come lovers of negroes. He says this is very well known'. The in famy of the statement I It is to break the lorce of the 'reiterated statement that regro rapists are brutal and" ravage, and deserve hanging, by the plea that they are beguiled by the poor white women and are fallen in oo with by the young ladies in the higher circles. If slander and lying can go farther than that , it must be an ingenious devil who suggests -it It is the most infernal, slanderous lying ar ticle that ever appeared irt a North Carolina newspaper." H. L. Pike was the name or the infamous character referred to as ed itor of Ihe Standard. His article wot refinement itself contrastotrwilh the above, and he lound it necessa ry to lie out of the. State within 24 hours after the appearance of his insult. - - Can such an insult as the above, not only charging the lowest degree of debauchery on the wives ot "poor farmers' bufcbojdly referring to it ss the Dcrsonal experience of the writer, be perpetrated in North Car olina without prompt resentment? Read this, white men. It is the utterance of a negro who supports the present administration in this Stat. Does any man believe such a dastardly calumny would have been made had the present eombi nation not have obtained control of the Slats T Can any better illustra tion be given of the impudent ag gressiveness on the part of -negroes which the present state of affairs not only encourages but permits? Have white men in North Caro lina lost their manhood? Is the character of the good women of our State not as dear to us today as to oUr fathers T and do we not know that our fathers trampled under their feet the party' that created such monstrous offenders as the above ? Read the above, white men, THEN ACT Raleigh Post The future is uncertain, but if you keep your blood pure with Hood's 8arMparilla vou msy be sure of good health. OAMTOniA. A Negro Defamer of the White WEEKLY WASHINGTON LETTER From Our Iuk ular Uorrcsvoudent. Washington, D. C, Aug. JO. '98. Hurrah-' for Admiral Dewey! He's tho top-notchcr of the whole outfit. Ho fought the first battle of the war, and th-hwtbattle7"inid won both wihout the injury of a ship or the loss of a man, and some of his ships may benighting yet, as he started them, after tho capture of Manila, and before he knew any thing of the armistice, for some ofl the other islands in the Philippines, with orders to take possession of everything in sight and raise the American Hag everything captured. There was no way of recalling thebe ships after the news of the armistice reached him, so that it is among the probabilities that every one o the Philippine Islands may be un der the' American flag before the commanders of those ships find out anything about an armistice, and the urniistico is not binding upon them until they hvac official knowl edge of it. No man's hand has been shaken oftener or more cordially this week than that of 'Fighting Joe" Wheeler who came to Washington in re sponse to orders from the War De partment. (Jeil. Wheeler has a bet ter opinion of the Cuban insurgents than most of the oflicers who have been heard from on tho subject. He said of them : "The Cubans, were poorly clad and poorly fed. They did not make a very impres sive appearance as soldiers. They probably misunderstood the condi tions and circumstances about San tiago. Very few of them talk any English, and communication be tween Americans and Cubans was very difficult. I know of the charges that they would not work on tho roads and other projects for the aHHiHtance of the American army. I think that was due to a large extent to their not under standing what work wad for. 1 found Cubans who were willing to work after interpreters had explain' ed to them why the work was neces sary." Mai. (Jen. M. C. (Butler, who with 'Muj. Gen. .1. F. Wade and Rear Admiral Samson, will rcpre- sent tho V. 8. on the U. 8. military ('"'in)iHi"n in rmngn lur the evacuation of Cuba, said for their duties: "I think 1 realize the re sponsibility that rests upon the commissioners. It is very great, but I shall do my best to win the approval of the country,"" Gen, Butler said the Commission would go to Havana on a warship upon which they will for a time make their headquarters. The Porto Rican Commission consists of Maj. Gen. J, R.' Brook, Rear Admiral Schley, and Brig. Gen. Gordon. hcimlor Allison, who is noted as one of the shrewdest dodgers in his party, has dec'ined to serve as t Peace Commissioner, probably be' causo he was afraid that he would be compelled to put himself on re cord for or against something. In an interview he talks on both sides of the Philippine question, in the following language: "The feeling in the west is universal that where the flag has been raised, it must not come down. Therefore, as respects coaling station or a commercial base, there is difference of opinion On the larger question of holding the entire archipelago, the public mind is not fully made uo. I find men talked for and against such proposition. I do not believe that two-thirds of the Senate would vote for a treaty that retained the entire group, and yet I am certain that we could not get two-thirds to ratify treaty that surrendered everything. Consequently, re will hold some thing just how much noone can say.' This leaves Mr. Allison entirely free to take whatever side of the question he may decide to be the most popu lar and is that respect strictly Al lisonian. - . While in Washington this week Gen. Fits Ice made, formal an nouncernent of his candidacy lor the U. 8. Senate, altough the campaign will not actually be fought until next year. . 8enator Martin is scan didate for re-election. No republican has publicly ' criti cised the selection of CoL John liar. American Ambassador to England, to succeed Secretary Day at the bead of the Department of State, but not a ' few unprintable things bare been said by many of them in private. Col. Hsy is a re publican, but not a politician ; hence the kicking. The -first plan of the administra tion, to-keep all the volunteers in service until the treaty of peace with Spain was completed, has been clumped, and it is now announced that about 100,000 of the men will be mustered out as rapidly as pos sible. Sacnsh Sparta Uataaeat nam alt Hero, eoftortJoHooaos) fosaseea fniontneee f iuta aoreio. IllaoS ape via, curba, Mpliata, Swee- T. Siiwr Bum s. IKiSea, Sprataa, aU Hwoncei Tfcmata, Coawba, ess. Bare SW T of ae bottle. WarrasMS the asoet uaiifin MeiRSWkBm BoM br T. A. Al rWb.SnaIts.erahaai. M.C . THE DEMOCBETIC BAND-BOOL sued from state Committee Ileadqaart- ers Campaign issas Present-S sloa forclblj Portrayed alla ' management, Ineoni- petenre and Cor ruption. lUleticll Pout. The Democratic handlwok for the year 1898 has been issued. Thehnnubook wilrixi be a veri table factor in this campaign. It was prepared by tho State Demo cratic executive committee, and in vigorous style lays bare the. fusion and Republican mismanagement, incompetence j and corruption prac ticcd under the present '"dispensa tion. The handbook should be read by every intelligent citizen of the State. Its force for good gov crnment can hardly be estimated, The issues of the campaign are ably portrayed. The edition is prefaced by flic fol lowing paragraph from Chairman Simmons : ' "The condition of public affairs that confronts us calls for the most strenuous erts on" the part of all patriotic North Carolinians to re store good government to our be loved State ; and it is hoped that this book will be found of value in pre senting the issues of the campaign to the peaple." The hyprocrisy of so called "Re form" is given X-ray exposure Dealing with the memorable Isgis lature of '97 the handbook says "When we recollect that the fusion Legislature was elected to "reform" things in the State, and to reduce salaries to a level with gold standard nrices. wo will be surprised to learn : "1 . That it did not decrease any salary. i "2. That it did not decrease any fees. That it did not pass a law against trusts. "4. That it did not decrease ap propriations. , That it did nothing in tho way of relief." The handbook comprises 200 paires. Tho table of contents is as follows : . " Brief statement of some funda mental and general principles. ' Republican rule in North Caro 1 ina. Democratic rulu in North Caro lina- Democratic administration of counties, cities and towns. Vast importance of good govern meiit. The composition of the Republi can party. Tho Republican party and the negro. Difference of Republican and Democratic treatment of the negro Eastern towns given up to the lie gro. The debauchery fusion has wrought. Scandalous conduct. The penitentiary. Incompetent fusion Legislatures, Influence of pie in , working out Republican-Populist iiusion. Pure elections. Eloction law. ) What they said about one an other. Chairman Simmons' request for information from public officials. Tho closed books muBt be open ed. Proposition of the Populist party to fuse. - Will the Republicans and Popu lists fuse? A great question still unsettled. The chief aim of Republican-Pop ulist fusion. - Government by committee. Fusion method of assessment and taxation. .:: Example of Tobias Knight. Hancock shows up Russell. Please don't, Governor. - I'rogrea;of the rule of the negro. The White" Institution for the Blind in the hsnds of a negro. Blood is thicker than water. A false charge refuted. tatter of C. M. Cooke. - A chapter of contrasts and com wtrisons. Democratic policy as to property. The silver question. ' taat we asked for and what we Last year1 deficit The platforms. SaiS IBeWTSw " A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as fallows : 1 wss in a most dread ful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no sppetite gradually growing weaker lay by day. Three phy sicians bad given me op. for tunately, a friend advised trying 'Electric Bitters:' and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. 1 continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my hie, and robbed the crave for another victim." No one should tail to trv them. Only 50 cia per hat at T. A. Albright 4 Co.'s. OABTOniA. ita ylalUSsiaalsalll America's Future. Viewed by French Journals Touch ing Her Power In the Kmc. Paris, August 18. Day by day the feeling is strengthening ' here that a new chapter in the history , of Europe Is opening, and that the principal events in it will concern the "United States. The Dix Neuvieme Siecle, in its leader this morning states this frank lv. and other journals hint at it. The Dix Neuvieme Siecle say? : "It is impossible that tho United States will not henceforth play an important part in the scenes of which different parts of the world are . about to become tthe stag Without going - to an exagger ated expense, in a few years that country will necessarily have a navy capable of cop ing with those of tho most powerful European maritime nations. ,The policy upon which "the Americans have entered will constrain them to create without any delay the sea forces necessitated by this policy. It will not call for an exaggerated outlay, firstly, because they l have already an important mercantile fleet ; secondly, because they will not be compelled to back up their navy with an army as- France, Russia and Germany are forced to do by mere, geogiaphical position." The same paper then urges that every effort should be made by Frane to secuie America's friend ship. This, indeed, is a unanimous sentiment here. The serious jour nals do not hesitate to admit that the American republic has proved herself erander than even her friends claimed. Mr. Cornelly, in writing in the Figaro, says that the United States is a real democracy ana a veritable republic. He admires the wisdom which pre-arranged that the President should become a sort of absolute monarch in moments of national danger from the outside. Tho Echo de Paris . says : ' 'The Yankees are no longer a nation of cultivators and merchants, since they havo shown us a sort of in fatuation for theit free America, They are august." The writer then looks ahead and ... sees dangers in plenty, lie says that the signature of peace is simply the curtain for tho prologue of the drama, of which the denouement is unknown, "as America, being 'dif ferent from Europe, now wishes to prove herself superior." The Soleil says : "If Spain still keeps troops m the Philippines it will be for the United States; if Spain continues to regulato affairs in the archipelago it will be under the surveillance and control . of Americans. In tho hands of Ameri ca, Manila, wiin lis magninccni bay will become tho rival of Hong Kong. The installation . of the Americans at Manila gives them the preponderating influence in the China sea," From these quotations it is evi dent that it is good form here just now to walk with the American procession. Thero is a genoral idea that the United States has become a power to be dealt with carefully. R. II. Property and Taxation. Raleigh Foal, Aiur. S3. State Treasurer Worth yesterday received irom state Auaiior Ayer the statement of the valuation of railway nroDcrtv. etc.. in the State for 1898, with the amount of tax due thereon. It is as follows : Atlantic Coast Line, valuation, $9,771,875.85 ; tax $24,449.57. Southern,1 valuation, $10,665,- 29.20 ; tax $20,414.38. Seaboard Air Line, " valuation, $6,053,667.15 ; tax $15,134.60. Miscellaneous railways, valuation, $5,700,659.5: ; tax, $14,251.59. Steamboats, valuation, $293,437 ; tax, $733.58. . Telegraphs, valuation, $293,437 ; tax, $2,088.75. Mercantile, trust and deposit coin- lany, valuation, JZb,iV4 ; tax, $81 5.1 8. Pullman car company, valuation, $09,918.15 ;tax, $174.79. The total valuation cf tho above classes of property is $33,669, 868.09. Much in Little besseetalrr tea af Hear rUhvlar aaaw d aa grra earatlw Taf are a bols isnef. always ready, ?Pill "ar sas. s Xaaealr flBs as take MS Hears I aaSaarat-i 1-lllH (MTkMH com 2 MiBiUl.al c.A.cnoyico. em panai o. 1 a ex. ri i n i s Till! Hi iHml mmmmam mmmm an- ): erca. Oam eea anmiui) a sintTSmei um4 w i Mi i at a liiSiiSm raaaMa em WaaaMMr. aani -, Title,, aaa line r I II ar-ga li mala i Farming- Vs. Manufacturing. - A special to the .News and Ob server en 20th gives the following from a practical farmer and manU faoturer!- ' .. . ! ; ; Mr. L. Banks Holt says his farm ing" operations, according to money invested, beat his manufacturing in terest clear out of hollow. Every body knows the Holts are a success ful manufacturing people,-, and one never hears the name mentioned. without thinking what factory .. he owns. V , Dropping in one day last week on Mr. L, Banks Holt, the big Graham manufacturer and farmer, I found him as I usually do, vory busy, but kind Christian gentleman that he IS) he greets you with a kind, gen erous greeting and makes one feel at home at once. One would think that a man of Mr. Holt's wealth would be a man of leisure, but as our wealthiest men are our busiest so it is with Mr. Holt. He just can't be idle and in addition to his great manufacturing interest he has the personal supervision over his great farming interest and one needs mity; ta talk tirMrrlloltfon' few momonts to see what keen interest he manifests in farming, to be thor ouehlv convinced that Mr. Holt feels prouder of his attainment as farmer than a manufacturer. In speaking of the farming interest generally. Mr. Holt remarked : "Mr. Rogers, I hear so many people claiming that tho farmer has all the work to do, pays his taxes and still gets nothing for his labor and productSjIhat I feel this state ment can be challenged and, in fact farming properly managed can be made to yield as big returns, in vestment considered, as any busi ness I know of I have had the personal supervisoin over my farm this year and made something over 9.000 bushels of wheat and oats. 130 tons of hay and will make at least 1,500 bushels of corn, and as I said before, it beats my factory all to hollow. In addition to this ns you know my poultry is a part my farming operation and I will raise this year mere than 2,000 chickens, ducks and turkeys, all of which are fed from my own fartn products." Mr. Holt is no politician, as we all know, but a thorough-going bus iness man, and what he has done others can do and if the skill and foresight was giyen the farms gen erally it would be but a little while before th 3 farmers would sing a dif ferent tune and like Captain Parker would be content with 16 bushels to no more or less. Forty Negro Magistrates, Wilmington 8 tar, Aug. Republican papers and -speakers are trying to create the impression that there are so few negroes hold ing office, even in Eastern in North Carolina, that the question is not worth considering. Well, let us see how it is, and we will begin with New Hanover county, which in cludes Wilmington, tho largest city in the State. The oqunty of New Hanover has Forty Negro Magistrates, all duly commissioned and having jurisdic tion and authority over whites and blacks alike. The county of New Hanover has six school committees, and on these committees there are six negroes whose duties are not confined to the negro schools, but extend to white schools also. ' The county of New Hanover has four or five Negro Deputy Sheriffs, whose duties bring them constantly in contact with the whites. "The only constable for the city of Wil mington is also a negro. The city of Wilmington has Four teen Negro Policemen, including three substitutes. - - The county of New Hanover has a Negro Member of the Legislature and a Negro Register of Deeds ; and the next Republican nominee for County Treasurer, it is generally conceded, will be a negro. The City of Wilmington has three Negro Aldermen, and all the Health Officers (four) are negroes. - The Collector of the Customs' of the port'of Wilmington is a negro, and in the several departments of Federal government here there are at least twelve negroes Holding posi tions. ' forty Jsesro Magistrates in one county ! Think of that, white men of North Carolina I And think bow many more will be unless the Dem ocrats control the next Legislature. It is New Hanover that stands at thehead of the list in the number of Negro Magistrates now. But if the negro votes elect a majority of the members of the next Legij lature other, counties will be humiliated loo. Mecklenburg and Union, An son and uicnmond, Kotieson and Columbus, Brunswick and Pender will all.drink of the bitter cup. The negroes cast 120,000 votes for the Republican ticket ia this State. They know their power and they will assert it We ask every Populist is North Carolina if he ever dreamed that in voting to elect a FuionTLegis lature be was voting to nuke Forty Negro MajriHrales t the county of Juw Hanover. No, ; there is : not , an honest Populist in the Stale who be lieved that his vote was contribut ing to the degradation of the white race, and now that they have been convinced of their - mistkae '. these Populists will join with the Deino crnta in electing a Legislature that will "undo the great wrong that has been committed. . ; r ' ; : -" The time has come '.when every decent white man in North Carolinr should show the stuff of which he is made. He must decide now whether ho prefers while rulo or negro rule.- The Domocralio party is the white man's party because id is composed of white men. The Republican party is the negro party because' it is composed mainly of necroes. Forty Negro Magistrates in New Hanovor county I Let every white man in North Carolina know this. NO USE FOB LADDERS. THE RETIRED BURGLAR TELLS OP ' TWO UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCE. Be Got Into and Out of the Booses With Kase, bat That Waant AH How a Do. teetrre Got Clew and Worked It Es caped Oneo With m Broken Arm. "Ladders, when you find them han dy," said the retired burglar, "may seem like a very convenient way of get ting Into open second story windows, but after two experiences that I bad with them I gave them op and stock to the old fashioned way of doors and cel lar windowa "In a suburban town that I visited onoe I found 'em painting a Queen Anne boose in the rainbow style that they used to paint honses in, and that, I sup pose, they paint 'em in still to some ex tent The men had ladders np, no stage, and I noticed that at the - close of the day one of them was painting near a window,' and ! wondered if he'd leave his ladder there when he stopped work at night, I sauntered around that way after dark, and there it was, and it was summer,' and the window was wide open.? Host folks in the country, when their houses are being painted, are apt to be a little skittish about the ladders, and if one should be left like this' one they'd be pretty sure to close the win dow near it and lock it, but these folks didn't appear to be disturbed, and as far as my getting into the house was con cerned it was just about as easy for me to walk up that ladder and step off through the window as it would have been to walk in at the front door with it unlocked. "Later, about S o'clock the next morning, I went up that ladder and in at the window without the slightest trouble, and there was nobody sleeping in that room. It was all just as easy as it could be. I poked around the bouse and gathered up what stuff there was worth carrying off and went back to that room and the open window and down the ladder and off. "A month after that, as I was walk ing across the platform of a station on the same road that the other town was on to take a train, there was a man laid his hand on my arm and Says. 'Now, don't make a fuss about it, and it'll be a good deal easier all around.' And I recognized in him the detective of the road, a man that I knew meant business, and I went along with him. "Being a man of brains, be had gone up to the house where the robbery was as soon as he had heard of it, which was the day. after. There he had put himself ia the burglar's plaes and fol lowed in his footsteps as near as be could. He bad had the ladder placed in just the same position, and he bad gone up that and stepped off Into the win dow and followed over his track inside the house as close as he could guess at it, and then he'd oome back to the win dow and got out on to the ladder, and so down to the ground. ' "The ladder went np on the right hand side of this window, and while it- was easy enough - to reach it Still It quite a little step from the sill to the ladder, and be noticed that when be bad got his foot on the ladder he swung back a little toward the house, so that his elbow just touched it in the angle between the window frame and the clapboards. He gave a little pnsh on that elbow naturally and threw him self out again on to the ladder. Then be stopped and looked at the spot where his elbow bad touched. The paint was dry and there was no mark, but be call ed up the painters and learned that on the morning before that was the morn ing after the boose had been robbed the paint at that place, en the cupboard by the) window frame, and on the frame Itself had been smudged a little, and they'd touched il over. That was all the detective wanted to know. From that time on be had been looking for a man with two paint spots of different colon on the left elbow of his coat, and I was the man. It may seem amaalns to Toe. that 1 hadn't rubbed the paint off. I had rub le of It off, and I waa going to rabtbe real off the neat day, and then kept setting that ness day ahead, as we an apt to do, and I finally wound np by letting It go altogether, the rest of is, Then wasn't eoe chance in a tnowaand ot its leading to anything, and as It was I might hare talked my self on of the paint, but I had a watch that I'd got in tho bouse in soy pocket and that settled It That was one ladder: This was the ether: ' ft I .noting around the ontaido of a boas ia the country one night I found a ladder tying oa the groond against tho rear of the boose. Tbey had aotoa fruit trees in the garden, and I awppoas they'd been working over these, or en the grape arbor maybe, and were going en with the work next day and bad left the ladder oat baotead of taking it down cellar for the night It was summer, and oa the side of tho aoaue there were windows etna ia one room. I thongM I'd sat the ladder then and go hi eoe of those windowa I set tho ladder up and foaad it a little snort bat by Ranking n and gut Hug a hold of the window sUl and ssepptng upon the of the side pieces of the sadder I was able to gettm tolerable easy. I wont throngs the ho ass and gathered what than was to get and was taming to ge fraSB the last rooaa when I knocked a piiSme ear oa a betraaa and woko ap i that was sleeping ta the rooaa. I went back to the room I'd come ta at hacked out the window and hang tor the sadder, and, by enoka, it 1 then! Bat I'd got to go ail the and 1 W go and droraed. I saw tho ladcW as I was fntng down at the torlt UVrw. I d r 4 Oct the erruog window. 1 tnrrt-d fclf ot s injr d,m-a. . . . CAPT. CARTER'S DISGRACE.. ' , ' Convicted of DefraartlasT the OorernaMBt '"' i ' Of $8,000,000-. .... . Capt 6. M. Carter, the army en- gineer officer, who is alleged to have defrauded the government -out of $3,000,000 while in charge of river and harbor improvements at Savan-1 nah, Ga.i will suffer in punishment more severe than any officer ever " tried by court-martial in this coun try on similar charges. Carter,' be ing found guilty, was sentenced by thov court to dismissal from ' the . army, imprisonment in some pen- itentiary lor ft period of between 10 ad 2J years, to forfeit all pay,and besides all these penalties an addi tional and unusual one which pro vides that the 100th- article of war shall bo applied to his case, .and, if it is carried out, the facts in (jart- ' er's case will be published broad cast through the country, and at his . own home the local papers will be j required to print C advertisements 1 calling attention to the disgrace he haairought on himself. Y; ; Further, any officer speaking or to addressing Carter will be accused agjd tried fol scandalous conduct. -It is the intent of this provision to . call attention in the most public . fashion to an officer's disgrace, and . to specifically emphasize the facts -before his own, people, at home. This penalty has seldom been im posed in this country. The case is still before the Secretary of War for , action and from him will be .for-j. ... warded to the President. Wash ington Dispatch, 16th. -Stamp Tax on .Express, To an inquiry from the-counsel of one of the principal express com panies, Attornoy General Griggs, of the United States, responds as fol lows : "Replying to your letter of the 13th inst., 1 have the honor to ad vise you that tho attitude-taken by the Department of Justice with re ference to tho question as to which party ,'th-bjprjejr or the express company, under the"arjevenue bill, is required to furnish a noT pnyti i .-, for the revenuo slamp which is re quired to be placed upon the man ifest or bill of lading, i3 that this is . a matter entirely between the ship-. per and the company. This office holds that so far as the government is concerned, it is only interested to. know that the lawful tax is paid. , As between the shipper and the ex press company, I have decided that the matter is not within any pro vince of consideration under, any case that has yet .arisen. The Un ited States district attorneys are m- , structed that they may prosecute for the prescribed penalty any company which issues a manifest or hill of lading without the prescribed stamp, but that in controversies arising between the shippers and express companies as to which one shall be required to bear the ex pense of the stamp, the government has no direct concern under the war revenue law." Remarkable Reaeae. , Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plain-' field, ' 111., makes the statoment, that she caught cold, winch settled on her lungs; she. was treated for a month by her family physician, but . she grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consump tion and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested , Dr. King's- New Discovery for Con sumption ; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefit ed from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well; now does her own housework, and is ns well as she ever. Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at T. A. Al bright & Co.'s. Large bottles 50 - cents and tLOO.' -" ; ""' i ;r--' - -tea- : :'' Democratic Noanlneeo la Gallfbrd. . A lare and enthusiastic Demo cratic convention was held last Sat urday and the following nominations ' were ..made to-wit : Senate John ' N. Wilson, House John C. Ken nett and John CC Bunch, Sheriff J. Henry Gilmer, Clerk Superior Court John J. Nelson, Register of Deeds A. G. Kirkman, Treasurer G. McKenney. Surveyor W. Perry McLean, Coroner Dr. C P. Turner,.. Commissioners V C. Boren, W; H. Ragan and W. C.' 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