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j f 'it-- k - - , - -. 5 - y - , f 1 I -v I i: Hi : ? ill - - .--if.:. ii .j--. BSEfWER. 4 u.S RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, lb8b. NO. 155 ? - j S'ews j i r " j ,P0CalDER'-1 Absolutely Pure. i ifbis powder- never Parian. A marveil of purity, strength and wholeeenieness irMU'thari ordinarT kinds and cartnoir be sold in competition with the f mtrltttttde of low Met. short weight, aluin or phosphate powders, sold only In raia. itOYAL Badsq Powdkb Co., 1C wai Rii-AAti Nw York. Sold by W. C. & A B. JRfFetrall& Co. 8.ronach, and; THE GREAT REGULATOR. Nf iftiKlioiiit' -is so nnHbriaJly used as 8imjnolis Liver l.rc latot. tt won its way intof "frry ii 1 -i Jy punf, sterling merit. It takes the plan- of a dtx r and rustly ire scrifitiOJis. It Ik a fain-, lly rSedifltiie o.iitaiii'ii no daneerous mialiti-s. but fpureiy vegetable; genMf in us anion ami i I " - a I -- " i matter j ; can ae, safety giTn to any perwn, no wu&.ai;e. I FORKING PEOPLE 1 "can lake 8immoiis Liver Beaulator without loss 1 of tljufe iir danger from exposure, and the system wUia6il)uilt up aid invigorat'-d By it. It pro motes tlgt'stioii. disslpaUs ick lieadache and i gives a-strtmg, fi'illtone-tovtlie system. It has no eqnip aii a i epMtmtot y tuedlclMc and cau be safety a-l in miy sickness. It acts gently on the Bowjls'and Kidneys and corrects the action of the ftivet. Indorsed by persons of the highest ' , cbarctej and eminence as ; ThfsfUEST Family Medicine. i If I cllhd has the colic itcis a sure cure and safe remedy It will restore itrensrth to the over woilt father and relieve the wife from low npirife.: headache, dyspeiwia. constipation and likeijlsi Genuine lias our JJ stamp in red onfront of WERpWr. prepared only.tjy - v J. H. ZKILIN CO., riuladelpnia, fa. Street. 7,000 Dress Oooda. 3,000 j-ijii Double Width CasLoiere, worth 20 eta- cts Sf, 40, 50 and 60 elk a janl -Linefx Table Cloth. I 1,000 H cis Oil Cloth for Tabfe. ' CfS. CTS. each. 1,000 Napkinu. DOIV1ESTICS Ha vj; advanced 20 per cent, but Ve are stfll selling them t the same price. 5,C00 yds Cntury Cloth worth 10 cts. HOODS, TOBOGGANS. Xubiti etc. 50 - 1 nrfi TTnlonn Iripd ami Nearli- (tpa Khirta worth 75 eta. o 10,000 I airs Ladies' and Gents' Uose, 6, 7i, 9, 10 and 12ic, worth double the niney. tgc., $1, $1.25, 148 and $1 50, 4 White Counterpanes. Oil Fridays Only ' We will sell all our Remnants i rptj AT A REDUCTION- f Of 33 1-ii percont. ONE PRICE ..r - j JSJu Ciifa For U. - NOTICE. : The annual meetLngs of the stockhoM : tri Zt tVe Raleigh National Bank of i Tork Carolina and of the National Bank ! f Bleih will be lilrt a? their banking i aouae in Rale gh, N. C, on' Tuesday, ' juiiry 10th, lb8', at 10 a. m. and 1 p. ri actively. t CttAS. U. Bzlkvi. k:isOollcott mx 14 East Mailin ! M ,1- ! i I '. I 1.4 i 1 5 1 . NEWS OBSERVATIONS. "(JuJg8 SrcCue will retire frora I ho Solicitorship o the Treasury. -DiiLkirjg and gambling seem td L o as vorumon on the firat-claea mod ern (Sc an steamer as they used to be oh the Mississippi in the days of Jim Bladsoo and the Arkansaw traveler -Tho "trusted and popular" cashier of tlio Ilerkimer (N. T.) National Biiuk. 3Iarcu W. Hasbach, has ab- sconced, leaving a defalcation of over $30,000. He had been speculating . ---The total estimated loss on burcgvl buildings in New York dur-f iag VS7 was 81,400,643, and 6a theirt contents $4,171,862. There were eigbteen cases of persons perishing? iu th fires, four of them firemen, and' e;tintv-seviu citizens "were more or; less injured. , -The ujmigratit n at few York da-j lii g Biiows an increase 01 over 70,000 steerage and 10,000 cabin f:ibSe)bgers. The total number of cabin passengers who arrived was 78,000 and of steerage passengers 371,371, and in 188G the nguVes were 68,742 and' 300,918. -ii,' committee representing the fi eigh't employees of the Pennsylvania .Company met General Manager Bald win m' Pittbburg Saturday and pre sented ii demand for an advance in wagesi and pay for overtime. The comiuii teo was cordially received" and iufornied that the petition would be ;onsia.'i':U ana an answer reiurneu in aifetv da'N s. '- - Qaill toothpicks come from France. The largest factory in the world is i.eiir Paris, where there is an annual prodtit or 20,000,000 quills. The factor was started to make quill peni but w hen these went out of use it was t arned into a toothpick mill. Wooden t oo tt picks are made principally in Wisconsin, Indiana and .uichigan, OliiQ. . - Hijrgo Ohlhorst and Vorris Co in n were arrested in New York Sat urday night for as&aulting MaiXoen btrg. Ohlhorst was to have been married Saturday night. His prom ised bride and the wedding guests were awaiting his arrival when they heard ttiat he was locked up in a sta tion house ceil for getting intoxica ted and beating a man. - v The fam6us contest over the es tate of the late James H. Paine, the S'tw Yolk miser of refined tastfes and intelligence, who lived and died in a Bleeckeri street attic, leaving over $400,000 in cash, was decided Satur- t(3ayagain8t the will of which James Ji. Ward well was sole legatee ana hropiiciit, and in favor of the Cleg- ietfof Boston. -i Vital statistics in Florida for the nast year show that the percentage f deaths per 1,000 was only 13.7, r, deducting non resident invalids, 12.4 ter cent per 1,000. The total lortality for -consumption is 2.8 per l,UO0 and among residents only x.o er 1,000. Deaths from malarial fivers jire remarkably few. Only one case 6f yellow fever came within 200 miles 4f Jacksonville. j The engine hous of the Kqoit lijbe gas works in lew York was iilown to pieces about 11 o'clock Sat irday njght. Surrounding property for block was badly damaged. The engineer, Frank Plaisted, was buried ijn the rins. A driver of a First ave jiue car was blown off his car by the force of the explosion and seri ously hurt- The cause of the explo sion is nnknown, but it is rumored ihat a dynamite bomb was thrown p'bto the engine house. 1 1 A special correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, writing from Augusta, Georgia, expresses emphat ically the opinion that the colored population of the South is steadily ' decreasing, and predicts that the next census will snow it. He points to the mortuary tables as proof of his iUsettioB that the death rate in pro portion to the numbers of the two races 'is double, treble, and often ntill larger among the colored people than among the whites." To prove further this decrease in the colored population, he cites the opinion of a large planter in Screven county to the following effect: "Here on my blace." the planter says, J'there were formerly 80 negroes today there are ojijytwoi iiy neignoor, aiaj.. urio bons,.a Massachusetts gentleman, had Some 400; the Wades and the Joneses had some BOO each; the Herringtons, 100; the Bosticke, f ver the Savannah river, some 700, and the Martins about 500. Where are they all to day f Why, on the plantations re ferred to there is hardly to be found ri nero to hitch up one's horse. Many wandered off into other States after freedom; but numbers of them re turned, broken down by hardships, to die within- sight of the wrecks of the homesjthey deserted." A Whtle Mam Lynched by Hgrt. Charlotte Chron'cle. Passengers who arrived in Charlotte on the Air-Line train last Sunday re port that at the time they passed Central considerable excitement pre vailed in the vicinity of that place iciver th lynching by a mob of ne groes of a half-witted white man. The victim had been, arrested upon the charge of haying committed an qutrage upon the person of a colored woman, a.nd as the sheriff was taking him to jail he was surrounded by a jrowd of armed colored people, who secured the prisoner and, proceeding a point about" half a mile from Central, swung mm up to a tree, inn lynched 1 man was a character well known about Central and had the reputation of being weak-minded. . A few whites, it is said, were in the crowd that lynched him. His body 4rks cut down Saturday evening. ' KrVL. HlutnoaaStrlkt. Asni.Axb, Pa, Jan. 3". The K. of L ipiners at tbo meeting here last night decided to go on a strike and as a qo.nBPrjue'nce there is but one reafing cSolliery in this district working tit daj and that one is short handed, iftiley &. Co. have made a satisfactory a-'reemont with their employees and tibtir collieries are in operations This agreement, it is said, is a continuance of the rate of wages in force during the past few thontns- Washington. YESTERDAY'S BUDGET OF . NEWS. PREPABIjiO FOB THE BEA8SEHBLINO OF ( . CONORE83 THE BLAIR EDUCATION Ai Bj$. OTHEB TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. i Washington, Jan. 3. The Court of Claims today dismissed the- case of the Mississippi Railroad Company against the United States, the claim for compensation being for carrying mails before the war. Jere IJprn, of Mississippi, a clerk' in the interior department for twelve months past, resigned his position today to ake editorial charge of the Annistori-(Ala ) Hot Blast. The unfinished business of the Senate ii the Blair educational bill which comes up at two o'clock to morrow. 'i It is expected, however, that it will be informally laid aside to give Senator Sherman an' opportu nity to make a speech upon the Presi dent's message, and that it will be again infernally laid aside on'Thurs day to afford Senator Voorhecs an opportunity to make a tariff speech. Senator1 Mitchell has given notiee of his purpose to address the Senate tomorrompon his resolution -providing f or'a commission to select a site for a naval station on the Pacific eoast. There ate twenty-three bills report ed from tfhe Senate committees await ing actiotf, but none of them are pressing for immediate consideration and it is possible that the speeches of Senators jherman and Yoorhees may be the beginning of the long tariff debate. pf Speakef; Carlisle was in his private room at - the capitol this morning busily engaged in finishing his com mittee assignments. He was subject to such popstant interruptions, how ever, thathe was obliged to leave the capitol and seek quietude at his hotel, Although'the committee list is practi cally completed and will, in all proab bility, be announced as soon ao the House assembles to morrow there is a possibility that a few changes at the last moment will so disarrange the work as to: necessitate the postpone ment of the announcement until the following day. The committees hav ing been announced, there will be an effort madif to have a "bill day" im mediately,; but as a motion to this effect would require - unanimous consent and as many members think it would bo unwise to have a flood of propositions poured into the House pefore the formal organization of ths committee, it is improbable that the effort yr ill succeed. In the event of its failure the House will adjourn iiintil Saturday and the real work of pie session will begin next Monday. Senator. Aldrich, chairman of the Senate committee on rules, has pre pared it resolution which he will offer in a few days and ask to have referred o his committee, proposing certain amendments in the rules governing executive 'sessions. The proposed Changes are Bimple in character, but jvill, the Senator thinks, add materi ally to the comfort of Senators find at the ame time provide a legiti mate way or the press and the public Which it serves to get timely informa tion of the;Senate's action upon such matters as it is proper to make known. He proposes, in regard to nomina tions, that references to committee, reports of cpmrnittees, whether favora ble or adverse, and the action of the Senate, shall not be regarded as secret, and with respect to other matters- treaties, etc., that the sub ject of debate and the action of the Senate shall not be regarded as se cret, unless by resolution the . in junction of Becrecy be placed upon uch subject or such action. Ihis in effect, should the resolution be op ted, wpl make public such por tions of the Sedate journal as are not covered by''a special injunction of se crecy, but will leave to Senators the privilege of discussing and voting upon all executive matters with their present freedom from public observa tion and knowledge. Mr. Aldrich be lieves the prPOBed amendments will afford Senators the means of correct ing many erroneous statements which get abroad respecting executive session proceedings, and will give the public information of that which the public jbaa the right to know and will have a;jtendency to keep Becret that which it is thought expedient for diplomatic or other reasons to conceal. The existing. rules are based upon the theory that it is necessary o keep everything secret, because half a dozen times, perhaps, in a ses sion subieets come up which should not be publicly mentioned. Mr. Al drich favorsi.be opposite theory that fverythingfshould be public Except when ther is some affirmative reason or secrecy; He is personally in favor Of Mr- Plaft'e open session lesolution, but recognizes the possibility that a majority tif the Senate may not be found to support it. He proposes a measure which seems likely to com mend itself to many Senators who would; not have open doors. Public Debt Statement. I Washington, Jan. 3. The debt Statement issued today shows the de crease of tbe public debt during the month- J of Devember to be $I4,584,(!5S.68. Decrease of the debt since Jufie 30th, 1887, $53, $30,335:03 i Cash in treasury, 527,625.537.31 ; gold certificates Outstanding, $96,734,057 ; silver Certificates.; outstanding, $167, 55,423; certificates of deposit out itanding,$fi,985,000; legal tenders out standing, $346,681,016; fractional Currency (nbt including amount esti niafced as lcst or destroyed), $6,942, 214.12; total interest bearing debt lutstandiugf Janua y 1, $1,011,701,- 42 ; total debt ou( standing, iuclud fcg intore-t bdarin, accrued bat unpaid interest and debt bearing no interest, $1,091,360,705.60; total debt, less cash items available for its reduc tjion, $1,29,441,281.10. i : Tardy Justice. i After all "the old year was a pretty ood onm.-Attanta Contiitutlon. A PROCLAMATION BV THE PSESI-DKT. Touchlnx Certain Red Rtrer Territory, Washington, Jan. 3. The Presi dent has issued the following procla mation. "Whereas, The title to all that territory lying between the North and South forks of the Bed River and the hundredth degree of longitude and the jurisdiction over the same are vested in the United States, it be ing a part of the Indian territory; as shown by surveys and investigations made on behalf of the United States, which territory the State of Texas al so claims tittle to and jurisdiction over j and ; - Whereas, Said conflicting claims grow out of a controversy existing between the United Spates and the State of Texas as to the point where the hundredth degree of longitude crosses the 'Red river as described in the treaty gf February 22d, 1819, be tween the United States and Spain, fixing the boundary line between the two countries, and , Whereas, Commissioners appoint ed on the part of the United States under the act of January 31, 1885, authorizing the appointment of a commission by khe President to run and mark the boundary line between that portion of the Indian Territory ad the State of Texas in connection with a similar commission to be ap pointed by the State of Texas, have, by their report, determined that the South fork is the true Red river des ignated in the treaty, the commis sioners appointed on the part of said Siate refusing to concur in the said report; Now,, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of tha United States, do hereby admonish and warn all persons, whether claiming to act as officers of the county of Greer in the State of Teias or other wise, against selling or dis posing of, or attempting to seil or dispose of any of said lands or from exercising or attempting to use any authority ov-er said lands; and I also warn and admonish all persons against purchasing any part of said Territory from any person or persons whomsoever." I - THE STHIKE STILL OS. Work Progress! lift Favorably Two Ap plications to ELvery Vacancy. Philadelphia, Jan. 3. The great railroad strike is still on and it is characterized by the same determina tion of both sides to stand firm that has maintained it from the beginning. At the various depots and stations in the city there is a statement that the business of the road is proceeding as smoothly as could be wished, and this statement is as uniformly contradict ed by the strikers, who state that the Beading Company do not make pub lic the actual number of men on strike, and that they are crippled in all departments for lack of proper workmen to handle the traffic of the road. So far as discernible to a casual observer, the work of receiving and delivering freight is progressing as usual' at nil the depots and wharves in the city. The railroad officials say that the applications out number the vacancies two to one, . Although the stock of coal on hand in the Reading Company's Port Rich mond yards is almost exhausted, the agents of the company are firm in their expressions of the belief that there is no danger of a coal famine. The yards at that shipping point con tain but 21,500 tons of all kinds of eoal, the largest amounts being egg and chestnut. Reading, Pa., Jan. 3. There jb great alarm among manufacturers de pendent upon the Reading railroad for fuel. Not many of them carry large stocks of coal ahead and a two weeks' stoppage oj mining would close up the majority of them. Sus pensions would begin within a week. The average run of coal through this city (which is almost entirely it night) is 4,000 cars per night, but last night only 1,000 passed down and only a few hundred today. Out of 68 large collieries, in the Shamokin region only six are at work. It-' is calculated that if the miners' strike becomes complete in the section trib utary to the Reading road, 30,000 miners and 30,000 factory laborers will be out of work. Some few indi vidual mine owners have made terms with their men by agreeing to pay current wages pending the strike and alide by its result when it ends. Five such collieries are at work at Shamo kin. These are in addition to the six exceptions noted above. Another Strike. York, Jan. 3. The strike Nt among the flint and glass workers has extended from the western to the o.'tftern factories. The workmen in fifteen factories vin Brooklyn, Phila delphia, New Bedford and Boston and Corning, N. Y., failed to return to work yesterday or today with two exceptions in the east and west About 15,000 men are now out A prominent manufacturer said this af ternoon that the strike bids fair to be a long and bitter one. He doubted the possibility of a conclusion in 1888. The output of the country would be decreased four -fifths by the strike and if it lasted twelve months ttjwould entail a loss of between four and five millions of dollars. Items from England. London, Jan. 3. The Admiralty contradicts the report tbat the iron clad "Hercules" struck a reef at Fer rol, Spain, and was sinking in that harbor. ; The Hercules is stationed at Port land and has suffartd no injury of any kind. The Birmingham canal burst today at a po.nt near Dudley. Hundreds cf famd es were rendered homeless by the in icdation. A Report Denied. - ; CiKciysATi, 0., January 3. Refer ing to a pecial Report irom Green vouJ, K-ntucky to the fleet tbat additional remains of victiius nitd ben found in the debris of Satur day's wreck on the Cincinnati South ern Railroad Supt. Carroll says there is not-a particle of tr th in the story. He says, that every employee of the road connected ith both trains and all the "pBssenzers hare been ac- ( punted for. !! NOT ALL TOLD. THE STORY OF SATURDAY S AC- : i CIDENT NEAR GREEN WOOD, KY. MORE DEAD BODIES DISCOVERED IN THS DEBRIS 60ME ByRST ALMOST TO ASHES- DTHEB GENERAL NAWS BV WIRE. Cincinnati, Jan. 3- J- H- Avey, one of the victims of the railroad accident, o the 5orithern R. R , died at his residence in Covington, Ky , and bis wife is reported to be in a dying con dition. The other wounded are do ing well. A special from Greenwood, Ky., says: The fear grows hourly that the: most terrible part of the story of Saturday's accident remains to be told. As time wears on and the wreck is being cleared away the pres ence of more victims in the debris becomes apparent. When the wreck occurred a number of passengers who were -jn the ladies' coach and the srapkng car on the north bound train succeeded In making their escape from the cars with trifling injuries. Just who they are and how many is not known. Last night the bones of two unfortunates were found reduced al most to ashes, burned with these cars. There is absolutely nothing by which they can be identified, and it is not certain whether the bones are those of males or females. Mr. C. C. Gillespie, of Beaver, a small station near this place, visited the wreck last night. While dig ging in the ruins he discovered hair; attached to the scalp of a woman. The flesh, of course, was burned away, but the beautiful, long locks are in a good state of preserva tion Almost in the same spot where the hair was found Mr. Gillespie i found a child's shoe. The other shoe has hot yet been found, neither has any account been given of the loss of a child. A little deeper in the debris in the same spot where the hair and shoe were found Mr. ; Gillespie picked up a letter. It was written in a good plain feminine hand dated at St. Augustine and signed ,lBen." There is nothing in the letter to give any clue to the name of writer or receiver, and the envel ope j unfortunately cannot be found. After the accident search was made for an unknown man who was seen to enter the ladies' car on the north bound train before the crash came. He was never seen again, and all ef forts to locate him have proved futile. It is believed he was unable to get out of his apartment and was burned to. death in the car. It is believed that j the bones found last night are those of the man and woman above referred to. The child was probably with' its mother and died with her, its body being buried in the debris. Suspicion grows that there are more bodies buried in the wreck. " JCxcltensent In the Oil Market. Ifaw York, January 3. There was great excitement in the oil market to day, j The crowd around the oil ring was one of the largest ever seen there. There is evidently a corner of shorts and jthey are trying to cover with none but other snorts to buy from. The first sale was made at 90a90 above Saturday's closing, and an ad vance was accompanied with the wildest excitement, which carried prices up to 93 before there was any reaction extending to per cent. This is a rise of 20 cents per barrel since November 1. At Pittsburg the price reached 95 at one time today. Tin Irish rrouble. Dublis, Jan. 3. The Telegraph de clares that the opposition of farmers to the plan of Lord Londondery to hunt in the county of Meath was the only reason for its being proclaimed under the Crimes act. The Viceroy, it says, recently rented a hunt ing seat in that county. The farmers' convention hearing of this, resolved not to allow hunting over their farms, and ; the county was thereupon pro claimed. In regard to the proclama tion of Dublin, the Telegraph says that the obvious intention of the gov ernment is to intimidate the press. i ; S--SBS- Schooner Abandoned. Chablestojt, S. C, Jan. 3 The steamship Cherokee has arrived from New York. Capt. Doane reports that on the second inst, at 9 30 a. m.. thirty miles east northeast of Frying Pan light ship, he passed the schoon er William and Richard dismasted, water-logged and abandoned. She was lumber laden, and the deck load was gone. The hatches were forced off arid the boat was hanging to the stern davits. He saw the steamship Josie ! some distance ahead, bound south, which may have rescued the officers and crew of the schooner. j A Disastrous Conflagration. Desver, Col., Jan. 3. A special from Salida; Col., eays: The mopt disastrous conflagration in the history of Salida occurred yesterday after noon.; Twenty-one houses were de stroyed in the business portion of the town.; The loss is estimated at $20, 000,! with insurance of about one third.! Earthquake. St.; Louis, Jan. 3. A special from the City of Mexico says that the earthquake felt there yesterday morn ing was pereeptibly felt throughout southern Mexico and in the cily of Igualapa it was quite severe. Some damage to property, consisting prin cipally in the cracking of walls, is re ported, but no loss of life. Foreign News. St. Petersbubo, Jan. 3. The dis orders at the university here continue, owing to the expulsion of 200 of the students. The officials will re-open the university at the end of the month- It is reported that the Czar expriebeed displeasure that an armed force ihad been employed in suppress ing the troubles. Quite a Difference "Who's that tall, gaunt giant over there V "He's a Parisian." Well, I never saw a Frenchman drink so much whiskey." "He's; from Paris, Kentucky." Town 81PRF.MK COt'KT DECISIOS Jllftested br ibe News and Observer. State vs.Bishop. Where an indictment charges in one count the larceny of $55 in money and one U. S. pension check, botn being taken on the same occasion, the State cannot be required to elect which it will insist on; a verdict find ing the defendant guilty of taking either or both will sustain the judg ment. Where a defendant to secure a con tinuance makt ' an affidavit the So licitor may read the same to the jury a. a voluntary statement made by the prisoner in relation to the circum stances of the crime charged, which the State may show is uct.ue. And where in such affidavit defendant states what he expects to prove bv a certain witness then absent, the So licitor may introduce such person as a witness fof the State and may ex amine him as to matters stated in the affidavit td show its falsity. Every act of the defendant in resrject of thn alleged crime and every circumstance calculated to throw light upon it and aid the jury in cominer to a correct conclusion. is competent. A U. S. pension check is the sub ject of larceny under sec 1064 of the uoae. When identified as hemu the check that was in the possession of the prosecutors and found in the posses sion of the defendant, and it having been in their possession when takn. the property is sufficiently laid in them, and whether thev held uossession nn owners or bailees made no difference. A voluntary statement made bv the prisoner to a pissenger in a car in an other State, but while in cusfcndv and hand-cuffed, is admissible; and if con tradictory or untrue the State mm show them to be so. Hinton vs. Pritchard. Where a defendant testified that he had paid $2,400 for a tract of land, and the plaintiff seeks to imneiurh hin testimony, it is competent to corrob orate him by putting in evidence a deedjfor the Jand under which plain tiff claimed reciting that $2,400 was the price paid therefor on another occasion, as the evidence tends slight ly to prove the value of the land and that the defendant had paid that price as he testified. When a defendant testified that he had paid a note in September 1880, evidence offered to show that he was insolvent in; 1885 is nqt admissible, as it does not tend to show with sufScient directness that he was insolvent in 1880. v Where defendant is asked of plain tiff if he had not told a certain person named that he was insolvent at a cer tain time and place, for the purpose of contradicting him, as the inquiry was as to a fact purely collateral the plaintiff is bound by the answer. FpirK of the Stat Press. Twenty-five years ago small farms were scarce in North Carolina, but now hundred acre tracts are found in every county, and the prices asked for these small farms are very moderate. Make a note cf this, ye immigrants into our State. Jieidsville Times. The issue' is tquarely drawn. It is clean cut and jingles like pure metal. J here can be no quibbling, trimming, dodging ors squirminer. He that is not with trs Is against us. Every man must eitner ie a pig or a pup. The President has formulated the issue between the two parties and selected the battleneld and the weapons. Every member of the party who does not fall into line' and march to the tap of the drum is a traitor to the Presi dent's honest, manly, straight for ward efforts to lighten and equalize the burdens of the people s He says the tariff ought to be reduced to a revenue point and that many ar ticles ought to go on the free list, and that many more ought to be greatly reduced. So every intelligent, honest man ought to say. We endorse the message from the beginning to the end. We are in full accord with the President once in our life. Scotland JTeck Democrat. The impudence of the cry of the republican howlers about the Presi dent's message being a free trade argument would not be so brazen if that admirable document were not generally circulated and in the hands of the people, who are not fools un able to read. They have read the message for themselves and approve it. This cry of "free trade" went up in a mighty chorus soon after the message wan sent out, but the howl ers soon saw that the President's wise words were meeting with popu lar approval. They became fright ened and are now attempting to make a diversion. It is the bloody shirt issue that they are trying to side-track the people on to, but they will fail. They will bo held lo the issue by the people. They said it was protection against free trade. The people are now going to weigh this matter on that issue and they intend to see how much free trade there is in the President's message. If it is a free trade message there publican policy of 1882 was a free trade policy. You must stick to the issue, brethren; you cannot switch us off on the bloody shirt sectional issue. The people have had enough of that nonsense. They want to know if the republican doctrine of 1882 has turned out to be free trade doctrine in 1887 just because the democrats favor it. As we said, the brethen be came frightened and called a big meeting of republican clubs from ail over the country in New York, and Senator Evarts and all the big lead ers were present. They met to or ganize for the campaign of 1888. Not a word was said about the tariff or the President, but the burden of every speaker's theme was the bloody shirt and the democratic treatment of negroes in the South. A negro ex CongresBinau from Mississippi was applauded to the echo when he ad vocated the taking- away from the South all the Congressmen and elec toral votes she gains by negro popu lation. Stick to your text, gentle men. Lenoir 2'opic. Senator Hearst, of California, proposes a bill to increase the pen sions of the few remaining veterans of Uw war of 1812. ALL A FALSEHOOD AND A MOST INFAMOUS ONE ! AT THAT. THE STOHY of the scene at a RECEPTION IS MICHIGAN IX WHICH Ml!. HENDER SON WAS MADE TO FIGURE. ': -1 Washiiurtoti Cor. N. V. If. r.iU. Washixoton, Jan. 1. The story telegraphed from Iona, Mich., alleging a "scene!' at a reception given here two weeks ago betwet-D Congressman Henderson, of North Carolina, and Mr. Tarpney, of Missouri, is pro nounced ifalse in every particular by all who I were present. Among the guest3 wpre First Assistant Postmas ter Genepal Stevenson, Commissioner of Pensions Black. Congressmen Baker ahd Anderson, of Illinois; Glass, ofiTennessee; Senator Ransom and Congressmen Johnston and Hen derson, df North Carolina; Dr. J. B. Hamilton;, supervising surgeon gen eral of jthe Marine Hospital; Mr. Tarsney, jof Vissouri; Mr. Charles M. Fox, of Ojhicago, and John H. Oberly, one of Ithe civil service commis sioners. IThe supper was at the Met ropolitan and was one of the most en joyable occasions of the season. The guests wre politically about equally divided, j Congressman Henderson, instead of provoking indignation, as reported, so feelingly referred to the brave Union dead in the National cemetery at Salisbury as. to pall the festivities for a mopont. This was the -Jonly effect of what he said. ; Dr. Hamilton, who is a republican, says he hs never heard morerespect manifested nor expressed in bo few words as pn this occasion were ut tered by Mr. Hendor6on. A CARD FROM MR. HENDERSON. V I - "Salisbury, N. C, Jan. 1, 1888 To the Edito of tho Charlotte Chronicle . The telegram published in the Jler alil (N. Yj.). of December 31st, sent from Ionia, Mich., the day before, is a tissue of falsehood, from beginning to end. Shortly before the recess I attended a diuner at the Metropoli tan hotel Jn honcr of ex Judge A- B. Moore, ofiMichigac, but am uncon-; scious of paving uttered a word which would have given o flense to any of the guests. I certainly did i nofc intend to klo so. No words passed between Mr. John B. Tarsney, of Michigan,-and myself. I used no in sulting language to .vard any . j one and none was used towards me. There was- no excitement, no quarrel, no fight, abd no apology. I did not give utterance to, and I do not cher ish the sentiments attributed to me. In the few words I said I alluded with regret to the fact that the re mains of 11,700 Federal soldiers lay buried in 4 Federal cemetery near the town in which I lived, and I 'stated that it was my purpose to introduce a bill in jwhich Congress would be aeked to riake a liberal appropriation to pave, improve and adorn the .ave nues and approaches to this cemetery) and I expressed the hope that Con gress would make the appropriation. I did not say a word detrimental to the servicers or memory of the dead soldiers of; the Union. ; I John S. Henderson. A SETTLED I PURPOSE TO MISREPRESENT. There sefems to be a settled purpose to misrepresent Mr. Henderson with respect to this matter. In the New York World of Monday we find ithe following i 'i ' "Detroit, Mich., Jan. 1. A press dispatch sent from Iona, Michigan, yesterday misrepresents an encounter between Congressman Henderson, of North Carolina, and John.B. Tarsney, of St. Louis. The facts are: Mr. Fox, of Chicago, ' gave a banquet in Washington to Judge Morse, of the Supreme Court of Michigan, a one armed Unipn ex soldier. Among the guests were Congressman Henderson and John IB. Tarsney, of Missouri, brother of Congressman Tarsney, of Saginaw. Wine flowed freely and speeches were delivered by several persons, all of them breathing frater nal feeling, Congressman Henderson when his name was announced in the course of his remarks said that he considered it an 'honor to represent a district in which the pones of 30,000 Union sol Oiers were sdecaYiner. tie gloried m the fact that he had been a rebel Henderson; withstood all attempts to 'cough him down. ; Finally Mr. Tarsney sprang to; his feet, and grabbing a glass of cham pagne threw its contents in Hender son's face, roaring as he did so, 'You dirty rebej, if no one will resent your insull I will. I had a brother to die in that sink hole, and no man dares gloat over the murders in; my hearing.' I . . Two guests restreined. Tarsney who was beside himself with rage, and the banquet hall was speedily -de serted. Jikdge Morse says that had not Tarsney resented the language used by Mr. Henderson he (the Judge) would have done so. This is Hut a slight variation from the original falsehood, it will be seen. The story has been denied in toto by Mr. Henderson, and no one who knows that gentleman at all would fail to realize that no man could throw a glass of Wine in his face without suffering seriously in consequence, so that it woud scarcely be worth while to print this continuation of the slan der were if not well to show the in sistence of the vile propagators- of untruth, wbo in their hatred of (he South hav4 done the dirty work of this false report. - Vr. Henderson is as brave and ttue and pure a man as ever lived, as mod est as 4 woman but a full of pluck as Julius Cfsar, and the part he has been made jto play by theso bensutipn al falsifiers in the northwest is alto gether foreign to hii character. The slander was done and is con tinued from the very loweet partisan political motive and is a legitimate outcome of the teaching of hate prac tised by John Sherman and his fellow malignantsj It will be condemned as the Tile effort it is by all decent peo- le without regard to political affilia ion. ! - s . niDDLKD WiTII shot. son County. Special t., Wllniinjtu,,, .M ...r Allen'toN. C, Jan. 2, 1868. -As two women were reaming from Mr.. I'.U.Meares ys-4-day, they were horntied to fc .lying by the path leading from F. G. Meares' to J P Mearcs', a dead man partly eaten up by buzzards. The coroner was notf ned and hi 1 I - ;i ;.,t a. dead body, syan identified as that of 15i!l Lowle. colored, aired about eighteen en s. The last seen or the boy aJ.ve was on the 22d of De cember. He hid been at work a few days for F.-G. Meares and left his house intending to visit his home in Bladen, bat had evidently noC gone niore than three hundred yards" when he fell by the path riddled with shot. I he boy wan a good and inoffensive negro, and so far a,i the jury could could learn had no nepies. It is to t3 hoped that the murderer will be found and receivo the punishment Which he deserves. During the intans cold of Wednes day night policemen .in Cincinnati found a mau jn a doorway, apparently just about to freezo to death after a de' bauch. He gave the name Of Patrick O'Brien, aged 36, residence Iowa. The officers found in his pockets $8,000 in money and SG.mi in ,hnlra r.- able to him, besides a valuable gold waicn ana tiiamond jewelry. The locality iu which he was fn.md i nr. of the worst in the city. "And why; are ;ou so surprised," Mr. Sampson." she said, .inivmn self up with hauteur, "that I play the piano so well;?" "Because your hands are so email,; Mis3 Smith,' that you must find it difficult to strike an oc tave." Then she played some more for him. tl'iU-Hits. "Jew Year Geruian. The Monogram Club cave an ele gant and delightful New Year germs n last night in Henry Hall. Eighteen couples participated and a verv l&rrre number of admiring spectators pleas antly ueguiied the time in watching the poetic and graceful motions, of the charming and gallant dancers. The german lasted with undiminished delight till far: into midnight. Ladles' Foreign Missionary Society. Tli3 monthly meeting of the Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian church will ' be held in the lecture room , of that church this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock The ladies a?e requested to bring their copies of the "Missionary Maga- ' The truth in masquerade'' is Bvrbn term for a lie. But it ia the truth, and no niaaquende, that Dr. Bull's Gouzh. Syrup cure coughs and colds. No cure so speedy, rrtce twenty -five cents. If you should have a lame horse, and have used every remedy without success, invest twenty-five cents in a bottle of Salvation Oil ;It will cure "him. V "I Raleigh Still Ausad. Harris', ' Dyeing and Renovating WorksSlS East Martin street, Raleigh,' N d." Cheapest house in the South! All work by mail Or express will receive prompt attention. Old clothing and hats taken ia exchange for work.. Only house of the kind in the State. Renovating ladies' dresses, shawls, cloaks, walking jackets and every thing in the way of gents' or ladies' wear. Dyeing and Binding gents' coats and vests a specialty. A trial; will convince you. ' ALMOND MACCABOON8. Almond msccaroons, sponge fin gers, vanilla wafers, &c. &., lust re ceived. Two pound fruit cakes in tin boxes, graham wafers, crystal wa fers in square tins and cartoons, egg biscuit, soups, fcc., &c. J. E. Hart in. .- corned beef. Extra choice briskets, corned to or der about ten days in salt and in fine condition, Baltimore sausages twice a week. ; E. J. Hardin. i The receipts of cotton at Nci folk during the past four months show a' considerable falling off com pared with the same months last ytar. "UUU ViEIQHf PURE Its euperior excellence pru en in mi) lions of homes for more than a quarttr of a century. It ia used by the United States Government. Endorsed by tte Ka.l. nf t,A Otea, TTniAiuMdD U h Stronirmtl PlirMt ftnH tnwt llnaltl. A ful. Dr. Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime oi Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. HEW YORK. CHICAGO. 8T. IX JJB. (CMEAM Orders for Picture FiaiCfc Briv a Brack, Art No Tallies, Artist Materials, indow-ahadeei wU i'aper, Cornise Poles, &c, have prompt attention. sTRX, A. WAXWfpiN, ; V 1 I I : ' i " 1 " I '