North Carolina Newspapers

W HAT TIIR -BLUE BOOK SHOWS f l I101 the (listory of the country .nas mere ever been so vast a cMiapgo impendiug, owing to the !,u?nf4?rHemoyes having increased ; enormousJyr daring the lasiiew, years. (There are iu round numbers 110,000 persons in tiie em PVf the Government.! There aWl abOu f50;000 i. I if i united States. Ot these, the Post- master. General acting; with the advice the President, appoints about 2,500 olj the higher class. wistU, salaries ranging from 10,000 to p,ouu All jof the interior post offices ; nrej filled :j by the appoint ments g)f ihe first-assistant post injister'geiieralJ who is thus the largest distributor of patronage in ih GoVeriuient.j i ! . The jeivil service law, does not prbtfcein jungle postmaster in the United Statesf but 5,699 postal enipioyes are svcured in their places during goon behavior. These em- ploye.sii'eceive i . i v. . '.' - k .' - irom 9w to 9i,soo pet annum, .ji ITlie iiextl most numerous branch oihe-pubjic service is the Treas ury Department employes. Of these, 2,5?3 are customs employes, reivp frtm J $900 to $1,800 per uintiui, who are , protected by. the t i j il service law, wbch also pro- .'lefts ;5,f32 employes scatterel in al j t Imj i departments. Thns there aiv nlont;9C,000 persons subject to removal it) a change of administra- . tion, ;(inore than half of which are postmasters), jwhich the Democrats. If jso minded, may dispose of. - ' - jThe bureau of printing and en graving, i which employs skilled workmen,- is exempt from the opera tion.of tLe;cinI service law. It has 2,500 employes. ' V Bnt in-the higher offices there yjirneeessarly be radical changes, Uesides'the heads ot departments i-- ...-if. wuo- Will go, t lie chiefs of divi sions nhd all officers whose salaries are .oyer! $lS00 will probably go. TheBlne Book" sljow the follow ing Jpftics ih which 'changes may .be.qxpectedj: ;j , j . , STTfi DEPARTMENT.: Seejretaty of State, $8,000 Asssistant secretary, 4.500 Second assistant secretary, 3,500 Thjrd assistant, . 3,500 Chief, clerk,! ! 2,750 Examiner; of claims, : 3,500 Chief, of diplomatic bureau, 2,100 Cbief. of consular bureau, 2,100 Chief of indexes and archives, 2,100 .Chief of buteau of accounts, 2,100 Librarian: Total ; $36,200 TREASURY: J)EPARTiIENT. tiVeretary; Two assistant, I 4,500 each, Chief clerkj $8,000 secretaries at 9,000 2,700 5,000 5.000 4,000 3.GO0 3,000 3,600 3,600 3,600 3,600 6,000 4,000 5,000 First controller. , Si'ebud juoiuiroller, ; Conimissipner of customs, First auditor, j.l Second auditor, Third audi toj Fourth auditor, Fifth auditor, Sixth auditor, Treasurer Uuitetl States, ..Registry of Treasury, -h . Controller of currency. rComJiiiss'r internal revenue, 6,000 I Solicitor ht internal revenne, 4,500 Solicitor of Treasury, 4,500 Directoi of; mint, - 4,500 i IJHief of bureau of engraving ' and printing, 4,500 Chief ot bureau of statistics, 2,400 Supervising architect! . 4,500 Superintendent coast survey, 6,000 Surgeon-general tnariue nos ; )i-al service, !ir .i 'iiperiuteudent of life saving "I service', ; "; :-" I -! ' Inspector general of steara- 4,000 4,000 3,500 Chi t of appointment divs'n, 2,500 Chief of warrant division, 2,750 Cii f public moneys divis'n, 2,500 Chief of custom division, 2,750 Cliitrf internal revenue and 'j Navigation,! . f 2,500 ("hii f.l6aii land currency divi '! isiou, I . : ;h !, U1uefrevenuemariuedivis,u, 2.500 Chief stationery and print'g, 2,500 ffTotal, $93,400 ISTERIOR DEPARTMENT. -ISeeretarVJ o,wu X i ' S i. I . i AO AAA -hh. ' .-tii 11 iKt.i-AtsirV- i - 3.500 u':..r AiaL- ..iwl aniiorint tl'lir. 2.4O0 . v yi1, r - - nf 1:111(1 Office. 4,000 4,OW 3,600 Ffrst deputy, Secoml deputy, Chiefclerk, 3,600 2.500 4,500 3,000 L.250 Conimissibner of patents, Assistant! commissioner, Chiefclerk, ! Tli'imi eiaiuiuers-iit chi efs, at 83,000 each, 9,000 12,500 48,000 .,000 4,000 2,000 3,000 Five examiners at $2,500, i Tweiity examiners at $2,400, ! Librarian, patent office, Indian commissioner, 'Chiefclerk, , ! ' . ; Comuiissioi.er of education, 7 ni.i..t' i.lorL" It . ! " : l,SOO r , ; : - - a taut Diirctoi of geological snrxej. ,-w w..iitiv. nttieer. J,UUO . - - - v j Chiefclerk, Superiiiteiideii Cliief clelk, 2,200 5,000 2,000 CohlniisiU11 of railroads, 4,500 SiiPf rinteiident uoerniiH-iii i i m .4 " . i liisitnc! Hospital, I 2,500 rrenleiit Lroveniineiii, '- 1 ,ad )Unib Asylum, , Archjrj- of t lie uapnoi, Total, $115,700 WAR DEPARTMENT. $8,000 IK1825. Chief clerks . 2jm 500 Adiatant creneral. Assistaut adintant-penArfli 400 2,000 5,500 5,500 2,000 5,500 2,000 5,500 Chief clerk, -I - . Insitector general,-. Qnarterma8ter-generaL Chiefclerk, )- ' Paymaster-general, Chief clerk, , , ; Commissary-general. - . f Chiefclerk, ' - Surgeon general, !. Three assistants, at $3,250. 2,000 500 9,750 Chiefclerk, . . , i 2.000 -niet medical purveyor, rf: Attending surgeon, . ' Judge advocate general, Chiefclerk, ; j Chief of engineers, " t Chiefclerk,. Custodian of pnbliq buildings and crounds. 400 4,000 5,500 1,800 5,500 2,000 400 Officerinchargeof State, War ; ana JSavybuildiug, Wash- , iugton aqueduct and Wash- v in&rton monument. 4.000 nief signal officer. - r 5.500 . . " . w Chiefclerk, 1.800 c-niei or orunance,. , 5,500 Chiefclerk, " j., 2,000 Total, . $94,700 POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. ' Postmasfer General- ftft nnn Chief clerk, - 2J2U0 First Assistaut Postmaster- General, 3 500 Second Assistant Postma. ter General. 3.Vin Third Assistant Postmaster- ;' Uenrral, c 3.500 bnpcrintendentforeif?n mails. .Tooo A ttorney for Postoffice De- . partmeut. a noti Superintendent money order uivision, . 3,000 i Total, $62,000 I " NAVY DEPARTMENT. " Secretary, sfcaooh Chief clerk, . 2 500 J ndge advocate general, 4,500 jiul cnieis ot oureaus, at $5,000 each, - 40,000 Commandant of Washington navy yaru, 5,000 NAVY PAY OFFICE. 1 Pay inspector, " 3,000 Commandant marine corps, 4,500 In charge marine barracks, 3,500 Superintendent naval obser vatory, 5.000 Three professors, at $3,500, 10,500 one proie8or, - 2,700 One professor, " 2,400 Superintendent Nautical Al manac, 3.500 In charge signal office, 3,500 In charge dydrographicoffice, 3,500 Total, j - $102,100 " DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. . Attorney-General. . $3,000 Solicitor-General. '7.000 Two assistant attorney gen erals, at 5,U0UL 10.000 Chiefclerk, - 2,200 Law clerk, . . 2,700 Total, r $29,000 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Commissioner, $3,000 Chief clerk, 2,000 Statistician,' ' 2,000 Entomologist, 2.000 Chemist, 2,000 Botanist, f . , 1,800 Microscopist, " j. ' 1,800 Superintendent of grounds aud gardens,' 2,000 Total, $16,600 HUNDREDS OF FAT OFFICES. There are 126 collectors of inter nal revenue, - whose salaries are gradnated aunually according to the amount of revenue collected by. each. The maximum salary is $4,500. f which is fixed by. law. There are 59 collectors of enstoms, some of whom have a ''fixed salary and others h a ve fees. Ne w . York heads the list at a salary of $12, 000. There aro 33 sureyors. of enstoms at salaries ranging Irom $8,000 I (at New York)' dowu to $350. j There are seven United States naval officers, six receiving $5,000, and the one at New York $8,000. There are ' ten assistaut treasurers of the United States. One receives $8,000, (at New York), one $5,500, seven at $4,500, aud one $3,600. : There are two ci vilian, commissioners of the District of Columbia at $5,000 each. . The of j fleers of the Mint are one director at $4,500, three superintendents nt $4,500, one at$3,500, one at $3,000; three assayers at ($2,500, one at $2,000, and one at $1,500 The salaries of the diplomatic corps vary according to the ap propriatidus made by Congress. There are fifty "diplomatic repre. sentatives abroadl ofj which the hiirliMt naid receives $17,500 a h ear, and the lowest frpm $2,500 to $1,800. Tue consular Hervico ui the United States embraces. Five consulatest .' - $3,000 Three coiusnlates, iit 6jJ One consulate, at ,k f J'xJJx Five consulates, at ; o2JJ Eight conciliates, at j . -Tweiity consulates, atr -y Nineteen consulates, at 2J? Thirty five consulates, at AJ Fifty nine consulates, atr, 1,500 Twenty live consulates, at hy?9 Thirty six consulates anil consu lar officers are paid by fees. In this list there are some whose terms of service have lasrea over many administrations, arid who will not be disturbed. The army and navy assignments ip Washing ton have been usually governed by .v,HHcal influence, and, although l -. .IS- there -will not o au change, yet, in the course of a year or two, the; personnel win uc changed, and Democratic officers will fill -these comfortable posts. Many of theae appcintineuts date from 1880 and 1881, anil were made by rresident Oarfield and Presi dent Arthur. , Two obstacles are in the -way of turniug the Ilascalsn out and put ting Democrats In. ; ;i : It is in the power of a Bepubli can Senate to ; prevent . removals except for cause, and to thwart President Cleveland at everystpj Whatever may be the policy df his Administration, it will be subject to the control of a Republican Sen ate. He is handcuffed, politically, if the Senate so wills it. That, such will be its policy is openly- asserted by some of the leaders. The plan is for President Arthur to re appoint all officials. or name Republican successors for them, whose' terms expire or about to expire by the 4th of March and uave mem an confirmed by the Republican Senate at the approach ing session. j : ";: ' ' ' I1 Bat this plan may fail, tor it is said on good authority that Presi dent Arthur will not lend himself w auj, iiiiDg caicuiatea to embar rass President Cleveland, or to de prive him of, auy jof thej privileges that may legitimately belong- to him. Presideut Arthur; will make appointments as vacancies occur, unless there shall be valid reasons tor delaying them but he will not, it is asserted, go auy further than if a Republican administration was to follow, bis. - : . The second obstacle is equally if, not more, ' serious. Presideut Cleveland is a civil service reform er. v'He favored the enactment of a civil (service law in New York 1 - and it has been strictlv observed by bimjas Governor of that State.' He is quoted as saying, only a few days before the elections If there is any one matter to which I- have given : my fullest at : tent ion1 it is to reform and effiden cy 111 the civil service.' vVhen r came to Albany as Governor ! tound hearly nil the departments full of Clerks whose olitical predi lections were Republican. The State officials who came into office with iqe called upon me Shortly after my accession and asked me what wre my views in relation to removals from public service for political reasons. One gentleman. whose department is perhaps the most important at the capital, said : juj mv,d a ..... ft vMicuic iic- publicans, appointed by Gov. Cor nell. Now, what am I todo!. "I replied" said Gov. Cleveland, uyou are resporsible to the people fur the trood administration of vour office. Your confidential subordi nates should be selected with great care, ana tnose you uonntiess win appoint from your persouai friends. There, ban be 110 objection , to your making . inquiry re pectiug the qualifications, zeal and ability of your official force. If a clerk is faithful and. competent he should be retained, no matter what his political predilections' may j be." During my term 1 have discharged no employe irom tne .Executive Department for political reasons, and mauv of Gov. Cornell's person al following are still in the service of the State. "If I am elected President," said Gov. Cleveland, with emphasis," "the clerks in the great departments at Washington who are fit for their positions will remain: in office. Ability and zeal n the service will be the measures of usefulness. The rules of . the Civil Service Commission will gyv ern all minor appointments." Iu the plainest sort of language the Cincinnati Enquirer, whose edi tor is supposed to be very neaY Mr. Cleveland, declares that he would like to appoint to office "honest, worthy Democrats," but he will be checked bya Republican Senate, with the Pendleton bill as a club," aud urges the large class of Demo cratic politicians wh. have been loyal 11 season aud. out, and who have I labored year' after year for victory, 'not to build their hopes too higli, Dot to ne.reauy ior mu worst namely, to see Republicans retained iu office "nil removed uy death or fir cause.f ;y r ' , - (t is twlieved that President Cleveland will go eyen further than the Pendleton bill, land recommend an amendment to the existing civil service law which jwill include all federal appointeeSj tbn its Pf visions, putting customs and ' post office service on a footing with the internal revenue and diplomatic service. -" J I v We have adverted to this matter at leiigth,because it is "now upper most in everybody's thoughts, j - THE STATE VOTE. A The official vote of the State ac cording to. the Stato, canvassing board is- Clevelaud, Blaine, , ; 1 4 V 142,900 125,070 - 8 Cleveland's majority, I 17,830 142,799 122,942 Scales, : - r v. ' - York, .. ;:r -f ': Scales majority! ; 19,857 this is a Democratic gain over the Jarvis vote ot 1880, of 13,620 votes, york runs behind Blaine 2,12i$Xotes. Clevelaud . received lol more votes than Scales. -1 ' i" "- " L-El Mahdi recently gave a re fugee 15' 1 lashes for smoking a cig arette. Can't ! arrangements be made io iuvite the false prophet to vUit this country I L GREEKSBORQ, y. p., THURSDAY, XOVEIBER-27, 1884. iiiak. GOD FOR TIIE DELIVER- v "V'i-.'t ,V -1 akce. ; Blaine's speech at iugusta, last week, iu resionselto a serenade, is herewith published, that our people may the more, heartily and appreciatively, ou) Thanksgiving day, tbank God for6 their deli ver ance from Republican tbraildom : Friends and Neighbors : The National contest' is over, and by the narrowest of-margins we have lost. I thank 'you for your call, which, if not one ot joyous con gratulation, is one, I am sure, of confidence' 'and of sanguine hope for the future.; I 'thank you for the public' opportunity you give me to. express my sense of obliga tion, not only to you, but to all the Republicans of Maine.' They re sponded to my' nomination with, genniue enthusiasm, and ratified it by a superb vote, v I couut it as one ofChe honors and i'gratifica ions of my public career that the party in Maine, after 'straggling hanl for the last six years, and twice within that period losing , the State, has come back in this- campaign to an oiu lasnioneti 20,000 plurality, jko other expression of popular confi dence and esteem could equal that of the ieople among whom J have lived for thirty years, and to whom I am attached by all the ties that enoble human nature and give joy and dignity to life; After Maine indeed, along with Maine my first thought is always of Pennsylvania. How can I fittingly express my thanks for that ! unparalleled ma jority of more than 80,000 votes a popular endorsement ; which has deeply touched ;tny heart, and which has, if possible, increased my affection for the grand old com raonwealth -an affection which I inherit from my ancestry, and which I shall transmit to my chil dren; but I do not limit my thanks to my State or .birth place. 1 owe much , to true and zealous friends iu New England,1 who worked ho nobly for' the Republican party and its candidates, and to the eminent scholars and divines who. stepping amde ,frotn their ordinary avoca tion, made my cause their cause, aud to the loyalty to principle, added the special compliment of standing as my personal represen- ta lives 111 me murouai sirapgie. ACROSS THE. CONTINENT. But the achievement of the Re: , . publican canse in the East are even surpassed by the splendid victories in tlm YVst-. Tn that. nntrrtiiflAiit-. 1 coon of states that stretches from tho foot iiiiiu of the AIlPcrliHtiv to the golden gRe of the Pacific, beginning with Ohio and ending with California,' ; the Republican banner was borne so lofty that but a single State failed to join in the wide acclaim of ! triumph. Nor should I do justice to my own feel ing if I failed to thank the Republi cans of the Empire State, who en countered f so , many discourage ments and obstacles; who fought foes' from within and foes from without, and who waged so strong a battle that a change of one vote, in every two thousand would have given us a victory, ,i the nation. Indeed, the chango of a little more than 5,000 would have transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut to the Republican standard, and would have made the North as solid as the South. My thanks would still be incom p'.ete if I should fail to recognize with special gratitude, that great body of workiugirien j both nati vd and foreign born, 1 who gave, mo their- earnest support, breaking from old personal and' party ties, aud finding iu the principles which I represented in the canvass the safeguard and protection of their own fireside iuterests. The' result of the election, my friends, will be regarded in the future, I think, as extraordinary, j ' i DRAWING THE SECTIONAL LINE.! i The Northern Stales, leaving out the cities of New York and Brook-lyn,-from the count, sustained the Republican cause by a majority of more than 400,000 almost half a million, indeed, of -the popular vote. The cities of New York and Brooklyn threw their great strength and influence with the Solid South, and wfcro the j decisive : elements which gave to that section control of the national government. Speak ing now, not at all as a defeated candidate, but is loyal and de voted American, I think the trans fer of the political power of the government to the South is a great national misfortune. It is a mis fortune in-producing an. element which cannot insure harmony and prosperity to the people, because it introduces into the republic the rule Of the minority. , The first in stinct of an 'American: is equality -equality f right equality of privilege -exjuality of political, pow prtliit eoualitv which -says to every citizen : ! "Yout vote is jnst as good, just as potential as the vote of any other citizen." That cannot be said to-day in thellnitwl stiitps. The course of affairs in the South has crushed out the lo-: iitical power of tnore than six mil lion American citizens, and has transferred it! by violence to the , thers. Forty-two Presidential electors , are assigned to the South on account of I the colored popula tion. More than: 1,000,000 legal votes have beena unable to elect a single elector in these States. Where - they have ; a majority of more than 100,000 they are depriv ed of free suffrage and their rights as citizens axo scornfully troddeu under foot. . The eleven States that comprised . the rebel Confederacy had, by the census of 1880, 7,500. 000 white people and 5,300,000 col ored iKiimlation The colored iopa Iatiou almost to a man, desire to support the Republican party, but by a system of cruel iutimidatiou aud by violence and murder, when ever, violence and murder are thought necessary, are absolutely I : . ' - 1 1 - - m deprived of all political power.', tf wo outrage stopped there it would be bad enough, but jt does not stop there, (or not only is the negro population disfranchised, but the power which rightfully and const! tutionally' belongs to them is trans ferred to the white population, en abling the white population of the South to exert an . electoral in' fluence far beyond that exerted by the same number of white neonlo t XT f. " ' -: -.. 4 ;; MAKING A COMPARISON To illustrate itwt how it workn tn the destruction ofi fair erection let me present to you five Slate in the late Confederacy aud five loyal State in the North, possessing in each section the same .number, of electoral votes. In the South the States j of Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Caro Una havt, iu the aggregate 48 electoral votes. They have 2,800, 000 white people, aud over ,3,000, 000 colored people. , lu .the North thft Suites of Wisconsin,' Minneso ta, Kansas and California have likewise, in the -aggregate, forty eight electoral votes, and i these have a white population" of 5,000," 000, or just doable the five South ern States which I- have .named. These Northern States ; have prac tically no colored population. It is, therefore, evident I that the white men in these Southern States, by usurping and absorbing; the rights of the colored . men, are ex erting just double the political power of the white men in the North ern States. I submit, my friends, that such a condition of affairs is extortionate, unjust and detrimen tal to . the manhood of the I North. Even those who are vindictively opposed to negro sufferage will hot deny, if; Presidentaf electors are assigued to the South by reason of the negro population, that popula tion ought; to bo permitted 1 free sufferage in the election. To deny that clear proposition is to - affirm' that the Southern white man in the Southern States is entitled to double the. political power ; of. the Northern white man. lit is to affirm that the Confederate soldier shall wield twice the influence, in the, Nation that the Union soldier can, and that the popular and constant ly increasing superiority shall be conceded to the Southern white men iu the government of the UnM ion. If that be quitely Concetied in this generation it i willf harden into custom, until the badge of nn f. feriority will attach to thje North ern white man as odiously as ever the Norman noble stampeiLit upon the Saxon churl. Ii t !i A DEMAGOGUE COMPARISON. . '?! - This subject is of deep' interest to the laboring men of the North. With the Southern Democracy tri umphant in their States and in the Nation, the uegro will be compelled to work for jnst such wages as the whites msjy desire wages which will amount, as did the supplies of the slaves, to A bare subsistence, eqnul in cash, perhaps, to thirty five cents per day, as ah average over the entire' South.! The white laborer in the North will soon feel the effect of this: upon his own wages. The, Republicans have ai ready seen, from the earliest days of reconstruction, that j wages in the South ; must be raised to the just recompense of. the laborer, or wages in the North ruinously low ered, and the party "havp steadily worked for the former result. Re verse influences will now be set in motion, ajulthe condition of affairs will bo produced which years ago Mr. Lincoln warned the free labor, ing men of the North, will prove hostile to their independence, and will inevitably lead to a ruinous reduction of wages. The mere difference in the Color off the. skin will not suffice to maiutain an en tirely different standard: of wages in contiguous and adjacent States, and they will be compelled to yield to it. So completely hare the col ored men in the South been already deprived; by the Democratic party, of their constitutional aid legal rights as citizens of the United States, that they regard the advent of that party to National ower as the signal of their downfall, and are afi'rightened because they think all legal protection L for ; fhem is gone. it. - v." 1 A FRANTIC WAVE OF THE BLOODY - ' ' ' ' SHIRT. '' . : , ".' ' j Few persons iu the North realize how completely the chiefs of the rebellion weild the political power which has triumphed in the late election.- It is a portentous fact that the Democratic Senators who come from the States of the late Confedercy all and I mean "all without a single exception, person ally participated in the rebellion against the national government. It is a still more ; significant fact that in these States no man who was loyal to the United States. no matter how stroug a Democrat he may be to-day, has -the slightest chance of j political prominence. One great -avenue to honor in that section is a 1 record ot . zealous.ser- vice in tne war against iuut;"ciu- nieut. It is certainly an astound ing tact that the section in which friendship for the union in the day of its trial and agony is still a po Iitical disqualification, should be callea now to rule over the union. All this took place during the. life time of generation that, fought the war and j elevated into practical command of the American govern; ment, the identical men who organ ized for it destruction, and plun ged ns into the bloodiest contest of the modern times. I have spoken of the South as placed by the late election in possession of the gov ernment, aud I mean all that my words imply. 1 THE SOUTH IN CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT. ; r- ' 1 The South furnished nearly three foni tha of the electoral votes that defeated the Republican party, aud thev will step to the commami o the Democrats as unchallenged and unreptraiued as they held the same position for thirty jears before the civil war. Gentlemen, there cannot be political inequality omong citi zens of a free republic! There can not be a minority ot white meh in the Souh : ruling thej majority of wnite men 111 tlie ortU. Patriot ism, self respect, pride, protection for person and safety! for country all cry out against it, .The very thought of it stirs the blood of men who iuherit equality from the pil grims who first stood on Plymouth rock, and-from the liberty loving patriots who came to Delaware with William Peun. It becomes the primal question of American manhood. It demands a hearing and a settlement, and that settle ment will vindicate the equality of American citizens iu all personal aud civil rights; It will, at least; estabish the equality of the white men uuderthe national government, and will give to the Northern man who fought to preserve 1 the union asjarge a voice in the government as may be exercised by the South. ern man who lought to destroy the uuion. . . i - . SOMETHING PERSONAL. ; The eontest just closed utterlv fbrbids my disenssinc the fate of the candidates whether successful or unessful. I have discussed the issues aud the consequences of that contest without reference to my own defeat, without the remotest reference to the gentleman who is elevated to the Presideucj; To wards htm personally I have no canse for the slightest ill will, and itj is with cordiality I express the wish that bis official" career may prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to the country, and that his administration may overcome the embarrassments which- the source of its power imposes upon it from the hour of its birth. : ' The Presideut. Since the adoption of the Federal Constitution in 1788, there1 have been twenty oue Presidents jof the Uuited States, including the Vice Presidents who succeeded to the office 011 the deaths of President, and Mr. Cleveland will be jthe twenty Second. 5 Tbey were elected from the different States as fol lows : ' s; - 1 K. 1. 2. 3! 4. 7. 8. Geo. Washington, Virginia. John Adams, Massachusetts. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia James Madison, V irginra James Monroe, Virginia. J, Q. Adams, Massachusetts. Andrew Jackson. Tennessee. Martaiu Van Buren, New York. 0: W. H. Ilarrison, Ohio, 10. John Tyler, Virginia. II. James K. Polk, Tennessee, 12. Z Taylor Louisiana. jl3. Millanl Fillmore. New 111 Franklin Pierce, New shire.:;: ' - ' J'v - York. Ilamp- 15. James Buchanan, Pennsyl vauia. ' : '. j ;" 16. Abraham Lincoln, Illinois- 17. 18. 19. Andrew Johnson, Tennessee. U. S. Grant, Illinois, R. B. Hayes, Ohio. j Jas. A. Garfield, Ohio. Chester i A. Arthur, 20: 21. New York. r 1 1 Cleveland, is I The !!ni, irover from New York. . Virginia has furnished five Presi dents, or morel than any other State. New York will count fonr with Cleveland. j; ! ) Several of : the Presidents were born iu other States than those in which they weoe residing when elected. Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson were torn in North Carolina I Harri !aon and Taylor were born n Vir ginia ; Lincoln iu Kentucky; Grant in Ohio, Arthur iu Vermont, and Cleveland in New Jersey. A Plucky Woman Pat a Negro to Flight j Mrs. Cooly, a highly respectable white lady, liviug in Atlanta, Ga., whose husband was absent from home," was alarmed at 9 o'clock Thursday night I by a negro who tried to gain admittance. Loading her husband's pistol, she placed it on a shelf beside her bed, and went to. sleep. She woke several hours later to find -her room filled with light. At the same, moment she heard, as she supposed, her hus band kuockiiig at the door. On opening the door she "saw! that it was the bright moonlight j instead of the morning sun that flooded the. room. A form outside pressed on die door, and Mrs. Cooly soon found herself lifted up in the strong arms of a negro, who carried her to the bed. She grasied the pistol with her left hand and fired, shoot ing the negro in the neck. lie fell on the floor and begged for mercy Ju a moment Mrs Cooly was on her feet, ami, determined to kill her assailant, fired again, but the pistol snapped. The negro then got up iaiid rani Mrs. Cooly fired;auother shot strikiug him iu the back. He tell agaiu,'bnt son arose, and made for the wobds. It is believed that he will be found dead in tue woods, whiirh are now beinff scoured. tr A Substitute for Matches. Tlie Grocer? Advocate has the following account oi an ingenious coiitiivauce to take the place 01 matches, aud which it says is now used by the wateumen 01 rans in air the magazines wbeie explosives)! or intlamntable materials are kept. Take an oblong vial of the whitest and clearest glass, and put into it a piece of phosphorous about the size of a pea. Pour some! olive oil heated to the boiling point upon the phosphorous, till the vial about one-third full, aud then cork it tightly. Tousethi uoveli light remove the cork, allow the jiir to enter the vial jand then recork it. This empty space in tue visl will become luminous, and the light ob t lined is equal to that of a lamp. When the light becomes dim its power c(iu be increased, by taking out the bork and allowing aj fresh supply of air to enter the vial- Dishonesty la Tr4e. j ' There is hardly an article of man ufactured merchandise made or-j imported in the United States that has not its adulterations or imita tions; and there are - but few arti clesof j raw material that are not in some manner adulterated. What is needed is a law that shall cora pel all men to do an honest busi ness ; a law that shall apply alike to the rich and the poor; a law that shall punish the man who sells' with a false balance the Bame as be man who steals a lost of bread j a law that shall punish the man who makes and sells a counterfeit article of merchandise the same:as the man ho makes and circulates a counterfeit coin. T. W, JTfrtr, in the November Vcntury. ilf j Imperial necessity calls for a change in the shameless reckless bess of the business world. We all know business is done on confi dence, without which utter stagna tion must ensue. ' "-';f'' ;i I Ji H The frequency of fires bat In creased ' insurance' to such an Ex tent that in some instances it is too heavy for endurance. We read ot $3,000,000 worth of lumber being buruexl during theyear. Insurance companies have raised the premium too high to allow the holders the possible ' means of paying it in many instances. This concerns every one who is in any way infer woven with the building interests. A hundred banks have failed during; the year. If men find it unsafe to deposit money in bank, what can they do with it T j i jWe have uo wish to follow fnp this I train of thought. It is too painfully familiar to us all. That the. Century should come out in th's blunt, j. ontspokeu way i is plain enough evidence that the public are restive and disgusted with the customs of the times, aud most heartily demand a change. .'': It will come about soon. We have said so ' before, and we base our assertion on the fact we can uot go 011 in commercial life with out confidence in what we are do ins:.',.-!! . ;.' ;rj.- I The macuate who waters stock or adulterates ' whiskey, or any other article of merchandise, must be put in - the same category with the foot-pad and the burglar. I And the man who makes a loud profession of his piety, and com pounds with his creditors whilst lie remain 8 full handed, should be rated as the pirate or the counter feiter 1 It is time to call a spade a spade, U ' . . ' : ; '' J ' We,-say this will be the hew vogue shortly j and why f Vou cannot pnll a tonnage train when the engine is off the track. The commercial engine is off the track now, and broken too; und you Can not go Ion unless you restore confi dence; and that will put a high pre mium on honesty, j ' ! Heiiciv as we said in the out- start, iinierial , necessity demands a change; and, in claims of absolute answer toitue expediency it must come to pass. 1 One of the' prolific causes of all this wholesale. ieculat ion and cor ruption is our mad loveof disjijay. The time w is when poverty was not coii8iderci a disgrace. fWe must! esteem probity above riches, 'and especially so when the gain has been dishonorably obtained. Intuitively the inmost thoughts pay adoration to integrity; J ; But we are prone to give overt honor, when it should be denied. And, Sou the contrary, to ostracise jeunry because it has to plod along the dreary road of honesty. This ought not to be so. ! j We beseak a change. .Forour faith in the good seuse and com prehensive intelligence of the America u people augurs an oinen of deliverance. " j j. The deleterious effect on health requires a correction of the evil of adulteration. Sudden and prema ture deaths are brought on by eat ing adulterated food. But moral degeneracy, the sequence of con stant depraved liautts in irauic, ultimately brings on national decay. Continuous acts of dishonesty must result in national deterioration.; And a nation abandoned to moral. turpitude has uo resuscitation, noi resurrection, from the blight of moral desolation Rockingbain. Miss Irene McGehee. of Madi sou. has been tendered a ikjsiiioii in the faculty of the Southerii;ori mal Institute at Lexington, . C, We! tjear that she will accept. j L -Lip. L. Uawley, of Ruffio- has perfected a business connection with I Mr. Win. Lindsey, of this place, and he will become a ci.izen of Iieidsville sometime uext mouth. They will manufacture tobacco, and will occupy Air. Lindsey's new -brick factory. I J i: 1 -l-Abe Gorrell, a coloml desper ado who has been for several keeks secreted in the Irou JWork;towi ship, iu this county has been tit clared an outlaw. He was senten cetl to the initentiary a fewfyears ago from Guilford but succeeded. n making his escape. j t Messrs. Piniiix, William & Walker's new brick warehouse's ranhlly approaching completion and will be one of the most slightly convenient warehouses in the Hnitth. It is 80x140 feetanU will be oiened on or about thejirsttf December. It is a strong firm and will attract several millions pounds of iobacco to our market. The' pro prietors are all live business men, and have our best wishes for ji mag nificent success. I ji; u , ;;i ' 1 h p Supernelalltlea.. Most fathers know by this time that ni diamond nin. a brown stoue house, or even that highest Jest of respectability, an English dog cart, are not guarantees that a man will tie a good husband; yet a large ma jority of marriages arc made be- Cause 01 Similar Hiinrrnniin. NEW SERIES, NO, 935 ' ' A Plaa That Worka Hoth Way. Republicans , holding the best paying oices are looking about very industriously for ways to keep them, ;iTbeir favorite plan appears to be to have tue. xiepublicau. tna jority in the . Senate stand on t he fighting line at once, and re ject Cleveland's appointments as fast as they come, along. lSut if ; this plan were attempted it would 1 not work, and it is not receivexl with favor by the Republican Iead( J ers.; A President even with the": Seuate against him,' unless be at-' tempts unreasonable things will j win in the end, as the law stands. ! The Democrats found it so, even in ! uayes's time . ; President Arthur, i also discovered a way to have his appointments confirmed : when the Democrats had the Senate, and it ia a common savins that certain Democratic Senators fared better than tbey would have fared with a Democrat io President. Besides, there is hot a sufficient object to induce the Republicans to attempt such a fight. All experience is against the nolicy' of f reiectinc Cabinet officers or Ministers abroad ou mere party crouds. It will sim ply become a question whether cer- T . .! m . j. miiu Hppuiutmeuis suaii ue permit- tea to co turoucb. and such Ques tions will be determined as they borne up. Any concerted attempt, by the Republican Senators to re ject all of Cleveland's appointments atter be bas got bis Cabinet and a few other necessary offices filled would, it is believed, only lead to jthe sweeping out of Republicans from the departments, and wher ever the Senate has no voice. . Chloral an BroaaMe or Potaaslum, London Laaeet j Again we have to record with deep regret a sad proof that those who give or take oh I oral or bro mide of potassium for sleeplessness are guilty of a deplorable error, and do a grievous wrong. The narcotics which poison sleep also i. aeprave tne higher nerve centres, enfeeble the controlling powers of the will and leave the mind a prey to the epressiug infiaence o( a conscious lossjrfl self-respect and self con fide nee. The cultured mind feels the ignominy of the intellec tual and moral deprecat ion with great ncuteness, and in the end succumbs to the . sense of power lessuess to recover self eoutrol aud do right. The deprivation wrought! Is purely physical. The baneful influence of the lethal drug is, sf to say, organic. The essential elcj ments of the nerve tissues are: blighted by the stupefying poison as by aWsohol iu habitual drunken 4 Hess. In short, the recourse to chloral and' bromide is precisely; the 'same thing ns recourse to alcoj liol. The man or . woman sent to sleep" the mocking semblance of physiological rest by a doje of either of these narcotizcrs is simply intoxicated. No wonder that hah-1 itua.l drunkenness of this class first; impairs and then destroys the vitality of the mind organ, ami places the subject of a miserable artifice at the mercy of his euiof tional nature, and makes! him tlif creature of Ids passions. Wheif will the public awake to the recogj. nition of facts with reganl totheflte most ernicious of stupefaeients f Persistence in recourse to them has uo better excuse than unwilling: ness to search out the canse of the' tural 8lee. p Why leel Khould be Krranlni, Kxamine your old deeds and set if the recorder's certificate h ru dorsed thereon. and if not recorded you will save trouble by observing the followtnc reason? whv thev should be recorded : i . 1. Because a deed which is not recorded within six months , after the execution of the sam shall le adjudged fraudulent against, any, so bsequeu t considers, tion. z. ueciiase wnere iwo neetis Art t made of different, dates from the same grantor to different persons ueitber of which is recorded within six mont'is, that which js first re : corded will take priority. , . i, 3. Recause pin chasers who ne glect to place their deeds upon re cord as prescribed by law incur the risk of former owners giving lieirs upon the same." : j l . 4.. Because, nionied men will not give any loans to parties whow deeds are not recorded. 7 at 5. Recjiuse if by accident a deel should te .'.destroyed or lost, t would be very expensive to get an Other. . . ; I- C. Jlecausejo preserve a i liain of title it. is requisite' toh-ve all deeds record et. r; The Railway Mail Hertlrr. - j The distribution of niail niatlei by the employes of the railway mail service taring the last fiscal year, as s'aown by the report of General Superiiiteindent Thompson, was one to each 3,872 pieces handled. The total number of piews distributed was over four and a half biTlion. The increase in the number of pieces over 1883 wasfver five J11111 dred millions. The approprlathn asketl for the next fiscal year i- 14,601,000. 'The number of casual ties during the year was l."4, Un I i: which 7 iostal. clerks were killetl, 2& seriously injured and. CO slightly injured. When clerks arc injured while on duty it has been the tri tice of the, department u j;rant. them leaves of absence with pay for a eriod not excelling one year, and fill their places with tcuV liorary clerks. Darihg tlie past year this action cost the depart ment $5525Jm. Recommendation is made that the Postmaster-General be authorized to pay to the widow or - minor children of 1 all cleeki killed in the; service a sit 111 equal to one. year's' salary of the grade to which the clerk belonged at the time ot his death. Ii In the consumption of soap per capita the United States lead. Italy is last on the list, - -1 i : ( H '.1 i: .0 3 ',' t Secretary, ? f i ; ' ' - ' ' ". '.--'i h 1, '''