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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1899.
A FINE BEOOBD.
When we glance over the record
of the legislature which adjourned
last Wednesday until June of next
year, we can rejoice at what ap
pears to be the beginning .'-of a. new
era of good feeling and of great
prosperity in North -Carolina Its
task was colossal." It had to undo
much bad legislation and take
steps to pretent, if possible, a re
currence of such legislation. The
record is a fine one and it will not
be surprising if this legislature
goes down into history as the wis
est and most conservative that
has ever met in North Carolina.
That great American newspaper,
the Baltimore Sun, says of it r,4The
work stands as a monument to the
wisdom and industry of the gentle
men composing the two branches
of the legislature, and must re
dound to the prosperity of the Old
North State."
The legislature was remarkable
in several respects." In addition
to being composed of the state's
. best and brainiest men, it is a note
worthy fact that more hard work
was accomplished than by any for
mer legislature. This work was en
tered into with zest and earnest
ness and with a unanimity that re
flects honor upon the members.
It was also remarkable as being
the soberest body of laymen ever
assembled in Raleigh, not a mem
ber being seen intoxicated during
tlie entire session.
The pledges made to the people
last -fall were fulfilled by the re
moval of every particle of the fus
ion structure that was removable
and in re-organizing the state. The
various institutions and depart
ments have been putinto the hands
of men who have the confidence of
the people of the state at large.
The pledges to restore white su
premacy have been remembered
and the possibility of negro domi
nation has been removed from all
the threatened counties. This was
done by bills drawn to suit the con
dition of each county and not by
general laws. And by the proposed
constitutional amendment the peo
ple are enabled to make white su
premacy permanent, if they desire
to do so. -
Besides the mere political work
of the legislature, it has passed a
great number of wise laws. It has
established a department of insur
ance and has codified all the insur
ance laws of the state and ampli
fied these laws until now in this
class of legislation North Carolina
is abreast of the most progressive
tate8, and protection against the
yast loss from dishonest and insol
vent insurance companies is -assured.
The probate laws of the
etate have been carefully collated
and can hereafter be found in one
chapter. This is a great improve
ment over the present confused
condition. The same improvement
is made as to laws regarding me.
chanic&V Hens. Now these are
carefully arranged. The same
course "has been pursued with re
gard,to the law of negotiable in
struments, the new law, likewise in
one chapter, being admirably drawn
and bringing North Carolina into
line with the commercial states.
The same has been done as to the
insanity laws; the railway commis
sion act is enlarged and in far
more efficient fornix the separate
sar law, lair to the people and the
railways, and without abolishing
second-class fares; the state guard
is provided for,s and for the first
time, the bill was supported by ail
parties. The new election law is a
great work, and this is what has
all the time been needed ; that is,
a separate law for elections In
towns, cities, counties and town
ships. The agricultural depart
ment is re-organized, and all laws
relating to it codified, and it Is giv
en power to establish an immigra
tion bureau and elect a commis
sioner therefor.
The school law is very complete.
The township is the unit, but the
old system of a committee for each
school district is re-established.
The school authorities are permit
ted to apportion the funds so as to
give each race schools of the same
length of term, but they are per
mitted to take into consideration
the fact that negro teachers can be
employed at much less than white
teachers, and thus they do away
with the waste of giving negro
teachers higher salaries than nec
essary. In this way the white peo
ple will not suffer the injustice of
having so large a proportion; of
money given to negro schools and,
to a great extent wasted. The ap
propriation of $100,000 to the pub
lic schools of the state, in addition
to the usual taxes levied for their
support, was a most noble and pa
triotic piece of legislation. Through
this appropriation great good will
come to the people, for it is an in
dication of a growing interest in
the great educational question.
In the matter of appropriations
the legislature was economical, but
not niggardly. The people were
promised reiorm along nnanciai
lines and the promises were kept.
No appropriation was made until
after a full and complete investi
gation into the merits of the case,
and thus reckless and extravagant
expenditures were avoided.
These are only a few of the im
portant subjects treated by the leg
islature, but the manner of their
handling shows that the legislative
department of' our state govern
ment is in safe hands.
THE IIAR0K BEGUU7
So many combinations of manu
facturing and trading interests
have been effected in recent months,
says the Philadelphia Record, that
were not considered possible of ac
complishment under other and less
prosperous conditions in the gen
eral business world that public
skepticism about v the successful
consummation of so colossal an un
dertaking as the consolidation of
the wool manufacturing establish
ments of the country may well be
held in abeyance until clearer light
shall be thrown upon the situation
by the revelations of the managers
of the various enterprises supposed
to.be concerped in the combination.
A worsted trust is conceded by
competent authorities to be a prac
ticable achievement of the promo
ter; but a combine of the numerous
and varied interests of woolen
manufacturers has been a proposi
tion which has hitherto staggered
the imagination of experts. These,
however, are the palmy days of
promoters, and there is no telling
to what depths the gullibility of
the investing public may descend.
The press dispatches tell of a
man smiling as he stepped upon
the scaffold at Cincinnati last Fri
day to be hanged for the murder
of his mother-in-law., He proba
bly believed an unknown future to
be preferable to the frowning pres
ence of an undesirable mother-in-law.
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AGUINALDO MUST SURREN
DER UNCOND1TION--ALLY.
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The latest combinations are
among the baking powder manu
facturers and the sewer pipe manu
facturers. One combination pro
poses to make our daily bread more
costly, and the other to increase
the difficulty of cleanly living.
The action of the legislature in
appropriating $5,000 to aid in
erecting, in Capital Square, a
bronze statue of Zeb. Vance can
but meet the hearty approbation of
ail patriotic North Carolinians.
The conduct of the white-washing
establishment of the War De
partment is about as remarkable
for stupidity as is any other detail
f Algerism it's so overdone.
Gonoral Woaton Pushing For
ward With Ali tho Spood
Posslblo Sklrmlshos
WlththoRoboIsof '
Dally Occur
rence, r
Manila, March 14- The march to
ward Pateras, the second ojbective
point of General Wheaton'a flying col
umn has began. General Wheat on
will not rest until he closes in on Ma
lolas, the insurgent capitol. ;
The march on Palnie began this
morning, after a driving fight on the
left of the church in Pasig. The men
had slept on their arms, ready for in
ftant service.
An hoar after Scott's battery shelled
the wood on the left of Pasig church,
the Twenty-second regulars were
ordered-to advance. They swung into
line with much alacrity, as though
they had not bad twenty-four hours'
of constant fighting in the very rough
est coantry.
The rebels met them with repeated
volleys, bat were answered in short
order.' In order to save time the troops
went over the native roadways. The
gunboats shelled the jungles as the
troops advanced.
Washington, March 14. It is' the
unchangeable policy of the administra
tion to pursue the Filipino army eith
er until further effectiveness is destroy
ed or Aguinaldo is compelled to sue
for peace without conditions.
A General Wheaton's attack, is begin
ning to be .more determined. The
campaign will be carried on unceasing
ly until the authority of the United
States is undisputed.
All to Be Mustered Out.
Washington, March 13. The
War Department has determined
to muster out and bring home all
the volunteers in Cuba, with the
exception of the volunteer engineers
and immunes. The necessity for
immediate action has been brought
to the attention of the War De
partment on account of the quar
antine regulations against Cuba,
which go into effect about the 1st
of May, and which are especially
strict at all Southern ports. When
the troops axe brought to this
country they must, under the law,
tie mustered out in United States
camps and they no doubt will be
brought to oamp8 nearest their
homes. ;":J , t .
It is desired also to have them
brought to places i where fumigat
ing can be done, and it is possible
that troops for the Northern States
may be brought to Montauk and
Camp Wikoff, again established,
although the present intention is
tbhavo all Northern troops sent to
Camp Meade, in Pennsylvania.
The troops of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Louisiana and
Georgia, will probably be brought
to Savannah, the Texas troops to
Galveston, and the Tennessee, Ken
tuckey and Virginia troops to Old
Point Comfort, Va.
-Will Sold on to Territory.
Washington, March, 10. Chair
man Cannon, of the committee on
appropriations of the House of
Representatives, has prepared for
the Congressional Record an . ex
tended statement of the appropria
tions made by the Fifty-fifth Con
gress, in which he says the Philip
pines will be held permanently. He
places the total appropriations for
the entire Congress at $1,566,890,
016 and the appropriations autho
rized for future expenditures un
der the continuing contract sys
tem at $70,000,000.
Mr. Cannon asserts that "the
vast increase of the navy and the
creation of an army oi 250,000 men,
together with the increase of taxa
tion, have not in any appreciable
degree checked our industrial ad
vance, which began coincidentally
with the incoming of the present
administration and the Fifty-fifth
Congress."
j In regard to the imperialistic
policy of the administration, Mr.
Cannon says: "I venture the asser
tion and prediction that the Unit
ed States could not if it would, and
would not if it could, part with the
territories acquired from Spain by
the treaty of peace, or shirk its du
ties and responsibilities touching
hem." - ' j - - . - -Domestic
Products Exported.
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Washington, March 10. The
monthly statement of the exDorts
of domestic products shows that
during the month of February,
1899. the exDorts were as follows :
kreadstuffs, $20,873,773, decrease
as compared with February, 1898,
about $1,000,000; cattle and bogs,
$1,724,692. decrease $1,500,000 ;
provisions, $12,661,635, increase
about $500,000; cotton, $17,326,
463, decrease about $4,400,000',
mineral oils, $3,403,331, increase
about' $404,300. Total, $55,989,
894; decreaseiabout $6,000,000.
Landreth Ar Anna r!Lhlfl Garden
Seed fresh at Gardner'a. corner oppo
site postofilce.
Dlsgclst in Porto Eico. . :
Washington, March 11. It was
said by officers of the War Depart
ment this morning that reports of
disturbances in Porto Eico calling
for reinforcement . of the; United
States garrison in that island
should be accepted as true only in
a very modified form. It. was de
nied that the department has re
ceived any advices showing that
the native population was clamor
ing for local government, although
it was admitted that there was, in
certain quarters, some evidence of
restlessness under prevailing con
ditions. , ' ji. . ;. J.j.
An officer in the War; Depart
ment who has means of knowing
all that is going on in Porto Rico
so far as the official reports give
information, said this morning that
General Henry regarded the situa
tion as warranting a larger garri
son of troops. He did not, how
ever, see anything alarming in
present conditions. ;
Complaints that have come' from
certain elements of the Porto Rican
population regarding the form of
government as present prevailing
are dealt with firmly, and the ad
ministration is confident that all
dissatisfied spirits will be safely
held in check until congress is
ready to devise and re-establish a
code of laws for the territory.
Census Office Places.
Washington, -March 11. The
census office has been partially or
ganized and is now under way.
Only five of ! the three thousand
places have been filled, but these
five appointees are devoting their
attention to maturing plans for the
appointment of the clerks, super
visors and enumerators.
There are three thousand posi
tions, roughly estimated, for clerks
and others in Washington in con
nection with the- census office. In
addition there are to be hundreds
of supervisors and from 20,000 to
40,000 enumerators. The scramble
for positions has already com
menced, and for every position
there will be probably a hundred
candidates.1 Nothing will be done
in the matter of appointments, says
Assistant Director Wines, for at
least thirty days. K
Col. Adolpbus Busch, the wealthy
St. Louis brewer, recently! gave to
a Congregational college in Okla
homa $500,' duplicating his pre
vious donation to that institution.
Now comes the Woman's Christion
Temperance Union and declares
that it will boycott the college if
the directors accept Colonel Busch' s
money. .The objection of these
ladies is that the money was made
in the manufacture and sale of
beer.
GREENSBORO MARKET REPORT.
CORBXCTXD WJEXKLY BY ,
JOHN J. PHOXNIX.!
Wholesale Receivers and Shippers of
Country Jfroduce.
j BUYING PBICX8. ;
Beeswax ...... 22
Chickens oia per 10 5 .
Young, per lb 7
Eges 10
Hides dry..... 10
Green 6
Oats... 32
Sheep Skins t .52&
Tallow . ; .. . r 1 3
Wheat........ .v. . .
Wool washed
Unwashed
Dried Fruits.
Appleslb. ............ 3-4
BerriesOb 2
Peaches, areo, id ., 4-6
small spring chickens lb ,
"large spring chickens lb
old chickens lb. . !
Corn, new
Feathers
Flaxseed
Onions
Potatoes Irish, new. .........
Sweet....
Rags Cotton
Bones lb........ ...... M
Spring Seeds
I do not pretend to be the largest
Seed dealer in Greensboro, but I
do say the quality of my Seeds is
equal to any sold in town and my
prices are as good as you can get
anywhere. Onion Sets, Garden
Seeds, Red Clover, Sapling Clover;
Orchard Grass, Timothy, Herd
Grass, Blue. Grass, Seed Oats, &c
Give us a call. i ;
G. W.' DENNY
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In bidding for your business we do to on merits of
! our Merchandise and seasonableness of our.' prices. it
goes without saying that "no other house between the Two
j Big Rivers can show you one-fourth the variety that we
' do in the yarious lines we carry : " '
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Df v Goods, Motions, Clothing, Shoes; lb
We aim to carry the best the world produces in each
particular line, but we do not lose sight of the 'act that
not every man or head of a family can afford to buy
best. 'Therefore we have carefully catered to' the want of
the masses, and we can assure the patrons of our houii
that the medium and cheaper grades to be found there art
the best obtainable elsewhere In the Union for t lie pr
ci
we name. Our great purchasing powers, coupled wither
commercial courage, make these things possible. Gur
stock is now complete and our prices are 25 degrees below
zero. The greatness of an opportunity depends upon th
use you make of It. Here is one thrown at you ;j catcfc it
The pitchers are . j
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- " CHEAPEST STORE Oil EARTH,
K. of P. BUILDING, - - - -
SOUTH ELM SI
The Eight Sort,
They have been in business to please
tneir patrons; tney Know now to do ltt
thev will please you every time ana
prices the lowest, at j
The Tom Rice Jewelry Co.
LADIES OF FINE TASTE ;'riK
Ttntape of Handsome, ExclasiTe and Economic
Oatflttinc from the srrest atrc f Pblla
dclptaia. can hare, without cost, a personal
agent of large experience and exqnUite taste to
suggest and purchase goods for themselres or
family, accounts opened. Address, stating
needs, Mrs. Moore d: Waters, 1
P. X Box 2122. i niiUdalpnia, FJ
No! it is not claimed th:
Foley s Honey and Tar will cur
Consumption or Asthma in ad
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vanced stages, it holds out no sue.
false hopes, but. does truthful
claim to always give comfort an!
relief in the verv worst cases and r
the early stages to effect a cure.
John XI. Farlss. J3ruirfirlBt GroenNboro.
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The Greensboro Center Draft Pic
Thfa Plow was nnt on tho markut fnr the first livnh Ib1 J'f J
one-horge Plow did not give general -satisfaction unjil hjitt .
the beam. Since then we have heard no complaint of, tht'C, r,
that the two-horee G. C. D. PJow has siren fatisfaeti jn. .
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tuu wuo uuuuicu i luno bviu uu a guarantee, t c ui ' --'
returned to us. There hare been more than this nunr TtV:,f
they have been sold to other parties who have report! tJ
giving entire satisfaction. i
We make the following guarantee for thee 10
grey land they will do all the work that the high priH:
Plows will do. All we ask for them Is a fair.trjuli
what we say, your money will be gladly refunded. !
Our object is to give our farmers a Plow that Mf
the high priced Western Plows, anil save them money. -
cost of Plow and in the repairs. ! . L
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Prirp- nf fhn HnaMnrc Pfnw $2.7 J.
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Price of the Two-Horse Plow! $5.C0.'
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