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THITPATiaOT,
Greensboro, N. O.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 23, 1899.
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In a srEECU before the national
convention of railroad commission
ers, which was held inJ)enver,
Colo.,recently, Judge Walter Clark,
of our Supreme court bench, made
the statement that North Carolina
was not in a prosperous condition;
For this sentiment he is being se
verely criticised by many promi
nent men and papers, some of them
going so far as to say that Judge
Clark would; not know prosperity
were he to meet it in the public
road. We have been happy -in be
lieving that North Carolia, as com
pared with other statesis enjoy
ing a remarkable degree of pros
perity along all lines. This is
evidenced by the activity in com
mercial, industrial and' other cir
cles; but if we are to proclaim to
the world that our old state is in a
bad way, this condition will not
continue. Such an attitude on the
part of the citizens of any state
will never draw capital and enter
prise, no matter how inviting the
natural advantages may be.
Of all the men who have rode
into office on the strength of the
Farmers' Alliance, only one was
present at the meeting of the State
Alliance recently held atHillsboro.
In reciting this fact The Progres
sive Farmer, which did all in its
power to put "these. men in office,
says it would be well to watch the
"fellows who rode into office on the
Alliance, but deserted it in its, hour
of need." If The Progressive Far
mer and the other Alliance organs
had always been willing to give
such advice as this the Alliance
might today be a power for good
in the land. Its foot friends and
the politicians killed it.
TnE senatorial fight in Virginia
between Senator Thomas S. Mar
tin and Governor J. Hoge Tyler is
growing interesting. Governor Ty
ler is making a vigorous campaign,
while his friends are equally ac
tive. The party machinery and
many '-of the leading papers are
backing Senator Martin, and it is
claimed that lie will undoubtedly
be his own successor. So far the
majority of Democratic candidates
for the legislature are pledged to
Martin, but TyleVe friends express
the belief that when all the coun
ties have nominated candidates the
Governor will be in the lead.
The Philippine war is undoubt
edly becoming more unpopular as
the days go by. The miserable
conduct of the campaign is sicken
ing, even to many strong friends of
the administration, and President
McKinley is being urged to end
the war as speedily as possible. If
it is not ended in a year from now
many Republicans admit that the
Democrats will have a walk-over in
the next national election.
The Afro-American Council of
the United States held a conven
tion in Chicago last Thursday and
Friday, and adopted the usual res
olutions against mob law and
lynchings. If tie colored people
would resolute less and educate
more (along the lines of character
and industry especially) this vexed
question would solve itself.
It has not yet been ascertained
whether San Domingo, where
president is assassinated occasion
ally, is ripe forbenevolent assimilation
HAVOC AT OCRACOKE,
Thirty Houses Destroyed. Two
People Drowned and Several
Schooners Stranded. j
Washington, N. C, August 21.
The Old Dominion steamer arrived
from Oracoke last evening at 8.30
loaded with passengers from the ill:
fated island and to-day a pall of sad
ness and gloom hangs over oar city.
Not since the awful storm of 1846
has Ocracoke been the witness of such
scenes. ' , , ' , A1
The whole island is a complete
wreck The wind reached a velocity
of seventy miles an hour and the sea
was breaking from twenty to thirty,
feet high on the island.
Thirty-three houses were destroyed;
seven chimneys gone, two churches
wrecked and two souls burned into
eternity was the story whispered in our;
ear as the passengers placed their fee
upon terra firms. , I
- Two souls sleep in a watery grave,1
yet to God all the praise that so manyj
seemingly doomed to meet a similar
fate were saved and restored to the!
bossonaof their loved ones. j
The wind began to blow on last!
Tuesday about noon and increased all
the time until Wednesday when it;
registered almost a hurricane. Wed-
nesday night between 12 and 2 o'clockj
the Schooner L. A. Willis, in charge
of Captain B. S. Griffin parted two;
anchor chains; causing her to drift to
the inlet landing on a shoal about;
three miles from where she originally
was. The Willis left here last Friday;
one week ago for Oracoke with a;
pleasure party on board consisting of;
A. L. Kelly, . O. M. Winfield, J. B.
Latham, T. W. Phillips, Spencer
Brook, B. Boss, Lyndin Shaw, Georgej
L. Buckman, Hugh Paul and John,
Boss. Of this party of pleasure seek-
ers two were drowned:- Mr. George:
Buckman, one of our most honorel!
and oldest citizens and father of Mr. J.
F. Buckman, and the cook, Henryj
B lan go,, colored.
Mr. A. 8. Kelly is in a precarious
condition, due to exposure and famine.'
The lay boat used for the purpose of,
transporting passengers to and from
the island parted her chains, drifting a
mile and a half and went ashore near
Portsmouth. j
The custodian and his wife were res
cued Friday afternoon by the life-sav
Ing crew at Portsmouth. j
The schooner Willis was in such a
position that only her masts could be
seen by the crew of the life-saving sta
tion. - j
Saturday morning a distress signal
was seen flying from the mast of the
Willis. Assistance was immediately
rendered by the life-saving station and
A. 8. Kelly, John Boss, passengers and
Captain Griffin and mate Benjamin
Griffin, were taken off this ill-fated ves
sel and carried : to the hotel Ponder,
where they were welcomed with words
of joy and all done for them that could
be, but two were missing. j
Tears intermingled with smiles of
joy, smiles for the rescued, tears for
those for whom fate, had willed other
wise. The rest of the party of the
Willis fortunately were at the lathe
mill house when the storm began and
would have been on the Willis and
perhaps met their death had the wind
not frustrated their efforts. - j
After the Willis went ashore she al
most immediately filled with . water
and sand, causing those on board to be
forced on deck and to secure them
selves in the rigging. j
Mr. Buckman, who was nearer the
water than the rest, being old in years,
hi? power of holding on soon weaken
ed, and he succumbed to the angry
deep, and now sleeps beneath its
waves. . .
Mr. Kelly also gave way, but fortu
nately the captain and mate were near
and they held him all Thursday night
when the storm was at its' worst in
their arms. Heroism and bravery we
love to write. J
Henry Blango, colored, the cook, on
Friday died on deck from exhaustion
and was washed overboard. j
On the island untold suffering is the
story. Capt. Hull's house is a total
loss, Eagle House saloon gone, Hotel
Ponder badly damaged, Captain Tilg
man's house badly damaged, Dey's sa
loon and billiard room washed off of
its blocks and damaged, 8. Bridgman'a
porch and cottage washed away and
kitchen and dining room a total loss.
Tuthill house badly wrecked, sleeping
apartments washed several feet. The
boarders while sitting at thetable in
the Tuthill House could see the floor
rise over a foot in response to the
swing of the waves.
Mr. Luke Tutbill's house was car
ried thirty feet ; the chimneys at Capt
Bragg's house were blown down and
crushed in one end of the house ; the
Southern M. E. Church is a total loss,
and the Northern M. . Church was
washed off its blocks ; two school
houses are gone. j
The unfortunates on the schooner
Willis went without' water and food
from Wednesday to Saturday noon, j
The ball room at the hoel was turn
ed into a room of prayer.
Captain F. G. Tuthill, of the Ports
mouth life-saving station, reports the
following wrecks : !
Schooner turned over in the nieht
at Royal shoals, crew misseing ; Nor
folk and Southern boat ashore on Hog
Island ; schooner L. A. Willis. Capt. B.
S. Griffin, of Washington, N. C., wreck
ed neai Ocracoke inlet, two men lost,
four saved by men from the Ports
mouth life-saving station ; sloop Helen
Boxie, Capt. Kelley, ashore on the
beach ; schooner ashore On Harbor
Island, name unknown, as the crew
from the life saving station have not
rescued them ; steamer Neuee of N. &
8. B.B. Co., ashore at the mouth of
the harbor in about three feet of wa
ter. ' .:
Out of twenty fishermen on Swan
Island fourteen were lost ; Northwest
Point lichthousa .was damaged and
lost one boat, and provisions. Ports
mouth su tiered like Ucracoke and naa
houses blown down and horses and cat-
tledrowned. It is also reported that
a new inlet was opened on the north
side of Ocracoke with about four feet
of water in it.
STATE ZTECTS.
The Newssays trains will soon
be running on the new road be
tween Mount Airy and the Dan
river." ' ' ; ,. ' ..v . .
: The Central Hospital at Raleigh
now has 425 patients, and can re
ceive no more until discharges are
made.
The Central Manufacturing
Company has been incorporated at
Lexington. It will manufacture
furniture. :
Seven convicts, - some of them
noted criminals, escaped from the
penitentiary at Baleigh early Mon
day morning.
The aldermen of Hickory have
adopted an ordinance prohibiting
the druggists of that town from
selling malt extracts.
The Lula Cotton Manufacturing
Company, of King's Mountain, was
incorporafed Saturday. The cap
ital stock is $100,000.
The trustees of the. University
of North Carolina Saturday elected
Judge James C. MacBae, of Bal
eigh, dean of the University law
school.
A- three-masted schooner was
wrecked, off Gulf Shoals, on the
coast of North Carolina, during
last week's storm. There were
eight men on board and only three
were saved.
The Elkin Times says there is
money to be made in the honey in
dustry in that section. Several
citizens have gathered from 1,000
to 2,000 pounds of the sour-wood
variety this season.
-Edward Roderick, a Wilmington
huckster, committed' suicide last
week by swallowing two ounces of
laudanum. He was forty-three
years old and bad I been drinking
heavily for some time.
The public schools of Durham
county will run from seven to nine
months for the ensuing year. In
the cqunty there are sixty-two
schools and the total school funds
this year will amount to $25,000.
The Randolph Argua says that
Mr. W. M. Stephens, an old school
teacher, was in Ashebofo Monday
and said that he has received over
$8,000 of public school money 'for
teaching since he was 18 years old.
The Argus says that two gentle
men of Dayton, Ohio, who own
large interests in coal and mining
property in Ohio and Indiana have
been at Walnut Cove several days
inspecting the coal mines near that
place.
The three injunction cases grant
ed by Judge Simonton the rail
road tax valuation case, the tele
graph tax valuation and the fer
tilizer rates will all come up be
fore Judge Simonton in Asheville
September'ISth.
It is said that part of the plans
of the negro convention, to be held
in Baleigh in September 27-28, will
be to see howubest to prevent the
carrying at the polls of; the consti
tutional amendment, and in case it
is carried to look to the emigration.
from the state of the negro.
Col. J. F. Arm field, of States
vill, was Saturday appointed a
major in the Forty-sixth Infantry,
United States volunteers. Thad.
B. Seigle and H. J. Hirshingef, of
Charlotte, were appointed first
lieutenant in the army and second
lieutenant in the marine corps re
spectively. The plant of the Key Manufac
turing and Distilling. Company, of
Statesville, has been seized for
violation of the internal revenue
laws. It is one of the largest dis
tilleries in the country. Senator
Pritchard has been retained to
represent the defendant company
before the authorities at Washing
ton. The Shelby Aurora says the army
worm has appeared in Cleveland
county D. B. F. Suttle, who had
about one and a half acres of fine
young corn reports that the entire
field was destroyed in one night.
They left not a stalk to tell the
tale of destruction wrought. They
are exceedingly swift in their rav
ages, moving swiftly and leaving a
clean path in their wake.
Mr. Finch, of Charlotte, has ob
tained an option on all the swamp
lands belonging to the state. These
lands have been turned over to the
State Board of Education. Mr.
Finch's option begins February,
1900, and is for one ear. There
are about 600,000 acres and the
price agreed upon is 50 cents per
acre. He thinks he can sell the
entire lot to a Northern syndicate,
but the contract pledges him not to
sell less, than 1,000 acres at any
one time.
Germany Fights Our Beet
Washington, Aug. 2L Consul
General Mason, at Berlin, has made
a report to the State Department
on Germany's latest restrictive
measure against the; United States
in decreeing that fresh meat shall
not be imported from Belgium to
Germany. .
Mr. Mason says it was at once
evident that thin decree was in
reality aimed at American beef
and was occasioned by Belgium's
recent removal of the restrictions
on American cattle. 7 The Consul
General says the decree is the log
ical furtherance and fulfillment of
la policy upon which the German
government entered in 1894.
.Mr. Mason says it will do Amer
ican interests injury in Denmark,
which country was about to admit
American cattle, but hesitated
from fear that Germany j would
shut out Denmark's fresh meats.
Tba KislYcaK2ttAtajsBzi
Beantb
Alger Done With. Politics.
Montreal, On t. Aug. 21. "I
am absolutely out of politics," said
General Alger yesterday. He said
he was grateful to the Canadian
press for its courteous tone dur
ing the recent controversy.
American newspapers," he
"were severe."
"And you have really abandoned
active politics?" he was asked.
"Absolutely out of it," said he,
and this was uttered in a tone that
left no room for doubt.
"The
added,
GBEENSBOEO MARKET BEPOBT.
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CORRECTED WEEKLY BT
JOHN J. PHOENIX. I
Wholesale Receivers and Shippers of
country rroauce.
BUYING PRICES.
Beeswax I 22
imcKeuB oia per id. . 5
Large SDrincr chickens lb. .
Small spring chickens lb . . 5 to 7
Eggs ......i 08
Feathers :
Hides dry.. ..... J2
Green...... $14
Oats... ................... ...I
Sheep Skins . . . V ; 5 25
Tallow I
Wheat... , 1
wool washed :
Unwashed
Dried Fruits.. L
Apples lb.....
Berries lb
Corn, new.
Flaxseed .1
Onions ..i
Potatoes Irish, new .1
Sweet '
Bags Cotton... .....L . K
Bones lb..... L 4,
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Matches.
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5 CENTS WILL BUY A
DOZEN BOXES OF THE
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CAL MATCH AT .
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AGENTS WANTED FOU "THE LIFE AND
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life-long friend and admirer of tbe nation's idol.
Biggest and best book, over fOO pages, j8xl0
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Only $1.80. Enormous demand. Big; commis
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The formation of various kinds of trusts tbrocehnn u
! . . me United 5
control the price of all products raised by ihe farmer k.. u " ts
aouot 01 Bringing into existence this kissing bue trust v l c
bing the pocketbooks of the people, but going further, tryin
uiwu ui ixio loaiviaaai. wnai nextr 2io telllne. Fnp tt 1 : ; ' m
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up an Kinas 01 varminis in tne rnuippines with Gatlin 1 S
liable to light anywhere. Now, while it seems almost imriiblj,lliie7.l:i
formation of trusts in this country, yet there is a wav of ' .
In this portion of the moral vineyard, standing like a miehtr i?f
1 6 j Feak en tKi tn
mit of soma mnnntain la - . I I e5.
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Gigantic establishment, acting as a safeguard to protect the ma;; i :
ravages of high prices and big profits. This Is another element of de. J
equal in power to the trusts, but fortunately for the people of this ter-
came forward with an unlimited amount of cash and scattered the
ness 10 me iour winds and to-day, by reason of this onslaught on pnctt ,e ;
give you Shoes, Clothing, Dry Goods, Hats, Notions. Etc.. ckU. .u.
before. The DROP we have on manufacturers by always keepicg7
loaded to the breach with the right kind of ammunition is a persuarei.
ment to buy goods cheap. It is important therefore, to get the DROp r.
you are In a position to make satisfactory terms. ' Try it. DROP !n on ojh
examine. Ladies' Slippers, Oxfords "and Sandals on our jol counterlisi g,
from 503 up, worth $1 and $1.50. Big cut in Summer Drees Good to ziu
room for Fall Goods. See our 5c Counter, good on it worth 12 and 1 ju
received 100 dozen Ladies' Handkerchiefs, your choice 6c. . Alo another hi
Ribbons at prices that will aatonishyou. If you have not ' been down to m
this the biggest bargainMver offered on the above goods, why you m:$T
suffering from som6 of the effects of the trust. Your -neighbor hu cU
Why not you?
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CHEAPEST STORE ON EARTH,
225 SOUTH ELM ST.,
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D. J. SINCLAIR,
JORUAN, SINCLAIR & ! HACDONALD.
Greensboro City and Suburban
Manufacturing sites. Acreage adjoining the city in :
tracts to suit purchasers. Farms and farmiig lands -tis
lands, and tracts adanted to colonization Durnosc n hh:.
county. Soecial attention civen to locatinir ueople ire ra t
Northern States. Best of connections North amloutb. C
respondence with home-seekers solicited. '
Jordan, Sinclair & Macdonald,
106 SOUTH ELM STREET, GREENSBORO, X. C.L I
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INIPP mv aHDiiCQmQnf flrcf snnoaroH in I-o! Patriot VOU fl3s
seen the electrotype-cut of the Pennsylvania Low; Down lus
uram urm, outi mis weeK it is out ana i win taiK a nu c i. -about
these Drills in thatpace. I
You remember I have told you that the LowDown feature
consists in the frame and body being set low to the axle; while1'
wheels are standard height 4 feet. ;
You remember that I told you that the wheels are strong,
rims broad and properly thick, with simple but strong uu. ' j
twp pawls instead of one, thus equally dividing the strain, :
that either wlieel wjll drive everything, and that it has IM "',
1 1-4 inch wrought axle, and that the grain feed and fertilzer ;
are ootn anvenioy sprocKet wneei ana chain, ana mctunv ;
tity is changed by lever and held to the quantity set for oytn
screws, and that the grain feejd and fertilizer feed are botn 'O ;
feed, and that the body being set so low makes it easy
with grain or fertilizer, and also that the driver can spec
just in front of the ground wheels. I have toldjyou that tnei
is angle-bar steel. . v
A few words about the Disc and then about the Hoe. e
Discs are held and carried along by double drag bars vveir
so there is no! swaying about. By use of a lever the ai .;.
raised' and lowered, and also by same lever less, or n,L"etb-
ar upon them. One man can ?p ;nre(cf
ure is brought to bear upo
drill with Mfift.icihrp thprp ic nn "rJan nncr" tnl do. iviany k..,
xne uisc. i guarantee xne Pennsylvania low iuwh
ing, same grain ana Tertinzer xeea, out insteaa ui t ue d.
xne noe. i nese: are arawn dv aouoie arag pais, "j ilp n;
gether, and have the single curved relief springs, l0e
I know it wiU please you, and I guarantee it just . the sau oic
tne uisc. i seuxnem axxnesame once : vou can na
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Respectfully,
Geneial Agent fori I TXT H QTK
anilford. Eandoltih ad Ghatham Oonntiaa. VY V K-'
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