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The Carolina Watchman. f0L. XXI. THIRD SERIES, SALISBURY, FT C. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1890. HO. 27. 6ENERALDIRECT0RY COUNTY GOVERNMENT. Clerk Superior Court, J M Horah. Sheriff. C C Krider. Rccister of Deeds, H N Woodson. Treasurer, J Sam1! McCubbins. . Surveyor, 13 Arey. CoroW,DAAtAvell ICmmissioners, T J humner chairman, L Kluttz, C-F -Baker, Dr L W Cole ",n Cornelius Kestler. "Kyt Public Schools, T C Linn. u pt of Health, Dr J J Suinmerell. Overseer of Poor, A If Brown . TOWN. Sfayor, Chns D Crawford. " Clerk, D K Julian. Treasurer, 1 H roust. Police, R W Price, chief, J F Pace, C W Pool, K M Barringer, Benj Cauble. Commissioners North ward, J A Ren: dleman, 1 M Miller; South ward, D R Juliaii. J A Barrett; East ward, J 1 Gor don T A Coughenour; West ward, B J Holmes, J W Rumple. cumteHEs. Methodist Services every Sunday at 11 a m and 6 p m. Prayer meeting rvery Wednesday at 6 p m. Itev T W Guthrie, pastor Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. J W Mauney, sup't. Presbyterian Services every Sunday at 11 a m and 8:30 p m. Prayer meeting eVtry . Wednesday at 8:30 p m. Rev J Bmop'e, I D, pastor,. 'Suuday school every Sunday afternoon at 4 p ni J Rumple, sup't. Lutheran Serv ices every Sunday at 11 sad 7 pm. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 pm. Rev Chas B King, pastor. . Sunday school every Sundaj' afternoon at 3 p m. K U Kizer, sup t. Episcopal Services every' Sunday at 11 a in and 6:30 p m and Wednesday at 6:30 p m. Rev F J Murdoch, rector. Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at o p in. Capt Theo Parker, suft. Baptist Services every Sunday morn ing and night. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Kev pastor. P Suuday school every Sunday at 91 a.m. Tkop-L wink, snp'-t. Catholic Servjces'every second Sun d:iy at lui it m aud 7 p. in. Rev Francis Meyer; pastor. Sunday school every Sunday at 10 a m. Y SI C A Devotional services at Hall every Sunday at 10 a m. Business meet ing first Thursday ni&ht in every month. I H Foust, prcs't. LODGES. Fulton Lodge Xo 99 A F & AM, meets every first and third Friday night in each South. E .B Neavc, W M. Salisluiry Lodge, No 24. K of P, meets tverv Tuesday ninht. A II Bovden. C C. Salisbury Lodge, Xo 775, KTof H, mee ereff 1st and :M Monday flight in each mouth. , Dictator. Salisbury Council, Xo 272 Royal Ar caauiu, meets cyery 2d and 4th Monday night in each month. J A Ramsay, Eegeut. POST OFFICE. .Office hours from 7:30 a m to 5:30 p Money order hours 9 a m to 5 p.m. Sunday hours 11:30 a m to 12:30 p J II Ramsay, P M.- m. m. Absolutely Pure. This now.ier Sever varl 25 n , and w Uolesomou les. A marvelol nur'.ty losoiiionrss Morn piwnoimi'Ul . '":f!l,lf,ri wjtlaiic uiiUtitudeoftow test, short J! ! ilill irv L-ftft- ! a,1ri ill , !' Phosphate pow dcrs. Sold only in .r-. ROYAL BAKING PCOVDKK CO.,106 Wall St. H Pnrsale by Bingham & Co. , Young &T5oa "an, and X. p. Murphy. caution bottom, if th .1 Take no thoes nnletf W. I.. Donclas' name and itrii'n 1 1 r. iitmtitwfl on ihfl Prti." to ftonr. enclosius advertised cmt W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE eb&Lfc fcooelvi!f rccavjr Laced Grain and Citf. 4niIMINK HAND-SKWKD SHOE. 5 RfefeF ANI l ARMKHS' SHOE. 4 : i:xJ.fI. V vai n: calk shoe. S OO ?3)ViKI N (i .M EN'S SHOES. An1n,,.S,'75 BOYS' SCHOOL SHOES. " '"ifi in Conjrrcss. Button and Lace. 3& $2 SHOES la31Ss. 1 SHOE FOR MISSES. W.L. I1Iaterla, Krat Style. Bt Fitting. Brockton. Mass. Sld by W. S, BROWN. tfothin' to Say. Nothin' to say, my daughter 1 Nothin' at all . to say ! Girls that's in lore, I've noticed, ginerly has their way ! X mother did afore you, when her folks ob jected to me here am, and here you air 1 and ycr mo ther where is she? You look lota like ycr mother : Party much same in size : And about the same complected ; and faror about the eyes. Like her, too, about limn' here, because the - couldn't stay ; It'll 'most seem like you was dead like her ! V but I hain't got nothing to say 1 She left you her little Bible writ ycr name across the page And left her ear-bobs fer you, ef ever you come of age. - I've alius kept 'em and gyarded 'em, but ef yer agoiu' away N'othhi' to say, my daughter! Xothin' at all to say ! You don't mkollect her, T reckon? No; you wasn't a year old then ! And note yer how old air you? Why, child, not 14 twenty ! " When ? And yer nex' birthday's in Aprile? and you .want to git married that day ? . . . I wisht yer mother was livin' ! but I hain't got nothiu' to say ! Twenty year! and as good a gyrl as parent ever found ! There's a straw ketched onto ycr dres3 there I'll bresh it off turn round. (Her mother Wa3 jest twenty when us two run away ) Xothin' to say, my -daughter! Nothin' at all ,to say ! Jamet Whitcomb Riley. Read and Grow Dizzy. CLIMBING THE GREAT SMOKE STACK A BRAVE HEART AND STEADY HAND. John PhiUips, a ulntar line j - -- von nor solved the question of how to reach n UlllV- I , lit ; without a scaffold the tall chimney of the Clark Thread Works at Newark, X. J. Phillips contracted to extend a line of ladders to-the top of the 335 foot chimney so as to permit masons t ascend and repair the damages done by wo lightning strokes which occurred during the storm on March 31st, which tore off seventy-five cart loads of ricks. On the northeast side of the chimney there are seven irregular breaks, and masses of bulging brick work stilt hang in a threatening man- f I I O I I it ner. i wo courses or DncKs are thrown out from the race of the bell top on The northwest, and on the south the collar is badly broken and a large rup ture shows on te side of the shaft twenty-five feet below this baud. Twenty-two ladders were in place then, and the top of the upper one seemed to be within five or six feet of the ring or collar under the flaring top. Above this ladder a stoat spike was driven into the masonry,, and from it depended a tackle-block and rope. After donning his oyerallsand work ing jaclfirt, the climber put a safety- belt around his waist. In the front ot this belt is a stout hook, which he at- i. .i . 1.1. . i .i j i i. i uicues lo a rung or me uiuuer wnue at work, thus giving support to his body and permitting him to use both hands freely. He examimed the lashings of the last ladder aud then signaled for an other, which was -quickly sent up to him. It was a short one, but like the others he secured it with six spikes and lashed 'nearly half its length to the twenty-second ladder. Ir projected i above the collar a few feet, and after l j . . rL t securing it firmly Phillips mounted it, and passing behind it stood for a few minutes on the broad ring or brick work which encircles the chimney, and which is chipped off in two places by the lightning. Now came the begin ning of the climber's most difficult work. Hollow drills, made of case hardened pipe with serrated ends were sent up to him, and he began dulling one-inch holes in the masonry. In these holes he drove pieces of steam pipe. On the inner end of each of these pipe-bolts was a Japering plug, and on" the outer end a nut through whicJi a rod passed to the taper plug. This rod terminated in a ringto which the ladders were lashed. After the pipe-bolts were in place in the brick work a few turns of the nut expanded the inner end of the pipe and made it secure jii the masonry. Phillips put one of these bolts in Hip wall of the eusiue room the other day, and twelve men at a rope could not pujl it out. After the storm blew over Phillips resumed work on his task. The ladder which he was attaching did not lean outward much, for he had concluded not to try the asceut of the bell with a single ladder. It ran nearly half way up the flaring brick work'and-stood slanting outward, but nearly perpendicular. He pronounced it secure ancLsent for the twenty-five foot ladder, which was to be the last wooden one used. Last night he Bad this in place and was suspended from it by his knees and waist belt while he was putting in the middle bolts. He clinging lite a caterpillar to a twig and putting on the lashings which se cured the ladder to the hist pair of spikes. The iron ladder with which he is to surmount the iron cap stood against the wall of the engine room. Its sides are made of iron and 1$ inches wide aud the rungs are made of half-inch gas pipe, It is six feet and eight inches long. It weighs forty pounds, and would lie flat against the . cap but for two strips of wood which Phillips will lash to the under side of it. In less than seven minutes he had reached the uppermost wooden ladder, and after pausing tnere and examining his work of the previous day he secured his belt hook to a rung ot the ladder and sent down the free end of the lope. " Send up the iron ladder," he shouted, and it was made fast and rapidly hoisted to his hands. Guiding it above his head, he pushed it up the sloping cap, and a moment later the hooked end fell over the inner edge of the chimney with a click which could be heard from the ground below. Phillips quickly climb ed over the top of the outwardly in clined wooden ladder, and climbed up the iron one. On reaching the top he waved one hand, and a wild cheer tirose from the assembled watchers. While he was raising the iron ladder seven or eight devout old women stood cgainst the face of the Mile-End Mill adjoining and prayed loudly for his safety and that of his family, some of them telling their beads with nervous fingers as they watched him. As soon as Phillips reached the top Mr. Campbell Clark and James Cun ningham, the master mason, entered one of the big flues and passed into the chimney. Looking up they saw Phil lips' head hanging over the circular opening and shouted to him. He an swered in an ordinary tone, and said that he could see dowti the shaft for tit least one hundred feet. The accoustic properties of the shaft are so good that conversation between Phillip and those at the foot of the shaft could be carried on in whispers. Phillips called for planks and one after another was sent to him, until he had a firm hut open platform. Then he fastened a tackle block to one of the stoutest planks and passed the rope down through it. A stout legless chair was suspended from this tackle, and, taking several lan terns, Mr. Cunningham made the as cent with the aid of four stout men. He carefully inspected the brick work of the interior and pronounced it with out a flaw. Nearly fifteen hundred men and girls have been idle since March 31st, and they are anxious to be earning nioueyagain after this enforced idle ness. Blowing Rock. Mr. John M. Bernhardt, the enter prismi manager for the Green Hill syndicate, spends a large portioti of his time at the Mock tind is a must ju dicious 11 boomer." His work on Green Hill litis been a revelation even to old citizens ot Blowing Rock. He has Blowing constructed a road from the old lace house to the top of Green which winds around with the Will Hill, easy, even. unswerving grade of 5 to 100 feet, and is an easy trotting road going , up or coming down, it is the bet road we ever traveled over-in North j Carolina and is 20 feet wide and five- I.I it I 1 n t . eigntns or a mile long, mere is really i over a mile and a halt ot new road built there, but nart of it. is in, nmdp " : 1 i ' for variety. There are two road s going around a hill that iuts out from the main, hill and which meets about a t urd of thfl iv:iv tn tho inn rrhi road leads to the top of Green Hill, which i ,-Mie finest and most compre- hensive mountain view that w know of. Unlike the view from anv other mountain with which we are acquaint- ... . . t . ed the brreen Hill view takes within its .d pints of the compass and r -. em unices ne grand sweep or eastern and southern view from the Pilot Mountain to King's Mountain. With out any doubt, this view is unequaled. On other mountains the eastern, south- I i 1 t 1 ern western, and nortnern views are all to be had from different stand points. From Green Hill they are all to be had from one point and one has only to turn about to take in the circle of the horizon. The road which leads to this enchanting spot cost nearly $500 and will be the drive at Blowing Rock. The com pan v is pushing right along, spending money on its purchase, j laying oil lots oil lots and streets and avenues and making it ready for devel opment. A hotel on the top is on the program and will be built. The com pany is liberally inclined and would rather have the hotel built by someone else than by themselves, but they will will see that it is built. Capt. Pickens, of Richmond, has bought three acr s on the knoll, around which the two roads wind, for $900, and will build a fine residence upon it. The Blowing Rock Hotel settlement and groups f cottages, the town proper at Morris' and the Watauga Hotel and all the the cottages scattered along between show off beautifully from the top of Green Hill and from the winding road. The leading citizens are raising a boom fund of five hundred or a thou sand dollars with which to have print ed an elegant pamphlet descriptive of the .advantages of Blowing Rock and to otherwise advertise and boom this growing summer resort. Lenoir Topic. After all, the Seventh regiment can not go to Richmond to uuveil Lee's statue on account of its prior engage ment at home for Decoration Da'. Never mind, the fact that such an invitation was. graciously given and gratefully entertained proves that there nolonger exists even the memory of old bitterness to divide the North from the South. xVV Y Herald. Book Agent "Sir, I have here a l)00k" Intended Victim "Sir 1 have here a gun." (Exit book agent.) Chicago Journal, Laid to Rest. THE BUBIAL OF THE STATESMAN. Washington, April 17. This morn ing at 8 o'clock the coffin enclosing the remains of Mr. Randall was borne from his house by a squad of Capital police and deposited in the lecture room of the Metropolitan Presbyterian church, which was appropriately drap ed. There it was visited by many of his late associates in the House, by Mr. Wannmaker, and by a large number ef hie friends, neighbors and admirers. About an hour afterwards it was re moved to the body of the church and placed upon a catafalque strewn with flowers. Several beautiful floral deco rations were placed near it one in the shape of an obelisk, at the foot of which, imbedded in red, white and blue immortelles, were the letters S. O. M. A. tnd the figures 38-37, and an other showing an arch spanning a cross. The latter was the contribution of the Randall Association of Phila delphia. About half past nine the carriages with the family and immediate friends reached the church, and as Mrs. Ran dall, leaning on the arm of her hus band's brother, the two daughters, Mrs. Lancaster and Miss Susan, the only son and namesake of the dead states man, and oiher relatives, most on them from Philadelphia, moved up the aisle to the seats reserved for them, of the right center. They were preceded by Dr. Chester, wearing a long white scarp, and recitinsr the opening to the burial service, " 1 am the resurrection and the life." Soon afterwards the members of the Joint Committee of the two houses, also wearing white scarfs, entered the church and took their seats in the left center, the front row beinsr occupied by four of Mr. Randall's oldest friends and colleagues Messrs. McKinley, O'Neill, Carlisle and Holman. lit tle back of the Joint Committee sat Mr. and Mrs. Blaine, and near them Vice President and airs. Morton, Mrs. Harrison escorted by Mr. Hal ford the President's private secretary, and Chief Justice Fuller and daughter. Mr. Wanamaker was in another part of the church. A 1 irge number of Senators and members ot the House, including the Speaker, and many ex-members were present. A deputation of thirty uniformed members of the Gr ind Army of the Republic, from Philadelphia, were in the church and afterwards acted as the escort to the funeral procession. The great bulk of the congregation wa3 composed of Mr. Randall's friends i i 11 ii ! and members who loved him and sin- cerelv mourned his death. A hvmn having been sung bv the Schubert quartette, the selection from the 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians, be ginning with the verse, ' But now is Christ risen from the dead, was de claimed by Mr. Milburn, who followed ! with a prayer, in which he spoke of the ! colnn that contained all that wtiS mor- i tal of " a loyal and beloved husband, j revered and tender father, a steadfast I friend, a stainless patriot, an upright statesman, an impassioned, lover of his ! country, and an un weary servent of the i i . " n . il i- ,i : people. He gave thanks ana praise 'tor the wealth or a spotless name, the nobility of a simple character, and career adorned by uprightness and fidelity aud fearlessness." The hvmn. "Just as I am, without one plea," which was said to be Mr Randall's favorite hymn was sung, and then the funeral sermon was preached a by Dr. Chester. ' The closing address was delivered by Mr. Milburn. after .which an antnem Was sung and the benediction pro nounced. The body was then reverently borne from the Church, the funeral proces ion was formed, and slowly moved down to and throvgh the Lopitol irraunds and bv Pennsylvania Avenue of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co. A dep utation from tiie Grand Army of the Republic acted as the escoit, and crowds of sympathetic spectators lined the route through which the dead statesman was borne on his way to his last resting place in Philadelphia cem eterv, where the dead members of his family sleep. Bvjside the members and relatives of the family who accompained the re- i T-I II 1 ll C ...... J. mains to rniiaaeipnia were tue chhium: and House Committees, the honorary pallbearers, nearly all the members of tl)e Pennsylvania delegation in the House and a number of other members of the House. The American Eajle. Miss Ann Shaw, a Boston clergy- minn. in a late lecture said that while men would not give woman the right to vote, they made their national em blems all of female figures; the goddess of liberty, the go Mess of justice, and so on. Even the eagle which embla zons the national coat of arms is the figure of a female eagle, although the men did not know it when they paint ed it. It is "the American eagle he shrieks" no longer, but "she shrieks." A Virnniii rf?iment carried "Oldt Abe," a bald eagle, all through the war, and he was brought back and placed in the State Musuem at Madison. Verses were written about "Old Abe." and the men were very proud of the famous fowl, until one day he went to laying eggs, and lo and behold "Abe" was a hen. A Bold Election Plot BEPUBLICAK8 NOW SCHEMING TO COX. TBOL THE NEXT CONGRESS. Washington, April 15. There is some kind of a deep plot brewing in the Senate on the subject of a national election law. Its object is to irrab the next Congress and pave the wav to the election of a Republican successor to Mr. Harrison. John I. Davenport of historic fame arrived here on Monday morning. According to his usual se cretive custom, he did not register at any of the hotels, and he has not been prominently seen in public places. Nevertheless, he has been in close con sultation with Senators Hoar, Sherman and other bold and bad leaders of the Republican party, and he has not yet left this city. It is understood that he came here in response to an invitation, and that the purpose of that was to obtain his advice and assistance in preparing a national election law. All day long the files of the law library of Congress and the records in the various archieves hav been drawn upon for precedents. til presence here and the close con ference he has been holding with the republican leaders in the Senate Com mittee rooms betoken danger. There are two opposing theories as to the course that the House is likely to pursue. Congressmen supposed to oe in opeafcer Heed's confidence state that it is his purpose To so rush busi ness that Congress can adjourn by the middle of June. He expects, it is stated, to make a record in this wav in favor of the new rules, for which he is so largely responsible. On the other hand, members quite as well informed as to the temper of the House state that Congress will be in session until the middle of September next. The suggestion has already been made that the reason of such a long session would be to get the next Ap portionment bill, based on the next cen sus, first passed, so that Congress could pass a bill retaining the present Con gressional districts and allotting mem bers at large to the States shown to be entitled to additional representation. The disposition of Speaker Reed and his friends to hurry public business was plainly made apparent to-day when Mr. Cannon, from the Committee on Rules, shortly before one o'clock, re ported a bill to re-organize the whole judicial system of the United States, to authorize the appointment of eighteen additional Circuit Judges of the United States Courts to confide to them many of the duties exercised by the United States Supreme Court. Ail these judges of course will be appointed by Presi dent Harrison, by and with the consent of the republican Senate. They will ihold their offices, like other Circuit fudges, for life, unless sooner removed by impeachment or retired by oper ation of law on reaching the limitation of age, which entitles them to retire on full salary. This is, in effect, an attempt to ger rymander the courts of the United States, so that for many 3rears to come the proposed Circuit Appeal Court shall be composed almost entirely of Repub licans. Mr. Cannon and the Commit tee on Rules insisted that this bill should be pushed through under tha operation of the previous question, with only five minutes allowed to any man for debate. Mr. Carlisle and other Democratic leaders naturally, and veiy forcibly, objected to such indefensible cutting off of debate on one of the most im portant measures which has so many and far-reaching provisions which has been submitted to Congress for many years. But the bill was put through under the rules, the Speaker counting a quorum. N. Y. Star. When Farming Fays. Mill Bridge, N. C, April 17, 1890. Ed. Watchman: I am a subscriber to more than half a dozen agricultural papers (some southern) and see in nearly all of them something said about planting pease in cotton and corn. My plan for many years has been this : I plant with a corn planter 2 rows 3 feet apart, aud then leave 6 feet space ; then 2 rows as before. On May 1st I take my corn planter and nlant a row of what we call the whippoorwid or speckled pease in tee wide space. By this plan I have ray corn to over 4$ feet apart and I have 1 row of pease to tAVO rows of corn, and think I make as much or more corn per acre this way than the old, for this reason, I have a wide space for sun and air where it would uot be otherwise. Inaddition to that I make from 200 to 500 bushels of pease on my corn lauds each year with no extra labor except the use of my corn planter, 1 mule and 1 hand 5 days with no cultivation save that given it in cultivating the corn. I generally get my corn run over with cultivators and harrows two or three times before sowing the pease, and by that means I get the bed for the pease in &rood condition. - - ... ii ! Sometimes 1 get as many as iw bushels of pease gathered jis they com IP r -a -.i-V mence ripening by August 1st, when there is up urgent work on the farm. The balance of the pease are left for the hogs and cattle to consume. 1 think cotton could be planted in the same with like results. J. M. Harbxsoy. A Classic Scrap. We hear wonderful tales of feats performed by modern lion tamers, but none of them surpass in interest the famous story of Audrocles and the lion, which has come down to us from acient times through the writings of a grave historian of Rome. Audrocles was a slave of a noble Roman who governed Africa. For a crime which he committed his master condemned Androcles to death, but he escaped from imprisonment and fled into the Numidian desert. As be was wandering among the barren sands, almost dead with heat and thirst, he saw a cave in a rock, and sat down upon a stone at the entrance of the cave to escape the fierce heat and to rest. At length, to his great surprise, a huge lion came walking toward him. Androcles gave himself up for lost, but the lion, instead of attacking him, stopped before him, laid his right paw on Androcles' lap and with a low moan of pain licked his hand. Androcles recovered a little from his fright, and looking at the lion's paw, saw a large thorn in it. This he im mediately pulled out, and gently squeezed out the poisonous blood and matter around it, which probably freed the lion from the great pain he was in, for he again gently licked Androcles' hand and then left him. Soon, how ever, the lion came bounding back and laid at Audrocles' feet a freshly-killed fawn, and for several days he brought food in the same manner. But the frightful solicitude of the desert and the fear that his savage com panion might at any time forget his act of kindness and turn upon him and devour him, were more than An drocles could bear ; so he resolved to return and give himself up to his mas ter, and this he did. Now his master was at that time making a collection of very large and fierce lions to be sent to Rome to fur nish a show for the Roman people, and when the collection was complete he ordered Androcles to be sent to Rome at the same time with the lions, and that for his crime he should fight one of the lions in the amphitheatre for the entertainment of the people. Thswas all carried into effect:? 4 drocles, after being all alone in the desert, now found himself in the arena before a multitude of people, looking forward again to the dreadful fate of being torn to pieces by a lion. At length a huge lion bounded out from the place where it had leen kept hungry for the show. With great leaps and roars of rage he came to ward Androcles, who stood in the cen i f t i t ft i ter or the arena with a short sword in his hand. But suddenly the lion stop ped, looked wisttully at Androcles, and letting his tail droop, crept quietly toward him and licked and caressed his feet. Androcles, after a moment of great astonishment, recognized his old T ft m ft m t ft . i u mahaii mend. This sight was in tensely wonderful to the excited spec tator.?. After hearing Androcles' ex planation of it, they begged the em i ift m i i peror to pardon mm. ihis the em peror did, and also gaye him the lion for his own. Androcles kept and treated as r gentle companion the faithful -animal that had, in return for a kind act, sup plied him with food and saved his life Dion Cassius, the great historian says that he himself saw Androcles leading the lion through the streets of Rome and the people gathering about them and saying, "Ihis is the liou who was the man's host : this is the man who was the lion's physician." Silver Coinage. DECISIONS WHICH WERE REACHED SENATE AND HOUSE COMMITTEES. BY Washington, April 14. The Sen ate Silver Committee, after a session of an hour and a half this afteruoon, reached a conclusion, Three proposi tions were agreed to : 1. That the Sacretary of the Treas ury shall buy 4,500,000 ounces of sil ver bullion monthly, and issue notes in payment for the same, the notes to be redeemable in bullion or lawful money. 2. That the national banks shall be allowed to issue notes to the full par value of the bonds deposited to secure their redemption, which would add ten per cent, to the volume of national bank currency. 3. That the hundred millions re tained in the Treasury for the redemp tion of Treasury notes be put into cir culation. It was proposed, in order to induce national bank to t ike out tha addi tional ten per cent, of circulation to abolish the tax now levied on banks circulation, but this was withdrawn. The committee will meet the House committee to-morrow morning' and endeavor to come to some understand ing with the members of that body, to be reported to the respective caucusses for adoption. Secretary Windom was present at the House committee's caucus this afternoon. He would not abate his opposition to the plan to make the Treasury notes issued in purchase of silver redeemable in anything ela t an silver bullion,) buthaving carefulhjrlis- cussed the matter, the committee de- cided to incorporate in the bill a pro- vision allowing their redemption in bullion or coin, at the option of the purcaser. - . . Our Congressman. There will perhaps, be some opposi tion made this year, similar to that of two years ago, to the re-nomination of Hon. John S. Henderson as the repre sentative to Congress from this dis trict. Should thete be we are of the opinion that its instigators and not Mr. Henderson will be the potiticai sufferers. The "rotation system" gen ally works well enongh in the inter est of the office hungry aspirant when his own personal agrandizement is to be considered, but to the detriment of the public interests; so that when, not only our district aud State but the entire South requires wise, astute rep resentation at Washington, it seems to us akin to political suicidal folly t take risks in making a change now in this district; and, in the interest of the people of North Carolina, and of the bouth, we want to say that the Demo cratic party af the 7th distriet will do wisely in retaining Mr. Henderson as our representative as long as he is will ing to serve us in that capacity. Several gentleraeu are mentioned as probable and actual aspirants for the nomination in this district, who are doubtless all worthy Democrats, but we are glad that we are able to state or their mutual information that the need not waste their energies down in his direction. The Democrats of Montgomery know when they have" a good thing, and will be wise enough to do the rignt thing when the time comes to cast their votes for the can didate of their choice in the count v and district conventions. They want Mr. Henderson in Congress and will be yery apt to do their part toward keeping him there. The Statesville Landmark- of last week, after calling over the roll of congressional aspirants in this district, to wit : Mr. Fred H. Stith, of David son, Dr. u. it. i'arker, of Randolph, Hon. John S. Henderson, of Rowan, and Hon. A. Leazer, of Iredell, comes to the conclusion from the informa tion it has been able to gather that. 'as a matter of fact Mr. Henderson and Mr. Le izer are the only avowed candidates." Our excellent contem porary was donbtless sincere in ren dering this opinion, but to our person al knowledge Mr. btitu is an avowed candidate," and there are doubtless a number of other gentlemen fully ns capable as either Mr. Leazer or Mr. Stith, who would also be avowed can didates if they believed there was a shadow of chance for tliem to get the nomination, w nac we want is lair play, aud when we say tnis we speak in oeiiair.or the rank ana hie of the Democracy of the district and State, and now before the tight is on we would like to know where the Land' marl: stands. Does it want a change? And, if so, why? Montgomery Vi dctte. What a Government ! CAPRIVI BEGINS WRONG YOU CAN T DE LUDE A READING PEOPLE LONG. The German Chancellor. General von Caprivi, seems to think that the less the people know ahovt the move ments of the government the better off they nre. In our cable despatch from Berlin yesterday it was announced that he "has forbidden the ministers or other officials to furnish any communications to the newspapers." All the intelligence which he thinks German subjects should have will ap pear in the lte'chsanzeiqer the official organ. The occupation of the interviewer, th: t human corkscrew who finds his wax to the very heart of state secrets, is therefore gone. His questions will be met by dumb silence, and he will die in the agony of unsatisfied curios ity, The Chancellor and his Minis ters will do everything in executive session, and the country must be satis fied with such honeyed drops of news as they may be pleased to place on its parched tongue. Ihis morning we have received another cable which will serve the pur paseof an addendum. The Chancellor, referring to the foreign pre33, declares that the government will reserve to itself the right to "retain" or subsidis: such newspapers as it pleases for the purpose or influencing public opinion abroad. I. This indicates an interesting com1, i tion of affairs. The native papers an to have no news t xcept such as Tin Chancellor may deein it best to furnish, and a certain number of foreign papei are to be paid a retaining fee by the government and used to create such a public opinion as the Chancellor may think most ravorable tn the purposes which Germany may have in view It such a secret policy were attempt ed in this country but it is unconceiv able. N. Y. Herald. An Ante dote. Little grains of quinine, Little drops of rye, j Makes la grippenhat's got yon Drop fe, hold and fly. j 'f his may quickly help you, " ( f you'll only try ; But don't forget the quinine When yon take the rye Bill Ny- i f 1 i