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The Carolina Watchman. POL. XXI.-THIED SERIES. SALISBURY, N. C. THURSDAY, KAY 22, 1890. - - NO. 31. : ely's CatarbH CREAM BALM Cleanses tlie jits.il Passages, Allay Pain and Inflammation Heals the Sores. Restores the Senses tf Taste and Smell. J2Y Tiifi wuftfl. . .,rii,-if is;ippueuiuuc:ii uusiru unuisagre? lPi.t... m'tfU at lfllsr"1stB: Ijv mill rpcrlsf.prptl OCtS. KI.YBUOTHER8.56 Warren St. Jew York A BOON TO SMOKEES. IIUVS PISE LEAF CJG..RS fc CIGARETTES. V the J'ine Xeecttc Cigars for a de- THRO IUKONCliiAi. LHsr.Asr.5. torn biniug the full aroma of the Yara tobac o imparting to the taste and breath a pleasant effect, and by the introduction of mV needlA the nicotine or poisonous properties of tobacco are deatroyext, not inly rendering their use free from injury, but with po4itivc benefit to the consumer. Far . sale bv the following dealers in B W I v I 1 ' .,!. . . Salisbury: iirW. Smith, C. J. Kestler, W U Young, D. Hauline, L. Ed. Heilig, i 11 Enniss, E. C. Miller, C. H. Swink, J V Harris, Jr R. Smith, also at St. JMes hotel. S. F. HARRELL, Greensboro, N. C. Southern Agent. RUNS EASY. GINS FA8T. Cleans SEED PERFECTLY. Makes FINE SAMPLE NEVER CHOKE8 or BREAKS THE ROLL THE CELEBRATED Cbcons c is GIN COTTON BLOOM Has All LATEST IMPROVEMENTS including Balance Wheel on Brush which In sures even spaed. This feature Is peculiar to this make of Oln and Is used on no other. Are FIX!.!' (H'ARANTRED and Are Delivered Hll.1. Or I'RKHillT at any R. B. Station or the landing of any Regular Steamboat Line In the South. If we have no Agent near you, address the General Southern Agent, H.W.HUBEARDiiVxxt' 3 Ton $35. OSGOOD U. 8. STANDARD . SENT ON SCALES reta said, folly v. nrruntt-d. Other .Uea a.l.ilt II ll n.OSSttfssllfS Af.ot, Atlanta, Ua.ar DbIIm.TcX. Executors' Sale. In pursuance of a power contained in Jlie last will and testament of the late J. J. Unmet, we will sell at the Court House floor hi the town of Salisbury, on Mon day, the 2d day of June, 1890, at public unction, to the highest bidder, the Caro lina Watchman, including thejjjood will of the newspaper, the subscription list, two printing presses, type, a quantity of ink and paper, and all other fixtures and property belonging, to the printing olfice. Terms of Sale : One-half cash, and the balance in 0 months. Dated May a, 181K). T. K. BRUNER, C. G. VI ELK, Executors of J. J. Bruner. SEN YOUR JOB TO THE WATCHMAN JOB OFFICE. I. M. PATTON, Jr., Lessee. -o- Cwplete.il all its Appointments. -o- Every Variety- of Printing Done With Neatness and Dispatch. -o- bill Heads, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Statements, Envelopes nuuphlets, : C - - Pastern, Dodgers, Cards. Tiigs, Ball L Wedding Invitations. 1 i 1 1 H S W . - No x Botch :-: Work. k; h Kb b h h i Satisfaction GuaraifieecL iirders by mail solicited and prompt ly attended to. Address, J. M, PATTON, Jr., i Salisbury, N. C. IV. NIL V liahtful smoke aim snecuy reuei ior i.--SEcKN-ZA, ACUTK AND CHKOMC , VI lIUtH, CLERGY MEN'S S O HE V I , llAt r r. v r.u. AornA ana j. PRINTING GENERAL DIRECTORY COUNTY GOVERNMENT. Clerk Superior Court, J M Horah. wneriir, J u Knder. Register of Deeds, H N Woodson. Treasurer, J Sam'l McCubbins. Surveyor, B C Arey. Coroner, D A Atwell. Commissioners, T J Sumner chairman, W L Kluttz, C F Baker, Dr L W Cole man, Cornelius Kestler. upt Public Schools, T C Linn. Sup't of Health, Dr J J Summerell. Overseer of Poor, A M Brown. TOWN. Mayor, Chas D Crawford. Clerk, D K Julian. Treasurer, I H Foust. Police, R W Price, chief, J F Pace, C W Pool, R M Barringer, Benj Cauble. Commissioners North ward. J A Ken dleman, D M Miller; South ward, D It Julian, J A Barrett; East ward, J B Gor don, T A Coughenour; West ward, K J Holmes, J W Rumple. CIIUHCHES. Methodist Services every Sunday at 1 1 a id ana o p in 0$ p in. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 6J.p m Rev T W jriithrie, pastor, Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock. J W Mauney, sup't. Presbyterian Services every Sunday at 11 a m and 8:30 p m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at s:30 p m. Key J Rumple, D D, pastor. buuday school every Sunday afternoon at 4 p in. - J Rumple, sup't. Lutheran Services everv Sunday at 11 am and 7 pm. Prayer meeting everv Wednesday at 7 p m. Rev Chas B King, pastor. Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at 3 p m. R Ct Kizer,sup't. Episcopal Services every Sunday at 11 a m and 6:30 p m and Wednesday at G:30 p m. Rev r J Murdoch, rector. Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at 3 p in. Capt Theo Parker, sup't. Baptist Services every Sunday morn ing and night. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Rev pastor. nun da v school every Sunday at vk a.m. Thos L Swink, sup't. Catholic Services everv second Sun day at 104 a m and 7 p m. Rev Francis Meyer, pastor. Sunday school every Sunday at 10 a m. Y M C A Devotional services at Hall everv Sunday at 10 a m. Business meet ing first Thursday night in every mouth. 1 H Foust, pres't LODGES. Fulton Lodge No 09 A F & AM, meets every first and third r ndny night in each month. EBNeavc, W M. Salisbury Lodge, No 24. K of P, meets every Tuesday night. A II Hoyden, C C. Salisbury Lodge, No 775, K of H, meets everv 1st Mid 3d Monday night in each month. . Dictator. Salisbury Council, No 272, Royal Ar canum, meets every 2d and 4th Monday night in each month. J A Ramsay, Regent. POST OFFICE. Office hours from 7:30 a m to o:30 p m. Money order hours 9 a jn to 5 p ni. Sunday hours 11:30-a m to 12:30 p m J H Ramsay, P M. POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvelof purity ' ii'iiut li.ii ml waolesouiencss. More economlcul than theordlnarv kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the inulUludrof low test,. short weight , alum or phosphate powders. Sold onl In cans, lio val Baking Powuer Co.,10e Wall st. N Y For sale by Bingham & Co. , Young & Bos tian.and N. P. Murphy. L" H A TTTTflW Tv.Y. i"mrfJ"'"nd SA 11 J VI 11 price are tTanipl on the bottom. If the dealer cannot Mipply you, iteud direct to factory, enclosing advertised price. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. Fine Calf, Heavy Luccd Grain and Creed- moor Waterproof. iwm in tne worm. r. """.". ;? S.OO OEM-INK HANISKWKI hHOK. S4.00 HANI-SsCWKU W1CI.T SHOB. 3.flO POI.ICI3 AMI rAKMKBS'MiOE. il.SO KXTKA VAI.ITK iAIJi SHOB. S.OO and r?5 BOYS HCHOOI. SHO An iusU in Omirress. Button snd I -ice. $3 & $2 SHOES laf3i! 91.75 SHOE FOR MISSES. Best Material, llert Style. Best Fltt W. L. Ioulas, Brockton, Mass. Sold b NI. S, BROWN, W iROYALSSSbtt J Louisiana's Disgrace Faithfully De scribed. GOV. NICHOLLS MAKES A VIQOROVS AT TACK ON THE LOUSIANA LOTTERY. New York Herald. New Qrleaks, May 12, 1800. Gov ernor Nicholls, in his biennial message to the Louisiana Legislature, which met to-day, strongly opposed the proposi tion for the extentinn of the charter of the Louisiana Lottery Company for a term of twenty-five years. The Gov ernor insists that no proposition for a lottery should be entertained for a mo ment. After reviewing at length for mer legislation in favor of the lottery company and condemning it on the ground of morality and public policy, he argued that the action of the Con vention of 1879, which placed the lot tery in the State constitution, was wrong in principle and wrong in fact, and deprived the State of its police power over the institution. Similar action now would result, he contended, in still greater evils. The statement of the lottery company that it was the 1 1 - ii - i i i i i oniy louery company that nacl ever been endorsed bv the vote of the people ana una a place in the state constitu tion, the Governor says, is a humilia tins fact. But the obnoxious pro vision was inserted in the very body of the constitution, and the people could not get at the lottery without defeating the whole instrument. The Governor continues:- "If the idea recently advanced that the pres- re stmong us of a lottery is a boon aim a oiessinjr were entertained se riously and really by a large part of our population we would not be enti tled to rate very high in the scale of civilization or of molality, either pri vate or public. a baleful institution. "That institution ought to be de stroyed on both political and moral grounds. Lotteries not only fall under the classification of gambling, but of gambling of the very worst descrip tion. The Supreme Court of the United States, speaking on that subject, said: 'Experience has shown that the common forms of gambling are com paratively innocuous when placed in contrast with the widespread pestilence of lotteries. The former are con lined to a few person and place, but the latter infest tbejCwhole community. It enters every dww,lin, it reaches every clsiss, it preys uripn the hard earnings of the poor anui&t plunders the igno rant and simple. DBCEPTIVEN ESS OF LOTTERIES. "The possibility of winning a large amount for the outlay of a compara tively insignificant sum is in glowing colors most seductively brought for ward, but the great improbability of any particular person oeing thus the winner is judiciously kept in the back ground. The system of lotteries is based upon a well digested plan and is founded upon the 'doctrine of chances,' being scientifically turned in favor of the lottery company. I think it was an outrage on other States and a dis- amwi fn cmr nu n to nvilro 1 .rkiiiviM nn the acknowledged headquarters of orn nihil it or nnd to lixr-myp ;in incritn. tutiou avowedly based upon certain losses and certain impoverishment to others; and a still greater disgrace to lie a partner in such a transaction. Nothing better could have been expect ed of the Legislature of 1SCS. CORRUPTING INFLUENCE. UI have no hesitation in saying that the selling of lottery tickets in this State in violation of jaw by agents of outside lottery companies would be an infinitely smaller evil and could be productive of infinitely less harm than the existence of a legalized lottery in Louisiana selling its tickets openly under the protection of the law. The agents of the former skulk about cor ners and barrooms, and the results of the corruption reach no further than the debauching of a few subordinate and insignificant officials, and such in jury as flows from the sale of a com paratively small number of tickets in a few localities, while the sales of the legalized lottery extend over the entire country and the tickets are scattered broadcast in immense numbers over the whole State, and the company standing on the vantage ground it does (its stockholders toiling and spin ning not, yet amassing immense for tunes) enters into a broader and higher field of corruption. It presents a continued shilling mark for the un failing attacks of widely differing classes of men those who acting on principle strive to put an. end to it as subversive of virtue and morality, and as furnishing direct incentives to crime -and wrong, and the blackmailers, who see in its existence a rich harvest for gains through the buying of peace. "To uie-'t these constantly recurring attacks a legalized lottery is forced, by the veiy necessity of its situation, to have,s I have said, its special Repre sentatives on the floor of the General Assembly, Senate and House men either elected by and through its mo ney, or bribed and corrupted, since to permit Representatives to be selected and elected throughout the State on their merits, and as the free choice of constituencies men who would take their seats untrammelled and cast their votes from a sense of duty and their convictions of right and wrong would seriously jeopardize the interests of a legalized lottery company. Hence it is forced i jto takiug a constant, active interest in the movements of not one bnt all political parties, sending its paid agents among the masses to cor rupt and deceive them, buying np, hrotthng, silencing and muzzling the iress whenever and wherever it can be" done in the cities and in the con u try ; irecdtng treason and dissensions among friends and among leaders ; fomenting should warn our friends of the Farmers' faction and independent movements Alliance to cousider well any program when faction suits its purposes ; using proposed by their leaders before adopt all expedients and halting at nothing ing it. We. do not suppose that their necessary to compass its end. j 1 he Governor concludes by asserting that he will never consent that the destinies of the State shall be placed under the domination of anv corpora- tion whatever, and especially that they phall not be placed in the hands of a gambling institution. He invokes the J J 11 J'A? X ill am or nu gooa citizens 10 assise mm in preserving the good name, the welfare and the prosperity of the State. The Governor's message is regarded as the formal opening of the lottery fight, Little will be done bv the Le islature until the question is disposed of Murder Will Out. A MURDERER ARRESTED AND RETURNED TO NORTH CAROLINA AFTER MANY YEARS. Sheriff Mc Williams, of Holly Spring?, Washington county, Mississippi, passed through Charlotte yesterday morning, having in charge William n. Adams, alias William B. Jones. Sheriff Ale Williams was taking the prisoner back to the scene of the crime, fifteen miles from Washington, N.C. When he was in Atlanta, on his way hither, he told the following story to a Constitution reporter: uIn January, 1888, three men, Wil liam Adams, John Newton and Frazier, attacked a man named Joshua Cox, and Frazier shot him to death with a double barrelled shot gun. Adams, Frazier, and Newton were arrested, and Frazier was taken by a mob and hanged, his body being riddled with bullets. New ton was arrested and lodged in jail, bnt afterwards escaped. Adams was r.evjr arrested. Newton was the step-son of Adam-, and during his incarceration Mrs. Adams entered the jail with a pair of pistols concealed in her clothing. After New ton made his escape he went to Missis sippi, where his uncle lives, and during the month of February, 1889, Adams appeared in the neighborhood, and S!)on aner nis raniny ami Anam s iam ily appeared in the neigh borhood of Holly Springs, and Newton and Adams rented lands. Sheriff Mc Williams had his suspi cions aroused, and wrote letters to all the sheriffs of the different counties of North Carolina. At last he received a reply from the sheriff of Washington, and the latter turned over to him the papers necessary for the arrest of Adams, alias Jones. The arrest was made with consider able difficulty, -as the old man Adams went iirmei with a double-barreled shot-gun, a pistol and a long-bladed pocket knife. He was caught in a cotton field while plowing, and after a considerable tussle was forced to sub mit. There was 2"K) reward for him, which Sheriff McWilliams will share with the three brave deputies who as sisted him in the capture. Newton got wind of the arrest and skipped from Mississippi to the Indian Territory, where he is supposed to be." Charlotte Chronicle. Look at it Squarely, Farmers. THE FARMERS AND HIGH TARIFF TAXES. The Secretary starts out with con fessed inability to prove the blessing of high tariff taxes upon farmers by nearly trebling the actual imports of farm products which could be produc ed here under high tariff taxes". 7 Of the over $250,000,000 of agricultural imports which should be produced at home nearly $100,000,000 are for su gar and molasses. The brief answer to this is in the fact that the people have paid high protection taxes to tne sugar industry for very many years more than $1 per head for every man women and child in the country and yet we import our sugar. We tried taxing hides for the benefit of the farmer with the only result of increas ing the farmers' taxes greatly for shoes, harness, beltings etc. We tax hemp $23 per ton, and have done so for many years, and tlie farmers of the entire country don't raise hemp enough to run one mill in this city eight months of the year. We tax hops, and must sell one-third of our crop abroad and import more ihui we ex port. We tax corn, and call it pro tection to the farmer, when the Wes tern farmer burns his corn for fuel. We tax wool that is not grown on farms but on non-farming lands and thus tax the farmer from 70 to 100 per cent, on all the woolens he wears. Next we tax the farmer on his lumber, his paint, his stove, his brick, his forks, his rakes, his mowers, his threshers, his wagons, his wheelbarrows, his ja bles, his tinware, his knives and forks, his salt, his spoons, his chairs, 4iis Bible, his window pains, his pocket knife, his tumblers, his looking glass, bis bedstead, his blankets, sheets and pillows-in short, we tax everything he must buy from 2p to 125 per cent, with large and needless taxe. Phila delphia Tiiyes, -jf "Old Fogy" is a Hew England Re publican. FOMENTING DISCORD IN WAKE THE WAKE ALLIANCE MEETING ON THE 20TH. The developments made bv Old Fo?v local leaders would, with their eves wide open, recommend a prosrram that would lead to harm, but they may themselves be misled bv advice from others, and mav see things in an im- perfect light. The best way then is to carefully consider all proposed meas- nres before starting out on any line of - J action. Our Wake county alliances are to meet here on the 20th. We sunnose the meeting will embrace both republi-J cans and democrats. What will the meeting do in regard to county officers? They might put up a ticket composed of member of both political parties. thus forming an Alliance ticket. If such a ticket were agreed on, and half the officers were allowed to one. party and the other half to the other party, the alliance could probably sweep the country and elect its ticket right along; for we take it for granted that the republican allianceraeu as well as dem ocratic alliancemen would vote the ticket agreed on. But ue hope that that course trill not le adopted. There is another course, to wit. for the alliance men to agree to go into their respective county conventions and nominate alliance men for officers. We would then have too sets of al liance men in the field, one republican and the other democratic. That would be better than the other course. For our own part we fail to see, how ever, why the alliance should take any action in the matter. What are the purposes of the alli ance? We understand that the object for which this association of farmers has been formed is to better the con dition of the agricultural element. It is for the improvement of the finamitl condition of those citizens who are en gaged in agriculture. As promotive of this object, the local associations nlso seek to improve the moral and social condition of their respective communi ties. The farmers think some legislation will be to their benefit whatever leg islation they desire should be made plain, and it may be supposed that they will select representatives who will carry out their wishes in that matter. But apart from that we do n t understand that the object of the or ganization will be at all advanced or promoted b making it a point that only alliance men shall be local officers. That would be tabooing their other fellow-citizens. That would be mak ing a class distinction which would be intolerable. It is a matter of no earthly concern to the Netcs and Observer, except so tar as it would menace the unity, in tegrity and harmony of the democratic party. We would be glad to see all men who wish office gratified, but that is impossible. There are not places enough to go round. We do not object to the nomination of an alliance man for any office, but we suggest that to outlaw all who are not alliance men would breed ill feeling that might be very inconvenient here after. S A . S 1 An ounce or prevention is worth a pound of cure. We expect to work for the election of the democratic ticket and we won Id just as lief every i ii nan on it should oe an alliance man as not. save and except it would be si great departure to outlaw those of out fellow citizens who do not belong to that organization. And so we hope that whatever ac tion may be taken by the alliance here on the 20th will be wise, conservative, thoughtful of others, as well as thought ful for the alliance. We are all in the same boat, and we shall all have to re main in the same boat to the end of the voyage. Let there be that consid eration and kindly feeling which have always characterized the democratic people of the State. Netrs-Obsercer. Whenever New England proves to us, because of her entire faith and kindly spirit in the past, that she ought to be given the guardianship or vita interests down here, then and not till then ought our people to read and credit the New England Yankee and republican, now known to the press as writins under the sobriequet of Old It the South h;is ever had a toe on earth it has been this same implacable New En m hinder, and that we should learn politics, that liastard politics, which is fusion, at his hands to-day seems badly out of sort with tradition Moreover, when Old Fogy can teach us that a large percentage of New England farms are not now a! a alone 1 to the wild weeds of desolation then should we learn of him the art of fnrniinv for profit. If he has control of any choice reflections on woodei nutmeg culture we would be gjad to heai from him, but, with this single saving, in decency he ought to remain mute. Still, if by any means he can set neighborhoods, hitherto peaceful and brotherly, at each other and organ ize a general so now wow, it is his plain dutv to do so. Thev all do that. It seems to be the business in life of half those follows who come down here. If they can't raise sand they are un happy. If he had the fanners of Rowan to deal with once, he would learn his lesson quickly. We believe it "peace on earth, good to man" in this part of the moral vineyard. The Industrial South. Every year the centre of population in this country moves westward, every year the industrial centre moves South ward. Within the past ten years, tak ing all things into consideration, it has been moving Southward very rapidly, but with nothing like the pace it will in the next ten years. There is more money being invested in industrial en terprise in the South now than there ever was before, and yet a good begin n n has not been made. There is not a week which does not show a record of new investments, some of them very large, and new industries in every one of the Southern States, in some more .1 s .a ... than in others, but in all enough to justify the belief that there is a grand industrial tutuie before them all. The organization of companies with a capi tal of $1,000,000, $2,000,000, 3,000, 000 have become events of such fre quent occurrance as to have almost ceased to attract attention, while there are numerous industries started weekly of which scarcely any mention is made outside of the localities immediately interested. 1 here never was a time when the South was attracting so much the at tention of capitalists of the North and of England as now, and nearly all the very large enterprises of which we read are backed bv Northern or Eng lish money. Within the last few weeks $3,000,000 of New England capit: 1 have been invested in and around Chattanooga,and a million of dollars oi more in the Cranberry iron property of this state. In Alabama, Arkansas rr i i uuri XT- and rventucKv. west Virginia, and Virgiua also very large investments have been made within the past few months. But the largest enterprise recorded m s j aii so rar is tne successful scheme to to build a manufacturing city at Mid- dleborough, and to make Cumberland Gap the centre of a great coal and iron development. Mr. A. A. Arthur, one of the principal movers in the scheme. has recently returned from London, where he has spent three months con ferring with English capitalists, where he has succeeded in putting on foot en terprises which in the aggregate will involve an investment of $8,000,000 for which the subscriptions were readi ly made, and he reports that he found no difficulty in securing all the money in London for the developments con templated there for which he could find profitable use $8,000,000 had been subscribed for investments, there may probably be some exaggeration in the figures, but still there is enough to show the fact that there is a grand industrial movement on fot t there which will bj successfully carried out. The fact is becoming more recogniz ed and conceded every day that the South is the great iron section of this continent, that she has iron and coal proximity and both inexhaustable qualities, and that in the South even now, where the industry has hardly got a fair start, iron can be mined and manufactured much more cheaply, and with a larger margin for profit than it can be anywhere in the world. It can be mined and put on the cars for less money in Alabama tnan it can in England, and it can be mined and man ufactured for less money anywhere in the iron-producing sections of the South than it can be in Pennsylvania. In certain kinds of iron there has been a decline in prices within the past year which has had the effect of closing a good many furnaces in Penn sylvania which have decided to sns jiend, temporarily at least, operations rather than work for the prices ob tainable in the market. No Southern furnaces have been closed, but on the contrary, the nuniler has besn inher ed, they are all running full time and and are making satisfactory profits, notwithstanding the decline in prices. The reason for this is that they have the advantage of their Pennsylvania and other rivals in the proximity of ore and lime, the abundance and cheap ness of coke, and the saving of freight age of these, that their northern rivals have to pay. In the miningand mill ing of iron, the South has not only demonstrated her ability to hold her own, but to lead her competitors, and and the result of this demonstration is the large amount of capital being an nually in iron properties stud iron pro ducing and iron making industries. Within ten years the South will be the iron-making ectiou of this continent, and will have within her borders some of the greatest iron- industries in the world. WiUmmjton Star. Killed and Eaten. San Francisco, May 12. Four white and flirty-seven natives, who going as laborers to Australia, were hwt by tlie Wreck of the schooner Eliza Mary off the New Hebrides. The survivors say that about twenty natives and one white man reached here, bnt the Islanders, after inviting them to a feast, tomahawked and ate the whole crowd, except one boy, who (escaped. $150,000,000 00 Per Annum. THE DEPENDENT PENSION' wt.- $rfn TAX PER HEAD FOR EVERY MAN, W0-' MAN AND CHILD IN AMERICA WIDOWS ANDv PARENTS PENSIONED $8.00 ft MONTH TO THE DISABLED BURGLAR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY S SPLENDID BRIBE. The Service Pension bill which pass ed the House of Representatives hist week goes several degrees farther th: ii any of its predecessors. It provides ( 1 ) ior me paymeuc ot a pension (Sa.OU per month) to all who served three months in the L nion arinv and who are now, from any cause, disabled from earning their living; (2) all who served three months shall upon readi ng the age of sixty years receive there after, until death, a pension of $8.00 month ; (3) the widows of tho e who served three months shall on reaching the age of sixty years receive a pens-ion of $8.00 per month, to continue during widowhood ; (4) the- widow of anv . man who served three m .nth?, if she Le dependent on her daily exertions for a iving, shall, no matter what her age, receive a pension of $8.00 a month ; (5) minor children of those who served three vears shall until the age of 10 receive a pension of $S.OO per month. Hy another bill now pending, depent eat parents of those who serve I thr e months are to receive a pension. The estimated cost of the bill is $40, 000,000 a year; it will probably go much beyond that. Other pension bills already in force are taking SllO.- 000,000 per year, making a total of at least $1 o0,000,000, an aveiage of about $2.30 for every mau, woman and child in the country, or $11.50 for every family. Uncle Sam's income this year is estimated to be $450,000,000. If this bill passes, the estimated expend' tures so far known will reach $458 -000,000. The surplus, it-will Le seeiy is not likely to trouble us next year. The pension bill makes no distinction whatever between those who served (M) nays and those who have disabled themselves in burglarizing a house and tli j c ,viio have been injured by acci dent due to no fault of their own, if anyone is disabled that is all that is necessary to entitle him to a pension. If a man is worth $1,000,000 when reaching the age of 60, he is io receive the same pension as the man worth nothing, and in all cases: the money must come from the people's p.Vckets, in the way of taxation. We don't care to express an opinioiv-of the I. ill. Ve have given facts. If the rest of the nation feel rich enough to give S11.5H per family for these purposes, why, we can stand our share. But we could do it with much better grace if the sus picion was free from our mind that the money is not voted out of gratitude for services rendered our country so much as for services rendered or to be ron 1 r ed a political party. Another Irish League. FRENCH AND IRISH PLOTTIHO TO ANNEX CANADA. A Montreal special to the Herald says it is rumored that a new secret Irish association with a membership of ten thousand, has deen formed, with its head centre in that city and Quebec, and its object lieing antagonistic to British rule. It is thought that the principal object is to obtain money fr the benefit of the Irish home rulo party, and that a final object is the separation and annexation, of Canada to the United States. There are as many French as Irish members of tho league. It will be wel for those intreaguing foreigners, of whatever blood, to under stand that an honest cause and silent, secret machination have no possi Me as sociation. We hunt no man in: Araer ca and there is no necessity for occult, underhand dealings. What Hon. Jno. W. Daaiel thinks Vance. of Hon. John W. Danretof Lynchburg, Va., who spent the" last three days in Raleigh, attending the .Supreme court, returned hoihe yesterday. In speaking of pablitTmen, he said that Senator Vance, of North Carolina, was one of the ablest of all the-eOun-try's representatives,and that his advice was powerful and his influence strong iu. all the important questions concern ing the interests of the people and country. He expressed gratification at finding a strong sentiment here in favor of returning Vance to t lie Senate next term. It istheopiniou of Mr. Dan ' icl that Vance's cox use 1 would bMttt -ed by the Senate.aiid t hat Carolina can not do herself no greater honor than to return nun. relate vnromcie. Chili, China or Japan conld sweep the Pacific coast of the Tutted States without a check at any point. ' They have ships fit 'for the work, and wo l ave neither ships nor guns to opposti them. Three hundred, millions of dol lars could be taken out of San Francis co and as much out of other cities,-" New York Herald. Better move San Francisco. Since New Year, 75U,:0 gallons of California wine have been shipped by water frem San Francisco to New York, .