arolina
fOL. XXJ.-THiRD SERIES
SALISBURY, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1890.
NO. 35.
Watchman.
riork m'sor Court, J M Horah.
., C (' K rider.
Befcistr0
.. SamM MeCubbins,
P&tstsi
,vol!-n C A icy.
Survey
! A Atwcii,
.( r: T J Sumner chairman,
JTKlHttz,- C F Baker, Dr L W Cole-
'Cornelius Ktsticr.
"SVf Public S-hnoK T C Linn. ;
Eli't of Uenlth, Jr J J SutotEtereH.
dinml-sK
infer-eOT of Poor, 7 M ISrowii. .
mux. .
nVor, f-has-P Crawford.
TVrkrV'i Julian.
- Ewasurer, I H Foust,
VoliC". u i ,i :fr nni;i, .. r i inn-,
u- pool, II M.Barrhrger, Benj Cauhle.
.. ...,,,!-:;..! is North ward, J A Rcn-
, ,,,.,) 4' I -Mill' i, inuwi "in,, J' J"
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f A vll,r'K ' warn, .r
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' CHFHCHES.
' l('t II"' ' ' V . J V
II a in :uid i4 p in. Prayer in eoting
vvoi'v W diu sday at GJ p in. Rev T W
(iutlirif. pa-tor, . - X
Sunday ' hool every Sunday afternoon
o'clock. J W Mauncy, sup't.
prftisrian Serviced, every Sunday
at 11 a i" :u"1 S::U) H m- Prayer meeting
Lfcry -Wednesday at 8:30 p in. Rev J
gundav school every-bmutr.y afternoon
' i . ..." 1 1! II til 1 il f QtlTl'h
Lutheran Services every Sunday at 11
ill and 7 :ii. Prayer" meeting every
ftHlnesuay .uU7 p m. Rev Chas B King,
ftttndnv pcliool ovfi'v Mindav afternoon
;,;;. in! It ; Klzer, sjtp't.
foiscopal Serviecfi-every Su uday-atl 1
am ami tWOp m and Wednesday at G:30
nil. Uev F J Mtirdoeli", rector.
Suiday seliool every Sunday afternoon
ttSpiO' Capt Then Parker, sup't. . .
C;ijttist---Ser vices every .Sunday ra or n
kf flnd uilit. Prayer meeting every
aVciliic-ciay nigiii. ivev-
pastor.
Sunday sjchopl every Sunday at 0- a.m.
Jim ISwiiik, sup't.
Catholic Services every second Sun
day at ij'j :v ni"and 7 p in. Rev Francis
lU$cr, pastor.
Samliiy school every nn day at 10 a m.
Y M ' A DevoUoual services at Hall
every Sunday at 10 a m. BWinessmeet-inK-iirst
Thursday night in every month.
1 if Foust, pres't.
Fulton Lod.e No D9 A F & AM, meets
(very .first and third Friday night in each
Walk K P Xeavc, W M. .
Salisbury Lodge No 21. K of P, meets
i ty Taesday night. A II P.oyden, C C.
SjilLsliury Lolge, No 77-j, K of II, meets
- every 1st :.iid :5d Monday night in each
Month. . Dictator.
Salisbury Council, No 272,' Royal Ar-
canuni, meet
every 2d and 4th -Monday
L- J
in
each month. J A Ramsay,
LWnt.
POSTDFFICE. :
Office hours from 7:G0 a m to ?:'",0 p m.
Hoafy order fi on rsi-fwi to 5 j nv.
San lav hour.
41:30 a m to
M.
12.30 p m
i li Ramsav, P
Absoiuteiy Pure.
uwaerflevor varies A marvelor rnr:t r
ii ni, -111'1 lvU'iI'Sfni.neJS. More economtcsd
i! iui ivk-inils. and cabnot, be s.ilU In
v yyt.vit li i in- niuifniHU or low t est . siiovt
( ''i. ila.n ,u hos;ihatie powders. Sold only In
KOYAL UAKINU l'(rtt4)EK Co. .106 W illi St. N
orIe by Binsbani & Co. , Young & Bos
l"fl.:iiil X. P. Murphy.
fi
Take no 'shoe nnless
AV. DoiiKlnf' nanjo and
lil'if-t. ' ri. 1 ' l . ill 'l i till I IlO
wnu direct to factory, cnclosiiiii aUvi-rtised
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W. L, DOUGLAS
W SHOE GENTLEMEN.
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S- (.'''j-.f in the World. Kxaimne lisi.
' . .KNITXK II AN B-SKWKM SHOE.
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9-0 i a,,,, ,.ovs, seiiOOI. SHOES.
JUl luttde li, (Vi.i,...io ltittlt SitMl
'3 & $2 SHOES
FOR
LADIES.
U , 1 -75 KHOK FOR M ISSKS.
Material. I'.t Slyle. Iit rittinff.
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"1. S. BROWN.
SUB-TREASURY PL AN.
JUDGE
COTKRAN'S
OPINION.
EARNEST
ANOTHER WARNING TO THR FARMERS OP
THK SOVTM FROM THE COLUMNS
OF THE CHARLESTON
news & courier.
1 . House of Representatives, )
Washington, isoo. )
Mr. A. M. Guy ton, Piereetown, S. 0.
-My Dear Sir : Your letter of the
14th instant has been received. In it,
writing iu behalf of yourself and neigh
bors, von ask in eu "pltnse to tell us
(you) what th.e Jjill (known as the
sub-treasury biljproposes to do; also
your (niy) views concerning said bill'
Acknowledging at the outset and to
the fullest extent the right of every
one of nnr constituents to demand of
me, as their representative, at nil times,
information upon- public questions. I
promptly and cheerfully comply with
your request.
Upon t he subject referred to by yon.
two bills have been introduced in the
present Congress, one in the Senate
and" one in the Hou-e. I send to you
n copy of each of the bills. Upon each
ot the in you will observe the words
"by request;1' in legislative ethics, this
simply mentis that the Senator (Mi:
Yance) and the Representative ( Mr.
Pickler) who introduced them are not
thereby necessarily committed to- their
support.
The bills provide for the storage in
warehouses of all kinds of farm pro
ducts which are suitable for storage
and shipment jtnd not "of an immedi
ately perisbjshable nat ure. These ware
houses are'to be bnilt all over the
country, at an estimated expense to be
borne by the government, ot some
thing like S50.0(K),0()0. Upon t he pro
ducts so stored certificates shall be -issued
by the government, and to the
amount of 80 per cent, of ihe value of
the artjcles so stored the government
shall lend to the holders of these cer
tificates, or recepts, money at 1 per
cent, per annum.
REiiSON FOR THE BILE. '
The obvious reason of the demand
for this extniardinarv legislation is Hie
present depressed condition of the.
rgricnltural interest airbver the United
States, and especially in the Western
and northwestern States. The burning
of corn for fuel in the Srate of Kansas
is Hie most complete an 1 summarfzed
statement of the cause. This is so far
from being applicable to the farmers
of South Carolina that it may be Well
to reflect very seriously before we give
to the proposed measure our support.
As 1 am now serving as your Repre
sentative in Congress myjast term, it.
seems to me that I am in a position to
deal with you in a spirit of the utmost
frankness, and altogether freed frop
any possible charge of demagogery in
saying, that I regard the farming in
terests oT the country as embracing its
very bono -arid sinew the mainstay
and support of the government itself.
These interests are suffering from over
production, and for the want of ade
uuatc means t transnort the tremen
dous surplus of products, to markets
beyond our own borders.
THE WEST HAS GROWN TOO FAST.
On account of the cheap and fertile
lands in the West and Northwest, the
vast tide 5f immigration that as
steadily "flowed thither for the last
twenty-five years, thebiilky nature of
their products and; their remoteness
from the markets of the East and of
the world, the prices realized have not
been remunerative. Besides, the cost
of living and of production lias been
greatly increased by an unjust, unnec
essary and oppressive system of tariff
taxation, resulting in a widespread antl
almost universal network of farm
mortgages, given to secure money ad
vanced by eastern capitalists. X The
census of the present year, if correctly
Kaken, will be, in this regard, an ap
palling disclosure to the whole country.
It required but a single good piovision
crop in the South, .with which we were
blessed last year, to bring about the
catastrophe and along with it this de
mand for relief to them- (not to us)
which ha.? found expression in the pro
posed sub-treasury' bill.
I do not beifeve that this picture is
overdrawn or exaggerated. You may
ask. how is it- with ourselves? Many
would doubtless answer, bad enough.
n my travels over the district last
summer, which took me once into your
own excellent neighborhood. I did
not find a single f armer who attended
t) his business half as well as he could
have done thatXvas riot promising. I
could name a number of them, whom
tyou know' its well or better than I do.
NO USE Fpntllfi PROPOSED WAREHOUSE.
To come directly to the point: bnp-.
pose a government warehouse should be
erected at Piereetown, what would you
or vouf neighbors put in it? Cotton
bales are wdpnigh the only consider
able surplus presets of your farms.
Nobodv eats tfottoiu; it is to bulky to
steal without almost certain and speedy
detection of the thief; and if you have
no convenient place for storing it dur
ing tlie time lit i held before market
ing a lew poles laid upon the ground
and a temporary shea ot loose ptatiKs
will suffice for protecting it from the
nroiw It. is not so with the west-
ern farmer's products, which must hi
r-nrpfullv housed and kent under
and key. Besides, what islLe effect ol
withholding these different crops from
the market? From 1801 to 1805 the
world, by some means or other, man
aged to get on without our cotton
crops. In such years as we had from
18S3 to 1889, if the corn, bacon and
flour that we required had been in gov
ernment warehouses, cornered by law,
as this bill proposes to do, ours instead
of theirs would have been the land of
mortgages; the contest, as you must
see, is an unequal one, and the odds
are all against us. Yon can get on,
for a time at least, with worn and
pateed clothing, but a lean and empty
larder who can long withstand?
THE SOUTH J1ETTER OFF THAN THE WE5T.
As bad as some m iv deem our con
dition, it ought to afford them some
relief to contrast it with that of others.
Take the State of Towa, for instance.
I have already alluded, incidently, to
corn burning in Kansas. It appears
from agricultural statistics of Iowa
for the last year that the average yield
of corn, which is their main cron. was
30 bushels per acre, and the price at
the crib 23 cents per bushel gross
yield in money by the aere$0. You
elm by proper care and attention bring
up any acre upon your farm, and that
means every acre upon it, to produce
a bale of cotton 1.200 pounds in the
seed, the market price of which during
the past season was 20 cents per bushel,
the exact equivalent in value of the
Iowa farmer's 30 bushels of corn. Be
sides you have 400 pounds of lint
worth 10 cents per pound, against,
which to charge up the expanses of
production, and if it should take $40
for that purpose, (which yon know is
hiot the fact) you would at least-have
sSO, the proceeds of the sale of seed, as
clear profit.
, During my travels over the district
last summer I iiad the pleasure of at
tending several of the Farmers' Al
liance mecinigs. I felt a riep interest
in them, heartily approving every
effort of the country to better their
condition. Like all the rest of man
kind they too make mistakes. I ven
tured in a modest way to point out
some of these. The burden of their
efforts seem to be how and where to
i ii i i miiTi.i.i
oiiy uic cheapest, mat 1 void them
was well, but itjs not the ma
There is never much trouble i
II II til 1 11 LT.
to buy, if
one has the money with which to buy.
It is vastly more important to have
something to sell.
DO NOT BORROW MONEY.
And so it is with one of the features
of this sub-treastiry.sehcnie which is so
well eaculated to catch gudgeons, by
holding out the offer of lending money
at a cheap rate of inter st. It matters
not what the rate of interest is. in the
end you will find that you have to foot
the bill. The present indebtedness of
the government, whose mainstay and
support you are, is in louud numbers
1,400 million dollars, requiring nearly
50 million dollars to meet the annual
interest. Now how does it strike you
as a financial policy for one who owes
1,40 million dollars bearing interest
at 3 and 4 per cent, to lend out his
monev at 1 per cent, per annum, to sav
nothing or paying out otr.or millions
for warehouses, for salaried officials
and so on, in order to get a chance to
commit some stupendous folly ? Com
mon sense, sound reason and good
judgment are just as necessary in man-
aging the attains or government as mey
are in conducting a farm, a store or a
bank.
Some persons of much financial skill
i I. II . .-!!--
and energy niav nanme suceessi uny
borrowed money. Tlieseoonstitute the
exception to the rule. The rule itself
is exactlythe reverse ot this.
A lesson of more value to our peo
ple than anv politico-financial device
that can be conceived oi is to lie lound
it the practical precept, borrow not at
all.
. THE REPUBLICAN PLOT.
Tn. the frankness that shall charac
terize this letter, I warn you against
extreme men a'rfd measurest The old
paths are the safest. Very soon I
shall take my place with you in the
ranks againin he struggle thaf, lies
just ahead of us, I pray that we may
have the be.t, the truest and the wisest
of leaders. Accepting as you have
done in the utmost good faith the re
sults of the late war, having adapted
yourselves as best you could t the
changed condition in your aff tirs, you
do not realize tiie litter prejudice that
the republican politicians still have
towards you. They are fully deter-mi-nttd.
if thev can. to nass the bill now
pending in (imgress, to regulate and
control the federal elections in the
States. Its machinery, meant solely
for the southern States, is to be set in
motion upon the petition of five hun
dred voters in-anv one of the congres
sional districts.; These will readily be
found in every congressional district of
the States lately engaged in the rebel
lion Xso-called) and not in one of the
States that adhered to the Union.
Should the bill become a law t'ne strug
gles of 1870 will be renewed in Soot h
Carolina, and yon will need all of the
wisdom, nil of' the moderation, all of
the enthusiasm and devotion, without
which that splendid victory would have
bee t turned into disaster.
There are other grave and important
questions that I would gladly bring to
vour attention, and many other strong
ir, asons. that might be given in oppo
sition to this proposed raid upon the
ii-PMsm-v. but this letter has benu ex-
I tviided 'far beyond the limits purposed
at the outset. I would like to call
your attention to the unholyalliance
between the farmers of the West and
the Knights of Labor, which bodes no
good to us. See their effort already
made to depress about the only ex
clusively southern industry, cotton seed
oil, by the passage of what is known
as the compound lard bill. Look at
the exlibrbitant demand for pensions,
already requiring more tharLone hun
dred million dollars annually, and the
end is not yet. It has been a just
cause of pride with us that pur regular
army is so small and inexpensive, and
to-day no monarchy in the Old World
pays as much to keep up its standing
army as we pay for pensions.
AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL BILL.
I have refrained from stating the
constitutional objection to the sub
treasury bill; that is of the nature of
technical law, but for that matter all
law is technical; this objection is so
obvious that I hazard little in saving
ttiat I do not believe the bill will ever
lie reported by the coaunittee to which
it has been referred. If it should be,
and should be passed bv both houses ol
Congress, I do not believe the Presi-
dell t will approve it, and I have no
doubt that the Supreme Court will
declare it unconstitutional.
There is no warrant in the Consti
tution for the government ever becom
ing a money-lender. It has the power
by various methods to levy taxe.?, to
borrow money on the credit of the
United States, to regulate commerce
with foreign countries and between
the States; and tlrere are sundry other
powers delegated to it by the States,
but by no process of construction,
however strained, unless it be as boys
at school sometimes get the answer to
their sunn by "forging,11 can this
time-honored though much abused in
strument be made to yield a result.
GROUNDLESS CHARGES.
The matter of greatest concern to the
people of South ('arolina is the preser
vation of the integrity and political su
premacy of the white race wlich can
alone secure -the perpetuity of t he pres
ent form and methods of good gover
ment the experiment of carpet-bag.
scalawag and negro rule has been tried
and endured as long as it was possible
to bear it. But when I hear whole
sale charges of profligacy and corrup
tion made against those who have
faithfully discharged th?ir official du
ties in every department of the state
goverment, charges unsupported by a
t tie of proof, ami too often listened to
with willing ears, I can but fear that
many are beginning to regard our de
liverance as assured for all time, and
t'.iat for its continuance little or no vig
ilance is required
Accept my thanks for the opportun
ity afforded by your letter of giving to
you and others this expression of my
views, and trusting if they are correct,
as I believe them to be, that you will
concur iu them, I am very ivsnest
fnlly and truly yours,
J. S. COTHRAN.
A New Republic.
The attempt, to establisn a political
union on the isthmus which seperates
North and South America is very like
ly to be successful.
A provisional treaty Jiaving this
end in view has been submitted to
representatives of Niearagra Hon
duras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Sal
vador. When the parts have sufficiently
cohered the grand total will ho known
its "The Republic of Central .
These States when considt
m r ca "
red sep-
arately aie merely political atomies.
They are, however, as quarrelsome as
little people generally are, and revo
lution runs in the hot blood of the
populace. Jealous of each other they
take up arms against wrongs, both
visible and invisible, and spend so much
time in preparing for war and in get
ting over its effects that progress iu
the arts of civilnzation is low.
The great bulk of the population is
crude and uneducated. The few who
have Spanish blood iu their v.ins are
easily masters of many wan arc
of Indian origin. But fhectndition is
uusatisfactoiy to the lat degree, b -cause
ho masses arc neither spurred
by ambition nor given to enterprise.
The soil is rich. The possibilities of
agriculture .are alluring and ""Only man
vile.1'
The hope is to effect a union which
will bring the people into touch with
the outside world, prick their pride,
give them self re-pact, increase their
commercial interests, destroy interstate
fends, introduce new opportunities and
industries.
If the Republic of Central America
becomes an accomplished fact we shall
look for great changes in that section
of the country. Popular edu
cation will receive added momentum-,
extreme poverty, the result of tropical
laziness, will give way to rivalry in
business and the competition for per
sonal gain. Twenty years of union
will do un rj for the people than the
last sixty years of separation have
done, and their children's children will
make .something of a territory which
will readily yield rich returns to skill
and pluck.-X. Y. Huutd.
Mr. J. J. Mitchell, who lives near
Scotland Neck, had his stables blown
down during a st.orui and lost two val
uable unties Gteentsboro ldi kL
'Lost Cove" Canyon.
WILD, PICTURESQUE AND ROMANTIC
SCENERY AND ROYAL GAME A BEAR
FIOHT, FROM TnE LENOIR TOPIC.
Lost Covei said County Surveyor
Johnj L. Kirby, who had just returned
from a surveying tour in the North
western corner of Caldwell county, is
situated in the Northwestern part of
the county, closr? to the Mitchell line
and between Carey's Flat and 'the Per
simmon woods. The surrounding
mountains form part of the Grand
father ridge, where Headquarters
Creek, the head of the waters of Wil
son's Creek, has its beginning. The
road across C. scy's Flat, from G obe to
Linville City, is the only main public
road across the mountain and it is not
a good one. The whole section is diffi
cult of access on account of the rough
neighborhood roads and trails. The
section is sparsely settled, the clearings
being few and small and the forest al
most in a state of primeval growth.
Very few p ople of the county know
anything about this beautiful sectiond
wmch is alnnst exactly as it was when
the waters of tho flood subsided be
1 hw the f p of Grandfather mountain
the oldest g 'ological ft rm ition in
the world. Our citizens are perhaps
not aware that here is mountain scen
ery, as wild, sublime, b ant'ful Iv.id
picturesque as is to be found in the
State. The most valuable f nib r of
all kinds abounds and the forests are"
almost impassable on account of the
impenetrability of the thick and matted
rhododendron. Frequently surveying
parties, unable to make their way
trough the laurel, are compelled to
walk over and upon the matted surface
of its f op.
On Headquarters Mountain, at the
head of the canyon, he looked down
thousands of fed. into the seemingly
fathomless depths and grew giddy as
he locked. Below the top, where the
surveying party were stationed, were
heard the screams of eagets fluttering
from the nests built in the crevices of
precitons walls of the canyon. A
pistol shot alarmed them and they cir
cled up, rising higher and higher
until they reached a considerable alti
tude above the top of the mountain.
Then, stopping in mid-air, they balan
ced themselves and dived downward:
recovering themselves, they again bal
anced and circled around, again to dive
downward like a shot from a catapult.
One vicious-looking young bird of
prey seemed to lie making for the sur
veying party intent upon a fight and,
when he balanced himself in good
range, a well-directed shot froni a shot
gun. brought him down. Wo fell on
the mountain top, a few inches from
the edge of the precipice, and was
quickly secured before he could strug
gle over into the abyss.
The members of the party enjoyed,
from the top of Headquarters moun
tain, as grand and comprehensive a
view as it was ever the privilege of
mortal man to observe. They took in
the grand sweep of mountain and val
ley view far and near, and saw the
Road mountain hotel, Linville City,
Blowing Rock and its hotels and Dav
enport College.
The home of the black bear is in
these mountains :md valleys. In that
localitv 2S have he m killed since Christ
mas. Last winter .vas particularly
favorable to bear.-, which did not have
to hibernate but fed all winter. In
August they will get seal-fat on huck
leberries in the "huckleberry orchards"
on the mountains and forests the in
habitant carry axes in preference to
guns, as they are greater protection
in a hand-to hand encounter with
bruin. The tracks of bear in the
marshy places and other soft ground
are almost as common as those of hogs
in other parts of the range, and more
so in that part of it infested with bear,
for bke Gov. Vances alligator, the bear
IS
atupiiioious
1
and will "eat a I
log in
a minute ( 1 he uoverners joke was
about a man in Morgan ton telling
another man about his trip to Florida
in whtch he descanted at length upon
the exploits of alligators on land and
at sea. "Why,"' said the listener, "the
alligator inust bean amphibious ani
mal,'1 "Amphibious! Amphibious as
bell, sir! E it a bog in a" minute!")
The surveyors went one day to a Mr.
Pritehard's, with Mr. Pinkney Shell,
to g.'t some assistants for their work,
and two young Prichards, who had
some time before gone up the moun
tain in answer to tho calls of Hender
son Calloway, were returning with a
beaiilcub apiece on their shoulders.
Callawav, who had called for assistance,
was walking along the ridge, axe on
shoulder and followed by a dog. Sud
denly the dog sprang, furiously bark
ing, into a clump of laurel and ran two
J?ar cubs up a tree. He was then at
tacked bv an immense she-lioar and
worried and bit at her liKlustnousiy,
actively eluding her ugly slaps at him
with her great paws. Presently the
bear stood up on her hind legs and,
growling and snapping and showing
her deadly white tusks ami blood-red
lips, started hand over hand for Callo
way, reaching for him to take him
into close embrace- It was then that
he called out for help to the Prichards
into the valley. By .swinging his axe
with the energy born Of di speration
he manage!, by the help of t! e plucky
little dog. to make the bear retreat,
though site returned to the utfcaet two
or three times b-forc tho much needed
help arrived. When the two young
Prichards rushed breathlessly up to
the top of the mountain they found
that they had come none too soon, as
Calloway was almost oxhausted and
the old bear, enragedLby the prrsistence
or her enmy in remaining under the
tree iu which her cubs hatf taken ref
uge, was closing in on him to crush
him in a treacherous hug. Their com
bined efforts put the old bear to. fight
I tit were not equal o overtaking and
dispatching her. They caught the-
cu b. and took them down to Pntchard s
and in a few days they became quite
tamo, and when Calloway took his
away to his own home. On his wav
across the mountain he was again atH
tacked in the laurel by a bear that he
thinks was the mother of the cub. He
threw the cub down and scared off the
old be ir by striking at her with his
axe and setting his dog on her. He
then reshouldered the cub and went on
his way rejoicing.
Equal to tho Occasion.
HOW SENATOR PALMER SAVED A
whole
DOLLAR.
Now York Star.
There is a good story told about
Senator Palmer when he was living
in Washington. It was his custom
to go to church every Sunday morn
ing, and also his custom to put a sin
gle dollar on the plate. As he passed
into church one Sunday morning, he
began to search throughT his pockets
with a dismayed look on his fate.
Turning to his companion he asked
for the loan off a dollar, explaiug that
he had but a two dollar bill. The
secretary", c o ltd rot acecmul ite ti e
Senator, but a bright thought sudden
ly seemed to strike the latter, and he
exclaimed:
"Oh, well, I can fix if.'
"Yon wouldn't make change off the
plate would you?"1 asked the secretary,
horrified at the thought.
"Never mind how I will do it,"
replied the Senator, "You will see it
done."
W hen the jdaie came nuonnd the
Senator gravely took out his 2 bill,
tore it in two pieces in the middle ar.d
"laid one piece on the jdate. After the
services were over he walked forward
where the stewards were counting the
collection money and asked the one
who had come down his aisle if. a mut
ilated $2 bill had been found on the
plate.
"Yes. and we dont k-jow what to do
with it," was the man's reply.
"Well said the Senator, "here's the
other half, and you can have it for SI.
That will in ike your half worth $1 to
yon, and 1 is all I ever give."
He got the dollar.
Fsd3 for Oil Pajisr.
Most house-keepers know how in
valuable newspapers suv for packing
away winter clothing, the printing ink
acting as a defiance to the stoutest
moth, some house-wives think, as suc
cessfully as camphor or tar paper. For
this reason newspapers are invaluable
ujkV r the carpet, laid over tin? regular
carpet. The most valuable part of
newspapers in the kitchen, however, is
their ability to keep out the air. It
i; wfcll known that ice, completely en
v dojfued in newspapers so thatall air is
shut out, will keep a longer time than
u.uler other conditions; and that a
p. tcher of ice water laid in a newspaper,
with the ends of the paper twisted to
gether to exclude the air, will rem tin
all night in any summer room with
scarcely any perceptible melting of the
ice. Those facts should be utilized
oftsner than they are iu the case of
the sick at night. In freezing ice
cream, when the iee is scarce, pack the
freezer only three-quarters full ot ice
and salt, and finish with newspapers,
and the time of freezing and quality
of the cream is not perceptible from
the result where the freezer is packed
full of ice. After removing the dasher,
it is better to cork up the cream and
cover it tightly with a packing f
newspapers than to use more ice. The
e.v.spip;r ret tin t!i ; c ! I alre ily in
the ice bet ter than a packing of cracked
ice and salt, which must have crevi
ces to admit the air.
Work oa the New Navy.
Work is now in active pr gress on
ten of the new vessels for the navy.
The Concord will soon make her trial
ti ip for the (biintartl Iron Works, the
Bennington is undergoing her mini
joiner work, and will be launched in
the autumn. The moulds have been
made, material ordered, and tools re
ceived for gunboats Xos. 4 and 5 whose
keels are laid at the Bath, Maine Iron
Work- The work has inspired t!u
Bath builders to further ffort, and
they are supplying their works with
an equipment for additional Govern
ment work. The second payment Ins
been made mi Cruisers Nos. Uand 10,
building at the Columbian Iron
Works. The two s'e u posts have
been completed by the Standard Steel
Casting Company, and there is no
reason why these crafts should not be.
speedily completed. Unfortuuutly for
the Texas, a delay has been caused bv
the faults of both stern pots, which are
uiisnited for vm--Atim icin Muuufttr
tnret'. J, M. Stoner, a racket store man do
fug business at Salisbury ami Lexing
ton has m;id ; an aisiguui Mit. The
Lexington Ltfte' places hi lbilitc s
I at $5,503. semi the same. i
That Federal Election Bill.
THE LATEST REPUBLICAN OUTRAGE ON
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
Washington, June 11. For tho
fourth timehe rejvublicnn Represent
atives wefp in caucus hist nignt upon
the subject of it national election law.
The attendance was small and as it
was understood that a vote was not to
be taken before 10 o'clock to decide as
between the Lodge and Itowell bill?,
the first two hours were devoted to n
discussion.
The result of the talk was that when
Speaker Reed pom ted out how the dif
ferences between the a Hiefents of the
two bills could be adjusted, by the com
bination of the feature? or principles of
each which were unobjected to, his pro
position was unanimously accepted, sinu
Messrs. Rowell and Lodge were-in-structed
to formulate a compromise
bill. r -
Its features will be an enlargement
of the supervisors systeinsvso that tho
supervisors shall participate In registra
tion, voting, and canvassing. IWarry
out fully the national idea, the super
visors' returns are to be prima facie
evidence of the right of a member to
his seat and to prevail in making up
the roll of the House. In cae;of con
flicting returnstthe certificates of the
state canvassers may lie used to a now
the House to form its' judgment of the
quauncations ot the contestant-.
As soon as the proposition is relncetl
to form it is expected that another
caucus will be called to adoptthe meas
ure and provide for its speedy consider
ation by the House. v
Known by Numbers.
A NOVEL STATEMENT FROM ONE OF THE
'' CENSUS SUPERVISORS,
Washington, June 12. A rather
singular proposition was madeto sup
erintendent Porter by Census Super-,
visor Ashley, of the 5th Pennsylvania,
district, lie states that the Hunsr
Poles, and many-of the Italians com
posing the foreign element in Lucka-
wanna, Luzerne and Canton counties
refuse to give any information to the
census enumerators. These people
are employed by companies and con
tractors, he says, and are known
by numbers, each man wearing his
number on his person and responding
to it.
As they refuse to answer the census;
questions, the snjiervisor suggests thak
the enumerators be instructed to take
account of such employees by their
number. Superintendent Porter did
not like the idea, and informed the
supervisor that the Census Office would
not help to eqietiiate a state of things
where large numbers of laborers are
treated more like beasts of burden than
men, are known only by numbers.
He then gave positive instructions that
a sufficient number of enumerator
and interpreter be employed to
procure the information calledfor by
the census schedule.
Washington and Lee.
Arlington, the home of Gen. Lee,
rivals Mount Vernon iu historic in-
forest. From the day when, iu the
reign of George H., Sir William Berke
lev, Governor of Virginia, granted
00,000 acres of land along the Potomac
River to Robert Howson -a grant
which was afterwards sold for six
hogshenls of tobacco the estate has
passed through many changing scenes.
Here Jolin Cus i brought his haughty
and ill-tempered bride; here in the
happiness of young wifehood cams the.
beautiful Martha Custis, soon to .be
come a whIow beneath its noble oaks,
George Washington wooed and won
her after her husband's death; lr
too, she sat iu a little summer
house on sunny afternoons, and, with
the Father of his Country, watched
the placid Potomae, roll onward to the
sea; here her grand daughter, Mary
Randolph Cnsfcis, wedded her child
hood's playfellow, Lieut. Robert E. Lee;
here these two- young hearts lived in
arcadian happiness until there came
the sound of cannon, and a curtain of
desolation shut put the happiness of
the past and made it but a memory
and a dream. Pott.
He Still Lives.
If Eiliett Sheppard,Toni Reed diet
oiiuin genus -knew how we h td leeu
"tempted, and tried for the past month;
they even they would le afraid To
to come lown South. A inna.jip An
York tftate bad a sou who was evident
ly a terror to the family and under ait
assumed apprehension of failing health
sent the young man to Hickory, lie
roomed next to our office. He wlfist
led as liest he could, and sung all sorts
of broken stanzas, and finally struck
up: "We'll hang Jeff Davis on a
sour apple tree, as wd go marching"
home,1 and we spared- liis un profit abl
life. We are a native Southern man.
We admire the life and character of
Jefferson Davis, but We heard that
young "Yank" sing tjrat saereligious
ditty, knowing he was; all alone, and
did not kill him, What mure does the
ensanguined linen shaker wish. Prttii
mid Caw ilium.
The boot and shoe dealers ol Wil
mington will give their cleiks a h.ih
holiday on every I Yidaya!teriiboTi.
The new order of things will ha gin
JuoeOth and last until August lot1 .