North Carolina Newspapers

The Carolina Watchman. I " y I? SALISBURY, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1890. NO. 42. OL XXL THIRD SERIES. jjOME! SEE! BUY! G. W. WRIGHT, fe Leading Furniture Dealer and Undertaker IN SALISBURY. Is now ollering Largest and Best Assorted Stock of Fwrni- turc ever brought PAR LOU SUItS ! PARLOR SUITS ! Mohair Crush Plush at $60.00. Former price f75.00. Silk Plush 'at $50.00. Former price, fGO.OO. Wool Plush at $35.00. Former price, $45,00. , . ' BED ROOM SUITS! RED ROOM SUITS 1 Antique Oak, Antique Ashe, Cherry ami "Walnut at prices that defy competition. o M G0 A LAHGE STOCK A LARGE STOCK Of Chairs, Safes, Mattresses of all Kinrls, Spring Reds, Work Tables for Ladies, Pictures. and Piturc Frames of every stjle and quality alw a s in stock, or will lc made to order on short notice at reason - able prieis. r i o to BABY CARRIAGES! RARY CARRIAGES! A large stock of Raby Carriages with wire wheels at $7 .'50. Silk Plush Seat and Satin Parasol Car riages with wire wheels at only $16.50. Formerly sold for $22.50. . UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT! UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT ! Scial attention given to undertaking in all its branches, at all hours day and night. Paities wishing my services at night will call at my residence on Rank street, in u Brooklyn." 3 Thanking my friends and the public generally, for past patronage and asking a continuance of the same, I am, Yours anxious to ulcasc, O. W. WRIGHT, Leadinq Furniture Dealer. I Z This space belongs io I W- H. REISNER. J Vatcli it next wtek.y J to this place. tr1 o to o CO I ; Our "Meet Up" at Richmond, May 29, 1 1890 (After twenty-five years.) Hallclooyer! Jim, I've found vou! Howdy! Howdy! Yes, it's Jack. 'Siuse inyTum, they will go 'round you, An' ther blam'd tears wont stay back. I've this whole town hunted over, 'Fraid that you mought le so chang'd, That we'd meet, an' pass 'thout knowin,' 'Fore they got our camp erranng'd. I'd no fear of being mistak'n, Ef I'd hear yer dear old voice; I used tcr set ther leaves er shaking,' When we'd over the yanks rejoice. Folks all well? Now that's real harty, Grand-sons! Yon don't tell mo so. UProspernr Sim? W ell, that's good for you, An' I hope you'll wealthy grow. Me? O, our old town is boomin', They've found h'on all thro' my lan', And er great big furnace's loomiu', Whar my cotton uic ter stan'. Fall in Jim! Precession's movin', " Left! Right! Left! It takes her back To ther days offusi and fumin', Frolic, fun, selt meat, hard-tack. Five an' twenty years, it's been, Jim. bince we tramp'd these streets before, Appermattux left behind, Jim, Hume before us, not more. In this style, we didn't step then, Blcediu' feet could scarcely drag. No sich music for us kep' time, An' they only showed one flag. An' we couldn't say that day, Jim, As terday we gladly do, That our foes are all forgiv'n , An' we love ther old Hag too. Broken-hearted, starv'd, despairin', Hope, ambition, all laid low, To look forward, hardly dariu', Lookin' backwards, only woe. O, ther woe of Appermattux! Was ther ever thing to try Souls of men, like that deed anguish, When we told old Lee "good-bye?" First time ever I hung back, Jim, - You know I'd facek shot and shell, But I weaken'd, trembled, cried, Jim, When I went to say "fiir'well. E'en ther yankces seemed to fell it, Feel the pain the' s'render cost, For no yell, no cheer, nor murracr, llail'd ther cau.se they knew we'd lost. Grand, Jim, as Lee seemed at that time, Grand and loyal to our trust, Grander still, at Appermattux, Grander still, tho' in the dust. "Twas ther last time that I saw him, Saw him thro' a soldier's tears, An' ther sight I can't forget, Jim, Ef I live er hundred years. For at home we'd sca'cc got settled, An' were tryin' hard to be Reconciled ter life, when news came Washington had summodscd Lee! Yes, Jim, 'tis er handsome statue, Pow'rful likecess, I must say. An' ther horse so natural, that you'd Almost think he'd walk crway. Well, I'm proud I've liv'd to see it, But ef it were all pure gold, It could not outshine the image, Which our loving hearts all hold. 'Bout religion, I wa'n't carin', s But how, Jim, since he's up thar, I'm tryin' hard to stop off sweat-in', And I'm gainin' some in pray'r. So when Gnbr'lc last reveille Wakes us for the dawn parade. Comrades still, I pray wc may be, Found among old Lee's brigade. Birmingham, Ala. M. L. M. N. C. Press Association. THE ASSOCIATION AND THE MEN WHO FOUNDED IT. Durham Olobc. It should be the subject of gratulation to members of the North Carolina Press Association that their body has lived so long as to be entitled historical con sideration. It yet flourishes w hile its records reach back into a past that, in the ordinary career of the jornalist, is a remote one, including several sucessive generations ot editors, and unhappily including a lapse of time sufficently great to have carried off in the sweeping tide of mortality some of the most active and distinguished members of the Association. Measured by years only, the life of the Association has not lei n a long one Measured by the experienced period of existance archived by most voluntary organization, it has lived, grown and flourished to a very hopeful degree of longevity, with the prospect that, as it adheres to its principles and renews its youth by the steady acceration of news and fresh material, it may never know the decrepitude of age, but always live in perennial vigor and vivacity. The present ornganization of the North Carolina Press Association is not the first one attempted in the State. As far back as 1857, W. W. II olden, Dennis, Heartt and other Icadingeditors formed themselves into the State Press Association, An organ iz it ion in the editorial profession was .as essential to success and influence as it ha J proved to lie in order crafts or vocations. Hut from many causes, chief of which was the absence of the facilities the present era so abundantly provides for convenient meetings, and largely also to the distrusts and hostilities by very embittered party feeling, the organ ization died, as it were still born. There wan never healthy vitality in it: wild it so completely passed from mem ory as to have been pi atically forgotten ; to such extent, indeed, as to have no part in the suggestion of the steps leading to the foundation of the exist ing organization. During the winter and spring of 150, new impulses began to animate the blood of the North Carolina Press. lhe heated political atmosphere which inflamed both patriotic and partisan feelfngduring the stormy political times that succeeded the period of inter-state hostilities, had naturally and, un.iviod ably drawn the press of the state into the vortex of the agitated current. It 'had, in fact, forced the press .to the head to direct, or to give uupetuosity to, that current. The result was that many men of cultivation and vigorous minds, and often of warm impulsive temperaments, had taken post sit the editoral helm. The influence achieved by ,or ascribed to, the jiress,reacted upon 1 its leaders; and they iffiturallr left tle elation and consequence that such in fluence had brought to them. They were brought to feel and recognize the fact, too oft through modesty or deficiency in self-respect disclaimed that the press was an order; that it was the great Fourth Estate; that it was the peer of all other Estates; and that time had come? wiien it should siugulize its power and importance by presenting itself to the world as an organized embodiment, capable of as serting and defending its own rights, while at the tune giving guarantee, by its unity of purpose, of greater capacity for usefulness to the state through the operation of all the agencies of intelli gence and patriotism the press was so well fitted to employ. The suggestion, therefore, for "the call of a convention of the press to form a State Press Association, met with large and enthusiastic response; and on the 14th of May, 1873, a meeting was had at Goldsboro, in the court house of that city. The press of this state of that time was composed of seventy-four journals, of which three were dailies. At this first meeting thirty-throe papers were represented. It is a melancholy retrospect to refer to the names of those who responded to the first roll call. Many of them have gone to their final account. Among the dead are J. A Engelhard, brilliant editor of Wilmington Journal, the first president of the Association, afterwards the able secretary of the ; State; John Spelmnn.then repersetitiiig the Kaleigh Sentinel, afterwards the industrious editor of various cam paign papers; K T. Fulghum, of the Agricultural Journal, and secretary of this Association; William Brtggs, then of the Tarboro Southerner; W. S. Me Diarmid, of the lto!usonian, an active and aide participant in the proceedings of that only meeting of the Association he ever attended, for, not long after its adjournment, he came to his death by drowning near his home in Lum hereon; (IN. i. Evans, the oldest editor at the time in ti e state, of the Milton Chron icle, once editor of the Ilillsboro lie corder, and as the last scene in the drama of a life somewhat prolonged, state senator faom Caswell, dying during his term, and dying in harness; Charles V. Harris, of the Concord Sun, able and brilliant, whose death was a sad episode during the Association held in Wilmington in May, 1875; W. J. Avery, of the Piedmont Press, Hickory; C. It. Jones, then of the States vi He Inteligoncer, afterwards the active, erratic editor of the Charlotte Observer; E. C. Woodson, the bright "local " of the Raleigh News; and perhaps others of whose fate 1 am not informed; enough, in the brief careeer of the Association, to emphasize with melan choly record the uncertanties of human life. The first meeting formed the ground work of the future life of the Associa tion. The foundations were laid deep and well; and the work then done stands the test of time, though there may have been found necessary some changes in the superstructure. I recall one incident, the result of which had marked influence in securing that harmony ot action and that amicable generous feeling which has character ized the professional and persona intercourse of the members of the As sociation. A thoughtless, impulsive member, a democrat, introduced a resolution of a strictly party nature There were present several members of the republican party, estimable nrnnt.laman. and known to be active and useful members of the Association. The writer of this article rose and rbe'-'-ed that the introducer or the resolution would at once withdraw it, for the reason that the Association was strictly non-partisan; that its hall were neutral ground, upon entering which party weapons were left out side ti e door; that it was more than neutral gi ou nd-; it was an altar consecrated to peace, and the sacrifice of all animosi ties. The resolution was promptly withdrawn. It was tho first, as it was also the last, occasion on which politics was obtruded upon the consideration of the Association. The good in fluence of this action is felt to this day, for even between coiitroversioual ists of opposite parties, the gentle amenities engendered on the common -round of the Association are not for- rotten One very gratifying outcome of the Association was the cordial approval extended by all parts of the state. The striking proof of this was in the eager competition of the towns in every section for the honor of entertaining the Association as its annual meetings have been held in Geldsbpro, in Ral eigh, in Wilmington, in New Berne, in Charlotte, in Aslieville, in Winston, in Elizabeth City, in Waynesville, at Catawba Springs, in Shelby in lien- dersonville, in Lenoir. I think it was in 1877 that the meetinig was ap pointed to meet at Beaufort, to be en tertained at the Atlantic Hotel. Quite a number of the members of the Association had already reached Goldsboro, when the terrific storm of August 17th brought terrible disaster .upon the town which was the destina tion of the Association ; and among the structures involved in ruin was the Atlantic Hotel, the guest place of the members. Amid such wreck and ruin, the annual business was transacted at Goldsboro; and in the meantime in vitations by telegraph poured in from tifferent quarters to soothe the disap pointment earned by the disaster at Beaufort. One from Glen Alpine, among the South Mountains, in Burke county, was accepted; and this proved one of the most enjoyable of all the excursions in which the Associa- ton participated. This was the first one in which ladies formed a compo nent part of the press paities; an inno vation so delightful, us speedily to be come popular to the extent subsequent ly ot compelling a stringent system of exclusion. In all the excursions, railroad compa nies as well as the communities who lavished their profuse hospitalities, ex tended most generous facilities, combin ing with each to make the area of travel as wide as possible, and absolute! v void of let or hindrance. To the liberality of these companies, and to the hospi tality or the many communities, is due the knowledge that has been acquired, or might have been acquired, by the members ot our state press of the peo ple, climate, soil, productions and cap abilities of North Carolina. For, in the course of their visits, all the var ious and opposite features of the state have Ix'cn investigated. ihe seashore with its sands, it surf, its breezes as well as its fisheries, its seaports, its staple products, have loen studied, the mountains, with their awe-inspiring grandeur, or their softer beauties of scenery, their invigorating and health- tul air. their exhilarating influences, as their majestic forests, their minerals, and also their new growths of towns and cities, have been enjoyed with de light as well as instruction; while in termediately, all that vast region, neither mountain' nor plain, harmo nious blending of both, the largest field of agricultural industry, the mos actfve area of manufacturing enter prise, tho centre of the densest populas tion, from the extent and variety of ite objects of interest, lnis claimed tht earnest attention of the inteMigend enquirer. The State has been spread as a map before the Assoehition, with opportunity to study deliberately in detached sections fields widely variant in character, yet as a combined whole giving useful knowledge to the intelli gent observer, and proud satisfaction to the earnest patriot. The primary object of the Associa tion was to attain good mutual under standing and consequent harmony among its members. That this has been effected is proved by the more kindly generous tone in the relation. of editors to each-other, even as between those of advance political parties. In timate social f reef lorn on rigidly neutral territory had taught the rational lesson that men may entertain opposite views on political questions with, nit inenr rini? the imputation of bei nor fools. traitors or rasoals.Q When party feel ing is thus deprived of its sharpest sting, then reason may find its legiti mate and useful play. Another object of the Association is to familiarize ed itors of different sections of the state with the physical characteristics of its several parts, to know the wants of each and every part, to understand and reconcile conflicting interests, and to blend all in one broad, generous North Carolina policy, tid promote such leg islation as must adapt itself to the state as a whole, not to parts as to sections. And if the Association in its seven teen years of its existence has not yet effected all it might aim to accomplish, let it derive' encouragement from the fact that its fluid still remains open, the objects of its solicitude still many and inexhausted. J. D. Cameron. The idea that A. T. Stewart began life in New Vork penniless is so deep ly rooted in the public mind that it is doubtful if K?op!e will ever compre hend the true facts. Very few men have as good a chance for a commer cial opening as had the great dry oods prince. His entire fortune was placed in his hands when he was allowed to do exactly as he pleased with it. This fortune amounted to consid erably over 82 1,000. The first pur chas which Stewart made was in the shape of a big consignment of Irish linens in Belfast. A lot of the 2 , (MM) went into this primary transaction and after he had stild the goods at a little shop on the corner of Broadway and Chamber streets, he found that he had nearly doubled his for turn, so that a year after he had established his bus iness he had nearly $40,000 in cash and a good credit already established. With such an equipment at twenty one years, his subsequent success loses something of its marvelous character particularly when it is remembered that the war trebled Ihc value of all tho big commercial hourv- like that of A. T. Stewart & Co. A Great Conspiracy TO AFRICANIZE THREE SOUTHERN STATES. W hile the action to be taken by the republicans in the Senate on the force bill is yet uncertain, there is no uncer tainty in regard to the determination of the originators of the scheme to compel ite adoption. We have recetnly come, into K)s.';ession of the particulars of a secret conference of the radical republi cans who, under the leadership of Reed and Dudley, were instrumental in push ing the bill through the House of ltep resentatives. At this conference it was plainly stated that there was no hope of carryingenough Congressional districts in the Northern States to secure control of the uext House of Representatives. Dudley's language to his associates at this meeting was: "isn't salt enough in the sea to make Indiana republican this year." A most valuable confession for our Indiana friends! It was urged by Dudley and Ueetl that the salvation of the republican parly depended up.m gaining control of some of the South ern States, and it was determined to concentrate the efforts on three States, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisi ana. These States were selected on account of the size of the colored popu lation. It was decided that if there were not enough negroes in any of the Congressional districts in these three States to make a clear majority of the votes,. efforts to colonize more colored votes there should at once bo made. With the help of the force bill it is be lieved by these desperate leaders that not only tho Congressional representa tive but the-electoral votes can lx ob tained by the republicans, and their success in 1802 assured. Harrison is an active supporter of the new movement and is doing all that he can do through patronage to help it along. Both he and Reed are looking with the greatest comfort on the Farmers' Alliance movement and are encouraging the Alliance leaders as much as they can, and this is a good deal. It has been determined that wherever the Alliance movement is found to l)enefit the republican party Alliance men shall have the local offices. In dozen of counties in South Carolina, every postmaster recently appointed by Harrison is a memjber of this secret organization which is' active ly opposed to the democratic part'. As to the prospects of the success of this conspiracy in tho Senate it is still difficult to form a safe opinion. It cer tainly looks as if there was a sufficient amount of hostility both to tho bill as it passed the House andto any change in the rules to render the passage of the bill at this session an iinposibflity. It is very clear that there is no popular demand from the North for the pro posed law. The Senate committee ou privelleges and elections which will reMrt the House bill to the Senate republican caucus is understood to be making many changes in it, A prom inent republican Senator said to ihe editor of the Xatioiuil Democrat that if he were consulted his advice would be to make the bill a special order in the Senate for the first Monday in December. In an interview in the New York Journal Senator Paddock says he is unalterably opposed to tin bill and will vote against it, whether or not the Senatorial caucus decides to support it. This decision, he says, has only been reached by him niter-Jon consideration of the subject and much careful thought. He has been in the leading Eastern centres of trade at New York, Boston, Providence, Phil adelphia and Fall River, and has talked about the effects of the bill with the loading buisness men of both parties. The result has been that an almost unanimous sentiment against the bill has boon discovered. They fear that, if the bill is passed, the Southern people will make good their threats of retal iation by boycotting goods made in North. They therefore believe that it would be impolitic to pass the bill. Senator Paddock says that these reasons seem so weighty to him that he will be forced to vote against the measure. Senator Paddock added that he would not vote for the bill w hatevsr should be the decision of the caucus. UA Sen atorial caucus," he says, "is not bind ing, but is merely a couferance." Another Senator who will probably come out in a day or two and t ike the same position as held by Mr. Paddock is Senator Aldrich, of Khodelsland. He has lieen overwhelmed with protests against the bill from buisness men of all parties, and Ins practically decided not to support the bill. He says that if he should vote for it he would vote against the best interests of his constit uents. A line of steamers is now runnWig between providence and S i vanuah, which vonld lose heavily by sectional legislation. He and Senator Paddock both say that they Indies the buisness interests of the whole country are opposed to the bill. Ex-Senator S ibin says: It seems to i ..I -.1 S....I 4.. f , me IO II! p:liucuiaiiy iiiiiwhhii.iw w introduced a measure f the character of the Lodge bill at this late day. 2 years after the war. and where sectional animosities had to very great extent died out. Northern men and capital have bren miii2 into the South of Bate years, and in my judgment the election frauds in the Smith- would worl4 tn'',r own solution by immigration, jiu the course of the next few yeaik" ( Fifteen years ago, when the reecnt no.sspf the war and the excitements of; rccounictioii offered some excuse for proposed force bills, Senator Sherman opposed federal interference in Louisi ana, saying: " I believe Congress had letter attend to their ordinary legisla tion business, leaving matters m Loui? ana to rigbt themselves," and Senator Frelinghuysen, afterwards President A rthtirs Secretary of State, advised: 'if there are frauds in" election or usurpations in office, let tho remedy Im found in the courts of the States- or by means of impeachment, or bv thn frequently occurring popular elections. we nau oetier adhere UTthe Constitu tion and do as it say.s, which is, that we stian guarantee to the States a re- fuibbtcan form of government." On January 11, 183T, at a mass meeting tinl.l r.i 1. r 1 i.i . vr xr i in .u tit i uu wxqiyi 1 11111 UlC, iCW i orh, Mr. Evarts, now senior Senator "from that State, thus placed himsilf on n.conL against federal interference with the States: " We want men to vote, and when their chosen officers meet, "and when, without violence and without demons trations of insurrection, theyundertal e to conduct and effect political govern ment, no soldiery can interfere with them. These are two very firm lines of limitations which, will protect the magnificent symmetry of our Govern ment for a people of 40,000,000 nsnou and of 100,000,000 as hereafter, mid that the sole intervention of the federal power within the province of State authority shall leto suppressed violence, and that even this office it shall not assume except when invited by tho supreme athority of the State, and that supreme authority of the State is named in the federal Constitution as the Leg islature of tho State." When tin? force bill of 18713 passed the House the New Yorjc Tribune thus characterized it: "The provisions "oil -the bill are so flagrantly at variance with the principles of all free govern ment, and with the characteristic' theories of the American system, that -many of us, thought we know tho des perate character of t he-republican ma jority at Washington, could notlcFevc it possible tor the measure to para' either House of Congress, but wo underrated the strength of the bad elements which are driving the party to its ruins. In 1875 Mr. Lodge was one of tho most outspoken oppor.eiitrof the forco bilt Senator Hawley cannot surely yotn for the force bill. In 1875 he said in the House'of Representative: UI cannot agree to put any further or greater power into the hands of any President of tho United States. think the existing laws upon tho statute books are strong enough for the preservation of all the rights guaranteed by the federal Government, full and strong enough for the fulfill ment and discharge of all tho obliga tions resting upon that Government, Why, sir, see how the honest and can- did m all who wrote that articl in this morning's Washington republican regards the question. Ho closed as follows: 'The passage of -the bill is required to preserve to the republican party the electoral vote of the Southern, States.1 Well, now,TTie writer hon- estly thinks that liberty, that justice, equality and fraternity will lie tranipledr in the dust if the republican party does' not succeed. He thinks it will be wise policy to go to the very vergo of constitutional power to perpctiinta that pnrty in power. I cannot say that.- I prefer to adhere to the doc trines that, I think will wear best for, 5 J years to come, and, if need be to go into a minority. "-Xiitfanrd Democrat, How to Cook a Husband. A gool many husbands are sjwiled by mismanagement. . Some women go about it as if their husbands were bladders and blow theni up. Others keep thorn constantly in hot. water: Others let them freer;, Sdnts keep them in a stov Others toasfc them. Some keep them in a pickle alt of their lives. It cannot l:e supposed that any husband will bo tender -and good man aged in this way; but they are really delicious when properly treated. J n selecting your husband you should not be guided by the silver appearance as in buying mackerel nor by tlx golden tint, as if you wanted salmon. Select him yourself. Do mt go to the market for him, as the best is always brought to your door. It is far better to have none tiniest you will patiently learn how to cook him. A preserving kettle of the fhi?sfc porcelain is the best; bnt if you have untiling but an earthen pan, it will do. S'-e tl a that the lining jn which you wrap him is nicety washedand mended, with th'e ie j'lired number ofmttons and. Make a clear, steady fire, and pratiee uoatnes; and cheerfulness, het niiu ti- HS near this is seems to agree, wQ mm. If he snntters and fizzes do not be anxious, some husbands do this stnl they are -quite done. Add a little sugar in the form of what confectioners call kisses, but no e;tfer .r,vinegar:Oii any account. A little spice improves 4hm, hut if ft must le used, u-; it with judgment. Do not stick any sharp instrument into hinTto se- if he is becoming tender. Stirdiint gently; watch the while, lost lie lie too f!a. and close lo the kettle, and so become nselcg. Yon cannot f mHo know when In- i ; done: - 3 m i 2 V t 2lfc