North Carolina Newspapers

The Carolina Watchman. t i THIRIH SERIES r ' SALISBURY, N. C 1 HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1890. NO. 4M pAT, XXL COME! SEE! t. W. WRIGHT, The Wing Furniture - IN SALISBURY. , m 4 ' rTnvu fieri ng the largest and . UIIU UVtT UlOUgllL PARLOR "Si O : Mohair frush.rh fell at $CC.O0. Fornnr piue.ti75.00. Silk- Plush at $50.00. Former price, $ co.oo. "Wool Plush at $35.00, Foinicr price, $45,00. ... PIANOS AND ORGANS. "Wilcox and WWte Organs arid Bechr Bro5, Chicktriu" & Sons ahd Whielock Pianos. RED ROOM SUITS! Antique Oak, Antique Aslie, Chcrrj nnd Walnut at pticis that defy competition. f A LARGE STOCK Of Chain, Safis, Mattresses of Jill Kinds, Spring Beds, Work Tables for Ladies, Pictures and Piturc Frames of every stle and quality always in stock, or will he made to order on .-short notice at reason able prices. o BABY CARRIAGES A large stock of Baby W ire wheels at $7.50. Silk Plush Seat and Satin Parasol Car riages with wire wheels at ofily $16.50. FoiuuTly sold for $22.50. UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT! SH t-ia' attention given to umhrtnking in all itti branches, at all hours day atvd Itiht. I'm tits Wishing n j sci vices at night will call at my residence un Rank street, in "Brooklyn." 5ZJ Thanking my friends and the public generally lor past patronage and asking a continuance of the same, I am, " Yours anxious to please, G. W. WRIGHT, Leading Furniture Dealer. : - II This space Wongs to I W- H. REISNER. J V -Watch it next week. II t BUY! Dealer and Undertaker Ttest Assorted 'Stock of Purni lO lIllJiJHCH1. SUITS ! j bd o a GO Carriages with Before the Baby Came.! (Aggrieved IIu9band.) - Thcr? was n time when my discourse Was wrenched not out of joint; I did not shunt till I was hoarse. And point out every point; Not thrice the same juke try to t-ll, And mangle it and maim My wife had time to listen well, Before the baby came! There was a time when here and there I flitted like a bird; My wife Went with me everywhere, Jnst when I said the word; We saw the boat-race and the play, We watched the baseball game We had a fiee foot, as they say, Before" the baby came! There was a time when I alone Was by my wi.'e alore'; I sat on the domestic throne The sole and sovereign lord. My crown ts gone. Without a thank, He takes my very name I've not a vestige of my rank Before the baby came! Fannie Windsor, in Centvry. Lau.71 a:i I Grow Fat. "Johhny, what teacher are you under most? ' 1 hey all sit on me when they get a chance." Some one asks, "where do flies go in winter? We don t know hut we wish they would Igo there in summer. "How old is the postal service?" Well, nearly as old as the world. You know the first male was started in the Garden of Eden' Mrs. B.: Here's an account of a man who loses his fortune and then lis wife." Mr. EL: "Yes. there's a sil- yer lining to almoshevery cloud. A sure cure for sea-sickness is to lie on your back in the green grass and look up at the sky. This is the only sure cure known. Physiologists say the older a man grows, the smaller his brain becomes. This explains why the old man knows nothing and the young one everything. Whelim, hunting: "Share, fwhat are yez follerin' dat rabbit fer? Yer gnn ain't loaded, an' yez haven't no am my nit ion." Terrence: "'Sh! there! The rabbit don't know it." "Mercy on me, George, what are yon doing? ''Only wiping my pen. That's what pen wipers are made for. isn't it?" "0 Georg how could you? That's my new bathing suit." A voting man who tends a soda- water counter up town has refused to join an athletic association, because he says he already gets plenty of fizzical exercise. Papa told hint of the story of Joseph and his brethren, and he was much interested in Joseph's coat of many colors. When the storv was done the . j ' youngster said, "Papa, tell me about his pants." Father, to would-be son-in-law: "Young man, will you lie able to take care of my daughter in the style to which she has always been accustomed ?" Young man, earnestly: I'll guarantee it, sir, or return the girl. When a woman is thonroghly smitten with a man, she immediatelv declares him to be "perfect;" It is not until some time after marriage that she fin ishes the characteriz ttioti by the ad dition of the word "treasure" or the substantive "brute." Smith, writing: "How many g's in aggregate?" Jlrown, supposing the query refers to the lirst sylable only: 'Two. Jones, who is not accurate in compilation: "No; three." Brown. seeing the point: "Yes, altogether Jones, still particular: "No, not all together" "Some of these western desperadoes must lie very strong men, observed Mrs. Snaggs. 4Why ?" asked her litis band. "The paper to-day says that two of them held up a train yester day." "0, that's nothing. Even weak woman like you can hold train when there is dstnger of one treading on it." up a some Willie, coming home from church: uPapa, they hadn't learned how to pray very well in Bible times, had they?'' Papa: "I suppose, my son, people could pray .then as well as they do now." Willie, posisitively : "No, they couldn't. The Lord's Prayer i? only a minute long, and our minister can say it for a quarter of an hour." A rich New- York widower was about to take to himself a new wife on the other side of fifty. His son. who was living in the West, came home just before the wedding, and he was shown, among other improve ments in the family mansion, the bri dal chamber, done up superbly in white and gold. "But," exclaimed the son. "I think old rose would have been ap propriate." Little Isabella's baby brother had swallowed a cent, and his sister was full of consternation. She had for some time been practising economy with the assistance of a little iron tank, from which, by dint of a great labor, she surreptitiously extracted an occasional penny. Running to her , mother, sl said breathlessly, "O, mamma, come quickly! Baby's swallowed a cent, and ou't you please come and belli hold t hi u siOt -down and h;;ke hiih" The Sub-Treasiirv Bill a i i.i i fkux mi. he all. of lenoir iwmiiuBi cosi, says your correspon in THE PttOGRSSivE farmer. ident. I answer, the needy farmer Mr. Editor: Your comfsnondent. unitca action, in me 1 rogressic. . - ' Farmer of August 1st, starts out as if he was realiy.a seeker after truth. He says, "he would like to ask his broth ers of Ltaldwell county some questions for information." But before he writes half a dozen sentences he iev. a!s the fact that his real object is n it to ge "information," but to ridicule, ciiticize and find f tult with the action of the Caldwell County Alliance in rejecting the "bnb-treasury bill, and for put ting forth a plan which they believed tt be more practicable, more conserva tive, and brood enough for ail classes, who suffer equally with the farmer, and from the same cause, to stand upon and fight a common cmseT If you will give me space, Mr. Editor, and i feel sure your courtesy will not deny me," I will answer, as briefly as possible, all the brother's questions and give him all the "information" he asks for. The truth never loses anything by a fair aud free discussion. Many of our most intelligent and conservative brethren cannot subscribe to the "Sub-Treasury" scheme, and as I have not seen in any Alliance paper a fair presentation of objections to it as we see them, 1 am glad of this op portunity to let our brethren in North uaroiina Know t-nem in rough j'o;ir widely-circulated journal. I will write first of the "Sab-Treas- urv mil ana men or ine oa i-ii" i 1 1 p 1 1 'Caldwell plan." When the National Alliance first formulated its demand and the Sub-treasury scheme and sent them down to the Sub-Alliances for approval or rejection, in our innocence, as free men, we thought we iad a right to discuss them and judge of their fitness to proipote our prosperity. But, judg ing from the tone and logic of our brother's letter, we missed the true idea, which was this: To ratify the infallible edict of a great central power without questioning. As a free born American citizen I protest against the idea tlpit of anybody's doctrine I shall approve what I believe to be wrong. the National Alliance demanded that the United States government should purchase and control the railroads and telegraphs of the country. How many Alliances in North Carolina approved that demand ? I doubt if a single one lid and if they did it was without thinking oi the enorm-ms cost, the cor rupting tendencies, without seeing t ie tremendous centralizing power sought to be given in the hands of general government. Now, sir, if that demand can be re pudiated by a single Alliance and it still be considered loyal to our order, in the name of common justice and common sense 1 ask why should we be compelled to adopt the. Sub-Treasury .bill as a test of loyafty, when to many of us it seems objectionable, itn practable and centralizing as the other? Oh! but, says your correspondent, 'united action is our only hope Unity of action in agood caus is right and desirable, but it any action is shown to be injurious in its tendencies and results or even doubtful, then to demand that all in or out of the ordei shall still stand by it, is the height of folly. Such ar course can result only in disaster to our order. Better thousand times acknowledge our error, repudiate it and begin a new course This principle is as sound in economics and politics as in morals Now, what are some of the reasons that caused our County Alliance, and many Sub-Alliances, to reject the Sub Treasury bill? First because it vio lates that principle of our order, which demand equal rights tpali and spatial privileges to nune. Our State Alliance has again and again denounced class legislation, but this bill is the very essence of class legislation, demanding for the farmers special privileges which are denied to all other classes. And worse, still, it gives special privileges U) the prosper ous farmers which are denied to the farmers and laborers who never have a surplus; and besid?s all this it denies any privilege to that large class of our oraVrthe mechanics. Not a farmer west of Statesville, and not a great number eas of it, not a single mechanic throughout the State would get a single dollar of ths.t "fiat money." Our order again and again has de nounced trusts and combinations to raise the price of the necessaries of life. This bill puts it in the power of the farmers and those who buy the ware house certificates to force the most gi gan tic trust ou the necessaries off life ever known. What does the rich farmer, or any one who has a surplus f wneat or corn, want to put it in the warehouse for if it is not to hold them till he can squeze from the needy con sumer such prices as lie wants f w hat, then, becomes of our brother farmers, in and out of the Alliance, who have :o purchase these necessaries on ac count of a failure of their crops? vVhat, then liecomes of that large class if our brethren, the mechanic, who ire always compelled to purchase the lecessanes of life? But they say the bill will enable our earmers to borrow money on easy term. vVhat. then, liecomes of that other .nnciple of mir order which di sc im ages our member s from going in debt ..u borrowing? - It lets the people have money at a I K money without pawn i mir ins i' run inn rhun n ..... ... ing his crop and then for onlv eightv cenw wiigii me . fu-irsei wouui give via - him a dollar m cash. And it is a fact that people who are needy enough to pawn a ruing hardly ever redeem it We of the South have always denotinc ed the principle of giving special favors ny legislation to tfie manufacturers ur i. if i.i . , i vve nave always denied mat the gov ernment has the right to take money out of the pockets of one class, either directly or indirectly, and put it in the pockets of another class. "But," says the advocate of this bill, "the govern ment has given special favors to the manufacturers, and now we demand special favors for the farmers." This is the logical outcome" of the protection theory, but it is n it consistent with Al liance principles. We would consider it a great evil for a mad dog to bite one of our legs. Would it cure us of hydrophobia to let him bite the other leg? It seems to us that it would be better to neu tralize the poison with caustic and kill the dog. But if the advocates of this plan can ignore the principles and Consti tution of our Alliance, it would hardly i 1-1 1 A ll seem worth while to mention me Constitution of the United States," which expressly declares that nothing shall be legalrtender but gold and sil ver, and which nowhere gives the gov ernment the right to lend money to individuals. It matters not to him if it is a radical departure trout thehnan- cial principles of the ablest financiers ir long our forefathers Irallatin, Ham ilton and Morris, lie is! willing to throw aside the fixed law's of political economy, the well tried systems of the greatest and most prosperous commer cial nations of the earth England, Germany and f ranee, and risk all upon the untried theory af a vissionary nov- . i i -ii j ! i : list, which will prove as ueeepuve as tl e baseless fabric of a dream." And the untried theory must lie ma !e the test of our loyalty! Men born and raised on the farm, knowing from experience all toils, wants and burdens of the soil tiler, must Ik; push- d aside if they do not accept this testj Oar true and tried statesman who have stood in the "eminent deadly breach" for the rights of the people, who have never faltered or lost heart in the dark est hours of our country s trials, must be tried bv it. Not by their honor, their integrity, their experience, their great talents, nor their great public services, but by this paltry test must they stand or fall. A Shot at Minister Mizner. A daughter of General Martin Bar rundia, who was shot to death in the cabin of the Pacific Mail Steamship Acapulco at San Jose de Gautemala, attempted to shoot United States Min ister Mizner. Mr. Mizner was at his desk translat ing the guarantee given to him by this government that Barrunia's life would be spared in case he was sur rendered when the young woman came into the office. As the Minister looked up from his work she was standing within four feet, saying: "Are you the American Minister?" "Mr. Mizner replied: "1 am, can I le of any service to you ?" With flashing eyes, she accused him of having been directly the cause of her father's death, and announced that she intended to kill him. Mr. Mizner took the matter coolv and tried to reazon with the girl who was apparently crazed with excitement, and in the most tragic manner poured on him with the bitterest invectives of which the Spanish language is capa ble. At last she pulled the trigger of fie pistol. Mr. Mizner had taken up a heavy law-book, which he, with apparent carelessness held between himself and the girl, and the bullet whh h was meant for his heart was caught in the leaves of the book. 1 The sound of the shot attracted at tention, and before the second could be fired assistance arrived, and the pis tol was taken from the young woman. Throughout the entire exciting inter view Mr. Mizner maintained the ut most coolnos, though the o ily thing between him and the muzzle" of a pis tol held in the hands of a woman who evidently intended to shoot, was ,i heavv law book. His coolness un questionably saved his life. Police men were called in, and the young wo rn :ni was arrested. She proved to be Christina Barrundia, a daughter of the murdered general. As soon. as President Barrillas heard !of the occurrence he sent his respects sand offered' the power of his govern ment to protect the American legation. Mr. Mizne r, however, declined the of- f.;r, will not prosecute the lady and in s ts that no further taken of the affair. u tice shall l.c A ne rro who o vns tii r y acre j land adjoining the Phoenix o I "well GreensWo has refuse) au olfu S15,00J for it. of in of .... ... . How to Defeat the Force Bill. The way to defeat the force bill is to elect a large demoeratio majority to the next House. We warn the republicans in the West and South, who are opposed to the force Ir.ll, that it will not answer to elect republicans instructed against the bill. Nothing but the election of democrats will answer. The force bill is i o' going to be passed by the Fifty Second Congress. It is going to bo p issed by this Con gress, or it won't be p issed at al'. If a large democratic majority lie elected in Novemlier the Senate won't dare to do its part of the outrage. But if a ma jority of republicans is elected, no mat ter how many of them sire oppod to the bill, the Senate will pass it, and the President will sign it. If you want to preserve local self government, as it has been enjoyed in this country for 100 yeaas, vde for the democratic candid ites for Con gress. The force hill is long, hut the ess. ncc of it is very short. It is that the certificates of electors are to be given by Federal appointees, and the officers of the State may concur or not; it won't make any cifferwnce. If you want the Representatives in Congress to be elected by the jwople, for the democratic candidate for Cou gres.5 in your district. If you want the House of Representatives packed by the Federal power vote for the republican candidate for Congress. We again nsk the republicans of Ohio and Michigan if they want the election machinery of their State taken out of their hands and managed by a democratic circuit judge? We warn the republican voters of the First District in Maine, no mutter how much they may next week sup press legal votes in Biddetord, and count illegal votes in Saeo, that if the force bill becomes a law it will be tried on them in side of four years, under u democratic Administration, and they won't like it. The force bill will take the powera way from the people, and lodge it in the hands of a little knot of politicians in Washington. It is a bigger question than the mere rivalry of two parties. It is aquetion whether the govern men! shall serve the people or master il. The whole purpose of the force bill i to intrench the dominant party, and make it difficult or impossible for the people to ou3t a set of politicans that. .ioy want to dismiss. Jt is obstensibly in the interest jqF Southern Republicans. The great ma jority of Southern Republicans white and black, have repudiated it. Re publican conventions in the liberal and progressive north-west refuse to sub scribe to it. There is no call for it from the people of any quater, and it was the chairman of the republican national committee who knocked it out for this session. The force- bill is a political job gotten up by a small knot of New E iglan I politicians, who areas much out ot sympathy with the R "public m West as they are with the Democratic South. the selfish and domineering Lecd, the pre-Adamite Hoar, and Lidge, the turn coat, who has sold Ins principle.; for an office, are the greater part of all then is pushing the force bill on. The only way to treat this little gang (if narrow and unscrupulous men trom New England is to elect an overwhelm ing majority of democratic representa tives in Novenilier. Then the Senate will not dare to defy the country. The Debate on Woollen Duties. The republicans were not going to do any ot the talking on the tarul hill in the Senate. From the very start the democrats put them on tue defen sive and they had to talk. They admit now that they have done more talking than the democrats, the work of Sen ator McPherson, Carlise, Va ice and th 'ir association has hvu adiuiruhle. On M inday the Republic in attempt, under the disguise of a change of classification, to iner use the dutieu on on the shawl and dress goods of the poorer people were exposed. We are unable to give the debate this week but we shall give it in our n -xt num ber. A casual reader o" the d;oite on the wool duties would le soniewh t confused. Both sides seemed to think that the duty on wool didn't increase the American price, yet the republican wanted to iiilpoie tile duly and the democrats wanted to take it. off. The explau itiou i ' simple. There ire a score of d'ftuvnt kinds of avool. Som are u d or one cl.es; of goods in I some for another. M my are ;ed eououiie.illy only in mixture;. The rash ion in women's dress go td ; has more to do w.th the pitc of wool than any tariff has, a; shown by Mr. hher m:in. our consul at LiveriMobT, in the re- r T " " i port we published a few uionths ago. the duty on wool unuouoteufy in creased the price of the imported wool; ... .i - - whether it increases ihe price ot the domest ic wool. depends on in uiy thing-.. some of which we haveab ve mentioned. If the duty on the foreign wool reduces, the amount of importation, it will actually reduce the demand for and the price of such domestic wools as are used in mixtures with the foreign woo'. Ur. Allifon admitted tliat .he price of American wjj! went fou u under he higher tariff of 1837, and that it hsd fallen off four writs with the Mc Kmley b 11 pending. . The wools we produce are entirely clothings and combing. The wools w import are almost entirely the cheap, coarse wools fit only tor carpets or tie -cods of poor men. Mr. Allison con fesed th it the pending biH increased mainly the duties on those ccarse, chei: woois, wich are not prduced here, ami G neral H iw!ey both said the e cheap, coarse wools ought not to produced here, because if an Americ: n is g ang to rane sheep he will raise those that yield the fine wool. Mr. Allison says he isas independent if party dictation as Mr. Plunih and . then he confesses his disapproval of the wool schedule, but Stays he shall stand by it bee wise it is a pKurty nttmurre. David UartUter, of Oaio is -lobbying for the tariff hill mainly onjiccount of the wool schedule He said to a Wash ington lr;t reporter: "I wish Congress would hurry up and pass a tariff bill. I've got TiOOOO pounds of wool stored a way. that I can't get anything for, at least not over 30 cents a pound when it ought to lo worth 35 at the lowest.' The history of the wool tariff shows that Mr. Hardstcr is not sure to get that extra five cents, but the whole in tention of the wool schedule Is to tax the people of the United States in order to put an extra five cents a pound in the pocket of a man who shears seven or eight thousand sheep a yearTatid whose chck is good for $500,000. A little tax on every coat and every carpet wihV . make Davkl ilardstcr nn even richer man than he is now. National Ikwo-crat. A Day in Salisbury. SjM-oial Cor. State Cliron'u-.hs. The most centrally located of an considerable Piedmont town is Sal is- ' bury. In fact it was the capitol ot that section when the different sections' of the State had, in a sense, each a cap---itol of its own. Like R deigh and a few other towns 1 in the State, it does not present its best front at the depot. Strange as it may seem a thousand dollars well spent in and around the deiwit dot's nior..;.nd goes further toward advertising tnan and iiupressitfg a stranger than ten times that amount spent elsewhere. But any allusions f,i !hm-...I - the depot are speedily dispelled by the uiwu ivtcii mm iu people esfteciany when one h:is the advantage of fi. guidenee and introduction of a native Salisbury man. Some blocks of well stocked stores many well shaded. streets lined with comfortable looking: nouses some two or tnree hundred of them new a score of elemnit residen ces and another score of new homes lieing erected combine to show the staple prosperity of this historical old town. Driving just outside the surburbs I stopped to take a look at the cotton factor a liig one too with- 200 looms and G,tKK) spindles already at work, and nearly double this capacity to be put into immediate operation. Six per cent, semi-annual dividends jnst declared, the employment of one hundred aiid fifty operatives and the disbursements among theiu-of five or six hundred dollars a week altogether gave an impressive object lesson of the benefit of one of the great manufac turing interests to a town. Within sight and sound of this is a stocking manufactory in active opera lion, employing forty ofieratives, and with id the corporate limits is the pan ning factory which I was told has used this-scasoii a whole train load of cans. All these and others are the product of -native grit and enterprise. Without undertaking to catalogue 1 the other industries, sullice it to say that the new business life coming through Piedmont North Carolina has found in Salisbury a heart centre Jfc has now five arteries of trade (rail roads) and will soon have six. Apro pos of industries it is well to mention that industrial education has its friends ' here too. , v t was told by a young lady that there was a movement on foot among -the Kings' Daughters in North Caro lina to memoralise the next General Assembly to establish an Industrial school for girls. They are going to ass lor &4oyjiu-to start it. oo far as I know this movement began hi Salis bury. Fitfully feeble flickers the !l ime of life and patriotism in , the heart of any old fossd legislature who m resist the girls in such a cause as this. Prof. C. D. Mclver has been lnw trying to wake up our slumbering con- consctences uimui the question of win t the State owes to the girls. We frill, shortly see with how much success. To your oars, ye strong men and bonny Ias. Let all pull together for the common, good. With indus try, energy and co-operation we can soon have a good, inviting and pros perous town to show to the world. One thing we need, and that right quickly, too. Good brick or dressed stone side walks. Let some of our quarryinen put in a nice pivement as an advertisement and a starter. Jur entxrprising ieople will follow. Jf they don't follow . the tWrd of A We men should pass laws to accomplish such paving.