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the Carolina Haichiiait. . 1 1 1 j; - ; ; . ..... i -!. "Equal and Exact Justice to All." , kh : ' i 4 . "'1 '- It ' r ; , ' I . . - ' - . 1 - j --j-- T : . - Ty:-rtyK-.-CT-- 1 ; j , VOL. XLIII. NO. 2. SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1896. ESTABLISHED 1382. : - . . HI a i. i L4 4 ?.1J- mm IS A VAMPIRE. NATION At DEBT has never One cent. BEEN REDUCED -,1 ' -?7. " - - John Clark Rllpath, LL. IX, DIicumi the DevlliH'i Work or the fhylocks i - Through khe Agencies of the- Bund end the Dollar. The Road John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., has an article in the January num ber of the Arena which should be read and ponderjed upon by every producer in the equntrfy and, by every man and s woman who has. the Welfare of our country at (heart. The article referred to is the fif-sr of a series of three upon "The Bond and the Dollar," and de scribes "Tlje Gencsia and Evolution of a Monster.!' The schemes resorted to by the morfay porrcr, the results so far, and ttvs inevitable slavery sure to fol low soon u something is not done to dethrone tfie Shy locks who turned the greenbacks into an tftterest-bearing, bonded debt and forced the single gold standard Upon us, are depicted by a tnSfeter hai d. John Clark Ridpath can hardly be h'-'-r-l down as a "crank" or his utterances characterized as "va garies." $e i3 a scholarly gentleman who has an international reputation as a historian, his "History of the United States," "The Seven, Great Races of Mankind,""HIstQry of the World," etc., being recognized feyeryvhere 38 stand ard works Ho looks at the question ot "The Bona and the Dollar" from the standpoint! of the historian, and reaches conclusions which every honest reform er can etfdorse as true. The article should be iread In full to be thoroughly appreciated get a. copy of the January Arenaant! keep it for reference, Ip his d scription of the "Genesis and Evolution of a Monster," the author says in part: "War preys on two things life and property; but he preys with a partial appetite, j Feasting on life, he licks his jaws and says, 'More, by-your leave.' Devouring property, he says, between grin and glut, 'This is so good that it Ought to bje paid tor.' Into the vacuum of the wasted life rush the moaning winds of grief and desolation ; into the vacuum ojf the wasted property rushes the goblin of debt. The .wasted life is transformed at length into a reminis cent glory ; the wasted property be comes a hideous nightmare. The he Toes fallen rise from their bloody cere ments into everlasting fame; the prop erty destroyed rises rrdm the red and flamp-swp' field as a !?pectral vampire, sucking the still warm blood of the heroic dead and of their posthumous babes to the tenth generation. ', "The name of the vampire is Bond. "On this first of March, 1866, the na tional debt of the United States entailed by theClvil War reached the appalling maximum of-nearly three thousand mil lions of dollars. The American people were Inexperienced in such business. They hatj never known the incubus be fore. Europe had known it, but not America. For a long time the public debt of the nation had been so small as to be disregarded. Now all of a sud den, with the terrible exigencies of the war, the debt, expanded and settled over the landscape like a cloud from Vesu vius, darkening from shore to shore. . . "It was intended by those who first - contrived the legal tender currency that it should! be absolute money in the pay ment of all debts of whatever kind. The Supreme Court of the United States has since decided by a voice of eight to one that congress possessed and pos sessesthe right and pdwer to make such a money, whether in war or in peace. The validity of the Legal-Tender Act is now as much a part of the constitutional history -of the United States as the abolition of African slav ery. But they who were skillful in watching their own interests, even in the throes of our national break-up and Impending catastrophe, adroitly con trived that th national currency should have an exception in it in favor of those who should lend their means to the government. They who should make such loan should receive there for a bond ; and the interest on the bond as also ihe duties on imports of foreign goods was exempt from the legal tender of paper and reserved for coin. "The party of the bond became skill ful and adroit They under stood the situation perfectly, and adopt ed as their method a policy embracing two intentions: First, to perpetuate the bond and make it everlasting by the postponement and prevention of pay ment; second, to increase the value of the currency in which all payments were to be made; that is, to increase the value of the units of such payments as the payments should become due, so that whatever might be the efforts of the people to discharge the debt, it should increase in value as rapidly as they eouldV reduce it! For BOND thirty years this game has been per sistently, skillfully and successfully carried on. l if the treasury should have to-day,-or in the year 1900, a surplus of six billions of gold, the government could not call and cancel its bonds. They were jnet made to be called and canceled, but to be refund ed and perpetuated. 1 ( "Besides, the reduction in interest has been a reduction only in name. In no case has the reduction been made Until the value of the dollar of payment has been so enlarged as more than to bal ance the reduction. The same thing is true of the payment of principal as well as the payment of coupon. For thirty years the Amrrican people have been pouring into that horrid maelstrom the volume of their great resources. They have paid on their debt, or at least they have paid, in this long period such a prodigious sum that arithmetic can hardly express it. (At jtbe close of 1895 -, j r- the interest account alone on the na tional debt had cost the American peo ple over $2,635,000,000.) The imagina tion cannot embrace it. And yet it is the truth of the living God that in thai year 1895, at its close, the national debt pf the United States, in its bonded and unbonded forms, will purchase as its; equivalent in value as much of the. average of twenty-five of " the leading commodities of the United States, in cluding real estate and labor, as the same debt would purchase at its maxi mum on the 1st of March, 1866! The people have paid and paid for thirty years, and at the end have paid just; this NOTHING." (Mr. Ridpath fur nishes facts and figures which prove indisputably the truth of the above! assertion.) "Let all men know it. Let the world! know it. Let the common man ponder this appalling statement of an unde niable truth. Let our national authori ties know it. Let the leaders of every! political party have it shouted in their ears. Let every administration that, has been in power from the first of Grant to the last of Cleveland be told in trumpet voice that the publications put forth from month to month as statements; from the treasury about the reduction of the national debt of three millions or seven millions or ten millions have been essentially and utterly false. True it is that the debt has been nominally reduced according to the publications; but it has never been so reduced, for un til by the contrivance of those who posf sess it tho purchasing power of the currency has been augmented fully as much as the equivalent of the pay ment ! "Thus from month to month and from year to yearthe astounding process ha gone on. And thus from year to year the judgment of the American people has been abused with the iteration and belief that they were paying their debt, when in truth all the multiplied mil lions on millions and billions which they have paid have been simply con tributed to the fund-holding class, whose claim after a lifetime is worth as much as it was at the beginning! The resources of a great people have been poured like a roaring river into ja sinkhole that has swallowed all; and the golden streams of the contribution have issued silently through a thousand unseen spouts into the private reser voirs of the holders of the debt." THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. (Arkansaw Kicker.) I am' the Delr"1cratlc party. You ort to h,bve knowed it When I driv- up. I ran against a snag In Kentucky; And fell In the soup In Maryland. I wasn't in it In Ohio, And got my eye knocked out In New Jersey. But I carried New York City, And in Mississippi, Where a nigger who would vote Against me Is not intelligent enough i u Yuie, I rolled up My usual majority. And would have Carried Arkansas ' If an election had been held there, I wanted a chance, And got it, And it has done me up. I had the world by the tail And a down-hill pull. But the hair slipped, And the Republicans Grabbed my pie. $ j I'm a sort of j A Free-silver In side-the-party Gold-bug- - jr I Low-tariff- Sugar-t rust-free Coal-and-iron- Monopoly- , States-Rights- , Government-by-injunction- ; j Gold-reserve ' j Bond syndicate- vv' J Single-standard-Sound-currency- - -, International- Money- Baltlmore-plan-Paternalistic-Father-of-a-mule, Struck by a locomotive. Bob Ingersoll Says ; ' There ain't no helt r " But if there was, f " It couldn't f Faze me f ' I'm done up Already. Goodbye. J Drive me te the graveyard. The Middle of the Road. Slumber on. you proud and h aught 3 swell -headed plutocracy, and your! ik norani ana misguiaea followers! Sto your ears to shut out the truth; eloe your eyes to the vision of desolatior before you; do not let reason have if. sway; count as naught the logic o! events; do not think of reason, bu' move on in Ignorance, blinded by pre judice! You'll wake up by and by but your impotent rage will not avai' you. Your derision and scorn of th people's movement, of their struggle) for . industrial freedom, only add! strength to their purposes, energy U their efforts and zeal for the cause "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be hi who first cries, 'hold, enough!' " New Forum. Congressman U. S. Hall, of Missdi is reported as saying that "somebodj on deck ought to anonunce that then is a storm brewing." Is it possibli that Mr. Hall has not read Senator toll man's speech- MONEY. -:-f iOOD WORDS FOB FREE SILVER FITLY SPOKEN. lother Silver State in View A ma tribe Against Sound Honey-Government Should Pay In Silver Dol lars. Cleveland, Carlisle, the New York uamber of commerce and the asso ciated banks have declared for the British gold standard. Now. what are toe southern onckoos going to do about it? Do they propose to stay in t he democratic party and vote for the restoration of silver, or will they bolt? Atlanta Constitution. Prime Minister Faveresu. renlvinc fn a question asked in the chamber of deputies at Brussels, Belgium, assured the house that the government recog nized the importance of international bimetallism, and would acquiesce in any measure that would ensure by in ternational agreement, stability in the money exchange of gold and silver. IS Speaking of the work of the free .coinage men in congress, Judge Crisp tfill appear in Georgia very soon to . make speeches for free coinage. He Will speak at a number of different pbints in the state and will probably remain in Georgia for several weeks. The free' coinage congressmen predict mat four-fifths of the counties of the state will send free coinage delegates to the state convention. i ' Another Silver State. The senate committee on elections reported favorably the bill to ad- Slit New Mexico to statehood. This bill passed the house in the last con gress, but the senate then refused to pass it. Coming just after Mr. Cleve land's New York speech in which he so viciously criticised fhe population of the territories it is rather significant that the senate committee should have reported this bill. It means no more nor less than that the free coinage men arc in the saddle in the senate and propose to add two more votes to their already large majority in that body. New Mexico has, by virtue of popula tion, been entitled to admission to statehood for many years. Only the auti-eilver feeling in congress has kept it pat. This no longer exists. There fore it may be assumed that New Mex ico will be admitted to statehood by this congress, and that Arizona, and perhaps Oklahoma, will also be admit ted. Utterances of American Leaders. Gold and silver at rates fixed by congress constitute the legal standard of value in this country, and neither congress nor any stato has authority to establish any other standard or dis place the standard. Congress has no power to demonetize silver any more than to demonetize gold ; no power to demonetize either than to demonetize both. Daniel Webster. No power was conferred on congress 0 declare that either metal should not be money. James G. Blaine. 1 Gold and silver should be put upon a perfect equality as of yore, in the ratio of 16 to 1. All the sold and sil ver that can be produced to our mints should be ooined alike. The coin should be kept in the vaults of the treasury and certificates given in cases Where certificates are preferred. These coin certificates should be the cur rency of the country. They would be the best in the world. Alexander H. Stephens. As a result of the war corporations have been enthroned and an era of high prices will follow; the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign un til wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few and the republic be destroyed. 4-Abraham Lincoln. . Sound Money. If the howlers for sound money were Called to define just what they mean by the term so flippantly, used they would be concerned to the pitiable plight of figurating in generalities, of coming squarely down to the Cleveland notch of "only gold." This is the Wall street demand as represented by Carlisle and Cleveland. Soundness only has reference to per manancy and stability, and the silver dollar is just as sound as the gold dol lar, when unbiased by legislative pro tection or prejudice. The proposition may be laid down that any money is sound which has a fixed value and is not liable to disturb ing fluctuations, whatever may be its Unit basis. The scarcity of gold gives ft one value. Legal protection gives it another. The same law of supply and recognition gives silver its value. I The difference is in the fixed esti mates of two fixed quantities. With out legal restraint the value of an punee of gold would be liable to as much variation as that of an ounce of Silver, measured from some other fixed quality that might exist as a medium of exchange. The distinction of quan tative value has no bearing. It does pot matter even if thirty parts of sil ver are only equal to one part of gold, so that the value is reliable and perma nent. The question of soundness only relates to permanency. , There is no need to go into the shoddy consecrated vaults of Wall Street to study the financial question. When the system is wrong, the ebbing pulse of trade and indu-try and the horde of idleness tell the story. When property ceases to have a sell ing value and no investment can be relied upon to sustain eredit, it is be cause money has been given a ficti tious value, and the owners believe POPtEAR that by holding it they can buy still more property as the greater distress prevails. When real estate will not bring its price of taxation and costs at the courthouse door, people should be im pressed with the fact that complete centralization is near at hand. And the silver rl "ar is the only means of staying t' calamity. Brunswick, (Ga.) rii'U' Advertiser. An Alabama View of It. From The Co!utnbw,(Ga.) Ledger. A free silver nisutukl me today thai the lrge majority of votes for John stou, in Morgan cH'ily, Ala., was no feuiprite to him. He said that if the - i . . . , question was left to the people to set tle, the government would be coining silver free inside of a month. The mass of the people, he remarked, are naturally in favor of silver, for the mass of the people see and use nothing but silver. And why ? said he. Foe the simple reason that gold has stopped being the money of the peo ple, and has become the money of the syndicates, and the speculators, and manipulators of stocks and bonds, and they have even compelled the govern ment to go into a business where money alone is the article bought and the article sold buying, gold today to be sold tomorrow, issuing paper re deemable in gold, and buying gold to redeem the paper, ignoring the metal which has been current since the world was made. This man seemed to be so enthusias tic over the subject, that I questioned him further. "Why," he said, "it does sound so ridiculous to me to hear the people snorting about sound money and the gold standard, who do not see a piece of gold once in five years, who hardly know the color of the metal, and yet because they are in some way con nected with, or led by some one who owns a lot of bcuds, they shout when he shouts, and. when he says thumbs up, thumbs go up, and when he says thumbs down, down they go." He further remarked : "It is also ridiculous to hear so much about sound money, when nobody uses, what they call sound money. All the so called sound money is tied up, sealed up, boxed up, and double locked and barred up in the banks; and has ceased entirely to be the money of the peo ple. It is the money of the favored class, and when they get it they hold on to it like grim death to a dead negro. "It seems to me." said, he, "that if they wish to make it the . popular money, ttey m'.djiut more of it in circulation; nothing" is popular that is unfamiliar to the people. "Another thing," said he, "which those who are in authority had just as well remember, is that neither party has honestly tried to find and put into practical use a remedy for the existing disturbance of the money question and you may be sure that the mass of the people, the voters have pondered deep ly over it, and that all of them are not fools. There have been, and still are, many means in use to educate the masses up to the proper conception of the situation. The question has been so ably, and so freely discussed, both in the newspapers and on the rostrum, that the people's eyes have been open ed to the true situation, and while the majority are mute in voice, they will speak in tones that will be heard the world over when the time comes to vote. And that is the very thing the politicians are dreading, and many of them are hedging day after day, as ihey see the handwriting on the wall. They are looking for a Daniel to trans late for them, but the people are sil ent, and are ouly waiting for a chance to speak." Payable in Silver Dollars. From the Nashville San. The government has the legal right to pay our obligations in either silver or gold or botb, "at the option of the government," and yet they are payable in gold only, and the people run deeper and deeper in debt to do so. The right to exercise this "option" has been repeatedly declared by con gress. - Stanley Matthews, senator in 1878 from the non-silver-producing state of Ohio, introduced in the senate on De cember 6, 1877, the following resolu tion : 4 Be it resolved tp tn ns'e (the house of representative! concnrr?nff thcin), That all the bon is of the tJaited States issued ori- hor ized to be issued under the ev' ress hereinbefore recited are payable, principal and interest, at the option of the government of the United States in silver dollars of the coin m . Ol.l 1 11 Hill age Oi me unneu oiaies coniaiuiag 41-, grains each of standard silver, and that to re store to it coinage such silver coins as a legal lender in payment of Baid I oud? . rincipal and intes is not in violation of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights of the pabhc creditor. On January 25, 1878, it passed the senate by a vote of 42 yeas and 20 nays. In three days thereafter it passed the house by a vote of yeas, 189 ; nays, 79. Every member of congress, senate and house from Tennessee republi can and democrat, voted for this reso lution, save Senator Harris, who was paired in favor of it. Senator Matthews, in discussing the resolution, used the following strong language that faintly describes the condition of things now. He said : But my statement is that gold has risen in value with all com modities and therefore with silver, and with silver only because it has risen in value with all commodities. . I have the testimony of my observa tion ; I have the testimony in the list of bankruptcies which I read ; I have the testimony in the sheriff,' sales I have noticed ; I have the testimony of prices to which real estate has sunk, and I could reconut instances in that city which I believe today the soundest and most properous one on the conti nent, where business has been, trans- acted the least on credit I mean the city in which I live (Cincinnati) wtere the depreciation in real estate and in every article of property other thian gold itself has been actually un exampled. What else means all this cry of discontent ? What else means all the half suppressed murmur of dissatisfaction? Do gentlemen suppose that people are crying out when they suffer no pain? Do they suppose that the voice of lamentation comes up from the homes and houses of the people merely that they may hear themselves shriek and cry? Or is it the truth and is it the fact that the distress of the coun try is beyond all historical comparison in our country and that today it will reomiro but a few more turns of the wheel to submerge the majority of the body of the people into hopeless bank ruptcy? 80 theu, Mr. President, on any ground and any view that I am able to take, if we restore the silver dollar to its farmer and accustomed place in onr legislation, in our coinage and in our currency we are still pay ing the public debt and all private debts according to a large and a full and overflowing measure of value." Spain Calls Out the Reserves. Bpain has decided to call out 60,030 more reserves. UNIFORM BALES. REASONS WHY WE SHOULD HAVE A STANDARD COTTON BALK. Extract from a Paper Endorsed by the American Cotton Growers Pro tective 'Association. The American cotton bale compares very unfavorably to that from any other country. Nearly all bales of East Iudian Cotton, for example, when they arrive in Europe are as neat as a bale of dry goods, while our bales look as if they bad been in a cyclone. - The Indian bale, being smaller and of uni form size, Viz : 18x48 inches is better packed and contains from 45 to 55 pounds of cotton to the cubio foot; the American bale averages about 22 pounds to the foot, and varies in size from 28x54 inches to 40x70 inches. Naturally this does not improve the price of American cotton. No com press could reduce these bales to the same density as Indian cotton ; in faot, if the bale be over 28x58 inches no compress can press it to 22 1 pounds to the foot and hold it there; but if our bales were uniform in size, say 28x58 inches, any compress can press them to 30 pounds to the cubio foot and thus save the American cotton growers in round figures fifty cents per bale in freight alone ; this comes to four mil lion dollars per year, to say nothing of the saving in insurance, loss in weight, dirt, etc. More than half the American crop is exported to foreign countries in steam vessels, and the charter rates On the ships are figured according to their cubical capacity ; the more cotton can be loaded into a cubic foot of spaoe the cheaper the ship can carry it per pound. For this reason vast sums have been spent in the improvement of compresses, but we do not get the benefit we should from their work be cause of the condition in which the cotton comes to them. Because of this the East Indian planter gets his cotton carried half around the world for about what the American pays for one-third of the distance. The standard of density at southern ports is 22 1 pounds per cubic foot. it this coulrt be brought up to zo or 30 pounds there would be an imme diate cheapening of freight rates which would go directly into the price paid to tho producer, since the dealer's selling price is fixed by the trade con- 1 . - mm unions and he deducts all expenses from it to get his buying price. If cotton compressed to 22 pounds to the cubic foot can be carried for 50o per 100 pounds from Galveston or New Orleans to a European port, which on an average Texas bale of 525 pounds amounts to $2. 62, the ship would car ry cotton of 30 pounds density for fl.98 per bale, saving 64 cents, or about one-eighth of a ceut per pound The only thing that stands in the way of increasing the density and thus cheapening freights is the irregular sizes and ungainly shapes of the bales, mid the loose and irregular packing o tneir contents caused by the varying sizes of the gin-boxes and the improp er methods of filling them. The jaws of compresses are 32 inches wide. If a bale of cotton already 32 inches wide is put into a press, when the prs-ure is applied it spreads out to the sides and there is nothing there to bold it, so that when the pressure is taken off it is soft and ungainly and occupies twice the space it should. The result is that when it reaches the port tae ship rejects it, and the shipper must have it recompressed at an expense 60 to 75 cents per bale or pay an equiv alent in extra freight to the ship, which of course the producer loses in the end. Furthermore, these ungainly bales are much more liable to waste and damage than smaller ones. A pattern of bagging does not cover a 36-inch bale as Well as one 28 inches wide, and therefore leaves the cotton exposed to damage and to be rubbed off or plucked off in handling. Also when a bale is too long to go into its proper place in the ship the stevedores are very r.pt to cut the ends off to make it fit All these things are taken into ac count by the carrier, the insurance man, the dealer, the spinner, and duly charged for, and the farmer pays the Bill. Also, there are gins in use in which the cotton is fed into the baling box from both sides in such a manner that the bale is really in two parts, which do not knit together in the center, so that when heavy pressure is applied the bale gives way in the middle and spreads out to the sides so thai no compress can make a merchantable bale of compressed cotton of it. It is claimed that gin manufacturers are increasing the sizes of the boxes every year, and this is probably . true, as the compresses find their percent age of rejection for density increases yearly. The explanation given for this inorease in size is that a long wide bale can be more loosely packed and therefore the gin can run with less steam; and, of course, the gin using least steam sells cheapest. But, as you will see from the ligures given above, this is a saving at the spigot and a waste at the bunghole. . The cotton exchanges, the maritime associations, the buyers and the com presses have all tried to reform the baling of cotton and accomplished nothing. The farmer pays the losses resulting from the present condition of things, and alone has the power to. apply the remedy. How shall you do it? Adopt a stand ard bale of uniform size, and with the contents evenly distributed through out, and demand it of the ginner. To make it as easy as possible for him to conform to, make your standard not exceeding 28 inches in width and 58 inches in length. Let each and every one of you at once make it his business to person ally examine every gin in hiB vicinity and see that the baling box is altered to the standard size. Texas Division American Cotton Growers' Protbcttve Association. Waco, Texas, February 24tb, 1896. To the Cotton Growers and Oinners of Texas: Gentlemen Your attention is called to the attached paper on "Standard Cotton Bales" read to the American Cotton Growers' Protective Association at Memphis, Tennessee, January 23rd, '96, and at the meeting of the lexas Division 01 said associa tion held in Waco the 18th instant, at which meetings a standard size of twenty-eight inches in width by fifty eight inches in length was adopted, and the same has been approved by the Maritime Associations and Cotton Ex changes. Smaller bales are not ob- ected to, but they must not be larger. The reform advocated in this paper is one of vast importance to the cotton growers and handlers of Texas, and we have no doubt the ginners will be moved by their public spirit to aid the movement. The compress has long felt the in justice of paying large claims for re compression at the ports of bales which it was impossible to properly compress in. the first place, and they will soon give notice that they will no longer pay such claims ; the railroads will then protect themselves by charg ing the claims up to the shipper, the buyer in turn will refuse to buy the large bales except at a discount ; and this will leave the farmer to stand the discount or else have hiscotton ginned at a gin which makes a standard sized bale or less. If your baling box turns out a bale larger than twenty-eight by fifty-eight inches will yon not at once alter it to conform to that standard? Kindly give this matter your prompt attention. Yours very respectfully, E. S. Peters, President. P. S. All farmers into whoso hands this may come are requested to urge the ginners to conform to it. Where the New Naval Vessel Arc to Be Built. The House committee on naval affaire has completed the section of the naval appropri ation bill providing new-vessels for the navy. It is provided that one. of the four battLe sbi'3 recommended shall ho built on th" Pacific coast; one torpedo boat on tiePrt--ill' coast; one torpedo boat on the Gulf and on' on the Mississippi river. Five of the torpedo boats are to have a speed of at least 25 knob oud the remaining ten ttie highest 'peed es sibie. The five will be the larger boats. Bidders for torpedo boats can bid for any number they see proper. The boats to be constrm ted on the racitl -coast, the Gulf and the Mississippi are to be built nt these points, if the cost of construc tion is not excessive." In case it is exces sive, they are to be built anywhere the presi dent may decide. The committee completed th till and authorized Mr. Boutelle to report it to the House. After concluding the ship clanseof the bill, the consideration of dry dockp was renewed. Heretofore the committee bad voted for three timber dry docks, one at Portsmouth, N. II.. another at Aljfiers. La., and a third at Mare Island. Cai. The motion was made to reconsider the recommendation ami after considerable discussion it was de- was mMii 11 1 rtt- iiiaiuoi tuu iovuuuivm'wv- cided by a vote of 7 to 4 to stnfce all tne uo-k out of the bil. CHICAMAUGA NATIONAL PARK. 1 A Report Congratulating the Commis sion Work Agreed to. The joint committee on the dedication o the Chicamauga military park, Senator Talm t chairman, have agreed uj on a prelimi nary report and appointed Gen H. V. Boyn ton to compile the full report of the dedica tory exercises. The report contains an out liae of all proceedings during the dedication weeks; and a list of official participants, both State and national, commends the work of the Park Commission, and the effi cient preparation for the dedication made on bebaM of the government by th H.vretarv of War-, praises Chattanooga .for the care of the vast assemblage; presents a concise statement 01 me par, proji its essentially national character, as shown by the Interests taken by all the States bav ing troops engaged, and the thoroughly 1m nartial dealing of the Park Commission with both sides; approves the bill making the park a national manoeuvering ground for the regular army and the militia; and appro-es the plan now being pursued Under the Sec retary of War of placing regimental monu ments and ether memorials an bridge lines of battle and recommends, that this plan be adhered to. Henry C Bo wen. of Brooki N. T editor of the ln-iependent. diea, eightv-two. ita was excelled from Ply uth Church at the time of the Beeehertria use he pro- hm1 to have evidence o Jlr. Belcher's It. guilt and refused to discloi aara roeoa 1 NORTH STATE CDLLINGS. . "THE HOLTS OP ALAHAXCE." They Own Twenty Cotton JMUls In Alamance County. The new Oneida cotton mill, of Bur lington, a. U., will soon be ready receive the machinery, the brick work of the main building having been com pleted last week and the roof now feeing put on. It will be the largest mill building in that county of miUs (Alamance) where there are 23 cotton, mills in operation, twenty of which are owned bv "the. Hnlta of Al ; ... - a family of cotton manufacturers knr f far and wide and consisting of . brothers and theirsons thjefixa r(,w ers being themselves "tny t h of the first cotton manufactur in that section of the South, if not of the en tire South the late Edwin M. Holt. One of the brothers owns seven mills averaging about 10,000 spindles each in the town of Burlington, N. C. , almost in stone's throw of each other, and at the head of each of these mills is one of his seven sons be preferring seven 10,000 spindle mills to one 70, 000 spindle one, and experiencehas ' demonstrated that there is much more money to be made in mills of that size. This is the testimony of all southern cotton manufacturers who have been ' asked their opinion on the subject by the Industrial "Record's correspondent. A SHARPER ON THE ROUNDS. He Deceives the Endorser and Gets $295 from the Bank of Reldsvillc. 1 A young man walked into the Bank . of Reidsviile and presented a check signed by F. H. Burton, oh the Plant ers' National Bank of Danville, for 295. He said his name was Robert L. McAllister, sod that ho had procured . the check from one D. L. Smith, to whom it was payable, who owed him a portion of the same. The cashier de clined to cash the check without se curity so McAllister left and soon re turned with a letter of introduction from Mr. H. M. Pinnix. The bank still refused to advance any money up-' on the check until it was endorsed by Mr. Pinnix. McAllister left again aud; this time induced Pinuix, by a plausj ible story, to endorse the check. He, then obtained the money and skipped, walking south on the railroad. Later Mr. Pinnix made inquiry and learned; that the check was a forgery but of course he is liable for same. McAllister is about 27 vears old. sallow faced, ' wears a macintosh coat, light trousers,"5 T . . . . 1 1 11, 1 i 1 - a aeroy nan, ananas asmaaiuara mous tache. Look out for him. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. Called to Meet In Raleigh on May 1 4t h Preparing for Fusion. The Republican State committee has called the State convention to meet, in Raleigh May 14, to elect four dele gates and four alternates to the na tional convention at St. Louis and to nominate a State ticket, or- such part thereof as may be agreed-upon. It was decided that the committee should meet the day before the convention to examine into the prima face cases of contested delegates if there should be occasion for the performance of this duty. A resolution drawn by Senator Pritchard and adopted, provided that ' a committee composed of A. ErSolton, H. L. Grant and Jas." H. Young, be oppointed to consider the question of co-operation with the Populists in tho State and to receive sich suggestions as the Populists may make regarding co-operation and to report to" the State 7 committee May 13V . A Butcher of M. R. L. Douglas, a man of good family connections, was arrested at a camp of tramps near Salisbury, For over a month two detectives bad been pursuing him. He is wanted for the murde' of an unknown peddler Feb ruary 1st in Tazewell countv. tie ana the peddler were seen climbing the mountain and the following morning the body of the tramp was found on the top of the mountain, but his money and valuables were all missing. An- other man had been killed and robbed a few nights ago and Douglas is sus pected of this crime also. Flying from Lyachers. Henry Dowden, the negro who'mur-" dered Engineer Dodd of the Seaboard Air Line at Weldon apd who was con td. bnt aDDealed, has been taken to w - .,. fthe Raleigh lafl to prevent lyncning. He was driven over au mnes uuougu the country by tha-sheriff. The Su preme court will take u his case at the end of the docket. Prof. Tillett Gets 10,OOG. In the case of Prof. Tillett vs. tho Su- TCwflk A Western itaiiroaa tne . V - I roma Pmirt. affirmed the decision of . ,T J CU.KV nro." the lower court uuBo siding) and Prof. TiUet gets damage. 10 KK), as sued for. Prof. Tillett, it will be rememoereu, v Norfolk & Western, thereby losing in sight of his eyes. ; Gov. Carr has made requisition on the Governor of Virginia 1 for Quince Crawford, colored, an escaped convict. The American Association of Pas senger and Ticket Agents. The American Association ot Passenge and Ticket Agents met In Richmond, Va. Most of tbo sesssion was consumed in tbd election of officers and in the appointment of committee?. The Association Las been for some time without a h -i on account . f the resignation of Ciptain W. L Pavi .oji, of the Ti iut System - - Te billowing sffl"r were elected: iMr. DanaJ. F!uderfr of the BoStofl a "M&!i? 1 ;r-a i, presl-hriit; Mr. W. A. T-r- , of tj: ho it!: re K.ibtviA-, vtcvpriiditit Air. Aj. J. Smi'.':. .,i tii't I. ifi .-Snoiv v Mi -h u,: R.,-ti L- tii Bdilroa-i, aHfivt-ry. ro-elffcte 4