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Pi the : latilroa tStttcttmaiL a; l : "Equal and Exact, Justice to Al."! . . y-i . ! : 3 ' 1 ' , ; : m TOLXLIII. NO. 4. i m SALISBURY, N. C., TTIURSDAAFRIL 9. 18. ESTABLISHED 1832. - r 4 WA I, A r i. if H IINGBEE A POPULIST. STANDS PAT ON EVERY ART I- 15LE OF OUR FAITH. tpaMleIM and PopbIUU and Fr-8ll- ,w ver Democrat Will Xarae Him tow Goitrnor of Mlchln May to Heard From July 22. Miss Mary B. Miller, a student of the Englewood (Chicago) high school, has nominated Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, for president. The nomination was made the other day at a meeting of the literary club connected with the school. Her name was cn the program for a speech on Mayor Pingree and his re forms. The speech' will Interest re formers generally., because Mayor Pin tree's views are given on the three reat 4juestfons of the day Finance, Asportation. Land. Here It is: , w ''Men are best known by the ideas which they represent. i "When we think of Washington, we are reminded of the hero in war and in " peace, who kre ro faltering in the darkest hours of the republic, and whn served his country for eight years with out money compensation. "When we think of Jefferson we think of his memorable words: 'That which will promote the Interest of the Individual In the most permanent and beneficial form, Is the promotion of the general good, Increasing the opportun ities of mankind, and enlarging the scope of civilization. ' "When we think of Monroe, we con found his name with that great doctrine of International law now fully recog fchted throughout the world! i When We think of .Jackson, we are reminded of his brave resistance to the money power, which souRht to fasten upon this country a duplicate of the Bank of England. When we think of Lincoln we are re minded of his fidelity to the cause of -human rights, as represented In the abolition of slavery. "When we think of Wendel Phillips we see the figure of an aristocrat stoop ing to embrace the cause of the enslaved negro, unawed by the scoffs and Jeers of plutocracy. i "All those men were made for the oc casion: By the oppression of George III. Washington was made; in Abe at tempt to centralize the government, Jefferson; from the oppression of the Central and South American republics. Monroe; the attempt to renew the char ter thje United States bank, Jackson; and the cause of slavery made Lincoln and Phillips M 1 "In thfc latter we have a type living among us to-day, made by the selfish greed of jcorporate wealth, which seeks to turn ill things to its own Interests, regardless of the suffrages of the people. Hazen Si Pingree is an abolitionist In another Sense. He believes in the abol ition of Corporate wealth, as presented In financial monopolies, transportation monopolies and land monopolies, i "Let us examine his position on these question, for it is fitting that we, the future heirs to this republic and its In stitution t, should study out the science of government. I "What Is financial monopoly? Why does Mayor Pingree seek to abolish it? , Is It best for the United States that these forms of monopoly be abolished? "We find financial monopoly repre sented in the national banking system of the country, which delegates to a few persons almost the entire control of the finances, with power to contract or expand the currency at will, to cau?c panics, create distrust, strikes and bloodshed. ! Now, Mayor Pingree .be? Ueves that the right to Issue money should b4 solely delegated to the peo pie, through the treasury, with a gov ernment banking system in which there would be bo selfish interests for private gain. "With this idea worked out, it is quite plain that there would be no more pan ics, for the people having confidence in the government would not rush to the government banks to withdraw their money from circulation, as was done in the panic of 1S93. This panic was brought about by the greed of the bank ers of Wsjll atreet. New York, and the bankers of Lombard street, London,, who sought to break down the rising sentiment in favor of the remonetlza tion of silver, which was unwittingly demonetized by act of congress In 1873. "Let us (look a little further into this panic of '93. The democratic party had Just been ! returned to power on what was popularly supposed to be a free sil ver platform, by an overwhelming ma jority of both houses of congress. This platform promised to remonettze sliver with free and unlimited coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. But there was an obsta cle In the way. The president saw fit to put a different construction to the platf or m. "There was a prospect, however, that congress would pass a free coinage bill 9ver his veto. To offset this It was de- elded by the Wall street bankers and their friends lhtLondon to give a great 'object lesson' in the panic that fol lowed. This was first noticed when banks began to call in their loans, and to refuse accommodations on the very best securities. "As answer for their offense against Industry and commerce, they gave out, through their public press, that the panic resulted from fear of the remone t!zation off silver, and that when there was no farther danger of remonetlza lion, prosperity would return. A free coinage bill was not passed and what is mere the Sherman act was repealed and prosperity lis still far away. t "But th crowning- act and the one showing the relation between the Wall street bankers and their London part ners, was at once laid bare, when Eng land arbitrarily closed the mints of India to the free coinage of silver. In consequence of this silver at once shrunk 20 cents on the dollar, creating TURN THE: a breach In the intrinsic value of the dollars, as represented In gold and silver respectively. "Now a large portion of the people of this country in '93, frightened Into sub mission to the program of the banking monopolies, began to clamor against any attempt at remonetizatlon, and by urging their representatives in con gress, not only succeeded In preventing remonetization, but forced the repeal of all laws favorable to silver as a standard of value. Thus one-half the standard money was given a final blow, all of our sliver money becoming mere ly token, or like a paper currency re deemable In gold. It Is natural that when redemption -money Is reduced by one-half, the half remaining will in crease in purchasing power. Prices at once began to fall. It was soon found out that money would purchase nearly twice as much product as before. For instance, wheat fell from 90 cents a bushel to 40 cents To the owners of money this meant prosperity, to the owners of products and all those who have something to sell, including their labor. It simply meant ruin. "There were, or there are, some rich men, strong enough and patrlotio enough, to resist this form of Infamy, even at the cost of their own fortunes. Chief among these is the subject of this address. Mayor Pingree is a wealthy manufacturer as well as mayor of Detroit On expresing his opinion, he immediately became the object of ridicule at the hands of a large por tion of the prominent newspapers of the country. But ridicule is not argument, facts can never be answered by abuse; in this day the people seek the truth, not abuse. They behold In such men as Mayor Pingree, a possible savior for the cause of humanity, and of the re public. "Now let us look at Mayor Pingree's views on transportation monopolies. He believes In government, state and mu nicipal ownership, In all quasi public monopolies. For instance, if the gov ernment runs 'he postofflca department successfully, why should it not run the entire railroad system or telegraph system? If municipalities run the water system successfully, why not ex tend our ownership to gas or street railways? Such a condition of affairs would have two good results, the aboli tion of vast, private fortunes and in a more equitable distribution of wealth. For instance, instead . of paying ex orbitant rates to private persons or corporations, the people "would he prac tically paying their own money into their own pockets, as it were. It is plain that government and municipal ownership of public monopolies would be a benefit to mankind. The subject admits of very little, if any, adverse argument "Now let us look at Mr. Pingree's views of land monopolies. First, we must find out what land monopoly is. I will give a simple illustration: On the corner of Garfield and Michigan boulevards there is a vacant lot valued at twenty thousand dollars; its owner holds it at that price. What gives the property that value? Improvements? No; it stands to-day in the same con dition as In the infancy of Chicago, ov when the Indians roamed the plains of Illinois. It is plain that the improve ments made around it, such as the two boulevards, built at public expense, and houses adjoining, give it its value, and this value will continue to increase indefinitely as a result of improvements made around it, but not upon it The Owner is what might be called a dead head in commercial life, that is he takes advantage of natural conditions and the. industry of his neighbors. Such a rn la an enemy to society , for with out producing anything useful, be grows wealthy out of the industry of others. Wealth thus accumulated may be called legitimate by some, but never theless. It is not God gave the land to the people to improve and to beau tify, and not to hold in idleness. "To abolish land monopoly It would only be necessary to pass a law Increas ing the taxes on vacant or idle prop erty taking it entirely off improved TO FIND THE COLORED QSNTLBMAN IN THE CATHODE RAYS ON IT. From property, that is reversing the condi lions under which we now live. By an error which we inherit from monarchiai England, we tax people for improving their property, instead of taxing them for nbt doing so. For instance, I have a lot worth five hundred dollars and my tax is two dollars a y ar, I put up a house for eight thousand dollars, the tax gatherer Immediately assesses me for my enterprise. The next year in stead of paying two dollars taxes. I pay from fifty to seventy dollars; that is what I get for making improvements. "Put all the tax on the vacant prop erty and very soon you will see no more vacant expanses of prairie in the center of Chicago, or held for Ille gitimate speculative purposes. Owners of such property would be anxious to sell so as to get rid of the taxes, and the property would be so cheap as to be within the reach of all the people. All of us could then have homes. "In Detroit Mayor Pingree, as the chief executive of the city took oc casion to advocate tax reform In this direction, and to accomplish his purpose be has found that it will be necessary to change the constitution of the state of Michigan, and it is not improbable that a legislature favorable to his views will be elected in November next "In the meantime, all the vacant property of Detroit is being made use of by the poor for the purpose of rais ing vegetables, hence we have the vulgar newspaper appellation "Potato Pingree." The experiment has proved 'so entirely successful that it has been taken up in other cities throughout the country. "But the people should not lose sight of the fact that the abolition of land monopoly is one of three great prob lems to be solved by the will of the American people at the ballot-box. "As an Indication of the fact that Mayor Pingree's views are popular with the common people, we need only look at his several indorsements at the polls. Jn 1889 he was chosen mayor by a ma jority of over two thousand; In 1891 by a majority of five thousand; in 1893 by a majority of eight thousand, and In 1S95 by a majority of ten thousand. At a convention soon to be held In Michigan, he will be nominated for governor of that state. It may happen, however, that he will not remain a candidate for that office, for even now we hear the voice of the people of this nation calling him to a higher destiny and I for one would nominate for presi dent of the United States, Hazen S. Pingree, the abolitionist of 1896. DEBS AT ST. LOUIS. I arfjett Hall In the City Packed to Overflowing. (Evening Journal.) "Take heart.' said Mr. Debs, "the midnight watch is over. "Defy public opinion and take your stand with men like Jackson. The world, as yet, is neither just nor gen erous. Still there is room for hope In this line. Free government can dem onstrate Itself. The forebodings and advance objections of Macaulay count for nothing as against honest attempts to establish justice among men. "Organized labor is not understood. It Is not the produce of a clime or sea son, but Is born of oppression. While, of course, there are honest and even generous employers, they ever find themselves short of a quorum. They stand simply as honorable excentions .to an otherwise monotonous arrav of r forces adverse to the welfare of the wage worker. The ever-widening range of machinery is constantly ren dering more difficult the aoolication of arbitration in the settlement of disputes arising from its use. "Machinery Is everywhere and is everything: man has become a mere attachment. For instance, men in Kal-! amazoo, Mich., operate machinery for1 five cents an hour. This service brings a reward of fifty cents a day 93 a week. Such pay for Intelligent effort is so palpably inadequate that strikes follow sotmer or later. They do not come by chance or by choice. "Frances E. Willard. that sterling- WOOD PILE." Cleveland Press. exponent of an enlightened citizenship,! says that to-day millions are kept In 1 enforced idleness; they can get no work. They strive for this work as if it were bread itself. Happily, econom- i ics is obtaining a hearing; it is on the; lips of many; It Is a hopeful sign. Re lifo must come. Victor Hugo has apt-! ly said the labor question is the ques-! tion of mankind. A crucial change Is impending. Good men are saying again; 'Prepare ye the way.' "Abraham Lincoln placed man before the dollar, but industrial conditions have reversed the enumeration, and man's social standing is now weighed out to him Just as any other purchas able commodity." Referring to the motel town'of Pull man, 111., as a condRsatlon of Indus trial infamy, Mr. Debs told again some harsh-eounding truths. With a surplus of $25,000,000, this company charged rentals (and per force collected them) ranging from 25 to 50 per cent above the rate paid by others than Pullman slaves In the Immediate vicinity. The exactions wrung from this unwilling tenantry were fully exposed. On every step from the cradle to the funeral casket Pullman levied toll. Bitter was the arraignment of the Manager's association, so-called, which precipitated the strike that has been generally charged up to the American Railway Union. Twenty-six lines of railway allied themselves to wreck this trade union and blacklist its members. This damnable blacklist is enforced to day so far as it is possible to do so. "Courts are used by one side only, and injunctions are for the rich alone. During the Pullman strike,' up to July 2, no trouble had occurred. But trouble was necessary. So 4,200 thieves were sworn in as deputy marshals in Chi cago, and trouble began that day. Property was destroyed. Chief of Po lice Brennan has testified that the deputy United States marshals were the real thieves. I sought the advice of tho best legal advisers of the country with regard to the injunction served upon me. 1 followed the advice and served six months for doing so." Jndge Jenkins and his malodorous Injunction were not spared. A railroad is wrecked; then a receiver Is ap pointed. The receiver, an officer of the court, orders a 10 per cent reduction In wages; the Judge issues an injunction against a strike. A committee of con gress investigates, but Just as the cor ruption is tapped the appropriation sud denly gives out and so does the bot tom of the Investigation. "When I was In Jail" But Mr. Debs was not permitted to fin ish this sentence without the interrup tion of the heartiest of laughter. There was something about the manner of saying it which was irresistible. Yet this preliminary introduced a pathetic story concerning a cell mate who, for the theft of an old cloak valued at $2, was sentenced In three minutes. The speaker referred feelingly to his experience at Woodstock prison as put ting him in touch with the unfortu nate. Suffering seems necessary to fully appreciate the unhappinesa which attends1 the unemployed. Competition is a curse unspeakable. Competition is cannibalism. Co-operation can save the workers. It deserves faithful trial. "Think,, even though you think by proxy. Think upward; you must think. Books will win for you. Read after your work; read to wife and child. There is no excuse for ignorance. Shakespeare says there is no slavery but ignorance. Total ignorance is total helplessness. Have a library. If it con sists of but one book. "Associated effort only- can bring emancipation. Selfishness commits suicide always. Labor must be united and Just, and above tho low motives so often marring it. Labor's parasites must be. lopped off. Away with lead ers! Debs Is no Reader; he does not wish to be. No one must follow; think for yourself." The republicans gave us John Sher man, and the democrats gave us Orovsr. Cleveland two brieks of the same color . SILVER'S BATTLES. THE ONSLAUGHT AGAINST SIN GLE STANDARD CONTINUES. An Enlightened rress Speaks Out for j the People's Money. Secretary Morton to Farmers. Secretary Morton has written to the Mannfacturers's Record a description of Biltmore, George W. Vanderbilt's place in Western North Carolina. Naturally the secretary is enthusiastic in his ladmiration of this magnificent estate, and he seems to look forward mth pleasure to the day when every farmer! in the country will own one just like it, ! Of course Secretary Morton draws a lesson from Biltmore in favor of th j gbld standard. If he had not intend ed to draw such a lesson he would not have fooled with Biltmore. What tar heel can fail to bow with, shame before the following reproof : The millions of dollars which Mr. Vanderbilt has expended, have, each ami every oue of them, been up to the gold standard in purchas ing power. "!;. North Carolina, however, although the oldest Bold-producing sec; i n of the United States, and "notwithstanding the fadt that) largu investments tot re-entry's' ng the gold product of the commonweal' h are now being made, and notwithstanding tbe fur;he fact that North Carolina i not a silver-producing etate contains a population very thorough ly Saturated with the fallacy of the free coinage of 8iiver at 16 to 1. jit is claimed by some that Secretary Morton has not enough brains to jus tify hii admission to a lunatic asylum. It is a vile slander. He has, and we dd not jbelieve that they are sincere who claiim that he has not. Secretary Morton has as solid a bead as was ever sepn on the shoulders of anything but a Statue. Ela. Times-Union. Missouri is for Free Coinage. Colonel Joe Rickley, of St. Louis, a prominent democratic leader of Mis souri says that his state is for free coinage and will send a Folid white metal delegation to the ChTcr.go con vention, "The democratic party," said he, "couldn't lose next November if it asserted its independence of the gopdbugs and earn e cut as it should for tbe jfree coinage of both metals, independent of the action of other na tions. There are some gold men in Missouri, but they won't bo heard of in tho national convention, became the plak of allowing representation by congressional districts will not be allowed. The state convention will attend to that and only friends of sil ver willi be chosen to go to Chicago. This is jn accord with the action of gold states like Pennsylvania which will not allow the f ilver minority any representation in the delegations. "Missouri ha.a, moreover, the host man in the United States to lead the party ih the person of Richard P. Blind. ; If Bland is nominated he will get the votes not only of his own party, but of tbe populist and .silver men. He is the natural and logical candidate. His record is without a fla -- ,No mat teij if tHe eastern and middle states go against him, there are enough electoral votes in the Bouth and we6t to put him in?the white house." "But what if tho eastern democrats object to his nomination, colonel?" "Let 'em bolt and be . Even if -under Bland's leadership the party failed to win, it would preserve its or is gahizatipn and be in good fighting ! trim for 19u0 ; in the other case it will : periBh fiom the earth. Let the gold bugs prevail at Chicago and all that i will be left of tbe grand old party of ; Jeffersoi and Jackson will be a rhemo ryi In ithe pending contest it would be, a pool third in the race, and after j November there would be few left that j Would acknowledge they had ever be i lodged to the party." jVletvs of Financiers. (From Atlanta Cons' ituti n.) Interest in bimetallism genuine bi metallism is not confined to the South and west, but ha renched New York city. The metropolitan pre is almost entirely devoted to the cbemes Sof the money power, hut occasionally jweflnda newspaper ibt-ro wiiliDg to print and citpulate the tiutb. Rtcont ly there have beeu uamistikable man ifestations that ihe render of some of these newspuj rs are hiai;ding fair play and honest diKUSMon so faros tho money question is concerned, j The Itiuancial News, a tlai ly paper devoted to finance and th- market, reproduced from Tne CieVilam1, O., Plain Dealer the rpjrt of an inter view which a business man of Cleve land had! with the Right Hon. Will am iLidderdale, ex governor of the Batik of Englabd, ou the q i 6. ion of reopen jing tbe mints to silver. Along with the report of the interview is printed tbe text of tome remarks made at the 'Mansion ; house by Mr. Evelyn Hub jbard, an associate director of the Bank of England, iwho, from being a pro nonnced I advocate of ge ld monomet jallism, has recently become an ardent supporter of the cause of bi metal li.m. I Moreover, The New York Commer jcial Advertiser, a leading adv e ite of tbe gold standard) printed a lug let ter froml Geprge Alfred Towtsend, ! clvii g the dtiails of an interview with Jay Cooke, the veteran Philadelphia banker, j ene of the most distinguished financiers of this country. These things show that the question of re ttoring ijver is pressing to tbe front I 0ven in New Tors, the stronghold of the money power. . Neither Mr. Jjidderaaie nor .ur.nuu bard tak any stock in the argument pf the gold dontractionists that legis lation will not affect the ratio between he metals. "What is lost ty legisia- ' I A I I iU.n Via VO. UOPt ssja Me iutiuei, v - stored by legislation." Mr. Hubbard used to believe that even were a ratio fixed by law between silver and gold, the market price must inevitably vary from the legal ratio in accordance with the increase or the decrease in the pro dnetion of either metal. "I discover ed," he says, "that this is not a mat ter of argument, but of history ; that the record of the years 1849 52 has iuruit-hed the most conclusive demon stration of the power of the ratio to keep the price steady even in the face of the most violent fluctuation in sup- ply." Mr. Lidderdale says that if the peo ple of the United States saw fit and had the courage of their convictions they could, by opening their mints to the white metal, force the restoration of silver in Europe, which would be the only method by which Europe could keep the trade of India, China, Japan, Mexico and South America. The Shadow of the Gold Standard. The reports of the commercial agencies do not show a very healthy condition of affairs in the United States nnder the single gold standard. They show, indeed, that all lines of business are suffering from the con stantly increasing value of money, or, what is the same thing, the constant decline in prices. Only a few days ago we called the attention of the cuckoo and gold stand ard organs in this section to the fact that the depression in trade and business, instead of showing signs of disappear ing, was in reality growing deeper and darker all the while. And now comes the commercial agencies more than verifying the statements made in these columns. We are under the shadow of the single gold standard, and neither busi ness and trade nor the industrial con ditions oan grow any brighter or better so long as the contraction of the cur rency is going on bo long as tho sin gle gold standard continues to measure the products of labor. There can be ho substantial improvement in any line so long as prices continue to fall and this fall must continue until prices reach the low European level if wo are to link our monetary system with the system prevailing in tbe Shy-lock-ridden countries of the old world. Consequently our business men and the mercantile community generally must not be surpristd to find the re ports of tho commercial agencies grow ing gloomier and gloomier week by week. Against the depressing influ ence of the single gold standard neither municipal nor individual enterprise can prevail. The eause that paralyzes industry is bound to paralyze business. There is no help for it, and no relief to be found except by returning to the monetary system that provided a bi metallic currency for the people. Tho reports of the commercial agen cies show some very bad features of the situation. Mills are closing down for lack of orders, other industries are running half time. Cotton manufac turers are seeking loans to enable them to carry their accumulated stocks. The failures last week were larger and more important than they were the same Week a year ago, and the aggregate of defaulted liabilities is more than $1, 000,000 greater for three weeks in March than they were for the same period last year. With this oomes news of the reduction of wages in one of the oldest and most conservatively managed mills in the south the Eagle and Phenix, of Columbus together with hints of a strike. The operatives know they are about to be hurt and they imagine it is the mill managers who are doing the hurting. We should say they were short sighted if it were not true that thous ands of men who ought to know bet ter are proving every day that they are just as short-sighted in their v, ay as the mill operatives in theirs. For still we see manufacturers, business men and merchants lending pleased ears to the cry of "sotind" money, for getting that in finance, as well as in simple arithmetic, 2 from 4 have only 2. How can there be a demand for goods when the people have no money to buy? And how can the people who are compelled to buy money with th products of their labor have money to exchange for their goods when they can get only half as much for the com modities they sell? The operations of the single gold standard will be thoroughly under stood by everybody before the coun try is rid of it. Atlanta Constitution. PENSION RULINGS. Policy of the Interior Department Laid Down by Assistant Sec retary Reynolds. The policy of Ui Int-rior Department in cases involving reimbursement to the gov ernment for fraud or mistake of pension claimants is laid down in several rulings of the Assistant Secretary of the Interior Rey nolds just promulgated. In these it is held that th'-1 government cannot withhoM the pension granted under the act of June 27, 1890, to reimhurse itself for moneys errone ously paid as pension money under thd general law when sneh pension was not procured through fraud or mis take, but was allowed u the result of ' an erroneous judgment on tho evidence. The decision r'vers-s the recent action of the commissioner of pensions in the case or Christian Mays, an Ohio volunteer. In the case of James A. Tresper, who served in the Twentv-fourth Kentu-ky tafantry, the following ruling is made: In a isision claim under the general law for the disease of the left lung concealment by the claimant ol the fact thai he had been shot through that lung . -i n v.ia .lutfnfnt. whi'di wound caused I ne iimg disease, amounts to actual fraud on his part. It, tnereiore. warrants me withholding of the pension granted him un der the famous "June 27'' act in order to re imburse the government for moneys paid him as pension under the general law on ac count of the lung dis'-ase. "The love of money is the root of all evil," quoted Mrs. Lamb. "No," re plied Mr. I.a ml, who had been shorn lately, "Wall street Is the route of all evil." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. TAR HEEL NOTES. The Bl Fisheries at Edenton. The fisheries at Edenton, in the eastern part of the State, are a reve lation to us who live inland. The steam seins are huge affairs, the one at this fishery being three miles long, the rope included. The sein is carried 9ut into the sound, a mile and a half from the shore, by two steamers. -Tho jrrcat net is then drawn to shore by iteam power, and the fish areT landed in smaller nets. Sometimes as many j as ninety thousand herring have been caught in a single haul at this fishery. J Shad and herring are the principal catch. Mr. H. G. Woods is the owner 1 of this large fishery, and about fifty nren are employed in the -enterprise. lne people who live m the interior have no idea of the immense fishing interests of the State. A Railroad Decision. In the suit for forolosure in the Cape Fear aud Yadkin Valley Railroad case in the United State Court, the Court decides that tbe road should be preserved as an entirety and should be Bold as such unless it appears imv practicable to make such sale after certain preliminary questions are con sidered and passed on by the Court; the main questions being the value of the divisions aud branches and the dis tribution of the proceeds of sale among the respective holders of the different olas&ea of bonds. The Court, there fore, orders a reference to Special Master . S. Martin, to take testimony as to the values of the different divis ions and branches and certain other statistics, and to report the facts to the Court for its conclusions thereon. The Mills to the Cotton Fields. North Carolina built more cotton mills last year than were built in all New England. Mills are abutting down in New England beoause it is not pro fitable . to run them, while they are running on full time in all the South ern States. This is as it should be. The movement of "the mills to the cotton fields," which began in earnest less than twenty years ago, should see its natural conclusion in less than twenty years more. when it is probablo that the whole ootton crop of the South will be manufactured in tho South. Presbyterians Can't Agree. . Condord Presbytery is much dissat isfied with the decision of the Meck lenburg and Concord Presbyteries in giving Charlotte the proposed female college, so muoh so that it has re fused to ratify the decision. A movement is now on foot now to es tablish the college any way by a joint stock company. If Charlotte under takes to enforce tbe above decision ol the Presbyteries it will disrupt their union, so strong is the feeling in the matter. Morton Will Get Some Delegates. Thomas B. Keogh, who is making a tour of North Carolina in the inter est of Morton's candidacy for the pres idency, says that Morton has consider able strength in the State and will, get some delegates to the convention. It is stated by some leading Republicans that it is now the field against McKin lcy in North Carolina and that McKin ley oan oarry only two districts. Mc Kinley men insist thatHhey have six teen votes. Vance Monument Fund. Mr. Polk Miller has ended his lec ture tour, and it has netted the Vance Monument Fund about 81,000. This makes the fund on hand nearly $2,000. It is said that at least $7,500 is needed. If a biography of Zeb Vance should not be written in this generation of Y.,Hh Carolina some one will be to blame, and we will not be the one. If Judge George Brown and his father, Mr. Sylvester Brown, of Washington, N. C, would undertake the work it would bo well done. They are both men of literary taste and culture, both knew Vance personally, and are both bkilled, conscientious, prtient and painstaKing writers. If properly can vassed the sale of the book would build the monument. Elizabeth City Economist. Governor Carr Iias paid fifty dollars reward to J. A. Bishop for the capture of Nathan Jones, wanted in Hender son county for assault with intent to kill. Bishop certainly earned his re ward; he followed Jones down into South Carolina, then back into this State, and at last caught him in Polk county. Jones has been placed in the Henderson county jail. The strike of the carpenters at the Asheville Wood-Working Company's' (Vanderbilt's) shops ha been followed by a svmpathetic strike on. the part of the ca'rpenters on tbe Vanderbilt es tate. Some of the strikers on the es tate reported for work, but Mr. Mc Namee" declined to allow them to re turn to work. In Mitchell oouuty, two men were Kr.r Alive in a mica, mine by a quantity of earth and stone caving in . -. i whori heir bodies were re Oil ILHTIXl. " covered they were cold and stiff in death. . -H The Greeriville town council has de cided to put in water-works. The Indian Schools. The Senate committee . on appropriations aas repoited the Indian appropriation bill. Ibe chief contention in the committee has ccn ou tho.. Indian school appropriation. rh! Honse went on thy theory that there -hould be no appropriation for sectarian schools, and yet" appropriated $33,000 for the Lincoln school and 20,000 lor the school it Hampton. Va., both of which, it was farmed, are sectarian. Both of these appro priations tbe Senate committee has struck out. The general appropriation-for tbe In dian schools, not setarlan. has been Increased by upwards of ? WO non. Subscribe for this paper. t - i - - i