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SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 16. 1896.
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: D---A MAN.
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Who
WILL NOT
BETRAY
THE PEOPLE.
Interview with Oen. Sherwood Be Com
patch the
Tinancta. Poller of Other
Ntloua to V.to
Present Policy of the
United Statu.
Gen,
Sherfaood has Just returned
from a business trip to Indiana. He has
bad facilities for becoming acquainted
with jjbe condition of business, and last
evonlng, wh n asked for the result of
his observations, he said:
"Business ought to be a great deal
tetter, but wo have the consolation that
it could not !be much worse. I saw a
gcod business man in Toledo this morn
ing, who has been In active business for
twenty-live yjara, and he told me" that
this Is the worst- February for business
he had ever jxperlenced."
, Do yoti fi: d business men generally
talking that say?"
Business aien generally are not as
hopeful as on year ago, especially mer
chants,, and nanufae'urers. Congress,
of which jfcd-iauch tss promised by the
republican lDr.g-dIctance prophets a
year -ago, Is doing nothing Jo help busi
ness or to ease the money market, and
from present; Indications will adjourn
without deirg a thing. Last week I
was down 111 central Ohio In one of
the large nanufacturing cities, and
both the president and cashier of a
leading bank there told me money was
tighter than a year ago. I asked If the
new bond Is suo would not help, and
they both sa: d it was only a temporary
expedient th: it would not help anybody
outside tho J ond buyers. The cashier
said the fact that so many bankers
Were anxlou j to put their money Into
bonds at a low rate of Interest was a
fiure indication that they had no con
fidence In the future of business enter
prises. Dot; i the president and cash
ier said a majority of the business
men in that own were not making any
profit, hardly keeping even, and most of
the merchants were afraid of a further
oecllno in values of textile fabrics.
'T went Injto the bank to get a small
check cashec); you know I never have
a large one,! and when I was leaving
the cashier ajsked me If I had read Till
man's speech in the senate. I told him
1 bad not; only the press summary.
He then sal i that it was a powerful
speech, and Tillman only said what a
great many people are now thinking.
He said he had subscribed for, a number
of;-Tillman's speeches for free distri
bution among his goldbug friends, and
agreed to seid ms a copy. After thank
ing him I expressed surprise, as I
knew he wa a John Sherman, Grover
Cleveland,. ! close corporation, gold
standard mai only six months ago. He
then said-hil convictions were now for
free stiver, as he had been fully edu
cated by the disasters and business
wrecks we pavfe had under the gold
standard and that he belonged to that
class of men who had the courage to
admit
lit when be was wrong." '
le .reporter asked Gen. Sherwood if
he hdseen the statement of Chairman
"Anderson of the Ohio democratic com
mittee that Cleveland could net have
the demoeral lc nomination again, If he
desired it
"Yes; I read that and was very much
surprised. Col. Anderson doubtless
Judged by ihe last Ohio democratic
state convention at Springfield, when
the office holders proved more potent
than thOr- delegates' representing the
democratic masses; but the result of the
election ouglt to have admonished Col.
Anderson 'net to try any more experi
ments on tat line. It is true that
Cleveland is a rank favorite with the
republicans;" and from a party stand
point ho ou ?ht to be, as he has be
trayed the c emoeratic party on every
.vital issue, a ad has carried out without
J quiver, either of remorse or shame,
alii the flnar. clal schemes of the party
be was elecied to repudiate and over
thrown . "When I came up from Indianapolis
a few days a so, a couple of farmers got
on the trail at the first station this
side of. Mun :ie, Ind., and took a seat
in front of nine. One was from Darke
i county, Oht. From conversation on
the deplorable condition of farming,
they drifted into politics and to con
dense the an mus of their talk, one said
be hadj always been a democrat, but if
he had know n Grover Cleveland would
have done what he has done, he would
sooner navel voted for the devil for
president. In reply to a taunt from
i his companion that Cleveland might
j run again, ho said he would sooner
.Vote to hangf him than vote for him for
president again, or any other man like
him, 'and,' he added, 'I know lota of
democrats in my section that feel the
fame way.' f His companion, who was
ayidently a garrison republican, said:
WeV, I guess It don't make much dif
j ference to us who Is elected. Congress
and the president are just alike.'"
The general continued: "There to a
deep and all pervading discontent
among the masses of both parties over
'T prevailing conditions, and all the peo
ple need now is for the leaders of the
democratic party to cut loose from Gro
ver Cleveland, repudiate entirely .his
financial policy, absolve the party from
all responsibility for his deplorable ad
ministration j and put the party back
, oil Jeffersonian lines. Then there
would seem to be a chance, and it is
t. the only chance, to elect a democratic
president this year. It is criminal folly
for democrats to longer attempt to sus
: tain a man who has betrayed every
b democratic principle worth anything.
The real facta are, Grover Cleveland
is a stench in all right smelling dem
ocratic nostrils. At the end of hip term
h will have! less real friends among
the democratic masses than Benedict
WANT
It is believed that. another issue of bonds will be necessary,
length of time. New York Post (English Syndicate Organ).
Arnold had in the continental army
when Lord Cornwallls surrendered.
"Witness the absolute brutality of the
last proposition of the gold standard
I papers, that borrowing gold by issuing
one hundred millions of interest bear
ing bonds would strengthen the public
credit and help business. Carry tils
Idea- Into your own business. Could a
corporation or business firm strengthen
their credit by making a large loan of
money and issuing Interest bearing
notes for obligations that bore no in
terest? Is not the proposition thor
oughly Idiotic when examined in the
light of ordinary common sense? We
have now had over $260,000,000 useless
bonded debt created In the past two
years, and the end to not yet. When
the Sherman silver act was repealed
all the gold bugs in the land, big and:
little, from John Sherman down,
claimed that we would have prosperity
in sixty days. Read Senator Sher
man's last speech in the senate, just
.before the silver repeal bill passed.
Sherman was the chief bugler among
the loud singing cuckoos in both houses,
of congress. He then said that all we;
needed to bring gold from Europe bji
the ship load and give us a substantial
business boom was to destroy silver as
a unit of value and a money metal.
And it was done by men who were
elected to congress sacredly pledged to
bi-metallism. Look at the terrible;
business wrecks in the Immediate trail
of this Infamous enactment. Look at
the record of bond sales since then.
See from the records how every prom
ise for better times has been proved
criminally false and delusive. And
again we see Senator Sherman, as the
real mouthpiece of his platitudinous
obesity of the White House, arise in
the senate and commend the present
house of representatives because they
have just voted to kill any silver legis
lation whatever.
"And did you notice that Sherman
savagely criticised leading statesmen
and senators of his own party for vot
ing against another tariff bill, and
commended the republicans of the
house for defeating any legal recogni
tion whatever of the white metal; that
Sherman, in a speech made at Zanes
ville last year, before the Ohio repub
lican convention, claimed to be a
stanch and trusty friend? And he had
the marvelous audacity to claim, in bis
speech, not yet five days old, t.hat these
house republicans, 'fresh from the peo
ple,' as he said, represented the people.
It was almost 1,900 years ago, if I re
member aright, that Christ, talking by
inspiration from on high, of just such
beings, said:
" 'They bind heavy burdens and
grievous to be borne, and lay them on
men's shoulders; but they themselves
will not move them with one of their
fingers. Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour
widow's houses and for a pretense
make long prayers.'
"And all these modern Pharisees
from Sherman down claim to be cham
pions of the only honest money, and
that all are dishonest or Ignorant who
oppose their schemes of confiscation of
the property of the common people by
law. I would like the Plain Dealer to
look up the campaign records of the
members of the present congress who
voted a few dayi ago to murder the
honest silver dollar of the constitution
at every stage of the voting, and see
bow many preached the gold dollar of
the vampires on the stump when out
vote begging. I venture the opinion
there are not ten congressmen in the
whole array, from, the entire country
COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS.
if the exports
west of the Allegheny mountains, that
dared talk to their constituents in their
electioneering campaigns as they voted
In the house. Everybody knows, who
knows anything, that nine-tenths of
all the intelligent citizens of Oh! are at
heart bi-metallists. And we have the
scoundrellsm of modern politics well
represented in the vote referred to,
showing that fidelity to a public trust
Is no loger the rule of conduct with a
majority of out public men. In fact,
representative government has ceased
to be representative and the boodler
in the primaries expects his servant,
whom his corruption money elects, to
become the tool of the Shy locks when
elected, and the record of this house of
representatives to date proves that
whom the boodler buys the Shylock
holds securely In his grip.
VWhen we witness the humiliating
cowardice of the present house of rep
resentatives in refusing to even make
one move to relieve the financial stress
of the people, it is no wonder so many
business men are giving up in despair.
Let us suppose that the silver men had
had their way in 1893, as the gold men
had theirs, and suppose we should
have had the result we witness today
of the increase of the bonded debt of
Over $260,000,000; with falling prices of
all products of labor, and of the farm
and mine, and with the appalling list
of business failures, suicides, want and
woe, and crime, that has followed as
the inevitable result of the gold stand
ard. Why, it would not be safe for one
Of the silver leaders to venture out up
on the streets of any city, or hamlet in
tha country on account of mob violence.
Surely, there would be no newspapers
in the land with enough of the gall of
prutality to have advocated a contin
uance of the policy,
i "And now that we have had the
terrible experience of the last two
years and a half, with a policy that
every democrat of Intelligence and
patriotism predicted at the outset
would result only in disaster, it seems
Incomprehensible how any well mean
ing citizen who loves his country and
his kind should exhibit a disposition
to further exploit the field of disaster.
Certainly no true democrat is in favor
of lit My observation is, and I am
looking at the situation only from a
business standpoint, that business men
pf both parties are thoroughly con
vinced that the present fiscal policy
must be changed before we can have
any substantial prosperity, and I be
lieve that a majority of sagacious busi
ness men understand that the present
effort of the republican leaders to try
and avoid the only live issue (the mon
ey question) by switching off on the
tariff is a scheme of humbug and fraud,
as transparent as it is Insincere and
dishonest.
"The people are about ripe for a lead
er who is sound on the money question
for the people's honest dollars and not
the scarce gold of the Shylocks that
has never been seen by the common
people, has never been the money of
Circulation and never will be. There
no civilized country anywhere that
has ever adopted Or ever Will adopt
bur present financial policy of flat mon
ey for the people and gold for the Shy
locks. There to no civilised country
n the world that would discard silver
a? a money metal if that country was
as rich in silver mines as the United
States. The world's record today is
that ail the silver using countries are
prosperous and all the exclusive gold
countries are not This ought to dissi
pate the miserable rot of the gold stand-
r organs
that a silver standard for
of gold to England continue for any
the United States would mean bank
ruptcy. It Is a bare assertion with nd
vitality' to sustain It, but He. Even
England, the credit natiou jf the world,
would not tolerate for a month our
present flGcal piicy. Ouwd
soon after the war from the Geneve
award some $15,500,000 of England.
When this claim matured the banking
and commercial classes of Great Brit'
aln, fearing a disturbance of the mon
ey market should gold be withdrawn
for export, induced the Bank of Eng
land to Interpose and the United States
treasury was Induced to exchange se
curities, so as to prevent any with
drawal of gold.
"Here Is McKinley, who claims to be
for protection (and no one is able te
tell Ju3t what that means now), not In
favor of the protection of our richest
and most favored American product,
silver. The fact that whole communi
ties have been wrecked In the west by
legislation which he commends, and
populations wrecked by hostile legisla
tion, In direct conflict with his whole
theory of protection, does not move
him to utter a word of condemnation.
He has been going up and down the
land with Napoleonic beak and Ches
terfieldian pose and talking the barren
paucity of unmeaning platitudes about
protection, utterly oblivious to the well
known fact that a bill embodying all
his ideas, framed according to his own
sweet will, not only created revolution
in his own party in almost every state
in the union, reduced wages In ten
thousand manufacturing establish
ments in less than three months, but so
disturbed economio conditions that the
most sagacious students of history at
tribute the panic of 1893 almost solely
to his work. Surely It is a desperate
case of desperation to look for a savior
from present disaster in a party and
country wrecker whose work is only
five years old.
"But where is ths people's savior now,
do you ask? I do not seem to see him,
but Gov. Matthews of Indiana looks
fairly well. This time the people will
scrutinize the man more than the plat
form. Cleveland's base betrayal has
taught us that. Sibley of Pennsylva
nia is both the man and the platform.
I remember during the war,, when dis
aster after disaster overtook the army
of the Potomac, that it was the poet of
the camps, Edmund C. Stedman, who
wrote the ringing battle cry that elec
trified the country. It was the well
remembered poem, "Give us a Man.'
Oire us a man of God's
Fit te rally his fellow ma:
aw
fellow
Qili u a r!13rlna y ad ties.
Abraham Lmcola, give Us a man!'
"Then a man on horseback
wanted to command the army of the
Potomac. Today we want no man on
horseback. We want no man who
looks to an increased standing army
and formidable battleships and forte
and fortifications along our frontiers '
for continued protection and glory; but
we want a man anxious to do Justice
to the great, brave, patieat people, and
whoso humane rule will cause the peo
ple to love the country and its free in- i
stitutlons; and then neither armies, nor
navies, nor iorta, nor bastiles will be
needed. A happy, contented and pros
perous poulace Is the best shield of the
state."
The designs for six of the fifteen
main buildings of the forthcoming Ten
nessee Centennial exposition have been
accepted and the construction put under
contract, to be completed by June next.
The lakes and terraces hare already
been finished, and the Administration
hullsrrpsr haa
SILVER'S RATTLE
THK COUNTjRY IS SPKAKlXtJ OUT
FOR THK WHITK METAL.
Press Comment What Silver Is Do-
lng-Hoke Smith's "Remedy" Not
Nature, But Legislation.
The Blanks Organizing.
From Atlanta Constitution.
At bottom the financial issue is now,
as it was in Jackson's day, a contest
between the people and the money
power.
j The money power is as active now as
tbe old United States bank and its
branches were when Andrew Jackson,
backed by the people, undertook to
disestablish it. It is true that there is
no proposition now to disestablish the
national bankf, and yet these institu
tions, aided by special legislation and
favorable circumstances, have grown
to be far more powerful than the old
United States bank and its branches
eVer were.
i The big banks of New York feel
that it is worth their while to main
tain the single gold standard for ihe
reason that it makes money the com
modity in which they deal constantly
dearer, and therefore more profitable.
1 If the readers of the Constitution
imagine that the money power is
asleep, or that it proposes to t&ke a
nap during the present campaign,
they are veryl much mistaken. It is
Wide awake, alert, active and persist
ent. Word has already gone around
the magio circle that the campaign is
qn.
We have before us a circular issued
by the "American Bankers' Associa
tion ' addressed i "To the Bankere of
tibe United Spates."
The circular is issued from ''l? Wall
street," and is dated March 23d. It
begins by calling to the attention of
the bankers of the United States that
"at a meeting of the executive council
of the Ameridan Bankers' Association
lield in this (New York) city on March
II, 1896, the following declaration was
made by unanimous vote :
! 'The eiecutife council of the American
bankers' AssdiitiOn declare Unequivocally in
fvor of the maiptendhce of the existing gold
sjfandanl of value an 1 ti commend to all bank
ers ahd to the Customers of all banks the exer
cise of all their influence as citizens in their
tations states to select delegates lo the politi
cal conventions pf both tbe treat parties who
will declare nn qui vocally in favor of the
maintenance of the existing gold standard of
vlalu."
The circular then addresses itself
particularly 'to the banker who may
have received it, and says; "Your in
fluence is earjnestly requested to give
practical effect to this action.'
The circular also states that "the
association set ks to unite all banks and
bankers in one efficient national organ
ization and it solicits all national and
state banks, savings banks and bank
ing firms to lbecome members."
1 In one efficient national organiza
tion I Meanwhile the people are pull
ing this way and that way, threatening
to do this ahd to do that, tinkering
ith question that are not worth con
sidering and listening to the blatant
Voice of politicians who, in the inter
est of the mobey power, are trying to
pereuade them, under tbe thin mask of
Vsonnd monejy," to support candidates
Who are in favor of tho maintenance of
the single gold standard.
The money! power is organizing and
getting together to maintain the single
gold standar. Why cannot the peo
ple organize i and get together in de
fense of their property, the products
of their labor and their most vital in
terests? Prfsently we shall have the
spectacle of one big combine, bringing
powerful inliuence to bear on both
Dolitical par ies, and, uuder the pre
;ence of favoring "sound money,"
naking an assault on the people's in
terest that iil be hard to withstand
tin'ess the voters of the country have
prepared themselves to meet it.
Our advic to every voter who be
lieves in thebonest dollar that pro
motes honest prices and fair profits is
io unite witt the democratic party
and help to swell the majority in favor
Of the restoration of silver as a part of
the standard! money of tbe country,
i The next democratic convention will
be controlled by democrats who be
lieve in the hee coinage of silver. Let
all who favoj that remedy for our evils
4 the only rj?medy that will serve the
purpose unite with the true democrats
f the country and redeem the gov-
j eminent fropi the grasping greed of
the money power.
j Only in tljis way can the people suc
ceed. Only in this way can they enjoy
ihe fruits of;tbeir industry and the re
Suits of their hard labor.
Hoke Smith's "Remedy."
In the joint debate on finances
bei
iween Judge Crisp
and Secretary
Smith at Augusta, Gn., the secretary
promised tojgivo a remedy for the ex
isting financial evils in his spoach at
Atlanta.
The nearest that the secretary came
to giving anjy remedy is to be found in
bis remarks where be touched upon
what he oals "the central thought."
He eays tha "we can give silver the
right of way below $10," which means
that no paper note shall be of less de
nomination than $10. "We can go
farther," he said; "we can coin the
bullion in the treasury, and we can
provide a suitable system of banking
by which the banks can, under proper
regulation fjor the security dt their
notes, furnish additional currency to
meet all the! wants of the people."
To coin it would be a partial remedy
for the presient financial stringency
that is to ssjy, it would afford tempora
ry relief provided the secretary q: the
treasury carried ont tbe law and re
deemed tbe demand notes of the gov
ernment in silver at well as in gold.
But why should Secretary Smith come
to Georgia and offer as a remedy a
scheme which President Cleveland has
set himself against? Has the presi
dent informed the secretary that he is
now willing to sign a bill to coin the
bullion silver? If so, the information
has never come to the ears of congress.
Indeed, there is now somewhere in
the arohivee of congress a bill provid
ing for tbe coinage of the silver bul
lion with Mr. Cleveland's veto attached.
As for the other vague propositions,
put forward by the secretary with such
a tempestuous ai jjpf earnestness, they
are not worth considering. They do
not go to the root of the master. They
are not remedies, and, in all probabil
ity, they were put forward by the sec
retary merely to bridge over a deep
place in his argument. The great
question is, how are we to add to tbe
available supply of our small stock of
redemption money ? How are we to
get back to the conditions prior to
1878, when we had a bimetallic cur
rency and bimetallic prices? How are
we to give tbe people relief from the
evils of poverty prices, and business
depression?
The. e sre the questions that Secre
tary Smith was expected to answer,
and which he promised to answer.
Bnt instead of suggesting a remedy
along the lines of Cleveland's message
and Carlisle's letter namely, the sub
stitution of interest-bearing bonds for
the greenbacks and treasury notes he
switches off tbe track and picks up a
scheme that Mr. Cleveland has cast
into the waste basket. Now we sub
mit that the people of Georgia are en
titled to more consideration at Mr.
Smith's hands. They are neither
fools nor children, to be deluded with
such chaff as he is scattering abroad
on the wind of diecussion. Constitution.
Not Nature, But Legislation.
Secretary Smith explains the great
production of silver of recent years by
saying it was due to a decrease of 50
per cent.in the cost of mining tbe met
al. He also says that since 1873 four
teen countries have demonetized sil
ver, and that if they had not each
would have been forced on a silver
basis.
The production of silver during tbe
last twenty-five years bas not been
greater in proportion to tbe gold pro
duct than it was for two centuries prior
to 1850. The increased product of
silver cannot account for its deprecia
tion as compared with gold, for there
hss been no increase in comparison
with the product of gold.
And, relatively, there has been no
increase in the cost of mining silver.
Tbe same cheaper processes apply to
gold mining as well as silver mining.
There is nothing in this to account for
the depreciation of silver as compared
with cold.
The onlv cause for the relative loss
in the value of silver is its demonetiza
tion by the fourteen countries Secre
tary Smith referred to. The single gold
standard men claim that this deprecia
tion was the cause of silver demonetiza
tion. Seoretary Smith says that if they
had not demonetized it thev would
have been forced to silver monometal
Hem. The United States and Germany
demonetized silver almost simultane
ously. The demonetization by the
other countries followed. When the
United States demonetized silver, was
there any prospect of silver monomet
allism? Secretary Smith refers to the
Gresbam law that the cheaper dollar
will alwavs drive the dearer out of
circulation. When eilver was demon
etized by the United States, the bullion
value of ibe silver dollar was worth
nearly one hundred and three cents in
anld. Silver was at a premium. How
could that threaten silver monometal
lism?
The decline in silver, as it is termed
the real appreciation of gold began
after ihe nations quit coining silver,
except in limited quantities, or as pur
chased on Government account. This
0
reduced the demand for silver and in
creased the demand for gold. The de
preciation of silver and the apprecia
tion of gold followed. The men who
influenced the cuttincr off half the
money supply of the world, under
stood the operation of the law of sup
ply and demand, and they did it to in
crease the value of gold, and of obli-
gations which aemana a specmo
amount of money for their payment.
It was intended to enrich the creditor
class at the expense of the debtor class,
and it has accomplished its purpose.
Fla. Times-Union.
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What Silver Is Doing.
While the financial situation in this
country is growing steadily worse, the
reports that come from the countries
that use silver as standard money Bbow
that they are steadily growing in pros
perity. President Batoul, who has charge of
large railway interests in Mexico, re
turns from that country and informs
our merchants and business men that
all interests in Mexico are prosperous;
that industrial development is proceed
ing at a rapid rate and that k.r k.n
capital is flowing in at a -satis'adory
rate.
Mr. James D. Collins, of Atlanta,
who went to Costa Bica believing in
the efficiency of the gold standard, re
turns a convert to the free coinage of
silver. He found business of all kinds
on a boom in that South Aimerican re
public, and, having the keen instincts
of a successful business man," had no
difficulty in perceiving that the trouble
with his own country was the constant
ly increasing value of gold and the
constantly increasing power of the
gold dollar.
In everything that pertains to civil
ization and social advancement the
United States hss a tremendous ad
vantage over Mexico and the South
American republics, bnt in tbe matter
of money these republics have such a
r emendous advantage over the United
States that while business here is prac
tically smothered and suppressed by.
the gold standard, it is booming in the
countries that employ silver as their
money of final redeption.
V
In seventeen counties in Missouri
tbe democrats held conventions and in
every convention but one-iree coinace
resolutions were adopted. This shows
beyond all question that democratic
sentiment in Missouri has- undergone
no change whatever except to become
more hrmly convinced that the onlv
reasonable remedy for the present con
dition of affairs is to restore silver to
its old plaoe in our monetary system.
TAR HEEL NOTES
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Gold in Cabarrus.
The 224 pound piece found at the
Beed Mine was carried and deposited
in the bank for safekeeping at Concord.
It was on exhibition at the bank f ui
an hour or more, but was soon sealed
up and placed in a vault for future use.
Telegrams have been received from
Milwaukee, Philadelphia and New
York from parties wishing to purchase
it for exhibition. Mr. M. L. Furr, of
Stanly, who lives just over the Cabar-i
rus line and within two miles of the t
Beed Mine, has fully a peck of ore
picked up from several- hundred
bushels at an old shaft that has not
been worked in forty years containing-
probaMe $500 worth of gold. Little
clusters were all over the little flint
stones. His gold sold for 93 cents per
pennyweight, far above the average.
Forest Flrea.
The greatest forest fire ever knowq
occurred in Cumberland county, and
destroyed 10,000 acres of the finest
ong leaf pine timber in that section.
The loss is over $100,000. One house.
many barns, and miles of fencing and
many cattle are burned. Bain checked
the fire, which threatened the town , of
Fayetteville.
North Carolina Rditors.
The executive committee of the
North Carolina Press Association met
in Raleigh and accepted the invitation
of Wilmington's chamberof commerce
to hold the next press convention id
that city. The date is July 15.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has approved the applicati"" ' 1
National Bank of (ioldsboro, capital
$50,000, by the following persons:
William B. Allen, Nathan Overby,
Wm. T. Giverton, D. Bobert Korne
gay, Broadus H. Griffin, William T.
Dortch, Marcellns J.. Uest, Ueo. U.
Royal, A. Boscower, Ernest BDewey.
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A contract has been awarded for
building a co-operative cotton mill at
Fayetteville to have 10,000 spindles.
The brick work is to be done in ninety
days. The Holt cotton mill at Fayette
ville is completed and ready for the
machinery.
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Dr. Charles D. Mclver, president
of the Greensboro Normal School is in
Washington in the interest of the pub
lic lands. He thinks that a greater
portion of the next donation of pub
lic lands should go toward the educa
tion of the women.
Th meeting of the Settlers' Conven
tion at Southern Pines on May 5th,
promises to afford a rare opportunity
for bringing the resources of this
State and the South to the attention of
capitalists and prospective settlers.
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The earnings of tbe Warrenton rail
road for March are larger than any
March since it has been in operation.
The total amount ii $450.05. One
hundred passenger tickets were sold
during the month. Warrenton Re
cord. Dr. L. A. Scuggs, colored, of
Raleigh, is making preparations to es
tablish a sanitarium for colored con
sumptives, to be located at Southern
Pines. He has gone North in view
of creating interest in the undertaking.
The signal, J. C. L. Harris Repub
lican paper, at Kaleigh;is to d re
vived by Messrs. W. M. Brown, W.
B. Boyster, John B. Collins and J. C.
L. Harris.
Rev. Thos. Dixon, of New York,
who hss been holding a series of meet
ings in Raleigh, is to deliver a lecture
at Wake Forest.
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The Fayetteville people are moving
to secure the re-establishment ol the
United States arsenal at that place.
Raleigh has started
for a Dublic library.
a subscription
The list has
already reached the sum of $1,550
There is an epidemic of measles at
ihe OxfordCrphan Asylum.
Two Great Revolutionary Orders.
Btrenuous efforts are being made to bring
about a union between the two patriotic
organizations known as the Bona of the Bv- "
olutlon, and the Sons of tbe American Rev
olution, respective. These efforts will be
brought to a focus at the general Meeting of
the Sons of Revolution, to be held in Savan
nah, Oa. The Western and Southern chap
ters are strongly in favor of the movement,
and Indications are that tbe object organiza
tions moved by board patriotic motive, will
accede to the demand of harmony and unity.
Bishop Whipple ff the Minnei9& society is
taking an active interest la the settlement of
tbeuestion la the West.
Mr. H. S. Chadwick, of Charlotte,
has been appointed by Governor Carr
as a delegate to the convention of
Northern settlers at Southern Pines,
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