North Carolina Newspapers

Mr If!, 'A, ,T .-:;?'-'Ji; t -. A Home Newspaper .: J" i. He Governmental Affairs. VI. Salisbury, Wm. h. Stewart r Editor. Pub. -ijflinjjelrtii yill Splesdidly ? ArSflgei aitt Keatly f rioted. reet of a coty othe newcity directory of Salisbury and - Spencer and their Suburbs' just iesued by the Piedmont DirectoryX&lQt&y.ftwncial conditions nanv' of Ahfivflle. N. , book is welltten. up, is very complete in Celery particular j and well wdiilfjthe price Jasked for it, $4TS-i' navmsr crone ovfi"r thft lie rt carefully, from-iseJ,to house, the compS'the directory ErnestrH.Mflfei, of Asheville, N. C, states thathe population of Salis bury is approximately 16,000, and"?Spencer, East Spencer and suberbs 5,000. Besides a- great amount of local information it gives the the following points relative to the State "The first ajgfmp afeolin- ization waggfB .in "1548 by the illustf lbtts : , Sir v Walter Kalek'h. " ' v "North Carolina was fore most to resist Britisfi'tyran ny. First pitched battle fought at Alamance May 12, 1771. Declaration of Inde pendence'slgned at Mecklen burg,:. Nortji Carolina lost 35,124 soldiers during the Civil War, having furnished more and lost a greater num ber of soldiers than any other Southern State. (Number from North Carolina, 125, 000). "The population is of a sin gularly homogeneous charac ter, beiDg Virginians, mainly Ejn gl i she J?ennsylvanians, mainly ScotchIrish and Ger man . Scotch-Irish, Scotch Swiss and French Huguenots. Population 2,000,000. "North Carolina's position is nearly between the paral lels 34 degrees and 36 de grees north. latitude, and be tween the meridians 751 de grees and 841 degrees west longitude. Extreme length 503i miles, extreme breadth 100 miles; area 62,286 square miles, of which 48,666 is land and 3,620 water. 7! "Mt. Mitchell, 6,711 feet jiigh, is the highest peak of the Blue Kidge Kange, being also the highest east of the Rocky Mountains. Forty three peaks exceed 6,000 feet in height; eighty-two peaks exceed 5,000 feet m height. The mountain region em braces 6.000 sauare miles. The mountains are covered with deep rich soil and clothed with massive forest to their toDS. The walnuts, poplars and oaks attain a size that would hardly be credited by one who had not seen them. All kinds ot truit attain a high state of perfection and all fruits and vegetables and grams are remarKaoiy pro ductive. "Averaee mean tempera ture. 56.6 from 1882 to 1897. Averacre snowfall for the same period, 11 inches annu ally. Precipitation, 50.6. Wetteskyear on- record, 1877 ; dryest year on record, 1897. "North Carolina is rapidly developing in all kinds of i trucking and fruit growing At the recent National Apple Show at Spokane Washing ton; North Carolina took first prize for the finest apples ex hibited. "Largest tannery extract plant, United States Leather Co., Old Fort, N. C. ' 'Largest wood fibre plant, Champion Fibre Co., Canton, N. C. . "Largest flat plug tobacco factory, K. J. Raynolds To bacco Co., Winston, N. C. "Largest smoking factory, 'Bull Durham,' Durham, N.C. "Largest cigarette factory, Duke Cigarette Co., (Ameri can Tobacco Co.), Durham N. C. "Largest seine fishery, Dr. Copehart, Avoca, N. C. "Largest denim mills White Oak Mills, Greensboro N. U." PAYING DEBTS. Another Interesting Article Which 6lies an Insight Into Conditions Just After tbe War. The. following article is an other which we take from The Union Banner of July, 1865. lltfnotomly gives us an insight existing v 3 ust - at tne close of the war, but it points out the iniustice and un-. righteousness of failure to pay an honest debt when it is pos sible to do' so. There are a whole lot -of people to-day who need just such a remind er of their duty to a creditor. Some folks would swell up, fume and fussJ'ke a poisoned pup if accused af being diss honest, yet theycannot right ly claim to be; honest if they have willfully failed to pay their honest debts; no matter how email nor how old, and, another point that should be Remembered, is:r jp5jins of onMMon are as tratiose of commission. " . "About a year after the commencement of the war and ,whBGonfederate money had become rather abundant many of the people who had notes aod other debts out standing against them, con ceived the happy idea that then was a good time to pay them on. Money was so plen ty and so easily obtained cheap in other words that some of them fairly rubbed tneir hands together with joy to think how easily they could discharge their old debts; and speedily avail themselves of the then most propitious op portunity to relieve them- selves from what, under or dinary circumstances of the monetary affairs of the coun try, would not have been near so easy or so cheap. The hold- ei of these notes, were obliged iea. or incur tne reproacn oi discrediting the Government, which was interpreted as an injury inflicted upon the cause of the South. "Now that this is all past and gone, there are few, we presume, who will for a mos ment dissent to the proposi tion that it was more sharp than honest in debtors to take advantage of that time to pay their debts; because the debts they were thus discharging were made in reference to a widely different state of mon etary affairs, and the payment of them in a cheap currency was simply defrauding the creditor by the amount of the difference between the cur rency employed and that in reference to which the debt was originally made ''But it was not in relation to this point alone we wish to speak at present. It is in ref erence to tne payments ot debts now: the same spirit of wrongdoing we know to have been recently manifested, as, where a man owes a debt and has the money and could pay his creditors, but will not do so because he wants to go in to business again and put in all the capital he can muster to set him up. It is a very obtuse intellect, not to men tion moral darkness of sense, that unfits a man to perceive that his first duty is to his creditor. That creditor may be in a much worse condition than himself: he may be ac tually suffering for the want of the money due him," and yet his debtor blandly tells him, my friend I will certain ty pay you ; will pay you as soon as I can; but I am very anxious to nut mvself in a do sition.to make money now, and therefore cannot settle your claim at-this time. "Surely, surely, this is a little worse than unadtiltered selfishness. It is dishonest. A man had just as well thrust his hand in his neighbor's pocket and haul out his purse, and holding it up before his astonished eyes inform him that it is the very thing he needs, that he wanted to go into business to make money, and the contents of that purse would just answer the pur- pose. , " "There is no difference, in a moral sense, between with? FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS. Nuiwous Pjants Have Been Forced to Close and City Authorities kf Feeding estitut e Cleveland, O,, March 2. At least 4,000 "people are homeless in Ohio as a result of the flood which continues to devastate the state. Nu merous plants have been forced to close down and hundreds of men and women , j a i mi "I ctio out oi worK. me mates rial damage is estimated -at over $1,000,000. The Licking and Muskin gum rivers have passed their record of 1898 at Zanesville and are still rising. If there is no abatement of the waters before morning it is stated that the waterworks and pow er plants will be forced to close and this will mean the shutting down of all the large commercial plants in that town. Over nine hundred people are now being fed by the city authorities. Only a few of the big steel works at youngstown are still running and these are expect ed to suspend tomorrow. The tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad are several "fet un der water and have been abandoned The huge gorge which has blocked Main street in War ren has resisted several at tempts to dynamite it and it is feared that if it breaks now the town will suffer heavily. A $50,000 bridge over the Au- glaise river at Defiance hasJ been swept away and the crops in the Mad river and Little Mirma river bottoms have been completely de stroyed. A fresh horror confronts the people of Maumee, where a torrent laden with, ice and delm. has swept over- the cerTain that when the waters subside many corps will have been uncovered. Men Shot in Scotland Neck are Doing Fair ly Well. Charlotte, N. C, March 5. State Senator .Travis and Representative A P. Kitchin; who were shot on the main street of Scotland Neck yes terday by E. H. Powell, a merchant, may recover unless uuforseen complications set in. Deputy Sheriff Dunn, who was also shot by Powell, is in a serious condition, but may pull through. The shooting appears to have been unprovoked. Af ter Powell had asked Senator Travis why he had not an swered a letter sent to him he pulled a revolver and began shooting. The letter was in reference to a fee which Travis and Kitchin had presented to Pow el for defending him in court on a charge of assault and battery. Dr. Cook, New York. March 1. Resolu tion to make a street in Harlem T. Roosevelt" and to repudiate the aldermanic favors bestowed some time back on Dr. Frederick A. Cook were up for c nsideration before the board of aldermen to day, but no rction was takon in either case. The Roosevelt pro posal was referred to the com mittee on streets and highways and the Cook matter was tabled Preparations are baing made for a big school celebration and exhibition at the Holshouser and Ljrerly school -house, seven' miles from town on the Gold Hill road, on Saturday March 5th. Every body is invited. Morgan Town ship string band will furnish mu sic for the rccasion, and a good time is promised to all who at tend, holding whatsis due, when1 it is poBBioie lopay ami lororoiyUj,; oreaeei'.ty,the thiiuaiids A u;Ar,J j mji adding insult toiDjiiryfjs toa : utterly worthless asa reason to justify theT refusal too I right." --...-? TtieRiTEr an Harbors iHiJf fill Tho Pnct ntfiPfl T'tt VHI I 11 U VIII WIII.W I Washincton. D. i arch-7th, -:(Spciai).Notfei aeration United has the Senate the States witnessed a,V.cee such Be ocenred on thej ojaapp of the remarkable addrfe"enator James Gordon of iiisaippi, in m t tking leave of Ais fcolleagnes. Thre have been faif.jSll address es with out numberf There have been "swan songs1 'jtt Mistered and speeches tha.ji (tm Da mascualade, rtife tf ie eldest Senator Vnd the eltfti nWepaper man there never tiafjf & so dra matic a leave-takipy ( he speech, homely-in style, Viable in con- struction, breathed sam a warmtn of friendship and af&ction that the "grave and rev? ry4' Senator, cynics many of t 1 "iVnld not find word laud ktsiy? enough to tell Sbnator Goxd& ftrfrat they thought about hifi. Be preached tj: yof love for one another ft'w warmed to his subject he sed for all the world like somsv patriarch, of an olden day, his ta spare f orjp, clothed in black adj his snow- whit hair making asit'are rare ly seen in the halls legislation. Senator Depewhp i? no slouch" of a talkeiJiself took occasion to say that-le speech of the "Gentleman figjm;-; Missis sippi" will live in ttecords of the Senate ''as prohA?y .the most remarkable address TJeither of a new Senator comiLg !u or of an old one going out. la patriotism and good fellowship, ibroad-mind-eduess, charity anc humor will remain among the ;'est recollec tions of those who heard it." It is expected ...that the Oom- tnerce, Committeo vy vug . ceuuiio more for the contithration of the Rivers aud Harbors bill which recently passed the House. There are several projects which the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House failed to consider on account of lack of information but which has been supplied by. the Eugineer Corps of the army to the Senate Committee. Should these proiects receive endorse ment at the hands of the com mittee the bill will probably be considerab'y increased over that carried in the House bill which amounted to $41,000,000. There are those who believe that the Senate will add from three to five millions to the bill. The Senate Committee on Com merce has endorsed the policy as set forth by the House of making the-Rivres and Harbors bill an annual appropriation measure just as other supply bilhs. Thie policy nas oeeu urged in season and out' by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress and the growth of waterway sentiment is very large due to its peroistancy in bringing before the people the pressing needs for improving the Nation's great arteries of trade and commerce. Of the many museum and spe cial exhibits at the nation's capital none have gained more in popularity than the museum of the Post Office Departmet, Only a few years ago this museum con sisted of a few curios and odds and ends, assembled in a small room on the first floor of the De partment building on Pennsylva nia Avenue. Month after month the collection ha? been enlarged until to-day it is one of the most interesting of all the numerous places for sight-seers in Washing ton.. This museum has grown to such an extent -thttV; the entire corridor of ,lha third i?or cf - the mammotKimildingit innVh nsosfc sary to display the many articles typical to,the postal jBervice rand whicFareto he'found-ib-n'a other muBenmr, intHer country,-lThe number of visitors to this museum Heveratf daystally, ' places ' the numner .o viBiiore apnuauy; at i iom-i5,w to 100,0pp.- l :r- . Bince thfl-evival of 41 j ir Merest of postage iUmp-.collc ting tas.ny M-4. fS. J L. t m ?ZfQmm HI. fHILAUtLPHIA, Sunsajfrokeji JiiE. Olsorders at Nignt in WhlcfeTrei persons are Shot. v PhriaSeiphU; - March 6. The7 calm of the. quietest day Phila delphia has known since. the car men's strike began more than two weeks ago was broken to-night by a series of disturbances in which three persons were shot, one, va girl, fatally, many unruly persons were severely clubbed by the po lice and more than a score of ar rets were made. 'v The turbulence of the night '"'V- . .5 came as an unwelcome shock to the hopes of the authorities that & Sunday lyas to pass by without serious disorders. This hope had been fostered by the day's pacific aspect,, whichin itself hfid been 8urprisingiu view of the fact that increased trouble was anticipated with the starting yesterday of the f general sympathetic strike called by the union leaders in support of the striking employes of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com pany. " , Until the disorders, which came with the fa?l jof darkness, the de yelopments oft he day had neither f bean many or important. Con- flicting claims still continued 4as to the nmnber of men who have rsp nded to Che general strflte call and there seems to be no way to obtain accurate figures . The committee of ten in charge of the organized strike movement eraimB to-night that 125,000 per sohs!u the. various b'rentjhes cf Philadelphia's widly diversified industry have left their employ ment to demonstrate their sympa thy with the traction m9n'a cause and help them with their fight. Figures, gathered by the police de- support his previous claim that not more than-20,000 men struck. The labor readers claims that 150.000 men will be out by to morrow night. The police de clare that things are working the other way and assert that to morrow will find even fewer men not working than on Saturday. Wilmington, Del., March 6. That the United States govern ment does not intend to take any chanjes of having its property in Philadelphia interfered with by unruly mobs was made evident to-day when orders were received at Fort Dupont to have the Forty fifth Company, Coast Artillery, ready to leave for Philadelphia at a moment's notice. This com pany of regulars, it is said, will he used to protect the Philadel phia mint and other government buildings . Saved A Soldier's Life. Facing death from shotand shell in the civil war was more agreea ble to J, A. Stone, of Kemp, Tex,, than facing it from what doctors said was consumption. "I con tracted a stubborn cold" he writes, ;that developed a cough, that stuck to ma in spite of all reme dies for years. My weight ran down to 180 pounds. Then I be an to use Dr. King's New Discov. ery, which completely cured me. I now weigh 178 pounds. For Coughs, Colds, La Grippe, Asth ma, Hemorrhage, Hoarseness, Croup, Whooping Cough and lung trouble, its supreme. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by All Druggists. people have been known to make special trips to Washington just to get a glimpse of the great col lection which is on exhibit in this museum. The display here con sists of a complete collection of postage stamp", postal, cards and stamped envelopes issued by the -United States Government and all Btamp issueiug countries cf the fworld The actual value of this 'stamp collection is probably more thariF $200,000, but if they were eve&pnt twrsale in the open mar- j ket tlre price they would command would bemany-times that amount, artheprejninia -on' the majority of thein hasiinerejwed'to an enor fifoiM figure since they w'ereuisBu- WHY THE SCHOOLS ARE EMBARRASSED, Mayor Smoot 6!m 'Some Facts and Fig ares Which lotHle Utter Recklessnes of Former Admlofstratloo. ' For the information of the pub lic Mayor SiSbot has in a very mild and impasstoned way laid bare some of the raesons for the present embarrassment": of the publio schools of Salisbury. His reasons are as follows; Syace the "action of our School Committee declaring that the publio schools'lipuld close at the end of the present school month, and since rquch discussion has arisen as to thft, wisdom of such actionrperhapg. it may be well as a member of saircommittee, to present same of the reaBonB why such a resolution was adopted, and also some of the factsmh rwhioh the public may not be thor oughly familiar. Last year $5,000 was borrowed to fiuish the school term. Prior to last vear $8,000 had been bor rowed for similar reasons. This money was borrowed from the State on condition that one-tenth of principal and total yearly in terest, should be paid each year until both principal and -interest be paid in full. In addition, to tnis a numner of notes and open accounts were due and outstand ing at the beginning of the pres ent school term. These accounts ran back as far as Prof. Coon's administration 1902 and jL903 and extend down to coal bills and other supplies for full term 1908 and Spring term 1909. Of these outstanding notes and accounts we have paid between $2,000 and $8,000 and were compelled to re new notes to the amount of about $1,500 and opm accounts still outstanding of $200 to $300 more. This has necessitated the borrow- Ithia year, nearly all sd in-pay ing off old notes. The beginning of the next school year will.find us due to the State $1,200 first loan, $5,000 sec ond loan.3,000 to local banks and other notes and accounts about $1,800, total $11,000, of which $1,048 to State will be deducted from our next year's fund and $1,800 that must be met in some manner, and trusting that we can secure extension "of time on $5,000 and $3,000 respectively. Were it possible to borrow $4, 500 to extend our schools another three months, we would begin the coming year owing $15,500 and no immediate piospect of paying the same. How long shall we continue to borrow before we make arrange ments for repaying these amounts. Again our city, of which we all feel jusly proud, is the only city in the Stato so far as I know, that djes not now, nor has it ever to my knowledge, paid one penny of tax direct for the support of our public schools. The only means by which we can ever place our pub public schools on a safe and satis factory basiB, is by levying a spe cial tax and holding the same as a sacred fund to be used only for the education of our boys and girls. Our city charter does not provde for such a fand. A tax of 75 09nts for general purposes and 20 cents for schools would be suf ficient to meet our requirements, but nothing short of this will meet the demands. Now, some may think, and just ly so, that $16,000 for schoola is a small indebtedness for a city like ours, and so it would be were there not a floating indebtedness hoi' over $35,000 and a" bonded. debt ;of. $385,000 tCvrdemapS some dttehtipn t.ijerTOjB'.'qT' ing 'the yeai;: But no need to dwell 'further ondetail of finan cial conditions of the ci:y. We .. - . believe we are in much better con duion than some others, and to ! continue so, we deem it better to stop the school for once in its his tory rather than go further m debt. The tax of 75 cents and 20 cents before mentioned will pro vide well for the future and this total will be less than ever before levied for general fund and - other purposes . Of course in addition to this PBQGEEDINSS OF THE COUNTY COURT. J Jennie Kerr Attempts to -Mutilire, Deface ' ; and Destroy Her Son-io-law f Eugenv Miller who was up in the county dourt on .Thursday, charged with assault with deadly weapon,; waa found guilty and had iudamoJ. rnaD&nded nnnn nou. ment of half the cost. Arthur Hobton, for failine to list taxes, was given 60 days on the roads. Ernest Dean, a little 10-vfar- oldpegro boy. was found eniltv Jplarbeny and had judgment sus npon paymentlof half the QOStf Oil Friday Jennie Kerr, wife of Sam Kerr, a colored man who lives near Spencer, was charged with assault with a deadly weap on . bam s son bv a former wife insisted npon calling on bis fath er, who is very sick and not ex pected to livei" to make some ar rangements about the disposition of his property, which not being satisfactory to Jennie, she .con cluding that his visits were not for her good, forbid him entering the house, upon her return from neighbor's . house, she found him in the house iu conversation with Sam and ordered him to leave. Upon his failing to go, she went out to the wood-pile, got an axe and coming back into the room struck him with it. The axe was taken from her and &he than came at him with a batcher knife. which was also taken from her. When she got the axe again, and, after that was again taken from her, she then got the knife. She was found guilty and fined $1Q.OO and cost, but gave notice of Ap peal. Lloyd Williams was fined $20.00 and the cost for carrying conceal ed weapons. Lloyd is a very black one-armed negro and was ar rested at Spencer. What he lack- ed in a arm was made up in arma ment. When arrested he had a large pistol on him and a good, big handful of cartridges, besides a dozen or more keys of different kinds and sizes, one of them a special key which unlocks any of the cabooses oo the Southern T'W: wad evidently a bad character aV,d waa fortunate to get off so. lightly. The average Monday morning crowd was present when court opened on Monday morning. Andrew Johnson, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was pronounced guilty and was let of? for $5.00 and the cost. X31iff Har rison was not there to face the same cberge, and $15.00, which he had put up for his appearance, was ordered forfeited to the school fund. 8. K. Kelly was found $5.00 and tbe cost for beating a ride on a train, and, not being able to pay, was locked up. John Walker, colored, for us ing profane language at the pas senger station, was fined $5.00 and the cost. J. C. Carter, a negro who John Walker claimed he had bought whisky from on February 18th and who had reported it after he was arrested for cussing him for not getting him more whisky, was given the banefit of thedoubt, af ter proving a good character, for everything but card playing, and was dismissed. Georgia Harkey, a young negro woman, for appearing in a publio place clad in nothing bat,a gauze vest, was charged with indecent exposure, found guilty, and was sent to the. roads for 60 days. An other case, wherein she nlead guilty to a charge of assault, judgment was suspended. Arthur Freeman, col., was let off with the cost for using profane language and Dick Davis, col., paid the cost for a simple assault on Arthur Freeman and was let go. our citizens have voted bonds and a sjnking fund must be provided for them, but if your tax has been increased, 'it has not been and will not'be but for schools streeua and other improvements, Much more might be said. Consider these facts and Jet the public speak out.-. If it is wisdom to continue the schools regardless of consequences, say so and we will try to carry out the wishes of the majority of our good people. If you deen it wisdom to. put our schools on a solid basis for years to come. let us say so at. once by our ballots at the earliest date pos sible. The more I'm compelled to make or indorse notes, the iess I like it, and I wish to avoid it even now for schools. But if as some deem best, the schools shall be continued by contributions from friends of education, the writer is ready and willing to con tribute his full proportion." . ft- -