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,u, uiiITE MAN MUST
ASP HILL RULE.
Ti
is the aum Total of
Whole Race Problem.
the
Leu
a man writes every
to the public and dis-
s lii-rauduiii thoughts it is
.abiej to suppose that some
e vfuU joiu issues with
( )f course they will, for
,i't all see alike, and so
ii right to be offended
L receive letters that
ion rhy positione or deny
uiciukiuns. Bat I receive
i iiiainy letters that make
el sara and helpless and
tiscojUrages my hopes of
nizpig our Northern
reu. Some of these letters
t'
a e a-iouvluous aud scandalous
I vindictive aud go into the
ii ,vitliobt thought. But some
:icerely written with, good
nt only snow now inor
l aud fiolusiou can make a
i oi a good hearted man.
i e following is a fiir sam
ef yime that have been
:ii us otilate, audit will ex-
iii why! I feel helpless .
Wood-CRN, Iowa. Bill
E r e'eral years I have
r a iiug land enjoying
v letters, and your
Abp
Deen
your
mor
izing ujon the common at
;r- ut life. But when it comes
t the negro, or the nigger, as
y .u call him, you seem to be
entirely unable id see a man
t a dark skin. Do try for
tu jke of your influence with
your people to raise above your
iuh&rited jprejudiees. From the
j osition ypu seem to be taking,
!;erojbas no rights which
a white man is bound to re
Spect. Dp you want to fi,bi
i. out on that line ? You don't
seem tq realize the changes that
thirty years have made, or you
wuld shudder at the conse
quences ojf a conflict on such
grounds. Did it ver occur to
you how ridiculous it was for
your people to blame the negro
lor theft.jwhile you are steal
ing .ns vote, l implore you as
a trteud, do not stand in the
way t destiny. Many of our
uuion soldiers would be glad
to sen tro id homes provided for
your poor soldiers, but your
cut tiiroaits and your lawless
ses tJhrottle down every
. : nerous (impulse.
John Newsome,
Old Aimy of the Potomac.
I believe that Mr. Newsome
at heart a good man. He is
i.ue auionb the thousands who
are just ks clever and just as
ignorant, and that is what is
the uiattepr. Northern politi
ticians aujd Northern newspa
pers havejso long deceived the
masses thiat we cannot unde
ceive tnem. They still believe
tbat secession Is treason, and
that the negro is awfully op
pressed, apd that our society
largely mixed with cut
throats and assassins. Mr.
N : wsuinef begs me to rise above
my inherited prejudices. Per
haps he would be surprised to
learn that my father was a na
tive of, Vermont and was rear
ed i:i Msjsachueetts, and that
his prejudices were all against
th s uthi when he ventured
h re us a , school teacher, and
that he married a Southern girl
and eventually became an
owner of slaves. If there ever
lived a better, purer, nobler
man than my father in his
hu :nble sphere I never knew
him. He Outlived his prejudi
ces, and wjas so thoroughly a
s intherner that his influence
and his money brought nearly
all Lis kindred and many of his
Xe,w Entdind friends to Geor
ia, and they, too, became slave
owners, i'hey did what they
on Id to civilize a barbarous
race, aud it is. our comfort to
know tbat those who were our
slaves are not found in the
jails nor i chain-gangs of the
South. :
Prejudice means a -'judg-ment
befdire" that Is, before
investigating the mstter. I
v as born and raised with ne-i-'roes
and have known and
-uidied them as a race, indi
vidually and collectively, from
my youth uutil now and can
have no prejudices. Mr. New
some had ino such experience;
perhaps he never saw a huu
dred in j his lite; perhaps he
never hired one or worked with
one, or befriended one. He
lives' a thousand miles away
from them. He never had to
' id his children to school
w here there were negroes work
ing in the; fields near by where
his daughter had to pass along,
lie knows nothing oi the ap
prehension that parents feel'
who live! in the country and
have to send their girls to
school o? on errands to their
nabors, 0r who sometimes have
to lexvp wife and daughters
, unprotected at home. Only
two weeks ago a "cut-throat"
was lynched near Madison. The
sweet and innocent child of on
ly tweve summers was found
in a deep ditch where he had
outraged her and then cut her
throat! from ear to ear, and af
terwards confessed that "she
hegged him mighty hard not to
kill her but he was afreed she-
tell ojn him." How did our
hearts beat widly and grieve
) over the agony of that poor
child. I Hardly a week passes
that our newspapers do not
record a similar case somewhere
The
VOLUME 20
---not so heart-rending, per
haps, but always brutal and'
fiendish, and always perpetra
ted by the new set that have
grown up since the war. These
things are ever before us in
memory and our vengeance,
smothered and ud spoken, is
burning in the Southern heart.
If the conflict comes that Mr.
Newsome seems to threaten,
woe be to the negroes and their
Northern allies who take apart
iki it. When only seven hun
dred brave men under Sam
Houston defeated Santa Anna
and all his army, the cry that
nerved their arms and gave
them victory was "remember
the Alamo," and so when the
conflict comes, it it shall come,
oar people will have a battle
cry in almost every communi
ty. If I was a negro preacher,
or teacher, and loved the
peice aud the welfare of my
raco I would preach and teach
to them continually theeiorml
tv of such crimes, but they do
mot. They had rather teach
and preach the outrage of
lynch law, and make pitiful ap
peals to their northern friends,
but lynch law will go on never
theless, and neither Governor
Gordon nor bis military com
panies can stop it.
Lir. Austin Phelps answers to
a!l this : "Why doh't you edu
eate him up to the level of the
Republican ballot," and Mr.
Newsome echoes the same
sentiment when he says ': ''Let
him vote and do not stand in
the way of destiny." Well, we
have been educating him with
all our might, and he has been
voting the Republican ticket
with all his might, and yet our
penitentiary records show that
eighty per cent, of the colored
convicts who have been sent up
Within the last ten years can
read and write and were never
slaves.
Now, Mr. Newsome, let us
say to you and your sympa
thetic friends in all kindness
and good will tuat we know
that the negro, as a race, is not
fit to govern our people, and we
do not intend that he shall. In
this region he votes as freely as
I vote, and without intimida
tion, but if his vote would put
him in office he should not
hold it. and that is all there is
about it. In the black cotton
belt and the sugar region,
where they number nye or
ten for one white man, we are
willing for them to have repre-
entation in our legislatures, but
even then they come rather as
petitioners than law makers.
We are going to govern this
oart of the country, conflict or
no conflict. Our salvation de
pends upon it. If the negroes
don't like it they can go to
Iowa or Vermont. The masses
of them have but little to keep
them here. We know thous
ands that could go to wood
burn on an excursion ticket for
ten dollars and leave nothing
behind them. They could just
put out the fire and call the dog
and go I would be glad if the
'next negro who is sentenced to
the chainging in our court was
given an opintion by the judge
the option of going to Wood-
burn and deliver himself m
good order to Mr. Newsome
The question is will Mr. New-
some send the ten dollars, aud
will he take him and hire him
land let him vote? I fear he is
like Mr. Roche, the New York
merchant prince, who has re
cently visited t lorida ana in
terviewed a negro - politician
and wrote a letter about it to
the New York Tribune, in
which be said he was well and
pleased with the high intelli
gence of this negro, and that he
invited him to visit New York
and call on him at bis store
But the nbgro said he could not
go to New York, for there was
no decent hotel in that great
city for a gentleman of bis col
or. There was an oppoitunity
for Mr. Roache, but he did not
embrace it. He only invited"
him to hie store. Mr. New
some asks why it is that
can't see a man under a black
skin. Yes, I see a man, a ne
gro man a nigger, it yon please
sometimes we say nigger, just
like we say injugs for Indians
or yankees for northern people
Our negroes call themselves
niggers very of ten quite as of
as we do, It is a very proper
word negro comes from the
Latin word "merer" which means
black. I see a man under
black skin just like I see an In
dian under a red skin or
Chinaman qpder a yellow akin
1 see an inferior race a race
without fitness to govern them
selves much less the white race
We know his good traits and
his bad ones. They have our
regard and sympathy and most
of them look to us for protec
tion and get it. But there is a
line they must not cross. Mr.
Harrison will find it oat sooner
or later. Southern Democrats
ard Southern Republicans are a
unit on the race question all
except a few unprincipled office
seekers like Buck and his sate
lites. If the votes of the negroes
elect a white Republican to of
fice we submit with as much
grace as possible, but we will
not submit to the election ot a
negro except In counties dense
ly dxk neither shall they be
our Judges or our jurors, nor
hold any judicial or ministerial
office. These are our sentiments
all over the South, and if any-.
body says to the contrary,
lies, and he knows it.
The solicitude of the North
about the negme's vote is amaz
ing. He had rather have some
thing to eat or to wear. With
the masses every where it is a
matter if business. Up North,
in the manufacturing districts,
it means a continuation of em
ploymentwith tens of thous
ands in their eities it means a
dollar or two dollars for a vote.
With the average negro down
South, in the cities and towns,
it is a drink or two drinks to
the voter, and fifty or a hand
red dollars to the negro preaeh
er who controlls them. This is
politics a debasing, corrupt
thing, and the negro is better
riff t K a i(
But I must forbear. Let me
conclude this letter by com
mending to our Northern breth-
ern tne speecn maue in me
MississiDDi Legislature two
years ago by Hon. L. W. Moore-
the colored representative of
Bolivar county. He is on of
the six colored members and
they presented the speaker, Mr.
Madison with the silver tea
service. The speaaer saia , i was
born in Mississippi but raised
in a Northern state. Associa
tions up there led me to regard
southern white men as our foes
but associations here have elim
inated those prejudices from
the mind of the feeble sex and
for them I speak. If the spirit
manifested by this body pre
vails through the State, it is a
certain and sure solution of the
race problem in Mississippi.
This has been called the Jeff
Davis legislature because the
Republicans all voted for the
confederate monument bill and
the large appropriations for the
white institutions. But we re
garded the voting for these
bills as a feeble but sincere
manifestation of our race grati
tude.
As this tea service glitters
against the brilliant chandeliers
of our hall may your nseful ser
vice as a statesman glitter in fu
ture counsels for peace and good
will. Then take it, sir, as the
permanent bridging of the race
chasm in this state. Take it as
guarantee that no blasting
apprehensions are entertained
by the colored people of this
state. This democratic house
has shown itself to be our
friends not our enemies. Then
consign tms numoie toaen to
vour domestic archives as a
memento ot your conservative
course as a distinguished courte-
ous ana impartial speaser oi
the Mississippi house of rep
resentatives.
When the bill eame up to
make an appropriation for the
confederate monument, Mr. J
G. Harris, another negro over
sixty years of age, arose and
was recognized as the member
from Washington county. He
seemed very feelble, but soon
gainea strength from nis own
earnest eloquence, and drew in
spiration from his subject.
He said: "Mr. Speaker, I
have risen here in my place to
offer a few words on the bill. I
have come from a sick bed, and
was forced to struggle no here
leaning on the arm of a friend.
I stand here in considerable
pain. Perhaps it was not prud
ent for me to come. But, sir, I
could not rest quietly in my
room, sick though I am, and
allow this discussion to pass
without contributing to it a few
remarks of my own. I was
sorry to hear the speech of the
young gentleman from Marshall
county. I am sorry that any
son of a soldier should go on
record as opposed to the erec
tion of a monument in honor of
the brave dead. And, sir, I am
convinced that had he seeu
what I saw at Seven Pines and
in the seven-days' fighting
round Richmond, the battle
fields, covered with theman-
gled forms of those fought tor
tneir country ana tneir coun-
try's honor, he would not have
made that speech. When the
news came that the south was
to be invaded, those men went
forth to fight for what they
believed, and they made no
requests for monuments to
commemorate their brave deeds
and holy sacrifices. But they
died, and their virtues should
be remembered. Sir, I went
with them. 1, too, wore the
gray, the same color that my
master wore. We stayed four
long years, ond if that sad war
had gone on till now 1 would
have been there yet. I know
what It all meant, and under
stand the meaning of my words
when I say that I would have
been with my countrymen still
had the war continued until
this good dav. I want to honor
those brave men who died for
their convictions. When my
mother died I was a boy. Who,
sir, then acted the part of a
mother to tbe orphaned slave
boy, but my 'ole missus V Were
she living now, or could she
speak to me from those high
realms where are gathered the
saiuted dead, she would tell
me to vote for this bill. And,
sir, I shall vote, for it. I waut
it known to all the world that
my vote is given in favor of the
bill to ereot a monument in
honor of the brave confederate
dead."
Now, will Mr. Newsome be
lieve that, or had He rather be
lieve it a lie. Bill Abp.
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WlLSO
"LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM' ST AT, BE TSIY COIINTRF'S, TUT GOD'S, AND TRUTHS
WILSON,
FOR THE FARM.
MATTERS OF INTER EST TO
TILLERS OF THE SOIL.
Original, Borrowed, Stolen and
Communicated Articles on
Farming.
PUSPOSES OF THE ALLIANCE-
The Views cf OcL L- L- Polk, Presi
dent of the National Farmers'
Alliance-
editobial correspondence.
Washington, D. C, March 3.
-Having an unoccupied hour
this worning I concluded to pay
a visit to the headquarters of
the National Farmers' Alliance.
I found the President and Secre
tary of the Order comfortably
located at 916 E. street,
If. w.
The President ot the National
Alliance, Jol. Li. u. roia, a na-
tive of North Carolina and cit
izen of Raleigh, looks as much
at home in his apartments as
when addressing a gathering of
honest farmersn Old Fields,
Wilson county. I found him
and his private Secretary, Mr.
Rittenhouse (a North Carolinian
by adoption) both busy, but not
too busy to give me a "Tar
Heel" welcome. After a pleas.
ant chat, I went with Col. Polk
over to the National Economist.
This paper isltbe official organ
of the National Alliance. It
has large and improved presses
and is printing the Alliance al
manac and all the blanks for
the Alliance. In the business
office of the National Economist
are young ladies and good
looking ones, too. One of them
is from North Carolina. The
Economist is a strong, vigorous
and able-paper, and its utter
ances are heard in every State
of the United States.
Since the St. Louis conven
tion, the Alliance is growing
rapidly, It has sub-Alliances
in twenty,hree States and or-
ganizers at work in six other
States. Col. Polk Is coming up
to all expectations and is push
ing the work with his accus
tomed vigor in this broad field.
He contemplates taking a tour
through the Northwestern
States in the course of the next
month, and addressing gather
ings for farmers. He will
please them with his eloquence
and largely increase the mem
bership and influence the Order
throughout the West. I had a
long talk with Col. Polk under
economic questions and Alliance
matters, and obtained the fol
lowing interview ior tne unron
icle: Was the bill recently passed
by Congress requiring the
census of mortgage inaeDiea
ness passed at the instance of
farmers' organization ?" I
asked.
"The various farmer organi
zations of our country," repli
ed Col. Polk, "demanded its
passage, notably through the
National convention held at ot.
Louis."
What are some of the ad
vantages that you think Till be
derived from its passage ? 1
continued. . '
Ool. Polk replied : "The most
important advantage wilt be to
demonstrate, as we believe, the
deplorable financial condition
of the farming interests
throughout the country. Com
plaints are made, but we have
learned that they are not ac
cepted as facts or arguments by
the legislators. We believe If
we can present the true condi
tion of the American farmer in
the iron logic of facts and fig
ures, that it win arouse tne
public mind to the realization
or the alarming and perilous
condition of this great aud im
portant interest.
Suppose we show, as we be
lieve we will, that the mortgage
indebtedness of farmers should
be eight billion sof dollars. The
average iuterest on this indebt-
edness cannot be less than
eight per cent. This would
the aDDilling drain on the
farmer in the single item ( of
interest alone of 640 millions of
dollars annually. This is at out
twice the value of the wheat
in the United States for the
year 1888, aud nearly as much
u th entire croo of cotton and
wheat, and one hundred and
twenty-five millions more than
the total export of domestic
agriculture for the year 1888."
"Has the alliance," I continu
ed, "any plan for reducing this
enormous indebtedness and
thereby relieve the people ?"
"Yes," Col. Polk said, "and
our plan is to be found iu the
bills introduced in Congress by
Mr. Pickle r, of 8. Dakota, in the
House and by Senator Vance in
the Senate. The prominent
features briefly stated are : The
establishment of government
warehouses for the storage of
j grain and cotton by the farm-
ers, thus enhancing tne tarm
products, and by the govern
ment loaning money to the
depositors at one per cent, in
stead of eight on the products
so deposited.
The value of the corn, wheat,
oats and cotton crop of the
United States for the year 1888
was 1,500 million of dollars,and
at one per cent, tbe Interest on
this enormous sam would only
be fifteen and a half millions of
dollars, thus saving the farmer
on these crops alone one hun
dred and ten millions of dol-
NORTH CAROLINA,
lars in interest. Under the bill
the farmer is allowed to draw
only eighty per cent, of the
amount deposited, and this al
lows the government a margin
of twenty per cent, to cover
fluctuations in prices.
We believe that no safer
security could be tiven for the
government to issue legal tend
ers on than these crops which
must be consumed during the
year. We believe that the
government shoaid issue its
currency on products directly
to the producer, and not
through the ruinously expen
sive system it ixu-r employs
the banks.
We believe tha fccovernments
alone have the p ver to create
money and that they should
alone exercise ;e power to
control or regu its issue.
We believe that ali issues of the
government should be based on
real value and not on evidences
of debt. This sy stent we freely
admit is revolutionary and con
trary to our present financial
system, which is both unjust
aud oppressive unjust because
the credit of the government is
loaned to a class, aud oppres
sive because that class obtain,
through the uecesitiess of the
people, usurious rates of inter
est. And it is not an untried
experiment. Germany and
France have botli used it. The
former built up the empire
through this plan. The latter
saved the Republic in the last
gieat trial by its use, and so
admirably did it meet the exi
gencies of the situation that
France adopted it as a perman
ent financial policy.
The world will never forget
the readiness aud ease with
which France piid the enor
mous indemnity of 100,000,000
imposed by Germany in 1870,
and the marvelous rapidity
with which she recaptured
notwithstanding the loss of two
cf ber richest provinces; but
the world has been slow to
learn the secret power which
she possessed. That power was
derived from her system, and
we now present the same plan
to the American Republic. Its
most valuable and commend
able feature is that it gives us
a volume of currency exactly
adapted to the demands of
trade, and better than all, a
flexible volume, which expands
or contracts as the necessities of
the people require. I need not
elaborate this system further,
as it will be uppermost In the
minds of the American people
for years to conm, and will be
more thoroughly discussed than
any similar quest) m ever pre
sented to the pu
ui'
mind."
State Chronicle.
A few fowls v.
are'more profita t
number neglec
all cared for
ie than a large
j. This has
been fully demonstrated.
A good crop of both corn and
weeds cannot be rown on the
same ground at toe same time
any more than two railway
trains can pass t ach other on
the same track.
Farmers report tbal a great
deal of wheat was hilled by
the cold weather last week.
The blades and scalKs were cut
down almost to the ground.-:
Newton Euterprise.
What is going to be the result
of the wheat crop of this sec
tion cannot be auticipated at
presont. Much wheat that
was in joints was cut down' by
tne com snap ana ine outcome
is extremely uncertain as yet
Lincolnton Courier.
If you wish to raise a few su
perior potatoes, go to the woods
and collect all the rotten wood
and leaves that are available
nil the furrows witn tnis veg
etable mould, and you will pro
duce the huest potatoes you
ever bad. This is the opinion
of an agricultural editor. Hen
derson Gold Leaf.
Have Yon Teen TdV-r- ?
"Backward, turn backward
O time in your flight, give me
that nose that I breathed
through last uiht. Bring back
the smeller that two days ago
knew not the torment of a con
tinual blow. ipe from my
moustache the moisture of
sneeze, put wooden splits on my
poor weakened knees. Bub my
red nese as you oft have before
with tallow, dear mother, oh, it
is so sore. Backward, turn
backward, O time of the nose
I am so tired from my head to
my toes. Tired out with mop
ping and coughing and sneez
ing, weary from handkerchief
continually sneezing, I have
grown weary of sniffle and
snuff, of wiping my bugle until
it is rough. Stick my poor
head in a high pillow slip, and
sew it up, mother, I have la
grippe." Atchison Globe.
Some of our
most promineut
citizens have beet
theiimatism by
pain-banisher S
25 cents.
"Wbv Jones,
you have iu your
raised it from
head. I've too u
"Well, like cnr
Oonzh Syrup v,
cured of chronic
hat wonderful
ivation Oil. Price
wh.it a bo(a)rse
hroat !" '-Yes, I
col(d)t in my
ich lire stock."
- like ; Dr. Ball's
II cure you. The
Bull will quickly scare tbe ho(a)rse
away."
Advance.
MARCH 27. 1890.
NEWS OF A WEEK.
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HAT S II t PPhSISG 1
I HE ft ORLD A ROVD US.
Condensed Report the Nete
From our Contemporaries.
Florida is said to be overran with
i?oi them tourists.
A Stanley county man is the
father of 32 children.
Mr. J. B. Doke, who has bem
elected preaide: t of tbe American
Tobacco Company, draws a salary
of $50,000 a year. This perhaps the
largest wl.i-y ever paid to any man
competed wirh the tobacco trade.
A. L. Fat red has bought a halfs
iuterest in ihe Raleigh Evening
Visitor, W. M. Utlry retirtug from
the paper.
Til, Southern Educational As
sociation and Express will bold its
animal meeting at Morehead City,
N. 0., July 1 to 6.
How are cities built f Iu one
word, it has beeu done end can
only be done bv nsing printer's
ink. Southern Ledger.
If Chicago does hold the World's
Fair she can show tbe nations of
the earth tbe American hog in all
its glory. Retdaville Review.
We have Men no somaiarcial
retttliser on tbe Banford market
ahd the farmers have not up to this
bought mncb San ford Express.
Some people;, eava the Orange
Observer, never have their prayers
answered, because when they pray
for bread it's pound cake they
want. .
The Black well Durham Tobacco
Woiks, of which Jule Carr is Pres
ident, have beeu sold to an Eng
lish sy i 41 o-te for between three and
tour milheus. .
, The Pittsboro Record tells of the
burning to deatb of two negro
children. They were It ft alone in
the boue by tbetr mother with the
too often result.
Tbe Sunday School Journal is
the name of a new ' nominational
paper published at italeigh and
devoted to the interests of tbe Sun.
day Schools oi tbe State.
Commercial men and the leading
papers are predicting general pros
perity throughout the country
during tbe coming spring and
summer. Henderson Gold Leaf.
Ten t honsand acres of land in
Columbus county have been sold
by the State to Forest IRobinson,
ot Michigan, who will erect mills
thereon and taw out tbe lumber.
Tbe Morganten Hera'd has been
informed that there is a probabili
ty ttist Rutherford OoHege will be
inored to Margauton if tbe citizens
of the town will supply the ueccea-
arr buddings.
The Fajettevilie Observer sayi
About twenty negroesjalmont en
tirely from SeventyFirst town
ship, left here via the Wilson
Shortcut R. R.on Friday morning
last their destination Arkansas.
Gladstone has published 299
books and pamphlets. This does
not include his magazine articles or
any of his speeches, tie has all
bis life been assimilating knowlegs
and giving out ideas.
Mr Walters, Manager of the
W. & W, R. R. will be here about
the middle of the month in regard
to bnilding a branch road to this
place from some point on the
Scotland Neok and Greenville
branch o.' that system. Washing
toti Progress.
Mr. T. D. Mailer is exhibiting
some very fine specimens of iron
and copper ore discovered recently
noon the farm of his father, Mr
Ca'vin Mailer, in Du'cbville towu
ship, this count v. Tbe find ap
pears to be a verj important one
Oxfoid Day.
Solicitor Bower seni in a bill
against the alleged Morganton
lynchers, as Solicitor Long did in the
Lexington case, and result was tbe
same as at Lexington. The grand
iurv failed to find the bill a true
one.
Several promiuent truckers in our
locality say they will plow up their
peas thin week and replant. Others
say tbey will plant otner crops
Fruit errowers sav tbe early crop is
all killed, but the later varieties
will be benefited by the recen
frost Elizabeth City News.
The Charlotte News says Mr. C
C. Moore lost a fine colt in apernv
bar manner. The colt got tangled
in the halter in its stall, ana in Its
struffeles to free itself fell and
broke its neck. Mr. Moore had re
fused three hundred dollars for the
colt.
A In tie child of Joe Henderson
who lives on Mr. Lewis Skpp's
place, in Mallard Creek township
was burned to death yesterday
Th narents of tbe child were cut
in the field at work, and the child
was alone in the cabin. Charlotte
News.
Tbe meeting in the in
terest of the Oxford Female Col
lege last night was encouraging
and it is now very likely the re.
mainder of the shares in the pro.
posed company wUl be speedilly
placed and everything satisfacto.
rily arranged to placed the school
on a firm basis. Oxford Day.
Tbe National Summer Normal
School for Teachers and Sperinten
dents will honor Asheville with its
presence between the days of July
28th and August 9th. The insti
tute holds a session of two weeJkB
each in eight different cities, and
tais is the only city in the South
which will be visited. Asheville
Citizen.
The body of Arthur Davidson,
ten -year old negro boy, was found
yesterday morning in a pile of oof
ton seed, at the Oliver Oil mill.
Abont a week ago the boy was seen
playing around tbe mill, and dig
gine holss in a pile of eotn seed
bolls. We was driren aw iy, aud
was not seen again until bis dead
body was found yesterday morn
ing. Chailo tie Chronicle.
Mr. L. A Lawrence, of SphIpk
vllle, Rockingham conntv drop
ped dead while sitting inao'iair
reading He was in usual health,
and bad just been at woik. It
was a case of heart disease. He
was sixty five years oh'.
The North Carolina Steel and
Iron Company base s. cured the
handsome office iu the National
Bank building. Bad Washing
ton street, and will have it proper
ly furnished and opened for busi
ness at once. Greensooro Work
man. The reading ceik of the Ohio
House of Representatives died
ofdiptheria rbuisdt.y. His wife
bad died less tbau a week before
immediately after tbe death o f
four children, making six deaths
m the family within little over
two weeks.
The geld mica known as the
Saures mine, about oce and a half
miles from High Point, and belong
ing to Piot. Chas. G. Mann, has
been sold to an English geutleman
aud we learn that tbe work of res
openiug tbe miuo will oe begun at
uuue. .uexiugiou .uispatcn.
The Ohio Senate passed a bill
providing that railroad employees
who, have been on duty twenty-
frtnr' consecutive linnra Jthnll nnf.
resume until they have had eightitrJ hoy at hl8 fit party
hours rest. Twelve bums are to
constitute a dayns labor. Tbe fine
for violation is $150 iu each case.
Tbe bill passed iu tbe Home some
time age aud is now a law.
The Vance Guards have recently
had an additiou ot ten soldierly
looking uew recruits. During tbe
thunder storm last night the old
Bapist cuuich caugbt tire from
lightning it is supposed. The lire
was put out utter considerable
damage was doue to tbe floor, win
dows, ifcu. Heade! sou Tomahawk :
That remarkably old man of
Stauly couutv Billy Whitley is
dead at tne age of 113 years, tie
is said to nave been lao' last su;s
viviug subject ot Kiug George HI.
He was buru iu 1775. It is doubt
ful whether there is in Great
Britain or us colonics a surviving
Representative of George Ill's
reign, -iiaiiloid Express.
Tbe Carolina Spoke aud Hanole
Factory, operated lieie by Caraou
Brothers, has tor in i ce years past
been shipping tiue grade spokes,
handles and runs to various points
in Germany, and has never yet
tn able to get ahead of its
orders. The Charlotte factory
ships goo5s to Germ any, Australia,
and, in fact almost every party of
tbe world. Chailo'.te rsews.
Tbe report of tbe bureau of labor
statistic id iu me bauds of the.
priuteis- It is alwajs interesting.
Commissioner Sea boioiigli has
devoted pai ticular attention to it,
and there are some new ten lures.
Farm wages have steadily decreas
ed, while wages of other kinds of
employes hae as regularly advanc
ed. Agricultniists are pietty bad
ly lu the soup. State Chronicle."
We learn thai lheieis a move
ment ou foot in this county to raise
an Atncau emigration party.
Some of the colored brethren bae
talked to ns on the subject, and
express themselves as satisfied
with this county aud willing to
live and die here, despite the in
timidatioa and suppression of negro
votes as howled about by Northeru
famines. Rutherford Banner.
A mass-meeting of negro Re
publicans is called lor Gnilford on
the 3rd ot Apiil. Siaiultaueonsiy
meetings of the same sort are called
in all the other counties of the
Fifth Congressional District. They
have bad little or no recognition
Irom the administration, and are
thoroughly indignant, and for pos
litical kicking, aie expected to
shame the annual that invented
that kiud of calistbeuios.
Salisbury correspondent of the
Charlotte Chronicle? Ihe Salis
bury Cotton Mills are now making
from e50 to $60 clear pront per
day. The Knitting Mills are rnn
ning on full time with sufficient
orders ahead to Beep them at
work . for .several months. The
Salisbury Gas Company hasieccnt
ly put down 7,000 let t or new
rr.ains. and placed half dozen new
lights in the suburb of Brooklyn
The output of tbe company has
increased 50,000 feet per month
for the past two or three months.
At Wilson's, Mills, this morning
on the North Carolina railroad, B.
M. TJpcbnrch baggage master, was
ruu over by a shitting train, and
received fatal injuries, He was
uncoupling cars while they yere
in motion, and got his font caught
between the track and a guard
rail. The car passed over him
crushing the lev which was fasten
ed : nd in. arm almost entirely oft.
His home was in this cifv, and he
was brought bete this evening, but
died while beincr carr'ed from the
depot to bis home. Raleigh D:s
patch 21st.
Rockingham Rocket- Jtorii
Bracksville, colored, who commit
ted a most atrocleus, cold beam d
murder near Laurel IMI, this conn
ty, about (our years ago and made
bis escape from jail while under
sentenoe of deatb, was recently
captured in Roherson county and is
again in jail at this place. He was
was tried in tne Superior Ccurt,
found eniltv, and sentenced to be
banged. He appealed to the Su
preme Court, and pending the ac
tion of that tribunal he effected
his escaped. Of coqrse be will
have to be re sentenced by the 8
Court afrer the former verdict has
been confirmed by the Supreme
O U!t.
Why !ei rhe'b.iUy juffer and prp
haris die, when a ortle ol Dr. Boils
Bab-, Svmp weald om-e relieve
it and effect a cuic. Onlv 25 cents
a bottle.
Pt-raonf! or pedoninry habits, and
overworked fl.xl in Laxador a spe
cific for want of apoetite, palpita
tion, debility constipation aud
many other ailments. At all drug
gists. Price 25 cents.
NUMBEit 10
A FASOUS SOUTHESNEK.
Some 2Tc:es and Eccentricities of
"Uncle Beaut-"
Atlanta, Qa., March 12, 1890
Yesterday afternoon I was stand
ing on Whitehall street when I
saw coming along a very oom
monplace, CDuntryfled looking
man. There was a country pros
dnce wagon standing near me, and
I supposed, at first, that he had
gotten out of that. It was a bright
spring oaj, out be had on a thick
overcoat a very old and rasti
one it was, and the rest of his
clothlDg coincided with bis over
coat. He carried a good sized
hickory stick in his hands, and bis
general appearance flavored very
much of a genuine Georgia "crack
er." Bat us he came nearer 1 dis
covered that it was Joel Chandler
Harris, tbe famous author and
editor. Mr. Harris stands at tbe
bead of Southern litereture. His
oooKs are reaa, not ouly all over
tbe United States, but tbey have
besn translated into several laugu
ages.
Bat Mr, Harris does not know be
is famous if he does he certainly
does not show it. -He is one ol
the most unostentatious men I ever
knew. And he is as shy as a coun
He
ill
stand ont on tbe platform ol a
street ear rather tbau sit near a
woman. He is one of the Atlanta
Constitution, and by far the ablest
and wittiest of the staff. Tbe
editorial squibs of that paper
babble over with his wit. 1 in
stance it by quoting one from to
day's issue:
"Col. Robert Iugersoll says he
will smoke as he lives. Afterwards,
we suppose he will suzle."
It is not a rare occurance that
literary loving people from a dis
tance who have been charmed by
his writings, when in Atlanta, call
to see tbe author of 'Unofe Uemna
une atteruoon l was sitting in
the editorial rooms of the Consti
tution, when two very distinguish
ed l piking loreigners came iu.
They walked up to tbe table where
he was sitting, aud said, that tbey
desired to see Mr. Harris. "That's
my name," he drawled out. "Ob,
but we want to see Mr. Joel Chan
uier narris, tne author, ' tbey re
plied. "Well, that; is my name,
be said, continuing to write. Aud
after he finished what he was do-
iug, he returned to them, and in
very prosaic, bnsiDess'manner, in
quired their business.
Mr. Harris is about forty years
old. He was boru and has lived
a great deal in the country. And
his residence iu the city for tbe
past .several yearn, and bis fame
have not changed his maunei ef
liv.ug and working. He gets to
his office between seven and eight
iu the morning, goes to dinner
promptly at twelve o'clock, and
'knocks off" in the evening at five
He believes in working by dav
light.
Auother one of his country hab
its that has clung to him is his
love for persimmon beeb. He
is about the only citizen of Atlanta
who keeps on hand this delightful
and old time country beverage.
Cats or pictures of Mr, Harris
are seldom seen. He has an aver
sion to having them taken. And
for this he is not to be blaimed.
A. H. M
The Feminine Ems Doomed-
The brilliant editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal does
not confine his reformatory ef
forts to the tariff, but strikes
out boldly for a kissing reform
It riles him all through, this
wilful waste of labial sweet
ness, when he sees one woman
kiss another, and he boldly de
clares that the buss feminine
must be busted and no longer
tolerated in civilized countries,
1 1 -rr- i m
ah masculine nentucsy, re
gardless of party, will stand by
him, as it should. Wilmington
Star.
Where was the Cat-
A cook who had burnt
piece or roast veal weighing
four pounds threw it away, and
afterwards explained to he
mistress that the cat had eaten
tbe meat.
"Very good," said the lady
"we will see that directly."
So saying, she took the cat
put in on the scales, and found
that in weighed exactly four
pounds.
"There, Frederick," she said
"are the four , pounds of meat
but where is the cat. Kolner
Tageblatt.
An English Medical Authority
affirms that the best regimen for
ptcserving health may he summed
up in the maxim, "keep tbe head
cool, the feet warm, the bowels ac
tive." There is a world or wisdom
in tbe observation. Cbstlnate con
stipation or costiveuess, is an ex
citing canse of other diseases" ; and,
with many sedentary habits or oc
cupations, this inaction of the bow
els is a source of constant annoy
ance, prod uc leg piles, prolapse of
the rectum, fistula, and various
dyspeptic symptoms. All these
are warded off, and health is main
tained, by the use of Dr. Pierce's
Flea8at Purgative Pellets.
All medical authorities agree that
catarrh is no more nor less than an
inflammation of tbe nasal air pass
ages. Nasal catarrh and all catarr
hal affections of the bead are not
diseases of the blood, and it is a
serious mistake to treat them as
such. No conscientious physician
ever attempts to do so. It in held
by eminent medical men tbat soon-l
am " I.-,...- ' X ... I r . 1
i imor i 9fnuHlu Will DO lOUQu
for every disease from whieh hu
msnity suffers. Tbe facts justify
us in assuming tbat for catarrh at
least a positive cure already exists
in Ely's Cream Balm.
FOE ALL XlNBg OF
JOB WORK-
SEND TOTJB 0BDEBS
-TO THIS OFFICE
POLITICAL.
THE BEST- THOUGHT
LEADING EDITORS.
or
H htU f of the Xation
SV of Politics.
Epitaph on the Blair bu
Talked to death.-BeidsTUls S
What tcdo with thA mi.. ti
will aoon be changedto "What to
it. get another surplus Wash.
Stai. . 7
Tbe Harrison adminisrratiaB is a
success in one rAant t v
turned the rascals in, an-
one of tha main objeotior ii '
8.vanuah News, Dem.
It it evident that tita
uuwor will naairura u .
that will strengthen its aavase
warfare on the StatAn ut 75.
ibertlea of tbe nannlA
Berne Jouenal. ,
A f entlemau lost In from Vfitk.
e II informs us that there is some ol
ot the liveliest kicking going on
" xMspuuiicans in that
eounty just now that has ever been.
luorpauiou neraia,
President -Harrison, wha thtnv
that "fitness and not nartv smtvIm
should be the discriminating test."
utiru o,oou nartv serroi-a ints
postofflees during his first vast
Phil. Record, Dem.
Is all the States in whieh
tion have recently held the TVm.
ocrats have been vitorions. tm
hi not accidental, bnt it is the nat
ural result or education, organisa
tion and efficient management.
New Bern Journal.
Brower and Ewarl have been
washing their dirtv linen before the
public gaze. When Republican
Congressmen fall out honest men
may get their does and even the
Devil himself secure a settlement
longstanding back accounts.
Reidsville Review.
Never before in the history of tha
Democratic party was one-half a
much level-beaded, carelul. efficient
work being done for perfection and
building up tbe party organization
as is going on at the present time.
Washington National Democrat,
Dem.
Hon. John S. Henderson tells
the editor ol tbe Raleigh State
Chronicle that "the 51st! Congress
ill be historically famous or in.
lamons as the most wasteful, the
most extravagant and the most
costly representative body which
ever received tbe suffrages of a
free people."
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
Republican, after interview 1,626
tanners in Missouri, Illinois and
Kansas, has come. to the conclusion
that what the farmer ont there are
suffering most from is a want of
capital. When we come to think
that Kansas farmers are burning
corn because they can t afford to
buy coal it does look that way,
Wilmington Star. '
Scoop a Little to ot-"
About the time iku Daniel
Drew began bis Wall stieet career
be was up in the country one time
to visit some friends, and two
farmers called upon him to decide
a Case. One had sold the other
five bushels of wheat, and proposed
to measure it in a half bushel, and
sweep the top of a measure with a
stick. The other objected, and
Uncle Daniel was asked to decide.
"Well, legally speaking, a bush
el is only a bushel,'' be answered.
"And can the measure be swept
cflt"
'I think it can."
"What with V
"Well, if I was selling wheat I
should probobly use ball the head
of a flour barrel."
"Which edge of it?"
"Gentleman, that is a point I
cannot now decide on," sighed the
old man. "If I was selling to S
widow or a preacher J am certain
that I shoaid sweep the measure
with a straight edge, but if I was
aelling to a man who pastures bis
cows in tbe road and bis pigs Is
tbe neighbor's corn, I'm afraid I
should use the circular side and
scoap a little boot.?' Wall Street
News.
. A Worthy Example-
We know a yonng man of
eighteen summers who is a
capital telegrapher. The know
ledge of the art cost him close
application and study, and no
money. He now commands a
salary of $40 per month with
the probability of doubling la
soon. The boys of the land
shonld note this and parents
should call their attention to
it. There are always good
place and good pay for those
who know how and are willing
to work. Statesville Advocate.
"Like sunshine in a Jhady place,'
The poet called a woman's face
That gladdened all who saw its
beauty.
A face, no doubt, tbat gleamed with
heaith,
And lightens every daily duty.
Oh, how can woman whose life
With many a wearing pain if rife,
Escape the grasp of such afflic
tion ,
And be a power to bless and cheer 1
The answer comes both swift and
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