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r I '.': a 8 ii 0L. XX WELDON, X. C., THUliSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 18S9. NO. 3b. -41111 tell lfl: Si i e tn uli j it E tcJ; CHIEF-JUSTICESMITH ;S AWAY A FT UK A DKIUF IMAKSS. rhipf Justice Smith, of the Statu Su n-cine court, died at Raleigh at ll! o'clock in Thursday of hist week. For three lavs he had been prostrated from a coin- .iuatioii ol' heart disease and overwork. for ton dies previous to his illue he lad boon regularly attending the sessions 'tlic Supremo Court, but was cotnpell- .Jfronj weakness, to recline in the court Mm nearly every day, and was frequent- v compelled to go home before the ses- lions were over. On Monday of last teek he became unable to attend the fssions, and had been prostrated at his Residence on Halifax street ever since. William Nathan Ilarrell Smith, the imineut jurist, was born in Murf'reesbcro, X. September P-'th 1812. His fath- l was William L. Smith, a native of Connecticut. His mother was Miss Ann Ilarrell, of Hertford county. The death If hie father occurred iu 1S13, in Mur- freesbno, where he was held in high leputc us a physician. Chief Justice Smith graduated at Yale College in IS.'!-!, and afterwards studied aw at the same place. He began prac tice in this State and continued it till 1S70, when he removed to Norfolk, Ya. After remaining there for two years he (returned tu North Carolina and has ic- tided in Raleigh since that time. He was for awhile associated with Hod. Geuige V. Strong in the practice f law, and the law firm of "Smith and Strong" was widely and prominently mm.. The only office he held in the line of s profession, before his appointment to phe Sui reiue Court beueh, was that of iiiitor fur the first Judicial district, lis was in 18-18-49. In 18-10 he was Uember of the General Assemblv in the lower House. In 1818 he was elected lothe State Senate. In 1857 he was the candidate of tlio Whig Party for uigrcss in his district, but was defeated in that campaign. In 1859 he was aga'n w candidate and was elected. Alter go re to Congress Mr. Smith was put for mally the Southern Representatives as ikoir candidate for Sneaker ol'tho House. After a ft rurie of many weeks of todi- Wsballuting, in which he lacked only Ti'te of election, he was defeated tj Mr. Pennington, of New Jersey. He was a member of that body. In ISC") he was a leader in the State W'WsHiri' in iwniiKtmrtitill under the Ian uf l'rt.-ident JeLtisou. He was very vroniiucnt iu the famous jmpcaelunent ease of Governor llolden, 'I'd led the defence against the manage ment .f ex fiovernor V.rw'x. His eh s- 'b speech made a pamphlet of seventy Ws, aiip whs u master y production of ic mid legal learning. Thi- addnss lumped him as one of the greatest law yers and one of iho must acute reasomrs "lis liiu'essi.iii in ihe cnuntrv. Futind lit (lie Newspaper. Fi'i'iu th,: Ci'iseo, Iowa, 1 Plaindealor: ' Wl- line.. . Iiir fl.r lli'.ll - 'J thirty vear-i in thi ifiiunty can le-itl,, "cti ;rpuil',t any jiateh! medi.iiie "UtV as Well iiti ini.'ii.:ili..li iinntd US to del-art lidin tl.Uvtiiili ..I .'i!ei.,-e. In sav o Welders and the public that, having I'.'vu cnu'p1 .te'y j..-.1:'.:;. i ' i a vi.'.ut 'distressing Cu!J, after ihivo Jajs 5ghtin it with ordinary , remedies and Wing no relief from their use, we ob tjHK'd a bottlu of Clarke's Kxtraet of (l'apitlun) Cough Cure, obtaining "niustiustuiit relief and a steady impiovo Jt under its use." Large bottle only 'I0". Ask for Clarke's Flax Soap. fet nn earth. ' 25 rents. Both the bove f r sale by W. M. Colien, drug- gist. ( The latest gift for a sweetheart is the P'okie ring," to bo worn on her little "'gw. It is of twisted gold. . 'is proprietors of B. B. B. (Botanic olood Balm) are among the foremost ""siness men of Atlanta, Ga. They are jeDof conscience, men of integrity, and of wealth. Every testimonial found flod in our pnper th"y guarantee to 'irue and . uiu.- nov 14-lmo. HAMPTON'S LETTER. IM,AIX TALK TO WAX AMAlv lilt I'OI! nucr.ivixcj him. Postmaster General Wanamakcr prom ised Senator Wade Hampton some time since that he would not remove the post master at Columbia, S. C, until his term was out, but did so and appointed B. F. Clayton to the position. Senator Hump ton thereupon wrote the I'o.stmaster Gen eral the following letter: Silt: The inclosed extract from a South Carolina paper has caused ino great surprise. Perhaps you may remem ber, if your memory is not treacherous, your assurance to tnc a few days ago that Mr. Gibbes should not be removed until' the expiration of his term in February next. Not only did you do this, but you voluntarily assured mo that inasmuch as Columbia was my postolliee you would, when a successor to Mr. Gibbes was to be appointed, consult uie. It is a matter of small importance to me who takes the place of Mr. Gibbes, but as I informed him in passing through Columbia of the promise you had made you may perhaps understand how your action has placed me in a false position. But it is fortunate for me that Mr. Gibbes will hnow that I at least told him the truth, though I was grievously de ceived in believing what was said to mo. I hhidl know better in future what reli ance to place on statements emanating from the same source. The newspapers state that besides manaj ing the great Department over which you preside you are running a Sunday school iu Philadelphia, and it occurs to me that you might with profit to yourself select as the most appropriate subject of a lecture to your pupils the in structs e story of Ananias and Sapphira. This would give you a line field for your eloquence in explaining to your charges the importance of confining themselves to the truth except when some fancied advantage might be obtained over a pt litieal opponent. I am, ) our obediant servant, Wade Hampton. The extract rel'ured to tells of the re moval of Mr. Gibbes. FABULOUS WEALTH. The Gu oliua Watchman published at Salisbury, has sent a mining expert to Mo mgomcry county to investigate rumors of an important gold tine there, and he reports that all .statements about fabu lous wealth having been diseovcied there are true. The find is sail to be the richest ever discovered in this State. Three parallel veins were found about half an inch in thiekucss and only a few feet apart. The ore pans out a large per cent, of pure gold. The Watchman' representative ascertained that a bushel of solid gold had already been taken out of the deposit. The place is owned by three Sanders brotheis. Iwo ot them h.ie Ikcii living in Texas, but have started for Salisbury iu rcspnnso to a telegram. Great e.v iu-meut is r ported in the neighborhood and people arc leav ili ii ',,iic to sii.'.rch lor g d.l. It is stated that o" i'"" l""l's work got out J,Hli! p.ooivwei.'li:" of pure gold and ws then e -A lei. by 'L o'.u r: :o have 'iVi k. Keinarkably lU-wrue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plaintield, 111., makes the statement that she taught cold which settled on her lungs; she was treat ed for a mouth by her family physician but grew tvoise. He told lur she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her drug gist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefited from first dose. She continued its use and after taking tn bottles, found her self sound and well, now does her own housework and is as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this great at W. M. Cohen's drugstoic, large bottles Site, and 11.00. . PLfs.ll cases are made to snugly hold a marriage license. Filled with the proper paper they make very ac eptable Chris'tna-pr'-nts tor a young u !o "ive to a lady friend. NEGRO EMIGRATION. The Baptist Educational and Mission ary Convention of North Carolina nsciii bled at Garysburg (October 22-27,) adop ted a resolution that a committee be ap pointed to write a letter, expressive of the Convention on the question of negro emigration from North Carolina, and oth er vital questions. The following letter was presented nnd ordered to be sent throughout the State, especially to the various newspapers1 It is the sense of the Convention that emigration in mass is impossible; and that the present method of emigration by ageuts and sub-agents, who are doubt less prompted to agitate this movement solely for the fee that is in it is imprac ticable, uutiinely, and injurious to our people. Wre therefore most earnestly and sin cerely urge, that, for the good of the race, we be no longer led off as chattel slaves, to build up the places of other States and further the interests and fortunes of other people at a dear expense to our selves. We do not condemn emigration in n general sense; we believe in it. We com mend it, when we can go as free people and upon our own accord, especially w hen we find a place where our condition can be bettered. We advise our people not to let them selves be wrought upon by exciting and riotous .speeches. Further, experi ence has taught us the necessity of ab staining from all useless expenditure of money. We therefore exhort our race to practice frugality and economy in all things; to educate themselves and accu mulate property. Our hope for future elevation and progress depends upon God; and God has endowed us with certain inhcritent powers and talents, in consequence of which we are responsible for our owu development; so that, ultimately, wherever wo are and whatever we become, depends upon our own personal energy and effort. We furthermore advise our people to be zeal ous and consecrated in their devotion and Service to God; to cultivate peace and harmony between the races; and to develop habits of patience, industry and economy. Further, this Convention, in view of the successive shortness of crops and the low prices of cotton, call upon the land lords of the State to reduce their rents so as to allow renters to make a more re spectable living, and thus restore confi dence to the tenants and harmony be tvecnthem and the landlords. Unless this is done, we cannot hope to retain the laborers in the State. Lastly, that the farmers of the State, in order to contribute to theabove results !) requested to pay as promptly as pos sible to hirelings, the amount of wages promised. A. W. Pkui-ks, Ph. D , Raleigh. IJkv. 0. Johnson, Raleigh, BKV. It. SltKl'AHI), ltaleigll, lii:v. L. II. H.U'KNKV, Chapel Hill, Ukv. W. H. Shaw, Littleton, Committee. COTTON STALK BAGGING. Mr J. M. Furshee, secretary of the Chamber of ludustry of Wilmington, N. C. was in Maeou, Ga., recently exhib iting samples of half-inch rope made from cotton stalk fibre. According to the Tthyrajih, he also had a sample of 2 pound bagging made from the same fi bre. Mr. Forshee announces that ma chines have beeu inveuted for stripping the stalk and manufacturing the fibre iuto bagging, and that "the cost of the manufactured article will not be moro than four cents per yard. Ono acre of cotton stalks will furnish enough fibre to make baggiug enough to bale five bales of cottou, and as this is about five times as much as is needed, the excess will be used in manufacturing rope und for vari ous other uses to which jute is now put." Dr. Sid. P. Hii.Aard, JWnl Sur geon, can be fun no iu his office ui iloeky Mount, N. C, tu all timet. KEELY'S MYSTIC POWER. TlIHltH MAY HH SOMUTIIIXG IX IT. Philadelphia Record: A demonstra tion was made of Mr. Keely's mysterious motive power at (lie world shops last Saturday before Professor Jo.-eph Leidy, Prof. Clarke, Thomas Kakins, the artist, and others. I'j speaking yesterday of the various tests which have been made be foi'e him, Doctor Leidy said: "There is a Keely motive power; there seems to be no deception. Everything is open before you and can be seen. One is free to examine everything, the only restriction being that you are requested not to handle the various pieces of me chanism, but if one but waits a little he will sec an attendant on Mr. Keely pick up that very piece to place it somewhere else. It is not the art of the prestidigi tateur, but an actual force producing ac tual results before your eyes. Mr. Kee ly has command of some power which is unknown to me, but which is enormous in its results. "I cannot see how th? disintegration of a thimberful of water in his 'disinteg rator' can produce such a force, but it is there, and one of his difficulties is, I believe, that this force is so great that it is very hard to bridle. He has been working on it many years. I cannot see why one appliance, which he showed us, cannot be put to immediate use, and that is the large iron disc and sphere which are put into rapid revolution by disintegration and will run for an indefinite period. I said at the time I saw it, "It will not be long until all our mills are being run by that ma chine." He has a great power, unknown it may be, even to himself, further than by the result-i it produces." lAKOW BANKING COMPANY. EASTERN CAROLINA LAND IMPROVE MENT AND TlANKINCl COMPANY OR GANIZED AT ROCKY MOUNT. Cnder a charter obtained at the last session of the Legislature the Fasten Carolina Land Improvement and Bank ing Company was organized at Boeky Mount last Saturday. Toe tompany is authorized to have a capital stock of i 8500,000 for the purpose of selling lauds, I inducing immigration to Eastern Carolina j and to eouduet a banking business and is ' given all necessary powers for their pur poses. Such a company managed judi-. cloudy. as this wi'l be, '1 do great work for this section of country , by finding purchasers for the line lauds which only need capital to make them yield abundantly and by inducing ne-n of some means to settle here. The con -p ,ny, we are informed, expect to begiu , work at once. It has aheady the eon - i trol of considerable property, and we ' hope it will extend iis business eousidera- bly. . j The m tin office, for the r.isent, wi!l beat Boeky Mount, but it will aUi have j an office on Broadwiy, in New oik. j The foUowinir are the of.icets elected i S.ui;rJ.iy: B. II Buun Pre ident. H. S. Ilariison Treasurer. P. W. Lj on Secretary. W 11. Day Gun rai iJ.Aiti.s 'l. Ev .; ive Committee: '. H Bunn. II. S. Harrison, K. . hym, Camp bell, Hendry,. Mr. Hendry is a Wall street besiness man and agent for numerous Eiigi-h enpitalists. Happy Monsters. Win. Timmons, Postmaster of Ida ville, lnd , writ -s: '-Electric Bitters has done more for mo than all other medi cines combined, for that bad feeling aris ing from Kidney and Liver trouble." John Leslie, farmer nnd stockman, rf same place, says: "Find Electric Bit ters to be tho best Kidney and Liver medieinj, made uie feel like a new man." J. W. Gardner, hardwaro merchant, same town, says: Electric Bitters is just the thing for a man who is all run down aud don't care whether he lives or dies; he fouud new strength, good appetite, and felt like he had a new lease on life. OnU- r.in a bottle at W. M. Cohen's di.aore. BAPTIST CONVENTION. AXXUAI, STATISTICS I'U().I THAT Git CAT IIODV. The Baptist convention at Henderson last week elected the following officials. President, Cnl. L. L. Polk, of Baleigh; vice presidents, J, 0. Scarborough, G. W. Sauderlin, C. A. Komiuger; recording secretaries, N. 15. Broughton, (J. W. Greene; treasurer, J. D. Boushall; corres ponding secretary, llev. C. Durham; au ditor, W. N. Jones. The following is a synopsis of the report on State missions for the year: Sermons (1,(1(18; churches supplied 2 12; out stations supplied 17S; persens baptized 512; added by letter, 872; professions of faith 'J21; houses of worship built, 80; churches organized 40; paid pastors 813,82.V, given for State missions 8891! 11; foreign missions 708, 12; home missions, 8)512.28; education 8312.:: f; orphanage 8 1GD.78; building and repairing 8f,108 12; number Sunday schools 200; number officers and teachers 20,11."); new schools organized 0-1; con tributed by schools 80-12. 8.'5. There are now nineteen missionaries on the foreign field under appointment of the foreign mission board at Bichmond, Va., and eleven others from North Carolina churches now on the field who have gone or been sent without appointment of the board. There are fifteen colporters in the State and the following is a summa ry tif their labors for a year: Miles trav elled 0,048; families visited 4,748; fami lies destitute of Bible 4.'!S; sermons preached 7G; addresses 144; prayer meetings held 240; persons baptized 188; churches organized 5; Bibles sold 501; Testaments sold 8S!; books sold 3,480; Bibles given away 902; Testaments given away 2,372; pages of tracts and papers distributed 578,290. DR. DIXON'S CHURCH. IT IS TOO SMALT, AM) III! WII.I, ItUILI) A TEMPLE. The Twenty-third street Baptist church of New York city, of which Dr. Thomas Dixon, Jr., is pa-tor, has bicmu too small to accommodate the increased con gregation, and service-; will be he'd in Association Ha l, corner of Fourth ave nue. Dr. Dixon has been pastor of the church for a year He is fr an the Bun gles Street Baptist Church of Boston and veiy youti: . llosdd recently that the co teregatio'i had been growing fast lately, an f that the old church was not large enough to bol l the worshij pnrs. The church on'y seated 5.V) an! for tho past few Sundays tli.-y had to fill the 1 ibbies ami gal'i ries with camp stoo's. They had fin illy deei led to rent Associa" tion Hall for a year an 1 try and sell ir tent their church. ;'I hope to get men of influence and wealth," said lr. Dixon, ' to assist me in building what, we intend to ca l the Mad ison Sipfin! Temple. The design is, if we can get money enough to fairy out our purpo-o. io itia'e this ti tuple as the head'pt n teis of our d in inio.iiion iu this emntry: We want to buil i it on Broad vtv, near M.eli.on Mpiaie, at a cost of about Sl.OlM.ii'.lU flic first floor will be ued for stor s, and the building ibr aig'iout wi 1 be a Lu.-iuc-.s nim ' r- lig i 'U; '. ne 'Iu ;he cc.i'.rj uf it we want to have a hall that will have the finest auditorium in New York and scat 5,000 people. Beneath this gr at hall will be a smaller one, wi'.h a scalini: capacity of 2.000. This small ha'l it ii intended shaM have religious services conducted iu it every day of the year." $500, or Cure your l atan li. For a long series of years the manu facturers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Bemedy who are thoroughly responsible, financial ly, as any one eau easily ascertain by proper enipaity, have offered, through nearly newspaper in the land, a standing reward of 8500 for a case of nasal ca tarrh, no matter how bad, or of how long standing, which they cannot cure. Tho Remedy is sold by all druggists at only 50 cents. It i o :! i, soothins. lenn-i'ig, d.wd ):iz'. ,a, ...itiseptic aud healing;. THE ELEVENTH CENSUS. Hi:iEH!XTKXDKX-T I'OJJTKK I5tE I'AIUXO TO COVKH TIIK (il(OUXI). Supt. Porter, in his annual report to Secretary Noble, says the preliminary work for the eleventh census is well un derway. Under the head of wcal'h, debt and taxation, the statistics of which in the last census were collected under the direction (if Mr. Porter, the report states that comprehensive tables are beinj prepared which will show the financial condition of every county, uty, town and village at the cud of each fiscal year since 1880. The assessed valuation and financial condition of counties in 1889-90, as com pared with 1880, will be given separately by counties aud States, and the compari son of the assessed valuation and finan cial condition of tho States will go back as far as 1850. A table of all sources of revenue in cities and large towns of 5,000 population will be given. Tn the matter of securing full particulars of local gov ernments, apart from finance, a compre hensive series of investigations is now being completed, which it is believed wiil cover the entire ground. A report of public indebtedness, State, county and municipal for each year of the decade ending 1890, will be included. The work of the division in charge of this work is so well advanced that the re sults for nine years ending 1889 will be published next summer. Supt. Porter calls attention to the fact that resolutions had been passed by prominent labor or ganizations in various parts of the coun try, asking that nn inquiry be made as to the percentage of people in this country who occupy their owu farms and houses, and what percentage are tenants, and of those occupying their own farms aud houses what proportion have their proper ty free from debt and of tho farms and homes under mortgage what percentage of the value is mortgaged. This iiue of iudu.-try, the report states, ii not author ized by law, but Mr. Porter bays that the office is willing to undertake the inquiry, providing Congress will grant the neces sary additional money. ARE FARRIERS PROSPEROUS? In the report of the Bureau of Statis tics of Labor of the Slate of Ohiof.r the year 188$ the fnilowiiig list is given, showing the amount of i'ui m mortgages in the States u.imcd.- Ohio S701, 000,000 Indiana :r.8,(i()0.(if ) Illinois (0,00(i;0('ii Wisconsin 50.0(10,000 Michigan :-550,(!0(l.(iOti Minnesota 1 75,(HH!.(;i;i Iowa 351.00tl.000 Nebiaska 1 1 O.OOOXOO Kansas '0:5,00ll.0t!(l Missouri .7,00O,O"0 To'a! farm nmrfgigts iu the-o States ?:!. -!25,O00,(!!:O By the census of 188(t the total value of a!1 the farms in ttuse leu Statt s wi s repotted as 85. 107.1111'. tin:!, ami it is doiibtf'.d if tie c tisits i f 1890 wiil : -low that these farms aTo worih as liituh now as iu LSSil. therefore the Marilitig liiet is leture Ms that in t( II of (he l: ir i ( i.iis ii,g agricultural 8t.i'e in tin Ci.iett the farms are mortgaged ior two-ibirds of tlu ir value. COAL DUST TO BE UTILIZED. The Beading Railroad ofiicuds headed by President Corbin visited the emej at v's coal plant a short time ago to i'ls ut a new process of making fuel from eonl drst. Heretofore about one-seventh of the pro duct of the coal mines has been 1.-st in dust. It is now intended to utilize ihe dust by making it into bucks, that will burn like hard coal, except Unit. tin. re will be no cinders, and the bricks burn to tushes. Tho new process consists 'of the coal dust being evenly distributed with ouc tenth per cent, of pitch. All vi e oTecd- 'Xprestel iheurelves try much I gratified by the new process.
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