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()L. XX. WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1890. NO. 42. f HE EN C LISH LAN CU ACE. J10RE (SENSUALLY SPOKEN THAN ANY EMIGRANTS. ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM. NO ELECTION LAW. CENERAL LEE. A DESPERATE FIGHT. ELEVEN CARLOADS OF NEdllOES EN A CHARLESTON MINISTER OV THE RACE ON ITS SOLUTION. SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS WILL REFUSE THE MAN AVIIO NEVER SHIRKED A RE A BLOODY MELEE AT DVSARTSYII.I.E, IN MCDOWELL COUNTY. OTIIEll. HOL'TE TO SOUTH EN STATES. TO SUPPORT SUCH A -MEASURE. SPONSIBILITY. It is somewhat curious to note the nn'ss of this English tongue. The liDgiw-0 'u which Shakespeare and Mil ton wrote was the language of less than Lil million people, and when Washing ton was President lea than sixteen mil- lions used the English language. At that time French was spoken by from thirty to fifty millions. Haifa century jt-o as large a proportion of tho popula tion of the glohe spoke German as En- lish. Now Germany is far behind in this respect. In Austria, Germany, Belgium, Switz erland, and the United States German i spoken by about 00,000,000 people, o France, , Belgium, Alsace Lorraine, Mtzerland, the United States and Can- Hayti, Algiers, India, the West In dies and Africa French is spoken by about 45,000,000. In tho British Isles, he United States, Canada, Australia, the Test Indies, India, and other British colonies English is freely spoken by 100,1100,000. These figures arc very significant and their analysis, did space permit us to give it would prove even more so. The fact is that the enterprise of the Knglif-li people long ago led them to ex plore this globe pretty thoroughly nd to pick up whatever was worth hav- iDg. it was not an action or me gov ernment, for the governments of that day were too stupid to originate any poli ty whatever. It was the work of semi commercial buccaneers whose discoveries fid pretentions the governments had just enough sense to sustain. Out of this condition of things has arisen the widely tattered extent of the British Empire. But this very condition of things faved thewav for the extension of the influence and language of Great B'itain. Where ever the English standard was planted the English tongue was spoken, so that now, all over the world, more than in the case of Latin in the old Roman empire, so Englishman cm go round the world and be understood, speaking only his native toniiue. Accordingly, it may be siid with con fidence that, if a great revolution does not take place, submerging English and American interests, then those interests we bound to prevail all over the globe, and with their general prevalence will come the universal use of the English language. HE GOT A CONGREGATION. Bishop Talcott, of the Episcopal Dio cese of Montana and Idaho, preached in Philadelphia not long since. He gave an account of how he got a congrega tion at one of the towns, lie sent out circulars in advauee but they made no impression. He found upon arrival that most of the town were at the saloons. He visited them all, sought the propria- tors and was introduced all round to the toys He tells the story thus : '"tii iitlcinen, said I, 'I am going to Wd services iu the Town Hall to-mor- low morning, and want to get tho people there. Will y u help me?" "'Yes, sir,' they answered. 'Bishop Joj can depend upon us. We'll sec you through.' And they did. I visited tho whir saloons with alino.-t identical re ults, and the following morning yu ou!d huve thought that the circus Inn come to town from the crowds that lucked to the service. I Ihivo never preached to a more reverent congregation thin they were." Wanted to be heard from. If any person has ever given Dr .Sage's Catarrh Remedy a fair trial, and has not Uvii perfectly and permanently cured that person should write the proprietors f that wonderful remedy, for they are in dead earnest and "mean business" when they offer 3500 reward for a case of na l catarrh which they cannot cure. Tim r. ineily is sold by druggists, at ouly .'(to. k ! mild, -... in ., (I buying, i.nti .i'tic, cloai.aiu uuu healing. Charlotte Chronicle, Jan. Eleven carloads of negro emigrants, numbering about 2,0(10, stopped in Char- otte a while yesterday. The larger por tion of them were from Wayne, Pitt, and Lenoir counties. They were on their way South to different locations. This crowd of negroes will be divided among the States of Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama. Some of them said that the inducement offered is a farm to rent, the landlords agreeing to furnish the tenant with supplies for half the year. Utlicrs saiu that they did not kuow what they would do until they ar rived at their destination, and that they were under obligations to the agents, to work out their passage, after which they will look out for themselves. Many seemed not to know why they were go ing. One fellow said that he had been on the way more than a week and was getting tired and hungry. Our reporter ooked into one of the cars as the agent in charge was carrying a large basket of bread through tho car and distributing oaves among the families. The agent told the reporter that 2,000 negroes left Goldsboro Wednesday for Georgia, by way of the Atlantic Coast Line. The emigrants from Pitt said that nearly all tho negroes have left that county, most of those thatrcmain being iu the towns. The agents are still at work and the exodus is likely to continue. Tho ne groes says that they leave because they were unable to live on account, of their destitute condition in the eastern coun ties. They say that they could have secured employment or rented farms, but the farmers were unable to pay wages, and that thev could not secure supplies. VOUDOOISM IN HAYTI. The celebrations in honor of the re- cstablismcnt of the fixed order of affairs, have, curiously enough, given an impetus to tho spread ot the voudoo worship, says a Haytiao correspondent of the New York Evening l'ont. It is difficult to say to what extent this savage relic of bar barism pervades Haytiao society, but no one who has lived in Hayti any time can deny that it is spreading rather than dis appearing. On the pica that the people had been subjected by the war to many privations and few pleasures, the govern ment some little time ago caused the dis tribution of sums of money in the various communes in the north, to be used for public amusements The effect is seen in the increased frequency of the voudoo orgies that are held in the outskirts of the town, and prolonged sometimes for days. In one of the towns recently a citizen reported that upon arising in the uiomiug be has found the skull of a baby with the aeenmpanving paraphernalia of the voudoo rites, on the path in front of his house. It does not follow that there had been the sacrifice of the goat "with out burns," as the human victim is term ed, but that the rites should be so openly practised shows llu kuicucy of the gnv erment in its efforts to gain popularity at the expense of eh iliz ithn. It may be that the minister of the interior has not yet awakened to the respotisiiudiios of his position, but it niu-t not bo forgotten that un h r General 1) nni u' is vo idooisiu was openly recognized and practised. Happy llooxiers. W.ii. Timmotis, po.-tma.ster of Idaville, Ind, writes; "Electric Hitters has done more for me than all other medicines combined, for that bad feeling .'.li-sing from Kidney and Liver trouble " John Leslie, farmer and nockuian, of same place, says: "Find Electric Bitters to be the best Kidney and Liver medicine, made me feel like a new man." J. W. Gardner, hardware merchant, samotown, says: Electric Bitters is just thethingl'or a man who is all ruu down and don't care whether he lives or dies; ho found new strittgih. good appetite and felt j-M like he h d e '"nr "" bTo. ' "-''c a botile, i.v M. Cohen's druote. Emancipation day was celebrated in Charleston by a parade of all the colored military and civic organizations. After the parade an immense array of colored people was addressed by the Rev. 1. S. Ljc, D. D., one of tho most influential of their preachers. In the course of his address he said; "I believe that the ul timate solution of the negro problem will be emigration, from necessity, if not choice. Amalgamation is neither possible nor desirable. To obtain our rights and maintain them by force we arc are una ble to do. Outrages such as lynching negroes, compelling them to ride in smoking-cars, refusing them hotel accommo dations are evidences strong and con vincing that we will never attain man hood full here. These are the shadows of coming events. "We make a great mistake when we suppose that the Anglo-Saxon gave us our enfranchisement for the love he had for us. I deny that ho did it for phi lanthropy. He did it because he thought ho could use us. Whenever the white man does anything for us, be he a North erner or Southerner, mark my word, it is only because he thinks he can use us as his tools. No more faith can be put in Republican than in the Democrat. They are both Anglo-Saxons, and do nothing for us unless it is to their advantage to do so, and will throw us overboard, like 'Uncle Ben' in Johnson's story, as soon as they find us too heavy. "We must show our independence, and the sooner we do it the better. Let some of us leave go to Africa, if necessary and show that we can get along without the Anglo Saxon, and, by this spirit of independence, make them leain and ap preciate our value. Independence and emigration are, in my opinion, the only solutions for this great question." This utterance made a most profound impression on his bearers. It struck a responsive chord, and was loudly in dorsed by many. It will undoubtedly d to a movement looking to an exo dus. Does Experience Count! It does, in every line of busiuess, and especially in compounding and prepating medicines. 1ms is illustrated iu the great superiority of Hood's Sarsaparill over other prepaiations, as shown by the remarkable cures it has accomplished. The head of the firm of C. I. Hood & Co. is a thoroughly competent and expo rieneed pharmacist, having devoted bis whole life to the study and actual prepara tion ot medicines. He is also a member of the Massachusetts aud American Phar maceutical Associations, and continues actively devoted to supervising tho prep aration of and managing the business con nected with Hood's Sar.-april!a. Hence the superiority and peculiar merit of Hood's Sarsaparillais built up- n the most substantial foundation. Iu its prepar.ni iu which modern research in medical science has developed, combined with long experieuee, brainwoik, aud o' periment. It is only necessary to give this medicine a fair trial to realize i s great curative value. Read and Reflect Mayor Me DjmvcII, beloro the chamber of commerce at Charlotte recently give soma sound stnsc regarding newspapers. Hear him : 'Encourage your home papers and he!' build them up, for the culture, intelli pence ami public sentiments of a city are o!tcii uuago.d bv trr character ot the p- per it supports. Every place of impor tance must have the mighty aid ol the press, a journal that will publish to the worh its advantages, its life, iis war s is goods, its mauufactoiic-; and roll t like a mirror its daily acts, deeds, inten tionsand progress of its people. I make the statement that an able, dignified. cons"rvative and progressive newspaper is of in' re real benefit toward advertising, stimulating and building a city than any other one agency or enterprise that she can possess." Mothers aud nurses should alwa; i remember that disappointment never m tends the use of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Pi ice only twenty-five cents a bottle. The close sympathy exis'ing between the stomach and brain is noticeably ex hibited in the headache r'isu'''"'' from indigestion,. L"'-"l r ilwtivs .. j hal .ttou, when caused uy iuUi0ea.ioh. The Washington correspondent of the New York Ikmhl ays : "The back-bone of the movement fora sectional election law is broken," said an observant republican to-day. The man was right. I understood that all four of the Missouri republicans in the house arc against tampering with federal eleetious. Those are most opposed who have a large proportion of negro constituents. Mr. Frank, who is on the elections committee, is outspoken in his opposition to the Sherman-Chandler programme. The hostility of the South ern republicans may be due to one or several causes. They perhaps dread a recurrence of scenes of violence, and those who represent mixed constituences feel that such a law would solidify the white element and thus weaken their own hold on the party. At any rate, with the exception of Houk, of Tennes see, the Southern republicans are not enthusing over the proposition to change the law. Mr. Brower, of North Carolina, one of the few Southern chairmen of committee?) thus unburdened himself to me this af ternoon: "I once thought that if a bill could be framed that would not be ob viously sectional, but intended to operate all over the union, I would favor it. But I do not see that any great change is needed except one that would make elec tions honest in Indiana and New York as well as the South. If a system could be devised, by secret ballot or otherwise, which would insure fair, free, honest elections, I would support it with the rrrnolnuf efinnrfolnnQS Ttinro id nn liaa however, to frame laws that apply to the South alone. It will do us harm." Mr. Brower predicts that little, if any thing, will be done with the subject of federal elec'ions. In this view most judicious men of both parties concur, although the talk about a "strong bill" goes on. GOOSE CREEK ISLAND "Goose Creek Island, on the North Carolina coast, is oue of the mi st inac cessible, uncome-at-able places to be found in the South," says the Philadelphia Telegram. "Its area comprises several thousand acres, and its soil is uuusually fertile and admirably adapted for tho raisihi: of cattle. The island is surround ed for many miles inland by almost iui passable swamps; access by water is had through a narrow, tortuous channel only navigable by the smallest, of craft. For miles around the water outside of the pas-ageway is only a few inches iu depth and a man in rubber boots could wade dry shod all day long in this worthless stretch of water, which is too shallow for lish and too ' deep for agriculture Hence the islanders lead a very retired an-i i-o'atcd life, practically as much shut efff'rim tho ui!d us it'tlity were in the mi l-t of the Atlantic. There are about to iinndred and filty houses on the place, mostly cabins, though there are several mo;1 .s do planters, v. no, cdueatid and refined, keep aloof social!'. from (he poor mid il. iterate inhabitants " Silt diCsst. anil he. i b ilitit'ts. "I haven't had a t-ii k dross since I was married, ti r a new bonnet tor three sea- s lis, c lupt.oos ,'ir- . . ii. i-ne no elates she is 1. til ii-1 to loive a ll"W lull net it she has to work for it herself. This i- tru i grit, but many holies who would y'ad'y work hard to attain a desired oh jict, are unable to do so because, they are almost cnsiant'y allli -ltd with diseases e :liar to i heir sex. Dragging-down p..ins, displacements, leueorrhea, and oth er uterine disorders, are the bane of many woni"n's lives; but Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will cure where all other compounds fai It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the niauufactur ors, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will bo ic 'un'ed. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle wr inner, and Military carried oc for hi I : V 1 al'1. Jefferson Davis In North American Review. After the close of the war, while I was in prison and Lee was on parole, we were both indicted on a charge of treason,, but in hot haste to get in their work the in dictment was drawn with tho fatal omis sion of an overt act. General Grant in terposed in the case of General Lee on the round that he bad taken his parole and that he was, therefore, no subject to ar rest. Another grand jury was summoned, and a bill was presented against me alone, and amended by inserting specifications of overt acts. General Lee was summon ed as a witness before that grand jury, the object being to prove by him that I was responsible for certain things done by him during the war. I was in Richmond having been released by virtue of the writ of habeas corpus. Gen. Lee met me very soon after having given his testimo ny before the grand jury, and told me that to the inquiry whether ho had not in the specified case acted under my or ders, he said that he had always consulted me when he had the opportunity, both on the field and elsewhere; that after dis cussion, if not before, we had always agreed, and therefore he had done with my consent and approval only what he might have done if he had not consulted me, and that he accepted the full respon sibility for his acts. The evident pur pose was to offer Lee a chance to escape by transferring to me the overt acts. Not onlj to repel the suggestion, but un equivocally to avow his individual respon sibility, with all that, under existing cir cumstances, was implied, was the highest reach of moral courage and gentlemanly pride. CHANCES FOR COLD WEATHER. Capt. Henry E. Mellville, who has just entered upon his eighteenth consec utive year of service as superintendent of Philadelphia ice boats, has furnished a newspaper reporter with the following dates at which Delaware liver was suffi ciently obstructed by ice to warrant the city ice boats being placed in service since 1872. Winter of 1872-73, December 1; win ter of 187-5-74, January 15; winter of 1871-75, December 30, winter of 1875 -7G, December 10; winter of 1 87(177, December 10; winter of 1877-78, Jan uary 3; winter of 1S7S 71), December 23; wiuter of 187!-80, December 31; winter of 1S80-81, December 11; winter of 1881-82, January 4; winter of 1882- 83, December 20; winter of 1883-84, December 25; winter of 1884-85, Dec ember 20; wiuter of 1885-86, January 10; winter of 1SS15-87, December (i; winter of 18S7-88, December 29 In the winter of 18SS-S0 the boats were kept in readiness with half crews, but they were uot called into service during t ie entire winter. The first ice uppean d last winter D cember -3, nnd disappeared December 30; appeand agi in February 13, aud disappeared February 2ll; ap peared again February 24, and final. y i If.! it t disappeared tor me season tutir uas later, the ice at no lime beiic over two inches thick. By the ab;;ve rcci r-1 it ttiil be seen that the chances of consid- e.'at'le io Id went tier heloi e i lie winter is over are very good. In four winters of the eighteen reported the river did not freeze stilliieieiitly to reijiiire the ice boats until after January 3. Suit ItllCIIUl With i s intense itching, dry, hot skin often broken into painful cracks, and the little watery pimples, often causes inde scribable sufferum. Hood's Sirsapa rilla has wonderful power over this dis ease. It purities the blood and expels the humor, and the skin heals without a scar. Send for book containing many statements of cures, to C. I. Hood & Co., A pot h caries, Lowell, Mass. Not I M Nil but. the fraun-a of many resolutions remain to dav. od Honesty i d ubtli the best polh i bUk i. jCtij hae expired ng a-J. A special from Marion to the A.-he-ville Citizen says: At Dysartsville, thirteen miles southeast of this place a desperate fight occurred on Wednesday night between Francis Dixon, Divonund Alex. West and wife, which resulted in the shooting of Alex. Best, and break ing the arm and leg of Mrs. "West. Some time ago Dixon borrowed oue (piart of meal from Best, and did not. return it at once. Later he offered to repay the meal, but West would not take new meal, and demanded old meal, the kind he had loaned. Dixon could not get old meal, and still insisted that I'est should take the new. On Mrednesday evening West and his wife tackled Dixon in the public road near his house, knocked him down, and were administering a fearful beating. Dixon's son James, a thirteen year old boy, was standing near, and when he saw that his father was being so fearfully beaten, put the muzzle of a gun within a foot of West and pulled the trrgger. The contents were emptied into the bowels of Alex H est, and will in all probability re sult in death. Mrs. West, who entered . the melee, brandishing a large knife, and was making night hideous with her pro fanity, came out with an arm ;.nd thigh broken.and otherwise bruised and scarred. Francis Dixon was also badly bruised and scarred. The Dixons were lodged in jail yesterday to await the action of the Su perior Court. The trouble grew out of an overdose of "corn lickev." MR. DAVIS' IBEHOIRS. Recently numerous contradictory state ments concerning the promised volume of the life of the late ex-I'rcsidcnt Davis have appeared iu the newspapers. With the object of getting the facts in the case a correspondent went to Beauvoir for the purpose of obtaining from Mrs. Davis in person information at ouce reliable nnd authcutic touching this subject. The lady, in reply to his question, stated that beyond the completion of a few chapters by Mr. Davis, the work was yet practic ally iu its incipioney. The necessary data, however, is at hand, having been carefully compiled by Mr. Davis previous to his death, so that the labor of collect ing matter ami ttht-nviso fitting it iu shape for publication would, compara tively speaking, consume but a short time. ?o far the work remains just as Mr. Davis left it. Ai.angemeuts are being made, however, with the assistance of two very capable gentlemen to com plete the memoirs. Pi ke Am. Pure air is the most important tonic, and we should see to it that wc liave suiluient of it in the rooms in which we live and woik. Not only must the air space bo suffc-i. -nt, but the air must hi constantly renewed if we arc to live healthy lives. Nor can the impor tance of open a:r cxeivi.se be exaggerated. We should accustom ourselves and our children to be out in 1 weath lsandtem jurat tiles', unless there be some special reason to the contrary. Kei p the skin healthy with roguhr c -dd bathing, and aKvas wear wool next to it. Ucimn Until y lU st-iii', Mrs Muliael Curtail.. PLiinfield, III. makes the statement that she cairj.hi eo'd, which settled on her iniis; she was treated for a month by hi-r family physician, but, grew worse, lie told le-r she was a hopehss victim of consumption mil! that nti medicines t-ou'd euro her. Hi r drtigyi.-t suggested Dr. Kin si's New IWeVtry for Consumption; sK' bought a bottle and to her delight f nnd her-etf benefited in, in first di-se. "She cumin ucd its use and tit'ler taking ten bottl..-, found herself sound and well, now dees her own ho'lsewik and is as Well as siv ever was. Free trial bottles of this great diseovity at W. M. Cohen's drugstore, large bottles 50 cents, and $1.00. ' The county roads betttt condition. The trains from the tinually behind. were never in a South ate c;n- Tim id mo iniio. ljcctmbir.
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