()L. XX.
WELDON, X. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 181)0.
NO. 45.
HE EVILS OF DIVORCE.
IjIOSAI. REFORM LEAii;E HISCUSS A
liREAT SOCIAL I'KOULEM.
The tenth annual meeting of the Na
na) pivurcc Reform. League was held
Boston on the 22nd. Mr. Samuel .
Ire, corresponding secretary, read a
rtliy report on the progress of tlie
:st year, showing a great inereaso in
Uic intercut on the subject of divorce
oroi, duo to the report of lion. C. P.
ci"!it of the results of the investigation
.X... ..itl.!.... Kir fimmu u-liir.ii tlm
I I LUC SUl'JVW JJ VUU(tVI "UlbUj tnu
'lirctary nays, is the most advanced
per on the subject ever prepared, and
rtus an epoch in the history of the
kestion. 1 he study ot tins report has
kn begun by classes at Harvard, the
merican Bar Association has referred
to a .fecial committee; the council of
iiogregatioual churches has invited its
Lreful Mudy, with a view to reformatory
;'isiatiou; the general convention of the
'rotes-taut Episcopal Church used it iu
Is deliberationsj'it has been laid before
e American Statistical Association, and
will be laid before other associations.
The report shows that 80.1G percent.
f divorces occur in the Statu where the
parriage took place, thus dispelling a
revalent idea that a uniform national
ivorce law would remedy the evil. The
lution of the problem is proved to be
sewltere than in uniformity of law, but
e report shows that the marriage laws
e in a deplorable state, and that uni-
ijrmity of registration is a pressing need.
Provisions should be made for orderly
marriage under proper licenses before of-
oially recognized authorities with wit
nesses aud with official records as to age,
lationship and previous conjugal condi-
ious. Provision should also be made for
he proper Cling, preservation and pulli
atioii of divorce papers. The spirit of
eform has evidently completely checked
he increase of registration and has led to
I he inauguration of better laws in some
itates, but the great work is yet almost
touched. The paper closes with a re
tiew of the educational work of the league
and the desirability of an international
conference to Jevise a commou system of
law relating to the subject.
H GHOSTLY PRIEST JOINED THEM.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The ghost of the Rev. T. Starr King
married a couple at San Francisco on
Sunday night. The spirit of the once
ctlcbfated clergyman and lecturer did not
appear in person, but was represented by
a spiritualist medium, who assured the
lovers that they were as iirmly tied to
gcther as if Mr. King had materialized
and twisted the nuptial knot with his own
bands. Marriage by proxy has hitherto
been performed by representatives of the
principals to the contract or by the rep
resontative of one ot them. 1 lie tan
Francisco wedding is probably the first
in which the officiating clergyman, am
be a ghost, has been a proxy. There
has been at lea 4 one ''spectre bridegroom,"
but never before, so far as we know, has
a ghost projected its 'If into the flesh in
order to make two lovers supremely
blessed. If such a proceeding should
turn out to be illegal no sheliff would
ever be able to reach the offending ghost
with a writ or an officer.
When you feel your strength is
failing,
In some strange, mysterious way;
When your cheek is slowly paling,
And "1W thing," the neighbors
. say,
As tin y look at you in pity,
To the nearest drugstore send,
' At the earliest chance, and get a
Bottle of tli? Sick Man's Friend.
You will get what you want by asking
for Pr. Pierce's Golden Medical discov
ery. This medicine tones up aud invigo
rates the weakened system by purifying
the blood and restoring lost vigor. It is
the only medicine of its class, sold by
huggists, under a positive guarantee
that it will benetit or cure in all eases of
disease for which it iJ r leoinin -nded. or
money paid for it wiii be refunded,
SENSATION AT WILSON.
LIVELY 31 ILL IX A HANKING HOUSE
PROMINENT CITIZENS ENIiAOE IX
AN AFFllAY.
A special from Wilson to the Wil
mington .SVd' says : This morning, be
tween 10 and 11 o'clock, Calvin Barnes.
i prominent citizen of Wilson, went to
the banking house of Branch & Co., to
consult with Mr. A. I'raneh regarding
an account that ho owed Branch, Biggs
& Co. The lie was passed between them,
and Mr. Barnes knocked Mr. Branch
through the window of the counting
room and followed this up with a num
ber of blows. Mr. J. C. Hales, cashier
of the bank, hearing the noise, ran to sec
what was the matter and tried to jrt the
combatants, when Mr. James Sterrett, a
step sou of Mr. Barnes not knowing
Mr. Hale's intention knocked him down
and commanded him to stay there.
After Mr. Branch got up all three,
Branch, Barnes and Sterrett, started out
of the bank. At the front door Mr.
Sterrett turned, after ho and Mr. Barnes
had started down the street, and gave
Mr. Branch a stunning blow which .came
very near felling hiiu to the floor. The
parties then separated.
Some fear was entertained that the
difficulty would be renewed, so all of
the parties were placed under a peace
bond. All went well until about 3 o'clock
in. Mr. Jas. Marshburn, township
constable, was sent to arrest Messrs.
Barues and Sterrett and lake them before
a magistrate, and while he with his pris.
oners was on the opposite side of tho
street, Mr. Branch ran out aud began
firing at Mr. Barnes. The balls went
wide of the mark, but unfortunately one
ot them lodged in the lelt heel oi the
constable.
TOOK CARBOLIC ACID.
Morrison 11. Avery, son of Judgo of
the North Carolina Supreme Court Av-
ry, a clerk of the Geological Survey Of
fice Washington, D. C, drank carbolic
icid by mistake for whisky when he got
up, at 512 Thirteenth street, Thursday
morning, and died almost instantly. 11
was a popular young man, and his death
is undoubtedly due to an accident, for
the bottle he drauk from, though uearly
full of carbolic acid, was labelled "whis
ky." His body was taken to Spear's
and his father, Judge Avery, was noti
fied. Doctor) Cobb and Middleton, of
the Eiuergeucy Hospital, used every ef
fort to save young Avery's life, but could
not. lie was twenty-three years old
and his two room mates were present
when he took the fatal drink
Tiie remains were sent to Morganton
N. C . at 11:20 last night in charge of
Mr. Sterling Kuffin. Judg! Avery til
graphed that he could not come here for
the body. Coroner Paiieisou questioned
Avery's companions, and will not hold en
inquest.
Saved frum l'oiisi;i)iptim.
Several physiei ms predicted that Mr
Asa B. Bow cv. Druggist, would soon
have consumption caused by an aggra
Vided case of Catarrh. Customers iina1
lv induced liiui to try Clarke's Extract of
Flax ( I'apillon) Catarrh ( ure. lie say
"The result was unprecedented. 1 cum
liieiiivd to gel we'd after -the lir-t Mpjilt-
c .fon and am now, after a few weeks
entire'v C lied." It wi I do the same for
vou rri"'' it
Try Clarke's Flax Soap
for the Skin and you wul uo no oilier.
2."ivnts All of Clarke's Flax remedies
are for sile by W. M dlun, druggist.
To be content witli linleuess is already
a stride toward greatness.
Is 'nnsumptiiiii litriint'itcl
Head the following: Mr. II. Mor
ris. Newark, Ark., says: "Was down
with Abo ss of Lungs, and friends and
physicians pronounced me an IncurabL'
Consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's
New Discovery f r Consumption, am
uuw on my third bottle, and able to over
seethe work on. my farm. It is the
finest medicine ever made."
Jesse Middh-warl, Decatur. Ohio, says,
"Had it not been for Dr. King's New
Pineovry for Consumption I would have
died of Lung TrmUes. Was given up
by doctors. Am imw iu best of b"alih.'
Try it Sample Lollies free ai . M.
Colu ti'o di'iigsi ire.
SOUTHERN TOWNS.
IMPORTANT FACTORS IN THE ITIIUILD-
INU OK THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
Mr. Abbott Lawrence was probably
the most remarkable aud sagacious man
New England ever produced. He was a
merchant iu profession, but at the same
time a statesman, patriot, philanthropist
and seer. History tells us that when New
England was first striving to become a
manufacturing center. Daniel Webster
x pressed his doubts to Mr. Lawrence as
to whether the infant industries could
compete with the cheap and trained labor
of Great Britain, but was answered that
he need havo no fears of killing compe
tition as long as the people of the South
refrained from manufacturing. Whether
this iucident is true in fact, is immaterial,
but it is representative of the foresight of
this remarkable man. By the aid of a
tariff the infant industries have become
strong and robust industries. Every in-
lustry that this tariff fostered has en
riched New Englaud, and in enriching
that section has enriched the whole couu
try. Now the era is dawning that Mr. Law
rence cautioned Mr. Webster about. The
South is entering upon manufacturing
enterprises. The many industries of New
England may not be driven to tho wall
by the industries of the South, but they
will have in them competitors closer than
any they have ever encountered.
Two important factors in the upbuild
ing of the industrial South are just be
ginning to be appreciated. These are
the increased amount of energy and
wealth that every new family brings to a
thriving town, and the itninet mco of
small industries. New England has be
come great and rich by looking after
these small things. Some of her leading
industrial establishments of to-day started
twenty or perhaps fifty years ago in a
little shed, and her large industrial cen
ters have grown by drawing to their pop
illation single families at first, and later
on scores ol them at a time, .ft very in
dustry, however small it may be, creates
wealth, and, in many cases, the sniallir
the industry tho more wealth, proportion
ately, it creates. It requires a thousand
dollars or so per operative to build and
equip a cotton mill or a blast furnace,
or some other such large industry, while
many of the smaller iudustries, wood
working establishments for instance, can
give one person employment for about
every two hundred dollars invested. And
every industry, large or small, creates
wealth by adding to the volume of busi
ness of every trade and business in the
town in which it is established.
Towns in the South that are struggling
for industrial growth, should bear in
ln'nd this proportionally greater wealth
creating power of small industries over
largo ones. When they have these
smaller ones in their nii.lct and have
added to their wealth, then they can con
sider branching out and establishing
larger industrial plants. Such economic
an 1 systematic growth as this must be
had before the South can compete with
tlv.i North in the manner that Mr. Law
re n 'o foretold. Mtuiufm-tiirer liirnnl
Unity's Letter.
letter from Mr. J. W. llul.y, Union
City, Ind., says: "I have used jour
Clarke m hxtraet ol 1 Hi (1 apltlun )
Cough Cure and find it a complete u r :
for deep seated cold. It has done more
than two of our most skillful physicians
My children had ill ; Whooping Cnugl.
and with the ai 1 of your C"iigli Cure,
they had it. very light coinared wiih
neighbors' children who did not take it
I believe it to be the best cough cure in
the market." So it U. A largo botlle
only 61 00
Clarke's Flax Snap lor the Skin. It
leads t hem all. Price 2.1 cents. Cough
Cure and Soap for sale by W. M. Cohen,
drug-list.
Man and wife are one, That makes it
possible to judge a man's sizo by' the
siglrs of his wife.
To regulate the stomach, Tiver
B.wels, Dr. lW-' Pellets excel.
C nts u vid; one a dose.
ii ml
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THECOLDIERS' KOrVlE.
A VETERAN HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
ABOUT IT.
Jan. 2.'?, 1890.
Editors Boanoke News: 1 am an
old soldier and need assistance and write
to inquire what has become of tho Con
federate Veterans Association, of which
Mr. J. S. Carr, of Durham, is President,
and Col. A. B. Andrews, F. II. Busbee,
S. A. Ashe, T. L. Emry and W. F.
Bcasley were elected Executive Commit- j
tee. I do not like to complain but it
does seem to me that these gentlemen
and comrades ought to do something to
relieve the waut and distress now existing
amoug many old soldiers, who were not
considered as deserving of assistance by
the Legislature when it passed the Pen
sion law. When the Confederate Vete
rans Association met last October in
Raleigh it selected these comrades to
carry out its purposes and it does
seem to me that they either ought
to do something or resign and let some
others take their places. When some
body is to be elected to the United States
Senate or Congress or the Legislature or
Governor too much cannot bo said by the
candidates in behalf of tho indigent old
soldiers, but as soon as they are elected
the old soldiers are forgotton until a re
election is sought. It strikes me it is
about time to stop this foolishness and
to require these aspirants to show r
give a quid pro quo for our allegiance to
them. WTe have never faltered in our ad
herence to old comrades (Governor Jar
vis, Senators Hansom and Vance, ( t 'j, for
instance) and yet when an appeal is made
to keep us from dying in poorhouscs,
with negroes, aud being buried in pau
per graves, we see no special effort made
by these comrades in our behalf. Some
times I am forced to think that it is
about time for us to drop this class of
friends and try a new set. We could
not be worsted by so doing and we might
be benefited.
I have noticed that in political years
all political aspirants (and their friends)
are exceedingly anxious to have re-unions
of old soldiers and that when these
re unions take place the virtues (supposed
when not real ) of these aspirants are
11 1 . -i n a. . a 1 . 1 1: .
elalioratoii until an me oiu somieis pics
cnt, forgetting their sufferings and indi
gency, become enthused and hurrah till
their throats are sore. A close observer
on such occasions is forced to conclude
that the old soldiers are unquestionably
either tho greatest fools or the most fool
el men in the State. Now which is it?
I know not how others may feel but I
have concluded that I shall not play fool
I'giin. These comrades must do some
thing for their needy and indigent com
rades, or tliev won t get my vote and m-
fiiienee agaiu.
Voting hundreds of thousands of dol
lars for the education of negroes and let
ling old soldiers die iu poorhous.s and le
buried in pauper gravis don't accord
with my idea of what is right. These
men may claim they have done wonders
fur old soldiers. If they have we would
iike to hear when they did it.
We would like to know too when the
Corifed. rate Soldiers' Home i to be es
tablished in North Carolina One thing
the ofii 'i is of ih'i Cool' di rue Vcti rails
Ass 1 i ili 11 may calculate on with 11 r
tuiuty it'thev dun'' di wll.it they have
I c -n s elected to do we old soldiers wiii
hate nil I despise them. A'l "f ihetii, e
erpi oil . h is derive ! b,'ie lit an I pine -l),
nee o our solid political ati- 11 ol' i -l!
lencc all 1 they should act ol' quit right
now. We arj not going to be boo I
winked any lunger by demagogy or any
oil or "gogy."
We want hereafter ami iidihd to have
only frimds in 1 1 1 li posit ions. The day
of uiislcaders is past and only real leaders
in full sympathy with our distressed
c mditions need apply for our votes and
influence. We shall expect the pr.iss of
the Stat? to side with us too and not con
tinue to dame attendance to Generals,
Colonels, etc.
In conclusion I b":r to say I am not
mii Lai cur...;.-t. A. B. Amonei.
THE RACE PROBLEM.
EXTRACTS FROM SENATOR KNOALLS
SPEECH IN THE SENATE ON THURS
DAY LAST.
"I'pon the threshold of our second
century, the people of the United States
were confronted by tho most portentous
iiroblem ever ulaced before a free people
1 A
for solution. It involved, in the belief of
many but not iu his, the permauaiicy of
our form of government. It must be
considered frankly and freely, without
subterfuge, and without reserve."
"To complicate the problem, the negro
was gregarious. The line of cleavage be
tween tho white man and the black was
distinct and clear; there was neither amal
gamation, absorption, or assimilation, be
tween the races. Fred Douglas, the most
illustrious living representative of his
race, greater by his Caucasian reinforce
ment than by his African blood, had said
to him that when prejudice disappeared,
tho race would become homeogenous.
Ho did not believe it; such a solution of
the difficulty, would be impossible; if pos
sible, most deplorable. History showed
that when the white and black had come
together during the period of slavery, it
had been by compulsion. The children
born had claimed white fathers and black
mothers, never black fathers and white
mothers. There was no poisoning so
fatal as the adulteration of the races.
"The leaders of the South had come
to the conclusion that the present state
of affairs could not exist. They asked
that the matter be discussed amicably.
The Senator from South Carolina,' Mr.
Butler, deprecated animadversion. The
Senate would not hear it from him. The
most bitter criticism on the situation in
the South, was the truth.
"He did not claim a superiority of
virtue for the North. His ancestors had
owned slaves.
"The conscience of New England had
not been aroused to a sense of tho enor
mity of tho slave system until it had be
come unprofitable.
"Besides, a large part of the people of
the United States had not contemplated
the freeing of the negro in the war for
the l niDii.
"When the negro was freed, he had
been given the franchise, but not for the
purpose of perpetuating the Republican
party. That calumny bad grown old
enough to be supcranuuted and placed on
the retired list.
"By their sobriety and steadiness they
had justified the judgment of tluse
who ha 1 believe d
them no better
than the brute race. But what did
their freedom amount to? Their citi
zenship was a mere name. The black
vote of the South was practically sup
pressed. Senators, editors, and the lead
ers of the South had announced their in
tuition of breaking the control of the
negro. Hei.ry W. Grady hail said, when
will the negro cast a free ballot? Ou
this point I have reasonable testimony,
and he wou'd call only Southern men
and Democrats as witnesses."
.Mr. IngaiN read an extract Irom the
Memphis Axakinehe, commenting, be
said, on what wis called the election in
Mississippi last fall.
Mr. Ingalls ipioti d at h ngth from
General Chalmers address to the licpuhli-
fill 0I1TS of Missi
i. "lie coiisid
i red 1 li.it addr 'ss one of tin
utterances that had ever
most tragic
occuried in
jo'i'ical history S -Vi-ntein days a; 0
there li.el In in aiio-her cleeiioii in Mis.--Lsippi
with wlil li the country was some
wh.it familiar." lie sent to the clerk's de.'k
to b" read, an extract from 'le' Jacks.. n
Clarion of January 2nd. In I his extrai t
was the constant n iteration if the an
nouiiciiiici.t that "the regulators" "the
bulldozers" etc., would be on hand to see
that tin re was a fair diction. At the
end ol the reading Mr. Ingalls remarked :
"Tiny were all there, Mr Presidmi."
Mr. lug-ill- read a I. tier from a Fu'
cral 1 lliei r stating that two sens of Sena
tor George had been ill tin crowd of reg
ulators ariiH'd wii'n inehesters and
w.ating 1-elgi s. "White Suj rcmacy."
"Was it any wonder," he said, "that
Democrats themselves had become
alxrmed at this condition of affairs? The
South evidently intended to deprive the
negroes of their votes and of their inde
pendence, and practically the North had
acquiesced in this. Forced attempts had
been made to pass civil rights laws and
Federal election laws, but they had failed.
The negro had been abandoned by the
North. But be wished to warn tho peo
ple of the South, that the North, the
West, the East, would not allow their
commerce, their manufactures, and their
social condition to be modified by execu
tive or Congressional majorities, obtained
by the suppression of the colored vote,
01 any other vote.
"No one could tell how long the pa
tience of the North would continue; but
the crisis would come; in peace or in
blood, it was the inexorable law of fate.
"If this condition of affairs continued
nothing could avert armed collision be
tween the races in the South. Ultimate
ly the colored race would be strong
enough to resist violence, and intelligent
enough to resent. The South was stand
ing on a volcano. It was sitting on the
safety valve. It was breeding innumer
able John Browns and Nat Turners.
Already the use of the torch aud dagger
was advised. He deplored it, but as
God was his judge, no other race ia tho
history of the world had submitted to the
wrongs heaped upon the negro in the
last 25 years without revolution and
bloodshed.
"The negro was no coward. lie had
been brought here a prisoner of war.
His conduct had been most admirable.
Despotism made nihilists; tyranny made
communists; injustice was the greatest
manufacture of dynamite. Tho South
was in greater danger than the enfran
chised slave.
"The South had not accepted the
amendments of tho Constitutiou in good
faith. They had their own heroes and,
anniversaries. They exalted their leaders
above the leaders of the Union cause.
Until these conditions were changed,
co-operation in solving the Southern
problem could not be expected from the
North. The South must tread the wine
press alone.
There were five means of solving; this
race problem, lhc hrst was auialgama-
iou; tho second, extermination; the third
separation; the fourth, disfranchisement;
and the fifth, the uuiversal solvent of all
human difficulties, and that was justice,
for which every place should be a temple
and all places sanctuaries.
"lie appealed to the South to stack
its guns, and to register every vote white
and black, and if when the experiment
had been fairly tried, it should be provtd
that the complexion burned on the negro
by an African sun was incompatible with
freedom, he pledged himsell to unite
with the people of the South in finding
another way out of this difficulty. Till
tin 11 nothing could be done. Those who
freed the negro asked nothing more;
they will be content with nothing less
The experiment must be fairly tried.
This is the starting point, and this the
goal; the longer it is deferred, the great- r
will be the exasperation, and the more
d lubtful will be the final result."
WAYLAID AND SHOT.
We'licd iy i.i; hi ol l.ist uk Bail
soiie.: Gill, a well-to do fi'liner, living
about three milis from Fr.iiiklinlou. was
a jnr r in coiiit and was going heme from
Loi.i-tii.rg- iu bis buggy iate in the even-
ioir, win 11 he was mysteriously
Jo
11c
was found ilie ii-xt day six miles I mm
Louisbuig wiili a bullet hole through his
head. I lis horse Was found unhitched
aud tied ul (iiu ii'MI yards away. Gill
was fouL'd lying en his face with his
overcoat ou and both hands in bis jock
cts. The ball had apparently been fired
from a tbir'.y-calil re revolver. Bobbery
wa- evidently not the object of the mur
der, as Gill had some numcy on his per
son when found. The affair is involved
iu profound, inj;,tei'y.