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VOL. 12.
MOMT AIRY, N. C, FRIDAItjAUGUST 28," 1801.
NO. 8.
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HERE ARE THE PACTS
rhai ghow.to Investors where
y to Place their Mon3y.
BuKtaa VTKKKINU . ABOUT MOUNT
AIKS-1- BCTTRPTIIFUL TAT
TLE ABOUT OUR CITY't IICV BATTLE.
, People ire tired of loom.3v:.
. aiB.word-ha louir jiiH;e iK-euMc
cjared a mennco t m'u pre perk.
kJar lovely young v undor the
hadowofthe Blue -nidge; whose
doijiiTrwnickcnl to ai-tivily by
the invigorating mountain breezes,
- lias never sought to ifeecive the m
.voatpr by any tcerig of a bunco
'fashion.
recognize that the day o
Dooms is nasi ana men or means
bare leaned Jeesons bought with
the prcelu3 price called experience,
Accepting the declaration of the
Manufacturer' Record that "West
ern North Carolina ia destined to
4 become the Sanitarium of the
world," and the declaration of the
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dispatch that
"Southwestern Virginia and West
ern .North Carolina liave the bright
est future of all this Southern coun
try." it is evident to even the caa
ual observer that Mount Airy, tit-
uated on central ground and with
the ad van t aires described further
on, is the future metropolis of this
- rich and growing section
To blow and puff and keep on
blowing and puffing is the only
mc&rts some towns have used to gain
the attention of the public. Facts
are the etubbbvsest things yet struck
and these are what we intend to
presemt.
Tdtk Qummoir: WnriaMotrjrr
A iky the Place? Because,
1. Asheville is growing because
it is in a mountain section where
, resorters spend the seasons. Win
eton is on the grow, pushed forward
by her great tobacco factories.
Mount Airy, therefore, must be
eventually grr'er than either, be-
bause (a) her climate surpasses that
of Asheville and (b). burry an
Patrick counties raise better tobac
co for plug manufacturing than do
the counties around Winston. For
- proof of the first ask any physician
that has lived as long as two weeks
in both places. And for proof of
the second enquire of unprejudiced
plug dealers.
2. Mount Airy is the trading
centre for eight counties, four in
Virginia .and four in North Caro-
lina, Four tobacco and four stock
laieing counties find here a thrifty
marlcfit. fiifnatftd niar the State
line at the end of a great railway
I Vanning to two deep water ports,
Y this city is the. shipping point for
l hirtv milra a round .
3. Without any unusual effort
q the part of its citizens, the pop-
ition of the place lias doubled in
tee years. It is now about 2,500,
nd at the present rate of increase,
ount Airy will have near 20,000
U souls when 1U00 shall roil another
1 century around
4. Within a few weeks an elec
tion is to be held upon the question
of issuing $50,000 in bonds for the
paving of our streets and the loca
tion Of an electric light plant. The
vote will be almost unanimously in
the affirmative, and as granite is al-
ready here in abundance, paving
Tejx. uc done ranch cheaper than at
anv other place.
5. Jjf thcro was nothing else
hero td base our calculations of a
great city upon than the wonderful
"eranita quarries, that would, in it
self, bo sufficient to induce the in-
I yestraent of capital m our midst.
b V Just two miles northeast of the town
Nlies tne greatest granite lormaiion
ret heard of in this country. Ex-
i pcrts hTe actually surveyed 45
acres and it is probable tlat if its
depth was up to the,ir ex jactations
it wwld D rouna over one nun
drxt ftrrcsJjf ohd crranuc. It is
estimated Ty fomo tfiat it would
tako a tliouWnd men rainy hundred
years to cxl4 ist the supply. It is
fine far mvAr TurD06f8 and the
Aftiunt AlrjlQianito Company is
wortmg it icid vantage.
'-ir provid
r-QteS mine, rings, t
bUhe0M
f 'teSnh Uhosev
if provided here two
the mosrcei-
lount Airy
W1 equal tit superior to that
? he Greei:J Whito Sulphur
v idnia. lb erection of the
231
QQ Judge Land its successful
Qni has brouM hero tliis summer
. ""aagemenrjf the opening of a
inrough hnel .'harloston, together
ycral hnndr4-eathy South Car
ohna people have become de
ghted with tlilimate and'scenery
gna. are invesfi heavily in the
k TheclLbeate springSdso
I aas to the repetation of tho place
71 It 3-. , J 4
Jfor a semi-circle and
Kfl viws are 6imply sublime
7. A company composed most
ly of Sooth Carolina people with a
? capital stock of $60,000, wSsrecnt
Jy formed, whicji purchased twelve
fharcs of Granite City Land and
Improvement Company stock. Tho
latter com nan y then piirciru?ed tho
White Sulphur. Siriniri . rroierty.
whicli consibtcd of 30J acres sur
rounding tho .- spring and hote1.
Tliirf they will beautify and, upon
an eminence, erect a handsomo raoJ
eru. resort hotel of Queen Anno
style A dummy lino will also bo
constructed, and by next tuminer
all will Ijjj ready for the increasing
crowds.' . ! .' - 1
' At present 3fount Airy is
cntent?ng herself with being a ter
minal point, accumulating and
growing from tho strength of a
great back country. In a year and
a half she will have amassed atreninh
enough to take a bound when her
railroads come. And just at that
time three, four or five roads will bo
near our suburbs, s The .Norfolk cc
Western building here from Iron
Kidge, Va., is graded nearly to the
Virginia line. Tho survey over the
Blue ixidgo is one of tho greater
pieces of civil engineering on record
It winds around and loops in several
places beiore it croseca tho range.
The scenery is said to surpass tha
along the Pennsylvania road. This
road will place Mount Airy and the
magnetic iron fields of Surry in di
rect and close connection with tho
great Pocahontas Coal Fields and as
the U. S. Geological surveyors
declare that no where in the Countv
scarcely can they keep the needU
poiuting right it is evident that de
velopments must follow. Itisabou
certain that in the early part of
A 1 1 Oii . T"
next year me oiatesviiio J.ir XAue
will be constructed South from this
place. The Danville and East
Tennessee is under contract from
Danville, Va., to Bristol, Tenn., to
pass through Monnt Airy,and there
is a 6iron2 prooaoimy oi trie uan-
villc and Western being extended
from Stuart, Va., ; to this point
The following fact, together with
the preceding will convince the rea
soning man that Mount Airy is des
tined to become a Kailroad Centre.
The last and by no means the least
fact that proves the foregoing la the
position this city holds with refer
ence to the Blue Kidge rancre. For
miles and miles up and down tho
range there is no gap sufficiently
low for railroads to pass through.
r our railroad companies are etnv
ing to build across the Blue Kidge'
and it has been found too great an
undertaking. Low Gap is just in
front of Mount Airy. It is the only
point through which railroads can
successfully penetrate the range,and
this city, situated as the door-way
to the Gap, must reap the advan
tages cmstomary.
1 he above are only a tew facta
gathered in haste. At a later day
wo will enlarge upon them. .
What JloirsT Ajky IIas.
The past is an earnest of tht? fu
ture, lhe following enterprises
are now established :
Thiee commodious tobacco ware
houses, tea plug tobacco factories, two
cigar factories, three leaf tobacco fac
tories, one tremendous granite quarry,
throe cotton factories, two woolen fac
tories, one spoke and handle factory,
one foundry and machine shop, steam
brick works, one high school, four ho
tels, one newspaper, wholesale and re
tail stores. j
First Chaxce to Invest.
The first big chance to invest money
in this vigorous young city will be of
fered on September 9th sad 10th.
On these days the Central Land and
Improvement Company, operated by
the Meters Moore who are among the
oldest citizens of the place, will offer for
sale some of the finest city property
that has ever been upon any market.
It M partly the ebtato of the late J. F.
Moore wbict? has been divided into lota
by tbe company and marked off for tho
grand sale on September 5tb and 10th.
This Central Land Company's lands
he in the heart of town and the most
beautiful lots aro on the principal
streets. In all there are thirty five and
from a residence erected on almost any
one of them a glorious view of the Blue
ltidge for a hundred Ues can be en
joyed. Tho lots on Mala Street are
situated to as to be highly valuable as
business lots in a year or so, while tho
twelve lots on Pine Street aod the six
on Franklin cannot be rorpassed a
places of residence. ' They lio epen
high rolling - - ground commanding
tbe ooit splendid scenery and will
double ic value quicker than any prop
erty so far offered.
Tbe fact that the grand sales of the
Granite City Land ic Improvement Co.
are to follow sometime in the fail and
spring makes It more urgent for inves
tors of capital to place it in these lands
that will be ready to receive the impe
tus given by tbe sales later on. Mount
Airy is tbe place and every one is recog
nizing tbe fact. The judicious inves
tor must know it to Lis advantage to
buy now before . tbe town booma its
real estate. He that gets himself well
founded before the swell eomes will be
the onq to see his own pocket swell.
Remember the JU are September
9th aod lOih. and tbeaaW will be gen
uine. Mr. Matr. D. Moore. Secretary
of the' Central Land Concpary will an
swer all iaquiriet,
THE SISTER STATES.
Carolina and Virginia News
. Packed in Paragraphs.
Efforts
dent3
and Energies, Incl
an& Industries, Acci-
dent3 and
Achleveraents.
A Lutheran'
Church will be built
in Winston at aq earljrday.
Mr. T. C. Woodburn lias beg
tho publication cf the Siler Ci
Ilerald.
At Elizabeth City hut week
Thomas Godwin, a yonnc son o
Mr. J. E. Godwin, wis drowned.
Another handsome collection has
been donated to tho Museum at
Trinity College. It :a valued at
$500.
K. E. Oatman. treasnrer of the
Branning Lumber Co., of Edcnton
has fallen ehort in his accounts 6ome
$12,000. . -
Anson county commissioners have
refueed to "errant liquor license to
anyone. ' It is said that tho jail wil
soon be sold.
Deputy Kevenuo Collector Fields
reports the capture near Milton last
week of a 50-gallon still, operated
by two moonshiners.
Mr. Fred Johnson, an ex-schoo
teacher, has taken charcro of tho
Madison Leader, Mr. Jno. R. Web
ster a old paper. He is a good writer
uov. lhos. 31. lloit wiii move
into the Executive Mansion on
September 1st. At that time it
will havo been vacant for j lour
months.
, While running on schedule time
last Friday near Williams' Mills tho
C. F. & 1 . V. train bod two wheels
of the tender to break. This did
not even throw it off tho track.
Tho U. S. Attorney for the coot
era district of this State notes the
fact that there is this year an in
crease m "biockadincr ana m
crimes against the postolficc laws.
At the New Kussell Gold Min
ing company s works, at Ihomas
vific, of which Mr. James Lund is
manager, a furnace htu lately been
erected to treat the concentrates
upon a new process. '
Mrs. J. K. Crawford, of Winston,
was burning some paper in a hre
place recently when two dvnaraite
caps went olf, lodging m her flesh,
producing, painful wounds, lhe
caps were placed there by mis
chievous boys.
Iredell county is in a bad way,
There are at present 11 brandy dia
tillenes in operation in that county,
with a prospect ot 5 more. Last
year there were only 15 in opera
tion in Iredell, lhe truit crop is
about CG 2-3 per cent, better this
year.
Judco Montgomery and other
prominent attorneys have been em
ployed to defend the Motz bo-3 row
in jail at Lincolnton for attempt at
killing the seducer of their tister,
with which sad affair scoundrels
ried to connect the name of Evan
gelist Fife.
The Sherrill Brothers of Concord
have purchased from Mr. M. IC.
Gray the subscription Iwokf, good
will, etc., of tho Lexington Observer
and that paper and the Dispatch
have, been conciliated. Hotli tho
papers will hereafter appear under
the name and title of the Davidson
Dispatch.
Will Wynne, the champion bi
cyclist of the State and a Raleigh
boy who started from home about
two weeks ago on his wheel, wires
and declares he is near the Canada
ine "and is still a thoroughbred.
Everyone who knows Will Wynne
inows he will win.
Evangelist Pearson and wife, of
Asheville, sail from New York for
Europe and the Holy Land on Sep
tember 5th. They will spend most
of the winter in London and Paris,
the spnntr in German vand the sum
mer, in Switzerland and Scotland,
returning after a year'a absence.
The trustees of the Newbern
Academy not long ago sold the site
tor the postothco there to the gov
ernment. 1 hey have now sold the
buildings on the property. Work
on the postofSce, custom house and
court house will begin about Oct. 1.
The trustees also sold a site for tho
new Episcopal rectory. Work on
tho latter building logins at or.ct
Wo learn from the Goldsbore
rgus that Mr. Geo. 1. Howell, cf
that place, happened to an accident '
while out riding. The hereof tum
bled, and before tho rider could ex
tricate his fcot from tha stirruw,
ib leg was pinioned beneath t.te
weight of tho horw. Mr. Howell
is a graduate of West Poiut and led
ns class while there.
Mr. Wccton, of Iredell countv,
who has claimed for ft l.rg tin.c
that P. S. Ney, a school-teacher
ome forty years ago in
Catawba county, was the great Mar
shal Ney, of apoleon's day, and
who has been to Europe to investi
gate the case, wriU-s that tho proof
is conclusive and that Ney' admi
rers in France arc going to erect a
monument -ever his grave
TnB OLD DOVIIKIO.-f..
An-even thousand of Ftripe 1 ras
cah inhabit the Virginia States Pen
itentiary. Drummer Evangelist W. P. Fife,
hf North Carolina, is conducting a
that poition oi Potetoart county
voters dcoirirg the court house re
moved from Fiacactleto Buchanan
In tho ontct over the election
of Supervisor in a Campbell conn
ty township, Judge liorseiey ro
versed tho decision of the lower
court and declared Col. Iluttcr,
twin., entitled to tue oiiice over
Wright, Hep.;
The Virginia Alliance in session
at Richmond last week adopted the
Ueala 1 Jut form and called on the
Representatives in Congress to give
them thobub-rrensury bill or come
thing better, j lhe News begs to
suggest tliat "something better
along that liiio" is what wo all want.
Tho. Fon! (alias Dennis Grun-
ncll,) Janc3 Haley and Geo. Clarke
who robbed tho postorhr C3 at t arm
ville, Bcrryvillc, Qnicksbnrg, Sher
idan and Waynesboro, Va., and
Charleetou, W. Va., have at List
been convicted and sentenced to the
National prison, the two hrst for
ten and the last for fifteen years.
IT WAS A FAKE.
Mr. W.P. Fife corrects a False
Statement Reflecting
Upon Him.
Though rather late, yet in justice
to EvangelUt Fife, we publish the
following letter written by him to
the Charlotte Chronicle concerning
the reported falsehood about his dc
sire to ngnt a duel with judge
Schenck : I
Mocsr? Vkxox Spkccgs, N. C,
Aug. 18. Editor of the Chronutt:
Upon my return from the North
ern xJible Conference lust week I
found a repoit going the rounds of
tho prc&s that Judge Schenck and
myself were arranging to fight a
duel. i
Allow me to iy it is absolutely
fah-e, and without foundation. I
think the' report docs injn&tice to
bit!i Judge' Schenck and myeelf.
I ali) fee in- the same at tide a
report to the effect that I will have
the cac brought leforo the civil
courts, whir.h is also not true. The
matter has ten Settled so fur as I
am concerned forever.
I hare had foiuc friends to write
and nsk me why I did not write an
article in defense of myself.
In the litst place 1 will say to
others that may have asked them
selves th:it question, that I am out
working for dod p.nd lighting Ilu
battles, and if I do my duty lie
will defend my character a.ur.-st
all adversaries. IIes.i's in Psalms
xxxvii : C. I will bring fortli vour
righteouMiccS as the light, and your
judgment as the noonday." Ho
also eaya iri leaiah xuv : 17. "ao
wenrou that is formed iurair.et vou
shall prosper, and every tong'.io tlit
sliall arievi againtt you io judgment
thou bhalt condemn, tor this is the
heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their righteousness is of me.
eaith the Lord."
Then again, why should I have
anything to say in my own behalf
when the ministers and Christian
people of Greensboro have teen t
to defend me ?
Then, again, one mere re.ieon.
"and thi3 is the greatest of all,"
Christ Je?us cave me an example
in Isaiah liii : 3 and 7. "Ho is des-
piitd and rejected of men, a man of
sorrows acquainted with grief, and
we hid a it were onr faces from
Ilitn : Ho was desnised aud wo es
teemed Him not : He was oppressed
and Ho wax rejected, yet Ho open
ed not His mouth ; He is Drought
as a lamb to tho slaughter, and as a
thecp before his shearer is dumb,
so He epent d not 11:3 month."
And surely if Jesus couJd do this
or me, I think it little as I could
do to keep ouict an I follow IPs
command in Matthew v, 44: "Put
say nnto you, love j-our eneraiefi,
lef-s them that cur.e you, do good
to them that hato yon, and pray for
them which despitcfully uso and
em-cnte you."
Anc. now, to far as newspaper
controversy n concerned, with me
his is trie Alpha and Omega. Also
dlow me, before I close this article,
to thank the hundreds of friends in
North Carolina and elsewhere, who
ave by Ivttcr and .otherwise cx
rrsscd to me their cvmpAthy in
hc?c, my times of trouble, assuring
them it is greatly, appreciated. I
am yours ruietuibd by tlje blcKxi of
-l -if 1 c
Stale papers please copy.
j highly interesting meeting in Chr.
: ifiam, a. .
Q3 i -ym. j. I'cun, uein. lias beci
ty J nominated fc: Ihw LegsLxtoro by
w$mm AT WAR.
f.i .
Tho Progressive Farmer Pub
S Hiss an Interesting
: id Circular
" N . -
T7hich.3hoveg.up tho Plan of
tiia liTsra and Observer to
Dcscelfo tho Farmers Into
-4
: is )
. HaLtian, . ).,
Aug 7,:0l. -
Tliis cBt U exr.tt!
over tho news
paper wafjenveen Col. I.. L. Polk's
pater, th'iPrxyirsth! J'unncr.and
mo j. act iitiu. uiKCi'wr or in is cny.
For a kJfg time ti.oy have been
throwing" nnd ' into
CilCll
others s
face.
Tiibj Art'rs and 05trvcr has
be
;en thcpcognised
ittocr:ii of the Dc
of the
ant
mocmtic par-
ty, the r.n.'ycd.men, and !
attacking almost every de
lu-J L-OiMl
mand cf
tue -:ii:m:'. It baa !evn ont
sjv'-icn hi't s oiipojition Vjtl'.eSiib-
Trof wry f ! ha3 dar-d to charge the
Alliance Wi'M attempting to buret
up the Djaiocratic itirty. Conc-
oiieutly t.h .weekly circulation of
the Ob$ci?ir has fallen to almoft
nothing. :rxmetiine ago Eilitor
Ashe . Ecnljmt a circular declaring
that he l:(Hxetl the Sub-Treasurv,
pto'd tv b Alliance aud le!icvttl
m it.
T);U
was a scheme to get
tho farm
toorji jo talie his paiwr. N
ii f-vslaug!it ontho Alliau
ni nee 1
aucc
11U3 lK;Cli-.i
s ir, tf tfl
prints th'i.fl
wvcre, lilitor l.am
Prcjressivc Farmer,
f tfi Pn
a Tiiiif-jjecep
"luing intense
tivc circular. It
is i-au
The facial. at at the recent session
of the Stat Farmfrs Alliurtcv a rts
olution wrt,?! adopt c I calling lbr G
lcr cent, t'.io legal rate of inter
eit, Iims abo; settled the afTnir. For
years Scnn'tiu- Willis Williams, of
v
Pitt com tvilia3leoii adrocaiingslx
ier cent., tXi last cession it ciae
neai carry iiiif. - It is ealcul&tcd that
another e.tn.will jnit it through.
On Friday last a thirteen-yecir-old,boy
ncHiftd Willie Edward w.is
brought tMhe penitentiary from
Orange county convicted of high
way rpbberyj . He ii tho youngest
person evcy, pcen sentenced to the
N. C. iciutifeitiary aud is here for
seven years..
A contr.u jpid trade in brandy is
ing discovered by the Internal
Iicvenue Oirto here existing be
tween sever towns along t!:e coast.
The muit tbgent efforts aro beii-g
made to carjire tlie promoters.
" Capitalist! have for the past week
boon in the tJfxy bnying up proper
ty in oui fctliern snbarlji. The
Bledsoe property, South of IUleigh,
cotisUting oi acres, has been
bought and ?)xu water powers there
on are to b j developed. Several
cotton f&ctori-s, it ia stated, will go
.i ..:, ...
up tin uiu j'rii.Tiy.
Editor Wliiehoad, of the Faytt'e
villu Olcrti, is the only jxirson
I hi? year thas j hs bccn( Ixifore the
Federal ComKfor a viohition of the
lottery hw. xlc did not violate it,
however, f'4t wiu found that af
ter he won!? jsend out Ins pa;er
pouie lot.orv;irgciit would slip them
in at the xdk'C .
mriJTED SWILES.
It
d.e no yod
to take a stand
and taon ruv.rJil with it.
ay circio-, iratr.rhiiv
r
idlllgC
in
round ot p:-ure.
The bad libtor ia generally
a
man oi ccr.si-.ti
an of ccrf tvirablo "note."
Oonsisteriav-'is a iewcl
It U not
ashionnbro tiv ear much jewelry.
It is fntinvchat. the lo:ul make
the carco befyre the train start.?.
The grass ''Vidow is. iust now in
the hay-day her success at the
wat
ering-plac-
-pjac-e.
The worl5 lin't so wicked as the
applause ot linker joke at the the
atre would ijticate. Klmira Ga-
South
has
a kirdling-
wood tn:st. Jlvcpinolcn
ot for any-
liing of thpJ l-'ort. 31
cio Orltans
IJicatU7ic. ? .
The rerorfif tho
varfon? ruil-
way3 made l uie i
rai.wa
,y com m 15-
ion show tJit total vaius ol tlie
r.. . t .i
track to be ;10,42S,020 ; rolling
tock, f-l,C6231 : .other property,
$324,756. end - railways arc
value! ashigis $10,001) pen mile,
hete being nJio Atlanta Cc CLar-
otte, the IVttffjurg, tho Piedmont
and tue v mBington, coiumma .v
Augusta. Tfc'il Milton & Sutheriin
railway, wmc.riia a narrow guagc,
valued at fgily $ 1,X; tcr in He.
Tho length of yie longest roid ia.;
Cape Fear &fn.1kiii Vallor, .151 ;
Carolina VJeny :a, 2io; ISortliOaro-
na, 22G: S.ilV bury to Paint Uc:k,
205 : w
5Vilmir.;tr,n ,t Wcldon, 151 ;
illeto :arphv, 113
Ashevil
Mrs. Haafl, of Onslow countv,
iad to leave crawling child lor
a few minnteilone, and fearing it
night fall out -iloora tied a rope
arouud its waisVVnd to tlie bed tost.
.... . -.
wnen Hie rctrncd tne rope vu
around tho cl4?J' neck and it was
dead. .
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POLITICAL. POINTS.
Straws that Show which way
the Tide ia Flowinrr.
Pc:i!
svlvfij.i.t Iv. :ublir-.vis in cm-
cnti-ti dv'arvl f.r l!Li:ne a? tko
HtMidarxl livKicr in "J2. I
Prince Ilr.ss.'ll and hi o.TCellor.t
fnthcr wo:M both like to lwyo Mr.
Plaine admired ju a Henry CUy fr
the noxt few yc;:rs. fxntuzilk'Cvii
ritT-dlttrnitl
Gs. M?.:k.i iiisi r5r.ei "a circu-
lar declaring th lt it is meet that no
nornimrtioas lor tl.e -ogiihtm-o !
madt by the Republicans thi War
in v irgiiii.i.
A plan is on foot among Virginia
AliiaMccmon todeftat fcei.ator duo.
W. Daniel for re-e!octi..n. They
will try and compel Leao'ratic
countv" conreutin to nominate
Anti-Daniel Assemblymen.
UTairs descent from Cum to
Ilavti recalls tho case of that wrihv
wh.o went to Waslunton for the
Luglh-h mission and wound up by
applying for a Fomd-luind pair of
irouocrj-. -r. x. n orui.
It 1 nowahotit certain that the
New York State Democrat io Tick
et will read ss follows ; For Gov
ernor, IioGwell P. Flower; tor Lieu
tenant Governor, Wm. F. Sheehan ;
r. . Koscuualefor Attorney Gen
oral.
Col. L." I Toik declares that he
did not say Panwrn ought to be de
feated when his term expires. It
i evident from tho way the vote
ran in the last Democratic Senatorial
caucus that actions
than words.
Epcuk loader
.Mr. Melvinley says thr.t revenue
can be raided only in two ways by
taxing tho people directly, or by
taxing foreign people's property by
means of a tariff. If hie United
States un tax other people why did
lie throw away $50,0(X,000 a year
: .1 l
ictuii8 ov i:K.ng on uie uaiv on
sugar ? 2faiAviU American.-.
SILTIAGl'ADI.
One Lnlf of tire people born
die
before the ago of IC
In some languages, notably the
Japanese there is no word for kisr
Tho salaries cf the school tench
era ot oan rranciecu arc to be re
duced.
A flee can jump over a barrier
)0 times his own height. At that
ilc a man could jump over a wall
nearly a mile high.
There aro estimated to be 97,700
deaths in the world every tweuty-
fonr nonrs, ami 104,"J0d birthf, or
about seventy every minute.
Inquiring Briton How is it that
you Americans tinnK so little ol
your President f 1 Affable Native
Because wo re ahvavs thinking of
who is going to bo the next one.
When the man from the back
woods undertakes to blow ont the
incandescent light it makes him
almost "wish ho hadn't never jlncd
mectin . i
A Parisian doctor hns succeeded
in conveying by eicctucuy currents
to diseased internal organs, of tho
niman bodv, the constituents of
medicine suitable for. cure.
A FAMOUS ARABIAN PR0VER3.
Men lire four.
He who knows
not, and knows
Ho is . a fool;
not he knows not.
aiiun niiii. : .
He who knows not, and knows
he kr.ow9 r.ct. He is simple ; te-rh
him.
He who knows, and knows not
ho knows. He is atlccp; wake
him.
He who knows, and knows he
knows. He is wise; follow him.
A valuable bird dog owned by n
GiTws Vailcy (Cal.) man was recently
shown parrot. He immeiiatily
"jo:ntcd," when Polly marelied np
in front of him and 6aid, Vbu're a
rascal." The terriGed dog turned
tail nd ran away, and is ruined for
hunting, aa he cannot now be ii.
dnced to 'poiut" at any sort of
bird.
Truth To. .
i i
Th' Washington Port eaya :
Democrats of North Carolina will
be in dangerous predicament if they
catinot preticallr hold their p:e;nt
organization us g.nn5t corifpirators
from within an aggrcftive opj orients
from without. The same is true of
some other Southern States, and the
national Democratic party Las no
Southern votes to 6prc
Prince Bismarck pock' U $1,000
a week as the proats of his little
poultry b'oincbd.
The I'nkuown Bound.
Wu-f.e4 a il aaul U funis t.-tt
A l-t tmr-TM fr-w:i. fciX Utm liiuxit
SUpt O'ii Of CiI04. V. !:. M waJ ImM.
r.roa.a !niliirU-l4 l -cU".a !! :. kad
On Icrri Mvum. bar mark. i&e uxikbvn UuaX
W oil It tlrttti to ihftu a ill? rt,ti
NEWS OF THE NATION
Culle-l, Clipped and Cla5s!f!ed
for Ready Reading.
t
what iiaa HArrrxEn i-x O K -.skat
KKlXllUe 8INCK TUK LAT
OKISTKH Tilt I'K'M'IE.
L F. Livingston
IS
lv rv
elected President of tlie
St.vc Al'lxui.
Gc-ni:
Shui Joii'.v tbe not l-l;ovn :hrt
is a c;tso i.' l.iotujy in which .i ir.ar
rntcm.1 j!itics and rrjiuined clean.
The Il:c!i::itvi'd TorrnIit.il ILii!
road company hiis lxen forecl to
mako loins ot liom fl(ti,i)'W to
i(0,X)0 in order to pay Uie cou
pons on tlieir bmtls payable in Sop
tcmber. S. L3ii:3, i. w tcriibly duik
en by three diiti.ict carthtpiako
rhoAVA on I.ti Fi iu.iy "night. Mer
cury iu thermometers fell hikI
hoosos rocked and a few wete do
moio.;ol.
JACOC'S FA31IID IVIXL.
It ! la be P;l!rH np by the
itnot and i:xlilbitcl
ut ChicuKW
No more u;inr.e n-hcme in con
nection with the WcrWA Fair !ik
yet been concx'Ctcd than one ten
up by aSm-.davRchool chvss of jo;tng
men in New Castle, Ind., the'direct
icult of a recent Sua; lay's lco?i
the story of tho Savior at Jacob
well. It is &tid that tne wt-d was.
originally 20 feet deep, but that
the constant throwing into it of jvl
bles by iitois to it for the t.nt 12,
CuO years or more lias tilled it up nu
til it is now but sovonty-tivo feet
deep.
T he pclicme of tho you-ig mun i
to frm ayndic:itc with a sui'ieietit
amount of cish capital t; make t!ic
p.lan'work, and send a coiip'p of
men over to Europe and Aia, who
will Ikj instructvfl to make tfruo'H
with the Government of Tniko-, by
which UiG Fyndicjite will le allowed
to excavate the wdl to its riglnul
depth and bring the pohhlos sod
whatever else can be fund in it to
the World's Fair. Jio&clcfif. . -
Will It m h for ConsTPt on n
Unique riniluru.
Pv-Hleigh, N. C, Aug. 22. J.hn
II. Will:amMa, ono tf the leading
negro poHticiaus f thii state, ex
me:tiler of t!io legislature and edi
tor of the Raleigh iJ.mi.er, propoiH'
to run for congre s i.oxt year on a
imhjuc pl.Htftrm. It cont-tins o:.o
plunk, as fi-llovvs : T!it congref
proviae fr the payment, at the rate
of fol'O tcr head, of the 4,H 0
slaves tet freo by tho Isto wr,
of this amount to le paid to iht
owner of each l,e or his heirs,
and 100 to each frevdmnrr r hifi
icire. It wil! tako $l12iXK00V'0
to do this, and Willianisoii pro-
pows to supply tho iuudd by issuing
2 per cent, h fry-year bond to that
amount.
The Lenoir Topic vs : A 6cr.s.i-
tiou was caused here i:st v.eck by
the detenti u in transition in the
Lenoir poslotSce of torerl canvas
sacks filled wiih muaUmelons, and
sent by mail from Charlotte ..Io
Bijwiiig Kock. The wtnia.-ter
tchgrapiied to Wxhiiigi:: for in-
ti uct.:o.:. Saturday. Portmneter
Hradv, oi Charlotte. c;mc to Lenoir
and it aiour that he 6tnt the
melons to his family at Blowing
itcck, and that ho claims the right
to do so i a court. y extended to
po6tnuiter3.
It is cf into'ict : distillexs to
know as mativ f them, probablv.
do not that tho last Jgifl.iture
made a maternd change tu their
business under fhedulo 1 of the
revenue and maehincrv uvt. Sec
tion S2 provi.les that any jciou
may t-dl wiutM of hi own niinn
factme'at t!ic place of manufacture
in .quantities rot less" th.ui one
quait, or fcfnts m rjn. tuti'ie not
.3 than one gal on. llic lrtviiuli
as to spirit. heretofore haa been one
part.
Only a year remains at m-t
rolrtblv but nine or ten month
before the National Convention, and
not a Sta'.e has nc.ken tor anv body
but Cleveland, fmvs the Jvansoa
C;ty (ilo.) (IX m .) and it u
a fact. Chart ton Xcic and Cuu-
On a fttaight vote the Ix-gitlature
of Penney I vania rtHl 11G for
Pliine, VJ for Harr;-r!, with a
dzen or so -.ittcriitg. Quay and
Uiik Tuii tcctn to iHjgttliiigia thi;:r
work.
Fu'Iy 2.".0 ui-conntrv fa-rncrare
working in to!:4cc. in Pitt county.
They chiuc prijtripdiy from Vn ::.-,
Granville, Kriv: i Chat!:3ia
coUtic.
Noah was the n"r?t man whoroc;
to the level of the oeu&ion.
In cvlns u dimv. Vlr.4 lr. uM.
&il j ct hf r peccil 'it wnl. tri-0 Lv
(. Ucs o it t
; ADVERTISES, slick a p
tere!
THINKS LV&IMEY HAS K3 CH3V.
An Allinuceman Eay3b3Ti'JL
bo Beaten Worse Th r.n
Vall&ndlgham waT.
stiller PirrvJ. formerly St.te
Ixr:tiri-r fur the Farinere' All , ,
now editor of the A "; tn r 7r. .'.,
it" Canlifgtoii, Ohio, vjt V.i.- g !
night of lhe thid-jirty iiiyvcn.cr.t
in that hiatc, aid;
f am an o!J llcpi!l;in nn.l I
behove in the old pritu-ij-U-it f l!..
juryr still. But the j .irly Lt a! .'.n
donl its principh-s and I can't
.-tajul by ir.
MThci-o are l(y,X i:-pi;l.!-..-.
in 0!u in the same lioif with ih
anl I know thst at I.Kt tifty th.-a-wuul
will have h:u-klnc envj h t
vote against ifclvinlcy.
"The loaj- rity against ?dcKi:i1-y
will 1 the largest ever re'ord-l
.ig.iimt a e.indiditc in Ohio. It mi!
exceed t!ie mcmoruMo !
ng:u'nst Vid'andigham, jut afit r i). i
war.
Tho People's party will ": at
hwt lN,tMKi votes. 1 dinbt whetlier
th! bond of tho ticket will have
large a Vote, but tlie agg.'tgtto iri
the co'.intiivi will probahlv exceed
1(0,00(0'
TLc Souihcru Exposition
The follow ing are fimong the ar
ticles that fire. desirable froiii eeh
sfCtion of tlie South to phieu in thti "
Sou theni ExfKition t l-e hild he
tho City ot IUh i-li, N. (:
Ono-lialf bushel of c-aeh of tho fol
lowing: Barley, buckwheat, c.n
re, whc.it, ritv, gin.- feed, field
sia, lioaiu;, dril apple,- jK-i l.e.
quiiiceft, prunes, chrrioa, wild ,,-
cultivated Urri.'s nut vid srri!-.
Pncrvcd faaH in ir.ilf --.!. r
gla.Nijar. '
One to, ten jxnn I of tat-!i earn ' y
ot cotton in t-el and lint; i'w null
jute in various fctagea of 1 lanipuf.i
tion. Ten pound of e eh variety of tu
gar; t.iie gal!. n of etch variety of
moha-vsos anil Mrghum ; honoror. e
quart or vvui to ten j..u.Ji r thu
comb.
Two pound of auh variety of
tobacco.
Ten pouniU .f ouch v.-irio'v of
gras; ono Famlh .it inc'itt in di
ameter, of each variety of gniu in
sheaf.
Hops, five poumh; broom cru,
ten to twenty live hcu-la; grdcn
peuiand lcaris, one gallou of ene!
variety dri -d
Plants and growing shnd iu
p(t.
Si.iritoua llonorp. winc and '1
kinds of liquid, one rpi.trt.of euc.7
variety.
ii incrals, building etonef, iiri.
cioiu atones, marl liial phophM o -rock,
any tize fiecinien: nis, on
foot fi-puaro as deep m doired ; lx
ca up to as to retain the Fame a'opj
as when tiken from the ground.
W ood and unibcri cimcu. if m
sawa 1 lonn, cne inch thick, any
width and length; if a Kvtion 14
awol from tho tree, to In- anv rizs
dreircd ; if split from the tret, tho
w ctioritol large ciiouli to Hjnaro
M ieriftt iwi JyHr in.lieS. OV lr.LT
feet long. I 7
A . oodi, f"ni cot ::
hA, fax 'and silk, ach samj-Io
u.-r.al width, ix jfisdJ l'-r g ; frvt.t
wood or iron, one jKxiiuen -
kind.
Stu5fcl birds and tni.nsls ; Indian
relics and curiofitiei : photo'ii.lit'i-.
x -t 1. , 1 - 0 '
views of building?, fan
tIS .
fce ncry, one of a kind.
The above list of aitMcs may lj
auded to, both in varh tv ar:i .p.u
lity, according to what U produotf,
mantifacturcJ, or found in ech
State or community.
Jo. T. PaTurtx, Secy.
A TRAITCnToTnsTHI EF.
Thus Dona Piatt Characteri
ze James A. Garlidd.
Donn Phtt of Ohio maL .u.u
ptartling charges ag"n,t the d,an,c.
ter and war record of (JariicM.
CV1. Piatt F.iys :
l thonght for many years th it I
knew Gariitld. We "were, Uf. r
the war, in the war, and after-.:
in the political artr.s, ir.tii: r.t-- j. ,
brothers. I sympathlzol with an 1
sorrowel over his ttrrgglc fur i Cj
after 1-eingthot down bv a i --r
and cried like a cl.ild -nhn
news reached mo of hi cr:; 1 !
Irnt a sorrow deetxr t'.i t!.'
1. o
... , ,
rci-ervcu tor cic when, yixrt
engaged ujv-u the l.;s cf
(ieorgo II. Thomas, I can e
(Jar tic id contiJent;l kit
Salmon P. Clic, written
.
Gc::.
t:i :
r lu
frctn
Ijfecranas r.cad'uart rj tt I'ur
fieeboro. I was ftirly itu:.: -J,
fe-r my invet:gt: tf the c:.ts
of tlit wonderful camj a'-a
t :e an informatiun t! lit t!e pi;,! j
waa deprived cf. Tl.U h-:tcr v
tlio cause of tlie thxiy bittlj cf
Cl.ickainacrrn a:ad ti.e v.
4u:fcred iu tho terrible twj '
fighting. I wii:e this v-'i'i r .l. ...
tancy now. Bit the- irj L : ,
rnrtt ovner or ;f-u ;