The News and Observer.
YOL.XXXYIII. NO. 103.
fffilE IL&BSOEST ®F KKDOBTDD (MO3IJLQSM IMOIX
COSTLY INCOME TAX
THE EXPERIMENT OF REVIEW
ING IT HAS ALREADY COST
OVER SIOO,OOO,
m
HISTORY OF THE LAST DECISION.
Bat One Formal Conference by the
Jastices of the Court Upon the Law
Subsequent to the Re-arrangement-
Preparations of Opinions Begun Im
mediately After the Conterence--The
Re-hearing Was Due to W. E. Gu?fi
ne, of New York.
Washington, D. C., May 21.—The ex
periment, of reviewing the income tax
has been rather a costly one to the
United States Treasury. ' Up to date the
cost of preparing for the enforcement of
the law now declared unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court aggregates about
SIOO,OOO. All the printing done in pre
paring blank forms of returns is, of
course, a dead loss. There were ap
pointed 240 deputy collectors of
Internal Revenue for the special
purpose of handling this tax. all of whom
will now be gradually dismissed. At
some of the large offices a few special
deputies may be kept for a short time to
assist in closing up the work of refund
ing the money already paid in. Up to
May Ist, the amount paid in was:
By corporations, $16,642.
By persons, $56,521.
Since that date about $7,000 have
been received, making the total in round
figures SBO,OOO. This money will be re
funded under section 3220, Revised
Statutes, npon application being made
to the Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue through the collector to whom the
returns were originally made. One ap
plication has already been filed for a re
turn of the tax paid in. It was made
by ex Senator Camden, of West Virginia,
who filed it five minutes after Chief Jus
tice Fuller announced the decision of
the court.
Commissioner Miller says that un
der the income tax law as it passed con
gress $40,000,000 would have been re
oeived and in the shape in which the
first decision left it about $16,000,000
would have been realized. To have col
lected this would have cost about $l3O -
000 or bss than one per cent of the
amount collected. The records already j
filed by persons and corporations in the !
office of the Comnrss'ocer of Internal i
Revenue showing the items of income :
liable to t&xatiou, will be retained in
violate in the office.
Many more or less ingenious specula
tions regarding the history of the last
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States upon the income tax law
have been circulated, and the supposed
attitudes of several of the justices thereto |
at various dates between the close of the |
re-argument and the re assembling of
the court yesterday, have been set forth
with much detail. It may be worth
while to state a few facts concerning the
decision and the preparation of opinions.
There was but one formal conference
tty the justices of the court upon the in
come tax law subsequent to the re
argument. This conference was held on
the 11th instant, and there was never
any doubt after that conference as to
what the decision of the court would be,
nor as to a concurring or dissenting
opinion. The re-hearing of the case, it
is authoritatively learned, was brought
about in accordance with the long-settled
practice of the court, as laid down in the
case of Walker vs. the Public Schools of
St. Louis.
One of the Justices, presumably Mr.
Shir as, who voted with the four declar- !
ing the law constitutional at the first
hearing, expressed a desire to have the
case re argued, and communication was
then had with Justice Jackson to learn
it he could sit with the court. But had
he not been able to come to Washington,
the re-heariDg would have been granted
.just the same.
The preparation of opinions was be
gun at once after the conference refer
red to, and there is good authority for
saying that the opinion expressing the
judgment of the court was submitted in
type to the several judges as early as
last Friday. Outside of the action of
the justices themselves the chief credit
for securing the re-hearing of the cases
is said by those who are acquainted
with the facts to be due to Mr. W. E
Guthrie, of New York, who opened the
argument both on the original hearing
and the re hearing. When the decision
of the court was announced on April Bth,
Mr. Guthrie was impressed with the idea
that upon are hearing the majority of
the court could be induced to declare the
whole law invalid, and he advised that
a re hearing be asked for. It is said that
he was antagonized in this by nearly
all the array of eminent counsel ongaged
with him in the case, their view being
that it would be best to hold to what
they had rather than to risk they knew
not what. But he pressed the matter so
vigorously that at last his associates were
converted to his opinion.
Commissioner Miller this afternoon
sent the following telegram to all collec
tors of internal revenue in the United
states:
‘ ‘Dispense with services of all persons
employed under allowances made for in
come tax work at close of business on
25th instant, reporting at once number
discontinued and salary and expense al
lowance of each.’’
The Grape Crop Ruined.
May 21.—The tempera
ture fell to 28 degrees in the grape bait
along the lake shore last night and the
crop is ruined.
COMMENCEMENT AT GUILFORD.
Professor Currell’s'AdUress Before the
Literary Societies.
Special to the News and Observer.
Guilford College, N. C , May 21.
Friday night the commencement exer
cises began with a musicale given by the
music students and their teacher, Miss
Ada Craven. It was undoubtedly the
best music recital ever given at Guilford
and reflected much credit on the efforts
of the teacher. The piano performance
of Misses Brown and Parker, and the
vocal solos of Misses Smith and Gorrell
were especially well rendered.
On Saturday night a good audience
gathered in the Auditorium to listen to
Prof. Currell, of Davidson College, who
addressed the three literary societies on
“Books, A Blessing and a Bane.”
In a very happy mannei the Professor
spoke of the helpfulness of books if
rightly used, aud of the harmfulness of
the improper use of them.
Although a literary address, often
beautifully adorned with rhetoric, and
interspersed with not a little humor, still
it was one of great practical value.
He forcibly illustrated the possibility
of reading only a small number of books.
Hence the necessity of a careful selec
tion, and that they should be such books
»s have stood the test of time.
To squander time upon ephemeral lit
erature, and especially the social novel,
to the neglect of the great inspiring
writers of English and American litera
ture, was held up as an extreme folly.
In a most admirable manner the speak
er treated of that intangible and inde
scribable something—-the influence of
poetry. Without attempting definition,
he made his hearers feel that influ
ence is a most real thing, and that those
who cultivate the acquaintance of the
great poets of an age come into the most
intimate spiritual contact with the age.
A NEGRO FATALLY SHOT.
He Was Returning from Raleigh to
His Home in Louisbnrg.
Special to the News and Observer
Louisburg, N. C., May 21.
Roman Neal, colored, of Louisburg,
who was shot through the lungs at
Neuse by an unknown party yesterday
as he was returning from Raleigh, died
this morning. Neal was in the car and
was shot through the window by some
one on the platform.
A man was seen to jump off after
the shot and run up a car length, and
tried to conceal a pistol in another man's
pocket, and failing in the attempt was
held by Dr. O. L. Ellis, of Louisburg,
and the pistol was taken from him.
While this was going on the man slipped
out of his coat and ran. He was sup
posed to be Bob Garner, a white man,
from Youngsville. He was pursued and
soon captured.
Garner had two pistols when found
and one ball was missing from each.
He fired once at the negro, it seems, and
after the train had been stopped and a
party ran after him, he fired back at
the crowd; then ran off into the woods.
This morning the trial occurred before
a justice of the peace at Wake Forest,
and there being no positive evidence
and no witnesses. Garner was dis
charged. The negroes talked strongly
of lynching, but Garner was well
guarded.
As soon as the trial was over he left
the place. The negro who was shot
was the driver of Capt. Chas*. M. 'Cooke.
No one knows why Garner shot Neal
as they had had no previous difficulty
on the train. The ball entered the ne
gro's right side and took effect in bis
lung.
CRUSHED HIS SKULL.
A Negro Railroad Hand Murderouly
Attacks a White Man.
Special to the News and Observer.
Scotland Neck, May 21.
Mrs. Dally Pope, relict of the late
Marcellus Pope, died Sunday morniDg at
a good old age.
News comes from Potecasi that a col
ored man named Bob Pool got into a
difficulty with a white man and two col
ored men about gome work on a railroad
track. W ithout serious provocation Pool
struck a white man named Sykes a sever
blow on the head crushing his skull.
Pool escaped but was arrested and put
in jail at Jackson. Sykes is not dead
and is doing very well under the circum
stances,
County treasurer W. F. Barker, told
your correspondent yesterday that Half
fax county had paid up all State taxes
for 1893 and 1894. He said that the
tax collectors had collected taxes more
closely than they had in many years.
A gentleman from Sampson county
jesterday said that the strawberry crop
is about over, and the strawberry men
say they have not made much money.
The huckleberry crop he said, promises
to be good, and much more will be real
ize from this, as it costa nothing for
i cultivation.
Mr. A. McDowell, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Scotland Neck cotton
mills, has gone North on business for
the mills.
Fruits and Vegetable*. Ruined.
Detroit, M’ch., May 21.— Reports
from the western section of Michigan to
day indicate that last night’s freeze was
the hardest of the present cold wave.
The dispatches say that all fruits and
vegetables which survived the previous
frosts are now ruined completely.
Springfield, Ills.. May 21 .—Thecoun
ty convention of Sangamon county this
afternoon sent free coinage delegates to
the State Convention and declared for
the restoration of silver.
RALEIGH. N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1895.
TAYLOR FOUND GUILTY
Bui he Will not be Sentenced till At er
Oscar Wilde’s Trial.
London, May 21. The trial of Allred
Taylor was resumed in the Old Bailey
court this morning. Taylor was called
to the stand and repeated the statements ;
he made in the witness box at his previ- j
ous trial. In reply to questions in re- j
gard to the visitors at, his rooms Taylor
asked to be allowed to write their names.
The Judge said: “If the names are writ
ten I will read them aloud. I do not ap
prove of mystery.”
Taylor did not write the names, but
mentioned a few which have already
been connected with the case. There j
were no notable names among them. He I
denied that he had gone through a mar
riage ceremony with a man named Ma
son.
After the libel trial of Wilde against
Lord Queensberry, the latter’s solicitor,
he said, had asked him to make a state
ment against Wilde, but this he had re
fused to do. He admitted that he had
written a letter to the man Mason, sign
ing himself “with love.”
The evidence was concluded with Tay
lor’s testimony, and counsel began their
addresses to the jury.
The Judge in summing up the evidence
directed the jury to acquit Taylor as re
garded his complicty with the young
man Wood, leaving them to decide upon
the three charges in which Taylor is al
leged to be directly guilty. The jury
retired at 3:25 p. m.
When the jury returned to the court
room and had been polled, tho foreman
.stated that they could not agree that
Taylor had procured Parker for Wilde,
nor that Wilde had committed acts of
indecency with Parker. They, however,
found Taylor guilty on two counts in re
gard to Charles and William Parker.
Taylor’s sentence was delayed until a
verdict shall be reached in the trial of
Wilde, which will begin to-morrow.
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
Cincinnati Wins Back the Game iu
Last Six Innings,
At Louisville.
Baltimore won a loosely played game
from Louisville to-day. Hemming’s
pitching was the feature.
Louisville, 3 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 -7
Baltimore, 02103 000 2 8
Batteries: Knell and Welsh; Hemming
and Robinson.
At Cincinnati.
Fifty-two hundred people saw the
Cincinnati’s win to-day's game from Bos
ton after the latter made six runs
in the first two innings. Phillips was
substituted for Parrott in the third in
ning, and he let the visitors get only one
run in the remaining innings.
Cincinnati. 0400 30 2 0 1 10
Boston, 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 o—7
Batteries; Parrott, Phillips and
Vaughan; Stivetts and Ganzell.
At Chicago.
Anson’s cast-off pitcher, McGill, had
the Chicago team at his mercy to day,
only seven hits being made off his de
livery. Besides this he struck out ten
men, made a double, a single, and only
one error, altogether covering himself
with glory. Hutchison Uad an off day.
He was wild. Decker gave out in the
third, Dahlen going to center and Par
rott to shortstop.
Chicago, 00000 101 0— 2
Philadelphia, 02031306 x—ls
Batteries; Hutchison and Donahue;
McGill and Buckley.
At St. Loud.
Clarkson, the pitcher who has hereto
fore proved invincible before the New
Yotk’s, received an unmerciful drub
bing to-day and received poor support.
Russie was at his best.
Bt. Louis, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 o—l
New York, 123404000 14
Batters: Clarkson and Miller; Russie
and Farrell.
At Cleveland.
To-day’s game with Brooklyn was un
interesting from start to finish. The
visitors’ five runs in the ninth were gifts.
It was very cold and the attendance
small.
Cleveland, 331 3 11 00 x 12
Brooklyn, 00000002 5 7
Batteries: Young and O’Connor ; Lucid
and Dailey.
At Pittsburg.
Malarkey really pitched au elegant
game for Washington to day but he had
a lot of Indians in the field supporting
him, and the result was Pittsburg won.
Weyhing made his first appearance of
the season and was hit hard in but one
inning, the fifth, and then only after
the side should have been retired.
Pittsbnrg, 0 3 0 0 1 6 0 0 x —lO
Washington, 0100 5 01 0 o—7
Batteries: Weyning and Wiusley;
Malarkey and McGuire.
MEMPHIS MONEY CONFERENCE.
Some 430 Delegate* W ill Take Part in
the Convention Thursday.
Memphis, Tenn., May 21.—According
to advices received by the executive com
mittee up to its noon mail to-day, 430
delegates will take part in the conven
tion of the Southern sound money advo
cates, which opens on Thursday. They
will represent every State and every
leading city south of Mason and Dixon’s
line.
Secretary Carlisle telegraphs that he
will leave Covington to-morrow, arriving
here just before the opening > f the pro
ceedings. His speech will be the first
feature of the program and will strike
the key note for the platform and reso
lutions.
IN RANKS OF PEACE
FIFTH ANNUAL REUNION OF I IIE
UNI rCD CONFEDERATE
VETERANS.
OVER 12,000 VETERANS PRESENT.
The Streets u| Houston, Texas, Filled
With Veterans, Military Companies
and a Surging Mass of Visitors—Miss
Winnie Davis and the R. E. Lee
Camp, of Richmond, Present—-An
Ovation to Gen. Joseph Wheeler-
Over 1,000 Texas Veteran* Expected.
Houston, Texas, May 21.-For three
days incoming trains have carried extra
coaches and they have been loaded down
with delegates and visitors to the sth
annual reunion of the United Confeder
ate Veterans At 10 o’clock Jast night
the first special train divided into two
sections, aggregating 14 coaches, reached
the city. This was the van guard of the
special service, and since that time solid
trains on through schedules have beeti
speeding into Houston loaded down with
men who wore the gray, their friends,
their families and their former foes. The
first special with the regular train which
followed immediately behind landed one
thousand people here at once.
Among them came Florida delegations
in charge of Major J J. A. Enslow, Jr.,
of St. Augustine, and escorting Miss
Clara Chipley, sponsor for the Florida
division, and Miss Brent, her maid of
honor; Augusta Veterans, the oldest or
ganized camp in the South, Capt. Fceve
commanding, and delegates from South
Carolina camps affiliating with Augusta
camp; Camp Pardee, of Birmingham,
was also of the party. E : ght trains over
the Galveston. Houston and Henderson
and four trains over the Houston and
Tex*s Central arrived last night. Three
trains follow to-day from the same sec
tion and three more from the east.
A solid train of 16 Pullman cars will
arrive from Chicago to night. R E
Lee Camp, of Richmond, eseotting Miss
Winnie Davis, will reach Houston to
night. On the same train will be Gen
eral John B. Gordon, commander in-
Chief, and the Atlanta delegation, to
gether with many others. General
Schofield and General Joe Wheeler have
reached the city and by to morrow morn
ing practically all of the prominent visi
tors will be in the city.
This is Houston day and local patriot
ism intensified the general entbusiam.
All the soldier boys in the State of Texas
are in the city. There was an inspec
tion of companies from 9 a. until 12
and from 2to 6 this afternoon. There
will her prize drills by the competitive
companies. The batallion of flying ar
tillery, l' S A., under command of
Major General A 8 Roberts, will give
an exhibition drill at 6 p. m., and at
night '.here will be a grand display of
fire-works.
Badges and miniature trigs in which
the union flag blends with thcCdnderate
standard, flames on the breasts of every
basser-by, while the business houses and
residences are festooned with fluttering
flags and yards after yards of bunting.
The streets of Houston are filled with
a surging mass of humanity, represent
ing every State in the Union and the
trams of every system leading into the
city are full to overflowing with veterans
and their friends, and on their way to
the fifth annual re-union of the United
Confederate Veterans. This enterpris
ing city has been preparing for this
event for many months, and the ar
rangements are sitisfactory to the high
est degree. The men who wore the grey
have been looking forward to the occa
sion with the ardor which no one expe
riences in so full a measure as the battle
scarred remnants of the army of the
Confederacy.
It seems as if all the broad fines of the
country are converging here, and that
the iron wheels were hurrying forward
with something of the fervor which in
j spires the hearts of the heroes they are
! conveying to the re union. Many of the
mo~t prominent surviving leaders of the
j lost cause are here to-night, and to-mor
row they will again take command under
the blended banners of Union and seces
sion, of the grizzled Veterans whom they
led iu many a stormy conflict between
Sumter and Appomattox.
Not only are the banners blended but
Federal aud Confederate, mingling in
cordial fraternity are walking arm in
arm, and exchanging reminiscences of
the various fields on which they fought.
Comrades have met for the first time in
a third of a century, and the memories
of many touching scenes will signalize
this great re-union. Houston is a dream
of drapery; dexterous hands have ar
ranged the fluttering flags in long fes
toons w here Old Glory and the starry
cross/combine in the same harmonious
unity with which the Federal govern
ment, uuder the new conditions, partici
pates in the commemoration of the strug
gle in which old conditions passed away.
The principal thoroughfare of the city
is a mass of gracefully woven bunting
the oouquered banner and the conquer
ing banner, alternating for more than a
mile. On the heart of every man and
woman flow a badge or a miniature flag,
while here and there some distinctive
sign of more than ordinary interest may
lie observed. Here a blue ribbon marks
the wearer as one of Morgan’s men, and
there a long star distinguishes some
of the eight Texifs rangers, of immortal
memory. The (tapper uniform of the
regular army mingles with the faded
jackets of grey, worn by some enthusiast
from a distant State.
In short, the whole city is given over
to the ardor of the hour and the greatest
event of the week throughout the South,
if not the whole United States, is reach
ing a culmination. This has been Hous
ton’s day and local pride has intensified
Southern patriotism. The rain yester
day prevented the parade, which was
anticipated with so much interest. The
event came off to-day, however, and
Main street was fined with a solid mass
of humanity to see the soldier boys
go by.
The following companies were in the
parade: Corpus Christi Light Guards,
Robert’s Rifles, Governor’s Guards,
Decker Rifles, Brenhan Light Guards,
Houston Light Guards, Brenhan Field
Artillery, Battery C, Lasker Guard,
Mabry Rifles, Lipscomb Rifles, Lamar
Guards, Marble Fall’s Guard, Brown
wood Rifles, Houston Light Artillery,
Rutherford Rangers, Milan Rifles and
M. B. Floyd Rifles.
The battery of Flying artillery, U. S.
A., with its mounted band, was one of
the most attractive features of the
parade. Maj. A. S. Roberts, command
ing the Texas volunteer guards, was in
command, and the companies received
hearty rounds of cheers as they passed
along Main street, which was lined with
Veterans and their friends. Tier after
tier of ladies looking from commanding
points of view along the route waved
greeting as the soldiers passed.
General Joseph Wheeler arrived at 8
o’clock this morning. When he reached
headquarters, on Franklin avenue, the
veterans were awaiting him 3,000 strong,
and when they caught sight of the fa
mous cavalry soldier they gave a yell
which waked the echoes. At midnight
twelve thousand badges had been given
out at headquarters. These badges are
given only to bona fide veterans duly
registered, so there can be no mistake
that that number of survivors are here,
while many more have not yet regis
tered.
It is estimated that twenty thousand
visitors were in Houston this afternoon,
and every subsequent train has swelled
the number since then Four thousand
five hundred Texas veterans will be in
camp by tomorrow. The United Con
federate Veterans now consist of the de
partment east of the Mississippi, com
manded by lieutenant General S. T. Lee,
composed of the division of Alabama,
Maj. Gen. Fred 8. Ferguson command
ing; Florida, Maj. Gen. J. J. Dickinson
der; Georgia, Maj. Gen. Clements A.
Evans, commander; Kentucky, Maj.
Gen. John Boyd, commander; Louisiana,
Maj. Gen. Geo. O. Watts, commander;
Maryland, Maj. Gen. G. H. Stewart,
commander; Mississippi, Maj. Gen. 8. D.
Lee, commander; North Carolina, Maj.
Gen. E. D. Hall commander; South
Carolina, Maj. Gen S. S Crittenden,
commander: Tennessee, Maj.tGen. W. H.
Jackson, commander; Virginia, Maj.
Gen. Tbamas A. Brander, commander.
The other department, the trans Mis
sissippi, Lieut. Gen. Abell, commander
consists of nine divisions’of which five
are in Texas alone. The division com
manders are as follows:
Arkansas, Maj. Gen I) W. Moore;
Missouri, Maj. Gen. J. O. Shelby; Indian
Territory, Maj. Gen. N. P. Guy: Okla
homa M>j. Gen. Sara. L. Levy. The
Texas divisions are commanded as fol
lows;
Northeastern, Maj. Gen. W. N. Bush;
Northwestern, Maj. Gen. Robert Cobb;
Southeastern, Maj. Gen. W. G. Blain;
Southwestern, Maj. Gen. W. H. Young;
Western, Maj. Gen. E. M. Bean.
There is a strong movement to con
centrate the five Texas divisions into one
similar to the other Southern States,
and it is probable that Major General
Ross, of Bryan, will be made com
mander of the entire division.
The programme of the afternoon was
a very interesting one. At Camp Cul
hereon there was a dress parade and drill
of all troops, an exhibition drill of Unit
ed States troops, and closing with a
magnificent display of fire works from 8
to 9:30. Dancing was continued until
midnight.
To-morrow will be Galveston Day at
the Camp. Exhibition and competitive
drills will be the order of the day. The
Winnie Davis Auditorium will be the
centre of attraction, however.
The convention of Veterans will 1 e
f. rmally opened at 9 a. m., when W. D.
Cleveland, President of the Union Ocn
federate Veterans Relief Association will
open the meeting. Prayer will be offer
ed by the chaplain General. Governor
Charles Culberson will make an address
of welcome on behalf of the State, and
Mayor Bowen will welcome the Veterans
on behalf of the city.
General John B. Gordon, Commander
in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, will respond to these addres
ses, after which the encampment of dr le
gates, permanent organization will be
perfected and the convention will
adjourn. From 12 noon to 2 p. m.,
will be tendered Miss Davis in the
Auditorium a magnificent reception.
At 2 o’clock the business of the
convention will be resumed and con
tinued till 7p. m. There will be a con
cert in the evening. The following
sponsors are in the city; Miss Hearn, of
Texas; Miss Ella Nelson, of Selma, Ala.;
Miss Julia Riley, of La Grange, Ga.;
Miss Carrie Jennings, of Columbia,
Tenn.; Miss Lorena Boyd, of Meridian,
Miss.; Miss Cara Chipley, of Pensacola,
Fla.; Miss Emma Sinnett, of Louisiana;
Miss Margaret B. Warring, of South
Carolina.
The young ladies together with their
maids of honor, hold a reception every
day from 10 to 12 and are receiving
many social attentions in the city.
The committee on programme and or
der of business met this morning and
arranged the following programme for
the Sound Money Convention:
Thursday, at 2 p. m., call of Conven
tion to order by W. J. Crawford, Chair
man of the Committee of 15; election of
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Permanent Chairman and Secretary; ap
pointment of Committees on Resolutions,
one from each Southern Btate; speech by
Mr. Carlisle, and then adjournment until
morning, when the committee on resolu
tions will report.
ECHOES OF THE UNVEILIN'*.
Five hundred of those, present at the
unveiling visited the Insane Asylum
Monday.
The sender of the message was a brave
officer in the Union Army and his tele
gram is a touching tribute from the blue
to the grey.
The city’s expense for extra police du
ring the ceremonies was four dollars for
one extra man, and so orderly was the
throng that there was but one arrest du
ring the day.
Mr. Charles D. Melver, President of
the Greensboro Industrial and Normal
School left yesterday for his home, after
having spent Monday, with several of
his pupils and professors, at the unveil
ing.
The flag of the Bth North Carolina
Regiment was in fine of march on Mon
day, carried by Lieut. 11. C. McAlister,
of Cabarrus. Mr. McAlister took this
Hag home with him at the close of the
war and has kept it ever since.
“It was the only day in my business
career,” remarked a merchant, “when
I had more customers than I wanted,
and but for the good humor aud pa
tience of the crowd, T don’t see how we
oould have met the demands at all.”
A register was kept at veteran’s head
quarters in which the veterans names,
regiment, company and post office were
written, and over two thousand regis
tered, which makes an interesting roster
of North Carolina’s surviving soldiers.
Hon. Carroll D. Wright, who was here
on Monday, left yesterday for Greens
boro where he will to-day deliver an ad
dress on the occasion of the commence
ment there. Mr, Carroll will be intro
duced by Mr. B. R. Lacy, of this city.
Fifty thousand dollars was the esti
mate of more than one Raleigh business
man of the amount left in Raleigh by
those who came to the unveiling, and
more extravagant estimates placed the
amount at nearer one hundred thousand
dollars.
“It was a great day for Raleigh,” re
marked a prominent business mau yes
i terday, “and our visitors were not penu
rious. Every merchant and every clerk
1 in town were business from sunrise till
j twilight waiting on the thousands who
thronged the stores.
The following telegram was received
by Chief Marshal O. J. Carroll Monday:
Cleveland, 0., May 20.
I O. J. Carroll, Chief Marshal.
The brave Confederates who compelled
i our admiration in war have our best
I wishes in peace.
A. F. Brewer.
For a big crowd, the visitors on the
20th were the best behaved people in
the world. So far as we know, nothing
occurred to mar the beautiful harmony
of the most extraordinary occasion of
its character ever held in North Caro
lina.
There were several fainting spells
among the soldiers and veterans in the
parade Monday. At the Exchange ho
tel three soldiers became unconscious,
and in front of the stand, during the
speaking, an old soldier veteran dropped
from exhaustion. No harm resulted in
either case.
Mr. T. L. Bass, of Sanford, writes us
that a puree, containing a small amount
of money and one whole and four half
class tickets, from Fayetteville to Ral
eigh and return, was picked up on the
streets in Raleitjh yesterday, and left
with him. He would like to locate the
looser and restore the same.
Three thousand veterans were fed at
i veteran headquarters, Jones’s warehouse.
Many of Wake’s veterans brought con
i tributions to the veteran commissary.
Mr. G. B. Alford, of Holly Springs,
brought the largest ham, which weighed
; thirty-six pounds* The coffee was made
| in a forty gallon coffee-pot.
“It was the soberest, cleverest, best
natured, and best behaved throng of
folks that ever congregated in such
numbers,” was the remark of a promi
nent Raleigh attorney.
“Yes,” responded a popular young
batchelor, “and there were more hand
some women and pretty girls than ever
before assembled in this State.”
Everybody seemed to be in a good hu
mor on the 20th, and the same feeling
still pervades our people. The many
visitors who remained over on yesterday
streamed through the public buildings
and were kindly received by the officers
in charge. The Capitol, the State Mu
seum, the State Library and the Su
preme Court Building were the places of
greatest resort. Five young ladies who
visited the Supreme Court room occu
pied the chairs of our five justices, and
seemed to be having a gay time in read
ing decisions.
A Crisis in Corea.
London, Mav 21.—A dispatch to the
Globe says that affaire in the Co
rean capital are in a critical con
dition. The Prime Minister has re
signed and the Minister of the In
terior has asked the assistance of tie
foreign diplomats in administering
affaire and preserving order. The police
surround the residence of the King’s
father, Tai Wan Kun, formerly King
Regent and the leader of the anti-
Japanese party, and entrance to or exit
from the residence is forbidden.
A. F. Brewer