VOL. XXXIX. MO. 37.
OH. THAT THIRD TERM!
A MYSTERIOUS LETTER AM) A
CLEVELAND SMILE A RE THE
T\S O L A TEST PHENOMENA.
“THE SOUTH SOLID IN ANY CASE.”
The Views of the South on Silver Frivo
lously Biushed Asi''e in the Calcula
tion in the Hope that She Will Again
Swamp Ker Convictions in the Col
or Question—The Late Dr. Hall was
the Pastor oi Jefierson Davis, Whose
Pew-Plate Caused a Row'.
Washington, D. 0 . Sept. 14.
The interview of Senator Gray declar
ing in favor of a third term for Mr.
Cleveland has caus d men who scout d
the third term talk to take the idea seri
ously. It i 3 now asserted that the prop
osition to renominate Mr. Cleveland had
its origin outside of the circle of man
aging politicians. As the story goes,
early in December, while the politicians
wore still hopelessly and helplessly in
the dumps about the November result, a
prominent official received a long letter
from a friend —a man not in office and
not wanting office—in which the whole
situation was carefully, and, as the offi
rial thought, luminously examined. This
man was a tariff reformer and an advo
cate of “sound” money. He was also a
great admirer of Mr. Cleveland. lli
wrote at some length and pointed out
that Mr. Cleveland must again lead the
party. Otherwise, as this man insisted,
Democratic disorder and disruption
would be inevitable. The argument was
that the party as a party had failed to
score except as to the money question.
Tariff revision was next to a confessed
fiasco. Mr. Cleveland bad been right
and had tried to secure the proper and
the promised legislation, but protection
Democrats in the Senate had debated
him. But he had hit the bull’s eye as
to the finances,'and was the only man in
the party capable of carrying the fighi
to a successful finish. He must be re
nominated for this particular purpose.
“The figures offered were these: The
South’3 vote sure. The South, it was as
serted, would not bolt. In the lest anal
ysis she had always held the negro ques
tion above all other questions and would
do so again. She might insist and
threaten as to silver, but she would never
bolt for any failure to get what she
wanted on that score. Then New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana
would, it was predicted, return to the
Democratic column with Mr. Cleveland
in the forefront standing for sound
money, while in Ohio aud Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota and Michigan, a
greater fight could be put up in Mr.
Cleveland’s name than in that of any
other leader in the party.
“The prominent official, in reading
this letter to a friend, remarked at the
close: ‘I believe I’ll show this to the old
man himself.’
“‘I would if I were in your place,’
was the reply.
“The thing was done. The promi
nent official upon his next visit to the
Whi e House, after transacting his reg
ul r business, produced his friend’s let
ter, saying: ‘Here is something. Mr
President, that may interest you.’
• Mr. Cleveland took the letter, read
it slowly and handing it back smiled
pleasantly and replied: ‘That is very
kind. But, of course, I haven’t thought
about such a thing. Tell me something
about veur friend.’ And this the prom
inent official proceeded to do in terms of
very warm eulegy.
“The sto-y got out. The President
had smiled at the suggestion of his
name for another term and had in
qnired about the author of it. The sug
gesiion soon came from other quarters.
This same official got letters of like
tenor from other persons and other
prominent urn did also. It stemed
to please such people to be told that
their letters bad been read by the Presi
dent, and that he had appeared to appre
ciate their very h'gh praise. And a
good many of these letter 3 , it is said,
found their way to the White House.
“Beyond this there is no authoritative
report. Mr. Cleveland at most seems
only to have smiled when the subj ct
was mentioned and to have manifested
some polite and natural curiosity about
those indulging in such unusual praise
of him.
“But this is sufficient to give many
Democratic leaders genuine alarm. They
don’t like the looks of things. They arc
not eriticring Mr. Cleveland, but rather
the men who are laying before him their
private coirespondence written in th;s
vt-in. Auy man, they hold, is liable to
be impressed with praise so hearty and
to have his judgment more or less affec
ted by it. But that Mr. Cleveland could
be elected President again not a man of
them believes. And they hope he may
see his way at an early day to put the
whole matter at rest.”
♦ * *
The death of Rev. Chas. H. Hall, D.
D., recalls the story that during his in
cumbency of the rectorship of the Church
of the Epiphany, in this city, during the
war, he was under suspicion of svm
pathiziug with the South. Jefferson
Davis had held a pew at his church, and
they were warm friends. When Secre
tary of War, Mr Davis had appointed
Dr. Hall chaplain at West Point Military
Academy. Yesterday’s Star gives the
following interesting account of I)r
Hall’s embarrassing experience from
IS6I to lh6 >:
“Dr. Hall’s experiences during the
war were sr r. ing and often hazardous.
Many in his church went South and
served on ‘the other side.’ Among them
was Jefferson Davis. When, in 1857.
the church was enlarged. Mr. Davis was
given the first choice of a pew. and he
gave the pew to his wife. When the
Davis family left for the South in 1860,
Mrs. Davis at-kod Mr. Proctor, the stx
ton, to put a plate on their pew. The sex
t n did not do this until the war was half
over. One engraver committed suicide,
another blundered, the plate was de
layed. Finally, corrected and approved
by Dr. Hal l , it was placed on the pew.
The outcry that followed was terrific,
The News and ct*
TKIE LL/AKidEST ©OMQSILOTDCiDKi ©IF AIM Micros GBAi&DOLDGM QMOUfo
though not without its extremely r u
i morous aspect.
“Citizens and press denounced the ac
tion and pinned responsibility upon I)r.
Hall, who put the blame on the colored
sexton, believing his color would save
him. In some way the keys of the
church, much to Dr. Hall's gratification,
fell into the hands of certain burglars,
to this day unknown, and the Jeff Davis
plate was stolen. Secretary Stanton,
then Secretary of War, came to the res
cue by taking the Davis pew and oc
cupying it as long as he attended church
in Washington. Mr. Stanton always
vouched for I)r. Hall’s loyalty, and stood
by him manfully in all the vicissitudes
of those stormy years. Being a South
ern man, the doctor, like others, was
during all that time under more or less
suspicion.
“It was during Dr. Hall’s pastorate
that the custom begin of profusely de
corating the church with flowers at Eos
ter. There were cavillers at first, but
his stanch delight in it carried the day
against all criticism.
„ “ .Then President Lincoln v as assissi
anted, by general wish of the pastors of
Washington, Dr. Hall wrote the resolu
rions expressing their sorrow at the
event. As a writer aud speaker he was
a marked man. His style was simple,
lucid and direct.”
SENSIBLE SPEECH TO NEGROES.
Ex-Congressman Cheatham Reviews
tfce Progress of the Race, and Ad
vises Everv Colored Man to Own a
Piece ol Land it Only a Quarter ol
an Acre,
Special to the News ami Observer.
Scot land Neck. N. C’, Sept. 14
Ex-Congressman H. P. Cheatham
speke to a large crowd of colored people
near town yesterday. The occasion was
a colored farmers’ picnic. A few white
people from town attended. Cheatham
spoke for an hour or more an 1 did not
say a word about polities. He spoke to
his people on the educational, financial
and religious progress cf the race. He
cursorily reviewed the history of the
race iu this country, and laid special
emphasis upon th ir development since
the da)s of slavt ry. He told them that
without these developments in education,
Siaauce and religion, they can never be
a great people. He said the whites can
not do well wiihmat the negro, neither
eau the negro do without the whites
The speaker urged his race to be honest
aid upright. To pay their dtbk c , save
their money, and learn to take care of
themselves.
“Buy a track of lard,” said the speak
er, ‘if it is oa‘y a quarter of an acre,
and have it recorded m Halifax as your
own.” He urged them to cultivate t '< ose
virtues that make a sturdy manhood and
womanhood.
The speech was most sensible and
wholesome advice and will do the color
ed people much good. They are very
conservative here anyway, and such in
fiuenees a3 Cheatham’s speech have
much to do with making them better
citizens.
Their dinner was bountiful and good.
B.'ansv.ick stew, barbecue and other
good things were spread in abundance.
A few white people were present by in
vitation, and a s parate table was pre
pared for them. They had a good day
and seemed prosperous aud contented*
220 HOYS AT HAKE FOREST.
A Refreshment Hill lie Given to the
New Boys—That is Better Than
Hazing ’lhem—Dr. Hatcher Com.
lug—Prof Gully Writing a Legal
Paper.
Special to the News and Observer.
Wake Forest, N. C., Sept. 14
The total number of students now en
rolled is 220 To the new men of this
number a reception wiil be given next
Tuesday evening in Memorial Hall. Re
freshments will be served and there will
be postprandial ; ddresses by President
Taylor, Mr 8. Mclntyre, Mr. E W.
Sikrs an others.
Dr. William E Hatcher, of Richmond,
Va , is expected here the last of this
month to conduct special religious ser
viee3 of s >me teu days’ duration. There
is probably no abler preacher in the
South; certainly no one who can attract
and influence young men more strongly
than he
Prof. N. Y. Gulley, of the law depart
merit, is at present engaged upon an
article on “Departure,” to be published
in the next volume of The Encyclopedia
of Pleading and Practice, of the Edward
Thompson Company.
Mr. A. B. G’aunady was to day elected
second d* hater for the next anniversary
iu place of Mr. J. L Griffin, who will not
return to college.
Mr. Mtekins, of ( olumbia, N. C., is
here on a visit to his son
MURDERED HIS W IFE.
A Hay boro Negro Clubbed Her to
Death, aud in Threatened With
Lynching.
Special to the News and Observer.
Newbehn, N. C., Sept. 14.
Friday, at mid-day, George Sanders,
a negro of Bay boro, clubbed his wife on
the street of that village, breaking her
skull She is dying. Sanders is in jail,
and glories in hiscrime. He wanted to kill
his wife’s sister, also, aud other negroes
now speak of lynching him There are five
versons of the cause of ihe killing, one
of which is that his wife told of his
stealing; another alleged cause is that
she accused him of unfaithfulness.
OIL MILLS AT WELDON.
<;»pitHl #30,000,'W illi Ex-U. S Sena
tor Butler and Railroad Commis
sioner J W. Wilson Among the Di
rectors.
, Special to the News mid Observe.
Weldon, N. C. Sept. 14.
The Weldon Oil Mills were organized
under their chart r to day at this place,
■ with J W. Wilson, President; H. A.
Minims, Secretary and Treasurer; Direc
tors, J W. Wilson, M. O. Butler, J. D.
I Cameron, W. W Wiggins, T. N. Hill, R
T. Arrington. The capital stock is thirty
i thousand dollars.
RALEIGH, fi. C.. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 'H9S
TOO HOT FOR THEM
MR. CARLISLE’S W ' > -NURSES,
MORGAN, BELMONT AN l» V UN
ISON, SUDDENLY LEAVE.
THEIR NEXT MOVE HOT KNOWN.
The Storm of Friday Succeeded by t»
Strange Calm Yesterday--Western
Banks Offer Relief, also Pittsburg
and Rochester Offer #1,000,000
A Feeling Calhd “Reassurance” is
Said to Have Returned--The Gov
ern merit in Distress.
New York, Sept. 14.—Yesterday’s ex
citement over tin 1 financial situation
engendered by the impression that the
bond syndicate had withdrawn its pro
tection of the government gold reserve
was succeeded by a calm to-day. I here
were no developments to add to
the uneasiness business circles and
consequently the feeling tended
toward reassurance. When banking
hours closed at noon there had
been no deposits of gold made at the
Sub Treasury by any of the city banks
in furtherance of the policy begun yes
terday aud on the other hand there had
been no withdrawals for shipment, as
no steamers sail on Sunday. It
was reported that the National
City Bank had giv-u the syndicate
#1,000,000 in g>ld in exchange f< r
greenbacks, but the report could not be
confirmed at the bank in absence of
President Stillman, and J Pierpont Mor
gan declined to say whether it was
true. In banking circles it was said that
unless the syndicate received some gold
from the National City But k yesterday,
it had no more gold on hand at present.
These gold certificates, ebnit $3,000,
000 iu all, are not cancelled when paid
in by the syndicate, and therefore, al
ways appear in the Trersury’s statement
to be outstanding. For the convenience
of the syndicate in making deposits
they are allowed to re issue, the deposits
of them being aiwas as “coin.”
Representatives of Pittsburg and Roch
ester banks have made an offer to de
posit $1,000,000 in gold in the sub trtas
ury here to help keep the gold reserve
intact, the < fftr b ‘ir.g accompanied by
the proviso that the government pay the
express obliges on the gold.
The Treasury’s offer to ship currency
taken in exchange for gold at govern
ment rates would, it is anticipated, re
suit in deposits of gold next we* k.
There is absolutely no confirmation to
be had in ihe treat informed circles of
the rumors of au impending bond issue
Tne probability of such an issue would
b. known here only by J. Pierpmit Mor
gan, the financial adviser and main-stay
of the administration, aud possibly
by August B> lmont as the representative
of the Rotch:-childs. W. H. Canton.
Presideut of the Chase National link,
the reputed devisor of the great bond
syndicate schema, has left New York tor
the west to t e abs at for about ten days.
Mr. Morgan aud :4 c Belmont are out o
town and profound ignorance obtains
among the other members of the bond
syndicate as to the next financial move
on the prtg am me.
Seringfield, 111., S};-t 14 —General
Manage. 1 Condel, of the Springfield
Clearing House, this afternoon, tele
graphed the Sectary of the Treasury
that the banks of this city would furnish
the Government $1,000,000 in gold iu
exchange for currency. No reply bad
been received up to a late hour to night
MRS GOULD KEPT HER SEAT.
t he M itlioiiairtffs W ife Did not rise In
tue Presence ol the Prince of W ales,
and W itn therefore Km Down Upon
by English “Sasslety.”
London, Sept. 14.—Vanity-Fair says
that it does not think that Mr. Gould,
at the Cowes. Regatta, reached tin l high
est standard of sportsmanship and the
story is re-told of how. when the Prince
of Wales was introduced to Mrs. Gould
on the club lawn at Cowes, she did not
arise from her seat, as under the rules
of etiquette sin* should have done when
conversing with a-royal personage.
The Miners In Mourning.
Calumet, Mich., Sept. It. This va;
funeral day at Oalumer. Every hears*
in the county was pressed into service
and the mines were idle, the miners be
ing k pt busy going from one funeral to
auother. Iu addition to the thirty killed
in the Osceola mine, a week ago, four
mimrs have since been killed here by
miue accidents. In the seven years
ending with September 1, 1894, 532 men
were killed by accidents at the mines in
the Upper Peninsula ot Michigan, and
the recent disasters will bring the list to
more than 600.
The Weekly Hank Statement.
New York, Sept. 14 —The weekly
bank statement shows the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, $3,161,
525; loans, increase, $4,333,100; specie,
decrease, $1,911,600; legal tenders, de
crease, $7,524,700; deposits, decrease,
$5,099,100; circulation, increase, $.57,
600 The bank* now hold $25,703,275
in excess ot the requirements of tne 25
per cent. rula.
Ix-Consul Waller’s Chances Gone.
Paris, Sept. 14 -The Siecle says that
the United States had received a ecw
j pD.te explanation from the French au
j thnrilic* of the case ol tx Consul Waller,
who is a prisoner under sentence ot
twenty years for having bum, as alleged,
! iu correspondence with enemies of France
in Madagascar, and that his cause is ir
retrievably lost.
The Schooner “Centennial,’’ loaded
with coal, from Philadelphia to New
born was stranded at 2 o’clock yesterday
morning on Dawson s Shoal ofl the \ ir
ginia coast. The crew r were saved but
the vessel is probably a total loss.
Richmond, Va , Sept. 14. —Richmond
wins the pennant iu toe Virginia League;
i Petersburg, second.
A BIG STATESVILLE FAILURE.
The I irm of Wallace Brother-, Whole
sale Dealers in Roots and lle»S>*.
Make an Assignment, with Assets of
#75,000, Liabilities Not Stated.
Special to the News and Observer.
Statesville, N. 0., Sept. 11
A genuine sensation was sprung on the
toxt his morning about 10 o’clock in
the fi.i.’g of an assignment by Wallace
Broth* r . It has been known for some
time that they were heavily in debt, b it
an assignment was r< t particularly ex
peeled at this tirr*- The assignment
does not state the; ustof indebted
ness, but says bee *se «,? debts due to
the Merchants and Farmers Pink, Char
lotte, N C’., 11. B. Clafl n & Co . New
York, Cone Export Co , New Yoik, and
others, the assignment is made. The firm
of Wallace Bros, was a heavy b/rrowei
from individuals in Iredell ai-d other
adj lining counties and if is utterly ;m
possible at th's early da*e to give an ag
gregate of the total indebtedness. As
the news spreads, creditors are coming
to the scene stating the amount of to*ir
loss which runs from SICO to $2 000
Men from the country and town have
been standing all the evening in gro n,s
about the street discus sit g the
far reaching consequences of she.
assignment aud the probable de
velopment o? a large indebtedness now
unknown The firm was verj dire eet.
in not giving security paper, sue > a
mortgages, so as t; keep the re *1 imiebt
educes a secret: therefore no d* finite es
timate can be made. The assists con
mt of their wholesale stcck of dry goods,
roots and herb*, notes, accounts and
real estate. No accurate estimate ol
the assets is at hand. This year’s tux
returns of all property < f the firm
and of the individuals was given iu at
nearly $40,009. A liberal allowance for
assets, con.-idering the price property is
now sellii g at, will be $75,000. The in
debtedness will doubtless exceed th's
B F Long. Esq ,is the assignee. L’u
der the pres* ut assignment law no pre
ferred credrors can tie made. There
fore, the ts.ets will be distributed
equally. »
MR. CARLISLE CALMER NOW.
A N is tit’s Sleep Enables Him to Face
the Situation W i li Less Trepidation.
Hope is F« It That There Will Re no
Gsue of Rood*-, Rut Nobody Know*
M ailing for a Turn ot the Tide.
Washington, Sept. 14.—The feeling
of appre bee si n that r. suited from yes
tei day’s heavy withdrawals of gold for
export has almost entirely disappeared
from the Treasury Department this
"Sbrning, bat it h.»3 given place to one of
anxiety for the future. None of the higher
officials nov. iu Washington, so far as cun
be learned, is in Mr. Carlisle’s confidence
o rhe extent of knowing bis views of
the situation, or bis purposes for the
future, and do one is able to
speak wit ': any degree of certain ry as to
what won •! be done in the event of on
tinned heavy withdrawals of gold. The
consensus of p'uion, however, is that
there wid bo r,e i»sue of binds iu the
near futurj In any ev< nt and tha- at*
issue b.-so e O • g-*ss had au opportu
nity to rrt is extremely imnrt b ble
Nor is it thought th t tLe urgency
tor an issue before tbt* time
wii bj ext r t;r.e. It is urged
that ’he shrinkage in dr: shipments
of cotton is .:/ una-u I and far below
that of any rec you;; that grain ship
ments mu-t soon l»-gin. and t I Dim
proved b'uiia.rs w 11 stiffen more; r tvs.
A turn of the tile, therefore, i- expect
ed. The fact, too, th*.t the U i’e i S'rte.-
has, since January t, 1891. exported
more than $120,000,000 in gold in excess
of her impoits, it is claim* !, U a strong
argument in favor of a :- t return t >
normal conditions.
at THE ’VARSITY.
More Students Present and More En
roll d Than Ever B- fore in Rs His
tory.
President Winston, of the U dvo sity.
sin the ci-y. and is full of eut.hasiasm
over the tine < p nieg. He savs war* are
more students preseuf and more students
enrolled than ever b. fore iu the history
of the University, either before the war
or since. I he chap-1 is chock full at
morning prayers, and soon the galleries
will have to be used
The largest ante-bellum enrollment
was 463. The total enrollment la?t year
was 471, while the enrollment at the
close of the first week of this session is
almost 500, of whom 150 are new sfu
dents.
There are classes in nearly 100 differ
ent s’udies. Over a dozen married men
are enrolled in the student body, and
about 25 college graduates. Very many
students who stopped a year to make
some money are back again and working
for graduation.
The electric light plant will be read)
Oct. 1. Memorial Hall with its acre of
floor space makes a fiue gymnasium and
skating-rink. A rubber running track,
oue-sixteenth cf a mile long will be laid
in the hall.
Mr. Harry S Lake, a wealthy N< w
Yorker, a student in theScph cla-s has
given S3OO to construct a half mile
cind r Tuck iu the campus tor running
and cycling.
Mr. Lake g«ve S3OO last year to aid poor
student . Ho ami his family have sub
scribed $2,500 to erect the Y M. U. A.
building
President Winston thinks that the
toiai enrolment by next June will
pet full far short of six hundied
studeuLH. “My next eff- r ! s,” said
tm, “will be to get students from the
States south of u>. Five hundred is a
large patronage from our own State, ami
we now must have 500 froru oth r
States.” As soon as he gets l,oou sou
dents he intends to resign the presidency
in favor of a younger and more Beim*
man.
R. 11. Seni'le, the bicyclist who left
Chicago at 4 o'clock last* Sunday morn
ing, arrived in New York City at 3:35
a. m. yesterday, three hours and 25
minutes ahead of the best previous
re-ord for the wheeling run between
' these two cities.
A BLOW \T LfHP.il TV BELL.
M mle it \V;t- on Exh bti -ii nt a? t
fine Matthew* Gave Lilcrtj
hme Savage S ro|;t>s It itt> a sletit:*-
Hamm r, Considerably Daneiuinj
it,.-The Maa -\rre**fed and I’l op'e
Incensed.
Ahcola, 111., Sept. 14 -The L bertv
bell sj -cbd train arrived l eu, 1.-,-; »see
ing ar.d rbont 2,D O peop'e ga; t-mril if;
see it While Manager Knanp vuv - s
irg a history of lie l> ii, aud m g.iide
were hu ning ir preparatory to n igiug
it, a uiau i am* - 1 . tt oe ws brushed
through the crowd and at tuck tLv Ijwu ,
rim three h .vu . t;h a sledge•!
bamim r, making three debt; iu it. Th*
b H was consider, b v damug* d Manager ;
Knapp s..i-l he would trust to the people i
of A”col. to prosecute‘.he villain who!
had o gross') insulted American pride!
by striking one of iisc ei isued emblems
\i; j S A. I) McWnisms, of the F .urth J
Regimeid, I. N G., effected the arre- t, i
aud Matthews was lo ked up A telt
gram hi? been sent to Unite*! Sts.’os Mar- J
shai Br uton, who v ,;i : t:... prtsouet
to Sprir gfield. T,* n- -pm of rhis city «
are high’} ir.c • < \ > i'i- affair.
« Ult A WILL BE ( . ts;r;il
Bat rlo* Ep tni-h M*ii:**t: r is Uanblttu!
Suy Jasi whf n--'t lie ' |» *ei-i Govern
uo nt l*r purb g for km Ve:.v- Cam
paigu.
Washington, D. <’.. Sejit. 14. -Senor
Dupuy De Lome, Spanish Minister to J
the Uniti‘d States, to-day expressed th*'i
opinion that the rebellion in Cuba is;
sure to be crushed. It is impossible, he j
added, to say just when, because of the j
conditions that exist on the island. The]
minister characterized the methods em-1
ployed by the rebels as guerilla warfare!
and declares that if will be impossible |
to have a decisive battle under such j
conditions. A great deal of misinfor- j
mat ion. he said, has been sent out by
t he rebels.
"Ir is e-isy to account »or the ,ra fho*l« |
now employed by the Sr-anisn a<*\ern
men*,” said the ministT “Tae elimH ic
vfnVAiocs of Cuba are vv.. jp tuli r
4 • , A *»U t au i S; ;> >_>. .3 ti.S
three great gener .Is for’ h- r bTw*'»
are dea l and the third D d.ing
Tnes* motivhs i cbjd.* the r-wny iw.as*)o
ia Ci bi ard the m >.-t unheal hy for
th«. S./uDto'i troo.-s It is impossible
to carry on sucC'.-sfu! warfare amd
pouting rains. But the w paitit>h g. vein
ment has been preparing for an active-
CiiUiiiaign. The second eo r ps of 25,000
men have been landed in Cuba It is
probable t fe.it active »nov**nr.eot» will
not begin, however, unul the Ist of
' ?ctob ir of some time during that month
according to tha cooditious of the
weather.
It is sometimes asked ah> troops are
no v landed in Cuba when th* y aro not
to Via called into active service for so ao
time. The answer is plain. From t e
20'b of September until the 20 h of No
vember is the cyclone season in the W tst
Indies, and there is great difficulty in
transporting troops, as well as great
danger of iss of li’e. B. f<*ro
the 20'h of St'-p ember all toe ir »ops uec
esairy to crush too reb* liion will be
landd, and as soon as the rainy season i
is over an aenve aud vigor*. .'s campaign |
will begin. There can 1 e no doubt as to j
the outcome. The small force of the i”-
surgeitts will be t-caitered a.i‘l the rebel-1
li. u ended
B ASER ALL YE4TERD 1\ .
At Philadelphia (first game): R. h. b. j
Philadelphia, « •'> 3:i CIO:; f-il 24 S
Washington, --0000 '2 1 2 9 s 4 |
Batteries: White, Orther and Buckley: |
Boswell, Maleswoith and McGuire. Attend
ance, 1,901).
At Philadelphia (second game): R. h. e.
Philadelphia, 2030 2*— 77 1
Washington, 0 0 0 0 0 *— 0 6 5
Batteries: Lucid and Clements: Boyd and
McGuire. Called on account of darkness.
At Pittsburg: R. h. k.
Pittsburg, 00000000 0- 0 5 l
Cincinnati, 11101 0 1 0 2 77 0
Batteries: Hart and Merritt; Dwyer and
Vaughn. Attendance, 2,500.
A t St. Louis: R- H. k.
St. Louis, 100 5 000000-0 11 3
Cleveland, 1000003 20 0— 6 9 2
Batteries: Preitenstein and Piet/.; Cuppy
and Zimmer. Attendance, 2,000. Called on
account of darkness.
Cholera on the Increase.
Fan Francisco, Ol , Scot. 14 —A
privH *' le’tcr w*ich car.ee on the steamer
Aust-alia from an effioer of the cruiser
Olvmp'.'j, which is new lying at Honc
!u!u. spates th*t the cholera epidemic is
on the locrcase aud ihat it is dffii ult to
♦ ell wure it will stop The OiyrrjMa is
bound for China ai-d J p<u, but it is
p ob ible that she v. id have to remain at
H tnnlula for s -me time, owing to tie
fact that- it may b - ■ in *d unsafe to
take coal there.
America SiaiHs <>ff' J1 .ndiir.i'.
Dninqai?, I ;wa '.etc 14. [hiring h
;evt r» ele. tr'c s r-j ; tj:s evening a
Pjrip • bock ol ear. r.q*j.-ik 1 occurred,
i g».r c r f-.-di-* ; The vi
br.vi'.nu wi's 1 n *■. •. •*> -v *v.
Two Bit. n a ’llieie ia Owe Hay.
Athens, G 1 S-pt 14—S-crotary
Smith la.voi for ’Vd-rbiagtoa **loud.»y
Speaker Ori-p is here to place his daugli
ter. B e ha, >n ~cb >ol ar.i .-son in uui-
I veraity.
VH MOUK’SII.LFGITIM t 5 ECU 11 D
.1 ohnS nart Colcninn .tlako t his C linrg*
Asainst His \\ fc in A i su rr loOnc
Against Him of 111-Treatment.
Utica, N. Y., Sept, it At a special
term of court, held here tc-day, aigu
ment was heard by Judge Merwin in the
ease <>f Dora Haddock Col* man. of New
York, who sues for seyaration from her
husband, John Stuart Col man, alleging
dl trealm mt. Her husband has brought
t c*)ua’er suit, and claim? that his wife it
an tll< git itn ate child of Philip I). Armour,
of Chicago. A sensation was caused in
court wlien the story was told by Ihe
lawyers. To-day's proceedings we eto
compel Coleman to pay a reasonable
amount per week during the pendancy
of the action. Coleman makes a sweep
ing denial of tin* charges of ill treat
ment.
Mr. \ rmonr’s StatemenL
| Chicag >. s, ]*' 14. —I relation to t l l
Jo in ’ti case, Pb bp D. Atm >or said:
' “I mver stw Mrs. Coleman in n\\
life I never saw her mo*': r. Same tinn
a?r. 1 tabout two we* ks, I got a
1 *tter from the woman’s husband, saying
■ b'lieved bis wife was my
diughto’. I paid no alentioo
t*> th ■ loiter, ns I think the
ia oi is crazy or else was drunk
when he wrote it. Shortly after, how
ever 1 got another letter, this time from
Mrs Coleman’s law . er, which I answered,
saying I had never -o n the woman and
’tad 11* ver s°en her mother. The Ir.wyer,
wli - Is a decent reputable m .n, wrott
me saying these facts were exactly as he
ueder.'t oi them He slid Mrs. Cole
man hal tcld him she never htd
see’: me and .Joe v.a; ceriai 1 h*'r mother
never had seen m: m her life
Tito fset is these people, the Head cocks,
w hit h was Mr". (loleman’s mothers name,
lived in Stockbridge at one tim°. This
is the town in which I was born. Ire
member such a family, but never knew
ir*.y <*( them. Ic was for yor fifty years
• g > and until this story came up I had
foigitteu all a’jout thorn. This is all
there is to the CHem.vi story.”
NOT SO RIG 4S 'T SEEMS.
fir. I’iirn-ose *ny« that Inswrance Com*
panies d > not Untlulv Ab < *enteeMouf y
from ihe S’ate, but that Citlrs ure
I phuiltleff by th< m.
The figures given in the News and
<)BSKHVK.it of yesterday's issue in regard
to tiro insurance in this State having been
commented upon, a representative of
the paper called on Mr. W. S. Primrose,
President of the North Carolina Hume
Insurance Company for Isis views of the
matter.
Mr. Primrose said:
“I think the bare and partial figures
given in your article are calculated to
be misunderstood, and are undoubtedly
misleading although. 1 am sure not in
tentionally so.
“i will assume that the figures repre
senting gross premium receipts for
for the year ending July Ist 1895,
viz; $695,377.23 are correct. It was
stated that the losses incurred for
the year were about one half of this
aniloimt. anti that $332,000, (your
figures), the other part, drained from the
State, "has gone away never to come
back again in the payment of losses or
in any form.’’ The clear inference of
all this is that the companies are mak
ing too much money ! But suppose some
other fact be given. The year named,
was one of the most favorable in point
of profit to the companies. Yet there
was not so much profit as stated, even
in this favorable year.
“Y u say Gut something more than
•me half of the entire grass receip’s has
b en returned to the State in payment
of 10-s : . s That about $332 000 (your fig
ure;) of this money has gone away never
to e 'trie back again.
‘ You d d not take into account, that
agents v.Jio secure thete premiums all
over th 1 State receive 15 p?r cent on the
gress premiums, and that the State im
poses a 2 per cent rax on gross receipts.
Now count, in addition to the $363,377 -
23 left for losses, this 17 per cent com
missions and t .x, and $118,214.12 also
rerc; :gs, making $481,591 25 Thus
yon figures were short by some sllß,
0 >O, which counts as a i; ir!y respectable
1 item of itself.
“i’hen other taxes, such as SIOO
i for annual license. s2l for certifirui''n
i u d publication of statements; also a f**e
paid by the companies annually for li
1 cense of each individual agent, excuses
of special agents and adj asters, anprais
! era, &e., and another considerable sum
|is left, the amount of wLieh could only
!be approximated now, hence I wifi not
give it as I wish to be exact. Toe above,
1 o wever, is the experience of a favorable
year. The figures for ten years ending
Ist January, 1895, shows that including
loss ratio 66 6, agent’s commissions 15
per cent and State tax 2 per cent, not
counting the other items, that 83 6 per
cent of gross premiums have been left in
North Carolina.
“It may oe somewhat gerrna e, as a
matter of iaformatiou, to state that
auother account must be chargod against
these gross premium receipts which
lowers the margin of profit. That is the
rates of expenses, for salaries in the
home offices of the companies, for special
agents, for equipment and supplies, etc ,
and this account, although not unreason
able when added to the amount left iu
North Carolina, has showu an unreason
ably small profit in this field for the past
ten years.
“Now, as to the last statement of the
article, v<z , that for last year’s b isine«s
$339,000 ‘aas gone, never to come i»h< k
in the payment of losses or in any way,”
1 win sun ply ask a question. V theenm
l panics, during the c rrent year, incur,
say twenty per c'nt. m re los.es than
premiums received, is it. not app rsut
1 hat some of the money > and. ’ aw, y last
1 ear must com back to pay these 10-scs ?
a matter of f-c. f hus is s , and ii ts
| oeen so too frequently in the past
•Tie q D'Stiou align* oe aktd, i 1 vi c v
of t c stafeioeuts in your article, if, * n
drawing a grand balance, the .state
woul not be better Iff without firv in j
siD'auco aud this large drain st ipped. Os
course this would be erroneous iu the]
extreme.
“Iu existing conditions of business,
ssa.lSiity) JO ' “in „
rniLJL mVE CENTf.
tire insurance is a material factor. Our
great crops < f tobacco and cotton could
not be handled without insurance. Cap
ital would not be invested iu those com
modities without the indemnity afforded
for loss by fie. - -
“Much of the vast system of credits on
which, in the main, mercantile transac
tions are based, would cease uulessstoek
handled were protteked by insurance.
•Then,too, a considerable part of loans
made on real anti personal propertyoiuy
to a considerable extent iqx'n the addi
tional security obtained by insurance.
‘ hi fact, it has become a necessary
part of all commercial transactions.
“Town after town in North Carolina
has been rebuilt by insurance mout v,
and such money h *s played no unimpor
tant part in the development of the re
sourccs ot the State ”
WOMAN and THE Hit Y* LF.
Kmiu;i.l, N. C., Sept. 11, 1895.
To the Kilitor of the Now >* and Observer:
I am sure that Mr. O R. Smith, in the
c •mmuuication published Sunday, said
more than he really meant. He is a very
earnest man and a very sincere one. and
such people are not apt to weigh their
words or me sure their phrases. Like
numberless other good people, he cor
aiders the new treud in female life to be
harmful, and he spoke, and spoke with
more heat and less reserve thau he ought
to have done. Nevertheless, I canuut
think that he is wanting in respect for
w man. It is rather the depth of his
reepect for her that impels him to g!rd
roo blindly at habits which he feels will
lower her from the high pedestal on
which our race has fitly and wisely
pieced her.
1 must confess to some old fogyism on
that bead myself. The Southern woman
of the past is to ms the ideal woman.
Aud I would faia keep her as sbewrs
forever. But the world moves. Ideals
change and she must measurably change
or become au anachronism. But I b>-
lieve that the purity, modesty and deli
cacy inherited from a long lino of moth
er! must needs abide with her always,
and that, however widely her mode of
Lfe may come to differ from what it has
been, that purity, modesty ard delicacy
mu-t necessarily characterize ff.
With the strictures on woman’s garb,
now so much in vogue, I have no patience,
if men would divert a part of this
solicitude t> their own habit*, not
t > s y their own moral?, the world would
he the better for it This eternal tu
t Dg . of woman smacks too much of
i ricutaltsm. As an escape from it, or
| an antidote fdr it even femaie suffrage
j might be justifiable. In the name of
' justice, ia the name of liberty which we
11 -ate about so much and underffaud so
tittle when somebody's else’s liberty is
concerned, leave women to dress a id at t
is she thinks becoming. Rest assured
that she has not only a finer taste, but a
stronger and truer mcral sense than we
have.
The real question, the burning ques
tion touching women, and one which
cannot much longer be put by r .ia
more vital than either buycles or
bloomers. Tt is the too common
altitude o£ man towards woman
in certH’n rolatloas. Male honor is
all too narrow to embrace the protec
tion of women. A man may be the soul
of honor iu ail his deallugs with men
aud yet not scruple to take every dishon
orable advantage that he can of any wo
man Nay. not only mt scruple "to do
s», but do so and suffer no whit of dis
paragement in the eyas of the world. It
is a matter in which his honor is in un
wise concerned.
T terefor *, l“t good nr n withhold their
horn lies on unessential things and di
rect tn *r energies to essential things.
Let them see that the same
standard of honor curreut between man
and man becomes the standard between
man an 1 women. I have reference not
only to those grosser wrong-*, which are.
it istiiK-, too common, but also to those
countless lesser wrongs which will sug
gest themselves toaß reflective minds.
O. W. Blacknall.
RETRACTED BLAN DFR.
Eiul of the Senratioual Slander Cases
from Oak Grove Township.
Justice Roberts’ court was the sceue of
an interesting trial yesterday. Th. slan
der casts from Oak Grove township wot©
tasen up. There were four of these
c.iscs and in each J. T. Gray, on behalf
of his daughter, Miss Maggie Gray, sued
Mrs. Saliie Ferguson, Mias Valeria Golev,
J. E Ferguson and Elbert CarPon for
criminal slander.
The court room was fall of Oak Grove
peop‘e, for the matter has stirred the
township from one and to the other.
But the case was amieab’y settled, tho
defendant entering a “retraxit,” taking
back all they were said to have said.
I his judgment of retraxit was entered
by consent of the attorneys. Snow and
Argo for the defendant, and R H. Battl
for the prosfeution.
There were twenty two witnesses in
the case.
COTTON IIAS IMPROVED.
The September Report of the State De
partment of Agriculture.
Th' cron report of the State Depart
mont of Agriculture for the mouth end
ing Sept Ist will soon be issued.
It shows the following averages:
Cotton, 78 10; rice, 86; peanuts,B7 13;
fi Id pease, 90 13; coru, 85; tobacco,
90 3-5; sorghum, 91 16; meadows and
pastures, 95 14; preparation for wheat
(uew crop), 89 12; preparation for oats
(new crop), 89 12; sweet potatoes,Bo 35.
The slight improvement in cotton
hardly represents the fact,*; the crop and
acreage are fully 80 per cent, in this
Siato, if not more. Never was a better
corn crop reported at 95—-eally 105.
AM the averages are low, and the fann
ers will bear us out that this has lean a
year of abundant returns to tho farmer
from his labor.
Senor de Lome, the Spanish Minister
■ at noon yesterday delivered to Mr. Adec-
I acting Secretary of State, a draft for tho
j equivalent of $1,449,000 drawn on tho
[Spanish financial agent of Loudon, iu
settlement of the More claim.