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ttbe Cbatbam Record. jX LONDON , RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one Insertion. . p.tT0B AND PROPRIETOR. One Square, two Insertions One Square, one month.... CF SUBSCRIPTION: 3 i n riii gt 50 Per Year iHCTlY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXX. 2 items Gathered From All Sections of the State PITTSBORQ. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C WEDNESDAY. MAY 13. 1908. NO. 40. For Larger Advertise- ments Liberal Contraetsr will bo made. pilroad Laid by Night. 1 TTT 1 A . i p0int, special worct irom " ml Cl'''0:!ton railroad, which been i to'.'.st ruction since the ', .;Tt-Vs tek on new life Tues- " ;ffjjt aiul put on an extra force veral hundred men building its , 0f roaJ alongside that of the fldcsn & Asheboro, on the letter's ..of-wav. and when the people if Tuesday morning a new rail 1 tad boeu born and was right up ,.VI1 noar the Aberdeen & Ashe- y Railroad station. This -,..-Mv aroused this road and by Mock this morning the road had rain lo:ul of laborers on their way "jrjv to ttar up the tracks of the -4m & Charleston road, which r-"ntri:irou on its right-of-way. ''her special t rain soon left Biscoe i Vke President Page, of the Ab n & Asl.eboro road, and John Tall, of the Durham & Charleston ;j; was also rushed to the scene, xi.ient II?rrv A. Page, of the Ween & Asheboro road, is in di- nirarnnii-ation with Troy and destine developments are awaited. eno Eoy racers iaorricie uein. "harlot!?. Special. Death in its feav?'ixe fomi befell Rex Me 4. a colore-! lvv about 14 years of i - r Tl r i T 11 who wni'iis on j.ir. jioi xiussen s -3, 6 mile? north of the city Wed--iav sfron;"'1:!. The boy had been bz in the !ield and had started e. nih: his mule. At some point the vay. the animal became ::!iieneih tkr.-w the boy, whose jfsn.ht ::i a dangling traee chain, ithen r..s!:cd down the road in the stion vi Mr. P-n--ell's. When the nn i:i tlie var.l. the hov still ! i'H. although life ; hit liil.i; g away. He lived but :ew mnuto? a:; or u:e nouse was Tatal Accident in Durham. ,i)uri;!K. Sr LSftee. ? --t :a:e Trl ':,:. :pany. :.- ;:: th result f an nau?::al :v. ,1 m its Hi 1i"rv a -iai. l anion M. lie linemen for In ? and Telegraph 1 Watts hospital as accident that was i will probably be Mr. Rio-o'sboe wao-on loaded with o;s. Among the " i --T-r's bur" and one 'pi from the wagon, ::! t catch in the i ir more or less firm, Lr vu'l came up and This bar of :' inch in diameter h ! ;v ( if AFr. Rio-s-sbee Efv in ' ' s. The bar of steel "a ti.e 1 i'.-f.- stomach and came eonunr thi-ro-l, thp wnll? of tl to.int of the digger - ' uridr-i- the skin in his' Was Drowned in Georgia. Winston-Salem, Special. Mr. Lu ther B. Meyers, division salesman for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com pany, with headquarters at Macon, Ga., was ".drowned in a lake near Ma con while he and three others were in swimminj. It seems from the ad vices received here that Mr. Meyers' went with a party of friends on a picnic expendition near Macon. About noon he and Mr. Robert Til Hngham and two others, whose names were not secured, decided to go in swimming in a small lake near the picnic grounds. Soon after going into the water. Mr. Meyers complain ed of the water being" too cold and said he mnst get out, at the same time moving toward the bank. Mr. Wil anghani looked up and noticed that Mr. Meyers had gone under the wa ter. He hastened to the rescue of his friend, but was too late to be of any service. In attempting to rescue his friend, Mr. Willingh am came near losing his own life and for some time it was feared that he would not re cover. A search for the body of Mr. Mejers was begun immediately and in about two .hours it was brought to the surface. It was turned over to an undertaker and prepared for burial. . Orphanage . Site Selected. Winston-Salem, Special. The or phanage committee of the : "Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church met here last w&ek to select a site for the institution and to outline plans for the erection of the buildings at the earliest pos sible moment. The George F. Dwire farm, just west of the city, contain ing 1G5 acr3s. was accepted over the Mickey and R. J. Reynolds farms, which were considered. The price agred upon is $100 an acre. The tract of land is a beautiful one and the selection is considered a good one. The main building will cost be tween $18,000 and $25,000. This and the superintendent's home will be erected first and then other buildings will be nut up later. The members of the special committee here were Rev. Dr. G. II. Detwilder. of Greensboro, ex-officio chairman S. L. Rogers, of Franklin: J. A. Glenn. "of Charlotte; Walter Thompson, of Concord. vra? a i an.i i. !? ( i it v-. L a!,. rej the Given Fifteen Years. -Ion-Sal. r.T. Special. Hardin ; ec5,iri5 -VI and instant ded V-'illani Christopher, a wLite fanner, at Pine Hall on Eas Day last, will have to e a tern of fifteen years in the i! Penitentiary for his crimp Th H w 'lip :m-. of in Stokes Su- t0UIL at Danhnrv Thnrsdmr oon. counsel for the defendant -ong to a verdict of guilty of y m the second degree, which 'ceped by the counsel for the . aie presiding judge then :nee'1 tfce negro to a term of fif years. The case did not reach : urr. Hetraw Convention Adjotirn3. Wilmington. Special. District Grand Lodge No. 5, Independent Or der B'Nal B'Rith adjourned its thirty-fourth annual convention here last week to meet in Savvannah, Ga.. the third Monday in March, 1909. at which time the grand lodge will go to Atlanta to attend the twentieth anniversary exercises of the Hebrew Orphans' Home there. Officers elect ed are: President, Henry S. Hut s?ler, Richmond, Va.;-first vice presi dent,Montague Triest, Charl?ston; second vice president, Leonard Ilass, Atlanta. Ga. ; secretary, Joseph L. Levy, Richmond, Va.; treasurer, A. Goodman, Baltimore; Sergeant at arms, M. W. Jacobi, Wilmington. A. & M. Commencement. Ualeigh, Special. Invitations have been issued to the 16th annual com mencement of the North Carolina College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts May 24th to 27th. The bacca laureate sermon will be preached by Rev. Dr. George W. McDaniel oi Richmond. Va.; the alumni address will be delivered by Mr. A. E. Escott, of the class of 1906, and the jrinual address will be made Lv Dr. Paul B. Barringcr, of Blacksburg, Va. Verdict Set Aside. ,;lei?I, Special. On the ground ;llas against the weight of the s nee and excessive, Judge Biggs . '! f a?ide the verdict of $3,000 :uwi Mrs A rr -c. ' Ee death (,f t,.. v,c-'K rua ': ?-'i'-:u-ul to be df?5 to negli- ' .lllt'li . . " 1 una iiailroacis. j in Winston-Salem. 'a-Salern, Special. As a re- a f!-''lt in a fJrPot i-ncaurant. "' Cai"los Panas. a vnni, firPPlr. Ifp;tal with seven severe -The nci-n,,Tf , i u v'i. ( olorcd, who is under rH..1 of negroes became !a ':r- restaurant and the ':Iri'- - I hen out. This led to ail; TV.moo na' ;,l) uii acting as :,, f H'e restaurant out of i Mpas. Dead thft n fi, V . 1 &ry luesaay trjim ij;k 1 'nine .Y of Hugh Cameron near Ormondsville, -2lf !ty. the throat cut and s!v, s 11 nd bruises on the per- tott.,. .. , ' n eaiment. strong M' ",' evidence warranted i! At r. savior, who is now j. Hill charged with the i tije J' "J lb supposed to have parties are Goldsboro School Bonds Purchased at 110. Goldsboro, Special.- At 12 orclock Thursday sealed bids for the pur chase of the Goldsboro High School bonds were opened. . Tho bonds were for $20,000 and were for 20 years, bearing 6 nsr cent. They were award ..l to Sen song 8: Mrtvor of Civ.r-r'., for fraction over 110. Incorporation. Raleigh, Special. The Goose Grease Company, of .Greensboro, with $100. 000 total authorized and $5,000 sub scribed capital stock, was chartered last week. The incorporators arc: R. F. Rice. W. R. Land and B. H. Merrimon. ; State Board cf Examiners. Raleigh, Special The State Board of Examiners met in the office of !ho State Superintendent and graded the papers of the teachers who stood the examination in April for high school certificates. Jim Frady is Convicted. Asheville, Special. Jim Frady, charged with the murder of Parris Sumner in Limestone township sev eral weeks ago, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and "iven four years and six montns on the countv 'chaingang. The defen dant pleaded the "unwritten" law, alles-in that he was justified in kill ing "Sumner because of - alleged im proper relations existing between Siucnev auu Sirs. T.zCy. WORK OF CHURCH WOMEN Methodist Home Mission Society in Session in Durham. Durham Speeial. The Woman's Home Mission Society of the North Carolina Conference, M. E. church held its seventeenth annual meeting in Main Street church in this city. The exercises opened Thursday evening!.- Addresses of welcome were made by Rev. M. Bradshaw, in be half of Main Street church; by Prof. R. L. Flowers, in behalf of the Sunday school; by W. A. Bivinsj in behalf of the Epworth League; and by Mrs. J. C. Angier, in behalf of Main Street Auxiliary. The re sponse to these addresses was made by Mrs. R. O. Burton, of Raleigh. The work of the Woman's Home Mission Soeiety was then outlined by Mrs. W. H. Shaw, of Wilmington. Mrs, Shaw was, for several years, president of the Conference Society. She knows the work thoroughly and knows how to present it in a most in teresting way. The foundation, or cornerstone of this work is parson age building. The session was well attended and was one of much interest to the de nomination represented. Young Rigsbee's Injuries Proved Fatal. Durham, Special. Clifton M. Rigs bee, the young white man who was fearfully hurt a few days ago by get ting an inch bar of )bn thrust through his body, died Sunday after noon at Watts' Hospital. Young Rigsbee was 23 years of age and left a wife and one child, . a father and several brothers and sisters. He was one of the chief linemen for the inter-State Telephone Company and was on the tool wagon when a dig ging bar, an inch in diameter and eight feet long, dropped, one end for ward, while the wagon was moving. This shoved the steel bar into Rigs bee's body, the bar "entering in the small of the back and going almost through him. He and the man with him at the time made several efforts before he could get the bar from his body. From the very first he was in a serious condition and but small hopes were ever entertained for his rovererv. Prompt Work Saves Town. Burlington,, Special. What prom ised to be one of the most disastrous fires in the history of the city was by the prompt work of the firemen and a favorable calm averted Sun day night only after the destruc tion of W. A. Loy's livery stable with two horses and about all his vehicles, and two blacksmith shops adjoining Some of the horses which were got out were badly burned. The fire started about 9 o'clock, but the origin is not known. None of the losers carried insurance, the rate on ac count of the proximity of three oth er stables being almost prohibitive. For several minutes after the firemen arrived on the scene the water pres sure was very weak and it seemed im possible to save any of the buildings near, which include three other sta bles, the Ward Hotel and several dwellings. Default of $1,000 Bond. Wilson, Special. There was a large crowd in Wilson in anticipa tion of being present at the prelimi nary examination, which was schedul ed "to have come off before 'Squire W. R. Wood at 10:30. Messrs. Woodward and Hassell have been re tained by defendant, while Mr. W. A. Finch will assist Solicitor Dan iels in the prosecution. The attor neys held a conference, and those appearing for defense waived exami nation only Mrs. Wells being ex amined. .On default of a one thous and dollar' bond, the fellow was com mitted to all. He is the negro who a week ago attempted the lite oi Mrs. Robert Wells, in Old Fields township. Railroad Question Settled. Troy, Special. The railroad ques tion at Troy between the D. and C. and A. and A. was finally settled to the satisfaction of all parties con cerned. Officials and attorneys on each side met here and held a con ference and left over the D. and C. rails on the A. and A.'s motor car for iSar, N. C, where these two com panies connect. CHILD LABOR EVIL Discussed in Connection With Ccmpusscry Education MANY FORCEFUL OPINIONS GIVFfl Three Spsakers From the South Champion the Cause of Compulsery Education and Attack the Employ ment of Children in the Cotton Mills. Memorial Exercises at Durham. Durham, Special. Memorial Day exercises were held Sunday after noon, the veterans, Daughters of the Confederacy and others going to Maplewood Cemetery and decorating the graves of the dead soldiers who now rest in that burying ground. Quite a large number went out to attend the impressive exercises held ;n lmnnr nf tho rlftad heroes. . Mr. W. XH VI M-M- - J. Brogden, of this city, was the . speaker for the occasion, laps were sounded by one of the veterans. There was a fine musical programme, this being" by a picked number of singers. Richmond, Va., Special. Dealing with 'the world wide topic of children, their education, their training and the evil of driving them linder steam pressure at the wheel Avhen their frail limbs and bodies were too Aveak to stand the terrible punishment and strain, the general session of the na tional conference of charities and cor rection at St. Paul's church arous ed the public to the importance of more .adequate laws to protect them from the evils of factory work. Three speakers, natives and residents of the South, first championed the cause of compulsory education, and then at tacked the employment of children in cotton mils, where they helped to give leisure and comfort to lazy and worthless fathers. The broad state ment was made that illiteracy would disappear from the South if these young people could be. dragged from spindle and 1 icm and turned over to the tender care of teachers. Dr. A. J. McKelway, of Atlanta, assistant secretary of the national child labor committee, who discussed "Child Labor and Citizenship," de clared that there was a time when a declaration of independence was nec essary, but that the day had come when a declaration cf dependence by the children of America was needed. Prof. W. II. Hand, of the Univer sity cf South Carolina, and Miss Jean Gordon, factory inspector of New Orleans, pointed out the imperative demand for compulsory education, while Miss Jane Addams of Hull house, Chicago, urged a modification of the school by which the child should be taught to dominate his ma chine of labor and impressed with the relation cf las studies to the work which he would later perform. The interdependence of the varying themes was so clearly impressed upon the audience that there was a touch cf human interest throughout the appeal and with more definite un deieiapding of conditions as they exist today. Though deploring the child labor evil, there was a tone of optimism in the addresses, for it was shown that good and substantial re sults had been accomplished by the enactment of laws to limit the age at which the young might be employed i:j factory and mine. Confederate Memorial Day. Charlotte, N. C, Special. Sunday, being Confederate Memorial day throughout the South, the occasion was observed by deeoratingthegiaves in the cemetery and by appropriate exercises fitting to the day. From all Southern centers of population came reports of befitting ceremonies in honor of both Confederate and Fed eral dead. Monument to Pocahontas. Washington, Special A monument to Pocahontas is to be erected at Jamestown, Va., according to a bill reported from the committee on com merce by Senator Daniel and passed by the Senate. The measure appro priates $50,000 for the memorial pro vided an equal amount -is supplied by the Pocahontas Memorial Associa tion. The monument is to comme morate the first permanent settle ment of English speaking people" in the Western hemisphere through the intervention of the Indian maid. Shooting in Durham. Durham, Speeial. Saturday af- 'ternoon Horace Stroud shot and pro bably fatally wounded Lee Shaw, i both colored. The trouble ocurred ip. a negro suburb.. Stroud made an attempt to shoot Agnes Leathers, his paramour She dodged just as the pistol fired and the ball entered the - -r r- 1 1 . 1 1 1 jback of Shaw, lie was lateen io me ' Lincoln Hospital and Stroud escaped. zzz? die. Big Fire in Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Special. Fire Sun day damaged the three 4 upper floors of the six-story department store of Goldberg Bros., on Woodward avenue causing a loss of $150,000, on which there was $103,000 insurance. The lower floors, which were not burned, were flooded with water, causing heavy damage there.. Life Hsd Lost its Charms. Richmond, Speeial. Justus Flav el Wright Gatch, a salesman for the American Seating Company, of Chi cago, committed suicide in his apart ments on West Franklin street, as a result of despondency due to business reverses. The man, who was 53 years of age, fired a bullet into his own temple while sitting upright in a chair with a blanket wrapped around him. The lifeless body of the man was discovered by his young daught er Ida, who heard the report of. the revolver. Tank Steamer Still on Sandbar. New York, Sepcial. The tank steamer Washtenaw was still upon the sandbar off Monmouth, N. J., where she struck during a fog Fri day, though efforts to free her were continued. There was a fresh breeze in the northwest and a moderate sea during the night. The vessel appear ed to be in no immediate danger and the crew remained on board. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE City of Atlanta Suffers Severe Property Loss ENTIRE BLOCK IS SWEPT AWAY Fire Which Started Early IV-day Morning Destroys Two Blocks in tho Heart of Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special. One million and a quarter is the loss conserva tively estimated on a fire which started at 3:30 o'clock .Friday morn ing and which swept two blocks of Atlanta business proprety. How the fire started is a mystery. It was discovered in the building oc cupied by the Schlessinger-Meyer Company, bakery. From "there it ran its way in all directions until it struck the Terminal Hotel, one of the largest in the eity, and gutted that. During the early morning hours ev ery one in the Terminal Hotel and in numerous other smaller'hotels in the district bad warning. There was no loss of life and no injuries. The insurance on the property de stroyed is placed by insurance men at $750,000. One of the heaviest losers is S. M. nman, of Atlanta, who owned the entire block bounded bv Forsvth. Mitchell and Nelson streets and Mad ison avenue, and in which were lo cated tho Sehlessins-er-Mever Com pany, Branch B of the city postoffice, cue liquid Carbonic Company, a branch of Central Trust nd Ranl-ino Company, smd many smaller con oerns. The fire was discovered in the pl. yator shaft of the Schlessinger Build ing and is supposed to have oriV5n.it.- ed from crossed wires running to the motor which operated the elevator. By the time the firemen had the flames had broken through the root of this building, and owing to a light water pressure, it wa; impos sible to check their progress. In a :uori time tins structure was mple tely gutted and the fire was eating its way through to Station B of the At lanta postoffice, where mails received from the terminal station just across the" square, are distributed. The cmploves of the nnstoffie however, by quick work managed to save all the mail and most of the equipment. Jurapin? across Mitchell street tho flames made short work of the Terminal Hotel, the Terminal Annex, Child's Cafe and TTntel. and Child's Annex, at which point the nremen succeeded in checking the on slaught on the north side of Mitchell street. On the south side, however, the flames continued to sweep every thing in' their path until ForsvMi street was reached, gutting the build ings occupied by Mc-Clure's Ten-Cent store, tlie branch bank of the Central Banking and Trust. Cnmnm.v tho Paragon Store, and the Linnid Car bonic Companj'. The Schlessinger tfuilding extended half a block on Nelson street a- ) from it the flnme-? soon jumped to numerous small storehouses on Forsyth street, de stroying the places occupied bv Al verson Bros', Grocery Companv the Dinners Jb'rame Manufacturing Com pany, and the Walker Coolev Fur niture Company. A strong west wind ianned tne names and scattered burning embers over the whole bus iness section of the eitv and thrif- ening for a time to cause even srrcnt- er loss. The firemen had rr.anv n.irmw Ac- capes from" felling walls, but no in juries of a serious nature are reported. The guests fi Om the lintels and rooming houses in the burned section succeeded in saving most of their ef fects, having been warned in time to remove their trunks which were piled on the plaza in tbe'front of tbp ter minal station, from which point their owners and many early risers watch ed the progress of the fire. NOMINATE JUDGE HARMON Boy of Sixteen Murders Four. New York, Special. An Italian boy, named Nicolli, whose last name is unknown to the police, 16 vears old, cut the throat of a woman and three men and then hacked the bodies to pieces in a barbershop near the Brooklyn Bridge Terminal. The bov ran away witli the bloody razor and is still at large. After Matrimonial Agents. Chicago, Special. Revelations in connection with the "House of Hor rors," operated at LaPorte by. Mrs. Guiness caused United State District Attorney Sims to issue orders for the arrest of every manager of any mat rimonial bureau operating, in the Chi cago district. Isaac A. Warn, said to be a wealthy proprietor of an "af finity bureau," was the first to be ar rested. He was taken on the charge of using the mails to defraud in the operation of the bureau under the name of Kate Warn, his wife. Soldier Burglars Arrested. Tampa, Fla., Special. Privates George Roberts and Jospeh Henry, ol the 11th company coast artillery stationed at Fort Dade, were brought to this city and lodged in jail. Th? men broke into the postoffice a im post exchange at the fort and tool the cash register and contents and numerous other articles, then escr.p:c in a boat belonging to the fvorn ment. They were run down r.nd ar rested acai E-i.daiow:i. Democrats Hold a Tumultuous Meet ing, in Which Intense Factional Feeling Holds Sway. Columbus, O., "Special. In a tu multuous convention, characterized by the intense factional feeling Democrats of OhioWcdnesday nomi nated Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, formerly Attorney General of - the United States under President Cleve land, for Governor, and-endorsed WH" liam J. Bryan and instructed the Ohio delegates to the national con vention to vote for him for President. A complete State ticket was nominat ed, former Gov. James E. Campbell, of Butler county, was endorsed for the United States Senate and dele gates and alternates at large to the national convention were selected. David L. Roswell, of Kent, was nomi nated for Lieutenant Govenor. The following were elected dele gates and alternates at large -to the national convention : Delegates at large, Tom L. John son, of. Cleveland; W. S. Thomas, Springfield; E. W. Hanley, Dayton, and Matthew R. Denver, Wilmington. Alternates at large, H. T. Sutton, Zanesville; Isaac R. Sherwood, To ledo; G. N. Saltzfiaiber. Van Wert, And John E. Monnot, Canton. National issues were left to the Denver convention and the platform adopted dealt solely with State ques tions, attacking the administration of various Republican State officers and endorsing especially the initiative and refcr-i:duci in . State and local legislation and the taxation cf fran chises. . Alabama Endorses Taft. v Birmingham, Ala., Special. The State convention here Wednesday of the Thompson or administration wing of the Republican party 'was all for Taft. Strong resolutions endorsing his candidacy for the presidency and commending the national administra tion were adopted and the delegates to the national convention were in structed to cast their votes at Chica go for the Secretary of War. The de legates elected were: J. O. Thompson, Birmingham; W. R. Fairley, Pratt City; F. H. Latbrop, Birmingham; N. II. Alexander, (colored) Montgomery. Alternates: Byron Trammel, Dothan; H. F. Oven. Montgomery; Jere Mur phy, Hmitsvilie; Dr. U. G. Mason, (colored), Birmingham. The electors chosen were I. Pollak, Cullman, and Jajnes W. Lee Birmingham. The Paper Trust Investigation. Good progress was made before the speeial committee investigating the control of prices of white print paper by the paper trust. Many telegrams and letters from publishers in alj sections of the country were placeu in evidence, all going to show that prices have b?en arbitrarily advan ced, and that if the duty should be removed a fall in price of $0.00 or more per ten would result. Many newspapers men have expressed a willingness to go to Washington and testify. The committee will ad journ to Palmers Falls, New York, to investigate the cost of manufactur ing paper. Pretty Scuih Carolina Girl Sues a Railroad. Spartanburg, S. C, Special. Miss Salie Bragg, a pretty young lady of Campobello, this county, has com menced an action against the Charles ton 4c Western Carolina road for damages in the sum of $50,000, alleg ing that while she was a passenger on one of the trains of the defendant she was grossly insulted by the con ductor of the train. The complaint is now being prepared by I. A, Phifer, attorney for the plaintiff, and it is understood that the allegations will be of a highly sensational nature. Georgian Charged With Wif3 Muriei Fort Gaines, Ga., Special. Herbert Robinson was arrested charged with murdering his wife and throwing hei body into the river. It is alleged that on the night of April 29th, Rob inson who had been drinking, killed his wife, then carried her body to the bridge r-rossir!? the Chattahoochee river and threw it into tho water. Three Hundred Afghans Killed. London By Cable. Three hundred Afghans were killed and many more wounded in Sunday's and Monday's fighting with General Sir James Wil cocls 's British force at the west en trance to the Kyber Pass, according to the official report. New Jersey Summer Hotel Burned. Bernardsville, N. J. Special. Som erset Inn, one of the most beautiful summer hotels in Northern New Jer sey, was burned Wednesday. The fire is believed to have been started by an incendiary. The loss is a quar ter of a million. - W. J. Oliver Indicted. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special. The Federal grand jury has returned in dictments on five counts against W. J. Oliver, candidate for national com mitteeman from Tennessee, charging him with violating the federal 8-houi law. The charges recite that Oliver habitually required laborers on the work at Hales bar to work 10 hours a day after the government had jfle eided that the lock and dam construc tion was government work. THE BLUE AND GRA Meet at Salisbury, N.C, ezzsS Unveil Monument TO MEMORY OF MAINE'S BEAU Beautiful Monument of Gray Granite Dedicated to the Heroes Who Gora Up Their Liv?s For the Union in SalXbury Prison. Salisbury, N. C, SpeeiaL "WIt"b Elaborate ceremony, marked by a Ji? oity and solemnity befitting tie cw sasion, the State of Maiae, tbn& her official representatives, uuvrik'il a stately shaft to the memory of tlie 203 soldiers who died in Salisbury prison during the Civil war- Throughout the exercises there i, tender note of sympathy for tlt heroic dead who lie in the trentljes oi this beautiful city of the dead, at3 every, speaker voiced in words in spired by .deep-founded patric&raak tribute as eloquent as if" it had Iu delivered upon tboss who fell in tl thickest of the fray. That they sacrificed their lives in pi-isoa vk.b but the fortune of war, and their sse rfiee was as glorious, for i'Ther fittest place where man eso dii . Is -where he-dies for man." Full five thousand peepte, most rif them men and women who had be- true to the Confederacy, looked oparx the exercises and entered into the spirit of a momentous occasion ap plauding earnestly and sincerely tLi tribute of a great State to- the ioe?ia Who died that the Union might live. Crowded into the speakers taia! were the men and women who traveled so far to do honor to tLeay countrymen; flecking the hillsides In every direction, as far as the e could reach, were sympathetic tfctas--ands who joined heart and soul' in this tribute to the brave ; who renlia ed that "No more shall the Avar cry sever Or the winding rivers be red.'-. And over yonder, hard bv 11k? trenches stood the "thin gray lax-," with tear-dimmed eyes. It wrts a scone never to be frr:rf ten by thoce privileged to witness it Never was this hallowed spot hkvc beautiful with its carpet of rrYT-iT shaded by the sorrowful willows, dog ted with its thousands of head-stows,, mute tribute to these wrapped 5r eternal slumber, for here 0 fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And glory guards with solemn rcrjiMi The bivouac of th dead. The formal ceremonies of the Harp began with the parade to ths Niu al Cemetery, whicl" formed m front of the Empire Hotel and tnuTer ?ona nand of Adjutant General T. I?. TZ$y ?rtson proceeded through the prfr3 pal streets of the city and tlicn the cemetcrv. The parade was fo&W d by the Fors,: Hill Band and rite Rowan Rifles, and then came At tachment of Confederate veteran rr foot and the ladies and genflewn the Maine partv and the speakers J the day in carriages. The visitors and the State ofT-i! occupied seats in the band stand when the exercises began at 2 oVI& there was not standing room n: Tat as the eye could see from this pof f vantage. Hon. Thomas O. LiM State councillor, acted as master d ceremonies and, following s jrraj-vx by Hon. W. Scott Libby, introduce secretary- oi state d. Kryan tinnjra, who was present as the rsonal wjp rcsentativc' of Governor Glenn. Secretary Grimes apologized' :& the absence of the Governor stsxiuf that important engagements kept bar. away. Then, in an address of ee&&id rable length he extended the gTMt:' ings nf the State 'of North CxrttEtit. fo the visitors from the Pine Tse State. ' In huppy contrast was the resjjuewt- on behalf of the State of Mara? "bj. Hon. Thurston S. Burns, of West--, brook, Me., and this felicitous strain spoken with an earnestness aocl en thusiasm that betrayed the Eaneers underlying it, was re-echoed rik$ ear pbasized by Mayor Boyden, in -extending a welcome to the City, etf Sal isbury and in the response by IIou. Leroy F. Pike, of Cornish, Me. Xlsrcot Boyden never made a happier in his life and it was applauded t the echo. He voiced the weleonie J all Salisbury andall North CarcSxia The occasion was one long; to Le tsv membered, and will be largely helpful in cementing the friendship Let woes the North and the South. Excitement at Has&Qtsa. Hamilton, Special. Tohaeeo grow ers are in a heat of excitement. A. band of men, declared by the growers to be night-riders, visited this ceszcty . during the night. Following tfesr visit a big tobacco shed and six toa and pounds of tobacco were destroy ed on the farm of Barney TTTlmi . The invasion of the strangers sad fbfc subsequent fire have caused t&e grow ers to place their crops nnder'an rear ed guard.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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May 13, 1908, edition 1
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