RALEIOH, XT. C.
WEDNESDAY.
.MARCH 19, 1884.
; WHY. :
The Register said a few days ago that if
one versed in the history of North Carolina
were called upon to name that period in its
history when its people were most happy
and prosperous, he would undoubtedly
name the Seven Years which - have passed
since the Democratic party assumed full
control of the State Government. To jus
tify this emphatic commendation, the Reg
ister grouped together a few of those
measures best illustrating the progressive
spirit of Democratic administration. To
day, it will, as briefly as possible, consider
" the reason of the thing," the moving
causes of some of those measures.
THE SCHOOL LEGISLATION.
It is a fundamental principle of our sys
,tem that government is .ordained for the
benefit of all. To perform its highest
functions it must take cognizance of every
element in the State, of the condition of
all who constitute the body politic, what
ever their race, color or prevfous condition.
The day has been when one race could be
kept in bondage to another race in the
same State ; but the spirit of the age, right
fully or wrongfully, advantageously or in
juriously, it matters not now, has blot
ted that out forever among the advanced
nations of the world. The demands of the
age are the free pursuit of life, liberty arid
happiness for every one. . From "the mo
ment that the servile element becomes an
integral part of the governing element of
a State, it is e right entitled to such train
ing, in a word, to such education, as will
fit that element for the new duties to be
performed. It is not simply humanity,
nor policy, nor yet justice, to give that
training ; the very safety of the State re
quires . i
Upon this point which posterity will
doubtless rank above every other of the
movements of this day, because upon its
recognition depend the peace, order and
progress of the State no Executive in this
State has ever spoken in such clear and
uatoistukable terms as the present Exec
utive of North Carolina. The need of ed
. ucation for all, and the imperative duty of
the State to provide for the education of
all, formed the burden of his inaugural
message. It did not indeed originate with
him ; for it is enjoined in our Constitution,
and had not been'ignored. But it was re
served for him to breathe into it the full
breath of life and make it a quickening
and animating principle in our legislation.
There was, it "is true, much difference of
opinion as to the extent to which the State
should go in the performance of this duty.
The inaugural was, however, delivered at
a date when the Democratic party was
in possession of all the Departments of'
the State, and its wise injunctions could
not fail to bear fruit with a party so patri
otic and progressive
-The legislation of
the whole period here named witnesses to
an anxious effort on the Dart of the Assem
bly to fulfil its whole duty in this regard :
taxes for the purpose of education have
been increased ; primary schools for chil
dren have been multiplied ; graded schools
of a high order have been established ; and
normal schools under teachers who have at
tained the highest proficiency have been
established at convenient points through
out the State for the instruction of teachers
of primary schools. , .
Much doubtless remains to be done;
for nothing is at once invented and
perfected. Time must elapse before
the benefits are largely felt; for the mass
ot ignorance was appalling, and the pro
cess of education is a work of years with
each generation. Yet it must be seen that
asystem has lwen established which, if duly
fostered and wisely administered as by its
present practical, earnest, common-sense
Superintendent will bring home, before
many years .have elapsed, the blessings of
education to every man in the bounds of the
State. The young children of the present
generation may live to repeat the remark of
Chief Justice Reeves of Connecticut, after
an extensive practice as a lawyer for
twenty-seven years, that he had met with
but one person in that State who could
not write. The school system now in fcxist
ence here is substantially that which pro
duced such beneficent effects there.
THE CHARITY LEGISLATION.
Next in importancebecause of the re
lief it gives to the most helpless of human
beings is the vast extension of accommo
dation for the insane.
It was long before civilized States were
awakened to a proper sense of their obliga
tions to this unfortunate class. TT
paratively recent period the insane were
condemned to the dungeon, the jail, the lash,
and prison fare. Not until the Christian
religion had taught to man a tender sensi
tiveness to the suffering of his fellow-man,
not until its teaching was recognized as a
guide and light in legislation, was this
duty acknowledged and provision made to
meet it. Reason, as always, seconded the
dictates of religion. The most obdurate
were bound to admit that a being rendered
by the act of God incapable to provide for
his own subsistence could prefer a sacred
claim for support. This would be true if
the lunacy were of a gentle and harmless
kind. But this consideration acquired ten
fold force if the lunatic was subject to1
habitual or occasional frenzy; for then
safety as well as humanity demanded that
he should be cared for. If his family were
poor, it waa impossible that proper care
could be taken of him. The Legislature in
1848-40 made provision for the Asylum at
Raleigh, which was in operation soon there
after. But in the course of a few years,
and especially after the calamities or the
gvil war, the accommodation proved to
ffc wholly inadequate. Then the evils of
the old condition of things were upon us
againthe harrowing and too frequently
dangerous presence of th lnn.f i v
household, with accompaniments of misery
that need only be hinted at: or else ,
pitiable and suffering tenant of the countv
toil ; a : . J
J""- ac umuequacv of th ftv..
tions in the Asylum led to the system of
outdoor relief, which had to be entrusted
to persona over whom no proper supervj-
sion could be exercised, and which re
sulted in many instances in great abuses
and heavy charges upon the Treasury.
In either case, cure or mitigation of
the disease was hopeless. But our peo-
pie had seen too much of the beneficent
results secured by a well-managed Asylum
to rest content with such a state of things.
The Asylum at Morganton and the Colored
Asylum at Goldsboro to-day constitute no
bfe monuments of that spirit of considerate
statesmanship which marks Democratic
-administration in this State.
The school legislation mentioned above
Lwas put 'first in order, because it was uni
vcrsal in its operation ; but it will be d
mitted that the legislation regarding the
asylum extension appeals to the deepest
and strongest feelinsrs of the heart. Nor
in one point of view could the former be
said to be adapted to a more universal need
for the awful affliction for which the latter
is provided is incident to humanity; the
family exempt to-day may experience the
terrible yisitation to-morrow. It is, then,
a home provided for every family when the
day of calamity shall come; and it is to be
nopea that these institutions and all our
other State Charities will never want for
generous legislation.
It will be perceived in reference to the
two great measures here spoken of, and in
deed the remark would be true of all, that
the legislation of the Democratic party.
true to the genius of that party, has been
equal and impartial "in its provisions.
THE WESTERN RAILROAD.
ine want oi Harbors of easy access
from the. ocean, and communicating with
the interior by navigable rivers, long re
tarded the progress of the State. Nay
more, as the direct exports were small the
conclusion was that it was a poor State
no credit was given it for the valuable
commodities which were sent out through
the harbors of adjoining States. For this
there was no remedy until the introduction
of railroads. Until then, indeed, the
State had hardly a separate commercial
existence.
To redress" this inequality of nature a
system of roads was projected with
base line extending from our ports to the
western limits of the State. The line
was constructed through a course of years
to the foot of the mountains. But there
from the topography of the country and
the peculiar nature of its formation the
difficulties seemed almost insuperable: To
surmount the mountain barrier, an eleva
tion ot some twelve hundred feet had to
be overcome within the compass of about
three miles. This alone was enough to
tax the skill of the most scientific en
gineenng, but a greater difliculty pre
sented itself in the prosecution of the
work. Along the side of a lofty moun
tain which had to be traversed, the land
proved in rainy seasons to be , little better
than a quaking quicksand. When the
work was constructed with great labor,
the next rainy season set the whole mass
above in motion, and the work was either
swept away or buried beneath earth with
the forest that grew upon it. Discontent
j began to manifest itself at the further pro-
cution of apparently so bootless and ex
pensive an undertaking. Soon loud mur
murs were heard, and it was generally
said by the malcontent that the "mud
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lui, me uuuie u-y woicn me place was
popularly known, would engulf the whole
treasury. The discontent was menacing
to the Democratic party. The necessity
for action was hastened by the publication
of a circular known as "The Mud-cut
Boom," in which it was made to appear
tnat the burden of taxation for-the prose
cution of the Western Railroad was al
most entirely contributed by the East and
fell with most suppressive effect upon that
section.
These representations produced a crisis
l o abandon tne work would be to forfeit
the faith of the Democratic party, which
had been year after yeaF pledged to the
completion of the work. It would have
been, too, a gross violation of every prin
ciple of justice ; for the West had con
inouieu its iuu measure of taxation to
every foot of the road which had been
built from the sea-shore to that point, and
of which the East was then and had been
for long years in possession. Those who
remembered these things could not tolerate
for a moment the thought of abandoning
tne enterprise. It was clear that some
thing had to be done and done speedily;
but what that something should be, was
the question. In the midst of anxious
deliberation as to the course to be taken
the Executive cut the knot by summoning
a special session of the Legislature. It
was what is styled by Doctors heroic treat
ment; but the result proved that it was
dictated by profound sagacity. There
was no precedent for such session in
time of peace. There was, however, no
alternative in the state of things then ex
isting but an appeal to the people through
legislature ; and tne .Executive un
hesitatingly assumed the responsibility.
The Legislature met ; the road was sold;
and it is now in operation far beyond the
Blue Ridge. One branch has reached the
Tennessee line at Paint Rock; another is
rapidly nearing the same line at a point
far to the south of Paint Rock.
Thus, by the boldness and sound judg
ment of this Democratic administration,
this great highway the perpetual bond of
union between the two extremes of our
State was secured, and a bone of con
tention cast out of our councils forever.
He must be blind, indeed, who can fail
to see the evidences of . an enlightened
and progressive government, of that anx
ious consideration for the interests of
the people in every way, which has so
signally marked Democratic administration
in North Carolina. In the material
progress of the State its spirit is even
more perceptible, and the record will be
written in the Register so plainly "that
he may run that readeth it," and "way
faring men, though fools, shall not err" in
their understanding of it. '
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
Rev. E. R. Rjch, Secretary, informs the
clergy and laity that the Sixty-Eighth
Annual Convention of the Protestant Epis
copal Church in the Diocese oi North Car
olina will meet in St Stephen's church,
Oxford, on Wednesday, May 14, 1884, at
10 o'clock a. m.
THE PENITENTIARY TROUBLE.
One knows that election day is coming
when one reads in Republican papers
aqput the wickedness of putting peniten
tiary convict labor in competition with
honest labor, and about Democratic "tak
ing away the chance of the mechanic to
earn an honest' peony, by doing all con
tract work with convict labor." Or, when
one reads about "convict labor terms
the honest workingman," as in the follow
ing paragraph from the Asheville Repub
lican : -
"The shoe manufacturing; firm that leased 30
convicts is turning out 150 pairs of shoes per
day. The work Is done by machinery operated
by convicts, with whom the shoetnaRers, wno
have spent years In learning the trade, will have
to compete." i
Now, in the Register's opinion, as this
writer has had occasion to say more than
once before, two of the most efficient
agents of civilization were the whipping
post and the i gallows. They were the
surest , preventives of crime, and to pre
vent, not to punish, was their object.
Republican mock humanity, Northern Re
publican humanity, has greatly lessened
the value of the last and has done away
with the first.; The penitentiary, which
was invented as a substitute, is but a
school for the higher education of crim
inals in their profession. Indeed, so far
as the Register's observation goes, it
would seem that if, as sometimes happens,
an honest man should have the ill luck to
be sent there, the end of his term of ser
vice would almost certainly find him a
thief; and if a; man went there with some
regard for truth, he would almost certainly
be graduated an accomplished liar.
It will be seen that the Register does
not hold the penitentiary system in high
esteem. How came there to be a Pen
itentiary in North Carolina? Turn to
Article XI, Canby Constitution of 1868,
and read
"Section 3. JThe General Assembly shall, at
its first meetiBg, make provision for the erection
and conduct of a State's Prison or Peniten
tiary." The Legislature of 1868-69 paid heed
to this constitutional requirement, and not
only provided for building a penitentiary,
but provided also for filling it, by wasting
the moneys set aside for schools, another
of civilization's most effective agents.
Once filled, and kept filled, the question
was what to do with the convicts. The
Register cannot think with patience of
convict labor being made to compete with
honest labor in any measure, and by em
ploying it on Railroad work the Demo
cratic party has avoided that competition as
far as possible. But why does it ever, in
the smallest particular, compete with the
labor of honest men? Turn once more to
Article XI, Canby Constitution of 1868,
and read
"Section 11. It shall be HtMuIilv knt in viw
by the Legislature, and the Board of Public
Charities, that all penal and charitable- institu
tions should be made as nearly self-supporting
as is consistent with the purposes of their crea
tion." FREE WHISKY. i
A friend writes that he is as anxious as I
the Register is to get rid of the Internal
Revenue iniquity, but he does wish to see
whisky taxed like other commodities; and,
being what is called a luxury, taxed higher
than other articles that are necessary, or
thought to be necessary. He is opposed.
he writes, to Mfree whisky " and taxed arti
cles of necessity. The Register knows of
no one who differs with its correspondent.
The tax law jin this country is the tariff
law ; there is mo other United States tax law
on any article of necessity. In it the tax on
whisky is 310 per cent. ; just 190 per cent,
higher than the highest tax levied on any
other article, whether of "necessity" or
of "luxury."
The Whisky Ring is smart enough, and
has had monej enough, to get itself very
thoroughly ''protected" against all sorts
of competition. It has been a powerful
agency for the corruption of American
politics, andj it is now smart enough to
fool some good temperance folk into the
belief that the temperance cause can be
promoted by continuing a monopoly for
the manufacture of poisonous drink.
SUPREME COURT.
iweive decisions were filed yesterday
by the Supreme Court, and digests made
for it by a capable lawyer are printed in
the Register to-day.
By the way, a layman correspondent
inquires why it is that the Register is
not furnished these digests by the Supreme
Court 5 Reporter, )aad thus saved the ex
pense of reporting them. Lest iniustice
be done him by other lay people, it is only
proper to say that the excellent Reporter
would iuraisn them to the Register, or
permit the Register to copy them, with
very great pleasure, but he has the duties
of a very laborious office to attend to and
makes his digests head-notes as he can:
in abundant time for the volume of Re
ports issued at the close of each term of
the Court, but not in time for a newspaper
furnishing its readers each week with that
week's news;
By the way again, the Register thanks
its clever neighbor, The State Chronicle,
for giving it the enjoyment of a new sen
sation. The Chronicle copies the Regis
ter's digests, and gives the Register
credit for them!
AMERICAN LABOR.
a late; Paris teleeram to the New
In
l orlc Herald, it is stated that several
delegates of the workingmen in that pro
tective , tariff country have "protested
against the competition of foreign laborers
who come ti France and work for lower
wages than dative artisans are willing to
accept." j
There is sense in the protest; much
more of it than in the "strikes" which
American laborers make and lose by. If
every little manufacture in this country
is to be "protected " by law from foreign
competition, why is it not just to extend
the same protection to the laborer? to the
manufacturer's man? By the importation
or admission of foreign labor, the Amer
ican laborer is deprived of the most ef
fective means of bringing his employer to
his demands.
Make the vicious circle complete, or so
back to square dealing.
The High Point Enterprise savs that
Prof. N. C. English's friends are determined
that his muqe shall go before the Conven
tion as a candidate for Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON'S POSITION.
A Rumor CorrectedNot a Candidate lor
any Place on tne State Ticket Why he
Could Never Antagonize Colonel Saun
derat his friend the friend, of the West,
the In valuable Public Servant. J ;V
Correspondence of the Raleigh KEeisnra.
FRAHaxur, N. C March li; i884-ijf
Dear Sir: I have just heard of ;a. rumor
current in the East that I would be a candi
date for the Democratic nomination for
Secretary of State.
I have not been, nor do I expect to be,
an aspirant for any position on the Demo
cratic State Ticket in 1884.
In the matter of the Secretary of State's
place, if I desired it ever so much, nothing
could induce me to antagonize my old
friend, Colonel Saunders, for that position.
I may be ambitious, selfish and grasping,
but I have not yet reached the point when
I can forget the unselfish and valuable
work and counsel given to me and my sec
tion (the Ducktown Line of the Western
North Carolina Railroad), by Colonel
Saunders, as well as by yourself, his asso
ciate on the Raleigh Observer.
The crisis was reached and passed, as
I thought then and still think, in refer
ence to the question as to what the State
would do through her representatives,
toward building the line of road west from
Asheville to Cherokee, during the session
of 1870. Saunders & Hale, with the
Observer, were our friends in season and
out of season, and the sentiment which
secured the building of the line to Chero
kee under the sale, and has protected it
since, was largely created and built in the
public mind by W. L. Saunders. His devo
tion to North Carolina, his labors and suffer
ings for her, ought to command the unani
mous endorsement of her people in Con
vention for any place in their gift.
Respectfully, &c,
J. L. Robinson.
To P. M. Hale, Esq.
GUBERNATORIAL TIMBER.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
Raleigh, March 17. The world now
concedes that no State in this grand Amer
ican Union surpasses the Old North State
in her varied and superior timbers.
A few months hence a mighty structure
is to be built, and the wise and good men
of the country want it built right ; and it is
of vast importance to all classes that it
should be. The rich, the poor the high,
the low the old, the young the white,
the black are equally interested. The
farmer, the mechanic, the merchant and
professional man must all take a hand in
its construction. The corner-post must be
of the best, free from sap, wind-shake or
dry rot. Then other good timbers may
be worked in elsewhere. The hewers of
wood and drawers of water must see to this.
North Carolina with her natural advan
tages is far behind other States, and must
have for her Governor a wide-awake man,
a good financier, a man who has traveled
and seen the improvements other States
are making, and can pilot the old North
State up in line with them; a man of
good common hard horse-sense ; a success
ful man, of good habits and good stand
ing; a forcible, practical speaker, of good
address, who can command the "respect
and attention not only of the most igno
rant, but of the most enlightened men of
the country. .'
Can any man in the State fill the bill any
better than Major Rufus S. Tucker ?
Progress.
P. S. Major Tucker is not now nor
ever was a candidate for any office, and
this is written not by his knowledge or
consent.
HOG CHOLERA.
Hard Sense a Sure Cure for It.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
Moyock, N. C, March 4, 1884. Your
paper of February 27 has been read with
much interest and profit. I think it re
flects much credit on its editor and prom
ises good to its readers.
I notice in your colums mention made of
hard times and of hog cholera. The latter
is matter of much concern to lis all. I
wish to give some experience and know
ledge of my own that may be of use to mv
fellow men if practically observed.
All stock need attention, and the hog
needs more than any other sort. There is
not so much in the feeding as in the man
ner, time and place of feeding. A same
ness of food and sameness of place will
cause the best hogs to degenerate or nirken
If people will place their hogs in pastures
in the spring and summer seasons, where
they can have access to green stuff, such
as carrot-weed, clover and grass, and
change them about every month (if the lot
is not more than1, one or two acres it will
do), and refrain from giving them much
corn, and let them have free access to a
trough of salt and ashes now and then
throwing in a little copperas and saltpe
tre and give them apples, watermelons,
squash or vegetables in the swill. I will
obligate myself to pay for all that die with
sickness of any kind. I had sickness in my
hogs about ten or fifteen years ago, but
have not had any since. The conclusion
I came to was that it originated in a same
ness of place and food right among the
hogs by some freak in nature, and was not
Bt all contagious. I Would recommend
the Poland-China, as I believe them to be the
best, least liable to disease and producing
the greatest and best amount of pork and
bacon for the outlay and attention.
This prevention will as well apply to
fowls. Much has been said as to a remedy
to cure, but remedy is a humbug, because
when the disease is contracted you would
have to apply the remedy to every one if you
allowed them to remain at the place where
it was contracted, and there is no specific
remedy known. E. W. Hott.
Schools East and West.
.Kinston Free Press.
The education facilities of Lenoir
county are unsurpassed by any county in
the State and we feel proud of our county
There are 1,204 white children attend
ing the public schools of the county and
1, 162 attending the private schools, making
a total of 2,366.
There are 1,530 colored children at
tending the public schools and 473? at
tending the colored graded school, making
a total of 2,009.
The population of Lenoir county, ac
cording to the census of 1880, was 15,344,
of which number 7,277 are white and
8,067 are colored.
rAsheville Citizen Letter.
In 1882 the per cent of enrollment in
the public schools was sixty-four and the
per cent of attendance was thirty-six;
last year, 1883, the per eent of enrollment
in the schools was eighty-one and a frac
tion while the average daily attendance
was forty-eight and a fraction of the en
rollment. It will be seen from the above
that our progress in respect to the atten
dance on the schools has been about thirty
three and a third per cent., an improve
ment of one-third. We have likewise had
better schools for the reason that we have
had better teachers. Out of sixty teachers
licensed during the year we have had but
twelve third grade.
Wilmington's Cotton Business.
Wilmington Review.
The receipts of cotton for the week foot up
619 bales, against 1,830 bales for the cor
responding week of last year a decrease
this week of 1,211 bales. The receipts of
the crop year to date foot up 89,403 bales
against 120,507 bales to same date last
year a decrease this year of 31,104 bales.
The Pamlico Enterprise says that con
stant rains have thrown farmers behind in
preparing their lands for this year's crops
NEW YORK.
An Interior View or the New York
Herald Office How the Great Dally Is
' managed Some of the Ken Connected
. with It A Breezy Sketch of James
- Gordon Bennett., ; . ?,::-s, yi-:
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
New York, March 15;S1884.-Among
the many places of interest in the metro
polis which strangers include inr their tour
of investigation, foremost In the list is the
office of the New Yrork' Herald. There
are few nights in a week when the editor
in charge is not called upon to extend the
courtesies of the establishment, and ap
point a guide to conduct company of one
kind or another through . its mysterious
recesses. Among the visitors and they
always come after midnight, for that is
the best time for observing the machinery
whereby the great paper is produced
have been the . Emperor of Brazil, , the
Prince of Wales, Lords, Dukes, Duchesses,
Prime Donne fresh from the triumphs of
the opera well, the catalogue might be
extended ad infinitum, and if the names
were recorded as they are in the British
Museum, the Astor Library, and else
where, it would embrace thousands of
distinguished people.
A BUSY WORKSHOP.
What they see. however, may be des
cribed in a nutshell. Suppose, by way of
illustration, 3-011 have an advertisement.
It is dropped into one of the uptown or
out-of-town offices, of which there arc a
half a score. If you are not n servant, you
pay forty -five cents a line, and your busi
ness is complete until you see the paper
the next morning and get your reply.
Before nine o'clock at night, it has passed
through the hands of more than a dozen
persons, been checked, audited, flirted to
the fifth story where ninety or a hundred
men are at work, dissected by the foreman,
maltreated by a compositor, licked into
presentable shape by four or five venerable
proof readers, pounded into a form, sent
to the subcellar to m stereotyped, and
then shoved on one of the fifteen or
twenty presses that whirl out the reading
matter for the million. It may be only
half past three or four o'clock in the
morning, but a score or more of wagons
are in waiting to distribute the paper to
the four quarters of the globe. First, the
early mails are supplied ; then the large
news-dealers who furnish the retailers;
then the owners of routes in and out of
the city, and finally the little Arabs, who
catch the early worm and flood the street
cars and busses with their morning cries.
Go up town just lofore daylight, and you
will be astonished to see what a large in
dustry is kept alive in this work of dis
tributing the dailv newspapers. Some
times, the men, women and loys with their
great piles fill half a car, and they lose
not a minute in folding, arranging, and
making ready for the prompt delivery of
their stock in trade.
THE EDITORIAL SANCTUM.
The editorial department of the Herald
is at present under the management of
Mr. Edward Flynn, a gentleman who has
been connected with the office since he
was a boy, and is therefore familiar with
its every detail. He is comparatively young
but wise, possesses a splendid stock of pa
tience, and has the rare art of making a com
pliment compensate for a disappointment.
In short, he is a born journalist and scents
a sensation the moment it appears on the
I newspaporial horizon. He enjoys a pretty
salary of five thousand a year but earns
every mill of it. It may be said of him
that in his case the "mills of the Gods"
may have ground slowly, but they have
ground exceeding strong". Speaking tubes
connect his desk with the several de
partments in the building, and telephones
enable him to commiimratp with pvlit.
ljody out of it. A private secretary finds j
abundant work in onenins- and di
of the thousands of letters that are dailv
im-neu, anu is naturally an important
factor in the confidential torrespondence.
Besides this gentleman, Mr. Bennett (by
the way he is now in Europe), employs a
personal secretary, and the amount of im
portant work he does in the course of a
year would bother anybody but a prime
minister.
MAMMOTH EXPENSES.
The question is frequently asked how
Mr. Bennett can manage his great paper,
and overlook its vast concerns while ab
sent. ' It is done through the cable. The
expense is equal to a yearly fortune for a
poor man, but the proprietor has the
satisfaction of knowing what is taking
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piace lrom uay to aay in the orhce, as ac
curately as if he were present. Some
times an entire editorial is telegraphed
from London, Paris or Berlin as the case
may be, while in the event of important
news, dollars are of no more account than
cents. During the Franco-Prussian war,
one dispatch alone cost ten thousand dol
lars. If a map is required to illustrate
this news, which is often the case, men
stand ready up to the hour of midnight
to make and hand them to the stereotypers,
who in twenty or thirty minutes after
wards will have a score of duplicates
ready for the presses.
THE EDITORS.
The managing editor is ably supple
mented in his work by a large number of
irainea journalists, some-of whom have
been for many years on the paper, and are
familiar with the methods in which public
affairs arc discussed. These gentlemen
hold a daily consultation or "congress"
and agree among themselves upon the subjects-matter
that are to be presented in
the next day's issue. They then retire to
their respective apartments, and as a rule
the'main portion of the editorial page is
ready for press before nine o'clock at
night. Several remain on duty, however,
prepared to make the necessary comments
on the news that may be received at a late
hour, and it is not infrequently the case
that the most brilliant work of these
brain-toilers is thrown off at high pres
sure with a merciless night editor at their
elbow crying out every five minutes
"great heavens, cut that short!"
THE LIBRARY.
The library of the office contains many
thousands of volumes, all of which are
j iu,": ko iuui, reierence may
be promptly made to any subject on which
information is desired. Naturally there
are gentlemen present who can translate
into English any of the languages from
French to Arabic. One of the features of
the library is the index department
where two or three employes make them
selves miserable twelve or fifteen hpurs a
day in indexing every item that appears
in the paper, so that in a minute, one may
turn to any column of the Herald since its
first issue and find what he wants. Still
another valuable and important department
is the obituary ward, in which are preser
ved the histories of public men of 11
tries who deserve a place in the mortuary
record. Thousands of persons who least
suspect thr notoriety, are at this moment
embalmed in mysterious pigeon holes
and it would console them greatly if they
knew what was to be said about them
when they shuffle off the mortal coil.
THE CITY DEPARTMENT.
The city editor's department is under
the management of Mr. Ballard Smith a
handsome black-eyed Kentuckian, who
although a comparatively young man, has
taken his place in the front rank of
metropolitan journalists. Nothing that
occurs in or around New York, is expected
to escape his vigilance, and there are a
half hundred reporters ready to do his.
omaing, wnether it be to write a funnv
with, a preacher, or unravel finnnpinl i
problems with a visiting secretary of the
treasury. The, art of interviewing has
been reduced to-a fine point, and they are
men brave enough to penetrate the sacred
recesses of the most potential people
when necessary, in order to obtain news.
The time has been when reporters re
gretted that they did not wear a paper
wad in the seat of their breeches vWhile
visiting some surly nabob, but happily
such necessity no longer exists. The in
stitution of interviewing has become so
recognized that nine men out of ten: are
only too glad to; get their names in the
Herald ana thus advertise their individual
ity. Under the administration of Mr.
Smith, are gentlemen who attend to
specific duties, such for instance, as cer
tain courts, the fire department, the
Tombs, the glove matches, dog and rooster
fights, races, balls, and so on, but all are
trained to lend a helping hand wherever
it will do the most good. The adventures
of some of these reporters would make a
romance. Mr. William Meighan, the
chief assistant editor in this department,
has been for many years on the paper, and
is probably one of the best posted men in
regard to local and State politics and pub
lic men in the city. The boys are like a
happy family, especially on pay-day when
they find they have earned their weekly
grub.
MR. BENNETT.
Mr. Bennett himself is probably less
understood and more misrepresented by
outsiders than any man connected with
the establishment. But wealth and in
dependence make him indifferent to the
opinions 01 tne world, and he hurries
along in his journalistic career, intent only
on keeping his beloved Herald at the front,
and distancing all competitors. People
make a mistake who take him for an idle
man ; on the contrary, there is no person
connected with the office who works more
industriously, sleeps fewer hours, or puts
more intellectual stamina into the paper
than himself. In the language of Scrip
ture, "whatsoever his hand findeth to
do, he doeth it with all his might." His
whole life has been full of strong points.
Scarcely out of his teens, you remember
how he sailed his yacht across the Atlantic
when it was thought to be the undertaking
of a madcap. When Livingston was sup
posed to be lost, he sent Stanley to find
him. When famine desolated Ireland, he
sent his own agents to distribute a hun
dred thousand dollars worth of food and
supplies. When the poor were suffering
in New York, he gave a carte llanche to
Delmonico to establish soup houses and
furnish the hungry with the best the land
could afford. The story of the Jeanette,
sad as it is, affords another instance of his
generosity in seeking as a private citizen
to solve the problem of the frozen North.
What his contributions in a private way
have been, no one but himself can tell,
but the amounts so expended probably
reach among the hundreds of thousands.
With a pistol ball, he has been known to
knock a dollar out of the hand of his
valet. As a pigeon shot, in his early days
he was regarded as an expert. As a
pedestrian, he wou a few years ago, a ten
thousand dollar bet that he could out
walk one of his Union Club friends in a
race between the Windsor Hotel on Fifth
Avenue and Jerome Park; and as a
sparrer, well, not many men" who have
faced his bunch of fives, hanker after that
kind of amusement. In addition to these
physical accomplishments, he speaks with
fluency several languages, and in matters
of literature and art, finance and some of
the practical sciences, is one of the best
posted men of his age. It isn't a wonder
that one who 'possesses such a strong in
dividuality should have his enemies, but
there are thousands who appreciate his
finer qualities and grapple to him "with
hooks of steel." Personxe.
MONTGOMERY.
Moving for the State Exposition Its
Valuables to be Exhibited there and In
the Register Homicide Local News.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
Troy, N. C, March 13, 1884. A corre
spondent writing from Troy on the 3d of
March begins well and said good things
for Montgomery, but "the half has not
been told." If indulged, we will help our
friend. There is standing and writing room
for both, and more; each may write with
out repetition and not touch heels nor
toes. '
We intend from time to time to present
to the readers of the Register such points
and matters of local interest as demand
public notice, referring to minerals, tim
bers, water powers, agricultural produc
tions, &c. We would be glad for. those
who may wish to know more of Montgom
ery and other counties in the State to se
cure a copy of your book, Coal and Iron
Counties, as we will refer to the sketch
from our county, especially as to the points
of mineral interest.
We want a greater local interest, a more
intelligent and thorough understanding of
the purposes of the State Exposition a
willingness to help, both with time and
means. Give us this and we will not be
ashamed of the showing to be made next
fall.
Other counties in the State have decided
advantages because of railroad and water
transporting agencies and wealth thereby
increased, but we deny that there is a sin
gle county in the State which can show
such an area and promising prospect of so
great wealth in the development of its la
tent resources. We have no railroad or
seaport town of which to boast, but we do
claim public attention when we speak for
Montgomery and her resources. A plan
to raise the means has been proposed, and
we await the response. We think there are
public-spirited, liberal men enough in the
county to do the work and spend the time
and money necessary.
My communication may be stale to many
readers of the Register now, but when
we add the golden spice from Ophir, and
El Dorado, beaten in mortars of Montgom
ery iron and silver and washed by the
rapid falls of the Yadkin, Uwharrie and
Pee Dee, this correspondence will be more
interesting.
Troy, N. C, March J4, 1884. A fatal
affray last night at the house of Martha
McQueen, a little over a mile from town,
is reported to the officers here, and a war
rant has been issued and an officer de
spatched for the arrest of the parties.
The principal actors were Ed White and
Joe Liles, a negro. The facts are not
known yet. The negro was first seen in
McQueen's house this morning, sitting in
a chair, leaning against the house, with a
frightful shotgun wound in the temple,
just above the ear, ranging to the back of
the head, unable to speak so as to give an
account of the affray. The wounds are
reported fatal. White was not hurt.
Rains heavy streams full up. No mar
riages or deaths. Trojax
Gnllford Frnlt Growing.
Greensboro Patriot.
Messrs. J. C. Lindley & Bro., proprie
tors of the New Garden Nurseries, are
sons of the late Joshua Lindley the
pioneer nurseryman of this State, if not of
the South, and were born and bred among
nursery stock. Their nurseries, which are
located west of town, are well stocked
with all the standard and reliable southern
and acclimated fruit trees, grape vines,
Ac, but, they make a specialty of early
peaches for market orchards. Guilford
has long been famous for its nurseries of
fruit trees; but when "New Garden Nur
series" were established by the father of
these gentlemen, and named after the
Quaker church, of revolutionary fame, the
business was in its infancv. . Mnh nf th-
credit which has accrued to Guilford and
l .
' me nurseries which are now
owned by the sons of "Uncle Joshua," as
1 U ,t..r. . . .
due
ued i
he wa familiarly known.
The total net receipts of cotton
September 1 are 4,435,579 bales.
since
A TRAVELER'S NOTES
Alone the Carolina Central Railway.
There is one man in North Carolina who
does not want to be Governor. Hon.
Walter L. Steele, of Rockingham, has
been snggested by several papers as the
proper man for the place, but he told me
the othpr day that he would notr have the
office under any consideration; that he
would rather be a justice of the peace.
Mr. James A. Wright, of Rockingham,
has obtained a patent on a spring motor,
for running sewing machines and other
light machinery. It is said to be a very
good thing.
The five cotton factories around Rock
ingham have been the making of the place.
I only had time to visit one, the Great
Falls. Mr. S. W. Steele, the clever super
intendent, kindly showed me through his
factory, and explained the modw operandi
of converting bales of raw cotton into
bales of first-class sheeting. The factory
contains 4,288 spindles, 134 looms; con
sumes eight bales of cotton per day, and
turns out about 166,000 yards of sheeting
per month. One hundred and thirty hands
are employed.
One would have to travel many miles be
fore finding more genial, whole-souled peo
ple than the citizens of
LILE8YLLLE.
The town, though small, does a very fair
business, and the size of the place is more
than made up by the big hearts of the peo
ple and their appreciation of such papers
as the Register.
No town in this section is progressing
more rapidly than
WADESBORO.
The business men are enterprising, adver
tise liberally in their local papers, and of
course keep the town "booming." The
new Grand Central Hotel would be a
credit to a much larger place than Wades
boro, and Col. Frederick, the proprietor,
knows how to make his guests comfortable.
Editor Henley, of the Intelligencer, has
created a nice little boom for his paper by
his articles on the Cashes. It has already
resulted in a considerable addition to his
subscription list. The citizens of Colum
bia presented him with an elegant gold
pen and pencil.
POLKTOX
is the largest place of its size I ever saw.
It has two drug stores, several grocery and
dry goods stores, one hotel, &c. Col.
Carraway, mine host of the Polkton House,
is a genial, jovial fellow of sixty, but does
not look to be over forty-five. He is fond
of a joke, and enjoys telling how he got his
wife hugely. Being a widower, and real
izing that it is not good for a man to be
alone, he advertised in various papers for
a companion to share his joys and troubles
and enter into a general family copartner
ship. A lady of Baltimore answered his
"ad," and after a short correspondence,
Col. C. went to Baltimore on "courting
business." Three days later he started
home with his fair correspondent trans-1
formed into Mrs. Carraway.
MONROE
is a thriving town of about 2,500 inhabi
tants. A great many goods are sold here,
and although a large amount of grain is
produced in the county, one firm alone in
this place has sold 1,100 barrels of flour
since the first of January. This speaks I
well for the firm but rather badly for the
iarmers. j
The Enquirer and Express is one of the
best weeklies in the State, and I am glad
to know that Mr. Boylin is meeting with
the success he deserves.
The Monroe High School, under the
managemot of Prof. J. A. Monroe, assisted
by an able corps of teachers, is in a flourish
ing condition, about 115 students being
enrolled.
MATTHEWS
is a pleasant little town which was brought
into existence by the advent of the Caro
lina Central Railroad, and although it
is only ten miles from Charlotte, it
does a considerable business. Here I
uexpectedly ran upon an old acquaintance
of the genus drummer, and of the Irish
persuasion. Joe Tracy is his name, and
a more pleasant and agreeable fellow you
seldom find. He represents the well-known
and reliable clothing house of Snyder,
Harris, Bassett & Co., of Philadelphia, and
has established a good trade in this section.
Everywhere I go I find evidence of the
folly of relying entirely on cotton, with a
mortgage on the crop for guano and pro
t iniuun.
But more of this hereafter.
E. R. Wood.
FARMING FACTS.
The Davie Times says that the fly has
commenced his work on the little tobacco
plant.
The Caswell farmers, says the Milton
Chronicle, 6 wing to much ra'in the last two
months, are considerably behind with their
work.
The Durham Recorder says that the
town is filled with tobacco "wagons, the
prices are high the farmers are going
home rejoicing.
The Toisnot Home says that Mr. W. T.
Taylor has threshed" out his crop of
reanuts, 1,900 bushels, and sold it for
1.25 a bushel.
The Tarboro Southerner says that the
peach crop has been damaged by the cold
snap. The apple crop is not considered
injured at all.
The Tarboro Southerner says'that "the
farmer of this and adjoining counties are
further advanced in their agricultural
operations than they have been in several'
years.
The Rockingham South says that the
Richmond county farmers are bending all
their energies now towards their crop op
erations, but the cold, backward season is
against them. "
Rowan wheat, the Salisbury Examiner
says, is "looking well. There was more
wheat sown in this county last fall than
ever before. A large quantity of oats will
be sown also. "
It rains so in Jones, says the New Berne
Journal, that farmers can neither plow nor
clean out their ditches. The Journal es
timates the peas on New Berne truck
farms, stiff lands, at half a crop.
The Goldsboro Messenger says that " the
pea crops on the truck farms in this
vicinity are looking exceedingly thin and
" delicate." The crop will be rather late
in maturing, and considerably short."
The Salisbury Watchman's county cor
respondence reports "the outlook for a
wheat crop quite promising. The crbp
sown is very large. From present ap
pearances there will be a very large crop
oi louacco planted.
The Potecasi Patron savs that, iwintr to
the late inclement weather, farming inter
ests have made but slow progress. Wheat
and oats have suffered much from the
freezes. The buds which began to put
forth have been killed.
In Cabarrus, the Concord Register re
ports "wheat and oat crops looking fine,
and the prospect for a good yield very en
couraging. Owing to the almost incessant
wet weather the farmers are behind in their
preparations for the approaching corn and
cotton Crops."
The New Berne Journal says that Mr.
Charles Cox, of Onslow, is in his sixty-
seuuim year, oeen a tanner all his life,
never bought but one bushel of corn, and
that was the year he married, never bought
an ounce of fertilizers, never gave a mort
gage nor took one.
Granville and Person farmers tell the
Durham Reporter that nearly all the early
tobacco plants were destroyed by the cold
weather. B.ut the Reporter says that "the
farmers are not at all gloomy over the
prospect for tobacco plants. Many think'
this will be a fine crop year."
RAILROAD PROGRESS.-
Raleigh and Augusta Railroad.
The Seaboard and Roanoke Company is
now building a line from Hamlet, the
terminus of the Raleigh and Augusta Rail
road on the Carolina Central, to .Gibson's
Store, oni the South Carolina line. Nor
folk, Virginian.
Lenoir's Possibilities. Among the
railroad possibilities in store for Lenoir
" v uiaj iuuiiuu l liv, uujmill ui 1111. V I ill I
berry road, of Gen. Imboden's road, of
bridging the gap in the narrow gauge sys
tem from Danbury to Lenoir ; and the com
pletion of the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Railroad. Topic.
Petersburg and Weldon Railroad.
It is said now that the Atlantic Coast
line has not bought the Petersburg road,
but the largest stockholders in it are also
the controlling power in the Wilmington
and Weldon Road; this puts both roads
under the control of the same 'men but
does not consolidate them. Weldon Neics.
Clinton and Point Caswell Road.
Verily, the Clinton and Point Caswell
Railroad is destined to work wonders for
the land owners of Sampson. At the
embryo city of " Dobbinville," (we refer
to the next geography for its location)
business lots are selling at rates of $500
to 725 per acre. And this too in the
midst of the piney wilds of lower Samp
son; but then the graded road-bed is in
sight. .Clinton Caucasian.
Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
road. We are reliably informed that five
shares of Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad stock recently sold for fifty dol
lars cash. Two freight trains went up on
the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
on Friday evening, carrying off thirty car
load of freight, and yet there is a large
amount still at the warehouse. We see
some of the Richmond and Danville cars
on the road again an indication, we hope,
that an understanding has been arrived at
which will lift the embargo off our Eastern
coral New Berne Journal.
CkpEEAR AND YADKIN VALLEY ROAD.
-ye have paired the road
bed andHnid fifty-two miles of new track
with thjj best steel rails since the middle
of last summer. The track is now laid to
within eight miles of Greensboro, and by
the first of April that gap will be closed
up. We have laid eight and a half miles
south of Fayetteville and thoroughly re
paired the old part of the road, replacing
the worn out iron with new steel rails and
our trains now run over ninety-eight miles
of good road daily. From Greensboro to
Walnut Cove, thirty miles, the grading is
substantially completed, and on the first
of June we will place one half of our con
vict force? oh the grading westj of Walnut
Cove. We are surely and steadily ad
vancing and when we have completed our
main line to Mt. Airy will turn our atten
tion to the Yadkin Valley branch. Prr ,
ident Gray to Col. Jones.
Georgetown and Rutherford Road.
News from Rutherford is encouraging
about the railroad. Last week the Boston
Syndicate put in;its appearance in person,
showed their hand and said that thev
meant and were prepared to do business.
iThey propose to build a broad gauge rail
road irom Georgetown, 8. v., via Gaffney
City to Hutherfordton, and to do the
work and have the road completed out of
their own funds, if the county would take
stock in the road to the sum of $100,000.
none of which was to be assigned to the
use of the road until the road wis built.
They gave references as to their ability to
comply wtith their proposal, and we learn
the thirteen commissioners of the Ruther
ford $109,000 subscription, unanimously
accepted their proposition, if after twenty
days, in which to investigate the respon
sibility of the proposers, they should find
them financially responsible for their con
tracts. The Syndicate represents large
Boston capitalists whose money is counted
by millions, they are seeking profitable in
vestment j yet they demand the coopera
tion and help of those with whom they
make thei investment. This is natural as
well as wise. Marion Lamp Post.
STATE INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
Mica is mined to a considerable extent
in the western portion of this countv.
Lincoln Press.
There will be a cotton seed oil mill run
in connection with thecotton factory here.
Durham Plant.
- Mr. Walter Watson has made a consid
erable extension to his tooT manufactory.
Mr. Watson makes a specialty of turpen
tine toolsi Fayettecille Observer.
Mr. Miles Griffiths, of Haverstraw, Nev
York, who was here during the Christmas
holidays, prospecting with the view of
establishing a paper-mill, is making pre
parations for building one as soon as pos-
sioie. talem Jres.
About six thousand dozens of eggs were
shipped by the steamer Shenandoah yester
day. There are twelve thousand dozens
of eggs sold in this market a week during
this season of the year. Xetc Berne Jour
nal, March 13.
Our wide-awake young townsman, Mr.
J. D. McNeill, intends putting in a full
set of the most improved wool cards this
season. He is not satisfied, it seems, with
sawing and planing lumber, grinding
corn, bolting flour and ginning cotton.
FayettetiRe Observer.
An enterprising capitalist in our midst
will loon put up a mill at what is known
as the "McLaughlin Mill," in CampflUl
ton. The mill is to be on the hill above
high-water mark, and run by wire rope
connecting with an improved "wheel at the
Hum. Fayetteville Observer.
Mr. Arthur Arlington sold his planta
tion in this county a few days ago, con
sisting of about 2,100 acres, tb a Pittsburg
syndicate; f for the sum of $35,000. The
land is lying near, and adjoins the cele
brated Portis gold mine, and will in all
probability be worked upon a larger scale,
as it is said to contain the precious stuff.
Rocky Mount Reporter.
South Toe river is fast becoming the
centre of the mica mining interest. The
Burton and Ballew mine is yielding a good
output, and a number of new mines are
being opened. Irbv & Smyre are getting
good yields, and quite a town has sprung
up around them. Mr. J. Bowling, of
Burke county, with some Boston parties,
have bought mining property hear by and
will open work within the next month. '
Marion Jximp Post.
Mr. William P. Weniyss informed us
that last year he sold over $300 worth of
strained honey in Baltimore and other mar
kets, besides what he realized from the
sale of wax and the honey sold in home
maricets. Mr. wemyss stated that but a
small part of his time, an hour or two only,
was required daily during the honey sea
son, which lasts about three months, so
that his regular business was not inter:,
fered with, and that really the attention
he gave Ms busy little friends not only put
money in his pocket, but was a source of
great pleasure and recreation to him.
Fayettetifle Observer.
Mr. B. B. Babington, of Shelby, writes
that he has just been on a trip through
Polk county looking for minerals, and that
on every Ismail stream in the county he
found men washing the sand and dirt for
gold and silver, and making goed wages
at it One gentleman" (Mr. James B. Mor
ris, of Rutherford) stated that "he could
take a shovelful of dirt from almost any
hill in the county and by washing or pan
ning it out, get considerable gold, and that
with good machinery gold mining there
would pay almost as "well as in California.
He has often, so he gays, picked up small
nuggets of gold in the road while travel
ing over the hills of that section. Manu
facturers'' Record.