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BALEIGH, 1ST. WEDNESDAY "..AUGUST 20, 1884. DR. YORK'S RAILROAD RECORD. CAMPAIGN RATES. The Best and the Cheapest. be fur 50 $ 3.00 3.75 "i 7.00 15.00 28.00 Tins Rat.kksh Register will nished at the following rates: One Copy, t- - -Five Copies, -Ten 'S - - -Twenty copies Fifty " . , -One. hundred copies, In every case a copy extra will be fur nished to the getter-up of the Club, and ' In every case the paper will be sent un til thetreturns of the election shall be re ceived and published ; and we invite the attention, of Executive Committees of Counties and Townships, and of all others interested, to the Campaign Register as a sure and cheap means of furnishing in formation to the, people. Address Raleigh Register, May 28, 1884: ' Raleigh, N. C. TIME TO BE AT WORK. rrom some oi our menus tnere is an ' occasional growl that the campaign is too long, that it was begun too soon, and such like. If these doubting people will pause a moment and ask themselves a few serious questions, it may be that good will come of it. Suppose the election was set for to-mprrow, would we be ready for it? N- election was ever yet parried by speaking or torchlights or newspaper arti cles. The votes put in the ballot box do the work, and the object of canvassing, of speeches and cf newspaper articles is to bring the voters to the polls and see that they deposit their votes in the ballot box; and to accomplish this, all the speaking that ever was heard is worth nothing with out the ceaseless, noiseless neighborhood - work. But to be effective this work must . be systematic. Each man must have !hls part in the programme plainly marked but for him and he must do it. As a general rule white men will vote right if only they can be persuaded to go to the polls. The object then of all our plans and organization will be to see that white men go to the polls on election day. For this pupose no better machinery can be found than the township executive committees and Cleveland and Scales Clubs. If there be a full and active executive com mittee and a full and active Cleveland and Scales Club in every township the work can be done easily and smoothly. Every man in the township can be seen and prevailed upon to go to the polls. Every man will be registered in due time and illegal registration will be guarded against. On the day of election our chal lengers will have lists of the registered Democratic voters and will check off all who vote, and when; one o'clock comes it will be easy enough to send for those who have not put in an appearance. " If matters be arranged in this way there is no need for us to lose a single vote unnecessarily. But to do all this it requires time. In deed, we think if our doubting friends will consider for a moment they will say it requires all the time we. have at our dis posal. Let such a man ask himself how many townships there are in. his county without an executive committee and with ' out a Clevelakd and Scales club. Let him ask himself how far the committees and clubs already in existence have gone in the discharge of their duties. ' Let him ask himself if there is a township execu tive committee or a township club that has an accurate list or that has any list at all of the qualified voters in the township in which it is located. If . we mistake not the facts, the answers to these questions will convince almost every man, and that too with a rude shock, that but little thus far has been done save to make speeches and to listen to them. It is folly to deceive ourselves. Public speeches are all very well in their way, newspapers-are all very well in their way, and so are public documents; but they are only means toan end, and that end is to bring out the voters on election day. They serve a useful and a necessary purpose in furnishing the local committees and local clulw with the facts and arguments to use to stir up indifferent and uninformed men upon the great issues of the day. But if the work stops with the making of speech es and the circulation of newspapers and the scattering of documents, the work is only half done and the smalfcr half at that, for the great mass of the people, in our sparsely settled country and with our lim ited mail facilities and our limited means of transportation will not be reached. A great hurrah and hullabaloo may very easily be gotten up in the big towns and the little towns and places along the lines of the. various railroads in the State, but that does not reach the people in the country. Town people can get up an ex citement at almost any time and about almost any thing. We don't care so much to hear from them as from the people of the country, the people who make the bread and meat and pay the taxes. It takes a long time with our present limited mail facilities to reach the people in the country. Have we done it yet? If not, then the great work has not been done. We "have still about eighty days to prepare for the great fight. Shall we make use of them or shall no ,; .... .i , ., oli bljii mm ao nothing, unless, it may be, to complain that the campaign began too soon. It will Ikj the worst madness in trie world for us to sit still and rely for victory upon the shouts that come to us from the con flict between Scales and Yokk. The men who hear the candidates speak will uot constitute one-half of the voters of the State and are mainly men who have alreadv made up their minds how they intend to - vote. Let us bear these things in mind and go to work. A good township eK .cut,vecommittee.ffnd a good township C i.ktki.akd and Scales Club are worth .... me speeches that can be made and i ue newspapers and all ll A can oe circulated in that township between now and Christmas. We all have Pur work to do. Let us do it. ' The speakers are doing theirs handsomely, the newspapers are doing theirs, but what are thfl iliiha A ' i . " -,U"B ""i"g, ana what are the tive committees doin? The Register of July 30 printed Dr. York's. Record as made by himself in the Legislature against each and all of the measures which have had so much to do with the State's wonderful progress under Democratic rule since -1877. First, was noted his record "against the western railroad "Inl876-'7 Dr. York was a member of the Senate. On January 24, 1877, the "bill to provide for the speedy completion oT the Western North Carolina Railroad" was taken up on its second reading. (See Senate Jonrnal 1876-'7, page 259.) A proposition was offered to appropriate $140,000 for the road, and Dr. York moved to amend as follows: "Strike out one hundred and ferty thousand dollars and insert one dollar." One dollar! His amendment was voted down. An amend ment was offered by Senator J. L. Robin son, allowing the Governor to purchase sucn iron rails ana materials as might be needed each year. Failing in his "one dollar" proposition, Dr. York moved to limit the amount of this expenditure to $50,000 a year. Mr. Troy moved to make the limit $70, 000. Dr. York voted against Mr. Troy's amendment, which, however, was adopted, and then he voted against Mr. Robinson's proposition as amended by Mr. Troy's. "On this reading Dr. York voted against the bill. ' On page 304, of the same Senate Jour nal, this bill came up on the third reading. "Dr. York moved to strike out "seventy thousand" and insert "fifty thousand" as the amount that could be spent to buy iron, &c, each year. His motion was lost. He then offered a proviso, limiting its operation to two years. The road could not be built for $140,000, and could not be built in two years, and yet he offered the proviso. On its third reading Dr. York again voted squarely against the bill. " If Dr. York had controlled the Demo cratic party the Western North Carolina Railroad would have stopped at Old Fort. It would never have crossed the moun tains. He would have denied to the peo ple across the Blue Ridge all hope of open ing up the country to the world. Such was his statesmanship. But his policy did not triumph. The Democratic party was not governed by such narrow concep tions of justice to the West. They appro priated $70,000 annually and carried the work on slowly and practically, and sub stantially that great road is built. every cent ot that money, with the inter est on it, has been Daid back into the State Treasury ; and because it has been paid back into the State Treasury there are to be no taxes this year. So the work cost us nothing.' Confronted with this Record on the stump. Dr. York does not contest its ab solute accuracy the Senate Journals are easily accessible in every county but he seeks to explain it away. His explanation, in his own words, is this: "But there was a railroad ring that had possession ol this Western North Carolina Railroad, and when the Legislature proposed to vote $140,000 of the money of the people into the pockets of that ring, and that the peo ple would be taxed to pay it, York found it out and declared emphatically that he woulcl not vote another tax when the road was not being completed." Is Dr. York dealing candidly with the people when he makes this excuse? The Register, thinks not. In fact, it is im possible that he could hav6 been influ enced in his action by any such motives, and this is susceptible of the most posi tive proof. In the first place, the Bill then under discussion for the management and speedy completion of the Road, and against which Dr. York., voted and worked, provided that the affairs of the Company should be managed by a Board of twelve Directors, nine of them tabe appointed by the Gov ernor and three to be elected by the pri vate stockholders. The nine to be ap pointed by the Governor had to be select ed one from each Congressional District and one from the State at large. At the time Dr. York was votiiTg and working against the Bill, it was impossi ble for him to know who the Board of Directors would be, and therefore impossi ble for him to know or even conjecture that there was or would be any "ring" about it. Then, too, it was impossible that there could beany "ring" in a Board of Directors appointed by Governor Vance, and selected from the different sections of 4he State, and the Register does not . be lieve that 6uch an idea ever occurred to Dr. York. Certainly he gave expression to no such notion. In the second place, not a dollar of the money appropriated by the Bill against which Dr. York foutrht so hard used except with the approval and consent of the Governor. Every dollar used for the support of the convicts, and for the purchase of rails for thf track, had to be drawn upon the warrant of the Governor, and paid by the Treasurer.. (See Laws 1876-'77, ch. 106.) " So it was impossible, that there could have been.a " ring" unless it consisted of -r-f - - governor vasck and Treasurer Worth; and no man will believe that Dr. York eyer suspected Governor Vance and Dr. Worth of being a " ring." The real reason, no doubt, that influ enced Dr. York to vote against the appro- ririnfrirtt woo J, i . - 1. .. T , . ...... ..w.. a-j Ian . iuc jisinci ne repre sented in the Senate had no direct interest in the completion of the Western Railroad. It had already been completed far beyond the limits of his District, and he was not the man to assume any burden himself, or to put any upon his immediate constitu ency, to help any one else. He was then representing a Senatorial District, and that was the acme of his ambition and the boundary of his political life as it then 10 mm ana the balance of mankind. It had not then entered his wildest dreams, or the mind of a single human being in all North Carolina, that the day would ever come when the name of Tyre York would be mentioned in connection with the office of Governor of North Carolina. A MISLEADING MAXIM. CLEVELAND AD CATAWBA A newspaper friend sajs that he cannot for the life of him se where the .error is in. the Register's statement of th work ing of "the fertilizer tax, but, that tnere must be an error somewhere for it is ft 'well-established, maxim that the tax 6a any article comes out of theT consumer.? There are many well-established maxims, tbat is to say, sententious sayings well enough established to be in men's mouths daily, that are very far from being true. To this particular maxim, there are num berless exceptions. One of the exceptions, as the Register made very plain last week, is the North Carolina tax on fertilizers. Another exception, the Register proposes to note to-day and one which its puzzled friend will very readily appreciate, as it touches his own pocket with a rather heavy hand. The tax now referred to is a license tax of somewhat recent invention levied on newspapers. The newspaper license tax is a much heavier tax than the fertilizer license tax ; that is to say, the newspaper tax is five per cent, on the market price of the paper, whilst the tax on the fertilizer is but one per cent, on its market price. And this tax on newspaper manufacturers not only does not come out of the consumer, and does come out of the manufacturer, but is also an actual gain to the consumer, is a bonus to him, puts money in his pocket or keeps it there. -The subscriber to a news paper used to pay the postage on it say 25 cents or 50 cdnts a year on his weekly paper.- Congress thought, it would be a good thing to relieve the subscriber of this tax, or the postmasters of the trouble of collecting it, and levied it as a license tax on the newspaper man, who has to pay it iefore he can put his wares in market. That is, the buyer of a newspaper, the consumer, does not now pay postage, mak ing a clear gain to him of 23 to-50 cents a year on his $2 weekly paper; and the newspaper man does pay the postage, which is at present a tax of 10 cents on AnaU each $2 worth of his product. Does the newpaper man, does our friend, get this back from the consumer? Nay. The price of his paper remains the same, or is reduced, simply because the news paper license tax was so levied Yas the fer tilizer license tax was levied) as net to break up free trade in newspapers. News paper men and fertilizer men did their J best to add the tax to the price, but both failed, and both have been sensible enough to refrain from insisting on it and destroy- j ing their business. Set a Good Example to all of Vs. It is only charitable to suppose that Dr. York has never read the Blair School Bill, of which he talks so much on the stump. If he had read it, his statement that the bill takes from the accumulated surplus and offers to North Carolina a free i watch gift of $7,000,000 to be used for common schools, would indicate eit.her lack of the necessary sense to understand the plain language 6f the bill, or lack of the neces sary honesty to state its provisions cor rectly. The bill does not propose to di vide the surplus at all, and it does not offer a free erift of 7. 000. 000 to. Trfh Carolina. As stated in the Reg ISTF.R whfn the bUl passed the . Senate, it assigns 1 to North Carolina about $7,000,000 (some- j thing less than $1,000,000 a year for eight i years, thai; is), frrovideJ, North Carolina : shall also collect about $4,000,000 of extra : taxes from its own citizens. That is to i say, to get $1,000,000 a year for eight j years, the State must collect an extra an- ! nual tax a$ large as it collects now to run ! the State Government. If it does not, it j is to have returned only about oue-fifth of ! the Internal Revenue-taxes annually taken j from it, and taken unnecessarily. . It is hard lines on North Carolina to pay , $20,000,000 of taxes in eight years so as! to have one-fifth of that sum returned as "a gift" and the other four-fifths wasted I on others. j The Bill will probably pass the House f in some better shape than the Republican j caucus left Senator Blair's oriorinal Rill ' . and if the Republican Senate refuse assent to the proper changes, it will probably pass in its present shape. Even a small piece of our own loaf of bread is better than no bread at all. - (Letter to Chairman Battle J Shelby, N. C, August 18, 1884. This year, and here at least, I think the indications arc that ' the people have-become more quickly ; alive to . their interest in the matter than ever before. Heretofore, as you know, tbe majority in Cleveland has been so large that several Democrats could run for the same office 'with seemingly little or no danger of a Radical slipping in. The habit, however, was a bad one in every way, and at the last election it turned out that the danger of electing a Republican was greater than was supposed possible. This year, there fore, organization is the word, and to ac complish this the aid of the young men has been especially invokedf The County ExecutivejCommittee has called a meeting which a number of active young men of each township has been formally requested to attend. The result of this action is sure to be a happy'tme, for young blood will tell wherever it goes into a tight in earnest. It was this element of strength that, carrying out the suggestion of Gov. Jarvis, redeemed Pitt county from Radi calism. On September 4 there is to be a grand barbecue and flag raising at Shelby, Gov. Vance. Capt. Coke and Gen. Hampton being among the number of those invited to attend. 'The crowd doubtless will be very great. Indeed in every possible way, it seems to me, steps are being taken to bring out a fuller ote than has ever before been polled in the county, which of course means a larger majority. According to the last census the number, of white voters in the county in 1880 was 2,832. From the names on the tax lists and the census, if I may so call it, that is now being taken under direction of the County Executive Committee, it is supposed there are now at least 3,000 white voters in the county. The highest Democratic vote, however, has not reached 1800. It will be seen from this that Cleveland is a county in which, work and organization promise a most fruitful harvest, for it is apparent there are in the county some 1200 white men who do not go tonhe polls. The ne gro vote is near if not quite 600 now, and tho Republican vote has never reached that figure showing almost the entire whytc population of ihe county to be Dem ocratic. And what is said of Cleveland as to its promise of good harvest for faithful work may with equal propriety be said of Ca tawba county. In 1880" the white voters in Catawba were 2,56 in number and are now doubtless some' 2, 700. Its negro vote will not reach 500. The highest Demo cratic vote has not reached 1,900, while its last was only 1.615. Its highest Re publican vote was 610. These figures show that while.Catawba has done well it has not done all it could, and Cleveland seeing this proposes on election day to dispute with Catawba the claim to the title of the Banner county of Democracy in North Carolina. Perhaps I ought not to tell tales out of school, but the emula tion is in u good cause and I think it is due to Catawba that she should know that her laurels are in danger of-being taken from her. Catawba's greatest majority was 1,420, but it was not given at the last election. Cleveland's greatest majority was 1,209, and neither was that given a"t the last election. In fact that last election is a sore subject in both counties. I shall the contest with much interest Cleveland has some 1,200 voters to draw from with which to increase its majority, while Catawba has some 900 voters to draw from to meet Cleveland's gains anS Catawba has some 200 votes the start. The race will be a close one and if Cleve- i i .i - i ... iauu wins sue win aeserve the greater praise because the odds favor." NATIONAL. SERMONS Based on 23d Chapter of Matthew. Reported for the RaI.kh.h REoljSTEit. J A TRAVELER'S NOTES. Ia Iredell County. i " The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' scat,"" So said our Lord, 'preparatory to the announcement of a series of .the most ter rible calamities and judgments which were soon to come upon the Jewish nation. Ai the time Christ came in the fulfilment of prophecy, and to inaugurate and establish a new order of things, the Jewish govern ment and church were one, the civil and ecclesiastical were combined, making an an ecclesiastico-civil government. The Scribes, who were formerly the Secreta ries of State and of War, were at that time "the Rabbis or doctors, who were assessors or judicial assistants in the San hedrim and interpreters of the law in the synagogues and schools." The Sanhedrim was constituted of the Scribes and Phari sees and the elders or representatives of the people. Moses was the great law giver and Judge in theocratic times. The law as promulgated by him was by direct authority and the command of God. Leav ing out itscereuionial features, its precepts of morality, of righteousness, were made binding for all time to come made bind ing upon the nation and upon the adminis trators of the national government in all its civil and ecclesiastical features. This code furnished by Moses contained laws for the good of the nation, for the benefit of the race. It provided laws adapted to good government, to secure right and jus tice, both civil and criminal. He appoint ed the judicial methods and tribunals for the enforcement of them, for the execution of their penalties, for the punishment of the guilty, for the protection of the inno cent, the maintainanee of justice, the up holding of order and fidelity in the State, and for securing honesty and equity in all affairs between man and man. When our Lord appeared in Judea, invested with authority as the great High Priest of all, he found that the Scribes and Pharisees had thrust themselves info Moses' seat. They were usurpers, and claiming, as the allegation implies, the functions of Moses as law-giver and judge. How well they deserved the claim they set up, immedi ately follows in that wonderful catalogue of misdeeds pointed out' by our Lord. Instead of enforcing the law, they per verted and violated it. Instead of "minis tering relief to the onnressed (Iim- nu n's shoulders which thev inemseive (Correspondence of the Raleigh TtKfiiSTEB. J StXtesviixe, N. Oi, Aug. 18,' 1884. Judge Gilmer is holding the Fall term of Iredell Superior Court and is giving en tire satisfaction, as he alwayt doea. The dockets are fall and it will take two weeks to get throngh. There are no criminal cases to be tried. Some interest is being manifested in politics. Of course Dr. Mott and the Revenue officers will carry some votes for York, but the Democrats will carry Iredell county by a very large majority. Pat. Winston and Charles Price made speeches in , the court-house to-day, but would not consent to divide time with Captain Kitchin. Winston had the open ing speecn, ana alter Tubbing his bald head and stretching up once or twice like a frog trying to peep over a cucumber, he proceeded to serve up a re-hash of the old Republican charges against the Democratic party, with his reasons for quitting that party as dessert. Capt. Price followed, telling what he knew, and also what he didn't know about the corruption of the Democratic party and the immaculate purity of Radicalism. According to these gentlemen, the Democratic party is so bad and they are so good that it is incompre hensible to an ordinary mortal how they could act with the Democrats as long as they did. Money is scarce in Iredell now, but crop prospects are good and times will be a lit tle easier soon. E. R. Wood. NOTES OF THE CANVASS At Marlon and at Morganton. SOME NEW GEORGIA S( F.;S A Breakfast In the Bockwo,w In Ilalf-a-Dozen Counties. rnircieivs on would not touch preserving and fostering honesty and puri ty in individuals and in the State, they corrupted the fountains of justice and judgment. Instead of ollieial fidelity and adherence to the Mosaic constitution and jaws, they resorted to every artifice to mis interpret and misapply them. Thev loved Poplar Tent, August 13, 1884. The Fair now being held at this place is cer tainly a success and speaks well for the farmers of Cabarrus and adjoining coun ties. Four or five thousand people have been in attendance to-day. The articles exhibited are fine and in great variety; almost everything that can be grown on a farm being exhibited. Some of the finest specimens of wheat, rye, corn, potatoes, cotton, vegetables, &c, to be found in any county or any State I have seen here to-day, while the display of horses, cattle, &c, has been very creditable indeed. A variety of improved machinery is on exhi bition, and the ladies, in their depart ment, far excelled the men. as thev afcvavs 4 do. Fancy work, substantial workl and I every other kind of work aladv can do Ls Instead of I snown nere, and every one of the fair ex- i i, : i . i , . i . . called of men Rabbi, i CAMP-MEETINGS Iu Lincoln and Catawba rd. August 16, 1884.- ; heaping up iniquity "upon iniquity they important epochs ,n the j made the fulfilment' of our iird's'male J 5 StrL".thc i Mictions against them, the more ceS. STATE POLITICAL ITEMS. House, of Dr. all documents execu- If the closing of mills and foundries goes on much longer, the American labor er in those industries will have some very practical reasons for regretting a policy that took him from employments in which he was well paid and has left him without any . employment at all. Experience is nam teacher, but it teaches thoroughly. tery The political campaign seems to be a drag so far as the national part of it is concerned. Betting is as backward other features. There is none going on in the great centres where it is usually brisk. New England is suffering from heat, drought, grasshoppers and protection. Capt. Coke has accepted an-invitation to speak to the people of Warren at Grove Hill on August 28. The Democratic nominees for the House in Buncombe are Richmond Pearson and Johnstone Jones. Major S. M. Finger has taken the stump and will speak at the appointments made for the candidates for Governor. In the Second Senatorial District The W. Poole, of Martin, and Dr. P. H. Sim mons, of Hyde, are the Democratic nomi nees. The Rowan Democrats have renominat ed L,ee . overman, Esq., for the and ratified Divie's nomination Wiseman for the Senate. Thos. W. Mason, Esq., is the Demo cratic nominee for the Senate in North ampton, and Messrs. Grant and Edwards for the House. The Republicans of the Seventh District have nominated Dr. J. G. Ramsay for Congress, and A. E. Holton for Presiden tial Elector. Harnett County Democrats have nomi nated Daniel Stewart for the' House of Representatives, John A. Green for Sheriff . uprau lor register ot Deeds. The-Bemocrats of Cleveland are to have a grand mass meeting and barbecue on Thursday, September 4. . Governor Vance Captain Coke, Captain Kitchin, and Col' Cowles have accepted invitations to speak. Stokes county's Democratic candidates are: J. Y. Phillips for the House. R. I Dalton for sheriff, J. H. G. Mitchell for Register, Gideon George for survevor, John Carroll for coroner. : The Onslow Demoerats h H... . , , ...x, UUIUIUOICU in H.. Kids for the House - V. Mi P Sheriff; Jacob Giles for Register.' They a Z ""umenaea Dr. Cyrus Thompson as the District candidate for Senator. Stanly County Democrats have nomina ted for the House of Representatives, Cap taifi D. N. Bennett; for Sheriff, B. C Bla lock ; for Register of Deeds, I. W. Snuggs and for Treasurer, S. H. Hearne. They are all good men and will be elected. ,Hon. Thomas G Skinnr-r has lvn nominated for Congress in the First Dis trict. The District js now. composed of Beaufort Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Cur ntuck Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Mar p?' amlc,' quotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington. . In 1880 it gave Jarvis 14,547 votes and Buxton 13. 644 votes. W. H. Lucas, of Hyde, is the candidate for Elector ' Correspondence of the Raleigh Register. Sherrill's Ford. August I One of the most History of this part annual camp-meeting at Rock Springs camp-ground, situate in Lincoln countv, near the Catawba line. In point of inter est it ranks along with Christmas and election day, and it comes as natural for the people to go to Rock Springs once a year as to go to bed once a day. It takes its name from a large rock spring which furnishes the water for the large concourse of people in attendance. It has been in existence for more than half a century, and has a national reputation. In size "it is the third camp ground in America, having around a very large arbor three rows of tents, numbering between two and three hundred, and a crowd of from five to ten thousand is usually in attend ance. In former years it was noted for the bad behaviour of rowdies, but it has oeen becoming more and more quiet every year, till this year the meeting which has just closed passed off without any dis turbance worth mentioning. The greatest disturbance was among the chickens. It is simply astounding to think of the num ber of chickens it takes to feed such a large crowd for four days not less than three thousand is the estimate. The meet ing this year was especially noted for the large number and high'grade of the preachers iu attendancethere being about fifteen in all, including some from Raleio-h Charlotte, Statesville, &c. ' vvniie i write, and within a mile wnere 1 am sitting, there another camp-meeting of friends at a noted around i ne uppermost seats svnagogues and to Iu Rabbi. The recital of this catalogue shows that they were morally debased and polluted rulers, corrupt and venal officials who were filled with extortion and excess, and together with the Sanhedrim, of which they were the chief constituents, consti tuted a bureau of national and public cor ruption. Indeed, their administration of public affairs was nothing better than open robbery and the protection of official thieves. It was to all intents and purposes a repudiation of the code as laid down by ; jioses, a nat denial of the supreme au : thority which ordered that code. It was a brazen substitution of themselves and their traditions for the constitution and j laws of Moses. ! We shall see, my friends, in the series ; of sermons which I propose, how our Lord i followed up the record of the Scribes and are in Catawba's ' , """.es ana me terrible catalogue of al ; legations he preferred against them. We slla!l see how thev ignored evi rv- KQrl obligation and prostituted the most sa cred rites in order to minister to their own depravity and maintain their na tional power and authority. We shall sec uow. nv adrtinir sin hibitors ought to have iiprize, andapretty big one, too. I will not attempt to report the articles in this department, for no per son of the masculine gender knows enough about the skillful work of ladies to get up a report that would do the subject any thing like iustice. but I will sav this at feasts and in the ! niuch: The skill displayed in preparing the eatables " on exhibition is sufficient to tempt any1 man in search of a good wife to go to Cabarrus to find her. General Scales, Judge Bennett, Colonel Alfred Rowland and Colonel Beasley (the latter in the interest of the Soldiers' nome) delivered able and appropriate ad dresses. Each speaker was presented with bouquets of the fairest flowers by hands equally fair, and while not a word in re- gard to polities was spoken, one could ! easily see by the fine impression made by j the Democratic candidate on the ladies j that every blessed one of them will make i their husbands, brothers, sons or Hirppfi. hearts, as the case may be, vbte the Demo cratic ticket straight. I Senator Vance is to deliver an address here to-morrow and of course there will be an immense crowd to hear him. Every day General Scales gains greater ascendancy over his wriggling competitor. At Marion on the ninth, where a large crowd assembled to hear the candidates, General Scales wore York out to a frazzle and excited great enthusiasm among Dem ocratic voters. The Genpral's treatment of the revenue question meets with hearty approval from the people of the western part of the State. The tariff, not being an issue in State politics, he put less em phasis on that subject. Dr. York, on the contrary, continues to harangue the peo ple on tnat question though his under standing still lags behind his words. He never fails to shoot, but very rarely hits the mark. Demagogue that he is, the burden of his song is to array the preju dices of the "common, people" against the " upper classes;" and he is unwitting enough to imagine that the plain-living people of the country do not see through the meshes of the net which he spreads to catch votes. General Scales, on the other hand, continues his straight-forward, manly course and wins favor everywhere he goes. At Marion ho made a lasting impression on his audience and the county of McDowell will come up in November with, a large majority for our gallant can didate. Morganton turned out a larger crowd than assembled at the previous place. A Cleveland and Scales flag had just been spread to the breezes by the Democrats, a Blaine and York flag by the Republicans, and the people were full of enthusiasm. There was little change in the leading fea tures of the speeches, but in minor details Scales completely routed his opponent. Altogether Scales made the finest effort he has made since he has been in the field. Burke county will cast a four or five hun dred majority vote for Democracy. TOWN NOTES. Marion was a live town all day of the speaking. Some added to their political enthusiasm a few extra glasses of the ex hilarating draught, and late in the even ing there was a spectacle on the street in teresting sheriff and policemen. They seemed unaccustomed to such gymnastics and looked more bewildered than the visi tors. Nobody got hurt and only a few got in the callaboose. The most interesting place at Marion was the FLEMING HOUSE. Captain W. J. Calais has many friends, and everybody else stops with him. He keeps as good fare as can be had anywhere on the road, and no proprietor has a great er knack for pleasing his guests. You al ways leave him in a good humor with yourself and the rest of the world. W. II it. Vi-i-r iar. ilr O. THE NEXT PRESIDENT If the House Should Have to Eleet. sin, and T 1 II ve snau see bow Christ stripped from them their mask of hypocrisy and exposed their moral deformity, and the terrihlp consequences they entailed, not only upon themselves, but upon the whole nation ot which thev were the And we in of progress the colored called Mott's l-rnvf fcittiafr.l i. i . - oiiuuLiiit in vMtiiwim umi named lor Dr. J. J. Mott, the leader of the Republi can party of North Carolina. It is very largely attended and the face of the earth is now literally black with numerous hordes of the sons and daughters of Ham. Lewis noldsclaw, one of the oldest citi zens of this community, has receutly passed away. He was eighty-five years and six months old and had read the Bible through seventy-eight times, an average of once a year for his reading life presuming that he learned to read at be tween seven and eight worthy example. We have lately had a very great curi osity in the shape of .a chicken, with one body, with four legs, four wings and two fully developed heads. It lived but a snort time alter being hatched. ueaiirf j years of age a Who can Iredell County News. Correspondence of the Raleigh Registek 1 Amity Hn.L, N. C, Aug. 16, 1880. Corn and cotton look -fine. We have dry weather at present, but have been having showers all the while. We have a good crop of peaches and plenty of watermelons and plenty picnics. We have yet to hear the first political speech for this campaign, but expect to hear many between this and the eventful evening in November. hole nation re i) rese n t n t i voa shall see the alarmino- ty between the Scribes and Pharisees and our own national rulers and officials that there was not a crime alleged against them but what has a parallel in our own governmental officials. We shall not fail to see in our national rulers a horrible amount of official corruption, the perver sion of law, both constitutional and statu tory, the tacit as well as legal immunity to the thieves who swarm about our na tional capital, and the consequences likely to result therefrom if this state of affairs is continued much longer. Remember, my friends, that God deals with nations as with individuals. History proves the truth of this averment, and shows also that those individuals in high places who by their own personal guilt and contact have communicated the virus of national sin, have been visited with signal judgments before the general na tional calamities come. See, my friends how God takes cognizance of national crime. The stupendous national sins un der the rule of the Scribes and Pharisees uhu so accumulated and centralized in Je rusalem, the national capital, that mercy and forbearance yielded to the stern de mands of justice, and the end came came m vindication of right, of the claims of the oppressed came for the emancipation of- the helpless and innocent from the tyranny of corrupt officials came in vin dication of the honor and veracity of God as against the usurpers of Moses' seat. So will God's honor and veracitv be vindi cated as against the corrupters" of human souls through the foul agencies employed by our officials' "bribery, robbery and per jury. Let this be a warning to you, my friends, for "God is not mocked For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"; and so shall it be with nations and States. Catawba Politics. Correspondence Raleigh Registek. Newton, N. C, August 16, 1884. Catawba County Convention was a large and enthusiastic one. M. O. Sherrill, of Newton, was nominated for the Senate in the Thirty-seventh Districl, Lincoln and Catawba, and A. A. Shuford nominated for the House of Representatives. No fut-ther nominations. PROTECTION'S NATURAL EFFECTS Reaching: Even the South's Mills. Augusta, 6a., August 15. The Au- mist:! ritf-n fuf..;.w. : ' t o; 'i js saiu, are run ning at a loss. The president of one of the mills said to-day that just now it was a losing business to either keep goin dr stop, but it was deemed best to keep on in hopes of better things. Another president wrote to nineteen dealers in goods asking for orders. Only one gave an order and that was for six bales, when he had been ... me iiauii, oi uuying too bales at a time Some of the dealers did not even reply. The condition of the iron business at present, says a Chattanooga paper, is not of a nature to encourage the starting up of the Lookout rolling mills. Iron, it savs is so low that its production cannot "be made profitable, and it seems that capital like labor, will not seek employment with out a prospect of remuneration. I met two men at Carthage last week j who voted for Andrew Jackson for Presi i dent and have voted the Democratic ticket j ever since. I . Everybody who stops at the Yount j House, Newton, N. C, will find Vance i Yount, the proprietor, to be a clever, gen- ial, whole-souled fellow and a good Demo ! crat. i I met a gentleman in Statesville the ! other day who had spent several years of j his life in the Northwestern States and j had heard John A. Logan make stump- ! speecues. tie said L,ogan was just about such a man as Dr. York, his speeches be ing coarse, vulgar and profane. One of the most pleasant hotels in the State is the Jarrall House, High Point, N. C Mr. Jarrall is attentive to the wants of his guests and makes everything as pleasant for. them as possible. He has many patrons and deserves as many more. A " what is it?" was on exhibition at the Poplar Tent Fair. It was a bird with a face like a monkey's. In other points it resembled a screech owl, only it was larger and had gayer and more beautiful nliimr. No one there had ever seen anything like it before. It must have originated some what like Vance said the Liberals did. I passed ot-er the road from Lilesville to Mt. Gilead the other day and found crops to be remarkably fine. Farmers are having a gav and happy time now, with nothing to do'but to hunt, drink cider and eat fruit and watermelons! Mr. J. H. West runs a grand excursion from Salisbury to Asheville this week. The fare for the round trip is only $2.0o! The Republican Convention for the Sixth District has been indefinitely post poned. Reckon none of their m"efl are very anxious to be beaten' by Judge Ben nett. k" The Democrats of Ansonl will hold their convention next Saturday There are only eight candidat. s for the nomina tion for Sheriff, with a few townships to hear from. E. R. Wood. THE BASEBALL BUSINESS. The nan Who Suffers. NVw York Worl.i. Who Ls il uow gets all the blame, hen t he pet club has lost a game, And from the cops protection claim? The Umpire. Who is it stands each gibe and jeer W ho gives decision with great fear W ith many missiles falling near ' The Umpire. Who is it, when the game is done, ill surely try the crowd to shun. And thinks it time for a home run? The Umpire. The Man Who Wins. New York Herald. A correspondent wishes to know how the House of Representatives would stand if, voting by States, it should, under the constitution, have to elect a President; and he asks, further, in what contingency this duty would fall upon the House, and whether upon the present House or that to be chosen in November. In each State electors are chosen by the popular vote. The electors thereafter meet in the several States to cast their votes, in a manner specified in the consti tution, and the result of the electoral bal lot in each State is thereupon sent to Washington, where all these ballots are opened and counted in a joint meeting of the two houses. These two houses compose the Congress at present existing, which does not expire until the fourth of March, 1885. The con stitution then declares that the person uaving rue greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole num ber of electors appointed ; and if no per son have such a majority, then from the persons having the highest number, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representa tives shall choose immediately by ballot the President. But in choosing the Presi dent the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each State havin one vote." The majority in each State delegation casts the vote of the State in such an elec tion by the House. In the present House the Democrats have a majority of members in the following States Alabama, Arkan sas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, veorgia, Indiana, Kentuckv, Louisiana Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Tugium mm Wisconsin, making twenty two out of the thirty-eight States. The Republicans hav.e a majority of members in the following State delegations : Col orado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mas sachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, with Virginia, where the five Mahone votes would, no doubt, cast the State for the Blaine- ticket. The Republicans have thus hfteen States. In one State (Florida) there is a tie, as it has one Democratic and one Republican Representative. There are now four tickets in the field "cucl!" uuer or Mr. St. John will have io carry at least one State to election into the House. No large an aggregate vote either may get. ums.s ue carries a State his vote has no effect. If both should carry together several States, and the election should fall to the House, onlv that who has earned the most would be among the three from whom the House mav de- throw the matter how cide. . Last year the Elkin woollen mills worked up 125,000 pounds of wool, but with an increased capacity they will this year work up 175,000 pounds. They man ufacture principally blankets, jeans, all wool cassimeres, stockine vams nl rm c i r. i neir average output per day is 800 rds of cloh nnd eight pairs of blankets. ' seys, va Oxford Orphan Asylum. Wilmington Star. There are now 144 orphans at the Ox ford Asylum and Dr. Dixon, the Superin tendent, has some 70 or more applications The administration of Dr. Dixon gives much satisfaction to the Board of Direct ors There is a falling off in the receipts of funds, and it ought not so to be. The institution is excellently managed ; the in stitution is a necessity as well as a noble charity and should be maintained. It is doing a work that is an honor to the State Every benevolent heart ought to respond and help the good work. St. Louis Critic. She Papa is very particular and I doubt very much whether he will give his con sent. He Why? She He is opposed to my marrying a man who has not established himself in business, and, George, you know you have not. How could you, dear, when all your afternoons are spent at base-ball games? He But, my love, I have hidden the truth from you until now. I wanted to give you a glorious sui;pris I do not go to base-ball games mere I J to look on. She You are not a He Yes, l am the T PltcIer! Oh. George! This s ..iueea joy. i thought from the size and u.u. oi your hands thatlyou worked in lan-vard. The Trotting Horses. j Betsey Hamilton in Atlanta nii.-Tiii,,,,,, It was mighty nigh dilv . , the old 'oman made up a fire in til.- t;n JJ nii- " "L" ohm t I" US ; She filled the hath plum full of . . . i i i i i taiers, uukcu koiiju corn (lotlgcrs in skillet, brilcd some meat on the ( .,, "I made some coffee out'n parch meal, tj little white headed, dirty' fared , r ' fretted and cried all the time, and t i'l f 'oman scolded. Aunt Nancy and maw sot and rn,,k. . ther pipes. Aunt Nancy she lowed to ,',, Miss Raincrow : "Hit's monstrous hard on a bodv tu taki keer of so many chillun and keep ( m j vittles and clothes." " "Not so mighty," says she. ),.,iM got nairy one to spar; I'd work the ( l n,j of my fingers off for airy one of t-iu. ,.(1f as they is keep out'n the fire, Sal ; yM git right in it if I didn't jerk vo.i llt Set down thar, May Liza, you aim m;i(, out'n glass. Nobody cant see thu' Put down that dog, Jefferson Davi " , i ietcn tne oaDy nere to me. set down th William Henry Forney, and shet At. r . ; , i mourn. i our uyugue is aners a gwjji,. Didn't I tell you to fetch me tlie"lmliv Jeff? I'll floor you with this here light-,.,,;,' knot fust thing -ou know, and stomp V(.u into the bargain; fetch it here to me minute. Bless hits little heart of it. m,lr ther wouldn't take a dollar for hit. Ijt worth the whole gang put together h-,. den, honey, don't cry; murthcr'll give j, a sweet tater quick as it's cooked d.ui'i cry. fell tne ladies your name; it in,,s. too big a name for hit s little tongue t.. wrop around. He named him after .J,.!,,, T. 3Iorgan, kase he was in his reeg-num in tne war. iar den, honey, don t i v and she sot him on the floor and shove, the yaller pup at him to play with, but John T. Morgan wouldn't hush. "He named all the boys and I name, thf gals. The boys is all named after hi., smart men that I don't know nothin' nl ,u; and never have saw. 'Alabamy-Teteh mm Not' thar is named for hertwo-gran-maw; Alabamy for my maw, and Missourv f,.r his'n ; but atter I fell out longer old Z .nrv. (that's his mammy) I called her 'Alabam'v-Tetch-me-Not,' kase she is so tetrh'v. She'll cry if you jist look hard at her May Liza is name Mary for her Aunt PoIK. and Liza for her Aunt Jane. Mav I.izn ', a twin to Sal. Sal is jist named Sul f.,r short. She goes by the name, of Big s mostly,, and her cousins all calls her (niin Sis. Come here Sal and lemme f at i ri your coat. She's outgrowed evervthing she's got. G'out yandar, William Henn' Forney, and tell Jabe Curry to fetch hi m'i here to me. Jake he is a twin to Robert E. Lee. They are next to Jefferson Davi shet up your mouth, Charlie M. Shi 11. - ; nobody cant hear theyseves talk for voiu everlastin' whinin'. I cant give you the tater tel it's cooked. Here take this here piece of bread, and hush. Shelley he i, jist a year older'n John T. Morgan, ami John T. has mighty nigh cotch up to him in size shet up your mouth, William Henry Forney. How many more time., !,. you want me to tell you about your tongue : Go out thar this minute and tell Jabe Curry cf he don't fetch his-sef here to nie and nuss John T. Morgan-and stop him from yellin', I'll make his pap beat him into a frazzle." But William Henry Forney instead of. tellin' him to come to his mammy, went out thar and sot up a fuss longer Jabe Curry about a sweet tater. "Mur-ther, mur-ther. make Jabe gimme my tater. .It's my ta ter, I had it fuss." "Hit's not none of his'n no sieh a thing, Mur-ther. Mur-ther, make William Ileurv gimme my string. He took and took my string kase I snatched my sweet tater wa'fnim, and it's none of his'n. It's mv tater it's my veryater.'" r inen sne ici in on jaoe with the hickory she'd been a promisin' him, and lowed : "I'll gin you fightin' about a sweet tater a sweet tater! Now aint a tater a big thing to fight about? Give the tater to your little buddy, and that quick 'fore 1 beat you tel you won't know who you wa named atter. Take yourself in that house . and nuss your buddy, John T. Morgan, 'fore I stomp the life out'n you. I lay 1 most kills some of you young'uns about them tatens yit. Them's the fust sweet taters that's been dug out'n the patch, and they are in or a'most raven distracted over 'em. I know in reason they are hornry for taters, but they jist shant fight over 'em. I'll gin 'em something else to do sides fightin' over a sweet tater. You'uns all come in and eat a bite of breakfast. We haint got much, but sich as it is you're nun.-uiiie iu it. yyiu you De nope to a cup of buttermilk, Squire Hamilton ?"says she to pap, and he lowed he would. Then she turned to Jeff: "G'up off 'n that churn, Jefferson Davis, and pour the stranger out a cup of buttermilk and for Massy's sake go out yander and make Bulger quit a barkin' so. Set down thar. May Liza, and quit a gazin' pine blank like you never have saw nobody afore in your life go out'n here 'fore I knock vou down. Have a bit of the fry; it's" all clean; eat ef you ken, strangers. Didn't I tell you to go out'n here, May Liza ; you chillun's enough to run a body distracted. Fan the flies, Sal: standin' thar with your mouth hangin' wide open like vou didn't have nairy grain of sense. Skin one of them taters, Miss Hamilton; them's the Spanish; they are sweeter'n tothers. You'uns willfhave to drink your coffee th'out sugar. Thar's some sorghum lasses ; we'uns haint got no short sweetnin'. Sugar is a ar-tickle I haint never made no use of yit. Here, William Henry Forney, take this here sweet tater and skin it, and give piece.of it to Charlie Shelley, and tother part to your little buddy, John T. Morgan: and if you cram it in his mouth hot and burn him I lav I stomp vou into the fare of the yeth.'1 A'ew York Herald. The reigns of the sovereigns of the trot ting turf, with their best records in har ness, and also the time with which each beat the record of his predecessor, may be tabulated as follows : Year. . 1844 . 1856 . 1&59 . 1867 . 1871 . 1874 . 1878 . 1879 . 1880 . 1880 Name of JTorne. Lady Suffolk Flora Temple. . . Flora Temple Dexter Goldsmith Maid Goldsmith Maid ...!!!""" Rarus St. Julien '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' .'.'. St. Julien .... -Maud S .1 o O 1881 Jay-Eye-See iocm Mi s..., m k ... gance at this review shows that the record of trotting in harness has been owered sixteen and one-fourth seconds, or but a little more than a quarter of a minute during the past forty years, and just ten seconds or one-sixth of a minute, during the last quarter of a century. Record. 2:26W 2:25i 8:199 2:17 2:17 2:14 2:12 2:11 2:10 2:10 2:10 THIS COUNTRY'S NEED Alter Twenty-Four Years of eaninm. Republl- Before and After. Chicago Herald. 1 "Clara, wfljat makes VOll nit en rl George when he calls Saturday night? I myPchilcr-'Wil1 fFget ProPrietie8 deaf'h' ma' George 18 dreadfully ''Yes, I remember your father was troubled with the same complaint before we were married, but now I cannot go through his pockets in the morning with out waking him up." Blessings of Education. - Texas Sittings. Sam Johnsing having attended a niriit school for a few weeks, beli ! tn.e smartest nrgger m Austin. He was a wnucss m a ourgiary case, and created a sensation by his intelligence. "Do you think you would recognize the burirlar if you were to see him again?" Why boss, ob course I would." "You are sure you r"l!?e?5 'he l.hicf if were to see agami I tCU VOU SO aff'lB T TNew York Times. What this country needs to day more than it does anything else more than it needs a vigorous foreign policv, or tariff legislation, or many of the oYher things mentioned in party platforms and the letters of candidates is the revival of plain, old-fashioned honesty in the public service. It needs not only such a revival, but a new elevation of the power of the law. If a public officer, be he Democrat or Republican, steals a million dollars his punishment should be as certain as that of the poor maa who steals a loaf of bread. The demoralizing and dangerous influ ence of corruption and dishonesty unpun ished, and even shielded, in the publfe service of the nation, upon every State Legislature, every city government, and the people in every city and village in tin land, cannot be overestimated. Justice should be sternly administered at the top. so that the force of the example may be felt through every grade of public service and among the people at large. Persist ent and intentional failure to punish thieves who hold the nation's offices and the people's trusts causes demoralization elsewhere, and breeds distrust and discon tent and even communism among the 1 peopie. not one ob dese fool niggers what doesn't know nuffin' I could 'dentify dat man eben if I pebber seed him ag'in. I don't nab ter see bam air'in to 'dentifv him The Republicans of Franklin county have nominated Gen. Phil. B. Hawkins and Mr. B. F. Bullock for the House Plantation Philosophy. - Arkansas Traveler, Sometimes er great show o' kin'ness is merely fur de 'vantage o' de pusson whut it cums from. De chile whut hoi's up er apple fur a pusson ter bite, doan' do it so much becase he wants de pusson ter hab some a' it, but 'case when it's bit he ken git er better holt hisse'f.
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