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By P. M. HALE. office: Fayetteville St., Second Floor Fisher Building KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : One copy one year, mailed post-paid $3 00 One copy six months, mailed post-paid.. .. 1 00 j- No name entered without payment, and no paper sent after expiration of time paid for. AD-VEK.TISING B.ATES. .lvi-riiseiii: ii!f will he inserted for One Dollar l. i -i)iiuivjue inchi for the tirst and Fifty Cents for each subfceu.iieut publication. ' Contracts (or advertising for any space or time may be madt at the office of the RALEIGH REGISTER, i - Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayettevllle Street, next to Market House. VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUAliY G, 1886. NO. 96. THE OLD AND THE NEW. W. J. Henderson. With Hashing of foam on a wrinkled sea, And wi6p of whit in a clouded sky; With shiver of snow on a bare-limb'd tree, With winds that sknrry and birds that fly, With bells that toll by twos, by threes, Across the mead and down the leas, The old year lays him down to die. 'With skulls that crumble and bones that bleach, On the ragged rocks of a monntain high; With waves that thunder and smite the beach, And wrecks that low on the wet sands lie ; With ships that stagger and then go down, With men that struggle and gasp and drown, The old year lays hira down to die. With women that weep and men that euree, With girls that sob and youths that sigh, With waving plumes of the huugry hearse, ' With moans from lips that are hard and dry; With hollow words in a minster nave, With clods of earth by an open grave, The old year lays hint down to die. Oh, day and night! Ob, morn and noon! Oh, wild, unending human cry! Oh, blood-red sun! Oh, pallid moon! Oh, mocking life! Oh, cruel lie! Shall all things now that draw life's breath Go reeling onward still to death? Shall all years lay them down and die? ' With ripple of gold on a sunlit sea With glitter of silver in clouds on high; With sparkle of snow on the strong brown tree, With winds thai sing and birds that fly; With bells that peal by twos, by threes, Across the mead and down the leas, The new year comes across the Bky. With all glad things that smile and beckon, With all sweet things that live and die; With all good things that uieu can reckon, With all strong things that strength can try; With hope and lose and undreamed graces, With whispers low and warm embraces, The new year comes across the sky. Oh, deathless lo, eternal youth! Ob, glad, triumphant human cry! Now God he praised for this one truth, Thouiih all else be a gilded lie; When old things fade and old hopes fail, And old years, dead, lie stark and pale, The new years come across the sky. ENSILAGE FOR THE SOUTH. Colonel C. W. Garrett Talks of It. Richmond Dispateh.l Statistics show that we, in the United States, are clearing off timber now at the rate of 25,000,000 of acres per annum. This, it would seem, must in time upset, or cer tainly greatly modify, our seasons. Corn planting has beenthrown back nearly month so it is said ; spring as we used to know it is getting shorter and shorter. Worse than this, we havej come to look upon our cli mate, and justly too, a9 a droughty one, and so regarding it, are compelled to make the best provision we can to offset its effects. That giving the most promise j lies in tne direction oi ensilage, sir. George W. Palmer, of Saltville, though his vast estate is covered with blue grass, has put up this year 1,600 tens of ensilage. One of our townsmen, receiving sundry inquiries from his friends on the subject, addressed Mr. C. W. Garrett, of Halifax county, N. C. one of the successful pion eers in the production of wine in that State, and who had been making and using ensilage for a number of years with great profit. The following is Mr. Gar rett's response, w hich has been kindly furn ished us for the general benefit: Enfield, Halifax county, N. C, ( December 3, 1885. ( ' My 'Dear Sir: I am just in receipt of your favor of the 27th ultimo inquiring about my experience with ensilage. I gladly comply. r I have been putting up ensilage and feeding it for over five years, and my ex perience causes me to value it more and more highly as I learn how to take care of it more cheaply. When I built my first silos, in the summer of 1880. the idea was that only those built of cement or brick, in the ground, would answer the purpose, and costing at .least $5 per ton to build. Now they are built on top of the ground, entirely, of wood and- earth, nd at a cost of from 75c. to $1 per ton.: These keep the ensilage as well as those constructed of cement or brick, are much more -convenient, and involve less- labor to feed from. I have two wood silos, built in 1881, above ground, and holding 180 tons, both cost ing not more than $125, the repairs since not exceeding $25, which are now in good order and full of ensilage, and have been filled every year since they were built. The contents, without exception, have been fed in good condition. The silos I built in 1880 (of cement below ground), held 125 tons, and cost me about $3 per ton. These also have been filled every vcar since (sometimes twice a year), and the eqsilnge was not any better preserved s thansin those built of wood. Since I be iran to muke ensilage, in the fall of 1880. I have fed' my horses, mules, and cows al most exclusively on it, and have yet to - see any bad results from it; on the con trary. I have been able to keep them in much better condition than before I com menced its use. In the year 1879 I had .nine muics ilnd horses, and about as many cattle, and besides the long forage I could conveniently make on my farm, I paid tit over 700 for hay, bought by the car- hiad in Richmond. I am now feeding fif teen head of horses and mules and thirty eattle. and pay out nothing for hay, and m v farm is no larger now than it was then. I tie extra manure I now produce pays me fully. I am persuaded, for the cost of the 'nsilage. I use corn and cow-pea vines exclusively for ensilage the former, as I isc it, is cheaper; the latter makes the bes eniiige. For the past three years I have used c'.rn constantly for this purpose, after it was sufficiently matured to sustain no '"jury, when the bbides were ripe enough foi rodder, j pull the corn, then cut the stalks down to the ground (blades on), 1'iiiil and cut them in three-quarter-inch lenr-tlm '.i n rl t i f V in the Qilrk tHon wjoirrtif !k iimi:,. This makes a very desirable '"'"l:tlie stock all like it, and I have "'-vcr seen any'-bad effects from it. Dur '" the three years named I have put up "0 tons per year from this source. My 'xpi-rience is that land producing 5 bar rcls of corn to the acre will make 5 tonsof nsilage, or a ton to the barrel. I regard the ensilage as more valuable than the "rn, and the cost of putting it into the ilo is less than 75 cenU per ton. I grow . no corn exclusively for ensilage; most of it made in the United jStates is from corn grown expressly, for the purpose. I am of "pinion that at the time I cut it 'is as val uable for ensilage as at any period of its growth hence a great saving in making both a crop of corn and ensilage. I Bee that others are adopting this plan to ad vantage. My great plant for ensilage is the ordi nary field or cow-pea. Of this I put up about 200 tons yearly, and it is greatly preferred by my stock -tothat made of corn. This pea crop I grow chiefly after wheat and oats. I break the land as soon as the wheat is taken off, then plant in drills three feet apart, eight to twelve peas in a hill, using the Eureka corn-planter, dropping every twenty one inches; side them up once or twice, if need be and grass is troublesome; plant from the 25th of June to the 10th of July, which gives ample time for the maturity of the plant for ensilage, producing from five to ten tons per acre, at a cost not exceeding $1.50 per ton, and worth 25 per cent, more in feed-value than corn" at any stage of its growth. With this plant properly utilized with the system of ensilage, the South can feed and raise sheep, cattle, mules, and horses as cheaply as sfny por tion of the United States except the very far west. This fact will be demonstrated some day. I give to my mules and cows about fifty pounds of ensilage each per day. I have often seen published' a state ment that corn-stalks or any other suita ble material made good ensilage without chopping: up fine with cutter. For fear of loss I have been afraid to try it. A neighbor who built a silo three : years ago, had his silo, machinery, and cutter burnt up last winter. The silo was rebuilt last summer and filled with corn stalks and pea-vines uncut. This ensilage is as good as any I have ever seeD sweeter than mine, which was cut fine, and is little more trouble to take from the s$tJ than that cut fine. I shall put up a large portion of mine next year without cutting. This fact renders it possible for every farmer who makes a one-horse crop to put up ensilage, as the great bar to their doing so was the outlay of money for cutter, machinery, &c. This may be all obviated now. The 'only outlay requited is the building ol a silo, at a cost of not over $1 per ton, ariji which any one can do of or dinary mechanical capacity, "without the help of a skilled mechanic. Knowing its great value, I earnestly hope the southern people will adopt this system. It is an outrage that, having such advantages, vtv should be so dependent. ; That your friends may not go wrong m j the construction of the above ground silo j I will give here a description of it in de I tail: These silos were built in 1881, and J have been tilled four times, the ensilage i being always well preserved. First, I dug a trench for foundation-sills 43 feet i long, 14 feet wide, and 8 inches deep ; Into these put the sills, "of white oak. nil i heart, 10 inches square, framing a sill of ! the same size across the middle. This makes the foundation for two silos inside measure 20 feet long by 12 feet wide. I put stud9 of heart-oak into these sills 16 feet long, 2 by 6 inches, 2 feet apart, in tending the silos to be 10 feet deep; then, with one-inch plank boarded up each side, the studs 30 feet high; fill the spaces be tween thestuds and inner and outer wall of plank with sand (saw-dust will answer as well), thus making an air-tight wall, which is all that is necessary, however it may be done. The 6 feet of studding above the walls or body of the silo is nec essary for the purpose of filling, tramping, weighting. &c. I have one door to each silo at the outer end, made by having the two middle studs 3 feet apart. To these hang two doors 18 inches wide by 5fect long to the inner edge of studs, doors-''to open outward. Then close the doors and nail on boards to outer edge of studs, and fill between doorSpand boards with earth, and you have the same wall as the other parts of the silo. When you wish to open the doors rip off the boards in front, when the earth falls and the doors open outward, exposing the ensilage. Of course, the studs re framed into plates above, which should be done in a substantial manner, as the pressure from weighting the silo is quite heavy. My roofs extend 3 feet be yond the sides and ends to prevent rain from being blown in on the ensilage. After filling the silo I first cover the ensil age with inch plank, laying them down lengthwise; thee cover these with wheat or pine-straw to prevent earth or sand trom getting in; then cover with earth 18 inches deep, and you may rest assured that your ensilage is safe. I prefer com mon earth for weighting for two reasons first, it is more easily handled; and sec ond, it excludes the air better than any thing else. When feeding the ensilage first take out. in front of the doors from ttm to top, about 2 feet; then on each side, until the entire end is taken out: then put in good substantial props to hold the planks and keep the weight from bending them down, which repeat, prop Dins every 3 teet as the ensilage is taken out, until the whole is exhausted. Care should be taken that this propping b well done, otherwise the plank above may give way and endanger the safety of the feeders. It has been well said that "our people must learn to 'grow everything for man and beast before they can claim to be self sustaining"; and more, they must learn to make it without running into debt. No general prosperity can prevail until we can make what we consume before we consume it. Easy credits will destroy any people; it demoralizes the thrifty and makes pau pers of the unthrifty. S Very truly youns", C. W. Garrett. To Mr. John Ott. Secretary, dc, Richmond. Va. t Remarkable Italian Fecundity. f Naples Letter to Paris Register. The most extraordinary case of fecundi ty that I ever heard of came to my knowl edge last week. About twenty-five miles from here, and by rail two or three stations beyond Pompeii, is the historical city of Nocera (the Nuceraof the aucients). Twen ty times have I passed through Nocera this past summer and autumn, and have always admired the wonderful productiveness of the fields, the vineyards and the orchards. But here is something strictly true which, in human productiveness, rivals the exu berance of the soil, viz., in the rione (or ward) of Liposta lives MaddalenaGranata, aged forty-seven, who was married at the age of twenty-eight to a peasant just nine teen years ago. Maddalena Granata has given birth to, either dead or living,sixty- two children, fifty-nine ol wnom -cic males. She enjoys florid health, is robust, and twenty-four hours after ber last ac couchement was ready to go out to her ac customed labor in the field. She has no hesitancy in conversing with any one about her extraordinary prolificness. Her phy sician, Dr. Kaphael de Sanctis, oi fi"vciu, says that there is not the least exaggera tion in these statemeut8. Has any one ever heard of such phenomenal fecundity in the whole history of maternity---sixty-two children, alive or dead, in nineteen years i. . on an average twelve children every fourteen months 1 I leave it to your medical or surgical readers to 'make their researches and see if in l their statistics they can find a parallel case. -' ' '"-' ' CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE. Supreme Court Fall Term. Davidson's Reports, Vol. 93. KINDRED REEVES V. THE STATE OP NORTH CAROLINA. Claims Against the State Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court only has jurisdiction to pass on claims against the State, when questions of law are involved. If the claim only involves questions of fact, the Legis lature is the proper place to get redress. (Bledsoe v. The State, 64 N. C, 392 ; lley noldsv. The State, Ibid., 460; Sinclair v. The State, 69 N. C, 47, cited and ap proved). This was a claim against the State, filed in the Supreme Court on March 7th, 1885, in accordance with the provisions of Art. IV, 9, of i the Constitution, and heard at October Term, 1885. The petition alleged that the claimaut had furnished to one Troy, the agent of the State for the purpose of providing for the convicts working on the Western Di vision of the .Western North Carolina Rail road, fire wodof the value of one bundn d and fifty dollars, for the, use of .the convicts, and that no part thtrtjof liad been paid. The State filed an, answer to the petition, denying all of its allegations. - Messrs.Uolcell and Moodyx for the peti tioner. Attorney General, for the State. Merrimon, J. It seems to us that the alleged claim of the petition against the State, is not. such a one as the Court ought to take original jurisdiction ol. as nas been repeatedly said, the purpose of the Constitution, Art. IV, 9, is not to im pose upon it the duty of passing upou any and alt claims that a party may prefer against the State, especially when such claims involve mainly questions or issues of fact, and no questions of law, of doubt or serious importance; it contemplates only such claims as present serious ques tions of law shall be heard here, and to facilitate this purpose, the Court has authority, as provided in The Code, 948, to direct issues of fact to be tried in the Superior Court. Bledsoe v. The State, 64 N. C, 392; Reynolds v. The State, Ibid, 460; Sinclair v. The State, 69 N. C, 47. It would be most unreasonable to in terpret ht section above referred vto as conferring on this Conit original jurisdic tion of all claims against the State, great and small alike, and whether or not they involve questions of law. Such an inter pretation could serve no useful purpose, aud would e-ntail upon this Court 'an amount of additional labor that would greatly tend to hinder and delay the dis charge of its ordinary and appropriate duties. Such meaning has not been at tributed to it by the Court, the Legisla ture, or the executive branch of the gov ernment. If the claim is a plain one,only involving questions of fact, it ought to be taken at once before the Legislature,unless its nature be such as that it may be presented to the Auditor, or some other appropriate authority for adjustment and allowance. The pleadings in the case before us pre sent no question of law, only questions of fact. The petitioner alleges simply that he furnished the State, at the request of its agent, wood for fuel of 'the value of $150, and the State refuses to pay the debt. This the State broadly denies. There is nothing for the Court to decide nothing, so -far as appears, that a legis lative committee may not decide as prompt-1 ly as, and more satisfactorily than, the S Court could do. The petition must there fore be dismissed. ; Petition dismissed. THE FERTILIZER TRADE. What (( Val nations" of Fertilizer Mean f Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin. In spite of frequent explanations the relative commercial valuations, which it. has been the custom to report in connec tion with the analyses of fertilizers, hav been very commonly misunderstood. This has been due chiefly to the difficulties which have grown up in the system Ttself. These the Station has attempted to correct in time for the next season. If all our farmers could be led to direct their attention to the analyses alone, it would be far better and the valuations could then be dispensed with altogether. These commercial valuations were invented ori ginally as a convenient method of sum ming up the results of the analysis in a concrete form, which those who had tn imperfect understanding of percentages could grasp better. It furnished also a more rapid means of comparing the fit tilizers. But they were never intendedlto take the place of the analyses, as tb,fj have done in the minds of many farmtts. There ought to be no difficulty about tia derstanding the per cents of an analyls. Think of them as pounds in a htindud pounds. Here is an analysis of an averse sample of crude kainite: One hundred pounds of kainite conftin of ; Sulphate of Potash 24 and 8-lOthn pound, of Sulphate of Mai;nef.ia I and 3.,, h undi of Chloride of MaeniA 12 and ft-iuths pqund), of Chloride of Sodjum ) poundf, of or Common Salt.... j r Water, as moisture 14 and 4-lOths poundkf of. Sand and Insoluble Matter.. I and 0-lothH puiimt. Or, you may convert the pounds in one hundred weight, or per cent., into pounds in one ton of 2,O0U: pounds, by multiplying them by ) Ihus one ton. of the above kainite contains: Sulphate of i'ota.-h. 496 poand Sulphate ot .Magnesia, or tpsotn ait... sttifi Chloride of Magnesia..: 252 - Chloride of Sodium, or Common Salt MO . Water, as moisture .-. 288 " Sand and Insoluble Matter..-. 38 " ii.OOO poundfv It may be well first to say WHAT THE "VALUATIONS" DO NOT MEAN., They are not intended, of course, to fiJl the price at which the, articles ought to be sold n.11 over the State. Difference i r freights to different points renders. this impossible. Neither do they represent the agricultural value of the articles. This is a very different thing indeed from the commercial or market value of nn articli. The actual agricultural value of a manur, ,' applied to a particular soil or crop, d -pends upon a great number? of conditions the properties of the soil, the cultivation, variations in the weather, &c, as well 'jis the properties of the manure. Tho agri cultural value and the commercial value have no fixed relation, in fact; although in using fertilizers we always hope and expect that the value to us in the fiofid will exceed their cost enough to give us a protit. ; WHAT THE " VALUATIONS" DOMiAH. The values we shall give in connection with the analyses of fertilizers next year will represent the relative commercial csh values at our seaboard, that is at "Wilir mington, Beaufort, Newbern, Washing tou. Edenton or Elizabeth- City They will apply as well to points like mouth (Norfolk) and West Point. fT ascertain the cash value for interior points it will be necessary to add the freight from the port of entry to that point, "s Jntas of fertilizers manufactured in the interior of the State, it will be necessary" to add to the value which we report the amount of freight for one ton from Wilmington, Portsmouth, or the usual port for that place. For example, to ascertain the commercial cash value of a ton of fertilizer at Raleigh, add to our value at the seaboard the amount of freight for one ton from Wil mington, or Portsmouth, as the case may j be. At Charlotte, add to the reported value the freight from Charleston, Wil mington or West Point, and so for every other point. This plan differs materially from the plan previously pursued, and we ask espe cial attention to this. The plan followed by the Station hitherto iu common with most of the bureaus of the same kind, was to ascertain the average cash value of fer tilizers at the chief interior centres of the trade, such as Raleigh and Charlotte, and to base the estimates upon this. This plan, always very unsatisfactory, became entire ly impracticable when the competition ol different fertilizer manufacturing centres cut down the prices to the lowest margin of profits. The new plan which makes the seaboard the basis of all calculations has been adopted by the fertilizer-control Stations of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. The fig ures agreed upon by all these States for usej the next season are: AT THE 6KABOAUD: 'epliOBphoric acid, 7 cents per pound. Hi 5 " " M " Availfcble Potash; Last .season were : the figures used in North Carolina IN THS INTERIOR : " Availble Ammlia. ' phosphoric acid, 9 cents per pound. 20 " " 5 " " lEotasl Tllse figures are really not as different as tlly appear, as one set applies at the seuJoard and the other in the interior. To illustrate the significance and appli cation of the new plans and figures, sup ped' an acid phosphate on sale at Wil miigton contains 12J per cent, of soluble ant reverted phosphoric acid (which to geW;r are called "available"). 12 J pounds in 1)0 is 250 pounds in a ton. Multiply 250 y 7 cents, the figure for 1 lb. "avail ably" and you get $18.75 as the cash value of tie article at retail. Now this signifies that the man who pays cash can get that artvle at Wilmington at that price, the waj the market stands at present. Or, sufiosifig the freight to Charlotte is $2.50, thcjinau who pays cash in Charlotte can gethhat article at $21.25, which is the WAnington cash value with freight ad det "Jhis must not be understood as appli cable to auy but cash purchasers. fn the one hand, the man who buys larfeljfc or offers other inducements, will gej bit fertilizer cheaper. On the other, thf farmer who promises to pay in a fluc tu4ting staple next November must expect to')ay considerable money iu addition for tti time and risk. ?ho Station must not be understood, agUn, as attempting to fix prices. This weald be hurtful, if it were possible. It is out duty to make known the facts about the composition of fertilizers and the average vane of their chief ingredients, aud this is ul that is attempted, or can be done. It is believed that the new plan, as de sffibed, will be more intelligible and sat isfactory to all concerned. Chas. W. Dabney, Jr., Director. AN ABKAISSAW NEGRO Explains tne Gold and Silver Matter. Arkansaw Traveller. " Uncle Milus,'' said a prominent citizen, addressing an old colored man, "what do you think of that part of the president's message which refers to the withdrawal of silver?" "Ain' seed it, cap'n. Whut does de preserden' perpose ter do?" ; "Well, he thinks that there should not be so much silver" money in circulation." " Whut he want ter cirkerlate? " "Gold." ::t " Whar he gwine ter git it?" "Oh, he doesn't explain. His idea is hat silver is driving out the gold, that the t ich men of the east are hoarding it. It is thought by some of our financiers that if ijilver is withdrawn, those rich men will, in order to meet the demands of their own Mi mi n ess, be compelled to turn loose their gold." I " Dat's all foolishness. De derman o' de rich man's buz'ness ain' nigh so pressin ez de derman's o' de po' man's buz'ness. De rich man will be de gainer, fur de big er mount o' stuff dat de rich men hab got will be more valu'ble. I ain' got edyca ,tion er miff ter dive inter dis money ques jtion, but I tell yer whut's er fack ef da ftakes de silver whut am de po' man's (money outen de country dar's gwine ter be hard times sho nun. Who am at de head o' dis mubement? De po' man? No, sab. de rich man." "That's all right, uncle Milus, but the argument of the men who are opposed to silver is this : "Our silver money is de based. It is really worth only about eighty five cents on the dollar." 'Oh, is dat de cry? Now, lemme tell yer suthin. Which would yer ruther be, er man wid a dollar when a loaf o' bread is wuf er dollar den ter be er man widout er cent when er loaf er bread is wuth er nickel?" "Well. I'd rather be the man with the dollar." "Now yer talkin'. When dar's plenty o' money in de cuinmunity we doan kere much how high de needcessities o' life is, we'se crwine ter hab 'em, but when money is sca'ce. I doan kere how much yer ken buy wid it, hard times gwine ter foller "You believe, then, in plenty of mon ey?" "Co'se. I does, an' ter my thinkin' er man whut doan is er fool. Dar wuz plenty o' monev ies' arter de wah an' yer neber heard nobody cry erbout hard times, an dar neber was no hard times till de gub ernmeBt'gnnter draw in de money. Dese is simply my 'pinions, but dis much I does know: ef de gubernment tries ter make money sca'ser, dar's gwine ter be trouble." But It' Only Human Nature. Newbern Journal. J To claim that a senator or repeesentative should secure an appropriation for a cer tain point because the people of that vicin ity favored the election of said Repre sentative or Senator, is far worse than ad vocating the Blair bill. It is strange that men of good sense will hold up their hands in holy horror at the introduction of a meas ure to enable the poor children of the land to obtain an education, and then openly claim that a Senator ought to help secure an appropriation because the people in the surrounding counties voted for him. In Louisiana the year has closed with a harvested sugar crop larger by 15 percent than the average for the previous" years, and much more remunerative to the plan ter. ' CIVIL SERVICE REFORM Is not to Apply Inside the Party. New York Herald Letter. ' How many supporters is the administra tion going to have in Congress? It is whis pered about Washington that even the President has become curious on this in teresting point; that, in fact, he is very curious about it. The statement in these despatches a week ago of the very small number of suspen sions from office in the case uf Presidential appointments only 63 out of a total of about four thousand 5nd of the yet small er proportion of changes in the petty post masterships only about seven thousand out of 49,500 so far made was a revela tion of erreat interest to many democratic Congressmen and politicians. "The administration has got a goo'd deal yet to give away,5 was the thought ful, but practical comment of a very shrewd public man here. "I had no idea there remained so much." And on the top of this sage reflection comes the rumor that the President is curi ous to know how many supporters his poli cy on the silver dollar question, on the tariff question, on the civil service ques tion and on other questions is going to have in Congress. It is not strange that he should be curious, for so far he has seen in the Congressional reports only the very slightest evidence of even respectful con sideration for hit recommendations at the hands of his party. Mr. Cleveland would be either more or less than mortal if he were not curious. On the other hand, democratic Congress men and politicians are becoming curious also. They wonder whether it can be true this rumor that the President is goiug to turn over a new leaf with the new year; that the heads of departments are also go ing to turn over a new leaf w ith the new year, and that the whole administration means hereafter to know who are its friends in Congress and in the country. The friends of an administration are those who give friendly consideration and sup port to its recommendations. It is not un natural that a President and his Cabinet officers should listen more readily to and place more confidence in the recommenda tions of those who, other things being equal, have like views with them and. would naturally recommend for appointment per sons whose views ou public policies are in harmony with their own. Hitherto the k President has been like .unto Providence, which rains on the just and unjust alike; he has appointed to office silver dollar men and anti-silver dollar men, high and low tariff racn, civil service reform and anti civil service reform men alike. That was before he found it a part of his constitu tional duty to make, recommendations to Congress; and, in fact, before Congress as sembled. It was as a gentleman uot en tirely unconnected with democratic poli tics, who visits Washington from an East em State occasionally it was. as this gen tleman remarked, "a way of keeping the party together." But rumor whispers here within these last few days that the President, survey- ing the ground now that Congress lias met, and looking over the results of his summer j and fall work, legins to believe that his J Eastern friend was mistaken, and that it i was really a way to keep the party apart j and not together. Hence, rumor adds, he i is thinking of a different way. As a Presi ! dent naturally aud properly surrounds j himself with a Cabinet of like political ! opinions with his own. so, it is said, he j begins to think a President may wisely ! give his most favorable attention to the ! wishes and recommendations also, on a larger field, of those who think as he thinks, and at least give them and their wishes and suggestions the preference over the wishes and suggestions of men who disagree with him in political views and policies. This is so natural that one. wonders it should excite surprise. But the truth is it is only since Congress assembled that the President has become at all curious about men's political opinions. Of late, they say this curiosity has grow n on him, and now, whenever a Democratic Kepresentati ve, or Senator, or a magnate of any kind visits him and converses with him on those topics which are dearest to the hearts and hopes of such people, it is said that Mr. Cleveland begins to be possessed with a devouring curiosity to know what they think of the repeal of the silver dollar law, what their friends whose praises they sing think of this question, and how they all regard the tariff reform and the civil ser vice reform and the other matters which make up the policy of the Democratic party if there is a Democratic party. It has not so far been discovered that the President has a cold shoulder. It begins now to be suspected that he has a very cold shoulder, and that he may presently turn it toward the brethren who have been so ready of late to declare and to do all thev could to make his administration a failure. The thought of a Presidential cold shoulder is terrible to a good many people, and some of these are beginning to consider whether on the whole it is not the part of wisdom to rally around the admin istration, support its recommeudations.and thus keep the party together instead of tearing it into several helpless and useless fragments. In shiirt, the President fully believes that the recommendations made by him in his message to. Congress are of gieat im portance to the country, and, this being so, that they make up a safe and entirely sound Democratic policy, which his party, if it is wisely led, will carry into effect. He believes the party in Congress, with some few exceptions, will agree with him, and that if they do this will make it easy and certain to carry the Congressional elections-next fall, which he thinks ex tremely desirable for the party. These being his convictions, it is scarcely sur prising that he should not regard as good Democrats those who would defeat this general policy. For the President is a life-long, thorough-going, thick and thin Democrat, who believes with all his heart that the country's good requires tlu: con tinued predominance of Democratic poli cies and principles. RAILROAD LAW. What the States may do. ,New York Herald. . The United States Supreme Court has rendered an opinion of special interest to farmers and railroad corporations. A statute of Missouri requires every rail road company in the State to fence its track through cultivated fields and unen closed lands, and provides that the com pany shall be liable in double the amount of damage when stock is killed or injured in consequence of failure to build sucn fences. In ar case against the Missouri Pacific the company contended that the statute was in violation of the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution in that it deprived corporations of their prop erty " without due process of law" and denied to them " the equal protection of the laws." The Supreme Court sustains the statute. It holds that the legislation was a proper exercise of the police power to protect life and property against accident. "In few instances," says Justice Field, " could the power be more wisely or beneficently exer cised than in compelling railroad corpora tions to enclose their roads with fences, having gates at crossings, and cattle guards." The failure of the road to com ply with the law may justly be deemed gross negligence, and when injury is done by such negligence, the Legislature has the power to increase the amount of recover able damages ns a punishment of the of fender. "The statutes of nearly every State of the Union provide for theincrease of damages where the injury complained of results from the neglect of duties im posed for the better security of life and property, and make that increase in many cases double, in some cases treble and even quadruple the actual damages. This decision is of far-reaching impor tance. It affirms the light of every State Legislature to require railroads to be fenc ed in and to subject the companies to heavy damages for any injury due to failure to comply with the law. ABOUT LEGAL TENDER. How the Republicans Made Law. New York Journal of Commerce. J New Yokk. December 23. 1885. If A. sells B. a bill of goods amounting to $200 and stipulates that the price shall be paid in gold when due, can B. pay said bill at its maturity in green-backs, he claiming that it is a legal tenuer, even should gold be at a premium A. Ml liefjly. Many of the lower courts dur ing the civil war decided that paper mon ey was a sufficient leual tender in settle ment of a debt, although the payment In gold w as expresbly. stipulated by a written contract. The United States Supreme Court at last overruled all this form of re pudiation aud it is now well settled law that a contract to pay in '"coin can be legal ly enforced. We took the ground that even without such express stipulation a debt was payable in the currency equal to that in which it was contracted. We held that a mau could not borrow 20 bushels of potatoes, and if the Legislature before the day of payment came made two pecks a legal busheli take advantage of the new measure and return half the original quan tity to the lender. If a man lends his neighbor, for twelve months, 1,000 silver dollars weighing 412-J grains, and before the year expires Congress authorizes anew dollar leaving off the grain, and the bor rower may return to cancel his note 1,000 pieces weighing but 412 grains then Con gress may leave off the figure 4 (makings the dollar only 12 grains), aud compel the creditor to takV it for his debt. The prin ciple iu both cases is exactly the same. It is ex MJst facto legislation. It is applying a new rule' to an existing contract. Ihej Supreme Court (5 judges to 3) agreed with I us when the question first came before it, ! Chief Justice Chase pronouncing the opin ion. Then one of the five judges died, his place was filled, and anew one was added, expressly to overturn this decision. The packed court then voted, 5 to 4, that if the creditor did not stipiilate for coin he can be paid for a debt contracted on a gold basis, the nominal vaiue of the debt in pa per money, although the latter may not be worth one-tenth of the sum actually due. This is not only bad law, but still worse morality, and will be provided against some day by a constitutional amendment that will sweep away the sophistries of these rcpudiators. i IT IS Hl TIBKi Xo V a rn Folk Against Humbugs. Salisbury Watchman. The Statesvilie Landmark has been deal ing out some sensible advice to those who trade with strolling peddlers, having heard of a considerable .swindUH n a neighboring county by one of them. The Watchman has also from time-to time warned country people to beware of the strollers, and when they want anything to go to a responsible and respectable merchant who may always be found and confronted, if necessary, about any article he may sell which fails to be as represented. But people are hard to learn so hard that it convinces us that Dr. H , of Louisiana, when a young man and had occasion to excuse himself for "playing on the harp of a thousand strings," was right when he exclaimed, "Bless your life, friend, the people love to be humbugged, and if you don't humbug 'em some they won't like you." Yes, he was right in his judgment of the nature of men and women ; and as he was fond of popularity, he would feel the bumps on their heads and blow; if sick, he would give them bread pills and cure by inspiring with the hope of living; if suffering for the lack of excitement, he would send up a balloon, or tell a laughable Story. He al ways knew what he was doing, and made everything pay as it came or as it went. " People love to be humbugged ; " peddlers know it, and the newspapers had about as well stop preaching against them, far they are going to "travel" in spit of it all. THE REVOLVER No Protection In Iredell County. IStatesville Landmark. We referred last week to the receut rob bery of J. F. Dotson, Esq., of this county. It occurred Tuesday night of last week. He had been to a debate in the neighbor hood, and, returning, had locked both doors of his bed-room, put a large purse containing the money and papers under the head of the bed, along with his revolver, and retired. When he awoke in the morn ing the purse and all of its contents were gone. There were in the purse $600 of his own money, $1,600 of the money of the estate of Portland Gay, deceased, of which he was administrator, and all of the vouch ers aud all other papers pertaining to the estate. One of the doors had been entered by means of a false key during the night. There is no clue which is likely to lead to the arrest of the burglar or the recovery of the money. MOUNT MITCHELL. By Alleludes.J Mitchell's the highest mountain in the land, So now do all the papers say. If so, well named, for there should stand, A great mouument, both night and day, To proclaim the father's fame in every quarter Who hath raised our State so very high, Beside, In every way, the greatest daughter That can be found beneath the sky. And, whilst this peak shall point to heaven, May these two facts be handed down To tell why this new name was given- To old Black Mountain of great renown; 'Twas done to show the father's worth, Whose daughter grew so great that no other Was found to equal her on earth. The tobacco sales in Danville last year were 38,579,000 pounds, and the aveiage price $13.31 per hundred. various matters or Which they Tutak In Chatham. The-Prohibition Convention recently held in Greensboro indicated very decided measures against liquor traffic; but are said measures likely to end in grefct good to the poor unfortunate of the State ? Whatever is done, almost in anything, must be for the better or for the worse. Let us not do evil that good may come. Let us be slow to act. " Let us be sure we are right, and then go ahead." David Crockett. Let us not pattern to oqr own hurt. Georgia is not satisfied, but is looking to higher courts. Many of the best Republicans, as well as the Democrats of the State, are convinced that, under Democratic rule, our State has improved taxes less, schools better, pro visions cheaper, labor better, religion purer, and, withal, whatever goes to make a con tented and happy people is on the up grade. Let us not grasp at the form and lose the substance. Let us not backslide. Let us not forsake our former principles and roll back to the foot of the hill. The load will get heavier and be harder to move then. The harvest time is not yet. The garners are not ready. Go slow, my friends, go slow. We have no axe to grind. We drink neither tea nor coffee nor spirits. W. H. VANDERBILT is dead, and, notwithstanding, de mortuuis nil nisi Ixmum, some of our State papers claim he made almost no benefactions, lived a peuurious life, and intimate he died a wretched death. "Justice may sleep, but never dies! " The truth of it all is he never took the world into his confidence, , and doubtless he exercised charity in thou sands of ways of which we are not informed, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dol lars. Few men can acquire wealth in life aud a just obituary after death. How beautiful it is to say nothing wheu we are not iu possession of the truth and facts. If this dead man's every act, with his great riches, was disclosed, wo doubt not that many a harsh word would feel rebuked, aud many a poor befriended soul and glad dened heart would respond in his praise. Charity, brother, charity, for it is the great estof them all ! ROUSE, Lenoir county, is a novel man in a nove way, and he prides himself hi it, too. He hits had his coffin made several years, and Was had it repaired several times in the town of LuGrange. Since it was first made he has had rockers put to it, and often gets into it and rocks himself, declaring always that when he dies he wishes to be buried in that coffin with rockers. He is not a fool, and is not only peculiar in this respect, hut often goes to Newbern and Wilming ton and w hen the boot-blacks come round, he always rolls up his pants aud has a good coat of blacking applied on the naked feet and iegs, pays the bill and goes his way rejoicing, making his friends laugh and the public feel queer. We know the man and can vouch for the above. We also know a man who has been mak ing coffins for years aud don't know how j to make a raised lid, don't know when to put velvet on the inside or on the outside of a coffin, and don't know how to trim a coffin. These things seem strange, but are certainly true. Let us have more and bet ter education in every way. TOBACCO BREAKS at Siftr have been reasonably good, but uot sgratifying to the farmers as the pub lic abroad has been led to believe; the place may be ou a little boom, but let us not overshoot the mark; let us not try to build up at the expense of truth and facts; the truth will out! Certainly, it is a much better place for the merchant than for the man who has tobacco to sell. Of course all managers of warehouses should have in view the true interests of the farmer as well as his own, and not allow pin-fwoks and fry bidders from Winston, Danville, Durham, or Reidsville to bid off tobacco at $99 per lot, and ship the same to their, home and there realize on the same lot' of tobacco the snug little sum of $199 such is not only an injustice, but an outrage on the farmer, and will work to the detri ment of any warehouse or place, verbum sat.' We shall always endeavor to give the Register the truth about people and things; present uothing painted or vara ished; let everything appear in its true colors, then it will be lasting. SOME LEGAL QUESTIOS8. 1. When the purchaser of land sold under mortgage is refused possession and he applies to the Court for writ of eject ment, will- the Court grant said prayer if the mortgagor has a growing crop ou said land at the time of sale, or at the time the ejectment was applied for? 2. Provided the purchaser (granting he is not the mortgagee) cannot get posses sion till said crop comes off, can he (the purchaser) get rent from said crop? 3. Is the bondsman of the appellant from the Superior to the Supreme Court liable for any cost before the appeal or in the lower Court? Christmas has come and gone, and the new year is upon us; may we all resolve to do b?tter, be better, and live better the ensuing year than we have the past. A happy new year and continued prosperity to the Register. X. BETTER THAN PROHIBITION. The Rabbit Foot Saves Quarreling. Arkansaw Traveller. The rabbit foot in the south, and espe cially in Arkansaw, holds a place which nothing cau supplant. The buckeye and the "lucky bone" takeu from the catfish have been thrown aside and no longer is it necessary for a colored man to make a cross mark and spit in it wheu, having for gotten something, he turns back. He sim ply crosses himself with the rabbit foot, and the fanciful sentinel, standing on the wall of superstition, cries "all's well." Reverence for the rabbit foot is not con fined to the negroe?. Many white men of education and political influence arc victims of a strong belief in its charm'. Robert W. Worthen, sheriff of Pulaski county, Ark., wears a rabbit foot tipped with gi ld. It is by no means improbable that he at taches more value to the gold than the foot, but at any rate, during a campaign in which he is personally concerned, he crosses himself with the foot and mutters a strange jargon, with reverential accent. Some time ago, it is stated upon excellent authority, Mr. Worthen was greatly de pressed on account of a threatened defeat. He remained, during several days, in a cast down state, but suddenly his face brightened, while in the vicinity of his mouth there lurked a peculiar smile. He flew to his safe, took out a rabbit foot and crossed himself. He did not stop at this. He hastened to the voting precincts and crossed the ballot boxes with the foot. Immediately the votes of his enemies be gan to diminish. A few more rubs and dexterous crosses settled the question and Mr. Worthen was elected. He is an ex- cellent sheriff but he acknowledges that the rabbit foot helps him out of many in tricate entanglements. John G. Carlisle, speaker of the house of representatives, is a firm believer in the efficacy of : the rabbit foot. , Less than twelve years ago, Mr. Carlisle was a con firmed drunkard. He had started out with bright prospects but the great horn spoon and the blue rimmed bowl of Kentucky conviviality was too much for him; and, m the language of a distinguished blue grass poet, ; :- "He fell ; Like a lightning bug Into a well." Temperance lecturers and revivalists tried hard to brace him against tempta tions but iu ;vain. He struggled manfully, but he had jnot the power to control him self. One dfey, while Mr. Carlisle was bath ing his feverish brow at the town well, ani old kidney (footed negro, known as Wall Eyed Buckj came along and said : "Lpok heah, Mars John, whyn't yerquit dat foolishness?" " I would if I could. Buck." "I doau "spute dat, but by yesse'f yer ain't got de power. I means why doan yer take die right cou'se an' 'mount ter suthin' in the worl'?" " I havenft been able to pursue the right course, BuQk." " Dat's btcase yer doan know whut de right cou'se is." " I have tried everything." " No, yer ain't, Mars John. Now' lem me tell yer : whut's de- fack : Ef it's yer earnes' wush ter quit drinkin', jes' cross yesse'f six times wid er rabbit foot an' go on erbout yer bus'ness." "Go on. old man, you are foolish." "Now, lok heah," Buck replied, tak ing out a rabbit foo.t, " dis thing kaiu't hurt yer, au dat oughter make yer willin' ter let me try it on yer. Jes' hole still er minit." Mr. Carliisle laughed at the old negro's superstition, but suffered him to apply the rabbit foot.. "Now," said Buck wheu he had several times crossjed Carlisle, "yer days o' ca- rousin is over. Carlisle laughed, went to a saloon not far away, aaid asked for a little Bourbon with Blue1 Lick water on the outside. -" Hold on,' said he, just as the bartender had prepared the drink. " I'll pay for it but I really cannot drink it." , He went away rejoicing, for the burning thirst had left him. The next day he weut to his office and bent himself to the study of the books which he had so long neglected. He secured a rabbit foot and kept it in his pocket, ready ul all times to apply it in case of emergency. The people were so much gratified at the vigor of principle shown by Mr. Carlisle, that they soon gave him a position ot trust. Wheu he first aspired to the position of speaker, his friends, though willing to do anything for him, laughed at his absurd aspirations. Carlisle, however, did not entertain a doubt of his coining success. Not only did he refuse to entertain a doubt, but he refused to even treat the doubt with courtesy. " One day, just before the contest, Mr. Carlisle was seen crossing himself. "What are you doing "there?" asked some one who saw the performance. Carlisle blushed. " Ah," said the man, ' I know wlhat you are about. You are a Catholic and are exercising your mum mery." Then Mr.: Carlisle explained that he was applviui; line raooit iooi The mauiroared. He went out and told mtny of the congressmen that Carlisle was as superstitious as a negro and that it would not be right to vote for him. A large number agreed that they would not, but just as soon as the caucus met, the last one of them voted for Carlisle. Since then he hasi no trouble. His star is shin ing brighter and brighter, and if it should uot be dimmed by his probable election to the vice presidency, ne is liKeiy to oe- come a man oi innuence wiiu coiuiug ministrations.. MONOPOLY LAW. Legislative Grants of Monopolies. New Tork Herald. J In 1879 tjhe people of Louisiana em bodied in their fundamental law the de claration that "the monopoly features in the charter pf any corporation now exist ing in this : State, save such as may be contained in the charter of railroad com panies, are hereby abolished." Prior to the adoption of this constitu tional provision the Legislature of the State had granted to the New Orleans Gas Light Company the exclusive right of supplying that city with gas light for fifty years from 1875, and to the New Orleans Water Works Company the sole privilege of furnishing the city with water from the Mississippi River for fifty years, beginning in 1877. Each of these monopolies is now upheld by the United States Supreme Court in spite of the anti-monopoly provision in the constitution, of 1879. The Court decides that in each; instance the legislative grant was a contract which could not be broken even by the ; representatives of the people in constitutional convention without violat ing that clause of the federal constitution which forbids a State to impair the obli gation of contracts. In one of the cases the Court held that not even the lessees of the -St. Charles Hotel, though clothed, with uiunicijpal authority, had the right to supply their1 own house with water drawn troill tne Mississippi turougu pc imu ujr themselves. ; Every water consumer and every gas Consumer was bound to take from the monopoly company or go without light and wjiter. The samej priuciple was affirmed in a Kentucky case. In 1870 the Legislature granted to the Louisville Gas Light Com pany the exclusive privilege of supplying that city with gas light for twenty years. In 1872 the Citizens' Gas Light Company of Louisville was chartered by the Legis lature, and the validity of the charter was affirmed by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. This decision is reversed and the monopoly of the first company is upheld by the United Staties Supreme Court. Softened Bitterness. t. ! New York Sun. I Citizen (to editor) Your fine obituary notice of pqor Brown was s surprise to me, Shears. I thought that you and he were bitter enemjes? Editor (with a sigh) Ah, yes, we were enemies for; a number of years, but in the face of death, my dear friend, the heart softens. And. besides. I eot 10 cents a '1 line for the notice. Mr. David Lawson living 9 miles South of Mt. Airyj, was murdered Christmas by Jeff Simpson. Simpson and his father were quarreling , and Mr. Lawson, who happened to be passing by, interfered in behalf of the father of the boy. Thus the row changed and the young man struck Mr. Lawson on the head with an axe han dle, breaking his skull. r au.-
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