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t Newton r En ' rm 7TD)"0"O VOL.SXIX. NEWTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1897. NO. 27. E o ffv f 50 wm a mm Absolutely Pure. i'. li l,rat-d h.r its great leavening m ri-nut li aii'l !i';ilthruIno8S. Assure f.Kul Hgninst alum and all forms . : rilij't ration common to the cheap i ,::.!. Al. It.lKINO 1'OWbER CO., NEW YORK. L3. GAITHER, FTCRNEY-AT-LAW, A rWTON, - - - N. c. J. E. THORNTON, Keeps constantly on hand all sizes of wood coffins. Also a vari- ctv OI tmnai roues. NEWTON, N. C. J. R. CAMPBELL, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, NEWTON, N. C. Offers his professional services to the people of Newton and Catawba Countv. LITTLE, RESIDENT DENTIST. NEWTON, N. C. PiOiii -i' i:, Yo-int it Slirum's Building. A. P. LYNCH, AT TO U XEY-AT-LA W, NEWTON, - - - - N. C. Serial .Attention Given to all kinds of (.'ollt- tions. Otlice in l'ount & Shruin building up 6tairs. SALESMAN WANTED To seil our hijih grade Nursery Stock, Many new ppfvialues offered this ytar f'ir thp first time, us well as the standard varieties of fruits and ornamentals. 'I !if luisitios uimI.v learned. Wiite for tTins ( itlir on pnlary or commission. ili.'orKs, l'.i.o. & Thomas, Maple Avenue Nurt-i-ries, Wtt C hester, Pa. J. C.WHITESIDE, M. D., rUYSIClAN AND SURGEON, NEWTON, N. C. Offers hit) Professional services to the pt ople of Nowton and the public general lyfeeling grateful for a very liberal pat ronage in the past, hopes to merit a con tinuance of the same. Special attention triviTi to diseases of women and children, (Mice at residence. DISEASES OP THE SKIN. The intense itchins and smarting inci. dent to eczema, tetter, salt-rheum, and other diseases of the 6kin is instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases have been permanently cured by it. It is equally t flicknt for itching piles and a favorite rem ( !y for sore nipples; chapped hands, chil li. tins, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes. For sale by druggists at 25 cents per box. Try Dr. Cady's Condition Powders, they are just what a horse needs when in bad condi tion. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge. For S-ilehv T. It. Alornetby. Ernest L. Moore, FasbicnaMe Barter ani EEir Eresscr NEWTON, N. C. He keeps a First class Tonsorial Parlor where you will always find clean towels and sharp razors, and a polite and at tentive barber, Every one coming to Newton desiring any thing in the Tonsorial Art will be leased after they call on me,for 1 always please all my customers. A c KNTS WANTED For War inCuba, -'-MjyS. nor Quesada, Cuban represen tative at Washington. Endorsed by Cuban patriots. In tremendous demand. A bonanza for ngeuts. Only $1.50. Big hook, big commissions. Everybody w 'Hit the only endorsed, reliable book. "U fit free. Credit given. Freight paid. I'rop nil trfifih, and make $.300 a month if War in Cuba. Address todav, TUB NATIONAL BOOK CONCERN, 352-358 I' ?irhorn St., Chicago. PliJNTINC XEW MONEY. One, Two, Five and Ten Dollar Notes and Gold Certificates to Be Printed. Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has au- tnorized and directed the Bureau of Kngraving and Printing to print and deliver to the office of the Secretary of me united htates notes and gold cer tificates to the amount of $14,000,000. A large proportion of the notes will be hi small denominations, ones, twos. "csuuu tens, and the supply is ex- I ected to be sufficient for thn neadst of the Treasury for a period of about three inonths, meeting the usual demand for nnall bills received in the movement of crops, the department anticipates, in view of the abundance oi crops, an un usually large and early call for small was. Once upon a time two Cows reclined peacefully beneath a tree. "Oh, by the way," one of the Cows remarked casually, "why was it, if I may ask, that you didn't chase those golfers yes terday?" "Oh. I don't care to be the eause of little calves being made to suf fer." Detroit Free Press, i J. B. m McKinley Recommends the Appoint ment of a Currency Commission, SAYS PEOPLE DEMAN D A CHANGE Urges That lie Promised in His In auguration Speech to Give Some Relief. The President on the 24th sent the following message to Congress: To the Conprcss of the United States: In my message convening the Con gress in extraordinary session, I called attention to a single object: That a measure providing revenue adequate to meet the reasonable and proper ex penses of the government was neces sary. I believed that to be the most pressing subject for settlement then. A bill to provide the necessary revenues for the government has already passed the House of Representatives and the Senate and awaits the executive action. Another question of very great im portance is that of the establishment of our currency and banking system on a better basis, which I commented on in my inaugural address in the follow ing words: "Our financial system needs some re vision; our money is all good now, but its value must not be further threatened. It should all be put on an enduring basis, not subject to easy attack nor its stability to doubt or dispute. 1 he sev eral forms of our paper money oner, in mv judgment, a constant embarrass ment to the Government and imperil a safe balance in the treasury. " Nothing was settled more clearly at the late election than the determma nation upon the part of the people to keep their currency stable in value and equal to that ot the most advanced na tions of the world. The soundness of our currency is nowhere questioned. No loss can occur to its holder. It is the system which should be simplified and strengthened, keeping our money lust as good as it is now with less ex pense to the Government and the peo pie. the sentiment of the country is strongly in favor of early action by Congress iu this direction, to revise our currency laws and remove them from partisan contention. A notable assembly of business men with dele gates from twenty-nine States and ter ritories was held at Indianapolis in Jan uary of this year. The financial situa tion commanded their earnest attention and after a two days session the con vention recommended to Congress the appointment of a monetary commission. I commend this report to the consider tion of Congress. The authors of the report recommend a commission to make a thorough investigation of the monetary affairs and needs of the coun try in all relations and aspects, and to make proper suggestions as to any evils found to exist and the remedies there for. This subject should receive the atten tion of Congress at its special session. It ought not to be postponed until the regular session. I therefore urgently recommend that a special commission be created, non-partisan in its eharac ter, to be composed of well informed citizens of different parties who will command the confidence of Congress and the country because of their special fitness for the work, whose duty it shall be to make recommendations of whatever changes in our present banking and currency laws as may be found nscessary and expedient and to report their conclusion on or be fore the first day of November next, in order that the same maybe transmitted by me to congress for its consideration at its first regular session. It is to be hoped that the report thus made will be so comprehensive and sound as to receive the support of all parties and the favorable action of congress. At all events, such a report cannot fail to be of value to the executive branch of government as well as to those charged with public legislation and greatly as sist in the establishment of an improved system of finance, William McKinley. Executive Mansion, July 24, 1897. HANNA AND THE STRIKERS. He Favors Any Plan That Will Better the Condition of Men. Senator Hanna was in Pittsburg, Pa. , last week. In speaking of the ef forts to settle the strike by arbitration, he said: "lam in favor of any plan that will better the condition of the men, the main point. That their con dition needs betterment everybody knows, and I will give my hearty sup port and co-operation to any movement looking toward that end. Uniformity is lacking, and that is something I have always advocated. " At Charleston, W. a., the indica tions are that the coal miners' strikes in the southern part of the State are practically over. The strike organizers have abandoned these three coal fields and are leaving for other parts. Commissioners Conner and lerhune, who were appointed by Governor Mount to visit the Indiana coal fields and report on the condition of the min ers, have submitted their conclusions. They find that about 8,000 miners and families will need assistance, if the present condition continues. The Gov ernor has decided to issue an appeal, suggesting some kind of a reasonable relief for the striking miners and their families. Heavy shipments of iron were made from the South during the past six months. 1,000 Men Given Employment. At Louisville, Ky., the Avery plow factory has resumed operations after t three-years' shut-down, giving employ ment to 1,000 men. One thousand ad ditional workmen will be given em ployment gradually in the future. Woman Sentenced to the Rock Pile. At Danville. Ills. , sex distinction has been wiped out in the police court by Magistrate Timmons. The justice has sentenced Maggie Sellers, a disorderly woman, to the rock pile for thirty days, The woman took the sentence nonchal antly. Lynching Denounced. The recent outbreak of lynchings in GAors-ia has aroused the ministers of Atlanta. Last Sunday several sermons were preached against lynchings and at their regular weekly meetings appoint ed committees to araw sniiaDie resoiu Hons exoressine their views of the min itrv of Atlanta in denunciation of ...... lynching. Tn the Circuit Court at Jonesville, Va nvan ATnllins was sentenced to the rjenitentiary for hold ius up Col. B. Price and relieving him of a quart of whiskey and a pistol. NEWS ITEMS. Southern Pencil Pointers. Resident McKinley has appointed a negro Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia. Nashville. Tenn. . is soon to be in telephonic connection with the entire South. The Younjr Business Men's Associ ation, of Richmond, Va. , have resolved to invite the Grand Army of the Repub lic to hold its encamoment in the above city in 1899. Jim Grev. a neerro. was lynched iu Laurens county, S. C. , for an assault on a 3-year-old child. The National Conference of State Boards of Health is to be held at Nash ville, Tenn. , in August. Tennessee life insurance agents have organized a State association and elect ed officers. G. T. Johnson, a broker of Athens. Ga. , committed suicide at Spartanburg, S. C. No cause is assigned. The erection of a twenty-ton cotton seed oil mill will be commenced at La vonia, Ga., at once. The Charlotte (N. C. ) News is to put in Mergenthaler type-setting: machines and thereby improve their paper. Four decided cases of smallpox have been sent out of Birmingham, and sus pect eases are being sent to the pest house. The American Warehousemen's As sociation will hold its seventh annual convention at Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 20, 21 and 22. J. H. Linn, of Berkeley county, South Carolina, committed suicide in Columbia by swallowing laudanum. He feared sunstroke was the unusual cause of the death. J udge Fox, of "Wayne county, Va. , has declared unconstitutional the Indi ana law that no convict-made goods from other States can be sold without a State license. Dispatches received from Talbotton at Atlanta fully confirm the reported lynching near there of Dr. W. L. fivder, who murdered Miss Sallie Emma Owen, of Talbotton, a year ago. It is said that in the near future the Pullman car company will have large shops erected in Salisbury, N. C. , which will be the headquarters for the eastern division of the company. The contract for printing the 120th volume of the North Carolina Supreme Couit Reports have been awarded to the James E. Goode Printing Company, of Richmond, Va., at 914. Nash Bros. , of Goldsboro, were the next low est bidders, ijy.y. in all there were seven bidders, four from Richmond. There is a good deal of complaint at this work going out of the State. All About the North. A band of Ku Klux is whipping peo pie in Arkansas. Twenty thousand men were in line in Chicago at the dedication of the monu ment to Gen. Logan. - The Naumbaug, (Mass. ) cotton mills. at Salem, have decided to close for a number of weeks, and 2,000 operatives have been so notified. English sparrows iu droves, not to say hordes, have picked all the grain the wheat stalks in a field outside of "Wabash, Ind. The Naumakeg cotton mills of Salem, Mass. , will on August 2d shut down for two weeks, thereby throwing over a thousand hands out of employment. A cloud-burst at Toungstown. O.. flooded the town and valley washed out the tracks of the Erie Railroad. It is almost certain that many people were di owned. Four women and two men were kill ed by an explosion of cartridges in the factory of the Y inchester Arms Gom pany, at New Haven, Conn. An over charge of a machine, it is thought, was the cause. At Topeka, Kan., A. Hubbard, who was convicted of embezzling 8,000 as receiver of the Hamilson Printing Com pany, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary, by Judge Hanson. Representative Mitchell, of New York, has introduced in the House a bill to es tablish a currency reserve fund for the redemption of United States and Treas ury notes of 1890. The fund shall ag gregate at the start 8150,000,090, of which not over 100,000,000 shall con sist of gold, and the remainder of Uni ted States and Treasury notes. Miscellaneous. Armor plate makers decline to furnish the Government the plate desired at $300 per ton. The Malloy steamship line has cut rates on freights between Galveston, Texas, and New York. Money is said to be so abundant in London that it can be loaned without difficulty. Statistics show that the United States control 90 per cent of the trade of the Hawaiian Islands. increased uanadian duties upon im ports have led to extensive smuggling of liquors and the operation of illicit stills. The London Spectator has some hard things to say about the -United States in connection with the passage of the tariff bill. It is reported that ex-President Cleveland will, in November, be form ally tendered the office of president of the L niversity of Virginia. There is very little change in the miners' strike; the lay as to weighing coal before screened is to be tested and suits are to be brought against opera tors. Various sections of England have been visited by terrific thunder storms. In the northwestern part of London floods have occurred stopping railway traffic and much damage has been done. Floods have also occurred in Essex, Bir mingham and Warwickshire. Forest fires have done much damage in California. Washington Gossip. The Secretary of War is considering a proposition that has been made to him to establish a military- post in Alaska. It has been decided to send the cur rency message to Congress as soon as the party leaders in the Senate con sider the time opportune. The President sent a message to Con- cress just before adjournment recom mending the appointment of a currency commission. The President sent to the Senate before Congress adjourned a numbei of nominations and the Senate con firmed several appomtmonts about whioh there were no contests, including Abial Lathrop to be district attorney for South Carolina, and W. S. Clan towfi to be assayer at Charlotte, N. C. DINBLEY'S TARIFF Bill fl LAW The Senate Passes It By a Vote of 40 to 30, on Time. QUICKLY SIGNED BY M'KINLEY. Greatest Enthusiasm Manifested. The President Used Dingley's Pen. The 55th Congress Adjourns. Washington, July 26th. (Special.) The tariff bill passed its last legislative stage at 4 p. m. Saturday when the Senate, by the decisive vote of 40 to 30, agreed to the conference report on the bill. The announcement of the result was greeted with enthusiastic applause by the crowded chamber. This closed the labor for which the Fifty-fifth Congress assembled in extraordinary session, and after stubborn resistance, at times threatening a deadlock, the Senate concurred with the House in a resolu tion for the fiDal adjournment of the session at 9 o'clock tonight. The Presi dent's message for a currency commis sion was received, but the bill creating the commission was not acted upon. The closing day was prolific of a series of momentous scenes, each of which alone would have been of extraordinary interest. An analysis of the vote shows that the affirmative vote was cast by thirty-seven Republicans, one Demo crat (McEnery), one silver Republican (Jones, of Nevada), and one Populist (Stewart). The negative vote was cast by 28 Democrats and two Populists (Harris and Turner). Mr. Teller, silver Re publican, and two Populists (Allen and Butler) were present and did not vote. One Populist (Kyle), and one silver Re publican (Pettigrew) were absent without pairs, which was equivalent to withholding their votes. Although the result was a foregone conclusion, yet this did not abate the eager interests attaching to the close of a great con test. Complimentary resolutions to the Vice President, Mr. Hobart, were adopted and at 9 o'clock the final scene was en acted by the formal adjournment of the session. The End in the House. The last session of the House was marked by many interesting events. In addition to the final act of the Speaker in affixing his signature to the Dingley bill, a bill providing for the creation of a currency commission was crowded through in the closing hours. The House recessed until after the Senate had adopted the conference re port and one minute and thirty-one sec onds after the House reconvened the en grossed bill was signed and on its way to the President. The last step necessary was taken at the White House when the President affixed his signature at 4:04 o'clock with a beautif ul mother of pearl-handled pen, which Mr. Dingley requested the President to use. The President recognized the right of Mr. Dingley, though he laughingly commented on the diminutive size of the pen. He then appended his signature to the bill, asked the date and wrote "July 24th, approved" and the bill was an act. WEEKLY COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Mint and Bank: Cash Grows AIas- kia's Gold Fields. Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co. 's weekly review of trade for the week ending the 24th, says in part: "The end of un certainty regarding duties on imports gives greater confidence alike to those who have opposed, and to those who have favored the change. The great strength in stocks, especially in the Granger list, reflects a heavy crop. The remarkable rise in wheat, not withstanding the assurances based on heavy buying for export and belief that foreign demands will be good, must be added as another evidence of confidence, scarcely observed a week ago. The heavy increase in re ceipts of gold, whether from one side of the Alaska border or the other, swells deposits at the mints and in the banks of this country, and if the yields from these regions answer current expecta tions, they may be equal in influence to that of the discoveries of gold in cai fornia. "The one retardirg force, the strike of the coal miners, has caused the clos ing of a new manufacturing works for want of fuel, but negotiations for set tlement are pushed with hope. ' 'Since July 2d the price of wheat had risen 12 cents by Wednesday, when a reaction of four cents was not surpris ing, but the close was f cents advance for the week. "Corn exports are still heavy, 6,635, 395 bushels in July, against 2,421,999 last year, which perhaps reflects more certainly to the wheat movement the actual conditions abroad. "The textile industries have lost ground as the curtailment of produc tion in cotton for a time is really a gain. The demand has increased, but the ac cumulated stocks of goods must be re duced before importance to buy can be expected. "The failures for the week have been 227 in the United States, against 281 last year; and 28 in Canada, against 29 last year. " Going to the Gold Fields. "On to the Yukon" is the cry in Can. ada, which has been struck by the gold fever. In Victoria men are mortgaging homes to raise money to enable them to get to the gold fields. " trredlcted. The London Times predicts war be tween England and the United States and says confidential communications between Russia and the latter country are being exchanged as to the Alaskan boundary line. Lynched for Murder. At Coffeeville, Miss. , Jim Sellers, a negro murderer, was taken from the county jail at Pittsboro, Calhoun coun ty, and shot to death by a mob. An Audience Panic Stricken. At Paducah, Ky., the Casino Sum mer Theatre, at Ramona Park has been burned, A performance was being given to about 600 people when the fire broke out from a fireworks display on the stage. The audience was panic stricken. Probably over 100 people were injured in being burned or tramp led. Several of the actors were pain fully burned. Lynched on General Principles. Ephriam Brinkley waa lynohed at Madison ville, Ky., for general bad character. THE HOME OF BILL NYE. Summer Girl of Mountain Cities la the Land of the Sky. Asheville, N. C July 24. (Speaial Correspondence.) Not many miles from this place lived Bill Nye alas, poor William, the people about here knew him well and they have many queer stories which they tell of him and many which the humorist In his perigrination throughout this pic turesque region would tell to them. It was Nye who gave the memorable account of how it was that Vander bilt happened to settle in this rare and rarified section of the South. "George and me worked the combina tion," he said. "We have tastes of the same hue, often a dark brown. I'm long on gray matter; he has the long green. We pitched our tents side by side this proves the greatness of men, to say nothing of the country round about. " But Nye has passed, and there is no monument save a cottage far up the river. Vanderbilt remaineth, and like old Horaoe, he has erected a monumert more enduring than brass. Since the visit of McKinley, when he refused to enter the estate unless an invitation was extended to the correspondents accom panying him, newspaper men have rather risen in the estimation of Hard ing, the surly English sub-manager, and more extended courtesies are shown them. But Biltmore is only an accessory fea ture of this luxurious section. It rep- i resents the artificial, and looking at it in this contrasted light with the limit less wealth of nature spread out in its grandest forms, the scene makes a study which is interesting and not soon to be forgotten. Asheville, just at this season, becomes the summer girl of the mountain cities. She gets on a cool shirt-waist, with a jaunty sailor hat and bedecks herself in the refreshing greenery of the season. She looks delightfully cool, and there is an air of comfort and serene satisfac tion in her manner that she can defy the blistering heat which wilts her rivals and sends them indoors. Instead of retreating from the sun, Asheville gets out and glories in its glare, for it is tempered by a stiff breeze which comes down from the crown of moun tains around; she goes a golfing, rigs up in wheeling costume for a spin, gets into tennis paraphernalia, or starts out on a jaunt up the river for a try at mountain trout. Just now Asheville is on the verge of the summer season. For the next three months it will be a gay place gay in a summer way, for the town is always lively and wears the air of prosperity throughout the whole year. The popular idea of Asheville is errone ous. I had pictured the place as a small mountain city, with two or three big hotels near by and Biltmore and Ed McKissick in the rear ground. In stead, here is one of the most metro polital towns in appearance in the South. The people have full enjoy ment of life. The business part of the city is in the bottom of a hugh basin scooped out among the mountains and eliced in two by the Swannanoa and French Broad. Here ara milei of paved streets, put down, bv the way, by the late General Pierce M. B. Young, who secured the contract some years before he accepted his foreign appointment. From these radiate driveways which stretch in all directions and penetrate the encircling hills and heights, reach ing far into the mountains. It is on this range of intermediate hills that the residences and resorts have been built and on every protruding knob there is some majestic hotel or house which gives a good effect to the general scene. The Southern Railway has made a recent change in schedules, which puts in trains from all sections at most con venient hours. The Macon people are taking advan tage of a train which leaves that city at 7.10 p. m. and gets to this place at 9. 45 a. m. The same train leaves Ash eville at 9 p. in. and arrives in Atlanta at 5. 10 a. m. , and in Macon at 8. 15 o'c lock. Arrangements for transportation be tween Charleston, Savannah and Co lumbia are equally convenient. The train leaving here at 8. 20 a. m. gets to Charleston at 8 p. m. Drawing room cars have been put on between Jacksonville, Savannah, Ash eville and Cincinnati. The train leav ing here at 3.05 p. m. arrives in Savan nah at 5 a. m. and at Jacksonville at 9.10 a. m. Leaving Savannah at 11.35 p. m. and Jacksonville at 7, the trip is made to Asheville Dy 2.4o o clock in the afternoon. Drawing room cars have been placed on between New lorfc. Philadelphia, Chattanooga, Baltimore, Washington, Salisbury and Nashville. Leaving Asheville at 3. 30 p. m. the trip is made to Chattanooga by 11.35 p. m. : arriving at Nashville at 0.40 a. m. Leaving Asheville at 2.25 p. m. the trip is made to Washington at 6. 42 a. m. , to jiaitimore phia, 12.43 p. m, 12.-52 p. m. at 8 a. m. , Philadel- and New York at Trains 15 and 16 carry through Pull man drawing cars between Norfolk, Raleierh, Greensboro, Chattanooga and Nashville. Leaving Asheville at 1.1 a. m., Chattanooga is reached at 7.40 a. m. and Nashville at 1:35 p. m. Leaving Asheville at 2. 44 a. m. , the trip is made to Greensboro by 8.30, Norfolk at 5. 2o p. m Trains 3, 5 and 6, between Asheville and Morristown. make connections with trains to and from Memphis, New Orleans and the South. Double daily. trains run on the Murphy branch be tween Ashville and Bryson City. This change in trains give excellent connection from Asheyille with all points. Three trains come in during the day from the West, and three .leave in the same direction; three come in and depart from the South, and there are two out and in from the East and North. Just now Asheville is filling up. Crowds are coming in from all sec tions. The season is just on, and will be more brilliant than any of former vears. An Official Railroad Guide. Watts' Official Railroad Guide, pub lished at Atlanta, Ga. , is out for July, In connection with the handsome ap pearance, Manager Watts is not only giving a chromo of the lennessee Leu tenmal Exposition and the summer r& sorts, but is now giving to each pur chaser a $1,000 accident insurance pol icy together with one of the most ccm plete railroad maps of the Southerr States. It is a gem of typography and is comprehensive even to an ordinary traveler, in fact, it is an indisj ensab! medium of information and ready refer ence to the tourist and traveler. Senator Tillman to Speak. Senator B. R. Tillman, of South Car olina, has wired his acceptance of an invitation to speak in Mooresville, N. C. , on the 29th of this month, which is the day of the Mooresville picnic for the Barium Springs Orphanage. The Senator ill prove a drawing card, and one of the largest crowds ever gather- j ei in Mooresville is expected. mm mm m A. Lower Rate fof Telegrams, 15 Cents For Ten Words. HERETOFORE IT HAS BEEN 25c. This Decision Will Undoubtedly Be Applauded by the People of The State. The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer says the State Railroad Commission at its meeting at Round Knob aeeided to re quire the railroads of the State to pay an increased tax, and the telegraph companies to send messages at a re duced rate. The Commission increased the valua tion of railroad property in North Caro lina $3,000,000 over the assessed valua tion in 1896, and the railroad com panies will therefore be required to pay taxes on a greatly increased return. In a matter of cheaper telegraph ser vice the commission placed the rate for a message of ten words or less at 15 cents. The rate has heretofore been 25 cents. The railroad commission is very care ful to be just and fair in its decisions. It has made the most painstaking in vestigation in these subjects and we have no doubt that these two decisions were justified by the findings of the commission, and they will undoubted ly be applauded by the people of the State. PRITCHARD AND PROSPERITY. He Sees it in the Dingley Bill for the Industries of the South. Special to the Charlotte (N. C.) Ob server. Senator Pritchard looks through his political spectacles and sees nothing but prosperity in the Dingley tariff bilL He is satisfied that its provisions will redound to the interest of the Southern people. Here is the way he figures it out: ' 'Now that the tariff bill is about to be enacted into law," says the Senator, "I feel sure that the country will experi ence a general revival of business in every branch of industry. Unmistak able evidences of prosperity are to be seen on every hand and while I have not succeeded in every instance in se curing what I believe to be adequate protection for certain industries of the South, in the main, I have gotten what our people have demanded. It is an admitted fact that the South has se- ured a greater degree of protection for her industries in the present law than has been accorded to us in any tariff measure heretofore enacted. Take, for instance, the lumber industry iu North Carolina and other Southern States which was almost destroyed by the operation of the Wilson law. "Owing to remoteness from the dis tributing points and the difference in the cost of labor in Canada and the United States it was absolutely impossi ble for the Southern lumbermen to successfully compete with his Canadian competitor. So long as the Wilson law remained on the statute book it was fol ly for the citizens of our State to at tempt to dispose of their lumber. The present law provides a two dollar rate of duty on lumber, which will afford a market for the lumber of the North Car olina farmer, and will ensure the invest ment of thousands of dollars in the lumber industry of our State. rate of duty has been secured on rice which is entirely satisfactory to the rice planters of the South. This is another industry which has been lan guishing under the operation of the Wilson tariff. "A duty of six cents per pound is placed on monazite, which will enable the farmers of North and South Caro lina to realize thousands of dollars in the development of the industry. The bill provides for a most satis factory rate on wool, thereby offer ing an inducement to the people of the sheep growing sections. Many localities in North Carolina are well adapted to sheep growing and the provisions in the present law make it possible for our farmers to now engage in this business with the assurance that they will be able to derive a good profit. Kaolin is accorded a sufficient rate of duty to enable the owners of koalin mines to develop the industry, securing the in vestment of thousands of dollars as well as the employment of our citizens at remunerative wages. Miea and all other minerals, as well as the agricul tural products of the South, are af forded a good rate of protection. "In addition to the fact that we are to have a general revival of manufac turing throughout the country the agricultural reports tell of unusual crops everywhere. " - CHANGES IN POSTMASTERS. The Number About the Same As In the Last Administration. The number of changes made in presidential postoffices between March 4 and July 7, according to the official figures of the Postoffice Department, was 416. For the similar, period the changes during the last administration were 429. Of the number under the present regime the changes at 66 offices were based on resignations, 136 on ex pirations of the commissions of in cumbents, 126 on removals, 73 by reason of the office being raised to the presidential class, and 15 on deaths of the postmasters. Included in the total are 78 cases in which changes were due to reports of postoffice inspectors. Didn't Like nis Silver Utterances. A Providence, R. L, special says President E. B. Andrews, of Brown University, has sent a letter to the fac ulty resigning his office. The letter was in response to a communication sent to President Andrews by the committee appointed by the trustees and fellows, who at the time called him to account for his silver utterances. Death of the Oldest Catholic Priest. Rev. Peter Haverman, the oldest Catholic priest in the United States, died at Troy, N. Y. Father Haver man w&s born in the Province of North Brabant, Holland, March 27, 1806. Miners Becoming Aggressive. The striking miners are becoming aggressive in their efforts to get the workers out, and trouble is feared at Pittsburg. The backbone of the strike in the Kanawha district is broken. Senator Pritchard announces that the civil service investigations by the Sen ate Committee on Civil Service Reform will be discontinued until fall. The sub-committee will visit Omaha in Oc tober and take testimony in the case oi some alleged violations of civil service law there, and upon their return may lesume their hearings in Washington. DKBS DISCOURAGED. Some Miners In Favor of Continuing the Strike and Others Return to Work. Changes that have an important bear ing upon the coal strike situation in West Virginia have taken place. The State, taken as a whole, is against the strike for financial reasons. All strikers have -been brought out under pressure of organizers and agitators elsewhere than in the Fairmont regions. Debs admits that he is sorely discouraged. Governor Atkinson thinks the strike will becojne general and hopes the men will win. Trouble, and much of it, seems to be in store at the Allison mine, three miles west of Canon burg, Pa. Six hundred interfering strikers are looked for, and th Sheriff and his deputies are ready to meet them. At Farmington, I1L, the strikers are beginning to get ugly. They seized a freight train and held it for five hours. At Ken ova, W. Va., one hundred men, who have been employed in grad ing on the double track for the Chesa peake & Ohio Railroad, left for Elkhorn to work in the coal and coke fields, thereby defeating the strike in this State. At Wheeling, W. Va., there is little change w the local coal mining strike situation. Some of the miners who struck at the Glendale works have re turned to work, rather unexpectedly. About 125 of the 450 miners who are on strike at Collinsville, I1L, held a meeting at that place to determine whether thev should continue the strike or accept the advance offered them by the operators and return to work. They decided by a vote of S3 to 43 to continue the strike. All the miners in Alabama, except those at Blue Creek, employed by the Tennessee Coal and Iron and Railroad Company have returned to work hav ing compromised with the operators at 37 cents per ton, a reduction of 2J cents. The same scale, it is expected, will be signed up with the Blue Creek miners. At Cincinnati, O., the Brotherhood of Loccmotive Firemen decided to raise funds for the striking miners, but to take no sympathetic action and to remain neutral as an organization. Senator Hanna, of Ohio, expresses gTeat sympathy for the striking miners in the coal regions of Ohio, Pennsylva nia and West Virginia. He is doing all he can to bring about a epeedy settle ment of the troubles. He says" that the President has not received a request to act, but would probably decide upon the matter when it was presented to him, A. & N. C. RAILROAD CASE. Simonton Continues One Injunction and Dissolves Another. The attorneys for Wm. R. Tucker in his suit against Governor Rnssell, in the matter of the Atlantic & North Car olina Railroad, have received Judge Simonton's decision. Simonton dis solves the injunction as to the first act of the last Legislature regarding this road, but he con tinues the injunction as to the second act, which repealed the old charter, prescribed a graduated vote for the private stockholders and fixed the State's votes at 350. Under the lat ter act the State would enjoy 12,000 votes and the other stockholders 6,000, and the presence of the State proxy would also be necessary to make a quorum. The State would have abso lute control of the road. Under the judge's ruling the act cannot be en forced. AN ALABAMA WAR. Trouble Over the Killing of a Negro for the Usual Crime. A special to the Birmingham (Ala. ) State Herald from Florence, Ala., says: A race war is on at Riverton, Ala., a townjof 600 inhabitants, and serious trouble is feared. A negro attempted a criminal assault on Mrs. S. L. Vaughan, an estimable white lady, but was beaten off, and the neighborhood aroused. A searching party is said to have caught the fiend and shot him, but this they will not admit. After the lynching the whites became incensed and threatened to exterminate the negroes. Both sides are arming, and one white man is seriously injured. Mrs. Vaughan is in a delicate condition, and her death is momentarily ex pected. Talmage Loses His Pastorate. A Washington special to the Phila delphia (Pa.) Record fcays owing to dissentions among the members of the aristocratic First Presbyterian church, Dr. DeWitt Talmage will not return to Washington to take charge of his flock. The majority of the members claim that Dr. Talmage has far from realized their expectations. In fact, the church has less members and is worse off finan cially than ever before. He took the associate pastorate under a contract, which has not netted him a penny this year. A Libelous Report. The directors of the Southern Build ing and Loan Association, of Louis ville, Ky., say that they do not owe Milo Abel, of Macon, Ga., 2,000 or any other sum due and demandable; even if we did, we have iu bank over $8,000 with which to pay it. The as sociation is absolutely solvent, and the report sent out is a libeL Mrs. Lease for Governor. Mrs. Mary II Lease has announced that she would be a candidate for the Populist nomination for governor of Kansas next year. The constitution does not bar women from holding this office. McKinley Gets the Prize Melon. Wednesday the largest watermelon grown in the South was presented to President McKinley. It was grown in Georgia; weighed seventy-tight pounds and took the prize of 25, offered by W. N. Mitchell, southern agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in a con test participated in by the planters of all the melon-growing States. A Pine Wood Trust. The pine shippers of Virginia have organized with a view of securing bet ter prices for their product Labor Denounces Powderly. In New York the Central Labor Union after a long wrangle adopted the following: "Resolved that the appoint ment of T. V. Powderly as Commis sioner of Immigration is the greatest official insult ever offered by the Fed eral government to organized labor." Killed Her Baby in a Dream. Mrs. Joseph Midkiff, wife of a farmer living near Hamlin, W. Va., dreamed that she was pitching brush, and taking hold of her infant child lying beside her she unconsciously pitched the lit tle one to the floor. The child died from the effect of its injuries. is mm hope. "Cotton Famine" Really a New Thing in North Carolina. RECORD FOR KILLING C0NYICTS Death From a DreamConvicts to Cut Cord Wood Must Take a Census of the School Children. Speaking of the Local Taxation Elec tion Aug. 10, one man says: "Taxes are too high already; I don't want to pay any more taxes." But this man has children and wants to educate them. If he sends them to a publi school like we now have, the school will last only twelve weeks. He can not educate his children this way. They will never learn much studying twelve weeks and not studying forty weeks. So this man decides to send his boy and girl to a private school. How much must he pay? He must pay at least five dollars for the boy and five for the girL This is a tax of ten dollars on him. But if he will vote for local taxation he will get good six months' school for the boy and girl and for all the boys and girls he has at a cost of 41.30, if his property is listed at 1,000; at a cost of $5.30 if his prop erty is listed at S5.000; at a cost of forty cents if his property is listed for 100; at a cost ef eighty cents if his property is listed for 500. So you see this local taxation is the poor man's only hope of educating his children. The Superintendent of Public In struction sends the following to the county supervisors: "You and your county board of education will arrange to have the census of the school chil dren taken accurately some convenient time this fall. This must be done be fore the first Monday in January, 189t, because the apportionment must be made by the townships and per capita. This census will be accepted at this office for the one required first Monday in June, 1S38." He also says to the county supervisers: "The reorganiza tion of the public rchool evstem of North Carolina, according to the act of the last General Assembly, is now com plete. The working force of the system consists of.the Staie board of education, the State superintendent of public in struction, the county board of education, the county supervisor, the township committee and the teachers. We must make a success of our efforts to educate the masses in North Carolina. As head of the system for the State, I shall ex pect much of you. " The Raleigh correspondence of the Charlotte Observer, under date of the 22nd, say-'u "A carload of cotton all the way from New lork has arrived for one of the mills here A lot of cotton owned bv a lady was sold here yester day at 8i cents. A lot of 2-50 bales, the property of a Mecklenburg farmer. brought the same figure. A Raleigh buyer was on board, but did not buy, as it would cost 30 cents per hundred to bring the cotton here from Char lotte. A 'cotton famin-'is really a new think in North Carolina. The suffering mill-owners ought to call on the govern ment to relieve the pressure and have cotton sent here. " James Hamrick, a younjr man. died at Iron Station under peculiar circum stances. He was convalescent from an attack of fever. A work train on the Carolina Central was engaged in load ing and unloading railroad iron ia front of his house, and he dreamed that he was lying on the track, unable to move and the train was about to run over him. The fright brought on heart failure and he died. Gr jensboro Record. A medal of honor has been awarded to Brevet CoL Andrew McGonnigle, of Asnevine, tj., who at Cedar Creek, of Genera! Sheridan's forces operating in the Shenandoah Valley, was severely wounded wiiile leading a brigade of in fantry on that field, and was commend ed for the greatest gallantry by Gener al fchendan. At Kings' Mountain a burgnlar enter ed the residence of Mrs. P. S. Bakr, and in his attempt to ojien the bureau she screamed, and he therefore choked ber into insensibility and made his es cape from the house, but was caught and given a preliminary hearing and sent to jail. A white man, named Fred P. How land, the supposed incendiary, whose acts of inceadiarism have cost Wil mington more than $100,000, has been found guilty at the recent term of the Criminal Court for that county. Sen tence has not been passed upon yet In the Superior Court, at Raleigh, Berry Cook, colored, charged with mur dering by strangling. Rose Morgan, his niistress.pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary by Jndge Robertson to twenty years at hsrd labor. Isaac Holderfield, an overseer of con victs of the State penitentiary, says that he has been serving in that capacity for the past twenty-six years, and in that time he has shot ten convicts and killed seven. Superintendent Smith will hire out most of the convicts, except those on the Wadesbcro farm, who will le put to cutting wood: he has a contract now to furnish 3, 500 cords of wood. It is claimed that the tobacco crop in the western counties will be small. Superintendent Smith, of the peniten tiary, says the Roanoke convict farm will yield this year 125,000 bushels of corn from 6,000 acres, 5,000 bales of cotton from 5, SCO acres, and besides there are 2,000 acres now in field peas. The farmers' institutes, which are being held in many of the counties are also in the interest of the Agricultural and Mechanical college. It is now intimated that the Durh-ra and Charlotte railroad may pass by Chapel Hill. Dr. Curry has sent to Superintendent Mebane 200 of the Peabody fund for the State Normal and Industrial Col lege, making 2, S00 given it this year; also 100 more for the Elizabeth City negro normal school. T. J. Callett and other capitalists, of Phillipsbure, Pa., have established at Wilmington a brewery, ice factory and cold storage plant. The capacity is 10, 000 banejs, and work has been begun oa the plant. Ab Longery, the negro murderer of Willie Brown, a little white boy in Marion, has been sentenced to thirty yrsi n the State"? prison.
The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.)
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