CANNOT BE AT FAYET TfcVlLLE,
S;- -Jlr. Davte Writes a Letter From a
' Sick Bed.
bi -The committee of invitation to
r Ibe oenteunial ratification by North
}, y. Carolina of the Constitution have
received a letter from ex-President
'■Davis written in pencil and from a
-*ick bed, regretting his inability on
account of increased impaired health
^ to be present at the celebration of
The 21st Inst. In' this letter he pays
’■ .'“"a glowing tribute to North Caroli-!
. hist prominent patriotism - during
and subsequent to the revolution.
It is pronounced by all who. Have;
etui it Worthy of the man and wor
- thy of the occasion, While the
people cif Fayetteville are of course
— —deeply grieved rft their inability to
welcome Mr. Davis as the guest of
the centennial celebration more es
■ - Ttsyisay as tb«.' letter in question
, gives expression to the venerated
writers interest in this historic
event, no abatement is felt in the
eniiuisiasm over the matter and no
. pause is made in the extensive and
elaborate preparations both for' the
1 -Coxnpktenea8.of the inposing cere
' monies and the comfort and pIcaaA
I ure of the thousand of ex^cwf
„ guests. - * - . T/f'
North Carolina and the Constipation.
HtflnUntvn Mrmmvuffer. •.
The Messenger some thite'ago in
y discussing Col. Saunders’s ~ valuable
work in behalf of North Carolina,
published the fact that North Caro
lina never -entered the Federal
Union until the Constitution as
first adopted had been altered,-1 and
that her people after fighting for,
< liberty for seven long and trying
/ irears did not intend to 'enter a
Union of States which would re
quire to surrender her Statehood,
' tier reserved fights, her liberties.
We said that Wiley Jones, cs Pali
lax, and Gcu. Torn Person, of
if? Granville deserved a monument of
native granite for com picunus Sead
' ership in opposition to the Constitu
tion. Thu Asheville Citizen says
vrt.il: _ ‘ '
. >\crtn Carolina, like tier sister
■ v . SUtt-v, had experienced to the full
-till tin! evils of the weakness and in
i':!!- i- iicy of the Confederation,
tifte efished and purposed something
more vigorous; but in niakwg a
stronger government she did not in
_ j tend to make a muster. She knew
what liberty was; she had known
what tyrranny was; Bhe had resisted
- and over thrown it and won her
£L1-freedom1,”; * r*'x,-1',:iv; ' ■:
■ . The Constitution as drafted was
in fear of the people and mi the side
of the new government to he set Up.
. ... The Twelve Amendments were
adopted through theinfluerK'Omam-'
T, h of Thomas Jefferson, . and
they are drawn mainly in behalf of
the people and in distrust .of the
Federal Government. ' They are th<?
v great break-water against Federal
f usurpation, madne**. They are the
fi' chief muniments of a great free
a ,;Xpeopte. In this closing quarter of
115;' the nineteenth century it is more
than ever apparent how necessary
are. tjiose Ameudeuts.'' Hamilton,
= aided anil abetted by Chief Justice
■V Marshall, did more to endanger the
rights of the tree and sovereign
. Commonwealths, ami the liberties
of the people, than all the other
couspiidationists combined down lot
the groat war and the advent of-the
. Kepubiicau party with its
. Sewards, Stantons, Grants, ttidom■>
' x- tie gemu.
. .i. .£ ne most conspicuous leaser liv
ing iu behalf of States Bights and
-a Birick construction of the -Constn
tion is the noble and . illustrious
■ Jefferson Davis, ex-President efthe
- 4afc. Corifcderate States. Be will
be qt Fayetteville in all probability
mid the greatest living defender of
the.'Joifersouiau theory and inters
prelatioii of the Federal Govern-;
moot and the Constitution will have
‘•■the pleasure of listening ' to the
most stately and eloquent orator of
Jiorth Carolina os ha discusses the
compact, the Constitution of the
Uuit'edeStates, and the parU-North
... . Carolina bore in the formative peri
.V od. It will be a grand occasion. .
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Thanksgiving Proclamation. £•»
Wabhikotos, D. C., Nov. 1,—
gji'v: The followiny proclamation setting
apart Thursday, November 28th, as
T - a day of National thanksgiving was
; Issued late this afternoon: Jj-’
BY TSB PRESIDENT. -OF UNITED
STATES-—A PROOLAllTipN. •*
A highly favored people, -mindful
of lheir dependence on the bouuty
' - of Divine Providence, should seek a
-J lilting occasion to testify their grati
' '* tude and" iisenne praise to Him who
is the giver of their may blessings.
*, > ■ It behooves us tlion to look back
^withthankful hearts over the past
v- year.and bless God for His infinite
tneay in vouchsufiing to our land,
' enduring peace U> Our people, free
dotn from pestilence and famine, to
our husbandman abundant harvests,
and to them that labor recompense
of their toil.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Har
rison, President of'the United States
of America, do earnestly recommend
t)iat Thursday, the 28tn day of this
present month of November, be set
apart os a day of uational thanksgiv
ing and prayer, and that .the people
of owr country ceasing from the cares
and labors of their working day,
shall. assemble in their respective
plitces of worship and. give thanks
to.fiod who has prospered us in our
way and made our paths of peace,
beseeching Him to bless this day to
our present and future good, mak
ing it truly one of thanksgiving for
each returned- home circle as for the
nation at large.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the limited States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington,
this the first day of NoVember, in
the year of our Lord A. D. 1889,
and of the independence of the
United States the 114th. ‘
Benjamin Harrison.
• By the President:' . *
. James Qt. Blaine, -
Secretary of State.
THE DRUMMER’S LATEST TRICK.
Don’t Pick the Thread From His Coat
Unless You Want to be Laughed at,
ZumlsvtlU Journals. ■ '_
A drummer always brings the la
test trick. Here it is: '
Take a spool of white basting
Cotton, drop it into your side. coat
pocket and thread a needle with it,
pass it up through the shoulder of
you) coat. Leave the end an inch
or so on the outside of your coat,
and take off the needle. Four men
out of'fivh will try to pick that
whole thread off your shoulder, and
will pull at the spool until it actu
ally does seem as though your
elotches archil bastings, and that
they were unravelling not only your
clothes"out yourself. '
“I was in to See Wilson Barrett
in ‘Claudian’ in Boston last week,”
saia uie travelling man. "it was in
the most interesting and pathetic
portion of the play.' Everybody
was wrapt. I was sitting bolt up
right, and din’t know or care to
know a soul around, me, when sud
denly I felt some one tugging at
that basting cotton that I myself
had clonir forgotten. I didn't say a
word and did not move. Foot by
foot it unroolled. Half glancing
around I saw a man—a total stran
ger—yanking at that thread. His
face was scarlet.- He bad pulled out
about two yards .and was now haul
ing it had over hand. He didn’t
dare to’stop, because he had decora
ted my back and the whole aisle
with basting cotton. He hardly
dared to go ahead, for he didn't
know what portion of ray domestic
interir economy. he was trifling
with, Rip! Rip! went the thread.
Hand over band ne yanked it in.
The aisle was full of it. ‘For Heav
en’s sake! will it never end?’ said
he above his breath. I sat perfect
ly still and ran the spool while be
pulled. How I wanted to yell. 1
never saw anything in my life half
so^funny. The whole section of the
house got onto it. They didn’t
know whether to. laugh at me or
him, and some looked on arnaz d at
the spectacle. At last the stranger
behind gave one frantic rip and
yanked out about eleven yards . on
one bunch, and as the cotton gut
twisted around his watch chain, over
:bjs eye-glasses, in his very hair and
filled his lap, ( ' turned' around:
and producing the spool from my
pocket scid: ‘I am very much obli
ged for your interest and very sorry
that I misled you. You see I have
about one hundred and twenty-four
yards left, but I presume tjpt you
don’t want any more to-night. I
urn honestly sorry, but I can’t help
smilimg.’
"The man was a modest sort of a
gentleman in appearance.. His face
was red ns fire to his ears. He
looked at me and tb n at the spool.
He changed color once or twice,
and then as the crowd caught on, a
big laugh went lip right -in one of
the painful passages of ‘Claudian,’
and the gent.ejnan who had intend*
ed to pull that thread off joined in
the laugh and said, ’t will square
that up on my wife when 1 get
home; but my friend, I 8wear, to
heaven that I did think at one tic:e
that I was going to undress you
where you sat,’ » • “• ' ’
"I catches, every time and my
own wife bus been fooled twice
on it.” *
W. E. W. Scot*, of Tarpon
Springs,-Fla., has secured 200 speci
mens of birds in the vicinity of Aahe
iSilfti ..I’--;:
■ ii,'
EX-SECRETARY BAYARD WILL WEO.
Interesting'Ttatufes of Republicanism
at Washington.
JCatprr** Qprreapatidenec. =
Washington Nov. 4,1889.
e CivilService Commissioner Thom
son’s friends indignantly deny
the statement charging him with
having assisted in collecting cam
paign contributions' for the demo
cratic National committee in 1888
from the clerks in the T'reiphyr de
partment while he was Assistant
Secretary of that Department.' Mr.'
Yonman, who was chief clerk of
the Treasury at the time, makes the
following statement, which is cor
roborated by a number of other offi
cials, some of the Republicans.
- “During the incumbency 'of Mr.
Thompson as Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, I was the Chief Clerk
and Superintendent of the Treasury
building, and < barged with the en
forcement of all orders. I remem
ber distinctly during the campaign
of 1888 -one- of my subordinates,
without my knowledge, bad collected
or received from the employes
some seventy five dollars and inform
ed me of it, and wished to turn the
money over to me to be. forwarded
to tne Democratic committee. .• I
declined to receive it, and at once re
ported the fact to Assistant Secreta
ry Thompson, who distinctly and
emphatically told me that such act
was illegal and must not be permit
ted in the department, and directed
me to Send for this subordinate and
order him to return the money to the
persons from whom he hod re?
ceived it, upon pain of dismissal
(which 1 did and the money wasNO
returned) and further to stop all
that kind ; of work in the depart
ment.”
This silly charge was brought
against Mr. Thompson by Republi
cans because he has taken steps to
prosecute members of a Virginia
Republican club of this city for the
Msihone campaign fund. "
Ex-Secretary Rayard will bo mar
ried in this eity next Thursday, to
Miss Clyrner. This marriage has
been reported as about to take^lace
at least a half dozen times during
the bust year. This announcenent
is official, as your correspondent has
one of the cards issued.
ctmisiiituns ox negro preucnera
called on Mr. Harrison last week
and endeavored to get him to com
mit himself. to'the absurd scheme
proposed by the recent convention of
negro Baptists held at Indianapolis,
of asking Congress to appropriate
$50,000,000 to ai 1 the negroes of
the South in emigrating to the west.
The same - committee . afterwards
called on the Attorney General and
presented a long string of alleged
political outrages at - the South.
From all that can he learned they
did not receive much consolation'
from either of the gentlemen visited.
They only got some very indefinite
and diplomatic promises.
L, B. Prince, the Governor of
New Mexico, makes a strong show
ing ih Vis ’annual report to the Sec
retary of the Interior, in favor of.
the admission of that Territory as a
State. It is expected that the demo
crats in Congress will make a deter
mined fight during the coming ses
sion for the admission of New Mexi
co and Idaho. , '
The Government directors of the
Union Pacific railroad in their annu
al report, say that the interests of
the United States demand early ac
MOW by congress to secure tne pay*
,meut by this company of its indebt
edness to the Government. . The
indorse the (Outhwaite) bill, which
was pending when the last Congress
adjourned. It remains to be seen
whether the millionaire lobby will
be successful in again defeating this
much needed legislation during the
coming Congress. Representative
Outhwaite proposes to re-introduce
the same bill as soon as Congress
meets, and. to use.his utmost en
deavor to push it through the House.
There is little doubt of its being
passed by the House, but the danger
lies in the Senate, which has al
ways been inclined, for obvious rea
sons, to be extremely lenient in its
dealings with the Pacific railroads.
Mr. Harrison is understood to
have sat down somewhat heavily on
Secretary Noble in regard to the
dismissal of those employes of the
Pension.office whose pensions were
rerated by the lute Commissioner
Tanner. The Secretary wanted to
dismiss them all, but the President
has given him orders that none are
to be dismissed unless it can be ful
ly shown that they ore guilty of
having violated the law. The only
one of them dismissed so far is &
Democrat, and it is only fair to Mr.
Harrison to say that he was remov
ed before the matter was brought to
the President's attention.
Be Postmaster General has back
down from the dictatorial position
(^e assumed towards the Hegraph
....... ..... t,'' - , 1 J "4*. ^ ..
companies some months ago, and
has set the.rates to be paid by the
Government for official telegraph
messages ranch higher than the
price he then named. Th rates are
about the same' as those charged
everyone by the B. & 0. telegraph
company when it was; swallowed ny
the Western Union monopoly.
Jay Gould is a “bigger” : man than ’
Wanamaker. -
: . .. . Wolseley’ oV Lc*. , .
WilmlMffloH JHcMMf-Hffrr. s * M
We do not see the North Ameri
can Hevitir, the monthly organ of
the Republican party. So far as j
Republican .contributors are. con
cerned nothing valuable is lost,, for
they usually advocate doctrines that
are dangerous; unconstitutional and
unwise. We do miss seeing an oc
casional contribution from some
Other hand that is of-interest. For
instance, the1 article in the' Novem
ber number by Lord Wolseley is:
well worth considering if we may
judge its value by other contribu
tions from his fertile pen** and by
an extract we clip from the:- Lynch
burgAdvance taken from it in which
the English soldier raves another of
his views of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
He says: _ ■ '■ c ‘
- “It is quite true that by the end
of the campaign Grant's doggedness
had produced a certain effect upon
the Confederate soldiery. All ac
knowledge it. But what was that
effect? Undoubtly they had to re
alize that, if the North would allow
its soldiers to lie exposed to such
fright fill butchery, the Not th. might
at that price triumph. But not for
one moment did it minify the confi
dence of the Southern soldiery in
their own great leader; and not even
at the fatal moment of thesurremW
at Appomattox did a Southern sol
dier doubt that everything that anf
general could do for his army had
been doue by Lee. 'I fancy that if
at Cold Harbor tne proposal cl ihe
Irishman uftcr the b..Uie <,£ the
no, “to swap leaders and fight it
•ever, rgalnfi* could have been put to
the two armiest; lliere‘would tip* have
hern one hand en the Southern side
held up to accept the offer..'--. Won Id
there have been none Ob'the North
erne l rancy tew ot tne iNortliern
generals who knew all the circnm
stances would like much to put the
question of the greatness of the two
leaders to any such test. Of course,
the opinion of the armies is not al
ways a fair one as to the capacity of
generals. It is, however^a very im
portant element.in the actual power
and effectiveness of. * a general ip
command. In this, instance the
opinion of the hour has been con
firmed by the careful and critical ex
amination of many able soldiers.”
- In former notes we have given
What Lord Wolseley has said of Lee.
He has gone so far as to place him
above the Duke of Wellington as a
soldier. Lee js the knightliest, the
most engaging, the roundest figure
in history. 2 , .
« dcienuiic tooKing.
SHenttfle American.
“^Edward Atkinson, the eminent
statistician, bus fount} time to give
same attention to the art of cooking,
and to the invention of cookers and
ovens with which to do the work
economically and well. His paper ■
on this subject read before (lie
American Public Health Associa
tion is pnblished in the November
number' of the. Popular Science
Month!fa and is very interesting.
Mr. Atkinson cannot refrain from
indulging in statistics, which he
handles very easily,'to show that
present methods of cooking are ex
tremely wasteful, and it is believed
injurious. But the important
part of his 'paper is that'which de
scribes his Aladdin cooker and his
Aladdin oven,' both of them heated
by oil lamps. In the cooker the
heat is transmitted to water in an
attachment to a metal-lined wooden
box, the work being done by the
contact of the hot water with the
outside of the porcelain vessels in
which the food is placed, or.hy the
steam generated when the water is
heated to the boiling point. In the
oven a column of heatedjur is carried
from the lamp around and inside
oven, which is separately ventillated.
The cooking is Garried on very slow
ly, and Mr. Atkinson recognises that
there may be difficulty injuring bis
system introduced, though he is
confident that it wduld prove econo
mical and healthful. He describes
a fairly good dinner of,five courses
for 16 persons cooked with one pint
of oil at a cost for fuel of less than
two cents. ■
Stanley Observert ,Mr. Joe.
Shankle was in town last Wed
nesday, • exhibiting a specimen
of slate found on his premises.
I He says the vein is dp odd feet thick.
Persons who saw the specimen say
that it js genuine a ate and very
fine, —L_ ]
•f- ' IP W. M’INN -y.
A Brief Biographical Sketch of the
Probably Future Governor o> Va.
Riciimosd, -Not. 5.—(Special.)
Captain PhiL W. McKinney, who
has probabl ■: been elected fur Gover
nor of Virginia by the Democrats,
.was born in Buckingham county,
Va^and is stiil on the sunny aide of
sisty. r . _
He race! veil hisedueation at Harnp
den-Sidney.Co!l,ege and at Judge
Broi kenbury’s ' famous law school at
Lexington, Va., from where he
graduated with high honors. He
has always, been one of the foremost
lawyers of his State, whose ability
aSan eloquent and ready debater and
as an able expounder, of the law has
been recognized everywhere. The
electors of bis native county sent him
to the General Assembly when he
■was only twenty-one years bid. ' '
- When the civil war broke ont'MrT
McKinney, though at heart, a Union
nrah, cast his lot with bis friends,
who of course were all seceders. He
became captain of a troop of cavalry
recruited in. his district, but was in
capacitated from f urtherfieMduty
by wounds received ifi the battle of
Brandy Station.
_ After the war he went to Farm
ville to take up the practice or his
profession and has lived there ever
sinee. Captain McKinney has always
taken a keen interest in the politics
of Virginia, and bar been to the
front in every palii-cal campaige
since,the war, di.i::g gallant, servicn
for his party, , c-. __
/'-—-■■ ■ • i' —a-; !' . i .
The Railroad Problem.
P mg re* ait i Farmer. ■ ■ ■
It is now known that the ablest
railroad men of the' country Save
fora year or nioie, been endeavor
ing to devise some scheme which
should embrace- the consolidation of
the railway lines or systems
throughout the whole country,. It
is given out in certain quarters that
the solution of the problem will re
sult in establishing four great trass
continental systems whteh will vir
tually control out- inter-state traffic.
The probable coUsumation of. this
raammouth scheme suggests to the
thuadetphvi Record to the necessi
ty for Congress to exercise its pow
er in securing to the people their just
rights. This giant stride towards
one vast monopoly ol railroad trans
portation, v> ill present'the question
of corporate power in • a new and
striking light to our people, and will
doubtless develop -a strong senti
ment throughout the country in
favor of governmental control of
our railroads. But there are people
all over the country-~some of them
iu North Carolina, who pretend to
believe that in these matters, the
people haye no right and that they
should not be consulted. But they
will demand a-bearing and they will
have. it.
Plutocrats and People.
Char feat oh Vries nnrf Courier.
The next, impressible conflict in
this country will be waged between
HH'piofocntts mid the people. In a
paper puL'iitied iu the Rorum Mag
azine for September, Mr Thomas
(}. Sherman shows that 81,000, per
sons now possess three fifths of the
national wealth, real and personal.
The aggregate value of their proper
ty, according to the highest esti
mate', is sixty billion dollars. The
United States Senate is controlled
by milliouaries* the Legislatures in
many of the .Tiithern and Western:
States ;.te ui.der the mastery of the
money kings, aud popular elections
are determined.,by the toss of y the
dollar. The vtiico of the people is
stifled by the ring of t he metal, and
to-dav we have a l’ri-sirient who
owes his election to the “fat" that
was fried out of the manufactures.
There are more than two hun
dred and fifty persons in the United
States whose wealth averages $20,
000,000 each, mid these two hun
dred and fifty millionaires control to
a large extent the legislation of the
couutry,and have pushed their way
into the very temple of justice. The
tendency of the times' is towards
centralization of the government—
towards the establishment of apriv
ilegei,class, toward- tve further re
striction of the rights of the States
and, by consequence, of tho rights
of the. people. Thoughtful men of
all section % nod without regard to
parly lines, oLserve with concern,
the drift ef events, and are disposed
to tuiite in a protest against further
encroachment upon the liberties of
the people.._ :_
> There was a very I amiinuted de
bate before the American Bar Asso
ciation in Chicago, on Thursday, in
regard to the powers of the Federal
courts. The lawyers of the Morth
west are beginning to feel the effects
of a too greatly extended Federal
Jurisdiction, They demand that the
power of the $tqte Courts shall be
enlarged, and that the jurisdic
tion of the Federal Courts snail be
restricted. - Litigants are under the
thumb of soules corporations, and
are compiled . to compromise or
waste their time and energies in
fruitless efforts to secure a settle
ment of their cases upon equitable
basis. The Federal Courts are un
der the control. of corporations,'
and justice is worth wbot it will
fetch in the market. We do not
mean that the Judges of the Feder
al Courts are knocked down to the
highest bidder.or that there is a reg
ular exchange of money for the ser
vices rendered by the Bench as the
lawyers are paid for their sendees by
their clients; but the effect is the
same. By some hocus-pocus, cor
porations chartered by the Stats
nave the right to appeal their cases
from the State to the Federal Courts,
and the ends of justice are defeated.
The only safely of the people, as
Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota, informed
the Bar Association, is the power of
the State Courts and the restriction
of the jurisdiction of the Federal
Courts.. The mills of the gods are
beginning to grind in the North
and West and we hope that they
will grind exceedingly small. The
strength of the Government is the
people, in the consent and confi
dence df the government, and Hot
in the money of the corporations, v
Mr. Hayes in Vermont
General R. B. Hayes recently
spent a number of days in visiting
friends in Vermont. The Wind
ham County Befortner after giving
an account of his movements, says:
“Nowhere was there the slight
demonstration of popular feeling
for him, hardly even curiosity to
see a man who has occupied so high
a position in the nation. The an
swer, when citizens are jibbed for
this neglect is that they ‘didn’t
know he was here,’ They didn’t
know it simply because no one took
interest-enough it to tell his neigh
bor/ Do you suppose that General
Grant or General Garfield or that
high-minded gentleman, Chester A.
ariuur, cuuiu uavc uceu in me town,
aud county three days and any
man, woman or child fail to ‘know
H.’ How was it with General Mc
Clelland on the different occasions
when he was here and tried to avoid
public notice, but the desire of the
people to see and greet him could
npt be repressed? How would it
he if Grover Cleveland should come
here tomorrow? Do you suppose
that you should hear the excuse that
people,didn’t know it? When ex
President Frank Pierce came here,
though he was the littlest of all the
Democratic Presidents, people gen
erally of pll parties turned out to pay
their respects to him and the por
tion he had held.
“The case with General Hayes is
just as it was at the centennial at
New York, when ;he rode in the
carriage by the side of Cleveland,
end for miles upon miles down the
lines there was tumultuous cheer
ins for Cleveland, and not a men
tion of Hayes’s name.
“And yet Mr. Hayes - is a good
man. He _ did most honorable
service for his country in the war.
He won and deserved respect as
(governor of Ohio. When he _ was
in the White House he tried earn
estly to give a clean and worthy
Administration, and he succeeded
remarkably well, considering the el
ements of Bcoundrelism to which he
was obligated. If he had never
been President so-called, he could
not, as a distinguished son or grand
son of Vermont have passed through
Battleboro in such ,utter neglect as
he has done this week.
“What a lesson there is here to
the youth of America! . ----- —--’’i
“The great crime of the century
by which Mr. Hayes was placed in
the chair that belonged to Samuel
J. Tilden, not only made high suc
cess impossible for his Administra
tion, but shadows and darkens his
whole career. The American peo
ple's sense of justice' which even
purty feeling cannot stifle, expres
ses its contempt in unconquerable
indifference, and like aMemesis this
follows and will follow Ruth
erford B. Hayes to to his grave.”
j. W. Keerans, of Ststesville, is
taking a course at the YaV Law
School, The New Haven Times, ot
a recent date, reports “the most brill
iant meeting in many years,” of the
Yale Kent Club, one of the features
ofthe occasion being a debate on the
following: “Resolved, that the an
nexation of Canada to the United
States wou|fl be for the best interests
of both countries.” There were two
debaters on either side, Mr. Keerans
being one of those on the negative,
and the Times says, “not in many
yeaf^has mvy ^ question been more
,* V
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NOTE OF ALARM TO CANADIANS.
Oita Government Organ Admits That
- Annexation is Gaining Ground.
A Dispatch from Ottawa says:
The Dominion Government is evi
dently becoming alarmed at the
hold the agitation in fuvor of Closer
trade relations, and in some (juar
ters political union with the United
States, is gaining on the country.
Their‘■chief organ in Quebec, La.^ i
Cawwjien, today conies out stongly
favoring imperial federation as de
serving of serious attention by all
who are anxious to maintain exist
ing institutions, and to oppose an j " ,
effectual barrier to the Americaniz- •
ing and revolutionary tendencies of
the Liberal party, which are"grave
1j threatening the stability of con
federation and gradually: drifting ’ :
Canada toward annexation. The S:
•Premier of Quebec, La Canodien .
says, is the heart and aoul of a pow
erful organization with this object
in view, and which is preparing a
section of public opinion for radical '
changes, and it tells the govern- -
meuts friends that they will never
combat the Quebec premier with
success unless to his vigorous pro
gramme they oppose one eqqally
vigorous, clear and well defined, and -r:
unless to Americanizing ideas they ,
oppose the British idea, firmly and ”
without • ambiguity,- and • unless
against the advantages of a closer
union with the United States, they :
set oft the advantages of a closer
union with Great Britian and sister
colonies, :
Until now the organs of Domin
if n Government have, ridiculed the
idea that the movement in favor of
closer relations with the United^ wl
States had any following or foothold vjj
in Canada, and the admission of one
of its chief mouthpieces and expo- 1
nents of its views that the agitation
in that direction is gravely threaten
ing the stability of the confederation
and gradually drifting Canada into •.
annexation with the United States,
has caused no little comment in po
litical circles here: •' j « -
state Notes.
- Charlotte Chronicle: A doable*
headed, double-bodied colored wo
man was on the Atlanta train
last, night. Her nam was said
to-j-be Milly and. Christina.
She was bom in Anson county, this
State, 42 years ago, and belonged to
a Mr. Smith. Hilly can smile and
and Christina frown all at tlirsame
time.
Oxford Day.- Register of Deeds
Daniel swapped marriage li senses
with a young man yesterday. The
prospective groom found out, after
securing his papers, that “his- best
girl’ was not willing ts*become his
bride, and he at once secured the
consent of another young lady to
stand before Hymen’s altaf with
him. Our obliging register of deeds
made the “swap" gratis.
Raleigh News and Observer.■ Mr.
Walter Henry gives us a statement
of the questions and comments made
by the Supreme Court at the hear
ing of the Cross and White case,
from which it does not, appear that
the Court is against his view of the
point he chiefly relies on, vis.: that
the offense charged is cognizable in
the Federal Courts alone. The opin
ion of the Court will j we suppose, be
soon filed.
The Willmington Review says:
Mr. Thos. C James, formerly of this
city, but for nearly four years past
Joint Agent of the Associated Rail.1
ways at Charlotte, has been appoint.
J -r, . r;.“““ wwvn n.u|JUJiUm
ed freight and Passenger Agent of
the. Cape Eear & Yadkin Valley R,
If 1h i U.m _11 I. . , .
R. in this city, and has accepted the
position. He has been here for two
days past in consultation with Capt.
If ry, the General Superintendent of
the Road, and Capt. Kyle, the Gen-,
eral Freight and Passenger Agent,
and left hist night for Richmond,
whither he had been summoned.
He will go onto Charlotte tonight
and will return here about the
middle of the month, oi us soon Aft
the road is open for traffic.
Distinguished Visiters.
jPaw^fetilffe Ofls/rtwr, •'
Cliit-f Marshal Carr and Col P. A
Oids,' Quartermaster-General of the.
North Carolina State Guard, arrived
m the city last night, and apt lit ter
day here, making preparatory ar
rangment* for the Centennial, loea
cutionuf the troop,'etc, ‘
It ha* been decided that the C'eBt
tennial salute on the morftiag of the,
ilst shall consist of 100 gun*, to
commence at sunrise, and at the same
time the Stat« and national flu*,
wi be hoisted. At 12 ui.. there
W« .1 . tfun* in honor
n 3,o,g,"“letui at sen.
*et the 42 guns m hour • <*f the
present number of Staten iu the
union, .
Mr. Carr is leaving nothing uik
done or g,;id ta make the occasion a
gfi’und