mm ill 0S.2 4 s' 8 a 5 8 8.93.58 « ** 4 2 « S3.8 18888.8.8 * ■® *' 2 S S £ SANFORD. NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1889. l - ~ — 7Z77^=:Z=i WHAT 'GENERAL MAHQNE SAYS. is Philadelphia Xtujuirer Jtirhtnond Special. Ringing General Mahone’s door bell this afternoon 1 was asked by the General's usher to walk down into his business office. In a tow* i ■ pitched gloomy room with many ? tables and gns burners sat two • or 1 three private secretaries reading hovels and a dozen or more political followers chatting. I had been told by representatives of the local psess that the Republican candidate- for • Governor rarely . over accords an ~ interview for publication. A mes - longer carried tip my card and scon returned with the invitation to walk tip into the library, f “The general Was taking a snack,” the messenger said, but would see me presently. After waiting some «■ time in a mahogany trimmed room ... well stocked with books, I arose to greet the Republican leader as he entered from his dining room dress ed as so often caricatured, showing , a greaf expanse of shirt front and wearing his regulation^ white ^pjd fashioned big collar, slouch hat and patent leather pumps. Malione looked the picture of the grotesque^ and but for his pumps he would , have, passed for any easy condition ed fanner. „ Still (n the Ring and Doing Bush ness at the Old Stand. % m, “General JMuhohe^' I said, “did you think yon would ever be a Re publican when you were an aspirant for governor in the Democratic par ty in lffm".- " ^ “.No, indeed," be said laughingly. “I was a Bourbon “Were you prepared for your de feat on Monday ?.” , "Well, 1 knew what wqa'<gau;g On, but I did not know exactly how far the Democratic machine was go ing to work." . “Do you regard the election held yesterday as fair?"' • “Y-e-s. The fairest ever held in Virgnia." This very sarcastically. Here General Mahone dilated upon Democratic methods, claiming that he had lost heavilv by the purging process and by the manipulation of - the ballot-boxes. He claimed bo would have been elected by 20,000 had there been a fair election.! ; “Do you think, general; that the big majority yesterday means Demo cratic supremacy for everP" “It would look so, but the people will become disgusted and there will be a change some day. I tell you what the result will do. It will in vite Congressional action." • _“What is your idea of National jurisdicution P" - • i "Why, I believe that Congress will adopt a law giving the National Government full supervision of Con gressional elections in the States Only in this way can we ever expect , fair elections in the South." “The kicking Republicans at^ue that you will have to surrender/Jour Republican leadership in Virginia since you have been so overwhelmly defeated. What have you to say on this point P" I asked. Ho chuckled significantly aud re plied: “I am chairman of the Re publican party in Virginia until the jftext State convention and death or resignation would be the only way 1 could be got rid of. I. will live to be a 100 and it will.be a cold day before I resign. Who ore the kickers hud bow many are there?!* . \ The general J,lion proceeded to answer the question by enumerating the kickers on nine fingers. “There are only niue," ho said,"in the whole lot. Thu kickers nmount, you see, '. to nothing. 1 will continue to lend . < the Republican party for many years to couio, as I consider that my ’ pa ^ triotio duty.” 4 “It was said that the national '■*- committee furnished you with f200, OOO to run the campaign." “Well, if they did l have never Seen it. I gtinss it must ...have been “f- awitehed off to Ohio or some other g closer State." ^ “How about your aspirations for the Vice-PreBulensyf" 'r ' “1 do not believe that the . Repub Heart party lias lost its; senses, and until it does there will never be a Southern man on the ticket. John 8. Wise broke from me because I took him down a peg on that very question. In 1888, sitting in . this library, he asked me if I wanted to be Vice-President, and I told him 'No, and if I did, I couldn’t get it.’ He' thon'.suid he would pu t in for it himself. I ridiculed him" For his presumption, and he never, got over jt. John ’Wise, yon know, is full of gosh. fie lacks the balance wheel and a heavy one at that."' In the course.of the conversation General Mahone laughingly explain ed why ne always subscribed himself “Mahone, Virginia." r=<; “It is my old Virginia coneeit. I was a rampant secessionist and wanted to - smash the Union. I imagined that Virginia was every thing, and hence dropped all .other local designation.” — General Mahone declared -that he had not read but one book since the war, and that was “General Dick Taylor’s Reminiscences.” “I have not even looked at a newspaper," he said, “for a year. I have hever even seen a copy of my organ, called the tariff something or other—School and Tariff AtJjocate.” _ In conclusion -General Mahone said there was lots of fun in politics, and that he expected to be doing business at the same old stand in the y ear 1900. A Republican Opinion of Hat risen. Sat Hathaway in Indianapolis ladeptttul •*. -V..' cut*. .. He is a pbenortaenallj singular man, and his like, in many respects) can hardly be found in aR the wide world. 41e is contrary to ostenta. tiou.yet his right hand is kept welt informed what his left doetk. Nowt in all vonr study of the humah heart and kuman actious, added evidence has come to y ou of the truth of the adage, that “there is a responsive chord in every human heart if it only be touched,” meaning, of course that there is no piece of human an atomy SO thoroughly and perfectly frigid that it 3 does" not sometimes uieit to pity. Search the inner life of all with whom you may.. come in contact, from the newsboy, who rises in the'morning with; the ' barn.yard fowls and gives echo to the crow of its dominant and defiant cock with his monotonous cry of "Journal and Sentinel" to the judge on the bench and the jnror who has the life of his fellow in his keeping, and you will hardly discover a single individual who has not at some time spoken a kindly word to his weaker fellow, or done a generous act at the prompt ing of the above mentioned respon sive chord. But here is a man, clothed with intellectual superiority and moral character, who cannon t be accused of ever having turned aside from the cold path of his life to help and encourage his fellow by either word or deed. Poverty-strick en young attorneys have. struggled manfully up at the bar where he has been itt daily practice; some of his acquaintances have fallen from wealth to want, whilst others have battled against formidable difficul ties towards the hope star they could hardly expect tareaeh, and battling they have faltered and faded and gone under a sea of troubles, aud yet this man, strange as it may seem has never been known to offer, a or Biiiaty worn oi encouragement lead a helping hand. He is not un known to publio charities, in fact ho' has given quite freely to them, and we repeat, ha is not ostentatious to any degree, yet wherever and when ever he has given to charity you will find that the lawyer's instinct, that looks to the preserving of proofs, has governed the act., for opposite the figures that represent his giving in all cases yon will find written in a clear and legible hand, Benjamine Harrison r' * j_ rAmoa Gumming’* Big Majority. . ktrk Prut, . ‘ . 's"' : Amos Cummings is considerable pf a fellow. He had 15,470 majori ty over his opponent of Congress, out of n total vote of 15,104, The otlier fdlow wfis n Prohibitionist, and ho got only 24 votes,. ,_ /ESOP’S FABi-ES. Revised and Improved and Brought Down to Date. IVashlMffton Jhniorrrft. THE FOX AND THE 6T0BK. A New England Fox, engaged in transforming an Infant Industry in to a Vested Right, having invited a Pennsylvania Stork, to dine * with him, the twy friends sat down to a Copious Supply of Raw Material in a dish with Low Tariff sides. The Fox ate freely thereof, but the Stork derived no benefit from the Banquet, because was not budt that way, and having nothing but t Thought for Food, he Was compell-' ed to treat his host’s Spread as Food fqr Thought.- The next day the; Fox, in turn, dined with the Stork, who served delicoijis Raw Material in a dish .with very High Tariff sides. With his long Bill for the Protec tion of Pennsylvania Storks; the’ Thoughtful Bird was enabled to Feed himself Abundantly, while the disappointed Fox deplored thejGrce diness which had led him to set a Rad Example. ^ ; v, _ ■ . This Fable teaches us that New : England Manufacturers slipuld have joined the Democratic party last .November. * __ IHJB TWO MAJffUFACTC'REKS AND THE Two Manufacturers started for the Home Market Town on the back of an Ass, which they had Borrowed of their Neighbors, and which they called Protection because it protect ed them from the exertion of walk ing. But their Neighbors complain ed that they had to Walk while the Manufacturers Rode, and they said it was more Just that Two should carry. One than' that One ‘ shou Id carry Two; The Manufacturers made Many Changes in their-- Ar rangements in their ■ Endeavors to Please then- Neighbors, rather than give up the Ass, and the Ultimate Result was that they took the Ass upon their Shoulders, and under this Heavy Burden they staggered into Town. One of the Manufactur ers remarked to his companion . that it would have been better if They had started out on Foot. This Fable teaches us that while a Tari ff for Manufacturers Only is a great Convenience to them, a Tar iff that is Designed to Please All becomes vqry Burdensome to the Manufacturers. ,‘ THE WOLF AND THE SMITH. A Noble Wolf was indulging in ins Favorite Occupation of Contem plating his Reflection in the Pacto lean stream of his Country’s Treas ury, when his Pleasure 'was inter rupted by the Turbidness of the Water. Looking down the stream hesaw a little- Smith that had just rakfed §1,^36 out of the Cut-,, rent,- Running to him Jbe angrily demanded of him why he befouled the Beautiful Stream with his Un seemly, lie-rating. '“It is hot I," said the little Smith, “who disturb your Reflections; it is that big Smith up there' who got at this Soft Snap a long time hrfore I did, who had Cavorted around in it till ho had dug $(5,000 out. of ’the glitter ing Sands.” The Noble Wolf glan ced at the Smith who was much Higher Up and recognized in him a' Personal Friend. Then he said to the little Smith, "To protect this Stream I have, decided to. ■ destroy some Sjuith, rihd I prefer to Des pacth you,” which he did at once. This Fable teaches us that when dealing with a Chump it is' a great ' advatage to be a Chiim, - ■ i - TBX WOW AND THH LAMB. i~i An- emaciated Wolf from the Pruirios-of Illinois, who hod not lind a Mouthful of Patronage ^inoe he Could Remember, and who was fooi-spro from much Running after Judge Gtesbtuu; vr«w limping sud* suddenly past a. Conspicuous Edifice when a jneasley* little Lamb on the Hoof Jo wed him and applied Con* tumelious E|>ithets»to Him. The Wolf Retorted with some bitterness, "It is net you who Deride me; it is the Roof pi the. White House.whose Shelter you secured quite as Much | to your own Surprise as to my Dig gust." '■. This Fahle teaches us how much Greater a Coigne of Vantage is than the person upon whom a Frolicsome Fortune sometimes Confers it. TIUC RUSTIC AMD THE 8REPEHT. ! A Pennsylvania Rustic encoun tered a Snake in the Grass which was absolutely dying to get into Politics, and believing that ha could Hypothecate the Natural History Specimen for the Money that he Needed in his Efforts to save the Country from Corrupt men,.the Rustic picked Up the Snake and laid him in his Bosom. When the in fluence of His surroundings had Warmed the Snake into a Comfort able state of activity, and his Asso ciation inspired him with the Idea that he was a Great Politician,-, the Ophidian plunged an envenomed .Philadelphia Postmaster into Jthe Vitals of his Benefactor. - This Fable teaches us , that Re publicans are Ungrateful.;; - The Solid South. Jfeiti Herne Journal. -—*i the Again the attempt to break S::uth has failed. When tiro enemies of the South attempted to draw her sons from their allegiance through the influ ence of foreign emisseries they fail ed, and in their dillerpma conceived the idea of seducing some trusted Lieutenant oft he South who could play the part- of Judas and se cure their end. First Lougstreet was sele^ed, and in bitterness of spirit ho fotuid that the heroic men “who had followed him on a hundred battle fields, could not be led in revolt against the South. Then Jhey 'trill* TiraKone, his failure is more conspicuous than that of Lougstreet. turd if he has a decent respect for the opinions of mankind he will follow that exam ple of bis prototype and- go out and bang himself. V . The South is now as she has ever been since she laid down her arms at Appomattox. ' With no regre^J^Jier action, with no humiliating phJyer for par don she accepts the situation and dedicates herself to the common welfare under tbs Constitution and the Union. Self-respect and self-preservation demand her solidity. So long as she is confronted with a race issue that threatens her civilization and domestic peace, she will stand as solid as a stone wall in defence of Anglo-Saxon supremacy, social or der and local self-governnent. Nor is this all. Federal legisla tion, for more than a quarter of a century,- has been averse to- tire in terests of the South and unfriendly to her development. . _ Should the time'come when sec tionalism shall be numbered with the things that were, and the cen tralizing tendencies of the govern ment sha(l g’ve place to ' a broad and conservative nationality that' will hold North Carolina' and Mass achusetts as equal States in the Union, this solidity may resolve to unite again at the first approach of langer- -—--- -—— The present indications are that the South will remain solid, and the ap-eat West became her ally. With no disturbing elements to separate diem, with a community of «inter ists springing from similarity of industrial pursuits, it requires no prophetic ken to anticipate a union if the South and West that - will laminate this continent. Maiione the Outcast. fUch*HQU& Timt-.I. ; . V ~ One of the most remarkable of the ninor featuroe of the late election vnathe fact that the pretensions of tfahone were rejected not - only by iia native State as a whole, but also ty theeitiyiu which he twMflfr by he city in which he was born, iyid ibovo all, the precinct within the Kmudaries of which he firstsaw the ight. It is no exaggeration of lan guage to' refer to him' now as .the. mtenet, for at this moment ho is an i lit east in every sense of .that terri ile wortl. ' A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. a White Lady and her Little Grand, son Murdered: in Johnston County. Newt atul Observer. Passengers who came in on thf train from the east yesierdaj brought news of a “horrible nffaii which cbme to light jn. Johnstof county, near^ Selma, 1 yesterday morning. Mrs. Celia Brown, to gether with her little grandson, were living about four miles from Selma. Yesterday morning it was discovered that they had both been murdered the night before and t heir bodies dragged - to a branch some distance away from the house. When the train left Selma yester day evening no clue to the mystery had been secured, end preparations were in progress for holding a coro ner’s inquest. Mrs. Brown was 60 years of age and her grandson .was aged about £ years. The murder is supposed tc have been committed with a shot gun And the bodies dragged^ to the branch for concealment after the deed Was done. No motive.can be assigned for the foul act, els the ole lady was much respected by hei neighbors and had lived alone foi Sometime with her grandson ir apparent security. It is rumorec that the murder may have beer eommitteed to present Mrs. Browr from appearing as a witness agaiusl Shad Pike, a negro charged with at tempting rape on a young womai ih the vicinity sometime ago. Pik< is now in jail at Selma awaiting trial Hodge vs. the Railroads. A good deal of interest has cen tered in the '‘‘Railroad Penal tj Saits” brought last summer return. Sble to October term of Wake Su perior Court, by. Dr. W. ,T. Hodge of Wake county, to recover the pen alty of $500 imposed by statute up on every railroad failing to rendei in 1888 the report required by the code, all of the defendant railroad companies (forty in number) . filed demurrers, claiming that If a right of action had accrued to any one at all, it had accrued to the State and not to W. T. Hodge. Tin* case against the Capo Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway company, says the News and Observer, being first called. Messsis. Spier Whitaker and A. Jones appeared for the plain tiff, axid Messrs. Strong, Gray & Stamps represented the defendant company. The other railroad .com panies were represented by their re spective attorneys and |pade com mon causa with the Cape Fear & Yadkin Vailey Railroad Company. Mr. Whitaker moved for judgment on the ground that, as he claimed, the demurrer was “frivolous” and in a lengthy and able speech sup ported his claim.' Judge G. V. Strong in. a clear and vigorous speech led the argument for the de fendant company, and was followed by Col. Fuller and Mr. Batchelor for the Seaboard System of Rail roads, Col. Hinsdale for the Palmet to Road, C. M. Busbee for the Rich mond & Danville Roads, A. W. Haywood for the Wilmington & Weldon Ratlroadf' - The argument consumed about four hours. Judge. Armfield refus ed to hold the demurrer to be frive lous, and the cases go over to the February term when the demurrer will bo argued and determined on its merits. ; ' ^ ; The amount involved in the vari ous suits aggregates r $40,000—a nice plum for Ur. Hodge and his at torneys—-if they get it.. Mrs Vance s Subject. At. the Charlotte banquet. Gov. Fowle and Senator Vanco spoke. Vfuica, apiong other things, as re ported in the Chronicle, suid: "He said that he had long known iww: subject towoman, but M «vOs borue’a.cuse wua a surprise to him; it was his first experience of a wo man being tho subject of a man, (laughter). It was not so at his house, (laughter). Then the Senator concluded, with the assurance of the Irishman at ji campmeeting that though not a Methodist he was aVlimmycrat.’ " The Charlotte Democrats cele brated the late victories in Indepen dence Square. Gov. Fowle ledpoff and was followed by Mr. C. W. Til lett, Cpl. Jones, Mr. Chrisitian—and others. Gen. Barringer was loudly called lo^ gEeia, reported thus in the lively Chronicle-. ' > “The general said, strictly speak ing, he had never been a Democrat,* though he fought with Democrats \ during the war; After the war he tried to reconcile differences* so that white and colored would have receiv ed their rights but he failed. “But a man arose, Grover Cleveland, and and I believe, so help me God, that he made the best President we - have ever had since the days of George Washington, and he had been im partial to white and colored men, and brought peace and prosperity to got the greatest : evening.” of the What Has He to Be Thankful For? National Jfetnocral. Mt. Benjamin Harrison did well to issue hia 'Thanksgiving proclama tion before the election of Tuesday last. If hb had delayed it for a week perhaps would not have felt ' like publisking.it at all. . What has he to be thankful for? Does he rejoice oyer the annihila tion of his man Mahone in Virgi , nia? ... ’ - . . . Does he feel thankfu1 for the downfall of his friend Foraker in Ohio? Does it make him grateful to the ■ almighty to know that Senator Payne’s successor will be a Demo crat? ,i ' ' Does: no see anything to make , him chant a gladsome hymn in the grand overturn in Iowa? ' Does the Democratic triumph ~it\ New York make him wish to give thanks to God or man? Does the Democratic victory in New Jersey arouse sweet emotions in his beauty? Does the reduced republicans ma jority in Macssachusetts make the Thanksgiving season to him a sweet and holy time. . What is there, anywhere, fwe should like to know, to make this gentleman thankful. . Even the _ Presbyterian doctrine of predestination is liable to lose its power over the presidential soul, in a time like this. Sack cloth and ashes would seem to be the fitting habiliments- of a party leader who leads his party up to such' results as those of Tues day last. Benjamin Harrison will. do well to devote the National holiday to silent prayer and self-examination. That is what he needs, and what will do him good. Janausehek the Actress. iriiminffton Janauschek is by alt comparison the greatest player of character we ever saw on the stage from 1847 to to 1880, when for. the last time we witnessed a play. She is regarded in Europe and .in this country by the best critics as the greatest actress in ‘fifty years. One fine critic and au thor, Leland, says after seeing her in her prime, Rachel, greatest of French actresses seemed tame. As Lady Macbeth, Lady Dedlock, Maria Stuart (Queen of Scots) and Kath erine, she was tremendous, as it im pressed as. We never saw her Phaedra, Queen Elizabeth, Iirunn hilde and Meg Merrilies, all famous, wonderful personations. She has been playing Meg Merrilies in Bos ton, where New England's greatest actress, Charlotte Cushman, delight ed so many in that character in the past. The Boston Post says of Jan auscbek's acting: .: - “The role of 8cott’s famous gypsy is the most recent of Mmo. “Janaus chk’s impersonations, but we have more than once testified to its sur passing merit, and little can now be sard beyond, repeating the praises be stowed two years ago. * * But gesture, tone- and action are now 'j-rv- •' t • Jgi,. bent and broken to suit with those' of thegypey hog'whose years or#' more than three-score and ten. • Through this outward guise must be | shown a hautre that is at once proud and tender; the hag, the sibyl, and the woman with one absorbing sen timent and purpose, must be united' '.s in the TMwie,: dramatic ' personality ; ' what Mme. Jananschok's achieve ment is tii: the role does not now need to be repeated in detail; Meg Merrilies in her rendering is to a great degree a character part, played on the highest lines possible to such: an Undertaking; and it is worth note* too, that, Meg MerrUies, along with* i many wholly tragic elements, is ■ more a character part than any other . in the round of Mme. Janauschek’s :: impersonations that now recalls ^ it self, except Lady Dedlock'e maid, Hortense" $100,000 far JohnsHopKinssB Baltimobb, NoV. 8.—The True- | tees of the Johns Hopkins Univer sity were sumtitoned to the (Sty , Hall this morning by Mayor Lat robe. When they were seated the the Mayor announced that he had . : been instructed by Mrs Caroline :; Donovan-, of Baltimore widow of a New York merchant, to presen to the J University a check for $100,000-' Mrs, Donovan expresses a preference ,, that it be used to a chair of English literature, though, if the Trustees . see fit to make other use of the mon--~ ey, they may act according to their best judgment. Ex-Judge Qeorge Dobbin, President of the Board of Trustees, after a conference with ;J the Board, announced that they no-. : cepted the money as a sacred trust to found a chair of English liters-, tar. Mrs. Donovan is eighty-six ,, years of age, and made this money . herself by fortunate invesments. ; She had already provided for all h«. % blood relatives, and thus made1 her generous gift without Causing fami ly jealousies. v ' . A*Blg Gold Find. , Clartotte Chronicle. ' •' News comes here to-day of a rick gold find in Montgomery county by Tebe Saunders. Last week he took out 2,000 pennyweights, and sent besides seven pounds of ^old ore to the Charlotte mint. In one rocker fetter of grit four ounces of gold -. ,,: was found. The gold is in placers’" grit, and is the richest ever found in-r the State. Two peck-baskets full of , gold and specimens were taken out of the mine yesterday. Tebe has one hundred hands at Work, and gets so much gold that no pretense is made at weighing it except on ft pair of grocer’s scales, or'to measure it in a half pint cup to pay the roy alty which is shared by the hand's: Below the grit, small veins are found that are more than half gold1. There is no fraud about this, for the gold should show for itself,, arid it has created intense excite ment. *■ ■■ Q. W, Smalley tolegraphs to tha' New York Tribune as follower ‘Mr. .Spurgeon has again been heard from, this time on the subject; }f the Church of England Thera ire, says Mr. Spurgeon, gracious mid jodly men in the Church, yet it is joing from bad to worse every day svea celebrating High Mas#- with Qishops Ioooking on, and no man mows how far that pernicious sup irstition may run-. It is the hour lor Baptists take it quietly and the Vrch bishop of Canterbury is still Vrchbishop of Can terbury,” | Bro. Jack Mills, of the Thomas* ille Orphange, referring in Char ty and Children, to a pleasant visit rowMissJosie Batchelor, travel ng agent far the Oxford Orphan'* friend, says it is “very strange that he young men allow her to remain , bachelor.”' In another paragraph e says: “Miss Mamie Hatchett os goms to Nebraska to preside at ho head of a table, Our young ien ought. not to allow ft. little lebruskn boy.to take hi# pick of or girls,” : s ' :. _• . ;\*r.£ ; • •...• , ..V ' _i*tS. -aj&afcrr -h-.it -

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