A GREAT SOCIAL REFORII^
Harrison and the Hooslcrs Imitating
the Ungodly FrttWh,,? ,
Xbtional Democrat* "r:'
The present ndmiui8tration is set
ting an example of domesticity lot
which we canfiot too "highly conv
! toend it. If the social philosophers
nth edrfcSht, ns they undoubtedlj
_ yte, in asserting ' that society rests
i upon the family as its corner stone
i it follows easily enough that, the
w family should take the precedence
i of society, thatria the nation. We
have, therefore, the highest sopiolog
r real authority ifor the practice of
making the domestic ties paramount
to dll public considerations and
keeping prime ministers waiting
while babies have their appetite for
candy assuaged. If any captions
critic should complain that" the fam
ily, meaning the Horrisort family,
| was getting rather the best of the
i nation at the present time, he should
j to silenced by the reflection that
' thefwnariy existed before the nation
did and that the domestic virtues
rightfully take the head of the line.
The practice of making the baby
[ the leading featureof all events from
i inaugurations down to art loan ex
hibitions and afternoon teas finds its
perfect justification; in the genius of
progress'. The Chinaman worships
his grandfather," treats his offspring
1 with contumely and|makes no prog
ress. The -American scoffs 'at his
grandfather as “the old man,” asks
his baby to excuse him fora moment
while he governs the 1 country, and
| progresses very rapidly.
* At times he has shown a- tendency
to progress too rapidly, and it is just
ftt this point that most fortunately
for the morals of the country the
pre-eminent domesticity of ’'this'. ad
ministration makes itself felt. In
the rapidity of its progress theyoung
American has taken to flirting with
the girls, aud in those chaste, but
distant communities where prudence
is assigned its proper place, this ten
dency is checked by requiring all
the boys to sit on one side of the
school house or church, as the case
may be, and all the girls on the oth
v er side. It niayseera strange to the
giddy people of Washington, accus
tomed ns they ore to' dally with
% temptation and to laugh at danger,
but it is a fact that there- are rural
communities ;n the State of Indiana
! that protect themselves from scan
dal and their members from impro
.^.priety by seating all the. nven-foiks
son one side of the meeting house and
nil the women-folks on the other side
, ttf the‘same. When any one in
these communities become so dissi
pated as to give a dinner; party, it is
(he invariable rule to seat each bus
band "where his wife can lojk after
Tiim, and each wife where her hus
4)and can project her from any friv
olous remark that the gentleman on
|jfhe other side of her might be tempt
"%d to make. r..
tf The beautiful and bucolic custom
, - is to be introduced into Washington
;'fby the worthy Hoosiers wlio reside
|j|n the White House. They bring
tOucIi
" Withr them the decorous and
t ing idea that the fact of a man's
* -- ---- - o£
marriage with a wonfhn is proof
i his preference for her over all the
rest of the world and that her roar
triage to Kim is evidence that she
0would father lib in his company than
iltin any other human society. It is
Pto he greatly regretted that in most
1§of our large cities where the growth
tof wealth has tended to bring in
■foreign customs and foreign ideas of
. Ipropriety, the host and hostess do
*ot go in to dinner together und the
uosts do not pair off os they did at
tho matrimonial altar; but the host
Stakes some other ladv into the dint
'‘Tiling room and the hostess is escort
jfed thither by some other lady’s bue
i^band, and alt the guests pair oft fej
the corresponding manner asthough
phis wife were the woman of all others
yfgtUat arnait least wanteitto - sit by
II the side of and tali to.
9},
Washing
_ ton society' wilt have a ‘better ev
il- i • :V?*Tr- •’
ample set to it.
The promise of this was giron ol>
-'I*,'
■New rears day. for many years
the White House receiving party has
marched from the upper corridor to
the Blue Parlor in the same objec
tionable order, borrowed front Prance
and other ungodly countries, in
which wealthy Americans, aping the
manners of Europe, are too ranch in
the habit of proceeding to'the din
ing room; The President has 'cus
tomarily given his arm to the wife
of the Secretary of State,. and the
Secretary of State lias given his arm
to the President’s wife and the Post
Master General and the wife of 'the
Secretary of War and the Secretary
of the Navy and the wife of the At
torney General, and the rest in like
manner, have followed. But all wad
different on New Year’s day. The
President gave liis arm to his daugh
ter, as his wife was not going to
participate, and each member of the
Cabinet imitating the' Chief of the
State, gave his arm to his wife of
his daughter, and thus they marched
through the lower .corridor, which
would have been packed but for the
influenza and the rain and a few
other circumstances, to the receiv
ing stand in the Blue Parlor. - V
We are glad that good old Amer
ican customs are to be restored. We
shajl bo interested in learning the
result of this social temnaisanee %
the Slate dinner. It will do- the for
eign ministers good to sit next to.
their own wiyes through, a dinner
for once in their lives. Ft will he a
great .blessing to the American
statesman to have on one sido of him
a lady who speaks English instead
of being sandwiched in -between the
Pari of Pekin and Araby’s Daugh- j
ter; "
Some Interesting Reminiscences—Re
called at the Death of Mr. C. C. Bar
• toeas.
Rat'ctffh Cull.
The Fayetteville Observer notes
the sod death of Mr.. C. C. Barbee,
which so recently occurred here and
says: ■; ~
• Christopher C. Barbee, well-known
ahd highly respected in Fayetteville,
died in Raleighon the morning of
the 2d hist. His death recalls a por
tion of the past history of Fayette
ville of which, our younger readers
know naught except by hearsay—-a
time antedating the railway and tel
egraph, when travel to and from this
tranquil but prosperous town was
by the foUr-horse stage coach, of
which there were three great lines—
to Salary J20 miles; to Raleigh, <00
■miles; to Warsaw, 49 miles.
The stage offices were at the old
Fayetteville Hotel, on the corner of
Hay and Donaldson' streets, and at
the Planter’s Hotel, where the Dob
bin House how stands. The driverr
while not perknps as picturesque a
character os the English coachman
immortalized by the facile pen of
Washington Irving, or as plethoric
and as strongly marked in his indi
viduality as the inimitable senior
Weller of Charles . Dickens, was
nevertheless a very important char
acter; and when, dashing up to the
hotel entrance with a blast of liis
horn and a flourish of his long whip,
lie received his way-bill,: end car
ried off his passengers like a conquer
er jvith his captives, |he departed
amid'the unbounded admiration of
alt the boys and idlers ih the neigh
borhood. ‘ /
Mr, Barbee was for years proprie
tor of the line between Fayetteville
and Raleigh, and manned a daugh
ter of Mrs. .Barclay, who kept the
half-way house- on that route—n
model country inn, the Mecca of
good cheer to all hungry and weari
ed wayfarers. There' are ! Fayette
ville people, who have, not felt the
springs of a stagecoach in thirty
or forty years, who still retain a
vivid recollection of the' long-drawn
blasts of the horn, piercing the
night's silence, and sounded a mile
or two down the road to warn Mrs
Barclay’s cook of the number of
passengers speeding to - her bounti
ful board, the white haired old negro
servant, tne cheerful -firelight beam
ing out a welcome from the chill of
the long cold riileLand#U the cosy
comfort of the farm homestead—and
we doubt if they will forget till their
dying day the tgste of those flaky
biscuits, that delicately-browned
chicken^ the new-laid eggs and tho
fragrant coffee
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NOT ashamep of his color.
A Witty and Sensible Negro Urges
Setf-liripitWemcnt Upon His Race.
•VM# Turk Herald.
Charleston, 8. C., Jan. 6,1890
Dr. J. C. Price, President of the
colored college at Salisbury,' N, C.,
and one of the foremost orators of
his race, has just delivered at Ches
ter a speech that is attracting great
attention.; He puts himself square,
ly against the increasing current in
favor of emigration.1 In his speech
•he says: , '
“I have no faith in the doctrine
of assimilation. The ancestral pride
of the white man, the growing pride
of the negro forbid that this - amal
gamation take place save on the
high grounds of matrimony, and
there1 is only ode intermarriage Out
of every 200,000.„ Some blacks want
this. They say that their color is
against them. If they could only be
changed all would be well. I > be
lieve that color has nothing to do
with the question. Black is a favor
ite color. ’ A black horse we Ml ad
mire. A black silk dress is a gem.
A black broadcloth snit is'1, a daisy.
.Black-only loses its prestige, Jfe
dignity, when applied toa human.i
“It is not beckusfe of his color, but
because of bis condition, that the
black man is in disfavor. When
ever a black face appears it suggests
a poverty stricken, an ignorant face.
Change your conditions; exchange
immorality for morality, ignorance
for intelligence, poverty for prosper
ity, and the prejudice against our
race will disappear like the morning
dewdrop before the rising sun. ♦
THE NEGRO LOVES HIS N^tlVR'sObfa,.
“Others would have us dissappear
l>y emigration. -Your distinguished
Senator has juSt introduced, into
Congress a measure; intended to help
us away; As for me, I don’t want
to go. (“No, not”from the audi
ence.) This sunny Southland, where
lie the bleaching bones of my fath
ers, is dear to me, and I, too, feel to
the manor bom. This soil is con
secrated by the labor, the tears'and
the prayers of my ancestors. Talk
about Ethiopia, talk of'Africa, but
I believe that God intends the negro
race to work out here in the South
the, highest status he has ever at
tained. : If any body wants to go to
Mexico or Kansas or anywhere
else, let him pack his trunk and go
of his own free will, Let Congress
appropriate if it wants. I will re
spectfully ask it to take back my
part.-:-- -.'-';
WHITE MAN, BLACK MaA AMD BED
“It may be that uod means us to
go some day, but thaWs not the way
and this is not the time. Remember,
friends, that long ago two little'
barks came to America. One lan
ded at Ply month her load of freement
the ether came to Jamestown with a
freightlpf bondmen. Two separate
civilizations sprang into being from
these two ships;but we are away,
from home. .The red man alone is
at home. here, and he won’t be mnoh
longer if they keep on pushing him
westward into the Pacific. When
Congress legislates the black man
back to. Africa it would be just as
wise to legislate the white man back
to Europe-. When one goes the oth
er ought to go too. I am there to
stay. I have am unbounded confi
dence m the future of the Southland.
Her broad rivers, her rich fields and
well stored mines will one day pro
duce the richest harvest of prosper
ity the world ever saw, and I want
to help reap if and enjoy It.
THK OPPRB8SOU HOST TO BB PltlKD.
“What though a man be killed
now and then? He who would try
to crush ns deserves the pity—not
the crushed 1 Though a hundred
men fall around me I will stand firm
on the rock of my faith with an on
shaken hope. ' ' -
The negryjm an imitative creature,
Knd this is a sign of much hope. The
Indian always does the opposite
from what he sees the white man do.
Here he hog gone down. It ia just
the reverse with the negro. A
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yT:
whits than gets * hous#' (tainted
white, With green blinds; the negro
does the same. The white man rides
in a buggy; the negro get* one too
The white man drive* a horse; the
negro buys him a home; -file white
man buys a house; the negro does
the same. It may be built in- the
gothic order, witt rafters tin view,
but it’s a' house. This, promises
welir Rome imitated Greece; En
gland imitated Rome; America imita
ted England. It’s a help every time,
and the negro is following right on
in the white man's steps.”
1 < Dale’s Mystery.
Rev. Dale filed an affidavit for S
continuance of his case in the Geor
gia Court, which embodied the sub
stance of his defence. _
The most in teresting part of the
paper was that refering to. Dale's
past life, the mystery of which he
has never,Jay word or act, endeavor
ed to clear up, aince-he was confron
ted with the charge of bigamy by
the committee of the Baptist Cler
gymen last November. . -
As hod been rumored, the motion
stated that for several years, during
the interval between 1807 andl880,
he had led the life of a wandering
gambler. At the time when the
accusation charges him with being
in North Carolina he says he was in
Europe, and expected to prove this
by s copy of the hotel register of
Trafalgar Inn, of London. This had
not yet been received, as the time
since it had been sent for was .too
short. . _ _
This wandering also covers that
period when it is charged he mar
ried Miss Horton in North Car
olina, ' ■
A number of gambler nod sport
ing nien; with whom he had associ
ated then, had been snbpoenaed to
substantiate their part of the story,
bat they did not appear yesterday.
This was doubtless the main reason
why a request tot con tin nance was
determined upon. One pf these
handles of the ivory whom the de
fense claimed could help clear up
the mystery and substantiate the
claim is a William Brown, thought
to be now living in Nashville.
Another pair of witnesses upon
whose testimony great reliance was
placed, was Mrs. A. Penley and
Mrs. M. T. Martin. These, two la
dies, it was said, knew the defend
ant in Columbus, Ga., in 1878, an
other date line upon which the pro
cession claims he was a*resident of
North Carolina. This alibi they
were expected to prove by their tes
timony. J ?
But the two ladies did not appear,
although Bale says they now live
in Atlanta, and liad been subpoe
naed. . V '•
Mrs. Johnson, of the Ckristan
Index, was subpoenaed to testify as j
to hearing the late Dr.H. H. Tuck
er say, just previous to his death,
that during his European trip be
had met Dale at Trafalgar Square,
London, in 1871—another period
when he is charged with sailing un
der the cognomen of Nutall, in
North Carolina.
Anumber of other causes were
cited in the motion. Judge Mad
dox rendered his decision, continu
ing the case until the first Monday
in August next, immediately upon
the conclusion of the reading by Col.
Spears.
In rendering hiadecision, Judge
Maddox said be would expect eve
rything to be in readiness for trial
at the opening of the court.
In view of the continuance, he
announced the reduction of Dale's
bond from 11,500 to 11,000, and the
bond was given.
fudge Armfield on Trusts.
JPurhamMurn,
Judge R.- F, Armfield, *in bis
| charge to the Grand Jury this morn
ing, charged, that body upon f the
| law in regard to the formation of
trusts in the State. Ho read the
statute pertaining to the same, and
instructed the jury to the effect that
a report had come to him in which it
was stated that a firm iu tins State
hod combined with a non-resident
firm for the purpose of lowering the
price of certain grades of tohaceo,
by parceling out certain markets to
each firm, lie instructed the grand
jury to investigate the matter.
; Si ■
>. ; BAPTIST PREACHERS.
A Question Asked and Answered.
WUnUngionMetat Hgcr. •'" , /
One of our most thoughtful
brethren has frequently asked us
why there are now no great preach
ers like Patrick Dowd, James Mc
Daniel and John Kerr. We have
pondered the question along time
and are firmly convinced that the
absence of such preachers is not
proof that the race is degenerating.
We believe - there are men.; now
[ among us who under like circum
stances, would be scarcely less great
than these confessedly great men
named above. ’ We never heard
either of these three pulpit celebri
ties, but we have heard some of the
younger men now in their, prime,
and we know something o£ their
power to move men.
We do not say one;word in dispar
agement of the greatness of these
fathers in the ministry. We know
“there were giants in those days.”—
Raleigh Biblical Recorder.
We never heard the three Baptist
ministers named preach. We knew
personally Mr. McDaniel, and he
was a most estimable gentleman.
John Kerr, the elder, father' of the
honored' and eloquent Judge Kerr
was a tremenduous preacher when
at his best. Our venerated friend,
the late Dr. Thomas P. Atkinson, of
Danville, Ya-., a very decided Presby
terian, . had a high opinion of Mr.
Kerr’s powers. At one time Mr. K.
was pastor of the Baptist Church in
that town. Dr. Atkinson attended
Mr. Kerr in his last illness. He
was killed by a dose of medicine ad
ministered in Dr. Atkinson’s ab»
scence by a drunden doctor who was
a worm friend- of Mr. Kerr and was
on a Tisit to his home. Dr. Atlrin
son told as that he heard' Mr. Kerr
in a very strong sermon tell his
Danville congregation something
like this: “If I were endowed with
omnific power and conld at my will
Send the religion of Jesus to the
heathen sitting in darkness, I would
not send such a roligion as yours,
for it would prove a curse instead of
a blessing." This reminds us cf the
wit of a French sceptic, who said
that “most people’s religion was not
enough to make them happy and
fust, enough to make them miser
able,"
The most philosophical, the most
acute mind the Baptists have ever
had in North* Carolina; was a dis
tinguished gentleman of ^Granville,
Josiah Crudup. He was a man of
high intellect, analytical and meta
physical. He had a most impres
sive face, was scholarly, studious
and a powerful reasoner. He nev
er received money for preaching,
and therefore, spoiled the congrega
tions to whom he preached. They
were not trained in giving, and in
stead, of giving a tenth as in duty
bond, they gave only a pittance, be
lieving in one sense in. a free gos
pel-one that cost, no money. Mr.
Crudup was a very able man. J udge
Davis, of the Supreme Court, once
told us that he was the very ablest
man he heard. When in politics he
was extraordinarily strong. He
served in the U. S. Congress, and
was defeated for re-election by a
few votes—some 20 by Willie P,
Mangum. Gov. Swain told us that
he heard Mr. Mangum, more than
once say, that a big rain on the
last day of the canvass elected him.
He had spoken first and a rain pre
vented Mr. Crudup from replying.
Mr- Mangum was wont to laugh as he
said that a reply from Crudup would
have electedhim.Gov Swain said that
the canvass excited as much interest
in the State as any Governor's can
vass had ever done. He told us this
ial848L -
The ablest, most eharming Bap
tist preacher we ever heard in North
Carolina was the late President of
Wake Forest ,College, Dr. W. M.
Wingate. He was a most delight
ful preacher, and very impressive
when at his best. \ He always got
behind the Cross. The late William
Hill Jordan, of Granville, had, the
reputation of being one of the most
gifted Baptist preachers yet born in
the State, ,He was wonderfully gif
ted as to vocabulary—which was in
excess—and full of imagination.
His style peculiar. Hi» voice rolled
i.i waves and was sonorous and im
pressive. He was a man of' mark,
a scholar, and well read. He was
half brother of the celebrated Rev.
Dr. Poindexter, who lived most of
his life in'Virginia, although ' born
in North Carolina. We know but
little of the leading preachers among
the North Carolina Baptists now.
Whether they have men who can
preach like Kerr, Crudup, Wingate
and Jordan is at least doubtful;
The late Dr. Jeremiah 8. Jeter, of
Richmond, Va., said Kerr was the
greatest preacher lip ever heard in
Europe or America. He was a na
tive of North Carolina, as were all
named, but Dr. Wingate who was a
South Carolinian. /
At another tune we may say
something as to the preachers in
the other denominations. Whether
eloquence is^on thedeeline-or no we
may not undertake to say. We
have heard but little on the hus
tings since the war that will com
pare with the best we heard before
the war, but welfare heard two or
.three speeches of very exceptional
power and eloquence. We have al
:8o heard some sermons within twen
ty years that measured fully up to
those before the war, if not in ser
aphic eloquence like Lowe, at least
in incisiveness, in splendor of dic
tion and learning. .? /
The N. 0. Presbyterian has
Influence with Harrison.
Statesville landmark.
A story which indicates very
dearly what paper in this State
that has the “mflooanee” with the
present national administration,
reaches us in a round-about way
from onr chief seaport city. As the:
I story goes a Wilmington liquor
dealer named Brdnheld, or Brun
heil,or something of that sort, was
some time ago.convicted in the
United States court there of a_ viola
tion of the internal revenue laws
and setenced to a line and to be im
prisoned. After about the same
time another individual was con
victed in the same court at the same
place of rifling the mails, and was
sentenced to pay a heavier fine and
to served longer term of imprison
ment. An effort to secure a pardon
ot a comutation of the sentence of
Brunheld (we will call him) was
set on foot, a petition was circulated
in his behalf,- &c.,' while the case of
the mail man was forgotten. The
North Carolina PresbyterianJ
which is published at Wilmington,
opened fire on the case, adverse to
Brunheld,'pointing out, probably,
the inequality of the sentence in
the two cases and touching upon
the efforts in behalf of the liquor
men and the lack of any effort in be
half of the other fellow; and when
exjudge Bussell carried the Brun
held petition to Washington and
stated his business to the President
the grandson of his grandfather
pullled out the Presbyterian, re
freshed his memory, put his foot
down and said, no sir. And that
was the end of it.
Benjamin ‘‘holds till Bethany” as
tJncle Asa Summers used to say.
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a raiernai intrusion.
Charlotte Correspondent. <*
There is remarkable sensation in
Union county. Emmet Gray loved
the daughter of Johnathan Berry,
and became a frequent visitor at her
home. Old man Berry did not like
the young roan, and forbade him to
continue his visits. Thursday
night Gray called at. Berry's, and
he was met , at the door' by the
young lady and ushered into the par*
lor.' The two were chatting merri.
ly when the old man Came to. the
door, and seeing Gray, he' at once
jumped in upon him, and a lively
fight followed. The young lady
fainted but that did not stop the bat
tle. Old Mrs, Berry hearing the
fight came rushing in from the
kitchen with a kettle of boiling
water, which she began to pour over
the young man. . This rash act was,
■ however, stopped before much dam,
age was done... Gray left a much
ufeed-up man. . / —
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MR. CRAIN ON THE RULES.
The Minority Can Only Stand Behind,
the Constitution as a Bulwark:
Congressman W. hi. Crain,, ot
Texas, has addressed the following;'
communication to the editor of the
Washington Post.' ■
The skirmish in the Honor om
Tuesday over the resolution to con
sider the District appropriation hill
under the rules of the Fiftieth Con
gress has evoked a great deal of spec
ulation regarding the status of 'they
House in the absence of a. code Of
written rules.,
It is claimed that the House is, .
acting under what is styled general. -
parliamentary law? It is simply tho-:
will of the Speaker expressed upon
any parliamentary question about
which there is any controversy.
How for the Speaker may go im
his construction find interpretation'
of general parliamentary Jaw k a, .
matter of conjecture.
Possessing the ability of Mr. Car-? fsf
lisle conpled with the nerve of Mr.
Randall, he has the conservatism ot
neither. ■ -
His coarse as a leader of the mi
nority in other Congresses' demon-;
strates that he will go a long way to
do that which he believes to be for
the best interest of his party, and in
his speech in taking the chair he
announced his firm belief in the does
trine that it was hia prerogative,
nay, his duty, to take into consider^
ation those peculiar responsibilities)
of his position which he denomina*'
ted as political. ».*.•!
In the absence of rules for its
protection what will the minority
Ido? Whenever a proper occasion’
arrives it .can only stand behind, the
constitution as a bulwark against
such action on the part ':of its polit
ical opponents a* it may regard a»
violative of the provisions of the
organic law. ,
Should the Republicans attempt1 <
to pass measures which the demo
crats look upon as unconstitutional’
the latter, have the right, under the1 •
Constitution, to demand the yeas and
nays, and upon the call they may
refuse to vote.
If the call demonstrates the lack
of a quorum the Republicans can
only adjourn from day to day until
a quorum appears just as tne first
House of Representatives did 1U0
years ago.
The minority cannot compel the
attendance of absentees under a call
of the House, because its power is
limited by the Constitution to the
right to adjourn from day to day ■■
with authority, when conferred by * - :
rule of the House! adopted by a ma
jority, to compel the attendance of
absent members.
The language of the Constitution
is as follows: “Each house shall be
the judge of the elections, returns,
and qualifications of its own mem
bers, and a majority of each shall $
constitute a quorum to do business;
but a smaller number may adjourn ri
from day to day, and may be auth
orized to compel the attendance of
absent members in such manner and
under such penalties as each house
may provide.” It will be observed g-J
that the manner and the penalties :'
must have been provided by the «;
House befote the minority can act,
in endeavoring to compel the atten- '
dance of absent members. If there
be a quorum actually present, but
the roll call does not show the. fact,
what will the Speaker do? Will he
traverse the record and declare a
quorum present and doing business? §
When Mr. Blaine was asked to so p
rule he refused, declaring that such;
a rule would be revolutionary.
Houbb or IlBPjussmrrAnvas, Jan.
8.1890. ' ;
Asheville Journal: Chari ea Hen
dricks, a newly married man, wa*<w
serenaded by his friends and neigh
bors at Sulphur Spring, last night,
in the old fashioned way, with
drums, horns, tin pans, shot guns, ’
etc. Mr. Hendricks came oqt to :
acknowledge the salution of bin *--*■
friends, and was greeted with anoth
er round of the socalled music. A M
young man stunding alongside of
him discharged a gun, which explod
ed, laying open the flesh on the car-—4
tilage of the nose to the forehead
and inflicting some bruises on the
side of the head. Dr. £. C. Stanrn
attended the injured man, and with '
the necessary surgical work and
stiekem-tights expects to have him "
around again in a few days. _