North Carolina Newspapers

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 ■ .■ ' ' : tv ^ ■ ' C ' ' ‘ ' ''l ■ ' ~ '* ’ \ V ~ r5*-’ *-r * t% * f v ■ ; J-v - . 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 - - '■ ■ ' . _ c ' r .1 i~~ 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. ... -j,. ■■ ■, 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. . / — -— • 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. _