>, Mr. Blaine Replies to Mr. Glodsto
; *ndthe. Democrats Reply to A
Blaine. -
'^c'’ Nmilewal Democrat.
..The two l^adiug art kite in t]
Amti-ican Review fof Jshn
J'X 051 Fi*e Trmto and Protectio
; .\vritlie« rcSp;otively by Mr.; Gia
fetoce, the great leader of the. Opp
4 ' • fcltion in great Britain, and , by Si
7- Blaine, the American Secretary ,
*, s7 Gtite, have attracted much atte
tion and deserve attention from i
£ Mr. Blidue’s article is a reply
that of Mr. Gladstone,'al though n
pearing in the same number of" t
magazine, and it would seem ,thei
fore, that the Secretary of State w
" admitted into'the sanctum of ti
Betiftv, iii order that the “antidot
Might go forth with the “bane
f ~ The greet Englishman, it is tru
gave his consent to this arrang
'ment, hut at the same time, he w
Hot allowed the oppotunity of rea
ing the reply of Mr. Blaine. If tl
. ■ editor and proprietors of the Berk
• are protectionists, as is probab!
>. they are to be commended for the
1 di8cretion„inarranging matters
this fashion,“for bur Secretary ■
State might not hate come off |
creditably, if there bad beenareci
roca! interchange 6f manuscripts.
But the arguments of Mr; G-lai
stone, written before he was awa
ibat they were to be replied to l
Mr. Blaine, are nevertheless, u re
. u tali on of the reply. For ioxtauc
Mr. Blaine lays down the premis
as indisputable, that the magnitui
of the United States exempts
from the conditions which mal
free trade or free intercourse wil
♦he outer world desirable or nece
sary to smaller copiifrieK. M
Gladatbnehud antiejpatcdjthis vie
'..of the Protectionist*, and Imd poin
ed out that
,V*’ tUrmighout die Ametmaw ««utiuei
swf^ywriy mitigates the evil; opy’artifici:
• barriers to Commerce'. ; Mr. Blair
. ‘‘Dfir foreign commerce, vei
: large in itself, is only as 1 to i
compared to our internal trade, at
yet.Mr. Gladstone thinks that nr
_' policy which: is essential to an islal
m this Northern ocean should 1
' adopted as the policy of a count)
which, even in his own vision, is
world within itself.
“ With these fundaiiiental poiu
' " of difference between the two eoiti
|§! tries, I, assume that yiiried financi
and industrial systems wrought l
" the experience of both would bstl
’ natural, logical result. Hence I (
not join issue with Mr. Gladsto:
> on both of his propositions. He d
..fends free trade in Great Britain; 1
assaults protection in the Unit*
! States. The first proposition
neither deny nor affirm.” -
, It seems not to have occurred I
Mr. Blaine that when he admits tl
advantages,of freedom of trade ovi
u vast country, like the Unit)
States, he practically concedes t
that the friends o£jtiy;jff reform a
eert. For if it is advantageous fi
Mew England to trade freely wit
New York and Pennsylvania, wt
pot with the contiguous Britu
priucinces? If the trade with Tex:
and •California is desirable, the
why hot with Mexico, Central ai
South America? And if with Hies
why not with Europe, and the re
of the world? ' ' •
Admit that a tariff for rexenue
necessary. It is still a necessai
evil. BE the revenue were not no
essary.to support the Government
would be the height of absurdity
collect it by placing obstructions c
commerce.
it may be conceded thut a vei
large country like ours lias less nei
of freedom of trade with foreifi
nations than smaller countries. F<
we can raise all the necessities c
life within our own borders, at
•many of the luxuries that con
from other lands. Our-Gulf State
on their Southern border, are seni
tropical. They produce sugar, o
tinges, lemons and bananas, and \
could get along Without these arj
cles from abroad. But we find'
o cheaper to import sugar from Br
ail, and pay a. tax on it, than torai
the cane and manufacture it in Lo
eitfna. And there are hundreds.
Arotiles which we could not produ
at all, suGh as spices and drugs. V
cannot produce coffee, and althouf
the attempt has been made, we ha
utterly failed to produce, tea,
Great as our country Is, therefol
it still does not embrace erery kind
elimate and soil; it has not acqujr
all the arts of life which have hei
$ultintv.ed and which have flourish
for centuries in other lands. V
therefore need freer trade with ct
«r lands,
Mr. Blaine underrates foreii
commerce, he eaye, it is only o
twenty-fifth part of our domes
JiUW WUW1U lb Ul> bUtfl
■to prohibit the exportation of cot
ton find tobacco and grain food 01
every kind that are sent abroed?., Ii
iu importance, they constitute onli
a 'twenty-fifth part of the whoh
merce of the country, internal,, and
external, one would think, and tlial
seems to .be the impression Mr
Blaine desires to make, there wonlc
be. no great harm in stopping tin
traffic with foreigner.altogether. -
No doubt the'high protectionists
would like tho arrangement hugely
They would then have an absolute
instead of a. qualified monoply of the
home market,.and at the same time
they would get their supplies oi
grain and flour, beef, bacon and
poultry, as well as cotton to manu
facture on their own terms, ... The
wool growers would like the' ar
rangement better than the woolen
manufacturers, and the producers of
coal and iron would enjoy the mon
opoly perhaps for a while more than
the manufacturers of iron. ' But
then t)ie woolen manufactures and
the iron manufacturers would have
the home market to themselves. -
Mr. Blaine holds that the Amer
ican, union is just large enough, and
not loo large, to subsist within, it
self. But his predacessors, 50 years
ago, held to the same idea when our
territory was duly two-thirds in ex
tent of what it is at present; And
so, ninety or a hundred years ago, if
the protectionists of that day had
been as narrow as they are now ( but
they were not), they would have
maintained that the Union, bound
ed by the Mississippi River on the
west and the thirty-first parallel on
the south, was precisely that limit
of territory over which it was safe
and profitable to trade without the
necessity of erecting artificial bar
-UlUMlu
guuiy assgrar
during the long period between 18
12 and 1851 free trade tariffs were
thrice followed by industrial stag
nation, by financial embarrassment,
by-distress among all classes depen
dent for subsistence upon their own
labor: Thrice Were these burdens
removed by the enactment of a. pro
tective tariff. : vj;.,,"::
Mr. Blaine evidently belongs ’ to
that class of philosophers who hold
that the antecedent eVeftt must' be
the cause 'of the following one. Of
that class-were the good1 people of
Terifierdon, who' maintained that
the Tendcrden speeple was the cause
of the Goodwin Sands—the building
of the steeple caused the Winds and
waives to bank .up the sands in the
harbor. _
Now the facts are, that in every
one of these eases the commercial
revulsion- was caused by an inflated
credit system and, a papercurrehcy,
issued by the banks, which, after
stimulating the widest speculation,
were compeleted to suspend specie
payments, and thus to bring ruin
upon the people. But why did Mr.
Blaine stop at the year 1801 ? Why
did he not take in the greatest of all
commercial revulsions—that of 18
73 ? Why did he not account for
that financial catastrophe, when the
war tariff was in full forpe, and the
s«!»bs .yj- bttA^biyu uu lureigu
imports was nearly 50 percet?
A BRIEF REPLY TO THE RALEIGH NEWS AND
OBSERVER. *■
Anent the Blair bill, the News and
Cl&sei wjwill please note there is a mart,
ed difference between the General Gov
ernment's nctingjfor the States in divid
ing the public domain among them foi
school purposes and its taxing them or
their daily consumptions of the neces
sities of life for school purposes. Th«
public domain is a natural endow
ment, much of which has cost us noth
ing. It will soon be exhausted. Its
disposition by?the General Government
does not encourage the existenoo of an
inniquitious tariff, but the Blair bill
does. One is an endowment that will
soon be exhausted, the other sets a dan
gerous precedent and opens the way foi
more vicious assaults on the United
States Treasury. Tho News ■ and Ob
server'll a lawyer and can see the dif
ference between giving away the publk
domain for free schools and taxing thi
people for them. It had an instance
similar to this difference, when its owr
city subscribed money by individual!
and property by the.city. for the locatloi
of Trinity College there. The Express
la sorry to Bee the News and Obsettwi
prone to , iternalism.
Baleigh News-Observers Tin
property of Miss Louisa, Bond, it
Caldwell county, N. C., containing
18,440 acres, has been sold to a Phil
adelphia syndicate, which also pur
chnsod a tract of'12jOOO acres ii
j Watauga county. ‘ r'
otremur. vfiNUfco VitWS UN IKI
NEGRO MATTER.
The Two Races Will Work out thi
Question for Themselves if Let Alone.
ifalfitnar* Sun. * ;; r '.j. ■
: Washington, Jan. 14.—Senato:
Vance, of A’orth Carolina, has ven
decided views on the-“raco question,’
and he will probably give them< b
the country in bis" characteristh
style before the- present Congies:
terminates. He differs from Sena
tors Hampton and Batter materially
as to the best means of settling thi
negro problem. He contends thu1
nothing Substantial can be accom
plished in that direction by the leg
relation' contained in the severa
bills now pending in Congress. “I
is not a question, says he “that car
be’settlcd- by long speeches and
complicated statutes, but it is one
that must be left entirely to th<
Southern people to work out in thcii
own way and in their .own time
Our Republican friends on the otliei
side of the Senate chamber mnsl
have confidence in us and Ire patienl
with those men in the- Southern
States who are honestly and hope
fully working to bring about a bet
ter condition of things. Those oi
ns in the South who have beer
brought in contact with the negre
ever since we were Born are better
able to work out .this problem than
those gentlemen on the other side oi
the chamber, who are actuated en
tirety by political motives and the
desire for personal notoriety. II
they will let us alone and keep theii
contaminating agents away from the
colored people of the South the
problem will work itself oat to the
the satisfaction of all concerned.
“It is this constant interference
nn ftvp nnrf. rvF T'JYvrtliAm
continued the Senator, “that causes
most of the trouble among the col
ored people of the South. Why, at
this moment I harp in my desk let
ters from colored men in my State
asking me to see a certain Republi
can Senator about- some'-money
claimed to be due for political work
done during the last campaign. It
appears that these colored men were
employed to do certaiu work for the
Republican managers in the Iasi
contest, and were promised; a mon
ey consideration for the labor per
formed. Times are hard and crops
are not the best down my way, so
these Republican workers who pul
their shoulders to the Harrison
wheel want me to help them get
their,money! I. declare, said the
Senator, smiling at the idea of pre
senting the letter in question ti
one of the ; richest ■ Republicans in
the Senate, “I am almost too ten
derhearted to dosuGh an uncharita
ble piece of business. The question
in my mind is which , will suffer tin
most? The Senator, upon being
brought face to face with such an
unrighteous debt, or the poor darkies
being kept out of their hard earned
money.” ' ' - .
The Senator does not believe ir
the Morgan proposition to send the
negro Back to Africa. ' Such s
scheme will not, in his estimation be
sanctioned by a majority of the
white people of the Southern States
He does not believe the negroes wan1
or demand equality, and thinks they
are satisfied to more along in thei]
own channels of . life until the
Northern politicians fjll their minds
with, the ideas of political-supremacy
over the whites. “It might as wel
be understood now,” adds Mr. Vance
“that the white people of the South
cannot and will nob,submit to any
thing of that kind. It would block
the wheels of progress in the South
and would destroy that kind of feel
ing that still exists, in so many
places between the former mastei
and the servant. A large majority
of the colored|[people there are very
well satisfied with their present loi
and if they are let alone they wit
work out their own salvation among
the people who have actually dom
more for them in the past than theii
new and over-zealous political friend;
at the North. If any of the North
ern leaders are anxious to have one
half of the negro population of the
South transferred to the Northern
and Western States the Southerr
people will not complain, but wil
continue to treat well those whore
* main behind."
Sectarian Religion in the Publl
■' .71 School.
Tht JV. y, MmI Journal. 1
Florida newspaper* give, an ao
count' of an address made by a Pres
bytorian clergyman who made quit
a fierce attack upon the publi
1 school sytem. He thought that hi
denomination, Of course, should se
; that religion be taught in a ver
■ strict and earnest way, in the schools
■ Now all this seems very pluusibh
i but there are Jtwo things to ha sai.]
The first is that the way is sti!
; open for all Presbyterians who wis
to carry on Presbyterian schools, t
do sci all they have to do i3 to rais
i the money and carry on the schools
' there is no law against it, no publi
Opinion against it • On the contrr
ry, the public is in favor of all sue
, schools. Instead of denooncin
, those who" are carrying on. schools
i why not take part of this business
; out of their hands by erecting'suc
, buildings as ane‘ necessary, and s<
| coring teachers? This would seer
to be the proper plan. ■ L
.. But, Secondly, suppose the
, this plan- should be carried oui
! suppose the government should giv
' Presbyterians a million of dollar
to open schools. Then the Met'ho
diets would want a million or twe
and so on all -around, and we shoul
have in every town twice' as man
schools as would be needed. Tin
: plan was m operation once in mos
towns in the North; -each sect ha
its own school, but it did not seen
to work. The truth is a man ma;
. be a very good Presbyterian and
very poor teacher; he may be able t
teach Presbyterianism well, bu
mathematics, or language, or geog
raphy most horribly.
Then, in the third place, there i
this difficulty—that after these vari
ons denominations had their school
in operation, there would be a larg
number of people who would no
want to be made into Presbyterians
Catholics, or Episcopalians. Whi
will educate these? Shall there hi
schools for all sects and the one fo
no sects? Take it in this city, fo
example. Th/Catholies are spen
ding a good deal of money*for par
och ial schools; if alb other denomi
nations would do the same thin;
thereWould still be a large numbe
of children unducated, because the;
did not choose to be made into Cath
olics or into any sect, whatever.
North "Carolina Masons.
The Grand Lodge of Masons, ii
session at Raleigh, elected the fol
lowing officers: Samuel H. Smith o
Winstiou Grand Master, Hesekial
A. Gudger of Asheville, Deput;
Grand Master, John W. Cotton, o
Tarboro, Senior' Grand Warden
Francis M. Moys, of Moyten, Jnnio
Grand Warden, Wm. E. Anderson
of Raleigh, Grand Treasurer, Don
aid W. Bain, of Raleigh, Gram
Secretary. ,
Rev. C. T. Daily, D. Q., of Ral
elgh, was re-elected Director of Ox
ford Orphan Asylum, for a term o
five years. . .i '1 ■-<
A. H. A. .Williams, from the com
mittee on so much of Grand Mas
tier’s address as relates to Distrie
Deputy Grand Hasteth, made a see
ond report recommending as fol
. lows: ” . - , ..■
Jsc, mat tne Urand Master ap
point one Grand Lecturer who shal
nave charge of the work and win
together with the Grand Maslei
shall be custodian of the work.
2nd, That the Grand Master shal
appoiut os many assistant gran
Lecturers as the necessity of th
jurisdicution_as such upon the certi
ficate of the proficiency made by th
Grand' Lecturer.
3d, That it shall be the specie
duty of the Grand Lecturer to con
fer with the Assituut Grand Lect
urer and instruct them if necessar;
in order that the work jpay he uni
form in all the Lodges in this juris
diction. * .
4th, The expenses apd prope
compensation of the Grand Lecture
and assistant Grand Lecturers shal
be defrayed by the subordinat
lodges asking their services.
6th, That all the subordinat
lodges should ask the services of on
of the Graud Lecturers during eacl
masonic year.
F. M. Moye presented a resolutio
providing for the appointment of
Grand Orator, for each Annual Com
m unication. The resolution wa
adopted and Grand Master Smitl
appointed W. A. Blair as the Gran
Orator for the next Annual com
munication.
The advisory board of the Orpha
Asylum, consisting of Messrs. Jr. YV
Hays, N. A. Gregory, and J. JV1
Currin,was re-appointed.
Committees were announced as fol
lows, to serve nt thb next unnur
communication and during th
present year: ' On Jurisprudence
s'. H. Bushee, * Bugeiie Grissom, 1
S. Kenan, Robert Bingham, S. B
Rountree. On Propositions an
Grievances—W. H. Me Lumen, YV
T. Cabo, W. E, .Murchison, Oi
Foreign Correspondence-- Eugene S
Martin, D.;W. Bain, and W. £
Creusv. On 'Orphan Asylum—,1
W, Mays,. S, L. Alderman, M. I
Winston, W. H. Mitchell, R. 1
Stephenson. On Printing—W. I
Anderson, I), W. Buin, and F. 1
Reid. On Credentials—R. ti
Draughtog. J, E. Brown, iurd. A. ]
Glow. .. j ™ .
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' PARADISE OF GAMBLERS'. .
a _
! Where Gambling Is Legalized, Pny
c lie Sentiment Accords.
- Charlotte Chronicle• >■'
* Miss Miiggie McDowell who is
i abroad on a extended tour, in a re
'' cent letter to her mother, Mrs. 11. £
s McDowell, of this city, given cthis
' account of bar visit to
* Monte Carlo, and this Mrs. McDow
1 ell has kindly allowed the Chronicle
to print: : \
. MonthGablo, France-Dec.21, ’89.
' * wrote you from LyoiDoii my
■ way here. The reason why I re
main, is on account of.the .climate;
‘ and because the lady with whom I
j came, prefers the climate here to
that of. Nice, Menton, or Cannes,
. because it is higher and dryer. The
’ weather in Paris was real cold
1 ^hen I left that place. Flowers are
blooming in the yards here, and
t even roses- are luxurious, and the
trees laden with oranges legions,
dates, £c.
I December is the height of the
-season, as it is a winter climate for
persons living north of this, and a
summer resort for Italians living
sonth; an cl it is a very fashionable
resort, as it is a high place, and the
. alr,, bracing, whilst it: Js nfso
; mild. v
Prices are high on account of its
' being such a fashionable place for
Tb? Price of Monaco bought
Monaco, a small portion of South
France frorsome thing over four
million of francs, so as to have
gambling legalized. He and a few
nch men own the bank of the Caai
no here, which is said to have more
than twenty million francs in it*
niade from gambling. Monte Carlo
is almost all there is of.Monaco; it
is a very pretty place, and kept in
elegant style. Of course, many
pel sons go to the Casino to hear the
i concerts, and never gamble at all
. but gambling is a great pastime
• with many, both ladies and gentle
men. Hdo not approve of the prin
i ciple pfogambhng, and would no!
r risk money'on an uncCrtainity, but
f have been a spectator; and it is curi
ous to observe' tbedifference in the
’ playera; Some are so cautious, risk
ing only a few dollars; others reck
’ less, risking thousands. I hear that
| some persons live here in fine style
by gambling; others loosing heavily
have to leave here, and economize
for years, to make np what they
- lose in a few minutes. *
1 This is the paradise of gamblers.
The gama is so arranged that fifty or
more peraons can gamble at each
- table, raid there are 8 fables. An
1 addition is also to be made to. the
- Casino, ..so as to have more tables,
ill very day, there is a fine concert,
and every Thursdy a classic concert.
■ Persons from Nice, Cannes and
Menton come every Thursday to
i hoar the concert. Admission is free
i but every one who is allowed fo en
ter, must have a complimentary
ticket of admission I showed my
1 passport to Russia, which was suffi
5 cient to gain me a ticket, or I
• would not have been admitted, as
3 many*others were not.
A lady I met here told hie that
her father had lost two large. for
tunes by gambling, and still hecon
" tinues to play. Men take their
wives and daughters with them and
see thorn gamble with no more feel
ing .than if they were at a theatre
or. picture gallery; it is so common
r here, and quite fashionable. Puh
J lie sentiment, it syems can make
1 anything respectable.
5 I um stopping at the Hotel dfcs
Colonies, and one geptleman at this
' hotel, brought eight thousand francs
9 with him, and lost it all in gamb
1 ling except one hundred francs.
With that hundred, he gained the
1 eight, thousand back, and was so de
1 lighted that he sent the money
' home bv express, being afraid to
5 trust himself; but the day after, he
j sent home for the money, the gamb
• ling fever being on him again. I
‘ heard of another who committed
suicide hero nfter losing heavily.
1 But as gambling has been made legal
• here, and has continued 25 years, it
■ is tacontinue for 27 years more.'
The Prince of-Wales is expected
‘ here' a little later in the winter, and
they say he gambles very heavily.
9 He always has a box assigned him to
hear the concerts, and is said to be
• Very affable iii lii.s manners. ..
t
Latest uovciopment at the Tebe Saun
, ders Mine. . ■ _
Tr»f ridetle.
, Sheriff E. L. Saunders and' C. C.
Wade, Ksq., were up to the ‘Saun
ders Mine uaj before yesterday anti
brought us news of quite -an excit
ing nature in regard to develop,
meets now being mude at this extra
ordinary rich gold deposit,
- These gentlemen met at the mine
Senator j. 0. Spooner and Hon. H.
F. Taylor, of Wisconsin, (the re
cent purchasers of the property),
Senator Geo. Hearst, of California,
•I oo. A. Kirk, Esq., of Washington
City, and several other capitalists of
the North and West who, we pre
sume, came down to see and know
for themselves the truth os to-its re
puted peat value'.
Two blasts word made on . the
clearly exposed Vein, located at the
bottom and about the middle of the
main shaft, which is not more than
30 feet deep, and from these two
blasts we are told that not less than
1,2000 worth of pure gold nuggets
were quickly gathered up; and th is
does not include the gold that was
ygt to be saparated from the/jiiart:/.
ore thrown up by-the blasts, which
ore sparkled more or less with- visi
ble particles of the precious metal.
Such a mine—a veritable bonan
za indeed—as this has proved to bo
naturally creates excitement} how
ever, we believe our people have
ahout’cool down, but those gentle
men from the North West who
were there Tuesday, were perfectly
astounded,and Senator Hearst was
heard to remark that ho had seen
the rich mines of California, but
this was the richest gold deposit’ he
had ever seen.
This magnificent prospect will
probably be the. means of selling a
great deal of the mineral lands in
this and Randolph countiesi espe
cially on the TJwharrie range, dur
iug the present year, and will likely
lead to other rich discoveries.
A Moment of Suspense.
When Senator Butler delivered
his speech on deporting the negroes
to Africa, there came near being a
sensation. ...
_ Senator Hoar said: “The trouble
is that they (the people of the
South}feel that they’must murder
or marry the negro. . Why cannot
a negro gentleman—a graduate of
Amherst, for example—occupy, as
a number of such do in New En
gland, positions of honor and. trust
in a Southern city?”
. The Washington Post says:
Senator Hoar seemed on the
verge of precipitating a sensation
when, following his phrase about
murdering or marrying .the negro,
as given above, he began to chal
lenge the Southern - denial of the
“negro gentlemen’s” right to settle
in stations of trust and honor. Hor
rifying as the bare thought is, the
juxtaposition of the two ideas made
it momentarily appear that the
Senator from Massachusetts was
about to condone the crime of mis
cegenation, and was with a pro.
nonneed relief that the galleries at
tended the conclusion to another
point of his slowly delivered senten
ces.
“PERSISTENT REBEL ROWDIES.”
A correspondent writes this kind( of
a communication to the New York Tri
bune: ~
“To the editor of the Tribune :
Hit:—Pardon my-bricf intrusion, for
I must thank ’-ou'fdr your admirable
sarcasm on the “Southern Code” in the
Joiner outrage.
jit is about time the North and all
decent sections spoke out in thunder
tones to those persistent rebel rowdies.
D. II. Giiase,
Middletown, Conn., J an. 8 18701.”
That is what the above correspondent
calls the people of North Carolina—
“liebe.1 Kowdies” and that through a
paper that pretends to represent decent
sentiment in the North. If there Is
much of such sentiment up there now
nearly a quarter of a century after the
surrender at Appoinatox, there is-some
likelihood to be sure that the children
of the Confederate soldiers m^y be
called upon to “frail the ciiildren oi
the Federal soldiers back into the
Union.” We can do it with more de
cision and with1 more excuse for fight
ing than they manifested when they
"frailed” our fathers back. In the en
tire history of this country there can
not be found greater rebels against
peace, harmony and good order, than
such papers and such correspondents,
&o. fiver since Lee surrendered, these
fellows have been in open rebellion
against their country. i)o they want
to destroy it?
We copy from- the Charlotte Chron
icle:. _ .1
“Hebei rowdies,” * “persistent rebel
rowdies,” is a nice way to designate
the people of a State. It is this kind
of sentiment publicly expressed through
the leading journals of the‘North, that
has made us thiuk, for some time, tliat
the. North has not yet accepted the abi
trament of the late war. The people
of that section are no more mindful of
the rights of tins section than they
were when their outrageous conduct
threw the country into a live years*
war. •
- Wilt it be necessary to declare mar
tial law in. the North; to make those
people submit to the results of the war?
Must they be dosed with “reconstruc
tion” and “carpet baggism” before they
will submit to tlie Constitution and the
principles of the Union? . - -- - --
It looks that way..' .
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern,
Chartolte tlAtirnal, '/ •
Work on this road is still being:
steadily pushed and it is reaching
out from Atlanta at a rapid rate.
It will be completed to Atlanta by
the first of next year,' This is the
road that ia now in ' operation be- ,=
tween Monroe and Cheater, and ot - '
which Captain John A. Dodson is ’ >
superintendent. Bon. W. C. Ben- Is
et, of South Carolina, told an •
ta Journal reporter that jndging
from the portion already built it
will he the best constructed and the
best equipped road in ijhe Southern W,
States, '^he road bed is rock balas
ted, laid with heavy steel rails,, the
bridges and culvers are of massive 5
iron and the whole superstructure 3
shows this utmost care and finest i S
workmanship.”
“ What do you think willfhe the
cheif’ benefits derived from' this
road ?” Mr. Benet was asked. ^
“In the first place it will be the
most direct road from the North to. ■ |
the South and the Southwest. It -;
will be the short line. The chief of
its advantages to'us in South Caro- 3|
lina will be that it will give us
western connection, better rates and ?
greatly-increased railroad facilities. . I
It passed through one of the finest '
cotton belt in the Southern States,
which need Northern and Western ;jj
outlets to be thoroughly developed, . ' ■
“The Georgia corpse of survoyors • \
of the Georgia, Carolina and Nor
them has passed Elberlon on its
way to the Savonnah river, where
it will meet the South Carolina side.
The road itself will be completed to w
Abbeville in time to move the cot
ton crop of this year, and its trains
will he running from Atlanta to the ^
Va. seaboard m eighteen - months.”
Vanderbilt’s Carolina Land..
According to the Manufacturer*', * $
Record, George Vanderbilt is pre
paring to improve hie land near
Asheville on a great scale.. The r ’
Record says: ' •
. "Mr. George Vanderbilt is report
ed to have contracted to have a 5
thousand acres of his l»nd at Ashe- 1
villev C., planted in coniferous
trees, mostly white pines, three.
hundred acres of which, at the rate
of twelve hundred trees to'the acre,
are to bffdone in two, years. This ia
the most extensive attemptat timber
culture that has been undertaken in
the South, and it must ultimately
result in great gqnd in many ways. ~
It will draw attention to timber
eultuie and to the more careful pre
servation of forests, and at the same - *
time add to the.beauty of the scenery - -r’
and health-giving qualities of the
atmosphere at Asheville. By sys
tematically laying out a forest in
this manner, Mr. Vanderblit will
ultimately possess one of the most
charming, healthful and famous
resorts of the continent.”
v Dr. Shearer s Position Explained. ~ ;
Special Correspondence to the Hinton'
Sentinel.
Editor Seutinelt-Somf* time ngo :
Uio people of the State were shocked
and surprised to read that Dr. Sheer
er, of Davidson College, had publicly
announced his.opposition to public
schools and his belief in parochial
schools alone. _ ^•; -
I ijt once addressed a letter to the
President., and in bis reply he states
that he was discussing higher educa
tiou only, and that he was-misrepre
sented. To use his own words, in
speaking of the report, “It says I
denounced the common school sys
tcji of the country when I did not
fj#r to it Once.. I am glad to toko
tife opportunity to correct the re
port, as it is too late in the 10th
century to cippose public schools.”
' Yours very truly,
w, \ ¥ W. A. IteAni. *
Winston, Jan. 14. • 1 5
Col. Polk has appointed D. H. Hit.
teahouse as his Private Secretary
Referring to Mr. R., the Raleigh
Ca Isays: “Mr. R. is a native of
Halitax countv, is a prominent and
enthusiastic alliance man and is a
ready and lucid writer. He is a
walking encyclopedia of facts, sta
tistics and general information of
the condition of the country, and
treats on all subjects concerning it
mth ease and interesting olearuesg.
Ho is widely known as “Old Fogy ”
Newton Enterprise: Mr.- Frank
C me, son of our good friend, J. R.
Clmet of Catawba, two years aizo,
when only seventeen yearn old, obi
tamed the position of fireman on
tho Western North Carolina road
and now Ht the age of nineteen he
occupies the engineer’s seat on one
of the compan/* huge iron horses.
the rranklin lrinies chrouiclos
the death of 8. T, Wilder. s«ed c*
years. 1 -v - .. - —. T
Greensboro Workman: ' Me*nr.
l-orbis and Tipton buve decided nut
to publish the Guilford Democrat,
w*is u ba# connected him
selt with atritt'