£ S.§ 8 S 8'c O CO IB ir! o is I' ___ I g »t- O g jg s 1||8S.S„SS S IS3 p g 8 8 f-T «- « <C o" vrs I* *• 5f *• . «H • i*CI M X «■* SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 30,1890. No, IS# THIS FACT BEATS FICTION. A hovel Scheme io Secure insurance ;. ... ■ ... Honey, Stale Chronicle, j. C. Meekins, Jr., Esq1- sheriff b£ Tyrrell county, arrived in the city yesterday aftenoon. He gives • the Chronicle the strangest, and inbst sensational occurrence in Tyr ; "ieH OOiinty that was ever recorded in these columns.-. -It isn’t exactly h ease of Enoch Arden, but it is tjuite-as odd, and the element of erime makes it all the more won derful. The following is the inci dent that has thrown the county in to great excitement: "DILLON INSURED HIS LIFE AND TRIED ‘V TO DROWN HIMSELF, f About twelve months ago a man named James Dillon, of Tyrrell County, insured his life for $3,000 in the Connecticut Mutual Life Insur ance Co. About four mouths after he had taken the insurance he fell off a boat, feigned that he could not swim, and hod to be pulled out of Alligator river to prevent his drowning. ANOTHER FEIST AT DROWNING. . The Bsexfc' day, he turned a boat over half a mile from shore, and .yelled for help to Mr. Sawyer, a ■ gentleman who was a quarter of a milOtkway. The gentleman respond ed, but Dillon secretly swam ashore And. could not be seen by the gen tleman .whose assistance he had call ed. Mr. Sawyer supposed he was drowned and was perfectly willing to swear to it. Notice of his death Wassentto the company' and they . refused to pay. Action was brought * by hjs widow in the Superior Court and the case stood for. trial at Fay etteville spring court,- the widest al leging that he was drowned. . %.* . his boot found. A week., before court, Diilpn’s ; body was found on the place where Mr. Sawyer saw him sink" in the water. The body was identified, by twenty-five people as that of James Dillon, by the shape of his skull, color of his hair, from his bald head, because two teeth were out,' and ‘ ftom his elothiug and their con tents. Dillon’s papers and pocket knifq were in the dead’man’s pock ets. ■ ■ At court, counsel for the widow took a non suit because the body had been found and could be identified. It was supposed the company would pay atones. The evidence of health and identification was forwarded to the company who wrote that they*' . Would do as advised by Pruden & iVaun, their attorneys at Edenton. There is no doubt, with this evidence that the company would have paid the money if nothing had occurred THE DEAD ALIVE. On last Friday, to the surprise of all, Dillon returned safe and sound, “limb, wind and weather.*' There is "no doubt but that Dillon, hearing of the hon-suit at court thought it was an end to his claims, and there Would be no hope of collecting the tnoney, and so believing returned DILLON MAKES A STATEMENT, liillon’s statement is that he swam ashore the day that he turned the boat over, put hie hat in the boat, and left the boat half full of water. Then he concealed himself in the bushes and waited for Sawyer to Come up. He was convinced that -Sawyer thought he was drowned, and determined to stay in the Woods 00 his wife could get the insurance money. Five months later he claims to have found a drowned man float* v ing in Alligator river. He removed the hair from his head so as to make it bald,and also his whiskers, 'and taking his own hair and' whiskers stuck it ip'the decomposing flesh of theVorpse. Then he knocked out two of the front teeth of the dead man,-and removing the clothing from the corpse dressed it in the clothes he had worn on the day of his disappearance. He then, at night conveyed it to the placo where Hhe Was supposed to have been drown ed, which place is one of the most desolate and barren wastes in the lowlands of the eastern North Caro lina, seven miles from any inhabi tant, and by the-solemn glimmer of his lantern came to the conclusion that the corpse presented a striking likeness-to himself. The sequel shows that he was right, for twenty five people ■ were willing to swear tlittt the body was that of James Dillon-. WHO POUND THE BODY. The body was found by Cupt. Jos. Etheridge; who expected to get $200 which had been offered for the body of Dillon. DILMIf JHBIMOT AT HIS DECEIT. ,; Dillon is very jubilant overdeceiv ing the people. The people of his neighborhood lire very charitable and whenever one loses a horse, they All chip in and buy another; and when one gets sick they work his crop; or one’s house is burned, they build him another. Thinking Dill on was dead, out of charity for his widow, they had planted his farm and on last Tuesday thirteen of them were in Dillon’s field working his crop, while lie (Dillon) was in the bushes looking at them. He says that he was glad. to see his work progressing so finely in his absence and would have been perfectly satis fied could he have told them howhe wanted the crop cultivated. — GUEAT EXCITEMENT. The news of his, return created quite an excitement, and threats of lynching, and tar and feathers were freely indulged in. Friday, the day of his return, will long be remember-, ed in the usually quiet little village of Columbia as “Black Friday.” Added to this excitement was the assignment of one of the prominent merchants of the town, and two lights by four prominent citizens,— making a record for the day.: 2 Fights. . 1 Assignment. • “ 1 Resurrection. Differences Between New England ers and Southerners. The New York Evening Post ■ in reviewing the work of Henry Ad ams on President Jefferson’s Second Terra, says: Mr. Adams has no where essayed a philosophical expla nation of what seems to us among the most striking phenomena in our political history—to wit, how it came that what was originally a so cial Democracy in Neve England became the foundation of the most inveterate form of aristocratic pol itics ever exhibited in our annals; and how it was that a social feuu jdalism in the South, built on an in stitute so anti-deinocratic as predial slavery, because the seed-plot of a popular political philosophy which degenerated at length into the so called “vulgarity” of the Jacksonian era. This inquiry is not one which lies outside of Mr. Adam’s purview as an historian, for it is one which enlisted the curiosity of speculative politicians at the very beginning of Jefferson’s second term, when the dividing of the ways in our nation al politics had become, sufficiently pronounced to indicate that the dif ferention was not casual, but followed the trend of diverge uient tendenmes hidden in our so cial strata. Less than two months after Jef ferson’s second inauguration the Causes of this separation in the po lities of New England were made a topic of formal discussion in the of ficial journal of the Administration, the National Intelligencer, and these causes, as then and there an alyzed (we abbrevite their sub stance in our own terms), were reduced under the following heads: The origual religious separatism to which the New England colonies owed their origin; the clanishness and pride of Opinion engendered by a sense of superior education; the gie&ter compactness of the popula tion, leading itself to easier assimi lation of opinion; better interior ar rangements for the dissemination si ideas from ^ central poiut; the weld ing process of the Revolutionary England people' averse to the independent and bupolio politics of Virginia. Such were, in substance, the Views held by partisans of Jef ferson when, at that early date, they undertook to account for the New England stratification in our national politics. It would have been instructive to see these con stant elements of our party forma tion surveyed by Mr. Adams from that higher point of view which we have reached to-day. Bryce makes only a passing allusion to the sub ject; • . ■ „ -’n .' . Concord Standard'. A Concord boy wrote Sam Jones while in Dan ville for his “picture," enclosing in his letter a dime. Mr; Jones sent his photograph and returned the dime. That was jeal. clever. ‘ Horiice Alexander Wyche; and Miss Ella May Troy, daughter of ex-State Senator W.' C. Troy, "will be* married in the Central M. E, Church at Asheville Thursday morn ing, June 5th. , THE RADICAL PLOT MAY FAIL. Reed and Company are not Progress j ing Well. XaHonal Tbnmocrut. ^ v ' There i° a good deal of talk about the Capitol that the proposed feder al election law is destined to fail of passage, no less than HcCtsmas bill; and-the -WeiL known willingness .of both Ilarrisou.and-Iieed to have nothing whatever done about silver promises to make the present sess ion much more barren of results than the Republican- leaders have boasted that it would be. It is stated to us, on the author ity of a prominent Republican Sen ator, that Mr. Harrison has iuforjm ed his friends in Congress that 'he will sign a bill for the free coinage Of silver. He wants the Windom certificate bill or nothing. But the Western Republicans are no less than the Democrats opposed to the whole idea of warehousing sil ver bullion, and will not vote it. , It uttnuuL pass. The present outlook is that noth ing at all will be done about silver. The Democrats are advised by Mr. Man toil Marble, who was so closely in the confidence of the late Secret tary Manning, that it is useless to wait longer for the European na tions to join us in a silver union, and that the best plan is to go ahead and make silver free. This is a very important suggestion. But one thing is certain: If the; Republicans do nothing and at all they will find their record on this question a burden in the coming campaign. The case in regard to the election law seems to be that the Republican Sectors do Hot want it and are av erse to attempting any gag rule in their body in order to put it through. There are also some members of the -House who are against it. On Saturday last the caucus "committee of Republican members which has it in charge held a long session, and by a vote of six to five declared in favor of the Lodge bill for a_ national elec tion law in preference to the Rowell bill for an extension of the super visors. Messrs. Lodge, McComas] of Maryland; Henderson, of Iowa; Houk, of Tennessee; Sm)rser, of Ohio, and Browdeu, of Virginia were in the majority and Messrs. Rowell, pf Illinois; Stewart, of Ver mont; Payne, of New York; Frank, of Missouri, and Haugen, of Wis consin, were in the minority will carry the matter into the Caucus and made a stubborn fight against the Lodge programme. Mr. Lodge’s bill, as now drajvn makes no provis ions for the Australian system of voting except where that is the sys tem of the States. It provides for federal election machinery, federal pviuii^ jnuiicn, xuuisliu cuunung and ‘ federal certification in every district of the Un ion. States authority in Massachu setts and Ohio, as well as in South Carolina and Mississippi, is to be superceded by separate officials and separate polling places under na tional control. Mr. Lodge esti mates that it will cost $5,000,000 to carry liis scheme out. Other mem bers of the committee say . that it will take $10,000,000. They believe and will argue in the caucus that the system will cause friction and indignation in the Northern States and will <cause a revolt against the Republican party which will lose it more votes than it can posibly gain in the South. They believe tb»t even if the measure gets a majority vote in a thinly-attended caucus the majority will not dare force the matter to an issue in the House. It will* be a ridiculous outcome of all Reed’s high-handed proceedings if none of the political legislation he so much desires gets through. Of (purse, ho has succeeded in pass ing a tariff bill, but this is merely a a measure that is certain to be wholly changed in the Senate. Already Mr. Dawes has washed lus hands of the McKinley abomina tion, declaring in, ther Senate on Monday that he did not wish to' promote or oppose; it. Mr. Allison, of fowa, would very much like to be relieved of the same responsibility and will be compelled to vote for many modification of the bill. It is by no means certain that the Fifty first .Congress will, finally pass1 any tariff bill at nil, or do anything farther of importance. W hat* record- of -that_would be. No tariff law! no silver law !no elec tion law! —t— . ; . We wonder what Mr. Speaker Reed thinks he has accomplished- so far. » . DEATH OF DR. I. E. MANN. An Able Norti£Carblina Minister fa ken Off by Typhoid Fever in 'St. Louis. Rev. Dr. J. E. Mann, pastor of the Methodist Church of New Berne, died Friday night of typhoid fever in St. Louis, Mo. lie was at tending General Conference. He will be taken to Winston for burial. He was due of the most prominent members of the North Carolina Con iereuee. . Dr. Mann left North Carolina for the General Conference in good health, and he was a man of unusu ally fjne and healthy physique. The Raleigh News and Observer says of him: He was 58 years qf age and was bofh and reared in Chatham county. He entered the ministry at a very early age and joined the.North Carolina Confer ence in 1853. From the beginnig of his career in the Conference he took a prominent part and has al ways continued to do so tilling many of the most important ap pointments in-the Conference, in cluding the pastorate of the church at Fayetteville, Grace church at Wilmington, St. Paul’s church at Goldsboro, the churches of Winston Greensboro, and New Berne, where he was • located at the time of his death. He- was also presiding elder for fourteen years, having charge of the Warrenton, Wash ington and New Berne districts. Four years ago he was elected to the General Conference at Rich mond and again to the present Gen eral Conference at St. Louis, was a prominent member of both and was spoken of and voted for Bishop at the latter. He was taken ill while at work at St. Louis and died in the harness.. When the war be gan he organized a company at' Winston, which was afterwards Company D of the 57th Regiment. He married Miss Miller, of Win ston. His wife and a large family survive him. An Important Discovery. Charlotte Chronicle. It is claimed that another proper ty of steam has been discovered, and, if the discovery stands the test of experience, it may prove’ valuable both in applying the power of steam and in preventing accidents. The new discovery was exhibited several days ago, in Bridgeport, Conn., before a society of engineers, during an address by F. G. Fowler. of that city. He asserted that the newly discovered pi op ;rty of steam would, under some circumstances, cause an instantaneous doubling of boiler pressure without the applica tion of more heat. His claims were demonstrated by a small boiler, iu which the pressure was raised to 40 pounds, andi after being removed from the Are suddenly thrown to 80 pounds. In another experiment the pressure was raised in an' in- ' slant from 80 pounds to 160. It was claimed that this property acr counted for many so-called mysteri ous boiler explosions, or those which withstood the inspector’s test and then exploded at lower pressure. It was shown how his property could be readily removed from the boiler, and the same was demonstrat ed'by suceessful experiments. -Governor Fowle has accepted the invitation to deliver the address at Princeton college, June 10, at the laying of the corer stone of the new building. Two women, Crecy Smith'and Elizabeth Hooker, were killed by. lightning, in Halifax county, Fn- , dey. . *■-* Twin City Daily: We learn -through a letter from High Point that many young ladies have pledged themselves to Evangelist Fife not to have anything to do with any youngman that drinks, sells, Jbus» or uses iu any way (except as a medi cine) iutoxicat.ing liquors ' A CARO. To my friends and Supporters in the late Congressional Conven tion at Clinton: GentlemfN:—1 would be dercliet to you and to myself, did" I not try to express the thanks I feel for your :ordial,'generous unswerving sup port throughout an almost coutinu Jus session of nineteen hours on last Wednesday and Thursday In my own behalf and in the name of the People, whose wish you were voicing, I thank you as best I may For this unprecedented devotion. Going in with 198 votes out of a possible 341, and maintaining it al most absolutely intact through the 534 consecutive ballots ensuing and extending through the entire night, is an instance of resolution and pnysicai endurance, rareiy 11 ever jqualed in tiny similar body. Friendly predilection for myself will not alone account for it. • It liad to be sustained by sense of luty and popular demand. You feel that a majority of over fifty against “the Field” on the first ballot, and which was kept Op with ilmost unbroken regularity to the last proof conclusive of popular preference, even had had there been no question of the regularity of op posing delegations. But when realized, as all fair minded men did, that two great counties had been arbitrarily de frauded of their legitimate repre sentation, and packed delegations substituted by summary process of tricksters, for the ostensible ..and avowed purpose of nsnring my de Eoat under the two-thirds rule, pop ular verdict, as expected, made you more steadfast in your resoulution. It is needless to say, my friends, I am proud of the support which followed. Rather, a thousand times rather, defeat with such fol lowing than success achieved by the substitution or the lordly will,, and pleasure of a little town cliqui? of little men for the recognized' meth ods of party organization, the pri mary and county convention. The one I have, the other I scorn, as I do the schemers who wrought the wrong. My brief political ca reer is in all probabity ended, whether through inclination or compulsion matters little. Since it began unsolicited, my constant en deavor has been, knowing the un certainty of tenure; to guard against becoming infatuatnd with official position. Unless I flatter myself the effort has proved some thing of a success. Barring the gratification incident to successful knavery and falsehood (partially sucessful), which my de feat insures that class, I venture to say that the result is less of a dis appointment to me: than to some others of “the dark hourse” persua sion who. aspired to take' my place, and hoped by which to achieve it. Pardon a word of parting injunc tion, pot so much to your own as to other counties in the District and throughout the State.. Next to the light of Heaven and the light of Reason, Constitutional Government is the greatest boon ever conferred on mortal man, or rather achieved by man, for the unworthy never at tain, it. We have it. How shall we preserve it? tJpon the Primary Election hingeth answer much or more than any other agency.' “The Primary" is the cradle of Party, and if our party be as we be lieve, the mainstay and ultimate re liance of free institutions, then the Primary is the ministry of Liberty. Make it respected of the people—-it is not enough so. But especially make it respected by the small-fry politician, who would dare set it aside for bias or grudge or selfish and. Hold to the Primary; insist upon it and with my dying breath I would add fight for it, and if needs bQ die for it. It is already the ter ror of Knaves and would be party usurpers. Elevate it and make it more so. Relegate the vaulting manipulator who disregards ‘ its claims to bo heard or its voice when heard, to the inglorious, obscurity from which ho should never emerge. Respect the Primary. One other word, my friends, and ,1 have done. It is in the main superfluous. 'Stick to and suport your nominees, one and all, under any and all cir- I cumstances. Subordinate personal i preference or private grievance, I real or imaginary, to party .claim and party fealty. Aye, stick to j your nominees, now and always, from the highest to tire lowest on i the list. , i The worthy gentleman, Major j Gha3. VV. MeClammy, who has been j designated as my successor, gained i the goal without any underhand I connivance of himself or friends. I fie fought fair and above board, a and i3 a sterling patriot, gentleman ( and democrat. Give him your votes, , not grucjgiugly, but with a will. ( lie will never falsify your confidence i or betray his party convictions, or ■ >t-oop to low chicanery or double ’ dealing. In conclusion, gentlemen, I bid : you one and all a fervent God- 1 'peed and an affectionate and great- ■ Bui farewell, j Wharton J. Green. i Fayetteville N. C., Aug. 14th, i 1880. , - , THESUB-THEASURY BILL. A Moore County Farmer Defends it. j Kjrpt'rnsf Correspond c tic,a. 1 Vv. !{. Davie, as quoted in the ] Exprkss clearly shows liis prejudice 1 against “The Sub-Treasury Bill ' as- 1 well as a good deal of ignorance of , the plan; indeed, misrepresentation, j ridicule and .hold iissai tions without ! arguments or facts to sustain them, seems to be' the plan of attack from all purlins opposed lo it. The authors of the -bill have nev er claimed the bill to be perfect, but expected it to go through the cru cial test applied by the wisdom of both Houses of Congress..-' No.!; a bill in a thousand passes through Congress in the shape first intro duced. We admit it may need per fecting. But, deny that it is very generous in dealing out Uncle Sam’s millions. It is estimated that it will take less than 50 millions to build the necessary elevators and ware houses. There is deposited in cer tain National banks without a cent of interest more than that amount. There are millions loaned to whis key men on whiskey in bonded ware houses. Millions of money and land have been given to certain rail roads. Then pray why is it so very generous to spend that and to build government ware houses for the benefit of the great agricultural in terests of the country on which all its prosperity is based? If it is right to loan hundreds" of millions to a corporation of hankers to speculate on the necessities of the masses, why is it not right to loan its cred it for a less amount directly to farm ers? But it is useless to argue this, every unbiassed man must admit its truth and fairness. But our enemies want to divide us by pre judice. You have ignored the agri cultural department, Mr. D. says and g'ven the Sect, of the Treasury all the power. Will he tell us how the Sect, of agriculture could issue Treasury notes? But you Southern men may want to buy corn, &c, there fore you should keep the pricodown, the Northern, man need^ cotton, therefore he should want cotton low. Then all of you cannot place in bond everything produced, such as garden truck, &c., therefore you should oppose it. Oh! yes that is the scheme, divide them, let them like the set of fools they are, go to fighting each other, and we will walk off with the profits'. Brother farmers, I hope you will avoid that little trap, stand firm ns a unit, and work for the emancipation of all the brotherhood of the toiling masses. You know that fair remu nerative prices all around-will bene fit every man among us. Cheap money for the grain section means cheap money for the cotton then and that mebns better prices and easier times. Beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing. Think, judge and act for yourselves and your own gGod.' But the great objection of Mr. D. seems to bo the immense amount of patronage, unlimited money, &e., given the beet, of the-Treasury. This all falls to the ground from the fact , that the njnnagers in. every county are to be elected by the people, and if it should go into operation . in North Carolina, it would duty re- : quire upon an average about one or wo men to the county, while there 3 now at least 50 Federal Postmas ers and Deputies in Moore county;1 Phis shows that any amount of sim ile assertion proves nothing. But it will cause a great grain and :otton “trust’! by withdrawing from narket enough of the products to. mt up the price.. This will raise the •rice of Western grain that you nay need, but will eventually lower he price of cotton. How will this ledone? Why the spinner will vait and smile, -knowing-that it wHl - orne at last-and H cheaper the next ear. Can the millions invested in otton Viiijls whit and smile twelve nonths, when there is scarcely 8 ■ear’s supply of cotton in the worlds lid they do that during the __war vhfen cotton went up a dollar and i half per pound in a year or twoP, Ie argues that it will form a great trust’" by withdrawing products rom the markets, and closes by say ug, it will lower prices very likely nore than 20 per cent, below the narket price, and the government ie a loser. _jv.' 1 will confess that is a patent louble action revolving way of do ng business that I do not realy nidcrstand. But I deny that, the ' ilan will withdraw products from uarket or is intended to do so for my such purpose. Products of the arm will be safer stored in good government ware houses and nearer in the. market, being on the railroad iiies, than they would be in the iani9*£cattered over the country. A man has a hundred bushels of pain in an elevator on the railroad, le also has a hundred bushels in his jam 15 miles away from the rail oad, which is nearest to market and nost likely to be taken first? The ;ertificates will be always on the market just as much if not more so ihan the grain in the barns at home. Mr. D. and many others cry out. preposterous! Every little lawyer who is asked about it generally says unconstitutional!! Editors generally say impracticable!!! Politicians raise their hands and exclaim pater-, nhlism!!!! Mr. Editor if I am not mistaken you have pronounced it impracticable. I would like to ask you and the rest how this plan of Lhe government issuing cheap mon ::y to its people based on products of value can be impracticable, when it lias beeu in operation at different times in different countries for 150 years or more and always with the happiest results. Almost identical ly the same plan was used in North Carolina as early as 1713 and extend jd to many of the colonies, especial ly in Pennsylvania was it carried on with great success. It was highly indorsed, vigorously defended by lien Franklin, Davd Hume and many of the ablest minds in America mil Europe. Edmund Burke speaking of the solinies during this, monetary sys tem said “Nothing in the history of the world is like their progress.” by the English government. Frank lin was sent to England and strong ly defended the system, i In a letter to a celebrated French economist David Hume said, “The In 1773 this system was .uriLisn guveiuuieub louk. away iroiu Americaits representative monev, commanded that wo more paper hi its of credit should be issued, that they should cease to be a legal tender, and collected the tax in silver. This was in 1773, now mark the conse quences. This contraction of the circulating medium paralyzed all the industrial energies of too peo ple. Ruin seized upon these once flourishing colonies; the most severe distress was brought home to every interest and every family; discon tent was urged on to deeparation till at last ‘human nature arose and asserted its rights’ in 1716 Ameri ca became an independent State.” Frederick the Great, of Russia relieved the farmers of his. king dom from the power of the shy locks and money sharks after a long bloody war by a similar plan. The government of Franca Was once saved by the plan, in fact Its results have been almost universally highly beneficial and generally approved by our greatest and best patriots and friends of the people. How then can such a plan be impractic able, and I must say it does not speak well for our Congress if they cannot perfect such a bill in the in terest of the people. If they can' iiot they ought to get out of the way md let some others come in, that will. And I would advise writers m this subject to read upon its his tory and results before they pitch ;heir puny straws against the well wised lances of some of the ablest * ninds and patriots of the two last icnturies. : . A great revolution is upon us, nay it end peaceably by tlie ballot. We want equal rights and fair play, lothing more, nothing less. [-.r.'-iv; " . “W/V i > • . * v ‘ ~ v *1 ■ ’ • , ' Y • . !V .... . J

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