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THE DEMOCRAT. : Entered at the Postoffice at Asheville, N. C, as second-class mail matter. PUBLISHED KVERV THURSDAY "j . vir.i.K, n. r. AT ASHE- KOBT. M. FUEMAN, DAVID M, VANCE, Publishers. KATES, IN A D VANCE One Year, 8ix Months, Advertising rates reasonable. known on application. Addres Office T1IU -j .75. and i made iVANCE, Fl'KMAN & Ashevilie. N. ('. rso. 10 N. Court Square tSDAY, JAXUAKY 10, 1 THE GrBEENSBORO ENTERPRISE. The North Carol ina Steel and Iron Company, with works at Greensboro, has its ailvertise ment in the Baltimore Manufac turer' Record. In! addition to its well known iron mines in Chatham and Moore jcounties. just 40 miles from Greensboro, on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley road, it announces the possession of other magnetic iron properties in Western North Carolina. One of these that we know W is in Madison countv, a short distance below Alexan- ' i j j , j ders. We congratulate Greens boro on this large enterprise, and hope ourselves to profit largely thereby. But this move ment suggests very forcibly the feasibility of just such an es tablishment at Asheville. There are several very valuable de posits of magnetic iron ore in Buncombe and adjoining coun ties, j Lime is within easy ac cess all; along the French Broad Valley, in the counties of Tran sylvania, Henderson and Madi son. We are closer to coke supplies than Greensboro, and the timber of this section is in exhaistible for charcoal pur poses. This Greensboro enter prise should set our people to think ng upon the subject of iron industries here. They; claim that they can make Bes semejr pig iron in j Greensboro for less than S per ton. Thev also propose to make; steel and will draw upon Western North Carolina for magnetic ores. Should not Asheville1 endeavor to reap some of the advantages tronj the ore deposits of her Dwn ! territory ? Home Journal would venture away from home once in a life time, come South, visit the peo ple outside of partisan political headquarters, he would, like th?. late Judge Kelly, who at one time held similar views, change his mind as regards the Southern people of both races. Colme South. ;ypung man and grow up with the country. A JUST DECISION Judgy District court of Virg Hughes of the U. S. i . - ! mia ren dered a very important and a very just decision at the recent sitting of the court. He held States 'in ; NOT EXACTLY i SO Boston Home Journal savs " i citizens ol the united cannot be arrested and tried for aljeged violation of the election laws simply upon the informa tion; of a United States Attor ney. Says Judge Hughes: "The grand jury, represents the public conscience: If an act is com mitted offensive to the public peace, morals, interest, or pol icy. and is made criminal bv lajw, the grand jury is the insti tution ordained jin the English and American, jurisprudence which is empowered to take it-he act under cognisance and deier- i 1 " T mine whether or not the offend er: shall be prosecuted crimirial lyj. It is for the grand jury to declare whether the offense is so gravi as to form a case for prosecution or so trivial as to be ignored. This was the opin ion held and enforced by the late Judge Brooks of the East ern district of this State, and ought to . be observed by all judges. If the law contemp- as is main- some, it cannot be ate, nature of occupation, etc.. that no general rule can be laid down upon the subject. j (though b . Edmunds. U. S. Senator, Vt TEX HOURS NOT TOO MUCH. T 1 .- : . ' !l ' 1 i 1 1 i uo nop jconsmer ten nours excessive as a day's work. My experience in thev employ ment of people has been that it is those who have not asked ''How man v hours must I work?" " but "howlmany may I?" who in Toters in some; States vs. the State of North Carolima The Government is represented by the Hon. S. F. Phillips. f M ; ! : i It is probable that the of the townships will be asked to vote a i i ! 1 " i ; ' - i I- I small subscription to the Atlantic and Danville, or as it is termed west offDan- l j i i . i ' ' 1 ville,! the Dahville and East Tennessee railroad, to pass up Dan river nearlv ceritrallv through Stokes countv. Win- stem Sentine could dictate to me I could I afford to a tew vears as to whetliei let them ro. Henry F. Blount. University Park, Washington . Av KNOTTY PROBLEM. ! I have a feeling that among the many wonderful effects of machinery there should be a re duction in the hours of labor, but I doubt the feasibility of drawing a hard and fast line at eight hours, when there are so many different branches of in dustry hi which! the conditions differ so widely. ! F. B. Thurber, New York Citv. IT IS RADICAL CHANGE. I confess I have srrave doubts as to the advantage of a sudden and radical change, such as is involved in an arbitrary reduc tion of a day's work to eight hours. I E. H. Ammidown, ! President American Protective With a n It!; new tobaccd rail war, el lew several market housei factories, aii electric street I- . ' J ? 1 etne lights,! paved streets, ! : ! . ; mariv i handsome new ! bmldinirs,; two building ami loan) associations, and ja !;!- j i ! .' ! ' ! neJ bank (making four in all), AViriston Salem will show niore progress during METEOROLOGICAL. Comparative Tables Showing the Advantages of the Climate of A; for the Management and Care of Pulmonary Phthisis. : I ' ' III. !" . ' ' by iuk von Ri;cK, b. m; d. ; Member of the American Climatical Association, member of the Amerioit . ta:1 Ji L iJL -wrji,.,i, siQTiit.qriiim for Diseases of 'th :t. " ical Association, jxrei:iui jui-uic 'u " . " ; 1 fq5. and Lunsrs, Asheville; s. C. j " . ' : thf next year than any town m Nor Carolina. AVinston Sentinel. i ! : ! . i ' i i J.! H. McNeelv, of Burke countv, shot IiJ O. Jenkihs at the latter's near Earle s Tariff League? lates such a thiiisr. tained bv sonie. it tered too soon. ARE EIGHT HOURS ENOUGH? President Go N mpers of ational Federation of Labor The race prejudice will, of I v-wuipc-, evemuaiiy aie out m the South : but at present it is in a; most healthy condition.! and j seems as likely to destrov the country as to expire. The only consolation that can be found for reasonable people who appreciate the absurditv and tjie horror of this dreadful con ditio of the sins of the fathers in this second generation onlv, is by looking far ahead to that future which will havei healed all this difference. In the mean time; history shows no better proof of the communitv suffer ing for the sins of the fathers thauthis section presents, where two elements condemned to live together continue to rdnd one another." -. ! . I . Oir-j contemporary, j strains much in drawing its (conclu sion. In the first place, there is nc race conflict in the South ; there are no more disturbances here than occur between bad elements in other sections of the country. In the second place, if thp South is now suffering for the f sins of the fathers" those who owned slaves how about the sons of those New England "fathers" who owned slaves and only got rid of them not by f reei ng them but by selling them jio the Soutli as soon as they dis covered the climate was un suited to negro development! To hold people in bondage, whether as slaves or serfs, or political appendages, may be a grievous moral wrong; but we undertake to say that, in gen eral! tiere are no kindlier rela tions subsistinsr between nnv 0 - addressed a large number of prominent men the following queries: First Should the forking people! of our country be required to work more than eigh hours a day? Second What would be. Vour opinion, the effect of general reductibn of the hours of labor to eight per day upon the manhood, independence and qitizensnip ot our people? j home ot the replies are as fol lows: . ! Executive Mansion. ) Washington! Aug. 5, 1889. j Samuel Gompers, President of American Federation ot La bor, New York City : My Dear Sir The President directs!me to acknowledge ithfi receipt of your i letter of thej 2d inst. and to say! that it has had It is attention. You will find in His public I speeches, both in the Senate and in canvasses a full and frank expression of Views upon the questions propound to hini. He has Hesitated to give his mind to puonc upon rnese very impor tant matters, j In his present relation to thej public service, yjou will see the impropriety of ljis making: any further state ment, inasmuch as it is possible that some of the questions con- Hon. W. I). Kelley. the ' Father of the, House." died in Washington on the 0th inst. He had represented a Philadel phia district in jCongress for fif teen consecutive terms. He was a very able, a very consci entious and kindly natured gen tleman.! and his loss will be greatly fell; in public affairs. nie jew uneans btates sav: It appears that no "culled pus son ob quality'; walks in Hayti, but goes from one place to an other mounted on the: back of a jack ass, and consequently when Fred Douglas persisted in perambulating from his office to his residence the Havtians regarded him as "po trash" and turned up j their noses at him. President Harrison ought to re lieve the situation bv sending J' - V O :iij.iiii.Hvi . i.'jv,i. ivitii jciviv A r k" a i once. , STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. DAY the distillery tation, Cleveland county, on the 7th. McXeelvlwas pavinsr attention to Jenkin-' brettv rlauirhter, and the latj Mil' r i . v- i - i ter iindertook to stop it by the use of a knife.' In self defense McNsely shot him. ; inflic ing a painful, though not fatal,' wourd. f The executive Committee of the State Farmers' Alliance! met in Kaleigh this week and elected Mr. E. C. Beddingfield, of Wake, Secretary of he Alliance, to succeed Col. Polk. Mr. Beddingfield Avas a memher of the last House of Rep resentatives, and took a1 prominent part in the deliberations of that bodv. i He is a young man of capacity, character and industry, and will make; an efficient and popular officer. No better selection could, have been made. State Chronicle; From a paragraph in the Progressive Farmer it keras that tke Farmers Alli ance of this State is ! discussing some plan of insurance which the Progressive i - I . i j . i Farmer thinks will be perfected in a sho$ time?. What the I scheme is we do not know jor upon what plan it is to be; operated, but if it jean be established on: a good sound basis, it will keep a vast amount otj money Jat home which now goes out of the State annuallv for insur ance to cojmpanies organized in other States. .This monej- kept at home: would help greatjy in stimulating busi-i ness and in developing the State, iwhich jieeds Can get. )Ve shall watch this movement I lit: I I i i . , -Wilming he resources of ! ' I everv dollar it ith a good deal df interests- ton Star. 1 The Kaleigh News-Observer says: Gov Fowlel yesterday Offered! re wards for Al bert Campbell, William Harrell and Da yid Harrell who murdered Mi C. Cox in Mitchell cbuntv. Two is offered for each one I The following tables iand explanations show the value of Treatment with and without climatic aid.! in. private practice and special institution j The cases -comprise all that came under my care in t he last ten vears of which) I i have accurate records,' and have been able to ascertain flic finnl mitonniPJ r. lilV AAA&L.A V.IV Taui.k No. 1 I i " i 243 cases of Phthisis ffohii irivat er cent. Pied. Percent. ' lj . - Much improved undstill alive." i H .. ' : . Percent. Recovered. Number of cases. i ft e practice. - 0j -to at 3C i .! N ' Taisle Xu. 4. 32 cases of .Phthisis still under trout:-;, cimf institution "" " same institution. i 'liiso aa,j i pa.voadtui OjBaapoj uo. aa,i I ! .-' -r-i 5 ej a- IS I c3 7 Wcs 'as- 05 r; . 0 s US. C his you not the The walls of KobersonY racket store in Lincolnton fell on the 8th of January invoWing a loss of about $8,000. Dr. Thos. E. Skinner, of Raleigh, sub scribed $5,000 to the Baptist Woman's College provided it is placed at Raleigh. A man named Parrish was hung in Raleigh Friday last for criminal assault upon hi own thirteen year old dausrh- ttr. The Tu kaseige Democrat savs: Miss hundred dollars or six hundred dollars for all three. The supremel court ;willjnot reconvene regularly after; the holidays till February 1. The court! Will, however, tile some i opinions about It is understoodj Boyle case will; There is said the 15th ot this month. i i i . j, .j that an opinion on the be filled at that time. - to be four thousand negroes at Wilson J JS C. waiting for an opportunity to go somewlieri. Sheriff Brissrs. who fiir- nished us this information, says they are Htuck in every place possible for them to occupy, and with no visible means of sustenance. ; the jHorganton Herald says: Details of a tragedy at Big Rock Creek, in Mitch ell county, hav been received. The place s on the Tennessee line, and the! people are among the worst in the countv Friday to visit the family of Judge Da- j Anereifs ajdistillery there operated by a vies. llected Avitli thtj labor ques riiay come before him for official yours. ion his peoples, even of the same race but of different conditions, on the globe, than exist between the whites and the blacks of the South. If the editor of the action. Very truly E. Wi. Halford, Private Secretary. BEXEFICAL T() 3IANHOOD If there i are'any workin q- t-po l?le of our country who desire to work more than eight hours a day, I think thj?y should be per mitted to do so A general re duction of the hours of labor to ejight per day would, in mv opinion, have a beneficial effect, dpon the manhood, independ ence and citizenship of the eo ijle, if enough bould be earned ill that time j to support the laborers and their families, and if the interval were' spent in rational enjoyment or intellec tual improvement. Having; been for many years in the hahit of vvorking from twelve to sixteen hours a day myself, I should personally favor the reduction which you suggest. Very truly yours, i " John J . Ingalls, U.S. Senator, Kansas. NO GENERAL RULE FEASIBLE. As it resrards the fixinp- of a. day's labor at eierht hours bv Arrangement between employers ana employed, I think the mat ter depends so largely upon ! cir cumstances varying with differ ent conditions of locality, clim Winston is to have a new bank with a capital of .$150,000. Mr. Cameron Buxton, formerly of this city, is one of the directors. The citizen of Macon countv are de termined to have a railroad from Frank lin to Tallulah Falls or to the Western North Carolina railroad. - meeting The Farmers' Alliance, at its in Oxford, declared war on the cigarette trust, iluch excitement exists in ths central tobacco belt over ths proposed trust. j: .;-.'' There are about 150 hands shoveling dirt on the Winston and Mocksville railroad. It is estimated they will reach Mocksville in about four months. Win ston Sentinel, j The city! of Xewb'erne voted on the 9th, by a large majority, to subscribe $50,000 tojaid.in constructing a railroad from N'ewbern to Wilmington. Only three vote against the proposition, i I - . Through ah unaccountable error Bradst reefs usually, reliable trade journal reported the substantial house of Hall Bros, of Hickory as having made an as signment, j The firm was never in better financial condition than at present U j ' " : A special from Washington city savs: Miss Annie DeKossett, of Wilmington, is making an enviable reputation here as a vocalist. She is very popular in Mrs. Somer's: school, where she is en gaged a part! of the time in teaching ' . ! - 1 l " The comptroller of the currency has declared a fifth dividend, five per cent., in favor of thej creditors of the State National Bank of Raleigh, N. C, making m all fifty per cent, on claims proved, amounting to $526,074. March 27th, 1888. 1 . j j ;' About the 20th of January Attorney General Davidson, Mr. R. H. Battle, and ofher leading lawyers are expected here to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States the case of the United man named llobson, and free use !of whiskey caused the trouble. There was1 on Christmas day i a large' ratherimr there ail tiiej. people being white men well armed! A drunken roW followed and three men, one named Lewis Garland, another named Coxe, and the third riot yet knownj, were phot and killed. Two U4rt dit iet y sxi u ; nrnp uar and q one of the victims,; rode into' A crowd gathered at the llery. Ille rode up near the The treatment of those who Remained at home, in an extremely uniavoraDie blimate where consumption is very prev alent, consisted in advice to. live an out-of-door life as far as possible, to exercise short of fatigue when j free of fever. Di rections were given as to general hygiene, and especially of the sick room, the diet was ordered to be as nutritious jas possi ble and adapted from time to (time to existing states of the digestive organs; as far ascircumstahces would allow. The advantages of climate are -strikingly evident in the percentage of recoveries, although it must be! taken into consider- j ation that it was chiefly the poorer class who make up the number treated at home, in whom! less favorable hygienic condi tions, often want of good and suitable food, and many tiriies the necessity for continued labor, certainly had their influ ence in favoring thejifatal course of the disease. I it f ; Table NoJ 2. 58 cases of Phthisis treated in! a special in stitution in the sahie locality and con sequently withoujU climatic advantages. .Stage of dis ease. Early stage.. Adv'ced stages- Totals ' j j ! '. ,1 j- :' .- , . t -Z Ls "Z c '. J . c ' - 1 1 c. . c O ' - o -.; :! 4. w. o I""-'"-) f 1 .7 ''Tr"i rr ":rvT- : 02 j ;lp 59 .3 9 27 .n 4 12 ' 20 I La 'l9.2! o 19.2 1G 61 ...J.'osfc'i-llj'U 24.1; 20 31.5 spadso-iff -peAOJduii q.njt : .laquinx as ao ' O 30 OS OS K In connection with ithese cases it is fair to state that with iKAyjexceptions very far advanced or hopeless, cases. were not ad mitted. The management was practi cally the same as pursued in the next class and Will be described further on. Table o 5T . pi a c CD as ps. CD b rot her of the place, same disti fired 1oth barrels of a gun crowd and ! i loaded; with buckshot into the sroupJ The result was the killing of three men and the wounding of twelve- others. ! It is saiti that in the crowd when Monroo Garlaid did his deadly work were the1 men who friends. had killed his brother land: A big land deal was effected' in ArU,- ganton last Monday by which the title to the Bond timber lands in Caldwell county passed to Philadelphia capitalists in! ex ehang for a big pile of gold: The Bond tract consists of 18,440 acres of fine tim )jer and mineral lands, and was the prop erty ot Miss. Louisa M. Bond. ColJ S. Mcl). Tate executed a deed to the nur- phasers under a power of attornev from are Jos. W. - A Aunn -I co 8 No. 3. m . 0) ) ' o-: a - (5 K a !1 If. Number. Recovered. is n' to t i a. t 2, Per cent, ! Much Improved but 1 i gone 1 home before ! ; permanent result J could be. obtained. ' Per j-ent. . . r iMbdbrat'y improv'd. ! land frone home, i . o :Per pent. L No improvement & returned home by 011 r ad vibe. Per cent. . DiedJ Per cent. 1 ! I re S-P5 St' vi re I5" re - re 2E' -3 re 33 rt St. C t ore x SI . i re 2 u0 5 6 ' 5i hi 2 " M - 3 , re re 1 rt c: re - 5 tL- r?i' i I : i 2' 2 : Of ihe cases in Table No. 3 reported a recovered, I, pi course, am aware tiaat these resultsnnay be changed by relapse in the future, but the disease in some 0f the much improved cases would have uu doubtedly become permanently arrested if they had remained under treatment I take it for granted that the moderately improved cases and those returned home will eventually die of phthisis. Reard ing the cases from Table No. 4, so niucl may be said that at least half of all art doing very well, and there is every pro?, pect that as good results will eventually be obtained as in the discharged caes of Table No. 3. Of the improved cases in the advanced stage of Table No. 4, a cure in the sense of permanent arrestment of the diseased very probable. The scarcity of early stage cases, only 9 out of of," makes tii'e total results of course less favorable, but on the whole it must appear evident ta any observer that the ; results are much better than obtained without favorable climate and under the same management The climatic influence! is equally appa rent in Table No. lv and while I am fully aware of the fact that such small num. bers do not justify absolute cod clusions, they nevertheless jire suffi cient for the endorsement of the method which appears to give the best results, and are given in the hope that others may add their experience in the future. For climatic advantages, in mv choice of places, I was somewhat governed !:y the results - obtained in cases sent awav from private prac ice which are recorded in Table No. 1. I selected Asheville, X C, after full personal investigation of climate, especially with reference to the immunity from phthisis of its native resi dents, which by the labors of Dr. Marcy, of Boston; Dr. Gleitsmann, of New York; Dr. Chaille, of New Orleans; Drs. Lloyd and Segur, of Brooklyn, and others, was previously well established. Befoa--the preparation of this paper I again ex amined the records of deaths for the city of Asheville during the year past, aDd with considerable expenditure of time, investigated the history and nativity of the 11 deaths from phthisis, which appear in these records; I find that of these cases ten occurred in persons who camfi to Ashevillp for their health from a distance,- and only one, a negro, can be con sidered a resident. We have therefore, no deaths from phthisis among the whit" population at all, and only pne out of a population of over 10.000 i nhahitant?. The death rate from nil low, especially among the whites, the city is clean1; ' and the recent completion of a thorough system of sewerage, the pres ence of good water workslwith filters, and the establishment of an efficient board of health with a competent medi cal man for its executive officer, leave? little to be desired from a sanitary point of view; now the citv Government viil need to ,deal with the i mnrovements needed in streets and side-walks, and the establishment of a miblie nark to-make Vsheville one of the leading resorN for pulmonary diseases in the United Statt Ulder, meteorological data psmpriiliv the observations made by Dr. Gleitsman, of New York, are recorded in medical literature, and have been confirmed liy the observations made during the last year, by the U. S. Signal Service station unaer my charge, a- mav he the following table: seen from 71 . si re . : . 3 2- ' -O Zt :: o 5.' :-'s.-r '. 1' CO 1 i;i 1 JMiss Bond B. This bank failed j Caldwell county. The! purchasers Janney, Chas. 3lJ Allen and Nichols, of Philadelphia, Pa., and I the pale was effected by Mr. W. p. Council, pr., a prominent lawyer of Boon,"Watauga countv. Mr. Council has also recently jeffectetl a: sale to the same parties of the Davis entries in Caldwell and Wataura jcounties containing about 12,000 acres pf land, so that the Philadelphia syndi cate have control of 30,000 acres of I the finest timber lands in the South. Most iof the. land lies along the base and the sou hern slopes of the Blue ttido-e in We are informed that the purchase price of the Bond land was $27,660, or $l.o0 per acre. Morganton HeraldL Subspribe for the Asheville Demo CRAT. vance. lOnly $1.50 per annum, in ad- o c ?2 N no. 23 2: VI! ' i ! ! ' -1 ' o -! : ; 1 h 1 i fi; IS: ZZ . -i Cli C: Mean Temperature, Mean Maximum Temp. 3, o 2 t 2 S3 o ZTiEHx 2" 5" Moan Minimum Temp. i I WW I ! Absolute Maximum Temp. 1: j' i . 2lj 2 g'!! g! rj; -T -t1 w: Absolute Minimum Temp. Mean Daily Kange of Tem n - o c t-!5 if 15 -1 2 S "X. ' 5 Mean Relative Humidity. m c o z r a m iii'll.-:icic. 5 1 ; 1 i Mean AbsoluteHumidits-. Number of Clear ami Fair , j umber bt L'ioudy and .ir ! ii '2. Number of Days Without --- "Moulin;. i: tt cc si I Aa 1 si r-L n ""mberof Dajs on which jjjloPore of rain fell. Ttral,Amount of Itainfall Melted Snow in Inches. i 1 00; o n 1 3 o 1 o 7 ! ti Snowfall in Inches. Number of Days on which 0.10 or more of snow fell. , 3;S . i. -;; - 1-1 01 I - Mean Baromett-r Cnrrint i xur Auiruae and Temp. Direction of Prevailing Winds. Meam Force of Wind on 'X -- r is 2 - o 5 B o - 00 - "2 t a 2 o, ' 3 O OB f 12 5 !2S B S 'a. o n r. Z o c trr CO a o en cz .C3 S5 a a i-1 00 CP CO & CP co m 5. SI si si iscaie 01 u to 6.