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VOL.1.
NO. 52
DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1892
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Central
FEBRUARY FANCIES. I
Many Important Happenings That Get
People Into Print.
The Latest News Notes and Dis
patches From the Potomac
To the Gulf.
VIRGINIA.
Roanoke is to have a match factory.
The Danville Fire Insurance Company
has beeu organized.
Another national bank is being organ
ized at Harrisonburg.
Norfolk has a new bank called the City
National, with $200,000 capital stock.
The Book-Stlleis' Association met at
Richmond last week.
More attention is now being paid to
stock raising in Louisa.
Twenty-seven marriage licenses were
ssued during January in Bedford county.
Senator Daniel delivered a lecture in
Charlottesville for the benefit of the Con
federate veterans of that city.
The Barig Iron Works of Buena Vista
made an assignment Thursday, with lia
bilities of $80,000.
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tiou convention convened at Richmond
Thursday with 115 delegates present.
Eighty years ago there were less than
1,000 lambs raided yearly in Pulaski
county for the northern markets; now it
will average about 10,000. Then the
Iambs averaged not over GO pounds; now
from 75 to 80 pounds.
The Chesapeake fc Ohio Railroad Co.
has given a contract to the Richmond Lo
comotive aud Machine Works for 2.1 lo
comotives, which makes 4G ordered by
that road of this company. It was only
a few years ago when Southern raihoa Is
were compelled to buy all their engines
in the N.orth.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 0, in press at
the Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. C , treats of the cultivation
and cming of tobacco It is written by
Johu M. Estes, a practical tobacco raiser,
who has rceeutly made a careful study of
the subject in the tobacco-raising States
Auy oue can procure the pamphlet by
writing for it.
NOB TH CAROLINA.
The bank of North Wilkesboro will
open up March 1st.
Salary of the mayor of Winston h:ts
been increased to $ 1,000.
. The new Atlantic Coast Line machine
shops are to be built at Rocky Mt.
Salisbury is about making au organ
ized movement against the saloons.
The State Sunday School Association
meets in Xew Berne March 29th.
Average death rate in eleven towns of
Noith Caroliua is 1(5.0 for the whites per
. 1,000, and 17.-1 for the blacks.
Juo. T. Patrick has been notified by
the ' Commissioners of Agriculture to
"move his plunder" from the Agricultu
ral building at Raleigh.
Governor Holt is at Haw River, where
his aged mother is quite sick.
J. D. Bridges, dry goods merchant f
Shelby, has assiucd. Liabilities about
$10,000; assets $5,000.
The First and Second regiments of the
State Guard are to encamp in July at
Wrightsville, the 'J bird and Fourth regi
ments at Asheville.
Dr. Albert B. Hart, professor of Amer
ican HUtoiy at Harvard University, is
delivering a series of lectures at Chapel
Hill before the faculty and students of
the State University.
Governor Holt offered a reward of $200
for R. L.. Askew, a white man who iu
Bertie couuty muriVred Charles Hardy,
also white. It is believed Askew fled to
Virginia.
In Lewis Fork township, Wilkes coun
ty, Amos and Matt Hamby got drunk
and had a row. The latter received ten
knife wounds and will die.
Rev W. S. liumer Bryan, pastor of
the Prcsbytcriau church of Asheville, has
received a call to Cincinnati with a sal
ary of $5,000. He has it under advise
ment. Sheriff J. B. Smith, of Cumberland,
completed his settlement of State taxes,
paying to the Stat,? Treasurer 9,080.05.
lie is. the fifty first sheriff to settle in full.
Jaunty Cranklield, of Wilkes county,
dropped dead the other day, nged SO
years. He made a request sometime be
fore his death that his body be buried in
a "Republican graveyard."
Geo. A. Shuford, of Asheville, the
nevvly appointed Judge of the 12th dis
tiict, vice Judge Merrimon, resigned,
was born in Henderson couuty, and is
about forty years of age. He studied
law at Dick and Dilliard's law school at
Greensboro, and after obtaining "license,
located in Waynesvile, Haywood coun
ty, moving to Asheville in 1882.
Castor Pope, of Batt'eboio,
went to New York to buy "green
goods" aud got scooped for
500. The scoopers generously gave him
15 and he got home on it. He is pros
trated with grief.
The sale of hickory timber at Rock
well, Rowan county, has amounted to
nearly nine thousand dollars tlrs winter.
This industry has brought a lot of money
to Rowan. The timber is shipped to
various points iu the State, and is used
in making spokes, handles, etc.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The year book of the City of Charleston
for 1890 has just been issued.
Governor Tillman offered a reward of
50 for the capture of the person who
burned the barn of J. P. Cook, in New
berry county
A stage line is to be established be
tween Orangeburg and the nearest sta
tion on the South Bound railroad.
There is a movement on foot to form a
new county out of portions of Orange
burg and Berkeley county with n"Y
Hill as the county seat.
There was a "scrap" on Washington
square, Charleston, between Probate
Judge Magrath and Mr. B-sselh a plum
ber, the difficulty arising out of busi
ness troubles No weapons were used
and the damages are not serious.
The Governor pardoned Henry Robin
ion, who wa3 convicted of burglary and
larceny and sentenced to five )eais' im
prisonment in the State penitentiary.
Raiding Deputy Ensor of the revenue
service returned to Greenville from a raid
in Oconee aud Pickens counties lie des
troyed four illic't distilleries and five
hundred gallons of beer and mash.
A scheme is on foot at Greenville aud
will be carried out to lurid a magnificent
new opera house by "organizing a branch
of a northern building and loan associa
tion. A meeting of the prominent citizens of
Picke'us was held aud a company organ
ized to build a railroad from Pickens to
Easley, w here a connection will bej made
with the Richmond and Danville road.
The East Shore Tcrmiual Co. has de
cided to iucrease its bonded indebted
ness by an issue of bonds to the amount
of 300,000, also to increase the capital
stock of the company 300,000.
The Wolfe & Tiger. Mining Co., incor
porated by the last legislature, is devel
oping gold mines in Greenville aud Spar
tnnbvirg counties, and is having surveys
made for a canal to be conr.tructed four
miles in length.
Another fatal accident occurred in the
Northeastern railroad yard, Charleston,
by which ('. A. O'Brian, acting yard
master, was crushed to death while coup
ling cars. The deceased was 22 years old.
He will be sent to Sineath, on the South
Carolina railway for burial.
OTHER STATES.
Greenville, Miss., special sats: "Due
Gue Ferguson, sou of Gen. S. W. Fergu
son, shot and killed James Goodman,
merchant and largi planter. Goodman's
brother was also wounded. The affray
o curred at Leesburg, Miss., twenty
miles from here."
Among the .speakers at the meeting of
the Southern Educational Association at
Atlanta, July 5-8, will be President
Winston, of the State University; Presi
dent James Diuwiddic, of Peace Insti
tute, Raleigh, and President C. D. Mc
Iver, of the Normal and Industrial School
fr White Girls, at Greensboro. These
gentleman will well represent North Carolina.
Fish Planting in North Carolina
Streams.
Newton, N. C. Dr. Josephus Turner,
of Sherrill's Ford, takes much interest iu
fish and has been corresponding with
Congressman Heudcrson with regard to
stocking the Catawba river. The fol
lowing reply of the Commissioner of Fish
and Fisheries to oue of Mr. Henderson's
communications, which is furnished us
by Dr. Turner, will be of interest to many
readers, especially those along the Ca
tawba aud Yadk'n rivers:
Hon. John S. Henderson, Houio of
Representatives,
Deah Sir:' Replying to yours of Jan
uary 19th, I beg to say that iu June,18SG,
305,000 shad fry were deposited in the
Catawba liver, l ear Morgauton, N. C.
In December, 188?, 500 red-eye perch
were planted in the Yadkin- river near
Salem; and during the same mouth 2,453
carp were put in the saaie stream near
Salisbury; also, in January, 618 yearling
rainbow trout were deposited therein. 1
have directed these streams be placed on
our litt for deposit of shad in the distri
bution of ihe species next skiing. Should
you cesire that notice in reference to the
plantiog be given to any cf your cou
stit iieul", pkuso forward name and ad
dress to this office.
Very respectfully.
M. McDonald. Commissioner.
Atlantic Coast L.ine Violates the
Law.
Washington, I).C, Sccial. The
Inter-State Commerce Commission has
made a decision in favor of the com
plainant, iu the case of Charles P. Perry
against the Florida Central and Peninsu
lar Company and other roads forming
the Atlantic Coast Line The conditions
affecting rates on strawberries from Flor
ida points to New York are compared
with those connected wbh the transpor
tation of oranges and other freight car
vied in the same trains, and the Com
mission rules that the rates for forward
ing strawberries from Florida- to New
York city should not exceed 3.33 per
hundred pounds from Callahan, Fla , to
New lork, and from Law try, Hammock
Ridge, and other stitions more distant
from New York than Callahan; and
through rates should not be in excess of
the charge from Callahan, ami should be
filed with the Commission and publish
ed according to law. The Commission
also reaffirms its power to determiue
what rates are reasonable, and in regard
to damages it holds that the measure of
reparation is the difference between the
rate charged and the reasonable rate
which should have been charged. The
defendants are ordered to bring their
freight from Law try and all points to
Callahan in conformity with the long and
short haul provisioa of the law, and fault
is found with the practice of charging a
through rate and addiug a local -rate to
or from a local point upon a through
shipment intended to be continuous.
Sailed in Trying- to Save Her Sister.
Wheeling, W. Va., Special. A
terrible accident occurred at Cameron,
near.this city, in which two beautiful
young girls, daughters of William Cris
well, lost their lives, one of them while
heroically attempting to save the other.
Essie aad Georgiana Criswell, aged re
spectfully fourteen and sixteen, were
walking along the Baltimore and Ohio
track, and while attempting io cross in
front of a westbound train Essie fell
when the engine was almost upon her.
Georgiana, seeing her sister's dar.gci
and ignoring the fact that ihe attempt
was almost certain death, ru?hed io her
rescue. She, too. stumbled, aud was
killed. Essie was cut in two by the
wheels. m
Lynching at Roanoke.
Roanoke, Va. Early Friday morning
a mob of 150 persons took Wm. Laven
der, the negro who was confined in the
police station here for an attempt assault
on Alice Perry, a whit grh and hanged
him to a tree. Lavender confessed be
fore he was hanged.
FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
Much Interesting News of the Im
mense Order.
Capt. Alexander Has a Bill Which
He Thinks Will Regulate the
Cotton Acreage.
WAsniNOTON, D. C. "Impossible to
control it; useless speculation to consider
it." emnhaticallv and tersely rerlied
Sydenham B. Alexauder, of the bixth
district of North Carolina, wheu asked if
concerted reduction in acreage was the
remedy for the prevailing depression in
cotton.
"We can't make cotton in my part of
North Carolina under 9c," Mr. Alexan
der saidj
"What is your remedy for the present
condition?" he was asked.
"This," he replied.
Mr. Alexander produced a bill which
is before the committee on wavs and
means. The proposition is as concise a3
the author's speech. The most important
provides "that all vessels built within
the United States by citizens thereof, and
wholly owned and manned by citizens of
the United States, engaging in foreign
commerce, shall be allowed to enter and
discharge their returning cargoes at any
port of the Lnited States, freo of all cus
tom duties; provided, that said vessels
shall have earned full outgoing cargoes
from the United States, three-fourths at
least of which cargoes consisted of agri
cultural products of the United States."
The other sections simply provide regu
lations to carry out this idea.
The nine third party Alliance member
of Congress Simpson, Otis, Baker, Da
vis and Clover, of Kansas, Kerr and Mc
Keighan of Nebraska, Hallowell of Min
nesota, and Watson of Georgia held a'
conference, and a declaration was drawn
up to be issued as a manifesto to their
constituents and the country. It declares
that these gentlemen propose to flock by
themselves hereafter and denounces the
Livingston faction for going into the old
party lines. The S mpson-Watson fac
tion want it undcrs'ood that from this
time on they are third party men, and
not to be reckoned as sum to support the
party measures of either part'. Con
gressman Clover of Kansas has in prepar
ation a bill, to be introduced in a day or
so, which he says will warm the cockles
of the Alliance heart. It is a bill provid
ing that every State shall own all rail
roads in its borders and operate the same
A full programme for the conduct of
these new State enterprises will be Bet
forth. Four per. cent, of all profits are
to be laid aside as a repair and mainte
nance fund, and the residue is to fatten
the public treasury, and iu that way to
lower taxes. Mr. Clover claims that his
scheme will make travel cheaper; that
railroad tickets will be sold for 20 per
cent, of the present tariff, and that, as-a
direct result, many more people will trav
el and more freight will be shipped, and
the aggregate of receipts will be larger
than ever.
RESOLCTIOSS OF MECKLENBURG AIXANCE.
Resolved, That we adopt the Carolina
Watchman as the organ of the Mecklen
burg County Alliance.
2. That we endorse the principles laid
down the in Ocala platform iu to to, and
the sub Treasury especial ly.
3. That we eudorse our National Presi
dent aud worthy North Carolinian. L. L.
Polk.
4. That we endorse our national edi
tor, Dr. C. W. Macune, and recommend
the taking, and urge the readirg of na
tional organ, the National Economist,
so ably conducted by him, by all Alli
ancemen aud liberty-loving citizens.
5. That we arc in hearty sympathy
with our Western Alliauro bicthrep and
will be found solid, side by side- with
them at the ballot. box next November,
voting for reform and pure government.
6. That we recognize co-operation in
business essential to success, and, as our
State Alliance has successfully inaugura
ted a business system, and each Alliance
business agent do his trading through
our State agency as far as practical.
Fraternally,
L. M . McAllister, Sect'y.
A WISE MOVE IN GEORGIA.
One of the best moves that has been made
in the South to secure a good class of im
migrant farmers has just been inaugura
ted in Putnam county, Ga., by some en
terprising citizens, who have organized
the Middle Georgia Laud Co. with a
capital stock of $50,000. Subscript iocs
to the capital stock are to be in laud aud
money. The company will purchase
good farming property and divide it into
100-acre farms. On each farm a com
fortable residence will be built and such
improvements made a3 will enable a ten
ant or purchaser to begin active farm
ing operations as soon as he takes pose3
sion. The Atlanta Constitution, iu giv
iug some details of the plans of opera
tions of the company, says:
"The inteution is to sell these farms to
desirable settlers on long time and easy
payments, thereby securiug industrious
and thrifty immigrants But home peo
ple will not be shut out foin the bene
fits of this scheme. Farmers who have
heretofore rented laud may, in a reason
able length of time, own a farm of their
own, paying for it an annual sum not
exceeding the amount of their rent notes.
Thus renters who have been living from
hand to mouth and moving about in the
hope of bettering their condition w:ll be
enabled to secure homes of their own and
pocket the. profits of their labor.
"The operations of the Company will
not be confined to one county, but will
embrace several counties. The result of
the movement will add largely to the
number of small farms, and give to the
section interested a large increase of the
white pcpulation. Incidentally it will
be the means of settling the labor ques
tion. In securing emigrants the new
company will have the active aid of
A . L. Glessner, who has scored consid
erable success in this direction. He has
already" brought a large number of home-
seekers to Georgia from the Northwest
and has been the means of inviting a
great deal of capital here for investment.
"Under all the circumstances, the
Middle Georgia Land Co. can hardly be
called an experiment. Its purpose is so
clear, and its plan so simple and ra
tional, that it can hardly fail of success.
We trust that other sections of the State
will follow the State will follow this ex
ample." -
The hope which the Constitution ex
presses that other counties in Georgia
will follow this example i3 applicable to
the whole South. The organizers of this
companv have presented a good plan.
which every part of the South may adopt
with great proht.
THE SOUTH'S DEVELOPMENT.
A Good Showing- Tor The Past
Week.
The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti
more, in its issue of Febru-iry 13. says:
"While there is no marLed increase in
the organization of new industrial enter
prises throughout the South, there is a
steady, solid advance! and also a grow
ing confidence with the leading capital
ists of the country that the South is the
best field in America for investment.
Many plans of great magnitude arc being
worked out, and with a return of activi
ty in investment and business interests in
the country at large the South will again
become the center of development, and
future operations will probably be on a
larger scale and by heavier capitalists
than anything which the South has seen
vet. Among the more important under
takings reported during the week are
the verv extensive iron and steel-making
.and town-building operations to be com
menced by Alex. A. Arthur, the founder
of Middlesborough, in- connection with
some of the foremost iron-makers and
largest capitalists of the North. This
enterprise, or ratber these combined en
terprises, will probably draw nut less
than $10,000,000 into that sect:on within
the next 12 or 18 months. At Tuscaloosa,
Ala., $200. 000 coal and coke company has
been organized, in connection with con
tractspreviously made,to secure a railroad
to navigable water on the Warrior river,
thus opening a water route from Alabama
coal fields to the Gulf; a $00,000 coal
company has been organized in Shelby
county, Ala. ; a knitting mill will be re
moved from theNorth to Bridgeport, Ala ;
at Oca a, r la , it is reported that a syndi
cate with a capital stock of $1,000,000
will establish b large tobacco factories; a
company is being organized to establish
a bleachery in Georgia; a $1, 000,000 com
pany has been incorporated in Louisville,
Ky., to deal in timber lands, and a f 1,
000,000 company in Kentucky to pur
chase and develop oil and mineral lands;
in Frankfort, Ky., a $300,000 distillery
company has been incorporated ;Mauetta,
G i., is to have a large furniture factory;
a $250,000 kaolin company has been or
ganized in l.uke couuty, Fla ; a $15,000
furniture factory companv in Greenville,
S. C. ; a $(i0,000 ice factory in Shrevc-
port, La. ; a $000,000 company is being
organized to purchase and develop 50,
000 acres of Kentucky coal lands, etc.
The Norfolk & Western railroad has just
secured $2 000,000 ia New Yotk for
pushing tha woik on its Ohio extension
more rapidly. These are signs whicb
sww how tiie outlook is improving."
EX-GOVERNOR SCALES DEAD.
He Passes Away at His Home in
Greensboro,
a
Gkeensdoro, N. C. Ex-Governor
Alfred Moore Scales died at his home at
0 05 Tuesday night. He was born
November 20th, 1827, in Rockingham
county. He served in Congress one terra
before the war and for five consecutive
terms after the Avar. lie entered the
Confederate army as a private, was iu
many of the most important battles of
that conflict, was twice wounded and be
fore the close of the contest was created
brigadier-general. In 1881 he was elec
ted Governor of North Carolina by a ma
jority of 20,000. After his term expired
he retired to private life, and has since
been interested in financial enterprises,
being at the time of his death president
of the Bank of Greensboro. He has been
very ill for many mouths, and his death
was not unexpected.
The funeral took place at 11 o'clock
Thursday from est Market Street Pres
byterian church, the pastor, Rev. Dr. J,
llenrv Smith, conducting the exercises
At 10.30 o'clock ail bells of the city be
iran to toll and so continued for half an
hour. The pall bearers were Messrs. J.
S Michaux, R. M. Douglas, R. R. King,
Dr. B. F. Dixon D. Schenck, Jr., W.
P. Bvnum. Jr., S L. Trogdon. J. T.
Morehe.id, J. A. Bartinger, J. N. Wil
son, Dr. D. R. Schenck, Robert Vaughan.
Gov. T. M. Hoit and staff were present
at the funerd.
Free Pass Excitement.
Richmond. Va. A bill introduced
few days ago making John E. Massrv,
s iperintendent of public instruction, ex
ofiicio member cf the board of visitors o!
the deaf and dumb institutions and atec
of the university, came up. Senator
Flood, of Appomattox, opposed the bill
on two grounds, the first cf wtveh was
that Masey vfr.s the officer to which the
boards made their reports which unfitted
him to serve ; the second and main ob
jection was that, though paid $500 per
anirim for expens s by the State, Massey
regularly traveled on free lailroad passes,
and boarded vtiththe prolessors of edu-
tional institutions while he charged the
State for ra.lioad fare and hotel tills.
Flood read some of tha itemized bills
making these charges against the State
and also a letter asking for $76 from
from Prof. Lomax to defray his (Massey's)
expenses ba:k from Alabama, where he
had just been married. A committee was
appointed to investigate the report.
Albert Fink to Be President.
"New Yokk. There is a good authori
ty for the statement that wheu the reor
ganization of the Richmond Terminal
nrocertv is completed. Albert
Fitk, the former tiunk lice commission
er, will be offered the presidency of the
new corporation. The Olcott committee
has completed its work, and the plan of
reorganization prepaied by it will prooa-
bly be made public in a day or two.
LIFE OF STONEWALL JACKSON.
A Sweet, Inspiring Story of the Se
vered, and Beloved Confed
' erate Leader.
The "Life and Letters of Gen. Tlios.
J. Jackson by his wife, Mary Anna Jack
son," has been issued from the pres3 of
Harper & Bros., with an introduction by
Kcv. Dr. Henry Field.
Writing from the other side Dr. field
says, l,The time has come when we can
do justice to those who were once in
arms against us." "It is only a few
months since Gen. Sherman was borne
through our streets, and among those
who followed at his bier was his great
adversary, Gen. Johnston, who, by a sin
gulir coincidence, survived him but a
few weeks. Thus the warriors who once
'to battle rode' at the head of hostile
armies, now fall into liDe in the great
procession to that realm of silence in
which all enmities are buried."
In this bearing of our great soldiers
towards each other, they who were "first
in war" were also "first in peace, ' and
it were well that they should remain "first
in the hearts of their countrymen," as
the leaders whom we are to follow in the
work of reunion Why, then, recall the
bitter memories of a war that is ended?
"Let the dead past bury its dead." But out
of the dead past comes the living present.
'It is a poor reconciliation which is ob
tained by only agreeing never to speak of
the past." "Men who are honest and
brave have nothing to be ashamed of,
and nothing to conceal." Lessons of
heroism, of patriotism, of patient endur
rance may be learned from illustrious
examples on both sides, the blessed fruits
of which are to broaden character, to en
large sympathy, and to teach respect for
a foe who honestly and courageously dif
fers from us.
Already "Stonewall" Jacksop has be
come a national hero, and thc North
(without the tender love fcod .iero-wor-
fchip for him that inspires every Southern
heart,) proudly claiois him as the highest
type of an American soldier. Dr. i leld
says: "lie was tlie most picturesque
figure of the war. None of the other
leaders had a personality so unique. In
Jackson, there were two men in one that
seemed absolutely incompatible the
highest military genius, with a religious
fervor that bordered on fanatacism, a
union of soldier and saint for which we
must go back to the time of Cromwell.
His character is one of the most fascina
ting studies of American history."
Ihe world has heard so much of Jack
son through two previous Biographies,
that it will hardly be prepared for the
revelation tnat awaits it in the charming
book before us. Its purpose i3 not to re
iterate what has already been said by
able and loyal pens, nor to portray in
fresh columns the matchless Confederate
hero, but to disclose to the public, for
the lirst time, another phase of his char
acter, -not less attractive because so dif
ferent from the "iron man of war," as
many have only regarded him. Another
beautiful illustration of the hues that,
"The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring."
His "inner life known but to few, dis-
closed fully only to her who was united
to him in the closest of human relation
ships, is by her beautifully and delicate
ly unveiled for the wonder and admira
tion of thousands who never knew him.
and of many who met him in the clash
of arms and on fields of carnage." Mrs.
Jackson, in her preface, gracefully and
toucliiugly gives her reasons for the pub
lication of these memoirs and letters.
The work was undertaken at the earnest
solicitation of her now sainted daughter,
the lovely Mrs. Julia Jackson Christian,
who, especially after she became a moth
er, felt such a desire that her children
might know more of the
domestic life of their illustrious
grandsire than they could ever learn oth
erwise than through this book. She.too,
had kuown the father only at second
hand ; her historian had been the loal
mother, from whose lips she daily lis
tened to some sweet reminiscence and
realised, as years passed on, a closer ac
quaintance with, aad appicciat.on of, the
the matchless father, whom God "called
up higher?; before she had learned to lisp
his name. She "with irentle footstcos
followed him. even ts he followed
Christ, into this Upper Sanctuary before
the work was completed. With heart of
lead, and hands that seemed t) have lost
their cunning, Mrs. Jackson resumed
her sad bul sacred task, inspired by her la
mented daughter s wish.aud the prayerful
hope that the motherless lambs might be
spared to read, to admire, and emulate
his grand example. Most worthily and
even fouchiugly has she completed her
"labor of love. ' Her style is chaste and
vivacious, and is peculiarly adapted to
biography a spec ies of composition that
is so often heavy, even iu the hands of
more experienced or p:etentious writers.
Gen. Jackson s life was of couise full of
adventure, and of incidents. All this
is most attractive! aad pleasantly inter
woven by the enthusiastic author, and
forms au unusually attractive book.
Two points of character strongly impress
the reader. One is the deep tenderness
and affection of his nature a romantic
love for his wife that never fails or varies
combined with complete unselfishness
in fact, entire self-abnegation to love
or to duty; the other is, his intensa re
ligious character. It was not a profes
sion it teas a life permeating his btiDg,
and entering iuto every detail of his daily
life. It was often remarked, during the
war, that it was hard for a man to be a
Christian in the auny, where h's tempta
tions were so great and so multiform, but
here is a marvellous example of the Chris
tian soldier never too tired or too hur
ried to pray who, in the heat of action,
amid storm of shot and shell, so often
raised his eyes in devout supplication to
the God of batties
This latter characteristic' is strikingly
testified to bv his colored servant, Jim,
who said he could always tell when there
was foi n t to be a battle. Sd i he: -'The
0
General is a crreat man for praying, morn
ing and night all times. But when I
sec him get up several times in the night
besides, and go off and pray, then I
know there in going to It tomething to pay,
and I go straight and pack his haversack,
because I know he will call for it in the
morning " No wonder that success
crowned the efforts of one who felt that
"in the b.r l va hh strength." "If the
Lord be for us, who can be against us"
A-lady, whose husband fell -in. battle,
during the late war, said she did not in
tend tw read Mrs. Jackson's book, because
any details of the war were always so har
rowing to her. A friend prevailed, " and
she has just finished it, saying how much
8he enjoyed it, and that she could . not
see how any one could read t and not
wish t j be a Christian. I
Mrs Jackson has. happily, given no 1
minute accounts of battles, and they are
only introduced as forming a part of Gen
Jackson's life, from which they could
not be dissevered. The first chapters of
the memoir are devoted to a brief history
of the Jackson ancestors people of old
English and Scotch Irish stock, a deline
ation of whose sturdy, vigorous natures
clearly reveal wheuce the great military
leader inherited his indomitable will, his
energy and tranquil courage. "The boy
was father of the man." In childhood,
he exhibits wonderful determination in
surmounting obstacles and accomplishing
whatever he undertakes. This is very
interestingly narrated in his trying ex
perience when attempting .to enter. West
Point, his subaCqueui" "iuals, and final
"over coining" of them all by the. end of
his four years' career as a cadet.
While in the military academy he com
piled for his own use a set of rules and
maxims, relating to morals, manners,
dress, choice of friends and aims in life.
Perhaps the most characteristic of these
was: "You may be whatever you re
solve to be." Another was: "Through
life let your principal object be the dis
charge of duty. Disiegard public .opin
ion when it interferes with duty."
Then there comes "JtClv8 to Action.
F.rst, regard for one's own happiness,
and for the family ia which you live.
Second, strb'e to attain a very high ele
vation of character and a high standard
of action."
With such lofty resolves he could do
and dare. What an example for young
men !
His career in the Mexican war 1846 to
1848, is pleasantly, but not lengthily
told ; his subsequent "jears of usefulness
and happiness as a p. ofessor in the Vir
ginia Military Institute, his two mar
riages are full of interest and fill his life,
ill the shadows of 18G1 called him in
the spring to the stormy scenes of war,
away from the peaceful nest in the moun
tains, to which he was destined never to
return. The mterest never flags through
the three years, in which we count h's
life by deeds, not years, till the fatal
night, when at the very climax of his
glory a shot from these who would have
died for him, palsied the strong arm and
put an untimely end to his grand career.
Dr. Field says: "Next to his thought
of God and acknowledgement to Him
were thoughts of the dear ones at home
the young mother with his child in
her arms. All his heart was centered in
one spot. Many who read these pages
will be surprised at the revelation of his
passionate love of home, to which he was
eager to return, though he was never to
cross its thresho'd again. While the
world saw only the soldier with his coat
of mail over his breast, those who knew
him best saw under it a great human
heart. Above all to her who looked up
in his face with perfect trust and coufi
dence, that face was open as the day.
To her this man of iron was the geutlest
and tenderest of all human beings, whose
first thought was always for her; who
would not "that even tho winds of sum
mer should visit her too roughly." Such
devotion cannot be forgotten even after
the lapse of a nuarter of a century. The
yearning heart turns to the p ist the faith
ful bosom carries with it a great mem
ory and a great affection.
"As she sits by her desolate fireside, the
old days come again, and they are once
more in the home that was always made
bright by the sunshn e of his presence.
Filled with such memories, it is but the
impulse of loyalty to the dead, that the
should wish others to know him as zht
did, that the world should know him
not onlv as the toldicr, but as the man,
and should know all the gentleness and
tenderness in that lion heart. This is re
vealed nowhere so clearly as in his letteis
to her during the war. If any think
they are too personal, I have met the
womanly shyness and timidity by saying
"Yes, you cau ltave it all out, and sup
ply every word of endearment by a hiank,
but every time you do this you leave out
a touch of Stonewall Jackson, for this
fond devotion, this exquisite tenderness
are as much a part of the man as was his
military genius.
The volume commends itself a'so iu
size, binding au I finish not so .vo umi-
nous or ponderous as to deter th mass of
readers, nor is it at all prolix The price
also ($2.00) is such as to make it within
the reach of many who cannot afford the
more extended and expensive biogra
phies of other great Ieiders in the lite
war. It is a simple and beautiful story
'written oyt of a woman's heart."
MASONS IN COUNCIL
Meeting of the Grand Royal Arch
Chapter at Charleston.
Charleston, S C. The grand Royal
Arch chapter of Free Masons met in an
nual convocation here. Sixteen . subor
dinate chapters were represented, Grand
II gh Priest W. H. Witherow presiding.
In the address of the grand high priest
an account is given of the tri-ecnial con
vention of the general grand chapter at
Minneapolis. Tfce following grand offi
cers were elected: High priest, W. II
Witherow. of Wiunsboio; deputy high
priest, J. II. Barron, Columbia; scribe, K.
H. Caviue, Marion; chaplain II. F.
Chrietzberg. Cohimb:a; treasurer, C. F.
Jackson, Columbia; secretary, J. E.
Burk, Charleston; captain of the host, F.
J. Wiihhe, Anderson ; royal arch captain,
H C. Moses of Sumter; tentinel, L. F.
Meyer, Chatleston.
The grand council of royal and select
masters also met. Councils in Charleston,
Columbia, Newberry, Anderson, Rock
Hill, Spartanburg and 3Iarlboro were
present. The following grand office! a
were elected for the ensuing year: Grand
master, S S. Buisr, Charleston; deputy
master, F. J. Wilhi'e, Andersop; con
ductor, H. t. Moses, Sumpter; treasurer,
C. F. Jackson, Columbia; recorder, Z.
Davis; Charleston; chaplain, E. C. Dar
gan, Charleston; marshal, Willingham,
Hock Hill captain of the guard, C. F.
Panknin, Charleston; conductor of the
council, A. S. Thomas, Charleston; stew
ard. A. E. Gough, lharlestoa; sentinel,
L. F. Meyer, Charleston.
500,000 JkLES SHORT.
The Cotton Crop Is Not As Big As
Has Been Estimated.
IChat la What the Agricultural De.
'! partment in Washington Says
of the Cotton Crop of 1891
as
Compared With
That of 1890.
WAsniNGTOX, D. . C The" February
cotton report of the statistician of the
department or agriculture relates to the
proportions marketed, quality, yield of
lint, close of the picking season, losses by
insects and price of seed.
The proportions sent from plantations,
as eitimaled by reporter, and accurately
consolidated, is as follows: Virginia 80,
North Carolina 82, South Carolina 90,
Georgia 92, Florida 92, Alabama 91,
Mississippi 89, Louisiana 87, Texas 86,
'Arkaarts Tenuesseo 8J, Missouri 87;
general tverags 88.3 per cent.
The returns of comparisons with the
crop of last vear are: Virginia 78, North
Carolina 79,"South Carolina 82, Georgia
85, Florida 91, Alabama 92. Mississippi
96. Louisiana 99, Texas 107, Arkansas
90, Tennessee 91, Missouri, 90; general
average 9413 per cent. The returns aro
remarkably consistent, as their ipdicated
results vary by less than 1 per cent., in
dicating a crop about half a million bales
short of that of 1890. The October re
ports of the two years make almost the
identical difference. These rejults are
submitted without comment. The esti-
mated average time of the close of pick
ing is by States: Virginia, December
11; North Carolina, December 10; South
Carolina. December 8; Georgia, Decem
ber 4; Florida, November 20; Alabama,
December 2; Mississippi, December 10;
Louisiana, December 12; Texas, Decem
ber 4 ; Arkansas, December 12;Tenneg
see, December 12; Missouri, December
13.
The quality is the highest for many
years. The staple is medium or some
what short, color excellent and unusual
ly free from trah. The low price of cot.
ton and disappointment in money rcturpa
have7;l to large sale of seed to oil mills'
at prices somewhat reduced, as follows:
Virginia 14 cents per bushel, North Caro
liua 14, South Carolina 14.5, Georgia
14.5, Florida 14, Alabama 13, Mississip
pi 12, Louisiana 11, Texas 11, Arkansas
11, Tennessee 13, Missouri, etc., 11.
On the Atlantic coast the larger use of
the seed for fertilization makes a rela
tively higher price. Losses from insect
were not very serious and were mainly
confined to the Gulf coast States. The
boll worm was nearly as destructive as
the caterpillars.
Foreign Notes of Real interest.
France's last torpedo boat made twenty-three
knots and a half in a bad sea. .
Gen. Annenkoff is at work on the plan
for a canal between the Black eca and
the Caspian.
Australian eggs are now shipped to
London, thanks to an extraordinary new
process of preservation.
The Duke and Duchess of Teck, with
Priaceis May, have arrived at Osborne
House on a visit to Queen Victoria.
The Russian Government is going to
try giving a certain area of land in the
departments of Saratov? and Samara, to
be cultivated in common by all the in
habitants of each commune.
The Culinary Academy, or Cook's In
stitute, of Paris, has petitioned the City
Council to increase its prstige by nam
ing a street Caremc, after AntouioCa
rcme, the chef of Talleyrand. .
On Jan. 19 the belli of Brussels rang
for the 790th time to celebrate the return
from the Holy Land of those citizens of
Brussels who had joined the first crusade
under Godfrey de Bouillon.
A young American woman named
Nels 'U, who has beeu performing in a
Paris cafe charrant ,for some years, is at
work on a thirty days fast in London to
prove the-efficacy of a potent ilixir made
of herbs from South Ametira.
To Rival Blowing Rock.
Winston, N. C. The Roaring Gap
Summer Resort Company is the name of
a new organization which was- perfected
in this city by the clecti n of the follow
ing officers: A. Chatham, of Elkin,
president; A. II. Eller, of Winston, sec
ret i ry ; W . W. Wood , W. C . Fields, J.
L Patterson, V. O. Thompson and F.
M Silmons, directors. The object of
the organization and tha plans in view
are the purchase of lands on the Blue
Ridge near the Wilkes, Alleghany and
Surry county lines, and the establishment
of a resort for the pleasure and conven
ience of the cities in Piedmont North
Carolina as well as the country generally.
The new company is composed of thirty
stockholders, all of whom are progressive
business men. This comnauy proposes
to build a tine summer hotel, cottages,
school houses, etc , for the benefit of
cummer tourist.
Ex-Oov. McGrath Stricken With
Appoplexy.
Charleston, S. C Ex-Governor Mc
Grath had an attack of appoplexy and
his recovery is doubtful. Gov. McGrath
was born in this city in 1813, and gradu
ated at 'Harvard. He studied law under
tha late Judge Story. At the breaking
out of the war of the rebellion, he was
United States district judge, and on the
passage of the ordinance of secession,
made a dramatic scene iu court by dis
robing himself of the judicial ermine.
He was during the last war Governor of
South Carolina, and after the surrender,
was imprisoned by the Federal govern
ment in Fort Pulaski for same.
Captain and Crew Drowned.
Rai.eigii, N. C. A special from Beau
fort brings the news of a sad drowning
jn Pamlico sound. The schooner. Wave,
loaded and bound for Norfolk, was
swamped in the sound and sank, drown
ing her captain ami crew. The master
of the vessel. Captain Newcoinb, was a
native of New Jersey, and only came to
North Carolina last year. . He lived in
Beaufort. He leaves a wife and one
child.
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