North Carolina Newspapers

"PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH 13 GOOD." $1.00 lr Year In Advance F , 1 VOL. . - HOE! STATE CULLINGS. ( : ri::nf worth noting , 5 v OYKIt TIIK STATE. .aint the Tobacco Tru8t. T--t '1 Tud,?o Charles II. Simon t . . if . Tinted States court, heard ht j . ,,i!: the argument in the case , f (,,. . .nj-ufklachine Company and t;;. Ar:. i Tobacco Company against ",V. 1 . St iith and other North Carolina c--ir't" : The suit was for iu fr.: - ' ' Bonsack cigarette J tents -by the Briggs ma i n. nteiV; by W. C. BriggR, of v.;- i i- N. C. The j ridge has ren ,:,.r. .i a: i ..j'inioii, in which At is ad- ; i that the I5rigg3 machine is not ;.:) j'ii?!-' rittit, nnd tho bill was dis i ;'h Oii.t's. I n, . -l-ion is again6t the trust, so i. if-ntofore the American To , ( . ri'j uiiv, which has the exclu ru iit f' the Bonsack machines, ' i . r.lnict with a. yearly royalty - , ! ; : i! r f a million dollars, has :, , .,, it Inimed, able to control the .,r.i:--; s for bright tobacco. If .!' ton's decision stand, tbo ; ; . t will be open to the anti-trust :. hi;.' , ul manufacturers outside t,v t:-ist mil be able to compete from 'sr -hrf-e of the tobacco to the sale ,,: )!, cigarette, j In (-.rir?: of his decision Judge S; i i.' n wid: "Cigarettes aro not a:, -in -!.-of jnime necessity: Indeed i; . i ii-.-, if not always deleterious.can - :;' ! ii,- said-to be beneficial. The i !. 1 1 j i i 1 has been aroused to abus , l .niii their introduction in im- '!" :'!lties on tbe market and nuny i the states have enacted laws J. kiri to their suppression. There .a.ij . reason for the interference ..f tin; e.mrts in .securing their uninter n:t 1 manufacture, notwithstanding tL- i-i-.Uue of patent .rights." I i ocs Killed by Drought. i !: ilrftught has killed a very great r of trees in the woods. Oaks ii'.Vi'il, particularly the smaller 'ins en uplands.- The aggregate loss i. Ih li-. In a trip from Raleigh to ".!:.. Infou this death of the trees caii In.- eeh. Htrange to say in the mi; i v ia ucls the oaks stood the drought UP- r thau they did on the clay lands. A Turpentine Distillery Iiurnecl. i ! t ;r entine distillery of Brissen " .'htiff.ii 20 miles from Fayetteville, 1 r!i- l Thursday. Nineteen hun l .itrels of rosin, spirits and crude, consumed. Total loss, two tud dollars; no Insurance. at. , r the A 510,000 Fire at Newborn. of. the mills and one dry house ! ?''!. blade Lumber Company, New luii. were burned Friday morning, fhc Ions is 310,000; no insurance. The 'ire n-i accidental. I . I'hl.Jwell county has a mighty hun t. r it; the itrson of Mr. Geo. W. Tay lor, uvw about 70 years old. This is a ht of tho things he has killed in his iit tune, as furnished by the Lenoir b-I'ic: 1.0 deer, 100 wild turkeys, 12 vr.-titid hogs, 15,000 squirrels, 1,000 ri!..;!-, r.(M) 'ptssuuiH, 50 coons, 500 iTewv, ((( hawks, 30 owls, C minks, 1"" !;i'.:krats and 10 pheasants. Mi" lii kon-Mason Lumber Com 1 iu v ii;.s bought 'ISO acres near Black M" ii t iin Mid w ill begin at once pnt-t:T!- i a h.eust insulator! pin factory ftilli aeajVacity .- of 12,000 to 15,000. I s si .la v. Next summer the conip;' i ' establish a big planing mil at same place, the total investnu t lei::::i:,'.MH 4o 320,000.! The coi. -1 an V tiiMin ofiice is Asheville. Ir. .Tt hn J. Dunlap, of Taris, lost t v 1 1 t house containing 25 or 20 j ii!t f cottou, some oats, corn and r.v . l v fire Thursday night. The loss ' -tnnattd at between S2, 000 and $2, " '. vith no insurance. The origin of i ' is not known. obaoeo which was !standini in i i o "iu the Durham section was i y t!ie frosts of last week. For- ly.oulya- small percentage of p'wns standing. The heaviest All ti. i;,. r !::.! . PH.:!. Ih- ,! ' s in this section is to the 6wect po- 1 h Cott4!l market at Raleigh, on M..:, !;iy, made another jump and sold r;t '' cents. The receipts were fifty 1";'. C- -1 1 Ol" v. es. ;it;ii on r-iiitiirilrtv .SI i. Inlr f ot- 1 n en think there will be occasional ri 'P vison the market, I but that it still higher. AIT W V. JoAVav'o V l.nno.l o p. kv Mount with S", 000 worth of tobacco was accidentally burned v:i ' ursday. Insurance 33,000. arc still coming in about ee hijiiage done to tobacco by fro?t. '-f y !;it iiit'rs have a largo percentage "f ir croi s iu the Held, i Mr. Herbert E. Norris, jof Rle:gh, f n . iKa -ros in rice and expects a crop f 2.:. -n :ijioo bushels, and a profit t f 1 ."TO (i; - j T- ! ' i r I, rty-iivo days no rain has fnl- '-i i-! -ike county, the streams have 'o- :;:L. very low, nnd the wells are ur.vi::g: up. 'htiiond Tobacco 3Iarket. I-!.a vo Lui.;s. -2 to short ' l.ag leaf. ?8 to 12: wrapper. iu.;-e Smokers: Co'jsnioa. 4 - ::u.::. t; ' 7: line, -is t 610. ,l '::i:u. ::. ---10 t .$12; Eie.liui!i. 16" ."22.50 'to .r23: fauey. $-27.50 to : '" n:noi). o.50 t 4; ineUium. - t;o.,..- $to ihn 10 to M't's'rs: t'o:iiion. $12 $15; lne ' ; --0; irH-tl. $-..j to $30: line. $:15 " "i'-y. $4.Vto Q. ra j.-r.-. M;i ' ! ".t i". $12 to $1."); ; ir.iiuiv. $20 ' '. 2r to $32.50; liri to $4i); .'. "'" " I.ues. $2 to; $1.15: short NORTH CAROLIA FORESTRY. Will Soon Kxhaust the Great Forests. ' The lumber trade in Xorth Carolina is deserving of careful cohsidration. it Has been growing rapidly during the past two decades, and already serious inroads have been made on our iorests supplies. Our timber trade is developing along much the same line as that in Other Smifliim ,i . uiaicM, eicopi mat we j are making larger uses of the loblolly j and sap pine, which is indeed, noV j known on tho market as, North Caro : una pine.. j lor many ycaw much of our timber has been bhipped out of tho State in the log to be manufactured elsewhere. In the northeastern counties many thousands of logs are annually ship ped to Norfolk, and to other points to be put through the saw mill and the phuini" mil!, and in fhn v ' ----- - v. 1 1 1 i a v-UUU" tp-s of the State, many thousands of b ird wood logs are annually floated down the streams into Tennessee. This custom results in great loss to the State, and there appears to be no way to prevent it except by encouraging tin; lo-ition of saw mills aud planing mills, v.nd other manufacturing estab lishments within .the boarders of the fc'tiite, and this should be done in every poible way. The value of the crude lumber pro duced in tho State during the past year, was about as follows: Value f f'i"l, 1j!h, aal for ni cmra- tiu-in-j . 10.)00,000 Vihe- or saw l-.-s at miils 3.000.000 V.ilno of romel tini-.; r, exp'lM.. 1,000,000 a. in; of l aMroa l tii-.s an.l hi'wn 4ini!er of a!l kiaIs.. 500,000 aim: of all 5-j.ht feiieiuj.', fosts, 50000 T..t:tl value of Jill erinle proilact?. .15,000.000 Manur t. iur.'.i lumber of all kinds $) 7,300,000 H:'..-i:i! i.ili!.-;ir.i-i, vi'iieers anI wo. ii.-;, ware... 300,000 Cooper.,; .; 125,000 I .ijuT null j.ro.liut.-i (from pulp) vtimat.l j...; 100,000 Urinous i ro.luet.s (uaval stores ,t,;-) 1,750,000 ran harks an 1 extra-ts 45.000 Ya,'on. ba'-y aa.l -ar fa -tories. COojooO I'iirnitur ; an 1 repair shops 200,000 Oi! of -Wiiitf-r.-ea an-1 birch 30,000 1' i -kin b..xes, an Jortakiug eas- k-ts ;i!il ari'-ultiiral imple- in- at inaaufaetorios. 80.000 Total .......J ;...($ 10,535,000 Certainly the industries in the State growing out of our forest products ara of vast importance and should be en couraged in every possibly way. HOW l-ONO WILL OUR FORESTS LAST? During tho past few decades the great whit; pine fore.-H of theNorthhare been Cut at a s enormously rapid rate, aud with a ree!:P'.ss:iess characteristic of the American lunVM-rm ia.. During tho past few years the urn't'O T'i -a in (liif-T.-tit portions of the coun try bave b'-cn turning their attention to S lut'n-rii s:ippliv of piuo and hard woods, lad the:;-! arc now liein:. bought up and cut lit a . "i-ii i rat-; jind before our people come t- r-.-.ilj- our situation, our supposed inex hausti ilo for. sts will be largely removed. In the i a-tern counties, at the present rate 0 euttiii.'. in less than two decades our sup l Ii s of piin.. will havt been exhausted, and (he reat bard wood forests of tho Piodmont and mountain counties will in the same time have been cut, or purchased by the mill Cieu and held by them as reserve supplies. Tho soofjcr, then, that our people can be brought to abandon tho long prevailing belief that they have more timber than they know what to do with. Jind consequently are willing to almost ivo it away; and the sooner they can be brought to realize the fact that tho valuable supplies of timber which they are now selling to the mill men fit tho low pri-os. cannot be replaced in their day and K-tierati.pn; tho sooner they come to understand that under our present system ofeuttinii timber, they not only use up the .supply bclonin.vc to the present generation, but i i destroying the young growth of the fi-o'st-5 t'i y at" destroying th birth-right of the .et generation, without any additional r ': l t . th :nselves. tin sooner will it be p. sii" lo have adopted a wise Jiud con-s-rvativo poli. -y whieii. while it permits the us'oithe main re timber of today, it also .r serves the young forest growth, which is to be tli'o timbvr supj.ly of to-morrow. b"t us understand, then, that our present timber supply is not inexhaustible; that in m :! pia.es it has already been nearly or je.ile removed; that in cutting the mature trees with characteristic recklessness, we are also destroying in a largemeasure the young foret growth; that Jit th present rate of cutting, our forest supplies can last but a few decades longer; th;it in the use of our forests wo should do everything possible to encourage tho development within tho State of lumber manufacturing establishments, in order that our lumber may be manufactured at home; and that in cutting our forests every eilort should be made to protect the young tree growth J. A. Holmes, State Uoelogist. Til K DECT STATEMKT. The Public Iebt In September De creased Nearly $2,000,000. Only Ninety Silver Dollars Coined. The debt statement just issued shows a net decrease in tho public debt, less cash in the Treasury, during September of $1,834,686. .The interest bearing debt increased" f 210. The noii-Lnterest-bearing debt; decreased $46U;D and e;ish in tho Treasury increased fl,3t'.r.,20i. The balance of the several classes of debt at tho close of business, Sep tember 30ih, were: Interest-tearing debt $747.3;0.S20; debt on which interest has ceased si nee maturitv $1,685,660; debt bear ing r. interest $377,448,510; total fl,126f 4'.)4.0,J'J. The certificates and Treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash intheTreasurery outstanding at the end of the month were $-600.227.6l3. a decrease of $2,157,000. The total cash in the Treasury was $827,889,403. The gold reserve was ? 92.91 1,973. Net cash ha'.lancrt $92,493,390. In tho month there was ;i decrease in gold coin and bars of $5,53.113.52. the total at the close being $143,557,512.75. Of silver there was a de crease of $:-?.7;9.820.50. Of surplus there was in national bank de-pos-itories $10,017,105 against $15,817,539 at the end of tho preceding month. Coinage at United States mints during September ag gregated 5.956.551 per cents of the value of $8,078,653.40. as follows: Gold 509,711 per cents, of the value of $7,543,727.50; silver 1.464.360 per cents, of the vahie of $473, 1G6.X0; and minor coin 3,982,480 per cents, of the value of $61,914.40. Only ninety stand ard silver dollars were coined. Value of Foreign Silver Coins. United States Mint Director Preston makes the average price of silver per fine ounce for the quarter just ended, 67.13 cents.as against 67.163 cents for the quarter ended June 30th. The difference was so slight that the changes in the values of foreign coin were few. They are announced as follows: Tael of China (Tien-Tsin), $0,792, against t0.761 July 1, 1895; tael of China (Che Foo fO.752 against $0,751) kraa of Persia $90, igainAt fSd. DUNN, N. 0., SAM .JOXK.S1S3IS. IVcnliar Expressions Sandwiched In II 13 Sermons. if all hogs bad bristles tr?sf;es would go down to hair mat 5 cents a pound. Money makes the fiilv go. It makes everything po that has hair and makes th; bald-headed man go toberably well. Congress got i-o it couldn't pass any thing couldn't even pass a saloon. When one of these dirty little law yers wallows in hell fire he'll say he's tlure as an attorney. If I was running n soap factory in hell and they brought along your car cass, IM ltH'cm I had nothing to b odoirze such a carcass. A Lcrse thief is a gentleman beside the n)a:i that votes for liquor. I have only one objection to a saloon keeper. IIq Fame I have to a louse he gets his.liwiig ofT the head pf the family. If you scevan old sister that don't like Fam Jones, it's no f-ign she's mean, but she's a fool. The trouble is above Ler eyes. I-promised my wife to take care of hf r husband and I'm going to do it. If you can put up with fourteen ::!( ot;s tho yenr round, you've got to put up with me a -week. Yen go around and drink whiskey and Fay it's nobody's business. You are a linr, you scoundrel, you. If they'd put yon up in an ashhopper and pour water over you, you'd drip lye, you dirty dog, you. . If you preachers will hold while I fkin, ve'Jl make Lidrs o down in this market . Nob !y but an infernal fool will drink whiskey, nobody but a disreput able person will sell it, ami none but a damncble town will license it. What have you preachers been do ing? hhoot, Luke, or give up your gun. I'm going to teil you the truth if you lick me three times a day and send my body home in a cofliu to my wife and children. I used to think preachers had wings but they ain't. I saw one once with his coat off. They wasn't even bud ding. I don't abuse any cdlier denomina tion except-the Methodist. Don't have time. When I get throng lrwith them it's bed time. fteme church members pivy, "Lord turn your gurs on the- enemy." If He did He might kill your old fash ionable wife the first thing. AYhen you s;ce a member of the church go into a saloon be belongs to the dcil from snout lo tail. There is nething the devil brags on more than a woman going around or ganizing progressive euchre paities. The old rascal that goes into the saloons will go nwny and say, "I don't like Sam Jones." I'm sorry for the preachers, trying to do anything v.ith the gang they've got. 'I here isn't a lower, dirtier thing ou the face of the earth than a saloon. A Christian has no business there. Church people are cow ards by train ing and teaching. If there was a pro hibition fight here, one old bullnecked saloon keeper could take a rusty pistol and run the church members out of town. There is no quarrel betweca Sam Jones and any consecrated Christian, whether be be young or old, high or low, white or black. Methodists are like patent medicines have to shako 'em before using. It's a digrnce to come to a town like Winston and find people who have done quit the church. Old brother quitter nnd oil sister quitter. If you are a quitter nnd don't feel like a dog you don't feel natural. Methodists believe they ran lose their religion. Baptists don't, but if they can't lots of 'em never, bad any to lose. Presbyteriausknow they can't lose it, but are afraid they ain't got it. Some of you old - fellows from the country, setting there with $ dollars in your pocket, and won't give n cent. You ought to get more hair and ii snout and tail and go to eatin' corn. There's a stranger here. One fel low put in a dollar. He don't live in this town. If the devil'elon't get you, Dud, it'll be because he don't want you. The Methodists here pav thoir pas tor $1800, and the Baptists' 81200. Guess that's about the right propor tion. You see you can ship one-third cheaper by water. I'd rather be a chain gang nigger i the Georgia penitentiary thau to be a Methodist that voted for whiskey. Y"ou won't be dead and in hell two years before Sallie' will have another fellow sitting on the front porch brag ging about marrying your widow. When I see an old maid, I am raire some fellow ain't done his duty. When X see an old uacueior, J. tmnK ol a i hog. Yotr wife's got as much right tc j drink whiskey and get drunk as you I have, you lousy scoundrel. The girls are as pure as the morn- ; iDg dew, but God pity the crowd they've got to dance with. j If one of these dancing eludes is ill ! right it is the first one I ever saw. .t J want his picture to show around. j We need some daddies that will meet the dancing buck at the door and kuk him over the front gate, and say.Gcod by John. You girls that don't know anything but to dance. You'll evsporate some day and leave some bangs aud slippers on the floor. I like a fast horse, but a 'ilow gal. I like a drunkard better than I do ; a cleose-fisted, ttiiigy devii. There's hope for the drunkard. If you get him I sober "you may make a int-u of him. ! But if a fellow's no acrount, drunk or i sober, the jig's up. As gathered by j the Winston Sentinel. ; The lielgl.m? at Uganda. A:.i.' shot 105 of the followers, of Stoics. lh ; ?!"iv tra ler, after iiang'ng him. i i WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1895 ! LATEST NEWS " IN BRIEF. GLEAXIXGS FROM 31 ANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. , Newsy Southern Notes. -.A heavy frost in the Owensboro, Ky., dls-frk-t has practically ruined tobacco. In the Maysvillo. Ky., country, owing to damage by frostj the tobacco crop will suffet a loss of fully one-third. The Court House at Andalusia, Covington county, Ala., was burned Tuesday night, to gether with court papers and county records. Marshal J. r. Lamb, of Welaka, Fla., was assassinated 'by unknown parties on Monday afternoon. He had been energetic in enforc ing the law against gamblers. At Montgomey, Ala., William Lide shot and perhaps fatally wounded Orange Lar kin, a negro who owed him for some goods. The merchant demanded payment and. a dis pute ensued. : At Mount Vernon, Ky., the jury, afte'r four hours deliberation, gave Rev. W. G. Capps two years in the penitentiary for shooting his wife five times some three months ago. Bho had applied for divorce on amount of cruel treatment. At Union Springs, "Ala., Friday, firo de stroyed the ginnery, etc.. with several thous and dollars worth of machinery of the Bul lock County Manufacturing Company. Ten thousand dollars worth of hulls and 1,000 tons of cotton seed were lost. On Friday at Raleigh cotton went to 9 cents for middling, fair and other grades' ranged in price from 6 to 8. Some cot ton men have predicted that the price will rcah 12 1-2 cents. Anyhow, there is even now a profit in it for the farmers, for it was made at a 6-cent cost. The official returns in tho Black-Watson congressional election in tho Tenth Georgia eii.-Jl ri-t. show a mRinritv frr J C. O, V.nor of 1.00J votes. Black, Democrat, received 10,312 votes and Watson, Populist, 8,710; makiug the total vote polled 19.022 in the en- tiro district. The total vote, polled in 1801 : 40 Political Doings. The Nebraska Republican Convention at Lincoln declared in favor of sound money and Cuban independence. At Shelbyville, His., the eighteenth district Democratic Congressional Conventional . nominated ex-Congressman Edward Lane, of Montgomery, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Gregory Mann last fall. Mr. Lane takes his position on a free silver plat form. Fires. There was a $20,000 fire at Cambridge, O., on Wednesday. Frank Law, 25 years old, was roasted alive ia a livery stabie. The Rambler Bicycle Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., was burned. About 500 bicycles, val ued at 60.000 were destroyed. Total los3 about $70,000. Washington. Gen. Mahone, of Virginia, is lying danger ously ill at his residence in Washington, with little hopes for his recovery. The order of the Secretary of War detail ing General Miles to command the army was issued at Washington. Major General Fran cis II. linger is assigned to t'e command of the Department of the East. United States Consul Horace Leo Washing ton, stationed at Cairo, reports to the De partment f State that during the past two months the prospects have improved, and that -Egypt expects 'a good average cotton crop. Crime. John Czeoh, alias Fish John. " was hanged in the Hudson county jail, Jersey City, for the murder of his wife Mary. At Mount Vernon, Ind., Albert Wade, as sistant cashier of the First National bank, who disappeared Monday, took with him 7,000 in gold and $fi,000 in silver and paper belonging to the bank's depositors. 'Wade's bondsmen will make his shortage good. '. Miscellaneous. Harry Wright, the veteran baseball mana ger. li'd at Atlantic City on Friday. The use of antitoxine in the treatment of diphtheria in the BostonCity hospital has re duced the mortality there about 50 per cent. The President and Trivate Secretary Thur bfr, who left Buzzard's Bay, Mass., Mon day, for a two days' ilshing trip, have re turned. Mr. Cleveland is in splendid health, nda reports a delightful outing. NO SUNDAY OPENING. The Board of Directors of Atlanta Kx position Meet and Settle. This Fact. '. The question of Sunday opening was set tled by an overwhelming vote at the direc tors'' meeting on the exposition ground at Atlanta on Monday afternoon. There was a very full meeting of the board, aad Mr. Cabanis, manager of the Atlanta Journal, moved that the grounds be opened and the Midway closed on Sundays. Mr. Howard l'almer, ex-director general, moved as a sui.iitute that the grounds be c!osd on Sundays, and that this section he spei-dily published. Captain J. W. English, chairman of the executive committee, moved as a su" siitute that the whole matter tie laid ou the taWe. The motion to lay it on the table was adopted by an overwhelming vote. At this juncture Dr. R. L. Spalding arose aud rea 1 the f..ll..v ing extracts from the rules aud re gulation a lopted by the exposition some months ago: "Tlio exposition shall be opened for the ."id.mision of visitors on the 18th day of Sep-t..ni.f-r aud closed on the 31 -t day ;f De.-em-l .r. lso.. On each day of th-i w.?.i except Sun-lays, the gatsshad be opened to exhib itors aud all employees at 6 oVlo.-'i uu l to t;i rubii .. at 8 o'clock a. in., and do-. at 10 o'eln.-Sf p. m. except iu s :vi:i! caseO T!.- n a ling of the rule wa a;. plan ! vl. and :'t is i-oi:i lered that this will s ttie the ;i! ?ti.jj. The vote to lay Mr. Ca.aaiss mo tion 'ii thetab! hal b"n so overwhelm. g that it is not believed that any farther at t n:pt wiMbe made to open tu'j expo.v.lioa grc:uids on Sunday. RIOTS IN CONSTANTINOPLE. . ! ty Turks and Armenians Killed i .- unday, and SO Armenians Slaught- : cn-il Tuesday Night. ! -r-ury O'r.ey has received the following -h from ilinister Terrell: ' CoSSTA-T!XOFLE, Oct. 2, if3. :-:ry Olney, Washington: lay ---'.ral hundred Armenians - o the Porte, professedly to ask ;f -f. ri--var;.?es. The patriarch tried !: i M :t. A confiict occurred between A'-LeniaLS and the police. Froba' ly i.! ;.ty Turks and Armenians were kiii aiiiag others a Turkish major, and many r- i wounded. The Armenians carried j-is- t.'.ls .. ei-.erday several more were killed, i !. .rbt there were eighty killed. Several . Lave been imprisoned. The Porte of the demonstration which, it v:n organized by leaders of the :--i:agi.t revolutionists, whom they have t-jred. Mucli terror exist. I think the e wiJJ te able to restrain fanaticism. WASHlNGtOX LETrtlt. Will Public Oplaiou or the Politician Control the Next Congress. The Liberty Bell. fBy Our Rsular Correspondent Will public opinion or the politicians con trol the action of Congress at the coming tession? In view of recent opinions express ed by politicians thi question is both perti nent and important. If the politicans hve their way the public demand which is well nigh general, regardless of politicSj that Con gress shall do something for the betterment of the country's finances and for the preven tion of the issue of more bonds for the money sharkSi will be ignored, and Congressional legislation be virtually confined to the regu lar appropriation bills. The argument of the politicians is that it will be impossible1 for Congress to pa?s any financial legislation, because a bill that the Rpublican House would pass could not get through the Sen ate, which will be controlled by neither party, owing to next year's Presidential campaign and the consequent drawing of party lines on all important legislation. To accept that argument is to declare to the world that patriotism has been driven out of Congress.hy partisanship, and that the fear of a loss of votes in the Presidential election outweighs the demands of the people at large for financial legislation. The great mass of the people do not care a snap for partisan ship, although most men are for one or another reason connected with a political party and during an exciting campaign be come partisans to a certain extent. But when there is no campaign, on the masses are far more interested in earning a living than in partisanship. They have learned to their cost that our present system of flnanco imposes unnecessary burdens upon the earn ing of that livelihood. They want those burdens removed, and are not likely to be satisfied jvith the politicians excuse that Congress cannot legislate because of parti sanship. Next year there will be another Congress elected as well as a President. That fact should not escape the politicians minds. Although some of- the members of the Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution are inclined to be fussy and big-headed and to make monkeys of them selves upon occasion, as a whole those or ganizations are doing the country good, particularly in the work they are doing to wards increasing and fostering patriotism in our schools, a field which had been, especial ly in our large cities, largely neglected be fore it was taken up by these organizations, and whieh is bound to have an important. s , , , . . . . i ueanng upon me iuiure or our country. These remarks are occasioned by the pres ence of the Liberty Bell, which was allowed ti rnainin Washington two hours, after which it resumed its journey from Philadel phia to Atlanta, where it is to be one of the exhibits at the exposition. A great out-door public reception, under the auspices of the members of the three societies named and participated in by officials, citizens and school children, was held in honor of the belt The Marine Band furnished the music, and the guard of honor for the historic relic was made up fro,m members of the High School cadets. It is well that all of us should occasionally stop in our mad rush and brush up our patriotism a little. It's a thing that no people can have too much of. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN Issued by The North Carolina State Weather Service. ' The reports of correspondents of the Weekly Weather Crop Uulletin is sued by the North Carolina State Weather Service, for the- past week, continue to be unfavorable. The ex treme heat and dryness continued un til cool weather set in on Friday and Saturday. The mean temperature for the first five dajs averaged 13 degrees wr day above tho normal. Drought continues unbroken and in greatly damaging all fall crops. Straams and wells are very low. Peanut-digging has commenced, and corn is being gathered in. Very fine and large crops of fodder aud hay have been saved. Fall plowing still at a fctandstill .for lack of rain. V.astebn District. Extremely hot, dry weather continued until the very end of tho week, when cooler weather, bet in. The drought is unbroken, no rain having fallen anywhere except near the extreme eastern coast. All late crops are suffering from drought, especially peas, potatoes, turnips nnd young rice. Cotton ripened prema turely andmany leaves and young bolls fell off. Cotton is being rapidly picked out now. Crn is dry eDough to gather and is being housed. More fodder aud hay have been saved than for years. Xo fall pic- ing done. Central Disruprr.- Verv hot and dry weather until Friday, when it be came cooler. Practical! no rain ex cept a few light fdiowers iu the south ern poition of the imtn'et on the 24th. Turnips, tate j ot.tuc- and nil fall crops needing rain i a.'.Iy. Tobacco curing btill in j rogre.s -ith tolerable results. Cotton wilted considerably during the eaily part of the week and late bulls will be suiaU aud worthless. Nearly all the cotton cmp is open in the tonthern half f tLe district and picking is prog; .:ug rapidly. The week was fav..;r:le f';- k;v:i.;; fodder and hay, larce p:a;,t:tie of wLicb have been : -l!ure.i. No fall plowing has been ie. Streams aud wells are very low. "Western' PiTnicr. Excessively Lot and dry weather continued until Fiiday, when it became cooler, and on Saturday morning very light frost was 'reported in the mountain sections. Drought continues, tLo;:h scattered showers occurred at a few placea on the 21th. 'Jetton h:s been much dam- , aged; the greater part of the crop ia open and picking is the order of the i day. Turnips will be su entire failure I without rain tooa. Tobacco-curing is progressing favorably. Field-peas are being gathered. Fodder in about all saved, but some hay is t-till to be cut. Farmers cannot break laud for wheat m account of rlryne - j j. T j ; Q.j);. ; TKLEtiRAPIIIC TICKS. Gien. Miles on fUturday formally assumed command of the L nited States army, Andrew J. Sott- colored, w.-n hanged in the jail yard at CH.irleirtowr,- W. Va., for tbo tnurder of his wife by poison. . j Miss Lucy Hill, of Baverd-ih. da. was thrown from her horse whii i out riding ud dragged o a horrible death. j Wm. Greenwald. who had l?.n titteh by a mad catj di-?d of hy iropho'u at GoueiKr Hospital New York, on Saturday. During the recent cy.-lone, in the Province of Pinardel R:Oi If.ivana, aloue, nine per sons were drowned And eight arc missihg. The treaury gold reserve ci! f;t nrday was $93 OOB.tWS, a gain oTer yeterdjuy" t 20.097. The gain wa? mado entirely at Western and Southern points. At Huiiiington, W. Va., on Mondav. t'aU Burrows j n well-known stone contractor, was killed by Offl-er Anderson, of the police ! force, while resisting arr$-t. Anders on is under arrest. Since iiis contiotlon anl fnteieo to life; imprisonment for the murder of hi wife, ex-prea her Wm. Hinshay, of Danville, Ind.. has eater, nothing, aud it M believed thht Ik' is deliltcrately starting himself to death. Thorn ad E. ttaggs's planing mill and. sash, blind nnd door factory, situated in the ee'iitef of the wholesale section of Riehmoud Va., was burned out Saturday. The loss :s be- tween 370.000 and 80.000. The insurance was about $30,003. At Arcadia. Fla.. Count v Treasurer B. F. Wood was held up by four masked mejn Sat- urany at; 12 o ciock ntiil was ina.it to open the county safe and turu over contents which amounted to about C.OOO. Mr. had for tie vera 1 nights been meeting tin for strawberry plants, and tin his way was held, up; After the robbery Mr. was forced to count cross-ties for t Wood train holne Wood went v miles. At Birmingham. -A'a., the Savanna? nnd Wt meru lllrtilroa l was sol 1 at special mas- ters' sah On Saturday for 1 .500.000 aud was bid Sn by th" committee 1.r l!ie .ond - The holders (if the Suvaunah and Western S.ivani.iili and Western is to go into t Ijn or- gani.athiq scheme of the Central of M.jorgia, whieh is jto be sold at Savannah mwt Monday. The Southern Railway, it is undervtoojt. will gain control of tho wdiolc Central system when it is sold. CONDITION OF UVSINKSS OttfJi &, Co.'s Weekly Review. Allcpe I ful Spirit Reflected E. O. Dun & Co., in their weekly revpew of trade fdrj tho past week .say: t'omir failures in the third quarter of 11'5 w 7'J2 with liabilities of f 32.107, 17!. avci 11,521 per firm against tlO,02S la-d about 15 per cent more. The rate of mercial mortality, 231 failures, in a y for eyery 1,000 llrms in busines-ij ' is than lastiyear ami the proportion of d. ercial r 2.- ag.ng ar, eoni- mrter lover f illlt- ed liabilities to the solvent, rei r seal 1 by payments through -clearing Ii-jm.t., 2.49 per f 1.000 against 2.77 last yea-. Highly! important comparisons, of thi.s week show4 about H-pt'Mr.ln-r 3 lowest rane ever known for wh is but rit;es (hf lesale prices of jail commodities, notwithstanding advances, since March of 20 per? cent, iin cot ton goods, 40 per cent, ia boots and jdioes, and 53 per cent, in iron and steel products, while in woolen goods there has been sear""' ly any advance, and in all food products, taken together, a fall of 17 per cent. IteportS from other eili -s at th -nd of the quarter are highly ehverinjj: in fa'-ts reeor.bd, ami reflect a hopeful spi it. 15 -yoiid ques tion, tho quarter has shown u-doui.-diin;; im provement in some branches, and retiiid dis tribution has generally beii, good, though not comrnensurate with speculative whole sale purchast's as prices were rising. Jlenee there is ;i marked decreiiHe in buying, tvhi-h some urauenes oi luuusiry i-egin to leei. The mpuey market is stronger with Iieavy from the lutei lor. All b-arH dr gold exports have ceased. Failures in three days have beein 207 in the United States against 219 last year and 41 iu Canada against -40 last year, Will Cotton Go to 10 1-2 Cents ? Mr. Het'tor D. Lane, who urged the farm ers twenty days ago not to make a hasty dis position 6f theif crops, has written another letter to the cotton growers of the South, advising them that they are masters o,f the situation j and begging them to hold their cotton until they get ten and one-half cents a pound. The New Orleans Pieayune gives the fol lowing a Ivi.'e: 'It is ti be hoped that tho cotton produ cers, while determined to sell their c itton at the b st possible priee, will not bccon e in fatuated with th'e notion that there can' bo no hunt to the improvement, and conse quently, nltubboFiily hold their cotton o T the market. . jtueh a policy would be extremely foolish. A long a3 a good price is in fdght it w uld !? w iser to ship regularly so ntt to f.ei the demand without glutting the mark et. The accumulation of 'a vast supply of hell cottjen n plantations would have a dis i-troin elT-ct later on. The advance which ha-itaken plae is a most excellent thing, and the Producers owe much to the spe.-ul-itive exeitcm ut which has aided the improvement; hut they should not f How themselvekto he carried away by it and neg lect a f.iv.Jrabbi ojiportunity to market their croos to good advantage. 'Opinion as to the probabU size ot the crop, of (jonrs, dilT'-rs eonsMerably, but there has beu a general disfK-sition to lower estimates.! Conservative people now appear to p'iu faith to a crop of 7,000,000 b il-s, white not a few expert as low as C,500(,000, bales, and jone prominent operator is crlit ed with liavin expressed the belief that it wo id not; surprise hiniif the yield were to dr qi below f.,000,000. Here is certainly a variety of! views to choose from : but as crops go nowadays, it must be admitted ihat the largest of the estimates calls for a very short croP ORF.EXHALGK XOMIXATED. Masiachusetts Republicans Dec For Gold and Protection. are The Republican State Convention at Boston on Saturday nominated Governor Fred T. Greenbalge for Governor and Rogr VoI- cott, of Boston, for Lh-utciant-Goverpor. The American Protective .Association ment cast 391 votes for Morse against : for Greenhalge. The latter"s nominr was then made unanimous. , The platform pledges the f.artv to -r Lele- .363 lion e- for free tlon lor American industries dexdares bound and honest money ad op!os'-s silver coinage at any ratio not .tablij. by national government. The M'-ur' trine should tie maintained, temj ratf ly resolutely. Immigration should u r -. tf; bed r- ted to the intelligent and self-sup; r rung; r ngnting is denoun--d and laws to prevent it are uemandeil. Ibe platform r.L-s, siv: Religious and rn- e p.-irtL- inftbip has many years reen nianiiest in the lA-arx r itic party in Ma.HSa- husetts. ha- w-al.rt 1 hat senomeui or pure Americanism. ". : n on -:fat to control all publi a tion. au i hi-. -, reu in counter j irritation aad atitag(. :m. deplore the 'existence in politi- s of sj h 1 Ve naming and estranging -.-sues. ?-,- 11; 'e ud that church ahi s:aJ should b r-eparat.; indepecdeijt in fact as well a. ia th ior.-; neither should invaie the piovln e "of other, and that s tarian auirnc-idy sh hl:e .: l be buried and f.jrgott-n in a patriot! 1...1 paramount try." devotion to our "om-noii co M, Stambuioffs grave has to guarded by a strong military force keep his enen:es from lisjriag Up Imdj to wreck their Teneaoco on :0 o i tllM Dili ADVANCE IX CpTTOX. It Causes thC Oi'patcst Kxeltjemcnt of the Season fi? New OrleUns. At Nsw OrleiaL,if j-uday witpeav! the zreutt ex:iteuint of the season m the oottoa marketfthetluetuati'ons being rajHjlly and ex- ;etJingly wilt; au.i the aalej larie, A3Sr&- gatlng 17o,SK balos. Tho triliu-j wn principally itjt Januar (ontra t, tho sal- of that month rfachln lOO.fiW ba'es. The fluctuations! in IHccra- r ffrc wtv wi l.', Silling at orio time 13 points above Saturday's closing,, rtfWrwarda divuuiu'g 29 -point aa l iiaaiiy cloBia ?, aX a oet gnla of 17 poiut.-?. Tho epeninjg w.is very trreguUr, at an a.lvaaoe of frotnj 10 points on mh ) months to 23 points Oil! Jauaarv. lrf Hrjl r-vtif '.ia ; s tWs soon cauaojl rt lc!tn but t'i- nvtrket promptly absorbed U tu eci! otfVf; I aud gradually stiiengthe'KirJ at a n-t g: of 1 to IS point-. Ob the curif after th . e: . prw.a wvro at loa-t 3 : points hi;h r. r : The nns-inf th imprveT)tr. Was the ad vance of 0-f.l I in Iiiverpoo!, whi.'.) w.tgivat er than txjr I -l. Th i-nirovttt.at nbro vl w,v dua t the eir.-tilar of Prcs! le it Ivine, of th I'Unl.T.i" .Vi-.--l.itio:i. ati:n:iltiag thecron at 0.500, Odl bate mithntin. Tlio advance was also assisted !'V tho low t inperatur ovr t!ie cottoa b lf. Th r'ehita at Nw Orleans will ho 7.0D) to l',0 a;alii-t 71,011 the same d.ty i;t year a:i! 11.310 lue year before l.t t ' IT IS NOW IN FULL SVyiN Hotel Kates Are Low For 1IsItora to tho Atlanta Kxposltlon. The Atlanta Exposition is njiw in full ewlng. the exhibits are in shapo and the city has made the arrangements necessjary for th comfort of visitors. Reports to the committee on pnbllo com fort show that at the hotels rates yange Irom 1 in nor dnv on the American nlaii J nud from 75 cents to $5 per tay on the European plan. Many private houses, how- over, nre open to the public and: in the beet part of tho city there are hundreds of rooms in private bonnes to be had for75 cents a dav. some of these bouses being; located on Peachtree street, the fashionable1 thorough fare of Atlanta. Railroad laeuities are aae- ouate and special rates aro given to the ex position while for such extras as shaving. tho price nowhere exceeds 15 cenT, Tjiij lnji o;: UKSI ON. JjiaclitoiH1 HiSuks l!ie Scanllliiavlatu Cuii o .';irift a SohiMon. . Mr. C.:.i h-tou h n written' a ljtter to the tein iranci co"gres hi c ':'Mv.i at, London in w!ii -h he i h--: While p(of -uui'ly sensible of tft .U rnrr.se I cannot importanc !. i vae liquor queti. pr.'teu 1 that 1 h:ive mastered its 1 see it elearlv in . eerta iim-illtie. Of it 3 I have a.ir.c;-ts, but a ; a whol'i it I. n files n no doubt t'.ii-M. lh ' local option so r. l. but t'lev must be f ycr ten peian'.eid who believe that it t iiipos-' of the enlir. qui .'tioi:. ol of til h i' of ii i!ir for pui.' rinciple i t Kingutiie stif:lcent The meth- '..'.int w .i.l xlst i.i parts, of K -Jt in i i mi ' a present -s ino;f, a -Ivan.tii re and if adopt-'d re ouht- to h: 'adopted initsbesi f irm. "Jl free trad with strict-poll suoerl k plan ni doa aud (v refused a b qu:ie t.ix.'ition was 'tinfort anal a f tir trbiV i i freat JJrit'iin. Oft 1 h :h"int nuinbec of ni-r;- Prnitalion. by reducing tS oj ii'-enn J ha V a poor opinic New Orleans Cotton Kirliana e State- . inent. The New Orleans cotton eschnnge Ftat- raeut from Bej.tember lat to the zitli inclu sively: Tort reeeirds 515,574 hales ;cgahist C18,71'J hist year. 4!2.474 year licfo re last and 502,203 for the same time in 1302;; over land to mills nnd Canada 17, S!)S akaii 1st 39, ISO and 22,517 an.l 40,7X4; interio ftocks lu excess, of S -pt mber 1st, 106,221 ip.' iinst J)l Go2, 7'J.4SSand ;fi,06C; Sout hern 'nil; 11 takings. V4,iy7 against ti4,474. anl t.i.'.Hp jyj'l 72.'J72; cr.iii iii'ougiu into si.-nt ror i ia to date, 7a:l,l-0 agaij-.ft. t!7.)0.i WS,:J4 n'4 crop brought into sight for th ee'.-, ;;((!.- Hi,-) ag'i:nst i 1 s.ti.io Tor the seven d Oc tober 4th! hist year, 25M.112 in ,ivs rmii'ii t 222.170; crop brought into siirht for the Urst lour days of October, li),J,24" against 2j2(S,4;S and lc:J,li5 and J4W17. (.'oiupari.sons in these r;-jorts an made up yenr - to the eorri ponding date last y for- and iu 18'.2 hu;I not to the se oi I ne correspotnlinir week. Comparison by - ks would take I in 35 davs ol'tln n:on last year, ; eir b'-fore lasl nd against o:dy3l dayn this year. in lH'Ji i W.-cklv 4 itt ifi St itcinrnf . S vr: 1 iv; CjttO.l i' into ;-::!:( He i -lit : :': New !:owi- !t!r Ori. i weekly ariiou brought r;pi ; 1 1; - ; .; r t) i . r ! i v .... ,t .. l r. .:.; .Vee1, to be .'iOO.hfiobale 1 a-.-aie:- "! '.0 i:i. p.-t eif ia-t year. .) Th k: o J: 12 y,-::: t ; n:-l 22U.170 in IH'M. t t i' !, a f.i' t r ' I i -! : m if : m ." infer i -j.i, !:i v !', tiH'. iJl veai .: i.; IX l Totid V" 'si !!e Suopiy of '.' total vti: jj'-e nipj-ly of coll it on. 1 n for th ! J. is 2.-J.4:S fi tU of wbi- i 2,1L1.21 A: a rl-i,4. a;a:ii' t ! 2.211'.: 31 il n and I b-i!e.4 respect! V -! v 1 l.-t . r-! -1 tli ar. It M ( i: of ioi.;o'i : i tt- si "!!; at a"! i:it- r r towrmj r . i:ls fro ru ( 'roo in fj-.-l; f:- o:tatiorj, d-:j 4 ban-f. No Divorce Tor .South Carolina. South Carolina occupies tho unique p si-: tl. it i a:n ing the States of the Union! of being ihe only one w!ii:b haa no divorce law and nal con- i after a i:3 u .'ver hal. The constltuti veuU -n nov in session at Columb bard hgdt by a vote of i to 41). adopted a ic tiou of the constitution forbididinje the? s uing of ditr.:e3 for any cause whatever,1) not aJIOwoiz reconitlfin oB divorce I fTi!;tel iu ottr States. , IT 13 ABSOLUTLLY TKe Best SAVE SEW1 hi ! MONEY MAD E TTE OR CfJIt 3tJAI.IiU eka elS you ii: a 1 1 1 neo chesrer Hm on csri ircfelocwlirc, ilir. Mi'.V ii". jnrbt,butw: malr e r.;CRT".v other UlzU Afro. Full niettci llte feewinz ?Jaeilliie for?15.00ani u - J Call on cj t.-cattrrii: v nint tout trsde- r..C :r.-:ci tI iii5.rcti.iius iill TtrlcHye " p.aTe It. Wo t hsdieneo rroduce a Sirrillt OiO.CO Machine for f 50.00, or a Iot can buy frfs -"- - 'r-T '-Jc GAINEV & JORDAN Dudq. N. C. ' I 7 V X: i; : ryii rv'v.'-, .'JT l X - v , :t!-i0: long leaf, $8 to $: sclee- J - to s-15. r - ' f