PROVE AM, THINGS AMD HOLD FAST i TO TilAT WIIICII 18 GOOD'
VOL- IV.
DUNN. NM C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896
NO. 20.
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
COMPARISON BETWEEN PIIMI
riVE AXO NEW METHODS.
Pome Sample Products of the Old
Wheel and Loom.
Tliis ia a great government. We
don't know very much about it until
we go behind the scenes behind the
screens as it wercr and see what is go
ing on. The 3oings of congress as we
read therp. in the papers are very noisy
and ejitin.', but it is mostly routine
wor. and tel!s us nothing of what is
oing on in the various departments
scientific and industrial. "We used to
get the patent office reports that had a
worl.I of carious information and ex
planatory pictures, but they eeem to
have stopped coming. And there were
books oa agriculture and horticulture
diii.l pestiferous, insects and book that
tolc; Ubout cattle and sheep and all the
dTEeasca to -which i they were subject.
All thesa us ad to be distributed among
the peop'o like the garden Feeds are
distributed, and pretty much for the
stme vote-casting purpose, but they
cost a bi lot of mocpy, and now are
given only to the scientific. The men
of Ecienco make but little noise in the
world. They care but little for fame
or fortune-, but they are ever at work
Etuilying nature and solving mysteries
and lessoning the burdens of life. It
does fsem to be a dispensation of pro
vidence that great men care but little
for uioney. "What they discover or
iCTent soon becomes common proper
ty. I tm not speaking of the small
man who takes out a patent on fish
hooks or hairpin?, but of great men,
like Jenner and Pasteur, Agassiz, Ful
ton, Watts, Newton or Morse.
Unt I was ruminating about a visit
X had today a visit from Professor
Xncker, the United States agent for
the labor department. He came to
rind out about how the silk business
was conducted in Georgia fifty years
pgo. So I told him how my father in
1837 got fome morus multicaulis cut
tings from "Washington and in two
years had several aoresof young trees,
ind then built a house forty feet
square and two stories high, and filled
?t with hurdle frames and got some
silkworm eggs, and when they hatched
the worm soon filled the bouse and eat
ap3i the mulberry leaves and wanted
more. We got enough from a neigh
bor to finish up with, and we boys
were glad enough when the nasty things
began to wrap up in their mummy
like shrouds.
But my curiosity was excited. What
does the United States want to know
til this for? So be explained by say
iug that his department is comparing
the old with the new the primitive
methods with the modern and the
cost of each, and which was the beet
and gave more happiness, and other
economic questions. He had a leather
prip full of samples of the handiwork
of the women of western North Caro
lina and northeast Georgia. Every
little square or scrap was pinned to a
printed sheet, that gave the name of
the weaver and her age and residence.
There were samples of woolen and cot
ton and linen and silk, samples of lin
sey and jeans and counterpanes and
quilts and wagon sheets and curtains
and table cloths, and some of them
were gems of beautiful fabrics, and in
these mountain counties the humble
people are still spinning and weaving
m the old-fashioned way and are hap
py. In many families their handi
work is piled up on the shelves
and clothes presses, awaiting the
marriage of f.ons and daughter?, to
whom they were to be given as bridal
presents. Professor Tucker had some
f-peeimens of silk sewing thread and
rlax thread that were made at home.
He found good people up there who
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peifiom noiigni anyiuins auu wcih buio
t cive a strancer a good bed and
p'entv to eat and a sincere hospitality.
He told me of an old man in Rabun
, who said he never fell out with the
Vnited States until the revenue officers
began to sneak around his little still,
where he had been making peaoh
brandy for fifty year?, and had the re
spect of his Maker and his neighbors,
and he told them' that the United
States wasent big enough to stop him,
fcr the right to make it was handed
."down to bim from his father and
grandfather. He said they threatened
him every time they came about, but
he kept two pitchforks in the house
one under the front door and
the other at the head of his
bed, and they dident dare to
arrest him. But after worrying with
them for three years things kept get
ting hotter and hotter, and his nejgh
bors advised him to quit stilling and
he did, for he was getting old and
wanted to live in peace, but it was a
bad government that would let a rioh
man still and not let a poor man.
. These big distilleries, said he, swindle
the government out of mpre tax money
than all our moonshine stills put to
gether. All they have to do is to bribe
the 6torekefrer. I know of one over
in North Carolina that sold 3,800 gal
Ions in one year and never paid a dol
lar-tax "on it. He told Professor
Tucker that the revenue men broke up
forty stills in that region last year, but
to his knowledge there were about
hundred that were still running on
small scale. "The boys sorter like the
danger of it said he. "and the in
former catches it when found out. He
generally leaves this part of the country
as Boon as hflnneketa his bribe, xi
mountain neo-nla are not as honest and
honorable as they used to be, and it all
comes of thia bribe-taking business.
The United States ought to be ashamed
of it." The nrofessor said it " im
possible to convince those mountain
eers who ar sAvomtv-flve miles from
jaarkst, that it ia wrong to covert
their corn into whiskeV, when one T
uusuw win maKe inree gallons ana
they can haul a hundred dollars worth
with a little yoke of ite rs. But they
can't run a still on the government
plan, for it would cost two or three"
hundred dollars, and they havn't got
he money. He wanted to know if
here was any old-fashioned wheels
and looms used in this country. Yes,
a goewl many. A good old man died
near here last year whose family never
wore any other clothes as long as he
lved. I knew another man who was
quite well off for a farmer, who ,
was a deacon in the church and some
times foreman of a grand jury, who
r
never bought store clothes and he
always looked well in his home-made
eans. He tanned leather and made
shoes for his family. His socks and
Euspenders and turkey red handker
chiefs were all made at home and so
was the bed ticking and the feather
beds and mattresses. "Raise your
girls to work," said he, "and they will
make good wives and good mothers.
During the war the women of Colum
bus, Ga., swore off from wearing
yankee goods, but mine do the same
way in peace.
That is pretty hard on the g:rl?,and I
should think would fit them for a con
vent or to be sisters of charity. I had
a tenant once who believed so strong
in working the children that they crew
up without any schooling. I hey
dident bave any themselves and dident
see the need of any. They had a
bright little girl whom they called
Thelbv. "What is that child's name?"
a?ked the mother, and she said:
"Her name is Othello." "Why, that
is a boy's name," said I, but she insist
ed that some man who staid all night
at their house said it was a purty name
for a girl. "What is your bo.v's
name?" said I, "the one you call Dee?"
"Oh, his name, is Desdemony, but we
call him Dee for short." The poor
woman had got the names mixed
Othello and Desdemonn. Some of
these rude people do actually love to
work. They get up before day and
cook and eat breakfast before sunrise
and are off to the field. One of my
tenants told me he was always sorry
when Sunday came, for it was a mighty
long day to him.
But the old-.fa8hioned wheel and
loom were very useful and pleasant
things to work with. My wife still
loves to tell her children how she used
to spin and weave on Saturdays and
sometimes when she came from school
in the evenings, and how Ailsey Tip's
mother was the best weaver and could
make ten yards of plain cloth a day or
six yards of jeans. Becky was the
brag spinner and my wife was taught
to spin and weave by these family ne
groes, for they all loved her and were
good to her and she was good to them.
She used to spin awhile and weave
awhile and then practice awhile on
the piano and it was a pleasant mixture
of music all round, and she looked
mighty pretty in her home-made lin-
sey dresses she did that's a fact.
Bill Akp in Atlanta Constitution.
RUSSELL NOMINATED
He Won on the 7th Ballot. Holton
He-Elected Chairman.
Friday morning the North Carolina Repub
lican State Convention nominated Dan 1 L.
Russell, of New Hanover, for Governor on
the7thballlot.
At 1:S0 Russell entered the hall amid great
applause. He said he had been on the raz
eed edge for the past fortv eight hours. lie
said he thanked his white friends but owed a
debt of deepest gratitude to the Negro voters.
He declared he was not In favor of putting
property Interest under control entirely of
non-property-holding interests. He declared
ce stood ior the rights and liberties oi Jse
groes. Fe had been cradled in the lap of a
Negro woman and fed on milk both nutriti
ous and plentiful. He said all the Negroes
wanted was fair play and a white man's
chance. He hoped the fact would bo
shown that co-operation was not a failure
and he called on Republicans to appeal from
the Populist committee to the Populist peo
ple or tne state. He sam: "With tne latter
we can and will fuse. The fact that their
committee rejected fusion doea not show that
their people will not fuse." He hoped meas
ures looking to co-operation would be adopt
ed. He said that Populist leaders naa tanen
an untenable position and however irritating
might be their conduct, he would never lor-
get that they gave the Republicans their vic
tory; that the Republican party was one of
the great principles and would not be ab
sorbed by the Populist party or any other
party. He spoke in favor or protection.
The following Is said to be the footing of
the district delegates to the Republican na
tional convention, so far as the presidential
candidate is Concerned: First district, E. C
Duncan, J. B. Butler; second. H. L. Grant,
John Hannon; third-A. R. Middleton, C. D.
Waddeh fourth. W. H. Martin, E. A. John
soni fifth, James H. Holt, James O'Brien;
sixth. J. M. Goode, Z. F. Long (contestants
J. B. Dudley, J. W. Mullen) ; sev
enth. J. H. Ramsey, C. F. Bailey; eighth. 21.
L. Mott, J. B. Fortune; ninth, J. G. Grant;
Charles J. Harris. Those from the second,
third, seventh, eighth and ninth are instruc
ted for McKinley. Those from the first favor
him so do Holt of the fifth and the contest
ants from the sixth. Goode and Long of the
sixth are Allison men. The fourth district
delegates say they are for McKinley, but are
believed to really favor Reed, tio does
O'Brien of the fifth. .
Holton was re-elected chairman and R. 31.
Douglass for Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court.
DEATH IX A CYCLONE.
Sixty-Eight People Killed at Sherman,
Texas, and Vicinity.
A cyclone struck Sherman, Texas, at 4:30
Thursday, killing many people and doins
great damage. The number of dead is now
believed to be about 63 18 yet unidentified.
It is said the cyclone struck tha ball rar'
whileagame was In progress and that part cf
the Sherman and San Antonio teams and
many spectators were killed. All telegraph
wires to Sherman are down. Dead children
have been found in trees. Rev. Mr. Shearer
is among the dead.
Arrested by the Sheriff.
Owirgtothe arrest of the teachers and
'patrons of the Orange Park school at Orange
Park, Fla.. fcr violating an enactment which
makes it a penal offence to conduct In Flor
ida a school In which white and black per
'sonsare instructed together, the school,
which is conducted by the American mission
ary association has been closed, the sheriff
ftatinc that he bad been instructed to arrest
i d rearrest and continue to arrest as long
as loBg as the school should be continued.
LATEST- NEWS "
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS
-
Important Happening, Both Home
and Foreign, Biefly Told.
Southern News Notes.
Much damage done to rrorertv bv a
cyclone in Virginia Tuesday.
A great-nephew of Jefferson Davis
was shot and killed in Kentucky Tues
day. '
At ChattanoogaTenn., Wednesday,
the sixth annual session of the South
ern Hardware Jobbers' Association
met.
The national association of police
chiefs which met in 'Atlanta Wednes
day decided to hold their next meeting
in Pittsburg.
The Suprevru- Court of Georgia b8
reversed the finding of the lower cotirt
by which Sevcnth-dsy Adventi6ts were
fined for working on Sunday. "
Ernest "A. Man, of Florida, has been
appointed consul to- Bergen, Norway,
and Kobt. Hansom, of North Carolina,
secretary of legation at Mexico.
A company of Knoxville capitalists
has been formed to work the gold
mines recently discovered at Eco, in
Monroe county, Tenn.
At Vicksburg, Mi0s., Tuesday,
eleven persons were killed and 6ix in
jured, with two others missing, by the
explosion of a tow-boat on the Missis
sippi river.
Texas and Nebraska was visited by a
cyclone and heavy rain Tuesday. At
Nacona, Texas, three persons were in
jured, and at Lincoln, Neb., many per
sons were injured .also, but no lives
lost.
The strike which has existed at the
yards of the Newport News Shipbuild
ing and Dry Dock Company, ended
Tuesday, the men returning' to work
on tli8 company's terms. They agree
to give the "clerk" 4.ime system a trial
of thirty days.
The famous Montvalt Spring. Hotei
at Montvalo Springs, Blonnt county,
Tennessee, wits deetroyed by fire Tues
day. The property was owned by
Bobert Bonner, of New York, and
other Eastern capitalists and was val
ued at $50,000, with $15,000 insur
ance. Northern News Items.
Twenty buildings were destroyed by
a cyclone at Worthingtou, Minn.,
Tuesday.
Eugene Akers, a confectioner of
New York, had $20,000 worth of dia
monds stolen Wednesday.
A Boston jury gave a man a verdict
against a street railway for $3-3,000
damages for the loss of a leg.
A company has been organized at
Chicago, 111, to exhibit the X rays in
the important cities of the country.
The Gre at L'Anse, Mich., Tuesday,
destroyed $750,000 worth of property
and rendered 300 persons homeless.
The Spanish caravals which came
over during the World's Fair, have
been given the Field museum, and will
hereafter float in the lagoon directly
in front of the museum building.
A federation of six orders of railway
employes, including firemen, trainmen,
engineers, switchmen, conductors and
telegraphers, has been formed at St.
Louis. A proposition to admit the
American Bail way Union was voted
down.
Washington.
A brnnzo statue to Gen. Hancock
was unveiled a' Washington Wednes
day. The convention of the Supreme
Council of the A. P. A. met in Wash
ington, P- C, Tuesdw,,.
The action of the President in sum
moning Hon. Alexander W. Terrel1,
United States minister to Turkty,
from his Texas home to Washington,
was not based on any new or serious
developments in the Turkish situation.
The Senate finance committee has
appointed Harris, of Tennessee, Vest,
of Missouri, and Waltham, of Miseib
sippi, Democrats, Piatt, of Connecti
cut, Republican, and Jones, of Nevada,
Populist, as a sub-committee to inves
tigate the bond issues. Harris will be
chairman.
Foreign.
The German Reichstag has axed the
export bounty on sugar at 5 J marks
per hundred kilos.
Dr. Salmon, the oldest Freemason
in the world, died in London Tuesday.
He was 106 years old.
It is officially denied that Gen. Wey
I.er has resigned or been dismissed as
Captain-General of Cuba.
. Eassia has taken possession of ter
ritory at Chefoo, China, to which Eng
land lays claim, and trouble is antici
pated. The signing of a protocol between
the governments of Argentina and
Chile has removed a threatening sit
uation and exchange has risen to 17.
Berlin advices from Pretoria sajs
that the death sentences of John Hays
Hammond and the reformer conspira
tors there have been commuted to
five years imprisonment.
ATTENTION, VETERANS!
General Gordon Issues an Important
Order to U. C. V. .
Gen. J. B, Gordon, commanding tha
Ciited States Confederate Veterans, an
nounces in general order No. 161 that the
sixth annual reunion of tho United Confed
erate Veterans will be held at Richmond, Va.,
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
June SO, July 1 and 2, 1896. He states that
815 camps are organized and applications are
In for 100 more. Business of great import
ance will come before the annual meeting
and a full attandaso to urged.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Among the Presidential nominations
Thursday, Robt. Lee Jenkins, of N.
C, was appointed consul of the United
States at Patras, Greece.
Seven hundred stonemasons in Pitts-1
burg, Pa. went on a strike Thursday
for an advance in wages.
Daniel L. Russell, of Wilmington,
N. C, was nominated for Governor at
the State Republican Convention ai
Raleigh Friday.
The British minister at Pekin, has
protested to the Chinese government ;
against its cession of foreshore at Che
foo to a Russian firm.
Assistant Sec-cl.j r-McAdoo, of thei
Navy Department, will probably leave
Washington on the Dolphin on June!
15th and spend two weeks inspecting
the naval militia organization of Geor
gia and North Carolina,
At Cincinnati, O., Thursday the.
uaa xellows lemple Company as-
signed. The assets are placed at $559,-j
000 and the abilities $280,000. Thc-
cause given is the lack of capital and';
failure to sell the stock and bondsi ot
the company, which was budding a
new home for the three .lodges of Cin-t
cmnatti.
The latest news in connection to the
cyclone at Sherman, Texas, Friday, is
that the dead now number 150. It is,
feared that the restoration of tele
graphio communication will bring iajj
formation of the loss of life and prop
erty in the surrounding towns greater;
than already estimated.
By a vote Saturday the General Con- f
ferenco of the African Methodist Epis-j
copal Zion Church, at Mobile, Ala.,
-decided that the next quadrennial ses-
siou be held in the Metropolitan Afii-
can Methodist Episcopal Zion church, I
Washington, D. C, on the first Wed-
nesday in May, 1900. 5
J. B. Kornegay, of Van Doru, Ala.,
is under arrest, charged with the i
fraudulent use of 4he mails. Ho is
said to have ordered some $22,000 f
worth of goods from 120 different
firms in the North and West and dis
posed of the goods at a big discount
and made no effort to settle. In De
cember last he made an assignment,
transferring previously all of his pro- j;
perty to his wife.
The total visible supply of cotton
ior me worm is z,2oi,xoj. uaies, vi
which 2,347,961 bales are American,
against 3,7896,127 bales respectively
e xi ia i rt tot t 'sn
last year. Receipts of cotton this!
week at all interior towns 18,047 bales.
Receipts from the plantations 12,221
bales. Crop in sight 6,713,144 bales.
Bernard Kochl Saturday drowned?
himself in a reservoir at Irwin, Pa.,
after poisoning his brother-in law, his.
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wife and two children.
Two hundred union car builders n
went out on a strike for higher wages
at the Ensign Car Works, Huntington,
W. Va., Saturday.
Saturday an unsuccessful attempts
was made to hold up a Norfolk and
Western train in West Virginia.
Hamlin's fast mare, Nightingale, a
valued at $10,000, fell dead Saturday!
at Louisville, Ivy., on the race track,
while going at a three-minute clip. .
Two boys confess that they haves
been the perpetrators of the many re
cent fires at Waltham, Mass., in whieh
$1,500,000 of property was destroyed,
tho reason for their incendiarism being!
"a desire to see the flame."
Tho Eockfort Watch Company, ofi
Rookfort, ..111., made an assignment?
Saturday. ' The capital stock is $280,-!
000. The last inventory taken1 shows!
assets of $400,000, and liabilities ofj
$110,000. Cause of the assignment isl
the depression of the watch trade.
The prisoners in Newport, Ky., jaiI,S
eawed the hinges off the rear door
Saturday night-and all escaped except!
Jackson and Walling, the alleged mut-j.
del rs of Pearl Bryan, who refused to
leave, thinking it a plan to lynch them. I
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THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
The Manufacturers' Record Report!
Developments Within the La6t Wek. f
The' Manufacturers' Record's weekly feuml
mary of Southern industrial news report!
that notwithstanding the efforts of cotton!
mill companies to curtail production on ac
count of the market conditions, he organiza
tion -of new mills goes on without abatement.
During tne weeit new imu enterprises have
ueen projected ai uartersvuie, ua., witn f 50,
uimj cauuni stocKt a ffiou.uuu
a
TMughisville, Ga.;a 5125.000 company at:
wmvnnv mi:
Austin, Tex.; a $20,000 company to establish i:
a thread mill at Atlanta; a $200,000 company
at Monroe, La.; the proposed enlargement of
a Charleston mill at an expenditure of about
$100,000 and an addition of 3.500 spindles
to a mill at Forest City, N. C. " ;
Among o'her important enterprises r-:
ported for the week have been the origlna-f
tlon of an English company with a capital ofi
feoOOjOOO to purchase large iron works at:
MlJaleborough, Ky.. and put them in early;
operation; a projected bicycle factory at At
lanta has materialized by the incorporation
of a company with 100.000. which will es-l
tabilsh the first bicycle works south of M&ry-'j
loxxa: a company to manufacture, nre brick
and building brick has been started at Blacks-
bun S C: a larire chemical worka at Rtch-1
mond, Va.; a $60,000 cotton oil mill at Cisco,!
Tex.i a t20,000 oil company at Groesbeck;.a,!
20.000 ice and cold storage plant afHills-l
boro; a $10,000 water works company at'
Richmond, Texas.
While reports 6how that there la consider-?
able hesitation in business matters and com-f
plaint of dullness la some lines, yet on thei
whole th6 induetrial situation throughout;
the South seems to be steadily expanding on
a solid basis and the outlook is favorable for
continued growth not only In leading indus4
tries, such as cotton but in a more general
diversification of manufacturing Interests.
. Uncle Sam Says Walt. f
The State Department at Washington gave
out the following Wednesday: "In the Com-
petitor ease it can be authoritatively stated
that at the request of the United .States tb
Spanij-h government will postpone execution
of tho death sentences upon American citi-f
zens until the views of the United State
respecting the application to their cases of
the treaty of 1795 and the protocol of 1877
can be presented and considered. I
Old age is disagreeable, but it is notj
so bad as dyed whiskers apd wigs, ;
NORTH- STATE
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CDLLINGS.
TjANTJ-JUMPERS.
Two Men Turn Up With Old Deeds
to
106,500 Acres of Land.
It is said the people of Mitchell,
Caldwell and Watauga counties are
very uneasy over the appearance there
of Messrs. Cochrane and Tate, with a
party of surveyors. These two men
have surveyed 106,500 acres of land in
these counties, and say that it belongs
to them. They are aimed with deeds
and land grants dating 101 years ago,
wherein the land that they claim was
deeded to their grandparents by the .
government for services rendered.
Grandfather Mountain, the Cranberry
Iron Works and the whole town of
Linville are included in the claim. At
first the people thought it was some
wildcat scheme, but the confidence
Cochrane and Tate exhibit and the
documents they have lately brought
to bear, havo put a serious aspect on
the matter, and many of the people
now think it quite probable that they
will have to give up their homes or re
buy them. Mr. Cochrane was born in
Watauga, but in early life moved to
Alabama, and later went to California.
Mr. Tate has alwhys lived in the West
ern part of the State. They say that
their claims are undoubtedly genuine.
The Medal Convention.
The election of officers and three
members of the State Board of Medical
Examiners was the most interesting
part of the programme of the State
Medical Society in its meeting at Win
ston on Wednesday. Two hundred
votes were cast in the election of the
new examiners. The choice fell to
Drs. R. E. Tayloe, of Washington, N.
C. ; R. H. Whitehead, Chapel Hill, and
Thos. E. Anderson, Statesville. The
next convention will be held at More
head City, opening on the third Tues
day in May, '97. The officers elected
this afternoon are: President, P. L.
Murphy, Morganton; vice presidents,
J. C. Walton, Reidsville; A. A. Kent,
Lenoir; M. R. Adams, Statesville; B.
L. Long, Hamilton; secretary, R. D.
Jewett, Wilmington; treasurer M. P.
Perry, Macon.
Baseballlsts to Go North
Manager Carmichael, of the Univer
sity of North Carolina Baseball Club,
will take his aggregation of ball-toss-
ers on a northern tour in June. The
following is the schedule as mapped
out: The team wul first go to Rich
mond where a game will be played
with Richmond College. At Washing
ton they will meet the Columbian Uni-
veisity, and will then strike into
Pennsyvania to play Lafayette and
University of Pennsylania. Afterwards
the team will go against the Orange
Athletic Club and Rutgers College. In
Boston, Carolina will battle with Har
vard, Tuft's College and Newton Ath
letic Club. Brown and Yale will be
the next on the list. The game will be
with the University of Vermont and
Cornell.
Heir to an Estate of $60,000,000.
Col. A. L. Blackwelder, the tall po
liceman of the Charlotte force, was in
Washington a few days aero to look
after some money whih, like a will-o'
the-wisp, has danced before his vision
for two years. The story is this: Col.
Blackwelder'a mother was a Miss Fish
er, her parents being from Germany.
When her great-grandfather died, he
left an estate valued at $60,000,000.
The heirs have never been found.
Some of the Fishers who settled in
Tennessee, learned of the fortune two
years ago, and sent a lawyer to Europe
to see about it, but not succeeding in
proving, although they know them
selves to be, with Col. Blackwelder
and his brothers and sisters, the heirs.
North Carolina Right In It,
The Southern Textile Manufactur
ers' Association was organized at At
lanta, Ga., Wednesday. Dr. J. H.
McAden, of Charlotte, N. C, was
elected president. The following were
elected directors: J. W. Tullis, Eu
faula, Ala. ; D. A. Tompkins, Charlotte,
N. C. ; A. A. McGinhis, New Orleans,
La.: R." F. Larned. Natchez. Miss. :
Chas. Estes, Augusta, Ga. ; Geo. A.
Mfh.inp. Asbeville N. C. Resolutions
"were aaoptea recommending a curxau-
. a-- .it
ment of production.
Hardware Company Assigns.
The Alderman Hardware Company,
of Wilmington, has made a deed of as
signment to R. C. Sloan, for the bene
fit of creditors. Prior to the assign
ment judgments had been obtained by
the following persons:- Mrs. Alice G.
Alderman, SI, 783.30; D. L. Gore,
$78.85; W. H. Bernard, $43.84; J. A.
Springer $18 00; McNair & Pearsalt.
$41.00; C. H. Robinson, $32.00; Jack
son & Bell, $47.78.
The cases against the Cummock
Coal Company for damages brought by
the relatives of the miners who were
killed, bas been continued until the
next term of the court, whichwill be
held in October. The fact that the
company has gone into the hands of a
receiver does not choke off the damage
suite, which were entered before the
application for a receiver.
jTitz Lee Sees the President.
Gen. Fitzburgh Lee, the nw consul gen
eral at Havana, had a conference with Secre
tary Olney and the President Saturday. He
received the views of the administration In
aegard to Cuban affairs. Gen. Lee's de
parture for his post depends upon the wishes
of the President and Mr. Olney, and no time
has yet been set.
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hurt Mke an. aching tooth. ...
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSOX
MAY 24.
FOR
LeifoJrText: "Jesus Teaching In the
Temple," Luke xx., O-iy .
Golden Text: Xjuke xx.,
17 -Commentary.
9. "A certain man planted a vineyard and
let It forth to husbandmen and went into a
far country for a long time." Our last les
son seemed to have a special reference to the
fresent ajje or the time between Israel's re
action of their King and His return to take
the kingdom. Tnis parable seems, rather to
cover the whole history of Israel, including
their treatment of the prophets and their re
jection of the King. .
10-12. This account , of the treatment of
His Servants will cover the whole perio iof
the prophets. The fruit Ha desired was
righteousness, and that Israel should make
Him a name among the.Natlonsof the earth,
that all Nations might know Him fcr their
good. . But read the story in Isa. v., 7-25,
and inJEzek. xiil., and see what they gave
Him instead of righteousness. As to their
beating and shamefully treating the servants,
just listen to a few testimonies: "Asa was
wrought with the seer and put him In a
prison house. "Zedekiah came near and
smote Micalah upon the cheok." ''And they
conspired against him fZechariah) and
stoned him with stones at the commandment
of the king in the court of the house of the
Lord." Then Pashur smote Jeremiah, the
prophPt, and put him in the stocks." "Then
took thy Jeremiah and cast him into the dun
geon" (II Chron. xvi.. 10: xviiL. 23; xxiv.,
21; Jer. xx., 2; xxxvlil., 6). No wonder that
James by the Spirit writes, "Take my
brethren, the prophets who have spoken in
the name of tho Lor.i, for an example of suf
fering affliction and o patience (Jas. v.,
10). The Lord is now looking for the fruit
of the Spirit in those who have become
branches in Him who Is the True Vine, and
through whom He desires to bear much fruit
to the glory of God. Does He find it? i It
not, why? Let each answer for himself
unto the Lord.
13. "Then said tho. lord of the vineyard:
What shall I do? I . wdl send my beloved
Ion. It may be they will reverence htm
when they see him." In Isa. v.. 4, He asks,
What could have been done more to My vine
yard that I nave not done in it? And here
at a much further stage He asks. What shall
1 do? Then determines to sud His Beloved
Eon, not to punish, as well He might, but to
save and bless even such' rebellious ones.
God, who once spoke by the 1 prophets, hath
at last spoken by His Beloved Son. to whom
He g;ive this title both at His baptism and at
His transaguration. Behold what manner of
love, what long suffering, what forbearance,
What yearning over the erring and rebellious
ones. Hear Him, even through the prophets,
"How shall I give'thee ud, Ephraim? How
shall I deliver thee. Israel? (Hos. xi., a)
14. "This Is the heir; come, let us kill him,
that the inheritance may be ours." Joseph's
brethren said: "This dreamer cometh. Coma
now, therefore, and let Us slay him and ca?t
him into some pit" (Gen. xxxvii., 19, 20). It
seems impossible that human nature could
be guilty of the baseness of Joseph's breth
ren, and of the brethren of bur Lord, the
Jews, who treated Him as He here describes.
Think of men enjoying property that cost
them nothing, then of their refusing to
thank the owner by rendering them some
fruit, then of their' actually conspiring to
kill the owner and take the property into
their own hands. .
15. "So they cast him 4ut of the vineyard
and killed him. What, therefore, shall the
lord of the vineyard do unto them?" Our
Lord describes what He knew they would
actually do, for He had often foretold it.
What an illustration of the fact that the car
nal mind is enmity against God. But, be
liever let us apply it; let us see ourselve3 in
this awful picture. The Lord Jesus has
bought us in His peculiar property that He
may be glorified in us. Now. is He enthroned
in the heart that He has bought for Him
self, or is He as good as cast out? Lest we
be a guilty or more guilty than th3 Jews, let
us give Him cheerfully the Whole being for
His pleasure (Rom. xii., 1, 2).
16. "Ha shall corns and destroy these hus
bandmen andBhall give the vineyard to oth
ers." In Math.i XXi,, 43, the words are.
"The kingdom of God shall D9 taken from
you and gfvo to a Naticn bringing forth the
fruits thereof." Israel, having failed to re
ceive h6r King, has been for the present set
aside as a Nation, while God is gathering
Out Of all Nations a people for His name who
shall be Joined to Christ an". return with
Him when He shall cqme in glory for the
restoration of Israel and of all things spoken
of by the prophets. The great question for
the church aud for every individual believer
Is. Ami bearing fruit unto God?
17. "What is tms. men, mat 13 nuon,.
the stone which the builders rejected, tne
same is become the head of the corner?"
This Is from Ps. cxviii., 22. and points to tne
time when the Nation shall "say, "Blessed be
TTe that cometh in the name of the Lord
Math, xxlii.. 89: Ps. csviii.. EG). "It sna'l
be said in that day: Lo, this is our God! We
have waited for Him. and . lie win save us.
This is the Lord. We have waited for Him.
Wo will te glad and rejoice in His salvation .
(Isa. xxv., 9). Our Lord was always calling
attention to what wa? written. He bad im
plicit confidence in the Scriptures. Heal-
ways appeaiea to (uem. n-v uiauo cpi-j
answer their own questions oy nta. mwt
is written? How reddest thour
18. "Whosoever snail fall upon mat stone
shall be broken, but on whomsoever It shall
fall it will grind him to powd;r." This takes
us back to Isa. viii.,ill, 15. wlien we read
that He shall be to some a sanctuary, but to
others a stono of stumbling and a rocz or oi
fense. In Isa. xxviii.; 16, we read that He is
a Qnm nr'i fr!inii.-t;on stone as wen as
a precious corner. Tec wcfe lssummou up
in I Pet. ii., 4 S. I ha yrind-.ngto powder
probably refers to Da i. i:., A. ana me urn e
of His coming to judgo the Nations. He is
now a place of retuge and a sure foundation
v oil nrhnrp'pirfl IlilTi. He IS a TCCk Of Of-
fense to all who will not have Him, but when
He comes in glory, lie will sureiy crusu au
His enemies. ' , -V
19. "Aud tne chief priests an 1 the scribes
v.o ca-no i.r.ur Riiiht to iav hands on Him.
hrtfore determined to kill
auej i . ' ri . .
iim but now tneir uour n umniuis
Lt thtv cannot lav a ficzer on Him un
til finrt nr.niinted time. Then He will let
them take Hie, thai their wicked hands may
accomplish that wmcn me coucsei v u-j-j
determined berora to De cocu n-Jia .,
himself can touch a
.hii.t r.f God vrithout God a permission, and
there rctf b a reeds be for all tbatjeomes
to eve;v child cl Qol " 23). Les
son He!; ' '
STATE NAVAL MILITIA. -
The Summer Exercises for the
State
Tars Arranged.
The programme for the summer 'icrcire3
of the naval militia organization in the vari
ous States was announced by the navy
department Thursday. Assistant Sec
retary McAdoo, of the navy depart
ment, will probably leave Washington
on the Dolphin on June 15 and spend
two weeks inspecting the naval militia or
ganizations of Georgia and orth LaroilDa,
A monitor will be detailed from June 15th to
June 30th for the Gecrgla and North Carolina
militia organizations and during tne same
period a cruiser win oe given ior mo u ot
the Louisiana and South Carolina mUitia.
One wek will be spent In the waters oi eaca
State.
HeSo tEey were married at home,
eh? What did you think of the ser
vice? She not much; it was marked
"sterling," but I'm sure it was plate.
Philadelphia Record. ' -
SOUTHERN STATES EXPOSITION
She
Will Fill the Larjrest Bulldlne
That Can be Secured. 1
Tho organization of the exhibits for ths
Southern States Exposition at Chicago is pro
ceeding rapidly. The following general ex
hibits have been decided upon, to show the
products of tho entire South: I
1 . - ' 1 1 i l
Forest Products In charge of Prof. B. 2.
Feniow. chief ot division of forestry, United
States agricultural department. - . I
Miueral Products In charge of Dr. David
T. Day, United States geological survey. .
Fiber Probably In charge'ot C. K. Dodge
of the United Btates agricultural depart
ment. ' .
Each ot the foregoing will occupy at least
10,000 square feet. A great feature will b
; made of cotton; cotton products and proces
ses of manufacture, which will require
about 20,t)00 square feet. It will comprise
the earnest and most Improved machinery
and every variety of cotton fabric. It is
expected that this department will be under
the direction of.a widely known expert and
prominent inventor of cotton machinery.
The tobacco section will be planned undei
the advice of Dr. H. P. Battle, director oi
the United States experiment ttationlalelgh,
N. C, and Prof. C. F. Vanderford, secretary
jot the United States i experiment station,
Knoxvill, Tenn.. both 'of whom are eminent
authorities on tobaooo oulture.
Prof. W. C. Stnbbs, director United States
sugar experiment station, New Orleans, baa
been requested to supervise the 6tigar exi
ihiblt. .'I-.;--'.' i . I . I ',.
With these gentlemen will be associated
Prof. J. A. Holmes. Stats geologist ot North
.Carolina, who has the best existing Southern
;colleotion of minerals and forest productions;
Prof. Yates, State geologist of Georgia; Mes-
.'ers. Roche, Nesbltt, Lane and Stone, com
missioners of agriculture or South Carolina,
Georgia, AiaDama and .Mississippi.
COMMERCIAL RK PORTS.
Dan and jBradstreet's Weekly Review,
Dun and Bradatreet of New York, in their
weekly review of trade says: General trad
throughout the country remains quiet; whole
sale merchants continue conservative and
distribution of general; merchandise is of is
hand-to-m. uth character. South and South
west business continues dull and featureless
unchanged from last week. At large East
ern centres travelers are preparing to start
out, but unfavorable features in recent weeks
with respect to the cotton and woolen and
steel and iron industries show no change.
.Collections In most directions continue un
satisfactory. '
Failures for the week have been 224in the
United States against 211 last year, and S3 in
C anada against 37 last year. - - :
It Is now the middle of May, too late for
business to change materially until the pros
pects of -coming cropg are assured, and
definite shape has been given to the presi
dential contest by the conventions. Until the
future Is more clear, there is a prudent dis
inclination to produce much orders or to
order beyond immediate and certain needs.
The Iron and steel Industry is pronounced
as dall as It ever has been In the whole histo
ry at Pittsburg, In part because of doubt
about the maintenance of prices recently ad
vanced, and the demand Is so small that in
spite of such advances prices average i per
cent, lower for the week, Bessemer pig being
no higher than it was three months ago, at
$12.65, while No, 1 anthracite is also lower,
$12.50, at New York, i i - i
Textile mills are not yet gaining Enormous
bargain sales of cotton dress goods and oi
ready made woolen clothing have hindered
orders at any prices which the mills can afford
to take and must have partly supplied need!
of consumers. .11
THERE IS TROUBLE AHEAD
Between Great Brltan and China on -Account
of a Concession. j
In response for information in regard to
the recent cession by China to the Russian.
Bteam Navigation Company of a portion of
the foreshore at Che Foo, whtch was claimed
by an English company, Mr. George N. Cur-
zon, under secretary lor foreign auairs utated
in the house of commons Thursday that
her majesty's minister at Pekin had sent a
. . . li a l - 4. T . A J
cauie aupaicn to lue Kovcruur ai, uuuwu -saying
that a concession had bflen granted by;
China to a Russian firm at Che Foo. by which
British vested rights were infringed. ! The;
minister's dispatch also Bald that he had fa
formed the Chinese government that it would
be held answerable for all Injury to British
Interests resulting from I granting the con
cession. ; ! : i i i
CUBAS TOBACCO CROP.
The ProsDect for a Crop Gets Smaller
I Day by Day. . j j , -
Dittmar 4 Vonvleff, well-known importeni
and packers of leaf tobacco of Baltimore !
Md., have received a letter from the agent in
Habana, under date of April 30, which states
that the prospects for a tobacco crop is get
tiDg smaller as the days go by, as th insur
gents are destroying warehouse. Tobacco
bas naturally gone up, but Mr. Dittmar
Hates that owing to the large, quantity on
band at the various points or entry in ins
United States, there will not be a great scar
city of the leaf. In fact,1 he states that a crop
eould almost go oy wnuoui enou juwu-
renienco. " i: -'J 1 . j ; j
Japan's1 Taxes. -.'.
Japan's new Importance as a 5varllk?
power nas increase iaiuuu iu iyr.
cent., the amount to be raised this year
reaching $120,000,000. But with a pop
ulation of 45,000,000 ana tne ran ot
fifth in this respectf Japan will not find
this excessive. A large part or the rev
enue will be invested In new ships ana
in maintaining an army of 200,000 mb.
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