North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. V. DUNN, N O., NOVEMBER 13, 1896. NO. 47 BILL ARP'S LETTER. 1 POLITICS KNGISOSSES THE PHIL OSOPHER'S ATTENTION. Says he Is Sorry That Sir. Bryan Was Defeated For the Presidency. It is a good time to write some more "meditations among the tombs," or "an ode to melancholy," or a few verses like "This world is all a fleeting chow." The election is over and the bad news keeps coming and the heav ens are weeping and everything is going wrong. ; Very early this morn ing I was sweetly dreaming, when there wa a goo tie rap at tho door sod' I thought that possibly eome friend or cabor had come to tell me that Bryan frso elected, bat the voice spake and said: "Mammy say she can't come dis mcrnin' she'sick." Oh, my poor, bleeding connlry. No cook and the rain jast pouring down. Mrs. Arp made no sign; so .1 Ipcu ont of dressed and tiptoed out to the culinary department. I fired up the stovo and put on the hominy and the coffee and fed the cow and brought in some more wood and got tverything ready for feminine hands be fir j I awakened them. In course of timo they came and made the biscuit and fried the sausage and scrambled some eggs and we had"! a iso. i ureajiiasi ana x ieis oeiter. Scrrow endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning about break fast time. I felt calm and sereno and, did like Obidiah Oldbuck always did when bad luck overtook him. I put on a clean shirt and went down town to rejn'ca with those who were re joicing and to weep with those who wept. Several days ago I had pre pared my mind for a defeat. I bad hedged so that the disappoiating shock would not be so shocking when it came, bat fctill I secretly indulged a hope that there might be a landslide, an avalanche, an interposition of provi dence in Bryan's favor. A an may tbiuk ho is prepared for the worst, bat he can't cheat himself out of his withes. My comfort now is in sympa thizing with our hero, in admiring tho grandeur of the man who can. now, lik-i Panl, exclaim, "I have "fought a cood fight ; I have kept the faith." The coming historian will do him jus tice ami he will rank with the great men of the nation. One thing I rejoice at, and that is the election cf a Republican congress to co-operate with McKinley. Liet thcro be no excuse for the- winning side and if they do not revive the in dustries and prosperity of the country within the next four years then they mu3t step down and out or they will ha burled from power as Jupiter hurled Vtrlcan from the Olympian heights. Vulcan was nine days falling and broke his leg and is lame yet. i Now letf us have peace and rest. I eiDcerely wish that McKinley could 6tay in office for a term of ten years and then have to retire for good. The presidential term is too short. It takes all of ono year to grease tho machinery and get it in running order; then two years for work, and the last year is de voted to mending fences and fixing up for another election. It is the fame way with our governor's election. The term is too short; and it looks like some folks want to make it shorter . still.- The people aro tired of elections we get excited and get mad with one another, and by the time we get over it here comes another election, and we get m id again. We men folks could stand it fairly well, but our women folks get excited too, and make some remarks that become a circulating me dium and cause unhealthy agitation of the female mind. Bill ABP,in Atlanta Constitution. THE LABOR WORLD. ! America has 10,000 union brewers. ; London factories employ 200,000 girls.' . San Francisco, Cal., has a Chinese labor union. Buffalo, -N. T., has an Italian laborers union. Welsh sleel workers won ten per cent, ad vance. Wages of New Hampshire spinners are be ing reduced. Brooklyn's two unions of knitting workers may consolidate. They are 5700 members ot trades unions in Los Angeles County, Cal. A free employment bureau was opened by the Ladies' Tailors Union. 4 At San Francisco, Cal., the law prohibits work in Chinese laundries after 10 p m. Typographical Union N:. 271, of New York, has distributed f 100 among Its unem , ployed members. Eighty-one employes of a Worcester (Mass.) concern recently celebrated their twenty-fifth year as workmen for the same company. The glassworkers of Glassboro, N. J., are negotiating for the rental oi purchase of plant wherewith to start a co-operative fac tory. Nearly every town in New York will be ' represented at the barbers' convention la Syracuse. Moans to abolish barbers' schools wiil be discussed. i Fall River (Mass.) weavers adopted a reso lution that eyery member in good standing who shall be thrown out of work through the present depression in the cotton industry , four weeks or over shall receive from the funds ot the association one week's pay. ! New York German-American typographical i unions are about to demand that the hours , of labor for compositors employed by morn ing newspapers be reuueed. to forty hours n i week. It is intended that members shall 'work only five days a weet to reduce the large number of tbe unemployed. ' At Paris the great department stores have a medical service for their emDlores. includes -an infirmary and outings in the country r at the seashore. In addition, when a man or woman completes saven years of service at the Louvre, a sum of f 200 is credited to him in the pension fund, and afterwards t40 a year up to his fiftieth year ef service. The Carnegie Steel Company recently lost a big order by reason of its not employing union labor. President M. M. Garland, of the Amalgamated Association ot Iron and Bteel Workers communicated with the lodges i the counties where the new buildings are to be erected, and by their influence a clause was inserted in each of the contracts thai work must all be done by union labor. BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH. Tho Growth of foreign Commerce Very Pleasing at all Ports. ' -Tho Manufacturers' Eecord la its review of Southern business conditions says: The remarkable growth of foreign commerce throughout Southern ports i emphasized by tbe arrangements that Lava just beon com pleted f yr the establisbnier.t ot direct steam ship hues from Norfolk, Charleston, Savan nah and Brunswick to European ports. Five years ago only three. Southern ports had direct steamer lines , to Earope, tho Shipments from other points being inade by tramp steamers. Now eleven South ern ports have established regular . lines to various British and continental porta. The magnitude ot this business is illustrated lu tho fact that one company operating a large number ot steamers has engaged much of their cargoes through vLe whole winter and up to March, and another company opera tiug from Norfolk has about 50 or 60 steamers engaged toe carrying on a general cargo business this winter. - This great increase in foreign exports is building up a uthern set ports and giving to them as much activity and prosperity as has heretofore prevailed in the industrial centres of the South.. A large number of Southern enterprises have resumed operations since the election. The Baltimore Tin Plate company, employing 203 bunds; tho Wheeling' Iron, ta steel oompany and th ; uYiaker Iron company, ol tkoeViDg, and other enterprises nave In creased tne number of their hands from 2,- 000 to 4,500; tbe Kanawha Woolen Mills, of Charleston, W. Va.; the Maryland Silk Mills, of Ilagerstown; the Cotton Duck Mill, near : Baltimore; the Galveston, Texas, Rope and Twine Mill, employing one hundred bands; tho Fostoria Glass Works, at Moundsville, W. Va 300 ineu; Avery Plow Works, Louisville. Ky., 120 additional men; the Louisviilo Woolen Mill., 200 operatives; tho Blue Grass W oolen Mills. 200 bands: the Howard Harrison Iron Ootnuauv. of Bessemer. Ala., put on full"! Jorces; JJirmljcnam, Boiling Mill, l.ouu men; the Gate City Boiling Mill, Gato City, Ala., DOO- men, and a ; large number of other in dustries throughout tho South. Among the new enterprises looking to the development of business interests in the South reported for the week are a number of railroad undertakings; a $1,000,000 com pany organized in tho West. wnicU has pur chased 6.000 aires of land in Texas for im provement and' colonization in connection with manufacturing enterprises; a Chieago company organized to purchase 200,000 acres of land in Alabama for colonization; sales of several large traotAjof timber land for devel opment; a $150,000 cellulose plaut at Owens boro, Ky.j a $20,000 knittlntr mill company at Union Point, Ga,; a $100,000 electric light and power company at Fort Worth, Texas. Many enterprises projected somo months ago and delayed by the political excitement are now being taken up actively with a view to securing capital for immediate construc tion. Soma of them have capital pledged contingent upon the election, and these will be carried forward promptly. Reports to the Manufacturers' Eecord from all parts of the South show a very hopeful feeling and deter mination to bend every possit lo energy to tbe material advancement of this section, the newspapers very generally urging the people to drop politics for the timo and give atten tion to the advancement of material inter ests. '" MRS. CASTLES RELEASED. Utterly Prostrated Under the Strain and Broken Down in Body and Mind. ' Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of San Francisco who was sentenced at tho Clerkenwell ses sions on Tridav Jast to three months impris onment without hard labor, after having pleaded guilty, by advice ot counsel, to the charge of shop-lifting, has been released from WnrmvmnA Svirubbs prison on medical grounds, by order of the Home Secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley. Tha .nmmiotinnArn of the orisons, it ap pear, directed the medical board to inqnire intn and reoort uDon tho health ol Mrs. cas t! whntA i-nnditlon was causing anxiety to the nrison authorities. She was watched day and night Dyspocial attendants in the infirm -rrv nnd was Mhnwii everv attention possible. The commissioners, after receiving tbe re rrt nf thA medical board of the state of Mrs. Castle's health, communicated with the Home Secretary, who promptly ordered h release from prison, and that she be placed sband. at once to be taken back to the United States. lie nonsDired Against Cleveland's Kinsman. Col. Luther A. Hall, a Federal prisoner from Georgia, died In the State prison of dropsy. His crime was conspiracy against t?nMT7tin n Tflleral revenuo collector kA ia . rV.ntirA of President Cleveland. CoL Hall was a member of the Georgia legis lature at one time. Spain Borrowing Money It has been decided by tho government that the first subscription to the new Span ish loans of 400,000.000 pesetas, which will be issued next Saturday, shall be limited to 250 000 000 pereta. The remainder of the loan, amounting to 150,000.000 pesetas, to be reserved as tbe government has no present need of the money. A Railroad Ordered Sold. Jndee Sneer, of the Unitedtftates District Court for the southern district of Georgia has Meted an order for the sale of the Atlantic KhrtLine on November 17th. No price la fixed. . Collision on the C. F. & Y. V. k .iiHctnn twfton two freicht trains oc- V VVtUMvu ' w - w- curred on the Cape Fear railroad near Jonesboro. & Yadkin Valley No one was hurt. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. ' The official Republican plurality in Ohio Is 51,950. The total vote i.wo,?ov. ' A..vnrw Armenians have ten massa crcd at Eqerek in Asia Minor and 150 houses burned. tr rv dealers in stocks and grain. w fftiled. The firm made an assignment to Wm. T. Davis, Jr.- General Nelson A. Miles, m his report on th mv to. the War Department, recom mends a 325.525 garrison N. C at Wilmington, Wv.rr-wi..r TrAn Works at Richmond. rrJ- KoV.Virtad DD its Spike mill. Which Will give aTonsiderable number ot- men employ ment. ' Rev. John E, White, Secretary of the Bap tist Mission Board, says inere wm one hundred Baptists in the next General Assembly. . ' The general assembly of the Knights of La bor is in session at Rochester. Y. Sover P?1, lidvto be re-elected Grand Master Workman. " nr.owin Tnn- the Southern Surgica nnd OvnecoioL'ical Association elected Dr. George B. Johnston, president. Jas. Fagin, who threw a lighted cigar, Into Secretary Carlislo's face while he was. at Covington, Ky., has been fined- $20 and cost for the offense. The- lumber manufacturers of Arkansas have advanced the price on common lumber 60 cents per 1,000 feet, and upper grades aL000.perl.00a era int. The Returns to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. CORN BETTER THAN EXPECTED. Tbe Russian -Wheat : Yield Not Ex actly Known Wet Weather Un- favorable to Potato Crop. The retnrns to the Department of Agricul ture for the month ot November as to rates of yield make tbe average ot corn 27.3 bushelswhich is above tbe yield indicated by tbe condition figures in October. Last year the preliminary estimate of yield was 26.2 bushels. The rates ot yield in the large and principal corn States are as foliiows: New Yorlc 317; Pennsylvania S7.1; Ohio 30.9; Michigan 37.0; Indiana 32 i; Illinois 40.4; Wisconsin 33.6; Minnesota S6.S; Iowa 37.7; Missouri 26.3; Kansas 27.1; Nebraska 37.2. - The averuge yield of buckwheat is 18.7 bushels per acrev, against 20.1 Dusnels last year and 16.1 tor the year 1894. - The average yield per acre for potatoes is 86. bushels, which, though not phenomenal, is nevertheless above the average for he past ten years. Average yield of bay, as lndicatea by tbe preliminary returns, Is 1.36 tons against 1.0b last year. Tbe average yield of tobacco is 679 pounds per acre, against 743 pounds last year and 733 pound.' In the year 1894. " The European agent notes tbe lack of trust worthy estimates of the Russian wheat short age. The a Jvance in priee, which is expect' ed to be fairly maintained, will result in in creased acreage in Great Britain. Wet weather in October throughout oentral Europe was unfavorable for the potato crop. A good corn yield has been realized on the lower Danube. Raised Figues on Script. At Savannah, Ga., Major Alfred H. Hart- ridge, a broker has been arrested for. forgery. Warrants were sworn out by the Germanla Bank and the National bank of Savannah. Hartridge was attacked with paralysis Satur day just before the warrant was Issued. An officer Is now watching at Lis bedside. It is alleged that Hartridge raised figures on 6crip for nineteen shares of Southern Rail road stock to ninety, and one for sixteen shares to sixty shares and secured the cash. He borrowed $10,000 from Simon Borg A Co. of New York on the alleged ninety shares, and negotiated the scrip with the National Bank of Savannah To cover up his loss and pay the bank what had been advanced on it, last Friday Hartridge went to tbe Germa nla barfk and borrowed 97,000, giving a draft on himon Borg as Co. Payment was re fused. Indian Cotton Crop. t Tbe drought that the Indian people have experienced has had a disastrous effect not only upon their wheat, but upon their corn crop. Just how far it will reduce the normal output of Indian cotton and the exportation ot this it Is not now possible to say. It has been customary for those engaged in the cot ton business in India to export about a mil lion bales of cotton, about one-fourth of this amount goincrto Hambu g. If. as nowseems not unlikely, the cotton ere p is. reduced in amount by 500.000 or 60 000 bales, the sales oi India cotton may be reduced by that amount, this leading to an increased demand with better prices for American cotton. It is fortunate that at this particular time we are likely to find so good a market on the other side of the Atlantic for some of our more im portant agricultural products. Liberty Bell Attached. Report from Chicago, I1L, says the Colum bian Liberty Bell is in the hands ot the sheriff. - The Henry McShane Manufactur ing company, cf Baltimore, which cast it, claims that they were never paid for the work, and the firm's local agent with a dep uty sheriff, brought the bell from Evanston to Chicago. It will be shipped to Baltimore, where the firm intends to place it on exhibi tion. The bell was. attached onco before, just prior to its final jaunt to the Atlanta ex position, but a note for $125, the amount of the attachment, was given to secure the debt. The McShane company claims that tho bell cost them $ 1,200. The Texas Cotton Crop. The cotton crop of 1S96 Is at an end. A killing frost has fallen and the fields are as black as soot. There is not a particle of life left in a plant. A few more bales can be picked out, but fully 80 per cent, has been marketed. There Is a small number of bales left about farm houses, waiting and hoping for a price which the smallest crop in ten years ought to command. Of Interest to Shippers. The Baltimore Steam Packet Co., con trolling the Old Bay Line of steamers on the Chesapeake Bay, announces that all freight consigned to points in the South via. the At laatic Coast Line will I e sent to Pinner's Point, Norfolk, instead of Portsmouth asin tbe past. Messrs. Alfred Poor and Alexander Suter h.ive been appointed soliciting- agents at Baltimore for this service. BLOODSHED AT BESSEMER. A Negro Resists Arrest and is Killed. " Another Shooting Fracas Ensues and a Policeman Uses a Winchester. A special to the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer from Gastonia last Monday sas: Yesterday evening news came to this town from Besse mer City that there was trouble at that place between tbe whites and blacks. The circum stances as learned since are as follows: A white man named Crenshaw was passing through a negro settlement, when a negro named Ephraim Banks cursed bim and struck htm witb a rock. He reported tbe as sault to tbe policeman, Manuel Jenkins, and Jenkins, Crenshaw and Sam Moore went to arre t the negro. . He resisted arrest and at tempted to use a rock, or some other deadly weapon and Crenshaw, it is learned, shot and killed bim. There were several shots fi-M and one man, Odell, was shot in the hand. Later in the evening the town authorities learned that there was a threatened up rising among the negroes and they proceed ed to search the suspicious ones. In at tempting to search a negro named Sam Moore, he resisted and shot at Offi cer Jenkins. Jenkins returned the fire with a Winchester rifle and shot Moore through the hip- Crenshaw surrendered and Trent to iaU. " m TKB3D TO KILL MAYOR SWIFT. A Crank Invades the City Hall and Draws a Bull-Dog Also Wants to Kill McKinley. '. .:. . . At Chicago Joseph MaruMta walked Into the lower corrido- of the city hall armed to the te tb, and Intent on killing Mayor 8wift Maruska asked, in an excited manner, to be directed to the mayor's office. Aii officer took him to detective headquarters, where the desk sergeant was introduced to fclm as the mayor. Maruska declared that the cayor was a menace to society and reached for his bin pocket He succeeded in drawings boll doe revolver, 4ut was disarmed by the effl cere at hand. Maruska swore that be would kill the mayor, and then go to Canton. O., nnd dispatch President-elect McMinley. both nf whom, he said, must die before the coun try could prosper. He was handcuffed aftei hard struggle and locked up. " A PLEA FOR GOOD TIMES. i . ; 1 j Wo all Sins It, We all Hope It, Bat J Tin r& TVriiixr . TtTliaft YTftvA TImio Are? . . : Bornhardt Bros. A SpindJer.type founder of Chicago, lit, recently issued tho follow. Ing, which Is well worth universal publica tion; , : i I 'Hard Times ! Hard Times 1 Come no more! again "We all sing ft, we all hope it, but do ma know what hard times are? We sing it while we eat beef steak at twenty cents a pound. oysters at fifty cents a dozen, and three kinds of bread at the same meal; we shout It while we Mnoke cigars, two for a quarter; we think It while we stretch our comfortable legs ou Brussels carpet, before a bjazttg grate, with well-groomed beys and expansively clad girls around us; we shout it to our neighbors across our smooth lawns, or through our plate-glass windows; we groan it as we read our morning and evening papers, our plenti fal magazines and our costly libraries; we dream of it in our soft and springy beds, wbile our coal-fed furnace keeps tbe whole i bovse warm; we 'maunder about it in our ' well-equipped offices, shout it through our ; telephones, ring the changes on it as we sand telegrams and take expensive summer -outings. We meet in our poll t lea', social, lit verary and business convention, and ring the changes on it wbile we are spending f or ; tunes with railroads, hotels, restaurants and ' olaces of amusement. ' 'And yet, in these days we do not know vbat Lard times are; we think we do, but we donot., , "The writer knows of a time within his re membrance and he Is no patriarch, when, In one of tbe richest parts of one of the most favored States in. the Union, tbe whole town of so no two thousand inhabitants possessed altogether not over, $300 in money, all ex change was by baiter; there was no cash pay ment oecause there was nothing to pay with. AmoLg the best and richest families (and there were many who thought themselves well-to-do) teef steak was a once-a-week visitor; round beef was a luxury; oysters were an un heard of flainty; Corn bread was the usual, wheat the rare food; the cheapest pipe tobacco was & dissipation; cold bed-rooms, scanty we. Z fires, woolsey and calico were Jn the bouse; 6s8 window panes were helped out by haL, old papers and rags; a weekly paper was an extravagance, and served several families. Ten books made i good, fair library; beds were slatted or corded; rag carpets wereoo casional, ingrain scarce, and Brussels a tradi- i tioa; the solo vacation was a nae to tne an-j- nual pi?nio in the one horse. shay;, nobody j had time, money or heart for conventions or ! amusements. . We men worked from 5 a. m. j to 7 p. m., (the aristocrats shortened the time ' bv two hours) and the women worked at all hours. And yet it Is doubtful if there was in those times such a universal spirit ot unrest and discontent, such a concert ot growling, as today. "Is it fair? Are we just? Can we afford to waste time in bewailing hard times when times are easj; on us and treat us far better than we deserve. v - "A. manager once said with a chuckle: The mails have been fcood to our house to day; the first one brought an order In every letter, and the last one brought a remittance In every letter. We all know (mayhap we are)perpocs who would have said: 'Alas, we have fallen on evil timet; the first mail brought no money and the last mail brought no traae . - "Let us put aside these ugly tempers of ours; look toward the suns smile at the shad owr U sunshiuB'-makes the desert; 'it's a pretty world, senor;'entoy its beauties, let us borrow no trouble, shed light on our neigh- bors; quit us like men, and (as they are) good, times will seem TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL. Preparations are Going Forward Make It a Great Success. to The Tennessee Centennial Exposition Is now an assured suecess and no such enter prise ever had bitter and more encouraging prospects. The work ot erecting buildings and beautifying the grouads has gone on steadilyidespite the excitement of the polit ical campaign and visitors from other States are amazed at the extent and scope of the enterprise nnd splendid appearance of the great buildings. The enterpri e bas steered clear of debt and has pushed forward with re doubled energy to make it the most beautiful and the ccmpletest exposition ever held in the South. There is a constant demand for space for e hibits coming from every State In the Union and foreign countries. Tbe exposition will open May 1, 1897, and it is the determination of the management to avoid the mistakes of other expositions and hive everything complete on opening day so that the first visitors will enjoy a full exposi tion without the annoyance of unfinished, work. Evidences are multiplying that this great agricultural, commercial and industtial celebration of Tennessee's centennial will bo one of the most successful occasions in the new era of prosperity and business active' v which is promised by tne renewal of confi dence and tho manifest spirit of progress which is now abroad in the lonl; An appro priation for a government exhibit, which was passed by one house at the last session of Congress, is expected to be provided at the coming term, a , State appropriation, and greatly increased subscriptions in Tennessee wili add to the already assured success of a State's celebration under exceptionally au spicious circumstances. Coxey Calls for a Few Reforms. Commonwealer J. S. Coxey has called a -nnfprence of all friends of the initiative and referendum and other ref .rras to meet at the Lindell Hotel, St. Louis. January 12, 1897. At this meeting a platform will be preseuted oMarinrrfnr the demonetization of gold as well as sliver. State ownership of all railroads, hichwav?. waterwavs and teleeraph and tel- nnhnna lines: municipal ownership of all etiwt car lines, waterworks, market houses, electric light and vgas plants, women s suf frage and election of President by direct vote f h T.e,-r.l. 'so that national banks should loan money to the people at cost. Bryan Carried South Dakoth. wth?n!?bnt the official count will show positively wbo are elected State "officers in South Dakota, but from the best information f.tnahiA frnm all sources at Pierre tho in- .iis.tinna nrrt that tho Bryan electors will hr a mnioritv In the neighborhood of 1C0. Th- whole Bepublican State ticket, with the exception of Governor, will be elected by small majorities. The Torpedo Launched. Torpedo boat No. 10, tho .second of the three "being built at th3 Columbian Iron Works for the United Stales Navy, was launched Tuesday.' The vessel is an exact onnnternnrt cf No 3. which was launched at thfl iron Works Octooer I. Tne tauncn war In every way a Deriect success. Bryan for the U. S. Senate. A special from Seattle, Wash., says a boom bas been started here for Wm. J. Bryan for United States Senator from this 8tate. The silver f unionists will control the Senatorsbia The constitution of Washington provides that to be eligible to the office the candidate shall merely be n inhabitant' of the State at the time of his election, so that the fusion major Ky could elect Mr. Bryan without any trou M Bicbard Winsor, Sr., tbe Populist leader in Washington, and James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic fusionlst and member-elect of Congres, are rival candidates for tbe Sena torship, and Mr. Bryan has been suggested as a compromise. S 1BI j Nothing Like Bryan's In the History of Politics. HE TRAVELED 18,831 MILES, And Delivered 592 Speeches In 447 Towns and Cities, Covering 27 States. WOliam I. Brvan has made tbe most re markable can pal; i ever kpown In the his tory of politics .n ibis or any other country of tbe world. He was nominated at Chicago on the 10th of July, and since that time be has traveled 18,831 miles, delivered 593 speeches in 447 towns and cities, covering 27 States. It Is estimated also that his audi ences aggregated over. 2,000,000 of people. Until I860 no Presidential candidate had ever taken the stump, but Stephen A. Doug- jus, who was a law unro mmseu sou was one of the ablest deputies this nation ever produced, took to the hustings whea a can didate against Lincoln, Breckinridge and Bell, and traversed the touutry from New Orleans to New Eucland. traveling 3,000 miles aud delivering 63 speeches. Lincoln. jwho was then regarded as the only man able to cope witb Douglas on tbe stump, maae no speech ar d wrote no letters. exept those of mere courtesy, from the time oi nis nomina tion until his election. In 1864 Lincoln an McClellan were tbe candidates, and Lincoln delivered 8 speeches and traveled 450 miles. McClelian made 2 brief speeches In tbe cam paign, out did not travel at ail. in 1863 Graut made 3 .jpeecbes. notaoie ehiefly for their brevity, and traveled over a.wu miles. Seymour, bis competitor, trav eled over 1.000 miles ai.d delivered 8 speecoes. In 1872 Grant did not travel at all and made no speeches, while Greeley traveled ' over 2.000 miles and delivered 79 speeches. In 1876 Tilden made 2 verv brief speeches and did not leave New York, while Hayes de- uverta e speeches and traveled aonut i.ouy miles. In 1880 Garfield traveled 2.800 miles during the campaign and delivered 97 speech es, while Hancock did not leave bis headquar ters anddehvered onlv 2 very brier speecnes. In 1884 Blaine traveled nearly 5000 miles and delivered 195 speeches, wbile Cleveland delivered S brief speeches and traveled but 8)0 miles, la 1883 Cleveland delivered I speech and did not travel at all. wbile Harri son delivered 56 speeches and did not travel over 200 miles. In 1892 neither Harrison nor Cleveland went about in tho campaign, and Harrison delivered but 2 speeches and Cleve land 4, -.. Bryan's campaign covered the whole coun try from Batb, Maine, in tbe far East, to Charlotte and Memphis in tho South, and West to Grand Island in tbe Interior cf Ne braska, coins North as far as Fargo in Da kota. . Duluth in Minnesota. Marquette in Wisconsin, and Mackinaw City in Michigan, while the whole central belt of the country between Maine and Nebraska would require hundreds of dots on -the map to locate the places at which be spoke. Whether he helped or hindered bis cause may "never be settled beyond dispute, but he has certainly given to the country and the world the most marvel ous exhibition of energy, endurance and flu ency of speech that has ever been exhibited In the political history of any oountry. New Governors. c The following will thow the governors who have been chosen in tbe various States. Those felecti'd in Alabama. Arkansas, Florida, Geor- . - ir. i T I -J gia, juouisiana, Aiaine? juassucuuseus, uuoue Island and Vermont were voted for prior to lastTua-day: Alabama Joseph E Johnston, dem. Arkansas Daniel W. Jones, dem. ' Connecticut Lorrin A. Cooke, rep. . Delaware Ebe W. Tunncll, dem. Florida William D. Bloxham, dem. Georgia William Y. Atkinson, dem. Illinois John B. Tanner., rep. LouisianaMurphy J. Foster, dem. Maine Llewellen Powers, rep. s Massachusetts Rosier Wolcott, rep. Montana Robert B Smith, fusion. Nebraska Silas A Holcomb, fusion. North Carolina-Daniel Russell, rep. South Carolina W. H. Eilerbe, dem. South Dakota A. O. Ringrud, rep. Texas Charles A. Culbertson, dem. Vermont Joeiah Grant, rep. Washington John B. Rogers, fusion. West Virglnla-G. W. Atkinson, r6p. Dr. Parkhurst Wins. The Supreme Court of Kings county, New York, has decided In favor of the Society lot the Prevention of Crime, of which the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst is president, and against tbe Society for the Prevention of Vice, of whlob Anthony Comstock is the head, in constru ing tbe will of the late unanes uaingaie Beck, wbo died at Richfield Springs, N. O., October 11.1893. Beck left an estate valued at $5,000,000, and as a residuary legatee the 8ociety for the Prevention of Crime comes in for f 200.00O. Tne society ior ine rre en tion f Vice claimed, after the will was filed, that the testator clearly intended toe oe- 9uest for them, and that tbe lawyers in rawing tbe will mistook the names ot the two societies. Soldiers Meat and Bread. A Japanese soldier Is allowed seven ounces ot meat In his rations, an Austrian or Span ish private eight, arrencb, rorkisn. German or Belgian nine, an Italian eleven, an Eng lishman twelve, a ismsian sixteen, ane ra tion in the United States army is twenty ounces. The ration of bread Is highest in the Austrian army, thirty-two ounces. In the German army it Is twenty-eight ounces, in the French and Italian it is twenty-two, the same in the United States, and in the Russian army seventeen ounces. All modern armies, save tbe Russian, have also a daily alio wance-of rice. . - Higb Mountain Climbing. Aconcagua, the highest peak oa the western hemisphere, is to be attempted again this fall by Mr. E. A. Fitzgerald, who explored the rsew Zealand Alps. If he succeeds .in getting to the top, which is 23,200 feet above sea level, be will beat the highest mountain climbing record, Sir W. M. Conway's 22,600 feet ascent of Pioneer Peak In the Himalayas. Dr. Gnssfeldt has tried Aconcagua, but got Into trouble with his smldes and had to turn back 2,000 Sfeet from the summit. Mr. Fitzgerald !wlll have in bis party the Swiss guide jZurbrlggen, who .accompanied him In ,Je W Zjgaiiiiiu nuu Tt the Himalayas. - Ten-Cent Cotton. D. A, Tompkins writing from New YorX tt the Charlotte, N. CL, Observer, says: "Cottos men say that European buyers expect a rise in price more on account of the prosperoot trade expected all over Europe this winter than on account oi snort crop, uooa tboritles here say that with a crop of 8.000.- COO or 10.000.000 bales cotton will go to It cents. It should not be forgotten, bo weyer that New York, is excited over tne resuic a he election." ir nr.i-oifni fRternlTV-What wa Alio, ' " . coins on in tbe parlor last night? Ethel WnshWV-Only my engagement a. Life. WEEKLY NEWS BUDGET. Southern Pencil Pointers. Governor Carr opened the 19th annual col ored State fair at Roigb. j - v, v i It is reDorted In Louisville that Secretary Carlisle wants to retire from politics. i Dr. Wise Bepublican. will contest the seat - i S . " t - Virginia. , -j . . -: - j William Winters, an Atlanta butcher, was found dead In a stream near that city, having been shot. ; ; . j Tbe 4th annual session of the North Caro lina Baptist State Convention met at Morgan- ton wun a good attendance. 4 j. All the newly elected Bepublican members of Kentucky's Legislature ha vo been served with notices of contests : by their late silver Democratic opponents. ! .. ' After being without licensed saloons for nearly two months. Winston, N. C. again to have saloons at a license of 1 1,000 per year. Just double tbe former price. j From the latest returns from Kentucky McKinley will have 12 and Bryan 1 elector. This was occasioned by unexplained lregu laiities In voting. . The Palmer ticket got 5,018. : : "- J;. .- v ' f -' The 114th ann 1 cs9 on of the Virginia Conference, of he .Tethodist Episcopal Church, Sou-r. met Lynchburg, va. Bishop W. W Duncan, j of South Carolina, preatned. Milton H. Smith, of the Louisville and Nashville, says his company has not bought tbe South Catolina and Geottfia railroad; that tbe matter was considered four years ago and dropped. , ;- James Michael, the little Welsh rider, broke the record in New Orleans. Paced and with a flying start he covered the distance in 13 minutes and nine seconds, breaking the previous record by one second, ; j It Is expected lhat the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City B.B, an enterprise-begun nearly thirty years ago, but which was first brought to the point of construction last spring, and which has hung fire since, will he pushed tbrougb. , v.,, " I --. - . :.r At Augusta, Ga., tbe Southeastern Baaaball League was organized for the coming season, embracing tbe following cities: Augusta, At lanta, Macon, Charleston and Savannah. Co lumbus, Ga.,. and Columbia,' .8. C, are scrambling for the sixth place. : . Two masked robbers entered tbe store of T. C. Harris in the town of Lancaster, Eallas county, Texas, and covering a clerk with their pistols, forced him to open tbe safe and give up $400 in money. The robbers are at arge, pursued by a sheriff and posse. All About tne North. ' Clapp & Co., of New York, dealers In stock and grala havo failed. ; The Iowa Savings Bask, of Sioux City, has been closed. Assets 970,000; deposits $150,000. ; . , The Bryan electors In Wyoming have 880 majority; Osborne, Democratic candidate for Congress, 401 majoiity, and Corn, Demo cratic candidat7 for Supreme Court judge, 404 majority. . A. San Francisco dispatch to a Cnicago paper says that C. D. Lano, tbe California millionaire mine owner, bas offered to pay all thetra eliug expenses of Mr. Wm. J. Bryan if Mr. Bryan wtll devote his time to preach ing silver throughout the country. . At a meeting of the directors of tbe Nation al Baseball association in Chieago the pen nant was awarded to Baitra ore.. At t'e league meeting it was decided to change the opening and closing .time of the season, so that mes will commence April 15 and end Oct 15. , ! In the' United States district court, WI1 minsrton, Del., the- jury gave a verdict for $8,000 damages in the case of David F. Craig ngainst F. Biumenthal & o. of New York. Craig was a boy employed iu the company's morocco factory and lost anarm while work lag a machine, ' . ' - I III! Foreign Chit-Chat. An important expedition in aid of tbe in surgents in Cuba Is said to have recently sailed from Kingston, Jamica. Six persons were killed and 130 injured In a bead-on collision between trains on the St. Petersburg and 'A arsaw road, near Grodino. Poland. . ' The Transvaal government has decided to claim 2,000,000 indemnity from the British South African Company to cover the dam ages sustained by tbr Jameson raid. Tbe London Globe, commenting upon tbe Venezuelan arbitration treaty, says it wel comes the agreement because it releases the TJnitM Stttes from a "false -ai.d dangerous position." ..; The London Dally News' Vienna corres pondent telegraphs that reports from Con stantinople show t bat the situation there is very dangerous. Tbe families otmostofthe diplomats have left the city. , Tbe German imperial budget, as It will be submitted to tbe Reieh&tag. shows that tbe receipts and expenditures balance at 1.328, 801,824 marks. The ordinary expenditures show an Increase of 24,209,238 marks. Spanish soldiers are said to have entered the home of F. L. Draicrofr. an American citizen, formerly from Indiana, who has a sugar estate in Cuba, outraged bis wife, al most killed him, and robbed himoft850. Tbe matter was reported to Consul General springer. . r r - 1. 1 i. i -!-..-. Miscellaneous Callings. Gold continues to come to the Uaited 8tates Treasury. The official Bepubliean plurality In Ohio is 81,950. The total vote 1,003,640. Major M?Kinley wCl spend a week with Mr. Hanna at the latter's home in Cleveland. Tho will of John H. Ioman allows three years in which his partners may wind up bis banking business, jus ruth avenue bouse and furniture in given to bis wife, witb $25, 000 aoLU ty. The remainderan , unaseer tainable amount will be divided among the children. ; " That Watson Letter. tTom Watson's letter accepting the Vice- Preaidential nomination of tbe Populist party bas at last been given to the public It was written on October 14 to Senator Marlon Butler, ehalrman of tbe notification com mittee and manager ot tho Poulisteampaign It was suppressed by Senator Butler daring tbe campaign Tne aocucneot wouia imm vm lnrr la a newsnaoer.. Watson ac cepts only "because be bad promised to do so. He raves and rants against everyone oni v(nint!v aitacts Chairman Butler him self, wbo be sais, should have ealled Bewail flown, and instead on his ( Watson's recogni tion Ttr listening to tie overtares of Demo- .ntiA miiniirani. WatCon'UTS the PoPUliSt party has Leen torn Into factions, their lead er? deceived and ensnared, and tbe work and bones of years gone. Tbe wnoie tone oi the document shows bitterness and disap IK) lntrcc.it, and with no particular interest In tne success of tbe cause of silver, for which Kith parties were battling t tho time tbe letter ja written. V tztoathesTn. ntnt, of the New York Yacht Club. Jias just ordered a steam yacht, which is to make thirty-eight roiUan hoar, so that - ch win t the fastest craft afloat, she will be so designed that she caa be turned into a torpedo Dcm three days. , ;,L . - . I WEEKLY TRADE .REPORTS. There IlAsNever Been So Great Change for the Better In' a Single ...Week. C ' -K--. .rl . -"V; Eklow is extracts from B. G. Dana Co.," and Bradstreet's weekly! trade reports: "No one doubts that the brighter day is dawning, and it Is the common remark that never before has business shown to great a change for the better within a single week. Tothe change of conditions and otsplrit de- scribed last weetc these have been large in creases in the working force and In the vol- ume of trade. Dispatches telling of about 600 mills, most ot which have opened or have materlaly enlarged , their force, though they fill many columns, give only part of tho tact, tor throughout the country tho gain has been surprising even to the most hope ful. 'f-,1" :' '"!'!',: , ; "Foreign need of American wheat contin ues an Important factor and the price .has advanced to 88 cents, gaining 6 cents tor one week, 10 cents tor two weeks and 24 cents since early In September. The price is the , highest since June, 1892. i ? I i , . r "Many textile works have been starting or increasing force, mostly s on ; orders booked weeks ago. 1. 1 j- Jt. . - i -? 1, - "The change in the money market is strik ing. Instead ot t2.C00,CC0 potng out to the interior, as before. 2.500,000 have eome in this week; instead of 80 cents discount. New York exchange at Chicago is at 30 cents pre mium; instead of merchants andmann aotur ers vainly hunting lenders banks are hunting for more commercial paper. omucecial rates are down to S pee cent.-on best paper. Forelgh exchange is higher; owina to the sales of $4,000,000 governments taken by the Bank of England as a, member ot the syndi cate early In 1895, to payments of 3,000,000 loans, and to foreign; realizing on f 2,000.000 of securities, but all these are in effect taking ' profits for confidence in American honor. "Failures for the week have been 276 in the TJnlt-d States, aeainst 233 last year and 46 in Canada against 49 last year. A, $ "A partial : record ofv the number ot men given employment ln industrial lines since November 6th shows an aggregate of nearly 80,000. Demand for iron and steel has not Increased after tbe activity of a week ago, but prices are firm in .-ome instances ad vancedand the trade, continues confident of a large business during tbe coming year. Cotton and cotton goods contlaue firm and unchanged in prices: print cloths have an upward tendency. Wool Is bighcron more active demand,, but , manufacturers are not supplying in excess of wants. Other ad vances in prices are for leather, shoes, white pine lumber, petroleum,, lard, sugar and for wheat, corn and oats; Tho- strength ot the statistical position of wheat Js as marked as heretofore, and renewed inquiries are re ceived from Australia. Tbe ponsplcuous de creases In prices -are those for coffee, pork and turpentine. -Western Jobbers report an increase lu mall orders, and that being be tween seasons in some lines alone "prevents improvement In demand' from jobbing being general. Mercantllo collections' throughout the Central Western and .Sontherafitates are easier, but complaints are still hearC from the West.: -; - r;--: " . ; . SEABOARD AIR LINE., The Hitch In the Transfer to Ryan Continues. The transfer of the Seaboard and Boaaoke , Railroad t Company and its kindred lines to the Byan syndicate has not been accoon plhshed, nor can it be stated- that there is any probe, bility that It will be.-;" ' K "Gen. GUV of the Mercantile Trust Company of Baltimcre, gave out the following, state ment! 7 '';! "Mr. Thomas F. Byan accepted and paid for tbe stock c! tho Seaboard and Roanoke I Railroad Company, covered tjy Gen. John ' Giirt options tnrougn tne iercai.nie j.ruai nnd Deposit company, between two and three thousand shares. Mr. Byan also called at the office of i the company to .close the Hoffman pooled stock option, which expires Saturday, but tbe committee was not ready, to deliver the stock or to-tell what amount had come in underthat option." At the office of President Hoffman . M- was said that Mr. Hoffman had nothing to tay, except that nothing bad been dot.e' in the matter. Mr. Ryan and fci.-attorney,, Ellbtt Boot, of New York, are at the Benccrt, but neither of them would give aay information to add to the stateme-t issued by Gen. GUI. The Weekly Bank Statement The weekly bank statement shows the fol lowing changes: Reserve 'Increase t$,C93, 125', loam Increase, 43,228,900' 'specie in crease. 48,266,800; legal tenders iacr, 4f 407,200; deposits Increase, 6l5,919,9C0; circu lation decrease, $17,200.'. Th banks now bold $23,504,125 In excess Of tho requirements of the 25 per cent rule. ; . - - g : Ilanna's Southern Home. Mark Ilanna's palatial residence af Thorn asvillo, Ga., is being pot In order for his ar rival cn January lat. A private letter say that he will take Major t McKiUer with blra, there to rest. Murdered His 3Iotber-In-Larr. A special from Richmond, Ya, rayef One of the most brutal murders ever committee' in Carroll county has Just come to light, and .the Sheriff and a posse are In 'purs nit of tb murderer, wbo Is an Italian named John SeU ego. On November 2 Mrs. Ann Mitchell left her home to go to Woodlawn, abouf five miles from Hlllsviil, to get medicine for hei daughter. Selego, hT son-in-law, started to a blacksmith sbop near by, got a mattock, concealed himself la a thicket tnrougn whicn Mrs. Mitchell bad to pacs and crushed bet head with tbe mattock. He buried her body In a pile of rocks, where it remained several days. Selego then carried tbe body tbrougb his yard on a sledge and lft ft in tbe wood. He then Joined in tbe search to find It, until tbe marks of the sledge were .discovered. when he fled to the woods. . IT 13 ASSCaTElY '-, TM:3t SAVE ' J:.AC . MONEY AK Oim DSALCns eaa cn voa machines cheaper 'than Tooea t eHewttere. Xlie If C W HOJ12 U oar best, hat tvo mate eneaycr hJnda, raeaasfhe CLIJIAX, IDC I. and Sl?v, nacidnee for lS.OO and Call c wcSS; r". . iri ytiiin-,e tlie TotId to -KaSSti for JSO.OO.orarJW. gewin; can P tit i A 44 a- ' m : f- ' rtr. RALE L.Y - . BA1NEY & JUitUAii Lunn, N..C. r from L2E2: