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THE DAILY CITIZEN. The CtTljm Is the most Mttnslvely circu lated and widely read newspaper in Wcitfni North Carolina. Its dlncuaiiion of public men and measure is In the interest of public intcKrity, honest jnwrntnrnt. and nroaoerons industrr. and it knows no personal allegiance in treating pub lic Issues. The Citizbn publishes the dispatches of the Associated Press, which now covers the whole world In its scone. It has other facili ties of advanced journalism for feathering news from all quarters, with everytinnncare tullv edited to occuov the smallest space. Specimen copies of any edition will be sent -rr to any one sending their address. Twiiua Tlail lArnrmtfVr: S3 for six months: SO cents for one month; IS centsfor one week. Carriers will deliver the paper in verv nurt of the citv to suhseribers. and par ties wanting It will please eall at the Citizen inwBTiiiMA Ratrs Reasonable, and mack' known on aunlication at this office. All transient advertisements must be paid in ari TReadinr notices ten cents per line. Obltit ry, marriage and society notices fifty cent each (not exceeding ten lines) or fifty cents per inch. TUESDAY," SEPT. 24, 1889. niHt'SEH OF EDUCATION, The Wilmington Messenger, comment ing upon Langston's adhesion to Ma hone after most pronounced hostility to him, but at length yielding, for a consul cration, says: Langston has sold out bag and bag gage to Mahone, and is trying now tt sell out his entire race in that State t the artful and unscrupulous politician In so recently eulogized. Langston is really educated and able, and his traile, tnere fore, is the more disgraceful. For an ig norant, unlettered, debased negro t sell out is not a surprise, but quite a matter ol course procedure. But tor an educated able negro to sell out is disgraceful am without excuse. The Messenger suggests a point which bears with unpleasant significance upot the subject ot negro education. We 1 the South, and notably so in North Cn olina, are manfully, in Northern parlance loyally doing our duty in educating tin negro to the full extent of our ability The national commissioner of education is frank to say, speaking of the use of the school funds hv the Southern State an thorities: The funds for the support of thesi schools are furnished mainly bv the whit inhabitants, and. after making due nl jowance for all the sums that have lice furnished (or the education of thenegroe through private sources of lienevolenc and through the taxes raised among themselves, it mav still be said that tin children of those once held in servitude the South are being educated by the son: of their former masters. This is gratifying both as evidence good faith, and also of purpose to tcstt its full extent the capacity of the race t development into value as a good citic through the influences of education. W all agree that enlightenment is bette than darkness to all, of every race, whi are to take their parts in the delicate and responsible duties of self governmen Humanity as well as interest compel tc the education of all, white and black and there is no stint, nor has there bee any discrimination, in the application such educational funds as we have lxf able to raise and create out of our rcl tive poverty. But in candor we must sav that then are many who question the wisdom this liberal provision because of the In use so often made of education by tin colored people. It is largely though that it is education acquired for no use ful or practical purpose, unfitting the re cipicnt for the patient labors to which tli vast majority of mankind are assigned by the allotment of the Creator, or the workings of the social system; else applied to bad purposes. The use all education is to make life 'ess depen ent upon the physical powers, and to more intelligently and profitably direi" their use. Its nobler use is to fill the mind with useful information, to stiinula thought and elevate and purify the soul In its baser use, it is to sharpen thefacul ties to gain advantage over the unw and ignorant, and to use it as a tool for worldly advantage. There is a suspicii that with the educated colored men tli is regarded as the chief end of his educi tional acquisitions. The disproportion ate amount of petty forgeries committed by them in this and otiier States, lend; color to the suspicion. And some trans actions notorious in pnst years among some colored politicians s;rengthen the feeling of distrust. We would not, however, counsel an alterations in the svstem of education which, embracing whites and blacks its aims, is based upon the soundest prin ciples of statesmanship, which sees thi incompatibility between ignorance and the safe practice of the institutions government founded on intelligence; and also upon the principles of pure philan thropy, which would not leave one man mind in darkness when the fount ains of intellectual light are so abundant and free to all. Perhaps when as much attention is bestowed upon the diffusion of moral as of mental light, the appre hension to which we refer will cease to operate. But Langston, a highly educa ted man, has given a very painful illus tration of moral weakness and the per version of cultivated powers to base ends. THE OBJECTS OP THE PRESS, The Morganton Star complains that it is "unmanly in the citizens and editors to make such a tirade upon Burke for th her first and last occurrence, when some of these counties are guilty of even more aggravated crimes than the one they are charging upon the people of Burke." Upon which the Charlotte Chronicle justly remarks: "As far as has been observed by the writer, the editorials of the State papers have rather been directed at lynching per se than they have sought to make the Burke county people the scapegoat of the State s indinerence to lynching. And the observations of the Chronicle are correct, The Citizen has probably been a outspoken as any other paper the State in its denunciation of the lynch ing Burke county, but we are sure The Citizen did not specially single out the people of Burke as peculiarly obnoxious to the milt of this atrocious form of popular riolence. On the contrary, it bore willing testimony, derived partially Jrom personal observation, to the nor mal temper of the people of that country, except in this conspicuous case, loyal to law and consistently true to the main tenance of good order. In common with the Chronicle and other papers of the IF State whose apprehensions were aroused at the fatal tendencies of these secret outrages, deadly assaults upon the due and regular course of law, we spoke itliout reserve of the evil influences which had at length manifested them selves among a tieople hitherto patient under provocation, and submissive to the prescribed forms of justice. In all that we have said there is not a word we wish so recall. The more we reflect upon the tragedy, the less excusable does it appear ; and we are sure the people 01 Burke, with cool reflection, will be con inced that men in their midst have com mitted a grievous error, as well as a tear ful crime, the guilt of which can only be expirated by discovery and punishment of those engaged in it. The good name of every community engaged in such law less deeds must suffer seriously if that community acquircnces in the deed, it becomes a party to it, and thenceforth nrescilies the precedent for the the fu- i ture. That precedent abrogates written law, abrogates all the forces of customs and habits built up with so much tunc nd labor, not in one generation, but through manv generations, through ecu turics of struggle against the natural tendences of the human disposition through patient determined conflict against the violence of human passion against, the rule of the strong, against the rapacity of the avaricious, until at last we have seen strength equalized, and the weak and the poor reposing safety and peacefully under the shadow if the shield of the law It is to aid in securing the continued sanct.tv ot this protecting shield, mat ilu- uriitest and warning against the reign of lynch law is sounded. The peo ple take their iicnee and order and do mestic happiness as a matter of course They were born and bred under their happy influences. They do not realize how artificial and factitious arc their happy conditions; they do not know at what cost of labor and struggle and blood their pcacefulness has lieen achieved The acceptance ot Ivnch law is the ac ceptance of rude natural law in every tliiiur. Then conies the rule ol the vio lent and the rapacious, the triumph of the strong and the humiliation of the weak: and then the peaceful social fabric is shattered into a thousand bloody fragments. The committee to select a site for the ("treat Imposition of lS'.lL' of course wc mean the New York site, the only conflict in the public-choice being lictween that city and Washington City have agreed, hav ing tixcd upon iMoiningsine i inn, im iloomingdale lands, and as much ot Len tral Park ns may lie needed. Of course, for an exhibition of such magnitude, de- stined to surpass all the world has ever yet seen, as is proper when the date ol the discovery of a new world is to be commemorated, the space needed is very large, for the buildings are to be very large. The mam building is to cover twenty-five acres, and to cost $U,."i()0,- (1(10; the machinery hall twenty acres. Lo cost $2.(100,000, with agricultural and horticultural halls and art gallery of great she and proportionate cost This is going to work in a way worth' of so grand an object. The ambition of the New Yorkers is excited to throw the liitfcl tower in the shade by erecting one on their Kxposition grounds a quarter of a mile high. It seems to us a vain and somewhat puerile emulation, as idle a waste of money and labor as the build ing of the tower of Mabel seems to have Ik'cu. But there is no accounting for tastes; and the New Yorker, like the typ ical American, proposes to "lieat all crea tion." It may Ik remarked that while nature has displayed some of her forces during the past summer in unusually appalling and destructive form, in teirqiests and floods, and also in the rage of the ele ments and ageucics of which man has as sumed the control, fires, and the disas ters of travel on land and water, she. has lieen kindly in staying the hand of liestilence. Nowhere in the broad land has epidemic apjicared, and nowhere has the scourge that terrified and desolated last year made its appearance. Good health and general good harvests afford substantial conqiensalion for the calam ities which will make this passing year an ever memorable one. Rich men use their wealth to indulge such apiietites and luxuries as they choose to affect. That is one of the priv ileges as well as one of the uses of money It is not often we hear of a man enjoying a luxury, liecause it is a fashion, by dep uty. But there is a rich man in Scran ton, Pa., who hires another to smoke his cigars for him. There is method in this. He escaiics the nicotine of the to bacco and enjoys the fragrance of the cigar. Dr. I'arkerl'rays cream Van-Ola, Rosa line, Ongaline and Diamond nail powder having now become the ladies' favorites, at F. L.Jacob's drug store, these popular manicure articles may always be found, together with pocket emery board, or ange wood sticks, nail scissors, files and other such requisites. Also a complete line of drugs and toilet articles, in addi tion to the Hebe Soda Fountain from which ice cold drinks are disensed. Cor ner Main street and Patton avenue. "What is Sowerly doing now?" asked one politician of another. "He's tending a barrel organ." "He hasn't got to street music, has he?" "No; campaign newspaper." The Ladies Delighted The plcasanteffect and the perfect snfetv with which ladies may use the liquid fruit laxative. Syrup of Figs, under all condi tions make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eve and to the taste, gentle, yet effectunf in acting on the kid neys, liver and bowels. In life thy worth we never knew We judged you merely by your clothes. But at thy grave man stops to think How much to thee he really owes. If yon feel unable to do yonrwork, and have that tire. I feeling, take Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla ; it will make yon bright, active and vigorous. For sale by F. L. Jacobs. - ALL GOODS THE BIG STORE Bostic Bros. & 'Wriglit Is now overflowing with the largest Hiul prettiest stock of Dry floods ever brought to this market. Henriettas, Cashmeres, Mo hair Cloth, Jubilee Cloth, ........ I'a.wIu Vulvorti Lllllir-i w,i,-,, ,.., Worsted, Eiderdown m all colors, neiurew niw unc i t ...c t hains, etc. NOTIONS ! NOTIONS! All sorts of Notions, indud- insr Yankee Notions, and some of the prettiest Notions you ever Noted. Some of the most Fascina ting Never-Kail Fascinators that ever Fascinated. Hoods, Toboggans, am Shawls in endless variety. The prettiest line of Flan nels you ever aw. Hlankets, Quilts and Conn terpanes. Jeans and Cassimeres. dents' Furnishing (Joode in abundance. We call fit.VOU up in a nice mut or ihit, in any style you want. . . . i.i We are Sole Agents for the , i a i ft f r. ... ccienraicu Morrow nnocs mi Ladies. To arrive in a day or two a full line of Ladies latest stvles Walking Jackets. 200 prs. Ladies and Misses ciln(,H ,.,, I,v uhi-W Hpos.. ,,, 1:i.1.i.,illl1:.1 vhj(.h will close out at net cost. In our Store you will find the maximum ot what you want and the minimum what you don't want. BOSTIC BROS. & WKKIIIT, No. 11 X. Court Square. BOOKS AND STATIONERY, ARTISTH- MATKRIAMiJ ENOlNliliKS Sl'PI'UliS, 1'ICTCKliS ANI1 FRAMES, FANCY GOODS, BLANK IHHIKs, KVKRV liRAIIK, HULLS. TOYS AND GAMBS. WKHTKRK N. C. BCKNES, BOTH PHOTOGRAPHIC AXD HAND PAINTliD, AT ESTABROOK'S, 23 8. Main Street. INOKDEK TO MAKIiSOMUCIIANGUS IN OI K Ill'SINliSS, WE OFIMiK AT COST, Ol'R STOCK OF SILVUK-I'LATED WAKU, INCLUDING KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS, CASTIJRS, BUTTERS, PICKLES, ETC. ARTHUR HI. FIELD, Leading Jeweler. THE GREATEST ATTRACTION Is that fine lot of ENGLISH BRIDLES and THREE-HORN CHAMOIS SEAT SADDLES at J. 91. ALEXANDER'S! And the low prices at which he is sellinK all goods in his line. He has increased bis force and Intends to meet the demand. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. I consider Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy the best blood purifier that is on the market to-day. J. H. McAdbn, Charlotte, N. C, August 15th 1889. , THE RACKET COLUMN. We have just returned from New York, and our goods have commenced to arrive Fhe handsomest lineof Hand kerchiefs ever in Ashevillean now to be seen in our window and the prices, we know, have never been equaled. A big iot of l'ants are also in. We have bought largely in all lines, and shall be prepar ed to offer some Bargains which we have never befort matched. Don't buy ANY THINd until you visit tli 'Uackct Store." Don't buy School Shoes, Hats,orClotk- ing for the little (J iris and Boys until you price ours. 'Money saved is money made." llespectfully, GEO.LMS&CO, MISCELLANEOUS. Elegant Pharmaceuticals ! Ileef Wine and Iron! Fer- rated Wine of Wild Cherry, Cod Liver Oil with Hypo- phosphites and Ture Pepsin, Elixir Valerianate of Ammo nia, TastclessCastor Oil and Calisaya Tonic, prepared in our own laboratory by an experienced Pharmacist. T. C. Smith & Co., Dispensing Druggists. Milestone for soaking Wheat at T. C. Smith &Co.'s Drug Store. Oriental Dentifrice, for cleansing deleterious deposits from the Teeth, and neutral izing acid secretions of the Mouth price 2." cents, at T.C. Smith &Co's Drugstore. Attention experts in smok ing! T. C. Smith Co. hnv another lot of "Five Llev ens" just in the finest Fiv Cent Cigar in Asheville. Cu ban hand made.. All niedicinescarefullyconi nounded at T. C. Smith & Co.'s Drug Store. Prescrip tions prepared with scrupu lous care by experienced and educated Pharmacists. Home-made! T. C. Smith Jt Co., are General Agents for all Tobacco and Cigars made in Asheville, especially Por ter's Warrantee Cigars ami Hull's Tine Tobaccos. J. V. SCHARTLE, MERCHANT TAILOR 42 N. Main St. fcbSOdlv JAMlvS FRANK, IIRALKR IN FAMILYGROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Agent for Rcems Creek Woolen Mills. North Main Asheville, N. C fchiodly WM. R. PENNIMAN ROCRIKTOR Ol' THE ASHEVILLE BRICK WORKS Asheville, N. C. I, O. BOX I". mnrlttdly A NEW ENTERPRISE. The Hand Laundry will ojicn on Monday at the foot of Mm. WiWon's hill, under the management ofO. W. Hij;nin8. All work done neatly by hand. The Best are the Cheapest. III"." RING'S CHAMPION SAFES, Farrell & Co.,. Philadelphia. au20 d&wBm GEO. KINDER, 6ENERALC0NTRACT0R AND BUILDER Mosaic Tile and Cement work aspccialty. Grate, Ranges and Boilers set. Building moved and repaired in first class manner. Sewerage, Drainage and traps for the same thoroughly understood and promptly at tended to. Office: Wolfe Building, Court House Square, Asheville, N. C. maySOdly FOR RENT. A large eleven room Brick House, together with kitchen and servants' house and good barn. Lot contains 2 acres. Bewerageand good bath rooms. Completely furnish d In every part. Likewise, a good Piano, IT needed. Apply to auaadtf NATT ATKINSON ft SON. CHAM. BLANTOM & CO., MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING Our aim is to till a long felt want in the city of Asheville, and we will open about September 1, with the most com plete line of Clothing for Men and Boys ever shown in this section. Our Mr. CHAS. BLANT0N goes to Northern and Kasf 'i n markets with the ready cash which insures to the new aisiness fl flNANCIAl 5UCC THE YOUTHS', BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT Will receive our special attention, and to this we will call the especial attention of Mothers, Sisters and Aunts. OUR GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS Will be replete with all the Novelties of the kcusou in the way of Neckwear. OUR HAT DEPARTMENT Will receive due attention, and in it can be found from the conventional High Hat down to the Soft Knock-about. We have already placed our order for a line of MEN'S FINE SHOES With one of the most popular makers. Our mode of business shall be STIUCTLY ONE i'jtlCE, and all goods warranted as represented or money refunded. Our oiening will be uniiounced in due time. ' CHAS. Patton Avenue. OUTFITTERS. D. BLANTON & CO., One Price Clothiers, Asheville. N C,
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