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i ' 1 I- IMBIiJIliiliEill' v 1, THE PUBLIC GOOD OUR CHIEF? STUDY. VOLUME i. chapel: hill; orange county , N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1894. NO. 8 i ' r .-. if SOUTHERN BUSINESS SENSE. Tom Reed, the sneering state . man from Maine, has recently given it as his opinion that the. it- ' It ' I-.."!.!.'. " tf Like": most of the critics . of the south, Mr. Reed speaks from pre judice instead of knowedgeTChar r lotte Democrat; 1 1 ? Mr. Henry- W;atterson', in the Louisville Courier Journal,, makes the followiner i crushing reply to Reed's aspersion: . . ,Mr. Reed remarked the other day in his usual reckless fashion that the trouble with the south was thut it had no business isense. "The south has within a few , 1 years practically monopolized the u . trade in certain lines of cotton goods, and is annually increasing the volume and variety of its tex " tile products. ; It is underselling - New England on coarse goods, and in time will undersell it on fine - - J i goods. It is putting it owrt capital freely into new cotton mills. From . 1880 to 1890. it trebled the number of its looms. From J 890 to 1894 it has increased them over 50 per ;;V-jtent:? "'" ' "'r '"H ; 'rv' -' "f" "Perhaps .that isn't business sense. . ' . . . '-' "In the year ending ; with June last the exports of the United States " increased 44,488,353. Fifteen "southern ports, at which within a few years there have been opened direct lines of . trade 'with foreign ports, furnished $31751,306 or 71 per cent, of this increase. In 1899 and 1 892 the increase of direct trade from southern ports was still larger, amounting to $89,000,000, but of a total increase for the whole United States of $146,000,000,1 Four years' ago the south had direct lines of - trade only from 'Baltimore, New Orleans and Norfolk. It now loads . ships for foreign ports at Savannah, Brunswick, Pensacola, Galveston, Mobile, Newport News and Port Royal. ; "Perhaps that isn't business sense. " .. "A few -years ago the southern cotton planters seemed hopelessly in debt to the cotton factors. It . was getting worse every year. Every since the war they had been so poor-that they had to borrow money in advance on j their.crops, and, what with raising nothing but .cootton," raising it waistefully, pay ing big interest, buying on credit, sending more than their profits for v food stuffs brought from the North and West they seemed fairly on the way te bankruptcy . But this year's crop of cotton has been raised more cheaply than last year and last years was the!' cheapest ever known up to that time. Deb ts have been scaled down amazingly, crops have been diversified; money, kept at home and many mortgages' lifted. I ' ,. ,:''; "Perhaps that isn't ! business sense.' ; y , . ., "The development of the iron and coal interests of the south has been the wonder of this generatipn, 1 - 1 and Birmingham is setting the price for Pittsburg on pigiron. The busi ness failures in the south during the panic were I relatively fewer than in the vest, and ,the southern finart- cial institutions camq through the trial in better, shape. In ten years the wealth of the south reduced almost to nothing by war and recon struction, has more than , doubled. In ten years the south has increas ed its expenditures for schools 96,- 53 per cent. In ten .years1 jit has paid off over: twenty millions p public debt; i And to cap the evi dence of its business sense it votes the democfatic ticket ..right along. And that last is what sours it all for the modern man from Maine.' Skeletons Found in a Cave. Charles Rector and a boy named Morris in exploring a cave near Sev en Mile Ford, Va., discovered two skeletons forty feet below the. sur face. The cave7 had long been known, but no one had ever ven tured to explore it. The Morris boy was let down by a rope. j When the? find was reported a party: of citizens went to the f cave to investigate further. In1 all, ten skeletons were taken out, and were! adjudged to be the bones of men, women and children One skeleton was found in a sitting position, with the skull reclining on the arms, which were folded across the knees. -- ' - I i Thus far- there is but one way to account for the charnel-housq, says an ! exchange: Old citizen pay that many, years ago there- was an inn kept near this cave by al man named Allen, and that occasionally people who stopped there had mys teriously disappeared and were never again heard of. The suppo sition is that jthey were killed after being robbed of their valuables, and then consigned to the cave.; Some of the skeletons discovered were partially buried under stones, and many of the Jf)ones were broken. ( v.Dewitt Clinton Chase, former Postmas ter of Burtonsville,' .Montgomery county committed suicidej t by cutting his I throat, He, was over 70 years old, and had been in, poor health. He was for ,40 yeara Post master at Burtonsville He was also an ex- Justioe of the Peace and a well known Re. publican. Ajwidow survives-nim.--Ex: 1 V STATE FAIR NOTES. ' Col J. H.- lloM, Chief Marshall of the State; Fair, has appointed a corps of 160 assistants from every section! of the State, all of whom have accepted the appointment and have notified him that they will be present at tfte Fair. Among ' the 1 greatest attractions engaged to be on the Fair grounds is Hurd & Berry's World Museum embodying numerous novelties and .curiosities, Jr ! - -ft " r.-i ; The; race program this year has excited more attention than ever before, (the. purses offered aggre gate $2,6oq. The fields of running horses will be '.; larger . and better than any ever seen 'in North Car olina. Mr.4 W..J. Carter, the turf editor of the Richmond' Times, has been engaged ; to act as Starting Judgejiri all racjes. More than 300 prominent farmers in the State have expressed by let ter their- intention of making ex hibits at the. Fair in all the depart mentsj , t '. ::: , " The poultry exhibit this year wijl be l a special feature. The So Chity tes over 300 new and improv ed wire covered exhibition coops, all of which have alreatdy been en- gaged. Besides these a nurnber of exhibitors will supply their own coops. The exhibition of game fowls will be-superb, and the dis play of pet stock will be something that will please and delight every body. I ';.'" v'!-( v - , Numerous additions snd improve ments are being made at the Fair grounds to supply accommodations and space applied for by exhibitors. A hew feature of the Fair this year will be practical lectures and essays on i ecdnomicj subjects by competent' speakers in Commons Halltat night. ! j- ' - Arrangements are j being perfect ed for good theatrical attractions during the week. Social , features will bejlively and exhilairating, in cluding; germans and balls every night, elegant receptions etc. The dates of the Fair are Octo- ber the; 23, 24, 2 5, . 26th and the R. R., rate is one fare for the round j -?y ;T 1 I 1 ; Mrs.! Seward Webb's new; house in the Adirohdacke will have one hundred rooms and require an army of servants. The cost of the castle will be $1,500,000. It is said that Senator iDolph,' of Ore gon, never smiles. In the whole course of his service in the Senate; nobody has ever seen his "eye light up ofl his lip quiver. Why is it no one has ever had the cour age to ask. 1 The Republican Game1. The member of the Republican" Jgngressional Campaign Commit "tee. in Washington have akeh painsV to give out the story that they do not propose to spend, any time or money in trying to win Congress- ional seats in the 'South. . Gener- ally speaking, this is probably true, but if the Democrats imagine their opponents will not make an effort to capture ten or twel ve of the close districts in the South, they are very ; much mistaken. A Richmond Dis"- patch reporter says that the Repub- ' Hcan Committee may possibly- hot do much in Virginia, I but there are two districts in North Carolina to which they will undoubtedly send . money, literature; arid speakers."; One is the Fifth, represented, by . Mr. Settle, and ; the other is the ; Asheville district, they are also ; inclined, from what can be learned, to try to beat Mr. Bower, in the Winston district, now that the Pop ulists have endorsed the' Republi can candidate in that ! district In t Mt, Woodard's district the commit tee sees little chance of accomplish ing, anything as long J as the two colored Republican, can sists in remaining on the track. All the efforts to induce them to retire and permit th6 nomination, of a white- Republican have so far failed. A Little Girl'is Hearing and Voice 1 Restored By a Miraculous Bolt. A Bolt of lightning strpck John Ze Iinka's house last week arid restor- ed as if by miracle the hearing and voice of Mary Fisher, 13 years ?Id, who had been deaf and dumb eight years.;-; . . .. - v- A' Bolt went through a two-foot brick, wall in the dining room, where Mr.1 Zelinka, Mrs. Fisher and : her j, little girl were discussing the storm. It passed between Mrs. Fisher and 1 Mary. The two. sat motionless several seconds, when the little girl. got up, and, pointing her finger to her ear, sard:, '';y- ';--!' i:'-'n .t - ! j "Mamma, I heard that. Lets go home .': ''; . .' 1, r :' . This is the first tirrft, it is said, that, she has spoken since.an attack, of scarlet fever left her dumb and speechless.- Windfield" L.V I. , Dis- 1 A curious thing to be seen occa-; sionally on a frequented street here says the Philadelphia Times, is a dog wearing spectacles. It is not as a joke, but the owner of tie dog, is an optician, claims that the ani mal's eyesight is affected and that ' the glasses enable him to see all right, but it is barely possible that there may be something of an ad vertisement in the freak
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