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s TIIJ5 CAUCASIAN. itim.i-ik!) r.vj.i'.v tiii:h.-iav, f MAKION MTi.lii:, SUBSCRIBE! Shmv this laj.T to your neigh IF YOU WOULD LIKE To communicate with aNnit tu thouaiul of t!u' W$ country ojU in thin tion NVrth Carolina then it through !' CA GAS H t J column fTiih Cn i w. No 5 Iomoorncy ncl wliito Supromnox bor and vis.- hii.t to .suhscribo. other paper in Up Third t-n grvsalonal Iidric has as large a circulation. Vol. ix. CLINTON, N. O., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1891. Subscription I'nce M 1 .."0 IVr Year, in Advance. No. 34. IAN i'!:' riv-.SK)XAL COLUMN YV l. ALLKN, ATTOttNKY-A T-b .V( ( Johlsbnro, N. (J. lic.wt i'-.' in Sanin-on county. hi ,7- ! T. ....... ..r : N,i; : O.ON A.M 1Jv.-. I isi, , l,.-. l -:ug Store, je 7-lyr J. a. n-:v m. d. 1', -H 'AN AND Suugkox, ' );i.' " i, ver Post Office.) -;:iv i i i ' u ; 1 ;tt night at the lei.ee el . .). II. Stevens on College je 7-lyr St li H i: FA1SON, !T.:NKY AM) COUNSKLI.- ot: xv Law. Oihce on Main Street, ,vili ora -ticein courts ofSampson ami l,),,.,Miii- cnm'p'S Abo in Supreme ,.,,-!. All basinet intru-ded to his wi!' receive pronip ;uul careful : tClltlOll. J ie 7. 1 vr E W. I A !o.. i A'iTi)i:M-.v a xi) ( "or si:i.i-f )! at Law. '' );.';. o:i Wall Street. i ill i.r.n'tice in Sampson, lihwlcn, I ),' 1 1 : t-1 - V. and Duplin Coun 'i, -. A1-" in Sn;r''iiie Court. !',,, ;n't personal attention will be ,,v,i,ln all le.i-al business, je 7-lyr J I'.OYLTTK, !.. I1 Dks.'.hti.v iS3 on Main Street.' r'f.Tr his servi'-es to the pi ople of ft-id vicinity. Everything ( m!'. r-; Clinton in the lin lic-l style of Dentistry done m tne S ttist'action guaranteed. i My t'T'iis are strict i.v cnsii. Do.i't aU me to var from this rule. JEWELRY M CLOCKS! J u- a . c Hi! I ' :uar.i s i;:r::c..L .icv.-cl'-v. Tli'- I wil li i' to tlit !iiin-li;i-i'r to lie in a- if i : r. ul !. I sell no cheap, ""it: v.u;lt l. l.,i ...! r v 1 1 l I. INK V liol l Kl'.oNT OOdDS. TllC atti-ntion ;! i!..- 1 .i li raUc.l to i he !aU.-t stvUh . i!' i: i: i s t pi s t li.'V a:t- i. " i i- h.-a-ity!" Til.' o'i; i- -liable and -l.in''.anl SI "IT I THOMAS i LOCKS silwavs in siu-.-k. in uri'-as slvli-s and ; i-. tr l!rpaii'iii:r of Val hes an Icck r"V, in. I tin mliii. .-V.l'll - is a s A! , work ! ! -,' i e. --a! if:ic i i. 1 1 : 1 1 an! t- MA'e ' II- M'P -It (.. T. ilAWLS. 1. T. (I V. ALDKRMAa7 COMSSIOH MERCHANTS , No. 111! North Water Street, VIDMlX(iT()X, N. C. Caiton :inl TiinlxM. : . lso ; Country Produce handled to best ad vantaje. Ukituknci:- 1st National Ihink, Wilmin-ton, N. C. sui'-ti When on wi-han easy shave, As g( e'l ;is barber ever gave, Just call oi us at our saloon U morning, eve or noon; V e c u t a m t d r ess t h e h ai r w i t h g r ace , To suit the contour of the face. Our room is neat and towels clean, Scissors fharp and razors keen, And everything we think you'll find; To suit the face and please the mind, And all our art and skill can do, U vou just call, we'll do for you. Shop on J)e Vane Street, opposite Coart House, over the old Alliance lle.uhmarters. PAUL SHEltAllD, The Clinton Barber. Shoe Repairing. N. POONE has opened a Shoe making and Repairing Establish ment over the olfu-e of Dr. A. Holmes, opposite Murphy House, on Alain Street, and will be glad to receive a liberal share of the public patronage. S.tifaet iwn guaranteed- mch2(i lm WHEN YOU GO Xo Gold.-boro be sure to stop ;;t the Gregory-Arlington Hotels, (iood fare, attentive servants and large comfortable rooms. When you get ofT the train Isaac" everybody knows Isaac) will be here. (Jive him your baggage and go with him. WILL HUNTER, octlii-ti' Proprictot. REMOVAL! Has removed his Tailoring Estab lishment from his old stand to his oftice on Sampson Street, ne.t to the AI. E. Church. The great and ungual leader in low prices for men'. clothes. Econ omy in cloth and money will force you to give him a call. WaTatest Fashion plates always oti hand. June 7th. lyr. W. 1). DAWSON. Tcnsoriai Artist, .JMOIW1 1-5V. v. r. Hair Cutting and Shaving execu ted in latest styles. Give me a trial. An Attractlve Contbar-l POCKET AI.M.K..C (tod MEJIOHAMll'M 1SOOIC advcrtlsln-- BROWS- IKO.M HITTKRS ih liestToulc. i.'ven away nt lrug mid fjue-til btuies. AppJy i-t ouc TIIK EDITOR'S CHAIR. HOW THINCiS LOOK FROM OUR STAND 1'OINT. The Opinion of The Editor and the Opinion of Others which we Can Endorse on the Various Topics of the Day. When a man has a big mortgage on his home ami it getting bigger, it is ..itlicult to convince him that he is p. o-jierons. A theological discus-ion in the hands of a masterly debater may be come almost as exciting as a Salva tion Army, meeting, but the good it docs to Christianity is not apparent to the ordinary observer. It is no where reconkd that Christ engaged in any theological disputes. The Daily State Clironicle r'.ppear ed Tuesday a neat eight page paper, printed on iliicw press, from new type. Jt i a beauty. The Chroni cle has leased a special wire on which it receives every night till :$ o'clock the lull pre-s dispatches. This is decidedly the greatest stride yet made in North Carolina journalism. .Much success to you Joe, which you ricl.lv deserve. The (Jhroiiicle rejoices that in all the public schools thr nature and eflccts of alcoholic and narcotics is to lie taught to the children. It will be worth more in promotiejj' tem perance than ;t thousand temperance lectures or a prohibitory law. And not only so, but it will jive accurate knowledge to the children, which ouht to be a part of all teaching. State Chronicle. W onder it Kusscll Harrison was the originator auout Blaine's brain having become useless '.' It will be a sad day for "Ale and Pa's admin isuaiion'' when the Secretary of State shall become a victim of any brain trouble. No one would think of accusing us of admiring Air IJlaine's political methods, but we have no hesitation in saying that if his work could be wiped out of the record of this administration the re mainder would present a veiy, very blank appearance. Rev, Tiiomas Dixon will lecture in North Carolina week after next It will be at Muxton on June 7th. It will be ids famous lecture "Grit and Backbone' No one could be bttlter adapted to handle the great subnet than lie, one who lias so much of that Mull" in him. besides a large amount of brains. We shall hear him if possible. And here the thought occurs, would it not have been better to have invited him to lecture at the Teachers' Assembly instead of Dr. Talmage? Talmc-ge charges "uo to condescend to come down and enlighten we poor "Tsir Heels." Tom Dixon would have come for nothing. IJut that is too cheap, we would not enjoy it unless it cost a great deal. Then we would prefer to give Dixon the 5")00. "There, has been a dead lock i.; the caucus of the Florida Legislature over the nomination f a Senator for more than a month. The two thirds rule had been the old custom and had been adopted by that cau cus. Senator call's friends were anxious to renominate him, but could ::ot do so under the two-thirds rule, so they jumped the caucus and succeeded in electing him in a joint session of the Legislature, though he had not been nominated. We are opposed to the tVo-thirds rule and believe it has perverted the will of the people many times more than it has served as a protect iou, but when a caucus adopts this rule it should be honorable enough to stick to it. The masses of ihe people of Florida, if like North Carolinians, will not endorse the action of Call's friends. A few days since Senator Carlisle was indulging in a little ridicule of the financial reforo-s demanded by the Alliance, when a gentleman, who, if not as as able is certainly more honest, spoke up. and said "Well, Senator, do you think the present financial policy of thic Gov eminent a just one, and don't you think it a bad sign for the control of the currency to centralize into com paratively such a few hands?" "Yes, I admit it isa bad sign," replied Mr. (Jarlisle. "But how are you going to remedy it? By a revolution or an act of Legislature? Ho you pro pose to say by your Legislature that when a man has earned $100 or 51,000 or SlOjOOO that he shall not earn any more?" How does that sound for a man who passes as a statesman? The above answer is a squid of sophistry unworthy of Mr. Carlisle. We would like to ask Mr. Carlisle two questions, and liave him answer v-f." f.r it,.,." ! ir-t Inr.t tli commerce and indi stryof the coun try to-day, to a great extent, held in bondage by the gn at cliques which control the world'.-concentrated cap ital? To thi-ie would b bound to answer "yes." Then, second. Has not this Mate of affairs, to no small extent, gone on and increase! under legi.-lature connivance and frequent ly !'' -(gi-lative jobbery? To this question he could not answer "no," and if he answered "ye-." he would condemn his utterance above. No we do not wish to say by egislative enactment th at a man .-hall not eakx moie than well any amount to in Unity. Do you see. The ollicers of the Western Union Telegraph Company appeared lefo:e the Commission in llaleigh last week and protested against the or der to reduce ten word messages to 2 cents to any part of the State. TiiR Commissioners have modified the wording of their order so as to make it read as follows : "For ten body words or under cunts, over ten body words 2 cents for each ad ditional word." The modification is by the insertion of the word "body." This is a mistake, It would have been better to have put the rate at :0 cents or even 35 cents than as it is now and allowed the company to charge for the address and signature extra. This will cause people to try to abreviate the ad dress and signature and many costly errors, delays or miscarriages we fear will result. Formerly the com pany would allow yoirtoniake the address and signature as long as you desired, for they wished to have a reputation for promptness and acu racy, bu now when the people grum ble the company will lay the blade on the Commission and they would like to i-ee the Commission unpopu lar. This is rather shrewd in them. IjATKK Since tiie above was in type we learn that the final dtcision of the Commissioners is not to make the change relerred to .above, but to make the rate " cents for a telegram !en words everywhere in the Stale, including the address and signature. Ve hope this is so. I'LATFOK3I OF TIIK PARTY. Nirvv The political meeting of citizens that was in session in Cincinnati last week adopted the following resolu tions or platform : "That in view of the great social, industrial and economical revolution now dawning on the civilized world and the new and living issues con fronting the American people, we believe that the time ha? arrived for crystalization of political .reform of the forces of our country, and the formation of what should be known as the People's Party of the United States of America. "Second. That we most heartily endorse the demands of the plat-! form- as adopted it St. Louis, Alis souri, in 18SS; Ocala, Florida, in 185)0. and Omaha, Nebraska, in 1891, bv the industri-1 organizations. "Third. That we urge the attend ance of all progressive organizations in attending the Conference called for February 22, 1892, by six of the leading reform organization.1-. "Fourth. That a National Central Committee be appointed by this Con ference to be composed of a chair man to be elected by this body, and of three members from each State represented, to be named by each State delegation. "Fifth. ThU this Central Commit tee shall represent this body, attend the National Conference, on Febru- arv 22, 189-, ana it possible unite with that and all other reform or ganizations there assembled. If no satisfactory arrangements can be ef fected this committee shall call a National Convention not later than June 1st. 1892, for the purpose of nominating candidates lor President and Vice President. "Sixth. That members of the Cen tral Committee for each State where there is no independent political r ganization, conduct an active sys tem ot political agitation of their respective States." AUOUT TIIK L.ANI TAX. The following .'etter from Gov. ilolt to J.S. Bizzell, the Clerk of the Court, will explain itselt : Exkcutivf. Department, Raleigh, N.C., Mav, '91. Mr. J. S. Rizzell: In reply to your recent inquiry in reference to the repayment of the direct taxes by the United States to the persons from whom they were collected, I desire to say: 1st. The money has been sent to the Governor and will be paid to the persons ascei tailed to be entitled as soon as the tax-lists and stubs of re ceipts can be copied in Raleigh and properly collated and compared here. This will probably take about thirty days. There is absolutely no record or Information in this cfiico now. The public will be notified as soon as the lists are ready through the press. 2nd. If the lists contain the names and amounts, the loss of the tax re ceipts will not prevent the payment. The United States did not return any penalty, interest or costs, and none can be repaid to the tax-payer. The lists will be sent to the comities when ready for pay ment, and priced on the hands of the C. o. C. of each county. Tuos. M. Holt, Governor. At all times, in all places, on all occasions, under all circumsTances, for all headaches, use Bradycrotine only. Flowers For Bolli Sis A UNIQUE MEMORIAL DAY .- Eli VICE IN BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. lr. Talmage Preaches n Sermon About the Soldiers of the Ci il War, iinil Oilers a Gar land lor the North and One lor the South. BnooKLTX, May 3L Yesterday hav ing been observed as Decoration Day, Dr. Talmage this morning preached an appropriate sermon. It was a novel and unprecedented service, as in differ ent parts of the audience were many of those who had belonged to both Fed eral and Confederate armies, the sub ject having been previously announced, namely, "Two Garlands for Northern and Southern Graves." Over the pul pit were two wreaths of beautiful flow ers, and they were linked together so that they were an object lesson of the subject presented. Text: Isaiah xliii, C "I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back." AX APPROPRIATE TEXT. Just what my text meant by the north and south I cannot say, but in the United States the two words are so point blank in their meaning that no one can doubt. They mean more than east and west, for although between those last two there have been rivalries and disturbing ambitions and infelicities and silver bills and World's fair contro versies, there have been between them no batteries unlimbered, no intrench ments dug, no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown up. It has never been Massachusetts Fourteenth regiment against Wisconsin zouaves; it has nev er been Virginia artillery against Mis sissippi rifles. East and west are distinct worda, and sometimes may mean diversity of interest, but there i3 no blood on them. They can be pronounced without any intonation of wailing and death groan. But the north and the south are words that have been surcharged with trage dies. They are words which suggest that for forty years the clouds had been gathering for a four years' tempest which thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook this planet as it has never been shaken since it swung out at the first world building. I thank God that the words hare lost some of the intensity whieh they possessed three decades ago; that a vast multitude of northern people have moved south, and a vast multitude of southern people have moved north, and there have been intermarriages by the ten thousand, and northern colo nels have married the daughters of southern captains, and Texas rangers have united for life with the daughters of New York abolitionists, and their children are half northern and half southern and altogether patriotic. But north and south are words that need to be brought into still closer harmoniza tion. I thought that now, when we are half way between presidential elections, and sectional animosities are at lowest ebb, and now just after a presidential jour ney, when our chief magistrate, who was chiefly elected by the north, has been cordially received at the south ; and now, just after two Memorial Days, one of them a month ago, strewing flowers on southern graves, and the other yesterday, strewing flowers on northern graves, it might be appropri ate and useful for me to preach a ser mon which would twist two garlands, one for the northern dead and the other for the southern dead, and have the two interlocked in a chain of flow ers that shall bind forever the two sec tions into one; and who knows but that this may be the day when the prophecy of the text made in regard to the ancients may be fulfilled in regard to tliis country, and the northjive up its prejudices and the south keep not back its confidence. 'I will say to the north, Give up. and to the south, Keep not back." THE PARTINGS. But before I put these garlands on the graves I mean to put them this morning a little while on the brows of the living men and women of the north and south who lost husbands. and sons and brothers during the civil strife. There is nothing more sooth ing to a wound than a cool bandage, and these two garlands are cool from the night dew. What a morning thatwas on the banks of the Hudson and the Savan nah when the son was to start for the wart What fatherly and motherly counsel! What tears! What heart breaks! What charges to write home often 1 What little keepsakes pat away in the knapsack, or the bundle that was to be exchanged for the knapsack! The crowd around the depot or the steamboat landing shouted, but father ar.d mother and sister cried. And how lonely the house seemed after they went home, and what an awfully va cant chair there was at the Cliristma and Thanksgiving table! And after the battle, what waiting for news I What suspense till the long lists of the- killed and wounded were made out! All along the Penobscot, and the Con necticut, and the St. Lawrence, and the Ohio, and the Oregon, and the James, and the Albemarle, and the Ai-""ft, and the Mississippi, and the -Sacramento there were lamentation and, mourning and great woe, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted. because they were not. The world has forgotten it, bat father and mother have not forgotten it. They may be now in the eighties or the nineties, but it is a fresh wound, and will always re- mam a fresh wound. Coming down the steep of years the hands that would have steadied those j tottering steps liave been twenty-eichC;1 a - - years folded into the last sleep. The childleasneso, the widowhood, the or phanagewho luu a meBing line kmg enoagh to tell the height of it, the depth of it, the infinity of itt What a mountain, what an Alps, what a Hima laya of piled up agony of bereavement in the simple statement that three hun dred thousand men of the north were slain and five hundred thousand men of the south were slain, and hundreds of thousands long afterward, through the exhaustions there suffered, going down to death! SYMPATHY FOU TIIR BEREAVED. I detain from the top of the tomb these two garlands that I am twisting for a little while that I may with them soothe the brow of the living. Over the fallen the people said : "Poor fel low I What a pity that he should liave been struck down!" Wo did not, how ever, often enough say: "Poor father! Poor mother 1 Poor wife ! Poor child !" and so I say it now. Have you realized that by that wholesale massacre hun dreds of thousands of young people at the north and the south have never had any chancer We who are fathers stand between our children and the world. We fight their battles, we plan for their welfare, we achieve their live lihood, we give them the advice of out superior years. Among the richest blessings of my life I thank God that my father lived to fight my battles un til I was old enough to fight for my self. Have you realized the fact that oui civil war pitched out upon the farm fields of the north and the plantations of the south a multitude that no man can number, children without fatherly help and protection ? Under all' the ad vantages which we had of fatherly guidance, what a struggle life has been to the most of us! But what of the children, two and five and ten years of age, who stood at their mother's lap with great, round, wondering eyes, hear ing her read of those who perished in the Battle of the Wilderness, their father gone down amid the dead host? Come, young men and women, who by such disaster have had to make your own way in life, and I will put the garland on your young and un wrinkled brow. Yes; you have had your own Malvern Hill, and your own South Mountain, and your own Gettysburg all along these twenty years. Come ! And if I cannot spare a whole garland for your brow I will twist in your locks at least two nowers, one crimson ana one white, the crimson for the struggle of your life which has almost amounted to carnage, and the white for the vic tory you have gained. FLOWERS FOK TIIE SURVIVORS. Uetore l put tne two garlands l am twisting upon the northern and south- era tombs I detain the garlands a little while that I may put them upon the brow of the living soldiers and sailors of the north and south, who though in variance for a long while, are now at peace and in hearty loyalty to the United States government, and ready if need be to march shoulder to shoul der against any foreign foe. The twenty-six winters that liave passed since the war, I think, have sufficient ly cooled the hatreds that once burned northward and southward to allow the remark that they who fought in that conflict were honest on both sides. The chaplains of both armies were hon est in their prayers. The faces that went into battle, whether they marched toward the Gulf of Mexico or marched toward the north star, were honest faces. It is too much to ask either side to believe that those who came out from their homes, forsaking father and mother and wife and child, many of them never to return, were not in earn est when they put their life into awful exigency. Witness the last scene at family prayers up among the Green mountains, or down by the fields of cotton and sugar cane. Men do not sacrifice their all for fan. Men do not eat moldy bread, or go without bread at all. for fun. Men do not sleep un sheltered in equinoctial storms for fun. There were some, no doubt, on both cl.lswi otKj-i an hcforl fj-ht. oAmianr no t- r r . .t - ..: J. i expecting opportunity for violence and pillage, or burning with revenge and thirst for human blood, but such cases were so rare many of you who were in the war four years never confronted such an instance of depravity. As chaplain of a Pennsylvania regi ment and as a representative of the United States Christian commission I A. i ? was lor a wnue at tne ironc, anu in those hospitals at Hagerstown and Will iamsburg, and up and down the Poto mac, where all the churches and farm houses were filled with wounded and dying Federal and Confederates, I for got amid the horrors to ask on which side they fought, when, with what lit tle aid I could take thein for their suffering bodies and the mightier aid I could pray for their souls, I passed the days and months amid scenes that in my memory seem like a ghastly dream rather than possible reality. When a New Orleans boy, unable to answer my question as to where he was hurt, tofck out from thtr folds of the only garment that had not been torn off him in the battle a New Testament marked with his own life blood, and I saw the leaf turned down at the pas sage. "My peace I give unto yo, not as the world giveth give I unto you," it read just as though it had been a north ern New Testament And when 1 sat down and took from a South Carolinian dying in a barn at Boooesville his last message to his wife and mother and child, it sounded just like a message that a northern man dyhtg far from home would send to his wife and moth er and child. And when I picked up from the bat tle field of Antietam the fragment of a letter which I have somewhere yet, for the name and the address were torn off, I saw it was the words of a wife to her hnsband, telling him bow the little child nraved for their father every night that he might not fret hurt in the bat tle, and might come home sound and coma, home well, but that if anything Continued on, Second Page.l Ten Minutes to Twelve. Ej M. G. M'CLELLAND. lCATJTJ"b UT AtueHom Pi-net 4k.K-li,ii CHAFTElt L llnyal ca hiuhlled nijninut the otr. They all noticed lum, even in the flurry of sfttling into their plarvs. ad justing ha ul luggage and attending to the requirements of children. Tle con ductor brought him in with great care, as one would handle fragile china, and settled him in a seat on the left baud side. A brakeman followed with hand luggage, and the two men lestirred themselves to make their charge com fortable, lowering the blind to keep the sun from his eyes, folding a railway rug over fcis knees, and unlocking ami turn ing the seat in front in case hu should wish to put up his legs. Wh u the conductor and his satellite had betaken themselves to their various vocations in other parts of the train, the invalid turned his face to the window and his fellow passengers took note of him. His height was medium, but seemed greater by reason of pallor and emaciation, his eyes had circles under them, and the droop of his figure indi cated physical weakness. Evidently a man just ont of a serious illness and hardly yet in a condition to travel. At least such was the dictum of the lady on the opposite side, given with emphasis to a girl on the same seat. "I wonder his people allow him to go about alone," she commented. "It seems positively brutal. Ho can hardly hold himself upright, and I'm sure the very look of him will keep me racked with anxiety a long as I sit here. He may give up the ghost at any moment." The girl glanced across. "'Perhaps he hasn't any people," she suggested, '"or is on his way to them."' Then she added sympathetically: "Poor man! he does seem dreadfully ill. I wonder who he can be?" So did the elder lady so much, in fact, that, Dfcinir of decided character and prone to get that which she wanted, were it only information about her fel low creatures, she put questions to the conductor the instant he returned to her vicinity. The facts elicited were few, but they served to deepen her interest and at the same time to divert her thoughts into a more personal channel. The sick man was a Dr. Royal, and on his way to his people somewhere in the mountains of Virginia. He had been badly damaged in a New York railway accident several weeks before, and, al though he had escaped with life and limb, it would probably be many months before he would be his own man again So much the conductor disclosed, in a burst of unofficial confidence which he was made keenly to regret by having to combat womanly fears and prognostica tions, and also to pledge the honor of a railroad man that no accidents of any size or description had ever occurred in the past, or would le likely to occur in the future, to any tram under his ad ministration. Meanwhile Dr. Royal sat quietly in his place, with his knees well covered and his traveling has beside him. At inter vals lie would glance at his watch and administer to himself medicines from Dottles which he manipulated with ema ciated but steady fingers. From time to time the conductor would come to him with offers of service, but he appeared averse to giving trouble or making a stir in any way, and, on the whole, kept him self so quiet that the interest of the other passengers waned, although each new comer would treat him to a stare of sym pathetic or stolid curiosity, according to invida nature. And so the day wore on, eventless, into afternoon "Gibson's Landing!" The brakeman dashed 'open the door of the rear car and sent' his voice along the aisle. Nobody evinced other than passing interest, and it was apparent that the information concerned nobody present. The door closed with a bang. and the oralteuian stepped bacfc to tne platform of the forward car. The en gine gave a premonitory toot-toot, the train rolled forward a little way and then came to a standstill. The invalid lifted himself and leaned on the window frame. Away in front he could see the dingy red round of the water tank, and so satisfy himself as to the cause of the delay. He let his eyes wander listlessly here and there over the prospect spread out before him. It presented the rather poverty stricken aspect of the hill country in December a stretch of hills in the background. clothed with forest for the most part, but diversified by cliffs and the jutting forth of eranite bowlders. At one point, nearly opposite the sick man's window, a red clav road circled and sidled down the hillside to the river at its foot its objective point, apparently, a small ferry house upon the bank. The embankment on which the track lay was lifted above the low grounds, so that the view was unobstructed to the river, the landing, and the hills beyond. On the low grounds the corn stalks stood in straggling rows, upright or in clined at various angles according to the wind's good pleasure, and the furrows, surcharged with overplus of moisture, allowed long slushy puddles half hidden, half revealed by tangles of cockle burrs. Spanish needles and frostbitten pumpkin ana Dean meg. Dr. Royal looked about with dissatis fied recognition in his glance; Six year? had made no appreciable change In the aspect of upper Virginia, he than eh t. The soil was as good witness the crop of weeds the system of cultivation as inadequate, and the general look- of things as peacefully thriftless as ever. Had he been arifted with eyes in the Continued on Second Pag. Dr. Dixon 01 tub New Parly. Hi: WAS AN r.Yi: wiTNiws. "I't Meu llidii ul It Who Ma, It Waaii !iiiprtdt c S -Inch'. KO F ( i 1 1 , W FAT 11 Kit - BF.AT 1 IN FACFS AND HOItNKY HANUs Will IK Till-: KK. Fools. Cranks, Dead-beats and Po litical Quacks Were Also There. A .MAV CHAPTI It IX TIIK POLITICS OF TIIK NATION. The l'luttoriii Contains Mtnh That is Foulisli, Yet T here is in it Truth Kiioiigh lnOvn. turn the World. IT IS A PLATFOKM '1 II AT UK L1KVKS SOMKTIIING AND SAYS SOMKTHINC. The Part y it Founded on a Ore. it .Moral Idea. WHAT IT MEAKS, WHAT IT SIGNIFIES! XewYoik. May :il, 1S1M. ilev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Pastor of the Twenty-third Street taptit Church, preceded his sermon this morning at Association Hall, by. the following review of current events. TIIK NKW I'AUTY. On the 19th of this month there met in Cincinnati a novel convention. They met to consider the exjediency ot launching a new political party. lhey launched it. They launched it with enthusiasm. It was my good fortune to be pre sent in Cincinnati on that dav. Drawn by a deep interest in the questions involved and a curio-dlv to see what sort of men had assem bled in the convention, 1 hastened to Music hall to sec for myself. I found an assemblage of about r,oo() ieoph-. There were several things that im pressed meabont the make upof this crowd. It was a curious aggregation. And yet it was deeply impressive. lhey sat close together. They touch ed each other's elbows. There were no stragglers in the renrof the great hall. They all pressed eagerly for ward tovard the speaker'.-: stand. A ItOUfJII CHOW I). It was a rough-looking crowd. There was scarcely a uclbd-rssed rnan to ue wen anywiiere among 1 B them. It was an assembly of the great fourth state. The farmers pre dominated. They were genuine far mers too. Ihe hayseHl was plainlv visible in their hair, and they did not seem to cart? if it was. lfugh, weatner-beaten laces and honiev- hands were theirs. They were in dead earnest. Theirearnestncs.s was pathetic. S lover of his fellow- man could look over that eager throng of care-marked men and not be profoundly moved. They listen ed eagerly to the dullest common places that Jell from the lips of the speaker. They cheered at the slight est provocation. Dot-king into those laces furrowed by care, ieerhig ea- gerly up from shoulders humped and bowed by the roughest toil, it seeii.- ed to me that I could hear the crac kle of burning passions and faiths beneath the cauldron of a coining revolution. XOT KOIi FUX. They did not come there lor fun. The humorous found little resjMnse. Mostol tho.-e men locked liked thej' had quit smili-ig sometime ago. Hut they knew how to cheer, to stamp their feet and yell until they were hoarse. And they were not drunk either. They meant buincss. They were ready to stake their lives on the issue, fourteen hundred delegate from over thiity States of the Union were represented in that earnest throng. Let men ridicule it woo may, it was an impressive sjM-ctacI It was a great convenlior. it was great because the cople were ihere People were there win bad no axe to grind iertonaIly. People were th-re who were not accustomed to attend political gatherings. THE Df.XOIKiY. The tone of the meeting was pm- j foundly religiou-s. They sang. '1 hey j prayed. They shouted. They did it all with fervor. They closed their ! meeting with an involuntary burst of religious enthusiasm in the Dox- j ology, whose glorious old strains echotd and quivered from arch cot- niccand ceiling until the great bui d ing trembled with its melody. CKANKS, FOOL, DEAD -11 KATs. There w ere many incongruous tle ii.ents mingled there. There were cliques and cults that will Iks sl-ugn-ed in prccerw of time. They were dead weight, and they are so dead that to carry them is an iuipossibiU ty. There wen- many cranks and tools ard dead-beats, political hacks and bummers almost as many as you would find ir. one of the con ventions of the old 'parties . These were inevitable. The crank is al ways present at the launching of every new movement. He sits down on the movement and expcts to be launched himself with the banners flying before an admiring world. The fool hi there because he seeks new fields and change ot scenery from his old political associates and com- Continued on Fourth Page. . I V K 1 U' 1 S K M K N TS . OIVlv EXJOYS Both the niftlol and rcfulti when Syrup of Figs is talun; it I ph atit and refreshing to tho ta.tc, and actJ fentljryct promptly on the Ki.h:rr., aver and Howel, clean- the y tcra cfilTtially, di.iU c.lK head aches and fevers and cur habitual constipation. Hvrup of Vin m the only remedy v( it Liu.l evor pro tlured, pleasing t- the tckte nn.l ac ceptable to the rtotnnch, pr-nnj t in its action and truly U iu (l. ial in it effect, prejwtml oulr l?-ni the :n l healthy and agreeable mi11,uh , it many excellent qualities commend it to all and have rn.ido it the mo.t popular remedy known. Syrup of Kip- U fir wle in fA and SI bottles by nil leading dnu' gists. Any reliable dru:jl who may not have it on hand will pr.. cure it promptly fur any mie who wi.'hes to try it. Do not accept anv I substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. sty mahcisco. ri. loutsviur. nr. Af w ta. .r. I1 icoc'i..m.tion m Tin: ooykicnoi:. Kxi;i r ri vk 1 M:r i: im i nt, 11 O.I Ii. it. Whereas The Southern Inter State Immigration Iture.ui his bo nded to hoi i, in tin city of llaleigh, N. C, during the iiiontlii of o.-to her and November A. D. IsM,ai Kxpo-it ion of Southern product-; and YheiCi, The General As-euibly of North Carolina bus mad" :ipp piiation for thcpurpi-onfdhpi.iyjng the products of the State at the Columbian Kpo-ition in Chie.ig. in 18t;$. And in aeocrdanee with then-quest of the progressive North Carolinian) in Cenvention H-emhled in the city of llaleigh, N. C, M y :,th and Uth, IS'.il, I, Thomas M. Holt, Governor of North Carolina, proclaim to Un people of this State the necessity of fully co-operating with tie Southern Inter Stater Immigration I'ureau, and the Commissioners in charge of of the 'olumhiau exhibit for Nor' h Carolina. And I reqiii-l pro;-n---ive citizens in each camtv to me t the Justices of the Peace and Coun;y Commis doners at tie ir respective County Seat-, ami iir" the appropriate m of such a stun of money as may In deemed in ee.-ury to have the resources of each county fully shown to eapitali-t, manu facturers and hiiio.1 s eker-i that will vi-dt the Souther. i Kxpo-ition in this city during October and November and at Chicago in 1-'.).. The State appropriatioa i not sufficient to make such an exhibit as this Stale is capable of 'hotting. Thenfou, I nnt earnestly urge those county ofii.-frs having tin Interest of the ieoph iu charge, and all wi-hing to see this j.r-M.d State of ours properly exhibited to the World, to give this important matter their in -t ranie-l at tention. Iu Testimony whireo-', I have hereunto set my h ind can e. to In- a 111 Mil th? Ore.; S.-mI of the St;;t of North Carolina, at the City of llaleigh, thi- 2.d day f M-ty, i.. the yeir of our Kor.i, on' lliou-and eight hundred and ninety-one, and in h:! on. hundred ami fdieentii year of our A mei ic.m I nd'peisdenee. Py th" iovcni'ir: 'i'noMA M . I iuir. S. F. Tbl.l All:, Pri vate Neere'.ai V. A Satr whi.h i -far-i-.i im est an r.t i gnaraiib ed Is olu von sat to ft i i . refiilt-. or la a-e ' faiiiae a return of pur. has.- pi .-. (I:i tltis.Sije plan you car. i.'i v 1'ho.i our a-'-veriis.--! 1 Mig'ist a b..ttl.-i,f Dr. Kiug Ncw Dscovi rv for oiij.i.:iipti"i:. It'.-. guaranteed to l-iin relief in vrr ca.v-. when used f..r any jiil'.-etioM of 'i s.roat. Lung or Chi :. Mi'-h :i" ;i-:i' . t " ;i . In:!ai!)!.ial'e.n of I.ueg-. !'.r :; hiti-. Aslhnm. VliOf..:M.' !(.'!. I n;;--. el-.. etc. It e pleas.Mit nu-i : gi' uba; l t it -. rfectlv Pafe. ni.i '-an tV di'pc:,i d i;;,it. Tii ii Udtl.-s (tie at 1... !t. II. Ib'I.I.IJ.A'. s Dtuj-tori. Ciin o:i. tiii.l Dr..!. L.Miro;. Dr -ggit, Ml. Oiive, N. C. Merit Wins. V v. ilesire to n:iv to our ( 'X.A Il-. that for yeir we have Ih-cu selling Dr. h"i!j's Ne.w Di-cowry for Cn-u:iiptio:i. Dr. Kill's i ie Pills. l;ui Idi-n's Arnieu Salve hu i Ktcctri.! Jhit -r-. and have never handled ren nie that eli as well, or that have givi n tan verbal sal'; faction. We do .t J.iiiate to uaraii tc them uSf r twin, and we ,: rea-t; b refuad thepuiclinM; price, if fatlfae tor)' results do uot tollow their use. The rchicdicM have v. on their great popularity p-urely on '.heir merits Fer sale by Dk. II. II. Uoi.mpay. Drugot. Clinton, ais-1 Dr. .1. II. Sm-th. Mount Olive, N. . Piles I Piles! Itching PilCa! Symptoms Moisture; intense inh iug and slinging; most at nigh: ; wor.se hy scraU-hiug. If allowed to continue tumors form, which ofit n bleed and ul cerate, becoming verv Mrc. Swayni..s Oixtmknt stops the itciiu and bleed ing, hrals ulceration, and hi most cases removes the tuiuon. At dnigglsts or by mall, for LO cents. Dr. fiWAYXE & SON. ftb2! Cm ' Philadelphia ff 1
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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