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o THE CAUCASIAN VOL. XVI. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18. 189S. NO. 38. HUSTLING AGENT In every neighborhood in North Curo linn can make good money getting subscribers for Tin) liaSg&U31n)o 1 lie regular subscription price of of the paper is $1 a year, (JO cents fortssix months, and J55 cents for three inoMtlis, Fou a shout time, until we et 25,000 New Subscribers iii We have decided to offer 5 subscrip tions, each for three months, for the small sum of $1. This includes post age, mailing to subscribers' addresses, etc. This low price will give every one a chance to get the Best and Cheapest Paper the State To ngents who want to make money, and who will reallv work in a com lamrity where they are known. I will pay them better than any- else will they offer can to That thin paper liberal commission. aire to act as they arc in least do. No other agents a more Th&se who de- agents must show that earnest bv sending; at A FINE POPULIST RECORD. DUPLIN COUNTY CONVENTION PUTS OUT A STRONG TICKET. One Subscription for I Year, or 5 Subscriptions for 3 Months, And ONE DOLLAR to pay for same, as their first order. Send in your first order at once and et rates to agents. Any Live Worker Can Easily Set from 1G to 100 Subscribers a Day. N OffliluU la Dupllu fnnnlT Ha ett-r .Mail a llorr lU-rord Tlii Ibr f'reMnt l'oulit OfMrial. They art lMomlnall by rl.ma tluu.-O V. Satlftn for thr l-rgitlature ttroai; autl Pointed HfIatiwu Alt-l. Kknaksvills, N. C, Aug. J. 1808. The Peoples Party of Duplin sounty held a Convention on the above date, which was attended by a large body of the best citizens of Duplin connty. A more sober and representative body of men never assembled anywhere, and the expres sion on every face showed a strong determination to fight the pending battle stronger than ever, to preserve and perpetuate the fine and brilliant record made in the last two years by the Populists in Duplin county. Al ter organizing the Convention for business by electing ('apt. J. C. Mc Millan permanent chairman, aod Jno. A. Gavin and Thad Jonds, Jr., sec retaries, the Convention appointed a Committee on Resolutions, which said committee met and prepared the following, which was unanimously adopted amid great enthusiasm, viz.: Kksolvkd, 1st. That the Peoples Party in Duplin county do fully en dorse the platform of the National Peoples Party and the platform adopted at Raleigh, N. C., May 17th last by the Peoples Party. Rksolvkd. 2nd. That we take special pride in endorsing the admin istration of the affairs of Duplin county for the last two years, where by a debt of $'J,;00 has been cancell ed without borrowing money, or any special tax, and thereby re-establish ing the finances of the county on a safe basis, and that we take special pleasure in pointing to the sober and efficient records of our county of ficial?, who have been at all times courteous, obliging, and at all times labored in behalf of the people. We point with pleasure to the fact that the present Board of Commissioners did not neglect the poor of our coun ty in raising funds to pay the above county debt, but on the first day they met, December 3, 189G, they re-established a pauper list that had been dropped by a former (Demo cratic) Board five months previous, and we are pleased to realize the fact that the Railroad Commission ers of North Carolina have increas ed the valuation of Railroad prop erty $212,000 in Duplin county over last year's valuation, thereby making the railroads pay a nearer just amouut of the taxes, and we take pride to publish the fact that in these hard times that the valuation of personal property in- our county has increased $00,000 over last year's valuation. Resolved 3rd. That we strongly endorse the efforts that are being made to set aside a judgment of $1,8C5, against Duplin oounty (in fa vor of a Democratic ex-official) which we believe is nnjust and should not be paid; said judgment rendered by a "referee;" said judgment render ed om the claim of costs for adver tising names of parties who own tracts of land for taxes, charging $1.80 for each name or tract, and some of the names or tracts adver tised for five years $1 80 per tract for each year, and a Democratic Board of Commissioners refused to grant said amount $1,865 since 1894 to 1896, to said ex-Democratic, of fuial and said Democratic ex offi cial offered to compromise said suit by submitting to a judgment of $400 against him before taking evi dence before "referee." Rksolvid, 4th. That we cheer fully endorse the Hon. Marion But ler's course in the United States Senate. After passing the above resolu tions the following ticket was nomi nated by acclamation with one ex ception. For the Senate, Hon. R. 6. Max well was recomended. For the House, Q. W. Sutton. For Clerk of Superior Court, Jno. . Gavin. For Register of Deeds, Thad Jones, Jr. For Sheriff, Daniel Moore. For Surveyor, D. T. McMillan. For Coronor, L. M. Cooper. For County Commissioners, J. L. Wilkins, J. F. Wallace, Jas. B. Winder. The above ticket is considered a strong one and many of the inde pendent voters are heard to declare for same. The Convention adjourn ed amid the best of feeling, highly leased with the work done. Capt. J. C. McMillan-, Ch'm. Jno .A. Gavin, Thad Jones, Jr- See's. If an agent gets only ten subscri bers a day, be will make more money a day than be lia for the last year. When you send in your first order say what township or townships you waiat. Wo will put an agent in every township in the State. Sub nplioi Blanks, Mum Envelopes asJ Sample Copies will be sent to any one dropping us a postal card, and others for them as a worker, Addrecs THE CAUCASIAN CO G. THE STATE HON. G. LI. COOKE'S ALLIANCE VERSION OF IT. of these iuuranv taxrn for tb- two yean preceding DtiftnUr 1'.C, wi re a follow : JUt. Holds Its Twelfth Annual Session Attempts to ShowfTb&t the Office of at Headquarters Near Secretary of State Was Eoon- Hillsboro omicallr Conducted. 0 PRES. GRAHAM'S ADDRESS- FURTHER EXPLANATION Wntt To Hear ! Hark ICrror.l of Tfcal OrHc I ndrr lM-in or ratir Ariuilul.tratiu A t .More t lgur r urnUhnl Thai Nrril Light Throw u on Th tu to at lf the I'nbli.-. To tiik Kimu: My attention has been called to a publication made in the Progressive Farmer in its issue of April llHh last, compar ing the present administration of the Secretary of State with the ad ministrations of his predecessors, which does Injustice to the latter. There have been other references to this subject by the same taper and by other papers in the State, and unjust deductions drawn from the estimates and figures given in the said article. The article referred to gives what is claimed to be a correct statement of the taxes from insurance com panies collected and paid to the Treasurer by the present Secretary of State from January. 1.S97. to April 1st, 189S, and compares this statement with the amount re ported collected and paid over by Secretary Cooke from September 1st, 1S;)5, to January 1st, 18'J7. To one unacquainted with the law this comparison would seem fair. Kut to one familiar with the law it would appear, as is the fact, that the period covered by the time se lected from Dr. Thompson's admin istration is for the purpose of col lecting the commission taxes on insurance, to which it refers, prac tically two years, whilo the period covered by the time selected from Secretary Cooke's administration in respect to this same subject mat ter practically covers one year. 1 he law in respect to the commis sion on taxes on insurance compa nies is: "That the commission tax of 2 per cent, on the receipts of tke insurance companies Is due and payable within 30 days after the reports of the companies are filed, and such reports must be filed within thirty days after the first days of January and July respectively. A much larger busi ness is done by the insurance com panies daring the fall months and the taxes on the January reports are much larger than on the July reports. It will be seen that while there were sixteen months of the Cooke administration it only em- Insurance Commission tm ISO (by Coke.) .... ii Lli-emu tax K (by Coke) m,uiO: Total ii:,Or.nn Insurance CumiulJon tax (by Cooke) . . fUVStttii Licence tax lSiC iby Cooke t . . I3.a7u.i-. Total In addition t the above there wo on deposit in the bank, a part of the amount and turned over to Secretary Thompson . UCC 14 ioiai 02..71 U Dr. Thompson's book show that ho collected during the first year of his administration, that is. up to January 1st.. IsDS as follow: ror Commission tax For License Tax . . Total .Vj,h.'7."1 . S.'siXUt.lii $..:! .G:t IM-lii of Officer Itr.ult in ! lion of Nearly all F ormer om iat-Ir. Aldrr- Aildrt-iwn the Allluucettien u Ktl- uration- 1'ir-nii' at lltioorftlirr. I be twelfth annual session of tbe Farmers State Alliance was held last week ai ine Aiiunce neauuuarters near flillsboro. Tbe attendance was large,! and tbe delegates enthusiastic and hopeful for tbe future of tbe order Much profitable discussion was bad, and every member present was bene fited by his attendance. President John Graham delivered tbe following very able address: TUI 1' RESIDENT'S ADDKEMi Office and Delegate f Vie Nvrth Car olina State farmers Alliauw. Dkktuke.v : With devout thankful ness to God for reasonable hopes of peace, we meet in this our twelfth an nual session. The condition of our or der, as shown by the records, is about the same as it was last year. Tbe re ports of your oflicers are IfuII and ex plicit, and will in, due time, be referred to you for your consideration and action. Our country is to be congratulated upon the approaching termination of our war with Spain. Vitally interested in tbe great financial question agita ting our country and still unsettled. tbe necessity of united action in end ing successfully war against our ene mies has, tor the time teing, prompted our people to obliterate party lines, and patriotism, equaling that of our Revo lutionary forefathers and the heroes of our civil war, has caused them to bury temporarily their just grievances. Would to God that tbe humanitarian spirit of tbe great American nation, that revolted at the enormity of Span ish misrule in Cuba, would arouse it self for tbe betterment of its own la boring classes, especially tbe unremu- nerated tillers or tbe soil. It is true that tbe millionaires of America have been the architects of their own for tunes, and that the path te fortune is open to all; but tbe great bulk of nur agricultural population will never Bad tbat path. Oppressed by an iniquitous tariff system that robs under tbe forms of law, fleeced by great railroad corpo rations in the transportation of their crops, the price of tbeir agricultural staples fixed by trusts and syndicates, regardless of the law of supply and de mand, our people are wonderful exam ples of the vitality of tbe American farmer. Signs of decadence are, how ever, painfully manifest, and the dispo sition to abandon country life and con gregate in towns and cities bodes ill to republican institutions. Our order has brought the two great questions, trans portation and finance, prominently be fore tbe people. The mechanic, tbe merchant and the manufacturer are equally interested with tbe farmer ia their correct solution. Tbe National debt, increased by the war with Spain, r'uvl10 aumiuisnauwi it vuxy em- Qew licenses issued to tne ccm- will bring the financial question prom- Draceu me time ior mo receiving oi panies. The other companies were inently before the American people in two semi-annual reports ana two Idoiner business without license the fall elections of 1900. A sincere be- semi-annual taxes namely. Janu- and without. tfiM k nnurlfwlcrn tit th hever in the necessity of silver as an arv. 189fi. and Jul v. 1R97 while th snfcr f n . j - , i - , iv,.. u I i J 1 I wv-. . w. ut-aiu. niiu Ainu nv j-""" vnuauu.o .Wu. -i. - montns taken rrom nr. merer, auu ueiievuiE tu CUUiprouilS- ThnmnsAn'. arl.inicrr.tiri In So it will 1h sven mat the collec tions in lhlfG iuder the Coke ad ministration exceed the collection of 1895, the last year of the Cook administration, by il7,"iC..4.". The increase In 1SW over 18'J. would be accounted for by the increase In the number of insurance compan ies and the extension of the busi ness and the increase of Secretary Thompson's administration for 1S97 over 18 would be accounted for by the increase on the amount of the license tax lx-causo of the higher rate. This alone would amount to something over ,t.i. There has also been a slight in crease in the numtwrof companies, ana the increase or the commission tax on account of extension of the business lias been much. Those who have not investigated the de velopment of the insurance busi ness of North Carolina have no Idea towhatextent and how rapid Iv it has continually grown in recent years. A reference to the annual statements of Secretary Cooke made in 18 and to that or Secre tary Thompson made In 1&U7 shows that in one year this increase amounted to over a quarter of a million dollars for sixteen life companies, and the increase in the commission tax thervon to more than five thousand dollars. The license year of insurance Companies is from April to April. Some of the taxes aggregating over two thousand dollars due for the year commencing first of April 18, and ending first of April ioy, wnicn were collectible under the Cooke administration were col lected by Secretary Thompson af ter he came into office. Some of these were from old companies which had been doing business in the State for somo time and who had made their reports regularly and their solvency approved, but tne tax naa not been paid nor licenses Issued to SeveuteMi Lives Lot. Nashville, Aug. 13. A special to the Banner from Knox ville, Tenn. says: News has just reached here that a cloud-burst has occurred at Beach Creek, a remote locality in Hawkins connty, nearly twenty miles from Bogersville. Seventeen persons lost their lives. Thirteen of the bodies have been recovered. The dead were a number of poor families. Their cabins, in a narrow valley, were swept away in the flood follow ing the cloud-burst. Electrocuted Accidentally. Shamokin, Pa.t Aug., 10. While leaning from a window of the Shamokin Valley knitting works to day Miss Jennie Allison, aged eighteen years, was electrocuted by her nose coming in contact with telephone wire that had been crossed by a live arc light wire. Her feet rested on a coil of steam heating pipes at the time. tke Stanly Count Bond Cass. Judge Simonton has decided Stanly connty bond case and up holds the validity of the bonds. The temporary injunction granted sonce time ago is continued to final hear ing, as the case in all probability will be appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Hon. Kerr Craige, of Salisbury, is ap pointed receiver of taxes collected for 1896, for the payment of the in terest on the bonds. ing differences is tbe surest means of success, it seems to me tbat the f.iends of silver should be united if possible in tbe campaign of 1900. A safe com promise would be the purchase of sil ver by the government with silver dol lars. All the silver purchased to be coined and carried to tbe United States Treasury, tbe government making clear the difference between tbe mar ket value and the coinage value. This compromise would add thousands to the silver forces, and we could gradually approach our heart's desire tbe free coinage of silver. It grieves me to state that your ef forts, aided by those of tbe Executive bead of our beloved State, to annul tbe ninety-nine year lease of tbe North Carolina Railroad have proven abor tive. Tbe manifest intention of the Federal judiciary to decide an ques tions pertaining to the ninety-nine year lease in favor of the Southern Kailway, prompted the Governor of your State to advise and request the directors of the North Carolina Rail road, on tbe part of the State, to ac cept the proposition of the Southern Railway to end the suit against them and pay all court costs, thus saving the State, in his opinion, a useless ex penditure of many thousand dollars The suit was brought by tbe Southern Railway, lhe views of the Governor were endorsed and the proposition of the Southern Railway was accepted The unfortunate termination of this contest on tbe part of the people ren ders it imperative that they should arouse themselves, and regardeless of party ainiations see to it that the next legislature shall enact a law to pre vent the consolidation, direct or indi rect of parallel or competing railroad lines. The control of the Seaboard Air Line, the most liberal of our great through lines, has, more than once, nearly passed inte the hands of the Southern Railway, its great rival. This calamity has been averted in all probability rather by tbe interests of officials in salaries and perquisites tban through desire for the public good, lour efforts to secure lower passenger and freight rates should not be abated. The interests of tbe rail roads ought to be indissolubly linked with those of the people. The free pass system ought to be broken up, but it should not apply to bona fide employes of railroads. Your railroad commission should be pre served and its powers enlarged, but the commissioners should not be al lowed to lower rates on one of our three great systems and not upon the main iines at least of the other two. This discrimination is repugnant to North Carolina ideas of justice. The worKing our dirt roads is sec ond in importance only to tbe control of our railways. Our convicts should be made to work our roads as far as practicable. The necessity of their safe confinement and maintenance is evident. The penitentiary is not, and has not been self sustaining. Its man agement, both Leazar and means of detecting them in so do ing. When these companies filed eludes the return periods of Janu ary, 1897, July, 1897, and January, 1898. inere are two taxes on insurance companies. The one is the commis sion tax referred to above, and the other the specific license tax. The commission tax has been uniformly 2 per cent., but the law allowing a reduction of this tax to 1 per cent for investments of the companies' receipts in this State has not been uniform in respect to its require ments. For years this reduction was allowed on the investment of one-half of the premium receipts in this State, and a number of the in- tne amounts collected by Secretary surance companies complied with Oooke and Secretary Thomspon the law and only paid 1 per cent, ought not to be considered as any reports at the beginning of 1897, their reports showed that they had been doing business In Isorth Carolina in 1896 and Secretary Thompson, as was always the rule of the office, collected the full amount of taxes which they should have paid in 1896 before author izing them to do business for 1897. It appears from the report of Capt. Coke that the collection from the first of April, 1891, to April, 1895, amounted to$166.995.UOan av erage of $11,498.05. Now the fact that the amounts collected per year by Secretary Coke were less than WAR IS AT AN END PROCLAMATION OF PEAOG, lilt the VivMent f tin Vtiitrd Stat f Aintrien. A PROCLAMATION. UMiHafcuAS.II,r2 Protocol oocB.ld .JtfBJ .t i: 1. hr Wllhani K. lUy. hr-tarr of 8ut of tb. ToifJ St.i . 4 !.. l:tn U K.pubh of rrDc at W.b.8u... imu.!, rrir7tv U Ull puriM.Mi tb. guTr0mt of ih. T.,u Stauad tb e-.tf ri. the I aiUd State a,l Spia Lave formally aCrH3 0(M,a l-rJ, which negotiation, for tb oUbli.ba.tt -f Ut-m xbm t tnrs baU b undertaken : and WHtkta, It it in aa.J protvo! ngtrd that a4 aignature boatihtica between tU two roao'n.. atall U w.r 4 that notic to that ftVct .hall b a aoon . br e,b rtr ent to tbe commander of it niditary and natal force Naw, therefor.. I, William McKitl.y. rraiJeot of tie l .iteJ hub, do, in accordance with tb. tipaUtion of tb. rtl. dlar a.. claim on the part cf tb. CaittJ Bute a .a.r.na.01. of aoetd.tiM. 4 4. hereby command thai orders b. lmmiat.: n . . . - .... , . J t mw p.ai II "uur" l" commanuera ox tb. military and naval fm. tb. l'.ad oiaic 10 auaiain iron an acta isrontutent with in witnM whereof I bar. Loreonto the 1'Qited States to b. a Cited. aet tbi foriaaaAa. y hand and raurd tb. f Uone at the city of Wahincton tL.. I.h Jay U Art. tm U y-ar of our Lord on. tbonaad ight bond red b4 mn.t)-ickt. MJ ef the independence, of the Cmte! .State, tbe on. drwl aad twenty-third. U'llitm Ui Wiwi By the 1'rekidcot : William K. Day. Secretary of State. OFFICIAL KTATKMKNT OF PKACK I'lKiVISloNS. The oflisial tatemnt of the p.ac pcovuion m at fllowt : oTteirntT or at J Utl. to rill rtlicquiah all .laiui of ti tL. Wt I ad tea. a ad I'bitrd htatef. anall Im 1. That Jspain Cuba. Tnat l'orto Kico and otLr Sjaniin ilanJ. an island in tb Ladrooe, to b. lectJ by th ceueu to lue lairer. :i. That the United States will oc.umt and kolJ tL .tr i.. . . of Manila, pending the conclusion of a trtv of teac which ka.rl J.i-r. mine the control, disposition, and ror.ro tot nt of tb. Fhilippme. L4..Tbat CBbf' 1ort0 Kic and olber SPQ Uud i the Wet U4.. shall be immediately eracnated. and that Caaitaisaioneia. to t a proofed within ten dayt. hall, within thirty days from th. sioiu of the pmj.ol. meet at Havana and San Juan, reapMUrt ly. to arranrv and . avul. u. details of tbe eracuation. r. That the I oited States and Spain will each appoint mot saw. than fire Commissioners to negotiate acd conclude a treaty of p.. TL. Commissioners are to meet at Tans uot later tha tb. 1st of 0-toUr. Oa the signing of the protocol hostilities will b. suwt,dl. a&J notice to that fleet will be gircu as noon at possible by each f "erumaat to tbecommaudera of its military and naval forces. OKDKKKD TO SLSI'KXIl HOSTILITIES. The order sent to lieu. Merritt to suspend hostilities was as follows. "APJ1 TAKT (iCNtUAL'M Orritt. ., " Washington. August I - lb'.. "Mkrbitt, Manila : "The President directs all miUtasj opeaations againa tk enemy b. so pendHl. Peace negotiations are Hearing completion, a protocol haricar jast been signed by r.prettenUtires of the tw countries. You will inform the commanders of the Spanish forces in the I'ailippmes of the instruc tion. Further orders will follow. Acknowledge receipt. By order of tbe Secretary of War. M U. C CoBhltf. AdjaUnt Seral.M The orders sent to Gen. Miles and Uea. Shafter were identic! with lie above sare as to names. . A the order stater, further instructions will be sent to each General. Gen. Merritt will be directed to confer with tb. Spanish commandant at Manila to carry out the terms of the protocol and toocenpy MaaiU in me diately. Gen. Miles will pot himself in coram uoicwtion with th. chief authority in Porto Kieo for the purpose of baring Spanish forces turn over San Juan and other points to him preparatory to eracuation. Owing to conditions in Cuba the orders to Geo. Shafter to be sent beteaftar will be much different tban those to other Generals. taxes on their receipts. In 189. during the last year of Secretary Coke's administration the law was changed so as to require the invest ment in this State of one-fourth of the entire assets of the company to secure this reduction. None of the companies except those chartered in iorth Carolina availed them selves of this new law. This should be considered in favor of Col. Coke and Col. Saunders in considering thn increase of the amount of taxes ollected by the Cooke and Thomp son administration over theirs The license tax has been several times changed. At the commence ment of Col. Saunders' administra- companies tion. in 1879. it was $100 on both or Fire evidence of unfaithfulness on the part of Secretary Coke for the reas ons: that it is accounted for by the increase of the license tax and the large extension of the insurance And this applies also to the col lections made under Col. Saunders administration. During the early years of his administration the in surance business was insignificant as compared with what it is now. and during the last six years of his administration the license tax was only $"O.U0 a year for all com panies, whereas during Secre tary Thompson's adminstration it is $:!.O.Oi) a year for life and $JW).i) a year Companies. During fire and life insurance companies, and it so continued until the act of the legislature preceding the adop tion of the Code in 1883, when it was raised to $ 120, and it was so written in the Code. But in 1882 this license tax was reduced both for fire and life insurance com pa nies to $50 and so continued to 1891, when it was again increased to100. In 1893 the tax on fire in suiance companies was left at $100, but was increased to $200 on life insurance companies. In March, 1897, it was increased to $200 on fire these six years the annual amount of license tax could not have been more than about $5,000. A greater injustice could not be done to the memory of the brave and honorable man tban to sng gest this as ground for Impeaching his character either for integrity or faithfnlness. On the day of Dr. Thompson's qualifications as Secretary of State I presented to him a balance sheet showing a balance on deposit to the credit of Secretary of State on all accounts of $9.7GG.Gi, which companies ana $2o0 on life com- amount i lnimeuiaieiy lurnea over panies. So it will be seen tnat to mm. l at tne same u me lurneu dnrine- the last vear of the Coke over to him the books of the office Kuacate roar Bowels With Cascaretn. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. j.i a j. u. iaii, aruKKiaw refund maner 10o.25c. administration and during the Cooke - administration the license on the fire insurance was twice what it was during the six years of the Saunders administration and the license on life insurance com panies was four times as great as during the said six years, and twice I as much as it was during baunders7 administration from 1883 and all of the Coke administration except the last year. Now the tax during the Thompson administration has Including two ledgers, which con tained a full account of my admin istration of the office. I believe Dr. Thompson is an intelli gent and efficient officer. As he did not call my atten tion to any error fonndjin the office I am obliged to conclude that he has given out no state ment to any one which - reflects In any way upon my administration of the office, and that he is in no way responsible for the pub- connection with Capt. Cooke's statement: The total receipts on the five ac counts which are payable monthly, into the public treasury have been by periods (for Capt. Cooke's grati fication) as follows: First eriod, from January 1, 1881. to Coke's last payment. May 31, 189', just 1 1 years and ." months: Total payments . . . 43 Average per year . . 270I 10 Average per month . . 2.291 78 Second ieriod, from lat pay ment of Coke, May 31, Ih'J., to the nauguration of Dr. Thompson on anuary 12, IW, I year 3-j months, covering Cooke's time: The payments were . . fS2,i:KJ.O Average per year . . . .j,wz z Average per month . - Third eriod, from Jan. 12, 1H'J7, to July 31. 1n9", 1 yearO months, the amount was . . . llOttO 14 Average per year . . . l'kV32G40 Average per month . . k.777 20 These figures bow the actual collections of Thompt-on, tbe amount turned over to him by Capt. Cooke being placed to Cooke's credit. There are many mysteries con nected with this affair. For in stance, for m year 1881, the pay ment on account of sales of supreme Court Reports were fi.3-14, and in 191 $2,018.01, showing an aver age oi ijs.n.tj ior tnese eleven years, and then for tbe three yearn 1892,93, and the grand total payments on this account reached only $021.12 for the three years, and then suddenly went back above tbe general average. There are other features of this mystery, which we will refer to next week. Meanwhile we shall bo glad to have Capt. Cooke tell us where that $2,-V8.07 was on NovemUf 30, 1890? hointnriooai!(mi9t.nn tho flra in. I lication referred to in tne beein A. . . I VU V f. fl V V W VMVU..MI CJ "Da!f?uP"'?ieael suranto companies as it was during ning of this communication. I I I T t- I LUH HUmiDlHirSLlUU BlIU Oil v wvvrj :n ?;r h U ZU- Cir the Coke administration, and the Louisbufg, N. C, Aug. 9, W. Northampton Farm, and tbe Caledonia I tax on life companies 150 per cent. Farm at tne option price, nine dollars I greater tnan in nrst tnree years or I the Caucasian was requested per acre, sufficient provisions ana the Coke administration, and 2o per I to publish the foregoing, and we marnei crops couia oe raisea on cneseioprif tri-pater than in thA last vear rlrilv- enmnlv with th ron nest two xarms to leeu, ciome ana guara aii 0f the Coke administration and but do not see that it explains thmiaimri Minvint nn in nnnfln.m.ntL According to the report made by ceints in the State Secretary's office Oh the lira u hart Farm are one hun-1 Jsecreiary uooKe to tne lasiuenerai The lonowing ngures ana aaia. is dred and fifty convicts and eiirhtT I Assembly the amounts collected by I published in the Progressive nis predecessor and himself and I Farmer of this week, ana the (Continued on 2d Dace I paid into the treasurer on account I Caucasian reproduces them In Mm m4 A FERTILIZER TRUST. VirarUla aal Caroll aa O-apaor farcli Mill la Geersla. Morehead City Pilot. Atlanta. Ga.. Aug. 12, Tiie Virginia and Carolina Chemieal Company has pnrcbased the mills of tbe Southern rerturar Company for $750,000. The four mills eon trolled by the Southern company are loeated " at fAUanta, Savannah, Borne and Cordele, Ga. The parehaM of these mills makes the total num ber of factories controlled by the Virginia and Carolina Cmpany twenty-seven. The company it cap italized at $7,000,000. The deal was completed at Biehmond, Virginia, Wednesday. Five new yearly subscriptions and one renewal, or six new yearly sub scriptions sent at one time, $5 00 we will send the "Handy War Book'' Fbkx. Send for sample copies. DEMOCRATS SCHOOL TNE MESR9ES That Ttrf Hii. a ktlcfct tm (J TS mm try $mr -Mhli. While M-la.- For Th :i C4i4 1 KaIsojc, Aug. 12, lbllU. A tbe war of powder aod lsvd is about over, and th political clonds are gradaally lowering. brdocsl as osoal with abase A;., soma of which bctog scattered aroond alraaJv. Democratic s'ogan is negroes inofiee created bv fasion of iL Pops "and lUpobs." Dr. Osks sars. 'inotiar frosu u bible. 'it is tb troth that taakos as free. Now, what is tbs tratb svad facts in tbn caaaf Krsrr ooMfis. diced maa knows that in a ni many paru of tbe tato tke Dt-aao- crata have keen seboclmg tbe b groes,thatas tbcy. Lcld nearly all the votes of their party tby bad tb rigit to make their demand. Wsr did they teach snch iof-rral dotrtoT I or two purpose! : First. If they could soecoed they fthe naero would evactoally dssv oat of tne Kpablican party all, or nearly jo, ttie whites of the party, thereby leariog the negroes to bat tle for tbcmsoJvfs. beeaoae every body most know it the whites are left oat of conventions Ac, they wil not afiiiate with tberu aay longer. Second. If the above disiategration oan be worked it wnald csots the Pops to drop the fibt. eed Uey woald bag tbe game tbat this trap a a osva dwd mm ior me iasi rar yera. and some few ngro-a have eki the bait. The Dens are a littl pre mature in palling tb trigger. Wfej. even in Daon, I eee it stated that tbe Editor is bow advisiog pool trail for the i egrocs to m ake demands. What foi? la my village fear (4 vear ago there was a parse of ."Uor W dollaw made up by the Dems atd paid auto the hands of a colored BepnbHcsa te iodaee tb aegroes of this place to vote tor Mr. -ara, area after be was ordered dowe by the committee to keep tfcem frem votiog for Thomp sob. If these are f aeU, as above stated .' wb o ts to blame for the ac tion of at least some ef the negroes; is it not this lofernal corrupt teach ing contrary to morality aod every good principle laid down. Bare yoa been honest with them, is it joar aim and purpose to keep np this war of races that yon profit thereby Dr. TsUmage eaya, "Dareecatioa very rarely saeeeeds." Yoa and some of your abettors say the Pope are too small in numbers &c How 'many brought the idea of aboktso. of slavery at first T Only four, a very smafl eload. A good many Dems acknowledge our principles. I eant understand them. They say we mast come back. Who was it Unit left Cleveland and his followers; yoa have deserted Ctevelavd. Who Uea have to come baekf Fees the and we will meet yon Wit .