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Charlotte Democrat.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
Friday, February 14. 1896,
FOB TDK CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT.
A Nice Way to Keep Meat.
Ma. Editor : As our farmers were so
fortunate as to have some hogs to kill this
winter, now the question is, what is the
best method to keep the joints, especially
the hams, nice and sweet through the
summer. I have tried many and various
plans, but my experience has led me to
conclude that the cheapest, cleaned and
surest method is in the application of pul
verized borax just after the meat has been
smoked (or dried). Wash clean and
while the meat is damp sprinklo the flesh
side of the hams and shoulders with the
pulverized borax, hang up in the tmoke
house and it will keep sweet and clean all
year; insects will not trouble it; one pound
is sufficient for one dozen ordinary sized
hams or shoulders. Try it brother far
mers and see how you like it.
John W. Moore.
The New Star of Utah.
The Boston Herald calls atten tion to
l ho fact that the new star of Utah was
the one to which the woman suffragists
pointed with greatest pride in their na
tional convention last week. Time was
when the institutions of that territory
brought the blush of shame to the ebeek
of honest womanhood; but that time has
gone by, and Utah is now one of the three
states of the Union wherein woman is
recognized on a plane of political equality
with man. It is a great transformation
in which the women suffragists may well
exult.
JT" It is an old saying in politics
that the road to the White Home does
not lead through the United States
Senate, and that a certain fatality Jat
tends Senators who aspire to Presidental
nomination. Mr. Garfield and Mr. Har
rison were two recent exceptions, some
suy, both taken from the Senate and.
nominated and elected to the Presidency
The fact is that neither Mr. Garfield nor
Mr Harrison was "taken from the Sen
ate." No President of the Unitod States
has boen taken from the senate, except
through tho constitutional method of
promoting a Vice President, presiding
over the Senate to the Presidency when
a vacancy occured in the latter office.
In January, 1880 the Ohio Legislature,
which bad a Republican majority, elected
Mr. Garfield to succeed Senator Thur
man when the term of ihe latter should
expire on March 4, 1881. Mr, Garfield
received the unanimous vole of the Re
publicans and Mr. Thurman the unani
mous vote of the Democrats in the Ohio
Legislature. Subsequentl', on June 8
1880, Mr. Garfield was nominated for the
Presidency, and on Nov. 4 was elected.
Ho was never actually United States
Senator. Mr. Harrison was not taken
from tho senate either. His term as
senator expired on March 3, 1887, and he
had retired to private life when, in June,
1888, he was nominated at the Chicago
Convention.
Charges Against Mr. Collins.
Special from Washington, Ga , to the
Atlanta Constitution yesterday, says :
The Washington Camp of Woodmen of
tho World is in a quandary and, to bor
row the familiar expression of that well
known ex-congressman, don't know
"where they are at."
The last of November and the first of
December one J. H. Collins, representing
himself as an agent of the above
mentioned organization, and hailing from
Chtrlotte, N. C, organized quite a
flourishing camp at this place. After
getting everything in good working
order and collecting tho first installment
of dues, he took leave of his brothers,
telling them confidentially that he was
going to be married to a young lady of
Charlotte on the 18th of December.
Since that time the members have heard
nothing from Collins or their money
either. The headquarters of the Wood
men were notified and this was their first
intimation of a camp being organized
here. Tho chief of police of Charlotte
was addressed, but never responded.
Mr. Collins is in Sparta, Ga.
. .
J2f Writing of Mrs. Carlise, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun says : "There is one occupation that
is never set aside by the Secretary's wif-j,
and that is personally attending to her
marketing. No matter what the weather
may bo, or how fast the pace that is set
by fashionable and official society, Mrs.
Carlisle drives to market and selects
with shrewd, strong common sense ber
dinner for her household. She prides
herself upon the fact that she is very
rarely imposed upon. Any one who ob
serves her in market speedily concludes
that it is not because she is the wife of a
Cabinet officer that she gets the best of
everything, but rather because 6he wants
and will take no bing else. A Southern
cook book, complied by her, is considered
here quite an authority and ber hot
breads and waffles have made the hospita
ble home of the Carlisles quite a mecca
for the epicureans among the statesmen
and politicians.
SElf" A Santa Fe train in Arizona was
stalled for five hours by an odd accident
a few days ago. The engine ran over a
cow, and the cow's foot became firmly
wedged in the blow-off cock, used to
empty the boiler, with the result that
all the steam and water went out and
the engine was killed. A brakeman had
to walk fife miles to the nearest tele
graph station to telegrph for another
engine. It was five hours before another
engine reached the stalled train, and the
passengers played games among the 6and
hills and sage brush during the wait.
JCg- James Morefleld of Tennessee,
agent for prominent lumber firm, while
going through the woods near Grayson,
Ashe county this State, looking for tim
ber one day last week, met a crowd of
toughs from the moonshine section.
They endeavored to pick a quarrel with
Morefield, and failing one of them struck
him over the head with a rifle, fracturing
the skull. He died the following day.
The murderer is in jail. There was
much excitement and lynching was
talked of.
JSir Among the 1,000 persons making
up tbe population of Alfred, Mo., are
twenty-four between the ages of eigthy
and ninety years.
"Negroes Under Northern Conditions."
In the January No. of Gunton's Maga
zine, which is published in New York, I
find an article under the above caption,
wnicn is a study ot tbe negro in a typical
northern town Carlise, Pa. which waa
selected as a point of research because it
offers both urban and rural condition,
where the prejudice against tbe negro
"was Blight, if existent, at tbe time of his
settlement, and where the present negro
population is composed almost entirely of
ex-siaves or ineir children.
The facts and figures presented in this
article are simply astounding, even to a
southern reader I will not try to sum
marise them many of them you would
not print but will simply quote the cons
eluding three paragraphs ot the article :
"In nine cases out often advanced
education is a positive detriment to tbe
negro, and it will be, not only as long as
the educated colored man feels too proud
to work at manual labor, but as long as
the present race discrimination exists and
the negro fails to accept his isolation; as
long as, practically, all professional em
ployment, save the ministry, and some
few positions as teachers, are close to him.
He cannot find employment as a clerk, or
shop-hand to him only manual occupa
tions are open. The discrimination in
this town becomes more and more rigid.
Not only are the avenues to the higher
forms of labor closed, but he is not wanted
by white churches as a member; if he
goes to those as a worshipper he finds
himself assigned to tbe back seats of the
meeting-house. In tbe court-room he is
restricted to certain seat, and this by
the ruling of a Republican judge; be cans
not obtain entertainment at leading
hotels, nor be shaved in barber-shops
patronized by whites; and these instances
are but a few of the many.
' The white population of Carlisle res
spects the older negroes, for they, as a
rule, are polite, hard-working citizens,
but it is weary of the younger genera
tion. Eighty per cent, of negroes born
since 1865 are wortheless, insolent
loafers, immoral, criminal, a sorrow to
their parents and a curse to the com
munity. "These then are the main facts which
a study of the negro in one northern
town furnishes. The mass of statistics
which I have gathered in other cities
but accentuates tho present presentation."
lhis, from a northern writer in a
northern magazine, is, to say the least,
remarkable. And yet the South has
spent, and is yet spending millions of
dollars in educating the negro! I pass
over the hypocrisy of the northern
people. JLt in Richmond Dispatch.
About Bi It more.
My old friend, Z , who laid all the
floors in Biltraore house, tbe North Car
olina home of George Vanderbilt amazes
me with a description of that marvelous
place in the mountains. The bouse
stands in tho midst of a tract of 70,000
acres of ground. Mr. Vanderbilt's hold
ings in the vicinage amount to over 100,-
000. Frederick Oimstead has done some
fine landscape gardening, building rustic
bridges over mountaiuous streams with
striking effect.
The hodse has been five and a half
years in building, and 11,000,000 brick
were used in the construction, all made
out of clay on tbe estate. A great deal
of Indiana stone was used in addition,
one piece weighing over three tons. The
extreme length of Bi'tmore house is 375
feet, and width 192 feet. It contains 100
rooms and has three elevators. During
Christmas week, when the house warm
ing party occupied it, eighty servants
were required to kep it in order. It con
tains twenty two bath room?, besides a
swimming pool sixty by thirty, with
needle baths, sprays vapor rooms and all
the equipment of a lurkish or Russian
bath. It is one of the few private resi
dences in the United States with steam
laundry. It is heated by steam, 15,000
feet of superficial indirect beating surface
being required, while over twelve miles
of steam pipes are used to connect the
radiators with tbe 200-borse power
boiler in the basement. New York
Press.
Silver Coi naoe Begun. The monthly
report of the Director of the Mint shows
total coinage during January to have
been $15,033,560, classified as follows :
Gold $12,914,600; silver $35,000; minor
coin, $53,900. Beginning to-day the
mint at San Francisco Philadelphia and
.New Orleans will begin the coinage of
silver dollars at tbe rate of $1,500,000
per month together. It is expeoted that
the work will continue until from $18,
000,000 to $20,000,000 has been coined.
A Can of Tomatoes.
Little Incident Out of a Soldier's Experience in
the Civil War.
I was always fond of tomatoes and I
hadn't had any for two years and eight
months, the time that the regiment had
been in service ; then we had settled
down for a little where we could get
things, and the sutler got some and I
bought a can. I think the cans were
bigger in those days I know the price
was; I paid a dollar for that can, but I
was glad to pay it.
Our camp was in a piece of woods.
There was a little wooded ravine near by
in which there was a cool, abundant
spring that supplied tbe whole regiment;
the surplus ran off down the ravine in a
bright little brooklet, shallow, but with
little pockets here and there where an
eddy bad burrowed out the earth, or the
current ran under the root of a
tree. The tomatoes had been stacked up
under tbe roof of the sutler's tent where
it was hot; I took my can down to the
ravine and sunk it in one of these
pockets of cold water for an hour; then I
took it back to camp.
We had a barrel that our tent bad
picked up somewhere that we used for a
table. I set the can on the table and cut
tbe bead out of it with my jackknife.
The rest of tho men in my tent didn't
care for tomatoes, and so it wasn t mean
ior me to eai ine wnoie can. i put in a
little vinegar, and some pepper and Bait.
I had plenty of hard bread and a big
spoon.
They were cool and delicious; a feast.
I don t think that I have ever eaten
anything more delightful.
A large colony of negroes is
booked to sail tor .Liberia from Savannah
on tbe steamer Jjourado Feb. 27. at
about the same time a party of 800 white
colonists from Indiana will join the new
colony at Fitzgerald, Ga.
5Tbis year May 10th falls on Sun
day. Ihe W ilmington people will hold
memorial day exercises on Sunday, and
substitute a sermon for tbe customary
address.
A Raid of Republican Bigotry.
i A somewhat dramatio event iook piace
on Wednesday last in the House of Rep
resentatives, when for the first time in
the history of this country, a general
appropriation bill was defeated on its
proposed final passage.
The bill in question was the Appropri-
atiuu uiu lur iuo aiohiui. ui wiuuivm,
and it came from tbe Committee on Ap
propriations as framed by a sub commit
tee consisting of Messrs. Grout, .blue and
Pitney, republicans, and Dockery and
.bartlett, democrats.
The District of Columbia is a peculiar
political and territorial organism, unlike
that, of a State, and assimilated rather to
the Territories of tbe United States
because it is governed directly by the
Congress of the United states or the
Federal Legislature, and not through the
interposition ot a otate government.
One-half of tho expenses of tbe District
are paid by taxes levied upon tbe resi
dents thereof, while the government of
tbe United States pays, from its treasury,
the other one-half thereof.
In the District of Columbia Appropria
tion bill of this year, as in former years,
certain appropriations were made for
various charitable institutions in the
district which were under the manage
ment of private corporations or private
associations. The usual annual appro
priations were not increased, and the bill,
in its foam as reported was just and
equitable.
Some days ago, when the House re
solved itself into Committee of tbe
Whole to consider tbe bill, Eugene J.
Hainer, a republican representative from
the State of Nebraska, made a violent
and vigorous attack upon some of tbe
charitable appropriations. In this attack
he wts not consitent, for he sought to
deprive certain institutions of any ap
propriation, and yet spared others of no
greater merit. Hainer spared the first
institution reached, the Washington
Foundling Asylum, which is said to be
under the control of Presbyterians. He
then moved to strike out tbe appropria
tion for the Temporary Home for Dis
abled Soldiers, but finding strong oppos
sitton, he withdrew hi motion. His
motion to strike out the appropriation for
the German Hospital was not carried,
but he succeeded in striking from tbe bill
tbe appropriation for tbe Church Orphan
age of St. John's Parish, an Episcopal
charity, and the appropriations for four
Catholic institutions.
Hainer was re-enforced by other re
publicans, and when tbe bill was reported
back to tbe House from tbe Committee
of the Whole it presented a singularly
mutilated appearance. ihe charities
nominally controlled by Episcopalians
and by Roman Catholics had been
stricken from tbe list. The Homo for
Destitute Colored Women and Cbildreu
retained its appropriation, andt.be Found
ling Asylum controlled by Presbyterians,
bad not been attacked.
The Germans, aroused by tbe loss of
their appropriation, made vigorous efforts,
and it is said that hundreds of telegrams
were showered upon Washington. As a
result, by a vote of tbe House, tbe ap
propriation for the German Hospital was
restored to the bill.
Tbe whole fight was doubtless
prompted and stimulated by the A. P. A.,
or American Protective Association, and
tbe members who supported Hainers
efforts were influenced by a desire to
please their A. P. A. constituents, and
thus to gain a cheap notoriety in their
several districts.
The President of tbe German Hospital
is, we believe, a Hebrew, and through fear
of the combined Germans and Hebrews
the republicans dared not persist in their
attempt to exclude that appropriation.
The rights ot all the charitable asso
ciations were defended in tbe House by
Gen. Wheeler of Alabama and Mr. Bart
lett of New York. Mr. Bartlett took tbe
broad position that no distinction should
be made in favor of any sect or any spes
cial charity, but that all should be
treated with equal consideration, and that
the effort to strike out the Episcopalian
and Roman Catholic charities was
prompted by a narrow and bigoted spirit.
He said :
' Just as I spoke yesterday in behalf of
the appropriation for the Church Orphan
age Association of St. John's Parish, I
rise now to speak in behalf of this Roman
Catholic charity. I for one am not afraid
to take my stand in behalf of all these
charities, whether they be for white or
colored, whether they be for Jew or gen.
tile. I am in favor of each and everyone
of these appropriations, whether the in
stitution be under the management of
Roman Catholic or Lutheran or Calvinist.
I believe that we have the power to give
the government aid which we vouchsafe
to these charitable institutions, to the
managers of these institutions for appor
tionment, and 1 say that the sectarian
spirit is manifested by opposition to these
appropriations and not by those who
favor the giving of this money."
In the Committee of the Whole no roll
call can be had, and so the friends of
Hainer and the frunds of the A. P. A.
were not obliged to put themselves on
record; but when the bill came to tbe
House for final action and a roll call was
had, many of the republicans were afraid
to be recorded as in favor of the A. P. A.
The democrats voted solidly against the
bill because of the oonduct of the repub
licans with reference to these charities,
and in their position they were re enforced
by enough republican votes to defeat the
measure.
The whole episode shows that many of
tbe republican representatives are in
reality hostile to the Roman Catholic and
Lutheran charities, but that they are
afraid to avow their natural hostility
when their votes must be made a matter
of record.
A Flagman Killed. W. T. Surles,
flagman with tbe shifting crew of the
Southern Railway here, while performing
his duties, was run over this afternoon
about 5:45 o'clock. The accident oc
curred just beyond the factory of the
American Tobacco Company. The un
fortunate mau had been changing the
switch when his foot eaught in the frog,
and the horrible accident happened.
Instantaneous death ensued. Tbe body
of the deceased was fearfully mangled,
one leg being almost entirely severed.
The deceased was about 35 years old, and
leaves a wife and two small children to
mourn his untimely taking off.
Half a Million Assignment. New
York, Feb. 7. Robert Adams, carrying
on business under the name of R & H.
Adams, manufacturers of cotton goods,
with offices at No. 16 Greene street, as
signed Feb 7th without preferences to
Charles E. Shade. The failure is said to
involve $500,000,
north Carolina New.
Roman Catholics announce they have
decided to build a cathedral in Raleigh
It will be of stone and its cost will ap
proximate $100,000.
Miss Jennie Willis, daughter of Ber,
R. A. Willis, pastor of Grace Methodist
church in Wilmington, died on February
3rd. Tbe body was taken to Jfayette
ville for burial.
The new book which the State Agri
cultural Department will issue this year
is to be named "North Carolina, and its
Resources," The old name of Hand
Book will be dropped.
Arrangements are perfected to build a
half-million dollar cotton mill at Fowlar
Shoals on Broad river, in Rutherford
county. The principal owner is Frank
Cox, who has great mine interest in
Pennsylvania.
Here's a pointer from tbe Atlanta Con
stitution : "A stock mutual insurance
company, of Greensboro, N. C, has de
clarer a dividend of all per cent on its
first year. This speaks well for the
stock mutual plan of insurance
Bev. J. W. Bichardson, of Greensboro,
whose family had typhoid fever last sum
merand fall, resulting in the. death of a
daughter, has or will bring suit for $6,000
damages against that city, alleging that
negligence in sanitary matters caused
his troubles. Several members of bis
household were down at tbe same time
with fever, says the Record.
Tbe following is a list of the jurors for
tbe Spring Term of Lincoln oounty
Superior Court, to be held the first Mon
day in April 1896.
First week. W. H. Rhyne: C. M. Sum
mer, W. E. Ramsey, D. Cromland.Alonzo
Bynum, S. D. Thompson, V, A. Harrell,
John H. Mcintosh, D. Thomas Seagle,
J. N. Baxter, John P. Seagle, W. H.
Brotherton, Will F. Jetton, John W.
Hinkle, J. R. Blackburn, W. F. Reep,
Jackson Howard, E. M. Howard, David
S. Kistler, D. E. Rhine. J. W. Simmon, A.
F. Brevard, Lutber M. Kudisill, L. T.
Smith, Ed. L Adderholt, M. L. Heavner
Henry P. Helms, F. T. Smith, W. R,
Blanton, A. M. Reep, J. F. Finger, Wm.
Keener, A. A. Sain.
Second Week. Arthur M. Carpenter,
L. Pewitt Bolick, David Clipard, D. J.
Beam, J. A. Sigmon, 1. C. Warhck, K, E.
Camp, John W. Dellinger, U. S Wise,
J. A.C. Barkley, S. P. Sherrill, D. F.
Abernethy, W. S. Beal, A. Coster, L. D.
Dellinger. L. L. Hauss, James Queen, H.
J. King.
Review of the Cotton Market.
New York, Feb. 7. The following are
tbe total net receipts at the ports since
September 1st, 1895 :
Galveston, 772,077; New Orleans,
1,401,957; Mobile, 176,117; Savannah,
597,859; Charleston, 240.709; Wilmington,
152.474; Norfolk, 273,960; Baltimore, 33,-
858; New York, 78,206; Boston, 88,336;
Newport News, 8,514; Philadelphia, 27
500; West Point, 136,083; Brunswick,
52,581; ;Port Royvl, 46,449; Pensacola,
9,414; Texas Citv, 44,208. Total, 4,104,
402 bales.
Cotton declined three to five points,
but rallied and advanced one to two
points, then reacted slightly and closed
very Bteady, at a. net rise of about one
point, with sales of 90,000 bales.
Todav s features: A fall in Liverpool
was reflected in a temporary fall in New
York, but later on the fact that the inte
nor receipts for the week were seen to
be less than had been expected caused a
rally and prices closed at a small advance
or the day, which was perhaps about all
that could be expected in a short market.
There are undoubtedly some drawbacks,
chief of which is the continued smallness
of speculation. Then the receipts at
both the ports and the interior towns on
the whole are somewhat liberal, even
though they are not so liberal as bad been
expected. And the spot trade is not in
an altogether satisfactory condition.
Some of the spot markets were easier,
the Liverpool spot sales were not large,
the Manchester news wus not at all stim
ulating, and once more tbe next crop
proved a rather tempting sale to the
bears. Still the market closed steady at
a slight improvement. Tbe tone in the
dry goods trade is more cheerful, tbe
stock market was stronger and mercan
tile paper was a little more active. Tbe
supplies of cotton on the plantations are
believed to be exhausted, and as tor busi
ness conditions in this country many
believe them favorable for a general im
provement in trade and prices.
A Florida Conductor Gets a Verdict.
In the United States circuit court at
Jacksonville, Fla., a verdict for $1,750
has been rendered against the Florida
East Coast railroad (the Flagler system)
for blacklisting W. E Willots. Ten
months ago Willets, who is a citizen of
Greenfield, Ind., was a conductor on the
East Coast roa&L" Being offered a better
paying position on the South Florida
railroad, be left the East Coast railroad
on two days' notice. Willetts went to
work on the South Honda railroad, and
in three days was discharged, no cause
being assigned. yvillets inquired into
tbe matter learned tbat be was discharg
ed because Supt. Goff of the East
Coast railroad, had sent a circular letter
to the officials of other Florida railways
asking that Willets be not employed.
No charge was made that Willets was
incompetent or had failed to give satis
faction to the East Coast railroad; it was
a simple request that he be blacklisted.
Since the letter was written Willets has
applied for work - to every railway in
Florida but in vain.
In consequenoe he brought suit against
the East Coast railroad for $10,000,
which resulted as stated above. On tbe
trial the attorneys for tbe railroad urged
that the writing of the blacklisting letter
was Supt Goffs personal act, and tbat
the corporation should not be held re
sponsible. The court, however, did not
view tbe matter in this light, holding
tbat Supt. Goff was the corporation's
agent, and that it was responsible for
his acts.
Mai. Alex St Clair A brams represented
the plaintiff, and he says the result will
be a deathblow to the blacklist system in
Florida. This is said to be tbe first case
of the kind in which a verdict has been
secured against a railroad for blacklisting
a man.
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Dunn, wholesale and retail.
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TESTIMONIALS
Matthews, N. C, Jan. 4. 1896.
Dear Sir: I have used your ammooiated Gu
ano and Acid Phosphate for five years io succes
sion and consider them the best 1 ever used for
all kinds of crops, and especially tbe Acid. I
have used it in the same field with other brands
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Used it tbe past year on corn and think the yield
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A P. NISBET.
Lodo, N. C.
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Judge Clark's Experience With a Mexican
Stage Coach.
A recent letter from Judge Walter
Clark of Raleigh, who ia now touring in
Mexico, says he bought a stage coach
ticket and mounted to his seal. As the
vehicle rolled off, be noticed on one side
man witb a second-class and on the
other a third claes ticket. As the journey
proceeded Judge Clark began to wonder
where the difference between the tickets
lay.
When a hill was reached be found 'out.
for tbe stage stopped, and tbe driver
shouted out :
"Second-class passengers get out and
walk up; third olass passengers get out
and push; first class passongerr, keep their
seats." Raleigh Visitor.
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Col., Feb. 7 The Western Passenger
Association is reported to be in danger ot
disruption on account of arrangements
tbat have been made to run a special
train from Denver to New York via the
Denver and Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific
and Seaboard Air Line to enable a party of
Colorado mining ' men to escort Mr. E. B.
Porter, president of the New York Min
ing Exchange, Irom this city to New
York to attend tbe opening of the new
exchange. Tbe exousion is said to have
obtained a rate of $5 for tbe round trip,
which is less than tbe trunk lines would
grant.
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Shamrock, N C, Dec 3 1. 1895.
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What a Big Cotton Croc Would Mean.
The South nas a virtual monopoly in
tbe production of cotton, and there is no
reason wny this incalculable advantage
should i.iot bo turned to the vast enrich
ment Mi that section. Any such good re
suite, however, will never be realized so
lodg as over-production ot the staple
threatens the world, and thereby hangs
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In other words, it the planters of the
South insistupon making moie cotton than
the world has any use for, the surplus
will invariably make tbe price for tbe
wholoHupply and thereby depreciate tbe
value of the unnecessarily large crop be
low tbe value ot tbe reasonably small
crop, and tbe planter will find himself at
tbe end of each bitr crop season out bis
labor and bis pains without any profit.
The imporlanoe of this matter cannot
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welfare of the South depends upon re
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Every banker and merchant through
out the cotton region should feel it his
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There should be a protest from every
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Sultan's Answer to Tbe Queen.
He Sajs the Turks Are the Injured Parties.
London, Feb. 7. It is learned tbat tbe
reply of tbe Sultan to tbe letter recently
addressed to him by Queen Victoria ex
presses the sympathy of tbe Sultan witb
the humane sentiments conveyed io tbe
Queen's cormiunication, but declares that
tbe reports ot massacres of Armenians bj
Turks have originated witb ill-disposed
persons. Tbe Turks, tbe Sultan says,
were first attacked by Armenians, while
they were praying in tbe mosques, and
did nothing more than to defend them
selves as best tbey could.
In every part ot Asia Minor, tbe Sultan
asserts, everything is now tranquil, ex
cept at Zeitoun. Negotiations for the
surrender of tbat town to tbe Turkish
authorities are proceeding, and without
doubt tbe people of Zeitoun will soon res
su me tbeir peaceful vocations
HrEx-President Harrison will no
longer allow himself to be considered a
presidential possibility. In a letter
which be caused to be published io
Tuesday's paper he say : "I cannot
consent tbat my name bo presented in tbe
St. Louis convention, and must kindly
ask my friends to accept this as a sincere
and final expression unon tbe subject.
H&"The death ot Capt. Thomas Smy tb,
of tbe U. S. Cutter Colfax, occurred in
this city, last' Saturday night. Capt.
Smth was greatly liked by all wbo knew
him, and especially by every man on tbe
cutter, each one speaking in praise of
him, personally, and as tbeir command'
ing officer.
C. January 7, 1896.
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Duvidsoo. N. C., Jan 7, 1896.
Youra to hand to-dav. I have been away from
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Comparative Cotton Statement.
The following is the comparative cotton
statement for the week ending Feb. 7tb.
18S6. 1805
Net receipts at an U. ,8.
Total receipts to date.
porta, 112 817 148,211
4.104,402 6.272,346
145,901 161,073
Exports for tbe week.
Total exports to this date,
Stock in all U. S. ports,
Stock at all interior towns.
Stock in Liverpool,
American afloat for
Great Britain,
2,846 018 4,758.141
901 012 953,734
199.903 191,585
1,100,000 1,609,000
165,000 400,0(0
Tbe Total Visible Supply of CoUon.
New York, Feb. 8. Tbe total visible
supply of cotton for tbe world is 3,915,501
bales, of wbicb 3,431,301 bales are Amer
ican, against 4,935,469 bales aad 4,61 2, 24
respectively last year. Beceipta of cotton
tbis week at all interior towns 47,738
bales. Eeceipts from tbe plantations 86,
854 bales. Crop in sight 5,659,972 bales.
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