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Trustee's Land Sale.
By virtue of a deed of trnat
W. P. Dixon and wife on the 3d day ot May
1894. and recorded in the Rptriatpr'o rm til
Mecklenburg County, in book 99, page 58. 1 will
on Wednesday, the 10th day of June. 1896, at 12
o clock m.. sell to the highest bidder, at public
auction, at the Court House door, in the city of
Charlotte, all that lot of land, described in said
deed of trust, situated in the city of Charlotte,
in the county of Mecklenburg, State of North
Carolina, adjoining the landj of J f! Smith
(formerly) and others, and bounded as follows,
viz.: vju ine nonnwesi Dy poplar street; on the
southwest by Ninth street; on the northeast by
property of Franklin Cox (formerly and on the
southeast by an alley, said lot fronting sixty
leet on oplar street and runnine alonz Ninth
street one hundred and eighty feet; also an ease
ment or right to use forever the alley now
opened on southeast boundary of said lot: Be
ing the same lot of land that was conveyed to W.
P. Dixon by J. C. Smith and wife by deed
dated April 1st, 1890, and recorded in the Regis
ter of Deed's office for Mecklenburg county in
book 70, page 608. Terms, cash.
This 6th day of May, 1896
H. N PHARR, Trustee.
May 7 4w
Mortgage Sale.
By virtue of a powar contained in a mortgage
deed made to G C. Morris, now deceased bv F.
M. Winchester and wife, M. W. Winchester, on
the 22nd day of October, 1889, and registered in
book 68,pare 169, in the office of the Register of
ueeas ior jSiecKicuuuig uiumj, z nm u,u
public auction, at the court house door, in the
city of Charlotte N. C, on Monday, the 8th day
of June, 1896 a lot of land lying in Crab Orchard
Township, in said county, near Hickory Grove
Church, bounded and described as follows, to-wit
Beginning at a stone near the cross roads, runs
South 23 East 16 poles and 24 links, thence
JNorth 62 .Hast, V poles and lo linss, tnence JNortn
23 West, 16 poles and 24 links, thence with
the road South 62 West, 9 poles and 15 UnKs to
to the beginning, containing one acre. Upon
this land there are good buildings, ierms casn.
This the 5th day of May 1896.
JOHN It. MOKK1S, Administrator,
of G. C. Morris, deceased
May 7, 1896 5w.
North Carolina, Mecklenburg
County.
Bv virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of
Mecklenburg county. North Carolina, in the case
of William H. Wilson, Administrator, etc.
against William A. Wilson and others, I will
sell, at the Countv Court House door, in the city
of Charlotte. N. C, on Saturday, the 20th day of
June, A. D. 1896, at 12 o clock M., to the highest
bidder, all that land in MecKlenDurg county,
North Carolina, to-wit:
First Tract: Known as the "Cochrane Place"
of M N. Wilson, in Crab Orchard Township,
adjoining the lands of M. B. Wallace and others,
containing 146 acres.
Second Tract: Known as the "Baker Tract'
of M. N. Wilson, in Crab Orchard Township.
near the first tract above mentioned, containing
about 10 acres, and adjoining the lands of J. N.
Lee and others
Third Tract: Known as the Wallace Tract"
of M. N. Wilson, containing about 31 acres, and
near the above mentioned land in Crab Orchard
Township.
Terms of sale, one-third cash and the balance
in six months.
A plot of said land can be seen by applying to
Messrs. Clarkson & Duls, Attorneys. Charlotte,
N.C. J E HENDERSON,
May 14, 1896. 6w Commissioner.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR SHERIFF.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for the
ifflce of 8herirl of Mecklenburg county, subject
the action of the Democratic primaries anu
xty convention. Z. T. oMllH.
COUL
F OR REGISTER OF DEEDS.
T h ebv nDOUn,c,e myself a cannldate for the
ffi "of R- kUr of Deeds of Mecklenburg
EhiPo to the action of the Democratic
county, subjec. pnnn
nominating com Uon. J- W" C0BB-
May 21, 1896.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY,
Our Duty To Criminals.
Charles Dudley Warner . . . New York Herald.
xnisis last getting to be a scientific
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ge. we treat oar institutions in aseien
t,fio. way- 1 don't mean such institutions
IDB Unitfifl Ntntoo Rann U
not vnt vol han . L . T... :
- - j j & " " uu mat. uut in many
lines we are applying scientific principles.
out wbat do we do with our criminals?
wenftnd them over to politicians! Thero
"j pnwuii m ine state wmcn is
not run by a politician, and thai is the
itlmira reformatory. Under these suner.
ictendents and keepers the criminals are
secure, but there is no hope of their ever
uemg any Deuer.
Last summer I visited Dartmoor pris
en in England. There they put a letter
on a man s shoulder for fwortr timA'ha
ers had four or at least three, letters. A
term in prison is only an incident. When
a man goes out and the keeper gives him
a discharge and a pound on which to
start life afresh, he does not say "Good
by"; he says "Auf Wiedersehen." Now
if when the man is sentenced, we could
tell him that his career of crime stopped
right there, and that he was to go to a
reformatory until his views of life were
qu'te changed, we might hopo for some
improvement The habit of crime is
formed through repetition, and you can
not extirpate a bad habit without putting
a good one in its place.
Mr. Brock way of Elmira tried an ex
periment on twelve of the very worst
cases he had men who seemed mentally
and physically incapable of improvement
He put them through a course of Turks
ish baths, physical training and iegular
exercise. Their bodies improved, and
with them their minds, and a few months
these men compared well with the best,
and were capable of study and mental ef
fort. Finally starting from the point
that we, as citizens, have the right to be
safe from these people, we ought to see
that things are changed, and that acrim
inal's sentence is like a lunatic's, to stay
until cured and fit to come out. Of course
mistakes would be made. Some would
be able to pretend that they were cured.
Of the men who are discharged from El
mira, as well as they can be traced, about
80 percent have become law-abiding
eitizens; that is as much so as the
rest of us, and they have at least suc
ceeded in keeping out ot the clutches of
the law. What sort of men do we need
at the head of our prisoners? We need
the same kind of men whom we would
put at the bead of any institution of
learning. We need a gentleman: a man
of intellect, flno bearing and good influ
ence and example. Q course he would
need doctors and others to help him, and
there is no such field in the world for the
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The Rights of Witnesses.
New York San.
rp i r i . r . . . .
auo rigot oi a witness not to oe com
pelled to give testimony tending to crim
inate himself is recognized by the funda
mental law of the United States and of
the States of the Union generally. The
Federal Constitution provides that no
person snail be compelled in any crimi
nal case to be a witness against himself."
The Supreme Court has decided that the
protection afforded by this provision is
not limited to prosecutions in which the
witness himstlf is the defendant, but ex
extends to any other criminal matter,
fiueb, for example, as an examination be
fore a grand jury in reference to the
probable guilt of some person other than
the witness: and 'Ur. Justice Blatchford
me oDject oi me - constitutional guaranw
tee was "to insure that a person should
not be compelled, when acting as a wit
ness in any investigation, to give testi
mony which might show that he himself
bad committed a crime."
An interesting question in this branch
of constitutional law recently arose in
Illinois. "Cornering the grain market"
is a crime under the statutes of that State
Lamson Bros. & Co. brought a suit against
Boyden & Co. to recover damages which
they claimed by reason of the action of the
defendants in creating a "corner" in tho
corn in November, 1889. whereby the
p'ain tiffs were compelled to pay 58 cents
a bushel for that grain, when the fair or
natural price was but 32 cents a bushel
On the trial the plaintiffs attempted to
make the defendents give evidence show
ing that they had thus cornered the
market. The Judge declined to compel
the defendants to testify against them
selves on this subject, and the complaint
was dismissed.
The ruling has just been sustained by
the Supremo Court of Illinois. Although
the Constitution of that State refers to
criminal cases only, in providing that
"no person shall be be compelled in any
criminal case to give evidence against
himself," the court holds broadly that "a
witness is not bound to answer any ques
tion, either in a court of law or equity,
the answer to which will expose him to
any penalty, nne or torieiture, or wnicu
will have a tendency to accuse him of
crime or misdemeanor, or to expose him
to any penalty or forfeiture, or which
would bo a link in a chain of evidence to
convict him of a criminal offence."
The appellants did not question the
correctness of the legal proposition thus
stated, but insisted that the defendents
were fully protected by an Illinois
statute, which forbade any prosecution
against those who disclose in a civil suit
the fact that they had baen engaged in
which they bad acquired by tho operation
The supreme Court Illinois, however de
clared the protection insufficient. A
statute thus giving immunity to one who
testifies to self inculpatory facts must
give absolute and unconditional immun
ity. It must furnish a sure saieguara
against future criminal prosecution as a
n . 1 . 1 A.
return lor the disclosure, wunoui exact
ing anything else. But the Illinois law
does exact something else. It requires
restitution or payment, and hence does
not provide the complete amnesty, with
out any condition whatever, which is es
sential to the effiicacy of an exonerating
enactment.
An example of the proper form of such
an exonerating statute may be found in
the act of Congress concerning testimony
before the Inter-State Commerce com
mission which, after declaring that no
person shall be excused from testifying
on the ground that the evideuce may
tend to criminate him, provides that "no
person shall be prosecuted or subjected
to any penalty or forfeiture lor or on ac
count of any transaction, matter, or
thing concerning which he. may testify,
or produce evidence, documentary or
otherwise, before said uommission, or in
obedience to its subpoena or tho sub
poena of either of them, or in any such
mi ci
case or proceeamg. ine oupprouio
Court of the United States has decided
very recently, although by a majority of
only one, that this enactment deprives a
witness before the Inter -btate commerce
Commission of what would otherwise be
his constitutional right to refuse to an-
swer. JNotoniv aoes it anora auBuiuiu
immunity against prosecution, but this
immunity is not confined to the Federal
courts. It is stated in the broadest
terms, and the Supreme Court expressly
holds that it applies to any prosecution
in whatever tribunal it may be aU
tempted.
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JUNE 4, 1896.
An Important Non-Partisan Movement
Philadelphia Record.
As already announced, a national con
vention of representatives of board of
trade, agricultural associations, business
firms and manufacturers will be held In
Detroit on the 2nd of June to form a per
manent organization "to take the tariff
out of politics." A dispatch from Detroit
states that the proceedings of the conven
tion promise to exceed in interest all ex
pectations. Mr. S. B. Archer, secretary
of the 'Tariff Committee League," says
that more than a thousand represent as
tive9 of boards of trade, manufacturing
corporations and firms and agricultural
associations have already reported for at
tendance. The most important subiects
be ways and means to prevent the tariff
from being longer made a mere football
of politics; to reform the Consular service
in order to promote the country's export
iraae, especially with the States of South
America; and to create a Federal Depart
ment of Trade, Industry and Labor, the
nead ot which shall be a member of the
President's Cabinet.
This assemblage has doubtless been
timed by the business interests which
have inaugurated the movement not so
much to arrest tariff agitation as to influs'
ence the Kepublican and Democratic na
tional conventions. But the programe of
both parties on the tariff question has
already been clearly defined, no matter
how much confusion may prevail in re
gard to the more important currency
question. I be candidacy of McKinley
would mean nothing more nor less than
a new campaign of calamity howling and
a tariff reaction that would subject the
country once more to the spoliation of
the trust and monopolies. In order to
accomplish this programme, the priviK
eged interests would hesitate to sacrifice
every other public consideration, include
ing the cause of Sound Money. The St.
Louis Convention and its foreordained
candidate many proclaim what they
please in regard 10 the currency. They
may declare, in face of the record, that
they are now and always have been in
favor of the gold standard: but no voter
in the country is bo dull as not to per
ceiye that now, as in the past, tariff spoU
iation will press far into the background
every other issue. ', For this reason the
non-partisian tariff convention is likely
to exercise small influence upon the ac
tion of the Republicans at St. Louis.
On this issue the policy of the Demo
cratic party is as clearly defined as is
that of their Republican opponents. From
one end ot the land to the other the
Democracy are united as one man in op-
paign of frantic calamity howling. They
hold that whatever may be the
minor defects of the Wilson tariff, it af
fords sufficient protction to every manu
facturing interest which requires that it
will soon provide ample revenue for the
economical administration of the Govern-
ment. In this respect the existing tariff
is a better revenue than was its McKinley
antecedent, which at one stroke despoiled
the Treasury of $50,000,000 annually
from sugar, while filching $30,000,000
from the pockets of consumers to gorge
the coffers of the Sugar Trust and to give
bounty money to planters.
In regard to the necessity of a rest
rom tariff agitation the Democratic policy
is in perfect harmony with the purpose
of the proposed non-partisan convention
ot manufacturers and business men. In
ordinary conditions the general interests
which are nobody's concern are incapable
of resisting the concentrated attack of
gigantic personal interests bent on selfish
aggrandizement and provided with colosw
sal means of unscrupulous partisan war
fare. Great as is the disadvantage of the
Democratic party as the champion of the
general interests against the greed of
monopoly, this disadvantage can be over
come by taking the opportunity to ap
peal to the sober judgment of the masses
of the people. There are already signify
cant signs of the inevitable recoil against
tariff agitation, not the least of which is
the coming convention in Detroit.
But the primary essential condition of
effective Democratic resistance to the
onslaught of the tariff spoilers is in the
erection of an impregnable sound money
platform at Chicago. In vain would the
Demooratio party plead for industrial
peace from a platform of depreciated cur.
rency and repudiation. There could be
no escape from the calamity and shame
of such a position. In the unfortunate
alternative of a choice between a spolia
tory tariff and cheap silver coinage no
doubt can exist as to the decision of bal
lot-box in November next. Hence the
action of the Democratic National Con
vention on the currency question will go
far to solve the issue of the campaign.
If the convention should declare for the
established gold standard, without any
evasion or any concession to the advo
cates of cheap currency, the selection of
an available candidate for the Presidency
would be a matter of no great difficulty;
nor would there be any cause to despair
of Democratic success. But if the conn
vention should enter the field with Free
Silver on the Democratic banner, or with
any dubious monetary device, the contest
would be lost before it had begun; and
no candidate for the Presidency, no mat
ter how sound might be his personal re
cord on the currency question, could re
gain for the Democratic party the justly
forfeited popular confidence. On the
other hand, a platform declaration in
favor of sound money and Industrial
Peace would attract tens of thousands of
indipendent voters to the Democratic
standard, and make victory over the
tariff spoilers, calamity howlers and
bimetallic "straddlers not merely possible
but in the highest degree pardonable.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Xiss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
LOOKING BEFORE AND BEHIND.
WHAT AN OLD TIMER TALES ABOUT
The Horse Weeps and The Bicycle Laughs
at Peocress Charlotte is About to Lead
In Progress What Can Be Seen on the
Square Take What You see and Read
the Fan are.
"What are you doing J ?" The
man spoken to wan standing on the
Square with eyes and ears all open watch
ing the tide of humanity floating through
the streets of Charlotte, last Saturday.
The question touched his talking chord.
At once his eyes grew wider and his
countenance grew brighter, he . squared
hjmself to pour .out .the, thoughts that
were aii out nurBting-niffueart:iitJssaiu
"I stood here ten years ago and saw this
little town struggling and bounding for
life. Then the bioycle had not invaded
the streets; the street car was not known;
the cotton mill was new in. the town,
people stared at the street sprinkler that
refreshed the dirty streets daily; no
city hall had adorned Tryon street, but
now stand here and see the change. The
streets are filled with people going in- all
directions. They are almost on the run.
You look down East Trade street and
see farmers coming in on their bicycles.
A few minutes ago I saw a man pass here
who lives 16 miles in the country. He
was on a wheel, by his side were his two
boys each on a wheel. Just think that
the farmer is putting the horse aside and
riding a bicycle. That causes me to look
back on the days of old when Mecklen
burg had bad roads up to the mouth of
the streets. To-day the roads for miles
out are better than the street3 in town.
The man who lives in the country can
harness his wheel and ride to town by
moonlight while his horse eats and rests.
But lol What if a horse could talk.
what would his conversation be? His
tale would be one of woe. Your eves
would shed tears as his countenance fell
while be related the sad, sad, fall The
horse would say:
x es years ago when I was sold for
$250 and my master loved me ail was
well. 1 know not what it was to go
uncurried; I had fine corn and fodder;
my body was blanketed, when I was
cold but all is wrong now-no longer ami
the idol ot old 1 stand here and beat the
flies while I see my owner blowing up
his wheel to take a spin. I am put up
for auction by a tight squeeze and a flat
tering talk from the auctioneer I sell for
$50 just one fifth of first cost. It is
sad to relate. Ere long the horse will be
gone and no one will care. When you
go to town you see great buggies
invisible thing. It is no horse. As long
as the negro lasts the mules will stand but
when the negro is gone the mule will go
Bicycles will bo built with buggies,
plows, wagons and many such things
attached. "As the horse would tell this tale
of woe his eyes would grow full and his
head hung down, lute became a burden
to him. Then the speaker moved on
with -his story. "Look at the hundreds
of able bodied men and boys strowling
here and there upon the streets; look at
the stores and private officies they are
filled with girls; look at the hundreds of
families that have left the country and
come to town, the men take the world
easy while their wives and -children fill
look at the the factories; butter and ;eggs,
the cabbage, the pork the chickens, fruits
and vegetables of all kinds that are daily
put on the market; look at the hundreds of
new stores that have been built in the
laet few years; look at the hundreds of
new residences that have been built res
cently; lookat the droves of profesional
men that are here, lawyers, doctors,
preachers, real estate agents and insur
ance men; look what the building and
loan associations are doing; look at the
great numbers of poor peeple, who once,
did not own a footot land but tosday own
their homes: what does all of this mean?
Does it mean that the times in this section
are harder and lighter than ever before.
When you can truthfully say that
Charlotte is the greatest bioycle town to
its size in the South or North, do you not
wonder why this is true? It is true.
"The little chap," as the New York
World calls him, Schade, who knows
what he is talking about, says that Char
lotte has the greatest number of bicycle
riders and offers the best prizes to be
won in her races of any other town her
size in the North or South. Now what
has brought this about? Why should
Charlotte be a head this particular line?
Is it a credit or not? It is a credit. It
means a great deal. First of all what
is needed for bicycle riding is a good
track. Mecklenburg county has hun
dreds oi miles of good tracks. Her pub
lie roads are first class race tracks no
better can be found in the South. Char
lotte has the climate, water, the society,
the laws and all natural advantages that
the rider wishes. Charlotte will in a few
years no doubt be a great place for the
champions to train themselves. When
women join the racing throng Charlotte
will be there. I long lor the day when
this section will become a training field
for riders from a distance. Such tbiDgs
bring money to the city.
What does the move from the country
of so many families mean? These families
were ten years ago renters on the farm
To-day they are toilers in the factories.
1 know fifteen families that in lSb lived
on one plantation and worked farms, who
are now working in a cotton mill here in
Charlotte. iNow the number ot cases
similar to this are unlimited. It will not
exagerate the case to say that Mecklin-
burg county has lost nearly 1000 larmers
of this class. These same farmers must
be fed from the farms that they once
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tilled. What does that bring about?
A great demand for truck from the
farms. That is what hai made Charlotto
a great place for selling farm produce.
When these famili ea were on the farm.
the largest of them had during the year
about $200 and now 8800, at least passes
mrougn mo nanas ot the same family.
The chance has nl&cad th farm in th
hands of the land owning white roan and
the negro. It has brought about a de
mand for great Quantities of nrodueta .
that are tobe raised on the farm. But it
as also brought about a claa ef loafer
that are.not at all disirable citizens, Tho
fathers of these families .were onca tiller
of the soil. It is a hard matter to train the
mgers that wore wont to handle the
prouting-hoe and the ulow handles, to
handle with a delir&ta 3nmh )ia ahniiU
and the loom4 Hence he gives up in dis
pn u tutus uis muMir lu iBBworK"
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while he seeks a more coogeniel niece of
work. It is unfortunate that many of
them do not find that desired work, and
become idlers about the street. All will
be well in the end though. When this
class of aged men die, their sons will
have been trained to the mill.
"What can we say as to the girls work.
ing and the boys taking it easy? The
pokesman went on. "It is a change and
md a sudden change. Ten vears ago vou
a y o m
could not find a girl clerking in a store in
inariotte, out now hundreds ot them fill
the places that their brothers once filled.
The girls, long housed up, como with a
bound and found the places open to
them. They no longer stand back, and
see their sweet hearts and brothers do
the work that they can do so well. They
can do the work well and can do it cheap.
So they are filling places from the store
to ine Dank. he bicvele has overcome
the long walk and they now can take
care of themselves. What will take
place in ten more years?"
He continued that he had been all over
the South and no city to him had grown
nxe ine nine town of Charlotte. All is
life. You see it, feel it and smeel it.
When you see a (business man you see
him on the move. Every day new fac
tories are being built and new honsea
here aud there are springing up. Chars
lotte is like a fine fruit it grows from
within outward. The couctrv neonla are
in league with the town people to make
ine town grow, .before ten years Char
lotte will have 45,000 inhabitants."
Here the speaker began to fag. His
:aws were tired but his mind was still
full. The reporter hopes to meet him
again and have him talk more.
Humanity's Sympathy For the Suffering.
Charlotte Observer.
kind beats ever with a sympathetic throb
Wheuthe newspapers winged heralds
of modern progress fly througout the
length and breadth of the land, bearing
the news of some awful calamity, the
heart ot the universe beats as the heart
of one man. Church fusses, political
differences, society ,' jealousies, the mad
rush for gold getting, all check up for a
little while, and the good-true-beautiful
in humanity rises to the surface for a
brief space, while the eye of Pity, behold
ing the scene of wreck or carnage or in
undation or desolation by fire as the
case may be, is dimmed with a glistering
tear. This feeling is sincere, too, and
many men and more women go down
deep into their treasure stores, following
up sympathy with substance.
lhis has been the case in the appall
ing, unprecendented disaster which has
just befallen the fair city of St. Louis and
the good old State of Missouri. The news
of yesterday as it came softly ticking
from the instrument in the Observer's
press room and clicking from the opera
tor s type-writer, seemed to thrill with
this tender sympathy of humanity; and
God's mysterious messenger, electricity
so faithful as servant and so fearful as
master which bad wrought such havoo
out upon the Father of Waters Wednes
day, came tiptoeing over the wires with
the sad. story of its own uncontrollable
outburst of passion and anger, like some
heart-broken penitent softly approaching
the confessional.
The first business of the House of Reps
resentatives yesterday was to take action
to relieve the suffering of St. Louis. The
first transaction of the Southern Presby
terian Assembly was a prayer tor the
afflicted. And so we might continue to
enumerate. It is a good sign, this feel
ing that 1 am my brother's keeper. It is
an answer to pessimism.
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