CI ft IS iff fistf) iifii -f'lfi lliifMi Tins Paper is 44 Years Old III CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 11,1896.. VOLUME XLIIV NUMBER 2247. I THE CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY THUKfiDAY TuKMe One Dollar cash in advance. o Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, sb second class matter. DRS. McCOMBS & GIBBON, DESIRE TO INFORM THE PUBLIC, That they hava this day entered into a copart nership for the PRACTICE OP MEDICINE, AND SURGERY. March 1. 1895. JOHN FARRIOR, , 4 80UT3 TBYON BTHEBT, CHABLOTTE, N. C. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, DEALER IN Diamonds, Watches, Clocks Jewelry, Sil ver and Silver Plated Ware. ZW Special attention given to Fine Watch Repairing. Jan 25, 1895. BURWELL, WALKER & CANSLER, Attorneys-At-Law, ROOMS N09 5, 6, AND 13, LAW BUILDING, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Jan 4, 1895. DR. E. P. KEERANS, DENTIST, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office 7 West Trade Street Nov. 2, 1894 DR. GEORGE W. GRAHAM. OFFICE, 7 WEST TRADE'ST. Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. April 3, 1896 JOHNSON & POPE. -:o:-43 South College bt .o:- The largest stock of cotton gins, boilers, presses, Saw mills, mowing machines, Har vesters and pumps. Come in or write. All kinds of machinery. J . J JOHNSON & POPE. v April 8896 2 m. . HUGH W. HARRIS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, iv Office. Nos. 14 and 16 Law Building, CHARLOTTE, N. C. July 6, 1895: K. I. OSBORNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. W. K EE BANS. OSBORNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS, Attorneys at Law. CHARLOTTE, N. C. tW Offices 1 and 3 Law Building. vV ill practice in the State and Federal Courts. Oct 20, 1895. DRS. M. A. & C. A. BLAND, Dentists. CHARLOTTE, N. C. No. 21 Tbyon Stkeet. ian. 3, 1896. vSKlOT CLABKSON. CLARESON CHAS. H. DULB & DULS, Attorneys at Law, Charlotte, N. C. frompt attention given mated. Will practice in to all business in all Courts of the ritate. trOffice No. 12 Law Building. Oct. 7. 1896. H. N. PHARR. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office No. 14. Law Building. Prompt attention to all business intrusted. Special attention civen to claims. Practices in Btate and Federal Courts. Jan. 6,1895. Cattle Owners ! Listen 1 The best possible Cattle Food ia MANGEL WURZEL BEETS We have the seed of Lane's Imperial and White Sugar. Plant now ! R. H. JORDAN & CO., Prescriptionista. April 17, 1896. ' GO TO ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE, NO. 216, NORTH TRYON STREET. Keeps a well assorted stock of all articles usualy kept in a Drug House J. B ALEXANDER. The Poor prescribed for free. April, 8, 1895. QUEEN CITY HOTEL. In visiting Charlotte, Oon't fail to Btop at the Queen City Hotel, Corner East Fifth and College Sts, Everything first-class. RATES, $100 PER DAY. July 6, 1895. W J MOORE, Prop'r. E. NYE HUTCHISON. FIRE INSURANCE. Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon Street, up stein, b. 19, 1895. A North Carolina Composer. Durham Sun. ' Music Trades a weekly Journal pub lished in New York, which is devoted to everything pertaining to music, in its is sue of May 23rd, has a short sketch of Charles H. Harris, a native North Caro lina Composer Mr. Harris was born in Raleigh in 1873, and is a; son of Joseph A. Harris editor of the Hillsboro Ob server. At an early age the the young man showed a decided fondness for music and after hearing a selection played! could at once sit down at a piano and play it over as it was written. His first composition was entitled "MsmUtan." Among his other compositions were "Rq- aalia i t W7 L "XT -r .. .. uou xuu were a Xiittle Boy, "Must We Part for Aye?" "Sweet Mem ories.of the Past," "Ob, There's Bound to be & Girl up in the Moon!" Bnhv RrntK. positions nave Decome very popular all over the country, " Mr. Mams went to Philadelphia in 1894, where he associated himself with Edward M. Harris. The firm is Harris Brothers Co., 2015 Market street. North Carolina has at least one musi cal genius in the person t of Chas. H. Harr i Trustee's Land Sale ,B?viue of a deed of trU8t executed to me by W. P. Dixon and wife on the 3d d 1894, and recorded in the Register's office for 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. O Hmiih (formerly) and others, and bounded as follows, vizi: uo uie nonnwest Dy fop I ar street; on the southwest by Ninth street; on the northeast by property of Franklin Cox (formerM and on the southeast by an alley, said lot fronting sixty teet on Poplar street and running along 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 me same lot or land that was conveyed to W. P. Dixon by J. C. Smith and wife hv dfiri 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 by F. M. Winchester and wife, M. W. Winchester, on the 22nd day of October. 1889, and registered in book 68, page 169, in the office of the Register of deeds for Mecklenburg county, I will sell at 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 Lnurcn, bounaed and described as follows, to-wit Beginning at a stone near the cross roads, runs South 23U East 16 poles and 24 links, thence North 62 East, 9 poles and 15 links, thence North 234 West, 16 poles and 24 links, thence with the road couth b2 West, 9 poles and 15 haks to to the beginning, containing one acre. Upon this land there are good buildings. Terms cash. This the 5th day of May 1896. JUUM K. MUKKIS, Administrator, of G. C. Morris, deceased May 7, 1896 5w. North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. By 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, 1 will sell, at the County Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, N C, on Saturday, the 20th day of June, A. D. 18y6, at 12 o clock M., to the highest bidder, all that land in Mecklenburg 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- Becond 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. Clark son & Duls, Attorneys. Charlotte, N.C. J-E HENDERSON, May 14, 1896. 6w Commissioner. Parmer's Friend. Our new home made brand Yale Tie, a com fortable, good wearing shoe, suited for coarse use, made of best kip stock, screw fastened soles, wide enougn, ana niga cm: uumiug ucu cvw sold for a summer shoe. All sizes and plenty of them. PRICE, fl.50 It will pay you to see our shoes. GILREATH&CO- April 30 1894. NEWMAN & WARREN. TONSOIRAL ARTISTS Chablotte Hotel. We invite vou to our Parlor whenever you wiooi a imnA oh ft vp nr an oD-to-date hair cut Experienced workmen All work latest style. Satisfaction guaranteed. done in For "To Satisfy our Customers" is our motto. Prices to suit the times a trial viii convince vou that there are none M ww - J better. Jan. 30. 1896. ANNOUNCEMENTS o FOR SHERIFF. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of 8heriff of Mecklenburg county, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries and county convention. ' Z. T. SMITH. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS. I hereby announce myself a cannldate for the office of Register of Deeds, of Mecklenburg county, subject to the action of the Democratic nominating convention. May 21, 1896. J. W. COBB. NEW REMEDIES GREAT VALUE AT DR. J. B. ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE. Special Tonic Tablets, Postillers Woman's Friend, The Great Renovator. En; quire of the Doctor about tbew mies 1 mmt 1R. 18D5 216 N. TRYON ST..3 To The Memory of Dr. Pritchard. Howard A. Banks, in Charlotte Observer. If faithful servants are allow'd a voice In their rewards, after the glad "well dones; The subjects of the reign of our friend's choice Will be the little oneb! Just as he loved the children of the earth Their little griefs and joys with heav'nly love, He'll love earth's lost ones in their endless mirth In cities up Above. Bad On Sampson. Sampson Democrat. - I Our Bntler, whom the NY. Sun has named the, Endless Chain of Honey- I business and occupies all time not other wise consumed in the Senate in speechi fying upon that subject. He has pons dered the question so heavily that his mind has come to magnify things some what. While popping off in the Senate last week, Senator Grier of Iowa asked him what methods ouisido of the ballot could be adopted to correct financial legislation. Our Butler declared that the time might come when an outraged people might swing soae man from a limb. He Baid be had seen men swing to a limb who were less infamous., than those who participated in these finan cial crimes. Now, the people of Honey, cutts township in particular and Samp sons county in general, out of which Mr. Butler had not circulated much until he became a Senator, would like to know where and when and what for he saw these men swinging from limbs. Our Butler must have had in mind some midnight scene of his boyhood days. 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Sold by all drug gist. April 10-1 y. THIS SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED. An English Woman Fooled Into Coming to America to Teach a Negro School. Wade8boro Messenger-Intelligencer. ' Rev. A. M. Barretf,principal of Bar rett High School, situated at Pee Dee, this county, returned; last Friday night from England, where he had been to beg money for bis school. Accompanying him was a young and handsome English woman, whom he bad employed to teach in his school. Barrett, it should be .un derstood is a cold black negro and is Jtbe same man who was exposed in these oolums several years ago on account of a little trip he made to--New York to pur chase green goods. Dan. Robinson, a welUto-do colored man ofMorven town ship, accompanied him to New York and ,4ua dropped'. tH&csW. into the lap of the sharpers. JBut to return to the woman. A citi zen of Wadesboro saw her on the train Friday night (Barrett was also cm the train) and in conversation with her she told nim the following story: She said that her home was in England and that .Barrett employed her to come to Ameri ca and teach in his school, which he represented as being a mixed school both white and blacks attending it. He agreed to pay her for her services 859 per month. In accepting his offer she said she did not dream of the relation ship the two races bore to each other in America, and especially in the South, and did not discover her mistake until she reached Raleigh, this State. There she says she received a rude awakening, and im mediately wrote to her parents an ac count of the condition of affairs here,at the samo time asking them to sendjier money to pay her way back to England. I he Wadesboro citizen advised her not to leave the train at Pee Dee, which is only a flag station, but to go on to some town and ask the protection of the peo ple. This she said she could not do be cause Barrett bad the checks for her bag. gage and what little money she had 1 he women, we learn, is now at Pee Dee, with Barrett, and, ot course, is not countenanced by the white people of the neighborhood. We have no means of knowing whether ber story is a true one or not, but if it is she is certainly entitled to protection at the bands of the white people of the neigh borhood. In any event, the conduct of Barrett in bringing bor to this country is deserving of the severest rebuke. Ha claims to be a preacher and, notwith standing the green goods episode ment ioned above, we believe bis church still recognizes him as such, and knows such a thing can not be tolorated here. THE FEAR DF THUNDER, Safest Place During a Storm is in the House, Where There is no Draught. "Electric storms are far less dangerous than the majority of people imagine." writes Edward W. Bok in June Ladies Home Journal. "That a severe light ning storm is terrifying admits of no question, and will sometimes bring un easiness to the heart of the strongest man. But the real danger is slight. The chances of lightning striking a house for example is not one in a million. Particularly is tbU trua in cities, strung as most of them are with electric wires. The great- danger from electric storms is in the country, and even there the danger may be lessened if the simplest and most corns mon-sen&e of precautions are exercised. The surest electric conductor is draught, and if, when a thunder storm-approaches, it is seen that all windows and doors liable to occasion a draught are kept closed, the danger is at once reduced to a minimum. If a woman is "caught" out in a thunder-storm the safest shelter is a house; the most dangerous a tree, parties ularly an oak tree. It is a peculiar, but nevertheless a proven, fact, that the oak is the most susceptible ot all trees to a current . of electricity. Over fifty per cent, of trees struck by light ning storms during one summer, the Government statistictian tells us, where oaks, while the beech tree was the least harmed. Therefore, the worst possible shelter in an electric storm is under an oak tree while by all odds, the safest place is in a house and out of a draught. The actual danger (from an electric storm) is, in truth, not from the lightning nor the thunder but from the nervous condition into which women allow them selves to fall. And this is a danger which they can avoid. A little calm thought and a few grains of common-sense will do it." THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGE -in THE Largest, Oldest and Best Equipped School OF ITS KIND IN THE STATE. Its courses are thoronghly practical, and in clude: Bookkeeping, both Single and Double En try; Banking, Joint Stock, Penmanship, Arith metic, Commercial Law. Business Correspond ence, Spelling, and 8borthnd and Typewriting Thoroughly competent teachers. College is located in Y. M. C. A. BaildiDg. Write for particulars to JACKSON & HAY WARD, April 24-tf Proprietors . CfMMCIAl The Old World's Old Folks. Scientlflo American. A German statistician has studied the census returns of Europe to learn a few things about the centenarians of the Old World. He has found for instance, that high civilization does not favor the great est length of life. Tbe German empire, with 55,000,000 population, has but 78 subjects who are more than 100 years old. France, with fewer than 40,000,000, has 213 persons who have passed their their hundredth birthdays. England has 146; Ireland 578; Scotland, 46; Denmark, 2; Belgium, 5; Sweden, 10; and Norway, with 2,000,000 inhabitants, 23. Switzer land does not boast a single centenarian, but Spain, with about 18,000,000 popula tion, has 401. Tbe most amazing figures found by the German statiscian, says the New York 'turbltiTentre Peninsula. Servia has 575 persons who are more, than 100 years old; Roumania, 1,084; aud Bulgaria, 3,883. In other words, Bulgaria has a centenarian to every thousand inhabitants, and thus holds the international record for old in habitants. In 1892 alone there died in Bulgaria 350 persons of more than 1 00 years, in the .Balkan Jreninsula, more over, a person is not regarded as on the verge of the grave the moment he be eomes a centenarian. For instance, in Servia, there were in 1890 some 290 per sons Detween iud and 115 years, 123 between 115 and 125, and 18 between 126 and 135. Three were between 135 and 140. Who is the oldest person in the world? Tbe German statistician does not credit the recent story about a Russian 160 years old. -Russia has no census, be says, and except in cases of special official investi gation the figures of ages in Russia must be mistrusted. Tbe oldest man in tbe world then in his opinion, is Bruno Cos trim, a negro born in Africa and now a resident in Rio Janeiro. Cotrim is 150 years old. Next to him comes probably a retired Moscow cabman, named Kus trim, who is in his 140th year Tbe statistician says the oldest woman in the world is 130 years old, but neglects to give ber name or address, possibly out of courtesy, or perhaps in view of the ex traordinary figures which came to his hand from the Balkans, he thought a subject only 130 years old was hardly worthy of particular mention. m- - I'M THE MAM WHO SHOT YOU." Vettrans Meet Thirty Years Afterward and Identify Themselves. From the Chicago Times Herald. J. H. Wyman,of Chicago.went to New port News recently, and while waitine for a ferry-boat a stranger, a man about Wy man's age, came up and shared his seai. xney were waiting lor tne same boat. "You were in the Union army," said the stranger, glancing at tbe button on Wy man's lapel. "Where did you serve?" "I was in the first Wisconsin Heavy Artillery and put in a good share of the time guarding the big bridge over the Green River in Kentucky," answered the Northerner. "You did I I twice helped to blow up that bridge, and was there when the third attempt, which you fellows stopped, was made, it was a black night in the win ter when we went up the third time. There were only a few of us, but enough to do the work if it were done quickly, and we could pass through the Federal pickets. We reached a point 1,000 yards south of where we thought your picket line was, and 1 was sent forward alone to locate the line and find some place through which we could pass. I walked along freely until I thought I ought to take some care, and then I drooped on my hands and knees and went that way tor a while. It was so dark 1 could see absolutely nothing. All at once 1 struck a dry bush and snapped a stick under my knee at the same time. Then a rifle shot came from a picket at a point not twenty yards away and my right arm was broken by the ball. The fellow bad fired at the noise and made a good shot. It alarmed the guard, and our third at. tempt to blow up the bridgo was a failure. Were you there then?" "Yes," said Wyman, "I am the man who shot you. I never saw you, but I heard the moving of the bush and the breaking of the twig. After I shot you walked straight to tbe right for about ten yards and then ran back for your command." "That 1 did exactly," said thelSoutb erner. "We found your tracks in the sand the next day. 1 did not know I hit you. 1 am glad I did not kill you, and I'm mighty glad to see you. Then they 'shook hands and took up the journey together. Will It Bring 'Em Back? Monrore Journal. Now that everybody concedes that the Democratic party will declare for free silves, 16 to 1, at Chicago next month, why should not our Populist friends stop their coqueting and come back, especial ly since free silver is all they want? Did Ion Ever. Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for you troubles t If not, get a bottle now and get re lief. This medicine has been found to be pecul iarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Fe male Complaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you. have Lots of Appetite.Constipa tion, Headache Fainting Bpella, or are Nervous, Sleepless. Exciting. Melancholy, or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electa ic Bitters is the medi cine yot need. Health and Strength are guars n teed by its use. Fifty cents and $1.00 a Bnrwell & Dunn's. Drug Stor When Bby ra rick, we gT her Caatorl. When die w a Chad, he cried t at CutorU. When die became Vim, she clung to Cutoria. When ihe had Children, she gave them Castori. UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT. STEVENSON AND PARTY THERE. The Bam Fell Bat the Boys Got Their Sheep Skins T. A Shirpe, ot PineriUe, Got Honors Speeches Essays, Etc. Tat Vice-President's Speech. Chapxl Hill, June 7tb: The Univer sity Commencement is over for 1896. Reguardless of the down pour of rain last Thursday quite a crowd assembled at Chapel Hill, to see and to hear the Vice President of our country deliver the an nual address. Early Thursday morning the special trains began to roll in. About 11 o'clock Yice President Ste phenson and party came in on a special ried out in the Memorial Hall as follows: Prayer, after which came the orations by candidates for the bachelor's degree as follows: Robert Palemon Jenkins, The two In stitutions of history; William Thomas Woodley, Jr., The na tional judiciary; John William Canada, Esthetics in life; Richard Gold Allsbrook, The Christian State; John Carlton Eller, Man's Inhumanity to man. Mr. Allsbrook won the Wiley P. Man gum medal by his effort. The one next to him in the compitition was Mr. Eller, many thought that the latter made tbe best oratiorj. These speakers are chosen from tbe senior class. On tbe first day of May the faculty chooses the six best orators of the class to speak on commecement day. These selections are made after a competitive contest among the various members of the class who aspire to be come a commencement orator. Each man had his oration will prepared on a good subject, and delivered it like the orators of old. . These theses by candidates forBachelor's degree: M. B. Aston, "Origin of the Law Idea;" F. F. Bahnson, "Anaesthetics;" V. A. Bachelor; "The Uuspeakable Turk;" T. P. Braswell, Jr., "Child-Las bor;" W. V. Brem, Jr., "The History and Science of Life Assurance." C. W. Briles, "EducationaMdeas of the 19th Century;" D. R. Bryan, "Bacteriology;" E. P. Carr, "The Significance of the French Revo lution;" Thos. Clark, "Comparison of the Silicates, Titanates and Zirconates;". J.H. Coble, "Education in the 18th century;" R E. Coker, "The Times and the Man;" L. B. Evans. "The Fallacies of Democ racy;" E. C, Gregory, "Bourbonism in History and politics;" J. A. Gy wn, "Tbe Relation of Art to American Life; J. G Hollowell. "An English Patriot;" G. H. Kirby, "The Ethics of Vivisection:" W.B. Lemly, "The Moravians of North Car olina; ' D. F. Nicholson, "How Do we get Ideas?" A. H. Robbins. "The Decline of American Oratory;" W. Roberson, "Cons dilionB Favorable to Manufacturing in North Carolina;" E. F. Rollins' "Woman in Politics:" T. F. Sanford, "Road Con struction and Road Metals;" J. F. Shaff ner, "The Ku Klux Klan;" R. G. Shan onhouse, "Society and Solitude;" T. A. Sharp, "Education in the 18th Century: RousBeau;1' W. C. Smith, "Elizabethan Literature, the Exponent of the English Renaissance:" B. E. Stanley. "The Growth of the Idea of Religious Liberty;" G. G. Stephens, "Road Metals in North Carolina;" W. R. Webb, Jr., "Realism and Romanticism in Life and Literature;" I. H. White, "The Catawba Indians and the Indian Land;" J. S. White, "The Tories in North Carolina;" W. H. Wood son, "History of tbe Religious Test in North Carolina.' These by candidates for the Master's degree: W. E. Darden, "The Effective Means of Increasing the Wealth of the State;" J. E. Mattocks, "Origin in the Ear and Lateral Line Organs ot the Salmon;" J. A. Moore, "History of the Common School Education in North Carolina:" G. S. Wills, "William Cullen Bryant as a Poet;" T. J. Wilson, Jr., "The Grammar of the Scipio Epitaphs." DiaaiS IN COSZSK. Bachelor of Arts : R. G. Allsbrook, M. B. Aston, Y. A. Batehelor, J W. Canada, E. P. Carr, J. H. Coble, L. B. Evans, E. C. Gregory, D. F. Nicholson, W. Rober son, W. R. Webb. Jr., J. 8. White, W. T Wookley; Jr. Baohelor of ot Philosophy; F. F. Bahn son, T. P. Braswell, D. R. Bryson, J. C. Eller, J. A.Gwyn. R. P. Jenkins, A.H Robbins, T. A. Sharpe, W. C. ;Smitb, G. G. Stephens. Bachelor of science: W. Y. Brem, Jr., Thomas. Clarke, R. E. Coker, G. H. Kirs by. W. B. Lemley, T. F. Sanford, J. F. Sanford, J. F. Shaffner, Jr., B. E. Stanley J. H White, W. H. Woodson. Bachelor of Literature; C. W. Briles, 15. F. Rollins, J. G. Hollowell, R. G. Shan non bouse. Bachelor of Laws : L. T. Hartsel. Master of Ats: W. E. Darden, A. B , '92 T. J. Wilson, A. B., '94. Master of philosophy: J. A. Moore, A, B., '95; G. S. Wills, Ph. B., '89. Master ot Science: J. 15. Mattocks, a. n. 95. Special certificates: Mathematics: A. T. Allen, R. S. Fletcher, Percy Canada. Biology: G. H Kirby, 9o. Chemistry Thou. Clarke, 6. .English: J. w. uauaaa '96, E. C. Gregory 96, D. J. Uurrie; His tory: J. A. Moore, '95; Pedagogy: T. A. Sharpe, '96; W. C. Smith, '96; J. H Coble; 96. Highest of all in Leavening Power. The conditions under which distinc tions are obtained are as fallows: Grade 2 in one half of all work Cum, laude grade 2 in five sixths or 1 in one half of all work for four years magna cumlaude grade 1 in five sixths ot all work sum ma cum laude. Degrees with distinction were conn ferred as follows: Magna, cum laude: Messrs. J. W. Canada, J. C. Eller, W. R. Webber., E. C.'Gregory; cum laude: R. E. Allsbrook, E. P. Carr, J, A. Coble, F. F. Bahnson, R. P. JenkinB, A. H, Robbins, T. A. Sharpe, W. C. Smith, R. Coker, G. H. Kirby, J. H. White. UNDXRGEADUATX H0N0ES. Honora are awarded to undergraduates who have completed with great credit all work of the jear. Honors are of two grades honors and ' highest" honors, They were awarded Weill, J. S. Williams, Theo. F Kluttz. ia"-? f. t tfnfWTi in"- nrmuMjwiMa m ri.nn "h:m wm Sophomore: , P. H. Eley, E. K. Graham R. H. Lewis. J D. Parker, E.E. Sams. Freshmen: P. C. Barnbardt, Marsden Bellamy, J. N. Carr (highest honors). C. B. Denson, Jr., R." G. Kittrell, W. A. Smith. W.J. Webb, Archibald Hender son (highest honors). The senior class statistics: Average height 5 teet 8 inches average age 21 years; average weight 148 pounds. Professions: Life insnr ance 2; teaching 5; law 9; Journalism 2; CONCLUDID ON IICOND PAGE The President Vetoes the River and bor Bill. Har- It requires the exercise of rare self con fidence on the part ol President Cleve land to oppose bis will to that of the Uni ted States Congress; yet that is what he said in veoting the River and HarberBill; and when the last has been said about it the conclusion will perhaps be pretty gen eral that how meritorious features of the bill were the whole affair f smacks rather decidedly. If bait designed to bring in sub stantial returns in the way of political patronage. As has been suggested, if a Congressman's district call for an ap propriation to deepen a river which, if deepened, would be of no advantage whatever to commerce, he will most probably insist on an appropriation for the river. Although the bill is now a law , we give below the President's objections to the measure. There are.417 items of appropriation -contained in this bill, and every part of tbe country is represented in tbe distri bution of its favors. It directly , apprr--priates or provides for the immediate ex penditure of nearly $l4,OO0iOOO for river and harbor work. This sum fa in addl " tion to appropriations contained in an ' other bill for similar purposes amounting -to a little more than $3,000,000, which have already been favorably considered at the present session of Congress. Tbe result is that the contemplated immediate expenditures for tbe objects mentioned amount to about $17,000,000. A more ' startling feature of this bill is its authori zation of contracts for river and harbor work amounting to more than $52,000,- ' 000. If, therefore, this bill becomes a law, the obligations wbioh will be impos ed on the Government, together with the appropriations made for immediate ex Eenditure on account of rivers and har -ors, will amount to about $80,000,000. Nor is this all. Tbe bill directs numer ous surveys and examinations, which contemplate new work and further con tracts, and .which portend largely in creased expenditures and obligations. Many of the objects for which it appro priates public money are not related to the public welfare, and many of them art palpably for the benefit of limited locali ties or in aid of individual interests. I learn from official sources that there are appropriations contained in the bill to pay for work wbioh private parties have actually agreed with the Government to do, in consideration of their occupancy of public property. The public Treasury will be confronted with other appropriations, made at the -present session of Congress, amounting to more than $500,000,000. Individual economy and careful expendature are sterling virtues, which lead to thrift and comfort. Economy and the exaction of clear justification for the appropriation of publio moneys by the servants of the people are not only virtues, but solemn obligations. To the extent that the ap propriations contained in this bill are in- stigated by private interests, and pro mote local or individual projects, their allowance cannot fail to stimulate a vic ious paternalism and encourage a senti ment among our people already too priv alent that their attaebmet to our govern ment may properly, rest upon tbe hope and expectation of direct and especial favors, and that the extent to wbioh they are realized may furnish an estimate of the value of Govenmental care. I be lieve no greater danger confronts us as a Nation than the unhappy decadence among our prople of genuine and trust worthy love and affection for our gov ernment, ns the embodiment of the high est and best aspirations of humanity, and not as the giver of gifts, and because its mission is the enforcement of exact jus tice and equality, and not the allowance of nnlair favoriteism. 1 hope I may be permited to suggest at a time when tbe issue of Government bonds to maintain tbe credit and financial stansing of the country is a subject of criticism that the controcts provided for in this bill would create obligations of tbe United States amounting to $62,000,000, no lass binding than its bonds for that sum. LatesttU. S. Gov't Report ft til 11 . f!fi f f: - LI ' If! ! I! I ill fJi iv is ' ii ! :l! ; fi !' 1 It' i M m 4 r, r- - i 1 V: h 11 ; ,5 I i ' i ' I i ! il 'I