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T i: CHARLOTTE; N. C WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1889. NO. 54. Ml ,- J yqh. n. CONGRESS. ; s ROcfaDLWS OF THE SEN- lTE Ay HOUSE. 11 i-ou- Itenw of Interest at the u-ivlitioal and Personal Gos- ed R4,. KtC. Blaine will bo a candi t Ja (i 1, . rl Republican nomination in date 1892. t. This is stated upon authority if it could be given, would be recognized as entitled to cre For the past year Mr. Blaine's has steadily improved. The at ODCf dence health qpf,relrv is now satisfied that there is -a c lonic ailment to stand in the Mr MchRe 01 vr&auss Uils iuii in duced Iniong other bills one to declare forfeit of all unearned land grants, also cjr m repeal the preemption and timbei culture laws; also one to pro "v . , . i l hibit members ol Congress trom acting as attorneys tor aided lines ot rail roads! also one to provide fqr a grad- A bill has been introduced in the list Of the Senate to restore to the pension ire-married and divorced"widoN soldiers; also one to provide for election of two Vice Presidents of the United States. The Blair Educational bill was re ported to the Senate last Friday with Iseveral amendments. Among them are the following: 1. The quota of any fState which shall be refused by the Legislature shall be covered into the treasury instead of being divided ainc3g the rest of the States 2. The ! requirement that copies of school OOOaS authorized by School Boards shall deposited with the Secretary I of thj Interior is stricken out; also the section giving the respective Legisla- I turest; power to distribute the iunas apportioned to the several Territories. 3. It 1 explicitly stated that tne J training of persons of different colors r-to Decoiue teachers shall not be re quired in the same schools. CONTESTED ELECTION CASES. I Tne sub-committee of the House ect ions Committee charged with the angement of the contested election o es; completed its work this morning jKthout much difficulty. After some discussion it was agreed that the Re- publicans should select one case and ! the Democrats another, in alternation t until all were arranged This course was adopted with the following result ing order for the hearing of the cases: 1 1. J Smith vs. Jackson, West Vir ginia! 2. 'McGinnis vs. Alderson, West Virginia ' 4j. lAtkinson vs. Pendleton, West k in:mia. . 4 "il 4. .fFcatherston vs. Cate, Arkansas. 5 fMudd vs. Compton, Maryland. 6. Threet vs. Clarke, Alabama. 7. fl'osey vs. Parrett, Indiana. 8. ? Bo wen vs. Buchanan. Virginia. O.jWaddell vs. Wise, Virginia. 10. Eaton vs. Phelan. Tennessee. i 11; McDufne vs. Turpin, Alabama. 12.' Chalmers vs. Morean, Alabama. 13; Langston vs. Venable, Virginia. 14i Miller vs. Elliott, South Caro lina. ? 15: Hill vs. Catehings, Mississippi. 10. Kernaghau vs. Hooker, Missis sippi. 17.' Goolrich vs. Bullock, Florida. No order was made in the the case of Baker vs. Ferman, (111.) as this is not a contest but simply a motion on j Baker's part to be allowed the ex 'j pehses of the contest which he inaug urated, and afterwards ab'ndoned itiporr the -ecount of the vote. irlccordinir to the arrangement, the &rs ease -Smith vs. Jackson, West Virginia is to be heard January 7th. and after that two cases will be heard weekly tor two consecutive weeks. An intermission of a week will follow and then the reeriilar order will be re sumed Hie casps are tn ho rpnnrfpd to tne House m the order in they hie hoard before the committee i ,,,0 Dec., of tHe senate. ! r- - - It was once the cu to id ect their ablest ) statesmen for t l Ti was once the custom of tho Stn.fp n t I v r r. L uuu 111 Vf i. hxi . i the Senate. i is now the custom tor them to , . til v!i" sort of nobodv who bannens i . navi. the woney necessary to buy a ; Legislature. ! . 1 ; It v,-as ftirrnerly thought that trained bjlity, u 1 -i r cjireer in the public ser- inu : onspicuously representa charastf': were essential qualifica-xu-i only qualification now requisite is ability to secure 'ority in the caucus, t dignity of the Senatorial office t' so highly esteemed that no s thought worthy of it who tiy vV it ! If ; cafe i any way seek it. To ask for u rue most indirect way was to forfeit all chance of securing it by a demonstration of unworthiness. All that is changed nbw. Small men run" for the Senate with as much assurance as for a Shrievalty, and they succeed without incurring either censure or contempt. Mr. Brice's case in Ohio is not exceptional. We wish it were so. It is merely illus trative of the methods which have re duced the Senale from its proud his toric position to the level of a cam- paign club ot managing politicians. Mr Brice is in Ohio actively an$ openly seeking his own election to the Senate. He has no qualifications for the place except the ability to buy. But he has an open headquarters. He has agents, runners, hustlers, dick- erers and all the other adjuncts of a ward election contest. He will probably win, but he robs the place of all its dignity by his method of seeking it. He so dishonors it in advance that it cannot honor him when he gets it. When elected he will be only another successful politic col shopper who has bought a marked- down distinction on the bargain coun- M . it . t C ter. The dignity ot the senate is a memory merely and Senatorial honors are matters of tradition. Washington Notes. Eleven Senators in the Senate last week voted against confirming the nomination of Brewer as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The combined opposition to Judge Brewer presented four reasons why he should not be confirmed : First, that he is an anti-piohibitionist; second, that he is a corporation attorney; third, that he punished a white man for abusing a negro, and fourth, because he appoint ed the ofiicials of the Dakota courts from the States of Kansas and Nebras ka, instead of from Dakota. The last reason is the one which led to the opposition .of the Dakota Senators. They dislike the Judge because he ignored Dakota altogether when selec ing the Court officials. Mr. Moody endeavored to have the nomination postponed so that he could telegraph for proofs of this awful charge. Twenty-five Senators voted with him in favor of giving him time to prove his case. Forty-three Senators, however, deemed the matter too trivial for seri ous consideration and voted against postponement. The Great Wealth of the United States. The World has obtained from the treasurer of each State the value of property as assessed for taxation The Census Office in 1886 made a report of its exhaustive and laborious inquiry in to the proportions existing in each State, between taxed property and actual wealth, which ranges between 25 per cent, in Illinois and 68 per cent in Wyoming. The World's report shows an in crease in taxable property of $6,963, 000, and an increase in. actual wealth of $18,162,000,000, since 1S80. The total wealth is $64,059,000,00, ex clusive of the public property, and $3,093,000,000 of property invested and fowned abroad. The wealth of the United States now exceeds the :o tal wealth of the whole world at any time provious to the middle of the eighteenth century, and the amount invested abroad is alone equal to the national weolth of Portugal and Den mark. The total wealth of only fivcj nations is equal to the mere inereas -f il . TT "a 1 fli . - .1 oi me united otates in ine past nine A. years. The Blair Bill. From the Salisbury Watchman. The mischievous bill has been agaijn brought up in the Senate. It is la radical measure, a pandora's box-j from which should it become a lav, more evils will spring than it will lpe in the power of the people to contrifi Lt is the mosi, potent measure for t destruction of State Rights aa.d . ffc the centralization of all power i:Dtfo L.dgressever yet enacted. The -a- wfitb wb,ca i. i x , . , . ! . l crais nave iougnt it nereiorore r,r Mb; I i . i i- ..x I .. ouiy a partial uuaerstanaingiiinttf the! P- fJevil,.. It I. evident V jAeuuuucaus win inciuae it iu . : f.c'xti lt u i. . :ii ri i -i - . clap-trap of a platform m tln D . 1 i mo t ? i i i- , . n . 1- j , . " IT ' . and, as we hope, with decv i ... ; iect y Jefferson Davis's Estatn i f t, The whole assessed valuatiorrii'Hai late Jefferson Davis' property 1,14 rison county, Mississippi, is .tTiSS-l The personal assessment wa?SOw;fir:'di Beau voir is assessed at $4,5lrJ,S intt the signatures which appcaivhojsv the will are thost of parties wiifj itee called into the probate clerk' otfie tjo testify to the handwriting of inimCtt! ceased, and the parties were ;Ua Vit nesses to the siffnature, as iiArp a be I supposed. FARMEESandKNIGHTS StylETHUp NEEDED FOR AG RIGULTt'RAL INTERESTS. Words f Krv-ouragement for the Alii. nce Farmers h Class Kminextly Sensible Set of afn Other Notes. Fm the Stateirllle Landmark. The recenj confederation formed be tween the Farmers' Alliance and the Knights of labor is a notable event. We hope mveh good will come of it. The men wlo work with their hands are entitledjto more of the fruits of ineir ton than tney orainaruy get. Of the two-elements forming the new confederation the farmers are today m the worse plight. The prices of his products tre going steadily down, down. This enables the mechanic to live the more easily, yet while this is the case the tendency of his wages is upward. The farmer needs legisla tion which will make cheaper the things he has to buy, yet the Knighti of Labor are told that that condition which would be helpful to the farmer would bs ruinous to them. Reallv the interests of the two classes are identical, but can the Knights be brought to see it? There have been some signs of late that they are begin ning to understand that the "protec tion" which they have been voting for goes, after all, to their employers and not to themselves, and it may be that the tariff reform leaven which the farmer? will bring to the confederation will after awhile leaven the whole lump, j We do not understand clearly the enjs in view but doubtless those who effected the union db. We have alwayj found farmers ni a class an eminently sensible set of men, as keen ly ali7e to their own interests aud as quick to perceive wbaft is best for .it . t 5lis them as any other class among us We kave therefore never tendered themlany advice about their Alliance bushjess, confident that they know what1 they are doing, and feeling very hopeful always that it would redound to tneir benefit, which is the benefit of all. " If the Knights of Labor can help them to better their fortune, God fapei'd them. Certainly something neeMs to be done for our agricultural interests the manufacturing interest can, take care of itself. But with coru 14jcents pr bushel in Iowa, and the Kansas farmer using it for fuel be cause it is cheaper than coal; with wheat 50 cents per bushel, and meat 3 tents per pound-fwith these figures prevailing in the! West, rendering Southern competition out of the ques tion, and with Southern cotton at a pirice only a cent or two above the cpst of production and the crop fail ing one year out of three with us who ve near the mountains, truly it seems tjo be getting time to look about us. he western farmer is poverty strick- n with all the food products at his eet in profusion, and the Southern armor makes enough home supplies to feed him and sells his cotton for enough to pay the lertmzer diu, iue sheriff and the preacher. The much vaunted "home market' is not strong enough to pay the Western farmer a livincr price for wheat and corn and meat, nad tho Southern farmer sells his cotton at prices fixed in New York and Liverpool before the crop is pitched It is this condition that we would like to see the Alliance over come, for until it is overcome the far mer will languish and all tne balance or us continue poor. Casualties of 1889. January 1st. Fielding McLain, aged 75 years, dropped dead in his field while plowing. 3rd. Explosion ef boiler ot Col. John Ashford's hoop factory, at Clinton, killing Col Af ford, two sons and a colored man. 23. Miss Charity McAllister, Cumber- ' Iand county, brutally murdered in nei - - iihouse bv George Brewington (col.) ana -Drewingron Kineu jf -: MnA llicfm. Vipr kinsman. 25th. Corn ,," - rill ffnn tri n and six bales or cot- """ -"" & .. , , , !J;!2 . fiiiriij mi iicu. "v ardson. of Alleghany county, burned . Ito death in the flames that destroyed .Jier dwelling. I February 2nd. Buck Wilkins and iDave Hodge, (col.) disputing over cards, killed each other in Stokes Co. Sth. Works and machinery at Cro will mines and the mills, grist mills, etc., Cabarrus county, burned. 8th. Mail train of R. &Gr. railroad derailed by a misplaced switch at Raleigh ; engine and several flat cars smashed. 14th Estell Johnston a little girl in Salisbury, died from strychnine pills taken in "playing sick" with Other children. 17th. Cyclone in Rutherford county ; houses unroofed and trees and fences blown down. 23rd. James MoDonald killed by pas- senger train on Central Railroad, near his home in Richmond county. 24th. Burning o smoking tobacco factory of D. G. Reese, at Hickory. W. E. Battle killed by jumping from a mov ing train on W. N. C. R. R., at Top Ion, Cherokee county. 25tjjf James B. Crawley killed Richad Harris with an axe handle at Bath,? Beaufort county. Miss Bettie Love, aged 15 years, Davidson connty, killed at R. S. Adderton's gristmill, by entangle ment of her clothing in the machinery. 28th. Burning ot B. W. Bergeron store and other buildings at Washing ton, loss $40,000. March. 1st. Suicide of Joseph Lee, Wake county, by shooting him self through the heart. Burning in Union countv, of house with Judith (xordan, said to be 120 years old; she was born in Africa. 7th. Jewelry store of John Farrior, at Charlotte, broken intoa nd robbed of $4,000 or $5,000 worth of Jewelry. Thomas Brotherton shoots and kills Junius Summers, a tenant, in Iredell countv, 11th. Sidney Mitchell, of Iredell county, run over by a loaded wagon and killed. 15th. Mrs. Eliza Haden, of Davidsou county, died from mor phene given by mistake for quinine by her physician. Two frieght trains collided on the Piedmont Air Line, at Clifton, S. C, and two men killed and four injured, an engine and four cars wrecked. 20th. Collision of freight train on R. & D. R. R., near Salem Junction; one engine and ten freight cars wrecked. April. 3rd. Sash & Blind factory ot Mr. Wilson, and railroad depot at i Wilson g Mills, Johnson county; loss, $20,000. 7th. Burning of the town ofSmithficld; loss, $100,000. Sth. Chas. Hamilton, Salisbury, fireman on the W. N. C. R. R., kilted in a col lision of freight trains near Marion. Drunken man in jail at Leesville fires the building and is burned up with it W. 11. Woodell, Harnett county, attempts to save his furnituro in his burning dwelling, burned to death. 17th. Depot, A & N. C. K. 11., at Newberne, burned. 20th. Robert Burton, 11 year-oldson of K. C. Bur ton, of Durham, drowned while bath ing in- a pond. Fire in Reidsville; loss', $25,000. ?day. -1st. Warsaw and vicinity visited by a cyclone ; Presbyterian church and other buiding destroyed ; loss, $12,000. 7th. Windtorm in Forsyf.h county. A tobacco factory blown down and one man killed and another wouhdod at Kcrnrrsville. I5th. Burning of the i- factory at Durham. 16. Suicide of v m. Pryor, aged 25 years, by 40 grains of mor phine on Western train near Asheville. 26th. Millions of 17-year locusts in the forests and groves of Yancey and Buncombe counties. A terrific hail storm in Rowan county: heavy dam age to crops. August. -1st. Flood destroys Cape Fear and Yadkin R. 1 Bridge at Walnut Cove; loss $10V .000. Dan River at Milton, 35 feot '-.hove low water mark; two feet high r than ever known, great damage to -r ps of nd 5 th. . A. Lightning struck the huu KJ I Reid, Catawba county killed Miss Addie Reid, aged 1 Trollenger, aged 21. ,; Parker assassinated in L is ,:id James Robert garden at Connelly Springs by somo person un known. 17th. Burning of lumber mills of Stimson fc Co., v;;Hi a million and a half feet of lumber at LN'?wberne; loss 850,000.-18. Death of . K. Perry, the aeronaut at Charlotte. At Mt. Holly fair he fell with his balloon when 700 feet high. 25th. A cloud burst near Rockingham. Richmond county; damage to mills, railroad track and crops $200,00: 500 mill hands thrown out of emi 1 yment. Sept. 5 th. Moore .ouuiy court house burned at Carth; . ihe work of an incendiary; loss $H:0k0, inclu- ding all the county doo1-:- ;iud papers. 11th. A mob of one hundr-r-d citizens ! of Burke county, broke open the Jail at Morsantan at midnight, tukinz out Franklin Stack, white. ud David Boone, colored, aud huur: them. Dnel to Deatli Between farmers. Council Bluffs, Iowa. lec. 23. Meager reports reach this city of a ter rible tragedy enacted in Norwalk township, nine miles northc t of here this afternoon. Two f irmors named Holinan and Gill were neighbors and sworn enemies. Troulli had been brewing for some time. To-day Hol man went to a neighbor and secured a gun, loaded it with bird shot and went over to Gill's farm. Meeting him Hcl man instantly raised the gun aud emp tied both barrels into Gill's body. A terrible struggle ensued, in which Gill, in a last effort, secured the gun, and sent it crashing through Holman's skull. Neighbors hearing tha shoot ing, ran to the scene of- the horrible affray, only to attend the men in their death agonies. REFORM MOVEMENT. GRO WTR OF ALLIANCES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. Straws that Show the "Wind Items of Interest to Citizens Interested in the Welfare of the People and ef the Nation. The Farmers' Assembly of Virginia recently in session at Richmond, call ed for an adjustment of the "present unjust, unequal and unbearable tariff laws." They also call on Congress to make in the census of 1890 a report on real estate mortgages. The State Fanners' Alliance of South Dakota says in its memorial to Congress : " The cost of all of our farm machinery is enhanced by reason of high duties on iron and steel, while the prices of the products of the pro ducts of our wheat fields is fixed in a market where it must compete with the cheapest labor in India and Eu rope." Tbe New .York World, speaking of an abuse believed to be quite cur rent, says : The purchase of Senatorships is the robbery of the people of their dearest possession. Like bribery in elections, it is a crime against Liberty which no honest man can look upon except with loathing and a deadly righteous hatred of its perpetrators. The imin or the party that consents to it is already leporous to the very marrow. Indianapolis. Dec. 23. --The Con vention of Miners of the competitive district, comprising Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia, met in this city last Wednes day. John McBride, President of the Miners' National Progressive Union, presided. Practically but little was done on the first day. The second day John B. Roe, Master Workman, and Robert Watchem, Secretary of District Assembly 135, K. of L., spoke in favor of a coalition ot the two bodies, which have been at outs so for so loQc A resolution was finally passed favoring the proposed consolidation. The York County Alliance met at the court house last Saturday. We are without information as to the re sult of the meeting. Col. W. D. Camp represented Buffalo Alliance, Mr. E. M. Tate represented Cherokee Alliance, aud Mr. B. R. Sepaugh rep resented Holly Grove Alliance. The Cabarrus county Alliance will meet in the Hall of Rocky River Al liance January 2d and 3d. Capt. S. B. Alexander, W. A. Graham, and State Lecturer Long have promised to be present. There will be no public exercises, only members of the Alli ance are invited. Business of great importance to be transacted. Secre- taries of Sub-Alliances are requested to send list of delegates to Di. S. A. Grier, Secretary of Rocky River Alli ance, Harrisburg, N. C. Concord Standard. The Anson County Alliance will i meet at Wadesboro Friday January 3, j at 10 o'clock. Alliance Items from the Asheville County Home: Rowan county contains about 40 Sub-Alliances with a total member ship of about 1,500. Capt. Jake Fisher, the President of the County Alliance is a man of sense and energy. We have not heard of a single Al liance being suspended in Western North Carolina. The January meeting of theHay- wood Countv Alliance will be at - - , aue anu jixect. xv. jc. ij Clyde, and a two day's session heldX Jewelry, etc.-rJohn Farrior All over the county the farmers are taking hold of the order and working with renewed zeal and energy. It is highly important that every member be impressed with the fact to remember our motto, and to obey its injunction is essential to success in all our undertakings, matters not how great or small. "United we "stand, divided we fall," or "In union there is strength." Notice to Alliances. The second quarterly meeting of the Mecklenburg County Alliance will meet with Providence Alliance on the first Thursday in January, 1890, at 10 o'clock promptly. A full repre sentation i3 desired. From 11 o'clock until half-past one will be devoted- to public speaking, to which the public is invited, T. J. Renfsow, Prest. Mecklenburg Co. Alliance. Old HicVorj's Birthday. Ata-meeting of the old soldier and the personal friends of Andrew Jackson, at Nashville. Tenn., last week the following appeal was issued: Soldiers and citizens of the Repub lic: We who tre soon to die. salute you. In the name of the immortal Jackson, we ask you to celebrate his victory of the Sth of January, a day memorable in the history of the nation and dear to us members of the Old Guard. We respectfully request the Governors of every State in this glo rious Union, the Mayors of cities, offi cers and military commands, civil so cieties and all loyal American citizens to unite in commemorating this day. As Old Hickory was born in Meck lenburg county would it not be well for us to join in celebrating his birth dav ? A prominent Kansas City physician kissed his wife at a theatre iu Wash ington City and the management had him removed fromthe house. This has naturally aroused considerable attention and called out a va riety of comment and confession, which, in this period of frequent trav el, it were well enough to know. When in Chicago you may kiss your wife only at parting at the railway station; never when leaving her on a street car. Denver forbids kissing one's wife anywhere except in the the atre, church, or a shop. St. Paul forbids the rite beyond the limit of the front doorstep, while Bismarck, N. D., with the characteristic liberality of the great golden West, says, says a man may kiss his 'wife whenever he pleases, aud in fact seems to indicate that it is rather willing than otherwise to encourage men in domestic rather than foreign osculation, even at the expense of rigid propriety. Washing ton as the capital city and ultimate, authority on matters of social etiquette insists that no kisses shall be delivered or received except those which are walled in and curtained off from the street. Nothing less than, an unex pected meeting after three years' ab sence will justify a Washington man iu kissing his wife in public. Geo. Johnston, porter for the Cen tral Hotel, died in the 'bus at the C. C. depot, Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock. He was a polite and faith ful darkie. Bill Weddington, the ring leader of the burglars last winter, has finally, escaped the gallows. Gov. Fowle has commuted his sentence to life im prisonment. " Thk Times would have reached its readers one day sooner, but for the fact that two of its printers got on a drunk in celebration of Xma?. In a private letter of Jeff. Davis', recently published, he says the story of his romantic elopement is a " base less scandal " C. A. Dixon Sc Co., of Charlotte, made an assignment Tuesdav. The liabilities are about $25,000. List of New Advertisements. Farmers' Alliance Agency F. S. Ncal. Agent. Th3 New York Sun for 1890. Don't Suffer Richard Moore. Pure White Lead T. Lewis &Bros. The Standard Henry George. Monuments and Headstones I. W. Durham & Co. The Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Co. Furniture, Pianos and Organs E. M. Andrews. Christmas Candies, etc Mayer & Boss. New York Life Insurance Co. Church & Lane, General Agents. Monuments and Headstones-R. JI. Morse & Son. Hardware, Stoves, etc. R. Moore. N. C. Home Insurance Co. Thos. II. Haughton. Sanitary Plumbing, etc. Ilyland aud Oxcnham. Attention Farmers and Alliances E. B. Springs. Groceries. L. J. Walker Si Co. Painting. Pritchett & Pettus. Cause and Effect. R. E. Blakcy. . Photographs. H. Baumgarten. Stoves, etc. J. N. McCausland. Mecklenburg Iron Works. Job Printing Ed 11 Decamp Notice to the Poblic. Notwithstanding the report of some of our 'Friends' ' that our announce ment to sell out was only intended' to 'catch the trade" (as has been done, by other concerns), we have greatly reduced our stock, aad those who favored us with a call have found out that we' meant what we said. We now announce again that we shall pos itively close out our entire stock at and below cost, and intending pur chasers of Boots and Shoes should not let this opportunity pass without se curing some of the bargains. J Very respectfully, 3Ioter & Co. 36 East Trade Street.
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