- 60 1 . in E IN THE TIMES SUBSCRIBE for THE IISIEjgj ,HKV AUBEAD IT. IT PRIXTS THE NEWS. CHARLOTTE. N. C, FRIDAY JUNE 10. 1892. vol- iv, NO. 182 Re?; otte.l frotf XWO WONDERS m roAlimiesto w , ' , rifed. ., tt u 1 1 in. ti mjk&w w "w- s i , v. A xience.soii ajau., LOW PRICES, MUSES Mil 40c 35c An,l we still keep the lead oivTotacco at 25 and Flour at io 05 ncr hundred lb. Come in and we will convince aU Uo do not know us RESPECTFULLY. W. I. HENDERSON & BRO. No ii Kast Trade Street. E. Moore's Old Stand. -V-A-liT WINKLE in and Machinery Co., ATLANTA, jT ION SEED OIL ILL MACHINERY COMPLETE. Fertilizer ACHINERY COMPLETE. feEJMACHINEEY COMPLETE. r --r 5.. 4 r m "--' The best system fir elevating cottonand distributing same direct to gins, jtfany gold medal have been Raided us. Write for Catalogue and for wtat you WANT. - t A 4L 1 A.- ATLANTA, GOOD BO ADS. teing a rart oi an aU11" "-"'." at the Southern Inter-State exposi tion, 1891, by Col. Wharton J. Greeu,of Fayettevillc.N. C. I deem myself favored by the Com ittee in the assignment of text to- iy, however poorly me ia. ui uau Dg it may be discharged. Favored because it is a subject in hich T am an d have long been deeply Sterested, as all should be who ap eciate community progress and mat- lal development. The auai oraucu the suliect is, to my thinking, Irrelative, if not svnonymous, so in- inately blended, are tbey. Ut a sure st one is a sequence of the other, lood roads good farming, good farm- g goods road. The slipshod 101 ws with as unerring certainly. No per old-time' saw than "like begets e." Tidiness is Dot only taking, p it is catching; and so likewise the ipvenjl a regards the last, and so the Ijective that fits the road is apt to m e farm contigious. the general aveller is prone to see in the one in of the other, and any observation this aul other lands conforms to tnat inclusion. A late writer has said atthe art of road making is a lost t and it died with the Roman Etn- p. Certain it is that no other peo- je have ever carried it to such a fte of perfection. The nineteenth fnturv is n rosin to aive itself airs r i c , er Stenhoasdn's new fangled roaa, psistinor simply of two parallel iron hieei rail?, which now permeates e remotest parts of the civilized bbe. ' i ' ivu i u ii u v i ww y pence of fire, wood and water, gives Irate ot speed ten times greater tnap nun pibtedly it is a'marvellous devclop- ent; but all things considered, it av be doubted whether it is as much 1 &S Was tU n. infairporaVCtAin Of Elitary roads whose initial point was c seven-huied citv on the lmer, d which came into beinff some score thATirndtlct 01 thO Jb i "w t" uaest race that ever built roaas or led mPn nirap nrnanhn rt t.K A "All- o-Saxor " v ; r ,? ri .nioa f turn in e-sential and manly regards. of all road builders, the men .ftometake undispated precedence. R- nie, Imperial, and with uu- talk about the man who suc- and al out how successful- o for 30c for 25c PER. Gil GEORGIA. CYPRESS TANKS, WIND MILLS, PUMPS, Etc. COTTON GINS FEEDERS CCNDEXSERS AND PRESSES GEORGIA. loai n went, and wherein, in the then known world, did they not go, they left a royal highway behind tueni. Over hills and rivers and mountains and desert and morass, those invinci Kl andiprs became williDff road work era Tor to be more exact overseers of ,;,h rho crift nd in view OI Rome's sunremaey And so it rc suited, for inexorable nature confirm ed the edict by the road builders lul : minated. An nrliaf rO.Tils thftV WerC tO UC sure ! Not mud and slush and brash - w and codurov. such as some of us re call when running after the Yankees in the sixties, or as was occasionally the case, there was a right-about S, ihe running was reversed. No, their's were roads even in the remotest parts, from the pillars Hercules to "farthest Ind," that would reflect credit on the purlieus of modern capitals, solid, substantial, enduring, and oft wide enough for a phalanx to march abreast. Perhaps the wonder may grow the less when it is taken into accouut that their limitless slaves, captives and convicts performed the manual part, and these stern task-masters the head or directing simply. This great iutcgral system of un paralleled roadways was not only a most potential factor in the subjuga tion of other states and holding them in subjection by rapid massing troops; but it played a far more amiable and beneficent part in t'ae feeding of the great central head. The victualling of great armies has ever been one of the most trying, problems with which k; tnmrnanHerM have had to deal. The provisioning of overgrown vil lages like New York, Philadelphifc and Chicago, even ith their endless miles of raihoad and steam water ,nmnniiation. causes all who give the subject thought to stand in mute i :Armont Flow, then, in the name of all that is marvellous, could oWn.d on a little creek, dub- .irorKu nnnrtesv. doubling the UCU v m; J . conjoint populations of all three ot these, be kept alive a single year or a single month, some twenty centu u hirtli of James Watt and Fulton and Stephenson? Without her roads she never could nave reacueu half her mammoth size; or if she had, u .VtoA of inanimation or wouiu Uc t. or starvation long before effeminacy set in and the Goth .and Vaadal put man appearance. There s my pane- gyric upon the tmcacy of roads and roads of the right sort. There war the neonle and there, everywhere, a their mrijic hignways They had th best, the yry best. Now you shall hear which of thr great, governing enlightened people of the nineteenth century has the worst. the very worst. Don't fret or fume for being told that v the great West ern branch of the greattst of all races -'The Anglo eaxon" (modesty for bids the addition 4,Amcrican).n Id auroads and inland steamboats, print ncr nresses and bab carriages, biff taverns and big broggarts, and a few other of the elements of material da velopmeat and stupendosity, we can easily distance the combined' world. But oh, how wcfully behind are we on "the King's Highway." The cx ensfi for bmnff lasrgard here is at nrst blush , plausible, viz : immensity 01 national domain, newness of national existence, and consequent spareness of Donulation. J his, ot course, ex- tenuates the non-construction so tar 01 a network of Anpian ways to super sede our mud cut, gully-washed, hog- wallow, ricketv-bndged cow-paths. But It does not justify us in longer toleration of those last in many, very many localities. Aboriginal inertness or terranin nrogress will do for abo- rigines. It doesn t suit tne genius 01 the acre. Let it be added as stimu lant and for our encouragement, that only about a century ago "the ivmg s hifrhwavs" In the King's own coun- try (she that we are proud to cau mother), and which are to-day the best in the world, were then in as wo ful a plight as our's are to-day: Think of the mail coach and six, requiring six Java in winter to make the round trip from Edmburg to lilasgw. oniy fortv-four miles apart. To-day I dare j . . say that it could be done by iiKe con f . . r. vftvance in as manv hours. Ana te is where the cheapening effect of good roads come in. Obssrve speed, on ftmnrrrencv. ten times greater than on thi P.ifrhtcenth century road, not rail- road in either case: double or trepie M w . ' a .Iff. th traction cabacitv of a team; thus enabling one horse or mule to do the work of two, and. with more ease ana iftmfArt in tf.A noir brute: add .wear and tear to the turnout, and mcreaseu 1 comfort to the driver or passenger, ajid without adding other incentives, methinks that the eoonomist and tne . w .. .., Dhilanthrooist will concur in the pro priety of stage or wagon-road improve r , . ment. Doubtless the wonderful change for the better in Eaglish roads is mainly due'to Telford. Rennie and Macadam, K ii in xr nnirinpprs each, all of whom "-"J to t ' . j gave th,c subject the attention it de served and that imports tneir unai viHftd and entire attention. To Araer icans that brawny old Scotchman, Macadam, is best known of them all, and nerhans. deservedly SO, as his 8VS tem has been more generally adopted nn this side of the Atlantic than any other. Jet us hope the day wiH soon come that wherever granite grows old Moc's road will follow. Tt is astonishing by what humble agencies the grandest result3 are oft achieved. Certainly no country, since the "Dark Age" eclipse, has produced such a galaxy of transcendant intel lectual giants in every department or mental measurement as has our cradle and. Philosophy, theology, poetry, nnliticsJ eloauence, patriotic heroism, and last, and, perhaps, the least, the throat cutting facutty on the wholesale scale, have each and all produced un doubted Titans. And jet were i caueu upon off hand to name her greatest benelactors; l mucn lucuue w hat four men, whose very names have almost pased into oblivion outside of he scientific world, would De me it 11 1 1 . greatest that would irst lonow iqu martyr patriot, John Hampden. Here they arc: Jenner, Watt, wacaaam, Postgate. Let us hope tnat none are beyond recall. Posterity is under bonds to each which posterity can never cancel. Fame or fortune was foreign to the five, or at least, as pri- mary mspiraiiuu ur ttopuu. old Scotch road builder has not been forgotten in the estimate of merit. His nountrvman Watt, congener on a kindred line of thought locomotion called into being a subtle and suo- t . L: J Jinn missive ageni to ao rau o uiv.ufc, known as steam, more potential, more beneficent, mere tar-reaching tnan me monsters worked in fancy by the Arab gamin, Alladdin, or the tierman aei- ver, raust. x wo couuiry uucwm others, one of whom. Dr. Jenner, slew the dragon f Small Pox," a thousand m;ii;nns of times more terrible than that by the good St. George ovar- thrown. Xne oiuer, u. slew a kindred monster by man s cu Slew a Kinureu "j , pidity engendered, known as Food Adulteration. The Buckingham Squire rr . . nampaen neeas no comment. But to return frm pardonable di- rtra :ci nn . . It la arlmittnrl hn 11 ii. cious and fair-minded men that some thing muU bo done in the way of road improvement to place us nn the nlane j - r r of progress now reached by enlight- enea Hiarppean nations, up to tnu time we ,4ve been content with tne old-fashioned "road-working" of oar grandfathers, which competent critics, by common consent, denounce as the mnat t trftvaasnt. nsnlt-Ro innnrntiA system looking to the end that could well be devised, First, as to extra v-1 aganee. u Without spec 1 he data, it le neverthdlesd safe to assume that the adult mite population of our State, coming within the militia or road work ing age,Js in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand. Assuming further that this large army 01 broad-winners are employed in this public service five dayiin the year, and that their labor, idV ordinary avocations, is m trinsicall4 worth one dollar a day, not to fepeak f loss by being called off at critical seasons of the crop year, and we ha7c i grand total as road-tax of one millwn of dollars per annum, a -a r m . sum largely in excess of all of our other State taxes combined, and about nhft. twelfth of our auota 1o the Feder k government under a kindred svs- - n t . . - . : - J 1 . Ll 11 J tem 01 senijweao ruuuorjr cuiicubiuu auu lavish ; appropriation. What arc the results accruing ? About the same as under the old militia plan for mikmg men nrofiaient in the "school of the soldier" jj; an hour's farcical drill with corn-stalks in the course or a vear. A kindred parade of earnest, brawn v mini bwa t on work but with no set purpose in view, and but rarely a competent directing bead, own to tal nil. ntenothinqt or next thing to it, a few fabnormal ruts or hog-wal lows filled with pine-top and loose sand, and a ditch or gully bridged with ffnoej rails, the whole liable to be washed oitft again the first returning shower, 'lis the game worth the can- r11 ?' Aliolifih the nresent absolute road working law. or we will never have rod. 8ome may say it's better than notitfig. I aay nay, for as long as it eonJUnucs we will have this 'Tns much and nothing more.' : ,; -if ou ask for a substitute my re nlw is t.hfi nnnitentiarv. Work the fj r convict3 on our crunty road.3, inas much as there will soon be no more railroads to give them employment, and thev can be better utilized in that RaIiI than anv other, and not be brought in conflict or competition with honest and legitimate labor. . Let them be employed under competent direction and upon a general plan adoDted bv prizo or under-experti, with modifications adapted to different locations, and "Ihe institution can hv such a w-li directed plan be maJe snla-sustaininj?. the people relieved C3 of most of this oppressive and idioti oad tax. and tL::r material develop ment enhanced as by no other suggest ible process. Two or three well con structed roads running through each county, with well selected terminals and an eye to interlapping or contin uous connection with those of contig uous counties, would do more for in dividual, municipal and commonwealth development than would a double cot ton crop or a fat gold or silver mine in each Congressional district. This is not fanfaronade. They are the words of seberness and truth. The whole system proposed should be placed under the supervision of a thor oughly competent or efficient engineer, with salary attached to the office suffl cient to command the services of such. Such an one, in a word, a3 England found when she gave her national job to old John McA.dam. Apropos ! a "brief synopsis of his gen eral outline will not be out of place in this connection. Of course in its en tirety it is practicable only in rocky localities: "For the foundation of a road it is not necessary to lay a ?ub stratum of large stones, pavement, &c, as it is a matter of indifference wheth er the substratum be hard or sof ; and if any preference is due it is to the latter. The metal for the reads must consist of broxen stones (granite, flint or whinstone is by far the best); these must in no cases exceed six ounces m weight, and stones from one to two ounces are to be preferred, xne large stones' in the road are to be loosened to the side, where they are to be bro ken into pieces of the regulation weight; and the road is then to be smoothed with a rake, so that the earth may settle down into the holes from which the large stones are re n.nvA(l The broken metal is then to Ua arefnllv spread over it; and as thi onpration is of great importance . li fntnrA nnalitv of the TOad. the w . .j - , : , metal is not to be laid on in snove- ! w . . . . . , . ia fQls to the requisite derth, but to be JCattered in Shovelful ftftr fihnunlfnl till a depth of from six to ten inches. j according to the quality of the road, I 'l ti i mi i . uas uecu ooiamea. xne roaa is to have a fall from th nilrl tn tUr sides of about one foot in sixty, and ditches are to be dug on 'the field-side of the fences to a dpnth of & fw inches below the level of the road." See how very precise the old fellow was. But there are sections in our State. notably the seaboard, where these es sentials arc wanting. What then? The plank-road long since proved an ;' ... .. expensive iaunre; asphalt, or other ar tificial material used for paving cities is too expensive to be thought of on tJA n . i: i i .i. wicuucu cuuuirjr uuei-, anu oeocc iuu problem looks unolvablo at first glance, if we look for roads after the Macadam pattern or of kindred excel lence. Bat we live in an age when man's iugenuity is usually adequate iu uiau d ucicroitico. ay rciiauuc 13 on that subtle, wonder-working sci ence called Chemistry, operating upon the three most abundant comnonents t of the material universe as bases, viz , clay, sand and water, to find a combi nation of ingredients which will turn . . i ... out at smallest cost the requisite ma terial for successful road huildiuff. 0- And what a field of competition for in ventors ! The man who can nroduce thQ requisite substitute and enter the field of competition against Dama IN a ture in more favored localities for road buildinghas an almost assured for tune that will rival that of the nabobs of the earth. You have the basis ma terials, gentlemen, as they occur to me. Combine these with others of feature's products- naptha, stone, oil, r what you will to turn out requi site products and prediction is reality, whether it gives the world tho plain, simp'e road of Macadam, or the mie elaborate recondite one of ielford aT other's title. A better than either if better be, will better do. Inal sence of that better, either of the oth ers will do. Some of the most essen tial ingredients are given; supply the others, ve delvers of the unknown. and rival Alladdin or Monte Christo !n rlrnrlnr and fUsnlaV. Qiir age has evolved a wizard wno Tar transcends in accomplishment what priar racou uia iu vuigar lau-oj, wuv. "Weaves his garland of tne lign ninffs winsr." and enables man to talk to his fellow man across a conti nent, or to bottle up his thoughts in embodied words so that future gener ations may hear them as they fall to his fellow3 bv word of mouth. These nr hnt a tithe of his marvels. But let him come down frem the clouds and light on earth and furnish a sub stitute at normal cost for one of its most essential road-making compo nents. even rock, the eternal rock. and his previous miracles are eclipsed in utility to his terrestrial brotners The conversion of black carbos int? i s concentrated, erystauzea puruy, known as diamond, has been the dream of ages and of sages. When practi cally discovered, if ever, the dia mond's value will have ceased to be. The problem submitted is no dream, no child of idle fancy, and when solved will be worth a thousand or ten thousand "Koh-i noors" for man's good and for practical utility. Until it is, let engineering skill make most of the crude, natural materials at hand in quarters where rock does not exist. Out of these they can make better roads than now exist. . . i . . i 1 1 !i Cousressional Convention Called for Lumberton, August 10. The members of the executive com mittee of the sixth congressional dis trict met at te Hotel Richmond at Rockingham Tuesday at 1 o'clock and decided upon Lumberton as the place and August 10th as the time for, the congressional convention. There was a tie vote between Lumberton and Rockingham for the place of meeting, hut decided in favor of Lumberton on the second ballot as that place had not had the convention in ten yerrs. Lum- berton has two good hotels and a nsn fry will be on the bill of fare August 10th. The members of the committee re port that the Third party sentiment is dying out in all the counties. Mississippi Floods. Press Despatches. New Orleans, June 3. The levee in front of the Bell Chase plantation on the right bank, fifteen ailea below the city, caved in early this morning and in a few minutes a crevasse any f.mr foot: wifle and fcix feet deep ttas iuu ' k rafrinir. The break will cause a gna to nmiY nl ant era on the lower j r coast. SEIGLE'S GRAND OIFrFTE Upon the receipt of fifteen cents with your name and postoflice address we will mail to von for one vear DO- . . r tage paid our Monthly Metropolitan Fashion sheet published by the But terick Publishing Company of Lon don, iingland and rtew xork. We also send our twenty page catalogue Ui A' asuiuua nuiuu to icaucu iuji ttuc9 a year Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. This Catalogue and a fash ion sheet every month sixteen copies in all mailed to you free for fifteen (15) a year. Many are unable to bay the high priced fashion journals and we offer this to our friends so that they can secure one that is first class for almost nothing. The fifteen cents just pays the postage so you see we make nothing on them; but we trast that those who become subscribers to the sheet will become customers of ours. That what we do it for an ad vertise'ment. Send 15o with ybnr name and address written plainly and get the fashion sheet for jSne year and four catalogues as they Tare issued. Address, T. L. SEIGLE&CO. y - ' Charlotte, K.jC. MR. DIXOX HELD TO ANSWER. What Ha Savs with RoSDCCt tO the Charge Against Him. The Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., form erly of North Carolina and now of New To k, se ms to have become in volved in a law suit there upon a charge of libtl. A special from New fork states that he was held in $1,000 bail in the Jefferson Market Court on a charge of criminal libel prefered by Excise Commissioner Joseph Koch, who claims that the reverend gentle men libelled him criminally in one of his recent sensational sermons. , Speaking of the action taken against him by Commissioner Koch, the Rev. Mr. Dixon is quoted as "saying: "I have set out on a twenty five years fight against Tammany Ha'.l. I do not mind this affair I was a lawyer before I was a miuister, and I know the law of libel. I wrote the prelude to my last Sunday's sermon two weeks J . . ... T 1 1 - r or more ago. At tnat ume, i neneve, the indictment against lvocu nad nos been dismissed. Bat, at any ratf, I meant that he stood indicted in the piblic mind, and I stand by it. I never printed the 'lalK in a namr.hlet or circular.' It was sent oat by a news agency, as all of my sermons are. Why, this man Koch was drunk at his own trial and rolled on the floor. Griffith's Items. For the Mecklenburg rimes. Miss Fannie Yarborough returned nine last Friday from a visit to 'aiends and relatives ip Charlotte. Miss Katie Kirkpatrick spent last. Friday and Saturday with Miss Minnie Yarborough. - Wo are glad to learn that Mrs. J. C. Brown of Sharon, who has been very sick, is fast improving. We have just learned tnai u. xx Robinson, who has been quite sick witn pneumonia is a iiuic uchci. . ... a , The Rev. G. K. White will preaca at his church (Ebenezai) next Sab bath at Bank's chapel at 3 o'clock. Misses Anna Porter and Minnis Bingham of Hebron are visiting Mrs. J. Hugh Griffith this week. The'Rev. J. C. Boyd will preaelt at Steel Oreek A. R. P. Church next Sabbath. Mrs. Isaac Weaver of Shopton a visiting relatives here this- week. Itch on human and horses and all animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool ord'a Sanitary Lotion. This never lib. Sjld by Burwell & Dunn. ' .1 :1 I - 1 1 CI sway. Wherever a Kman 4 1 1 t it'. i