North Carolina Newspapers

MECKLENBURG TIMES, CHARLOTTE, THUgg THE SOUTH A FACTOR. "That Section to Play an Important Tart in l$oi!i Conventions I'lan of the Anti-Me KiiiJ y Men. Tlit- South seems likely to be moat interesting factor both at St. Louis and at Cli.eag.). Her oe aie being co un a don to control both presiden tial nominations. But there will be alight made on the program in both -conventions. ' At Sr. Louis the anti-McKinley men will endeavor to stampede the Ohio candidate's .southern support. They think this po.-sible, and will bend all their energies to accomplish it. Mr. Sherman when a candidate was twice seriously crippled in that wav, and the opponents of Mr. Mc KinLy think the maneuver can asrain be successfullv executed. If. Ihey can secure a lumWr of dele gates in that way, and add them to their numbtr in New nuland. New Y rk, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, a protracted tight in the convention, Mnich is their hope of defeating My. McKinley, may be ii.augurated. j But in that event - the McKinley ! -men wiU demand an examination of; the poll, to show what their favor- J i v's eh ctoral-vote s rength is as j bompared with that 01 trie opposi ; ticn. They will insist that his sup port comes in the main from States giving Republican majorities at the polls, and hence with every right to ! be heard in the convention as to the ! candidate. They will take the ground , that a nomination miule b.v the cast ing votes of States reliab Ciatie ami almost it l t i Ll. cue ncKec ax cue pons -only b baa polio v, out perilous pol icy. Put up the man, they will insist, on whom the good Republi can strongholds look with the most pronounced favor, and for whose nomination they are recording them . selves in the convention. At Chicago the boot will be on the other leg The South will ap pear there as the section having the best right to speak. She will point to her record, and to the fact that Democratic success without ber would not be possible in any cir- cumstauees. In the circumstances which will then exist she will claim to be the only section where Democ racy may be said to be surely alive. The ticket and the platform there fore must be made acceptable to her She will not urge any candidate from her own borders. The man mav come from elsewhere: but he must be such an one, and placed" upon such a platform, as will insure him the hearty support of the sec tion to which he will have to look for so large a portion of any support be may get. The Southern men consider this .an altogether fair proposition found ed upon an u iHiisventble argument. "Why, they ak, --hould a ticket and a platform be made to suit the wishes of the Y ounuf Mt 11 s Democratic Club of Boston, or the Chamter of Commerce of New York, when loth Massachusetts and New York the former certainly will cut no figure, in the Democraiic column next No vember? On the other hand, why should not the caudidate and the platform be made to meet the wishes of thoie States which for years "have borne the heat and burden of the day," and which hold out at present the only hopo tt) H11 almost demoral ized organization 'i But, fair as the Southern nieu think it i, their proposition will be resisted. The sound money Demo 'Crats of the east know what it means, and they are preparing to defeat it if they can. They wili e deavor both to write the platform .nd to name the candidate, and in order to do so they will put without- hesitation the whole Republicun East against the whole Democratic South and take Cabarras County InTroabie. " "Plans are on foot i r a big law suit," said a citizen to a Standard reporter. '-'Lock Parish will i-nter suit and sue the board of county commissioners for the sum of $525, which whs refunded the Odell, Can non and (i. W. Patterson manufac turing companies, the money being what that body considered as unjust tax, but what the lasr Legislature imposed on corporations "Paris says he has all the backing he wants; that the 'citizens' of the county have selected him as prosecu tor and that thev will dve him am pie bond to carry on the proceedings. It 8 ?a:d that he has secured the ser vices of Campbel I Caldwell, of States vil!e. Senator Pi itchard and Morii son Ualdell, who will pit ad the ca-e.'' I And it is also paid that this case would have been left quiet had not Esquire Pitts been persecuted by the commissioners, who requested the ireuth man to moe his office from the room he occupied in thecouuty s court hoase, who h id leave of occu pancy for several monlhs, ample time in which h.' could have located hiiiiseif in a permanent rcoui. Con- j Cv-rd Suiiiiiaid. Carnegie's Itoyhood. In The Youth's Companion for April -od Andrew Carnegie tells how he served -his apprenticeship as a busine-s man. in an article which will D'-ove stimulating to everv boy ana stirring to every Irieuu or boys. Mr. Cernegie started in life as so many oilier successful men have done, without a penn; ; ml has amas sed a great fortune, which has b en wisely and generously drawn upon for scores of public purposes, des:ened to benefit h's f llownieu. Demo j in this article he has told the storv certain to reject ; 0f his early struggles and successes polls would not jn a delightful manner, which will make his paper an inspiration to every boy who reads it. The Companion for April 'MHh will contiiu an article on Ab r Day by Hon. J. St-rling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, who tirst co'icrived the idea of setting apart one day in the spring as a time of general tree planting. Each issue of The Com panion contains one or more articles of except onal value written by the ablest and best known men and wo men of t he age. Will Oult Making Cloth. Boston, April 14. The stock holders of the Lawrence Manufac turing Company today voted to dis continue the manufacture of cloth at the mills in Lowell, to reduce the J capital of the corporal i m one-half, from $1,500,000. to $;.";.o00, and to sell all real estate, buildings, &.c , in Lowell which will not be necessary for the manufacture of underwear, hosiery, and hosiery yarns This action will throw out of employment many of the mill hands. The ac tion was taken on the ground that the cloth goods mills could not be run at a prolit in compel i von with the Southern mills, with cheaper la bor and longer hours. Will Have Plenty of Campaign Money. Miltard .VJasten was lizard to say a few days ago, says a Republican, that it was all important that his side should control the county con vention, as that insured the election of Holton as chairman, that the lat ter would have plenty of campaign money and would give all the ftey- TO RUN IOO MILES AN HOUR. New Electric Locomotive for Railroad Pas senger Service. A monster electric locomotive has been built at Philadelphia, which it is said will be able to make an aer age of 100 miles an hour. This locomotive is a standard type for passenger service, and has been designed for service, such as is now handled by heavy steam 1 e 'motives. In its construction the pi includes of locomotive building followed by these works have been embed ed, which should render it a satisfactorv machine, and not in any se s an e peri mental one. Each one of the axles is cnpr1'! with a 200 horse-power motor, nd the four will be able to exe t I, (') horse power for a considerable pei od of time. The entire weight of the locouj ive will be about 150,000 nou. o. The under frame is of sei, wit! 1 heavy oak bumpers. The lloor i-o 'vered with a half-inch st el p ate over its entire surface, which is u.-ed to increase the stiffmss and S' ability of the structure. The wheels are forty-two inches n diam 1 eter. The motors are known as the single-reduction type, and are steel clad. In this type of locomotive the gearing regulates the speed. The length of the locomotive is thirty eight feet aud the width nine feet over al. The operating machinery is all placed upon the trucks, and the in leiior of the cab contains nothing but the controlling apparatus, so that a large amount of space is avail- able tor such purposes as carrying freight or baggage. As to the cost, a very material re duction will be made in this design over that of the Baltimore tunnel locomotivt s, which cot $50,000 each. The machine will cost less than .$20, 000, and it is designed to perform about the same work A second lo comotive is nearly completed, which is to be applied as a motor car upon the Manhattan elevated railway of New York. Mark Tw ain on Prohibition. Mark Twain has just concluded a lecturing tour in New Zealand. He said good by- t . t -e New Zealarr ders at Christ t hur.h, and in the course of his speech nude reference to prohibition, wh oh h said he ap proved, but which won d put them into most difficult straits. He then told the following story: In our country several years a 2:0 there was a man who came .into a prohibited town, and, unlike von savage -aere, they said to him: "You can't get a drink any where except at ti e apothecary's." So he went to he apothecary, . who said, "You can't get a drink here without a presort p: ion from the physician," but the man e aid, "I am perishing. I haven't time to geta prescription." The apothecary replied, "Well, I haven't power to give you a drink, except for a snake bite." The man said, "Where's the snake?" So the apothecary gave him the snake's ad dress, and he went off. Soon after, however, he came back and said, For goxlne.-s sake, give me a drink. I'h it snake is engaged for six months ahead. Westminster Ga .( t te. 1) engineer B. 8 miles. A.: "Is that really true?" "My dear fellow, I always tell the truth; but this is an absolute fact!" London Tid Bits. "Mamma, why do they call it the weather bureau?" "Because the top drawer is generally in such a fright ful mess, I suppose." Chicago Rec ord. Miss Goodly: "What's the matter, my poor man ? You look ill." Tramp 'Madam, something I haven't eaten has disagreed with me." London Truth. Happy Thought Poet (to editor): "I send you a poem, "Why Do I Live?' Please answer." Editor: "Because you send your poem by mail." Texas Si f tings. F ud ley: "Why is more poetry written in spring than at any other time of the year:" Scudley: "I suppose it is because marly every body feels sort of good for-nothing then." Washington Times. First Floor Manager: "Dat's an awful razor you have dah, Mis ah Johnsiu. Looks like it could cahve right through a man." Second Floor Manager: "Yes, sah. Pat's a Rontgin rays or, sah." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Circe," said the lecturer, "as you no doubt remember, turned men into "I wonder if she did it by u nolds faction some. One of Millards ; starting a street car line?" mused the A HI p of tho Hermitage Plantation We have ben shown by Capt. L Cherry, the well known civil n interesting map of Mr. mil iiurgwin s "Hermitage rianra- ti"o, wnicn lies in JNew nanover of uDt; , on each side of St George's Creek, and on both sides of the Wil mington and Weldon Railroad, be u .11 the sixth and ninth mile posts, .0 ig from the city. The tract con- 1 11$ ? 1 18 acres of land, and the date"? f each pa'ent, going: as far back us October 22, 1728, and ex tending up to 1896, are noted on the map. Ihe names of each purchaser, with the number of acres and the boundary thereon, are given, and all the creeks aud branches, bays aud swamps are marked in their course. There is also a sptcial plot of valu able phosphate deposit, which is em braced in twenty five, acres lying along the north side of the track of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad. I he foundation of the ancient man sion on the sound side of the creek is shown, and the old mill dam and the location of every house, cottage, school house, and church on the plantation is given. Wilmington .Messenger. The X Rayon Lycarcu". The lln. Demosthenes Lycurgus Russell has heard from Raleigh and he is in a state of mental torture. He has been retained in many im portant suits during his practice at the bar; but never before has his brain been taxed with so complicat ill .1 .1 ea a prooiem as tne one that now C TT comronis mm. nere are two prop ositions that occupy his mind from "early morn to dewy eve"' aud even during the "silent watches of the night:" First, what will the Demo- 1 .ill" j Li 1 cruts do at Lnicagor neconu, eau any sort of Iiep-i'ophcan fusion be "On these two baug all the law and the prophets." Now, ask the Hen. Demosthenes Lycurgus Russell if he will not enter a plea of nole conten dere in this case, and acknowledge that the Star's X rays have exposed his innermost thoughts. Wilming ton Star. J j I The largest piece of 00! tobacco ever sold fonocen and The 5 cent p' e is nearly large as you er or oxm high trades tor 10 cen FARM Eh Bring us Your our Tannery is now for Them. :o: 1 . 1 ! ! uearers asKea ir it would re sure enough money, or counterfeit? This raised Millaid's ,Dutch" and he called upon the fellow 10 say wheth er or not he meant to be personal in his remarks. Winston Sentinel. the consequence at the polls. They feel assured that the South will not holt, and, so believing, they will press their program as far as they may rind themselves with the power to press it. Washington Star. said just The Big Fisheries at Edenton. "The fisheries at Edenton," 3Ir. Herbert Jackson, who has returned trom the eastern nart of the State, "are a revelation to us who live inland. The steam seins are huge affairs, the one at this fish ery being three miles long, the rope included. The seine is carried out into the sound, a mile and a half from shore, by two steamers. The great net is then drawn to shore by steam power, and the tish are landed in smaller nets. Sometimes as many as ninety thousand herriug have been caught in a single haul at this fishery. Shad and herring are the principal cat ch- Mr. II G. Woods is the owner of this large fishery, and about fifty persons are employed in the enterprise. "The people who live in the inte rior have no idea of the immense jfishing interests of the State." New .JBerne Journal. 4 Big Log Raft. Another big log raft is soon to be made up in the Columbia River is to be towed down the coast to San Fran cisco. It is to consist of piles anion nt ihgto about 700,000 feet of lumber, board measure. If the raft reaches San Fiai ci (' intact the piles can be sold th iv 20 to 40 per cent, cheaper tliun if they were transport ed by schooners in the usual way. Those interested in the scheme say that experience with former rafts have enabled them to reduce the risk to a minimum, and they have no doubt that the big raft will reach San Francisco safely. Mrv. Weddington Gets $5,000. In the disposition of the estate of the late J. F. Van Pelt, of States ville. Mrs. W. M. Weddington, the wife of the Cabarrus Register of Deeds, falls heir to $5,000. He left to his housekeeper a large tract of land and an estate worth $35,000 to be divided between seven families, and Mrs' Weddington will get one seventh of that amount Concord Standard. An A wkwarri Question. The Washington Post asks the following conundrum: "How can the North Carolina Republicans fuse with the Populists and at the same time support a sound money man for the Presidency?'.' The Post is evi dently not aware of, nor familiar with the swallowing capacity of the North Carolina Republicans, or it would not ask such a question as this. Durham Sun. . woman who had hung to a i-trap all the way to the hall. Cincinnati En quirer. "We have decided to shoot you," said the Spanish official in Cuba to the prisoner who bad just been brought in. "But my nationality " "Oh, that's easily arranged. If we fiod that we have made a mistake we will apologize to your Government later." Chicago Post. Bettt-r Turn Him Loose. . The Spanish tyrants have made a great mistake in arresting Rev. A. J. Diaz, the Cuban evangelist. He is a naturalized American citizen and a Baptist through and through, and enjoys the respect and confi dence of that denomination to the fullest extent. He is a native Cre ole and is one of a family of 24 chil dren, all born to one mother. His arrest has excited much interest among the Baptists of Wilmington. He is working in Cnba as supervi sor of the Baptist Missions in Ha vana under the direction of Home Mission Board of the Southern Bap tist Convention whose office is in Atlanta. Wilmington Star. To Meet in Wilmington. The Baptists of Wilmington, N. C, have extended a cordial invitation to the Southern Baptist Convention to meet in the First Baptist church in that city in May, 1890, and have of fered to entertain free of charge the delegates to the convention during their stay there. For some years the question of free entertainment has been something of a problem since the convention has grown so large, and ic is almost certain that the in vitation of the Wilmington Baptists will be accepted when the conven tion meets in Chattanooga next month. TASTELESS EIHIDL TO IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTEE. PRICE SOcts. Gal ati a. Ills.. Not. ir i ' Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen: We sold last year, 600 bottles of iROVE'S TASTKLES8 CHILL TONIC and have bought three gross already this year. In all our ex perience of 14 years. In the dru? business, have never sold an article that gave such universal sails. taction as your Tonic Yours truly, ABNET. CAHR Jc CO. S L. ALEXANDER A CO. DrutrHsts. 207 W. Trade St.. Charlotte, N. C. u very armer n Ilicvcie Superstitions. Folks open to the influence of signs, omens, etc., should read the following list of bicycle supersti tions : "1. The wheelman who allows a hearse to pass him will die before the year is out. "2. To be chased by a yellow dog with one blue eye and one black eye indicates a bad rail. o m - il l 1 1 5. j.o see a smaii ooy wun a slungshot beside the road is aproph ecy oi a puncture. "4. If you pass a white horse driven by a red-haired lady, your rim will split unless you say cajan drum' add hold up two fingers "5. The rider who expectorates tobacco juice on the track will lose a country that spends cash for spoke. "0. If you take your machine to the repair shop it is a sign that you If you need anyUm line come ana Harness. SadfilJ Co Tars. ft: Bicycles, In tact everything in oil 4 - will be found in our new on Fourth Street. in Mecklenburg and adjoining SHAW-HOWELL TARl Cl Can't Be Bci buy that new suit of will not clothes. "7. Kicking the man who asks the make of your wheel is a sign of. Honors and riches within a year. "8. Lending the wheel is the sign of the double donkey. "9 To attempt to hold up a 275 pound woman learning to ride is the sign ol a soft spot." Lawyers as Our Holers. The President and cabinet are all lawyers except Mr. Lamout and Mr. Morton who are editors. The vocations followed by Sena tors are indicated as follows: Law yers, G4; business nien, 13; farmers, 3; doctors, 1; clergymen, .1; editors, 2; no data given, 0. The occupations followed bv Re presentatives are as follows: ".Law yers, 248; business men, 71; farmers, 19; editors, 9; doctors, 0; preachers, 4; printers, 3. Five give no data as to vocation. More than three-quarters of the Senate and ; more than two-thirds of the Houseware lawyers. his Hardware, will oo well to see our stock of cotton Vines Dowlaw cotton planters, trace i chains, plow stocks, etc. We have a general stock of hardware, tinware, cast iron ware, barbed wire etc. We have the goods that you want and the price? are right. Call and see us. J. I Weddington & Co. - 29 East Trade Street. n the 5'" l c;i:i i tune car. !H" Having made large pin ( bases cash, we are prepared to oiTer one largest and best stocks of Surrnvs Thnit.nne t-. Trip ever offered on this iikh ki t. We buy only reliable ol, ble manufacturers and fr ONLY, and can make a good work as any dealer We invite everybody amine our stock at an they want to buy or not. We know an exam in a our assertion: "That no 1 as good work for les ; can. Our Mr. J. Mc. Al -. pleasure in shovri,r stock at any time. Remember also that Hickory" farm wairon-. well known to need any ; ,l! It will pay you to sec : : 1 elsewThere. Goodhorses and nude. for sale. J.W.Wadswoitli'sSf c v M ii i( e 1 t il 3 tl i 6 h i 6 1 b 38 d re P h 31 3 1 1: 71 1 Cne' redo i V. .... i-.x - " Z. T ,