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THE ST&HD&RD. FRIDAY, - - March 21, 1890. Jas. P. Cook, Editors and B. E. Harris, J Proprietors. STANDARD XOTES. Cardinal Gibbons, of Balti timore. is a great walker. His dailv walk is 12 or 15 miles. V.tc-Gov. Holden was strick en with paralysis last week and is in a rather critical con dition. The Weekly State. Chronicle a most excellent State paper has been reduced in price from $2.00 to $1.2.r. North Carolina is said to be badlv behind when it comes to erecting monuments to her illustrious dead. The St. Louis Globe Demo crat is Republican in politics while the St. Louis Republic is Democratic. A hat s in name ? Some one has figured out that all the bills now before Congress and likely to pass will amount to an expenditure of $1,021,500,000. The State Treasurer of Mis sissicm is short in his ac counts I334.G12. What a pity the crime of embezzlement is becoming more common in the South, where it was formerly almost unknown. It is reported that a detec tive has discovered Walter Bingham, the deaf mute who killed his sweetheart, Miss Turlington, also a deaf mute, several years ago. If the de tective is right, he is now in Antwerp, Germany. The nomination of A. W. Shaffer as postmaster at Ral eigh was confirmed last week by the Senate. It has been a long and bitter fight, and al within the Republican party Of course all the opposition clique are now "disaffected. Wanamaker has given up his contemplated visit to the Soutii. Perhaps it is best. Of course there was no persona danger in it, but he would probably have been given a cold reception by the Southern people. Certainly he was en titled to such. The colored Republicans are to have a kicking conven tion at Greensboro April 9th. Their grievance is lack of rec ognition at the hands of the administration, and yet they have had more recognition by this administration than any previous one. They must want the earth, and they wouldn't be able to hold it either. Mr. F. B. Dancy, a gradu ate of the State University, who has for some time had in Raleigh a chemical laboratory has been offered the position of Chemist to the Minnesota station, and Professor in the Agricultural College of that State. This is quite an honor to a North Carolinian. It is said that Prince Bis marck has resigned as Chan cellor, and that his resignation has been accepted by the young Emperor. If this is true, there thus retires from public life one of the most noted personages of modern history. Few men, of modern times, perhaps none, have left so deep an impress upou his tory as this German. The trial of Reginald Birch all for the murder of Fred Benwell is exciting great in terest in Canada. Birchell pretended to be running an agricultural school for young Englishmen, of whom Benwell , was one, and would take them into the wilds of Canada to show them land, and they would never be heard of again. Robbery is supposed to have been the aim. We are exceedingly sorry to learn that W. E. Christian is to retire from the Charlotte Democrat. He has accepted a position on The Press,of Phil delphia. His retirement will be a loss not only to The Dem ocrat but to the State. We were first interested in Mr. Christian as the son-in-law of the immortal Stonewall Jack son, but soon found that he was interesting on his own ac count. Being a young man of brain and brilliancy withal, he soon took a high rank among the editors of our State. We wish him much success in the wider field of journalism that will soon be open tohim. THE SCHOOL BOOK TRUSl. The school book Trust is one of the latest. It is given as a fact by the New York World that several of the leading firms now publishing school books have entered into a trust. The ultimate result of such as combination is not only higher prices for school books, but a deteri oration in quality. Thauks to a lively competition among the several enterprising publishers, each of which wanted to have the best books, and with this in view, contracted with leading educators everywhere for books in special lines, our schools in the United States have been sup plied with the best books, and at very reasonable prices. In their anxiety to please their customers and get the lead in books they have caused the authors in their service to study the special needs of our people, and the result is a line of school books that in text and typog raphy perhaps lead the world. Un der the Trust just organized, the will be different. Thev will have such power that smaller pub lishing houses not in the ring will be either forced into the Trust, or forced out of business. New firms will of course not enter the field, books of a cheaper quality will be used, and the great stimulus of com petition being overcome, the quality will not be kept up to the present high standard; at least progres where there is need of it, will be to a large extent hindered. Now what is to be done about it? Shall we tamely 6ubmit to it, or shall we address ourselves to the task of resisting this conspiracy so far as we are concerned? There is a well known adage, Fight the Devil with fire; and when it comes to such a pass that nothing else will move the old gentleman, we heartily sub scribe to it. If no other means will do, and the results of the new com bination are as seen now to be clearly foreshadowed, let each State get np a counter trust, and publish the school books for its own schools. This is substantially the plan that was diseased by some of our con temporaries some time ago. As it was urged then upon different grounds, we opposed it, and would reiterate our opposition under the same circumstances. But in the light of recent developments, with the formation of another trust,which always has for its purpose the en richment of a few at the expense of many, we are willing to favor this or any other feasible plan that promises relief from a scheme that has as its basis the subversion of the great law of supply and demand. . NATIONAL UNFAIRNESS. Mrs. Gen. Stonewall Jackson has applied for and been granted a pen sion, of $8 per month, dating from January 29th, 1887, for her hiis baud's services in the Mexican war. It is a burning shame that the wid ows of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and D. II. Hill, who stand as peers among the heroes of the world, should draw from a govern ment that pretends to be generous t j its defenders.the small pittance of $S per month. This is partisan par simony with a vengeance. This very fact, the glaring injustice of our government in granting unnecessa rily, princely pensions to Federal soldiers of the uorth, in order to gain their votes, and granting to the noble defenders of our country against a foreigu foe, mere pittance, is enough to disgust any one with the gratitude of Republics. The reason of the distinction is very plain. Most of the soldiers and nearly all the officers of the Mexican war were from the South, and of course it would be "encouraging re bellion" to vote liberal pensions to any Southerners, though their prowess were unsurpassed, and the United States gained in that war a large and most valuable part of her territory. It is a shame, a burning shame':! And in spite of the'fact that the South and her representatives have always been in favor of reason able pensions being given to North ern soldiers. The distinguished of. ficers of the Mexicon war are treated with less consideration by the gov ernment than common soldiers of the late war. NO TAX FOR COTTON SEED LARD. There is now before Congress a bill to tax all lards except the pure hog lards. We hope it will not pass. Accordirg to the testimony of of the "hog" experts before the congressional investigating commit mittee, the pure hog lard is about the most impure thing used in cook ing. It is pure hog lard, that is it is made of nothing but hog, but the misfortune of it is they use the whole hog, and the only preparation of the hog is simply the killing The compound aud imitation lards are made mostly of cotton seed oil. a pure vegetable product, the use of which gives a new market for our cotton seed, and to that extent puts more money iu the farmers' pockets The Alliance in Iowa is working up and are going into the co-opera-? live store business. DROPS OF Tar, Pilch and Turpentine from the Old Nortn Stale. In-.roe has a Shakespeare Club. Oxford has a horological school. Tarborough has a Library Asso ciation. Winston is to have a fertilizer factory. The Register says Monroe's popu lation is 2,500. Senator Vance is at Gombroom for a few days. Monroe wants a cotton factory and "wants it bad." Bladen county has just finish ed paying off a debt of $34,000. Goldsboro, Durham and Raleigh are angling for the Davis Military School. Raleigh is to have a new ice fac tory that will turn out 15 to 20 tons of ice daily. The Patriot says that $600,000 capital is in sight for the Steel and Iron company. It is estimated that 10,000 mail packages pass through the Raleigh post office daily. Goldsboro claims a cow that has in the hist five years given 11,520 quarts of milk. A $30,000 saw mill plant is to be put up soon at Morehead City by Northern capitalists. Haywood county farmers have this year received more than $300, 000 for their tobacco crop. In thirty days the output of coal at the mine in Egypt, Chatham county, will be 200 tons per day. North Carolina has nineteen national banks with a capital of $2,426,000, a trifle for so large a State. A. L. Ferrell has bought a half interest in the Raleieh Visitor. It will uow be conducted by brown & Ferrell. The Graham Shoe Company, of Asheville, says, the Democrat, has a a capital of $50,000 and turns out 300 pairs of shoes per day. Rev. Thomas Hume, of the Uni versity will deliver the annual ad dress before the Franklin Literary Society of Horner School. Gus Morrison, of States ville was thrown on a saw in a saw mill, Fri day, but escaped with having the toes of one foot trimmed off. Madison county is to have a new paper this week The Madison News. It will be edited by Phil. A. Peatros3 and will be Democratic. A bill appropriating $30,000 for improving and enlarging the public building at Greensboro has been favorably reported by the committee. State Treasurer Bain reports that $1,100,000 of the old debt of North Carolina has been funded into new 4 per cents leaving only $1,600,000 of the old debt outstanding. Capt. E. E. Everett, of the Caro lina Central has invented a con trivance to prevent box cars from leaving the track wnen they leave the rails. It is said to be very good. The South Piedmont Land and Improvement Company was organ ized last week at Greensboro with a capital stock of $50,000 with the privilege of increasing it to 1500, 000. Monroe Register: Rev. J. W. Little, of Buford township, has a pecan tree 70 feet high, which bears a full crop of pecans. He has planted twenty young pecan trees this winter. Wheeler, the fellow who so bra tally murdered George Lemon in Jauuary, will be tried at Ashboro next week. He will be defended by that ugly but brainy lawyer, M. S. Robbins. Sanford Express. Shelby Aurora : The Wiley Prn ett 8 team flour and grist mills, now owned by Mr. Jos. T. Bostic, of Asheville, were destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The mills and 100 bushels of wheat were consumed. Miss hate McQueen, the-twelve year-old daughter of the late Rev. Martin McQueen was most painfully burned on last week. While stand ing in front of the fire her dress caught and before it could be ex tinguished her body was painfully though not seriously burnt San ford Express. The Davidson Dispatch learns that Mr. John W. Mauney, of Salis bury, is a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for solicitor of this district and that Mr. Long, who it truly says, "has made a faithful and fearless officer," is a candidate for re-nomination. Clinton Caucasian : A certain farmer in this county, losing a quantity of meat during the hot weather, took it off and buried it. A few days after a negro told the farmer that he liked spoiled meat, whereupon the farmer said that he was welcome to it if he would go and dig it np. The negro did so and was surprised to find that the taint had entirely left the meat, be ing entirely absorbed, we suppose, by the earth. He informed the farmer who took the meat back to his house and is now using the same. Washington Letter. From our Regular Correspondent.! Washington, March. 17, lfc'JO. The death of William Preeion Tanlbee, the ex-Representative shot by Charles E. Kincaid, correspond ent of the Louisville Times, makes one of the most distressing murders that Washington has known in many years, me murderer is prostratea by the result of his act and in his frail health and excitable temper ament his physicians fear that he will die before the case can be tried. The feeling of Kentuckians here is much divided. One would suppose at first from the newspaper accounts that sympathy was all with Kincaid but now tbat it is established that he persued his man and shot him before he could turn, sympathy is going the other way. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge introduced his long talked of Fed eral election bill in the House Sat urday. The bill has the essential features of the Australian ballot system and provides for the Federal supervision of elections. The sys tem now in force in Massachusetts is made applicable to the entire country in congressional and presi dential elections. Each polling place is put in charge of six judges or su pervisors, three representing each political party. Votes who cannot read or write may have tickets mark ed by one supervisor in the presence of another of the opposite party. Primarily the elections are in con. trol of the States, but upon the pc tmon or nve iiunureu voters in any district the Federal government will take absolute control. On this clause the fight will belong and hot. J? roni tne day the last excursion boat on the Potomac ties up late in fall until the spring morning when the whistles sound again, the aver age Washingtonian, he of limited resources and boundless desires on Sundays, stays late in bed. The Sabbath sun has looked scornfully down the deserted streets for good three hours catching only glimpse of an occasional policeman or a be lated rounder, an early milkman or an enterprising news boy, before the town gets up. And whether he look out through cracked window panes or through lace curtained French plate the citizen votes that it will be, like all Sundays at the Capital a dull day, that is, he so votes if he be a worldly citizen. It has come to be locally a proverb that Washington is a dull town on Sunday. The stray visitor from New Orleans tells yon so with many sighs for the matinee and the Lake, and the shell road. The St. Louis man, bitter from loss of the fair, en dorses him. The Cincinnati tourist longs for his native hill-tops. The New Yorker is lost in astonishment Washington is voted a dull town on the Sabbath. To him who is not lost to the beauties of a May morning gracious ly given to windy March, the sub urbs and the road houses beyond offer some compensation. The wheel men know this and while the majority of mankind stop at home and grumble they are away over the hills, over roads full of historic rem iniscences, to Teiialytown, Bladens burg, or ancient Alexandria, fast asleep between the sluggish Potomac and the Virginia hills. It is night fall before these silent wheels again strike the magnificent city streets, bringiug a thousand glimmering rows of lauterns, like meteors, flash ing through the shadows. The citizen who goes abroad on horseback, and he is generally ac companied by the citizens, enjoys the day and has the additional ad vantage of knowing that this fad is in full fashion. There are few cities in this country that contain more good riders, perhaps uo city of the same population. The members of the foreign legations set the style, and the riding academies have done yeoman service in developing the riding talent that slumbered unde veloped in society. What of the rest of mankind and womankind who are not devoted to au orthodox observance of the day and who remain in town? They walk hard and long. Up Connecticut avenue, out in George town, about the hotels, down Penn sylvania avenue, over on Capitol hill, they wander like uneasy spirits. Their chief summer joys, going down the river on excursions and going up the river rowing, are not yet open to them. So they must needs walk. And the character of the crowds vary. Between lower Pennsylvania avenue and Connecticut avenue on a sunshiny winter afternoon, there is the difference between content and misery, the difference between the ius and outs. About the down town hotels is a large sprinkling of shuf fling shabby gentility, confident or abashed as the case may be, but ob viously shabby. A Republican appointed to a $4, 500 Federal office in New York last week by Mr. Harrison is a defaulter for a large amount to the govern ment. The defalcation occurred in Washington city some years ago. A Terrible Accident. Asheville, N. C, March 17. W ws has just reached this place of a horrible accident near Hot Springs, Madison county. A twelve-year old son of S. D. Chamber, a highly re spected farmer, accidentally shot and instantly killed his mother. The father had been to Hot Springs, bringing home with him a valise with some articles for the family in it. He put the valise down in the house and stepped out When the lad looked into it to see what his father had brought him, he found a pistol, and said to his mother: "See what pa brought home." The pis tol was discharged, the ball striking his mother in the breast Her only words were: "Oh, Lord, you have killed me," Tue J ate Trnat. Progressive Farmer. One of our exchanges has the fol lowing to say about the jute trust: "The jute coinbiuation has dressed itself in a new name 'The Ameri can Manufacturing Company.' Eight mills are in the new pool, with a ca pacity of 31,300,000 yards. Four teen mills are independent, with a capacity of 30,009,000 yards. The jute men were greatly amused when the farmers laid down the flag, and they are realizing the trnth of the saying, 'He laughs best who laughs last'" This sounds a little queer. Less than twelve months ago we were told that only one mill was outside the trust Now it seems that- eight mills are still in the combine and fourteen are "independent" That is a neat game, Mr. Jute Trust But we are on to your racket. By June or July there will only be two or three mills "in the trust" all the others will be trying to serve the "dear people." Our understanding is that our Southern farmers have solemnly given their word that they will use cotton bagging or some sub stitute other than jute. It was de cided at the St Louis meeting that cotton bagging would be furnished much lower this season on account of the certainty of the manufactur ers finding sale for it. At any rate, it seems that we are in for another fight and we should make prepara tious at once. The General Conference. State Chronicle. The General Conference of the M. E. Church, South, meets in St Louis May 7th. It will remain in session about twenty days. It will decide upon readjusting the boundaries of Conferences having territory in North Carolina, namely, the Virginia Con ference having territory in North eastern North Carolina, and the Holston Conference having territory in Western North Carolina. The N. C Methodists hope to secure all the territory lying in the State and then to carve out two Conferences, but if the territory is not ceded they ask for a division of the Conference as it is now constituted. The N. C. Conference will memorialize the Gen eral Conference to make several changes in the law of the church. Among them: 1. To allow unordained ministers to administer the sacraments of the church when in charge of pastoral work. 2. To authorize the Joint Board of Finance to disburse the funds for superannuated ministers or their families according to the term of service rendered by the ministers. 3. To change the law in reference to the organization of Boards of Mis sions, and to provide for a President of the Board to be appointed by the Bishop, upon consultation with the Presiding Elder selection to be made from the entire body of the Conference, the object being to per fect a better system of promoting the cause of Missions in each Confer ence. The commencement at Dayidson College this year will be a week ear lier than heretofore, that is on the 12th of June. Dr. G. B. Strickler, of Atlanta, Ga., will preach the Baccalaureate sermon on Sabbath before commencement, and Dr. J. S. Watkins, of Raleigh will preach the sermon to Y. M. C. A. on Sabbath evening. Mr. Towusend, a promi nent lawyer of Union, S. C, will deliver the annual oration before the two Literary Societies, on Wed nesday before commencement day. Arrangements will be made with railroads for reduced fare, and it is expected . that ample accommoda tions will be provided for visitors at next commencement. Altogether it is hoped that the coming commence ment will be a brilliant and inter esting affair. Charlotte Chronicle. i A Lady's Perfect Companion. Our new book by Dr. J. II. Dye, one of New York's most skilled physicians, shows that pain is not necessary in childbirth, but results from causes easily understood and overcome. It clearly proves that any woman may become a mother with out suffering any pain whatever. It also tells how to overcome and prevent morning sickness and the many other evils attending pregnancy. 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Jeans, Cassimers, Dress Goods, Plaids, Shirting, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Cheese, Crackers, Canned Goods, Bacon, Pepper, npices, soda, Snuff &Tobacco Remember that these goods ARE FOR SUE and for the cash you can buy them at prices never Dei ore known m uoncora I will still be in the market to BUY YOUR COTTON and sell you Acid and guano. Always can te see me at Allison s comer. C. G. MONTGOMERY. Jan. 10, '90. 1 865. 1 890 fan's Drug Store began business September 13, 1865, and if it had not been for the war it would, doubt less, have entered upon its brilliant and successful career a few years earlier. Age and experience count for a great deal in business. A man that devotes 25 years of his life to to one avocation cert linly, to say the lease of it, displays considerable tenacity of pur pose and the fact that he has, for a quarter of a century, been able to keep his head above water, shows really, life is too short to pursue this train of thought anv farther. 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