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STANDARD, lU(;KT PAPER T-.i;iU IN CONCORD - rip1' . .- vTVlNs MORE HEADING u'iTTKK 'MAX AVY OTHER MrArKK 1X THIS SECTION. SIMM ' XEGROEJ. ion- oniouclatoro Thst Orl. C'. i.. ! Old Plantation Lire. IB"1 nf course, on every plantation several negroes of the .a.. ..iv tiit nrr 8 mace luerewas . , , i 11 tb-x'sller Liza, an' Black Liza an f fved Liza, an' Unker Big Jake, ,' Iiitle Jake an' Unker Knock 1 Jake. There were in one , three generations of Bens, all "l c, of 8 mental or physical P..,';'fc The old man. who had ? -lifted in the heal by a mule, V1" rtU.V. X" l"?u uajra ami n.-nr all his nights standing it. . w:.. j... i ' ! Ill Oil J China tree preaehiug u..h imk'uieut day. He was Unker S'iUpii 1U3 Bon. a , n .. Hij arm a. mifi.ilA aged l .u...t.,l with nn nlr thnt. ij'eliini lauie, was Unker Hoppin Sii TtJt grandson, who trembled t ihe pa'sy, and besides was .e winded, was Unker Chilly .Iriul tr 1r nnv urnrlr a.rni iuaereil about the place without S or hindrance. it the close of the war a large ma JU of th Southern negroes as SK the name of the Family to Xh thev belonge 1, getting it fear fi''v twisted MMiietimi, as for in-I;,'-, -e Grim for Giubuiu. Buakey farow- etc me went bk in March of rauiy. u their Ker owners m Vidian, or Caro- who hud either lost them EWhdebt or raised them to be o a to the negro speculator, who brought them further south to be wfd again to work the cotton and e plantation. I" this way you Snow find the grandfather of a family bearing the name of his old masUr in Virginia, tl e son that of bis owrer at the dcse of the war, while the grandson assumes some fanciful name suggested by circum stance?. So I know an old man -Vliug himself Jim Sanders.. Hib ,on is Jim James, Jr. There is not nor ever has been aJiui James, Sr. H:s sor, pgain. is Jim Grandson. t'peii the i lantatious you s-till occa rota k come across t.'ie once famil iar niiuios of Srnbo, Cutty, Dinah, Sukev, ptc. Iut very raie-y even tVre". (irandisons. Mortimers, Lei las etc.. have taken their places. 15ib!e ume. w ith explanatory pre ticsiu l sutlixes, are great favorites iacus the devout port-' on of the ne cto community. The man who works my gardf n is King David Johnsing. Jl'v woodcutter is Rev. Solomon V'isemau. wiio, like St, Paul, does BotdisJaiu witti his own hands to minister to his necessities. Besides these 1 number among my acquain tance Rev. Simon Surrender and HolvTaheruaele, Brother John the Bautiat Tubbs and Elder William 'meslass. a somewhat iutemperate name lor the calling. Amoncr the wore .wiilar are Mr. Jack Hvena aaJ Prince Albert flardtimes, a tappy eiUulify betwet-n the aristo crat &hd the" plebian. The lusty young lit jro nun who, with Web ster's spelling book and a hickory, teaches the colored idea how to shoot, has chosen the name of Prof Sam Cape of Good Hope A black Vuican, hammering sparks from his Mvil, dubs himself Sampson Light ting. Ihe butcher's boy, who comes whistling into the yard wit!: hi- '... ket nnoa his arm and Lhs i.ti-e as b!ack s ebonv. answers to tLo ii .uie ofIorv Temii'e. A little colored female tramp iron the country, wlm tomes to me once a week, toiiu' a bund e o? lighter'd on ber head, which she offers to exchange for a 'nick or two empty flasses" (flasks), announces herself as Miss Annilizer Purse. An empty purse, evidently, for she never fails to wind up the trade by askine, " Viu't yer got notb in't eatytr kin eive me ?" Phila. Times- Thr (nlritrrnte President and Ilin FamilyTheir Motlnt Ntjl of Liv. In(. In the October number of Bel ford's Magazine, Admiral Porter, in u article on "President Lincoln's Entrance into Richmond," refers to visit made to the mansion occupied by President Davis and family, while MiatgeJ ia discharging the duties of his high station. . the Admiral says : "In a short time v e rem bed the mansion of Mr. If'Via, President of the Southern toijfed.racy. It was quite a small 3ir, compared with the White House, and modest in all its appoint ineutB, showing that while President iMviH whs eugaffed h art and soul in t-nuYavoring to effect a division of the States, he was rot at least sur loundiuj; liiujself with regal style, hut was living in a modest, comforta ble way, like any other citizen. Amid all his surroundings, the re ue l taste of his wife was apparent, and marked everything about the apartment.1' li is kuovu that President Davis alwisys preferred simplicity to show, and that Le never indulged in ex tiaviuices of any kind. Il;s name and his fame now be j'Ji'g to history, and the impartial hist'iiiiin will do him justice. !! was the Chief of the greatest war titljtr of ancient or modern liints, m,j hia coutrymen of the pout: sHcriticed all, but their nonor, in the cause which, if not successful, Las been made ever glorious by lutir valor, and enshrined in our Stints by their heroic suffeiiny. -Vot Worth Dnm . I'aiii is a small brass coin current i" I'ern'a uud India, and equivalent i!ue to opp fortieth of a rupiya, r rupee, or about a cent. The nhrase "not worth a dam," was used by Englishmen trading in the East to express their Bense of the utter worthh ssness of a thing j in Eng- mi, uowever, owing 10 ignorance (f i ' s origin and meaning, it suffered criLogiaphical profanation, and ft ue to Kiuiiifv a thin&r of so small account us not to be worth the waste cf breath involved in damning it. itecentlv an AniAricar. from the VeHt, while taking a glass of wine in the Munich Ratnbaus Heller, re nai ked to his companion : "I don't care a continental dam'" His men hl spelling of the word wag doubt damn, although the expression s real v svnonvmoua witn conti Jjei.tal red." "continental farthing" 0r ."tip," and would have no senBe unless it referred to some coin ot small value.-E. P. E., in the Na tion. !t has been found that a yellow &c.i.t'a sting ia gnpep-charged witl Ui penper tea. 54 1 at sik'U thii.gs, used various and i;.r sobriquets to distinguish The Cheapest and VOL. III. NO. 43. Rev. Walter S. Creasy REPLIES TO KEY. DR. PRITCH ARD'K ARTICLE OX SAX JOXES. A Time When llene Cenea lobe Virtue The Doctor's Statements Controverted and Ilia Arguments Replied To Sam Jones and Ills Methods and Manners Defended. TLere come times in the lives and histories of men and churches when silence ceases to be a virtue. In the humble judgment of the writer one of those times has arrived in the city of Wilmington as regards the preach ers and people called Methodists. Dr. T. II. Pritchai d.a man for whom I have had the highest regard, with whom I have labored in the vtrious matters which we believed in com mon to be for the good of our people, a man whose age, experience, wu dom and position I honor, and to whom I have been and ever shall be 'eady to give my hand and hearty co-oporation in every good word and work, has on three or four dif ferent occasions, in the public prints, seen fit to criticise and disparage our Brother Sam P. Jones to the detri ment, as far as his influence extend, ed, to the meeting of the Methodist church in Wilmington. We bore this in eilence, choosing rather to suffer wrong than, to wrangle and perhaps cause some poor sinner to be lost, excusing himself f r m his duty, by saying the christian minis ters did not agree themselves ; and had Dr. Pritchard held his peace, the past would have been forgotten, and this article would never have been written. But he sees fit to re vive the whole matter, to tear open afresh the wound that we hoped was healing. Nay more, he seems to challenge all who think differently with him to show a reason for their thi iking, to which task wc now ap ply ourself. The Doctor says: "More than a year ago, it was proposed by a mem ler of the Evangelical Alliance of this city to invite this celebrated evangelist to hold a meeting here, that he distinctly declared that he could not co-operate with him. He says Dr. Iloge agreed with him, and he thinks at least one other member of the Alliance. Now the Doctor's thinking was not very clear about that other one member. No other member expressed himself opposed to the invitation. The lapse of ' more than a year ago" has further beclouded the Doctor's thinking. I was the member who proposed the coming of Brother Jones, and the Kcenes and words of that day and hour are not easily forgotton by me. Dr. Pritchard did not oppose nor did Le advocate his coming. He wu3 mute as to where he stood. Dr. Hoge opposed it aid made a talk against it. which of course he had a right to do. The members prtsent oil this occasion will bear testimony to this fact. Let me say farther that several months later, about two weeks before Jones came to Char- ilvnte, Dr. Pritchard said to me: "I wish vou people would get Jones to come here, I want to' hear him." I answered: "We are tryiug, and will do fo as early as possible. Ihe Doctor will not deny this. lie savs again: "Ix-tit be remem bered that he was invited here by his Methodist brethren (and of course if he has done so much harm ai the Doctor claims, we his Meth odist brethren are responsible for it W'Al. we are not ashamed of the work he did in this city) and not oy the Alliance "as was Mr. Pearson." The question was sprung in the Al liance and the unanimous aecision was that the Alliauce did not call Mr. Pearson, they only agreed to co operate. He was called betore tne A hanre had a beinz or even ine preacher's meeting. He savs again: 1 . . hi i And indeed he was cane.i nere against the protests of at least two meailera of the Alliance. LAI us see. Who does he mean? I sup- nose he moans Dr. Hoge and him self. They were the only men who belonged to the Alliance who wrote noTAinst Jones. But let us see. lie says th.it the Alliance did not call him; would have nothing 10 uo wun him. It was the iuetnociisi, urein ren, and -et two of the members, ac cording to the Doctor, are protest ing against his coming and thus in- o. .. ....... l 11 terfenng with matters tnac me Al liance has washed its hands of. But we will aoply the Doctors own rule to this matter. He said on a former occasion when Brother Pearson was invited here, and he was oppposed by a minister of this city througn the press, that a man wno uiu not belonz to ths Alliance or who was not engaged in the worK ougnc at least to keep quiet and let the work goon, rromnisown bumiujiuiuk i ask the Doctor how he stands to- j ward us in this matter. But let us see. is it a ract inai ioiies uiuiit- here under the protest of at least two members of the Alliance ? We shall see, and I will let the "Record Book" of the Evangelical Alliance speak for me on this matter. "May 20th, 1890, Rev. W. S. Creasy stated that by reason of the action of some prominent members of the Evan gelical Alliance in opposing in pub lic print the visit of Key. Ham Jones to Wilmington for the purp se of holding a series of meetings after an invitatiou had been extended him to do so by the Methodist churches of the city, it became his unpleasant duty to sever his connection with the Evangelical Alliance. Rev. T. II. Pritchard and Rev. P. II. Hoge, whose statement in public prints were specially referred to, not being present, Rev. R. E. Peele Euggested that the brethren withhold action in the matter until a meeting in which these two gentlemen should be pre Best Weekly E 11 A sent This suggestion was favorably ! received and the Alliance adjourned to meet at the call of the president, j Jnne 9th 1890; after the reading of the minutes, ths object of the meet ing was presented by the president, who stated that the matter under discussion at the last meeting, the resignation of Rev. W. S. Creasy from the Evangelical Alliance, would be discussed. He stated again his reasons for tendering his resignation, which were as reoord(d in the min utes of the previous meeting. (See above.) Rev. P. II. Hoge stited that the expression of opinion had been made by him, unconscious of the fact, that the Methodist churches of the city had invited Rev. Sam. Jones to hold a meetiug in our city, and that had he known this fact he should not have allowed his opinion to have appeared in public print, .ft n extended disscussion followed in which t-ach one present participated, which resulted in the following agreement : That the matter should remain in statu quo until the close of the meetings of the Rev. Jones in Wilmington under the auspices of the Methodist churches of the citv. and that the resignation of the breth ren should be withheld until that time, on condition that the brethren whose criticisms have called forth tie discussion should attend Mr. Jones meetings sufficiently to give nun a lair hearing." That is the record. Dr. Hoge did not protest. What did Dr. Pritch ard do ? He was not at any of those meetings, though when some of them were held he was in or about the city. His brethren of the Alliance seemed sure that he would agree to this, and so they vouched, it would seem from the record, for him. How well he met their expectation, the reader must judge. He says he was under no obligations to co-operate with him or to even hear him. (The Alliance according to the records thought he was.) He says at the request of the Methodist pastors of the city he went to hear him twice. We were glad to see the Doctor at the meeting, he was, is, and always will be welcome at our meetings, but outside of the agreement of the Evangelical Alliance. I knew of no special invitation to the Doctor, as we felt that sufficient. Does he claim that he was invited outside the Alliance agreement? If not, will he claim that he attended the meetings sufficiently to give him a fair hearing? Many who were not pleased for several times hearing were very much pleased when they had heard him oftener. We are not discussing the difference of opinion between the Doctor and Sam Jones oh doctrine. It is natural they should not s:e alike along those lines belonging, to the different denomi nations they do, but we have worked together and differed in doctrine, and the Doctor might have borne with Uncle Jones as he has with some of his weaker brethren. He says: "I do not call in ques tion the piety of Sam Joneior im pugn his motives." Farther on in his article he says, "As a lecturer he would be superb, and as a boon companion delightful." Let us put those sentences in the scales and weigh them with other utterances of the Doctor's. " When he makes a good hit he pauses to note its effect and twirls his mous'ache or scratch s his head." One would think this was striking at vanity, a motion to g.in applause. The "Doctor says: "Instead of pointing sin-sick souls to the Savior, to obtrude his own little personality in such flippant slang, seemed to me little short of sacrilege. He was somewhat less smutty here than in Charlotte, but he said enough in Wilmington to outrage propriety, common decency and goxl morals." Yet he would make a superb lecturer and boon companion. He says, " that he was vilified in some of the papers and private correspondence for styling Sam Jones a vulgarian and black guard. After a fuller acquaintance with him I am sorry to say that I cannot withdraw those charge?, on the contrary I must add to them one still more serious, that of prof nity. "Superb, lecturer, boon companion." "I do not call in question his piety or impugn his motives." Now if the Doctor will explain how a man who is all he siys Sam Jones is, in the above remarks, can be a delight ful boon companion, when a man in his private comnanionships is ex pected not to lie quite so pre cise as when .in his public expresssonp, I will bo obliged. The Doctor's idea of a boon compan ion is somewhat different from the writer's. He says "Mr. Jones was able to benefit several hard cases that the ministers could not reach but Mr. Pearsou many more.'' And far ther he says, "I think it is just, how ever, to consider other agencies, in the meet'ng besides those of Mr. Jones personally, which contributed largely to its results, Mr. Stuart's preaching. Several hundred godly men and women who had been pray ing for weeks, the singing of Excell and Bowden." Granted. But Doc tor, you forget, in your comparison, that there had been no general union meeting in this city for years before Mr. Pearson came, and that bis sweeping revival, (for which I shall ever thank God and bless Him that I was permitted to work in it) gath ered in a large quantity of wheat that was ready for the garner, and a comparatively short while has elap sed since his meeting. The prepara tion was well nigh perfect Seven congregations handed themselves with the r seven pastors for the worjc There was one month's i reaching at the various churches. Prayer meetings were suspended and Newspaper at the Low Price of SI Per CONCORD, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER everybody followed the preparation meeting. Singing Ys, all the singing talent of the seven congrega tions, practicing, getting ready and singing when the meeting began. After the meetings for half an hour or an hour all the preachers and many laymen and godly women working Yet Mr. Pearson (and God knows I honor and love him and would not take one laurel from his brow or star from his crown if I could) is to have all the honor for what was done in his meeting, but Jones must stand back and let every one else come for their share first I do not believe that saintly, godly man, Mr. Pearson himself, would think it a fair comparison. The Doctor says: "Let it be re remembered that he was invited here by his Mtthodist brethren and not by the Alliance." So the Metho dists bad to call ; they had to build; they had to hold preparatory meet ings ; they had to assume all respon sibility ; they had to endure all the bitter sarcasms and thrusts of Jones' enemies, and yet his meeting is to be compared to Mr. Pearscn's. Let me say here that for every word of encouragement and sympathy, for every dollar for every voice that helped us sing outside of our church we are profoundly grateful and shall forever be thankful, but the facts were demanded, since the Doctor made this comparison. He says : "That on one occasion he turned to the preachers and said : 'You fat lazy rascals, why were you not here at the early prayer meeting, trying to save souls instead of taking your morning nap?"' The Doctor thinks this was terrible, and that Jones was assuming the roll of dic tator. Well, I asked him to speak to the preachers about the early meeting. There were some forty or fifty here and from three to five out at the early meeting. The preach ers felt that he was right and they were wrong, if they were well. They did not complain. Again the Doc tor says: "Jones said: 'I expect to be at the judgment and to hear the excuses of some of the pastors of this city for not helping in this meeting.' " "The intimation," the Doctor says, "seemed to be that he not only expected to be at the gen eral judgment, but to be a sort of associate justice with the Almighty in pronouncing sentence, and would enjoy the condemnation of those of us who did not see fit to join in his meeting. (The Doctor forgets that it is to be remembered that the Meth odist called him. it was a Metho dist meeting led by Sam Jones.) Such arrogance would be unbecom ing in the Apostle Paul, much more in Sam Jones." Well, Paul said tome very positive and wonderful things about the futu-e as well as the past Does not Brother Jones have a right to expect, if he keeps right and does right, (and the Doc tor noes not call in qnestiou his piety or impugn his motives) tha1: he shall sit upon a throne and judge in his Master's kingdom, Lukexxii, 30: "That ye may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." The Book gives him a right to expect it, but the Doctor seems to be in a hurry to get a seat on the judgment throne before Uncle Jones, does not wait for the lastday, but declares that h believes the sen timent of the best christian people of the state are with him. It is not for me to say. I will not judge whether the vast thro'jg of from six to seven thousand who were at the tabernacle on the last night of the meeting are among the best christian people of the State. Be tnat as it may, when called upon to say by standing up whether they felt or be lieved that Jam Jones' visit and preaching in Wilmington had in any way harmed or demoralized a simdc soul, not one in that crowd stood up. When asked if they felt that his visit and preaching had been a bless ing and a help to stand up, the vast crowd, so far as I could see, with barely two exceptions, stood up and seemed glad of the privilege. There might have been more than two who did not stand, but I did not see them, and I looked closely. I have seen quite a number of those whom I at least take to be among the best christian people of the State, who are not with the Doctor in criticisms of Sam Jones. The Doctor says: "He called some of the most respeotable gentle men of Wilmington, 'pusillanimous polecats of hell,' and further, of some of our citizens he said, 'if a buzzard should get scent of them, he would fly straight up ha f a mile to ge4; away from the smell.' Wei1, Doctor, these last you say are some of qur citizens, not some of the most respectable citizens of Wilmington. Well, if you had heard the class he was talking about, yon would have thought the old bird would be try ing his wings in the upper atmos phere. But, Doctor, you were not there when the term was applied to the most respectable citizens of Wil mington. Doctor, you did not hear the character of those men, who they were, where they went, thpir lives. If you had, yon would never again think of coupling their names with the most respectable citizens of Wilmington. Hundreds can tell you the characters referred to. The Doctor says: "There is a strife here," and he charges it upon ihe pulpit manners of Sam Jonef. " This," he says, "is the only issue be makes with him and his friends. If any one should say : " Creasy, why did you writer l answer: "Dr. Pritchard made an issue witty Sam Jones and his mends, and I am glad of the privilege of being called the friend of Sam P. Jones. That TANDARD. issue was his pulpit manners. Dr. Pritchard virtually says that we, the Methodist preachers who have heard and invited Jones before he came, and have heard him since he came, and still endorse him, know nothing of pulpit manners or, if we do, we run with the reckless carelessness on to our own destruction, as the storm he acknowledges to have had a part in raising, shall so trausform us " that the skies will be clearer and the water purer." Ah, Doctor, you are hard on us, but we trust " Him who hath been our shield and sal vation." Doctor, the issue I make is that it was not the pulpit man- neri of Sam Jones (why have they not torn other towns like ours?) but the. opposition before he came, the bitterness while he was here and the relentness, persistent attacks upon everything about him that seems to saver of impropriety, while the great amount of good he has done is over looked and forgotton, and, this too, by those who are sworn followers of Christ the Lord. The Doctor sights a case or two where children have been reproved by their parents for using what he terms Sam Jones' slang. Why did he not tell us of the great change wrought in hun dreds of our people cn the use of profane language, the great work in the Wilmington and Weldon car shops, of the forty or fifty 'young men who banded themselves together and promised to quit swearing, of the many who have joined the dif ferent churches of the city and throughout the State, of the many backslidden members that have been reclaimed, of the homes in this city made happy by the husbands stop ping drink names that can be given short sales in bar rooms and sJoons, men depositing money in bank, white and cobred, who never did so before, money saved where they once drank it up. Ah, Doctor, you have not been looking for the good done, 1 am afraid. Many a poor heart has said to me: "The good Sam Jones has done by coming to Wilmington will not be known till the judgment. The Doctor u.ses Dr. Primrose to prove that am Jones is profane, lie quotes the phrases used by Dr. Primrose in his conversation with Jones, and then, that Jone3 said, "brother Primrose I appreciate this mo e than any tiling that has hap pened. You are right and I am wrong. I was thoughtless and by God's help I will stop it." There Dr. Pritchard stops. The meaning of Dr. Primrose, grand, true, kind, was lost, covered up. Dr. Primrose iaid, "After tint no man iieid tell me that Sam Jones is no, a good Christian, and for this reason it was with the utmost cordiality I grasped his hand last Monday night, and closed my brief remarks with these words. 'As a brother in Christ I give you my hand.' " Dr. Prmrose was not trying to convict of blas phemy, but to show the great heart and character. Ah, Doctor, to have been fair with Dr. Primrose and Jones you should have given the context, bat it was against you. Now let us see the witnesses he brings against Jones in every way, pulpit manners and all. In a former article he brings Mr. Joe Caldwell, of the Statesville Landmark. He don't call any names in this artie'e, except Dr. Paul Whitehead, of the Virginia Conference. Well, well, Doctor, did you have to go clear over to v lrginia to find a preacher you could name against him, and then only one, and he within th? last twelve months has preached in Rich' mond, Danville, Lynchburg, Nor folk ? If bis manners are running everybody and everything why don't some more of the preachers say so ? The Doctor Fays : "He knows one of the most distinguished of the young preachers of the Methodist church, lately a popular nastor in Wilmington, N. C, proposes, at an early day, to publish strictures iu the Christian Advocate on the pul pit manners of Sam Jones." It is fair to infer from all the marks he gives ns, though he calls no name, i hat he refers to Brother D. II. Tut tle, now of Wilson. Well, Brother Tuttle seemed mightily well pleased with the meeting when he Avas here, told me that he enjoyed it very much, indeed preached with much power and seemed to be fully in the spirit of the meetin?. I did not hear one word - of criticism. He was with Brother Jones. If he had anything against him he did not do like Dr. Primrose go to Uncle Jones and tell him about it and receive thanks, if it was done in the. proper spirit. But, somehow, when Uncle Jones gets clear away, out of ie;icli, we do siy and write things we do not when he is about Brother Tut tle, or any other brother, ha3 a right to say and write what they choose in this free country, and that is wliat this brother is trying to do now. Let us examine a few witnesses on the other side. Bishops Galloway, Hendrix, Fitzgerald, Hargrove, Hay good and Key all stand by and en dorse him. Talmage, Moody and, shall I say it, yes, Dr. R. G. Pearsop, has precisely the same views of Jones that Dr. Primrose advances in his sermon on Sam Jones, and his pure, good wife, whom the people of Wilmington know and love so much, after hearing him for three weeks, is ready to fully endorse the Eermou of Dr. Primrose. What shall I say of Dr. Dickenson, of Virginia, (I reckon he'll tie off Dr. Pritchard ;) Hawthorne, of Georgia, both eminent Baptist divines. R.ut why peruse the liat? Sain, Jonejj numbers his brethren' all oyer this country," and his friends by the thousands, and the signs which at tend a man of God are following 6, 1890. him, to wit, the conversion of many, many souls. A word or two more and I am done. The Doctor savs he was asked by one of the city editors to give his opinion of the man in his journal, out he preferred to write for the colamns of the journal for which he wrote regularly. The Doctor then asked, as I am in formed, that it be copied iu a Wil mington paper, rue uoctor forced the issue upon ns, at our doors, in our own homes, in our Churches. Xo ie but cowards quail when the Lord leads. We promised at the altar not to shirk. The Doctor has thrown down the gauntlet and we must pick it up. He with strength, age, wisdom, experience, all surpass ing ours, may be Goliath, but with the trust in God to lead, help and defend.we will try to be David with out any harness from Saul, but in the strength of the Lord of Hosts lead our people in the right way. It is queer that the Doctor should" take an organ that is devoted to the in terests of orphans, to criticise and stab a man in, whose life is devoted to that cause, a man whose heart is ever warm and tender towards those helpless ones, who gives food, shel ter, clothes and education to sixty of those helpless ones. Charity and Children, you had a queer, strange paint on your face when yon went out to ask help for orphans and were trampling in the dust one of the best friends they ever had. Now, Doctor, the way matters stand I don't know what about the Alliance, but let me tell you, I have not forgotten the lesson it impressed upon me. I had learned it before, but yon know we promised not to patronize the Sunday paper. Others could do so, if they wished, but we were to be free. I was sorry when the Messenger stated on Saturday that you appear on Sunday. You may get more readers than I, but I pre fer to follow the teachings and good impression made among my brethren and ar?und my mother's knee. And now, Doctor, you said in con clusion, you knew you were right and should not fear to speak. I will not go that far, but will say that I feel I am right. My judgments says I am right, and with the case as sub mitted I leave it for the reader to decile. And now, my brother, I have calmly and dispassionately re viewed your article. God knows whether there is anything in my Jieart against you. lie knows there i3 not, and I shall meet this state ment at the judgment. I am ready to join with yon and all my breth ren in everv good work as I have al ways done. God bless and save the people of the City by the Sea." W. S. Creasy. Crimp in Xorlh Carolina. By chapter 341, Laws 1390, Clerks of the Superior Courts are required to transmit to the office of the At torney General a duly certified re port of all criminal actions disnosed of in their respective counties, to gether with the name, age. occupa tion, sex, race and the offence for which the party was indicted and tried. These have all been carefully tabulated by the official statistician. The report will cover eighteen months, euding July 1st. 1890, and will embrace 315 terms. During this period the total number of criminal actions disposed of was 10,437. Of thosw indicted and tried 9,281 were males and 1,152 females, 6,003 wre white aiid 4,414 colored 16 were In dians and 4 corporations were in cluded, lhere were 6,326 convic tions, 1774 acquittals, 2.192 were nol prosed and 145 dismiss d. There were 96 tried for murder, 40 of these con victed (28 of them being for mans slaughter). 25 were for rape and 4 convicted, x or arson 14 and 4 con victions. Burglary 54 and 37 convic tions. Manslaughter 15 and 10 con' victionr. Forgery 68 and 37 con victions. Larceny 1,709 and 775 con victions, and 8,396 misdemeanors and 2,401 convictions There were 5 executed, 5 lynched, 93 escapes, 3 (boys) were apprentic ed and 12 prisioners were or after ward became insane. The official census gives North Carolina?) population of 1,617,340, makiDg the p rcentnge of indict ruents to population a fraction over 6. These are only a few of the re sults, ihe compilation extends to and sets forth in alphabetical class ificatiou the cr minal iffences of every county, grouping them by districts aud giving much other val uable informati n in respect to the execution of the criminal law of the State- How The Farmers Are Taxed. The Republican Congress has made t he living of I lie American farmer even more expensive than il has hitherto been. It has heavily taxed nearly every agricultural im plement, his building materials, and his household furniture. Protec tion of tie McKinley sort means the taxation of the great body of con sumers to enrich a few manufac turers. Its burdens will fall par ticularly upon the poor. The peo ple are tixe.l 60,000,000 for three yeais in order that a few manufac turers may experiment in this coun try with the tin plate industry. If you think this a partisan statement, read what a member of Harrison's cabinet says about it in a recent ad vertisement : "Tinware is advancing in cost and very soon the nianufatnrers will have their way and yon aud I will have to pay very much more. In view of this state of things we made, some time since, a large purchase of kitchen tinware at what was a low price then nd would be far lower now, in the face of two advances in the makers' rice-lists. ' "John Wanamakek." Dentists ought to be more popular thau men of any other profession. They are always in some body's mouth. Year to Brybody. WHOLE NO. 156. A WORD FROM DR. PRITCHARD. I have bu: a word or two to sav in reply to Dr. Creasy 's article touch ing my criticisms of Sam Jones. Dr. Creasy says my mcmorv is clouded as to what occurred the day he nominated Sam Jones to hold a meeting in Wilmington. lie says that Dr. Hoge objected to him but I said nothing. It may be so. A dis tinguished English lawyer once said that "he would rather trust a line on paper as to a fact in the past than any man's memory." My recol lection of what passed, is as "l have stated it. I am very certain that if 1 said nothing I agreed with Dr. Hoge. Nor will I denv that I said to Dr. Creasy that I should be glad to hear Sam Jones I do not recall it, but have, no doubt I eaid it, if Dr. Creasy says I did. But that was sometime before I read the sermons he preach ed in Charlotte, and I said at the close of' my first article on Sam Jones, written before I knew he had been invited to Wilmington, that "I hoped he would not come to Wil mington in my day.'' Another small matter of a perso nal nature. Dr. Creasy says I did not attend the meetings of "the Alli ance when the matter of the resigna tion of the Methodist pastors was discussed, though I was in or about the city. Does not Dr. Creasy remember that I was out of town at the meet ing, the records of which he quotes; that I wrote a letter to the Alliance in which I stated three things. First, that I did not know that Sam Jones was a regularly ordained Meth odist minister. Second, that I did not know when 1 wrote, objecting to his coming to W ilmington, that he had been invited here by his Meth odist brethren; and thirdly, that I intended no disrespect to the Meth odist pastors or their Church. I did more than this. I published these statements in one of the city papers that there might be no mis take as to my feelings towards my Methodist brethren. Now it does seem a little strange that Dr. Creasy's memorv should be so accurate as to some of the facts of this meeting, and so oblivious or others. He re members Dr. Hoge's disclaimer but forgets mine, and indeed does not re member that I ever wrote a letter to the Alliance at all. Is not niv good brother Creasy guilty here of what the lawyers call suppressio veri, a suppression of the truth. I should be sorry to think that my brother had a convenient memory and had intentionally forgotten my disclaim ers in order to put me in a false light before his brethren and the public. But all these are trival matters and amount to nothing in this con troversy. My character, and my con duct towards my brother pastors, are not the issues m this case at all. am not concerned about my reputa tion. 1 have preached the Gospel in .North Carolina for thirty-six year; and my reputation can take care of itself. But if Dr. Creasy could prove me an unmitigated scoundrel that would not alter the facts in this case. The main issue, and iu deed the only issue I have raised with Sam Jones and his friends is his pulpit manners. I charged him with being a vulgarian, a black-guard, and a profane swearer, and what is more, I proved each of the charges true from his own pulpit utterances. In all his long article Dr. Creasy does not touch the real issue. have no quarrel with Dr. Creasy, cr my Methodist brethren, but I do denounce with all the vehemence of my soul vicious and immoral lan guage in the pulpit There can be no excuse or apology for such lan guage as Sam Jones uses, and I do not mean to be offensive when I say that I do not believe that Dr. Creasv or any other decent Methodist in rsorth Carolina approves ot it. I will close these few words by saying that if Dr. Creasy had appli ed to the editor of the Messenger he might have learned that I did not request him to publish my article on Sunday or any other day, aud thus have taved himself from sinning against chanty in bringing a false charge against a brother. T. II. PlUTCHAIlD. Rev. Dr. Reid on Rev. Dr. Fritrhard. Rev. Dr. T. H. Pritchard, of Wil mington, N. C, has essayed the task of setting the country right in refer ence to Rev. Sa;n Jones. He is out in a three column attack upon him so we see from the papers. i)r Pritchard is only hurting himself and heipmg Sam Jones. His crm cisms on Mr. Jones will be like pour ing water on a duck's hack it runs right oil and makes no impression. Pritchard pitted against Jones re minds us of the sheep that got on the railroad track to butt against the approaching engine he shows spunk but poor judgement A Utile Curious. A theatrical company'jwill j re-ont "Satan" in Raleigh next Tuesday night. This is a little curious, when it is remembered what effor's are being made to carry Wake for the Democrats. Joe Dan els has been putting in blows right and left, and has made a vigorous and honest fight, so has the News and Observer. Now, brethren, as a finishing touch, go, to the theater and tackle "Satan." It it reported that in the Berlin aoothe giraffe racked around in the next stall for some fodder, whereup on the elephant seized it by the neck. After they were separated it was found that the giraffe's neck was tied in a kno!". THE SJ&HDRD WE DO ALL KINDS OF ctob "woee: IN THE XEA TES T MA NNER AND AT THE LOWEST RATES. C.raiid Jury's Report. To his Honor, John G. Bynuni, Judgo presiding at Fall Term of Court for Cabarrus County,1890 : The Grand Jury, through its com mittee, consisting of John A. Barn hardt, J. C. Lippard and L. J. Foil, nave examined the records of the county, and find them neatly and propeny Kepi, anna lurther exam ination of the books of county finances shows that, tha Clort f ni Superior Court, tho Treasurer and itegisteroi Ueeds have each made their recrular sot. tinmen fa oa ra. quired by law ; and tho Grand Jury hnd that the official bonds of tho county otlicers have been properly approved by tho Chairman of the Board of Countv ( ,fim m i qqi rm ova find said bonds duly recorded in a uook ior inai purpose. Through its committee, Chas. T. Allison, J. L. Shinn and Charles H. Fisher, the Grand Jury respectfully report tho following with reference to its examination ot the county jail : One of the cells is in such a con dition as to bo unlit for use; the sewerage is defective, and to such an extent that a part of it can not be used, and its general condition is Such that its lien unnoag nfionoiro odors in the rooms of the prisoners and to their discomfort and possible harm; and while the jail is not as Comfortable as it KlirmU ha and ila arrangement as perfect as necessity miyuL uemuuu, me urand jury be lieve that the iailnr ia rliaoliorm'ni his duties as besf lio ran twh rith reference to building and prisoners. int uranti j ury respectfully recom mend that the proper authorities proceed at Once tn hava mnairaA and put in good condition the sew erage or ine jail- The Grand Jury through its com mittee. It. C. Whifo Tl w. nn and Alexander Bostian, respectfully report wun reierence to the cocrt house and lot, that the petit jury room be furnished with chairs, that the inside wood work needs paint ing; and the Grand Jury further suggest that tho County Commis sioners hive the walls whitewashed, SO a3 to C.IVPr nn tha rtttanana anrl other writing that appears on the aus. The Grand Jurv find thnt. tha Inf. is well kent. Thnf. enmo ronaira should be made on tho fence- From the examination of the com mittee, Noah Blackwelder and Davis H- McEachern, tho Grand Jury re spectl'ully submits the following re port in regard to the County Poor House, its condition, and the condi tion of tho plantation: thfl hni Id intra are ad- quate and in splendid condi tion; tne inmates, nineteen m nums ber, are well clothed, well fed, kind ly treated and expressed themselves well satisfied ; the farm is being im proved, nearly seven hundred bush els of corn will be realized this seas son, a lot of clover hay has been made, and besides many garden products the management will have for the use of the Poor House near ly eighteen hundred pounds of pork. The Grand Jury find much in the present system of managing the institution that renders it far superior to the system heretofore followed. The Grand Jury respect fully recommend that the authoris ties substitute the namo of "The County Home" for County Poor House. The Grand Jury most respectfully report that they have completed the work assigned them so far as they havo knowledge and most respect- fully pray to be discharged by your Honor. Jas. P. Cook, Foreman Grand Jary. Approved and ordered recorded. Jko. Gray Byxtjm, Judge Presiding. Fayetteville Observer : While Hon. G. W. Sanderlin was sitting in the office of the Observer on Tues day afternoon last, Mr. Chas. G. Cain, our present and next Clerk of the Superior Court, came in, and the two were made acquainted. As he shook hands the State Auditor said : "I am glad to meet you, Mr. Cain; no official in North Carolina sends paper to my office more at tractive from beautiful handwriting, or more satisfactory from the ad mirable and business-like manner in v Inch they are prepared." We propose to continue 5lr. Cain in tha office whose duties he so efficiently perforins. "THE BEST." 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The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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