THE REPORTER.
MOSES I. STBWART, Editor.
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1579.
Editorial Briefs.
Ohio's campaign is growing warm.
Many of the Texas papers are in fa
vor of Bayard for President.
General trade in N Y is represented
as continuing good for the season.
Sleeping cars are now run between
Raleigh and Charlotte.
Two boys of 8 years went on the
water in a boat, at Senickley, Pa One
fell overboard, the other plunged in to
rescue him, and both were drowned.
Three colored children were burnt to
death last week in Chester County, S. C.
The parents were at work in the field
and left the children alone in the house
General Loring, a brave "Brigadier"
in the armies of the Confederate States,
&nd since in the Egyptian service, has
returned to this country. He reaobed
New York on the 14th.
Strikes are seldom remunerative in
their results. The striking long shore
men in New York have all returned to
work, having each suffered a loss of a 1
least sixty dollars, with no corresponding
benefit.
Tie jury in the case of Hill, of At
lanta, Ga., on trial for the killing ot
Simmons, for the seduction of his wife,
has returned a verdict for murder, and
reoommended imprisonment for life in
the penitentiary.
The trial of Bcb McCorcle for the
murder of J. Weseley Wycoff, and Mrs.
Sarah Wyooff, wife of the deceased, for
accessory to the murder, culminated in
the oonviction of both last week at
Alexander Superior Court.
The death of Thos P. Powers, a mil
lionaire druggist of Philadelphia, has
carried consternation to the church
known as the Reformed Episcopal. His
quinine profits were devoted latterly to
" chureh loans, and his executors have to
oollect them. The church is likely to
go up.
The steamship Arizona, tho largest
vessel afloat except the Great Eastern,
arrived in New York a few days since
• i from Queenstown in seven days and
some hours. She is 465 feet in length,
6,000 tons burden, and carries engiues
of 7,000 horse power.
The smooth-tongued persuasion!: of
John Loach's lobbyists ayailed more in
Brazil than in Washington, for the Leg
lslature there has voted a subsidy for
carrying the mails. The Brazilian peo
ple have not seen Roach fatten off Gov
ernment contracts let contrary to law.
Tbey do not kuow what a cunuing fel
low he is.
The San Francisco Chronicle has re
turns from various counties in Califor
nia, which indicate that the farmers of
that favored region will be blessed with
a bountiful harvest. A much larger
acreage was sown to wheat this year
than for several seasons past, and the
yield of this staple will be proportion
ately great. Corn is looking remarks'
bly well, and the vineyards are in heal
thy condition, and give promise of an
abundant vintage. Altogether the
promise of the fields is that a year of
plenty and prosperity is in store for the
Golden State.
On last Sunday evening, the 15th, in
• thunder storm, Mr Albert Suiith, a
well known farmer of Preakness, N. J.
was killed by lightning. Mr. Smith
had been building a kitcben addition to
his house, and he went out in the
storm with a piece of new, bright tin
pipe to fasten it to the gutter. A bolt
shot from the black clouds, which seemed
to touch the roof, struck Mr. Smith,
killing him instantly. A little black
mark on his baok was the only trace
that the lightning left on his body.
His clothing was not torn. His son,
who was stauding behind him, suffered a
bad shock, but was not injured.
The New York Su/i's editor was a
Radioal officeholder who had uiuch to
do with making the war, a great deal to
do with keeping it up. and would have
bo peace with the South even after its
surrender. General Giant would not
give the editor a lucrative office h *
wanted, and ever since he has been
Grant's bitterest foe. He has become
so extremely Southern iu hi* views that
he daily denounces the Southern Rep
resentatives in Congress aud the South
ern people as eowardv because they
wont go into another war. The San
forgets that another war would leave its
editor as far trow official honor -* now.
| TEE PROSPECT FAVORABLE.
We learn, with pleasure, the gratify
ing results of the recent railroad election
in Rockingham county We have not
the space in this issue to speak at large
of railroad affairs, but we would urge
our people to give this subject their so
ber consideration, as they may be called
upon to vote a subscription to the D R.
& Y. V R R., at a day not far distant.
The Reidsville Times says that "four
townships in thisoounty, the Leaksville,
Madison, Stoneville and Shady Grove,
voted last Friday on the twenty thousand
dollar subscription to a railroad running
from Danville via Leaksville to States
ville. We learn that the Stoneville and
Shady Grove townships went against the
subscription but Leaksville and Madison
for it—it was carried about three to one.
the majority for it in Leaksville was 230 "
Danville has already acknowledged
her readiness to aid in the completion
of this road, while by refereuce to the
above paragraph you can readily see
that Rockingham is anything but asleep.
Suffice it to say for this time that
Stokes will never lose anything by
placing her hand to the hammer of en
terprise and striking "while the iron's
bot."
LAMAR AND CONKLIXQ.
An exciting personal controversy took
place between Limar and Conkling in
the Senate on the 19th., in which Mr.
Lamnr pronounced a statement of Mr.
Cockling'* a falsehood, which he suid he
repelled with all the unmitigated con
tempt that he felt for another.
Mr. Conkling in answering him said
that if the member from Mississippi im
puted, or intended to impute, falsehood
to him nothing except the fact that that
was the Senate would prevent his de
nouncing him as a blackguard, ooward
and liar.
Mr. Lamar replied that the Senator
had understood him correctly. He beg
ged pardou of the Senate for unparlia
mentary language, and said it was harsh ;
it was Bevere ; it was such as no good
man would deserve and no brave man
would wear.
Thi3 may prove to be the warmest in
the way of a personal that has occurred
in Congress since Brooks caned Sutuner.
We shall see what we shall see.
FOSTER'S CAMPAIGN.
When the Ohio Republican Convon
tion adjourned, the leaders supposed thtt
by this time the Slate would be in a
glow of enthusiasm over the union and
harmony of the party, and that Foster's
standard would be waving defiantly from
Cincinnati to Cleveland Having ac
cepted Foster as a hostage for the fidelity
of Hayes in their quarrel with Congress,
the stalwarts at Columbus declared that
they should make the contest ic Ohio
unpreoedentedly aggressive from the
very outfet.
But this belligerent proclamation has
fallen dead and flat. The profoundest
apathy prevails in the Republican ranks
in Ohio. Indeed, far from beginning
an aggressive campaign, they have not
moved at all, and seem to be at their
wits' ends to know how and where to aot.
The cause of this stagnation in the Re
publican camp is obvious. The loaders
intended to unfurl the bloody shirt and
make the old war issues the leading ques
tions in the election. But the nomina
tion of Gen. Ewing and Gon. Rice, who
were hazarding their lives for the Union
while Mr. Foster was at borne waking
money out of the calamities of the na
tion, has made the Republicans afraid
and ashamed to try to fight the battle on
this ground.
On the other hand, any attempt to
shift the oontest to the currenoy issue is
full of peril to the Republicans. Sofl
money theories are about as prevalent
among the Republicans of Ohio as
among the Democrats; and the suppor
ters of Foster know that attacks on
Ewing for his currency record would be
far more likely to send Republicans to
bis side than to divert Democratic votes
TilE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Under its present intelligent and vig
orous management the University is de
veloping new strength and constantly
increasing efficiency. Its catalogue shown
the number of matriculates to be 202,
which is larger than the number on its
rolls at any time during the first half
century of its existence.
This institution has powerful claims
upon those who have sons to educate and
.ire ablo to furnish the advantages of a
University. The late Commencement
made the etf ellencies of our Uuiversity
more than ever prominent
The State of Alabama has forwarded
to New York the amount due as interest
on ber bonded debt.
f THINGS TO PONDER O VER.
The Alamance Gleaner io speaking
of "Hard Times" says that complaints
are no new things. We cheerfully de
vote our space to the following :
'•To oomplain is a sort of habit. That
money is scarce, which we generally
mean by hard times, is in one respect
true, and in another, not. There is an
abundance of money in the hands of
capitalists, but precious little among the
people. See how readily bonds of the
government, carrying a low rate of in
terest, are taken They are not only
readily but greedily taken. This is cap
ital hunting permanent investment in
non taxable property. Why is it that
there is evidence of such vast amounts
of unemployed capital, when there are
such limitless fields for its employment ?
Why is it that this money is found in
large accumulations, in perfect idleness
so far as the work of a circulating rnedi
; uin is concerned ? That the reason is
largely to be found in the finanoial pol'oy
of th« Republican party, it seems to ut
i cannot be questioned, but that it is wholly
|so we do not believe. A variety of
; causes combine to produce so important
and damaging a result. The tendency
j of the financial policy of the Govern
ment han been to favor the gathering of
capital at money centres. It has imbued
money with the power of self-increase to
an unhealthy degree, by practioally re
moving all limit to the rate of interest
and removing all competition.
"Besides, it has created abput two
thousand five hundred millions of wealth
which is not taxable, either directly or
indirectly, either on account of its value,
or the income it brings its owners. Tbat
this policy has produced the gathering
of capital into immense heaps, and pre
vented its diffusion among the people,
and thereby crippled the industrial in
terests of the oountry, cannot be candidly
and intelligently questioned.
"Another reason for the hard times
is the immeuse increase of tax consumers
who are thrown upon the people for
support, and not only for support, but
luxurious living.
"In our village last week there were
upon the streets five Federal officials,
besides others in the county, and an old
farmer remarked to us, pointing them
out. "There goes what makes hard
titres. We people have to p&y those five
an aggregate of twenty dollars a day "
There was mucn truth in the old gentle"
man's remark. It furnished the cluo to
one of the causes of hard times. An
extravagant son ot daughter, that must
live in idleness and luxury, will produce
hard times in a family; and so a com
munity that has to support in idleness
and luxury a part of its members must
necessarily feel the effects.
"And these officials are in every com
munity, and the effect is the same as if
each county or neighborhood had to pay
its own set. Now the results of honest,
unskilled labor, at the low price of every
thing, will not net certainly more than
fifty cents a day ; so it will be seen that
these five officials, who were entirely in
nocent of the production of anything,
were taking the daily labor, day after
day, of no less than forty bard working
men. »
"Then again, the taxes that are paid
arc a constant and enormous drain. On
the first of this month, whoever chanoed
to pick up a newspaper published in the
town where one of these revenue head
quarters is located, would see, as an iteui
of news, the amount of revenue paid by
the collection district for the preoeding
month, fu this district we notice that
it was over two hundred thousand dol
lars It is no answer to the complaint
that this money was.paid by manufac
turers, principally, and upon articles of
luxury, and was raised from the sale of
these articles at a distance. 'l'he same
thing, exists all over the country, and
ours is not perhaps above an average.
So, the effect is precisely the same as if
we pulled the money directly out of our
pockets and paid it. Now, how many
days' labor would that amount require
each month 1 This >ll goes to the tax
consumers, who are not producers, and
their very salaries are exempt from taxa
tion as an ino me Let the people think
of it, and in this they will find an active
cause for the hard times of which we
complain.
"Another cause is that the little money
in the oountry is, from want of oonfiduoee
among men in each other, kept looked
up, or put in banks that churge a rate of
interest that is ruinous. Some of it, and
much more perhaps than is generally
thought, is kept literally locked up, ao
that it might as well never have been
issued. Its owners have seen so many
instances of loss by the dishonest actions
of men claiming respectability, and even
piety, thßt they fear to trust any one
The exemptions allowed by law, for wise
and beneficent purposes, are made, not
infrequently, the aid of persons bent on
defrauding their creditors.
"Perjury itself is not hesitated at in
many eases, by men who could prove as
good a character as any one, aa eyery
practicing lawyer knows, when the end
aimed at is to defeat the payment of
honest debts. All these things contri
bute largely to the present condition of
the oountry."
BRIO IIA MS AFFAIRS.
A telegram from Salt Lake City gives
an account of a difficulty which has
arisen in regard to the estate of the late
Brigham Young Tho noted Chief of
the Mormon Churoh died rioh, and it is
stated that a considerable amount of his
large fortune has been wasted by the
executors. Consequently, an applica
tion has been made for the appointment
of a receiver, and for an injunction re
straining the exeoutors from any further
performance of thair functions. The
Court has granted the petition, and has
appointed two receivers, one of whom
is the United States Marshal.
We regard the appointment of a
United States Marshal to be a receiver
as wholly improper. The Marshal is an
officer of the Court, and is so closely
identified with the Court, that it seems
very much like the Court taking the
large property of the deceased into its
own hands and retaining possession of it.
Court Rings are too much the order
the day. They are costly to litigants,
tend to degrade our judicial tribun els.
and are always dangerous to .the rights
of parties.
A CHEERFUL LOOKOUT.
The Clearing-House Kxchangea of the
United States for the month ot May,
1879, were 82,918.003,930, against
82,079,207,52 a for the corresponding
month of last year, showing a gain of
$839,396,411, or more than 40 per oent
This is a very large increase, and even
when we eliminate from it the uncertain
clement of an increased activity in ?pe
culative sales of stock, we Gnd a net
gain of over 31 per ceut., due to the in
crease in legitimate business transactions.
The gain in cities outside of New York
has been nearly 18 per cent., and is no
tubly greatest at the points where the
largest wholesale trade is dono. The
figures may be assumed to be tie surest
possible index of the revival ul business,
of which every one is now assured
That this revival is as yet chiefly con
fiued to the United States is proved by
the fact that while our exports are de
clining, £beitig less by about twenty-one
and a half millions for the first four
months of this year than they were in
the same time in 1578,) owing to in
creased inability of lbrcign countries to
buy our products, their increased desire
to cell to us and our augmented ability
to buy are indicated by an increase of
§11,001,741 in our imports during the
same period as compared with last year
With no rival in the production of cheap
food, and the acknowledged and dreaded
competitor of the great manufacturing
nations, the United Stales are in tho
morning twilight of an era of great
prosperity
CIVIL RIGHTS IN GEORGIA.
In case before Judge Erskine, of the
United Slates Court at Suvaunah, Ga ,
where a colored woman was ordered
from the "white" deck of a steamer to a
place below where accommodations wero
provided for ber class, and failing to
comply was put off the boat and after
wards instituted suit for damages Judge
Eiskine has decided that common car
riers have the right to provide different
accommodations for different classtsof
passengers and to assign each class to its
quarters Judge Woods, of the United
States Circuit Court at Atlanta, has also
recently decided ia a school question
that equality does not mean identity, and
that separate accommodations may be
provided and insisted upon.
We regret to learn that seyeral of the
Greenbackers in Congress, including the
Rev. Gilbert De LaMatyr, D D., showed
an undue eagerness to save the $125
stationery grab. We had the light to
expect better things from men who have
held forth on the corruptions of tbe old
prties, and tbeir own hunger and thirst
for reform
ROMB, June 18.—There was a violent
earthquake yesterday near the town of
Aoi, in Sicily, seven miles ooith-east of
Catania. Five villages io the vicinity
were almost wbo'.ly destroyed. Ten
persons were killed and soveral injured
The inhabitants of tbe district are flee
ing en matte.
Prohibition was defeated in Salisbury
by 217 majority.
SENA TOR HAMPTON INTER VIEWED.
It is due Senator Hampton to give
prominenco to his views. We most
heartily endorse his conservatism. It is
the only way for the South to regain her
prosperity. The Republicans like dis
cord, und always endeavor to fan into a
flume anything likely to foment trouble
among the Democtais. We give a brief
sketch of the New York Tribune sin
terview :
There is another thing which ought
not to be overlooked—that while the
South is wholly Democratic and consti
tutes the strength of the Democratic
party, we do not intend to ask a place
upon the Presidential ticket for a South
ern man. We want the party iu the
North to place two good men on the
ticket, and we will support it for the
national success of tbo Democratic party.
With reference to the personal choice of
the South for particular Presidential can
didates. Ido not think the South has
any. I believe that there has been a
feeling that in justice to the old ticket
it sbouid be renominated. There an
many reasons, however, which may be
urged against this, and the refusal of 1
Mr. Hendricks to b» put in nomiontion
again seems to render it impossible. 1
don't think the South cares a copper who
the next presidential candidate may be.
as long as he is a strong national mau
They do not care where he oomes from
or what his finaucial views may be.
There is a great deal of misapprehen
sion in the North as to tho political con
dition of tho negroes in the South. They
seem to think that a colored man is
bound to be a Ret üblican because ho is
a colored man. But I know personally
many colored men in South Carolina
who have always been consistent Demo
crats, and have suffered in consequence.
There are only 75,000 white votes in my
State, and 90,000 colored voters. The lat
ter, thcreforo, hold the balance of power
When 1 was elected Governor there were
only 119,500 votes cast, and only 213
scattering votes were thrown against
me, and I was undoubtedly elected by
tbo colored voters, who at that timo had
all the machinery of elections in their
hands There was not a quarrel or a
fisticuff &t, that election The Re
publicuna could not put a ticket in the
field bemuse tho colored people were
satisfied.
GENERAL NJSWS.
There are 33 prisoners in tho county
jail, 4 white males and 5 females the
balance all colored males Rtleiyh Ob
server.
Mr J >hn 1> G v nah has ended his
lecturo tour in Great Britain and is
about to return home Ho has given
over a hundred lector s there.
A railroaJ meeting will be held in
Statesville, June 28ih, proposing to con
nect Statesvilie and 'fa, lursyilie by Rail
road ties.
The revenue fur tobacco stamps alone
from Orange during the month of May
was S!B9 340 62. and the entire revenue
for tie same length of time in the fourth
district amounted to 8220 000.
Work on the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Railroad, a short distance South
of us, has been pushed forward with
much industry since it was commenced,
and the road bed has been thrown up
for one fourth of a mile, more or less.—
Greensboro J'roteslunt.
Franklin Reporter: Dr. Lucas, who
now owns and is working the Jenk's
corundum mine, has just found a gem
worth $9 000 it is said. He has others,
said to be of great value. Truly this
North Carolina goose (the corundum
mine) is laying goldeu eggs for Massa
chusetts, if there - js no mistake abuuf
the reports.
SUDDEN DKATH IN JOHNSTON. —Mrs
G. F. Uzzle, daughter of Mr J M
Wilson, Wilson's Mills, died lust night
At 8 o'clock p. m. she was apparently
well—was taken with a hemorrhage and
died iu a tew minutes. She was ade
voted wife and mother, and leaves four
cbildieo, one infant one month old, and
many friends— Raleiyh Observer.
Ashivllle Journal: Messrs. Harkins,
Patterson. Gudger and Patterson, De
puty U. S Marshals, havo made about
seventy-five arrestss'oce the 15th of May
—twenty seven were arretted in Transyl
vania county alone, and all bound over
to court but four—about twenty five in
Flenderson county and a good many in
Haywood, and the young men aro still
on the hunt
Tho Cochran Enterprise gives ao ac
Count of the eseapo from jail io that
place on Wedresday evening of last
week, of Thomas, alias Spell, charged
with poisoning his wife in Sampson
county, N. C. The Governor of that
State has made a requisition for the
prisoner, which was giacted by Gover
nor Colquitt But pending tho arrivil
of tho sheriff, he contrived to remove
the iron ring from bis leg, and it is said
with the aid of a steelyard broke down
two doors, and esoaped in open daylight.
The villain has confessed his crime.
Wadtsboro Herald: A colored boy,
about fourteen years old, son of Freeman
Marshall, was drowned while bathing
in Little's mill-pond last Saturday
The prisoners (fifteen in number) from
Richmond oounty, who have been con
fined in jail at this place, wore taken to
Rockingham yesterday for trial.
Mr. Tbos. J. Ingram, of this place, has
about one and a half aorcs of land,
whioh ho sowed io oats last fall. They
were out last week-, and it is thought by
good judges that the yield will be at
least sixty bushels per acre.
CoNConn, Juno 17.—Henry W. Blair
was to day elected Uoited States Sena
tor. The vote in the House was, Blair
161, Bingham 95. In the Senato, Blair
20, Binghatn 4.
We learn that a gang of ten
at work on the linn of the Cape Pear rfc
Yadkin Valley llailwny, m>deup attempt
to '"break 1 the guards on Tuesday last,
resulting in the killing of Dr. "Charles;''
a negro well known hero, Barefield %
horse-thief, and two others ; two convicts
wore desperately wounded ; two surren
dered. and two escaped. The guard be
haved with great nerve and oourage.
Of the four killed the diath of all was
nearly instantaneous ; the wounds of the
two men are thought to bo fatal.—Fay
etteville Gazette.
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will give the exact time in auy part of the
also contains a First-Class Com-
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School Teachers, Travellers, ami Farmers it is
indispensable. They areas good as a high
priced watch, and in nianv cases more reliable.
Boys, think of it ! A tiunting-Oase Watch
and Chain for SLOO The SOLARGRAPH
WATCH is used by the Principal of the
Somerville High School, and is being fast in
troduced inio all the schools throughout the
ITuitcd Slates, and is destined to become the
most uselulTimc keeper ever invented. The
SOLIAIWRAPH WATCH received a Modal at
the Mechanics' Fair, at Boston, in 1878!
This is no toy, but is made on scientific
principals, and every one warranted to bo
accurate and reliable. We have made the
price very low simply to introduce them at
once, after which the price will be raised.
The SULARGRAPH WATCH and CHAIN
is put up in a neat outside case, and sent by
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invite an inspection, and call particular at
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are of a superior quality, aud sold very ciio .p
for cash or produce.
It will be to your interest to rail and exam
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elsewhere.
Mr Isaac 11. Nelson, 30 well and fnorabl t
known througii the country, is willi this
house and would tie plua-.cd to have his frWadi
call and see him.
Winston, N.C., March 2 ly.
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