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ISSUED EVEfiT FRIDAY. '4 j
1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1S8S.
The Czar was badly hurt in the
railroad accid. He is ' Buffering
now in chest and legs. .,- : j" : j
Investigation of the public school
buildings of New York city shows
that many of them are unfit for oc
cupation. i I
Boom; the Wilmington Mesaenyer
Inan picks his Hints and. comes at us
again, he had letter investigate the
facts about which he intends to write.
. 4ft "
"". Chauije Ykkkils' political career
was so quickly over, that lie now ex
claims : I .i '
.'Twas so soon done for,
1 wonder what I U-gun for.' : j
..Now, men of the South, is the time
for you to bIiow your manhood.; Do
not stoop to hug favors of the Nor
thern Republicans. Stand; to your-
principles. : j ; j j , '
"We see that a burglar slipped into
an editor's room at Pallas, and stole
$40, and tow detectives are trying
to" find outj where the cd jtor got that
mucii monev.
;".- Mark this prediction. If the-51st
Congress alters the present, status
, of the tariff it will increase the duty
on wool cotton ties, etc., and lower
it-on sugar and other Southern pro
ducts. I
Well, well. The Prohibitionists
' . say. now that the Democratic effort
to reduce import taxes is the cause
'pfHheir small vote this year. Now,
doesn't that beat anything you ever
heard?
President Cleveland is serene and
4s writing his annual message to the
Congress that soon meets. " There: is
one brave, honest statesman, andjhe
will not so j back oiultelbnn. Stick
a pin here.
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The county board of canvassers
of New Haftover.county neglected to
sign any of the abstracts of election!
in that county and theItads are in'
a uuandary as to what the conse-l
quences will be. I
TiiE'New Vork Herald gets things!
rather mixed. It says that North Car-j
olina will send the following mem
bers to the next Congress j 1st Dis
trict, II. E. Uunn ; 2d, Wpargah;
4th, John Nichols.
In 1SS4 Cleveland had 219 electo
ral votes and Blaine 1S2 ; in 1SSO
Garfield had !214 and i Hancock 155 :
in ISTGTilden had 19(5, Hayes lid;
in 1S72 tirani had 2jSG out of .)GG; in
lSQS Grant had 214, Seymour 80.
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The Yankees have begun already
to ridicule and abuse us. They
envy us because they are not made
of the stuff we Southern men are.
They haven't it in them to stand to
their principles as. we do, hence they
envy and hate us.
As Arkansas, colored preacher
charged a negro 810 for "getting
him through.1 1 The neero claims the
preacher has e
and has had
one hil soul no good,
him indicted on a
charge of"obtaining money
under
"false religious pretense." I
There is a town ofj 2,000 -inhabi-,
tants without a negro in it. No
darkey is allowed to stop there.' All
the servants are white. White girls
are, hotel and house servants. It is
called Cullman, is a Cjerman town
jtiainly, and isj in Vlabama.
The Wilmington Mar well and
truthfully says we are glad-the old
Charlotte Jemocrat is to j continue
It has done m ach solid work and
genuine good to North Carolina. ' Its
late editor, Mr. Yates, deserves to be
revered for his faithful labors, j !
Had Congress
changed the; time
of commencement of the Presiden
tial term from jMarch 4th to April
30th, as was proposed some time
ago HarrisonV I inaugural would
j: have been the centennial anniver
; sary of the inauguration of our first
President.
On Monday jpf last week Jas.'. II
Johnson, traveling agent for the Tar
: boro Soidhernerl went to Bethel Pitt
county, where ne was taken fop a
Pinkerton man and not being able
to convince the angry people that he
was not, he had to take to the woods
for safety.
J.T is estimated that Europe will
draw from this country this winter
about fifty per cent, more1 wheat than
"last year. While this is good news
to those farmers who1 grow large
quantities of wheat for market, it will
be apt to raise the price of flour in
our home markets.
The church congress of the Epis
. copal tjhurch which begins in Buf
falo, N. Y., on! the 20th instant,
promises. to be one of the most im
portant and interesting ones held in
thin country. Among the distin
guished gentleman who will attend,
are: Prof. Clarke, of Toronto ; Prof.
Nelson, of Virginia ; . Presidet Pot
ter, of llobart j College; Hon. An
drew D. White,' Rev. Dr. Crummel,
of England". Bishop Coxe, of the
Western Ntw ork lioct?e,viill pie-
tilde.
JfOUTH CAROLINA- I
In the last four years our State
has made great strides in all indus
tries, and has kept rtace with the
advance of the balance of the States
of the Union, and has outstripped
a great many of them in the race.
The increase in value of our lands,
our agricultural products, and our
manufactures has been wonderful.
The fact that the administration of
the gerieral government was in the
hands of the Democratic party had
a great deal to do with this increase
of all our industries. The people
felt encouraged io go ahead and push
themselves to the front and North
era capitalists felt secure m in
vesting their surplus money among
us. '..'-.
Now what we -have to do is to
keep up this impetus ; we must not
be disheartened because our political
enemies have control of the govern
ment, and feel that our efforts will
be of no avail on account of oj (po
sition from the party in power. That
we shall have this opposition to our
advancenient, we have no doubt ;
but we must not allow that to weigh
us down,, on the contrary ? it should
spur us on to renewed' vigor and
greater efforts. We should feel now
that we are entirely dependent on
ourselves and that what advance
ment we make in the next four years
will be made by our own exertions
under adverse circumstances, and if
we push forward in the next four
years to the same degree we have in
the past four, it will.be of greater
glory to us, and at the end of that
period we will look back with greater
pride on what we have done.
! The political status of the country
at present should not dishearten us
on the contrary it should encourage
us to greater deeds, aud i to more
strenuous efforts to keep abreast of
our more favored sister States in the
onward rnareh. Let us learn to rely
hiore upon ourselves, by increasing
pur agricultural products in variety
and quantity; by increasing our
manufactures, and bv all means let's
hn v what we need from North Caro
lina producers. instead of rom North
cm and Western markets,
j The Soutli can not be kept down.
Sdtc will soon rise again and regain
her old position of . wealth' and in
fluence in the Nation, and when she
does, our's will lc one of the fore
most States of the South. To attain
this position all we have to do is to
"learn to labor and to wait.'
NOKTII CAROLINA
FOISIvST
j Titi:i;s. !
j Within the last few years 'the
hard wood lumber of this State ljias
come into great demand, and an enor
mous quantity of walnut, cherry,
maple, jqak, Wckory, andxther kinds
of lumber has been shipped from
the State. Northern men jare com
ing into the State and buying up
the timber as it stands in the forests
fdr almost nothing and sawing it up
into lumber for Northern and lur
eign markets at a tremendous profit.
If this continues much longer our
hrd wood timber will lie well nigh
exhausted, and the present owners
of the land will be no better off than
ibefore they parted with their prop
erty, while the men to whom they
jhave sold thir valuable woods will
ije'rich. Our .people should refuse
to sell their timbered land at such
low figures. If they will dejnand
higher prices tliCy will get then,
it piay be not right at first, but the
demand for our lumber will soon
Cause the purchasers to pay full
Value for the woods. AVe hope soon
to See a change in this matter, and
that we will no longer hear so often
Of sales of valuable timbered tracts
at almost nominal figures. If these
lands are kept out of the market fc r
a while their price will advance to
reasonable figures. Then our people
Car iealize some of the profits now
being made out of them bv the men
i
who now buy the lands for the lum
ber and make such profits on it.
There! is another thing the land
owners of this State should do. Thev
should set out more trees. It could
be
.1
m
done;! at very JittlcyQxpchse, and
the course of time would be a
source of wealth to the State. A"
few oak, hickory and other such
trees set out, or a few walnuts and
aco rns put into the ground each year
by every land owner in this State,
would cost really nothing and in the
course of a few years would bring
the! owners of the land an increase
that, were the amount suggested now,
would not -be believed by any one.
it would be well for us to adopt
the plan pursued' by some of the
Western States. They have what is
knojwn as arbor day, which is one
day - each fall set apart for setting
out trees. The day is observed as a
Sta e holiday and is devoted to trans
planting valuable trees. In this
way some sections of these States
have become well wooded, which, a
few! years, ago, 'were- perfectly barren
of trees. Were This plan adopted in
ourjState it would be impossible ever
to exhaust our hard wood timber.
Nkw Mkxuo, Wyoming, Idaho,
Arizona, Washington, Montana, and
North Dakota seven Territories
all have a good chance to get into
the Union now that the Congress is
all t adical. They may all be Re
publican, but it is not certain. Wash
ington and Montana may be kept
out 'because of doubt as to their po
litical complexion
A SOWO SOUTH AGAINST A
SOLID NORTH.
"A solid South ' against a solid
Nerth ! This is one solemn fact
While the Democrats carry New
Jersey and Connecticut, the Repub
licans win West Virginia. New Jer
sey and Connecticut are only the
political overflow of the metropolis,
and we may as well accept it as
the solid South against the solid
North. And in this we note the one
circumstance most to be regretted,
something that our Southern friends
should think over seriously. That
solid South delusion, that holding
in an inextricable political embrace
the dead ami damned Confederacy
truly, truly, it. is a miserable busi
ness, and now we see what becomes
of it. If our Southern friends those
who have sense enough to remem
ber that some things have happened
since 1S'5 would only, set them
selves to the abandonment of this
forlorn fanaticism it would be a na
tional gain, it is really such poli
tics as we hear about in Bedlam and
other stricken resorts and should be
abandoned now and forever." j
We clip the above from the New
York Herald. It is worthy of care
ful reading and consideration! for
more reasons than one. S
In the first place, such an edito
rial appearing in the Ncvv York
Herald, which is a perfect weather
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vane ol Northern lceling and senti
ment, shows to the Sou t. hern
in what attitude the new ad mini
istration will stand -toward us. Al
ready has this great
up to Tuesday last;.
wliicli
i
paper,
was a
strong
advocate of
well-knowing
Cleveland's election.
that his election! de-
pended upon the vote of the solid
Soutli,
South,
laniites.
follows,
begun to decry that solid
and to compare us to Bed
Tbis, paper which never
but alwavs' rides upon the
very topmost crest of the wave! of
Northern- opinion,1 ha-
alrcadv felt
the Northern pulse and find.-
hat it
h the
ithrolis to the cry of down wi
solid South. And as Northern sen
ximent is, so win ne tne policy! ol tue
administration. We see now what
ive have to expect from Mr. llarri--on
and his administration. I
This article of the Herald also
iihows that , the good feeling and
the friendly relationship, brought
about during the' administration of
Mr. Cleveland, has been sweptaway
by the victory of the Republicans.
As soon as they find they have con
trol of the government the' change
their attitude toward us, and instead
elf continuing their friendly feeling,
or what is most probable, of still con
cealing their animosity, they break
forth in denunciations of the men
who don't stand by their principles
and would not stoop to sell them
selves into bondage to the Northern
capitalists, as did thousands of so
c illed Democrats of the North. ' j
Had Cleveland been electee, do
I 1 S
y hi suppose the Herald would have
"regretted the solid South delusion!"
that holding to the "damned Con
federacy ?" Would it have compared
us
to Bedlamites ? No, io would
hive had nothing but
words
praise and thanks from
this
turn
coat paper. - i
The solid Sonth ! Solid ! for
the
Dilnocratic party, and lier, princi-j
phis ! s, it is solid and we are
proud .of it. We thank (!od for it! J'or
it shows that Southern men can not be
bought and sold, that the money of
Levi P. Morton and other sbch
bribers cannot induce them to deeds
of fraud and corruption. If Cleve-
iana naa to be defeated I we iare
thinkful that it had to be done by
bribing Northern Democrats! instbad
of by breaking the ranks of the stlid
So Uh. We had a hundred fold
rather be a Bedlamite and, forin a
component part of the solid- South,
cnensning our sacred memory ol
th j "damned Confederacy" than
.Northern Democrat who had dold
his principles for a few dolhlrs Worn
the Republican bribers.
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es, uie oouuiern people nave
sense enough to remember that some
things have happened sinde lSGo.
He remember that lrom thatltimcj to
we were abused, revised, lied
upin, and down trodden by the
publican party of the North that
we were plundered and almost ire
due ed to beccarv bv that same nkr-
w w r,
ty, and not until by our assistance a
Democrat was elected President were
we suffered to enter upon an equal
standing with the other States of the
Union ; and we see that within less
n three days after the election! of
a Republican President the Northern
Press has begun to stir up the hatred
of the North against us
! The North may talk of the "dead
and damned Confederacy," but that
will make us revere it none the less
or sjwerve one iota from our allegiance
to the great Democratic part- of the
South. . i
We white men of the South are
"T-V V 1 i' . . . I
ue iiocrats necause nonor bids us
ally ourselves with that party whose
pri iciples we firmly believe are 'for
the best interests of the whole Union
Note the effort at wholesale bri
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theffollowing directions to Indiana
Republicans, issued by Treasurer
uerv ana eorrumion rnm.nnr-ri in
Dudley: "Divide the floaters into
blocks of five, and put a trusted man
with necessary funds, in charge o
these five, and make him responsi
ble that none get away, and that al
vote your ticket1' This is the Way
Harrison won his votes.
THE MINORITY MULES,
This government of ours is a gov
ernment by the people. Its funda
mental principle is that the majority
shall rule, and upon this principle
are all of our officers chosen and all
our laws enacted, yet the manner of
electing our President, as prescribed
bv the Constitution, is such that a
minority of the voters of the nation
may elect him, and in fact the choice
of the President by the minority, de
feating the will of the majority j has
occurred three times in the last three
decades. J. C. Breckenridge, in ISO ,
received three hundred 'and fifty
thousand more popular votes than
Abraham Lincoln, yet the latter was
elected President ; ami again, in 1N7G,
S. J. Tilden received more than two
hundred and fifty thousand majority
in the popular election, but R. B.
Hayes was declared to be the Presi
dent, and now it is said full returns
from the recent election will show
that the defeated candidate received
many more of the people's votes than
the successful one.
New York, say, gave Harrison
fifteen thousand majority, and this
State gave Cleveland the same ; one
majority offsets the other, the vote
'or the two is equal so far, but Har
rison will get thirty-six of the four
hundred and one electoral votes
and Cleveland only eleven, the for
mer having the advantage by more
than this State's entire electoral vote.
It does seem that some better and
more accurate way of determining
the will of the people as to who
shall be their chief officer should be
devised ; either each State should
exercise its coequal sovereignty with
all the others and have an equal
vote in the election of the President,
or he should be chosen directly by
the vote of the people, without the
intervention of the electoral college.
The electors sheuild at least repre
sent the majorities in their respec
tive States, and the electoral vote of
the States should be governed by
the majority of votes cast for the
candidate carrving each State; this
would be to the same effect as a di
rect popular vote and at the same
time do awav with the cumbersome-
ness of such a vote.
tiUAUKF.LiNO ovi:n tin:
SI'OILS. f
It seems that the Republicans
have gone from conjecturing as to
who will form the Cabinet to schem
ing anel plotting to keep each other
Out of it. The contest of most in
terest to the leaders wilJ probably
be the position of Secretary of
the Treasury. It seems that the
State of New York lays claim
to this position, and the eleteated
Candidate for Gove-rnor of that
ate is looked upon as the
fittest person to bold the position,
ut Mr. Miller and Senator I'latt
are not on good terms and the lat
ter is very anxious to succeed 'Sena-
r Everts at the- expiration of his
present term, so he does not care to
ive Mr. Miller the opportunity to
increase his reputation and add to
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his political strength that thj- Treas-j
dry portfolio would, so Mr Piatt!
and his friends wish Mr. Miller to!
have a foreign appointment to get
him out thenvav. There is also a
ood deal -of speculation as to
whether Mr. 'Blaine will be asked
o take a seat in the Cabinet and as
i
tq what will be elone with John
Stierman. It is said the former used
his inlluence for Harrison's 1 nonii-
nJttion, and the latter was opposed
td him, and for that reason the one
will have a seat in the Cabinet if he
desires it, but the other will be ex
cluded.! AH this is of interest to us of the
South only as a matter of idle curios
ity, for we have our hands tied and
have to take what is given us. - We
eM
not
suppose our se'ctionjof the
Uiion jwill be represented in the
Ciibiuet, for all the use the Republi
cans have for the men of their party
of the South is to get theirj votes
aid as they did them no good this
time they may expect no reward for
th :ir good intentions. j
rite only interest we Democrats of
the South have in the making1, up of
Hf.rrison's Cabinet, is to hope and
pray that old John Sherman is left
out of it!
V gigantic scheme has been pro
posed, by which the canyons of the
Rdcky Mountains are to be dammed
up from the Canadian boundary to
Mexico, in order to form vast reser
voirs of water to be used in the irri
gation of arid lands, and so prevent
floods in the Lower Mississippi.
Mkjor Powell, director of the national
survey, estimates that at least 1-30,-000
square miles of land might thus
be reclaimed a territory exceeding
iniextent one-half of the land now
cultivated in the L nited States. The
plan is io build dams across all the
cahyons in the mountains large
enough and strong enough to hold
back the floods from heavy rnins nnrl
milting snows, and then let the water
down aa it may be needed upon the
land to be reclaimed.
The bijT?est city in rp.i in the
I 1 co j "-
United States is New Orleans, with
9G.000 alcres. New York, with more
than six! times that population, has
only 2Gl401 acres. After New Or
leans, in geographical size, comes
Philadelphia with 42.SOG acres ; St
Louis, 40,000 : San Francisco, 26,880:
New Ycjrk, 20,401 ; Boston, 23,703 ;
Chicago 23,040; Cincinnati, lo,3C0;
Baltimore, 7,665,
FK031 WASHINGTON.
Republican Ratification Meeting;
To-Morrow Night The Cou
trress of Churchmen Senator
Kenua 3aims West rirj;inia.
Sjet;ial Correspondence to The Plant.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 13. The
Republican headquarters was the
scene of considerable activity to-day.
The cause was the great ratification
meeting to be held in this city tf)
morrow night. Preparations for the
inauguration are also progressing
rapidly. Five thousand dollars
were subscribed for this purpose to
day. Senator Kenna telegraphed here
to-day that West Virginia was all
right for the Democrats. In spite
of this the Republicans still claim
the electoral vote of the State, the
Covernorship, three out ol four Con
gressmen and one majority in the
Legislature, which elects a Uniteel
States Senator.
The missionary council of the
Protestant Episcopal church is now'
in session in this city. A great
many distinguiseel members are
present. The sermon to-elay was
preached by the liight Reverend the
Bishop of Minnesota. Bishop
Whipple is one of the most attrac
tive men anel one of the-ablest speak
ers I have ever known or heard.
Among those in the chancel was
Bishop Watson, of East Carolina.
"'News from Charlotte.
CorresiKinileiite ot Thk Pi AST. jt
Chaki.ottk, N. C, Nov. 1 2, VS.
The election is now over and men
of both parties are beginning to,again
turn their faces to their business in
terest. The Republicans go abemt
with a siwile as broad as heaven, but
the Democrats are not so gleeful.
Ijowever, we are glad Mecklenburg
cJmnty, together with the whole State
of North Carolina, rolled up such a
magnificent majority and did her
whole duty for the maintenance of
tlose principles we love so dear
the principle's of good eld Jefi'erso
nian 'Democracy. As a good Demo-
erut remarked io me: j ne? rascais
have closed in on us, but lirst they
were compelled to lay (11 eur home
stead." I'lte Republican loaders here now
arc beginning to cast about lor the
spoils that is in the Federal gov
ernment and much lighting ami
many hot contests arc looked forward
toj Of course they all want, fat
places, ami some of the "big dogs"
like J. AN". (Jonlon. (col.)"" F. A.
Mi Ninch and Jim Sims won t he con
tent witli any little oHice. ! 'They
claimi to have Ik'CH in tho hot! battles
in jtlte heat of the day, and how de
mand some ei' the 4,fat." No one
knows just yet how t ho ollices will
be j divided, but many think Mr.
Archie Brady will go in as post
master. Mr. F. W. AheTiis will preb
alily I Toss the mint here. McNiiieb
and Cordon say there' is nothing in;
Charlotte thev will have., so thev are;
1 ..t-IM 1
fishing for bigge
places.
Charlotte for the
has been wonderful
The growth i
pa- few months
iind she continues to push, onward
anil upward. The population now
numbers about i:,ooo souls.
Mecklenburs: county has several
very
old voters, who now are gray
feeble, but totter to the: polls
deposit their ballots on the day
and
and
of election. Among the many is onr
beloved fellow citizen, Cen. W. 11.
Xea! , of Steele Creek township., who
is ninety years old and hits voted for
seventeen Democratic Presidential
candidates. There is also thai'brave
old hohlifr, Mr.; Stephen Calhmt,
who heard the roaring of'cjytwon
balisljand saw smok
eon revoluiion-
arv attls-lteMs-
e voted the sec-
ond time for Cleveland, making the
lSthHPresidcntial candidate he has
voteel for in his life. Mecklenburg
county has some mighty old Demo
cratic voters, anel it tne whole county
would have rallied to the polls, last
Tuesday rfs she die with her Detnoe-;
icy -j knowing no tear and defeat,
the country to-day would not mourn
the calamity that has inllen'upon
us bf thefelectioii ef a Republican
President and ice-1 resident. ;
This week is being observer! Ihto,
as wen as tiirottgiiout tne worm, oy
the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion. ! as a week of praveT. Revi
HenrV McDonald, 1). P., of Atlanta,
is conducting evangelical lnvetinirs
in their hall e'verv dav. ! ;i
Charlotte is now turning heT eyes
to new railroads. Lines front Uere
to Weldon, N. C: also an extension
of the :j C's, er branch from here to
AVehhiii ; aline from here to 1 Yerk-
ville and other points in Soutli: Caro-
ma, p are being agitated. AVhen
Charlotte folk ro to Durham anel
sec your new railroads, we feel like
we ajjc about to be left and: pome
back agitating new lines. i
ReyL P. R. Law, who for a long
time held the position as .editorial
writcit on the Chroniele of this citv.
will ak-cept the call to the, pastorate
of the
Presbyterian e-hurch at Bum-
Ibertoi
A
Locoinotivc Cnsiineer's Cat.
Abbeville e'ltii-n. . ;
An engineer on the Danville rail
way, wnoserun is between uanyiue
anel Springfielel, has a cat which" he
woulel not part with for love or
money. It belongeel to his wife,
who is now 'dead, and for many
years past it has been his constant
companion in the cab. Ordinarily
it sitsipercheel up in the cab window
before its master, but occasionally it
strolls out to the pilot, where it will
ride for hours at a stretch, winking
knowingly at the dogs which bark
at the train as it thunelers by the
cross roads. Sometimes when the
train is approaching a station the
adventurous animal climbs to the
top of the sandbox and calmly roosts
there, undeterred by the shriek of
the whistle or the clang of the bell.
The engine has had good luck ever
since the animal became an occu
pant if the cab, and .the trainmen
look upon it as a mascot.
Two ISrutes.
The Cartnon.
Magistrate "What's the
charge
against this man '?"
Officer "He threw a.photograpb
lens at a baby and cut ils he-ad. '
Magistrate "Are you a regular
photographer?"
Prisoner "Yes, your honor. I
had been trying for two mortal
hours to take a picture of that little
imp I mean little babyt your
honor-and "
Magistrate "You are discharged.
I used to be a photographer myself."
Tle Governor's Thanksgiving 1
PTwiamation.
The Thanksgiving proclamation
was issueel yesterday by the Gover-!
nor and is as follows :
Neftrn Carolina,
ExKeiTivE Department.
Goel is recognized in the Constitu
tion of our State, and should eveFbe
honored as the Supreme Ruler of
the ln i verse in the hearts of our
people. To Ilim we are indebted for
our country and her institutions, for
civil and religious liberty, for
our holy religion audits adaptation
to man's wants and happiness, to
gether with the numberless mercies
and blessings which have crowned
our daily lives.
I, therefore, Alfred M. Scales, Gov
ernor of North Carolina, in view of
our depenpence and God's goodne-ss,
do he reby appoint Thursday, the
!'.th elay of November, ISSS, as a
day of thanksgiving anel praise, and
I earnestly reijuest the people of the
State devemtly tet assemble them
selves together to engage in His wor
ship, to praise His holy name, and
invoke for us the perpetuity of our
institutions and the continuation of
1 lis blessings ; and while in eliseharge
of these sacred duties, let us alse
contribute of our substance to the
poor and needy and the widow and
orphan, anel especially would I in
voke the gene rosity and prayers of
the people for the Orphan Asylum
at Oxford, where so many orphans
are training for life.
Done at our City of Raleigh this
the Uth elay of November, ISSN,
and in the erne hundred and thir
teenth year of our American Inde
pendence. Ai.i'kko M. Scales.
By the ( love-rnor :
C. II. Akmi-iki.d,
Private Secretary.
Paid lor His Cake.
l.llllit l'uss.
'"Speaking f women," said the
Colonel, alter a long pause, "1 was
traveling in Missouri once in my
buggy when I met a tall, slabsided
girl of twenty, in the road. I had
taken a elrink or two and felt jolly,
anel so 1 haibd her with :
"Howdy, Sal ! Fine day ?"
"Howdy, stranger." she promptly
replied.
Say."' I went on. "I'm looking for
a wife."
"What sort?"
"About your kind."
'Want me ?"
"If you'll have me."
'Reckon 1 will. Let's drive buck
and see dad anel mam."
"1 was joking, you know, and so 1
told her that 1 was in a great hur
ry and wuhl return. Three natives
who came along just then stopper!
to find out what was the matte r,
and they set in with the girl to take
me back. The only way I could get
out of it wast" bolt for the woods,
leaving the- horse and buggy behind,
and five years later the girl was still
driving them. That little joke of
mine cost me just :io, to say neth
ing of being run through a patch of
woods live miles wide."
I asigor of Spontaneous Combns
tion From Cotton.
Wilmington Sta.
There was, very nearly, a ease of
spontaneous' combustion at the
Champion Cotton Press on yester
day. A bale of cotton marked
" A-l-V" weighing pounds and
shipped from Mt. iivein a lot of
seventeen bales, was sampled by
tli"' exporters. Messrs.. Alex Sj.runt
iV Son. and found to he water-packeel
and damaged, and was so hot inside
as to be unbearable to '.he hand. The
pale was opened and iUe cotton in
side was found to be partly caked,
ifiensive in stneli, and steaming hot.
Had this bale been compressed and
stowed away in one of the steamers
how loading here, there is hardly a
doubt that it would have resulted in
spontaneous combustion and the
probable loss of the entire cargo by
lire. Any person who fraudulently
packs cotton should be apprehended
and severely punished. Some of the
thysterious cotton fires on board
ships at sea may be attributed to
this cause.
The How.
Wilmington Star.
; Long ago the Star said the cam
paign was to be one of Boodle anel
Intimielation, and so it was. The re
was never be lore se much money
spent in any campaign. Probably
the Republicans scattered ten br fif
teen million elpllars. Why not?
They bad it, and they were not
troubled in the least with any con
scientious scruples as to its use.
Monopoly went dliberately to work
tp buy every purchasable voter with
in its reach. The Memey Kings saw
thattheirgains from the great Bounty
taken from the people by robbery
were in greatest danger, and they saw
a once that they must btnj ami in
limidole or the People woulel gain the
ascendency. So Quay called and
Monopoly answered. ' Foster fried
and the fat llowed in perennial
streams of lubricating grease, and
the Machine worked easily and Har
rison and Morton true representa
tive men of the Money Devil were
chosen. That is the how.
I3urhaniites Forbearing.
Aslievillu Citizen.
The citizens of Durham deserve
much credit for their forbearance
towards those they had reason to
believe instigateel mischief to their
city, culminating in one instance in
the burning of the dwelling of Mr.
C. B. Green, Chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee. It was
very certain that some white men
had been active in giving bad coun
sels, anel their complicity was more
than a mere suspicion. One of them,
a man named Jordan, who had been
candidate for township constable,
was so palpably guilty that he was
requested to leave the city. He did
so reluctantly ; but was permitted to
return, and leave on the train ac
companieel by his family. The cit
izens magnanimously furnished the
family with money enough to take
them to Boston, from which city
they came.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapjed hands, ChifLlaina,
Crns, and afl Skin Kruptions, and positively
cures File or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale
by K. Blacknall & Son.
OUH EXCHANGES-
Evening
n.xVor: We recret
to
that Mr. B.i II.. Woodell,
of the "nooular shoe store," ! in this
citv, has been compelled to make an
assignment,
the trustee.
Mr. C. M. Rusbee
is
Charleitte Jhruiti le .i A potrait! of
Ilev. R. G. Pearson, the evangelist,
painted by Mrs. Col.. John L Brown,
of this city, has been ! presented Jby
her to thl Young Men's Christian As
sociation. The portrait is faithfully
executed: ; "
Asheville Citizen : Visitors arc be
ginning to arrive nijthee'ity, ami
hotel men are conlbb jnt that there
will lie more annals this season than
ever before. Work on the strhet
railway is still being pushed forward
vigorously. j
: X. C. Heojtii JhiHeHi : Durham
Dr. N. M. Johnson, Durham. The
health of the county has ben very
good, with only soniecajesof malaria,
and four or live! cases of diphtheria
in county, with two deaths from that
cause, so far as I can Itim.
Carthage lllade : Of wo -lavs and
full of trouble. IJorn in sin and in
iquity, and died a death of.degnula-
tlon. hue; it is the late pi t'te hock-
ery banner which was
ithe breeze at this plae-e
kfnrh d to
t Monday
evening anel cut down last . Wednes
day night.
1 Wilmington He.seii;
r:
There
five steamships now n this port
loading cotton. J heir aggregate
.tonnage: is o,.'iSo. Allowing eae;!i
ship its full tenriage ami if thp.t ton
nage could be receive in cotton,
these five ships would Carry L'-'v'p!
bales allowing b!i poumlsXto the
bale. :
i lhhlvid Ileenrder : Last
Lambert, of Irede-ll county,
his fy oil horseback w:itit a
corn to mill, when thi- sat
untied and the coin began
j WlM
was (
ack eiit'
K crime
plilllig.
This frightened the horse which, ran
away and threw the boy, who wak
afterward.- found dead by the road
ride. ("uailotte e 7i ''.' ; A Republican
-aid y stcrday that t hi pegrues will
get no ollices, beejause the Northern
Republicans do not want their vote
any longer as they are lise'less! in ;i
national election.; "What we want,'
hi; says, "is w hite ! votes, Jand there-!
litre tne omc
will 'go tj white Re
pfildictiiis."
' Wilmington liei-i"n-:
llansley.- wltet lives
Ilavr.e. in ttiis county.
2 ", V
:lr. William
ne;.r Castle?!
:i;is :i white
crow. It is a veritable crow in t-very
particuhir. except in its c(lor. It is
a case in which the saying, "black
asi a crow," fails to hold good. Who
can explain the cause of this singu
lar freak of nature ?
! Harnett Courier: Rurglar tried
to enter the re-siilence ofj Mr. F. P.
Jones one night last week. The
miserable scoundrel did not wait till
the family retired, but made his at
tempt early in the night, w-hen there
was no one in the bouse hut w omen.
Woe be unto the one that is caught
in such an attempt as this. I
Progressive Farmer : Look out.
Alliance men ! Pro. W. t. Kivett.
of Liberty, writes us that ah agent is
going through the country selling
Allsike, clover seed at 7" etents per
pbund.'and ask- to warn the farmers
.fgainst the fraud. The same seed
are :idverti-"d in this paper ntjlo
cents per pound. He claims to be
from Pennsylvania.:
j Wilson Adrmee Some f
tniMTS; 111
Stjol.es count v are feeding f;
ten- hesg
Ibr ehol-
oii tobacca as prevents ve
era. Rockv Mount, Fair
Lwdl haye
-e'veral new and novel' attractions.
i-. R. W. ! Dui haiii withji a large
tfjiupe of Iinlians. Free exhibitions
every day. A tournament, ridden
entirely by ladi"s, on Friday. Xo
veinber lt;th.
JliUietd Ileenrder ; Mrs. ! F. M.
Sltelloii, of Chtii'loth1, was ' danger
ously woiunled last : week. Her
nephew took down a gun to start out
hunting. One barrel was! loaded,
it nd while he was preparing to load
the other barrel, the weapon was
discharged, the cut ire load of shot
lodging in Mrs. Shcltpifs left shoulder,
making a serious wound.
Asheville Citizen: The convicts in
the penitentiary, and on thej various
railroadsj turnpikes, etcf, have
reached 'about thirteen hundred.
There are only seven women among
them. The temperance! lecture
delivered by Mrs. Wells, oil the W,
C.;T. I'., at tin: Chun h street MethOr
dist church,; Sunday evening, was an
able and eloquent appeal tor tem
perance. ::
I'r'resii:e Farmer: Fifty-one
government' distilleries are
said to
Yadkin
be running at present in
county. A foundry has been es
tablished at Peachland, !! Anson
county, for- making all kinds of
castings, for plows, mills, stoves,' Arc.;,
anel the President of Alliance X.
Z'2, at that place, wants the address
of all the Secretaries in the State,
that he may send price lists, ivc.
Write to him.
(loldsboro Arans: The sad news
e-pmes to us that Rullm Pate, of Fork
township, this county, 20 years eld,
son of Mrs. Daniel Iate,"a widow,
was killed Monday night by a tree
falling on him while out possufti hunt
ing with his younger brother. - After
cutting the tree down and while it
was falling, he saw that his dog was
about to be caught under it ami he
made a rush to save t ho dog and was
himself caught and instantly killed.
New Berne Journal: We desire to
thank Mr (Jraham T. Richardson.
of the Rellair farm, for a package of
green peas, which were received
yesterday. Mr. Richardson shipped
two boxes yesterday, and we learn
that several boxes of snap beans
have been shipped during the past
week or two. This is the second
frop this year. Though this is not
t-he truck season of the year, the
jpeas are fine. This if our climate
j green peas in November! !
j Asheville Cdizen : A lot of West
ern North Carolina tobacco will be
exhibited at the Danville tobacco
exposition. The Asheville ware
houses will also have specimens of
fine tobacco on exhibition. A
meeting of the visiting citizens of the
counties west of Buncombe, was held
at the courthouse last night, the ob
ject of which was the collection of
an exhibit of woods, minerals, etc.,
for the. Paris Exhibition. The meet
ing waa held under a call from Capt
Natt Atkinson, of this city.
Important Iecision by the i
' j Supreme Court. .
WAsnixcTox,1 1). C, Nov. l h '1
Supreme Court of the United State,
through Chief-Justice Fuller ha
rendered an opinion of unusual. in
terest to holelers of life' insurance
policies. Thomas L. Hume, of the,'
District of Columbia, died in Ks-'
totally insolvent, but leaving s ri.ito,!
in life insurance policies. These
policies were by their terms j,;tV;i.
ble; t itiit r to the widow or chil,lr,,n
of the; df ceased. The administra
tors and creditors of Hume's estate
sought to force the application .t'the
proceeds of the! policies to the ,:lv.
ment of the debts due his eredttoVs
on the ground that the premiums
paid by Hume were a fraud -th,.
transfer of an insolvent estate and
void as against the; creditors, and
that t:ons"juentlv the proceeds ,,t"
the poKcies should inure to the h, n.
efit of Hume's 'estate: and in t t; 1 h
bene liciaries named in the i . .1 i
The Supreme Court holds that. th,. '
beneficiaries are entitled to the j,r,,. j
ee-eds of all the policies without any
deductions whatever etn account 7i"
the premiums: paid, holding that
the husband ami father have the
full right to insure bis life in th,
interest1 of hid wife anel e-hih'i;
and that where such policies arft
feeted in the name of the ht m ii
ciaries they are no part of the estate
of the deceased insolvent, and there
fore cannot be regarded as a fraud a
lent assignme nt of any part of Lis
estate when sr effected.
A Holocaust.
RuciiKSTKi:, X. V., Nov. 14. Twey
more bodies were unearthed ahum ;i
o'eleck fhis morning in the ruin- ,,f
hft Friday's great lire. These an
in addition to the 1L taken oiit ,-.
ti-rday. This: makes dea.l a,-,
counted for. There arc probahb ,t
or 12 borlies yet in the ruins. Th.
lirst body found tl"ii.- morning was
about forty left west of the ,ut
elevator'well. ' It was badly charml
and wry little was left of it. s!mi-!j
after another heap of I iodic-: wa- uii
carthe'd. It was a gha-lh tind. Tltc
bodies we're wedged together as
though they hild all been slaiid'iirg
together when the ltoorg:ie-vra and
precipitateil them to the ha-eiih ut
and into the raging furnace.
A Mail Iog Itunniug Aiumk
Tlirough a City.
Ixpjaxapoi.is. Ind., Nov. 1 I A
dog owned by Patrick Walsh went
mad yesterday and attacked Mi-s
Cora Walsh, an eighteen-year-eld ;
daughter oftlse owner, biting her em
both armsi In attempting to res, ik
his daughter AValsh was liadly hit
ten on the hanek The dog thej
started on a mad liight through the
city w ith several police in pursuit. .
lb- bit fully fifty" j'mimals anel finally
attacked a small child, tearing out
one of the little fellow's cheeks and
destroying ;aii eve. After a chase of
two miles the elog was killed.
A Frog Causes ;i Railway Dis
aster. DoWXKK" ClioVK. 111., Nov. 11. A
fast freight train running east on the
isouth track of the Rurlingtoh road
ast evening, struck a "frog" and
jumped the track just in time to catch
the engine of a crowed suburban pas-
hcngi r train, which had just pulh-d
ut of Downec s. At the: entl id a
ninute there was .neit much left of
he passenger ejngine and both cngi
leer and lireiman were so h-.nUy
ruis"d and mangled that they
lie. A nuniinlr etf freijiltt cars
,vrecke anil three tracks were ib-
triteted lor some liours. '
Iiapti.st State Coiiventbm.
( ' in iKNs i ft iji, , X. C, Xov 14. The
fty-eighth session of the Raptist
State con ve ntion met at 11 o'cleick;
us morning, li
dele-gates present
ami others coming in on every train. ;
rgauiz.itioi;i : President, W. H. Pace;,;
Secretary, N. . Rroughton ; A-sis-t.tnt
Secretary, jG. W. Green1, Treas
urer, W. S' (.'randy.
j
i
31 rs. Gould's Condition.
i Nkw York, Nov. 14. The cotfdi-.
tion of Mrs. (iould was reporteel this
morning as showing signs of marked
ihiprovement. I The fears entertained
that her illness would terminate fa
tally are gradually being dispelled.
Ilanyreil for 3Iurder.
Lkraxox,. Piv. Xov. 14. At 11
ofcloe-k to-day; William Showers was
banged in the jail-yard for the mur
.der of his two grand-children at Ann
ville, May 17th, lftST.
ISuinl Onerinrs.
' Washington, D. C, X"nv, .1 I.
Bond offerings to-day at thevi're'as
ury aggregated S'ilofKK); accept
arjce's'o),(K'T four-andi-half-fat i lS
and 108:'. 1 i
Our Next Senator.
Rfciflsville Dt mwnit.
It is thought there will be a sharp
contest for- the seat in the Senate
now held by Matt W. Ration, wh
is a candidate for re-election. lb
Ai M. Waddell. recent candidate f;r
Klector-at-I-arge on the Democratic
ticket, is an aspirant for the posi
tion, and a strong one; but there is.
another factor which, for the first
time enters into the contest. The'
Fawners' Alliance,, including sub
alliances, has 06,000 members in the
State, all whitetnen, and full of their
faith, which isio supjiort Alliance
men and principles, and who, it is
said, will nresJ its president. Col.
S. B. Alexande
of Mecklenburg, for
Hansom's place:
in the National Sen
ate. In case Alexander is not chosen,
many Alliancpf men will, it is re
porteel, favor Waddell.
A Lawyer IJurnctl to Death.
New? & Observer. "
Gavin L. Hyman. a member of
the bar residing at Halifax, X. C.,
and clerk of the inferior -court of
that county, was burned to death
last Friday night. He occupied a
room in tha 'courthouse and retired
to rest at th(? j usual hour. -During
the night a fire was discovered in
his room, and on breaking open the
door it was discovered that he and
his bed hael been burned.,--There
was no material damage to the court
house, the fire being discovered m
time to prevent this. It. was sup
posed that Mr j Hy man's lamp ex
ploded. The! unfortunate gentleman
was about 43j years old.