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NO. 30.
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IN EFFFCT MAY i8th, 1890.
DAILY
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 50. fo. 52.
Lv. Richmond 3 00 p m 2 30 a m
" Hiwkeville .5 06 pm 4 30am
" Keysville 5 48pm 510am
" Danville 8 40pm 805am
Ar. Greensboro 10 27 p m 9 42 a ni
Lv. ;ldslMro 2 40 p ni 5 00 p m
Ar. Rah-igh 4 40 p m flOOpin
Lv. Raleigh 4 45 p in 1 00 a m
" Diirliitin 5 48pm 255 am
Ar. Greensboro 8 20 p m 7 30 a m
Lv. Winston-Salem G 30 p m 6 15 a m
Lv. Greensboro 110 37 p m 9 50 a m
Ar. Salisbury 12 26 a m 11 19 a m
Ar. Statesville ' 1 49 a m 12 08 p m
" Asheville 7 22am 422pm
" 1 lot Springs 9 34 a ni 6 55 p m
Lv. Salisbury 12 32 a m 11 24 a m
Ar. Charlotte 2 05 a in 12 40 p m
" Spsu tanburg 4 51 a ni 3 38 p m
" Greenville - 5 56 a in 4 46pm
" Atlanta 11 00 a 111 9 40pm
Lv. Charlotte 2 20 m 1 00 p m
Ar. Columbia 6 30 a m 5 10 p m
" Augusta 10 30 am1 9 00pm
DAILY.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 51. No. 53.
Lv. Auiwsta ii 30 p ra 8 00 a m
" Columbia 10 35 p m 12 50 p m
Ar. Charlotte 3 13 a m 5 15 p m
Lv. Atlanta 6 00 p m 7 10 a m
Ar. Greenville- 13 35 am 1 48 p in
' Spartanburg 1 39 a m 2 52 p ni
Charlotte 4 25 am 5 30 p m
" Salisbury G 02 a m 7 05 p ni
Lv. Hot Springs 11 10 p in 12 24 p m
" Asheville 12 40 am 2 05 pm
" Statesville " 5 02am 558 pm
r. Salisbury 5 53 a m 6 42 p m
Ly. Salisbury 6 07 a m 7 12 p m
Ar. Greensboro 7 45 a in 8 40 p m
Ar. Winston-Salem 11 40 a m 2 30 a m
Lv. Greensboro 9 45 a m 11 00 p m
Ar. Durham 12 01pm 5 00am
" Raleigh 1 05 p m 7 45 a m
Lv. Raleigh 1 05 p m 19 00 a m
Ar. Goldsboro 2 55 p m 12 50 p m
Lv. Greensboro 7 55 a m 8 50 p m
Ar. Danville 9 32 am 1020 pm
" Keysville 1218pm 155 am
" Rurkeville 100pm 2 45 am
" Riclimond 3 30pm 5 15 am
Between West Point, Richmond & Raleigh.
Via. Keysville, Oxford and Durham.
54aillo2
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Fort Mitchell
Finneywood
Chase City
Five Forks
Clarksville
Soudan
Bullock's
Stovall
Oxford
Ar.
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Ar.
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4 30 p m
1 45 p m
2 00 p m
12 58 p m
12 47 p in
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11 40 a m
11 24 a m
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6 39 p ni "
6 57 p mlAr.
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t Daily except Sunday. Daily. Daily
except Monday.
Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex
cept Sunday 11 00 a m., arrive Henderson
12 05 p m.. returning leave Henderson 2 10
p m., daily except Sunday, arrive Oxford
3 15 p m.
No. 50, leaving Goldsboro 2 20 p ni and
Raleigh 4 45 p m daily, makes connection
at Durham with No. 19, leaving at 6 00 p m
daily, except Sunday for Oxford, Heuder
son and all points on O. & H., O. & C. and
R. & M. roads.
Passenger coaches run through between
West Point and Raleigh, via Keysville, on
Nos. 54 and 102, and 55 and 103.
Nos. 51 and 53 connect at Richmond troui
nnd to West Point and Baltimore daily ex
cept Sunday.
Nos. 50 and 51 connect at Goldsboro with
trains to and from Morehead City and Wil-
mington.andat Selma to and from rayette
ville. No. 52 connects at Greensboro for Fay
etteville. No 53 connects at Selina for Wilson V.C.
Nos. 50 and 51 make ciose connection at
university Station with trains to and from
inapel mil, except Sundays.
SLEEPJNG-OAR SERVICE.
On trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buf
fet Sleeper between Atlanta and New
York, Danville and Augusta and Greens
boro, via Asheville to Morristowu, Tenn.
On 52 and 53, Pullman Buffet Sleeper
between Washington and New Orleans via
Montgomery, and between Washington
and Birmingham, Richmond and Greens
wro, Raleigh and Greensboro and between
Washington and Augusta, and Pullman
Buffet Sleepers between Washington and
Asheville and Hot Springs.
Through tickets on sale at principal
stations to all points.
For rates, local and through time tables,
vf RIy.J anv agent of the company, or to
HAAS, J AS. L. TAYLOR,
1 rathe Manager. Genu. Pass. Agent.
W.A.TURK,
Div. Pass. Agent,
Raleigh, N. C.
LOVE'S SBCRET.
BT JOHH BOYLE O'REILLY.
Love found them sitting In a woodland
place,
His amorous band amid her golden
tresses :
And Jve looked smiling on her glowing
face
And moistened eyes upturned to his ca
resses. "O sweet!" she murmured, "life is utter
bliss."
" Dear heart," he said, " our golden cup
runs over."
" Drink love," she cried, " and thank the
god's for this."
He drained the precious lips of cup and
lover.
Love blessed the kiss, but ere he wandered
thence
The mated blossoms heard this benedic
tion : . . m
" Love lies within the brimming bowl of
sense
Who keeps this full has joy who drains,
affliction."
They heard the rustle as he smiling fled ;
She reached her hand to pull the roses
blowing.
He stretched to take the purple grapes
o'er-head;
Love whispered back, " Nay keep their
beauties growing."
They paused, and understood ; one flower
alone
They took and kept, and Love flew smil
ing over.
Their roses bloomed, their cup went brim
ming on M ,
She looked for love within and found
her lover.
I,KTTEU FROM KINGWOOD.
A Merited Tribute to Dr. Edward
Warren Crop Iropcia Simmon
for rotigrebB.
Special correspondence of the Hold Leaf.
Ring woon, N. C. Aug. 25, 1899.
Your issue of the 7th inst. contained a
poem composed by Dr. Edward Warren,
which brought up many memories of the
past. I was a private student of Dr.
Warren's in the days of his adversity in
Baltimore and know much of his history.
His was indeed a great mind and no man
commanded a greater share of the confi
dence of his clans of 1G0 students in
Baltimore in 1867, and he still lives an
ornament to his country, an honor to
the land of his adoption and one of the
brightest lights in the world of science.
What a flood of memories his very name
recalls recollections of the dreams of
youth, of the struggles of manhood and
of the faces and forms of those who were
once so full of hope and promise, but
who have been sleeping for years beneath
the sod. As one of his pupils I wish to
bear testimony to the geniality of his dis
position, the loyalty of his character and
the depth and grasp of his intellect. He
loved his native State with the devotion
of a trne and genuine love, as you will
see from the following lines in his book
"A Doctor's Experience in Three Conti
nents," which I would advise all who can
procure a copy to read. (The Doctor's
1 5 Rue leon mortin. Paris).
After residing abroad for years and pass
ing hroue-h st.ranere vicissitudes receiv
ing honors and decorations from ths
nations, he has this to say as his mind
thft ln.Tid of his birth after
from the University of North
Carolina in 1884 the honorary aegree 01
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Doctor of Laws :
'Cnminir from the University of my
native State this degree has proved the
source of more real gratincation man m
of my foreign honors combined. It has
likewise warmed up my bosom toward
Pnrnllna mul insmred ine with a
stronger desire and a firmer purpose to
prove myself worthy of her worthy to
be recognized as her son and to wear her
honors. I have always loved her but my
affection is now intensified and 1 feel that
is nnt, n, mob nnon her ruejred
mountains, nor a blade of grass within
her grand savannas, nor a rippie upon
her majestic streams, nor a foot of her
n from nncombe to tne sea, wuuout
n n aw in mv nearx: anuiiereer mi
. j i .
foot tnnv wnndcr or whatever my fate
may be, for her my every thought shall
be a prayer and my latest Dream a Diess
ing
For freely my life's blood bestowing,
For her I would sever each vein.
And die for the pleasure of knowing
Mv anguish had saved her a pain I"
And after wearing tho legion of Honor
nf Wnncp drtsiffnated bv Nanolean I. as a
reward for military or civil services, merit
and worthy deeds, ana securing tnai. 01
the Redemption of the Holy Sepulchre of
Jerusalem, and that of the White Cross
of Italy, together with the medal of Vic
tor Emmanuel, all on account of Profes
sional Successes and work done in the
ni humanity: when his thoughts re
verted to America how feelingly does he
sieak :
' Thp lnucrer I have resided abroad the
more intensely American have I become
and the greater has grown my love and
nnnrenintion of mv native land. Other
lands mnv nossess their treasures of art,
their marvels of luxury, their triumphs
of architecture and all tnat is caicuiatea
to captivate the imagination and to rav
ish the senses, but for the truest solution
of the problem of existence, the grandest
victories of human skill over the laws of
Tmtnrp-thp most fortuitous combinations
which constitute society and the perfec
tion of a governmental system that
which governs the least and protects the
1 : . ii. 1 ,1 .
most .imeriea is m muu ji-tfiniut:iivjj
blessed of Heaven. Call me an enthusi
ast if yon will, but for me her skies are
the brightest, her rivers the broadest, her
fields the greenest, her women the love
liest, her men the noblest, her history the
Het. And all that relates to her the
lpst of all the world besides. Elsewhere
her sons may be content to linger for a
rtpnann tint to them she is tne oniy tana
in which they cnn ever realize the idea o
home or feel that they are aught else than
aliens and sojourners."
Dr. Warren was and is, indeed a great
man. and if his native land had appreci
ated the same he would not have been
forced to go elsewhere to seek fame and
fortune, as many others have done, but
would have Deen an nonor to it, giving
his fellow-countrymen the benefit of his
great skill and usefulness. I earnestly
hrr his nrosne ltv and happiness in bis
latter days may be commensurate with
his genius and worth. .
Crops are good, tobacco cures fine.
Farmers are in high spirits and mer
chants look forward to more trade and
cash and better times another year.
Simmons I think should be our next
Congressman. He can carry more votes
than any candidate whose name has yet
been mentioned. " G. E. M.
The Germantown Independently :
While electricity doesn't electrocute
to order very successfully, it gets there
on the accident line with neatness and
dispatch.
JOHH BOILE O'REILLY, r
P0ET EDITOR OBATOB, PATRIOT.
A Beautiful Tribute to His Worth,
Character And Attainments by a
Brother Poet and Journalist.
Will Hubbard-Kernan, himself a
poet who has displayed a high order
of genius and originality, and one of
the most pointed and pungent writers
connected with any one of our numer-
is exchanges, pays this "beautiful
tribute to John Boyle O'Reilly, the
poet-editor of the Boston Pilot, whose
sad and unexpected death has already
been announced. We copy from'the
Escanaba, Michigan, Mirror, which
paper Mr. Kernan has been editing
with signal ability for several months :
A splendid figure has filed off the
stage of man and immortality forever.
John Boyle O'Reilly,
Poet,
Patriot and
Pride of the people,
Solved the miracle and mystery of
life, in bis home by the sea, at Hull, in
Massachusetts, while dawn was pearling
into the full daybreak of the 10th.
He had scarcely rounded to his
regnant prime when he was summoned
to the serener life, the" wider horizons
and the loitier plains of immortality.
Born in Ireland, he entered the
English army, in his young manhood,
for the proud, pure purpose of teaching
the soldiery of his own race that they
should revolt against the British flag
the flag that has brought
Blood, .
Fire and
Tears
To the Irish for seven bloody and
barbaric centuries. Detected in his
labor of love and liberty.he was thrown
into prison and condemned to the
death , but his sentence was changed
to exile, and he was sent to Australia.
From thence be made his escape in an
open boat; was picked up by an
American ship, and brought to this
country, where his career has been one
long series of triumphs in literature,
oratory and journalism.
As a patriot, he will rank forever
with the indomitable heroes of his
race; as a poet, he will be remembered
forever as one ot the most illustrious
singers of the XlXth century ; as a
man he will retain forever a
"Fragrant and
Flowering
Place in the green gardens of memo
ry, as one who modeled his life by the
loftiest standards, and made his own
that inspired utterance :
Be Just, and fear not,
Let all the ends thou aim'st at
Be, thy country's.God's and Truth's."
All that is purest all that is most'
progressive in the whole sum and
sweep of humanity loved this man for
himself, and loved him for the English
enemies that he made.
Great soul ! Gallant sovereign un
crowned ! The Mirror and a mighty
multitude that no man can number
speak thy name with reverence this
day, as it will be spoken by unborn
myriads till the endless end shall toll !
Brave, serene and marvelous spirit,
All hail and
Farewell !
A Clerfyma' Pitch t.
The Rev. Dr. Todd, of this city, once
found hitnaaif in the pulpit Sunday
morning with the wrong sermon in his
pocket. There was no time to send home
for the right one, as the congregation
was singing the hymn that preceded the
discourse; nor would it do to preach
from the mannscrrpt before him, as it
had been directed against his hearers
but a few Sundays before. It was a
critical moment. He succeeded, how
ever, in recalling the text on which
the absent manuscript was based, and so
he began and finished his remarks on
that line of thought without a scrp of
paper to help him. It is a fact that a
number of the reverend doctor's hearers
stopped a moment after the sermon to
congratulate him on an especially fine
effort. New Haven Palladium
Ilafrc&ge Boom for Tvvlor.
People going to Earope for the first
time are generally- surprised at being
told they are entHtod to take forty cubic
feet of ceCxage without extra charge,
It sounds like a great deal, but as a mat
ter or raci u apesat amount to more
thantwobig trunks. For every ton of
baggage above the limit passengers on
ocean steamers are supposea to pay
twenty shOiings charges, but the steam
ship companies are very liberal in the
matter and show no disposition, as
rale, to be disobliging. Two trunks
each 4 feet long by 8 feet high by 8 feet
wide contain each twenty cubic feet and
would exhaust the baggage limit. New
York World.
Sport at DolmtW.
The people of Duluth were entertained
on Fnday by the captains of three tugs.
who had a race ten miles away and re
turn, with safety valves tied down and
furnaces full to the doors. The pleasure
of the populace was only marred by the
fact that there was no explosion. De
troit Free Press.
Pulp manufacturers are deeply inter
ested in an electrical method of reducing
the wood in the manufacture of pulp.
By this process it is claimed that the fiber
is msmmfactured vo cheaply thai the en
tire pulp biismesswin be reroluticsdsed,
and the digesters now is use be driven
out. '
Judge James 2L Shackleford, of Indi
ana, appointed judge of a court in Okla
homa territory, took his son with him as
clerk of the court. The son and clerk has
recently distinguished himself by marry
ing a Cherokee.
- A. C A. tV? J J-ll . .
The following letter from Hon. Z.
B. Vance speaks for itself. It, was
written, as will be seen, in reply to a
letter of inquiry to know just what
" tampering" he did with that subi
Treasury bill, for which Polk and
io me few others are attacking him so
violently:
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C, Aug. 7.
Mr. - , Goldsboro N. C.
My Dear Sir : Your favor of 2nd
inst., has been received. I take pleas
ure in answering it, but am compelled )
for want of time to be very brief.
The bill as Polk and Macune handed
it to me contained a provision that
supervisors of warehouses, who were
to be agents Treasury Department,
should be elected by the qualified voters
of each county wherin the warehouse
was to be situated. I did change that
and provide that they should be ap
pointed by the Secretary of Treasury.
Please get a copy of the constitution
and look at the second clause of section
2, article 2, and you will see why
there is no greater danger to the good
cause of the farmers than it should be
entrusted to the management of lead
ers who could not frame a bill without
directly violating in this way the plain
language of the constitution so plain,
in fact, that a schoolboy cannot mis
understand it. I made no other
changes in the bill except to change
the word sub-Treasury and substitute
"bonded agricultural warehouses," for actual membership of sixty-five thous
the reason that there is in old politi- ' and. To-day we have a total of nine
cal predjudice against that name sub-: ty-five county and two thousand, one
Treasury. Those who charge me with j hundred and forty-seven sub-ordi-thus
changing the bill in order to make j nate Alliances containing an approxi
it unpopular are guilty of falsehood and mate membership of ninety thousand,
adsurdity. I was and am friendly to
the purposes of the bill, and to every
thing that the farmers wish that can
be granted without violating the fun
damental law of my country. If their
cause is wisely directed it will triumph j
as sure as there is justice upon earth.
It is a pity that it should be handi-;
capped at the very start by a measure
so unconstitutional and impracticable.
May God give them wisdom to do
the right and succeed.
I thank you for your kind expressions
for me personally.
Very truly yours,
Z. B. Vance.
SENATOR ZEB VANCE.
The announcement is authoritatively
made that the Farmers Alliance of
North Carolina will not, as a body,
oppose the re-election to the United
States Senate of Senator Vance. This
is a wise and patriotic conclusion, and
will do more to firmly establish the
Alliance than any single action of the
orginization.
Senator Vance ranks as one of the
ablest members of that body. He is
a tower of strength. No man in the
Senate or lower house of Congress has
stood by the interests of the farmer
more faithfully than the noble Senator
from North Carolina. On all occasions
and upon every question affecting the
rights and interest of the farmer, Sena
tor Vance has been its bold and un
compromising champion. Birming
ham News.
We are no friend to protection, but
we quite agree with what the Edenton
Fisherman and Farmer says in the
following paragraph :
The farmer who does not take
proper care ot his stock, or of his farm
implements, ought not to say much
about the tariff or any other question.
The man who makes speeches against
the tariff and lets his mowing machine
rot and rust in the field, has not got
hold of the biggest end of his troubles
by a jugfull.
Reed in the House spurring on the
Election bill, Quay in the Senate re
tarding it, McKinley in the House
urging the tariff bill, Hoar in the Sen
ate willing to pass it by, constitute a
quartette of dissonance unsurpassed in
the history of radicalism. If the Demo
crats keep their hands off the Republi
cans will cut each other's throats or
follow the example of Judas. Rich
mond Times.
Aa Old Mao's Uerole Conduct.
Robert Watts, who died at Felixstowe,
deawves a word of 1 r -Lie for his heroic
conduct, which tuu.U-r.ed his end. He
was 78 years of age. ami had livtd at the
Felixstowe furry all his life. On Easte:
Tuesday signs f distress were shown by
a vessel on tuc Skipwash Sands, twelve
tuilto out at st-.i. A bo.it was manned,
and Watts weut with the crew, but they
were out for over tea hours in the cold
winds of a very Mtu-r day, and next day
the old man was found dead, the cold
and exposure being more than he could
stand. Pall Mall Gazette.
A plague of frogs is reported from
Northampton. The frogs and their
spawn choked up the water pipes, actu
ally cutting off the supply to some
houses. People had been drinking the
water mi filtered, and the reservoirs will
have to be emptied to remove the frogs
and cleanse the pipes.
A shower ef worms, it is reported, fell
near San Andreas station, in Santa Cruz
eounty, CaL, last week. The worms re
sembled the grub, were white in color
and had red eyes. They were a new
species to the residents.
jg. CsOTparrmi has had a tumor re
xaoTedfrotn his throat, and be has strong
Lopes that the surgeon's knife has re
stored his long lost high C.
THE f TATE ALLIANCE.
LARGE AN D ENTHUSIASTIC CON
VENTION AT ASHEVILLE.
President Carr's Wise and Manly Ad
- u; ;;. I dress. -
The State Farmers' Alliance met at
Asheville, Aug. 5 th, and continued in
session several days. Every county in
the State was represented by delegates.
A number of changes were made in
the constitution so as to conform to
the National Alliance laws. The ad
dress of President Carr was conserva-
t tive and wise. We publish the full
text below. .
PRESIDENT CARR S ADDRESS.
To the Officers and Delegates of the
North Carolina State Farmers' Al
liance: Our fourth annual meeting is at hand
and the signs of the times indicate a
still greater interest in the objects and
aims of our order and a unity of feeling
among the agricultural and laboring
classess, never before witnessed in this
country. It is a source of congratula
tion and presages naught but good. At
a bantling ageatourfirst.Rockingham,
meeting, we numbered eight county
and one hundred and thirty-two sub
ordinate Alliances. At our second
meeting, in Raleigh, we had fifty-two
county and one thousand and eighteen
subordinate Alliances. At our third
FayetteviT.e eighty-nine county and
one thousand eight hundred and six
teen subordinate Alliances, with an
with every county in the State organ
ized save Dare. Notwithstanding this,
applications for new charters are con
stantly being received and the work
goes bravely on, with an increasing de
mand for lecturers and organizers. The
reports of the executive committee,
secretary and treasurer, State lecturer
and business agent will better set forth
the condition of the order. To them
I respectfully refer you, asking a care
ful consideration at your hands.
Perhaps the most important meeting
ever held in this country has been the
assembling of the Farmer and Labor
organizations in St. Louis in Decem
ber last, the necessity for which was
foreshadowed by that eminent states
man and jurist, the late Judge David
Davis, when he said as long ago as
1866: "The rapid growth of the cor
porate power and the malign influence
which it exerts by combination on the
national and State legislatures is a well
grounded cause of alarm. A struggle
is pending in the near future between
the overgrown power, with its vast
ramifications all over the Union and
a hard grip on much of the political
machinery on the one hand, and the
people in an unorganized condition on
the other for the control of the govern
ment, it will De watched Dy every
patriot with intense anxiety." Never
more prophetic words fell from the lips
of man! The people, though slow to
admit it, had at last been convinced,
and three millions of people sent their
representatives there to form an Alh-
ance against this monstrous iniquity
The unanimity with which the demands
set forth by that body were adopted
and the universal endorsement by all
the States and Territories after mature
deliberation and discussion, should,
and I believe will, convince our legis
lators of our honesty of purpose and
detirmination to accomplish our ends.
This meeting, National in character as
in name, was a magnificent success in
obliterating the old lines of sectional
ism a matter devoutly to be wished
and of first importance in securing the
necessary national legislation
While some of the demands set forth
have been granted,the most important,
the relief of the financial distress of the
farmers has been ignored. The labors
of the past are as nothing if we expect
to accomplish this end. This govern
ment for the last thirty years has been
run in the interest of the victorious
war party. The war feeling has pre
dominated in every national election.
The men who did the fighting have no
voice in the government. Who are
the men in power to-day ? Those that
were enriched by the war and its'con
sequent legislation. The ill-gotten
millions of these legislators has been
the power behind the throne. . The
evidence of this is found in the history
of the laws, the history of the bonds,
the history of the national banks and
the history of the demonetization of
silver. But a stronger evidence yet is
the present condition of the working
classes, who, as a rule, the world over,
are patient and peaceable.
What means these labor organiza
tions? This that the people see by
combination alone can they live.
Under a purer system of government
forty years ago these orgonizations
were unknown and there was no neces
sity for them,but to-day how different!
Every branch of trade has been com
pelled to organize to save itself from
absolute annihilation, and is it to be
wondered at when we come to learn
that the iniquitous tariff laws, the pass
age of which was purchased by a few
thousand rich manufacturers, have
robbed the people and put into the
pockets of these same manufacluiers
no less than nine billions of dollars.
Hence it is that at our city of Wash
ington the protest of a millionaire will
of
To what course can such a terrible
state of affairs be attributed? It is due
to the apathy or the ignorance of the
masses. We must conclude the latter
ana it oenooves tne oraer ana tne state i
TO EDUCATE THE MASSES AND TEACH i
THEM TO THINK FOR TH EMSELVES. I
The act of Congress in aid of agri-'
culture for the last twenty-five years
have been few indeed compared with
those of our rich manufacturers, and
the tariff Is so manipulated that they
the few thousand reap the entire ben
efits., We all know but too well the
result of this reign of selfish greed.
The small land owners are being
pushed to the wall, the larger ones are
no longer able to make both ends
meet ; farms in the North, South, East
and West, and especially West, that
twenty-five years ago, during the pe
riod of greatest inflation, that paid a
fair percentage on a valuation of $20
to $40 are now being foreclosed on
mortgages for half that amount, and
the former owners seeking new fields
of employment for a livelihood.
It is a sad commentary on human
ity, but nevertheless true, that with an
unequal distribution of wealth there is
unequal distribution of social power.
The influence of the middle class, the
man of moderate means, is no longer
felt in the legislative halls of the cap
it ol; he is being swept away. Wealth J
is rapidly concentrating and out of
the consequent corruption but two
classes are forming the lordly rich j
and the beggarly poor. While free to I
admit that the iniquitous protective
tariff has brought about the present de-'
pressed state of agriculture by strip
ping the poor of three-fourths of their
natural- savings and concentrating a
majority of the wealth of the country
in the hands of an infinitessimally
small part of the people, composed of
manufacturers, trusts, pools and com
bines, a repeal alone of this unjust
measure would not relieve the present
distress. It would not lift a single
mortgage. The one thing needful in
the present financial condition of the
people is a debt-paying system of fi
nance. In comparison with which all
other questions sink into utter insig
nificance. While looking after our national
governmental relations, we must not
lose sight of the education of the
masses. Without this we cannot
prosper and keep pace intellectu
ally or materially with other
States more liberal in this matter.
The country districts are more depen
dent upon the public school system
than the towns and cities ; hence we
should be especially interested in hav
ing better educational facilities. We
pay here in North Carolina only forty
cents for public instruction for each
man, woman and child, while in the
Southern States the figures run up to
eighty-nine cents. In other words,
we spend for education less than one
half the average of other Southern
States. Now, in view of the fact that
WITHOUT EDUCATION WE CANNOT PRE
SERVE OUR CIVIL OR RELIGIOUS LIBER
TIES, OR FEEL OR APPRECIATE THE
MEANING OF THAT PRECIOUS HERITAGE,
FREEDOM AND REALIZING THAT THERE
IS NO SLAVERY SO GALLING AS THE
SLAVERY DUE TO IGNORANCE, 1 HEAR
TILY RECOMMEND THIS BODY TO LEND
ITS AID AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO A
REVISION OF THE PRESENT PUBLIC
school system, thereby affording more
extended facilities for corAmon educa
tion. '
I further recommend the anoint
ment of a legislative committee whose
duty it shall be to look after the inter
est of the order. . Likewise that some
adequate provision be made for the
national per capita tax of 5 cents ; and
that the State Secretary be made State
Crop Statistician ; the County Secre
tary, the County Statistician, and the
sub-Secretary, the sub-Staiistician with
adequate compensation for their ser
vices ; and finally, in view of the fact,
that we were numerically weak at the
formation and adoption of our consti
tution and. since the order has won
derfully increased in strength and
members, and the duties ' devolving
upon us being infinitely more onerous,
I recommend a revision of the consti
tution to a special committee, if it
need the approval of this body.
I have dwelt longer upon national
affairs, believing that there, in the
Capitol at Washington, have originated
the farmers' woes and from that source
alone can come the remedy. Let us
continue to insist upon our national
Congress giving us this much needed
relief. History teaches that the withs
with which the rich bind the poor can
be broken only by hre, sword or
bloody revolution. But we have a
better method of overturning fraud
and corruption in high places. We
have free speech and free ballot, and
when the wisdom of the acts of the
national meeting, like leaven, begin to
work upon the masses of the people,
then and not till then snail we have a
peaceful and happy solution of all- our
troubles. In conclusion I desire to re
turn to you, to each county and sub-
ordinate rwlv anrl MrVi tnrli jir'nal
j member my thanks for the universal
kmdnes5,courtesy and honors bestowed
upon me. May wisdom crown
deliberations.
your
Sick headache U the bane of many lives.
, This annoying complaint mar be eared
1 and prevented by the occasional use of Dr.
' J. II. McLean's Liver and Kidney Fillets
(ltitle pills). oet.l.
over-ride the petitions of millions
working men.
SPECIAL SALE AT HENDERSON, H. C.
300 PACKAGES SOLD THE FIRST
DAY TO BUYERS FROM THE
NORTH, EAST AND WEST,
' Something of the Hl.i.rv r n..
oa'a Tobacco Trade and the Storago
Warehouse Her Population In
creases from 1,400 In 1880,to 4,256
In 1890.
The following interesting letter con
cerning Henderson as a tobacco mar
ket, together with an account of, the
opening sale of hogshead tobacco at
the Storage Warehouse, is from the
Cincinnati Tobacco Journal. The copy
containing the article was delayed
from some cause and did not reach us
until Monday, hence the late date of
its publication in these columns :
Henderson, X. C, August 1.
Henderson is again leading in new en
terprises, looking for the future good of
the Bright Tobacco (Golden) Belt of
North Carolina. In 1873 Henderson
was a small village, on the Raleigh &
Gaston Railroad, known only because
she lay half-way between Raleigh and
Wcldon, and was the depot to get oil"
to go to Oxford. Her population was
less than four hundred, and little or no
business was done here. In 1873 the
first warehouse for the sale of leaf to
bacco was built here, and from that
time to this Henderson has steadily im
proved. While ler progre-. has not
been marked by the grand " booms''
heralded from so many of her sister
Southern towns, yet it has been ever
upward and upward, taking no back
ward steps. Ilenderson is emphati
cally a tobacco to ,vn, and, as is well
known, is situated in the very center
of the home of the finest and brightest
yellow tobacco raised in the world.
While she has, since 1873, success
fully competed with the olTier markets
for the trade of bright tobacco, as is
shown by the increase of her yearly
sales to over ten millions of pounds, yet
Henderson is not satisfied with the
trade fiat came to her in this competi
tion from the North. South and West
of her. Just East of Henderson are to
be found the counties of Franklin,
Nash, Wilson, Halifax, Edgecombe
and Pitt, which are more rapidly de
veloping in the growth of fine yellow
tobacco than any other section of
North Carolina. Their land is special
ly adapted Tto the growth of fine yellow
tobacco. They can raise larger crops
and have to do less "picking" to find
lands suitable for its cultivation than
any other section. This section is
almost as a back country to Ilenderson
so tar as the tobacco trade is concerned.
Ilenderson is not only selling most of it
now but is moving to give these pat
rons a better opportunity to come to
us. Un the 21st of July Ilenderson
voted $40,000 to the Atlantic, Ilende.
son & Virginia R, R., which will be
built from Henderson East through
Franklin and Nash counties to open up
and develop this hue section of our
State. When completed th's road will
have along its line more acres of good
tobacco land to its length than any
railroad in the world. Ilenderson now
has the Seaboard Air Line system
passing through its limits, as well as
the Richmond & Danville system, and
when this new railroad is built, she
will be connected with the Atlantic
Coast Line system, the only other
great railroad system in North Caro
lina.
Henderson handles her tobacco eas
ily. Her warehouses are well manned,
being run by the lives t and most pro
gressive warehousemen to be found
anywhere, and not dependent upon out
side capital, but well supplied them
selves, and enabled to do their busi
ness, affording sufficient accommoda
tion to their customers. No town has
more or better lactones for handling
the lea while her plug and smoking
tobacco lactones are doing well.
The tobacco men of Henderson, re
alizing the need of the times and trade.
decided in 1889 to build a large brick
storage warehouse here for storing to
bacco. This was made necessary not
only by the rapidly growing trade of
Ilenderson, but by the central location.
In December, 1889, the warehouse was
opened for business. Mr. W. E. Gary
as Inspector. The demand for the
storage house, coupled with the plac
ing of Mr. W. E. Gary, a man so well
and favorably known to the trade, at
its head, enabled the Storage Company
from the very opening to start with
good business, which developed so rap
idly that at the end of six months the
capacity of the building had to be
doubled. This was the first public
storage warehouse built in North Car
olina, and is the only one now. While
North Carolina has been for years the
home of the bnght tobacco, yet al.
if not bought for or sold directly to
manufacturers had to be shipped to
other States to be stored and inspected
and placed on sale. Ilenderson deemed
it best to control her tobacco as far as
possible, and bunt tbis warehouse and
entered upon this new tobacco enter
prise in North Carolina.
The first sale of tobacco at this ware
house was held yesterday, and consid
ering that it was the first and trial sale
it was a decided success, far exceeding
the expectations of the most sanguine
friends of the enterprise. While there
were not as many buyers and manu
facturers present from distant markets
as we should have liked to have seen
(for Ilenderson delights in a crowd
nothing rejoicing her more than to ex
tend a royal welcome to visitors and
show them the town and its growth).
yet tuose wno were present were very
liberal in their purchases, showing (hat
they were here for business. They ex
pressed themselves as well pleased with
their purchases, and expressed the hope
that these sales would continue. The
North and West, as well as Virginia
and North Carolina markets, were we
represented.
The offerings at auction on yesterday
were 51 packages ; sales, 30 ; rejections,
21. The private sales up to list night
were 244 packages. While I write
(this A. M.) the buyers and sellers are
still in conference. Other sales are in
prospect, but I cannot wait on them.
Both the method and result wThen
Syrup of Figs it taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Lirer and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever rm.
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomacb, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in ROe
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
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.MOBY
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Pure N:tron Oxide
Gaa dinlnlHiered fur
the pitluU-KH ojttrur
tlon of tee tli.
t"Offlce
over E. C. Davis store, Main
Jan. l-a.
Street.
H.
T. W ATKINS,
Attorney and Counsellor
at I-iawl
HENDERSON, N. C.
Courts : Vance. Griuivllln nn.l
and the Federal (Jourtat Kalelgh.
Warran
special Riienuou given to nogotl
Una
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litigated
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ATTORNKY A.X LAW,!
HENDERSON, N. C,
OFFICE IN BCBWELL IIUILDINO.
COURT: Vance. Franklin Wurm.. rii-on-
vllle. United Statea. Court ui. itni..i..'i.
Supreme Court of North Carolina '
HKFKBENC-KW-Ctiler Justice W. N. If.
Smith, Hon. AOKUKtUH M. Merrl mnn OdVi
Daniel O. Fowle, Hon. T. C. Fuller, lion. T-
M. ArKO. Dr. W. T. OlPnll.nni llr I II
Tucker, Mr. M. Doraey, h. ji. Bufwell', Kn
H,0,,?iaine Kilwln Moore. Ex-hollcitor Utn
orU.H. Samuel F. l'Mllltw.
Office hours 9 a m. to 5 p. m. mcli. 7 S 1
fjy M. P1TTMAM.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HENDERSON, N. C.
Prompt attention to all DrofeitKiotini h-ai.
neaa. Practice in the State and 1
court.
Office: Room So. 2, Bur well Uuli'dlng.
nov 5 1 c.
MMtEW J. HAItltlS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HENDERSON, N. C.
Practice in
... . . . v. . j v.. M.f till.
warren and Franklin mnmiH nni in ik
Supreme and Federal courta r.ri Ktt.
Office: in Harris Law Building, next
Court Uouae.
W. n. DAT. 4. c. zoLLicorrcn.
AY & ZOLLICOFFKIf,
ATTOIINKYS AT LAW,
HENDERSON, N. C.
Practice In the cotirla of Van r.r. vtn
w. icua Aiaiitoa ua flurLnnrnnim. ann in
r - a-v l.UBtll fVSI a SO J VS U
ie Supreme and Federal courta of the Bute.
Omen: In ZoUicoQer's law building. Oar.
nett street.
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A. B. WOBTHAW,
Henderson, N. V,
Oxford. N.C.
JJDWAUD8 Jfc WOItTJIAM.
ATTORNKYH AT LAW,
HENDERSON, N. C.
Offer their services to the neonla .,r Van
county. Col. Edwards will attend all the
courta or Vance county, and will come to
ntDoemoB at any ana all times when hi
iatance may be needed by bi partner.
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Satisfaction guaranteed as to work and
pile w. Offlc over Parker 4 Clos' store
Main stroof fob 4 a.
The Bank of Henderson.
(ESTABLISHED IN iSSi.)
Gezsnl Banking Eicbange & Collections.
MONEYTO LOAN
On Improved farms In sums of f 300 and up
ward at uten per cent., and moderate
charges. Loans repayable In small an.
nasi installments through a period of five
years, thus enabling the borrower to pay
off his indebtedness without exhausting hi
crop in any one year. Apply to
Wll. 11. . JJURGWTN.
At The Bank of Ilenderson.
y-W. H. S. BURGWYX,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-La w
HENDERSON, N. C.
Office: In The Bank of Ilenderson
building.
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