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VOL. XIX.
HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1900.
NO. 24.
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Copenhagen, May 17. A telegram
from Koping, Sweden, reports that aa
the steamer Koplng last night was
passing the Prins Carl a man sprang
upon the deck of the latter vessel and
shouted: "If any one comes near I will
hoot." At the same moment a woman
was seen hanging over the side, shriek
ing: for help.
The man escaped in a boat. When the
Prins Carl was boarded It was found
that twelve men on board had been
shot, six of whom, includ.ii!? Hip fan. '
tain, were dead. The- rest were found
locked in their Quarters. On., of th
wounded has since died. The murderer
Is being pursued.
The wounded tay they were playing
sards in the smoking room about half
past eleveji with other passengers,
when somebody put his head in ths
room and exclaimed: 'L.ook out.There's
i massacre on board."
At the same moment shots w
heard. All sprang to their feet in order
to leave the cabin; but they found the
tloor fastened on ti e outside. While
they were trying to force the door a
shot was Hred through the window and
hit one of them, a n.an named Karlson.
who fell to the I'.oor. The other three.
Schneider, Knoditer and Lindnult
burst the door. I.inciuift, who was the
first to step through, received a bullet
in his head. Disregarding the wound,
he ran after the assassin to the steer
ing room. The fugitive shouted down
the speaking tube: ' Full speed ahead."
The engines wtie already a full speed;
and the eriglnter replied: "Is that the
captain?" receiving the answer "Cer
tainly. Drive htr to the devil."
The engineer put the engines at full
speed astern. The assassin then ran
down to the engine room and threaten
ed to shoot the engineer if he dirt not
obey. The engineer barricaded himself
in the room.
At that moment the Koping came
along and the murderer fled in a boat.
Furthir details from Koping show
that the man suddenly started shut
ting all the dui-rs of the cabins and
saloons and then, with a revolver in
either hand and with a dagger and a
knife in his belt, he began Urine at
everyone he encountered. He stabbed
the captain in the hack and a lady pas
senger in the breast with the dagger
and hacked a b..y with the knife.
He a!so shot the mate through the
shoulder, ar.d of four gentlemen who
were playing card? in the smoking
saloon, one a? shot in the temple be-:-uuse
he moved when the murderer
wain-.-d him not to stir.
The Prir.s Carl was stopped off Kop
r ar.d the iiiuid' rer seized the oppor
tunity to Jump into a life boat and row
may as f.ist as possible.
Search of the steamer discovered
eve:i ill ail ar.l live wounded.
The I'riiis Carl proceeded to Stock
holm, where the police officials took
charge of the victims.
A tradesir.an of Arbc.ga, Sweden, re
ports that a man g.ving the name of
Oronkiret. of Stockholm, came to him
yesterday and secured two revolvers
which he fired several times to test
their qualities.
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Washington, May 17. A court of in
quiry has been ordered to meet in
Washington on May 21st. composed of
Admirals Rodger, Cotton and Terry, to
investigate the circumstances attend-
ng the shooting by Captain McGowan,
.f a Filipino near the U. S. ship Monad-
nock, in the harbor of Cebu on Novem
her 21. 1S99. and also the alleged fail
ure of the Captain to report the matter
to the commander-in-chief of the
Asiatic squadron.
The facts in the case as they are re
ported to the Navy Department are
that the officer was on the deck of his
ship at the noon hour when the regu
lar officer f the deck was at dinner be
low. Hovering about was a native boat
which had been warned away before
only to return. It was not conceived
that the Monadnoc-V. was endangered by
the presence of r- h a little craft, but
the commandin" ::.i or had been hav
ing much troul, I;, preventing the na
lives from smuggling rum aboard to
the sailors and had given orders that
no unauthorized native boats should
be permitted to approach the Monad
nock. So when this particular craft
failed to make off as required, the cap
tain himself takir.g a revolver sought to
frighten the crew by firing a shot
across the bow. T'r.fi.rtunately the shot,
striking the water, was deflected so ;s
to pass through the body of one of ti'
Filipinos. The wounded man was haul
ed aboard the Monadnock, and after
being given first aid. was shipped off to
a shore hospital, where he died in the
course of a day or two.
This incident wus referred to In the
press reports from Manila, and after
waiting a reasonable rerlod of time to
be officially informed the Navy Depart
ment made inquiry of Admiral Watson
to learn the facts. The Admiral re
sponded that the matter had not been
reported to him. and this omission on
the part of Captain McGowan is one of
the matters into which the court is to
inquire, the other being the propriety
of the action of the commanding officer
of the Monadnock in taking into his
own hands the execution of an order to
fire. Instead of calling upon a marine
or sailor to do so.
Captain McGowan is broken In health
as the result of the service on board
the monitor in the harbor of Manila,
and haa pending an application to be
permitted to retire under the terms of
the act allowing retirements with an
advance of grade, but his application
has not been granted so far, owing to
the fact that the personnel act does not
sanction any more retirements of cap
tains during the present fiscal year.
A SCHOONER ASHORE.
Monmouth,. N. J- May 17. The
schooner F. L. Storer. bound from
Cape Hatteras for New York with blue
fish. Is ashore on the shoals south of
Qreat Egg Harbor city.
Close calculation has put the number of
Veterans at the Confederate Reunion at
Louisville, May SOth-June 3rd, at 40,000,
and the number of visitors at 100,000. The
bulk of them will travel part of the way
by the SEABOARD AIR LINE RAIL
WAY, because, it carries tbem through
the battlefields.
"PROGRESSIOHAL."
DEDICATED TO MB. MCDTARD FIPLING.
(Parody on Mr. Rudyard Kipling's j
1 TJ TIT : I I
iKvcwiuuii. vy x . ? . acu. imc in evi
dent of the Orange Free State, and now !
secretary of that Republic.) j
Gods of the Jinzos. Brass and Gold.
Lords oi the World by right Divine, j
Under whose baneful sway they hold
Dominion over "Mine and Thine."
Such lords as these have made them lotten;
xi.cj uve iimKouu iucy ue lorgoiwn.
The nigger or the (Juinee dies,
1 ne Gladstones and therms depart.
But bigger Englacders arise
To teach the world the raider's art.
Such lords as these have made them rotten;
They have forgotten they have forgotten.
They've got the gold, the ships, the men,
And are the masters of to-morrow.
And so mankind shall see again
Xhe days of bodom and Gomorrah.
1'hese ate the lords that made them rotten:
They have forgotten they have forgotten.
Drunk with lust of power and pelf,
i ney noia not Man nor uod in awe,
But care for naught but only self,
Ana cent per cent, s their only law.
1'hese are their lords, and thev are rotten:
They have forgotten they have forgotten.
Their valiant hearts have put their trust
in Maxim guns and Metiord rifles.
To knock the nigger into dust
And such like mconsidered trifles.
For boastful brag and foolish fake
l he imperialist doth take the eake.
GOOD ADVICE TO THE NEGRO.
Sound Sense From a Friend of the
Race Who is Entitled to be Heard
and Respected.
At the commencement exercises of
Shaw University, Raleigh, the lead-
nt; institution in the South for the
education of uesrroes, President
Meserve delivered an. address to the
graduating class in which he told
them some very wholesome truths.
Among other things he said this:
'We are living in changed and
chanointr times. Life practically
used to cousist in repeating to-dav in
detail what was done yesterday. This
is no longer true. I he advance in
the sciences aud arts and the progress
of events, stimulated by this advance,
com pel Is a new definition of life in all
its manifold activities. Chancre is the
order everywhere, and life, instead
of repetition, has come to be a con
stant series of re-adjustments made
necessary by the ever-varying con
ditions. This correct view
of life is at the present time of more
interest to you than to any other
race. Your race was forced from
African barbarism into American
slavery and then emerged into free
dom and was elevated to citizenship.
The franchise has been exercised
quite generally, and, in some in
stances, political honors have been at
tained, but the franchise in some
States has been largely withdrawn.
and, in others, it seems that action is
being taken looking to the same end.
At least these are the signs of the
times, and the signs of the times you
must constantly study, and, at the
present time they must be studied
not in the light of right or wrong, or
justice or injustice, for this will avail
nothing, but rather in the light of
the inevitable.
"Avenues leading to oflice-holding
cannot be traveled by you, and little
has been gained in this direction in
the past by any race. The shore of
the white political sea is lined with
wrecks, and they are far greater in
number than the ships that have
made port in safety. There is little
in office-holding for white people;
nothing for you.
"You should carefully study the
new conditions so that you may adapt
yourself to them in a manner that
will bring the highest good both to
yourselves and the race. There must
be on your part forbearance, patience,
discretion and at all times wisdom.
Make yourselves useful in the com
munities where your lot may be oast.
A useful citizen is always esteemed
and is always influential. Honest,
constant work is called for and will
bring recognition.
"And, now, let me say to you what
I have on several occasions stated in
public addresses both in the North
and in theSouth: Make friends with
the white people of the South, and
use vour influence among your people
to tnis end. We are living not in the
past, but in the today of events, and
in this today your race must get ready
for tomorrow. These may be to you
unpalatable truths, but they are truths
nevertheless, and they have got to oe
reckoned with; you cannot escape
them, and it is folly to ignore them.
A more kindly feeling on your part
toward the best and most influential
white men and women here in the
South and a deeper and more general
personal interest on their part in your
spiritual, moral and educational wel
fare, will bring untold blessings to
both races."
Were complete fusion to take place
it is feared by both Senators liutler
and Pritchard that more of those who
voted for Mr. Guthrie in 1896, and
largely voted with the Democrats in
1898, would vote the Democratic
ticket this year than would follow
Butler, and it is to hold these to
gether by appealing to them as mem
bers of the Populist organization that
Butler, with the consent of Pritchard,
runs his separate ticket. They cal
culate that if they can fool and hold
the Guthrie vote away from the Dem
ocrats, they stand some chance of re
peating the result of the election of
1896, defeat the amendment and pos
sibly elect the State ticket. Their
hope is to deceive those who voted
for Mr. Guthrie into supposing they
are standing by their party as op-
Ksed to both the Republican and the
mocratic parties, and then secure
their votes against the amendment
and for fusion members of the Legis
lature. The defeat of the amendment
and the capture of the Legislature is
their earnest purpose, let the State
ticket succeed or fail as the case may
be. Raleigh Post.
HUMORS, boils, pimples and all
eruptions are due to impure blood,
and by purifying the blood with
Hood's Saxeaptarillathey are CURED.
Discussed Race Problem.
COLONEL WADDELL'S ADDRESS AT THE HONT-
GOMERY CONVENTION.
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Snirit and Pnrno5f nf thr
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iNorin Carolina onsuxution vv nue lvien musi ana
Will Rule Political Power Not Good for the Negro Has
Clearly Demonstrated His .Incapacity for Government
White Supremacy Absolutely Essential to the Welfare of
the Negro Because it Means the Salvation of Those
Things Upon Which His Every Interest Depends.
Hon. A. M. Waddell, of North Car
olina, was one of the speakers at the
recent convention in Montgomery,
Ala., heldfor the purposeof discussing
the race question, in which prominent
men from the North as well as the
South participated. He is thus
quoted in part by the Associated
Press:
Mr. Waddell spoke of the North
Carolina proposed Constitutional
amendment saying that, if adopted,
there will be about 50,000 negro voters
in the State. Probably 70,000 negroes
will be disfranchised. It is substan
tially the same as the Louisiana
amendment. It disfranchises no white
man, educated or illiterate, who
registers as a voter before December
lst, 1908, but applies an educational
test after that date. It disfranchises
every negro who cannot read and
write any section of the constitution
except such as are descended from
the old free negroes who voted prior
to 1835, in North Carolina, or such as
have come into the State from other
States where negroes could vote prior
to 1867.
"It has been charged that the
amendment contains a property quali
fication, but this is a mistake.
"Of course the object of the amend
ment is to eliminate the ignorant ne
gro vote, and assure the supremacy
of the whites. This is honestly be
lieved by the best citizens of the
State to be the only way in which
they can preserve their heritage and
escape a repetition of their recent
experience.
"There is surely a necessity for this
kind of legislation, and there is no
wrong or injustice in it. The South
ern people are forced to resort to it,
if they would preserve their civiliza
tion and self-preservation is the lirst
law for peoples as for individuals. If
we were dealing with abstract princi
ples of right as between equals it
would be proper to insist that the
limitations on suffrage where they
exist, should apply to both races
alike, but the very basis of our prob
lem is the inequality of the races.
For 3.000J years the one has been a
servant of servants in all lands; the
other for centuries has ruled the
earth.
"It is stupid and criminal to force
them to live together with equal rights
and privileges to each, because such
a condition means first, strife and
disorder, and eventually the expul
sion or annihilation of the weaker
race. What does humanity, what
does statesmanship which is com
mon sense applied to public affairs
dictate as the best and wisest course
to be pursued under such conditions?
Why cannot the American people dis
play the courage of their convictions
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0 n this subject? Do you t1 me that
education will be the cure-all for this
state of things? I yield to no man
in my e s tiuiate of the supreme import
ance of popular education, although
1 know that in the country where it
was developed first, even by a com-.
pulsory process, there has been and
is despotism, and military aristocracy;
but the experience of nearly 40 years
in these Southern Siates has demon
strated that any other than industrial
education for the negro simply means,
in the homely phrase of Uncle Re
nins, the spoiling of a field hand if
not the creation of a social misfit or
something worse. I do not hesitate
to express the opinion that while I
would not apply the test to white
men, il it can be done by any consti
tutional method, it would be much
wiser to require a property qualifica
tion than au educational one for the
negro voter, but until some better
way out of our troubles is provided,
the one adopted in Louisiana and
proposed in North Carolina seems to
give the only hope of relief. Relief
we must have, as is admitted by all
except the fanatical enemies of the
South and its people. We do not
want to get it by fraud or force, and
it was a cruel wrong to place us in a
position where we were compelled to
resort to one or the other of them for
self-protection. It was not only cruel
to the Southern people but was injuri
ous to the best interests of the whole
country, because in addition to bar
ring out immigration and obstructing
progress, and otherwise affecting ma
terial growth, it has prevented a dis
play of that honest difference of opin
ion on all questions political which
would otherwise have found expres
sion to the advancement of the pub
lic good, and has narrowed the view
of our people to the one over-shadowing
issue which, like the sword of
Damocles, has hung suspended above
us.
"No people have ever had to wrestle
with such a multi-form problem for
so long a time, and I believe in my
soul that no other people would have
so patiently and so honorably dealt
with it as they have. It must strike
the future historian as both astound
ing and infinitely creditable to the
Southern people that for a third of a
century, though poorer than ever be
fore, they taxed themselves liberally
for the education of the children of
the negroes, provided them with
asylums for their afflicted, employed
them almost exclusively as artisans
and laborers, sympathized with them
in their sorrows, and helped them in
their troubles, and yet every year in
that whole period saw these same ne
groes so to the polls with unfailing:
regularit', and vote as a unit and as
a race, against their every interest,
against good government, and the
welfare of both races but still con
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tinued to employ them and aid them
as before. It is without a parallel in
human history.
"In the light of such a record, and
the results of unqualified negro suf
frage, no man can justly say that an
effort to restrict that suffrage, whether
the restriction applies to others or
not, is unrighteous or oppressive. It
will not do to say that if the illiterate
negro is disfranchised, the illiterate
whiteman should also be deprived of
his vote. A very large proportion of il
literate white men have an intelligent
understanding of what they are vot
ing for, and of the merits of candi
dates for office.
"Leaving heredity out of view en
tirely (and it ought always to be kept
in mind) they have been accustomed
all their lives to hear political dis
cussions. These things cannot truth
fully be said of one illiterate negro in
500. Doctrinaries and moralists may
theorize and dogmatize forever, but
they can not convince an Anglo-Saxon
that negroes ought to participate in
the government of white men, and a
statesman will always recognize this
insuperable fact in dealing with the
negro problem in the South.
'What the negro needs is not polit
ical power, but the help and sympathy
of the white people among whom he
lves, and which they nave always
tood ready to give, but which be has
done his best to nullify. It was not
is natural inclination, but the result
of false and vicious training since his
emancipation. He not only needs this
help and sympathy, but will perish
without il. He will never, however,
receive it as he has done, until he
abandons the idea of political power.
White supremacy is absolutely es
sential to his welfare, because it
means the salvation of those things
pon which his every interest de
pends. It is madness in him, to re
sist it. There is in every civilized
community a force superior to any
written statute the force of an over-
helming public opinion and when
this public opinion is based, as in this
case, upon race pride supplemented
by the lessons of three thousand years
of history, it is beyond the reach of
any legislation to alter or revise, uor
this reason, and for this reason only,
the fourteenth amendment to the
United States constitution is a dead
etter, and ought no longer to remain
a part of the fundamental law of the
countrv. It cannot beneht the negro.
and acts as a solvent to the bond of
fraternal reunion which would other
wise be infrangible.
I am verv well aware, Mr. Chair
man, that in giving expression to
these views upon the subject which I
was invited to discuss, I have simply
repeated in a very concise form an
oft-repeated tale. 1 understand per
fectly that no one is responsible for
them but myself, but there can oe lit
tle doubt that they are in the main
but a reflection of the opinions of a
vast maionty of the Southern people,
with whom at last rests the solution
of the race problem in all its aspects
By taking the SEABOARD AIRLINE
RAlLWA to the Confederate Reunion at
Louisville, the old veterans can see the
battlefields of liraysvine, itinggoia, iun
nel Hill. Rocky Face. Dal ton. Due Gap,
Kesaca, Adairsviiie, Aiitoona, Big snamy
Kenneshaw Mountain, Ruff and Smyrna.
fir. Jordan and His Plan.
(.Correspondence Progressive Farmer.)
As some newspapers have heaped
abuse and ridicule on Mr. J. F. Jor
dan, of Greensboro, who instituted
the movement of the tobacco growers
of this State against the American
Tobacco Trust, allow us through your
columns to say a few words in regard
to Mr. Jordan s reputation.
We have personally known Mr. Jor
dan for a number of years, and know
him to be a man of sterling worth and
rare business qualifications always
having the greatest respect lor trutn
and honesty, and always advocating
the maxim "Do unto others as vou
would have them do to you."
Knowing Mr. Jordan as we do, we
feel it to be our duty to encourage the
tobacco growers of the bright tobacco
belt to put forth every effort and give I
all their influence in behalf oi Mr.
Jordan in his holy war against this
giant octopus the American Tobacco
Trust, that is sucking the life bioou
from the tobacco industry of this
Southland of ours.
We send you an amendment to the
Jordan plan as adopted by the State
Tobacco Growers1 Association, that
the Summer Township Tobacco Grow
ers' Association has drawn believing
it to be more effective and easier for
the tobacco growers to be organized
under:
"We agree first, to sell our entire
crop of tobacco for the next live years
to said J. r. Jordan ana his associates,
a corporation which shall be formed
for the purpose of manuiactunog ana
disposing of said tobacco, said corpo
ration to pav for any ana an tobacco
when offered in cash at an advance of
not less than fifteen per cent, over
the average price of the same grade
of tobacco during the last five years,
said price to be fixed by a commis
sion a majority of whom shall repre
sent the seller.
2d. Said corporation shall allow
any and all planters to take stock in
said corporation to the amount of
twenty per cent.
3rd. All tobacco shall be graded
and averaged on the warehouse floor
by two growers selected by this organ
ization and two leaf dealers selected
by his-people.
4lh. Any planter selling his to
bacco or any part thereof to any per
son or persons other than this organ
ization or said Jordan and his as
sociates shall forfeit amount of same,
also his entire crop of tobacco to said
Jordan and his associates.
5th. Any person in either corpora
tion or organization making default
in liia acrrppmpnt in anv particular
shall be guilty of fraud, and may be
punished according to the laws of the
State in which he resides, at the dis
cretion of said corporation or organ
ization." S. E. Coltkaxe. Pres't.
R. E. Hodgiit, Sec'y.
Guilford County. N. C.
CUBAN POSTAL FRAUDS.
w. ir. a i Kfis, tErcTY acitb,
Haiti a coarcaai.
Tk Oaly Umh, rlr4 im turn CfcftJa
f I vlde-Th f D.
faleallaa Will Fall Bwa UN,.
aiaa,oo Athr rharrc
AkalMl Srrljr-Tfc -! pta u4
I xpraialllarra mt All Bart la Cab a.
Havana, May 18. W. H. Reeves,
deputy auditor of the Island, made a
confession at midnight and cave up
$4500 given to him by C F. W. Neeljr.
the arrested financial agent of posts at
Havana, to perform certain services the
day he left. General Wood and the
postal inspectors refuse to disclose the
nature of the confession, barely ad
mitting that the confession had been
made.
It is claimed that IH00 more will be
recovered to-day.
General Wood says that the report
from Muncie, Ind.. that nearly t2.000.000
worth of stamps have been printed
there and sent for distribution to Cuban
postofflces can be regarded aa a ca
nard. There Is nothing here to show
that any such counterfeit stamps have
been sent. It Is believed now that the
whole story is known, and that the
amount of the defalcations will fall be
tween $100,000 and $125,000.
Those who know the situation beat
say that the confession of Reevea was
the only link required in the chain of
evidence, although the principal state
ments he has made will require Inves
tigation before they can be acted upon,
aa it Is generally believed that his ac
cusation ' Is of such a startling char
acter as to render It unwise to proceed
before being absolutely sure of other
evidence to corroborate It.
Another charge against Neely Is that
he has defrauded the customs out of
several thousand dollars' worth of du
ties by Importing, nominally for postal
uae, large quantities of paper, which
was afterwards sold to a printing house
In Havana. The Cubans are now be
ginning to talk a good deal regarding
postal matters, the main idea appar
ently being that the Americans, having
found bo manv of their countrymen
Implicated, will not proceed to ex
tremities. The Cubans do not believe
that Neely will be extradited.
With the confessions of Reeves and
Rich, supplemented by those of the
stamp clerks and by the statements of
the Baracoa postmaster, it is consid
ered that the evidence against Neely
Is complete, especially in view of the
assertion of Reeves that the stamps
were not destroyed when they were
supposed to be, packages which were
apparently stamps were destroyed, but
t Is now said that these were so many
jundles of paper bits.
The newspapers now begin to aak for
in investigation of the engineering de-
.artment. They say that this depart
ment has been
ven more extravagantly
i the nostal denart-
onducted than the postal depart
!ient.
Washington. May 18. The War De
. artment to-day tent to the Senate, in
nsv.er to a re-solution, an itemized
tu'cn.er.t c-f the receipts and expendl
ures of all Kc-rts In Cuba, including
salaries a:il allowances to officers, since
he lTnite l States Government assumed
jontrcl f the island. This statement
s an c:.tcu!i n of a condensed one
-up plied on February 15th last, Oen
:ral Wood having furnished the details
.it the direction of the department. It
s shown that the actual coat of the
.'riH'o.i'ia rullw;,y, connecting the har
bor of Havana with the Interior rall
o;id r.ten- of Oul'a, was, altogether,
'342.611. Ti e i' ad was built In yellow
fever tiire .indei gieat difficulties and
.n rit-at ;..? by the chief quartermas
ters of Ct:' a. i.rj the United States
: Government Jki.-- b.-en since reimbursed
from the ii-I::i.d levenues. The six
nlies of ,a'"i were required to pass the
American trc ; -c .-round the city of
Havana, then lr:f?(ted with yellow fe
ver, to the camps on the uplands, and
she actual cost was $32,000 per mile.
The staten.c-nt shows that the total
receipts from all sources In Cuba for
the" year 1893 v. tie $10,316,590. The ex
penditures are tet down as $7,421,719.
:t Is extair.c-d that this Is a sum total
:'or which vouchers had been audited
by the auditor of Cuba. His report Is
omplete for the year 1899 for all the
ivll departments of the Island, but his
eport for othr expenditures covers
-nly the six months from July 1st to
December 31rt of that year, and the
itemized statements of these expendi
tures are Hubn.lttr ! with the state
rent to-day. The auditor promises to
supply the report for the first half year
1899 In the near future, when It will
;. sent to the Senate.
Of the Island's receipts, $15,012,100 was
r ade up of customs receipts. $250,025
; i.stal receipts, $760,880 Internal revenue
.:.d $293,581 miscellaneous receipts. Of
lie expenditures $211,292 went to the
; efaitn.ent of l-'inan'-e, $874,640 to Jus
i.oe and public ir.rtruction, $255,421 to
ricultuial and public works, $640,975
. State and Fovernment. $448,079 to
. -traordinary e-rpe-nses and $612,290 to
ostofflce. The rum of $1,688,442 was
pent on Fanltation In the half year
rom July 1st to December 31st, 1899.
n the same time the rural guard cost
.006,152; barrack and quarters cost
J617.7S5; the customs service cost $343.
535. and public works absorbed $268,036.
Charities tot tC2,032, civil government
is set dorvn for $161,281, and municipal
ises $123,113. The census cost $211,401.
The allowances to military officers
.ire shown in. detail, and are nearly
all for small amounts. The $5000 which
was said to have been paid for a house
for General Chaffee was actually ex
tended by tl.e Quartermaster's Depart
ment for a buildirrr for its own use.
Jeneral Chaffee occupying a portion of
the building for his military headquar
ters as provided for in the army regu
lations. THE NAVAL MILITIA'S OUTING.
Washington. May 18. The Adjutant
General of South Carolina haa notified
the Navy Department that the South
Carolina naval militia will be obliged
to withdraw from its arrangement for
a practice cruise on the Prairie. Thl
makes the fifth State wlthdrawaL The
Georgia men are about to embark upon
her.
The North Carolina organization will
ro next, probably In the week originally
allotted South Carolina. The Virgin
ians are scheduled to go out from Nor
folk on the Prairie on June 13th to 20th,
inclusive.
THE UNITED LUTHERAN SYNOD.
Charlotte. N. C. May 18. The or
ganization of the United Lutheran Sy
nod, in session at Winston, was com
pleted to-day by the election of Rev.
R. A. Toder. of Hickory. N. C vice
f ladflsr t
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Airley, 2". MniiNoti. LV
linxiliMton, 10. Mi-eJiK-. 2.1.
Urinkle.vvilUs 2-1. Midilliliiiiir. 10.
(Vntrvill, 20. OiiUvilli, 21.
Churchill, 21. Oxfe.nl, 11.
Crowe-lln. 41. ItiiljP'Wii.v. 11.
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lielow is the sLklysi of the Star Alka
line Water, which is eotifidetitly recom
mended to those suffering, from Dypepla,
Indigestion, Constipation. Torpid Liver.
Gout. Kbeumatistn. or Bright Disease id
the Kidneys.
ANALYSIS.
Kaleioh, N. C, October. 1WI.
"Solids 37.620 srains to one United Mates
gallon containing of
Mliea Deoxide, 1.073 grains
Iron and Alumina, 4.37S "
Potassium Sulphate, 4 S7 "
Potassium Chloride, i.wxj "
Sodium Chloride, 13.52 "
Sodium Carbonate, S.0U3 "
Calelom Carbonate, 4.833 -
Magnesia Carbonate. 2.435 "
11. ii BATTLE. State Chemist.
For the Water and further particulars,
addtess,
J. F. HARRIS. Proprietor,
Henderson, N. C.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
application will be made t the Gen
eral Assembly of North Carolina at its
session in June, 1900. to pass an aet provid
iog for the establishment of Graded Schools
in the town if Henderson, a, C.
This the 10th day of April, 1PM.