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CS-JELTSST GOOD ,TO OISI'ES'P
VOL. VII.
HICKORY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897.
NO. 2G
NEW YORK'S COSIPHOMISS.
Gold and Silver Democrat Ar- to
Tight tbe Campaisn on LocaI I$anes
: Xew York Special, 2nd, to Bal
timore Sun. J
Tbe managers of the Democrat
ic ( a m pa iji in Greater New ork
have otrrefd on a ba-is of compro
mise as betweeen th gold and sil
ver wings of the
'party
and have
decided that only by agreeing to it
c.-iii they prevent serious defec
tion. Thia basis can be stated in
Uj paragraphs:
First. No mention of the Chi
cago or Indianapolis platform-, and
an ignoring of national issues,
thecampaign to be fbnght entire
ly on local Jgs-ueri-. This is a con
ceksibn; to the gold Democrats,
like William i ..Whitney, Roswell,
P i'lbvpr and others and to the
conservative business '-element and.
to the Democratic Union.
"Second No candidate to be
nominated on the greater city
ticket- unless he supported the
Chicago national ticket in the last
campaign. This is a condition
that is insisted upon by the work
ers in the Democratic organiza
tions in all the borough.
These conditions, it is said, will
be adhered to and there will be an
effort on the part of a great many
gold men to Bhow that they were
loyal to Bryanism.
A Letter from Bryan.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. G The St.
Louis Post I Dispatch; yesterday
printed a letter from William J.
Bryan, the first utterance after
three months of travel and obser
vation. Among other things he
says: - ,
u Wheat has risen because the
foreign crop has been exceedingly
short.
"The fact that silver and wheat
have parted company will cause
no dismay to those who understand
! that the law of supply and de
mand regulates the price of both.
"Nothing can better disclose the
weakness of the Republican than
the Joy manifested by the Repub
licans over events for which their
administration and their politics
are in no wise responsible.
"If the Republicans desire to
claim credit for th higli price of
wheat they must assume the re
sponsibility for the famine in In
dia. A, lady Suicides-
Near Lexington, N. C, Miss
Sarah Aired committed suicide7 on
the 2nd inst.i She bad been sick
for some time. It had affected her
mind. Her brothers spoke of
sending her to the State Hospital,
but abandoned the notion. She
wanted to go The physician who
attended bereave her poison med
icine, with s-trlct instruction that
r bho onlv bfkej one drop. Iler tnoth
! er w tit to a neighbors ou. the
evt niug referred to. : When (she
returned she found her daughter
speechlt Fs and dying. On her pil
low was a nob saying if her broth
ers had senther to the asylum.soe
would now be happy.. Said sh
had taken two spoonfuls of that
medicine and begged them not to
, bury her until they were certain
i she was dead. It was sad and
'should be a perpetual warning
g'i',-f 1 "avirf.T poison medicine
NaUonalBanit.
i We learn from the official re
ports that the National banks are
in a most flourishing condition,
tnd that they were never more
prosperous.
j We should tjbink so. A lot. of
i i
privileged corporations which can
get the use of government rnonev
at one per cent, pcy annum ought
to prosper, i What's to hinder?
j If a National i auk can get hold
of a cashier who won't steal, arid a
board of directors who won't bor
row all the money, there's noth
ing on earth to keep it from flour
ishing.
(jetting money from the govern
ment at one per cent, and lending
it out at eitrht per cent, compoun
ded eVPrv 3(1 HO nnr! 00 ve in
,i . , , , .
, -.,,.
.. 1
litis PetS. I
Don't worry about the National
banks. Thev are all riL'ht. Just.
r , r-
save your nusiety for we fellows j
who have to pay 8 per cent, for the
ruoney which the banks get at one j
per cent.
They are the felloes who'll need
our prayers, says an exchange.
Pullman a Tax Dodger-
A Chicago dispatch says: D. H
H. Hoibrook, president of the Tax
Payers' League, an organization
of wealthy men, recently gave out
a; sensational open letter arraign
ing George M. Pullman for al
leged tax-dodging. The letter
says the assets of the Pullman
Company, at its last annual meet
ing, were $63,000,000, of which
$39,000,000 was in, Illinois. The
assessment in Illinois, however,
was only 1,561,955. It is claimed
that the under valuation of the
Pullman property means a loss of
$200,000 annually to the city,
county and State. The Pullman
strike of 1894, it is stated, will cost
the city $16,000,000 in damages.
j Swapped a Machine For a Coffin
The queerest trade yet heard of
was made in Charlotte the other
day between a sewing machine
agent and an undertaker for a trade.
The undertaker told him he had
nothing to swap except coffins.
The agent proposed that he swap
aj coffin for a sewing machine and
the trade was then consummated.
The young man who got the coffin
lias something of an elephant on
tjis hands as he does not expect to
ijave any personal use for it for
some years to come. But he has
abouf concluded to settle the mat
ter by raffling the coffin off.
From the Quarry.
A number of granite slabs came
lown from the Mt. Airy quarry
yesterday and they are all beau
ties, being about 15 fett in length
and something like 2 feet square,
and look like they had been sawed
out with a circular saw. The slabs
were sent here to receive the fin
ishing touches by Mr. McGalliard'e i
stone arusis uetore uems soipnea
to Philadelphia, where they play
an important part in tbe construc
tion of a ten story business block
"v i
at Chestnut and Broad streets.
l A Mt. Airyman informs a re-
rAirter that he saw a slab taken
hdoi the qnarry last summer that
WJ near 200 feet long. Winston
Jclrnal. r
THE IISK COMMIESIQTJ.
i i i
PUli Vjiy Opened Ty Oct 1st People
Pleased rrfh It,
For years, complaint has been
made by the citizens along the
Catawbi river brcause the fish
could not paes up stream ' on ac
count o f the various dams in said
river. So last winter, Col. D. A.
Lowe, of Lowesville, feeling that
the people along this river should
have justice in thh regard, drew
up a
bi
1, providing that a fish
cotdnisjsion should be appointed, j
whose duty it should be to investi
gate and have fish passways built
over these various dams from the
S. C. lir e to iip in Burke. The
bill was sent to the legislature;
and became a law without
very great objection, because it
was a reasonaole. just law as far
i as the ReopiO are concerned.
i -the ipiiovwi.g gentlemen wev
1 ' iL i tt , rt -
Col. D. A. Lowe. Wilson of Md
lenburg
Mcintosh of Gaston, D.
7
A. Burkley of Iredell, John W. !
Lowranp 3 of Catawba, J. T. Hed-
rick of Alexand.r, and C. T. Flow
ers . of
Caldwell. These are all
good an
Som
ganized
id reliable citizens.
ime ago, they met and or-
by electing Col. Lowe
chairman, and began the work.
Messrs. Wilson and Mcintosh were
with them two days. They began
at the South Carolina line and came
this way. They have examined
all the dams and have let out con
tracts to build lisn ways over or
through 'all the dams aDd the con
tracts are all made up to the Ca
tawba River Lumber Company's
dam, and part of the work done,
and all to be done by the 1st day
of October. They did not meet
with much complaint, except by
one or two mill owners, while the
people ail along the stream seemed
much pleased with the undertak
ing. They were in the city Satur
day and held a session, in which
they were met by the owners of
the dam at the Catawba River
Lumber works, who expressed a
willingness for them to build a fish
way over their dam and to cut the
same down six inches. In some
cates, the people charged for the
work to 3ft done, at others they
did not. They adjourned here
Saturda, to meet out at the Ca
tawba River .Lumber Company's
plant orj the 28th of this month, at
which time they will let the con
tract for building this fishery. So
far as we have heard, the people in
this sec: ion are pleased with this
undertaking and think it is just
and right. It was our privilege to
meet thsse gentlemen while here
and we t re satisfied they are trying
to do th At duty.
According to the statistics of
the Urnied States Bateau of La
bor therie are 27,000 married men
in New York City who are support
ed by their wives
Althobtrh the Czar of Russia re-
ceives hi salary, he
manages to
to keep the wolf from the door.
His inerjme arises from .1,000,000
square njiilesof land, which he in
herits with the crown. He aver
ages $30,000 a day.
By actual count 10,000 people
botweenlJcly 1st and August 26th
left the Pacific coast for the gold
nelds otLAIaska and the Klondike
region.
21c wn Up and 2 amend.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 4tb
Broad Ripple, a suburb oi Indi
anapolis, ten miles from tiie city
proper, was this morning efceene
of a terrible gas explosion. Sis
persons were burned to dejith, and
iit) people are lying in I the! homes1
of neighbors, burned, scarred and
with broken bones. Four!; build
ings occupying a block of the
town are in ruins. Of Ihe six
dead, nothing tut charred and
blackened bones remain Two of
the dead are still unidt
p. titled,'
there being no : way' of identifica
tion.
At 1:30 it was repor'eld thai
seven dead bodies had been re
covered from the ruins.
Of these
t -
only three
identified.
had been positively
It 'is thought
tlie re-
mains of at least two more
in the debris.
riay be
Corraty Commissioners 3Ie
Board met; all present.
Closev
Miller declared outside pauper, 75
cts per month; I
Bills ordered paid : Times-Mer-cury-Pub.
Co., $9.15; itickory
Printing Co. $2 50; Newton
Enter-
prise 32,50; J. M. Abernethv serv
ing orders for board $2.10; P. E.
Rowe, jailor, $65.62; Copermng &
Co., conveying, grand juors to
county home $3; T. L. Bandksher
siff'3 fees $66.90; C. L. Hawh sum
moning juries $8 10; R. It, Shu
ford repairing Simmons bridge
$13.75. W. M.Huffman summoning
jurors $4 80.
Ordered that Max E. Huffman
be allowed railroad fare for taking
bis son to the institution for the
blind at Raleigh,
Stephen Warlick declared out
side pauper, 60 cents per month;
John Cline relieved of the tax on
45 acres of land for the reason it
was given in by L. J. Mosteller.
A petition -as filed for a jpubhc
road from J. M. Link's on the
Hickory and Shelby road by way
of Mountain Grove church to the
Hickory and Plateau road near
Jno. Whistnant, filed and ordered
published.
The board appropriated J?25 for
repairs to the Blackburn bridge on
South Fork river with the under
standing that the citizens put four
sills under each side of bridge
8x12 inch white oak; the board did
not receive it as a county bridge.
A. J. Stine, J.Mooney, L.M. Rud
isill were appointed committee to
have it repaired.
Bill of Smyre, Rhyne ifc Co,,
$11.82; J. F. Herman, clerk of the
b ard $13 75.
Dr. McD. Yount filed his report.
The she riff was ordered ; to lay
out the road heretofore granted for
a road.running from Catawba to
Shnford gold mine. j
The sheriff filed his tax binds, in'
the enm of $25,000.
Tax books for 1S'J7 we;e turned
over to the. sheriff.-
J.F IIciniAK, D.E Sigmqn,
Clerk of Board. ChiJirman.
A Bakercville correspondent of
the Ashevillo Registejr, Republi
can, says that along thje border -of
Mitchell county, near he Tennes
see and North Carolina line, is
the precinct of Big Rock creek,
with probably 250 voters i4 it,' and
notwithstanuing it is strongly
Republican in politics, a ntgro iis
not allowed to live within il$ pie
cincts.
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I ! 1 11
BURGLAR PLEADS GDILTT
And I Bound Orer to Conrt Without
Bali.
On last Friday night some one'
went into Mr. Lewis Moore's dwell
ing. Mrs. Moore heard bixa
walking and called Mr, Moore
At thia the burglar ran against the
table, knocking ov. r a laum nJ
made his escape out . at the dinin
room door. . .
The next morning a warrant
was issued for a negro boy, 17
years old, who had been working
for Mr. Moore and Willi hnt nn!..
hfivu in this city about .three
months.
He says his name is Walter
Hunter, and that he is from Stan
ley Cretk. Saturday morning, he
denied having been the tfne. Said
WHS somewhere else all night.
Bat when he was arrested and
pleaced in the boose, he ucknosfJ
edged he was the one to Mr. Moore
and several others. Monday
morninghe was tried before Squire
S. E. Killian. Thos. M. Hufhani
"v,v AVJ1 lUBoiaie. x nenegra
plead guilty. He states that he weat
the e about 12o'ciock. SaidhetooL
a dram and that it made him fool
ish. Said he went in at the screen
door leading into the dining room
which was not fastened, and got;
something to eat off the table.1
Said he got into the bed room be.
fore he knew it and then went in
to the sitting room to get out bnt
found the door fastened. He then
had to go back through the bed
room to get out. Said when Mrs.
Moore called, he ran out. His
statement was read to him and ho
said it was correct, and he also
signed it. The defendant was
committed to jail and the witness
for the State were bound over to
coffrt. The negro had no counsel
and everything was done to give
him a fair and impartial hearing.
But he doubtless did not know the
penalty for such a crime. His own
statement convicted him, and the
result will be looked forward to
with interest.
Nw Railway Scheme.
Capt. Thomas Mc Bee, who spent
yesterday at Morganton, tells ns
that an effort is oh. foot now to
build a railroad from Shelby to
Eiizabetbton, Tenn., via. Blowing
Rock and Morganton. If thia
movement is succ sfuJ, as it now
bids fair to be, the electric line
f oni Morganton to Blowing Rock,
which was almost a certainty,, will
not be built.
Mr. McBee tells us that a peti
tion asking the commissioners of.
Burke County to order a special
election-for the purpose of i&uin
bonds to the amount of $20,000, is
now being circulated in Morgan
ton. It is proposed- that torse
bonds fhnll be Applied for tliocc--stroctioa
of this roa'J.S-iiiabary
World.
At Snow' Hill, Greene county,.
Wednesday, Dock Black, colored,
was hanged by law for criminal
assault upon a white woman. It
'tab the t-Btne day that Brodie was
nsngtd at Henderson for tho szne
crime. - , ; --'J : : ::j-;';a
Wythevilie, Va.f reports having
felt i distinct shock of earthquake
last Friday.
Charlotte nad 21 deaths in An;
yust, ten of which v. : zroz
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