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I '0 i : Jl o r T il STA Y j! ; . j ; VOL. VII. LEXINGTON AND THOMAS VILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1897. NO. 24. Jf BILL ARKS WEEKLY LtTTIB. y FIFTY YEARS AGO WILLIAM MADE A PROPHETIC SPEECH. TALKS-OF HIS OLD SCHOOLMATES. i Majr Warren'i Trip to Florida YTaa a Moral Mistake According tothe Philosopher's Standpoint. We oljl people are thankful that we began Jifc ' arly in the century and rhavo lived to i i '.f.so it. No such period of progress has I tr;; i if pired slnee the world "was made. Prog r H-? iu art and science, the diffusion of Knowl' 'lpe and the spread of ( Christianity; j.rojjrens in invention and contrivance for tt r living and the comforts and pleasures oi life; progress in mental and moral intel-lig"-nc". There is no equal comparison' be tween the last sixty years and any that pre 'det them. Progress j has .made a great l-.ip forward, and ms to have come to a halt. We cannot Imagine that the world nr ds anything more in the way of Inven tion, but it will in a few years, and then it will come. A kind Providence never fails us. One by one the doors are unlocked the mysteries of nature are revealed. Just fifty years ago I was chosen a junior orator from the Phi Kappa Society in Frank lin college. It was esteemed a great honor then to be one of the four, and I am proud f n now to tell my children and grandebil- ,.ln?n about it. There were forty-four of us in my class and I was One of the four. The r honor was not for my oratory, but more for iriy .fxholarehip and popularity among my society ibpHj bers. I did not ejxpect it, I did rot deserve it, and I was grieved that some of my low-country classmatewhom I loved were left out and I, was chosen. In that dav the Savannah boys-were not popular in col leg1. Thy wereooked upon as swells and aristocrats, and from then until now noth ing in the way of honors or offices has been Kiven to Savannah. I have lamented this fur ail these years. There are no nobler peo ple. In all the state than Savannah people. I fiaiiiiro them and respect them and whenever one of , thorn offers for office I am for him on A'encral principles. The good principles, the integrity of the old Huguenots and Caro linians Who settle in that region has descend ed. to their posterity and they are still the lo st peoijlo we have in the state. The cradle of liberty was thero, and if ever wo have to fall baqk on men to perpetuate our revolu tionary principles, I'had rather depend up oa the old-time people of Havannah than any others. I was in college with John Screven and Charley Hardee and Henry Law and IMonroe Mclver and many- from Savannah, ud they were the best boys wo had. But 1 btarted to tell that the subject of my junior orator's speech was "A Hundred Year Hence." It was a prophetic speech, and, of course, I got my father to help me wiite it. All the boys do that. It was a good speech and made an impression, but I have often thought how little we then knew of what wi to happen in the next fifty years. Ko telegraph, no telephone or phonographs, no air-brakes on railroads, no antiseptic remedies Jn surgery, no X rays, no electric lights, no oil stoves, no refrigerator cars, no fruit or vegetables from Florida or Califor nia, no iee factories, no elevators no bicycles, no manufactured fertilizers. My prophetic 'speech was not prophetic, though it did tell that Iofs than fifty years the people would .travel in the air on "flying machines. Just I'fty years ago I traveled to college at Athens on a mule train from Union Point and thought I was doing pretty well, for we were "perched on the top of a caboose and had ajiiplo time to peruse the country on both f-ijt we jogged along. It was only forty niiiecut took all day to make it. I remem ber that I had on boots home-made boots a id I wore straps to keepmy pants down. That was the fashion then leather straps that were buttoned on the inside of the pants. They kept the legs of the pants down so straight that the kneepan made a depression, and looked like a goose had.laid an egg in them. What a momentpus event it was for a boy to enter college. At that timo it, took three years to go around the world, but this was a bigger tiling than the world bigger to me -bitter to my dear mother who had long 'cherished' the idea that I was to either be a preacher or a president. But now I am al most alone and have been neither. Almost ev erybody I then knew is dead. Briscoe and bly nin Ferrell and Thornton and Mont gomery and Henry Law and Grant and the King -boys, and not long ago Willoughby Lumpkin died the boy whom I especially loved, for ho was always lovnble and true. I'Ucss Howard and Jim Warren are still In the land of the living where peace may be sought and pardon found. Chess is always genial and kind, and I had hopes of Jim Wasren for he is as solid as a rock and has been a governor's secretary for about twenty years. With pride I have pointed to him as one among the few who have prospered and maintained their integrity. But of late a etifinge seems to have come over him, "He has been to Florida on a vacation and has fallen from grace. But few men ean, goto Tlorida and tell the truth afterwards. I see Vy the papers that Jim the steady, unexcit nble Jim has gone oil. after Florida gods and writes back that he caught a string of f hee'pshead and a conger eel in a fog just threw out a line in a Tampa bay mist and caught a whole string, thinking that he was fishing in the water, but found out when the mist lifted that he was half a mile from the inlet and had. been fishing in the fog. It 1 eas Bud Kernodle, who swore that the fish were) so eager that he had to get behind a tree to bait hist hook. I expected the like of that from Kernodle, but from Jim Warren, never. I have been referring my grandsons to him as an example of truth and integrity. Jim and I are about the samo age,; and. I wanted us to go along down together and haja-the same epitaph, but there i3 no reli ance on a man who goes fishing in Florida. The devil, who is the father of liars, must live there or thereabouts. bpeaking of the old times, I was ruminat ing about the advantages that we veterans have over the present rising generation, who never knew the want of modern inventions. I bese young people who were born in an age of electricity and newspapers and books without number and store clothes and bicy cle. Contrast sweetens everything. A man who was reared poor can all the better enjoy riches, A prisoner appreciates liberty. A Mcknran enjoys good health it-hen it comes, to him. We read of a man who after yeara of confinement in a gloomy dungeon was so overjoyed at being suddenly released that he devoted all his earnings to buying the birds in every cage that he saw and giving them their liberty. . "I was a prisoner myself," he said, "and know how it feels." " Bat habits are like chains, and we old men Ptill stick to the ways of our fathers. Yester , J bought a home-made basket from an old darky, and I had respect for him just because he continues to make baskets. He f-aid that nary cne of his children or grand children knevj how and didn't want to know, l'it that he could yearn a quarter of a dollar t very night and not miss the time. And now the spring is upon us again, and tno robins are on dress parade in our Krove. The peachtrees are budding. The palm trees are in bloom, and all nature is putting on her vernal robes. Everything ibat is artificial changes and decays, but Dame Xaturo is the same in fcr rotations, rring follows . winter now just as it did thwisands of years ago, when the poet said: "The winter is over and gone. The time for the singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heaid in the land." ' 1 ' i May it bring peace and comfort to a)l who are in distress. Bill Aep, in Atlanta Coa-Hitution. (HE M SCHOOL LAW. Printed Copies Issued to County Examiners. NEW DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Organized to Develop Coal Lands and Build a Railroad Treasurer Worth as to the State's Finances. Superintendent of Publio Instruction C. II. Mebane issued yesterday to the county examiners and newspapers printed copies of tne recent Act of the Legislature to revise and improve the public school system of the State. - . The bill makes a number of radical changes in the laws heretofore govern--ing the public schools and very many letters of inquiry have been received by Mr. Mebane. It was these inquiries which constrained him to have the bill printed in this temporary form. . j Later all the public school laws will be compiled and printed in both pam phlet and book form with various knot ty sections construed by the superin tendent of public instruction. The new law goes into effect June 1st, and a meeting of the State board of education will be held very soonfor the purpose of appointing the State board of examiners provided for by the bill. Mr. Mebane will be ex-officio chairman of this board. ! Since assuming charge of the office of superintendent of public instruction, Mr. Mebane jhas made an excellent record and there is every indication that under his aggressive administra tion publio education! will make long strides onward and upward. It is gen erally conceded that the educational legislation enacted by the late Legisla ture, is far superior to that of any pre ceding one, at least for many years. And to Mr. Mebane is due very much of the credit for the enactment. He was untiring in his labors among the committees and the bills passed were drafted, or at least revised under his direction. There was organized in the eityjof Raleigh. March 11, a company which has for its purpose the developmental the Northwestern part of North Caro lina, the Southwestern part of Virginia and the Northeastern part of Ten nessee. Reference is made to the Stone Mountain Railway Company, the char ter for which was granted by the re cent session of the General Assembly. The subscribers to the capital stock of the company held their first meeting hero March 11 1897, and elected H. L. Smith, of Norfolk, Ya. ; W. H. Wells, of Washington, ; D. C. ; J. E. Stagg, of Durham, N. C, atidG. W. Hinshaw, Of Winston, N. CJ, directors. The directors afterwards held a meeting and elected ii. W. Hinshaw president; J. E. JStagg, vice-president i Miss E. M. Hinshaw, secretary; H. L. Smith, treasurer, and W. H. Wells, chief engineer. The prin cipal office will be in Winston, N. C, where the president may be addressed. It is the purpose of this company to build a standard gauge railroad from! a point on the Northwestern North Caro lina Railroad at or near North Wilkes boro, N. C , in a northerly direction, a distance of twenty miles to Stone Moun tain, Ihence across the Rlue Ridgo into Alleghany countv, thence via. one of two routes one in a northwesterly di rection through All eghauey and Ashe counties, N. C. , to the Virginia or Ten nessee line, so as to connect with a road now being built from Abington, Va. , to the northwest ! into the coal fields of Scott, Wise and Russell counties, Vir ginia, and in a southeastern direction to the North K Carolina or Tennessee line; or from Stone Mountain in a west erlv,directipn through Alleghany and Ashe count leSvi to the Tennessee line, and thence on tor a connection with Bristol, Tenn. ( The line via. Abington would put the coal fields of Virginia within less than 2u0 miles of Winston, N. c. - -. i i . : The "Woman's Exposition,", to take Clace at Charlotte in May, has gone eyond the most sanguine hopes of the oroiectors in point of exhibits prom ised, and they are of a very interesting character. This, Jn connection with other attractions, will make Mav a red letter month in the history of Char-" lotte. The forthcoming celebration of the 122d anniversarv of the "Mecklen burg Declaration" promises to eclipse its predecessors by many odds. ne General Assembly of the Presbyterian church convenes on the 2uth, and a grand bicycle meet, the date for 'which is not vet set, and other notable, events will render it a busy and memorable month for Mecklenburg county. The board of j directors of the Wil mington Seacoast Railroad Company, elected at the f annual meeting of the stockholders February 2nd, met Satur day afternoon at the National Bank of Wilmington for the purpose of electing the officers of the company. On mo tion Mr. D. G. I Worth was called to the chair, and Mr. WT. P. Toomer, the secretary,- was at his post The board or ganized by selecting the old officers as follows: President, George R. French; vice j. president, G. Herbert . Smith; traffic manager, E. S. L-atimer; gen eral auditor, J no. S. Armstrong; gen eral superintendent, R.' Oscar Grant, secretary and treasurer, W. P. Toomer. - Joseph Bitzer, a German, was found dead in Crowder's creek, near Crow der's Mountain Cotton Mills. He is supposed to have been drowned Thurs day night. He was at the cotton mills Wednesday night under the influence of liquor. He was conducted home by some one at the mill. : , StntA TAsnrr irnrtli k rvf n V i n rr in regard to the possible inadequacy of the resources ior state revenue to provide a fund sufficient to meet all the appropri ations made by the recent general as. sembly, said he was quite sure that the appropriations made would be some what in exce s of the State's, income for the . two yi a s , intervening before another session of the assembly. He ka Mlviadw 1atarmina1 nnAn n nets n oj.jr rw imvv ufvu a pviivj bv which to govern the disbursement OX Uld iuuud. ImWnWttUL Extra Session of the Fifty-Fifty Congress Convenes. 3RIEF IN RECOMMENDATIONS Session Called to Deal With Deficits and Prevent Same in Future by Passing a Tariff BUI.1 Washington, March 15. The extra ordinary session of the Fifty-fifth Con gress was opened by reading the Presi dent's1 proclamation convening it. Sixty eight Senators answered to the roll-call, aad the galleries were filled to over flowing. ' I i - Mr. W. A. Harris, of Kansas, was sworn in as successor to Mr. Peffer. After appointment of a committee to notify the Presidhnt and the House that the Senate was ready to begin its du ties, a recess was taken until 2 p. m. Assistant Secretary Pruden announc ed and presented the message, which was read by the clerk, as follows: i'o the Congress Of the United fctates: Regretting the necessity which has required me to call you together, 1 feel that your assembling in extraordinary session is indispensible, because of the condition in which we find the reve nues of the government. It is con ceded that its current expenditures are greater than its receipts, and that such a condition has existed for now more than four years. With unlimit ed means at our command, we are pre senting the remarkable spectacle of in creasing our public debt by borrowing money to meet the ordinary outlays in cident upon an economical and prudent administration of the government. An examination of the j subject discloses this fact in every detail, and leads in evitably to the conclusion that the rev enue that allows it is unjustifiable and should be corrected. . i : We tnd by the reports of the Secre tary of ihe '.Treasury that the revenues lor the nscal year ending Juneau. 18J2, from all sources were !tf42o,8t)8,260.22, and the expenditures for all purposes were 41o,y5ii,8uti.60. leaving an excess of receipts over expenditures of $3,914, 4.3. oG. During that fiscal year $40, 570, -id?. hS were paid upon the public debt, vhich had been reduced from March 1, iociJ, 2a9,G70,bA, and the annual inter est charges decreased $ll,b84,576.60. i he receipts of the goverment from all sources during the fiscal year ending June 30, 183, amounted to $4ol,71o,"56l and its -expenditures to $459,374,887, showing an excess of receipts over ex penditures cf $2,b4l,G74. ; Since that time the receipts of no fiscal year, and but with few exceptions of no more of any fiscal year, have exceeded- the ex penditures, j life receipts of the gov ernment from all sources, during the fiscal year ending June SO, 18s)4, were 3ii72iLf2,4fl8 and ,its ! expenditures $442,005,758, leaving a deficit, the first since the resumption of specie pay ments, of g6i,Ob,2C0. Notwithstand ing there was a decrease of $iti,7tiy,128, in the ordinary expanses of the govern ment as compared with the previous fiscal its income was still not sufficient to provide for its daily necessities and the gold reserve in the Treasury for the redemption of greenbacks was drawn upon to meet them. But this did not suffice, and; the government then resorted to loans to replenish the reserve. ' t 1 I In February, 1894, $50,000,000 in bonds were I issued, and in November following a second issue of $50,000,000 was deemed necessary. : The sum of 117,171,795 was realized by the sales of these bonds, but the reserve was stead ily decreased until, I on I February 8, 18J5, a third sale of $G2,bl5,4G0 in bonds for S5t, 116,244 was announced to Con gress: I - - ! I : The receipts' of the government for the fiscal year ending June 60, 180- were &jy0,873,203 and the expenditures 433,178,420. showing a deficit of $42, 805,223. A further loan of 100,000,000 was negotiated by the government in February, 1896, the sale netting $111, 16t,246 and swelling the aggregate of bonds issued within three years to 262,315,400. For the fiscal year end ing June 30,! 1896, the , revenues of the government from all sources amounted to $403,475,408, while its I expenditures were $434,678,654. or an excess of ex penditures over receipts of $2.5,203,245. i n other words, the total receipts for the three fiscal years ending June 30, 181)0, were insufficient by 5137,811,724 to meet the total expenditures. Nor has this condition, since im proved, For the first half of the present fiscal year, the receipts of the government exclusive of postal reve nues were $167,507,603, and its ex penditures, exclusive of postal service, 105,410,000, or an excess of expen ditures over receipts of $37, ao2, 396. In January of this year the re ceipts, exclusive of postal revenues, were $24, 310,994 and the expenditures, exclusive of postal service, $30,259, 38 J a deficit of $,592,890 for the month. In r ebruary of this year the receipts, ex clusive of postal revenues, were $24. 400,99? and the expenditures exclusive of postal service, $28,796,08. a deficit of $4,395,059, or a total deficiency of $186,061,660 : for the three years and eight months ending ; March 1st, 187. :otonly are we without a surplus in the Treasury, but with an increase in the public debt there has been a corres ponding increase in the annual interest charge from $22,893,883 in 1892, the lowest of any year since 18C2, to $34, bUl.'Ml in 1896, or an increase of $11, 493,414. It may be urged that -even if the revenue of the government had been sufficient to meet all its ordinary expenses during the past I three years, the gold reserve would have still been insufficient to meet the demands upon it, but be that as it may it is clearly manifest, without denying or confirm ing the correctness of such a conclu sion that the debt would have been decreased in at least the amount of the deficiency, and business confidence im measurably I strengthened throughout the country, i Congress should promptly correct the existing conditions. Ample revenues must be supplied not only fox the ordi nary expenses of the government, but for the prompt payment of liberal pen sions and the liquidation of the princi pal and interest of the public debt. In raising revenues, duties should be so levied upon foreign products as to pre serve the hone market; so as to protect our own producers; to revive and in crease manufactures; to relieve aad en courage agriculture; increase our do mestic ana foreign commerce: to aid and develop mining and building, and to render to labor in every field oi use ful occupation the liberal wage and adequate rewards to which skill and in dustry are justly entitled. The neces sity of a tariff law -which shall . provide ample revenue, need not be , farther urged. The imperative demand oi the hour is the prompt enactment of such a n. e isure and to this object I earnestly recommend that Congress shall make every endeavor. Before other business is transacted, let us tirBt provide surn cient revenue to faithfully administer the government without the contracting of farther debt, or the continued dis turbance of our finances. cigned j Wit. McKixXiKt. i I'resident of the United States. The message occupied the undivided attention of the Senators and of the a idiencein the galleries, but no demon stration followed it3 conclusion. COTTON r.lTLUlNU. How Two to.Vou.- Bales Per Acre Are Made on Very Poor Laud. We have cot the slightest desire to assist in any manner in bringing about an increase in the number xl bales annnal'y raised throughout the Sunny South in general nor in Mississippi in particular, but we do desire that So other n farmers everywhere should realize the fact that the same 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 bales thai are now raised annually may be just as easily, just at surely and far more, economically and profitably raised on one-fourth the area it is to-day, leaving the other three-fourths to bo put in provision crops, fruits or grass. We have had the good fortune to tee and walk over many Georgia farms farms, too, that were worn out and washed away many year. ago that are now made to pro duce from one to four bales of cotton per acre. ' This condition of things is made possible and actually brought aboufc by tbe "intensive" system of culture and liberal yet economical fertilization. As ear!y in the new year as the weather will possible admit of, the old cotton stalks are "knocked or cut, tbe roots are then plowed up with straight shovel; green cotton seed are then strewn , in this shovel furrow at tbo rate of ten to twelve bushels per acre; two half-shovel fur rows are next thrown on "the seed to prevent the loss of ammonia; in a few weeks this small bed is opened with a long, narrow scooter and 200 to 300 pounds of some good commercial fertil izer distributed in this furrow; phos phate and potash being all sufficient, the cotton seed furnishing the necessary nitrogen; the land is then bedded out and out with straight shovel and iitr-now ready for tbe receptionof the seed. Under this plan, persistently followed, Georgia larmers have succeeded in so in creasing the fertility of the soil that with a slight increase in amount of fertilizer used and a favorable ; season four bales per acre have rewarded their efforts. , A good rheavy cow-pea stubble turned under will be found to be fully as beneficial to the coming cotton crop as the cotton seed; either one.' will . supply all the nitrogen needed; but in the absence of a cow-pea stubble, the cotton seed should by no means be neglected. Stable manure may be used instead of either of above, but the fact should be kept in mind that all three of above are "citrogenous" fertilizers, and are used mainly for the amount of nitrogen they contain ; and either one, or all three need the addition of phosphates and potash in liberal quantities (seventy-five pounds of Mu riate of Potash or 300 pounds of Kainit, with 200 ponnds of Acid Phosphate) per acre in order to make a complete fertilizer that shall be at once proper ly balanced and duly proportioned.- If the peas have been properly fertilized (with 200 to 300 ponnds Acid Phos phate and 200 to 300 pounds of Kainit), which they always should be when the object in raising them is that may be turned under as fertilizer, it would te hardly necessary to apply any addi tional fertilizer directly to the cotton. Georgia larmers . break, their lands deep (eight to ten or even twelve inches) once about every three years ; they say it does not pay to break them deep any oftener. In this deep break ing, the land is broken with a two horso turning plow, plowing about one inch deeper than the surface soil, thu gradually deepening the soil. No crops are planted hero at all without fertili zer being applied, and in the randier portions of the State tbe farmers Beem to be unanimous in tL 'declaration that "Potash is the element that is most needeu" and that "any. fertilizer that does not contain as much as four per cent, of it is not worth applying." Cotton here is planted in four foot rowF. barred off with balf-shoveln and cultivated the entire season "with cotton scrapes" i, e. "heel-sweeps. " , Burgees, Mias. G. H.-Tunxxi!. - WRECK OF A TBAXW. An Opera Troup Badly Shaken Up and a Boy Killed. A special 1 rain bearing a French opera troupe of 150 people, bound for San Pran cisoo, was wrecked about midnight near Casa Grand, Ariz. The train consisted of three Pullmans, two tourist sleepers and three baggage cars. The accident was caused by a bolt break ing in front of tbe tender, allowing : the fix tures of the truck to drop down and spread the rails. The following car remained up right, but the wheels were buried in the ground, cutting entirely through the ties. The second baggage car was thrown on its aide. The third baggage remained upright. Under the second baggage car a boy about 15 years old was found dead with one of his bands protruding from under the wreck. There were about ten tramps on the train and several were badly injured. Oae of the opera troupe was slightly Injured. A track was built around the wreck. It- List of Measures Enrolled and Rati fied. A NUMBER OFAPPROPRIATIONS. Counties Permitted to Levy Special Taxes Towns and Companies In corporated Other Ltaws. From February 27th to March 6th, both inclusive, the following bills were enrolled and ratified and ore now laws: To amend chapter 134, acts of 1S85, as ' to Ashe and Watauga; to pro hibit working of women on roads and streets of Vance; to establish two new townships in A Surry; to incorporate Hodges School, "in Davie; to incorpor ate the town of Eedmonjto appropriate $5,000 additional tothe University; to appropriate $12,500 additional to the State Normal and Industrial College; to allow Charlotte to issue $2-50,000 in bonds for water-works; to repeal chap ter 87, public laws of 1838, onapter 2o9, private laws of 1871-'2, and chapter 163, private laws of 1893; to allow Jackson county to levy special tax; to incorpor ate the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias; to allow Washington county to levy a special tax to build bridge; to amend chapter 34 of the Code; to estab lish dispensary for Bladen; to establish graded schools at Hickory; to create public roads in Caswell; to allow Madi sen to build a bridge across Ivy creek ; to amend chapter 64, private laws of 1883; to amend chapter 810, private laws of 1891; to amend charter of Mor ven; to regulate the procuring and dis tribution of dead bodies for dissection; to allow Transylvania county to levy a special tax; to incorporate the. town of Dudley; to establish a publio road sys tem in Vance; to allow Craven county to build bridges across Neuse and Trent rivers; to create a short form of agricultural lien; to incorporate the town of Whittier; to amend The Code in re gard to restoration to citizenship; to al low Onslow to nsesre;ial taxes lor gen eral purposes; to locate line between North Carolina ard Tennessee; to amend the charter of Kitt; e 1 Colored Normal School; to repeal the charter of the town of Ruffin; to establish a dis pensary at Waxhaw; to incorporate' the Xorth Corolma Land and Timber Com pany; to incorporate the American Trust and Savings Bank ;to allow Monroe to is sue water works bonds; to allow gradu ates of the Asheville Normal and Col legiate Institute for Young Women to teach in the public schools without ex am nation; to allow Perquimans county to levy a special tax ; to incorporate the United Brothers' and Sisters' Associa tion; for the relief of ex-Sheriff McArtan, of Harnett; to regu late the bond of register -of deeds of Edgecombe; to fix term of holding Superior Courts in the fifth dis trict; to increase and regulate revenue; to amend laws relative to Craven Su perior Courts; to amend aud re-enact chapter 310, private laws of 1893, and chapter 318, private laws of 1895; to in corporate trustees of St. Mary's School, Baleigh; to increase the powers of the railroad commission; to exempt certain fraternal benevolent orders from tax; to amend sections 677 and 701 of chap ter 16 of The Code; to incorporate the auxiliary board of health of Edgecombe; to amend the charter of Winston; to al low the people of Concord to veto on .bond is sue; to allow Secretary of State to furnish Superior Courts to Johnston county; to provide for new buildings at Deaf-Mute School at Morgan ton; to amend the charter of Concorcl; to incor porate the Dennis Simmons Company aud enlarge its charter; to incorporate the Bank of Enfield and enlarge its charter; to amend the charter of Dur ham and allow it to issue bonds; to amend the charter of Mt. Airy; to regulate the oourts of the tenth district; to allow Cumberland county to refund its outstanding debt; to provide for new buildings for the Deaf-Mute and Blind Institution; to extend the stock law limits in Wayne; to amend chapter 426, public ; laws of 1895; to amend the law of 1895 regard ing a turnpike in Henderson county; to legalize $10,000 in bonds, issued by Elizabeth City and levy tax to pay them; to allow Haywood and Jackson to levy a special road tax; to incorpo rate Sovereign Camp of Woodmen of the World; to incorporate the Toxaway Company; allowf the clerk of Bladen to be absent Mondays; to incorporate the Supreme Ruling of the Fraternal Mystic Circle; to amend the charter of Elizabeth City; to allow Beaufort to levy a special tax; to incorporate the! Carolina, Chimney Rock k Tennesseee, Railroad; to repeal chapter 181; private laws of 1895; to provide for working publio roads in Nah; to incorporate Winterville, Pitt county; for the relief of Clerk Z. F. Long, of Richmond; to amend the law as to cotton-we ghers in Edgecombe; to give the fusionists con trol of the penitentiary; to allow Madi son to issue bonds ana levy a special tax; to pave streets around Capitol Square; to regulate the collection of taxes in Durham county, to work roads in Cherokee; to incorpo rate the Harnett Central Railroad; to incorporate the Mulberry Turnpike Company; to change time of holding court in the seventh district; to appro priate S5.000 for colored teachers' train ing school; to incorporate the Carolina Southern Railway and Lumber Com Company; to amend charter of Wil mington Chamber of Commerce; to in corporate the Mutual Aid Banking Company of Newbern ; to require State convicts to work certain roads in An son; to drain Mill Creek, Davie county, to take Vance out of the Eastern crimi nal circuit; to incorporate the Williains Fitzhugh Lumber Company; So drain certain low lands in Lincoln; to work Haywood's public roads; to allow An son to finish jail repairs; for the relief of R. O. Pitman; to allow Beaufort county to levy a special tax and issue bonds: to allow Jackson county to build a bridge across Tuckaseege river; for the relief of E. G. Smith and oth ers, of Buncombe; to work public roads in Washington county; to amend chapter 230, acts of 1689; to allow Alexander to levy a special tax to build a new court house andiail; to im nrove public roads from Roaring Gap to Virginia line, in Alleghany; to IIS nil LAWS incorporate the A shevill EleotIc Com pany; to improve road in Cion by taxation; to allow Wilkes to lerr a special tax; to inoorpora e the Yadkin : iver ; mrer Co npanr; to incorporate the i ank of Raulolpn;. to amend the charter of V. ilm ngtcii o that Govern or appoints aide. man from each ward; to amend the charter of Newbern in same way a Wilmington; ' to amend the charter of Pockv ' ount; to estab lish difpenPAry in Cumberland countr: to require all bankers or officers of fi ectors of railroads, Stat banks and :i!l other corporations created or chr ,fn hf tlj Tji'ilature to take an of r'al oath: to incorporate the Hon Fire Company, oi Green villa; to build publio roaafrum t;amd. : scLoj houj to Virginia li39; to evtbl.sh a grade! school at Washington ; to amend chap ter 195, publio laws of 131. ; to make Su perior Court clerk of Robeson ex-officio clerk of Criminal Court; to amend Dur ham's charter; to incorporate the Winston-Salem South Bound b: ail road, re quiring State to furnish surveyors and 2-o convicts; to provide a police justice for Asheville; for the relief of Clerk Pace, of the IfenJeruon t uperior Court; to levy special school tax in Wake For est township, W ake county; to incor porate Durham's public lil rary ; to drain lov lauds of Carter's creek, Davie coun ty; to amend chapter 2G7, private laws of lrfji; to allow Halifax county to levy special tax; to amend chapter 152, acts of 18j3; to amend section 1255 of The Code; to prohibit taking of clatus for market in .Brunswick between April ftth and November loth; to allow the ; State to refiind $200 to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians f to regulate . the manufacture and pale of liquor in Haywood; to incorporate Whit sett Institute; to allow Sampson , to borrow money, issue bonds aud levy a special tax; to create a separate board of trustees fur the white Agricultural and Mechanical College; to incorporate the" Raleigh Library; to incorporate Dyatt Academy, at Boonville; to amend the charter of Lexington; to allow Cra ven o levy a special tax; to complete public road from Creton to. Mills River; to let Ashe county vote on issue of road improvement bonds; to incor porate trustees of the First Pres bytery of the A. It. Pre$b3'terian Church; to provide fori working publio roads of Halifax; to charter the Nation el Protective Association; to prevent the introduction of the San Jose fruit scale and other dangerous fruit and crop pests; to protect partridges in Chatham; to establish graded schools in Chapel Hill; to incorporate the Lumber River Railroad; to amend the charter of the town of Hub; asking Congress to rebuild arsenal at Fayetteville; to allow Randolph to sell county bonds; for the relief of-E. O. Vestol, of Chatham; to except Polk county from chapter 427, publio laws of 189o; to allow Raleigh's . school committee to issue, $0,000 in bonus; 15 Tncorporale S3eVuel Hill Institute, Person countv; to pay James L Moore $200; to allow Forest City to issue bondt; to repeal1 chapter 833, public laws of 1835, so far as relates to Trausylvania; to except Onslow and Pender from the new oyBter law; to give the colored orphan asylum at Ox lord $1,000 additional;, to amend the charter of Forest City; to amend sec tions 2912, 2813 and 214 of The Code; to revise .and improve the publio school system of the State; to regulate road working in Tyrrell; to allow Fprs-th to issue bonds upon petition; to incorpor ate Hominy Valley institute; to allow Sampson to work conicts on public roads; to extend time for organization of the Bank of Lumberton; to provide for representation of this State at the Tennessee Exposition this year; for the relief of the sheriffs and tax collec tors (allowing collection of arnat-sof taxes) ; to reduce fees for impounding stock in Buncombe, Madison, Wilke. Tyrrell, Surry, ti ay wood, Vance, Davie, Cumberland and .Halifax; to establish graded school at Haysville; to incor porate the Atlantic Levelopment Company-; to repeal chapter 418, acts of 1891 ; to reieal section 1733 and amend section 1739 of tbe Code; to repeal sec tion 5, chapter 131, acts of 189j-, to reg ulate tbe keeping of rtock in Tyrrell county; to allow the State Treasurer to pay out appropriations quarterly or semi-annually; to incorporate the High lands Turnpike Company; to amend the charter of Newbern, in regard to spelling of name; to . amend chapler 171, acts of lS72-'3;to prevent damming Beaver creek, Jones county; to repeal chapter 12, publio acts of 1893; to clear the channel of Haw river, in Rockingham; to provide a dispensary for Loui6burg township; to air'end the charter of Southern i inea: to incorpor ate the Chatham, Moore and harnett c ank, at fcanford; to place the insane asylums at Gohlsboro, Naleigh. and Morganf on in the hands a ih j fusionists. FIF1 Y-FIFUI CONGRESS. Report of the Proceedings from Day to Iay. SENATE. , Monday. The extraordinary sessiov of the Fifty-fifth Congress was opened by reading the Presidents proclamation convening it. - Sixty-eight Senators answered to roll-call, and the galleries were filled to overflowing. Mr. W. A. Harris, of Kansas, was sworn in as suc cessor to Mr. PeftVr. After appoint ment of a committee to notify the Presi dent and the House that the Senate was ready to begin its duties, a recess was taken until 2p.m, At this session the President s message was read and re ferred to committee, and on motion of Mr. Allison, Republican, of Iowa, the Senate at 3:35 p; m. adjourned until to morrow at roon. - HOUSE. The opening of the Fifty -fifth Con gress in extraordinary esion was wit nessed in the House today by an im mense crowd of spectators. Alexander McDowell, clerk of. the last House, called the House to order. The election of Speaker was. then proceeded with, the result being: For Mr. Reed. 199: for Mr. Bailey, 114; for Mr. Bell, 21; for Mr. Newlands, of Nevada, 1. The President's message was read and re ferred, on motion of Mr. Dingtey, to the committee on ways and mean. -Mr. Dingley then introduced his tariff bill, which tm also referred to the commit tee on ways and means. Permission waa crin in tVi committee on wavs and means to sit during the session of the House and to bave ail necessary nnniiniT ilnn tnH tbfn. at 4 t. m. . the House adjourned until Thursday next. IT BROUGHT TEARS, Bet Joe JefTeran' VTmm Patfofted wftb What Mm Had. Written. A young Chicago matron' tell the fol lowing characteristic story about Jos eph Jefferson: Several years ago." csid ahe. "when lfr. Jefferson was prepsrlog hls auto biography he wss obliged to do a great deal of the work while on tour. A publishing bons wl:b which I was con nected at one- time recommended mer to him as an' amanuensis who had bid considerable experience In the prepar ation of manuscript for publication and I joined tbe actor in SL Louis. "Mr. Jefferson would spend severs I hours every -night after thef play In making notes of what he wanted to say. The next afternoon be would dic tate to me. Usually he would bring In a great collection of memoranda Jot ted down on envelopes and scraps of paper, and sometimes he would appear with a newspaper whoso margins would be literally severed with queer JOSErn JEFPSBSOX. figures and hentracks. Walking ui and down the floor, be-would dictate to me rlowly In that cracked Rip Van Winkle voice of his and I could follow him easily oh the typewriter, "One day when we met as usual for work he seemed to bave prepared more elaborate notes than usual, and in stead of walking about the room be sat down, quite a distance away from me, and began to dictate the chapter treating of his closing Australian ex periences. There was a pathetic quiv er In his voice as he spoke of the many happy daya ha had spent In that far away land, among comparative stran gers, and added that he hoped his book would come to them aa a aort of hand tlasp between friend who would nev" er meet again In this life.' "It waa very affecting. My eyes grew misty and I had to stop writing. Suddenly I felt a kindly hand on my head and Mr. Jefferson's voice ealdt That's what I wanted. Cry all you want to, my. girl. I cried myself last night when I wrote that, but I was afraid no one else would. I guess It will do M MgRRY-QO-nOUNP WITH SAILS Fcheme of a Genius of the Mediter ranean to Get Fun Without Work. A graceful contrivance has been per fected In & city on tbe Mediterranean coast s sailing merry-go-round. The basic principle Is a very simple one a strong beam pivoted centrally and fitted at each end with miniature sloop rigging, J. c mainsail and Jib. Seat to carry one or more' riders are slung under each arm. ' Ingenuity or Indolence will suggest ft variety of improvements. The device may be fitted with auto matic brakes, to revolve gently, for baby's or grandma's accommodation: or it may be so loaded with sails that it will revolve with amazing rapidity. That this Eyelan charm may operate most satisfactorily, friction at tbe piv oted point must be reduced to a mini mum, and to insure this the two arms and the weight carried by each should be balanced to a nicety. This can be accomplished in two ways cither bv providing a specisl shifting weight or by making the seats for the riders mov. able. It is, of course, understood that the booms are not made fast, but so that they may sblfU OT be shifted, as In tacking. . In Europe, the youthful riders delight in "handling tbe ropes" of these sails, and after a little practice the Juvenile aerial yachtsmen easily and at will arrest tbe flight of the merry -so-round simply by dexterous manipulation of the lines. This ia not neccsaary, how. ever. If the end of the boom is made fast so as to have a little play, tbe sails will autoniatJoally take toe right posi tion to the wind with every half revolu tlon. - ; ' ' Southoinjlailuay Piedmont Ar Line. FIR8T AND KCoND DIVISION NORTH CAROLINA Tbii condensed schdnle is publlabed as information oolv sod U subject to change without noMce to t e p 0 sssassoso, wissto - No j. No 7. . Dauy. Mixed See Ex. not. Son. .am pa Lv Greensboro..... M 12 20 lojtoa-tUUffl . 10 00 1 80 ; Rural Hall 10 81 Elkla ...15 25 .... Ar. WUkesboro 11 No at Mixed No Bee d'ly note D CD ,750 850 pa i i$. ass. 80S 7 80 p m j No. 87 will leave Wloeton-fUleta Mondavi, WdoMMiayii and Fridays -No. 6 la mixed train between r7iotoa- alwn and Wllaboro. " ' Ko. 8 .No. 10 H". 64 No. 6 Mixed Daily Mixed Dally Ex Ban Note Note a. at a. K. ' . n. a." sr. LJ-SSfb0f":-::::: iSS M-v -ib-ao IS IS vr. Greensboro... X0 1L 6 83 r. au Ko 66 will leava W boro Hiv. and Wix-toa-Ssl. Kew)
Davidson County News (Lexington, N.C.)
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