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i o III VOL. VIII. THOMASYILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, II, 1897. NO. 7. riw 'li in 11 f . 11 I III Hi: Droun The I 1 i:.- i vi. : ir. ': i- tLe li-' dieted i dry tut HE TENNESSEE EXPOSITION. it and Yellow Fever Mate rially Affected It THF ATTENDANCE BY WEEKS. the ycl!' duni;;: I pi t- i t rcc Days of the Confederate -Did Not Bring Such a i Attendance. Ill, the utu the i' U"ju r." bfcUll- ti! t late u 1 s.t.of t this; Io but (lie H! - ' i l.htcejl tl: tiou. " teuilun daily i' itent,,u ttmlaue Wtck t Wetk e Week : Week c Week e Week e eon c Week c Wei-k t Week e t h o attendance at the Tennes . liuial exposition did not reach of 2,000,000 that was pro r it, etill, considering the hot, :;,ier, when the daily attend ;iar'el only : 7, 000 to 8,000 and ,-v fever-scare that prevailed me t wo months that were ex- l.Kiire tiie exposition a suc 1 -,i"hi'ch unavoidably reduced n laiiccby 200,000 to 300,000, ill is remarkable, Had there drought and no yellow fever cherished object of the Cen ceiiijany would undoubtedly lined and that was to accuniu iihd f.ullicient to purchase the Lo exposition and give it to lo for a public park. JBut even the company . succeeded in so ir allairs that it will be able to ? ii f T 1 i T T " i ii e .1.11 1 17 vv (:m liar ox inueoieuuess. j,veu !,il iloubtl'ul some weeks back, nidi of the last week was uu- y great and the receipts e company in a solvent condi- n financial report has yet been d it ul no official report as to at :c l:as yet been mat! o, but the coidH of the admissions clepart- . v . 11 T .1 . .1 -.1 XI t :iuiiiciai:y atuieu, buuw m ui e I iv weeks to bo as follows: t -i rii i ni ft v, m ay i o i .lii.g.Iay8;...! 41,005 41,540 41,431 49,515 iidiuir May lo. . .u ndiii- May 22. . .. udiui,' 3Iay 20 u.'.i mi: June 5. udiii June 12.... ailing Juno 10. ... . irliug June 20 idling July 3. -. . . mliug July 10. . . . nlii;g J aly 17. . . 00,513 70, 033 60,531 100,430 55,837 37,708 80,838 Week cii'iiijg uiy z-k. v, too 00,854 30,310 52,904 42,437 56,841 40,772 82,510 53.S72 04,829 56,031 94,203 72,638 107,936 195,307 net-K c Week e Week v Week e reek c Wtek e AceU e 'IC-IV V. Tout.- . '1 Oi! P luting J uiy oi ........ i tiding August 7 - udii.g August 14. .... nuiu'g August 21 lining August z. ..... itding September 4. .,. . i.dii:- September 11... ading September 18. tiding September 25. . . udtng October 2 tiding October 9. . . nding October 16. . ... ending October 23 ..... nding October 30. I... ..................1,682,305 loconl was kent of the mailV - A , " audi of soldiers and people in car- who:; amcipateu in paraaea auu sod tbrougli tno carriage gaie, sumo unexplained reason no w:,s K-iu.t. nf ndmissions throuch minal station tho first two weeks exposition. Ilow many tnese foot ni is problematical and at ! to estimate would be guess The yelioAV fever not onlj' fright-.vi- I'.mnv nnrt.hern rjeonle. but it impossible for many Southern t attend. u out with 20.317 on the open- v, ibis iiguro was not rassea til .Wine llth. when President Mc- v veiled the exposition. This .. . . i i i i i ft" AIO iHitw, hv.niiii tnere were zj.no lie ou the grounds. The three days Confederate reunion. did not bring iadai uoiiu attendance as was antici- atel l e:n- onl v 19.134. 28.342 and 2C, Op y.n- iivi'de day, September llth, w ei e l ! , V,s, the greatest day oi tne Position up U that time. OniNebraska r, ( ,!::! m h. w ne.n lion. imam Tot Jl 111 IB'' I'' uutor ii6 ter t i iirL- da ople ?!lllli -re llllr at ill 'It ,!' i5' a -CU Wh :l ll it ns tii van spoke, there were 35,- oi-ir ju-esent. Diroctor general s luuht out 33,449. The second euVday, October 23d, had 29,834 eu dance, but it' remained ior er :-ih, -lohn nomas aay, to cut ;i crowd more than double unv i rnvious cTav. there being u.haissious on that da.y. On the sv c t th.o exposition also there sd.eiuiid attendance, 41,690, the i l e t o.t the season. !. '.':. eiMiaition company can- iy the "!'te for a park, they have id that the rarthenon.the historj' uj- .m. h ii.n liri'.-inrp.j he left intact. ; imblic i cutimeut stronglyfavors HsLin r a public park on tne site, h out little douot tnac mo d;- will bp ijnrchased bv the city oier.ii? of r.rivate subscriDtions. 11 fnnntA all the oveiucut,- 'including the two nga mentioned, l.ooo ( ;,p-i,.M(ls Produce. ho i-v , 1 .. . . ii i fl'l. -M'wi.i t', me prupueoi xua sup sams alrnobt inexhaustible. Ship J'sweie larger last week than ever or . 1 It is . titnated that. Mt. Airy ,slnp ti i? season nearly 1,000 car .!.' "(-iv.oro than 100 locomotives ru!l K tho 'train was all coupled "'atr- There are twenty-five firms i .. nugu i.ix uaj -3 i v v , auu (.a j uiuu j '-soiiio cf . them about' three- 1113 v.-.ivl.-.-'l t .1 il- T A in -News Munitions for Kv West. Ina.iLi , ... - -Muiiotuo Jacksonvil e. (Fla.l a . T ... v ill, ,n nn.l f.M Tw. . " '" caucus, ll urn xaiu- x . 1 1 t 1 I.i.ii t 1A aw Vnrt TTarolH carloads of munitions v.V - ie reamer Tarpon, butitis ..u;:t' uoat ins rpfl. lv hpftn -ea by the filibusters. 4 It tost Van Wyck to De Mayor. CDt i '.. . . . -.u . -u-eiect liobert A. van 3Ut 7. r Krt Tn 0ll 1.l ill'- i men iu iuo CUUUl) - Ills Cfinninin a-marxeaa li2f 1 o f 1 1 rri T -r J'Jl m,.,:. .. .. . , . . -uuuery, stamps ana steno a ,rk, s.j,7; to William Knotz, lelii .nnov. . son r r notices it, Li A.TJE3T ELECTION NEWS. Ohio Is Republican and Van Wyck'a Blajorlty Is Large. In Ohio the Democrats have conceded tho election of the Bepublican State tick et by larger pluralities than were claim ed by the Eepublicans. The Democratic State committee announced no definite claims on the Legislature and the Re publican State committee claims a ma jority of five on joint ballot as follows: Senate: 17 Republicans, 19 Democrats. House: 68 Republicans, 51 Democrats. Total, 75 Republicans, 70 Democrats. Returaflfrom all the cities in the State of Neir York indicate a plurality of more thaa 58,000 for Alton li. Parker, Dem ocratic candidate for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. His plurality in Greater New York is 133,058. Van Wyck has 81,548 plurality over Seth Low and 118,401 over General Tracy. The State Legislature remains Repub lican. I The special election in the third con gressional district. Brooklyn, resulted in a victory for Edmund I H. Dreggs, Democrat, oyer Wm. A. Predergast. Massachusetts is overwhelmingly Re pcblican, they having big majorities in both House and Senate. ! Nebraska's fusion State ticket is elected by 20,000 plurality.' : The Republicans have elected eight of the thirteen district judges in Kan sas, d Beacon (Rep. ) for treasurer, has 124, 881 plurality in Pennsylvania. The Democrats elected all the Sena tors in Virginia and ninety-four mem bers of the House, the Republicans hav ing fovr and the Independents one member. j Iowa goes Republican by over 80,050 plurality, and the Legislature is safely Republican. ; - ) The Republicans won six, thefusion ists two circuit judges in South Da kota. j The Republican plurality in Ohio is 26,520. ; ENGLISH PRESS C03IMENTS. II ow They Consider the Result of the Late Klcction. ) The elections in the United States continue to overshadow all I the other news in the English newspapers. The Sun, of London, of whioh news paper Harry Marks has editorial con trol, Bays: j ' 'The dog returned to his vomit' is the text we recommend pious New York to hang on parlor walls. The chief city of a great people muet see its mu nicipal offices filled with jmen who should be filling cells in the peniten tiary. New York has fallen like rotten fruit into the hands of the boodlers,but the New YorkerB may console them selves with saying that every city, as every land, has the governmont that it deserves." ! The Evening News remarks : "Croker has brought off his tip and has won the race, showing that he is rd ore to be feared in his natural arena of politioa than on the race course. The population of the i second greatest city in the world " has elected its ruler, and the morn ing after election the problems occupying his mind did not relate to the government of the city, but to squaring and rewarding his supporters. The experiment of democracy as seen in full growth in New York seems to have its drawbacks as well as its ad vantages. " . S i Eckels Will Accept.) Mr. Jame3 Eckels, the Comptroller of the Currency, will accept the presi dency of the Commercial National Bank, of Chicago, to which he has been elect ed. Mr. Eckels' term of office does not expire until April, 1S98, but at tho ur gent solicitation of the directors of the bank he will assume his new duties on January 1. During his term as Comp troller Mr. Eckels has won a national reputation as a financier and his ad ministration is generally regarded as exceptionally able. It is understood that his sucoessor will be Mr. C. G. Dawes, of Illinois. The Cabinet Resigns. The Premior and his colleagues in the cabinet of Peru insist upon the accept ance of their resignations tendered last week on account of a vote of censure which Congress proposed to pass upon the government, because of its j failure to promulgate various measures enact ed by the special session of Congress last year. While the President's final decision has not yet been made public, it is believed in well-informed quarters that he has accepted the resignations. Collided at Sea. The schooners Fortuna and Edward g. Brierly collided twenty miles south of Montauk's Point, says a dispatch from Vinej-ar.d HaTen, Mass. The For tuna was wrecked, and possibly her captain and two sailors drowned, the Brierly failing to rescue them with the rest of the crew. Kv.. of the Shot at the Preacher. A report from Mintonville, states that Rev. Mr. Gilham, Christian Church, preached a sermon there in which he told there was no devil. The congregation took offense, and when the reverend gentleman at tempted to speak again he was ejected from the house and about twenty pistol shot were urea alter mm. ser- Imposing Funeral. At Windsor Ener.. the funera vices over the remains of the Duchess of Teck (Princess Mary of Cambridge), Ann rt "Onsen Victoria, mother-in- law of tha Duke of York, and sister of the Duke of Cambridge, who died at the White Lodge, Richmond, took place in St. George's chapel, Windsor Castle. The funeral was imposing. iP Al THE He Writes Another Interesting Let" ter on the Red Man, HISTORY OF THE TRIBES. i . I : . As Told by Dr. Peterson, of St. Louis, a Very Learned and Cultured Gen. tleman. Thirteen Firemen Injured. At Philadelphia during the progress of a fire in the Baronet dyein2 and scouring establishment a large can of benzine exploded. 1 Thirteen firemen were bo seriously injured that they had to be taken to the hospital. It is fear ed some of them may lose their sight. Three 91 en Killed. Three men -were killed in a boiler ex plosion at Vancouver, B. C. One hundred men were absent " at lunch, or the fatality would have been greater. - - - - It seems to me that I am haunted by Indians. The other night as I came from Macon to Atlanta my friend, Judge Hall, introduced me to Dr. Peterson, of St. Louis, a very learned and cultured gentleman, who was con nected with the ethnological department of the government and was engaged in examining Indian monnds and in writ ing up the history of the Indian tribes, especially of the five tribes known as civilized, viz, the Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws j and Seminoles. As these were our Indians, I became much interested in his discourse, for he had been careful and diligent in his research, and what he knew, he knew well. We talked about DeSoto and how, with a handful of brave soldiers, he overran this country and took cap tive as many Indian girls as his wife wanted. i j i "Why did not these Indians over whelm DeSoto and his ! handful of fol lowers and extinguish them?" I asked. "Because," said the doctor, "they were paralyzed with fear of this new and ag gressive race of people just as the Peruvians were paralyzed by Pizarro, who overran and and conquered Peru with less than a hundred men. " i The doctor has been to Eastern North Carolina investigatiner the tribe of 4,000 Croatans over there. They were orig inally called Hatteras i Indians,1 but about three hundred years ago Sir Wal ter Raleigh planted a colony of English and Portuguese on Roanoke island and put them in charge of Governor John White, a very practical and accom plished gentleman. A few days after lauding, Governor White's daughter, Eleanor, who had married a Mr. Dare, gave birth toachild and she was named Virginia, and so Virginia Dare was the first English child born on American soil. Let the boys and girls remember that. But no man knows anything more her. Governor White and Sir Walter went back to England for supplies and farming tools for the I colony and on their return trip I got into a fight with some Spanish cruisers and - lost their cargo and many of their men and had to go back to Eng land, and it was several years before they made another venture, and when they arrived at the island the colony was nowhere to be found and little Virginia has never been heard of. The colony left some marks on a tree pointing to an Indian town called Croatan, but the town was deserted. The doctor's inves tigations have satisfied him that the col ony did not perish nor were they killed, but that the men wanted wives and went into the interior and co-habited with the Croatans for it was found a hun dred years after that these Indians were of mixed colors and many of them spoke broken or mixed English and Portu guese, although they had no inter course with white people until the col ony came nor for a'hundred years after. He believes that Virginia ! Dare prob tthlv prow tiD with those Indians and lift- descendants are now of mixed blood. i r I It seems that these Croatans were never Americanized until the last civil war, when many of thorn came to the front with their guns and said they wanted to ficrht some. Thev were ac cepted and enrolled and did fight for the Confederacy. During the! war there was an election held in a county where some of them lived, and they were per suaded by an ambitious candidate to go to the noils and vote for him. Iheir votes were challenged by the other fel low upon the ground that they had some negro blood in their veins. They were very indignant and 6aid, "When you want us to fight for you, we are same as white folks; when we want to vote, you say we are nagurs. " And so a committee'of four doctors was ap pointed to examine them and say what they were. The committee took them out to a sandy place in the road and had them take off their shoes and make tracks barefooted. Five of them made verv fair Anglo-Saxon tracksand were ccepted, but of the other two the re port was that the hollow of their feet made holes in the ground, and they were rejected. There are some of these Croatoans on Newman's ridge, in Tennessee. I remember that, some years ao, a party of us were riding in the negro car on" the state road, and when we reached Kingston a colored convention of preachers got aboard and claimed the car. Sanford Bell ordered us out. and we retired, of course, but one man did not move. He was a dark, cadaverous individual, with black eyes and black hair. "What are you?" said Sauford; "are you a white man or a negro?" He 6miled and said- "Mine fader a Portugee, mine mudder a na gur. " Sanford looked perplexed and, turning to one of the colored preach ers, said: "What must I do witlr him?" and he said: "Let him alone. I reckon." I learned afterwards that he was a Cro atoan. : . I ' And now to.keep up the Indian sensa tion, I am receiving papers from the territory that acquaint me with the pe culiar situation of the tribes over there. What shall be done with their lands is the great question. The Dawes com mission appointed by congress wants to divide the lands per capita and let the Indians sell them or part of them to the white men if they choose. The Choc taws will get 703 acres each, and a fam ily of ten will therefore have 7,000 acres and will be tempted to sell most of it. j The full bloods do not want the lands divided, but tne mixoa uiouu u they are in a large majority, and so in a few years the Indian's autonomy will be gono forever and he will be extin guished as a ward of the nation. In a few years the five civilized tribes will lose their identity and their lands wnl be absorbed in the mottled mass of American humanity. This is what these papers say. and they are ably edited. .Vhat a sad finale to a Once proud, rich and happy race of people. These papers tell of an 880,000 steal and a $120,000 steal, and say that now a big Tailroad corporation ha got a finger in the pie and the Indians' land must go. Enough votes will be bought in congress to force the allotment bill and then will oome a second Oklahoma. In speaking of these things. Dr. Peterson got excit ed and said; "This nation is a nation of robbers, and it i3 and always has b?en a maxim of Ang'o-Saxon people "That they may t.ke who nave the power, And they may keep ."ho can." Speaking of Iauians haunting me, I received a letter from a northern gen tleman asking me as a great favor to get for him an ancient ante-bellum powder horn one with a history if poseible. Well, they jare ante-bellum, and so I found one that had been laid aside for half a century one that carried powder in Jackson's, war with the Seminoles in Florida, and has the odor of dead Indians "and no doubt has been in at the death of bears and panthers and "wild cats innumerable. I remember . when these powder horns hadrankand stand ing in the house aad children looked upon them with fear and reverence, but one day the percussion lock came along and soon after the breech-loader came along, and the powder ho.n was hung on a high nail and has been hanging there ever since. Like the Indian's bow and arrow, it has surrendered to the march of progress and civilization. Bill Arp in Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. !i el coil us. BRADSTRKET'S REPORT. Farmers Favored and Demand From Interior Store-Keepers Stimulated. Bradstreet's commercial report for the past week says: Killing frosts South, the raising of j quarantine embargoes at nearly all States invaded by yellow fe ver, the resumption of traffic and a prospective revival in demand for staple merchandise constitute tho trade fea tures of the week. Rains in central Western and Western States, followed by colder weather, have favored farmers and stimulated de mand from interior store-keepers. This has had a favorable efiect at Louisville, St. Louis and Kansas City. Job bers in Northwostern States are await ing seasonable weather to stimulate the movement :of heavy dry goods an winter clothing. Features at largt Pacific coast cities are confined to sales of merchandise and provision for the Klondike, and the heavy foreign in crease in the; general merchandise movement. New England centres re port that orders lrem the West exceed those from the South .or East. Lead ing manufacturing industries continue fairly well employed. While there has been a moderate reaction in iron and steel, furnaces, and miils continue well employed and the outlook for higher quotations next year is unchanged. In addition to lower prices for South ern and Bessemer pig, and for steel billets, quotations for naval stores, wools, copper, coffee, pork, flour, oats and wheat are lower; while those for cotton, print cloths, sugar and beef are unchanged, and for Indian corn, lead and lard are a shade higher. Exports of wheat lloar included, from both coasts ;of uii United States and from Montreal this week, aggre gate 5,575,216 bushels, compared with 5,911,491 bushels last week. There are 223, business failures re ported throughout the United States this week, compared with 218 last week a year ago; 260 two years ago; 241 three years ago, and as compared with 333 in the first week of 'November, 1893. i THE FEVER DYING OUT. - . The New Orleans Situation Much : Better. Business Now Improving. I There is a big improvement in the yellow fever situation at New Orleans. The number of cases is comparatively small and the record of fatalities is con siderably lighter. Many recovering from the disease are reported, and the people are convinced that the backbone of the fever has been broken and in a very short time the plague will be ex terminated altogether. Business is im proving. Total cases of fever to date, 1,729; total deaths, 228; cases under treatment, 585. Epidemic Will Soon Be Over. Although some portions of the coun- trv along the Gulf of Mexico have been visited by disease, physicians agree, that the first heavy frost will without doubt kill the germs of the disease and that the epidemic will be over in a few weeks. Apparently it has not affected the tide of travel to the South, and al ready many tourists from New Eng land and other sections of the country are at Old Point, Comfort, Virginia Beach and places Sn Carclinas. Tha mecca of New England people South ern Pines and Pinehur6t promises to have tho greatost winter population in the history cf tbia resort. The Old Bay Line, which is the principal water route for Northern travelers ou Chesa peake Bav to Old Point, Virginia Beach and the other resorts, is carry ing large numbers of passengers, and staterooms have to be reserved in ad vance owing to the crowded condition of the boats. -: General Weyler to be Court Martlaled The Spanish government, as a result of the deliberations of the ministers over the utterances of General Weyler, the former captain general of Cuba, has come to the decision to try him by court martial, no matter where he lands, if he confirms the accuracy of the press reports of his utterances. The com manding officers at all the ports of the Spanish kingdom have been instructed to demand of General Weyler the moment he can be communicated with, the exact terms of the speech which he delivered in reply to; the manifestation at Havanna upon the occasion of his embarkation for Spain. Winter Schedules tor Southern Travel A meeting of the officers of the Penn sylvania road, Richmond, Fredericks burg and Potomac railroad, Chesapeake and'bhio railway, Southern railway, Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast railway, Florida Central and Peninsula railroad and Plant system was held in Washington, D. C, for the purpose of considering schedules for the winter season to the South. There was little or no change made in the sche iules as now in effect. The question of extra Florida service during the winter season was the principal point of discussion. North Carolina -Far Ahead of Any i Other State in This Industry. THOS. L CLINGMAN DEAD. Forty-Five Publlo Libraries In the i State Vance Homestead Sold-. ; Other Items of Interest. NORTH STATE GULLIHGS: The Piano Tax Law Declared to Be Valid by Justice Montgomery DEAVER AN OBJECT OF PITY. Charters Granted The State Cotton Crop Number of Applications for Pensions--The Wool Industry 1 The forthcoming report of Labor Commissioner Hamrich, in its chapter on "Cotton Mill 'of North Carolina" will say; i "North Carolina is today , one of the leading cotton manufacturing states of the Union. So rapidly has she advanc ed in cotton manufacturing that today no southern state, save North Carolina, can show within; 800,000 spindles of the number that are located within the mills of this statej "From returns received from the mills of this state we find that, based on the first 115 mills heard from, there are 44 per cent, of our cotton mills run ning at night. From carefully com plied returns we find also that thA mills of the State are consuming on an average each 9 102-115 bales of cotton per day. This would make the daily consumption of our 193 spinning mills 1,809 bales of cotton per day or 520, 993 bales, weighing 450 pounds each, con sumed in the mills of this State in '3S days (the average time in opera tion). , ! ! "The cotton crop in 1890 was 423,519 bales, against 339,499 in 1395, so that at the rate at which our mills are now run ning, we are consuming 50,000 more bales than we produce. "Our facilities for manufacturing are great, for within our borders we nave sites suitable for mills located on water bourses, . with an aggregate of 8,500,000 horse power, capable of running 140, 000,000 spindles. Northern capital is being rapidly attracted to the mani facturing possibilities of this state, for she offers to them,: above all else, the fields where the cotton is produced, thus saving the cost of its transporta tion from the fields where it is grown to the northern factories where it is manufactured. "The wages of our cotton operatives is much lower than the wages paid in the mills of the north, and while the ncrihern states have passed laws reg ulating the hours of labor' in the fac tory, our state has let it rest on the same basis as the laborer of the farm, the mine and the forest. "From a careful ! inquiry it appears that we have now in this state 210 mills engaged in the manufacture of cotton, and divided as follows: 183 cotton mills (spinning or weaving) with 24,621 looms and 1,016,247 spindles, 25 hosiery mills, with 1,410 knitting machines, and two dyeing and " finishing mills. These mills are located in 45 counties. They employ 26, 28X persons, consisting of 8,448 men, 12,076 women and 5,863 children. They use about 43,000 horse power in the running of the mills. " These figures will be a surprise t many, even well informed North Carolinians,- who have not kept posted as to the State's industrial ' progress. Even so high an authority as Henry C. Hes ter, Beoretary of the New Orleans Cot ton Exchange, in his report for Septem ber, gives North Carolina only 161 mills, with 21,496 looms and 904,117 spindles, consuming 258,923 bales of cott-jp. Mr. Hamrick has written Mr. Hester a let ter correcting the mistake and giving him the figures above quoted. ; . , . Thomas L. Clingman, Ex-United States Senator, died in the Morganton Insane Asylum. Aged, poor and in firm, the State gave nim a home there. Gen. Clingman was born in Yadkin County in 1816, was eleoted a Whig member of the Legislature in 1835 from Surry, and a State Senator from Ashe ville, became a leader of the Whig par ty and was a member of Congress from 1843 to 1858, excepting .the 29th Con gress. In 1858 he was appointed to the the United States Senate to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of Asa Biggs and re-elected. His speech on Clay's defeat led to a duel with William Yancy, of Alabama. At the outbreak of the civil war he entered the Confederate army as colo nel of the 25th North ; Carolina regi ment and soon became brigadier gener al, and was wounded at Cold Harbor and at Petersburg. Served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1865, but has avoided politics since. He was never married. He was buried at Concord. At Raleigh last week an important case was heard before Justice Mont gomery at chambers. A young lady of Henderson was arrested for selling pianos for a Norfolk' firm without a license. Under habeas corpus pro ceedings the case was ' brought here. Justice Montgomery discharged her, saying the provision of the revenue act was unconstitutional so far as it applied to persons outside the State selling by sample or catalogue, in that it vio lated the inter-State commerce law. Soufflorn UnWidy FIRST AND SECOND DIVISIONS. In effect May S, 1897. Tola Condaased Sobedol 1 publlabed a Information oaly aad to utrjwrt to baac rllaout aotloe to the pabllo. &ICUJ10ND TO CHABLOtrS. I - Ko.IT 1 Ho. Ho, U 1 AJL vL JLM. F.1L T.IL, iT&MB&'oad,.. 1100 ICI iti ... " Amelia c H. ..... 118 T tr - Bur k viae.. No.17 1 ftl IU 10 MJysTiil.... Dally t 80 0 tl S4S M Bouih Boton 40 A M THJ 5M Danville.... UeldaviUa... " Greeoaboi. llitfh PotaC . baliaburv. : " Uunoord.... 18 43 ar.Cbarlotte... 8 25 Bpartanourg II 87 oOrecQVUl.. 12 28 I "AtUota 8 65 .Central Tlma1 .... 60 7 08 8 45 .... '1 18 8 17 8 1ft 80S 80 782 3 20 9 87 8 02 10 80 8 45 111 15 .... 8 15 .... 4 20 .... 880 'hi i n wo 18 82 A special to the Charlotte Observer j frntn AaVtavillA cava Tntaiitia TltA ment prevailed in the courthouse as disclosure after disclosure of official rottenness was made. Deaver, already oonvicted of a felony, plead guilty in three other cases of criminal misde meanor and begged for mercy. J udge Ewart demanded his immediate resig nation, whch was at once handed to the clerk. The evidence -disclosed a system of blackmailing, extortion and embezzling of public funds of the most appalling character. Judge Ewart openly stated from the bench that a bold and vicious attempt had been made to intimidate him from pressing the trial of the defendant, but that it had failed. The prayer for judgment in all the cases was continued until the December term. Deaver was put under a $1,000 bond. He is completely crushed and is really an objeot of pity. The State charters the Charlotte Bonded Warehouse Company, to buy, sell, store and make advances on cot ton. It also charters the Telegram Pub lishing Company, of Greensboro, with capital of $2,600. The North Carolina Publishing Company at Raleigh has been incorporated also. It will pub lish a new morning Democratic paper. The capital is 320,000. A complete out fit has been ordered, including linotype machines which will be in position by the last of November. Revenue officers and deputy mar shals, seven in number, made a big raid near Benson, Johnston county. They had news that a band of daring and dangerous moonshiners had no less than five stills "all in a bunch," were armed all the while and made threats that they would kill any revenue people who came near them. The officers were about to make the raid, but found that while there tv ere only three of them there were seven of the moonshiners. So they called for reinforcements and got them. Charlotte Observer. i The movement for a railway from Win ston southward, is again being agitat ed, i During the late session of the leg islature much was heard about it. It is now asserted that it is the North Caro lina Midland railway and not the South ern which is building the Mocksviller Mooreviile link. The Southern people are on the inside in the matter and will operate the road. State Librarian Cobb ns compiled a list of the public libraries in North Car olina, and finds that there. are forty-five, with a total of 200,000 volumes. In addition, there is a private library of CO, 000 volumes in Mitchell county, which its owner really makes public. Cashier Brenizer, kins' office, reports lections in the fifth Carolina during the Tobacco. Snirits ............. ' Cigars... , Cigarettes Snuff..... i Special tax Jj.lbCeilBUvua . . . . . of 'Collector Har the following col district of North month of October: ....$88,438 08 44,058 52 268 73 26 00 47 52 ......... 890 86 ......... 1,80316 Total ....U. 3185,028 87 These amounts were collected at the various offices as follows: 'K Winston, i U. $75,182 19 Statesville 37,231 05 Asheville... 13,556 49 Mt. Airy. 8,107 14 At Hendersonville last week, Farm, ai v: nVi i mr. Vim1! !v Aan 1 1- ed the little 11-year-old daughter of a respectable farmer, was convicted in the criminal circuit court, a called term specially to try Parm, of intent to com mit rape and sentenced by Judge Ewart to fifteen vears imprisonment. JuJge Ewart excluded the public from the court house while the young girl was testifying. The fact develops aince the killing of ' the Georgia football players that there is plenty of anti-football sentiment in I this Staia. i k-r- - There was a suit for 810,000 damanges by H.Bayer, of Charleston, S. C, against the Seaboard Air Line, for the loss of an ice factory in Raleigh last week, the claim being that the fire was due to sparks from a passing engine. It was promised that the railway would pre sent some sensational evidence, but the case was non-suiiod. Charlotte Ob server. It is ascertained from Dockery and Superintendent Smith that the cotton fields on Roanoke river are only half picked over the first time and that only about one-third of the total crop is picked. It is said that the cause of this is that out of 700 convicts, only about 400 can pick. The auditor cays there were about 1,200 new applications for pensions this year, of which something like 800 passed; but quite a number were dropped from the roll, owing mainly to deaths. This is particularly the case as to widows. Auditor Ayer declines to pay the Pamlico county oyster claims, declared valid by the Supremo Court, and reo commends the claimants to take the matter to the Legislature. The returns on the wool industry in this State, as made to the labor bureau, show 5,030 spindles in operation. State Chemist W. A. Witliers has re turned from Washington, where he at tended the national convention of chemists. He says'the chief question discussed was that of pure food and food adulteration, and that the question of good laws on this most important question will be more widely discussed the coming winter than ever before, all over the country. It is not good news which comes from Southport to the effect that the LynchiUs pr sanctified band proposei to abide there and erect a tabernacle. It is said these people are really afraid to go any further South, particularly into South Carolina. North Carolina people certainly desire them to pass ron- - The increase in the number of as saults upon women in the Ma to this rear is so great a to attract general at tention. The papers have recorded over thirty sue rnsaults, aud one legal execution and lynching are the net results so far. Three persons are to be banged this month. Nashville wil I soon have an other bank. 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S3 aad M, CoiimI fei&w Faa KaU. tucptalrs batwaaa New Vork. Waaalafto. aaia. on uc ornery aad h aw OrV aoa, a.w torn i jacautiuie, aad inrta aad Aarata. turn at baUatMuy wlta hettwX aad rsanan rrra Limited or Um Laj4 of ia ?. CaaMaaooaa. fcaabruic aad ittTmimi Caatr&slai tipatana. T.xu-M Kterpina' Cars H'Mklsrwa V aaa niitlwa a ew or.aaa aad aoaiaara FaciAa Maiiwa1 wttbuat change uaea a waa. Lea vine Waaiuasteaf aataxday. arriving aaa Fraaetaeo IbaraAa, o. li aad 11 korfolfc aad Caattoooa Unpad. Between SurtiAt aad laattaaf. ibrwi Sura a. fcaJetfa. oraraabor'v Ubirr. aahUJa, ta4 fcpias aad Kaoxvi.la. tmuraaa trrawiaf oaai Ml4n4 Cars betwaea Xoricnk aad ahLUk Hiruwb UdLrb oa mmlm m prtadoaJ latin to alt points ror rata r i&ionaaoo appj so aceat of tha Ouutpaay. v. ml. uaaza. ucr.erai nprnsasum W. A. IVmM. a al Umi J. W Crt. InOc Maaaaar. IMSt -a , d. c uanom ta Fifty Thousand New 'Pensioners. The first annual report of the com missioner of pension". H. Clay Evans, to the secretary of the interior, has been made pubUc. There were added to the rolls during the year Tk 101 new pensioners. The amount disbursed lor pensions by the insion agent during the years was $l3y,942,?17. 200,000 Square Feet of Space. Ma. Moses P. Handy, special com missioner from the United States to the Paris Exposition, which ia to be held ia 1900. has returned, n has secured two hundred thousand square feet of space in the buildings, all the American exhibitors wanted.
Davidson County News (Lexington, N.C.)
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Nov. 11, 1897, edition 1
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