North Carolina Newspapers

LINOOLNTON. N. ft, FRIDAY, SKli 21. 1895. j:vrxjTikJA.iL,. The aldese Hosiery .Mill at JS'evvtor N. 0. proposes to make from 115 to 125 pairs of Itose per vday- Ane Newton Cotton Mill 'AriH's apply the yarn needed. Rooent Factory Uiiltlin in TVoitI C.roliixa. '.B.-KiiER Cm cotton Mill.- J. M. Odell, ot Concord, will com pile and equip the unfinished cot-' ton-mill at Bessemer City. 'FAYETTEXB-UCottOn Mill. The erection of l a cotton mill is proposed to cofet. $100,000, and stock lor a company is being solic ited W. 9. Cook and.E. L. Pern- . UCilUXi UiO lUbClC OtCU. i 4 G6ld8BORo Cbtton Mill. The Wayne. Cotton Mills have been or ;-anized with $601000 paid-up capi tal and power ; to increase this to; $5000,00. It bays the old Wayne Cotton Mill, and will r)ut in new spinning machinery and Enlarge the mill, as recently stated. Sol' Dewey was elected president. . ; Greensboro Cotton Mill.- Cee gar Cone and E. D. Qatsel have purchased a contrbliin .interest in the-Crown Mills, and. will put the plant in operation ; has 6,600 spin- Greensboro Lumber Plant. V- 5 j mAV vapo real iHauuittCturiUK JO. has been organized to manufacture building materials; O. R, Cox, president ; W. C. Bain, vice-president, and Jno.-A. Hodgin,-- secret . ' r A-n on ; VU J-liCttOUiCi. Greensboro Gas Plant. The : Greensboro Gas Co. has put in a 100 horse-power toiler. New River Pn.r.lHrcrfn-raft ,j . t - wvA MVSMWW 1 tie Carolina Ovafer On Vina KoAh organized in Wilmington (address bg-house at New River. ' Wilmington Cannery. H., Q. ' Williamson, of Mt. Olive, will re jmove his cannery to Wilmington; Wilmington Coperage flank The Carolina CoQperae fc Veneer 1 Co. has added i 30,000 to its capi- tal, and has let contract for a new factory to L. H: . Yollers. New building is to be 120 feet longsix ty feet wide, two stories high, and the latist improved maohinery will he installed. Manufacturers Rec-! - How to Wake a Dead , ' Town. Two weeks ago Mr. . T. C. Tip4 ton, of London, Tenn., asked the Manufacturers' Record how t wake a dead town." Mr. Tip to told of the many j natural advant- age 8 of London, ;OUt: pointeu oui now; from lack of. energy and en- terprise and be of the neyer-dy terprise and because , of the wofrk I - - - - I 1 ying croakers, their advantages were' not utilizedand how; becauie of this, the town;hke hundreds of .others,: was to all in tents and, purposes dead." . The . ManufacturersV,-Record published his letter, . and. asked for sugges tions as to how io quicken into life these deai towns that are a curse to themselves and. to the country. ? Without life they fur- nish no employment, no opportu- mties for the young, wno must 1 either grow . "up. itx: idleness or seek! some new field in which to find a chance to work and live. , : Wake up; dead towns, and b cornea blessing to your people and jour section. - - From an, Indiana subscriber to the Mahhl&etnrera' Record we have j' . - the follbwihe letter, which we com- mend to our readers, for it tells wh at enterprise can dc in, waking pdead towns iHoriife and" creating employment for their people: IupIANAPOLIS, lNP.,.Aug. 30. Ed. Manufacturers Record : in jour issue 01 August o x. u. Tipton, ot, .Loudon, aeon Valra tiAtt? I4r ntA rkx isa Eiti t bfXBY ' ' uun nai w,.-. 'ianfto aav that Ineyet4earrjed-dfJ ?. t a 1 a town that did "wafeRnp" until very';inhaDitetHoo some manner usualb ;Wfnt4 ftrnriae . ihfoat iti anma mftfrnpr nfltiallV - uvvivsb au or thorough advertising and con tinuous tivertiinjr, not Jot a wee kv but lrr yeai in selected ad vertising uu diums A goid ue diuni cosU money.1 -ut we get what we pay f r everv.time. ' i believe ihe .Manufacturers' Record has been, and is to-day, doing more for tne advancement of Southern interests than all other papers and magazines combined. I take it and read it, and my neighbors come and borrow it, and when they return it one would think-it had been used for ten years. As a result of Manufacturers' Record being in my home, I tock an in terest in a large orchard company at Marshall ville, Ga., called Red Clay Orchard Co. : Mine is only one case,for my copy of the Record has been the means of causing Northern capital to go South to the amount 'of $'25,000. I am an Indiana man, and so 'are all my investing f tiends. Now-, there are thousands of dollars of Northern capital lying in the banks and safety vaults not. only in Indian apolis, but in all large cities, only waiting a favorable' opportunity tor investment. But those towns wanting financial aid must .first show their own confidence by lead ing off, then s the outside capital will follow. Let me tell your readers that in Indiana ; in seven years' time there were raised bo nuses, aggregating upwards of $1, 000,000 in only twelve towns. What did these towns do? Why they gave this money to factories that had capital of over $20,000,- 000, employing, upward of 20,000 hands, a weekly pay-roll of $400,- 000 and aii annual output of pro ducts exceeding the -amount of capital stock. I know a small town of 2500 souls which wanted. a factory and wanted it badly. A' meeting of business men wag call ed ; fifteen were present ; out of the fifteen a self -constituted committee was appointed on ways and means to tret up a subscription. One man wno owned 200 acres of land offered $10,000. His otter was accepted, the land was platted, and within three days every person able to buv a lot (except an occasional croak er, whom we have with us as well as the flea and serpent in every towu,) bought of these 100 lots, and raised 10,000 in easy pay- ments. Two years ago that town did not circulate 1000 a month, in cluding every store; to-day they pay out in wages over 3000 per week for help alone, and another big plant is building, while new i j j Ti:- : nn eVRl-v hfm( Moreover, everv maDj woniall and child feelg the uot,q1 . offa f ha A,aun. WW WW w w wv mmmmmm tio 01 monev and no one wan tinir ork f idle Yon say vou can't ,iA ,a aarnA ,.n'f. ot the f flCtorv if - vou would ? You r,n't A ftnvtbin t,nW Von trv While en route South last month manv idl&"handa,,lonnff- . -i V ' il-- ing around stores . ana noiamg a post down-big men playing mar- other, nlavinff chess, shoot- ino- nmwho looked to ma a if they had brains for better ,3. and should . be earning 8omething,fpr themselves and their fftmiiiEa. Seme say thev have nol 1 means. Then let a few-that have LAiln8 4oin . hands and start the" hall rollinsz-: iret your-, advertise- ment started;, announce to. the Unrlrl that vonr town isitheirs.and I T f VAPV goni , that1 eniovs the a WWU I piHU5(5W. W WIMUVI v n, a mAafin0- iin th rnnn- in hthAr cities.evarvwhere.that your town is -awakt'andl iat it is the -place' -to - Uy in 'andrihyest money: m, and mat your peopie are enterprising and full or push, Sometimes it payato?engge an ex- rTTfn 5ed'promoter-; but make . sure l securing luausinar tsn icxposs. xxtUiii ai5 kihnAX" u'kC."... rt I II Ulio uvuiu v. j vhi' . Uhft tilasure" of ?meetine - sev "dwUnglasli --V:enUem'e"n who are &!ng what the Mariotac - :tuiesvosaipli8hing: and I xtrhO ATfl dOinff WUat i IU6 MaUOiaC- advocating, viz, inducing settler and capitalists to come South. Il looks like the capitalist and set tler wrp lining it with a good will. Guv. W. J. Northern is do ing good , work, so also is Hon. J. L. Hand, of Pelham, Ga. I believe Senator Hand will succeed-in se curing the location ct a large sani tarium and hotel for hU town, Pel -ham. Judge Joseph Tillman, of Quitman, Ga., is also one of toe right stripe to aid the upbuilding of the South. E. M. Rumph, of MarshallvilJe, Ga., is doing great good in settling up his section. But these men are to be admired for their stick-to-itivrness, which has brought the success that has already crowded their earlier ef forts. Let not friend Tipton, ot London, Tenn,., or others in other dead towns despair. You lead off and make an effort and try what you can do, as we never know without ijying. I will tell ' a, true story here a boUt an Arkahsas towu The peo ple wanted a factory badly,' and concluded that a "saV infll and sucker-rod plant" would be the ideal for their quiet place to shake up the dust and pick' up the idle and give the idler work, 'that he might have money to pay his gro cery bill. . The chairman ot the meeting was directed to write to an Indianapolis firm for the cost of a complete mill." . The letter was answered, and . in a few days a reply came from the chairman that 800 was all . the. money the town could Taise, and if they .had the 1,500 demanded for such a mill what in "hades" would they want of a saw miii? I felt sorry for the town, for there were a few enter prising spirits theTe, and I trust that tnat kinji; of luck will not de ter others from trying,, for where there is a will there is a way. Now get to work J and find it. G. W. Cross, in Mah'f Recpid. Th 21 or lit Way to do. A dispatch from Winston, N. C, says : "For some time the ques tion of good roads has been agitat ed here, and a mass meeting of citizens has been held in the court house to devise means of improv ing the. roads leading into town. A large . number of representative men turned out. Mr. F. W. Barnes made tne motion to ditch, elevate and otherwise improve the roads tc the distance of a mile each way from town, as a starter. The mo tion was carried, and funds imme diately raised to begin the work. The design is to put the 500 miles of roads in Wilson county, in condition that will stand the heavy naming oi vu wiuir, - near town is only a beginning of . m tne work, which will graduauy ex tend over .the county. At Roanoke, Va., a mass meet- 1D was recently held in the inter- f gd roads, at wnich Ueuer ai otuuo'Ui tua iru - Department of Agriculture, made I mr, oAAroaa At.thd nonftlnfilOn of " - General atone s remarks mv. -Moomaw, chairman of the board ot supervisors, explained the methods ot working the roads -of Roanoke county and the result obtained. Mr. Moomaw was xonowea Dy iur. H. W-' Anderson, secretary of the State Association, wno explained 1 the objects and work of the asso- ciation, and invited all- those pres nt to attend a Stete good-roads convention wnicn woo iu pe neia in Richmond under the auspices of the association in October nsxt. 4 . Manufacturers Record. Lincoln county has several newX" f factories. 1 Matiney Bros, and DH tWe ierialata 1 vvu wuj """j new cotton iactory into operauoa at Long Shoals, near Lincoln ton I Another cotton null, near Lincoln 1 . - .v: , . - xr- t a Aw - ?e?Y ana. V- a' nisaux -are we - - - - - -r v. i I priovipal. owner. Both thes fac- 1 tones' are on I er. I lOneS are OU U19 OvUUi XJi. AviT- LlTMliUtY -vivo isr-UCATIONAL. The Winthrop Normal and In dustrial - College at Rock Hill, S. C, opens Oct. 15. ' The building cost $200,000 and 'will accommo date 300 girls., D, B. Johnson, A. M., is president. The Orijrln.orCaste la ladla. Thl optnaa- very interesting subject for talks with pupils. It seems that a great revenue was paid in 'early time to the poets or sing ers '.'certain persons arranged their thoughts in verse and learned them and recited them they were not written. At the great sacrifices these poets recited or sung verses thus the Veda arose, their sacred book. As but few could compose and recite, the poets became the priests in the course of time; thus the Brahman caste .arose there ars 10,000,000 of these. The followers - and companions of the king, wnich in England laid the foundation for the nobility, in India formed' a class called the Rajput or : royal' caste ; . there are 5 "million's of thess; : they rank next after the Brahman's. Thers were mitoy ot the Aryan people left who could not get into the two castes named and these form the Vaisyas, comprising the farmers, merchants,- and bankers; this is the third caste. It must be remembered that hen the Aryan people came to India they found the country peo pled with' a black flat-nosed class; these became slaves ; they form the Sndras of" the three Aryan castei. N. Y. School Journal. Grant aud JoiTeiroii Xa- vla-WereKln. General Grant's mother was a Harinah Simjpson. tb .daagnier of John Simpson and granddaughter of William Simnson. of Bucks countv, Pal, who died in 1816, It appears that John Davie married AT ' . Ann Simpsop,daughter of William Simpson in 1783. His son Samu el was father of Jefferson Davis,so that William Simpson was gTeat grandfather of Grant. and Davis. N. Y. School Journal. Oriffln ot tli Name -A.-merioa. America is derived frcon Amer ic, the Indian names for the high lands of Nicaraugua. . When Co lumbus in his fourth voyage asked the natives where thoy got the gold they pointed to the land and said, "Amenc." "Where is the land of gold ?" Their reply was, "Ame rio or America." That was supposed to be the name of -the country, as known to the natives. N. X. School Journal. Dartmouth College, N. H., has admitted one woman, .Miss Kathe nne.Guint. She takes? pose grad uate workin Greek amd English. which Daniel Webster graduate!. At the November lectio p in J3ih vnmAn wm 1 navk inn nEILA &,V wmmv .... .a 1 f Afj for State effioers and mexnsoera T.oTlaUlnr Wheh Utah 1 admitted-as a 8tsie tbis jei;V, 4beiT6 wiif be a croup of three W estern State'. Wyoming, Colorado' sand Ti tan, ll lymtc adjacent to ea th other fo which woman suffrage pre- valli The first of the three to adopt tt u Wvomluff. aud nexa came Colorado, followed by Ucah. The whoU.ihree of them do not cufn SKpopulaUott one-balf as large a tbat of New York city. , Th w eneleotoreof these 8tatee aaay be able to influence Federal JLugisia- vote for m fiber ox ure oy wo cm uwwu Slates Senators are chosen. Tnsy will thus possess apolitical tafia ence wide as the coantry, It was the enfranchised women of Color da who turned that 8tte o Ver to the Republicans last year ac te first election in which' they bad. the right to 'vote. ? The women of : V7yotaiDg have often giTea victory t the Be 1 nnbllcon party. It U i noro than likely that lbs women vote of Utah will be ptedomlnantlj Republican at tbe comiog election. The Mor mon woiuau are said, to favur tbat party, Wlmiogton R-?iew. , PHICEH HTIVrKl FHEE COINAGE lu IS' ox tli Curollua, to lSO(. 1840 To the Editor of ttrt OUwer. " . All speakers and writers favor able to the free coinage of silver seem to take lor granted that an epoch of low prices was unknown till after the "crime of 1873;" that so long as we had the free coinage of the white metal we had no hard times, uo low prices of arui products, but that all went 'merry as a marriage, bell." The people generally entenain a simi lar opinion, as few people remsm- ber what prices obtained even ten years ago, much less forty or fiftv year siuce. I will not enter into the philosophy of this fact. Per haps it hasn't any, except short ness of memory and the disposi tion in mortals to grumble. With a view to ascertain the truth as to prices of farm products for' the two decades immediately preceding the outbreak of the civ il war, I have spent several days in turning over the files of tha Greeniboro Patriot from; 1840 to 1660 and examining the "prices current' as fonnd thers. These quotations are in the main the Fsyetteville markets, as with the exception of tobacco, that was the market fur all this piedmont country down till as late as 1850; and, of course, the cost of mar keting must be deducted in order to see what the farmer realized. 1 have confined myself to those products, too, which ths "farmer produced then, asd still produces tox sale. : I find tnat 1840 to . 1351 was a period of general depression in farm products ; that, ba the whole; they " rilled considerably" lower tnnn they have for any similar period since the crime of u73, not excluding the' "last three "or four years. For instance,' bacon which is quoted at from "'8c & 10c. in 1840, was nevefagain above 8c. for ten years, ' the average price hin 6c. In 1842 bacon sold m Fayetteville (May 10th) at 4c. Pntton was auoted at o to 8c. in 1840; 5c to 7fc. in 1842 ; 5 3-4 to T 3-5c. in 1843 ; 5 1-2 .to 7 1-2 in 1844 ; 4c. to 5c. March 3, 1845 ; 5 l-4c. to 6 lr2c. in 1848 (I haven't quotations for '46 and 47;)6c. to 91-2c: 1849. "Corn raneed from 40c ttoe lowest,' 1841, to 60c., for thfise ten years. Corn was often sold during this time xn the 4up country" for 25c. from the Vnr th!a nenod flour averages only $4.B0 . per barren Ut U k. M It is quoted March 3, 1845, at 3J25 per barrell, "dull." it quoted in 1840 at $4 to $5; $5 to $6 in 1841 ; so to i.ov wi 1842 ; $30 to 14.75 1843 ; $35 to S4.50. 1&4A: $3.75 to I4.0U, ioo; $4 to $5 in 1849- Wheat reached 11 per bushel but a single year m the decade (1841); the quoiauon. from 65c. to 90c. for other year with the prevailing n161 76c. io 80c. During wis penoa pork -sold in Greensboro , at $4.00 pex.cwt.net, and m Olncxnnaft Galhpolis and Wheeling at $10 to $2.50 gross. In 1843 the Pa- .avs that' "the latest news r TVo.t ia ht whsat sel- JfVJIU UIO if - - . llnff at Quincy, 111- at 37 l-2c. per bnahal and at Springfield at 25c- to 28c, at which price the xar- mere were rexusing w range during this period from 30c. to 50cl Tobacco is quoted during these vrs (Petersburg, Lynch burg and Danville) at 4c. to 5c. Kn 1840; 2c. to 5c in 1742; 2c. to 7c. (extremes) in 1W3; l w 1 1 .Sc. in 1845 : 2c. to 6c. in 1849. Manufactured tobacco is general ly n noted at 9c to 15c; nevernign Wool ranged from 11c one with oreTailing price at 15c Whiskey narer brought -i -v. rifh orice rnnniog as AWIO -wv -. w K low as 25c. to 28c. Apple brandy could be bought from 33c. to Abcm Peach brandy ruled onlv 5c. high er, which may account .for the good old times," in part. In 1841 the Patriot says: "Pork is offered from droves in the up per part of South Carolina at $3.50 per cwt. net bat in our town sales continue to he made at $4." After advising farmers not to hold out for 5, it says: uThe un exampled SCaBCITT OV MONEY throughout the whole necessanlly affects the country price 01 porK at me present. lhus the value ol a pound ol Dort is less andthe worth of a dollar isl mork than it has been before for years." The italics are mine. I could not help underscoring Mt reads so much like silverite pel. In its issue of November 5th, 1842, the Patroit, under the head! "Hard limes, has this to say: "There is the same languor in New York that there has been in an uusiuess maviers ; ury goous, 01 1 j j . I -11 1 . j 1 r I ?very Kina ana aescripiion, areiuer uinueu coinage was no wois j selling at ruinous prices to the New York merchants. The . Ken-1 tacky correspondent of the Phila-land delphia U S. Gazette states that at Lenngion on tne luin iusi.i corn sold at from 3 to 5 dollars per acre in the field ; pork at 1.75 dollars nt and 1.25 dollars gross.' The Nashville Banner states that immense sscrinces are aimosi aai-1 ly made in middle Tennessee, and 1 mentions by way of example that I lately eleven mules, two new wag- ons, costing 15U dollars a piece, 1 and a negro man, middle aged audi likely, were sold in Franklin and brought in the aggregate but 5001 - dollars. An acquaintance oil an acquaintance of ours, who is 1 - acauainted with times in Indiana, I writes that every body is .heels 1 iL .Jk&t nKswi i i . I rv.lthi around. A sold dollar todav ng to get out; that therv is' butrwill-not buy as much of the nece- 25 dollars in the State ; theTreas- urer has that and it is expected and feared that ne will retire to Texas while be is full handxp.' I Waa not that a strange state'of affairs to have occured In tree coinage era ? If free coinage was powerless to prevent bard times when it was the law, will it prove a certain cure for the hard times we have been having f Just as- now, the financial I quacks were at work in "the . for- ties." They accused the banks of mannlAtinir matters for their own benefit, and rode into power! on the abuse of bankers. On no,.mW 17 1842. the Patroit aavs : "Mr. fihenard has introduc- w4 Mil for the 'RELIEF OP THE - peoplx' by the issue of one mil- lion Treasury notes on the credit Tk. a-m.Vp. .nnrtnf the nroposition: but on ? of Jftnnrv ,0nowiDff (1843) upon reportingthe failure of the 8hepard's bill, iaS Some of our businsss men In this section were beginning to speak, in favor of Mr. Shsppafd's bill, in vinwofthe oaiXDISO KtCXSSIII of the people; they wsr ready to acceDt ASTSBisa consistent with the honor of the State that af fords a reasonable prospect of re lief." To hear our modern silver men speak, one , would " "suppose that under free coinage both such a bill and such language, would haye been unnecessary. It is true that the country had just passed through a panic five year before when it had suffered from having too much money, the State banks Una Vitvin? acxio oat to the amount of over 400,000,000 dol lars when they went under oe- cause they couldn't 'maintain the party." But have wt not recent ly passed through a panic I Sucn were the prices of produce and such the condition of affair nndsr free silver from. 1840 to 1850. I will not discuss the causes of these low pnees, 'but merely caU attention to their" existence and thaimpotsncy of free; coinage tonrrrenfthem. The pric- o produce for tht decade ending in 1860. were upon th whole, much better than those of the precedin T ten years, and the fact hs gener ally been ascribed to the benifi cient effect of the Walker tariff, which by this time began to bo felt: nevertheless ther were pe riods ot depression. Bacon went as low as 6 l-4c., and averaged only between 8c. and 9e. From 1851 to 1S55 c.tton was rarely over 7c. and sold as iow as 5 l-2c-per pouLd. Corn varied from 50c. to 1 dollar, (oihj year, 1354 I averaging about 70c. From 1350 tin ISO wheat sold at 85c. to 90c. xcept one year, when it reached one dollar. Hour sol i at 4 dol- lars a barrell in 1S53 aud agaiu in 1S54, and wasdull at that. From 1S40 to 1855 lard rarely r..uht over 7a, aud this was'good "home- gos-Urifd' leaf lard, which today com mands 10c. aud 12c. From the above it may le fairly inferred: l. 1 hat we may have periods of depression not due to the de- monetiration of silver. - 1 uai me panic 01 loy j un- J 1: . . a rrii a. r ..r. (than that of 1837 under f roe coin- age and plethoric paper money, that prices have not talUn s low as they did at that time. o inat 11 is possinie tnat some other cause than the "crime of '73" has had to do with bringing on the panics and depressing the price of produce. . mat ire coinage was not a panacea in 1840-1850, and that therefore it would be a jumpin ineaara 10 reiy on its saving us tnis time, 11 we should decide to make a plunge into the financial abyn of uncertain standards and rejected methods 5. That in view of prices from 1840 to 1855 the charge ot the great appreciation of gold in the last- twenty-two years falls liteless to sities and luxuries of life anil would fifty years ago; while if it has appreciated 50 per cent., a the ail rentes say, it ought to buy twice as much. Respectfully, J. Allex Holt. TheFaot and th Argu- Mr. Saml. F. Patterson. State Ooa mUsioner of Agriculture, says to a reporter of the Rsietgti Press I visitor : "During ths past year I 1 have traveled a great deal over the State aod bave bad an opportunity to ooserve tne condition c: :Ue peo- pl. I tslt joa frankly 1 beleive that the people of this State are to lM t Jl.l ay o coaamou man mey were before " Mr. Pattersou saccssstui raroer aod a Cose ooserTer. and what hesajs of tte saaral condition ot the people of che State is uodoabtedly tine showed tbat the mortgsge indent' dues oi the peopls ot North Caro tins Is innignifloaat compared with that of the people of other Slates, especially Northern 8tates. The farmers Lave an abac dance of every . hlcg to eat and enough sarplos for sale to buy all they nt:d to wear. Prorideooe has, this year particu-- aily, smiled upon tbea and bless ed their labors, aod yet in the lace of this abundance -deoagdguas go up aod down in the State talking about EoglUh oppression and doing all In their power to make the peo pis restles and nnbappy. They mean nothing boa sat by ths people tn all UU bat only want to ' tarn popular discontent to their iadiTiaS asl profit It Is a wonder tbat Qod doiacot strike them dead Chait toite Observer. At a aletbodist love faast In An capolis, Hd Sunday, one of the members ot the charcb In giving hi experience caused some commo tion by exclaiming i 3em -Jone. stated at a eampmeetlng that no Democrat will get to Heaven. I am trying to make Sam Jones oat a liar. I am a Democrat and expect to go to Heaven.. Nslther Sam Jones nor anybody else can drive xa oat of tht DsBocratlo party," v -..s J7 4 7: