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KINSTON, N. 0., WEDNESDAY.afeBRUARY 7i 1900.
Price Two Cents.
EPUBLICAHS YIELD;
' V -. .. ...... , '"'.'V ;'.
a Conference at Louisville, Tay-
or Agrees to Send Troops Home
Vnd - Regular Sessions ;' of the
Legislature Resumed at Frank-
,ort.
;ht, the Republican and Democratic
iterances in session at the Gait Boom
ne to an agreement, and a document
i drawii opior signatures. It is said
agreement is decidedly favorable to
Democrats. Gor; Taylor Is to with
w the troops from state buildings, at
anxrort, ana, send them home, The
Jer convening the legislature at Lon
n, Ky., is to be revoked, and the reg-
Bradley has been, in Cincinnati for two
days investigating the Federal court end
of the case, and it was expected by the
Republicans that he would file a petition
before Judge Taft yesterday. Until they
can learn whether or not the Federal
courts will entertain a petition for injunc
tion, the Republicans must fight for time
and make the best agreement possible.
The conference of Jtepublicans with Got.
Taylor to submit to him the agreement
made at Louisville with the Democrats
was called off at 12 o'clock. ? but will
be resumed tomorrow The governor
wishes to consult with advisers beta re
deciding.'...,..';, r..;"--;-.: . :.r: ;..;y:;.,.
STATE' NEWS.
Interesting- North , Carolina Items
In Condensed Form. .
,t molestation.
wlth-
Taylor's Aotion Means Peace or
Frankfort, Feb. 6. Whether there is to
be peace' or bloodshed now rests with
Gov. Taylor. Z Everything -seems to de
pend on nis signing or rei using vu sign
toe articles oi agreement.
Republicans declare that it would be
an act of cowardice for the governor to
iru XZZA 'ALAtii sign tne agreement. .They say he owes a
eu ay wmgnv wui resu n mj an amic- ft ni,tical surrender of his office, as nro.
r . . . r-.z ' . -r
posed, would be a violation oi tnat duty.
On the other hand, the agreement having
been signed by the Republicans, headed
by Marshall, lieutenaflt trovernor under
Taylor, it is felt that if Taylor refuses to
sign he would rob nimseli and his
Vr sessions of the general assembly are
. ne resumed at the state capital .
jle settlement of . the , dispute between
a two parties in this state and do away
,th the dual governments now assert-
; themselves.
pec
lox
i THE STIPULATIONS,
publioans Concede the. Main
?oint and Democrats Make Oon
essions.
misville, Feb. 6. The conference last
jht between several representatives of
9 xvepuoiican . parcy ana several rep
sentatives of the Democratic party
suited in the unanimous signing 6f an
f reement embodying seven specific prop-
.itions wnicn insure a speedy settle
'nit of conditions existing at the- state
pital. t The , paragraphs, j which are
signated "as suggestions, are -in sub-
mce as follows;
First. . That if the general assembly in
int session shall adopt a resolution
-tifying their recent action adopting
e contest report in lavor of . Beckham,
!e contestees, Taylor and John Alar-
j all shall submit without' further pro-
3econd. That all parties shall unite
an effort to bring about such modifl
tion of the election law as will provide
f a. rfr-Ya rtioon tltstisT hnAM and in.
ire free and fair elections.
This means the repeal of the Goebel
Third. That conditions shall ' remain
statu quo until Monday, the general
Nsembly meeting and adjourning from
iy to day until that time.
f ourth. .Nothing shall be done
Mr. James Walker, a prominent citizen
of Wilmington; has donated to the city
f zo.uuu ior tne erection oi a hospital.
' Three negroes held up 8. D. Moody on
the Pembroke road Monday, three and a
half miles from Newbern , , They pulled
him from his . buggy and , took from
him.
Mr. E. B. Roberts, of Newbern, the last
Democratic employe retained by Collector
Duncan in the revenue service in his dis
trict, died at Raleigh Sunday of Bright's
disease. : : ' f ;
At Lumberton Tuesday Sheriff G. B.
McLeod's horse ran away, with him and
his father, A. H. McLeod. ' Both, of the
sheriffs arms are broken and his father is
dangerously injured.
The Progressive Farmer says editorially
that the . amendment of the - constitu
tional amendment, making it stand or
fall as a whole, is . in response to a just
and rapidly growing popular demand.
Mr. J Z. Green, editor of Our Home.
the Populist paper of . Union county, in
an v editorial declares himself ; for. the
course. The matter binges upon the
character of Mrs. Ingram, who now lives
ip jiarnett county:
The report of the State labor com mis
sioner regarding cotton mill labor was
finished Monday. The average daily
wages of skilled men are found to be
1 1.10, and of unskilled CO cents; of skilled
women 6o cents and of unskilled 46; o
children 81. There has been no materia
changd in wages during the past three
years. The number of employes is 14,'
KNM nun 1KN11 n-nmon H HflM ohilfnmn
total 83,757. The increase in the number
of men during the past three years is
50 per cent, and the decrease in the
number, of children at work in the mills
is 50 per cent. Both of these are very
satisfactory facts. Of the adults 83 per
cent, can read and write, and of the
children 60 per cent. The hours of labor
vary from 10 to 12,' but the commis
sioner says the average is 11.
DOVER ITEMS.
it will be
party
of all public sympathy, and, in the event
of bloodshed, that an v jniustice that the
cause might have would sink out or sight go there is no doubt if part of it is de-
world, nothing more or less than a cold
blooded murderer. . s
Gen. Collier, in command of the troops
said this afternoon that it would be an
act of damned ' cowardice on Taylor's
part to sign the agreement.
! Ex-Congressman Hendricks, member
of the Democratic steering committee, in
an interview this evening, sajd he be
lieved that Taylor would sign the agree
ment. Rut suppose he don't? ' asked
the , correspondent. j"Well, then,'f, I was
the reply, "we have simply got ' to 1 fight
and meet force with force." , 1 ; '
Democratic legislators are all dodging
nm at fan m-n rr fha l?omihliioni tnnv
catch them and force their attendance at
the session of the legislature in . London.
Most of the Democrats have
Ohio to make certain that
be caught.
clared unconstitutional all of
void. , . . a
Wilmington Star.. Feb. 6: Spirftatuf-
nentine went to 54 cents in nnce vester-
day and it is pi'edicted that the end is not
yet. Crude sold yesterday at f 2 per bar
relfor hard and $3.25 per barrel for dip
an advance of 25 cent over, last week's
quotations.
Greenville Reflector; Mr. JohnLeggett.
who lived a few miles north of Greenville,
was found dead in bed Saturday morn
ing. He appeared to be . in his usual
health upon retiring the night before, but
when Mrs-Leggett awoke that morning
she" discovered that her husband was
dea"f
Launnburg Times: " Ida May fields, a
nder or prevent a joint session of tue
pneral assembly for takingaction on rati
fFifth. That the state contest board
hall meet and adjourn from' day today
ntil Tuesdayi without taking action on
pntests for minor state omcers. This
bstponement is suggested in order that
he action of the general assembly on
Htification of the resolution may be
Aken first. -
I Sixth. That state troops shall be .re.
'iqyed from the state capitol at once,
.hough with all neceseary precautions
pr public safety. - This matter is to be
'nder the direction of Gen., Lindsay of
Frankfort. , - '
I Seventh. That Republican officials and
fflcers of the state a guards shall . have
mmunity from charges of treason, usur-
nence.
I It was learned fromi a trustworthy
ource that , the .election , law to replace
he Goebel statute would be an ideal one
its equity to all parties concerned. The
xte of minor state officers according to
he agreement, remains with the state
lection board. ; : ' v
I The agreement ,, was signed by both
arties, but da not to te binding unless
ccepted ' by Gov. Taylor,' wlio has not
: et considered fully the propositions in
volved. : . K.''l
it I5eckham becomes governor a new
Action will be necessary next November.
big is under the law reouirinsr1 a new
'ection if the incumbent dies within the
'.rst two years of his term. The election
lustbeheld at the next regular state
lection after his death. The coming
lection will also be one for president
,na congressmen.
Ought to Be "Ethiopian
Durham Herald.
The Caucasian. Butler's DaDer. is to . be
published as a daily and will be the recog
nized organ of the opponents of the
amendment.. If - the editor-in-chief shas
half an ; pva . to thn eternal fitness of
to things, he will change the name before
the first issue.
' Don't Give L'p the Ship.
Somewhat more than 50 years ago it
happened to me. to . meet at the house
of a mutual friend a daughter of the
late Major Benjamin Russell, for many
years editor of the Boston Centinel.
She was a bright Interesting woman
and a brilliant raconteur, and she told
me a number of anecdotes of her fa
ther, who was a strongly Individualized
and notable character for a good many
years. Among them; was the follow
Ing: .
The battle between "the Chesapeake
and the Shannon took place just off the
Massachusetts coastrriindi'a sailor in
some way got a3hore and hurried to
Boston with; the pews. It was in the
ulght, and be went straight to The Cen
tinel offlctv where he focndMajor Bus
sell, to whom he told tlu story, includ
iugthe- death or Lawrence; , ; .
"What were his last words?" said the
major. -i- ;; .: ; V : i
"Don't know., said the man.
"Didn't he say. 'Don't give up
shiprv . . ,
"Don't know," said the man. i
"Oh. he did." said the major. '
make him say it" And lie did
much for history. Hartford Courant.
I Republicana Play for Time.
' Louisville, Feb. 6. The action of the
'opubhcans in consenting to a compro
: a, it is stated, was brought about by
! o fact that the state courts are against
:xi, likewise the legislature, "asd the
t".tna of the Federal courts on the L-sue
? i:i doi:bt. It is therefore the plan of
r, r'.;bl;oans to play for time until
'. "j rn:ine whether they can pet the
' ? into the Federal court 3 r-i whether
wi;l have any standby. Ex-Gov.
A Isnceroaa Prcoedent. -"i
A paragraph in a Nebraska paper is
to the effect that a well known man in.
that state has been "convicted of .per
sonating a lawyer." IT a man can be
sent . to jail on such a charge, many
members of the Rochester bar are not
safe. Rochester Post-Express. .
Germany's highest bridce'is over tin-
Wupperthal at Mnngsten, near Reiii
scheid, back of Elberfeld. It is 360 fa. r
hih and 1.G30 feet long the central
arch having a span of 530 feet The
cnly hirber bridge in Enrope is the
Caul-it viaisct, 4C3 fedt hi-h, hi
c:-thcra Vrzizco. , .
crossed into seven-year-old "daughter of Mr, and Mrs.
-they won't H. A. Gilchrist,' accidentally caught fire
liiesday morning last, and before her
clothes could be extinguished she had
burned almost to death, . A physician
was summoned. but found, on reaching
the borne that medical treatment would
Im of .no avail, t She died on the same
day late in the afternoon. .. .
In the court room at Statesville, Tiies
day, Oscar Sams stabbed himself in the
breast and fell at his seat, just after being
sentenced to 12 mon ths on the road for
an assault with a deadly weapon, tie
made a wound about an inch deep. Sams
was finally committed to jail, but it is
probable that after full- deliberation his
sentence may be remitted upon : payment
of costs.' Public sympathy is with the
unfortunate man.
Raleitrh Cor. Messemrer. Feb. 5: " Georc-e
Wilson, a white convict, was one of the
gan&r of 53 convicts to leave the peniten
tiary today to work on . thie Aberdeen &
Rockfish railroad. ?; The other ;jconvict8
went; Wilson did not: go. 1 His convict
clothes and shackles were found in the
house of a woman of his acauaintance.
The police are searching for him. He is
from Asheville and was in the First vol
unteers last year. .
Two desperate negro criminals who
had been in jail at Raleigh to prevent
lynchmg were taken to in ash county
Monday and placed on trial. , They are
Bob Fortune and John Taylor. They met
Robert Hester, white, a tobacco- larmer,
on the highway near Rocky Mount,
asked him to . change a dollar, found he
had money, robbed him and then, despite
his appeals, shot him to death with
revolvers. There is no question of their
conviction of murder in the first degree.
The elegant home of Mr. De La Croix,
who lives near Oxford, , was visited by a
destructive wind storm ' Sunday after
noon, uprooting four mammoth oaks in
the grove. A large spring house was
overturned and carried down a ravine.
A barn in which 30 or 40 bead of cattle
was kept, was unroofed:' The chimney
to his residence was blown down. Fall
ing on a wing of the house, it completely
demolished the billiard room, and the
dwelling was otherwise injured by the
storm, v -.
'Gov. Russell Monday gave an audience
to a number of representative citizens of
Robeson county, mainly from Red Springs
and its vicinity, who urged him to com
mute the sentence of Reuben Ross, the
negro in jail at Lumberton convicted of
assaulting Mrs. iDam, a white woman.
The governor has been flooded with let
ters on this curious and puzzling case.
Delegations have called, soine to rlead.
others to areue that the law take its.
February 6, 1800,
Mr. W. M. Tyndal went to Newbern
yesterday and returned today. ; .
The Goldsboro Lumber Co.'s new store
building ia about completed, except the
painting.
Owing to the wet and cold weather we
think the truck farmers are behind with
their work. -
Quite a number of our citixens attended
court at Newbern last week some wit
nesses and some jurors. ....
Mrs. G. A. Smith,: of Goldsboro, . who
has been visiting hef parents, Mr, and
Mrs. F. P. Outlaw, returned home Sun.
day,
Mr. W. M. Tyndal has moved into his
new store building, and Mess. Seth aud
Geo. K. nest have 'opened business , In
the Seth West store, vacated by Mr;
Tyndal. v f . ,
Mr. Seth West has moved bis saw mill
from Terrapin into f bia timber, about
three miles from Dover, and experts to
begin sawing lumber in a few " days. He
will then be prepared to supply the local
trade wijth lumber and greatly facilitate
his business, 01 manufacturing truck bas
kets ana crates. ' ""
In behalf of the family of Mr.- Geo. B
THtlsou we tender thanks to Prof. E. A
Simkins, of Dover High School, for his
public expression of Sympathy by sus-
penamg scnooi on nionuay on account
of the death of Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Wil
son had been a zealous co worker with
many other Dover ladies in getting the
school, established. ,
" DEATH OF MHS. WILSON. .
On Sunday night, Feb.4th, death came,
but not as a dreaded monster to her, and
took the gentle spirit of- Mrs. Sudie L.
Wilson, wife of Mr. Geo, B. Wilson, from
its suffering mortal frame to rest in the
blissful shades of Paradise. To her it
was great gain, but to a devoted hue
band and lour small children it was .a
loss which tongue cannot describe nor
pen portray. She "was a dear, faithful
wire and heipmat, a devoted mother.
and sympathizing friend. Just ! a few
minutes before she? ceased to breathe
she remarked, . "raise me up and let me Bee
the light one more time, I'll soon be at
rest." "She is not dead, but sleepeth,'
a sleep from which she will not wake to
weep, hut to meet the lord with rejoic
ing. ; ,
SEVEN SPRINGS ITEMS. '
the
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" February 6, 19004
Mr. W. E, Cox returned home Monday.
Mr. G. F. Smith went to Snow Hill last
week.
Dr. M. W; Parka is in the neighborhood
again.
" Mrs. Mary Smith is visiting her daugh
ters at Winterville, Pitt county.
Miss Elsie Swinson, of Duplin county.
is visiting at Rural Retreat hotel.
! Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Loftin, of Beaufort,
are guests at the Seven Springs hotel. ;
Misses Cornelia Dixon and Olivia Cox
spent Saturday ajid Sunday at Col.Whit-
field's. : V. .i M
Miss Katie Ivey took Miss Sadie Sut
ton home Friday, and spent Saturday
and Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Sutton, who had been visit
ing her parents at Baldwins, N. Y.v re
turned Saturday.
Bald-headed men can be found any-
wheie, but Seven Springs can boast of a
bald-headed woman. '
Services at the Baptist church will be
held hereafter on the second Sunday
taorning and night, instead of on Friday
and Sunday aiternooo as heretoiore.
The little baby of Mr, and Mrs. M. W.
Uzzell fell into the fire a few days ago
and "was severely burned. Tart of its
clothes were burned off, and one side of
its head burned. -
GENERAL MS..
Matters of Interest Oondeflsed Into ;
- ' : ' Brief Paragraphs.
The British casualties in the Boer war
figure up, after the Spion Kop affair,
0,658 men in killed, wounded and miss
ing. ' j 1
The state department advices from
Honolulu, dated Jan. 24, reports 14 new
cases of plague and six deaths there since
January 1 ; i.-'.- ;
i Four persons were seriously' injured,
and a hotel wrecked by a natural gas ex-'
f losion at Rew City, an oil hamlet in i
'ennsylvania, Saturday night. '
A dispatch, Feb. 5, from Norfolk, Ya:,
says: A severe wind and rain storm ;
swept over Dinwiddie, Prince George and v
Chesterfield counties last night, blowing
down factories, residences and barnsy .
breaking windows and uprooting timber f
and fruit trees. - . ,
'. News from Manila is that Gen.Kobbe's f
expedition captured and garrisoned nine '
towns in Luzon, Ley tie and Samar. Of
the men ' encountered, 1,000 were armed .
with rifles and 5,000 with bows and: ar-
rows and wooden swords. Of the 75 na
tives killed G4 were armed with wooden ' '
swords, and three were women. '
At Petersburg, Va., Thomas Pritchett, 5
while engaged in adiustiug some belting,
was caught by the shaft George Simmn 1
attempted to rescue him, but was himself
caught by the set screw. Before the ma
chinery could be stopped Simms had been '
killed, ills body Was horrihij mangled,.1
Pritchett had nearly all the clothing torn v
from his person. , , .
Two hundred Irishmen met in Atlanta .
Monday night and raised . 450, which ,
they will forward to the treasury of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians at Washing-.
ton, with the request that.: it be sent to .
the field hospital service of the Bopr ',
army. Strong resolutions in support of .
the Boers and denouncing England's war '
policy were adopted. ,,.
Klifiro'and "That Mbnster!f t ;. '.
Asheville Citizen,
In reply to a , letter to - the Rv. Dr. -
John C. Kilgo, president of Triuity bl
leg'e, Durham, asking for an explanation ;'
of bis reference to .Thomas Jefferson as'
"That Monster," The Citizen has received
the following from Dr, Kitgo: . , t
"My reference to Mr. Jefferson in a re
cent sermon had nothing to do with his 1 ,
Eolitical doctrines, which, far aa I ,
ave learned them, ui-e wise; but that , "
Mr. Jefferson was a deit, and establish- .
ed the Virginia university upon that
basis, and brought from France the spirit 5
of the Voltaire movement and ; thus im
planted it in America, there is no doubt. -
And hence in matter of this kind be de
serves condemnation, and w ithout fear
of men. or concern for confluences, I
have no hesitapcy in condemning his
religious influence. 1 1 have no objections
whatever to your approving Mr. Jeffer
son's conduct as it muy entirely suityou;
but you must understand that the pul-
lt will not he dominated by a Tew eecu-
ar newspapers
In his Raleigh sermon, criticised oy
The Citizen, Dr. Kilgo said that, the
church and the world, ure "atheistic to
the core." HedidikOtt'ay djistic. He then j -proceeded
to say that the wave of "athe
ism.," begun in France by Voltaire and
Rousseau,: was brought to America-by ,
that Monster Thoina Jenerson. Rut t
in his letter he says Jefferson was a deist.
Has Dr. Kilgo yet to leurn the difference '
between an atheist and a deist? it -,. a
deist is a "monster," what i Dr. Kilgo,
who, in an 'Asheville pulpit, denied the
efficacy of the atonement? ; ; ? ' r
The t.o statenieutH 01 Dr. Kilgo, that '
Jefferson was a deit, and that he estab
lished the University of Virginia on a de-1
istic basis, are absolutely false. The Uni
versity of Virginia is now, as when it was -opened,
on a basis of absolute religious
reedom. . students are iree to attend re- , ,
isrious exercises or stHy away, lhe uni- ,
versity employs a chaplain, the- protest-
ant denominations having tbechaplaincy
in rotation.
As to Jefferson's religious belief,he him-
self said: '"I am a Christian." His word
as to his" belief , is certainly as good as
that of Dr. Kilgo -possibly little better
in certain portions of South Carolina and
among the very man? Methodists who
do not believe 111 the supremacy of the
cigarette, who are Christians, and not
Dukeists." Jeffrrsou ; and Kilgo have
this in common: Each professed publicly
his belief in the Christian religion. At
that point they parted company, for Jef-
erson always acted like a Christian.
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