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THE-DAILY, FREE PRE
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Vol. m-No. 87.
: KINSTON.'N. 0 TUESDAY. JULY 17. 1900.
Price Two Ceats.
GENERAL HEWS.
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
' Bryan was 40 years old on tbe 19th of
- March. 1900. Stevenson was 65 on tbe
22d of October, 1899. Both eeifved in
congress for two terms. ,
The fire at Prescott, Arte., Friday even
lng destroyed the heart of the city. The
loss amounts to over 11,000,000; insur
ance not over $350,000.
i The coroner's. Jury finds the Tacoma,
Wash., horror, by "which 43 were killed
July 4tb, due to gross and criminal care
lessness of the street car company.
The Russian government informs ours
that it fully consents to Japan taking
the lead in putting down tbe Chinese dis
turbances. The Berlin press calls atten
tion to what they call China's campaign
of lies, intended to stir up discord among
the European powers.
C. Esdridge, editor of the Emporia
.Republican, and former lieutenant gov
ernor of Kansas, died at bis home in Em-
poria, Kans., Sunday, from self-inflicted
wounds.' Mr. Eskridarehad been ill sev-
: eral months.. He told his wife that he
was tired of living in ill health.
Poverty, coupled with ill health and a
weak-minded wife for a helpmate, were
- probably tbe causes wbicb impelled Louis
Eisen, a shoemaker at : Baltimore, Md.,
last Sunday, to kill himself, his wife and
' their 13-months-old babe, and to wound
V almost nnto,death his 3-year-old son.
. On Monday several additional cotton
t mills at Fall River, Mass., shut down, ac
: cording to agreement, to curtail produc
tion. The mills icclude the Merchants
vand Crescent, employing 1,300 hands;
the Sagamore. 900; Stafford, 800; Laurel
. Lake, GOO: Union Manufacturing com
pany, 1,000.
A dispatch from Manila says: ''More
- soldiers" is the demand which is coming
' to Gen. McArthurfrom every department
, of the islands. Recent events have vindi
4 cated Gen. La wton's" judgment that 100.-
000 troops will be needed to establish
American sovereignty over, the Philip
pines. -.. During last week's scouting three
Americans Were killed and two wounded.
Tbe Filipinos lost 35 killed and 50 cap
4ured;C"'te' ' . The Negro Party. :
j- News-Observer. , i '-, "". . , .
"We invite the prayerful attention of
Senators Pritchard and Butler to the
( following: The Windsor (Bertie county)
V. Ledger gives the following cheerful, as
well as highly colored information: .
"A political party is no better than its
. leaders. Look at the man who conducts
! ap irty and yon can see how the party
, is composed and managed. Those who
propose to vote against tbe white peo
. pie can have the satisfaction of knowing
that the opposition to the amendment in
each township in Bertie county is headed
by the following negroes, each of whom
is chairman of the township or precinct:
"Windsor Granville Cherry.
"Windsor D. P. Mitchell.
"Windsor Champ Pugh.
"Lewiston Simon Cherry."
, "Roxobel Bryant Walton.
. "Mitchells David Cherry. "'
"Coleraln M. P. Etheridge. "
"Whites-L.D.Holley.; , .
"Indian Woods J. A. Baxemore.
"Merry Hill Mark Law. jk
"Snakebite II. D. Cherry.
"There you have it. Not a township
in Bertie county in which the opposition
to tbe amendment is not beaded by a
negro."
And yet tbe negroes do not dominate
the white men of the Republican party.
Abe Middleton is evidently up to his
old tricks again. - -. - . . - : .
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GROWTH OF CARICATURE.
Jba Law1! WIM Mtm Om It
m Tremenlovg Impetaa.-, ,
Caricature Is nowadays one1 of the
principal methods of criticism. No
movement can overreach ' the mark
without eliciting dozens ' of works of
art from caricaturists all over this and
all other countries. .
This branch of criticism and attack
dates far back, but tbe greatest im
pulse It ever felt came from -the age
of tremendous speculation, when. In
1719 and 1730, John Law was manipu
latlng things financial in France. Nev
er before had the financial world been
so carried off Its feet as it was at that
time. Members of the nobility were
waiting for a chance to purchase
shares In Law's schemes. , Duchesses
and ladles of high renown tried their
most persuasive charms on Law in the
attempt to get hold of shares. Men
hired out their backs for writing desks,
so great was the press 'of business In
making contracts, and one hunchback
is reputed to have made 100,000 francs
In ; this way in a few weeks. , The
French went veritably mad over the
schemes to become wealthy, k Natural
ly the papers of the time, especially
those of Holland, caricatured the state
of . affairs. ' There were pictures of all
sorts, caricaturing Law, the nobility,
the schemes and everything connected
with them. " .
It was this tremendous amount of
pictorial work that first directed the
energies of William Hogarth, in Lon
don, In this direction. . Caricaturing
began to be used more and more in the
political field, and soon afterward It
caused the? shelving of Robert Walpole
from the English ministry. Ever since
then has caricaturing been one of the
bitterest and most effectual methods of
checklne nubile men and- their
schemes.
II Dodced, '
There Is a young jnan In Brooklyn
who needs a tonic of . some kind, else
he would not have failed to embrace as
attractive an opportunity as ever
Comes to -one.'-.' lie accompanied a
charming young woman to a church
wedding on the park slope and arrived
at about tbe time tbe bride and groom
were due. The voun2 woman with
him ' was dressed somewhat as the
bride was expected to be clad, and as
she walked up the main aisle of the
church with her escort the organist
began to play the wedding march. The
couple, however. Instead of going on to
the altar, stopped In one of the pews
not far from the front" One of the
ushers came forward and told them
that the clergyman was waiting for
them," and their friends near, perceiv
ing the situation, urged, them to re
spond to tbe summonu. " Tbe young
woman said she was ready and will
ing, but the young man, to his ever
lasting disgrace, refused to move, and
If be lives to bis dying day the people
who know tbe girl say that Ilngh will
not bare another such chance for hap
piness, BrooklynEagle-
Te Swallow HI Otth Advice. f :.
"1 had n horrible divam last night,
said ITuddleston when he came down
to breakfast the other morning. ' ,
"What was ItT asked liia wtfV. .
"I 'dreamed that 1 wax In purgatory
and was made to do all the things 1
had told nvy frlcnda I wnnld do If 1
yten In their places.--Brooklyn Life.
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OSBORNE'S SPEECH
Incisive and . Oonvinoin? Presen
tation of . the White Supremacy
; Issue, : A Splendid Speeoh. '
State Senator Frank I. Oifborne had a
crowded house last night to hear him
make tbe strongest speech, in many re
spects,' yet heard here.
When be said in his introduction that
he was glad to greet his Populist friends
because ne was a rresby tenan and be
lieved that "once in the faith always in
the faith," and that he also welcomed
Republicans because he had Methodist
tendencies which admonished him that
"while the lamp holds out to burn, the
vilest sinner may return," the audience
settled itself into an attitude of close at
tention which lasted ' for nearly two
hours. ' t . ' . -
No man in the State is better Qualified
to speak on the amendment than Sena
tor Osborne, and he showed to every
honest man in the audience that there is
no hidden meaning, no chicanery, no
deceit, no fraud, no violation of the fun
damental principles of government with
in its short and simple provisions. He
sketched the conditions under which the
legislature was elected and showed con
clusively that tbe constitutional amend
ment was the logical result of the cam.
Daicn of 1898. and that no other course
could have been consistent with the in
tent and purpose of the overwhelming
sentiment in the State for the preserva
tion of the fruits of tbe white ; victory of
Mr. Osborne spoke-openly, boldly and
franklv of the obiect souirht in the nas-
sage of the amendment to disfranchise as
many negroes as possible and disfran
chise no white man. .lie proved to any
honest mind that the amendment did do
that, exactly and specifically, He showed
the fueionists in a few words that it was
not necessary to amend the constitution
to steal the votes of the uneducated white
man since the adoption of tbe Australian
ballot would have made it impossible for
him to know how he voted. '
He read from The Caucasian of Janu
ary, 1899, an article from the pen of the
great Mary Ann, an , eloquent denuncia
tion of the Democrats for not cutting
down the negio vote as they had prom
ised on the stump tbey would do, and. in
short, completely demolished every argu
ment of the negro party with the sim
plest, most incisive English the writer
has yet beard in this campaign. " -
Senator Osborne Vis a master of the
terse, biting phraseology that forces its
meaning upon even unwilling minds and
holds its position' there with the barbs
by which it was winged. 4v
If tbe counterfeit statesman from the
Black Hills could have heard the few
scathinir sentences that were used to dis
pose of him and his slanders upon tbe
good name ol Worth Carolina, be would
probably -wish that Mary Ann would
pay him eff and let him hunt another
juu. ... . .
JASON ITEMS.
: -: - Julj 16, 1900.
Mr. Lon Cobb spebt Saturday in Snow
11 til. . . r- :; . - '
Miss Katie Cobb visited, at Snow Hill
ast week.
Tobacco in this section is firing up for
lack of rain. :. :
' Miss Lena Phelps is visiting at Golds-
boro this week.
Mess. Noah Walters and Giles Parks
spent last Saturday night with Mr. Add
l'helps. .. - y . . .
Mess. J. Brantley and Herman Hardie
spent last Saturday night and Sunday in
Kinston. . ,
There will be a picnic at Hardie's fish
pond orf Saturday, July 28th. All are
nvited to come and bring a basket.
Mr. A. J. Mitchell, our constable, died
of malarial fever Monday. He leaves a
wife and one child. Tbey have our heart
felt sympathy.
Mr. Ilenrv Sutton . and sister. Miss
Aygie, and Miss Helen Hardie spent last
Sunday at Miss Alma Arthur's, near
Snow Hill, as also did Mr. Kirby Phelps.
The young people here and some from
oetitute gathered at Mr. R. II. Hardie's
Saturday night. All seemed to have bad
a nice time, especially those who were in
time lor the refreshments.
Question Answered. 5. ,
Yes, August Flower still hasthelanrest
ale of any medicine in tbecirilized world.
lour mothers and grandmothers never
thought of using anything else for Indi
gestion or Biliousness. Doctors Were
scarce, and they seldom heard of Appen
dicitis. Nervofii Prostration, of Heart
failure, etc. 'They osed Angrnst Flower
to clean out the system and stop fer
mentation of undigested food, regulate
tbe action of the liver, stimslj-t the
nervous and organic action of the sys
tem, and that is all thy took when feel-
trxduUand rod with beaches and
ctl r aches. Ton only nei a few doses
Uren Ac;mH Ilower, 13 I, i form.
totaateyoa eat' f.e-J ttere is notLirg
DEFEAT AT TIEN TSIN.
The Allied Forces Storm the Native
City and Are Repulsed With
Great Loss.
Washington. July 16. A dispatch from
Admiral Remy confirms other reports of
a severe reverse to the allied forces at
Tien Tsin on July 18th.
The allies to the number of 7,000
stormed the walls of the.native city of
lien Tsin. The Chinese on the walls are
estimated at 20,000, and tbey fought
with great desperation, and their mark
manship was accurate and deadly. It Is
estimated that' the loss of the allies was
over 100 killed end over 300 wounded
The Americans lost heavily. " Col. Lis-
cum and Cupt. Davis were killed. Capt
Lemly, of Winston, N. C." and Lieuts.
Butler and Leonard were wounded:
The Ninth US. infantry, commanded
by Col. Liscum, who was killed, suffered
a loss of 68 per cent, wounded.
President McKinley has ordered five
more regiments to China, which will in
crease our force there, when all on the
way and ordered thence arrive, to about
10,000. The " Second Illinois regiment
has volunteered for service in China.
FOREIGNERS MASSACRED.
Latest iNews Confirms Previous
- Reports. Chinese Repulsed . at
Tien Tsin. T . ;.
Washington. July 15j The lateBt news
from China confirms tbe reported massa
ere of tbe foreiirners in Pekin.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin, July 12,
says:.:;- -
"Tbe Chinese at 3 a. m. yesterday
made a determined attack upon tbe rail
way station in great force. Finally they
were driven off, at 6 a. m., but the allies
lost 150 killed and wounded. Tbe Chi
nese loss is unknown, but is believed to
have been heavy.
"The forts were bombarded at noon by
British and French guns. A fort and a
pagoda used as a signal tower were de
molished.'
VThe allied forces have been Increased
by the arrival of 1,5.00 Americans,"
FUSION ARRANGED.
Adams Will Head State Ticket.
Butler and Holton Fix It Middle
Of-Road Ticket i for ' "Fool . Pop-
ullsts..
Kcn4bw cr, 17th. . V . "
Holton, the Republican State' chair-
man; was' in the city yesterday, He
spent tbe day with Senator Butler, and
they discussed the fusion State ticket,
which is about to be printed what
names shall appear on it for. the various
offices.- ;.
Then they took dinner together at tbe
xarborough, with Lfttleuiaudie Bernard
on the side. -They discussed the ticket
some more till train time, then Butler
called a carriage and took Holton to tbe
depot. Little Claudie went; too, of course.
There was no getting rid ol him:
After that Butler went op and talked
with Gov. Russell and Col. Ike Meekins
for an hour, telling them ho w he wasn't
going to win, but that be and Holton
thought about tbe best thing tbey could
do would be to print tbe ticket with
Spencer Adams on it for governor. Worth
for treasurer, Thompson for secretary of
state, Aver lor auditor, V alser forattor
ney general and Dr. Alexander for com
missioner or agriculture.
It is certain.no w that there will be only
one real ticket out and all Populists and
Republicans alike will be urged to vote
t. That ticket will be beaded by open
cer B. Adams. They also discussed the
a ri'i ii! m .
aavisaoiiiiy oj pucung out a lew ncicete
with only Populist nominees on It, for
"fool Populists who don't want to take
any Republican in their n. Itwasurtred
that this would keep them , from voting
the Democratic ticket, ao decision on
this was reached, the matter being left in
Senator Butler's hands to do as he
thought best. .
NEW REGISTRATION.
An Entire New Registration Is Re
quired. Books Open Thursday,
June 28th, and Close July 21st.
Beginning on Thursday, June 28th. the
registration books were opened and
every elector must register, as an entire
new registration is necessary. . .
The books open at o clock n m . on
above date and close at sunset Saturday.
July 21, 1900. v
Tbe books are to be kept open each
day (except Sunday) between the hours
of nine o tlock a. m. and sunset.
On Saturday, June 30, Saturday. July
14, and Saturday, July 21, the registrar
is required to attend at the polline places
in his precinct with his books for the reg
istration of voters. ...
The registrar is required to attend at
tbe poI.iDg place in bis precinct dn Satur
day, July 28, 1900, for the purpose , of
allowing an inspection of bis books and
entering any. challenges that nay be
mnde. -:
Bat challenges may be made on the
dnv of election.
Ho mriotration can be allowed after
Jc!y 21, 1DQ0, unless tho person offering
to register bas become qualified since
" STATE ;HEW8.
Interesting North Carolina Items
In Condensed Form.
The store of Scott Griffin at Charlotte
was burned Monday. ; Loss I,500.
Fire believed to be incendiary. ; --
The State chartera : tha T.nmW .,
Cotton Mills, capital $75,000, with about
ou BMJcuooiaers. xnemiii will spin and
weave. " ,':':.',.';'.';.'
Percy of Dominica, the nporn olnSmlm
to be a SDeclal emissArv nf firui ma
convicted of murder in the second degree
at Wilmington for starving a colored
woman to death, and sentenced to 15
years in the penitentiary.
The Charlotte Observer says the gen
eral opinion is that Mecklenburg will
trive 2.500 maioritv far tha .
Senator Tillman is to speak at the big
ra;iy at ncora on tbe first day of
August. A feast will be provided for
iu,wv people.
After hearimy fr A
n : w n sTcruih . rsv ....
luauar 8nnnirn iwpnr.lv Mn PninaM
v tr - - ... m. . a uiua
Cowner. a verv olHrvn.iit man anM
he thought Aycock superior to!Vance as
an orator. Aycock bas improved in hisr
speakinsr in the past aixtv
always an orator. v
Raleisrh Cor. MesMonowr Tha
-O . - . mMv ..UHUII-
cans have never done a", more foolish
piece of business than the arrests of the
registrars of election at Winston, who
are bound over to the federal court. They
took this sten in orW t.n hn1a n v.
negro vote. The fact is that while the
wnue uepuoiicans have been boasting
that thev could. nnnir?pr1 h it,
vote, defeat the constitutional amend
ment,, mey nave an the wbije counted on
voting every negro. Charles B. Aycock,
in a speech near hure. tnM thatmth
he said a great many negroes begin to
vote when they are 18, and that in his
COUntV ItWAK t.hpirpliat.rttn Ui..ol.i.
of the majority the amendment will re-1
ceive is 50,000. His estimate of the
numoer oi negroes it will disfranchise is
75,000.
Ralelorh News-Ohsuirvop. itr.uaa
istrars stand firm, the Black-and-Tan '
eanar will have - evrv immta hn.
the books and secure tbe registration
ui iu Luousana eouth uarohna and
Virginia darkevs as tw' hm in koa
The federal prosecution "bluff" will not
scare any Democrats It will be thrown
out of conrfc whnn if. mtta lnn .,... a
under the domination of Holton and
uiacxuurn. i ne unariotte Observereays
that "more than five hundred negroes
in CbarlnttA tnwtialiln nho i j i
the list takers if they had made tax re
turns a year ago, stated that they had
not made Such retnrna. jvnH nm-mo -.,
of these gave, as their reason, the as
sertion tnat tney nod come to this town
ship from South Carolina since the first
of January." ,
'BASEBALL.
State League Games.
Monday,
Durham 9, Wilmington 5.
1
Btateevuie 8, Kaleigb 5.
STANDING OF STATIC LEAOtK.
Won Im, D.. r
Tarboro.............. ...10 5 .066
Durham ........................ 8 5 .015
7 7 nnn
Statesville........ 4 5 444
Charlotte ... 5 7 !416
Wilmington................... 4 8 .833
; ! National League Games.
'.'. '; Monday. .. .
Boston 8. Philadelphia 1. .
Chicago 8. Pittsburg 7.
"Brooklyn 5, New York 7.
STANDING OF THE CLCBS.
l -',, ; . Won Lott.
irooklynw...fc;......42 2(1
ittsburg..:....3 83
FerCt
.17
.540
.528
.528
.403
. .463
.447
.354
Chicago ..............M37 33
Fhiladelphla...MM..-.'...7
83
30
80
37
42
Cincinnati... m.........u35
St. Louis. -........31
Bos ton... ..m.,.30
, Sure to Win. .
Chariot t Obacnrcr. ' , ,
We have to confess1 that within the
past week, for the first time, hare tbe
prospects 01 victory for the amendment
and the Democratic State ticket been
perfectly apparent. Tbey are going to
win, beyond a doubt. The course of the
Republicans bas made this as certain as
anything unknown can be. The indict
ments and shooting of Democratic regis
trars; the assaults upon them in different
parts of the State the latest reported
being Irom luchmond county have put
hell in the Democrats, and they will now
carry this election. . It is merely a ques
tion of majority. At the same time they
need to guard every point to see that
every Democrat is registered; that every
doubtful voter is appealed to; that every
man intending to voteiorthe amendment
and the Btate ticket is at tbe ro"s on
election day. This is not faraway. There
is much to be done and l;tJe time w;th:a
which to do it. Tbe result wi'.l be awa-
wizs tie r-.att- r with von.
For
at date, and in that event be may- reg
plished but the means to tbat end are
ty Temt!-i:,irst. 3 IrnzCo.
ister on election day.
to be regarded.
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Tfcs Etit Prtter!;t!ei fsrCkl!!
Ts Csrt t Cs!i Is Cia Ciy
Frrs s tLs town te-rt. O-ly
10c -tjavrk.
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