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EE P PUBLISHED EUERY EUENINC EXCEPT SUNDHY. Vol. in No. .160 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10, 1900. Price Two Cents. Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs., f 'the treasury baa shipped "to the south to move the cotton crop 110,840,000 against 11,523,000 up to same date last year, The Chinese Imperial family decline to return ' to x Pekin and . have established their capital 300 miles still further in the Interior. The population I ol - the District of Columbia ia 278,718 as against 230,802 ten years ago; an increase of 48,320. or ao.y per cent. ; ia v, Martin U. Fosnes, acting director gen - eralof posts in Havana, is removed to Las Animas hospital, suffering, it is be- lieved, irom yellow lever, ' The census bureau announces that the population of the , state of . Delaware is 184,735, as against 149,141 in 1890, an increase ol 10.242 or w.e per cent. . ' The state mine inspector estimates that the coal output of Alabama for this year will approximate ,UOO,000 tons, an in crease over last 1,250,000 tons. year s production of Bourke Cockran, of New York ' is suf fering with sub-acute laryngitis in Kan sas. City, i His physician has ordered him to cancel his speech-making engage ments lor toe present. At Elberton, 6a., at a called session of the superior court Monday William Branch, the negro who murdered George V. xien, was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to be banged on October 19th. ; At Bennington, Vt.. Monday, in the municipal court, : Dennis : M. Blackmer, who was being arrainged on the charge oi leiomousiy assaulting a ten-vear-old girl, rose in hie seat and shot himself in the forehead., The wound will undoubtedly cause' his death. He is a well known resident of Bennington, sixty years old, ana married. Te Cur a Cold fa One Day . lake Laxativb Bromo Qciniwb Tabut. Alt draggiita refund the money if u fail to cuf. K. W uiswi Mimnn u w mci tin . tc .. ' ' . From Bad to Worse " ''. A gentleman . was admiring his pi geons, the other afternoon, when he heard a curious "thud" and saw one of I his birds drop-from a window sill to the ground. :C? - t Turning round, tne1. gentleman was Just in time to see a small boy. in the lane drop a catapult and run. ' ' . After a short chase the culprit was caught. . -.-:. You young scoundrel!" - ejaculated the angry owner of the pigeon. "What dq you mean, by coming and shooting my birds?" v.'Vi;,;i: 'Please, sir, I didn't mean to do it," whined the captive. "21 dldnt shoot at the pigeon.' - '' ; "Come, come," said the gentleman, "don't make matters worse. I saw the bird fall, and If you did' not aim at it how came you to hit it?" "Please, sir," blubbered the boy, rthe pigeon got In the way. I I was aim ing at the winder." London Tit-Bits. Cold Expand Them. ' ' A civil engineer who is in Alaska has .Trritten home to Chicago that the ralla cn the Chllkoot Pass railway expand rlth the cold instead of contracting, 3 they would be supposed to do. A temperature ranging from 13 degrees to 40 degrees below zero P. would not rppreciably affect tho length of rails, lut severer cold than that would be rttended with expansion. This Is cer tainly an exception to a law of nature, r '.though water shrinks as it cools until ' ) degrees F. is reached, when it be llna to expand. Xot rri. instructor's face turned rsgo c.3 ho rated a raw f. r V.3 atrkwarlri crty, yon'U rrcH Ce L'na TLe drlU r!ct with li rc;n::t .'a V..,3 feet Draw tL-zi tack in z'Jy, can, and get tlcm ia llr.cr rty's d.'-zlty vas hurt. . :.:r., Esr.nt," te drar.t l e-! n "ttcy're. not rulse; tteyre lll.iy ,5, ia tie rear rzLT' Frn i a co , tiro-, ; i w . :i n t cr S r ' ! 1- 1- - - ( Something for Bryan Populists as Well as, Democrats to Think : . " . ' ; About. , Ye.ycttcviAe Observer. , The excellent Statesville Mascot, one of i the best Democratic papers In North Car- ! olina, contains tne loiiowmg editorial: " w ben the Democratic state convention i declared for the senatorial primary, vot ing therein was limited to those who voted the Democratic ticket at the State election in August. When the State com i mittee met on Sept. 6th to provide ma chinery for holding the primary, Maj. J& J. Hale, editor of the Fayetteville Ob- VOte for Bryan and the Democratic candi date for congress in the November elec tion should also be permitted to vote in the . primary. Mai. Hale arcrued that 1 tnousanas oi ropnusts wouia ' vote tne Democratic' ticket in November if a chance was given them to vote for senator, "Just before the meeting of the commit tee this writer was talking, with Chair man Simmons when two of his friends came np with a copy of Maj. Hale's res olution. One of these friends of Chair man Simmons, said 'if this passes, there are hundreds of Populists throughout the State who will vote for Bryan : and the Democratic candidate for congress in opder to TOte agafoat yon, for the Pop- nlists hate you more bitterly than they do any other Democrat in the State If I were you, I would oppose the resolu tion.' Mr. Simmons did not hesitate a moment, but said: I am fully aware. gentlemen, tnat wnat you Bay is true The Jfopulists hate me as they do no otner Democrat in the State, and I be lieve many of them will vote our ticket for the purpose of voting against me, but I don't believe there will be enough of them to defeat me. Even it there were, a Democrat will be (elected to the senate, and these Populist votes may insure JNortn tarolina s electoral vote to Bryan and the election ol nine Democrats to congress from the State. ' Just at this time wnen tne Itepublican party la threat ening the south with reduced representa tion in congress and the enactment of another force bill, when a republican president and congress can do so much to nullify our constitutional amendment, it is of the utmost importance that a Democratic j president and consrress be elected. By extending the qualifications for voting in the primary as suggested in this resolution we may secure votes for Bryan and our nominees for consrress. The loss of one or two congressmen from State might mean a Republican con- gress. I want my Iriends not to con sider me, but the interests of the Demo cratic party, and I hope they will vote for the resolution.'" When the committee met Mr. Simmons' friends did vote for the resolution and it was adopted. . ... . : ... , "Now we understand there are many Populists throughout the State who openly boast that they will vote the Democratic ticket 'in order to sret a chance at Simmons.' We hear of some oi them in Iredell county. If is hoped tnat Democrats will see to it tnat Chair man Simmons' patriotic devotion to the Democratic party when be knew it would be hurtful to his individual interests, will not go unrewarded. F. M. Simmons is above all a patriotic Democrat. We referred to tne patriotic action of Mr. Simmons, as recounted above, in the editorial announcing 1 ne Observers sup port of his candidacy for the ' senate That, and the fact that all the McKJnley elements in the Democratic party are arrayed against Mr. Simmons, deter mined T.be Observer s course. Under the circumstances, and in view of the fact that it was due to The Observ er's effort that the Democratic primary door was opened to the Bryan ropulista, we think we may with propriety ask all who avail themselves of the privilfge of voting in that primary, thus obtained, to cast their votes for Mr. Simmons, the Ben atonal candidate who has shown himself to be most completely in align ment with Mr. Bryan's principles and policies. If Mr. Simmons' friends in the committee had voted against the resolu tion admitting the Brjan Populists it would have been defeated. But what an appeal the patriotic ac tion of Mr. Simmons, as described bj Editor Watts in The Maxcot. makes to the lovers of justice in the Democratic rank and file to eee that be loses nothing by his unseiSsh coursel CentimentforEryan Opens Steel I Jotitt III, Special, 6:h, to Nw York Herald. Notice has teen civpii tint tie ron vertr and tiT'.t-t mi.l cf tie l;:;noU : corrrnnyanJ tie r'int cf tie Trc- 1 1 Car corr-facy wi:l start f : if; : 1 to te cut cf f a r r t . a are T to n t: r. 1- I; w r r- -.!;.'" s j" .. .' 1 . " IA EED FIRE COMPANY; i f '7t 7 ' ..' J t " 1 ''"" IT STARTED OUT TO SHAKE THINGS f , up in, JE.RICMO. -j . . ,, . . , Fao PctkUa, ihi Foitauur, Tells I: Bow th Bahnslaatl Orsmatsatlea Ww Baited Up hr om of ua Bii- I llaa-a' Prank. . rr, '. . . . , ICopyrlgh 1D0O. by C R Ma. 1 ?V .CmV. vM& W" aisted of 40 men, 10 paila, 2 axes and a I . , Wl7' k out to but one fire. Nobody had found any fault with it, however, up to two months ago, when Beube Holdfast came Into the postofflce one day and rLook here, Tap, this town of Jericho is deadern A doornail, and unless sun thin kin be done to, rouse her the moss on our "backs will be a foot long in an other year.'' " What kin you doT' says L , t "That's what I've bin thlnkln of fur tte last month. We can't git up dog fights nor hoss faces, and nobody will go In fur a brass band or a camp meet- in. The only thing I kin think of la to resurrect the fire company and boom her fur all she's wuth. If we kin git things n-goin red hot, Jericho will wake up and push to the front till Chi- cago won't be in it I'm gittin figgers together fur a speech, Pap, and you jest lay low fur three or four days, and you'll hear sunthin drop." Before the week was out everybody In town knew that sunthin was up, and one evening Reube shot off his speech to the ; postofflce crowd and 'made a hig hit , He had the number of fires and the losses in the United States 'fur the last fifty years,' and he shewed how a fire company kept down taxes, reduced Insurance and was the main spring of liberty.; He pictured the town of Jericho In ahes, fur the want of 'sunthin to squirt out a conflagration. and when he went on to describe wid- WETT WHOOPDfO DOW3I THB EOAO. - ders lookln i into : the embers fur" the bones of their husbands and husbands shovelln over hot coals In search of the remains of wives and children -even Joe Truelove'wos seen to wipe a tear from his left eye. Fur once everybody 'seemed to be agreed, and when Reube was named fur foreman of the compa ny nobody kicked; Before the meetln closed it was resolved to buy two more pans ana another ladder and that the company should be uniformed. Jericho woke right np. Real estate began to Jump, Tom BIgelow put down e!x rods of new sidewalk, and Homer Lee repainted his barn and nut new tinges on t!s gate. People who came over from DoLbs Ferry and witnessed tie Fpeerit of enterprise went home i-Ious of the town, and a llttnln rod i r.a said that the hustlln reminded L':j of the early clays of Kansas City end Denver.' It wasn't a week before WIdder Taylor's smokehouse got i.re at midnlgnt and releg reott rrr ? tie alarm beU la a way t t-jra hull town bottom tide t ; in Eve is. 1 1 ;;t C-e company vrcr t fit end 3 Cf !i 3 S3 t cot it r." -.tlon ta co V..e 1 1 1 t . : 1 l!a c! cker cr C. I f .1.. o:. 1 c ' a 1 ; II r: A wf ... :" 1.1 - t-i 80rt of a al Jubilation it was kin be .Sphered from the fact that one cnh nuts durln the day.?-It was Renbe j Holdfast' Idea that a' fireman should always be on duty and he advised ev- menioer or tne company to wear DI8 uorm. a ay ana nignt. Wbeo the flrst thunderstorm came along, the fire . bell rang, and the company turned out nnd 8tood ready to rush to the spot If ghtnIn wt anytIlIn. If there dog fight In front of the town hall, th .m- .t stove got red hot there was a dash Of red ehirted heroes. Jericho was boom In, but Beube wasn't satisfied with her progress. He got ' his company out and marched them to Sunday church and to Thursday evenin prayer meet in. There was a lawsuit over a cow between Jim White and Aaron Tomn- kins, and the fire company was present In full uniform. Old Mrs. Hopkins was taken sick, and the doctor said she must go. and Reube felt It bis duty to march the company up to her bouse and bid her a last farewell. Her sick ness took a turn fur the better, and she begun to git well, and Reube marched the company up ag'in to give her three ethers fur not dyln. After about n month there was only one thine lackin. The fire company bad turned out fur everythln. but a f u- . neraL but death had obstinately refus- ed to gin it a show. There was a lot of old folks with asthma and liver com plaint and a lot of babies with whoop- in cough and measles, but none of 'em would die. Reube used to go around achin fur It and he'd drop into the postofflce occasionally to say to me: "Pap, if some one would only die, Pd turn out the boys in a way to Jump Jericho 100 years ahead. " Them red palls and axes and ladders would jest bo an offset to -the mournin, and the way the boys would stand , around on one leg and look solemn would be a pic ture to beat an old master. How's your heart disease, PanrUu'L,-.-. . "Better, thank you." ' "I was in hopes it was wuss. Thars wuss men nor you. Pap Perkins, but if you'll only die our fire company will gin ye a sendoff to make yer widder proud fur the restf her days.". . . i Reube , was on the watch day , and night fur a funeral and he'd almost made up his mind to turn out the com pany fur the next cow that died of hol ler born when a crisis come like a flash. Owln to his lame leg LIsb Bil lings hadn't j'Ined the fire company, but be was an old and respected citi zen who could beat anybody in town at a game of checkers.' Tharfore when the news come that his well had caved in on him and buried him under ten feet of airth the fire bells rung and red shirts went whoopln down the road. Mrs, Billings didn't seem to care very much whether they got Llsh's body or not beln it was already buried, but they was determined to her it fur a funeral. They worked all the arter noon and all night and at intervals Reube had the bclla toled fur the dead. Nobody in Jericho slept The well kept cavln in, and " the firemen kept workin like heroes to clear it out It was 8 o'clock next mornln when they found Llsh's old hat As it was passed up to Reube he shed tears and turned his head away.- Phlletus Johnson was jest remarkin that Llsh's loss was our gain or something of that sort, arid the diggers down in the well were lookln fur arms and legs, when Lish himself appeared In the crowd. He seemed to be In good health and speerlts, and he carelessly remarked to the fire compa ny that he was much obleeged fur sav in him a week's work. Nnthln was said fur about a mlnlt but presently Reube Holdfast wiped the tears from his eyes and asked: "Lish, whar you bin since yesterday coon?". . ...... "Up stairs In the honse," says Lish. What was yourobjeck?" ? "To boom Jericho by gettln up a fu neraL Thar's my old hat and you tin take It along and bury it in good , shape." j Reube called off t!s company, and tbey marc!.' 1 Lack to town with sol- ' tma tread. Tlcy haJa't pst away tt-;r red -water fa'.U lc fere flks was lau ;h la at 'cm. a-1 Lcfcre eu-lDwn t:.e ( ! ra cf tie fire contrary was sc.: t i Lish P r tal ttrown 'cm d n, 'a. e-1 tl VT l ? I wis guyla r-.d rid!: ti 7 oV.x-!: l;-..:1 tad tin I. T . ' ? f,t:od i i tie i ci , i r - i ? tt: 1 1 a r : a STATE HEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items . In Condensed Form. Tink West was shot and fatally Injured Sunday flight by Joseph Flynn, at the latter s home, four miles from Kerners vilte. ' f , John Abrams, a white man living in the suburbs of Raleigh, has been arrested for bigamy. . Both wives -will' appear against him. One lives in Raleigh. The other lives six miles from Raleigh. ' At Greensboro Monday, the trial of the Winston registration cauee were post poned V until April, 1901, term federal court. The Burke county - registration cases are set for trial in the federal court next week at Statesville. v At Henderson F. M. Marrow, on Mon day, for manslaughter, was sentenced to four months in jail, to pay the State counsel one Hundred dollars and pay all court costs; also to give the child: of the dead woman seventy-five acres of land. Mr. Marrow was not confined in jail, but was hired out.'v:"... .--'ii.XiM, ' Oreensboro Record: Hon. J.C. Buxton, of Winston. Democratic nominee for con- f;res from the Eighth district, who was n the city today, says he will defeat Mr. Blackburn by at least 1,500. Mr. Buxton has canvassed several of the up per counties In his district, and from what he knows, together with the re ports received, says he feels sure of his ground. At the junction of the A. C. L. and Southern Railway, seven miles from (ioldsboro, Saturday night, Arter Snipes, a young man of 18 years, got his foot caught , in the frog joining the two roads, and his leg was torn from his body at the hip. lie was dragged for a distance of several hundred feet when he fell, the car wheels cutting his body In two, also crushing the top of bis head off, the brains falling out In a heap,. . Asheville Citizen: The county school board, through County Attorney Murphy, has brought two suits against the city of Asheville for the recovery of fines im posed for violation of the State laws and collected by the city. The suit ia -in-line with the decision mentioned some time ago in The Citizen which said that these fines belonged to the school fund. One suit for f 35,000 seeks the recovery of all fines collected since the passage of the act giving these funds to the schools, and the other is an application for an in junction and mandamus against the city to compel it to pay over the fines . that are now being collected. The case will fdrmally come ud for hearinar before Judge Allen at Franklin on the 9 th, but it has benn "greed that it is to be con tinued to Cherokee court to be held on the 24th. MURDER IN A YD EN. . , Colored Man Kills His Step-Son. Greenville Reflector, v ; : We learn by telephone from Ayden of a brutal murder that has been committed there. John Hargett, colored, had .a step-son about 8 or 9 years old. He has been in the habit of getting in a rage with the boy and at times beating him' nnmercifully. He gave the boy a severe whipping on Sunday night. Monday taighc he beat the boy again, and people living near by say all at once the boy's screams ceased. This morning the man went to a will in Ayden to get some lum ber, saying the boy had died and he was going to make a coffin for him. He was at once suspected of having killed the boy and was arrested. An investigation showed that the neck and back of the boy were broken. . Coroner Laughinghonse is in Ayden this morning holding an inquest over the body. A hornet's nest is comfort t: : I f, com pared with living with i man with a liver. Is life worth llvir.soi you That drr 3 . upon liver. pr.J AnJ a livers de- sn .ivcr s r C. Com pa xv, ,i :
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