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A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS.
VOL.VIL NO. 30.
MAXTON, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1893.
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'FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
51st Day. Immediately after the routine
rnoruiu; business the consideration o the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was re
sumed the pendiusj question being Mr.
Mills's auiendrnont to the Sherman three par
cent, bond issue amendment. The discussion
finally cio.se I, and the vote was taken. It
was agreed to yeas, thirty; nays, sixteen.
R'Id Day. The Satiate spent the day on
the -Sua lry Civil bill. Several amnend
ments making appropriations for public
tmildius were oassoj.
53d Day. William Lindsay, new Senator
from the Sttte o Kentucky in place ot Mr.
Carlisle, took the oath of office The cre
dentials of William V. Allen as Senator
from the State of Nebraska from March 4th
iii-xt in placa of Mr. Paddock were placed on
tile The consi leration of the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill was then proceeded
with.
54th Day. Washington's farewell ad
dress was read I" lie Sundry Civil Appro
priation bill was nassed.
55th Day. Within less than an hour two
of the general appropriation bills the Dip
lomatic and Consular ani the Military
Academy were read, considered, and
passed. There was no discussion on eith9r
of the bills The Lejislative, Executive,
and Judicial Appropriation bill was then
taken up.
56th Day. The Senate took up the Legis
lative Appropriation bill, and all the corn
'mittee amendments were agreed to. The
Senators votal themselves clerks at a cost
of Hi,27fi a year. They also vote! to con
tinue the Utah Com nission and increase the
appropriation for the Civil Service Com
missioners. No further progress was made
in the Legislative bill The Senate bill to
authorize the latar-Ojeaaic Railway Com
pany to cjnstruet and operate a railway
line through thj luiian Territory was
passed.
! In the House.
54th Day. There was but one item in
the PostoiKos Appropriation bill which gave
rise to any discussion, and that was the ona
making an appropriation of 8193,000 for
special facilities on trans linas from Spring
field, Mass., to New Orleans The House
proc-jele I to pay rittinr tribute of respect
to tue memory of t"ie late .Representative
John G. Warwick, of Ohio.
55th Day. The New York and New
Jersey Bridge bill and the Naval and Agri
cultural Appropriation bills passed.
50th Day. Filibustered opposing the
Car-Coupler bill consumed the day session
and the H rase was h9ld in session into the
ni;j;ht and a Ijourned at 6 o'clock a. m. with
out accomplishing anything.
5iTH Day. Tne Inlian Appropriation
bill was passed Mr. Hitch failed to call
up the Anti-Option bill.
5Sth Day A bili was passed for the re
lief of George W. Jones, late United States
Minister to New Grenada (now the United
Statss of Columbia) Mr. Herbert, Cleve
land's sele2tion for the navy portfolio, wa3
cheered as he entered the House. His
short speech in acknowledgment was greete 1
with long and loud applmse, and then Mr.
Herbert held a levee in th9 rear of hall
The conference report on the Army bill was
tben agre3 l to The Indian Appropria
tion bill was taken uo against a vain attempt
to call up the Anti-Option bill.
5'Jth Day. Mr. Hart9r introduced a bill
to provide for the free coinage of silver and
gold at the present ratio and upon eqaal
terms Mr. Peel moved to go into Com
mittee of ttie Whole for the consideration of
general appropriation bills. Mr, Hatch op
posed this motion with his Anti-Option bill,
but Mr. Peel's motion was agreed to yeas,
14S, nays, 84, and the consideration of the
Indian Appropriation bill was resumed
At 4:30 o'clock the House then took a rece3j
until 8 p. m., the evening session to be for
the consideration of private pension bills
The galleries were crowded when the House
met in the evening. A motion to proceed
to the consideration of private pension bills
was responded to by 135 members, and a call
of the House was ordered, to which 146
membars responded. This being short of a
quoruTi, the House at 9:10 adjourned.
'I see you hired M-.trtinetti ia eing at
your rnu.-ierd.''
"Yep. Paul him ',100."
"How did he sin-: "
''L'ke bir I. I nas conscious of his
bill all the time." ! llaruer's P.azir.
Within a six-mile radius of Charing
Cross, Lon lou, there are 270 miles of
railway and 22 3 stations, and within a
twelve-mile radius over 4.00 miles of
line and UUl stations.
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THE N. C. LEGISLATURE.
What They are Doing in the General
Assembly.
Bills Upon Bills All Intended for the
Good of North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C. 42nd day. Senate.
Senator Potter asked that convict labor
be allowed for building a canal in Car
teret county. The special order, beiDg
the bill to amend the charter of Wilming
ton, & Weldon, and to arrange for tax
ation, etc., was taken up, and passed
unanimously. The bill to legulate the
number of employes of the General As
sembly and to regulate their pay ($4 per
day and mileage .for clerks and door
keepers) passed its third reading. The
bill to amend section 2834 of The Code
by striking out the word "robins" (ap
plies only to Cabarrus county) passed its
third reading. The bill to fix the time
for hunting deer in Pender county (fixes
September) passed its third reading. The
bill for the establishment of graded
schools in Rocky Mount passed its third
reading. In the Senate at n'ght the bill
to create the county of Elkin passed its
second reading: 24 to 11, a compromise
having been effected by which all tha
people of Surry county will vote on the
question of the removal of the court
house from Dobson the election to take
place in August. The bill for the sup -port
of the deaf mu'.e 6chool at Morgan
ton wa3 warmly debated and passed both
readings, the annual appropriation being
reduced to $35,000 annually for the next
two years.
House. The fo'lowing includes the
Most important bills put upon their pas
sage: A.b:ll to amend chapter 338,
Laws of 1891, to protect and promote
the ojEter interests of th3 State," reduc
ing the salary of oyster commissioner to
$70 per month and the tax on oysters to
2 cents per bushel, passed second and
third reading. To incorporate the Loan
and Savings B ink of Charlotte, passed
its second and third reading. The hour
for the special order having arrived, the
House resolved itself into a committee of
the whole on the revenue bill, Mr. Mc
Neill, of Robeson, in the chair. The
rules were suspended and it was con
sidered by sections and in order to save
time each section as read by the clerk
was considered adopted if no objection
was LejrJ. The Wilmington & Wei
don Railway tax bill passed its second
reidinar.
Raleigh, N. C. 43rd day. Senate.
The bill in aid of the Deaf and Dumb
school at Morganton was a special order.
It appropriates $40,000 for 1893, and an
nually thereafter, for I he completion and
support of the inslitutim. An amend
ment to make the appropriation $35,000
was adopted: Ayes 26, najs 15. The
bill then passed third reading. The fol
lowing bills were introduced: In rela
tion to killing fish by dynamite; to in
co porate the Firemens' Mutual Fire As
sociation of North Carolina; a bill in re
lation to the Firemen's Relief Fund; to
amend the pharmacy laws of North
Carolina. The bill to establish graded
schooh in Lexiogten passed its third
reading. The Senate unanimously re
fused to concur in a House amendment
to the Wilniington and Weldon tax bill,
f ddiag certain property for taxtion.
Tne bill for tha support of the Normal
School at Greensboro was amended to
appropriate $2,500 instead of $5,000,
and passed its third reading. The bill
for supplying the University of Noith
Carolina with water, making repairs, etc.
(appropriates $10,000 aanually). This
is an addition to the present appropria
tion of $20,000; passed third reading.
House. The special order was taken
up, being the "bill for the support of
the Insane Asylum of the State." The
substitute of the committee appropriated
tie followihg named amounts: For the
ajlum at Raleigh, $82,000; outstanding
accounts, $5,352; improving laundry,
$1,000; dining room, $8,000. For 1891
$6000; electric light $4,000; engineer
ing department $4,000.
For Morganton Asylum For 1893
$6,000, for 1894 $6,000.
For Goldsboro Asylum $33,000,for 1893
$6,500, for 1894 $6,500, for laundry $2,
000, for exchanging boiler $500. Its
consideration was postponed.
Raleigh, N. C 44th day. Senate.
Principal bills introduced : To change
the dividing line between Bladen and
Pender; to incorporate the Elizabeth
and Pasquotank Railroad Company. The
bill to establish the county of "Burgwyn"
out of Chatham county was tabled. Sen
ator Little by consent introduced a bill
to incorporate South Wadesboro. The
S;nate by a unanimous and rising vote
edopteJ a resolution of respect to the
memory of Gen. Beauregard.
House. The bill for the maintenance
of the several insane asylum was
taken up and passed its second and third
readings. The Confederate msnument
bill was the special order nnd debated
upon at length. It was moved to amend
by inserting $5,000, instead of $10,000,
but was voted down, as was also a mo
tion to make it $8,000. The bill then
passed its third reading, and was ordered
engrossed and sent to the Senate. In
the House at night the Scotland county
bill failed to pass third reading: Yeas,
41 ; nays, 44.
Raleigh, N. C 45th day. Senate.
Tha bill to incorporate the Charlotte,
Troy and Sanford Rail ro id Company
passed second reading. The bill to in
corporate the Blowing Rock and Lenoir
Railway and Improvement Company
passed its second reading. At 1 o'clock
the Lieutenant Governor announced the
special order, being the bill for the in
corporation of the Monumental Atsocia
tion, and for the erection of a monument
in the city of Raleigh, to the memory of
the Confederate soldiers. The galleries
and lobbies was almost literally packed
with spectators, a great majority of
whom were kdies. Senator Pettigrew
offered an amendment that the monu
ment be placed in Capitol Square. Many
patriotic speeches were delivered. Sena
tor Parol offered an amendment to strike
out $10,000 and insert $5,000. The pre
vious question was sustained and the
amendment was lost. .The bill passed
its second reading: ayes 21, nays 12. An
amendment that the monument should
be built out of Norlh Carolina granite
was adopted. The previous question
was ordered and the bill passed its third
reading: ayei 41, and. . csu. 0. The
result wds f-nnouncsd amid a buret of ap
p'ause and a rattling volley of handclaps.
The ladiea were almost carried away by
their emotions. :..
House. Principal bills introduced: To
ire ! porate the town of Biltmore; to al
io v persons defendant in justices' court
demand a trial in the township in which
th-j subject tnr tter of the controversy
ar'ses. To p .y the Attorn y-General
$2 COO annuady, and $100 for each term
. f ihs S-jpremc Court and fees now al
lowed by Jaw, with $300 for clerical as
sis'auce at each term; Justices of the
Supreme Court to appaint a reporter of
dcci iocs at $750, payable by a tax of $5
in e ch appeal, save pauper cases; any
!;r'ilus to be devoted to the purchase of
books for tha library; to provide for the
e'ecti. n of asylum superintendents at
$2,500, to hold office 4 years; to amend
the el-.'ctien law; to incorporate Besse
mer City, Gdston county; to allow dis
abled Confederate soldiers to peddle
without license; to allow Moore county
to sell certain stock in the Carthage Rail
way. The Senate bill to provide for
fui oiming and completing the Executive
Mansion was taken up. The bill passed,
appropriating $4,000 $1,500 for finish
ing and $2,500 lor furnishing. At 11
o'clock the House went into committee
of the whole on the revenue bill on its
third reading, which consumed the bal
ance of the day. The rate of general
taxation was not acted on and may be
increased above the 20 cent3 named in
the bilU This matter stands open. The
committee at 1 :45 rose and reported
progress. (As it standssection 34 now
gives discretion in granting licenses,
whereas the bill gave no discretion
whatever.
Raleigh, N. C; 46th day. Senate.
Bills introduced: To incorporate the
Charlotte Medical College; to prevent
the establishment of new counties unless
a not ire of six months is given ; repeal
ing a resolution of instruction to mem
bers of Congress to vote for financial re
form in the Ocala platform. The bill to
incorporate the Charlotte, Troy and Sin
ford Raiiroad Company passed its third
reading. The bill to amend the act re
lating to the Fayetteville graded school
passed its third reading. The bill to in
corporate the Western North Carolina
and Atlanta Railroad Company 'passed
its third reading. The bill to incorporate
Rutherford and Polk County Railroad
passed its tbird reading. The bill to in
corporate the Farmers' Mutual Fire In
surance Campany of North Carolina
passed its third reading. The bill to
incorporate the Elizabeth and Pasquo -tank
Railroad Company passed its third
reading. The bill for the maintenance
and suport of the insane asylums of the
State passed unanimously its several
reading-. The bill to incorporate the
Bank of Smithficld passed its third read
ing. The bill to protect tne ojster law
of the State (amendment to the existing
law ; having dredges in prossession prima -facie
evidence of intent to violate the
law) pas-ed its third reading.
House. The bill to create the county
of Ransom was unfavorably reported.
The chief new bills were as follows: to
allow the people of Harnett county to
vote on the question of removal of the
county seat ; to allow the Glendon &
Gulf Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany to lease, sell or convey its railway,
franchise, etc., to the Durham & Char
lotte Railway (chartered at this session ;)
to give the Normal and Industrial School
at Greensboro one director for each con
gressional district. The House took up
the bill to take aray the exemptions
from taxation of the North Carolina
Railroad. Lengthy discussion ensued
Mr. Watson offered an amendment pro
viding that the bill shall take effect after
the lease of the Richmond & Danville
expires. A motion was made to print
the bill and make it a special order for
Monday night. This was lost. Mr.
Watson's amendment was then adopted.
On motion, further discussion ceased,
and the bill was ordered to be printed
and was made special order for next
Monday night. The House at 11 :30
went into committee of the whole on the
revenue bill on third reading. The
amendment to increase the school tax
to 18 cents was lost, so it stands at 15.
The amendment increasing the pension
tax to 4 cents was adopted. The total
tax rate is therefore 41 cnts, or 2 cents
less than for the past two years.
Raleigh, N. C. 47th day. Senate.
The bill to incorporate the Raleigh
Young Men's Christian Association pass
ed its third reading. The bill allowing
corporations to become sureties on bond3,
etc., (the Senate substitute adopted.) A
wide discussion took place on the pro
priety of passing the bill, it being looked
upon as an innovatiou that has been re
jected by previous Legislatures. The
bill passed its second reading. Under
a suspension of the rules the bill passed
its third reading. The bill to incorpor
ate the Commercial Bank of Rutherford
ton passed its third reading. The bill
to charter the Bank of Kernersville
passed its third reading. The bill to au
thorize the conveyance of crops by mort
gage failed to pass its second reading.
A message was received from the House
of Representatives announcing the pas
sage of the revenue bill. It was ordei ed
to be printed at once. The bill to amend
section 1762 of The Code bo that tar and
lightwood may be used, passed second
reading. The bill to amend the charter
of the Thomasville, Pee Dee & Silver
Valley Railroad passed its second read
ing. The bill to establish a true meridan
in the State for the different counties
passed third reading.
House. Bills were introduced: To
ratify the purchase of the Cheraw &
Salisbury Railroad by the Cheraw &
Darlingtsn Railroad, and to incorporate
the latter in North Carolina; to allow
persons who have sold their stock of
liquors to transfer the liquor license.
The machinery act (as usual a very vol
uminous document) was taken up and
passed third reading. As a special order
the bill to work convicts on the public
roads was taken'up; after discussion had
progressed Gov. Carr sent in a message
on the subject of country roads. In
this he said plainly that the public road
system in the State is a failure ; that the
people who work on the roads do so un
der protest, saying that they work the
roads which other people use and yet the
latter bear no part of the burden. The
bad roads cost the people of the State
millions each year and this loss really I
falls iipon the whole people. The coun
ties are clamoring for road improvement.
The debate was then resumed. Mr.
Moore moved to table the bill, This
prevailed, 56 to 32. so the bill died.
"" Oyster Culture in North Carolina.
BY JESSE MITCHELL.
There are probably no waters along the
whole Atlantic coast from Maine to
Florida more favorably adapted to the
cultivation of oystejs-4-that is, what is
known in oyster parlance as selects, or
the best market grade than the immense
sounds and connecting streams that skirt
the coast of North Carolina, and yet there
is hardly a section of country in the
whole South so isolated and little known
to the world at large. But a new era is
dawning upon it to awaken it from its
lethargy and infuse new life in the dor
mant limbs, that it may take its stand in
the rank and file of future possibilities
and attract capitalists '2nd settlers.
A railroad row being constructed bv
the East, Carolina Land & Railroad
Co. will traverse the better part of this
country, skirting the sounds and salt
water tributaries, thus furnishing an out
let for these oysters to the markets of
the country, and by the cheap transpor
tation enable the planters to compete in
price with those from the Chesapeake
and other sources along the coast. Lack
of transportation facilities has been the
drawback to the development of this in
dustry. This road is already in opera
tion asjfar'as Neuse river, which has from
time immemorial enjoyed a local reputa
tion for the excellent quality of its gar
den oysters, said by connoisseurs to sur
pass both in size and,llavor the choicest
products of the Chesapeake.
When the value of these waters for
oyster culture began to be realized the
government ordered a thorough survey
to be made and the whole carefully plot
ted, so they are now considered as gov
ernment property, and the gardens are
obtained through grants from the State,
the only requisite necessary being that
the applicant is a freeholder and a resi
dent of the State. Each garden contains
fifteen acres, but it is not usual for a
planter to own several adjoining ones,
having entered them through the male
members of his household or outside par
ties and bought in at a nominal figure.
Oysters follow the same invariable law
applicable to all growing matter, vegeta
ble or animal, that those grown by culti
vation are superior to the uncultivated,
so these oysters are transplanted to the
gardens from the natural rocks (also the
propeity of the government, which has
prescribed laws regulating the taking of
the young ones and others) and allowed
to mature, requiring from two to three
years. Ths btst beds are those ljing in
close proximity to the mouth of a fresh
water tributary, for it is from this source
that most of their foe is obtained which
gives them their s'-x flavor.
Neuse riv;r is particularly favored for
this industry in several ways. First, the
ocean bar is too shallow to float the
smallest sailing craft, except at very
high tides, which occur very seldom, thus
providing an effective barrier against all
piracies, so the oysterman can go to his
rest at night with a feeling of security,
for piratical depredations in such a place
would b3 impossible, without an avenue
of escape to the ocean. The shallow bar
also serves another good purpose in that
it keeps out an excess of soft water, and
through the admixture of the river cur
rent the saltiness is just neutralized to
the proper degree and the water brought
to a state ts suit the taste of the - most
fastidious bivalve. This is a most' vital
point in the cultivation of oysters; the
presence of tco much brine is as bad as
too little. .
The river for the most part has a good
sandy bottom, with small but a sufficient
depth of water, the maximum -being
about thirteen feet. It has an average
width of about two miles, with high,
well wooded banks, and these with the
windings give to each expanse of water
the perfect appearance of an inland lake.
On account of its shallowness oysters can
be gathered from any portion with a
pair of ordinary hand tongs, and this is
the only method known to the present
inhabitants, who have probably never
dreamed of the modern steam windlass
and scoop rets, and are just awakening
to a realization of their own importance
and the value of their gardens by the
intelligence that two stock companies
have been formed, both of whom will
construct canning factories on the river
and also ship shell oysters from their own
fardens, one company already having
60 acres well stocked and making its
first shipment this season.
The outlook for this industry in these
waters, which are so adapted tj it, is ex
ceedingly bright, and when once the
oysters are introduced in the princ pal
markets and their flavor appreciated it
will give t; e old favorites serious cause
for uneasiness.
Palmetto State News.
Col. D. P. Duncan has declined the
position of national Alliance lecturer and
treasurer.
Gov. Tillman has placed the whole
Columbia military under anas to protect
from lynching the old negro Kinard.
Forty nine bales of cotton were burned
at Madden's Station, S. C, on Saturday.
The report states that they were the pro
perty of Fairley, a Charlotte dealer.
A meeting has been called at 10 o'clock
in Columbia of all the Edwards
heirs and their representatives, holding
claims on much valuable land in New
York city.
Judge Aldrich has filed a decree to
break the lease of the Port Royal Rail
road to the Georgia Central, and has con
firmed J. H. Averill as permanent re
ceiver of the former road.
In response to a iumor that he intend
ed to call an extra session of the Legist
lature to repeal the charters of alt roads
which had resisted the payment of taxes,
Gov. Tillman said: "You had, better
hunt up the man who started the rumor,
I know nothing about it."
ur AND DOWN.
She The butler is becoming very im
pudent, dear.
He (gruffly) Well, call him up.
She (anxiously) And what will you
io, dear, if I do?
He Call him down.
GEN. BEAUREGARD GONE.
He Was the Last Full Confederate
General.
Buried With Military Honors in New
Orleans.
New Orleans', La. The funeral of
General Beauregard was a public one,
taking placa at 4 o'clock Thursday after
noon from the city council chamber where
the remains laid in state.
All the veteran organizations and the
State militia participated in the funeral
ceremonies in charge of General John
Glynn.
SOUTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS DO REVERENCE
Charleston, S. C. Thomas A. IIu
guenin, tha last Confederate commander
at Fort Sumter, and now brigadier gen
eral of the 4th brigade South Carolina
troops, issued general orders directing
that all flags of the brigade be suitably
draped on annual parade and inspection
Thursday, in respect to the memory of
Gen. Beauregard.
In his order Gen. Huguenin says: "The
South had no braver and no more faith
ful soldier. The city of Charleston owes
to him in great part the skillfull and suc
cessful defense of her harbor and to him
in due the reverence accorded by a gen
erous people for the deeds of duty well
performed.
"Every organization of this command
had the honor of serving under him "
The Charlotte, N. C, Observer says
editorially: Pierre Guitave Toutant de
Beauregard, the last of the full generals
of the Confederate army surviving at the
close of the war, died at his residence in
New Orle.ns Tuesday morning, aged
75 years. He was of a distinguished
French family of Louisianaand graduat
ed from theWest Point Military Accmemy
at the age of twenty years. As lieuten
ant of engineeriog and artillery he super
vised the construction of Fort Adams at
Newport, R. I., and thence was sent to
take charge of the Louisiana fortifiei
tions. At the outbreak of the Mexican
war he built the defenses -at Tauiplco,
and in the subsequent struggle served
with distinction in the siege of Vera
Cruz and the battles of Cerro Go do,
Contreras, Chapultepec and Mexico, at
the last named being wounded, and was
successively brevetted captain and major
for gallantry and distinguished services.
After the close of the war with Mexico
Beauregard agaiu assumed charge of the
Louisiana fortifications, until in I860,
he was made commandant of the West
Point Academy, resigning this position
in the early part of 1861 to offer his ser
vices to the Confederacy. He command
ed the Southern forces at the seige of
Fort Sumter, when, after several hours
of cannonading, Maj. Anderson, the Fed
eral commander, was permitted to march
out with all the honors of war. Soon
afterwards Mr. Jefferson Davis assigned
Beauregard to the work of organizing
the Confederate army at Richmond, and
he was virtually in command of all the
forces at Bull Hun, so disastrous to the
Federal arms. Soon after he was made
general, and after the desparate wound
ing of Joseph E. Johnson in the seven
days' fights around Richmond, he was in
supreme command of the flower of South
ern soldiery, which under Robert E.
Lee, who was then confronting Rose
cranz in western Virginia became sub
sequently immortal as the Army of
Northern Virginia.
In the following year General Beau
regard was transferred to the department
of the Mississippi, and, after the de ith
at Shiloh, of tbat illustrious Albert
Sydney Johnston, took command of the
army, but was forced, by the overwhelm
ing reinforcements sent to Grant, to fall
back to Corinth. During this campaign
his. health failed and he was granted
leave of absence until August, 1862,
when he was assigned to the command
oi the forcesand defenses around Charles
ton, until April, 1864, when he was or
dered to Petersburg with all hi? available
forces, reinforcing Lee and defeating
Benj. F. Bjtler at 'Drewry's Bluff. In
the latter part of the same year he was
placed in coaimand of the department of
the South, and sus rendered with the
forces of Joseph E. Johnston at Greens
boro, N. C, in the mouth of April, 1805.
General Beauregard was incomparably
the finest military engineer and designer
of fortifications in either army of the
great conflict of 1861-'65, and perhips
had few superiors among the vast armies
of Europe. He was a bold fighter, . his
movements being characterized by the
rapidity, dash and "el m" of the. French
soldier; but he was inferior to Alb rt
Sydney Johnston as a commander and
leader of large bodie3 of men, lacked
the strategic genius of Joseph E. John
ston, the bull-dog tenacity of -Longstreet
tho?e two wonderful chieftains, Lee
and Jackson, are kf t out of this as out of
all other sketches of the services of their
comrades in the brdliant but unhappy
struggle in the Southern cause. Beaure
gard could never have been equal to
Gettysburg or the masterly retreat from
Atlanta, Ga., to Gretnsboro, N. C:
Though it was not in his nature to get
close to his men as "Marsc Robert," and
Stsnewell Jacks n, aad Jeb. Stuart, he
was the world's type of the splendid sol
dier, while not cast in the magnificent
mould of "Hancock the Superb." His
swarthy features, iron gray hair and
pointed moustache aud imperial repro
duced the pictures of the heroes of the
Pyramids, and Marengo, and Jena, and
Lodi, in the blooiy aud marvelous Na
poleonic dynasty ; and to see him, su
perbly mounted, with flashing sword, at
the head of moving mise3 of Southern
veterans was to behV.d the "magnifi
cence of war. "
Vanderbilt's Stairway.
The steamer Richmond, of the Old
Dominion Line, which sailed Friday
rom New York City for Portsmouth,
Va., carried a historic stairway which is
to be placed in the new palace built by
George W. Vanderbilt at Biltmore, near
Asheville, N. C. This stairway is very
'wide, and is of solid marble: It has been
stored in the vaults of the Lincoln Safe
Deposit Company since 1889. It is
handsomely ornamented with sphinx's
heads and other Egyptian figures. It
was bought by Mr. Vanderbilt in Egypt,
and was formerly the stairway in the
It was.brought fromEsypt to this country
four years ago.
DIXIE NEWS.
The
Beloved Sonth Gleaned
, Epitomized.
and
All the News and Occurences Printec'
Here in Condensed Form.
Harmon Rowley died near Augusta,
Qa., Thursday, 86 years of age, and
leaving an estate of $1,000,000.
The Texas Senate is considering a bill
to suppress mob violence, which provides
that damages shall be paid to anyone
maimed by a mob.
The late Geueral Beauregard was an
honorary member of the Laurens County,
S. C, Confederate Veterans' Association.
William N. Roach, who has been elect
ed Senator from North Dakota, is a na
tive of Virginia.
Willie Wesley, a white lad, was killed
on Maine street, in Aiken, S. C, by a
ball from an unknown source. It is be
lieved to have been the work of the
noisle83, deadly parlor rifl-;.
The graded schools' enrollment in
Asheville during the month of January
was 1,361. The school children are en
couraged in saving money here, and the
bank accounts of 1)2 of them amounted
to $105.
The Union 8'. ore Company of New
York, which established five Alliance
stores in South Carolina have not found
the business profit able and the agencies
have been sold out to the managers. The
reason given is that the company wanted
to do a cash business, which they could
not.
Iu Lewis Forks township, Wilkes
county, N. C, a mad do,,' bit both hands
of J. 15. Jenkins, and was killed by den
kin's father, R. W. Jenkins, while at
tacking the son. They have since been
looking for a mad stone.
The Mos mill property in Washington
county, N. C, is being converted into a
factory for the manu'acture of handle',
spokes, hubs, boxes, barrels balu-ters and
other articles to which hard wood is
adapted.
Atiornej -General Towcseud, of South
Carolina, aud Hon. J. Haudolph Tucker,
of Virginia, will have a preliminary hear
ing before the Supreme Court at Wash
ington oa the 6th of March in the habeas
corpus case of the South Carolina State
officers arrested by District Jtul e Simon
ton. They appear for the prisoners.
News is just received of a fearful gale
at Belfont Academy, McDowell county,
N. C. Fences, trees, aud house roofs
wtre swept away. No Lvcs were lost.
Co'. Hilary A. Heibert, of Alabama,
Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, was
born in Lawrenccville, S. C, and was
educated at the Universities of Alabama
and Virginia. He was Colonel of the
8th Alabama in tlu Confederate army
and served with distinction.
John Kippey, a North Carolinian, who
lias a wife living in Cleveland county,
recently wedded a Mis3 Rippy in lilacks
burg, S. C, where he is now staying.
The first wife, a daughter of Marcus Par
ker, Las not lived with her husband for
several y ars.
At Midway. S. C, thirty-two cents is
being pail for cottonseed, and some for
mers are hoi iing it at fifty cents. The
railroad officials have refused shipments
for the present until the blockade is
broken at the oi! mill3 at Columbia.
At Norfolk, Va., Wednesday, a Mr.
Felton, a lumber de.tler of Petersburg,
was robbed of $1,600 at the Novelty
Theatre by four well known spoiling
men. Three of them have been arrested
and are in ja 1. A portion of the money
has been recovered . It is supposed that
a do e of "knocker-eut" had b;cn
given Felton in a drink of whisky. Fel
ton was carried across the river to Ports
mouth by the friends of the robbers and
cannot be found.
There is a certain softness and sweet
ness in Southern manners that nppcal
very strongly to less demonstrative N01 th
eme rs. Pel haps no Southern custom is
prettier than that of having the children
of a household call a frie; dof the family
or a favorite visitor aunt, u cle, or cous
in, as the case may be. Doubtless tha
custom ha l i s origiu iu the numberless
genuine relationships of Southern life,
which led people to feel that there was a
Certain coldness in addrc-siug a guest by
a fo.mal title wheu everybody present
was addressed faurliaily or affection
ately. N. Y. S-in;
A Columbia, S. C, rape - sys that
Sunday morning John Hc-sry Cliuppsdl,
Amos Taylor and Henry Todd went to
jbutier .uanKV nome, aDout four miles
from New berry, to air. st him. He re
fused to be arrested and in mak ng the
attempt Chappell and Amos Tavlor re
ceived severe cuts fiom a knife in the
hands of Banks He put a' I four to
flight, it being asserted that his wife got
a gun and came to his rescue. The
wounds of Chappell and Taylor are do
ing well, aud the men are thought to be
out of danger. No further attempt has
been made to arrest Banks.
The little town of Unicoi, on the line
of the Chuleston, Cincinnati & Chicago
Railroid, in Tenne see, has now some
300 inhabitants. The ore mints are pre
paring to ship 150 tcs of washed ore
per day, some of which is a high grade
manganese ore. The Unicoi Inn, which
has. been completed at a cost of $30,000,
will, it is thought, be a very attractive
summ er resort and draw many people
who desire comfortable quarters in this
beautiful mount iin rvgin.
The enterprise of the Southern Cotton
Oil Co., of Columbia, S. C , is causing
favorable comment among th3 farme s of
the State. The farmers are loading their
seed as rapidly as they can obtain cars,
and buying their fertilizer at cash prices.
The receii s of cottonseed at Columbia
are larger than ever known before. Dur
ing twenty-four hours 167 cars of cotton
seed arrived in Columbia consigned to
the local oil mills, of which 106 cars
were consigned to the Southern Cotton
Oil Co., which first made the offer to
farmers to exchange cottonseed for fer
tilizers. Southern family names are scattered
across the country, below Mason and
Dixon's line, from east to west in what
geologists would perhaps call a drift,
is the West began to be settled by peo
ple from the colonial seacoast fringe,
emigration tended to go in straight 1 pes,
so thy t the names of the Virginia si ioust
nppeir in Kentucky, these of Nmth
(Jartiliuu in Tcnm -src, those of the S nth
Carolina along with Oglethorpe's eoi'k
neys in Gt -orgia. Later th.- dnft swept
westward iuto Arkansas, Mi-.-i-.Mppi, and
Ti x is In ti e progress, name h;ie been
curiously transformed. Fh niih nanus
have Lst the "van" or "de," Huguenot
nam s. w du ! her 'Flemish er uui e Freiudi.
have been awkwardly Anglicized, and
even English names have si:'Teied violent,
change.
SOUTHERN SOCIETY DINNER.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Davis
Among the Ladies Present.
New York City. The seventh an
nual hamjiiet of the Southern Society
was held at the Madison Square Garden
Wednesday nighf. About 800 promi
nent Southerners and their friends sat
down to tho banquet, and the Iioxcm wire
filled with Southern women. Mrs. Jef
feisou Davis and Miss Winnie Davis oc
cupied a box. As they entered tbeir box
the entire assembly rose and cheered for
several minutes.
The President of the society, J. II.
Parker, presided, and among those at
th". head table with him were Joseph II.
Choati-, James E. Campbell, John I).
Crimmins, Johu C. c'aThoun, Hugh 11.
Garden, Josiah Quim-y, Frederic Tavlor,
and Sfnat r Z . Vance. Among those
who had s at.s at either tables were J. C.
Haskell, John II. Inmm, Henry Villatd,
('has. Carroll Copeland, Charles F. Fray,
Charles A. Deshou, and Feicy A. Pie k
rell. The first speech was by William L.
Trcnholrn, who on behalf of George II.
Suliivan presented ti the society a copy
of the bronze bust of Algernon S. Sul
livan, its fust President, which was re
cently presented to thee ty of New York,
and is uw in the Metropolitan Museum.
The speech o( acceptance on behalf of
the society was made by Hugh 11. Gar
den. Joseph H. Cluiate responded to t lie
toast of "Washington," lie said in part:
"At last you Southerners have fairly
capturid and captivated New York, as
this brave and gay c ompany, made up of
representatives of all your States, from
Virginia to Louisiana, shows. What
syndicate i complete without you?
"To what bank, to what trust com
pany, to what storeshousi of wealth have
ou not found the key? And better far
than ail tliH is the healing that t'yne has
brought to the hearts that vere torn
asuneler and the reuowal of a common
patriotism."
Senator Vance of Nor'h Carolina re
sponded to the "Patriotism." He said
that like all oth r good thiugs patriotism
had its shams.
"There is patriotism which some men
manifest by humbly and ignobly confes
sing to the sins and shortcomings of the
land which gave them biilh. Thi is
close to treachery. Siielr n man may be
classified and han led down to contempt
as a llattcrtd Mugwump."
The other speakers we-rc Frederic Tay
lor, who responded to the "City of New
York:" ex-Gov. James E. Campbell of
Ohio- "Our Native Laid;" the Hon.
Josiah Quiucv. "American Unitv."
MISS HEWITT, ENGINEER.
The Woman Locr.motive Driver to
PuU the Throttle at the World's
Fair.
Cairo, W. Va.- Mi s Ida Hewitt, who
is said to be the oniy female loc . motive
engineer in the world, has been engaged
by the Woman Commissioners of the
World's Fair to rua the first train over
the grounds on the opening day of the
Exposition, rhe will leave here for
C icago about a week before the open
ing el ay. She is a pretty girl, and dur
ing the first trip of the engine wiil wear
the costume of a Spanish girl of the four
teenth century. In reply to a proposi
tion made to Miss Hewitt, to become a
member of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tives Kngineers, it is reported that the
ie, lied that while the could not tiud it
in her heart, to become a brother to them
t-he would be a sister as long as she lived.
The Commissioners are said to have had
a great de d of trouble inducing her to
run the engine at the Fair, as she shtank
from appearing as "a sort of a freak."
The 10 id upon which Miss Hewitt is
i o.v ruuning regularly is the Cairo and
Little Kami Aha and is a feeder for the
Baltimore and Ohio at Cairo from the,
luiu'nr districts. It is owned mostly
by the gitl's father, a man of wealth.
Her c tiling do.s not seem to make her
unwomanly. She i popular socially and
is a model housekeeper.
The Po.toffica Clerks.
An order ha? been i-suel pr ov ding fcr
esa nination to be held at all the free
delivery offices in North Carolini on the
7th of March. These offices are Raleigh,
Wi'mington, Winston, Asheville, Char
lette, Durham and Greensboro. Tlu ex
aminations of thc'te, as well a- at the
Norfolk and Alexandria offices, will be
conducted by local examining boaids
who have for somo we.-ks been undergo -it,g
a course of preparation at the hands
of traveling examiners sent out by the
Civil Servi: e Commission.
The total Dumber of postal employees
affected bv the executive order of Jan
uary 5tb, "in North Carolina, are 06, and
a e distributed c.s follows: Abbeville,
13; Charlotte, H; Duiham. 7; Gieens
boro, 10; Ha'eigh, 18; Wilmington, 17;
Winston, 17.
'1 be number of free delivery offices in
Virgiuia, coming under the operation of
thi. amendment, is somewhat larger,
agg,- giiing Ml. As to location as follow.-:
A'cxandria, 10; Charlottesville,
10;DAnvil'e 11; Lynchburg, 18; Nor
folk, 40; Petersburg, 15; Portsmouth,
10; Koanokc, 17; r-faunton, 10.
A ITOTABLK EXCEPTION.
Codling (tenderly quoting)-" tl tin
world loves a lover."
Miss Munn The rule has its ex; op
tion 3.
Codling Aw? .
3i'0s Munn Yes. Sometirnest he girl
0en't.
IIARD FATE.
Little Dot Oh, dear! I wish I wasn't
Teacher --You do? Why? '
Little Dot 'Cause I like to sit with tu?
boys. -Good News,