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1 mum D. M. BE ALE, Editor. VOL. XII. "In Eateot&b: nitj In Hon.-Eitnto Bberty la Ail Thino CWtr POTECASI, NORTHAMPTON CO., N. C, JAN. 29, 1891, i. f I 'I t !' -' - - v - .': 1 . 1 r MB : ' '" I i i uutKVUU 1IVH. fUW MVS 1W, i t - -zr h- 1 NO. 39 I 'I f I - : u- I I SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. I I Happenings of Importance For A Week. Dwellers In City and Country Get a Write-XJp Here Free of Charge, ana No Questions Asked. NORTH CAROLINA. Another cotton factory is to b? built at Buffalo pajK.r mills, Cleveland county. Stajcsville organizes a Luud Develop ment and improvement company. Lieutenant .1. B. Hughes, who hu9 been instructor of tactics at Bingham school, Orange county, has gone to Fort Grant,, under orders from the war de partment. Senator Zebulou B. Vance was re-elected, receiving the full Democratic vote of the Legislature, Stepj are being taken by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce to hold a great Southern exposition at that place. ' A new charter has been granted Triui ty College by the North Carolina Legisla ture. This allows its removal to Dur ham and increases its board of trustees to thirty-six, of which the t wo Methodist Episcopal conferences in the State choose twelve each, while the alumui choose four. The Work of the brown-stone quarry has br0Ught to Sanford quite a nnmber of foreigners. Nearly all of these stone cutters are from France, and. nearly all of them are belOw the average stature. As u rule, they fire very ien,erved and well behaved. Governor Fowle commissioned Julian E. Wood, of Elizabeth City,, colonel of the First. Itegiment of North Carolina Stale Guard, and W. T. Howell, of ? (Joldsboro, major. An appeal to the supreme court of the 'United States in the suit of Baltzer and Roaks, of New 'oik against the State of North Carolina, which was decided ad versely to plaintiffs by the State supreme couit, v.( eil'-ted. at Kak-'igh. T1k case involves $140,000, and is to get payment for iron furnished the Chatham Bail way Company. The report of the Slate Superintendent of Public Instruction for the last fiscal year shows that,- iii the matter of private schools the county of Granville is far in the lead of any CDunty in the Srate. This county reports fifty-seven private schools, lifty-three of which ars for whites and four colored. The House in session at Raleigh adopt ed a resolution favoring a repeal of the tax on the State National Banks. In the Senate a lively discussion was created over a bill to increase the penalty for car rying concealed weapous to $30 or thirty days in jail, which linally passed the sec ond reading. OXJTH CAROLINA. Rev. .1 A. Sligh, of Newberry, re ceived the appointment of railroad com missioner to succeed the late Gen. Bon ham, thus completing the commission. The French government has abolished the office of Frauch vice consul at Charleston. State Treasurer Bates moved into the Treasurer's office at the State Capital last Wednesday, having been occupying tem porarily a corridor office, while the official chamber was undergoing repairs. The wife and child of the Treasurer are still quite ill. The town of Goldville, on the Colum bia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, in Laurens county, way almost totally de stroyed by tire Monday, There was an explosion of powder that injured several leople. The place has just been biult Muce the new road was opened, and has flourished in that lime. Columbia'. new daily paper will place its lirstj issue before the people of the State by the middle of February. Emma Abbott the swett opera siuoer who dietl last week bequeathed a lega cy of $50.00u to the Citadel Square Baptist church of Charlestou. The inieroutfonal pet aud poultry show at Charleston was n great success There were over 2, 000 entries of poultry and 107 dogs. At the Wedu'odav's session of the Sinking Fund Commission in Columbia, the Secretary of State nominated D. m! Means for chief clerk of the public land department, and Col. .lames G. Gibbes for abandoned land agent, and thev were elected by the commission. The"loard intends to vigorously press the collection of debts due the State for prior liens, and has 'concluded that under the existiu" laws it has the right to bring suits to a sert the State's prior and confessed lieu on land for tnxev cmis and penalties ac crued prior to J- A. Nonis has leen appointed post master at Stateburg. Sumter county. tvii' U, ? IIi!1 general ma.r of t he i narleston &.Savunah rail war," was elected vice pn-id, ut of the plant In- vestment Co., to fiP the vacancy occasion ed by the death of Judge W. S. Chisolm. FLORIDA. The KissjmrGce sugar mill is turning out a fine quality of sugar and running day and night. Ground is broken and work under way at Punta Gorda upon a large, ice 'factory, the daily product of which wjtl be twenty five tons. . ' Bartow has new Irish potatoes and will soon have all kinds of fresh vegetables of home growing. V. J. Shipman,' leceiver of the land of fice, Gainesville, says there are over 8, .000,000 acres of land in the State yet sub ject to homestead, also that the past year has been the busiest the office has ever known. Over 12,000 settlers have "proven up." The Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic railroad is advertised for sale under a foreclosure of mortgage. The F. C. &. P. is reachiag out for this persimmon. The forty-seventh session of the Flori da conference of the M. E. church, South, met in Month ello, Bishop W. W. Dun can presiding. Among the the venerable men of the body was Rev. S. Wood ber ry, who for lift y-two years has been pre-,-ent .-tt the opening session of the confer ence. At Tampa the other day Sam .Joaes said to his audience of four hundred peo ple : "If the devil and Jesus Christ were to run for office in this place, his satanic majesty would get live votes to .Christ's one if people voted as they live, I mean. Wouldn't he, liowr'' (Here he appealed to the ministers and a voice replied: He'd get a majority, sure.) Commissioner Turnbull says that it is high time that public interest was awakeued in the matter of having Florida properly represented at the World's fair. I he legislators have a .serious problem on their hands. They must keep taxes down lor their constituents and still appropri ate money liberally for the general good liobeit Miller, of the Atlanta Real E tate Exchange, is in Flordu closing up a big deal in phosphate lauds for an Eng lish vi:.i:tte. About $13,000 ! i volved in the' deal. VIRGINIA. The Free Masons of Manchester a?o preparing to build a three 'story lodge. The exploding of a saw-mill boiler r,t Iron Gate killed John Heudersou, lm son and a negro named Reubin WillR and, totally destroyed the engine. Governor McKiuney issued a requisi tion for "Judge" A. B. Eat. now in the District of Columbia. East is charged with forgery and altering a , negotiable note purporting to be signed bv one H. T. Ea.st. He has been taken to Rich mond for trial. ? At Lynchburg a thirteen-year-old son e Councilman J. D. Suliivan, while walking on the street, laid his hand on a guy wire from an electric pole and was instantly killed. A companion, who en deavored to release Sullivan from the wire, wasiknocked down, but escaped in jury. ? Gov. MpKinney has received a copy o.' resolutions from the Lunenburg county Alliance j: rotesttng the calling of an ex tra session of the Legislature. The reso lutions stated that the Alliance was op posed "to any settlement of the State debt for any greater amount than was agreed upon by both political parties in the Riddleberger act." The Synod of Virginia in Lvnchburg appointed Revs. H. H. Hawes and D. A. Penick to conduct evangelical work. That an English syndicate will shortl locate a steel plant with a capital o th ree million dollars in the State aud somewhere within a radius of two' hun dred miles of Lynchburg. The capital ists are experienced men in that line, having been long engaged in the stee. manufacture in Sheffield, England, and the exact location of the enterprise will greatly depend upon the action of the laud compauies here as well as of monied meu. TENNESSEE. Alice MacGowan, of Chattanooga, is a j new syndicate writer whose articles are j popular. Her letter and sketches deal 1 with southwestern .life as it is. Mrs Amelia Towusend McTyeire, wid ow of Bishop McTyeire, of the South Methodist church died Wednesday morn ing at Nashville. She was a relative of the Vanderbilts, and was instrumental in getting the endowment of Yauderbilt Uni versity. Bishops Keene and Fitzgerald will assist at the funeral. ArthurS. Colyar, Jr., of Nashville, whose escapades dtiriug the past few years have greatly grieved his familv, and attracted wide attention, has been adjudged insane by the circuit court at Manchester, Coffee county, and ordered to the asylum for the insane. There will be no strike on the Nashville i: Chattanooga railroad. An amicable settlement was reached at the final con ference between the officials and the em ployes' committee. A bill has been introduced in the Leg- islature providing for the calling of a Constitutional Convention, bv Ralph Da vis. A press dispatch from Columbia says: Captain J. H. Andrews and Lewis Lands down, two prominent citizens, met in front of the Second National bank and began discussing appoint upou whith An drews had been sued by Landsdown. Af ter a few heated words, Andtews drew a pocket knife and cut Landsdown's throat severing his jugular. A physician hap pened to be uear, and through his imme diate efforts Landsdown's life was pro longed for a short while, but he finally bled to death. Ex-Governor Taj lor will now reside in Chattanooga and is not particular wheth er he pleases the haughty Nash vidians or not, especially. TShe current rumor is, that there have been times when he re ceived ,'noiie too much consideration at the hand- ol the aristocrats of that straight -laced old city. John r. Buchauan was last week de clared by the legislature duly and consti tutionally eleeted governor of Tennessee for the en.Miing two years. He was in augurated Saturday. Gov. Taylor deliv ered hib'tvtiring address, after which the oath of othYe was administered to Mr. Buchanan bv Chief Justice Turney, of the Supreme t'ourt. Gov. Buchanan "then delivered his inaugural address. GEORGIA. Hie Uiaul of education has opened a night chool at Savannah, which is in session three nights a week. A policeman dare not take a drink while aa duty in the streets of Albanv. They are not allowed to eater a barrooiniJ while on .1uty. uuleJ called in on official businei-. f ' T A new bill passed by the last Legisla ture, has ken agitating the people of Rome a 5400 I deal lately, and especially the t-ir 3 rouncil. It provides for the creation of the office of recorder and Com bines that office with that of city attor nej', making one man both judge and city attorney. hi h is. of course, impossible. The bridge ith Georgia, Carolina and Northern va!JS5S4-. across the Salau- -hahmrHL-f ,Ml5 puAcdtoBJm- pletiou.ir 0 s&f built of trie ibest wrought v s are four in ber. Augusta's Cottton Imposition aud car nival began Tuesday. A mortgage has ken filed iu: Rich mond county Superior Court, at Augus ta, for $6,000,000 (in the Augusta and West Florida Railroad. The Mercantile Trust Company of New York, is trustee. The mortgage provides for $15,000 per mile. Tweury-tive uales are graded from Augusta toward Thouiasville. N. BGriffin has liiade quite a valuable discovery on his place near Rome. He has found a vein of lead and silver com bined about 50 per cent, silver. It is cut in two by the Oostanaula river, and at that point is fourteen feet wide by fif teen thick. Mr. Griirin has refused an of fer of $50,000 by a Chattanooga party. He says he wouldn't take $100,000 for it. There is an old Indian legend of a silver mine iu the vicinity. OTHER STATES. The cotton crop of Alabama is valued at $50,000,000. Rev. Mr. Finger, :t Methodist minister, ran for Governor on tie Republican tick et in the last Arkan-as election. He has now been suspended f(Jr six months by his Bishop for goiuy into politics. Smallpox is on tLj increase in Texas, and at several points appears to be assum ing an epidemic form. The Governor has ordered thi State Health Officer to Aus tin, aud he will make that place hi? headquarters uutil the disease abates. Bishop John P. Newman, . who is one of the bst known Methodist divines and educators iu the. couutry. will be a promi nent figure at the quarter-centennial Methodist jubilee that is soon to be hed iu New Orleans. He will speak on "The Future of the Negro Race" a subject which he is particularly fitted to discuss, as much of his work ha been among the colored people of the South. The heavy snows up north make is very probable that the lower Mississippi region will have a tremendous flood this spring. It is feaied that the uow wxl thaw and cause the river to rise before the new le vees can be completed. The Postmaster General has abolished the office at Catherine, Ala., owing to the recent trouble there. Four thousand miners at Pratt Mines, A1 a., have returned to work. Colonel Daniel fenuett, a well-known agriculturalist writer, died at Brookkaven, MUa., the other day. He was at one time the associate editor of the New Or leans Picayune. What Koch's Lymph Is. Berlix. Cable report just- pobh t jProf. Koch describing tin. composition of b-J tively brief. It y lrmnh, is com para - etbe Ijjnph consists of glvcenne, and fSiraci uivmeu irom tubercle bsccilU, a pun: cultivation o! ALLIANCE T0PIC& ilie Southern Farmers Opportunity And Duty, j An Exposition of What Cosiatitutea a Prosperous Country; Skilled Labor is Wealth. By the operation of nature's laws this year would seem destined to be the turn ing point in the financial condition bf the great mass of the farmers of the world. For years past the price of the products of the farm has been gradually decreas ing, and the decrease has been intensified by the abunbance of the crops raised, not only here but iu all the great cereal -growing countries of the world. The ef fect of this decreased value has been to materially reduce the area planted to ce reals; but this reduction alone would not have been sufficient to cause any substan tial rise in the value of crops, bad it not been that uatuie had come to man's assis tance, and by climatic causes, operating not only here but almost throughout the world, caused a material reduction in the crop yields, sufficient, we believe, tc cause a near approximation to supply and demand, and to lift from the market that overwhelming surplus which whilst it ex ited surely prevented a rise in value. We Hie now in receipt of the returns of the year s crops from the principal producing countries of the world, and an examiua don ol them yields some startling results. Taking this country first, we tiud that there will be a probable decrease of f 15, 000,000 to 120.000,000 bushels of wheat below the crop of 188S; corn will show a decrease of about 600,000,080, and ' oat will yield less by probably 300,000,000 bushels than last year. Addipg these three staples together, we have a gross deficiency of 1,020,060,000 bushels of grain in this country alone. The return from England show that she will need t. import quite as much wheat as last year, say 144,000,000 bushels. France, also will need to import from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels. Indeed, the whole of..Fiu PA..lij together, HviU r4Hti tfitTrf H- t about 20,000,000 bushels. The rUnWr was r Sunday hrnll aiiiifim- import Indian wheat harvest is officially reported at 13 per cent, below the average of the last five years, with a decrease in area of 1,500,000 acres and in yield 955, 000 tons. With such figures as these before him no one can doubt but there must be a sub stantial increase in the value of all the cereals during the winter, and we are strongly of opinion that this will be a permanent increase, as the shortage will, from the natural increase in population and decrease in the area of available land, be a permanent one that is to say, that even giving good average crops, the sur plus having been swept away by thit year ! of diminished production, supply .nnd demand will continue for some years to nearly balance each other, and so a permanent higher level of prices will be maintained. Now here is the Southern farmers' opportunity, anil he should make haste to seize it. In this and the adjoin ing Southern States w;e have had rathe; -trder an average wheat crop, but we have an abundant corn crop. Let, then, every farmer economize in the use oi wheat and corn, and hold them as long as he can conveniently. Usually corn is extravagantly fed here and other equally valuable feeds are neglected, or, if used at all, only to a very small extent. Bran, cotton seed, and cotton seed meal may with great economy be substituted for a part of the corn ration for horses, cattle and hogs. Bran will no doubt advance in price, but may yet be bought so as to save money when compared with corn. The cotton crop being a large one, cotton seed and cotton seed meal is likely to bit cheap and ought to be used freely. In this way corn may be saved and money le made by its sale whilst the head of pay ing stock on the farm need not be reduc ed. Market all stock in excess of what tan be well and profitably fed at once, and do not waste an ounce of corn upon them. Southern Planter. I -i K 4, 1 SKILLED LA BOB IS WEALTH. The South in natural products is with out a rival, says the Constitution. All the world utilizes her raw material for commerce and manufacturers. But the raw material alone cannot make any section rich. We have inex haustible fields of iron, but the crude iron is comparatively of little value. It takes skilled labor to make it count. A single iron bar worth $5. worked into horse shoes is worth $10.50; made into needles it is worth $355. and made into balance springs of watches it is worth $250,000! . This is an example of what skilled la bor can do. Then we have cotton. A Iale is worth about $50. Skilled labor comes along and turns it into calico worth $250, or into the finest lace worth $10.000 1 We might go on indefinitely on the line, but these two illustrations show how the value of a crude product is multiplied when skilled labor takes bolu of it. Here in the South we are jut entering upon our march ot industrial progress Our greatest need i to nave our properly trained. The technological school is Georgia's latest effort in that direction. With the judicious support of the State it will open for our brainy and ambitious young men brighter, more useful and more profitable fields in devel oping our material resources than any profession can offer. Honey spent on this school will be a good investment. It wilt train up an arm? of workers who will turn our iron and cotton and other raw material into thousands of useful and beautiful forms that will make this the richest spot on the globe. Alliance Re cord. " SORT OF NAPOLEON OP FINANCE. Ex-Counsellor Crawl Hypnotized a Cashier and Squanders Thousands. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 21. Ex-Coiin sellor H. Webster Crawls has succeeded . in making a reputation as a sort of local "Napoleon of Finance,,, by a series of ingenious transactions. Mr. Crawls has been extensively engaged in land specn lations, aud failed several mouths ago, owing several hundred thousand doilsrs. Ou Monday afternoon, at a "meeting of the stockholders of the Franklin bank, it was learned from President Baker tlat Crawl had overdrawn his account ou thai bank upward of $100,000. Further thau 'his. the bank holds Mr. Crawl's paper to in extent to increase his indebtedness to the bank to $11,900. President Baket said Crawl was enabled to overdraw hie '.n count through the incapacity aud uu trusfwoithiuess of Cashier Gardner, who had leen dismissed. Mr Baker, iu reply to a question as to .thether he thought Gardner had made iii vihiug out of the transactions, replied ;hat he thought not, but he could uot ac count for the cashier's action except on the ground that Crawl had hypnotized him.- What Crawl did with the money he picked up around town is a mystery to those who know him. He borrowed right and left, subscribed for stock, gave his note for it, aud then hypothecated it : mortgaged the same property twice, and, iu fact, wherever be could pick up a liollnr ltf if an ond that was tVto lftt tendent, and Crawl was a pillar of the church. The Solid South. .The Charleston News andX'ouner says: The Hon. Hugh McCulloch sent a letter of regret to be read at the Emancipation Day celebration at Alexandria. Va., in which he said : ' 'The South will cease to be politically solid when the colored vote is divided, as it will be when the voters do their own thinking nnd vote accord ing to their party feelings and principles. The whites have always been divided, ami pretty evenly divided, upon political questions when not united in defending common rights. So will the blacks when freed from outside pressure. They will become memlnirs of the two great political parties into which the country has ever leen divided. Some will be Republicans and some Democrats. To neither party are they indebted for their freedom. This was Ixstowed as a mili tary necessity to save the Union, and it should be used for the common good and reservation of free institutions. As they lecome independent voter they will stand practically as well a legally in po litical equality with the whites " THE OYSTER PRESERVES. North Carolina Will Fight, if Neces sary, Against Intruders. Raleigh, N. C., Special. The leg isluture passed unanimously a bill em powering Governor Fowle to use the mil itary or other force in protecting the State's oyster interests, and authorizing him to expend a sum not to exceed $15, 000 for the purpose of putting a stop to the piracy. The bill prohibits the taking of oysters by any other means than ordi nary tongs, and forbids all use of dredges and drags. Ample authority is given for the arrest of offenders aud the seizure of vessels engaged in the depredations in the uysterbeds. Members from all parts of the State are heartily in favor of prompt action, which will betaken. For the Colored 761k. Mr. Teller introduced in the Senate Wednesday, at the request of the Afro American Colonization Society of Wash ington, D. C. a bill for the relief of the American colored man. The bill appro priates $50,OO,OOO, to secure Isnd in South California; transportation and sub sistance for the, permanent settlement of the colored people of the United 8tte. to be returned to the government with interest in forty years. The Horth Carolina TJstoat. Raleigh, N. C, 8pecisl. The grand lodge of Maa-ons, of North Carolina, met at Raleigh in their lMth annual conven tion. Officers were elected as fellows: Grand Master, II. A. Gudger; Deputy Grand Master, Jobs W. Cotton; Senior Grand Warden, F. M. Move ; Junior Grand f I Warden, Dr. R. N. Noble: Grand getn Ubor tArJ D W. Bain. C -4 . f If .t f 1 0 ."If i t-- ! 1
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