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VOLUME 24.
HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1893.
NUMBER 30-
STATE NEWS.
HAY K)K EIROl'E.
UK YVOKK 'EM IT.
POLICY OF TIIK fKESIHEST.
GENERAL NEWS.
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V. E. -.Goldsborough was accused by
ilic wifc nf oiie.J. A. Boliek a fireman
n the ' V. N. C. Kail road of insulting'
jir. ami was handsomely thrashed by
the husband in Salisbury.
The Charlotte Observer -of last Sun
day publishes a news letter from Hiek
orv. We are very much obliged to the
ob.-erver for so kindly mentioning our
.Mightful and prosperous town.
The X. C. liailroad proposes to put
a monument to Hon. Calvin Graves,
v,h-e fasting vote as President of the
State Senate, secured an appropriation
o the road. It is to b? at Greensboro
We notice that our .esteemed Ex
change, the Henderson villje. Times, has
' been sold by the late proprietor and
I-Mitor J. I). Davis, to Messrs. C M.
Kenyon and T. K. I)avis, both for the
past four years residents of -Washington
D. J. We cordially welcome them
to the newspaper fraternity, and wish
heui abundant success. ,
s MCI NO SUM.
A ret Agreement to This ISelween
iiance and Kngland.
L Nix x. .1 uly 22; It is reported to
day tlmt a secret agreement exists be
tween l' ranee and England to slice up
S i a 1 j 1 and help' themselves to territory
and treasure on both sides of the Me
Konir river.
The agreement is.that India shall oc
cupy the Shah states and. France shall
take tlie territory on the left bank of
?he MeKong in Siam, or all the lower
MeKong valley.
Su-uii is willing to pay indemnity but'
will' -not give, up this rich territory
without a struggle. As the French
will soon be reinforcrd by ships and
Wions from, home, and .as England
and Rns-ia both sids with France, they
will have little trouble in taking all
the territory wanted.
The French vessels are "prepared for
action to ilay if tha.ultiuiatum is not
accepted. -
A Travesty in J'olitios.
LaGuasuk, X. C, July 20. Spe
cial. 'The citizens of this town have
struck upon a novel plan to settle who
1 1; 1 1 be postmaster. The aspirants
have tried the virtue of petitions and
their friends mlluenee, but there seems
to.-be a hitch somewhere. However,
to relieve Congressman Woodard of
the 'responsibility and settle the mat
ter the shortest yay they have agreed
that when the Confederate veterans
meet here the 4tlf of August next they
are to have a shooting match, and the
man or womaii that "drives the cross"
N to have the office. Mr Woodard
and Capt. Grainger, chairman of the
county executive committee, will be
invited to attend and keep the score for
the boys Raleigh Observer.
The best authorities now estimate
that the House of Representatives will
pass the bill repealing the Sherman
Silver Purchase law by a majority of
fifty, and probably seventy-live. v In
the Senate there may be '-depended on
for repeal the twelve votes of 'New
England. theteight votes of the Middle
States though the two Senators from
Pennsylvania voted, for free coinage
last 'Congress the twelve votes of
Ohio. Indiana. .Illinois, Iowa,-Wisconsin
and Michigan-and the four votes
.of Maryland and West Virginia a to
tal of thirty-six, or within nine of a
majority of a fidl Senate. Minnesota
and -Washington are depended upon to
give at least three, and probably four,
votes for repeal; California will gire
at least one.. Louisiana one certainly,
Kentucky one, and probably two,
w hile Tennessee and Georgia are de
pended on for, one each, ami probably
two each, t n the whole, it looks as
though repeal would go through the
Senate by. a '-pronounced majority.
Several votes counted for repeal are
not taken in the above calculation
Mills, Coekrill ami the two Senators
from -Mississippi.'-
In theory Walter Q. Gresham was
President of. the' United States for a
day. last Monday, says the Chicago
Herald. Mk. Cleveland was on board
Mr. Benedict's yacht off the coast q
Massachusetts ami Mr. Stevenson was
on shipboard off the California' coast,
and both were outside the jurisdiction
os the -United States, each being more
than three marine league from shore.
This country would not suffer if
Gresham were President four years, or
even eight. Louisville Times.
A Scarcity of Forae ii Kurope Causes a
Jiig Demand on the United stales.
The farmers throughout the country
have been tumbling- over each other
during the last few weeks to get the :
hay which thev have held over from i
last season into market. Not so much
so in Hickory, but throughout the
L'nited States. The occasions when ;
American farmers have been called to
supply foreign countries with hay
have been so rare that this year will
proTe a phenomenal one in tin1 lives of
the farmer. 1
The first news that Europe was
short of hay, and that the United
States was depended upon to relieve
her distress reached the United States
early in May. It did not spread rapid
ly, and the demand was not supplied.
American Consuls abroad then began
to inquire of the Agricultural Depart
ment if the hay crop xvas short here'
or if there was a lack of desire to ship
hay abroad. Foreign legations in this
country also began to receive inquiries
concerning the forage here.
When the Hews at last began to
spread that Europe wanted hay it
spread with lightning rapidity. It was
a situation for which thousands of far
mers had been waiting many years.
It has been the custom to send a limi
ted quantity of hay to market in the
summer and early fall and store the
rest in the hope that it would be worth
$20"a ton,' an increase of 2 to $ over
usual rates. On several occasions this
has happened. Even, in their wildest
dreams they never hopad to get $30 a
ton, and when the news that Europe
was waiting for their surplus stock
reached them their anxiety to supply
the demand can be imagined.
Hundreds of tons of hay from Iowa,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Indiana, Ken
tucky and other States have been
pouring into New York, Baltimore,
Norfolk and other seaboard ports.
Tramp steamers have-been loading at
some of the Brooklyn wharves for some
weeks, and many shiploads already
have been landed abroad. Sf ill the
cry comes that more is wanted.
The fact that the first demand xvas
not made known until several xveeks
after the lack of forage throughout
Europe grew pressing created consider
able distress there, especially in France.
In both England and France the price
was frequently as high as $50 a ton.
It has been reported that the lack of
forage in France has necessitated the
slaughter of a large number of cattle to
prevent them from suffering from lack
of food.
A representative of the big commis
sion house of AVilliamson Rickerson
of New York says that judging by the
way the American farmers are striving
to supply the foreign demand for hay,
Europe would soon have what she
needs. "All the 'hay in the market'
he said, "is last year's crop. None of
this year's hav has come in yet. The
immense quantities, coming here show
how the farmers have been hanging on
to it. We are getting queries from
farming districts in almost every sec
tion asking us how much we can sell
hay for, and if we can get more for it.
Market men who have nexer hereto
fore paid much attention to hay are
buying it in this city for from $17 to
$20 a ton, and sending it abroad. We
have been getting $30 a ton for it
abroad, and the persons to whom it is
consigned pay the freight, which is
about slu a ton. This makes it cost
them ,4t, and by the time the consu
mers get it the price must reach the
neighborhood of $50 a phenomenal
price."
The eauso'of the scarcity of the for
eign crop of fodder as they call it, or
forage, is said to diave been the dry
weather last year. The same condi
tion of affairs exists this year. A if they
doubted this, the tanners are busy un
loading all their old hay. and thous
ands of tons are pouring into every
ort where it can be shipped. Still in
this country no scarcity of forage is
threatened, because the yield this year
promises to be big enough to supply
every demand made upon it.
Meantime the fanners of our sntion
here in North Carolina should save
every pound of hay this year they jos
tdblvean. China Take a Hand.
TlKN TVlx, Chixa, July 20. Ad-
vices received here this morning from
Peking state that China has deter
mined to help Siam in her trouble.
Siam pays tribute to China, and the
Chinese Government and feet will re
sist the attack of the French vessels.
Chicago
Hotel.
Starts a Whole
There is stopping at the Great
Northern an old countryman who was
in former years an intimate acquaint
ance of Col. Say, the night clerk. He
went out to the hotel some time after
midnight feeling a bit frisky as he had 1
sampled many kinds of "corn juice"
during the day. Presuming upon his
acquaintance with the night clerk, he
opened the gate and xvent behind the
counter to show the clerk how to attend
to his business. While Col. Say's at
tention was called away the old fellow
sat down on a stool behind the count
er and innocently leaned his broad
and weary back against, about thirty
of the push-buttons of the annuncia
tor. An electric wire com eels tr.vse- but
tons in the rooms above xvith gongs
xvhieli make a peculiar and astonish
ing amount of noise, especially xvhen
they start suddenly after midnight
and keep up the racket xvithout cessa
tion. Well, xvhen the old man leaned
his back against the annunciator the
noise began upstairs, but, of course, he
didn't hear it, so he continued to sit
there and push the buttons. Many
people had left calls so as to catch
their trains. They got up and began
to dress, but .they couldn't imagine
whx the deafening noise continued af
ter they had pushed the button in re
sponse to signify that they xvere up.
The others xvere panic stricken. The
halls were soon filled xvith men ami
women in all kinds of dishabille. Each
door as it xvas opened let an addition
al noise into the, hall. With the oaths
of the men and the screams of the xvo
uien it seemed a perfect bedlam. Peo
ple became mixed up and got into the
rooms xvith others xvhom they had
never seen.
One man after the scare xvas over,
never discovered that he was in the
xvrong room until, petting in bed, he
almost mashed a "baby. Of course
there xvas a rush for the office. The
clerk opened his eyes and grabbed his
gun as every body fired questions -at
him at once. He said heconldn't ex
plain it that they must be crazy.
Then he looked around and saw the
old chump sitting on tho stool with an
innocent. insane. toothless smile
stretching accross his sun-bronzed
face. Col. Say pulled him up by the
collar and told him xvhat ht had been
doing.
"Well, I'll be darned," was all he
said then, but as the people started
upstairs, he said: "I'm sorry I dis
turbed the good people,. but who'd ha
believed that darn board could make
all that noise xvhen it only had a man's
back aleaning against it." Then he
went over and began to push a white
spot on the new postal-box. He
thought he was ringing for the eleva
tor. "
Silver Refused.
CilUWJiO, July 24. Notice was pos
ted to-day in the United States sub
Treasurv to the effect that silver
would not be received. During the
day many employes of hanks brought
in sacks of the white metal to get cur
rency in exchange, but they had to
shoulder their loads and go again as
they came. There is more silver lying
around uncounted. behind the rails of
the sub-Treasury than the force can
handle.
On every shelf and in piles on the
floor, canvas sacks Idled with dollars
'and other coins' are -taeked up until
there is hardly room to get about.
"We are unable to handle the big
amount of silver we have on hand."
said one of the officials, "ami until it
can be all. counted and cleaned up we
will not receive any more over the
counter. For some time past great
quantities of silver have been brought
here by banks to be exchanged for cur
rency, until the amount has ln-come
greater than xve can handle, and xve
have had to call a teiuorarv halt.
This is all there is to the matter."
"Bill" Breckenridge of Kentucky,
said to be a silver-tongued orator
(whatever that appellation in the pres
ent exL:neies of th? emergency. asCol.
I ';!!'ii"tt Lgai "vo'tld say may mean)
j aiidHon. Judre Horr. f Michigan. met
in joint debate on :!.e raging Chatau-
j qna stuiup.ior soin' other appropriate
place) ifi Atlanta Ga., recently and
discussed the tariff. We guesjs the
question is settled. It however, fur
nishes us with the problem before us,
that we are in favor of "Reform,'' what
eTer that i.
A Stranger In
Tin Shf nr.an Law SIut He Itf pealed Un
conditionally. New York, July 2:5. The World is.
enabled to-day toannounce authorita
tively the immediate policy of Presi
dent Cleveland and his administration
in regard to the approaching sjecial
session of Congress. Breilly, it will be
as follows:
First, silver reform by the absolute
and unqualified repeal of the Sherman
law; second, tariff reform to be pros
ecuted in accordance with the pledges
of the party, as stxm as, but not lefore,
the linances of the country are again
upon a stable basis.
Mr. Cleveland is annoyed and exas
perated at the unexpected interference
with his tariff reform plans, but he is
not -discouraged. He proposes to meet
the silver question in the same straight
forward manner that has character
ized his lumdlhigof tariff matters.
Mr. Cleveland's advice to the coming
special session of Congress will be for
the repeal at? once of the Sherman silv
er law. He believes that any compli
cations of this issue with amendments,
substitutes or similar propositions, will
be detrimental to the purposes of the
repealing acf, which are not so much
for the purpose of working any instant
change in the financial system of the
country as for the restoration of busi
ness confidence throughout the laud.
From information at his command,
Mr. Cleveland has no doubt that his
policy will be adopted by the House
of Representatives, after discussion
and consideration. It is in the Senate
that the trouble will come.
What will follow the repeal is a
matter that will not be injected into
the resent fight, if the administra
tion has its way. That further finan
cial legislation will be needed, the
President considers probable, but
what its nature hall be is a matter
for future determination. The first
thing to be done is'to clear the ground;
When that is done, the question of
construction can be considered on an
intelligent basis.
A Freak of Light nitiy;.
Waykuly, Neb., July 1J. During
a severe storm about i o'clock lat eve
ning a bolt of lightning struck close to
the Lutheran parsonage, and soon af
terwards a strange frothy-like sub
stance was discovered oozing out of th
ground and forming a heap of foam
nearly as large as a water bucket,
about eight feet from the house. Ex
amination showed it to be the" place
'xv here the lightning had entered the
ground, boring a smooth hole about 3
inches in diameter down in an exactly
perpendicular direction. A cord with
a weight attached was lowered to the
bottom and it measured 2 feet, with
2i feet of water. For several hours- a
strong o(kr was emitted, which, how
ever, finally disappeared. Experiments
were made by dropping down ebbles
which produced a distinct r splashing
sound in the water. The strange well
has been xisited by large numlers
of curious people.
The liat hath gone forth in England
calling the xvhite stockings back into
vogue,, writes Eugene Field. England
is always and forever 'making a mess,
and when it comes to fashions in fem
inine apparel England is particularly
infelicitous. urretty tasteful fash
ions all come from Pan's. White stock
ings have never gone out in Germany:
tabooed elsewhere, they have con
tinued in favor "with the ax, rage
Teuton frau. And in England the
older lailie- have continued to wear
white cotton hosiery, it i well known,
we think that Mrs. Gladstone has
never incased h-r nether limbs in any
but white cotton stockings. But the
white stocking is a horror an offense
unmitigated and 'not to be palliated.
Let England decree or do what she
pleases, she can not win or drive us
back "to the ridiculous old heresy, the
absurd alomination of white hosiery.
The one article of feminine dress in
which man's taste is properly deeiued
infallible is the hosiery, ami in Ameri
ca mankind is a unit against the white
ftocking.
Iron VjitiBjg Card.
In Berlin, instead of pa.stebard. iron
visiting cards are used. They are dead
black in color, of the usual sire, and
the name is engraved in silver. The
pieces are so thin that more of them
can be packed into a card -case than of
the paper ones.
China promises helplo Siam, Russia
promises help to France. England
xvaits to see which side will pay her
best in territory.
France claims the left, that is, the
Eastern bank of the great Mekong riv
er iu Siam, xvithout setting any defi
nite bounds as to how far North or
East she will go.
Congressman W. C. Breckinridge of
Ky. who was reported as engaged to
Miss Madeline Breckinridge Pollard of
Lexington, has just married'' Mrs.
Louise Scott Wing, of Louisville Ky.
Miss Pollard was a clerk in the Interi
or department at Washington, and
made the then famous remark on Gen.
Sherman's death, that the devil had
gotten his own. i
The Nawab of Rampuc the Hindoo
princeling who has reached Chicago
in his tour of the. world, is only seven
teen years old, but he is reputed to be
a highly accomplished youth and one
of the most intelligent of the under
rulers of India. He is very rich and
possesses many rare and cosily jewels.
The Nawab arrived in San Francisco
two months ago and has since been in
Alaska, the Yellowstone Park and the
Yosemite Valley.
A. J. Drexefs xvill gives $100,000 to
the German Hospital of Philadelphia,
S1JMHV0O0 to an Art Gallery there, $1,
O(K) per year to Miss E. C. Stanley, 1,
000 each to all servants who had been
" years in his family, $100 a year for as
many years as they have been in ser
vice to the clerks of the banking house,
$1,000,000, each to three grand children
named Biddle, arranges that his es
tate shall buy 'Geo. W. Childs' share
in the Public Ledger, after Childs
death, gives .1;000,000 each to three
grandchildren named Paul, and half a
million to their father, gives $50,000 to
each executor and ties up about 20 or
25 millions for his descendants except
the Pauls and Biddies', to be divided 21
years after the death of his last survi
ving grandchild, among the issue then
living-
(JALLAUHEK IJLTKACTS.
lie Now Says Ills Confession "Wan All a
Hatched up Scheme.
PrrrsnriMj, Pa., July 20. At 1M0
o'clock this afternoon Patrick Gal
lagher, the confessor. requestd the
presence of Warden Wright in his cell
i;ii the penitentiary. The warden re-
sponded at once. Gallagher said:
"Warden, I have been in h all
night and xvish to say to you now that
the confession made by. me yesterday
was all a hatched up scheme, and that
I was dragged into it, I wish now to
retract everything that was said in
that confession and wish you would
send for the attorneys interested, as I
will decline to sign the confession.1
The warden immediately notified Dis
trict Attorney Burleigh and. Attorney
Porter by telephone and they hurried
to the ienitentiary with all haste. Af
ter three hours talk' with Gallagher,
the district attorney came out and
said that Gallagher- had declared un
der oath that every statement he made
yesterday -was absolutely false and
that he, Dempsey, Beat ty and- Dav'd
son are guiltyis indicted. He broke
down and cried like a child. Warden
Writrht says Gallagher had a big
bundle of manus-ript which he took
:is the foundation of his little siR-ech
and which he told ' wa prewired for
him on the outside of the jeniteiitiary
llnoniiou Yi'hrat Deliclenrj.
Sr. Lor is, July r.. The Journal of
Agrieulture, of this city, treating edi
torially of tin condition of. tin pres
ent wheat crop and the probable ad
vanee in prices, says t he best America u
and European authorities agree that
the world's deficiency v. Hi b at least
poo, i bushel".
Cinnamon Kill.
"No living genu of di-ease can re
sist the antiseptic power of essence of
cinnamon for more than a few hours.
i' thf erc!u-ion armouiic-d by M.
Chamlteriand as the reyult of prolonged
rese arch and ex jerimt-nt in M. Pateur
la'. moratory. It is said to destroy mi
cmlrs a effectively, if not a rapidly,
as corrosive sublimxtte.
All Tna Letters.
The sentence John quickly extem
porized five tow bag contains all the
letters of tha alphabet.