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li amount cf adveriUing pat renr command Show the popularity, of p-iptr ;w an a-1 rertuiiDjj 3 ESTABLISHED 1S6S. VOLUME 24. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893. NUMBER 46. I. iii iii iii iii WASHINGTON NGW5. WAuixriTox, Nov. 13. Secretary Ves ham's official report to the Presi dent showing" that great injustice was done to the native Hawraiian govern ment by the action of the U. S. Minis ter to that government under the last administration, in practically compel ling the Queen by a display of marines front the IT. S. S. Boston to abdicate in favor of the Provisional government 'which was formed, it is believed largely if not entirely by the advice and coni vance of that minister, for the purpose f carrying out the scheme of the an nexation of Hawaii, which played iu h a eonspicous part during the clos ing days of the Harrison administra tion, has for a tiine rele.gated the finan cial ami tariff questions to back seats, an I everybody is discussing the Ha waiian matter. r ' ' The report concludes with, the re commend;;tion, which was approved bv the President and the other mem bers of the cabinet, that the wrong should be righted as far as lay in the power of this government by restoring the native government of Hawaii to the position it ocupied before the Queen was forced by a U. S. Minister, not by the. Provisional, government, to abdi cate. This was a bold and fearlessste for tilt; President to take, but believing it. to ho right her took it and issued the in-'' -iary " orders to Minister Willis, who barring accidents arrived at .Hono lulu more than a week ago, to carry.it into effect, although he knew full well that it would at first be unpopular, pari i 'il::rly with those who M ould on ly look at the surface of the question and regard it merely as the use of the powor of the United States to over throw an alleged Republic and set up on its feet a deposed monarchy. But those who know the President were not surprised that he should pre fer being right. He has been do ing that sort of thing ever since he has been in public life. There are not many democratic Sen ators and Representatives in Washing ton, but some of those here who were at first disposed to criticise the action of the President have already changed their minds, and it is believed that when the next news arrives from Hawaii they will all be disposed to ac knowledge that the administration lielieves, the provisional government only existed because the native Haw aiians believed it to have been created and supported by the power of the United State, it would at once cease to exist as soon as Minister Willis ofTicial ly announced the contrary, as lie arrived at Honolulu. If the Queen should Jhen be unable to maintain her self in power tliat will be her own af fair", as neither she nor those who might attempt to overthrow her govr crnment would receive aid from the United States. In otherwords, the action of the United States is merely intended to allow the Hawaiiaiis' to govern themselves in any way they may see fit without any outside inter ference, and as the first step towards that end it was necessary that things should be restored to the same condi tion in which they were w hen Minister Stevens instituted to overthrow the old government. The question of monarchy or republic had nothing to do whatever with it, nor was sentiment 7 1 allowed to intrude. It --was only a question of right and wrong, and the administration, acting upon the infor mation gathered by Mr. Blount during his long stay and investigation in Hawaii, has only done what it believes to be right, and -what it believes the American people, regardlessof polities, will in the end endorse. The power of , the United States is too great to be ex rrcised to the detriment of its weaker neighbors, and the sense. of fair j day is too prevalent in the United States for the people to wish a wrong perpetuat . ed lH-cau.se it . was done by a .United States official. President Cleveland i devoting nearly all his time to writing his an nual message to Congress, and in or-d-. r to work without interruption he w iil-m!y come to the White House on vahinet days until it is completed. There will Ih ouie surprUes in the sage for those who think that the results of the; recent state elections vili have any effect upon the Presi dent's policy. Assistant Secretary Curtis will act :i Secretary of the Treasury until Secretary Carlisle completes his an uual 9reiKirt, to the ruparatiou of which he is now devoting his entire time. The annual report of First Assistant Postmaster General Jones, recommends that the experimental free delivery in small towns and villages be discon tinued at the end of the current year, the annual outlay of 10,000,000 not being justified by the results of the ex periment, which he regards as a fail ure. Another great Republican scheme the ocaarir mail subsidy is also re ported to repeal the law authorizing it. m MUST FIGHT OR APOLOGIZE. Honduras Asked to Explain Its Insult to Our Ha. New York, Nov. 11. A Herald dis- paicn, uateu nan Salvador, says .31 in ister Young has telegraphed to the Honduraii Minister of Foreign affairs asking if his Government accepts the responsibility for the act of the com mander of the Port of Amapala, when he fired upon the Pacific mail steamer Costo Rica, though she was living the American flag. Not a Republican Triumph. Xkw York," November 12. The World will tomorrow print a letter from ex-Secretary of the Navy Whit ney, giving his views of the recent elections. He says: "Last Tnesday,s voting was, in my opinion.jaegative, not'" positive. The result was a "democratic defeat, but not a republican triumph. The peo ple had no intention of rescinding their emphatic and well-considered repudi ation, of vicious ' republican policies They could not, however, refrain from, and cannot be blamed for, expressing their dissatisfaction with existing con ditions, so they voted against the party in power.. "It is truerthat the democratic party was not responsible for the conditions, but they existed nevertheless. The party to suffer was necessarily the party in power. It had had no oppor tunity to put in force a new policy and show a beneficial effect, but dis content from whatever cause is visited naturally upon the party in power. The check in view should be, and I believe will be beneficial in result. After such a period of distrust as we have just .experienced' -the stability and conditions of trade are the first es sential evidences of a return to pros perity. Congress owes it to the coun try not only -to reform the tariff but to reform it at once, in a conservative and capable spirit, and at once the redemp tion of all party pledges is necessary. But quick redemption of this greatest of party pledges is more than neces sary more than sound policy, more than wiso, partisanship. , It is a patri otic duty: In accordance with speed and wisdom with which this duty-will be discharged will, in my view, be the future of the democratic party.'" N. Y. Sun. ' t - They tell the Citiztn that, like true Tarheles, the most gratifying things they saw were the placard's in the Mining building - which announced that North Carolina had awards tor iron ore, rare crystals, native :ems, kaolin granite corundum, mica mines, ground mica, copper, ingots and gold ores. They say, also, that North Car olina's exhibit ot hard woods in the Forestry building was a most excel lent one, far more varied than those from other states, but they were not 'displayed with jis inucli artistic skill as soie other displays. North Carolina, they say, should indeed feel proud of her j wirt of the great Chicago' fair. Ashe ville Citizen. Yes, said the old man. a i Ires-iny: hi young visitor, "I'm proud of my girls, and should Uk" to s?e them all comfortably marries!; and vs 'ive mad" a little money, t.hey won't go to their huslmuds jKMiniUfss.'- !v t 'lay, 2 years old and. a real gwd g.rl. I Matil give her A thousand ounds u ieu st. marries. Then cuaie liet .) w Yi see C" ayiiti, and she -shad htve twn thousand, and the one wbo takes K!:-t. who is 4 will have three thou-iii: with her."' Thjyouag mm reflected a moment or i-o, and thea iervons!y inquired; "Yon haven't one about have you? A kiss coaie h'rgn in Jlassaehusetts under certain con iitions. "A member of the Senior class of Harvard Univer sity recently kissed a pretty maid who was showing him a suite of rooms that he proposed rtntimr. She complained to her mistress. He was fined $300. STATE NEWS. The North Carolinian says it is esti mated that 2,500 people from North Carolina attended, the World's Fair. J udge Anufield has appointed judge McCorkle, of Newton, receiver of the Newton Cotton Mills, which assigned several weeks ago. It is believed that the factory will soon resume work. -Morganton Herald. Vi A A chrysanthemum exhibition was given at the Morganton hospital last Thursday by Mr. "E. J. Bush, florist of the State Hospital. The Morganton Cornet Band gave its services gratis and discoursed some excellent music. The surface mica mining lias paid well for years in Cleveland county, where the mica is near the top of the ground and not one hundrend feet un der ground as in Mitchell county where mining is so costly. M. J. S. Groves has a mica mine on the D. A. Elliott farm three miles west of Shelby and he has sent here Mr, Sam J. Kennedy of Roanoke, Va., who is now working a small force. Shelby Aurora. - The Winston Sentinel states that North Carolina will reap much from its exhibit at the World's Fair. Sev eral mining men from the West pur pose coming to this State, the Russian commissioner is desirous of placing a colony of farmers in Eastern Carolina and the Japanese commissioners to the Fair have in mind the settling of arti zans to utilize the kaolin deposits of which porcelain is made. -It is reported that Thomas R. Pow ell, Esq., a well known Raleigh lawyer, and Mr. Robert L. Burkhead, of the treasury department have secured an "option" on the use of the State's con victs, the option not to begin until January 1st, lSOa.- They are for the use of the convicts w ithin the great prison including the use of building manufacturing purposes; or at the phosphate mines, etc. rand include all the 1,200 convicts. Exchange. : There is a lazv man in Butte Citv, Montana, who makes his chickens do his mining for him. He killed one, and on dissecting its gizzard found some gold. He then slaughtered the thirty-one chickens he had and got $337.75 worth of gold from the lot. He is now buying chit-kens, turning them loose, and when he thinks thev have filled up on gold he entices them in and murders them. -This is a fowl business. Wilmington Star. The architect of the building for deaf mutes at Morganton says it will be the handsomest public' building in the State, surpassing the Western Hospi tal. The roof and tower are up. The slate roofing is being put on. The clock towers, each 100 feet in height. Rapid work is being done. The char acter of the work and of the materials is first class. By next summer the building will be ready for occupancy. Morganton Herald. Very few people know anything about the Indians in Western "North Carolina the Cherokees. There are 1200 of them. and they are increasing in numbers. They frwn 73,000 acres of laud, and very fine land. Their new chief is Still well Sounooke, and he can not speak English at all. There are some native preachers and four schools, the government maintaining the latter. There are other Cherokees. but they are not included in the 1,200, as they live elsewhere than on the reservation. Mt. Airy News. It may be tliat North Carolina will have another industry the manufac ture of beet sugar. Prof. W. F. M;tsey, ij the Agriculture ami Mechanical College, ha accompanied Congressman Alexander on a trip to-the West, for the sjK-eia! puqiose of looking into sugar leet culture and manufacture. It is said that the beet growers find that these-iso;s-ro tl e NorJi i n IWe t are two-short, and tliat ore o.njany. at least, with large capital, wishes to establish the busine in North Car lin.u Sugar lxe ts grow well here, and some Very fine ones were shown at the recent State fair. Exchange. Retail .n Kajrti Reported. Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. lb. Bui- letia It is refuted here tliat there is an uprising against President Hip- polyte in thectmtbenrpart or llayti, j &id a Cap- Fear Democrat to-day. the" rebels huvmg-declared in favor of -While everything else is "quiet and Gen. Manigat. The rebellion is said j iuost Congressmen are out of town, a to be headel by Jean Gil les. Node- Relegation coa id accrmiplUh some tails are as yet obtainable. ; thing. I seriously coubt tins. QUEEN OR PRESIDENT? Resident Hawaiian May Have m Chance to Vote Their Preference".- WASiiiXGTOX, Nov. 11. In the ab sence of any information except, that derivable by inference from Secretary G restrain report to the President as to what instructions have been given to Minister Willis and Admiral Irwin, there is a wide field for speculation opened as to the means which, in all probability, have by this time been used to "restore the ligitimate Gov ernment" of Hawaii, and thus "repair the wrong done to a feeble, but' inde pendent, State by abuse of the author ity of the United States." In some of the earliest intimations given as to the possibility of a course of action such as is now recommended by Secretary Gresham and made pub lic with the approval of the President and the rest of his Cabinet, statement was made, as if coming indirectly from Minister Willis, who had just had a personal conference -with President Cleveland at the White House, that the question of which form of govern ment they preferred ought to be sub mitted to a vote of the people of Haw- .. an. This view of the matter, it is noticed is brought out quite prominently in Secretary Gresham s synopsis of Com missioner Blount's report, in which he says: "Mr. Blount states that while at Honolulu he did not meet a single annexationist who expressed willing ness to submit the question to a 'ote of the people, nor did he talk with one on that subject who did not insist that if the islands were annexed suff rage should be so restricted as to give complete control to foreigners or whites, and representative annexation ists have repeatedly made similar statements to the undersigned.'1 Reasoning from these tender bases of fact, and without any other direct official statement to either confirm or contradict the hypothesis, it isthought probable that Minister Willis course has been to advise the provisional gov ernment that it is the desire of the United States tliat the question as to which government is preferred by the people of the islands that ot Queen Liliuokalani or that of President Dole shall be submitted to the vote of all those residents of the island who have a right to vote under the Constitution of 1KS7. Whether or hot, pending this appeal to the people, Admiral Irwin and Min ister Willis have received direct in structions to reinstate the constitu tional sovereign will probably not be authoritatively made known until the next Honolulu mail arrives in San Francisco. THE PRESIDENT APPROVES. Washington", Nov. if. Inquiry at the Department of State warrants the statement that the President has giv en his approval to the Secretary's find ings in the Hawaiian matter, based as they are upon searching inquiries con ducted by his SpecLd Commissioner, Blount. And while it has not been re garded as expedient at this moment to make public the instructions given to Mr. Blount's successor, Minister Willis, or the orders issued to Admiral Irwin, who has by 'this time assumed com mand of the United States Naval forces at Hawaii, it is intimated that in each case the officers have gone to Hawaii do all that is necessary to restore the status quoante !ellum. Ransom And The Judgeship. Washington, Nov. H The way and means sub-committee Is consider ing the whNkey and income taxes. An increase, it i thought, w ill lie made on whisky. The Battle delegation, the last of whom left today, are all ronal friend of Senator Itansom. One' of them had a statement from hica two day.- ago t the effect that lie did not want the judgeship, and yet, after they h.vl com? on tiere,sme f them said they thought Itari-uiiwould like t havt th, plae o'Tered to him. It i said by wine of hi friends that Jje i not d.iiug a thing to get it. but hereal I ly wihe it to go to the State, and j rather thrill tliat it should go else- j where, will tak? it tf tendered, "Now i 'the time to work in the j Fayettevill ptmastendiip matter. GENERAL NEWS. There does not seem to be any mon ey stringency to hurt down In Jack sonville, They have raised $20,000 ucre lor me vorueij-juiiciieu mm. Emil Lindburg, a wealthy Swede, residing in New York, U reported to liave contracted for 0,000 acres of Land in Central -Alabama, 'which he propos es to colonize with SwlUh fjmirK It is said that there are now thrvo thousand tramps on the road from California'' eastward by the Southern route, which is a ideasanter route to tramp at this fceoson than the -Northern one. They organize In gangs of 100 or 150, and when a freight train comes along coolly take possession of it and eet si lift- BiluNswicK, Ga., Nov. 13. Five new cases of yellow fever were reiort- etl today, one of which is white,' The. health board officials announced daily that from 12.1 to bi5 patients are now under treat ment. This is a mistake. Brunswick carefully can vassed could not now produce 100 'cases of yellow fever. Some of the physicians are, and have been, negligent in rejortiner discharges. - M.u;ox, Ga., Nov. U.Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, is here today in attendance on the Superior Court representing the bondholders of the Georgia Southern and West Florida Railroad in their petition of the fore closure and the salo of the road. The hearing v.ilj last several days. The whole of today's session. was taken up with preliminary skirmishing. A largo number of prominent attorneys are in attendance representing different bran ches in the suit. " FIGHTING" SHIPS. Brazilian Flotilla, Fully Equipped, Making Preparation (or Departure. New York, Nov. 10. Salvador de Mendonca, the Brazilian Minister, vis it etl the El Cid. He remained on board only a few minutes. Mr. Mendonca returned to Washington on the mid night train. "The lleet to leave New York as near November 12 as jossible will consist," he said, "of El Cid, Brittannia, the Destroyer," the. Javelin, the Feiseen ami the Yarrow torpedo-loat, which will arrive from England in the mean time. The flotilla will fly the Brazil ian llag, sailing as merchantmen un der extraordinary clearance, papers. They will register at some North Bra zilian llag. port, of which I am now in ignorance, where the ships will be manned by their fighting crews. We are shipping only common sailors in this iort and offering no extra induce ments. Of course, if the lleet is at tacked en route it will show its strength, but there is no expectation of any such occurrence." ' The Peixoto Government will be in formed immediately of the completion of the fleet in thissountry, and not till then, will Mr. Mendonca be in structed as to its precise destination or time of deparaure. Probably not less that $1,200,000 will' have been ex Iended in buyiiig ami equipping the squadron to leave New York. Cliar'es IL Flint & Co. are negotiating for an other modern device in naval warfare, It travels below, the surface of ttu ocean and does its destructive work underneath the waves. ' Polycarp'a Last Pra er Polycarp was the martyr who, when advised to curse Christ and live, re-, plied: "Six-and-eighty years hare I served him, and he has done me noth ing but good- How could I curse my iWd and Saviourr While the crowd was gathering fuel to burn him with, he canity prayed: "Thou God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom I tin ve received the knowledge of thee! 0 God of the angehf and pow ers, ami of ever living creature, an I of all sorts of jut jnen that live in thy presence. I tliank ttiee tliat thou !iat graciously voach-afed this day and this hour to allot tne a jort ion among the ioplft of Chrit, unto the reur rection of everlasting life; among whom I sh ill le received in thy tight, this day, a a fruitful and acceptable sacrifice When fore, for all thH I praise thee, I bless thee, I glorify thee through the everlasting High PHetst, Jesus Christ, thy weli-beloved son; to whom, with tlu, the Father, and tLe Holy G!mM,U all glory, world with out end. - Am.ni. He was martyred A. D. ICC.1 He had been taught by John. lleju-kialt Batterwortli.
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