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HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1893.
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MINISTER WILXIS' REMARKS.
Me Would Like to See the Stars and Stripes
Waving Over Every Territory.
A dispatch from San Francisco dated
arid Kjonolulu the -10th:
The main change in the political'sit
uatiuii since the Australia sailed has
been one-of increased strain and great
er business depression. Since his first
call to present his credentials, Minis
ter Willis has not communicated .offi
cially with the government. The
most Hgnf&ent happening which has
taken place, occurred last" Monday
wlu-n a committee of the American
'League, the lately organized auxili
ary oAlie Annexation Club called on
the new minister. After welcoming
Mr. Willis the- committee stated that
the members of the league greatly de
sired that the Hawaiian Islands should
be ome part of the United States and
with'that object in view the organiza
tion would support the present provi
sional government of Hawaii and in
an honorable way aid in accomplish
ing annexation.- The address also eon-tain-d';m
offer of aid if, at any time
the minister saw lit to command them.
?.!in:-ter Willis' answer has not yet
lenke-l out here, as the committee is
pledged to secrecy but the Associated
Vv - s is enabled, after diligent inquiry
nu ireful comparison of the versions
of t he mini.lers remarks as l'fineiu
be;t'l by three .members of the com
n;! :- to give the following 'nearly, if
not ;t!;te verbatim report of the cou-vei'.--".l
ion: - -
Ts !ui tev Willis said: "I am an ar
uleut Anieri'-an.; I would like to see
the stars and Stripes waving not only
o . ; !iaaii but over all the islands of
the itH lie. Ocean or any other terri
tory winch would be beneficial to the
United States. I have my instructions
which ' cannot divulge. You wHl un
derhand this. "But this much I can
say that the policy of the United
States is already formulated regard
ing those --.islands, aild that nothing
which can be-said or done, either here
or there, can avail anything now.
ltI don't come here as did Mr. Blount.
1 come as an executive officer." J
"1 conHb act. '-When the proper
time arrives I shall act. I am sorry I
cannot tell you when or how. I wish
you to understand, however, that
knowing the policy of the United
States, I could not have accepted the
position as an executive officer had it
been in 'conflict with the principles I
hold. Americans here will have noth-.
ing to -regret. -'While performing my
duties in carrying out the policy of
the United States I shall have no need
of aid from you or other residents.
However, I wish to state positively
that any outside interference will not
ha tolerated by the United States.'1
The provisional government consid
ers Minister Willis remarks as signifi
cant, and from other information ob
tained it is the general belief among
' Americans, that a United States pro
tectorate will be shortly established
over the-provisiohad government with
the understanding that a stable form
of government be established tvtihth. a
limited period. j
To the Patrons of the Public School.
As principal of the public school of
Hickory, I respectfully ask the patrons
to help make the school a success. See
that your children are regular in at
tendance, at school oil time, provided
with the proper books, tyid that they
devote the pfoper time to thek studies
at home. Help anil encourage them.
With your 'assistance, - we teachers
ran better train-children to habits of
industry, punctuality, obedience to
authority, and self-reliance it over
coming difficulties'.
"Edueaitiou is am" eduction of latent
forces. It is the result of discipline:
discipline requires hard study, and is
commonly distasteful." It is very
'difficulty for any tvaclier to'tpllow a
system of instruction that will best de
velop and discipline the mentu forces,
without puuefality and regularity of
pupils. Instruction wjthout system
bussed u iKn principles is worthless.
Very RespeVt fully,
A. 1. WlllSIINHUNT.
San Francisco.' Nov. 2s. The
steamship --Alameda from Honolulu
has arrived. All is quiet there. There
are no changes in the movement.
The Alameda left Honolulu a few days
later than the v steamship Australia,
which arrived in San Francisco last
Saturday. Minister Willis has made
no intimation as vet to the government.
STATE NEWS.
Messrs. J. W. Jones &; Co., a leading
dry goods firm of Durham, failed
Friday.
Mr. Simmons was sworn in as Col
lector of Internal Revenue at Raleigh
last Saturday.
Deputy Collector Powers arrested
in Fayetteville, the 23rd inst., R. M.
Johnson and wife, of Robeson county,
charged with counterfeiting, and took
them to Raleigh. -
Mr. Ed. Green, of Durham, diedSat-
urday of consumption. The Globe
speaks of him as a most worthycitizen.
His mortal remains were laid to rest at
the old Latta graveyard, Sunday after
noon. If Lenoir had 50 vacant houses we be
lieve they would be filled in less than
three months. "Why don't some man
who has the money build a few nice
three or four room cottages? It w ould
be a good investment. There is not a
vacant house in Lenoir. Lenoir Top
ic. .
Hon. W. H. Bower left Lenoir Thurs
day for Washington. On Tuesday he
was married to Miss Annie Malthaner,
of Newark, New Jersey. Of course
his friends everywhere congratulate
him. After the marriage Mr. -and Mrs.
Bower will return to Washington.
Lenoir Topic.
The Rev. J. L. White, of Asheville,
has increased his labors by taking un
der his charge the French Broad Bap
tist Church. He still .remains pastor'
of the First Baptist Church. Mr.
"White "while quite a young man is,
notwithstanding one of the most effi
cient ministers in the State.
The case pf Mr. I. H. Faust, the de
faulting cashier of the First National
Bank ait Salisbury, which was to have
been tried last Friday, the 24th, on
two -indictments, was continued on ac
count of alleged existing prejudices,
.whereof he could not get a fair- and
impartial trial. It will come up again
next February.
The Argo Gold-Mining Co., ofRoeky
Mount, which has succeeded the Mann
Arrington Syndicate, is placing in the
mines a 20-stamp mill, with enormous
crushers, "automatic feeders, etc. Also-.
there is a steam shovel with a capacity !
of a thousand cubic yards a day. The
Placer mines are said to be rich, yield- !
ing a dollar a yard.
Rev. C. G. Little preached his last
sermon in the Methodist church Sun
day night for this conference year. It
was a splendid sermon. Mr. Little has
been pastor here for two years and has
endeared himself to the - people and. if
he is sent back another year he will be
heartily welcomed. If he goes to
another field of labor our people here
can but wish him abundant succes.
Lenoir topic
Western North Carolina, just at
this term, is attracting much attention
from the people in the North. Our
climate and cheap lands will bring
many settlers, to the Old North State
within the next few months. It now'
looks as if the whole country has its
eyes fixed on North Carolina. Every
mail brings letters of inquiry alout
Oui climate, price of lands, products,
etc.
The colored Methodist Episcopal
church has just 'adjourned its 2:3rd annual-Conference
in N. C, held in Shelby
from Nov. 1 V2. ,
Many white ladie aad gentlemen
visited the sessions and services: also
the business men amd the ministers of
the white .churches called in t see
them and greeted the conference with
cheering won is. Bishop 1 Jet be, who
has been holding conference for 21
vears. stated he never reoeivd a more
hearty welcome' than the one he re
ceived by -our people, or encouraged
more by our white brother. Shelby
Aurora.
The company of North Carolina gen
tlemen, a iortion of whom are residing
in Baltimore, thai! wais formed in the
early part -of the year for the purjMse
of purchasing the site of Sir Waltt r
Raleigh's fort on Roanoke Island, and
a. good sized track of the surrounding
land have now a sou ml, free-MUiple ti
tle to the fort and six acres of the sur
rounding land free of incumbrance.
Maj. Graham Daves of this city con
cluded the tmrehase on his recent trip
there, from '-which, heieturned Sun
day. The eompa'iy will now soon -be
incorporated and definite plans settled
upon.--C harlot te Democrat,
ANOTHER SOUTHERN OUTRAGE!
Brutal Treatment of a Poor Colored Orphan,
Who Was Pound Half Frozen in a Cellar.
We regret to learn that on Thurs
day last a little sickly colored girl,
about twelve years old, was threatened
with a beating by Mrs. Leonard Crock
ett, of this place, and to avoid a pun
ishment which experience had shown
her was very severe, ran away.
Search was in vain made all about
the town, and it was not until Sun
day morning that a servant of Mr. J.
A. Martin's accidentally discovered her
crouching behind some barrels in his
cellar.
The little creature could hardly
make it plain where she had spent
time since she ran away, bnt it was
understood that Friday night she
slept on the ground at Geitner's tan
yard, frozen mud was sticking to her
faice then. She probably sought ref
uge in the cellar on Saturday, and if
she had any food in the meantime it
lias not been found where she got it.
We understand the Crockett woman
had been in the habit of beating the
poor stunted child with brooms or
other .implements, whenever angry
with her. .
It seems that the girl was taken by
Mr. Crockett to care for during the
life of his first wife.
We. grieve to have to chronicle such
occurrences, especially where the vic
tim is a colored person, but the fact
that the Crockett s .are negroes, also
makes it easier for the white folks to
bear. .
Strauss and the Income Tax.
Washington, Nov. 2a. Isadore
Strauss, of New York, who came down -to
Washington yesterday upon the in
vitation of several members of the
committee, spent today aj,; he did Fri
day, at the capitol in consultation with
Chairman Wilson amd his committee.
Strauss" opposition to t ie income tax,
joined with that of Bourke Cockran,
Secretary Carlisle, David A. Wells aind
other leading niembers of the party,
has resulted, it is understood, in de- ;
ciding the committee to limit the tax
corporations, legacies and the like, in- j
stead of the original proposition of ;
taxing incomes of $4,000 and upwards
indiscriminately.
J The alleged determination of the
committee not to increase the whiskey
tax is said to be -due to the fact that
the Whiskey Trust and the owners of
whiskey in bond will be the only ben
eficiaries of , the increase. Another
reason why the committee are not dis
posed to touch the present tax grows
out of the belief that they do not
think any increase from this source
will be needed. The committee hae
great confidence in the result of the in
comes tax. It is stated with great pos
itiveness that sugar is likely to pay an
advalorcm duty of 25 per cent. The
growers both from Louisiana and the
better sugar States of the West are
protesting against making sugar abso
lutely free. The question was still
open this evening, but with the -probability
that the ad. valorem would be
adopted, thus affording a reveuue of
neatly $20,000,000 and in a like meas
ure diminishing the necessity for a
general tax.
Latest From Hawaii.
Washington, D. C, Nov. .23. The
Staite Department has been informed
that the steamer Australia from Haw
aii arrived at San Francisco this morn
ing. Her dispatches show no change
in the situation.
' The State Department officials bay
they are not surprised at this, but the
steamier due in twenty days may bring
startling information. From this it is
inferred that Minister Willis has In-en
instructed to make no move for tr; re
storation of the Queen until after the
steamer h id 'sailed.
As there will b- no muls from Haw
aii for tliL next tw,iiy days, no fur
ther information is expected until then,
unless the whole a latter is referred to
Congress at the owning of the session.
The administration -will hirdly make
any further ;ui;euii emenr f its ioI
iey regarding Hawaii in the absence of
information t how th it .policy had
been 'carrLd out.
Congress meets In ten days and it is
thought certain ih? Presineut will not
resort to force in Hawaii to bring about
the tc-establisbin i of Monarchy.
Secretary Gresh and Assistant Sec
retary of th ? Na y McAdoo bad a long
conference with ih President today.
It is suppposed they discussed the ad
visability of sea I:ag additional war
ships toll a waiL
GENERAL NEWS.
The Italian Cabinet have resigned in
a body. Bank scandals are the cause.
Claus Spreckles, the Hawaiian sugar
King is PUT, in a suit in San Francisco
for $1,000,000, against one of his sugar
companies for their misappropriating
some money.
Mr. Field and Mr. Leiter both of
Chicago and foruierlj- partners in bus
iness, and both millionaires have fall
en out with each other and will fight
it out in the courts.
Owing to the gap of twenty days in
the mail service caused by the wreck
of the steamer Miowera, the public
must wait many days for that news,
unless something come to hand by way
of China, through some outward bound
'-steamer touching at Honolulu.
There has been and is still going on
one of the bigest strikes on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad "from New York to
Buffalo with branches, that has occur
red on a Railroad in this country. No
property has as yet been destroyed,,
but all traiius were stopped at one time. -Passenger
trains aire now running, and
a few trains comparatively of freight
have been moved.
Claius Spreckles voungest soil "G us"
is the cause of the bigsuit in Sam Fran
cisco, which involves the big Sugar
King's big sugar Co. The ' Old man
and the other brothers he says are try
ing to get the best of him in the Co.
and he. wants an accounting. His
father gave his two brothers and only
sister $1,000,000 each recently and did
not give him anything. Although he
and his wife rank them socially in
Frisco.
The Tax on Incomes.
The Income taix will be reported aisa
separate measure, if ait all, by the ways
and means committee. The sub-committee
has reported to the full com
mittee on ways and means in favor of
a tax of 2 per cent, on all inenmes from
$4,000 to $20,000 a year. On incomes
from $20,000 to $50,000 a tax of 5 per
cent, is proposed, and for ail 1 incomes
above $r0,000 a tax of 10 per cent. On
ly one member of the sub-committee.
Mr. Bourke Cockran, opposed this
proposition. -f:
There wais an income tax in the Uni- ;
ted States from 1SC3 to 1870. At first
it was a uniform rate of 5 per cent, on
all incomes above. $000, but in 1807 the
tax on incomes of $1,000 was raised to
10 per cent., and still later the taix was
ehamged so as to apply only to incomes
of $2,000 or more, and a uniform rate
of 2i per cent, was fixed.
The largest revenue ever derived
from the former income tax in one
year was iniXI, when it amounted to
$72,082, 1.VJ.
News of Granite Falls.
Ghanitk Falls, N. C, Nov. 24, 03.
It becomes my paiinful duty to
chronicle the death of one of our best
citizens. Mr. Matthew Minish, while
Working in the Dudley Lumber Co's.
shop, was struck by a -piece of plant
thrown by a rip saw and so badly
hurt that he died the nt day. His
remains were interred in the Meth
odist cemetery Thursday at three p.
m. A very large concourse of eople
gathered to pay their last tribute of
respect to' the mc-mory of the deceased.
"Mr. Mini.-h was in his thirtv-first venr."
He leaves a wife and one wee toil ling
child who is too young to realize its
loss. Departed was a consistant mem
ber of the Methodist church and his
pastor. Rev. J. J. Brooks fitly eulo
gized him a such. He was an Odd
Fellow in good landing, -and wa
buried with the honors of the lodge.
He was an unswerving democrat, a
kind busban I and a loving father.
Always at peace with hi neighbors,
he will be greatly missed. We liave
net many such as he was. May the
God of love and me icy grant his grace
and fatherly protection to the be
reaved companion.
Mrs- Harkie, who lias been quite
sick, is .convalescing.
We were all glad to see Mr. Warliek
at home a train (for w claim hhn now,
looking better than we exreetd from
his long illness. The Dudley Lumber
Co. has misled hint' as foreman arid
the girls missed him too.
Mr. James Reid and 3If Jannw
Beard were married on Sunday, Last,
by T. J'Yount Esq. I). W. Youxt.
Queer Han- Queer Case.
Some fifteen or sixteen days ago a
gentleman named Jenkins was seated
in the Young Men's; Christian Associa
tion room in Atlanta when suddenly a
genteel looking gentleman, a stranger
seated near arose and quickly assault
ed Mr. Jenkins, knocking him nearly
down. Jenkins fled out of his further
reach anil sought a policeman. The
policeman found the stranger in a
hardware store negotiating for the
purclmse of a pistol. He was arrested
and locked up. He refused to give his
name or assign any reason for tlie as
sault He was arrainged before the
Recorder for the efTense. It was
learned that his name was M. C. Smith.
He was from South Carolina," had
been to Vanderbilt University, and
had been tuning pianos, and had also
been in Virginia. He would not talk
about the case, and f rom the time he
was imxrisoHed,he refused to eat. food
of any kind whatsoever and was starv
ing himself to death until on the 9th
day, laist Saturday, he was released
and then he went from restaurant to
restaurant and came near eating him
self ro dealt h. The Georgia, Lunatic
Asylum is full of patients and no more
can be added, not even Georgians.
They were afraid to turn Smith' out
on the public forlx canse he might be
ax cntnk and kill some person. They
could not send him to another Staite,
so they finally were compelled to turn
him loose amd put him under surveil
lance. More of Mr. Blount's Report.
The rest-'. of Commissioner Blount's
report, which we print this morning re
veaxls the Hawaiian conspiracy in still
blacker colors than it was depicted in
the part published by the Herald yes
terday. ;3linister Stevens is placed in-,'
the position of simply a confederate of
the revolutionists, misusing themi
thority of the United States to dejiose
the Queen, establish the provisiona
governmeut and turn oyer Hawaii to
this country under the cloak of annex,
ation. Against this outrage the Queen
protested in behalf of the island but
the protest availed nothing.
All this was published to the world
in M. Charles NordhofTs special de
spatches to the Herald. Mr. Blount's
recital simply emphasizes it with the
force of an -official, communication, to
the government. Rabid jingoists and
annexationists will assail this official re
port iis they assailed the Herald's di
spatches, but the proofs massed Jby
Mr. Blount are too overwhelming to
le refuted or shaken. N. Y. Herald.
Afraid to Fire Thurston.
Washington, Nov. 23. Officials in
the state department assert that the
statement issued by MinisterThurston
this morning would furnish abundant
ground for giving him his passports if
this government felt inclined to send
them to him. In the present state of
the public mind, however, it is thought
that this might seem like depriving a
man of the righ; to state his side of
4he case and would prove uniopular,it
would aid .nun in posing 'before the,
world as a martyr
New North Carolina Daily.
Was!hnotoN Nov. 22. There ia a
well-foil rtded rumor hero that $21,000
in money lias lxen raised to start an
administration daily jKtper in North
Carolina. The Hon. K. Ulias is a
large stockholder in the same.
flississifpi Frozen Over.
Galkn a. 111 , Nov. 2. The Missis
sippi riwr is frozen from tdiore to,
shore, the earliest ice blockade in twen
ty years. The temierature Thursday
night wji- 'oelow zero.
"Jest 5o."
Why shouldn't the U. S. govern
ment print its own jostage tamp 5
Chief Johnson of the Bureau of En
graving and Printing int the first
man who has asked thai question, but
he lia- asked it in a very practical
manner, by jubmitting figures to the
Postmaster .General showing how
much ckeaper the Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing could do the work
than any of the private parties who
have submitted bids for printing the
staiiii during IVjI. An unofficial ta
timate L that the . government could
save at leat $23). a year by printing
its own iotage tamp. There is a
doubt it etu aa to whether the Post
master General can under the pment
laws give the contract to the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, .and the
matte r ! now Mug considered and
will in a few days be decided.
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