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State Library 1 i SEE OUR EXTRA- J SUBSCRIBE ! Gkt Up a Club For . -THE CAMPAIGN I rirTi v !V J II III CLUBBING OFFER I A VOLUME 25. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY; JULY 19, 1894. NUMBER 29 1 aS' xvrv xV U III ryndn 1 1 li i n i . it i IMJ ... STATE NEWS. The Democratic Judicial convention of the 11th district conver.es at Shelby Aug. 1st. Hon. Kope E'.ias. it is said, can get a Federal offlce of the President by ask ing for it. - judge Spier Whitaker has resigned and Gov. Carr has appointed Mr. R. Allen in UU place. Mr. S. A. Ashe, editor of the News-Observer-Chroniele, i spoken of as a candidate for Congress in the 4th dis trict. A mcning of negro. bicyclists Was held in Charlotte on the 12th ins. The United States can now' 'boast of only two such events. Frank 'Houston, of-Uniou county, a graduate of Harvard University, has been elected professor of iolitical science hi the University of Texas. "Shirtless Hannibal Napoiian Simp son," Rockingham "county, has' sud denly blossomed into large propor tions as a Third party orator, and wants to go to Congress from the fifth district. It is affirmed by on State exchanges that North Carolina erected the first public observatory in the United States at her University in 1821. The 'affirmation cannot be successfully denied. Brother Patton, of Mop&anton,- abates his missionary zeal and takes the field in the th district for Con gressional honors. He might possibly have saved a few heathen, but he'll never get to Congress. Mr. J. G. Hull, of Hickory, who is at the other end of the congressional lane from Congressman Henderson, "carried the war into Africa'-' yester day, and came over here last night.-r-Charlotte Observer 10th. The aggregate amount of revenue collected in the fifth North Carolina district for the month of June was $100,429.04. It was collected as fol lows: Winston, 53,817.53; Statesville, $20,023.09; Mt. Airy, 3,024.25; Ashe viJle, $14,301.82. Rev. Jas. Needham, of Bliss, N. C, a Methodist minister ninety-fivo years ol age, still fills his regular appoint ments, and thinks it no feat at all to walk thre or four or ride fifteen or twenty miles. Who can report an other minister of his age and physical . activity doing duty? Mr. J. F, Armfield, colonel 4th Regi ment, State Guard, is after a States ville correspondent of the Charlotte Observer. He denies in the plainest Anglo-Saxon phraseology that he "put the influence of' his "military organization into the contest," at the Statesville primary, in behalf of his father for the judgeship. L. B. Wetnore, a Lincolnton attor ney, went on a spree Thursday night, and did a great deal of promiscuous shooting before being disarmed and quieted. Mr. Wetmore is said to be a gentleman of talent, but, we must say, this little episode looks as if his repu tation is the gift of friends, too par tial for accurate judgment. Col. Harry Skinner and Mr. A. L. Blow came to blows at Greenville, N. C.. on the 12th inst. Only que round was "fit," but but both gentlemen were borne from the field of "even honors" by friends. Col. Skinner in dulged too much in personalities to suit Mr. Blow. The latter called a a halt at "d n liar." Both men re tired bloody but game. Miss Eleanor Markman, of Rondout, was pronounced on the 8th instant dead by a physician; but on the fol lowing Wednesday, when the casket was being borne to the hearse,, a tap ping was heard on the lid of the cof fin, and the body being returned to the house, the young lady was found to be alive. She is now thought to be recovering. Says she was conscious all the while but too weak to indicate that life was not extinct any sooner than she did. x Voune Lew Wallace Fined. H.vmmox, Ind., July 10. Lew Wal lace, Jr., of Indianapolis was arrested last night on a charge of personating a United States Marshal; Wallach dis played a star and ordered all saloons closed up- Before Judge Morelock this morning he was fined $10 and cost. He left for Chicago. All is quite. NATIONAL ' CURRENCY. Important Bill Reported in Re gard to Gold Contracts. ANY MONEY LEGAL TENDER. Discrediting a Nation's Currency Has Been a crime Punishable by death in Some Countries, j Washington,' July 17 The judi ciary committee of the house, has just made a favorable report upon a bill of much importance. It is a measure of but four lines, introduced by Mr. Lane, of Illinois, and reads: "That all contracts for the payment of any sum of money, whether in gold, silver or coin may be discharged by any money which is by law a legal tender for the paymeut of debts when the contract matures." In its report, the committee recom mends the passage of the bill, saying it finds "that the purpose of this bill is to regulate the practice in the federal courts in regard to entering judg ments, in requiring such judgements to be expressed in dollars and parts of dollars, and to preserve the stability and uniformity of the currency." The report further says: "The law now is that gold, and sil ver coin, atid treasury notes are a legal tender for the payment of all debts, public and private. There are some exceptions in regard to the payments of customs, etc., in treasury notes, but this has no application to judgments between private parties. The law makes coined money and treasury notes a legal tender in the payment .of private . debts, that is, makes both kinds of money equal for this purpose, and neither the courts nor private in dividuals have the right to annul the law. "The law is greater than the court or the individual, and neither have the right to set it aside. The courts have no power to legislate or to annul the laws of congress, or to permit private parties "to set aside a public statute. This the federal courts have done in holding that a judgment uian be en tered in 'coined dollars,' which is done for the very purpose of annulling the act of congress making treasury notes a legal tender for the payment of debts, t In England it was a felony to discredit the money of the realm. The courts of France have held that parties cannot, by special contracts, discrimi nate between tne bank notes of the Bank of France, which are made a le gal tender, and coin money, which is also a legal tender. "Many other nations of the earth even went further and luade it a crime punishable bv death to discredit the money of the country. "The state courts of many of the states of the union has passed on this question, and they hold the law sub stantially as it was held by the court in France. IT HAS DISAPPEARED. ) There Is No More Backbone to the 5trike, So John M. Egan says. Chicago, July 17 The great railway strike is practically at an end in Chica go. Trains on all roads are moving, passenger trains are, almost without exception, on timei and freight traffic is rapidly becoming regular. "The backbone of the strike is not only broken," said Manager Egan, of the General Managers' Association, "but the backbone has entirely disap peared. The blockade is raised,, and it will require but a short time to tcet the railroad business of the city back into its regular routine. f On the Chicago and Grand Trunk, passenger service is regular and freight and suburban service was resumed to dav. . While Debs declares that the blood is upon Pullman he is trying to incite more rioting and to Induce some of the violent to deal with Pullman. If that is done then the blood of Pullman will be upon Debs. In the meantime the law lias Bebs and some others in hand. Wilmington Messenger. THEY HAD NO GRIEVANCE. Pullman Shows Clearly That His Employes Were Not Justified In Striking. New York, July 14. Mr. George Pullman made an extended statement in regard to the trouble with his em ployes which led to the recent general strike. He said wages had been re duced at Pullman in order to keep the shops from closing entirely, as the cars he was building were being construct ed at an actual loss. . " , Nine weeks ago 4.200 employes were on the pay-roll when a demand was made on him that wages be restored to the scale of a year ago. He explained to the men the situation and offered them an inspection of the books to show that fe could not restore the old scale. They refused to abide by. this and struck, thus closing the shops, and doing what he had been strenuously trying to arvoLd He explains that with this state of affairs existing he was asked to submit to arbitratidn, which, he says, would have been a piece of business folly. He was already running at a loss, yet if some third party had decreed this should be increased he was expected to submit, to it He says the stock of the Pullman Company is owned by over 4,000 people, many of them women and trustees, the average holding of each person being eighty-six shares, The stock is not watered, as every share represents $100 paid into the company He refutes the charges that rents and water rates were high in Pullman, and explaius that he could not have pur sued any other course than the one he did. FRAUDULENT LOTTERY SCHEMES. Clever Devices and Bogus Circulars by, Which Many People Are Being Swindled. ;. New Orleans, La., July 17, 1894. Since the Louisiana State Lottery Company removed to Honduras and resumed business under the name of the Honduras National Lottery Com pany, the patrons of this great concern have been eager lait for clever opera tors, and every month thousands of people are taken in by lottery schemes .which purport to be the original Louis iana State.Lottery. The modus operandi is to send a bunch of tickets to some prominent person, enclosing a complimentary ticket good for $8,000. The party is instructed to sell onefifth of the ticket to some other wellknown jirominent person, and keep 'the other fifth for himself. Another condition is that the party must remit $100 in payment for tickets, at least three days before the "drawing." In order to make the offer appear genuine, a circular of the Honduras National Lottery Conpany is inclosed with the address, of J . H . Lombard & Co., New Orleans, La,, carefully stamped in red ink over the address of Paul Conrad, Puerto Cortez, Hondu ras, C. A., care Central American Ex press, Port Tampa City. Fla. As a matter of fact, the Honduras National Lottery Company has no such agency in New Orleans, and Lombard & Co. never had and connection with this company. The New England States are flooded with the bogus circulars, and a number have already been swindled. ' DEATH OF A DASTARD. Assassin Prendergast Hanged at Last for His Crime. Chicago, July 13. A crime against the state was expiated on the gallows of the Cook county jail this morning. Nearly nine months have elapsed since the bullet of. an assassiu deprived Chicago of her chief executive, the State of one of her most illustrious citizens, and the country at large of a statesman and a patriot. Today the crime was avenged, and Patrick Eugene Prendergast su feral an igno minous death at the hands of the hangman. The execution was devoid of incident for the aassiu went to his death like an ox '-.oing to the hamb!es. Up to the last moment lbs hope of interposi tion from M'lu e or another did not desert him, although he was fully cognizant ot the tact that all efforts in both State and Federal courts and in the executive ch ind r had been ex hausted. When it came to the nd4ie nerved himself lor a supreme effort, and paid the penalty of his crime with out a whimper and without a word. CONFERREES FIX RATES. Neither Iron Nor Coal Has Recn Restored to the Free List. - $1 A GALLON ON WHISKEY. They Agree on the Income Tax Except as to its Limit. The Tari.'f on Pottery Increased ' While Glassware Comes Down. Washington, July 10. The tariff conference. has now advanced to such a stage that it is impossible longer for the conferrees to keep the main feat ures of their work from their congres sional associates. Much that has-been definitely accomplished has reached Senators and members not on the com mittee, not in the form of rumors and reports, but as accomplished facts. As thus considered the chief features on which the conferrees came together are as follows: A, jPottery rates increased 5 per' cent., making the rates those of the House instead of the Senate. Glassware comes down to the House rates, the ac tion being the reverse of that on pot tery for reasons hereafter stated. The cotton schedule has been scaled down about 5 per cent., from the Senate rates. The woolen schedule also has been brought down a considerable per cent., making it more in" accordance with the House rates. The tobacco schedule has been brought back to the House rates on the important item of wrappers, the rate being $1, instead of the Senate rates of $1.50 and $2.25. The metal schedule has not been ma terially changed from the rates fixed by the Senate. u . Neither iron nor coal has been v car- ried back to. the free list, as in the House bill, and while the decision is not final there is every reason to be lieve that the Senate rate of forty cents per ton on each will stand. . The income tax has not yet been passed, but there is little or no disa greement, except on one item of limi ting the tax to five years, and on this the conferees have not come.together. The issue between ad valorem and spe cific rates thus far has not resulted in as much of a return to the House ad valorem rate as was expected, as it has been found that in some cases the ad valorem rates were greatly in excess of the specific. The whiskey schedule has been a source of determined con test for two days, the main effort being to secure a compromise on the basis of $1 per gallon, and an extension of the bonding period to five years. This .is resisted on the ground that while it is an apparent increase often cents in the tax it will in fact yield the Govern ment no additional revenue. j CLEVELAND'S COURSE. it Is Fully Approved of by the Senate The Law Most Be Upheld. Washington, Cm July The Senate passed Senator Daniel's ivolu tion indorsing the course of the Presi dent and his advisers in calling out the United States Army to execute the mandate of the courts and to suppress lawlessness. There was some slight skirmishing before the resolution was voted on. Gallingerof New Hampshire attempted to load it down with some unnecessary amendments, and Dolph of Oregon could not let the opportu nity pass to shed some of his dulln&ss on his surroundings. The- resolution parsed by a vivS voce vote, all the members favoring it except PefTer,who voted a solitary "no." J While there is generally a hearty condemnation of the lawlessness of the strikers, there is also an admitioa tliat there must be some real cause ior the strike and that proper Legislation could prevent a recurrence ol uicn scenes arid conduct in future. It is not im probable that a joint committee of Congress may be constituted to kit during the recess of Congress and make a thorough investigation of the strikes and the riot from start to finish and report to Congress next December by bill or otherwise. GENERAL. NEWS. All the Fair buildings at Chicago were burned late in the evening of the 5th. - v :- ... " t Civil proceedings are beingprepared in Chicago agninst- Debs and all the leaders in the strike. , , A plague is prevailing in Hong Kong, China, which is destroying the people by the hundreds diily. The new cruiser for the Navy, the' Minneapolis had a trial trip the other day and showed up as the fastest war vessel afloat, making over 23 knots per hour. - A bather up at Heliport, L. I., was out swimmine: tne other dav when he had a collision with a whale. The whale was dekd, but was captured and bonght to shore. When the strike of the -workmen.; in the car shops at Pullman commenced on May 10th they had on deposit at the Pullman Savings Bank $1,000. This has been reduced to less than nothing. Pullman had taken a contract he says, to build some earV just. before the strike commenced, at a price which entailed a loss; but did so to give the men employment and keep his force in tact until business should resume. Lord Welsbley, the great English GerieraHu his last article upon Napo leon in the Pall Mall Magazine does not accord the Duke of Wellington the credit of the victory at Waterloo.- which has so long distinguished his reputation. On the 10th there were two terriac shocks of earthquaket Constantino ple in Turkey which killed many xeo rle over fifty and destroyed many houses and other property. Oneshock occurred at noon and the other at 4 o'clock. The shocks were felt at all points on the Hellespont, Bosphorus and Sea of Marmora. . .. , - ' -v ., . ; Senator Walsh, of Ga., was a 4th of July brator at Tammany Hall in New York.- He spoke for the free coinage of silver with or without international agreement. He also strongly endorsed the Income Tax, although Croker who had just landed from Europe, and en tered the Hall amid applause during his speech, has been very pronounced against the Income Tax. Senator Walsh converted many Tammanyites and other Northen people to the In come Tax. PINES FOR Bid GAME. The President, Anxious to Kill a Bear, Will Go Hunting In Colorado. Denver, July 13. rGen. A. L. New, Collector of Internal Revenue for this district, is arranging for a hunting trip in Colorado for President Cleveland, Attorney General Olney, Secretary of War Lauiont, Senator Gomah, Com missioner of Internal Itevenue Miller, Chairman Harrity and othar distin guished men. Gen. New says President Cleveland is anxious to kill a bear. The locality that will be selected for the hunt will probably be the mountains around Glen wood Springs, Gen. New will go to Washington next week and hopes to complete all arrangements for the hunting trip at that time. Charley Sturt Commit Suicide. Y" Saturday, the 14th instant, Charley Stuart, Victor Taylor, and several other young men living in the vicinity of Catawba Station, visited a still aud imbibed very freely of corn juice, and while under its exhilarating influence Stuart and Taylor indulged In several scriminages all of which go ing against the latter, he alipped off to his fathers house, but, unfortunately, Stuart not satisfied with, the honors already gained followed, him and forc ing an entrance to the house before Taylor could escape up stairs a gun went off in close proximity to Stuart' breast, killing him almost imtantly, Taylor fired the fatal shot. NOTICE, North Carolina i Superior Court Ctavba County (Spring Term liH. A. A. Phelimand other ' r. Mrs. Maude G.Shuler and others AH persons who claim to b creditors of D. W.ShuIer are notified to make themselves parties to said fcuit at the next term of this court on tbe22rd dav of July 120t. J.F. Herman, Clerk.