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ki 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n niTrrrui m uti 1 1 1 1 1 1 lixii 5 I HAVE YOU 1 I GIYEN AWAY! 1 SEEN OUR -: 1 I Two Good Books L ; State n 1 1 I GREAT 6IFT BOOK OFFER?! Library 1 with every dollar paid for J 5 subscription.- ji I J H See inside pages. , g Look for it on the inside g nao-es. s 1 o VOL. X NO. 3. MORGANTON, N. C, THURSDAY. MARCH 29. 1894. PRICE THREE CENTS. imvMwnro. jam gwy vyvy REVIEW OF TRADE. il Business Larger in Volume, But Not More rrotitable. s. A NEW TRKATt "WITH CHINA. AN ENVIABLE RECORD. It MORE MILLS AT. WORK. Fair Denmnd for CottonThe Situation Msnfacturtnc Industrie as Re- po'rted by Dun & Co. The Failures. New York, March 24. R. :G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says : It 'S perplexing ; to be obliged to report that business grows larger in volume, at the same time not more profitable. I'licertainty does not diminish, I but has rather increased in : the judgement of many commercial bodies which have urged the President to veto the seigniorage bill. 1 Prices of commodities do not rise, but are on the whole "about r.5 per cent, lower. than last week, though then the lowest " ever knuwnMn this country, and are 13 9 per cent, lower than a year ago. More mills are at work, though the proportion of productive force ceivethe favorable consideration Provide for Admittance of Chinee Immigrant Under Restrictions. u Washington, March 21. The Senate committee on foreign rela tions, has been considering an im portant .Chinese treaty negotiated by the new Chinese minister and Secretary Gresham. The treaty was sent to the Senate some time and referred to the foreign rela tions committee, where it has been very fully considered and discussed in all its details. ' It is said that it does not meet with the approval of some of the Senators whoNare members of the commit tee. . As negotiated the treaty practi cally sets aside and supersedes-the Scott exclusion act and the recent ly, enacted Geary law. .It is an immigration treaty, and provides for the admittance of Chinese im migrants under restrictions..;. It also has for its bbject the pro tection of Chinese already in this country. While it does not repeal the Geary law, it is said to render it nugatory in many particulars. ine treaty, although it may re- Dr. Biffli North , In , Charlotte How to Eml- 11 n ip m nlnved is stilt from a fifth to a third in different branches of in dustry and many mills are stop nincr because their orders have run but, even while a large num ber Jare starting with, orders enough for a time. The prospect of getting constant or remunera tive employment, for works and hand$ does not ctiange. The fact that orders keep only part of the force at work, while both prices and wages tend downward though spring is near at hand, renders present business less profitable and the future less promising. The starting of four furnaces by the Illioois SteeKCompany; and one other at Pittsburer. increases the output !of iron and some large sales have been made at the lowest prices yet reported, with indica tions of 'continued demand .for structural work, and especially at the West. The demand for wire various torms seems to siacicen in and nails are said to be selling lower than ever below one cent. The demand for cotton goods is. fairly large, but with reduction" in .prices of some ,grades and the accumulation fo print cloths con tinues. ''"'"' The accumulation of idle money continues as it could not if " busi ness were materially enlarging. ' The failures for the week ending March 15th involved liabilities- of fonly $2,5;8,8i8 ; and for the two weeks of March, only $4,835,1 to, of which $2,330,257 were of man ufacturing and $2.44.060 of trading concerns. Deadly Effects of 'Protection" Upon Oar Ocean Carrying; Trade. of amajority of the Senate com mittee on foreign relations, will have a stormy time in the Senate The Pacific Coast and Western Senators are already vigorously fighting it, and they have support from Eastern Senators who have always opposed Chinese immi gration ana supportea tne ngor ous"exclusion laws. ; ' ' : -v ' During the period of the life of the treaty, which is twenty years, Chinese are prohibited from enter in? this country except upon , con ditions. Provision is made for the return of anyChinaman who has a law'ful wifechild or parent in the United tate, or property to the aniouQt. of, $1,000, or debts due him to that amount. ' In order to secure- the benefits of this provision the Chinaman must leave with an officer of the United States description of his family or property and secure a certificate for his return. He must also return within oncyear, which may be extended another year in cases of sickness or other causes beyond hisc6ntrol. Some of the "protectionist" journals are vtrying to make out that American shipbuilders have never had their due share of "pro tection," and hence the moribund condition L of otir commercial marine. But they are blind to facts ori are ignorant of the exist ence of the navigation laws, which since 1792 have continued in force and denv to Americans the shelter of theirown flag for vessels built abroad and brought to the United Stales. "This is "protection" in a unique and prohibitive form. The law says to an American citizen, "If you need ships you must patronize the shipyards in New England or on the Delaware, paying them from twenty-five to forty per cent more than the same vessel or a better one would cost in a foreign yard; and if you buy your ships abroad you shall forfeit the guardianship I of the American flag." This, we repeat, is the most arrant and extreme form of "high protection," as practically it prohibits our people from import ing foreign ships. For no mer chant wishes to risk his ship on the ocean without the guarantee of safety from hostile attack which nib own -country's flag affords. I Our odious "protection" laws, borrowed from the English code pf the seventeenth century, thus forbid us to import ships as they forbid the importation of cholera Jnfected rags just as if a foreign : built ship was a nuisance fraught with pestilence. It is high time that this infa mous "protection" was swept away. It has already "protected" our commerce almost off the face of the ocean, and the reactionary effect of this upon every industry In the country , has been most baneful and pernicious. Nothing -less than free trade in ships will ni-v. suffice to -resuscitate our dying commercial marine. N. Y. Herald. " -The Largest Map in the World. The giant of the map family js now in course of preparation and construction at Washington, D". C. It was begun over 12 years ago under the supervision of the United States Geological' Survey Corps, and it will not be more than half completed at the end of the present, century. Some idea of the gigantic plans upon which this map is being constructed and : he magnitude of such an under taking may be formed by con sidering the fact that the portion which delineates the -little State of Connecticut and the north ern -. tip of Long . Island is 6 teet in length and near ly '5 feet wide. When this wonderful map is finished it will indicate the exact location of every brook, creek, river, hilloc, mountain, valley, farm, village, school house and city in the land, and will show ..every public and Tonne; North Carolinian Kose nence Without Money. A tall, slender youth, with every appeararace of culture and refrae ment and dressed in the height of fashion, was seen strowling leisurely around the CentxalHotel this morning. , He puffed a way" la t a mild cigar when not talking to some one and was exceedingly courteous to every one with whom he had a word. I ., The you ng man was Di'I ' Ruffin North, youngest son of ReV." Dr. North, for a long time ah honored member of the North , Carolina Methodist ' Conference," .. and -a brother of , Rev. J. W. NorthJ now one of the leading lights ofjthe same religious body, j . At the Age of 21 the young man left his North Carolina home and wandered . into , New England where he became agent for a large drug firm. He already had a splinded English education, and made such success of the agency that the hrm engaged young North to go to Australia to repre sent them. His salary was a good onej and he soon 1 laid up money enough' to attend 'college! and prepare himself for a Dhysiiian, which had always been his desire. Mr. North closed up his sales and entered the University of theCity of Melbourne, where he graduated with high honors. . Immediately after his gradua tion he was offered a lucrative position in the British Marine service as surgeon, and traveled trom Australia to London, and cruised around all the ports of Euiope and Asia. He recentry returned to America and' estab lished the Savannah Medical Jour nal, which' he published until offered a position as house phy sician in the Mothers and Babes Hospital in- New - York! Until recently Dr. North held the latter place,' but was offered j a more lucrative position with the Colum bia Chemical Co., of Washington, and is now in the South ness Tor them. ' . ; : L i- Dr. North is a brotherj of Mrs. Will Maxwell, formerly; of 'this city, now of Columbia Si. C. He took dinner with Col. D. G. Max well today.- Charlotte News. : TAR HEEL TIDINGS " The Cream of the Week's News from All Parts of the State. FREE COINAGE IN RUTHERFORD. PURGE Till SENATE. PROMINENT CITIZENS DEAD! A Kew. Superintendent for the North Car ol! a Insane Asylum A Romantie Mar riageA Northern Man' Opinion of Western North Carolina. ; . .Mr. John H. Baker, a promi nent citizen of Franklin, died last Thursday. . . A bill has been introduced in Congress appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Durham; N. C. r ..N. M. Lawrence' has been elected Superintendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum to sue- Hott Gold Used to be Coined County. Many of the oldest citizens of Rutherford county well remember the Bechtlergold coins which were stamped in $5, $2.50 and $1 coins and widely circulated as good money all over the bouth. ; Martin Harris, a very intelligent citizen of Rutherford, now 73 ; years old, spent six years working in tne mint in which the Bechtler coins were made, and aided in coining the gold. The man who built up the es tablishment was Christopher Bechtler, a very skilled artist, from Germany, who came from Rhode Island to Rutherford, about the year 1825. Mr. Bechtler had two sons, Augustus and Charles, who worked with their father. Mr. tn That I Trickster and ceed Dr. Block, who resigned. ,1 Harris entered their employ about Dr Wnh,, Turner f fa- I lDe ,83J and Was w,lh - j 1 - - busi- 1 NOTES FROM DAVIDSON COLLEGE. Mr. Hubbard' Address Maxwell Cham bers' Day lake Wiley Athletics. Davidson, N C , Marph 22, '94. The Rev. W. G. Hubbard, of Columbus, Ohio, President of the Society of Friends, delivered a lecture here last night. His theme was though Thought arid Love as a civilizing force." It was humor ous and very instructive! Dr. .J. B. Shearee leaves this evening for Durham, jwhere he goes to attend the meeting of the Presidents of the Colleges of the State. j Maxwell Chambers' Day is the most important event ii the near future, and will be observed on Saturday, March 24th, by- the Seniors who will deliver their orations. Originality and elo quence are the prevailing element We in this class ot 04. we are ex- nrivate road and hitrhwav as oe- pecting something grand fectly as the surveyor's map eives - Lafee Wiley and the Moonlight tawba, a prominent physician and an excellent roan, died last Mon day. He represented Catawba and Lincoln in the Senate of 1889. ..Hannibal Williams, the Shakes perean lecturer, and Rev. Dr. W. G. Hubbard, the vice-president of the American Peace society, 'have been making the round of the State colleges. ..Prof. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, N. Y., delivered. on last Thursday night his celebrated ad dress on "Democracy" at Durham by invitation of the lecture com mittee of Trinity College. ..Mr. J. A. Hartness has suc ceeded Mr. T. B. Eldridge as editor of the Statesville' Mascot. Mr. Eldridge becomes editor of the Lexington " Dispatch, which paper he founded twelve .years ago. ..The baseball game at Greens boro between Yale and the Uni versity of North Carolina last Friday resulted in a victory for the Yale boys by a score of 7 to 4. It is reported that the game was a rattling good one and that the attendance was 1,500 to 2,000. ..Dr. W. M. R. Wood has re signed as superintendent of the North Carolina Insane Asylum, to take effect Tune 1st, 1894. Dr. George L. Kirby, of Goldsboro, has been elected to succeed him. Mr. W. R. Crawford, Jr., has been re-elected steward for the next year. . .Govenor Carr has appointed the following commission to act with the national board in locat ing North Carolina troops at the battle of Antietam: . Walter Clark, R. T. Bennett, James M Johnson, J. E. Monie, N. W. Ray, W. H. H. Lawhorn, W. F. Beasley, W. ri. Cheek, fc.. U. Hall, b. McU. Tate and W. L DeRossor. ..A project is now on to build a belt-line of railroad around the city for the purpose of the manufac turer. One of the drawbacks Char lotte now has in securing manu facturing enterprises is that good sites are bird to get. The people will sell them all right enough. but they are inconvenient to the railroad, and necessarily require wagons to haul the freight both ways. Charlotte News. until 1839. During this time thou sands of dollars were stamped and circulated, the coins being re ceived as good money. During these years the -gold mines of Rutherford and McDow ell were yielding gold plentifully. Bechtler bought the gold1 in small quantities, fluxed it into bars which were rolled into sheets, and then cut and stamped. This enterprise went on success fully up to about the year 1838, about which date Christopher Bechtler died, his son Charlie having killed himself previous to his father's death. Augustus died in Rutherfordton about the year 1841. The remains of these three Bechtiers were buried at the homestead where they lived and coined the gold, about 4 miles north of Rutherfordton. on the Marion road, the land having re cently been bought by John Kqon, which will be improved for bis home. "G." in Shelby Aurora. Lost Book la the Bible. Below we give one of the most complete lists of the "lost books referred to in the Scriptures' that has ever been published: Book of the Wars of the Lord, Numbers xxi , 14. Book of Jasher, Joshua, x.t 13; also II Samuel, i., 18. Book of Iddothe Seer, II Chron icles, ix., 29. Book of Nathan the Prophet, II Chronicles, ix., 79. Prophecies of Ahiajah, II. Chron icles, ix., 29. Acts of Rehoboam in Book of Shemaiah, II Chronicles, xii., 15. Book of Jehu, II Chronicles, xx 34- Book of the Kings of Israel, II Chronicles, xx, 34. Book of the Thousand and Five Songs of Solomon, I Kings, iv., 34. Book of the Covenant, Exodus, xxiv., 7. Book of Remembrance, Malachi, Hi., 14. Book of Gad the Seer, I Chroni cles, xxix., 29. Book of the Acts of Solomon, I Kings, xi., 41. hook 01 tne lato, isaiahxxxiv., Traders are IMsmtrla and Ralalns the Party. Great States whose votes are of recent and emphatic record for tariff reform, are called upon to helplessly witness the dickering of their delegates to the national Senate with the sugar kings, the lords of coal and Iron and the oth er greedy players in the great protection game of grab. These men were sent there to put a stop to this game, and instead they are joining it. What becomes, then, of the primary democratic maxim that "all just government rests on the consent of the governed ? The governed millions have never consented to the surrender to Mc Kinleyism which some of their Senators are now trying to make in their name. They have de manded freedom from taxation tor the basic materials of manu factures. But these Senators are virtually saying that in this mat ter the servant is greater than his lord. Their party is to them not an organization to be loyally up held, but a mere vote-getting machine to be used, first, for their own elevation to office, and, next, as an agency for deals and trades with the mercenary crew that crowds the corridors and committee-rooms of the Capitol and cries unceasingly for class legislation. Is there any remedy for this state of things? There is, we think, and the remedy is in the purging of the Senate, and of pub lic life generally, of its tricksters and traders The standard of our public servants must be raised to something like the level of earlier and better times. We must send to the Senate statesmen, gentle men, men of high and honorable motives', men who believe, as the Senators of former days believed, that their States are sovereign Commonwealths, whose collective wills are to be the supreme law of their public lives. To-day we are sending too many men to our leg islative bodies who regard their offices as so many opportunities to be exploited for the power that may be gained thereby over the politics of their States and the plunder that is to be gathered out of them by back-stairs trading with opposing camp and dark- lantern deals with the lobby. It is bossism and its methods that are perverting democratic government at Washington and throughout the land. Baltimore Sun. MAINE TO TEXAS. What People la Other States Are Dolus and A LITTLE FOREIGN NEWS. CMfrMsaa Wlleoa Mack Better The Murderer mt Carter Hanlna Hang a. Dynamite Espleetea la Peasteylvaaia, KUliag- rire Persona, ..The condition of Congress man Wilson is greatly improved. ..Queen Lil has been engaged by an Indianopolis man tolecture. ..TheG. A R. will have big meeting in Pittsburg, Pa next September. ..Pendergrast, the murderer of Carter Harrison, was banged on March the 33rd. ..A revolution ia the United States of Columbia has been nipped in the bud. ..In New York recently 3,075 copies of Andrew Carnegie's "American Democracy" were sold for $63. ..Mr. Hansbrougb, the Repub lican Solon from the West, wants a million dollars for rooting out Prussian Cacti. ..And now it is said that Miss roiiara win write a book giving a detailed accout of her relation ship with Congressman Breckin ridge. This means more sensual sensationalism. "Ob, Lord, bow longr ..A special cable to the Sun from London says it is learned from authoritative quarters that the Queen and the Prince of Wales have given their consent to the marriage of Rosebery with Princess Maud, of Wales, and the official announcement may be ex pected any day. RANSOM ON THE TARIFF BILL. them in the townships. When completed this map will cover almost an acre tn superficial area. This being the case," it cannot be either hung'pp or spread out, and in order to make the Information it contains available it. will be is sued on the sectional plan. Ex change. , ' . A Chip Off the Old Blo k. Colonel Breckinridge is now serving his fifth term and is" close to 60, years old. He has a family of grown-up children, three girls, one of whom-is married, residing in Staunton, Va.,-and two boys, one a lawyer, aiding in the defense of his father. The other, named for his grand -father, Robert J. Breck inridge, is of a wild disposition. Bob, as he is known here, got into frequent difficulties,; and figured in newspaper articles. Just before the breaking out, of the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal Bob got on a spree and had sever al fights. Colonel Breckinridge telegraphed from Washington to put him in jail and keep him there until he returned, which instructions-were followed. It was de cided to send Bob on a sea voy age, to be away three years, and just as he was boarding a vessel at San Francisco he read an account of his father's doings with Miss Pollard, and wired his brother Desha here : "Put him in jail and keep him there until I return." Lexington, Ky , Dispatch has an attraction lor the town girls and college boys who uncon sciously meet to pass away the evenings on its quiet waters in the beautiful little boats. The members of the Faculty have set aside a day for Athletics that the young men might see the importance of. training their bodies as well as their minds. IT. W. D. From Got Some "Hard Tack." There is a man named Cobb, near Roswell, Ga. who has a biscuit in his possession which he brought home from the war. Durham Sun. And there is a veteran in Frank lin county, this State, who pre served as a momento of the war a little chunk of bacon, smaller than a banana, that was the last two-weeks' ration he drew at the Appomattox. The writer saw it on exhibition a few years ago at a veteran's re-union in Louisburg. If the Tarheel and the Cracker should happen to get together with their commissary 1 wagons they would doubtless have an old time "feast of reason and flow of soul" but little tse.Gastonia Gazette. ; " Ram's Horn.' The devil has a mortgage, on every boy that smokes. ; Starting to heaven on a grave stone is risky business. ',. Perseverance : can accomplish wonders but it cannot make a bad eez hatch. . . f ; Build a fence anywhere, and the first boy who comes along will want to climb it. Make pure thoughts welcome in your mind and God will be sure to come into your life. f ? If there is any of his wirk that the devil is well satisfied with it must be th-e drunkard's home. ' i The devil never keeps out, of a home simply because there is'a handsome Bible on the parlor table. - 1 , Wise Farmer. About a score of Troup county farmers have formed an alliance, the-object of - which is worthy of commendation. They have pledged themselves to raise 500 pounds of meat this year for every plow they employ. Mr." George W. Truit:, whose fame as a farmer has extented all over Georgia, is one of the parties .to this agree ment. He is in the city to-day, and when asked about the meat alliance in Troup county, said that every man who bad gone into it means business land will surely fulfil the letter of his contract. Mr. Truitt belttyes that even more than the special quantity of pork will be raised by nearly every one of the farmers who have made this compact. We have here an example which 'the farmers in every county in Georgia would do well to imitate. It is easy enough to meet the terms of such an obligation as this the Troup county farmers have taken upon themselves. We have had occa sion frequently to refer to the fact that the farmers ot Georgia are be coming more independent every year by raising of their farm sup plies. Georgia ought not to buy a pound of meat or a bushel of corn. She would not have to do so, in fact she would have a surplus of these valuable products for sale if her farmers acted as wisely as Mr. Truitt and his friends have agreed to do. Atlanta journal. ..A farmer of Alamance county, who has been keepinig house nearly forty years and has raised a large family of children, tells the Gleaner that during that time he has not spent one hundred dol lars for store clothes, hats and shoes. Nearly all such were home-made and home-spun. By his economical habits he not only gave his children a good common school education, but accumulated considerable landed estate, and to day a hundred dollars would pay all he owes. . .The Lexington Dispatch gives the following account of a mar riage that occurred in that town : "Last Thursday evening, at the residence of Mrs. J. D, Cutting in this city, Dr. D. J. Driver was unted in marriage to Miss- Mattie Cutting. Dr. Driver s home is at Little Rock, Ark. Tie had never visited Lexington or seen his bride until he came to marry her. The -.happy event came' about under somewhat peculiar circum stances. About two years ago a daughter af D. L. Trexler married gentleman from Little Rockr 26; the 19; the ' For a long time I suffered with Ktomach and liver troubles, and could litil no relief until I began to use Ayer's Pills. I took them regularly for a few months, and my health was completely restored." D. W. Baine, New Berne, s. C. ; Twenty Tear a Teacher. - Campbellsville, Ky. I have been a teacher for twenty years, and during that time have had repeated attacks of headache. Now I am n entirely free from them after using Simmons Liver Regulator. It was so mild in its action that it never interfered with my school duties. J3. A. Cheek, Lives of others oft remind us Married life may be sublime. We trust to be forgiven this parody of lines from Longfellow's immortal 'Psalm of Life." 1 Husbands who are wise and thoughtful, know that the happines of the home depends largely on the health of ! the mistress of the home. Many are the tasks which daily confront her. How can a woman con tend against the trials and worries of housekeeping, if she be suffering from those distressing irregularities, ail ments and weakneses peculiar to her sex? Dr.' Pierce 'a Favorite Prescrip tion is a specific j for thebe disorders. The only remedy, sold by druggists UDder a positive guarantee froTi the manufacturers. Satisfaction guaran teed in everv caamJ nr money refunded See printed guarantee on bottle-wrap per, 16. Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah, I Chronicles, ix., 1; II Chronicles, xvL, 11; xxviii., xxxv., 27; xxxvi., 8. Book of the Chronicles of Kings of Israel, I Kings, xiv I Kings, xvl, 9. Book of the Chronicles of Kings of Judah, I Kings, xv., 7. The Chronicles of King David, I Chronicles, xxvii., 24. Isaiah's "Acts Uzziah,"II Chron icles, xxvi., 22. Acts of Hezekiah in the Vision of Isaiah, the Prophet, II Chroni cles, xxxii., 32. Sayings ot the Seers, II Chroni cles, xxxiii., 19. . Story of the Prophet Iddo, Chronicles, xiii., 22. Some commentators maintain that the fourteenth verse of the single chapter of Jude alludes to a "Book of Enoch;" also that the thirty second verse of the fourth chapter of I Kings refers to works on natural history that were writ ten by Solomon. St. Louis Repub lie. Trouble of Writer. De Foe had more than one dose of Newgate and the pillory. Spenser, the poet, suffered the extremes of poverty and neglect. Cowper was all his davs over- and when she went to her home shadowed by the gloom of tnsan- in tne wcsi, iuok a puoiograpn ox I uy. Miss Cutting with her. Dr. Driver saw the picture and was smitten with the tender passion. Cor respondence was opened and' was continued until it culminated in matrimony." The following opinion of Western North Carolina, by a vis- tor, is taken from the Washing ton JSeii's: I have been to the 'Land of the Sky,"' said George E McCook, of Pennsylvania, at the Arlington last night "It is the most magnificent country I have eyer seen. A century from now the people will hardly have begun to appreciate the glories of Western North Carolina. I can understand why Geo. Vanderbilt Le Sage was poor all his life. In old age he was dependent on his son. Milton was blind in his old age and often lacked the comfoits of life. Bacon was avaricious, and his greed for money finally led to his disgrace. Byron was club-footed and the fact was a source of constant misery to him all his life. Dante passed most of his life as an exile from the only city in which he cared to live. Vondel, the great Dutch dra matist, was poor all his life,, and was finally buried by charity. Newton s saater Daalel Affree With Him Aboa Modifying the Free 1 aaf Tsbarse Clan. Senator Ransom says of the tariff bill reported yesterday : "I have not yet had time to give the bill the thorough and critical ex amination which I will gfve to it before it is called up for discus sion, and do not care to express any opinion at present. I will say, however, of the feature modilying the free leaf tobacco clause, that if the amendment is not entirely fair and just in its provisions to the tobacco grower and planter I am in favor of correcting it, and am satisfied that the correction will be made either by the com mittee or on the floor of the Senate-Senator Daniel has not had time to carefully examine the bill, but thinks that in the main it is a good one, and that it will be much more acceptable to the country in its present shape than when it came from the House. "Of course," said he this morning, "I would like to see a higher rate of duty on coal and iron ore.. -The duty on coal, I think, should be at least 50 cents per ton, and I hoped that the committe would agree to my suggestions that sulphur pyrites be made dutiable at the same rate of iron ore, and that a slight in crease be made in the rate of duty on soda ash. Of course I approve of the provision which recom mends a modification of the free leaf clause in the revenue laws. I consider this only somewhat tardy justice to the tobacco manufac turers, and I believe that 'the change will be beneficial to the farmers and tobacco raisers, whose interest really should te consid ered first. "I agree with Senator Ransom that if upon a closer examination of this feature ot the bill I find that their rights or privileges are in any manner interfered with I will endeavor to have the proper corrections made." Washington Special in Richmond Times, 22nd. JIhscIirteJj Pure A cream of tartar baking pow der. Highest of all in leavening" strength. Latest U mitt d States Gov . trntneni Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co., Wall t K. T. Can v T . You Read The Future? Do you know what your con dition will be 20 years hence? Will your earning capacity be equal to the support of yourself and dmily? This is a serious question, yet,, you ; could confidently answer "yes" if you had a tveuty years Tontiue Policy in the Equitable Life A method which guarantees all the protection furnished by cny kind of life insurance, and in addition the largest ' cash returns t j those policy holders whose lives are' pro longed, and v :o then need money rat!;cr than assurance. For Lxzls znd flirurcs. address ..Judge Jackson, in the lottery I ... . nnnnr.. case, holds that the judgment of WLLtix , iiuiiiagcr. I-cr Uio Uar&:ttuj, ROC!C l!ILU S. C. - JT."V. TYLEB, Photographic Artist, Union SC. opposite CoL 8. VcD. TaU'i. I VORQ AJTTON, IT. c Alicia of photographic work at loweet price consistent with firtt-clajl work. EnUrgemeata a rpecUIty. JualS-tf. FIRE INSURANCE I the Louisville Law and Equity Court has never been set aside,1 and that the Frankfort Lottery Company can operate, lie dis missed Douglass. The wheel will therefore continue to spin, pend ing the decision of the Supreme Court. m ..The dynamite works of the Acme Powder Co., at Black's Rue, fourteen miles above Pittsburg, on the Alleghany Valley railroad, blew up last Friday morning, kil ling two men and three women, wrecking houses at Achetonia, on the opposite side of the liver, at Hulton, two miles south, and at Johnson station, a short distance east. The cause of the explosion is not known. Fat Me la My LltUe Bed. I am disxr, dixsy. dissr; And I want to go to bed, I've ao appetite to eat. And headache rack my head. In other words. I am suffering: from a bilious attack, but Dr. Pierce's Pleas ant Pellets will brine me around all right by to-morrow. They often cure headache in an hoar. 1 have found them the best cathartic pill in exist ence. They produce no nausea or rrip- inz, but do their work thoroughly. They are convenient to carry in the vest-pocket, and pleasant to take. In vials; 23 cents. Deefaeee Caaae Be Cared great regret was a is building his palace there, and f c j to COmP!etf.fthf Tork by local application, as they . cannot hv the wav: that will be worth a "chad laid out for his life task. the diseased portion of the ear. LJunyan passed twelve years in I There is only one way to cure Deaf' lail, and during that time sup ported - himself while writing "Pilgrim's Progress." Disrael, the author of the "Curi osities of Literature." ruioed bis eyes by his indefatigable studies and became almost blind. s m a a . . Mr. oiaasioee in a ietter to a j Liberal leader in Midlothian says: "I feel deeply convinced that until the first demands of Ireland are satisfied, as the House of Con mons tried to satisfy them, neither will the executive wants of any portion of the United Kingdom be adequately met, nor will the empire attain the maximum of its union and power, nor British hon or be effectually cleared ol the deepest historic stain ever at tached to it. ..The Sulphur Mines Company, of Virginia, the Alantic and Vir ginia Fertilizer Company, of Richmond, and the Monumental Company, of Baltimore, have jointly consolidated and the busi ness of the three plants will be conducted by the first named Company. The Sulphut Mines Company is already the largest producer of pyrites in the United States and now becomes one of the largest producers of sulphuric acid, its capacity being 22,000 tons. . .A Pneumatic-Tube Service be tween the offices 01 the various newspapers and news associations of Chicago has recently been put in operation. Twenty-nine con duits were laid under Clark street, beginning at Jackson and running north, and branching off at cross streets leading to their respective destinations. These conduits con sist of seamless drawn brass tubes 2li inches in diameter, laid in square vitrified clay pipes, sur rounded by about 10 inches of cement. In this way all damp ness is avoided. In sending a carrier through these tubes only the pressure of the atmosphere will be used, the necssary vacuum in the receiving end being pro duced by an ejector. The carrier is made of flexible leather, with an inner spiral frame to keep it in shape, and a band of felt around each end to make.it comparatively airtight. It is ti inches in diam eter and 8 inches long. This system connects 'the City Press Association and the Western Union Telegraph offices, at Jackson and Clark streets, with the offices of the different newspapers, national and international news , agencies and the central police station. About one minute a carrier to trave line. We write policies on all classes of desirable risks in the followisf stand ard companies : N. C HOME of RsM h ; COST1N KNTAL of New York ; PENNSYLVANIA of Philadelphia; DELAWARE . YA. 11RE AND MARINE of Rich mond: MECnANlCS AND TRADERS' of New Orkt. AVi:itY & EIIYIN, IlEBALD Build leg. If organ too, N. C ' Rose Villv. Kior Street. VORO ANTON, N. C One of the most beaatif al homes In Western North Carolina Convenient to all the Morgan toa bo- . sineas houses and charcbe. Quiet, comfortable, well appointed , in every way. Is now for tee first time thrown open to the travelling public Booms spacious, well lighted and furnished. Table supplied with the best that going. Rate ? per day. special rates by the week, 23 per month. Mas. D. C. PEARSON, Morgan ton, 2i. C. Feb. 19. 1SX. tf. SALE OF LAND. by tne way, mat .win oe worth a week's journey to see when. com pleted, - but the air, water, the foilage, the primitive people, the magnificent mountains it's like going into a fairyland. I wish I could live there forever. Young man, if you wish a rel oasis in the desert of life, hie yourself away for a season to the 'Land of the Sky.' It is God's country." , There is no reason why children should be allowed to suffer from loath some scrofulous sores and glandular swelliDgs when such a pleasant, effect ive, and economical medicine as Ayer's Sarsaparilla may be procured of the J nearest druggist. Be sure you get Ayer's. . r Evidently Mot a Ctrareh-Goln; ! Kiljordan I saw you at church this morning. How did you like the sermon ? Shadbolt Pretty well. The preacher made one assertion, though, that he didn't substantiate. He said: "He that is not rorrest is McGinnis," Chicago Tribune. ness, and that is by constitutional reme dlea. Deafness is cansed hv an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets Inflamed you have a rambling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unlet the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surf sees. We will give One Hundred Dollsrs for any cue of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cared by Hail s Catarrh Cme. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. (3Sold by Druggist, 75c A Qaarter Ceatary TeeC For a quarter of a century Dr. King's New Discovery has been tested, and the mm ion wno bare received benefit from its use testify to its wonderful curative powers in all diseases of Throat, Chest and Longs. A remedy that has stood the test so long and that has given so universal satisfaction is no experiment. Each bottle is positively guaranteed to give relief, or the money will be refunded. It is admitted to be the most reliable for Coughs and Colds. Trial bottles Free at John Toll's Drog store. Large tlx wo. and 11.00. BY Tirtae of aa order aadc by J. W. HappoMt, Ctrrfc of the fteprrkor Coart of Itarfce coeaty, ta the special prorecdu- pradtac in said coart entitled J. W. ttmpmom aad others egaiest Flora arapeoa aad ots era. I wtU aril at pabbc aecttoa. at the Coart Hoses door, to tae tow a ot Mertiatoe. M. C. oa the 2nd day of April. !, (aaaw be tas' isc nrst Monday.) the foUowtaa ! warv r4 inwum, vwva . FIRST TRACT. Brsiaalac oa a epaamh oak aad whttc oak ta tae oet lux oa tk West aad raae Bast lOo poire to a stake aad potatrrs oa the atde of a breST ; then North S Baet. crosaia a breach 345 . poire to a stake aad ootatrrs on the top of a bich hul : then Korth & West TS potea bo a stake aad ncnatrrs oa the rut beak of the breach; tbra North 3 East. Ii final, breach at its jsacUoa with a ditch at poka.1 potca to a stake 00 the eoetabaak, of the Letawoa rtrrr; thro dowa the rivrr Soeth 4 Kut IOO poire to a stake la tfcs lower oatatoc hoc ta the bo t to si ; then, lestk 37 West CO poire to a etake; thra oat -1 2S poire to a stake ia the oetofcS hae; thea Wrst 21 poire to a etake; tbra North to the a brtrtaetn;. containing 1 5 acre asore or Ires aa by mrreere to report of tt m imm am 1 1 urn the sproal procelie rata tied IW ml Snap, son et. al. vs. J. H. fcaaipaoa. dety recorded ta tae trirrk'e oBwe ta Bark coaaty wul aiorr rellr appear. SBCOND TmaCTj Brr'.aeiaoa theXorth side of the railroad at a stake 00 the bate of the Batlrr tract ead raae North with Bat Irr bac to a etake ta eald (Jonrph) etap- ' eoa' bar; tare west with Kiatpeoa- aae poire to a rock oa the North axle of the rail road ; thra baet with the bac of the railroad -to the brrtaarac. briar a portion of the W. F. Arery lead coarered by I. .T. Fettemoa. . sbmiT. to T. O. WaJtoa aad by Waltoa to - umt iih tVi ! peon is required for TlVl R D TRACT. Mm a acres boaebt by the lontrett Joerph S.psoa of Wsa. Btiee ad ww. I5C inc longest ae by Mien at to deed rrgtetrred ta tbe arnietere 0A0 of Berke coaaty sa Book F, parn o 1 cvc. win nui, rauy appear. FUVRTU TRACT. Iwa oae eetftatreeet la 231 acres of laad as by rtfartate to rraat of the btate daly res-tsterrd ks the Brrtetcre . office ia Parks coaaty. Book F. pa-e St will asore rauy appear. 1 erase of aaie eaah. 8ad laad eoM for partitioa aatoeg traaate lacoesssoa. Thte l arch Tth. . ATSST & ESTIS. J. W. SJktr-OK. Attorney. Cc When the scalp b atrophied, or I shiny-bald, no preparation will restore the hair; in all other case. Hail s Hair Eenewex will start a growth. Ducklen Arnica Halve. The best salre in tbe world for Cots, Bruise, Sore Ulcers, Salt Ebeam, Fever Sore, Tetter, Chap ped Hands Chilblain, Coma, aad all Skin Eruption, and posUirelr cores Tiles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to giro petfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 2o cents per box. For salo by John Tall, Druggist;