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Tun Ralkigfi Signal. A Republican Wiek I j Newspaper, ri'BLlSIIKl) by J' & L. II A ft ft j s. TERMS. (One Year) $l5 (Six Months) Kotered in the Postoffice, at Raleigh as .1 PJ10TEQT1VE TARIFF. REASONS WUT AHERICIX LABOR AND AMER ICAS MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS SlIOl'LD BE PROTECTED BY A II 10 II TARIFF THE REPUBLICAN POSITION FULLY 8ET FORTH -THE FALLACY OF FREE THADE EX-I-OED. .' The use it is possible to make of the sav- ,r;Mof labor depends on the degree in which , .u:.u mJhlc?n the whole country in which ilea and extends its industries. The diversification of industries in its turn " " v 7 Vn i K.ik., j jH.rU, and by other means, against ininrious 1 . - luJ,ir,ou uiiniii"""! wuitk.iiuu muur own Inar" keu, ana in our spheres or industry. . t We will state briefly ten distinct reasons why .,,i.v- r.wUv..w- j ci.corj .0 l.nnll nrMMitlAnV. Ti. - - ll iii.o iv.u..j. First: AH values in commodities to you depend as mucn on the obstacles to tho pro- .luction of. the commodity by others as they ,!. on tne facilities to Us production by you. The American farmer's wheat would be worthless if there was any. one point on the plobe where it could be produced for noth- in-, and could be from thence transported instantaneously gratuitously. to the farmer's door. ro shoe maker conld get a nickle for higher degree of service to mankind than is his shoes if they could at any one point in rendered by any similar number of persons the world be made for nothing, and then or race of people on the globe. 7ence we bid down for nothing beside tho product of want protection for our labor from all the that shoo- maker'sjabor. Hence, all values world in order that we may do most for all which attach to what you produce depends the world, thus merging the most enlighten not only on your farilities for producing, but ed self-interest in the most cosmopolitan on the obstacles to the production by others, To the extent thit others, in Europe, India, or China,' can produce for nothing, trans port for nothing, and ixport for nothing, the same. thing you are producing, they can destroy all value in what you produce. Hence, if values of labor are to be higher in this country than in foreign countries, the values ij yhose product which they have all offur facilities for producing must be higher; and to make the values of products higher, foreign markets and our markets must be two n arkets, and not one and the same market, for no one commodity can have two different prices in one market. Labor has a price of say, $1.50 in Ameri ca, $1 10 in England, 90c. in Belgium, 80c. -in France, UOc. in Germany, 50c- in Austr.M, 30c. in Kuuia. 20c. in Turkey, 10c. in China anil Japnand 05c. in India, per day. These differences in the value of labor would all disapixar if . Hindoo labor could be Mipplied with the eame same facilities we are working with, and its product could be gratuitously placed side by side with the products of our labr. IFhatecr higher values attach to Ameri- t can labor and its products, over what attach to foreign . labor and its products, arc due, therefore, Mo the obstacles to the free intro .Ini'ti.-kn rvf tha nrAitiirf if f.rfirrn lalwlP. Rnd to tho obstacles to the general "supplving of r.n i .Wor, with nnr filitip.,." Free tr .I.r iv Wmovin these obstacles, tends to rhr.J .hVwhnl world into one market, hav ; 1 r;- n,! thnrph to .Ipatrov . 1 i - l.. that very, imierence on wnicn our nigner . ..1.. it:a n,i roat Prn- . .1 . - -1 ;.oo ttttion tends to preserve and increase these ditTerences in value. " And these differences in values'constitute the whole difference be tween the. condition of the free American laborer and the Hindoo cooly. Therefore the division of the world into different mar kets, having differences in their values for commodities and labor, is as essential to the freedom of ; the American workingman as is the government under which he lives or the air he breathes. " Secondly: The higher rate of profits and wagis, or of aggregate earnings to capital and labor, which prevail in America over hat have f ver been obtained in other coun- tries. are equivalent to the fact that the same amount of effort relieves more human want and satisfies more of human desire; in short, produces more happiness ai.d does more Lood. tha M like expenditure of effort in any other country. Tlvis higher rate of pro- tit and-wages is the pecuniary aspect of a more rapid and vigorous rate of well doing in the industrial service of mankind. It springs pirtly from our possession of the largest an a of tfewand; virgin soils, and our applicatii of machnjLpower to the cultiva tion and transportation of its products; part ly to the amalgamation into the American races of the highest race types cf Europe, . . . v .i un.nK. . I and the greazesi numoer oi iucm, nuusuj higher type of inven live and mental resource is involved in the American race than ever before existed on earth; and partly and joint i i;h thnin two i ia due to the abandon- . . . t: r..i.:..r,n ti.r,a r meui oi me puiic-jr icijiu iu four industries which would be carried on in ;n imperfect way through the natural pro duction afforded by our cheap land, and irratpicg in addition the great manufactur ing industries in the establinhment of which tariff protection was peremptorily needed. We could raise some corn, cotton and to- Larro without nrotetion. lUSt &S we COUld i , hsxe some rradinp and writing W ithout i : v--: , ;r.Bfana I probably, U posed some tax on corn, cotton, a .d tobacco; but to-day five times more corn, cotton, and tobacco can be raised in this VOL. 1. country became of our msgntGcient woolen .vu, BUU ueci, an, gair, una sugar industries th.n could be raised here if these industries had no existence; and but for pro tection thert industries would to-day hare no existence whatever. Therefore corn, cot wn ana tobacco, the articles for which we hare natural .protection, hare grown five t( faster nnn. 1-1, -1 k V 1 uv 01 carrying tne burden than they would We grown if they 1 nan lnrl i r,l ,: K., ti 1:1.- il - -v..iuv iuv umucu. muj are jiae me man who carried the calf every day till he veloped thereby that while, as a matter of u n in power he could still carry the ox, as a matter I of fact and convenience the ox carried him. These vast manufacturing industries are the OX Ihftt tn ri a. V (arriai nn. fa mi wM4nl and onr farming svstem over the Rockiea to tho Pacific slope, whereas: did thev cot exiafc. W our farmpr Wfinlri ha rill limitorl tn eastern half of the great West. To this di versification of our industries is doe their activity; oat of their activity comes their high rate of profit on capital, and out of this high rate of proGt on capital come the exist- ing rates of wages. And this higher rate of profit and of wages in their turn, as a con- tinual state of higher reward for well doing, stimulate us to continue in rendering a philanthropy. Thirdly: The position taken by the Free Traders, that whatever is profitable to each of the two parties to a trade must be profita ble to the Nation at large, and since the two parties to a trade would not make the trade unless each of them saw a profit in it, the fact that they make it shows that the Nation at large is benefited by it, js made untrue by the fact that while each person buys or sells lor money, the Nation at large exchanges al ways goods for goods, inter-national trade always resolving itself into barter. If one Nation, as England, does not have the goods with which to pay for the breadstuff, cotton and petroleum we ship her, she buys coffee of Brazil and tea of China and with those balances the account, leaving only an occa sional small remittance necessary in money. Now, when trade resolves itself into barter of commodities for commodities, tho ex pedieccy to us, of a Nation, of importing a foreign commodity relatively to the expe diency of producing it at home, contains two questions, viz: 1st Where can we buy the commodity cheapest, abroad or at home 2d. Where can we, a3 a Nation, barter the greatest number oflthe commodities which we produce in exchange for it? ' . Now, to the individual buyer of acorn dity, the first of these questions 1s the only one that ever arises, because he, as a bnyer, always pays for it in money, and never g3' But to the Nation 00111 18tlons arise, because the Nation pays for it in goods nr hpcomes bankruDt. To pay for it in . money would dram it of its medium of ex change, its implement of commerce, in which v-uaufe'r r . it can no more afford to pay lor its purcna bps anroaa man a mecnamc cau unuru tu . i .i i -it J .. pay his debts by handing over his kit of tools, or a farmer can afford to pay his debts by surrendering his farm. The nation there Ioro must 4uir wucu uumpaiiu u pvu.cj .u.. tion, not only at what price can I buy, but with how many products can I pay in barter, if 1 buy abroad, and with how many can bay at home? Now. we will suppose John Bull is at his 1 ... . 1 TT I r end of a telephone that connects witn uncie Sams's right ear, and that Uncle Sam has several telephones at his left year, connecting with Brother Jonathan in Connecticut, and with the Hon. Timothy Buckeye in Ohio, and with Mr. Abiram Sucker in Illinois. Uncle Sam first calls and says: "John Bulir "All right," says John, "I'm here. "John, my people need 560,000000 pounds 0f paper every year, and they want to know where they can buy it cheapest. Can you furnish it?" John Bull: "The Lord only knows whether I could or not. I never made more, than 350,000,000 pounds of paper a year in my life." I donH make as much paper per capita as you do. What possesees you to be want ing to buy paper o' me? I might sell you a fov thnnsind reams at a low price, but 11 you can on me iur muro mu quanMty I am now making, l can c ten 1 - I '.1 lw wuero u w. Uncle Sam: "Jus so, John. Well, I only Suppose you pay you in? vant to nzure on it a little. onlil furnish it. what can l You know while our citizens pay money for hetwpen von and me it's all barter of goods for goods. Now, whst will you of roe if I buy all my paper of you?" take John Bull: "I can't take much more wheat, for our farmers are grumbling at what I'm taking now. I might take a JiUle more cotton, but not much, for Tm trying to get mv CO I ton. u a can, m a r m w in Egypt ana inaia.' Uccle Sam: "Whe"f.Mtt?"t sending over so much of them now that the bigger the crops I raise the less I get for iL LEIGH RALEIGH, N C, THURSDAY, JULY 28, You wouldn't like, say 50,000 ship loads pumpkins, would your John Bull: "ro, wouldn't lika no pump kins, would you?' Uncle Sam : ! can buy all this paper home, and pay for it in straw, cord-wood, corner lots, tatoes, lime, coal, railroad freights, timber on the stump, cattle on the hoof, cranberries, school teachin', prechin', clams, whiskey, hay, or any other domestic product, ow can I afford to buy it of you when yon won't take any thing in pay for but cotton and wheat, and when you don't want any more of those?" t John Bull: "I haven't said you, could afford to buy of me. Some of my cranks that are running the Cobden Club might have said so, but I tell you your trade is most free when you trade, with those who will take k. 9 1 1. A 1 Jl moat i reci j wnai you nave to give, ana inose are, of course, your home producers.,' " So'Uuncle Sam calls up his home pro ducers, and finds that he can buy his 560, 000,000 pounds of paper, and pay for it in straw, which would otherwise be worthless, in cord-wood, lumber on the stump, corner lots, pumpkins, or any other of his domestic products. He finds his trade abroad a most restricted trade, because restricted in the means of barter which he can make use of in payment, while his trade at home is free trade because he is free to pay with what- ever commodity he can produce. Hence protection of domestic industry tends to- ward the highest freedom of our home trade, which must in any event form nineteen- twentieths of all our trade. Fonrthlv: A f north fir.onomifi reaann whv working men need protection by a tax to keep out the products of foreign labor, rather than to keen out thft fnreiVn lahnrer himaAlf is this: The foreign laborer, the instant he ands upon our t bores, becomes in every economic sense an American laborer, a con sumer of American products, and apart of that vast American demand which gives to all American commodities their value. He does not,, like the imported commodity, merely displace the American labor previous y in the market. On the contrary, he adds to its employment. It is only necessary that the labor immigrating into this couutry shall distribute itself among the different .employments according in the main it does, to to the demand, as continue the equili brium between occupations previously exist ing. For instance, if our shoe-maker is re quired for 300 persons, and if out of 300 immigrants only one, after he comes here, goes to making shoes, then the labor market in the shoe business would not be disturbed in the least by the arrival of 10,000,000 im migrants, because each arrival would in crease the American demand for shoes in a ratio exactly equal to the increase of the American supply. Business to the shoe- maker would be brisker than ever, as society in motion makes more life than society at guards and forward to its most sublinve frui rest. But suppose that instead of the 10.- tion and destiny. Histor'cally, this union 000,000 immigiants we bring in free the shoes which one in 300 of them, if a shoe- maker, would make, but no immigrants at all. The demand for shoes is not increased at all, but shoes enough to supply 10,000, 000 persons are thrust npon our markets from aboad without any new consumer of shoes. This does disturb the equilibrium previously existing in the shoe market. One fifth more shoes than existing consumers want might couse a fall of two fifths in the existing prices of all the shoes in the country; might, if it were an annual supply, throw thousands of persons out of employment, for the imported shoes goes on displacing Ameri can labor, but producing nothing and de manding nothing, unless it may be. a drain of gold to Europe, from the hour it is im ported to the hour it is worn out and thrown away. The imported shoe-maker, on the other hand, is instantly incorporated into the great army of American producers and con sumers'; he is part of the demand which makes values as well as of the force which supplies them, and in the economic sense his presence here, if he is an honest, indus trious man, is just as useful to the country as is the presence of any other worker whose ancestors came in the Mayflower. They are, therefore, in the wrong who say, let in the foreign commodity, but shut out the immi grant. They only are entirely right who say, let in the immigrant freely, but shut out the commodity. And now . the economic reason why the commodity produced by American labor should be preferred to that produced by for eign labor, is that in the domestic produc tion, suppose it to be of cloth or iron, com pared with the foreign production of cloth or iron, two domestic or capitals and two American sets of laborers. are employed, viz: That which produces the cloth or iron itself and that which produces the corn or cotton' or beef which is given in exchange for it, while in the case of the imported cloth or iron only one domestic capital and one set of American laborers is employed, viz: That which produces the corn or cotton which is m . mi given in exchange ior ciotn or iron, xne capital and labor employed in producing the imported cloth or iron are foreign capital and labor, '. e.t located at the time of pro duction in a foreign country where they con stitute a part of the local demand for the o' land and food, fuel and other products, of that country, and are no part of bur loca! - demand for land or bulky products. Moreover, in the caso of the cloth or iron at produced in this country, the American peo j pie have two consumptions as well as produc tions, where the imported commodity for" nishes them with only one. They consume the iron or cloth and they alio consume the corn or cotton given in exchange for it. They have just so much more of ' the comforts, it conveniences and necessaries of life. But in the case of the imported cloth or iron,1 the American people have the consumption of the cloth or iron, but the consumption of the wheat or cotton given in exchange for it takes place abroad. A. domestic production as compared with a foreign production, there fore, doubles both our home production and I 1 mmm . - . . our home consumption. There is the same difference as between a circulation of the - blood within a .human being, which is life, - and a letting it out upon the air. which is death. Out of this active home production and consumption spring profits and wages; and as the division is nearly that of working on shares, the wage-earner shares with the profit-maker in the blessings of an active so cietarv circulation, thus niacin? it in his power to become a profit-maker himself. Fifthly: A fifth reason why a nation should protect its trade and production by tariff on imports is because it is better and more hu- mane to protect them in this way than to send armies into all the barbarian countries f the -world to compel them to buy our goods at the point of the bayonet. Jt is cheaper m the long run to conquer the world y attracting their emigrants o us than by sending our armies to them. This IS what protection to American labor is doing. Sixthly: Protection to American labor should be sustained because it is a sure and reasonably short road to cheapness, France proved that with beet sugar. When Napo leon decree 1 its protection in 1812, England got off such rhymes as this: Says John Bull to Bony, while we hold the cane You are welcome each year to get beat. But now France can reply: When ) ou held the cane ours was the pain. And you led us a lively cotillion; That your toadies would chance to be sweetened from France Some day was one chance in a million. But now, you know, its a Jolly go, You can't drink the health of the Queen, you know, But protected beet sugar gets into the gin, And shows what a pickle old England is in. Seventhly: We would advocate protection to American industry, if for no other reason, for the political reason that it is the question of the union of these States under one gov ernment carried down to its foundations, back to its causes, out to its proper safe- of States was formed solely in order to pass a protective tariff. That was the motive So far as free trade has wrought at all, it has wrought, with insidious wiles, to connect the South in its affections with England, and to connect the North in its interests with Eng land, and to prevent the North and South from being bound together by both affection and interest. Our American Union -i3 neier secure so long as a pound of Southern cotton is spun in Manchester, or a ion oi jxortnern "m w m . . m IT it iron or steel is brought from Birmingham. On-the contrary, let the cotton crop of the South be spun and woven anywhere in this country, South or North; let our railroads now pointing Eastward be so turned that they will point Southward; develop the metal interests of the vast chains of Southern mountains, and the combined military power of all the nations of the world could not force the North and South apart. Eighthly. We would vote for protection to American industry because Germany, France, Russia and even England have not only in dicated, so far as they have steadfastly ad hered to this policy, that it is in accordance with the ineradicable instincts of human na ture as well as with the harmony of econo mic interests in society; but when they have departed from it, in part, as England did in 1846, in Withdrawing protection from the farmers of Great Britain and Ireland, the re suit has been disastrous in every aspect of the case, when thoroughly examined. And we would vote for protection because the greatly-stricken nations of the world, Ireland, In aia, Turkey and Egypt, have been consigned to hideous desolation and famine by that for eign military force which prevented them pursuing the natural, healthy, national pol icy. Every English colony, in the degree that is free, without a single exception, adopts the protective policy. New South Wales protects a dozen "products, and Vic toria protects nearly everything. On the contrary, the baibarous ethics which till now prevailed among nations per mit the supposed sovereign nations of China and Japan to be dragged at the car of British free trade under treaties imposed on them by military force. . "NiLthly: We would vote for protection to American labor because, much as it has al ready done, it has yet accomplished but half SlGNA 1, 1887. NO. 31. its woi k. TFe have to find employment in the United States within twenty years for a hundred milliona of people..: The. future in dustrial activity of the country must exceed the present, as that of the present exceeds the stagnant life we led a century ago. TFe have still a vast sugar, flax, hemp, tea, silk and grain culture to develop. JFe have plains as wide as empires to irrigate, forests that have been wasted t restore, rivers to protect from wasteful overflow, a commercial marine to renew, and a new adjustment of socialism acd individualism as forces in society to pro tect. Second not even to our system of free schools, or of manhood suffrage, or of repre sentative government in securing all thesa ends, will be the protective policy. And now . '' Tenthly: Maintain protection to American labor, because it i9 virtually the educating force for all adults of both sexes the free school of all trades and industries, the fore ing-honseof new inventions, the invigorating and stimulating energizer of all our unde veloped capacities. Upon the torpor of in dividual selfishness it comes like the influ ence of the sun in spring, breathing into it a life it did nofknow of, endowing it with a soul it did not before possess. Men move under the consciousness of this great National purpose, with a sense of common interest from Florida to Oregon, from .Maine to Ari zona. If it shall ever appear that ; there is any practical utility in the broader sentiment of being a citizen of the world, it will develop through and out of the sentiment of protec tion, Hitherto the pretenso of desiring to weld all nations into one, has been only the hypocritical pretext of the stroDgwith which to gull and destroy the weak. Already out of the protection sentiment and among pro tectionist statesmen is developing the new quality of international ethics that weaker nations have inherent rights of home rule which stronger nations must respect; that mankind is never benefited, but always cursed, when people of one race, language or religious faith, no matter what, conquer with the strong arm and force their officers or their laws, their merchants, heir missiona ries or their manufacturers,upon another; that heathen nations must no longer be conrpelled to dodge under the panoply of the Christian religion, as.China and Japan are now hypo critically proposing to do,' in order to escape the terrible burden of foreign despotism and industrial decimation and famine. Not until the justice and- wisdom of the na tional policy is every where admitted can there be international sense of right. We would advocate protection, therefore, in the interests of the broadest cosmopolitanism and human charity as the means of bringing about that condition of things in which man should re cognize as of one blood all the natiors of men that dwell on all the face of the e.irth. LETTER FROM D UP LIN. THE HOT WAVE--THE LIQUOR QUESTION" QUACK DOCTOR TAXATION CROPS, ..Warsaw, N. O. July 27. he hot wave has struck Warsaw and we are sweltering in the heat here to-day with thermometer at 97 and still rising. Warsaw is a dry town now, and to take the weather into consideration the above would be correct. But, although our liquor dealets failed to get license to sell spirituous liquors, they succeeaea in obtain ing license to sell beer, and prohibition fails to prohibit so iar, ana win continue to ran here. It is said that that limb of the law, Judge Stevens, made the greatest effort of his life before the county commissioners try mg to persuaae tnem tnat tne cnarter oi Warsaw was not good law and had no bind ing effect when it was against his side of the picture, and only good law when favored his aims and purposes. But that honorable board appeared to be deaf on that side next to the learnea ana eloquent uenry, ana failed to see it in the sanie light the Judge did and refused to grant license to sell the ardent article. But the matter is still in litigation and the Judge says he will bo sure to win in the next hearing, before the Superior Court. May be he will; the Judge is a good hand to prevaricate and twist the law about to suit bis case. A corn conjurer and wait doctor appeared in town last week and soon made a lot of money out of our people and then appeared on the streets drunk, shouting and hallooing for several days in succession. He seemed to have been granted the. privilege of the city by the powers that be; and all this hap pened in a town where the sale of liquor is forbidden by law. tfut our honorable board of town commissioners are progressive in some respects. They, have built a guard house some larger than a big goods box, and it is reported that they have proved to be stronger than our State Legislature, and levied a tax on dogs. Well, they have not taxed all subjects taxed by State and county and I suppose the next subject of taxation, and as a last resort, will be to levy a tax on Thomas f Cats. It appears that our law makers throughout the country has a mania these hard times for heaping up taxes on our already over burdened, tax ridden and finan cially distrei-sed people. It is to be hoped that a change for the better will come in time; the people are feel ing and seeing and that's what made old doubting Thomas believe and as under our form of government the people having power enough of those will believe in time to set the country right again in 1888. " But truly the Americans are a patient and long suffering people and their proving to be so, is enough to inspire new and nnshaken con fidence in their patroitism and the perpe The Raleigh Signal, Rates of Advertising: One square, one Insertion. One squaie. one monthMm. One square, t o . month. . ....-I .50 .... 1.00 One square, three month. ...t. "V . . A 1.50 yjnc Equftir, fix moDias..j,',...1HN One square, one year .............. .mmmm, ILLiberil contracts will be made advertisements. 12.00 20 00 for larger tuity of our institutions, Mtd the American Republic. .: . The crops continue to improve; very littlo. doing in business circles; politics at a stand Still. CORRESPONDENT. STATE NEWS. tteath of an Aged Lady. Mrs. Anna Spratt, and aged and well- known lady of Berry Hill township, died yes terday, in the 84th year of her age. She was one of the oldest residents of the township. Charlotte Observer. Through. Watermelon Train. The Atlantio Coast Line sent this week the first watermelon train through from Valdosta, Ga., to Boston, with 15,000 melons on board. The trip was made in ninety-five hours, an average of twenty-five miles per hour, at a cost of about fifteen cents per each melon. Wilmington Messenger. Died of Sunstroke. Day before yesterday a colored man named Obed Alexander, suffered an attack of sun stroke near Lexington, N. C, and died from the effects of it two hours afterwards. Alex ander belonged to Capt John Dodjon's squad of track hands on the Richmond and Dan ville Railroad, and was at work when he was stricken down. He received all attention possible, but his life could not bo saved, Charlotte Observer. Appointed Special" Deputy. Collector Craige has appointed Mr. A. M. Vannoy, of this place, a special deputy in the internal revenue service. As was stated last week, there are to be but two special deputies in the new fifth district, whereas ttfere irere eight in the old sixth. Mr. (aige had al ready appointed Col. A. IL Baird, of Aihe ville, as one of these, and last Friday he sent Mr. Vannoy his commission as the other one. Both of these are re-appointments. Mr. Vannoy's success is gratifying here. He has made a good and faithful officer and deserved re-appointment Statesville Landmark. Cutting Affair at Catawba. List Monday Messrs. Jako Little and J. H. Trolinger. both merchants of Catawba Station, had a falling out about some matter or other, ana a aimcuity eneuea, aurir.g which Little .stabbed Trolinger in tho Ut ( side between the seventh and eighth ribs, in flicting a dangerous and painful wound. Dr. Campbell and McCorkle gave the injured man medical attention, and it is thought he may recover if inflamation does not ensue. Both parties to tho affair are well known bus iness men, and the difficulty is deeply regret ed by the r friends. Charlotte Observer. Fatal Accident in Sharon. Day before yesterday evening Abe Torrence, a colored man living in Sharon township, met with a fearful accident, by which his rkull was crushed in across the top' of his head, and which wilt result in his death. At the time of the. accident Torrence was en gaged in hauling some logs for Mr. J. Watt Kirkpatrick, and after getting a log loaded upon the wagon and tied down with a lo:ig lumber spring p( le, as is generally used for the purpose, Torrence walked up to the log and struck it with i n axe, when the pole be come loose and flew back with a sweep of about twenty feet, striking Torrence-in the head and knocking him insensible. Blood gushed from the nose, mouth and ears of the injured man, and in addition to having his head crushed in two of bis ribs were broken by being knocked across the log by the pole. D:. Charles Strong was summoned to attend the injured man, but ihere is littlo or no hope of his recovery. Charlotte Observer. Murder Will Out. A letter has been received from a convict now in the State penitentiary, by a promi nent lawyer in Western North Carolina, who defended him, to the effect that there is a man in the penitentiary who confessed to him that he killed Munroo Madison. This letter was turned over to detective IF. II. leaver, by a tolicitor for the State. The detective has been making investigation for some weeks and feels assured that he has a clue to the murderer of this unfortunate young man. The correspondenco between tho detective and the informant has led him to this con clusion. The detective declines to give an names, pending the investigation.' Mr. Z?eaver made a full investigation of all the circumstances connected with this mur der soon after its occurence, and was fully convinced that young Madison committed suicide; but now that this correspondence has been brought about, he feels that there is something more than suicide. lie says if the evidence he has now, is true, the tteory of suicide is "busted' This evidence leads him to the belief that he will be enabled to put the bracelets on his man. -Asheville Advance. News About Onr Water Power. Messrs. Arrington ana Butler, of the Water Power Company, were in town Monday and Tuesday on business connected with the work on the canal. With them was Mr. Holly, the hydraulic engineer who'built the large canal at An gust a, Ga. He will remain here for the purpose of making a survey of the canal and it is thought that he will take the contract for enlarging the canal. It is the intention of the company to put the canal in proper condition as soon as possible and as soon as this is accomplished, steps will be at once taken to sell factory cites along its banks, for which purpose preliminary work is being done. We have also been informed that the same parties have organized a com- pany to estaonsn a jarge cotton iactory at this point to cost a halt million dollars and that all the stock has already been sold. Such a factory would require somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand operators, ' which would increase the population of IFel- don by abont threo thousand and quadruple the business and . trade of . the town, lbcre can oe no doubt that the canal property will be fully developed at an early aay and that in lour, or nve years weiaon win do ins largest manufacturing centre in the State, if: not in the South, and as a forerunner we . hope to see an increase and general revival of business here in less than twelve months. Weldon News. - . .