that - shall be ' jJepsjted .VcoYSent
SSi by to the skid, railroad to aw
ic . railroad: etc
ilroad
Bail
P When thfti Bstorsborg ,8W
, . i- river and
wanted to .cMss -over -the Jiver anu
hi itatermihuaon the south side pf
the Roanoke rir) jtheX. xlaimeiiM
it waa for .thenblKsood, ;ath?
State, at their .uesMextendee
linetf road to the . .Weldon, Basin.
- -The 5 charter as it.stan.aseompejs Ae
railroad company iq.taup andvsp
any produce or commodities that may
be placed convenient to the said rail
road The charter also does not say
or imply that freight must be placed
at their "toll gates' The incorpora.
tors had no idei of a modern .railroad.
The . steamboat, canal boat,, sailboat
and turnpike .furnished . models for
comparison and .thought, and because
steamboats always stopped at land-:
mm . (convenient places to - load) it
was expected that railroad wagons
would stop and take on freight. , ; -To
prove this, statement to be true,
without reciting cotemporaneous his
tory I note from: their chatter itself:
"They (the railroad company) shall
have the right to purchase and place
on the track, wagons vehicles, car
riages and-teams, and - after, the .com?
pletion of 10 mios pf the road, if the
company fails , to. transport any com
modities, which shall :be deposited con
venient to the said ; railroad;, the.com-
pany. shall, become; liable to prosecu
tion for -damages," t : s" :
The railroad companies . want their
pound of flesh. . So do we, ; '.
Our tram roads, to saw mills .gives
you a perfect. fac simile of , the rail
roads as our. fathersfirst saw them .
If passenger -traffic was intended; the
charter makes no provisions for iL.
If :the railroad companies want to
charge enormous rates because their
' charters say. they may do.so, let it be
so; ljut let us demand all the privileges
the charter gives ; us. Let us . see:
they have no privileges their charter
does not expressly grant them.
The owners of produce were re
quired to tender to the railroad com
panies, at their toll gates, the toll due
upon said produce. . ,
In a speech made on the subject by
a (then) great authority, it was held
" That unless such fender was made
that the wagoners of the railroad com
pany could not know where to stop or
whether the shipper desired his com
modities removed on that particular
day." Hence the charter says' " Equal
and impartial iustice to all," so that
each citizen could deposit his freight'
at the most conveniens piace.-
It is a correct principle of interpre
tation that all language; either words
or sentences, shall be held to mean,
as wad mednt atfthe' time 'the words
or sentences were spoken or written.
Follow up this " principle ' and how
fares it with the Petersburg Railooad?
Let us re-read the charter:. Cor
porate powers granted for ; s&ly , years
and no longer, without a .renewal of
its charter. , xv ," ...
Not that the company " has a "right
to swallow another railroad company
whose charter extends longer, but by
renewal. V
Let me cite a case , in point: A.
rents of B. his farm for a term often
years, and . at the expiration of ' the
term A. is to give up the farm to B:,
unless they again . contract. At the
end of eight years A. comes to B. and
says: "I have made sundry improve-,
ments on your farm, and I would like
to enjoy the" fruits of my labor for
five years from xiate. . Should B.Tac-,
ceed to the proposition,, would you
not expect that he woula pay B. for
the extra live , years ?.'
In the yfcr '.190 the charter of the
Petersburg ''Railroad Company ex
pires by limitation.' Suppose for the
sake of the argument that the absorb
tion of the Greenville Company ex
tends their charter, cannot the citizens
along the line of road, 'over wfiose
lands the railroad passes, compel the
railroad in question' to pay them dam
ages for the -further occupaiiy of their
lands ? a J - Sj V- ' : - -'
The charter was granted" for sixty
years and no longer.- . rr;
The land along the Kne of road was
either given or concerned under the
charter.' Those whose duty it was to
assess damages had the charter only
fqr their - guide. UThat instrument
read sixty . years, not nine ty. They
could not assess damages for a term
of years other than the number stated
in the charter. This applies to all
roads whose time has been extended
if to the one in question. -
Passing over the various amend
ments as not affecting the principles
involved, we turn back to the 1883
'84. The Legislature, of North Caro
lina granted the year just named a
charter to the Greenville and Roan
oke Company, giving-it the right to
build, as they did from Hicksford to
Gaston. The charter of this las
named road was for 90 years, expir-
u uuiiiauon tub roaa
was built and ODerated. Tn 1852 ati
amalgamating act was passed so that
al n a i . .
iue rewrsDurg railroad- and the
Greenville and Roanoke railroad com
panies should be under one manage
ment. In the consoUdating act you may
read as follows: If the Petersburg
Roilroad Company's charter expires
by failure to renew, the stockholders
in that company may be stockholders
m so much of the railroad as is now
the Greenville and Roanoke Railroad
Company," I
In other wordsit the Legislature
failed to . grant .-. the Petersburg.j rail
road a: renewal- they could s till use
the i Hicksford and Gaston branch to
get their trainV-intq WBbij Carolina.
So much 'f ot the . history as related
in the charter.
But,a. history, oX, the Greenville &
RoanokX railroad is that for: nearly a
quarter of a century it has been
abandoned. The object of the rail
road; was to give the railroad a direct
line to 'Petersburg from the Raleigh &
Gaston 'Railroadand the object of the
State' in giving the charter was ly
benefit her citizens, to give them facil1
ities for shipping, etc. " ;
, Now it is clear to the most obtuse
that when the State of North Carolina
granted the original charter or when
the roads in question were; consoli
dated, the State .could not have known
that one of the roads would be aban
doned and to, the great loss and detri
ment . of her citizens, both in time
and money, for the act-?-the fact--oc-curred
years afterwards.
When the joint company aban
doned one oi its. roads, when it re
fused to run trains and ' to carry
freight and passengers, it yiolated the
charter, so far as it could it annulled
it- The contract made between the
railroad company and the State of
North Carolina was broken by the
railroad company and in doing so it
deprived itself of the advantages of
th& charter of the road abandoned.
-VtFarmers ate: not supposed to know
much c; law -but I would Ve'ttturia-' to
quote from Pierce . on railroads.- He
says: " Noniuser ormisuser; of its
franchise . by a. corporation ot ' its
breach jo! the conditions on which its
duration Js, by .tbd lawi of, creation
made -to-depend. ,isr a jcd&si ofcyfyr-,
Red field on railroad , says 'L By
virtue ;of their: compulsory. powers. iU
taking, lands (the railroad company)
can acquire no absolute fee .simple
but only the right to use the lands for
their purpose. It is even question-
able whether they, are entitled to the
uerDage growing rnereon.
" I would further cite 3 Wood, 1711:
"It is a' general principle, that where
there has been a misuser or . a non
user in regard to matters which are
of the essence of the contract between
corporations and the State, the acts
or omissions complained of hive been
repeated and wilful, they constitute
just ground for forfeiture. But the
r charter xf business corporations imply
and require that they shall perform
the business for which they were in
stituted, and a substantial suspension
of business after its commencement like
an "entire omission to commence, is a
violation of the charter?" ..: . rr , - '
: I submit in all good faith that 24
years of failure to run "a train over
the line of railroad is a substantial
suspension. - ' - .
, I repeat jhesupremeissuein North
Carolina vfy&BaXL railroadVi0 ns!or
shall wo cpni.rihem? v .
They claim cthat a charter is a Mede
and Persian law. if tHey have the ad-:
vantage of the people , but an india
rubber devicelf its provisions failtb
suitthem. .-.." . ' , ,
Briefly stated . the question is: Can
one generation barter away the rights
of another? Can a Legislature enact
laws that will be more enduring than
the law under which the' Legislatufe
acted more permanent7 ihan" the con
stitution itself ? . - ( -ri -
We can change the sttpreme law "o
the ' land, but not & railroad charter
That -is1, their position. Wetvmayf
ignore or annul State" ffgfitsf wema
destroy millions-bf dollars wortHs of
property, or take ft-fromr the;'owiier
even when'-owned'.by'and 'fiid-' undr
the Constitution, yet thodear raiiroaoT
companies cannot ; be "compelled1 to
loose one iota.
..Brethren ypu are the jury, - The
facts are Jbefpre.you, I fcive vou -the
charge. of. Chief Justice Miller in tho
case of N. J. vs. Yard 95;nK s. 104.
M The xight to amend or repeal Leer
islatiye gran.ls to ; corporations,1 being
itself but the; expression of the will of
the Legislature . for - one particular
session or term, cannot bind any sue
ceedUng legislature.
-To an Old. Fogy that sounds like
good, sensible law. But as citizens as
well as jurors you are sworn
to obey the constitution of your Stated
TT 1 , ...
nearxen unio it, ana well ana truly
try the case now submitted.
"That all government of right
originates from the people, and is
founded on their will only and is insti
tuted for the good not oV railroad.
companies but for the good f the
whole. That all political -poweris
vested in and derived from the
people." .
Your Constitution clearlv lava
down the broad principle that the will
oj ine people shall determine what is
for our good. And the Constitution
provides a way of expressing your will
w oy me oauot. .
' But as if our forefathers were
afraid this were not enough, they
added: "That the people of this
State have the sole and exclusive right
of regulating the internal government
thereof and that perpetuaties and mo
nopolies are contrary to the genius of
a free State." Into your hands I sub
mit the case and I feel, sure that
when you return your verdict it will
read: Ws, the people of : North
Carolina, demand a railroad commis
sion.
Assumed virtue is false dignity.
GENERAL, NEWS ITEHS.
r . . , .. ...... - y "V- ' ' ' - '
jA. cloud burst, in I Spy fh'CatoIin a Ji3
damage 'over an1 'area .of n Ve m!est:By
likij : ; -
Rn6fnislr and VTef tphali $ 'nu'nrs nlite
fdrriied a' union againstthe mine owners'
union.'''' ' t-' f-iT.'.-iA i - -
. Colonel Alfred Alyward a noted Irish
American died.,, recently at West Little-
It has been found that: 10,OOQ books
have , been written by. .women in, the
United States. . : - . ; v-'-v.-r.
. Over-forty bishop have accepted invii
tations to the Catholic hierarchy celebra-s
tion in November, v
The half century mark in the priesthood
waa reached by Monsignor McColgan,- of
Philadelphia, Saturday. . . ; v : -f
The New York World? s new ; building
is to be 183"feefcor ,13 stories high and is
to cost one' million dollars. . -
Duriiig a public concert in Rome a
bomb wa exploded near the Austrian
embassy. IJight people hurt.
"Mrs. May brick is permitted by the
prison, authorities to take exercise in tiie
prison yard.-. Her health is improving,;.
The Connellsville, Pa., coke producers
contemplate getting rid of the Hungarians
by employing.colored men in their places,
Keep the pigs growing rapidly. The
cheaper the animal the , less the cost of
each pound of flesh made,eneraliy epeak-
The corn crop is first rate, hut w.hear
complaints about the .CQt.toji, ' rA big" yield
of oornwill be Vgirekt lessing to our
people.-1 J , " ;
: Vfaijuclng in . the hill, , is -like heaping
manure "about" thej.'stem of a fruit tree.
Better ' spread-it oia It as far as the roo.ts
extehdr v v y : ,-y-'-: '' - , -i.2-
"The atmosphere'for. miles aroinq Jrortr,
fand? Ore.; is thick with ilnoke and'eind
6rsj and' burning ' brands - are falling in
shOWere. ' -: - " :"-
""Alexander Dumas,-the younger is 76
years old. He began writing at Yl and
at 2G produced the famous " Dame' aux
Camehas.'
While 'ex-Governor Robie, of Maine,
was walking near his farm the other day
he was attacked - with a whip by two
Frenchmen.
The great shoe factory of Coborn Sons
& Co., Hopkinton, Mass., was destroyed
by fire the other day, causing $100,000
loss; full insured.
Negotiations are in progress to pur
chase the extensive woolen mills of J ames
Lee & Sons, of Bridgeport, Pa., by an
English syndicate. -
The vicinity of Mammoth, Pa., has
been visited by a snow storm lately. The
white flakes feU until the ground was
completely, covered. . . . .
. "T 1 If TX . A. T I 11 i-IV ' i.
i isaoeua rurnace, at xsaueiui, Aaesier
county, Jfa., wnicn was aestroyea oy nre
six months ago and then rebuilt, resumed,
operations;Saurday -ri;.i ; i .
The Atlanta Fair Association offers 'a
prize of $3,000. for the best drilled milU
tary. company in the United States, The
fair opens October 7. ' , . i. vv-i ii"
A St. Louis man wants a divorce be
cause his wife .snores, whistles, smokea
and swears. She evidently, made a mis
take in being a woman.
Sow two or three small boxe "with
lettuce seed and set in the kitchen win
dow, to have green food for, the early
fall and winter broods;
The resignation of the ruler of Cash
mere hag been accepted by the Viceroy
of India and the country has been placed
under a native council. -
Hoa' Welty McCulldugh, of rreens
burgj Pa., ex-member of Congress f or tb.e
twenty-first district of Pennsylvania, died
Saturday, aged 42 years. ..
When a man makes up his mind that
hehas-got to economize, his first impulse
always ;is to begin by . inquiring into his
wjfe?s, personal expenses,
; i. Atbad break occurred. in the Erie canal
two miles, east of Midcfleport, fX?l an
navigation was Suspended, whije rSur-
LWm?Emery, whp was' the Democratic
candidate for Congress against Thos. B.
Reed in the first Maine district last year,
died Saturday at Alfred, Me.
Jim McCoy, the " noted .. desperado of
bouthwestern Texa&r was- hanged at ban
Antonio Veben'tly lor.. the murder of Sheriff
Colonel ELr JT, Hudson - died Friday,
aged 70 years, at Terre Haute, Indiana
xi o nau uen prommeni m puDnc anapo-
jutiuai auiufs m xuuiaua xor Lvny years.
Eighty years ago Tennyson,; Darwin,
Gladstone, Lincoln, X)liver - ."Wendell
Holmes, "" Edgar Allen Ppe . and Iord
Houghton were born. 1809 was a great
year.
. The latest . fociety spoken of in Okla
homa is the ,vIfay Nothing." It is said
to be alarmingly prosperous. The pass
word is, " Lend me a dollar ; the response,
"Brdke." .. .
A Brooklyn man has been sent to jail
for kissing a girl good night. This should
teach Brooklyn young men to remain a
couple of hours longer, and kiss her good
morning. - ' -:
Robert Marvel, an 86-year old Indian,
has Uved for sixty-six days without food
except a little milk, less than a gallon in
all. This is a marvelous performance for
one so old.
Four hundred white families and 8.000
negroes,. it is said, are under contract to
go from the Carohnas and Georgia to
Arkansas, where there is a lack of labor
of all kinds.
Albert Nicolet, an engraver, has con
fessed to the authorship- of the anarchist
manifesto recently circulated 'throughout
Switzerland. He " Will be tried for the
offense at Berne. . .. ." :
American girls seem to have a weak-
ness -tor uues, ana many oi mem give
themselves and their fortunes away to ho
account fellows just to get . a Count, or
something of that sort. .
x uumas itzpatticic. employed ' as a
niirsejin therIejsjBpisopal;Pospi-H
tai,.,'iNew ,Xxtic jeitjfeii. through ;the
elevat r shaft" Saturday 'nhiand was. in
stantly killed. r --:-,
. AnivgJe measuring peven. feet-from
f tip JoE i was saot on, Tuesday at E 'igle
S. xtoswell Jtf, , J? lower, OC X ew
'Mr. Flowier intends to hreseht'the
eagle'icf Tammany HalL I-
HP-ftq-. Saturday evening. 31st ult no
r settlement of the great' strike- in " London
j had been made." The' dbclc coapaniesex:
. pfeis "a -willingnesto concede " further
proposals from the' men. - ' . ?
Theorem ains of Pascal Oi Paoli, the
famous Corsicari Datriot. who died in
; exile near London in 1807, have been ex-
numed fromSC Pancras Church burymg
ground and shipped to Corsica.'
The wise young man copies his fervent
love-letters befoie he sends them to his
darling. Then by simply - changing the
names he can make them do for several
successive girls. Wilson Messenger. V
Edith, a sixteen-year-old "daughter of
Henry M. Elliott, of Chambersburg,'Pa.;
had her arm? and hands badly burned
Friday night by the explosion of a can of
kerosene. She used it to Jtart a fire. '
The Rutherford Banner asks : Who is
t there more noble, -more free and intelli
cent than the r fanner who Owns his
homestead, stocked with horses, 'cattle,'
sneep, pigs, poultry, fruit trees, vines, and
shrubs? ' r!, ' i"
The Smithfield Herald says: So far
we pTon't tHi'rife .aty'ard'ot Jutebagging has
ben' shipped to' this market. The farmers
say they are nothing toie i and the
merchant'? will supply them with other
bagging. ... ,
The Department of "State Has-been ic-
: formed of the recent gift by iKe King of
Siam. tor the use or the American f res
byteyian MisKibn,sd)ithe, royal palaces, to
gether with the,x!ensive grounds and
bu'ldings., : " ,:r v-. . :
. Kie persons boarding with Mrs. Med-
: mini at Chattanooga," Tenn.,: were made
H seriously ill the other day- after eating
meat which she had purchased for dinner.
MrsJ- Medmin's husband and child we,re
also poisoned.
Rocky Mount Plain 'Dealer : Nearly
all of the tobacso in this section has been
cured, and we have yet to hear of a single
"bad icure. We suppose the crop this "year,
as far as color goes, , is the finest ever
raised in this section.
The Sultan of Zanzabar has signed a
concession giving" to the British East
Africa Company the Lamu-Island and the
Benagir coast-line from Kipini north
ward, including Kismayu, Brawa, Merka,
Magadish and Uruti.
On September 1st The Household Com
panion, New York, was enlarged to six
teen,pages and .a guaranteed circulation
of 100,000 copies each month. October,
November and December numbers will
'consist of 200,000 each; -
Russell flarrison says when he dined
wi$ueen Victoria h, had four kinds
'oi pte'V.,He loves pie, and royal die. sdeh
as Qu'een'Victoria builds, he fairly revels
in. may xe a uuue uub no is ptuusij
iriclihed; ' Wilson Mirror.'
The" New Berne JourriB. savs. it is re-
.ported1 that a large rattlesnake lives under
j. the' old School building on the Academy
Green. He has been t een coming ou t to
the pump on the corner, where he regales
himself on fresh water and frogs.-
Schools, should not teach a mass of.
knowledge, but how to acquire knowl
edge. School' machinery is not for the
purpose of exhibiting its beauty or per
fection, but to train : pupil3 to became
men and women, Wilson Messenger.;; '.j
John Dudas and W'm. Fagan, two of
;the victims of Friday's accident at the
I Bomestead (Pa.f Steel Works, died Sat
urday,, making four deaths so far. Two
more Isaac Lane and Joseph Durkes
will probably die "Two "others -will re
cover. ' The people. of this, country must.anni
lilate the monopolies and trusts the
whole' brood cf them, big ahd little. If
they do not, it is only -a question of time
when the monopolies and.trusts will de
stroy the propertty and. Jiheriy of the
people: 3qA - - - ;
; At Yalley City. D. T.. the oflice of the
illmes-itecord was completely dembiished
jby a whisky mob Tuesday night. - The
'editor is- a pronounced prohibitionist, and
shas used his influence- in docaltaJfairsnd
m ine recent btate convenuon. ne nas
j been warned frequently. .
i! - The latest scientific whim is a surgical
operataotf f or th& benefit 6f prano-players
l-r-clipping a cord between the third and
fourth -fingers. What a long-suffering
1.1 " 3 , - , .l; ,
puiic aemanqs oi science ;is sometajug
that. will benefit the entire neighborhood
wucrcm me piayer resiaes.
i- A branch of the Wilmington & Welr
don Railroad has been completed to
Greenville. : The passage of the first train
was the occasion of much rejoicing among
the citizeiis .on the 22d ult It is stated
that the number of Smiles of railroad; in
North Carolina has doubled since 1880.
Another apprentice boy on the United
States ship New Hampshire, at Newport,
R. I., has died of typhoid fever. An in
vestigation wa3 held by doctors Friday,
and it was found that the ship is damp,
and that deposits from the water closets
are exposed at low water, resulting in a
terrible stench.- . t
Miss Loveleigh u I am afraid you are
rather ; hard on my ' sex, Mr. SynicaL
What comment have you to make on the
fact that four-fifths of every church as
semblage are women ?" - Mr. Syuical
"I have but one comment to make, Miss
LoreleigK There is always a man in
the pulpit"-- Once a Week. : s
The Fall3 of Niagara, which are partly
in New York, form the most stupendous
cataract in the world. They are divided
by Goat Island into two divisions. . The
American side is about 1,000 feet wide
and, the Canadian 2,000, and both plunge
over rocks to the depth of Ibis ieet. xne
shock causes the earth to tremble for a
considerable distance around, and a cloud
of Vapor rises over the spot which is
sometimes visible for sixty or seventy
miles.
. "! -
r Mammoth Caye,v says the t,: Journal of
Jadrication-, ;th, largest in the worldr near
Grefi .riverKy.,. has been explored v ten
miles: '' About twenty rooms have been
discovered, and Here are found subterran
ean' reams, waterfalls and pits of un-
known, depth. ? Several of the rooms arb
of great extent,; and have received appro
priate namesr ;The Haunted Chamber is
two. miles long,. twenty feet high and ten
feet wide, the roof being supported by
beautiful pillars.
The grading on the road from William
ston to, Plymouth has .all been completed
and track loying is being done as rapidly
as possible. All the trestles have not yet
been built, but it is thought that the road
will be finished and trains will be running
on " it before October. . The terminus of
this road will be at Roper City, six or
eight miles below Plymouth, where there
is plenty of water front,. and it is gener
ally believed that a line of steamers will
be put oh from this point to Baltimore.,
Wilson Mirror, -
.The .Treasury, surplus is given at $70,r
800,000, the highest- point reached since
last October. Adding thefractional silver,
which is really an asset if hot " available,"
ithe surplus is nearly$IOOJOOO.OO0.'In
ien. narnson S' campaign speeenes last
year he pooh-poohed the surplus question
as one of no importance. All the Gov
ernment had to do, he said, to prevent an
accumulation of money embarrassing . to
business, was to buy bonds. Why.doesn't
Secretary Windom Tuy them? Is .lie.
saving the surplus for Congress to squan
der? Mcchange. .
That Canada is to have a direct cable
to Great Britain is nearly a settled fact
Its consummation however, depends dfn
the Dominion Governments Application
is being made to the Government to
guarantee, bonds of the" Canadian Cable
Company to tle extent of half a - milhon
dollars. The .total capital required; is
$1,W,000. ; Dobell,. of. Quebec, 'has al-
readyecurea . oy,uvw .oi:ini' . in jng-
land by private ; subscription. - It will be
ithe sHertest ocean cable of : any. ; Enter-
the water at Westport. Ireland, it
Will run to 'Greenly Islands, iii the Gulf
tot 'fiaenofiy a disUnde cibhlylOOO
Witea. ' ZSKl u2&:.- ' ' ''
i "The htiaint sayings Of children are al
Mttfs more or less refreshing. "The young
minds unhampered toy conventionality,
take a fihortY and explicit cut'tm the
jpressioniof a thought.. jA. Utile: girl who
accpmpanied her .mother - into; itowh "the
plhsT day was very much - interested in
ithe speed with which she was . traveling
TOWaref the city, and oh leaving the. train
at the Fitchburg depot! and passing by
the ffreat puffing' locomotive that had
iborne the child sot rapidly over the Tails,
ithe little one. turned: to her mother and
!callin er the latter z attention to . the in-
erine. said: "ee, mamma, it's all out- of
, breath,n-JBb5ton Budget. u .
. Everybody recalls the story of Ginevra
the beautiful maiden who entrapped her
self in ah oaken chest on her wedding
mght, and whose bones and jewels Were
L discovered long years after. .There was
'a beginning of that same kind of tragedy
, in Bethlehem, ra., the other day. A
Mr, Froxel'8 Uttle daughtere, aged 2 and
5. were accidentally shut in a chest in
the garret. It closed with a spring lock,
and the playmate who did it ran away
and left. them. The mother, missing the
children, besran .a search, which ended in
the garret The feebje crises from the
chest located the children. An axe spUt
it open,- and just in time to save them.
They were; both unconscious when res
cued. ... " - ' " . .-
' A curious fact is that in France a man
can will away his - title to anyone whom
he may care to adopt, just as he can a
ring or . a sum of money. Thus, some
years ago, one of the proudest titles in
France went a-begging. The old Due de
Misromesnil was to poor that he offered
to adopt and leave his ducal title to any
man who would insure him for the rest
of his days (and he was very old) the
modest income of $2,000. ; Oddly enough,
the poor old duke, whom ill luck would
thus seem to have followed up ta . the
last found no one to bid for-the proffered
honor, and so he died in the most abject
penury, were a similar transmission oi
nobihty legal in Jbngland, there are twenty
members of the House of Lords who
would gladly, for a handsome-considerar
tion in cash, adopt the most unsavory
commercial " gentleman," 'and leave him
all their honors.
. A dispatch from Birmingham, ? Ala.,
says news has been'.rt.ceived of jth'e. whip
ping of four Mormon elders by Whlte
Caps oh-Friday night near that city f The
better class -.of citizens denounce -the
whipping as an. outrage.. "ney'piaTe" no
sympathy with; the Mormons, but beheve
in Upholding the law 'and opposing "vio
lence. ? -I'-.'liT-vr.
' Greensboro North State- The C. F. &
Y. V. railcoad had another accident last
Saturday. The new trestle over Town
Fork gave way and the engine and tender
went 'in; injurrag engineer Shepherd and
fireman McLoughlin. The latttr had-an
arm broken. ? Both gentlemen are from
Fayette ville, "and were carried home Saturday.-
.r; '-
"' One of the buildings of the American
Wood Paper Company's works, at Spring
City, Pa., Was burned Saturday; Oliver
Monshower, aged 30 years, an employe,
was instantly killed and William Robin
son, Chas. Seifert, William Schaeffer and
Henry Seaser were injured by a f ailing
wall. .Tb loss will reach 90,000, cov
ered by insurance.
r Advices from Honolulu by steaner
state that affairs have been quiet theri
since the revolution July 30. ; Robert
Wilcox, :leader of the insurgents,1 and
others who were arrested were given a
preliminary examination in the police
court on the charge of treason, conspiracy
riot and unlawful . assembly, ar d will be
committed for trial at the next term of
the Supreme Court. :
Wyoming . is one of the few places
where women are recognized as"' the
equals of men before the law. They can
vote, they can hold'qfiTce, they can sit on
jiiries, and the latest advices from that
Territory deserib 3'1 ho w ' Hhey Han ged a
woman. on the same, limbof a big cotton
wood tree: with" a .man, one : dangling at
eaph end. pf Ithe rope provided -: for the
occasion.- Wyoming scorns anysex dis-
criminations. . " " ' . '.1 ?-" . -,
The International American ; Confess
ameetai -Wastrngton, D. CI, October
- C1 CoT1gre5s adjoVrns a trip
wiir be. taken through the South and
Richmond, Norfolk, Charleston, Atlanta
and other Southern, cities visited. The
original plan was to take the party through
the Southern States from.,(fincinnati and
Louisville to New Orleans, by way of
Nashville, Memphis And - VicksKurg; "and
to return to" Washington by way of Bir
mingham, Atlanta, Charleston and Rich
mond, and it may yet be decided to do sor
but in order, that more- time may be de
voted to the South, it has been suggested
by leading Southern men that the excur
sion through that section be deferred un
til later in the f eason, when the winter
hotels are open and the famous resorts
can be'seen at their -best; -
An excessive amount of fruit, or, if.
eaten either in the unripe or over . ripe'
state, produces various disturbances in
the system, chiefly, so because of its ten
dency to ferment, and decompose within
the digestive tract, and t6t produce .stom
ach and bowel disorders! If these dis
turbances are not too great, or too prolonged,-
they need occasion no special
anxiety. A d?se of ca3tor oil, to which
a few; drops of laudanum 2 l)&ve "... been -added,
.is usually sufificient to, clean out
the irritating t( debris," and in a day or
two the naturd equilibrium is restored.
a . -. . -Jvvusicm
I If there is much griping and pain with
me .movements, jana tnese. pecome too
nurnerous to be comfortable, the dose of
oil should be followed .by-curtailing ac
tivity by quiet and repose by a diet of
meat broths, containing rice, barley cr
sago; by rice and milk, milk toast, etc,
? Medical Classics. ' I - v .-' v '
The National Agricultural Society :p&
France has awarded agold medal to Ar
thur Brandin.of f'eine efMarne andto
M. letard, of oamt et Oise, for the excel
lent management and 'cultivation of their,;
farms The .Brandin farm- has: been in
Ithe family for upwards, of 200 years, and
its ;re2ords since 1320 .. were produced.
.'Just 100 years ago it grew an average of
twenty- one bushels of wheat, or oats per
;acre, wnicn rose to zb Dusneis-in l.bou.
Shortly after, commerciaimanure was for
the first time employed, and the yield of
wheat "went - up to 32 bushels per acre
and of oits to 41 bushels. Subsequently
the land was drained, guano was applied
and artificial grasses were grown and fed
down, but the average of the Yiheat crop
dropped to 30 bushels, though the qual
ity was better. This system was
followed until 1870 without im
provement in yield, when the soil
was analyzed and found to be rich
in pota?h but deficient in phosphoric
acid and lime.- These elements were
then supplied, tests were made to secure
the varieties best adapted to the land, and
the yield per acre for the last seven years
has risen to 96$ bushels of wheat and 62
kbushels of oats. M. Tetard's farm of 812
acres, half way between Paris and Chan
tilly, has 310 acres in sugar beets, the
yield per acre of which, as well as their
sugar content, has steadily increased.
The average yield of wheat oh 250 acres
in 1887 was 35 bushels' per acre. A
large herd of cattle is kept during the
winter to consume the beet pulp, in addi
tion tb which the cattle get some cotton
seed meal or cake, with about six pounds
per head of wheat , straw, chaff or .corn
fodder. American Agriculturist ; ;
" f NOTICE. "
A meeting of the officers of the Alliance
Peanut Union, the advisory, board con
sisting of. the vice-presidents, the com-
mittees and statistician are requested to
meet in Waverly, Sussex county, Ya., at
12 m. on Thursday, vthe 19th of Septem
ber, 1889. Other brethren will be gladly
welcomed. Immediate action concern
ing factories and warehouses is impera
tive. Each Alliance in the ; Union should
send up' the amount of stock taken by the
members in shares of $5 for building fac
tories and .warehouses, and what induce-.
;iments offered by localities. : ;. ;
- R. T. Barnes, Pres't
I IIS,. Si BoYKrir, Sec'y. .
ii " ' " ' " '
f By order of the Executive Committee
Wake county Alliance, m conformity
to a resolution passed in tne County Alh
fance, - August 23d, 1889.' D. P. Meacham
jjwill lecture at the fpllowrng Sub-Alli-:ances
on the principles and purposes of
jthe Alliance, the condition and depression
of the producing' classes, and remedy, on
ithe days as follow v: :' :.;
Pleasant Springe,, r;
Middle Creek,
Enno, ; -
Cary,
Mount Pleasant, ' ;'
Mineral Spring,
(GriflUi's School House,
iPJny Plains,
Gre n Lerel, .r-"
Swif Oreek (In wood).
Farm Hill, r
Wakefifid, ;
Eagle Eock,
Roeinborg, "
Social Plains,
Samaria,
Uttle Eocki - '
. Monday, Sept 9,10 a.cu
Tuesdar. " 10,10 ,
Wed'day, 11,10 "
Thurfd'y 12, 10
Friday, ",13, la , " .
Saturday,-" 14, 1 p m
Monday, " 18, 11 a.m.
Tuesday pir, 1 1 0 6
Wed'ady," 18.11
Thnredy, : 19, 11 "
Friday, ," , 20, t p.m.
Sat3irdly " 21f 12 M.
r, Monday, 23 10 a.m.
Tuead'y, u 24, 10 ."
Wcd'dy, 25,11
Th'redy, 28, 1 p.m.
Friday, ' " '27,1 s
Saturdy ' 28, 11 a.ra.
; Timely notice will be given of other
appointments, as all the Sub-Alliances in
the county are to be visited. All farmers
and laborers and the general public are"
cordially invited to attend these meetings,
and bring your- wives and - daughters.
The brethren will "please secure house
room - to be used in the : event of bad
weather, as the appointments are to be.
;filled regardless of the weather. .
BUFFALO, N. V., FAIR.
The Richmond and DanviUe Kailro&d
willell, tJuring the month of September,
round-trip summer excursion tickets to
Niagara Falls, K. Y., good to return un
til Oct 31st, at the following rates :
From Durham, - -Goldsboro,
-
- $32.50
33.50
31.75
31.50
33.50
33.50
u
' (
Henderson, ' -Oxford,
-Raleigh,
Selma, ' - .
u
Parties desirinar to attend the Great
International Fair at Buffalo, N. Y., can
avail themselves of these rates. ;
W. Jl. Turk, D. P. A.
L WANTED.
Three good, active agents. Must 1
members of the Farmers' Alliance and be
able to give good recommendations. Ag
ricultural line. Address Box 185, Raleigh,
N. C. : ' -au27