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PROGEESSfV TBI? 1 1 H us s V THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH, N. C.. NOVEMBER 1, 1892. No. 38 f AIMER j f oLj- J r,r - ; ' x i ' TrrnWAL FARMERS' ALLI- iJvCE AND INDUSTRIAL . Ai UNION. ., rtn L. Loucks, Huron, Dakota. 'Address, Washington, i:n t tt nn a ' Treasurer o . xj.. j. ui uci . VJS 239 North Capitol 33 'Washington, D. C. VrerUr. H. Willetts, Kansas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. - tc xr-irine. Washington, D. C. Wariall, Huron, . South Da- a-iw,n Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. . j Cole. Michigan, t V7 Beck, Alabama, j p. Davie, Kentucky. "jaTIOSAL legislative committee. ir l Loucks, Chairman. f Macune, Washington, D. C feinii Pa;:e, Brandon Va. L P Featherstono, Barest City, Ar- n.; White Tennessee. W. !? u"" ' " ' ."-1 CAROLINA FARMERS" STATE ALU- fluent Marion Butler, Clinton, Vice-Fre?ident T. B. Long, Ashe- iSrV'ary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes, Leerurer-C. W. Thompson, Rich- , 1. V I 1 I Chaplain "Rev. Jno. Ammons, Madi- InnOo.. N. C. Door-Keeper R A. Henry, runjay, Assistant Door-Keeper H. E. King, ISgemit -at-Arms J. 8. Holt, Chalk IStjte Business Agent W. H. Worth, Raleigh. X. C. , Trustee Business Agency Fund W. l Graham, Machpelah, N. C. JISCrnVE COMMITTEE OF TTIE NORTTI CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCH. j Tj AW.nn.lATv Charlotte. N. C Jtairman: J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, 10.; J. S. Johnston, numn, j. TATZ ALLIA5CB JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Dias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul sreth, M. G. Gregory, Win. C. Connell. TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R T PawpII "Raleigh. N. C. : N. C. Inglish, Trinitv College: J. J. Young, Polanta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. C. lorttx Carolina Reform Pres Association. OficersJ. L. Ramsey, President; iarion Butler, Vice-President; W. S. Banes, Secret iry, PAPERS. iTozressive Farmer, State Organ, Raleigh, N. C J&acasian. Clinton, N. t TiieWorkir.icinnii's Helper, Pinnacle, N. C. ffitchmaii. Salisbury, N. C. rimers' Advocate, Tarboro, N. C. Suttry Life, Trinity College. N. C. Mircury, Hickory, N. C. Agricultural Bee, Alliance Echo, fecial Intv.r.ner, Cirohna Li5i)atch, Goldsboro, N. C. Moncjire, N. C. Ralerh, N. C. Each of the above-named papers are tquesiea to keep the list standing on fa first page ovd add others, provided fay are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform icill dropped from the list promptly. Our pwpJe can now see what papers are vublitthed in thpir interest. OUR WAGON WAYS. It Vriil astonish n orTWf monxr TCkranrtn W learn Avhat a ernshinr?- mass of in i iquities and drawbacks to civilization may be logically piled upon the ac count of bad wagon roads. A forcible movement is being pressed for a com prehensive exhibit at Chicago of every inrng winch entera into road making ana maintenance, and thepersDns who are contributing to the effort have gather d together some remarkable ar gnents o impress upon our country S th? "'Qance of improving our Sf1?'1 hlnway8- The movement is S u-'fri- uPrisin against the bond Khl0J l,Pn the people that are mpered by poor means of communi- Srprt), l 1 V K'"isu a lax inai Srilr, "Pn every article of con-. tEnr , lne tendency of popula Sf i'ard cilie the abandonment mentTf u even the modern develop 5 kLi,tt,nl" are larfiely ascribed tod n08, Whi"b are id ti be worse to i uf &,,hol3 and churches KLV1!" Tmitr-r and makelifein todiM," necness, isoiatea, TJle ninvpniont- a amM j " 11 )W unuer way is S.H rard "'f1'"" Pt of the Ktft C?S? for a People how tV-buiM snail snow tne food road, as vU ea ;h them the e is lhat we them Verv most vital r,.r ould all ,,f Ciany of t and materials N the rr;.in-! , are included in .(ttinii nf A-rViihita iort tkero. movers for good roads oi uie display is '.uA ' u, u not aesiroyeOv oy ae inarm, r in v,,-..v. ;i. . . r K Tr V r ";u it 13 io oe maae. ft is to-be Pctttered about in five build- iCbln 1 ine agricultural section will rWaWI1 ? lthods of construction, ma ST? an? aPParat9 for road Wing, 5?S? ofood Paving, and the meth ods of treating wood to caiititoro- j I uecay. in the rnim buUdiW Jill be coilected the st icr'and stonl -"-.-uic&or compounds, a rock- crushers. Systems of drainage are classified for exhibition in the transpor tation building, while conduits, drains, sewers, bridges, working plans for pav ing and drainage, and the construction of roads and their maintenance, all be long to the department which exhibits in ine manufactures and liberal arts building. It would seem that the exhihiti nns in the agricultural and liberal arts build ings either conflict with or narallpl nno another, but this is not the case, as one ae us with roads from the farmer s and the Other from th pncinAPr's nnint, nf view. Either might be elaborated to comprehend the entire scheme, but the exposition omciais. wmie asserting that they fully recognize tho importance of the subiect. declare that this is tint practicable. Those who are combining ior an euective display insist that they should have a hnildinf panpomllv Hp- voted to it, but the reply to this is that there is no room for such a building in Jackson Park. It will be a great pity if this best of all opportunities to edu cte tne puouc m this direction cannot oe iuuy emoraceu we may reel sure that if it is not. it will not be due to any lack of energy and ardor on the part of the present reformers. In that case we shall not be surprised to se roid macin and maintenance made the sub iectof aeubseonent and p.nptnal exposition. The knowledge of what is lost oy tne neglect ot our wagonways is dailv extending, and with its nre id is pertain to come a more and more pressing aemand ror action triat etiall remove what is not merplv a hindrancp to progress, but a blot upon our national cnaracter. jtiarper s tveeteiy. LETTER FROM SURRY. Stoxy Ridge, N. C. Mr Editor: Our October meeting in Surry county was very interesting Some of the brethren had begun to falter under the party lash but we tried, in a non partisan spirit, to show them the inconsistency of voting for a demand in Sub, County, State aud Na tional meetings and voting against it the 8th of November. Tne majority will vote as they have been praying. Just a word as to the campaign. The Democratic electorfor this, the 8th dis trict, spoke in our township on the 18th inst During his speech he said : "If it had not oeen f-r a Republican from this State the Bland silver bill w uld have passed." That i., if we would elect 149 instead of 148 majority they would certainly give us tree silver. Did you ever know any any speaker, not to say an elector, to try to fore. such bosh down the throats of fools, not to say intelligent men? For success, Robt. L. Wolff. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SECRE TARY OP THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. In the death of Dr. Thomas F. Wood. of Wilmington, late Secretary of the Isorth Carolina lioard of Health, the State loet one of its most patriotic and useful sons. He was an able, conscien tious and accomplished physician, an amateur botanist of note, editor and proprietor from its beginning of the j 7. S-1 7 U J . J T present norm, uruiinu iucuicui uuur nal, always in the forefront of those working for the elevation and advance ment of his profession, and doing more to promote both than any man we ever had : but the nearest thing to his heart, second only to his love tor his Divine Master, was the North Carolina Board of Health, which was originated by him and kept alive during the years of its feeble infancy only by hi personal de votion and sacrifice of both time atd money, and through it the welfare of the people of hU State. Having been honored by the Board in my election to the Secretaryship made vacant by his decease, I cannot assume the duties and responsibilities of the office he adorned without thus testifying to his high and admirable qualities, the lo3 of which is irrepar able. - In taking up this workl feel that it would be well to remind the people of the State that the Board of Health was created for their benefit for the pur pose of acquiring and distributing as thoroughly as possible, information and instruction as to the best means of preventing disease. Any citizen of the State therefore desiring such informa tion would confer a favor by writing to the Secretary, who would cheerfully answer his inquiries The subject of pre eminent interest at present is the epidemic of cholera threatening our country. The board has ' watched the indications with sleepless eye, and has given the sub ject the most thoughtful conaidcra tion, but it has not deemed the danger imminent enough at any time to jus tify publications which would probably excite and alarm unnecessarily m my of our people. . The danger is daily growing less,, and the board does not anticipate any trouble during the com ing winter, but fears the awakening in warm weather of spring of the germs which may slip into the country during the cold weather, when the vigilance of the heath officers at our ports is liable to be relaxed. Should its fears be justified, the people may rest satis fiedtharit will exhaust every means within its power to keep it out of our State. From time . to time the Secre tary proposes to publish in all the pa pers in the State kind enough to print them, Bhort practical articles on mat ters relating to the preservation of health. In the meantime, if you need information or advice on such subjects, te to Richard H. Lewis, ft Secretary, Raleigh, N. C. DOWNFALL OF ANCIENT NA TIONS. A Synsopsis of a Speech Delivered by Invitation to the Eupeptic Springs Alliance Sept. ist, 1892, by Dr. Jno. F. Foard, of Olin, N. C. Ladies, Gentlemen and Brethren: We learn from sacred and profane history of the birth, progress, wealth and power of the many ancient nations that once existed on earth, but now destroyed. Egypt. Chaldea. Persia, Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Judea are a few of the great nations that arose, flourished and died from the same causes, i. e., concentrated wealth, power, luxury, laciviousness, official greed and oppression, which began in covetousness and ended in idolatry and utter ruin. In all these countries the masses or laboring people were gradually, but rapidly reduced to ab ject slavery and want in the tSame ratio that the wealth and power were con centrated in the hands of the few. And many observing people now believe that England, France, Germany. Spain, Unite'd btate1? of America, and other modern nations are on the same down ward inclined plane to ruin, and from the same cause that produced the de cay and death of the once great nations of ancient tim?s;and nothing but the over ruling providences of the Al mighty God can prevent the awful catastrophe- Our forefathers who set tied this country, won their independ ence and established this republic, were refugees from the tyranny and oppros sion of the old countries beyond the Atlantic, revolted l?CAUHe of unjust taxation, suffered the hardships of a bloody revolution, isolated and poor; yet by the aid of a merciful God and their patriotic wills, they succeeded, gained independence and left to their posterity the bst government known to the civilized world Yet in a little over a century the greed of fain has caused the usurers and moneychangers (the class that Christ whipped out of the temple in Jerusalem) of the mother country, England, to manipulate our finances and fasten their talons into the vitals of our nation, drain us of our products and wealth by and through our legal representatives or servants until we are in a condition of servitude far worse tha?i the African slavery which the same p xplo fattened upon in and helped to rele-ise at such great cost of blood and treasury to ua and profit to themselves. Our fore fathers ot 1776 had not the hundredth part of an excuse to rebell and strike for freedom that we have to day; One af 'er another of th moi unjust and opprseive laws knnrn toafree people have been enacted by our represent tiveH and instigated by the money power of Europe, which have increased our mdlionaires in thirty years from two to many thousands, made a million of tramps, (a class unknown to us prior to the late war) filled our land with prison 3. asylums, alms houses and dens of iniquity which cannot accommodate the tens of thousands of once happy aud prosperous people now applying for admission, and reduced a vast ma jority of our 64 000,000 of people from affluence and plenty to abject want or a hard struggle for daily bread The first and moat of those iniquitous lawg were passed by the Repuolican party during and soon after the civil war, which turned the old Whigs of the South almost en masse into the Democratic party, which party has been promising the people for Wen y five years to repeal those laws. "Bus" say they, "we have not had the power." It is true they have not ac quired all the powepf but had they faithfully used the power bestowed upon them and convinced the people that they honestly intended to reform the abuses put in force by the Repub 1 icans, more power would have been given the Democratic leaders, and to day we would be a free and prosperous people or nation. Instead of that, how ever, other and later and more infa mous laws have been parsed and old ones made more oppressive until money has bexme so scarce, the prices of our products so uriremunerative, la or so depressed and disorganized as to de prive mdlions of once thrifty people of honv-s and all other property, send thousands to alms houses, asylums, prisons, houses of ill fame and prema ture graves, and to day we are threat ened with a monarchial government and abject and perpetual slavery. It will not do for our trusted Democratic leaders to say they "could do nothing to prevent or alter the present state of things." They have elected the Presi dent t rice (suffered themselves to be cheated out of one) obtained the Senate once and the Lower House several times with good workiag majoriti'-s Yet with all this they have stood by (with hands off) or aided in cutting down our circulating medium from over $50 per head of our entire popula tion by burning and otherwise destroy ing our paper money, demonetizing a currency that had been in active cir culation and most efficient for a hun dred years, increased the value of gold, changed the contracts as to the bonds by which they are doubled in value, and to be paid, principal and interest in gold, the favored currency (and they held by the gold gamblers of New York and London) and perpejting this bonded and gold debt, whch is to pay for our cotton, wheat and other ex ports instead of the legitimate exchange of products that ail countries ought to enjoy. All these laws were made to lower the price of American labor and products and increase the capital of the money lenders, and was class legis lation of the most corrupt nature, and io say the least, the great Democratic party had a hand in the nefarious work as prov n by nineteen of the Southern and others of the 148 Democratic ma jority of the list or present Congress, voted against the silver bill passed by the Republican Senate. Both of these 44 grand old parties" come before th people every four years, and fight a sham battle overthe tariff to draw. the attention of the voters from the real and vital questions of the times to keep or obtain the offices of the nation, one howling for "protection" and the other "for revenue only," when the difference between the Republican t iriff law and the bill offered by the Democratic House is only 7 per cent, average less on all imported goods, a reduction so small if taken off no one of the laboring people could tell it if not informed by the politicians. Both of these old parties in some States are Erotectionists, while in other States oth are reductionists, and they have united repeatedly in order to protect a few favored classes a$ the expense of the vast majority of the mo3t needy of their constituents, while they know that the classes and persons most able to py revenue are taxed the least in pro portion to their ability to pay. It is well known that b jth the United States and Confederates had to resort to an income tax during the war in order to p.iy their troop?, and had that law not b ;en repealed by the U S. Government, our present national debt could have been paid, which would enable the gov ernment to materially lessen the im pors tariff and do away with the in ternal revenue for that tax brought into the treaeury nearly a hundred millions dollars a year. And now if we bad such a law with sufficient pen a'tifs for evading it one that would be in proportion to what other classes pty there would not be any excuse to perpetuate a high tariff or any internal revenue. Yet the politicians meet on the huntings and renew their bogus fUht before each election to keep the people in ignorance as to their real wants and their party papers take up tho refrain and sing the same old song aa if there was no humbug in it; while ali thoss who get their bread and but ter out of the public pantry unite to whip all 4,kickers," or those whose eyes have been opened back into party traces. The "money changers" have been bringing on monetary panics every ten yt-ars for nearly a century past, but the one inaugurate I in 1873 by demone tismg silver, and 1 educing paper money has brought the majority of the people nearer tho poor house than ever before, and unless relief w obtained, and that very soon, utter ruiiTwiil follow. The . x Pctr Cooper, the ouly American millionaire who has shourn more love for his race and country than for his own self-aggrandizement by giving more to the poor thin to his children; saw what those infamous acts of Con gress would do for the country; gave much of his time and money, though no office seeker, to establish a new party known as the "Greenback par-y," which elected fifteen members to Congress and filled some other offices, and if it had not been slaught ered by the ruthless, unjust, and wicked attacks made upon it and its leaders by the two old parties we would to day be free from the oppressions brought upon us, and which deprived many of us of our homes and other former comforts. The Grange and other labor organization were gotten up about that time for personal relief from these national ills; all of which combined failed their desired object. Finally the Farmers1 Alliance was inaugurated in Texas and another waa formed about the same in the North west, these and other labor organiza tions have united and petitioned Con gross for relief, and later they were presented as demands, all of which have been treated with . contempt, while the condition of the country- was growing from bad to worse all the time. All these efforts failing, and nine tenths of those people concluding both the old parties were owned by and run ex clusively in the interest of the money sharks, 'and that they would never give the desired relief, determined to go to a party that would. And though this new party is les than one year old and composed of millions of as good people as still adhere to the old parties; they of the People's party are denounced by the old party hacks and their servants as idiots, cranks, fools, soreheads, kickers and corrupt office-seekers. And the Prohibition party, which is work ing, laboring and pr&ying for the same reliefs and others as well, are termed fanatics and treated with disdain by the tools of the monopolists for the same reason, i. e. they are unwilling to let go the public teats ; and these re formatory acts would abridge their personal en jo3'ments. They have waved the bloody shirt and reviewed the re construction acts every year to train the young men to indulge in sectional revenge, and now thrt atening the South with the Lodge or Force bill to keep their respective parties solid in the different sections. If the owners of large manufactories are permitted to continue to force then: employees to vote solidly with them against the best interests of the laborers in one section, and the ballot box stuff era and fraudu lent counters of votes of another to coor- trol the elections at the behest of their masters and their tpeakers continueto misrepresent,, malign and Drow-nea those who oppose them, free speach and free ballots will soon be numbered with the things of the past, and then it will require more than force bills to preserve our liberties. Tho latter i about as enjoyable as tne tormer, ana no more destructive of the principle? of f ree i?overnment." Though Gen Weaver left the Re publican party twelve years ago, ea poused the Greenback party in its in fancy, served six years in Congress as one of its fifteen representatives, re fused (as did Gen. Stevenson and all the other) to go into the caucuses of their old parties. Yet he, Weaver, is denounced by the Southern Democrats as a "protectionists," a "political tramp," and other hard names and pelted with rotten eggs while speaking. though he never returned to the Re publican party, which has always had a large majority in his State as Gen. Stevenson did to the Democracy, and is now on the ti jket of that partv for the Vice Presidencv. and treated bv his nartv as a saint, and Weaver as a devil. I was a Whig prior to th war, voted with the Democrats after until the Greenback partv was formed. when I joined it, but since its death have been a Prohibitionist; conse quently I cannot vote for Gen. Weaver while the Prohibition party has a can didate for tho Presidency in the field; yet I abhor the treatment he has re ceived, and the slanders so industrious ly peddled out against him, especially as his "grandfather was a North Caro linian," as was Gen. Stevenson's. To cover up their tracks, keep their hands in the public crib, and continue to work for their plutocratic masters, the old party tricksters, and their con federates, the legal fraternity have pronounced the Sub-Treasury plan of the Alliance unconstitutional; when driven from that, raised a howl of alarm, "that the great experse of it would . bankrupt the nation, and the officers would control the elections, as if they had not already wasted enough money in 27 years to have paid for all the warehouses needed and every rail road in the country besides, and if the government officers and railroad offi cials are not now controlling the elec tions to their utmost ability. And the remedies the People s party offer for these objections is, to do away with usurous interest, and the bonded debt as soon as an equitable income tax and the warehouse tax can be put in successful operation, and disfranchise those officials and forbid their inter ference in all elections while in office. It is a remarkable fact that the Mosaic law forbade the Israelites lending money at any interest to their own people, and commanded them to re lease all poor debtors every seven years, and their slaves every fifty years. Yet the prophet Isaiah in the 5th chapter of his book, in numerating the oppressions and vices of that peo- fde. said: "Therefore hell hath en arged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and ha that rejoiced shall Jescend i lto it," etc. If that awful place of punishment was enlarged to receive the oppressors and vicious portion of God's chosen people over two thousand years ago what will be necessary to accommodate the modern money changers, usurers and oppressors of this Christian era after they have gone the way of all the earth? The Constitution of the United States authorizes Congress to aid the govern ment in issuing money for the entire people, delegated power and control Inter state commerce, which means to own or operate our transportation lines, mail routes, postoffices, and all other means of communication, if need.be. Yet our legal friends who make our laws, unite them so mistily as to con found each other, cause the judiciary to differ in their opinions on them, and greatly increase litigation. No wonder they are solidly against our demands, besides they get the lion's share of all public offices, and greatly increased salaries. And all the bankers and bondholders are fighting us with their money and influence, because their profits on investment will be materially reduced when the Sub Treasury is in augurated and they will have to change their base. And now, my friends, you know I am telliqg you truths. You have known me as a neighbor and humble citizen for nearly a third of a century. You ought to know, and God knows I have never been an office seeker, (although every little petti fogger in the land says all those who express themselves boldly on public matters are seeking offices) and he knows I have never asked anyone to aid me to obtain any office in Church or State without first being solicited to do so by my friends, and that I have never received in more than three score years of my life as much money for all my public labors as I paid out to per form them ; therefore, you will believe me when I tell you we must have relief, and the people are going to have it. The ground upon which I now stand was my former home, which was the remnant of a fine estate destroyed for me by the late war, which home was wrested from me and a dependent family in my declining and enfeebled years by and through the operations of the unwise and unrighteous and op pressive laws to which I have briefly alluded, and my experience has been the sad experience of unnumbered thou- ands of as g od business men and honest citizens as this nation affords, and there are now millions on the same road to financial ruin, and from the same causes. " Brethren, be encouraged ! The rum blings of a mighty political cyclone is heard in the distant West, and its reverberations are penetrating every nook and corner of our vast domain, and 'it will capsize the leaking boat in which the two old decayed parties are embracing each other and bowing in common worship to their God, Mam mon, and they will sink . together be neath the waves of indignation of a wronged constituency to rise no more. Their leaders may scorn, deride, mis represent slander, abuse our leaders and try to frighten, -coax and reclaim their followers or " prodigals rons " to their former places in their former Earty lines, but to no purpose; none ut the most timid and less informed as to our real condition will return; The Rubicon is passed. The bridges behind us are burned. Forward to victory, is our countersign. Brethren, be of good cheer. The God of the op pressed is with us and we must succeed now or later for " Truth crushed to earth -will rise again; The eternal yt ars of -God are hers : But ei ror wounded writhes in pain, - And dies au.id hia worsnipp r b." The Almighty is a just God, and re quires restitution to be made by all persons who wrong others before re pentance can be available, is Bible teaching. THE CORN AND RICE WEEVIL. Much complaint has been made to the Experiment Station on account of the damage done to stored corn and rice by a small blackish snout beetle or weevil. The loss caused by this little pest in North Carolina alone probably exceeds a half million dollars annually. This beetle i3 closely related to the pea and bean weevil and the remedy is the same fumigating the infested grain with bisulphide of carbon To accomplish this provide a tight bin, box or hogshead, into which the grain may be turned. Corn may be either shelled or on cob. For. each barrel of corn or rice add one tablespoonful of the bisulphide and cover the bin or vessel tightly with a thick cloth of any kind except oil or rubber cloth. Let it stand for twenty-four hours, then uncover and all the weevils will be found dead. All trace of the disulphide will evaporate in a few hours and no damage will be done to the grain. The insect ega-s laid just before the treat ment will not be destroyed by the fumes and to ensure complete destruc tion of the pest the treatment must be renewed in about ten days It will not answer to use the bisulphide in a slatted corn crib, because it evaporates very quickly when exposed to free air. The bisulphide is very inflamable and must be kept away from the fire. It is not expensive. Gerald McCarthy, N. C. Experiment Station. EVAPORATED SWEET POTATOES Few people know how easily sweet potatoes can be dried, even in the sun. and how handy and useful the dried -potatoes are. At best sweet potatoes are a troublesome' crop to keep,-4-f-when dried or cured in an, evaporatay. they are r ally no trouma to keep and are always at hand for use on the table at short notice. They should be sliced and then evaporated. Then to use them they are soaked to restore the evaporated moisture and then baked in pans as the fresh ones often are. They are an admirable article for pud dings and pies, r or this purpose it would be better, it seems to me, to grind them into meal and put up in packages with directions for making puddings. Put up in this way it ought not to be much trouble to create a market for the dried sweet potatoes. There ia already an evaporating plant at Greensboro, and if thip, or some other establishment, would but under take the putting up of the sweet potato meal in packages the article would sell well. Grocery men are slow to take hold of such products in the crude evaporated state, but in such packages with a few attractive hand bills and a lot of receipts for making the many delicious preparations that can be made from sweet potatoes, a market could soon be made for a product that East ern North Carolina can supply in lim itless quantities. Who will start this enterprise? IF. F. Massey. THE EGG"lN CABARRUS. The Campaign Closed in that County and the Third Party Virtually Defeated. The campaign in Cabarrus county, closed at the court-house in Concord last night, and it is conceded that the Third party in that county is defeated. Yesterday afternoon all the Democratic candidates spoke at the Old Field, near Concord, and the Democrats extended an invitation to tho Third party to bo present -and participate in a j int de bate, but not & one of them showed up. They all declined the invitation for a j )int debate at the court h ;-.i j9 last night. It is generally beh-V'-.d that the Third party crowd in Cui.i--rus have given up the contest, an ; ;o not want to appear before the puUie again. Lass night Mr. G. Ed. Kestler, a young man who has been going ab ut as a Third party apostle, epoke at For est Hill, on the northern suburbs of? Concord. He had a large crowd, but they were all Democrats, and some of them were loaded frith eggs. He was not permitted to speak long, and went j away a walking omelette. He was pelted with eggs lor some tune, ana the men who threw them were good marksmen. Cabarrus will certainly go Demo cratic by a good majority, but tho Third party candidates have made a good, steady fight for victory. CJtar lotte Neics. We hive no idea that the egg bri gade can beat the good people of Ca barrus,but we pu olish the above to show the reasons why the Democrats think they will beat. No reason is given ex cept that there is "more virtue in eggs than argument." Is it worth reading? What? The Progressive Faeuer. 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