North Carolina Newspapers

i The Progressive Farmer, Hay 8, H00. a 'a it .e e it e )f ?r i, H u u jr le re to u et ?k )n at of ur di ut er an ial he !a-di-be of to :m- for ion md loy auro the ft-r V. thoj hli'1 1,..t lilt ' j I ttee I t i 1 i ret. the- . i aniz-i ;ndia- to iblic-j o.00 ions -ouhM via thoui okil .nent-j eom .,d Vit State News. " what tar heels are doing. f the State Press Drops of Turpentine a'f Hir.iins of Kice From the East (.'lusters :,!U. (';nip s and Tobacco Stems From the oI v(rth Stalks of Corn and drains of Wheat From the West lVimuts and Cotton Seed From the South. Doctors report four cases of white nvple with smallpox within two Jiles of Grover, Cleveland connty. Xlie steamer City of Jacksonville, ttlik-h stranded September 19 near Portsmouth, N. C, has "been floated. Xew lodges of Odd Fellows re cently formed in this State brings the number of lodges up to 11G and tie membership to over 6,000. Mr. Crawford has deferred the ap pointment of a cadet to West Point i;ntil after his contest is decided. He -rill then have a competive examina tion to till the place. The K. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., bought out the business of T. L. Vauirhan &" Co., one of Winston's ,-,'Jest and largest plug tobacco manufacturing firms. The Pearson-Crawford contested election ease from the ninth district ,,f this State, has never been deter mined in Congress, and there is no '.uvsr-oet that it will be soon. Fifteen of Charlotte's representa tive citizens went to Washington to invite President McKinley to be inve nt at Charlotte during the week i. ,. f May 20th. He may come. High Point Enterprise : The wheat -n this section looks well and if there ;;re no devastating storms the yield will, in all probability be large. There was an extra large crop put in in Randolph this year. The Baptists seem to have a cinch ,n gubernatorial candidates in North Carolina. They have two Aycock Democrat) and Adams (Republican), while the Methodists have one, Thompson (Populist). Prof. C. H. Mebane, Superintend .:it of Public Instruction, is very busy working up the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly and reports the prii.-pects for -a great meeting this year are very encouraging. Prof. J. B. Carlyle, of Wake Forest iVlege, has accepted an invitation :o deliver the literary address at uuv High School commencement f( VLUov : Plato Durham, of Trinity t ,-o. will preach the sermon. The commencement exercises of Agricultural and Mechanical Col ut Raleigh begin May 27th. The Vvalaureate sermon will be deliver ltl.at day (Sunday) by Dr. Charles . Taylor, president of Wake Forest In-uraneo Commissioner Young that since January 1 he has . V.-ted from the companies $55,000, r. Tints ranging all the way from nt to -s'00, and that he has care uV examined the reports of 1G0 ' '-K'iMiies. A:v voung man in the Fifth Con- : District who may desire WVt Point cadetship should to Hon. W. W. Kitchin, Wash I). C, for permission to i ho competitive contest, which ' iv soon. ! -Vh Times-Visitor : Zallie . a negro 22 or 23 years old, .:ld by a train on theS. A. L., V.iko Forest, Sunday. His a- badly crushed, and his found about two feet from ; -ad track. ion Enterpise : The rains - delayed farm work that ; .' will be very late this year. VI. vat about doubled its heighth - tho warm rains last week. - every indication of a fine X- :-" -t roo in this oountrv. i. , E-i n Courier: The catch of 1 herring in the waters tribu Menton within the past two enormous. Many of the t are now being caught are ha.ih-d out on the farms for ' oving to the extreme low at home and abroad, lent E. A. Alderman, of the Vtvof North Carolina, who ...IT r IV I IV-, vd i11 I -H ien;iv been elected to the 4 ' ... V.ry ,,f Tulane University, is one of the youngest ; 'residents in the world, it ap- - ;iure being given as but 38 r- the Richmond Dispatch. V Hyams, of the Republi ' ' "Munittee, says his party tl-e campaign at Winston, hen Pritchard, Spencer W alser and others will ' -ays tnat in the next ten i r, . will be 40 Republican r. i tlii' stump in North ur. Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock a crowd of citizens numbering about 150 visited the jail at Graham, and showing pistols in the face of the jailor, demanded the keys of the jail. Deaving the majority of the crowd on the outside, four or five of the leaders went directly up to the cell of the negro Sellars, imprisoned for attempted assault on a young white girl, on the outskirts of Bur lington Monday, and mutilated him. There was no excitement. News and Observer, Oth: It is stated here that Rev.vJ. E. White, the chairman of the committee to recommend a. president for the Bap tist Female University, is to be the new president of that institution to succeed Dr. Blasingame, resigned. Those in position to know -decline to say whether the report is true or not. For several years the Democrats have controlled Greensboro's munic pal affairs without opposition,, but there is to be a fight this year. A citizens' mass meeting has nominated L. M. Scott, a prominent lawyer, for mayor, and an aldermanic ticket, which will be run in opposition to the Democratic ticket, which has not yet been nominated. Raleigh Post : Some of our friends assume that the two conventions Mr. Butler's and Mv. Pritchard's have each put up a whole State ticket to be consolidated later by cut ting out some parts of each and dove-tailing the two together. We think they are mistaken. So far as the two State tickets are concerned we think they are up to stay. Raleigh Correspondence Messen ger : Democrats of influence and in formation say they fear over-confidence in the matter of ratifying the constitutional amendment ; that hard work every day is essential to suc cess : that the organization of the opposition is simply remarkable j tllGTT permit payment , at any time the more thorough even than in 189G. j deot will be wiped out as soon as the Democrats ought to heed this warn- i law oes into effect in 45 days, ing. i A desperate fight took place at Goldsboro Argus : Mr. Simeon j Lcambanao, in the center of the Wooten, a well known business man j island of Panay last week in which a of LaGrange, and a most excellent j reconnoitering party of the Twenty citizen, was assaulted Fridav nirhtbv ! sixth infantry was surrounded, and Bill Harper, a white man who runs a livery stable there, and severely and dangerously cut in several places on the arm and body. Harper im mediately fled and is still at large. Mr. Wooten is reported in a critical condition, but his physician and friends are hopeful of his recovery. The Christian Endeavor Conven tion in Raleigh last week re-elected the following officers for the ensiling : South Africa, has returned and re vear : Rev. A. D. Thaeler, of Win- I signed his position in order to go ston-Salem. president ; Miss Ruth Worth, of Raleigh, secretary ; Miss Mamie Bays, of Salisbury, superin- tendon t of the press department. II . W. Smith, of Kenly, was elected superintendent of the junior depart- ment. A new department was j little JJutcli Republics as Congress created, that of penitentiary work, j iliil about the Hungarians in Kos and Mr. Chamblee, of Raleigh, put in j suth's day, the Greeks, &e. charge. Charlotte Observer : This is to be a notable month in Churlotte. On the 10th and 11th there will be here the greatest representation of the cotton milling interests ever assem- bled at one place. The meeting of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Asso- ciation, m its immediate memuer- shin and in the guests which it will attract, will represent more capital : five whites constitute more than one- Chicago, 111., May 3. The feature invested in cotton mills than was "half of the population, or 58 percent, today at the Methodist General Con ever before assembled. Following Three-fourths of the Cuban popula- j ference was the reading of the this event, will be a week of lestivi- ; tion are illiterate. j Bishop's quadrennial address by ties, tishcrea in on the 21st. in cele-1 sjtalH(m in thc Philippines ! Bishop E. G. Andrews. The address liv.-itirm of the 20th of Mar. It is . , .. . was nrenared at a recent meetmsr 01 " , ,", ,. boiied to make this vcar s celebration nopa u mai j. - the most elaborate and interesting of all. It is believed that it will be j signalled by the presence of the j President of the United States, who j has expressed a hope that he will be j ab!e to be with the North Carolin- : i ians then. I i The British steamer Virginia, from Cuba, bound for Baltimore, with a cargo of iron ore. a crew of 20 men, stranded on Diamond Shoals near Cape Hatteras about 0 p. m., Wed nesday. May 3rd, during thick weath er. The entire crew took to boats i and attempted to leave the ship. One , boat with fifteen of the crew got : away, but the other boat was swamped and six men were drowned. The remaining five got back on the steamer, where they remained till Friday morning when they were rescued and brought ashore by the f a i . - t tt:ii .1 e,.,iQ crews oi Tin vreeu xini uiivi n Th ; Hatteras Life Saving Stations th , stranded on the outer diamond j ihont twelve miles trom tne snore Bn 1- ai Wttt 1 i,v she wn r discovered ! several days ne was not uisco , t ufn ciirprs nntil Krulav. ine LT me; i"- vessel is a total wreck. General News. SPARES FROM THE WIRES. The Latest Reliable News From the Earth's Four Corners Selected and Condensed for Progressive Farmer Readers. The president of Aguinaldo's late cabinet has been captured. A lone bandit held up a train on the Iron Mountain Railroad, near Higginson, Ark., Friday, and robbed the passengers of about $300. The Illinois Populists have in structed their delegates to the Na tional Convention at - Sioux Falls to vote for Bryan's nomination. Ex-Postmaster-General William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, who fol lowed Cleveland in his bolt in 1896, says Bryan will be elected this year. The argument in the Taylor-Beckham contest for Governor of Ken tucky before the United States Su preme Court has been completed and court has adjourned till the 14th inst. Despite the naming of Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, to head the ticket by several Populist conven tions, Mr. Watson has issued a card saying he can accept no nomina tion whatever and asking to be left in peace among the politically dead. Immigration for the first three months of this year is greatly in ex cess of what it was last year, and the prospect is that it will go on increas ing. The total up to March 15th was 48,001 at the port of New York. The greater number of these are south Italians. When Hawaii was annexed to this country it had a bonded debt of about $4,000,000, drawing a heavy rate of interest. This debt still exists, but under the act signed by Presi dent McKinley it is to be assumed "by the United States. The terms of the debt will be looked into and if four Americans killed and sixteen others severely wounded. The re mainder of the soldiers had a narrow escape. Reinforcements were sent from Iloilo as soon as news of the affair was received, whereupon the Filipinos retreated to their moun tain stronghold. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Davis, who spent his vacation in I through the country and speak for the Boer: xiu is a liepiumcan nn TT., .. 1 " II- -I hopes to rouse his party, which has a majority in both houses of Con gress, at least up tothexoint of pass ing such resolutions in regard to the The results of the Cuban census surprise most of the press. Instead of being dangerously near the condi dition of Haiti, it appears that there are about 80,000 native white Cubans ; qualified to vote, as against 20,000 ! colored. The negroes constitute 32 ; per cent, of the population, being most numerous m Santiago, where fhev constitute i'J per cent. The na- , - , . , ItlOfI ltltorntt tram thn ,ir-t- ; gams auueu interest irom tlie tact m.- . , . , j ftmt General Otis considers his work virtually done. To show the feeble- ! ness of the native resis!"ance. Gen. Otis recently reported that in the 124 shirmishes since January 1 the American loss was Si killed and 164 wounded, while the insurgent loss 1,420 killed and 1,450 captured, most of Avhom were wounded. The Ameri cans have also captured over 3,000 small arms and 105 cannon. But the War Department does not take Gen. Otis seriously. The number of troops in the Philippines is greater than at any time during the war, anddetach- menfs Gf new men are being sent to tl e arcliinelajro on every transport that leaves this country. Ammuni tion is being forwarded to Manila in a manner that would indicate -that it was needed for a protracted struggle. The experience of last year is caus- ing army officers to believe that the insurgents will become aggressive during the summed The country win siiorriy oe 11 ooueu ana it win ue " V117 khUl f ! actlve campaign. Press reports re- AfMniln tm tv. in. v , ! surgents are well armed. DISASTROUS KIKE EXPLOSION. Salt Lake, May 1. Mine explosion occurred at 10 o'clock this morning in the Winter Quarters coal mine, at Scofield, a hundred miles south of this city and probably fifty miners were killed and a hundred more in jured. The bodies of thirty miners have been brought out and the work of rescue is going on. The mine ex plosion is believed to have been caused by the blowing up of a num ber of kegs of blasting powder, but the point at which the internal ex plosion took place is not yet known. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DEAD. Salt Lake, Utah, May 4. The latest dispatch from Scofield, says that 250 will be about the total num ber of dead. There are not enough coffins in the camp to bury the dead, and to add horror to the situation the bodies are rapidly decomposing, and it has been suggested that cre mation may have to be resorted to. Comparatively few of the men recov ered were killed by the explosion. The majority having no bruises or wounds had evidently met death by asphyxiation caused by the after damp succeeding the explosion. The concussion, however, was so great that five men working in the open air around the mouth of the mine were severely hurt. One man was blown with his horse a distance of two hundred yards. If any one man is to blame for the accident it will never be known, for no man who can tell the story has come out of the mine alive. Many old coal miners, familiar with these mines, state that they have always been regarded as among the safest in the State. TWENTY OUT OF THIRTY KILLED. Manila, May 5. The American garrison at Catubig, Island of Samar, consisting of thirty men, belonging to the Forty-third regiment has been attacked by rebels. Twenty of the Americans were killed. The re mainder were rescued. The Americans were quartered in the Catubig Church, which the ene my, numbering several hundred men, surrounded and fiercely attacked. The Americans fought for two days and then the rebels managed to ig nite the roof of the church and it burned away and finally fell upon those inside the edifice. The walls remained intact, however, and were used as a shelter by the besieged Americans for three days longer, the enemy attacking the building on all sides at once. The Americans continued firing from the windows and doors of the church and did great execution among the Filipinos. It is estimated , thatover 200of tliclatter were tilled. many dead bodies being removed from the scene of the fighting. After five days' resistance by the Americans a lieuienant and eight men arrived from Loan and engaged the beseigers who thereupon retired. The fortunate arrival of these re inforcements prevented the annihi lation of the American forces en trenched in the church, who had re peatedly declined to surrender when j ordered to do so by the Filipinos. The ten survivors were without j food, had little ammunition and were j physically exhausted when relieved. K. E. CHURCH'S MARVELOUS GROWTH. was prepared at a recent meetm A i the Board ot Bisnops m muianapons. It showed that during the past hun dred years the Methodist Episcopal Church had developed ninety-seven fold. The Bishop's address stated that the church will not abandon its posi tion on the liquor question. On the contrary "aroused and indignant at the aggressions of the liquor power, at the inexcusable miscarriage of the anti-canteen law, and at the new Xerils in which the nation is involv ing its new possessions, it will sum mon and pledge all our ministers and people to a morejdetermined struggle against this enormous evil." As to marriage and divorce, the i address continued : I "In the presence of this evil the church cannot allow its rules on the i subject of divorce and remarriage to , T if , A clmrch law be amended to more perfectly express j the New Testament rule of marriage. ; - - So- txef ffit j church sllould keep itself pure, and i. i....- ..i 1,0 11Mpti of aiu . xv x., . . A ! society to become pure. The Thinkers. INDEPENDENT VOTERS. Parties are good in their place, but most if not all reforms come through the independent voter. The. mug wump or independent is generally headed by men who are readers and who see ahe,ad where parties are drifting and allow themselves to be abused by old party leaders ; never theless they persist and keep leaven ing the lump till large crowds are converted to their way of thinkiag. . The political boss is a born enemy to the independent. Why? Because he, the boss, cannot rule the inde pendent by the pop of his whip. The father of the political boss is the party being in power for several years, which breeds the boss system. No new party has a boss, but if they stay in long, likewise, one and all of them will have their boss. Hence, a good idea for no party to be kept in power very long. It is a good thing for the people, for political parties to be very near equal in strength, because the "ins" will think if they do not govern well the "outs" will get in. After the election, the good citizen will always do all possible to help the lawfully elected officers to gov ern by doing all possible to help them administer the laws whether the offi cers are of their choice or not. Each man should study the issues and read up on both sides of a public question if possible, go to the speak ings and then form his own con clusions and vote as he thinks best . D. L. Gore, in Southport Standard. EDITOR GREEN ON THE AMENDMENT. In his literary address at the com mencement of Marshville Academy, Prof. Henry Louis Smith, Davidson College, said if the fear of of negro domination is removed from politics in North Carolina it is very uncer tain as to what political party would be in control, and there is a great deal of meaning in what he said. We have said before and we still say that there is not a question in politics that appeals so successfully to the passions (not to reason) of men than the race question. To eliminate this question means a great deal towards elevating North Carolina politics to a decent and higher standard. Pass the amendment as it is and it will partially eliminate it, but as the negro race becomes educated the same question will come up again in a few years. Why not incorporate an additional section making it un constitutional for a negro to hold office in North Carolina? This would forever remove the fear of negro domination and take that question permanently out of politics, and such amendment would not be in conflict with the Federal Constitution either. If the Democratic party is sincere in their claim that they want the negro out of politics, they can, by taking this course, get practically every white man in the State to aid tliT?m inxassing such amendment. Marsh ville Home. There are men in this country, white, black and of every shade be tween the two, who could not be made good citizens or safe voters with any conceivable amount of book learning. In fact, education of the intellect alone would only add to their efficiency as enemies of organ- ized socity. To qualify men for the exalted duties of sovereign citizens of a great republic, the moral nature must be trained until a high sense of personal honor and a realization ; ever material prosperity lias boon std of personal responsibility, becomes vanced, he: has done the most of it. second nature and instinctive. They must be educated in patriotism as well as in books: Men who practice bribery and corruption are not illit erate, however their moral natures may be perverted, and one such is a greater power for evil than a hun dred voters vho cannot write their names. The South has spent millions of dollars in educating the colored race. Are they better qualified as citizens than they were before? There are many negroes who are good citizens and vote honestly and j intelligently, while there are whites j who never do. To be worthy of the j right of suffrage there must be a j sort of esprit de corps, a realizing j sense that the individual is a part of the nation and responsible, as well j as his fellows, for the character of j the government which he has helped to establish ; a personal pride in his ; high position as a citizen. Such qualifications are burnished and ; brightened by learning and intelli gence. Texas Farm and Ranch. To keep posted, read The Progres sive Farmer. Correspondence. The Editors are not responsible for views expressed by Correspondents. AN OPPONENT OF THE AMENDMENT. Mr. Meachanx Tells Why He Opposes the Measure Unfair Features of Our Election Law Attacked. Correspondence of The Proirrcyt-ivc ! ';;r::H r. In several issues of The Progress' ive Farmer there have appeared ar ticles from difierent writers, some favoring and some opiiosing the pro posed Constitutional amendment. As yours appears to be one of the very few papers in the State fair-minded enough to give both sides a chance to express their views on the subject, we beg space in your columns to give a few reasons why we oppose the measure, and why every wage earner, farmer and artisan should oppose it. In reviewing the arguments which from time to time have appeared in your columns favoring the measure, we have utterly failed to read or hear but one excuse for favoring it, and that is that it will have the effect of disfranchising the negro. And if carried at the polls, it will un doubtedly disfranchise many of that class of voters ; but if the law is im partially enforced it will accomplish the same result with many, if not more of the whites. It is a subject that is so interwoven with partisan politics, that it is almost imivossible to discuss it apart from partisanship, as it had its origin the ranks of pro fessional politicians. However, we will steer as clear of partisan bias as the case permits. If, as many claim, it is intended to take the negro out of politics in this State, it is a stu pendous failure, for no law can stand that does not take in both races alike, and until the 15th amendment is erased from the Constitution of the United States, the negro will hold the balance of power in the South. No one will deny that the amend ment is aimed at the negro voter, which voter is called purchasable although we have found the negroes as hard to pull away from the party of their choice, either with money or promises of special favors, as a black snake is to pull out of its den in thc; roots and brush. As we have seen that we can enforce no lav that will disfranchise the negro that will not disfranchise the white man who oc cupies the same position, it follows that the adoption of the amendment will not eliminate the negro from politics ; something else must be re sorted to in order to accomplish that result ; for we cannot eliminate that class otherwise than by practicing fraud. And as soon as that becomes general, which it must, then our representation in the United States Congress is at an end, for it will only be necessary for the seats of candidates elected under our election machinery to be; contested by the op ponents of this measure in order to secure the seats; in fact, this york has already begun. Every effort made by the peace loving patriots of both sections of our country (the North and the South) to obliterate sectional. preju dice has been thwarted by the pro fessional politician, and every move having for its object the disfran chisement of voters in the' opposing party serves only to widen the breach . and fan th. prejudices of the North ! and West. The negro has been in the South what the imiorted miners and shop operatives in the North and West have been to those sections: what- We could not have been where we are without the negro. As a laborer and servant no class has been able to supplant, him arid up to this time with all the bombastic blowing about the necessity for edu cating him, experience proves that in giving him a literary education, we ruin him for any other service; than to preach, cat the swell 'and travel on the cars. Our best behaved and most useful class of colored people are those who were former slaves, whom it was unlawful to educate in their youth. And now to debar them rights conferred on them by the highest law in the land and select as a means for doing that, the want of education which was denied them by the people whom they labored day and night to feed and clothe while these masters reveled in indolence, satiety and voluptousness :s a moral wrong. True, there were some ex- ceptions to this rule, but they were comparatively few. The more we examine the proposed amendment, the more dangerous and CONTINUED OX PAGE C f