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The Philadelphia Record, after looking over the field, thinks parties in the next Senate will be about as now. There are 44 Democrats, 38 Republicans and 3 Populists. The Kolb crowd in Alabama are making appeals for money through such organs as the New York Tri bune, which is publishing editorials urging the aid from the Republicans of the North. The Populists in Congress voted solidly with the Republicans against the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on state banks, and yet the populists in North Carolina talk about Cleve land's plutocracy. 0 consistency, thou art a jewel. Ex. The executive committee of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union was to have met at Topeka, Kansas last Thursday, but a3 only one member of the com mittee, I. E. Dean, of New York, put an appearance, the meeting was indefinitely postponed. It costs some Kentucky farmers a good deal to feed their calves. At least that was the experience of one who hung his coat on his pasture fence and when he ame back found that a calf had eaten up the contents of a wallet amounting to $2,116 in notes, checks and paper money. The Wilmington Messenger says: While 600 teachers are attending the teachers meeting at Oxford, Miss., and four others are holding or to be held, but sixty are at More head. What has done this? Did that famous trip to the Chicago big show haye anything to do with it? There are but eight county superin tendents present. Senator Cameron has written a remarkable letter to the National Republican League, in which he re peats with great fervor but with even greater obscurity those perplexing ideas about silver to which he and his colleague have lately been de voting themselves. Mr. Cameron does not limit himself, however, to Mr. Quay's $40 per capita. He wants free silver and plenty of it, and he wants it right away. The campaign of Coxey in Mc Ivinley's old Congress district is getting red hot. Coxey is making speeches in Canton, Massillion, Alli ance, Millersburg, and other places and have large crowds everywhere. The recent trouble with the miners in Ohio, thousands of whom live in this district and vote the Republican ticket, and who are angry at Governor Mc Kinley for calling out the troops, saying they will vote for Coxey, jojakes the campaign lively. If he wants good roads Coxey's heading the wrong way when he enters the rough and devious paths of politics. There is a split in the Populist party in Kansas. It is not hard to make a split in a party which has as much mouth as the Populist party of Kansas has. Nearly all of the big iron mills in and around Pittsburg have resumed operations this week with full force on full time. Some of these mills have been idle for a year. "Freedom is a fine thing, but those natives of Colorado take too many liberties when they produce a tarred and feathered Attorney General as of the American Eagle breed. They are doing some pretty tall speculating in the amount of black mail the New York police have been pulling out of the gambling and dens of Gotham. The latest esti mate is $10,000,000 a year. At Chicago it is estimated that 150,000 men are now out on a strike on account of the refusal of the Pullman Car Company to settle the differences with its employes. A large number of Railroads are tied ud on account of it. A dispatch from Boston, Mass., says: Judge Cold, of the United States Circuit Court, on Wednesday in the case of Shebalto Salto, the Japanese who made application in in court to become a citizen of the United States, decided against the petition. The Judge finds that, like the Chinese, the Japanese do not come within the term "white per sons," as presented in the naturaliza tion laws of the United States. This is the first case of the kind ever brought before a United States court. Louisburg Times says:The country needs financial reformers," but in all reason let's have men to attend to such reforms who have shown some indication of their ability in that di rection. There is a considerable number of these so called "reform ers" who are daily throwing out their great knowledge ( ?) of "finan cial reform" when to our cer tain knowledge some of them have "gone through" with what they possessed and in some instances, very materially embarrassed their friends. But these are the kind of people who generally push them selves forward to "save the country'' and "raise Caine" if they are not allowed to have their way. IN HANDS OF RECEIVER. The Raleigh News and Observer states that the sale of its property will take place on the 16th of July, terms, one third cash, balance in six and twelve months. It started, it says, in 1881, with a debt of $1, 000. In 1888 this debt large. Subsequently it ran up debts of $3,500 and $2,400 at different times. Competition reduced it re ceipts but this was finally gotten rid of and the paper paid expenses from September last to very recently. Capt. Ashe concludes his statement thus: The paper will we doubt not be continued by the purchasers right straight along and with some little additions to the plant that will saye some expenses, the property will, in our judgment, make profit for its owners. Freed from the incubus of debt -the result of heavy fights for the Democratic party and in part the result of competition that is now happily past the paper should become very valuable property. We so consider it; and if we had any means the intended sale would not be made. All Free. Those Who have user! Dr. TCI tier's la rtr Discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to ,.. X a. e . i . - r ii y it ireo. v;au on me advertised drug gist and get a trial bottle frA. Snr1 mnr name and address to H. E. Bucklen & Co , Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills fi-P a wall oo a copy of Guide to Health and Household Instructor free. All of which is guaran teed to do you good and cost you nothing. J. G. Hall, druggist 5 Subscribe to the Public Ledger. The campaign is near at baud. $1 per year. EDUCATION IN N. C , IN THE PAST. The Raleigh correspondent of the N. Y. Evening Post slips up when he writes that "North Carolina, once justly known as the Rip Van Winkle State in the matter of educa tion." He ought to read up. Before the great Second War of Independ ence North Carolina was ahead of the other Southern States "in the matter of education." The Univer sity began business a hundred years ago. The great preparatory schools were equal to any in the North. Bingham and Horner and Lovejoy had no superior in the North. At one times Horner had forty-five boys at the University it had pre pared and sent to that memorable institution. Davidson, Wake Forest, Trinity, Rutherford, Guilford, and a dozen other famous colleges were in full operation. There were some good classical schools in North Carolina nearly all through this century. The chief academies for both sexes were numerous. See Dr. Charles E. Smith's excellent work on education in North Carolina. The common schools of the State were at least the equal (we believe superior) to those of Virginia or any other of the fourteen Southern States. Tne female schools were numerous and excellent. They were at Murf ressbero, Warrenton, Oxford, Goldsboro, Charlotte, Salem and other places. North Carolina was not, therefore, "justly known as the Rip Van Winkle State in the matter of education." We do not know who the correspondent of the N. Y. paper is, but if a native he ought to correct the erroneons im pression made. We cannot suppose that any native son would willingly, intentionally misrepresent North Carolina so as to emphasive the justice of reproach. North Caro lina has been always misrepresented by people in other States. Let no North Carolinian take a hand in un just obloquy. Wilmington Messenger. NORTH CAROLINA FARfllNG. Commissioner Robinson is right in his reply to the North Carolina Christain Advocate as to good farm ing in North Carolina good as the best, whether Pennsylyania or else where. Ex-Governor Holt makes 46 bushels of wheat to the acre on 80 acres of land. This State sent to the Vienna Exposition in 1892, wheat that weighed 73 pounds to the bushel. Capt. Bailey William son, of Wake, made 12,561 pounds per acre of mixed clover and grasses. One truck farm produced in one year over $84,000. Eastern Caro lina alone sold over $4,000,000 of trucking in 1892. In scores of counties the best results can be found from farming. If gathered they would be highly creditable to North Carolina, and would place it with the foremost. We have often stated that Dr. Robert Patterson , of Halifax, once made 100 bushels of corn to the acre upon some fifteen or twenty acres. We also mentioned that Mr. Dicken, of Edgecombe, produced twenty-one bales of cotton on a one-horse farm, and that Capt. Tur ner Battle averaged a bale of cotton upon 300 acres. We have often told of the tobacco prices in Gran ville county in other years. We know but little of the farming there now. We will repeat here some facts known to this writer. We knew a farmer to offer to the late Mr. J. C. Cooper his farm for $1,300. He failed to sell, and his crop . of tobacco alone for the same year fetched him $1,400 and was sold in Oxford. He also raised his pork, made his corn, wheat, oats and root crops. He was assisted by a negro boy about fourteen years old, Another case was that of Mitchell Currin. His three sons, aged res pectively 16, 14 and 12 (the last an invalid) made a crop of tobacco that was sold to Col John Wilkinson, of Milton, for $3,300 after paying all expenses. Another farmer, case re ported in the Oxford Torchlight, made &1,U0 of. tobacco himself on his little farm in 1 year without any assistance. In 1870, there were more than ten farmers in Granville who averaged over $1,000 to the hand. One of these made quite $1,200. He sold nineteen tierces in Richmond, Va., averaging over $1 per pound in the leaf. His lowest price was $87 per hundred, and his highest $131. We refer to Dennis Tilly, now an old man and a good man as well as first rate farmer North Carolina contains the finest farms possible. In the Albemarle section, on the Roanoke, in Pitt, Green, Craven and other eastern counties; in Davidson, Mecklenburg and other counties of that part of the State, in Transylvania and the trans-montane section there are finest farming sections that cannot will be beaten. In truth in perhaps every county in the State there are thousands of fine fertile lands. Wilmington Messenger. The Attack on Mate Education. From News and Observer. We regret to see the efforts that are being made to attack our State institutions for higher education. Now it is the University that is at tacked; now it is the Normal and Industrial School for Women, and soon it will be the Agricultural and Mechanical College. These are the three State institutions for the higher education of our youths, all established by the State and sup ported in part by appropriations from the treasury. The same prin ciple applies to them all. The Agri cultural and Mechanical College re ceives aid both from the State and from the National Treasury; but all the money it gets comes from the people of North Carolina, whether collected by sheriffs or by Federal officers. The principle is the same in either case. Indeed the taxing of the people of North Carolina by the Federal government for the support of a college is hardly as defensible as for the people of North Carolina through their legislature to tax themselves for this purpose. Those who are now attacking one of our State institutions for higher educa tion must necessarily attack them all, if they proceed from principle and maintain consistency. Why, then, is this attack made? Why should the State of North Carolina set up a college for the training of young women and pro ceed to knock it down as soon as its walls are filled with pupils? Are we to throw up our hats and shout for the A. & M. College until it has 400 students, and then demanded its destruction? The University once had an endowment of two hun dred thousand dollars given it by the State, which was swept away by the war. It has lived and grown as a vital part of the State for one hundred years, and never in its his tory did it more nobly fulfil its mis sion than now. Since 1875 when its reorganization was effected with seven teachers and sixty pupils, it has grown and struggled amid the prayers and plaudits of our people until now it has twenty-six teachers and four hundred pupils and is de servedly ranked among the foremost universities in America. Is this the time to destroy it? The Teacher's Assembly at More- head has recently resolved to have the State establish a "Reform School." Shall we all favor this until the school is established and then shall we demand its abolition? It is asked whether the people of JNorth barolma have a right to tax themselves to give their children the inestimable benefits of higher educa tion. 1 his question is answered in the fundamental law which created the State, in every re-enactment of their constitution by the peo pie of the State, in the practice of the bfcate ior one hundred years, and in the practice of our sister States throughout the Union. The policy is now a part of our totatehood. Ihe denial of the right of a state to maintain schools for higher education is virtually a de nial or its right to maintain any schools for what is higher educa tion? Where does it begin? Where does it end.'' Higher education is given today in a dozen North Carolina public schools in such places as Raleigh, Goldsboro, Wilmington, Greensboro, Charlotte and Asheville, than was given fifty years ago in the average college. Shall these schools be closed? Shall there instruction be curtailed from eight, nine or ten 3ears to three ? Shall the orphans in the Oxford Asylum be allowed to study Latin or to practice telegra phy or stenography or typewriting? Shall the blind girls and boys be allowed to learn on the piano, or to learn singing from teachers paid by the State? This movement against the State making provision for higher educa tion within her borders should cease. Hand in hand go educational and industrial progress. North Caro lina is now entering upon a great career in both lines. Too long has her growth been retarded by sec tional quarrels and divisions, which happily are ended. To tear the State in pieces by new quarrels and jeal ousies over this subject would be calamitous. It can be done only at the expense of the best interests of North Carolina and of the welfare of our people. Let us leave the matter alone. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particu larly effective in the cure of constipation and sick headache. For malaria and liver troubles they have been proved in valuable. They are guaranteed to be per fectly free from every deleterious sub stance and to be purely vegetable They do not weaken by their action, but by giv ing tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 50c per bottle. Sold by J. G. Hall, druggist. THE LATEST NEWS. Happenings of Interest All Over The United States. The Vermont Democratic nomi nate a State ticket. The Democrats of Michigan nomi nate S. I. Washer for Governor. Eugene Stollenweich, a merchan dise broker of Mobile, commits sui cide. The administration expects the new Tariff bill to go into effect by August 1st. Mr. Tohn R. Purcell, of Richmond the oldest wholesale druggest in this country, is dead. Rev. William Din widdie, brother of the president of Peace institute, dies suddenly in Greenwood, Va. Senator Walsh, of Georgia, an nounces himself as a candidate for election to the United States Senate for the next term. Mr. II. W. Fuller, general pas senger agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has both legs broken in a railroad collision. Near Sulphur Springs, Tex., a negro discharged by a Mr. Waite, kills Mrs. Waite and mortally wounds Mr. Waits. He was lynch ed. Lieut. Ketchum, of the Second artillery, injured his spine by diving in shallow water at Fort Monroe, and his lower limbs are partially paralyzed. Henry Hackerman a young man living near Charleston, S. C, com mits suicide. He leaves a note to his father and mother saying he is tired of life. The Italians of Turin are taking retaliatory measures against the French, and mobs have raided the hotels in that city in which French men are living. Mrs. L. E. Gannon, of Washing ton, D. C, dies from a dose of laudanum administered by mistake by her brother in-law, who in con sequence attempts his own life. A French soldier furnish the au- thoritiyes with full details of the plot to murder President Carnot. Seven Anarchists drew lots to deter mine which should be the assassin. At Anasasia Island near St. Au gustine, Fla. Mr. E. H. Reynolds was attacked bv a shark while surf bathing. He escaped with a severe i wound in the leer. This is the first ! Is ' instance of such an occurrence in i these waters. The Julv exnenditures of thp 1 Government are expected to excede 6DWKRDS for Infants "CastorU is so well adapted to children that I recommend it aa superior to any prescription "mown to me." H. A. Archer, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. "The use of 'Castoria is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." Carlos Marttn, D. D., New York City. Late Pastor Bloomlngdate lieformed Church. Tn Cerrum If irNP T 1 w I juuun wnL . 1 , , m u&t AINU ENDORSES THE TRADE "Cures when North Carolina Supreme Court. WALlf.K tlvAltA, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. Raleigh. N. C, Jan. 2C We have found the ElectroDoi?P .i7, V 1 servation, I can safely recommend 1?. ' yoaratrulr. Walter receipts by $15,000,000. By defer ring all but absolutely essential pay ments, the deficit for the current year, closing 30th of June, can be kept down to $75,000,000. The French police visit the housp of a man named Grenier, in Mont pelier, who is supposed to have been connected with the murder of Presi dent Carnot. When ordered to sur render Grenier plunges a knife into his own body and falls dead. The grand jury has returned jn dictinents against the brokers, Clian- jjnan and Macartney for refusing to' answer questions helore the Seirite Su gar committee. Bills h;ive imt yet been found against the news paper men, as the others will Jf made test cases. Conductor T. A. Goodman of , & A. railroad, which is operated ,v the C. & O., shot and killed j C. Parsons, the well-known own.-r of the Natural Uridge property. The trouble occurred at Clifton Forge, Va.. and is said to have been caused by Parsons writing letters to Railroad people trying to have Goodman removed. Alex. Shields, president of the American Railway union at Ham mond, Ind , and other strike loaders are arrested by Federal marshals and taken to Indianapolis, where they are released on their own recognizance. In a conference with the Governor it was agreed that troops would be called out if the stopping of trains at Hammond ceased. Mr. Shields has telegraph ed the strikers to interfere with no more trains. The general managers of the railroads centering in Chicago issue a statement saying that the strike is widespread and serious and is embarrassing the freight traffic of the West; that they will make no compromise with the strikers and offer work and protection to all un employed men who come to them. Jerry Simpson. The Charlotte Observer says, after having recovered his health suffi ciently to admit of his resuming his seat in the House last Friday, Jerry Simpson returned Saturday to Berk ley Springs, West Va., where he will remain two weeks. He will then go to Atlantic City there to remain with occasional visits to Washing ton until Congress adjourns. Alack a-day ! While all the far mers of the country are naked and starving to death in their tracks, Honest Jerry, the Sympathizing Friend of the People, is to hang up his hat at the favorite resort of tlie plutercrats and consort with publi cans and sinners. HEPPAESBI'' nOCCELSIdS) "COOK STOVES MADE FROM PURE PIG IRON. Not one pound of Scrap Iron is ever used in these goods. DURABLE, CONVENIENT and ECONOMICAL All Modern Improvements to Lighten Housekeeping Cares. Twenty different sizes and kinds. Every Stove Warranted Against Defects. Prices not much .higher at this time than on commoner kinds of Stoves. Call on or address 8t AaZINSTON. 2 and Children. Castoria cures iColic, Constipation, X wCh I?iarr03a. Eructation, jrestio?18' eiVCS Sleep Proiuotes di Without injurious medication. J. 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