Vol. I. SALISBURY, N. C, FRIDAY M0eS5mSy 4, 1888. - l Q 11 A S. D. CilA W FOR D, ATTORNEY-AT LA W, SALISBURY, N. C. Practices in all the Court. Collec tions enirusiea ro me will receive prompt and careful attention. 'JIlEO. F. KLUTTZ. ATTORX E Y- AT-IAW, SALISBURY, N. C- Practices in alTthe Courts. Collections carefully attended to. de . 6 t A-v7. C. BL ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW. ' V SALISBURY, N. C. Collections' and Probate Business a apecialty. . All business entrusted 4o the firm will receive prompt attention . J. B. C O iT M C I L L. M. X., SALISBURY, N. C., Offers his professional services to the citizens of this and surrounding communiticg. Ail calls promptly attended, day or night. ' May be found at my office, or the J) rug Store of Dr. J. 11. Enniss,' Respectfully, J. B, Councill, M. D. ' IS?0(j5co in tho Heilig Building, 2nd floor, front room. D r James Tt. Campbell, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, SALISBURY, N. C Offers his professional services to the citizens of Salisbury and-vicinity. jfc9Of3ce over Yountr & Bostian's Uire. Q 11. J , O. - hex-rill. PHYSICIAN ANRSURGEON. SALISBURY, N. C. Will rtfomptly attend all cjiIIr night 4. l.-s. ly. JIT. YE1LVON HOTEL, SALISBURY, N.C. Lo fd near the depot, in Saiis l r Wd!" fnn-iiiKt.'ii . iKri-ni'hi-nlr " J' - 'VT -r-- - j iisjt utu waii'T icf evc-ry rom. larc j lampl riK'nJf j Co:vatiei.t to 1 he kuaur& p 'rtitni of the ety. Tahh; fcwpplie ! nr;h the btl of t erj't hin. P:t'and tt.enliye seiyat. 'Ever. rre taken i r the c i;ifirt cl our jfuetj"'. Rcppectluilv, , '.P. A.. -FRJ-'ROKS. Pp.p ietor.: The Buford, i CHARLOTTE, N. C. The mo8v haudsomely furnished and .foniplete hotel in the State. Heated by team throsghout. Electric light and bells. Bar and Bi'liard Rooms, Barber Rhop and every convenience for cpmfor jof guesta, Sample Rooms ou first floor WM. JOHNSTON, R. M. MILLER, Proprietora. : ojtradXipscomb, Office Manager. Del. GEORGE W. 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The financial and market reviews are unusually full an complete. f Terms of the Daily Star to subscribers Free of Postage in the United States and Canada, out-side the limits of j New York City, j Every Day, for one year includ- ing" Sunday 7.00 Daily, without Sunday, 1 year,...,.. 6.00 Every Day, six months f...., 3.50 Daily, without Sunday, 6 months,..., 3.00 Sunday, without Daily, 1 yeari....... 1.50 : Address, THE 8TAU, Broadway and Park Place, N-Y. THIS PAPER may be jrotfd on file at Q&cx P. ROWEIt &. Co's Kewspaper Advert l3lng slag Bn Bnreaa '10 Sprc Street Vwaero adver tUlng eontraets may V msd; for It la THE PERORATION i o OP REPRESENT ATI YE HILLS GREAT SPEECH As Published in the Gongression a I Record. , Now aj "die r , I want to S 53 2 . not for iho ,-jman. Wo Av. 4 made to account of the- sympathy 1'. -Vorkiogman. 1 have taken, from he census ou wpges some figures ' given by manufacturere themselves I of the total cost ot the product and . r . . . . i -i labor cosi oi me articles tney are making I have put the tariff duty by the side of them to show wheth- er in the little reductions we are asking in this (bill we have gone be- yond that pledge we as a party have made that we should not reduce tax alion so low as to injure our labors ers, or as not to cover the difference in cost of labor between American and foreign products. ' This will show, and I ask your at tention to it, that the tariff is not intended to and does not benefit la bor. It will show that Ihe benefit of the tariff never passes beyond the pocket of the manufacturer, and to the pockets of is workmen. 1 find in this report one pair of 5pound blankets. The whole cost as slated by the manufacturer is 2.51. The labor cost he paid for them is 35 cents. The present tar iffis8190. Now, here is $1.35 in this tariff over and above the entire labor j cost of these blankets. Why did not that manufacturer go and give that money to the laborer? He is able to do it. Here is a tariff that gives him $1.90 on that pair of blankets for the benefit of his laborer, but notwithstanding that the tariff was imposed for the benefit of American labor and to preserve high wages, every dollar of that tariff went into the manufacturer's pocket. The fellow who made tho blankets got 35 cents and the manufacturer kept the $1.90. Mr. Cruin. Will the gentleman p!eae state how much the commit tee has reduced that duty? iir. Mills, To $100 from 81 90. Take another puir of 5 pound blankets. Tbo total cost is $2.70. The labor coat is 70 cents. -' The tar Iff in $1 93. Now, how strangu it is that none of these sums that were intended for the laborer ever got be yond the pocket of tho manufacturs er. Why is it, when the .American. Congress enacted this legislation for the benefit of our labor, that every dollar of this aid intended for labor stops in the pockets of i the manuv facturer, who goes into the high ways and hedges and hires his la borer at the lowest price for. which he can get him in the market and then pockets the tariff benefits that we are told every day is intended for the laborer alone for the bene fit of labor? V r . Here is another pair of 5-pound blankets. The cost is $3.39. The labor cost paid by this manufactur er, be says himself, is 61 cents. The tariff is $2.55. In the pending bill we have left him $1.35, and we have left the other man $1.08. And we have left all along not only enough to-cover the difference, between the labor cost of production in Europe and the labor cost of production in this counuy. but we have enough left to pay lor all the labor and a bonus besides. Let us go a little further. -Here iB one yard of flannel, weighing four ounces; it cost 13 cents, of which the laborer got 3 cents; the tariff on it is 8 cents. How is it that the whole 8 cents did not get into the pockets of the laborer? Is it not strange that those who made the tariff and fasts ened upon the people these war rates in a time of profound peace, and who are now constantly assailing the Democratic party because it is untrue to the workingman, did not make some provision by which the generous booty they gave should, reach the pocket of him for whom they said it was inteudod? They charge that we are trying to strike down the labor of the country. Why do they not see that the money they are taking out of the hard earnings of the people is delivered in good faith to the workman? One yard of cassimero weighing 16 ouncts costs $1.38; the labor is 29 cents; the tariff dnty is 80 cents. One pound of sewing silk costs $5,66; the cost for labor is 85 cents; the tariff is $1.69. One galton of lins seed oil costs 46 cents; the labor cost is 2 cents; the tariff cost is 25 cents.; One ton of bar iron costs $31; the labor cost is 10; the tariff fixes sevs eral rates for bar iron. 1 1 giv3 the lowesi rale, $13.92. One ton of foundry pig iron costs $11; the la bor eosts 81.64; the tariff is $6.72. Nono of these tariff .rates go to the laborer. The road is locked up. They can not psss the pockot of the manufacturer. This "great Anaeri lean system" that is intended to s laborers is so perverted that all s beneficence inleodcd for the poor :. t'. i . lorkman stops hi iu pocKei oi nia and the labororonly can command in the work. nployer, and tots what he arket for bis Let 08 take Beaseotr steel rails. We are told that'the dastry is in great da;er of utterly perishing away and parting from this continent, because we propose to reduce the dolv -fjom $17 to $11. The whole cost ig iot down at $31, tha labor 6Ml m.. -&Ttrsktz 17. The tnanirtactturar hS 9.43 cost. ; The labor cost oFtnis ton is exceptionally high. 1 have a sVate- men t of ihe labor cost of a ton of steel rails at Bethlehem, Pa., taken recently by Mr. .'Shoenof, and it shows labor cost there $j.8d per ton The labor cost of a ton of st'jel rails in England js not one dollar cheap er than hero. Mr. Sehoenof informs mo that a, ton of bar iron costs; for labor, in England about $7.75, arid here about $8. But let us leave these and Droceod with official figures. A keg of steel nails costs $2.34; the la borer cost is 67 cents, the tariff is $1.25. A ton of pipe iron costs $34. 57; labor cost, $12.26, ' the tariff is 22.40. . Here is a car wheel weighing 500 pounds; cost $13; labor cost 85 cents; tariff rate is $2.12 cents per pound, equivilantto 12 50, to cover a labor cost Of 85 cents! Laughter. Why, Mr. Chairman, these aborers of ours ought to get immensely rich it they could get ail that Congress votes to them, if the manufacturers did not stop the bounties intended by the Government to reach the pockets of the workingmen. Here is a coarse wool suit of ckthes such as our working people : wear in their daily toil in the shop and field. The Svhole cost is $12. , The labor cost is $2. The tariff du ty is 40. cents per pound and 35 por cent, ad valorem. As the weight of the suit is not given, we cannot got the exact tariff, but the duty on woolen clothes imported last year averaged 54 per cent., and at that rate tho tariff stands 8G.84 to cover $2 of labor cost. t A Icotton suit costs $10.50; the la bor cost is $1 85; lhextanfl is $3.67. A (loZeri goblet.; c'ifl.ViS C0'itt , labor cOHt, 15 Co'titrt; tariiT. 19 cents White loud, by the hundred weight. 89.50; labor cost, 50 cents; tari!T. $3 A hundred weight of mixed paints, $8 ; labor cost, 41 ceuts; tariff. $2. Now, Mr Chairman, I have gone through wiih a number of aru'cles takeii. from these official reports made by the manuiuelurers tbetns selves, and L hiiVe shown that the tariff was not framed for the benefit of the laborer, or that if it was so in tended by those who framed it, tho benefit n'ever reaches the laborer, not a dollar of it. The working peo pie are hired in the market at the lowest rates at wbicfr their services can be bad, and all the "boodle" that: has been granted by these tar iff bills goes into the pockets of the manufacturers. It builds up palaces; it concentrates wealth; it makes great and powerful magnates ; but it distributes none of its beneficence in the homes of our laboring poor. It brings the tax gatherer to tbom; it weighs them down as it goes ;-it compels them to pay out a largo share of their daily earnings for the necessaries of life ; and the money it raises by high prices on domestic manufactures it transfers not into the coflfers of th j government, but iu to the coffers of private individua!. It is making a wide distinction in thik country between two classes one numerous, but poor ; one Binall, but powerful and rich. It U a poli cy that is at war with the institu tions of this country. The concen tration of the wealth of the country in the h:mds of a few will in prog ress of time overthrow the very foundations of our free government. Now, gentleman, the time, has come, after all these taxes on wealth have been swept away, and the people of this country have been bearing for years these enormous burdens that : have been levied on the ' neccessuries of life ; now, when "trusts," and "combina tions," and Spools" are arising all around us to limit production, to in crease prices, to make the laborer's lot harder and darker now the time has come for us to do some thing, not for classes, but for the great masses of our people. I hopo and trust that the bill which we have presented to you and which has met "with favor throughout the whole country will receive a majority of your votes, a majority of the votes of the Senate, and become a law. 1 earnestly "hope when the treasury is full J to overflowing of the people's bard earnings, you will lighten their burden, and "reduce the trxes ou the necessaries of life. Although the bill we propose U not all that we could have asked, al though it is a very moderate bill, yet it will send comfort and happi ness into the homes and bosoms of care high wages for the poor labotng people, of.- this countiy, and I ask yon now in be half of them to consider tneir claims nd help is reduce the burdens tnai have so long been laid (upon their shoulders. rEnthusiastic .applause on the Doroocralie aide, and cries of "Votel" "Vote!" Raleigh Political Mathematics. Tho methods by which the Ital -iS!e!!tIl,;n rriva at the coai olnWion that tbeir candWate.- Jndff - - .i I c . I i I rHtTOnlTirjovernorwbilst entirely innocent, and to them most pi st pleasant temporarily, can only end iu disas ter.! Tho News and Observer has re cently published a list of what it calls preferences, as expressed by counties, and this political learning alsd called "Soine Straw," is publith ed for the information of provincial Democrats. It seems that the News and Observer snt an inquiry to the Chairman of the Board of Commis sioners of the different counties, ask ing them what they believed to be the preferencecf the people in their respective counties for Governor ana Lieutenant Governor ; and received answers frorn about fifty couutios, as stated by that paper, and from these answorsjii places the voto of Fowle at 157, and Siedman at 117. Be jit- remembered .that there wll be 933 votes, or thereabouts, in the next State Convention, and the esti mate furnished by the New and Observer, even if entirely correct, as far as it wentj would be a very poor index from which to arrive at a probable conclusion as to who would be jnominatedj Stedman or Fowle, if the race should bt entirely between them, which at the present time is far from being a - fact.-.-. But just to show how dismal a . failure these "Straws" will prove, let the News and Observer add to its list the follow ing counties, which are entirely omitted as not heard from, viz: Third District Wayne, Duplin, Sampson and Cumberland ; Sixth District Brut.swick, Richmond, Anson and. Union, and then calcu late, if by any process known even tOitbo far reach ing calculations of i hone .'' .who manage polities is! our modcrt capital, it' can figure Fowl ariywlicre ahead of Stedman in the race. If these eight counties do ivt sufficejwe tan furnish a great tnjii'V moro, which we thit.k will at j ieast patiafvoiir friends that thev are making a tad mistake io attempting to reach a proper result from the article headed "Some Straws" from tho News and Observer. It may bo, however, that Judge Fowle's friends can get no pr'oper information from thleso counties ou account of their remoteacsH from llaleigh, forBrunss wick courity was left fronthe list, although its county convention had instructed its delegates unanimously for Stedman some days before the publication of tho articlo called ?Some Straws;" and a correspondent of the News and Observer, in anoth er issue "of that paper. - stated that a majority of tho people of Cumber land county wore for Fowle, whore, as we are reliably informed, upon the very best authority, that a po- litical search warrant could net find ten men who are for Fowle in the entire county. Now, for the infor- niation of our good friend", wo will give thorn an estimate foundeji upon so-called preferences, furnished not by one but by two of tho most ac tivo and well informed Democrats in each county and covering the entire State Their answers as furnished place the voto as between" Stedman and Fowle at 543 for Sledman and 390 for Fowle, giving Stedman a clear majority in ihe whole Conven tion of 153 votes over Fowle. j The estimate as betweon Alexan der and Fowle as furnished would not be preculiarly gratifying to the friends of Judge Fowle. It must jot be forgotten, however, that the calculation U based upon esiimatos furnished from every county iu the State, many -of them being far off from our Capital City. Wo suppose however, this would be cousidcred legitimate by Democrats from tho Stato at largo. N w, we ask our good friends to place our figures with their straws and keep them until tho 30ih day of May aad see if wo are not very near the mark, if the race should be between Stedman and ,Fowle.; Wilmington Review. 1 , M Applegrepn is a fashionable ooN or. ! Mrs. Catherine McMahoo, of Greencatlo,; Ind., is 103 years of age and has lived to see tbo seventh generation of her kind. One of her brothers died at the age of 100 and another at tho age of ninety-eight. The way house plants thrve on the dregs of coffee leit at breakfast is admirable. Bowker itself hardly turns out stronger leafage or such ihic"? bloom The grounds are a good mulch on tbe'top of the soil, but a little care must ba -given not to let them soiir and get musty, f Six! Murderers Hanged. One in Maryland, Two in South Carolina and Three in Arkansas. Leonardtown, Md., ApriL.27.1 John B Biscoe colored was executed here to-day for the rnardcr of .Cap tain R P Dixon on ihe Potomac Riv er at the close of August 1886.- The murder of which Biscoo . was twice convicted was commuted on the Potomac River, near the mouth of Machodoc Ureek, Ang.2a, n88b. Captain iixontwa amum invmjoop U. w-rr J w 1 1 tk with Bincoq ma n band, nod iuefiju iuu mit iiiuu . op Mary J. left Wash Doat. mesio ington on the morning of Aug. 27, and nothing was heard of her until Sunday morning, Aug. 30, when a gentleman disccvored her sailing from the Virginia shore toward the mouth of Britons's Bay, in St. Mary's county. The sloop had been abaudoneu and her sails were flap ping. Later in the day some men boarded the boat , and fouud, from the quantities of blood about' the decks aocr in tbo cabin, evidences of murder. On Tuesday, Sept. I, the body of Captain. Dixon was found on the Virginia shore of the Polo mac river,'just outside of the mouth of Machodoc creek, Biscoe was ar retted on the steamer Thompson at Leonardtown wharf next day. . Since his trial the negro has con fessed that he knocked, the captain insensible and threw him overboard, but said thaj he acted in self-defense, the captain having threatened him with a knife. -Anderson, S. C, April 27, Jasper Davis was hanged hero to-day for the muraer of hie wife. He admit ted bis guilt. Ho was believed by many to be insane. Orangeburg, S. C, April 27. Jack Prater, colored, was hanged here to-day for the murder of An drew Jackson, a negro, on July 14, 1885. j . FortSmith, Ark.. April 27. Three men, Jack Crow, George Moss and Owen D. Hill, were hanged here Ibis morning for murders committed in the Indian. Territory. All the men .were negroes with Indian blood. Seven men were sontenced to hang here tosday. but consumption re moved Sajudy Smjth; and tbo,6en tenccs of three others were commut ed by the (President. ' Moss was one of four men who killed George Tall, a prominent man in 1 the Chickasaw Nation. Moas companions were Dick Butler -and Factor Jones, Indians, and Sandy Smith, a white man. They were sur prised shooting a yearling hog by Taft, and ifearing ho would report the matter to the CitizensV Commit tee, shot him. The murderers were arrested and the Federal authorities took possession of Smith and Moss. Butler and Jones wero taken out of the custody of the Indian police and lynched. I Smith afterward died in in jail. Crow shot Charles Wilson, a Choctaw politician, during an elec tion row Hill killed his wifo in the Creek Nation, near Muskegoo. Columbus, O., April 27. William George, tho convicted murderer from Muskingum county, who was to have been hanged in the penitentiary aunex just after midnight lact night, was saved from the gallows last even ing by the Supreme Court, which suspeodeci the carrying out of. tho sentence j indefinitely. Tho con demned man killed an old cripple named James Scott io Meigs town ship in July, 1587. ! A Wonderful Hen. Mrs. Catherine Loguo of this city is tbo possessor of n erratic hen whoso vagaries are the talk of the neighborhood. The hen began &y ing eggs during Holy Week, all cf which wero marked in some pecu liar way, such as .forms of snail shells, snakes, and on separate occ a sions the letters C. and G. On Good Friday the egg was marked with a correct! representation of a lamb in repose,' and Mrs. Logue guarded it carefully until last Saturday, when her son, in showing it, accidentally dropped the troasuro and it was broken. Almost every "bgg is mark ed with something familiar. Yester day th6 egg was ia perfect represent tation of a brawny arm aud shoulder. After Easter sbo laid an egg with a porfoci, limb of a 'woman upon it, which had all the artistic contour of sculptured marble and a foot as dain ty as a fairy's. It even had tho exn tent of hosiery and the garter mark about it. This hen will not lay her her eggs anywhere but on the kitch eu lounge; and it she is in the yard she will peck at the window until admitted. Baltimore Sun. He Will See It Lnter. Clerk "1 worked off some of that packed butter to-day." Grocer "Indeed! Whom did you send it too?" Clerk "Mrs. Blank, around on Dash street." Grocer-? "Great guns J Why 1 board with her.n Jktroit FreePrwt Murdered ItfenlTam nn Alire. Henry ancij Jbln,HiH, bachelor farmers, lodged in jail at Jamestown, ; Ky t wo week & ago for the murder of, two peddlera- named. Barton,, caj- ly jn. MLarcb,'were bronght ? to . trial satnTday.vano-'rrtncipal - witnei against, thes. -Waa Mary isovith, their former servavtIler atory ;; w'aa sttp-.' . ported by;'. the findingotther refia- nants of two bodies in a eave near the Hill farmhouse. While aba was telling on the. stand how she -bad Ucft coT.teIod"at th aw to eut ib throats ot the pecktiers b tiey were asJcp at her employ c i g" no u b c anti'T. an tir frtfw-f tnw bucket, the Burtons walked into the court room. Tbo case was at once discontinued, and the niils disN iiissed. The remains found proved to be parts of the carcasses of two sheep. ' AM Relics. HilliVoro Recorder. The Senate.has passed a bill to pay the heirs of Gen Shields $10,000 lor two swords and $20,000 to pay for one sword said to be owned and used by Gen. ;, Washington at somo time in his life. If the old "weapons" are worth the money andean be profitably used by tho United States, oi utilized for lhede fence of this country, w do not obs ject, but if the object bo,aud we sus pect it is, to enrich tho poor relations of these distinguished prtriots out of the public monies of the people, then we think the charity is illegal ly bestowed. If Congress means to buy up all the old relics, we have in our office the press, wood typo and a. portion of tbo material upon which Wash1 iugtdn's farewell address to tho atV my was printed. Congress can have it fur $20,000 or less. We think it is worth fully as much as the sword. It is sound in every particular, and with a little repair can bo made as good as it wa8 when Washington was first inaugurated President. Wo aro not joking. . " A Unique Composition. I send a unique composition., which was originally published io a Philadelphia paper ever a hundrod years ago. It may be read three different ways. First, let the whole' bo road in the order in which it is written; second, read the lirtedown, wards on the left of eaclji comma in every line; third, in like manner on th3 righfof each comma. In ihe first reading the Revolutionary cause is condemed, and by the others en courage J and lauded: Harkl harkl the trumpet sounds, the din of war's alarms; O'er seas and solid grounds, doth call us aH to arms. Who for King George do stand, their honors soon shall shine;: Their ruin is at hand, who with Cong rrss join. Tho acts of Parliament, in them I much delight; I hate their cursed intent, who for the Congress fight. The Tories of tbo day, they are my daily toast, . They soon will sneak aWfty, who in dopendenco boast; Who non-resistance hold, they have my hand and heart, May they for slaves f bo sold. wbo act, a Whiggisla part. On Mansfield, North and Buto, may daily blesinga pour; Confusion and dispute, on Co ogres evermore. To North and British lords, may honor still ba done; I wish a block or cord, to General Washington. V t Washington Star, Tall Stories, but True. A gas well was struck at Zer.ia, Iod., the other day which has a flow of 14,010,000 cubic jfeet. The flam is seventy five feetjhigh. In Augusta, Ga a tree felled i early morning was before nigblfall of the same day converted into pa per and sent out bearing the current news. , An. immense locomotive has just been ;consthiced at a Paris foundry. It builder predict, that it wH real. izq an approximate speed of ninetv three miles an hoar. A 11 French, of Kansas City, had pretty good luck in fishing the other day. He seatedhiraself on the pier at Santa Barbo, CaU and with a hook and line cakgnt fivo sharks, averaging in length five feet and, ciae inches each. The finny mon sters fought gamely for freedom and it took the combined efforts of three men to gel each on terra firma. Dr. Crowther, of Baltimore, prob ably owes his life to a parrot. -The cries of the bird awakened him at 3jo'clock io Ihe morning. Ho Ah- Covered that his house was on fire and barely had time to arouse hU family nod get them out before th building was, completely TPJdJsL flames. '