North Carolina Newspapers

r IT 1 Weekly Sun WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE FARMERS OF ROWAN COUNTY, Subscribe at Once. EDITORIAL SQUIBS. —The Italian government has recently bought between 4,000and 5,000 hogsheads of Virginia to bacco. --Members of theHawaiian com mission were given a luncheon in VOL. 2.--NO. 22. ^ Family :]srexx7-spa:)oe:r, rDexroted. to th —The camp of the Second North Carolina Regiment at St. Simon’s Island has been named Camp John B. Gordon. That is quite an im provement upon Camp Dan Rus sell, as it was at Raleigh..—Char lotte Observer. —The Democratic Hand Book Chicago and all made speeches will be ready for delivery on the favoring territorial expansion. H^h of this month. It will con- .. I tain about 150 pages. The chair- -Mayor Van of New| mano{ the 8tate coulee is York, bus been awardou a bavi cff for eral dis . for saving three y(>ung women tr . ljutlon - TMs win from drowning at F reeport, L. I. H ^ g ipplying cand id : de S , — General Shafter is not a good speakers and newspapers, an aver- penman, which' peculiarity has j a g e of twenty to the counties. The r soldiers : K>le par U-LI campaign hand book of. this year ■ . i-ye-’f be particularly valuable, and ' : ev -.i y .•u/GiU AuffiA order enough -—The Raleigh Post 'says “at a called meeting of the Ananias Club Lieutenant Richard Henderson, now on indefinite leave of absence, was elected an honorary member.” —The Sioux Indians don’t want the war with Spain to close until they get a whack at her for dis- ec.cAng this country, and thus making it possible for the pale- faces to gobble up so much real estate and crowd the Indians out. —The report that Peru is purchas ing some warships in Europe, and racket with this country on account of some alleged grievance, indi with the news since the war with -Senator Edmunds, of Ver- around in Mr. McKinley to drop ’em. We meline to the opinion that the gentleman from maple sugardom is kvelheaAm in this.—Wilming ton Star. —An idea of the absurdity and i -Ojuos to put one in the hands of •/doubtful voter in the State. --The Washington Post says that the last Legislature of Penn sylvania has a record for infamy not surpassed by the Legislative of any other Northern State, and in the name of the people of Illi nois the Peoria Herald arises to demand a retraction. To this the Louisville Courier Journal says: Stop this right here! If we get up a dispute among the people of the various States as to who has worst Legislature Armagedon and concert of the powers will be love feasts in comparison. —Governor Hogg, of Texas, who is much interested in dress reform, has just given a party which was attended by something like.200 of the State capital's best society. Ladies were informed in the invitation that calico dresses would be correct form, and the men were expected to, come in simple attire. Many the danger niff ourselves with the government of the Philippines is conveyed in the news that “the time of the passage of the steamer Newport, which conveyed Gen. Merritt from San th —So far as is known, the Six-1 teenth Pennsylvania volunteers is the only regiment which includes in its muster roll three brothers who are triplets. They hail from Jeannette, Wentzell. and their name is In the same company with the Wentzell boys are a father and son, the second lieuten ant being an ordained Presbyter ian minister. —The Fifth Illinois Volunteer Regiment went on a rampage the other day. They were ordered to the front and had started from Chicamauga when the order was countermanded and they were ordered back to camp Thomas. They celebrated the move back ward by getting as mad a hornets, throwing their canteens and smash ing their rifles on the trees, and the officers rather enjoyed the performance. society devotees appeared a la Maud Muller, but the majority came in usual swell costume/ The governor wore a $4.50 suit and personally superintended every thing. The refreshments includ ed 500 watermelons. —Dimes I" ve been pouring into the Navy D ''tment upon Secre tary Long, . "ibuted by pairi- ( io want to build co replace the Maine, started an endless chain , >tde the necessary funds, and the Secretary is doing his best to break the chain. To such of the contributors as give their address he is returning the money with a note informing them that he has no authority under ihe law to re ceive it, and that the object seems to be otherwise provided for, as Congress has specifically appro priated money for the construction of another battle ship to be known as the Maine. —Cold storage is solving Aus tralia’s rabbit problem. Trappers are employed to catch rabbits in Now Zealand,and one exporter gets in 20,000 a day. The total num ber sent to London this season is estimated at six millions. The dressed rabbits are packed in box es, frozen and sent to England in MrV UOPdit'on. If the industry continues to develop the rabbit plague, which has so long dis mayed Australasia, will at length be solved. —It is a lamentable exhibition of lawlessness that is reported from Warrensburg, Mo., where six col ored “ladies,” of a gang accused of robbery and assault, were last Tuesday night “stripped to the waist and whipped with rawhides’ by W bite Caps and ordered to leave the town. Although the night was dark and wet, the victims, we are told, “went cheerfully.” They ■ resided, it appears, in “the Levee” or disorderly section of the town, and had made lifea burden to their neighbors by their uncongenial proceedings. Still this could hard ly justify contempt for legal pro- ceedure. Barbarity will soon re turn to this country if inefficient officers are elected and their ineffi ciency is made an excuse for vio lence. Citizens of Warrensburg, we are told, denounced the White Cap disorder, but they did not in terfere, resembling in this respect citizens of Ohio and other States in recent cases of lynching. ##. best -ip.terests ot ZRo-wan oouigity. SALISBURY, N.' C, WELL ESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1898 Democracy , and at Monroe Popu lists who have been seeing the drift of their party and have man ifested a desire to return to Dem ocratic moorings, were helped along greatly. All of the speeches made were fine and had the true ring of Democracy. . Thursday, if may be said, was indeed a great day for the Demo-’ NEWSOFHK WEEK THURSDAY. The troops of Camp Alger .• to be moved to Manassas, Va. The transports Massachusc and Roumanian are.hard agrom cratic party. It was the begin- ning of a prolonged and a severe battle which all indications point to triumph of the Novemi ion. A the added to those anxious ■?.• wrest the State from- lb? ■. ’LL * ihe present despoilers of her hone Friends were made for the Demo cratic party and the party elevat ed to.a loftier height. Now that the campaign has opened, all who desire the success of the Democratic party should work with untiring zeal to that end, day, won. nor hold up until election and a glorious victory is PURE CAMPAIGN SPEECH ES. Hon. Theo. F. Kluttz.said in his speech at the grand Democrat ic rally at‘River Bend, Thursday, in referring to the ladies in the audience: “I do not think any speech ought to be made that can not be made in their' presence. Obscenity helps no'’ cause, how ever just that cause may be.'” Ile added that in this campaign he had made a solemn promise never. to say anything that could not be ence of his wife his own home. Mr. Kluttz has said in the pres and children in struck the key THE i Weekly Sun . IS ONLY $1 PER YEAR. & Strictly in Advance Price, $1 Per Year JO FARMER SHOULD BE WITH OUT IT. Congressman Joseph D. Say r wks nominated for Governor by the democrats of Texas. Joseph F. Johnston's re-election as Governor of Alabama by frcmGA.0 to 60,000 oainsn ma Hon. G. N. Curzon has stated as w 11 Impress to accept the post iff viceroy of India. Spain’s answer to the peace .;s f the United States was ; ’semedt-m Washington by M. Rmboll. It is understood that y ;in concedes the main points, some details are unsettled. The battleship ^xas was placed h dry dock at the navy yard Wed- kiy. An examination of her -..-ws that except for a slight .lent in her keel made by striking ■ coral reef off Dry Tortugas, she A a fair condition. It is thought '’‘^xs wT rem * ’ at ths navy WAR NEWS. day to the Ward Line for $’ ooY ’ A special dispatch from J Iona says a formidable rising of. Carlists has taken place near Lon da, Catalonia. A negro who attempted to p feon Judge John J. Jackson, of. Vi-wnia, was sent to the peniten tiary yesterday for life. The Republicans of the First Congressional district of Maine nominated Thos. B. Reed by ac clamation amid much enthusiasm. It is estimated that 100,000 ! troops will be required to garri son captured U. S. possessions for sometime after peace is declared. A -serious strike is threatened in Pittsburg coal district, the miners! charging that the operators have I failed to carry out their agree-1 ment of last year. George Tod, a wealthy resident of New York, committed suicide yesterday by jumping from a tenth-story’ window of the Hotel Majestic, in New York. i The village of Medina, Spain, has been wrecked by a cyclone which killed many persons. Sov era! houses at Homilies wore en- note towards an honorable discus sion of the political questions of the day, and would place cam- gulfed by th; and a number Taylor Xia -ou and ster ire returning from Asheboro to .eir home in Grant township in a one-horse wagon and in attempt- ing to cross the track run oyer by the train, which ran over their wagon, killing Macon out right and injuring the woman so severely that she is not expected to live. Mrs. Duncan McRae, the vener able widow of the U. S. Consul to Paris under President Pierce, and PLAN OF THE ARMY. Arroyo Bay, Aug. 3.—The last of Haines’ brigade has just been landed and Brooke has established headquarters. Grant's Fourteenth are badly wanted but the trans port Massachusetts is stuck in the mud at Ponce. The design is to take Guayama to-morrow and advance over the mountain to Cayey. Beyond is Aybenite where the enemy is con centrating a movement which Brooke will head off while troops on the Pence road come up be hind. Tie Cincinnati and the Gloucester will shell Cuayama and protect the advance of the troops. Resist ance is thought unlikely until over the mountain. The trouble with the Sixth Massachusetts is said to be the out come of the refusal of the whites to return the salutes of negro of ficers of negro regiments. Wilson has moved his headquarters from Ponce to Juana, Diaz. ROUGH RIDER Washington, . 3.—Roose- sorely distressed in New York, Ly their property being advertised by a [Gian Association. Friends cumeto their rescue. changing tide in the affairs of life. Stafford county, Va., yester- two men were suffocated in pai gn plane, ing in say 11 his speeches that con of the people perished Mrs. JohannaLillKA ter Winnie, ami ' A tie, were attar Whet- n '—- itheir home -ar ly^Hu/je, , Id not The child died of her injuries, and said in the presence of his wife the condition of Mrs. Lilli; and children in his own worthy the e: paign speake home is 1 ample of all cam ’s. The promise the crime. No motive is known .A colored man for has shows Mr. Kluttz to be a noble, Every speaker should take it up- been arrested on suspicion. All the troops of cavalry with Shafter’s army and the eight com panies of Roosevelt’s Rough i Riders, have been ordered to pro on himself to make pure campaign!^ t0 Montauk Point, L. 1 speeches. There are too m an y ! General Shafter has been directed disreputable speeches made dur-1 to use all th; RENT RECEIPTS. Special attention of property owners is called to an article else where in this paper copied from the New York Herald, giving a ruling of Commissioner Scott upon the question of tax for rent re ceipts. Commissioner Scott af firms the decision of Collector Charles II. Treat, of the Second New York Internal Revenue dis trict, that rent receipts must be taxed “as being the only evidence of contract between lessor and i lessee.” The commissioner rules i that “that the receipts for month- I ly rent come within the description Lof p .mrinoram lum or contract for the hire, use or i ent of any land or portion thereof a nd to be ac cordingly subject to the tax of twenty-tive cents.” This is an important ruling and, if there is not some mistake, 5s de served of the careful attention of all owners of houses for rent. The law has no doubt been violated often since it was enacted, and Vo evade trouble we advise the use of stamps. The Sun desires to emphasize this decision, hoping to I prevent its patrons who fall within the province of the law from vio lating the same. transport facilities veil's Rough Riders were to-day ordered to Montauk Point. They will come with Wheeler’s cavalry on the first favorable transporta tion from Santiago. ARROYO SURRENDERS GLADLY. Ponce, 3.—-The citv of Arroyo, thirty miles cast of Ponce surrendered to-day. The Wasp and the Gloucester were ordered there this morning. The inhabi- Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s troops, ititantson hearing of their coming Sill’ rhe-steamer Hiawatha recover cu and buried thirty bodies of the Gc^rnl Mile; that reads x moving on assembled on the beach headed by ; Alicalde and a priest. Lieutenant Wood of the Glou- ?cester went, ashore shortly after ; 11 o’clock and the people immedi ately crowded about him cheering. The crowd then cleared away to .allow the priest to talk to Lieut. - Wowl, resujty, g ^ the intention son to the other vessels of the fleet to disregard signals of the Commander-in-chief, the meaning of which was that in the absence of the Commander-in-chief the au thority devolved on the senior of ficer Schley, and signals from the flagship would be only as means of communicating with the shore. Therefore it is held that Samp son’s reported signal “close in mouth of harbor” would be disre garded by other vessels of the fleet. There is no doubt but that Schley would be blamed if Ceryera had proved successful. A board of inquiry will be de tailed by the Navy Department. Schley is oive: ally cudited with the victory. THE SICK SOLDIERS. Washington, Aug. 5. - Shafter reports the sanitary condition of his army at Santiago for Wednes day as follows: Total sick, 3,778; total cases of fever, 2,696; new cases fever, 449; deaths 9. SPANIARDS DEMORALIZER. Santiago, Aug. 5- The warships- Massachusetts and Dixie arrived this afternoon and started to coal ing. The commander of the Wil mington reports that the Span iards are demoralized at Manzanil lo and would quickly surrender their forces to the Americans. AGUINALDO WRITES. Hong Kong, Aug. 5.—The fol lowing from Aguinaldo has been received by Consul Wildman: I have read in the newspapers that I am getting the big head and am not behaving as I promis ed. In reply Task why should the Americans expect me to out line a policy for the present or future and fight blindly to her in terests whentheAmOricans will not be frank with me' Tell me, am I fighting for annexation, protection MUST STAMP RENT RECEIPTS. They are Subject to a War Tax of Twenty-five Cents. Rent receipts are taxed twenty- five cents now. Parties renting out houses should remember this. We clip the following from the New York Herald: “Collector Charles II. Treat, of the Second New York Internal Revenue district, received yester day a ruling from Commissioner Scott affirming his decision that rent receipts must be stamped, as being the only evidence of contract between lessor and lessee. Com- misKune” Scott rules that the re- ceipts ior moA-bl/rei li ¬ in the description of a memoran dum or contract for the hire, use or rent of any land or portion thereof and to be accordingly sub ject to the tax of twenty-five cents. “The ruling would seem to clear away the doubt which has hereto existed in the minds of both land lords and tenants.” San Juau. them Tip. visited Baltimore and calk’d at the to Fort Monroe. The, funeral of Archbishop Walsh, * of Toronto, took place with impressive sei vices in the Cathedral of that city. Dispatches to London from Pe kin assert that England is getting disreputable speeches made dur-1 to use all the transport facilities : b hc ildered out of the way in Cbi- ing campaigns, some that are vilej^ooan command, and to send the ■ pa because Russia has bribed Chi- I enough to Jake the most hardened 1 tro °P s nor ' thas "‘P 5 ^ 88 P^ I ^officials. i ble. A, Newfoundland telegraph op- The excessive heat of the last j er? 0f cables a report that a large three weeks or more culminated 1 bm ? had been lost, with all hands yesterday in one of the most ter-! Oi L board, near belle Isle, rifle electrical storms that ever'Aben is ^nothing to confirm visited Philadelphia. The rainfall 1 Aory. criminal blush in time for a change. shame.- It is Obscenity, indeed, as Mr. Kluttz says, does not help the cause the speaker is championing, on ihe contrary it is calculated to have the opposite effect. There is no need of vulgarity in speech-mak ing. It is entirely a mistake Give us purity of speech among our campaign speakers. WILLING TO CO-OPERATE “AGAIN.” Salisbury did not get half the glory out of Lieut. Marix and the Maine report that Concord and Charlotte did, but she shades us badly on Hobson. Concord’s obeyance and fuse or co operate with Charlotte “again” her from now on till we get even.—Concord Standard. As may be seen from the above the Concord Standard is willin’ to co-operate “again" us with its neighbor, Charlotte, because we Well, we have no kiok to make. We had Mr. Hobson with us and that's enough. But the Standard will please let us know when it “gets even,” just for a little satis faction. but the bung made known that the L. -us .wanted American rule. mm Tie ward ui.se amid great on Kt- The Credit System. The credit system, which has been more abused than any other great privilege that a free people ever enjoyed, will have to be amended or restricted in a great measure if good results are to be expected from it. The system has been proven in most cases a curse rather than a blessing, and caused trouble, sorrow and heart aches, where peace and happiness might have reigned had there been a strict inforcement of the rule “Pay as you go.'' The credit business has been the making of many dishonest people, who have taken advantage of trusting friends. Some debtors think it an outrage to be required or even requested to pay their honest debts, and they often take advan tage of such laws as may be on the statute books to beat the man who has befriended them of need was the heaviest in the history of; the local weather bureau. In one hour and three- quarters 5 4-10 inches of rain fell. Telegraphic and telephone service throughout the city was practically at a Stand- j M. Cambon is said to have as sured President McKinley that Spain will comply with the peace THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. The Democratic campaign open ed Thusrday in North Carolina. A grand rally was held at Newton and a big Democratic day was held at Monroe. Messrs. Kluttz, Ov- man and Leazar made speeches at Newton, and Messrs. Cooke and Currie at Monroe. Great enthu siasm was exhibited at Newton for portant as a railroad leads from there to Cuyama and direct to the military road to San Juan. Troops were landed this after noon at the harbor of Arroyo from the St. Louis and the St. Paul, including the Third Illinois and the Fourth Ohio. Shafter's army coming back. Santiago, Aug. 4.—Gen. Shaf ter received orders at 11:45 to re move his entire army north im mediately. Six transports that or independence. It is for Amer ica to say, not me. I can take Manila as I have de feated the Spanish elsewhere but what would be theuse. If Amer- , . . . , . aml trouble, ihe system is tea takes Manila I can save mv . , , , , . i unless bavkovl by numb i men and arms tor wiuu the future* , J p 1 Alia! can he Arced h; r stoi". . cc good " lend, 1 .a me, I am not both a fool] d a rogue. Interests of my! people are as sacred to me as the interests of your people are to you. Good News fr om the East Again. (Signed) Aguinaldo. Russia Against England. [SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE SUN.] There is great uneasiness on all sides here in view of the changed situation which is regarded as bringing England and Russia. terms of the United States,- but desires time to understand all of them. still, the cellars and first floors | j^ e Merritt Wrecking Company of hundreds of business houses 1 bng reccived advices from Santis- and dwellings were flooded. FRIDAY. Gen. Miles, at last accounts, had 9,000 men in Porto Rico, ami was awaiting reinforcements. The largest whaleback ever built, the Alexander MeDou. “ was floated at West Superior Wis. Hamptoville, Yadkin county, correspondence Statesville Land mark: A gentleman by the name of Royall, a classmate of Marion Butler, is conducting a sanctifica tion .meeting in the Quaker church at Brannon school house. The meeting- has been in progress about two weeks and still they go. Many boys and girls and a few older people ha ue professed sancti fication. go that the Infanta Maria Teresa is now floated, and is found to be are here will take the first ship ment, embarkation beginning to morrow. There is great rejoicing among the troops and great bustie and activity at headquarters to comply with the orders. Other transports are expected soon and a dozen vessels will soon be carrying soldiers back to the U nited States. The first troops to go north are the Third and Sixth regiments of cavalry, First regu lar and First volunteer cavalry which includes the Rough Riders. Wood remains behind as mili- I tary governor. I Those suffering from yellow I fever and infectuous disease will within a measurable distance open conflict. Legislative Jobbery. The Stanly Enterprise The last legislature of of says: North Carolina was a remarkable body of men. In looking over the Auditor’s report we find many in foresting items. In one charge there seems to be some false economy. It is for soap for va- A well known traveling man. who is one of the most observant citizens of the State, returned yes terday from a visit through eastern Carolina and reports that the Dem ocratic party is in better shape there than it has been in ten years. Our informant, who spent much time in the counties of Duplin, Sampson and Wayne, says the Democrats in those counties are greatly encouraged. Populists, who left the party several years ago, are now returning. The ticket in Duplin, he says, is the best the Democrats have ever put up there. Similar reports are coming from all over the State. The people are at last determined to overthrow fusion misrule. There will be no mistake in this election. in fairly good condition as to her. machinery and boilers. She will be left behind and every preeau- shortly start for Nor her own steam. lion will.be taken to provide safe and healthy arrival of the troops. The volunteers will be shipped A row boat containing Mrs. Ot- - n . . , , Hn the following order: Birst Illi. rions departments, $5.40. It must have been a lack of soap that caused so much dirty work in that brilliant body of men. In the state senate there are 50 members. The senate chamber is not larger than our court room in Stanly county, yet took 20 men, working at $2.50 per day, to attempt to keep it clean. Besides those 20 busy men, fifteen boys (pages) at $1 per day were necessary to at tend the wants of the High Lords. Let the taxpayers consider this; sixty-live dollars per day to hire help to attend the 50 senators and keep in order a room not larger than our courtroom, if you doubt that it took so much money, when you are in town we will show you proof of these facts. The Auditor's report further shows that the amount paid during the session of 1897 was as follows, viz: Salary senate members, $14,142.80; for employee in senate for session 1897, $11,592.28. The employes in the senate lacked onl y $2,550.52 of receiving as much as the sena tors. The question is, what did all of the employes do' The question to the voters is, do you you expect by your vote to allow Our Money Power. The new war taxes are bringing in a revenue of between eleven and twelve million dollars amonth. At the Highest estimate they represent the interest at 3 pel- cent. on a bond issue of $5,000,- 000,000; at the lowest estimate they represent the interest on $4,- 400,000,000. mm principal of ihe public . .. the United State- on July nois, First District of Columbia, Seventy- first New York, Ninth, and . Second Massachusetts, Eighth Illi- nod by three sabers from I he yacht n0 Tililty -third and Tbirty- of Col. L^pert, whose guilts they | f)llrth Mi(:h; gan. .. , . were, was. capsized in Raritan, 1 surrender to Generali. ■ ; Bay It is reported that the Spanish! garrison at Manzanillo, (Juba, has! Garcia. Gen. J naled for B. Weaver wasjiomi- silver parties of the sixth Iowa 1 district. A lawsuit growing out of H e ! cents worth of sugar,, originated: between colored people in Leaks- ! ville Tuesday. ‘hn, and man- FIRST DETACHMF , valued tranfi P ort Hudson cleared this at $40,000, a dredge valued at morning for Porto Rico with the first detachment of the Third Bri 32,000, tielonging to Rittenhouse Moore, of Mobile, wore lost lOmiles off Appalachicola, in Tuesday night's storm. Lain Alien and four of the lucky volunteers under Castleman of the first army corps under com mand of Grant. Nim- . rod's crew were drowned. I he Paris lemps says this conn-1 try has expressed a desire to e^ 0116 ° f the P 1081 'Crmp ^I suc- large the scope of the reciprocity Yssful liauk robberies ever per- treaty existing with France. ' ’ ! grated in Michiya was carried lout Thursday night. The gang Three gold seekers are said t,; W cnmposed 0f ' six meD) who be hurrying to return from the to town on a handciu , F01ir Copper river region because of i wo) . e placed on guard outside the threatened starvation. , ^^ j,.^., which is a gn , all The Queen of Denmark, it is i wooden building. Three charges stated, is not sick, and the depart- of dynamite were exploded before ure of the Princess of Wales from the robbers got at the money and England is now thought to have “waped. The loss is between I been due to a quarrel with the i$J,W) and $7,000. mostly farmers’ I Prince-. (deposits, THE SAMPSON-SCHLEY CONTROVERSY Washington, Aug. 4.—An im portant revelation has been made in the Sampson-Schley contro versy on their respective claims for credit for destroying Cervera’s fleet. The matter has caused some little debate and the whole subject will be ventilated in Con- It seems that when the flagship headed eastward on the memorable third of July, in order to enable Sampson to hold an important conference with Shafter, a mes sage was communicated by Samp- represented the cc on the four year? Tor the preservation of the Union. Now by a simple enactment which would have been passed in three days if needed we have raised in come enough to pay the interest on more than Ihe whole of our great war debt. It may be doubted whether any other nation in ihe world is Iinan chilly so strong as the United States. White Girl Sent to the Pen. A gentleman who came in from Greensboro this morning said the sheriff of Rockingham county a continuation of such a state affairs." of Durham Sun: Farmers have wheat to sell now, and it has fal len from $1.80 to from 60 to 80 cents a bushel. When we finish with Spain we have some import ant home affairs to look into. carried a white girl to tentiary this morning, two years for stealing Our informant did not the peni- She gets learn the ’s name.—Winston Sentinel. Itis said that since 1893 there have been forty bicycle deaths to every death from football.