"Our Aim will be, the People's Right Maintain,
unauxa off rower, and vnonoea by Uain."
VII.
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1888.
NO. 23
vol"
LOCKED HORNS.
trtE AX DOCKEBY IN
DISCUSSION".
JOINT
nea Down Under the
all OOCV
Aa A- VAwie'i Powerfal Arcra-
str0p
correspondent in the News Observer,
A
an account of the nrst meeting
Co
. -inn? ;
inhere Fowie and DocKery says
jecuj--- -
v there v. as an cuui muua wunu picacut,
prions1'' estirnateu at xrum uvc iu seven
? ,sand people. Such a crowd as l48
teit between Vance and Settle in
j-k Te Uemocracy was out in run
iWe to catch someuung oi me mspira-
1 w-
i r-u :.- Vn-a?itfirl Ytv His verv nrps.
tion
VBii-ii i3 -"-" y x
The Republicans (mostly black)
trere present in considerable numbers to
essthe terrible drubbing which they
seemed to think was in store for judge
foirle Alas! how sad their disappoint-
jjjent. V nen 8pca.mg o.o mcj ncic
the most disconsolate looking set I haye
jver seen. Gentlemen present who know
jjockery his neighbors and county men
toid me tnat tna hac never seen him so
didlv "hacked." Col. Tom Leak and Mr.
C!ar Wall, both of Richmond, who have
Lcown Dockery well for thirty years, said
that they did not think he would recover his
spirits during the joint canvas. The im
pression made upon me (and I sat on the
s'nd with the speakers where I could
jee and note each facial expression) was
that Dockery was astounded at the powers
of his adversary. The readiness with
which Judge Fowie corrected his numer
ous misstatements, the ease with which he
turned aside his intended home-trusts
seemed to appeal Dockery. The aggres
siveness of the Judge seemed to take the
'Colonel's breath. In . the opening argu
ment of Dockery he lett the fence down
br charging that the Democratic and not
the Republican party "has the most negro
in its wood pile," to use his identical lan
page. ;
Fovrle's reioinder was crushing. He
darged Dockery with voting in Rich
cond county for Horlee, a negro, against
Alex. L. McDonald, one of the best white
men of the county,- for register of deeds ;
for Felix J? cobs, a negro, against a one-leg
ged Confederate soldier, Daniel Gay, bv
name, for the office of coroner; for'Harvey
Quick, a negro lawyer, against John W
Saeed, one of the best white men and far
mers of Richmond county, for the Legis
lature. While thes.e charges were being
made the attention was breathless, and the
mtnense throng of white men present rose
sp, like one man, arid leaned forward with
eager anxiety to hear what would be
uockery s answer to the charges. R un-
tag through the crowd could be heard
t'e-whispered exclamation "Surely this
oanot be true." But "as a sheen is dumb
kfore his shearers, so Dockery opened
r-ot his mouth." . .
FIXE DESCRIPTION OF PKARIE
LANDS.
w9o clock P.M. we ieave Tvler n
the St Louis Texas and the Arkansas for
visit to the prairies and North Eastern Tex
35 via Ml Pleasant, 6o miles to the North
"ere we change cars and go to the west
trough the rich counties of Litus, Frank-
im) Maptms, Hunt, Cullin, Dallas and
Torrant Along our route . lay Sulpher
Pnngs a thriving village of '3.000. Green-
TlIle of 2,500 and Mt. Vernon of i,;oo.'
fcese towns are in a beautiful country,
last to the East of the prairies proper. Yet
craparatively level, with some timber.
7 A. M. -we arrived at Commerce,
ient county. Here the. main line goes on
to Shernjan"and Denison, which we leave
fer Wng breakfast for the" first time on
he plains and in genuine "cowboy" Tex
sstv!e. The lands are here as biack as it
Jms possible for it ever to be, and every-
Jng that grows on it indicates its richness
the extreme. We notice the sun-flower,
Tbena and geranium growing wild.- It
Rss t0 be the home of the osage orange
ed here "Bois de Arc" ,'pronoiinced "Bo-
Its durability is so great that it is
ed for posts and stout pave-nents, it lasts
rmany yiars. The streets of Dallas are
Ped with it and i: makes an elegant and.
ouu bleone- eare now some miles
" rom Commerce on our route to Fort
k - tiere for the first time, we have
Tho ?S tlle road expanse of the prairies,
mind SOmethinS in the sight that re
cRiut WS f thS ocan- Its vastnss and
rDQer,rup,ed v5e, i-s undutations CDr
mdm2 with the waves. The surface
presents a more variagaied appearance.
Now for several miles we see only the
golden color of corn or German millet and
then a belt of green boxce and meskete.
Now we see the broad fields of hav heintr
moved by a dozen or more reapers, stacks
of which nearly cover the ground upon
which it grows, and amidst all this thousand
of the finest catties I ever saw, grazing
or taking shelter under a shade tree, that
stands here and there to vary the monoto-
ry of the scene. We see our home pro
duct, cotton, which they say is a failure on
account of Athe extraordinary wet spring.
but I am confident I saw any quantity of
and upon which a bale at least was grow
ing. 1 would like to see it when the sea
son was favorable if this is a year of failure.
A farmer at one of the depots said to me,
n reply to an enquiry, that he could culti
vate thirty-five acres with one horse. They
use sulky plows, and every thing on the
farm that can be is done by machinry. They
are not troubled here with stumor nor
stones and every utensil plum &c, that
goes in the ground is only sharpened
thereby. These lands said he. are worth
$25 to $30 per acre, indeed the crops
would indicate trebble that value. Just
think of a body of land for hundreds of
square miles, that will produce fifty bushels
of corn, 40 bnshels of wheat, from a bale
to a ton, and a half of cotton and hay as
high as your shoulders, I will not say how
many tons to the acre, a gentleman a
gave me the figures, I can not recall it.
About 11 o'clolk a. m. we reach Fort
Worth, which we find beautfully located
on the South bank of Trinity River in
Torrant county, which makes a graceful
curve around the city, finally resuming its
ownward course to the Gulf of Mexico to
the South-east.
The city stands boldly on a plain that
breaks abruptly off,. as it reaches the river,
235 feet, thus giving it a very commaning
view of i s surroundings for many miles in
jn every direction. A circumstance that
doubtless lead to its situation as a Govern
ment Military post to look after the In
dians many years ago. We are- told that
fifteen years ago not a railroad had reached
this, place. Now there are ten, and its popu
lation has grown from that of a new village
and trading out-post to a little city of 35,000
population, this placing it among the
large&t towns in the State. Its Court
House and jail are very hansome buildings,
especially the latter. The Court House
Square, like nearly all Texas towns,' is the
point at which all visitors by private con
veyance leave their towns and sell their
produce. From the number one would
guess Fort Worth evidently has a 'fine
trade. There is a large wholesale business
done here aud it is claimed that the Browns
do tae second largest grocery bussness in
the United States. One thing is certain
their buildings, is of solid granite, are suf
ficiently commodious to do an immense
amount of business.
Several large Hospitals are located here,
one of the finest being that belonging to
the Gold system of railways, erected espe-
pecially for the benefit of their employees, .
and such others as may have been employ
ed on their lines. The city is supplied
with excellent water from Artesian Mills
of which there are over 200, the water
rising twelve feet above the ground.
This water system is thefore, good as
was manifest by the promptnecs of exting
uishirg a large fire that emenat;d on the
first floor of a large wholesale liquor house
just in the rear of my hotel during our
visit. The "Pickwick" and "Ellis" are the
leading hotels and very creditable, one they
are. We met 9 our young friend David
Brownson who took our party over and
around the ci-y. There are quite a num
ber of handsome private residences.
: A. W. Rowland.
For Tax Payers.
A nice calculation has been made which,
it is claimed, goes to show that according
to the existing tax laws of the government.
$150,000,000 is abstracted from the earn
ings of the people every year, which goes
solely to the enrichment of wealthy manu
facturerers. Carnegie, the irom king of
Pensylvania, says he alone received $1,
500,000 of it in one year. Yet the Repub
lican party is opposed to the slight revis
ion of the tariff and partial tax reduction
of the Mills bill.
An Issne.
Senator Dan Voorheese seems to think
that the greenback question is an issue in
the Indiana campaign this year. There
will be a tremendous issue of greenbacks
this year, and if you "don't want to get left
. !
you had better be on hand with your pau.
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPIIONI
OU8LT ELUCIDATED.
Numerous News j- Notes and Hany I
Mrry Morsels Pararraphiealljr I
Pscke4
nd PltnllxPoited.
A boy cot A cradle.
Florida hj to grow opium.
Utah is worth $35,000,000.
An unlucky girl Miss Fortune.
The moon moves in highest circles.
Russia has borrowed $220,000000. . '
An old-fashioned trust "trusfto luck.'
r M, -
Welding by electricity has come to stay.
A seasonable remark: "Pass the salt,
please.'" I
The most oopular camnaiom tune is the
' ' 1
cartoon.
Our mutual friend The gent in the
woodpile.
The anthracite outnut this vear will be
33,000,000 tons.
Italy has annexed the island of Zulah on
the African coast.
The present population of Philadelphia is
estimed at 1,000,000. v !
American silk manufacturing is crowd
ing out foreign silk.
The right to pay taxes has never been
denied woman.
A bar at which you can keep perfectly
sober the crow bar.
A man doesn't get even, even when he
gnts married two times.
Inspector of light houses Manager
of a star who fails to draw.
Wind at St. Paul recently attained a ve
locity of a mile a minute.
Love laughs at locks mitha because it
holds the combination.
The first man to hang out a shingle
must have been a hair cutter.
Ocean steamers may not be athletic,
yet thev all "go over
the b
ar.'
It is a great day for garden beds when
the rain comes down in sheets.
r 1: 1 a 1 . 1
wuauWuuiia.cl8mc.8uuCICu a iciu-
1 T . 1
oie visitation 01 grabnoppcr.
The Emperor of Brazil has just sailed
f rom Lisbon for K10 de J aneno. ,
Eoys get Si a day and their keeping for
picking iruu m vaiuorma. .
In New York there are 3500 hotels re-
presenting $75,000,000 of capital.
The annu .1 lard product in the United
States is valued at $So,ooo,ooo.
You can al.ways find the latest' craze at
any well conducted insane asylum.'
A picture in your imagination is, of
course, enclosed in a frame of mind.
T.r :i
I trli 1 fr MI lLIlIllci Llv V 41.3 111 tll LCU I
ultiplied on the face of the earth.
The industry of surgical instrument
making has doubled in three years.
The song of the poet The price for
which he generally disposes of his poem
Pittsburg capitalists have subscribed $1,
000,000 to open a big tin mine in Mexico
Electricians expect to decrease the cost
of electric lightening twenty-five per cent
Why are sailors egotistical? Because-
they, are always saying "Aye, aye
sir."
The sum of $iS,ooo,ooo has been expen-
ded m drainage under the Illinois drainage
There are ten ladies in the world at the
present time who bear the tittle of Ex-
press.
Funny, isn't it, that after a man has once
eiven his word he should try so hard to
keep it.
Natuial gaa has caused in Pensyivania
in three years seventy three firef, costing
$900,000.
A young man of Paris, Ky., who habit
ually smoked a hundred cigarettes a day,
has gone insane.
The highest priced yearling heifer sold
in England this year was Cherry Dutchess,
and brought $ 1 1 ,500.
AnF.norlish Darer asks: Should men
- - o I
sew?" They should mend, but not sew.
It is never to late to mend.
A Vermont minister has preached 121
funeral sermons, with net returns of two
barrels of apples and two silver dollars.
This is the first time since 1S76, in New
York City, that the Mayor, Governor and
President are to be voted for together,
The Austrain government hat announc
ed that it will join the Sugar Bounties
Convention if the Unithd States and Bra
zil do.
It is a sad but well known fact that
comparatively few of our most noted
temperance advocates ever c-et a head"
in this world.
If every workman understood that half
of the coct of every suit of clothes that he
bought was a tax, there would soon be in
end to the high tariff robbery.
Two dollar bills will not be distributed
this year with so lavish a hand as they
were in 1SS0, because, the republicans do
not control U. S. Treasury now.
four that jeft
York last week for a race to Qeenstown
all did thjeir work but the Umbria'wcn,
making the trip in six days, four hours
and forty minutes.
There have been two eclipses recently.
One of the moonand one of Gen. Benj.
Harrison. The moon was eclipsed by the
shadow of the Earth : Harrison by the
6hadow of Blaine.
Harrison never dreamed of a republi
can nomination for the presidency when
he told the railroad strikers that 4or.e dol
lar and two meals a day was good enough
for any laboring man."
The carpet mills in New York, Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvnia have shut down,
throwing many thousands out of employ
ment. The high protective tariff does not
tend to benefit carpet labor.
It cannot be denied that Mr. Blain
brought thirty-two trunks with him from
Europe. Wonder hor much duty he paid
on the goods according to the absolutely
labor-life saving revenue laws?
The approval of the President's message
is unanimous with the Democratic and In
dependent press. The beauty of it is that
the more the Republicans criticise it the
worse they make their own case.
President Cleveland has long heen noted
as an expert nsherman; but when he
caught the R epublican Senate with a hook
baited with Canadian minnows "he has far
exceeded all of his former exploits
I
Old man Edmunds is lawyer for the
I -
Central Vermont railroad, which will be-
awfully broken up in business by retal-
nation. Hence the Edmonds' wrath said
King Herod, I will laugh, ha! hal
A Famine preVaiIs in Turkey, serious
disorders have occurred. On about the
x cth inst., the Albanian garrison at Met-
zoo sacked the town. Many christians
were killed and their property destroyed.
Mr. John H. Bass of Fort Wayne, Ind.
I one of the most extensive manufacturers
in the country, who is a maker of pig iron
as well as of boilers, engines, and mach
iner'y. has declared himself for the Mills
bill and Cleveland and Thurman.
Ridicule has ever been a leading force
in French politics, and the wits caricaturists
of Paris are using the favorite weapon
mercilessly against Crispi, the Italian
Premier, who is charged with being the
agent of German rule in Italy.
It is proposed to build a war ship to te
equipped with the pneumatic dynamite
gun and also with Ericsons submarine gun,
the vessel being constructed lik a monitor
and caDable of being submerged in lime
I of action. leaving only two turrets visible
to the enemy.
John yardmaster of a car man.
ufacturv in Indianapols, says: "All the
men inmy yard wni vote for' Cleveland.
ve are dead sore against Harrison., He
1 will not get 10 per cent, ot tne railroad
I vote of Indiana."
Bntler, Ga., claims to have a vein of
natural glass. It is found at a depth of 317
feet in round, hollow and very rough pieces,
which appear to have come from fusing
of the sandv- soil by instence heat.
There is not a manufacturer in this or
any other country who pay r wages based
upon his profits. He pays the market rate,
and no more. A working man who be
lieves that his wages depend in the slight
est degree upon the protective tariff is a
victim of bunco steerers.
Senator Hoar is very amusing in his dec
laiation that the retaliation message -was a
"surrounder to Republican policy." The
Bepublicans never thought of the policy
of retaliation on the great Brittish bounded
I lines. But if the recymmendation be in
accordance with their desire, they will of
I course hasten to pass the law the President
for.
STATE NEWS.
FBOJI THE DEXP BLUE SEA TO THE
UIIAXD OLD BOCXTAI5.
An Hour PIasaatlx Spnt Wltn 0r
DcUshtralExrlissfft.
North Carolina has 200
Young Men's
Democratic clubs.
J. W. Clark, of Mecklenburg county.
has raised a 74 pound watermelon.
The two cases agalns Cross and White
will be taken up September 24th.
Wilmington's cotton receits this year
are i6S,5So bales, a gain of 34,373 over
last year.
F. X. Strudwick, Esq, is hooked for
Work. A list Of flDnolntmnt
for him.
Another dividend of the ruined State
National Bank, of Raleigh will be declar
ed in October.
Catawba county is to have a new
$10,000 court house. The contract was
let last Wednesday.
Strong efforts are being made looking
to thebuildirgs of a railroad from Oxford
via Yancey ville on to Reidsviiie.
Three negroes were lynched in Oxford
on Saturday night Two for the murder
of another negro, and one for house-
burning.
We learn that the extension of the Scot
land Neck road to Bethel will be comple
ted and trains running on it by the 15th of
October.
An additional yellow fever refuge camp
is to be established, we see, at some point
not yet decided upon, in the mountains of
North Carolina.
The Winston Republican says there is a
constant demand for peas, and it does not
believe there is at present, all told, twenty
bushels of peas in the towns.
Surveys are to be made soon for the
High Point, Randleman,. Ashboio &
Southern Railroad, and contracts are re
ported to be awarded shortly.
Many of our readers who knew the gen
erous, whole-souled, courtly gentleman
will learn with cincerest regret that Col.
A. M. Faison, of Duplin county, is dead.
Dr. Jno. McNeil, of Chatham county
should be a - happy man. One day last
week his wife presented with four well de
veloped children at a birth of two boys and
two girls.
On the 10th of September trains will run
through from Raleigh to Richmond Va.,
Durham to Oxford. The road from Dur
ham to Oxford is now run over bv trains.
Rev. W. B. Pope, lately of Warsaw, N.
C, has rccepted the pastorate of the
church in Olympia, the Capital of Wash
ington Territory, and has entered upon its
duties.
There will be a grand flag-pole raising
at Pittsboro on September 14th, when the
highest pole in the State will be erected.
Capt. Bunn and other speakers will be
present.
The Prohibitions, of Pitt county, have
nominated for the Senate, N. M. Ham
mond; for the House, E. S. Parker and J.
R. Rollins. The deferred nominating a
county ticket until a later day.-
T. T. Cord, of Paw Creek Township
gave the Charlotte Chronicle, Thursday,
a sweet potato that weighs 3 pound
and that measure 18 Inches in circum
ference. It was of the red yam variety.
mJ
In Vance county, according to the Gold
Leaf, the cotton fields are getting white
The farmers say that the plants this season
are generally small, but unusually well
fruited and a larger crop than lias been
anticipated will be realized.
Blackwell's Durham Co-operative Toba
cco Company since 1833 has produced
more than 1 7,000,000 pounds of smok
ing tobacco, paid $1,500,600 Internal re
venue tax, and consummed abont 55,000,
000 pounds of leaf tobacco.
A one legged Confederate soldier of
Alamance county during the past season,
made 47 ten fingered grain cradles and
had no complaint except in one in
stance That Is doing welL His name is
C. A Trickle and he lives near Mc
Leansville. Before the Republicans organize thor
oughly to make Inconsistency an issue in
the campaign and show that Mr. Cleveland
has contradicted himself, they had better
see how whimsical would be the plea, when
their own two platforms disagree on the
taiff and Blain and the Tribune disagree
on trusts.