"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.