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r "Our Aim trill be, the People's Right Maintain, Unaxced by Poicer, and Unbribed by Gain.' fah VII. WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30. 1889. NO. 46 THE VETERANS. tBAn BE-raiOX THK OLD 80LDIF.RN. KnwochH Latt Nlsrht Hes- atu .iBtlons Adopted by theConventlon The rarnde of the Veterans. Preparatory to the regular convention L Confederate Veterans met yesterday -ornin" at Metropolitan Hall at 10.30 clock in informal session to organize Laselves and decide upon a plan of pro-' u rmn - 1 - hnnmnir th mnttpr tj3 increase of the pension appropriation Lfcre the Legislature. Over one hun- wounded soldiers were present robabiv to many veterans 01 me L'e war wno .ki "i i 1 Lre otherwise disabled, were never before Ln gathered togethe'r. The scene was -.deed a pathetic one, and appealed more oquently to the gratitude of the people of orth Carolina than any words they might Iseak or petition for aid that they might resent. Capt. V. C. Stronach called the ou&e to order and Mr. E. F. Fenton was hen cal!ed to the chair and Mr. Hubbard r.J Mr. Andrews, of the News and Obser ver, requested to act as secretaries. The tw.initte appointed on the night before jJir a report, recommending as they had instructed, that the Confederate pen- , wer of the State form themselves into permanent organization for the purpose securing needed assistance from the ate, and that the maimed soldiers of the tate ask aid of the Legislature on a graded kale according to disability. Considerable :kusion followed the reading of the re- jrtof the committee. Col. Hall, of Wil mington, advocated an increase of 5 per :nt. on the present tax, the increase to be :;voteJ to pensions, while Col. Beasley, of liranville, favored an increse of 7J per tziL or more. The discussion was enga ged in by a number of the Veterans prcs- it and ff nail v a motion of Colonel Hall crevailed that the Chair appoint a commlt- pot three to draught a resolution embody - r-Z the sense of the convention to be read r.the session of the convention at night p the presence of the members of the gislature, the resolution to recommend n increase of 5 per cent, or more in tax- L::on for pensions, Mr. Fenton having hortly retired from the chair and Mr. B. Hamilton having been called to preside pointed on the Committee Col. Hall, Mr. D. 1 Gould and Mr M. A.Burns. The convention then adjourned to meet the hall at three o'clock for the par- Uuc. At three o'clock p. m. the Veterans be pa to assemble in front of Metropolitan Ia!l to form into) line for the parade. -A procession was formed and the music of fe and drum took .up its slow march to ward the Capital. Manv of the old Veter- lift-showed the marks of many a gallantly pught battle, and though their heads were hitcned with the snows of many winters A their forms bent with age and hard- ttps, they still looked the noble, gallant o soldiers that they were. The maimed Uiers could not march at quickly and proudly as they did twenty-five years ago t finally the Capitol was reached and as entered the doot to proceed to the ex- cutive office some one shouted "Hurrah, Rebels have taken the Capitol !" The terans filed into the executive office 'Kerr a reception was given them by Gov ar Fowle, who was accompanied by his 1 the State officers, a charming com of ladies and others. There were dres Adjutant-General James D. Glenn, hspector-General F. H. Cameron, Quar-termaster-General F. A. Olds, Auditor G, Sanderlin, Treasurer Bain, Attorney -neral Theo. F. Davidson, Mr Plummer chelor representing Secretary of State Anders , Mr. S. F. Telfair, private secre tand Mr. Bevant Satterthwaite, execu- while the crowning touch was added Uhe receiving party by the presence cf 5s Helen Fowle, Miss Charlotte Grimes, rimesland Pitt pnuntv. daughter of r - - j o , Bryrn Grimes, Miss Agnes Cotten, J Cottendale, Pitt county; Miss Birdie rwcll.of Charlotte; MUs Annie Salter paite, of Washington, and Miss Mary le, of Raleigh. The old Velterans ted by and shook the hnnH of Mrh onp of Party, who stood in the inner appart nt of the Governor's office. The recep n over, the procession was re-formed k marched back down Fayetteville street 10 Metropolitan Hall, where they halted and gave the "rebel yeli"with a vividness that brought back to some of those who heard them the memory of many a brave charge made by the gallant Confederate soldiers in the struggle for the lost cause. The procession was led by the Veteran drummers of the 14th and 47th regiments. The Wake county Confederate Survivors' association also formed part of the line. Mr. J. S. Carr, president of the covention, was in the procession. On reaching Met ropolitan Hall the Veterans dispersed to meet again at 7 o'clock, when and where a large concourse of enthusiastic people wel comed them with loud applause, and thrill ing speeches, in which their heroism and daring nnd bravery were held up as the brightest gems in the diadem of North Carolina's glory. IX MKMOltlAM. A Tribute to the Virtue? or the Xoble Dead. Oh Monday the 14th inst, about mid-day, he monster Death came into our midst, and Dr. John Harvy, a clever, kind, genial neighbor and friend, an able, popular and experienced physician, and a noble hearted, chivalrous and cultured gentleman, suc cumbed to the inevitable and passed from time into eterr.it He had an attack of paralysis a year or two ago, followed by a similar attack a few weeks ago, which cul minated in death. He was born in New berne in 1S2S, and was therefore about six ty-one years old. In social and profes sional circles, throughout this section, Dr Harvev was a prominent and influential figure. The groundwork, or basic founda tion of his educational attainments was laid by Bingham, the elder; from this school he went to one of high repute on Long Island and from there to the Uni versity of Pensylvania from which he grad uated. He then returned to his native State, and married the widowed mother of Mrs. Redden Williams, of Edgecombe and Messrs. Theo, J. M. and R. A. Edwards of this county. His wife preceeded him to the grave some years ago. He raised a family of two sons and three elegant, charming daughters, who survive him. Three brothers and one sister are also sur vivors. His home was an attractive one, and all visitors were charmed by the ele gant, refined, polite hospitality which was always generously, lavishly dispensed. But there is mourning in that home to-day, and the heart ot our people go to the bereaved while sympathy unstinted.is theirs. And as his mortal part was lowered into the grave, in the Episcopal Cemetery in Snow Hill on Wednesday many eyes were bedimned with tears, and many hearts were touched with that f cling which makes humanity akin. To the stricken ones, especially to those daughters and sister who were 60 devoted and untiring in their ministrations, and upon whom the blow and the loss must most sensibly fall, this writer tenders sincerest condolence, and may He who hears and answers prayer and who is all goodness be with them and be their com forter in the trying and terrible ordeal through which they are passing. Neighbor. THE VALLEY MUTUAL. Promptly Pay Dr. Brooks Polity. Wilson, N. C, Jan. 33, 18S9. Mr. C. S. Arxall, Manager of the South ern Department Valley Mutual Life As sociation of Va., Raleigh, N. C: Dear Sir The receipt of two checks covering the full amount, Four Thousand Dollars, of the two policies on the life of the late' Dr. A. G. Brooks, of Black Creek, Wilson countj , N. C, is a great gratifica tion to me because the amount Is paid be fore due, and also because one of the pol icies at the time of his death, although all requirements on his part had not been com plied with, had not been delivered to him. The faithful observance of its contracts has always been one of the strong points in favor of the Valley Mutual, and this pay ment only shows its continuance. You will please thank the company for their promptness. Dours truly, A. L. Taylor, Ex. of A. D. Brooks, dee'd. Consumption Sorely Cured. To the Editor-Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By Untimely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. 1 shall be glad to send twq bottles of tny remedy f.ree to anv of your read crs who have consumption If they will send me their express and post office saddres Respectfully, T. A SLOCUM. 31. C Si Pearl St., N ir York. A MIXTURE. EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EC PI I O 51 OUSLY ELUCIDATED. Xnmeroas Heway Jfote and Many Merry Horaels Paragrapbleally Packed aod Pithily Poltned. Always comes out on top hair. No thorough-fare an oatmeal dinner. A copper trust getting credit for a cop per. A strike of silk ribbon weavers immi nent. Th,c strike movement is subsiding in Bel gium. In the human race the butcher holds the steaks. A chess tournament js always played on the square. Money is an enigma that everybody must give up. The canned article that goes the quickest is a dog's tail. A dentist v. ill file vour teeth but not for ready reference. Right kind of a girl for a restaurant one that is "tasty." The best way to get at the tongue of a belle is to peal it. Something that should be looked into a pretty girl's eyes. A headache mav often be considered a champalgnc issue. Cleveland (Ohio) city workman labor nine hours per day. When a man claims the earth it is time to unearth his claim. It is unfortunate that a little money doten't go a long way. This country now leads the world in the manufactnie of perfumes. At New Bedford, Mass., a new auto matic shoc-laster is at work Women in Lyrtn (Mass.,) cotton mills make $7 and men $12 a week. The barbers are to have a national organ and its name is to be the Shaver. If thirty-two is the freezing-point, what is the squeezing-point? Two in the shade. Curious though it may be, it is not un common to sec a cold water man boil with rase. The Seaman's Union, of Buffalo, N. Y., has restricted its membership to American citizens. The German-speaking bakers through out the United States are largely organised In unions. Eve was, of course, the rlirt but Mrs. E. D. E. N. South worth, thenovilist is the in itial woman. A good many women who have married goods clerk have got two yards of illusion as a premium. Of the 6,501 brick-layers, stone-masons and stone-cutters in New York city, 4,354 are of foreign birth. The coal mines at Monterey, Cal., which have been idle for years, are to be reopened and vigorously worked. Delmonico's chief cook in New York city is said to have received over $700 in tips on Christmas morning. If everything else oe6 up this winter one thing is sure to go down and that Is the mercury in the thermometor. Bakers in Chicago are now required to stamp the weight of the loaves and their names on everv loaf of bread. Notwithstanding the discussion now go ing on to decide if marriage is failure, the breakmen go right on coupling. Nature uses a great many quills with which to make a goose, but a man can make a goose of himself with only one. According to Bradstreet's, there were 15 strikes in the United States in December, iSSS, in which 2,951 persons were concer ned. Powderly V salary as Grand master of the Knights of Labor is $3000 this year. He was voted $5000, but would not accept so much. An old gentleman of great experience says he is never satisfied that a lady under stands a kiss unless he has it from her own mouth. The Oxford Iron and Nail Companie's works at Belvidere, N. J have been closed indefinently, throwing i.joo employes out of work, The exodus of negroes from Rershaw and Unien counties, S. C is reported so large as to throw a gloom over the farm ing prospect. Lieutenant Gov. Jones of New York, is getting up a presidential boom upon the strength of the 5,000 more votes than Gov. Hill received. Alaska, with her 577,399 square miles is big enough to make an independent republic of twelre States each larger than the State of New York. In a Kansas school election a fight be tween fiction ensued, when knives and re volyerswere used and several men seri ously wounded. - It is said West Virginia politicians are growing nervous about election affairs. Apout sixjy persons have been indicted mainly for illegal voting. Steam machines for cleaning out the re torts in gas works are being used in Phila delphia with great success. One machine does the work of eight men. A company has been chartered in Wash ington for the pu-pose of building railroad cars from sheet steel according to methods lately invented in California. A large amount of business has been done at the marble quarries, West Rutland Vt., in fulfilment of a government contract for 20,000 soldiers gravestones. The Blainities in Washington say there will not be a Southarn man in the Cabinet but Harrison will give places only to States that voted for him. He believes in reward ing his friends. The United States has in Vesuvius the fastest war ship in the world. With her pneumatic gun, if it works well, she can destroy other vessels, irrespective of the size, or armor, at will. The New York World promises to send an expedition to Africa to find Stanly and Emin. Thomas A. Steven, who made himself famous bv his tour around the globe on a bycicle, will lead the new expe ditton. The 'man who has a brand-new type writer, and leasure, and lots of linenwove manuscript paper, cannot help feeling that he has it in his power to make a big liter ary reputation for himself, if he can only think of something to say. A man has been arrested in California for swindling. He was engaged in a fraud ulcnt scheme to obtain money from colored people in the South by sending out circu lars falsely representing that he would take them out to California for $6.45 each. A building in Chicago which weighs 20 000 tons and is six stories high is being. lif ted up six feet five inches. Several thous and screw jacks arc used, and it taks three hundred men to work them. The average lift is one foot per day. The cost will be $40,000. A unique feature in a divorce case at New Haven is the fact that proof of the wife's guilt was obtained by putting in a loop to a private telephone wire and having a stenographer to take down the conver sations carried on by telephone between her and the correspondent. Jim Blaine said that "Trusts are private affairs." But Judge Barrett, of New York holds a very different opinion. He says in his much talked of decision: "A combina tion, the tendency of which is to prevent general competition and to controll prices, is detrimental to the public and consequently- unlawful." John Hancock, of Worth county, Ga., says that he can remember when every member of the Georgia Legislature was dressed in homespun. It was in 1829, and the tariff had caused woolen goods to reach such an exorbitant price that the Legisla ture resolved as a man to buy no more manufacjured cloth until the tariff was re duced. How many of our readers can take in the idea of the vast corn crop of the county this year, 2,000,000,000 bushels! An ex change tries to grasp the subject by such figuring as this: Enough to load a string of wagons stretching 284,000 miles, cr enough to make eleven rows of wagons loaded with corn, clear around the earth and have 9,000 miles of teams not in line. Iowa and Illinois are reported as having produced 270,000,000 bushels eacli, placing them far in the lead of other States. Mis souri comes next with 210,000,000 bushels; Kansas and Nebraska have 150,000,000 each. Indiana 140,000,000, Ohio 115,000, 000, Kentucky S5.000.000 and Tennessee 70,000.000 busheN. STATE NEWS. rnon the deep blue sea to tub G&iHD OiD XfOTJTCTAIH. An II Plaaaatly flaunt With IVellffntral Exefcaajre. Northern and Western visitors are flock ing to Asheville. Property in Salisbury increased in value last year to the amount of $176,800. A French syndicate has purchased the copper mines in Granville and Person. . The erection of a Mammoth Cotton " Seed Oil Mill at Wilmington is said to be assured. t The line of railroad form Jacksonville, Onslow County to Wilmington has been located. Mrs. C. C. Tailor, w idow of C C. Tailor late of the Newberne Journal, died at that place Thursday. The Elizabeth Qity Economist nominates Maj. John Hughes, of Nawberne, for rail road commissioner. ' The Scotland Neck Democrat nominate Hon. W. H. Kitchen for chairman of the railroad commission. Congressman' Thomas D. Johnson will contest the election of Ewart in the 9th Congreisional district. The full amount of the bonded'debt of North Carolina, when all the old bonds are, funded, will be $6,408,511- A movement to extend the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad from Goldsboro - to Charlotte is being discussed. J, C. Parrish has been sentenced to death in Wake for rape on his own daughter. March 25th is the day of execution. President Battle, of the University at Chappel Hill, is enthusiastic over the in increased attendance at the present sessioh The Roanoke and Southern will be in running order from Winston to Storksburg within ninetv cavs. The distance is iS miles. The Durham Plant says: Solicitor Stay horn had a busy time last night drawing bills of indictment against violators of the local option law. The Burlington News reports a man xo2 years who is able to split rails and do other hard work. He was in the Mexican war and draws a pension. Asheville has added electricity to its street railway system, and we learn, it U working most admirably and successfully. The cars are now run by electricity. The people of Goldsboro aie agitating for a branch road into Onslow county. Richland, we believe, is their objective point, and perhaps thence to New River. Gen. Phil iu. Hawkingh, of Franklia county, will be urged by his many friends as a candidate for the collectorship in the Fourth district, to succeed Col. Yar bo rough. It is intimated that when the Durham & ' Henderson Railroad is finished,, trains will run through from Durham to Weldon. running on about the same schedule as that formerly in operation on the Raleigh & Gaston. There will be a meeting of the sheriffs of the several counties of the State, in Ral eigh, on the. 30th., for the purpose of tak ing such steps as they deem necessary, res pecting the amendment,by the Legislature now in sessiun, ot the act, now in force, fixing the fees of sheriffs. The Democrats in the Legislature have thus early given the Radicals to distinctly undestar.d that there is to be no change in the existing status of county government. The white man is still to rule throughout North Carolina. His interests are safe in the hands of the present Assembly. The first General Assembly of North Carolina, independent of the Crown, was held at Halifax in 1776. The annual ses sion continued until 1876-7 being the last. The bciniel sessions began with the Assem bly of 1S69. There having been five bien nial sessions, the present session is the io6lh. - Fifty thousand acres of private oyster ground have been entered under the oyster law of the last Legi!ature in Pamlico Sound, mostly by residents of the State Residents and non-residents are invited to come in and take up at mere nominal price our valuable unoccupied water Laods of Pamlico Sound and its tributaries. r y
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