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Jill le Carolina Banner. fcfje Carolina Banner. irfiT . 1f fSSHEbVERY FRIDAY. HENRY T. KING Editor. A&TDmsrto IUm. l tlm. Stim. Una. Sma 6ma. "5 1 25 300 400 6 00 41 . ilia. I. Sin. 4 in. m. 6 In. Ilia. 1) In. Km looo 1500 20 00 35 0O 00 40 09 TaC5 SO CO JUTE3 OF SOBSCBlPTfOH: 0e copy, J6";. u J . six months, - . three month, - 133 175 300 3 00 3 50 5 SO 900 8 00 3 00 700 10 00 S3 4 00 750 1300 $1 60 75 40 3 oo 5oo loco noo 4 00 T 00 I3 5OS000 4 50 7 50 15 00 25 CO 8 DC 14 ft) 35 00 4.1 U IS 50 IS 00 55 00 M00 THE OLD NOBTIlf ST ATE FOBEYEB.' Entered t. the Tostoffice at Taxboro, K 0., uaecond-clasa matter. VOL. I NO 33. TARBORO, N, C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1889. 5 Cents Per Copy. IJ ... i r iy i i. . erst. . a. Ifen Iivin in other'. countries, and wintf allef-iance to other powers, own land rnoucrh irf'the United States to make ibont ten States like ' Massachusetts , more than the whole of New England, more Und than some gOvernrpcnts own to sup port a kins. ' ' ' ' 1 "' " A Itassian officer , with the same pow ers as an American constable, can make lor forbid a holiday in ft village, forbid work on a certain day, order every house to be searched, seize and hold all cattle for inspection, and in fine play autocrat -with higherhand than any man In Germany, Franco or TSngland. Of 13,000,000 barrel of salt annually consumed in the United States, Michigan furnishes two-sixths, New York one sixth, ten oilier salt-producing States one lixth, and two-sixths are imported. The Michigan and New York product practi eally controls the market, excepting along the Atlantic coast, where, by reason of eheap ocean freights, the foreign article comes into competition. Toor C'arSctta, ex-Empress of Mexico, lives in the CiLstle of Uoushout, in Bel gium, in strict seclusion. Once a year, for a flay the day of ;. Fete Dieu the cutle grounds' are opened to the public, md i formal procession of priests and citizens passes through. This year the ex-Empress was scon to be watching the procession from a' window of the castle. Het hair is now quite white, but other wise she has not chanjjed for vears. Berlin is very much taken with a young Cossack giantess now on exhibi tion in that city. She is only eleven years old, but is nearly nine feet high, weighs about 2S0 pounds, and is still rapidly growing. She has large, dark eyes and a pretty face, and in the cos tume of the Don Cossacks, which consists f a red skirt, blue jacket and long tpron, embroidered in gold, she presents a most interesting Appearance. It is said that she spends much of her time in play ing with her dolls. i i i L . , Almost everybody will be glad, re marks the Boston Cultivator, that a new iaiue of one and two-dollar bills is soon to be made. They are to be silver certifi cates, and will take the place of the silver dollars that to those who deal much in aoney have become a burden. Bright, j w and clean bills are better. It is well ! iohave currency convenient and neat, as t induces ccetroray; There" is" mere coaptation to spend-a tattered' and dirty bill than there is one that is crisp and ew. - How many trade , secrets Jaye.. .died with their possessor? Une such case, has Just occurred at .F.iidlay,.Qlio, in? the death of Frederick-ij .Seymour,, the Superintendent of the .American Aluminum Company,; . He .--was tho- in ator ot processes by wluch aluminum eould be extracted from- common clay, la secret he added some chemical to a fluid mass of the clayi,'. which enabled hia Wlow-workuien to .virest ' the valuable MU1 from the .earih."; ..He died of a Paralytic stroke aiul bad bq opportunity o reveal his secret. The stockholdere- efthe tomnjnT ammifT whnm rA fJencral l ...... , ; -r - ; Michigan, it is said will employ chemista J enueavor to rediscover the secret The Xetcs md Courier, of Charleston, 'ulminates ayainst the neonle who are forever trying to t vniper with the White J Boil at v..,v: . tv. i : I -v , uouiiisjmu uu luc pica ot nil- ipeovemeut, new decorations, extensions, 'Wthe turning of the building into offices tor national business. A far better plan, paper suggests, "would be to au thorize the erection, of an edifice of some inscription on the Potomac flat for the ployment of these artists for all future e- Perhaps if they were allowed to - . ..... - . - Bucti a ouiiuing, ana vo spena p r tlme and the people s money in put- wgetner aad taking it apart and letting it up and pulling it down, they would feel that they were earning their EJ'1' ia a way and would let pubUc BWJU.M The pv7 1 Ilcratr n&3 uncovered that K.icr'h ladies take a great deal more interest in politic than the wives and laiigh!"rs of .'American candidates do. '. It- is 'act worth moralizing over, ppjueg the Chicago Sun, that annually a million tons of ..flax straw go to waste in the United Pt;ite, instead of being worked jnto linen product. jproy has .. existed in Norway for Bear1j a century. It U a hereditary dis ease, and breaks ool among the childrea 0f Scandinavian settlers in Minnesota, THflConsirt and Illinois. , ' - 1 One Chicago Icejra &riven by, a 'pale-faced and harmless looking young Bin, ha? killed five persons' thU season, M1 it may be observed' that the per forrnmee is not yet; over." Every coro- jury exonerates?, the driver and cerr tiUe-, that he is very careful and consid- KILLED FOB A SLAP Judge Terry Shot After Insulting Jua- A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal, says: One of the most sensational tragedies that ever startled the people of the Pacific coast occurred daring the morning at liathrop, a small town on the Southern I Pacific Railroad, a few miles from Stockton, in San Joaquin County. David sj Terry, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, slaver in a duel of United States isenator David C. Broderiek, assaulted United States Supreme Court (Justice Stephen J. Field is a public dining room at the rai tread station, and was shot' dead by United States Deputy Marshal David Jiagla, who was traveling as Mr. Field's body guard. The shooting occurred in the presence of about sixty or seventy- people, and created a scene of the wildest excitefueut. The cause trf the shooting was- the well known quarrel existing between Jjsdsres Terry ana Field, which grew oat of 'thenatter rondering a de cision adverse to Sarah Altbea Hill, plaintiff in the famous Sharon divorce case, who dur ing the litigation became the wife of Terry. " -Dispatches from Lathrop, CaL, state that upon the arrival of the Southern overland mail at 7:30 a. m. Justice Field and Marshal Nagle walked into the dining-room for break fast and sat downside by side.. It Judge David S. Terry and wife, who fig ured in the Sharon divorce case, came in also. They were going to another table when Mrs. Terry recognised Justice Field, knd im mediately retired to the train. As goon as she had left the dining-room and before she had reached the train. Judge Terrylwalked over to where Justice Field sat, and, stooping over him, slapped his f ace. . 1 1 , Deputy Marshal Nagl thereupon arose from his seat and shot Judge Terry through the heart. While he was falling Itagle shot again, duv missed xerry, tne bullet goin mrougn ine noor. coin snots were flri within a few Seconds and before any one couia interrere. s I j Whether Judge Terry's intention was to provoke Justice Field and draw a weapon be fore the latter could turn is, of corn-he, not known, as Deputy Nagle. who sat dpposite Field, prevented this by firing, his first shot resulting in the death of Terry. f After the shooting Deputy United States Marshal Nagle backed up against the wall ot the dining room and warned every onb not to arrest him. saying he was a United States officer in the discharge of his duty. There was no semblance Of an attempt to molest htm at any time. Constable Walker took Deputy Nagle from the train at Tracy and pr tcoeded with him to Stockton, where ho is now in Jail. . j District Attorney White ordered th arrest of J ustice Field upon his arrival at Sa i Fran cisco, and telegraphed the order to th e Sher iff of San Francisco. j j Justice Field mantalned his quiet demean or, and replied to a press representative, when asked to narrate the particular of f hs shooting, as follows: ; "I can tell you the story in a few words. For the 'last few months all manner of rs ports, both public and personal, have Reached me that Judge Terry had threatened! to sub ject me to some form of indignity; if he should happen to meet me. This fact caused the United States Marshal to decidelto pro vide such protection as he could during my stay in this State. When I started for Los Angeles to hold court, Deputy Nagle kecom panled me. He seemed to be a quiet gentle xnanly official, though I only met him twice while away from Los Angeles. He anked ine in that city when I intended to return, and accompanied me, taking a seat in the sleep ing car opposite to me. We heard this morning that Judaje Terry and his wife were on the tram, but paid no attention to tae fact. wnen we arrived at Lathrop, we kitered I took the eating station to get breakfast, a seat at the end of the table, whiL Nagle sat on one side or me. Terry aud is wife came into tae room soon alter. As soon as she saw me she went out of the rookn, as I afterward' learned, returning to the car for her satchel. Judge Terry rose and I supposed that ho intended accompanying her. Instead of doing so, he walked back to me, and struck me a heavy slap in the face. I was completely astonished, and, seqing ha was making reedy to strike again, bogle cried out 'Stop, stoo,' i but' Terry did not desist, and as ho was raising j ins btiu a nxiiau units, ii&gie spot nl him, the bullet entering his heaift. He fell to the floor, Nagle shooting a second time, but the second shot did not stril :o him. That is the complete story so far as I am awaro of the facts," said the Justice jn :onclu sion. ! t Protection was accorded to Justice Field, it is claimed, by authority of Atl orney General Miller, who telegraphed from Wash ington to the Marshal of the district to see that the person of the Justice was pr ttected at any nazaru. WASHLNOTON NOTES. lta State DeDartment at Washington has ten notified of the appointment of the Tot lowing delegates to the conference of Ameri can nations, to be celd in WashmgtoB) next October: From Mexico General Angsl Monasterio. Venezuela Mr. Nicanorj Bolet Pieraza. a distinguished litterateur and po litical economist. , President Harrison has definitely de termined not to place the clerks of the Census Bureau under the civil service rules. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued a circular from Washington prohibit ing the renllinc at distilleries ci caeks or packages previously used at the same' distil- lerJ , . 1 The-light-offerings of bonds have resulted in A steady increase in the Treasury slu-plus at WashlDgtouy. which amounts to $7p,b00, WO, being the highest point reached) sine? October last. The pension payments for the present month are estimated at $18,000,000. The Navy Department has ordered the payment to Cramp & Soos, of Philadelphia, of $10,200 on account of the new gunboat Yorktowxu. This is the last regular payment 'on the veaseL'.-t !,r ', t C -2 'l Acting Postuasteh-Geniral Claekso awarded the contract for furnishing postal cards to the Postoffice Department for four years, beginning October 1 next, to Albert Daggett, of New York. - - . t The Department of State has been in formed that the Nicaragua Government has appointed Senor Don Horacio Guzman, the present Minister to the United States, Co resent Nicaragua at the Congress of At rep- er- can Nations to be held in October. i . The President and Mrs. Harrison left Washington for Deer Park, Md., for a brief sojourn. t j The President has authorized Brigadier General MacFeely, Commissary-General of Subsistance, to perform the duties of Secre tary of War during Secretary Proctor's ab sence. .. . j : -. J The President has made the following ap pointments: Robert B. Rentfro, to be Col lector of Customs for the District of Brazos de Santiago. Texas; Daniel R. Collieri to be Surveyor of Customs for the Port of Louis ville, Ky.; Robert A Mqsely, Jr:. to be CoW lector of Internal Revenue for the Diftrict of Alabama; Louis Weinstein, Jo be Collec tor of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Dis trict of Iowa. Colonel John M. Wilson, En rineer Corps, late Superintendent of Public iuild ings and Grounds in the District of Colum bia, has been appointed Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, to succeed General John Q. Parko, who was recently retired. rrl i -r- . 1 i iie xane mm, iew uneans, u turn- iug out 30,000 yards ofcotton ba rrm n rr oaiiy. f NORTH AND WEST. HEWS7 1TE1L3 BY TELEQEAPH, TVing A firmrlTmatim tit tlia PnnnUl n peninga in Pifinrent Etatea. , TJarrxo States Sxkatob WnxiJt if. ' Bvabts sailed for Europe, from Ncw'Sork city, accompanied by his son Allen tw1 : daaghter. He goes to have eminent oculists j operate on his eyes, which are failing htm A hobsx and wagon hired from PearsalTs livery-stable at Freaport, N. T., were stolen from in front of the hotel in Bellmora, Next day the outfit was found at Baldwin's in the possession of Miss Susie Brower, of Merrick, N. a highly . connected young woman, who confessed the theft. Dnmrxra quarrels among miners at Pitts burg, Fenn., wHd had just been paid off, re sulted in two murders in quick succession. Thomas SneU, a smker, aged forty-five, M Charles Fitzgerald were the victims.;; ; Governor Coodeli. has prorogued the New Hampshire Legislature. During the att session the Governor approved 238 bills and 57 joint resolutions, and vetoed ona act. ! i J . ' : if, . . ' WALTER Assuro, alias Berriam, was lynched at Pooler, Ga., ten miles west of Sa vannah, for assault upon . Lulu Kiss man, a seventeen-year-old German girl. The work of the Revision and Phraseology Committees was completed at Helena, and the Constitution being .finished, the State convention of Montana adjourned sine die. The Constitutional Convention of North Dakota has finished its work. Eighteen men were injured by a train accident near Lincoln, Neb. i Johx L. Sullivan was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at Purvis, Miss., for prizefighting. He arpmled the case. Ex-Go vkrnor Joa.v G. Brown, of Ten nessee, late receiver of the Texas and Paciflo Railway, and at the time of hia death Presi dent of tho Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany, died recently at Red Boiling Springs, J'enn. Congressman J. Laird, of the Second Ne braska District, died a few days ago at his .home at Hastings, Neb., from a complication of diseases. He was born at Fowlerville, N. Y., in 1849. A fight occurred between the "Jaybirds and "Woodpeckers," rival political factions at Richmond, Texas, in which Shorifl Garvey and Deputy Blakeney were killed and several others wounded. The Governor and two companies of State troops went there and quelled the disturbance. ' - . The President and Mrs. Harrison left Washington for Deer Park, Md., for a bVief sojourn. ' . : ? ':. . The President has authorized Brigadier General MacFeely, Commissary-General of Subsistanca, to jwrform the duties of Secre tary, of War during Secretary Proctor's ab sence. The President has made the following ap pointments: Robert B. Ren tiro, to be Col lector of Customs for the District of Brazos de Santiago, Texas; Daniel R. Collier, to be Surveyor of Customs for the Port of Louis ville, Ky.; Robert A. Mosely, Jr., to be CoW lector of Internal Revenue for the District of Alabama; Louis Weinstein, to be Collec tor of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Dis trict of Iowa. Colonel John M. Wilson, Engineer Corps, late Superintendent of Public Build ings and Grounds in the District of Colum bia, has been appointed Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, to succeed General John G. Parke, " who was recently retired. : The rioters in Totien, province of China, ' ded before tba approaching troops. For the loss of four or five of their countrymen last rear the rioters revenged themselves by killing between 400 and 500 inhabitants of Chin Chu villages, including warn en and children. Legitime is now virtually in charge of the ntira island of Hayu. . Hyppolite'a forces, rince their defeat, have become demoralized. General Boulaxger has issued from his retreat in London a manifesto addressed to tho "Honest People," declaring that 'the French Senate and Chamber procured his conviction by fraudulent meaas. Earthquake shocks were felt in Bosnia ind Herzegovina. Charles Keller, f Philadelphia, and two girls named Mamie and Winnie Colli gan, aged seventeen and twenty years" rw spectiveljr,'. were -carried over the falls at Easton, Penn., while boating. .The girl: were drowned. ' " Rev. Fred A. Barnttx, of Mkhlletown, Penn., a retired clergyman, and Charles H. Carpenter, of Philadelphia, were fishing from h boat on Swatara Creek, near Middle ' town, Penn4 when they ware drawn into a whirlpool and drowned. ' Mrs. Mart Htncx, and Mrs Emma White, of Byron, N. Y., were killed by an engine at a railwsCcrossing in Rochester, N. Y. Andrew Johnson, a barkeeper; and a man named Peterson, a blacksmith, were drowned while fishing on Camp Lake, Wis. J. C. Lyons was killed outright, C W. Paaly fatally mangled, an engine and eight cars were wrecked and a large number of cattle killed in a wreck at Montgomery, Ind.. caused by the engine striking a cow. Walls constituting part of the ruin of the brewery recently burned in Fort Wayne, Ind., fell, burying five men. Charles RuhL Martin Thomas and Lawrence Overly were killed, John Gleason and Henry Kent were badly hurt. Assistant Postmaster Dewet, of Hont ington, Ind., has defaulted for ffiSOO. , The fugitive clerk took IdOOof Postmaster Swinrs money, who is completely ruined by the theft. He has turned over to his bondsmea the paper of which he was editor. The Department of Agriculture was dosed for a day on account of the death of ex-Commissioner of Agriculture Watt at CarOsta, Penn. Mr. Watts was Commissioner during Grant's ad ministration. There are seventeen contested seats ia tin House of Representatives, the . papers being already i the custody of W. H- Mool-y. th. nnmmittM on Elwtiom Tae cases. arejqW one exceptionIndaana) tie Southern etates. -" YIRGIHIA DEMOCRATS Fominate Oapk P. 1L lCcEnney, of lailLTllKi ill liMiH). I The Democratic State Convention met at Richmond Wednesday morning of last week. The platform was adopted and candidates for Governor were put in nomination : Philip Watkins McKmney, llicfiard T, Beirne, arnuel W. VenabLe, James II. Tyler, Charles T. O'Ferrell and J udge John T. Harris. One ballot was taken, but without a nomination being effected. A second ballot was ordered Thursday morning after the assembling of the con vention. Before it had proceeded far delegations began to break to McKinney, and amid great excitement, vote after vote was added to the total, piling up for him until bo had enough to assure his nomination. Then, before the ballot could be completed, a motion was made and unanimously agreed to, nominating Mr. McKinney by acclamation. J. Hoge Tyler, of Pulaski, "was nom inated for Lieut. Governor, also by accla mation. . The convention completed its labors by the nomination of R. Taylor Scott, of Fauquier, for Attorney Gen eral, ; Mr. Basil B. Gordon, of Fredericks burg, was elected chairman of the State Democratic Committee, vice Hon. John d. Harbour, who resigned. THE rXATFORU. The platform congratulates the people of Virginia on the wisdom and success of Gov. Lee's administration ; deprecates there-opening of the State debt question; praises the Democratic party for having fostered the public schools system of the State; favors immigration "Tor building up and developing the agricultural re sources of the State, opposes convict labor being placed in competition with free labor; declares in favor of fostering tho oyster industry of the State; en dorses the national Democratic platform on the internal revenue and tariff laws; and favors the immediate abolition of the tax on tobacco and fruit brandies. It further favors complete remonetization and free coinage of silver and advocates a law placing the agricultural of the State under the eontrol of practical far mers. It also recommends a revision of the. laws imposing taxes on land, with a view to relieving any unjust or unequal taxa tion ; and advocates an appropriation for disabled Confederate soldiers and wid ows. The twelfth and last plank declares that Democratic and white supremacy in the State is paramount to the tariff or any other consideration. Adjourned sine die. BRIEF SKETCHES. Capt. P. M. McKinney is a lawyer of Farmville, fifty-five years of age, an ex Confederate and a candidate for Gov ernor against Fitz Lee in 1885. lie was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General in 1881. This time lie went to Richmond leading the string with many committed delegates. Capt. Mc Kinney is rich in popularity if not in other worldly possessions. Having can vassed the State frequently, he is known on the hustings. J. Hoge Taylor, of Pulaski county, is a progressive fanner, about forty-three years of age, who has served in the State Senate and House of Delegates, and is a prominent member of the Far mer's Alliance. Bill Westmoreland Hanged. Jacksonville, Fla. Bill Westmore land, the negro murderer, was hanged here Thursday. At 11 o'clock he was led from the cell in Duvall county jail, and in .passing through the office to the yard was permitted to tarry a few moments to bid good-by to his brother,- a prisoner in the. jail for wife benting. The brother broke down, but Bill said : "That wont do no ' good ; brace up, and when you get out do right, and you won't have to die like me."- As he was led up the scaffold he rec ognized several acquaintances,. on the wail of the jail yard, to some of whom he nodded, and to one he smiled and gave a significant wink. When his hands had been pinioned by the Sheriff, he straightened himself uu and said: "I'm ready." The Sheriff dropped his handkerchief as a signal, and a young Englishman named Hall, who had vol unteered, then sprung the trap at exactly 12:24 o'clock. Westmoreland's neck was broken in the fall, and life was ex tinct in four minutes. The crime for which he was hanged was committed in this city on the night of April 5. Westmoreland went home drunk, and after quarrelling with his wife, shot her through the heart in the Eresence of several persons. He was an abitual wife beater. He was born in Atlanta, and was 25 years old. A Eemarkable Oase, Greenville, S. C. Special. The negro who was shot through the head by Hal Power, at Anderson, a few weeks ago, had the ball extracted, and is in a fair way to recover. If he does, the medical men of this section say, it will be one of the most remarkable cases on record. He was shot in the center of the forehead, the ball lodging just in front of his left ear. A large quantity of brains oozed out from the bullet hole, and no one at the time of the snooting expected him to live. At this writing he is doing well, and may BuiriTe, 'THROUGH DIXIE. STJlflfJLRY OF SOUTHERN NEWS Happenings of Soecial Importance From Virginia to the Lone Star State. NORTH .CAROLINA. Matthews Gibbs, supposed to be the oldest man in the State died at his home near Center Sabbath morning. Mr. Gibbs was 108 years old and died of sheer old age. ; The State Farmers' Alliance convened in annual Session at Fayettevillc. - At least 250 delegates were present" repre senting all the counties of the State. Elias Carr was elected President to suc ceed Capt. S. B. Alexander. President McCune, of the National Alliance at tended the convention and delivered an address. . A live panther, has been seen by several persons, and chased by dogs in the neighborhood of Stevens' mill, five miles from Asheville. ' - j ' Senator Vance held a re-union of the members of his old Company at Ashe ville and thence proceeded to Gombroon, the Senator's - country home on Blac k Mountain where the soldiers spent two days with their old commander. O. P. neath, of Lancaster, S. C, and Ben - Heath, of Monroe, will open a private banking business in Charlotte on Sept. 1, with a capital of $100,000. Stimson Bros' saw mills at New Berne were destroyed by fire Sunday, with nearly a million feet of lumber. Loss, $30,000. A boiling well has been discovered at Jackson Springs. . aOCTII CAROLINA.- At a recent meeting of the York County Alliance a plan was. submitted for the establishment of an exchange bank, to be known as the York County Farmers' Alliance Bank" with a capital stock of $25,000 to $200,000; business to begin when $5,000 are paid in. Certifi cates of stock is to be paid in equal in stallments, beginning September 15th, running 4 months, $2.50 per month. The j question as to the location of the bank was not decided, but the impression is it will go either to Rock Hill or York ville, with the chance in favor of the latter. Col. A. P. Butler, State Commissioner of Agriculture, sent word from New York that the New York Cotton Ex change has agreed to grant all that he had asked on behalf of tho cotton planters in regard to the tax on cotton, namely, that the Exchange fix prices on net cotton regardless of the material used for covering. This settlement - of the question is highly satisfactory to the cotton planters, as it will prevent any loss in the use of cotton bagging as a substitute for jute, and will operate as another nail in the coffin of the. jute trust. Sheriff Sally, of Orangeburg, went to Columbia to draw the reward of $100 offered for the arrest and delivery of George E. Boyet, who killed Ace Bissell in Orangeburg County last June. The money will go to two travelling detectives, who read of the reward in a detective newspaper and spotted the man at Waycross, Ga. He came to the State without a requisition. Thirty-eight vessels are now on the high seas bound for Brunswick. A great number of these arc foreign barks, and will take cargoes of naval stores for all parts of the world. About eixty square-rigged vessels are chartered to load here. The cotton season will open with three British steamships. TENNESSEE. Saturday at Limestone, on the Nola ollucky River, in Tennessee, on the farm where he was born, there was a celebra tion of the hundred and third birthday of j the far famed Davy Crockett, fron tiersman, humorist, bear hunter, politi cian, story teller, Congressman, bush whacker, soldier, Teunesseean, and Texan, who was put to death at Fort Alamo, by order of the Mexican com mander, Santa Anna, during the Texan war of Independence. Among the guests will be R. P. Crockett, of Texas, the only living son of the frontiersman, and the only living grandson of Col. II H. Crockett, of New Gazeny, Ark. As Chief of Police Gaston,; of 'Jackson, was walking around the jail Wednesdaj morning he was fired upon - by negroes, receiving ten buck shot in his face and neck. He will die. GEORGIA.' - The lower house of the Legislature ha passed, without a dissenting voice, a bill declaring that the 10th day of. January shall be a public holiday in respect to the memory of Robert E. Lee, who was born on that dy Of course the Senate will also pass the bill,' and Lee's Birthday will become the most interesting and impor tant of all the holidays in Georgia. Th&tt.House committee on jjlroads practically killed what is known as the Olive bill. - This bill was aimed at rail road conMlidation, providing the for feiture of the charters in certain cases. It was an extreme anti-monopolistic measure and was opposed by the conservative business men of the State, who urged that such a measure would keep capital out of the State. The railroad commis sioner tabled the bill. It may yet pass in some form, but before it docs it will be shorn of all dangerous features. Rail road men all over the country, it i said, have watched the progress of. the bill with deep interest. The cotton compress rates will hardly be changed at the port of SAvannah for the coming season. They are sixty-five cents for foreign and fifty for coatwisc. The Central's directors are divided ou this question pi reducing the charge, but no change is expected. The Augusta, Ga., Orphan Asylam was' gutted above the second floor by fire Sunday. The building cost $140, -000; iniurance $00,000. No lives were lost. TIBGIRIA. Dr. James L. Cabell, senior member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, died at Overton Tuesday morning. DrV wB WorthAQ, a prominent citi zen of W Hichester committed wSdlbT under the skin of XfT ft affi church Sunday n,?ht, and was found in undressed, with the pi,tol in uU hand' The act is supposed to have been com mitted between 12 and 1 o'clock in the morning. Dr ortham was a native of Huntersville, Ala. He wa9 a 8urpeo; j" the Confederate army, and remained at Winchester after the war. His wife died several years a-o. He ieaVw a daughter, 18 years of age. News from Drake's Branch, Charlotte county, says that a negro attempted a criminal .assault on Saturday urwa an uipuuu jzui imuS m mc upper part of the county. The girl fought with such desperation that she awoke the lady with whom she lived an It the two locked the negro fiend in the room and kept hiiu a prisoner until help arrived and secured him. , His name " was William Blankenship and he was altout 20 rears old. He wai promptly committed to" jail, whence he was taken in the night and hanged to a tree. Col. John It. Charlton, of Montgomery county, who died last week, lacked only twp years of being X0O years , old. H was an uncompromising Democrat, and has voted for every Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the United States since Ihe nomination of President Mon roe, his last vote having been cast foi Grover Cleveland in November last. The Winchester paper mills have been sold to the American St raw board Com pany with headquarters in Chicago. The present management, Messrs. Wissler & Co., will continue to operate the mills. OTHER. STATE. At Carbon Hill, Ala., narvey 8peck killed Berry Adair with a revolver, shooting him three times. The trouble grew out of Speck's demanding payment by.Adair of a small account the latter owed :him. Adair was' a quiet and peaceable man.. Tho slayer escaped. On Saturday last George C. Placoy, a farmer in Henry county in the extremo southern part of Alabama, found in the woods near his house tho decaying body of a beautiful young woman. Tho woman had been dead several days and had been killed by a blow on the head, which crushed her skull. The clothing was all of fine quality and fashionable make. There was no jewelry or any article about the body by which it could be identified. No young lady in that region is missing, and no one answering the description of the body has been seen in that neighborhood. Tho Coronci had the body embalmed and is holding it for identification. The story is told of ex Congressman Charles M. Shelley, who represented an Alabama district where the negroes form ji large majority, that he once gained his lection by au arrangement with Fore augh to exhibit his show at Selma on election day. Free excursion trains wore run from all parts of the districts to Selma, and all the negroes admitted to the performance without price. Seven thousand colored brethren availed them selves of the privilege and lost their votes thereby. Fire at Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed nearly a whole block of buildings in tho western part of the city, known as "Lavilla." The fire caught in the beer depot of the Christian Mocrlein Brewing Company, of Cincinnati, Louis Lohman, agent. This building, Tom Baxter's sa loon, Darling & Company's general store, Albert Shaw's store and a house, and five small negro tenement houses were de stroyed. Aiding The Farmers. At a meeting of the Augusta, Ga., Ex change to take action on the subject of cotton bagging, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : Whereas, The farmers of the south have determined to substitute, as far as possible, cotton bagging for jute, and Whereas, The Southern Manufacturers' Association at its last meeting in Au gusta gave substantial aid to the move ment by agreeing to allow producers tho difference in weight between jute and cotton bagging, thereby enabling the planter to recover part or whole of the increased price paid for cotton bairine therefore, . Be it resolved, That the Augusta Ex change pledge the support of its mem bers to the'organized movement institu ted by the farmers of the South to prol tcct themselves against the bagging trust or any .similar combination, and will use in any fair and proper means the influ ence of the exchange to further the ob jects and put into practical shape the means by which planters can get the full benefit of the movement to substitute bagging made frem cotton or other home product for jate bagging, -and we invite the co-operation of ail .Southern exchaa ges in giving t fleet to the ; laudable ef forts of southern producers. - . -( . , A.Pibre JJevolniion, t X Tho Assistant Secretary of Agricul ture, Mr. Edwin Willis writing concern ing the jute culture question says: "This department has taken great interest in the manufacture of fibres, in the past, and has been encouraged recently by the manifest interest in the subject through out the country. There is no doubt that the South can produce jute in large and tajing quant itAM if capitalists can be induced to invest in its culture and manufacture. It. looks as though we are on the eve of a fibre revolution In- eluding flax, jute and raalte.'lffarhJBea are being invented that are solving the question of manipulation and manufac ture. Just to what extent the govern ment shall further experiment is a ques tion that must 1? submitted to Congress. If Congrcfs at its next session shall rec ognize the importance of such a step, and will give us the appropriation for it, we should most heartily take up the subject and solve the jute question." Fire at Florence, Ala., burned the two story brick store of Mrs. SchaU. It originated ia IS. C. Pickett's store, and caukd a loss of $10,000. KING COTTON. WHO PAYS FOB COTT0J.COYLEINQ? A Ooncife Statement Eelatfre to tie ITadi Agitated Bagging Question. The Southern cotton planter part for the Uggmg and lies, and in proportion as their cost is greater hi net proceeds are leas, as certainly as the coat of f rriKht to market and other expenses incident to sale also come out of his pocket The planter receives the net pro .l of tie sale, which net proceeds are ascertained by deducting all expensee incurred when the sale is made. The price of cotton U determined by the value in Europe when all coverings have be atrippod end any aad aU expenses incurred Utween his plantation and the market controlling the price come out of the producer.- For in stance, if ocean freights decline there la, all other conditions being unchangrd. an advance in the American local market, which means that the net proceeds have been increased by the decline in freight. If the price of bagging or ties declines there is an increase in the net proceeds without any equivalent increase of cost to the buyer. If a planter could offer a lot or cotton to a mill wrapped in )a coveting weigh- , mg practically nothing he would be able to secure a higher price per gross pound than his neighbor whose crop is lld : with bagging and ties weighing twenty- . nre to thirty pounds jier bale. This higher price is paid because the gross weight in this case represents also net weight, showing that tho valuo of the package is determined by the value Tier pound net of the cotton inside, without reference to the wrapper. In other worde, the expenses of the bagging and ties is part of the cost of production, as well as the actual cost to plant and the attendant expense of transportation to Market. This is hud down in principle by Smith, Mill and Caierncs. Smith says - that his cost of production is the coat to troduce, prepare and tranjrt to niar et. Mill says: "Co-it of production also includes wages of carriers for trans port to the place of sale," and the price paid at such market dends upon the European price less the cost to transport and sell in Europe. Now, then, bagging and tics being part of the cost of production, it follows that they have no power to govern tho saleable value; as Caiernes put it, "In ternational values are not governed by cost of production." If the consumer paid for the bagging and ties, the vari ation in the price of these articles would affect the price of cotton in tho markets of Europe as well as of America. It is a common practice in soino parts of the South for the farmers to sell their crop iu bulk, or, as it i termed, "in tho stone," and after purchase the buyct gins and packs it. Do these farmer re ceive less per 'pound net aud do they lose the claimed profit on the bagging and ties I By no means; but, on the contrary, they sell at a price locd upon the same rule European net weight price, less cost to sell in I ho foreign market. If the buyer paid the cost to cover and other attendant expenses tho markets controlling tho price would bo those nearest to the cotton fields. The Boston Commercial Bulletin makes the astounding statement that the Amer ican mills pay for the tagging and tics while the English buyer pays for tho cot ton alone. In. other words that Ameri cau mills suffer a discrimination of G j r cent, on every bale of cotton thought. The facts are that a broker buys for Englith and American mills lines of cotton at the I same prices gross and divides them in accordance with the quantity and qual ity ordered by each, drawing on the American mill at say 10 cents r ound for 500 pounds, and on the English mill at 10 04-100 cents per jound on 500 poundu, less 0 per cent, or 470 iund!. It is quite as reasonable for a grocer to Ray that flour at $0 tier barrel cots 2 77-100 cents r pound because the the flour weighs 1WJ pounds and the barrel 20 ound. Where as the actual cost is 3 6-100 cent it pound for the flour. The Commercial Bulletin alv brings in the cost to ship and insure to England, as if this, too, bore unequally iijxin the American mill. Each and every pur chaser, from the mill on the outskirt of a cotton field to the fa. '.itant mill of R ..jsia, pays freight and inxuranre in proportion to the cost of the service re quired, and these, accrued exjenses come out of the pockets of the producer. For instance, if cotton could lie raised on the outskirts of Manchester the producer would receive a much a the American fanner plus the expenses paid by the American to place his cotton in Man chester. The practical working of this proj.oi tion in the South is that farmers nearest Europe -that is near points where it csts the least to ship to Europe recti re a greater net ret urn than those who are c.r points from which it coats more to ship t-r1 Europe. The onverse of this 1-eiog also true; that is, that the nearer the mill is to the; cotton field the smaller is the eost of transportation, it follows that the American mill pays less for iU ettoo by the difference pf cwtof transportation. Charlatan Xevtt and Covricr. Tiik net imjiorts of cotton in Great Britain L e., allowing for re-exports for the past six months amounted to 7. 6W,00 cwts.t being an increase of 670, 0S0 cwt. on corresponding period of last year. The external commerce ran be made to throw strong light upon the various trades within the country. The consumption of cottoD-T this couotry appears to have increased, but not large ly. Bat the stock on hand in Kokand shows an increase of 150,000 bale, which translated into cwt., wonld seem Ui show that the surplus of import re mains in stock, and has not gone into consumption. Xeverthele, the weight of exports of eotton yarn end good hs distinctly increased daring the past ' moo th. Cmm4T0iat Jrtimid. The Colored Question ia Jfexica Cm or Mexico, vi Gslrtston. The VfM ds Jfrm"-r says jietititioc again t negro immigration to Mexico are shortly to be circulated thwugbout the country. Several proprietors refuse to sell land to negroes. JT. Y. 8n.
The Carolina Banner (Tarboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 30, 1889, edition 1
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