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TT 1 O MITHFIEIJ era: . LS LLd VOLUME 5. SMITH FIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 5, 1SS7. NUMBER 34. 'CAROLINA CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESStNGS ATTEND HER." f jc ImithfiGld lorald. T. F. BOOKER, Proprietor. 0n8 poUar & Fifty Cents per year. . tor.'-l in the lost Office at Snuthce l as Svrrui'AV, February 5, 1887. WITH THEE. tf i c ; ' 1 know that after all T'';t ' l',r.v 1"" have ccasetl to thrall Wo. "h. in in lifc the fates divides. W;H weetly slumber side by side T!u ct:e sreen spray would drop its dew , ,;!v alike above us two, t ul 1 be well, for I would be t ia?t. dear loving heart, with thee ! U , weet to KH-. t.u- vi uuis, A;;t!T! ii-- will feed the self sam flowers TV nt of leaves, the songs bird's tore, t once across our rest be blown 0-f 'rea:li of sun. one sheit of rain M :itxO creen the earth ahove us twain ! V',i. sweet an strange, for I should be, Vf l t . ii.ar tender heart, with the ! p :t lui'f the earth may intervene lliv place of rest and mine between n i "leagues of land and waste of waves M iv Stretch and toss between our graves T"ieK''l with suiMiier light be warm, While snow drifts heap in wind and storm. !r I'i.'ow, whose one thorne will he, IVkne-l that 1 am not with thee ! Put it there I e a blissful sphere Where homesick soi'.ls, divided here, Anl w .n lering wi le in useless quest. S:i"l tin l their longed, for heaven of rest If i:i the higher, happier birth We meet the joy we missed on earth, AH will be well, for I shall be, Ar lat. dear loving heart, with thee ! The Fanners Convention. THK FAUMEKS OF THE STATE MET IN CONVENTION AT RALEIGH LAST WEEK. An address was made by Min ister Thomas J. Jarvis, who urged hi hearers to foster the Univer ty and the Department of Agri culture. He thought the latter should be consolidated with an agricultural school and a me chanical school, and that 25,000 should be appropriated addition ally each year from the public treasury. SOME RESOLUTIONS. Among a number of resolutions offered the subjects of a few are given as important : To provide for working public roads by tax ation ; to stop appropriations for the State University, to reduce all salaries just one half; to abolish the 500 annual license tax on fertilizers and impose a tax xer ton ; to reduce the rate of State tax to 20 cents on the 8100 valuation ; to employ the convicts in mining and preparing phosphates ; to tax all dogs 1, for the benenfit of sheep-husbandry ; to establish farmers' clubs ; to abolish the homestead and lien laws ; and to abandon the Ure of commercial fertilizers. THE P EPARTM ENT OF AGRICULTURE A resolution was offered by L. L. Polk, editor of the Progres sive Farmer (which has been adopted as the official organ of the farmers of the State,) provi ding that to the farmers be given the control and management of the Department of Agriculture. The resolution provides that there shall be nine members of the State Board of Agriculture, one from each congressional dis trict ; two thirds of these to be practical farmers, the governor to be ex-offtcio chairman ; the commissioner to be a practical farmer ; all work foreign to agri culture to be taken from the De partment, but its Board shall have the management of an ag ricultural and mechanical col lege ; the agricultural college to receive 20,000 annually of the agricultural-department fund, 825,000 annually from the State Treasury, and 7,500 per annum the income of the land-scrip fund (which the State University in w receives). AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Very earnest talks were made on the subject of an industrial c dlege. The committee on that subject recommended such an sn-f-titution, separate from the Ag ricultural College. The Committee on Immigra tion submitted a report, which as adopted, endorsing the work of the Bureau of immigration and requesting the Legislature to so amend the law that the n ernor may appoint, with the concurrence of the State Board "f Agriculture, one person from each congressional district, who slll be authorized to go North aiid solicit immigration. State-Chemist Charles AV.Dab nejr was invited to address the Convention on the subject of commercial fertilizers. He did so in an able manner, and as a result the report of the Commit tee on Commercial Fertilizers, which antagonized the use of fer tilizers, Tvas tabled. The Committee on Resolutions submitted their report. Among other recommendations was one that the Legislature be requested to enforce a tax of one dollar per head on dogs ; also, that a com mittee of five tobacco-planters be appointed to ask the Legislature to enact such laws as will regu late the charges for the sale of leaf tobacco so that they shall not exceed 5 per cent, of the gross amount of all such sales. This report was adopted. ROADS. The Committee on Public Roads submitted a report recom mending that the public roads be worked by convict or free labor. Cololel Polk offered the fol lowing substitute for the recom mendations of the committee, which was adopted : Jiesolced, That it is the desire of this Convention tliat convict labor should be employed on the public roads of the State, and that our convict labor should not be employed for the benefit of moneyed corporations, and es pecially do we condemn the poli cy of giving this labor to these corporations. A resolution was adopted re questing our representatives to support the experiment-station bill introduced by Senator Haw ley, so that the stations may be under State and under Federal authority. The Committee on the Agri cultural Department submitted a report offering several recom mendations. The report was, after much discussion, referred to a special commit tee of seven. The Committee on Constition and By-Laws submitted a report, which was adopted. - Mayor Dodd was introduced to the Convention, and made an admirable speech, which was re plied to by D. R. Parker, on be half of the Convention. At 2 o'clock tliis afternoon the Convention adjourned, to meet at Greensboro' on the second Wednesday in January next. BILL. TO PRETEST FREIGHT DISCRIMINATION The following is the full text of the bill as it passed the House: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact tliat the pro visions of section 1966 of the Code are hereby repealed, and the following provisions are in serted in lieu thereof : Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any railroad operating for the transportation of any freight of any description of the same class over its roads to charge a greater amount of toll or com pensation for a short distance than for a long distance in the same direction over its roads; and any railroad company viola ting this section shall forfeit and pay the sum of 200 for such violation to the party injured. Nothing in this act shall be taken in any manner as abridg ing the right of any railroad com pany of making special contracts with shippers of large quantities of freight, to be of not less in quantity than one car-load. Siction 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to mean tliat said railroads may charge as much for shorter distance as for a longer distance, the shorter being included in the longer, but they shall not be required to charge proportionate pro rata per mile ; but this shall not be construed to mean that more shall be charged for equal quan tities in the car-load for a shor ter distance than for a longer dis tance. Section 3. Nor shall said rail roads make any unjust discrim inations in the rates of charges for toll or compensation for transportation of passengers or freights of any description. Section 4. Tliat this act shall not affect suits now pending in courts instituted prior to the de cision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hines and Battle vs. the Wilmington and Weldon Rail Road Company. Section 5. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. A Story of a Kiss. WIIRT a woman; was afraid of AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. Chambers Journal.") A Cicassian was walking along one road and a woman along an other. The road finally united into one, and reaching the point of junction at the same time, they walked on together. The man was carrying a large iron kettle on his back ; in one hand he held the legs of a live chicken, in the other a cane, and he was leading a goat. They n eared a dark ravine. Said the woman : "I am afraid to go through that ravine with you ; it is a lonely place, and you might overpower me and kiss me by force." Said the man : "How can I possibly overpower you and kiss you by force, when I have this great iron kettle on my back, a cane in one hand, a live chicken in the other and am leading this goat ? I might as well be tied hand and foot." . "Yes," replied the woman, "but if you should stick your cane -in the ground, and tie your goat to it, and turn the kettle bottom side up and put the chicken un der it, then you might wickely kiss me in spite of my resis tance." . "Success to thy ingenuity, O woman !" said the rejoicing man to himself ; "I should never have thought of this or similar expe dients." And when they came to the ra vine he stuck his cane into the ground and tied the goat to it, and gave the chicken to the wo man, saying : "Hold it while I cut some grass for the goat and then so runs the legend low ering the kettle from his should ers, he put the fowl under it and wickedly kissed the woman, as she was afraid he would. Goodness Sak.es. The ladies are now wearing bustles of such plethoric propor tions that the Scientific Ameri can in a late number publishes the plan of what might be termed a chair-bustle which we are forced to confess gives every promise of being very useful as well as ornamental. The bustle consists of a stool shaped frame of wicker work having a seat about fourteen inches wide, and while bving very light is strong enough to bear the weight of a person. Tliis bustle is buckled around the waist in the usual way, and when covered by the top dress gives that garment a most charming hump and slope behind. The legs of the chair bustle reach within a foot of the ground, and when a lady wearing one of them is out shopping and gets tired all tliat she has to do is to sit down and make herself comfortable, the bustle being so constructed that the act of sit ting down throws it into the proper position, and it catches the lady on the drop, without any danger of missing fire and causing embarrassment. For further in formation, apply to Beaty and Morgan, Smithfield, N. C. The Farmers and the Bird Irfiw. Statesville Landmark. 3 A farmer writing to the editor of the Landmark says: I see some member of the Legislature, in his zeal to benefit the poor far mer, has introduced a bill allow ing a person to kill partridges or quail on his own land any time of the year. Neither the farmers nor any other class want any such a law, as it will not give poor Bob White any chance at all. We can't raise tobacco with out the aid of the quail, as they destroy the worms. On the oth er hand we had hoped this Legis lature would further protect the birds by passing a law prohibit ing netting or trapping them any time of the year, and only allow ing them to be shot between November and March.' A law allowing the shooting of mem bers of the Legislature during a certain period would be a damned Bight more acceptable to the farmers. Ex-Covernor Brown, of Tennes see, says he has no doubt that the the entire South will favor Presi dent Cleveland's re-election in 1888. The Ex-Governor is a level-headed man, and generally reads the signs of the times ari6ht. Sacannalt Kews, Dem. STATE NEWS. Wilson county has organized a farmers club. Deputy-Re venue-C ollector Dortch last week captured two il licit distillers in Lenoir county. Last week the prisoners in Wayne county attempted to rid themselves of jail life by sawing their way through the iron bars. Investigation showed that files had been given the prisoners by outsiders, and that there was a concerted plan of thirty prison ers to escape in a body. It very nearly succeeded. Frank "James, flagman, was killed Thursday morning last near Gash creek trestle, a f ew miles east of Asheville on the Western North Carolina railroad. He was standing in a deep cut, when a land-slide occurred, bury ing him -completely. He aV-s quickly dug out, but expired tn a few minutes. He was sixteen years old and a son of the fore man of the shops at Salisbury. Raleigh ITews-Observer. The trial of Henry Artis, a negro man, for the murder of his step daughter, Louisa Dic'k erson, last week, at Goldsboo, resulted in his conviction. He was sentenced to be hanged Tuesday, March 1st. The crime was committed November th near Fremont, Wayne county, the skull of the girl having been crushed by repeated blows by an axe. The jury was composed of six white and six colored men. Last Thursday evening, the dwelling house, diary, kitchen and smokehouse of Mr. William M. York, near Hilliardston, this county, was burned to the ground. This was the largest and fin est house in Nash county, ahd was built by the father of the late Elijah Hilliard. Beside the above, Mr. York lost part of 1is furniture, twenty barrels of cofn, and about 300 worth of tobacco. He was insured for only 1,50. Rocky Mount Talker. The convicts should not be allowed to render to the State or to individuals work which should be done by honest labor. For instance, much of the work done on the new public building at Raleigh has been done by con victs. It should not have been so. Let the convicts be put to work on the public roads of the counties to which they belong. Tliis will relieve the farmer of an onerous duty and will accom plish in the end, a result which the State cannot afford to be without; viz : macadamized roads. The law now imposes road work ing on the already overworked farmer. Why not relieve him by putting convicts on the roads. Salisbury Watchman. The Pride and Glory of Our Commonwealth. Winston Progressive Farmer. "J While we do not agree with Governor Scales in all his recom mendations, we do commend the interest he takes in the welfare of the inmates of the State's asy lums, and we trust that the rep resentatives of the people will be governed in no niggardly spirit towards them. We believe in economy, and want to see an eco nomical administration of our State affairs, but we suggest that there is ample field for its exer cise in some of the other depart ments of the government, within easy reach of the Legislature, without cramping these benevo lent institutions, which ought to be the pride and glory of our commonwealth. lloz Cholrea. New Berne Journal. Our townsman, Dr. George K. Bagby, assures us that there is no necessity of farmers losing hogs with colera when they have a remedy so simple and cheap as common salt. He says the salt should be given dry at least once or twice a week, not in swill or slops, but simply dry salt put in a trough. .Our Jones county itemizer, who is a practical far mer and a hog raiser, uses the remedy with the addition of lime, and he reports that while his neighbors' hogs that range with his, die, his never die with chole ra. The remedy is certainly worth trying. But we fear that death from empty corn cribs is often attributed to cholera. In cases of this sort dry salt will fsave them. KNIGHTS OF LABOR. The State Assembly at Raleigh Adjourned Thursday. The following resolution was adopted unanimously : Jiesolved by the State Assem bly of North Carolina Knights Labor, That we regard the pass age by the Congress of the United States of the Blair educational bill as of vital importance to the laboring classes of the South : therefore be it Jiesolved, That Ave address a communication to the Senators and Representatives from tliis State asking them to urge the passage of said Blair bill. The folloAving resolution on the convict question was adop ted: Resolved, That the Legislature be asked to pass a law setting forth first, that the employ ment of convict labor in any ca pacity when it comes in compe tition with freelabor is unjust to honest workingmen of the State, tends to the increase of crime, and should not be tolerated; second, that all laws giving con vict labor to private corporations without adequate remuneration to the State be repealed ; third, that convicts should be used mainly in working the county roads until Ave have good roads to all centres of trade in the State. J. M. Broughton, of the Gener al Co-operative Board installed the f olloAfing officers of the State Assembly lor tne ensuing year : State Master Workman, John Nichols, Raleigh; Worthy Fore man, John G. Gordon, Charlotte; Recording Secretary, John R. Ray Raleigh ; Treasurer, D. R. Julian, Salisbury. STATE LEGISLATURE. SENATE. Thursday, January 27,1887. The f olloAving bills Avere intro duced : To repeal section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8, of article 10 of the constitution, abolishing the home stead and personal property ex emption. To change the time for holding courts in Wilson and Vance coun ties. To protect the farm laborer and tenant from impositions. To amend chapter 172 of the laws of 1885. For the better protection of fields from live stock in fence districts. To amend section 82, 470, 680 and 739 of the Code. To amend section 657 of the Calendar. For the better preservation of the records of the General As sembly and the libraries of both houses. BILLS OX SECOND READING To appoint a committee on railroad commission (a joint se lect committee consisting of three from the Senate and fiAre from the House). Mr. Lockey offerd an amend ment, that section one be stricken out, as he considered that a select committee Avas not absolutely necessary. Mr. Elias said, that if the first section be stricken out, it Avould do aAvay with the purport of the second section. Mr. Webb said, that there were some railroads in the State Avhose freights they could not regulate. Mr. Lockey said, the third sec tion did away Avith the objection raised by Mr. Elias. Mr. Lockey's amendment was adopted. Mr. Fields offered a substitute, to the effect that two be appointed on the part of the Senate, and three on the part of the House to enquire into the advisability of having a railroad commission. Lost. The bill, instructing the com mittee on penal institutions to visit the stockades where the conATicts are employed on the railroads. Mr. Kerr offerd an amendment to the effect that a sub-committee of three of the committee on penal institutions be sent. Mr. Elias said that the peniten tiary authorities were instructed under the present law to look af ter the welfare of the prisoners. Mr. Kerr's amendment was adopted. Mr. Clark said that if there Avas any report of improper treat ment, he Avould be in favor of tliis bill. He moved that the bill be ta bled. Carried. The bill for the" prevention of the carrying of concealed wea pons ; giving the magistrates the power of trying such persons as may be found euiltv under the bill came up, and- Mr. Crouse spoke in favor of it. Mr. Lockey also spoke in favor oi it. Mr. Williams, of Davidson, said the school fund would be benifited by allowing the mat ter to be determined by the jus tices of the peace. Mr. Clark said, that the ten dency of the Senators was to overdraAV the evils or benefits of the different bills. He Avas against this bill. Mr. Elias said, that if this Avas alloAved to be the judgement of the justices of the peace, this bill would be a dead letter, and he should vote against it. Mr . Warren said, if the present law was a good law, there should be an adequate punishment for it. He regarded it as a good laAV, and Avas opposed to the bill noAV agitated. Mr. Alexander did not think that if a person Avas caught car rying a concealed Aveapon, he should be forced to the expense and inconvenience of appearing before the judge of the superior court. The amendment offered by the committee passed its second read- mg. me Dili as amenaea passea its second reading and was placed upon the calendar. To regulate freights on rail roads ; prohibiting the railroads from charging a greater rate of freight for a short distance than for a longer one, but not preven ting them from making special rates to larger shippers. Mr. Pemberton said that there was an amendment now before the House that would cover the same ground, and he moved that the bill be informanly passed over; carried. A bill giving justices of the peace larger jurisdiction. i Mr. Elias moved that the bill J be tabled. j Mr. Lockey said tliat he thought the justices of the peace should be alloAved this jurisdic tion, as it Avas only in regard to the stock running at large in the no-fence districts. Mr. Elias' motion Avas lost. The bill passed its second and third .reading. Engrossed. " HOUSE. The following bills Avere pre sended : To preA-ent the sale of lottery tickets. To establish a neAV county to be called Badger. To prohibit the clerks of courts from practicing laAV or drawing legal papers. . To amend section 308 of the Code, relating to titles of land for public buildings. Bill to repeal section 1966 of the Code, relating to discrimina tion in railroad freight charges, Avas taken up. Mr. Overman asked that the bill he had offered to prohibit discrimination in freight charges be taken up and considered at the same time. This was done and Mr. Sutton spoke in favor of the bill, explaining the working of the present law as construed by the supreme court, thought that the law should be repealed and Mr. Overman's bill passed. Messrs. Holt, EAvart and York spoke in favor of the bill as of fered by Mr. Overman, and thought the law as at present embraced in the Code should be repealed. Mr. Overman didn't like this hurried manner of passing the laAV to repeal the section of the" Code, but was in favor of passing the bill for the relief of the people. Mr. Pearson offered an amend ment tliat section 1,966 of the Code be repealed and that Mr. Overman's substitute then fol low in its stead. Amendment accepted. Mr. Leazer offered an amend ment, that this act shall not ef fect suits pending in the courts prior to the suit of Hines & Bat tle vs. the Wilmington & Wel don Railroad Company. Amend ment accepted. The question Avas then upon the adoption of the substitute offered by Mr. Overman, for the original bill. The substitute Avas adopted and the bill passed its second and third readings. The bill to "repeal the present system of county government, and restore to the people the right of local self-government" Avas then taken up as unfinishr ed business. Mr. ShaAV spoke in oposition to the bill. He said that the same system had been in vogue for a great length of time, in fact it Avas nearly as old as the State itself. It worked Avell for all these years and it AATas riot until after the Avar, Avhen the negroes AAere freed and the Avhole State Avas overrun Avith Northern Carpet-baggers, that the question of any change Avas heard. Cum berland county Avas but a fair sample, of the acts of the re publican boards of county com missioners, Avhere they sat and Avere paid for more days than Avere in the calendar year and collected mileage enough, at ten cents per mile to encircle the globe. Their county scrip Avas only Avorth about 40 cents in the dollar, and Cumberland county has had enough of commission ers elected by the people. lie hoped there would be no repeti tion of the "drama of 1868," avus no enemy to the colored people, but this Avas a Avhite man's country and they intended to rule it. Mr. EAvart said it was charged by democrats that they did not Avant this laAV repealed on ac count of its placing the eastern counties under the negro rule, if that Avas true he would vote against the bill, for he did not believe in incompetent men being rulers. He sent forward the following amendment : Provided however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the counties of Bertie, Craven, Edgecombe, Halifax, NeAV Hanover, Nort liampto n, Jones, Warren, Caswell, Pender, ChoAATan, Pasquotank, Granville, Green and Hertford, but that in these counties, the county com missioners and justices of the peace shall be selected as here tofore. Mr. Lyon, amend by inserting Bladen. Mr. Overman made a strong speech in reply to the argument as offered by the republican side. He said the question of chang ing the system Avas never heard of until the carpat-baggers came down from the North and Avork ed themselves in Avith the igno rant negroes. The democrats should not be blamed for the Avar, they did not bring it about, but the republicans did ; and af ter the Avar A-as OATer the repub licans then took charge of affairs and such an administration of the laws was never heard of be fore. They Avould not allow a foreigner, Iioav intelligent, to vote until he bad remained here five years, but the three mill ions of ignorant negroes, not one of them knoAving Iioav to Avrite his ballot, Avere Avell qualified and justly entitled to vote ; they tried then to enforce the civil rights bill ; they tried in every Avay they could to degrade the Avhite people, and now they talk of liberty. The people knoAV all about their party and have learn ed not to trust them. They say it is a wrong system of govern ment, after people haTe lived and died under it for over one hund red years. He desired it to be come an issue in every campaign, for had it been in the last cam paign the seats occupied by re publicans in this House Avould be feAV and far between. The republicans Avere anxious to han dle the money in the eastern counties, but the people have not forgotten the state of affairs Avhen they Avere in poAver. Prop erty was taxed eighty cents on the hundred dollars, forty mill ions of debt, school fund gone, legislature sitting all the year round and taking all the taxes to pay them and bonds Avorth 15 cents. Compare these things Avith the democratic administra tion, and he defied any man to say that the democrats had not been fair and Avise in the ad ministration of the goATernment. He AvTent into a detailed account of the many differences betAveen the present state of affairs and those under republican rule. Mr. Pritchard said it Avas too near the hour for adjournment to reply to Mr. Overman's speech, but he Avould do so to-morrow. Pending discussion the House adjourned until 11 o'clock to-day.