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The Herald Readers.
Kcidsville Times: One piece
of coal weighed over 100 pounds
ha? been gotten from the mines
at Walnut Cove.
North Carolina has 2,110poet
offioos, ranking as seventh in the
highest number of offices among
the States in the Union. .
The grand jury have found
true bills against W. A. Potts and
Mrs. Lincke for the murder of
Mrs. Lincke's husband in June
last, in Beaufort county.
Greenville Jieflector : Work
has been resumed upon the Mem
orial Baptist Church. We hope
to see the building entirely com
pleted at no far distant day.
A Raleigh telegram says the
health of Hon. Thos. J. Jarvis is
not good in Brazil and that he is
expected home next summer af
ter the Democrat convention
has been held.
Rev. Mr. Leslie who had the
misfortune to have his leg brok
en a few weeks ago, is, we are
glad to learn, improving. We
hope to see him at his duty again
soon. J&ociy Jfo M ntPh oen ix.
Goldsboro Argus : We believe
that actual calculation bear us
out in the statement that over
g .ooo worth of improvements
have been made in Goldsboro
during the current yearup to this
writing.
The I". S. Circuit Court, in ses
sion at Raleigh, has ordered the
discharge of A. W. Henderson,
who was arrested in Chowan
county for selling goods without
a license ; it was known as the
drummers' tax case : the State
appealed from the decision.
John Tate, a colored man, who
lived alone at the corner of Fif
teenth and Princess streets, was
found dead one day last week in
his house, by Wm. Swain, who
visited him for the purpose of re
lieving his wants. The coroner
was called, but his service were
not needed. Wilmington JTews.
Charlotte Chronicle : Henry
Fox. a colored man and tenant
of Mr. T. T. McCord, is a pretty
good farmer, and it would be bet- :
ter for the country if there were
more like him in Mecklenburg.
With two mules, he this year on
Mr. McCord's laud, 13 bales of cot
ton, 300 bushels of corn, 50 bush
els of wheat and 50 bushels of
oats.
Southern Pines Pine Knot : A
lady who has been Journeying
through the South writes us; "I
was waited upon as if I had been
Mrs. Cleveland or Queen Vic
toria. It is really nelighted trav
elling in the South." The train
men upon the Seaboard Air Line,
from Southern Pines Kto Ports
mouth, can take a share of the
praise, for they deserve it.
The jury rendered a verdict of
guilty in the case of Stephen
Freeman, colored, charged with
rape, when they came into Court
Thursday morning Dec. 1st at
half-past nine o'clock. Defend
ant's counsel made a motion for
a new trial which the Court de
cided to hear at four o'clock in
the afternoon, until which time
a recess was taken. Wilming
ton Star.
Winston Daily ; Last Wednes
day night at church conference
held in Church Street M. E.
Church South, in Charlotte, Dr.
J. T. Bagwell was recommended
by a rising vote to receive license
to xreach. and the quaterly con
ference licensed him, and by a
rising vote the official Board of
Church Street church requested
the Presiding Elder to put him
We saw one of our druggists
the other night trying to sell a
customer a hair brush which he
claimed to be genuine hog bris
tles. The brush was white, but
when the party asked "what kind
of hog bristle?" he replied at
once "why Berkshire hog" "Mis
ter, I don't want that brush nor
nothing else you have got."
(walking out) "Who ever heard
of a BerksJiire hog having white
bristles ?" The druggist is now
reading up on the hog business.
Henderson Gold Leaf.
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Established 1882.
VOLUME 6.
OFFCIIAL REPORTS.
The annual report of Postmaster-General
Vilas ended June 30.
1887, has been submitted to the
President. The report says that
the expectation and growth and
improvement in the postal ser
vice has been realized during the
past year, The revenues have
gained upon the proceeding year
by nearly 4,000,000, attaining a
height never reached before, de
spite the restrictive operation of
various reductions in the rates of
various reductions in the rates of
posiage. This lias been done in
part from an extension of the
limits of mailable matter of the
fourth-class and from the receipts
of the special delivery service,
but chiefly from the rising bus
iness prosperity of the country,
faithfully reflected in the postal
service. Upon the other hand,
the study of economy has not
been without effect in restrain
ing expenditures, so that the in
crease in cash disbursements has
but little exceeded 2,000,000.
Expansion of the power and
usefulness of the service has kept
pace with its improved fiscal
condition by much increase in
the number of its postoffiees, of
its employees, of its routes and
mileage of mail transportation,
by additions to its fast mail, and
other special f ea tures and, indeed,
in every branch of its work. The
Post master-Gei oral, however,
does not think that a further re
duction in the rates of postage
at present would be advisable,
although, he says, time is prob
ably not distan t when the rate
of letter postage may be properly
lowered to one cent an ounce.
He points out that at present
the letter postage of the United
States is lower than that of all
other countries save one.
The total number of postoffiees
of all classes on the first of July,
1SS7, was 55,157. The appoint
ment of postmasters numbered
during the fiscal year 13,079.
The entire number of president
ial pos:cffices on the 4th of March,
1385, was 2,33K which have de
creased to 2,149 at present. Of
the incumbent of these new offices
at the end of t he fiscal year. 868,
were new appointments on expi
ration of commissions, 415 new
appointments on voluntary res
ignations, 34 new appointments
on deaths, 492 new appointments
on removals or suspensions, 27
re-appointments and 313 remain
ing under former commissions.
Thus the same incumbents held
at the end of the year 310 ol
these offices, and the new ones
were in possession of 1,809. On
the 7th of March, 1887. In all
these offices the total nunber of
appointments has been 36,252,
leaving about 39 per cen.t of the
old inenmben 'is in office.
The postal revenues for the
fiscal year were 48,837,609, and
the expenditures 52,814,113. The
revenue for the year ending June
30, 1888, based upon the results
af the past, is estimated at 53,
242,036, The- appropriations ex
ceed this tota:. by 2,100,114, but
it is thought :he deficiency will
be a million less tben the sum
so indicated. The total estimated
gross receipts for the year ending
June 30, 1837, are 57,563,734.
Biddlebei er And Hshone.
There can now be no doubt of
the fact that Riddleberger and
Mahone have permanently parted
company. In an interview last
week, published in the Critic, on
the recent election in Virginia,
Mr. Riddleberger is quoted as
saying :
"The result in Virginia was
no surprise to me. We were
linked fair and sauare. It was
Mahone and his methods,
defeated the Republicans.
that
His
and
management of the canvass
his abandonment of the
issues that we could have
only
won
with made i impossible for the
Republicans to reply to the Demo
cratic stump speakers."
"It is chirged, Senator, by
some of the Republican press,
that the Democrats carried the
State by fraud, and that the Re
publicans were counted out. Is
there any trith in such state
ments ?"
"So for as I know, none what
ever, and no one seriously be
lieves the sensational reports.
The charges printed in certain pa
pers that we were cheated and
counted out are the worst kind of
rot. Why, one of our own men
was elected by barely ten major-
Smithfield Her al
"CAROLINA,
ity. If the Democrats wanted to
count us out, how easy it would
have been to wipe away the ten
votes."
Speaking of the presidential
outlook he says : "I believe
Virginia will send a solid Cleve
land delegation to the national
convention, and that Cleveland
will be renominated. Virginia
will support him, because she
believe he is the only Democrat
that can be elected."
"How about the Republican
candidate ? Do you know any
one who could carry Virginia as
against Cleveland."
"I seriously think that with
proper management Blaine could
wrest the State from the Demo
cracy. He would have done it
in '84 but for the ambition of
William Mahone. Blaine only
lost the State by 4,000. Blaine
can have the nomination if he
wants it."
"Blaine or Bust."
There seem to be at the pres
ent time numerous factions form
ing within the Republican party
which threaten to side track the
grand old machine completely.
The tariff question has given the
party leaders a violent palsy ; the
bloody shirt doctrine seems to be
healthy, in Ohio, but awful fee
ble in the East, aud the pension
question fails to draw much
enthusiasm anywhere. All these
issues have their special "boom
ers", who, of course, are promin
ent candidates for the nomination
of 1883. The present faction
which has control of the party
machinery is "The Blaine-or-Busters."
and a very appropriate
title it is. This faction have been
"nursing their wrath to keep it
wraui" since '84, and they do not
propose to be put aside by John
Sherman, Foraker, Hawley, Ev
arts or any other leader. With
them it's "Blaine or Bust." They
propose to makethe American
people swallow Mr. Blaine with
all his doctrines. They propose to
usethe party machinery, so that
nothing else can be done but nom
inate the Plumed Knight, upon
the theory that the party should
vindicate Mr. Blaine for the dis
appointment of '34 by nomina
ting him in '33. Mark Twain
once drew a picture of western
life in the early days which aptly
applies to these statesmen of he
Republican party. An emigrant
bound for the rich gold fields of
Pike's Peak had a handsomely
painted motto on his wagon
which read, "Pike's Peak or
Bust." As he progresses on his
journey one disaster followed an
other till at last he was picked
up on the plains a total wreek,
oxen dead and wagon broken.
Underneath the first inscription
he had roughly scrawled with a
brand of charcoal, "Busted, by
Thunder." And thus it will be
with the grand old party in 1888.
The party which missed carrying.
New York by a hair's breadth
in '84 will fail to carry it in '88
upon the same issues by many
thousands of votes. The party
which has nursed within its
bosom for a quarter of a century
that hideous monster, sectional
animosity and hate, cannot hope
to carry the mass of the Ameri
can people with them.
This enthusiastic talk about
Blaine is a thrust at Mahone and
John S. Wise, both of whom are
for John Sherman.
Senator Turpie.
The new Democratic Senator
from Indiana, Turpie, who is to
succeed Harrison, Republican,
is said to be a brilliant man. He
is a fine debater and enters the
Senate with a reputation equal
to any in that body. A writer
in the New York World, in a
sketch of him, drawn evidently
by a very practical pen, says :
"He is a very good fellow with
his friends, and likes a social
chat. He detests vulgarity, how
ever, and if a vulgar story is at
tempted in his presence he will
dart off like a shot. He is a good
hater. He is a Burbon of the
Burbons in his politics, and
thinks the Democratic ideas come
from above, and thinks the Re
publican ones from the lower re
gions. Re is not a money-maker
nor much of a money spender,
and the sum total of his financial
life work has not netted him
more than 75,000."
Robinson county has thirty
organized farmers' alli-
O o
ance.
CAROLINA, HBAVSN'3 BLESSINGS A
SMITHFIELD, N. C, DECEMBER
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL GOSSIP.
NATIONAL TOPICS REPORTED
WEEKLY.
Our Correspondent Writes About
The City Who Are There And
What They Are Doing.
Compulsory examinations for
promotion in the executive de
partments were inaugurated last
summer in the War Department.
Now that the qualification of all
the clerks in the different bur
eaus of th?t Department have
been tested, and the results
known in individual cases, it is
interesting to inquire what effect
the examinations have on the
service, and if the new rules at-
gations by your correspondent in
this direction, among both the
officials of the War Department
and the civil Service Commis
sioners, disclose a diversity of
opinions. Some of the former
think that the examination do
not show anything not already
known about the merits of clerks,
and have no other effect that to
worry and demoralize the cler
ical force. There was not a sin
gle official who was not in favor
of civil service examination for
admission into the service. It
keeps out dead wood and admits
only those of a ceratin degree of
intelligence, but above all it re
lieves the Departments of the
former distracting pressure of
influence to secure officers. Poli
ticians have learned that they
can do nothing interceeding with
theDepartment heads for appoint
ment through favoritism, and
when a vacancy occurs now it is
a routine piece of business to se
cure the certification of four suc
cessful business candidates of in
telligence and to select from
among them a man without re
gard to politics and friends.
While acknowledging the debt
due to the civil-service require
ments . in this direction, many
officials hold ?hat the prelimi
nary examination does not defi
nitely settle the question of
qualification. The probationary
term of six months' service is, af
ter all, they say, the real tast of
a clerk's efficiency, and that this
is as it should be. No more, they
think, can a man's fitness for
promotion or retention be ascer
tained by putting him through
an examination. The true test
is his record at his desk from 9
in the morning until 4 in the af
ternoon. Arguing from this
standpoint it is not thought that
the promotion rules really attain
the end for which they were des
igned.
Naval officers are much amused
over the result of a recent at
tempt of the line officers of the
Navy to come to an agreement up
ona bill which it was proposed to
have iutroducted in Congress,
providing for the readjustment
of their pay. The matter was
conducted with a good deal of
secrecy, and notices were sent
out privately to officers interest
ed to meet at a hotel in this city
a few days ago. One of the
main proposition to be acted up
on was a plan to increase the pay
of ensigns by 100 for every
year's service, and on this point
there seems to have much dffer
ence of opinoin among the line
officers. The meeting took place
last week. It appears that the
representatives of the Naval
Academy were fully prepared to
maintaincertain of their rights
which they believed to be in
jeopardy, and came to the meet
ing armed with proxies in such
numbers that the residence line
officers who had called the meet
ing found themselves outnum
bered, and after a stormy session
were compelled, in self-defense
to secure an indefinite adjourn
ment. It is expected that the
fight will be renewed at a future
meeting.
It is said, apparently on good
authority, that the President's
message will make no recom
mendation about postal tele
graph. The reasons which pre
vail against such advice are said
mainly a belief that the firm es
tablishment of civil-service re
form would be imperiled by the
suddeu doubling or trebling of
the employes of the Post Office
Department, and the doubt
whether private competition is
not sufficient to keep the tele
graph service of the country
EES."
pf 1887.
where it ought to be. There are
now about 1,000,000 employes in
all grades of the postal service.
To extend postal telegraph to all
parts of the United States and
make it coinncide with the presr
ent postal service would require
as many more employes, if not
an even greater addition to the
Department. The strain of such
a duplication of the service is
something to make even the most
sanguine believed in postal tele
graphic pause.
I do not remember a time
when the opening of a new Con
gress has been attended with so
little excitement as is apparent in
Washington at the present time.
The hotels are almost as quiet as
at mid-summer. Of course this
will all be changed during the
coming week. But as it is quite
certain that Speaker Carlisle will
be re-elected, and as there is
really no reason to suppose Mr.
Randall will be displaced from
the chirmanship of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, there
is only the contest over the mi
or House offices to engage much
attention. The fun will begin
later in the season, when the
committe get to work and the
struggle over tariff reform begins.
Lenox.
Pork For Home Use.
Breeder's Journal.)
It may poscibly pay best to
have large, fat porkers for mar
ket purposes, to suit the needs of
the packers of pork, who waut
large, heavy pork, but when it
comes to the home supply, we
want our pork with but a small
portion of fat. There are some
breeds of pigs, noticeably so the
small English Yorkshires, which
produce a very large portion of
fat and, while they may please
the eyes of most persons, when
in the living form, when killed
and dressed the large proportions
of fat makes the meat undesir
able for most palates. It does
not pay to raise pigs solely, or
almost so, for lard. With the ex
ception of, perhaps, the Berk
shires, most of our well-known
breeds of pigs are, in their puri
ty, rather too much inclined
to lay on fat to make them de
sirable for home use, and we have
for a number of years been ex
perimenting to find out how to
produce just such porkers as
would best meet the require
ments. While the breeding has a
great deal to do with having good
pork for house use, the feeding
playsa very important party and
the quality of the pork depends in
a great measure on proper feed
ing. We do not like having the
porkers confined to small pens,
even thoughthe pigs may f att en up
more quickly than if they have
plenty of exercise room, but let
them have the run of a good
clover lot during the summer and
fall, ringing the pigs so that
they cannot destroy the sod, then
supply them with grain in dffdr-
ent forme, dailv, with plenty of
fresh water, at least once a day,
as much as they can drink, Hogs
can be kept in fair condition on
plenty of clover and water, but
to make them improve as they
should, grain should be given
A good summer feed is made by
having corn and oats ground to
gether, say in proportion one
bushel of corn to two of oats,
then makini? a slot) of this. Our
plan is to half fill a barrel with
this mixture and then the mass
(with cold water in summer and
hot water in winter), doing
in the afternoon or evening
then feeding it, diluted to
this
and
the
proper consistency, next niorn-
incr. bv which time it will have
source sufficiently. It is well to
add a couple of handfuls of salt
as well as a half peck or so of bits
of cnarcoal. This charcoal can
readily be secured on the farm,
where wood fires are used, by
seiving the wood ashes and using
the bits of charcoal which re
main in the seive.
The Long and Short of It.
(Philadelphia Chronicle.)
"Willie Wafflers," said the
teacher, "which is the shortest
m
day in the year ?"
"Twenty -fust of December,"
replied Willie, who was correct
as far as the writer knows.
"And Tommy Tuff may tell us
which is the longest day." said
the teacher indulgently.
"Sunday," shouted Tommy.
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NUMBER 26.
ROBBERY LEGALIZED.
(Scotland Neck Democrat.)
Protection means the robbery
of one man for the benefit of
another without compensation
It means the taking the earuings
or property of one class for the
benefit of another class without
compensation.
A tariff for revenue only is the
only legal, constitutional, just
policy 1 his will afford protection.
It is utterly impossible to have
a tariff that will not protect to
the amount of the tariff levied,
if the tariff is levied upon articles
produced or manufactured in this
country. Because those produced
or manofactued here pay no tax,
and only those articles improted
pay the tax : and that enables
our people to raise their drices to
the tariff point.
The charge that the Democratic
party ss a free trade party is false
from beginninga to end. Frank
Hurd is the only absolute free
trader in the Democratic party in
the United States so far as the
writer's information goes. Free
trade in this country is an absol
ute impossibility. With a public
debt of mose than a billion dol
lars, and with a yearly expense
of more than three hundred mil
lion dollars which can never be
less, will forever forbid free trade
in this country. And none but
cranks theorists, fanatics, or
fools can believe in oa advocate
free trade. A free trade is about
as foolish, inconsistent and un
reasonable, as the protective
tariff man h unjust, grasping and
avaricious. Both classes are ex-
treamists, and without the pale
of reason aud common sense.
The ond is about as unreasonadle
as the other is unjust. Neither
class ought to be tolerated as
public servants. Every dollar
of revenue raised by the tariff
whether for protection or for rev
enue only, is prection to the full
amount of revenue raised. The
difference between the two polit-
cal parties, is this the Republican
part, believes in and advocotes
the raising the revenues of the
government with an eye single
to protection, while the Demo
cratic party believes in and
ought to advocate the raising the
revenues necessary ts defrsy the
expenses of the government econ
omically administered, with an
eye single to revenue only. Now
if this is not the distinctive dif -
feience between the two parties
on the tariff, then thera is and
cau not be any difference bet ween
them on this subject.
A Southern Matron.
(XorfoH Virffinir.)
The letter of the wife of Hon.
Jefferson Davis, protesting
against any effort to create a
fund for the benifit of himself
and heirs, a refreshing illustra
tion of womanliness, indepen
dence, gratitude and genuine
refinement. Apart from he no
ble contrast the conduct of this
Southern matron bears to the
ordinary women and girls of
"tae period," the letter has an
other aim higher virtue, it is
expressed in this language :
".Let me entreat you to lit us
think you for the effort, but
deprecate the accomplishment
of it. Both may daughter and
I have received an education
which would etand instead of
money were everything to be
swept away which do not now
contemylate and the blessings
of freedom and endependence are
dearer to us than wealth and
ease, and we should not be com
tortable under this moneyed
obligation to those who have
given a far greater boon to my
husband already their hearts."
This is the remonstrance and
opinion of both mother and
daughter, and the sentiments ex
pressed evidence delicacy as well
as culture of head and heart a
jointure rkich is indepensable
in the formation of ture char
acter. It is observable, too,
that eduction is the basis of this
independence. For this reason
we trust the fact may spur the
young ladies of today who have
splendid opportunities to a
proper appreciation of the high
value of intellectual endowments
and acquisition. They outlast
gold, silver and the worthless
draperies of parade and fashion.
The next session of the Bap
tist State Convention will be
held at Greensboro in November
1887.
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INTERESTING ITEMS RELATED
BRIEFLY.
Newsy Items Which Are Gleaned
Prom Various Sources And Pre
pared Por Our Headers.
Samuel Spencer will be the
new President of the Baltimore
& Ohio R. R. Co.
Johann Most, the convicted
Anarchist, will take his case to
the higher courts.
A London editor has recovered
damages from a London financier
who had accused him of black
mail.
Governor Rodwell of Maine is
taking steps to close the 125 sa
loons in the prohibition town of
Bangor.
The Commissioner of agricul
ture, in his annual report, rec
ommends the abolition of the
seed division.
The President has granted a
number of pardons to persons
convicted of violations of inter
nal revenue laws.
During the month of Novem
ber the revenues of the Govern
ment amounted to about $30,500-
000 ; disbursements about the
same.
H. H. Fergueran was shot to
death by an ex-convict while on
his way home in a wagon at Hop-
kinsville, Ky. The murderer .es
caped. The condition of the Crown
Prince is thought to be improv-
ed,froin the fact that the Court
dentist has been summoned to
operate on his teeth.
Hon. Stephen Archer and Sen
ator Gorman are advocating Bal
timore as a suitable place for
holding the next National Dem
ocratic convention.
Master Workman Powderly
declares that this generation is
not good enough to practice the
"in common" land theories which
have recently been presented.
An American sea captain sues
the Canadian government for the
illegal detension of his vessel,
and refuses assistance from the
state department in Washington.
The National Central Commit
tee of the Prohibitionists met in
Chicago last week, and among
other business transacted made
arrangements for a National Con
vention. Nina Van Zandt, or Mrs. Spies-by-proxy,
purchased a widow's
mourning outfit in Chicago. She
intends to lament her executed
"husband"' after the approved
Christian custom.
Government detectives have
unearthed a band of counterfeit
ers near Port Huron, Mich. Four
persons were arrested and com
plete outfits for making bogus
metal dollars and nickles were
seized.
Senator Gorman predicts that
a tariff bill be passed by Congress
during the coming session. Ho
thinks Speaker Carlisle should
decline a re-elction and resume
the democratic leadership in the
House.
W. A. French and W. S. Mat
thews, two Virginia editors, hav
ing expressed a desire to murder
each other with pistols, a consta
ble clapped them in jail at Pearls
burg, Va., until they could find
bail in $4,000 each.
Jake Sharp was taken from
Ludlow street jail Friday of last
week and carried before Judge
Barrett, when he was allowed to
give bail in the sum of $40,000,
and he was discharged ; he is fee
ble and cannot walk without as
sistance. The French political situation
is very complicated ; President
Grevy has postponed his resigna
tion, and the Rouvier Cabinet
has been recalled ; the party of
the right has resolved not to
support any Republican candi
date for the Presidency.
Judge Clark's wife and Capt.
1U VIC-Vttll'lT-i flit VVUwUWj
and Capt. Alexanker's first wife
was Judge Clark's cousin. This
fact leads some to suppose that
both these gentlemen will not
be before the State Convention
for the nomination for Govern
or. Either would make a good
Governor. Chronicle.