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frl ((3 iliil n vv FKICE ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." SINGLE COPIES THREE CENTS. VOL. 19. SMITHFIELiD , 2sT. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1900. NO. 34. STATE NEWS. snort Items of interest Culled From our State Exchanges. The State has chartered the Milton Chair factory, capital Gov. Russell has pardoned Red fr'in. the oldest convict in the nitentiary. The State board of agriculture increased the commissioner's sal-' aiy to 2.000. ; A handsome $2,000 pipe organ has been placed in the Fayette-; ville Baptist church. i i The X. C. Methodist conference j lias chosen Fayetteville as the next place of meeting. j The police census is being tak-! t-n of Wilmington, the federal! census being regarded as imper tect. ; To Dee. 1, 1000, the sales of fertilizers were o0,000 tons more than the previous year in North Carolina. The Baptist State convention at Raleigh ended Sunday night. The convention meets next year in Winston. The Baptists of the State are making great gains in member-' hip. In Wake county alone they have 100 churches. Rev. T. J. Gattis was given an opportunity to address the, conference at Newbern but said i he had no statement to make. j The State has chartered thei Wahinjxton knitting mill, at Washington, capital 8,000, S. T. Nicholson principal stockhold-1 er. Miss Lnla Tucker Holden, . daughter of the late Gov. W. W. ; HoMer. and Mr. Frank Ward, ! both of Raleigh, will be married on the 19th. Flans are in hand for the $25, ono main building of the Metho dist Orphanage at Raleigh. It is the purpose to have it built in 12 months. The report on cotton mills chartered bv the State to date this year shows 20, and 10 knit tuiir mills. The capital invested in these is $:$,507,000. The State treasurer reports re- ( :-i?,ts for last rear were $1,51 -..- 717, disbursements $l,00O,O:$:i: receipts for this year sl,0l8.00-", disbursements 1,047,424. It has been reported that John K. Fowler, the Populist-Republi-1 can candidate for Congress in the' Third district, will contest the eat of Congressman Thomas. i Cap?-. Arthur Lassiter. a freight : niniuctor on tlie Seaboard; Air Line, was run over and killed : by a switch engine at Henderson Monday. He was onlv 2- years of ag. Tiie Baptist Female Lniversity ; at Raleigh, a little more than j ne year old, has 224 students.! A larger number would be en rolled if thev could be accommo dated. A subscription amounting to 'i'.!).') was taken up at the Bap tist State convention at Ualeigh tor tlie purpose of putting in v;Her works at Thomasville )r phanage. Tlie legislature will be asked to authorize the town of Rocky Mount to issue $40,000 in bonds to ut in sewerage and an elee- j trie light plant and to complete its water svstem. , The Methodist conference at New hern passed a resolution fa-1 voring the establishment of a re formatory and Dr. T. N. Ivev was appointed to present it to the legislature. Ceii. Thomas F. Toon, who v. ill next month take charge of the office of Superintendent of Bui llc Instruction, appoints lohn W. Duckett, a veteran edu cator, of Lumberton, his chief clerk. The State has chartered the Heath Hardware Co., of Monroe, capital (50,000, W. C. Heath and others stockholders. It will manufacture hardware, machine ry, electrical and telephone sup plier pfo. The stables and barn of M. J. Battle, near Whitakcrs, in Edge combe county, were burned last week. Wm. Garrett, a negro, has been arrested, charged with setting tne nre. A A A 1 MA The paint shops of the Atlan tic Coast Line at Wilmington were burned Saturday morning at l:S0 o'clock, together with three cars. The loss is not moie than $15,000. No insurance. United States Attorney Gener al John W. Griggs is in Cabar rus county, trying the hunting grounds in the Poplar Tent neighborhood, and enjoying the hospitality of Mr. Shakespeare Harris. The pastors and ministers of Winston-Salem have drafted and ' signed a petition to the next Leg islature. urging that bodv to pass a law for the establishment of a State Reformatory fori .- voting criminals. (Jen. Julian S. Can will call a convention of ex-Confederate j veterans to he held at Raleigh in ; February, at which the Legisla-i ture will be memoralized to in crease the appropriations for the j Soldier s Home and tor pensions. Mr. H. B. Varner, of Lexing ton, the newly-elected Commis sioner of Labor ami Printing, will be married next Thursday to Miss Florence Comstock, also of Lexington. Mr. Varner is the editor of the Davidson Dispatch. The complete official returns of the vote at the Senatorial pri mary in November are at last at hand. They Show that F. M. Simmons received 103,008 and Julian S. Can 47,700 votes, making Simmons' majority 50, 112 XX . Capt. E. W. Manning who was ! chief engineer on the Confederate j Warship Virginia, when shede-j st roved the Cumberland and ; Congress, died in Wilmington! last Sunday. He was a ship-i mate of Admiral Dewev before ' the civil war. j Sparger Bros, and Hadley & Smith, the two leading tobacco manufacturing firms at Mount ' Airy, have agreed to consolidate ( their plants and business. The two companies have been manu facturing tobacco for a number of vears and each did a business. huge After being out seventeen hours, at Albemarle, Friday, the jury in the case of State vs. Will Hinson, for the murder of Frank rv.varengen, returned a verdict for murder in second degree. Judge Brown sentenced him to 25 vears at hard labor in the penitentiary. David Steele, a farmer of Ire dell county, met death Saturday in an unuMial way. He had cut down a tree, a limb of which was broken off and lodged in the top of another tree. While he was cutting up the tree he had felled this limb fell upon him and crush ed his skull. His wife found his bodv in the woods. The Rantist convention at Ral eigh adopted a resolution to erect a monument at the head of the grave of Dr. olumbus Dur ham in Oak wood cemetery in Raleigh, and J. C. Caddell. Noah Riggs. J. W. Bailey, C L. Taylor and C. R. Justice were appointed a committee to receive contribu tions to this object. Dr W. R. Crawford's barn and stables, near Goldsboro, were burned early last Saturday morning. Dr. Crawford lost three horses, four mules and thirteen bales of cotton. A fine horse belonging to his s n was also burned to death. His bug gies, wagons and farm imple ments were destroyed. His loss is estimated at $.5, 000, with only 500 insurance. Lieut. August Dupont, late of the French Army, is now at Wil mington as a fencing master at the Y. M. C. A. He is a personal friend of Captain Dreyfus. His espousal of the latter's cause brough about persecution. He has a scheme for forming a colo ny of French Huguenots in Nor; h Carolina. A great many years ago a number of them settled in the Cfpe Fear se -tion. GENERAL NEWS. A Partial List of the Week's Hap penings Throughout the Country. Rev. Dr. Stuart has been ac quitted of the charge of wife murder in Wilkesbarre, Fa. W. J. Rrvan and ex-Vice Presi dent Stevenson will attend the inauguration of Governor Jen nings, a cousin of Bryan, at Talla hassee, Fla., on January 1. Representatives of nearly every cnurch denomination in Chicago have resolved to unite in a cru sade against civil immorality and for the maintenance of law and order in Chicago. Three hundred and liftv dele gates from Indian Territory and Oklahoma, met at South Mc Alister, I. T., Tuesday, to take action looking to the forming of a State from the two Territories. Former Commissary General of Subsistence Kagan, who was under suspension for using al leged abusive language toward General Miles, was last week restored to duty and immediately . y retired. The Governor of Minnesota has appointed Chas. A.Towneto succeed the late Senator Davis in the United States Senate. Senator Towne was sworn in Mondav nid took his seat on the Democratic side. The extensive stores and stock of the Baltimore Bargain House, Baltimore, were totally destroyed by tire Saturday morning. The stock and building of Grotjon, Loeb & Co., which adjoins it, was damaged. The loss is estimated at 300,000, covered by insur- j ance. The ceremonies m connection with the laying of the corner stone of the Administration Building of the South Carolina Interstate and, West Indian Ex- nosition were held Tuesday at I I the Exposition grounds, a trait of some 250 acres, beautifully situated on the Ashley river, within tlie citv limits of Charles ton. A head end collision occurred between two freights on the At-j lantic Coast Line, two miles be-j low Richmond, Saturday night,; in which one man was kiiled, j three injured and an engine and a dozen freight cars wrecked Fireman Robert Boyd, whose; home was in Weidon, N. C, was! fatal v crushed under Tlie over- turned engine. Boyd had been j married but a few months. i I John Laurens Manning Irby, j who served South Carolina in tlie' United States Senate from 1800 to 1800, died at his home at Laurens Sunday. He was the most remarkable political or ganizer his State has produced and was but o( years old when elected Senator. He welded to gether the dissatisfied elements which elected himself and B. R. Tillman to the Senate. Bright's disease caused his death. The remains of Col. Emerson II. Liscuin, Ninth Infantry, one of the heroes of the fight at Tien tsin in July last, arrived in Washington Monday afternoon and were escorted by a troop of the Filth Cavalry to the parish hall oi St. oinfs Church. They were accompanied from China and San Francisco by Gen. James 1L Wilson and by Airs. Liscuin and her brother. Colonel Lis cu m's remains were buried at Yrlington Cemetery Tuesday afternoon with full military honors. In a decision handed down by Judge Hook, of the Federal Dis trict Court of Kansas, and con curred in by United States Cir cuit Judge Amos Thayer Monday, Oberlin M. Carter, former"1 captain United States Army, under sentence of live years imprisonment for misap propriation of Government funds while in charge of the harbor work of Savannah, has since been remanded to the custody of Robert W. McLaughry, warden of the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, where Carter has 1. , C ,1 ueen conuueu. j Governor Beckham was inau gurated Tuesday at Frankfort, Ky., for a term of three years. The inaugural parade was made up of all of the military compa nies of the State, three regiments, the Duckworth Club of Cincin nati, political clubs from Frank fort, Louis ville and other towns of the State, civic societies and distinguished citizens in carriages and on horseback. The Standard Oil Company lias acquired all of the interests of the Pacific Coast Oii Company. The purchase price is said to lie in the neighborhood of $1 ,000, 000. The Pacific Coast )il Com pany has been doing business in California for a quarter of a cen tury. Its interests include valu able oil properties in various sec tions. It owns a steamer which is used in transporting oil from the southern coast to its refine! y at Alameda, which has a monthly capacity of 25,000 barrels. Th company's entire holdings are embraced in the transfer. The transport Hancock arrived at San Francisco. Monday, from Manila by way of Nagasaki with a gruesome cargo. It consisted of the bodies of about 1,500 sail ors and soldiers who either died in battle or succumbed to the ravages of disease in the Philip pines, China, Guam and Hono lulu. This is the largest number of bodies brought home since the outbreak of the Spanish War. The Hancock brought 52 cabin passengers, 500 in the steerage, and there were 11 deaths on the voyage to add to the cargo of dead carried from the Philippines. FOREIGN NEWS. An anti-trust bill has been in troduced in the Reichstag at Berlin. Liberal leaders .attacked the British Government's South Af rican policy in Parliament last week. President Kruger arrived at The Hague last week and was re ceived with popular acclama tions. Field Marshal Lord Roberts, with his wile and daughters, sail ed for England from Cape Town Tuesday. General Delarv attacked a British convov in the Transvaal last Thursday, killing 15 men and wounding 23. The Dutch government has finally and definitely refused to take the initiative in behalf of arbitration between the Trans vaal and Great Britain. A detachment of the Fifth Cav alry had a fight with 100 Filipi nos south of Santa Cruz Sunday. The natives were chased four miles. Fourteen of them were found dead. There were no Amer can casualties. An extia session of the San Domingo Congress was opened Thursday of last week. President Jiniinez's message recommends a treaty with the United States and concessions for railroads in Barahona and Monte Chi isti. The late Robert Arlington, an eccentric gentleman oi Leeds, England, who lived in a miserly manner in order to devote his wealth to foreign mi-sions, has left the London Missionary Soci ety over 125,000 (1,250.000.) Porto Rico's first House of Delegates is now holding its first session. The body convened De cember J. The first two days were devoted to organization. Everything has passed off smoothly and harmoniously. Within an hour after the roll was called the legislative body had got down to business, elected Manuel Rossy as Speaker, Salva dor Ross as Secretary and Felix Dadial as Sergeant-at-Arms. If you would have an appe tite like a bear and a lcliah lor your meals take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The correct disorders of the stomach and regulate the liver and bowels. Price 25 cents. Samples free, at Hood Bros.' .1, WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING. Last Thursday the House the Army Reorganization passed bill by a vote of 1GG to 133. Three Democrats voted for the bill and one Republican voted against it. Otherwise it was strictly party vote. This bill in creases the regular army to 100,000 men. The Horn e on Monday passed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, car rying 24,490,308. The bill comprises 131 pages and required three hours for the clerk to read ik. The House passed it after 10 minutes' debate. The bill for the reduction of the war revenue taxes prepared by the Waj-s and Means Committee, provides for a reduction of 40, 000.000. The Democratic mem bers of the committer have pre pared a minority report in which they propose a reduction of $70, 000,000. The bill will pass as prepared by the majority. On Monday the Senate spent five hours in executive session, discussing the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Several Senators made speeches. The Grout Oleomargarine bill, which has already passed the House has been referred by the Senate to the Committee on Ag riculture. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of W. D. Rynum, of Indiana, to be commissioner to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States. Bynum was a Gold Democrat in 189G. Senator Clay, of Georgia, who is a member of the Committe on Commeree, made a speech against the Ship Subsidy bill Tuesday. He is a vigorous speaker and was listened to attentively, and espe cially by Senator Hanna, who expects to reply to him. Mr. Clay contended that the promo tion of commerce and the increase of foreign trade would not follow the enactment of the bill into law. He claimed that it would tahe 9,000,000 a year, for a period of twenty yearn, out of the treasury and treasury and donate that vast sum to ship owners carrying! tlieloreiirn trade. rl he hi vi increase the profits of the few already wealthy at the expense of the many. Library of Congress. rrl 1 . c T 1 The annual report of Libra-, inn of Congress Putnam shows nan that during the 8,110 books and pamphlets added to the library, making a total of 99o,lG0. Of the new books 10,599 came through the operation of the copyright law. There were other accessions of 10,005 pieces of music; prints, 14,048; maps and charts, o5J0, and manuscripts, 778. The Li brarian during a visit to Kurope made various purchases of im portance, and he says he was able to take advantage of a favorable opportunity to secure j representation in the horary oi Dutch history and literature. 1 Among the manuscripts secured during tlie year were 400 letters and other papers written by Har man Blennerhassett, the friend of Aaron Burr. The total num ber of visitors to the library during the year was 055,4.J9; of readers, !:.", 844; of books is sued, 364,;J90. There were 94, 978 copyright entries. Mr. Put nam renews his recommendation for a reference library for the use of Congress. The Best Plaster. A piece of liannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm mid hound to the affected narts is superior to anv plaster. When troubled with lame back or pains in the side or chest, irive it a trial and you are certain to be more j food you want while it is restor than pleased with the prompt ; ing the digestive organs io n.ait h. relief which it affords. Pain It is the only preparation that Balm also cures rheumatism. One application gives relief. For I coin Vi - o rl TJ-c THAT SHIP SUBSIDIES BILL. In the light of Mr. McKinley's expressed approval of the sfiip subsidies and the enthusiastic advocacy of them by Senator Ilanna and other party leaders, a shipping law may be forced upon the country, but in its pass age the present administration will incur a grave responsibility. The theory of paying subsidies to encourage the growth of com mercial enterprises which do not thrive in natural conditions is bad enough in itself. If money is not now invested in American shipping it isbecausemoreprofit able uses for that money are found elsewhere. Admitting that it is desirable that American ships carrying American products and manned by American sea men should ply upon the high seas, the government would be abundantly justified in removing restrictions upon shipping; but it has no more justification for going out of its way to pay bounties for ships than it would have to pay bounties to inaugu rate or encourage any other line of profit-making industry. The shipbuilding industry already en joys certain legislative advant ages; building materials are ad mitted duty free; the coastwise carrying trade is exclusively lim ited to Aii.erican built vessels; the postal subsidies, moreover, are immensely greater than those paid by Great Britain. Were these privileges to be supple mented by legislation looking to a change in the system of r gis try and other reforms, the ship ping business would have all the encouragement it needs or is en titled to. Bad as is the principal of sub sidies, however, the proposed measure is still worse in the methods by which it would make the payments. The bill provides for the disbursement of 9,000, 000 in subsidies each year for thirty years. Theoretically this is for tlie purpose of increasing our foreign trade. Practically it would be a strongincentivetothe companies now in business to unite and discourage competi tion. In fact, the bill, with re markable perspicacity as to the requirements of the wealthy men who now control the leading lines, specifies that "a foreign buiit vessel herenlterndinitted to American registry'' shall not re- ceive compensation, thus n stnctmg the subsidy payments to those who already have ac quired their vessels by purchase. There is an abundance of testi mony of great weight to prove that the whole subsidy project ! t. i i i tl L . I sk Lli1ttt1llii 1 I 1 I I 1 I tXn tllMMltll i,J Pill MMN lilirn I H f u ;i As M, BenjatninTaylor L,.;,,,; ,lt s,. ti. ,.Jr.t r the Forum, Fngland'sgreat com- merce has grown steadily to its (present enormous dimensions i although the British mail snhsi ! dies are in no sense subsidies as now proposed. Less than .'1 per ; cent of Kngland s tonnage re ceives this artificial support. France, on the other hand, with libi-ral Inanities is making no progress in shipping. .Notwithstanding thej-e facts of , recort 1, the people of the Fnih'd States are now ashed to bin den themselves with the pa meiit of 9,000.000 a vear for subsides which w ill . o priiuaril v to cut rich a certain few wealthy vciscl imes. As things now stand. Coiiv.iss might as well vote a direct dona tion of M'vernl millions a Near .annually to the operator of those lines. Before ihe Republican members i of Congress vote to commit t heir ! partv to this measure let them 'consider well the comequ nces Winch must ensile u this piece ot dubious legislation proves to be nothing more nor less than a scandalous game of grab. Chi cago Record. When the stomach is tin d out it must have a rest, but we can't live without food, Kc ; sia Cure "digests win Kodol D It VOU eat so that you can eat all the good digests all kinds oi food. liarc& Son, Hood Bros., Benson Drug Co.,J. R. Ledlrtt-r.
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