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VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1001. NO. 35.
BAPTISTS AT MORRISVILLE
State Fair Management
Roasted.
The Association Well Attended
Progress ot Work Gratifying?
To Meet Next Year at Lee's
Chapel.
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We give the following extracts
from the News and Observer's
report of the Baptist, Association I
held at Morrisville last week:
A large crowd of Baptists, rep- j
resenting thechurvhes composing
the Kaleigh Association were in j
?ession at Morrisville last week.
The Association is composed
of fifty-four churches and em
braces most of the Baptist j
churches in Wake and Johnston, j
with one in Nash and two in Har
nett counties.
The session began on Thurs
day morning with a good delega
tion from nearly everv church in
the body. Mr. J. M. Brougliton
was re-elected Moderator, Mr. J.
C. Birdsong Clerk, and Mr. T. W. (
Blake Treasurer.
Rev. A. A. Butler, pastor of
Fayetteville Street Baptist,
church, of Raleigh, preached the
introductory sermon.
Thursday afternoon was occu- >
pied in reading the letters trom
the churches and enrolling the
delegates. The reports showed
among other encouraging feat-!
ures that many of the church
houses had been improved,several
new houses built and nearly1,
000 contributed to State.Missions
with all other objects well cared
for.
Thursday night Rev. J. \\.
Nobles, of Selma, preached to a
large congregation.
Friday morning, after devo
tional exercises, conducted by
Rev. Worley Creech, was occupied
with considering the report of the
executive board and hearing
short addresses from those of the
ministers who had occupied mis
sion points in the association,,
to-wit: Rev. J. W. Nobles, Rev.
I). McLeod, Rev. C. H. Gower,
Rev. A. A. I'ippin, and Rev. Wor
ley Creech. These were followed
by Mr. N. B. Brougliton, ('hair
man of the board, in an address
in behalf of the continuance of
the work.
At the close of the address the
?hurches pledged more liberally
than ever for the support of Asso
?iational Missions.
.Mr. J. S. Allen reported on Re
lief of Old Ministers and raised a
good collection.
In the afternoon Rev. (). L.
Stringfiehl with hisusualearnest
ness and power, spoke in behalf
of the cause of education and for
the century movement to raise
one hundred thousand dollars for
the same.
At night Rev. W. I). Hubbard,!
of the Tabernacle church, Raleigh,
preached a very strong sermon.
Saturday morningthe Associa
tion opened with religious send
ees, conducted bv Rev. (' V.
Brooks, of Holly Springs, after
which Rev.T.Neil Johnson,State
Sunday School Secretary, ad
dressed the body on behalf of a
more thorough study of the
scriptures and a stronger type of
Christian life.
Following this address came
the report on Periodicals and
several short talks were'tnade iti
behalf of the Biblical Recorder
and for other periodicals.
Rev A. A. Butler made the re
port on Temperance and deliv
ered a very stirring address 011
the subject. He was followed by
several of the members who made
pointed remarks, and the State
Fair managers came in for very
severe criticism for permitting,
what were termed the "disgrace
ful, indecent and vulgar side
shows that appeared on the Mid
way." The body, by a rising
vote, declared its opposition to
their conduct and declared that
they would not again patronize
the 'air until it was made clean.
In the afternoon the report on
the Baptist Orphanage was con
sidered. Mr. Stephen Averitt of
the orphanage, and others made
remarks and liberal pledges were
made for its support. ?
Mr. R. N. Simms made a very
able and instructive address on
the growth and progress of the
Baptist denomination and a
strong appeal for the paymentof
the debt on the Baptist Female
University. At the conclusion of
this address a resolution was
adopted authorizing the Execu
tive Board to apportion to the
churches such amount as might
be thought wise to undertake to
raise. Pledges for the support
of ministerial students at college
were also taken.
The subject of Home Missions
was next considered and Rev. C.
E. (lower delivered a strong ap
peal in its behalf.
The association agreed to meet
next year with Lee's Chapel
church in Nash county, near the
Wake and Johnston line, on
Thursday before the first Sunday
in November, Rev. W. 1). Hub
bard to preach the introductory
sermon.
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
Mr. J. M. Broughton spoke on
the Sunday school work. At 11
o'clock Mr. J. W. Bailey, editor
of the Biblical Recorder, spoke on
"What the Baptists of North
Carolina have to be thankful
for," being an address on the
century educational movement.
National Capital Notes.
Mr. Isador Ray nor, chief coun
sel for Schley, closed his argu
rm nt before the court of inquiry
Wednesday, making a most mas
terly effort. At its conclusion he
and Admiral Schley were warmly
congratulated by Admirals
Dewey, Ramsay and Renham.
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The Navy Department has re
ceived cablegrams announcing
the arrival of Rear-Admiral Remy
aboard his flagship, the Brook
lyn, at Yokohama, Japan, and
that of Rear-Admiral Kempff
aboard his flagship, the Ken
tucky, at Woosung, China.
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Lord Pauncetote, the British
Ambassador, called upon Secre
tary Hay, Monday to announce
formally to the Secretary his re
turn from a vacation in England
lasting all summer and his readi
ness to undertake at cnce the
conclusion of the H ay-Pauncefote
treat}*.
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The main report of the naval
board, headed by Rear-Admiral
Taylor, which has prepared plans
for the proposed new naval sta
tion at Olongapo. P. I., shows
that the station will cost this
government $l{),3f>{),500, exclu
sive of the defensive works, signal
station, water supplv, coaling
station, magazines, hospital, en
campment grounds, and a native
village, under the control of the
military authorities, which it is
proposed to provide for the work
men who will be employed regu
larly at the Olongapo dock yard.
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A delegation from the Porto
Kican Chamber of Commerce,
headed by Antonio Balarquida.
called upon the President this
week and submitted some data
in favor of a duty of o cents per
pound on coffee from countries
other than Porto Rico. They
claim that such a protective dutv
is necessary to build up the coffee
industry of the island. 1'he dele
gation has been touring the
I nited States for the purpose of
investigating the industrial con
ditions here. They were accom
panied by Maj. (leorge \V. Fish
back, of Boston.
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At the Schley Court of Inquiry
Monday Admiral Schley and
Capt. C. 1>. Sigsbee, who com
manded the St. Paul during the
war with Spain, were recalled to
make coirections in their testi
mony. Admiral Schley did not
make any material additions to
his previous statements on the
witness stand, but devoted him
self mainly to r earing up am
biguous points in his evidence.
An effort was made to introduce
two new witnesses in Admiral
S -hlev's behalf. Both were news
paper correspondents who were
on dutv in Cuba daring the war
with Spain. The court decided
that their evidence would not be
admissible. All the testimony
being in. argument wasl>egun on
behalf of the government bv Mr.
E. 1'. llanna, assistant to Judge
Advocate Lemly.
STATE NEWS.
Short Items ot Interest Clipped and
Culled From Our State
Exchanges.
Three divorces were granted in
Wake Superior Court Monday.
The handsome residence of
j Judge Council at Boone was
burned Sunday.
Nine alleged counterfeiters are
in j.iil at Raleigh to be tried at
the December term of Federal
J Court.
The depot buildings of the
Southern Railway at Gibbons
ville, were burned Thursday
morning.
The Rocky Mount Spokesman
says that the Methodist Protest
ants will build a $3,500 church
in that place.
The census of 1900 gave Eliza
beth City a population of 0,078.
The publishers of the new direc
tory put the population at 8,
400.
Red Springs Record: Robert
Moore killed 29 squirrels and' 5
ducks at 34 shots, missing only
three times; killed the five ducks
I at three shots, averaging a squir
rel or duck at every shot.
lhe Wilson I lines says that
Mr. T. J. Hadley has (riven $10
for a rural library in Gardner's
township. The idea is growing
and is commending itself to men
of public spirit everywhere.
Mack Harris, a 14-year old
mulatto boy, was run over by a
train at Hamlet Tuesday night,
while stealing a ride. He fell
under the wheels and both legs
were mangled, causing his death |
Tuesday night.
Newton Enterprise: The town
is full of mountain wagons this
week, loaded with cabbage, ap
ples and chestnuts. We learn
that the apple and cabbage crops
in the mountains are very small,
but that the chestnut crop is the
best for several years.
Chapel Hill News: We learn that i
i a young white man, not many \
miles away from Chapel Hill, fell |
in love with a colored lady and
went to Hillsboro the other day
to purchase license to marry her.
The Register of Deeds refused him
license on account of the girl he
was to wed being a negro. The
young man determined not to tie
outdone, swore that he was a
negro, got license, and will tie
married this week. The young
man's parents pass for respecta- j
ble white people
At r ayetteville, at 10:1.? fiat-1
urday morning, Louis Council, a
negro, convicted of committing
rape on a young white woman,:
Mrs. James West, in Cumberland
| county, was hanged. On the
scaffold Council was asked if he
was guilty. He replied: "Before
i God and man, I am innocent,"
and the priest, taking the cross
from Council's hand, declared
him innocent. When the trap
was sprung the rope broke and
j the negro's body fell to the floor.
Another rope was secured and the
prisoner coolly walked on the
scaffold and again the trap was
sprun. In a few minutes he was
dead. The woman he assaulted
always declared he was the man.
At Wilson Saturday Mr. Geo
Gay, until the day before clerk in
the saloon of Mr. W. A. A.vcock.
shot and killed Ins employer, i
There had been trouble between
them over the accounts of the
cash register, and because of this
Gay was discharged. Reentered
the saloon about noon. Mr.
Aycock was on his knees getting
some money from his safe for
contractor Killem, who was
standing near. Gay said: "You
have treated me like a damned
scoundrel" and Hred. instantly
killing Aycock. Gaythen turned
the pistol on himself and fired, the
ball strikingin the left breast but
made only a flesh wound. A j
coroner's jury was quickly em
paneled, and the verdict charged
Gay with murder. Gay was taken
to jail where his wound was
dressed. The deceased is a son i
of Jesse Aycock, of Wavneeonntv. j
The feeling among his friends is
said to be very intense against
Gay.
A tobacco stemmery at La
Grange, was burned Tuesday
night, including about 100,000
pounds of tobacco. The loss
foots up about $10,000, partly
covered by insurance.
W hile a crowd of negroes were
playing poter in the woods near
Goldsboro, Saturday night,death
entered and claimed Charlie Ben
nett. The negroes were much ex
ited and stopped playing cards.
Assistant State Librarian Mar
shal lie Lancey Haywood, will
soon publish a life of Governor
William Tryon, and a history of
his administration in the prov
ince of North Carolina, 1705
1771.
Kaleigh Cor. Messenger: The
sheriff of this county is a farmer,
an observant one. He says that
he finds that more mowing ma
chines have been sold here this
year than in the ten years previ
vous. The buyers are using them
largely to cut grass for persons
in their neighborhood. In this
way he says the hay crop will be
a very large one here.
Salisbury Sun: It may be grat
ifying to the Daughters of the
Confederacy of North Carolina to
know that in the subscriptions
and amounts paid in for the Jef
ferson Davis monument, that
North Carolina stands second in
the list of States, the amount
being nearly $1,000. The full
amount held by the treasurer of
the Davis monument fund is
$8,700.
PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION.
November 28th Set Apart as a Day
tor Thanksgiving.
President Roosevelt Saturday
issued his proclamation fixing
Thursday, November 28, as a day
of national Thanksgiving. It
follows:
"A PROCLAMATION.
"The season is nigh when, ac
cording to the time-hallo wed cus
tom of our people, the President
appoints a day as the especial
occasion for praise and thanks
giving to God.
"This Thanksgiving finds the
people sf ill bowed with sorrow for
the death of a great and good
President. We mourn President
McKinley because we sol ivedand
honored him; and the mariner of
his death should awaken in the
breasts of our people a keen anx
iety for the country, and at the
same time a resolute purpose not
to be driven by any calamity
from the path of strong, orderly,
popular liberty which as anation
we have thus far sa e.y trod.
"Yet in spite 01 tins great dis
aster, it is nevertheless true that
110 people on earth have such
abundant cause for Thanksgiving
as we have. We have prospered
in things material and have been
able to work tor our own uplift
ing in things intellectual and
spiritual. Let u? remember that,
as much has been given us, much
will be expected of us; and that
t rue homage comes fro in t he hea rt
as well as from the lips and shows
itself in deeds. We can best show
our thankfulness to the Almighty
by the way in which on this earth
and at this time each of us does
his duty to his fellow-men.
"Now, therefore, 1, Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States, do hereby designate as a
day of general thanksgiving,
Thursday, the 28th of this pres
ent November, and do recom
mend that throughout the land
the people cease from their wonted
occupations, and at their several
homes and places of worship
reverently thank the (liver of all
good for the countless blessings
of our national life.
"In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
thesealof the United Stattsto
be affixed.
"Ilone at the city ol Washing
ton this 2nd day of November, in
theyearof our Lo;d one thou
sand nine hundred and one and
of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and t weu
tv-sixth.
"Tiieodokk Roo'skvki.t.
"By the President:
"John Hay,
"Secretary of State."
GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the Week's Hap
penings Throughout the
Country.
One day last week, in Portland,
Me., a marriage license was taken
out by Josiah II. Tilton, aged
80, to wed Caroline (iriswold, j
aged 82.
The Consolidated Liquid Air;
Company has been chartered by
; the 8tate of New York, with a I
! capital of $ 1,000,000. Marion
j Butler isoneof the incorporators, j
Fire Monday night destroyed j
, two large adjoining grain eleva- [
I tors owned by the Botsford Ele-;
j vator Company at Port Huron,
Mich., entailing a loss of $.'100,-1
000.
A negro was burned at the
| stake in Perry county, Miss., j
[Saturday night for criminal as-1
i sault on Mrs. Fortenberry, the;
! wife of a prominent citizen. The j
| negro confessed his crime.
Four men were arrested in New
| Orleans Saturday, charged with
j being confidence men. Monday j
! the police received information
to the effect that the men are the
Wagner, Mont., train robbers.
The President has appointed
John W. Riddle, of Minnesota, to ;
be Secretary of the United Statesj
embassy at St. Petersburg. Mr,
I Riddle was formerly secretary of
! the United States legation at
Constantinople.
A fog such as Great Britain
had not experienced for years
enveloped London and half of the
I United Kingdom Monday, block
! ading shipping, deranging rail
, ways and throwing business in
London, Birmingham and other
provincial cities into confusion.
President Roosevelt has ac
cepted the invitation of the South
! Carolina inter-State and West
Indian Exposition to attend the
exposition on Wednesday, Feb
| ruary 12th, Lincoln's birthday,
1 and preparations will be made to
j celebrate the event with the most
iu.posing ceremonies.
Monday afternoon a man
I named Lanscombe entered the1
Kennington branch of the Lon
don and Southwestern Bank at I
London, and shot the cashier |
dead, lie then called upon the
clerks to deliver the contents of!
: the till. A clerk grappled with j
the robber, who, finding that
' escape was impossible, shot him
j self. Another clerk was wounded
in the struggle.
Rev. Jeremian J. Crowley has
entered suit in the Superior Court
at Chicago for $50,000 against
the Rev. Francis J. Carry, chan
cellor of the Catholic arch-diocese
of Chicago. The suit is the out
growth of Father Crowley's re
cent excommunication and expul
sion from the church following
charges which he made against
Father Muldoon, then about to
be consecrated as a bishop.
Two machinists working in the
Southern Railway shops at Co
lumbia, S. C.,?Walter Hinder and
William Seaver?were shot m
their house some time after mid
night Sunday night by a party of
men. Seaver was killed instantly
and Hinder desperately wounded.
According to the antemortem
statement of Hinder, the attack
ing men were former strikers, who
were bent upon killing the
"scabs." Harry Jones and Ar
thur McCraney have been arrest
ed. More arrests will follow.
the Governor's Proclamation.
Tuesday Governor Aycock is
sued the following Thanksgiving
proclamation:
State of North Carolina.
Executive Department.
God reigns at all times and
everywhere. He is our comfort
111 every hour of sorrow and our
I strength in every day of weak
j ness. in this year the nation was
i startled by the death of its I'res
! ident at the handsof an assassin.
He has given us strength to eon
| tinne our form of government.
, without friction or danger, and
has thereby in ide it incumbent
upon us to turn towards Hint iu
hours of trial, ami those who
turn to Him alwnys find strength.
11 is lusnlful, t herefore, and proper
that we should set aside at least
one day in the year in which to
express our gratitude to Him for
past favors and invoke His aid
for the future.
I, Charles 1$. Aycock, Governor
of the State of North Carolina,
therefore issue this my proclama
tion, settiet; apart Thursday,
November 28th inst., as a day of
Thankspving and Prayer, upon
which day I urge all people to
meet in their respective places of
worship and there thank God for
the manifold mercies which He
has shown to us individually and
as a people, and to ask for His
protection and guidance in the
future. I earnestly recommend
that on this day all our people
shall give as God has prospered
unto those who are needy, par
ticularly the widows aud or
phans.
Done at our city of Raleigh,
this the 5th day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thou
sand nine hundred aud one, and
the one hundred and twenty-sixth
year of oui American Independ
ence. Chakl.es B. Aycock.
By the Governor:
P. M. Pkarhall,
Private Secretary.
WORK OF LIGHTHOUSE SERVILE.
Wireless Telegraphy is Wanted tor
Ihe Establishment.
The annual report of the United
States Lighthouse Board shows
that at the end of the fiscal year
there were under the control of
the lighthouse establishment the
following aids to navigation:
Lighthouses and beacon lights,
1,306; light vessels in position,
4.1; light vessels for relief, 8; elec
tric-lighted buoys in posit ion, 11;
gas-lighted buoys in position, 01;
fog signals operated by steam,
caloric or oil engines, 179; fog
signals operated by clockwork,
222; post lights, 1,827; day or
unlignted beacons, 712; whistling
buoys in position, 77; bell buoys
in position, 122; other buoys in
position, including pile buoys and
stakes in Fifth district and buoys
in Alaskan waters, 4,780.
In the construction, care and
maintenanceof these aids of navi
gation there weie employed:
Steam tenders, 34; steam launch
es, 11; sailing tenders, 2; light
keepers, 1,420; other employes,
including crews of lightships and
tenders, 1,428; laborers in charge
of post lights. 1,174.
The board asks for an appro
priation of $90,000 to recon
struct a buoyage system and man
the lighthouses of Porto Rico,
and $21,000 for the maintenance
of the Hawaiian system. The
board also asks for other appro
priations as follows:
rsuppnes lor ngnthouses, $oU2,
i88(5; improvements at light
houses, $760,000; salaries of
lightkeepers, fuel, rent,etc., $888,
000; expenses of 1 i?iht vessels,
$.~?2."i,()00; ex penses of fog signals,
$190,000; .lighting of rivers,
$880,000. Authority to con
struct five new light vessels and
several new light tenders also is
asked.
The report says that while the
board does not propose either to
gather or disseminate marine
news, it is desirous, in the inter
ests of commerce and navigation
as well as of economy, to be put
in early and quick communication
with its outlying light vessels
and lighthouses, and it is forth s
purpose alone that it asks an ap
propriation to enable it to install
a wireless system of leleg- ? 1 y
between such points in the n^ui
house establishment as shall seem
to be most necessary.?Washing
ton Dispatch.
Short $200,000.
I'p to this time last year there
had been paid out in lialeigh
$25)0,090 for cotton sold on the
streets. I'p to this tin e this year
there has been paid out in Ral
eigh 899,000 for cotton sold on
the streets. Raleigh is therefore1
short $290,000 from the cotton
sales This means of ??our**, a
lack of money in circu'a ion
among the farmers, mere! ;uits
and all others,a d tells ttie- orv
of the seven1 loss that is imo veil
in the very short cotton crop.?
Raleigh News aiid Observer.