ISjje pmitljfielii McniliX price one dollar per year. ''TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COTNTRY AND OUR OOD. single copies three cents VOL. 20. SMITH FIELD, N. O., FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1902. NO. 46. STATE NEWS. Short Items ot Interest Clipped and Culled From Our State Exchanges. The school fund apportion ment in Durham county amounts to $8 per capita. for the west, or parts of it. Gran ville and Warren, say they need no money, as t heir schools are open nt arly 5 months now. Dr. 11. *\. Lewis, of the State board of health, says smallpox is prevailing in Sampson county, and that 22 cases are officially reported. Mr. Thomas J. Pence, a wel' known Raleigh newspaper man and a good one, has gone to Washington to become Washing ton correspondent of the Raleigh I'ost and other papers. It is reported that Senator Pritcnard will recommend Mr John Burton as postmaster at Weld on. The office, which is now held by a negro, pays $1,500. Mr. Burton was a gold Uerno . crat. On Saturday State Treasurer B. R. Lacy issued a statement showing that the State receipts from taxes last year were $1, 7-14,(350 50,theexpenditures $1, 090,872.50, the surplus being $58,78(3 (3(3. Cape Fear Daughters of the Confederacy, of Wilmington, on Saturday adopted resolutions en dorsing the action of the Ken tucky Daughters of tiie Confeder acy in protesting against "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Grand Secretary H. II. Wood ell says the growth of the Odd Fellows in North Carolina is phe nomenal. There are now 8,000 members, a gain of 100 per cent, in the past three years. The re ceipts for the year will very close ly approximate $11,500. Some cf the counties are mark ing very heavy demands on the State for funds to keep all their public schools open -1 months in the year. Rutherford today called for no less than $3,599. 99, and Ashe for $3,412.84 This is certainly a bad showing The board of alderman of Rox boro, Person county, have adopted an ordinance which pro vides that no children under 10 years of age will be allowed to loaf or loiter on the streets after 8 o'clock at night. Any one un der this age found on the streets after the hour named will be ar rested and fined The chief of police has been instructed to rig idly enforce the ordinance. Mr. Elbert Philips and son, of Pamlico county, went to New York some days ago to interview some green goods men They had the interview and surrender ed $(>00 in good cash for what they supposed was several thous and dollars of money good j enough to pass on North Caroli na folks. When they got home they found they had a pile of pa per with a $10 bill on the out side. Itj the murder trial of Parish at Fayetteville last week Judge Robinson sent the jury out and told counsel that he thought the case vis clearly one of self de fense, so i verdict of not guilty was ordered Judge R ibinson also apologized to Major Shaw for the way he treated him the other day, causing the latter to abandon his case. Major Shaw accepted the other's advatces and the matter was settled with satisfaction to both. " Tha State Superintendent of Public Instruction decides that a term of the public schools must be continuous, unless an epidem ic renders it necessary to close the school. In Transylvania county the board made such an onler. A teacher closed his school three weeks so hi? pupils could "pull fodder.'' ami then taught three weeks after thetime prescribed for the school to close. The superintendent refused to pay him for that three weeks. The board sustained the superin tendent, and now the State su perintendent Sustains the board, j J L. Wright, ail employee of the Krwin Ootton mills, in West 1> aharn, met with a most hor rible death shortly before 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. He was at work in thecarding room, and just as the mills started up for the afternoon, attempted to put on a belt. He was caught in some machinery and whirled about in a frightful manner. One ot his legs was torn from his body, and a portion of the en trails were scattered upon the floor. Heath was al post instan taneous. A romantic marriage occurred at Rutherford ton Thursday af ternoon. About five years ago Miss Jennie lliggins saw in a matrimonial publication a no tice in which J. W. Harris, of Fort Worth, Texas, was adver tising for a wife. She answered the advertisement and a correspondence then began and has been kept up ever sin -e. About a week ago Mr. Harris ar rived at the Higgins residence and has been a guest, there since. The ceremony was p. i f irtned Thursday afternoon by Rev. J. R. <'arp'iiter, and the young couple left at once for Fort Worth, where they will make their home. Sadden Death ot J. J. Johnson. A sudden death Friday after noon about R o'clock was the painless end of the life of Mr Jo.siah J. Johnson. i l i. . l l. ... . - - if ? ? - - -- 11e uiiu ueeu asmieyerior years from rheumatism and was also afflicted with paralysis, but there was no idea of any immediate danger, and it was with startled surprise that friends and ac quaintances heard of his death. Mr. Johnson was horn in John ston county in 11SJ2 and was GO years old. He came to Raleigh in 1S72 and went in business with his brother-in-law, Mr. J. VV. Barber. This copartnership ex isted until 1803, when it was dis solved. Since that time Mr. John son has been in business for him self, until sometime ago, when he retired altogether on account of: ill health. He was diligent and faithful in his business and proved most successful in life. His wife was MissLinaCousirts, of Danville, Ya., anil she survives him. He leaves two children Mr. Charles C. Johnson, Superinten dent of the Raleigh Klectric Coin oanv, and Mrs. C. Beauregard Roland, both of this city. His son, Jos. J. Johnson, Jr., died here last summer, a young wife surviving him. Mr. Johnson was a member of Company C., Fifty-third North Carolina regiment, of which Mr J. C.Richardson, of Johnston; county, was captain. Mr. .John son was corporal, and served during the em ire war. Speaking yesterday of Mr. Johnson a a soldier, Capt. Richardson said: '?He was an excellent soldier, well liked by his comrades in arms." He surrendered at Appomattox C. H , with seventeen others."? News and Observer. Gam in Value ot Real and Personal Properly in the State. ? the State Auditor's report was finished yesterday, showing the valuations of real and personal pro pi rry in the State, and the amount of taxation thereon, at the rate of 21 2-.~>c. on 8100. The report shows a gain in the tot.il value of real estate of #1, 400,3.0-1; and a gain of $7,177. 700 in the personal property v tluution. Thet.otnlgain is $8, 778, 1 44. There are 27,570.793 acres of land in the State, 104,810 acres of mineral and quarry iands, and 83.101 town lots. The total valuation of real estate is $07, 308,032, ..ml the total tax $362, 032 04. The total valution of personal property is$5)4,081,247 and the total tax 8203 812 70. Thus the total valuation of Teal and personal property is $261, 44!),87o, and the total tax on real and personal property is 8.700,474.74.?News and Obser ver. A new millingcombinehas lieen formed at Philadelphia whose plants will have a capacity of 18,000 barrels a day. W AS HI IS G TON LETTER. Ue^ular Correaponlenco. Washington, Jan. 21, 11)02. The most adroit leadership in both the Senate and the House Ims alone prevented the develop ment of serious factional disturb ances in Republican ranks during the week just passed and it is only a question of time when thev will break out in a violent form on the floors of those bodies. It is difficult for one not actually on the scene to appreciate to what an extent the House of Repre sentatives has ceased to be a deliberate body. For a time the Republican members felt them selves repaid for their loss of power by the example of perfect discipline which they set to the country but, now that they are in so great a majority as to be lieve themselves relieved from the danger of Democratic aggres sions, they are longing for the birthright which they bartered. Smarting with a sense of their loss of influence the represeiita lives are humiliated by the arro gance of certain senators who to-d.iv openly say tljat the atti tude of the House tow irds any of the importantquestions win h Congress must answer is of no importance as thehenafecauaud will rectify the errors of the "im pulsive and irresponsible" lower body, Senator Cullom is today preparing a speech in support of ins contention that the House has no right to be heard in the matter of reciprocal treaties' w lich are, the Senator alleges, a matter for the Senate and the President alone to consider. In view of the very important sub ject of reciprocity with Cuba which must soon be determined ; the position of the senior Senator from Illinois and a larger number of his colleagues is particularly exasperating. There is no mistaking the in tent of the Dingley bill which says that such treaties must be approved "by Congress," but Senators Cullom, Lodge, Spooner, I 'rye, 11 anna and others hold to the opinion that, according to j the Constitution, the President! and the Senate "aloneconstitute; the treaty making power." Sena tor Lodge modifies his opinion somewhat, however, by saying that he believes tliat it would be courtesy to consult the House because any reciprocal treaty affects the question of raising revenue. The Philippine tariff hill will be reported to the Senate to-day or \ to morrow and it is predicted that the debate 011 its provisions will last for a month. Senator, Lodge professes to believe that it will be eventually passed as reported but there are members of his own party who greatly differ from him and who say that it will have to be referred back to i i lie committee. Prominent among, these is Senator Mitchell of Oregon. After the bill gets through the Senate it will have to pa?s tii" House and it t tie Sen ate perBints in its determination to exclude that body from a voice in the Cuban reciprocity affair there is every possibility that Mr. Payne, chairm in of the Ways and MeansC >mmittee, and his colleagues will treat the meas ure with little consideration, ns thev b dieve that. Senator Lodge, in hiscapucity of chnuipiotiof th administration, will be thus brought to terms and will be forced to oppose the Senate For eign Relations Commit'ee in order to relieve Secretary Hoot from his present embarrassing posi tion The Isthmian Canal, while by no means a partisan question, is capable of causing trouble that may develop along partisan lines Senator Morgan, who is as firmly committed to the Xicarnguan route as ever,called at?tbe White House recently and came awav seriously dissatisfied with file re sult of his interview with the President. He is also much dis turb* d at Senator Hanna's ap parent disaffection in favor of the Parien route. This route would require the construction of a tunnel five miles long, through a solid granite mountain nnd the Senator from Alabama considers ! it kicking in feasibility au<) it< agitation merely i" attempt to delay canal legislation. The Senate Committee on Com merce ha* authorized a favorable report on the Hanna-c'r.ye ship subsidy bill by a strict purtv vote every Democrat on the com mittee voting against it. Semi tor Fri e makes the most extrava gant claims for the bill and in the main his colleagues are obliged to take his word in the m itter as there is probably no other man in the Senate ivtio can tell just how the bill will work when put in practice It now seems proba ble that the bill will pass the Senate under pressure of the party lash but it is very doubtful if it can get through the House Kvery Democrat, in tile House will vote against it and there are said to be a tin uher of Republi cans who regard a vote tor t he bill as political suicide. " l'lie anarchy bills Are going to make trouble in the House," said a democratic meuib u- from New York, when I asked him why Con gress was doing nothing in a matter on which ail the members seetned U> bo much of one mind " There is little difference in the minds of the in .miners as to the necessity of p issing a bill to pre vent anarchists coming into the country but there is great jenl ousy in the committees in regard to the matter. General Siiattuc. chairman of the Committee on Immigration, does not consider that t he.I udiciary Committee has t'Vu? l-io-ht to titiw.atui :inv h.d.kih-p which deals with immigration The members of the Judiciary Committee themselves are jealous of chairman Ray because they think he desires) to arrogate to himself too large a share of the glory that will pertain to the authorship of the bill that finally passes. As to the Democrats, they are not involved except in so far as they may be called upon to protest against any measure which violates State rights." The Committee on Resolutions of the Democratic House caucus, held a meeting on Friday after noon and, while no definite policy was determiind upon, the mem bers arrived at a very close est i inate of the policy which it would recommend at the next meeting of the caucus. It was deemed in advisable to commit the party at tins early date to a definite policy on the majority of the questions with which Congress will have to deal. There is no necessity for so doing and by merely preserv ing a solid front and opposingall that is pernicious in the legisla tion the majority attempts to enact Mr. Richardsonancj his col leagues believe they will be in a better position to announce their pol ey to the country later on. Important to Confederate Veterans and Their bnends. Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of '? Regi mental Histories of North Caro lina" have been issued and volume 4 is pri ited and nearly ready. These volumes can be had at $1 each, from the State Librarian. Volume 5 is printed also, except "corrections" and the "index," which will delay its issue till March 1st. As the first requisite is accuracy and truthfulness all who may discover any errors and omissions in the work are earn estly reqneste 1 to send correc tions to "Editor (leg-mental His tories." Raleigh, X.C , by the 15th of February. Those whofnilel to get the photos of their friends in previous volumes can have them placed invitfume 5 by send ing them to Mnj. 0. L. 1'atton, University Publishing Company. New York City, by the 15 h of February, 15)02. The photos must have b -en taken "during the war or not long after" and must be accompanied hv money order for $2 50, as the State does not pay for engravings.. No line is drawu at rink. Photos will tie returned by Major Patton to senders. This is the last oppor tunity for rorrvet ions or photos ?News and Observer. At San Francisco Governor General W. 11. Taft declared there had lieim no clash between him self and General Chaffee at Ma | nila. GENERAL NEWS. 4 Partial List of the Week's Hap penings Throughout the Country. An engine boiler of the Hock Island railroad blew up ut Victor, Iowa, Saturday, instantly killing engineer and tireman. Dispatches announce that Miss Stone is alive and well and that negotiations are expected to result in her early release. The ("aii-ago Sanitary Hoard hopes to induce Admiral Schley to give a reproduction of the hat tie of Santiago on the drainage canal. Admiral Schley killed his first deer in a hating trip near Savan nah. ( 1. as against 2!>0 in this week last year. Canadian failures for hist week numb *r do, as against ot) in this week a year ago. .lonn I'. Milliken, of St. Louis, brother-in-law of Albert T. l'at rirk. on trial for murder in New York, states that the Kice heirs off Ted him $250,000 to compro mise the will of theTexas million aire. Four four-story brick buildingt in the heart of the wholesale district of Detroit, Mich., col lapsed Sunday night without am apparent cause, entailing a loss b of $125,500 to wholesale firms and $59,000 011 the buildings. Marconi says he will be sending wireless messages across the Atlantic as a regular thinginside of a year, and that he has dis- ' covered a way to prevent them from being caught by those for whom they are not intended. Governor Shaw, of Iowa, 011 retiring from office made public the names of 47.'5 prisoners to whom he had extended executive clemency within the last two years. His record in this respect is said to have never been equaled in Iowa. Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher, while flourishing a, large hatchet which she received Saturday as a present from an Eastern manufacturing firm, dropped it and the keen edge of the instrument severed the large toe of her right foot. Two freight trains met in a head-end collision on the Balti more & Ohio Uailroad, six miles north of I'arkersburg.W. Ya.. Sunday, killing the engineer and fireman of one train and injuring the brakemen on each train. Two cars Were piled up and both engines were almost demolished. Orders were issued Saturday involving an extensive movement of trooos between tile United i States and the Philippines, troops to the number of about 5,2-'l-'i, stationed in the 1'nited States, are ordered to service in the Philippines to replace troop* coining home. A dispatch from Barcelona. Spain, says the explosion of a boiler of a spinning mill near Manresa, last Saturday, d<*stroy ed half the village of Puente de Vilumara. The hospital at Manresa is filled w ith the injured. Sixteen mutilated bodiesot work ing people buried in the debris have been recovered. These in clude the manager of the spin ning mill and his two sisters. Of the persons injured 80 are ? xpee er. It. H. I a? wis , Dr. W. I. Roys- ? ?. A. W. Knox, Dr. K P. i.aitie, -I r., and other experts who will be chosen by-the executive com mittee. Mr. Grover ?Cleveland is out again after several weeks' con finement to his room, lie left his home this week to take his annual ?luck hunt in the south. New Ceniury Comrert. 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