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PEACE ON EABTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN.
VOL. I.
WADESBORO , N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1895.
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ELECTION OF SENATORS.
Topeka, Kansas. Lucien ' Baker
has received the Republican caucus
nomination for U.'.S. Senator, which
is equivalent to an election.
Senator J, N. Dolph has been re
elected :y the Oregon legislature.
- Senatar Geo. O. Perkins has been
re-elect d by the California, legislature.
The Texas Legislature "elected ilor
ace Chilton, Democrat, to succeed
Iliehard Coke as United States Senator
Marion' Butler, Populist, was elected
by the North Carolina Legislature to
succeed Matt W. Ransom, Democrat,
as United States Senator. Jeter C.
Pritchard, Republican was elected for
the short term to succeed Thos. J. Jar
vis, Democrat, who was appointed by
Governor Carr to till out Senator
Vance's term.
The Ncweasey Legislature elected .
Wm. . J. Sewtoll, Republican, to -the
. United States Senate.
Senator Pcttigrew, Republican, has
been re-elected from South Dakota.
Cheyennee, Wyo. -Francis E. War
ren and Clarence D.. Clark, Republican,
were the choice of the Legislature for
.'.United States Abators. Warren will
Berve the long term.
St. Paul, Minn. Gov. Knnte
wm was elected U. S. Senator
Nel
over Aynshburn, present -incumbent.
. Senator Shelby M. C nil o in has been
declared his own KncceHsor by the Illi
nois legislature. ;
Nashville Tknn. The Legislature
ilee'tad Hon. Ishain G. Harris, Demo
crnt, to succeed himself in the .United
States Senate. Tbe vote stood: Har
ris, 70, Sanford, Republican, ; Mills,
Populist, i). -
Ex-Sec. of War Elkins, was elected H
U. S. Senator by the W. Va. Legisla
ture to succeed Senator Camden, Dem
ocrat. L.I3T OF PATENTS
Granted to Southern inventors last
week. Reported by C. A. Snow &
Co., solicitors of American and for
eign patents, , opposite U.S. Patent Of
fice, Washington, D. C '
D. Acostafj?Tvey West, Fla.,- device
for bundling' cigars.
W. H. Curtice; Eminence, Ky, churn.
' E, M. . Halir. .Haiti more, Md. , beer
V, ij. xeuLiitii, vttiiisie, xv V . , de
tachable .pad- for breast straps.
J. T. MeColgan, j'Nashville Tenn.,
newspaper wrapping machine.
C. G . Moreiiien, Brandenburg, Ky.,
apparatus for cleaning cisterns
. O. F. Mulhaupt, Shreeport, La.,
transplanter. ?V ''
M. N. Packyrd, Baltimore, Md.;
hair pin. ' ,
T. Possiu,T.voanpke, Va,,. extension
ladder. -. . . ,
E. R. Shoemaker, Clarksville, Tenn.
- lamp stand. , .' . ; --.3.f: r
J. A. Wi'ggs, JrV, Birrningham, Ala ,
cutting c.haiu for'mjning machines.,
II. WilsoiJouisviile Ky., electric
elevator and motor controller . 1 ''
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FIRE
IS A COLUMBIA- COLLEGE
The Female College There Damaged
ami thc.G.irlSjQuartered Out Among
' .... Citizens.
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CoiiUMBiA, S. C. The Columbia Fe
male College building, one of the oldest
and most thoroughly equipped college
v structures in South Carolina, was dis
covered .to be on fire Friday morning.
The building was damaged to the
amount of $5,000. The fire originated
in the roof over the fourth floor dor
mitory of the western wing and was dif
ficult for firemen jto get at. It is sup-4
posted to have been caused by a defect
ive flue and to have been burning dur
ing the night. It had great- headway
when discovered.
The young ladies, over 100 of them,
were at "morning study" in the chap
el. When the alarm was sounded there
was contcrnation,'but the girls were not
panicky . . Many of them lost all of their
wardrobe,' jewels, watches and other
eflects." ..hey were all gotten out of
the structure and the citizens hastened
to throw open their homes to them.
They are all quartered in private resi-;
deuces in Columbia. The firemen
fought the flames for two hours and a
half before they extinguished- the fire.
.The buildiding was insured for $27,000
and the furniture for 2,500.
Uloped Wltlva Twelve-Year-Old Child.
Beaufokt, N. C. Cn Saturday
night little Tcna, the 12-year-old
daughter of Jnp. , W. Sewell, eloped
w ith Henry Martin, of Pamlico county.
- Mr . Martin had asked, for the hand of
. the child in marriage, but she was so
young the' parents would not listen , to
him and told him to wait till she. was
older,but he did not care to wait.;-;
Mr. Sewell was conducting ' the' ser
vicesat the Free Will Baptist church
on Saturday night, and during prayer
Mr. Martin slipped the child out and
went to Harlowe, where ;they were
-married by John S. Morton, Esq. Mr.
Martin came to town Sunday to bring
the horse but left his bride at his
brother's in Craven county. The af
fair created quite an exeiiement and
Mr. h'ewejl was . very indignant over
the matter.
' The business men of Durham, N. 6.,
. are taking 6teps to induce Northern
capitalists to come to that sectioa
WORK OF CONFERENCE
RINGING AprORESSi ISSUED
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
BY
An Invitation for All .
Unite and' Rescue
From the Control
Time to Act.
Good Citizens ' to
the . Government
of Monopolies
The People's party conference called
to meet in St. Louis pec. 28 and 29,
was well, attended. The call for a
meeting of the national committee in
cluded an uvitation to members of the
Reform Press and others who felt dis
posed to confer with the committee.
jWhen the meeting was called to order
(by Chairman- Taubeneck about 300
Populists were assembled to take part
ia the proceedings. , The result of the.
meeting was the, issuing! of an address
setting forth the situation and urging
the necessity pi keeping! up the fight
Wgainst the encroachments of organized
(monopolies, The following, is a full
Itext of the address:
! ' ,"The national committee of the
jPeople's party sends greetings to its
constituency - throughout the United
States: ' - .-'. ,
, ' 'The rapid , increase of our vote in
iingvents of the past two years vivid
ly justify both the existence and neces
sity for the People's party. The con
tention of the party, that one of the
great needs of. the .country has been
and is an enlarged volume of circulat.
ing medium, is ,now practically con
ceded by all parties, and by the gov
ernment. . The gold power and bank
ing interesls are insisting through the
President and his ' secretary of the
treasury that the enlarged issue of our
currency supply shall be given- -exclusively
into thevhaiids of the banks;
that silver shall be excluded, all treas
ury notes retired and that gold alone
shall be the legal tender thus making
the monetary question an issue which
must be met at once.
. "Within-the present year, the cor
porations, grown arrogant because of
the vast possessions of wealth and the
exercise of unconstitutional powers,
havfr made war upon the people, and
induced the federal courts to exercise
in their interests' unusual and arbitrary
powers, induced the invasion of the
states by federal troops, without the
request of either of the ' executives of
said state's, or the legislatures thereof,
aqd are at 'this time, through a re
creant administration and a truculent
congre'ss, attempting to clothe the rail
road corporations by means of a pool
ing bill 'With power to ; further and
more systematically robj oppress and
plunder the people; and having, already
deprived the people of access to the
silver mines of the country as an in
dependent source of money supply,are
now,: in the interest of a banking
oligarchy, endeavoring to deprive
them of the right to have their gov
ernment, in the; exercise of its con
stitutional power, to issue the money
of the nation and control its volume.
"In.the opinion of your committee
these, events are startling1, subversive
of the liberties of the citizen, and de
struct! ve of business arid social se
curity; and adhering to j the Omaha
platform in all its i integrity, your corri-;
mittee insists jiritthe restoration of
the coinage of. gold and silver as it ex
isted prior to' 1873 at the rate of 16 to
1 without regard to the action of any
other nation, and that all ; paper money
shall be issued by the general govern
ment, without . the intervention of
banks of. Issue the same 1 to be' full
. legal Wdeiv:-- Xf0W
We also declare our imnlaek Iqos-.
tility to the further issue, of interest-"
bearing .boad R- , H '
p - We denounce the pooling tts a
move toward completing the inoply
of transportation,' and demand that in
stead , congress proceed to bring the
the railroads tinder the: government
ownership. , t i .r v j ' , h
; "The power given congress by , the
constitution tb Jprovide j for calling
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forth the militia to execute the laws of
the- Union, to surppress insurrections,
to repel invasions, does ! not warrant
the government in making use of a
standing army in aiding monopolies in
the oppression of the public and their
employes. When free men' unsheath
the sword, it should be to strike for
liberty, not for despotism or to uphold
privileged monopolies in the oppression
of the poor. , .
"We ask the people to forget all past
political differences and unite with us
in the common purpose to r'escue the
government from the control of mon
opolists and concentrated wealth, to
limit the powers of perpetuation by
curtailing their privileges, and to se
cure the rights of free . speech, a free
press arid trial by jury all rules, reg
ulations and judicial dictatin deroga
tion of either of the which are arbi
trary,, unconstitional and not to be
tolerated by free people.
We! recommend the immediate or
ganization of an educational cam
paign by the national, state and local
committees." -; .
POPULAR CRANKS.
A Partial list of Prominent Persons Who
Attended the St. Louis
Taubenck called,! the
Conference.
meetinsr to
Jackj Turner was there to preserve a
record jof the proceedings.
The tall form and familiar face of
J. H. McDowell was also present
where Ithe most good could be done.
Geri. j Coxey was present with his
plan f qr good roads, ; and as there was
no grass to walk on he was not as-saulted-
. Carl ij Browne, the invincible, and
eminent cartoonist, was there to assist
in the good work.
M. C Rankin,, treasurer of the na
tional jcommittee, was also on hand
to aid n the good work.
S. If. Snyder, insurance commis
sioner jof Kansas, was shaking hands
with tlie boys.
Bob ! Schilling, the popular Mil
waukee Populist the man who makes
speeches in two or three different
languages took a prominent part in
the proceedings. '
O. Di Jones cf Missouri, author and
oratori was in the thickest of the
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fisrht.
f A. Rbzelle, chairman of the Missouri
state committee and editor of the In
dependent, was a conspicuous figure,
among: those present.
Gen. Paul Van Dervoort, ex-commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army
and commander-in-chief of the Indus
trial Eegion, came all the way from
Omaha; to help do the work of the con-
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ference.
Leo Vincent came ;up from Oklahoma
to have a hand in the proceedings.
. Gen, j Field, ex-candidate for vice
president on the People's party ticket
in; 18952, came over from Virginia to
help us with his counsel.
Lee Crandall from Washington City
and Alabama was good naturedly
shaking hands with the boys, and
telling them how it was down in Ala
bama. '!.'..
J. W. Dollison of Littie Rock, Ark
secretary of state committee of the
People's party, gave! valuable assist
ance in committee work.
t; Arhong? the old j men who had
grbwn ; gray in the work was
Uncle Charlie Cunningham, of Little
Rock, . Ark. lie was candidate for
vice-president on the union labor ticket
in 18381 - . .
Thomas Fletcher, chairman of the
Peoples' party, committee, of Arkansas,
and one of the best known and weal
thjest'l men in the state, was present
helping with his advice.
Robert Pyne came all the way from
Connecticut to, tell the boys that the
"nutmeg" state was in line and would
be heard from in 1896.!
The fwell-known face of Prof. C. Vin
cent was among, the congregation of
cranksiaml the ' professor "seemed to
enjoy it
One 1 of the most active members
present was George Washburn of Bos-
ton, Mass. He looked every inch the
descendant of the men who fought at
Bunker's hill. f i
E. Gerry Brown was another of Mas
sachusetts'' patriots who crossed the
Alleghenies to attend the meeting and
aid in the' cause of humanity.
E. J. Oglesby, of Nashville, Tenn.,
came up to assist in the work of the
conference. """
II. A. Heath of Topeka, Kan., one of
the most prominent business men in
the reform movement, and who is
principal stockholder in several of our
most prominent Populist papers, was
exchanging hostilities of the season
with many of his acquaintances.
Fred. Close, another' well known
Kansas man, who is connected with
the north and south railroad enter
prise was; present. He presided with
ability over the conference a portion
of the time. '
Gen. Weaver was chairman of the
conference while the national commit
tee was in executive session and he
presided with his usual ability. He
was one of the conspicious .figures
-pre5;nt.
Ajnbng the most active and effcient
workers present was Mr. J. Devinet
serretary of the Bimetallic League.
IKe urged the . importance of pushing
tTrtJ'money 'question: tb'thef rbnt."
tjEditor Frank Burkitt was busy in
committee work and shaking hands
witi.the boys. Mr. Burkitt is one of
th-Vnost prominent People's party
m VMississippi.
Itenry Vincent of the Searchlight,
Chicago, was on hand to greet old
acquaintances, make new ones, and to
help keep the party in tlie "middle
of the road. " '".
W. F. Rightmire, who .was the
People's party candidate for attorney
general in Kansas in 1890, wa3 circu
lating among other fat men and lend- j
ing aH helping hand.
J. P. Stelle came over from Mount
Vernon, 111., to help prepare for vic
tory in 1896.
S. M. Adams, one of the prominent
Populists in Alabama, was present
and could tell how they carried his
state with the negro counties.
The youngest, looking man in the
convention was J. C. Manning the
boy orator from Alabama. Mr. Man
ning was elected a member of the
legislature and is one of the best
speakers in that state.
Among the Arkansas delegation was
Col. John H. Cherry of Little Rock.
He enjoyed the fun.
5. II. Schulte, the Reform publisher
of Chicago, was present, shaking
hands with old friends.
L. A. Stock well, editor of the old
Nonconformist, was over from Indian
apolis to urge the importance of push
ing the fight. .
One of the most prominent men
present froih Kansas was Jno. W.
Briedenthal, chairman of the People's
party committee of that state, and
present bank commissioner.
J. B. Follett of St. Louis, who
made, local arrangements for the
meeting, -was shaking hands with
everybody. "
The towering form of "Cyclone'
Davis of Texas, was prominent in all
the meetings, and his speeches always
went to the bottom of the question.
The great big familiar form of Mil
ton Park of the Southern Mercury,
Dallas, Texas, was easily recognized
by his many friends. He proceeded
from there to Chicago.
Dr. S. McLallin, editor of the Topeka
Advocate, was another one of the well
known Kansas men who were - present.
The doctor is a fighter from the head
waters of Bitter creek.
Henry D. Lloyd, the brilliant orator
and Populist leader of Chicago, was
there, and . did much to shape things
satisfactorily. '
W. R. Dobbins, editor of the Pro
gressive Age, St. Paul, Minn., run
dqwn to mingle with the congregation
of cranks.
W. S. Morgan,
Secretary National Reform Press
Association.
THE MORTGAGE MILL
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Jjitlee, Right and! Equity Dlnrerarf
by Platocratle Jndg
The following, frornj
Commoner, is worthy of
ing and consideration:
"And still the mortgage mill Is swj,-"
ly and surely -grinding out its gj
it
and rendering the people homeless ;
id
in debt. - !
The foreclosure of a mortgage il
proceeding in equity, yet the Distj
court seldom exercises their eqfl
powers in these cases. Doubtless .dm
judges would do so, were it not .'
their hands are tied by a decisiopf
the plutocratic, monopolistic! and or
po ration sympathizing Supreme ctprt"
of the state, which declares that win-
ever a sheriff sells a piece of pro
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unaer tne Hammer no ; mi
what the bid, the sale shall
held invalid on account of ,
quacy of price. A farm worth
may be sold for 10, the sale con
and the District court would ha
say as to whether it was! just, rit
equitable, to let valuable propert
for little or nothing and! leave :
ment to hang over a debtor; sT
forever keep him crushed to eart(u
The Populist judges,; McKay and
Bashorc, however, do exercise their
equity powers when it comes' to con
firming these sheriff sales of mort, aged
property, and whenever j the property
is reasonably worth the face STf the
mortgage that they refuse to ciifirm
any of these sales unless the (mort
gagee will cancel the debt and fipe the
debtor. This is justice, right and
equity. But Shy lock j is displeased
with this kind of work and hasfiaken
several cases up to the SupremeJ court
and expects that august (j?) bod will re
verse the judgmentsof these dftuitable
district judges in favor of the confisca
tion and redemption policy uracticed.
by the majority of the DistrrcWcourts.
The people, however, irited a
money snaric usury taker, ana a man
who cared more for the affair I
of New
or gov-
York city than for Kansas, j
ernor,and a plutocratic corno!
tion at-
torney, who rendered thVI Jecision
above referred to, for.ju( fes oi
take the consequences, and ougbt;rnot
to murmur. They have practically
said . to the Shylock powers that con
trol, "Foreclose our'morjtgages; drive
us - from our homes; confiscate bur
property; repudiate all the hard
earnings we have put intlo them to im
prove and build them upj and thou O
railroad, take all that . we can earn
above the bare necessities of existence,'
It seehis'as if the prayer of David
against his enemies, in the 109th psalm
had been repeated by Shyiock against
the debtor of the land, which prayer
is being answered to the; letter.
Set thou a wicked nlan over him,
and let Satan stand at his right hand.
When He shall be adjudged, let him
be condemned; and let his prayer be
come sin; ' ,
' Let his days be few, and let another
take his oflicei . ,
Let his Children be fatherless and his
wife a widow. .
Let his children be continually vag
abonds and beg; let them seek bread
out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all tltffie
hath; and let the strangerpoifhis
labor. ' T
J Let there be none to extend mercy
unto him; neither let there be any jkvdr
to his fatherless children I
Let his, posterity be cut off; and. in
the generations following, lelrTtftelr
names be blotted out. i
t Civilization 'RetrogadlnR.
The extortionate rates of railifcads
in California have compelled the'ipecH"
pie of that state to go back to the old
system of freighting with teams Hear
what a California exchange saysTand
ask yourself if it is not time forlgoy
ernment ownership of railroads: I
fterqpion isros., com mission iner-,
chants of Fresno, Cal., and C. A. Camp
bell, who has hauled frsight for ridarly
twenty years on the western slopes of
the Sierras, have hit unon a nlali bv
which they hope to be independent of
the Southern Pacific jraijlroad ana its
enormous freight charges. ' Campibell
left Fresno on Thursday jwith ten n vie
teams and two wagons loaded A 1th
about ten tons of dried figs bound for
San Francisco, a distance of 312 m? !es,v
He expects to reach here by Nov. 24 j
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and a return . load is waitine forWnir
Campbell is confident that he-. xliU
make a fair ryofit put of
his venti fe,
while : the Seropion Brps.
say they ill
save 32 cents per 100 pounds on j r
load lots, and,' 28 centjs rilpO'xa Js
than a carload. ' Shippers , through ut
the San Joaquin, valley are watch: ng
the expertment with intense lnterl st,
and if it proves a success hundreds of
wagons and men and .thoniands fst
mules and horses will be employed Ajx
j the freighting business once more.';
the Kan,3;
I careful rel
iter
irj.de-.
.000
fmed
4 no
fit or
r go
THE HAWAIIAN REBELLION.
The Roywllsts Completely Crushed in
Their Attempt to Overturn tho
Government.
." Sah Fkaxcisco, Cal. The rtenmer
Alameda brings I the following news
from Honolulu: Bob Wilcox and Sam,
Notrlein led half a thoueaud Kanakas
and half-white royalists in open revolt
rgainst the Hawaiian Kepubhc Sunday,
-Jan. 6, on the shore mx miles from the
city. . The rebels were foiled in their
plan to surprise the city. A fight took
place at Diamond Head between the
police and rebels in which Charles Jj,
Carter a prominent young man, fell
mortally '' wounded. When a strong
'force was sent out from the city the
rebels retreated to the recesses of the
Volcano Ridges, and several were killed
by shot and shell. Many prisoners
were taken, indiuding John Lane, a
half-tvhite, ho shot Parker. On the
9th the troops attacked Wilcox and
sixty of the enemy in a vftlley and
routed them with a loss of two killed.
None of the troops were injured.
The insurrection iscompletely crush
ed and 4he rebels have entirely -dispersed:
The majority of the men have
come in from the front. One hundred
Are still guarding the entrances of the
valley and looking Iot Wilcox and his
men. Nothing his been heard of any
rebel in the mountain for twenty-fonr
hours. Wilcox's force, like Nowlein's
has unquestionably dissolved. He has
probably escaped through Kalihi to
wards Ewa, and is scekiug to get off
the islaud. Militnry operations are
probably at an end The guanliug of
the city under martial law m:iy be con
tinued some days longer.
The royalists were supplied with arms
and ammunition from vessels. Grave
alarm was caused at the4sme time by
large bodies of Japanese laborers on
the plantations rising up in mutiny.
Young Carter died on Monday morn
ing. The effect of Colter's death at
thl outset was salutary in creating un- -usual
ardor among the loyal citizens to
crush the enemy. Large numbers of
doubtful persons eagerly canie forward
to shoulder guns for the government.'
Hundreds have offered their services
as special policemen and otherwise.! Th$
volunteer troops are nearly up to theif
full strength of 300, and have done se
vere work fdr four days in the field and
on guard duty. Over 500 - men ol .
the civic guard, many of them elderly
have kept the town thoroughly imrolb "
. ed for four nights. f and no pesron has
passed an important Etrcet corner at
night without being halted and scru
tinized. It has been impossible for
any insurgent to get through the town
and give aid to the army from this
side. Including the regulars, police,
volunteer troops, special police, sharp
shooters, citizens' guard aud other
volunteers the total number of men
carrying arms for the government, is
not less than .1,200.
Word came of a violent mutiny of
200 Japanese on the plantation ' at
Waimea, Kauai. They left an Ameri
can for dead on the field. The griev
ance of the Ewa Japanese, who have
mutinied, was that the police had laid
ed a nest of gamblers among them.
The 20,000 Japanese in Hawaii are
deeply .excited by the victories Over
China and feel very important and su
perior. ; No doubt the late rumors of
insurrection also acted as anr addition
al ferment, making them ready for an
outbreak at the slightest provocation.
This is probably one of the elements
of insurrection that contributes to
make it of some importance to keep
here a naval vessel of the United
States to protect the $25,000,000 worth
of property owned by American citi
zens. "LY,NCH HIM!"
Was the Cry of Five Hundred People
Who Saw the Train Kobber.
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: Fredericksburg, Va. Morganfieldi
the train robber, arrived herein charge
of Sheriff C. L. Kennedy, Sup't. A. F.
Eetin, of Pinkerton's agency, and Hmi
ry Murray, one of the express messen
gers who was held up. Five hundred
people were at the depot, and as soon
as Morganfield was taken off the car
there were cries of "Lynch hiin!T
This outcry was quickly stopped by the
officers, and the prisoner driven rapid
ly to jail. Morganfield kept his head
;.' covered up on his way from the depot
I to the jail. Searcey had retired to the
I npper part of the jail as if to avoid
i - r I'm-
meeting Morganfield, and Morgantieldj
was placed in the cell formerly occu
pied by Searcey.
Is lis race Is Against It.
'In order to prove the docility of
the bulldog the South London Bull
dog Society, which is holding a show
at tne Koyal Aquarium, has caged one
MWge dog with a small cat, and the
pair get along together with perfect
amityand the cat is not inside the
dog, either. Nevertheless, we fear
the effort is in vain. Until they car
breed a new kind of bulldog, with a
different kind of face on him, the
generality of people will still credit
him with a fearful amount of ferocity.
London Globe.
. The water lily , is largely used in
some parts 'of India as food;
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