North Carolina Newspapers

i - i L7 PEACE OK EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN. NO. 11. WADESBORO. N: C, "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 189(5. III. -ft STREET COMER TALK ! Ldola was a. fool." Hannal Vote for Bryan. A FABLE ? rr - t m if P"': l: 3v 1 i if;- .6-' increases with poverty. if & - iGsfxia standard ig thr wh ornnf. pfs$ojf white slavery. :j.t--.:;.- ' I; Is ii mipii : robber England Rimits the Justj;ifsof an Income tax. . ' ; - Ataton's western Muf yill do much tffl.iijrSrisLhe-tt the pomlist pause. -:rtf :1Vr : BTlf i..- i!.. ..-it 1 . .1 -fa.-- - charge of being bolt- ejf?o oration thieves are all for MfKiTiloy hhi.s yr.r. They don't wan: tolib i) lal. . " . TMniai?n' lic.i are so common-; that Alh ii e truth has a hard struggle for mi ' L '- ' v fjVrt Vrio-r pivo tlinf fill TL TP1 is it-orifidence is trying to steer us into a Sihii-o came. . , . 'oyert'y cramps and smomers me r.oidest sentiments and aspirations of thifi; human 'race'. 1. 0.. Frick. the Homestead oppres- t : . j&- ' . ...... j'Kjff abor-to his employes: vote ior -.MiKij&ey or quit." $ilv$r -.'purchase acts" do not put the -slVcrs that is coined into circulation. .'Fiee Coinage would. . ' ;;sk : fpoiire Cockran appears to have ifruns.his escape valve and let out all tp jjid at the first exhibition. IJpg Into debt to maintain a sys tem pf robbery is not so much cam--a felony as it' is utter fool- 4rLmost absurd thing in the present f cflmililsri is the great (apparent) solic- -'.dethe"; goidbui rs manifest for the I I i don't somebody mention the big ldnming syndicates that profit by e lawning or goia, at a cost oi irom nts to fifty on the dollar? ; c jankers are very' much concern- 'r..Mff thc'pos-sibility of having to pay rtheifc jtfopcidt.ois in- 50-cent aoiiars; out iioncl ftf them; have died yet on account til ,.P,h ': ! 1 " I "Ir silver wins "every corporation in country will bust put up or we are ilpstllanna's appeals to corpora- -Jdonsv;. .; ' - - I I ilpVhl " ' Li tt'; .' " - 4- K ; Botlir HcKinley and-ryan continue I r Jj;tn."ice Irpnv four to 8tivspeechen mcu :eV ly; but Tom Watson is satisfied "':;: -wfth-lonb or two, in which he always ';:pthe fur fly. " . ,!. 4 vy increase in the price, of gold g'Sfaeffia. 'gold standard increases the f fde.Dtfti anu lecreases me prices ui uie rpd.aee upon wnicn tne oeDtor oe- ends- for paying the debts. 1 4. A gtwp-hundretl cent dollar hag no jhArfjis .for the man wno is out oi a pi c; account of tworhundred cent dol kf slicing too scarce to keep the wheels fftrde and industry moving. . uw - fWfe bPe tne money question win be Mfe many other things we are r.nxT idiis'6 work on and so many people olare anxious to get work of any Out foreign trade is about 4 per cent ltt of the whole. Ve need money 5p(i in America aDout i times as rtihdiS' ns- we need money "good in urope. Silbver did 'pot depreciate in price un- jt :i!wa3 -made a commodity by de monetization. If the principal na- -. Hion had aemcnetizea goia, insteaa or iislvn'do you suppose gold would not bi.v fallen in price? JaI now we put the plain question: lilfoltan .the producer be bennted by Tjow prices when he himself is the re 4ipiSt of the. prices for ''that which he Iprocflces, whether it is his labor direct, ojr tE products of his.labor. Mi'i : ; : : tL.fcoln !p his party in 1860: "We are pped by the corporations aji'd the moipjy pov.'er of the north and the slay owners, of the south." Bryan to his fparty in 1S9C: "Thh corporations ;andi5noney pov;er are Solidly arrayed us in this campaign. Thank th'ere is no slave power to aid IJtherE"- '.'.:- i:p't::-n - : Aggregated wealth enjoys a monop y 4f government protection, but the 'fcifpto& man foots the bill. Wealth and farisocracy. iiaye uuimng ly uo wiiq sUcE; vulgar transactions as paying ji taxe. ; Tlie taxes are all for their 1 en d efit; Surely-you cannot expect them j Ho orry about the fellows.' who pay .O, beware, my fellow citizens, of sjoc:jobbers or banking institutions, hihtfl have an Interest as distinct from miaqf the community as that of drones legislators, how you create a moneyed j ariftcpacy, as aangerous to the gov ilmfeentas Praetorian bands in' Rome. --Thomas -Jefferson. 4! A F Salaries of public officials have not decineti with the price of commodi-;tiesi-that is one reason the fellows like ; ; ijoaa Sherman, wno have held office ' j nearly all their lives, -proclaim that f f ims are better than ever before. Thy can buy more with a dollar than lksi ii - ln - ... . - -(?ve?; before ana tney get just as many : agiia.rs tor tucir wuro. a uxey ver. uicu Jlfagamst : & Go(M Vote the national ticket straighjL David D. Hill ought to be treated foz Icck'-Jaw. Remember all are for McKiniey he enemies of labor Had McKiniey) ttuck to. silly would be a happier mail to-dajy. br he It is now In order to raise the black flag of anarchy over Yale college. If the banks were allowed to eolin the pilver they would! consent to free! coin age. . , Uncle Sam' will be married to pros- perity without asking the cons Qt of England. I i It cannot be properly said of the yellow-banner titket that it Js i"run- ning" for office The goldbugs will discover lh vember that New England is not all of the United States. ! ! The honeet man fears the rage of the common people. They do not become enraged except at dishonesty If you are hunjgry and want some thing to eat justtake a' meal; of con fidence and you will feel all right. It don't sound iwell to call the men who are standing by the action of the populist national Convention traitors.' The most prosperous times this coun try ever enjoyed was When it h.id neither gold nor jsilver in circulation. All prcfessiona rascals, but all republicans are not professional rascals will vote for Mckinley and the gold standard. i i The banks are opposed to any sys tem of finance that contemplates the circulation of money without paying them interest on it. When fifty men of commerce it is can stop every wheel about time we had a few more "cart-wheel" silver dollars to keep things moving. As long as the and pay all the poor do-all the work taxes the rich will have troubled dreams while tossing on the stolen feathers of the poor man's geese. ! The only class campaign is the isene in the present workers against the drones. It is not east against west, but labor ;igair;t plunder jithout rgard tb geograpny. - ' - There is no golcj in circulation. The banks are refusing to pay it out, even when gold has ben deposited. If this Is the "existing giold standard" let 'us lave iiomething else. Whenever , the plutocrats indicate so much concern for poor laboringman the interests of the It will do to look out for anything that! may , happen to re main" in your pocket-book. The railroads seem determined to go Into politics this year. Well, let 'em get their hand in Their turn comes next. The people propose to put them under government control soon. Even though a protective tariff should help the eastern manufacturers, a gold standard will ruin their western and southern market for manufactured goods. The two do not work well to gether. How do you like the present good, times? A continuation of the "present good times" is whjat the gold standard means. Some people talk about vot ing for a change.! Do you think they' are lunatics j The man who makes a private 'con tract, discriminating against any law ful money of the United States is not loyal to this government, and is a dangerous character who should be dec orated with a balil and chain. The Rev, D. IV Moody, evangelist, suggests that the jpeople fast and pray for the deliverance of this country from great danger. Some one ought to inform Mr. Moody that many people in this country are fasting every day. The goldbugs coinage of silver this country. On talk as If the free were a new idea in the contrary, no po litical party in the United States ever before this yeai declared for the maintenance of ajsingle gold standard while the constitution of the United States made the silver dollar the unit of value. j . Silver bullion will buy as much of the products of tne iarm per ounce in '73. Well, if the now as it would free coinage of silver will increase the price of produce the laboringmen as the goldbugs tell it will, the bullion owner will be unable to buy any more wheat, cotton, corn or other product with his bullion than he could before the increase of money increased the prices of produce!. A metropolitan! paper, speaking pf the anarchistic conduct of the Yale col lege students in howling down Mr. Bry an, terms it "th Jneradical spirit of Juyenescence." riad this occurred on an occasion when McKiniey was speak ing, and the mob composed of working men, it would have been called "the mob-like conduct! of anarchists." It makes a great deal of difference whose ox is being gcred The true American ipirit it Is to give everybody a fair show and the students treatment o Jvyau Is wholly un-American A wolf meeting with a lamb astray Irom the fold, resolved not to lay vio ent hands on him.butto fihdbme plea, vhlch should Justify to the limb him- : ;elf, his right to eat him. He this al j Ireseed him: "Sirrah, last ; year you I jrossly Insulted me." "Indeedl" bleated . he lamb, in a mournful tone; of voice. JOHN BULL FOB, WAR. THIS IS THE BLUFF WHICH ENGLAND PUTS UP NOW. If We Tote for Silver He '.HVlUj Flffht If John Wants til , Lion's TaU Twisted Again Let Him Trot Him Oat. From Silver Knight:, The news from London, where the :zar of Russia is lln consultation with other monarchs of Europe, shows who the enemies are with whom the Ameri can people are contending. The press ot Gret Britain declares that an at- tempt on the part' pf the United States. to restore the coinage laws of the bet ter days of the republic would practi cally mean the repudiation; of their debts, and that this would lad to the withdrawal of envoys and declarations of war We knew that the j monarchs of Europe were aiding the Rothsqkilds to corner the gold of the world for the purpose of destroying democracy in the United States; we knew that the gold ites of New York and their representa tives at St. Louis and Indianapolis were acting under orders from Europe to suppress, "anarchy" in the United States by starving the people into sub mission; but we were not prepared for an open declaration on the part of the London press that if the American gov ernment dared to readopt the coinage laws of Jefferson and Jackson, which have been surreptitiously eliminated fffcm the-' statutes, envoys would be made. ! We do not now ir.-tnaT Great Britain,-a'if hough she; mayV.ave the proffered aid of every monarcj in Europe, will or dare provoke warvith the United States. It is true that she, made war in Egypit for the "same cause that she.now aHesfagainst the United States, .and ensl4ved that people. It Is true 'that she has robbed and plun dered every weak people who. had any thing to steal. But she has tried war with the United; States twice and lpst the game each time. She is nowprac ticing a different method. She has con trol of our financial system whereby she is sapping the foundation of repub lican institutions. She obtained that control by fraud and bribery and ex pects to continue it by the same means. The tens of millions at Hanna's com mand are contributed through the agencies of Lombard street, although Pierpont Morgan and the Belmonts may deliver the money. The forces England is now using against the United States are of the Hessian stripe. They sell their country and do battle against their own people for English Sold. ; The London banks command the New York . banks to inaugurate a squeeze and bring the masses to terms, and the New York banks extend the command to every banking institution in the land all pombined make war upon the industries of the country. Merchants, manufacturers, railroad corporations and all others employing labor are told they must vote with their employes for gold or prepare for bankruptcy. The employers of labor throughout the United. States as a rule are now engaged in cPercing labor to avoid the punishment which the banks threaten. The English combination are confident of their ability Jo purchase, corrupt and coerce the American peo ple; to place in the white house an, ex ecutive who will use the armies of the United States to suppresstthe democ racy which they now call anarchy, and saye England from the humiliation of defeat, in another open conflict. They expect to subject the American people this time with the hired Hessians of America, and not 3n the manner which thy attempted in the revolution, when they brought the Hessians of Hesse Cassel to this country to carry on a barbarous warfare, with the patriots of j America. The threat of war is in earnest, but the expectation is to uee subsidized Americans to fight the peo ple; of the United States, if they insist upon; their constitutional rights. The following in a dispatch from London is a specimen of the manner in which the- press 'of Great Britsfin discusses American affairs. It is quoted from the London Telegraph; the daily which has i larger circulation than any other in England, and is as' follows: . -1 iv ' ..!-' h - . "English capitalists will never take their Interest from the United States in depreciated currency. The adoption 3f bimetallism; or,as it would become later,; the silver standard in America, would practically mean the repudia- lon or ineir aeDt3jis generally accept t edr! and it Is this -sort of thing which leads to- the withdrawal of envoys and ieclaratlons of wars." ; " was not then bonL't Thea wild the WjOlf: "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the lamb, "I have rot yfet tasted grass." Again said the wolf: "You drink of my well." "No," ei- claimed the lamb, "I never yet drank water, for aa yet my mother's milk ia both food and drink to me." On which NOTES AND COMMENT. Flashes of Thonght Inspired by Passing i E rents. i The constant charge iterated and re- iterated by the sound (rotten) money pjress, that the silver mine owners will ble the sole ones who will be benefited by free silver, is not only inconsistent, but from their standpoint absurd. They deny that the free coinage of silver Will add anything to the value of silver bullion. If U does not increase the value of silver, how, then, can it enrich the mine owner? e j On the other hand, if the charge is true, will it not apply to the owners of gpld mines as well? If giving both metals free access to the mints Is a good thing' for the mine owners, then certainly giving but one nKtal that privilege would be a much better thing for the mine owners interested in that one metal. But as we view it any such argument is only a flimsy pretext and indicative of the lack of a better one. As long as we have commodity uoney, the men who own and control the com modity will profit by it. - One of the strongest arguments with which Mr. Bryan has had to conteni in ail his travels wan that put up by the ycung men of Yale college at New Uaven. Mr. Bryan himself is no spring chicken when it comes to an exhibition of lunjy ppwer, but when he carn in contact with the Comanche-like 'yells of 500 lusty pairs pf lungs, trainel in the ethics of college yells, and. sup plemented by a brass band at short r-re thiv-lkiy Orator "wasn't Nothing less than a fog-horn ' it." couia have been heard above that din, and as lir. Bryan could not make Aimself heard it disposes of the plutocratic charge that he is a fog-horn David B. Hill's declaration that he tould "see the democratic party in hell before he would indorse some parts of the Chicago platform," is in keeping with the character of the man and re calls to our mind the little controversy he had in the senate last spring with Senator Tillman. Mr. Tillman had threatened to bolt the national conven tion if a free silver coinage proposition Was not incorporated in the platform." Hill declared that he was going to the convention and was going to abide by lis action, no difference what it was and insisted that Senator Tillman should pledge himself to do the same ojr not be allowed to participate in the convention. Of course Hill thought tfcat the convention would be domin ated by the eastern end of the demo cratic party, as it always had been done. e e Under the gold standard the post- office department has had no reason to complain, the i number of postoffices having doubled- since the crime of 1873. There were 34,294 offices in1874, as compared with 70,360 now; Globe Democrat. i No better argument could be offered for government ownership and control of public utilities. The same can be sid of the army, the navy, the public schools and the public roads. In spite of the hard times they have gone stead ily on improving each year. And the question arises, why? Because the pro fits are left in the hands of the people, tjie benefits accrue to the whole peopld and are not absorbed by private greed, liad the millions of dollars of profits that have gone to make millionaire railway Icings gone instead into the hands- of the people, or rather have been left there, there would not now be such widespread distress in the land. i It is impossible to fiiid in the record t any great American statesman a word in favor of the cheating of credit Pi's and the wronging of .wage-earners in the way proposed by the free silver ites. Globe-Democrat. On thejotner hand there never has been a time in the history of this gov ernment when the money question was not one of the important problems, lf not the issue,1 before the people. The law "of 1834 diminished the amount of gbld in our gold coins, yet debts that had been contracted before the law were paid afterwards with the dimin ished coins, and the supreme court de cided it constitutional. A debt contract ed in coin, but not stipulated prior to issue of the legal tender treasury notes oi r greenbacks, in 1862 "and subsequent ly, was declared by the United. States supreme court to be payable in paper money that, at the time of the decis- ; Idn. had no time set to be redeemed. j 0 - 0 - 1, J a , The rational, democratic managers aye issuing a circular relating the facts that one Father Kelley deposited, for the wolf .eizsd him and ate him up, eaying, "Well, I wont remain supper less, even though you refute every one of my imputations." Moral The tyrant will always find a pretext for hlsr tyranny. When you go to the polls Nov. 3 be sure and vote for Bryan. on? if his parishioners an old lady 1500 in gold. The old lady becoming alarmed at the general situation re quested Kelley to withdraw her gold and return it to her, as she was afraid to trust the banks. When Kelley de manded the same kind of money he deposited the bank flatly refused to pay it out. Appealing to the president of the bank he was still refused. Yet they tell us that we are now living under "the existine irold standard" and if we had free coinage of silver it would drive gold out of circulation. There's a "cat in the meal" somewhere. It 11 possible that the banks are hoard ing gold and treasury notes to make another raid on the treasury and force another issue of bonds before Grover is dumped. e e There is one thing one phase of the money question which is not re ceiving the attention it deserves; it is the method to be employed in put ting money in circulation. There is a distinction between money in existence and money in circulation in relation to its effect on prices. It makes no difference how much money we have in existence, if the conditions are such as to induce the hoarding of that money, or prevent its active circula tion, industry, would languish. Since there is a limit to confidence in private banks this 'deficiency should be sup ported by government postal and sav ings banks, where confidence would be unlimited and through which an equi librium could be preserved in the cur rency circulation. Through proper safeguards money could be loaned by such banks on safe security, and they would furnish' a neve-tailiiig safe guard against panics. What Free Coinage of Silver Will Do. Will the remonetization of silver help or hurt labor? That depends on whether it will pro mote or hinder production. If the re monetization of silver will promote production it will .benefit labor. On the . contrary, if it will impede or les sen production it Will injure labor, for, in the final analysis, the wages icf bor is the share which labor ge what is produced. If 70,000,000 peopie produce but $14, 000,000,000 worth of products in a year that would give to each, if evenly divid ed, $200 worth and no more, and if some got more others would get less. If, however, the same population pro duced $21000,000,000 worth of products, each could have $300 worth. That is, any people can divide what they pro duce and they can divide no more, un less one takes from another what he had before. It is clear, then, that the mere we produce the more all can have, and as wages in the end are the laborer's share of what is produced his real wages will increase as production increases. The vital question then is: Will the remon etization of silver, by promoting indus trial enterprise, increase production? There are liardly two sides to this ques tion. That the remonetization of silver will increase money supply no one wilt deny. That the increase of money sup ply will atop the fall of prices and if the supply be sufficient will raise prices, no economist will dispute. With stable prices, well-directed industrial enterprise is safe; with' rising prices all industries are stimulated. Hume, the historian, said years ago: "We find that in every kingdom Into which money begins to flow in greater abund ance than formerly everything takes a new face. Labor and industry gain life, the merchant becomes more enter prising, the manufacturer more diligent and skillful, and even the farmer fol lows his plow with greater alacrity and attention." This has. often been quoted as not only one of the accepted facts of history but one of the truths of economic science. Prices of things consumed by labor will not go up till demand for them Increases and demand cannot Increase till those who consume them have more mosey U buy with; they will not have more money to buy with until they earn more. This is the whole case in a nutshell. The' rise of the things consumed by labor, wil follow, not precede, In creased earnings of labor; and as before shown, increased earn ings go with increased and steadier employment, and then," as demand for labor increases, wages increase. ! A. J. WARNER. . The more the New York democracy tries to straighten itself out the more ! crooked it gets. ! a MrtT,ai ,mm. ve vu.UcLBIZ6o 1 the fact that i Watson is the people's Dartv eondidate - j Repudiation of injustice is no crlm ON THE LEAD1NQ QUESTION OF THE DAY.' Tb Arcament ,Tht Apply td "SUt Mlniar Syndicate" Apply with Eqal Fore to Gold Mlnlnf - The Cost o Mining. What do the rold-burs want this j tax i , Nothing but a maintenance of the existing gold standard, which means a continuance of present conditions generally. Are they satisfied with present condi tions? They seem to be. j - What do they mean by "international bimetallism?" They mean that we must ask the con-, sent of England to coin silver or rather, they don't mean anything, but merely use this as a cowardly way of declaring for a single gold standard. Does the government coin gold free? Oh, yes. Is gold really worth as much in bul lion as it is in coin? t I really don't pretend to know what it. might be worth if it did not enjoy the privilege of free coinage but the price is the same under present conditions, which create an unlimited demand for it at a fixed price. . t Does the bullion ever go above that price? Yes, when the speculators are buying gold. Now, I've got you. What do they buy gold with when gold is the stan dard of value? I That's easy. They buyit with paper. How does the paper get its value? It is based on gold. Thfen if the man win sold the gold wanted his paper redeemed he would have to accept gold at a premium, and really wouldn't have any more gold than "'he started with to show for his premium? Yes, but the government would re deem his paper in gold at its face value. Well, why shouldn't the other fellow go to the government, instead of the broker, when he wanted to buy gold and save the premium he paid? Lots of them dp but the main object Is to corner gold and force the govern ment to issue interest-bearing bonds to buy gold. Then the men who have gold cornered can sell it at their own price. Thus you see the object in buy- iog up the gold held by other brokers, so nobody else is able to furnish the gold! to buy the bonds. But say, isn't that robbery? Certainly. What does it cost to mine gold? All the way from 4 cents to 60 ;ents for a. dollar's worth. Why ndt coin it into money at the true cost of mining? Oh, the price of gold is fixed. Well, doesn't that make the gold dollar part fiat? It does. Does it cost any more to mine a dollar's worth pf gold than a dollar's worth of 'silver? No, usually less. -Who own the gold mines? . big syndicates of capitalists in this and foreign countries. And they get about three times as many dollars for their gold bullion as they pay out for labor? Yes. Then they can put two dollars in their poakets to do as -they please with, eh? Yes. And one dollar out of three i. all they put in circulation? That Is true. Must be a big profit in gold f ining? Appears so. Well, in case of free coinage of sil ver, wouldn't there be a big profit in silver mining, too? In some mines, yes. Fact of the mat ter is more money has been spent in mining both gold and silver thnn is made out of them. Some mines pay; some don't. It costs the unlucky pros pector as mueh to pay for labor as tho one who strikes "pay dirt." . Thousands of men are given employment and prac tically all the money taken out of tho mines is put into circulation prospect mg. ' Thejjtfld-bugs say great syndi cates of citalists would profit by tho mining of silver, but they try to make it appear that there i3 no profit in gold; mining. There is no more roorn for speculation in the one than tho other. The men who do the specula: ing are fellows who don't know a prospect-hole from an ore crusher. They gamble in mining stocks, just ns 'hey do in railroad stocks, waterworks bond? or any other kind of paper that prom ises f interest Silver bullion buys k. much of the products of labor at pro: -. ent prices as it did in 1873, while "gold buys twice as much. To rmonotizo silver would, by increasing the amount tOf money, increase prices of produce. Then an ounee of it would buy the 6ame it does now, while an ounce of gold would be reduced in purchasing power to the same level it held 1 forv sliver was demonetized. Thu.'i' gold would be forced to restore what it h.ad stolen by appreciation, while silver would be simply restored to its -va. Ton Find It Scarce. . ' Doctors, don't you find money scarce among the people? Of course you do especially if yours is a country practice. Donf you think there would be more money among the people if more money -were coined for circulation, and the power to control the paper currency taken from the banks? j Of course you do then why not vote with a party that advocates suh wholesome measures Free Republic, T-ouisvIlla. icv ot a cathkdiial; fhe Kplrtrpl Charch Will Ievoto All Energies toSt. Mury-sSohool. At n special metUng of the Rtftndin i committee of tho lhpceno of ortu ! Carolina, held at the Bi'shiv'A house, ! Ail At vrf-tni1kLik uciooer via, mo ioiiowiuh ih ! and resolutions were adopted: I M Whereat, In tho opinion both of '; the Bishop ami. of the rector of tho i Church of the Goo.l ".Shepherd, it is i impracticable at this time to develop ; and carry out n Cathedral for this U ; eese, as for other causes, fv- cp o ! ially because the. efforts of tho chur ch I men of North Carolina should be c u- centrated upon the permaoeut estui'-. ' lishment of St. Mnry's Schop? th. re i fore, j "Jtcsotird, That in the jntUf -r.:uit of thoStandiDff committee, nctu nu I der the pauction ot the rtol t;,.u ! adopted by the convention of M:v, 1896, the action of the Bit-hop, ar.l of the convention of 181.", iu accept it the Church of the (iood Shepherd,' Raleigh, as the cathedral oi tho. Dioceae, should borKciuded, l by the authority reposed in; the Bishoj. and Standing committee, md uetio: is hereby rescinded." The Bishop assents to ijnd join? iu the above action. Fusion Is Complete. At a full meeting of the Deinoci ntie central crmmi tee in lbihih Monday night it was decided to make a prop osition to the Populists- for fusion o:r congressional. State aud county n. in ters the decision was unKtninouH. 1 i committee was in set-sion from r o'clock till 1 o'clock Tuesday inonui: Chairman Munly made thin stu tnent: ; "The negroes have all . gotto i together and it is time for the whit, people to get together . for their pro tection and for tho accomplishment oi the free coinage of silver, and to tlr. end we havef made a proposition to ti. Populists for complete fusion . ". 'Mm proposition was not made made puMi until Tuesday which was too late for theso columns. It is understood to yield five Congressmen and give tlu Populist choice of . Governor or Seun ror with an equitable-division of other oflice3. . : The Debt Statement. Tho State debt statement has been made public. Tho 4 per cent, con i solidated deM is 33, MO, 700. To com "plete the taking up of all outstanding bonds requires only S2&.vni) more .ot 4 per cents. The C per cent debt i $2, 720,000. rThis is for bonds issued in aid of tho construction of the Nortl Carolina railway. The State receives Nwra tk -Southern rajlway for the 4aso of the road$195,000 annually and six years later is to receive $'-M0,0()!' iiunually under the terms of the ninety -uine year lease. Presentation of the Punch iJou I. Wednesday Governor Carr aml-stal" with the presentation committee, nc companied by prominent Indies, an'.; gentlemen irom nil over the State, went to Southport, a few miles below Wilmington, to present the Buttle Shii llalcigh, of tho United Stat- s Xavy, named after tho capital of this Sti;t-. , and one of the finest war ships aih-nt, the beautiful punch bowl presented l. the people of North Carolina. Ast night a royal reception was given t' officers and visitors. I5oy Sent to the Penitentiary. Marion Ring, a young white boy, who-poisoned' his 'father, Dr. .Ilim and his family last March in Sur n county, and who was sent-away to tL West, returned home recently and wut instantly arrested, jailed, tried and convicted and has been taken to ti.t peuiteutiary to servo five, years. Hit crime nearly cost the- livs of his e:: tire family.. Adjutant General Cameron has re ceived a letter from C. S. Merrill, t h" Cuban Relief Corpp, New York, asking him. to hend, at his e .rliest con yenieucc, a roster of the State troop and his latest report . of their Ti ciency. Clerk Brown, of the Railroad Com mission, is now busy preparing mn reading the proof f the rej ort of th Board of Commissioners, which is '.no in the hands, of the printers "and wil be issued about the liribt of the i:iv venr . ' ; Requisition has been made t . th Secretary of War for fifty more 'ril'o i for the A. and M. cadets at Raleigh The number of studends exceeds a in former record. : Fire at Murfreesbpro last Satur 'a' swept away an entire block. rJL total los is estimated at about $10 m Insurance t very slight. .Among tl. burned buildings was the Episc i a church. 4 The "Superintendent of Public In struction has sent 1,000 to the Sta: Industrial School (colored) at Winston 'Winston also raised the same amount, , Chairman Holton "says the oillcia Veirro vote of this State is 120.000. I Some sympathy Is expressed In i-er-I tain English circles oyer the fact that i the allowance of Princess Uaud is n- t 1 large enough to be really and truly ro ril.. As she will receive about $80 M ! a year out of the sum granted the ; Prince of Wales by Parliament it is net ljkely the younj woman will suffer. I f A i the royal worshipers in England aiv' i really sory for the Princess there H nothing in the world to prevent them from adding to her-Income by contri' i buttons from their own private; purs-jj, . i i"r i-