THE ELM CITY ELEVATOR
VOL. 1.
ELM CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 2,1902.
NO. 38.
JOHN.
Fellers, taint no use in talkin’
Of wliat a inan can do;
He’s Just as Rame as you are,
And a wliole lot gamer, t«o.
Drat me, l)oys, I n>«ght him,
Fouubt him hard for years.
And every time I harvested
I reaped m salty tears.
Sometimes’twixt me and him
’Twas simply nip and tuck.
And then a^n, sc aetlmes—
Confound my mea» y luck!—
He’d sprawl me out, and then—
tWeil, I know the feUer’s game.
I’ve tried him, boys, and know it;
As sure as you are bom—
John, you know. I’m speaking oi.
Old John Barleycorn.
—Sew Orleans Times-Democrat.
THE SWBJBTKST SONG.
That song is sweetest, bravest, best.
Which plucks the thistle-barb of care
From a despondent brother’s breast.
And plants a sprig of heart’s-ease there.
-Andrew Downing.
BISHOP NKirnANN»S BODY MUH-
niPIED.
Philadeijhia, April 22.—^When the
Ecclesiastical Court that is investigating
the career of Bishop John Nepomu(»ne
Neumann, who is proposed for saint
hood, to-day in the basement of St.
Peter’s Church opened the coffin that
held his corpse forty years, there was
found a solid, mummified body, almost
in a perfect state of preservation.
There is a legend of the Catholic
Church that bodies of saints when ex
humed after many years show extraor
dinary preservation. The purpose of
to-day’s exhumation was to identify the
body for certifiofition to Rome and to
report on the condition of the body.
The Rev Joseph Wissel, jMwtor of St.
Peter’s and a member of the court, in
a statement made after the exairina
tion said:
“The coffin was more or less dacayed
but the body, attired in the Bishop’s
vestments, was mummified. The face
was a little sunken and out of natural
shape, but the rest of the body was in
a remarkable state of preservation
The hands, folded across the breast,
were perfect, and the feet ^ually sO;
^he flesh being hark and solid, though
of a dark gray color. There was no
odor whatever. The Bishop’s ma^ive
cross lay on his breast and the Episco-
capal ring was on hia finger. The
body was placed in a new coffin, sealed
up and replaced in the vault.”
As to details of the examination by
the doctors all were sworn to secrecy.
The complete report of the investiga
tion will be forwarded to Rome, along
with reports of miracles performed by
the dead bishop. There are fifty mirac
ulous cures reported of persons who only
visited the tomb and prayed.
The ceremony was the first of the
kind ever performed in America. Be
sides the five members of the court,
with Bishop Prendergast as President
Judge, two promotors or “Devil’s Ad
vocates,” and four substitute judges
there were present four doctors.
Bishop Neumann was born in Bohe
mia in 1811 and came to America when
twenty-three years of age. He was
made bishop of this diocese in 1852
He died suddenly in 1860.
maneM in tHe Internauonal ReV'
enne Law to so Into EflTect
on July 1.
The following internatitmal revenue
changes are made in the law now in
force:
Taxes repealed on and after July 1
are as follows: Special taxes of
bankers; brokers; dealers in grain
securitieB, etc., under Par. 3, Sec. 8,
act of Majrch 2, 1901, (brokers’ class 2)
pawn-brokers^, custom house brokers
proprietois of theaters, etc.; proprietors
of circuses; proprietors of public exhi
bitions or shows for money; proprietors
of bowling alleys ot billiard rooms
dealers in leaf tobacco; dealers in to
bacco; manufactures of tobacco; manu
facturers of cigars.
Stamp taxes on instruments, -papers
documents; deliveries or transfers of
stock, and sales and agreements of sale
or agreements to sell stocks, pioducts
or merchandise (schedule A); wines
(schedule. 8); seats in the parlor or
palace cars, and berths in sleeping cars.
Taxes on legacies and distributive
shares of personal property.
Excise taxes on persons, forms, com
panies and corporations engaged in re
fining petroletun and sugar.
Taxes reduced: On fermented liquors
the tax is reduced to $1 per barrel; on
snuff and tobacco the tax is reduced
6 cents per pound. The tax on cigar
ettes weighing more than three pounds
per thousand is reduced to $3 per thou
sand. A drawback or rebate is allowed
on all original and unbroken factory
packages of smoking and manufacured
tobacco and snuff held by the manu
factures or dealers on July 1, 1902;
the amount of difference between the
higher rate paid and the tax iraposod
by this act.
The Will of Dr. Talmac*'
Washington, April 21.—The will.
Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage was 3ed
here to-day. It leaves an estat^
more than $300,000, of which cihout
1250,000 is in personal propwty/ 4jon
sisting of secured notes. United.' States
4 per cent, bonds, stock and cash
bank, furniture, picture* and house
hold effects. The real , estate i« worth
about 150,000, comprising .'his house,
No. 1,400 Massachusetts’avenue,
this city, and property in Ham^
ton, Long Island, and hi«|ormer hor
in Brooklyn. •
Colored BUm Brea.
PBOViDESCE, R. l.,Apri^ 20.—John
Davis of PaKoag, a newi^ealer, has
e si^'ht ort vaH eyeT"miA to have 1
nseilViy being poiaoned with the color-
j? 'rom some of th« !olor d pages
j aday newspapers,
‘ ureeks ago, while folding
tpt^pfcrs. he rubbed his hand
• ' ■ eyffl. His right eye soon began
- ' . and since that time he
■ -If' ;d \«nse pain.
t f - !j ig now ejected.
8Il.It ABr*S l.BTl'BB.
As old Uncle Bob Rogers sud, “The
southrrn peo{de are the most forgivenen
people in the world.” They will suffer
more and suffer longer, and then if
their enemy smiles on ’em and feeds
em with a little sugar, th^ will lick
his hand and.forgive him.
I was ruminating about this when I
read of the president’s visit to Charles
ton, and the grand ovation they ^ve
him. It hasn’t been two months since
he said in public at a banquet that oar
secession was anarchy. It hasn’t been
very long since he wrote ,in his life of
Tom Benton this sentence, “Before . Jef
ferson Davis took his plaM among the
arch traitors, he had already been known
one of the chief repudiators of his
state, and it was not unnatural that to
dishonesty he should add treachery tc
the public.” Mississipia did repudiate
her public debt, and so did Michigan
and some other northern states, but Mr.
Roosevelt singles out a southern state
give a slam at Mr. I)atiB and the
south. Now the truth is that Bfr. Da^
had nothing in the world to do with it.
was done before he came into public
life or had anything to do with public
affairs. I reckon Roosevelt got it from
John Stuart Mill’s slanderous history
when he si^ “Mr. Davis was governor
Mississippi, and when the legislature
massed a bill to pay the repudiated bonds
iie vetoed it.” What a monstrous lie!
Mr. Davis never was ^vemor of Mis
sissippi, and no such bill was ever pus-
ed. Again Mr. Roosevelt says in his
book. “The moral difference between
Benedict Arnold on the one hand and
Aaron Burr or Jefferson Davis on the
other is the difference between a poli
tician who sells his vote for money and
one who supports a bad measure to get
high pohtical position.” What ma
lignant venom there must be in a man
who would class Jefferson Davis with
Arnold and Burr; what amazing igno
rance of historical facts to call him an
arch traitor and a chief repudiator when
at the very time of the repudiation he
was oi^anizing a r^^ment to fight the
battles of his country on the soil of
Mexico. There he was desperately
wounded, and for five years went on
crutches. Our southern people regard
Jefferson Davis with emotions of the
highest admiration, and I have supreme
contempt for the ignorant or maligrumt
historians and itoliticians 'who assail
him. It gratifies me immensely that
the president and General Miles have
fallen out, and that Miles got the worst
of it, though I don’t know who deserves
the most spom, the preudent ftx slan
dering Mr. Davis or Miles for patting
shankles on him.
Now if Roosevelt was man enough to
retract what he wrote and ascribe it to
ignorance or misinformation, he could
restore himself to some extent to the
favor of our people, for it is a fact that
we areithemost forgiveness people on the
eaith, but I have never yet known a
Yankee politician to apologize for any
thing he did. They are the saints. The
G. A. R.’s invite our boys to banquet
with them, but they don’t apologize, and
they wouldn’t vote us a pension to save
our lives. I don’t understand the i>res-
ident, and my opinion is he don’t under
stand himself. I don’t believe he has
mind enough to know his own mind.
If he is really for civil war reform and
an honest government, what did he turn
out Evans for and pat in a figurehead,
unless it was to tickle the G. A. R.’s
(grab all rascals) and get their influence
in the next nominating convention. Per
haps he is himself the man “who sup
ports a bad measure to get high politicid
position.” Well, of course any son-o(*a-
gun can get a pension now and some who
never had a gun. I believe a confederate
soldier can get one by greasing the pen
sion agent. Only last week one of our
esteemed fellow-oitiieiis had boaness
that called him to a di^ in Neir York
state and on being introduti^ to the
pension agent as Captain-^he was dsked
what service he was in. Re replied, “In
Virginia army.” “So was I,” said the
agent. “Have yon gotten a pension?”
No,’’.said the captain. “Well, let me
make oat your a^^cation; it is time
you had ooe," ^e captain humored
him for some time while he was filling
up the blank. “Were you at the sur
render?” said he. . “I was,” said the
captain. “Whose command were you
in then?” said the agent. “General
Wade Hampton’s,” said the captain.
Th« devil you say; you were a rebel,
thMi. Gentlemen, here is the first rebel
I have ever made out a pension claim
for and he looks like such a gentieman.
I’ve a good notion to send it up and get
him one.” The captain says he could
have gotten one as easy as falling off a
log, if be had just lied a little. Newt
Tumlin told me a long time ago that
the only way to get even with the re
public was to grease ’em or jine ’em
but it was safer to do both.
But our people will forgive Teddy if
he will apologue for the past and be
have in the future. He has some good
which he inherited from his
mother, but his impulses and emotions
are not well balanced. His gun goes
off half cocked and he shoots with the
double wabbles. I think he has about
let the nigger alone and so has the
north generally. We lynched one in
Rome the other day and I have never
seen any mention of it in their papers.
Our governor didn’t eyen offer a reward
nor has the circuit judge msde any fiw
about it. I reckon the towns an4. cities
will now sympathize with the country
people, for the pime in this case was
committed in the very center of the city
and so .was the lynching, and nobody
was disguised. I have been in favor of
of lynching ever since they homed
that negro in Dallas Tez., and I am
still. When they lynch one they ought
to pick out about a dozen bad ones and
whip them and make them leave the
country. That’s the way they do in
Texas. Every community is in danger
from mean, idle negroes. WhoM wife
and or daughter will be the next victim?
UjT^dy had liyedin Some, I wonder
what he would have done. I believe he
would have Joined the lynchers. Why
not? He is killing ^em by the thou
sands in the Philippines for no crime
except loving their coutry. Our so-
oalled soldiers are putting them to tor
ture of the most horrible kind, and
burning their towns, and call it war for
the honor of‘the flag. It makes the
blood boil to read about it. They learned
all this from Sherman dming our dvil
war, and have improved upon the lesscm
that he taught them. But I won’t
ruminate about it any longer. It makes
me heart sick to ponder cpon the
iniquities of this admiiustraticn. Those
ten miliion negroes cost us $2 a head,
and it has alr^y cost us $200 a head
to subdue them, and we have hardly
b^un. Let me go out and dig some
in the garden. Bul Abf.
P. S. An old soldier, C. W. Shipp,
of Water Valley, Miss., sends me his
shoto as he lies in bed, where he has
seen for twenty-two years, paralyzed
from wounds received at the battie of
of Franklin. He enlisted in company
G, First Mississippi infantry; was in
fight at Fort Donaldson and Fort Hud
son, and followed Hood from Atlanta
to Tennessee; was wounded at battie of
Franklin and taken prisoner. He_ has
written a poem and dedicated it to
his comrades. His home has an old
debt of $400 hanging over it, and wiU be
aold b^ore^ong. How many of &e vet
erans who are going to Dallas will send
him a dollar or half a doUar to save hp
old home? He will send each one his
picture and a copy of poem. B. A.
P. S.—I receive letters every mail
Mking qu^tions or wanting favors of
some sort. I answer those that have
stamps inclosed. B. A.
The UcccmUt ot a WMpplaC Post.
Sabacriber In Atlanta Journal.
I heard a young negro some time ago
bragging on the fact that he had been in
the chaingang six times (he was in ~
crowd of negroes), and idways had
plenty to eat and some jn^tty striped
dothes to wear, while the common run
of darkies were always dressed in rags
and were huuf^ most of the time.
This fellow is in again now for his
seventh time. Another negro was ar
rested here today for taking some cake
and other eatables out of a house last
night.
When he was questioned as to why he
did it he said he couldn’t get any job
and he wanted something to eat. He
said if he succeded in stewing it with
out being caught up with it was all
right and if he was caught it didn’t
make much difference as he would be
fed when they put him in the chain
gang.
Now these are only fair representatives
of large numbers of the race.
If they don’t mind gc^g in the chain
gang it is certainly no punishment to
send them there and how can you keep
down crime if it is not punish^?
To my mind the old old-time whi >
ping post fill the exactiy..
If these young imps were given
good, sound whipping for these littie of
fenses, I thing it would put a stop to
the greater part of this petty thieving
and I am sure you would not hear one
of the culprits boasting of the fact trfter
the operation.
As for them having to steal to get
something to eat, this is not neoei
at all. A good hiuid has no trouble in
getting a job. It is jast these laqr “no
account” darkeys that donH want to
work which have no work to do.
8*ath«ro Baa la Tke GaMnet.
mP T* JOBSBC1.ABK.
Salisbory Son. . *■ ^
The charges made agidiul Jadge
Walter Clark by Maj. J. W. WilKo
constitute the greatest ipolitioai sensa
tion of the pMt two yean. Qn,;aoooimt
of the standing and high rq^tation
Judge Clark owes it to hiiuetfluid his
friends to deny these cliargss if they
are untrue. The most serioun of
fourteen specific charges are:
During the Fusion regiue Ad any
one ever hear him speak, or he^of hu
speaking a word oi eneooragement for
the Democracy?
In 1896, when the Democratic Con*
vention sent a committee io Mk him
to lead the party, did he not' refase,
unless it was agreed that he shoidd re
main on the bench, drawing hipsalaiy,
until the election was held and it was
known whether he was elected or not?
In 1895 did he not sugg^ td leading
Populists and members of the^ Fasioa
Legislature “that the man who receiv^
all the votes of all the parties was tW
logical candidate for the 8ma|v to be
chosen by the Fusion Lq;islat^?”
Did he not advise Govemor^^Bassell
remove the Railroad Commtsrioneis,
and did he not prepare an older for
their removal, and did he not after
wards sit in judgment on their appeal?
Did he not confer with Mr, Jbhn H.
Pearson and get his consent to accept
the place before RusseU removed me,
and did he not advise Qnas^ that
Pearson would accept?
After Judge Fairdoth died, and be
fore he was buried, did he nrt Dr.
Gyrus Thompun to see Gtovemw Bus
sell on the train going to Gtold^poro to
attend Judge Faircloth’s funertl, and
ask the Republican Govenu» to«i^int
him Chief Justice ?
During the years 1895-’96-’97 .and
did he not suggest many political edi
torials to Butier’s Caucasian, and re
quest Mr. Cade, the editer, to bum the
copy?
After the Democratic Convention
held in May, 1898, refused to accept
Butler’s Fusion Scheme did he hot say
The Democracy can’t win. It «
sold out, and has elected Simmons,
tool of the railroads. Chairman. It will
be beaten worse than ever?”
Judge Clark should explain.
A strong combination is pushing for
a c4lHnet place a Southem man in the
ent a^inistration. The matter was
[aid b^ore the President this morning
by Senator Pritchard and Representa
tive Blackburn and Moody, of North
Carolina. They had a talk of some length
on the subject, pointing out to the Pres
ident the fact that one-third^ of the
country in point of population is ignor
ed in the cabinet representation.
Among the names considered in this
connection have been H. Clay Evans,
the Pension Commissioner; Senator Me-
Laurin, of ^uth Carolina; Captain
tAiarles Price, of Salisbury, N. C.; di
vision counsel of the Southem Railway
or Judge Bynum, of Greensboro, N. C.
ex-Govemor W. O. Bradley, of Ken
tucky,' and even Senator Pritchfud him
self has been spoken of, but he will not
consider the proposition.
lost
been
Charlotte Observer.
The Mooresville Enterprise tells an
interesting story of a sensible Cabarrus
county farmer who was in its town last
week and had a conversation with its
editor on local and general politics. His
countrymen have for several years
sought to have this farmer come out for
the office of sheriff, but to no avail
The Enterprise continues:
“He hold that his farm pays him
fairly good returns—^in other words he
is prosperous in his present occupation.
In case he should be elected to a county
office, the duties would require at least
two years to become acquainted with
the routine work and at the same time
unfit him for the occupation he now
follows. After two years the routine
office-holding agitation would oust him
and leave him in town out of employ
ment and a party victim, with no pros
pects of a future political career. He
says he will stay on the farm where he
luiows that his job will last, and if the
seasons are favorable he will continue
to prosper and live content.”
Thene are not many men who take
this view of the snbject of office-hold
ing, and yet it is nndoubtedly the cor
rect view. Holding office is the poorest
business in the worid unless a man
could follow it steadily, as a life-time
oocopation, and this few men are pei^
mitt^ to' do. This Cabarrus man ir
wise in seeing the end from the b^n
fling; fortunate in being able to realize
that in the outcome there is nothing in
it for him except disapp^tment and
Teachers in the public schools often
find lighter and tears close together
in their experiMiceB with pai^ In
one of the West Kde schocds a teacher
injhe priniary grades had had great
ilty in inpressing on her pu]^
the necessity of faiinpngwritten excuses
when, for mod leaaona, they were ab
sent or taidy. She even went so far as
to call on the parents of some of the
pupils and e^^ain the matter to them
personally. One ot the families on
which she had the hardest work to im
press the necessity of sending excuses
that of a little boy named Isadore.
His parents had been in this country
bat a short time and did not andentand
the American eastoms, bat finally the
teacher, afterseveral calls socoeeded in
impressing oa them the impartanoe^of
wl^ die asked.
^o or three we^ later Isadore was
absent for three dbya. The teat^er
made oplier mind that something seri
ous must be the matter. The boy was
hrigM and willing pupil and she had
become much interested in him. final
ly, on the morning of the fourth day,
another pa{^, whose parents lived in
the same Uock with Isadore, came up
to the teacher’s desk when he reached
school in the morning and handed up
a tear-stained and duty littie piece of
paper.
Dear teacher,” it said in painfully
laborions letters, “please excuse little
Isadore for being absent. He is dead.”
CbarlotteNews.
What is to be done about the increas-^
ed cost of living?
No man can say where the jvice of
meat will stop. It has been dimbing
steadily upward for weeks; the ^d
not yet. What is the cause oi this |in
prec^ented rise? The Ug paolffi^ who
practically controlly control tha market,
tell us that a scardty cattie is
ble for the increase; that is a
—A Baaisess Lie. ' } it-
The troth is the schedule of |«ioesii ^
being manipulated,—^r^lated lUsgilly
and trade restricted in defiance ^ nar
tional law by the Beef Thidt^'^as the
combination at Ug padketf ia known.
Decisive action is. neceaaiy. Hie
poor have no economical food to which
they can turn. They might Bve with
out eating meat for a wbile, bat
fortanatdy the greed of the Beef Trust
has forced upward the prices on all
food'Stuff; the increased demand makeB
food dearer. Iririi potatoes, once said
to be the barometer of famine are now
selling for 40 conts the peck in Char
lotte; a short while back they could be
bought for 20 cents the peck. What’s
to be done about it?
The gentieman interested in the meat
monopoly are rich, influential dtizenS;
church membt*rs, regular in attendance,
pious and active, perh^ in charitable
work. They do not hesitate to rob the
poor or violate the law of the land, be
cause it brings more gold into their al
ready overflowing coffers. They would
not heed an appeal from the pow or
the hungry because the do not carry
their conscience into their business—
consdence with men of that stamp
ornamental and for Sunday use only.
What’s to be done about it?
Congress will not take any action
against the Beef Trast or any other
trust so long as it is dominated by the
Rebublican machine. The most inflti-
ential Republicans in the country are
the founders, instigators and abettors
of trasts. The Attorney General of the
United States was nutured on a trast
bottie—spent his time and talent amid
that environment and stei^>ed from it
into the office he now holds. When he
accepted that high office he Took an
oath to protect and care for the inter
ests of the people and he drews every
month $666.67 of the people’s money.
It is your money hie Recdves, the com-
people’s money earned by the
sweat of your brow, and it is your in
terest he is sworn to protect. What
are you going to do obout it?
ATOTB.H1U. WmmA.
Jesse Annon Baldwin, who lived
Caiatotte, N. C., several yean, has a
novd plan for solving theprobim of
scheme is set forth in an artide which
ai^teats in Gnnton's Magasine for April.
It provides for a coUoa mill to be ran
in ooimectim with a boaiding sdMX^
The school he woaM divide into two
dasses of hands, one to go to sdMxdin
the morning and the other in the after
noon. Those who woiked in the morn
ing would go to school in the afternoon
and vice vena.
This idea will not impnss the average
reader as being praolieal and we do not
expect to see a hoarding hoose cotton
mill on the plan of thel^. Jesse An-
non Baldinn. Bnt his artade contains
■ome very snggrihye tlMM^ts apon
child labor andother evils of oar prob
lem ot cotton mill labor. Unfortanatdy
there can be no Jnst denial of the state
ment of this writer that:
“The men who projected and boilt
Already a movement has been started
in South Carolina for the erection of a
monument to the late Gen. Wade
Hampton, and it is expected that in a
few days an organization will be per
fected for a thorough canvass of the
State for funds. It is expected the
Daughters of the ConfedenuT^ in South
Carolina will take an active part m
curing the money necessary for the erec-=
tion of a monument worthy alike of the
State and the grand old man whose life
has just dos^. Several liberal sub
scriptions have already been tendered.
One Confederate camp at Charleston,
which had recently voted $100 for a
projected collation, promptly abandoned
the collation and unanimously dedded
to transfer the money to the Hampton
monument fund. The Charleston Even
ing Post expresses a preference for an
equestrian statue, with the figare the
heroic Hampton as he luipearedin Gon-
federatej^my, commaiiimiig the Cavafay
of the Confederate Army of Nortjism
V'irginia,
that they gave poor pec^ile woric. But
much of the praise that would otherwise
be their due most be withhdd because
the conditions of labor have not been
in most cases as to mike tbe
workers stronger and bettnv,”
Mr. Baldwin does not; place all the
blame for the evils of duld laUv in
mills upon employen bat says that
much of it mast be home by li^ and
besotted fathen and mothers who are
defective in the parental imrtinot.
Employen will always be fonnd who
will get labor as cheaply as possible re
gardless of moral considerations and un
til the empk>yment of ehiUren in mills
is forbiddrai by law not very much can
be accomplished by expatiating on its
fearful effects upon the bodies,
minds and Malt.
Am mUt ttmrr
VewOrlMosMBtaB.
Aorarding to the terms Of the primaiT
Eto^on bill reoentiy pansnd by the lOs-
sMppi l^pslature, nominatingcoiiVMi-
tions will become things of the past
in that State with the only
that sndi assemblages are to be
every f^yean to name delegates to
the national conventions to
candidates fte Presidential Electoo. All
other nominaticMM will be ^ pri>
elections. In this way UniM
States Senat(»B are to bedioeen, iriiicb
is one of the best ftetares of the law, as
their election is by the vote of the peo
ple and thus large axporations are de
prived of the oi^iortanity of “woridng
the L^iislatoro” and seeariiw the eieo-
ti(m of a^eandidate who wm be more
than willing to serve them in the United
States Sen^. The Primary eleotiona
are to be governed by the regular elee-
tion laws of the State, the county eze-
cutive.oommittees of tiie difCorent ptriil*
ical pisrties having the fanctiime of
county dection ccHnmisnonen s^
pointing the (^cera to have charfo ot
The bill also outlines the manner la
which the State and county executive
committees me to be chosen and eare-
fnlty defines thdr powers. Partidpation
in the primary of a political party is re
stricted to voters who have
with that party for two yean or who axe
ad^ttedby the terms of the State Oom*
mittee. The expoase of these primaries
to be home by each party and tb«
Anting ot ballots, reodvii^ the ToCa
and making returns rf the TOte an
carefully guarded by striet regulattona.
A7c««K«a Kalim* PMtwre.
Athws, Ga., April 25.—The elo-
qoentaddressof GovemorC. B. Afcock,
of Nxth Oardina, was the feature of
the forenoon sesnon of the Soathem
There is no ezplaaattmi of thia thii«
that we call public ofiiaion. Qen.
Wade Hampton came out of tiie war
between the Sutes with the rswrd of
ahopa at Spencer will
by one-^iird within the
nextfsw mmths, It has been rumored
for some time t^ the shops would be
increased and today a Sun reporter in
tet viewed Master Mechanic Robinson
on the snbject. Mr. Robinson stated
that the capadty of the round house
w6uld be increa^ by one-third and
that the car sheds will be douUed. New
machinery to the value of about $5,000
has already been received and part of it
has been installed.
When the enlargement is made the
force will be about one-third, or 200
men, larger. The Southem finds
growing need for these improvements
on account of the growning iinportance
of this ^int as a railroad center.
The ^y mmor which is periodically
circuited, that the shops will be moved
from Salisbury, is entirely without
foundation and unworthy
notice.
A GrMt aiklp Tree*.
New Yobk, April 19.—Wall Street
was surprised to-^y at the armounce-
ment that J. Pierpont Morgan has suc
ceeded in forming the biggest steam
ship combination known in the history
of the worid in London. The an
nouncement was unexpected as many
men in a pomtion to know declare that
they had no intimation of deal pending.
Not only are the British and American
lines involved but two Cterman lines
have been brought under agreement
to work in harmony with the latest,
gre&t trust, whose capital is $150,000,
000. Under this management will 1m
six of the biggest British and American
trans-Atlantic lines, owning two hun
dred and dghty steamships. Absdute
control of ^e tmns-Atlantic merchant
marine is placed in American hands
and the United States will dictate ocean
traffic.
North Carollaa Wlaa «
Nasheville, Tenh., April 18.—The
last of the series of three inter-collq;iate
debates between Vanderl^t University
and the University of North Carolina
occurred here to-night, the visitors from
North Carolina gaining the decision.
The question, of which North Carolina
took the motive, was “Reived, That
the Federal govemment should own and
operate the railroad in . the United
States.”
The following were the speaken:
North Carolina: T. A. Adajns and
Charles Ross; Vanderbilt: Frank Seay
and W. M. Board.
Tit Bits.
It is said that a young officer at the
front recently wrote to l|is father:
“Dear Father—Kii^y send me $60
once; k)st another % in a rtiff engage
ment, and am in hospital without
The answer was; “My Dear 8cm—As
this is the fourth leg yon have lost, ao-
cording to your letten, you ought to be
accustomed to it by this time. Tty 'and
wobble along on any othds you m»y
■have left.”
M Of Coveraor Stavle of Arkai
LTnLE Rock, Ark., April 23.—^At a
meeting of the Second Baptist church
congr^tion to-night, the disdpline
committee present^ charges agunst
Governor Jeffoson Davis, who
member of thechurch. The all^ations
ise the Governor of profanity
drankenness and gambling.
It waa decided by the congregation
to pmnt a committee of three to wait
on &e Governor and demand of him a
statement as to whether the charges are
trae or not. No further action
taken by the church at to-night’s meet
ing. Governor Davis isoutof the State
on a vacation tour, and is not expected
to retom until June I. Until his retum
no further st^ will be taken in the
Tm Ralae BaUrMUl Ties. .
Nitfw Obixans, April 26.—John P.
Brown,"^ Secretary of the Intonational
Sodety of Arboriculture, has just com
pleted the planting of 250,000 catalpa
trees for the Illinois Central Railroad on
its reservation at Harahan, above New
Orleans, The plantntion cofen 250
acres.
The Illinois Central Railroad
latdy had great difficulty in securing
railroads ties and prc^wses to raijM tliem.
The Harahan plantMion wilt, it is
calculatid, provi^ within fifteen yean
iH)0,OQO of the best ties tlutt cftn ‘
xilitical oowditionh in Booth OtfoBna
jecameintalBnihlBlMiraBtafaed to as
theMosssto ddlver his people. He
did so and.becaase qaile iagr^a hero
•oe aa M had been in war. From
the~ govemonhip he went easity to the
Senate, bat after he had had long and
honoial^ service in that body the
wind veoed and he was diqplaced.
Though he bad not ohsnged so
much as abac's breadth something
was the matter and he waa in dtsfovw.
Those who had in former yean
raved and shouted at his
looked at him askance—he wai
fallen idol. Frmn that time
lived in dignified retirement. He
dies and again becomes s hero. J
people moum him, and loi
before he is dust a mov«n«Bt for
monument by popular subscription is
well under way. It is the old story of
the time of the Christ: “Hosanna I’'
to-day; “Cmdty him I” t
These popular waves are unexplain
able. They are like the wind which
Uoweth where ithsteth—no man knows
whence it cometh and whither it goeth
But it was ever so and will he ever so.
We see an expression of it, in modified
torm, in tfie ease of a mui in tl^e
nation now, and in that of another
man |n this State; the reaction from
period of intense dislike of them is not
comi^ete but it has set in unmistak-
ably. __________
WmM*s Vair
Chicago, A^ 28.—The $460,000
which remains in the treasury of the
World’s Columbian Exposition Com
pany probaUy will be divided next week
among the 20,000 sharehdden.
The dividend, it is estimated, wiU be
about 46 cents a share. Sh
sold for $10. About one-foarth ot the
,000 stockholden hdd one share each.
The dty will get about $285,000 as its
dividend on the $5,000,000 bond
issue.
The bonds have been tied up by
gation. About 200 suits were broaght
for damage the daima aggregating
nearly $500,000. Most of the
were dedded against the complainants,
judgements b^ig secured f» less than
$15,000 of the entire amount.
Aycock’s snlijeoi was
theVofaintaryTkx.” Hewasrepealadty
fnterxupted by a^tlMise and whan ha
eeaaed speaking the* entire aodiaaoe
rose to cheer him. Governor Ajeoek
hat the State of North OaroKna
had determined that every child of thtt
State, white and blacky should be ete*
'. If there were scmie who did not
think the negroes o^ht to be edmsted,
he did not agree with them. No na>
educated force, he said, coaid do aa
good work as one that had been
trained. The speaker’s donng woida
totheaudienee and to the Northern
vislton tdd how the North and the
South, once contending tor unim and
indep^ence, wm now united in a
more gloriouB independence than had
ever b^ore been enjoyed.
And old-time darkey, who had gotten
into trouble, sent the fdlowing letten
to one of his “white folks:”
Marse KU—I Is goin’ ter Jale Kaite
dey mistaken me fer de Bite man. Yoa
know me. Pleas see de Trial Jedge en
tell ’im who is I, en ’bout what time he
gwine ter sen’ me ter de Penitenshery
ferdeyuther Man. Ef hed(m'tsen'me
Rite off, you’ll mebbe have time ter pt
me out. I is so inneroent* dat I is
hongry aUde time. Tell de Trial Jeddge
what he mean by it, en how come* e(
you please, snh.”
fforwlcii. S. T.
Hn. Lee Hitchcock was playing with
the family cat and hdd ap a piece of
meat for it. ' In jumping thecatcant
its daws in Mn. mtchoock’s ankle,
making a slight scratch.
Nothing was thou|^t of the wound
until a few days later, when the ankle
and leg b^an to be painful and a doc
tor was summoned. Mrs. Hitchcodc
was beyond hdp when he arrived and
died iii great agony.
Columbia, S. C., April 81,«-^pedal.)
—At florenoe last n|g)i( Bev. B. W.
Qieggt an evangelist, died at the home
of State Constanie Bowland
Mr. Gi«k was • firm
fiith cnre and rsfosed dining
wedEs’ illnesp of tyf^oid-pnenmonia to
take a diop of medidne.
He consented only once toseeaph^>
sician, bat woald meoept i^ttm fhjne
nor
Ttreaty »ni» CemMee,
Rai£ioh, April 21.—Henry E. fries,
of Winstei iilnm, is securing options
on over 20 cotton mills in this State and
South Carolina in order to place them
in a combination company under a
New Jersey charter. The plan ig tW
company shall acquire theee mdlls,
paying for properties at the rate of 60
pvcent. of the cwniUa^e prefttwd
stock, 40 per cent, of bonds anid 90 per
cent in United States bonds. It is pro*
poied to issue $7,000,000 of cumulative
preferred stock and take the amoontof
common stock. Mills at itmlaigti Gae*
traia, Henrietta, Rddsville, Mt. Holly,
Belmont, Tarbmo and other ipoints u
this State and Yorkville and Chester,
8. D., are expected to go into thia ar*
rangement. Stockholden of large yam
mills are called to meet May 7 to vote
on the sale. *
CooLEEMEE, April 21.—The Ooolee-
mee Mills will give the operatives tlM
benefit of a graded schod. A modem
school building will be erected within the
next few months and all arrangements
lerfected for the opening of the sdMX)l
ly September 1st It is probable that
severd public schools will be conaolida*
ted and that the Cooleemee district wiU
number neariy 1,000 school sabjeots.
The bcdlding w^ be located in the
northeastern part of town, so aa to
make it easily accessiUe to pupils eom*
ing from the country. It is the par*
pose of the mill management to
the school of benefit to the suitoand-
ing county. An edacational masa
meeting will be held in June, OoTsnBor
Aycock, Superintendent Jojner and
o^en are expected to make addresses.
Over (me hundred cotton spinnera
from six States «nd representing 800,*
0(00 Southorn yam spindles, met In tlM
rooms of the chambOT of commeroe at
Chariotte yesterday m»ning to hear
the details of a proposition of Mr. F. L.
Underwood, of New Y(nk city, who
wishes to combine 60 per cent, or more
of the Southern yam mills in a $00,-
000,000 trust J ost before adjournment
the mill men unanimondy voted for a
resolution declarii^ the wisdmn of
amalgamating their interests; and a
majcnty voted for a resolation to re
commend Mr. Underwood’s ptopodtioa
to the favoraUe OHisideration of the
stacUioldenof the Southem yam mills.
riu at* with Hear*
The Arkansss Federation of Wo
men’s dubs, in annual session at Fort
Smith, Ai^., adopted a reaolntion op»
posing any compromise measure
“which shdl leave a loop hole bgr
whidi cdored women may be intro
duced into the general Federation of
Women’s Clubs,” «nd providing for
the witljdrawal of the Arkansas otgani-
tion from the National Federation, in
ease adored women are admitted.
Is this a fast train?” asked a paa-
’, who was tired of dtling at a
at which the train waa not snp-
tostop.
“Of course it is,” was the condnetor’a
“I thought so. Woald yon
waj gettin|oattoseewhatitisfsittar*