North Carolina Newspapers

$1.00 a Year, In Advance. 'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH. Single Copy, 6 Cents. VOL. XL PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901. NO. 50. STATE NEWS. TKo Wat a 11 era Donrwrfit RAVfl thft file- ! f OkS j - - - - pant mansion of Mr. Moses H. Cone, at fii"" uj"Q'-'" " Blowine Rock, is about Completed. cost about $75,000. Senator Marion Butler will go to Ruleltrh March 5. and Bays he will de vote all his time to the practice of law and his newspaper, the Caucasian. The Danville Bee Bays: "There was nnfft talk of imneaching Governor Kus doI! nt "Wnrth Carolina, but he escaped. and "went out of office in a blaze of glory." A movement has been sprung m Albemarle for a dispensary, and an -application will probably be made t the present Legislature for its establish , meat. Tho nnlnnnfl are ae-ain ODen in Greens boro. The bars closed just nine months ago to make room . for tne dispensary. Since that time there has been no end of agitation of the liquor question. The Legislature gives the superior courts jurisdiction of the offense of r.rueltv to - animals. Heretofore this has been entirely in the jurisdiction of magistrates, and the enforcement of the law has been very poor. A pamphlet entitled "Forty Years a Pastor," being "an account of the proceedings of the fortieth anniversary celebration 01 tne pastorate 01 me xvev. Jethro Rumple, D. D., of the First IlCOUj ICilaii VIAVAiVl vy Kjw.tvvvnj -v vember 18-20, 1900." has been issued, mt i v. ...iLA.IItna n - nAvt tin Xue pOolomce auiuuiiiion WC bOl' nu- ly making things lively for negro post moatero m AAHtern North Carol 'na Quite lately several have been arrested been drotDed. It is significant that in no cases baye the vacancies been niiea Dy negroes The Southern Railway Company has gained a damage suit. The ureensboro Telegram gays that it happened Wed nesday when the jury brought in a ver Aint nf Tin damages for Mis Anna "Fun na.. of Reidsvilfe. who sued for $2, 000. She waB hurt while stepping off a train in Salisbury. One of the mOBt brutal murders that was ever committed in Rowan county occurred near Spencer Saturday night nniiard Cox. of Winston, was shot and killed by Sam Malonej of DflviA nnuntv. both colored, jviaione not content with shooting his victim tuo rtrnororod him out from under a church where he had crawled to die and stamped him. (.. . Some time ago it was announced that Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of the Qfoto Mnrmnl and Ttidiistrial College. K3bb 4.wfc""A - ' ' would undertake to raise an endowment fund nf $100,000 for the institution by securing 1,000 subscriptions of $100 each. Already quite a numoer oi bud scriptions have ben received, and the indications are that the entire amount will be raised during the present year. As the Southern fast mail train. No. 35, southbound, was passing between Soencer. Saturday night parties standing upon an embankment abOUt On lue level Wliu mo ja,i nmuuno fired a shot gun at the train and also threw a large piece of scrap Iron through a window. The shot shattered a win dow of the day coach. No one was in jured, but a passenger in the day coach had a narrow escape. ; There is no clue to the miscreants. ,' , Captain W. H.'Kitchin died at Scot land Neck last Saturday night, at 9 o'clock. He had been ill for about two wpeka with nneumohia. Captain Kit- chin was well known throughout the ... . 1 I A 1 state, and his deatn win De greauy re gretted. He was held in high esteem, being elected first to the state legislature and afterwards to congress. He was the fathefof Hon. W. W. Kitchin, con gressman from the fourth district, and of Hon. Claude Kitchin, in congress from the second district of this state. Caring for the Veteran. North Carolina Confederate Veterans' Association in session at Raleigh last week unanimously adopted the reports of committees and memorialized the legislature to apppropriate $20,000 for the maintenance of the soldiers' home here and $5,000 for new buildings and the preservation and repair of the pres ent ones; that' the pension tax be in creased from 3 i-;3 per cent to 5 cents on property; that all confederate soldiers with honorable records, who have reach ed the age of seventy, not able to support themselves and are not v nth $500, and all widows of confederate soldiers who were married prior to the close of the war have reached the age of sixty-five who, for any cause, are un able to support themselves and are not worth $500 shall be ennlled on the pen sion list," that there be no further pen sion legislation ;. that the state be asked to publish p. new and correct record of North Carolina, troops jn confederate servjceC the present one being incom pjeteatul with many errors. It is expected that in Stokes county the tobacco acreage will be reduced one-third. Many tobacco growers are leaving the country and going to the cotton mill towns. Another cause of the decline of the tobacco-growing in dustry is the buying out by the trust of so many of the principal factories at the various markets. , ! BILL ARP ON IGNORANCE. The Ilartow Philosopher Write of the Schools and Paper. Sixty years ago there was some ex cuse for ignorance; we had but few schools in this southern land and not a dozen newspapers in the state. There were not half as many reading books in all our town as I have now in my small library of 400 volumes. In our schools we had a blue back spelling book, Smiley's arithmetic, Murray's grammar, Smith's geogra phy and the English reader. To master these was considered a good old field education. I have on my shelf a copy of that same old English reader. A good lady sent it to me not long ago, and I almost wept over its delightful pages for there is no school book now published that has so choice a selection of varied reading both in prose and poetry. I have a letter from an old gentleman in Florida asking where he will find a little poem that his mother taught him and some of which he has for gotten. "It begins," he said, ''Pity the sorrows or a poor man." I do not know where he will find it, except in the old English reader. It was written in 1709 by Thomas Moss, and was quoted by Dr. Johnson and Goldsmith. Both loved the pathetic, and nothing more pathetic was ever written. Pltv the sorrows of a Door old man V hose trembling limbs have bora him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; Ahl give relief and Heaven will bless your store. Those tattered clothes my poverty bespeak; xnose noary iocks proclaim my jengtnenea Tears. And many a furrow In my grief-worn cheek t lias been the channel to a flood or tears. Oh. take me to your hosoltable home. Keen blows the wind and piercing Is the coia; Short Is my passage to the friendly tomb,' For 1 am poor and miserably old. These are some of the verses, and in another occurs the line often quoted: "A pampered menial drove me from the door." This copy of Murray's English reader was printed in London two years before Queen Victoria was born. It was the text book in most of the schools when I was a hoy, and from it we got our speeches and learn ed how to bow and gesture and give accent and emphasis. This book, with the teacher's aid, gave us an idea of elocution and how to read impressively, and I wish it was in all our schools today. We have good scholars, but very few good readers It is rare to find a preacher who can emphasize his text on a chapter or a hymn. Every college, and especially every theological seminary, should have a professorship of reading and speaking. I remember hearing an eloquent divine preach a sermon from the text, "My sin is ever before me,". and such was his utterance of that lamentation of David and such his profound and solemn rendering of the enduring consequences ot sin, that all his hearers were deeply im pressed. "My sin is ever before me" still rings in our memories. I said that sixty years ago there was some excuse for ignorance, but nevertheless, that age and these schools produced many very notable men. The young people were eager for knowledge. A newi book was a treasure in the house, and there was more time, more leisure, and Solomon says that "in leasure there is wisdom." But now tne books, are almost m the way. They crowd us and sur round us, and "the cry is still they come. Young people read an aver age of two or thiee a week, and for cet the contents in a month. There are magazines in every household, and they contain ou. best literature instructive and entertaining; news papers flood the country by the mil lions. The New York World boasts that it published 240 million copies last year. Every county in our state has a county newspaper, and the editor of the Carrollton paper says the children read a great deal more than their fathers did and keep up with wars and politics and murders and suicides. Then what is the matter. Bishop Candler wrote an excellent and in structive article recently on "The passing of great men." He never writes anything that does not give us food for thought, and I am thankful that he has not passed. Yet the day of great men has passed, not only in Georgia, but in all the south. Elo quence in the pulpit, the forum and the counties of the nation forty and fifty years ago was our pride and our boast, when we had among our preachers such noble and true men as George Pierce, Dr. Means, Long street, Jesse Mercer, Nathan Craw ford, Dr. Tucker, Bishop .Elliott and Beckwith, Joseph Stiles, Dr. Nixson, Dr. Goulding, and such lawyers and statesmen as Forsyth, Troup, the two Cobbs, Jenkins, Toombs, Stephens, Johnson, Walter Colquit and Ben Hill. There are twenty names given, and many more might be added, and it is a lamentable truth that their equals do not exist in Georgia today. This decay of great men is apparent in every southern state, and as for the north, there is nothing there now but plutocracy who buy their way into public office and defy trial or criticism. The struggle for money is the curse of the age. It has smoth ered the nobler aspirations -of our nature. "Get money; get money honestly if thou canst, but at all events get money" is now the motto. The common people want some, and the plutocrats want more. The masses of the people are on a-strain. I am one of them, and I know how it is, for I have been on a strain ever since the war. It is buckle and tongue to keep in hailing distance of society. So many of our class have a rich man's ways and a poor man's purse that we have to hang on to the ragged edge of gentility. There are so many things nowadays that we are just obliged to have things that did not exist in our antebellum days. Our boys must go to college to get smat tering of books and a full text of ath letics. Our girls must go to get polish and make college friends and receive visits and . return visits after they graduate, and it takes money for clothes and money for railroad fare, and every now and then a girl gets married and chooses her college mates for her attendants, and that takes more clothes and a wedding present, and so forth, and so, fifth and sixth, and so on. Oh, my country! When will this strain stop? There ought to be a miser in every family, or a rich old bachelor uncle who carried a big life insurance, and would die just at the right time and leave a fortune to his impecunious sisters or his nieces! Why, if I had a good bank account to draw on, I could write a more cheer ful letter and take a hopeful view of things and keep calm and serene; but as it is, I find myself lampooning those West Point cadets, and I want those ringleaders Barry, and Dock ery, and Dual handed down to posterity as the champion hazers, and their names put in a catalogue along side of the duke of Alva to illustrate human brutality. But I didn't mean to say anything hard about the Tech boys who have been suspended. I have great hope for that institution, and admiration for the manner in which the boys received their disci pline. Nobody thinks any less of them, for there was nothing mean or cruel. in their thoughtless conduct, and every outside father sustains Mr. Lyman Hall and the faculty. Of course their mothers are deeply ag grieved. They always are when their sons are punished; that is a natural and beautiful trait in a mother's character. She clings to her boys, regardless of whether they are right or wrong. She is like a tigress when robbed of her whelps. 1 have re ceived several letters from the moth ers of those boys, and they defend them with earnest indignation. One of them concludes with, "Now, I am the mother ot one of those boys you wrote about, and if you wish to play Diogenes, bring on your cane." But we have made friends, for she is a lady and a mother, and the poet says: "A mother Is a mother still, ' The noblest thing alive." But I am not Diogenes, and it was not the mother, but the father that he caned, and I have not received a line from any of them. Bill Aep. P. S. We see that General Charles King, of the United States army, is not only apologizing for the West Point hazing, but is defending them, and says it doesn't matter much, for boy will be boys. He writes in the Saturday Evening Post, and it is the poorest effort to excuse brutality I ever read. I reckon he was well paid for it. N. B. Judge Fite requests me to let everybody know that Bartow county is on the up grade and is going to build a thirty thousand dollar courthouse this year. We are out of debt, and have a good pile of money in the bank. B. A. Mr. Nation Victorious. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 7. City Attor ney Gregg to-day dismissed the charge held against Mrs. Nation for smasning the Senate saloon, on Tuesday. "The city has no ordinance covering the do struclion of personal property," he said, "but under the laws of Kansas the State can prosecut; Mrs. Nation, if what she destroyed can be proved per sonal property." Mrs. Nation thanked him and then faced the women who had crowed' the court room. She began to sing "iTaise God from Whom All Blessings Flow." The court room was temporarily turned into a praise meeting. Hospital for Negroes. Messrs. Washington Duke and B. N. Duke have gwen $5,000 to the colored race at Durham with which to establish ' a hospital. For some time the leaders of the race in Durham have been agitating the matter with the result that the Messrs. Duke have become interested and given the amount named. Work will begin in the near future and a first class hospital will be erected in jthe southern part of the city. The amount given by the MesssrB. Duke will be supplemented by other private donations. The cost of erecting the building and equipping the same will be from $7,000 to $10,000. GENERAL NEWS. The Southern Railroad Company has secured control of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. The rumor that Emperor William will mediate between Great Britain and the Boers is renewed. Seven thousand men are reported to have been killed or wounded in a battle with rebels in Abyssinia. Gastonia has five well developed cases of smallpox, pronounced so to be by the city physicians. Temperance workers in Charleston are trying to get Mrs. Nation to come here to smash the blind tigers. It is very probable that an extra ses sion of Congress will be called to con vene immediately after March 4, when the present session ends. A special from London says King Ed ward is doomed to die with cancer of 'he throat. Most distinguished special ists declare his days are numbered. Ex-Congressman George D. Tillman died after a long illness, at his home at Clark's Hill, m Edgefield county, S. C, on the 2nd in the 76th year of his age He was a brother of Senator Tillman and was a member of Congress from 1876 to 1893, when he was succeeded by the incumbent, Hon. J. W. Talbert. The body of , the dead Queen of England was carried from Cowea to Windsor through London the latter part of last week and laid to rest Saturday Three millon people lined the course of the procession, and an array was required to maintain order. Seldom, if ever, has there been such a funeral. The announcement comes from Memphis, Tenn., that Robert R. Church, believed to be one of the wealth iest colored men in the South, has con tributed $1,000 for the entertainment of the Confederate Veterans at their annual reunion in that city in May next. Church was born a slave in Mis sissippi and spent his early days on a Mississippi steamboat, of which his master was the owner and captain. The House of Congress Saturday passed an omnibus bill carrying 191 claims for stores and supplies taken by the Union army during the c.a.1 war. The claims were passed on by the Court of Claims, agregating $344,480. and practically all the beneficiaries reside in the South. The bill to amend the Chinese exclusion act with a view to preventing the fraudulent entry of of Chinese into the United States was passed, as were several other bills of minor importance. Since the aeatli of Queen Victoria, it has come to light that many London tradesmen and other speculators throughout the United Kingdon have been gambling on their sovereign's chances of life. Millions of dollars have been carried on Her Maiesty's life in British insurance companies, these companies eagerly writing the Insurance without, it is of course need 'ess to say, requiring any examination of fde Queen's physical condition and for the benefit of persons wholly unknown to her. The New York Commercial right ly calls this "a gruesome business," and notes with much satisfaction that the American companies doing business in London, "even under the temptation of big premiums and the acceptance of these by their British comoetitDrs, steadfastly refused to gamble on the Father Creecy on the Legislature. Elizabeth City Economist. Our old friend London's capacious English whiskers have not unduly taxed the fertility of his editorial libel bill until we can see its head sticking out of the legislative rubbish heap, and snapping its eyes with joy. London is old and ha3 given the brotherhood the privilege of saying cuss words with im punity. Meoklenbarg is a great county. It was first to shake off the British lion, and now it takes the lead in the North Carolina House in declaring its indepen dence of dogs. Kipling, or some other wild poet, Bays: "He Who kicks my dog Has got me to kick." We've got no dog. Our dog "kicked the bucket' ' last year. So Sid Alexander may kick my dog in North Carolina with no fear of a counter kick from ua. Kick on Sid A. We'll never say "hold, enough," for we won t be in tnis ngnt against a "down dog." A bill has been introduced in the House to prevent hunting on the lands of another without a written permission, and Senator Morton, who surely never went ''coon hunting," wants lo amend the bill by making it apply only to "coon and 'possum" hunters. Now, we nrotest. Wa nrotest as one who once wore the presidential honor of a "Coon and Possum Club." We appeal to Tom Riddick and all and all the other X.a of the venerable club to stand around Morton with clinched fists, and when Morton kicks our coon let him know he's cot us all to kick. And we truesa he'll Bneak off with his tail twixt his leee. like a coon dog that got bit by a coon in a death grapple. The wrongs of other people arc con tinually getting mixed up with our rights. RECOMitlENDS IMPEACHMENT. The Committee Against the Judges Vote on the Resolution 22 to 10. Raleigh, Feb. 7. At 12:30 this morning (Friday), after a long session the House judiciary committee, 37 members present, adopted a resolution in favor of impeaching Judges Furchea and Douglas, by a vote of 22 to : 10, some not voting. The resolution will be reported favorably to-morrow Speeches against impeachment were made by Connor, Whitaker, of Guil ford, and Ebbs, the latter a Republican, and in favor of impeachment by Roun- tree, opainhour and others. . . It is learned that th9 committee has been all the while fully twp to one in favor of impeachment. Some who had not previously expressed themselves did so to-mght. The resolution of impeachment will be made the special order for next lhursday at 11 o'clock. All who voted in favor of the resolution based their action entirely on the report of the Bub- committee, which was unanimous and which was signed by the five members of the sub-committee Allen, Connor, Craig, Spainhour, and Graham. Among those voting for impeachment were Al len, Rountree Craig, Winston, Hoey, Spainhour, Graham, Robinson, Carlton, Shannonhose, Duls, Wilson, Stewart, Hayes, Guttis, Harris, 'Lawrence, Blount, Nicholson, McKethan. The latter and Carlton spoke in favor of im peachment. An interesting fact in connection with any impeachment of this character is that if the Senate finds the accused guilty, there are two punishments one, removal from office and the other forfeiture of citizenship and deprivation of the right to hold office, either of which, or both, may be inflicted. The resolution adopted to-night is simply to report the Craig resolution of impeachment favorably. The Republi cans were given until next Thursday to hie a minority report. The Democrats will not sign this minority report, but eserve the right to oppose the Craig resolution and offer a substitute therefor if they see fit, when the matter corres up in the House. If the House adopts the resolution and presents it to the Senate, Judges Furches and Douglas will cease to perform the functions un til the termination of the trial. Judge Connor to-night read the reso lution of condemnation of the judges' conduct which he had prepared, but did not ask it3 consideration or insist upon its adoption, as there was no di i position to support it, lines being clearly drawn either for impeachment or against it. Gentlemen who came in from various parts of the State speak of the im peachment matter. Your correspondent asks que3,:.ons riht and left and can say frankly not one person has as yet been found who favored it. A Demo crat from the west: "I am against it. I oppose jumping on the under dog' in the fight. That's what the Supreme Court is. Already sympathy w being expressed for the judges." A veteran ex-chairrnan said he considered it ill advised and had heard no one com mend it. A newspaper man Baidit had been a hasty affair; that the impeach ment of Holden was considered in cau cus a fortnight and many of the ablest lawyers were asked to attend the cau cus and give their views- Four Expelled for Hazing. John Hicks, a cadet from Rockdole, Tex., at the Virginia Military Institu?3, at Lexington Va., and a member of the third class, has been expelled from the institue, primarily for hazing. He was in the act of striking a fourth classman plebe after the manner of "bucking," a sport in vogue here many years, when an inspector ordered him to his room, under close confinement. Soon after, Hicks broke bis arrest and his expul sion followed for this act, but the haz ing caused his misfortune and his ex pulsion from the "West Point of the South." His application for reinstatement was refused by Gen. Shipp, the superinten dent, and he has gone to his home. Hicks is the fourth student expelled from the Virginia Military Institute for hazing during the present session, three being sent away at one time dur ing the past fall. Indorses Ittrs. Nation. Speaking of the 'saloon-smashing work of Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs. Martha J. Skinner, president of the W. C. T. U. of Cincinnati, said law week: "My heart is with Mrs. Nation. She is in the light, and doing a grand thing for Kansas. A few years ago the tem perance union started a praying cru sade. That failed, and now it is time to take up the sword. Understand, I do not saction lawlessness. Mi3. Nation's method could not be employ ed in Chincinnati, for our saloons are licensed; but in Kansas she has the law with her. If the Governor and officers of that great State refuse to execute its laws it is the duty of its citizens to demand and see to their enforcement." The most important case on the civil docket at Iredell court this week is B. '. Lone against the Southern Railway for $50,000 damages for killing his son at University Station in 1899. When a man can't do anything else he can develop into a chronic kicker. TEN DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS. Speaker Moore's Bill for a RedUtrlct - of the State. Another bill redistricting the State for the election of Congressmen was introduced in the House last week, ts author is Speaker Moore, and the text of the bill is as follows: "An act to apportion the several Con gressional districts: "The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: 'Section 1. That for the purpose of selecting Representatives of the Con gress of the United States the State of North Carolina shall be divided into ten districts as follows: First Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Mrtin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Per qu'mans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington. Second Bertie, Edgecombe, Gran ville, Halifax, Northampton, Vance, Warren and Wilson. Third Carteret, Craven, Duplin. Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pender. Sampson and Wayne. Fourth Chatham, Franklin, John ston, Nash, Randolph and Wake. fifth Alamance, Caswell, Durham. Guilford, Orange, Person, Rockingham and Stokes. Sixth Bladen, Brunswick, Colum bus, Cumberland, Harnet, Moore. New Hanover and Robeson. Seventh Davidson, Davie. Forsyth. Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan. Scot land, Stanly, Surry and Yadkin. Eighth Alexander, Alleghany, An son, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Iredell, union, Watauga and Wilkes. Ninth Burke, Catawba, Gaston. Lin coln, Mecklenburg, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey. Tenth Buncombe, Cherokee. Clav. Cleveland, Graham, Haywood, Hender son, Jackson, Macon, McDowell, Polk. Avuiuenora, swam ana xransyivama. Section 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification." This bill, Mr. Moore says, makes all the ten districts Democratic as the fol lowing statistics, ba?ed on the recent census and vote for Ay cock,' show: Districts .... Population Dem. Mai. First 181.063 7.633 Second . . . . ..' 181.766 16.056 Third ..... 180,336 8,050 Fourth ...... 189,614 5,914 Fifth 180.404 2.473 Sixth ..... 186,623 8,942 Seventh . . . . 199,253 4,238 Eighth 194,829 . 2,557 Ninth . . . . . 193,830 2,114 Tenth 201,077 2,589 No Cigarettes in Tennessee. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 31. To bacco dealers in this city have received notice of the final passage of the anti cigarette bill and its signature by the governor. They will discontinue sale and return their stock on hand to the manufac turers. It is stated that the Bale of cigarettes is practically stopped all over the state. Intimations are given that the con stitutionality of the law will be tested. Cleveland's Hope. Grover Cleveland has sent a letter to the Jackson County Democratic Club, of Kansas City, regretting his inability te attend its meeting and speak on the subject: "Democracy Its Past and Future." He says: "May I join you iri the expression of a hope that the addresses, your club contemplates along the line suggested will bear good truit in shaping the policy of the party in the next campaign? May I beg to go farther, and add the hope that the policy will be such as' to lead to a restoration of Democratic sympathy ?" Born With a Set of Teeth. George Russell, of Kentuckv. is the father of a midget daughter that weighs less than two pounds. The remarkable thing about the child is that it was born with a full set of teeth. . The child is well formed, has dark brown eyes and hair, and well develop ed and pretty features. In spite of its small size the child gives no evidence of unusual weakness, and the several phsiciana who have been called in de clare tnat ii win live. All Roads Lead to High point. Highpoint, N. C, will be the scene of much activity and great interest on Feb. 20-22. Our State Sunday School Convention will be held there on these dates, and the entire International party of five workers, every person a special ist, including a Primary worker, will be present. There is a great interest throughout tne State in this meeting, and there will no doubt be many hun dreds of earnest Sunday School workers who will make the pilgrimage to the Convention at this time. It is certainly an opportunity of a life time to hear five Sunday School specialists at one meet ing. Programs may be had of J. W. Bryan, Goldsboro. N. C. Dewey Compelled to Bat Much Dough' A special to The World from Wash ington says: Admiral Dewey was asked if he had been hazed while at Annapolis. Well." said he. "If eating doueh chewing the end of a hawser, going around wun a sningie down my men, drinking vinegar without putting my nose in the glass and such other trifle is being hazed, I shouldn't wonder if was."