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DAILY CH ARLOTTE QBSHRVEH. SEPTELlBEIl 15, ISC r- - - i: i-1 n i 4 - ' "I f I I r ' I,. - - I-:-. i UNDER FREE SILVER'S : REIGN. STBAXGK CASK OF JOB. FASCHAIX. One of the Ablest Physicians of the State, "- m Mm of Capital Prtt, Qalt Finn. Ins la 1853, Whoa the Country Xnjoyed FretSUer, and Moved to Tewa. to jfo P . Nothiag Beeanaer It Paid Hint Better- y The -Messeasr. Not CoMUtent What i Has legislation Got to Do With - lag Anyhow? . -J" " " " To the Editor of the Observer:.,-x -" The Wilmington Messenger of the 12th lost.; contains a lenethy editorial on the cost of raiting cotton in North " CaroliDa," aid Jn its discussion of , that subject makes the following statement Tof facts: . , "When Dr. Z. M. Paschall. one of the -ablest physicians of the .Granville Sfec- ;t tion of the State in this century left ? his farm and moved to Oxford about - 1853, he was also doing good practice We asked why he changed to town. He s said he fonnd farming brought him in debt. That calculating the interest on hkj .plantation, negroes,' , horses, etc. the prod acts were not. really equal to the cost, lie was a man of capital parts, and he did not propose to contin ue tn this losing businesf. So he rent ed his farm, sold horses, stocky etc., ' hired out his negroes andmoved to , wwn to ao nomine, it was saier dusi ness than farmingT" - I confs-?n somewhat surprised to find st'Slrtatement in the editorial columi ynhe leading free silver jour nal in 5e State, t occasionally read the Messenger's editorials on the silver question, and, if I mistake not, that pa per has heretofore takan the position that the depressed condition of the farmer is due. to the "crime of "73, by which silver was struck down." Yet we find the Messenger solemnly stating that In the year 1853, twenty years be fore the great crime above referred to, and while the country was enjuying the glorious blessings of "free silver," "one of the ablest physicians of the Granville section," with "a good prac tice" and "plantation, negroes and horses, " left his farm and moved to town to "do nothing," because it as "a safer business than farming." How strange all this sounds when coming, as it does, from a free silver organ. If this statement had been published by -the "gold-bug" editor of the Ob serves, it would have immediately been branded as a fabrication, gotten up by the "hireling press," at the prompting of the "money power." But what can be said when we find that it is vouched for by a "friend of silver?" What traitor dare rise up and deny the truth of it? Is not all truth, wisdom, patriotism and statesmanship to be found snugly stowed away in the edi torial sanctum of the free silver jour nal? " Will any friend of the white metal deny that in the year one thou sand, eight hundred and fifty-three, and the sixty-third year of the reign of free silver in the United States, Dr. Z. M. PaschalL, a physician of fame and a farmer of "capital parts," residing on his farm, surrounded by his retinue of slaves, "in the Granville section," left this fine farm, sold his horses, hired - out his negroes, and moved to town to do nothing, because it was a safer busi- -ness than farming'! I think not, for the statement bears the seal of ap proval of one of "the people's" annointed. I would like to ask some free silver editor to honestly and frankly tell the people of North Carolina why it is that free silver in 1895 will convert the farmer into a man of opulence and wealth, when in 1853 it brought about, or permitted, such a de plorable condition of affairs that the able physician and man of capital parts, Dr. Paschall, was compelled to leave his farm, sell off his stock, hire out his negroes and move to town to do nothing, because it paid better than farming? I njant an answer to this question. "Cussing" Cleveland, abus ing Wall Street and calling "gold-bugs" Republicans, will not answer it. The people want facts supported by history and arguments backed up by logic, and "glittering generalities" supported by stale wind will not be received as "legal tender" in payment of this obligation, for it is an obligation that the free sil ver leaders owe the people of North Carolina. The masses of the people, the majori ty of whom are'farmers, are honest. They want their rights, but they want tnem "nonestiy come oy. The pohti cal leaders have taught these farmers that they have been robbed by the ."money power through the demoneti zation of silver, and that if silver is re stored to its ancient and constitutional position, ine "money power can no longer. rob them. If the people knew that this tale the politicians are telling them, was in reality a myth, and that some farmers were poor and hard pressed before the war, when we had free silver, just as some of them are to day, and ever will be, they might con elude thawree silver has nothing more to do with the farmers' condition now than it had then. If they were occa sionally reminded that the modern Esau will Still sell his birth-right for a mess of pottage, and the speculating Jacob will also barter hi s soul for his brother Dtrin-ngnt, regaraiess oi statutes or morals; that the herdsman Abet of to day continues to prosper, while his brother Cain may still be una ble to make the soil yield profitable Increase; that, as of old, there are hundreds or Jay Goulds now climb ing the hill of fortune, while thousands of the former sons of wealth are tumb ' ling over each other, in their mad rush down the same hill to the plain of pov erty below; and that Esau and Jacob, Cain and Abel, the Goulds and the spend-thrifts were all born and reared, lived, succeeded or failed, in one nation, . surrounded by the same opportunities and governed by the same laws, these ' people might realize that this great v government, with its constitution and Congress, its executive and judiciary, jits army and navy, cannot enact and eniorce one law that will put a single .. honest dollar in the pocket of one of its (uujcvts, lur wuicn ne aoes not give value received.or create and add to the material wealth of this nation. DroDertv. money, goods or chattels to the value of sucn a dollar. But if this is not true, and a statue of the United States can really make fifr ecu is wurm oi suver equal in value to a dollar in money, and increase the ma ' terial wealth and prosperity of the far mer in the same proportion,, let the - ZTTr Iree 8,Iver editor explain to ttfjf. vaiting public how this can be done, and why it was that Dr. Paschall -had to quit farming, while enjoying .. uuwM uiessmgs or iree stiver. Gold Standakd. GOOD OSI OS COI FICKKTT. : Tb Old Soldiers at Rock Hill Drink Bar- -- - -J wra opnra vritn Lemsuds. , To the Editor of the Observer: A good one is told on Col. W. M. Pick - a .a , - l - en,qiaruo, wno, aaoressed a vast as semblage of old soldiers and citizens at Rock Hill, B. C, August 27th. The occasion was a jubilee reunion and among other enjoyable things, the old vets and their friends put to death, in the brief lapse of a few fleeting hours about 5,000 goblets of lemonade dashed in the proportion of one dror of lemon ade to ninety-nine drops of the quint essence: of John Barley Corn. A big vase of the aforesaid make-up, passed the colonel, who bowing to the vase man, 'seized a goblet, raised it high, and said: - "If ex-Governor and United State Senator Tillman were to walk in here to-nlcht, he would affirm that the dispensary laws of South Carolina had been dispensed with in the city of Bock Hill," and then drank (being one glass behind) toast to Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln amid the long shouts and applause of the multitude. . - The colonel's happy narration of old Dan Murphy's repentance at a camp meeting, and a rehearsal of the battle of Cowpens, near Wadesboro. will long be remembered by the old soldiers and citizens of the -Palmetto State, iwho were present on this eventful occasion. Charlotte, N. a, Sept. 13, IS95. TBK PBACTXCAX. VWCK OF-MmOB- , t -: ' - ' '"-;. And they shall sever prlh. neither shall any. nan Wk thefliou of jay .hand johnx.i8.v-. ;l--2rr Nw York Harjald - The enct produced on a man's cur rent lifefoy a firm- belief In the future is something to be wondered at and ad mired. . ' . ' "'-" If man had the Kohinoor in his pocket, and was not afraid of being robbed, it would add "a cnbit to his stature" and fill his heart brimful of goodnature. 1 - T- , - And, on the other hand, when a man has no faith in the future, not positive ly denying it, but looking, to the- sky with a very faint hope, he may be suc cessful in business- and envied of his neighbors; he nfay be a right honest creature, living ia the sunshine wher ever he can find it; but in his heart there dwells a tenant, grim and an wel come, who holds a life lease of bis rest deuce. -He may make the best of him self which circumstance . allows,: but down in the depths of that man's na ture, covered up by a careless laugh or otherwise concealed is an intermittent desperation which overshadows ' his whole outlook. However rich he may, be, he is "poor indeed." There is a kind of satisfaction whtcbJie can never enjoy, a domain of peace and happiness whose green grass his feet never press, whose flowers he never looks upon, whose crops' are never gathered into his barns. - - ;The religion which 1 circles about faith in the future life as the planets circle about the sun is the most practi cal thing in the- world. It is a heat giving idea as necessary for the fructi fying processes as sunshine is to a wheat field. As well hope for orange blossoms in a damp cave where ice wa ter oozes through the rock and eternal night prevails as to make a soul happy and contented of iK its highest sense productive without tile radiance which comes from a belief ill immortality.. Give a man one glimpse of the Cel'M tiai City, let him hear the voices of angels, and know that they are arjJs,'' and you work a miracle in thwltfi faas whole being. As the clou its at sunset are fairly drenched in beautiful colors colors so entrancing that th human race ceases from its labor to e upon the spectacle so the clouds o. forrow which overhang our spiritual laV scape are rainbow-hued to him who's see the face of the Father and feerPthe touch of His hand. After such an ex perience, literally a new birth, the to evitable to-morrow ceases to be dreaded, and we gladly contemplate the slowly loosening bonds of mortality, because death is freedom, the Lord's messenger to summon us to a higher, a broader, a nobler stage of existence. It is the greatest of all pities that this kind of faith so narrowly prevails. We pretend to be Christians, but the grand est doctrine of our Christianity is either rejected or inoperative. We hope, but we also fear. There are moments when we leei sure, and at sucn times we are inexpressibly happy; there are other moments when we doubt, and we are unspeakably miserable. How can a man fail to see that a be lief in immortality is a prime spiritual necessity? A denial of it thwarts every heroic endeavor and corrupts the mo tives which urge us toward a higher life, if we are to do like the beasts the field, then why should we not live like them? If we 'are so made that we can't help longing for a continued ex istence, but are not to enjoy it, we are like some poor traveler who sees th green neids beyond tne chasm and, ap proaching them hurrying steps and fond anticipations, suddenly falls ove the precipice and is broken by th jagged rocks. Unless there is another life this life is not a boon, but a curse, and man is so curiously and cruelly constructed that tne one only thin which will make him a little lower than the angels is the one only thing which he cannot have. But it is useless to linger on this hot and waterless plain less we die of thirst We believe some of us even go so far as to say we know of our Dersonal knowledge mat deatn is simply evic tion from the body and removal from poverty to riches. That belief ought not to oe vague, however; it should be vivid, thrilling, prominent and perma neat, wavering no more than the rocky headlands on the coast amid the ancrry storms. Think ot the matter when vou sit by the side or your own soul with no one else near by. That kind of think ing win mane your doubts slink away like a thief in the night.' You have a right to immortality, and God offers it for your acceptance, but vou are blind ed, and your hand gropes in the air and fails to reach it. You have another life, and it is a serious misfortune you do not realize that fact, for it is the only corner stone on which you can build. if sorrows come and burdens are to be borne, there Is rest in the future and a peace that passeth understanding Look up, for skies are still blue and stars still shine. The sod covers noth ing but bodies, for souls are too noble for the companionship of the earthly The loved one whose cold hand gives you no responsive pressure, whose eyes look no longer into yours, is not in the churchyard, but in heaven; not beneath the flowers which you hwe wet with your tears, but in that home not made with hands, whence she comes to you. ever and anon, an invisible but benefi cent presence. And after a little, your day's work done, you will enter the cloudy region and emercre on the fur thee shore, where she and many an other wih give- you a warm and heav enly welceme. NiO'g HEAD. A Watering- Plaeo on the East Coast of the State, and the Light to Be Seem There. Written for the Observer. Nag s Head is so called from the tra dition that pirates put a light upon the neaa oi a nag and caused ber to be rid den on the beach, so as to decoy ships mat tney mignt oe wrectced and plun dered, it is a narrow strip of land be tween the Albemarle. Roanoke and Pamlico sounds and the Atlantic ocean. It is the watering place for peo ple living in tnis section. it is in width three-quarters of a mile and extenps to JNorioIk. It is a pen in sola and is a complete sand-bank. You see here and- there several oatches oi grass. Some 300 or 400 people visit this place during the summer. Both bathing in the sound and in the ocean are delightful. To those who never bathed ia the ocean the experi ence is delicious.'? Yon feel the effects for hours and hours. - No one realizes what a "Bea of class" means until the ocean is seen. No won der Byron f aund it a subject for his genius. Nag's Head is fifty miles from Elizabeth City. The trio is made in five hours, v Across the sound three miles, is Roan oke Island a historic soot. Here in 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh sent Governor John White and planted a colony. For some unaccountable reason Governor White left for England a short while thereafter. This colony consisted of 20 souls. Its history wrapped in mys tery. They-took the name of Croatana. considered to be a mixture of white and Indian blood and have been idetifled somewhat with what are known as the Uatteras Indians.. This colony landed at a place now called- Manteo on this inland so called : because the first In dian baptized bore that name, v 11 ere also was bora the first English child, Virginia. Dare. - ' - -v... - . ' Ten miles from Nag s Head is the Orl- gen light house.' X think that is Its name. It ia 156 feet high and 21 feet ide. ; It Is made of solid brick, vary ing ia thickness from 'the base to the top, t from seven ; to three ' feet.. The globe of the lamp that is' burned there enables, probably a dozen persons to stand abreast under it. It burns three gallons of oil a night. The light can be seen thirty miles. I was told that a boy once stood on the , ball on the top, let loose both hands from the lightning rod, stod oa one foot . and asked that his picture be taken.; From the balcony near the. top you get a magnificent view' of the ocean, and Roanoke, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. Below you on the land vou see a beautifully carpeted sur face. : Only the . truly cultured can ap preciate this view Three miles from Nag's Head are the Fresh Ponds be tween the salt water of the ocean and the salt - water .: of 'the sound. . These ponds are full of nice fish. In going there you pass through a ' section of miniature mountains. 'They are Lilli putians. T one accustomed . to 3he mountains, the resemblance is striking and amusing. .. . . -i You : can spend your time at Nag's Head delightfully, i boating, sailing, fishing and bathing. Four -of us, in about twenty minutes, , caught nearly fifty fish.' There is always a continual breeze and it 4s delightful. .... ; - V": " -s - IITIBABY KOTCS -. L j f " - . :.: . -, : - airs. M. Louise Thomas, whose .son married a sister of Alice and Phoebe Cary, has bought their old homestead, Clovernook, which is situated near Cincinnati.-': Shefwill f urnish it with hand some old pieces of mahogany, rare blue china, and other valued relics. It will be preserved ia the family as a memo rial of the poet sisters. - :; , Macmillan & Co. have become the '! English publishers of the Century Com pany's magazines and books since the three years contract with Mr. T. Un win Fisher has expired. .z Three other large and important English publishing firms wan ted. to succeed Mr Fisher, but the selection of Macmillan is considered a good one. ; - The October Scribner win contain an account of the daily life of Robert Louis 8tevenson and his family, written by Mr. Lloyd Osborne, hfs step-son and collaborator.? Mr. Osborne was his con stant companion, and had assisted him in planning the beautiful : and now fa mous place called Yailima. It is said that Stevenson left but - few completed manuscripts.; xne vauima Letters which which were.written to his friend Sidney Colvin, a novel, "St. Ives," and a collection of fables are said to com prise the list. ; The New York Critic says of these; fables, recently published in MoUIure s, "Mr. Stevenson s name is one to conjure with, but it would not have been so, had he done no better work than these Fables." "There are three English poets," says tne Boston iieraid, "each or who has passed his eightieth year, and is living in retirement and in the enjoyment of a reputation that is past." Frederick lennyson, wno is nearly ninety years old, is the brother of Alfred, and at one time promised to be the greater poet. He is even now preparing a volume for for the press. Mr. Aubrey de Vere and Mr. Philip James Baily are the other two. Mrs. George C. Riggs (Kate Douglas Wiggin) has been in Italy. She is now at her home in Hollis, Me., engaged upon her literary work. A new volume of hers is to be published this month by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and stories from her pen are about to appear in Harper's Monthly and the Atlantic. A. B. Frost is to illustrate Uncle Re- mus's first volume. It will be a book eminently worth possessing, for Frost is humorist enough to present Harris' ludicrous fancies most vividly. Mr. Hardy is said to have stated that his serial, "Hearts Insurgent," now running in Harper's Maeazine, bad been sp cupped and pruned to make it decent reading as to render it of little value as a wor'k of art. He intends to give the original text, however, when it appears in book form. The Basis, of Buffalo, very truthfully says: "This statement industriously repeated will no doubt insure a large sale for the book and is in itself the key to the predomi nance of tne nude in art and the nasty in fiction; both sell pictures of naked women and delineation "f erotic inci dent have a distinct market value. Realism has ripened into its natural fruitage rottenness, "Young Greer, of Kentucky," is the tine oi a nvei shortly to trpear from the presses of Rand, McNally & Com pany. It is a story of the blue grass country, by Eleanor Talbot Kinkead. Mr. Philip A. Bruce, who is a brother- in-law of Thomas. Nelson Pace, has written a book dealing with the historv of colonial Virginia. "The Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeetb Century" is the subject, and it wll be published this fall by Macmillan &Co. New York. Mr. . (j. JNunemacker, the recent publisher of the Mid Continent, savs tnere are a number oi manuscripts in nis possession which have been sent to he magazine without the address of the author. Any contributor who has failed to hear from his article sub mitted there may find this omission on bis pait to be the cause of the delay. Macmillan & Co., it is stated. Will be gin, October 1st, the publication of The American Historical Review. It will be a quarterly of two hundred pacres. devoted 'o history and historical science, with especial relation to Amer ican history, and the publication, of hitherto uaprinted documents bearing upon mis suoiect. xxortn Uarolina should, and doubtless will, receive due recognition. McClure s, Munsey's and the Cosmo politan are the three magazines that are trying to establish a new standard of price. They claim their pages are as good as those of the four-dollar monthlies. To my mind everv issue of their periodicals -contradicts their claim. There is quite as irreat a differ ence between their matter and that of the Century, Harper s and the Atlantic as there ia between the prices of the cheaper and the more costly magazines. Thought Blossoms from the South." is tne ttue or a book about to aDoear. t will be bound ia Holliston cloth, and wm do - illustrated with half-tone en graving, most of them full-page. Upon the front oover will be a - design of pansies stomped ia gold. The lettering also will be in gold. : It will be a collec tion of hitherto unpublished poems and articles rrom (Southern writers. Mrs. Louise Three te Hodtres. of Atlanta, is the compiler a guarantee that the book win be well worth owning. ' lbe fuxposition Company : have eon- ceded to Mrs. Hodges the privilege of seiung ner volume in the Women's Building. - - Steel Greek News. . Correspondence of the Observer. STEEtK Crekk. Sei. 1 4. Mrs R' L uner, wno nas oeen quite ui for some time, is convalescent. Miss TLen uaidweil. ot Harrisbure. is visitiar iXLisaca liensie ieeiy and Jdarv Krvin. Mrs. W. M. Grier arid dinrhtep nf v aiuosa, ua., are visiting Mr. W. N. Peoples, and others. MissLoia M. uowell left Monday morning for a visit j to her sister. Mrs. S. J. Low nt con cord. Miss Mary MeAlister is vls- itinr relatives and -friends &t TTi-v Grove, 8. C. Misses Jane Swaan and Frankie Ervin are visiting W and Mrs J. B. Hwann. Bullock's Creek. S. a - . - Mr. J. W. MiUwee met with quite a serious accident ' Wednesday afternoon by falling and the" wagon running over his body Dr. John Knox is attending him: The extent of the iSLTJOBkoown bv your correspondent, j iir.VJr-arfer U T quHl' at his father's. W. A. ririor'a - . -tt - J Showers Tuesday and Friday afte. noons were quite refreshing, v- 4- ": -, ; COJTON FOR, TEN "DECADES. AGENT J. I WATKXKS' STATISTICS. A very ValuUt DocamcBt laraed By the Aarlcoltaral Xepartment The Coa umptlost. Trices, Ktc., of Cottoa for Tears Itaelu. ; . , wja- Correapondenee of the Obeerj-ea' WASHiHaOH SepWrotA valuable document givingthe. production and price of cotton for -one hundred years has lust : been issued oy tne Agncul tural Department, as prepared by Spe cial Agent Agent James ,1 ,.. Wat kins. Ia a letter ' transmlUing it to Acting Secretary Chas. W. Dabnev, J r., Acttna- SiatistlcUn Farqubar says: 4Tbe move ment of cotton - prices .here set lortn seems to throw considerable light on questions relating to prices of other ag ricultural products."' The report con tains thirteen tables' showing the sup ply and consumption of cotton tn the United! States aad Great Britain-or Europe surplus - stocks and average prices, for each decade beginning with 1791. As Mr. Watklns says, there is do agricultural product of the United States that commands such universal attention at home and abroad as cotton. Tots is because, as oe points out.- it more extensively used by foreign coun tries than any other of our products. and for the further reason that we con tribute to the world more than 60 per cent, of the raw - material consumed We have mere accurate information respecting it than of mo6t other pro ducts. The number or mills ia each country and their spinning capacity are so well known that the annual eon sumption of the world maybe estimated wi th com par ati ve , accuracy.? p There fore, remarks Mr. watktns, we may study with more satisfactory results the causes or tne great fluctuations ' which sometimes occur in the prices of this commodity how far, prices have-been governed b'y the law of supply and de mand, and bow far affected by artificial causes. For the United States there is no data for consumption prior to 1800. - In that year it was, 35,556 bales of 225 pounds net each. - The crop or 17U1 was 8,889 bales, same weight as above; it was 35, 556 bales in 1775, and 155.556 in 1800. In 1791. 889 bales were exported: In 1795, 27.822 bales, and in 1800, 79,066 bales of 22a pounds. s ' in ureat Britain, in 1791 there were Imported 127,778 bales; consumed 124 444. In 1795 these figures were respect ively, I13.DU3 bales and 111,111 bales; In 1800, 248,889 and 226,667 bales. Prices ranged as follows: " In the United States from 26 cents in 1791 to 28 cents in 1800. But they reached d cents in itj and 44 cents In 1799 and were higher than 28 every year except tne nrst. lie states that- the Srst cotton mill in the United States was built at Beverly, Mass., in 1787; the second at Providence, R. I 1791. Great Britain made her first im portation of East India -cotton in 1798 In 1800 the United States mills con sumed 500 bales of 300 pounds each. The ravages of tne ootton worm were first noted in that year. "As cotton was in great demand during this period prices were consequently very high For the second period 1801 -1810 will take the figures for the extreme years. The crop in the United States was 210,526 bales in 1801, and 340,000 bales in 1810. Except for three years, there are no data for consumption. The consumption in the last mentioned year was 4,uou bales. Great Britain im ported in that year 260,000 bales and consumed bales. The average price of midling upland cotton in 1810 was, in New York, 16 cents; in Liver poo), 15 penot; it had been in 1801, re spectively. 44 cents and 18 pence. In 1805 Sea Island cotton sold for 25 cents a pound more than upland. Along here occur such records at intervals "another mill in , "cotton manu facturing begun in ," eto. Cotton manufacturing began in South Carolina in 1808. in 1809 there were about 87 mills in the United States with 80,000 spindles, estimated capital 91,800.000; 4 ot tnese were water-power, the rest horse-power. By 1820 the crop was 606,061 bales of 264 pounds net weight. Our exports, that year, were 484.319: no data for con sumption for several years. That year ureat Britain imported 572,000 bales. and consumed 467,000 bales. The price was, in new lork, 17 cents; In Liiver pool 111 pence. The war of 1812 had g ven great impetus to United States manufactures. South Carolina Sea Island cotton sold for 55 cents a pound in 1816. During our war with Great Britain cotton prices were depressed here and advanced in- Liverpool on ac count of the falling off in exports from tne united states In 1821 cotton culture was introduced in a large scale in Egypt. Two years later tne lODg staple Egyptian cotton bejran to be imported into England. In 1825 the number' of spindles in the United States was 800.000. There were unprecedented speculations in Liver pool In 1828 Sea Island cotton sold for $2 per pound. During this decade a second mill was built in South Caro lina, and the first in Georgia, at Athens. The first great bull movement in the cotton market occurred in 1825 at Liverpool, when cotton advanced 110 per cent., followed by an advance in this country of 85 per cent. By 1830 tne united states cotton crop was 978.- 845 bales of 339 pounds net. Of this 889,000 were exported and 126.512 con sumed here. Europe imported, in that rear, I.GOI.UOI bales and consumed 1.190,535 bales' Prices were in New York 10J cents average: in Liverpool, o 44 pence average. The first cotton mill was built in North Carolina in 1836 at Fayetteville. in 1840 the largest crop ever made up to that lime 2,177,835 bales of 383 pounds net and the largest accumula tion of stocks ever witnessed in Liver pool, caused a-decline to the lowest average for the ten years. The prices were, in iew i ork .2 cents average; Liverpool, 5 42 cents averasre - In 1841 there was great depression in the Manchester cotton trade; in 1843, large increase In United States cotton manufactures. In 1845 the lowest prices for raw cotton brought a harvest for manufacturers. In 1846 there were re markable damages by cotton worms. and in 1847 great destruction by the caterpiller and the shortest crop for years. . It was the most remarkable de cade in the history of American cotton planting the lowest prices and the longest known period of continuous! low prices. This ought to be encourag ing to those wno thought the late de pressing period was the . worst, etc Middling to fair-cotton reached as low as 4 cents a pound, and there were sales at 3 cents. - Cause over produc tion. , -j In 1852 tbe cotton area was 6.300,000 acres. In iboO there were 1,202 cotton mills in this country.; The war caused cotton famine. The average New York price was 11; the average Liver pool price 5.97 ia 1860. The crop was 4.86l.292;jexports 3.774,173 bales. .-Europe imported 5,103.000 bales and con sumed 4.321.000. - The 1870 croo hers was 3,123,351 bales of 440 net pounds. of which the consumption -was 865,160 bales. The average Jvew York price of middling upland, cotton was 23.98 cents; Liverpool 8 89 pence. - The crop of 1S80 was 5.761.252 bales of 434 pounds net; price in New York 13.03 cents average, in Li veryool 6.94 peace;. 1878 was a year of unprece- dented commercial depression ia the eottoa trade, v The United States re gained their ante-bellum position as cotton raisers ia 1879.. and raised' the largest rop in history.. The area ' la 1S85 . was 18,000,000 . acres. The largest crop to date was ia 1890. There were 905 mills in the United States. 14,083,103 spindles.- Prices were re markably; uniform. - The - largest crop to date ia 1S92, likewise,. 1894, and a planters' convention had to effect a re duction In acreage. That year (1894,) there were in the United. States 15.700.- 000. spindles. In Europe. 72.620.000 spindles. In India, -142. Beginning f viwiwij prices declined. Stal further , decline Is noted ia 1892. - Prices agaia declined in 1894. But they have not touched so low a level as they did la 1845, and other years of that decade. . ' Excessive crops In lS91-2 with dimin ished demand for yarns and goods, the failure of Baring Bros., and other rea sons account for the decline' in those years. vThe shortness"of the 93 Crop, when the ? consumption of i American goods began to overtake the supply, re sulted in advance of prices in spite of the financial panic and labor troubles. The low: prices of : the financial- year 1894-'5, are attributable to the enorm ous crop of 1894. ' ' - -. - The report was prepared too-early to get the benefit of existing crop condi tion and resulting prices.: The lesson of all iBi Too big a crop, small prices; a reduced .. crop, higher prices. The last tables In the report show that the rangejof price was - much v higher and the fluctuations much more violent T in the decades 1821-'30 and 1831 -40 than during any other period except that of the civil war, when the trade conditions were abnormaL The fluctuation was leas during the decade 1881V90 than at any other period. This is no doubt ac counted for, says the report, by: reason of more rapid transportation as well as communication la recent years as com pared with former periods. I will only add to this summary that Mr. W. W. Long, of the Agricultural Department, a former member of the North Carolina Legislature: from War ren county, tells me that in the study of these eottoD-priee statistics (he was doubtless engaged in preparing the data of this 'very report) he became convert ed from free silver to the gold standard. ' NOBTH OABOUNA'S JtOADS ; Prof. J.-aI Holme Tell Aboat Them MeeUeahars; the Pioneer County in the movementA History of the Road In the Acrloultnral Tear Book. ; Correspondence of the Observer . i : - Washdsgton, Sept. 10. The Agricul tural Year Book for 1894 the new syrle, with different arrangement 'Of -tUe old Agricultural BDort-"-is-Mt-trat. The concluding paragraph is an interesting paper entitled "improvements or fub- Ho Roads in North Carolinar" by Prof. J . A. Holmes. State Geologist and sec retary of the North Carolina Improve ment Association. There are eight pages of letter press and two lllustra tions. Prof. Holmes opens with a gen eral historical sketch, showingthat the State In the early part of the century and jar more than a quarter of a cen tury devoted a considerable share of attention to internal improvements. In 1823 Hamilton Fulton, engineer of the . State Board of Inter nal Improvement, recommended the adoption of a system of roads uuder three heads: First, State roads. Second, county roads. Third, private or local roads. The State was to con tribute one half of the expenses of the first class of roads: theoounties through which the roads should pass, the rest. The counties were to keep them In re pair, uounties and individuals, re spectively, were to keep in order the other two cl asses. This comprehensive plan was never adopted by the State, but it co-operated in constructing some plank and other roads. But the public mind turned to railroads, to the neglect of other roads. The modern improve ment in public roads begun with the passage by the Legislature in 1879 of the Mecklenburg road law, which, however, was repealed in 1881. He says that the dissatisfaction with it was due in part to the fact that the work was not altogether satisfactory and was not carried far enough to demonstrate to the people what the bene fits would be. But it was probably due more largely to the opposition in the State to any form of taxation for road improvement. A reaction set in and the law was re-enacted in 1883 and the popularity of the new system has grown, in ls7 and la new road laws were adopted for Alamance, Cabarrus, Forsyth and Iredell counties and Ral elgh township. Wake county. In 1891 and sin je a large number of counties have 8 tar ted improved road work. The road congress of 1893 wa followed by other meetings. The general sketch is followed by a particular sketch of country im provements. There is a very full account of the work in Mecklenburg, the pioneer county in the new system. In he eleven years of the existence of the .aw 32 miles of road have been graded and drained, and 30 miles have been macadamized. These roads have a width of 40 feet for the first two miles from the limits of the city of Charlotte, and 36 feet width beyond that point. They have a max! mum grade o 4 feet in 100. Much of the work for permanent improvement is done by convict aoor. The taxation to support the convict force f jr the year was $18,000, besides which etch town ship levies a tax varying from 7 to 15 cents on each $100 worth of property The Mecklenburg road law requires all able-bodied citizens along the public roads either to labor four days of each vear on the public roads or to pay the sum of 50 cents per day in lieu thereof The illustrations are a section of the macadamized road near Camden and a section'of the fine shell road between Wilmington and Wrightsville. The report eonoludes with practical suggestions. HORSE-H&IR WOKKS. The Baw Material to from the Tails of Uberlaa Wild-Hones. Correspondence of the Observer. Pawtuckkt, R. I., Sept. 9. For di versified industries this place makes a broad claim. They say that no branch of manufacture carried on in the United States is -without representation here. One of their manufactures is hair Cloth. Its production is quite interest- ng. The raw material is black hair from horses' tails, and most of it is im ported from Siberia, where wild horses are caught and tail-sheared. The nair when received at the fac tory is combed by hand, and different lengths assorted for making correspond ingly different widths of cloth. . The looms are of peculiar construction, ar ranged to put in one single hair at a ime as filling, thus making ao selvage. The warp is black cotton yarn. Short ends or waste hair is spun and twisted into hard rope, which is then steamed and baked and cut up and picked apart for making mattresses. The tight twisting gives it the curl and makes the delightful spring found in a genuine horse-hair mattress. A prominent English concern, build ing cot.on mill machinery is erecting arze shops here, as a branch, for build ing the machinery here from English patterns. - - .- . ;: ,rr Confident of Deanoeratle 8ac The Salisbury -. World interviewed : Senator Ransom as he passed through that place Wednesday even ine. He was asked: . "What do yoo think of the outlook for Democracy. General? "We will win," be said - with the! serene emphasis which usually eharao-1 tenses bis assertions. "In the State, do you mean?" "In the State and country, he re plied. . -"What do yoo think of the fusion movement between the Democrats and; Populists?' was asked him. - It wilt never do," be said. "It Is impracticable and there is such a vast! difference between the-parties that the alliance would be unnatural. Besides, : the people do not favor tt aad it would j be utterly distasteful to them. -He was a snort: his fuzzy cap and loud trousers bespoke it. He had board ed the train ia the suburbs to meet aad welcome : his lam Uy oa their return : from Newport. ; He nodded mechanic-j Uy to bis wife, punched ; a tleepy kid in the side and sank into the seat be hind them. But the two black spaniels wanted more. They broke loose from th mwltMn.'-rtiahcuf : intn hia lin nI he kissed them both in the mouth.- : : A TENDER SYMPHONY ON SALT. AISO A.TAIX POEM ON THJE SNOW, Snat la Sfclaa the Poor Stan's Friend Where Henry Minuet It la Flovplns: 8e Been Btlll an Opening- for Tomng : Lawyer la Wathlngtoa State -Tne Rise ' aad Vail af Family Barlal Grenada. -To the Editor of the Obeerever. " - -; v- The appointment as Secretary of State would have been a- magnificent place for Walter Henry, had he not flopped so soon. - A written letter sent unsealed ought to go at the same rate as a postal card, Postofflce clerks would not have so much time to open and read the contents. . " - ? 1 1: The idea of a good whipping (so often threatened; is too lar-ietcned. "tt la said that 'some of the bright young lawyers who emigrated to the new State f Washington are now pick ing hops for a living. More of them ought to go there. 1 There ought to be a general prohibi tory law against private or family bnrial grounds. These are reverenced by the generation which first plants them out; another generatlonjets them alone; still another -suffers them to be a fourth, generation encroaches wi th plow ana hoe upon tne outside graves (the fences having rotted and the stones tumbled down), -and after a little more time king cotton is planted over the bones , of one s . far-a-way ancestors. There is no semblance of s God's Acre sentiment about this patch of cotton stalks. Graveyards should be in the hands of the State and the Church where they might be well-kept and cheer instead of appall the soul of man. What does it profit a man to pass his ear:y are as an exceedingly moral man and bis old age age in oonstant dread of death? - , At the recent; meeting of the State Grape Growers' Association in Ashe- ville, the - president, Mr. SoL Bear, made a most excellent speech. Sol is impressive if not lucid, and the light he throws upon a subject is not of the nacreous order. The local Association of Grape Growers entertained the visi tors most handsomely with carriage drives tnrouga vanderbllt s magnifi cent estate and elsewhere; an elegant banquet, etc., and every one went awav with a kindly feeling for AshevlHe and a looking forward to Fayetteville next August. That popular old hotel, the Swanna noa, was chock full of guests as with its home-like comfort, splendid table and genial, attentive proprietor, it ever de serves to be. Asheville itself was full of business many new, large, brick business houses are going up. The town is rapidly becoming an all the year 'round health resort this year the trend of travel has certainly been main tained next year it promises to be greater because of lack of proper ao commodations within the reach of man at our sea-shore resorts. But the fullest thing I saw in Bun combe county was the apple trees. There never was such a heavy crop and an orchard is now a very pretty sight people wm turn away from the land scape scenery to look at the groaning appie trees red, white, striped, spotted and yellow apples bearing the branches to the ground. What on earth a prom bition county like Buncombe will do with all these apples is tncomprehensi ble to blind men, but knowing people suspect that these e-onsutent apple-grow era wm, like tne grape-growers, market tee major part or the apple crop in liquid, sly condition. Cider won't keep and St. Louis vinegar is too cheap to compete with. Apple brandy is the ex case, and conscience be d d. Old Fort is still in the hollow but it seems that nobody is hollering for Old Fort it was unfortunate in getting ciose to Asneviue. Salt is one of the most valuable com moditles (8 to 1) of which we have any appreciation no knowledge. It is near ly as pletiful as silver (16 to 1 or bust) more powerful, more popular, more pla cid; is a good dentrifice; is good for sore-tnroat; is good for the bog (cures him); has exterminated a rascally set of men in and around Sodom, and provid ed an abiding place for another lot of equally big rascals about Salt Lake in the silver digging section. Salt beats silver and preserves things better than alcohol except when used in prohibitionists and the fine arts. September, harbinger month like April, reminds us that as winter comes with its ice and its snow, so must all men, good and bad, go. Whither the land or what the sky, it is not for mor tal man to say. Now, we beg for a day of rest; in a little while we get an eternal day of rest; Who cares to live? -1 do cot, and yet I never have sung, l would not live always. In the artic regions hell is represented as unbearably cold, while in red-pepper, mule and negro countries the preachers have got it down as pretty hot. It is head 8 or tails, for that matter, No body wants to go there, because of a plentiful supply of devils wherever we are. in springtime everybody except my self tries to get off poetry. JNow. as this is fall (everybody also falls Bill Nye joke), how does this strike you on (not m ye) the now. PasRless, harmless, beautiful snow, Smblematio of man's c reat foe Tbat sore and client, perchance slow. Alike aoes glide aad glisten and glow . -Into cleft aad rift and crevice Of menae and hat and palace I do not known whether the above is my own or not but if it is worth any thing at all (like a lawyer) I'll take it all. The snow is not yet in sight but is on time. - . The idea of Judge Russell sawing wood is rediculous. He could not eel within arm a length of the wood pile, much less the sawyer's bench.- Sausage in the skin is certalalv tne - poor s man s friend; be eats them winter and summer, and the butcher ' stuffs them from left over stock. The skin, protects the meat from further assaults of insects. but. unlike the egg-shell, it was not bora with the inside attached. ;Only fourth rate hotels use ready1 made sausages. : Pork salad and pork meat is better. Flathead. The Madison Observer says: A cer tain lady teacher, ia one of the Dublie schools of this county, ia trying to ex plain the meaning of the word "slow," illustrated it by walking across the floor. ' Then she asked the class to tell how she walked. - She nearly fainted when . a - boy at the foot of the class shouted, "Bow-legged, ma'am." - . BUCKXKN'8 AR1CICA SALVE. The best salve In the world lor.' ents bruises, . eorea. ulcers, salt rheum, fever oo-e. tetter, cbapoed hands, chilblains. eorns aad all akia eruption, and positively cares plies or ao pay required It la guar anteed to gle perfect eatlataetfoa Or money refunded. - Prloe S&eentaa box. Wnr b&j Borweli bnaa aad Jordan Soott. - - Old People, ' Old people Who reonlre medlnt na tn rrn late the bowels and kid soya will find the true remedy ia Eieetrte Bittern. This mti- etne doe not stimulate and contain mo wanaey norocaer uuoueant, oat acta aa a toaie and alterative.- It acta mildly oa the stomach and bowels adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding Nature in the performance of the functions. Klectrlo Bittern is an excellent inmiiur and aids digestion. Old people find It lost ' wbaa- they need PTftOtS tit lW OAntsl MP fmk. , r bot-i tie at the drag stores of iiunrell A noon and Jordan A feeolU DUE U LiU touiaEumiAi.! A Cigarettes MV hitlre SomtCa. VpSAMERICM T0BACCS W -1 QUWHAm. W.C U.W.A. ' atAOK fROH . i ; , T - - j; aho " . , - ADSOLUTELY PURE Moment erentytm working too hard ? You know a nodys apt to get so wrapped fop in business that he neglects bis health. - -r -c-- Get profit and loss and busi ness andl worry out of your head a moment, and ask your self how you feeL 'Z-i- 'f;ZZ.Z;i Can you eat a meal with a boyish relish? Have your nervea S stood the euuor li your con-. stitution as good aa you'd like lit to be? , . , s - Brown's Jron Bitters I! health right. . It wDl cleanse and enrich the blood gently stimulate the action of the kidneys. the liver and the I digestive organs. - i bat s what for, and thousands of I it's made happy homes all over the land testify that it has not been made in vain, i BrownfS Iron Bitters is pleasant to take. It will not stain the teeth nor cause constipation. See the K crossed! ; red' lines oa the numrw mmrTfi t t ri BALTIMORE, MDV v laMVIfrtliMJUsHtfVas.:! mm For the toilet, tlx? halh and the nnrserv. PINE BLOSSOM SOAP is the latest and greatest tijhitnph. A scientific, medi cated soap made of the purest materials. it effectually soothes and cleanses the skin, while-its powerful curative prop erties promptly heal all inflammation and eruptions. Antiseptic and always potent. a healthy skin and bright, clear. I complexion Is sure to follow its use. Sold everywhere by Druggists. Price 25 cents. TO YOUNG I'M We Offer a Remedy Which Insures Safe ty to Life ot Mother r ana cuiia. . unoTiiEns' roiEno" ROBS CONFINEMENT OF IT8 FAIN, ROR AND RISK, only two bottles. She was easily and quickly relieved; im now doing splendidly. ; I J- S. Mobtoh, Barlow, N-.fi " fent by express or null, on receipt of price, l.ee Mr katUe. Haak 'I- UOTFIIC Uji'l nailed free. l BBADTLELD RRQtTLATOH CO., aiTiAHTA, OA, JAPANESD gaaDH IlwISa BfFroSr nrl nomolete Traanneni, erasnan ei rTORTRH. Cuum of Olntmest nt two Bosm of Outmost. A mm falllns Oars far Piles of irar eatars sod fMcne. it bum sb operation ma Im lmlfy, or iniactiana of culuHa mA- shiok Sie soinf nl ua onldon, - tmn. ma4 often rs- Mltincr ia dsath. mm bcjww arr. Why endure thia rerriDro ciieosse r W sruarantee boxes Yon ODir iwr for faensbts re eel-nd. I s bos. tor SS, Sent b nuOL JAPANESE PILE OIKTSSENT, 25c. a Box corjsT!PATiorjiru?ei fx ths gi wit LiYm m BTOMAua Keuuuiiva irit-ii. .Small, mild sad plosMRt to ske,spssiaUs r aosptaa for eaudiens Boa. ai Seents. R. H. JORDAN & CO., Charlotte, N.- C. , HEALS RUN1MIIMG CURES THE . ENTfS STING Tfrw"" ' In all Its stages .llr.H.tfH - comoletelv cradicat, LICZ3 PCs,ZC."3edbirS-s s- obstit ulcers yield to its healing- powers.. It re- moves the noison and builds no the svstrm VsfasbisnBstiwosnMi7ni in 1 I SriiCiH: CO- Auaiu. t H a 114 We have just added to our stock, a li r.o of first-class ladies scissors. These (roods are the celebrated "Clau Shears and every pair is fully war ranted to be .first-clssB In every ra spect. . ." '" - '.' -' ' We also handle the "Clauss" Vnivc ? - knife sharpeners and meat choppers. We will be pleased to have the ladic3 call and inspect them. ,:-.No.t20'W. ; Trade St. a; FARiNTosn. Alfred 8. aiich. , - CHARLOTTE, N. C. ."..". . -. .-.. . . . . , ... . .". Farintosh i "Amer, Pfprs. : 100 Elegantly Furnished Rooms. Hot and Cold Bath and Water Closets on Every Floor. . -.Passenger Elevators and All Modern Improvements. . . Under First-Class Management. . . And better still, more than willing to stay tbere. He's all right because his feet are. Mate your lower extremities a'l rlgbt, too, iu the same way, by drooping In and plok mg a pair of perfection shoes from cur stock. Tbere are no belter sboes oa earth tbanoura, and tbe prices we offer make them tbe easiest shoes on eartb to bay. Takeyour dollars where big values rasse them fat. Hhoes like oars have money in tseai for the purchaser. Tbe worth of m shoe Is its weai; teat's where our shoes come Al and cheap. A. E. RANKIN & BRO., . 6 West Trade St. WHEELS, - WHEELS, All kinds and styles. B teams lead; then Waverlys next. Waverly Bel'es for tbe ladies: Princess for girls: Clippers for busi ness men, and second-band wheels at your price. 1 hey are going fast. State your price and we will send wheel subject to your approval. ATANDs M for sale, toe 466 will bay it. "First man to the tank" gets It, W. F. Dowd. Fend oa your wheel for repairs. We have an expert repairer. - Jno. M. Scott & Co. (8UCCKBSOH8 TO JOBDAN A BOOTT) ; Wholesale -:- ; Druggists AftD MANTJVACTCBEJUI OF ... Standard Pharmaceutical Fjcparations, Office and warerooms 10 North Try- on street, Charlotte, N. Of Sole agents for North Carolina and Georgia for Dr. Hughes'. Family Reme- -dies; also Bedalgia and Neuralgialine. send for quotations. . AN EXQUISITE LINE OF Silver Novelties Belt Buckles, Belt Pins, Shirt Waist Sets, and everything worn in J ewelry. Come and see the pretty Diamonds I have displayed.. JNO. FAERIOR. If you want to sm oke drop in at Li. i. Wal ker8 Drug : - Store, corner . Church and Trade sts., and get a. ' ' good cigar. Prescription work a specialty. : FOR RENT. Room Dwelling; water and gas ; 500 IS orth Pop lar street. Room 'Dwelling; water ; and gas ; 515 North Church street. .. 1 8 R. E. CocJiraee INSURANCE AND . . 'REAL ESTATE AGENT. . We have another supply of FRUIT CANS For family use. For preserving or put- . . .. . ......,.-.... . ... :: ting up vegeiaoies you snouia ' "- .; have one'of our ' OIL STOVES. Make no heat in the room. Porcelain Kettles from 20c. nn. WnhivA tn nr three Refrigerators at a bargain. j , nJ; N- McCAUSLAND & CO., ' v.- - ' ...... Slate and Tin , Roofing Contractors Ricliard A. BIythe, COTTON WARPS AND YARNS, No. 14 Chestnut Street,: Philadelphia. No. 4's to 200's Single and Double. Warps Furnished In Chains and Reams, In Grey and Colors. Cotton, Woolen and Worsted Yarn In Skeins. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Mrs. Winslow's - Soothing Syrup. Was been usd for eblldien while teething. It soothes tbe child. softens thnromi.&llavi all pain, cures wlod colic, regulat tiie wmMo ana ooweis, ana is tne oest rf ii- y ior uinrrmca, iweniy-nro cents a butti.. bold by all drag gifts throughout tiie tora- ill low, Tkt Bafoid Hotc mSln - ' 3csrt?llJ
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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