Newspapers / Lenoir News-Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) / July 31, 1903, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Lenoir News-Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
WW H- C. MARTIN, Editor and Proprietor. - An Independent Family Newspaper. Subscription Price One Dollar a Year. VOLUME XL 1 LENOIR, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1903. " '. K0. 6. i . 11 r i i i i s? a BILL A BP LKTTEB. Atlanta OonsutntloB. Boms fifty yean ago there tu a dogmatic old squirt in the seventeenth diatriot of thia, Cms county, whose nam tu Jim MoGinnia. He bed plenty of what it called good hone mom, a determined will and abundance of prejudice. Be won the J. P. ma chine in that dittriot for about twenty yean, and hia final Judgment in a rate waa the law of the settlement Nobody dared to appeal or carry the cage up fur fear of offending bim and loeiog the next ease they bad in his court. One time a fellow sued another fel low for the hire of a negro. Judge ParroU waa on one aide, and Colonel Abda Jobnaon on the other, and when the Judge ttarted to read his law from Greenleaf on "Evidence," Colonel Johnson stopped him and made tbe point that Mr. Greenleaf was a very smart man and had writ a power of good law, but that be was a yankee and lived in Boston and knew no more about hiring negroes than a heathen knows about Sunday. Tbe old squire asked for the book, and looked over the title page, saw that it was printed in Boston and so he ruled it out of his court, and ParroU lost bis case. The squire said that Mr. Greenleaf lived a little too far off to be familiar with the business. I've seen a good many pieces of late about the negro and the great south ern problem. The people up north begin to admit that they can't see through it. Ever since the war tbey have been telling us what to do with the darkies, and they have been watching us to see whether we did it or not, and they uc tually think we would put 'em baok in slavery again if we could. They are in earnest about this business, I reckon, for some of 'em die and leave a whole passel of money for the poor negro and I'm glad of it. I wish that more of 'em would die and do tbe same thing, but what I rise to remark is this : They know no more about the negro than Mr. Greenleaf did, and their judgment ain't worth a coot. I would not give a farthing for any man's judgment about darkies who hadn't been born and raised with 'em and owned 'em. It takes a long time to learn the traits and instincts of a race of people. The yankee never will know what the negro is, for he never knew him in a state ol slavery. The yankees who came south sixty years sgo, and domiciled with us know all about him, and I will take their opinion, but when I hear these modern ones philosophizing and die tating about him in a consequential manntr, I unconsciously raise my foot to kick somebody. There are lots of folks up about Boston who are looking over theii spectacles at us, and didn't know they hadaTewksbury almshouse, If they would lower their sights they would have a power of work to do at home. I bought a leather purse for Mrs. Arp once and she won't use it for it came from Boston, and she Is afraid it was made out of a human .hide that was tanned from Tewksbury. I've got no pathetic sentiment about the nigger. The yankees passed i whole lot of amendments to the consti tution to put him on an equal footing with us, socially and every other way, and they were tbe first to break 'em If the Indians had been down here in place of the nigger, the whole yankee nation would have been their friends, but now they are their enemies and keep driving them further and further into the wilderness and cheating 'em out of all the government gives 'em We have got to study races just like we do horses and cattle. Toe Anglo Saxon ban got his traits and instincts and so has the Indian and the nigger and the heathen Chinese. We cuss the Jew and the Italian, and why shouldn't we consider the nigger with the same philosophy. Some folks seem to think we owe him a good deal because he didn t cut up and np around during the war, but I don't He didn't care anything about it and he don't care now. It is not bis na ture. He had little rather have master than not to have him, and the truth is most of 'em have got 'em and they always will have 'em. We are tired of all this nonsense about slavery. It was no blot. It was nature. There are .a heap of petlpli now in the south who look upon slav ery like it waa Achen's wedge of gold And perished under the condemnation of God and man, but I don't want Anybody to teach my children any such slanders, for I know it was in the main A humant Institution, and If the niggei Is any better off now than be used to be. I can't tee. The whites are better off, A long ways, but tbe nigger aln' I've greaV respect for the old time darkies, r know lots of 'em I would fight toy If I waa to tee a man im potlngum my good old faithful friend Tip, I would fight for him like I would fight for my Kbildren. I love these good old darkiea. I Am willing to live with 'em And die with 'em, and be buried with 'em in the tame grave yard, and when Gabriel blows hit horn I can rise from the dead with 'em with out any fear that it will destroy the hilarity of the occasion, at General Toombs said. I love these old darkiea, not as my equals, but as I love my children. I love them because tbey love me and are dependent upon me. The relation between the white and black race is by nature one of protection on tbe one side and dependence upon the other, and when it oeaaea to be that I have no use for the nigger. It is always a pleasure to me to befriend 'em when tbey want my friendship and my help, but when they aspire to be my equal and put on independent airs, I've got no further sympathy. I have been raised to look upon negroes as children, children in youth, and children in manhood and old age. I didn't have any hand in making 'em that way. It is their human nature and they can't help it, and I have a sovereign con tempt for any effort their people are making to change their relation to us, for it can't be done. The education of the nigger is a humbug, so far as to make him a good citizen. It has been tried already, and has proved a failure. His best educa tion is one of contact, close contact with the white race. If we will let the negro alone and keep him out of poli tics he will get along very well and there will be no problem to solve. There never would have been any problem if he bad been let alone. He has no business with office or in the ury box or In the legislature, and he never will have. This is a white man's government and the white man must govern it. The Anglo-Saxon is the dominant race. We don't want the Chinaman nor the Indian to make our lavs. As a laborer and a servant and a dependent I bad rather have the negro than any race upon earth and that relation to us just suits him, and when you try to lift him out of it you make bim a fool and a vagabond and render him unhappy. I don't want him a slave any more, for his slavery was no advantage to us. I had a lot of 'em myself and I know they were no profit to me. They were no profit to anv body except a few exacting masters who made of slavery all the "foul blot" there ever waa in it. There is no problem to solve unless we make one. The white folks can't all be Vander- bilts and the niggers can't be white folks. Let us all be content with our destiny and not fuss around because someoooy else is be iter on. .Let us take things as we find 'em and do the best we can. Folks are verv much like horses. If you breed 'em too fine they are not fit for the wagon or plow. We have got to have differ ent sorts of folks, and nature knew it, or she wouldn't have made 'em different. This morbid sympathy for the poor negro is wasted. Why not have it for the Indian? We robbed him ot his land and run him off and have been cheating him ever since. He is, by nature, of a higher order of humanity than the negro. He has more pride and more emotion. He has more revenge and more gratitude, for these two things always go together. You can t wean him from the forest, for that is his nature. The negro loves to depend upon the white man and the white man loves the homage of the negro. It Buita and tits both races and I hope it will stay so. 1 heard an old physician sav that he had never seen a great-grandchild that descended from mulatto parents in a mulatto succession. The crossing of races has never improved them. Not even will the Jew and the Gentile mix with harmony. vJohn Randolph boasted of his Pocahontas blood, but I reckon it run out in John, for that was the last of it. History makes no record of two races living together in peace unless one waa in a state of depend ence upon the other. Our modern philanthropists Are deceiving the negro when they flatter him with a capacity equal to the whites in fitness to invent or to govern, or to rise to the heroic or the sublime. I reckon if rne of our millionaires was to die and leave bis money for the education of poor white children it would be a violation of tome of the constitutional amendments. We want to help the negro, but we want him to help himself first. He hat got to work out hit own advancement by induatry and by saving what he maket before education will do him and good. What the bad negro wants is lest chaingang and more whipping and the bad white man thould be punished tbe tame way. Bill Arp Waal stag Nural1aJ IMafuW PaUPlIla TBI U1CBAT1A HECBAES. Why ft. Hii of Then Ar. ladae.d Un ik Sosta. Chariots OtMervar. Some one baa figured it out that, at the rate the negroes are emigrating from this city at present, it would take just about 16 years to depopulate Char lotte of its colored citizens, provided there were no accessions to the colored race in this city during that time. This calculation may be a little overdrawn, but tbe exodus of negroes from Char lotte during tbe past few years has been sufficient to be felt. The other towns and cities in this section of the South have been affected in the same way, for the emigration has been general. When they leave Charlotte, the negroes go North to find employment as house servants and to West Vir ginia and other States to work in coal mines and railway construction. Num bers of good cooks have gone to Phila delphia, New York and other cities, the majority to New York, and hun dreds of able-bodied men have gone to the coal mi nee. They are attracted by alluring promises of big wages, agree able work, short hours and pleasant surroundings. The negro is a highly imaginable creature, and the induce ments held out by the labor agent ap pear to him most promising. The women are promised employment as cooks at wages of $12 and 915 a month and the men are assured (hat life will be one grand, sweet song in a coal mine or on a railroad for $1.25 and $ 1.50 a day. How often are the poor creatures und ived ! It i been said, and it must be true, that many of the steadiest and best workers are among the negroes who leave, for never before was there a much complaint as to the scarcity of labor here at home. Probably a majority of the farmers in Mecklen burg county are this year short of help, and it is certain that so many house keepers in Charlotte never before found it impossible to secure reliable servants indeed if they are able to secure any at all. The emigration of negroes from Charlotte and Mecklenburg oouDty may not have materially reduced the colored population in this locality, but there seems to be no doubt but that the. number of good laborers and servants has been reduced. The negroes go to New York and West Virginia for the same reason that so many white people formerly went to Texas and Kansas to better their condition. As was the case with many a white man who left a comfortable home in North Carolina for the untried realities of the West, the negroes often find but the substance for what they were promised in their new homes. Their wages may be higher but tbe ex pense of living is also greater, and their privileges are almost invariably fewer. They exchange a life of comparative ease and freedom from care for an en tirely new and rigorous existence. It is no wonder that many of them soon tire of the exactions and hardships of the new life and seize the first oppor tunity to return to the South. Aunt Judy was a faithful old soul who was persuaded to become one of a company of 15 cooks who went to New York to take good positions. After a stay of three months in the metropolis, she returned home. Meeting one of her old friendB who expressed surprise at seeing her back so soon, Aunt Judy exclaimed : "Lawdy, nigger, you would't be s'prised ef you'd been whar I'se been. I never wuz so lonesome in all my bo'n days, an' I sho' is thankful dat de Lawd sent me back home safe an' toun.' I tell you what, New York, ain't no place fur er nigger, leastways not fur er old-fashioned nigger lack me. Why, bless yo' soul, dem folks up dar don'tjinow nutbin' 'bout nig gers nohow. Dey don't know how to make us feel at home, an' you know er nigger's got ter feel at home ter be happy. Yes, dey wuz p'lite enuff, but dey won't considerate. De S'uthe'n people may not be so powerful p'lite ter er nigger, but dey is most gin'rally con sid'rate, so long as you behaves your self. Why, dat job I tuck fer $ 15 er month wuz worth $40 ef et wuz worth er cent. Dem Yankees sho' do know how to mek er pusson work, an' dere's so much ter do that you never gits through. Why didn't I come back sooner T 'Cause I couldn't git back. It tuck mo' den my fust mont's wages to pay my railroad fare up dar an' de fee dat agent man charged me fur gittin' de Job, but you bet I skinned out Jet' ex toon ei 1 had de price uv a ticket back to Charlotte." Mrs. Mildly Mrs. McFadden your neighbor, Patrick O'Donnell, has ap plied to our society for work. Is he a steady man. Mrs. McFadden 8teady? Whist, ma'am! If he was any tteadior he'd be dead. jh er tbi cocwtbt kbitwb. Baltimore Boa. It is only during the dog daya or the occasional heated spell which cornea upon ut at other timet that mankind deairea to be the iceman. But the aspiration to become a country editor it perennial and springs np eternal, Like Hope, in the human breast. "Monday last," tayt our esteemed friend the Hon. Francis V. King, who crowns the giddy altitude of the St. Mary's Beacon's editorial tripod, "we were pleased to receive a call from Miss Daisy Wible, of Hollywood. Mis Wible brought us a nice lot of fruit, for which we are very much indebted." Well, we should smile. "We weie pleased to receive the call. We are very much indebted" for the fruit. Well, we should smile! Is there any reason why he should not be pleased, and are there any bounds to bis indebtedness? And where doee the ioeman come in? In the presence of this transcendental visitation of Miss Daisy Wible the ice man looks like six nickels. He would look like that small array of measly coins in the most torrid spell. Those of us who enjoy the personal acquain tance of the Hon. Francis V. King are aware that he retains the fine suit of hair which has distiugushed him from his early youth until customed to these visits and those fruits that she no longer takes tribute of the editor's locks? Well, we know some people who have become prematurely bald upon less occasion. That our friend of the Beacon is not unaccustomed to such visitation and such tribute is mauifest from the fact that he dis misses the incident with just five lines. Or perhaps he was afraid to say any more. Such a visit to the editor of a city paper wouid be acknowledged by a picture of the young lady printed in a frame of forget-me-nots accompanied by a column of text. Taken one consideration with anoth er," it is certain that the position of the country editor uon the summit of his tripod, whence he slings ink and occasionally a little paste, is about as soft a snap as ever falls to the lot of sinful man. Divorced Wife of Waller Urorr New man Wfdi Richmond, Va , Spoolal. Mrs. Leila M. Newman, divorced wife of Walter George Newman, the copier magnate, who was recently married in Jersey City to Miss Moon, of Virginia, was married to-day to John W. MeConib, one of the best known horsemen in Virginia. The wedding was a very quiet one, and occurred at the home of Mrs. Newman's father, Major Sirother M. Newman, near Char lottesville. Rev. George L. Petrie, of Charlottesville, performed the cere mony. Walter George Newman, while re puted to be worth $15,000,000 bought the fine farm near Somerset, Orange county, and built a $500,000 mansion, which was recently burned. It was this home to which he carried his pret ty bride, who eloped to marry him He bought a large string of horses, and McComb managed his estate for him About Newspapers. Charlotte Chronicle. The Atlanta News pays a high tribute to the country newspaper, and by no means overrates its power, influence and importance in the community, but The Chronicle would just like to say one word in this connection, and that is that a little more work on many of the country papers of thetwoCarolinas, at least, and no doubt of Georgia, too, would help out in adding to the inter est in the paper, and would of necessity add to its subscription list. A little more reading of the magazines and of good books, for which the country editor has plenty of time, and a little more use of the pen rather than the scissors in reproducing stuff from ex changes, would further assist. We commend to the editors of North Caro lina The SUtesville Landmark, and to the editors of South Carolina The Yorkville Enquirer, as models for the sort of work that we have suggested. We would have included in this men tion The Gnstonia Gasette, The Concord Times, and other esteemed contempor aries, if they would just write a little more editoral than they do. ItefiKiliiK Ten Cents for Cotton. Rai.f.igm, N. C, July 16. The im provement in crops in nearly all parts of this state during the past fortnight almost exceeda belief. A month ago farmers were in very low spirits. They are now delighted At the prospects. It it ascertained that a large proportion of the cotton growers have an idea that cotton it going to 12 cents next season and they are refusing offers of 10 cento for October delivery. If you don't believe that this weather it all right, ask the soda foun tain man. rAT TB1CKS THAT ABB VAM. TIM W.na Carvltaa towpaw Haaax faclai-era ar Bight Tkart. CkirMUIm. Mr. J. . Denton, of Herrirg & Den ton, it of the opinion that for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain tbe North Carolina mountaineer who maket and sella the illicit towpaw is peculiar. He says that he once went to the house of a mountaineer who was afterwards known to have been running a flourishing distill ry in the cellar. There were two thick floors and saw dust packed tight between them, so as to deaden the sound, and it was impos sible to hear or smell anything going on beneath. In fact, the cellar was under the bed and you would not sus pect the existence of a cellar at all. A big fire was kept going in the fireplace ail me ume, winter and summer and a pipe from below connected with the chimney, carrying tbe smoke out so as to cause no suspicion. The water was run into the cellar from a nearby stream through a blind ditch and the residuum from the mash was carted awy in the still watches of the night. The exis tence of this still was never discovered. The man carried on the business for years and finally abandoned it. He got in the clutches of the law alter ward for retailing "moonshine" and tbe matter finally came out. Mr. Denton relates an incident of a fellow who liad a shrewd trick for draw ing either liquor or molasses from a barrel. He had the barrel arranged nto three partitions, with five or ten gallons of molasses in the middle and bout twenty gallons or so of liquor iu each end of the barrel. When the 'red-legged graughoppere" would come around he would innocently draw mo lasses for them from the middle of the barrel. But when they were out of the way he would fix his spigot to the end the barrel and draw whiskey. If revenue onicers spoke of the odor while around he would pull out his Mask and tell them that was what they smelt. He would have successfully evaded the law indefinitely but for the officers catching him once in flagrante delicto drawing from the end instead of the middle of the ban-el. He dashed a cup of whiskey in the fact" of the of ficer and made good his escaie. His team and stuff were captured and cn examination disclosed the secret of the barrel from which both treacle and sowpaw were dispensed. Mr. Denton recalls the good old days gone by when the big rallies were held on Cherry Mountain and thousands would gather from all the country round about for a day of revelry. I'ncle Amos Owens would dispense his famous cherry bounce" to the thirsty crown and there wag always something doing. But those days are no more. A Terrible Spree. Charlotte Observer. Mr. MacDonald Wilson, of Clear Creek, this township, this ccunty, left Charlotte about two months ago for the West on a prospecting trip. He went' to St. Louis, Mo., and aftr he regis tered at a hotel he went into the saloon to get a drink. After taking the drink he never knew anything until about two weeks ago, when he awoke in a St Louis hospital. When he came to himself he waa a physical wreck, beiiig emaciated and having a broken and wounded leg. He learned that after he entered the bar he got on a spree, engaged in a braw and fought a policeman who shot him breaking the leg. He was then taken to the hospital, where he remained in an unconscious or delirious condition for three or four weeks. When Wilson recovered himself he wrote to his father, Mr. John M. Wil ton, of Clear Creek township, asking that he be sent enough money to come home on. He was sure he had $150 when he entered the bar-room, but when he recovered he was penniless. He will return home as soon as his physical condition will permit. This Doctrine Is Kntlrely Correct. Monroe Bnqulrer. The doctors of Charlotte have decided to charge ministers one half regular fees. The doctors have heretofore given their professional services to ministers. If we were an M. I), the minister who was faithful in his work and did not send for the doctor just just because his service were free and was grateful and showed appreciation would never be chargrd one cent, while the ministerial gentleman who was in the pulpit for what he could get out of it and sent for the doctor every time one of hit family sneezed, just because hit services were free and had no regard for the time of day or night he called the doctor, would be charged a plenty This way of giving the preachers profes sional or other service is all wrong when you get down to facts, any way Preachers thould be paid what they are worth and charged for everything they get just like other folks. fklM BlacafcrrrtM. RlrhmoBd Times. Sometime ago Youth's Companion furnished tbe information "that' by means of eroca-breeding Luther Bur bank, of Santa Rosa, Cel., hat develop ed a variety of blackberries which are perfectly white, at bright at snow in the runthine, and to transparent that tbe seeds can be teen inside the ripe fruit The seeds are said to be un usually small, and the berries are at sweet and tender as the finest of the black varieties. The familiar Lawton berry is described at the great-grandparent of the new white variety, to which has been given the name 'Ice berg." And now comes a writer in the Ar kancas Gazette who says: "White blackberries grow wild in the vicinity of DeWitt, Arkansas county, this State, and I believe that everything else grows or will grow in Arkansas. I know, however, that bite blackberries grow here." On the plantation of Mr. Cabinest, near Cascade, at a point where the counties of Henry and Pittsylvania come together, near the North Carolina line, there is a field in which minv hite blackberries grew several years go, and they may flourish there yet. They were in all respects the genuine blackbefry except when ripe they were nearly as white as was this paper be fore it passed through the printing press. In taste they were as good, if not better, than the glorious dewberry hat Mr. i'uwhatan Bouldin used to ud so plentiful in the same region This white blackberry was considered a freak, due to some peculiarity of the soil, but so far as we know the freak was never investigated. The Delightful Kappblre Ceaolrr Is Delightful Place la Whleh to Spead Yoar Vacation.. Along tbe southern slopes and table lands of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina, at an average ltitude of three thousand feet, with broad ridges pointing off from the main haius towards the lowlands of South Carolina and Georgia, is a country full of delightful surprises to the tourist, portsman and health seeker, which has been appropriately named, "Tbe Sapphire Country." No other State or region contains (o many grand water falls, such wide-sweeping mountain views and such beautiful lakes. The most interesting of the many attractive features ti be found, are the Toiaway, Fairfield and Sapphire Laker Nowhere else in the South, at this alti tude are such bodies of water. All wbo visit these lakes, are impressed with the wonderful beauty, and great varied haracter of scenery. There are tower- ng cliffs, rising abruptly for a thousand feet from their shores, and cascades of rare beauty, falling directly into the lakes from the lofty tableland surround ing. Some of the mountains in this vicicity, rnge in height from five to six thousand feet. Indeed it is the general verdict of widely traveled peo ple, that in respect the remarkable combination, and varied and attractive character of lake and mountain scen ery, this section is unrivalled by any in the world. Certainly no other part of America has anything to equal it Some of the finest hotels in the South are in this beautiful mountain country, the latest being tbe handsome new Toxawsy Inn, which will open for the suramei season, and will remain open the entire V6ar. Low rate summer tourist tickets are on side up to and including September 30lb, ly03, from all principal points. with final limit to return October 31st, 1003. Detailed information can be had upon implication to any Southern Rail way Ticket Agent. Easf Jobs tor Tar Heels. Charlotte Observer. That is a funny showing made in the report of the Auditor of the Treasury with reference to the receipts and dis bursements at the reports of Albemarle and Beaufort, N. C. At Albemarle, average receipts per year for the past five years, $1,80; average salaries and fees, $1,208 per year. Beaufort did worse. There the receipts have aver aged fc r five years $46.20, and the sala ries and fees $1,409 per year. Yet this state of things is nothing new. Judge Fowle, in bis campaign for Governor in 1888, exhibited much such figures as touching these ports and handled them with fine effect at showing the reckless expenditure under Republican national government. There is no tell ing how long this condition had existed before Judge Fowle't day, it it doubt ful if it has been better under any ad ministration since, we nave never heard the other tide of the argument, but it probably it that the maintenance of custom officer! at these and similar ports is necessary, notwithstanding that they collect no customs, otherwise there would be harbors for smugglers who, by reason of watchfulness here, Are forced to pay duties elsewhere., ItTHtl ABB MS. Jos Mttca.Il Chappie, In S.tioaal XafaalB.- Oa the Boston express the other dar I witneaeed a scene which I with I could describe a it impressed me. I waa the "foor o'clock expreat, "and an elderly woman, evidently a foreigner, stepped on the train, with that peculiar, square rigged, canvass covered, broad valise so much used in Europe. Directly be hind her tu a sturdy young man, who carried the remainder of her luggage on hit shoulder. He, too, waa evi dently a foreigner, whose drees and appearance indicated that he waa now a prosperous adopted American citizen. With a peculiar motion the little woman shrank from taking teat in the coach among finely dressed peoole. Although I heard her inquiry as to whether they were to go "first class." The ton for I had gotten that far in conclusions went toward the center of the car to select a good seat, while the mother had had seated herself in one near the door. Hit bright face beamed at he ushered that little, stooped mother to the seat as tenderly as if she were hia bride. What happiness was reflected in those faces! They were seated in front of me, with their luggage care fully stowed away overhead and rough; her little bonnet was very simple; her gray hair was smoothed down in front, and was twisted into a picturesque Norwegian knot behind, her features were irregular, her face wrinkled, her nose large and sharp, and she had no upper teeth and yet, I never saw a more beautiful face when, after the son was settled, this little woman turned and stroked the hair of her son as only a mother can, regardless of the curious eyes in the coach; and then, unable longer to repress the joy of a mother's heart, she kissed him. Such tender ness in those eyes, glistening with tears she waa with her boy again! The heads came just above the top of the seat and how close they were together, as they talked and talked over the past. What memories of the old home were awakened in the heart of the young man while the mother recounted, as only a mother can, those things which he was most anxious to know about. When he brought her a drink, when he pulled the shade, every act was devo tion. If I could only impress upon sons and daughters the priceless heri tage they have in their mother, and every little act of devotion and love will some day be a treasured memory. Large Increase In Tax Valaattoa. Baltlmor. Sun. North Carolina is this year making a new assessment of all property for taxation. Tbe results so far are very gratifying to the officials, as the returns from the nearly one hundred counties indicate that the valuation of property for taxation will be increased about 25 per cent. In many cases property was found taxed at ridiculously low figures, and in one case a man said to be worth $100, 000 was paying no taxes at all. In fact, a large proportion of the increase is from property now placed on the tax books for the first time. Owing to the large extra appropriations for public schools, educational and charitable institutions, the State recently bor rowed some $300,000 in order to pay off its floating debt. The actual State debt is comparatively small, as the Commonwealth owns several million dollars' stock in the North Carolina Railroad, whose lease pays 7 per cent. on the investment. The large increase in the property valuation ought to again put receipts well above expenditures without in creasing the tax rate. ConrerM College Not Injured by 8c- cent mill Disaster. We are authorized by President Pell, of Converse College, to state that the recent publication to the effect that the funds of the college were impaired by the disaster to the cotton mills near Spartanburg, was absolutely erroneous. The college not only did not lose any thing, but h even made additions to its equipment and faculty in antici pation of a more than usually prosper ous session. Casslus m. Clay Dead. Lexington, Ky., July 22. General Cassius Clay, ambassador to Russia under President Lincoln, noted aboli tionist and author, died at hit home, White Hall, in Madison county, at 9:20 to-night. Death was due to gen eral exhaustion. General Clay waa born October 19, 1810, in Madison county. He led a stirring life, which began to tell on him in late years. Hia children long estranged by reason of hit eccentricities, were again able to be with him and were at the bedtide when death ensued. A five-year-old boy at Perry, Iowa, set fire to hit fathers1! barn and becom ing frightened At hit deed hid away in the hay mow of the burning building And perished In the names.
Lenoir News-Topic (Lenoir, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 31, 1903, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75