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2 THE WIIMINGTON MJ3SSE jn'G ER. TUESDAY, APEJL- 30, 101. -AN Interesting communication iWe publish today a well-wrought communication signed "Jeffersonlan." The author, we believe, Is of northern birth, but he is a democrat. The strength of labor now, that he refers ' o, -was not overlooked by the northern paper we reviewed. It is ail compact of strength now. That a great up heaval will occur in this country we have not doubted for several years The aggressions and domineerings of the money power are such as to make the vast millions of tollers and bread winners restive and to some extent in flamed. The person who has carefully studied the causes that led to the tremendous cataclysm that began In Paris in 17S0, and ramified France at last with its intensified passions and cruelties, will see like causes (or re sembling them In part) at. work among the American people. The ex travagance, the waste, the plunder- ings. cannot continue a half century longer without precipitating a revo lution of gigantic proportions. His tory repeats itfelf. and like causes produce corresponding effects. We hope our correspondent's view as to the character of the revolution that will come will be the correct one. But we are now unable to see how the own ership and control of a great country by a few men of stupendous powers and wealth can fall to bring forth in the end the bitterest fruit. The old saying that the mills of the gods grind flow but awful fine is true now as It was twenty centuries ago. The at titude of McKinley, his advisers, con trollers and backers. Is not friendly to th people, the safety of the republic. the perpetuity of free institutions in ou : land.and the mastership of the peo ple. Usurpation. Invasion of a free peo ple, spoliationand oppression of the vast laboring class, the debasment of the national honor, the blurring of the rec ord of the Americans and the hopeless ness of reform, -will soon or late stir the people with a mighty tempest of wrath and Indignation and then, the politl eal sirocco. Will come as winds come, when forests are rended. Will come as the -winds come when na vies are stranded." The Messenger is gratified to receive th- indorsement of. .a cultivated .stranger who is a 'jeffersonlan" in his irinciples. and. therefore, were reason ably and naturally is for returning to the old-time democratic principles wliich will prove always an "anchor -of hope" to the noble "ship of state" that is moving now among shallows and rocks and that, too, in a tempestuous -sea. The people must unite all lovers of liberty,, independence and the con stitution. They must resolve upon -electing honest, square, true, capable -men if such can be found in these dark, decadent times. Let them re solve to retain their freedom at any cost. Let them lock shields and meet their enemies, and, "'If .we cannot defend our dore from the dog. Let us be worried, and our people lose The name of hardiness and policy." .A BASELESS CONTENTION. ""ltlis rather a matter of amusement than seriousness to read what McKin ley organs say about the effects of Aguinaldo's capture and subsequent ac tion -will have upon the matured judg ment of reflecting men as to the true merits of the foreign war of conquest waged by the McKinley gang of usur- pers. The organs talk as If they really believed that the crushing of Aguin aldo and his submission "to the decrees of fate" would shut up all possible complaint and criticism ever hereaf ter as to the course of McKinley and ' his allies. The contention of leading republicans like the late ex-president Harrison, and senator Hoar and ex senator Schurz the . foremost men in their party and men like Olney and ' Carlisle and Cleveland and other north eren politicians of the bolting democ racy has been that the constitution of the United States followed the flag al ways and everywhere. No capture or surrender of one man or a hundred thousand can ever destroy the safety and sanity of that contention. It is ;as undying as truth. The principle so earnestly defended is eternal and will live on when politicians who assail it are as dead as the I'haroahs, or until this present republic is numbered among the "dead nations." There is an immense difference be tween . political subserviency and the heroic defense of principles. No polit ical tradesmen or tricksters or ene mies of their country will ever fill a high place in the pantheon of a great and heroic people. While the monu ments of virtue -are indeed Immortal, tthe treachery of bad men is sure to be " -perpetuated only when such virtues as they may have possessed once are . forgotten, are buried in the deep sea of forgetfulness. Mr. Calhoun, one of rthe -truly-historic great men of America,-and of the purest and noblest, said -of "a degenerate, corrupt, and subser vient people," that there final doom has '"been the lowest state of wretchedness .and misery," and that finally they are "obliterated forever- from the list of nations." A man would better go - down in the strife than to yield to the - allurements of office ana sell his name, character, even soul, for a paltry "mess of pottage." Priciples survive. Treach ery brings curse and disgrace. 'The Philadelphia Times has some - wise and trappy words in replying to swift opinion of defenders of McKin ley We copy the following with In terest: "Because Aguinaldo wearied of a long and futile" warfare with a powerful na tion, which, until the advent of Mc Klnleyism, stood for the loftiest con ceptions of free government, has reluc tantly given up the struggle and ad vised the scattered remnants of his countrymen still In arms to accept the situation, is no reason for saying that the cause for which they contended and which they regarded as sacred is less vital In its character, less imperious in its appeal to the conscience of those who believe In free govenment as de fined in the Declaration of Independen dence, for which the patriots of a cen tury and a quarter ago fought and died. "History which impartially weighs the motives of peoples and clarifies the murky atmosphere with which un faithful stewards seels to surround their evil deeds, will vindicate the attl tude of the millions of sincere and ear nest men who hold today, as they have throughout the progress of events fol lowing the brfef war with Spain, that a colonial system founded upon im perial power has no part In a govern ment established on the cojner-stone of liberty and Independence." A DISASTROUS GUESSER. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, it Is thought, will succeed Mr. Balfour In the British House of Commons when the latter shall go to the House of Lords. Of all war phophets Joseph Is the very worst. He is a man of mental force, but not wise. He was a lieu tenant of the great Gladstone, but de serted him at a time of stress, and found his reward office. He is really the author of the cruel, costly war waged so unmercifully against the brave Boers. Chambsilain was a sor ry guesser as to the speedy outcome and ending of the war, or possibly he would have been more careful In run ning his head into a noose and butting It against hard facts that would shake him to his boots. We are reminded of his fateful and foolish foreshadowing of what was not to happen by some figures reproduced in the Atlanta Journal. Chamberlain said that all the British soldiers that would be needed to squelch the Dutch Boers would be 10,000, and that the outside expendi tures would be $100,000,000, and possibly might not exceed $50,000. The number of soldiers sent amounts to 260,000 and expenditures have reached $980,000,000. This is the admission of the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks- Beach. The losses of men have been large. Of all probably 40,000 men have perished. Chamberlain has an awful responsibility upon him. A THREATENED MUTINY. It is a bad sign to see so much rowdy ism among students in colleges. Be cently a mob of students behaved, most unseemly and violently at Washing ton, and Lee University. It was a dis graceful affair throughout. And right on the heel of it comes tbe intelligence from West Point of bad conduct on the part of some of the students amounting nearly to a mutiny. They behaved in an extreme disor derly way and insulted openly the superintendent, Col. Mills. The rowdy cadets will make first rate "haz- ers' of the old kind at that school of the soldier (save the mark! They as- sembled at the parade ground at night and indulged "in hideous yells, direct ed at the superintendent. They also moved the sunset gun from its posi tion at the north end of the parade ground and dragged it over in front of Colonel Mill's quarters, but were prevented from firing it by the appear ance of several sentinels, r who prompt ly reported the incident-" A court martial is investigating the outrage. It is composed of three army captains, one of whom is Captain William Las seter, First artillery, of Oxford, N. C, and who was severely wounded in one of the battles in Cuba. The row begun over the punishment of cadet Ralston who failed to report a breach of discfp lln In the mess hall. There is much ex citement among the cadets and they are almost ready to mutiny That is a rather tough gang, it seems, that get to the military school of the Union What sort of disciplinarians will such fellows make in the army? Possibly tyrants. VIEWS AS TO NEQRO EDUCATION, The papers in both sections devote much time and space to the question of negro education and elevation. It is rarely that one can find a really sensible, practical article in a northern paper or monthly based on knowledge and common-sense. They are written by men of inte.'llgence and education and often by skilled writers, but they neither comprehend the situation nor understand the negro character. If these numerous writers would come into the south and live five years in close contact with the negroes so as to study the real make-up of Sambo and Dinah, and then write candidly and precisely what are the results of the information gained,ltwould do good pos slbly instead of harm. "It would from many a blunder free" the writers in the north who are always giving the south the benefit of what they fondly suppose is wisdom, but more frequent ly is crash ignorance. The elevation of the negro has not yet come. Much politics made him worse, meaner, lower than he would have been. He took to it as pigs do the teats of the willing sow, but it failed to satisfy, much less to uplift. The education thus far imparted as a general thing is a lamentable failure. as all observant men and women well know. Bill Arp saw it years ago, and said it had 'merely spoiled "good field hands.'- The Washington Post, an en- lightened and ordinarily well Informed republican paper, sees the real effects resulting from the schooling methods adopted. It says - wis wisdom and insight clearly born of study and ob servation: "Intelligent observers have at last realized that the public school has done next to nothing in the way of uplifting the negro. It has bred a swarm of half-educated men and wo men who know nothing thoroughly and whose utmost possibilities for tbe future reside in the chance of becoming school teachers along the narrow and useless curriculum in which they have been Qualified. These unfortunate peo pie learn just enough to make them worthless and: Giscontenteo." That is true every way. Whatever fanatical enthusiasts may say thus far the education Imparted has failed egregiously to truly enlighten, improve and elevate the recipients. They have obtained a meagre smattering, have failed to learn good manners, have grown lazier and less efficient. There are fortunately some worthy excep tions. The Post continues: "With the shabby equipment impart ed to them by a fourth-rate scholastic course, they enter the arena of rea life expecting to obtain public office social distinction and civic eminence as a matter of mere evolution. By the same token they reap only disappoint ment. chagrin and indignation. They are not fitted for the part they hope to play; and. on the other hand, they have learned nothing to fit them for any legitimate and money -making pursuit. Education is a much-mis understood term. Ability to play the part of a parrot is not education in any rational sense of the word Knowledge of grammar, history, math ematics, etc., in their rudimentary forms produces no results of socla elevation. Men and women must know how to make money, how to support themselves, to earn a living, or they are useless and Inconsidera ble." Negroes are vastly imitative. That organ Is abnormally developed. We recall that a finely educated New Eng land woman came to the south under the inspiration of an evangel, to teach the negroes and cause them to ascend the Intellectual and moral scale. After some two years of suffering and bear ing and trying, she wrote a communi cation for a Petersburg, Va., paper, in which she frankly admitted her dis appointment and regret. She said their faculties amounted to but little beyond that of imitation that when they reached the studies requiring close application and the constant ex ercise of the reasoning faculty that they were comparatively failures. Booker Washington is engaged in work that will help those who are taught in his Alabama school. They will learn something that will be help ful and practical in after life. Julian Hawthorne, a New Englander and a cjever man of letters, has taken a peep at the negroes and whites for a few days, and thinks himself now fully qualified to advise the south what to do as to Sambo. He says the way to uplift the negro is to educate the whites. His words are-. "Poor whites in the soutli must be educated for the sake of the negro." It is not impor tant as to benefits they are to receive for themselvef, but they must by be ing educated have more tolerance for the negro. He- wrote from. Winston a long letter. He showed, as we see it stated, for we have not seen, his letter, how it is: "He went on tot say that, in Greens boro, for example, there were two classes of negroes., the bad and worth ies class, and the better class, which desired enlightenment and the im provement of their condition; and to the latter class only could schooling be made useful. Implying, apparently, that the bad class was to he aban doned to its badness. He affirmed that some negroes were injured by educa tion, which rendered them dissatisfied, and awakened evil impulses in them which had before been dormant." He thinks that Industrial education is best for them. That is sensible so far as the negroes are reached. Mr. Hawthorne said thati "Principal Fris ell. of Hampton, told me that the careers of the graduates of that in stitution had teen carefully f'jllowed. and that 90 per cent of them had been successful. I believe the same high percentage is quoisd In the other schools above namedi Each of their graduates becomes a center of energy in the community whre he or . she is established." The south has earnestly and? sacri- ficingly endeavored for more than thirty years to help the negro race by giving them common school education. They have had equal advantages with the exception of teachers. They have often fallen into the hands of ignor ant, immoral and incapable tfachers, and little of blessing has come to many of them. When there shall be improv ed schools, better teaching by more faithful and qualified instructors, bet ter results will follow in all probabil ity. The voting of moneys to .try to make the negro race more useful and more industrious and' more honest and more moral will continue, the whites1 paying hereafter as they have hereto fore, from 90 to 95 per cent of the ap propriations made by the state. The old saw that one man can lead a horse to water but ten can not make him drink, is true here. Unless the negro children take hold of the " ad- Vantages offered them and In "dead earnest" to make all they can out of them there will be no real education Imparted and no character building. Prevented a Traaredy. Timely Information given Mrs. George Long, of New Straltsvllle, Ohio, pre vented a dreadful tragedy and saved two lives. A frightful cough had long kept her awake every night. She had tried many remedies and doctors but steadily grew worse until urged to try Dr. King's New Discovery. One bottle wholly cured her, and she writes this marvelolus medicine cured Mr Long of a severe attack of Pneumonia, Such cures are positive proof of the match less merit of this grand remedy for cur ing all throat, chest and lunar trouble. Only 50c and $1.00. Every bottle guar anteed. Trial bottles free. itR.IL Bel. ls2Xa Drus Store, v THE EFFECT UPON THE NEGRO VOTE. The Charleston News and Courier makes a quotation from an editorial of the Messenger on the Caper-ing la South Carolina, and the organization of a new party. The impossibility of having two republican parties In the south may finally Impress the movers Capers, Butler & Co. The negroes will be sure to come to the front and there will be realized what aforetime Butler and others most dreaded and bitterly opposed. The News and Courier says of the Messenger's Inquiry "But what will the negroes In South Carolina do about it? "That is really the question after all in estimating the consequences of the new party movement. It is undoubted ly a good thing for the negroes, if they will only keep quiet and permit things to take the natural and inevitable course. Nothing can prevent an appeal being made finally to the negro vote, and it will be found that what the government has not been able to se cure for the negro In the way of equal political rights by congressional enact ments and the bayonet policy at the polls will be secured to him by the ac tive competition for his support at the polls of two factions or parties of na tive white men determined to achieve the mastery. 'The negroes in South Carolina will be very unwise if they attempt to Interfere In any way with the plans cf tbe president and his aids In overturning existing political condi tions in this state." It may strengthen this view if what Is said by the Boston Herald, the larg est circulated and most Influential pa per in New England, is considered in connection with It. It thinks this new policy of McKinley this new and sud den departure means practically the casting out of the negro. Its words are not misleading probacy. We quote a part: - "It may prove to have influence enough to overthrew the whole project said to have been devised by President McKinley. If it does not, it must re verse the policy of the republican party as proclaimed and acted upon for more than a third of a century. The republican party, made the col ored man a voter. The question to be decided in th!s issue is as to whether it shall abandon the support of him as a voter. It is directly involved In the scheme initiated in South Carolina. That scheme is based on the creation of a .white republican party at the south, to come from accessions from the dem ocratic party acting with those white men of republican sympathies now. It is conceded that this cannot be brought about without the elimination of the support of the negro's right to Vote from southern politics." BREVITIES. Newspapers talk that the British bor row would find dlficulty In obtaining was all faldal. It wasr "gobbled. up" In a jiffy and six or seven times over. Americans took $50,000,000. Right or wrong Britishers stayed by their coun try. In England, Lord Salisbury's fall Is predicted. Lately he was reported In desperate health, and he may retire before the storm overtakes him. In Charleston Shakespeare's birthday the 23rd of April, was celebrated. The greatest of all men can not be too much honored. He was but 52 when he died in 1615. Vesuvius is in eruption and spits fire like an angry politician. In every 1,000 inhabitants-12 negroes more die than whites in air the south land. The application of electricity in the north fs making astonishing results: The Philadelphia Record says that- Roetgen rays may be means-of curing; blindness and skin diseases. A Wahmgton special to the Charles ton News- and Courier says that "Sen ator McLaurln's friends declare that. he cannot expect to be returned to the Senate unless he can give a complete and acceptable explanation of his af filiation with the republican party. If he shows the white feather now In the face of Senator Tillman's bold defi ance It is not difficult to see his finish."" Kruger Is opposed to a surrender. Union (Presbyterian) Seminary stu dents (four in all) are excluded from the mihistry as not orthodox unsound Rightly done and In the north. Uncle Sam asks for $25,000000 indem nity from China. There is a new preacher in England" who is- said to be "the most powerful preacher there now." His name is "Gypsy Smith," and his father Is a converted Gypsy horse trader, and the son never had five weeks of consecu tive schooling as we learn from tbt Charlotte Standard. TIIE MONTHLY MAGAZINES. Everybody's Magazine for May 3 "up to snuff." It is John. Wannamatt er's 12-t page handsome monthly served at 10 cents a copy or $1 a year. Pub lished at New York. Confederate Veteran for March has been at hand for some weeks. It Jfras several pages of Interest to its southern readers. The address by Horn. Tully Brown at Nashville on the "Story of the Death of Sam Davis" is pathetic and should be generally read. The ad dress of the late President Jefferson Davis In New Orleans before the Southern Historical Society, is most memorable. It is remarkable how temperate and kind he was in bis re ference to the victorious north. It Is very faithful at the same time to the south and its heroes. We make one brief sentence: "The southern people are not revengeful; th fact is they are not capable of lasting hate, which is the child for fear; therefore brave men do not hate like cowards. (Applause.)" The World's Work for Mar is full nf matter of its practical, newsy kind, it discusses the late Ex-President Harri son. General Funs ton. President Diaz and others. Price $3 a year or 25 cents a number. Published at 24 Union Spnare. east .New York city. The Charleston News and Courier, noticing Gen. Butler's declaration of support for McLaurln, mildly , consid ers his past record. He used to be very perpendicular and stout-hearted in his antagonism to radicalism, black or white, and figured, we believe. In a disturbance in which some negroes were killed. Our contemporary says of Gen. Butler when In the U. S. sen ate: "His attitude toward the authori ties at Washington has greatly chang ed since his retirement from tbe sen ate and the favor with which he has been regarded by the McKinley ad ministration. "We agree with Gen. Butler that what is wanted in South Carolina, above all things, is a greater tolera tion for those honestly, differing fro.n us in political opinion, greater freedom of action;' but that was just as de sclrable in the days when he re presented South Carolina in the sen ate as it is "now when his place has been filled by another; and we have no information that would show tha he was a very pronounced advocate ot any great degree of political toleration when he was one of our most Influen tial political leaders." Talk about northern love of the negro, It Is all bosh. There are sonv"? negrophllists "up there" of course. But the masses hold Sambo in no spe cial favor. He may be tolerated but he will not be loved or patronized. The New York Evening post of last week gave this account: "A crowd of citizens chased Edwari Randolph, a negro, from Patterson, N. j.. for nine miles across country yes terday. He was accused of Ill-treating a negro boy, Edward Thomas, only three years old. so badly that the lad had to be taken to a hospital for an operation. The police succeeded in catching Randolph, and, as the citi zens threatened to take him away from them and lynch him. they hurried him to jail. When he was taken to court this morning a jeering mob followed hhn." WTiat would become of a lustful black In New Jersey who would as sault some pure, fair young white wo men? Rev. Simon Drew, D. D., the president of the Lincoln National In dustrial and employment Bureau, of New York, speaking of the negro ex odus from the south, said, "that ne groes would find New York 'a very hard place. " We quote an instruc tive passage from him: "As to the matter of the exodus of the negro from the south," he said, "this question is absurd. I am glad to say that the color line does not ex ist In New York as It does in the south but where you will find 1,000 negro car penters, bricklayers, bookkeepers, clerks, plasterers, painters and decor ators, postmasters and mistresses. In the south, you will not find 100 in the northern states. It is not the color, but the condition of the negro finan cially. The last work a colored man should be barred out of, and that is hod-carrying, he can not do In New York city. The Italians, Swedes and Germans are given that." That the cigarette is hurful fs be yond fair dispute. The cumulating evidence Is conclusive in that direction. The sale of the deadly enemy has greatly diminished we are happy to record. Legislatures In many states hav dealt with the sale. Some little while since the New Hampshire house passexl a law forbidding any person, firm or corporation to make, seiT. or keep for sale "any form of cigarette." The gift of a cigarette to minors is a misdemeanor quite as much as the sale to adults. Persons violating the law may be punished by a fine of ten dol lars fop the first offense, and fifty dollars for any subsequent offense. Whether or no it became a law with the approval of the governor, we are not informed. We dor not know just how rich the Roman mobility and consuls and other officials f the Erxplre were, but great wealth abounded. It is doubtful If any of them were as rich as some half dozen American multi-mllllonalres. Kings ana Emperors now on the throne are tpo- poor to keep company with American money lords. There are more mea in America worth $100,000, 000 than in any country on the- globe. There are more who are worth. $200. 000,000 than to be found elsewhere. We might go higher. There are more who are worth $50,000,C0, $25,000,000, $10,000,- 000 and $5,000,000 than any country can show. Mere millionaires are too, thick to be counted, and a fellow with, but $1,000,000 is a comparative pauper in the north. We see it stated that in the great city and capital of Germany. Ber lin, that there are only "twelve per sons who have an Income of over $250. 000, and the richest man in. Berlin Is worth onlF some 7,000.000,000." Poor in ded! And still Berlin, says, the New York Evening Post, Is "a better policed town, and. a ' better swept town, and a better managed town than, that In which even our billions cannot pre vent ashrcan and newspaper-Uttered streets, nor Tammany police, nor yel low press." The Best Remedy for Rheumatism Quick Relief from l'aln All who use Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism are delighted with the quick relief from pain which it affords. When speaking of this Mr. D. N. Sinks, of Troyfc Ohio, says; "Some time ago 1 had a severe attack of rheumatism In my arm, and shoulder. I tried numer ous remedies but got no -relief until I was recommended by Messrs. Geo F. Parsons & Co.. druggists of this place, to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. They recommended It so highly that I bought a bottle, i was soon relieved of all pain, i have since recommended this liniment to many of my friends, who agree with me that it Is the best reme ay for muscular rheumatism in the market" For sale by R, R. Bellamy. CASTOR 11$ For Infanti and Children. Tts Kfcj Yc3 n 2T3 Atoajs B:M Bears tha , - Sfgnatao of Qtcfff mar W-tu.th.eat and The Meaenrer la Indorsed ; Editor Messenger: - Sir: In reading your able article of this morning, in which you quote and comment upon an article In the Inves tor, one very important factor seems to have escaped attention. Under former conditions there was no force except an unorganised mob. to oppose the oppression of the possessors of wealth and power, whether In the Roman empire, in France before the revolution, or in England. Today the conditions are widely differ ent; labor Is ilowly but surely availing Itself of the power which Is evolved by organization. k The . ramifications of this organiza tion now include all trades and occu pations and are Invading the "very cit adel of capital by the formation of leagues among salaried men. Against the encroachments and oppressions of the monstrously rich and their allied millionaires Is opposed the hlghlntel Hgence of the average American, plus the power of organized labor, which will soon include within Its ranks all who are opposd to plutocracy and all who suffer loss of opportunity by th encroachments of capital upon the do main of enterprise. When this vast and compact organi zation shall have evolved its natural leader, born with the genius of the occasion and Its requirements. Its Cromwell. Napoleon or Washington, a revolution will follow, the reign f money will have ended. There Is no reason to assume that this revolution will be a saturnalia of horror. Under wise leadership It would be bloodless it will be if not prematurely precipitat ed. The problem tkat follows is the formulation of a government that will equitably distribute the products of In dustry. It remains to be seen whether we are yet sufficiently advanced In the science of government to correctly solve the problem. We are without precedents, except perhaps such hints as might be gathered from the rule of the lncas of Peru a country whero poverty was unknown, whose language did not contain the word charity and whose money was not the medium of exchange did not exist In fact. It is still possible to avert a revolu tion, the consequences of which no man can foresee, by a return to true democracy and the enforcement of the principles of Jefferson and the founders of the republic, who certainly never contemplated such a condition as ex ists today. It was MachavelH the wisest of Ital ians who said "a government should often return to. or survey. Its founda tions." This Is the lesson of the hour for democrats. April 23. JEFFERSONIAN. NORTH CAROLINA. Fruit is badly Injured In North Car olina. Winston Sentinel: It is known that several hundred negroes have left Win ston the past two years. While this Is true, anumber (those who were able to go) have returned. The summer term of the university and the summer school for teachers will begin on Monday, June 17th. the former constituting six weeks and the latter three weeks. Sam Jones says that a man who goes out on a lecture tour, stops at the average town hotel; Is awakened to take the two o'clock train for two or three consecutive nights, feels like he has been on a three week's debauch. Sam usually knows what he is talking about. Charlotte News. Greensboro Telegram:. Mr. F. M. Shannonhouse. a member of the legis lature from Mecklenburg, was yester day appointed Recorder of the City of Charlotte, and office created by the legislature. A white man named Harvey Harrell died last night at the boarding house of Mrs. McBride on West Lee street of alcoholic poisoning. Chapel Hill, N. C, April 24. Henry Watterson delivered his lecture here last night on Llncon. The student body was disappointed. The societies had voted for his lecture on "Money and Morals," but from some unknown cause it was changed to Lincoln. Dr. A, A. Marshall of Raleigh, is the next uni versity preacher; he will preach, here in the chapel next Sunday night.. Monroe Journal: Messrs. J. T. Biv ens and J. G. Tomberlin live on adjoin ing farms in east Monroe township. There is surface gold on their lands and they occasionally pick up nuggets and finer gold about the branches. Some years ago Mr. Tomberlin found a lump worth $176. Recently he found a $10 lump and a considerable amount of gold. dust. Mr. Bivens also recently picked up at $7 lump. Raleigh News and Observer: Shelby. N. C. April 24. Vance Pearson, an employe of the Laura Glenn cotton mills, was killed at seven o'clock this evening. He was working in the race cleaning out the water wheel when some one turned on the water, which hurled him against the wheel, caus ing death instantly. The turning on of the water on a man under a, wheel while at work seems to have been a culpable piece of negligence. Raleigh Post: Durham, N. C.. April 24. Special. News has reached here of a murder, horrible in Its details, that was committed near Creed more. Gran ville county, a few days ago. The mur derer was a half-brother of the man slain, and after the life had been tak en the slayer hauled the dead Hody quite a distance to his homo- and then made his escape. The parties in this affair-were colored, and Waiter Gard ner I the murderer, while the dy of William Gardner lies buried at his' home- near Creed more. Maxton Notes (Correspondence of The Messenger. Maxton, N. C April 25. The continued cold weather is caua ing. a great deal of complaint among; the farmers. If they should have to re riant cotton very little seeed can be had. as owing to the high price of seed the majority of the farmers sold all except just enough to plant once. The Maxton postofflce has recently been raised to a presidential office. Mr. wi G. Hall, the postmaster, has recent ly moved Into new quarters and Is giv ing good service. Zxtenstve Plans tor Geolojrtcal Surrev i!fmston' AprU 25-The plan of operations of the geological survey ne? fl8cal has been an nounced. Numerous parties are to be ent to all sections of the country to Ve lTl. geological, topographical, hydrographlc and other lines of survey ?rJh,n. pprtant feature will be an investigation, in co-operation with the coast and geodetic survey of certain unmarked parts of the northwest boun dary between the United States and Canada. The line will be re-run and temporarily marked by iron posts in certain localities. Geologists will make surveys to co-operate In topographical surveys with the states of New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maine, West Vir ginia and North Carolina. . inveUga tions are planned cf the clays and the clayworking Industries of the country ana cement and cesaentjns industries. f