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a1 I JOS. E. ROBINSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Kilter el at the rostoffice at Ooldsboro, A. C Secmd" Clnsa Matter. GOLDSBORO. N. C, AUG. 4, 1892. i 5Thk A rqus seeks to be a reliable paper ror tho iHsoplean.l the family Democratic, and hcarincrto discuss no issue wherein the people'! riff'iis arn t stake. Progressive, abreast of the mro, we snsill al ways endeavor to keep our edi torial anil local columus up to the day and h.ur. 4ur ircu!atio:i is rapidly increasing, i.l xr.t hope to soon have the largest circula o:i f any paper in Eastern North Carolina, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES. FOR PRESIDENT : C, ROVER CLEVELAND, of New York. for vice-president: A, E. STEVENSON, of Illinois. STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FOR governor: ELIAS CARR, of Edgecombe. FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR : R. A. DOUGHTON, of Alleghany. For Secretary of State: OOTAVIUS COKE, of Wake. Eor Treasurer: DONALD W. BAIN, of Wake. " ior Auditor: R. M. FUKMAN, of Buncombe. For Superin'dt Public Instruction: J C. SCARBOKOUGH, . of Johnston. For Attorney-General : FRANK I. OSBORNE, of Mecklenburg. For J udge of the Twelfth District GEORGE A SHUFOED. For electors at large: CHARLES B, AYCOCK, ROBEET B, GLENN, For Congress, Second District, F, A. VVOODAED, of Wilson. THE ASSAULTON MANAGER FRICK It is rank nonsenee to speak of the attempted murder of Manager Frick aa an injniy to the cause of the workingmen. The working- men are no more responsible for that crime than the Republican party was responsible for the mur der of President Garfield. A homicidal crank in each case under- took to "remove" his victim, with out the connivance or aid of any body else. The man who assailed Manager Frick last Saturday was not con nected in the remotest degree with the Homestead "quarrel. He is a Russian anarchist, living in New York, and only within a few years a resident of the United States. I the Ilomcstead workingmen had hired him to murder the manager of the Carnegie works, they would nave been gouty ot a crime as atrocious as that committed by Mr. Frick himself when he hired Pinkerton'e bravoes to shoot down his employees ; but they did noth ing of the sort. The blood-guilti ness thus far is confined to , Man ager Frick, the Pinkerton Agency and the Russian lunatic who per. petrated last Saturday's crime. This latest tragedy is a natural outcome of the grayer ones which preceded it. When Mr. Frick en gaged the Pinkerton thugs and sent them to Homestead armed and equipped for battle, he knew that bloodshed would surely - follow, as it did. He was the first to invoke force in the straggle between Labor and Capital, The State "of Pennsylvania was amply able and ready to protect the property $f the Carnegie Company,- as it is do ing to-day at a cost of millions of dollars. Had it tailed of that duty, the Company cpnld have recovered full compensation for, any Ions sub- iRineu oy injnry 10 lis property or enforced susjtensjon of work. Such legal and peaceable res course did not suit the hauty mag. nate Frick. He felt that the op portunity had come for crashing out the labor union. He had the millions ot a great . corporation . at his back ; the .cpqrtf, the law officers, the army itself, of a mighty Commonwealth ..stood, ready to support bis lawful right; but he preferred appealing to private force. Anarchist , Bergman, with his .disordered logic,, goes a step further and constitutes I.imtelf a higher tribunal. The law will teach Mr, Bergman to respect its prerogative; for Mr. Frick, with rare courage and cool- nees, prevented tne infliction ot sammary punishment on the would be assassin. The experience,, let ns hope, may teach Mr. Frick the injustice of asserting' even . jnet claims by violent methods such as those of ; the 'atrocious . Pinkerton guards. l oor . uuoa. called in , uii'MCa acious irony tne "ilyer .baithtnl Isle," is again on the eve of revolt. She has tried constitutional agita tioii for nearly twenty years, but Spain, whether monarchial or re publican, has been deaf to her cries. The Tory . still rulis in Spain, and it is nothing to him that the: last rebellion in his - last American possession cost 200,000 lives and. $700,000,000. Cuba is still good for rich pickings, and the mother country has plenty of bun gry patriots to gather them. In a hundred years Cuba has known but one honest victory, the Hispa- no Irishman Prendergast. He alone of all his class left office poor. All the others have regarded the Ireland of the An tilles as legitimate prey. If Cuba is to appeal once more to arms there will be international com pi i cations involving this country. Congkess has at last lent an boni est ear. to Williwn McGarrahan and passed a bill allowing him to sue in the courts for the vast and valuable tract of land in California which a raining company stole from him, aa tie maintains, nearly a generation ago. He has been begging that eiitple act of justice from Congress for. over twenty-five years past, and has grown old in the long fight. He is a familiar figure in the Capitol halls, as many another victim . of hope de ferred. Capt, , Reid the heroic commander of the Armstrong priv avateer in , the battle ' of Fayal sought compensation from the Government for - the loss of his vessel, and died without getting it,after half a century of vain wait ing. His sou took up the claim and finally succeeded in collecting it two years ago seventy-six years after the ' fight which saved New Orleans to America. To add to the meanness of the Gov ernment in the latter case, the money which it delayed turn ing oyer to .the hero and' his son it . had collected, of ., Portugal over forty years ago ! COWARDLY MILITIA OFFICERS. When the pews of the attempted assassination of Manager Frick, of the Carnegie ' Works, reached the camp . of! Company K, 1 Seventh .Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, last - Sunday, a foolish young pri vate, Thomas lams, cried out for three cheers for the man who' shot Frick." : Col. i Streator overhead hi pa, promptly reprimanded him and asked him to retract bis . words. This, he declined to do. Where upon CoL Streator ordered the reg iment to assemble, and having an nounced lams' offence, ealled him oat and cat the buttons off his uni form! He then sammoned the corporal of Company K, and gave (his order : .'fTake a guard and take this man to the guard tent, ask the surgeons to stand by, and string this' man up by his thumbs until be can stand it no longer Jams I ;! .:' ; turned deathly pale, but never flinched, aod arrived at "the guard tend, held out his thumbs himself for a fellow-Eoldier to tie. Writes an eye-witness : "A stout piece of twine was tiijd tightly to each thumb aud lams raised his arms while the corporal drew the line over the tent pole. The cord was pulled by three men until lams , stood on tip toe and then it was made fast. The snr geons took turns counting his pulse beats. Ihey had to stand on a chair to do so. The vouutr man's face was deathly white, but his eyes were brilliant with determina tion. His arms were rigid with his weieht and the muscle s stood out stiffly. The twine was cutting into his flesh, but he pressed his lips firmly together and did not allow a moan to e.-cape him ''. yvrter ne naa hung lor some .'. lit .i minutes, he could no longer press the ground with his toes. His dead weight hung on the twine. and his pulse rose to 120. Then one of the surgeons said, "Let hira down ". A3 a soldier cut the corde. lams fell insensible into the eur- geon s arms, lie had hung for nineteen minutes. Col. Streator s report of the event was transmitted to General Snowden. lie read it carefully. aid thus endorsed it: "Dismiss J 1 1 tins man in aisgrace trom your regiment and drum him on! . I camp to-morrow morning". Lest this third sentence for the same offence might not sufficiently demonstrate the scope of his au thority, he added note that the petty tyrant had not the couiage to write it this verbal order : "Tell Col. Hawkins to have the man's head shaved on one side before he is dismissed Both the additional sentences were scrupulously carried out. Iaras' fellow-soldiers, obliged to participate in punishing hiir, looked at him with pitying eyes. When the soldier, sick and 6nfftr ing, was reduced to as dishonored and ludicrous a plight as manhood could well be brought to, he was taken before Col. Hawkins, and an Adjutant proceeded to road the re port which had been submitted to Gen. - Snowden and the orders which the General had given. lams listened to it with an air of indifterence. When it was finished, Col. Hawkins said to him : "My man, this has been an ex ceedingly painful duty for me to perform, but I think the punish ment was just. Yon are now dis charged in disgrace trom the ser vice. You will be escorted to ths limits of the camp. If you ever dare to enter it again, you will be summarily dealt with". Then the regiment, played the "Rogues' March", escorted lams to the railroad station. He was put on board affreight train, and his comrades retnrned to camp in silence. We must add that two punish" ments more follow the four already inflicted on lams. He is deprived for life of his franchise, and can never hold any public office. lams committed a grievous of fence, but a court-martial should have fixed his punishment. Let us suppose for a moment that Hugh O'Donnell instead of Man ager Frick had been the victim oi Bergman's piBtol. Does any bev lieve that in such case, if lams had called for three cheers- for the man who shot O'Djnnell, ho would have incurred even a reprimand; to say nothing ot dismissal with cruel and ignominious punish ments, which many officers say are forbidden by the military code. Streator and Snowden ought to be court martialed. But if there be any indifiniteness in - the pro, visions of the military code through which they can escape the conse quences of their cowardly aate, then the code should be amended. Snowden from the outset has taken an attitude against the work ingmen which seems to justify the prevailing sentiment, that be is acting in the direct interest of the Carnegie Company, and doing all in his power to precipitate a con flict between the strikers and the soldiers, . I ' V . SUNDAY READING Made Up of Divers diploic And on the dial write ' Beware of thieves!' ielon of minutes, never taught to feel The worth of treasures which thy lingers steal Pick my left pocket of the silver dime, But spare the right it hslds my golden . timr Oliver Wendell Holmes. One of the characters of holiness is to be unexacting, uncomplaining. Ech complaint, even it it be just, makes us descend a degree iron: that height of virtue so difficult to attain. To confide one's tr-nblte is not complaining; complaint near ly always contains a little ill-hn- mor and r slight feelinir of re venge. ''Golden Snnds." - "Yon are Peeking your own will, my daughter. You are . seeking some other good thn the law y n are bound to ohev. But how will yon find g od'i Ir is not tliingof choice; it U a river that flow from the foot of the Invinibhs Throne, and flows by the path ot obedi ence. I say again, man cannot choose hi duties. Yon inaycho .se not to have thi: sorrow they bring. Bnt yen will go forth, and what will you find, my danghtei? Sor row without duty bitter herbs and no bread with them. George Eliot. Oar yeiled and terrible guest, trouble brings tor us, it we will accept it, the boon of fortitude, patience,8elfcontro), wisdom sym- M i'hy, faith. If we reiect that, .on wo find in our hands the other gift cowardice, weakness, insolation, despair. If your trouble seems to have in it no other posei maty ot good, at least set yonr- selt to bear it r.ke a man. Let none of its weight come on other Bhouldere. Try to carry it so that none shall evon see it. Though your heart be sad within, let cheer go out from you to others. Meet them with a kindly presence, con siderate words, helpful acts. G. S. Merriam. WHEN TO BUY ! When you can get goods at the folow iug Low, Cut Prices: Coffee lbf to 25 cents. Sugar 5 cents, Vinegar 25 cts pur gallon, Rice 5 cts lb., starch 5 eta lb. Good 3 cts lb, 1 lb Baking Powder 10 cts, 24 hundred Matches 10 cts. T0BABC0 15 TO GOC. Tinwai e of all kinds going cheap. Come and see my new Glaisware, Berry Bets, etc. Plates 25 cts, Kniyes and Forks 50 cts eet.Pants Cloth 10 cts yd. Calico 3 to 7 ct.j yd. Y'd Domestics 5c. SHOES SHOES SHOES hildren'u Shoe 20c to $1.15 per pair Ladies' Shoes 85c to $2.50, Men's 95c to $3 00 per pair. Trunks and Valises at almost any price. 24 Envelopes $ cts, Socks 5 cts. BOYS' PANTS 20 Cts. Wir? Buckle Suspenders 20 cts, Men's Pants from 50c to $ 3.50 per pair, Hats. Men's and Boys', from 10 cents to $1.25. Stockings 5 cents, Lamps 15 cents to $1.25. U ill and see and b convinced, F. B. Edmundson. marll-tf. 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