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CHARLOTTE. N. C.
Fertilizer Analysis for 1890.
Experiment Station Bulletin No. 69 will
be ready for mailing 'February 28th. It
will contain all analjsia of fertilizers,
sampled by the official inspectors, which
hare been finished up to date.
The fertilizer season tliis year for a
variety of reasons is an exceptionally late
one. Not until the latter part of J annary
owing to late shipments was it possible
for the inspectors to find the brands on
ale. And as the value of oar whole fer
tilizer inspection depends on the fertilizer
samples being taken alter the goods are
shipped into the State and offered for
sale, necessarily if these shipments are
delayed, the analysis in consequence will
be retarded. This bulletin contains,
therefore, a limited number only of the
brands licensed, but they are publiehed
at this time with the desire of accomplish
ing as much good as possible, in giving
to the farmers some analysis at least
whioh may aid them in their purchase?.
Valuations for 1890 have a different
meaning from the values of previous
years. Heretofore it has been attempted
to give by the commercial value an ap
proximation of the retail cost of the mixed
fertilizer for cash at the seaboard. That
is, the price which a man at the seaboard
ought to give for the complete fertilizer.
This plan was to some extent unsatisfac
tory, and gives place this year to the new
system. The commercial value as given
to a fertilizer this season (1890) means the
actual retail coBt for each of the in
gredients in bags at the seaboard. It does
not include the oost of mixing these in
gredients, nor of branding the bags, nor
of handling the mixed fertilizer, nor any
expenses contingent upon the manage
ment of an extensive fertilizer manufac
tory. A farmer when he buys a fertilizer
this year, by glanoing at the commercial
valuation, as given by the Experiment
Station, oan see what is the actual cash
worth of the ingredients composing it at
the seaboard. For interior points, freight
to those points from the seaboard must be
added.
The valuation for the three ingiedients
for this year by this system will be : For
available phosphoric acid 5 cents per
pound, for ammonia 13 cents per pound,
lor potash 5 cents per pound. This sys
tem and this valuation has been adopted
by the combined States of North Carolina,
Virginia and South Carolina.
Bulletin 69 will be sent to each name
on the mailing list of the Experiment
Station. Those who are especially desirous
of getting this bulletin at once, will do
well to request the same by postal card ;
as necessarily, with suoh an extensive
mailing list, it must be some days before
all the names can be supplied from it.
II. B. Battle, Director.
Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 21, 1890.
The Loss la One Year.
The Democrats last Congress sought to
make some changes in the laws and policy
of the government for the advantage of
the farmers, but, the Kepublioan oenate
stood as a stonewall against tbe passage
of these measures. The Democrats
argued and urged but in vain. The
Senate would not hear. They turned a
deaf ear to the patriotic statesman who
presented the facts or tne situation, and
plead for the interest of the farmers. We
have now had the proof of the pudding.
The oountry has tasted and the taste is
not good. The situation is known by ex
perience, but it does not rest merely on
the testimony of piivate individuals. The
Department of Agriculture itself lays the
fact before Congress, and the facts speak
louder coming from that source because
the statistician is a Republican.
The corn crop ot 1888 was 1,987,790,000
bushels and was valued at $6 77,501, 5 8U,
while for lsst year the crop was 2,112,892,
000 bushels and was valued at $597,918,-
820. A erop, greater by 125,000,000
bushels, wad worth f 80,uuu,000 less man
the year before.
That in regard to corn.
Wheat shows the same result.
In 1888 the wheat crop amounting to
415,868,000 bushels was valued at $385,
248, 000; but last year, a crop of 490,560,-
000 bushels was valued at only $349,491,
700. A crop, 75,000,000 bushels greater
than the year before, was worth $ 36,000,-
000 less.
Oats show the same decline. In 1888,
the farmers raised 701,000,000 bushels ot
oats valued at $195,424,240; last year
they increased the crop 50,000,000 bushels
bat it was worth $24,000,000 less.
The industry of tbe farmers was more
productive in 1889 than tbe year before
to the extent of 250,000,000 bushels of
these three great staples; but the crop
was worth $150,000,000 less, according to
the figures of the Department itseil.
Indeed if the prices of 1888 bad been
realized for the crop of 1889, the farmers
would have gotton $252,000,000 more
than in 1888.
- The deoline in price in one year alone
thus oost the farmers in these three staples
$250,000,000. Does not this result look
like the Democrats were right when they
urged a ohange in the policy of the gov
eminent?
Yet while the farmers are suffering so,
the Republican representatives at Wash
ington are not considering their wants and
needs, but are devising means to squander
the immense earns that are unnecessarily
exaoted from the people, and making it
easy to raid the treasury. They have
eyes but see not; and ears, but tbey will
not hear. They will not harken to the
cries of distress that comes from the
farmers. Raleigh Observer.
New Postaoe Stamps. The new
stamps are on sale all over the oountry at
offices where they have been received.
They are rather smaller than those here
tofore in use.
The one cent- stamp is blue, showing
"the profile bust of Benjamin franklin.
The two cent stamp is carmine, bearing
tbe bust of Washington.
The three cent stamp is purple and the
figure is Andrew Jackson.
The four cent, chocolate. Lincoln. The
five cent light brown, Grant. The six
oent, Garfield. Ten cent, Webster.
Fifteen cent, Clay. Thirty cent, Jeffer
son, and the ninety cent, Commodore
Ferry.
df One great fault with North Caro
lina is that her people do not stand by
North Carolina and by each other as they
should. The practice of sending away
for what can be obtained within our bor
ders is entirely too common. The die
position is to send our money away and
let it help to build up other sections in
stead of helping to build up our own
iSUle. Greenville Rtjtector.
N. C. News.
r3f Th trustees of the State Univer
sity met at Raleigh last week and forbade
the students to play loot-oau.
ar3T" An additional snbsorintion of
1 nn nnn w vntpd to the Roanoke and
Southern railroad on Tuesday last. Only
eleven votes were cast against it.
tiT Last Saturday Mr. D. A. Oates,
of Cleveland county, met a fatal acoident
by falling on a circular saw, about filteen
miles from Rutherfordton. He was liter
ally cut to pieces.
tt3f Rnsh Spencer, of Gastonia, wai
severely iojured last Saturday, while play
ing football. He accidentally ran against
a barbed wire, which struck bis throat and
came near inflioting a fatal wound.
Bled to Death. In Lincoln County
an eight-year-old son of Piookney Smith
fell and his teeth cut his tongue. Bleeding
began and it was impossible to stop it.
In a short while the child bled to death.
Jtsr Rev. W. A. Wood. Dsstor of the
Presbvterian church of Statesville, has
accented a call to the Dastorate of the
Presbyterian church of Graham, Alamance
county.
SEW The Commissioner of Agriculture
has decided to issue no fertilizer license
applied for under protest. In this respect
he seems to have the upper hand. Of
course there will be no sales without li
cense. Raleiqh Visitor.
CUT Strawberries were in market yes
terday, from Mr. Westbrook's farm near
the city. The Grand Lodge ot the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows of North
Carolina will meet in tnm city in may
next. Wilmington Star.
23f There Are 261 orphans now in the
Oxford Orphan Asylum. They make be
tween six and seven thousand dollars a
year by making and selling shoes, brooms,
garden products and running a printing
office. Oxford Friend.
t2T" At the McEachern mine, ten
miles south of Concord, Mr. W. A. Smith
has been during the past week taking out
ore that is worth $5 or more per bushel.
The indications are that the vein will in
crease in value as the work progresses.
Concord Times.
It is probable that there will be
two thousand North Carolina teachers at
the next Assembly, and as for the South
ern Educational Association, notifications
of attendance have been received from
teachers in every Northern and Southern
States, and most of the Western States.
Raleigh Call.
Mr. Charles Sherrill, who lives
about three miles from Hickory, met with
a fatal acoident last Saturday night. Mr
Sherrill was driving in a buggy above
one mile and a half from Hickory, and in
crossing the narrow guage road, the
engine struck the horse and buggy, kill
ing Mr. SherrUl and the horse, and smash
ing up the buggy.
B3F The farmers of this section are
quite busy on their farms now, and are
cheerful withal in the hope of a good crop
return in tbe fall. It would seem that
tbe truck farmers of this vicinity antici
pate good prices for Irish potatoes on the
Northern markets this spring. Quite an
extensive crop has been planted here
abouts. Goldsboro Argus.
Fiee at the Falls House. A con
siderable fire occurred in the Falls Hotel
last week, in the apartment occupied by
Dr. E. F. Glenn. It is supposed to have
been started by mice and matches in an
old cupboard. Dr. Glenn discovered it
by the fruit jars breaking and tailing.
By hard work it was extinguished, but a
few minutes longer, and it would have
been beyond control. Gastonia Gazette.
A Ckop Sigv. There is a tradition
among the old Dutch farmers of the Pied
mont portion of this State that tbe weather
on Ash Wednesday indicates whether or
not there will be a good wheat crop. It
the weather is inclement on that day
there will be a bad wheat crop, but if the
weather is good there will be a good wheat
crop, it there be any truth in tms old
saying, our farmers may expect a good
crop ot wheat this year.
JgT" Capt. P. W. Carpenter and Mr.
P. F. Baxter, have leased sooae of their
lands to the Iron Ore Company and
their is a probability ot a development of
the same in tbe near future. If all the
ore that has been spotted in the oounty
by this company turns out to be as good
as is expected Lincoln county will cer
tainly have a large miniog industry in
the near future. Lincoln Courier.
IBAGEDT IN UOBESON. IN6W8 Ot a
tragedy which occurred Wednesday last
near Pate's, a station on the Carolina
Central Railroad in Robeson couuty, wa9
brought to the city yesterday. Vicey
Oxeodine, a young woman belonging to
the community of Croataoa living in the
Scuffletown section, was waylaid on the
county road by the wife of Kaaberry
Oxeodine, who fired at Vicey three times
with a shotgun and inflicted wounds that
it is thonght will prove fatal. The woman
who did tbe shooting was arrested
Jealousy is said to have been the cause
of the trouble. Wilmington star.
Little Julia Dewev, daughter of
Mr. Frank Dewey, had an exciting and
dangerous horseback ride yesterday. She
was riding with a friend when her horse
took fright at a street car and dashed off
at full speed toward the stable where he
is kept. Little Julia held on to tbe reins
bravely and steadily, while onlookers shut
their eyes to keep from seeing an appa
rently fearful accident. She kept her seat
till the stable was reaohed, when tbe
horse suddenly turned and she was
thrown off. Haouilv she sustained no
injury wnatever, and soon walked away
with her father to the happy relief and
delight of tbe many people who had seen
her dangerous ride. Raleigh Gall.
A Dastardly Deed. Thursday night
last about 8.30 o'clock some one went to
the house of Wiley Brown, colored, near
the Hebrew cemetery, in the southwestern
part of town, and called "Heigho 1" The
call was repeated twice before Wiley, who
bad gone to bed, opened the door and
answered it. The visitor asked the way
or the distance to Taylorsville, and while
Wiley was answering the unknown mis
creant fired at him, a large load of mixed
shot from a gun or a single-barreled pistol
entering his left leg and the door which
he held partially open. The victim of
this assassin-like attempt sank to the
floor and the miscreant turn J and walked
away, muttering, as he did so, some
'a
words which were not' heard. Statesville
Landmark.
Bees very seldom make their
honey and comb in open air, but such
case is reported irom an orange grove in
I Orlando, H la., where they have establish
ed their hive on the limb of one of the
i orange trees.
g-ltayijttjc
Address of Ex President Grover Cleveland,
Before the Southern Society of New York, on
Washington's Birthday, jreoruary sszj, loau,
in response to the toast:: "The Birthday of
George Washington."
MePbesident and Gentlemen: It
is sometimes said of us that we have too
ew holidays, and this perhaps is true.
We do not boast tbe antiquity nor tbe
ong history which accumulates numerous
days of national civio observance; had
the rush and activity of onr people's life
are not favorable to that conservative and
deliberate sentiment which creates and
establishes holidays. So far as such days
might commemorate the existence or
achievements of some conspioous person
age, their iofrequency may be largely
attributed to our democratio spirit and
the presumption arising from our institu
tions. In this land of ours owned, pos
sessed and governed by the people we,
n theory at least, demand, and expect
that every man will, in his sphere, be a
patriot, and that every faculty of great
ness and usefulness with which he is en
dowed, will be devoted to his oountry and
his fellow man. We have had no dearth
of distinguished men and no better hero
ism has anywhere been seen than here.
But they belong so naturally to us, that
we usually deem them sufficiently noticed
and commemorated when they are ac
knowledged as contributions to the com
mon fund of our national pride and glory.
Thus it happens that in this country
but two birthdays are publicly celebrated.
We ievectly speak of one as the day when
the Redeemer of Mankind appear among
men. On the other the man was born
whosl mission it was to redeem the
American people from bondage and
dependance and to display to the world
tbe possibility of popular self-govern
ment.
It would be strange indeed if this day
should ever be negleoted by our fellow
oountry men. It would be like a nation's
blotting out the history which cements
ts governmental edifice or expooging its
tradition from which flows that patriotic
ove and devotion of its people which are
the best guarantees of peaoeiul rule and
popular oontentment.
We certainly need at least one day
which shall recall to our minds the truth
that tbe price of our oountry was unselfish
abor and sacrifice, that men tougbt and
sacrifice, that men fought and buffered
that we might be free, and that love and
American brotherhood are necessary ele
ments to the full and oonlinued enjoyment
ot American freedom, prosperity and
happiness.
We are apt to torget these things in
our engrossment with the activities whioh
attend the development of our oountry,
and in the impetuous raoe after wealth
which has beoome a characteristic of our
people. There is danger that we may
grow heedless oi the fact that our institu
tions are a precious legacy which for their
own sake should be jealously watched
and guarded, and there is danger that
this condition may induce selfishness and
sordidness, followed by tbe idea that
patriotism and mortality have no place in
statecraft, and that a political career may
be entered upon like any other trade tor
private profit and advantage.
This is a frightful departure trom the
doctrines upon which our institutions rest;
and surely it is the extreme of folly to
hope that our scheme of government will
effect its purpose and intent when every
condition of its birth and life is neglected.
Point to your immense fortunes if you
will: point to your national growth and
prosperity; boast of the day of practical
politics; and discard as obsolete, all senti
ment and all conception of morality and
patriotism in public life, but do not for a
moment delude yourselves into the belief
that you are navigating in the same course
marked out by those who launched and
blessed the Ship of State.
Is Washington accused even in these
days of being a sentimentalist ? Listen
to tbe admonition be addressed as an old
and affectionate friend" to his fellow
countrymen whom he loved so well and
for whom he had labored so long, as be
retired from their service.
Of all the dispositions and habits whioh
lead to political prosperity, religion and
morality are indispensable supports. In
vain would that man claim the tribute
of patriotism who should labor to subvert
these great pillars of human happiness,
these firmest props of the duties ot men
and citizens. Tbe mere politioan equally
with tbe pious man, ought to respect and
cherish them.
And all is summed np and applied
directly to our situation . when he adds:
"It is substantially true that virtue or
morality is a necessary spring of popular
government.
When did we outgrow these sentiments?
W ben did we advance so far in knowledge
above our fathers as safely to cast aside
these belie' ? Let us be sober and
thoughtful, and if we find that these
things have loBt their hold on our minds
and hearts, let us take soundings, for the
rocks are near.
We need in our public and private life
such pure and chastened sentiments as
result from the sincere and heartfelt ob
servance of days like this, and we need
such quickening of our patriotism as the
sedate contemplation of the life and char
acter of Washington oreates.
Most of all, because it includes all, we
need a better appreciation of true Amen
can citizenship. I do not mean by this
that thoughtless pride of country, which
is everywhere assumed, sometimes without
sincerity, nor that sordid attachment born
ot benefits received or favors expected,
but that deep and sentimental love for
our citizenship which flows from the con
sciousness that the blessing of heaven was
invoked at its birth; that it was nurtured
in tho faith of God; and that it grew
strong in the self-denying patriotism of
our fathers and in their love of man
kind.
Suoh an apprehension of American
citizenship will consecrate us all to the
disinterested service of our couutry and
incite us to drive from tbe temple ot our
liberties the money -changers and they
who buy and sell.
Washington was the most thorough
American that ever lived. His sword
was drawn to carve out Amerioan citizen
ship, and his every act and public service
was directed to Us establishment. He
contemptuously spurned the offer of kingly
power, and never taltered in his hope to
make most booorable the man who could
justly call himself an American.
In tbe most solemn manner he warned
his countrymen against any attack upon
the unity of tbe government, and called
upon them to frown indignantly upon any
attempt to alianate any portion of the
country trom the rest, or to enfeeble tbe
sacred ties that lioked together the vari
ous parts. " -
His admonition reached tbe climax oi
its power and force when he said:
"Citizens by birth or choice ot a com
mon country, that country has a right to
gemgcyat, Cftaylglte, . g
concentrate your affections..,, The name
of 'American, which belongs to yoo m
your national capacity, mast always exalt
the just pride ot patriotism more than any
appellation derived from any local dis
criminations." 1 .
In an evil hour and amid rage nd re
sentment the warning of Washington
was disregarded and the nmty of our
government was attacked. In blood and
devastation it was saved and the name of
"American," which belonged to all of us,
was rescued.' from tbe gloom of desola
tion and estrangement all our country
men were drawn again to their places by
the mystio bond of American citizenship,
which for all time to come shall bold and
ennoble them as hearty co-workers in
accomplishing the national destiny which
to tbe day oi bis death inspired the faith
and hope of Washington.
As we oommemorate bis birth tonight.
we will invoke his precious influence and
renew oaf patriotic and disinterested love
of country. Let us thank God that he
has given to us the highest and best ex
ample of Amerioan citizenship. And let
us especially be grateful that we have
this sacred memory, whioh spanning time,
vicissitude and unhappy alienation, call
us together in sincere fellowship and
brotherly love on "The birthday of George
Washington."
Digest of N. G. Supreme Court Decisions.
Spring Term, 1890.
From the Raleigh Observer.
Jonathan ITorton vs. L. L Green.
1. The rules ot tbe Supreme Court requir-
ing certain parts of the record to be print
ed is not unreasonable, and upon failure
to comply with it the appeal will be dis
missed, but may be reinstated upon good
cause shown.
2. Nor is the rale unconstitutional. The
Constitution. Article 4. section 12. eivea
to the General Assembly power to regu
late proceedings in all the courts "below
the Supreme," but confers on this court
tbe exolnsive power to regulate its own
procedure.
3. Discussion of tbe reasonableness ot
the rule by Clark, J.
J. S. Miller et al. vs John Pierce. A
written contract for the sale of land may
be resoinded or abandoned by party, but,
before tbe courts will enforce such rescis
sion or abandonment, there must be shown
something more than a mere oral agree
ment of the parties; there must appear
such positive and unequivocal aota and
conduct as are clearly inconsistent with
the contraot.
T. F. Costner vs. J. W. Fisher. Tbe
plaintiff, in settlement of an account due
from the defendant, accepted the latter's
bond upon condition that be would pay it
in monthly installments. The aocount
was not receipted, and plaintiff testified
that the bond was taken only as seourity :
Held,
1 That, irrespective of tbe intentions of
the parties, the debt on account was
merged into the bond.
2 That if the debt had not changed its
form and dignity, yet the acceptance of
the bond was an agreement on the part
of the creditors to suspend his remedy on
the account until tbe expiration of the
period of payment provided in the bond.
Theodore Gordon and wife vs. Austin
Collelt, Rutus Avery et al. 1 A parol
contraot for the aale of land is not void,
but voidable at tbe eleotion of the party
charged therewith.
2 It is the duty of the court to submit
to the jury every material issue raised
by the pleadings unless waived by the
parties.
ADDITIONAL DECISIONS.
Opinions were filed -in the following
oases on Monday last:
Slate vs. Toole, from Meoklenburg ; no
error.
Gay vs. Grant, from Northampton ;
petition to rehear dismissed as to defend
ant's appeal.
State vs. Armistead, from Bertie ; no
error.
Fortesoue vs. Crawford, trom Beaufort ;
reversed.
Wilson vs. Johnson, from Bertie ; new
trial granted.
Berry vs. Hall, from Grange; no
error.
Blow vs. Vanghan, from Hertford ; new
trial granted.
State vs. Williams, from Wilson j no
error.
Green vs. Sherrod, from Franklin; no
error.
Branch vs. Galloway, from Wilson ;
error; judgment must be entered for
defendant.
What Gone Already ?
Here is a queer report from Washing
ton that tbe Ways and Means Committee,
who were going to reduce taxation, or,
more accurately speaking, cut off revenue.
in various ways, begin to discover that all
the revenue will be needed to oome some
where near balancing the coming expen
ditures. The committee have looked at
the bills proposing new expenditures, de
manded by "the party" and promised, and
have oome to the conclusion that there
will be no surplus. There may even be
need for additional revenue, which means
additional taxes.
The repeal of the tobacco tax. says tbe
wise person, is certain, "unless it is found
that the revenue cannot be spared." Ah!
According to the Treasury report, the
estimated income for the years 1890-91,
will be 385,000,000; the estimated ex
penditures, including the already largely
over-paid sinking fund, will be $292,000
000, leaving an estimated surplus of over
$92,000,000, which tbe poor Ways and
Means Committee see is already mort
gaged for "liberal appropriation," so that
tbey doubt it they oan even spare the
tobacco tax. All right. T Herald.
The Snow Blockade.
Washington, February 22. Senator
Stanford this morning received the fol
lowing telegram from General Manager
Towne, ot the Central Pacific railroad
giving the latest information of the great
snow blockades:
San Fbancisco, February 21. The
last passenger train that went np the
mountain ou the Central Pacific railroad
required nineteen oi our most powerful
locomotives and push plow to get them
over; and even with this power it got
stalled near Emigrant Gap. This was
the last trip possible to make with , the
push plow, after that they had to depend
entirely upon power plows to throw tbe
enow out ot the deep cuts. Thus you e
the difficulty of attempting to ' move traf
fic over the mountains. The storm now
is as severe as last night, but if it con
tinues twenty-lour hours longtr it will
be impossible to keep Jhe line open with
any power. When l left the office to
night there were 1,245 shovelers between
Colfax and Truokee and more on the way.
-. The Race Problem.
Some Peculiar Features of Debate on Negro
' 7 Emigration. j ;
Washington, D. C., February 15, 1890.
Tbe series ot speeches now being de
livered by Southern Senators npon the
raoe issue is very remarkable. Take tbe
temper of these utterances for illustration.
Less of the "heat of debate" was never
shown by Southerners on the floor of the
Senate., There is no "fight" in them.
Morgan, Butler, Walthall, George, Hamp
ton and Vance have spoken. Tbey have
presented tbe great problem in all its
puzzling magnitude. - They have not
claimed success or much progress, in the
solution of tbe problem. In some of tbe
speeches, notably Walthall's, a tone of
almost hopelessutss characterized the ef
fort to see into the future. Assuming
tbe situation to v be ot the gravest
character, these Southern Senators have
appealed to the whole country to help
them by palieuoe and forbearance rather
than to aggravate the situation by inter
ference. It may be that the Southerners do not
see the conditions of their problem so
clearly as tbey think. They may be on
tbe wrong line to reach a solution. But
it is certain that in this great debate they
have assumed a position whioh ould not
be stronger. Taunt and invective are in
teresting to listen to sometimes, but the
serious appeal to forbearance and for as
sistance is more effective.
Before tbey get through these Senators,
hot-blooded by tradition, may spoil the
advantage they have gained, but thus tar
they have made powerful presentations of
their case. Whit they want is "to be let
alone'' with tbe race problem. That is
what the South has always wanted of the
North "to be let alone." But usually
the South has demanded this with more or
less arrogance of manner and resentment
in tone. Now these Southerners calmly
and conservatively argue to the North
that their burden is almost greater tbau
they oan bear, and plead for sympathy
wit bout interference from tbe North.
Partisans wl 1 probably say that the
Southerners are crafty rather than honest
in the attitude they have assumed on this
race issue.' Partisans usually fail to see
anything good on the other side of any
question. If these Southerners have not
talked their true sentiments in the course
ot this debate then their manner is well
calculated to deceive. They may be mis
taken, but they do not talk like men who
feel dishonest. There is little ol politics
and little of bitterness in these speeches,
but a spirit of being oppressed by the
strained relations between the two races
and an almost desperate apprehension of
impending troubles. Five leading Sena
tors from tbe South have spoken at great
length upon this race topic Only cue
Northern Senator has made a S9t reply,
and his speech was in some respects a dis
appointment. This is because tbe South
ern Senators have, by their appeals for
sympathy, ar.d by their confessions of ina
bility to see the way through, disarmed the
Northern Senators. Ingalls uted tbe Ab
erdeen inoident with telling effeot. But
forthwith tbe Mississippi Senators, Wal
thall and George, without offering to miti
gate the affair, denounced it as ''deplora
ble and disgraceful in tbe extreme." The
only point upon which the Northern Sena
tes could lay hold for argument was Sen
ator George's plea that the Senate could
not constitutionally look into the matter
of the whipping of Fracs for letting tbe
Proctor effigy fall. The Mississipian
mildly argued that the outrage was one
for the State to lake cognizance of, not for
the Federal Government to investigate and
punish.
The candor, the earnestness and the
temperate tone with which the Southern
Senators have spoken tell ot an intense
feeling of anxiety pervading their section
upon the raoe issue. These Senators talk
even more plainly and hopelessly of the
situation when4hey disoqsa it in the pri
vacy of their parlors. One of the fairest
minded and most eminent Southerners in
the Fiity-first Congress said to-day in pri
vate conversation with the writer:
"Sometimes I feel so oppressed with the
conditiou of things in my State I almost
determine that I will resign my seat and
move to some other part of the country.
I cannot see how we are to get along
without these frequent collisions between
the races. The situation seems to grow
worse instead of better. It preys upon the
white people. It destroys peaoe of mind.
It warps and distorts tbe moral nature.
Do you kuow that in my State many of
tbe best white men, intelligent, moral,
humane and all that, have by constantly
brooding over this race problem come to
look upon the killing ot a negro aj no
orime? Horrible as it seems, this is the
exact trutb."
The man who said this is Southern
born, an ex-Con federate, conservative,
one of the ablest men ot bis State, and a
Democrat, of course,
Ex Chief Justice John McClure, of Ar
kansas, says the Southern Democrats have
a constitutional remedy for negro domina
tion. "But," he adds, "the trouble is they
will not avail themselves of this remedy.
I pointed it out to our Democratic friends
in Arkansas and twenty-five or thirty
members-elect of the Legislature oame up
to Little Rock full of the idea of passing
the law I had suggested. But some of
the Democratio leaders got these members
around to the Old Hickory Clob and talked
to them. That was the end of the proposed
i . u- j- .
legislation iu iuskh negro uominauon im
possible. : The J udge leaned back in his chair and
laughed oilentiy at the thought of bow be
trapped the Arkansas lawmakers. Being
asked to tell what his infallible and legal
remedy . for negro denomination is. the
Judge said:
"The Demooratio whites now have cot-
trol of all of the Southern Legislatures
Let them pass a law that no person of ne
gro blood shall be eligible to hold any
office State, county or municipal. That
is the remedy. I'd like to see it tried.
Then it wouldn't be neoessarv to stuff
ballot-boxes or shoot colored men. Negro
domination would be impossible."
1 be Judge smiled as be contemplated
the improbability of tbe Democratio white
men passing such a law.
"But would such a law be constitu
tional ?" be was asked.
"Certainly it would," he replied
promptly. "By tbe constitutional amend
ment after thj war the right to vole but
not the right to hold office was guaranteed
to the negro. If you will go back to the
session when the amendment was framed
you will Sod that the Senate adopted the
form of the amendment in about this lac
goage: ' 'No S.ate shall deprive a oiiizen of tla
right to vote or bold omoe on aoooaot of
race, color or previous condition of servi
tude."
ids tiouse uruck out the words ox
hold omoe' and made the form read :
" 'No State shall deprive a citizen of the
right to vote on account of creed, raoe or
nativity,' etc. .'
"Tbe Senate disagreed to this form and
there was a conference. The reeult was
that the Senate gave up the words oi 'hold
office and the House yielded on. 'creed and
nativity.' So the amendment was made
to read :
'"No State shall deprive a citizen of
tbe right to vote on account of race, color
or previous ooodition of servitude.'
"Thus the right 'to hold effice' was
specially excepted from the. operation ot
the amendment, and there is no constitu
tional reason why the Democratio white
men of the South may not enact a law
which will entirely relieve them of tbe
much-feared negro domination even to the
extent ol a colored constable or justice of
the peace."
Tbe Judge smiled trinmpbantly, and
added :
"They will never pass such a law.
Much as they claim to fear negro domina
tion they will take no such step as would
forever destroy any hope of getting col
ored voteB."
"Bui that is a remedy which only the
other. side could make use ot. Can't you
suggest something by which Republicans
can reach this Southern problem ?" was
asked.
"Yes, I can," said Judge McClure.
"There is one way to redeem the South,
and I believe we shall come to it. Let us
have a colonization movement in tbe
North. You know how Kansas was saved
from being a slave State and made Repub
lican for all time, don't you? New Eng
land organized and sent into Kansas colo
ny after colony, and the children of the
men who went with those colonies and
settled Kansas are making it a Republican
State today. Now let the people of the
North who wish to sve the South organ
ize a great colonization movement; take
one Southern Stale at a time and send iu
their colonies. That will settle this whole
question. Tbe cheapest and best lands,
the finest climate, tbe opportunities to
make money, are now in these Southern
Slates where ibis race problem is causing
so much trouble I mean a genuine coloni
zation movement, made up of families to
go to make their homes and stay, just as
tbe New Eogland colonists went to Kan
sas. If the Northern people wish to help
the South out with this big question let
them organize aud send down their colo
nies. Take Arkansas, North Carolina and
Virginia to begin with. Those three States
oan be o ilooizad and the race issues elimi
nated in a very short time. They can be
made reliably and permanently Republi
can by colonization for less money than
will be rpent in tbe next Prtsidential cam
paign to keep tbe Republican party in
power. The thousands of families who
will go South iu these colonies will be bap
pier and have their condition vastly im
proved. And the tears, real or imaginary,
of negro domination which ere now weigh
ing so heavily upon our Southern friends
will be lifted." Cor. Globe-Democrat.
The Power of a Good Book.
It is wise at night to read if but for a
tew minutes some book which will com
pose and 600tbe tbe micd; which will
bring ns face to face with the facts of life,
death and eternitj ; which will make as
remember that man doelh not live by
bread alone; whioh will give os, befoe
we sleep, a few thoughts worthy of a
Christian man with an immortal soul in
him. And, thank God ! no one need go
tar to find such books. I do not mean
merely religious book, excellent &a tbey
are in these days; I mean any book,
which will help to make us better and
wiser and more sober and more charitable
persons; any book which will leach us to
despise what is vulgar and mean, foul and
cruel, and to love what is noble and high
minded, pure and just. In our own
English we may read by hundreds books
which will tell os of all virtue and of all
praise-the e tor its of good and brave
men and women, of gallant and heroic
actions, of deeds whioh we ourselves
should be proud of doing, of persons
whom we feel to be belter, wiser, nobler
than we ourselves. Canon King sley.
HARDWARE!!
Hardware.
HAMMOND fc JUSTICE
Whol sale and Retail dealers now have a fall
stock ot all Goods in their line Hardware. Cut
lery, Iron. Nails, Carriage and Wagon Material.
Merchants of the surrounding country have
only to give them a trial to be convinced that
they are selling Hardware as low as any House
n the State.
Charlotte, Oct. 14. 1889.
Rubber and Leather Belting.
We have & larra ntor.fc anrt nnmnlftA ocanrt.
ment of sizes of Kubber Belting on hand. War
rant every foot we sell and guarantee our prices
HAMMOND & JUSTICE
Oct.14,1889.
The "01i?er Chilled Plow,"
The Best in the World.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE are now Airents
for this celebrated Plow, and carry a full stock
ot all extras for same, such as Points, Mould
Hoards, .Landsider, Bolts, &c, and are selling
very close.
We also have a large stock of Pittsburir Steel
Plows, SiDgle and Double Iron Foot Plow
Stocks, at Rock Bottom prices.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE.
Oct. 7. 1889.
First National Bank of Charlotte,
CHARLOTTE, N. U.
Paid Up Capital $300,000.
Surplus $100,000.
OrncBRs. ,
R. M. Oates, President. M. P. Pegram, Cashier
"tunn . yjn, lener; a., uraham and C. L
Hunter, Clerks.
Boabd or Directors.
R. Y. McAden, J. L. Brown, Wm. R. Myers
R. M. Oates, 8.B. Alexander. 8. A. Cohen.
R. Barringer,
Deals In Bills of Kfrhnntr HiVTit rirt. ni,
ana Silver Coin, and flnmrnment nA ntv.
curities.
Jan. 1. 1890.
Attention Farmers and Alliances.
Luck in Leisure" is an old adage, which the
Fanners as individuals, or in their collective
body as Alliances, might at this time act on
profitably.
DO NOT PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOR
FERTILIZERS AT PRESENT.
,time the Independent "Anti
Trust," The Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Mill,
(through whose influence you are enabled, to sell
your seed at a much higher price than formerly)
will be prepared to sell you a superior Fertilizer,
both the Acid Phosphate and Ammoniated
o.a!p',w alJ n1yl certified to by the
state Chemist, and perhaps at a much less price
than asked for similar goods at this time
rv . . ' ... E. B. SPRINGS,
Dlrec,5fV,?d ,9elhn8 Aent tor the Fertilizers
N I 1889 0U ad PertUizer Co-
Total Receipts at all American p:
, since Sept. Jst, 1889.
The following are the total netr.
of cotton at all United States
since September 1st, 1889:
74,eze bales, New Orleans l.fes ooi
ab 875,547, Ch,r
324,583, Wilmington 127,296,Norl0lk
579, Baltimore 76,576, New York laV
ooston otf,870, .Newport News S7
Philadelphia' 55.390. Weat P;..
Brunswick 105,588. Total 5,270,237 V'
Total Visible Supply of Cotton
Niw York. Fab. 22 TK
bie supply of cotton for the world
z,v4z,dB0 oaies. ol which 2 4n o. 'i
American, against 2,752,095 sod 2 228 a-i
respectively last year; receipts 'irom- i
terior towna. HQ OOf? renofnt. r.
tations, 63,256. Crop in aigbt 6 Soft
bales.
-,
The. most.
j ear m0Dl
business, the Improvements
I have made in Stock as well as
Store were appreciated, and ded&ri
increase in Sales points to tUt f J
MY SHOE DEPARTME
MY SHOE department:.
MY SHOE DEPARTMENT.
Since its removal shows, com
paratively speaking, the largest in
crease in the lines of Shoes inim
shelves are of the best and reliable
makes.
MY CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
MY CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
MY CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
Has held its own, that is to sa
that the sales in that .Departmed
show about the same amount as ii
the past two previous year3,anc
were it not for the mild winter.
Sales would have increased at leas!
20 Per Cent, all due to the reM
bility of my Clothing, and of course
to my Low Trices.
You can't afford to invest inonej
in a SUIT or a pair of SHOES
without looking through my Stock.
Reliable
Shoes
Shoes TT TT A TlTTnTT
RelUli
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Jan. 10, 1890.
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Its palatableness is one of its attractive fe
tares, and for children it Is a most accept
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The large quantity sold is an evidence of f.
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Try it and you will be convinced that it
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C3T" Bold every where. Charlotte, H.6
Dec. 13. 1889.
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Richmond, Va.
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