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Charlotte Democrat.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington, June 19, 1893.
That good may come out of evil is an
easy possibility, but that chance will not
excuse the wickedness. Moved by the
frightful disaster which a week ago
shocked the entire nation, there id now
being planned an official movement to-
ward securing from Congress such legis
. lation as will remove from all the depart.
msnt buildings, the reproaches of over,
crowding and unhealthfulness. It is un
derstood that Secretary Carlisle will re'
port favorably and emphatically on a
proposition to vacate all rented buildings
as speedily as possible, he believing that
the employes and . the files should be
housed in structures erected by the gov
ernment for its own use. It is also un
derstood that President Cleveland will,
i n his message to the next Congress, urcje
. speedy action on the proposition to pur
u chase ample ground for sites and to place
thereon as many buildings as may be
necessary to properly and safely accom
modate those whose lives are now en
dangered. Neither the President nor the
Secretary will err in making such emi
nently business-like and humane sugges
tions. The muchtabused Government em
ployes make a showing in the relief fund
that Washington is raising for the
sufferers from the late disaster that some
of their detractors may contemplate with
profit. They have contributed an ex
ceedingly large percent, of the whole sum
raised. This great Capital city, whose
sumptuous avenues are crowded with
palaces of the rich and fortunate, is in
debted to the poor employes of the Gov
ernment for much ot the credit of its
contribution to humanity. It is very
easy to disparage these employes. Al
most everybody does it. Every little
"reformer" who wants to scream a Jeffer
sonian scream , every statesman with an
expedient for becoming famous as a
. lynx-eyed economist all of them exploit
their eloquence at the expense of the
quiet toilers in the. departments. The
reformer calls heaven to witness their
stall-fed ass and their luxurious sloth.
The statesman puts committees on their
track to see jthat they do not bleed the
Treasury. But these same employes
have responded to an appeal of anguish
and affliction as no other class in the city
has responded liberal, and creditable,
and gracious as the general response has
been.
A renewal of the rumor which has
several times previously been put in cir
culation that Mr. Cleveland intends to
call a midsummer session of Congress
meets flat contradiction in well-informed
quarters here. It is said that since he
fave out his authoritative statement on
une 5th last that he Intended to call an
extra session of Congress "not earlier than
the 1st nor later than the 15th of Sep
tember, unless unexpected contingences
should necessitate an earlier meeting,"
nothing has occurred to cause the Presi
dent to deviate from his previously an
nounced intention. Further, to clinch
matters, it is stated on authority that
Mr. Cleveland has completed his arrange
ments to be absent from the city from
somo time in July until the latter part of
August.
Theie seems to be little doubt that
Minister Blount has resignod. The cause
for Mr. Blount's resignation are not so
clear. He was apparently on good terms
with everybody, and has been given
clearly-worded instructions, which be
was carrying out. It is well known
that he is opposed to annexation, and it
is probable that if it were determined
upon he would resign now, but neither
Mr. Cleveland nor Mr. Gresham has said
anything to lead one to believe that the
administration has decided upon the an.
nexatioh of Hawaii thus far in advance
of the assemblage of Congress. The
fJtate Department resolutely refuses to
give any key to the puzzle. Those in
position to inform themselves say univer
sally that a hot annexation fight is slated
for next winter, and that it stands a much
better chance of success than when the
provisional government was first set up
in reply to inquiries as to the amount
of United States bonds held abroad,
Acting Register ot the Treasury Smith
has prepared a statement showing that
when the census of 1880 was taken,
coupon bonds of the United States to the
amount of $537,000,000 were estimated
ti be owned abroad. No effort was made
to obtain similar estimates as to coupon
bonds in the census of 1890. From the
checks at present from the Register's
offioe an approximated estimate is arrived
at that the amount of United States regis
tered bonds owned abroad is but $18,
500,000. Government not a Purveyor.
. , The school of politics that teaches, its
d&ciples to look to Government for every
blessing will never be the Alma Mater of
Statesmen.
All-thai Government can legitimately
do is to protect life, liberty and property.
The idea, that exists in the brain of
of some political visionaries, that Gov
ernment is a great purveyor ready to
establish sub-treasuries and storehouses
throughout the land does not accord with
the spirit of our institutions any more
than it does with the experience of man
kind.
Prosperity will not come to the South
through any socialistic or paternal sys
tem of legislation. No act of Congress
will ever abolish poverty, and the tri
umph of no political party will ever
supply people with money when they
have nothing of value to exchange for it.
The South must shake paternalism
from her; recognize that the Govern
ment is no purveyor, and realize that
every man is the architect of his own
fortune. Then, with every man in the
pursuit for which he is best fitted, 'the
South will present the aggregation of
forces that will make her supreme. New
born Journal.
Behind the Scenes.
On the iUgo the tinsel, the glitter, the powder
and the paint, show forth the most,' but step be
hind jhe scenes, and you will' behold the truth.
The chorus girls are not all "fancy paints them,"
bat rather What they paint themselves ; just so
with many of the flamlnjr advertisements of so
called "catarrh cures." Get back of the scenes,
and tftey are not cures. The real one, and the
only remedy that i a curt, is Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. Lift the curtain, and you will find the
asked truth to be, that this Remedy is the one
that cum the worst case of Catarrh in the Head,
and bo mistake. It is also a remedy in all
catarrhal conditions, such as Catarrhal Head
ache,4 Catarrh of the Throat, etc.
CHURCH AND STATE IN N. C.
There is no question of deeper inter,
est to the provinces of the Candian Do
minion, or to any country which at pres
ent lies outside : the boundaries of the.
United States, than the inquiry what
would be the rights of such province or
country in respect to provisions concern
ing religion within its territory. So far
as the Federal government is concerned,
that, as we know, is debarred from
touching the matter, by the first amend,
ment to the constitution, which declares
that Congress shall make no law respect
ing an establishment of a religion or pro
hibiting the freo exercise thereof. That
limitation on the powers of Congress is
largely due to the course taken by North
Carolina, which, as is well known, re
fusod to adopt the constitution unless
supplemented by amendments of which
this was the chief. The fact shows that
North Carolina was determined to re
serve to itself as a State the exclusive
right of regulating religion; and, for that
reason, the record of the relations of
Church and State in that Commonwealth
is peculiarly instructive. The subject
has recently been discussed at length and
with singular lucidity by Prof. Stephen
B. Weeks in a contribution to the series
of the Johns Hopkins studies in bistor
ical and political science.
In North Carolina, as in Virginia, the
Church of England was by law estab
lished up to the outbreak of the Revolu
tion, and the abolition of it was one of
the first steps taken jn each State by the
convention called to frame a constitution.
That a majority of the inhabitants of
North Carolina were dissenters through
the greater part of the colonial epoch is
proved by the extreme difficulty, not to
say impossibility, of levying tithes and
providing other resources for the main
tenance of the Anglican clergy. Never,
theless, although the payment of tithes
could be evaded there were other hard,
ships and disabilities which dissenters,
including Presbyterians, as well as Bap
lists, Methodists, Quakers, Moravians.
Mennonites, Dunkards, Unitarians, and
Catholics could not avoid. All these non
conformists suffered from the muster law,
by which a distinction was made in favor
of the Church of England and against
dissenting ministers. Then, again, al
though Scotland was supposed to enjoy
equal rights with England in the colo
nies, even Presbyterian ministers were
not allowed to perform the marriage cer
emony till 1766, and when they did
perform it, the fee went to the local
minister of the Church of England. To
other dissenters, Quakers excepted, this
right was not conceded before 1776.
Worst of all was the enforcement in
North Carolina of the Schism act, re
pealed in England in 1718, which pro
hibited anyone from keeping a school in
the provinces unless he had obtained a
certificate from the Anglican authorities.
There is not a doubt that the enforce
ment of this act up to the period of the
revolutionary war, through the wide
spread ignorance which it engendered, is
directly responsible for the large per
centage of illiteracy, and for the back
wardness of intellectual activity charac
teristic of the State to day.
If the Revolution really began in North
Carolina as the natives of that State
contend, it was because the people were
even more inflamed by a desire for relig
ious freedom than by the wish for polit
ical independence. The bill of rights
and State constitution, adopted by the
Provincial Congress at Halifax in Decem
ber, 1776, asserted the natural and in
alienable right of men to worship Al.
mighty God according to the dictates of
their own consciences. It was further
laid down that there should be no estab
lishment of any one religious Church
or denomination in the State of North
Carolina in preference to any other.
Neither should any person, on any pre
tence, be. compelled to attend any place
of worship contrary to his own faith or
judgment, or be obliged to pay for the
purchase of any glebe or the building of
any house of worship, . or the mainten
ance of ajiy minister, contrary to what
he believed right or had voluntarily and
personally engaged to perform. On the
contrary, all persons should be at liberty
to exercise their own mode of worship.
These declarations involved the downfall
of the established Church. It only re
mained for the laws of the new State to
be brought into conformity with the new
constitution. Marriage was put on a
proper footing in 1778 by a law giving
the privilege of performing the ceremony
to all ministers alike. Next, the terms
of the affirmation for Quakers, Moravi
ans, Mennonites and Dunkards were
fixed. The restriction of school teaching
to men fortified with the certificate of
the Anglican authorities, of course, dis
appeared, and the law respecting the
care of the orphan children of Quakers
was repealed.
It is evident that North Carolina, from
the moment that it declared itself an
independent State, asserted an exclusive
and unchallenged authority over religious
matters. It could had it so chosen, have
retained the establishment and endow
ment of the Anglican or Episcopal
Church. It might have established the
Presbyterian Church, as it was then, and
is still, established in Scotland. It might
have given Calvinists of the Congrega
tional type the same privileges which
they enjoyed at the time in the colony of
Massachusetts. It might, had a majority
of the colonists been Catholics, have
made Catholicism the religion of the
State. It did none of these things; but
in its fundamental organic law, it mado,
as we have seen, a close approach to
universal toleration. Nevertheless, there
was one provision, which, in process of
time, seemed to require amendment.
The thirty second section of the State
constitution of 1776 read as follows: "No
person who shall deny the being of God,
or ihe truth of the Protestant religion, or
the Divine authority of either the Old
or New Testament, or shall bold religious
principles incompatible with the freedom
and safety Of the State, shall be capable
of holding any office or place of trust or
profit in the civil department within the
State." As time' went on, there were vari
ous interpretations of this section. One
theory held that it clearly excluded athe
ists and such deists as made a parade of
their infidelity by proclaiming the
Scriptures to be false. Others thought
that it disqualified the Jews also, on the
ground that the latter must necessarily
deny the Divine authority of the New
Testament. Still others maintained that
Quakers, Mennonites and Dunkards
were disqualified because their belief that
arms cannot lawfully be used in defense
of one's native country is subversive of its
freedom and repugnant to its safety.
Many lawyers declared, and their views
seem to have been followed in practice,
that the clause in question excluded
nobody; that, for want of a specified tri.
(fcftarlattjc
bunal to expound and enforce it, the
provision was a dead letter.
There is no doubt that the clause' had
been aimed at the Roman Catholics. But
it had never been interpreted against
them. Thomas Burke, who professed the
Catholic faitb, was a member of the con
tinental Congress from North Carolina,
and, in 1781, was elected Governor of the
State. There was no State office, from
that of Governor down to that of con.
stable, which bad not, at one time or
another, been filled by a Catholic. Per
haps the most distinguished of these was
William Gaston, who had been success
ively a member of the State Senate, a
Representative in Congress, and a Justice
of the State Supreme Court. No com
plaint was made when Judge Gaston as
etumed his seat on the bench, neverthe
less it was thought best to amend the
section in question when the matter
came up in the constitutional convention
of 1835. I iv the constitution of North
Carolina, framed and adopted then, the
word "Christian" was substituted for
"Protestant"; and thus, in the words ut
tered by Judge Gaston at the time; was
the carcass of the last remnant of relig
ious persecution interred, lest its pestilen
tial effluvia should poison the atmosphere
of freedom. New York Sun.
jrorth Carolina If ewe.
Burglars iu Fayeetteville on Wed
nesday night cracked the safe of D R Hut
tins and took $1,700, and robbed J. D.
Neill's safe of $200 in money and valuable
papers. The robbers were captured with
the stolen money, nearly $2,000 found on
them.
Mr. Guilford Hat ley, one of the suc
cessful farmers of Stanly county, who is
now 57 years of age, never bought a
bushel of corn, a pound of flour or a pound
bacon in his life. He is a clever good
citizen, is out of debt, has money on inter
est, "lives at home and boards at the same
place." Stanly News.
Capt. Richardson of Buf'ord township,
tells us that low ground corn has been
badly damaged by two much rain. They
had a heavy rain in bis neighborhood
Monday afternoon which washed the land
considerably. Ho told us also that the
wheat is as fine as he ever saw. Monroe
Enquirer.
A Remarkable Recobd. Mr. and Mrs.
R Y Weathers, of this township, have a
most remarkable record. They raised a
family of twelve children to manhood and
womanhood and no member of the family
ever took a dose of medicine until Mrs.
Weather's last illness which terminated
in her death several months ago. Shelby
Review.
Dr. Willis Lewis has in his possession
a violin which we suppose is ono of the
oldest instruments of the kind anywhere
about hero. It bears the name of a cele
brated maker. "Antonius Stradinarius
Cremonentis, Faciebat Anno 1721," with
his coat of arms, a harp and circle, in the
lower right hand corner of the slip on
which the above is printed and pasted on
the back inside. Henderson Gold Leaf.
Tom Rhyne a grown son of Mr. Pink
Rhyne, of Dallas, was accidentally shot
Tuesday afternoon. His friend Will
Little bad an old rusty pistol which they
were oiling and limbering up, but they
did not know it had a ball in it. The
proper tinkering with the hammer caused
it to go off. The ball struck Rhyne three
inches below the heart, but having struck
a rib it glanced around his body and was
taken out of the lucky man's back.
Gastonia Gazette.
Crop Notes. Cotton is growing finely
but is needing work very badly since the
heavy rains. Corn is very fine especially
on upland. June is always the busy
month with farmers and we have never
known them to put forth greater efforts
than at present. Harvest is on hand and
since the heavy rains all crops are need
ing work very badly, but with a few days
of open weather they will be up with
their work and have one of the brightest
prospects for a crop ever Been in Union
county. Harvest is well advanced. The
wheat crop is the best for years. Oats
are much better than it was expected
they would be a few weeks ago. Monroe
Enquirer.
Relic of the Creek War. An old tin
canteen used in the Creek Indian war 80
years ago is a valued relic in the posession
of Mr. Uufus Carson. It was carried by
his great uncle Samuel Carson. The
canteen sits upright on its bottom like a
bucket, but it is shaped like the new moon
curved to fit one's &ido as he carries it
strapped to his shoulder. The Creek
war.was fought in Georgia, Florida and
Alabama, and our local troops were
mustered out of service at Salisbury
James Quinn, grandfather of Capt. J. Q.
Holland, and Thomas Henry grandfather
of Mr. Meek Adams wore aiso among the
number. It is handed down as a part of
family history that Mr. Henry walked
lrom Salisbury to his home on Crowder's
Creek in one day. He left Salisbury by
daylight and covered the sixty miles be
fore he slept, having waded the Catawba
at Beatty's Ford on his journey, Mr.
Carson was quite a Sampson. He could
carry seven bushels of corn in a bed tick.
He once bit at a nigger and struck the
ceiling. The print of his knuckles is on
the plank yet if it isn't rotten. Gastonia
Gazette.
Old Documents. Mr. Mr A. Smith has
in his possession some official documents
which he prizes very highly and which
will be kept by him as long as he lives.
First in importance, in point of age, is a
commission from "John H. Reagan Post
master General of the Confederate States
of America," appointing Mr. Smith Post
master at Salisbury. The commission
boars date of August 22nd, 1861 and was
signed at Richmond, Va. It provided
that the office should be held by the ap
pointee "during the pleasure of the Post
master General of the Confederate States."
Next in importance is a document bear
ing the signature of Jefferson Davis,
President, and J. P; Benjamin, Secretary
of State, of the Confederate States of
America. This paper stated that the
President has nominated, and by and with
the consent of the Senate appointed"
Mr. Smith "Postmaster at Salisbury, sub
jects to the provisions of the constitution
and laws of the Confederate States."
This is dated at Richmond, Va., March
17th, 1863, and bears the official seal of
the Confederacy. Salisbury Herald.
Bacxien s Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required. It
is guararteed to give perrfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Jordan & Scott, whole
sale Drug store, and at Burwell & Dunn,
wholesale and retail. 1
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THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOt
TH HOK. W. BOURKX COCKBAH, r.i
Condensed for The Literary Digest from Sv Paper
in North American Review - J '-;
New York, June.
The policy which has involved the
finances of the United States in confusion
is due to the folly of attempting to com
promise an economic principle. The
Bland Act of 1878 and the Sherman law
of 1890 were both compromises between
the views entertained by advocates of
free coinage and those held by the "Op
ponents thereof There is no sensible
middle course between the free coinage
of silver and the demonetization of silver.
A limited coinage of any metal forces the
Government to become a purchaser of it,
and, therefore, reduces it to the state of a
commodity. Whether admitted freely
to the mint, or totally excluded from it, a
metal will find its natural level. If it be
made the Bubject of Government spec
ulation, its commercial value is subject to
arbitrary inteterence, with the inevita
ble result of depreciation.
The Bland silver dollars circulated in
this country at their par value, because
there was one perfectly solvent institu
tion which was forced to accept them at
that valuation. Being receivable for
debts due the Government, they could
always be paid into the Treasury at their
par value in gold. But the Government
could only absorb these dollars to the
extent of its revenues. Had the Bland
Act stood unt,fl the number of such
dollars coined had largely exceeded the
total revenues of the Government, there
would have been no place at which the
surplus could have been exchanged at
par with the gold dollar. With their
redundancy, the inability to export them
freely would have appeared, and they
would inevitably have depreciated to the
bullion value of the silver they contained.
It has been suggested that a revival
of the Bland Act might be satisfactory to
those who admit the failure of the Sher
man law yet hesitate to vote for its repeal.
Of tbe two laws the Bland Act is in
every way the more vicious. That Act
stood for some twelvo years, and if now
revived and continued for another period
of twelve years, there would be at the
end of that period over eight hundred
million btandard dollars in circulation, a
greater amount than the Treasury could
absorb, and since nobody would be bound
to accept the surplus they would sink to
a discount and tbe currency of the coun
try would be reduced to tbe condition
foreseen by Mr. Cleveland in 1885.
The Sherman Act subjects tbe Govern
ment to a heavy loss. The bullion it
purchases steadily, depreciates, but the
loss falls upon the Government, which is
responsible for tbe senseless legislation
which produces it. If the dollar coined
under the operation of the Bland Act
sank to a discount it would mean a
shrinkage in the value of the money in
the pocket of the citizen.
Since it is certain that no measure pro
viding for tbe free coinage of silver can
become a law during the next four years,
and as any furthor attempt to control
economic laws by compromise legislation
would be indefensible, the question arises
how far can the Government maintain a
sound currency with the powers intrusted
to it by the existing statute.
Under the Sherman Act the Govern
ment must purchase at the market price
54,000,000 ounces of silver per annum.
In payment therefor the Government
issues notes payable "in coin,", which
manifestly means gold or silver coin.
But the statute requires the treasury to
maintain parity between gold and silver.
To do this it is plain that the Secretary is
bound either to redeem these notes in
gold or in an amount of silver equivalent
to their face value in gold. Thus the
silver purchased remains idle in the
vaults of the Treasury, precisely as if it
were iron, or hay, or barley, or tobacco.
The notes issued under the Sherman
Law are mere evidences of debt due by
the Government, subject to tbe same
economic laws as evidences of debt issued
by individuals or corporations. The
value of a promise to pay depends upon
the ability and the willingness of the
promisor to redeem bis obligation.
The Sherman Law makes' no provision
for obtaining tbe gold wherewith to
redeem the notes issued for the silver
purchases which it compels the Govern
ment to make. As these notes are forced
into circulation they displace and expel
some other form of currency, and as gold
is the only money of international value
it is steadily withdrawn from the Treas
ury for export. The revenues of the
Government are substantially paid in its
own paper obligations, and thus the policy
that makes it imperative upon the Gov.
ernment to obtain an extraordinary sup
ply of gold becomes the means of pre
venting its obtaining even the supply
which under ordinary conditions would
be yielded by its revenues.
A premium on gold, i. e. a willingness
on the part of the holders of Govern
ment paper to exchange it for less than
its face value in gold, will be the inevita
ble result of a wide spread distrust of the
Government's capacity to redeem its obli.
gations. As this would be a great hard
ship upon innocent holders ot Govern
ment paper, and would entail most seri
ous consequences, tbe Treasury is bound
to maintain the value of its notes by all
the means at its-command.
It the commercial world would become
convinced that the Government intends
to maintain a gold standard at whatever
cost, and that if its revenues do not yield
sufficient gold to meet its obligations it
will pledge its credit to secure an ade
quate supply, confidence in its paper
would be largely restored, and the outflow
of gold would be sensibly checked. Gold
now hoarded would be freoly restored to
circulation because each coin note would
become practically a gold certificate of
deposit and be just as valuable as tbe
coin itself.
The Resumption Act empowers the
Treasury to borrow whatever gold may
be necessary to redeem all outstanding
United States notes, commonly called
greenbacks. There are now about $346,
000,000 of these notes in circulation, and
under the law they cannot be cancelled
on redemption, but must be reissued.
Since the greenbacks must be kept in cir
culation the power to borrow gold lor
their redemption is necessarily continu
ous. Hence, while gold could not be
borrowed for the direct purpose ot
redeeming the coin notes issued under
the Sherman Law, yet these notes could
be exchanged at the Treasury for green
backs, which in their turn could be ex
changed for gold coins. This would not
only provide gold for such notes, but
would be a practical demonetization of
silver, and a substantial adoption of the
gold standard. The continued purchase
of silver would still be a wasteful and
ridiculous performance, but would in no
wav affect the currency of the country,
except in ao far aajs wouia increw;nio
number of Government obligations in
circojatida. . & ?! ' jM
alK Cockran believes that the United; States
call borrow all the gold "needed for the above
purpose at V to 3 per cent. He-mentions the
constant depreciation of silver under the policy
of the Sherman Law and expresses the belief
that the act will be repealed. He contends that
the business of the world will be on a stable ba
sis only undtr ihe universal free coinage of sil
ver, but holds that the correct present policy of
the United States is to plant heiself firmly upon
a goldbasis, as the parity beiweeneold and silver
cannot be restored by the isolated action of any
one Country; and, as the United States is an ex
porter or necessaries, not luxuries, "whatever
may be the prevailing currency of the world, a
large proportion of it must necessarily flw to
herehores"
Tli e Fourth of July.
Battle Ground Bullets Picked Up and Dished
Out to our Readers.
We are gratified to learn that the pre
parations for tbe Celebration on the 4th
of July at the Guilford Battle Ground are
in a most forward state and that there is
every reasonable expectation of an im
mense assembly of citizens and a most
enjoyable day.
The Holt Monument, of Mt. Airy
granite, is completed at the quarry and
will be shipped to the Battle Ground to
morrow, when Air. Thomas Woodroffe
will take it in charge and see to its erec
tion on the chosen spot at once. It is a
most unique and attractive design and
when the bronze tablets are attached to
the four faces of the die it will present a
novel and imposing appearance. These
bronze tablets 18x21 inches are tbe design
of Bureau Bro's, Philadelphia. These
will bear the historical inscriptions and
the fourth will be tbe Coat of Arms of
North Carolina.
Tbe enlightened patriotism ot Governor
Holt, who preferred to donate bis money
for a North Carolina Monument rather
than send it to adorn tbe Capitol of a
sister stato will strike a responsive chord
in the heart of every true North Caroli
nian.
The dedication ceremonies will be
elaborate and striking- as tbe monument
is to mark the spot where the North
Carolina volunteers riflemen of Surry
under Major Joseph Winston wen fight
ing tbe Hessians and Tareltou's Calvary
after General Green bad retreated from
the field. Judge Schenck was especially
requested by Governor Holt to deliver
the address demonstrating this most im
portant historical fact.
Adjutant General Francis H. Cameron
has shown his appreciation of the day by
a loan of a twelve pound Howitzer for tbe
occasion.
Prof. Henry J. Stockard of the Uni
versity of North Carolina has written a
most inspiring Poem to be read as part
of tbe dedication ceremonies.
- Hon. Cyrus B. Watson, of Winston,
will deliver the annual address in the
evening to tbe Confederate Veterans
reunion.
The Governor of the State, the presi
dent of tbe University and other dis
tinguished North Carolinians have pro
mised to be present at the dedication and
add a word of congratulation when called
upon.
The preparations on the ground itself
are going forward briskly now under the
personal supervision of the President of
the Company, and everything will be in
good order for a day of enjoyment for
body and soul and mind. This will be a
day devoted to North Carolina and to the
memory of her soldiers. It is her monu
mental day, made glorious by a noble
North Carolinian who don't love bis
money more than bis State and who has
set a noble example for other North Caro
linians of wealth to follow; let North
Carolinians pour in by thousands to honor
this happy day. Let its lessons be
engraved on the hearts of your children
and through them be handed down as
blessed memories to tbe generations
which shall follow us. Wo have laid the
foundations deep and strong upon which
they can build the splendid fabric of the
future which is sure to arise out of the
efforts we are putting forth today.
Greensboro Record.
N. C. Weather Crop Bulletin,
Central Office, Raleigh, N. C.
Raleigh, June 19th. 1893.
The week ending June 19th was not so
favorable to crops and farm work as the
preceding week. The temperature was
slightly below the normal; sunshine de
ficient; rainfall generally above the
normal, with great excesses in some local
ities. A severe storm moving up the
coast on the 1 6th produced very heavy
rains and high winds in the counties
along the coast. Hail occurred on the
12th, 13th and I4tb, the damage general
ly being slight, but on the 13th greatly
injured all crops on a few farms in the
west. TLe frequent rains in the central
and western portions of the States greatly
interferred with harvesting of wheat and
caused some slight loss. Reports on to
bacco very encouraging; plants growing
off nicely. Corn generally very good.
Only a few discouraging reports received.
As compared with last year all crops
seem to be in good condition.
Eastern District. The first few days of
the week were very favorable for the
growth of all crops. The reports on the
condition of all, except cotton, are en
couraging. Cotton seems to grow very
slowly. The damaging features of the
past week's weather . were very heavy
rains on the 16th, with high wind, and
bail on the . 12th and 14tb. The fields
were flooded in some placos by the un
usually, heavy rain, and several corres
respondents report slight damage from
bail Rains reported : Pantego, 6.00 to
7.00 inches; Wilmington, 2.74; Croatan
0.50; Battloboro, 4 50; Rose Hill, 5.00
Weldon, 2 04; Lewiston, 0.44; Toma'
kawk, 3.30; Turnout. 2.90; Goldsboro
2 40 ; Newbern, 2.29 ; Lumberton, 5.29.
Central District. The reports on to
bacco are very encouraging this week
it seems to be growing off nicely. Spring
oats, which have heretofore been reported
generally poor, are considered fairly good
by a number of correspondents this week.
The harvesting of wheat has been inter
rupted by frequent rains, and some dam
age has resulted where tbe rain caught
the wheat in shock. Excessive rain oc
curred on the 18th in the lower part of
the district. Hail on the 13th, in Union
county, did considerable damage to r rnn
of all kinds. Several corresoond anti rn.
port unusually large crop of peaches.
Corn generally reported in excellent ren
dition : cotton fairlv eood. Ri
ported: Elon College, 1.20; Monroe,
0.60 ; Troy, 1.11 ; Pittsboro, 0.90 ; Saxon,
1.90 ; Louisburg, 2.97 ; Smithfield, 2.60 ;
Anburn, 1.49 ; Warreiiton,0.81;Soapstone
Mount, 1.63; Lillington, 0.53; Greensboro,
1.71 , Raleigh, 1.24; Chapel Hill, 0.89:
Oak Ridge, 3.54.
Western District. The rain-fall was
nlmvo the average and. interfered crreatlv
with harvesting ofwheat. Corn on bot
tom landi'dafaagedjaUct by excessive rain.
Hail occurred" t several places on the 13tb,
greatly damaging all cropaon few
farms, whTls on ihe i6ther localities the
damage was slight. Very few discourag
ing reports, however. Crops generally
doing well in this district. Rains repor
ted Morganton, 2.60; Salisbury, 1.37;
Mt Pleasant, 2 50; Mt. Airy, 2.69;
Davidson, 1.27; Edneyville, 2 30; Fiat
Rock, 0.72 ; Huntersville, 3.25 ; Asheville,
0.34 .-Calhoun, 4.77 ; Latlimore, 5.00 ?) ;
Bryson City, 0.36 ; Startown, 2.62 ; Con
cord, 2.25 ; Bailey, 2.82; Horse Cove, 1.04;
Lynn, 1.75 ; Charlotte, 1.68.
fl. B. BATTLE, Pn. D., Director.
C. F. von Herman, Assistant Director. ;
Roscox Nunn. Assistant.
About Paying Bills.
An oxchange says : "It's no sign that
a man is rich because he pays bis bills
promptly." Not by any manner of means.
There are poor men and men of moderate
means who pay as they go,on the principle
that it is not only honest, but that it is
the safest. On the other band there are
rich people who, whether from indisposi
tion or from inability to understand that
those to whom they are indebted actually
need the money due them, rarely pay
until almost forced to do so. There are
many such, and the pity is that their
numbers so nearly approach legion. Not
to pay a bill wbon you have the money,
and especially when it is due, may not
perhaps be styled a crime, but it is very
far from being what is meant by doing
right.'
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John Quickly Extemporized Five Tow Bags.
This is a meaningless sentence, but it contains
all the letters of our alphabet. Five of these
letters spell "woman," and large numbers of
women believe in the virtues of Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription a strictly vegetable com
pound, for her use only, and an unfailing cure
for the many ills that beset her. It recuperates
wasted strength, restores the functions to a nor
mal condition, and fits her to bear and rear
healthy offspring; promotes digestion, putifies
the blood, and gives activity to the bowels and
kidneys. In a word, it is woman's cure and safe
guard. Guaranteed to give satisfaction, or its
price (f 1 00) refunded.
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df Mrs. J D Cunningham, of Atlanta,
has 30,000 peachtrees on two hundred
acres of land at Mclvor's, in Cobb county.
They are the big yellow variety, and are
expected to ripen in July. It is thought
tbe yield will be 70,000 bushels, which at
$1 per bushel will bring in $70,000.
tlT" A Chicago dispatch says : The
Court of Appeals has unanimously decided
in favor of open Sundays at the World's
Fair. Tbe Court holds that tbe local
directory is in full control, and that the
Government has no standing.
No. 1362 Woodward ave ,
Detroit. Mich., Oct. 23. 1892.
I have sold your Extract for 18 or 19 years and
always recommend it very highly. Have been
opposed to the sale of the bulk hamamelis. and
told my customers that I much preferred Pond's
Extract as it had absolutely cured me of a very
severe case of Piles when all other remedies
failed (which is a fact) and just one bottle did it
11. A. Hitchcock.
SEMI-AN NU AL
CLOTHING SALE !
STARTLING
MIDSUMMER REDUCTIONS.
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The time bus attain come when we must reduce
our stock and we've cut the lire .ut of Drices in
every department. It's uo use to tell you our
reasons for this sacrifice sale. We know them
and they are strong enough to us to justify this
SLAUGHTER OF MEN'S BOY'S
' AND
CHILDREN'S CLOTHING
AND HATS.
500 Men's Suits at f 4 50 reduced from $7 50
100 . " . 750 - $10 and 14 50
200 g oo . " " 15
These are the best values you ever saw at the
prices named, and all we want this advertisement
to do is to bring you iu here and let us verify to
your entire satisfaction the truth of these state
ments. These r duct ions are so general and
cover so many kinds of goods thai we cannot
tell you all about it in one advertisement.
Come and see for yourself.
MEN'S FROCK SUITS
AT
Half Price.
STRAW HATS AT HALF PRICE.
ThU sale will continue until our semi-annual
inventory, July 1st.
First come fares best.
Cash alone will capture these plums.
ALWAYS
U.DVERTI8ED.
ROGERS & COMPANY,
REDUCTION SALE,
21 West Trade St.,
June 16. 1863. Charlotte, N. C.
Comparative Cotton lTT?"
The following i8 the comparaUvft "
statement for the week ending
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Total receipts to date
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rr. u- - Ports. 19 ,g-
iur iue wees.
Total exports to this date
Stock in all U. S. ports
Stock at all interior towns
Stock in Liverpool,
American afloat for
Great Britain,
, 39,436 7' -
Total Visible SnnnW n.
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ble supply of cottnn r he tot' tL ,
llMwVLt eotton for the world i
3,183 573 bales, of which 2 58 ?
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tenor to wn mo,, . ffeek at all;
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6,390,752 bales. eported' Crop sig
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rant every Tool r?BeUn 0n wf
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w noiesaie ana Ketaii dealers, no u, v l ...
stock of all Goods in their line-HartV 1
lery , Iron. N ails, Carriage and Wagon Jul 01 1 "
Merchants of the surrounding counts ? "
only to give them a trial to be coaS,1 poi
tney are selling Hardware as low as anv R -Ti.
in the State. M a(,f
Charlotte Oct. 17. 1892. UU
The "Olher Chilled n,t
The Best in the World.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE are now .
for this celebrated Plow, and carry a full ..
ot all extras for same, such as Poinii C
oards, Landsider, Bolts, &c, and re iii
very close.
We also have a large stock of Pittsbnrr 8fc
Plows, Single and Double Iron Foot
Stocks, at Rock Bottom prices. k
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DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELffi
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SILVERWARE
EVER BEFORE SEEN IN CHARLOTTi
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$'5 0,000
Worth of Goods in our line, and if we on
sell you anything for Christmas it will
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LEADING JEWELERS.
June 2. 1893.
DISPENSAR )
AND
DRUG STORE.
Pal ien U tieated and Medicines Diipeused
Pietcripliona Carfully Filled.
PURE DRUGS,
And every article usually kept io a Drufc
J. B. ALEXANDER,
No. 15 8. Uolleie St,
Dec. 23. 1893. Charlotte. N. C
PATENTS
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELING
IN PATENTS,
Trade-Mark, and Copyright Case
OPPOSITE PATENT OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
American t
under the patent laws promptly and careju
prosecuted. Rejected cases accorded sp
aiu-'uiiuu.
WRITE FOR INFORMATIO
Upon receipt of model or sketch of tatentir
I advise as to patentability without charge.
May 12, 189a
CANVASS BALS.
Men's Canvass Base Ball Bals, with W;
strips on top, price 75c. to $1.00. This
most comfortable summer shoe ever maae,
are very serviceable. Many using them
plow fihoe, and get tint, excellent ""
both in comfort, and wear. Every kind oi u
forallparpo-ea. QILREATH & CO
CHAMBER SUITE'
Have you a bedroom in yonr ho use fj
perfect to your taste ia Fuxni ure and r"
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li you nave, l want j uj vj jruu .
good reason why it should remain so. i
never snown sucn an auracuve uuc ui
CHAMBER FURNITURE -I
ran
before. Attractive in desiga and workm"5
and doubly attractive in price.
Remember my goods are all made in t"
and most correct styles by manufacturer! ,
know no superiors in the special lines. i
yonr trade oa business principles, because .
do far better than you can do elsewhere,
prove this statement I only ask yat?e!
my goods before yli make yonr purebft
then decide foi yourself. I do not ier
suit of your decision. nr.a
BURGES9 NICHOW.
Furniture V'
Jane 9. 1893
Surgical Instruments.
A full line of Surgical Instruments at
turert prices. Call and examine tw,
tW Mail orders will be promptly
R. II. JORDAN LV
May 19, 1893.
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