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The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-03-01
The Storms Mechanical Principle.

ROCKINGHAM, Feb 2S.-I was near the
edge of the course of the great Storm and
[ heard it; but it was too dark to get an ac-
curate idea at the time either of it's gran
deur Or of it's power. The heavens were
confusion of threatening appearances.
But it's course and outline could be dis
tinctly traced. High up overhead it was
clearer and calmer. In every other direc-
ton than the one wherefrom it came, it
was quiet, and deeper darkness along
the track enabled me to discern it's out
lines very clearly.
went into its course among the very
first, and by the kind of destruction it
made you could understand at a glance
how it did it's work. 1t is not exactly a
funnel shaped thing except in appearance
as it approaches you. 1t is spiral. 1t
goes forward and meanwhile whirls round
and round. 1t was a horizontal whirl-
wind-not whirling up but whirling along.
1t did not carry objects straight forward
by single forward motion, but as rifle
sends ball-whirling. l found parts of
the same house two or three hundred
yards apart-not in the line of the wind
but ON each side. They had been whirled
this way and that while they went forward
This accounts for the peculiarly destruc-
tive quality Of the storm. It did not sim
ply OlOW Cu1A9S ONtI dH1 away DtAC StTuch
every object with other objects.
At a distance from the Negro village
that was totally destroyed, I found the
utmost confusion of things in it's track.
A brick lay beside stump that it had
| struck, sidewise from the course of the
storm and trees fell in every direction ex-
| cept towards the origin of the wind. 1t
| was an unbridled twisting force of great
er power than it is possible to imagine ex-
| cept when viewing its wreck
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
The San Domingo Treaty

The projected commercial treaty with
San Domingo has been made public. 1t
is much more favorable to this country
than the Spanish treaty is. Our wheat
and wheat -four are admitted free of duty,
and there are other concessions which are
valuable. OF course, this country agrees
to admit sugar free Of duty.
Our trade with San Domingo is not
'aT"as 1t. does not reach 100000 a
year, and there is not much prospect that
it would increase a great deal under the
proposed treaty. 1t has about three
quarters Of million of inhabitants. Its
annual exports amount to about $780,
600, and its imports to about S2,356,0O0,
Notwithstanding that this treaty is
more favorable to this country than the
Spanish treaty, it is not probable that il
will be ratified unless the policy of max.
ing reciprocal treaties with all the West
Indies and South American countries is
adopted. 1t would hardly do to make an
exception to a general policy in favor Of
San Domingo.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
A Word to BOYS.

The number Of young men either out OF
employment, or working for wages barely
sufficient to furnish them with food and
clothing, in every city IN the country is
very large. Said we'll known merchant IN
this city yesterday: SIT l should put an
advertisement in the morning paper to-
morrow for a bOOkkeeper or a clerk, my
place of business would be Oyerrun by
applicants, and l would receive through
the mail more applications than 1 could
read in a day" This same gentleman
also said that an advertisement for a
bricklayer, carpenter, blacksmith, baker
Or a machinist would not. in all proba-
bility, bring a single response.
This is certainly a very curious con-
diiiOn of affairs. Old men, and even mid
dle-aged men, can remember the time
when boys of respectable families did not
consider it beneath them to learn trade.
Now, however, they don't want to do any,
thing that viii soil or harden their hands.
They want to wear good clothes and keep
their hands white and soft. They would
rather be a clerk at 10 cents day than
to learn and pursue a trade at which they
could earn from So to 81 a day.
Even boys who have no particular ca
pacity either for business or a profession
are constantly leaving their homes on
farms, hoping to get something easier to
do in the cities. None of them find any
thing easier, and the few who succeed
work a great deal harder than if they had
chosen a farmers life.
A farmers boy thinks he has a pretty
hard time of it, but he would not think so
if he were to change places with clerk
in a store where business is brisk. The
road 70 wealth through a business or a
professional life is not easier than that
which farmer or a mechanic pursues.
The country is full OF those who have
not succeeded in business or in the pro-
fessiOns. Without means, and without
occupation, they become Office seekers.
They don't wait for the offices to seek
them; they hunt for the offices. The
pressure on the incoming administration
from this class will be enormous. 1t will
not be greater, however, than it has been
under previous administrations for the
past quarter of century.
BOYS ought to be taught that it is just
as honorable to learn trade and follow
it, as it is to keep a set of books or meas
ure calico. A man had much better be a
good mechanic than a poor lawyer or
doctor, The boy who learns a trade has
as good a chance to reach wealth and po-
sition as the boy who studies for profess
siOnal career.
Parents make a mistake who do not en-
courage their sons to stick to the farm, or
if they reside in the city, to seek acquaint-
apee with some trade or useful calling.
The occupations of clerk or bOokkeeper or
statesmen, etc., are highly honorable, but
they are so crowded that only few, COM
parativelv. draw prizes in them.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
Woman's Work and Wages

The overworked and underpaid women
of large cities certainly deserve the sym
patty and aid of every humane person.
Most women, however poor, are indepen-
dent, proud creatures, who scOrn any
help that looks like charity, and in many
instances they will labor and suffer and
perish rather than let their more fortu-
nate relatives and former friends know Of
their condition.
In New York city thers are thousands
of women and girls who exc out scanty
living by making shirts at the shamefully
low price of so cents per dozen, or ~
cents each, and making other clothing at
cOrrespOndingly low prices. The trouble
with them is that they don't know how to
do anything else than sew, and are at the
mercy of their merciless employers, for
there are generally more of them seeking
work than there is work for them to do.
The cost Of making shirts, as well as
other clothing, to the person who wears
them, is many times greater than the
price paid the sewing women. The mid
die men make handsome profits, and
often accumulate great wealth. This
naturally suggests that if these women
knew how to CIT and fit shirts, ETC., as well
as make them, their labor would be much
more profitable than 1t is. What
working woman need is tact and
special training. Hundreds of them
might support themselves with ease,
where now they can scarcely do so by the
most fatiguing labor, if they only had the
benefit of a few weeks of instruction con-
scientiOusly given.
The charitable, well-tO-do women of
many cities are organizing to furnish in
structiOn of the kind indicated. They are
doing a noble work that will benefit thou
sands of women who are suffering from
the stings of poverty.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21

Police Commission or French to succeed
himself, and of John McClave as Police
Commissions in the lace % o. S ooer roo w.
Mason is illegal, they a. e 70 P hoo reap p
pointed by Mr.. Grace when ne oe69 11n5
Mayor, provided the Repubh. 'dn A 11niss1
men prevent Mayor Edison from appoint
ing a successor TO Thompson in Il. = re"
days he remains in office. Even if no o. 'cis-
ion is rendered as to the Police Comm. 3
siOnerships between now and Jan. 1, the
Republicans are to retain their present
attitude, Mr.. Grace having pledged him.
self in that event also to carry out his
part Of the bargain. In addition TO these
political reasons, the Republican Alder
men are said to have received precuniary
inducements to keep Mr.. Thompson in his
present position. OF course, this theory is
based on the supposition that Mr.. Grace
VIII make Thompson his own successor as
soon as he takes Office, and Tammany will
thus gain nothing by contributing to the
installation of the two Republican Police
Commissioners. According to the present
outlook, TammanY will not have a single |
office involving any power and patronage |
10 speak of for two wears to come. D.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
Westward, Ho, the Starr Etc

The steady movement Westward of the
centre of population in the United States
has been remarkable. When the first
census was taken in 1890 it was % miles
east of Baltimore, and in 1880 it was 8
miles west by south of Cincinnati. Dur
ing the first decade it moved west Al miles
and south minutes. During the second
decade, or from 1900 10 1910, it moved west
SO miles and As minutes south. In 1920 it
had moved so miles west and 5.S minutes
south. In 1880 it was 80 miles further
west and 7.6 minutes further south. From
1880 to 1910 it moved west So miles and Al
minutes north. Its velocity westward
during the next decade was exactly the
same, viz: IS miles, but it moved min
utes south. From 1850 TO 1880,
owing to the California excitement,
the centre of population Travelled
the remarkable distance of 81 miles to-
wards the Pacific, and moved north again
Ia minutes. In 1872 it was AZ miles fur
Their west and 11.6 minutes further north.
From 1870 to 1880 it went So miles further
west and again turned southwark the dis
lance of 7.9 minutes. While it moved
nearly 81 degrees west in 80 years, it has
not varied over 1913 minutes from the 39th
degree of latitude.
If the centre of population should con-
tinue to move westward at the same av-
erage speed, it will be about 100 years be-
fore it reaches the geographical centre of
the Union not taking Alaska into consid-
eration), which is somewhere near To
peka. Kansas.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
The Treatr-Makipg Administration

The Treaty-Making Administration.
During the late canvass the admirers of
&r. Blaine continually pressed upon the
attention of the public what they claimed
was his brilliant foreign policy when be
was Secretary of State. II is true that
they were not able to point to any par
ticular thing that Mr.. Blaine did while at
the head Of the State Department that en-
titled him TO the credit of having origi-
mated a brilliant foreign policy, but they
felt sure that he did something, or intend
ed to do something, and that if he had re-
NAMED in the Cabinet he would have done
something that would. have startled the
world and reflected great credit on the
government Of this country. One Of the
reasons advanced for mis- election to the
Presidency was that he would give the
country brilliant foreign policy.
The fact is there never was anything
very tangible to Mr.. Blaine's foreign
policy. He may have had some rather
misty notions, but as far as anybody
knows they never assumed a shape that
was recognizable.
Mr.. Arthur, however, who has never
been credited with great deal of bril-
liancy, or thought to have in a very
marked degree any of the qualities of
statesman, appears to have a foreign
/ policy which is certain to attract very
/ general attention. The treaties that his
I administration has succeeded in nego-
/ tiating are of such vast Importance, and
/ involve so many questions, that it is
/ doubtful if Congress will be able to act
on them for many months. Whether the
idea Of these treaties originated with Mr..
/ Arthur or not, his administration is re-
/ spOnsible for them, and VIII get whatever
/ credit there may be attached to
them. At present none of them
/ appears to be viewed with favor and the
ratification of all ofthem may be defeated.
! But whether they are ratified or not it
must be admitted that as an originator Of
| a foreign policy Mr.. Arthur Is a long way
ahead of MIR. Blaine. Mr.. Arthur's ad-
ministration was without any distinguish
ing marks until month ago. The canal
and commercial treaties which it has ne
| gOtiated will cause it to be remembered as
the treaty-making administration.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
PERSONAL.
SENATORS BECK, Logan, Van y vck, Palmer
and Vance all wear 19-inch collars,

SENATORS BECK, Logan, Van v vck' rainier
and Vance all wear l9-inch collars.
IT is denied that Lieut.. Rhodes is suffering
from injuries received at the Gay Heao uls-
aster.
Mrs. CATHARINE KEABNEY, who died IL
Newark o., recently, was the mother OF the
noted Denis kearney
THE eldest daughter of Charles Dickens
contributes TO the COrnhW Magazine for jan
uary an article entitled Charles Dickens at
Home"
JOACHIM SARACENI, butler to Gregory XVI,
Plus IN, and Leo NIL, died recently. He
had accumulated large fortune. and was
highly esteemed.
ALBEIT HAWKINS, who has been coachnan
for ali the Presidents since Gen. Grants time,
was yesterday engaged for the same SER
vice under President Cleveland.
MAJ. A. W. EDWARDS the owner Of the
Fargo Argus, enjoys di ,tinction as the ''big-
gest' editor in the world. As Brother Dana
would say, he Is good man and weighs $40
pounds.
Mr.. WILSON, son-in-law OF President
Grevy, of France, has politically "hOpped,"
being now Radical. His reason was not
change of belief, but to keep a seat in the
Chamber.
JOHN r. LYNCH, cOlored, once a member of
1 Congress from Mississippi, and more recently
the Temporary Chairman in the Republican
National Convention, was married yesterday
]
for cOl0red children in Washington.
Miss TILE FRELINGHUYSEN. who has been
a most efficient patrOness of the Garfield Mem
Orial Hospital, slipped on the wet grass at the
picnic on last Decoration day, which cele-
brated its opening, and slightly sprained one
knee. Through neglect to employ immediate
surgical relief this sprain became aggravated,
and she has been obliged to 60 this week to
New York to DIR. Sayre.
SENATOR VAN WICK, of Nebraska, acts the
part Of a bull in the Senatorial china shop. 1t
is his special delight to trample upon every
known form of Senatorial etiquette and to
laugh a wild hyena laugh at every suggestion
of alleged Senatorial decOrum. He has a
sharp, smOOth-shaven Ratchet face, sur
mounted by tangled shock of iron gray
hair. His eyes are a pale blue, his nose
dropping hook and his mouth a thin line curry
ing downward at both ends. His figure is
short and rotund, and rests upon pair of ex-
tremely bowed legs. He generally wears a
pair of steel bowed glasses well down upon
the end of his nose. His voice is rasping and
hight keyed. When he talks in the Senate he
executes a sort of a war-dance in the way of
gestures. His struggling gray hair falls down
over his face as he yells and shrieks to a regu-
lar Jig step and time.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21

THE humorous market is dull. We quote
coachmen jokes, prime, at to cents per
million; ice cream jokes, no demand; bank
choice plumber jokes in demand at 81 to 50 per
ton.-SdR Francisco Post,
YES. my son, it is a solemn, eternal fact that
'Truth crushed to earth will rise again." And
in these days of awful carelessness Truth is
grand rising act that she looks like a man
picking up plns.-Burdette.
AFTER one of her lectures on the evils of
MOrmOnism, a gentleman congratulated Miss
Kate Field on the rare beauty of her enuncia-
ton, Mr.. Edwin p, Whipple, who was stand
ing by, Immediately said II do not think
-FOUR enunciatiOn is half 60 beautiful as your
denun6tation."
WHEN Mrs. KemIh, of Dedham, died. her
husband, who was In good health, said: 81
will follow her in two weeks" He faithfully
kept his word. Some husbands would have
meanly violated Their pledge, and been look
ing around for another wife in less than two
months.-N0rTiStOGCR Herald.
THE uneducated palates of a Wisconsin total
abstinence society did not detect the rum IN
the lemonade on festive occasion until gall
Ions had been swallowed ana visible 1ntoXlca-
tiOn had been produced. The wicked mixer of
the beverage had told them that the peculiar
flavor was due to something new in sugar
Wisconsin, State Journal.
''HAvE you got any more tender steaks like
L DOuSub ObASA tloACO man VI
a butcher. sob, yes; plenty. You found it
to be good meat, eh?" ''Yes, suits my pur-
pose. l am very much annoyed by dogs at
my house. have checked one to death and
have my eye on another one. Let me have a
half pound, please. "-ArkdRSGIo TrGUeSer
THE Tartary young man who breaks his en-
gagement with his girl does SO at his peril, for
he then has to engage himself to the next
older sister. If anything happens to her he
has to take the next one, and so on down. The
family that matrimOnally catches Tartar
doesn't let go its grip until grim death has
been very busy. For Tartar families are
always blessed with large beYy of girls
Waterbury american.
He had crowd around him on the Campus
Martius, and when he had placed his tooth
ache cure on the board before him and got his
lamp brightly burning he said: Gentlemen,
the last time was in your fair city some one
hit me with an egg. 1 sincerely - At that
instant turnip, thrown by some one in the
outer circle, struck the mans hat and carried
it ten feet away. He reached out his hand
for it and continued: 'sThank you! / was
going to say that / preferred turnips to eggs,
but would it be asking too much of you to
boil them drst?"-Detroit Free Press.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
Pinching the wheat-Growers

The condition of the wheat-growers in
the Northwest does not appear to improve
as the season advances. After having
made a magnificent crop the large ma
iOrity of them were forced to sell their
wheat at less than it cost them to produce
it, and they find themselves not only with
old debts unpaid, but with considerable
balances on the present years obligations
to be carried over.
At so cents per bushel, which has here
tOfore been the minimum price of wheat
in the Northwest, there is a margin of
profit even when the crop is somewhat
short, but at 80 cents, which has been the
average price on the farms this fall, the
larger the area in wheat the greater was
the loss Of the farmer. Advices from Min
nesOta and Dakota indicate that there
/ will be many failures among the large
farmers, who have been compelled to Dor
row money at from IS to "a per cent. per
/ aunum to make their crops, and collapse
may be looked for in the wheat-grOwing
/ districts similar to that which took place
among the cotton planters just after the
war.
( Up to this year there has been a SEEM
/ ingly well-fOunded belief that there was a
sure margin Of profit in wheat growing,
and many of the farmers have enlarged
their operations every year, buying land,
stock, machinery and supplies on credit,
and borrowing money wherever they could
/ get it, and the same causes which
/ led to the disasters OF the cotton
planters, viz; debt and reproduction,
have brought these wheat-growers face to
/ face with the Sheriffs.
/ The newspapers of the Northwest claim
that it will not take that section long to
recuperate from the misfortunes CT the
present year. No doubt the small farmers.
who owe comparative little money, can
soon place themselves on a solid footing,
but many hundreds of large wheat
! growers must 90 by the board. The indi-
cations are that it will be years before
| wheat will again be profitable crop, for
I it is hardly probable that the area sown
next year will be cut down as much as
the wheat growers would have the world
to believe. Oyer-productiOn will doubt
/ less continue, these growers, as were the
! cotton planters, being lured on by hope
| of general reaction in the market.
There is a small class of farmers in the
Northwest who are not so much affected
! by the present state of affairs-thOse who
/ amid all the temptations of the wheat
/ boom have kept their heads and have per-
sisted in diyersifying their crops. These
/ have plenty to eat, are generally out of
| debt, and, while they have made no money
! this year, they are able to keep their
/ homes and to wait as long as may be ne
cessary for the dark days to pass away.
The farmer who keeps out of debt and
plants diversity Of crops is on the safe
| side.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
BURCHARD AS A LECTURER.
The Reverend Gentleman Said to be in
Demand

The Reverend Gentleman Said to be in
Demand.
My fortune, says a correspondent, gave
me chance to dine out with New York
clergyman the other evening. DR. Bur-
chard and his alliteratiVe oratory came on
with the soup for discussion.
sit was a most unfortunate remark,
that rum, Romanism, and rebellion, y
quOth one.
VERY" assented the second. every
it unquestionaIy cost Mr.. Blaine his
election"
"Poor Burchard, sighed third: she
must feel dreadfully cut up over the sad
affair."
Then somebody laughed. 1t was the
reverend host. And this said he at
was the greatest hit of Dr.. Burchard,s
life. 1t has given him national reputa-
ton, for one thing, and for another it
gives him a chance to swell his purse into
comfortable proportions"
"H0wp ejulated No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3,
in concert. "How?" They were aghast.
Did this speaker mean to intimate that
Burchard, ID. D., was venal and had Deen
hired to put the Maine man in a hole?
"HowT' repeated the preacher: "why
just this way: / know of three or four
lecture bureaus that are bidding against
one another TO take him through the coun-
try. He was offered 500 night to begin
with; he can get two or three times that
now, aud for a long engagement, too, If
he would only consent"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
Rice and the Spanish Treaty

Under the provisions of the proposed
treaty with Spain, now under considera-
ton by Congress, clean and rough rice
is admitted free of duty into Cuba and
Porto Rico. AS there is very little, if
any rice grown in those islands, this
provision of the treaty is favorable to our
rice-growing interests. Previous to 1861
there were large shipments of rice from
Savannah to Spanish West Indian ports,
and if the reciprocity business does not
allow the smuggling of Hawaiian rice
and East Indian paddy into this country
through Spanish ports, the treaty will be
of advantage to our Ilce planters by open
ing a near foreign market.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21

IT is understood that the friends Of ex-Gov.
James d. Porter, in Tennessee and several
other States North and South, are making a
strong effort to secure his selection as a mem
Der OF President Cleveland's Cabinet Gov.
Porter stands very high in the estimation of
all who know him. He was nominated for
Governor several years ago, and was elected
by about the largest vote ever received by a
Gubernatorial candidate in that State. Dur
ing the agitation of the State debt question
he took high ground in favor of its settlement
at figure satisfactory to the creditors, but
was unsuccessful on account of the repudia-
ton sentiment which prevailed. A delegate
years ago, he wrote the plank declaring for
"the maintenance of the public faith, state
and national" TwOyears ago he was elected
President of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis Railway. He retired from the posi-
ton several months ago.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
Well, Hardly.

Is it expected that the Democrats shall re-
tain IN office men who have given their per-
sOnal efforts or their money, or both, to keen
the Democrats out of power? When the cor
rupt and incapable and the active partisans
among the Federal officehOlders have been re-
moved. not very many thousands of Federal
Officeholders viii be left in office. Even if the
number Of the incapable and the corrupt
were as small as the most faithful Republican
can suppose, the number of the active parti-
sans Is go large that removal of all Of them
would be pretty clean sweep.