The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-26

ton No whiskey or other intoxicants had
been furnished them and their drunken
ness caused surprise and inquiry. Upon
a close watch being set they were caught
making whiskey from corn bread, using
an oil lamp and the spirits running
through the spout Of coffee pot
Necessity is thus again proven to be the
mother Of invention.
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VIM. WORTH q grand son OF ''give me
liberty or give me death" Patrick Henry,
respondent, says that the cultivation OF
tobacco is fast losing the prominent posi-
ton it has occupied in the products of the
| State. The reason is that it costs more tC
produce it now than in ante bellum days.
He says that tobacco raised in Ohio can
be sold in Richmond below the cost OF
raising a crop in Virginia. This will strike
many of the CHRONICLES readers as
strange, when they remember that when
Ohio was a bowling wilderness Virginia
cavaliers shipped hossheads of tobacco to
| the mother country. But Ohio farmers
cannot raise the bright yellow tobacco.
answer in the Telephone suit in which he
| repudiates his associates, tenders his stock
interests in court, and asks to have the
transaction wound up for the benefit of
his creditors. He says he would have ten
| tered his stock some months ago but for
f,o ~, l =
committee. Mr.. Garland is the braniest
man in the Cabinet, and according to our
opinion, the purcst. He unfortunately got
into this telephone business which has in
| jured his fair name in some sections of the
country Whenever a good man like Gar
land has business dealings with men like
Rogers 4 Co., his reputation is sure to
suffer in the eyes of the public.
The careful readers of the CHRONICLE
| will remember that at the time of Mr..
Cleveland's marriage we said that it was
to be regr, tied that he di not go to Buff
falo to be married instead Of having the
ceremony performed at the White House.
cat the residence of the bride" is the way
every marriage notice ought to read and
| we feared that the Presidents example
| might be followed elsewhere. Our predlc-
ton is verified and as near us as Moore
county, North Carolina. In our Marriage
Bells A-Ringing" department it will be seen
that Mr. w. B. Richardson, a noted local
| Republican leader in Moore, initiated
the President and that the marriage cere
mony was performed at the residence of
the groom. We hope Democrats will not
follow the President and Mr.. Richardson in
this Mugwumpian way of getting married.
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President Cleveland cannot take a long
breath without the newspaper reporters
heralding it throughout the land, and his
wife can't go to church, or fondle lap
dog, or say ''Is my bonnet becoming,
Grovy?'' without having the dwellers of
MesapQtamia and the inhabitants of the
isles of the sea reading it next morning at
the breakfast table. When Mr.. Cleveland
and his wife reached their stopping place
at the Adirondack Mountains according
to the papers, ''the President alighted from
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Cleveland was delighted with the spot
And thus it goes: The reporters by crawl
ing on their stomachs and hiding behind
bushes steal the Presidents words; the
people call him cursed caves dropper,
but all the same they buy his paper and
eagerly devour everything he says. We're
a queer people, surely
The Democrats of Pennsylvania nomi-
mated on the first ballot as their candidate
for Governor Mr.. CLANCY F. Black. Ex-
| Senator Wallace was his chief competitor.
Mr.. Black is a young man-the son of that
distinguished Democrat, defender of the
Constitution, champion of the christian
religion, jeremiah S. Black, who holds
the highest place in the affection of con
stitution reverencing Democrats. Mr..
Black inherits, it is said, much of his
fathers ability and courage How courage
Gus his father was when he charged the
members of the electoral commission with
partizanship. There is not on record q
more severe word lashing than the grand
old Judge gave to those Republicans who
defrauded Ti.dep Of the Presidency. We
are glad to see Mr. Black coming to the
front in public life and hope that he vii
be able to overcome the big Republican
majority in his State.
The Debt Question in Virginia is by nc
means settled and although the Democrats
in convention assembled acquiesced in the
settlement, like Banquo's ghost it will no
down 1t is generally talked in Virginia
now that inasmuch as a large portion o.
the debt was incurred before the war; an(
that by cutting off West Virginia on'
third of the real estate upon which take.
could be levied taken away, and by tht
emancipation proclamation one half of tn,
, taxable property set free, the United States
Government ought to pay part Of th'
debt and West Virginia ought to be re
sponsihle for its portion. The CHRoNlcLl
has seen it suggested that the proportion
ought to be: Virginia twenty million; Wes
Virginia three million and the Unitet
States Government ten million. A con
!, fidential circular has been sent to all tn
members of Congress and it is claimed
that majority will vote to help Virginia