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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01
WASHINGTON NOTES
THE PRESIDENT GOES TO NEW YORK
THE TARIFF OUTLOOK.

THE PRESIDENT GOES TO NEW YORK
THE TARIFF OUTLOOK.
WASHINGTON, July 26. The Pests
dent left here at II o'clock this moln-
ing by the Pennsylvania railroad for
New York. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Folsom and
Col. Lamont, and it is stated that ne
contemplates a salt water fishing ex-
cursion.
The outlook for a greatly protract.
ed session IN consequence OF last
nights Republican conference de-
cision is not so threatening as appears
to be ger orally supposed.
The triff bill of 1888 was under
discussion in the Senate, with inter.
mission for other business, less than
six weeks. While there Is material
interest in the present situation for
az almost endless debate, there is oil
SO promises that the extreme OF
possibility will not be tested at the
end of an eight months continuous
session. 1t is thought that the COM
mittee can complete its bill and its
report within week or ten days.
Tue Senate will then probably begin
It's session at IL o'clock aud sit seven
hours daily, with evening sessions 10
addition as the debate proceeds. The
certainty of the result aud the diff
Guilty of keeping q quorum of the
House, together with little Of impor-
lance to do after the appropriation
bills shall have been disposed of aud,
more than else the increasing heat,
give rise to hopes that six or seven
! weeks hence (if not sooner the pre-
sent session will find its record made
up and ito work done. Moreyer,
nineteen formal tariff speeches by ex
act count have already been deliver
ed in the Senate.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
JoTTINGs AND CLIPPINGS FROM OUR
- STATE EXCHANGES.

JoTTINGs AND CLIPPINGS FROM OUR
STATE EXCHANGES.
Fourteen residences and sixteen
stores are being built at Oxford, N.
@. That is healthy sign OF the
prosperity of the place.
The artisan well at the Clarendon
Water Works, Wilmington, N. g.,
has been bored to depth of three
hundred and sixty-fye feet, and still
no signs Of water.
The latest feature in the social
world was a Donkey Party given at
DR.. Bahnson's Fish Pond, mar Salem,
N. c., last Tuesday afternoon and
evening. err . 81
Wilmington Star: Miss Alfalfa,
daughter Of Col. John w. Gotten, of
the First Regiment, vigsitcd head
quarters Wednesday in company with
several lady friends. Lieut.. Col.
Bogart, introduced the company of
icers TO the visitors. and conferred
the title Of Daughter Of the Regi.
meDt' on Miss Gotten.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Too
many farmers; whose farms aud grow
ing crops ale mortgaged, take better
care Of their fishing tackle than they
do of their plows and hoes. What
would O merchant think Of a farmer,
whose mortgage he holds, il he finds
him sitting quietly on the back porch
at 8 o'clock, or fishing all day while
the grass is growing 10 his cotton and
cOrnl
Rocking ham Rocket: When the
Pee Dee Band went up to RoberdeI
last Saturday evening there was quite
q crowd ON the fat. Among the
number was an enthusiastic Cleye,
land man who couldn't swim, and
during the trip he was accidently
knocked overheard. He went under
"head and ears" and a. he came up
blowing like q porpoise, he yelled,
"Hurrah for Cleveland Save me
boysl" and down be went again.
Every time he came 10 the surface
the same patriotic yell went up. fol-
lowed by the supplicstion for ''help.'
He was finally pulled out, With q
very much dampened anatomy, buI
his patriotism still intact.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

The House Committee to-day be-
gan the investigation Of whisky
Trusts. A number Of witnesses
have been telegraphed for.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

Groat, a knitting-mill owner in Hud-
son, hitherto a Democrat, has an
nounced his conversion to the Re-
publicans on the tariff issue. Alocal
paper, which appears to be familiar
with the facts, says that Groat
"docked" his employees 10 per cent.
on the LIST Of July, though there
was nothing in the state Of the
market to make such reduction
necessary, and no other manufac-
turer in Hudson thought Of doing
such a thing, and that just after the
nominations were made, man who
had known Groat for a good many
years and had worked for him, said;
''Groat is talking against Cleveland,
and says he intends to support Har-
rison. | can tell you what that
means, for ! know the man like Q
book. It means a reduction Of
wages for his employees. 1t may
come on the LIST of July, and per-
haps not until later, but it is sure tC
come, and his pay-rolls amount to
about $500 a day, it means about
$50 a day in Greats pocket. It ISM
any tariff or anti-tariff that is the
matter with Groat; it is simply q
scheme to screw down the wages Of
his workingmen, just as he has done
every winter since he embarked in
the knitting business. Groat evi'
IDENTIFY agrees with the Republican
United States Senator" quoted by
Mr.. Foster, in the opinion that "the
manufacturers get practically the
sole benefit Of the tariff laws"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01
Look on this Picture.

While Republican papers make a
great to do over a Democratic man
ufacturer when he goes over totheir
ranks, let Us look at the other side
and see If there are not some lessons
TO be learned from the policy Of the
friends Of monopoly-the Republic
can party.
In 1884 the Republican national
platform declared for economy and
rigid responsibility in the public ex-
penditures, and vigorous and just
system Of taxation" and Mr.. Fred
erick A. Benjamin Of Stratford,
Conf, was one Of the Lincoln Presi-
Dental electors for that State. In
1883 the Republican national plat
form declares for extravaganza and
an uniustsyStem Of taxation, andMr.
Benjamin expresses himself as fol-
lows: "Since the degeneracy Of the
Republican party has gone TO tie
length Of making a high and unjust
tariff the sole issue in the coming
Presidential election, il il important
that a few Of the more glaring
figures should he at hand 10 instruct
the uniformed. This attempt to
transfer a great political party,
which had it, origin in the highest
heroic motives, and deliver il over TO
the support Of a policy Of unjust
taxation and fraught with mischief
10 the best interests Of the nation
must be met with every fact and
argumentthat can bearrayed against
IT," Mr.. Benjamin is one Of the most
prominent, wealthy, and respected
residents Of Stamford, and as he
was in 1854, 50 he has since been, a
"wheel.horse" Of the Republican
party in that town, where his in
fIuence il second to that Of no other
resident,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

Robert Henderson. a millionair,
of Silver city, Idaho, wentto Chieag'
and stopped at the Ogden house
He blew out the gas. He will no
do il again. He 10 a dead man.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

NEw YoRK, July 27.-The follow
ipg are the net receipts Of cotton at
all ports since September LIST: Gal
weston, 655, 1923 bales; New orleape,
I,77O.i24 bales; Mobile, 204,558 sar
yannah s69,S21 Lales; Charleston
44I,724 bales; Wilmington i67, 1913
bales; Norfolk 4S6,75S bales; Bslti,
more 55,2l2 bales; New York 103,-
G2G bales; Boston 81, Col bales; New.
port News 103,27s bales; Philadel.
phia q 1866 bales; West Point 4O5,.
667 bales; Port Royal 1852 bales;
Pensacola 1000 bales. Total, B..
494,9S7 bales.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

The free whisky dellverancein the
Republican platform makes every
thing clear. Thetariff-reform the
Democratic party-says, Reduce the
surplus by lowering the duties on
the necessaries of life; the high tariff
party replies, Keep up the tax on
the necessaries of life and abolish
the tax ON whiskey. Theexact words
of the Republican platform are:
1--WE favor the entire repeal of inter-
nal taxes that is, the entire removal
of the whisky tax rather than the
surrender cfanypart ofoar protective
SYSTEM" Rather than remove the
duty on wool, rather than remove
the duty on salt, rather than remove
the duty on sugar, abolish the liquor
tax and make whisky cheap. The
free-whisky plank only carries out
Gen. Harrison's Chicago speech of
last March. "Some things" he
then said, may be too cheap" and
he added: II cannot find myself in
ull sympathy with this demand for
cheaper coats" Ii now appeas
that the necessity Of reducing the
reyenuemust make somethingcheap-
err than it is now, and the question
arises what it shall be. The Repub-
lican platform replies, Whisky; and
the Republican candidate can easily
stand upon the platform, because he
has already said that he does not
like the idea of cheaper coats, which
would involve "the surrender Of a
part of our protective system"
Everybodycan UNDERSTANDINGS
tinetion hereinvolved. Some things
must be made cheaper. The DEM
Ocrats say, wool, and, consequently,
coats. The Republicans reply: No;
let wool and coats be no cheaper
than now, but let's have cheap
whisky. Whisky nowsells for S1.15
a gallon when manufactured, after
paying the tax Of 80 cents, but the
cost Of producing a gallon Of ordi-
nary spirits is only about Is cents.
Obviously the tax makes up about
fOur-ffths Of the selling price. Con-
sequently, if the internal taxes were
entirely repealed, a barrel Of whisky
Of a cheap grade, which now costs
$50, could be bought for $40, and
Republican saloon-keepers," who
now charge ten cents for a drink,
could reduce the price to two cents
Il cannot find myself in full SYM
pathy with this demand for cheaper
coats" saws the Republican candi.
date; if We are going to cheaper the
price of anything, let it be whisky,
says the Republican platform.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01
Portraits OF Secretaries.

WASHINGTON, d. G., July 81
Mr.. Daniel introduced a bill appro
priating $500 for the purchase Of
portraits of late Secretaries Of the
Navy, executed by Geo. b. Matthews,
the artist. The portraits named are
Of Paul Hamilton, South Carolina;
Isaac Toucey, Connecticut; j. G.
Dobbin and w. A. Graham, North
Carolina; VIM: Jones, Pennsylvania;
David Henshaw, Massachusetts (;
Mahlon Dickeryon, New jersey; J.
r. Kennedy, Maryland, and ]. Y.
Mason, Virginia,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01
EDITORIAL HURRYGRAPHs

Just think Of it! IL took twenty
threedaysand eight;eveningssessi
Of Congress to dispose Of the Mills
bill, during which time Isl speeches
were made.
---
The House Committee to-day be-
gan the investigation Of whisky
Trusts. A number Of witnesses
have been telegraphed for.
Robert Henderson. a millionaire
of Silver city, Idaho, WENT TO Chicago
and stopped at the Ogden house.
He blew out the gas. He will not
do itagain. He is a dead man.
A bill has been reported and
placed on the Senate calandar for
the construction Of a revenue cutter
for Newborn, N. C. What has be-
come of the bill for q public build
ing in Durham-Mr. Nichols biIll
The bonded warehouse people Of
Danvilie are workitfg hard on their
scheme and the Register says signs
of success begin 10 be discernible on
the horizon. s23, 500 has been sub
scibed. Durham does notseem 10 be
moving very rapidly in the interest
Of her bonded warehouse. We must
be up and doing. @
n
The restriction act does not seem
10 restrict. There is q continued in-
hux Of coolies 10 San Francisco.
They are coming into "holler alice
samee for Hallison." A large anti
Chinese mass meeting was held
"Wednesday, at which was adopted a
memorial 10 Congress asking that
Federal Judges Sawyer and Lubin be
impeaehed for their part in riding
the restriction act.
=---
Ex-senator Barnum, Of Connec-
ticut, is chairman Of the Democratic
National Committee and s. Brice is
chairman Of the Democratic Nation
al Campaign Committee. Mr.. Bar
mum was in Washington Wednes-
day and had a long interview wi h
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

Behold the trickery Of the large
manufacturers! According 10 The
New York Post, the high-tariff Or
gans have been makinga good deal
81 noise over the fact that Edwin
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

On the 18th, 10Th, and 18th the
Farmers State Alliance will hold It's
Convention in Raleigh. Il 10 expect
cd that there will be q tremen dou
delegation present.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

the President. He says he has
looked over the field carefully. and
concludes that Cleveland and Thur
man will be elected by a large ma
jority. Don't let that statement
make us work any The less harder
A summary Of the sources from
which the Republican tariff policy
draws are the following: The
Standard Oil Trust, the Pacific Rail-
road Ring, the Rubber Trust, the
Sugar Trust, the Steel Rail Trust,
the Cotton Seed Oil Trust, the Coal
Ring, the Lumber trust, Jay Gould,
the Land Grabbing Corporations,
the Pinkerton Blood tubs. All of
these are for Harrison, ffse whisky
and the Al per cent. tariff.
A considerable squabble is brew
ing in Raleigh over the publication
of the entire statement Of Gross, the
bank boodler who was convicted Of
forgery. Cross charges Mr.. Stamps
with tampering with his statement
furnished the News observer and
having parts of it cut out. The
News-Obseryer says the Chronicle
"pints less than one-half Of Mr.
Cross statement read in court" and
the end is not yet. Cross displays a
great deal il vindictiveness in his
statements. The whole matter is
considerably tangled up as yet, will.
a probability that the truth will
ultimately be reached.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-01

Just think Of it! Il took twenty
threedaysand eight:eveningssession
of Congress to dispose Of the Mills
bill, during which time Isl speeches
were made.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
"REFORM" TREASURES.

The Star Eyed Goddess is in financial
unhappiness. Her Treasurer has gone
wrong. The authorities in Kentucky
have seized 200 barrels of whisky, it is
said, the property of the defaulting Dem
ocratic State Treasurer. So that most
shining light, in the very State where
the Star Eyed Goddess of Reform had
her blessed abode, seems to have been
operating in whisky. The temptation
was great. The whisky ring had its
headquarters in this neighborhood. 1t
wanted more money, and he held money.
1t controlled the trade, and seemed to
control the Government, if outsiders are
permitted to judge from remarkable rul-
ings of the department under which the
tax-evading holders of whisky were al
lowed to export great quantity of it.,
and afterward to bring it back to this
country. No doubt the Treasurer of the
State of Kentucky, feeling himself back
ed by the Administration at Washing
ton, was convinced with comparative
ease tnat IL was perfectly SaIe 10 use
public funds in carrying whisky for him
self and for other eminent Democratic
personages.
There is curious fatality about the
! State Treasures in intensely Democrat
ic States. Just five years ago, the peo
pie of Tennessee were disgusted by the
discovery that State Treasurer Polk was
defaulter. He was interested largely
in stocks. Not month later, State
Treasurer Vincent, of Alabama, turned
upa defaulter. He was particularly con-
cerned just then in promoting the re-
sources Of his State by trying to pur-
chase all the cotton in the world. But
while one of these patriotic persons spec
ulated in stocks and the other in cotton,
neither had the excuse of firm reliance
upon the supporting policy of Demo
cratic National Administration. The
melancholy case of the Treasurer of the
Star Eyed Goddess must therefore be
reckoned, of all the illustrations of Dem
Ocratic reform, much the most painful.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
TERRIBLE COAL NINE DISASTER
Kansas City dispatch, March %.
The following dispatch has lust bee

Kansas City dispatch, March %.
The following dispatch has just been
received from Rich Hill:
About o'clock this afternoon there
was a rumbling sound in mine No. 6, at
this place, and a moment afterward a
fearful explosion that entirely wrecked
the mine and buried in the debris over
one hundred miners who were cut
off from all means of escape. Up to
the hour of sending this dispatch,
forty bodies have been taken out, and
at least fifteen more are expected to
have met a similar fate.
The superintendent of the mine was
taken out badly injured, but he will sur
vive. In the terrible excitement and
confusion it is impossible to give list
of names even an estimate of the full
extent of the disaster-but it is now
thought over fifty men were killed.
Later news is to the effect that the
mine is situated six miles distant from
the town. There were two explosions
and it is said that the loss of life will
reach eighty men. Rich Hill is located
in Bates county, just one hundred miles
South of Kansas City on the Missouri
Pacific road. 1t is in the center of the
oal-mining district
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
ELECTRICAL POWER PLANTS.

Scribner's Magazine.-March.
The condition of electrical power
transmission have been thoroughly stud
led, by competent engineers, and are
now SO well understood, that those con-
versant with the practical aspects of the
subject are well assured that within a
few years even the smallest towns and
villages will supply themselves with cleo
trie light and power plants. In such
places plant of so horsepower, or even
less, will be quite sufficient to furnish a
good profit on the moderate investment
of capital required. The establishment
of power centre, even in a rural vii
lage, cannot fail to attract a greater or
less number of small though by no means
improbable industrial enterprises, and
the mere fact that such power can be
had will in itself tend to rapidly increase
the demand. The management of an
electric power plant requires no unusual
scientific knowledge. Once the station
has been established it can be carried on
by the ordinarily intelligent class of me-
chanics and workmen who are to be
found in every village. 1t is computed
by statisticians, that the average price
at which power is sold in the United
States, approximates $40 per horse
power per annum. A so horsepower
electrical plant, including the station
building, engines, boilers, dynamos, dis
tributing wires, and fixtures, can be
erected, at present prices, at an expense
not much exceeding $3.50 per horse-pow-
er, and the gross cost of operating such
a plant may be fairly estimated at about
$4,000 per year. Experience has shown,
that in consequence of the intermittent
demand for power by group of miscel-
laneous consumers, it is entirely safe to
contract to supply quantity considera-
bly, in excess of the actual capacity of
the station, so that indeed as much as
20 horsepower might be sold from 50.
horse power plant, thus bringing in a.
yearly gross revenue of $1,000 or more
and leaving net profit of some $4,000
Where good water-power is available
at moderate outlay, the profits might
be even more than we have estimated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
KENTUCKY'S DISGRACE.

Memphis Avalanche, Dem.
1t is high time that sentiment gave
way to business ideas in the conduct OF
public as well as private affairs. For
years and years the Democratic party of
Kentucky has suffered from kind of
dry rot. While Democratic strength has
been growing nearly everywhere else, it
has been waning in that State -gradu-
ally the majorities have been reduced
until Democracy finds itself hanging on
by margin so narrow that Kentucky
can no longer be regarded as sure and
solid in time of need.
The reason is not far to seek. Wind
bags have been elevated to the rank of
statesmen. Grandiloquent speeches have
taken the place with public men of log
ical discourses upon the actual needs of
the people Spreadeagleism and pretense
have usurped the place of reason and
earnestness. The business of tn public
has been. allowed to suffer while its
servants wers engaged in lifting them
selves up by the straps of their boots.
Robbery and rapine have gone unpun-
ished, while those who were eating up
the substance of the State beat the
drum and tinkled the cymbalS in the
ears of the victims to draw attention
away from their wrongs and upon their
own magnificent selves.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

TIE champion bank wreckers have
turned up at last. Yesterday the presi-
dent and cashier of the bank at Raleigh
On. c. started for Canada, leaving a
shortage of S340,000. AS they did not
want to be weighed down with $4,000
in gold coin, they took the colored bank
porter along with them to carry it. Only
one thing remained. They should have
chartered vestibule train, and crossed
the border in the fastest luxurious style.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

On recent very cold day citizen of
Chaplin, Mass, went fox hunting. AT
the edge of wood he put out his
hound, which soon disappeared from
view and hearing. The hunter waited
three weary hours, and then he went to
his wagon, where he found the intelli-
gent dog snug and warm under the
blankets.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

NJ. ERNEST RENAN utterly disbelieves
the story that Alexander the Greats
tomb has been found at Sidon of the
Phenicians. He sees no reason to doubt
what the historians tell us-namely,
that Alexander's sarcophagus was car
ried to Alexandria. NJ. Remains incred-
ulity is supported by st. Chrysostom,
who says that both the place of Alex
ander's tomb and the day of his death
are unknown.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

THE supply of alligators in the South
is giving out, the slaughter for their
hides having been carried on so inces-
sanity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

TWENTY-FIVE hOrse-thief detective
companies in Illinois have organized a
grand lodge of the order.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

A HOUSE that is constructed entirely
from boards taken from shoe boxes is Il
peculiar feature of a Kansas town.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

RLI ROBBINS. Runudn p. o., Columbia Co.,
Pd., says: My daughter had catarrh when
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro-
cured a bottle for her, and soon saw that it
helped her; a third bottle effected perma-
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

TIE late Emperor William was two
years old when Gen. Washington died.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

TIE working day in Paris has been
reduced from ii hours to 10 hours.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

TIE German population of New York
is given at 350,0o0.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05

TIE average Russian is said to drink
10 to IL glaS@c2 9f leeG day,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
"UntoId Agony from Catarrh., ,,

Prof. W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist,
of Ithaca, N. Y, writes: "Some ten years ago
/ suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
incurable, and said l must die. My case was
such q bad one that every day, towards sum
set, my voice would become 80 hoarse could
barely speak above whisper. In the morning
my coughing and clearing of my throat would
almost strangle me. By the use of DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, was well
man. and the cure has been permanent"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
"Constantly Hawking and spi,tine.,,

THOMAS ]. RUSHING, ESQ.,, sSos Pine Street,
St. Louis, No., writes: 81 was great sufferer
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and splitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils. /
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
lily, was advised to try DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, and am now a well man. believe
1t to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
fair trial to experience astounding results and
q permanent cure"