The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-04-20
The Republican Programme is to Pass
Large Appropriation Bills and Pre- vent
Tariff Reductions. personals, &c.

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est to many of your readers. Mrs. Hugh
Waddell the mother of Hon. Alfred M.
Waddell was the daughter of Judge Alfred
Moore. She was gifted woman and wrote
fluently. She left, at the time of her death
in Wilmington, number of MSS:
A SUMNER EVE.
How hushed the busy hour of day,
How mildly spreads the parting ray
Its yellow light
O'er yOnder clOudleSS western sky;
While dusky night
Mounts up the liquid arch on high,
With rapid fight.
The rush of Eno's rocky stream,
The cowboys rustic shout and scream
Break on the ear;
And deep within the darkenng vale
Pale sparks appear,
Which fitting firet1yS unveil
AS night draws near.
flushed is the grove and still the nest,
Warmed by the mothers wing to rest
The tender brood
Forget to ope their yellow mouths
And cry for food;
Till morning streaks the east with red,
And wakes the wood.
Soon to you poplar's towering height
The watchful crow will wing his flight,
And perch on high,
To hail, fresh mOrn thy early blush
With joyful cry,
And wake the minstrel lark and thrush,
10 melody.
THE above graceful lines were written by
Hon. Alfred Moore, distinguished orator
and scholar of North Carolina, who died in
1897 and were found among his papers many
years after his death. 1t will be seen that
Alfred Moore Waddell, of North Carolina
his grandson, comes by right to his gifts of
poetic oratory, Ed Capital,
l find it right difficult matter to get
ahead of that enterprising and versatile
correspondent, Col. Fred. A Olds. The
of my best friends, promised me the Off
Bank as soon as it reached this city Two
days before it got here Col. Olds procured
the figures from Col. Tate, and Col. Tren-
holm first heard of the unofficial-but
correct tigures-in the Wilmington Mes
senger, which arrived here day sooner
than Col. Tate's official report. | confess
| was chagrined | thought with the aid
of the Comptroller l would be able TO give
you the first figures. The report was duly
offered to me as soon as it reached this
city, but it had then become an old story
in Raleigh. The Wilmins ton Messenger
also had the appointment of Major Clem
Dowd twelve hours before the appointment
was made, and forty eight hours ahead of
the Associated Press. Senator Ransom
gave the information to the Messengers
representative in this city. Your paper
also had it before the appointment was
made. Major Dowd was appointed at the
suggestion of Senator Vance The sug
gestion was Immediately endorsed by Sen
ator Ransom. The Comptroller, Mr..
Busbee and our Senators think the selec-
tion of the Receiver a wise one. There are
apparent reasons why a Raleigh man
should not have been chosen, though many
thought Col. Anderson would have been
the best man for the place. The Comp
troller tells me the condition of the Bank
was in no way surprise to him, excepting
of course the criminal tendencies of the
ex president and ex-cashier.
The direct land tax bill will be brought
forward again next December, when, l
think, an effort will be made to add the
cotton tax amendment to the bill Sen
ator Vance tried to do this when the direct
land tax bill was before the Senate, much
to the disgust of Senators of the John
Sherman stripe. Senator Vance has just
returned from "Gombroon. He went to
have his corn crop planted. He says he
finds the people solid for Democratic
State administration and Cleveland. He
thinks there is no danger whatever as to
the success of the Democratic party in
North Carolina, and, as you know, Gov.
Vance is the best possible authority on
such matters.
Hon. John S. Henderson has secured a
weeks leave of absence. He has gone to
his home in Salisbury.
Among the recent arrivals are Mr.. and
tered at the Metropolitan.
A great deal of sympathy Is expressed
here for Mr. Conkling's family and friends
He is very popular in this city. He is un
doubtedly at once the most brainy and
most honest man in the Republican party
1t is surmised that the Republican pro
gramme for the near future is to rush the
River and Harbor Appropriation bill
amounting to 10000, 900, through the
House, under suspension of the rules, 81
as to stave off tariff discussions, anC
perhaps so materially threaten to decrease
the surplus that not much of tariff re
duction will be deemed advisable.
A number of prominent ladies here ant
in New York are interested in a scheme t.
ington in Paris. Mrs Cleveland and Mrs
Nathan Appleton of New York are leader
in this project, and are working with ever.
promise of success.
Mr. T. T. Tunstall, of Alabama, recent.
| appointed Consul to San Salvador, is ;
graduate of Chapel Hill, and has man,
| friends and relatives in North Carolina.
Col. T. c.. Fuller will probably be ap
pointed by Receiver Dowd and Comptrolle
Trenholm to assist District Attorney Bus
bee in prosecuting the defaulting presiden
and cashier of the late Raleigh Stat
National Bank.
Mrs. Grasse Bulkley, of this city, VIII
was engaged to marry Mr.. Trenholm, o
South Carolina, and who ran away an
married Mr.. Bulkley, but has not sine
lived with him, committed suicide on Fri
day. 1t is supposed that she was TEN
porarily insane.