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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
I'M rnpnAY.

Tho murderors were then given five min-
utes To pray. The leader drew hls watch
from his pocket and timed t,am. When
time WAS up be- gayca signal and both were
pushed on the bridge and their bodies
were dpngingoyer tine small stream. Some
shots were fired at them ald then the mob
dispersed and quickly gali1pod away.
II was only saturday morning ot last
week that John Sigm0nd (colorcd) w8
lyuched IN CASTOR county tor rape.
SALISBURY, \. c., september ll.-Ihcro
was double lynching at Morganton last
night.
4 party Of ono hundred anl twenty
strong went 90 the Jail IN Morgauton,
Burke county. last night and demanded
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Annrsr op srrrosEn LYNcnrna.

Thrre Of the party have been identified
Ns being among the lynchers and arc now
under arrest M Norgautou. Great excite
mtnt prevails, aui 1t Is not known where
tho anlir viii end.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
Preparations Being Made for Their Cam
paigu Work.

Tho Powhatan Club viii meet tomorrow
night to pass upon the application of se-
vcuty-uiue candidates for membership.
Should all of the candidates he elected the
membership Of the club will hc within ono
of tie charter limit-tve hundred.
ON the 10Th the club viii meet for the
annual elcctonof officers. An interesting
contest is expected. rs tits understood that
President Belyin will not be a candidate
Tor reelection. lie is now being promi-
nentlv mentioned in connection with the
senatorial nomination.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
A DOUBLE LYNCHING
A WHITE MAN AND NEGRO HUNG IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
A Mob Takes Them from the Morganton
Jail and Hangs Them with Well
Rope to n Bridge-Ar-
rests Made.
Especial telegram TO tho nIspn,ch.l

CHARLOTTE. y. c.. September 1i.-There
is big excitement throughout Burke coun-
tv on account OF double lYuchng which
occurred NJ Morganton early this morning
Two murderers. Frank Stack (whte) and
Dave Boone (colored) have been confined
in Morganton Jail fos about one week.
Their crimes are separate. but they both
paid the penalty at the ends of one rope.
TIE CRIMES.
Stack on the 9Th Of last month very bru-
tally shot down and instantly killed Ro-
bert :. Parker in his garden at Rutherford
College. Mr. Parker was making propara-
tious to enter the Methodist ministry.
Boone murdered a white man bv tho
name Of Holden 1T n campmcoting on
Sunday night. September lst. When stack
WAS captured and placed in jail some eight
days ago fears were then expire sed tnat
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
ADIsTURrED DINErR.

Al fho tiuo Tie fre was OUscrypd Tie
cueets of the hotel were 20 dinner.
Dr. John Bransford and Mr.. l.. Y. Owen,
the proprietor. with the assistance If the
walters at the hotel and ucighbors from
the adjacent cottages. immedia ely ran
through the house to locate the tamcs.
The first and second floors We're hurried
lveearchcd. hut DO trace If the fire couid
be found. When thctlird floor was roach-
cd the fire was discovered in the partition
and ceiling immediately under the roof in
the two rooms i'm the east wing, near q
chimney running up between tho two
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12

One. n man named Stack. who had killed.
the student Parker ~ Rutherford College
"a few weeks ago. I!o hnd only recently
beeu hunted down and arrested in South
Carolina and lodged IN Biargantou jail for
frf.l
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
HrNG WITH A wrLI-RopE.

Carrying them to the bridge over tho
Western North Carolina railroad near by
the mob huns the two with the jail wcll-
rope.
They were cut down to-day and their
dead bodies lay at the depot until Tins cyc-
ming. Stack protested his innocence, but
tho nogrn anales ed.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12

The other was the negro who recently
killed the man at the camp-mcetng near
Morgauton.
The taller refused. The crowd then cut
their way into the jail and took the two
men out.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12

The hotel ct Bon Air was destroyed by
FIRE yesterday afternoon.
The building was situated on the north
side Of the railroad. about fifty yards from
the track at Bon Air station. and vas q
substantial wooden structure.
About half-past o'clock several young
ladies at the cottage Of Mr.. j. B. Moore,
just opposite the hotel discovered smoke
issuing from the roof Of the east wing Of
the building. and the alarm was iume-
diatcly given.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
OLD DOMINION CLUB.

Carthy viii speak at the meeting Of the
Old Dominion Democratic Club Tonight.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Among the gentlemen mentioned IN con-
noction with the senatorial nomination are
Mcs.rs. William Lovcnstcin. CONWAY Il.
Sands. Preston Belvin, Joseph Is. Davis,
and James ID. Patton.
Among those mentioned for the House
nomination arc Mcssrs. \. ;. Buford, John
&. Curtis. J. TAYLOR StrattOn, X. ".
Powers. George B. Steel. Levin ). JOynos,
Walter +. Booth. and James 4. Gray.
The nominating convention will be held
Ocfnhnr 3d.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
1srrIrcrrAI. rrTonrs.

When discovered the fire covered an
area Of about fifteen feet square, and was
making rapid hcadway.
livery cGort was made to check the
flames. bat they had gained such a hold ON
the builling that they could not b. con-
trolled.
fhop turned 10 saving the valuable furni-
ture I'm the building. 4 good deal Of this
and most of the personal effects OF the
guests were rescued from the first and
second floors. but nothing could be re-
moved from the third floor I'm consequence
of the extremely intense heat.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12

The Executive Committee made Joint
note, which each member individually en-
d0rsod for $4,000 thus rendering them
selves individually responsible 10 tins
amount 90 meet the premium account Of
the society.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
Warning to Chinese Dudes.

The acting Governor of Kiangsu,
Hwang, has issued proclamation call
ing attention to the sumptuary laws of
the collected statutes of the Ta-ts ing
Dynasty, which ne says will be vigor-
ously enforced as regards wearing APP
parel. The people of this province
(Which includes Soochow and Shane-
haD, are, he observes, VIGOROUSLY ex-
travagant in their way of living, striv-
ing to surpass each other in the rich
ness of their apparel, and their want
of propriety is shown in the crowded
state of flower boats and restaurants
where men and women assemble to-.
gether. The bright-colored jackets
and waistcoats of the young men, en-
broidered at neck and sleeves with
flowers and other ornaments, are shock
ing to the view of sober, respectable
citizens, who know that money should
not be squandered by men on such
things, 1t is Governors duty tc
watch over the behavior of the people
committed to his charge. and he warns
them, therefore, that young men
dressed in a foolish, extravagant way
will be arrested and punished, and the
responsibility of their fathers, elder
brothers and tutors will not be over.
looked, -Pekin Gazette.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY H. 1882

demanding many thousand victims.
In the following year it was again our
own country which suffered most from
the destructive element. Each of the
years since then had one or more dis
astrous floods here or there, but the
most dire calamity of this kind in late
years was the inundation caused by an
overflow of the Yellow river in China,
by which over 1000, 600 of people were
drowned and 100000 lost their shell
ter. A. smaller inundation took place
there in 1888, which year has charged
against it a number of floods in sew
eral parts of the world.
But while floods are common oc-
currence with all their frightful de-
structiveness and frequently much
more fearful in magnitude than the
one we bewail at present, there is
something about the Johnstown catas-
trophc which makes it peculiar-pe-
cullarly horrible. 1t is the fact that
human carelessness, or rather human
recklessness seems to be responsible
for it.-Chicago Mail.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
PROTECTED COAL MINERS.

Men, Willing to Work Hard, Unable to
Earn Enough to Support Themselves.
The operation of protecting the in
FAINT industry of mining coal in Illinois
has now reached the stage of starva-
tion at the Braidwood district, at
Streator, Spring Valley, LaSalle, Peru,
Oglesby. Roanoke, Minonk and Morris.
Unless the charitable OF Chicago shall
give, the men who, for years, have
dug the fuel Of Chicago must starve as
a reward of their labor.
In time OF regular seasons, of sue
ceeding harvests, of copious rains, OF
gentle winds, of general health-with-
out National ills-the farmer of Da.
kota or Nebraska has suffered because
his supply of food was inadequate, and
the Woodworking miner starves be-
cause he can get no bread. First and
foremost, therefore, we have the stu
pendous crime of governmental inter-
vention in the ordinary business affairs
OF private citizens. 1t has turned out
that the Government in 1888 collected
Is cents a ton on about S3,0OO,O 900 of
foreign imported soft coal, while the
Illinois miner, if we reckon all the
robberies of his employer, received not
over 50 cents ton for digging screened
fuel.
Protected against the better soft
coal of Nova Scotia, the American
capitalist has proceeded to fry the fat
out OF our people. AS more capital
lists have scented the gain in that
form OF business, the domestic compe-
titlon has increased, and every cent of
dlmlnuslon in price has first come out
OF the wages paid to miners. Once
g. 80 was offered for a ton of un-
screened coal. 10 secure the present
result practices have been instituted
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
FLEAS FOR SALE,
An Amusing Anecdote Related by MIR. s..
Barring. Gould.

An Amusing Anecdote Related by MIR. s.
Barring. Gould.
1t would doubtless surprise most
readers, as it did Mr. S. Barring Gould,
to be told that fleas are an article of
trade of Iceland. At least he SO UNI
derstood the statement. Here is Mr..
Barring Gould's story. He had passed
the night at q farmhouse, and in the
morning fell into conversation with a
Danish merchant. who, it appears had
arrived at the house after he had re-
tired. Finding his fellow-traveler very
agreeable, Mr.. Barring Gould expressed
his regrets at having deprived him OF
the guest bed.
"Dank you," the merchant an
swered; "but never slip in an Island
bed"
ibid you lie on the bench in the
sitting-roomp"
''Yes; not like bed in a native
byre. It is SO dirty and SO full of in
sect" Then, after a pause, he said:
"You should come to Husavik, and
see of the fair. it will be dare in dree
week."
II wish that could, but shall not
be in the neighborhood then. What
trade is carried on at the fair, may I
ask?"
"Oh, de merchants sells of crockery,
of corn-brandy and of clodes."
chow do the natives pay2 They
have no money"
NO." answered the merchant, ..but
dey have fleas."
Il am well aware of that. but how
comes that to alter the case?''
Why" replied the Dane, "de5
takes of de wares, and dey gives us de
fleas. De people Of Denmark likes OF
de Island fleas very much.'
"a singular taste,' remarked.
Indeed. l may say, very singular.
What can there be in them so attract
| ive?''
"Oh!" with enthusiasm; "dey is
more big and more long dan in any cd.
der country"
'Woe's me!' / exclaimed, "your
statement is corroborated by my ex.
perience.
de colder de winter, de bigger de
tieas," remarked my companion.
Sand they bring these denominations
to the merchant stations for barter!!''
when dey have washed and dried
de deas-dare!' exclaimed the mer.
chant, pointing; dare is lot, lying
indie sun to be dried"
My eye followed the direction Of my
companions finger, and Isaw guam.
tity OF sleeps aeece-lying in
the yard of a small FARMHOUSE, y,
! Youths Companion
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
that shame humanity as tar as greed

that shame humanity as tar as greed
can shame it.
AS protection does not protect, the
mlne-owners are now engaged in eat
ing each other. During this contest
the miners. on one reason or other,
must scarve, or be fed by the philan-
thropic. This is the lesson at hand,
and this is the exigency. Unless those
who have bread shall give of it, about
1000 miners with their families, in
Illinois alone, must starve. These H.
600 miners voted for protection, be-
cause their wages of IS cents were
paid with that understanding. and as
the voters ballot is marked by mum.
Der, as in Chicago, it would be fatal
mistake to attempt to vote for escape
from a false system.
Wherever in America protection has
established an infant industry thore
has followed the truck system, the
slave system, the company govern
ment and the de-Americanizatio of
that region. The Americans have fled
and foreigners have come in. When
Americans have been seen in the
blasted district it has been on the call
of the Governor for militia to effect
lower scale of wages. AS at Johns
town, Pencoyd, Brazil, Hooking
everywhere-the friend of man has
looked on the scene, and has wished
that manufactures and mining had not
come into the world to make the
drama entirely hateful. While the
workers have silently metamorphosed
from Americans to Irish, to En-.
glish, to Germans, to Italians, to Mag
vars, to Huns, to Scythians- great
American millionaire has passed
away and the Millionaire corporation
has taken his place. At last men, con.
templating the work of protection,
close their mouths and grow afraid.
Now let them give, in order to save
these worthy miners from death, for
OF late the labor problem has got to
that stage where the strike and the
militia can no longer be used to con.
fuse the promptings of charity or to
conceal certain hypocrlsies OF our civ.
ilization. -Chicago Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS,

Strained relations are bad
enough, but President Harrison be.
gins to wish that his relatives could be
restrained, just little. IN. Y. World.
Selling cheap and buying dear
never made any man rich, and the
American farmer is the only person
who seems to think otherwise. Louis.
vile Courier-Journal.
1t becomes palmer every day
that Harrison has no originality, nc
mind of his own except a mind to BE-
obstinate with those who he fears will
show superior to him by contrast
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
New Hampshire has decided to
send Bill Chandler lack to the United
States Senate. That queer old com.
monwealth may now put on tall,
conical paper cap and go and sit on
the threc-legged stool in the corner
Chicago News.
Those who are engaged in farm.
ing are the hardest worked and the
poorest paid laborers in the land, and
if they will only think, it is largely
their own fault. as they continue to
elect lawmakers who make laws not
intended to benefit them.-Cleburne
(Tex.) Tribune.
so long as one man can get
rich at the expense of his fellows,
there will be found the man to make
the attempt. And, like Carnegie, he
will work himself into fine frenzy
with the believing that he is a bless.
Ing to the fellow-creatures he is de.
spelling. Chicago Herald.
--Instead of jeering at the dis.
appointment of the political ambitions
of young Thurman in Ohio, would it
not be we'll for the Republican organs
to reflect upon the incident as evil
dence that the Democratic party's att.
tude toward the sons of their fathers is
superior to its own?-Chicago Herald.
MIR. Clarkson declares that when
the people elected Republican Ad-
ministration they elected to have Re-
publican postmasters. Mr.. Clarkson
is undoubtedly carrying out his view
OF the election, but if he will prod his
memory little he will discover that
the Republican Administration was
elected on pledge not to change any
officeholder except for cause, and to
appoint ali officeholders on the basis
of fitness alone. st. Louis Post-Dis.
patch.
The selection of Calvin S. Brice
to be chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee is calling forth
hearty Endorsement from the best pa
pers and men of the party. Whether
he will guide the Democratic hosts
three years from now will depend
upon the course of events in the mean
time, but it is a matter of congratula-
ton that in all preparatory work pre-
ceding the next National canvass the
Democracy is to have tried and faith.
full man at the head of the National
organization. Manchester IN. H.)
Union
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
Montana's Constitutional Election.

The Montana official board has fin
ished the counting of the returns OF
the constitutional convention election.
The Democrats have elected thirty
eight delegates, the Republicans
thirty-fve. Breed, labor candidate,
is an old Democrat, and the political
preference of the one Independent can
didate elected is unknown. Putting
the independent in the Republican and
the labor candidate in the Democratic
column the totals would be 80 to So
no change in the majority OF 8. The
total vote polled, taking the highest
figures for each opposing candidate,
was 1857, of which the Democrats
polled 5,56S and the Republicans 5,211.
The labor candidate received 2SS votes
and the independent see, making the
full vote ,425.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
THE LATEST FREAK.
ITO Allows Curiosity Seekers to Break
Cobhle Stones on His Head.

Ito Allows Curiosity Seekers to Break
Cobhle Stones on His Head.
There is live novelty in an uptown
dime museum that is attracting gen.
eral attention. This drawing card"
Is a man who glories in the exclusive
possession of the power to let immense
co5ble stones be broken on his head.
The customary grain of salt does not
accompany this museum statement.
The man is as large as life and as plain
to the sight as day-if the established
admission fee is paid. While doing
his "act' he wears large but frailly-
constructed helmet of iron. This is Il
sixteenth of an inch in thickness, and
is placed over his head, the base or
lowest extremity resting on his shoul-
ders. There is an opening for the eyes
and nose. On the top is a square groove
in which an ordinary cobble stone is
placed. Then one of the audience is
requested TO break the stone. A
common, large-sized sledge hammer is
used in the work of destruction. The
object of the helmet is to offset the eff
feet OF any blow that might miscarry
and land about the face or shoulders.
The man shows twelve tim es day
twelve new and perfectly constructed
stones being used. There is no flake"
about the hammer, the stones or the
destroying blows. The enemy to the
cobble told reporter that he first dis
covered that it was impossible to
break his skull when, on shipboard,
he fell from aloft to the dock, dis
lance OF one hundred and ten feet He
landed, according to his story, Fat on
the top of his head, and got up smil-
ing. This fall was the means of put
ting him into an easy livelihood, he
says, and he has become so accustomed
to cobbles that he actually believes the
biggest steam pile driver of the land
would have a large contract on hand
if it attempted to smash his upper
quarters. N. Y. Mail and Express.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
A PECULIAR IDEA.
An Ex-Dctective Calls for Law Involving
Compulsory Photography.

An Ex-Dctective Calls for a Law Involving
Compulsory Photography.
Years ago did a quantity of detect
i've work in the East, and was once
sent on a chase after adefaulter, which
took me right round the world. Be.
fore quitting the business for some.
thing less sensational, but more profita-
BILE, l elaborated a scheme for the pre-
vention OF crime and the detection of
crime by means of photography, and
the only feasible objection to it was the
crude condition of the art at that time,
and the absence of portable cameras.
The scheme involved law for COM
pulsory photography. Every man on
arriving at, say, twenty years of
age, should be compelled to have
his picture taken by a Government
photographer, who should retain
one and give another to the SUBJ
ject. On the back the name,
age, height, weight and any
peculiarities should be written.
Now see how this would work.
A man who offered stolen horse or
team for sale could be challenged to
produce his official photograph, and
there could be no more of the old
fashioned defenses alleging purchase
from some person who could not be
found. Or if man wanted to cash a
check and was not known, he could
produce his picture and the teller
could satisfy himself from the descrip-
ton and likeness, as to the identity.
This scheme, in fact would make the
commission of crime difficult, and no
man could long escape detection. As
to the expense, it would be quite nom
inal, and would be more than mel by
money saved, which would have been
spent by detectives on useless trips or
false scents. I know this idea will be
ridiculed, but / am convinced some.
thing of the kind will be finally adopt
cd. st Louis Globe-Denocgat
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-17
PITH AND POINT.

Much tongue and much judgment
seldom go together.
Sleep is a generous robber. 1tgives
in strength what it takes in time.
The superiority of some men is
merely local. They are great because
their associates are little. johnson.
The good Samaritan helps the I'M
fortunate wayfarer without asking how
he intends to vote.-Century.
To obtain perfection it is not nec-
essary to do singular things, but to do
common things singularly well.
"A curtain-lecture is worth all the
sermons in the world for teaching the
virtue of patience and long suffering
Washington Irving.
A great many men acquire two
dollars worth of pomposity and ar
rogance with a one-dollarpublic Office.
Petersburg Index-Appeal.
He who is truly in peace never sus.
poets others. But he who is ill at ease
and discontinued is disturbed by vari.
GUS suspicious. Thomas. a Kempis.
To think we'll of every other mans
condition, and to dislike our own. is
one OF the misfortunes OF human
nature. Pleased with each others lot,
our own we hate.-Burton.
Words contain nothing except
what we put into them. They are oc-
casions which, if one has done the an
tecedent thinking required, stir the
mind to think along q prescribed chan
mel.
Wit loses its respect with the
good. when seen in company with NAL
ice; and to smile at q jest which plants
a thorn in anothers breast, is to be-
come a principal in the mischief.
Sheridan.
There is no friendship that is
strong enough to get along unless it
take faults for granted. Saints may
be plenty in Heaven, but they are very
scarce on earth, and if you are going
to form friendships you must form
them so that they will be able to swal-
low up the faults OF those you love-
ANY plane. almost, whether up or
down, in nearly every department OF
individual life, is accessible and can be
reached by proper sets of choices and
efforts, or tail to be reached by the
lack of these. Let us realize that the
altitude of our personal life in the
various spheres of existence is, in gen.
eral, the result of our own choosing.
Where we desire, decide and strive to
rear our intellectual. moral, religious,
social, aesthetic home, whether upon
the bracing mountain or down by the
sluggish pool, there it will be.-S. S.
Times.
In our land men have classified
themselves. We have aristocrats but
God made them; and there never will
be a time when mightiness of soul
shall not overshadow littleness of soul.
1t was designed that some should be
high, some intermediate and some low,
as trees are some forty, some one hum
dred, and some, the giant pines chow
solitary their tops must beD, three
hundred feet in height. But. how
ever high their tops may reach, their
roots rest in the same soil; as men,
though they can grow and tower aloft
as much as they please, still stand on
common level.-Beecher.