The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1890-01-31
HE EDITORS DESK.


CoNHENTs on ToPICs THATARE
INT ERESTlNG THE PEOPLE
Passing Public Events and Questions
Of interest Now Before the People.
Ias nRIcE Of peanuts has .'riz, and now
sci. for about $1.25 per bushe This is
good for the farmers but bad for those who
,ssa Bishop LYMAN'S prescriptions
ME~~Rs. J f. PARIS and II. E SHAW have
purchased the La Grange Spectator. 1t is
bright and newsy local paper and is pub
listed among intelligent, education low
aE ana progressive people.
THE Wilson Advance has entered ON its
twentieth volume. Il is an honest. clean.
n sh toned, aggressive Democratic news
paper ana stands we'll III the esteem of
patrons and in the profession.
tbs Rural Home is under the impression
hat thu Washington Post is a Democratic
paper. 1t was once, but is now edited by
FRANZ HATToN, ex Republican Postmaster
ereueraI, and is an independent paper
IHE Advance believes court costs are
entirely too heavy and we hope the next
legislature Will materially reduce tae fees.
What We need is justice I'd administered with
rhe least possible espease. Wilson Adj
vance
+. Moss nas been appointed Postmas
.er n Henderson. The first white Repub-
acan appo nted was not continued because
ne refused TO have negro clerk. We take
in that Moss is willing to have the Office
full OF them.
GEN. " r Cox, wno has been devoting
himself entirely to his large farming oper-
at.5ns IN Edgecombe since his term in
Congress- expired, was in Raleig.. this week
He tells Us that while :he crop is short in
Eigecomh1 :ho condition of the people is
,-.t ..ear 50 bal as has been represented.
THE Philadelphia Ledger quotes MILTON
~ evidence that the grip is no modern
disease but that ADAM had it. quoting:
for Adam at the news
Heart struck with CHILLING SR4PE.
Tle Wilmington Star thinks about that
time ADAM had been eating more stolen
.aI.e1 ,hal4 was healthy.
SENATOR jos. r. HAwLEY, OF Connect
eutt writing to the Manufacturers Record
Of the progress OF the South, says that TIE
.acory Of many Southern towns reads like
q romance. The Record adds
HI earnestly ~ishes that more capital
wot 90 into bis native State, North
1f,r IlS
.,una and dora and minerals not
-uale,l by those of any other State.
THE Tarboro Southerner tells Of the con
vction Of several negroes in Edgecombt
ferior Court for beating and otherwise
H. iurIng other negroes who voted the Dem
o-atIc ticket. There is no species OF in
Jnidation more common than ostracisn
o-l Democratic negro, and the Southerne
r-ierr.ug TO one case says, Aaron sue
e--ded in getting the colored ladies TO Civ
T. lis the cold shoulder" He viii improv
the public roads for six months.
TnE Asheville Democrat has interviewed
CONGRESSMAN EwART in the Ninth District
He thinks the following measures Will Ger
taluly pass The Blair bill, repeal of tn
tllacco tax, repeal of tax OF spirits use'
l4 arts and repeal Of retail dealers llcens
tax He does not expect much work o.
le tariff, and what may be done will
add some items to the protective lists
-, ciaIly mica. He is very confident tha
.a federal election law can be passed.
IaMNANY mas given 5000 to the GRAD
monument fund There IS more patriot
lam Of the kind that loves all section
alike a Tammany Hall than IL any othe
.r1e and influential political organize
Ion IN America. Loving .spolls" VI
.u. and sometimes controlled by corruE
..rr Tammany has set good exampl
5trangling secbionaiism to the No
teru More Holy Than Thou political cluf
Ha- .ook upon Tammany with disdaln.
IilE CHARTER of the Louisiana Iotter
.9 about 10 expire, thus necessltatlng OF
u tie greatest political duels over II
deposition to renew the same that Sta
EVER encountered. The Lottery of1icia
ave offered to pay the entire State del
over Sl2 900, 900 provided the Legisl
ta-- viii renew the charter for one hui
Grel years OF course, if the Legislatu
VIII not accept the offer, this money "
5e used ia buying a sufficient number
the members of the Legislature to contr
he action of that body. 1t is sad to +
d-c- that the only licensed lottery in t
r.cQ is here in the South, and that
us 1e-o11o So powerful financially that
.uuot be suppressed. It is sadder st
that 1wo of the leading Confederate ge
erals are at the head Of it.-Biblicai /
.9gaer
The STUDENTS Of Rutherford College a
10 have grand reunion at the college
nc 40th and slst of May. Since 1854 the
lave ueen over 8 900 students at Rutht