The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST
GATHERED, AND BRIEFLY
STATED SINCE Our LAST
ISSUE.

ISSUE
Evangelist Fife has rurchased a
handsome residence i'm t'ayettevills
and will make that place his home.
During List year aj0 medicines
were patesied In thls ahtry and
yet the population continues to In
crease.
Mr.. ID. +. st. Clair has -evere.i his
connection with the Sanford Express
TO accept a position on thN editorial
staff OF the Charlotte Chronicle
The Pension bail passed Iltr SEN
ate. The amount required + Si1a,-
| l73,0S5. Such Is Radicallsiu, "a Lur-
den and curse Ia the couatry.
| Tha y. \. Star has changed hands
aud will hereafter bear the n re of
The Daily Continent. Il ma.es
good start, but has not yet apuouuc-
ed lis politics.
According 10 tho census at the ln-
dians In this country they have de-
creased In the las decade about 35,-
600. In 1856 they numbered &c, III,
in 1890 2ls,273.
The Republican party Is nuu tho
minority party. Like goods under
the auctionecr's hammer, !. Is "go-
Ing, going, "ahd vii! soon be gone"
New berne Journal.
| Cleveland and Hill met at han-
quet rec an.iy and said pleasant h!ngs
pfeach ther in aiter dinner speeches.
This may mean that Hill will not
antagonize Cleveland for President
in 1892.
The farmers orthe South antl West
@erc not more successful ihe last
.. year than usual in growing cotton,
corn aud wheat, hut they ccrtaisly
were more successful in rairing
cane
t There is Il new qu, stiou coming
3 the election of United States Scna-
tors by the people. 4 more impor-
e tant one perhaps is a direct vote for
t the Presidency. Wilmington Mes
senger.
1t really begins To look like North
: Carolina has never known such AN
exposition as the New Beruc Fair il
+ going TO be. Ii opens on the 22l of
= this month and will continue for
Il one week.
Tax the excessive incomes oil the
a over-rich. reduce all excessive Off
{. cial salarics-National, State, C0un
% ty and Municipal. This is the de
mand of the people at this time.
- Don't you hear t"-Goldsboro ar
gus.
So far a we can juC gc, the Legis-
la tnre is doing well. 4 great many
@: bills have been introduced that will
IN be lost in the committee room, but
in we trust that we shall witness ''thc
y BeInc Journal.
l. Congressman Phelan, Of T.anes-
:, see, who has been ill fr = long time,
y and who went To the Bahamas for
>, his health before the beginning OF
~ the winter, died 1T Nassau OH Janu-
~ airy both, and his body arrived in
-, New York Sunday morning.
ne Whatever the Legislature dees oI
ld does not do, there is one thing il
ee must do, To meet the dem auds ct 1 he
e, people, pass just and wise Ka.ir0ad
n, Commission bill. And before az
other Sunday morning the klii $50"
pending Will be law Of ihe state
State Chronicle.
ID As we look down on the itc,tIbli
can part, stretching from Maine t6
.a Califo. MIA, we discover that il i
perturbed and unhappy. The ole
time bouancy has departed and i
seems To be suffering from \ sever
=, attack Of nervous prostFati0 ;. N
- Y. Herald, Ind.
by Morey, Ike every other rcpresen.
rn- tativc Of value, has it, price, whiei
soi fluctuat cs in different markets. ant
nd even In the same market ; for on'
to nIan may find il profitable o pay 10
ih- - or 20 per cent, for the use oi mon
lnr ey, AhiIe his next door neighhoT
rit- with entirely different business op
ne pnltuniiieS, could not use boTrOwe,
IN money to advantage at 3 pr cent.-
ed Fayetteville Observer.
rth
The Wilmington Messenger says
"IIuckIcbery bush, > H. Sampso
an csuniy are IN bloom, ami sieTekeer
~. = are already making advances %
Il - next seasons cror."
ted We did nOt know the above FAR
"a uniiI informed byour conien.p3 p3rary
inc and we hope that the Messenger hs
gal bcen misinforued about the matte
on as so early bloom and ncrchanii
ara advances on the HdcklebeFy Gro
may not prove beneficial.
Now that ingalls, IL beaten los Q
..S' s'epubiican papers are renly 81 sa
= That IL isn't any great loss stnyga1
'iii- The Syracuse Journal. edited by ii
hAS' postmaster, says: "The re;iremer
p1' OF John ]. Ingalls, from the Unite
States Senate would be mGre deep
! 81. regretted had he not, in the Itresen.
i of Temporary political srezetion
|. = his State, lowered tfe standard
Republieanism and showed himse
,eat vote seeker rather than the hig
Iit61 toned statesman which he before h:
been gaputed 70 be-" REPEATED
,n- whom?
de-? ..,,.,,. -
izing the immense water power
- Lake Superior. We have no LaI
Superior, bat we have adyantag
'si mni and inducements superior TO tho
..s' ~ of any other State in the Unio
- Every section has the "poweis b.
,red adapted to its development. Nor
: nf Carolina has brai.. power. muscul
reaI. power, and whatever eise is inh,
gill ent I'm q brave, virtuous and pasr;.