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the country. He was always hons
est; always sensible; always earns
est; always the purest and the
most incisiye of our publicists, and
he was equally impressive in sancs
tum or forum.
Unlike most scholarly men, Mr..
Curtis was unfagging in his inter-
est in political affairs. Itwa his
speech in the Republican National
Convention of 1860 that made the
convention amend its platform af-
ter it's report from committee, and
brought the then new Republican
party to the most distinct and man.
ly declaration of it's aims; and
from that tine uutil 1884, when he
last appeared in a National Con-
ventlon to protest against the pros
stitution Of great party to the
spoilsman's commands, he was fre.
quently the leading representative
OF his city in both State and Ma
ticnal Conventions. 1t is entirely
safe to cay that no one man of his
time SO profoundly impressed his
scrupulous integrity upon our pc
litical system as did Mr.. Curtis.
Such a mans death is an un-
speakable national calamity. There
are many other able and upright
ment who are ready to do for the
right as he did; but there was only
ore George William Curtis, and
his death leaves a wide gap in the
ranks of American greatness that
must long remain unfilled.-Ph5ld.
Times.
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The Mt. OLIVE Speaking.


Dear Aryus: Yesterday was a
red letter day in political affairs at
Mount Olive, the attraction being a
joint discussion of the political stu
alton by Mr.. Aycock for the Demo-
cratic side and Mr.. Butler as expo
nent Of the issues of the campaign,
under the banner of the Third
party.
Mr.. Aycock opened the discussion,
and presented the situation in a
clear, plain, concise and forcible
manner and portrayedithe fallacies of
the socalled reform (?) party in such
a manner as to convinces all of the
truth of his remarks, unless they
were biased by idiotic prejudice, or
incapable of using those mental
powers that babes are supposed to
be endowed with at their birth.
His quotations from past issues of
Mr.. Buffers paper, in which MIR,
Butler advocated and endorsed the
present Democratic candidates, were
apt and convincing; and in them
selves were sufficient to demonstrate
the fact that Mr.. Butler was about
the worst man in the deluded mob
of Thirdpartyites to champion their
cause. Mr.. Aycock used Mr.. But
ler's own words to uphold his posi-
ton, and done it so ably that the
wonder to all is, that Mr.. Butler had
the effrontry to arise before an in
telligent audience in reply.
AS Mr.. Buffers talk, boiled down,
was practically an ingenious scheme
to boom the subscription list of his
paper, (Which, by the way, has as its
motto "Pare Democracy and White
Supremaey"-a glorious sentiment
that he dishonors IN every issue) his
harangue,it can safely be said, added
but little of value to any knowledge
upon the question before the people.
The only reason upon which we
can base a purpose for Mr.. Buffers
consumate gall in talking at such a
time, is upon the theory that ssFools
venture where angels fear to tread. =
IF the State Democratic Commit
tee could arrange with Mr.. Butler
to give a few more joint debates no
fears would be entertained of the
triumph of the Democratic ticket
and the removal from public view
of the Third party, which at the
best, can but be considered as the
very quintescence of political nasti-
ness. WAYNE.
September 3, 1892.
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George William Curtis,

Although the death of George
William Curtis was not unexs
pected, the announcement yester-
day that he had passed away cre-
ated profound sorrow in all intelli-
gent circles. He was one of the
grandest of ali the varied grand
characters of modern. American
growth. With all the refined and
delectable tastes of the accomp-
plished scholar, he was one of the
most practical and forceful of our
disputants in politics and in all the
momentous controversies relating
to popular government.
In politics Mr.. Curtis was the
most unique of leaders and at the
same time one of the most potent.
He never sought office !; he declined
many proffered political honors,
and it is doubtful whether his ger
Grafton produced another who was
his equal in commanding the re-.
epect of the thoughtful people oi
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President ITarrison's Loss,

Sadness reigns il the White
House. The shadow of impending
disaster is there. Oyer two years
ago the President was presented g
coon, which the giver named "Ben
Harrison. This was not one OF
voting coons of the South, nor that
chronicled in the minstrel song,
"Dar's New Coon in Town Tos
night" but coon such as roosts
in trees, and is a descent Of the
animal that came down at the res
quest of Captain Scott. The gift
of the coon to the President was
prompted by the desire to present
hin. with a mascot. Since the days
of William Henry Harrison the
coon has been regard as the mass
cot of the Harrison family. An old
gentleman from Virginia walked
many miles to explain the accom-
plishments of the animal he pres
sented to William Henry
Benjamin Harrison the present
President, SO unlike the
amiable and nation-loving ancestor
who made the name illustrious, is
said to have regarded the coon
with especial solicitude, and to have
in herited the notion that his future
success depended upon the coon.
This auperstitution was not founded
alone upon his desire to have the
solid coon vote of the South, that
is the votes of the voting coons
but to have the presence of this
particular coon that had no vote.
The coon has disappeared. The
light has departed from the Harri-
son house. The mascot has left
in disgust. There is no new coon
in town tonight for Ben Harrison
|-Rschnaoal6 State.
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WeaYer's Brutal Cruelty,

TALLAroosA, Ga, Aug. 23.-I
see in your issue Of Saturday, the
Goth inst, an extract from a letter
written by an old citizen of Pu-
laski, Tennessee, also a copy of a
clipping from the Giles County
Democrat of the Goth Of July,
charging Gen, Weaver, the People,
party candidate for President, with
beastly cruelty towards the citi-
zens of Pulaski and Giles county
<. lille in command of the Union
..r,n,I at that place in 1864
/ csu fully substantiate a num-
hcz Of tho charges contained there's
il, AID could add many others OF
Ike character, all from my own
recollection. Although quite
young such a state of terror as we
were kept in by this brute in hu~
man form made al indeilible i'm
preston upon my mind.
My father, DR.. Perkins, was liv-
ing in Pulaski at this time. Oar
house, my grandmother's (Mrs. DR..
Ordway, now of Fashville) and
Maj. Jones, a relative Of ours, we're
used as officers quarters. We were
subjected to many insults. Mai.
Jones' family were ordered ont O:
their house at about II o'clock on
a bitter cold night in December.
they were not allowed time to
dress. Mrs. Jones had to wrap her
sick child in bod-clothing an carry
it in her arms to nei gh boz 8
house. Many acts CT baroarous
cruelty committed on my relatives
and friends are fresh in my mem
ory. Men OF the highest standing,
both young and old, were thrown
into prison, kept there for months
and some shot down like dogs with
never charge entered against
them.
Ladies were ipsuited Cd the
streets-it was indeed reign OF
terror. Such acts of vandalism
aud crime [ have never even read
of in civilized country. All of it
was done by the order, or with
consent Of General Weaver.
Mrs. ANNIE E. HALL.
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Conspiracy and Murder.
SEpAN, Kan. September T.

SEDAN, Kan. ,september /, Two
years ago last spring, J. S. Frazier
and William 81. Gibson, of the
Panhandle, brought a herd of
Texas steers into this county to
feed them. Native farmers became
greatly indignant, fearing intro
duction of Texas fever, and tried
to induce the Texas men to leave.
The latter declined to go, and
soon afterwards Gibson was pois-
oned by the contents of a whiskey
flask given to him by a chance
acquaintance. A day or two later,
Frazier's dead body was found in a
pool near the place where his cat
tie were feeding.
J.T. Davis and S. n. West, farm-
ers, appointed themselves detectives
to run down the murderers, and
yesterday Frank Kinzeey and
Jerry Huston, farmers and Alli-
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A DEMOCRAT.
Chester ID. Burrows, Jr., of Brooklyn,
A Republican Eiector in 1888, and
President of a Republican Club, ~

The New York World presents
the case of G. D. Burrows, of
Brooklyn, a prominent Republi~
can fer years, who has been driven
from the Republican party by its
high tariff policy. No doubt there
are thousands OF similar cases in
the East.
In 1888 Mr.. Burrows was Re
publican elector and the President
of the Republican league of the
Fifteenth ward, where be IS still i
member Of the association, and
from which he Will soon resign and
put on the armor OF the Democs
racy. Mr.. Burrows returned from
his vacation Saturday, and for the
first time in several weeks was at
his store yesterday. To World
reporter he talked freely AID frank
ly.
"For the past three years" lie
said. 81 have been seriously consij-
ering the advissbiIity Of joining
the Democracy. You might say l
was born a Republican. l don t
think there was Democrat
in my family. [ Lave been study
ing the tariff question for several
years. have watched the opera
ton of the Mckinley bill carefully.
The effect Of the high protective
tariff is the cause Of r1y resolution
to become Democrat. The tend
ency Of the bill to create mouo-'
poles to the detriment Of smaller
business interest IL the hands O. q
few men. Protection has been the
issue of the Republican party for
several years. But don't see how
or where it protects. Instead Of
benefiting the masses it has fos-
tered the formation of monopoiies
and inj ared the growth Of Amer y
can Institutions. Owing to its
centralizing tendency it is almost
impossible now for young men to
enter busintss for themselves, as
they cannot compete with monop-
olies. | prefer the tariff plank in
the Democratic platform because I
believe it will have a tendency to
check formation Of monopolies. /
don't believe in free trade; | think
the Government should have a
tariff for revenue, but not the high
protective tariff endorsed by the
Republican party. | do not be-
lieye in opening the foodgates to
allow foreign countries TO send
their goods free to America, and /
am sure that is not the neanin g Of
the Democratic tariff plank.
After some years ofcaretul study
and reflection I have resolved,
solely On account Of the tariff, to
join the Democracy permanently.
[ am not an Independent nor a
Mugwump. [ think Cleveland
made good President, and l en-
dorse his administration aud views,
but I cannot agree with the high
tariff views Of President Harri-
son.
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SWEET AS FIRST LOVE.

A little book with here and there leaf
Turned at some tender passage, how
it seems
To speak to me, to fill my soul with
dreams
Sweet as first love, an d beautiful, though
briefl
Hero was her glory, on this page her
grief,
For tears have stained it, here the
sunlight streams,
And there the stars withheld from
her their beams,
And sorrow sought her white soul like
thief!
And here her name, and as breathe
the sweet,
Soft syllablss, presence in the room
sheds q rare radiance; bnt may not
look,
The yellowed leaves are ffuttering at my
feet,
The light is gone, and 1, lest in the
gloom,
Weer like woman DER this little
book!
Atlanta Constitution.
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Exuna and Maynart

LuMBERroN, N. G., Sept. 2-Dr.
Exun, the Third party candidate for
Governor, and Dr.. Maynard, the
Third party candidate for Congress
in this district, spoke here to-day.
They positely refused to divide
with the Democrats; but after
they finished Col. ". F. French,
Hon. Alfred Rowland, n. A. Nc
hean, Esq, and other prominent
Democrats made telling speeches
and literally demolished the nn-
founded arguments of these adyo-
Gates of negro rule. Exum's har-
angue was pronounced the poorest
thing of the kind ever heard. May
nard made a few extravagant state
ments and took his seat. The crowd
was estimated at 800, half of whom
were Thirdpartyites. It is thought
that the speeches to-day did great
good for Democracy.
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How the Plan is Working.

The Richmond Times has the
following as to the campaign of
the Peoples party in the State
where it has perhaps most fully
developed itself:
"Gencral Weaver and Mai
Field have been actively stumping
in Arkansas, and it is said that the
Republicans OF that State have
agreed to withdraw their State
ticket to be voted for the first Mon
day of November and vote with
the Third party if the latter will
agree to cast their vote for the Re-
publican presidential electors in
November. What advantage this
fusion would be to Weaver and
Field except to aid them in doing
what they are in reality trying to
do-defeat the Southern De,noc-
racy in the interests of Radios lism
and the force bi'l-it is hard to
see."
Why, what difference, SO far as
results are concerned. will there be
betw cen Arkansas and North Caros
lima when the issue is decided on
the day of election? Whether the
effect of the persuasive powers of
Capt. Eaves on the leaders in
Washington (as graphically told in
our yesterdays special from that
city is strong enough to compel q
straight out Republican ticket, or
the "fueion" views of Mr.. Thomas
Settle at last bring forth fruit
who doubts that the end and aim
of it all is to defeat the Cleveland
ticket in North Corolina!
Not the successive steps which
Butler ard other adherents OF
Weaver have taken to bring themr
selves and the motley organization
which they have managed to hud~
die together to this point. 1t has
been ninety days since the presi-
dent of the State Farmers Alliance
was avowing himself Democrat,
and Democratic newspapers
through u the State we're, credul~
GUS enough to copy, with cordial
commendation, an editorial from
his newspaper in which he conjur4
ed his friends to do nothing TO I'M
peril the success of the Democratic
State and county tickets; only two
or three months back the Progress
sive Farmer solemnly declared
that we could not afford to risk ne
gro supremacy aga'n-aud now
Butler is as bitter an enemy of the
Democracy OF his native State as
the most blatant carpet bag Radi.
cal of the days of reconstruction
calling for a eight between the
town and country" and ringing
the alliterative changes on "ballots
and bullets" while the Progress
sive Farmer raises the black bag,
gets it's coffins ready and warns us
of funerals"
But all this will avail nothing.
The country was never more thor
oughly aroused than it is to-day.
As the campaign proceeds 1t will
be truly a "campaiga Of educa-
tion," in which the masses of the
white voters of the South will be
shown clearly where rests the rc-
responsibility for pernicious legiss
lation or tie lack of salutary legis-
lation; how great are the dangers
to the South Of dividing their
strength, and how truly, faithful ly
and honestly the national Demos
cratic party has labored to give
them relief, in both houses of Cons
gress, for wrongs suffered and bur-
dens borne.-CharlOtte O6server
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GOLDsBoRo n. c.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1892

ance leaders. were charged with
the crime. Warrants sre out for
the arrest of a dozen other mem
bers Of the Alliance. Davis says
the murders were the result of a
conspiracy headed by q joint CONS
rnittee from thirteen sub Alliances.
The murder Of Frazier, he says,
was particularly atrocious, and was
accompanied by extreme torture,
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THREE KISSES.

The puress kiss
In the world is this
The kiss that mother lays
On her child's fresh lips
As he blithely trips
To meet the world and its ways.
The sweetest kiss
In the world is this
The first kiss of loYe,
When time is not,
And the ea1th's forgot,
An Eden drops from above.
The saddest kiss
In the world is this
The kiss on unanswering clay;
When dead lips tell
We mnst sob farewell
TIL the dawn of the judgment day.
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Asheville Citizen: The insur.
ance on the Hotel Belmont and
the furniture in the building has
been adjusted by the Asheville
agents. The insurance money,
S25, 900 each on hotel and furnis
ture, will be paid to Mr.. Carrier
and DR.. Won Ruck in the next
sixty days.
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A CROWN e Evil.

A growing evil of the day and
one that cannot be too severely re-
buked is the tendency of young
southern romance and character
sketch writers to caricature their
own people both in the matter of
dialect and in description of man
ners, customs, and sentiment.
When we pick up book by a
southern man in which this tend
ency is manifested we are shut up
to the conclusion that cupidity
rather than love of letters has
been the inspiration. There can
be but one object in such departure
from truth, such prostitution of
talent, and such sacrifice of pride
Of birth and heritage, and that is
the despicable one of making
money by pandering to a northern
greed for everything that places
the South and southern cigilization
in al unenviable and false light.
Between the southern liUerateat7'
who for a consideration misrepres
sents the South and travesties her
people and her institutions and
the southern politician who for the
sake OF Office maligns his section
there is practically no difference.
They are both apostates. They
follow parallel lines and render
themselves equally responsible in
respect of the matter of fostering
the pe,nicious ideas regarding the
South which have found Judgement
in the prejudiced northern mind.
The peryersion through the medium
o. a novel OF the character Of our
people and the principles which
have actuated them in the past and
actuate them now calls for as
severe condemnation as the per-
version OF historical facts or the
libels of the political traitor.
The South, with her history and
her traditions, her present and her
memories, her types of noble men
and beautiful and refined women,
her sufferings and her glories, her
record of courage and of fortitude,
affords an inspiration for a litera~
ture as grand as it would be fasci-
mating and as prolific as it would
be ennobling. Environing south-
ern writer's who aspire to the field
of romance are the materials for
the upbuildiLg of distinctive
southern school of literature, and
these writer's have only to work
such materials together in a spiri:
of truth aud of loyalty to their
own people in order to force, even
from the class of northern readers
we have referred to, recognition
of the beauty of the structure they
are engaged in erecting. just in
proportion as southern writer's dis
tort their environment, and in
grouping their materials introduce
that which is untrue to the genius
of our people and disloyal to south
ern methods of thought and south
ern civilization, they not only mar
the symmetry of the edifice Int
merit the contempt of the culti-
vated classes at home and every.
where else. The elder Disraeli
says, I" Literature is an avenue to
glory, ever open to those ingenious
men who are deprived OF honors or
of wealth y, aud Emerson declares
that :" all literature writes the
character of the wise man.. But
both of these authors refer to true
literature-the literature that is
born of elevated influences and
aims. The literature snpon which
We have animadverted opens up
Just the opposite avenue, and
writes the character of men any
thing but wise.-Rich. Dispatch.
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Smithield Herald: Mr.. D. E.
Barbour, of Four Oaks, gathered
an apple from his orchard that
weighed one pound and five ounces
and measured 144 inches in cir
cumference. How is this for san
applet
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SUNDAY READING
Made UP of Divers clippings

Though vine nor fig-tree either
| Their wonted fruit shall bear,
| Though all the field should wither,
Nor focks nor herds be there,
| Yet God the same abiding,
| His praise shall tune my voice,
For while in Him confiding,
l cannot but rejoice.
William Cowper.
-
| Sublimest danger over which none
weeps,
When snv young wayfaring soul goei
forth,
Alone, unconscious ofthe perilous road
The day sun dazzling in his limpid eyes
through
The world of books! All, youl-Yo ou
think 1t fine,
You clap hands-"A fair day!''-you
cheer him on,
AS if the worst could happen were tc
Too long beside fountain. Yet to be-
Beholdl-the world of books is still
the world,
And worldings in it are less merciful
Are winged like angels. Every knife
that strikes
Is edged from elemental fire to assail
A spiritual life. The beautiful seems
right
By force of beauty, and the feeble
wrong
Becau Sc Of weakness. Power is justified
Though armed against st. Michael.
Many crown
Covers bald foreheads.
In mourning you I shall rejoice.
Go, for the bitter word may be
A music-in the vanished voice,
And on the dead face may see
How bright it's frcwn has been to me:
Then in the haunted grass I'll sit,
Half fearful in your withered place,
And watch your lovely shadow fit
Across Tomorrow's sunny face,
And yex her with your perfect grace.
So. real thing of bloom and breath,
weary Of you while you stay,
Put on the dim, still charm of death,
Fade to phantom, float away,
And let me call you Yesterday
Sarah M. B. Piatt.
IT was nothing-a dream2 Strike that
harpstring,
Aga;n-still again-till it cries
q its Ettermost treble-still strike it
Halvlbrant but SILENT It dies,
It dies, Just as she died. Go, listen
That highest vibration is dumb.
Your sense, friend too soon finds limit
And answer, when mysteries come,
Truth speaks in the senseless, the spirit,
But here in its paipable part
We sound the low notes, but are silent
To music sublime in the heart.
Too few and too gross our dull senses,
a Are clogged with the mire OF the
road,
Till we loathe their coarse bondage: as
seabirds
ENGAGED on cliff, look abroad.
On the ocean and limitless heaven
Alight with the beautiful stars,
And here what they say, not the creak-
ings
That rise from our sensual bars.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-11-09

Prof. McCleary tells a good story as
being illustrative Of the useless efforts of
the Peoples Party in presidential cleo
ton. "A murderer was being tried in
Mexico, he says, by a judge who was in
the habit Of drinking good deal Of
Whiskey. When the prisoner was
brought into court therefore, the judge
handled the case as best suited his fancy.
Turning to the culprit he said: It is
gloomy to-day sanmiquel; the sun is
hidden by clouds and an air of dreariness
has settled upon the world. There is no
JOY among men. But Sanmiquel, you
must remember that from behind the
clouds the sun will some day
come forth; the gloom will disappear;
the snow will melt upon the mountain
topsand little rills will glide down the
hillsides to join the great deep; the YER
dure will come forth; the leaves will APP
pear on the trees; the birds will sing
merrily and there will be rejoicing
among all men. But, Sanmiquel, you
Won't be in it.