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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-10-27
GEN. WEAVER AND THE
MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.
The Confederate and Demo
cratic Side.
lFrom Progressive Farmer.

IfTOIu progressive FafuleT-
Mr., EDITOR General Ear
ly levied a contribution on the
citizens of York, Pa, obtain
ing among other things, $685.
600 in United States currency,
the greater part of which was
turned over to Col. j. L. Cor
ley, chief quarter master Army
of Northern Virgia; 900 hats,
1 200 pairs of shoes and 1000
pairs of socks were also OBJ
tanned here."- LIT. Gen. r. S.
EwelPs Report, I'd Corps. Re-
bellion Records, p. 443.
''The authorities of Gettys-
burg declared their inability
to furnish any supplies, and
search of the stores resulted in
securing only a very small
quantity of commissary sup
plies, and about 1900 rations
were found in a train of cars,
and issued to Gordon's (Ga.)
Brigade. The cars numbering
10 or 10, were burned. Mai.
Gen. J. A. Early Report. Re
bellion Records p. 465.~ -
avery command North
Carolina regiment) was march
ed into the town of York, Pa,
and put into some extensive
buildings put up for hospitals.
l then made a requisition upon
the authorities for 1900 pairs
CT shoes; 1000 hats; 1 900 pairs
of socks; 100000 in money,
and three days rations of all
kinds. Subsequently between
1900 and 1, 800 pairs of shoes,
the hats, socks and rations
were furnished, but only $685.
900 in money was furnished,
| which was paid to my quarter
master { Major G. E. Snodgrass);
| the mayor and other authori-
ties protesting their inability
to get any more money, as it
| had all been run off previously
and | was satisfied they made
an honest effort to raise the
amount called ''-Maj. Gen.
J. A. Early's Report. Rebel
| lion Records, p. 466.
AT Carlisle, Chambersburg
and Shippensburg, requisi-
tons were made for supplies,
and the shops were searched,
many valuable stores being Sc
cured. AT Chambersburg, a
train was loaded with ord
nance and medical stores sent
back. Near 5000 head Of cat
| tie and ** 5000 bar
rels of -four were
sent back" LIT. Gen. r. S.
| Ewelrs Report. Rebellion
Records, p. 443.
| Gordon was the Brigadier
General at Gettysburg, has
been Democratic Governor OF
| Georgia and now u. s. Sena-
| tor. can give the names OF
every colonel or commanding
| officer of regiments. Does not
any fool believe Gordon or his
colonies and other officers are
responsible for the military
contribution and fiounderine
of the stores? Col. Avery com.
manded Hoke's N. G.. Brigade
and were the only troops in
York Pennsylvania, when the
big contribution was levied by
! Early. I can give the name.
Of all of Ayery's colonels
They are now before me. Doe.
any fool or scoundrel believ.
that Avery or any of his off
GERS are responsible in an,
way for this military contri
button of s28, 600 besides othe
things. Ewell and Early ar,
'alone responsible. Gen. r
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-10-27
Paste This in Your Hat.

Based upon the best author
ity-the United States Census
the following table of wealth
and wages, extending from
1850 to 1890, inclusive, will
give a fair idea of the rapidity
with which the wealth Of the
country is passing from the
hands of the producers into
those of the non producers. If
you cut out this item it may,
as occasion requires, serve
your turn in proving, however
things may look to the con-
trary, that the rich are truly
growing richer, and the poor
poorer.
Workers Non-producers
share (parasites)
Year. per cent. share per cent.
1850. $4,000, 900 600 629 371
1860. Is, 000, 100000 43I 65i
1870. 10000, COO, 600 32a 67I
1850. As, 000, 100000 "a 70
1890. 81 100000 II So
This is, in 1850 the property
of(this country amounted to
IS, 900, 600, 900 and over 5, OO0,-
ooo,oo belonged to the wealth
producers, the men who had
made the wealth by their sweat
and toll, while only 3,OO0,-
O00,00 were owned by the
non-producing class. To-day
the prosperity of this country
amounts to Sol, 900, 900, oo(
every dollar of which has beer
created by labor, yet only
| so, 900, 600, 900 of it belong te
the wealth producers, while
over 100000, 900, 600 worth
is owned and held By
the non-producers, the mel
who never created a dollar.
| worth of wealth In their lives
That is to say that. since 1856
the men who toll and labor
the men who create wealth
have added to the wealth O
this country the enormous
sum of $50, 900, 900, 900, and O
this amount the Speculation
have gobbled up S4s, 600, Ooo.-
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-10-27

Handsome is that handsome does.u
and if Hoods Sarsaparilla doesn't do
handsomely then nothing does. Have
you ever tried it?
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-10-27

TAPE FEAR s. YADKIN VALLn
~ K. r. COMPANY. a
Cond. Schedule-IR effect Sept. 10, II
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-10-27
RennettsviIle Div.

Train No connects at Sanford with Seass1
Air Line for Raleigh, Norfolk and AL "a
North, and at walnut Cove with the norfolk
western * X for winston Salem, Roanoke
points north and west of Roanoke.
Train No. connects at Walnut Cove with
folk & Western II. X. for Winston-SaIem, Ike
oke and all points North and West of RoaDoke.
at Sanford with Scaboard Air Line for Mo-
Charlotte, Athens, At antH and all points =
and Southwest.
Pullman Palace SIes ping Car ON Scaboard
Line trains north and South from Sanford and
norfolk Western trains north and West
Roanoke,
Passengers from Wilmington, FAYETTEVILLE, y
ton, Bennettsviile and all points South of Sas,
viii arrive at Raleigh 1t n Il A. M, and have
hours in Raleigh and reach home the same day.
Ample time is given passengers for breaktzsti
sapper at Fayetteville, and dinner ut Walnut q
]. w. FRY, w. z. KYI
GenI Mang'r. Gent Pas. !
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
TIE NATURE OF A Foe.
Minute Particles of Matter Seem to Be
Necessary for It's Formation.

Minute Particles of Matter Seem to Be
Necessary for It's Formation.
New York Evening SUM-
At the present time every one is sup
posed to know that the phenomenon of fog
is possible only when the air contains float
ing solid particles. Fog cannot be pro-
duced, for example, in air deprived of these
particles by being strained through raw cot
ton. A series of experiments has shown
that 1-100th of grain of iron wires heated
in an appropriate receiver evolved at each
heating sufficient dust to serve as the basis
for visible fog. In more delicate apparatus
II, 000th of a grain showed the same result.
So much for the size of the dust on which
fog depends for its existence. Terrestrial
atmosphere contains it everywhere.
The particles which serve to produce town
fogs have been investigated. The fogs de-
posit them on glass. They composed smear
like brown paint; sometimes so tenacious
that it could not be wiped of, but had to be
scraped off. The principal components were
carbon, nearly so per cent; mineral matter,
chiefly quartz and oxide of iron, 40 per cent;
sulphuric acid, per cent. In other words,
the greatest part is due to the imperfect
combustion of coal Part is due to the
grinding and powdering nf paving material
The deposit of this stuff equals six tons to
the square mile of surface.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
GAS AT SALT LAKE CITY.

Not Much Discovered Yet, but Evidently
Good Prospects.
Relative to natural gas in Utah, Mr.. E.
W. Hammond writes The DISPATCH from
Salt Lake City as follows:
For several years gas has been found in
certain parts of this valley, coming up with
the flow of the water in the artesian wells
These wells are seldom over 200 feet deep,
and usually have two-inch pipe, and Of
course but little attention was paid to the
gas I think in but one instance was it
used for heating cooking stove; this stove
has been burning gas for about FIVE years.
During the past year party Of citizens of
Salt Lake City formed company, and ar
ranged with the owner of q portable water
we'll machine to put in big we'll. This
well is located some II or Is miles from the
city on the east shore of Salt Lake, and has
in it about 420 feet of six-inch pipe. The
driller washed the pipe in, and to all ap-
pearsnces reached black shale rock, as
several pieces have been blown out. The
gas comes up both outside and inside the
six-inch pipe. Probably the fact that it
was washed in gives it channel on the
outside. A pressure of $50 pounds is claimed
for this well.
I saw a common steam gauge on a well
which was driven near this one-say so feet
from jt-which showed pressure Of 100
pounds 1t was only 1S0 feet deep. This
we'll has two-inch casing, and furnished
the gas for fuel to make steam for the "big
well"
No rock has been found in anv we'll yet
drilled in this valley, and as far as L can
learn no we'll has ever been put down over
700 feet Of course, in the six-inch we'll
which have just described, there is pos
sibility that rock has been reached, but no
certainty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
A NICE TOWN 10 GET OUT OF.
Philadelphia Has Two Things to SHOW snd
They Never Change.
New York Times.1

New York T1mes.I
Philadelphia is architecturally unintsr-
esting There are some creditable business
buildings down Chestnut street, and there
is the big municipal structure with its un-
finished tower, occupying the intersection
of the only two wide streets in the city,
where there ought to be square. It is i'm
pressive as one walks through it, without
going into it, and looks up from the open
interior court at its lofty walls, but there is
confused sense of overlooking with sculpt-
ure and carving of which the meaning and
appropriateness are not evident.
The Quaker City has two familiar show
places Independence Hall and the Mint.
1t is curious to note how visit to-day Is
exactly like q visit ten years ago. In the
old brick edifce where the Continental
Congress met are thesame old relics in the
same old places. The same old custodian in
the same old position, apparently reading
the same old newspaper, is Indifferent to
the presence of the casual visitor as of old.
There are always two other visitors when
one enters Independence Hall shyly prowl-
ing about trying to feel patriotic senti-
ments, and silently Sinking awav. .chagrined
with a sense of failure, even after gazing
upon the cracked old bell above the
stairway that proclaimed liberty to
the land lis years and some
months ago. From the sepulchral solitude
and the miscellaneous relics of the Revolu-
tion one escapes into the modern street
with a profane sense of relief and ''takes
in the Mint, where he finds a gray-hsired
attendant ready for the thousandth time 20
pilot party through, to which he makes
the remarks about the weight and value Of
silver bars and gold ingots which he has re-
peated SO manv times without change A
mere glance is allowed into the machine
shop-looking place where the metal is
rolled and the disks that are to become
coins are cut from the long strips; there is
a pause where nickels and pennies are
stamped-always nickels and pennies,
never the more inviting coins of gold
and silver-and then the visitor is ushered,
as of yore, into the little room whera
there is a small museum of coins and
medals, and left to get out when ne gets
ready. Three more superannuated attend
ants seem to find it relief of their tedium
to answer questions end give once more the
information they have been giving several
times . day for many year. Glancing at
the new silver coins, yet unissued, one won-
ders whether the head presumed to be Of
thick-necked and disreputable old Roman
Emperors. Philadelphia may be pleasant
town to dwell in and comfortable for busi-
ness; friendly call gives a pleasing i'm
preston of the interior of substantial
home; but for the mere casual visitor sec
ond mig Int is hardly endurable-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
A DOG THAT TELLS TIE TIMR
He Taps the Hour With His Foot and Never
Makes q Mistake.

Belefonte News.1
Colonel F. n. Barksdale, of the passcn-
ger department of the Pennsylvania Rail
road has dog that can tell the time of the
day. Colonel Barksdale has very fine
clock that strikes only on the hour and then
very slowly. The Colonel got into the way
of making the dog tap. with his foot at each
stroke of the clock. Finally he got so he
would do SO without being fold. Just be-
fore the clock strikes it gives a little cluck,
and whenever the dog heard this he would
prick up Lis ears, raise his paw and gently
tap his paw at each stroke without being
told.
After awhile he got so that when anyone
clucked like the clock he would get into
position and wait for the strokes He was
for long time. confused at not hearing the
clock, but after awhile began tapping his
paw anyway. The remarkable point is that
after awhile he remembered how many
strokes were due at each succeeding hour,
SO that now whenever the Colonel clucks he
gets into position and taps the number of
strokes the clock should make next time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

This man is trying to joke his wife
about her cooking ability.
He says the household will suffer
from dyspepsia. It's poor joke.
Americans eat too much rich food,
withou. taking advantage of natural
antidotes to overcome the bad effects.
Nobody wants to diet. 1t is nat
ural desire to want to enjoy the good
things in this world.
Read what prominent New York
er writes; he had been troubled with
gouty rheumatism and its attendant
painful symptoms for eighteen months:
81 have subjected myself for
months to the severest rules of diet
recommended for such conditions,
and used almost all the remedies
recommended for gout and rheuma-
tism, without any benefit, until 1
heard of your imported Carlsbad
Sprudel Salts, which 1 used faithfully
for six weeks, dieting for the first
three weeks and afterward eating al
most anything desired. All the
gouty and rheumatic symptoms left
me after the fourth week, and my
general health and spirits have be-
come excellent once again. Your
Carlsbad Sprudel Salts deserve the
widest publicity, and I take great
pleasure in bringing this fact to your
notice"
You try them to-day.
The genuine have the signature Of
"Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole
Agents, New York." on the bottle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
SnnHhaIIS of Ice Cream.

At Christmas dinner in the suburbs the
ices were served in the form of snowballs,
on plates upon which were painted holly
and mstletoe These we're the clever idea
of the daughter of the household, who took
the wooden plates used by dairymen for
butter and cheese as the foundation of her
service These were first painted white
with enamel paint and then decorated with
sprays of holly and mistletoe. The ice
rested in cup of fluted paper
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Two Suns Racing Around Each Other.

Miss Maury's examination of the Harvard
Photographic spectra of the star Beta
Aurega shows it to consist of an interesting
system of two suns revolving about each
other in four days at distance of only be-
tween 100000 and 5000, 900 miles, or about
one-twelfth of our distance from the sun.
If the members of the pair are of equal
weight, they each weigh rather over double
the weight of our sun. Each is moving
with avelocity of about 20 miles second
in its orbit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

A general mistake is made about baskets,
most people supposing that the white
willow basket is the best 1t looks best,
but is by no means the strongest. The
white willow slips are cut in the fall and
Kept green all winter by packing their stubs
in wet sand or water, and when spring comes
the bark peels off with twist of the hand.
The buff baskets, on the contrary, are made
from dried willow slips, which have been
steamed and then peeled. While not so
handsome, they are much stronger, and
will wear far longer than the white.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Feathers at $500 a Pound.

There is general mistake about both the
color and the price of ostrich feathers
When natural, they are white, black, or a
dirty gray, and are colored to suit They
take the dye readily, and retain it much
better than most dyed goods. But even at
first hands they are fearfuily costly luxu-
ries. On the ostrich farms in Africa, the
feathers sell for 5000 pound, and the price
is at least doubled by dyeing, curling and
other treatment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
COFFEE OF CENTRAL AFRICA.
A Berry Whose Flavor Is Equal to That OF
the Finest Arabian.

the Finest Arabian.
Perhaps it is long since any bit of infor-
nation has been given to the world of
wider interest than this by Major Jephson,
of the Stanley -Emin relief expedition:
'For many weeks we drank coffee which
we made from the berries of the wild cof-
fee trees which abound in the highlands
around the great lakes of Central Africa.
The Arabian coffee was supposed originally
to have come from Kafa. in Abyssinia.
That which we found in Karagwe, Ankori
and Uganda is equal in flavor to the finest
Arabian coffee, and will, when Central
Africa is opened up, be another of the chief
articles of commerce" This statement
first appeared in the October number of the
MaU1o,oer, monthly horticultural periodi-
cal published in New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Positive Even in Negatives.

Detroit Free Press,
"Your wife left very ambiguous will, Z"
remarked the attorney to the widower"
'That's strange" replied the husband,
refectively. cit was never so when she
was alive
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Born With Shattered Nerves.

How if the son is only the legitimate de-
velopment of those qualities which men
have considered honorable IN the father?
How if the desire of amassing millions in
the sire becomes unbridled extravaganza in
the son, if the sharp dealing which men
agreed to call executive ability in the father
SO long as it was successful, proves unmjti-
gated rascality in the next generation? How
if the father spends in business tension and
activities with such intervals of physical
license as the stern business men allow
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

Ane FRENZY never Uuenched.
The clever lad who has made a thousand
by his months commissions looks en-
viously at the manager who had S25, 900 for
working up trust, and ne in turn feels
small beside the millionaire whose bidding
he does, the three-millionaire has his eve
upon the railway men who associate in
focks of 20, 900, 600 owners, who in turn will
begin to be satisfied when their income
touches million year-possibly. But
death takes them off before they reach the
ennui of that dream. They must have
money, from the boy restless in his plain
home till he fix things up round home, and
his mother, who wants to have things like
other folks" up to the son of the million
aire who wants money to lend impccunious
sons of dukes as a ticket to their society.
The worst of it is that it is not money
which does harm, but the lust of money,
which may exist in cancerous ferceness
where there is little for it to feed upon. It's
life is fever, its end is death in life, death
first to honor, to fitness, then to delight.
The poison works early. The boy and girl
dissatisfied with home cannot see the beauty
of nature which has fed and solaced the
gentle and generous lives of hard working
kindred before them, they only see tina. car
pets are not of messy pile, and the furnish
ings are not tagged out with ribbons and
silk gauze, or the walls lined with pictures
in art frames, often the only art apparent.
We, mistaken friends, lend ourselves to
their ambitions, applaud their successes
when they have made money. We who look
on, who get none of the spoil, are the readiest
to bend the knee when Mammon goes by.
How shall we teach our children to ap-
praise life at more than money, and value
money rightly without lusting for it?
SHIRLEY DARE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

1our-rounQ glove contests mad never been
we would have never hearftell of Cardiff.
It was only because McAuliffe is as slow on
his feet as an elephant that Cardiff lasted as
long as he did.
What was said in this paper last week
relative to the proposed boxing contests
was surely not wide of the mark. Both the
Dempsey-Maher and the Mitchell Corbett
affairs smacked so much of receipts" that
il WAS well the police took hand in the
matter. For the life of me, have never
been able to see why the police should pre-
vent an up and up fight and allow known
'fake," with the object of swindling the
public, to sc on. If one cannot be, then
certainly stop both. Most assuredlv moth
ing would please Corbett better than to box
anybody six rounds with big gloves, and
Mitchell has now arrived at that stuge
where he prefers nothing harder But
there is one singular fact about the Mitch
ell-Corbett affair, and that is that people
who jeer at Slavin and Mitchell boxing for
money never notice the proposed swindle of
Corbett and Mitchell. This is drawing ma
tionality lines with a vengeance. Slavin
and Mitchell are only doing here what
Sullivan and that big counterfeit, Jack
Ashton, did in England. The fact that
in 24-foot ring and that SlaSin made a
laughing stock of Joe McAuliffe and Kill
rain, seems to have much to do with the
American hatred toward Charley and Frank.
Let us be generous.
Whether or not Slavin and Sullivan will
ever fight or whether or not they will even
be matched, is somewhat problematical.
Sometimes 1 am satisfied that they will
never meet in ring, and if they don't
1 fail to see how anybody can blame
Slavin. If ever man wanted to fight he
does, and the Sullivan party know it. He
is so anxious to meet Sullivan that he will
battle under Queensberry rules. There may
be something definite done about the matter
this week.
It now seems certain that Slavin and
jackson will come together if all goes we'll
as far as the law is concerned. But we
must not Jump to conclusions too hastily,
as will not be surprised if the law some
what interferes with the National Club,
If they fight 1 will, F course, be inclined
TO think that Slavin will be the winner,
providing nothing extraordinary happens
between now and then. It seems to me