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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
birthright as Americans.

birthright as Americans.
The father was not an ignorant
man. He was considered thrifty,
industrious and reputable. He
went to church every Sunday. He
would have been very indignant
if anybody had charged him with.
being ali immoral man. Yet he
was setting his two sons a foul
example, and training them in
election crime and political shame.
This is not a partisan fiction. II
is a true story, told upon the
authority Of member of a state
legislature who had no motive in
misrepresenting the facts, since it
was his own party that had pur.
chased the three votes.
1t was narrated with cynical
amusement as proof that an in
telligent ann prosperous man had
50 little interest in politics that he
was willing to sell out the entire
family to the highest bidder.
The greatest evil of American
politics is the use of money in
elections. Great campaign funds,
secretly raised and mysteriousIy
expended, are utterly demoraliz-
ing in their tendencies.
Ii that yenal father who led his
two sons astray had been asked to
justify his crime, he would prob
ably have said: "Both parties
have raised large campaigns funds
There is money scattered around
among the politicians, and we
might as well have cur share Of
it. Wen give our party the pre-
ference on even terms"
Such men deserve only scorn.
They are serfs by nature-politi-
cal husksters, selling their honor
as freemen to the highest bidder.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
Established 1920.

Three workmen were buried
in a cave-in near Ludlow, KY,
Thursday. One was rescued
alive. The others are dead. ~
John Perkpile, of Sidney, O.,
called at the county Jail, where
his wife was confined for disor-
derly conduct, Friday, and
shot her dead. Perkpile escaped.
California orange growers
have been given a beneficial
decision by the Interstate
Commerce commission, in
session at Denver, by the
granting of a lower rate to Cal
ifornia lines and their connec-
tions for oranges to Atlantic
ports than to intermediate points
The new rate will probably be
90 cents instead of 80 cents.
Samuel e. Aymor, the de-
faulting bookkeeper of the Ma
tional Sho, and Leather Bank,
has been indicted by the Federal
grand jury in New York for
making false entries and mis-
appropriation of the funds.
The Denver Consolidated
Tramway company, controlling
nearly all the electric lines in
Denver, reduced the wages of its
conductors and motormen to 20
cents an hour Thursday. 1t is
probable that a strike will re-
suit
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
rhl. Is the corrse, View.


II there il anything In the bad
record Of party 70 cause q people
70 abjure Il and give their conf.
dence 10 the party Of the Opposi.
ton, them should be no question
about a sweeping Democratic vic
tory in North Carolina next year;
but there are people who stick the
closer 70 a bargain because il Is 4
bad one, aud Il will be found, We
ap2iehend, that not oil Of those
who might In reason be expected
70 renounce fusion, because It's
works have proved bad, and re-
turn 70 the Democracy, will be
swim 10 do 20. Some Of them har-
Dor deep resentment, and in men
the e.pride OF opinion ls very strong
Some Of these lost sheep will come
back next year; many will, we
hope; but Il will not do TO count
too high.
The Democratic party Of North
Carolina will have q mighty strug'
gle on its hands next year, and 70
win Il will have to not only make
converts, but get out II own stay
aLhome vote. This involves
close, systematic, detail work. But
above all, u will have 70 put &c
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
Nothing Like Il.

Extract from a Raleigh letter to
the Wilmington Star Executive
Clerk Hinton says he had neigh
Dor 70 die recently who had been
a farmer all his life, started the
race Of life without q copper and
when he died lefta valuable farm
of 500 acres, money loaned out on
interest and no debts behind him.
This man raised his home sup.
plies, and had not planted over 30
bales Of cJtton in eight years.
"Tell me farming does not pay
said Mr.. Hinton.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
RE,TteNs
WIk 81 tlClC

Scarcely a day passes without
news of industries resuming or
of wages increased. Every in
dication points to a rapid return
of prosperity. This should be
pleasant news, but it is not
pleasant to all. The calamity
howlers are not happy. The
statesmen who have been de.
neuncing the democratic tariff
as a measure that would wreck
American industry now see
their hopes of future freferment
rapidly vanishing when they
learn that our industries are
being revived by the foreign
trade which a lower tariff has
enabled them to gain.-Florida
Times Union.
The recent ri. es in the price
of iron, wheat, cotton and corn
is a strong evidence that there
is a large demand for these pro.
ducts, and the fact is flattering
encouragement to the belief
that we are entering on a more
prosperous era. Very true th's
growing prosF rity is only slil I
and hardly +, yet, still t',r,
is no doubt ILat the industrial
skies are growing brighter with
each day.-Gadsden Times.
News.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is
the infalIible authority on silver
that all siiyerites are fond Of
quoting; but even so great a
man rs Mr.. Jones, who, by the
way, owns some silver mines,
Is sometimes mistaken, as in.
stance the assertion in 1890 that
the passage of the Sherman sill.
yer law would advance the
price Of silver to Sl.2G a ounce.
After the passage Of that law
and while il was still in force,
silver went down until it reach
ed the lowest point In its his
tory.-Louisville Times. Union
The other day Governor Nc
Kinley's organ, the Chicago In
ter. Ocean, denounces as bis
"fool friends those people who
had said that the governor
would refuse to be the presi-
Dental candidate Of the repubIi
can party on the free silver plat
form. Ex President Harrison
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evidently has a "fool friend"
in Indianapolis, who declares
that Mr.. Harrison will be re-
elected as a compromise candi-
date on the strength of a silver
speech he made some time ago.
Mr.. Harrison will never be re-
elected president as a compro-
mise candidate on the silver
question. II is pretty safe to
say that the next president will
be either an out-and.out sound
money man or he will be an
out.and out free silver man.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The notorious Bill Cook, train
robber and desparado, arrived
at Albany, N. Y from the west
thursday 10 serve a sentence OF
forty.five years in the Albany
penitentiary for general out
lawry. The prisoner did not
come alone, but had twenty
companions. The black maria
from the renitentlary was on
hand, but as that would not
hold all the prisoners the bus
used by the Delavan House was
pressed into service. There was
a large crowd at the station to
welcome Cook, who had been
expected for some time.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
The Case Of Holland.
statewide Landmark.

The case of Holland, the de-
flulting bank cashier Of Charlotte,
is a very distressing one; and the
circumstances which attend it
make it doubly distressing. When
a man, occupying position Of
trust, but who makes no preten-
sions TO morality or religion, falls,
it is bad. But when such an one
stands high in the Church and in
society as we'll as in business cir
cles, and then deliberately violates
tbs trust reposed in him, 1t is ir-
finitely worse. II tends TO under
mine our confidence in our fel-
lows; we feel that if this man, who
had everything 10 recommend
him and every reason for being
true to his trust, has proven false,
who then cda be trusted. Theef
fects Of such an affair as that at
Charlotte cannot be estimated. II
is not alone that the man has
brought disaster 10 his friends and
ruin to himself and his family,
but the evil effects Of his example
in bringing reproach upon religion
and morality will be far-reaching.
But this case is moi new or
rare one. Readers Of the daily
papers know that such happen
ings are Of weekly, almost daily,
occurrence throughout the coun-
~lry; and, the more's the pity, a
very large majority Of the de
Iaulters are men Of Hollands
stripe. They had previously
stood high in the community and
in the Church, and by mason Of
this fact gained the absolute con-
fidence Of the public and wen
trusted implicitly. Pretty soon i
will come TO that pass that il vii
lie 10 recommendation to q man
70 have these things said Of him.
The remedy? We are unabl,
70 point il out. But there Is thn
suggestion: In a majority OF in.
stances where men Of high stanl
ing 20 wrong they, BY reason Q
having powerful and influential
friends who stand BY them eyei
after they have fallen, either
escape with very light punish
ment or no punishment at all,
This is wrong. Let The law take
its course and let the guilty re
ceiye Just and merited punish
ment without regard 70 previous
conditions. II the mans preyi
Gus standing must be considered
then the punishment must be th'
greater. For be who knows hii
duty and does il not shall b,
beaten with many stripes.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
Worth Repetition.
southern Tob1ceonist.

1t cannot be too often repeated
that Virginia and North Carroll
ma and South Carolina have the |
great advantage over the other
tobacco States in making and cur
ing fluecured tobaccos. In this
we excel; for this tobacco there is
constant and profitable demand.
1t is therefore senseless and suici-
dal to attempt to compete for the
common tobaccos of the world, as
if we could DO this; and if we
could and then do better by tar,
why not confine our planting to
the most profitable kinds and risk
no failure Of such a crop? The
great risk and great loss to all
planters and dealers is that there
is more made that is suitably pre-
pared for. The men, State and
county lines don't make the bet
ter tobacco nor the latitude, it is
the intelligent land selection, pre-
paration and cultivation and cure
all combined that makes the right
kind of crop, as those who have
paid for by experience know.
Virginia and North Carolina
ought not to be in the business Of
making five cent crops, as We did
last year.
As TO dark tobacco, the same is
true. There is demand for all the
rick, dark and silky mahoganies
that the land will make at paying
prices, and nearly all else outside
is loss Of land and labor, time
and money.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
Highest Of all in Lcavenng Power-Las s Govt Report
R@!a!.!!! g! RRskiaGs Rsxassz
An&NH uNEUv nRvnE

ccptable candidates; men against
whom no factional feeling exists
in the party; men who can unity
it.
BY wisdom and hard work we
can regain the State next year.
But we must not delude ourselves
with the idea that, because the
Legislature was one-half knaye
and the other halffool, we have as
good as got it now. We haven't.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01

Il is altogether fitting that
the people Of North Carolina
should erect a monument to the
memory Of the late Senator
Zcbulon b. Vance, and The
yirginian is pleased to learn
from the Raleigh News and Oh.
server that the matter is being
pushed. No man loved Caro-.
lima better than Vance, and no
state had a better friend than
he. Whether in the tented field
or In her hells Of justice, Gov.
ernor Vance was a true and
patriotic son, and the people Of
Carolina will honor themselves
in erecting a shaft to his mem.
ory.
Our contemporary ''believes
that the people Of North Caro-.
lima will be glad TO honor the
greatest man the state has pro,
duced," !" and says it will be glad
to acknowledge the contribu-
tions and pledges of those who
! would like 70 assist in securing
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
selections.

Selections.
The Atlantic takes its name
from Mount Atlas.
1t costs $l5 to change the
tunes of a street organ.
The crown worn by Queen
Victoria weighs forty ounces.
Gold which is absolutely pure
is said to be "a carais fine.
The crocodile's egg is about
the size of that Of the goose.
The polar currents contain
less..salt than those from the
equator.
Heredous says that Croesus
was the first ruler to order gold
coins made. 4
At the Bombay Zoo the skin
of a sea serpent sixty.four feet
long is on exhibition.
Sea water is said to contain
all the soluble substance that
exist in the earth.
The banks Of the United
States during the year 1894 lost
over $25, 900, ,O1O by theft.
We stand ready to wager a
reasonable amount of good
sound money.that the grip will
find something missing when
Uncle Russell Sage is through
with it.-Washinglon Post.
There is a good deal of wri-
ting about the "coming wo-
man." but what we really want
to know, and what they don't
tell us, is what kind Of a hat the
coming woman will wear
lin deciding the case of the
Risdon Iron and Locomotive
works VS.. Philip Medort, Justice
Brown, in the United States su-
preme court Wednesday COM
mented upon what Constitutes a
patentable article as follows:
There is somewhat of the
same obscurity in the line OF
| demarkation as in that between
mechanical skill and invention,
or in that between a new article
iof manufacture, which is uni
versally held to be patentable
and the function Of a machine
which it is equally clear is not
1t may be said in general tina
processes of manufacture which
involve chemical or other simi'
lar elemental action, are pa!en.
table, through mechanism ma,
be necessary in the application
or carrying out Of such process
while those which consist solel.
in the operation OF a machin'
are not.
Most processes which hav,
been held TO be patentable re
quire the aid Of mechanism II
their practical application, bu
where such mechanism is sui
sidiary to the chemical actiol
the fact that the patentee ma.
4
be entitled to a patent upon hi
mechanism does not impair hi
ight TO a patent for the process
since he would lose the benefi
Of his real discovery, whicl
might be applied in a dozel
different ways il he were nc
entitled 10 such patent. But
the operation Of his device b
purely mechanical no such con
! siderations apply, since th
function Of the machine is en-
tirely independent Of any chem
: ical or other similar action.
Il - .Isa...gla, H0esHx1 fHE
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE
Insurance Departmeat

Raleigh, December 81, 1897,
In compliance with Section Of IAN Act 20
consolidate the Insurance Laws of North Car0li.
na," certify that the above q true extract
from the sworn statement of the National Fire
Insunnce Company now on fle In this Depart.
ment December 81, tsaL OCT. COEE
Secretary Of State.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01

A movement is on foot to es.
tablish a free public library in
Washington, and $4,000 has
already been pledged.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01

a Vance bronze statue, and
turning it over to the committee,
of which the governor is chair
man.
The proposition is to select
Raleigh as the location for the
monument, and the friends of
Vance and of North Carolina
heartily wish the memorial as
sociation which has the enter
prise in charge abundant sue
cess.-Norfolk Virginian.
The lesson of the Charlotte
swindle is not that no man can
be trusted, but that directors
ought not to be so full of conf
dence in any officer as to be in
ignorance of systematic false
entries, forgeries and embezzle-
ments. Directors who will not
take the time to know the real
condition of the bank ought o
resigu.-News and Observer.
--s~~n--
The legal relation between a
publisher and a subscriber to
his publication, or to a person
who receives the publication is
a matter still vexing the postal
authorities. In an opinion re-
Gently rendered by him, Assist
Attorney General Thomas, for
the postofice department, stat
ed in general terms that a per
son who took a paper from the
mails, or received it from the
carrier, was liable to the pub
Usher for the subscription price.
1t was qualified in various ways,
but the statement has been
taken out of the contest, and Is
being advertised as the law on
the subject. In response to a
request from First Assistant
Postmaster General Jones, Mr.,
Thomas Friday rendered a sup
Elemental opinion. He says:
The relation between a pub
isher and his patrons, so far as
the liability of the latter for tie
subscription price of the publ
cation is concerned, is contrac
tual only and each case at leas
must depend on its own facts
The whole question resolve
itself into one of intention Of
the part of the publisher an
addressee. and, no general rul
can be formulated that can b
applicable TO ali cases alike.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
AssETs.

ASSETS.
Value ol Real Estate and ground
rents owned by the CdmTany (leSs
t@S 90, ''''o"'' sSssSsa
cUried and being first liens on the
Accatint II stocks aud boniis of the
unitCd states, and ofthis and other
bowls Absolutely ssnsi IS t6eco i,s9@s
Stocks. bonds ana all other securities
Except mCrtgaEgt hypuiheCate.t 60
Tie company as collateral for cash
actually loaned By the company,
Interest due and accrued on stocks
and other securities,
Cash n cOmany's principal Office
and belonging % the cUmiany, dc.
POSTED in Hank. G,t6 s.
Premiums of assesnents unpaid, gS7su@ %
Premium OF assessment loans and
All other Assets detailed 10 statement
Total Assets, sl,aL.sT
LIABILITIES.
Loses unpaid. including those re. -
Reserve. as required BY law. I,Ns.gsia
All other claims $4,000
Total Liabilities N,Ssi-SiS0
Capital stuck paid up,
Total income l,Nt,t523
Total expenditures, i,ssg,sS g
North Carolina Business On ts9s
Risks written. sq61gs00
Premiums received, lal6I ~
lIusses paid On risks taken, blaslM
iAsses incurred, f.tW 81
Manager MnToS DAEskS,
yiCe. President.
secretary.
General Agent
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
STATEMENT,
Showing the Condition the National FIrs In.
suranes Company.
Dec. 81. 1894

Showing the Condition the National firs In.
suranes Company.
Dec. 81, 1894
ASSETS.
Value Of Real Estate and ground rents
owned by the Company (less the
amount Of encumbrances thereonl, 8 210,eisT
Loans on bond and mortgage (dulyr re
fee simple, ' Sss,@O@
United States and Of this and other
States also all stocks and bonds abb
sOlutely owned by the Company, 1883, ,3q4 90
Stocks bonds and all securities Tex
eept mOrtgages) hypothecated to
the company as collateral security
for cash actually loaned by the Co.
Interest due and accrued on stocks
and other securities, ls,cN 90
Cash in eompany's principal ONCE
P@sited IN bank T. ' ''- ~ ss4,sss 80
Premiums Of assessments unpaid, s76is2 IL
Premium or assessment loans. notes,
All other assets, detailed In statement
Total Assets, sS,sg7,S0o6
LIABILITIES.
Losses unpaid, including those ....
resisted, s26l, l,rs 25
Reserve, as required by law, i,72sso5 .
All other claims, slIO60S
Total Libilities, s2o7IOe96i
Capital stock paidup, sl,0O0!0ooW
TOTAL income, 24lO,s25 is
Total expenditures, 205l, ,ols8
North Carolina Business In 1924
Risks written, $50. .J9l %
Premiums received, T,S62O3
Losses paid on risks taken, 2b6t3
Losses Incurred, 2,4u IS
President JAMES NICHOLS,
Vice President
Secretary Y. q. RICHARDS,
General Agent ". II. MCCABE, Durham.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-01
Statement,

showing the Condition oi the United States
Branch Of the lancashire Insursnes CO.
Dec. 81, 1894.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-11
Cheaper Grain Transportation.

A complete and immediate revolu-
ton Of transporta ton methods, involv
ing a reduction of freight charges on
grain from the west to New York of
from so to go per cent, is what is pre-
dioted in the November Cosmopolitan.
The plan proposes using light and in
expensive corrugated iron cylinders,
hung on slight rail supported on poles
from cross-arm-the whole system in
an expense of not more than
fifteen hundred dollars a mile for con-
struction. The rolling stock is equally
simple and comparatively inexpensive
Continuous lines of cylinders, moving
with no interval to speak of, would
carry more grain in a day than a quad
ripple track railway. This would con-
stitute sort of grain-pipe line. The
Cosmopolitan also points out the proba-
BILE abolition OF street-cars before the
horseless carriage, which can
be operated by boy on asphalt pave
ments at total expense for labor, oil,
and interest. of not more than one dol
lar a day.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-11

Dr. William B. Beebe, formerly of this
place, and son of Mrs Sarah T, Beebe,
Of % Woolsey street, Is about to remove
from Bridgeport to Washington, d, C.,
having been appointed to a professor
ship in sanitary science and hygiene
at Martin college, one of the most -four
ishing literary and scientific Institutions
in the country. Not long ago it was de-
cided to add to its force of instructors
a professor in sanitary science and hy-
giene, and DR.. Beebe, who has made
this department of medicine a speciality
was rendered the position at a large
salary. DIR, Beebe has been for twenty
Years a resident of Bridgeport, practic-
ing his profession all that time, and has
enjoyed large clientage. He is i'm
perial medical examiner of the order of
United Friends, and affiliated with other
orders. His friends, while regreting his
removal from Bridgeport, will congrat-
ulate him upon his appointment.
Earle A, Daniels of this place and Miss
Bertha Ives of Colebrook river We're
married at the home of the bride last
Wednesday.
The members of Hiram Camp division,
IS. Of T., will pay visit to Goodwill
division, at Masonic hall, Webster
street, this evening, leaving here at 1880
o'clock
The members of Perseverance council,
Daughters of Liberty will give a sup
per at the home of Mrs. L. c. Waters,
East Pearl street, Wednesday evening,