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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-06-14

A pleasant entertainment was afford
ed in the hall of the Woods School
School Building on Friday evening, it
being an interview of teachers, schol.
ars, parents and friends, in honor of
the successful term just closed The
hall, although unfinished, was hand
somely trimmed, the exercises were i'll
teresting and entertaining, while the
refreshments of ice cream, cake and
lemonage was all that could be desired.
The evenings enjoyment eliminated
with promenade, which was ptrtici-
pated in by large number, closing at
seasonab.e hour.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-06-14

The Ninety-frst Commencement of
the University of Vermont and State
Agricultural College will be held June
22dto 9th inclusive. Music furnished
by the Howard Opera House orchestra.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-06-14

We append letter received by Mr.
Will Craig, a former townsman and
now partner in the commission firm of
VIM, Kicker 81 Co. of Boston Mr..
Craig commenced handling hot house
cucumbers in small way, and as stat
ed in the letter, sold in April nearly
100000. The testimonial to his bust
ness integrity and tidelit, by Mr.. Ira
Parker of Littieton, n H., who fur
nished no small proportion of the
100000 referred to, is alike CRAFTY ing
to his friends and an augury of his fu-
ture.
WYNN, KICKER ~ Co.
GENTLEMEN:-You of recent date, in
which you state, that you sold in April
nearly 900 cucumbers, is received. e
thank you for the expressions of good will
feeling toward us, and we assure you that
they are reciprOcated. The prompt and
satisfactory manner in which you have
handled the business entrusted to you meets
our unqualified approval, and we trust the
pleasant business relation now existing
may be long sustained. fEe hotels in this
northern section of the state, as well as
consumers elsewhere, esteem it a boon to
be able to secure cucumbers at all seasons
OF the year. and the trade is to be congrat-
ulated on having such enterprising and pro-
gresSive distributors as Winn, Kicker & Co.
Yours truly,
IDA DADEED
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-06-14
QIOsT COMPLETE

Line of Dress Goods to be
found within radius of twenty
miles. 1t is an absolute fact,
Newbury is a good place to
trade, and
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the colored people were intenses
lyChristian and intensely Bap-
tist, and that what they lacked
in knowledge and sanctifed in :
telligence they propose to make
up in zeal. The white Baptists.
he believed, needed to exercise
NOSE zeal. Since the Emanci-
patton proclamation, out of
1000, 900 colored people liberated
then, a million and a half had
been brought into the Baptist
church, while out Of so, 900, 900
white people, and after 200 years
of work, but a few more have
united with the same church.
DR.. Vann created>a deep and fa-
vorable impression upon the con
vention, and was listened to for
a quarter Of an hour.
The fraternal messengers were
appointed to the Baptist anniver
saries in session at Saratoga in
June, and the National Baptist
Convention at A Atlanta, Ca, in
August.
The Convention then adjourned
sire die, with the singing Of the
hymn, ''Blest Be the Tie that
Binds, and prayer by Rev. Mr..
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BRIGHT COTTON PROSPECTS

NEW YORK, May 14.-From
information we have this even
ing we anticipate a higher cot
ton market at Liverpool omor-
row. We believe we have seen
the lowest prices Of this season
and perhaps for many.
Stocks of wheat, leather, su-
gar, whisky and oil have each
had their advance. Lumber is
now taking a start in an upward
direction, while American cotton,
with more intrinsic value than
any of these articles and more
universally in use in the manu-
featuring world is low; and yet
90 per cent. of the cotton that
enters into the manufacturing of
goods in Europe and the United
States is that of American
growth against 65 to 20 per cent.
in years previous to the current
season.
We speak advisedly when we
say that if the South will only
stand squarely to its promises of
reduced acreage for the coming
crop there will be consumed
next year of American 100, 1000
bales weekly instead Of 18O, 900
now, and after the approaching
season large crops as awell as
small ones will be taken care of
by the consumers at prices sat
isfactory to the planter. Ten
States are being relied upon to
clothe the countries named above,
80 out of every 100 people in
whom put cotton gooos on their
backs, and if they will hold fast
to a small acreage for the crop
of 1895'96. the power to dictate
the price will in a great measure
be with the people who are to
produce it.
ATWOOD, VIOLET & Co.
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BETTER COTTON BALING.

The Department of State has
done good service by instituting
an inquiry into the methods of
baling cotton in this and other
countries. The advance sheets
of reports from American con
suls furnish much information on
this subject and give hope Of a
reform which will add materially
to the value Of our cotton crop.
All these consular reports show
that American cotton arrives in
Europe in very bad condition
and the fault lies in the way it is
baled here.
All other kinds of cotton reach
European ports in better shape
than ours, Egypt, India, Turkey
and South America are far be-
hind US in the cultivation of cot
ton, but they all prepare it for
market much better than we do.
The Egyptian bale, though much
heavier than ours, is better Gov
cred, more uniformly packed and
compressed more densely.
Our inferior baling causes
great waists and increases heav-
lily the rate Of insurance. A great
quantity of American cotton
is lost by fire every year by rea-
son of the shabby shapein which
it is sent to the ports. tits very
rare that Indian Or Egyptian
cotton catches afre on ship.
board and it is very common fo1
American cotton to burn. The
loss we sustain in one way and
another by reason of our care.
lessness in this matter is very
heavy, and there is no reason
why it should continue. The ex
pense of better bailing represents
but a small part of the cost OF
such bailing as we now have.
Recently some experiments il
new processes of bailing cottor
have been made in Texas with
favorable results. IF the i'm
portance of this subject can only
be impressed upon our planters
and cotton shippers improved
methods of baling cotton woule
be adopted at once. The efforts
of the state department. in this
direction are commendable ant
/ will doubtless produce practica
J results.
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HOPE OF POPULIST DETECTION.
Gentlemen who See Bright Skies.

WASHINGTON, May 4.-Collec
tor Rogers rendered his official
bond to-day, secured by the FL
deity and Deposit Company, of
Baltimore, Md, in the sum of
$4,000, the last $50, 900 for dis
bursements. He left for home
to night. His commission has
been made out. 1t will be issued
as soon as the bond has been
reached in its order of considera-
ton and approved by the Solici>
tor of the Treasury. To-day
certain vague intimations were
repeated more definitely to the
effect that Rogers was not Kope
Elias can didate in any sense
whatever; that Kope was ex-
pected up to the last moment to
declare himself a candidate
Those who make these intima-
tions may know more than the
rest of US but the general infor-
nation and belief is that Kope
Elias never intended to be q can
didate.
Democrats Of prominence,
fresh from North Carolina, think
that fully 5 per cent. of the Pop
ulists will return and 10 per
cent. will abstain from voting
and that Democracy will gain in
other ways. Otho Wilso says
that it will depend on what the
issues are whether fusion holds
next time. When asked what
the Populist will do, if the Dem>
ocrats nominate a free coinage
man on free coinage platform,
and the Republicans take the op-
posite course, he claims that the
people are tired of party alleg
lance and that the Democrats did
not two years ago adopt a free
coinage plank or nominate a free
coinage candidate This non
sequitur shows that Ohio sees
trouble ahead Of his crowd. Otho
thinks that no commission will
effectually regulate railways, but
that they must be owned by the
government, ana yet ne draws
his salary as a commissioner with
great regularity.
Representative Lockhart left
last night.
Hon. Charles M. Cooke and
wife will return home to morrow.
He is finishing up a hunt for ma
terials for his sketch of the
Fifty fifth Regiment.
E. G. Beddingfeld, and OthC
Wilson, of the State railroad
commission, are in attendance on
the annual convention of railway
commissioners, and expect Maj
J. W. Wilson, the remaining com
missioner, on a later train.
Most of the North and South
Carolina visitors have left, bu1
some remain to finish sight-see-
ing.
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LuWIH IA. AIaeIiitdu DIS DlOSrdp pm
6r,
Editors Messenger:
I particularly desire to call the
attention of your readers to the
finest piece of biographical litera-
ture that has ever been produced
by a North Carolinian, and one
which ought to be especially at
tractive to Cape Fear people, as
the subject was one of the lead
ing spirits of the Revolutionary
period, and the author is a
Wilmington man.
[ refer to Edwin A Alderman's S
address at the Guilford battle
ground on William Hopper, one
of the signers of the Declaration
of independence. 1t is a pamph-
let of sixty pages. with an ap-
pendix, picture of Hooper,
etc., and is an elegant, scholarly
description of the best educated
scholar and orator of the day,
by one of the most accomplished
scholars and orators Of his own
time.
Professor Alderman, who is
professor of the Philosophy of
Education at the University, has
by this address placed himself in
the front rank Of American writ
ers, and has showed such capa-
city for dealing with subjects
like that of this address as to
make it his duty to do still larger
work for the honor of his native
State.
I am very proud of him as a
North Carolinian and a Whining
tonian, and am very sure that all
who read this pamphlet will feel
as / do on the subject.
| A NJ. WADDELL.
May 16, 1895.
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The New Collector.

The dispatches this morning
announce that the President yes
terday appointed Mr. Samuel L.
Rogers collector Of internal rev
enue for this district to succeed
the late Copt M. E. Carter. The
appointment is not surprising
one-it was quite like Mr.. Cleve-
land to have made it. There is
enough suggestion of the idea
OF civil service reform, promo
tion for merit, &C., to remind
one Of the man behind it.
Mr.. Rogers is of Macon county
and is young mamie is in the
30s yet. When Mr.. Kope Elias
was appointed collector, two
years ago, he appointed Mr..
Rogers, then clerk of Macon Su-
perior Court, his chief deputy,
and he has held the position ever
since, exercising the full func-
tions of the collectorship twice
in the meantime--once while Mr.,
Elias case was held up in the
Senate and again since the
death of Capt. Carter. He is re-
puted a good business man and
the appointment is no doubt an
excellent one and one which will
give satisfaction to the district
and especially to those having
business with the collectors Of
fee. There is a suggestion in
it, too, of recognition of Kope,
which will doubtless be very
agreeable to that estimable gen
tleman and staunch friend OF
Mr.. Cleveland Charlotte Obser-
ger.
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National Silver League.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 15.-It
is likely that a call for national
silver league convention will be
issued to meet in this city in
March, 1896.
The matter is being agitated
by the local silver men and they
claim they are backed up by the
silver men Of the west, and par
ticularly SO by the white metal
people of California, who claim
to be disappointed at the meth
DDS adopted by Gen. A. J. War
ner, Of Ohio, on his recent visit
to California. The California
Silver League finds fault with
Gen. Warner for limiting his eff
forts to an attempt to secure the
unlimited coinage of silver at a
ratio of 16 to 1.
The league contains a large
number Of Popullsts, and they do
not think any financial platform
would be complete unless it in
cluded 81 provision for an issue
of greenbacks, and an explicit
declaration against the National
Banking system, and the issuance
of any more government bonds.
J. B. Follett, Of ST. Louis, is in
communication with prominent
silver rnen throughout the coun-
try, and if he. receives assurance
that such convention is oppor-
tune he will issue a call for it to
be held here on March 10Th, 1896.
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THE SKIES ARE FRIGHTENING.

During the last week two O
the largest iron and steel estab
lishments in the United States
have voluntarily advanced the
wages Of their employees ten pei
cent. These are the various
Carnegie steel works, near Pitts
burg, and the Pencoyd Iror
Works, Of Philadelphia. Each
of these is the largest establish
ment of the kind in it's particular
line, and the fact that wages
have been advanced without de.
mand from the workmen, and
without any friction whatever
between employers and employ
ed, is one Of the most hopeful in
dications of the steady aud sub
stantial growth of industrial and
business prosperity.
During the last month we have
noticed that over one hundred
prominent Industrial establish
ments throughout the country
have advanced the wages of
their employees. and many of
them have done it voluntarily.
In some instances there have
been disputes which have result
ed in such increase, but the
brightest feature of our industri-
al Improvement is in the fact
that fully onehalf or more of
these leading Establishments
have advanced the wages Of la
Dor without demand having been
made upon them for it.
The skies are frightening all
around US. The financial and ins
dustrial depression of the last
two years seems to have reached
the bottom and is on the re-
bound. Confidence is steadily
growing in all commercial, in
dustrial, trade and financial cir
cles, and if we only had the ques-
tion of honest money definitely
settled, this country would be on
the eve of the most prosperous
era of its history.
The one cloud that hangs over
US like a pail is the craze for
cheap money that would demor-
alize business, destroy credit, re-
duce the earnings of working
men, and produce universal par
alysis and disaster throughout
the land. The fact that the growth
OF this fearful and fanaticaI Senti-
ment has been. largely due to the
general prostration of business.
is doubtless the truth, and there
is every reason to hope that the
Frightening skies, which now
spread hope and confidence in
all industrial channels, may
speedily halt the effort to com
nit national suicide by sinking
to the standard Of dishonest
money.
Let all, ofevery political faith,
unite to strengthen the hands Of
those who are struggling to
maintain public and private ere
dit and law and order. The only
issues now before the people are
those of honest money and the
protection Of person and proper
ty. These are the great issues
to be determined in 1896, and
whatever party shall most dis
tinctly present them will com
mand the earnest support of this
journal, and Of hundreds of
thousands Of others regardless
of their political predictions.
The time has come when the peo-
pie must be honest with them
selves, and the first step in that
direction is to make the govern
ment command the confidence
not only of its own people. but
of the civilized world.
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COTTON MANUFACTURE
Rapid Growth of the Industry in China
And Japan.

WASHINGTON, May 15.-The
Department of State has received
an interesting report from z. S.
Consul General Thomas r. Jer-
nigan, Of North Carolina, station
ed at Shanghai, China, on our
trade relations with that Empire.
Noting falling off in the i'm
portations of domestic cottons
from the United States as we'll
Great Britain, Mr.. Jernigan ad-
vances the opinion that the
manufacture of cotton cloth by
China and Japan is responsible
for the decrease.
In 1868 the first spinning mill
was erected in Japan, with 5,456
spindles; in 1883 there were six
teen mills, with 43, 700 spindles,
and in 1898 there were forty six
mills, with some 600, 900 spindles.
The statistics regarding the in
dustry in China have not been
published, but a conservative
estimate is that the end of this
year will witness 100000 spindles
5000 looms, besides numerous
cotton gins ready to operate in
fifteen cotton mills.
In Japan the mill-owner pays
from s to zoe per day in silver
for mill hands, while in the
United States labor, he says, is
paid for in gold. During 1894
one dollar in gold has been equal
to two dollars of Japanese silver,
which makes clear, according to
his reasoning, that the mill-own-
er in the United States is paying
twice as much for labor as the
Japanese.
Mr.. Jernigan says that he does
not wish to intimate that the price
of labor in the United States
should be regulated by the price
Of labor in Oriental countries,
but unless some standard of in
ternational value for the pay
ment of labor is agreed upon the
products of the Oriental laborers
will become dangerous rival to
that of the Occidental laborers.
Silver, he says, is used by one-
half of the world and gold by the
other half. and while wages in
one-half are paid in a depre-
ciated currency and in the other
half IN an appreciated currency,
a rivalry between the respective
products Of the labor of each is
encouraged, with the advantage
in the outset to the products of
the laborers paid in deprecated
currency, especially when the
latter can supply his daily wants
with such currency, which he
willingly receives and remains
contented Herewith. Such ap-
parent advantage is no longer
Offset by the supeiority of the
machinery heretofore employed
in manufacturing which was con
fined to the other half of the
world now using gold. The
same machinery is now used in
China andJapan as in other coun-
tries.
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LIST OF LETTERS.
Remaining in Post Office at Colds
boro Wayne county, N. c.,
May II, 1895.

MEMS LIST.
B-Sid M Bodden, Willie Brown.
C-S T Cosson, Eddie Camden,
Jno Covington, ] T Cunny-
ingham; j p Cults, E Oar
den Cole.
D-L r Dixon.
E-L D Edwards.
F-Jas w Faison.
G-I W Goldsboro.
HI W Harden & Son.
"A r ddleton.
P-J B Parker, Walter Perkins,
S F Powell. 2.
S-Thomas Stanron.
TT G Taylor, Thomas Taylor.
Wv c Whitley. Thomas Wig
gins.
Y-R. H Yelverton.
LADIES' LIST.
B-Gennie Best, Liza Bethie.
D. airy Daniels, ary A Dan
iels. Sarah Darden, Sallie
Dortch.
F-Kate Fodon.
artha I. Knight.
-Effie ars.
R-Sarah Randolph.
s. inhie Smith. 9,
W-Carrie White, Hosea 3. vii.
liams, w. D. Williamson.
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Sleep our father in Jesus sleep,
For in his arms none wake to weep.
Thou hast crossed the river deep.
And angels their sweet virgils keep,
A FRIEND.
Mt. Olive, N. G. May II, '95.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-09-07
THE WRONG MAN.
A Charleston Clothing Drummer Tries
His Persuasion on the Governor.
GharIo.anr, Erarirr AIniI


Governor MacCorkle knows now
what it is to run the gauntlet of the
industrious and argus-eyed street
drummer for the clothing stores of
this city who employ them.
Yesterday afternoon the chief exec
utive was passing along Capitol
street, with his hands stuffed in his
breeehes pockets, evidently deeply
interested in some proposition of
State importance, for be was obliv-
yious Of sill surroundings. Suddenly
he was plucked at the elbow, and
looking up saw a smart looking fell
low. who at once aecosted him with
"Hello, friend, are you Just imp
Instinetiyely the governor respond
ed. Yes, just got in"
"Well, of course you are going to
buy some clothing" the puller then
began, land l represent the best
house in the city. If you come right
in with me we can fix you up cheaper
than any one else"
The governor began to realize that
he had been taken for country
and he said
do / look like needed clothing?"
The puller assured him that he
needed them badly and produced an
other choice selection of adjecdves
in favor of his house. Ehereupou the
chief executive inquired:
Gould YOU sell me a suit Of clothes
on credit2"
The fellow looked at him from
head to foot for a moment, shook his
head, and said:
mo, we couldn't credit you, but
we can sell you suit so cheap you
wouldn't ask for credit
just then Congressman Huling
came along and when the governor
suggested to the puller that there
was a fellow that looked about as
much in need of clothes as he did,
he took tumble to himself and slid
inside, and when the clerks found
out he had been trying to "pulF' the
governor they "rolled" him all over
the store.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-09-07
Point Marion,

PoTNT MARION, Sept. 2.-The office fol
the new glass factory is being built, anC
it seems evident now that the company
means to go ahead with the work al
once. Already many laborers have beer
in town seeking employment and engag
ing boarding. Let our town boom.
Robt Ross, of Dewing's tow boat
force, is i'll of typhoid fever.
Mrs. VIM. Stewart, returned recently
from visit to friends in the west.
Maple & Sons new eyaporating build
ing is completed and drying will be
commenced soon, Several thousand
bushels of apples have been engaged.
Probably 10000 bushels will be dried.
While chopping timber Warren Ca
noe, of Morris Y Roads, mashed his
foot to the bone, making a painful, but
not serious accident.
The Springhill school board is having
the interior of the school houses re
painted and otherwise beautifed
The question commonly asked now is
Well, what do you know of the glass
works ?"
Rumor has it that steel mill is look
ing for location here.
j. NJ. Burchinal, of E. d. Biever' car
penter force, is off duty with the hay fe-
yer.