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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21
Sale of Very Valuable Cattle and Other
ersonat prOpeTIV.

By virtue of the powers contained in
deed of assignment made to me by Mr..
J B Burwell, | will on the 3rd day OF
Decem Der, 1895. at IL o'clock NJ, sell
at the AuctioM House of Frank Strorach
on Wilmington street in the city of Raj
eigh. N. O., for cas b 81 head of superb
registered and graded cattle as fine as
any in the State, Jerseys, Gurr seys,
HolsteiDs and Ayrshire Cattle. Pedigrees
furnished upon day of sale. Also, two
fine horses and four fine mules.
/ will on the 4th day of December,
1895. at ~ O'Clock M., sell at public auc
ton for cash 1T the residence of said
B Burwell on the corner of Blount and
Peace streets in said city, all Of the
household and kitchen furniture, &C., OF
the said ]. b. Burwell. | will also on
the 5lh day Of December, 1895, at 10
o'clock NJ, sell at the farm of the said j.
B. Burwell large lot of farming imp e.
ments corn, fodder, shucks and other
property
b. F. MONTAGUE, Assignee.
Raleigh, N. c., Nov. 10, '95
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

According to the income tax reports
for England there are sixty-six per-
sons in that country who have annual
incomes of 100000; 1000 whose in
comes range between these figures and
$4,000; 5000 whose incomes range
between $4,000 and $4,000; 5000 who
have incomes between $4,000 and
$4,000, and $1,000 between $4,000 and
IS 900.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

The New York World is not far wide
of the mark when it says that "the ca
reer of Calvin S. Brice is romance
in corruption, a paradox in politics,
travesty on craftsmanship, a blot on
the record of the Democratic party"
The same is true of Platt and QUAY in
the Republican party, but they are
honored by their party while Brice is
rejected. This shows the difference
between the parties.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

The statement going the rounds of
the press that Judge Brown adjourn
ed Rockingham court purposely on ac-
count of the Reidsville races, we
state upon authority is erroneous. The
court adjourned at noon on Tuesday,
the day of theRockingham Fair races,
until Wednesday nine a. m, for lack
of business. The State docket had been
entirely concluded and the Civil Calen-
dar, according to the rule of that court
did not begin until Wednesday. The
adjournment was unavoidable and
wou., have been taken had there been
no races.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

ras News q OBSERVER TELEPHONES:
H.i 6or;Sil Rooms, ~
Business Office, i%
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

DIR. j. X. Moore writes in the Lenoir
Topic, that one of the arguments in
behalf of cremation is that at least one
million dollars a year in gold is put
in peoples teeth. This is all buried.
Cremation would save this clear loss
to the commercial world" Isn't this
an uncanny way to speak of the per-
manent gold reserve?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

The Democratic party was never
licked by one licking; never killed with
one killing; never died with one death,
and was never buried with one funeral.
1t has been known to kick the lid OIL
it's coffin and score.-Washlngton
Times.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

The New York restaurant keeper
who has undertaken to advertise his
establishment by compelling the wait
resses in his employ to wear boomers
while on duty ought to be arrayed in
skirts and ridden on a rail, says the
Boston Herald.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The New York Journal of Commerce
divides the Senate even on the silver
uuestion-45 for, as against.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

Mr.. joseph B. McCullagh, of the ST.
Louis GIobe-Democrat, who is promi-
nently mentioned for the Missouri
senatorshlp, is the same man who once
defined journalism as the art of know
ing where hi was going to break
loose next in order to have a reporter
on hand to furnish the details.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21

The Minneapolis Tribune voices
the contempt in which Southern Re
pubicans are held in the North when
It says: Governor Bradley, the first
Republican ever elected Governor of
Kentucky, is being jollied up with sug-
gestions of his name on the Republic
can national ticket. Col. Bradley may
possibly be a good man, but with mem
cries OF Andy johnson in mind the
Republicans will hardly care to put
a Southern Republican in the Presi-
lential chair, or in a position where he
may succeed TO the Presidency"
The threat of several labor organiza-
tons in New York to strike, just on
the eve of winter, is a bad sign. In
all history strike never did any good
to the man who did the striking.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-21
DO YOU
Want Money For Your Land ?

yNTE WANT to employ Special Deputies.
NM The most attractive plan OF insurance
in the world. The easiest worked, the best
pay. Address The American Benevolent
Legion, San francisco, al.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

tentious opera house they wear exactly
the same stolid air Of Indifference as at
home. They are as totally destitute of
that intelligent curiosity which is the
germ and motor of progress as SO many
Gosha Utes. Their first sight of the rail-
way trains does not rouse even a culver
in their faces. Men who work in the
great rolling mills tell me that when
one of these fellows delivers any back
woods product there he never manifests
the slightest interest in the ponderous
machinery or cares to look through, the
place. They haven't even ambition
enough to get drunk, and if, as rarely
happens, one gets too much whisky, he
does not shout or fight, but drops on the
first convenient spot and goes to sleep.
How did this class originate? There
is tradition in the south that they are
descendants of those tramps and low
grade criminals who were transported
from England in early colonial times,
but I apprehend that the stock must
have been recruited considerably by the
drift from other classes. They rarely
commit crime of any kind and are radi-
cally distinct from the "moonshine"
disti1lers and fighters of whom we have
read SO much. Clay eaters are still found
among them, and I have had a few
pointed out to me, but the tendency of
that class is to die out. The clay most
affected is peculiar waxy kind without
particle Of grit, and some physicians
maintain that the habit results from a
sort of low grade scrofula which affects
the stomach lining. This cheesy clay re-
lieves the irritation, and hence the crav-
ing for it. The negroes, among whom
the habit is very rare, say it is nothing
but shiftlessness. DAY doan' do moth
in, sab, an SO day wants to be pickin at
somefn, an day ain t got vittels to pick
at, an so day picks at de clay. Such is
the learned diagnosis of our hotel porter,
who adds that day mighty seldom mar
ries 'ceptin 'mong 'emselves, always
cousins an SIGH. - g a regular clay eatah,
durn low down clay eatah, " is the
country negro's term of extreme con-
tempt.
1t is a pleasure to turn from such peo-
pie to Birmingham and its very lively
people. In 1881 l visited the city, but I
cannot recognize a spot then saw. The
frame hotel patronized is gone, and
the site covered by a block of stone and
brick. The city then had 3, 100 iuhabit-
ants; the census of 1890 credited it
with $4,000 and the county with 49,
900, but soon after all the residence
suburbs were annexed and now the
scl.a52 ozz-E1s indicates 8 c;tt-- population
| of 81, 600. The city stretches from Red
| Mountain to North Birmingham and
from West End to East Lake, and still
/ there are Is suburban towns outside the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
OLD SOUTH AND NEW.
Sharp Contrasts Observed by
NOrtherner in Alabama.
THE POOR WHITE CUTS A SORRY

Figure AtOnGs1de the Alert ana Fr0-
gressfve Citizens who Are Making
Birmingham tho Manchester of
America.
There is paradox in the social make
up of northern Alabama which is at
once puzzling and amusing. There are
many paradoxes indeed, but this one is
remarkable. In the midst of wornout
old cotton fields, red hills and forests
has suddenly sprung up line of lively
modern cities, and in and around them
is a unique civilization Of a very high
order, as different from the old north as
from the old south. Yet all this new
ness, all this stir of industrial life and
pleasant refinement have not produced
the slightest effect upon the old resi-
dents of the hills, and from city with
60, 600 inhabitants, electric lights and
railways, magnificent hotels and pala-
tial residences, streets like Broadway
and churches and school buildings equal
to those Of Boston, one may pass in an
hours walk to q district unchanged
since 1860 except by natural decay,
where lean and lanky men, and leaner
yellow and shriveled women, sit in
'shacks' unfit for blooded cattle, in the
midst of dirt, dogs and towheaded chill
dren, chew natural leaf tobacco and spit
through the cracks. Instead Of being i'm
proved, old citizens declare that these
people have refrigerated because the few
among them who had any talent and
ambition have been drawn away to the
new cities.
Just in front of the hotel where am
writing is a type Of this class. He has a
little bull Of scrub stock, clad III har-
ness composed OF rope, leather and old
clothes, in shafts made of saplings at
tached to a cart that would be a show i'll
any northern city, and in that cart is
his family, all hstless, dull eyed and
seemingly half asleep. Up our way we
smile at the country pumpkin who gezes
in open mouthed wonder at the sights Of
the town and is curious about things
long familiar to US, but these people do
not stare OF wonder or inquire. On this
magnificent street and in front of pre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

This includes many negroes, doing the
lowest grade work at so cents a day,
and many others at 81. So the estimat-
ed daily average of miners proper is
81 40 per day, and a few Of the most
the district are paid to the head roller
in rolling mill-namely, SIS per day
out of which he has to pay two help
ers. Similarly the boss puddlers get
high wages and pay helpers, so the
range in the furnaces is all the way
from $l.75 to 81. Common labor is
rarely above 81 a day, and many hun
dreds Of negroes are working at so cents.
The negro quarters Of the city are by
odds the poorest have ever seen, north
or south. I really do not see how life
can be maintained on the south half of
Second avenue and adjacent streets, and
my guess iss that if the city authorities
do not bestir themselves before spring
they will have little pestilence to deal
with. A pathetic proof Of the narrow
lines on which these poor creatures live
appeared in the fact that several with
whom I talked told me, with voice of
gladness, that lately the price Of -four
had been put down to 55 cents sack
(25 pounds) and meal to 25 cents.
I need not give the enthusiastic talk
or the figures on cost of material by
which the boomers prove that iron can
be made here much cheaper than any
where else in the world, and that Biz
mingham is destined to be the Sheffield,
the Sligo, the Bradford and the Man
chester, all in one, of the new world.
Investors viii investigate, and for 9TH
ers such figures would be wearisome.
Whether this city is really to have 1885,
600 people in 1900 and $50, 900 in 1910,
as the most moderate assert, is more
than know, and one mans guess is as
good as another's. J. B. PARKE
Birmingham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

TEE people of Shawnee county outside
of Topeka should feel just as much in
terest in the new bridge as the residents
of the city do. Whatever tends to the
growth and upbuilding of the city, also
tends to give them an enlarged market,
and better prices for their products.
Twenty years ago the potatoes, vegeta-
bles and fruits which are now marketed
here could hardly have been disposed of
at any price. Old settlers can remem Der
very well, even since the coming of the
railroads, that potatoes grown in Shaw
nee county could not be given away be-
cause there was no room in the cellars
for them, and they were hauled home
and thrown out to the hogs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

IN his forthcoming message to con-
gress there is little doubt that the presi-
dent will ask that body to pass some
measure for the retirement of the green
backs If congress shall refuse to be-
come a party to the scheme, the admin
istration will probably proceed to carry
out its design in this direction regardless
of congress and the people. Both Mr..
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle have
shown by their previous course that they
have no regard for the law or constitu-
ton when either stands in the way of
their designs. If they can sail bonds.
unauthorized by law. why cannot they
retire the greenbacks in the face of the
law. The law declares that the obliga-
lions of the government are payable in
gold or silver. Mr.. Carlisle asserts that
they are not, but are payable in gold
alone, and acts upon this assertion and
by way of an attempt to justify such &C
ton the administration brings to bear
every power at its command TO depre-
ciate the value of silver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
KANSAS- PARAGRAPRS

It is sail that D. R Anthony is going
to buy a newspaper in some Kansas
town and have young Dan run it.
The Hutchinson News imparts the in
formation that the fifty employees of the
Fit. Scott nurseries are not called nurses
Just as the custom of dehorning cattle
has become established, Dodge City
comes in and raises horned jack rabbits
The Iowa football team will be able to
take back the news that big corn crop
is not the only thing Kansas can boast
of.
Emporia talk is either so heavy or
melting that the telephone company has
found it expsdient to rebuild the entire
plant.
The FIT Scott Monitor attempts to clog
the wheels of progress with a half col
umn editorial on the etymoIogy of a
Latin word.
Elihu Gum. prominent Baptist min
lister of Fit. Scott is dead. He was for
five years president of the state uni
versity of Iowa.
The Salina Journal and the Mcpherson
Republican are the only papers in the
state which allow their reporters to say
"mirabile dictu."
Independence is having a building
boom in small barns which makes the
town COW chew her cud with satisfaction
as she looks forward to a hard winter.
The substitution of fare boxes for con-
ducters on the Leavenworth street rail-
way will enable people to dispose of
their plugged nickels and beer checks.
The rolling stock of Leavenworth's
narrow gauge railroad to the extent of
1872 cars is being shipped away. Grad
ually Leavenworth is becoming modern.
The tramp who stole the bsdclothes
at an Emporia hotel was too severely
! punished. The theft of the quilts on a
hotel bed is really too trifing to take any
account Of
Independence Reporter: While John
J. Anderson was busy calling out going
going, gone" at Parkhurst's sale yester-
day afternoon q tramp walked of with
his overcoat, and tramp and coat are both
gone.
The Wichita Beacon thus promulgates
its foreign policy: The Beacon is for the
! United States SIS against any other coun-
| try and it is for Wichita and against
Topeka in this contest to determine who
shall govern Wichita.
Hattie Friederichs, a Kansas girl who
| gave promise of being a fine singer, has
lost her speech in Washington. There i;
| no danger. however, of this malady be
coming epidemic among certain kansans
| who have been sent to Washington by
the suffrages of the people
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

limits. So the custom IL to count all in
dustries as Birmingham which are in
the district-meaning in the limits of
the peculiar oval valley, which was
made by the splitting of an anticlinal
axis.
In this district are 25 iron furnaces,
five rolling mills, many foundries and
minor shops, two cotton gin manufac-
tories and great variety of minor es-
adjustments. 'And all this is but be-
ginning, " say all with whom talk, ''for
the great problem is solved. Carnegies
have shown that our low silicon ore is
readily convertible into steel by the
Basic process, and as fast as possible all
the furnaces will be changed so as to
produce the kind needed. Carnegies
have just bought $4,000 tons, and the
Illinois Steel company 10, 900 tons of it,
but only two furnaces at present can
turn out this low silicon ore. When all
do so and many more are built-well,
the most riotous imagination can scarce
~ picture the future of Birmingham.
There's 100000, 900, 900 tons Of red
hematite ore in that one mountain and
plenty more all around, and we can turn
it into iron at less cost than anywhere
else in the world And much more Of
the same sort.
But I wanted to know what the labor
ing men were getting out of all this, as
they told some very hard stories while
the great strike and labor war was on.
First be it noted that there are 2, 900
convict miners in this county, and the
gentleman in charge allowed me to
range the vast prison where those tenn
porarily idle are confined. OF the 400 or
so there at least three-fourths are col
ored, and so am told it is in the stock
AIDE. A good deal of liberty is allowed,
and in the courtyard white and black,
male and female, enjoy social equality
which would have delighted Theodore
Tilton. Incidentally may add that
interviewed Mrs. Howe, white wom-
an, whose case is interesting all Ala
bama, as she is awaiting final trial on
the charge of numbering her stepson.
She complacently called my attention to
the fact that she did not 'look like q
murderess, +" but I have not seen speci-
mems enough to be an expert.
There are 5000 free miners in the
county and about 2,000 more in the dis
trict, and the average of the pay roll
for the largest mine is $1.e5 per day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

IT has taken Il years to discover that
Albert Harding did not kill his wife and
he has been in the penitentiary all that
time. The restoration of his liberty is
hardly sufficient compensation for the
suffering in mind and body which he
must have undergone. The wrongs per-
petratsd in the name of law and justice
are great It seems that man who is
compelled to work for the state, when
guiltless Of crime, should at least be paid
wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

DURRANT and Holmes are both said to
have been unaffected by the verdicts of
guilty. Why should they be disturbed
TO any great extent. They still have left
the chances of new trials, appeals to
higher courts and the pardoning power.
In criminal matters "many are called but
few are chosen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
TEACHERS MEETING.
Kindergarten Work and Other Matters
Discussed by the Teachers.

Discussed by the Teachers.
The 300 teachers of the city and coun-
ty held their regular monthly get-togeth-
er meeting at the assembly room OF the
high school building Saturday afternoon
from 1870 to o'clock,
Tbera was almost full attendance.
The address of the day was delivered
BY President F. W. Colgrove of Ottawa
university.
A discussion of "Current Events" was
led by Principal c. E. Clinkscaie, and the
discussion of Kindergarten Work" was
led by Mrs. Mary Stone Gregory.
The subject of "Kindergarten Work in
the Primary Grades" was discussed BY
Mrs. V. B. Mccoy of Rossville.
Misses Ada B. Fulcher and Matte
Dugeau also discussed the kinderg arten
subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

WHY should Shawnee county sell the
old court house? Nobody would buy it
except at a price which would render it
q profitable investment. If it would pay
anybody else to own it why would it not
pay the people of Shawnee county?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

One of the most remarkable inks
known to the chemist is made of a prep
aration of prussian blue in combination
with nitric and hydrochloric acids. The
writing dorc with this i1k haS the sim
gular property of fading when exposed
to the light and recovering its color
when taken into the shade or placed in
perfect darkness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
Irnnes For the World.

There are in all over 5000 acres Of
prune orchards of bearing age in Ore
gon. There are also several Thousand
acres Of 1-year-old prune orchards not
included above, but which will add ma
terially to the total output of fruit. A
good crop this year will mean, therefore,
an output Of 5000, 600 to 10000, 900
pounds of cured prunes in Oregon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
Hnla a. CorrnanY Charter.

The lola Cooperative Gas company
has been chartered by the secretary of
state. The capital stock is placed
at $4,000 and the directors named in the
charter are H. L Henderson, w. II. Nc
Clure, R B. Stevenson, G. W. Apple, Il
Klaumann, James Taylor, j. w. Coutant,
Charles s. Ritter and L. w. Duncan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
Coi.yHolliday Finds a Prize.

Colonel C. Z. Holiday went into a
second hand book store on Kansas ave-
nue., day or two ago, and purchased
an old catalogue of Meadville, Penn
sylvania. college, in which his name ap-
peared in the list of students as sopho-
more Colonel Holiday paid 90 cents
for the old document
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
Hainnanri Pacific Case.

The state board of railroad commit
sioEers has dismissed the case of til,
Adams Lum Der company of Mound City
against the Missouri Pacific. The lum-
Der company complained that the rail
road com any did not furnish the right
kind of cars for their grain shipments
but the road has since made a satisfec-
tory exDl an alton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

SHAWNEE county has needed a new
court house and new bridge across the
Kansas river. for many years. We have
the court house, let US have the bridge,
aud nc other improvement of magnitude
will be NECESSARY for a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04
RtnTnrd,s RaIIread Caee.

The application of the mayor and
council of St John, Stafford county, to
the board of railroad commissioners to
have the Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe
roads forced to make track connections
at the town of Stafford has been dismiss
ed. This is the first case on record
where the officials of one town tried to
regulate the railroad privileges of an
othar town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

PERHAPS the large number OF pardons
issued to criminals in Kansas can be ac-
counted for on the theory that NEST Of
them serve a good long term of i'm
prisonment before conviction. Osbon
and Novels have been in Jail for months
charged with a crime which has not been
proven against them to the satisfaction of
a inrY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

In repeating the Sherman silver pur-
chasing law congress declared it to be
the policy of the government to main
tain the parity, between gold and silver.
and yet the administration has been en-
gagged ever since in a constant effort to
destroy that parity irretrisvabIy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-04

Mr. E Y. Church, of the John Church
Co., has returned to the city. Last month
there were f1fty-six new Everett pianos
sold and nineteen rented in this city.
This is by no means bad showing. The
Plectrophone has come to stay. There
are towns in the east where nothing but
Everett pianos can be sold, principally
on account of the immense prestige of
the Everett, and the John Church Co.
Music Trades. Oct. rs, 1895.