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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-20
OUT FOR THE MAIN CHANCE.

Tennessee Cotton Men Against Recog-
nizing Cuba, Fearing Money Loss.
81
Memphis, Tenn, Dec 19.-The follow
ing petition, numerously signed by the
principal cotton growers of this section
was to-day forwarded to Senators Harris
and Bate, at Washington:
Memphis, Tenn, December 49,
To the Hon. /. G. Harris and w. B.
Bate, Senators from Tennessee.
Gentlemen:-At meeting of the un-
dersigned cotton growers and farmers
held this day in Memphis, it is resolved,
respectfully to ask you to use your influ-
ence against, in all honorable ways and to
vote against the passage OF the Cuban
resolutions, recently adopted by the COM
mittee on Foreign Relations, and soon to
come before the Senate.
We feel that war with Spain inevitably
means further large decline in cotton,
not only for this crop, but also for the
next one, and that there is no adequate
reason why such misfortune should be
brought upon us, more especially so be-
cause of the hard times we have endured
for so long, and will render further losses
hard to bear.
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A STORE ROBBED AT HALIFAX

Weldon, n. c., Dec 19.-(Special) The
store of G. III. Hall, at Halifax, was
broken open by two convicts, recently
discharged, last night and robbed OF
about $50 worth OF goods. Officers are
to-day in search of the thieves.
The Weldon amateurs played "A Box
of Monkeys" to a crowded house at En-
field Thursday night. After the per-
formance the hall was put in order and a
brilliant german followed.
The dance was led by Mr.. T. G. Har-
rison, with Miss Kate Taylor Prescott,
one Of the most beautiful women in the
State and well-known in Raleigh social
circles.
Twelve other couples followed the lead
ers in the intricate mazes and many new
and beautiful figures were introduced.
The Weldon corn mill will put in ma
chinery next year for the manufacture
of -four.
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MCKINLEY TIDE FLOWS IN.

Chicago, Dec. ia bill for a receiver
for the international Building, Loan and
Investment Association was filed in the
United States circuit court to-day In the
6ill, which was filed in the name of
Gustaye honz, Of Newark N. j., the
Association IS claimed to be hopelessIy in
solvent, and that it has been wrecked by
a majority Of the board Of directors who
are seeking to eyade their responsibility
by pfaelng in their stead q number of
reputable business men for the purpose of
reorganizing. 1t is charged that the as.
sets Of the Association do not exceed
$4,000, while the liabilities are $780,
900
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-20

alone OF the Berlin papers conney.sa .,nor,
the Cuban affairs as developed by the
dSenaae eommittee~re resolution. 1t prints
n lengthy review 0B the whole traable in
connection with which the paper says that
at dose not expect immediate rugsure but
Tears gradual 6Eating into war, under
the pressure of 3lblic opinion in Spain
and ahe United S5ates.
/. THINKS AMERICA PROVOKING.
i Manchester, England, Dec 19.r-"Am-
erica says the Manchester Guardian to-
day rs doing hesa best to inv dye herselft
again III tanglaof Europeea diplomatic
relations by op@AigGg one forsign question
afaeF another ia which EusaPe is, deeply
Interested
LONDON T9MES'S sDVICE.
London, DEG, 19.-The Times in an
| editorial says Spain is % no condition
| so fight the Unised States. Cuba has sue
/ eessfully resi- sted Tor two years all Of the
troops which Spain has pc ared in upon the
| island. The best sOlutionsOf the difficulty
| would be fori Spain to sdopt Senor Sa-
| gasta's schc@e looking 20 home rule for
| Cuba. Tha reform paaty of the island
would accept local self government in set
| tlement oa all demands, and would pro-
badly pay an annual taibute to Spain. If
| the Spanish statesmea were well advised
| they would grant Cu'a a constitution and
ammesty to the islaad insurgents.
CAIIFORNIA1sS FOR "WAH."
| Los Angeles, Ce8, Dec 10 The first
mass meeting on sae Pacific coast in the
| interest of Cuba llbre was hed tonight
in THIS city. Music Hall was packed with
| representative citizens, and; there was no
| misfaking the prevailing sentiment.
| Every reference to Cuba's struggle and
| 20 necessity for inter Sention by the
United States brought f7rth enthusiastic
| applause, aHd the statement that it was
1.-THE plain daty Of this government to stop
the ruthless butchery even if war had to
be declared to do it was received With
Edeafening cheers. Resolutions expressing
these sentiments were adopted.
| GARCIA GIVES. HOT RATTLE.
| Havana, Dec. 19.-Theoolulan of Gen.
Rcy, consisting Of 1000 infsRtry and 300
cavalry and two companies OF artillery,
sustained six hot combats white acting
as a convoy for provisions destined for
Bayamo. Near Peraeio they met the
bands of Insurgents. commanded by
Calixto Garcia. The Insurgents left 35
1
prisoner was captnred, with what are
believed to be important documents. OF
the troops, three officers and fifteen SOL
diers were and three officers and 100 sol.
diers wounded.
GEN. LEE AND FAMILY OFF.
New York. Dec. 19.-General Fitzhugh
Lee, United States Consul General to
| Havana, left for his post to-day, accom-
panied by his wife and daughter The
Consul General proceeded by rail to
Ocala, Florida, where a stay of two or
three days viii be made with friends.
From Ocala, they viii go by train to Tam
pa, sailing for Havana next Thursday or
| Friday. The Consul General to-day de-
clined to discuss the latest phase of the
| Cuban questionable action Of the Senate
| Foreign Relations committeeman would
only say that he hoped soon to forward a
favorable report to the Stae Department.
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IN CHICKERING HALL.
Women go Wild for Maceo, and Throw
Their Jewelry Into the Basket


Their Jewelry Into the Basket.
New York.. Dec. ia meeting in
memory of the late General Atomic Maceo
was held in Chickering Hall tonight,
under the auspices of the fifteen Cuban
societies Of New York, about 1900 per-
sons being present. The greatest ex-
citement prevailed. When the collection
boxes were passed women, who COM
posed nearly one-half of the audience,
tore off their rings and other articles of
jewelry and threw them in.
The stage was decorated with flags Of
the United States, Cuba and other Amer
lean Republics. The colors of the Philip
pine islands were also in evidence. x
portrait Of Gen. Maceo occupied a promi-
nent place in the center of the stage;
beneath it were four flaming machetes,
bound together with bit of blue ribbon.
Beside it was a wreath of laurel. On
either side were stands of arms. attached
to which were cards bearing the names
of "Peralejo," "Metiempo," "Caliseo"
and "Cacarajieara, famous battles won
by Maceo over Spanish troops. Many
stirring speeches were made
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THE TRUSTS IN MOTION.
Glass Advanced 10 Per Cent, With
Another Advance in 80 Days.

Coluabus, Ohio, Dec 19.-The result
of the meeting Of the rebate committee
of the Western and Pittsburg window
glass agencies resulted in n rebate scale
and slight advance on the present price
OF glass for 80 days only. Factories are
not to sell any more than their output
for 30 days, after which a much larger
advance is to go into effect. The present
advance, on less than car lots, is about
10 per cent over the ruling price of the
last fire of glass.
TRUST TO ADVANCE TIN-PLATE.
Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 19.--The tinrplate
manufacturers will hold a meeting. next
Tuesday, at which they will consider the
question Of advancing prices, ask Con-
gress to make changes in the wage-scsle
and confer with a committe of jobbers.
The manufacturers will also devote con
siderable time to considering the tariff
and will appoint a committee to, go to
Washington at the special session of Con-
gress, If one shall be called.
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FREE RABBITS, 1G TO /.

Lamar, Col, Dec 19.-Lamar's fifth
annual rabbit hunt has taken place. One
hundred hunters took part and 4,397
rabbits were killed. Among the hunters
were Vice-President Paul Morton and
other officials Of the Santa Fe road, who
came in special car. The annual hunt
was organized by Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell,
Of Denver, to whom the game is given
for distribution among the poor of, the
city.
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a 100000 FIRE.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Dec. ia very de-
structive fire started at s2:12 o'clock this
morning in Cardozo's furniture store in
the Ryan annex on Seventh street be-
tween Robert and Jackson, and despite
the efforts Of the fremen, spead rapidly.
The Ryan annex was almost totally de-
stroyed and also the Schuttle block. The
Ryan Hotel, which was in the block, was
not damaged. The total loss is $500, 900.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-20
TRUST TO ADVANCE TIN-PLATE.
TINKER1NG WITH THE TEXAS
A Great to-do at the Navy Tar;! Gettin
Things Ready.

\ WTVUI IO~UO 1T IUC 4NHFF 1 aIts NFVEtIHs
Things Ready.
New York Dec 19.-While there is no
great activity at the navy yard at
Brooklyn, work is being pushed forward
with haste. The cruiser New York which
left the dry dock yesterday. went down
to Tompkinsville, S. L. Men are kept
working over time on the Texas and the
repairs on the other ships at the yard are
nearing completion. This is in accord
ance with instructions received from
Washington that the North Atlantic
squadron must be ready to proceed to
Hampton Roads by the first OF the year.
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WINSTON'S NEW COURTHOUSE

Winston, N. g.. Dec. 19.-(SpeciaL)-
The gas lights in Forsyth's handsome
new $4,000 courthouse were turned on
for the first time tonight. During the
evening several hundred citizens vert
through the building and admired it's
beauty and grandeur.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-20
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

New York, Dec. 19.-The exports Of
specie from the port Of New York for the
week amounted to $26,6S5 in gold and
$953,200 in silver. The imports were
Gold, s29, 800; silver, $50, 200; dry goods,
81, 1,596S13; general merchandise, So
76S, ,155
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BOGUS DAN FROHMAN AGENT.

New York, Dec. 19.-A man calling
himself Dave Woods, is travelling through
the South representing himself as agent
OF Daniel Froham and borrowing money
on that pretense. He has found victims
in Baltimore and other Southern towns.
Mr. Fr0hman says he is an imposter.
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A s350,O00 FIRE.

Elizabeth, N. j., Dec 19.-Fire that
started late this afternoon in the furni-
ture establishment of McManus Broth
ers, on First street, caused $3.50, 900
damage. - tE.llt.aa
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-04
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Andrew recently gave reporter the fol-
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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-04
PRIVATE BANKING.

The shacI1Ies OF the Money Power Can
Never Be Broken Until We Establish
Governmental Banking System.
Now that the election is over, the
conspiracy of the money power be-
comes more and more apparent and is
announced with as much freedom as
ever victorious army announced
themselves as victors with intent to de-
spoil the Vanquished foe,
The determination to utterly destroy
the greenbaek currency and place the
total dependence of the country for a
circulating medium in the hands of ma
tional bankers, is too evident to admit
of further doubt
In response to the question; What
should congress do to improve the ma
tional monetary system?' there seems
to be a unanimity of opinion that
shows plainly that the whole plan is
prearranged and fully understood.
John J. Mitchell. president of the
Illinois Trust & Savings bank, said:
my opinion briefly is this: Congress
should retire all the green backs and
silver certificates and, to prevent a con-
traction of the currency, issue long
term two per cent gold bonds, allow
ing the banks to issue currency against
them at par. This would do away
with the reserve fund and take the
government out of the banking busi-
ness entirely"
E. S. Lacey, president OF the Bank
ers' national bank and ex-comptFoller
of the currency, says:
SIN my opinion congress should fund
the greenbacks and treasury notes into
long-term low-rats bonds, increase the
issue of circulating notes to national
banks to par of the market price of
bonds deposited to secure the same, re-
duee the tax on bank note issues to
one-fourth of one per cent, increase
the redemption fund maintained by
the banks to ten per cent, provide for
the daily redemption Of these notes at
the offices Of the United States treas
ury ia New York, Chicago and St
Louis, aud increase the customs duties
to az amount sufficient to meet the
disbursements Of the general govern
ment, leVying the same upon the pro-
teetive principle moderately applied.
The retirement of government
notes should be limited each month to
IN amount equal TO the volume Of new
bank notes issued, so that no eoutrae-
sion in the volume Of the circulating
medium would result"
There now you have complete out
! line Of the scheme, Let the banks IS
sue the money, guaranteed By the gov
ernmenhof course, TO the market price
OF the bonds. Let spectators make
tho igBres, run bonds to any rate d
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Familiar Science.

The observer of small things knows
The signs of the times about the
weather. When there is going to be a
heavy storm, the geese caeizle, the
chickens gather themselves together
and ruffie their feathers up, the swal-
lows and martins fly low, the robin is
silent. the mole digs harder than ever,
and the hedgehog fortifies his home in
a way which has given him some repu.
tation as a weather prophet, AS soon
as it begins to rain, watch the fowls if
you would know what the day is to be.
If the chickens drooD their feathers,
draw their wings in close and start out
on a parade or go about searching for
food, you can make up your mind that
the rain is to continue If they seek
shelter and persistently stay there, the
rain is to be of brief duration. If in
the morning there are dew-covered
spider-webs all over the grass, the day
is to be clear, for the spider knows
better than to start her net when it
would be beaten down at once by the
rain. Beasts, birds and insects have
a sense of coming events that many
weather prophets of reputation would
like to possess-N. Y. Ledger.
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aRANT ANp WAsaINaIo.s.

Two Yonaesfni serials watch arhs Csn-
tury Magazine'' has sscassd Cor 1897.
one Of the best friends that Gen.
Grant ever had was Horace Porter.
Notwithstanding was at Chattanooga
in the autumn Of 1868. and soon after
Gen. (then Captainl Porter became a
member ofGrant's staff and served with
him constantly until Lees surrender.
When Grant became president Horace
Porter was made his private secretary,
and until Gen. Grant breathed his last
at Mount McGregor the two men were
close friends. Nor did Gen. PoFter's
love for his chief cease with his death,
ohimisduc the success of the move
ment to raise the half million of dollars
which the Grant monument In River
side park viii cost. The Inauguration
of the tomb will take place next spring
on Grants birthday, and Gen. Porter
will be the orator of the occasion.
During these years Of intimacy with
Grant Gen. Porter kept a diary, and in
his moments of leisure he has arranged
lis unique stories of anecdotes and
memoranda into q series Of twelve ar
ticles, entitled campaigning with
Grant," and The Century Magazine
mas secured all rights in the series and
will print it during the coming year.
Since the famous Century War
Series" for which Gen. Grant himself
wrote four articles (the beginning of
his 'Memoirs'), no magazine has had
such a treat to lay before its readers.
Another great serial in The Cen
fury is a novel of the American ReVO-
luton, written by the welI-l1nown Phil
adelphia physician DR.. S. Wier Mitch
ell, whose literary reputation is as high
as his standing in his own profession.
The story is supposed to be the auto
biography of the hero, Hugh Wynne,
Free Quaker" who becomes an officer
on Gen. Washington's staff. Social life
in the capital, Philadelphia, is most in
terestingly depicted, and the characters
In the story include Washington,
Franklin and Lafayette. The readers Of
''Hugh Wynne, the Free Quaker" will
obtain clearer idea of the Revolution
airy War than can be had from any
other single source. It believed that
DR.. Mitchell has written "the great
American novel;" for which we have
been waiting SO many years.
These are only two of the features OF
The Century for the coming year-the
magazine that leads the world Of pc
Tiodical literature. Very few of our
readers viii be without it in 1897. 1t
costs $500 year, not too high price
for what The Century gives, but
many people are arranging to club
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you copy of November FREE, in which
the two great serials begin.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-04
ORGANIZED LABOR.

1t Was Not Their Vote That Elected Me-
Kinley, but the Vote of Foreign Rim Raff
and SCsbs in the Large Cities.
a good many populist papers are
making sarcastic remarks about the
labor vote in the large cities. If these
shafts are intended for organized la
Dor the Independent puts in here and
now a vehement protest The returns,
as far as the gold-bug news concerns
have permitted US to know what they
are, show that organized labor did its
full duty and polled a much larger per
cent of its vote against plutocracy
than did the farmers of the United
States, and they did it in spite of the
pressure brought upon them which
never has aud never can be brought
upon farmers.
All that workingman has is his
job. On it depends his life and that of
his wife and children. Think Of his
position when his gold-bug employer
tells him he must vote for Mckinley or
lose it.
Under present conditions he knows
that he may never get another When
man under such conditions voted for
Bryan he was hero, and if he failed
to do it this paper has 10 hard words
for him.
The awful pressure that was brought
to bear upon these men, the farmers
cannot realize. The force of it here in
Lincoln can be somewhat understood
by the number of yellow badges worn
all through the campaign by Bryan
men. There were over 1000 men in
Lancaster county who wore Mckinley
buttons, yellow ribbons, marched in
the republican parades and contributed
to gold-bug clubs, who, on election
day, thanks to the Australian ballot
law, were able to vote for Bryan and
still not lose their JOBS.
Again it was organized labor that
gave US the Australian ballot, without
which our liberties would be gone Il
was labor organizations that first pro,
posed it and fought it through the va
rioUs state legislatures.
Organized labor cannot be held re-
sponsible for the vote of the foreign
riff-raff Of the great cities That class
is the mortal enemy OF organized labor.
The republican party has gathered in
to its fold the ignorant, the vile. the
criminal, OF the great cities and votes
them like cattle, but organized labor
IS not responsible for that condition OF
affairs. Nebraska independent
The more enc studies the election
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Many a poor family hat seeks the west
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is preserved from that insidious foe Of tho
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combined influence OF a malaTjOus Rtmos-
phere and miasma tainted water, that pro
tectsd by it the pioneer, the miner or the
! tourist provided with it, may safely en-
counter the danger.
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