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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18
WHAT THEY THINK OF ZACH OTHER.

We have had frequent occasion TO re-
mark since the reform administration
came into power upon the fact tha'
Hepublican testimony alone would con-
Wet a ma, ority of the office holders OF
snfitness. - few days ago we published
Judge Sutton's order requiring the
sheriff of Mecklenburg to return list OF
ali delinquent taxpayers, preliminary
to their Indictment for not paying their
taxes.
Nav comes Judge Ewart, the cele-
Orated ..ermine trailer" who i'll his
charge to the grand jury of Mcdowell
county, stated that construction such
as Judge Sutton put upon the law was
~iIlogical. absurd and ridiculous" Upon
being informed by a correspondent OF
khe Charlotte Observer that Judge SUIT
eon had Just decided at Charlotte that
every delinauent taxpayer in Meek,
aenburg must be at once indicted under
this law, he dryly remarked that Judge
who would sentence man to be hanged
On Thanksgiving Day was liable TO de
eide almost anything and that Sutton''
decision didn't at all change his opin
ton of lawyer who would place suci
an absurd construction ON this law"
And so it goes. Judge Sutton VII
probably return Judge Ewart's compli
ment and the people will be able t(
aearn what kind of, men the hypocritica
a4non-partisan judiciary" policy hai
elected to the bench.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18
THE EDITORIAL rs aASE AS THE SPEECH

The Caucasian contains thirty one
sworn affdavits of citizens saying that
Senator Butler did not say what seven
honorable citizens swear he did say in
his Rocky Mount speech. We do not inn
pugn the truthfulness of the thirty one
men. We merely think they allowed
their craftsmanship to cause Them to put
an Interpretation on the words uttered
not warranted by their real meaningy
Those Populists who decide to accept
Senator buffers statement, SUPPORTED
by his thirty one friends of what he did
say at Rocky Mount, are invited to con-
slider an editorial article written by Sen
ator Butler and published in the Cauca-
sian ON September Both, which was pub
l;shed in these columns with appropriate
comment early in October. He wrote:
The awful crime of rape, the con-
demnation of which should be
prompted by sincere motives and
honest purposes is used in hypOcrit-
zeal manner ..... for base and par
tisan ends, and all the time they are
condemning the nature of the. crime
they are secretly longing for more
rapes that they may better. play
upon the prejudices of the people"
About the only difference in, this IN
famous article and the speech at Rocky
Mount is that in his. written article he
said that Democrats were secretly
longing for more rapes" while at Rocky
Mount he charged that they hired" ne
groes to commit them. The editorial
lacks little if any of being as base as
the spoken words.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18
NOTICE.
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND.

cALE OF' NALU ABLE LAND.
Bh virtue of a decree of the Superior
Court of Wake county in a cause entitled
Ida b, Coppedge, administrators of Daniel
Scarborough, deceased, against John O.
Scarborough and Others, heir-at-law
Special proceedings, / will sell for cash to
make assets, at the court house door in
Raleigh, Wake county, n. c., on Monday,
the Bird day of January 1898, at u o'clock
M, the following tracts of land:
First Tract Situate in Little River
township Wake county, n c., beginning
at pointers corner of Ryley Hill School
House (col.), on the Hillsboro and Tarboro
road in James FerrelPs line, running n
IL L. l29 poles to a rock R. Medlin'a
corner thence 5. 81 E, IS poles to a rock,
said Mediums corner in b. Jones's line,
thence s. % K. 5512 poles to stake and
pointers said Jones corner, thence S. 2 w.
98T poles to pointers, Col Church lot,
thence n. 6S w. ID poles to pointers of said
Church lot, thence S. 2 w. 10 poles to the
Hillsboro and Tarboro road, thence with
said road N. 68 w. So poles to the Begin
ming; containing 1871 acres. -
Second Tract:-In Little River township,
said county, beginning at place where an
old ash tree formerly stood on the run of
Ready Rock Branch r. Ferrells corner,
running S. 8 w. 30 poles to rock, Sadly
Edens corner, thence n. So w. IS poles to
stake and pointers, thence N. e. 90
poles to pointers on Ready Rock Branch,
thence down the meanderings of said
Branch to the beginning; containing 23X
acres.
IDA B. COPPEDGE, Com.
B. c. BECKWITH, Atty.
Nov. q, 1897.
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COMMISSIONERS SALE OF LANn

BY virtue OF 9 judgment rendered 90
the OStober term, 1897, of the Supsrioa
Oourt OF Wake County, in a cause en-
titled w. =. Blake against Penny Brens
nan, will sell at the court house dooa
in the city of Raleigh, at public auction.
for cash, to the highest bidder. at If
o'clock m, en- the 10Th December, 1897,
the following described lot or parcel Of
land In the County OF Wake, and bound
ed and described as follows: In the
eastern ward Of the city Of Raleigh.
joining lots Of Patsy Hobbs, O. a.
Blake and others, and bounded a. for
lowsi Beginning at Patty HobbS cor
ner, ON Bloodworth street, and FuA-
ming north with said street thirty-Ave
feet to q. O. Blake's and w. Il. Blake's
corner; thence east with said Blake'a
line 120 feet 10 Bryant Raynsr's liner
thence south with said Raymer's line
s5 feet 10 Patsy HobbG line; thenes
west with said line 12O feet 10 Rlso&
worth street. the beginning. 4
D. q. RYAN, GemmissioAsA
Nov. III. 1897. -
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NO MORE CLEVELAND SM.

We thank the Statesville Mascot for
emphasizing an illustrative fact as fol-
lows:
In reply to taunt about Grover
Cleveland, made by a Republican mem
Der of Congress in the House one day
last week, Representative Norton, an
Ohio Democrat, said: When God or the
country had the misfortune to give The
only Democratic President we have had
since the civil war, we found it too late.
He belonged to you and You owned him.
The daily papers say that the Demo-
crafts applauded the statement. We call
attention to this incident to show that
the Democratic parry has forever repu-
dated lnis man and his un-Democratic
doctrines. The man who led the party
for twelve long years and who led it al
most to ruin can dupe the party no long
err. The gold Democrat who nurses the
hope that the party will again adopt
Cleveland and Clevelandism is nursing
the vainest of vain hopes"
This is important. 1t shows that the
Democratic Congressman have utterly
and forever repudiated the man, who
after enjoying the honors of the party
by false pretenses, seeks to compass It's
destruction when it declines TO be led
by him into an annex of the Republican
party. Gold standard men who bowed
to the "arbitrament of the national con-
vention" showed that they could be
trusted, but those like Cleveland who
joined the enemy, read themselves out
Of The Democratic party. The applause
in the House illustrates that the Dem
ocracy win take no step backward.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

One of the fusion" managers of the
Dispensary at Louisburg had to be
sounced because it was claimed he was
800 good a patron of the Dispensary.
A Democrat was then elected in his
place. Whenever the people of the
South want good government in any
department, they learn sooner or later
that they must put Democrats in con-
troll. Coming events cast their shadows
before" What has been done in Louis
burg as to the Dispensary must be
done in every department and institu-
ton in the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

There were just twelve bankers pre-
sent, outside Of Georgans, who assum-
cd to write out financial policy for the
government this week And yet it was
heralded as notable gathering" Twelve
gold bugs always feel that they count
more than twelve thousand every day
citizens.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

'"rhe cotton mill outlook in New Eng.
land has grown more serious, and wage
reductions threaten to extend beyond
Fall River" so says The Springfield Re,
publican. But what of it? Isn't low.
err wage rate in sound money better
than high wages with 'cheap" money
That's the gold argument, but, alas
everybody is now beginning to see that
Mckinley prosperity is little tougher
than the Cleveland brand.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

Some gold organs. referring to Bryan's
reception in Mexico say that he is big
ger abroad than at home" Why should
men sensible about most things de-
hberately shut their eyes to facts?
Bryan cannot go anywhere in the Uni
ted States without being honored be-
yond any resident living or dead. The
attempt to minimize his popularity is
so apparent that it is an utter failure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18
NOTICE.

The annual meeting Of the stockhold
ers Of the Citizens National Bank Of
Raleigh, N. c., will be held in thei
banking room in Raleigh, ON Tuesday
January IL, 1893, at IL m.
HENRY 70. LITCHFORD, Cashier.
12-1S-td.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

Coxey says the IS to / issue is dead.
He found it out travelling about in
Hanna's private car helping to elect
Hanna to the Senate. The detection
Of such cranks as Coxey from the move
ment will strengthen it. Now let Carl
Browne and the rest of the cranks sell
out to Hanna, and the 16 to l move
ment will haye lest it's impedimenta.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

Hiram D. Mason, an ex-reyenue Of
acer, writes the Winston Republican
shat the people Of Chatham are "gen-
orally content" and the "silver craze IL
about dead" This makes the Republi-
can supremacy happy. The only trouble
about it is that it is not true.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

"You can guage all trade relations by
she price of iron and cotton" say many
business men. That's what the man
evidently thought who sold a bale of
cotton to Henrietta cotton mills few
days ago in the middle of which was
embedded Is or 90 pounds of iron.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

The denomination Of Hon. Thomas G.
Fuller as Judge of the Court of Pri-
vate Land Claims, is gratifying TO North
Carolinians. He was appointed upon its
organization by President Harrison, and
has made a reputation for the highest
quality of judicial work not excelled by
any member Of the court. Judge Fui-
Ter is one of the ablest men the State
has produced, and all North Carolinians
rejoice in the high position he has won.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

Whenever a man begins to denounce
the "white mans party" and say that
there is no necessity for white men to
get together to control the State-keep
your eye on that man. He has already
made up his mind to sine the Radicals"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

TO CUKE a COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All Druggists refund the money il
it fails to Cure. 15c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18
LOST.

A society badge marked IS. Mop. G."
The finder will be suitably rewarded by
returning to this office.
12-17 If
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

A boy died at Akron, Ohio, on Tues
day from injuries received in a game
of football. The game must be ended
or mended.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18

Ex-Rev. Babb, as steward of peni-
Tertiary farm, is better than chaplain.
The true position for Babb is on the
manure pile. He viii never be properly
placed until he and John r. are on the
same compost pile. There is one COM
pensation; lie Is better fitted, as steward,
to look after the body than, as pastor, to
look after the soul.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-18
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE ARRIVALS

MARLBOROUGH HOUSE ARRIVAL:
Z. G. Aston, s. G.
Jno. Bell, Snow Hill.
B. A. Newland, Atlanta.
r. d. Turner. N. Q.
Will Badham, N. @.
Ii. L. Carpenter. Rutherfordton.
w. Ii. Nicholson, n. O. a.
Jno. G. Ju0A1ns. Va.
w. B. WyGne, Baltimore.
Daniel Shafer, n. Y.
r. B. Hines, N. @.
II. S. Davis, Danville.
Jno. II. Devereux, Charleston.
G. NJ. jenkins, Norfolk.
G. +. Pendleton, Cumnock.
Maj. j. W. Wilson, Morganton.
G. 3. Hobson, Richmond.
Geo. Il. Leach, N. Y.
j. A. Utterback, Baltimore.
J. A. Thomas, Louisburg.
T.. A. Aston, N. @.
Ii. w. Miller, Southern Railway.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-31

margin failed to ratify the amended treaty. 'he!
pronounced funeral sermon over arDr'ra''oii.
Never again I'm our time. they declared wo"'"
any British Government for moment cohsiuer
proposals for negotiating another such treat!
with the base and perfidiOus American "oVerh-
ment The cause of International arbitration
was so far rs these two countries were con-
cerned. massacred. dead. defunct Yet wltmh
six months from the rejection OF that ill-starred
treaty the self-same British Government Is pre-
pairing to negotiate another with this self-saIne
American Government.
s, again. when Secretary Sherman's forceful
IL somewhat brusque epstle to Ambassador Hay
was published. these diplomatic "calamlty howl
ers' proclaimed Il hopeless rupture OF All nego-
tlations about Behring Sea. Whatever POSSIBLE
iy there had been. they said. Of Great Britains
condescendlng TO consider the question with this
country was utterly destroyed. They caught
rpon n phrase Of Mr. CurZOn's which they could
not understand or wantonly mlsconstrued. as
proof that the British Government had properly
resented the insult by refusing to hold con-
ference or to speak or hear another word upon
the subject. Yet scarcely was the ink dry upon
that jeremiad when there came from London an
announcement. to-day authoratively confirmed
by the British Foreign Office. that the British
Government will take part in an international
sealing conference. to be- held at Washington
the coming autumn.
Really everything the United States does is
not wrong. 1t would not be exactly fitting 10
substitute "Peccavimus' for IL Purihus
I'num" or m image of ST. Simeon Stylites for
the Goddess Of Liberty. American statesmen
have for the last hundred years and more con
trived to hold their own with some degree Of
courtesy and dignity among those of the rest of
the world. Some Of them have even made their
mark in diplomacy, and established principles
and policies which have become international
law. 1t is probably just as we'll not to begin
every international discussion by assuming that
this country is necessarily in the wrong, nor to
take for gElnted that every American states
man is n fool or boor Foreign nations do not
do so, not even those that are least friendly to
us. Surely we ought 10 have as good manners,
even toward ourselves. as they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-31
REACTIONS Not REACTTNG.

Events are playing the mischief with the
cries The experienced brokers. with few OK
ceptions. cherished the theory that stocks must
90 down as soon AS the Tariff bill had passed.
Prices had been hoised far enough, and had
discounted all the improvement that could be
expected for long time. and there was sure 10
be heavy selling by European investors and by
the people in this country who did not believe
prosperity would follow Protection and any
how long headed men always sold on any event
which led others to buy. The great reaction
was to come on Monday morning, the new tariff
having been passed and signed on Saturday
afternoon-too late for anybody to sell stocks
here or abroad, and there were good many
people who considered that the behavior Of the
market on Monday would be test Of its char
acter. whether it was in fact headed upward
in earnest, with any force behind it except that
of hand-to-mouth traders. The test came and
the ng-headed operators unloaded, and London
dumped a great many thousand shares on New
York. and about all the things expected came
10 pass-except the decline. The average Of the
sixty most active railway stocks at the close on
Saturday was So 90 per share, the highest for
nearly two years after rise Of So II per share
since MAY 1 and 81 20 per share last week. On
Monday me average lOr Inc >dlIIe SlOhS clo>tu
at SO OG on Tuesday at So o. on Wednesday
at So ~ on Thursday AT So 30, and on Fri
day at SO ". Sales Of over 100000 shares
every day at rising prices do not look exactly
like reaction.
1t will be said that the trust stocks did not
fare so well. Indeed they did not. and that
fact explodes another favorite theory. Some
people had been rejoicing in the rise in Sugar
stock after the conference committee had
reached conclusion. proof positive that the
conference schedule was more favorable To the
trust than any other. and would send the stock
up 10 300 or elsewhere Such Of them as had
any practical Knowledge Of the stock market
knew we'll enough that The only way 10 unload
big block of stock j. 10 rush II up until all
the lambs are scrambng after Il. but IL did
not ii; their theories to mention that fact. So
Sugar did climb 70 1861 on Monday. the day
before The report was made, and il has since
dropped 20 l3a, with symptoms. according to
some Observers. Of large selling by persons who
have been holders "A long time 1t is not amaz-
Ing that the advance Of threequarters of a
cent in the duty on raw sugar DELAYED long
enough 10 enable the company TO import enor-
nous quantities more than usual at this sea
son and so TO get profit on that operation Of
several millions should appear to render the
stock more valuable for time. But sales of
Sugar stock were 973245 shares in the four
weeks ending Saturday, and they were not
all independent Of actual holders
There was another pretty theory that Granger
and Coal stocks had been lifted arilcally in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-31

order 10 make things pleasant about TINS 'ime
II so. the men who had bought for any such
temporary purpose their part OF I3.2Oo shires
of ST. Paul in four weeks. the price advancing
nearly 81 per share. and 41S,4.D shares or bur-
lington and Quincy with an advance OF ~ per
share and 2GO,S SIG shares of Rock Island WIN
an advance Of over SO per share were extremely
fortunate in being able to settle Their iittle Al
fairs on Monday and Tuesday with declines oi
only about 81 per share. or later with only lrac-
tiOnal declines. SO the men who had Dohgh'
1892 shares Of Reading in four weeks. Inc
price advancing nearly -. were lucky to ma
il advance still further every day this week
Under the flood of foreign and other sales. THESE
theories somehow fail to connect themselves
with anything remotely resembling Facts. All
unpreiullccd onOoker would find IT easier 10
infer that the outsiders. who had been picking
M for four weeks enough stocks TO prevent the
reaction for which nearly all the strong parties
were working must have been reinforced on
Monday and Tuesday by large number OF
new buyers to whom present conditions seem
to promise an advance
II would be cruel to dwell upon the collapse
of the silver-wheat theory and yet 1t must he
mentioned in connection with the above facts.
All remember how cOcksure some people were
in March, 1894. when silver AT London fell to
2IOG pence. and wheat AT New-iork for the
first time went below ca cents In the same
month"; that wheat and silver were linked to-
gether by some eternal and inexorablc law.
They lntnlged in the same dream in January.
1890. when silver averaged only 2I3f pence.
and the next month wheat dropped 10 the low
est monthly average 1t has ever known-oIOI
cents. But wheat has never since approached
that figure in any month. and while silver Is
now lower than ever. wheat is selling % cents
higher in spite of heavy crop The eternal
law has bursted More accurately. the theory
never had any relation nor even the most dis
tant acquaintance with facts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-31
PERSONAL.
successful.

The Rev DR.. George d. Matthews, formerly OF
this city but for some years past secretary OF the
Pan-Prcsbyterian Alliance. is to leave London next
month to visit the Reformed Churches OF Kussia
which are embraced in four or five synods ON
leaving Russia ne will proceed TO Persia TO attend
the Synod OF the native Syrac Church which j.
TO meet in Roomiah.
'One of the Japanese attaches at Cramps ship
yard" says THE Philadelphia Record. Watching
the construction Of the japanese cruiser Kasag IS
Lieutenant Takakura, who Is close observer Oh
things American Last week he visited the Ma
tional Guard encampment at Neshaminy. IN COM
menting on what he saw there he remarked to
guardsman You have a pleasant camp re-
replied the guardsman barring the rain. On
don't mean that replied Takakura: I mean the
ice-cre,m Ii seems so nice for soldiers to nave
ice-cream The japanese soldiers don't get Ic''
cream. and in Corea and at We-iiai-Wei they "e''
glad to get bread think the American soldier
has very pleasant time getting ice-cream Inc
little lieutenant left in bssful ignorance OF me
fact that ice-cream IL not included IN the reg nial
Army rations and that during the CiH war IL Wa
NOT often dished up to the soldiers IN the Nnsi,'a
swamps and other Southern campaigning grounuS'
Ex-Congressman Henry ST. George Tucker. OF Viz
ginia has accepted the chair OF equity and CONNER
cIaI constitutional and international law In the
Washington and Lee University
IIu King Eng young Chinese woman VINO stud
led medicine in this country, taking the degree OF
NJ d. is now in charge of the Siang-Hu Hospital
at Foo-Chow, and story Is told or "A coone WHO
wheeled his blind old mother a thousand miies OH
a barrow to take her to the woman doctor
double operatio for cataract was the result ana
the old woman can see as well as ever III 'u
King Eng is 10 be one Of the delegates to the WON Won
ans Congress 10 be held In London next year
Her grandfather. a mandarin OF great wealth., Wa
converted to Christianity some years ago. ana she
herself is "A Christian.
Mr. Iecky." says THE London SUM- rs rapidly
developing into the normal and busness-like NJ r.
and dropping his preoccupied look and uitra-intei-
iectual air. The caricaturists now rarely utiiize
him subect-a sure sig' that ceI'orlty IL
shedding his little pecu"1 He has IN tact.
thoroughly adapted him MS new NestmiiiS,rr
environment, and not m, OF the on stasers ca"
afford 10 give him points
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-31

purpose to avoid any action which might tend
to weaken and dsorganize the forces which are
expected TO combine against Tammany Hall,
and whose united efforts will he required to
accomplish an Indispensable object From the
first Mr.. Quigg has been averse to forcing the
pace. Yet obviously the adoption of the resolu-
tons of which he approved would have been
likely 10 provoke antagonisms without doing
enough good to outweigh that evil. For one OF
them was clearly of character. whether so de-
signed or not. TO offend many thousands or Re
publican and other voters who are at present
in sympathy with the Citizens Union movement
In this instance the Campaign Committee of
the Republican Club was wiser than the presi-
dent Of the Republican County Committee. as
we trust that by this time Mr.. Qugg himself
Is aware