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The news & observer., 1897-03-12
THEY DIED A BORNlN'
Some of the More Important Bus thar
Died on the Calendar.

Some of the More Important BUS 'hal
Died on the Calendar.
No less than 400 bills died on the leg
islative calendar. Among the tnlV,
vnre These. To prevent hahtual
drpnkenness. 70 prohibit the existence
of trusts and combines. To establish
State reform school. To aid IN the en-
forcement of the Interstate commerce
law. To require compulsory attendance
Mt public schools. To establish a true
meridian in each county of the state -"
tax pistols at each sale. y JOINT resolo
ton of sympathy with Cuba. 10 PRINT
and distribute sketches Of North Carohna
regiments in the war To protect publt
water supplies. To reduce the tonnage
fax on commercial fertilizers from 20 to
20 cents per ton To provide for holding
farmers institutes. To protect song and
insect-eating birds. To prevent wives
against cruelty Of husbands. To estab-
lish the rule of master and servant be-
tween municipal corporations and their
employees. To forbid minors from enter
ING and loafing in bar-rooms. TO make
the wives of Confederate soldiers eligible
to pension ON the death Of the latter. 10
amend the constitution by Incorporating
the election law as the fifteenth amend
ment and define what constitutes pob-
tical party. To allow court stenograph-
ers. To fix time of payment of mill em-
ployes. To increase duties and powers
of the Railway Commission. To create
State Board of Equalization. To ere
ate a Code Commission. To incorporate
the State Veterinary Association. To
furnish arms and legs to all Confederate
soldiers. To allow mayors to perform
the marriarge ceremony. To allow de
putty clerks of court to probate deeds.
The news & observer., 1897-03-12
Business Items.
BOARDERS WANTED.
WANTED.

Peanut Brittle, fresh, at ROYsTER's
The news & observer., 1897-03-12

grandmother he told me that he thought
"a cot shot Ills sister also came to my
house while Tom was there. She ex
an;ned his head aud said he had been
shot but didn't inquire into the partl'
cnlars Of the affair was told mat ne
had been staying at his womans house,
AMMO Norton. and ! suspected he got
shot IN some kind of difficulty
Jones saws he had nothing to do win
+be robbery and that he can prove IA
aIibi.
The news & observer., 1897-03-12
BuRcH HAD TWO AccoMpL1cBs.
The Wounded Burglar Tells the Story OF
The Robbery.

Mayor Russ yesterday issued an order
directing Sheriff Jones to release Thomas
Burch, the negro burglar who was shGt
Saturday night before last while robbing
Turner's grocery store, from confinement
in the Jail and deliver his to G. B. Ray,
superintendent of the Wake county Work
House This order was made because
it was represented to the Mayor by DR..
Hines, Superintendent of Health for the
county, that change from the Jail was
necessary for the recovery of the prisoner
from the wound of which be is suffering.
When the doctor advises it, Burch will
be re-committed to Jail.
The wounded man is at times wild and
delirious, but for the most part he is
perfectly conscious, and often sits up
and talks and laughs with the men in
the cell with him. The doctor, however,
thinks he ought to be moved to gutter
and healthier place. where he can be
properly attended to.
Burch says he doesn't know how he
got away from Turner's store after he
was shot Indeed, he says he didn't
know he was shot. He never heard
the report of the pistol The last thing
he remembers was running out Of the
store.
He says he had two accomplices, and
he supposes they took him away The
first thing he knew was next morning
when he found himself lying on the
ground near the old rock quarry at the
Federal cemetery.
He then discovered that he had been
shot and was weak from loss Of blood.
He got up and came down Davie street,
across Fayetteville street at the Pullen
building and on to Dawson street to
annie Nortons house, where he had
been living. 1t was Sunday morning
early and few people were on the streets
He stopped and rested a great many
times.
Burch says he stayed at the Norton
woman's house until Sunday night, when
his brother took him to Dan Jones. He
was unconscious most OF the time.
The glass in the store door, he says
he broke with his fist and not with ar
axe. One OF his accomplices went ir
the store first and got lot of merchan
disc. Then Burch went in to hunt FOL
money. He was warned OF danger By
a low whistle from one Of the men out
side, and he ran out and was shot.
DdU JOISsf VINO ~ III Jan Chal ECU "a1A
being Burch's accomplice, said that h
had gone to bed Sunday night after th
Shoot ~ About $50 o'clock Ton
Burc1 as brought there b,
his ~7 Charles, who cam
to 'oor and called hi
tJo m said he went to tn
doc stol. He did not tur
them IL uuti he recognized them.
'"Tom ciaimed to be SICK" Dan cor
tinued, and Charles and I went and &c
a buggy. Charles asked me to tax
him to his grandmother's. didn'
kno~ "a.} was r'e~+ ut Turner'S stor
unti came hac nday evening.
was paid fer ~ ough Tom is m
nephew Tom aud I left Raleigh abol
o'clock and got 10 his grandmother
about II O'clock.
II asked Charles why ne dion, tai
Tom TO his mothers Hc said l,a mot
er was sick. Tom has been towing {
his rf -
The news & observer., 1897-03-12

ROYsTER's Chips are delicious.
The news & observer., 1897-03-12
SUPREME COURT.

Cases from the Sixth district disposed
of on yesterday:
Hussey VS. Hill, argued by Ward and
Allen for plaintiff; Boykin and Stevens
for defendant.
Wilmington VS.. Bronly, continued by
consent
Dawson VS.. Sutton and others, argued
by Rountree for plaintiff; Burton land
n. J. Rouse by brief for defendant.
The news & observer., 1897-03-12
THE WEATHER.

Forecast for Friday-The United
tgstates Weather Bureau Issues the follow
ing forecast f.. the next twenty-four
asurs:
For North Carolina: Partly cloudy
weather and local showers; southeriy
winds, slightly warmer.
For Raleigh and Vicinity: Increasing
scloudness, with rain probably by nigh;
becoming warmer
The news & observer., 1897-03-12

Pasition by registered druggist. Ad-
dress "W," care News and Observer.
The news & observer., 1897-03-12
CONSIDERING The COST is The
20 YEAR CONVERTIBLE
Term Policy Just Issued

0an be carried indefinitely on same plan OF
NAV be changed to any other form at any
lime without REORGANIZATION. Note the eX-
The news & observer., 1897-03-12

TO CURE A GOLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All Druggists refund the money II +
fails to cure. 25c.
The news & observer., 1897-03-12

Try RoYsTER's Cough Tablets.
The news & observer., 1897-03-12

Buttercups, made daily, at ROY
STEERS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
The Immiarntion RiII.

1t IS by no means certain that the Pres
ident will approve the immigration bill.
Congress spent a great deal of time upon
it, and endeavored TO make it acceptable,
but it is evident from the speeches
against il when the question of adopting
the conference report upon it was under
consideration, that it contains several OBJ
jectlonal features. One of these was
pointed. out by Senator Gray of Delaware.
This feature provides that no immigrant
shall be employed upon any public or
private work until he has declared his in
tention Of becoming a citizen. AS an i'm
migrant cannot make such a declaration
until the elapse of certain number of
months after his arrival, he may exhaust
his slender stock of money before he can
get employment and therefore become
pauper, although being willing and anx-
ious to work.
+ The celebrated author "Ouida," in
letter TO Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
points out an objection to the educational
qualification She says the very best
class of Italian immigrants comes from
the peasantry. They are honest and
thrifty. but they cannot read and write.
The Italian immigrants who can read and
write are furnished by the cities. AS a
general thing they are shiftless and
worthless. They have just enough educa-
ton to make them dangerous. Their
minds are filed with the vices which
form so large a part of the cheap journal
q74.. IL
separate the true from the false they are
quick to pick up the ideas of demagogues,
and also those of the anarchists, and
hence become an undesirable class.
There is force in what "Ouida" says,
and her remarks and the objection urged
by Senator Gray may have a great deal
of weight with the President. But If the
educational qualification is not a salts
factory one what qualification would be
sufficient to shut out immigrants that are
regarded as undesirable? 1t is clear that
this country is getting immigrants it
doesn't want-immigrants who serve to
swell the ranks of the disconnected.
Many OF them work for wages which are
just sufficient to keep body and soul to-
gether. Such immigrants keep native
Americans from earning fair wages and
causes discomfort among them. Truly the
immigration problem is a much more diff
hcult one to solve than those who talk so
glibly about it are aware Of 1t is pretty
well understood what kind of immigrants
il is desired shall be shut out, but 1t is
not an easy matter to frame a bill that
would shut out that kind and no other.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
Catching a Pirate.

Out over the waters hoated the queer old
tune that Old Tom played on the violin,
says Lippincotts. On the American ship
they could hear the strains. for one of the
sailors danced few steps and the man in
the hammock sat up to listen. He looked
intently at the Agerine gave some orders
10 the sailors and in Q few minutes the
ship sheered off a bit
He suspects us! Play faster; Play fast
err" exclaimed Abdallah, as he prodded
knife point.
Old Tom piled the bow with a vigor
worthy of his younger days. Abdallah al
tored the course of the Hafiz bit until
she was approaching the American as fast
as before. But the prize seemed to have
got over her alarm. The man lolled back
IN the hammock again. The other on the
stool still and stoidly smoked his pipe. The
lgnt-1ooted sailor began to dance again.
. When they were within hailing distance
the man on a stool pulled his pipe out of
MS mouth and called out:
What ship is that?"
DO not answer" exclaimed Abdallah
TO Old Tom. Let them think we are Ital-
ian or Spanish and do not understand
Old Tom shook his head The man hall
ed a second time and when Old Tom shook
M ms mead again. he put his pipe back to his
mouth and resumed smoking as calmly as
II it made no difference 10 him whether
he got a reply or not.
1.-The f9 prize Is ours! The prize Is ours%
lab bringeth him into our hands"
Sid Mohammed, crouching near, nodded
approval and scores of fierce black eyes
cleaned with joy. Abdallah gave a signal
to his helmsman. The course of the Hafiz
was altered and she bore down directly
upon the prize
Now, my childrenw shouted Abdallah,
sprlnglnS to his feet, scmitar in hand, as
the two ships almost touched. Forward,
by Allah, and the ship is ours!"
The pirates rose up in a swarm, but at
the same moment the man on the stool ut
tered a cry in his strange tongue and leap
ed back. The black muzzles of dozen
cannon were thrust suddenly through the
port hoes of his ship There was a ire
mendous rolling broadsde a sheet of flame
and the huge balls of iron crashed and tore
their way through the Hafiz and beat down
the men on her decks. There was an aw-
Iui moment of suspense; then the Hafiz
shlVered, reeled far over on her side, filled
with water and went down in a whirlpool
How on airth did we know us. old part
nerE asked Boatswain Ben Collins an
hour later of Old Tom of Nantucket who
leaned exhausted but happy, against coil
OF rope on the deck of the stanch soon
Eagle, where the sailors had put him when
they dragged him from the water.
Did you think I'd ever forget the old
ship?" said Old Tom. ''She was too far
away for me to know her the first time |
saw her. But when they fetched me IN
for the second look l knowed her in a.
second. / guessed what she was up TO-
50 just drawed them bloodhounds on to
their death, when they thought [ was
drawn you to yours"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
77'7777777~~W-~77777777-
personal.

Miss Kate Fay Ewing, who founded
the first children's home in the United
States, is in hospital in Toledo o., suf-
fering from an incurable disease.
The Leighton memorial in St. Paul's
cathedral is to be a monument on the wall
of the nave, designed by Mr.. w. b. Rich
mond, and it will cost about $1,000.
The bronze medallion of James Russell
Lowell, which was presented to the library
of Harvard University a year ago by the
Grolier Club, of New York city, has been
placed in the reading room of Gore hail.
-Abner c. Goodell, Sr., of Salem, Mass,
said TO have built the first cracker ma
and the first printing press to print both
sides of a sheet at once.
Mrs. Long, the wife of ex-Gov. Long of
Massachusetts,, says that Mrs. Mckinley
must be a good woman to let her husband
be President when she needs his care so
much herself, on account of her invalid
ity.
When Senator James K. Jones of Ar
kansas. completes the term for which
he has just been elected .he viii have
served his state in congress twenty-five
years continuously, which is longer
term than has been reached by any other
Arkansan.
Miss Mckinley, a favorite niece of the
next President, and Miss Bryan, a second
cousin of the defeated democratic candi-
date for the Presidency, have entered
Mount Holyoke for the class of 1900. They
are now boarding togther in the South
Hadley hotel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
BRIGHT BITS.

The acme of politeness was reached by
a mining superintendent who posted a
placard reading: 'Please do not tumble
down the shaft. "-Melbourne Weekly
Times.
-Useful-Do you think, professor. that
the theory that Mars is inhabited has any
practical value?
DO 1 think so?'' returned the profess
sor. IT know IT. Some periodicals pay $50
a page for articles on the subject
Washington Star.
-visitor-I am grieved to learn of your
mistress illness. Nothing serious-no
great cause for alarw, l trust?
The New French Maid-No, monsieur.
nozzing beeg, nozzing gA%se, Something
what Won call leetle, peuGe. What zey call
re leetle-small-small- poX.-Tit- Bits.
All Styles Suppied.-'I want poster
got out" said the commercial gentleman.
Certainly" said the artist. Il get them
up on three systems; The opium, the lob
ster-and-ice-cream supper and the Welsh
rabbit Which will you haveY'-Indian-
apolis Journal.
Gen. Horace Porter in the course of a
recent speech, said;
Boston is not a city; it is state of
mind"
This declaration was greeted with laugh
ter by unthinking New Workers, who fail
ed to see Gen. Porter's point He meant
that as much mind is found in Boston as
in an average state. We thank Gen. Por-
ter.-Boston Transcript.
What They Get
The honest old fellow who cleans out a
bank, with broom, for a dollar day
Gets only the courtesy shown to a dog, eX-
cept while he's drawing his pay.
The burglar who cleans out a bank at
night, with Jimmy and powder and
saw
Gets only a sentence, to pay for his pains
The trusted official who cleans out a bank
gets the cash and he's nothing to fear
But why should the croolxedest one of the
three be acclaimed as a "hnancier''?
Chicago Times Herald
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
The s5O.OOO,O 900 Bill.

The House of Representatives Is being
quite severely criticised for passing the
sundry civil appropriation bill, which car
ries $5O.644,74S without giving it the consid-
Grafton to which its Importance entities it.
Only forty minutes were allowed for de-
bate on the bill, and it is safe TO say that
not a score of members outside of the
committee on appropriations knew what
items the bill contained. The charge is
made that it is full of schemes of Job
berry and plumber, and there is some
ground for thinking the charge is true.
But why was not longer time given to
the discussion of the bill? Simply Be-
cause the fear was entertained by Speaker
Reed and other republican leaders that
if the consideration of il were permitted
to occupy two or three days, the amount
which it carries would be greatly in
creased Therefore, TO prevent other Jobs
from getting into it debate upon it was
limited to forty minutes. There were doz-
ems of men anxious for a chance to offer
amendments providing for appropriations
for the jobs they have on hand What a
commentary on our national legislature!
A bin carrying more than $5O,00O,0O0 mas
60 be driven through the House at break
neck speed to prevent a lot of other Jobs
from being put into it! The haste was
really in the interest of economy. What
a pity it is that the President hasn't the
right to veto items of an appropriation
bill! As the law now is. he must veto an
entire bill in order to reach any one of
the jobs tucked away in it.
We hear much about the revenues rot
being sufficient to meet the expenditures
of the government. How can they ever
be made to meet them when the peoples
representatives are so reckless in spend
ing the peoples money? If we continue
making appropriations upon the extrava-
giant scale which congress has adopted we
may expect deficiencies. however large the
revenues may be. The people have not
yet begun to grumble, but the probabili-
ties are they will be heard from in the
next congressional election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20

The Maritime Register protests vigor-
ously against the republican proposition
to impose tariff tax equivalent to 100 per
cent. upon Chinese and japanese mat
tings. The proposed rate is 10 cents
yard. which is as much as the mattings
are worth in China and Japan. Mating,
it is said constitutes 81 per cent of the
bulk Of cargoes from the countries named.
and the greater amount of It is brought
In American vessels. No mating Is made
In this country. The proposition to put so
high rate Of duty upon 1t is in the in
terest Of the carpet manufacturers. who
hope thereby to increase the sales of their
cheap carpets. Immense quantities of
mating are used in the south, because OF
its cleanliness, GOODNESS and low cost. Mat
ting is the poor mans carpet. To impose
a duty amounting TO 100 per cent. upon it
would bear heavily upon the consumer.
the merchant and the ship. in order that
the carpet manufacturer might be bene-
nted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
Professional Jealousy.

"A bright Washington girl was talking to
the young man who has the reputation as
the life of the party She found him in a
morose mood. but she attributed his tact
turn manner TO intellectually. and form
ed her conversation accordingly, says the
Washington Star.
I'm very fond of books, aren't your"
she said.
1T depends a great deal on what kind
they are" he answered.
"Of course. Peoples tastes differ. sup
pose you admire the polished wit of Addi-
son or Steel or Swift"
81 don't read them" was the answer
I'm surprised 10 hear you say that
"Of course, [ have looked into their
works. But / don't hang over them and
strain my eyes as some people do
Perhaps you like the pungency of DR..
Johnson"
Il particularly object to DIR. Johnson"
was the answer, in tone which was I'M
mistakabe in its emphasis.
But you enjoy the bon mots of Sydney
Smith,"
mot Bit
Does Douglas Jerroid appeal to your
NO"
"They we're all very clever"
That's exactly my objection. II may
sound small to admit 1t, but my grievance
is a personal one"
But they all lived long ago!"
"Of course. ] don't say it's their fault
But 1 can't help regarding them as men
who slipped in ahead of everybody else
and said all the bright things, so that 1t
is almost impossible for a man to be origi-
nal nowadays"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
The Mnrrncre I'm Crete.

The story that Christians in Crete are
massacreing the Moslems is such an ex-
traordinary one that it will have to * con-
frmed before it will be generally believed.
One statement is that in one town, the
town of Sita, in the eastern extremity of
the island. two thousand Moslems, men,
women and children, have been massacred.
Such a statement is calculated to create
the impression that these reports of mas
sacres were set afioat for political pur-
poses to influence the powers of Europe in
their settlement of the Cretan question.
IT, however, the reports are true the
Christians of Crete have made terrible
blunder. For many months the whole
Christian world has been wrought up to
the highest pitch of indignation by the re-
ports of massacres of Christians in Ar
menia by the Turks. If it should turn out
that the Christians under Turkish rule are
no more merciful than the Mosems in To-
calities where their numerical strength is
greater than that of the Moslems, there
will be much less sympathy extended to
Christians in Turkey.
The Christians of Crete have of course
had much to embitter them. For centu-
ries they have suffered indgnities and
wrongs of the most exasperating charac-
ter at the hands of the Moslems. While
they outnumber the Moslems more than
six to one in Crete, the latter have been,
and are, the rulers. They make ana adj
minister the laws, and they have ruled the
Christians with an iron hand. If they had
ruled Justly their hard rule would not
have been so difficult to endure, but they
have not ruled justly. 1t has pleased them
to be unjust and TO discriminate in every
possible away against the Christians. The
Christians and the Moslems being of the
same race. and speaking the same Ian
guage-both being Greeks-this condition
of affairs is all the more difficult to bear
Owing to the intense hatred that exists
between the Christians and the Moslems
the Cretan question is going to be a diff
cult one to settle. 1t would seem as if the
powers of Europe because of the fact that
the Christians so greatly outnumber the
Crete from Turkey, and either annex it to
Greece or give it an Independent govern
ment under their protection. To decide
that it shall remain a possession of Tur-
key would mean that the troublous state
of affairs in the island is to continue and
that Crete is to remain a disturbing force
in Europe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-20
The Growing Pension burden.

"A few days ago the House decided that
widow of an army officer should be $50
month. The Senate yesterday refused to
agree to that limit, and granted SIS a
month to the widow of a brigader gen
eral.
The Senate does not seem to realize how
great the pension burden is. 1t now
amounts to $3.50 for every male person
of voting age in the United States. This
statement was recently published by the
New York Sun, and there is no doubt
that it is approximately correct.
The ordinary expenses of the govern
ment amount to only about $9.3S for every
citizen of voting age. In view of the
extravaganza of congress in voting PEN
sions the time is likely to come when it
will take as much of the revenues to pay
government expenses.
Twenty-Five years ago public men had
no conception of what the pension charge
would become. In 1872 Gen. Garfield as
chairman of the House committee on APP
preparations, asked for a pension appro-
priation of $3O.OO0OOO and in doing so, he
said that I'VE may reasonably expect the
expenditures for pensions to steadily de-
cline hereafter unless our legislation
should be unwarrantably extravagant."
And hasn't 1t been unwarrantably ex-
travagant? What is the amount which
is now annually appropriated for pen
sions? In 1896 1t was S140,OO0,0OO. What It
will be in 1900 nobody can predict with
any degree of certainty. New pensioners
are put on the pension roll faster than
those already on that roll die. Pension
bills are pending which demagogic politi-
clans. anxious to control the soldier vote,
are trying to have passed. They may
succeed, and inside of four years we may
see the pension charge 90O00O,090 year.
The country is rich and has vast re-
sources, but there is limit to its ability
to stand taxation. Unless the reckless
extravaganza in the pension business Is
checked the country may have to face
bankruptcy.