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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30
THE SURPRISE OF ALL.

Mr.. James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones 81 Son, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
La Grippe. and her case grew so serious
that physicians at Cowden and Pena
could do nothing for her. 1t seemed to
develop into Hasty Consumption. Hav-
ing DIR. Kings New Discovery in store,
and selling lots of it, he took a bottle
home, and to the surprise of all she be-
gan to get better from first dose, and
half dozen dollar bottles cured her sound
and WELL DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guar
anteed to do this good work. Try it. Free
trial bottles at any drug store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

Far.-She felt his breath upon her
CHEEK.
Sir" she protested, "you are going
too farr'
That was what his breath would in
dicate: but according to the cyclometer
their tandem had covered but a paltry
4Sl miles since they started.-Detroit
journal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30
CUYAHOGA DELEGATION
4 SIGNIFICANT MEETING HELD
SATURDAY EVENING.
II REFUSED TO ENDORSE MARK HANNA
A Resolution 10 that Effect Was Declared Out
of 0rder--Expenses of the Democratic
Campaign in Ohio Shown to
Have Been S2i, 700.
Especial to Washington Post.)

Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 2S.-Anti-Hanna
Republicans here give it out as a posi-
tive fact that Senator-elect Burke and
Representatives Mason and Bramley will
not yote for Senator Hanna for United
States Senator: also that Jones, of Stark
county, and Redke, of Hillsborough, will
not vote for Hanna. There will be sew
enty-five stra; ght-out Republicans in the
next General Assembly and five fusion
Republicans. The disaffection of Bran
ley. Burke. Mason, Jones, and Redke
will bring the straight Republican vote
down to seventy. not enough to elect.
Going on the hypothesis that the only
straight-out Republicans who will not
vote for Hanna are the five named. the
election of United States Senator will
depend entirely on the attitude of the
FIVE fusion Republicans, who are in the
Hamilton county delegation. They were
elected on an anti-Hanna ticket. Senator
Hanna claims to have pledges from all
FIVE. \ week ago ex~Speaker BoXwell
said that he was sure that one of the
fusioniSts, silver Republican, would not
vote for Hanna. The latest claims made
by Cincinnati Republicans is that two
out of the FIVE have agreed TO vote for
Hanna. and one has agreed 10 support
the nominee OF the Republican caucus.
One of the most significant things po-
litical that has occurred i'll Cleveland
recently was the attitude against Hanna
assumed at the meeting of the members
of the Cuyahoga county delegation to
the House of Representatives, held in
room 80, Forest City House, Saturday
evening. when resolution Endorsing
Hanna for the long and short term in
the United States Senate was read, but
not adopted, Chairman Bramley declar-
ing it out Of order.
After the meeting it was said that the
calumnies with which this decision was
received ind Gated that there We're more
than three Mckisson men in the delega-
ton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

The upright plane of our next door
neighbor is always a downright nuts
ance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

One Minute CougMCure cures quickly
Thst's what you waN! Carolina DRUG
Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

Mrs. M. II. Ford, Ruddells, Ill.,, suf-
fered for eight years from dyspepsia and
chronic constipation and was finally
cured by using DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for all
stomach and liver troubles. Carolina
Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30
NEGRO ARRESTS 4 WHITE MAN.
A Sight The People of New Light Never
Expected to Live to See.
New Light, Nov. %, 1885,

New Light, Nov. %. 1897.
To the Editor: | saw something to-
day | have never seen before. A negro
had a white man under arrest at
Wooilief's store, near the Granville
county line. The negro is Wake county
negro and the white man was Gran
vile man. 1t seems the negro informed
or swore out the warrant before James
NJ. Davis, justice OF the peace of
Granville county, and he deputized the
negro TO execute the warrant. The
warrant was issued against the white
man for stabbing negro, the nephew
OF the negro who had the white man I'M
der arrest. 1t was a sight for New Light
to see. / heard the Oldest inhabitants
say they never saw the sight before.
The negro borrowed a gun from a man
Mt Woodlief's store to guard the white
man with.
Yours for Granville Fusion.
w. III. CHAPPELL.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

Prosperity comes quickly to the man
whose liver is in good condition. De-
Wits Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for constitution, billiousness,
indigestion and all stomach and liver
troubles. Carolina Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

1t Is easy to catch cold and just as
easy to get rid of it If you commence to
use One Minute Cough Cure. 1t cures
coughs, colds. bronchitis, pneumonia and
all throat and lung troubles. 1t is pleas
ant 10 take, safe to use and sure to cure.
Carolina Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30
STRICKEN IN CHURCH.
An Excellent Woman Died Few Min
utes After Being Carried From Church

Rocky Mount, N. O., Nov. 29.-(Spe.
cial.)-Mrs. Alice Bone, OF Rocky Mount,
was suddenly stricken with something
like paralysis at the Methodist church
last night She was removed to the resi-
dence OF Mr.. A. w. Arlington, where
she died in a few hours. The church
services were broken up by the incident
She was an excellent lady.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

The police force in all parts OF the
country hear uniform testimony to the
great value OF DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
as n remedy for cough, colds and incipient
consumption. They all emphasize the
fact that no one should be without It.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

Advertising is very much like riding a
bicycle. Ii You don't keep moving the
wheel YOU will fall off, and If you don't
persist in advertising your trade will
fall off.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

An old negro, being informed that n
member OF his race had forged note in
the bank, exclaimed
Oats what comes or eddication. got
ten chillun. but thank de Lawd, not one
or dem kin read or writer
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

There are surface indications that the
administration is about to give national
honor another jolt by removing fresh
batch of Cleveland fice-holders.--
Washington Post.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

Miss Alice Hughes. of Norfolk, Va,
was frightfully burned on the face and
neck Pain was instantly relieved by
DeVitt's Witch Hazel Salve, which
healed the injury without leaving a
scar. 1t is the famous pile remedy.
Carolina DrG: Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-30

Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, o., says,
after two doctors gave up my boy to
die, | saved him from Group by using
One Minute Cough Cure" 1t is the
quickest and most certain remedy for
coughs and colds and all throat and
lung troubles. Carolina Drug Store.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27
An IEEOR OF HISTORY.

In an editorial published in yesterdays
State headed "The Powers and the
Turk" the following paragraph appeared:
1.-THE last German war was for the pur-
pose Of Wrestling from France territory
that had belonged 10 that nation. and
there was nothing Ike the justification
for the appeal to arms that Greece now
has"
The writer Of this paragraph has wan
dered away from the facts Of history.
Leaving out the question as TO which
country was the aggressor these are the
fact about Alsuce- Lorraine:
The German leaders fully appreciated
at the outbreak Of the war the rather de-
fenceless condition Of a portion Of the
westerly border of Germany, which was
formed in part by the river Rhine and
when United Germany was finally In a
position to dictate the conditions of peace
il was only natural 10 select more
advantageous border. and 10 was there
fore. insisted that the Vosese Mountains
should thereafter form the boundary
line.
In that manner Aisace and Lorraine.
the two territories taken away from
Germany by Louis XIV, were once more
placed under the jurisdiction to which
they formerly belonged but at the be-
ginning Of the war no one in Germany
had the faintest idea that that would be
,bo final outcouo
When Frederick the Great, after fight
ing almost all Europe FOR seven years
dictated the conditions on peace at HUI
bertusburg I'm 1853. which had to be ac-
cepted by Ais defeated enemies. among
whom was France. he might have easily
insisted upon the surrender Of Alsace-
Lorraine. but the very fact that he failed
TO do 80 shows plainly that Prussia even
then had no desire of charging its terri
tory.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27
r>cl,rp. Observation-Disclosures.

TO our mind. one Of the strangest things
is the luminosity of the great body Of
Americans toward England. 1t comes.
no doubt from our school histories. Almost
if not quite all OF them follow in the track
that was blazed out after the war of the
Revolution. England had treated us bad
Nv and. VILE our resentment was hot
we began writing our histories OF the
war. Subsequent writers have follow
ed the earlier ones and so the young
American is taught at school TO hate Eng
land. And of these one out of thirty
of forty studies the subject for
himself in later life and instead
of having his school animosities
perpetuated, he has them all turned into
veneration and affection for England.
England and the United States are natu-
raj allies and The Times hopes to see
the union between them made every day
closer and closer.
The most usual charge one hears
against England is that she is q land
grabber. But are not her acquisitions
always Of territory nhabitated by saw
ages rhat she proceeds TO humanize and
Chrstianize?
No doubt she will now add the Benin
region in Africa to her dominions, but
what a blessing for Benin that will be.
10 whoever doubts it, we commend the
account OF Benin taken from the Boston
Herald, which We print in another col
umn.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27

of that tribunal will be watched win
great interest.
Several days ago The Times men'oneu
the fact that a farmers alliance III ne"
York State. had effected a cohpihd''o"
by which the members might buy the''
supplies at reduced prices. They caieu
1t cooperative buying, and. we remarked
that while cooperative buying was an
right, because farmers did IT. co-opeia-
tive selling was denounced as being al
wrong. because capitalists did II. ms
statement aroused our esteemed friend
the Norfolk Pilot. 10 a high pitch OF IN
dignation. and the Pilot declared that a
man who could not see the difference be-
tween cooperative buying and co-opera-
tive selling was almost lacking in moral
perception. without stopping TO argue
that particular phase OF the subject we
would know Of the Pilot what 1T thinks
of the Texas law. which gives to the
farmer not only the privilege of co-opera-
tive buying but also the privilege of CO.
operative selling. TO the exclusion OF other
classes Of citizens?
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27

Benin. the Ancient seat of a Great Fetch
Dynasty.

Dynasty.
The causes which led Great Britain 20
send an expedition 10 chastise King DrD-
nami and capture Benin were as follows:
The ger protectorate sent nine Are-
llshmen and 80 native carriers. all un-
| armed, to visit King Druuami and warn
HIM not to interrupt trade.
only two Enelishmen and twenty ma
tives escaped the frightful massacre that
the King ordered.
Had two men visited him they might
have succeeded. but hearing that large
force was coming he mistoOk the nature
of the visit.
The affair occasioned am interest Car
beyond previous African wars. The whole
world suddenly learned of the existence
of am almost fabulous city. and OF ID po-
tcntate VINO makes massacre and murder
his daily pastme and loves 10 drencl bis
capital in blood.
The Benin court is inside the bend u
the elbow i'm Upper Guinea. north of the
French Congo country The west coast is
little known. II is Hat country COW
cred with dense forests. streaked by many
creeks. The natives call the capital Zen
i'm Thin. and sometimes AddO. Ih" m0s-
important tribes under the King are fhe
Je<ris and Sobbos The Jekris are very
warlike and got thrashed in 1871 under
Mana.
Ever since the British have been trying
To- control the most turbulent chiefs ard
develop the trade of the interior Thus
was rendered impossible by the hlng OF
the bloody city, whose fetch customs and
rule of terror prevent commerce IN the
most important products
The people are governed solely by fear
and the most barbarous customs prev al
The subjects are brutalized 10y lhcessant
human sacrifices. torture and canulpii-
ism The district is immensely rich ana
abounds in rubber. gum. copal, gum ARA
bic turmeric. incense gum. hDres' ma
hogany and many hard woods. Many OF
these things are under the ban OF letl'n'
and OF ivory the King claims one-hait-
which he exchanges Tor slaves anu re-
fuses TO sell TO Europeans.
lanes Pinnock, OF Liverpool recently
went TO Benin with Captain GallWey,
british representative, The King kept
Them outside the walls two days consult
inc the fetch At last the visit was per-
mitted. and the two men took their re-
volvers and saw the King, who was sur
rounded by crowds.
The King wore n garment or BEADS
which covered all his body except MS
Toes. finge.s. nose and mouth, ana was
81 heavy that he could not move. IA the
servant knocked the Insects of and
scratched the sore spots.
4 treaty was signed between the King
ana Queen Victoria, and tho white men
we're then invited TO witness a human
sacrifice. They declined. and were then
allowed to walk through the town. They
sav al various points human bodies, one
body being on cruc'hS. the arms and
les stretched out. Another body. that
of a man. was tied TO tree. He had
heon starved 10 death on account OF there
ho,,ipe been too much rain. A third body
WIS also that of a man who had been
evecuted because the weather was too
hot
In various parts Of the city lay corpses.
headless or armlcss or shockingly mutt
lated. Since that visit the King has sew
eral times sent insolent messages to the
coast. saying he WAS as big as the white
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY q. 1897.
THE TELEPHONE DECISION.

However sound as a legal proposition II
may be. the decision of Judge Goff, sus-
tanning the right Of the Southern Bell
Telephone Company to occupy the streets
of Richmond with SITS poles and wires.
after the repeal-in accordance with its
own terms-of the ordinance which grant
cd the rights, has, nevertheless. occa-
stoned much regret among the great body
of our citizens.
The Bell Telephone Company was well
coined here some eighteen years ago. and
it was freely given a franchise. which the
city authorities thought sufficiently guard
ed by a conditional repeal. For years the
telephone business langu,shed, and the
operation Of the local franchise was. we
believe, not profitable. During this time
no compensation for the use of the streets
and the privilege Of serving a thlckly
populated city was demanded, except a
small license tax. Later the business be-
came very profitable. and the city asked
the use OF a limited number Of tele-
phones-twenty-five or thirty-fOr its Off
Gals free OF charge. in part return for the
franchise. This the telephone company
refused. Thereupon the City Council, in
strict accordance with the terms of the
original ordinance. repealed the fran
chise OF the Bell Company and granted a
franchise to another concern, now the
Richmond Telephone Company. This
company agreed to the requirements of
the city. and put down the charges for
telephones from $50 and SIS to S36 and $25
per annum, according TO the uses Of tele-
phones at offices or at residences.
The Bell Telephone Company has re-
Gently met this cut by still further re-
duction. and will now furnish its in
struments for very low rate, indeed. for
little or nothing. This OF course, is to
destroy the Richmond company.
What the result will be If the Bell Com
pany succeeds in this may with certainty
be foretold. The company which kept its
rates al the top notch. which refused 10
grant the city the free use Of twenty-five
or thirty telephones for its officials. which
has defied the CITY Council and disre-
garded public opinion, is not very apt to
be more considerable and less grasping
when II finds the courts are behind IT. and
its only opponent dead at its feet.
The situation is not a pleasant one.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27
THE NEW HAMF>HiIiL LABOR BL

The effort which was made here AT re-
cent Legislature to establish a labor bu-
reau IN Virginia does not receive much en-
couragement from the experience Of New
Hampshire.
In 1893 "a labor bureau was created in
that State in response to a demand from
the labOrinC classes In due course of
time the commissioner took charge, but
had much trouble in ascertaining what
were his duties Nobody could tell him
but he finally decided that what he was
expected to 40 was TO gather statistics
relative to labor. First he sent inquiries
10 1900 business firms inclosing prepaid
envelopes for reply. These requests were
followed by two urgent circulars and in
some cases by personal requests. At
last sgl replies. all told were received.
OF course. they were worth nothing. The
next year he received only 200 replies
from the same source.
Then he decided To try the working peo-
pie themselves. and so he sent out in
quiry blanks to 4OO0 wage earnes asking
for information relative to hours OF labor.
rates Of wages. ETC. Only 4Ol responses
came. The next year he received about
TOO responses from 5000 people employed
by manufacturers in that State.
The simple fact is that nobody took
any interest in the bureau after it was
established. and it proved to be such a
complete failure that 1t has recently been
abolished.
The only working man who Will ever
get any benefit out of it is the man who
is employed by the bureau and receives
his pay from the government.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27

communication 20 General Lee that would
Justify him In supposing that his de-
mands upon wcyler would be enforceo'
press dispatch has been sent out
from Washington. which Is plainly III
spired by the State Department "n'o"
seeks 10 make the impression that ten
oral lee has been n little hot-headed anu
inconsiderate in his action ana IL u eve"
minated that he is possibly laying pipe
for future politics.
II is due. therefore. TO General Lee mat
this case shall be carefully CONSIDERED
bv the public that he may receive falr
treatment II his course has been justin
able.
II IS very true that Weyler's indigni-
Ties 10 Lee are TO him in his official ca
pocity and are. therefore, indignites 10
the United States. rather than TO him.
Some men will argue. therefore, that 1t
was Lees business TO pay no attention
TO them. and leave the Government OF
tho United States to resent them or not
as IL felt disposed General Lee would un-
doubtedly, have been entirely JUSTIFIED IN
taking this view OF the case If he had
felt so inclined. but he was under no
obligation TO do 1t. No man Is under
an obligation TO remain In an ofhcial
position which subjects him 10 insult and
humiliation, even though he might screen
himself from not making the protest re-
CURED by self respect by citing the re-
sponsibility of his principal. IL his prin-
cipaI will not take the measures that de-
cency and self-respect demand he IS at
liberty TO say at any moment that he
will no longer remain IN the service or
such q principal. While, therefore, Cen
eral Lee might have borne his treat
mont in silence. he was under no OBJ
legation 10 do II. and he had the same
right that every other American citizen
had to express his condemnation OF the
course the administration was persuing,
and he had the right to say that he
would no longer represent that admin
istration unless It took such measures as
a self-respecting government ought TO
take Ondef Suth circumstances 'i'il'i ~
Lee has the backing OF ninety-nine
Americans out Of every hundred. as the
case now stands before them. and facts
entirely at variance with those now ac-
cepted will have to be produced 70 make
the people of the United States con-
denim him for what he has done.
our information IS so far incomplete,
and IT would. therefore. be premature. OF
course. 10 censure or condemn the adj
ministration for the course it has chosen
10 pursue in this Cuban business. But
candor compels us to say that the trend
of the public mind is certainly against
it. We do not yet know the motives that
have controlled IT: but. when the case Is
stated there must be powerful reasons
forthcoming to satisfy the people that it
was right in allowing American citizens
TO be treated as they have been in Cuba.
II would have been far better II the adj
ministration had taken the public more
into its confidence throughout this whole
hueiness
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27

Hon. George B. Swift Chlcago's reform
Mayor. is one Of thousands who endorse
the one great remedy that makes people
well where al other remedies either fail
altogether. or nj best simply give tenn
porary relief.
Judge Powers Congressman Meredith,
Of Virginia; Congressman Grout, ASSIST
ant United States Attorney John C..
Cspers. Chief Postoffice Inspector VI. u.
Wheeler. Congressman Bell and Neil
Lieutenant McAl.ister. and many others
who are fully as careful what they re-
commend. hove publicly vouched for the
marvellous power OF Paine's celery COM
pound 20 make people well.
These. and the thous nds Of other
hearty testimonials that have recently
been sent 10 the pr0prctOrs of Paine's
celery compound. are simply an index OK
what this most wonderful remedy Is doc
ing In every State OF the Union, and iu
every city and village.
1t is making people well'
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-27

An Entire Family Down with The Measles.
Floods ina the Potomac.

An Entire Family Down with The Measles.
Floods i'm the Potomac,
LEETOWN. ". VA. Feb. -f-SpcliaL
\ family az KearneystiIle discovered au
infant in Their VOL O. few days $780,.
The indications were that DC had been
there some time. Owing 90 the depth
Of the well and the great volume of
water consequent upon the recent rains.
the body has not yet been brought up. IFS
parentage, and an concerning, are wrapt
IN mystery.
Mr. Mcintyre f. preparing 10 rebuild the
house that was burned "a short time ago.
Mr.. Lickidor opened his store in room
adjoining his dwelling last week. where he
Will carry on his business untl the new
building Is completed.
The family Of Mr. Raleigh Dunnaway
consisting of his wife and eight children,
are all down with the metseis, but tAe
cases are mild.
Miss pattie Moorecock. Of vs. tiamsours.
Va. and Miss Amelia Moore. or Loudoun
county, Va, are the guests OF Hiss bes-
sic and Mrs Eugene Baker. Sheriff Baker
IS Just recovering from am attack OK
pneumonia.
The Baptist church at Shenlndoah
Junction have engaged Pastor ;. W. Cole,
OF Charlestown, 10 preach Tor them twice
a month on Sunday afternoons.
Rev II. L. Ryley. who has been pursu-
inc his studies al the Louisville Seminary.
is spending some time with his brother. In
lrddleway ANY church desiring a good
nastor would do wei 10 correspond with
him.
The food at Harpers Ferry has stop
nod The trains and intercepted the mails.
80 ,bat now they are three days behind.