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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
COMMERCIAL AND FARMERS
RANK

The Directors of the Commercial and
Farmers Bank at their last meeting
held July LIST, after having statement
rendered Of the affairs of the bank for
the past six months, declared their usual
dividend Of 4 per cent. on their capital
stock, carrying a snug amount to credit
of undivided profits. The Directors were
mnch pleased and satisfied with the af-
fairs Of the bank
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05

Synopsis of the Weather-The hottest
section of the country on the 4th extend
ed from Washington with Il maximum
of %, through Philadelphia maximum
1W. to Boston with 96. No such tenn
peratures were reached anywhere in the
South. As compensation, however, local
showers occurred at all points in the
North cooling the air materially by
evening. Light showers also occurred at
scattered points in the South. the largest
amount being 1.O4 at Memphis.
The barometer is lowest over New
England. There is high pressure area
central over the Lakes with a very mod
crate cool wave. which will bring north
to northwest winds to-day and n relief
from excessive heat. The change in
temperature may bring local showers TO
North Carolina. where SO much needed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
NEW ADvERT EASEMENTS.

w. Il. JONES-Too Busy.
THE FRANCIS WILLARD SCHOOL
Rev +. w. Hilliard, Principal.
SHERWOOD HIGGS e. CO.-The
Grand Semi Annual Clearance Sale.
SOUTHERN CONSERVATORY OF
Music-Gilmore Ward Bryant, Direc-
tor
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
Broken Line OXfOrds.

Not I'LL sizes, but s. Sla, 8, 0la, 10 and
none priced less than 1Jc., and as high
as $3.50, Il pair-Al Jumped at one
price soc
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
THE CAPE FEAR AND NORTHERN

Work is progressing on the survey Of
the Cape Fear and Northern railroad
Prof. j. NJ. Bandy. one of the best civil
engineers in the State. has charge of
the work. and il will be well DONE
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
Ladies' Fine Strap Slippers.

This Springs entire purchase of Wei
Kid Heel and Spring Heel Strap Ties
in Blacks and Tans-Ribbon Bows with
Patent Tips-sizes % to {. Our lowest
price up to now $1.50-reduced to the
swift selling price of .9Sc
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05

Ladies' Swiss Ribbed Vests-White-
Lisle with short sleeve-with tape-sizes
) to 1-were 10c.-now ......2 for Doe
Also great reduction in Misses and
Children's GauZe Nests-L of yester-
days prices.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05

The Centennial School Library will be
o'clock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
Clearance Sale of Cor
sets.

Extra long waist six hook-made of
good quality jeans-girdle front neatly
made trimmed with narrow embroidery
at top-regular J0c.-now ..... Doc
= Broken sizes-1S. %, p, 81. 26, ~.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
The Grand Semi-Annua| Clearance Sale

Choicest stock in each department such rapid selling
prices as to please the people and popuarze the house.
July always for lowest prices. Owing large contracts
made for Fall Goods entire stock of Spring and Summer Goods
will be closed regardless Of cost.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-05
THE WEATHER TO-DAY.

For North Carolina: Fair in western
portion; cool in eastern portion; variable
winds.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity
to 8 o'clock tonight: Fair; cooler.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, 81; minimum
temperature, 73; mean, 81; rainfall, .
inches (for "a hours.)
The following table gives data Cor Sc
lontod -fo tinnS NJ = IL M NnSfprlaN
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
zine NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

An Irishman got out of train at q
railway station for refreshments, but
unfortunately the bell rang and the
train went off before he had finished
his drink. Running along the platform
after the train, he shouted: "Hould
on there; hould on. You've got pas
senger aboord that's left behind" A
poor woman who had a son of whom
she was very proud, unintcntionally
paid him very bad compliment. Speak
ing of the boy to the priest, she said:
''There isn't in the barony, yer river
ence, a cleverer lad nor Tom. Look at
thin, yer reverence" pointing TO two
small chairs in the cabin, ''he made
thin out of his own head, and fax he
has enough of wood left to make me a
big armchair!" I picked up two de-
licious literary curiosities during my
stay in Ireland. The following notice
was posted in a pleasure boat belonging
to steamship company on the SUR:
THE chairs in the cabin are for the
ladies. Gentlemen are requested not to
make use of them ill the ladies are
seated" The time I was IN the country
was just after the visit of the duke and
duchess Of York. I clipped the follow
ing delicious advertisement from
Kingstown paper: James O'Mahony,
Wine and Spirit Merchant, Kingstown,
has still on hand a small quantity of the
whisky which was drunk by the duke of
York while In Dublin. london Spec
tator.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
HAWAII ANNEXED.

At last the Hawaiian Islands have been
annexed and are now practically a part OF
the territory of the United States. The
overwhelming vote by which the two houses
ofCongress passed the annexation resolu-
tons is splendid vindication Of the Re-
publican policy in connection with those
islands, which policy was inaugurated during
the administration of President Harrison.
On the question of annexation the Re-
publicans have been almost a unit, and the
Democrats have been forced by common
sense to divide. Many of them have seen
that Hawaii is the naval and commercial
key to the Pacific Ocean and that if our
country was to be great naval and COM
mercial nation, it would be folly to refuse
to accept the key to the great Pacific when
it was extended to us as q free offering.
Never in the history of civilization has any
country acquired such magnificent terri
tory without the expenditure of money
and blood. "Old Glory" now floats joy
ously over Hawaii, and never again will it
be subjected to the infamy of being torn
down as it was by the direction of Mr..
Cleveland, who was sustained in that un-
wise action by his, the Democratic party.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
CONFIDENCE RESTORED.
Richmond Tines.l

Governor Johnston, of Alabama, re-
Gently made speech at Tuscumbia, in
which he felicitated the people upon the
splendid condition of affairs in that State.
This extract from his speech interests us
no little. We quote:
eve have no borrowed money now and
pay on presentation every lawful demand
against the treasury. The public credit
was never higher. Our class A. bonds
when came into office were selling at
$l02, and now cannot be had for less than
$110 to SIP. Were our bonds now due l
am sure that new bonds could be readily
exchanged for them, with rate of interest
not exceeding 30 per cent, and thus save
to the State more than 500, cooper annum.
The apprehension that the credit of the
State would suffer if one entertaining my
financial views should be elected Cover
MOI, seems not to have been able during
my term to make temporary loans at 4
per cent. the lowest rate of interest ever
obtained"
Governor Johnston is nominally an adj
vocate of free coinage, but he need not
trouble himself about the effect of his
views on the credit of the State of which
he is Governor. 1t is not his views which
affect credit, but the execution of the pol
icy of which he represents. He may be-
lieve or pretend to believe in free silver as
much as he likes, but as long as tie peo-
Pile of the United States are determined
that the minis of the country shall moi be
opened to the free coinage of silver, but
that the gold standard shall be maintained,
the credit of the national government and
of the States of the Union will not be hurt.
Governor Johnston has probably unwit-
tinglv paid very high tribute to the gold
standard. 1t is the maintenance of that
which has preserved Alabama's credit, re.
stored confidence and made money
cheaper than ever before.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
THURSDAY, JULY IA, 1898.
THEIR PLATFORM.

There was an old historic saying about
the Bourbons that they never forgot any
thing and that they never learned any,
thing. This saying can be applied with
truth to the Democracy of the Ninth Con-
gressional District, if We are to judge them
by their platform adopted at the Pulaski
convention on the 9Th inst. The said plat
form is as long as the one made by the
Populist- Democratic combination at Chi
cago in 1896, contains all the vices of that
platform and many others as ridiculous
and glaring. The so-called Democracy of
this district hasfailed to learn that: "There
is new dispensation and the moss-back
who cannot forget and the conservative
who cannot learn will have no place in it. "
The Democracy of the Ninth District at
Pulaski declared their continued conf
dence in VIM. ]. Bryan as the great cham
pion of the rights of the people" They
asserted that: ave are in favor of the free
unlimited coinage of both silver and gold
at the existing ratio of 16 to /, without the
aid or consent of any other nation"
The Pulaski platform reafirms the low
tariff plank of the Chicago platform and
denounces government by injunction. Ev-
cry policy of President McKinley's adj
ministration is criticised and denounced
and all the legislation of Congress at its re-
cent session is opposed,
Rhea will have heavy task in sustain
ing such platform before the intelligent
voters CT the Ninth District. If we mis-
take not our people are fully persuaded
that the policy of Mr.. McKinleys admin
istration has been wise and useful, that
the legislation of Congress has been what
the country needed and demanded, and
it will take smarter man than Rhea
to convince the people of the Ninth Dis
trict that the scatter.brai theories of the
Pulaski platform would, if adopted, be
best for the common good.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
Louisiana and Hawaii.
Lynchburg News Dem.l

Lynchburg News (Dem.l
1t is alleged by the opponents of Ha-
waian annexation that the Louisiana SUI
gar interest is seriously threatened by the
admission of Hawaii into the Union. The
truth of that allegation is not very appar-
ent Let it aforementioned that Hawaiian
sugar has been admitted into the United
States free of duty for many years. If the
free admission of Hawaiian sugar did not
ruin the business of the Louisiana sugar
planters while Hawaii was foreign State,
there is no reason to apprehend greater in
jury to Louisiana's leading industry after
Hawaii becomes a part of the United
States.
AS to the beet sugar industry, the case
may be different. If, in addition to Ha-
wall, the United States government retains
control of Cuba, Porto RIGA and the Phil
ippines, then the beet sugar industry will
perish, because 1t will be cheaper to get
our supply from those regions where the
sugar cane flourishes and where sugar can
be manufactured at much less cost than is
possible when it must be made from beets
But let it be remembered that the Ameii-
can farmer can turn lis attention to some
other crop not less remunerative and ex-
change his products for the sugar of those
tropical or semi-tropical countries, to the
mutual benefit of both parties to the
transaction.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
The FoIIy of son to Havana"
Philadelphia Press.l

Press.l
Santiago has stiled the arrant folly
which few weeks ago was urging an
attack on Havana.
"Bombardment," which armchair
naval critics asserted could do such Won
dera at Havana, has been going on for
weeks about the entrance of Santiago
harbor, under the concentrated fire of our
strongest fleet, and not a single fort is
sienced or reduced to a condition in
which it can be taken by storm-not even
the battery at Aguadores. 1t is all very
we'll to draw pen-pictures of the marvellous
effect of shot and shell ON fort, but the
real test is whether trained officers deem
the works ready for storming. None on
the shore at Santiago are.
General Skaters expedition represents
the best that could be done with an army
which Congress for thirty years has refus-
ed to make adequate to our needs. The
men have shown miraculous valor. Any
thing finer than their assault on works
unreduced by artillery modern war has
not.
Yet Santiago, with 10000 to 10000
men, still awaits capture, and the expedi-
ton needs reinforcements. What chance
would this number of men have had at
Havana facing so, goo men? If President
Mckinley and his advisors had listened to
the wild clamor about direct attack on
Havana the country would now be facing
terrible disaster and defeat.
Congress refused to provide an army,
arms or equipments, precipitated war and
left the President to organize an army
after war was declared, and the country is
reaping the result in valor beyond COM
parison, followed by wait for reinforce
ments.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
English Capital in the South.

The English iron masters are awakening
to the fact that american competition in
iron and steel is not the ephemeral out
burst that they at first believed it to be;
hence, they are now casting about to find
means of neutralizing its effects English
capitalists have been prospecting in the
South, and the result has been that extern
sive coal mines have been purchased and
new steel works projected. The Age of
Steel has advices from Knoxville, Tenn,
to the effect that the big English coal deal
is an accomplished fact. The syndicate
holding coal lands has announced its ac-
ceptance of the terms of the Englishmen.
About S. 900, 900 is to change hands. All
the coal properties of upper East Tennes-
see and southern Kentucky are included
in the deal. Their capacity is estimated at
10000 tons daily and about 4 200 miners are
employed. Agreements with the present
owners have already been made. More
over, it is believed that English capital is
to 60 into large steel plant, representing
an investment of 81, 100000, to be erected
at Ensley, Ala. The Record cannot vouch
for the accuracy Of this statement, but it
is known that more than six months ago
party of English capitalists visited that re-
gion with the avowed purpose of erecting
large steel plant if the examination of
the properties and labor conditions should
prove sufficiently encouraging. The plant
at Ensley is probably an assured thing,
but it has not been clearly shown by whom
it is to be Observation-Disclosures Record.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
PERSONAL NOTES.

The residents of Hampstead have
bought the estate of the late Sir Spencer
Wells to save it from the hands of build
ing spectators.
Pope Leo NH was recently photo
graphed while walking in the gardens of
the Vatican, and the pictures will soon be
exhibited in the cinematograph.
Professor Baron, of Bonn, whose death
was recently announced, was the man who
drew up the German civil code and was a
well-known lecturer on the Pandects. 4,
Duke Adolf Frederick, of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, an uncle of the Grand Duke,
who won an army steepEechase at Berlin
recently, is the first prince of a reigning
house to ride in a horse race in Germany.
Mr.. Henry Rose, WHO died in London
the other day, was the last surviving son
of the man who, when Disraeli was about
to be arrested for debt, sent him warn
ing with the advice to "hide in the
WELL"
The man who once owned the land
upon which practically the whole town.
ship of Johannesburg now stands, is at
the present time an inmate of the Guild
ford, England, workhouse. His name is
James Outerson Pratt, and he is the son
of a former high sheriff of Northumber-
land.
John Henry Cromwell Russell, sixth in
direct decent from the Lord Protector,
has died in Switzerland at the age of go
years. His grandfather was Oliver Crom-
well, of Chestnut Park great-grandson of
divers son Henry, and the last of the
family who bore the name of Cromwell.
Prince Pictor Duleep Singli's return
from bis honeymoon with his English
bride was almost triumphal procession.
The villagers of Norfolk fred salute of
guns when the train arrived, the carriage
vas pulled by men instead of horses,
orass band escorted the couple to their
nome and in the evening the prince
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
entertained over thousand of his neigh
bors on the lawn.
PRIZE MONEY.
Rules Which Have Governed the AL
Iotmcnt OF Spells of War In the
Past and Present.

1t is an elementary principle of the
laws of war, as we'll as international
law, that all captures in war, whether
made on land or sea and whether of
public or private property, inure to the
benefit of the government of the captur-
ing party, and that the government is
responsible for all captures illegally
made. Ii the captured property or any
part of its proceeds is distributed among
the captors, it must be authorized by
local law, and without such local law
the capturing party can claim no pc
cuniary interest in the captures he
makes. 1t is the practice of nearly all
governments to give to the captors
specified portion of all captured prop
erty as reward for bravery and a
stimulus to eXertion.
BY the early Jewish laws a distinc-
ton was made in the booty between
animate and inanimate things, the lat
ter being given to individuals who cap
tured them, while the former were dis
tributed proportionally to those en-
gagged in battle and those who guarded
the baggage. Later the booty was dis
tributed proportionally to the whole
army. Among the Greeks booty was
sometimes distributed by lot and some
times sold and the money divided.
In the early days of Rome each SOL
der retained the plumber he captured.
Afterward the soldiers were obliged to
bring all the booty into common. 1t
was then sold by the general, the pro-
ceeds consigned to the public treasury,
and q part distributed pro rata to the
army.
In the middle ages pillage was the
general practice, but the evils were so
great that the system of distribution
was substituted and strenuous meas
ure adopted to prevent soldiers from
plundering.
From very early times the admiraPs
court in England has had jurisdiction
of all maritime questions, and as the
English have been engaged so frequent
ly in maritime wars, there was a stand
ing proclamation for granting and dis
tributing prize money to the navy, and
borne upon the books, all the residue,
according to their respective rates OF
pay in the service.
Our own laws respecting maritime
prizes are modelled after those of Great
Britain, and the decisions of our prize
courts have been as able as those of the
British admiralty. The mostrecent law
in regard to prize money directs that
where the enemy's force is equal or
superior to the captors the entire prize
goes to the latter; if inferior, one-half
goes to the navy pension fund and the
other half to the captors. The COM
.manding officer of the feet or squadron
receives one-twentieth, if acting indie
pendently, and one-tenth of what goes
to his ship, if under the immediate COM
mand of a superior officer, to the re-
naming officers and men on board.
The number of prizes captured in the
civil war was about 1900, the most
valuable being the ironclad Tennessee,
taken by Admiral Farragut in the bat
tie of Mobile bay, and valued at $595,0OO,
N. Y. Herald.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

THE Washington Post says: CDR.
Cleveland and Col. Bryan have finally
managed to agree upon policy which a
large proportion of their party repudiate. !"
1t seems that the Pulaski convention after
expressing, in the first plank in its plat
form, continued confidence in VIM. j..
Bryan as the great champion of the rights
of the people" was unwilling to endorse
Mr.. Bryan on his policy against what ne
calls imperialism" Here is what the Pu-
laski platform says: "When success shall
have been achieved, as to the policy to be
pursued with respect thereto, we pledge
ourselves to course consistent with the
honor, dignity and traditions of our gov
eminent" Just exactly what they mean
it is hard to tell. Mr.. Rhea will be forced
to tell.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
SALE OF VALUABLE PROP
ERTY IN GRAHAM. VA.

By virtue of a decree of the circuit court
of Taze sell county entered at the April
term, 1898. in the chancery cause Of j. A.
freshman, assignee. VS.. G. p. Greever, ct
ais, and other causes heard herewith, we
will, Oh the 10TH DAY OF AUGUST,
1898, that being the first day of the Au-
gust term of the county court of said
county, at the front door Of the court
house of said county, sell to the highest
bidder at public auction that certain house
and lot situated in the town Of Graham,
in Tazewell county, belonging to G. ?.
Greever, and being the same property in
which the said Greever resides.
TERMS-Said property will be sold for
cash sufficient to pay off the amount re-
ported as due to the Holston National
Building and Loan Association, expenses
of sale and one-half Of any costs remaining
unpaid and for the residue of purchase
money a credit of one and two years will
be given, the purchaser executing bonds
WITH good personal security bearing inter-
est from date and payable to the under
signed. j. w. HICKS,
j. W. CHAPMAN,
Commissioners.
Bonds have been given by the above
commissioners as required by decree in
above styled causes, July Sth, 1898.
7-14-4t. II. BANE HARMAN, Clerk.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

MIR. Harry NJ. Smythe, in seconding the
nomination of Judge Rhea at the Pulaski
convention, said the Democrats OF Taze-
we'll were enthusiastic for Rhea "because
he was the best equipped man for the bat
tle." He then proceeded to sound his
praises in the most extravaganza style. He
said: '.In strategy he is Dewey, in ag-
gressiveness Hobson. and Gen. Walker
would find him on the stump rough
rider from away back" Verify, our
neighbor is imagining hi" brass-aluminum'
man possessed of wonderful qualities,
But after he gets his licking from Gen.
Walker he will find that Rhea is Montijo
in strategy, a Cervera in aggressiveness
and on the stump Spanish retreater from
away back.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

THE Republicans of the Ninth District
will hold their convention at Marion today
to nominate a candidate for Congress.
There is no doubt that Gen. Walker will
be nominated to succeed himself Re-
publicans can now be getting ready TO
help elect him again as the representative
of this district.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

will be news to Williams and his friends.
Two years ago the Democratic convention
at Wytheville refused to give serious con-
sideration to Rhea, who was then a can
didate for the nomination. He was then
looked upon as weak and unworthy can
didate.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

THE Pulaski platform denounces gov
eminent by injunction. What do the
Democrats mean by government by in
Junction." Do they mean that an injunc-
ton granted by a court prohibiting strik-
ing employees from trespassing on the
property of an employer is government by
Injunction? We would like to know.
Will some of our Democratic contempor-
aries in-the Ninth District answer?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

The Spanish navy at the commence
ment of hostilites was pronounced supe-
rior to that of the United States. 1t will
be hard to find a country now that is not
its equal in the line of navy.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
Art.

Glasses in drawing and painting will be
continued at the High School during the
Summer.
You have the opportunity to learn to
make crayon portraits under personal in
struction rather than by mail.
Instructions given in crayon drawing,
water color, oil, pastel, tapestry and China
painting by Miss Beardsley, of New York.
Also portraits painted to order. China
fired here.