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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
TOBACCO GROWERS CONVENTION

While the manufacturers, bankers, and
many business men rejoice in the results
of a prosperous year just closing, the to-
bacco growers are making preparations
for convention TO be held in Raleigh ON
The 18th of January to try to find q
means to prevent the steady reduction
in the price Of tobacco. While the price
of most everything else has gone up, the
price of tobacco this season has been
lower than ever. Cause: the price Of
bright tobacco is controlled by the trust
Mr.. j. Bryan Grimes requests us to
state that reduced rates have been grant
ed ON all railroads and to urge farmers to
meet in their county seats ON Monday,
January LIST, to elect delegates to the
convention that meets in Raleigh on
January 18th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
BUSY DAY AT WASHINGTON.
J.Bryan Crimes Spoken of as Candidate
For Secretary of State.

Washington, n. c., Dec 30.-(Special)
Most of Washington citizens who went
out of town to spend Christmas have re-
turned and business is as brisk as ever
The mills and all other industries have
resumed work on full time. The oyster
factory is handling from one to six thou-
sand bushels per day.
The Halcyon social club gave a ger
man Wednesday night There were
twenty-nine couples ON the floor.
The man Green in Jail charged with
shooting the woman, Matte Moore, (who
died few days ago., as considered by the
attending physicians to be in a critical
condition. The ball that entered his left
side near the heart, has been located In
the region of his lung, and he has been
having hemorrhages.
There were three marriages here last
Wednesday: Miss Lola Howard to Mr.
Emuel Roper; Miss Eta Jones to Mr.
Walter Stilley; Miss Mary Odom to Mr..
j. j. Latham.
1t is stated on authority that Mr.. j.
Bryan Grimes will be a candidate before
the coming Democratic State convention
for the office of Secretary Of State. Mr..
Grimes has many prominent and influ
ELtldI AIISuNS III lIiIc DIS Nci us OLucA
sections of the State.
/ am told that the steamer Calumet,
owned by Mr.. C. III. Sterling, wall soon
begin to ply between Washington and
Swan Quarter, Hyde county, stopping at
intermediate points She will leave Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays; return
ing Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
This will be a convenience for the travel
ing public.
The Old Dominion Steamship Company,
John Myers Son, agents. are now running
convenient schedules with the boats Hat
teras, Myers and Tar River. The Hat
tcras leaves Washington for Belhaven
every evening at four, and returning ar
riyes in Washington every morning about
five-thirty. The Myers leaves, six a. m.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for
all points up Tar River as far as Tar
boro, when the river is high enough. The
Tar River leaves Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays at six a. m. for Bay
Side, Smith Greek, Aurora, Maplesville
and Scranton; gets back to Washington
every other day about three-thirty.
This town and the entire eastern sec
ton of the State is destined to grow and
develop more within the next five years
than it has for the last ten or fifteen.
Fl. 3. HARDY.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
THE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The census reports do not more clear
~ show the remarkable increase in the
population and wealth of our cities and
towns than the reports of the enrolment
and resources of the city pubic schools
AT the large and enthusiastic meeting
last week of the superintendent of the
city schools, interesting and encouraging
reports came from all parts of the State
Superintendents were present from Abe
marie, Asheville, Charlotte, Durham
Fayetteville, Goldsboro, Greensboro,
Henderson, Kinston, Newbern, Raleigh,
Wilson and Winston.
The city graded school is an integral
part of the public school system o. the
State. 1t lays no claim to pre-eminelce
or superiority over the district public
school except such as may come from or
ganization and the additional money re-
ceiyed by reason Of the fact that the
people of the cities and towns where
these schools are located have voted upon
themselves an additional tax equal to or
often double the tax rate imposed upon
property for school purposes by the Gem
eral Assembly. Any city, town, or "
lage, almost any thickly-settled farming
community, can have as good public
school as any other with the same tax
levy for school purposes.
1t is safe to say that more progress has
been made in the development of this de
partment of public education during the
past year than in amy previous three
years in the history of tire State.
Within the past year, five important
towns, Albemarle, Henderson, Kinston,
Newborn and WaynesEille have establish
ed graded schools, and Fayetteville has
reorganized its system Of schools. This
list is more than o1le-ffth of all the
graded schools established in the State
since the war.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
THE STORY WE TELL TODAY.

The News and Observer prints today
more really valuable matter than has APP
peared in any regular issue of North
Carolina newspaper during the year 1899,
which ends with today. This we feel
that we can say without Boosting, since
nearly all the matter is contributed, and
by men who are leaders in their several
communities or i'm the lines of endeavor
they have elected to follow.
We have devoted the issue very large
ly to review of what has been accom-
plished in the State during the past
year. 1t is a heartening story. We be-
lieve that those who read and weigh it
carefully will agree with us that North
Carolina is become the Empire State"
of the South. 1t Us passing from COM
munlity of potentialities TO one of actuali-
ties-and the transition is being wrought
in the main by the brain and Drawn, the
capital and energy of men bred within
it's own borders. North Carolina has
never been boon State. 1t is not so
today. What is built rests on a firm
foundation.
Much has been done. He is dull indeed
VINO fails to see that it is but the be-
ginning-that we are as yet only upon the
threshold of q multiform development,
that we are only feeling our way,
somewhat more confidently than of old,
along the path that leads first to COM
merofal independence and finally to com
mercial supremacy. During the thirty
five years that have elapsed since war
left us ashes and desolation, the right
hand of labor has been acquiring new
cunning. 1t could not be done in a day.
1t has been done patiently, painfully,
slowly, if you will, but it has been dome
well. Today the fruits of it are begin
ming to appear.
Let us go forward with the new year
resolutely. Individually and collectively,
it will doubtless bring us some sharp
trials. They will not be the first. The
State has had plenty of them in the last
half dozen years; and yet out of them all
What the North Carolina of tomorrow
shall be, it is for the people who till its
soil, labor in its workshops, learn IN its
school and worship in its churches to
say.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
LIQUOR LICENSES GRANTED.
Bound Over For Threatening His
Fathers Life. New Library.

Durham, n. c., Dec. 30-(Special.)-
The following have been granted license
by the Board of Aldermen to conducr
saloons for six months from January
LIST: A. J. Ellis, Church street. ]. G.
Patterson, Mangum street; William
Mangum, Jr., Parrish street; Jesse
Johnson, Peabody street; II. II. Scog-
gins. 124, corner Mangum and Peabody
streets; Green Andrews, Parrish street;
II. NJ. Coble, Mangum street; Proctor
& Co, Parrish street, J. w. Hudgins,
West Main street; l.. w. Whitesell,
Peabody street; A. T. Fowler, Mangum
street. S. w. johnson, 49, corner Pea
body and Mangum streets; John Harris,
colored, Parrish street; j. j. Loughlin,
Jr., 4 Co, Mangum street.
II. Pruschanskin, son of +. Pruschan-
skin, was tried before Squire j. +.
Owens this morning on the charge of
threatening the life of his father. He
was bound over to court under a bond
of $50, which was given.
Rev. ]. w. Wellons, pastor of the
Christian Church in this city, is to de-
liver an address Sunday night, in which
the progress of the world along spiritual
and material lines will be contrasted
with that of past centuries.
Mayor McCown did not have single
case on the docket of his court this
morning.
Mr.. Carl Piper and Miss Bessie Hob
good were united in marriage in Gran,
vile county on Wednesday afternoon, at
three o'clock. Mr.. Piper is a brother of
K. G.. Piper, of this city. Mr.. and Mrs.
h. Z. Piper attended the marriage.
1t is expected that the new public
library in West Durham will be dedi-
Gated Monday 1t was to have been
dedicated December 26th, but on ac-
count of Prof. jerome Dowd being alb
sent in Charlotte, was postponed.
Social gatherings were held at the
residences of G. L. Upchurch, on Man
gum street, and e. ]. Long, on Rigs
bee avenue, and at several other places
last evening. Louis n. Smith entertain.
ed several of his friends at dinner on
Friday.
II. III. Markham will begin moving
into his new store room in the Cheek
block Monday. The Seeman Printery
has finished moving into their quarters
on the second floor of the same building.
The Pythian Lodge viii move into their
new lodge room on the third floor abou
the first OF February. w. J. Ramsey
& Bro. will move soon to the store room
now occupied by the G. NJ. V. Fol
lett Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
SPINS ALL ITS COTTON.

Last year the cotton mills Of North
Carolina required for spinning $4,000
bales of cotton, an increase of 10000
bales over the previous year. The State
made last year $500 bales of cot
ton.
This year the increase in the number
of bales used in North Carolina has
been at least as much as in 1898
thus giving an increase Of $4,000, maxi
ing 49,, 10000 bales of cotton spun in our
mills. The cotton crop this year is
short as least twenty-five per cent. This
would make the crop of this year 49,
600, or 1000 bales more than We're
spun in the mills of this State.
The estimate of a reduction of one
fourth off from the crop last year is
very conservative. 1t is doubtful if the
yield will be seventy five per cent. On the
State farm in Arson, the yield was 81
per cent. less than last year and ON the
Roanoke farms % per cent. The State
farms have the best cotton land in the
State and cultivates better than most
farmers. If its crop is short thirty pei
cent, the total crop is probably 1919 PEI
cent. less than in 1898.
North Carolina in 1899 breaks it record
and spins every pound of cotton it
raises.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
SMALLPOX AT MOUNT AIRY,
But in Very Mild Form. Precautions
Against It's Spread.

Mount. Airy, n. c., Dec. 29.-(Spe-
cial.) -Of the dozen or more supposed
cases of smallpox in this city all are
doing well--no deaths thus far ana
some of the patients are out again.
It's extreme secrecy has been owing
to the divided opinion of the physicians
here as to its being smallpox-if so III
a very mild form, but the general opin-
ion now prevails that it is, and orders
have been issued by the city authorities
and board of health to prevent its fur
Their spreading. II proper methods are
continued no undue excitement or cause
for further alarm need exist. Owing 10
this scare business here will necessarily
be quiet for few weeks yet at least.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
SALE OF LAND.

BY virtue Of the powers contained in
a deed Of trust from ]. r. Fleming and
wife to the Trustees of Rex Hospital,
which said deed is recorded in book 81
at page 81, Register of Deeds office for
Wake county, we will, on Saturday, the
9th day Of January, 1900, expose TO
sale at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, at the court house door
in Raleigh, n. c., the following de-
scribed tracts of land, tO-wit:
First: That certain tract or parcel
Of land lying and being in the county
OF Wake, said State, adjoining the lands
OF j. NJ Fleming, VIM. Mitchell, Jaspar
Fleming, J. S. Still, Sallie Williams,
John Wall and others, bounded and de-
scribed as follows: First tract adjoins
the lands of j. NJ. Fleming on the north
William Mitchell on the east, Nathan
Dunn, COL, on the south and the upper
Leigh ON the west, and begins at
stake and pointers in the Leigh line and
runs thence east IA poles to the junction
of the William Still branch, thence up
the courses of the said Still branch to
an ash, thence IA Il with William
Mitchell line 7712 poles to stake in
said Mitchell line, thence West la
poles to a rock in Leigh line, thence n.
81 degrees T.. with said Leigh line go
poles to the beginning, containing 30
acres more or less, same being lot No.
10 lands of James NJ. Fleming, deceased,
as surveyed by w. B. Fowler on Octo-
Der %, 1886, and drawn by said }. X.
Fleming in division of said lands of j.
NJ. Fleming, deceased.
Second Tract: Bounded on the north
by the lands of Jaspar Fleming and
said J. r. Fleming, on the east by lands
oe said Jaspar Fleming on the south by
the Raleigh road and on the west by the
lands of J. L. z. Still, containing 70
acres more or less, same being the home
place Of said ]. r. Fleming in the town
Of Rolesville, and being the place where
on said Fleming and wife now reside.
Third Tract: Beginning at a stake on
the Louisburg road, Sallie Williams cor
ner, thence S. ii degrees E. 90 poles to
poplar in the branch, John Wallis line,
then S. 50 H-100 w. S5M poles to a
cornerstone, thence w. IS degrees w.
131 poles to cornerstone on the Louis
burg road, thence with said road nearly
east to the beginning, containing I'll
acres more or less, the same being
known as part of the Charley Jordan
land. and conveyed to the parties of the
first part by Sid n. Terrell by deed re-
corded in Register Of Deeds Office for
Wake county and hereby referred to az
| part of this deed for certainty of de-
scription.
TRUSTEES OF REX HOSPITAL.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
A FINE SHOWING.

The best series Of letters published in
a North Carolina newspaper, at least in
this generation, are those in today's News
and Observer that tell of the expansion
In manufacturing and business in the
various towns and cities of the State.
Most of them are written by the mayors,
and the others by public-spiIited editors
and others. They tell story of success
and hope that will cheer the hearts Of
every North Carolinian.
We regret that few progressive towns
have no representation. We used every
effort to secure contributions from every
town in the State, but some did not reach
us IN time for publication
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31

As cure for rheumatism Chamber
lain's Pain Balm is gaining wide repu-
tation. d. B. Johnston, of Richmond,
Ind, has been troubled with that all
ment since 1862. In speaking of 1t he
says: II never found anything thar
would relieve me until used Cham.
berlain's Pain Balm. 1t acts like magic
with me. My foot was swollen and
paining me very much, but one good APP
plication of Pain Balm relieved me. For
sale everywhere. Bobbitt-Wy Drug
Co., and Ii. L. Hicks, Druggists, Raj
eigh, N. G.
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DEATH OF MR.. STOKES.

Durham, n. c., Dec. 30-(Special)-
Mr.. A. II. Stokes died here at two-thirty-
five o'clock this afternoon after a brief
illness, of pneumonia. He was one Of
Durham's most prominent and progress
sive citizens.
The funeral will probably take place
Sunday afternoon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
AN INVOCATION

Teach us, New Year, TO be
Freemen among the free;
Our only master Duty; bid us mark
The white light of Gods morning in the
dark;
Content to serve and wait,
Knowing, whate'er befall,
That he alone is great
Who loves and lives for all!
FRANK j.. STANTON.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31
RED HOT FROM THE GUN

Was the ball that hit G. E. Steadman
OF Newark, Mich, in the Civil War. II
caused horrible Ulcers that no treatment
helped for 90 years. Then Bucklen's
Anica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts
Bruises, Boils, FeIo1s, Corns, Skin
Eruptior1s. Best Pile cure on earth
% cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold
by oil druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31

Size doesn't indicate quality. Beware
of counterfeit and worthless salye offer
ed for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
DeWitt's is the only original. An infalli
BILE cure for piles and all skin diseases.
Bobbitt g. Wynne Drug Co, w. III. King,
Adams & Moye, VIM. Simpson.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-31

Ma" said a newspaper mans son.
II know why editors call themselves
we"
"Why?"
SOS the man that doesn't like the
article will think there are too many
people for him to tackle. "-Tid-Bits.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-22
pERSoNATING PRESIDENTS.
COUNTERPART OF WHITE
HOUSE OCCUPANTS.
Chicago Policeman Receives
Homage Intended for Mckinley
The House File Clerk Passes
in Washington Streets for MI.
Cleveland, and His Doings Are
Written Up in the Papers.

Experience has many times proved
that it is not a difficult matter to get
ones self taken for the President OF
the United States, in case there is the
very slightest resemblance in appear
ance to that distinguished parsonage.
The subject is now brought TO public
notice by the account in a recent issue
of THE Detective of how William A
Murphy, one of the seven Chicago po-
licemen detailed to guard the Presl-
dent during the Peace Jubilee, was Tor
half an hour cheered by the crowd as
the President himself. 1t seems that
Mr.. Murphy considerably resembled
Mr. Mckinley, so that when at one time
Mr.. Mckinley rode quietly in a closed
carriage, Murphy was ordered into the
barouche with the Chief Executive and
ordered to take off his shining silk hat
whenever the crowds in the street
cheered. The device worked like a
charm. The crowd howled itself foarse
at the sight of Murphy's fine Roman
nose and thin hair, little thinking that
the man they greeted was a policeman,
who, in his work of protecting the
nations chief, had been directed to
pose for time as the chief himself.
Such occurrences are by no means in
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-22
New Silk Waists.
Lubin 6 Co.. 400 and .4I2 K Street Sacrame

Transcript" For purposes of Illus
-tration the story doubtless found its
way into many sermons and impressive
addresses. AS matter Of fact, the
strange man who walked through =
street that day, silent in manner and
demure in countenance, about whom
the onlookers, and particularly the
children, gathered, was Walter II.
French of Massachusetts, the file clerk
of the House of Representatives. He
is man of about Mr.. Cleveland's size,
age and complexion. Mr.. Frencn's
mustache and hair are about as abund-
ant and about as gray as Mr.. Cleve-
lands So much pleased is Mr.. French
by the resemblance that he usually Sc
lects his clothing with a view to car
rying out still further the illusion. On
this particular day he happened to
glance into an F street window and
the first thing he knew people were
looking at him strangely. THE Morn
ing Post had spoken of the expected
arrival of Mr. Cleveland in town, and
Mr.. French was not long in realizing
that he was being stared at on that
account He accordingly did his best
to act the ex-President, and with the
success already noted. He has several
facial expressions which he has ac-
quired by carefully observing Mr.
Cleveland, and whenever the occasion
demands he exhibits these little imi-
tated mannerisms with remarkable
skill For a number of blocks down
F street, as he slowly sauntered people
continued to turn back and look at aim
as he passed.
The stories, however, of people who
have successfully personated Mr. Cleve-
land would fill a large book. His pic
lures in the newspapers were deceptive,
in that they made him look like nan
of dark complexion. 1t accordingly
came to pass that any stout man of the
proper age, with a mustache, would in
right environments be taken for Mr.
Cleveland. On the day of Inaugural
ton in 1898, A. A. Wilson, a citizen of
this district, was coming down the
steps of the Capitol with one of Mr..
Cleveland's Secretaries. when small
crowd began to gather, and its spokes-
man came up and addressed the Secre-
tary: do you suppose he would be
willing to shake hands with US now?'
Mr. Wilson. hearing this, replied in the
affirmative, and one by one a. consid-
cradle number of people paid their re-
spects to an estimable local real estate
broker, who afterward became Mar
shall of the district. He greeted each
one with a cordial IT am happy to meet
you, sir" One of the last men in line
leaned over Mr. Wilson's shoulder to
say in al low whisper: when would be
a good time to see you about that post
office wrote to you about few weeks
ago?" Mr.. Wilson's reply was unnlis--
takably cordial: Come any time you
please, sir, any time; shall be glad to
see you" When this man reported 10
the White House two days later, assur-
ing all the Presidents buffers that ne
had been invited by the President him
self to come any time to see about a
$500 postoffice, they hardly knew what
to make of Correspondence Boston
Transcript.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-22
A Defensive Alliance.

In 1867 the French army of invasion
had evacuated Mexico, at the command
of our Cabinet, and the Emperor Maxi
milan was made a prisoner of war
and executed by the Juarez Govern
ment In the harbOr of Vera Cruz the
castle of San Juan d'Ulloa was gar
risoned and commanded by the i'm
perial Government. An American gun
boat was at anchor in the inner har-
Dor moored by hawser to a ring
bolt in the castle. About a quarter or
half a mile farther out lay a. anchor
the British frigate Jason Seeing his
Government without a head, and af-
fairs looking very complicated, Cen
eral Gomez, the commander of the
castle, ordered the American gunboat
to leave the harbor; but frail as his
little command was, the American COM
mander had received his orders from
his own Government to protect his fell
low-citizens in Vera Cruz, and he re-
fused to leave. That night the work
of mounting heavy guns upon the inner
walls of the fortress was industriously
prosecuted. Satisfied of the hostile pur-
pose Of the General in the castle, at
midnight the American commander
sent a note to the following purport to
the British Captain of the Jason;
''They are mounting heavy guns on
the walls of the castle that will point
directly down upon my.decks and sink
my ship. where $50 officers and men
are endangered. 1 shall run the risk
and the danger and be at my lock-
strings at early daybreak" In half
hour more the terse and heroic answer
was returned by the English Captain
"a gun fired at one ship will be re-
turned by BOTH Behold here the alli-
ance of kinship and the glorious
analogue of the cry of Tatnall at the
Peiho, "blood is thicker than wafer!
"a gun fired at one ship will be an
swered by both" are words that should
be writ on the flags of both nations
for evermore They are the words of
alliance between England the United
States. A. defensive alliance is not en-
tangling. and it may mean much. or 1t
NAV mean little, since it is capable OF
infinite notifications. but "a gun fired
at one ship must be answered by both
is the true spirit of a defensive alli-
ance. The fact exists, then let 1T be
writ in official anguage--Self-Cultu