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The news & observer., 1901-04-12
STATE NEWS.

The citizens of Black Creek have de-
cided to put in an electric light plant
Rev. E. A. Osboren will move to MON
roe and become pastor of ST. Paul ;
Episcopal church.
Congressman Kitchin, OF the f11ta
district, will address the Salem lodge
of odd Fellows on the 5th anniversary
May 9Th.
Orange Presbytery is in session at
Graham The opening sermon was
preached by Rev. j. w. Goodman o.
Hillsboro.
The Tarboro Southerner says the wa
ter in Tar river is receding and that
shad fishermen are expecting great
catches with the receding water.
The East Carolina railroad from Tar
boro to Farmville will be completed by
the Fourth of July 1t goes through
very. rich country
Franklin, Macon county had fire
last week, and the Epicopal school
building was destroyed. Several near
by buildings were saved onfS-by the
heroic work Of neighbors
A special from Salisbury to the Char
lotte Observer says: Mr.. S. j. Tatura.
book keeper at the Cooleenlee Mills, mas
on foot a scheme to put steamboat
on the South Yadkin2 from Cooleemee
Junction, on the North Carolina Mid
land. to the mills, to carry freight an6
excursion parties. There is already 2
homemade steamboat OH the main
stream, with headquarters at the toll
bridge. 1t is a fiat-bottorned affair and
was very popular with the Easter Mon
day picnickers. The fact that the Yad-
kin is navigable by fat boats for nifty
miles up stream has entered into the
calculations of the street railway peo-
pie in planning an extension to the
river
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
IT rs UNANsWERABLE.

There has never been moment when
it was necessary to take any action
whereby "a good many of our people are
saved the liability of terms at Sing Sing
or Albany" They have been in danger
of persecution and annoyance at the
hands of partisan Federal officials, but
that it ALL The Juggernaut of a Federal
court in the Western district might have
run rough shod over law and evidence.
but no lawyer who knows law ever
doubted that if it should do so it would
be over-ruled on appeal to the higher
courts. The day the Legislature made
these vicious and partisan prosecutions
State matter, that day it extracted Jhe
fangs from Holton's partisan indictments.
And nobody knows this better than the
Republican leaders who entered the hol
pros and accompanied it with stump
speech
We print elsewhere today an Interview
with Mr.. James H. Pou which shows be-
yond the shadow of doubt that the in
dicted registrars never were in any dan
ger from Holtons prosecutions 1t IS
an unanswerable argument, based upon
the plain letter of the law and the de-
cisions of the courts.
Let all be glad that the registrars are
freed from annoyance, and the STATE
saved expense, but let no Democrat be
deceived into believing that any ole OF
the honorable gentlemen who had been
indicted FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
ONLY was in danger of going to Sing
Sing or to Albany. To believe that would
be to believe that the Democratic
leaders were ignorant or wanting in re-
gard for the true interests Of the regis
trars. tAl32ss:l
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
AN IMMENSE ENGINE.
Durhams Approaching Election. Unnerved by
Iriury to Child
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Durham, n c., April 1.-THE immense
engine of the Edgemont Cotton Mill Com
pany has been placed in position and
yesterday President T. B. Fuller of the
Edgemont Company, opened the throttle
and the great wheels began to turn. This
engine is one of the largest in this sec
ton. 1t rests on a foundation in which
there are ninety-seven thousand brick,
one hundred barrels of cement and about
$500 worth of stone. At the mill every
thing is being put in shape to begin the
work of manufacturing cloth at an early
date The new home Of the Durham
Hosiery Mill is also completed and the
machinery is being placed. This ma
chinery will probably start next month
or the first of June
The approaching city election is now all
of the talk No candidate as yet has
announced himself. Three of the present
city aldermen say that they will not &C
cept the nomination for another term,
but there will be plenty Of candidates and
the election, which will come off the
first Monday in next month, promises to
be a very lively affair.
The little Miss Lena Bell Scalf. who
was knocked from the track Of the South
ern Railroad yesterday afternoon, was
better this afternoon. While the child
received very bad scalp wound it is
thought that she will be out again in
few days. The affair completely un-
nerved the engineer. When he jumped
from his train and picked up the little
one, hurt, his face was bathed in tears.
1t was no fault of his and he used every
effort at his command to stop the train.
Dr. A. G. Carr, who has been seriously
i'll for several days was reported as be-
ing better this afternoon. He is suffering
from blood poison.
Edward Terry Berry, of Philadelphia,
has accepted the position as assistant
superintendent of the East Durham Cot
ton Mill. He is an experienced cotton
mill man.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
Douthit-. Powell.
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Winston n-Salem, N. c., April 1.-A
fashionable marriage was celebrated in
the Methodist Episcopal church at Mocks-
Vile at $50 last night, the contracting
parties being Miss Minnie Douthit, one
Of Mocksvlle's accomplished daughters,
and Mr. James Powell, of Mt. Airy, a
clever young engineer in the employ OF
the Southern Railway Miss Minnie
Brock, of Winston, was maid of honor,
and Dr. G.. H. Banner, of Mt Airy, best
man. The church was attractively deco
rated for the happy event and the house
of worship was crowded with relatives and
friends Of the couple. Mr.. and Mrs. Pow
ell spent today in Winston, leaving this
evening for a trip to Florida.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
Death Of Mrs. Caroline C. BlaoknaIL

Mrs Caroline George William Frederick
Boswell Blacknall died at her residence,
Beech Spring near Kittrell. Easter Mon
day April 8th, 1901 She was the mother
of Col. c. c. BIacknall, 23rd n. G. Volun-
teers who was killed at Winchester in
1864, Of the late DR.. G. w. Blacknall, of
Raleigh, and of Major r. H. Blacknall, of
Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Blacknall was in her seth year,
having been born December 2nd, 1912, her
life nearly spanning the nineteenth cen
tury. For sixty eight years and more she
has been a widow. For seventy-one
years she has been a devout member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and an
earnest and intelligent reader of the
Bible. During all the years Of her long
widowhood-the length of which trans
cended most human lives-she has never
failed to read the sacred book through
once a year. Her faith was that Of the
fathers. No cloud Of modern doubt marred
the serene depths of her religious firma-
ment
Old Granville county has hardly pro-
duced a woman of superior native intelli-
gence or greater force of character. All
of her strong faculties Of mind were re-
tained almost impaired to within few
years, and except her memory almost till
the hour Ct her death.
Mrs. BlacknaH died on a remnant of the
large possessions on which her mothers
family, the Nuttalls, settled back in the
eighteenth century, far more than cen
tury ago. Both her fathers family, the
Boswells, and her mothers family, the
Nuttalls. as well as the Blacknalls were
of the ancient and aristocratic county of
Gloucester, Va, the Nuttall home being
on the historic glebe lands opposite York
town. There the family had for genera
tions been wealthy and prominent Episco-
palians. though force of environment
made her generation Methodists in North
Carolina. Several of them held commits
sions and won distinction in the war OF
the Revolution.
In 1926 she married Thomas Blacllnall,
Jr., whose family had in the preceding.
genera ton accompanied hers from Vir-
ginia To this short wedlock, which end
ed in 1888 were born the sons above
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
Wilmington Prssbytery Convenes.
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Wilmington, N c., April 1.-THE spring
meeting of Wilmington Presbytery pe-
gan last night at Clinton, Sampson coun-
ty, with an Introductory sermon by Rev
d. P. McGeachy, of Burgaw, the retlrlhs
moderator One of the matters OF interest
to be arranged during the session Is the
installation of Rev. ]. NJ. Wells, IN. ",
the new pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, of this city.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

In Indiana a member of minister's
family was sick, he sent for doctor
and offered to pay the fee in advance.
but the doctor would not go. The per-
son died. The doctor was sued and the
prosecution charged qtic doctor with the
death. The court helr chat doctor is
not legally bound to attend any patient
for damages for refusing to answer
calls
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

Paul D. Carpenter, son of former
Senator Matt" Carpenter, has recent
Iy been elected judge of one of the
State courts of Wisconsin on the Demo-
cratic ticket. He broke from the Re-
publican patry last year on the inn
perialist issue, and is now prominently
mentioned for the Democratic guber-
natorial nomination next year. He is
said to inherit his fathers great ability
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

81 had piles so bad could get no rest
nor find cure until l tried De Wits
Witch Hazel salve. After using it once,
l forgot ever had anything like Piles. -
E. c. Boice, Somers Point, N. Y. Look
out for limitations. Be sure you ask for
De Wits. W. H King Drug Co., Bobbitt
& Wynne Drug Co., VIM. Simpson.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

The hostility of Republican papers
to Mr.. Germans new election law in
Maryland would indicate that it will
cut off alien voting and prevent negro
repeating-the two things that Repub-
licans have relied upon to carry Mary
land
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
MAXIM GA HEw OF A THIEF.

Greenville Reflector.
Mai. w. II, Martin. the man who stole
some $4,000 or $4,000 while he was a
clerk in ex-State Treasurer Worth's Of
fee, has been sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment. The speedy trial and SEN
tence that has followed the discovery Of
his crime are commendable. Yet it was
noticeable in reading the proceedings Of
the trial that, Notwithstanding Martin
had confessed his crime, there were law
yers who went before the court and con-
doned his stealing and tried to make
a hero of the thief. Any criminal is en-
titled to legitimate defense, but the
methods often used by lawyers and some
of their public utterances have a tendency
to encourage rather than diminish
crime. Take the recent Charlotte gamb.
ling case and this stealing case for exam
pies.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

The new King of England has Sc
cured an increase of $33 1000 in his, an
nual allowance. The total cost of the
royal family is about $1O,OOO,CO0 year.
Imperialism comes high, but we are
trying a taste of it in the islands.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
So mote it be

Then a man with small capital might
hope to start a business that would
prosper under wise management. Now
the trust strangles tee weak, robs the
farmer. ami utterly destroys comueti-
ton.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
A POOR MILLIONAIRE

Lately starved in London because he
could not digest his food. Early use of
Dr. Kings New Life Pills, would have
saved him. They strengthen the
stomach, aid digestion. promote assimi-
lation, improve appetite, Price, 25c.
Money back if not satisfied. Sold by all
druggists.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

And now j. Pierpont Morgan is or
ganizing the dry goods stores into
trust. You can't buy a yard of ribbon
then without helping out the trust.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

When Governor Taylor skipped"
from Kentucky and dared not stand
trial, that was pretty good evidence
that he was guilty. Ex-Gov. Bradley's
testimony gives the "clinch.7 The
blackest crime in the history of the
Southern Republican party is the killing
of Goebel.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

NOW is THE SEASON when the small
boy fills himself with green fruit which
invariably leads to cramps, diarrhoea or
dysentery. If parents are prudent, they
will have bottle of Pain-Killer, ready
for such summer emergencies. Avoid sub
stitutes, there is but one Pain Killer,
Perry Davis Price Csc and soc.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

The party Of seven people who passed
through Winston from Elkin going 70
Nebraska evidently had not read the
admonition of President Vehable STAY
in North Carolina"
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
supt Curtis Goes to Burlington.
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Mount Airy, n. c., April 1.-Owing to
his election to the superintendency of the
graded schools of Burlington, Superin-
tendent F. H. Curtis has resigned as
manager of the schools here, his resig
nation to take effect at the end of the
scholastic here.
1t is with deepest regret that the peo-
pie Of this place part with him, though
they realize that he goes to a field of
wider usefulness and rejoice that his
abilities ard efficiency have met with this
well-merited reward
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

The farmers of Cabarrus county in
public meeting have resolved to reduce
the cotton crop ten per cent. They are
wise farmers in their day and genera
ton.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

A man can always get on with the wo-
men if he can make his voice tremble
whenever ne wants to.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
NO NOTICE OF FUNERAL AND
INTERMENT.
Danville Register.

The New York Journal says the cleo
tions in st. Louis and Chicago indicate
that the free silver issue is dead. We
have heard this same sentence passed
upon this issue many times before, and
yet we have received no official notice
of it's funeral and interment.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12
WANTS NO PEACE WITH A BUT.

Attorney General Gilmer takes the
proper course in demanding an absolute
mol pros or a trial of the registrar cases.
While the Democratic party may desire
peace, it would be foolish to allow the
Republicans to hold the thing over its
head Ii would be better to face the worst
and be over with it.
The news & observer., 1901-04-12

Those famous little pills, DeWitt's Lit
tie Early Risers will remove all impuri
ties from your system, cleanse your
bowels, make them regular. w, H. King
Drug Co., Bobbitt & Wynne Drug Co., VIM.
Simpson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-24
BULLETIN OF COMING EVENTS.

July H-Ice cream social, high school lawn.
Aug. q, q, 20, 30-Winnesheik. County Fair
July 30-3l-Annual target and live bird tour
nament, DEBORAH Gun Club.
Sept. aboard of Supervisors meet.
Sept. 23-District court opens.
Nov. SELECTION Day.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-07-25
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

To the Republican electors of Penn
sylvania | am directed by the Republl-
can State Committee to announce that
the Republicans of Pennsylvania, by
their duly chosen representatives., will
meet in convention at the Opera House,
in the city of Harrisburg, on WedneS-
day, August p, at 1870 a. m. for the
purpose of nominating candidates for
the following offices:
One person for the office Of Justice Of
the Supreme Court.
One person for the office of State Treas
urer.
In accordance with the erule- governing
the organization, the representation in
the State Convention will be based on
the vote polled at the late presidential
election. Under the rules each legis-
lative district is entitled to one delegate
for every two thousand votes cast for
the presidential electors in 1900, and an
additional delegate for each fraction OF
two thousand votes polled in excess OF
one thousand.
BY order of the Republican State Com
mittee.
FRANK REEDEE Chairman:
w. r. ANDREWS, c. f. VOORHEES,,
Secretaries.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-07-25
WHY Gomez Is Here.

General Gomez, who came up from
Cuba a week or so ago, has dispelled
the mystery of his presence in the Unit
ed States, though why there should
have been any mystery attached to the
visit of the battered old patriot, who
has now sheathed his sword and IS
private and peaceful citizen of the IS
land, no one can quite understand. Aft
er much importuning by the metropoli-
tan newspaper reporters General Go
mez issued a statement, saying: ''The
sole object of my visit to this city has
been my great desire to embrace my
old, true and loyal friend, Mr.. Tomas
Estrada Palma, whom | have not been
able to see since peace was re-estab-
ltshed, and, of course, to pay visit to
President Mckinley, to whom we Gu
bans owe 50 much"
The general declares that, as the Gu
bans are all anxious to establish self
government, they are all working to-
WATQ IulS emu. AlluOuBH LIILS Is udi VI
ly an exact statement of fact 1t is q
pardonable eXaggeratiOn coming from
q leader whose struggle for independ-
ence has lasted 20 years and who can
hardly be blamed for intimating that
annexationists are not Cubans as he
understands the word.
In concluding his statement General
Gomez INDUCES In fine bit Of Iberian
eloQuence and distributes compliments
broadcast. He adroitly says: "On again
setting foot In this free land | feel hap
py, for in every American l see "A friend
who, having shed his blood side by
side with us for Cuba's freedom, has
earned our eternal gratitude and es-
tablished the mutual obligation be-
tween the two people to maintain the
peace and the independence Of the is
land of Cuba" While the language IS
somewhat extravagant and takes for
granted some things which may not be
regarded as wholly settled, the en-
thusiasm of the old hero as he sees the
near approach of the Cuba libre' for
the accomplishment of which the better
part of his life has been given is nat
ural and wholly commendable.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-07-25
Changed Times.

Times have changed indeed from the
time when Sydney Smith complacenty
observed that the United States had
so much wilderness clearing to do that
1t might well take its literature, learn
ing and luxury in the bulk from Eng
lish factories.
"Why." he had asked, should the
Americans write books when six
weeks passage brings them, in their
own tongue, our sense, science and gen
ius in bales and hogshcads? Prairies,
steamboats,, gristmills, are their nat
ural objects for centuries to come"
We might almost reverse this and
ask, "Why should the English feel Ill
at ease when a six days passage brings
them our sense, science and geniusT'
For the time at least the Rev. Sgd
ney Smiths chief notoriety seems to
be that he was the author of certain
observations whose truthfulness has
proved as brief as it was bitter.-Har-
per's Weekly.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-07-25

The English papers are calling atten-
ton to the fact that the first term of
Office of Prince George Of Greece as
high commissioner will expire within
few months. Three years ago Crete
was making trouble for almost the
whole of Europe, and now it is possible
that she will again give the great pow
ers something more to worry about. 1t
is reported that the members of the
chamber of deputies have been consid-
ering the question of asking for annex
alton to Greece. This is looked on as
sign of rumpus to come In the near fu-
ture. According to reports from Ath-
ems, the Christians of Crete claim that
'the material resources Of the island
cannot suffice for an autonomous gov
ernment." But what are they to gain
by being annexed to practically bank
rupt Greece? If the Christians of Crete
would confine their efforts to industry
and drop politics for a time, they would
doubtless soon be in much better CON
dition themselves, and at the same time
they would save the concert Of the pow
ers a deal of anxiety. 1t is, of course,
difficult to maintain peace in an island
inhabited by two antagonistic races
and have each enjoy equal rights. II
there is an outbreak in the near future,
the responsibility for it will lie very
largely with the Christians, who are
doubtless more or less encouraged In
their position by the high commission
er himself
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-07-25
oouscriation and Civilization,

The Beacon, a Boston publication
which calls itself "a magazine Of help
fulness and hopefulness," finds queer
dilemma confronting the military au-
thortties of those countries wherein
service in the army is not compulsory.
On the one hand, The Beacon says,
men nowadays Will not enlist, except IN
times of great excitement due to peril
Of foreign attack, unless they are well
paid and fed, provided with amusc-
ments and recreation and subjected
only to the lightest of discipline. On
the other hand, declares The Beacon,
"men who are kept in a fairly comfort
able frame Of mind, who are well fed
and who find plenty of wholesome
amusement do not make good fighters.
The rough fare, the strict discipline,
the drill, the constant restrictions on
his liberty, the punishment for petty
offenses, put the soldier in an irritable
mood, In which 1t IS a positive relief to
ht1n to go out and kill somebody" SO
The Beacon thinks that it viii not do
20 make army service too easy, because
In that case the army viii not be Il
good fighting machine, while if army
service Is not made attractive 1t is
going to be more and more difficult to
get recruits. The conclusion Is that be
fore very long little wars will be given
mp, and then, sarcastically, that, Of
course, would be a sad blow to ciViliza-
ton, but 1t would be a great thing for
the comfort of those who sit in dark
ness and incidentally for the people
who have to pay the bills"
What special knowledge Of war and
warriors this hopeful and helpful
magazine possesses Is not revealed, but
its notions as to what constitutes a
good soldier and makes him efficient
In battle Is certainly novel
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-07-25
A Korean Prison.

The gate was wide open, and the
courtyard was full Of prisoners, and the
surrounding buildings We're old and
tottering. | asked the chief, whom one
Of the two or three listless attendants
called for US, why the prisoners did
aot run away. "Oh," he replied, ''they
would be caught and beaten again and
kept longer. Now they will get out
soon"
But as | looked at them | saw they
did not run because they could not.
The life was beaten out of them. The
keepers brought the heavy red cord
with brass hook at the end and
trussed up man with it to show how
the beating was done and then brought
us the stiff rods with which victims
were pounded over the shins and
thighs until the beaten spots were sim
ply masses of fostering rottenneSs.
There was room, black, foul, leprous,
in which the men were fastened In the
stocks The Black Hole of Calcutta was
scarcely less merciful than this
Ladies' Monthly.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-07-25
Women Who Wear Well.

1t is astonishing how great change
a few years of married life will make
i'll the appearance and disposition of
many women The freshness, the charm,
the brilIiance vanish like the bloom
from peach which is rudely handled.
The matron is only dim shadow, a
faint echo of the charming maiden.
There are two reasons for this change,
ignorance and neglect Few young
women appreciate the shock to the sys-
tenn through the change which comes
with marriage. Many neglect TO deal
with the unpleasant drains which are
often consequent on marriage and moth
erhood, not understanding that this
secret drain is robbiug the check of its
freshness and the form of its fairness.
As surely rs the general health suffers
when there is arrangement of the health
of the delicate womenly organs, so sure
ly when these organs are established in
health the face and form at once wit
ness to the fact in renewed cOmeliness.
Half million women and more have
found health and happiness in the use
of DR.. Pierce Favorite Prescription. 1t
makes weak women strong and sick
women we'll