vol xiv.--thirb series salisbury b c cct0ber 11 1883 no 52 deferred articles | a strange movement of cutting i ■ down priced among the leading daily news papers in new york city is attracting some attention the fact is the enormous advertising income of several of the leading dailies — notably the sun and herald will probably admit of their issuing at the low rate of one cent a copy ; but other city papers not so extensively patronized may be driven to suspen sion tiie sugar problem from sorghum ! cane may be considered as solved when it is known that reports to the agricultural department at washing ton through special scientific agents 1 sent out to inspect a factory in new jersey have come forward with thean nounceinut that that establishment is ! turning out from 700to 1000 lbs pure ! wliite sorghum sugar every day it ■ requires no refining process after it ; leaves the mill the company have i a thousand acres in cane which is es timated to yield a thousand lbs of sugar to the acre a startling report also comes from the west to wit : , that kansas will produce this year 2,000,000 lbs sugar from the sor ghum cane these reports coming through the department at washing ton challenge public faith and give us new hopes of the time whey the ; united states may manufacture their ■ ! own sugar supply sickness are criminal or that tlie unfor tunate have forfeited all rights to pro tection in their feeling and self respect are justly incensed it the existence in their midst of such wrongs as tha testi inany has disclosed it approves the energy and persever ance shown by the governor to prevent waste and to secure economy in all de partments of the state and calls upon the people to select this year a council and a legislature which will lie willing to co-operate in the work of reform and help remove the evils which republican apathy has permitted to invade the pub lic service fur the watt-lim.'in gnu new researches in south africa port elizabeth they have aq absurd aud utterly ridic ulous specimen of zoological architecture ' here which they call a gnu i am moved to expatiate upon this brute from the fact that i had 11 personal encounter with j one recently and the results of that en counter haveu't got well yet lie is a cross between a humpbacked cow and an unfinished army mule and his nature jar takes largely of the rascality of both this mule-cow is not considered volup tuously handsome his expressive coun i fence is hardly as saccharine as that of the average l/nll dog and the ihiuoceroaa i is more graceful lie has a quantity of material piled up iorrard which seems to have been left over when lie was built and which gives hi in the appearance of having started out in life with the inten tion of being a dromedary but getting discouraged gave it up his he id con , v y the impression that it was an after j thought whittled out aud tm-u on in haste il is never in the right position aud never seems to lit the wearer if i | were io meet one of these parties with the head omitted from the bill of lading 1 would refrain from making any remarks partly out of consideration for the crea ture's feelings and partly because i would not be at all surprised it is claimed by i elizabethians that the gnu is a very ami aide tractable and docile beast i will not contradict this at least while l am liere but i will say that for the possess or of so many admirable traits of charac ter he is very unassuming and certainly keeps them well concealed they milk these conglomerations i happened to be at a house the other evening when that operation was being performed the lady of the house laughingly proposed that i should go out and try my hand saving that it would be a novelty and the mil something different from what 1 had been accustomed to ll certainly m 818 1 readily absented remarking that i was fond of new gnu milk 1 know as much about milking as a feline does aboil 1 the nicene creed after i had pumped away for ten minutes without obtaining any results excepting an occa sional whack across the face from the i beasts narrative i remarked to theg n i tleuian that there was evidently soiue | thing wrong and suggested that he had : best take the top off ami see what was the i the mutter lie declined but said that twisting tiie tail was sometimes an oft'ec ; tuiil remedy a few minutes alter il oc i curred to me that his remark was strictly i true upon further reflection 1 feel sat iaficd that one who associates with a gnu would not lie so reckless as to tell a lie it behooves tliem to walk uprightly i'>:n to resume the tail which 1 didn't twist after 1 had staggered to my feet and ' cleared my eyes of mud i perceived that j i was a trifle mutilated while directly j ahead stood that insufferable gimsance ! gazing at me with calm contempt i did not do so any more when 1 went on board ship one of those persons of an of ficiously sympathetic kind inquired if i j had been in a railway collision i reliev ed his anxiety by replying that i was suffering from a severe attack of guu j ralgia later inns jl ie carolina watchman [) ;\ the year 18 2 \ . ■ •■:. iow article for universal ly use ft typhoid f rfer h catss s lilphtherla suli ,,- r>»a bvation vloerated - jso '"' ial h sore throat small b - - -^ j i'.ii morisien and ises persons wailingoo f sely scarlet kcver hat • , h rrc ihe fluid »■« r ! .-.■■: . u red with it after token place the won j ",' . i,i.i pitting of small iiy with [>,,» i-i'.k ented , a rucmbcr of my fam ■ n pin « ■ was uken wibh : poi i set the f.rsorc 1 uroal i»a ( n , ,,,., patici . t was , not iclirious w.ls not < pittcd and w.is ab-jut > '' ' ■,'•'■ the i . e again in three ■ plle *' . an ! no thrrs 1 w i'akt hia ■' y.lt '-.~ " z^s333s " s « hun the physicians here scurs um uarbys fluid very l»v,i-:r . .■ . cur«l . int'ie treat v :; ent of i iphtheria a stollenwkrck ar '. i greensboro ala t»tter iried up . g cholera previ nted w ulcers purified and heale ' i in cases of donth ir ■ • will unpleas «^ ut jji the eminent phy n uff si«ian,j.5iakion scarletfctorb y.v m . .,., >■,.„• vanderbllt university nashville tonn t i s of pr t • : ' . a ■ ■ ml and 1 . . an ! p ■ tically » ill hicl ! am ac prof ( iliemi ti y i i-i rccommnr.dcd 1>7 ii stephen ■ •- ■ - . . :" the prol ' ' tj s.c i i church in : v'eky ii(»>ik ■ illy mr for ma r beast ■ i and we - i get ol j ii zkili < & co ' ■ ' i . phi vdelphia blackmer&taylor having purchased t ii r --- - a a > • 1 ile in peres i of « r crawford of the firm of r r crawford & co ■ ! to supply our inds of put at fvtpi li'mli'nt on to tlie slock i v \ i \: in the i a t i iso handle me ana blasting powder f i ' s k : ( ol mini it r supplies we will implicate any prices in the state c - • m skk us i ■ sm taylor iv massachusetts has hocoiue more reuowned for the ex traordinary character of her governor aud his extraordiary ideas and methods than any oilier slate in the union ben butler li is a brick if any body knows what that means ; or i trump which is well uuderstood by card players ; and hence the eyes of the country are fre quently turned on massachusetts to see what they are doing and how they do it it i.s for the purpose of gratifying public curiosity therefore that we present below the proceedings of the democrats of that stale in general convention to nominate a candidate for governor the report is interest ing : massachusetts democrats liuilcr nominated for governor unani mously si-i.'incriki.n mass september 26 at a quarter past 12 jonas ii french chairman of the stale committee called the democratic convention to order and colonel coveny secretary read the call while the call was being read j vv chandler rose aud addressed the presi ding officer but not being recognized remained standing until colonel coveuy linislied as colonel coveny ceased reading \. a imymptou of worchester rose and addressed the chair chandler insisted on his righl to be heard but freucli decided i'm mptoii had the floor this was greet ed with hisses in several paitsofthe hall and tor a second there was quite a com motion i'lynipton then moved that officers of the stale committee be the temporary organization ol the conven tion this motion was declared carried but was doubted and an uproar ensued which was promptly checked by french who called upon hev mr sinnus to offer prayer at the conclusion of the prayer french addressed the convention of monkey sliines suddenly the depart ed one returns,by no means in as leisurely a manner as he left it is now quite evi dent that the proper moment for deboot ing lias arrived but horrible to relate i those boots stick fast then follow fran \ tic efforts to shin up a tree ; this also proves fruitless for who ever heard of a monkey climbing a tree with his boots on qnadramaniacal shrieks impreca tions and prayers fill the air there is wailing and gnashing of teeth ! the ! finale is the ignominious incarceration of the now dejected crosvd in a tow bag only to be liberated upon the payment of sundry shekels by some maccaroni demol ishing italian who owns a hand organ and wants a inoukej to lit it w m y ■■ m ■■ the position of the democratic party in regard to the internal revenue is no new thing it has been the same for years without any turning or shadow of turning the democratic party lias never claimed that neces 1 saries should go un taxed that is a statement worthy only of those radi cals who are praticed in perverting democratic utterances we found the culture of tobacco an industry fol lowed by one-third of our farmers surrounded by odious and exacting restrictions and a tax placed upon their product these farmers are en titled to as much consideration as the j fanners who are engaged in the cul ture of rice or of peanuts the latter have the benefit of a protective tax to increase the price of their product the farmers growing tobacco have a tax imposed upon their product the effect of which is to decrease its value i it does not seem right that this class | of farmers shall bear the only burden imposed on any agricultural product and this is one reason why the dem ocrats have voted to repeal the tobac co tax besides this reason there is ! the general objection to direct inter j nal taxation by the federal govern ment and still more powerful objec tion to the internal revenue system as it exists the system is so odious that at any cost whatsoever it should be abolished this question rises superior to the matter of taxation just as the necessity for protecting the eastern whites from negro majorities rises superior to the principle that majorities should rule it is expe dient it is proper in both cases that the genera principle should be subor dinated to the good of the people in their respective sections and thus to the advantage of the state at large the internal revenue system is a cor rupting influence this lining re cognized he who objects tn its re peal throws the weight of ilia influ ence in favor of continuing a system that breeds corruption it might not be right to say that such a person favors corruption but it is right to say that he is indifferent to corrup tion let's look at the facts a mo ment i one district in the west twenty-even ganger and storekeepers were employed for the quarter ending september 30,1877 that was all twenty-seven for the same quar ter 1878 there were fifty-three for the same quarter 1870 the number increased to 135 the next year was election year and for that quarter 1880 it was 1!»4 and fur the quarter covering the presidential election it was 235 for the same quarter 1881 the number fell back to ninety-three now what docs that signify now let's seo what the expenses were : expenses colle tions 1876 * 45,642 8216,928 1877 49,345 238,653 1878 60,351 252,288 1s70 1 20,84.5 337,659 1880 205,773 455,457 1881 209,324 409,455 the additional expenses in the presidential year were 63,555 ; the additional collections were 44,000 that is the additional cost was near 20,000 more than the additional col lections these are the official figures now hear what the landmark has to say on this subject : persons outside of north carolina and even some persons inside the state who are in ignorance of the situation of affaiis in the centrd and western sections more particularly the western cannot understand the public anxiety to see this internal revenue system repealed we wish they could see its workings as we here see them it is not so much tint it supports a horde of small politicians ut high salaries in idleness thus withdrawing them from the produ cing element of the country it is not so much that it is a system of op pression and espoiuage well calcula ted in its nature to raise the rebel lious spirit in honest men and cause them to violate laws which they would not violate were they just ami justly executed it is not so much that this force is an army the first and last thought of which is politics and the every day labor of which is devoted to making votes i'ov tin ife 1 publican party bat the workings ' of this system are such as to beget a widespread public demondizution the tad of which cannot be foretold ij it w suffered to continue it ia well under stood that a revenue office is the price that will be p«h for a repnb lican vote a storekeeper's coiniuis sion is at the disposal of any moder i ately respectable democrat who will '■ lay down his politics and take it up even now thus far ahead of next ! year's campaign one democrat after ! another generally young men is re | ceiving these appointments they j will change their politics inside of a year or else they will walk the plank we do not undertake to \ say that they all know the alterna i tive but we know it and others know it from the obstrvations of the past it is painful to say that as a j rule after the door has once closed behind them they surrender their j politics rather than their commissions these men's political principles begin to set lightly upon them and after that what the moral sense is blunt ed the man has yielded once he has taken a downward step ii he does not j lose u measure of the respect of his j fellow-citizens — which will lead in evitably to the loss of his own — this will be proof that the public sense has become blunted which n the very deplorable result which is to be ap prehended and the evidence of which are already seen but why need so painful a sub ject be pursued ? our own people know what this demoralization is and hence it is that public virtue revolts j against this internal revenue system as we see it operated outsiders are not interested to help us preserve the ; virtue of our young men ; they have ; no interest in our buffet ings with j these waves of corruption which are annually rising higher and higher 1 and becoming stronger if they had the days oi this system would surely . now be numbered butler in new orleans fchaleston news & courier | southern 1 newspapers winch have short memories and are anxions that u f butler shall have the credit of his good deeds are respectively invi ted to lay before their readers the following order with which butler began his career in new orleans headquarters ) department of the gulf new orleans may 15 yl j as officers and soldiers of the uni ted states have been subject to rq>.mi cd insults from women calling them j selves ladies of new orleans in re i turn for the most scrupulous non-in ; terference and courtesy on our part it is ordered hereafter when any fe male shall by men gestun or mod . insult or show contempt fur any i hi cers or soldiers of the united states she shall be regarded and held liable to ij ire itedas a woman about town plying , her vocation by command of maj gen butler geo 0 strong a a g the newspapers which declined to publish this infamous edict were threatened with guppr ssion and mayor monroe and some of the city officers who protested against it were arrested and sent down to fort jack son where they were kept in confine ment for many months butlers conduct in new oilcans kin never be forgotten nam snakes break up a camp meet ing a telegram to the cincinnati times-star from winston n c dat j ed sept 29 says sunday at a camp meeting near here as rev ('.(.!'-. son was preaching a remarkable sen sation was caused by the sudden ap pearance in the midst of the congre gation of several moccasins a deadly species of snake there were over 2,000 people present more than hall women the snakes began to strike in every direction one young laily was bitten over fifty females faint ed the preacher came down from the stand and the men began a battle with the snakes killing fourot them but the serpents broke up the m t ' 1 b r - the new york times referring m hone's bold black-mailing scl gives some information with an ap propriate comment it s:i s : senator mahone is said to have warned by a special official e y f rom washington that he must press his assessments upon the em ployes of the norfolk navy yard bui if mahone has directly or hid ire been concerned 3 in such an jfcjessn the onlv official envoy that should b sent to him is a united states mar shal with a writ of arrest gen cox ol raleigh has (■„,,,, his european tour he w pairol shoesthat cost him '» 1 s-j and worth i america ami s ul costing *!' : -» england worth £ ' ■ america them are startling hlfere c «. england las free trad and a i a protective tariff he found .■,-•... lliut .|, complaint in ei>glu"*l thai fit tm j e k dmvu t!m price i»f ever i — i'iedmo il i'i • ■ ■ maj y - p of the sue he has tn tlii - : of a l ana in snm • | winter m . v hi :,.;. ... . f r fish ; , has been making for sever 1 : years f gallon < :' n r ib ' bon eai - r mr ii m middh i ■ : v '■ -.- ; at made at i is of sngar and 12 ... i - ip per aero — ' ' ■ ( ' ■ . tin ga virginian . eas rn north carolina saj - : the tim ing when the magnificent and ferl nnef eastern north carolina watered l»y its great sonnds and splendid rivers will be the garden - e united states he got it mixed on merchant received the following or der from a cus \ - siuce mr b please « • rorth of ci shoogar some small na!es my .':'• !. rc<]y last ui a monkey ren ..— . . raph bagging ft ties ! ■ sh v.m • . -. hat ra by r d q yskill t;:t m let • . ; to i : the l tlio . ■ ve cntitlct case is a nor r 13 state it is thnt ( wtor.i.vw ibtiahed i-i r \ . < ■! john f i the ! wan conn ' ith '!»> of r tlic petition i the ■ . . from i - i.lir.t peti . ■ - jut .. : - ■ . county j j 11 kkex lisbury n c k iron works aw mills | turbine wheels also contractor and builder the ohli bio show coming this season • october 11 wosmi 5fiyws • : f x all u h i " l d i m os vast and e&l&ssal exh;3ttldm ; i i/i # m lit q - 4 wo other show has one of these features i herds of asiatic elephants /\ a drove of giraffesj nise african e le t~h ants a whole fl5cx of ostrichcs | ! the only v/ooly elephant z a five tov rh'norrrd3_j a score of lions /^/ 1 = ll i a school of sea lic?js/y « ; j fi p r n \ »> \ " c ° n " '" a blue f»o3e hakdrilxy if 4 u u u u u \ athe only l1oh s1ayct brazilian tamingifi/y pp jl j p rr v »\ h j » e gorillas i wo jj q 5a e oh os 3 s v — " v\afr»can elands kangaroo s y k3 other show lias thelj t p olar bears f4yl gkau/4>y r^g r i \°\ vlac var ' e babboomsa/i tm^^y-^^s i va v apes colonies a l\^\myriad3 culljitb / / f m of mowkeysv \ q s hi / bi ds 100 artiatgx^r 1 8 a 20 rl0w s 10 great rldorx^a p ffiladybidem 6 bands of riu^rx " '-^ il^psill^l : l a,v exhibit the free y^l rf leaper3 scbbesofa(^bat^>y tn all t4e ? a tno:is/y 7loijoe8ofgyhnast8 rtb0m6est man livhjs pf d|ffl c t /^/ 7porfo-x ng stallions stirk eiovue tfoup£\vc skqy avfrcf white's dog circus g french eq;)eftrsenjtes\y ' the c&rvj mench family mfi5t_r?^5j'j5 pagsant^x /^ hiles 0 street display 50 cages gf a n i i 1 a l swy / v^thrusahp men a»n horses tiifparh!valofvek;r:chrviveo ' a eutter^'g royal march ci ifttfmtllb with sfllp amd silverva thousawd costly bamfcehs j - hr mature o all fcaturesi a fais of lsvinc hippopotami male a femalb mofmithsianding ihe enormous zsccnzo atieadia so list en exhibition tr r ijni'ssion is rot more tbea zr.z s.'os chcrgo what a barbarous delight these people take in imposing their practical lies upon the credulity of the involuntary sojourn er in their benighted land a gentleman has told me that gnus arc rarely ever milk ed a monk1.y tail talk while in port elizabeth i met an old hunter from the interior among other things lie related what seemed to me a i very funny plan for napping monkeys his outfit consists of a plug of tobacco a flask of double distilled lightning and several pairs of diminutive boots the iu sides of which are smeared with an adhe sive gum arriving at the scene of ac tion which is generally some tall wide spreading monarch of the forest he finds the ever exuberant monkeys holding high revel among its brauches blissfully unconscious ol the dose proximity of the freebooter the hunter proceeds to bu siness by taking a chew of his first store and a wig of his second lie then sits down aud leisurely pulls off his boots | seemingly deeply absorbed in the con templation of his pet coin he repeats this operation several times to the great edilicution of the interested assemblage above presently nimrod gets up and saunters off leaving the small boots be hind now is the golden opportunity for the chaps aloft they scramble has tily down to scenic their booty autf^cuh ■ having found a pcifiet 7 the jolly quad raiuariuus are soon engaged in all kini'.s lie spoke it some length on national : affairs reviewed the recent address ofi llie republican slate convention refer | ltd lo the administration of governor butler in the highest terms detailing important events that hare occurred the j past year and predicted a great victory i for the democratic party throughout the country i after a great amount of wrangling he ! hon ]'. collins m c elect here arose and moved that the hon ben f butler lie placed in noiniiiation for re-election i liv acclimation and it was seconded ; amid thundering cheers by president grant's old collector of boston mr win ! a simmons the motion was carried : w itliout an opposing voice the platform as reported by the com mittee on resolutions and which wad adopted by the convention at the conclusion general butler's remarks who was escorted into the hall to the tune of see the conquering hero comes is substantially as follows it declares that the outlook in nation al politics is encouraging and it reaffirms the platform adopted ai cincinnati in 1880 and that adopted in boston lasi year the democratic party of massa chusetts believes in the supremacy of the xalion and the integrity of the state in equal rights as regards the sexes in a thorough reform of tin 1 civil service in a tariff limited in amount to a sum neces sary and lor revenue in the abolition of excessive war taxes and in a still further reduction of extravagant state expendi tures jt opposes all sumptuary laws which infringe the personal liberty and favors the introduction of boards of arbi ! nation for the purpose of reconciling difficulties between employers and the employed in order that a better under staniug may exist between capita and labor it declares that the investigation of affairs at tweksbury disclosed a want of proper system in accounting lor pub lic money and an indifference to human feelings and suffering by subordinates which strike the people of massachusetts with grief and indignation j*:c generous hearts or the men and i ' women ol this commonwealth rejecting : the idea that iu'ulbi-tutie poverty aud