Fayetteville Observer from Fayetteville, North Carolina • Page 1

JBXDITI02ST. VOL. II. FAYETTE VILLE, N. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1897.

NO. 105. i' a II I I I I A 1. Jl Jl A 1 LE CUTLERY. INTERESTING SHIN i 10N1 ON DISPENSARY.

fj OR CflSHjP liquors, products of its vineyards, in the due and lawful exercise of its rightsf under the constitution and laws of the United States. And that the defendants threaten to seize, take and carry away, convert and sell all such shipments. The bill then charges that by the dispensary act of 1897, under which the defendants seek to justify their action, all wines, beers, ales, alcoholic and other intoxicating liquors are the subjects of lawful manufacture, barter, sale, export and import, in the State of South Carolina, have been and are being used and will continue to be lawfully used and consumed as a beverage by citizens and residents of the State of South Carolina. And that the products of the vineyards are lawful subjects of inter -State and foreign trade and commerce. The bill then charges that the said dispensary law, in so far as it authorizes the acts of the defendants, or in any ray attempts to abridge the right of importation of the products of complainants' vineyards, into this State and there to seal in original packages, or in any wise hinders and prevents its intercourse, commerce and trade with citizens and residents of South Carolina in the products of its vineyards in such original packages, is in conflict with the constitution of the United States and is null and void.

The bill then alleges for the acts sustaining the jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court, and prays for a temporary, to be followed by a permanent injunction." He then reviews at great length the laws of the case and concludes his decision as follows: "It is manifest, therefore, that the same conclusion must be reached with regard to the dispensary of 1897, which was reached by the Supreme Court of the United States, as to the act of 1895, that it is not within the scope and operation of the Wilson act. This being the case, the law laid down in Leisy vs. Hardin, controls this case and the attempt to forbid the importation and sale of spirituous liquors in original packages must fail. "The decision of ths Supreme Court of the United States must control all Circuit Courts. By this decision it is clear that so long as the State herself engages in the business of importing and selling alcoholic liquors, for the purpose of profit.

So lomr as she recognizes that the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage, is lawful and can be encouraged. So long as she seeks a monopoly in supplying these liquors for that use, and in this way looks to an increasa of revenue, she cannot, under her constitutional obligations to the other States of the Union, forbid, control, hinder and burden commerce in such articles betveen their citizens. REDUCED RAILROAD RATES kef Knives and Scissors Of good quality of eteel AT WATSONS' KDWARE STOKE. TOTTR ORDERS FOB FLOORING EI LING pj planing mill will have prompt attention if left at my Hard ware Store. falter Watson.

THE LABOR WORLD. icago nas lbuo unjon plumbers. ndon lias 60,000 costermongers. tris has a school for cab drivers. oorers in India get six cents a day.

ndoners employ 15,000 cab drivers. rmany has 374 women blacksmiths. ssoula, Montana, has a labor temple. hlEiver (Mass.) musicians have organ- rtland, Oregon, has a Chinese labor In eveland (Ohio) women electrical work- may organize. demonstration will be held fculuth, on July 4.

La Francisco's Labor Council is opposed tie annexation of Hawaii. York cornice and skylight makers demand 3.50 for eight hours in Sep-ior. Brooklyn 300 shoeworkers won a strike ir beins idle twelve weeks. Obnoxious wp.s iired and wages increased. Iiertt lias not Deen a time in twenty Tyhon so many waiters and bartenders ew York City have been out of work.

1st year 418 English trade unions spent sick aad disability benefits. rannuated members received $700,000. cklayers and Masons' International bas 28.000 members in 325 locals, and si, 000, 000 in the combined treasuries. mem her? of the Architectural Work- Progressive Union employed in a bklyn factory have gained a nine-hour Detroit. all operators on type- machines who hereafter work held fiftv hours in any one week will sur- Eer their excess earnings to the treasury lie Typographical Union.

lie International Union of Bicycle "Work- will pay to American Federation of organizers the sum of 5 for each local hn of bicycle workers organized in any or town where no local union exists. Ilectrieal workers say that thousands of ds will be Uhrown out of work as a re-of the recent decision on the Berliner ent. The Detroit Telephone Company already discharged 2Q0 men engaged onstructing its lines. he textile industry throughout South- and Central Lancashire, Jmgland, is recovering from the long period of de- ssion which it has passed through with result that there are close upon 50,000 ratives practically working full time. In the German woolen yarn industry re are 1,300,000 spindles working on rt time.

This includes practically all German mills, with the exception of be 300,000 spindles whose produce is ken into cloth xy the spinners them- ailors along the Welland Canal want the nadian Government to pass a retaliation that will require American vessels to Canadian crews to take them through canal. Canadian seamen claim that they are shut out in every way, even in crews being changed as soon as the is crossed. other, Sister and Child Drowned. At Abbott. Mrs.

Nannie L. rr, her 4-year-old babe and her sis- Miss Mattie 1. Alexander, aged 14, jere drowned in a tank near their fuse. The bov was playing: in the fallow water and inadvertently step- oft into a deep hole in the centre the tank and the ladies were o-3ed in trying to rescue the little How. A Norway Town Destroyed.

The town of Namsos, province of orth Trondhjem, near the mouth of pe Xamsen river, on the Namsen iord, west of Norwav. has been en- My destroyed by fire. The flames, nned by a tierce wind, spread so rap-that the 1,800 inhabitants were un-ble to save even their furniture. Result of a Drunk. AtS an Antonio, Tex.

Bud Franks, horse trader, wound up drunken Pree by murdering his wife and then owing out his own brains. France's foreign legion is thA last for adventurers of all nations F1 one company there were serving re- ruay a Roumanian Drince. who wn Inspected of having murdered his rother; a German count, who had been lieutenant of the guards and on the Peror's staff: an Italian lieutenant lonel of cavalry, dismissed for cheat- at cards; a Russian nihilist escaped fni Siberia; a former captain in the uiish Rifle Brigade, and an ex-canon Notre Dame, snsnpnded for immoral- P- The legion is always used for dan- pous service in which the government us not wish to employ regular troops, le men nave no care for their lives. Of Facts and Figures Regarding Past Events and Present HAPPENINGS IN OUR STATE. The State's Collection of Portraits.

Governor Vance Made an Interesting Statement. Raleigh Correspondence Wilmington Messenger. The State's collection of portraits has become to be important. It is very new, having been begun only twelve years ago in Governor Scales' time. The first portrait presented was that of Chief Tustice Thomas Ruffin, a full length in oil, by Elder, of Richmond, the gift of Mrs.

Paul C. Cameron. This was kept in the executive office until the completion of the supreme court and library building in 1888, when it was placed in the supreme court room. In this fine and lofty room are now also the oil portraits of John Louis Taylor, the first chief justice, and Associate ustice Hall, both members of the supreme court as it now exists. It is to be regretted that there is no portrait of the other first chief justice, Leonard Henderson.

The court of which these were the first members was constituted in 1818. Before that it was called the court of conference. Chief Justice Taylor wears the old-fashioned queue. He has a very fine face indeed. From another canvass the face of Archibald Murphey looks down.

He was not only an eminent jurist, but was also the father of the public school system in this State and it was a fitting compliment to give his name to the Murphey public school in Raleigh. Other portraits, all in oil, are of Joseph J. Daniel, (1832), Frederick Nash, William Gaston, (the author of the "Old North State, written in a little office building here, in a corner of the yard of Mr. Charles M. Busbee's residence) Matthias E.

Manly, William H. Battle, Richmond Pearson, Edwin G. Reade, Augustus S. Merrimon, Thos. S.

Ashe, William N. H. Smith, Joseph J. Davis and William T. Faircloth.

It is to be most earnestly hoped that other portraits of justices will be presented to the supreme court. In the library room of the court there are portraits, some in oil, some in crayon and some photographs, of Edwin Graham, William T. Dortch, B. F. Moore, John Manning, Henry Seaw ell, (chief justice of the old curt of conference, whose grandson, Joseph L.

Seawell, is stenographer to the present court); Thomas Pollock Devereux, Patrick Henry Winston, Bartlett Yancey, Robert P. Dick, Thomas Settle, William B. Rodman, George E. Badger, James Iredell, (associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), Daniel G. Fowle, John Gray Bynum and Walter Clark.

Charles E. Johnson, of this city, grandson of James Iredell above referred to, is the owner of the most valuable collection of letters in the State, and of one of the finest collections of portraits of North Carolinians of the revolutionary period. He is also the owner of some very fine miniatures of that period. Part of this very choice collection was on view some years ago here, and was insured for $10,000, which gives an idea of its high value. The articles which your correspondent has compiled from the State's war records have attracted an attention which is gratifying.

Interest in what is done or attempted to be done always largely increases zeal in the doing. The home guard was organized July 7, 1863; that is, the law went into effect that day and organization began. It was officially "The Guard for Home Defence. All persons between 18 and 50 years not actually in the Confederate service, were enrolled and formed into companies, battalions and regiments. In one case a brigade was formed this being west of the Blue Ridge, with headquarters at Burnsville, Yancey county, and John W.

McElroy was made brigadier general and assigned top command it. The total numbei of men enrolled in the State in the home guard was 25,098. Many of these were unfit for duty and surgical boards were sent to examine them all. But before the examination was completed the military bill putting all persons between 17 and 50 in the Confederate army became law. This broke up the home guard, which had been armed in all counties adjacent to and those east of the Wilmington and Weldon railway.

McEl-roy's brigade was kept pretty constantly in the field for several months up to May 16, 1864. Governor Vance made in the middle of May, 1864, an interesting statement regarding the State troops, upon information furnished by Adjutant General Richard C. Gatling. Un to March 31, 1864, the number of North Carolina troops transferred to the Confederate States was 64, 636, number of conscripts sent to the army 14,460, number of recruits who had volunteered in the various companies since the date of the original rolls 20,608, number of troops in the State service not transferred, but serving under Confederate officers, 2,908, making an aggregate of 102,607. These were in three artillery, six cavalry and sixty infantry regiments; four artillery, four cavalry and three infantry battalions and six unattached infantry companies.

There was one company from this State in the Tenth Virginia cavalry, five in the Seventh Confederate cavalry, four in the Sixty-second Geor- Which Lasted About Fifty Seconds and Caused Great Excitement. CHIMNEY TOPS SHAKEN DOWN. Were of About Equal Force All Over the Country Very Slight at Charleston, S. Washington, May 31. What was supposed to have been an earthquake wras felt here at one minute of 2.

It lasted about fifty seconds and caused chandeliers to sway and floors to tremble perceptibly. Beports from all over the country show the earthquake to have been general. It was very decided in Cincinnati and Cleveland and other Ohio towns. It was slight in Baltimore and New York. At Knoxville there were two distinct shocks and Indianapolis reports a slight shock.

The earthquake was distinct in Louisville and many Kentucky towns. The following places also report experiencing the earthquake: Raleigh, Wilmington, Newport News, Atlanta, Asheville and Petersburg. Concord, N. May 31. At about 2 o'clock this afternoon the earth trembled, and the shock of the quake lasted about four seconds.

The shock was accompanied by a low rumbling noise. Two chimney tops at the jail where shaken, which was about all the damage done here. Durham, N. C. May 31.

There was an earthquake shock here this afternoon at 2 o'clock which caused the windows to rattle and the people in the largest brick buildings felt it. The shock was so heavy that doors which were standing open were swayed backward and forward as if moved by an unseen hand. On residence streets, where the houses are of wood, the shock was so heavy that many ladies were frightened very badly. Two distinct shocks were felt here. Newton, N.

C. May 31. A severe earthquake shock was felt here to-day about 2 o'clock, lasting about a minute. The shock was accompanied by a rumbling noise; buildings rocked and window lights rattled so that nearly everybody ran out into the streets, especially those in brick buildings. No damage resulted, save here and there small pieces of plastering fell, as did a few bricks from the tops of chimneys.

The shock was severe enough for persons on the ground to feel it distinctly. Lexington, N. C. May 31. About 2:15 o'clock this afternoon the earth trembled and the vibrations were so prolonged and the shock so severe, that the business men all ran to the streets.

Window panes rattled and, in a few instances, bricks tnmbled from the chimney tops, but no serious damage resulted. The shock here was more severe than the one in August, 188G. Elkin, N. May 31. A heavy shock of earthquake was felt here this afternoon.

The shock was preceded by a low, rumbling noise. Goods were shaken off the shelves in one store in town. Some residents declare that the shock was as heavy here as the famous 'quake of 188G. Marion, N. May 31.

This afternoon at 2 o'clock we had the heaviest earthquake shock since August, 1886. The citizens made a rush for the middle of the street, in order to be safe in case of brick walls falling. The shock lasted half a minute. Morganton, N. May 31.

An earthquake shock was felt here todaT at 2 p. m. Though not very severe it was of sufficient force to shake bricks from chimneys, but did no damage. Many of our citizens were badly frightened. Danville, May 31.

At2 rainutes before 2 o'clock this afternoon a shock of earthquake was felt here, and caused great alarm. Buildings were shaken and furniture jostled, but no damage was done, The shock, which consisted of distinct vibrations, and lasted over one minute, was proceeded by a roaring sound, resembling that macfe by a conflagration. Lynchburg, May 31. A shock of earthquake was experienced here at 1:58 o'clock this afternoon. Bricks were shaken from a number of chimneys and furniture and crockeryware jostled.

No damage of consequence was done. Savannah, Ga. May 31. An earthquake shock was felt this afternoon about 2 o'clock. Windows were shaken, buildings trembled and the people alarmed.

Not much damage was done however. Columbia, S. May 31. There was a slight earthquake felt all over South Carolina today about 2 o'clock. The vibrations seemed stronger in the northern part of the State, and very slight in Charleston.

A few people were momentarily frightened. No dam age Raleigh, Monroe, Wadesboro, States ville, Oxford, Reidsville, Mooresville, Salisbury, Hickory, Elmwood, Pine-ville and Rutherfordton, N. C. also felt the quake, and at several places bricks were thrown from chimneys, dishes rattled and buildings swayed. Revival of the Sheats Law.

The House of Representatives of Florida has passed an 4 Act to prohibit the instruction or attendance as scholars at the same school of white and col ored persons. This is a revival of the Sheats law of the last Legislature. Unlawfully Received Deposits. In the criminal court at Lebanon, Tenn. W.

E. Hale was found guilty of unlawfully receiving deposits and his sentence was fixed at five years in the penitentiary. The case will be appealed. Hale was cadhier of the Bank of Watertown, which failed about a year ago. State Cannot Supply Liquors as a Beverage to Increase Revenue, A FLATF00TED DECISION.

Federal Court Judge Holds That the South Carolina Measure In Conflict With. Inter-State Commerce Laws. In the United States Circuit Court, at Charleston, South Carolina, Judge Simonton handed down his decision in what is widely known as the Vander-cook case, a case which involved the validity of 'many provisions of the South Carolina dispensary law. The decision created a sensation when it was learned that the court had declared certain provisions of the law in conflict with the inter-State commerce regulations, of Congress, and that consequently it might result in the total downfall of the South Carolina monopoly of the whiskey business within her borders. In a syllabus prefixed to the full text of the decision, Judge Simonton savs: 4 'Any State may in the exercise of the police power, declare that the manufacture, sale, barter and exchange, or the use as a beverage of alcoholic liquors, are public evils, and having thus declared, can forbid suck manufacture, Bale, barter and exchange, or use, within her territory.

But when a State recognizes and approves the manufacture, sale, barter and exchang and the use as a beverage of alcoholic liquors, and the State itself encourages the manufacture, engages in the sale of and provides for the consumption of alcoholic liquors as a beverage, and so precludes the idea that such manufacture, sale, barter, exchange or use are injurious to the public welfare, it is not a lawful exercise of the police power to forbid the importation of such liquors, or their sale in original packages, for personal use and consumption. 4 'Such prohibition under such circumstances is in conflict with the laws of inter-State and foreign commerce. "XhQ dispensary act of 189(3 as amended by the act of 1897, inasmuch as they approve the purchase and manufacture of alcoholic liquors for the State and provide for the sale of such alcoholic liquors as a beverage, in aid of the finances of the State, in so far as they forbid the importation of alcoholic liquors in original packages for such use in this State, are in conflict with laws of inter-State and foreign commerce, and are, therefore, to that extent void." The court then goes into a lengthy discussion of the facts and the law of the case. Judge Simonton's summary of the facts before him is as follows: is a bill in equity. The bill alleges that the complainant is the owner of vineyards in the State of California and that it manufactures from grapes of such vineyards, well known pure wines, brandies and other liquors, particularly clarets, Rhine wine, Burgundies and champagne.

That by its traveling agent the complainant took orders from certain citizens and residents of the State of South Carolina, to deliver to each of them certain original packages, products of its vineyards, filled said orders and shipped from San Francisco in California to Charleston, S. C. by rail, a carload of its products containing 73 separate original packages for each of its said customers, all marked with its name and addiess in California, adopting this mode of shipping by carload in order to obtain a large reduction in freight. That the goods so shipped arrived in Charleston, passing through the hands of several common carriers in continuous route; and thereupon were seized without warrant by Defendants Baher and Scott and sixty of the packages were shipped by said constables to Columbia to John i'. Gaston, then the State Commissioner and got into his hands and then the business hands, and then into the hands of his successor, S.

W. Vance, with full notice of the unlawful seizure, and that Vance, notwithstanding, refused to deliver them to complainant or its agent, after repeated demands, and threatens to convert and sell the same to citizens of South Carolina. That these same constables and others, claiming like authority, threaten to seize in like manner, all wines shipped by complainant into this State wherever found, and for whatever purpose shipped, arriving in said city of Charleston, and in like manner to ship and deliver the same to said S. W. Vance, who likewise threatens to convert the same to the great damage of complainant, and the obstruction and destruction of the lawful business and inter-State commerce and trade in its wines, etc.

with citizens and residents of South Carolina. The bill further alleges arrival of the same in South Carolina, and the wrongful seizure of the same by State constables. That other orderfc have been obtained from other residents of South Carolina for separate original packages, and that upon such orders complainant purposes to ship such packages to South Carolina in due course of inter-State commerce. And that ih the future it intends to seek similar orders and to ship thereupon similar original packages into the State of South Carolina. The bill further alleges that it intends in the course of its business, further and in addition to such shipments or orders by customers in advance, to ship also from San Francisco, Cal.

to its agent in the -State of South Carolina and to the store and warehouse in South Carolina, and to sell in the State of South Carolina in the original packages as imported as aforesaid, to residents in South Carolina, its wines and THE FINEST LOT OF COOKING STOVES EVER IN FAY-ETTEVILLE. We have just received a car load -O F- BUCK'S CELEBRATED STOVES They are Beauties. Cal and see them. Sold on Instalment plan or for cash. Huske Hardware House.

H. A. RANKIN, PLANING MILL, Fayetteville, N. C. N0ETH CAROLINA a.

is YELLOW PINE. SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, BRACKETS, BALUSTERS, MANTELS, CEILING, FLOORING, SIDING, PARTITION, MOULDING, ETC. If you need anything in this lina give me a trial. Have put in Sash and Door Machinery and am prepared to fill orders for all kinds of Mill Work, promptly and at Lowest Prices. Mill on the 0.

F. and O. L. Railroads. Convenient to loading cars.

Store on Hay Street, opposite the Williams Building. riantry and one in the Sixty-first Virginia infantry. The disbursements of the quartermaster's department of the State for, the eighteen months ending March 31, 1864, were $11,680,131. The principal items were clothing, camp and garrison equippage, $6,862,043, horses for two regiments of cavalry and artillery $147, -801, pay of droops, militia and home guard $432,071, bounty $1,669,874, cotton $2,150,998, advances to officeif $186,803. CYCLINC NOTES.

Ex-President Harrison is taking bicycle lessons. Carter 1arrison Mayor of Chicago, recently headed a procession, of some 6000 cyclists during a run into the country. The cycle craze has reached Johannesburg, South Africa. It is said there are 4000 bikes in use by all classes in that town. The enormous growth of the bicycling craze in Indianapolis, can be seen from the fact that up to date 10,445 licenses have been issued for this year.

The New York Legislature passed a law that makes it a misdemeanor for anyone to drive a team or vehicle, other than a bicycle, on paths constructed exclusively for wheelmen. Bicycle thieves have become so numerous and so bold in Detroit, that it is no longer safe to leave a wheel alone, even when padlocked. Several wheels with locks on have been carried away bodily lately. 4 An ordinance now before the Borbugh Council of Bellefonte, will allow cyclists to ride upon the sidewalks whenever the streets are unridable, provided they do not ride faster than four miles per hour. Sidewalk riding is prohibited under all other circumstances.

From Germany comes the news that cycle stand's similar to cab. stands are to be started in Berlin. It is proposed to put 250 on hire Vi various parts of the cityj and the fee for hiring will be the modest sum of one penny for twenty minutes during the day and twico that sum at night. A thing whloh seems to be disappearing is the practice of carrying the lamp near the axle. Many of the lamps now seen on the road are carried on the- handle post stem.

It is a sensible change because it is much easier to get a wheel In and out of the house or the apartment when there is no lamp to catch at the side. That the large majority of cyclists, those who care nothing for scorching or for feather-weight wheels, have come to the conclusion that a good brake is a useful and a necessary part of the equipment of a bicycle, is shown clearly by the number of patents that are now issued in this country and England for brake mechanism. The latest thing in cycling fads is that women should have their monograms engraved on their bicycles, with a view to obviating the confusion which frequently exists when a collection of machines remains at fetes, hotels and so forth, and seek their own in a hurry. In New ork there are several monogram machines in the second-hand stores. Columbia street is a short but busy thoroughfare in the retail district of Boston, and this street has literally been a pathway strewn with thorns for wheelmen for the past few days.

The tires of over 150 bicycles have bean punctured by two-pronged sole fasteners that have' beev strewn in the street by some malicious person with a grudge against bicycles. Cyclists should note carefully whether cycle shop attendants carelessly push the oil cups inside the barrel of he hub when they are oiling the wheels. A rider broke down on Madison avenue the other afternoon, and, upon examination of rear wheel, the cup cap and spring' were found in the hub. It cost 1 to straighten: matters, and a certain oUer lost his place for his carelessness. Husband Why should you blame me because we were late to the theater? jsou hnr- To the Women's Exposition of the Caroliuas at Charlotte, N.

C. Charlotte, N. June 1, 1897. (Special Correspondence). The opening of the Women's Exposition has marked au epoch in the history of the Carolinas.

One person of ability has said that the achievement of the women has been remarkable. It is at least an assured fact that Mecklenburg's women have given to the Carolinas the best fair or exposition ever held in the Piedmont section and have gathered to- ether rare gems of art, in the fine art epartment. In fact the exhibits of every character far exceed anything ever shown in our smaller expositions. Some have remarked that greater satisfaction is found in visiting this affair than in the larger expositions, where so much is shown that only a small part of it can be enjoyed, while in Charlotte the women have gathered all in so compact a shape that nothing is missed. The Seaboard Air Line has granted a rate of one fare for the round trip from all points on the line from May 28th to June 10th.

The limit of tickets will be five days, giving every one ample opportunity to see the exposition and Charlotte. June 1st, 3rd and 8th the Seaboard Air Line will sell tickets from all points within a radius of 200 miles at about one cent per mile for every mile traveled. The fare from the following points will give some idea of the cheapness of this rate: Henderson $4.10, Baleigh $3.70, Wilmington $3.90, Wadesboro $1.30, Chester $1.50, Shelby $1.30, Kutherfordton $1. 90. Saturday, June 5th, will be celebrated as Charlotte Daily News Day, when the Evening News will give special souvenirs to all who attend, and will themselves arrange an attractive special program.

The 7th of June will be Baleigh Day, and a special train will be run from Baleigh to the Exposition over the S. A. L. The rate will be extremely low, $2 for round trip, including admission to the building. The train will leave the Union depot at 7 a.

m. Monday, June 7th, reaching Charlotte at 12:30 noon. This will give the entire afternoon at the Exposition, where meals can be procured. On the 9th, Columbia Day. a special train will be run from Columbia by the Hospital Association of that place.

Other special days are to be announced. Carolinians cannot afford to miss seeing the Women's Exposition, which closes June 11th. Dr. Besse has sued the trustees of an Ohio town for damages because they forced his bees into idleness last summer by cutting down a field of clover. This should prove a difficult question for a court to solve.

Besse, it appears, sowed the clover, but the trustees had the right under an old law to reap it, yet the action of the trustees made it impossible for Besse's bees to be busy, thus violating the unwritten laws of ages. One can hardly picture a more pathetic spectacle than a swarm of bees with nothing to do, and it is not surprising that Dr. Besse resents Jie stinging blow. j. 1,.

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