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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1900)
AMENDMENT AND AVCOCK i ! j The Result of North Carolina’s Hotly Contested Elections. THE VICTORY _ DEMOCRATS WIN riarion Butler Turned Down and Adoption of Amendment Will Disfranchise Many Negroes. The election* in North Carolina Thursday ^ for state officers, member,! ■of the legislature and county officer* •nd for an amendment looking to a practical elimination of the negro from politics, were unexpectedly -quiet. By far tbe greatest interest centered in the fight over the amendment. Over the state a gre«t many negroes voted . »<* >*• .. The fannll, of « Uimgstone r , * college, «t 8.1.,bury, edne.t.on.1 one of the most prominent negro metitu t.one in tke eonth voted for it The amendment was oppo.ed by the fusion forces of the Populists and Re pnbhcaus headed by Senators Butler and Pritefeard and the campaign was the most bitter waged m the etat« since reconstruction days There was a full poll ctf the Democratae strength, which, combined with a small negro vote and some Populist and Republi can votes, rolled up an unprecedented majority. Spencer B. Adams, fusion nominee for . governor, war defeated by Charles B. Aycock, Democratic nominee, by fully 40,000 majority. Ail other state officers top, re elected by equal majori ties, . rhe legislature . Democratic . . is iu both branches. The election through cut ent the the state etate tors vas ppnsra'lv genera.ly oniet quiet and ana jaeaeeable, toe negroes, .as a general thing, remaining away from the poll*, Tke voting in Rnleigh ... the qn.et est ever known. Business was sus pended and the day wag Sabbath-like. There tvas no disturbance and no ar rests. The negroes who had regis tered polled within fifty votes of the registered strength. About fifteen of them voted for the franchise amend ment and the Democratic state ticket __i The news which i • y came in . during j the .-v day from other parts in the state was that the election was extremely quiet «nd and that that the tne Democrats Democrats rolled polled tlieir their greatest vote at – number of points, Never in any election was interest so intense. Democratic State Chairman Si nmons said the vote was as good as could have been desired and that it was never before cast so early in the day. The Democrats carried the elec tion by business campaign methods. This is the first time in the history of North Carolina when the full Dem* ocratic vote was polled m every conn ty. The estimates in fact, were below Ibe poll. .. w„.quickly proved, « all reports showed an increase, rotate Chairman Simmons says he sent out ^..r r50n “ dor,ne ths ike military ® .*. • -o Laieign i • r. . Kept . in were on waiting orders all day in the ar mory, M there was do ca.l for their nee. SKETCH OF GOV. AVCOCK. Cbarles Brantley Ay cock, elected povernor of North C arolina, in Thursday’s election, is forty-two Wayne years old, was born iu COUnt r He S ra(luatR<1 at tbe Univer sity of North Carolina and won there the medal for oratory, a most coveted prize. He studied law and began its practice at (ro.dsboro. He held many minor positions, such as county super intendent of education, chairman of the town school board, town and county attorney. He w’aB appointed assistant ^ United ^ States attorney and later district at t-orney, Mas a pr6sid€Dtial elector in 1884, 1888 and 1892, the last year an elector at large. lie is a Baptist and a man of the highest type and an ar dent friend of public education. He is considered ~ -a 3 the ai u best i. orator 4 . m the state. x a He was nominated for governor April 11th and made the greatest canvass on record, speaking 111 times, and in all the counties except three. He has been married twice, his wives being eisters. Misses Varina and Cora AA T ood ard, of AVilson county, cousins of ex Congressman Ai\ r oodard. Nashville Will Not (Quarantine, Mayor Head of Nashville, Term., re reived a telegraphic inquiry from a railroad official at Tampa asking if Nashville would receive passengers that point. The mayor replied: Na8hville has no fears from yellow fever and will receive passengers from all points.” Mississippi Will Wait Awhile. The Mississippi state board of health does not think the yellow fever situa tion in Tampa, Fla , at all serious so fur and does not consider the estab lishment of quarantine necessary un iess conditions grotv decidedly worse. JAPA N—RUSSIA—-KOREA, Why the .Tap* Object to the Btar’l Tab lug of Mu San I’ho. In discussing Russia’s acquisition of Ma sau pbo, the Rossija adopts n moro than usually aggressive tone. In fact, the general opinion here is that ltus ginn diplomatic circles will consider the following remarks uttered by that journal as being decidedly inoppor tune: AA’itli all its shortsightedness Korea has at length convinced itself that Japan Is nothing without Great Brit ain, aud tliat the prestige of the latter country as :a -threatening Power’ has been rudely shaken by the recent war. If once Ma san pho can see Russian warships in Korean waters, tlu-n Korea will finally cease to hesitate. “The King of Korea will know once for rdl to Avhose orders he lias to sub mit himself. Russia’* success will be all the maie important, as, according to the Treaty, and for the purpose of ‘maintaining the equilibrium,’ no other foreign warships will appear by the side of these of Russia i the Korean waters. Russia will not only commaud iu Korea, but it will be the sole Power to do so there. For the moment Rus sia is not frightened at the prospect of a conflict with Japan. Formerly, whether we liked it or uo, we had to pretend * not to see many little tricks * of japan, for our ,Ilp, winter Inchon,ge thun vessel, were „' Japnn e re dock,, aud we re ohUeed CV6B to use Japanese C0 .^ j atter8 are now diTerent. Russia ^ a gufficicut niunber of docks at ; vlaaivostock and Vart Arithur, and | baW soon aIso at Ma san pha. In these bays and at T a lieu wan, Russia uow ha6 adequate supplies of coal for the purpose of making Avar. But, be j sides serviug as coaliug stations, Pori ! Arthur and Ma san pho are of impor tance n only as being iee-free anchor . frrounds f or the Russian navy and also bases of supplies ,* for an entire , warfare, „ but , thiough . , . army in occause tlies i ports corn and cattle can be guppbe( j f roni Manchuria and cattle 31101 , n<e . f 110LJ ivtlea Korea - The last named Biaae of food <;an be supplied aU the potter, seeing that Ma san pho already ^ a warehouse for storing rice, a , , 10 t eost tw , ba „ dlng aa „ its , contents , . could ,, , turned , to , mill- ... De tary uses. With With the the acquisition flcri’i’sition oi of Port l ort Aitnur Arthur Russia took to a certain extent the first step toward an active policy in the Far East; but new, with the ac yisitiou of XI. pbo, it bas planted itself firmly on t>otli fcci, »in(i loft its han<lg pei . fectlv free . We must hope .. . R , , ,. ow to make the , 1 \ e 01 f t] the n p0Slt0U „ iton ^ - v hioli Wcl1 11 has thug won an d that it will intro a new stream of civilization into the 6T , ppressed conditions of life at present existing in Korea.”-St Peters burg Correspondence, in the Londou Globe. Paid One; Drew on the Other. There are two ministers in Cloved and who bear the same surname. They are „ Rev. At ard Beecher Pickard , aud Rev> p>r. William L. Pickard. Some i,, , J£ , 0 Rev R pj c kard was sit ttag hls at Us bomt „„ p our ti) avenue, when his wife brought i.,- m a daintily scented envelone ^ Slip , 5 trho t j r looked to be a blushing groom • b ad g; VCI1 her Hie package. Mr. Fick | ard tore op8n the envelope and found . goW ea e le. He goessed whet i. was for and for whom it was meant, so he forwarded it to Dr. W. L. Pickard. Another funny incident happened. I>r. A\. L. Pickard was conducting 1 Sunday-school meetings in a small j town. After the services an elder came to him and said that a poorly clad man was waiting iu the ante room to see him. Dr. Pickard went | into the room and confronted the stran gov. TLho man stammered and halting |y said that he wanted to see Mr. Pickard. The minister replied that his name was Pickard, and asked, : “AA iiat can I do for you?” “AA’ell, I wanted to see Mr. Pickard „ I am a friend of his. hot If you arc half as good a minister you will tend me a quarter.” He got the money.—Cleveland Lead* er. | - Cntil«fl.h ^ Ink. i I The cuttlefish are caught in groat numbers off the coast and are used as a halt for tiie conger eel, for which this part of the world is celebrated, The cuttlefish possesses no real mouth, but has a long, cylindrical sucker with which it adheres to the balLThe : method of capturing the fish is as fol lows: A loug line from which are suspended from two hundred to three hundred hooks baited with portions of pilchards (almost the only bait the cut tlefish will take) is let down into the sea and , allowed . to . stop . _ there ,, for „ a h ou t Half an hour; it is then draAvn UP( aud tbe cuttlefish are found hang ing by means of their suckers to the bait The moment that they leave the wa ter they eject with considerable force a great quantity of deep, black, vis cous substance, which is about the consistency of treacle, and the stain made by it upon the clothes of the fishermen Is permanent if it happen <o , full ,, upon them. ., Cornwall ,, „ T Letter T: , the London Leader. REV.D-R.TALMAGE The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Subject ! rriiflicnte I.lterHtnre— Kvll Tub lliatlons the Greateit Scourge of the World— It Fill* 1 lie I*rl*on» and In sane Aftylunin— Power of the Press. 1 Copyright ihuo.1 AA’asuintiton, D. C — Dr. Talmage sends the folloAving report of a discourse, which will be helpful to those who have an ap petite for literature end would like some rule* to guide them in the selection of books and newspapers; text. Acts xix, ous 19 “Many arts brought of them llieir also books Avhieh together used curi- and burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver.” Fanl had been stirring up Ephesus with some p'ace. lively sermons about the sins of that Among the more important results avos the fact that the citizens brought out their bad books and in a public piace made a bonfire of them. I see the people coming out AA-ith and their arms full into of the Ephesian flames. liter- I ature tossing it hear an economist who is standing by saying “St-op this waste! Here are $7500 Avorth of books. Do you propose to burn them e.il up? If you don t AA\ant to read them yourselves, sell them.” “No,” said Uie people; “if these books are not good for else, ais, and they shall are not stand good and for Avateh anybody until AA-e the last leaf has burned to ashes. They have done us a world of harm; and they shall neA-er do others harm.” Hear the flames crackle and roar! Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities is a great bonfire of bad books and ncAA'spaners. AA’e have enoueh fuel to make a blaze 200 feet high. Many of the publishing houses Avould do Avell to throw into the blaze their entire stock of goods. and Bring it into forth the the fire insufferable and let trash put it be known in the presence of God and angels and men that you are going to rid your hpmfs of of the profligate overtopping literature. and underlying course The printing press is the mightiest agen cy on earth for good and for evil. The minister of the gospel standing in the pulpit has a responsible position, hut I do not think it is as responsible as the position distant of an editor or a publisher. At what point of time, at what far out fluence cycle of eternity, will cease the in of Henry J. Raymond or a Hor ace Greeley, Watson or Mbebb, a James Gordon Bennett, or a or an Erastu^ Brooks, or a Thomas Kmsella? lake the over whelming the aailv and statistics Aveekly of the circulation of neAvspapers and then cipher, down if von can. Iioav far up and hoAv far aTld ho w fa r oat T each th e influ epees of the i American . . printing Issue presses, What is to be the of all this? I believe the Lord intends the printing P r e*« to be the chief means for the world’s vue ia - jl TtUe Dax;ue OI of th xne ^ wortd vona will not, be fought with swords . and , guns, ^rat types and presses, a purified and g° s P e ; literature triumphing over, tramp , down and crush™ out forever that which is depraved. The only way to overcome unclean literature is by scatter ing abroad that which is healthful. May pr^s^! tell -I have to you that the greatest bless . that to the nations that ma ever came is °^ aTt ^evated literature, and the great ««t ature. Mourae.hu This last been has that its of victims unclean liter- all in occupations and departments. It has and Xsho^c Td^ens^f hi shame. The bodies of this infection in the hospitals and in the graves, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity! The London plague was not.img to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modem rest has al ready shoveled its millions into the car nal house of the morally dead. The long est train that ever ran over the tracks was not long enough or large enough to carry the beastliness and the putrefaction 'Hiich have been gathered uu in bad books I put a question of overmastering iranor tance to vou and vour families. What only# sz paper is a book in a swifter and more hich portable apply ' shape, and ?£l the same L n rules ?’ 10 re n % w „ app,y everything Shall that an author has a mind to write? there be no distinction be £ k? the ^halMve^stSp which the dowm^and^dring wickedness out of trough of men ha ! has filled mi in with im pollution jrity “nrl and chase shame? ? ] we we’mighY’S^Afhe .„ , r f, P’ blooming fan gardens of God? Oh, no! For the sake of our present and everlasting welfare we ^* make an mte!h eent and Christian e tious Standing, literature, as we the do, question in chin-deep that ficti ??J ?k' is, “Shall read young p , ec e gooTvihrlsCan^deva'ting ? re a n ? we nov- 1 fhe to neart and enobling to the life, but I have further to say that I believe that lnd°d«“rXe' to" jlle $2t degree A pure work of fiction is history 8nd poetry comb ; ned . It ; 8 a history of things around us, with the licenses and assumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to Bucn WTiters of notion as Hawthorne and McKenzie aud Landon and Hunt and Arthur and others whose names are famil * ar The follies of high life were woDhj thememSof the past wereneA more °f faithfully AValter embalmed Scott. than in the writ j ' n R s ^hfiil]y redoient with Cooper's the novels breath are iea of forest**^Charles King^ey Kns ’smfiTeTthe moi-bidity of the world and led a great ™ !1, J y to appreciate the poetry of sound 1 did work in ing blood. the pretenders to gentility and high Dickens has built his own monu mcnt i° his books, which are a plea, for the poor and the anathema of injustice, and there are a core of novelistic pens to-day ana righteous ness. Now. I say, books like these, read at right times and read in right proportion with other books, cannot help but be en nobling loathsome and purifying, but, alas, for the and impure literature that has come in the shape of novels like a freshet overfloAving ah the They banks of decency and common sense! are coming from some of the most celebrated publishing houses; they children lie on and your centre table to curse your blast Avith their infernal fires generations unborn. You £ nd these books in tbe desk of the school miss, gtcambeat in the trunk of the young man, in the cabin, on the table of tbe hotel child's repetition room. You see a light in your room late at night. You suddenly go T in reading.” and say. “What “What ate you reading?’' doing?*" ' am arc you “A book.” “Where did you get it?” “I borrowed it.” Alas, there are always those abroad who would like to loan vour son or daughter where. all a bad unclean book! literature! Everywhere, every it the destruction of 10,000 immortal I charge upon souls, and I bid wake the tude of the evil. you up to magni I charge you, in books the that first place, to stand aloof from all give false pictures of life. Life is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not all either knaves •r heroes. Women are neither angels nor furies. And yet, literature if you of depended the upon much of the day, you would get the idea that life, instead of be ing something fitful and earnest, fantastic something and practi cal, is a How poorly extrava gant thing. and prepared for the are du tint young man woman ties of to-dav who spent last night wading through brilliant passages and wickedness! descriptive The of magnificent knavery looking all day long for bis man will be heroine, in the office by the forge, in the factory, in the counting room, and he will not find her, and he will be dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to the indis criminate reading of novels will lie nerve less, inane and a nuisance. He will be fit neither for the store, nor the shop, nor the field. A woman who gives herself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be unfitted for the duties of Ayife, mother, sister, heveled. daughter. There she is. hair dis countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands trembling, bursting into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortu nate lover; in the daytime, by the half when she ought to busy, staring hour at nothing; biting her finger nails into the quick. The carpet that having was plain wandered before will be plainer after through a romance all night And long in tessel- indus lated halls of castles. your trious companion will be more unattrac tive than ever, now that you have walked in the romance through lounged parks with plumed princesses, or in the arbor with polished desperado. They Oh, these unfitted con firmed no*. 1 readers! are for this life, which is a tremendous dis c'plirlp. They know not how to go through the furnaces of trial through which they fnust nass. and they are un fitted for a world where everything we gam we achieve by hard and long continu ing work. which, Again, abstain from all those books while they have some good things, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them—the good and the bad. Which struck you? The bad. The heart of most people ife like a sieve which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in awhile there is a mind like a loadstone which, plunged amid steel and brass fillings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally exactly the opposite. If you burs attempt to plunge blackberry, through a hedge of to get one you will get more burs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good yon are. Ymi say, “The influence is insig nifieant” I tell you that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lock-jaw. Alas, if through curiositv, as manv do, you prv into an evil book vour curiositv i 8 ? . s dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunnowder mill Zh "» ^ TYi er ” \<ic , € k r'c in York n r n , i T i put his ar through the bars of a black leopard’s cage. 1 lie animal's beautiful. hide looked so sleek and bright and He just stroked it once. The monster seized him, and he drew bieediner. forth a hand torn and man g]e<] and Oh, touch not evil lth the fain A st st J? k e! Th 0, ’f k you^ulf , yn^'soultSS , f , ?ndWe2£ forth ing under the clutch of the leopard. «‘But.” you rav. “how can I find out whf-her a book is good or bad without reading it?” about There bad is always book. something suspicious a 1 never in knew the an index exception—something style of illustration. suspicions This or venomous reptile always carries a warning rattle, Much of the impure pictorial literature is most tremendous for ruin'. There is no one avIio can like good pictures better densed than I do. of The impressing quickest the and public most mind con is by way picture. What the painter does a by his brush for a feu- favorites th° en What graver the does by his accomplishes knife for the million. fifty author ly pages the artist does by a flash. The best part of a nainting that costs ?T0,0a0 you may buy for ten cents. Fine paintings belong do well to the democracy good pictures of art. You homes. to gather in your But Avhat shall I say of the prostitution oi art to purposes of iniquity? These death Avarrants of the soul are at every street corner. They smite the vision of the young man Avith pollution. Many a young discomfiture. man buying a copy has bought his eternal There may be enough soul, poison and in that one bad picture to poison one soul may poison ten and fifty and the fifty hundreds a.nd the hundreds thousands until nothing but the measuring light of eternity ghastliness can and tell the height and depth and horror of the great undo ing. The work of death that (he wicked author does in a whole book the bad en graver mav do on a half side of a pic tonal. Under the guise of pure mirth the young man buys one of these sheets. He unrolls it before his companions amid roars is of the laughter, but long after the paper gone result may perhaps be seen in the blasted imaginations of those who Sa r The queen of death holds a banquet every invitation night, and these periodicals are the i to her guests. j Young man, buy not this moral strych nine for your soul! Pick not up the nest of coiled adders for your pocket! Pat rnnize no newsstand that keeps them! Have your room bright with good en graving*, but. for these outrageous pictori r.ls have not one Avail, one bureau, not one pocket. . A man is no better than , the , pictures he loves to look at. If your eves are not pure, your heart cannot be. At a neivs stand one can guess the character of a man by the kind of pictorial he pur- IVhen the devil fails to get a man t.s read a bad book, he sometimes succeeds in getting him to look at a bad picture. When satan goes a-fishinjt, he docs not care whether it is a long line or a short line if he only draAvs his victim in. Be ware of Jacivious pictorials, young man, in the name of Almighty God, I charge you! Cherish good books and newspapers; beAvare of bad ones. The assassin of Lord Russell declared that he was led into crime by reading one vivid romance. The consecrated John Angell James, than whom England never produced a better man, declared in bis old age that he had never for fiiteen got over the evil effects of having miuutes once read a had book. Rut I need not go so far off. I oould tell you of a comrade avIio Avas great hearted, noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession, but he had an infidel book day. in “De his AVitt, trunk, and lie said to me a;ad one it?’' I said, “Vcs; would you like to I would.” I took the book and read it only for a few minutes. I was really startled with what 1 saw there, and I handed the book back to him and said, "You had better destroy that book.” No; he kept it. He read it. He reread it. After a while he gave ui* religion as a myth. He He gave up God as a fable. nonentity. He gave up the Bible as a gave up the church of Christ as a useless institution He gave up good morals as being unnecessarily stringent I have heard of him but twice in manv years. The time before the last I heard of him he was a confirmed inebriate. The last I heard of him he was coming out of an insane asylum, in body, mind and soul an awful Avreck. I believe that one infidel book killed hhn for tAvo worlds. Go home to-day and look through your library, library, and then, having looked through vour kee look on the stand Avhere you n your the Christian pictorials and neAvspapers and down apply this hour. If principles I have laid there is anything in your home that cannot stand the test, do not immortal give it soul. away, Do for not it sell might it, spoil’ for the an money you get Avould be the price of blood, kitchen but hearth rather kindle a fire on your or in your back yard and fire then in drop the poison shall in it, and the bon that your in city Ephesus be as consuming as one CHINESE WAfW NOTES. r Chinese soldiers lh-e on rice and cab bage. The Japanese troop* in China now number 22,000 men. Spain will take uo part in the Chi nese war, having no Interests there. Indian troops are arriving <laily at Ilong Kong on their way to Taku. Thor is no properly organized medi cal corps, transport service, or com missariat in China. The Chinese have thirty field batter ies, with 180 Ivrupp and Armstrong guns. Six troops of the Ninth Cawalry, col ored, in Arizona, hare been ordered West on their way to China. The Cliiuuse Minister to Russia has requested the Government to Inspect all his official telegraphic messages. Washington Artillery, of New Or leans, La., with a record of three Avars, has volunteered for Chinese service. The Russian army is to be reorga nized* with a view to concentrating a large force to the nordiAA’est of India. The Chinese are fighting with deter mination aud skill Avhieh they never once displayed during the war with Japan. Chicago will provide 25,000 pounds of beef a month for American troops in China, sending it to Taku, as a base of supplies. Premier Laurier told the Canadian Parliament that the British colonies were not likely to lie drawn on for troops to go to China. Germany has ordered o\*er 91,000,000 of clothes, food and other army sup plies at San Francisco, which-Avill he sent out for the German troops in Chi na as soon as transports can be got. A special correspondent of the Lon don Daily Express at Tien-Tsin con trasts the splendid work and perfect equipment of the Japanese with Hie “inadequate supplies of the British, German and American contingents, which arc terribly lacking in tin- most obvious necessaries.” PROMINENT PEOPLE. President Diaz, of Mexico, draws $50,000 a year. General Joseph Wheeler has nsJu'C the War Department to assign him fi. duty in China. Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson is at Tokio, Japan, to be treated for Ori eutal opthalmia. President McKivJyy made Ids first visit to the capital on his wedding tour, in January, 1871. Prince Herbert Bismarck has pur chased an immense estate at Bokhorst, near Hadc-marschea, Germany. Queen Victoria has approved the Earl of Hoyetown a3 Governor-Gen eral of the new Australian Common Avcalth. United States Senator James W. Bradbury retires after forty years’ service from the Board of Trustees of Bow do in College. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, takes most of his exercise before breakfast, Avhen he walks a mile or ,uon -‘ every clear day. fJir Henry M. Stanley lias announced that Avith tbe expiration of his pre: „ n . * u lh 1ll4> ® House of n«inmnns Commons at> * retire fioin politics, Cardinal Francis Satolli, the first papal delegate to the United States, bas pe CD appointed prefect of the P^P^nda by Pope Leo XIII. r lho Emperor of Germany has deciu '\1 that he was getting weak in his word practice, and consequently I s taking a daily lesson in fencing, President ., , Gilman, .... of , Johns , , Hopkms _ T ^ lna University, practices What lie preaches b.V in regard to the benefit of athletics playing a game of golf nearly every day the wcatber permits. 1 Governor ,, Crane, ^ of „ Massachusetts, ,, . docs not put much faith iu formal ie views of the State militia, aud there fore surprised the Masachusotts troops | ( y appearing in their camp the othe* day unannounced aud ordering an promptu revioAV. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. Humor Current That King Alo*and er ® Life Was Threatened. The Vienna correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle, says: “A rumor has reached here fr ,,!U Belgrade that an attempt was made assassinate King Alexander this ! nesday) afternoon, while he Avas d rn ing through the town, It is said ha was shot at bat was not injured, The rumor is unconfirmed.
