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wzin m si . . . : - - - - ... . - -v- ; . . jn x x Established 1867. ' For us, Principle is Principle Right Is Right Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow, Forever. tf PublUked 8cmi.Wecldy-3.00,a Year VOL. XXII. GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1886. x I- NO. 77. 171 I THE RANDALL BILL. A Caustic Report From the Com mittee on Ways and Means. Mr. Morrison, from the committee on ways and means, Saturday made a report to the House on Mr. Randall's tariff bill, recommending that the bill do not pass. Mr. Morrison's report says "the bill proposes to remove all internal taxes on tobacco, snuff and cigars, amounting on the basis of last Vear's receipts to $28,000,000; on ap ple, peach and grape brandy to $1,-J 400,UUO; on spirits tor use in the arts, variously estimated at from $7,000,000 to $15,000,000 and believed to be at least $10,000,000, making in the ag gregate of internal revenue taxes to be. removed $39,400,006. 1 1n the ap pendix of estimates submitted with the bill, as part of it, the reduction of revenue from customs on tariff taxes to be effected by it is estimated at $8, 570,576, making the aggregate of pro posed reductions $48,000,000. The bill to so reduce excessive revenues, and the statement that there are no excessive revenues to be reduced, were P submitted to the House by the same member, in the same half-month. If; the statement that the revenues will not exceed appropriations and the es timates with the bill, including loss of receipts from brandy and from spirits . for, use in the arts, may be credited, the enactment of the bill into law will leave Ihe government $48,000,000 short of the sum necessary to the adminis tration of the government and the re quirements of the-public debt author ized by law, including debts incurred by payment of pensions already al lowed, the validity qf which we may not question, and the payment of which is enjoined upon us in the oath we have taken to support the Consti tution. Your committee, unwilling to credit a purpose, so lacking in patriot ism, so forgetful of the public faith, must believe these and other provis ions of the bill the result of fiscal dis temper, hindering a just comprehen sion and intelligent treatment of the subject. In view of its effect and pur pose, so far as it has a purpose affect ing the revenue i of the government, the bill might well be left to that neg lect which, no doubt, it was expected to receive. But in the hope that even so unwise a measure may open the way for the majority of the House to redeem its pledges b'yihe removal and reduction of unnecessary, and there ' fore, unjust taxes, your committee re port the bill $acjk: with the recommen dation that if do" not pass. The bill changes the duty or rate of tax on articles yielding less than one tenth ($17,000,000) out of the $181, 000,000 received rom customs in 1885; it increases .those which yielded $11, 000,000 and decreases or removes those which yield $5,000,000 on the basis of imports for 18S5. It does not reduce the revenue from customs $8,570,576, not at all, but does increase it $5,500, 000, Besides the articles added to the free lisjthe duty or import tax is re duced on castor beans, s castor oil, starch, iron and steel rails, rods, beams, girders, lead and other articles yielding $3,300,000 of revenue, and the revenue is estimated in the bill, to fall off in proportion to the reduced rate of taxation recommended." i PROTECTION FOR j PROTECTIONS SAKE. After analysing various provisions of the bill increasing the tax on woolen goods of foreign j make, tin plate and other articles of common use the re port says : "These statements of the estimated and intended effect of the bill are believed to makq plain the methods by which taxation which, on the basis of imports and revenue re ceipts in 1SS5, would yield $14,000,000 of revenue, is made to divert that sum from public purposes to private gain. .The introduction of this bill would be considered the first avowed attsmpt in our legislative history to empty the " Treasury by the use of. the taxing ' power, the first confessed effort 'for protection for protection's sake,' but for the following declaration from the same source as the bill : 'I do not be lieve there is in the constitution of the United States an authority to levy im . port duties for protection for protec tion's sake. In other. words, I can find nothing which gives authority to the Congress of the U. S. to raise taxes on import duties for protection per se. .A high protective tariff leads to monopoly and to class legislation.' If this measure may be supposed to have any purpose relating to a system of finance it points to di recf taxation, for when internal rev enue taxes are taken off and custom house taxes are laid on so high that the people get the burden, the mon opolists the benefit, and the Treasury department nothing, new sources of supply will be inevitable. The meas ure is not supposed to foreshadow any such system, or to do more than indi cate an origin unlearned in methods and unmindful of results." 4 Attempts to remove the tobacco and other internal taxes," the. report says, "are usually justified by assert tog these to be war taxes, and in ap parent forgetfulness of the fact that, o far as relates to its money obliga tJons, the war is not half over, and fill not be over, until we have paid i,000,000,000, yet to be collected in taxes from the people. At best taxes are a most gnevous burden upon the industry, thrift and comfort of the People. They should be so laid as to cause the least hindratC3 to these in Qustries and comforts; the least inter terence with freely-chosen pursuits ad, as far as possible,narticles, the use of which and the payment of tax hereon would be largely voluntary; ine report comments upon the fact wat more than 90 per cent, of intei nal war taxes have been Tepealed. Jith half of the war debt vet to be Paid, and that war tariff taxes con unue to burden the people and hinder weir progress.- It holds that the tax ' St- i.quor and tobacco, , industries wnich are fairly prosperous, should not be. remoyed. - - v. , : . r , - . THE CONDITION OP THE COUNTRY; Referring' to the great drain of war 'debt, the report4 continues: "With the immensity of this draft upon: the earnings of the people, their wealth was counted in the - census of 1880 at $22,000,000,000 in lands; in movable property, as much more. How much, of this wealth has been di verted or transferred by unequal and excessive taxation by 'a high protec tive tariff,' which 'leads to monopoly,' from those who labor to those who employ labor, is Jargely a matter of conjecture. This we do know i That of the 28,000,000 of people who do something, some work, or engaged in gainful pursuits, 18,000,000, or 9-10 of these earn, on the average, not much more than $300 a year, which is neces sarily consumed in means of subsis tence, while substantially all the sav ings go to the other 1-10, and now we are overtaken by and are in the midst of industrial, paralysis. A million of workmen are idle for want of work to do, and capital, in still greater .pro-i portion than unemployed labor.' lies dead or unproductive. " Our hills and j mountains are full of mineral wealth. Millions of acres of productive lands wait for the plow. Homes for home less millions are to be had for the tak ing. Favored with plentiful harvests, blest with health, the only plague which afflicts us is idleness. What we need is profitable employment. There is an apparent puny effort in the bill, through an increase of taxation, to shut out goods from abroad, that they may be made at home. If this effort was so successful as to prevent the importation of all manufactures we would have direct taxation and three fourths of a million of men yet unem ployed. Their profitable employment amounts to nearly the difference be tween what is popularly known as good and hard times. " The removal of the tobacco tax will furnish no new employment. Neither its smoke nor its juices will turn a wheel, shaft or spindle. Wood, wool, heinp, salt, cheap food for toiling men lie at the foundation of great and suc cessful industries. To free these from taxes will cheapen production without lowering the price of labor, and our idle men may be thus enabled to make something which may be sold profit ably abroad, and with whiGh we are over-stocked at home. The last cen sus estimates show an increased na tional wealth of $30,000,000,000 for the previous twenty years. Marvel ous as this growth from 1860 to 1880 may appear, it shows a yearly saving of only $37.50 to every person of our then average of 40,000,000. Whatever number of persons saved double the average yearly saying, or $75, an equal number saved nothing. For as many as acquired $112.50, three times the annual saving, that many fell be low the average yearly saving of $37.50 short of the necessities of comfortable existence. Facts plain as these show how dangerously near the great mass of men always are to want and Suffering.- To those not blind to the" wants of their less fortunate fellowmen, facts like these show why all men should have a right to work and enjoy the fruits of their earnings, burdened with such taxes only as are indispensable to the public safety. It may be said that any real reduc tion in the rate of taxation will cripple or destroy our manufacturing indus tries, all cf which have come to rely on taxation tor their support This assumption is made with every attempt to relieve the people from unnecessary taxes. It is sometimes made with the assurance of apparent belief in the Ltruth of what always and still is un true. The Morrill tariff, approved by Mr. Buchanan, did not exceed sixty per cent, of the present rate, and was declared by its author, always a pro tectionist, to be fully up to the "level of fair competition.". We cannot reach that now comparatively low level. Thev financial needs of the gov ernment forbid it, and will long con tinue to forbid it. Next before its adoption we had a still lower tariff, and yet the period of its existence was the most prosperous period of like du ration in our history. The growth of agriculture was still more prodigious than the increase of manufactures, and those who refuse to be encouraged by prosperity not built upon taxation may still take com fort in that public necessity which re quires a revenue of at least $160,000, 000 to be derived from custom' house taxes. v BIBLE SCHOOL CONFERENCE The next Bible School Conference of Friends will be held at Bethany church on the 23d, 24th and 25th of July. The program is as'follows: 23d, 2 p. m. devotional exercises. 1. Opening address by the superin tendent. 2. Address of Welcome M. T. Cox. 3. Response Rachel E. Massey. 4. Reading reports from schools. 5. Influence of Bible Schools upon a community Sarah J. Jennett. . 6. Bible school teacner s prepara tion for Work Mary C. Massey. 8 p. m. devotional exercises. 1. Work of -Primary Teacher Sal lie K. Stevens. , 2. True observance of the Sabbath Lizzie Pearson. 3. Ancient historv and ereoerraphy as aids to Bible study J. R. Oyer- 24tn, o p. id. aevouonai exercises. 1. Requsite qualities of the Bible schbol supt. Silas W.i Cox, M. D. 2. Paul as a Missionary J. H. Moore, A. B. ,-. "S p. m. Address on Prohibition 1. B. Ay cock, ; . , r -. - - Sunday, 25th, Model Bible School. All Bible schools belonging to the Conferencei are reminded to, appoint the requisite number of delegates.7 ' - I The superintendents are f also re quested to furnish a written report of the school for the past year.o j f "The" conference earnestly requests the pf essence and. co4abor:blall2 Bible RAftnnTf wnrTrflrsnf whatever creed. and "cordially ; invites the" public gen erally; . . -j is. Li. hollo wili. Superintendent: HARNETT COUNTY! Democratic Convention D.r H. i ' McLean for Congress. Lillington, N. C, July 8. Editor Messenger: By request! of a convention of the Democrats of Har nett county, I enclose to you, for pub lication in your highly appreciated paper, the following resolutions and proceedings: ; SU, c JG ' On the 5th inst. quite a number of the good Democrats of Harnett assem bled in convention in the court house at Lillington, for the purpose of elect ing delegates to the Stater "Judical and Congressional Conventions, and for appointing the time of ' the Town ship meetings and the County Conven tion. . ., ; . M V. Prince, Esq., one of Harnett's best and most useful citizens, was chosen chairman. The following gen tlemen were elected Secretaries : Maj. B. F. Shaw, T. J. Gregory and T. A. Harrington. Citizens from all the townships be ing present, the convention imme diately entered upon its duties. A resolution was passed allowing any Democrat piesent, residing in an unrepresented township, to represent the same. A motion was offered and carried that five delegates be appointed from each township to represent the county at the State, Judicial and Congres sional Conventions. A committee of one from each township was appointed to draft the resolutions of the Convention. The following resolutions, being re ported from said committee, and read to the Convention by Col. Jno. A. Spears, were unanimously adopted : Resolved 1, That we, the. Democrats of Harnett, do hereby reiterate our time honored devotion to the great principles of American Democracy, and still believe that the safety of our country and the happiness , and pros perity of our people depend, in a great measure, upon the continued success of the Democratic party. Resolved 2, That the delegation to the State Convention, 'appointed by this Convention, are hereby instructed to cast the entire vote of this county for Hon. Geo. V. Strong, for a seat on the Supreme Court bench. Resolved 3, That the delegation for the Judicial Convention, for the 4th District, be instructed to cast the en tire vote of this county for Hon. Wal ter Clark for Judge, and Capt. Swift Galloway for Solicitor. Resolved 4, That D. H. McLean, Esq., of our county, is a worthy and capa ble man to represent this District m the next Congress; and, as we believe that the nomination could not be con ferred upon a worthier or more abler man, we do hereby instruct our dele gation to cast their entire vote for him in the next Congressional Conven tion of this District. The following are the delegates ap pointed from their respective town ships to represent the will of this county at the State, Judicial and Con gressional Conventions : DELEGATES TO THE STATE CONVENTION. Anderson's Creek Township Hugh D. McCormick, Niyen Ray, Hugh Black, Jr., Duncan McDonald, M. Black, Sr. Averafsboro Township Will S. Stewart, Edward Smith, J. D. Barnes, Rayford Lucas, Thos, Fowler. Barbecue Township Dr. Jno. McCor mick, James Cameron, Sr., Archibald Harrington, John Leslie, C. A. Mc Lean. Black River Township Thos. Mat thews, J. C. Williams, S. G. Collins, S. G. Gardner, S. A. Stephenson. Buckhom Township 'B. F. Harring ton, Dr. R. T. Spence, Geo. E. Prince, A. J. Champion, J. S. Holt, Grove Township Daniel Stewart, J. K. Stewart, J. N. Gregory, Thos. Gregory, W. A. Johnston. Hecktor's Creek lownship D.E.Green, Eli Carter, James Smith, Neill Smith, A. N. Boadley. Johnsontille Township L. McN. Mc Donald, Jno.'Nickelson, G. W. Buch mann, J. W. Byod, Sam'l Cameron. " Lillington Township Col. Jno. A. Spears, D. H. McLean, A. J. Collins, J. W. Pipkin, J. R. Grady. NeilVs Greek lownship W. J. Long, W. A. Green, Hill Johnson, Archibald Johnson, William Seiten, Jr. Stewart's . Creek Township W. J. Bethune, J. P. Hodges, W. H. Allen, DrF. Smith, Jno. Williams. Upper Little River lownship Walter Parker, R. Autrey, J. ,R. Davis, Dr. Jno. A. McDonald, W. H. Holder. DELEGATES TO THE JUDICIAL CONTEN TION. Anderson's Creek Township Alex Mc Atlaw. H. Black. Sr.. M. Black. Jr.. W. N. McDonald. Jno. S. McRae. ,.. Averasboro 2ownsnip-Yi us Uarnes, Thos. McLam,; J. t W.; Lucas, J. L'. Royals H. C.5 Avera. , Barbecue lownshiv John Maxwell. Jno. A. McDonald, M. E. Cameron, D. W. tfraham, Duncan uan'ocn. Black ' River lownship A.N. Camp bell, J. W. Flowers' J.- J Adams, H. A. Williams, J. C. Partin. Buckhom Township--S&me as State. fjtrovo J. vwiuHuy 01 m o as otaie. - Hectors Creek lownship Same as State .TohnsontiUe Tow7iMi-T). P. McDon ald. F. J. Swann, A. McGregor, Nel- sen Morrison, xm . omim. - Lillington lownship J. A. Spears, D. H. McLean, A. J. Collins, J.T, Rog ers, G. S. Byod. JNeiZVs Creek lownship $a.me as State ?4 Rtjnrart'' Creek Township Dr. F. Smith, J. S. Smithi J. : F. Dollar, J.M. Hoderes. J. it. annua. . . . t 1 1 Upper 'Little f River lownship H. Autrey, J-A. rUiara, j. ,. Diepnens, J. A. Byod, S. a. Douglass - - DELEGATES. TO ; THE CONGRESSIONAL - CONVENTION.! Anderson's Creel Township-J). A.C. McLean, ATex MeCarmicr, John jvic Artaw AvE; McRae," "VV.; ,M Black. Barbecue Towmhip D. t), ;Hunfer, J'. H. Harman, James Cameron, T. W. Harringtori, J. W. Swann. Buckhom TownshitB. F. Harring ton, Dr. R. T. Spence, G. E. Prince, A. J. Champion, J. S. Holt, Hector's Creek Township E. Green, David Grady: Neill "Smith; Joseph Matthews, Frank Carter. Averasboro Township N. S. Stewart. F. A. Parker, J. J. Wade, A. B. Qod- win, Edward Smith. '-' Black River lownship B. Fk William 9. Y. Q. Utley, J. A. Morgan, J. B. Hock aday, W. F. Hockaday. Qrote Township Daniel Stewart, J. I. Stewart, J. W. Gregory, Thos. Gregory, W. A. Johnson. Johnsontille Township Henry Morri son; D. E. Cameron, F. J. Swann, J. A. Cameron, Augus Darrock. Lillington Township John Brantley, J. C. McDouprald, M. McD. Grady, E. B. Reid, L. W. Byod. Stewart's Creek Township J. M. Da vis, J. W. Morrisy, Jas. P. Hodges, D. J. Parker, John A. Colvih. NeilVs Creek Township Hill Johnson. 1 Joe Long, W. A. Green Archie John son, Will iiani Sexten, Jr. Upper Little River Township T. A. Harrinerton, Dr. J. H. Withers, D J. McDonald, H. A. Black, T. W. Mc Lean. CHAIRMEN OP COUNTY EXECUTIVE COM MITTEE. Anderson's Creek Township Niven Ray. Averasboro Township J. u.JDarnes Barbecue Township Dr. Jno. Mc Cormick. Black Riyer Township Tios. Mat thews. Buckhorn Township Dr. R. T. Spence. Grove Township J. A. fetewart. Hector's Creek Township D. E. Green, Johnsonville Township A. C. Buil. Lillington Township John Pipkin. Neill's Creek Township W. J. Long. . . . . , Stewart's Creek Township J. Al. Davis. Upper Little River Township T. A. Harrington. Time of Township meetings, 3rd Saturday in August. Time ot County Convention, 4th Saturday in August. Henry T. Spears, Esq. was request ed by the Convention to prepare its resolutions and proceedings, and re quest the Goldsboro Messenger to publish the same, and the Raleigh News-Observer the Fayetteville Observer. Gazette to copy. The writer of this . artic, Jakes pleasure in stating that during the Convention all the aspirants to Con gressional honors were complimented in the Inchest manner. The labors of Hon. Wharton J. Green were duly mentioned and appreciated. Espec ially was the Hon. W. T. Dortch spoken of in the most commendable terms, for his giant mindand trueness to the cause of Democracy; but when, at last, against his wishes, our own "silver tongued" orator, D. H. Mc Lean, Esq., was mentioned as a pos sible candidate for this high office, there passed through this Convention, &s by magic, a thrill of pride in Har- nation, we could see him in the Na tion's Capitol fearlessly contending for truth and right; and near its halls resounding with thoughts emanating from his pure and noble mind, and uttered with that tongue which never wearies in defense of the noble, true and good. Fellow Democrats, whatever may be the result in the State, Judicial and Congressional Conventions, let us stand as firm as the "rock of Gibral tar," then no Republican misrepresen tations can change the result m No vember; let us continue to fight for the Jeffersonian principles, handed down to us from our ancient and hon ored forefathers the principles for which they fought and diedtheir victory, yes, a grand and glorious vic tory will be ours ! Raleigh News-Observer and Fayetteville Observer and Gazette please copy. THEIR iilNES HAVE FAL LEN IN PLEASANT PLACES. News-Observer, 11th. As preliminary to the proposed meeting of Northern settlers in this State to be held during the progress of the State fair in October, some fifty or more Northern men already resi dents of North Carolina and whose homes are m every section, in Macon county, Asheville, Goldsboro, Raleigh and so on, have united in an address to all the Northern people in the State to join them in "inviting all Northern people who are contemplating immi gration to meet them at the Raleigh convention "that they may hear from all who share in the invitation of the superior advantages this State offers to industrious and thrifty settlers." The signers of the address say that having themselves "found that the lines nave fallen to them iix pleasant maces ' and that thev are fellow-share holders of . "the goodly heritage" of those born in this btate, they are earn estly desirous that all their old friends and neighbors who are thinking of changing their homes should come to North Carolina. They believe that they could prosper here as they could nott elsewhere, and .that if persuaded to cast their lot among us they "would never regret their choice." We heart ily commend the plan for this conyen- . t" i.li?; . it ' uon. inausinous, uueuigem, laniiy immigration 'irom xne jwoitu is some thing the State needs, to-the end that our . own , people may be aided in the development of the resources at their " ' S aoors ana do spurrea mxo more cuve industry and; keener . observation by the. juxtaposition of the practical ideas, which have made the Kofth rich. The proposed meeting - in October will do much to " further this end.- without' donbtand should j therefore be - en-, couraged. , " . i. A CONFEDERATE PRIVATE. Congressman Allen Tells a War Story in the House. On Friday last in the House of Re presentatives, during the discussion of a vetoed pension bill, the following addition was made to the "humorous'" literatury of the Congressional Record'. Mr. Allen (Miss.) thought he should apologize for discussing pension mat ters, as he had been: a Confederate private. It was said that Confeder ates ought to have thought of this matter of pensions twenty-five years ago. lie acKnowiedged that at the beginning of the warne had not giv en the matter that due consideration to which it had probably been enti tled. Laughter. He had been quite a young boy then; but along about the third year of the war he began to think seriously of it, and so much had he been impressed with the fact that the course he was pursuing would bank rupt the United States in pensioning the widows of the soldiers he was kill ing that finally, gun in hand, he re treated across five or six States, with the enemy in his front, rather than slay a whole army. I Laughter.! The contest had finally come to the point where he saw that he would have to slay a whole army or give up, and he laid down his gun like a man and went home. He wanted to call attention to a little incident which had occuried when he was on his way home. He had gone into the war at the age of 14 and had remained four years, and he was pretty well tired of fighting. There was another boy with him as he was going home who had not been m the war so long and who wanted him to go across a river in Alabama and fight with Kirby Smith. He had about enough fighting and did not wish to go, and they were arguing about the matter when they saw an old gentle man across a field waiting for them at a fence. When they reached him he was very much interested to know about the surrender and "about our instution." "I told him," continued Mr. Allen, "that 'our institution' was gone. Laughter. He asked me what I was going to do. I told him I was going home. He said:-'Young man, you are right. You go home and go to plowing. My experience is that when you fight and get beaten vou you ought to go to something efse.' Then be began to philosophize, and he said: 'Boys, this has been a mighty bad war. We have lost a good many of our best men. We have a great many one legged and one-armed sold iers in our miast wno can scarcely earn a living, and a great many widows and orphans. Society has been terribly de moralized, and our. homes-hwrebeen desolated and devastated. Boys, this has been a terrible war; but we can stand all this. The only thing terrible is that some damned fools who have not made much reputation out of the war will be wanting to throw this thing up to us for the next twenty-five years.' Loud laughter. I make no application of this incident, but it does look like words of prophetic wisdom." Laughter. WAYNE COUNTY COMMIS SIONERS COURT. July 12, 1886. The Board met pursuant to adjourn ment, all the members present. Tax orders were nassed as follows ' R. E. Jones' land assessed at $4.50 per acre. J. B. Edgerton land assessed at $4.50 per acre. W. T. Faircloth's Fork land assessed at. $10.00. George Wooten's land reduced to $3.05. Henry Burnett's land reduced to $3.80. D. A. Sasser's land reduced to $12,50. J. J. Casey's sand hill track reduced to $5.00 per acre. J. A. Hadley's land increased to $2.50. M. B. Grantham's land increased to $9.00. W. S. Farmer's land reduced to $2.70. Henry Burnett, allowed error in fence tax $333. Henry Burnett, allowed error in land tax $318. J. H. Wm. Bonitz, allowed Brogden fence account $ 41 50 Jno. R. Boyet, allowed Golds- . boro fence account 150 Jno. R. Boyet, allowed for re pairing bridge .. . 3 00 B. F. Hooks, W. W. Crawford, and 8. H. Denmark, were appointed, to assess recent improvements in Golds boro township property, and to report to August meeting. The pension claim of Appy Sauls was approved. Fence taxes for 1886 were levied as follows: Goldsboro and Stony creek town ship 25cts, Brogden and Indian Springs 25cts, Fork township. 50cts, on each $1.00 of real estate subject to such tax. The report of the committee to confer with the city authorities concerning the jail sewer, was read, and received and the committee discharged and Com missioner Hooks appointed to ascer tain the cost of building the new sewer and report to nex meeting. All persons retailing liquor in Golds boro and m each of the incorporated towns of this county, are hereby noti fied that they must apply to the Board of County Commissioners for license to continue business, on or before the 1st Monday, in September, 1886. - It is ordered ; that the Arrington bridge be declared unsafe, and aU persons are hereby1 warned against crossing it until repaired, and notice to this effect be posted; at said bridge. The Board then drew per diem and mileage to and including this date, as follows: ; '.' - . , JJ. Hooks, 11 days and mil- T' -cage.'. .' '.1 . ;-. i. .$ 2o 30 AB. Thompson, 11 xlays And . f J A; Stevens, II day s and inilv eage. 34 10 M. T. Johnson. 10 days and mil eage.. ... 33 00 J. H. Lof tin,9 days and mileage 32 40 A. B. Thompson, 2 days as fence committee... 3 00 The Board then adjourned. Published bv order of the Board. W. T. Gardner. Clerk. LAGRANGE ITEMS. Blackberries, huckleberries and all the berry specie, are plentiful this year, on our streets. Farmers are having a fearful fight down here with grass. Corn and cot ton crops are promising in spite of the incessant rains. "A couple of colored youths were ar rested in our town last week and lodged in our town lock-up. Now, how is our popular constable Mr. W. B. Waters, to appease his col ored voters, who swear they will see him later this fall about voting. Mr. Walters is a prohibitionist. Mr. W. S. Fields removed his bar to Snow Hill, instead of White Hall as we re cently stated. We wish we knew Bill Nye's address. We would joy to forward "him the compositive burlesque on a pic-nic, we recently endured mental aberration bv readiner. PerhaDsit mierht do Bill Nye good, as the recital of Kosciusko's death did. An amount of cotton bought here the past Fall was returned from North ern markets last week. A discovery of damaged or rotten cotton being the cause. It is to be regretted that any of our farmers will allow things of like nature to oCcur at their gins. Mr. W. N. Hadly is improving rapidly and hopes to be out soon. And so it was B. who made the blunders. Well, if it was B., all is right, but if we had him down here now we'd make grass out of him, while we got more time to write Items. We suggest B's carrying a horseshoe, its a charm against mistakes, and always is Good Luck. Cider was sold in our town last week. How about this t Tis said a cider drunk is an awful drunk. A lady told us recently that if she went down on the 20th to Morehead she should take her picture aloncr. We grew almost faint for a moment. Dear lady do not so we carried a picture once and but we never will gain. Ho picture burdens us more. Our town boys have orcramztd a base-ball club. They go down soon to Dlay at Kinston. Mr. B , to Miss H . . "Why my dear Miss H , Mrs. B and myself have been married a good many years now, and never a cross word has passed between us." Miss H smiled. " Well Mr. B you must be the worst hen-pecked husband I ever heard of." This is proof true. As Dr. J. M. Hadley was returning from his plantation last week his dapples became unmanageable, smash ed a wheel of the buggy and upset things generally. We are glaoi to state no serious results. If he is verdant enough for grass, we are afraid the horse-shoe will fail to keep the cows from him. He is thinking of borrowing the rabbit foot that was accidentally dropped in the door of the Messenger office sometime ago. L. J. ARCTIC DISCOVERY. William H. Gilder, the daring young advertiser and newspaper correspon dent, who accompanied Lieutenant Greely on his expedition, and made the journey thousands of miles across Siberia on foot to give notice to the nearest civilization of the desperate condition of the explorers, has just left New lorkrorNew London, Conn., where he will sail, next Tuesday, on a whaler to discover the North Fole. His only white companion in this ex pedition will be a young gentleman who has made a pedestrian tour of Europe, and now goes to walk to the Arctic ocean, paying his own expen Denses. from love of adventure. Mr. Gilder took leave of his friends at the various clubs last week, and was hos pitably entertained, although it was too warm to get up a formal farewell dinner in his honor. He says that it will take him two years to reach the point from which he intends to start for the pole. If he had $25,000 to purchase a small Scotch steamer, a year of this time might be saved, and many of his friends advised him to wait a few weeks until the money or the steamer could ,be placed at his disposal. But he declares that he must go now, or people will believe that he is not in earnest in his expedi tion. He speaks very highly of the Esquimaux, among whom he expects to live for the next five years, and takes with him many fine presents for Tayleure and other natives who served him and Lieutenant Schwatka so faithfully during their former travels. Among the novelties he has originated is a new style of sled, which he will try to induce the Esquimaux to use. He will be the special Arctic corres pondent of an American and a Lon don paper. Otherwise his expedition is entirely a private enterprise, and its course will be independent of any government or society supervision. . Mr. Gilder is a brother of Richard Henry GUder,editorof the Century Mag azine and of Miss Genevieve Gilder so long literary editor of the Herald and now of Th4 Critic. A Walking Skeleton. Mr. E. Springer, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., writes: "I was afflicted with lung fever and abscess on lungs, and reduced to a walking Skeleton. Got a free trial bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consum ption, which did me so much good that I bought a dollar bottle. After using three bottles, found myself once more a man, completely, restored ;to health, with a hearty appetite, and a gain in flesh of 48 lbs.':, r Call at Kirby &, Robinson's Drug Store and get a free trial bottle of thia certain cure for all Lung Diseases. Large bottles $1.00, ' , .t , ':; Cream Freezers, (White Mountain) will fbe sold cheap at Fuchtlxb & Kkbm'b. t SAMPSON JOTTINGS. Paragraphs Caught on the Fly by our Clinton Reporter. J udge Boykin has just returned from Washington City. Bishop WatMm, on account of sick- j uess iu msiamuy, was prevented mak ing hisexpected visitation to St. Paul's Church last Sunday. Isham Royal, Esq., County Superin tendent is holding a Teachers Institute at Aiapie Urove Academy m the north- ' western part of the county. A large ' number of teachers are in attendance. No mail left Clinton last Friday for any point. The mail from Fayetteville was un able to reach here last week at all. High water the cause. The recent heavy rains have done incalculable in jury throughout this whole section. Crops are utterly ruined in many lo calities; fences have been been washed away, bridges carried off and a num ber of mills broken. 'Tis impossible now to approximate' the losses. The county loses heavily by the de struction of bridges. What came near being a very serious accident occurred at Ingold in the southern part of this county on the 4th instant. A large crowd of negroes on patriot ic purposes intent, had collected un der an old shelter, which being poorly constructed gave way, and in its fall caught under it a number of the "tru ly loil." Some few cuts, bruises and one broken leg were results. No lives lost. Moral : Negroes shouldn't celebrate the glorious fourth. Who will be the successful aspirant for the Congressional nomination is now the all absorbing topic on our streets. Meanwhile, the anxiety of some of our would-be county candidates is growing quite intense. we sincerely trust tnat um camp son will put forth her best men for all county officers. Col. Greene's f rien d are very sanguine of his success. He has endeared himself to our people, and they are anxious to reward so efficient and worthy a representative by retaining him in his piesent posi- uon. xie is an nonor to nisaisiricr and the State. When the populace of upper Samp son learn their incapacity for choosing for themselves, and want advice as to who they ought to support in conven tion, they will probably make it known. JL ill then, however, political emissaries will do well to remain at home, and not attempt to direct the opinions of so intelligent a community, as that of Newton.Grove. VerbVSap. Philo- S. S. CONFERENCE. The Celebration at Providence on Mt. Olive Circuit. August the 33th and 14th, 18S0, D. V., there will be a Sunday School Convention and Sunday School cele bration Friday and Saturday before the third Sunday in August, as stated above, to meet promptly at 10 o'clock, a. m. The convention will consume Friday and will be composed of dele gates from all the schools on the cir cuit, whether taught in the churches or not, as follows, in addition to su- Serintendents and "secretaries, one elegate for every 20 members or frac tion of twenty may be elected, and are requested to report, if possible, promptly at 1 o'clock Friday. Homes will be provided for you Friday night, (have no fears, providence is able and anxious to have you come Friday and stay through the meeting.) There will be discussed such queries as per tain to Sunday school work, modes of conducting schools, securing attend ance, kinds of literature to bo used, use of rewards &c, Any one. wheth er delegate or not, who wishes to hear any troublesome matter discussed, if it be vital to the Sunday School work, may present it to the convention. Have your queries written and put them in the question box. Let the Secretary of each school provide one with a list of the delegates from his school by the first of August, (every delagate must be a member of the Sunday school, either scholar or teach er, male or female. Saturday there will be a grand mass meeting of all the schools on the cir cuit and the annual celebration. Any school not represented in the conven tion will not be represented in the cel ebration. Each school must sing one song from the standard Methodist hymn book. This will be the first one sung by each school, others may be from other books as each may select. We expect this to be the grandest thing in the history of Sunday schools for Wayne county to the present time. All neighboring Sunday schools and Sundav school workers are cordially invited to be present and participate in our discussions. P. L. Groome, P. C. Restful Nights, Days free from Torturr Await the rheumatic sufferer who resorts to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. That this benignant cordial and depurent is a far more reliable remedy than colchicum and other poisons used to expel the rheumatic virus from the blood; is a fact that expe rience has satisfactorily demonstrated. It also enjoys the advantage of being un like ".them perfectly safe. With many persons a certain predisposition to rheu matism exists, which renders them liable to its attacks after exposure in wet weath er, to currents of air, changes of tempera ture, or to cold , when the body it hot. Such persons should take a wine glass or two of the Bitters as soon as possible after incurring risk from the above causes, as this superb protective effectually nullifies the hurtful influence. . For the functional derangements which accompany rheuma tism; such as colic, spasms In the stomach, palpitation of the heart, imperfect diges tion, &c, the Bitters is also a most useful remedy. ' It is only necessary in Obstinate cases to use it with persistency. Ladies 1NowU your, time for cheap Gossamers.- Children at 95 cents, worth. : $1,33. ; Ladies $15, worth 41,75. Call : at once on Mrs. E. W. Moobe. s. f .lis,''1';
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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July 15, 1886, edition 1
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