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THE GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21. .1886. I 1 ouovo ijLCS A. BONITZ,, Editor Published every Monday and Tmres DAY, AT THE MESSENGER BuiLmNO. PRICE '$3.00 A YEAR. SEKVBD TO TOWN BLTB5CKIBER8 BY CARRIER AT $1.00 FOR THREE MONTHS. SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE STRICTLY IN AD VANCE. Advertising Rates Per square (IV inch SPACE) $1.00 FOR FIRST, AND 50 CENTS FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT INSERTION. LIBERAL DIS COUNT TO LARGE ADVERTISERS AND ON YEAR LY CONTRACTS. tff The TllANSCRIPT AND MESSENGER, a G4 column weekly, the cheapest and largest political paper publtiltcd in North Carolina, is alto isjued from m?Messenoer press. Subscription, 2.00 peraumnn: $1. 06 for ix month. TJte Transcript and Mes sen (J Kit has ilic largest bona fide subscrip tion list of any paper in North Carolina. Address j THE MESSENGER PUBLISHING HOUSE, J. A; -BONITZ, Proprietor, CI O L I) SBORO, N. C . THURSDAY, - - OCTOBER 21, -1886 DEMOCRATIC TICKET. O FOR CONGRESS : - Louis C. Latham, of Pitt. -T: M. Simmons, of Craven.! -Chas. W. McClammy, of Pender, -ftohn W. Graham, of Orange. -James W. Held, of Rockingham. -Alfred Rowland, of Hobeson. -John S. Henderson, of Kowan--W. H. H. Cowles. of Wilkes. -.Thos. D. Johnston, of Buncombe. 1st District arid District :rd Distrk-t-4th District 5th District th District :th District th District 9th District- FOR THE SUPREME COURT BENCH : : For Chief Justice Hon. W. N. F . Smithy For Afsociato Justices Hon. Thos. S. Ashe and Hon. A. P. Merrimon. ; TOR TFIE 3rd District 4th District SUPERIOR COURT BENCH:; H. Cr. Connor, of Wilson. ! Walter Clark, of Wake. Gth District th District B. T. Roykm, of bampson.; W. J. Montgomery, of Cabarrus. 9th District- 3 . . Grave, of Surry. 10th District 12th District A. C. Avery, of Burke. J. H. Merrimon, of Buncombe. TO R TIIE-SOLICITORSHIP: 1st District .1 IT Blount, of Permiimans. 3rd District , D. Worthington, of Martin. Swift, Gallowav. of Wayne. 4th District 5th District J. A. Lonir. of Durham. ; 6th District ;0. H. Allen, of Duplin. i ;th District 8th District flth District r rank Mcweiu. or itocKinjf nam. n V. I.nntr. nf Tmdell. -- K. It. Glenn, of Forsyth- j 10th District ,--w. u. Mower, oi uaiaweiu F. I. Osborne, of Mecklenburg. ; G. S. Ferguson, of Haywood. 11th District - izia wisirici REGISTER! REGISTER ! It is a matter oi imDortance to the voters of the county to see that their natnes are on the registration biooks required, except where a voter has changed his residence from one town ship to another since the last election or from one ward of the city to an other. Let every voter who wishes to exercise his right of the ballot on: the '2d of November attend to this matter at once, and -see that his neighbor does likewise. A glass mountain an official fact! Kek d about it elsewhere. New deputies to the Second, Fojurth and Sixth Auditors, at Washington, are! expected to be appointed soon. Senator Vance, it is stated, is pre- pati ing a lecture to be delivered in liostoh during the coming winter. 'he great Unitarian preacher; and eminent English author, .Stofford BriK)ke, is confined in an insane lasy luta. "Much learning doth make thee mad." But possibly it -was something else. Anything pertaining to the moral anil intellectual welfare of the colored people is of interest to their white fellow citizens. Hence the sessi Das of the colored convention to meet in Ral ugh on the 11th of November will be watched with intelligent sympathy. ee to it, fellow Democrats, i that Capt. Swift Galloway is the next: So licitor of this judicial district. See to it that "Colonel" -Thomas Argo the "flopdoodle candidate," is kept at home. Capt. Galloway has the Repu tation of being one of tha ablest, if not the ablest, solicitors in th State. Hci is worthy of being kept in office. : n the thirty oddcoupon cases in Judge Bond's court, in Richmond, Thursday, the Attorney General and J. jR. Tucker, of counsel for the in demnity board of the State, agreed to compromise them all by payinjjback to the persons instituting suits for trespass the amounts for taxes, This wi; 1 cost the Stole a large sumj the eos'ts being "heavy. It is understood at Richmond that no treasurer of any county or city in Virginia will here after levy on the property of any one who shall offer coupons for taxes. This will force a meeting of the Gen eral Assembly of Virginia in extra session and a new attempt to settle the Virginia debt question. The nomination of Andrew in Mas sachusetts was both a signal and a symptom. A signal to fall into line, and a symptom of a disposition to re cast the lines of parties so as to get allj the earnest and honest elements into the Democratic party. A dispatch to that anti-mugwump paper, 'the New Ycrk Sun, from Boston says: "The mugwump leaders of Massachusetts have given up the idea of maintaining An independent party, and have unre servedly cast their lot with the Demo crats. The reception and welcome in to the Democratic camp took place at a dinner given by the Bay State Club in honor of the nominees on the Dem ocratic ticket. Col. Chas. R. Codjnan , George "F. Williams and Dr. William Everett were the most prominent mug wumps present besides Mr. Andrew." Ttiis is just as the Messenger belteved and hoped it would be when Mr. Cleve land was elected. Yet a few of the mugwumps have acted foolishly at times, just as many Democrats have. ANOTHER INDEPENDENT. ! In our advertising columns to-day appears a cara oi jvir, a. n. Jones, or this county, announcing himself "an independent candidate for Congress, in opposition to that sterling gentle man and stauncH Democrat, the gal lant Maj. Charles W. McClammy. We suppose Mr. Jones means to have the empty honor of boasting that he once was, a candidate for Congress, so he nominated himself. And just there is where his fun comes in. He seems to have a grudge against the Board of county commissioners of this county, because the jury box was not fixed to his notion in a recent case he had in Wayne, Superior Court, and he would like: to go to Congress, f o that he may have the jury system reL vised agreeable to his notion. Poor Mr. Jones! We pity his political as piration. He had better change now and run for township constable in stead. We shall be very much surprised if our advertising and printing bill does not amount to more in the number of cents than is likely to be the total vote Mr. Jones will receive as a candidate for Congress. But he will have his fun all the same. PERSONAL LIBERTY. It is declared in section 18, Article I, of' the Constitution, that "every person restrained of his liberty is en titled to a remedy to inquire into the lawfulness thereof." And in section 21 of the same article it is declared that "the privileges of the writ of uzbeas corpus shall not be suspended." And yet in the dark days of 1870, that is to say, when the Radicals were in power in North Carolina, there was extreme danger to person as well as to property. The land was overrun with spies, cut-throats and assassins; the writ of habeas corpus was defied; hundreds of good citizens were driven into exile, and other hundreds, unable to fly, dragged to Raleigh, hundreds of miles from their homes, charged with violations of the whiskey laws, the ku-klux laws, the tobocco laws. Well do we recollect that when Kirk and his "rude" soldiery broke ito Caswell, they laid lawless hands upon many of the most eminent citizens in that county or in the State, and sub jected them to unlawful violence and shameful imprisonment. Among them was John Kerr, then nearing the close of a long life distinguished by brilliant talents, marked by conspicuous public services, and adding to other claims to consideration that of having been from early manhood an active, useful, zealous member of the Baptist church. There was William B. Bowe, long a presiding magistrate of the county court, foremost in setting an example in obedience to law as he was ever zeal ous in enforcing it. For a quarter of a century he had held high official po sition in the Methodist church. There was Dr. N. M. Roan, whose eminence as a citizen had been recognized by his election as one of the Council of State, whose professional position for half a lifetime had been of the highest in "the State, and who for full as long a space had been an elder in the Pres byterian church. To these men, and such as these, the Radical judges shamefully denied the commonest privilege of our law by refusing to en force the writ of habeas corpus, when their highest rights had been invaded with every circumstance of injury. Under Democratic rule the govern ment is administered without bayo nets; the law is stronger than the sword; the judge greater than the sol dier, and the glory of the republic aboverthe glory of party. See to it, fellow citizens of North Carolina, that on the 2nd day of No vember the Republicans are crushed beyond resurrection. Why should such be the case? What has that party done for North Carolina ? It has only heaped infamy, extravagance, lawless ness, corruption and insult upon our people. The men on the Republican side who now ask to be re-elected are the same who then were representa tive men and leaders of that infamy. Every instinct of self-interest, self preservation and justice prompts all good citizens of the South to dray themselves in sturdy opposition to the Radical party. How are the mighty fallen ! Here was Powderly who had the good will of every decent man in the country, and the respect of even th sordid cap italists against whom he arrayed his hosts, until in an evil hour he under took the impossible sought to over turn the laws of God and civilization in the matter of negro social equality with whites. And here is George, scholar, thinker, enthusiast, knowing nothing of politics or politicians, but going into the scum of both in order to pluck a prize he ought not to wear. It is too bad ! Madness rules when ambition usurps the place of judgment and propriety. Let Powderly stand at the gate the Hebrew seat of" jus tice and reason with some of his mad followers, not lead them deeper into folly nd desperation. Let Henry George philosophize about the ills of poverty and the sins of monopoly, for such writing within bounds may do great good, but let him not expect to play the role of a successful reformer for which he is evidently not adapted. Mr. Hewitt is the man for that work, and the people will say so next month. Fruit Jabs. Fruit Jars and Jelly Tumblers af Fijchtleb.& Kern's. Get our prices. , THE SABINE . DISASTER. ; The Gulfor; rather sea,, of i Mexico rolled over the little towns of ' Sabine. Pass, Bradford and Johnson s Bayou on the coast of Texas, and swept two hundred human beings into eternity, besides inflicting tremendous loss upon property. The village of Sabine Pass is on an elevation of about forty feet above the water leveL It is; on the river Sabine which connects the, lake of the same name with the great sea we call the Gulf of Mexico. The cause of the catastrophe waf an unprece dented storm which came up in the af ternoon of Tuesday, and which the signal officer at Washington says was caused by a storm from the West In des meeting the dry air of the Atlantic and Gulf coast and not being able to penetrate it, tossing up waves fifty feet high. The people gathered in the upper stories and on the tops of houses, having not time to escape, realized their imminent peril. The water kept rising. By night the very strongest houses were all gone, and the five wharves and other property, owned by New York capitalists, were wrecked completely. The Texas coast has many times been visited by disastrous storms, but this is one of the most destructive that has befallen that region in our time. Such recitals excite our profoundest sorrow for the lost and sympathy for the survivors who have gone through such an experience. The same storm was felt elsewhere, especially in the State of Michigan, and in other parts of the northwest. HONORARY DEGREES. Honor to whom honor is due. It is due to the man or the woman who has done something, not to the empty pre tender and the half deserving. As to college and university degrees, the Messenger has heretofore taken a de cided ground in opposition to confer ring them upon any except those who had earned them by an approved trial of their abilities. In these essays at justice, we havo had some able allies in North Carolina or elsewhere. The Messenger has watched the effort making at Cornell by its alumni to prevent the issue of purely honorary degrees, and wished them great suc cess. The Washington Star, among other journals, has had its attention called to these efforts of the New York University. In relation to the subject it says in a recent paragraph: "The conferring of degrees has become a source of manifold abuses, in all the higher sentiments of learning. Hon ors have gone so 6teadily by favor in steid of merit, that they have come to be disregarded by the persons who might be expected most to value them. This is a field in which reform is not only possible but practical. Academic degrees are not hereditary; they die with the holder; and, if a number of the leading colleges could agree upon a policy of restriction, and stand fast to it for a generation or two, a multi tude of past blunders would be blotted out, while no new blunders would be committed to supply their places. Cornell University, owing to its com parative independence of living bene factors, is an institution well fitted to set the reform in motion, and its older contemporaries will lose nothing in dignity by falling into line behind it." There is trouble over Tilden's will, but not over Hendricks'. In the latter case a mistake was telegraphed to the country. The report was based on a dispatch relating to the estate of the late Vice-President's mother, Mrs. Jane T. Hendricks, and need not be explained here, as it had nothing to do with Mr. Hendricks' will. Dodger Dawes was never anything to speak of as a Senator, but now that he is up for re-election, the Boston' friends of ex-Gov. Long, his rival, deem him important enough to hiss while speaking at a Republican rally. The whole audience hiccoughed, hiss ed, ieered. raner the chestnut bell, un- til Gov. Robinson, who presided, was obliged to request them not to take the meeting out of his hands entirely. It was a most extraordinary scene. WILSON'S MILLS NOTES. Warm days, cool nights, and dusty weather. J ohnson campaign opened last Mon day and is arousing quite an enthus iasm. Look out, Independents. Dr. Sasser pronounces Miss Moretta Andrews but of danger. Her attack of typhoid has been one of the worst. We look for her on our streets again soon. Col. A. T. Uzzle spent last Saturday and Sunday with us. and while here sold Messrs Wilson, Uzzle & Co. a nice lot of clothing. Farmers are disposing of their cot ton crops Quite ramdlv. Miss Ida Giddens left a few days since tor Kaleigh, where she will re main until Xmas. We miss her and wish the time of her absence were not so long. Cheer up, Will, Xmas will come by and by! We hear of 0 several who anticipate going to Raleigh to see Barnum's "ani mals" and "Jumbo' Thursday. Mr. G. F. Uzzle is now on a business trip to the western part of the State. Miss Annie Pool, who has been out of school for the past two weeks on account of ill health, has about recov ered, bhe says she will be able to re turn in a few days. Miss Arrah Uzzle is spending the week with Miss Lula u zzle, her cousin, of Raleigh.- A good opportunity to see Barnum you know. CentemeriKid Gloves, 5 buttons, $1,50. Foster Kid Gloves, 5 hooks, $1,00. La dies Kid Button Boots, $2,50. G. P.: Cor sets. Thomson Corsets. 525 Bone vv oven Corsets. 290 Bone Woven Corsets. Easy Hip and Abdominal Corsets, at M. E. CASTEX & CO'S. 0UB WASHINGTON tfiETTER. i t '.' ' 'ii'.'.,. THE DEPARTMENT REPORTS WIJTH COMMENTS. Fine Showing for Democrats in .Pension Office Fifimres Presi dent Cleveland Investigates the Indian Agents Conduct. Staff Correspondence of the Messenger. Washington, Oct. 16. The leading reports of the Treasury Department, those of the Treasurer, the Director of the Mint and the Comptroller of the Currency are not yet begun, lhe reason is, that as they are to contain important suerereshons touching mat ters of legislation, and a good deal depends on the result of the recent is sue of new silver certificates. There is a theory in the Department which, however, cannot be proved or disprov ed so early in the day, that the put ting out of ones and twos of these cer tificates will bring into the Treasury a vast amount of silver dollars and ten dollar certificates. Of course until enough is known, until more time has elapsed, the position to be taken in the report cannot be settled. Another and serious question, which has already and many times been dis cussed, and which was recently treated in this column, is the future of nation al banks. During this year or next if banks want to go into the market and purchase four per cents at a pre mium, they can be chartered by the government for twenty yars under the law. But the four per cents fall due in 1907, and with them ends the security now recognized tor national bank circulation, so that any charters issued after 1S87 must be so issued with the knowledge that the securities will expire before the time of the charter is up. The Comptroller will urge upon Congress the great neces sity of some action in this matter. Out of the great number of interest ing facts published in the 70 pages of Commissioner Black's annual report, the most readable for the eyes that will peruse this is the following, which I obtain from one of the elaborate tables: The time lost by absence of employes in the Pension Office for the year ending June oO, 188o, soon after Mr. Cleveland's administration began, was 54,316; the time lost during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, was 38,652 a difference in favor of Demo cratic administration of lo,664 days, or 2 years, 11 months and 4 days of service saved to the people who pay the piper. And this, I am informed, is just a sample of what has been done by Mr. Cleveland and the Democratic party in all the bureaus and depart ments of the general government. Verily, it was worth the people's while, even taking a pecuniarjT view of the matter, to reject Mr. Blaine and elect Mr. Cleveland. In his annual report First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson states that there has been an increase of 1,361 postoffices, but 1,120 have been discontinued, and this makes the net gain over last year 181. There are now 33,114 postoffices, of which 2,244 are filled by the President, the re mainder by the Postmaster General. Twenty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven appointments were made, of which 9,112 were made upon resignations and commissions expired. Many applications for new offices had been left over from the previous year. The two States receiving the largest number were Virginia and North Caro lina, the former receiving 197, the lat ter 193. Pennsvlvania. New York. Ohio, Virginia, Illinois and Missouri have the greatest number of offices, arranged in this order. The report of the Assistant Attorney General for the Postoffice Department shows that the department has during the year acted upon 602 claims of postmasters for loss of stamps, money order funds, &c, of which 458 have been allowed. The total amount of allowances was $28,387.21; of disallow ances, $9,956.83. He recommends that the time in which to present claims after loss be extended from three to six months. The true inwardness of a bill in equity which was filed Thursday, was divulged to me on the preceding day. It is a singular state of tacts. A Bos ton attorney named Jerome F. Man ning, not related to the Secretary, and so far as I know to the North Carolina Mannings, was excluded as attorney from what he claims were his lawful fees in obtaining judgments, &c, in the Alabama claims, before the late commissioners. I am informed that he thinks his fees should be not lees than $75,000. His solicitors here in their filed bill allege that such services were rendered under agreements and powers of attorney executed with and by such persons; that such agreements and powers of attorney have never been revoked, and by their express terms entitle said Manning to demand and receive and give acquittances for all moneys realized on such claims respectively, &c. Manning, who was debarred from practice before the court of Alabama claims, has brought suit against Judge French of that court, in Massachusetts, for $100,000 damages, and contemplates bringing suit against Judge Draper, in New York, and Judge Harlan, Iowa. . Col. Thomas L. Casey, of the corps of engineers, has been ordered to duty in New York as president of the board of engineers for fortifications, suc ceeding Gen. Duane. He turns over to Col. John M. Wilson charge or cer tain national monuments, as Jeffer son's at Monticello, and army medical museum here. Secretary Whitney has ordered all the navy yard commandants to dis continue the list of men known as "suspended." There is a reason which rebukes his Republican predecessors in the order. The law provides that no -new men shall be employed for 60 days before election. But it was evad ed by hiring men for political purposes several months and carrying them without pay until the election. Mr. Whitney does not believe in such methods qjf corruption. Benjamin Folsom, of New York, Mrs. Cleveland's cousin, was appoint ed to-day consul at Sheffield, England. B. M. Nanner, of Georgia, has been made assistant superintendent of the railway mail service, with headquar ters at Atlanta. Gen. Grant's well known body ser vant, Harrison Terrell, has been ap pointed a laborer in the Paymaster General's office, War Department. The charges preferred by Lucius B. Swift, of Indianapolis, against a num ber of office holders in Indiana, for al leged violation of the civil service laws and the President's order have been before the President, and there has been sent. to each of the accused a copy of Mr. Swift's charges, coupled withjthe request that an explaQAtion be furnished as early as possible.; :tThif is the first step the. President has en in. 'the : Indiana matter, and inch cates -that he proposes tado as Comr missioner Edgerton said he would do -"fully .'.-investigate the charges," v l?e proposes giving the . officers an oppor tunity of presenting their side of the case before taking any action. . A clerk in the Sixth Auditor's office Maj." Job Williams, fell dead at his residence Thursday morning, while preparing to go to his work. John A. Andrew Post G. A. R., from Boston, were here Thursday on their' return from a tour in Virginia. The State Department learns that the colors of the seized schooner Ma rion Grimes were hoisted not out of defiance, but because the captain was celebrating hi3 birthday The Cana dian customs officials express regret that they summarily lowered the American flag, and a strong letter of censure has been sent to the officer who gave the order by the cabinet council at Ottawa. The council also removed the extra' fine of $400 for vio lating the customs laws. On Thursday the President slipped off without anybody's knowledge, ex cept his companions, and went over into West Virginia, near Romney, hunting with Assistant Secretary Fair child, Commissioner Miller, Col. La mont and Mr. Thomas Bivins, Mr. Miller's private secretary. They re turned early this morning, having kill ed yesterday a deer, several partridges and squirrels and caught a nice mess of fish. Bivins shot the deer, which went the wrong way for the Presi dent's stand. He was quite successful with the fish and smaller game. Some of the younger colored people here are fearfully demoralized. In the most fashionable parts of the city they can be' heard at night on the street singing and, shouting and talk ing obscenity. The pistol has taken the place of the razor and is carried by persons of both sexes. Every week or so, some oneot their number is kill ed in disgusting brawls. The women are as bad as or even worse than the men; for no man has yet "killed his man" and joked over his dead body, as Susie Clark did yesterday in the court of inquest upon her quandora lover whom she had shot to death on the night before. A remarkable fact is published to day. A dog, supposed from his capers to have been mad, was killed, and when his swollen body was cut open it was found that he had swallowed a snake. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. North Carolina is one of the States proposed to be included in the topo graphical surveys of the Geological Survey during the ensuing year. Mr. Robert D. Graham, of Char lotte, son of the late Gov. Graham, and late secretary of the Civil Service Commission, has been appointed by Secretary Lamar a member of the Board of Pension Appeals at a salary of $2,000. Mr. William P. Canady, Sergeant- at-Arms of the Senate, had charge of the tuneral arrangements ot the late Senator Pike, of New Hampshire. North Carolina cadets figure exten sively in the class elections for 1887. Cadet Andrew T. Lone: is class presi dent, and Cadets A. H. Davis and A. T. Long are on the hop committee. The dates for the hops have not been selected. Marshal Settle was here Thursday and Friday, on official business. Mr. Henry (J. Williams, who was in the city for two days, left last night. Mr. Julian S. Carr and family were here Wednesday, en route to New i ork. Other arrivals have been Messrs. Charles A. Moote, of Asheville; Geo. A. Brooks and Sterling Smith, of Winston; and Mr. Walter Harrellson and wife. Mr. John B. Hussey has been con fined to a darkened room since Mon day with an attack upon the optic nerve, and in consequence his vaca tion trip has been postponed for a day or two. But as he was able to be at his office yesterday he had some hope of getting out to his North Carolina friends to-night or to-morrow night. vientlemen recently in the city from the Second and Fifth districts repre sent the Democratic prospect as pecu liarly bright. Reid will have an in creased majority, as Winston seems to be drawing a large part of Brown's Republican support. It is considered very probable that Simmons will be elected in the black district. Burwell Hodges, convicted of illicit distilling, and whose case was men tioned in this column some months ago, has been pardoned by the Presi dent on the recommendation of Dis trict Attorney Barbee, who repre sented that the punishment already inflicted was sufficient and that con tinued imprisonment would cause suf fering to his family. Geneva, Camden county, is a dis continued postoffice. Mail to South Mills. Wade postoffice, Harnett county, becomes Lucknow. Commissioned postmasters : Henry C. Lentz, Zeb; Eugenia B. McCain, Ashboro; Marion P. Rogers, Doolie. Essex, Halifax county, is a new rr ?.i o- t t i omce, wiin oimon r. lyncn, p. m. 'V H. ATTEFTIOIT ! Strawberry Plants! Grape Vines! Pear Trees ! Peach Trees I CHOICE PLUMS ! I am prepared to supply and put out the best varieties of strawberry plants. grape vines, pear trees, peach trees, choice plums, etc. I guarantee them to live. Parties having grape vines to trim should do so now. Orders for trimming or plant ing receive prompt attention at reasona ble rates. J. N. WOOD, oct21-3w Goldsboro, N. C 25,000 Wanted! WE want 25 COO Bushels of ROUGH RlCE, for which we will pay the hisheit Cash Price. octl8-3w M. L. LEE & Co. JUST RECEIVED. TTo -evil in T.nve with His Wife. E. B. Roe; Nature's Serial Story. E. P. Roe ; Stepping Heavenward. Prentiss; Sweet dinWnr .Tosiah Allen as a Politician: On Year's Sketch Book. Elegant. Illus trated Poems Spanish Calf, Alligator, Jnringed ana reacn .mow. iarge yaneiy of Picture hooks tor the Liitwe u oiks. WHITAKER'S Bookstore ... : Newy Advertisements. Of the Third Congressional Dlsr tnct or inortii .Cariiifa. . ; I announce rayielf M s candidate to repro sent you in. the npxt Congress ot the United States. : The shortness of the time between thii and the first day of November.makea it impossible for me. to be heard to any large extent only by this mode, therefore, please read and pass on to some one else who you think will, read an think also. To those of vou who have children, it they were poinar to leave you never to return in some far distant country, or. if you were on your death-bet and were groins; to say the last words ever to be uttered to them, oould you jrive any better advice than this: My child? think and think right. Act and act right. This at once refers. them to the hiarhestrand best Information that can be obtained, to direct a human being-the right way through life be they human or divide; so as to make them tne truest, best and most useful here and the most blessed after exchanging this world for another. . . , . So, with this view in my mind to think ana think right, and act and act right, I went out to the Fork Township of Wayne county. North Carolina, on Monday, October 11th, 1888. to hear the candidates speak and it was an un pleasant harangue the most of it, to see who was a prohibitionist, or a fence man or a no fence man, or a good Simon pure Democrat and had always voted for the old sheriff. They reminded me of a band of sea-faring nlen who might be foolish enough to fall out and quarrel, or fight over a baked turkey, or a boiled ham, or a barrel of whisky while the great ship had sprung a leak and was gradually filling with water that would convey her to the deep and rugged bottom of the ocean and all on board be lost. It would appear that if one would hear both setts of candidates that both sides have grown very corrupt; and that if there was one honest candi Jate who had acted honest, and was making an honest speech he might be in danger of getting choke i. We think liberty is the swee-est gift the powers of earth can bestow, and should be guarded on all sides, and at every point: and with this view of it one of the founders of this Government said: '"Give me liberty or give me death." Now, I propose to call your attention to some of the leaks in this great ship of state which we think if not stopped will cause her to finally sink and prove her a failure. In the first place I will call your attention to the Jury System in this county. There were on the 1 ury list of last year only 388 names out of a voting popu lation of over 5.000. I was thrown in court over a small matter and knowing I had law, evidence and Justice on my side, T thought I certainly would be the gainer of th suit, but to my great surprise the Jury found a judgment against me. This caused me to go and examine the jury list which I found to be as above stated. I then went boldly to the Judge and made the statement to him, at the same time, telling him I thought I was a sufferer on the account of it, ho advised me to go before the County Commissioners the first of September at their regular meeting, which I did. I said to them I come before you, to ask you to fix up the jury box as the law directs, telling them at the same time I had been to see the Judge and he had directed me to see them Romo of them asked me to come and see them the next meetif g, which I did. I went in the room and they seemed to be busy looking over the tax books. I then went out and thought I would wait until they filled out the jury list and then examine it. I went up to the railroad. I there found J. H. Lot tin, who I suppose had Just come in. I offered him a list of some good names as I thought, for the Jury box from three townships, and asked him to have these names put in the jury box. He took the list. I went down to the Court House shortly after wards and the Chairman of the Board of Cone missioners asked me where the list was that I had for Goldsboro Township. I looked over on a table and found it, and he asked me to go over it with him and the most of the names on the list were put on the jury list, some few were not put on, nor was there any good rea son given for them not being put on. I ex amined the list for Brogden Township, and I iouna dui very nttie over nair the names on the jury list. I then went to Mr. J. H. Loftin and asked him why he had not put those names in me jury dox. ne saia ne ua not think some of them were men of sufficient intelligence, said I there are some of them men who have intelligence enough to work out homes for themselves, and are leaders of some of the churches. I furnished him a list of about forty names, there were sixteen names not put in out of the forty, the following are the names if I make no mistake, viz: Giles Summerlln, r . Oliver. Ed Smith. Robert Cox. D. W. Kornecrav. H. T Ham. J. H. Millard. Ezekiel Hollomon, Abe Deal. Prince Korneurar. (col..) James Lewis, David Hood, James Sasser. John Martin, lien Taylor, w. o. Fultrhum. I find the number on the jury list from Brogden Township last year fortv-three. th numhor this year forty, a decrease of three on the list in the face of the charge of the Judgo to the grand jury on the subject, for in addition to getting up the names of the different lists I also saw the Judge a second time and asked him to charge the grand jury in regard to how tne jury uox snouia De nxed up in the place of putting in the names above given, some names were put in who are known to be men of very bad character. Now we think such conduct as this m-pr the, jury box is a heavy blow at the very life of liberty and should be stopped. The number of names on the jury list this year is 531 while we tninK it ougnt to be over 1,000, so that it would not be talked that a few men are doinir all the jury work of the county and one man acting foreman of the Grand Jury two courts out of three, and a good many of them who lawyers can use an undue amount of influence over. One of the first troubles betwnfn thn Tvrnlo of the United States and Great Britain came on this subject. The English claimed the right to drag our people over the ocean and try 1 hem in a foreign land and by a different class of peopie ana not Dy their equals. So here we see very near all of certain classes not represented in the jury box at all. I want to see these little county monarchies go down, and See equal and just rights to all men, and see our Court Houses turned into tomnl and not remain as now, slaughter-houses of good h iman character. I Will Just Sav that With OTPftt. rnsnot tn tha Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, M r. Hooks, and also to Mr. Johnson, a member of the board that they agreed and said they would DUt the names ref nrrcri tn in 1.,. v ,i M -( - ... ja.j uva, auu r. Johnson paid he wished he had now some one to assist him in hi9 Township as I had done in the Township above referred to, but I do not think the names have as yet been put in the jury box. It is said that one old Magis trate now passed away made a brag at times that he could have any name thrown out of ine jury dox ne wisnea. There is another great evil I no w not Ice name ly, lhe railroads and the owners of thom gniltn their lawless and oppressive conduct, and that ai as eariy a penoa as it is possi Die t he National vjovernment saouia ODtain possession by pur chase of all telesrranha and ra.i IronIn- anH that hereafter no right be granted to any corpora- nun iui uuusaruuwon or operation or any means of transportina' intellicrence. rmjspnror or freight, that it all be done by the Govern ment ana at a rate just enough to pay expenses just as the postoffice Dusiness is now done. What do you think it would cost to put postage stamps on letters to be mailed if the price had to be fixed by the railroad kings? I do not think it would be less than fifty cents each. v e tnins tne puDiic lanas belongs to the peo ple and should be reserved for the actual sett lers and not another acre for railroads or speculators. we think there should be an early repeal of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital auu lauor. w e tninK tne Government should not hire out convict labor to be used to the detriment of honest toil, but that it should be usea on puonc improvements, such as public roads and building railroads for the National Government. We think there should be an opportunity offered to all children to get and obtain an education, therefore, we believe the public schools should be better managed. We believe the Government belongs to the people and should be managed so as to secure the greatest good to the greatest number. Therefore, we believe it should be made a misdemeanor by law for any corporation or individual having management of any railroad to offer or give a free pass, or reward in any way any member who fills any office of trust or honor for the Government, that both donor and receiver be punishable by law for the mis demeanor ana do severely dealt with. We believe in a majority rule and not in a minority rule, and that only for the good of the few. We do riot believe in submitting to any dice box convention to say who we shall vote for and after balloting 327 times we get a man that everybody knows who has taken any trouble to be informed, has defeated a man who got a large majority of the votes cast in the con vention on the first Dauot. We beleive the people should act with public men just as they would with men who they employ to do anything else. If you give them instructions how certain things are to be done, or certain thintrs are promised and you see they are not faithful. Just drop them and try some one else who will comply with your wishes. It is the only way to keep faithful servants in any business. So I hone you will read and pass around and remember me at the next election and give me a trial and see if I do not do all I can to comply wua my promises. Tours respectfully, A. H. Jones. Goldsboro. N. C TTT A "NT1 1 1 lVT A reliable and ener W AlN X JltU eetic Salesman in eve ry county In the South and West. Work light and pleasant. Salary or commission first-class. Aaaress us at once, stating age, present and jmai occupation. J. A. WILMORE & CO , sep23-lm Richmond, Va, 1 fIRfffti Send lx cent for puctage, and A HKl.r. ect free, a costly -o of roods A 1 LXlUUm Which Will hlt All. of fthtr to make -mora tnooy right away loan Boyming ei in ni worm r ontnu await the workers absolutely an re. Terms' mailed free. Tbdiaoo . Augusta, in atnr . aov9 ly The rvCa-wassiHas enedi AND GOODS; ARE. 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The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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