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The Wilson Advance. Entered in the Post Office at Wilson, N. C. as. second class mail matter. WILSON, N. C, - - Joly 9- 1891. This Paper s? S week, and every week in the future, as it does this week, among other features, a bright, breezy, newsy, letter from Washington City, written spe cially for The Advance. We 1 1 . have contracted with the best, brightest and liveliest corres- pondertt in Washington tor a regular weekly budget of live ly news and entertaining gos sip concerning North Caroli nians, from this great nation's 1 t 1 ..1 1 a-m. u ; capital. is.eaa me ltnei week. Don't miss it. You should read it regularly, and now is the time to subscribe. Begin your subscription, with next issue. You can't afford not to read the bwbacrlption I ADVANCE. !" h Year. FOIXV. It is reported that Congressman Oates of Alabama advises Demo crats in every convention to offer a resolution condemning the Sub- Treasury as unconstitutional and u democratic, and that if such resolu tion be defeated, Democrats retire from such conventions and hold con ventions elsewhere. There are so many rumors in circulation that it is hard to believe that any man in the ordinary use of his senses should give such advise. We can hardly believe that Congressman Oates has been guilty of such folly. We are all Democrats and the cardinal doctrine of the party is ma jority rule, and no one who refuses to submit to the rule of the majority has any right to call himself a Demo crat. The first duty of Democrats is to discuss measures among themselvel, each one striving for what he thinks is right. The advocates of the Sub Treasury may argue in favor of it, its opponents against it, if it should be thought wise to discuss it in the con ventions, and when the vote is taken convention and candidates are nomi nated and the platform adopted, let every Democrat stand squarely up to the ticket no matter what his pro fession may have been in the past. Any other course would be ruinous to the party, and good Democrats will not approve a course which would inevitably bring again upon the South the horrors of negro rule. We do not need any Third Party in the South whether composed of radicals and one sided Alliance men or of radical and one sided Democrats. Either would be dangerous to the best interests of the people and we should oppose one as earnestly as the other. Our only safety is a united party Our friends, the Republicans, would hail with delight either of these movements and would derive all the advantage and we - would suffer only disaster and shame TAXES. The Equalisation Boards met all over th State yesterday to endeavor lo equalize taxes. They have prob ably done as well as they could but the difficulty is that they could not do much until some means can be de vised of getting a higher moral standard which shall force the tax lister to value his property on tax listing day at something like the val ue he puts on it in ordinary times. ' There are men in every commuai ty, as is well and generally known, who make a practice of undervaluing their property for taxation. They do it year after year until it gets to be a constant habit. ' Their neighbors know them well and know that they are always cheating State and county out of legitimate taxes, that no com plaint is made and no. prosecution follows. Men are so averse to making enemies that they prefer to pay "more than their share of tax to exposing and prosecuting the dishonest tax lister, and so he goes uiwhipped of justice while the pretty chicken thief, no more guilty, pays the pen alty in the penitentiary for his dis honesty. . There are plenty of men, scattered over the State who regularly and systematically swindle the State and county and honest tax 'payers, by re fusing to list solvent credits and money on hand because they believe that nobody will know it. But they are greatly mistaken in this supposi tion. Men cannof act dishonestly and keep it a secret. People find it out and give the thief his proper rating. It is absolute folly for any man to persuade himself that he is deceiving any one. How it may come about we are not wise enough to say, unless the Divine Providence has so fixed it, but wrong doing how ever secret leaves its work on charac ter and reputation, and men's neigh bors know them much better than they believe they do. We need a little more devotion to public duty on the part of the citizen. Men who endeavor to live honestly, and bear their share of the burden of taxation, owe it tothemselves and to the community to see to it that people who are inclined to shirk be made to perform them. As long as Ood citizens sit idly by and see the dishonest tax lister give in for taxa tion half of his property and pay on ly half of the tax he ought to pay, so long will the burden of taxation be unequally distributed, and so long will rascals flourish at the expense of the people. Equalization Boards will not equalize if the citizen does not do his duty. We suggest that whenever in any township there are taxpayers who under-value their property or fail to list money and solvent credits their names and the facts in each case be submitted to the board of Coinmissioners which has full authority for dealingwith such cases and being in charge of county finances will take pleasure in making the per sons accused make a full disclosure of their property under oath subject ed to a searching examination. This is a matter of much importance and we suggest that these classes of per sons be reported to the Commission ers at or before their meeting the 2 2d Monday in July when they can take such action as they prefer. PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCES. Goldsboro, N. C," June 29th. I notice from the Wilmington Messen per that Dr. Kinersbury, the able nd scholarly editor of that paper, is most decidedly of the opinion that Mr. Cleveland is the undoubted choice of the people of this State, and that the politicians are all opposed to Mi. Cleveland. I think that Dr. Kingsbury is clearly wrong. My observation is that the men who are best known as politicians are almost to a man in favor of nominating Mr. Cleveland while the masses of the people are opposed to his nomination For my part, I think the people are right, and Mr. Cleveland ought not to be nominated. In saying this I do not abate .one particle of my high respect for him. I think him by far the ablest, bravest and truest of al the men named in connection with the high office of President. On the tariff, morover, he is easily first in ad vocacy of tariff reform, and if thaf were to be the only issue I should be for him, and I do not doubt that the great body of the people would also But we will not go to the country on that issue alone, and if we were to do so we would unqestionably be beaten We must have a man who is right on both tariff and silver. The Demo- cratic party in ixortn Carolina is pledged to a low tariff and to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Both are in the last platform, and it cannot be strange that the people should in sist on having a candidate who is with them on both questions. We must have a low-tariff-free-silver candidate low tariff for the South and free silver for the West, and the candidate from New York, in the person of D. B. Hill, would make a combination that could not beaten by the world, the flesh and the devil. In conclu sion, let me suggest that you send out a list of enquiries to all classes of our people asking them whether they are for or against Cleveland, and if not for hinvthen for whom. I venture the prediction that the answers will show that ninety per cent, of the politicians are for Cleveland, and ninety per cent, of the farmers and laboring men of the State are oppos ed to Cleveland. I do not think that many replies will be in favor of Hill nor any other person, but they will show opposition to Mr. Cleveland. Politician, in State Chronicle. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. (SPECIAL COR. THE ADVANCE.) Washington, D. C, July 6th, 1S91. Mr. Hal W. Ayer, favorably known in North Carolina newspaper circles has been here several months as Col. L. L. Polk's private secretary. He says he thinks North Carolina will cast 100,000 Alliance votes and Geor gia r2o,ooo in the coming campaign. He is a very clever and deserving young man but he is mistaken in this estimate. He weilds a facile pen, but he is too young by several years to assume the role of prophet. I think he will find that the Democratic can didate for President will poll North Carolina's solid Democratic vote and that the farmers will be the first to do their duty. Mr. Ayer will have an article in a forth coming issue of the Forum for which he will receive $100. Under the act of Congress approv ed October 1, 1890, the Weather Bureau is, beginning with luly 1st. under the care of Secretary Rusk, of tne Agricultural Department. Gen eral Greely has retired as its chief, and the President has appointed Prof. Mark. W. Harrington, of 'Ann Har bor, Mich., editor of the American Meteorological Journal, to succeed him. Dr. E- A. von Schweinitz of the Agricultural Department is still push ing his investigations in regard to a preventive of hog cholera. He is a son of the late Bishop von Schweinitz of the Moravian church, Salem, N. C, an alumnus of Chapel Hill, and Ph. D., of the University of Berlin. He is a highly accomplished young man and and his friends hope he will be successful. He will deserve the thanks of the country and an honorary membership in the Farmers Alliance. Treasurer Nebecker reports that the balance in the Treasury this morning s $51,401,871. The President and Cabinet are out of the city. This and the exodus Department, which it now seems wUl caused by the Fourth of July make certainly.be made, and there is reas news scarce. on to believe that the movement will Col. A. B. Andrews is at the Met ropolitan Hotel. B. F. Aycock of Fremont, N. C. is at the Howard House. E. O. McGowan, of Greenville, N. C is at Willards. The Census Bulletin in giving the statistics of education shows North Carolina to be behind every other Southern "State in the percentage of gain in public scnooi enrollment. this ought not to be so. lhe btate would progress faster, morally and materially, if the masses would let such men as Wm. Fife and Sam Jones alone and devote the time and money 1 spent on these theatrical money -collectors on their own chil dren's education. Bank Examiner Drew has been forced to return. It has been evi dent for some time that Drew was to be made the scape goat of the Key stone Bank fiasco. It is claimed that the extraordinary discovery made in his report of January 24th, 1 80 1 . as to the condition of the Key stone Bank he had omitted an item of liabilities of over half a million dol lars, for which he is unable to give any satisfactory explanation, left to the Secretary no alternative but to dispense with him at once. The in debtedness in question was $544, 861, for which notes and bills to the amount of $729,308 were held in pledge by the clearing-house. That the examiner should have failed to include in his reoort a shortage of such magnitude or to note the ab sence from the bank of a much larger amount of assets, implies a degree of carelesssness so inconceivable as to suggest the theory that it was due rather to intent than accident. At any rate the letter "of Mr. Drew, so far from explaining the omission, leaves scarcely room for the charitable hypothesis that it was an oversight. The outcome is an unpleasant one for Mr. Drew. His long experience and recognized ability count for nothing to view of this omission. Indeed they but serve to accentuate the gravity of his fault. But Mr. Drew could not have made all this mischief unaided and unabetted by others. Let the investigation pro ceed and let the people know who are the other culprits, no matter what office they hold. The contest for the Speakership is in full blast. The status at present is : Benton McMillian has developed sudden strength and I fear Roger Q. Mills will give him his strength if he should find his own cause hopeless Crisp has secured the support of a majority of the Louisiana delegation, The strongest dark horse is Wm. L Wilson of West Va. ' Senator Gorman has returned to this city and denies in toto the report that he is to supersede Calvin S. Brice as Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee Gorman says he needs the Summer in which to rest and attend to his private business in Maryland. ANOTHER LETTER. Mr. Wanamaker knows a good deal more than he did, and his in crease of knowledge hasn't added any to his opinion of himself. He has been humiliated by finding out that he was after all only a derk for Mr. Harrison. The long delay in giving out the list of Steamship com panies which have been selected under the mail subsidy law, passed by the billion dollar Congress, to carry our foreign mails, is at last ex plained. Some weeks ago Mr. Wanamaker stated that he had com pleted the list and would in a few days make it public. Mr. Harrison at once sent for Mr. Wanamaker and told him not to make the list public before bringing it to him for revision. Mr. Wanamaker kicked, but he had to give up the list, and Mr. Harrison carried it with him when he went to the summer capital at Cape May Point. At the Post office depart ment they expect that Mr. Wana maker, who spent the Fourth and Sunday at "Cape May Point, will bring the revised list back to-morrow and that it will at once be made pub lic. It is learned from a source that is authentic that no lines running out of Southern ports south of Norfolk, ex cept Tampa, Fla., Galveston, Tex., and New Orleans, will get any of the subsidy money, which is to be put where it will do the most good to the Republican party. And that isn't the only time that Mr. Wanamaker has Jbeen recently humiliated by the gentleman who is now so industriously at work to se cure a renomination to the Presiden cy. The last Congress, among its other efforts to dissipate the Treasury surplus, created an entirely new office, that of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, and the salary for the new officer became available on the first of the present month. Mr. Wanamaker supposed, of course, that he would be allowed to select the man to fill the office, but he was quickly unde ceived by Mr. Harrison, who not only selected the man, but also or dered the P. M. G. to turn over to him as a part of his duties the super vision of the fourth-class post office. This necessitated an entire re-organization of the entire department, as the fourth-class postmasters had been for years under the direct con trol of the first assistant. Well, that re-organization is now going on. Maj. Rathbone, the new Fourth As sistant Postmaster General, is a prac- tical ponticiau ot the Ohio school, and what he doesn't know about the methods used by the Republicans during the last three national cam paigns would hardly be worth know ing. He is relied upon to swing the army of small postmasters into line for Harrison, and instead of the no torious dispatch, "How are the de partments doing?" which Garfield, when a candidate, sent to Brady, of Star route fame, Mr. Harrison will be telegraphing Rathbone: "How are the post offices doing f" Meanwhile Mr. Wanamaker is, to use a bit of slang, not "in it" The Pension Office is going to be the cause of some very lively times in the next Congress, between the investigations that are to be made into its workings and the renewal of the ficrht frr it-s h-onifr u r II. wJ be more popular than ever before, and that it will go through. The Washington people are as much puzzled about the real condi tion of Mr. Blaine's healtfe, as they can possibly be. One telegram will say that he is perfectly well and the next that he is dangerously ill ; one person will inform you that he is in daily communication with his assis tant at the Department of State, and another that he has had no commu nication with the department since he left Washington. You can take your choice, but it would be safe to charge nine-tenth of the statements exaggerating Mr. Blaine's physical and mental condition to anti-Blaine republicans who fear that he may ac cept the nomination of his party next year. Nothing but good news comes to the headquarters of the National As sociation of Democratic Clubs in this city. The Association now has branches in every State, and the work I of thoroughly organizing the voter? in each State is going on, more energetically in some States than in others, but moving along every where. The question of where will the next national convention be held ? is beginning to be asked of prominent members of the party who come here. Washington wants it, and as it will shortly have a grand hall which will seat 7,000 people, it sees no good reason why it shouldn't have it. Some imaginative newspaper writer sent out from here a story that Mr. Mills had decided to withdraw from the speakership contest. Needless to say it was a fake without the slight est foundation. Mr. Mills has never had an idea of withdrawing, and as sure as the Democratic caucus meets his name will be presented to it and will not be withdrawn until he or some other good Democrat has been nominated for Speaker. State Pensioner!, Attention t Headquarters Pensioners association, General Order No. i. All North Carolina pensioners who served in the Confederate army, and who are able to go into camp are re quested to report at Wrightsville sound, near Wilmington, on the 29th day of July next. Transportation will be furnished male pensioners on all railroads in the State of North Carolina on their presenting a certificate to their near est ticket agent or to the conductor of the train, certificate to be signed by the Clerk of the Superior Court of their county, with the county seal at tached, .and certifying that their names are on the pension roll of their county Present this notice to the agent or conductor with the certificate from the Clerk of the Court. Pensioners will be met on the ar rival of the train in Wilmington, and carried to the camping ground free of charge. All those going into camp must be provided with three days rations and one blanket quilt. For further information address, Adjutant, E. D. Hall, Wilmington, N. C. By Order of the Executive Com. Word of Praise. Col. A. B. Andrews is getting con siderable newspaper praise on the re port of his promotion to the position of First Vice-President of the Rich mond and Danvillle. All this is highly deserved and more too ; and should be increased when it is known that he declined the great honor and larger emoluments because it involved his removal to New York City. He won't sever his associations with North Carolina. He is too proud of his State and her people ; too much wrapped up in the development of North Carolina to be tempted away. There are not many men who have State pride to such an extent. Greensboro North State. To the South. lhe txceMor Art Gallery and Copying House is the largest and best equipped establishment south of i the Potomac. Life-sized portraits made from the smallest tin-tipe, in Pastel, Crayon or Oil. All work sent C. O. D., subject to examination and approval. Send for price list. Agents wanted. Address Excelsior Art Gallery and Copying House, Charlottsville, Va., J. T. Wampler, Proprietor. References : People's National Bank, Bank of Albemarle, Hon. S. B. Woods, mayor ; or any business firm in the city, also the Faculty University of Virginia. For Sale: One yoke of Oxen, good sized, well broke, evenly matched, will work single or double. Fine Oxen for logging. J. R. Uz zell, Wilson, N. C SCROFULA It Is that Imparity In the blood, which, ac cumulating In the standi ot the neck, pro daces aulghtly lumps or swellings; which causes painful running sores ou the arms, legs, or feet; which derelopes vloers in the eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can eereoa growths, or the many other manifesta tions saaDyscribed to " humors; " which, frrtmtns; upon the lungs, causes consumption and death. Being the most ancient, it is the most general of all diseases or affections, for very few persons are entirely tree from it. "-ST CURED By taking Hood's Sarsaparflla, which, by the remarkable cores It has accomplished often when other medicines hare fafled, has proren Itself to be a potent sad peculiar medicine for this disease. Some of these euros are really wonderful. If you suffer from scrofula, be sore to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. My daughter Mary was afflicted with scrof olons sore neck from the time she was 23 months old till she became six years of age. Lumps formed in her neck, and one of them after growing to the size of a pigeon's egg, became a running sore for o?er three years. Wegare her Hood's Sarsaparilla, when the lump and an Indications of scrofula entirely dis appeared, and now she seems to be a healttry child." J. 8. CARLrLB, Kauright, N. J. K.B. Be sore to set only Hood's Sarsaparilla w,. 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We have reduced the prices on all of our Dress Goods in order to close them out. We don't believe in carrying over old goods, and in order to avoid this we have made a price that will sell them. Our stock in this line is cemplete, and you can find just anything you want, our stock of White Goods is by far the largest in Wilson, and at prices never heard of. We have a big line of White Embroidered Skirts that we are selling at prime New York Cost. Our stock of Hamburgs are going the same way. G-I-N-G-H-A-M-S. Now we want to say just a word about Ginghams. We bought too many Ginghams, and we want to sell them. We will sell our entire stock of Ginghams for less than cost. These goods must go. Our French Ginghams are going at iocls.. others sell them at 15&S. All of our io5l. Ginghams we will sell at 8cls., and cheaper Ginghams at 6cts. This is a rare opportunity to buy Ginghams. These goods positively will not be carried over. Hats! Hats!! Hats!!! 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