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i()L. XXI. . WELDON, X. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1891. NO. 44. i " . i . lUljaGU LETTER E(jlLATlVK l'ltOCKKDlXCS AND OTIIKI! MATTERS OK UF.NF.RAI. ISTEUKST. The Industrial and Training school L white ii rl has been tho tubjeet of lutercst during the -st few days. A r11 . . lit i Wis id it has already neen pruned ..uXkvvs. U ha a passed the Senate lUJwas man. : the special ordi' in the Huu.ef'r 12 o clock Monday. Iilm that hour arrived the galleries were filled ith people 'ho had gone there to listen to the debate, most of the audience were wo- KD naturally as tho lair sex was mostly 10 be benefited by tlio law. several ipeeches were made for and against the (ill. Had the bill been put to a vote Men day without so much speaking it would have pa-wed but a motion to adjourn was made and carried and the bill went over till Tuesday as unfinished business, when coinitii! up several amendments were offer ed One by Mr. l'ritehard, Republi can, excluding from its privileges those ill.) are able to pay their own expense. This amendment was lost. Another amendment to require all who accept the privileges of the bill to pledge to teach for as lung a lime as she has been a stu dent at the school. This amendment was slso lost. An amendment was offered which provided that each county shall have represented in the school in propor tion to the number of white girls of school age aud if any county shall not avail itself of this provision applications from counties which have already their full number mav be recouuized. This amendment was adopted. Oilier amend nnuts were offered and voted down. Ti c bjjihben passed its st eond reading by a vote, uf til to -H. When the bill came upon its third readings number of amend ments were ofi.-red mmiic of which wete adopted These will doubtless impair usefulness (d' tht; institution as a normal school aud consequently deprive it of the aid of the lVabody fund. It now goes to the Senate with the amendments. Whether that body will accept them is an unknown quantity. In the Senate a few days ago in dis cu&iui: the resolutions relative to the Force bill Senator Wuber, Republican made reference iu a speech to frauds jlwhich Democrats had practiced in the eat. This is a favorite subject with He publicans whenever politics ' have the floor, and but for this never tailing source offolitical thunder they would be at a loss lor iulijt!-t matter when they speak, Senator Bowers immediately took the joung man to task for his allegations nd defended Halifax and other eastern counties from the charges in a manner which quited the young man. Mr. Wal set hud the grace to tell tne afterwards that he had uo reference iu his re mark to the last election, for he fur he said he knew it was fairly conduc ted because Dr. M ott, who was in the county on the election day, had told him 80i Mr. l'ritehard, also Republican, said 'bo wine thij, iu t.uL.L.t all(i further that he was glad to nee the negroes dividing Of political issues. A little excitement ran through the House Weduesday ou tho occurrence of a Pt between ('apt. 1'eeblefl, aud Col. Sutton. The latter had introduced a bill to charter, a bank at Fayetteville, and charier authorized the buuk to icoeivc money from married women aud uuions without parents or guardian and pay it tack to them without being liable to the husband or persons other than the de bitors themsjlves. Tho bill was refer r d t committee and came back to the House with majority and minority reports Cpt. Peebles submitting the minority report. Col. Sutton said that some who opposed this feature of the charter were actuated by covert motives; Capt. Peebles Replied that any such statement was false. Col. Sutton rejoined that he repeated his statement and was responsible for what iie had said. Under the previous ques tion the House- took a vote wh.ch result ed iu favor nf the majority report. Tho Beit day mutual explanations were made nd hands shaken amd the applause of the House. The charter of the Petersburg railroad will expire thw year and a bill is before the Legislature to renew it. I'nder the constitution it will hereafter be taxed, and to preclude all possibility of evasion a clause has been inserted iu the bill to the effect that the chatter shall in no seuse grant rights other than those per mitted by the fundamental law. The House notwiihstaudiog had the bill re referred with instructions to the commit tee to examine whether the load belongs to the Wilmington and Weldon road and report the facts. A movement has de veloped on the part of citizens who live and have property io that section to ask the General Assembly in grauting a re newal of the charter to require the com pauy to rebuild aud operate the road from llie.ksford to Gaston. This part of the road was origiually a separate road and was kuowu us the Greenville and Gaston road. An act was authorizing the Pe tersburg road to consolidate with it. In stead of doing that it was claimed that the Greenville and Gaston consolidated with the Petersburg road, which is said to be an entirely different thing. The Gaston branch was abandoned after the war before it was said the Iraflic did not justify its continuance. Its operation would prove of vast beucfit to the people now and would develop a profitable bus in ess for the railroad company in several years. I do not see how the Petersburg road can be made to rebuild the Gaston branch; it is true the charter could re quire it, but if tho company should not choose to accept it on ibis condition it would be easy enough, it seems to me, for the Wilmington and Weldon road to build a branch load under its charter to the Virginia line and connect there with the Petersburg road. The citizens of Littleton have f-cnt up a bill asking authority to allow the town to issue bonds to the amount of 25,(100 payable in twenty years and not to be sold below par. 810,000 of this amou.it is lo be sul scribed to a hotel, 810,000 to some meritorious manufacturing enter prise und ,"), 0110 to I he procuring of a new county and building a court house. It submits the question of subscription to a vote of the citizens. It is uow in committee. A bill is also drawn to erect a new county from parts of Halifax, War re n aud .Northampton I have seen a map of the proposed county. It is about the size of Vance county; the average width is about ten or twelve miYs aud its length is about twenty miles. The line begins at Ransom's bridge and ruus due north to the Virgiuia line, taking iu a slice of Warren all along its length from a mile aud a half to two miles in width. Where it strikes the Virginia line it runs east about ten miies aud thence a little west of south to Pishing creek, crossing tho river at or near Rock Lauding, about six or seven miles from Weldon. " The line reaches Fishing creek about fifteen miles below Ransom's Bridge, and ruus up the to the beginning. The bill provides for submitting the question to a vote of the people in the territory to be included in the new county. If the Warren and Northamp ton portions vote against and the Halifax portion votes for the new county then no parts of Warren and Northampton are to be taken in, but the new county is to be erected solely from a part of Halifax. A long petition will accompany the bill. Past Legislatures have been uveroo to makiug new counties, but I have not as certained the temper of the present Gen eral Assembly upon the. subject. Among other bills of general interest which have been introduced is one direc ting tho State Treasurer to issue bonds to the amount of ten million dollars bear ing interest at four per cent, and loan the money to the citizens of the State at five per cent, interest, not more than on thousand dollars to be loaned to one man aud each loau to be secured by the inort traiie on real estate at half its assessed value, the county commissioners to ap prove tho security. The bill makes no provision for collecting the loans to the people uor for paying the boudo at matur ity. It will not puss. The resolutions which passed the Mouse instructing our Senators to vote against the Force bill were amended in the Sen ate so as to express the thanks of the Legislature for their continued and able opposition. A very proper change, it seems to mc, as the original resolutions might possibly convey the idea to those not well informed that the position of our Senators on this important matter was doubtful. They were offered in the Mouse to enable members to get off' a lit tle "Buncombe" and it was generally so understood. Mr. Hill has been added to the com mittee on Insurance and Mr. Long has been made chairman of the committee on the Electiou of Trustees of the I'niversi- The plan adoptod by the committee ap pointed by the several counties to secure legislation looking to diking Roanoke river has been formulated into a bill, which was drawu by Mr. T. N. Hill, the chairman of the committee. The bill directs the Directors of the Penitentiary to furnish to each of the couuties of Hal ifax, Northampton, Bertie aud Martin every year for five years as many convicts as they may require not exceeding one hundred. These convicts shall be at all times uuder the supervision and coulrol of the Board of Directors, but the nature, character and quulity of work to be done and the places where it shall be under the direction and supervision of the Boards of Commissioners of the respective coun ties or their agents. I he expenses ol transportation, maintenance and guard ing of the convicts are not to be paid by the State or a charge upon the State treasury, but provision must bo . therwise made before the appropriation and deliv ery of the convicts to the commissioners The convicts are to be delivered whenever provision has been made to transport, u a I'd and maintain them, without limit as to tune. Capt. Hill introduced in the House Friday a bill to incorporate the town of Hobgond. The bill names L. J. Wright as mayor, R. J. Shields, J. T. Savage, ('. K. Bell, J. E. Lewis and K. P. Hymau, ascomuiissionersandW.il. White as constable. Quite a lively discussion look place in the Senate Saturday upon the bill to re duce the rate of interest to six per cent. introduced by Senator Williams, of Pitt. It had been put upon the calendar but after several speeches for aud against it it was referred to the committee on the Judiciary. There is a diversity of opin ion among the members of the Legisla ture as lo the wisdom of a reduction, but it seems that a majority are opposed to a reduction for the reason that loans uow out at eight per ceut. would be called iu aud borrowers would be forced to pay up. Another objection is that State banks most of which now to re-discount their paper iu New York at six per cent con d not afford to carry ou business any long, r aud would have to close; the consequence being that the mediums through which money is now supplied to our people would uo longer be availa ble, aud suffering would ensue. It is ar gued that money will go where it will command the highest interest, and a re duction would drive it away from the State a result which would necessarily be injurious to the small borrowers and to those whose securities are not giit edge. The committee has nearly completed its labors upon the commission bill aud will probably report it to both House-it Wed nesday or Thursday It is the opinion among members that there will be no fight ou it when it comes up, and that it will pass substantially as it comes from the committee. The Railroad magnates have had several hearings before the committee, tho result of which will be some modifications of the bill before it is reported. There is no talk here of tho personnel of the commis-don. It is evident ih .t there will be a large uumber of camii dates but very few of them care to n uounce themselves publicly. It is the deieruiinaiion to pass the bill beforj con sidering who are to execute it. RATTLESNAKES. HIXTKKV MVE RATTI.KS.WVK ES TITItSI D LOOSE IN THE DEAD LETTER OF FICE.. A few years ago, says a Washington letter to the St. Louis Globe Democrat, there cimo lo the dead-letter office, a tin can on which no address was found. The can was opened and sixteen lively look ing rattlesnakes made their escape. There was u scene iu the dead letter office for n few minutes. Everybody got on the chairs and tables and the rattlers were left in full possession of the floor. Finally they were dispatched and fifteen of them were pickled in alcohol. One was missing, but nobody knew it. It was supposed that fifteen was enough and that none had escaped. A few days later, one sunny afternoon, a long, sleek looking rattlesnake crawled from among the papers in the chief clerk's office, and, unobserved, made his way to where a young lady visitor was sitting. His snakeship slyly crawled to her feet, and, gracefully winding himself about her slender ankle, tightened his folds. The young lady noticed the in trusion and, hastily looking down, saw the wily serpent, was horrified, and very properly fainted. The rattlesnake offered no further in sult or injury, but fled in alarm. He was killed and, artistically incased iu a glass jar, he now adorns the cabinet. FACE YOUR TROUBLES. "I had plowed around a rock in one of my fields for five years," said a farmer, ''and I had broken a mowing machine kuife against it, besides losing the use of the ground iu which it lay, all because I thought it was such u large rock that it would take too much time and labor to remove it. But to-day when I began to plow for corn I thought that by and by I might break my Cultivator against that rock; so I look a crowbar, intending to poke around and find out its size once for all. A ud it was one of the surprises of my life to find out that it was a little more than two feet long It was stand ing on its edge, and so light that I could lift it into the wagon without help." ' The first time you really faced your trouble you conquered it," I replied, but continued to eularge upou the subject to myself, for I do believe before we pray, or, belter, while we pray,, we should look our troubles square iu the face. Imagine the farmer plowing aroutid that r .ck for five years, praying all the while, "0 Lord, remove that rock!" when he didu't know whether it was a big rn.-k or a little flat stone. We shiver and shake and shrink, and sometimes do uot dare to pray about trouble because it makes it seem so real, not even knowing what wo wish the Lord to do about it, when if we would face the trouble and call it by its name, one half uf its terr-.r would be gone The trouble that lies dowu with us at niIit and confronts us on first waking in the morning, is the trouble whose propor tioi.s we do not know. KuHOSENEoil has the power of at tracting and destroyiug spiders and other insect annoyances. 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It was his wife's voice the dear girl whom he had taken from a parent's, or rather, two parents' care. "George! Come quick!" What could be the matter? He re membered now, with an agonized gasp, is ho ripped his nightgowii up to the back and put one leg into the arm of his un- lcr-diirt, that Maud had functual derange ment of the heart. Still, she could not cry like that if stricke't down by " "George! Why don't you come? Come! Come!" In his frantic haste he had on his trousers hind part before aud his shirt was a wreck, but what of that? Like a flash it came to him, the tale of yesterday told by his little wife, at which he had scoffed God help him! A tale of a dark-browed man who came to read the gas metre, and who had behaved so strangely that Maud suspected him of being a burglar's spy. The man had come again even now, perhaps "George! If you don't come, it'll be too late?" What were collar buttons now that he should search for them? With one bound he overturned the rocking chair and smashed the waer pitcher; in another in stant ho had collided with u half open closet door; at the third step he tripped over his suspender and came down stairs on his elbows and countenance. "Courage, Maud!" he cried; "I'm com ing. He was only a pale bookkeeper, and unarmed save with nature's weapons, but not for a moment did he falter. "You're too late," said Maud with a pretty pout, as George dashed into the room with fire in his eye that the blood on his nose could not dim "What where is he?" he gasped, looking around with an awful faintness at the heart. "I wanted you to see the baby," said she, in a disappointed voice. "Me had his foot in his mouth, and you've no idea how cunning he looked." To Purify your blood, Build up your nerves, Restore your strength, Renew your appetite, Cure Scrofula, salt rheum, Dyspepsia, tick headache, Catarrh, rheumatism or malaria Take Mood's Sarsaparilla, 100 Doses One Dollar. The greatest piece of solid masonry of modern times is now in course of con struction in the Bombay presidency. There being danger that the water sup ply of the city of Bombay would soon become insufficient, it was decided to in close the watershed of the valley, which drains into the sea south of the city, by means of a dam. The gigautic structure, which will be completed in March next, is two miles 1 ing, 118 feet in height and 1015 feet wide at its base. The roadway on the top is to he twenty-four feet in width, and the stonework will cost 82, 500,000. Tho b.U r.r w iter which this dam will imprison will be eight square miles in area For? nvsPEPsi, Indigestion, uud Siomach diiun'u'Ti, use EROWN'S iltOJV BITTERS. All dealers licop I'. 51 per bottle. Genuine baa trade-mark and cioucd reu iii.es on wrapper. Fasiii n report has it that next sum mer's f ni'iiine styles are lo be more uiHscuiin.' than ever Sleepless nights, umde miserable by that terri de - i.L'h v'bil'd.'s Cure is the rem. "If i't v.-ii 1'ir sale at U'. M Co hen .tn-'sMie. W i-l yiU S:.! Li' -'l 'oIl'P1 d :"t ii rii i . .. M. Cohen r with v.. I' iynepsiu in . s Viiiilizcr an.: F- r sale by W ,re. y ACOOD FARMER. BltlN'KLEYVII.LE, N. C, Feb. 1, '91. Eds. News: I wrote you sometime ago to discontinue the Roanoke News for awhile, hut I find I cannot do with out it. I herewith enclose SI. 00, so please send it again. I am not a farmer but am very much interested in the subject. Having so often noticed the query, does farming pay ? I would like to state a few fa'its in regard to the subject, which I hope will prove of some benefit to farmers in general and to those of Halifax county in particular. These fads cain-i directly under my notico and arc true in every respect. They serve to show what oue man by honest work with his own bauds and prudent forethought may acco nplish in one year, and they ought to be very encouraging to those who are just begin ning work for another year, especially those of small means. Mr. J. H.Parker, my neighbor and friend, having risen above the discourage ments of two bad crop years, commenced anew January, 181)0, with a firm deter mination to succeed. His only team was oue ox, which by the way, was not paid for in full, and he had a wife aud several small children to provide for. Having first secured bis year's supply from a neighboring merchant by mortgaging the coming crop, he went to work with the following result: 4 bales cotton, 30 bar rels corn, 200 bushels sweet potatoes, about 40 bushels pea nuts, &,c. After having paid his store account in full, he paid 825 rent, fiuished paying for his ox and bought a fine Jersey milk cow for which he paid 825. Now he has secured and paid for all of his supplies for the next year aud is ready with a smiling face for another twelve months of hard work. What think you of that, Messrs. Edi tors, does farming pay ? Farmers are now all hard at work and in fine spirits. We hope for another such year as 1810. Mr. N. M. Harrison who has been absent for several days has returned with a nice lot of horses. With best wishes for the B.OANOKE News. V. When Baby was sick, we gare her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T O STORE KEEPERS. Kn agent wanted by a prominent N. V. Reta il House to sell first-class ready-made cloth ing from samples. Complete outfit free. Liberal commissions. For particulars ad dress P. O. llox lliilo, New York city. NOTICE. The undersigned, having qualified before the Superior court of Halifax county on the 2Sth day of January 11)1 as adminis trator with the will annexed of L. I?. Hold ford, deceased, hereby notifies all persons holding claims against ' he said estate to present them to him tlaly verified at his office in Weldon, N. C, within twelve months from the il .'o of this uoticc or the same will be pleaded in bar thereof. All perrons iudebted to said estate are hereby requested to make immediate pay ment. This the :rd day of February m. W. E. DANIEL, Adinr. with the will unnexed. 2-5-0 w. JJOTICE. By virtue of a decree of the Superior court made at the fall term 18!)) nf the Su jx'rior court for Halifax county in the ac tion therein pending entitled (J. V. Black assignee against J- M. Footeet als., the un designed us com mis tinners wi ! I se! I at publ ie auction for cash to the highest bidder at the coi.rt house door in Halifax, N. C, on Monday the. i2nd day of March, 1H)1, the following lot or parcel of land lying situate and being in the town of Weldon, couuty of Halifax, State of North Carolina front ing on riiimnu r street beginning at James I. Ij.o-k' line rnnuing north ith said street to the land formerly owned by the Roanoke Navigation Company thence in a southerly direction of the said Roanoke Navigation Company to said James L Bass' ling thence inn westerly direction with tuid Buss' line to the beinniii'. This Febr.v.ry 2nd, 1H!)1 R.O BVRTON. Jr., A. i.. ItAMI-L, Coiumii-sioncrs. 2 5-td.