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i. t i 1. npxrii-p-p H VOL. XXII. NEWTON, N, FttlDAY, MARCH 30, 1900. NO. 9 Newton En TQ I? JL Doctors Say; Piliousand Intermittent Fevers which prevail in miasmatic dis tricts are invariably accompan ied by derangements of the Stomach Liver and Bowels. The Secret of Health. The liver is the great "driving wheel" in the mechanism of man, and when it is out of order, the whole system becomes de ranged and disease is the result Tutt's Liver Pills Cure ail Liver Troubles. J. E. THGF2TO&, Keeps constantly on hand rv!i sizes i f wood coTiiDs. Also a variety oj I uriai robes. m:vtox. N. C. J. R. CAMPBELL, M. D., rilYdlClAN an,l SURGEON, Newton, - N. C. C.T-.rs hi! professional services to the people of Newton and Cutawbv a nt J. B. LITTLE. 9 RESIDENT XEVv'ION, - - N. C. OfUoo in Yount vv Shrnm's Building. OR, GEO. H. WEST, M. D Physician and Surgeon, NEWTON, N. C. j Offers his professional eejvices to the citizens oT Newton and Catawba county OfSso at residence. W. S. DAVIDSON, EL B. Haa located in Newton and will prac tice medicine in all its branches. Calls RtteudeJ promptly, day or night. M. A, Newlancl, Attorney-at-Law, NEWTON n.c. ."Oftlceia Shmord's Bank Building. ERNEST L MOORE, FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR ERESSER, N. C. NEWTON, He keeps a first-class Tonourial Par lur whero you will always rind clean towels and tharp razors, and a pohta and attentive barber. Every one coming to Newton desir ing anything in the Tonsorial Art will be pleased after they call on me, for J always please all my customers. I wish to say that I now have on baud and am constanty reciving a nice Jiae of seasonable dry goods, notions, hste, caps, clothing, shoes, groceries, ei, that I am selling very cheap for cash. I am located near Newton Cot ton Mills. Come to see ma and I will do you right. JOSEPH GEMAYEL Nobody need have Neuralgia. Get Dr. Miles Pain Pills from druggist. One cent a dose. CAROLINAAND NORTH WESTREN RAILWAY. Schedule effective December 17th, 1893. XOr.TH BOUND. Taps. Mixsd. MixM No. 10 No. CO No. CJ bv Chester 8 10 a m 949 am Ar Yorkviila 9 15 .. 1122 Ar Gastonia 10 10 . 110pm Ar Ltncolnton 11 07 .. a 20 Ar Newtou 11 50 .. 4 80 Ar Hickory 12 13 pm 5 15 . .LvC!5i;m Ar Lenoir 1 16 8 15 SOUTH SOUND. 0 Pass. Mixed Mixed. No. 9 No. CI No. 03 Lv X.eiiolr 4 31 pra. 5 CO mi A r Hickory 5 25 . .Lv8 13am 7 10 an Ar Newton 8(0.. 9 10 . . Ar I.incolcton C 50 .. 10 10 .. Ar Ga-tonia 7 54.. 1230 pm Ar YorkvllJo 9 00.. 3 03 .. Ar Chester 10 11 .. 5 15 .. CoDnec'ior.s at nil inactions with Southern, K A. L., S. C. &. O. fix . end L. & C. L. T. Kiel: r.eriC.-alMa?.ar. 4 3-.'ro-:s, K, i: ItoM, Adulter, Carter, li. O. A STRONG LETTER. Mr. Bitting Declares Butler's Argu ments Against the Amendment ! AN INSULT TO THE WHITE MEN Of ihc S;a;e rir. Bitting Studies the Amendment, and Warns No More "Au:i" Lilera-.ure. The following Ls a genuine letter ciu la Chairman Simmons from For fyth county, TA wrier of it, ST- Z. B. fitting, was uncertain at one time ?u to how he; would vote, and so espresti hi:r;.if to a revenue officer who liave his name to Butler, and he (But- j If-r) s?nt him the letter .he refer to. Mr. Bitting thereupon got the amend ment and convinced himself that it had leer, misrepresented to him by the dt-odlcrs, and writer this lettc-r. f -MIL KITTING TO SSNATO;t' BUT 1.ER. Rural Hall, Forsyth Co., N. C." March 14th. Senator Butler, iw JUf : You let ter came soma day and with it ue papers you up to defeat, as von say the -uwouiiirtin to the constitution -1 at' hvLt T:xlly the tter you ;cna r-ns so muoii more to do with the destruction of the peac-eahle cartdition cur people now, that, t ihink it noth ing but riglit fcr file to tell you that you will pleas? to not seed me any mere si?ch. V.'hen I r3ad the follow ing iu your letter sent to mj: "We uust band ourselves trg:her and fight iir..il this red shirt mob u driven ro;n power." I you insult me aa,-l every other man v-ho voted ih 1835 to g-st rid of Che --.vail rtate of thirds negro rule bad brnught us to. You may n&t have intended it to insult me, but it is wrong far you, way yonder safe in Washington, to try o bring on a Mgiit among us down here, who are peacsable people. I would have wondered v.-hv this matter was sent to Hie, a life long Democrat, if you had not enclosed two large blanks for me to fill up and re turn to you. One marked Form No. 1 had on it ' List of Democrats who do no. approve of and may vote ag?inst the amendment." Now I know, like a ?reat many white meu, before I studied this amendment, I spoke rny doubts about voting for it. I spoke from the ngats I thtn had as to its meaning, and I cm satisfied that a certain reve nue officer of rny neighborhood cr somebody who heard me talk, sesi my r-ame to you, and thafs how I come to get your letter, a-:d that's why I re ceived for over a month the Ashevilie Gazette, which came to me as a Dem ocratic paper, but is very bitter on the a.mendmenc. I read in that paper: F:i.t: That the amendment wc-u'.d disfranchise whites and negroes both, if they couid not read and write. I v,-a.s troubled, and so I sent for a copy cf the amendment to Secretary of State Thompson, at Kaleiga, and looked this matter up for mysaif. in section 4 I found this; "Every person presenting Umself tor registration shall be able to itiul and write any section of the cc-n-stinuion in the English language;" th-it locked sk-Iitii-ii to me, but I read ou and ia section 5 I read this: "No male pea-son who was entitled to vote ca January 1, lS67,cr prior thereto, and no lineal tie-jcendent, (heir) of any such person shall ba denied the right to vote by reason of his failure to pos sess the educational qualification men tioned in paragraph 4." Now I've got sense enough to know that before 18G7 negrces couldn't vote and white people could, and th's certainly means, that ALL white men will be let in, and all negroes, wCio can't read and write wili be ruled out, and I am free to say, that's exaczly what I would like to have done. Second: But my mind was disturbed the second time by reading in the Ga zette afterwards ia explaining my ask ing if this wasn't so, by its saying that if the law could stand like this, yes, though it had raid the opposite. at first, but it wa3 in two sections and the Su preme Court T.ould knock out the grandfather, or section 5, part of the bill and let the reading and writing section 4, stand, therefore cutting out everybody, white and Mack who were ignorant of book learning from voting anyhow. I had lost some faith in the Gazette for catching it 'in the first mis take, so 1 went to studying again. And this is tha way I studied it out. The Democratic party is made up of white men entirely and it must stand up for iits own people. It certainly has had to do it ever since the war, and it is the party cf the laboring people who really dislike a negro's manniishness worse than you high-class office-foold-crs, and 1 don't mean offense to you, if so I beg your pardon. Now a heap of white people can't read and write, but they have been killing nigger votes for the Democratic party ever since niggers begun voting against honest white men, and they begun it early and have kepit it up late. Would that par ty, I thought to myself, be fool enough to cut its own throat by handing one of these honest white friends who had no book-learning a ticket and say: "Here, yen uneducated fool you, vote this ticket for the amendment and I guarantee it will destroy your privi lege of ever voting for me any more, because you can't vote no more for anything," and to a nigger that's voted E.rainst it all his life say, "Here, you educated r;iggt.r, you are better than tlhat white man, take this ticket and yen and 'him together will Kill his chance to vote any more." Mr. Butler, anybody knows that's all rot, ridiculous, and so I found that the be.st m.;7i in this State and other States and in the United States Senate all szild that the hullabullco over the con stitutionality of the amendment be cause it was 'in two sections and that the bad section wras gend law and the good section was bad law was just a dust kicked up to save the nigger from bei'Sg disfranchised, by scaring just such men as me. I have found out that a law just like this has been working in Louisiana for three years, and is working all right, white men voting right along a,nd nig gers have quit voting and fooling and gone ia rais-irg cotton, und I thsught to myself, "That's just what I want them ta go to doing here, and I be lieve f will help to push it along and take the risk," when I heard, that to satisfy everybody' doubts, the mem bers of the Legislature that put this law before the people, have given it out that it will meet again in. June, 3 'J l'j 2 very first thing it doss will be ta put loth section 4 and 5 in one sec tion, and give th white man a chance to rule this country. That's right. Then for CERTAIN every white man who was born and raided in this coun try, no matter whether he ever looked m a booi, can evermore veta,-?n't a ruger who couldn't vat in 1867 and w who can't read and a rue wj .could ever vote, and that Is Koaastly about like I want it w i x not believe that God lm-Wy ever in- IV?11 10 equality ? rt?.1?eop,ei aai 1 kow I don't intend to if I can help it, without hurt ing any of my own rac and feleod. vd'- Thl Gasr.tte, instead of being satisfied nt tftis prcspept nf listing the amrrf-inents mrriM iii June and ev erybody hAp;,y, so it could not be da crI by the court to be unlawful in the gcod part and lawful in the bad part, but lawful all over, thsn jumped another rabbit and 'it was tiiiis: white men, after l&GS who ean't re4d and wrta can't vo:e. I got my la-w and -reaJ it again and J found that it says, in eacti-m 51 "All persons who register and voe before 190S, sho.l' !:ive their names enrolled, fend kept forever," so you their names as-e kept on this record in the court house, so shat there can never be any dhput Over Iheir not always vqUsj?, i2'0S only means per sons who get to be 21 after then and I explained this to one of my revenue officer friends who seems to take a great interest in ms- feoradhow, r.nd he said that would be all right, but the trouble is. that after then there might be rconj educated niggers than white men, and I couldn't help from telling him that if hie -tin. ought that much bet ter of a nigger than a whits main's ca pacity, I don't, and if I did vvhy I ani that more bent and determined now to Vote for the amendment so as to evermore cut off a nigger's prospect to outgeneral my children. And I couldn't help from asking him if he was ao much concerned about a nigger's vot ing after 190S, how in the name of common s-en&e ,hfe was so anxious to keep him voting now he had a chanc5 to step it right away. He left about then to cut up somebody's still and I never hfard his reply. The last report 1 have heard was one cnt out from revenue headquarters at Winston. They say that it m that all who failed to pay their t.vses by the first of March, Just gone, will not be allowed to vote under the amendment. I picked Up the la w and went to stu dying again and I found this: "And be fore he shall be entitled to vote he shall have paid his poll tax on or be fore the 1st day cf March for the pre vious year." Now that did phase me a little, until common tense and a little thought told me that as k could not be a law until we voted on it, and we did not vote on it until August, 1900, haw the dilckens could anything in March, 1900, affect my rights, but I kept on reading and when I got down to sub-section 2, I read this: "The provisions of this con-; satuticfc, etc., shall go ilnto effect oii the first day of July, 1302, etc." 3d that looked like a sockdologer to false report No. 7. Now, Mr. Butler, I have honestly told you the trouble of my mind, and how I came to experience perfect sat isfaction about the amendment, and tha more I understand it the better I like it, but I can feel fci them who are yet honestly trying to get out of the darkness, for I was honestly in the dark myself. The more I am informed on this amendment the better I like it. f am stronger than ever for it since I have found out that that same Ashe vilie Gazette, pretending to be Demo cratic, had been bought up by ofiice holding Republicans for the purpose of deceiving, and I hate a traitor and spy. I do not t'ci'.nk ycu could have read the amendment carefully. If you will send to Mr. F. M. Simmons, Raleigh, N. C, for a copy, he will send you one, or if you prefer not asking him, write to our new county chairman, at Winston. N. ., Mr. Andrew Joyner, and he will send you or anybody else one, with Lieutenant Governor Charlie Rey nolds name to it, to show that it is the genuine article, just like it passed. Ex cuse this long letter. I suppose you meant well by writing to me, and I certainly mean well by weiring to you. Yours truly. ZE3ULON BAIRD BITTING. ANOTHER REPUBLICAN LIE. A Ridiculous One This Time. The 3rd section of the amendment j provides: Section 3. "Every person offering to vote shall be at the time a legally reg istered voter as herein prescribed and in the way herein provided by law, and the General Assembly of North Carolina shall enact general registra tion laws to carry into effect the pro visions of this article." The Republicans, although they do not print it in their papers, because they knew that then that lie would soon be exposed, are 'having the reve nue doodlers and other bush-whackers to tell the people that uader this section cf the amendment the Legisla ture is given the power to set aside through the registration laws the 5th, or grandfather, section cf the amend ment, and that it can under this sec tion pass registration laws which will require everybody to register under the 4th section. Of course it is only necessary to call attention to this falsehood in order that everybody may see how ridiculous It is. It wilt be plain to every man cf sen3 when he' reads this eection that it simply authorizes the Legislature to pass registration laws in accordance with the other provisions of the amendment and that tihe Legislature would have no power to pass any reg istra'tJon law that would in any way conflict with or nullify any provision of the amendment. There is no dan ger of any sensible man, who has read the amendment, 'being misled by this statement cf these bush-whackers. They are only making this statement to persons wlho they thtink have, not read the amendment, or who will pro bably not read the amendment. It i3 simply another aittempt of the Repub licans in their desperation to fool and mislead the uneducated whites. This, like the other misrepresentations of tha advocates of negro domiination, wdll net avail them. They will learn before tire election that it is always best to be frank and (honest with the people. Dr. Meserve'3 parting remarks to the graduates were brief, hut to the point. -He pointed out the serious side of the battle of life upon which the graduates are entering; the thorns and pitfalls tot encompass the traveler, and counselled them as to their con duct through the journey. He strong ly advised the yourag men to keep out of poli'tiics; to exercise their right of suffrage, but carefully avoid further connection with party or partisan. The only things gained by the colored race in North Carolina, through politics, -a-"d the speaker, are the "Jim Crow' car iw ajid cKsfranchisement. Poli tics as a, vocation or profession, he arffi&teaad to result. ruinously. PUT A RED SHIRT ONIil.M. Richmond County's Sheriff Received a Unique Gift. Special to Nws-ObscrrTer. Rockingham, N. C Saturday n'iglvt was a Tcsisin-g tia:s in the howlit'g lit tle Eemccratic village cf the Pee Dee Factory. Eloquent and convincing speeches were made by Messrs. D. M. Mcrriscn, A. S. Dockery and Paul C. WhiitJock. The ccraimodious hall was crowded and yet a large portion cf Cht audience failed to get inside. It was the crcafifoa cf the election of officers fc-r the Pee Deo factory White Pu premacy Club -wSrieh election resulted President, Charlie Woriey; vice president, J. C; Stuihbs; secretary, James Mea-chen. Mr. Woriey will ihake a told, able and intelligent presiding officer. In fact we ctszndi tzo highly eonmerd the entire recuCt of the election. The miost interesting and significant incident o the dc-easiaa was t he pre senta'iicril of a nrigrificcfcit "red shirt to Sheriff t. S. Wrig-ht, on? sheriff. The cloth from which this .beautiful f.mous red shirt was made, was wov ea and m:?dc at Pee Dee Factory, by the young todies of the fa-otcry! all cr nearly alt c the young la.dies weav ing a few three-is card- sewing a fev stitc'hes until the beautiful garment was ccmplete In every particular. The presentation address was made by that eloquent Engliihm'an, .Mr. Geo. Wirbu'iioon, lc'ng since ara adopted son of Che oil tar Heel State, whose ;epu-t-iiloa as an eloquent speaker, him?i: th3 superintendent of the "weave rootn," wtis fully sustained cn this oo-cxi-ion. He alluded with pride ana fervid patrioOis-m to the a-eb lavements of Democi'xcy, with the aid cf 'hi lev ers cf while supremacy; to the valiant Cg'ht made "by Sheriff Wright in the great -canvpaign cf 18&S, amd to tht grand battle -to perpetuate white gov-ercau-rtt In 1900. His eloquence ana pxthes were sublLme, in his allusloa to the sad misfortune which befell a rep utable young lady, ome o-f their ope-j-tive-s, more than a year ago, at the h'amds of a negro brute. He s-aid he "spent sleepless nights, searching for the villain," and who was it that de terminod to avenge her wrcfcK? Di the Rtpirhlicans ccxe to her rescue.; Are your friends, those who huiited the ' brute cr defended him? No, ladies and fellow-citizens it was the same party anid eame people who uclv prope-ss u; plant. the flag cf whi:e govern men; up on the dome of the State tapitol; on every court house cupio. end cn the gables- of every house inhabited by white people, w ho are white. I: is thi? party that will love cur women, fight for them, acd diie fc-r them. It Is quit fitting then, young ladies, that you it'ould hosier those who hc&or you, and swear by the eternal God, to pro tect ycu now -and forever, etc. At the conclusion of Mr. Wxrbur-t-oa's mus-: excellent and altogether ap propriate aci-ress, he called cut Sher iff Wright who was met -by three beautiful -Mr tie ten year eld lattery girls, handsomely arrayed in whir- dresses, tiimmed with red. These bore the red thirt, and after comma-d ir.;g the sheriff to kneel, each one of che tiio, in fauklees style, repeated beauifttl, heroic, pathetic poetry, sc. 1 e-:t J tor and adapted to the rcene. Then they advanced and placed the 5.h.irt ca the sheriff. On its front, cn cJr.3 side, were inscribed these .magic words: "White Supremacy," on the eJier. "Our Sheriff." The scene elec trified the audience and tears flowed freely. This was too mu:h even for a sheriff. But T. S. Wright, is a kind-hearted, whole-souled Christian gentleman, and a faithful minister of the gasl. He could not conceal his emotion, but w'hm it had been subdued, he made i. first rate, Tom Wright speech; one that cap'.iivated 'his audience and mov ed everybody to feel that they couid " brave .any and every danger which lies in the pathway to eternal deli v run-re ficro negro deminatioa. The Kac-riff said he was proud of his red shirt that he was the first man who ever raided a White Supremacy flag in North CarcI'lTJi and that when the campaign was ever he- would send the bartered flag and ehirt to the State Museum to he preserved as relics of the memorable victories cf 1SS8 and 1900. The cppc-:Ct'icn to the amendment is fast vaciehing and you can put old Richmond down for a majority of at least 800 .for the amendment. Give us C. B. AyC3ck for Governor, and W. I. Everett, of Richmond for treasure, and other counties can fill out the The Pee Dee c cuntry is clamorous to have Capt. Everett on the ticket. Butler's Unpardonable Sin. Senotcr Butler st-ren-ously denied say ing that "outrages were committed by negrocusi hired by Democrats for par tisan purposes." It was proved that he s'ii'd it 'by the hest citizens of Edge coanho aad -Nah. But -it was said in cur own herders under stress cf poli tical excitement and some were willing to extenuate words spoken in excite mon'L But when he gets up in Ccm gress!, in the Seaate of the United States, 4a the piesenee of the nation's assemhled wfis-d-am and reiterates the charge tihait there ere white men in North Carolina who, for partisan, pur passe, will '.hire negroes to assault white women, the whip he was going to eirive Demiccrats cut of the State with ou'ght to' be used on him when he sets foot on our eo-il again, if satch meahoos! were encouraged !y Demo crats. The "whip" of just indignabion and righteous wrath will be used by all self-respedting North Carolinians cn this Senator w ho traduces 'his own pecple. In his speech; on Feb. 6, on. Che Pritdhard resolution, page 178-3, Con gressional Record, Butler uses these "Now what class of negroes would he left to vote? There would be many thousands who would still vote, and this fum-ber would include all that ele ment who have 'been octive and offen sive in politics, an.d who, either from innate perversity cr for a considera tion, have fu.-nuhed the capital neees-sa-rv to enable the machine politician to raise the negro cry and appeal to race prejudice." Here is the man who masrepresenc , us at Was:h:ngtcn. "Let s whip nun out" of the State's list of office-holders next August. We can do it, and the peojple are getting ready fin every county to North Carolina. The unpar doirAbla sin in Soisthern politics is to :at tho political power of the negro, aivd th3 -crime for which ithcre is no fosrgivensss here cr hereafter is for a Southern -mam to slan-d'eT the "people of bis. Staie. Ne?s aaa Ooserven rfUl LER TRiE5 1 0 V RIGQLE OUT. S :nator A!dric!i Says He Was C. rrect ly Rf ported Wsh'lrgton, Macch 12. At the ecn e Jus! on of the mc-mirg ht:ii:c3s in tihe Sei xte Mr. Allen of Nebraska, Thing to a question of privilege, sild ha had been m Lyre pre sen ted as to his positicn on the 'free coinage cf silver. "Nevhi-'r-'g thst I have ever said could by any klfnd of torture construed 3 a lock of Xa-i'Uh in my party platform, which declares for the frc3 end un limited coinage cf silver U a ratio of 1G to 1.'"' Mr. Allen read "Jhs coli-cuy -between himself and Mr. Aldrich, v.hioh he s.iSa vas the basis of the re.rt ooncern in? h-iai. "I wact to Tcincat," (h said, aaid I want the public prisrtcr to put cic-s. eMteoi'Sfit in .black-faced type, chat lama firm heliever aad aSways h tve been in the doctrine of the free and unlimited -coinage of gold and sil ver at the ratio cf 16 to 1, and I don't believe to waiting for any othrr ca tion," Mr. Alien -was roll-owed, by Mr. But ler cf NccUh Carolina, who desired to make a personal statement concern ing a similar matter. Mr. Butler said that the report of the colloquy be-tween himself and Mr. Aldrich had not cor reedy represented him. This rc-port stated that Mr. But ler evaded a direct answer to M.r. drith's cucitic-n as to wheL'hrr cr not he (Fcttler) was in favor of tQe free and unlimited coinage of silver til the ratio c; 16 to 1. Mr. Butler then re stated his position as given curlE'g the colloquy. Ia closing, he said h3 was in favor of the free coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 by the Volt, ed States, independent of any other nation. Mr. Aid-rich replied briefly, aosdng that the press account ef the colloquy was a fair and accurate statement of wha cccurred. He had asked the (North Carolina) Senator six or eight inieo if he was in favor cf the free and Unlimited coinage- cf sliver ait a ratio of 16 to 1 by the United Scales alon3, and had not .received a direct answer. 'Mr. Aldrich said he was glad to get to-day a statement from. Mr. Butler ahct he was now in favor of such f: ea coinage. FOOLHARDY COURAGE. The Ashevilie Gazette, Republican Organ, S,ys It Is Bter to Steal Than to Belong to a Democratic Club The Ahcvulle Gazette, which is re cognized as the Republican c-rtan of the State and puoliehel under the aus pices tic FriUhard, Pearson and Hol Son, in a recert issue in commentLng upon -the putlicatirci by the Washing ton Pest and certain North Carolina journals cf the fact that Downing. Dock cry's titar wiCne.r.3- in hi 3 contest for the scot of the Hon. John D. Bel lamy, hod been caught by the po'iee of Wash'ir ster: city in he act cf robbing a drunken iron and arrested aiil put in jail for larceny, used the following language: Ec.-.vHng was a leading ligli in the 'White Union' clrb atd zt the election was a Democratic registrar, which, in our opinion, were much worse offenses t.aan rooong a run-Ken man. In commenting upen this "d??K"!rit:on of Prire-hard's organ, th? Ashevilie Citizen admin liters to Norton, the edi tor cf this disreputat'e 'nd discredited sheet ths following just rebuke: 'Robbing a erunkea man is larceny, cmd under semje- circumstances is high way robbery; but according to Norton either larceny cs highway rc-bbery is a lees crime, lees degrading, lees hein ous ood -less felonious than to be a member of a 'white unlcn cr to be a Democratic registrar. It .might be said that Norton has overstepped the bounds cf decency but for Che faot that it is a long time since he was on this side the bounds of decency. "Butler's threat to 'whip the white men cut of the State seems to have infused a sort of drunken or idiotic courage into a few curs. When curs of low degree inolst cn making them selves obnoxious it is not infrenuently tS:e cose that something cf a disagree able nature occurs to them. Nothing that Noitn can ray can injure the sliding cf any white mro. rr-.vli 1c... attach a f cam to the wh::e mctn o! North Carolina. "After all peihaps it Is Pr-jtfdhard, net Norton, who is responsible for the Gazette. Nevertheless, even if that he true, no decent man would hire him self to "write what Norton writes." In its row-horn zeal in a had cause the Ashevilie Gazette publishes the affidavit of one M. F. Dowiing, re cently filed in the contest of Col. O. H. Eoek'ery against Hon. John- D. Bel lamy. The Gazette introduces the affiant thus lu:rubrlously: "To thos3 who ere not familiar with the campaign methods of 1898 in some of the eastern counties of this State the fa'cts set forth in the affidavit of XL F. Dowliog, which appears in an other column cf to-day's Gazette, will be a shocking surprise," Now will the esteemed Gazeicte add that wi'Shin a week efter filing his in famous slander and falsehood as above, and appearing hefore the com mittee in the interest of Colonel Dock ery, that he was caught by the police in Washington city, with a pal, in the act of pic-king the pocket of an unfor tunate creature whom he had first ailed with whiskey, then robbing him of all his money and a diamond ring It is upoai the testimony of this- sort C a Scoundrel that the Gazette indulges in its denunciation cf the efforts of the best pee of all parties to remove that which is an intolerable oppres sion. If the Gazette really believes that the several hundred negro voters cf Ashevilie are the equals of a lik? number of white citizens of that tew; in any of the essentials which go it make a reliahle cr a proper governing class, it will -never succeed in convrmc ing the white Republicans of 1'ha mountain section of s-aeh. mnch less white Democrats. The Gazette is en gaged in a ousiness it will yet bt ashamed of. and will have failure lo its efforts. But Dew ling i3 a sr.-ee1-sccnted witness for such enterprise a our mountain ccntempcrary has cheser to enter upon. Not long after the negro editor. XIanly. left Wilmington and the othe I obnoxious whites and blacks were ex relied from that place, a negro preach er named Scott, of Henderson, went t New York and at a "Manly meeting", uncorked the vials of his wrath. H was notified by Hendereon people tha his return to that place would not b permitted. A--Henderson man says tha notwithstanding thi3 Scott appeare there a day cr two ago. He was waits on and told he must depart in 24 hours. 4a parted. - Given Admiral Dewey and His Wife at Savannah. 4,000 MEN IN MILITARY PARADE. Handsome Gift Present d to the Admi ral A Splendid Banquet and Elo quent Speeches. Savannah, Ga., Special. Fifty thou sand ipcrectas on the streets hero Wed nesday afterrjoca gave Adatiral George Dewey ss enthusiastic a welcome as was ever awarded to any public maa anynhero. The ccimiral hod recoverr.-d firom his indispfisiticia of Tuesday suf ficiently for tlm to take part in the military parade end review the parade in 6x3 3rccor ecd as he rofe through the streets, with LIrs. Dewey at his side, rirgiEG che--3 rent the air cud waving colors made the scene one to be Ict-g ramemherod. There were present in the paradj five military comoanie from Chorhe ton under eona-mend of Majoc Schachte, one or mora coorjpanies cf naval re serves from each Charleston, Mount Pieaeant and Beaufort. S. C, and BrvJnswick, Ga.; and military or.uil zatiens from Oolumbia, Pelzer and Timmonsvlile, S. C, end Auyrsta, Brunswick and Thcmasvllle, Ga. There were in ail 17 ou;t-of-t3wn or-aniza tions. Adding the local militia there were nearly 4,000 men in line. The re vel w took place ia the park extendi , wis ere an admilral's sal-oice was fired by the Chatham, artillery from brass pieces presented to the organization by Presi'deat George Washington. Business, public and private, wa3 sus pended from noon in honor of Admiral Dewey. The climax of ti2 occasion occurred at the'banquet at the DeSoto Hotel at night, where the cidmiral was present ed with a 'beautiful silver vase en be half cf the city cf Savannah, "by Hon. F. C. DuEigtion. The vase is elegantly engraved and nearly three feet high on a marble base. At the 'banquet table General Nelson A. Xliles, who ar rived in the city during the evening too late for the military fextuire, sat next to Admiral Dewey. While the main fut'oticin was in progress, a com mittee of 50 ladies entertained Mra Dewey at a ianquet in the annex ad joining the hanquet ball. Upon tihe conclusion of the dinner -the ladaes were aoccimniodated with chailrs in the main rcom that they might hear the speeches. Among the speakers were Judge Eatery Speer, of the United Stages Court, Surgeon General Wy miO;a, Congressman Braxitley, of Geor gia, ex-Attorney General W. O. Smith, cf Hawaii, and others. In speaking to .the toast "the President cf iJhe United States," J-udge Emory Speer said in part: While the administration of Presi ient McKinley more than any other, save that of Lincoln, will afford to the iiistorian material at once to attract, to instruct and thrill the student3 and readers of the future, it is nevertheless true that his Americanism, while prompt and purposeful in conviction and decisive in action, had been cau dous and too conciliatory at home and abroad. "The war was inevitable Its results have followed in inevitable sequence. By the supreme law of the land the Philippine islands 'became the territo ry of the United States with a title as dear as that Which we have to Florida jr to any foot cf that marvelous em pire to the westward of the Mississippi icquired by the Louisiana purchase or by treaty with Mexico. Who will eay that the President had the power or right to ignore his duty to the Ameri can people and to mankind ia a terri tory thus acquired? The adminsira tion cf William McKinley and its great achievements will receive proud reoompense. He will live in history is the first president who directed the Energies of this nation in a great and successful war beyond the seas. Great ?r civic renown may yet be his. but to ny mind Che crowning glory of his life will be found in those simple words of proffered kindly national recognition of the honor due the sacred ashes of his ence incomparable foes." This peroration refers to President McKinley's recommendation that the graves of the Confederate dead should "e cared for by the nation. Commission Goes to Memphis. Atlanta, Go., Special. The indus trial ccromission .finished fts three days of fcvestigat.ion here Wednecdxy at'tP-rnocta, and left for Memphis. L. J. Kilburn, c Miaecni, and Andsew Mul oxy, cf AusuEita, testified this mom lag in regard to the labor in their respec tive cities, and Samuel C. Dna'ap gave pome In'terestinig testimony. XIr. Dun lap is receiver for a road running from Gainesville, Ga., to Social Circle, and is general man-ager cf the Tallulah Falls read. Mr. Eunlaip states that one of the lines and insolvent and the either had ao -money. He believed the creation of the Gees-Tgla railroad com mission had "worked to the benefit of the large systems only, ' English Histories Dropped. Chicago, Special. Histories of Eng land were dropped from the lists cf s-rapplemenitary reeicllES for the puhLe schools, &t t'hte meecltlg of t&e board cf edtreahion here. For thcee months Trustees John T. Keatcng, who is the national presidsent of the Ancient Oc ier of Hibernians, has ibocu fighicias Jhe u-se of histories of Englanid, which he declared were prejudiced in favor of ErgionA Seventy-Four Deaths a Ilonth. Wasiaittgtcin, D. C, Special. The War Department officials deny recent ly published eSx-temenrs that General Otis campaign is costing irpward of 1,000 men every morJch. According to the official records, since the American occupation of the Phili.p'p&ses, June 1, 1893, ii? to FebrtroTy 17, 1300, the date of the fast official compilation, the ac tual mortality !n the army in the Philippines was 65 effictirs aci 1,450 f men, a ioftal of 1.5, pr at the ratro ol J surplus, we 25 car FI3TE Gout has been praduced in hens by an exclusive diet of lesai horse meat and water. Man always feels a step aearer Mark T a ain's time, wiien healih will be catching instead of sickness, when he manages to give one of the lower animals a disease of Lis. The scientist that indnced gout in hens aftei-ward alleviated it iy a diet cf crushed egg shells; bu- if he aspires to cure human gout in the same man ner he has tmderlaken u task beyond his powt rs. Abstinence even from a few of the more delightful aad gout producing foods is as much as most cractitionera effect in their patients To secure the original witch, hazel salve, ask for DeWitt's "Witch Hazel Salve, well known as a certain cure for piles and skin diseases. Beware of worthless counterfeits. They are dan serous. T. R. Ahemathy's. Governor Prady of Alaat.". proyof f-s 'Le use of electricity r.i a snlistitr.te for the cnaitcr? onje fir 3 lit ated iron used in the 1 raudir-g ofsoais. 11$ claims that it every feiiicie seat tjs i Irctricilly branded with the lttttrs ' U. S.," lour inches ia length and lalf an inch in wij;b, the pelagic sealers' business uouid soon become so unprofitable tLat the seal queBtioa would be settled, for, crgues the pro jector of the plan, eighty per c nt. of the seals illegally killed are females, and the brand wonid ruin the Fkin f- r the nee of the prospective farrier. The Interior Department is urged to send a force of men, fully equijped for the work to ALska and let them take the project ia hand. The stotk nien of the p'ains Lave found e'ec tricity to be infinitely mere expediti ons than the old method, and it would be doubly so with the thin-coated eaL '"The branded seals suffer as ittle from the opeiation as do quad rupeds," pays Gove nor Brady, "and the introduction of this system will 5pepd the I ranuing, which appears to be the only method by which we can prevent extinction f the tpeies." Alrs. Harriet Evans, Klnsdalel III., writes, "I never foil to relieve my children, from croup at once by -using One Minute Cough Cure. I would not feel safe without it.'7 Quickly cures coughs, colds, grippe and oil throat fend lung diseases. T. R. Abernathy. An Automobile Congressman. Representative Sibley of Pennsyl vania will be responsible for starting the automobile habit among the states men at Washington. Among those who can afford the expense the auto mobile Is apt to take the place of both bicycle and carriage, since some one has set the example. Sibley has a rep utation as a lover of horses. On Sib ley's arrival at Washington this winter he appeared, not behind a pair of fast trotters, but in a low-built vehicle, and not the sign of a horse to give it character. They have become rec onciled to him now. and he will prob ibly soon have many imitators among ;ongressmen, who are already begin aing to envy the ease with which he shoots about from one department to another, to and from the capitol and all about town. YUht Girls Travel in Style. So prosperous has been the herring season at Yarmouth that the Scotch fishing girls who have been cleaning, preparing, curias and packing the fish were able to accomplish their 503-mile journey heme to Peterhead in a special train, which stopped only twics for changes of engines. The train con sisted of two fine corridor coaches and three comfortable saloons, and at the rear were four luggage vans, all full of personal belongings of the girls. The ordinary garb cf tha lasses when pursuing their vocation comprises short top boots reaching to the knee and short skirts, with cily frocks over tSem. They wear no hats or bonnets even in the pelting rain. London Mail. Xlie Saltan' rally LI fa. The sultan of Turkey rises at 6 o'clock every morning and devotes his days, in the seclusion of the Yiliiz palace and gardens, to personal atten tion to affairs of state. He is of slight figure. A pale brown overcoat conceals any decorations he might be wearing, so that the attention of those who see him cn the one day in seven when he presents himself to the Tier of the people is not diverted from his pale, wan and careworn face, half-covered by a thin brown beard, tinged with gray, and surmounted by a plain rci fez. The sultan has been the mcaas of establishing 50.000 schools through out his empire, not cnly for boys, Lu; for girls alsc a striking: departure from the traditional usage of Lis ra.e. El kin cislegiates to tha Surry county eonvieaitlca were inalruatei for C. B Ayoock far Governor, W. D. Turner Ccz Lieutenanit Governor and R. D. Giimer Ccvr Altottey General. At Garner, Wake county. Thursday nighty Tom J anes, a negro preac-her. murdered a whole family of five, and then set fire to the house. He is ia jail at Raleigh, and the evidence against him is conclusive. Ab Ak, a Bc-othbay, Me., fisherman, claims to have the shortest came on record. It is not abbreviated ither. A!:; ia ilarJ Luc'i. If poets were made and not bom fhere would probably 1 a law agaiast New York Press, & " I. '.. 'I W.il'lji.' himmmmm --- -esv . HIE ARE OVERSTOCKED " Witt Bissell Chilled Plows, Which have preyed superior to the Oliver. To reduce wili sell One, Two and Three Horse Plows at cesL hrlow their value. Prices on asr-hcation. F mn riPMPi"? r?irvn rerruiu r.T5irj5 m r.T? urPMR. HElv!b i M!S GOBH FLAHTEBS LI5S OF. . . Yiit. l.Uu tAtSt. BUGGIES, HARNESS, Sec. at popular prices. PESI rE CATAI.JH.rE iSB TSICES. ALL KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. THE IMPLEMENT CO., 1302-1304 EAST UXVi STREET. RICHMOND, VA.' TO crop can grow with- out Potash. Every blade of Grass, every grain of Corn, all Fruits and Vegetables must have it. If enough is supplied you can count on a full crop if too little, the growth will be " scrubby." Send for onr boots telling &3 about cosnposajofi of fertiiiEgrs best adapted for all crops. They cost you nothing GERMAN KALI WORKS.os Kaasao St.New Tort It Is a popular belief that a holly bush planted near a dwelling protects the house from lihtcing. SPAIN' S GREATEST XEBD. Mr. TL P. Olivia, of Barcelona, Spain, ep-enda his winters at Aiken, S. C. Weak nerves hai caused severe pains in the. tack of his head. On using Electric Bitters, America's greatest Eloed and Jvcrve Ecmc jy, all pain soon left him. He says this grand medi cine is wh.-t his country needs. Ail America knows that it cures liver and kidney troutle, puries the biooi. tones up the stomach, ecrengthens tlw nerves, puts vim. victor and new life into every mr.&cle, nerve 2nd orgaa cf the body. If weak, tired or ailing you need IC Eery bottle guaranteed, only 50 cents. Sold i-y T. R. Aher nethy, E-ruggiiL Twice Ir ren. From T7i3 Vindicator, J'uttcrfordlon, 2?. C. i The editor cf the I'ijidivafor has bad occasion to te;t th-; elli-vicy of Chm- berliiu's Pr.in l.!a!ni twice with tha J most remarkable results ia each case. First, w.th tiunaiati-ni ia tha thjul- der from which he puffer ed excruciat ing pain for ten d-iyp, which win le lieved with two application- of Pain Balm, rubbing the ports :fll.cte.l and realizing in-tai.t benefit and entire re lief in a very short time-. Second, ia ihenmatsm in thigh joiut, a'm.'et prwtratirg him with severe pain, wh:eh was relieved by t wo uppliest ons rjbiiig with- thelioimeDt on retiring at night, and getting np frte from rain. For sale by T. II. Abernttby, Druggist. NO EIGHT TO UGLIXE33. The woman who is lovely ia face, form and temper will always havo friencis, hut one Tho would be attrac tive must keep her health. If she ia weak, sickiy and all run down, she wfill be nervous and irrlrahle. If she fc.as ccGstapa:ion cr kidney cro.ihie, her impure -hlcrcd will cau?e pimples, blot che-3, skin eruptions and a wretch ed complexion. Electric Bitters is the ereiicine in the world to regulate eiomach. liver and kidneys and to puri fy the blood. It pives strong rcrvc-j. height eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich comnlexicn. It will make a good looking, charming woman cf a run down invalid. Cnly SO cents at T. R, Abemethy's Drug Store. A FRISIITr IIX, EEUXDEIt. Will, efcen oac-e a terrible Bum, Scald, Cct cr Bruise-, Buck et's Arnica Salve, the hct in the worli, will kill the rain and prorcrtly he: A it. Cares- Old Sorts. Fc.cr Sores. Ulcers. Bolls, Felons, Cc-rn. all tkia Errptlarus. Best Pile cure cn earth- Only 25 c:s. a box. Cure guaranteed. Soli by T. R. Aher cethy, Dmgglst. A Good Coa;Ii Slodicine fop Children. "I hive no hesitncy in recommend ing Chamberlain's Cough R?medy." ssjs F. P. Moran, a well known and popnlar baker, ef retcrsburp, Va. "We Lave given it to our children when tronbled with bad congas, alo whooping coueb, an it Las always given perfect satisfaction. It ws ree ommecded to me by a drnaist es the best coagh medicine for cb.Idrea as it contained to opium cr ether Lartufnl -rti'-R. h'cld by T. U. Alerneiby, Dr gr ?t. THAT THRDBEIXd HEADACHE. Would ouicklv leave y-ou. if you '. Dr. King's New Lice Pills- T.ic;- itc L cf sufferers have pcovci their r,::lca less merit for SIc-k ar i Nerycras Hea" aches". Thev make nure i i'cd f-Ti I c :;-cdi rcr cnl buil : :;! : " Easy to take. Try taem. u:.v f rrs. llcncy back if net S'-iVl by T. R, Al-c-.nf hy. Iirugalt. V4CECANIC ERUPTION'S Are grand, bu: sk'n Eruptions roh fife of jov. B:cklcrs Arnica Silve cures them: a1 so Old. Rnnnin? 1 Fver So-c. Uh-fr.-. 'Rails. Fclcrs. Corns, Wa::. Cuts. Bruises' B-arn, Scalds. Chapped Han.ls. Caiida.a.ns r-r pile cure cn car.h. Drives rat Pains and Achrs. Cnly 27, s. a eo It. Aher- Cure gua-ar. d. ?c'.d nethy, Dru?sitt. T. BISMARlTIv'S IRCN NERVE. Was the result oc his splsr.dl.j- heilca. Indomltah-le will and t renter Jons en ergy are net font! where-- Stomach. Diver, Kidneys rnd Bowels are out of order. If you wart thee a quaXties anxl the success they bring, uaer Er. King's New Lifo rills. They eevclon every power of cirain and tody- Cnly 21c. at T. R. Ahemechy's Dius Stcre. Jle5 may suffer i-.nto-a priratic-n? bat Tfqftr " ""m Oft 1 t ! n
The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.)
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March 30, 1900, edition 1
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