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T.G.COHK, ) (2THLISHKK,) r ElMloKS. VM. H. WHITE, ) SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 Entered at the Post Office at Ma rion, N. C, for transmission through the mails, as second class matter. FRIDAY, JULY 23, i97- SOMK OIJSKKVATIONS. There are some communities that, like the heathen Chinee, have ways that ate "peculiar." If any proposition materially affecting the public interests is submitted for approval or rejection, the first question asked is not what are the merits of the proposition what advantage will it be to the community but, who has made the proposition or who is advo cating it, and the answer is met with this reply: "Well, if Mr. A. or Maj. B. is supporting it, then I am opposed to it." He either bristles up and fights it from the go, or he goes at it in a more clan destine manner. He organizes the opposition and is ready for you when the issue comes. Before and during the last ses sion of the legislature, there was great pressure brought to bear upon it by the newspapers throughout the State demanding some decided legislation for the improvement of the public schools. Responding to that appeal, a bill was passed, making radical changes in the school law raising the State tax from 18 to 20 cents on the $100; restoring the of fice of county superintendent (su pervisor); dividing the counties into school districts in a different manner, and, in order to encour age the levying of 1 )cal taxes for the extension of the school term, It was enacted that the additional fund raised from the increase in the State tax, estimated at $50,000, should be distributed to the differ ent school districts (not exceeding $500 to each) voting to tax them selves as much as 500. Now, there are features of this law which may be objectionable, especially the provision changing the school districts, but it is the law and we have no option as to whether we shall accept or reject it. But on the 10th day of Au gust, next, a majority of the quali fied voters in each district is to decide whether or not that district will consent to tax itself and get the bonus offered for so doing, and thus extend its school term to four or five months, or reject the offer and get back none of the ad ditional two cent. State tax. We propose, in a future article, to discuss some of the arguments, pro and con, on this subject. Meantime, let us divest our minds of all blinding prejudices and con sider the question on its merits alone. Let us not be guilty of the folly of saying, "this law was passed by a fusion legislature. I am a democrat and I'll none of it." The Pharisees of old had a saying that nothing good can come out of Nazareth, and they therefore, rejected Jesus Christ as their Mes siah. Let us not imitate their ex ample, but, like Nathaneal, "come and see," for ourselves. Remember every dollar up to 500 that any township votes for itself for the public schools, the State will give the same amount for the schools. The State will have it to pay out, too, when called (or. The school law is a clumsy one in one particular, and for some remote districts will incur some expense in rc-arranging dis tricts. The law should pay the managers of election reasonably and force them to act (barring un avoidable hinderances). Yet, on the whole, it is a good law. The expense of the election must be borne anyway, and we should make the best of it for the sake of posterity. The gentlemen who have served as registrars, regard less of pay, from patriotic motives, deserve much commendation. Others might have served for the same reasons, but it may have been impossible for them to have done so. A man who pays taxes on 250 worth of property will pay with the special school tax 25 cents, and 30 cents poll; if he pays on soo worth of property, he pays 50 cent? and 30 cents poll ; paying on $1,000 worth of property, he pays Si.oo and 30 cents poll, and so on. In either case it will cost a man very little to send one child to School from six weeks to twe months more a year. Stockholders of the Southerr Huilding and Loan Association, o! Huntsville, Ala., have been gar nisheed by Milo Abel on a claim of 2,ooodue him by the company. It is stated that the company has a capital of 1,000,000, aud has al ways met its obligations promptly. The company has, perhaps, mor stockholders than any other simi lar organization in the South, large amounts being held in all the Sothern States. This action will probably precipitate the whole business into the courts. Subscribe for The Messenger. Only 1.00 a year. THE I'AKAMOl'NT IvSCE OF 18WH. A correspondent asks the Ral eigh Xerss and Observer, "What will be the leading issue in i8y8?" After saying in twentytwc lines that in the domain of national politics the issue will be the same in '08 as in MJ6, our con temporary continues: In North Carolina the issue that will swallow up all other issues will be the determination to res cue the State and its affairs from the hands of ignorant, corrupt or women men, who, in a short lease of power, have manifested their unfitness to govern the State or to administer the affairs of the ninety-six counties, which are even more important than the State government. The only portion of the North Carolina government that is to-day free from scandal is the town and city governments, which, with a few exceptions, have not passed into the hands of the Republican party and their allies. Hardly a day passes when in this or some other paper in the State, some new scandal is not un covered to the public gaze, and the end is not yet. In some of the counties it is really apparent that there will be deficits. Theschools have been brought into the mire of petty peanut politics and noth ing but the decision of the Su preme Court kept the charitable institutions out of the hands of the men whjse only desire was to obtain the offices that were held by competent men. The legislation enacted, when it was not vicious, was crude and silly. Meritorious measures, as a rule, did not get a decent hearing, and if, perchance, there was a dis position to enact a good law, the ability to properly draft and enact it was often wanting. Its friend ship for education was the only ray of light in a night of black ness, ignorance and corruption. The people of all parties stood aghast at the venal and vicious spirit that dominated the Legisla ture. They have been astounded again and again as law after law that imposes grevious burdens and unheard-of penalties has come to their knowledge. They are shocked every week at the wonten disregard of every principle of decent government displayed by men elevated to power. In many instances, these ten-dollar men in thousand-dollar places, concious that they will never have another chance at the public crib, have shown their hoggishness and greed in a way to disgustall decent members of their own party. The people of North Carolina believe in a clean, honest and fru gal government, the kind they have enjoyed tor twenty years. They are already sick and dis gusted with the reign of incompe tency, hate and scandal the change of parties has brought, and their wrath is kindling against that day when they can visit vengeance upon the men who have betrayed their trusts, brought shame upon the State, made bankrupt a treas ury, and inaugurated a reign of scandal, petty greed and rotten ness that even now stinks in the nostrils of the people. In 1896, all men who wanted to restore the State to clean government by just men, rallied to the standard of the Democratic party, then, as now, the only hope of good government. In 189S, unless they be bastards and not sons, they will repeat the scenes, the incidents and reap the glories of the campaign of iS6. If on an everage one township for each county in the State votes for local taxation for schools, a good beginning will be made. The entering wedge of success in sures final triumph. No good thing ever begins except by a mi nority. When we have been with majorities for good things it was rather easier sailing more pleas ant ; but remember, noble persons hardly, if ever, begin with a great majority whooping for them. Christianity has been in a minor ity during most of the history of the world, and is in the minority yet, the majority of the human race being unregenerate, infidels and pagans. Yet, Christianity will triumph, and every false religion will bite the dust of defeat, and every knee will bow willingly or unwillingly, to the King of kings. So do not fret about being in a minority, if you are, in any good work. Time is too precious to waste paying any attention to false flings of certain others. Do duty and go straight ahead. llucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salvo in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores Ulcers, Salt llhenm, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chap ped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, aud all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give peifect satisfaction, or money refunded, by Morphew & White Marion; W. II. Disosway, Old Fort. Krlipite or the Suit July 'J!ih. Wilmington Star. Our people will have an oppor tunity of observing an eclipse of the sun on Thursday morning, July 29th, on which date, shortfy before S o'clock in the morning, the earth will enter tha moon's shadow. It will be 10:30 before the eclipse is finally over. Three fourths of the sun's disc will be obscured a larger obscured seg ment than has been observed in any eclipse for many years. Free rills. Send your address to II. E. Bueklen & Co., Chicago, and net a free sample box of Dr. Kind's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of constipation and sick headache. For malaria and liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guar anteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone tostoni ach aud bowels greatly invogorate the system. Regular size 23c. a Ikjx. Sold bv Morphew & White's. M.-irinn m,i w 11. Disosway "e, Old Fort. THE QUESTION OF EDUCATION North Carolina Stands Next lo Foot in Illiteracy. THE LOCAL TAX ELECTION. ltl-el With Kvery Natural Advantage. North Carolina Only Needs an Intelll Eent I'opulation to Flare Her Where Mie Kightftiily Melons turn Cracker ou the Situation. Crrcsnii(!i.ntt of The Messenger. I have written an article or two in a rather humorous vein in re gard to the educational tax, ou which the people are called to vote in August. In all seriousness 1 regard it as a move in the right direction. North Carolina stands next to foot in illiteracy. Anil this in view of the fact three-fourths of her popula tion are white. Even in States where the negroes outnumber the whites a larger per cent, of the population can read aud write than in the Old North State. This forces the unwelcome admission that the whites of our sister Southern States are much better educated than we, and even the negroes lead us. I tell you some thing is wrong under these condi tions. We have the shortest pub lic school terms of about any other State. Nearly all the other States, even in the South, have from live to six mouths, while we have about three. We can never have a school till we are willing to pay for it. The next lowest rate of lo cal taxation to us is South Caro lina. She pays 14 per cent. Massachusetts pays 95 per cent, of her school fund by local taxation. We pay 1 per cent. We can never hope to be an educated people while such is the case. Holy Writ informs us that peo ple cannot hear without a preacher and that he cannot preach unless he be sent. I interpret that, send ing part of it, to mean he must be supported in the sending. A teacher must be paid, or he will go to a more inviting field. Tweuty five dollars a mouth three months in the year will not hold a good teacher when he cau get from $50 to 75 per mouth for five or ten mouths in a favored locality. A man sees more vanity aud vaxa tion of spirit, aud all around tribu lation iu a "si'O a month and board around" community in three weeks than he would meet in a live edu cated community iu ten years. Where they pay nothing aud get nothing it is a coutiuual growl. The patrons are enveloped in Egyptian darkness, and the man who does not know his letters aud sends his "chaps" to be ''teached" is the most exacting. Nothing short of 11 hours hard work on the part of the teacher will satisfy him, and it is expected of the poorly paid overworked devil to make statesmen. Jennie Li rids, and philosophers out of children who inherit the idiotic tendencies of their ancestor, who, iu fact, "get more like their dad every day." I know we teachers are not what we should be, either m tact, eu ergy, or literary attainments. Un der present conditions, a prize fighter is needed worse in some lo calities tuau any one else. But if we lazy, ignorant, ungodly peda gogues don't suit you, raise the standard of education aud the salary, and you can get better teachers. That cau be done by voting a tax. They that would be free themselves must strike the blow. The preseut arrangement, is, to pay SU cents on each poll, and 10 cents ou each hundred dol lars worth of property. Very few men would be taxed 3.00. Eveu should ho be taxed 5.00 the State pays back whatever you pay. If a man pays $3.00 he has to be worth $3,000 and is able to pay. Besides the State pays another $3.00 giving him the benefit of $0.00 for school purposes. But some men worth about tl,S00say : "Oh, but I pay the tax ! " Do joa ! Does not the man yro helps you create that wealth help you pay it? Yet you grudge him the boon of a pittance to help make good citi zens of his cuildeu by helping give them a practical education. Many a poor ignorant devil violates a law, and don't know it. Yet, by a wise arrangement, ignorance of. the law excuses no one. I saw a man tried at Shelby not Ioug since who swore he didn't know it was against the civil law to sell whiskey. He knew it was against the revenue law, but was not aware anybody but Judge Dick was likely to have him taken in custody. The poor fool had the look and tone of one trying to tell the truth. The judge seemed to think such ignorance as reprehen sible as selling blockade, and pun ished him accordingly, lie made an example of the wooly necked mountaineer to the tune of $25 aud costs, and all the people said amen. If I were worth $50,000 and the State did not give a cent, I had rather pay $50 tax to have better schools, better preachers, better churches, better roads, better farms and farmers, than to pay out more than that amount to feed some uufortuuate in jad, or try some free negro or poor white man for a capital crime. I am aware that now aud then a smart edu cated mau steals $!0,000 or kills somebody, but he or his friends are able to pay the expense. The lawyers are smart aud come high. The next item of expeuse is to pay unscrupulous Iing witnesses. The cheapest feature is to buy the jury. They ate supposed to know noth ing in fact, have to swear they have formed no opinion, and are generally men whose vacant looks proclaim the fact to all observers that they ate iucapable of forming an opinion ou any subject. Con sequently a light bribe will enable them to foim an opinion that an embezzler is not guilty, while a poor ignorant devil who stole a hen goes up Salt lliver. Then the plea they don't want to help educate the "nigger !" The "nigger" is going to vote it, aud theeasteru eouuties are going to get it. If we people fail to vote it we will have to help pay it, and let the nigger" get the benefits. 1 wish one of these objectors would compare some of the edu cated negroes of the 8qxUl the natural product of the daik continent peeping through the jungles of Africa, aud feasting on human flesh. The negro, with all his faults and frailties, was the de leuder and protector of the South ern women and children, while the flower and chivalry of the South were battling witli the invader. The dusky son of I la 111 knew when lie was discharging his trust to "uiassa" and "missus" with such fidelity that said "massa" was bat tling to rivet the claims of his thralldoui. Would there be any thing wrong iu letting him have a little education if he helps pay for it ! Even taking the view that every time you educate a negio you tuiu a good field hand; is it not better to let the negro have half a loaf thau for both white and black to be without bread t I am a Southern man and apposed to social equality. I oppose mixed schools and mixed churches as far as the races are concerned. I con sider myself as one of a superior race. But that does not prove that lama better orator than Booker Washington or Tecumseh, or a greater philosopher than Con fucious, the sage of ancient China. I can imagine a great many of the Caucasian race who, by virtue of their ignorance, could not cope with Booker Washington in ora tory, aud by reasou of their weak servile spirits could uot do the daring deeds of Tecumseh. LI ad Tecumseh been educated in mili tary tactics ke would have ri valed the great Napoleon, Alex ander the Great, as that "nigger," Hannibal. As lo "paying tax," demagogues have ranted against that ever since the "Boston Tea-party." The Americans never cavilled at the amount of tax, but at the princi ple of taxation without taxing themsilves. The majority voted last Novem ber that a heavy indirect tax is right. It is so ordered, and every man that buys a manufacture a ar tide pays from 30 to 47 per cent, tax and no questions asked for conscience sake. This tax is placed on the uecessaries and lux uries of life to run the govern ment. Our Indian friends paid none of this tax aud had no gov ernment. But they are disappear ing before the educated pale face, while Columbia is still the gem of the oceau and Old Glory is still floating o'er the land of the free aud the home of the brave. No backward step will be taken in this fight, and I hope all our State will rally to the support of a cause that will do much to hasten the advent of the reign of peace with healing in his wings. With our forest and mineral weath, we but ueed an intelligent population to place North Carolina where she rightlully belongs. Coen Cracker. Cherry Mt., N. C, July 14, '07. WEEKLY CKOP HL'LLKTIX. For the Week Kndlnc Momlay, July 19th, 1897. The week ending July 19th has been one of the most favorable of the season. Fine showers occurred on several days, which were nearly general over the State, only five or six counties still suffering from drought. All crops have improved. Cotton is very vigorous and the only complaint is that it is some what smaller thau the average. Cutting and curing tobacco is now beginning also in the central dis trict. Eastern District. Nearly all reports received indicate that the past week has been exceptionally favorable. Genial showers, with moderately warm days and plenty of sunshine, have caused a general advance in crop conditions. The nights have been a little cool, but not sufficiently so to damage cot ton. There is, however, one sec tion in the southern portion of the district, including Duplin, Pender and Brunswick, where almost no rain has yet fallen, and corn is be ing cut shorti In general, crops are flourishing. Cotton is very good; it is a little late in blooming in north portion, where it is being plowed for the last time. Corn is about laid by; it has improved, though it will be short; bottom land corn is fine. Tobacco has improved greatly and cutting is pretty general in the eastern dis trict. Sweet potatoes fine; apples ripe; melons abundant. Straw berry plants are being set out. Central District. The past week has been an exceptionally favorable one; the drought has been broken in all counties which were suffering and local showers have occurred throughout the dis trict. The nights have been a little cool. All crops made good prog ress during the week. Corn is tasselling low, with small stalk, and there are still complaints of damage by chinchbugs; but the late crop has improved materially, and much of the early crop is safe. Cotton, though still smaller than the average, is very vigorous and blooming and boiling. Prospects for tobacco much improved; farm ers topping it; cutting and curing has just been begun in this dis trict. Oats all cut. Wheat thresh ing continues. Sowing turnips has begun. Western District. Drought still prevails in Surry and Alle ghany counties, and over limited portions of a few others, but in general the past week has been very favorable, with good rains and more moderate temperature; in fact, the nights have been quite cool in the northern and mountain portions of the district. Too much rain occurred in Mitchell county and portions of others, and some lowlands are too wet to plow. Crops are doing remarkably well. Cotton is perhaps still a little small, but is blooming nicely. Corn is about laid by; it is small in stalk and tasselling rather low, but is looking well. Some com plain of chinchbugs still. Sweet potatoes very fine. Wheat thresh ing continues. Good stand of peas and many being planted. tVLegal Blanks by the hun dred, and Printed Stationery & SDecialtv at Tkp Mtccort,, . r' foe sN'eal building, room i. NEWS OK THE DAY. Several cases of small pox are reported from Birmingham. The large family from Brazil with $220,000 in gold will settle in Alabama. Snow storms were prevailing in all the higher portions of Colorado Tuesday. Miss Winnie Davis has been in vited to attend the Logan monu ment ceremony in Chicago. There has been a satisfactory rainfall throughout India. The extent of relief work will now be reduced. Minister to Spain Woodford is directed to press the claim of Mrs. Ruiz for $75,000, which is but half of the sum originally demanded. Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has appointed Thos. B. Turley, a lawyer of Memphis, United States Senator, to succeed the Ia:e Sena tor Harris. President McKinley, it is re ported, will notify Spain that un less the Cuban war ends October 1, he will recognize the Cubans as belligerents. Dr. W. L. Ryder, who, on Easter Sunday a year ago, brutally shot to death the sweetheart who re jected him, was lynched at Colum bus, Ga., Monday night. The exports for the past fiscal year reached the highest figure in the history of thts country. The total was $1,051,987,091, as com pared with $882,606,938 in 1896. The excess of exports over imports was $287,613,186. John H. Bradberry, the young California millionaire, aud his wife have been reconciled. The mil lionaire's wife eloped a few weeks ago with Russell Ward, an Eng lishman, who has a wife and family living in England. As a result of the work of labor agitators, men in four of the largest coal mines in the southern part of West Virginia may join the miner's strike. The wives of Pennsylvania miners are urging their husbands to fight rather than starve. Wind, rain and lightning united in creating havoc in Baltimore Saturday. Houses were unroofed, trees broken down and splintered, electric light circuits burned out, cellars flooded, trolly cars dam aged and local weather records broken. Fairview, Senator Gorman's farm, near Laurel, Md., has pro duced this year the enormous crop of 3,000 bushels of wheat from 100 acres. The Senator sold 2,500 bushels of his crop as it came from the threshing machine at cents a bushel. One who has investigated de clares that the city directory of Washington City contains 40 George Washingtons, seven Mai- tha Washingtons and 19 Mary Washinetons. "The bearers of these names vary in color from a light gingercake tint to an ebony biack that rivals the ace of spades." The American Baptist Home Mission Society and the American Baptist Missionary Union have, thanks to John D. Rockefeller's $250,000 gift, succeeded in paying off their joint debt of $486,000 Rockefeller's gift was contingent on the two institutions raising from other sources an equal sum Nearly 5,000 persons subscribed. The famous Broadmoor casino, the $100,000 pleasure resort of Colorado Springs, burned to the ground Monday morning. It was one of the handsomest buildings, devoted exclusively to pleasure, in the West. The loss will be $100,- 000 to Broadmoor Land and Im provement Company, and $100,000 to Kappler & Miller, of Denver, the lessees. The prize offered by the South ern office of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad of $25 for the largest wa termelon grown in the South this season was presented to President McKinley yesterday. The weight of the melon was seventy eight pounds, was forty eight inches in circumference, and grown by Mr. J. B. Rowan, at Sparks, Ga., a station on the Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad. A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., says: "It seems incomprehensible that Kansas farmers are appealing for help to save their wheat, offer ing as high as $2 a day for day la borers, while the State is swarm ing with tramps who refuse to work, but that is the condition now. Thousands of acres of wheat are still in shock because farmers cannot get help to stack it. Tramps swarm along the railroads, but they refuse to go to work. The people in the town and country, however, have organized against them, and refuse to give them food. The women slam the doors it) their faces when they come to their homes begging for some thing to eat, and ted them to go to the fields and work, or starve." Reports of a great gold dis covery in Alaska have caused in tense excitement, particularly in the Western States, and large numbers of people of all classes of society are making a mad rush for the new Eldorado. A Seattle, Wash., dispatch of the 18th, says : "The excitement over the Kloyn dyke mines is on the increase and hundreds of people are preparing to sail for Alaska. The steamer Portland, which brought down over $1,000,000 in gold, is on her return trip, and will be crowded to her utmost capacity. Inspector Strickland, of the Canadian mounted police, who came down on the Portland, says : 'When I left Dawson City about a month ago there were 800 claims staked out and there were between 3,000 and 3,000 people there. We can safely say there was about $1,500, 000 in gold mined last winter. The wages in the mines were $153 day and the saw mill paid laborers $10 a day.' Wages for all sorts of la bor are now fabulously high, as is the case on every boom camp, but placer diggings are notoriously unreliable, and there is no telline how long it will last." , HEWS 0FTHE STAT E. Items of Interest from North Carolina Points. SUICIDE OF MRS. W. J. COCKE The Wire of I he l i-)Uvr f Asheville Tki Her Life in a Kit of Temporary Inutility -One of the t.r-tet Silk Mail' ufactorit-s in Au.rrica to l- Moved to (ireenahoro Sari leith of a llrlile Ki ;iti;-r'4 Approaching Kelirf Other New. A. C. Stephens, one ot the largest merchants of Nuinertura ton. has failed. It is stated that Governor Rus sell aud Major Hiram L. Grant have "buried the hatchet. Ex State Senator Carver, of Cumberland, I as been arrested charged with moonshining. The Charlotte Observer says that J. M. Mullen is to be postmaster at Charlotte and W. S. Clanton is to be assayer of the mint. The railway commission met at Round Knob Monday to assess railwav DroDertv for taxation. It will be in session all week. A Greensboro contractor tells the Record that 196 houses have been completed within 60 days or are in course of construction in Greensboro. It is stated that H. A. Gudger has been selected for the place of consul general to Panama and that the appointment will be made early in September. It is said that Dr. II B. Battle will establish a phosphate factory at Winston, and that Prof. Irby, late of the Agricultural and Me chanical College, will be associ ated with him. In Charlotte, last week, John Austin, 10 years of age, killed Kell Caton, 12 years of age, by stabbing him with a large sewing awl. Austin was held for murder with out bail and is now in jail. The Wilmington Messenger says that a party of gentlemen who left there Thursday afternoon for Southport to go out to sea on a fishing expedition, came back with between 1000 and 1200 fish. A 3 year-old colored boy fell into a ditch in Charlotte Saturday afternoon and was drowed. The ditch was partially filled with water from a rain and the child was washed under a culvert. Asheville aldermen have decided to adopt central time the stand ard now used by the Southern Railway on most of its divisions Beginning Monday, Asheville's city clock will mark the hours in accordance with this standard. Durham Sun: Mrs. Carr and the three younger boys are enjoy ing the ocean breezes at More- head, Co!. Carr is at Pikes Peak, Rocky Mountain, J. S. Carr, Jr., is touring through Canada, Mrs. v lower (nee Miss Lida) is spend ing the summer in or near Boston, while Miss Lalla Ruth still lingers in the Orient and Europe. Salisbury Sun: 'strain No. 12, west bound, on the Western North Carolina railroad reached a point about three miles beyond Ashe ville Friday afternoon, the en gineer discovered a large boulder lying dangerously near ihe track. He was moving too fast to stop, and as the train passed the steps on the right side ot the train crashed into the boulder and tore all of them off on that side, exc-j t ing the rear sleeper. Atlanta Constitution: It is an. nounced in the North Carolina Daners that one of the greatest silk manufactories in America is to be moved from Patterson, N. J. to Greensboro. This means an in vestment of a million dollars there in a plant. It means the emolov ment of 1500 operatives and nearly 511.000,000 a year to be distributed for wages. The product is sold chiefly in the North and middle West; so the money which the in dustry makes will practically all come into the South from other sections. This move is the direct result of the Southern Railway's industrial department. An Elkin correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says, under date of the 19th: Wednesday last was the day set for the marriage of miss tieatnee, daughter of Dr. John L. Smith, of Soarta. and Prof. Olin P. Ader, principal of wiiKesooro High School. The expectant groom went over to Sparta Tuesday and found his prospective bride very sick in bed. Wednesday dawned bright and fair, but the bride was not any better. The marriage took place, however, the bride being in bed when the ceremony was performed. Thursday night, at 12 o'clock, the immortal soul of Beatrice Smith Ader took its flight homeward, leaving the young husband lonely, desolate and broken-hearted. The remains were intened Saturday at Sparta. The bride was a graduate of Salem Female Academy, and was a very highly cultured young woman. The Citizen of Monday contait s an account of a distressing occur rence in Asheville Monday even-ing-the death of Mrs. Minnie I Cocke, wife ot ex Mayor William jonnston Coke, from a self-inflicted wound. She left a letter to her husband, bidding him an af fectionate good bye, and giving directions as to the arrangements for her funeral, selecting the pall bearers as well as the flowers for the casket. Mrs. Cocke was Miss Mi nnie Shawhan Lvne. of Cvnth; ana, Ky., and a member of a prom inent Kentucky lamily. She mar ried Mr. Cocke on the 2i of Sn tember, 1896, in the Christian church at Cynthiana. Dr. I A Watson, one of Mrs. Cocke's nhv. sicians, gave it as his opinion that .Mrs. Locke was suffering from uraemic ooisonintr. a mnHiti that is occasionally accompanied by symptoms of acute insanity, and that it was while in thi r-r.r.' dition that she committed tk. deed. Dr. I. A. B another of the Dhvsician. rf,n' curred with Dr. Watson in thu statement. , l'ul.lic School Meet Ion. August 10th. Bv ac ol th" Gfiivral Assembly au election will be he:d in every township in North Carolina in which there is iu loc.d tuxatu n for school purpose. Tui'sd y, Au gust 10th, for the purpose ot im proving the Pul'i.c School by Km al taxation The State of NoiJ'n C.M!;iia has appK'pna e l .";,0M out t t liie Geneial Fund lo be ;ipj Uioud among the township votiug m favor of local taxation. If a towu sbip vo.o.- si tax of 10 cen?s on the 100 woith of pr eitv and 30 cents on Ihe poll and 1 1.u.- i aloes tfoOO in addition io the usual school fund, the State will-add Mi none, mak ing ihe the xtra auioui.t added to the School Fund in the tounship 1,KH. ll township raises .)(, the S a:c w II n; S'.MI. If it iaics ovi-i ")ti;. i lie S will add $500. Any township that votes fr lo cal taxation will, therefoie, be sure to have first class public schools Col. J. S. Carr, of Durham, has promised to give .")00 to the school fund of the county that votes the largest per cent of its voteis lor local taxation. Let all strive to get this bounty. Remember the day, August 10th. Be at the voting place and bring your neighbors. To stay away will be equal to voting agaiust this plan to get good schools for only a small expense. The tax of ten cents on ihe 100 is only one dol lar on a thousand or live dollars on live thousand. Surely every citizen will see that thus the best schools can be obtained cheaper than any other way. .1. W Bailey, Hugh Moksox, L. D. Howell, (J. II. Meijane, I). II. Hill, Committee. X. B. Those desiring literature for information or to distribute, send to J. W. Bailey, Chairman, Raleigh, X. C. The True Kemnljr. W. M. Repine, editor of TLkilwa, 111., Chief, says: "We won't keep house without Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. 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Marion Messenger (Marion, N.C.)
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July 23, 1897, edition 1
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