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" - H This Argus o'er the people's rights No soothinc strains nf Main's cun jjoin an eternal vig-il keep Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep" i No SOOthinc Strains nf Main's cun ' r- 3 5 f . n 'I A Vol. XVI. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Raleigh. Mar. 12. In the Senate to-day Mitchell and Farthing were appointed a committee to examine the books of the State Auditor and Treas urer. Bill passed third reading to al low divorce to be granted when either party to a marriage ab sents himself or herself from the State for two years, the absent ing party not to be allowed to be married again. Paddison filed protest against bill for the relief of Sheriff Ke nan, of Duplin, and Parsons filed a protest against the divorce law. Bill to furnish 50 convicts for 100 days to work on farms cf deaf mute school at Morganton passed. Nominations for penitentiary directors were made as follows: T- E. McCaskie, J. T. B. Hoover, J. E. Bryan, H. B. Parker, H. T. Wakefield, Meyer Hahn, John E. Cheek, Henry Dockery and R. L. Herbert. They received 29 votes. E. D. Stanford, of Yadkin, re ceived 26 votes as State Libra rian. The tellers reported that Stanford had received in the House and Senate 74 votes on joint ballot. Lieut. Gov. Dough ton declared these wrere not enough votes to make an elec tion, 86 being required. Senator Rice asked if the Senate could not declare Stanford elected. Lieut. Gov. Doughton declared it could not. Rice asked if the constitution prevents such a declaration. Lt.-GovernorDough-ton replied it did. Rice then said: "It makes no difference about the report. I want the Senate to declare Stanford elect ed." Great laughter. The tellers reported that the nominees for penitentiary direct ors had received on joint ballot u votes. rne Jjt. -tiovernor de clared not enough votes had been cast to make an election, as 86 votes were imperatively nec essary under the law governing such elections. HOUSE. In the House Ray moved to dispense with the reading of the journal and" on this demanded the yeas and naya, this being fr tht purpose of seeing whether there was a quorum present. There was a dispute as to whether enough rose to demand yeas and nays and the reading of the jour nal was called for. Fifteen rose and the last vote was only 1. The clerk was so slow in finding the journal that Ray, Democrat, at tacked him and this led Speaker Walser to leave the chair and attack Ray in a bitter speech. Ray replied in a scortcher, but said that he had not reflected upon the Speaker. He denounced the latter's language. Walser then apologized and so did Ray. Resolution to expunge from the journals the expulsion of Jos iah Turner was tabled. To correct the line between Alamance and Chatham was ta bled. The House concurred in Senate amendments to the vorce law bill were referred the One of the amendments provides that it shall not apply to any case which occurs after its pas sage. Stanford, nominated for State librarian, received only 48 votes, and the above named Fusion nominees for penitentiary trus tees only 50. The point was made that there was no quorum, and the speaker said that the re port would simply speak for it self. A resolution was adopted to raise a committee of three to in vestigate matters relative to the fish commission. The judiciary committee pre sented its chairman, V. S. Lusk, with a gold-headed cane. Win borne spoke and French replied for Lusk who is sick here. Peebles introduced a resolu tion in favor of free coinage of silver and of the repeal of law against State bonds. For this, Hileman, Populist offered a sub stitute, in favor of issue of na tural currency by the govern ment. French moved to table the whole matter and this pre vailed. At 12. 30 the House took a re cess until 8 p. m. THE REVENUE ACT. The Bate of Taxation Increased Four Cents on Every SIOO. As finally adopted the Revenue Act makes the State tax 24 cents instead of 22 cents, as fixed by the last General Assembly. The school tax is 18 cents; it was 16 cents in 1893-'94. The pension tax is 3 cents, the , same as heretofore. The total is 45 cents on every $100 value of real and personal property . in the State. It was 41J cents in 1892 '94, and 43 cents in"1891-'92. . Expenditures for the next two years are estimated at $995,000, or some $75,000 more than for 1893-'94. This includes not only appropriations made by the Gen eral Assembly, but the expenses of State officers, judges and the 130,000 interest on the State debt. The receipts on the 262.- 000,000 of property are figured at ?oio,jvv, out it is Deneveu mat the new assessment will show depreciation in value of 20 or 25 per cent. This will bring the receipts on property down to 730,000. Included in this is the 180,000 in the State treasury. Ihis depreciation will, it is be lieved, make the amount for the school tax and the general tax about the same as heretofore not withstanding the increased rate Neics & Observer. THE SIGHT IS PASSED. Ami The Sun of Democracy is in the As cendant. The Rep-Pop Fusion legisla ture that for more than its con stitutional limitation sat in Ra leigh, petered out at midnight Wednesday night, sine die, and yesterday morning the sun of Democracy with healing in its wings, and sheding comfort in every ray to the hearts of the faithful throughout North Caro lina, rose upon the scene and found that the enemies to good government and constitutional rest aints had fallen upon one another and slew themselves in the night. They are gone the motly, unprincipled fusion crew of "refawmers" and the places that knew them will know them no more, henceforth forever. Such is the calm judgment of The Argus, based upon our es timate of the calibre of the peo- piw ul luis rana old Common wealth, some of whom permitted themselves to be fooled into fol lowing the People's party into the unholy alliance with Repub licans, thereby merging what little of principle their party had into the rotteness of Radicalism and they called this "Reform" "Retrenchment and Reform." "By their fruits ye shall know them." Where is the "retrench ment"? Where the "reform"? Have they reduced taxation? No; they have largely increased it and taxation is the burden under which the people complain IUUSI. Not only have the-, nc a. , , " ?rac- useu retrenchment not only have they increased taxation, but they have increased appropria tions all along the line, save to the State Guard and the Univer sity, and they have absolutely inaugurated new appropriations in large sums, thereby making it impossible, even under their in creased tax rate, to accumulate a surplus in the State treasury on which to base the hope of fu ture relief. Deliberately, we defy the Fu sion Legislature to point to a single instance of retrenchment other than the State Guard and the University two of the most worthy institutions in the State while the instances of their squandering of the people's money is legion. And this is "Retrenchment." Well, how about their "re form"? True, they appropriated many thousand dollars to the establish ment of a reformatory for young criminals, and many thousands more for its endowment; mere gush and sentimentalism, without the sanction of the people, and so grave in its sweeping grab of the people's, money that it should have been submitted to the voters of the State, as a constitutional amendment. But what cared these "reformers" for the consti tution? What other reform did they enact? An election law- They stole it almost bodily from the Democrats honest and fair with only the partisan changes that the "reformers" made in it. What other reform ? The county government bill? Well, what is it? Is it a whit better than that of the Democrats? It is infi nitely worse. , But all these measures will elucidate themselves when they go into effect, and the people will con them well before the November, election of '96 rolls 'round. They cannot thus early be instilled into their experience through the medium of newspa pers. They will work them selves out in good time. As to those other "reforms", showing the manner and nature of the "Refawmers", such as the eliminating from their delibera tions the spirit of patriotism and common gratitude, as evidenced by their refusal to adjourn in honor of Washington and Lee, and the deep depths of degrada tion which they touched in their adjournment in honor of miscege nationist Fred Douglas, we refer our readers to the report of the committee published in another column of this issue. But the record is with the pe"b: pie, and it cannot be gainsaid: and The Argus will see to it that it shall be made familiar learning with our numerous read ers as the days go by, and the weeks and months that lie be tween this and the election of '9G. THE DOUGLASS RESOLUTION. A Correct Statement of tlie Action of the Legislature in Regard to This Matter and the Washington and Lee Memorials. Ihe following is the protest ottered by Mr. Kay in the House ot Kepresentatives on Monday, wmcn sets lortli what was actu - I 1 T i i -r t any aone Dy tne legislature m regard to adjournment of that body in memory of Fred Doug lass: Whereas, On the 25th day of February, a resolution was intro duced in the House by Mr. Lusk, ot Mucombe, purporting to set forth the facts concerning the ac tion of the General Assembly in rererence to adjournment in honor of Robert E. Lee, George Wrshington and Fred Douglas; and Whereas, The said resolution was adopted by a party vote, the Fusionists voting for and the Democrats against it, and Whereas, The said resolution has been spread upon the journ al of the House stating among other things that the charges made by the Democratic press that the General Assembly had refused to adjourn in honor of Washington and Lee and that the House did adjourn in honor of Douglass, Avere "unjust, un true, misleading, malicious and libellous." Now, therefore, wo. the under signed Democratic ;nembers of the House of Representatives, excereising our constitutional right, do hereby enter our earn est and solemn protest against the unjust arbitrary and tvrani- cal power and by theTnaiority in th auopiion oi saiu - resolution; and desiring that the truth shall be known to the world, we hereby set forth the following statement of facts, to-wit: 1. That on the 18th day of January, the General Assembly refused to adopt a resolution to adjourn on the 19th in honor of Robert E. Lee. 2. That on the 20th of Febru ary the General Assembly re fused to adopt a resolution to adjourn on the 22nd in honor of George Washington, the father of his country. 3. That on the 21st of Febru ary the following resolution was introduced in the House by Crews, a colored member from Granville, to wit: "Whereas, the late Fred Douglas departed this life on the 20th inst., and "Whereas, We generally de plore the same, now therefore 'Resolved, That this House ad journ at 12 o'clock to-day in honor of the deceased." This resolution, upon the mo tion of a Populist member, was amended so as to read as fol lows : "Whereas, The late Freder ick Douglas departed this life on the 20th instant, and "Whereas, We greatly deplore the same, now therefore "Hesolved, That when this House adjourn it adjourn in honor of the memory of the deceased," and said resolution as amended was adopted; and wTe hereby de nounce as unqualifiedly false the statement that all parties con curred in said resolution, as the Speaker of the House himself an nounced that the resolution was adopted by a vote of 34 to 23. 4. That on the 22d day of Feb ruary Mr. Smith, a Democratic member from Gates, offered the following resolution in the House, to-wit: "That in honor of the anniver sary of George Washington, the Father of his Country, the House do now adjoarn." This resolution, upon a divis ion, was voted down and defeat ed, all the Democrats present voting for the resolution. Respectfully submitted, Smith of Gates, R. Duffy. J. F. Ray, E. J. Harrington, M. T. Lawrence, H, McClaminy, Hio-gins of Yancey, Jas. R. Thomas, J. 1 Heinhart, J. G. Alexander, J as. T. Kell, J. D. McCall. Jas. H. Baker, Jr , Jon h'n Tomlinson M. M. Harrelson, W. O. Howard, J. A. House. Rufus Sanders, V T, Lee, R. B. Peebles, W. H. .Gallop, J. M. Grizzard, T, O. Nelson, " L. D. Robinson, A.J. Rascoe, Jas. R, Thomas. The Rich Field for Lobbyists. The adjournment.of the Legis lature brings joy to everbody in North Carolina except the Fusion lawyers and lobbyists. They have made more money in the last sixty days than in the pre vious ten years. Lawyers and lobbyists, who could .not earn five ten dollar fees a month, in ordinary times, have been taking in hundred dollar bills right and left for their 'professional ser vices. One Fusionist lawyer, who was employed, admitted that he was hired vto fix the boys," that "others would make the legal arguments." : The adjournment of the Legis lature carries sorrow and loss of money to them. :- With 'the tax payers, the adjournment is re garded as the only good thing done in the sixty-three days. One Republican lawyer ad mitted that he received $3,000 GOLDSBQRO, K. C THURSDAY, MARCH for "professional services." an other got 2,000, and others larger and smaller amounts. The man who was supposed to have the most "influence" got the big gest "fees," while the real law yer, who made strictly legal ar guments, received only the cus tomary fees. The active and pernicious in fluence of the political lobbyists is responsible for much of the bad legislation. They were in league with corrupt men on the floor, and were too smart for the honest Populists who thought! they were here to give their ad vice for the good of the coun try." They picked the field clean, and now must needs pray for another Legislature of rascals and inexperienced Populists. ixaieigh Aeivs and Observer: COWX OX THE NEGRO. Several large hotels in New i ork and Chicasro which have hitherto employed ne?ro waiters and servants have discharged them and filled their places with white men. Had such a thing been done in this section it would have been proclaimed as a Southern out rage by that element in the North which either does not un derstand the race question in the South or persists in lying abut it. In nearly every Southern hotel negroes only are employed as ser vants and thousands of them are thus enabled to earn a good liv ing. Still the negroes employed in hotels represent only a small per cent, of the negroes who are engaged m gainful occupations in the South. They are emoloved m almost every branch of mdus try. They are carpenters, brick layers, stone masons and me chanics. Tt 1 1 1 1 j j-l wouiu ue nara to muster a corporal's guard of negroes who are similarly emra"red in the cities of the North, though there are many thousauds of negroes in those cities. The trades are closed against them and service in hotels has been one of the few means of honest livelihood left the nego in the north. The recent action of some of the largest hotels in that section indicates that the time is fast coming when the North will no longer consider negroes fit to be hotel servauts. The negro agitators of race strife in the South ari dangerous only because of the ignorance of those to whom they appeal. If the masses of our negroes knew the facts they would thank God that they live in the South and would be quite convinced that they have fairer treatment anil better opportunities here than they could find anywhere else in the world. What the negro in the South needs most to learn is to stay in the South, think for himself and vote the Democratic ticket. The late Fusion combine in North Carolina between the Republicans and Populists should teach the negro, that so far as political emolument goes he is "not in it" at all, save in minor capacities, political hewers of wood and drawers of water, while his white political brothers in the Fusion combine, that foisted themselves into power on his vote, both Reps and Pops, have scooped all the fat offices in sight. The Democratic party in North Carolina has given to the negro, through legislation, good schools, wholesome laws, asylums for the care ot their deaf. dumb, hlind and imbecile, and guaranteed to them, as to the whites, the same protection, the same life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The negro should at this time seriously study the situation and trend of sentiment as to his race in the JSepublican North and in the Democratic South, and give to that party his vote which is composed of the people who are his best friends the Southern Democracy. Presiding Elder's Appointments. Quarterly meetings for - Newbern District will be held as follows: Morehead City, March 30-31. Grifton circuit, at Gum Swamp, April tt-7. . r . Kinston, at nig-ht, April 7. Goldsboro circuit, at Mt. Carmel. April 13-14. 2(aGrange circuit, at Beston, April St. John's, at night, April 21. Straif s circuit, at Banks, April 27-28. Beaufort, April 28. St, Paul's, May 4-5. h ilJ (?nes circuit afc Shady Grove, May F. D. Swindell, P. E. Fayetteville Observer : Dr.- B. F. Fisher died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Cedar Creek Saturday in "his fortieth year. He has been a practicing physician in that section for a number of . years and possessed the esteem and confidence of the entire community. WHOLESALE THEFT. o KILLS STOLEN AT RANDOM AND THE JOURNAL TAMPiSREU WITH. The Reeord of the Fusion Legislature Only Beglnnms to le Known: That Com . mittee ot Investigation: Railroad Troubles: The Confederate Monument Other Items of General Interest. The crowning disgrace of disgraceful legislature is the ap pointment of a committee, and such a committee, to investigate the charges made by Mrs. P. D B. Arrington against many law ers and public men. The com mittee is composed of Campbell, the Legislature's fool, Bryan, of cnatnam, and .PnUlips, of Pitt. fhiilips is the only one in the crowd that has a ray of intelli gence, liryan is the man who tried to sneak through a bill to take away the University's an propriation, and Campbell needs no mention. His only qualifica tion for any office is a set of false teeth. Last eveuing two of the committee w7ere very drunk. It is uouotiui wThen they will get away, as they draw their per aiems sun and may hold on in definitely. The troubles of tl e Seaboard Air Line, of which I informed you some days ago, are getting serious. Now a strike is talked over by the engineers. They have even prepared for a strike. The action is brought on by a proposed reduction in the waeres of the engineers and the minute it is done they will, verv. prob ably, all step out. Their broth erhood is a strong association and they will make a hard firht when the cut in wages comes. The wood working shops of the Raleigh and Gaston railroad which were recently moved from ! here to Portsmout h have been ordered removed back here. It is the policy of the S. A. L. to establish other shops and have each road of the system do it. The speakers at the centennial commencement exercises in Chapel Hill have been selected. They are Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Wilmington, and A. H. Eller, of Winston. Mr. Waddell will speak on the old University, Mr. Eller on the new. The exercises will 'be of more interest and a larger number of people wil be in attendance than has ever before been the case. At Millbrook, in Wake county, there has appeared three repre sentatives of a sect very similar, if not the same, as Mormons. They have been speaking among the more ignorant classes and have made some converts. Feel ing in the country is strong against them and they will be run out of the county. This morning a market man, greatly pleased with the pay ment of a bill by a customer, sent for her in a carriage and publicly presented her with a chair. The racket about bills being stolen from the legislature is still being talked about. I in formed you from time to time of bills that had been stolen; now it is claimed that this stealing was wholesale; that the journal even was tampered with. Speak er Walser didn't waste much time in getting out of Raleigh. Had he stayed here he would have had an unpleasant time. The people were disgusted with him and his wayofdoing"justice." The way he crawled back in his chair after he had insulted Ray, and immediately apologized for doing so, was more than amus ing. It wTas disgusting. Mr. O. J. Carroll has been se lected by tke Monumental Asso ciation as chief marshal at the un veiling of the monument on May 20th. The inscriptions on the monu ment are being cut. They will be "To Our Confederate Dead," and "First at Bethel, Last at Appomatox." The whole monu ment is to be polished highly. When an incoming train came in to-day it brought with it a buzzard, impaled on a brass rod that projects in front of the en gine. The buzzard was struck while flying across the track. The blunt rod was driven nearly through its body and it didn't fall off until it reached Raleigh, after having been carried 12 miles. THAT SCHOOL BILL. The article in yesterday's Argus in reference to the gaunt let run by Goldsboro's proposed school bill, that originated with Senator Grant, in the Senate and was killed in the House, has caused considerable disturbance in certain quarters. Well, we expected that it would. But the vital and all-important questions ar?, Where did the bill come from? How did it get "mixed up" with the other bills? Why could it not be found when diligently and constantly search ed for by our representative and other Democratic representa tives? Why did it require a 21, 1895, standing watch at the very right hand of the speaker to detect the bill and stop him from signing it thus making it a law? Why was an this? Who was behind the bill "a-shoving and a-push mg ' it." vv ny could none of the clerks find the bill when it was asked for after it had been tabled and killed in the House? How did it get back into the Senate on the sly? When Senator Grant was asked, thereupon, to re mand it to the House, why did he not do so? And when he was asked and he refused to do this simple act of courtesy and just ice, and Mr. Munroe resorted to the House and had the Speaker of that body to send to the Sen ate for the bill, then and there, how was it that the bill had again disappeared, in that in credibly short time, and could not be found, and was not seen again by those in search of it 'till, in the dying hour of the House, it came to the Speaker's desk for his signature and was there seized by Mr. Munroe, as reported in yesterday's Argus? I All these questions are per tinent not to the validity of the bill, for it is dead, but to the in tegrity of "the hands" the Rep Pop-Fusion memorial association of Douglasites. uut tne people will bear all tnese things in mmd and the leaven will work itself out in due time. Horses and Silver. A Jl ' . .1 -aueoruing to tne silver mono- metallists the low price of cotton is attributable entirely to the sus pension oi silver coinage. They refuse to take into ac count the overproduction of cot ton and would have the farmers oeneve tnat it ur government snouidcom an unlimited cmantitv of silver, cotton would be worth a great deal more than it is now. if cotton is thus dependent up on silver other things must be so loo. It the failure of the gov ernment to coin all the silver that could be carried to its mints has run down the price of cotton, why may not the same explana tion be given for the wonderful decline in the price of horses? In 1890 there were in this country 1,4,213,837 horses, and stheir average value was $6S. Accord ing to the Federal Agricultural Department there are now 15, 893,318 horses in the United States and the average price is only 36. In five years the average value of horses has fallen nearly one half. The free silver monome tallists, where the, raising of horses is a leading industry, howl the same tune that we hear from the silver monometallists in the cotton belt. The suspen sion of silver coinage is the cause and the sole cause of all the trouble. The free coinage of silver and nothing else will set things right. The almost universal substi tution of electric for horse power and the inreased number of horses have had nothing to do with the fall in price, according to free silver philosophy. Horses are so cheap now because there is less demand for them than there ever was before. Cotton is cheap now because the supply is so far in ex cess of the demand. These facts are so plain that they are recognized by every body except the free silver mo nometallists. They have only one idea and it is impossible to push it aside long enough to con vince them that free silver would not make us all rich and happy. Atlanta Journal. Senator Butler to Sit Among the . Republicans. Washington, March 15. The disappearance of eighteen Sen ators will make an entire change in the appearance in the Senate floor when that body meets again. Instead of a majority of the desks being on the Demo cratic side they now appear on the Republican side, and in this connection it is interesting to know that at the request of Sena tor Marion Butler, of North Carolina, his desk has been plac ed on the Republican side. Sena tor Butler is the Populist elected by the fusion Legislature that at the same time gave the two year term to Senator Pritchard, Re publican. The fact that Senator Butler has asked to be seated on the Republican side is taken as an indication that he will act with the Republicans in matters per taining to the organization and other questions that are not in consistent with his views on peculiar subjects. Senator Ran som, whom he succeeds, proph esied, that Senator Butler would at all times be found acting har mony with the party in the Sen ate thalrwas antagonistic to the Democrats. ADVENTURES o OF A CERTAIN BILL IN THE LEGISLATURE. LATE After Defeat in tli House it is Found in the Senate: It Disappears, Then Turns Up Among the Hills to he Enrolled: The Plotters' Scheme to Nab the At lantic Railroad. kaleigh, March 14. One of the leading Republicans in the estate said to-day that his party ana tne Populists ought to be ashamed to go home after the way in which the Democrats out generated them yesterday. Representative Williams. Re jjuuhucui, oi craven, tells me history. He says the House journal actually showed that a bill to amend the charter of the Atlantic and North Carolina rail way had passed the House and been ordered enrolled; the fact is, it passed its second reading and that Williams, co-oneratins' witn tne Democrats, prevented its third reading. He discovered the entry regarding the bill in the clerk's office and struck it off. We tells me that two weeks ago the fusionists made their plan to grab this road and Senator Grant was to be State proxv and he. Rice, Abbott and Duncan were to be directors. The arrange ment for the grab of the North Carolina railway was that Sena tor Moody wTas to be State proxv. Afterwards George Smathers' name was put in. This bill was tabled in the Senate. Yesterday morning in the House when Ray and the Speaker had an altercation, Ray wanted the journal read. The clerks said they could not find it. Williams tells me that early yesterday morning he saw the journal and that part of it was stolen by un known persons. It is alleged that this was done to cover up the record regarding the bill to appoint trustees of Goldsboro Graded school, This is all Re publican testimony. The Graded school bill passed the Senate, but the House not only tabled it, but put the "clincher" on it. A day or two after this was done, Munroe, of Wayne, found the bill was in the Senate on the clerk's desk. He asked Senator Grant to make a motion to have it returned to the House. This was not done. The House or dered the bill to be returned to it. The bill then could not be found. Yesterday Mr. Munroe found it was on the enrolling clerk's record book, but the en rolling clerk looked for it and said he could not find it. Munroe kept on trail and last night found tne bill was in a batch brought in to be enrolled. He called the Speaker's attention to the facts in the case and thus prevented ratification of the bill. The above is the gauntlet run by the Goldsboro Graded School bill, with Yankee Grant as its father and engineer. That is a specimen of the kind of legis lation he would enact and the wily means he would resort to in order to carry his desires to a successful issue. It is in keeping with his record and that of his party for duplicity and wiliness. And yet this is the man that good Jeffersonian Democrats" so called voted for. They said they wanted pure Democracy and so they fused with the Re publicans, the blackest they could find, redolent with the odor of '68 and full of the same old venom and voracious greed for of fice, and the above report is a fair sample of the manner of legislation they would en act and the unfair, high-handed, rough -shod means they would resort to. The House had refused, by an overwhelming vote, to pass Grant's graded school bill for Goldsboro, and yet, by the aid of his henchmen in the subordinate offices of clerkships, he was caught in the very act of "under- grounding" it into a law; and when openly charged with it by our representative Munroe. he tried to bluff him off the track of his rascality by getting mad and still it took an eagle watch to apprehend the bill, and by an absolute personal watch of Mr. Munroe, it was detected in the last batch of bills that came up lor ratification in the House, duly engrossed, al though it had been killed dead by a polled vote of that body, and was then and there, by the consent of the 5 Speaker of the House, torn into shreds by Mr. Munroe and thus ended Yan kee Grant's pet bill, with Mr. J. F. DobsoD, the clerk who is sup posed to have had a hand in the manipulation, looking on and showing much discomfiture at the tragedy. THRILLING NO. 70 WHERE ART ABOUNDS. The Exhibit of the;Sing;er;Sewing Machine Next Door to the Post Oflice: It is a Marvel of Beauty and a Joy Forever. The weather has been so very rainy and altogether disagree able of late that we presume the ladies of our city have hardly thought it "worth the candle" to visit the beautiful disnlav in the Singer Sewing Machine office, next door to the post office, men tion of which was made in The Argus several days ago; but the weather promises to be fair this week and the ladies will enjoy the exhibit the more by reason of the fine weather, and none should fail to visit the exhibit, for its like has never before been seen in Goldsboro. Not only are the articles on display of rare design, exqusite beauty and marvelous handiwork, but the arrangement of the ex hibit is most pleasing indeed, and shows that the hand of a master genius and the eye of a born artist have been at wrork here. There are curtains and such curtains; curtains of the most delicate fabrics, in Roman work; the famous World's Fair Prize curtains, the identical curtains that so many thousands of visit ors to that great exposition gazed upon in enchanted wonder ment, and which were awarded the prize: there are massive mail cloth curtains worked in rope silk; then there are soft black Brussels net curtains worked with Chinese magnolias and swallows in flight so perfect that all but life is there, and which the Japanese might envy. in other lines of work in fact, in every line of house dec oration in fabrics, linen drawn work, screens, Japanese linen, table pieces, placques. &c. specimens of the most beautiful workmanship abound on every hand. While in the realm of experimental genius there are works that surpass oil paintings in delicate shadings, soft expres sions and in the perfect forging of the handwriting of nature: chief among these are a maginfi- cent dog head-"Hector"-coried from Landseer's famous paint ing: the "Jersey Coast:" a ' 'Quiet Road, "all of which-every-thing we have been writing about is done in silk stitch the Singer Sewing Machine. on The exhibit is in charge of Mrs. M. A. Anderson, from the central office in Richmond, and who does the work on the ma chine right before your eyes and can reproduce almost any article of the exhibit. She is most graci ous in answering all questions, not only of the loquacious news paper man, but of all visitors. The display will remain open for the current week, and the ladies are especially invited, and Mrs. Anderson will take pleasure in giving instructions free to all ladies having or desiring to buy a Singer machine. The Arlington Investigation. The precedent established by the Legislature, of authorizing legislative committees to investi gate alleged acts of wrong-doing by the bench and bar, is a most pernicious one. The courts are established for litigants, and if they are presided over by in competent or bad men, or if the law is defective, legislation ought to be enacted. But to authorize a committee, without limit as to time or expense, to review the Supreme or Superior court, is a piece of supreme folly of which no sensible Legislature could be guilty. But, since the Legislature de termined to establish a new me thod of proceedure, it is a mat ter for regret that it did not select sober and honest men, who had some knowledge of law and had some regard for their repu tation, to conduct the investiga tion. Neither of the members charged with the duty is capable of performing it, and as they are notoriously incompetent, the pro ceeding will be nothing more than a farce. Mrs. Arrington believes she has been wronged. If so, and the Legislature deemed her wrongs so unusual as to require a new method of ascertaining and righting them, tbey owed it to her themselves, and her accusers to appoint a committee of sober men to undertake the work. She makes grave charges against prominent gen tlemen. They will be glad of an oppertunity to judicially answer the charges. The public like to see them and Mrs. Ar rington haee justice. She has at last obtained a tribunal to hear her complaints. It is a gross wrong to her that those appoint ed are unworthy and incompetent to perform the work assigned to them. Raleigh News and Obser ver. WOTICE. I "WAKT every man and woman In the TTnlte I state interested in the Opium and Whisk' habile to have one of my books en these die" eases. Address B. H. woolley, Atlanta, Ga Box US, and one will b test jvu tree. t i; I x 1 I I J i ; f
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