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This Argtjs o'er the people's rights,
No soothing strains of Maia's sun.
Dotn an eternal vigil keep
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep"
V" "
Vol. XVI.
GOIJDSBORO. X. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1895,
NO. 52.
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COL. A. K. M'CLUKE'S ADVICE
THE SOUTH, AND HONEST MONET.
"The Southern State That Shall First Plant
Itself Unmistakably on the Platform of
Absolute Honest Money Will be Fore
most of all In Development.
Jacksonville, Fla., March
25. It was expected that Col.
Alexander McClure, editor of the
Philadelphia Times, would stop
in this city on his way North
a ad preparations were made to
give him a reception. But to
day Mayor D. U. Fletcher re
ceived a letter from the veteran
editor, who is at St. Augustine,
stating that it would be impos
sible for him to accept Jackson
ville's hospitality. The letter is
a most interesting one.
The concluding portion of the
letter is devoted to the financial
question and is as follows:
"Pardon me for saying that I
have grave apprehensions for my
intercourse with the people of the
Southern States during my pres
ent journey. I believe that you
are now confronted with an issue,
second only in importance to the
issue which led to the civil war.
We have tested the question of
the dismantling of the States and
settled it by the arbitration of the
sword; but a nation would ke
vastly better dismembered by fra
ternal strife than to determine its
union by a baptism of blood and
then destroy its honor and its
credit by obedience to the subtle
teachings of the demagogue.
"A nation cannot live without
scrupulously maintaining its in
tegrity, and the Southern States,
above all, must command the
confidence of financial, commer
cial and trade circles, at home
and abroad, if they would hope
for prosperity. They possess
countless millions of wealth
which await development, and
that development, can only come
py commanding the confidence of
thpse wl ose capital and labor
must be invited to aid in the
work. That can be done only by
maintaining honest money and
proclaiming to the world -that
every honest dollar invested in
the South will be repaid in
equally honest money.
'A coin of the Union, whether
silver or gold, must possess the
intrinsic value and not a promise
to pay, and every dollar issued
by the government whether gold
or silver should be such as would
be accepted by the civilized
world, and every paper dollar is
sued should be of equal value be
cause redeemable in coin of in
disputable value. I am not a
capitalist or a money lender: I
have no personal interest in the
issue excepting that which is the
interest of the entire South. My
life pursuit is aided or hindered
in prosperity by the success or
misfortune of the industrial
classes of our country, and when
they are prosperous I am pros
perous, and when that class is
prosperous in the North there
must be prosperity in the South.
"The Southern State that shall
first plant itself unmistakably on
the platform of absolutely honest
money, will be foremost of all in
development, in credit and in re
spect in our own and in other
countries; and as long as there
shall be hesitation in the South
as to her financial policy, there
must be distrust in every quarter
that can aid you, and growing
paralysis and distress throughout
all classes and conditions of your
people. I speak earnestly on
this subject only bepause I earn
estly desire that the South shall
prosper, for when the South shall
be prosperous, there must be
prosperity throughout our entire
common country.
"I hope that Florida will make
an earnest and united effort to
aid the Atlanta Exposition. It
should be a landmark in the his
tory of Southern progress and
every ' State south of the Poto
mac should make common cause
to aid in the great work. Great
as has been the advancement of
the Southern States d urine the
last dozen years' you have hardly
reached the beginning of South
ern development, and the At
lanta Exposition should be made
the most successful illustration
of industrial - possibilities and
achievements in its reconstruc
ted state.
"Sincerely yours,
"A; K. McClure."
Ewart 's Letter to Governor Carr.
Representative Ewart, of Hen
derson county finds himself m s
rather embarrassing position
He came to the Legislature hun
gry for office and the Legislature
attempted to satisfy his craving.
It abolished the Criminal court
in the West and re-enacted it,
electing Ewart. judge. - Such
small things as law and the Con
stitution were orusned aside in
their haste to satisfy JMr. E wart's
greed. He was elected to the
judgeship by the General As
sembly, if election it may be call
ed. and immediately took on the
pomp and dignity of his office.
Telegrams and congratulations
poured in and Ewart was happy.
But he awoke one morning to
find that his honor was an empty
one, that in their work of reform
the Fusionists had forgotten to
abolish the Constitution, that the
people had a right to say who
should preside over their courts,
and in their failure to do so the
Governor had a right to appoint
His election by the Legislature
was without law or authority to
support it.
The situation was embarras
sing. Mr. Ewart did not know
what to do, so he did the worst
thing possible. He got mad. In
his anger he wrote a letter. It is
an open letter to the Governor of
North Carolina. The letter is
full of spleen and shows its au
thor up in a new and very unen
viable light. In it he denounces
Governor Carr as a "political
trickster." He finds fault be
cause the date of the ratification
of the act was, by a clerical er
ror, incorrectly stated in the
Governor's message nominating
Hon. Thos. A. Jones, of Bun
combe county, as Judge of the
Criminal Court Circuit, the posi
tion coveted by Mr. Ewart. Even
the Governor's Private Secretary
cojaes in for a share of abuse for
this error of date, which after
all really amounts to nothing,
one way or the other.
But it is the fact that the Gov
ernor waited until the last day
of the Legislature to send in his
nomination of Judge Jones that
Mr. Ewart complains most bitter
ly. He disregards the fact thati t
is a prerogative of the chief ex
ecutive of the Sl ate to send in his
nominations whenever he sees
fit and no one has a right to
either dictate the time or ques
tion his motives. If so many
members of the General Assem
bly had gone away that there
was no quorum left, that was no
fault of Governor Carr's.
But the funniest thing of it all
is to hear a member of the Fus
ion Legislature, whoohelped cre
ate an office for himself, denounc
ing somebody else as "a political
trickster."
This letter, full of spite and
abuse, as it is, is unwarranted
by the facts in the case, unworth
of Mr Ewart and will do his
cause no good. No State ever
had a more careful, conscientious
and unpartisan executive, so far
as the discharge ot his official
duties are concerned, than has
North Carolina. No doubt, if
the truth were known, Governor
Carr sent in his nominations as
soon as he had been advised bv
the Attorney General that he
had a right so to do. No Gov
ernor, worthy of this great State
and its people, would sit meekly
by and see his prerogative as
chief magistrate of the State
thus recklessly encroached upon .
Raleigh News and Observer.
The Law
to Regulate
merits."
Assign-
"Wilnvngton Messenger. .
In another editorial we briefly
ref.r to the most vicious and un
wise act of the Legislature re
lative to mortgages and trusts.
Bv accident it was discovered.
Its effects upon North Carolina
will be wide-spread, deep and
deplorable. It will not do for
Governor Carr to call the ignor
amuses who passed it together
in extra session, for if they once
get back to Raleigh and can hold
of the most toothsome and delec
table public teat they will be so
hapoy and so loath to turn loose
they may stay all the summer.
There is no telling what such
simpletons, so reckless of con
sequences, mignt do if thev got
at it again at the public expense
It will not do to trust them. The
law is execrable and to be great
ly deplored, but an extra session
would be positively unbearable
and loaded with danger.
The law enacted by the Fred
Douglas combination of incompe
tents is well nigh as bad as can
be. It is called a bill "to regi
late assignments." A. iar more
opposite name would be, a bill to
paralize trade, stop the lending
of money and bring disaster, dis
may and trouble upon the mer
chants ana iarmers. mere is
scarcely any kind of business
that will not feel the weight of
the most foolish and crushing
enactment. The small farmers
will particularly feel the bad ef
fects for they will find to their
great sorrow that their credit is
jeopardized and that neither
money nor supplies can be ob
tained under sucn a law. it is
believed that building and loan
associations will be seriously
crippled and that business gen
erally will be impaired, and at c
time of very peculiar stringency
and contradiction oE trade.
Who will lend money to any
one on a mortgage of property
with such a law to vitiate the
protection, perhaps to render it
null and void? It is not surpris
ing that upon its discovery that
lawyers and business men at Ra
leigh had but one theme for talk.
It is stated as a fact that the
merchants declined to serve the
farmers who came to Raleigt
upon the old terms of accomoda
tion. Mortgages and liens had,
in the language of the boys,
"played out," were "no go."
With such a law to rob the con
fiding and shelter rascals and
embarrass trade, it will be im
possible to carry on business in
the old kind way. The law wi'l
do more to North Carolina, bring
more distress to the farmers
and others, and create more dis
appointment, vexation and
trouble than all the unwise, stu
pid blundering legislation of the
Radicals co nbineu.
VWhat is the remedy? Unless
the extra session is called the
law must remain and be enforced
with great hurt to the poorer
classes especially, and with in
jury to all classes and kinds of
business. But it will never do
to call the Radicals together un
less there is some very secure
way of limiting their legislation.
It is reported thatf the law will
be tested before the Supreme
court, in a case "carried up by
agreement to the present term.
It may be that this court will de
clare the law void.
"FUSION KEUEF.
As the Raleigh News and Ob
server says, when those farmers of
North Carolina who went ott with
the Populist movement, hoping
to get relief, wake up to find that
they have been robbed of what
credit they possessed, and learn
that the only method many of
them had to secure necessary
advances to enable them to plant
and cultivate their farms has
been taken from them without
a word of warning or a moment's
discussion, they will, no doubt,
fully realize" what the success of
the Fusion moyement meant in
North Carolina. And hereafter
they will probably be willing to
listen to both sides and refuse,
at the bidding of Marion Butler
and Qtho Wilson, who were
merely working to get into office,
to listen to a discussion of polit
ical questions.
The edict went out last summer
from Butler that they must not
attend Democratic speakings, nor
read Democratic papers. Demo
crats spoke, however, if only to
the winds, and now these winds
are echoing and re-echoing with
emphasis the warning they gave.
Butler knew that the people were
not all idiots, and he feared that
the sound logic of honest, able
conscentisus Democrats might
convince them of the error into
which they were falling and
hence this edict.
To get in was what Butler and
his gang wanted, and in an un
guarded moment the people voted
them in. But where is the relief
promised the people ?
Is railroading a bill through at
the bidding of foreign boards of
trade, stealing from the farmers
the credit they had, the prom
ised relief?
Is an Legislature that cost the
people $7,000 more than the for
mer Legislature any relief r
Is ah increase of 4 cent taxes
on 100 worth of property any
relief?
Is the voting of $125,000 more
out of the State Treasury - than
was appropriated two years ago.
relief?
Is the change from State to
county adoption, probably neces-
ltating the buying of new books
for the public schools in nearly
every county in the State any re
lief? Is the increase of offices for
party heelers any relief?
If so our Populist friends doubt
less have all the relief they want.
If a ten line enactment, unwise
and unwarranted, which blocks
trade, revolutionizes business,
disturbs all our commercial re
lations and destroys credit is re
lief, then Butler, and his fellow
office seekers have redeemed
their pledges. -
Butler got relief, great relief.
He got six years in the Senate,
at so,000 a year. Otho Wilson
got relief in the shape of a six
years' term as Railroad Commis
sioner, at 82,000 a year. These
two got $24,000 worth of relief,
but where does the relief for the
people come in?
In an increase of taxation and
a destruction of their credit.
Presiding Elder's Appointments.
Quarterly meetings for Newborn
District will be held as follows:
Morehead City, March 30-31.
Grifton circuit, at Gum Swamp,
April b-7.
Kinston, at night, April 7.
Goldsboro circuit, at Mt, Carmel,
April 13-14.
LaGrange circuit, at Beston, April
20-21.
St. John's, at night, April 21.'
Strait's circuit, at Banks, April 27-28.
" Beaufort, April 28.
Stf Paul's, May 4-5.
Jones circuit, at Shady Grove, May
11-12.
F. D. Swindell, P. E.
Senator J. J. Long died at
Whiteville, Columbus county,
last week. His wife ; died the
Sunday before, and his father-in-
law two weeks ago, all with
pneumonia. This disease has
attacked a good number of the
citizens of this section.
METHODISTS IN CONFERENCE.
An Invitation to the White House Creates
a Breeze,
Washington, D. C, March 29.
The Wesley an Female Institute
was to have been discussed at to
day's session of the Baltimore
Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, but
consideration was postponed till
to morrow. -i.
, Rev. S. G. Ferguson, of Fred
ericksburg, Va., conducted the
.opening devolional exercises.
A report in the nature of an
overture from the M. E. Church,
North, suggesting that the two
great branches of the Methodist
Episcopal Church joins hands
in temperance work, was received
and referred to the temperance
committee.
The overture suggested the
appointment of a committee of
seven by the Northern conting
ent to meet a similar committee
from the religious bodies in the
State of Maryland, and that these
committees shall issue a call for a
convention of the Christian peo
ple of the State in the interest
of the suppression of the liquor
traffic.
The report was signed by
Messrs. A. J. Gill, J. C. Nichol
son, R. M. Moore, J. F. Heisie,
T. P. Frost, W. G. Cassard and
G. C. Bacon.
Bishop Hurst, of the American
Uaiversity, was introduced and
made a short speech, assuring the
conference that it had the sym
pathy of the entire Northern
church.
Two ministers were introduced
into the order of the elders, name
ly, F. B. Ordick and T. B. Atkins.
The even tenor of the transac
tion of business was disturbed by
an unexpected incident.
The question had come up of
accepting an invitation to the
White House, the President hav
ing, through Secretary Thurber,
signified that it would be his pleas
ure to receive the members of
the conference, their wives and
daughters, at 1 o'clock to-morrow.
Rev. J. P. Hyde had made the
announcement and the conven
tion, was on the point of .voting
to acc&pft the invitation, when
Rev. John W. Tongue rose and
asked to be heard. He objected
to going to the White House to
pay their respects to the Presi
dent. Although he expressed
himself in clear and strong words
it did not appear that Mr. Tongue
had anything personal against
Mr. Cleveland, but he urged that
it would be no disrespect to the
President if the conference
should refuse to go to see him.
He reminded the audience that
consistency was a jewel, and that
when the conference met in
Washington in 1875 during Pre
sident Grant's administration the
only time before this the con
ference had met here, by a deli
berate vote they had refused to
go and pay their respects to
Gen. Grant.
Mr. Tongue paid an eloquent
tribute "as a Southern man to
the soil and the manner born,
speaking to Southern men, to
the . character of Gen. Grant,
whose magnanimity to our great
captain, Robert E. Lee, will
ever hold his name bright and
dear to the South." Bu if the
conference would not go to see
Gen. Grant why should it go to
see Mr. Cleveland? It might be
said circumstances altered cases,
but they never altered principles.
If the conference was so care
ful not to seem to go into politics
in 1875, why should it now be so
quick to depart from its chosen
path i
Almost before Mr. Tongue had
resumed his seat half a dozen
members were up and crying for
recognizition, and the entire con
ference was shouting "question."
Rev. R. c. Fersruson. ot Freder
icksburg, Va., shouted, "I was
in the Confederate army, but I
regret Brother Tongue s making
that speech." Mr. Hyde and
Mr. Armstrong both made
speeches vigorously criticising
JMr. Tongue's utterance.
The invitation was accepted
Dy a rising vote.
Dr. William Hotchkiss.
St. Louis. March 29. Dr. Wil
liam Hotchkiss, alleged to have
reacned the age of 140 years, died
suddenly yesterday at his home
nere oi nearc disease.
Deceased came to St. Louis
forty years &zo. and has alwavs
been known as the "Color don-
tor." In his peculiar practice of
medicine he termed his patients
memDers oi nis "circle." and
claimed to treat them by a mag
netic process. Dr. J. A. Buck-
says that his masonic record has
been traced back one hundred
years, showing conclusively that
he was at least 121 vears old.
A letter received from his old
home in Dinwiddie countv. Va.
over a year ago, says he was born
there in 1755 and lived there for
a number of years, finally drifting
yy est.
Advertise in the argus.
Silver and Cotton.
The silver monometallists are
mistaken when they think that
the farmers of this section can
be easily deceived. Their last
claim that cotton has gone up is
demagogy, of the rankest kind.
Why has the increase in the price
of silver had more effect on cot
ton than the increase in the price
of sotae other things?
During the past sixty days a
number of railroad stocks have
increased in value. The argu
ment would be equally good if it
were urged that the rise in the
value of railroad stocks had in
creased the value of cotton. As
both happened during the same
time, therefore the increase in
the value of railroad stocks was
what really caused the increase
in the value of cotton. For this
reason farmers, then, should
favor high freight rates and ex:
orbitant charges for transpor
tation generally so that railroad
stocks might lut-ther increase in
value with the expectation of a
similar increase in cotton.
The truth is that business is be
ginning to revive. Gold ship
ments have ceased as a result of
the effective effort to stop goli
exports by the Democratic admin
istration. General confidence is
rapidly returning. -Long before
next year's campaign this coun
try will be enjoying the result of
its usual prosperity, and the
howling of those who, upon the
pretext of favoring bimetallism
are really seeking to bring the
country to a single silver stand
ard, silver monometallism, will
not longer be able to check busi
ness and enterprise,
The improvement in the price
of cotton is due partly to specu--
ation and partly to the prospect
of a decrease in cotton acreage.
The silver theory will not work
as any explanation of the rise in
cotton,
The theory that cotton and sil
ver go up and down together is
contrary to both reason and ex
perience. Some months ago
Mr. Henry L. Nelson, published
an article showing that in the
course of the last thirty years
the prices of farm products and
silver have borne no relation to
each other and frequently have
moved in opposite directions. In
reference to cotton, Mr. Nelson
makes the following accurate
and interesting statement:
"A careful examination of the
facts surrounding the course cf
prices for cotton develops the
fact that from 1864, when cotton
was selling in New York for 80
cents in gold a pound, it fell
steadily from this high war level
until 1878, when the quantity
produced first exceeded the ante
bellum maximum, and the price
again reached the level of 1860;
just as we learn from this exam
ination that in l7d the prices of
cotton had, from the highest
pointer already fallen sixty-four
cents a pound, or 700 per cent
more than it has fallen since.
Was this fall of sixty -four cents
prior to 1873 due to other causes,
while the fall since 1873 is due
alone to the fall in the value of
silver.
From 1879 to 1890 the price
fluctuated between 9 1-2 and 13
cents, as the crop happened to
be abundant or meagre, and the
average of the twelve years was
yery close to the average of. the
twelve years ending with I860,
although after two very short
crops in 1856 and 1887 the price
rose in the latter months of 1857,
despite the acute money . crisis
tnen prevailing to lo 1-22 cents a
pound, or the highest price
known between lodb and lby4, it
we exclude the prices of the war
period, say from 1861 to 1865.
This fact and the other related
fact that from 1835 to 1838, dur
ing all the acute money crisis o
1837, the prices for wheat, corn,
cotton and oats were extremely
high, showing how little mone
tary conditions of the most pro
nounced character affect the price
of any article of prime necessity
when the supply is actually de
fective. In considering condi
tions affecting the price of cotton,
the period ending in 1878, when
prices resulted from the peculiar
conditions existing at the South
after the war, must be excluded.
Doing that, it is found that the
price has varied only as affected
by supply and demand, and often
moved m the direction opposite
to that taken by silver.
The crop of 1889 was the great
est ever grown till that time.
and aggregated nearly 7,300,000
bales, but the crop of 1890 ex
ceeded it by 1,200,000 bales, or
19 per cent; and this great crop
was immediately followed by one
oi y,uuu,uuu bales, or 25 percent,
in excess oi tne crop oi laoU
The crops of 1890 and 1891 aggre
gated 17,700,000 bales, as against
14,200,000 bales from the har
vests of 1888 and 1889; and after
the harvesting of the two great
er crops the price fell more than
25 per cent. Is this price fall of
one-fourth due to a fall of 10 per
cent in the price for an ounce of
silver, or is it due to an increase
of 24. 5 per cent in the supply,
while the requirements increased
no more than 6 or 8 per cent at the
most.'' If a fall of 10 per cent in
the price of silver caused the
price of cotton to decline more
than 25 per cent, then the sub
sequent fall of 30 per cent in the
price lor silver should have ob
literated the last vestige of cotton
values.
WHAT THE SOUTH HAS DOJJE.
The Telegraph, of Worcester,
Mass., in discussing the South,
says:
"The movement of the North
ern agriculturists toward the
South is a most encouraging
sign. Certain sections of the
South are much more promising:
for the agriculturalist than the
West. If the Northern Agricul
turalist" can retain his energy and
vigor in the Southern climate or
a percentage of it, sections that
are now but little better Uian a
barren waste through lack of in
telligent cultivation should be
made to blossom like the rose.
The agriculturists of the South
are in the main an ignorant,
shiftless set, too poor to buy im
plements for the proper cultiva
tion of a soil that needs but lit
tle tilling in comparison ;o that
of New England."
The question of Southern cli
mate has been so completely cov
ered that any discussion on that
point of the Telegram 's article is
a waste of time. ' If the Telegram
will study the United States cen
sus returns, and then if its edi
tor will haye the good sense to
spend a summer in the South, he
will never raise that question
again.
The South had 83, 182, 000, 000
invested in farm interests in 1890.
and the total productions were
8773,000,000, or a gross revenue
of 24,1 per cent, on the capital.
All other sections combined had
812,797,000,000 in farm opera
tions, and the product was SI,-
687,000,000, or 13. 1 per cent,
gross revenue, only a fraction
more than one-half as much in
percentage of production as the
South's. Thus, with only one
fourth as much capital invested
in agriculture, the South had
nearly one-half as much aggre
gate products. Somehow the
"ignorant, shiftless" farmers
seem to have held up their end
pretty well as compared with
the "energy and vigor of the
Northern agriculturist."
It is impossible to get at the
net profits, but the foregoing
figures show how far ahead the
South is in the crross product.
based on the capital invested.
They show that for every dollar
received by Northern farmers on
the capital invested, Southern
farmers received nearly 82. But
this is not the only strong point
of the case. The intensely cold
winters of the North make out
door work impossible for sev
eral months every year; they add
largely to the cost of keepinglive
stock, and to family expenses for
fuel and heavy clothing.
The mild weather of the South
enable the farmer to work twelve
months in the year; it reduces
the cost of live-stock raising to
the minimum, as cattle can find
good grazing for a large part of
the year; it makes the fuel bill
for farmers an inconsiderable
item, and it obviates the neces
sity of heavy clothing and many
other expenses absolutely neces
sary in all cold countries. Thus
the Southern farmer's capital
not only yields to him 82 for
every dollar returned to the
Western farmer by its capital,
but added to this there is a differ
ence in the cost of living which
is so great that it must command
wide attention as it becomes
more fully understood.
The South only needs more in
dustrial centres, more and larger
cities, to stimulate a little wider
diversity of agriculture, and, by
creating a home market for ah
the products of farming, to insure
such agricultural progress even
by these so-called "ignorant,
shiftless" farmers as our New
England friends never dreamed
of.
His Whereabouts a Mystery.
Courtiand, N. Y., March 29
President Fitz Boynton, of the
Second National Bank, of Court-
land, who left home February 2,
and mailed his resignation to the
board of directors from Detroit,
Mich. , has not since been heard
ptrom and nis wnereaoouts are a
mystery.
At the time of writing his let
ter of resignation he wrote a let
ter to his family as well a com
munication which caused serious
doubt as to his sanity, and it is
thought that he is either wan
dering about the country in an
irresponsible condition or pos
sibly has already lost his life.
Mr. Boynton is a Knight Tem
plar and a member of the Mystic
Shrine, and is widely known
among Masons as well as in busi
ness circles.
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UNIVERSITY CENTENNIAL
1,000 Alumini to be Present on this
Grand Occasion.
The University of North Caro
lina will celebrate the centennial
of its opening on Wednesday,
June 5, 1895. In the morning
orations will be delivered by Hon.
A. M. Waddell, class of 1854,
on the "Ante-bellum Univers
ity." and A. H. Eller, Esq., class
of 1885, on the "New University."
A banquet will be given at 2 p.
m., at which the Alumini will sit
together by classes, and various
toasts will receive suitable re
sponses. At night, in Memorial Hall,
will be held a grand reunion of
all the classes. The roll will be
called, and each class will re
spond by marching upon the
rostrum. Such classes as desire
will have ten minutes alotted for
special programmes.
It is expected that fully 1,00)
Alumni will be present at this,
the culminating festival in the
ife of the University. Let every
living alumnus immediately send
his name and address to Presi
dent Winston, Chapel Hill, N. C,
and signify his purpose to at
tend. Public Roads in Wayne County.
There is nothing of more im
portance to our people than goo d
public roads; and few things that
receive so little attention. Good
roads make us live nearer to
market. What a saving of horse
power and vehicles as well as
the comfort of riding on a level
road. But to the point; the Board
of County Commissioners, two
years ago started out with a plan
and have tried to push it, that
would have been a great bless
ing to Wayne county if it had
met with more encouragement
from the masses of the people.
The object lesson was to com
mence at the County seat work
all roads for a radius of 4 miles,
then extend each of these roads
to the county line until all lead
ing roads in the county were
widened, graded and placed in a
condition to be kept well drained.
It was intended that all section
road forces would not only con
tinue to work their roads but
would after the roads were well
worked keep them in good con
dition. In this we have been
mistaken. Instead of working
in conjunction with us, when we
placed a road in nice order, they
seemed to think the plan was to
keep it up by convict labor, con
sequently when the roads needed
attention again, thosewhose place
it was to work called on the com-
missiones to have the work done.
Appeals come from any quarters
that "our roads need work." Now
the object of this article is just
this: unless the supervisors and
road overseers stand by us, it
will be absolutely necessary to
abandon the matter altogether
and ask the Judges of our Su
perior courts to sentence no
more convicts to work the public
roads. Much good and perma
nent work has been done, but
the misconception of the work
has been done, has caused
harm to the system of public
road work in Wayne county.
Without a marked change in
this sentiment, it will be unwise
to continue longer on this line of
operation.
J. E. Peterson.
LIST OF LETTERS.
Remaining in Poat Office at Golds
boro Wayne county, N. C
Mar. SO, 1895.
LADIES
A Miss Lue Arders.
B Miss Lizzie Burke.
D Mrs. Hannah" Daniels.
E Mrs. Victoria Edgers.
F Mrs. Jane Farmer.
H Miss Ellen Harper.
I Miss Kate Isler.
M Miss Effie Mans.
men's
A Mr. Nathan Atkinson.
B Mr. Wm. H. Bodeker, Mr,
Geo. Brant, Mr. Charley
Burnett.
C Mr. J. E. Crocker.
E J. A. Edwards.
F Dr. Nrank V. Fowlks.
G W. B. Grimsley.
H Mr. Henry Holland.
Persons calling for above letters will
please say advertised and erive date of
same. The regulations require that one
cent shall be paid on all advertised
etters.
J. W. Bryan, P. M
Is it a Bed of Silver.
.Central City, W. Va.. Mar
29. In Wavne count, v n.
White's creek, twenty miles south
ft iV 1 j 1 1 . .
ox uiis ciiy, a suae in tne moun
tain near the bed of t,h. rmilr
has exposed large quantities of
snining meiai, supposed to be sil
ver.
Much excitement prevails
throughout -this section, owing
to the discovery. It is on lands
owned bv one Hurston "Rnnt.h
who now has guards watching
HARDWARE
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SPRGIAL
Attention Is Called to
a sweeping reduction in prices of guns
to close out stock. It will pay you to
call and examine same.
Double Breech Loading Guns S9. 11.50,
15 and 18. previous prices $12.50,
15, 18 and 22.
Single Breech loading Guns $7, previ
ous price $10.
Muzzle Leading Guns $8 und isf 0, pre
vious price $10 and 12.50.
Large stock of
SUMMER OIL STOVES;
with baking ovens and cast iron exten
sion tops. See display in my front
windows. Just received a new stock of
those celebrated Kelly Axes, made by
the latest improved process, tempered
and forged by natural gas, the best axe
on the continent. Complete line of
Farm Supplies,
Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, House
Furnishing Goods, Sash, Doors, Blin.ls,
Paints, etc., at bottom prices. I am
offering for the next th
buyers who purchase $25 worth of goods
a bono ume, a nanasome nickel stem
winding and settinc natch fr-oa r
charge. Your patronage is respoct-
tully solicited.
W.fi.riuooins
Next to Bank of "Wayne.
M. E. Robinson & Bro
TIED UP IN HIS BUSINESS. (1352A)
Whether tied to business or society
you need a tonic with Spring.
opring is tne time to put a little spring
into your limbs, to give elasticity to
your life, and gain new energy. To ac
complish tiiese desirable objects, noth
ing surpasses Robinson's Sarsaparilla.
Try a bottle and you 11 leel like a new
creature. Price 75 cents.
Medicines for all the sick. ' Toilet
Requisites of Sterling- quality, at the
people's popular prices.
M. E- Robinson & Bro
West Centre St.
GOLDSBORO, N C
Fresh Kisli.
We have arranged to sell all kinds of
fresh fish, oysters and clams in Golds
boro, and orders for regular delivery
given to our Mr. C. E. HasUitt will
hve prompt attention.
D. BELL & CO.,
Morehead City, N. C.
Mch ii-lyr.
SAVE - MONEY
By buying your Butter. Hams,
Lard, Flour, Rice, Hominy,
Sugar and Coffee at the cheap
cash store of
B. M. PRIVETT.
PULL "LARRY"
YOU'VE GOT A BITE!
Fishing Tackle
AND SPORTING GOODS.
Now is the tinpe to fish and if you
want anything to fish with come to see
me. I have just received a big lot of
ines, &c.
C. F, Griffin,
Cor. Hotel Kennon.
DR. FRANK BOYETTE,
Dental Surgeon,
Office in New Borden Building, over
Bizzell Bros. & Co's dry goods
store, offers his profes-
sional service.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
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