'S S'P w P5 o H m C5 P PS ft CO P3 W i-3 i-5 c3 D 61) c3 .M O S3 &. p o o o O i i i i a g Ml HI : I y I I 1 Ml E5 ct- K E3 o5 W Ed cj Q co H O S3 w o o t I S3 a GO K-3 Eh o , ' . I ' This Argtjs o'er tho people's rights, No soothing' strains of Maia's sun, Doth an eternal vigil keep Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep" VOL. XVII. GOUDSBORO, K. C THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1895, NO. 1. 4 RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS THOSE OF OHIO TO IEAD OFF WITH, The People Have Not Yet Turned Again to the Democracy, Though they "Were Democratic Victories. Columbus, O., April 2. The result ot the election in Ohio cities yesterday show the tide has not yet turned in favor of the Democrats. Of the larger citjes only Columbus was carried by them, though the count may yet show that Major, Republican, has been defeated for mayor of Toledo. Two of the three Re publican newspapers tbeva-were opposing him, however, and his defeat could hardly be claimed as a triumph of the Democrats. Blee, the Democratic mayor of Cleveland, who is defeated for re-election by McKisson. Repub lican, by 6,000 plurality, is one of Senator Brice's lieutenants in northern Ohio, and it may be in some degree said to be a rebuke forBrice.Ex Governor Campbell and Congressman Sorg, alone among Ohio Democrats, can claim some election honors. Campbell's town, Hamiltion, elected the whole Democratic ticket by about 1,000 plurality, and Sorg's town, Middleton, which is strongly Republican, elected S. Stanzy, Democrat, mayoi' by over 100 plurality. In this city the question was not a political one. Both the Demo cratic and Republican candidates for mayor were believed to favor the opening of saloons at night and on Sunday. The law and order element placed D. E. Williams, a Demo crat, in nomination, pledged to enforce the closing ordinances. Williams drew nearly his entire support from the Republicans, and the Democrats, supporting their candidate, C. H. Allen, solid ly, elected him by nearly 2,000. Detroit, Mich., April 2. The latest returns from the State do not show much change from last night. It is probable that Judge J. P. Moore, Republican, for Justice of the Supreme Court, has carried the State by 35,000 plurality, over Justice McGratch, Democrat. The two Republican candidates for re gents of the University, R. W. Butterfield and Chas. H. Hack ley, have run slightly ahead of Moore. ' The Republican State ticket has probably carried every county in the State. In the local elections the Republicans have carried a large majority of the towns and cities. St. Louis, April 2. Repub lican victory assured. Demo crats at 3. p. m. claimed but one of six councilmen and one of 28 delegates. Chicago, April 2. The entire Republican ticket, with the ex ception of a few isolated alder men, was elected here to-day. George B. Swift's plurality for mayor was 45,000. This is taken from incomplete police returns. At 10 o'clock to-night 810 pre cincts out of 920 registered Swift 129,764 votes; Wenter, Democrat, 90,591, and Homes, Populist, 9, 876. The council will stand over whelmingly Republican. "Hinky Dinck" McKenna, Democrat, was defeated by the Republicans for alderman in the first ward, a Democratic stronghold, by 400 votes. In the nineteenth ward, ex-Congressman Frank Lawler, independent Democratic can didate for alderman, appears to have the whip hand. Alderman McGillen, Mayor Hopkins' right bower, is behind in the twenty- first ward, and the only Demo cratic survivors of the alderman ic cyclone from the present out look are Stuckart, of the sixth, and Bennett, of the eighth. rime hundred out or yzu pre- cmcts give Swift, Republican, for mayor, 139,211; Wenter, Dem ocrat, 99,162. St. Louis, Mo., April 2. To day's municipal election turned all the city offices but two over to the Republicans. Democrats are stupefied and Republicans are jubilant. Of the 28 members of the House of Delegates chosen two Democrats were elected, the remainder being Republicans Six Republicans at large were elected to the city council, which will now be unanimously Repub lican, as seven Republicans are the hold-over members. The av erage Republican- majority in total vote of 53,000 is 12,000. , SI e'by Aurora: In Duncan's Creek township Rutherford county a rapid dog attacked lacerated dragged about the yard and fearfully man gled little girl, the daughter of Ju lius Gettys, at the latter's home. while the parents were in the field at work. The child's face is torn al most beyond recognition, one eye and lower lip gone, its nose half destroyed and the dog dragged the helpless child many yards over the yard, and biting a hole in its left Bide nearly disemboweled the girl. The child is under surgical treatment and is at death's door. The surgeon thinks there is no chance tor its recovery from the injuries inflicted by a rabid dog, when tlere was . no one near to succor. Advertise in the argus. Steam and Electricity. Many sicentific men confident ly predict that this generation will see the almost universal sub stitution of electricity for steam as a motive power for railroads. The experiments with electric motors now being made on one of its branch lines by the usually conservaiive New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company are watched with great interest by railroad authorities. Recently the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to susbtitute electricity for steam on its line between Burlington and Mt. Holly, N. J., and sever al other great trunk lines are preparing to experiment in this line. The short time which has been required for a general sub stitution of electricity for horse power and dummies on street railways and the constant im provement in electric motors give rise to great confidence in the rise of electric propelling power on a larger scale. Only two or three years ago it was be lieved that a saving in fuel was the only advantage that electric ity had over steam, but recent inventions in the electric ap pliances have brought into con sideration other important ad vantages. A practical engineer sets forth some of them as fol lows. "First, the cost of repairs is ess with electric motors than with steam locomotives, because the mechanism is far more sim ple. There are not so many mov- ng parts, and these are not so much exposed to the action of mud, sand, water, etc. Three or four years ago, however, the cost of repairs in electrie service was a formidable item. Second, more miles are run per day, or more hours of service are obtain ed per day, with electric motors than with steam locomotives, so that the cost of labor per mile is less with the former, and the amount of work done with a given sum invested is larger. When electric motors of larger size and for higher speed than those now used are made, to take the place of locomotives, they w run about the same num hours as the motors now muse; but will cover continuously from two and a half to three times the distance now covered by loco motives. The locomotives must be run into the round house and thoroughly examined and cleaned up more frequently. Third, the electric motors used to move a train can be placed under one of the cars. The weight of the train is thus reduced and less power is required for the mov- j of it. It would not be neces sary to make this motor car as heavy as a steam locomotiue." The probability is that we will soon have electricity doing near ly all the locomotive work we now get out of steam. Then we will want to fly. The North Carolina Kind. Newark, N. J., April 3. Greater consideration could not have been created among the Republican leaders of Newark than was caused by the discov ery that the Voorhees supple ment to the election laws had al ready gone into effect and would affect the Spring election. Tak ing effect now, it wipes out the county board of registry and elections, and possibly the dis trict election officers, takes away from the Court and Common Pleas the power of revising the registry lists for the approach ing election, makes possibly null and void the registration of yes terday, and may throw doubt on the election ot next Tuesday. That was discovered yesterday. The Voorhees bill sigaed by the Governor, became a law on Monday. The clause providing that it takes effect immediately was an amendment. It escaped i vigilance ot the Essex coun ty memoers, ail or whom were under the impression that it did not become operative until July and who watched its progress through the Senate and Assemb ly. A conference was held yes terday upon the bill by Judges Depue, Childs and Kirkpatrick They scrutinized it to learn whether the Court of Common Pleas was authorized to revise the registry lists. Their con cmsion was tnat under the new law the court had no such au thority for revision. -Rhode Island Democrats Defeated Providence, R. I., April 3. The Democrats of the State were simply snowed under to-day. The returns indicate a general falling off in the Democratic vote of about 40 per cent. The vote was exceedingly light, but Lippitt, Republican, for Governor, is elected by a largely increased majority. The entire Republican State ticket is elected. The Democrats will return at least their present representation of five in the Legislature. In two or three towns there was some in terest owing to contests on loca! m t issues, out apatny was shown in most instances. AT THE STATE CAPITAI.. The News of a Day as Bearing Upon Mat ters of Interest to the State at Large: The Mortgage Lav And the Six per Cent Interest Bill. Argus Bureau, ) Raleigh. April 6, 1895. f The decision of the Supreme Court in regard to the mortgage law has greatly relieved business here. Judges Avery and Clark, as I telegraphed you, dissented on the ground that there was no properly constituted case before the court. It is a significant fact that the three newly elected Jus tices overruled the two old ones. The impression is growing, however, that the Supreme Court will eventually decide that there is no real law, as the bill's passage has been conclusively proven to be a fraud. The News and Ob server this morning prints a letter from Attorney-General Osborne to Governor Carr in which he gives it as his opinion that the Governor can start an action against the bill as a private citi zen but not as the State's Execu tive officer. Another seizure was reported to Collector .Simmons to-day by Collectors Smith and Davis who cut up an 80 gallon still in Su tu rn erfield, Guilford county, be longing to P. H. Harris and S. G. Cole. Both the owners es caped the deputy. The agent of the philanthropic spring company, of which I wrote you some days ago, has turned up here again, after a visit throagh Eastern North Car olina and is again victimizing ne groes. His name is Trent and he is himself a negro, though no one would so think from seeing him. The colored people are biting at his glowing promises right along. One old colored man, he told that if he would in vest $10, he guaranteed that he would realize 40 from it within a year. The president of the company is an old negro, named Coleman, who is also here. Yesterday afternoon the A. & M. College baseball team defeat ed theiB-nity nine by a score The game was an ediocre one. For the result of the last two Lafayette University games which were played at Chapel Hill, were not published. afayette won the first, 4 to 3 and the University, the second, 6 to 3. At the Agricultural Depart ment to-day I met Messrs. Jones aad Foster, extensive growers of hops in the hop region of New York State. They are turning their attention to North Carolina as a hop growing region and are now here to make experiments in hop growing in this State. They will try all three regions of the State, Eastern, Piedmont and Western and in the section that gives the greatest satisfac tion will purchase large tracts of ana of which hop fields will be made. George Mills, the murderer, is in jail under sentence of death, but out in the city a committee is going the rounds getting names signed to an application for his death sentence to be com- mutted. And the people are signing ngnt along, xnis sign ing of applications for pardon is curious thing. The Seaboard Air Line has made a still greater cut in rates The system has issued a circular and is widely distributing it here. It is headed "Boy Cot rates." Under this is a youngster with a placard on which is print ed the "cut" rates. The Fusionists here are still crying out that the Democrts had a hand in the assignment bill but this wont go. Clerks Brown and Sattufield are keeping in mighty close corners, it seems. They are also roundly abusing Gov ernor Carr for refusing to call an extra session. Many farmers came in to-day andsome succeed ed in getting "crapping .mort gages. The late legislature "played the mischief" . with National banks. The six per cent law and the assignment law will militate awfully against them. State banks may Iviolate the law. but National bank officers are sworn othcers or the law and cannot violate it without perjuring them selves. - . . " Asheyille Citizen: George S. Pow ell has received inquiries as to the climate, value of land, etc., in Wes tern North Carolina from a gentle man at. Howard Lake, Minn., repre senting a number of Minnesota fam ilies whc desire to find homes in this section. They have had all they want of Minnesota, and having heard of Western North Carolina, placed themselves in communication with Mr. Jrowell, who wilt answer them fully and endeavor to bring them here as permanent residents. Rockingham Index; Another cot ton mill for Rockingham. How many towns in the State can boast rofsix large mills such as we have? And we don't intend to allow this number to remain as low as six much longer. - "Governor" Pearson's Display of Demagoguery. Raleigh. News & Observer. The self-appointed wet-nurse of the Fusion party, Mr. Rich mond Pearson, who convened a special session of the Bosses to try to pull the party out of the hole into which they have fallen, by ignorance or corrupi-ion, yes terday sent the following tele gram to the Charlotte Observer: "Raleigh, April 2. Proof is complete and conclusive that the act to regulate assignments is fraudulent and spurious. . The original bill, identical with the one published as a law, has just been found among the defeated bills in the old State library, marked 'Tabled March 12th.' The Senate records show that the bill was never before that body in any shape at any stage. "Threatened injury to the busi ness of the State will undoubted ly be averted by judicial or legis lative action. Honest business men appreciate the position of your paper in declining to join in a partisan cry to excite ground less fears and prejudice about a measure that was drawn by a Democrat, introduced by a Demo crat, defeated by Republicans and Populists and authenticated by a monstrous fraud perpetrated upon the presiding officers of both houses of the General As sembly. "Richmond Pearson." The Observer contains two edi torials which show that it is too smart to let Mr. Pearson's show of generosity impose upon it. We quote: "We fear that Mr. Pearson in his generocity gives this paper credit, in its treatment in this matter to which it is not entitled. We must avow that we have given a decided partisan turn to several of our discussions of it. It is, however, that we have sought to allay any unnecessary alarm about it and to put the best face possible on what is at best a grave situation. The op eration of the law is causing much temporary inconvenience and loss. We do not believe that the full force of its language will be left to apply after the courts have construed it; but if it is. there is yet another remedy which may be resorted to if the worst should come to the worst." Again it says: "The telegraphic story of the above referred to transaction, as sent by our Raleigh correspond - ent last night, puts an entirely different face upon the story told by Mr. Pearson. It appears that the bill found yesterday was the original bill and not at all the bill which is now a law. The original bill contained the very material exceptions embraced in the twenty words after the words 'existing creditors, the substi tute does not. "The fusionists' efforts to help themselves about this matter have availed nothing thus far, but seem only to get them deeper in the bag. There is no Demo cratic responsibility in the mat ter whatever. There never was a telegram so characteristic of a demagogue as Mr. Pearson's. He seeks, by a transparent juggling with words, to throw responsibility upon Democrats for the "injury to the business of the State," when he well knows that the bill "drawn by a Democrat" and "introduc ed by a Democrat" was amended by Populist Hileman's finance committe in such a way as to cut out the provisions to permit mortgages for cash and farm supplies. Mr. Pearson knows that if Mr. Smith's bill had been forged through, without Hile man's amendment, it would have worked no such injury as the bill that his crowd forsred through. With the lowest sort of par tisan demogoguery fresh on his pen, he criticizes honest men by accusing them of making "a par tisan cry to excite groundless fears and prejudice." Who has done this? The Democratic news papers have merely printed the infamous bill, which was forged throught by "Reform" - officers or their assistants, and voiced some of the clamor of an out raged people against it. It turns out that the bad bill, as amended m Populist Hileman's commit tee, was tabled on motion of a Democrat. This does not excuse Hileman, and it is shown that Chief Clerk Satterfield was noti fiedby Smith, of Stanly, that the bill had been tabled while the said Satterfield was on his way to have the tabled bill enrolled. If Mr. Pearson would decline to "join in a partisan cry," and devote himself to fixing the re sponsibility upon the guilty party he 4 would be more worthily em ployed. It has been placed at the aoor of Mr. Satterfield (Re publican), or Mr. Brown (Popu list;, or one oi their subordinates. Mr. Pearson would do well to as certain which one of these "Re form" clerks committed the for gery, and whether he received $500 from certain business houses n Baltimore as has been alleged. THE NEW ASSIGNMENT LAW. The Supreme Court Decides That it Does Not Apply to Mortgages Given to Se cure a Present Debt. Special Telegram to The Argus. Raleigh, N. C, April5. The Superior court has handed down an opinion in the test case from Durham in regard to the assignment law, deciding that the law does not apply to mort gages given to secure a present debt. Justice Montgomery handed down the opinion. Justices Avery and Clark dis sented, on the ground that there was no properly constituted case before the court. They argued that no opinion should be handed down. RAILWAY BUILDING THIS YEAR. One of the best evidences of restored confidence and reviving business is the assurance of large rairroad construction this year. Last year less than 2,000 miles of railway were built in the United States. This was the lowest record for more than twenty years. The Railway Age, a reliable au-J thority, says that 20,54 miles of new railway are under con struction or in a condition where the actual track laying will be begun in the early future. In this estimate the Railway Age has carefully excluded all old enterprises for building rail roads which are still striving to obtain the means for beginning construction and all "paper rail way" schemes. It declares that its figures include only enter prises which have good finan cial tacking and practical direc tion. In this view of the n.atter the showing is indeed remark able. The railroads on which work has actually begun or will begin very soon represent new lines and extensions in forty-six states and territories. No less than thirty-one such enterprises are on foot in Texas alone and represent 2,913- miles. A great part of this represents the great line which is being built to compete with the South ern Pacific monoply in that State. Arkansas has twenty-oe new lines representing a total mileage of 1,377, and Pennsyl vania the same number with an assured new mileage of 768 miles. Wisconsin has planned to build 964 miles of new road on eleven lines. South Dakota has under construction and in pros pect 834 miles, Georgia 760, Florida 775, South Carolina 313, Ohio 438, New York 393 and Min nesota 522. A number of trolley lines are being constructed in Connecticut which wTill virtually do the work of railroads and such lines are also being constructed in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ver mont, New Jersey and North Da kota. One order recently re ceived from California by an Eastern steel mill calls for 12.000 tons of steel rails to be delivered as soon as possible. Goldsboro's Diogenes. The Raleigh Neivs & Observer of yesterday says: About the middle of the ses sion of the Legislature, Dock Holland, the Diogenes, of Golds boro, said that there had been no such gathering as the Legis lature since Herod called his cabinet together to outlaw Moses. He said that, too, before he had learned of the rascality and in competence of ihe clerks, and before bill stealing and forging became a common occurrence-in the Douglas Legislature. What comparison this philospher would make in the light of subse quent events; we cannot imagine Is there any worse comparison to make? The Argus is personally in formed by Dock that he is suf ficiently disgusted with the Fus ion Legislature. He says he has made a formal tender of the "Third party" contingent thereof to Capt. J. E. Peterson, chair man of the Board of County Com missioners, with the request that he hire them out, or put them to work on the public roads any thing to get rid of them. Rutherfordton Democrat Sunday niffht DeDutv Collector W. W. Krider, with United States Deputy Marshall Barney Butler and Beverai assistants, made a raid into Polk county and found and destroyed three stills with a big lot of beer and singlings. Raleigh - News & Observer:. At the ball game yesterday was observed Rey. J. N, Cole, who, in jeara gone, was the leihanded pitcher of the Nut-Bush Scrubs. The popular J&aenton btreet parson was flanked by Justice Avery, of the Supreme Court, who, before the war, was a fa mous player on the Mountain Tigers, me great Uat-ball club. STRIKING AT THE ROOT. Governor Inquires "Whether Fraud AViU Vitiate the Mortgage Law. Governor Carr has struck at the root of the matter in the fol lowing letter which he addressed to the Attorney-General: State op North Carolina, ) Executive Department, V Raleigh, April 4, '96. j Hon. F. I. Osborne, Attorney-General, Raleigh, N. C. : . Sir I wish you to investigate the question whether a proceed ing cannot be instituted by you in behalf of the State, against the Secretary of State as a nomi nal defendant to restrain him from furnishing for 'publication the Act known as "An Act to regulate assignments and other conveyances of like nature in North Carolina," until it could be determined whether it passed ed the Legislature and whether its enrollment was procured by fraud and forgery. It has been suggested to me that you, as the Attorney-General, might institute a proceeding to go behind the ratification by alleging fraud and establishing the fact before the Court that none of the acts essential to its validity, as a law, were in fact, performed, except the enroll ment and ratification. In Scarborough vs. Robinson the want of ratification was de clared a fatal defect. Why should not the more important matter of failing to pass a bill through either House be sufficient to show its want of validity? No matter how the courts may construe the law, it should not be enforced under any conceivable construc tion, if it is not in fact the law, but has been forced upon the people by fraud and forgery. In order to satisfy the public of the readiness of the Executive Department to promptly lend its aid in relieving them from the consequences of this and other iniquitous legislation, that ought to be inquired into, I request you to give me an answer to-day. Very respectfully yours, Elias Carr, Governor. An Old Lie Revamped. The Caucasian reprints and en larges upon the long-ago explod ed lie that Frederick Douglass and his white wife were inyited specially to the wedding of Mr. Cleveland, and that the miscege- nationist and his wife were pres ent at that event. No other evidence of the Cau casian s utter disregard ot the truth is wanting. It knows that its statement is foully false. This lie is revamped and republished now m the hope that the people can be made to believe that Cleveland worshipped Fred. Douglass as ardently as the late North Carolina House of Repre sentatives. If Cleveland had worshipped at the sbrine of Douglass, would that j usury the North Carolina Legislature? Un less the Caucasian hopes to de fend its crowd by quoting Cleve land's so-called example as worthy of emulation, for what purpose is this base lie again brought before the public i Ra leigh News and Observer. If you desire a first class family newspaper subscribe to The ar- gus Daily o, weekly fcl per year. COITKT CALENDAR. April Term 1895. There vtill a Superior Court begun and held for the county of Wayne, at the Court House in Goldsboro on the 15th dav of April, 1 89o, for the trial of Civil and Criminal actions. The fol lowing is the Civil calendar: WEDNESDAY, APRIL. 17TH. No, 28, H J Ham vs The R & D 11 R Co. " 30. Hanover Nat'l Bank vs K f Howell et al. " 31. Bennett Hooks vs C B Capps. " 34. Goldsboro Storage Warehouse Co vs B Ij Duke et al. " 51. Tregellos, Hertol & Co vs Geo M Lindsey. u 55. Harper Best vs Nan Best THURSDAY, APRIL 18TH. No. 39. Bobt Merritt vs K & UUK Uo. ' 43. ET J Ham vs M i Baker. ' 46. W A Deans vs Sallie Pate. ' 50. A C Davis vs Emanuel Jarman. MOTION DOCKET. No. 9. Abraham Uzzeii et aivs i w Uzzell and wife. "15. IP Hill et als vs Pioneer Lum ber Co. " 19. J T Edmundson vs R W Ed- mundson et al, " 26. B F Aycock et als vs Elizabeth Newcome. ' 29. J R Crawford vs James Willie w et al. 33. L D Gulley vs R G Hitt, 37. Mtthew Daniel vs Wm Dan iel, Exr. 45. Bank of Wayne vs B F Mur nhrev et als. " 48. Bank of Wayne vs Ellen W Moore. " 49, Ellington & Guy vs O R Rand, Jr., et al. v Witnesses will not be allowed to charge until the day the case in which they are called is set for trial. Tf a case shall not be reached the day it is set for trial it-will retain its place among the cases set, and be tried when reached. C. F. HERRING, C. S. C. Goldsboro, April 5, 1895. Barbers Wanted oVrn -Rwst. nlacs Viftrhfirs wanted. Com mission 60 cants on the dollar. Steady emplovmeBt. Address V A. D. WARD, Goldsboro, N. C. THE MORTGAGE ACT. The Attorney General's Reply to the Gov ernor as to an Action of Inquiry into the Validity of the Act: Raleigh, April 5. The Su preme court to-day hands down its opinion in the Assignment act. The court holds that the act is limited to conditional sales, as signments, mortgages and deeds in trust made to secure pre-existing debts and obligations, and that mortgages of the nature of the one before the court, grow ing ou. of the transaction itself and executed for a present con sideration, do not come within the operation of the act. The act was not intended to embrace transactions where the debt grows out of the transac tion itself and is for present con sideration. Attorney-General Osborne to night makes the following reply to Governor Carr's letter: "Dear Sir Your letter of yesterday was received this morning. In it you request me to investigate the question whether proceeding cannot be instituted in behalf of the State against the Secretary of State as a nominal defendant to restrain him from furnishing for publica tion the act known as 'An Act to Regulate Assignments and other Conveyances of Like Nature' in North Carolina until it could be determined whether it passed the Legislature, and whether its enrollment was procured by fraud or forgery. "In compliance with the re quest of Your Excellency I have investigated the question, as far as I could within the limited time suggested in your letter, and have reached the conclusion that no such proceeding as the one mentioned by you can be maintained. "After a thorough search I can find no authority in our State or elsewhere to sustain it, and I cannot see how the State as a person distinguished from its citizens are interested in the question. "As you are aware, the action, if brought, would have to be brought in behalf of the State with you as the relator of the plaintiff and me as counsel. There is, in my opinion, nothing in the official duties of either of us which requires us to bring proceedings in any court to nul lify an act of the Legislature whether legallyupassed or not. "But I do find authority in our own State for a proceeding of another character which may ef fect the desired purpose and af ford a remedy to our people against the infamous outrage that has been perpetrated upon them. I think any citizen, in be half of all others, may bring the action you suggest. Such a pro ceeding in the nature of a man damus has been allowed in our courts in the case of Scarborough vs. Robinson, 81 North Carolina, page 409. Perry vs. Whitaker, 1 North Carolina, page 6ro is somewhat analogous. "Besides, I find authority in other States to the same elfect. Among others, State vs. Cun ningham, 83 Wisconsin, page 90, (35 American State reports, page 27.) Wise vs. Bigger, 79 Vir ginia, page 2o9. "There is nothing to prevent Your Excellency as a citizen, in behalf of all other citizens, from bringing this action, and if you will permit me to go behind du ties as your legal advisor I take this opportunity to say that you as our most prominent citizen are the proper person to do so. "If Your Excellency should de cide upon the course recom mended the whole matter will come before the courts for de cision, and I, therefore, express no opinion upon their right or power to go behind the ratifica tion of an act ot the Liegisiature and inquire whether or not the requirements of the Constitution were observed in its passage, but confine myself to .the ques tion asked as to the method of procedure. Yours respectrully. F. I. Osborne. Att'y-General." AN UNANSWERABLE ARGUMKNT. Boston Journal of Commerce, The fact of the location by the Massachusetts Cotton Mills of Lowell, Mass., of a large mill plant at Rome, Ga., carries con clusive evidence of the advant ages the South offers for cotton manufacturing. It will outweigh many times over the lengthy report oi a legislative junketing committee, composed of men entirely ignor ant of manufacturing, and whose principal business consisted in being entertained at clubs. The managers of the Massa chusetts Mills are men who have spent their entire life in manu facturing, and would not spend a half amillion dollars in building a mill at the South unless there was an undisputed chance to make it a paying investment. HARDWARE o SPECIAL Attention Is Galled 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 $9. 11.50, 15 and 18, previous prices $12.50, 15, 18 and 22. Single Breech Loading Guns $7, previ ous price $10. Muzzle Loading Guns $8 and 9.50, pre vious price $10 and 12.50. SUMMER OIL STOVES, with baking- ovens and ca&t 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 forg-ed by natural gas, the best axe on the continent. Complete line of Farm Supplies, Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, House Furnishing- Goods, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Paints, etc., at bottom prices. I am offering- for the next thirty days to cash buyers who purchase $25 worth of goods at one time, a handsomo nickel stem winding and setting watch free of charge. Your patronage is respect fully solicited. w.fi.fiuaains Next to Bank of Wayne. M. E. Robinson & Bro TIED UP IX HIS BUSINESS. (1352A Whether tied to business or society you need a tonic with Spring. Spring- is thu time n put -i ! ittlo spring into your limbs, to give elasticity to your life, and gain new energy. To ac complish these desirable objects, noth ing surpasses Robinson's Sarsaparilla. Try a bottle and you'll feel like a new creature. Price 7.3 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 B. M, PRIVETT, Grain, Provisions, Lime. &c GOL.DSL10UO. K. C. p ti at mmmm a vm to K EWlbut bh nmt and Bhaaohaada bttlad ro, A PULL "LARRY' YOU'VE GOT A BITE! Fishing Tackle AND SPORTING GOODS. ' Now is the tirre to fish and if vou 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. WHY do people complain of hard times, when any woman or man can make from $5 to $10 a day easily. All have heard of the wonderful success of the Climax Dish Washer; yefmany are apt, to think they can't make money selling it; but anyone can make money, because every family -wants one. One agent has made $478,36 in the last three months, after payjpg all expenses and attending to regular business besides. You don't have to canvass; as soon as people know you have it for sale they send for a Dish Washer. Address the Climax Mfg. Co., 45 Starr Ave., Colum bus, Ohio, tor particulars. t mar23-d eod 6m. I S J ' AHJLAMl"Hm5 W

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