COLDSBORO. N. C. APRIL 11, 1895,
Entered at the Post Office at Golds
boro, N. C as Second-Class Matter.
PUBLISHED BY
THE ARGUS PUBLISHING GO
Joseph E. Robinson, Editor, )
Walter A. Bonitz, Business Man'gr.
AS OLD FRAUD.
As the Atlanta Journal says:
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is
about the noisiest of the silver
tnonometallists. He represents
a State that has about 10,000
voters and has been losing popu
lation steadily for some years
Tviit Up. holds his seat in the
Senate absolutely by the gract
of the Nevada silver mine own
ers and, of course, does what
ever they want him to do.
Recently he wrote a letter to
TilY-flnnffressman Hendrix, of
Brooklyn, in which he denounces
furiously all who oppose the free
coinage of silver by the United
States without regard to other
nations or any conditions what
soever. Senator Stewart dwells
upon the "crime of 1873" by
which the silver dollar was
dronned from the list of our
A i
coins. If that was a crime
Stewart must bear a share of the
responsibility for it. He was
member of the Senate in 1873
and the act referred to was
passed without division. Stew
art, cannot nretend that he did
not know what was going on
This nleadinfir of the baby act
may excuse some other partici
pants in the "crime of 1873,'
but Stewart must have known
what was contemplated as he
made a speech on the currency
bill on January 27, 1883. Still
more convincing proof that Stew
art was cognizant of the effect o
the measure is furnished by the
fact that more than two years
before, viz: on January 10th,
1871, he voted for the proposi
tion which was adopted in 1873
and which he now characterizes
as a monstrous crime. "What
wicked old man Stewart must
have been then and what a gab
bling old fraud he is now !
A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER.
It has been many a year since
the death of any writer has
caused such ereneral regret and
provoked so many beautiful tri
butes as has that of Robert Louis
Stevenson,
Never until he ceased to speak
to us was the worth of what he
has said so fully appreciated
JKvery recorded word oi his is
treasured and a pathetic interest
attaches to the last thing he
wrote. It is the following little
nraver which he composed and
read to his family on the even
'ing before his sudden death:
"We beseech Thee, Lord,
to behold us with favor,
folk of many families and nations
gathered together in the peace
of this roof; weak men and
women subsisting under the
cover of thy patience. Be pa
tient still; suffer us yet awhile
longer, with our broken promises
of good, with our idle endeavors
asrainst evil; suffer us a while
longer to endure, and (if it may
be,) help us to do better. Bless
to us our extraordinary mercies
if the day come when these must
betaken, have us to play the
man under affliction. Be with
our friends, be with ourselves
go with each of us to rest;
any wake, temper to them the
dark hours of watching; and
when the day returns to us, our
sun and comforter, all us with
morning faces and with morning
hearts, eager to labor, eager to
be happy, if happiness shall be
our portion ; and if the day be
marked to sorrow, strong to en
dure it. We thank Thee and
praise Thee; and in the words of
Him to whom this day is sacred
close our oblation."
Then follows the Lords
Prayer. In its simplicity, beauty
and tenderness this little prayer
is perfect.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Suicide and Life Insurance. j
The recent tendency in life
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
IllB -M. 1119 .svUt IB a.w AliUMVUUg a - - .
teutiou and immigration to the south! insurance Das oeen aiiogeiuer m
it will ProTo a strong card for De- the direction oi a iioerai con-
inocracy.
Nothing better tells the stroy
of the beneficial effects of free
raw material for the woolen in
dustries of the country than the
announcement by the leading
manufacturers at Lawrence that
the schedule of wages paid prior
to the reduction in March, 1894,
had been restored. The increase
amounts to 10 and 15 per cent,
and is entirely voluntary. It
affects the mills in Haverhill,
Andover, North Andover and
Franklin Falls as well as Lawre
nce, and the firm operating them
is not alone the first in the woolen
manufacturing business in the
New England States, but the
largest in the country. The new
tariff then is not crushing out
the wool manufacturers, as the
high protectionists claimed
would follow its enactment. On
the contrary, the mills are run
ning day and night, they are be
ing enlarged, wages are better
and consumers purchase better
goods at lowet-prices. But the
organs are very slow in finding
this out.
Apropos of the presence in our
city oi a numoer oi western
prospectors, and the constant tide
of such prospectors southward
within the past few months, it is
opportune to call their attention,
not alone to our present advan
tages of climate, soil and loca
tion, as The Argus has ever
done, but to point them to the
great coming achievement of the
ages xor commerce the .Nicar
agua Canal.
Those persons who had heard
that President Cleveland was
hostile to the Ficaragua-canal
scheme were, of course, gratified
when last week he appointed the
Nicaraguan commission author
ized by Congress at its last ses
sion to examine and report upon
the present condition and pros
pects of that scheme. It is not
certain, however, that this ac
tion can be construed as indicat
ing anything as to ms attitude
toward the proposition that the
United States shall furnish, di
recti v or indirectly, the means of
constructing that canal. He may
be opposed to having the canal
built by tho money or on the
credit of the United. States Gov
ernment, ,and yet be unwilling to
throw obstacles in the way of the
construction of that grand high
way of nations. The Democratic
party as a party was committed
by itsCnicago platform to the
support of the Nicaragua-canal
scheme, and Mr. Cleveland, as
the head of that party, may con
sider himself bound by the ac
tion of the Democratic National
Convention.
The commission is headed by
Major William Ludlow, whose
selection seems to have been
highly gratifying to the people
of Philadelphia, where he was
formerly connected with the
Water Department, and where
he made for himself a nameTbat
led the President to send him on
this important mission. Every
body must be willing to give Mr.
Cleveland the credit of at least
trying to select good men for
the high Federal offices he had
to fill.
We have said that the Demo
cratic National Convention of
1892 pledged the Democrats as a
party to the Nicaragua canal pol
icy, bo as to the-Kepublican Na
tional Convention of the same
year. It pledged the Kepublicans
as a party to that policy. And it
must not be forgotten that the
policy to which both parties thus
committed themselves was not
what has been styled "a mild
substitute for Senator Morgan's
canal bill," but a much more
radical measure. The Morgan
bill is what we would like the
President to favor if he can con
sistently do so.
The Philadelphia Press reminds
the public that the Nicaragua-
canal bill was not only passed by
the benate, but thau its passage
was asked for by more than two
hundred members of the House
of Representatives, who signed
a petition to Speaker Criso re
questing that a day be set for the
consideration of the bill in that
House. The petition was not
granted, and so the bill did not
oecome a law, or, rather, was not
passed by the House of Repre
sentatives.
So the great measure in ques
tion is not the pet measure of a
few members of Congress, but a
pn for securing unnumbered
benefits to this country, which
plan is favored by a large major
ity of the members of both
Houses of Congress. It would
shorten the distance by water
irom New York to San Francisco
by nearly ten thoasand miles. It
would whiten the Gulf of Mexico
with the sails of the nations that
would hasten to use it. It would
build up the Southetn cities of
the United States. As Mr.
Blaine once said, the -States and
Territories appurtenant to the
Pacific Ocean and dependent
upon it for commercial outlet,
and hence directly interested in
the canal, comprise an area of
nearly 80,000 square miles,
larger in extent than the German
empire and the four Latin coun
tries of Europe combined.
Let us all make a long pull, a
strong pull, and a pull altogether
in the effort to help the Nicaragua-canal
scheme out of all its
troubles.
struction of the policy, to the
benefit of the insured, so that
the policies of most of the lead
ing companies has become prac
tically incontestable, except
upon the ground of obvious
fraud. Even the provision against
suicide is not otten insisted upon
now, the usual presumption be
ing that a man who takes his
own life is a victim of diseased
conditions and that the contract
of insurance was intended to
apply to any or every cause of
death.
The decisions of the courts
have for the most part simply
confirmed the doctrine practi
cally established by the policy of
the leading companies, but a
case just decided in the United
States District Court shows that
it is necessary to keep this liber
al tendency under guard, lest it
be abused to unlawful ends. In
this case a business man who
had become hopelessly involved
in debt and could see no other
way of meeting his obligations,
appears to have formed a de
liberate plan to insure his life
for a very large amount and then
commit suicide, in order that his
creditors might be paid and his
family provided for.
Whether this plan, which was
actually carried out, be regarded
as an indication of heroism or of
insanity, it is clearly against
public policy that it should be
countenanced. It would be not
only a wrong to the insurance
companies which means the
great body of the insured but
would involve a recognition of
the lawfulness " of deliberate
suicide that is not to be enter
tamed, insurance with a view
to suicide has the same status
with insurance with a view to
murder, which always has been
held to invalidate the contract.
This case, therefore, under
Judge Butler's instructions, re
solved itself into a question of
fact, whether the insurance had
been effected with the purpose
of suicide, in which case the sum
could not be collected from the
company, or whether the insured
had subsequently become un
balanced through anxiety about
his affairs and suicide had re
sulted from insanity, in which
case the company was bound to
pay the amount of his policy
The jury, from the evidence,
took the .former view, and- as
suming the interpretation of the
facts to be correct, there can be
no question of the correctness of
the verdict. Philadelphia Times,
Tom Reed's Southern friends
want him to come down this way
The Republican politician is i
slippery individual, and if Reed
wants any votes from this sec
tion in the convention he will
have to do the proper thing.
TAX SAJUKu
By virtue of execution for taxes for
year 1894, I will sell to the highest bid
der for cash, at the Court House door
in Goldsboro, on - Monday, May 6th.
189-5, at 12 m., the Real and Personal
property of the persons named below:
W. B. Artis, .'.$ 4 16
Calvin Bryant, balance, 1 a
Chester Bright, ' 1 24
T. P. H. Blackman, 6 95
Havwood Bizzell, 3 11
John B. Culbreth 3 65
Needham Cog-dell, balance, 1 90
Needham Cobb, balance 2 56
Reuben Davis, balance, 54
George Everett, balance, 1 29
Joe Flowers, 2 65
Mrs. D. Green. Z years, 54.80
W. G Hill 5 03
HollingswoHh & Mansfield, ..... 7 30
James HogaDS 1$ 75
A. P. Holland, 10 96
C. B. Hasket, 4 57
Nancy Holt 91
J. B. Ham, 1 62
Morris Jones, 7 04
T. O. Kelley, balance,., 4 25
Rob't Lamb, A 57
J. H. Nichols 6 15
London Odom, 3 65
H. C, Odom, 4 11
Simon Ransom, 3 27
J. J. Scott, 3 96
A. M- Smith, 10 17
Toney Smith, estate. 4 57
W. H.Undeihill, 15 46
Mrs. W. H. Underbill 1 15
Major Whitley,.. 5 20
W. A. DENMARK,
Tax Collector Goldsboro township.
Harrison will accept the Re
publican nomination, though he
won't take any steps in the mat
ter. On the other hand, Reed
anu Mciviniey are wining to
run.
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Seed! Seed! Seed!
AB&OIUUTEILY PURE
Better man fl Gold Mine!
Orinoco Tobacco Guano-No More Five Cent Cotton
There is no farminr on earth so pro
fitable as raising fine tobacco manured
witn urinoco Cmano.
I give below a partial list of promi
nent, farmers who used this brand, and
prices obtained for the tobacco:
W J JacKson, Winterville, N C; 229
pounds, $95 per hundred.
R L Daniel, Rocky Mount, 218 pounds,
o8.8S per hundred
Geo M Tucker, Greenville, 200 pounds,
$98.10 per hundred
J O Bryan, Battleboro.
500 pounds, $73. HO per hundred
296 pounds. $83.67 per hundred
Howard & Smithson, Battleboro, 210
pounds, $61.56 per hundred
M F Parham, Rocky Mount,
500 pounds, $56 per hundred
200 pounds, $82 per hundred
Bisco Pittman, Epworth, 531 pounds,
$38.09 per hundred
G A Williams, Ringwood,
800 pounds, $50 per hundred
700 pounds, $55 per hundred
100 pounds, $75 per hundred
From 23 acres received $6,000
I want a good live agent in every
town to handle. Orinoco Guano.
Also Farmers' Bone and my othei
brands all of which are well establish
ed. Farmers all want them: write for
prices. Manufactured by
There is somewhat of a dis
position to suspect Senator
Frye's annexation apparatus of
working overtime.
Presiding Elder's Appointments.
Quarterly meetings for Newborn
District will be held as follows:
Goldsboro circuit, at Mt. Carmel.
April 13-14.
LaGrange circuit, at Boston, April
20-21.
Sfc. John's, at night, April 21.
Strait's circuit, at Banks, April 27-28.
Beaufort, April 28.
. St, Paul's, May 4-5.
Jones circuit, at Shady Grove, May
11-12.
F. D. Swindell, P. E.
Battleboro, N. C, Jan 19, 1893.
Mr. F. S. Eoystcr, Turboro, X. C:
My crop of tobacco has been the talk
of the neighborhood- My net vield
where I used your Orinoco is $400 per
acre. .1 sold one lot of oOO lbs. at$NJ.b7
per hundred. I used 1,000 lbs, of Orin
oco per acre; 700 lbs. when I planted
and a second application of oOO lbs.
Very truly,
J.O.BRYAN.
igiT For sal3 by Best & Thompson.
Goldsboro, N. C.
Notice of Sale,
Under and by virtue of a power of
sale contained in a mortg-age executed
by J. W. Waddell and wife Piety Wad
dell to Wiley Howell, registered in the
office of the Register of Deeds of Wayne
county, in Book No, 64, page 122, I
shall sell " for cash, by publie auction,
at the Court House door in Goldsboro,
N, C, on Saturday, April 13, 18C5, the
lands in said mortgage described, situ
ate in Great Swamp township, Wayne
county, N. C, adjoining the lands of
J. I. Crocker on the east, the lands of
Nancy Waddell on the south and the
lands of Henry Waddell on the west,
containing 57 acres, more or less.
WILEY HOWELL,
by C. M. Edgerton, Atty.
cook Book Free.
Miss Willis' New Pastry Cook Book
Cut out this Coupon and mail it to
the Rumford Chemical Works, Provi
dence, R. ., giving yours address plain
ly written. A copy will be sent free.
F S, ROYSTER,
-lm
TARBORO, N. G.
For sale by Best & Thompson
COLDSBORO,
ROWLAND & SHORT
FREMONT N. C.
N. C.
ILLINERY OPENING
-ON-
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
OF THIS WEEK.
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I have received and will show to customers on the above days the CHEAPEST
LINK of goods ever brought to lioldsboro. These are not choap goods, but
goods cheap beyond the possibility of competition, as the public will find on
examination. 1 have a lady graduate in Millinery, who has had wide expe
rience with the trade, and I am prepared in everv way to cive satisfaction to
my patrons. At my old stand on West Centre street.
K,W The ladies will find my store hoadquarters for first class STAMPING o
all kinds.
Mrs- C I-I. MOORE.
ona Fide Values
WE ARE OFFERING FOR ONE WEEK SUITS THAT ARE WORTH
$12.50 $12.50 $12.50
-FOR-
$6.98 $6.98 $6.98
This is a Strictly Cash Sale
FOR ONE WEEK ONLY.
EINSTEIN CLOTHING 60.-,
CORRECT DRESSERS AND HABERDASHERS.
OATS, CORN, RICE,C AT-T AIL MIL
LET, TIMOTHY AND BLUE
GRASS SEED. ALSO
6tioIcts Porto Rico Molasses
In half barrels.
igaT Cotton seed meal by ton or sack.
For sale by - -
B- M. PRIYETT,
Wholesale and Retail Grocer and
Commission Merchant.
To The Public
Till May 1st we will sell our en
tire stock of
Dry Goods, Stioes,
fiflTS ana NOTIONS.
Crockery, Glassware, Flour, Meat,
oao goods, and lots of other goods
too numerous to mention,
At Almost Cost,
To make room for the inventory and
sspring olock.
G. Tri. RIVRNBURG,
(Formerly of Palmer, Rivenburg & Cc.,
Wholesale Commission Merchant
DEALER IN
Southern Fruits and Vegetables,
POULTRY, BUTTER, EGGS, ETC.
180 READE STREET, NEW YORK
References:
-Irving National Bank.
Mercantile and Financial Times
Prolific cotton Grower:
The Old Standard and Reliable Plant Food,
We confidently offer the Prolific Cotton Grower to the trade and farming put.
lie as the equal of the very best commercial fertilizer.
U T? XT'" FARMERS' FAVORITE FERTILIZER: This is a spewia
XT XT Dran;i waich we offer as the equal if not the superiox" oJ
any goods in this State of the same commercial value.
PpflllflP Tpiirl "IprnifDP. Made r:ch in ammonia and pocast.
I I Mill It I I lllm 111 HWn ! which render it specially valuable for
potatoes aiid all vegetable crops
-All Enquiries Promptly Answered-
Goldsboro - Oil -Go.
H. WEIL & BROS,
Selling Agents lor Goldsbora-
"F K.BORDEN,
Secretary
aiHiNMMrauflitieBomiiMiffnMMiinitiutaM
Rumford Chemical Works, Provi
dence. R. I. : Please send me a copy ol
Miss Willis' New Pastry Cook Book, to
which I am entitl-jd by being a reader
of The Argus.
Name .
Postoflice
County .. .
State
Fresh Fish
Served daily . and SCOLLOPS
every Wednesday. Prompt de
livery of orders given me.
CHAS. E. IIASKETT.
Mcha-lyr.
Ballc mod is Interior to patkmo soda.
of imitation trad
marks and label.
is the whole story
about
AR AflD HMfER SOPA I
Itl tlffrlflrPC osts aomore than other package soda never spoils S
111 fdWiyCtv3 flour universally acknowledged purest In the world.
Made only by CHURCH U CO., Hew York. Sold tj grocers everywhere. 8
Write tor A.rm and Hammer Book of Trainable JBtecipom FKJ5E. 3
uaASaeEi9EeECBBieBEaiesEBMsscscBBftai0Ka5
2,000 lbs fine Tobacco from 20 to 50c: 1
car fine fresh Flour $2.90 to 3.S0 bbl:
good Snuff only iOcts lb. A fine La
dies' Shoe $1.00, Men's $1.00; 50 lbs fine
lenny ana Koyster candy, price oOc,
only 2octs lb. Give us a call.
20,000 good Bricks from $4 to $5 per
tnousanu.
E. L. Edmundson & Bro,
THE HUSTLERS.
ilpiMI
for Infants and Children.
nnOTHERS, Do You Know
Qui! Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many ao-called Sootl
that Paregoric,
Soothing Syrupa, and
InoBt remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine t
Ho Ton Know that opium and morphine are stupefying' narcotic poisons t
Pa Yo' Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to tell narcotics
Without labei ing them poisons t
Do Yon Know that you should not permit any medicine to be give-t your chils!
Unless you oi' your physician know of what it is composed 1 '
Po Ton Know that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, asd that a Jist ot
its lngredienf a is published with every bottle f
P Yo' Know that Castoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcnar.
That it has been in use for near'.y thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than
of all other rsraedies for children combined t
Po Ton Know that the Patent Office Department of the United States, k.id of
other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word
M Castoria " and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offeme ?
Po Tr t Know that one! of the reasons for granting this government pi "o tec tion was
because Cast oria had been proven to be absolutely harmless?
Po Yo Know that 35 average . doses of Castoria are furnished for 35
cents, or oi e cent a dose f
Po To Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your fbtldrm may
be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest f
Wellthese things are worth knowing. They are facta.
"WHY do people complain of bard
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; yet many 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 paying all expenses and
attending to regular business besides.
Ifou don't have to canvass; as soon as
people know you have it for sale they
,end for a Dish Washer. Address the
Climax Mfg. Co., 45 Starr Ave., Colum
bus, Ohio, for particulars.
mar23-d end 6m.
The fac-simllo
stgnatnre of
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la on every
wrapper.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
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TO MY FRIENDS & CUSTOMERS.
I have opened a Barber Shop for
white people only, up stairs over Mr.
fohn Grantham's, on Waluut street.
Hair cut and shave 25 cents.
OBIE PERRY,
Barber.
So Simple.
Nine times
out of ten
whenwe are
out of sorts
our trou
bles can be
removed
Brown's
Iron Bitters,
which for more than 20 years
has been curing many people
of Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Ma
laria, Impure Blood, Neural
gia, Headache, Liver and Kid
ney troubles. It's the peculiar
combination of iron, the great
strength-giver, with selected
vegetable remedies of true
value that makes Brown's Iron
Bitters so good for strengthen
ing and purifying the system.
It is specially good for women
and children it makes -them
strong and rosy.
t Brown's Iron Bitters is pleasant to take,
and it will not stain the teeth nor cause
constipation. See the crossed red lines
on the wrapper. Our book, '-How to
Live a Hundred Years," tells all about it;
free for 3c stamp. 60
sown Chkmicas. Co., BAirmoaa, Ml
fertilizers!
FERTILIZER S !
We offer for sale the following well krown and triet brands
of fertilizers on the most reasnblo tennis :
G
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1000 tons Prolific,
200 tons Prolific Truck,
500 tons F. F. F.,
500 tons Gibbs High Grade,
1000 tons High Grade Acid Phos
phate, 1000 tons Genuine German Kai
nit, 300 tons Rock Lime,
100 tons Salt.
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Special inducements offered to Dealers and Large Buyers
Correspondence solicited.
H.Weil&Bros
12, 1894. f&S&i'
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 4, 1895.
Lyon Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, X. Y.
Gentlemen : I use Mexican Mustang Lin
iment in my business all the time. It is
the finest thing in the world lor sprains
and mashes, also for cuts and burns. 1 have
a bottle in my house continually for general
use. I commend it to all who have never
used it. They will find it just as I have
said. I am, Tespcctfhllv,
For 18 years W. V. CLI FTOX,"
Doorkeeper State Senate Bridge Contractor.
S&ler City, N. C, Dec. 14, 1894.
Lyon Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gentlemen: For a number of yars I
have used Mexican Mustang Liniment on
my horses and in my family, and find it the
very best thing to use for sprains both on
man and beast. Very truly yours,
Livery stables. A. C. JORDAN.
Pilot Mountain, X. C, Dec,
Lyon Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gentlemen : rtexican flustang Liniment
is the best thing in the world for a horse
with a sore shoulder, or any other harness
rub. Respectfully,
G. W. WIIITAKEPJ.
With V. Boyle, General Merchant.