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it This Argus o'er the people's rights, Doth an eternal vigil keep No soothing- strains of Maia's sun, Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep" Vol. XVII. GOLDSBORO. X. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1895, INTO. 3. I is '1 - ft "HESftlD DAMN IT!" .SENATOR MARY-AX BCTI.KR ACTUAL LY I'SKDCI'SS-WOKIIS IN THE l'KESENCE OF AKVS AN1 OliSEKYEl! KEC()KTEH. "OH,' DAMME, 'TIS TOO BAD.' The Man AVlio Telepliapeil from Clinton tltat lie liail an Audience of Only Three Hundred, and That the Meeting "Was Taine Was a II n Liar and a D n Scoundrel. Etc. Raleigh News & Observer. The penitentiary outfit that put in appearance here with Hain-in-the-face lit upon fhis hot little town like a drop of water on a stove-lid, sizzled, and steamed for a moment and evap orated, They came and went like Virginia Sora, and one would last night have to hunt for them with a light wood torch and a paddle to bag even one of them. For'they are night birds, these Fusionists, loving darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. King Fish Kitchen, the fly-up-the-creek of the crowd, is, no . doubt by this time somewhere in the jungles of Halifax dipping for silver perch and yellow-bellies in the shape of bondsmen to"" the extent of 80,000. And Marion Butler is no doubt astride of some log on Shad-Fin "Crick," Clinton County, trying to break his record published a few days ago having caught a fish 2 feet long. I dropped into conversation with him at sujiper at the Yar boro, and he challenged any one, who doubted his story, to come to Clinton and test that feet fish-yarn. It fact, Mr. Butler invited the reporter of the Xcivs and Observer down, but he was re minded that in a telegram print ed from Clinton last week, it was represented that he had o00 friends in Clinton, and 300 But lerites against one News and Ob server reporter, couklu"t leave the reporter much time or in clination for iishiug. Air. But ler said there was no danger and suddenly changing his tone and bearing, he Hushed up, and his mood became that of a desper ately angry man. Mr. Butler was somewhat of a study at that moment, for it is hardly possible that any man in North Carolina can rise in his seat and say that he ever saw Mr. Butler lose his self control or denounce any body, or st emed spoiling for a scrap. But he was now. "The man who wrote or sent that message," burst out the Senator almost furiously enough to attract attention, "was a d n liar and a d n scoundrel, and you can print what 1 say, and just tell him that if he dou"t like what I say, he can find me at Elliott, N. C And he needn't come back at me through the papers, but let him come straight at me at Elliot, N. C., and he will find me responsible for every word I say." The ceutrifugality of the Sen ator's cuss-words flew around the following iucident: last week a newspaper telegraphic corres pondent from Ulinton sent out a press message from that point, stating that Senator Butler had been there to speak that day, that he had been met by only 300 reorle. and that it was a tame affair. "Now," continued the Senator, each word seeming like succes sive balls from a Koman candle, "the truth of the business is I had a thouhd,...! ;ople to meet me that day at Clinton, and had rot the streams been swollen, there would have been present between 3,000 and 4,000; nor was it anv tame affair either: we had an interesting and pleasant time, and what I said was graciously received." Then the Senator's voice was barely touched with a tremoloso quiver a quiver of an ger or of maybe some other feel ing' the explanation of which would no doubt make a long story which must be guessed at only. "They have cuffed and maligned rs&y" he continued, "all around ihv State: .thev baue haunted even home with everythin horriie that could be saici in a nniuical wav. - and I have not nnpned my iips. I made up my mint that I would be silent, but t.hic it looks small vet it strikes my own standing in my owii home, and the shaft, there fnr came at me differently from Qn? other that I have felt. And , t vvant to repeat that the man vctio sent it is a d n liar and A-,n scoundrel. I don't care who he is. Nor do I know who he is it matters not to me if he is as bisr as a side of a house, I will be responsible for what I say, and Vnu can sav to him that 1 can .. be found at Elliott, N. C." The Senator was not a few moments cooling down, and when he had, he began telling me bout the orders of Treasurer .Worth stopointr the payment of tnoney to Superintendent Leazar an account of wnicn was puo lished in the News & Observer, Then he went at his . chops psj A TKCE AND COMPLETE Statement in Regard to Kev. E. AV. Oakes, the Evangelist, as Given by his Physi cian. Editors Jleswnycr : In your Sunday issue of April 14th appeared a letter from "Citi zen," of Fayetteville, which we know does Mr. Oakes and his friends a great injustice, and we regret much that this "Citizen" filled icitfi such deep regret for Mr. Oakes, and such high patriotic interest in the people of his na tive State, did not await a proper and complete publication of this unfortunate occurrence, with all its attending conditions and miti gating circumstances, in order that the public could at the same time have a full and complete statement upon which to base its opinion and pass its judgment. I did not hear of this sad affair until Saturday night, and left im mediately to see him, and this is the first opportunity since my return to give the public these statements. The published re port of his condition and conduct on the cars between Wilmington and Richmond is true. What then could be the cause of such a change in a man, who has been preaching "Christ and Him Crucified" with such elo quence, and so beautifully illus trated in his daily life the great truths he so sweetly taught? Why such a sudden change and why should it occur on the very scene of nis successful work m North Carolina? To answer this I regret to in- ade the privacy of his life and family record; yetldeemitneces- ary m justice to Mr. Oakes. During his stay in North Caro n a for the last two winters and springs ne nas made li aison nis home, returning here for a day two after his preaching in dif ferent parts of the State. He has constantly been under medical treatment for physical and ner- ous derangements. He comes of a family of highly nervous people tor generations, many of them insane, and com mitting suicide, and others des- erate drunkards. In his early boyhood he showed tendency to insanity, and strong predisposition to liquor, and early in his youth he became a loyer of strong drink. For three years previous to his conversion he was an abandoned ictim to liquor, wandering to and fro, from Ireland to America, drunken, erratic tramp, his friends aud relatives abandoning him to the weaknesses of here dity. Since his conversion and even to the present time these two family tendencies (possibly a visiting of the sins of the fathers) have hung over him like a black loud ready to engulf him at any minute, the fear of which, he so often said, compelled him to be urrendered always at the feet of Jesus. Converted at 23 years of age he at once began to tell of his free dom from the slavery of drink, and after much care and training was given charge of a branch mission of the Young Men's Christian Association on the Bow ery in New York city, among the very class of men out of which God in His gracious providence had raised him, and for two years did the grandest work ever ac complished in this slum of sin and vice. After this, his health failing with nervous prostration, he was ordained a minister of the Bap tist Church and sent West for .earth and work, when God used nim miqhtuv m teacnmg ana carrying the Gospel. (See Chris tian Herald of April 6, lbo4, Io;r a short history of him and frontis piece picture.) Returning later for health to the North, Mr, Oakes has served most accepta bly several pastorates, manifest ing great spiritual power and deep consecration. Yet during all this time he has been of great care and anxiety to his wife and friends, his frequent prostration manifesting: itseli sometimes in melancholia, at other times in severe mental excitement, re quiring him to rest for months', travel, change his work and such like, lest he should become completely incapacitated for duty. His physical condition, weakened by his early life of desperate dissipation, often ex aggerated his nervous tendency and demanded the closest atten tion of his physicians. .Jl'wo years ago feeling again called to evanglical work, he gave up a nice pastorate and comforts able home life etc., and came to North Carolina, where he has preached with such marked pow er and ability (to which many of his hearers so gladJy testify. Becoming exhausted, he returned North last spring, suffered much prostration, and later travelled in the Orient tor rest and racrea tion, at the same time doing some missionary service at the differ ent missionary stations. Here he was again prostrated by the heat. and suffered much mental ex citement, with wild delusions. He returned to North Carolina in October 1894, and has been preaching constantly since, day and night save a short Christmas vacation of ten days. Since this vacation his weakened condition, continually growing weaker, has been very noticeable, yet he has continued work (it being the one pleasure of his life) against my advice and the remonstrances of wife and friends. We feel now that had we better understood his condition we could have averted this sad oc currence. He closed a meeting at Burgaw recently much exhausted, in tending to spend two days, upon invitation, at the Y. M. C. A. convention at Raleigh aud then return here for his much needed rest, but so given to his work in the Master's vineyard he forgot his prostrated condition and con tinued his preaching in Raleigh for eighteen days, closing his service on Sunday, April 7th. His wife, who was with him the latter part of these -services, having been wired to come, at once, told me that on Saturday night, April 6th, he was extreme ly nervous, walking the floor half of the night, restless and sleep less. She fearing his mental con dition, insisted upon his declin ing to preach on Sunday, which he refused to do, it being his closing day. Mr. Oakes returned here Mon day, the 8th inst., exhausted, haggard, worried, depressed and melancholic, his appearance at tracting the attention even of casual observers. He was suffer ing with much pain and abso lutely let down physically. I gave him an opiate and nerve tonic. He spent a few hours in bed and left on the same night for Washington City, taking medicine with him. Having an important engage ment the next day he was deter mined to meet it though against advice and under protest of my self and friends, yet as he would go, we trusted and hoped the trip would be beneficial and re creative. In this condition he left us at 10 o'clock p. m. on the Shoo Fly train (it being late) intending to take a sleeper at Wilson for Washington City. At Goldsboro he left the train and went to a hotel, suffering still with pain. Depressed and melancholic; he fell an easy prey to liquor and drank freely (as he told me). He left Goldsboro at 12 o'clock m. Tuesday and stopped at Wilson, and while waiting for a Northern train walked up town, found a barroom, drank freely and publicly (yet remembered nothing of his being there). He went on Wednesday to Richmond and was drunk and boisterous on the train. He spent that day and ; in Richmond and there heard of aKeeley Institute twenty miles above Richmond at Ash land, and was persuaded to go there for treatment. Dr. Wade, the chief physician, was tele graphed to come to Richmond and take him in charge, but Mr. Oakes went alon on the first train, thereby missing Dr. Wade, who returned at once to find him at the institute. I saw him on the following Sunday; he only remembered drinking in Goldsboro, knew nothing of his stay in Wilson and only remembered hearing of this institute and seeing a hack driver n Richmond. Not hearing of this sad affair until Saturday night and a little later of Mr. Oakes whereabouts, I left immediately for Ashland, Va., knowing full well that he must be in an irre sponsible condition. estopping over in w nson io an hour, awaiting my train, I saw the hotel porter who had seen much of Mr. Oakes in Wilson. He told me that when he saw him that he thought him to be "curious, pecu liar" a little crazy, more than drunk. I reached Ashland at 4 o'clock a. m., Sunday, ana iouna . jvir. Oakes at the Jxeelev institute m bed and of course in terrible con dition, a "fearful wreck and ab solutely done for", as he expres sed it. and I could see in his hopeless expression that he realized that the black cloud of inherited tendencies and weak nesses was engulfing him in ab solute, eternal destruction, as he lay writhing in mental, spir itual, and physical agony. He was unable to travel and will be compelled to remain at Ashe- land for sometime. When I first heard of his being drunk in Wilson I could not believe it, but the truth of the report satis fied me that he was not respon sible for his condition. After an intimate association with Mr. Oakes as friend ard physician for months I give it to the public that in my opinion based, upon the facts herein set forth, his family history, and to gether with recent publications involving him in his social and church relations, which added much additional mental pressure to his already over-strained sys tern that at the timeMr. Oakes was drinking whiskey he was in state of mental aberration or temporary insanity and there fore irresponsible for his acts and conduct. I regret my inability to pre sent these facts sooner, and only wished that a complete report of this sad occurrence could have been first given to the public. Mr. Oakes is probably best known here, his North Carolina home, while in this State for two years past, when his preach ing Christ and daily walk with Him, have led this eople to higher aspirations, to closer fel lowship with Christ, to more consecrated and surrendered lives at the feet of Jesus. This sad occurrence has cast its gloom over the entire com munity, filling it with sorrow and grief. A united prayer from this people is continually ascend ing, as a sweet token of their love, to the Throne of a Graci ous God, to restore him and heal him ttfentally, spiritually and physically, and raise him up for greater service in his Master's cause, especially in this new field of his, where God has so bountifully blessed his work. We are glad to see so much charity already mantling him, in this his saddest, darkest hour. To tell of the great love and charity of Jesus Christ . to hu manity was his especial mission and now in this his sorrowful hour he will receive from God's people in North Carolina that love and charity he so eloquent ly impressed upon, and so beautifully illustrated to them in his preaching and in his life. As a man sows so shall he reap , and truly is he reaping ove from God and man. May God's strong arm encircle him and draw him closer to Him. "The crushed flower emits its sweetest perfume", aud Mr. Oakes, lying sorely strickened. is sending his whole heart to God in prayer for a more surrendered life at the feet of Jt:sus Christ. John M. Faison, M. D. Faison, N. C, April 17, '95. .-Graded Schools. The following is the Superin tendent's report for the seventh month, ending March 29th, 1895: WHITE SCHOOL. nrollment, 585 Av. daily attendance, 506 COLORED SCHOOL.. Enrollment, 392 Av. daily attendance, 307 BOTH SCHOOLS. Enrollment 977 Av. daily attendance 813 ROLL OF HONOR. Girls; Maggie Exum, Lou Hicks, Minnie Best, Hattie Mid- yette.MyrthaWilson, Sallie Best, lllian Holt, Annie Huggins, Bessie Miller, Kate McDonald, May Parker, Honorine Banks, May Carter, Margaret Winslow, Mary Winslow, AliceDGrantham, Selene Dortch, Sadie Edwards, Bella Schwab, Mary Slocumb, Carrie Ginn, Hannah Dewev, lien Dortch, Elsie Hilb, Sallie Hoilowell, Ida .Isaacs, Pearl McClellan, Estelle Moore, izzie Pittman, Josie Wilson, Annie Glisson, Daisy Glisson, Clara Thornton. Boys Theodore Ginn, Louis Grant, Wm. Frank Bryan, Ed win Gulley, Clem Humphrey, Jasper Winslow, Tom Dewey, Dquglass Creech, Claude Hug- gms, Percy Darden, Grnhth Home, Charley Swindell, Chas. Cotten, Frank Cox, Jas. Grant, Tom O'Berry, Ernest Winslow, Logan D. Howell. Supt. NORTH CAROLINA TO THE FROJiT. witn an tne warring tnat is going on with other roads and the insinuations and evidences afloat, that they are opposed to the promotion of North Carolin iaus or Southern men, it is eheer rng ana grauiymg to observe that the great "Southern Rail way" is true to its name and es pecially kind to North Caro linians, and is prompt to show its appreciation of their merits by promoting theaa to the very fore front of its management. The names of A. B. Andrews, W. H. Green, and W.-A. Turk are notable among these. They started with the "Southern away back in the years when it was in its infancy, so to speak, and have grown to widespread and merited renown in Kailroad err cles, as it has gro vvn to deserved greatness under their superior administration. In this connection we are glad to note tne promotion of Mr, Green to General Manager of the entire Southern system, with headquarters at Washington, D C, and the promotion of another competent and deserving North Carolinian, Capt, Jas. A. - Dod- son, to be General Roadmaster of the company, -also, with head quarters in Washington. Continued success to the Southern! If you have anything to sel advertise in The Argcs. THE BUTLER OVATION. A Sinrll Crowd Greets the Smallest Sena tor the State Ever Had. Clinton Democrat. For two weeks it had been wideiy advertised that a great ovation would be given Marion Butler in Cinton on last Thursday. On Wednesday evening's train the Senitor arrived from "Elliott City." He stepped off the cars doubtless expecting an immense throng to rush up and greet him. But to his disappoimment and chagrin there was about the smallest crowd at the depot that has "been there this year when the train came in. Thursday morning dawned bright and clear. It was a beau tiful day and the Senator was of opinion that Clinton might not be able to hold the people who would be here to honor him. Early in the morning the most woe-begone looking negro band that ever made a fuss on earth arrived in a wagonette drawn by two mules. The band liquored up immediately and by 11 o'clock was gloriously drunk. At the appointed hour it stag gered up College street, tooting and drumming at the head of a procession of less than 200 peo ple. The Senator was escorted down town and took his seat on the stand on court house square, where he sat with a lowering look as stiff as if he had swal lowed a fence rail. He must have painfully tortured himself in trying to put on Senatorial airs, in a desperate effort to look like a Senator a thing he can never do. The crowd was all present by this time, and it did not exceed three hundred people, a good many of whom were Democrats, who were here from curiosity to see how a Senator's clothes be came a picayune. Mr. F. M. White made some remarks on the purity of the Senator's character, but his tongue had a disposition to cleave to the roof of his mouth. Capt. 'J. B. Lloyd, of Tarboro, then arose acd introduced the Senator to the audience. As Butler arose he looked in con trast to the courtly and dignified Ransom, whom he succeeds, like a singed cat to a Bengal tiger. There was a faint hurrah by a few zealots, which was augment ed by the brays of Grady Smith's jack. Butler then launched out into his speech which was near ly three hours in length. Every body was surprised aud disap pointed at its nature. This oc casion was a golden opportunity for him to have made a speech becoming a Senator, and that would have been both pleasing to his friends and conciliatory to his enemies. A sensible man would have recognized and taken advantage of this opportunity, but the small, bitter, splenetic Butler made a low, little, con temptible speech which lowered him in the estimation of every one that heard him. It was not a speech that a man m any degree nt to be a Senator would have made, but a ngama role of vi!e falsehood and scurri lous abuse. It was on one hand a feeble and disgusting defence of this Legislature, otherwise known as the Fred Douglass Memorial Association, and on the other hand an unwarranted and indecent denunciation of the Demoaratic party and press. He breathed the word "lie" with al most every other breath, and de nounced as false things that he knows to be the truth. He evi denced his ability as a politician of the most vulgar order by his utter disregard of truth. He at taked the Sampson Democrat, viciously and tried to dodge its ! truthful charges by making apish efforts at ridicule. But the people do not permit the grim aces of a monkey in men's clothes to off set facts which they know to be true. At intervals the in toxicated band would roll its drums, but the most liberal ap plause the speaker received was from Grady Smith's Jack, who would not permit anyone to outdo him in honoring a Senator of his own kind. It is a credit to the wisdom and intelligence of Sampson's far mers that so few of them wasted a day in coming here to ovate a. demagogue that has positively done the farmers of North Caro lina more harm that the demone tization of silver. The farmers were busy and most of them kept at their work. They could not affiord to stop their plows and come here to whoop up a squirt who has just entered upon the enjoyment of the reward of a traitor. This sign of returning reason on the part of some men who have been led astray politi cally did not add to the Sena tor's comfort. He was disap pointed at the crowd and its rather more inquisitive than af fectionate regard for him. .His defence of the Legislature was not satisfactory, and his endorse ment of its action is enough to condemn him in the eyes . of all ' good people. The Senator and his ovation were both very dis appointing. It was small honor to the smallest man who ever wrote Senator before his name from 'North Carolina -'a man who is now but a dark, opaque atom reflecting the greatness of a misguided people. "He shall smaller grow- and smaller, In his mind and in his body, He shall meaner grow and meaner, Till his ci-ingisg, creeping, crawling1 Form is lost from earth forever. Till his soul is all extinguished, Nothing left to merit saving1, JN'ot cuouijh to be tevrth damning." The Outrageous Conduct of Treas urer Worth. We have been at some pains to inform ourselves, so as not to speak unadvisedly of the unpre cedented conduct of treasurer Worth in prejudging the merits of the legal controversy between the two Boards of directors claim ing the right to control the peni tentiary. Our attention has been called to the case of the State vs. Lewis, 107 N. C. Reports, 907, and other cases there cited, from which it is apparent to the com prehension, not only of lawyers, but of laymen, that the incumbent board who have assumed the management and are recognized as the rightful board, are de facto officers and must be treated as if holaiug de jure until the courts shall have decided the contest in the way prescribed by law. It has been the custom of his party friends to hold Treasurer Worth out as an exemplary man and a thoroughly competent officer. One would infer that they look upon him, not only as a trained fiuancier of broad views, but as sufficiently conversant with our form of government aud our laws to understand something about the bounds of his authority as an executive officer. He has made a public profession of personal sanctification. He has sworn to "bear true allegiance to the State of North Carolina, and to the constitutional powers and author ities which are or may be estab lished for the government there of." There are boys by the score in the higher grades of our schools who know the difference between an incumbent and a con testant for any place or office, except a seat m the Legislature, is to be decided in the courts, and that until it is so settled, the in cumbent must be respected as if in of right. This high-banded usurpation almost bewilders us. If Treas urer Worth is perfect, as he pro fesses to be and his friends claim he is, he must be more shamefully ignorant than the half grown youngsters in the public schools. If he knows that the Constitution, which he has sworn to faithfully uphold and support, declares that the "leg islative, judicial and executive powers of the government ought to be forever distinct from each other," and has nevertheless wilfully attempted to usurp au thority to decide a quest ion pend ing in the courts ana nas useu the power of his office to enforce his own partisan views as the law of the land, he ought to be impeached for wilful violation of his oath, and deliberate disre gard of the safeguards that the people have embodied in the Constitution. We have searched in vain for any middle ground upon which he could find a foot-' ing for him to stand and make even a plausible show or pre tence o justifying this high handed outrage. Whether this invasion of the authority of the Courts is tc be attributed to ignorance or cor ruption, the Treasurer has rea son to leet secure, tor tne pre sent at least, when he reflects that there is no way provided for calling him to account for his misconduct, unless the Governor should bring together a Legis lature that has distanced the re cord, both for ignorance and dis honesty, of the worst bodies of the the ldnd that have ever as sembled before in the history of America. The Governor of the State doubtless appreciates the magni tude of the crisis which the re cent upheaval in politics has put it in the -power of a small man to bring about. If His Ex cellency should find it necessary to issue a proclamation pardon ing every convict in the peniten tiary because of the assumption by this pretentious partisan of ficial of the authority to with hold the money necessary for their support, he will too late awake to the realization of the fact that the people want no man in high position hereafter who can escape conviction on the charge of corruption in no other way but by proving his own incompetency, or. servile submission to tne command or a political boss. Raleigh News and Observer, NOTICE. I am now prepared to do all, kinds of upholstering' and cleaning furniture. Prices the lowest, . and satisfaction guaranteed. Give me a trial. ARNOLD SASSER GLEANINGS. Items of Interest Clipped from our State Exchanges. Winston Sentinel: The white graded schools will close on May 23rd. The colored school will close two weeks before the others. Raleigh Neics (' Observer: Frank Ray, the game cock of Macon, is in the city in Supreme court cases. He has on a new pair of gaffs and is as trim a stonefence stag as any "Dimmycrat"r might wish. Concord Times: There is a re port that the fee of ex-Judge Armfiekl as counsel for the de fence in the Shemwell case, which is to be tried at a special term of Davidson Superior Court in July, is to be 2,000. Newbern Journal: Masters Lon Moore, Jr., and Albert Willis killed a black suake on East Front street, near the rock wall yesterday. He had evidently been borne away from his accus tomed haunts by the storm. He measured 4 feet in length. Clinton Democrat: Mr. War ren Johnson has been critically ill at his home on Chestnut street for the past four days. He has been in feeble health for some time. He is one of Clinton's oldest and highly esteemed citi zens. Aslieville Citizen: Miss Arrie Wil liams, a yery bright and promising member of the graduating class of the Normal and Collegiate institute, died this morning of pneumonia, af tev an illness of about ten days. Miss Williams was 20 years old, and lived at Greenlee, near Old Fort. The remains were taken to her old home on the afternoon train. Beaufort Herald: The wind played havoc with the new Eas ter bonnets Sunday. It was very calm, when suddenly there came a shift of wind from the south ward that almost tore trees up by the roots and in a few hours it was blowing a gale from the opposite direction. It changed several times during the day. Rocky Mount Argonaut: There is now pending a proposition to start a new bank at Rocky Mount. It is clear that the to bacco interests of Nashville and Spring Hope, and the enlarged tobacco market of Rocky Mount will require a much larger field for banking facilities than is now furnished by the bank of Rocky Mount. Charlotte Observer: Mrs. Mar tha Smith died yesterday morn ing at G.30 o'clock at the resi dence of her daughter-in-law, five miles south of the city. De ceased was 83 years old. She had been in feeble health for several months. She was the grandmother of Mr. Walter Smith. The funeral will be con ducted at Steele Creek church this morning at 9 o'clock by Rev. S. R. White, and the interment will be made at Flint Hill. A BRAN JsJSW JJII.T.. Mr. S. M. Inman, of Atlanta, is out in an interview in which he says that if the South could limit or increase the production of cotton at will, her future would be secure. Her cotton crop, lie says, is tne most per fect monopoly on earth and cites the following figures to show that outside competition is not to be feared: "Cotton crop of 1868 69 American crop, 2,652,000 bales, all foreign crop, 2,ob4,000 bales. Cotton crop of 1894-95 Ameri can crop, 12,500,000 bales; all foreign crops, 2,900,000 bales Th3 world's consumption 1868- 69, 497,000, bales, 1895-05, 12, 500,000 bales. These figures show that the cotton consumption of the world has increased m the period of twenty-six years given above 151 per cent, and that while the combined foreign cotton crops of the world have only increased in that period 12 per cent, the American cotton crop has in creased 371 per cent. In other words, the entire foreign crops of the world have been almost stationary while Ihe imperial crop of the South has increased from 2,652,000 bales to 12,500,000 bales of 400 pounds each." The farmers of the South have complained more than any other class of the gigantic trusts of the country and the oppression of the gold bugs. Now let them take a -hint from Mr. Inman. They have a natural monopoly, Let them organize it and they will punish their enemies and make barrels of money. Mr. Inman also tells the far mers that a plenty of silver money would be a blessing to the farmer. But it would be as a nothing compared with an organized cotton monopoly. Let the farmers drop the free-silver idea and organize a new party on tne piauorm or cotton monopoly, xt wm go. HARDWARE SPRGIAL 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 $!). 11.50, 15 and 18, previous prices $12.50, 15, IS and 2 Single Breech $7, previ- ous price $10. Muzzle Loading Guns $8 and 9.0, pre- vious price $10 and 12-50. Larffe 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 forg-ed by natural gas, the best axo on the continent. Complete line of Farm Supplies, CONSISTING OF Plows, Plow Castings, Harrows, Cox Cotton Planters. Hoes, Rakes, Shovels, Spades, Forks, Hames, Ti aces. Collars, &c, &c. Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, House Furnishing Goods, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Paints, &c. All at bottom prices. Your patronage is solicited. Respectfully, W.rl.fHlOQiHS . Next to Bank of "Wayne. MJE. Robinson & Bro From the Art League. N. Y. No. 1380 A. RIVALLING THE LILIES. You can do it, if you want to, at Eas ter time, or any other time, with our exquisite extracts or perfumes. But you will want to look your best as well. That means you want to be in your best health, which means you want to take a bottie or two of some one of our good Spring tonics. Of course, if you have been downright ill enough to send for the doctor you will probably send hi prescription to us without a second thought. That is simply "second nature' to all who know us. M. E- Robinson & Bro West Centre St. GOLDSBORO. N. C, THR SEASON here. If you want Base Balls, Bats, Catchers' Mits or anything in that line call and see me or drop me a card for prices. C. F, Griffin, Cor. Hotel Kennon. B. M, PRIVETT, Grain, Provisions. Lime, &c. GOLDSBORO. TsT. O. b to it J3 a n a e3 a O J m i cq bfi bo w I but frash -mmmt and Sh phaada boiled : &baolntT PUBJB and noQiiiw yimi Bui grwum mm roww. iaKiatMiiMaaaawKuita JUST RE6EIVED. A jref h installment of Reliable Drugs. 100 pounds Powdored Borax for putting away meat. A new supply of German and Cat-Tail Millet Seed; Sun Flower Seed and Cabbage Seed in bulk. 100 Ozs Sulpnato of Quinine. H. C. SHANNON, Druggist, Under Opera House mar 5- JUST RECEIVED A handsome lina of washable silks for shirt waists a only 39 cents per yard, worth 75 cento elsewhere. ASHER EDWARDS p, J ( m t 'X I I, 4 0'. 4'; V. 9 - v' V u n in I I- i I.-., r i t i vagain. East Centre St., near Barnes'Bakery. . ' .