a. - 'J - r A Democratic Newspaper. Bf JOS. K. ROBINSON. Kntered at the Post Office at Uoids boro. N. C. aa Sscond -Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE! I In Advance .50 w 25. WriW AWFUL MORTALITY IN CUBA. WEEKLY ARGUS. One copy one year In advance One copy six months In advance One codv three months in advance GOLlUSBOHO N. C, JAN, 19, 1898 DIVERSIFICATION OF CROPS The enemy U coming To tbe fort for y o e t H rtil ' When a wise man re ceives a plain warning of danger, he does not watt to let it overtake him; he seeks everr reasonable means to fieht it off. Disease would almost nev er get the best of the average man if he was prepared to ral precautions dictated by common sense. When a man's stomach and liver get up set and fail to do their regular work, he can be certain that something worse is bound to follow, if he doesn't look out for himself. TT J 1. a J i (Yct i (n 1 1 fill ni And Out in Texas thoughtful men I constipation are simply Nature's warnings have reached the Conclusion that thaenemy of senous disease coming the landlord and the merchants do The sensible thin? to do is to immedj. i . . ., atelv fortifv the system with Dr. Pierce's pernaps more tO promote tne rum- Golden Medical Discovery. It vitalizes and ous all-cotton policy than any oth- aS. er Single influence. 1 he landlord I ft gives the digestive and nutritive organs oower to extract nourishment troni the tooa insists upon the growing of cot ton, because he considers it the best assurance of payment of rent, and the merchant does lkewise be cause he considers it the best as surance of payment of supplies advanced . The tenant farmer has I no alternative. If, as is often the case, the landlord is also the merchant, another very selfish shortsighted consideration appears. As the landlord he dictates a crop that will best promote his trade as a merchant. As a merchant he does not want his tenant to raise sup plies that he has on hand to sell and turn it into rich, red, healthy blood. It creates appetite, good digestion, and solid, muscular strength. It is far superior to the mere temporary stimulus of malt-extracts. It is better than cod liver oil emulsions because it is assimi lated by the weakest stomach. " About fifteen years ago " writes Mr. John Mc M.VViopI editor of the PlattsburR, (Mo.) Leader, " I was in very poor health, had no appetite, wal sluetrish, and so lifeless it seemed impossible for me to do anything that required effort. Every Bill snnntiiaiiUhralth seemed to affect me oar ticularly. A friend advised me to use Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery asserting tnat u womo. restore tne to perfect health, and make a new man of me. Finally he induced me 10 try the minn. t wfortid at the time about 12s lbs r nwd sevprnl bottles, and upon quitting it weighed 175 lbs. Since that time my weight has varied from this to 19s pounds a n. 4 ..rmQput cure for eotisttoa- UOn IS ITT. iciitvj. vi- - i a gentle fiixative, tw a wild cathartic. THE TOICE OF A DEMOCRAT him. His profits would thus be decreased. So as landlord and p ajntinK the Picture of Wretfli dictator ue iorces iue leuam farmer to raise all cotton, and to buy his supplies, which come, of course, from tho northwest, be cause no one is permitted to raise them at home. The landlord mer chant is after a while the loser, edness Under Mr. McKinley's Prosperity. Cornelius O'Connor in N. Y. Journal. As another Bryan Democrat, I make hold, to take issue witD GOLDSBOR0 market. His nolicv keeDs the tenant farmer your article of the 11th instant. in rinhr -nri finallv ,lrivfia him nnt. "The hand of compromise nev ... ',. . . . v. 1 j -n I er vet gained a battle-or ran up of the district; his lands are ill Lhflaf of victory We propose Kept auu aie sieaunjr ueutBaseu iu tf fieht the battle onthe line value, and a condition of general haid down in the Chicago plat improvement is ushered in that form, even for a generation, and sans at length his unwise gains.lifnecessarv.it will be handed The state and the community are I down from sire to son. We re the victims of such greed. No one fuse to bund or speculate upon oiiltha shifting and treacherous are injured by such a policy onthe sands of political expediency, or part of the land owner and mer- eVed for twelve t j ,. '. , long, weary years to those pro Instead of appealing to the ten- fessionai harmonizers, who have ants to raise less cotton, let the beid tne WOrds of promise to the appeal be addressed to the land- ear, only to break them to the lords and the merchants, and es- hope. We have listened to sonor- pecially to the landlordmer chants, ous platitudes and declamations -For the general good let the mer- for a like period, and the people chant yield a position of his rade have been sold into bondage; we in supplies. Let both be ready to ave trusted, and we have been . u i K.t betrayed; we have hoped, and the accept hogs, cattle, butter, eggs. , nh'n srmt. chickens, corn, wheat or eorgnum Q mankmd; we have eutreat from the tenant. In fact, let them ed, and we have been mocked; rise to the situation by demanding and now we riSQ up au(i defy at least one half of payments in them, and tell them that the such supplies. Get out of the old time for harmony and compro grooves. Give over so much sel- mise has passed away, and that fishness, and accept a little more we will only consider and accept irnnM in rWlpr tn RM-vfi the. unconditional surrender The Work ol Starving Women, Children and the Aged Goe Grimly On. Havana, Jan. 17. Here are several authentic reports con cerning the horrible situation of the concentrados in Cuba. Two hundred and fifty pacifi- cos were living at Uftascaiioas, Melenadel Bur, Havana province, until they were herded around Guines, All but five of them have died from starvation, and the five survivors are in the most pitiful state of sickness. .Ninety-eight pacificos wno were confined in the courtyard of the club at Guines have all died of hunger. Around Havana 80 per cent, of the pacificos are uns able to work owing to their weakness from starvation. n the town of Aguacate, in this province, 300 persons are dying of hunger. Since Dec. 20 the authorities have stopped giv ing them t he provisions that Gen. ' Blanco had ordered to be de livered to them. The local Junta for the relief of the pacificos says that it has no monsy from the Government for that purpose. In Havana city 243 women and children are starving to death at 82 Cadiz street; 32 in the hospital of Aldecoa, and 339 in the hos pital known as Quinta del Rev. They have neither food, medi cines, nor clotMing. In the place called Los Fosos there are over 1 .000 pacificos starving. Among them 348 women and children are actually dyiDg. The neighboring town of Gua- nabacoa is also full of starving people. Tn Matanzas there are over 12,000 people starving. The situation is the same all over the island. There has bean not the least exaggeration in all the re ports about the frightful ravages of famine in Cuba. GOLDSBORO, N C, JAN. 19. The Following are the Latest Quotations on Articles Named. 1 21 2i(cb 4 4 7 7 (eg 10 8(3) ... 15 (5) 18 , . . 18 20 .... 25 (d 35 25 (d 35(40 50 72 i . . 5i to 6 12i 10 to 12 11 $2. 51 to 8 7 to 8 8 to 10 6ito ' 5i to 6 , 7J to 8 . 17 to 25 weaker members of the communi ty, and the State itself. There is assuredly no hope of relief except through action of this nature on vour part. You are masters of We see on all sides of us labor walking the streets of our cities vainly seeking employ meat.: want and wretchedness stalking through the highways and by wats of our fair land, with no You can't cure consumption but you can avoid it and cure every ot.ner form of throat or luiip trouble bv tho uieof One Minute Cough Cure. J. H Hill fe Son, Goldsboro, and John R. Smith., Mt. Olive. Fair Bluff Times: As usual at this season of the year, the guano is beginring to roll in by the car load to make a new crop of 5 cent cotton. - COTTON. Market steady on a basis of 5i for middling: tobacco; Fillers common Medium Good Fine Smokers Common. .......... T Medium., Good Fine 8 (till Cutters Common. , 7 10 Medium 10 (a) 14 Good 14 18 Fine 13(g25 Wrappers Common Medium Good Fine Fancy MEATS. Sides, dry salt Fresu portc Suar cured hams N. C. Hams Breakfast Bacon. . . Salt Mullets Lard, country.: Turkeys dressed Lard. .Northern Turkeys undressed Chickens dressed Chickens live, apiece STAPLE GROCKRIE3 Flour fancy patent Flour straight 5 25 Flour eooJ family. 5.00 Weal ret Bick 1.00 Susrar , 5ito 6 Coffee 10 to 15 Cheese lOito 11 j Salt ..-50 to 1.20 PRODUCE. Com ....45 Rice rough 75 Rje .75 Oats 30 to 85 Bran per 100 lbs 80 Potatoes sweet 30 to 35 Potatoes-Ir'sh 100 Peanuts ' 60 to 75 Apples - 2.75 Kfrg-s 12-J Butter 20 to 25 Tallow, i 2 to 21 B-jeswax 18 to 20 Hides green . 6 to 7 Hides dry 10 to 14 6 00 rv A. This is the head a Pearlinc womap..-- "There cr. others.!' And if the others dp-.i't loc cheerful, it's r.o v ender. You'v got to v.-crk Iiard, if you do. yo; washing and cleaning with soa and -you've Ot to v. ork a long tin over it, and you're wearing thin oat with your rabbinr. Pearlir makes the war'.; easy and quick saves rubbincf. 1 he wonder is tha Stock Law Election Notice State of North Carolina ) Wayne County. ) It appearing to the satisfaction of the Board of County Commissioners of Wayne County that a majority of the qualified voters m the territory hereinbelow described, have petition ed m the manner prescribed by law for an extension oi the stock law over said territory: It is hereby ordered by the Chair man of the Board, the Clerk of the Millions N0PearJine ANDY CATHARTIC any woman who has to do soap's hard work can look pleasant. Superior Court and the Register of Still, some of them do, in spite Of it. 614 Deeds, for said County, that an eke- Bros in the town of Pikeville, on Tuesday the 8th day of February, 1898; that a new r'gistration be had of the voters embraced -vs itiiin the boundaries named in said petition, and that N. B. Berger and 111. V Crawford be appointed Registrars and J. H. Edgerton, G. L. Sullivant and Albert Aycock judges of the said election. Following are the boundaries nam ed in said petition: Beginning with stock gate near John Thigpen's, runs -witn ijolasooro ana oauis Roads road to r ler of Jos. Fore hand's field near J onathanDavis' gin, then with path running by Ji.psy Jackson place toR. H. Smith's corner, then across C. A. Jackson s field, then up his back fence to corner of li. A. bmith s upper place, then -with eastern line of his land and the home place lands of J. P. Smith, crossing the slough m the head ot JN. 1 . Per kin's mill pond then with the South line of the lands formerly belonging to J. T. Edgerton, then with East line of Johnathan Garxisto Nahunta Swamp, then up said swamp on the South side to Holland's bridge, then nearly South withUroldsboro road to X Roads near Frances Mitchell, then West with public road to George Best's corner, then South with George Best s line to Dennis Sulamp, then down said swamp on Southside to Little River, to present stock law, then with present stock law to beginning. G. C. KORNEGAY, Dec. 8, 1897. Reg. Deeds. fa I j ! 25 iscr At I DRUGGISTS i RPCATTITUT V rTTIDIinilJPr to core any caseof constipation. Cascarets are the Ideal Laxa-S nDuUliU I Lib I U UmlnM 1 LCiU tire, never crip or trine, bnt cause easy natural results. Sara4 nlo .ni hnir1t trmm. kA RTEni.Tfi RPMRnY c?0. rhir.:i!.n. 1-nntrenl. Can., or new York. t Jk-n ral . . DAI N TV WOMAN employes every hoet aid to enhance her charms, and proper y no. So pei -fumers all over the wo ld hend thtir energies to the manuf clure of rol- osrnes. extracts, 'fwm.es and sacl et powders for her delectation. We haie almost everything jou can think of in i.ba l-.no ...u ni. j.. iii i ii'K, alrtady otiled, or in siti ')' quar'tUies M. E. Robinson & Bro. THE SEMI-ANNUAL Clearance The holidays have passed and we are moro thin thankful to lhe Dablic for the'r liberal patronage. We are sti'l receiving the finest oys ters in the shell that we have had this season, liemeiaber thov are onenp.d from 'he shell fresh to order. Please return buckets. Goldsboro Oaster House, J. B. WATSON, Prop. Oysters and Ouail S-eryed to Order. s Small pill, safe pill, best pill De Witt's Little Early Risers cure bil lio tsness, constipation, sick headache, J.H. Hill & Son, Goldsboro and J no. R Smith Mt Olive Last year this country's exports were over $1,000,000,000. - This is another suggestion of the high figures to which wheat went. AT THE t,LADIES, ?STORE,V is always of special interest, because the prlcts on all our Dress Goode, Goats and Capes are cut in pieces, in order te close inem out Deiore siocK-ian- in if. . Dissolution Notice ! The co-partnership heretofore exist ing between N. J. Smith, B. P. Scott a i , - r , -v i i ana j . jr. omim, nas oeen Qissoivea oy lSO a lOX OT Femnanib HI l-rfcJll UUUU& mutual consent. J. P. Smith retirinir iUn4- nvct Dara Rarrrainc from the firm. All debts due the old Remember the Clearance Sale We will close out the balance of pur stock of Dress Goods. Cloaks and Capes at a sac rifice. Begins At Once. M. E,. Gastex & GO- firm can be paid to N. J. Smith at Goldsboro, or to J. P. Smith at Pike ville. The business will be continued at the same stand by Nt J. Smith. B P. Scott and P. B. Scott, under the rm namo ol bmitn. facott at Uo., as heretofore. Thanking the public for the gener ous patronage with which they favored the old lirm we nope by lair and non est dealings, ana strict attention to business, to merit a continuance of the sanre. N. J. SMITH, B. F. SCOTT, P. B. SCOTT. cxtraorainarv e HAVP Vnil Sore Throat, Pirn in i i. m ples Copper-Color. ed Spots, Aches, Old Sores, Ulcers i Moutb, id air-Jt ailing t Write Cook Remedy Co., 965 Masonic Temple Chicago, 111., for proofs of cures. Cap ital, $o00,1)Ip0. Worst cases cured In 15 to 35 days. 100-page book free. 1 esa THAT OFFER STILL HOLDS GOOD. AND IF YOU "WISH to have your buggy re - pa i nte d and made to look as srood ha inew. and with workmanship guaranteed first- class in every particular, bring ,it to me, in tne rear of aummeriin's re- -rz--i , pair shop on the Q corner oi J onn and Ash streets. I am still ofterino-"to paint them at the small price of FIVE Carriages. Phaetons aad all other vehicles or job painting at prices low luproportion. Respectfully, Richard Brown. News and Opinions of National Importance. 4 jpttt Alone Contains Both. Daily, by Mail $6 a year Daily and Sunday, by mail. ..8a year The Sunday Sun is the greatest 8nnday Newspaper in the World. Price 5c. a copy. By mail; $2 a year. Address THE SUN, New York. Died Time : Musical Home School. t ory, Burdea BaiMiaar, Front Room the situation, and through you only I refuge from starvation but the can a change be wrought in the I river or the grave, while on the all-imnnrtanofi matter of home I other hand we witness a degree supplies . Greenville Weekly: While sawing a very large log at Mr. Spier's Crisp Mill near Crisp, near Edgecombe county, last week, "Mr. W. J. Brown, the sawyer, noticed something shining in the log and it " proved to be a ball open by the of semi-barbaric splendor and luxury that would shame ancient Rome when it was in thehey-dey of its. oppression and persecu tion. We have witnessed an un paralleled exhibition o'coersion, villification, persecution, oppres sion: and corruption raisingQits hideous head has held high holi day, and the harmonious and the saviours of society have said "Our bounty is as boundless as the sea; our Jove as deep. " "Cur hopes, our heart-, our prayers, our tears. Our faith triumphant o'er our fears; Are all with thee; are all with thee." And thougn darkness is now on hign. peering tnrougn tne sullen, lowering clouds and look which was cut open by the saw, The log was a very large one (pine) that it is welu and squared eighteen inches. And to that matchless leader of Lord Cornwallis marched through the democracy, William Jennings that section in the Spring of 1781 Bryan, eight million American going to Yorktown, where he met ! freemen say his defeat, and the ball ia supposed to have been fired in a skirmish or some little fight during that march. Ash-boro Courier; As the C. F. and Y. V. train approached Mill boro one day last week, it was rUafrYvrovl flint, n. Vinv pa.T Inaled with cotton war on fire. The train inS beyQd f , t .-I i. re a come, I see him holding a sanct- was stopped, the car cut off and -n th& hearts Qf lfae , carried to the siding at the sta- i see a mighty, free, enlightened - tion. Capt. W. D. Lane opened people, whose hearts swell with "the door to the car and pulled i0ve and devotion, slowlv and two bales out of the car. The whole car was in a blaze "and ev ery effort to save the cotton proved unsuccessful. There were twenty-five bales, and all were 1 l rp-L- t4-T, UU1"BU T - flowers of immortality upon his was for the Worth Manufacturing last abiding plac6t Sayin: with Company. words that rise struggling from The Maryland General Assem- J the heart, that are too deep to bly . began at noon to-day I utter, too strong to be suppressed: fr. lllnr. fnr a IJmterl States Sen-1 "While tbe wlttiered trunK 01 'ree ator to succeed the Hon. Arthur Pue Gorman, whose present term expires in March, 1899. That a Republican will be chosen is rea sonably certain. -FOB- GIRLS AND ( COR. LAFAYETTE YOUNG LADIES ) AVE. & CHARLES ST, BALTIMOHE, MD. If vou have not vet made vour wrap ourchase, don t put it on another day. we are selling coats and capes every day, and at the prices named this week and next they must go rapidly. We will have no old stock to carry next season. To effect this, every garment is marked way down BELOW THE COST TO MANUFACTURE ! Here's how they are goingNot more than two of a kind. BftRTHOLD iftEy&R, Principal- Catalogue Furnlshed!Upon!flpplication. Cnnnlqltmo. Vocal opcoiaiLico. - stringed In struments, Languages, with Literature and Art. Culture, jed In- Elocution Real Estate. I have for sale 2 houses and lots, and sereral vacant lots. Will take charge of property in city. If you wish to buy or sell, see me. E. L. Edmundson. Office in F. B. Edmundson '3 store. Number of boarding pupils limited. Unexceptional home comforts. OPKN8 bEPT.16, reverently wending their way to his far-off inland city, carrying with them hallowed memories, bearing the blossoms and gar lands from Mt. Vernon and Mods ticello. laying the wreaths and dom's tree Sends fortna single leaf, even for thy grave, A garland let it be." How's This. We offer One Hundred Dollars Lydia Burns, relict Kewaro lor any case;oi atarrn tnat r - I AQLTinf a Piirorl hv Hull fl t Iflrnrr n Messenger-Intelli- Coats. Was $$. Coat of finest black beaver, elegant frogs and braid trim ming, taffeta lined. Now $9. Was $16.0. An elegant heavy, light tan cloth, handsomely stitched and perfect style. .. Now $7.?0. Was $16.50. - Russian Blouse, of broadcloth, mohair trimmed, absolutely quality. black braid first Wadesboro cencer: Mrs. of the late J. 13. iiurns, ot this place, died at the home of her son, Mr. C. Burns, Wednesday afternoon, aged 65 years. High Point Enterprise: While at Asbeboro, Monday, the Enter prise was told that a cotton f ac -tory would be built ' there some time this Spring. The stock is now being made up. ; - Mayor Van Wyck intimates that the police of Greater New York will be kept out of politics. It's a rather dazzling idea to look at, but it) J-'t wink all the aim it Cure. F- J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, O. We the undersigred, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions ana financially able to carry out any obligations made by their trm. West & Teuax, Wholesale Drug- - gists, Toledo. O. Walding, Kxnnas & Mabvih, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. .- Price, 75c, per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. : , Testimonials free rT. Mi If-a Ncrti FfiASTEns cure EH EI7M A- TI'iM, WEAK BAO&'i. At druggists, only 25c. Now $9. Was $,13.50. Brown broadcloth, stitched. " Now $7.0. Was $13.50. Fine black beaver,satin lin'd, fur collar. Now $7.0. Was $12.50. Russian Blouse, of Navy Broadcloth, braid trimmed. - Now $7.50. Was $12.50. Heavy mixed cheviot, braid ornaments. Now $5. Was $12.50. Black Beaver, braided. elaborately Now $5. Was $10. Fine black Beaver, stitched and braided. Now $6. All our other coats in the same proportion. Capes. Our Cape offerings are not as numerous, but what few we offer are inr ordinate bargains: Was $15. v ; Finest quality plush, elabor ately jetted, wide sweep; full satin lined. Now $10. Was $12.50. Of similar plush, braid and jet trimmed. Now $7.50. Was $15. Heavy black cloth, extra quality, braid trimmed. Now $9. Was $12.50. r s Superior Brown braid trimmed. Cheviot, tel. .fa mm, Now $7.0. Was $9. Myrtle Cloth, stitched and braided, stylish. Now $4.50. Was $7.0. Elegant Kersey, hair, trimmed. best Mo- Now $5. Was $5. Of Beaver, box plaits, braid trimmed. Now $3. Was $5. Of fine brown broadcloth. Now $2.50. VII Zf 1 M'J- ' II This Tender Meat this juicy meat this altogether satisfactorv meat of ours, is here to be eaten. We want you to take it away and eat it, "V ou have to eat meat to live wny not buy it where you are sure of get-ting the very best there is Oh. yes, everjone does say that, but evervone doesn't prove it. e d. Buy a stake for breakfast, and see if it lSD'tSO, M. Sherman. These and more. It Constitutes the Cloak Offering: of the Year. BROS H isrhClass Merchandise Valuable - ODDortunlties ! The Southern Realty Exchange. REAL ESTATE BOUGHT, ) SOLD AND EXCHANGED. S fiav6 You Frop6rtu For Sale? Do uou wish to Invest? ' Loans Negotiated. Investments Made Correspondence Solicited. The SoiiMerii . . Realm Excnanoe- GOLDSBORO, N. C.T U. S. A. Dr. PRANK BOYETTE Dentist Specials. nil ULES AND WAGON FOR SALE I will sell two mules and waeron. altogether, or each separately, at a bargain. They can be seen at my residence, corner William and Boun dary streets. B. J. Midyette. HAVE YOU PAID YOUR TAXES FOR 1897? If not, take notice that the law requires me to furnish the Judge .with a list of the delin quents at the next term of Superior Court, which convenes here on the 24th hist. Are you going to allow your name written there? The law allows me no alternative. W. A. Denmark, Tax Collector for Golds -boro Township. Jan. 10th, 1898. I Want- WHAT? A share of vour trade. and fair deal- going to And if low prices inss will cet it, I am have it. I am going to sell goods ttb pnues lower man can De naa in town, and shall give" you full value for your money, and shall turn my goods over at a very small profit Thanking you for past favors, and hoping to increase same this year, I am, Yours to command, Mrs. M. P. Johnson, East Centre Street. Must be Sold. We are selling fine Jew elry cheap. If you are in need of anything in this line, you will find it to your advantage to inspect the large stock of Watts & Watts, now being sold at actual cost r prices, under assignment. . All goods sold will be just as represented. Coine early and get ad vantage of the large stock before culled. M. E. Robinson, Assignee