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Practice rcirnlarly In the eonrts of "Ala mance county. . Anit. S, W ly. DR. J. I?. STOCK D, Dentist, GRAHAM, N. C. Office at resilience, opposite Best work at reasonable frl In office Monday and Sal owe. tur day. nr Mothers! TBXdlfCOtB fart and dangers of aMM-Mrtheaa b almost an- tirely ayoided.2 WiMofCudni1 relieve peetant moth eta. It gi-rea ' condhion to do thebr work Mrf ectlr. That toiakea preg aaacT leas painful, shorten labor and haatenarecOTery after child-birth, U help a woman bear aboagkaalthy childxea, ' ' ha alas brought happ4nea to ' thooaasdaof borne barren lor Si. Afewdoeortnbriog to lowing beart that lonf a oarlin; babr. Nowomaa ' aboold neglect to try it lot thfa) trouble. It car aia caeca oa talaea. All drsgista eell Wiaa fCatdsi. fioperbottl. H j 1 im 11 aiw ws 1H Las fa Ire Vrn Kara 2 5 Wd-m (SCv " sw - y . ar adVto to esaas iMttotoM li TaaCtySaaastaartMCa. Cans- II Va. UMIA BAUE. .'""" ' H Wkaa I aval sm WlaearCarwal I lililliaaii is" J" ' I am a hi afciiaMa. S I nantnstgt laaaaT. qi V. '11' ' :i!t-"" JIM J. M. Mewborne A ns- wers Chairman Simmons in an Open Letter WRIfTEN BY GOV.-liUSSELl The - Rnsaell-Mewborno Combine Letter a Coarse Hlanderoni Affair Chairman Simmons Strike Hack With Canfttio and Withering Effect Also In an Open Letter n nil answer the Hypocracy of the State Adnlniatratlon. - " v. . . . . During last 'month' 6n different occasions Hon. F. .M. Simmons, the chiirmrn ot the Democratic 8tate executive oomtniltee,' addressed re spectful and altogether proper letters which" apiear below and ore self-ex planatory, tw J. M. Mewborne, Super intendent of the Penitentiary, asking for information that according to law should have appeared months ago. instead nl making a coutteous reply to Iho courteous requests of Mr. Simmons-', Mewborne sends a letter conceived by Gov, Russell and signed by himself in which ho not inly refuses to give the information hut indulges in a coarse, personal Mack on Mr. Simipons, who makes a vigorous reply in which he lays bare the hypocracy of Gov, Russell aniHhe State administration. Below appears the entire corres pondence: f"A") Raleigh, Juiy 14, 1898. Hon. J. M. Mewborne, Superinten dent of the Penitentiary, Raleigh, N. C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to re quest that you cause to be furnished ine at the earliest practicable day the following information concerning the affairs of the penitentiary: 1st. A list of all the officers and employes of the penitentiary, giving tho name of each, the date of his election or appointment, the desig nation and place of his appointment, the date of the creation of such office or place, tho character and na ture of his services, and his monthly compensation. 2nd. An itemized statement of the receipts and disbursements of the year beginning June 30th, 1897, and ending June 30th, 1898, showing the sources of the receipts and the purposes of the disbursements. Thanking you'1 in advance for a prompt reply giving the desired in formation, 1 am very truly yours, F. M. Simmons, ' Chairman. ("B") Raleigh, July 16, 1898. Hon. J. M. Mewborne, Supcrintcnd . ent Penitentiary. Dear Sir: In addition to tho in formation requested a few days ago I beg that you will cause to be fur nished me at the earliest practicable day this. additional information: A statement showing tho number of farms, plantations, lots or plots, of land now under lease or contract of any kind to or witb. the penitentiary, no matter whether such contract or lease Is, la the nume of the State or of the board of directors of the peni tentiary. I wish such statement to give approximately tho number of acres of each farm, plantation, lot or plot of land, where located, the use to which it is being put, the date of such lease or contract, and the amount paid for each in fee or by the year, as the case may be, under such lease or contract. I have the honor to be, o Very truly yours, F. M. S1MX0.NS, Chairman. x ("C") IJalc'igh, July 20, 1898. Hon. J. M. Mewborne, Superintend- ent Penitentiary. Dear Sir: It has been charged that a part of the cotton crop of 1897 belonging to the penitentiary was sold for prices below the market value and not wishing to do any one in justice I beg that you will furnish me with the following information : A statement showing to whom, in what quantities, at what time, and at what price, the cuitofl, 'corn and wheat crops ot 1897 were sold. It being rumored that there is Urge number of outstanding unpaid accounts" or claims against the peni tentiary, I beg that you will also give me a sbvlerBent showing the outstanding unpaid claims up to June 30lh, 1898, showing when and for hat contracted, to whom doe, and reason, why they are unpaid, This in format ion is in addition to that heretofore requested. . - "Yoara truly, - -F. M. igiMJioxs, . Chairman, . ("D") : s '( Raleigh; July 21, 1898. Hon. Claudius Oockery, Chairman Board of Directors of the Penitentiary.' Dear Sir: Section 9 of the act of 1807t' entitled "An Act for tho Gov ernment of tho Penitentiary," and buine cluiuter 219 of the laws of 1897, reads as follows: Sect ion 9. Tjint the fiscal year of tho institution shall end on sthe thirty-first day of December of each and every ve.r, whereupon the superintendent bhull tuko and file, under oath, an inventory of oil proe'rty of every kind on hand and credited to his general annual ac count between the State and the penitentiary for such year, and the board of directors shall mako" an. an nual report to the governor showing the financial condition of tho insti tution by the inventory and accounts of the superintendent, and also the condition and residence of the con victs. The annual report shall ako contain the prices paid for the prin cipal supplies and received for the rincipal products each month, and also a classification of persons on the roll with the rate of wages paid to each. " From the whole number printed for distribution, two hun dred copies of such annual report shall bo preserved for use of the ienvral Assembly. Assuming as a matter of course that your board has complied with such a plain provision of the law and that the report required by this section has long since been made and printed I beg that you will do me tho favor to send me a copy by the bearer of this note. I also beg that you will at the earliest practical moment cause a copy ol the inventory requirea Dy the "first part of the section to be made and forwardedto me. I have tho honor to be, Very truly yours, F. M. Simmons, Chairman, ("E") Raleigh, July 14, 1S98. Hon. John R. Smith, Commissioner of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. Dear Sir: I beg that you will cause to be furnished me at the ear liest practicable day the following information regarding the adminis tration of the Department of Agri culture, towiti A list of all the officers and em ployes of the Department, giving the name of each, the date of his election or appointment, tho desig nation and place of his employment, the date of the creation of such office oi place, the churacter and na ture of his services, and his monthly compensation. Also the amount of the gross re ceipts of the Department lor the year beginning June 30th, 1897, and ending June 30th, 1898, together with a detailed statement showing tho disbursements for the same pe riod of time and the purposes for which the expenditures were made. Thanking you in advance for a prompt reply giving the desired in formation. I am Very truly yours, . , - F. M. Simmons, i. Chairman. f'F'M Rockingham, N, C July 26. ' Dear Sir: Your favor was handed me in Raleigh in which you ask for a copy of thej-pport of the superin tendent of the State's prison tor the year 1897. This report has been made to the board, and I believe will be in the hands of the governor in a very short while. I would re spectfully suggest that, when this is the case, you can secure a copy at the executive office. If a copy is sent me here, I will gladly forward it to you. If not I will be glad to serve you when I return to Raleigh again. Very truly yours, (Signed.) Clac Pit's DocxtBY. - Raleigh, July 23, 1898. F. M. Simmons, Esq., Chairman State Democratic Executive Com mittee, Raleigh, N. C. Sir Your various letters, writ ten from Uie Democratic headquar ters and signed by you as chairman of the Democratic party, ask, or de mand a large mass of figures and schedules, all of which are usually (bond in the printed reports of the opermtendent of the State prison. When the time comes for ma to makemy report according to law, 1 will make it by direction of the law, and not by the direction of the chairman of the Democratic party ia North Carolina. From that yon, or any other individual, can get the information that , you pretend 16 If lha prison" clerk had time to rtiak out the statement 'od gather up the figures I would be perfectly willing that ho should ; do so now, or at any other time, at the request of any citizen of tho State, provided that citizen possesses alio following qualifications' . First, he must bo a man of honor, who makes the request in-good faith for tho legitimate purpose- of obtaining information, and not with the intention of obtaining figures for distortion, misrepresentation and falsehood. . ' - ' . Second, ho" must boa porson who, when he comes to ask for 'returns' to him will not be suspected on ac count of his post conduct of having the intention to falsify tho returns, so as to make them tho reverse of what they truly aro. Third, I should prefer that the person making the request, if he be a politician, should be sincere in what ho prol'esses to be. For example, that he should not be standing on a Populistic platform when every one knows that he is a Clovelanditeand a gold bug and a monopolist. You are not the kind of 'man to ask an honest man tor bona fide re turns of facts and figures. It is simply wonderful that you should even dare to ak anybody to make returns to you . In 1892 you as chairman of the Democratic party got returns of the votes of the free men of North Carolina. These -re turns of the Populist and Republi can votes you had flung into tho ditch and caused your robber re turning boards to refuse to count the votes that you did not like and to count only those that wero cast for you and your crowd. Yifu must have some sort of notion that you not only have tho right to question me, but are still commander-in-chief of the board of perjurers of tho precincts and tho robbers of the re turning boards. You seem to forgot that tho people of North Carolina roso in their honest indignation in 1894 and abolishod you and your rascally returning boardsand ( gave to you your final discharge from tho manipulation ofvotes and voters. But there is -some information which you call for that I can give you without hiring an extra book keeper, and I shall proceed most cheerfully to do so. You want to know about the plantations operat ed by the penitentiary and the rent, or lease money, contract to be paid by the State. Well, there is a tarm known as the Halifax farm. It was leased from certain individuals under 'Demo cratic management, and is now cost ing the Stato for rent under the Democratic contract about 11,600 a year. A largo amount was ex ponded upon it in the nay of clear ing and improvements. Most oi it is a dangerous bottom on the Roan oke which cannot be dyked and on which crops cannot be safely plant ed. It never has been worth the rent, but it was saddled upon the State to be ditched and cleared; and for royal rents to be paid to the fortunate lessors. t After-it had been improved, cleared lip and taken out of the wilderness, and buildings put upon it by the State, General Mat thew W, Ransom, of the county of Northampton, notified the superin tendent of the penitentiary and the Governor of the State, that tho Democratic board, had taken the lease and had paid out uncounted thousands of dollars in tho way of improvements and rents,, and all this they had done on property to which they had no title; that the lease was void and worthies, be cause there was a mortgage on the property and the . mortgagees did not join in the lease, and the mort gage had been foreclosed, and Gen. Ransom, or his son, had -be come Jhe purchaser of the farm at the mortgage sale. And after the State had improved and rescued it from tho wildemewt, it turned out that it belonged to General Ransom, or his son. Of course the Slate ought not to complain about any thing of this sort, because we should submit (o anything for- the sake of 'good government" And for the same reason complaint should not be made about the An son plantation. Your Democratic board (I do not mean your return ing board, but the penitentiary board), made a contract for the lease of about 2,500 acre of waste land, consisting of rock, gullies and overflow bottoms,, some old turned- out fields and a considerable quantity of growing wood. The best thing about it i the wood. It stood right thkk. It was easy to cut a man of your die and build properly dealt with by lav and duly disciplined, could cut two or three oord a day, bat wbil we cut the wood we can not cut the railroads on Jreigbt; con sequently when we are cutting wood wo aro working for tho railroads and thereby making a fusion with you and the other managers of tho Dem ocratic party and probably afsint ing to enlarge your campaign fund, This contract provides that the State mirv buy this property for about, as I remamber it, (25,000, but the contract made the State pay and is now making the Stato pay by way ot reut, every yiar nearly si x per cent on forty thousand dollars I am in forniod, and I believe that it was valued for taxation- at some four or five thousand dollar. when the Stato took hold of it. I am fur ther informed, and I fully believe that it could have been bought for six or seven thousand dollars. I am further informed, and believe, that it wai not at that time paying a net interest or income at u per cent, on five thousand dollurs. Those figures may not be probably accurate, but since you are after in formation, suppose you search the taxJists for the years 1895 and 1896, and suppose you get some state ments, or estimates, as to tho net rents that it was paying in those years. 1 could get them it l had tho timo. I suppose that you have the time and the campaign fund. It is the opinion of most of the far mers of Anson county that this was another ease of a Democratic job put upon the State for the sake of "good government." Then, again, there nos the Castle Ilayne property. Your party had this property, rented, or leased. Your party rented out tho convicts to the North Carolina Phosphate Company, which had them digging for phosphate rock. Instead of col lecting the money for the rent ot the convicts, your crowd took the notes of the phosphate company. Tho individual stockholders of this phosphate company were re puted rich ; they ore so regarded how. You took the paper of the phosphate company without ever having obtained the endorsement or security of those rich stockholders, who wore really getting tho labpr of the convicts for themselves. When the people dispensed with your "good government", you dumped upon us some sixteen thousands of dollars of worthless paper of this insolvent corporation. There are three other plantations, on the Capo Fear that have been rented by the present management for the cultivation of rice. Two of these places were rented from Mr. Butters, one' of them for 1500 and the o:her for 1350 a year. One of them was rented from Mr. Borden of the Navassa Gua no Company, for some f 300 or 1350. I am told that some slanderers have already circulated the report that Governor Russell owns these places,' or has some interest in them. In this thcro is no truth. The gov ernor bad no interest whatever in these properties. I am reliably in formed that' there are responsible parties who would be glad enough to take those three plantations from the State at an advance on the rent which the State is paying. Suppose you send out some' of your heelers and find somebody who will give us one-half tit one-tbird Tif Ihe-rent which we are paying for the Halifax fit nn and the Anson farm. You want to know .about tho sales of cotton of the crop oi 1897. It would give me pleasure to answer this or any other of your questions j to any man who asked them in good faith and for an honest purpose, so far as I have the knowledge or means of acquiring it. I shall not trouble myself, however, or my bookkeeper,: to answer you, but if you want to find out how much cot ton was sold from the crop of 1897 and what price it brought, and whether or not it brought its value, you can ask the men who bought it and the men who handled it About 800 bales was sold by my predeces sor to Arnold Borden, of Goldsboro. This was from the Roanoke Farms. ! About 270 bales was sold from the Anson Farm before I came in. The purchasers were Wadesboro cotton buyers. I sold about 1,400 bales to Barbee ic Co., of Raleigh, and 600 bales to Barbae & Co. and Johnson & Thompson, of Raleigh. The books of these gentlemen will show what they paid, and they know about the quality and value. " They can tell yon if they cboone. The peniten tiary books also show all those trans action, all of which you will find embodied in toy printed report at the end of the present fiscal year. I am not aware that these data have east been made public in advance of the printing of the report of the operations of the penitentiary. - Now, since yea have o anach lore and affection for the interrogation mark, suppose yon take a look at a the food para, wbelaseat aad delicto. Absolutely Pur homi hkiwi rotwi oo,, htw vowc few of them, " As you are asking questions of mo I propose to ask some of you. ' What do you know about the six thousand dollars of Stanly county bonds, and tho eight thousand dol lars of Wilkes county bonds lhat rwore unloaded on the Univorsity of North Carolina, resulting in o loss of fourteen thousand dollars to the University and tho taxpayers of the State. All men know that these bonds were worthless. Who sold them to Chapel Hill? The Rich mond & Danville Railroad company (that is the Southern Railway com pany) is supposed to havo gotten the bonds? They wero sold to the University at about 88 or 90 cents. Did tho money go to tho original holder, the Richmond &. Danville Railroad company?,. If not, who got it? Did anybody purchase them from tho origin.il holder? If so, who was it? And what was the price paid ? This whole thinir was done by the Democratic manage ment in tho days of '-good govern inont." Our poor old University must struggle on and stagger under the loss. Who put tho loss upon her ? Were they fusionists ? Now, stand up and answer like a man. Wero they fusionists ? You wore chairman of tho Demo cratic commiltco in 1892. How many votes did your party steal in the election of 1892? As to the negro vote, you need not mention them in your schedule, tell us how many white men your party robbed of their suffrages that year. How many of your secret circulars did you circulate among the election rogues who held the ballot boxes in 1892? How many of your secret circulars hove you got left over? The Populist and Republican com mittees are running short of them. How man will yoirturnish for use as souvenirs m mo present cam paign? What do you know about the oyster fraud cases ? Were you one of the lawyers who tried to get these claims paid out. of tho State treas ury? If so, how much were you to get as your part of the swag? If you wore ono of the lawyers who were tho others, and how much wero they to got? The Democratic convention of 1896 declared for Bryan and free silver. How many days before the assembling of tho Democratic con vention was it when you, being a ClevelanfLflflicyJiQld erat jl our or five thousand dollar ea4ary,'printed in the Washington Post that North Carolina would certainly . Ie for Cleveland and gold? , One more question. You are now clamoring about white man's gov ernment and negro rule. It has been time and time again publicly charged that the Democrats of Craven county fused with a faction of the Republicans and put out a coalition ticket along in the cightitu on which was tho name of ono or moro negroes. How many of them were thcro ? What wero the names of thoso negroes? How many times did you rote for them? I should not havo thought you would have done it. ' Another question. You went to COnffrese from tho Black district now represented by ono George H. Whitfj colored, whose majority over two candidates was 1,232. Did you get in lijrclection or by ciphering? One more question. If you suc ceed in defeating Bryan in 1900, do you expect to get your old office or a better one? .Are' you hoping for Ransom and Cleveland or Ran som and McKinley to do better by you next time) Vance is dead and can no longer binder your con firmation. ' Yours truly, J. W. MawBoaxa. ,-- Continued on 2nd page. warn win roaT Muar awuamtln tnalj InMM as Lsiana Srrap. ButaurtM w r aa4 la mcmrj la crr -ae araaviss an M UU Swwa. I rkoa, l na,awii Ja Royal &4.H110 Look At This I For 30 days we will sell you this Organ DELIVERED. AT YOUR HOUSE, with nice stool and book for only $55.00 generally sold at 75.00 Wo havo secured three counties for the celebrated Standard Rotary Sewing Machine the lightest running and most iviiacless machine made. We have sold ALL ; KINDS (now . have all kinds in stock) but the standard downs them all. 75c a week buys one from Ellis. ELLIS FURNITURE CO., I Burlington, N. C, 1 0. It. ELLIS. Manager. INSURANCE ! I wish to call tho attention of insurers in Alamance county . to the fact that the Burlington Insurance Agency, established in 1893 by tho late firm of Tate & Albright, is still in the ring. ' There is no insurance agency in North Carolina with better : facilities for placing large lines of insurance, that can give low-" er rales or better indemnity. Only first-class companies, in every branch of tho business, find a lodgement in my office. , With a practical experience of more than ten years, I feel- warranted in soliciting a share of the local patronage. I guarantee full satisfaction in every instance. Correspondence solicited upon -all matters pertaining to insurance I am making a sccialty of Life Insurance and will make it to tho interest of all who desiro protection for their families or their estates, or who wish to make absolutely safo and profit-' able investment, to confer with me before giving their applica-:-tions to other agents. . n . Very respectfully, JAMES P. ALBKIOHT, - BURLINGTON, N. C. , Suppose' Suppose you had a nicely displayed advertisement in thisspace.then what? Why the 2,500 eyes that scan these pages every week would see it and would know of your business, and when something in your line was wanted they would naturally look you up. See? Had you ever thought of it? Indaatrlal Note. ICusma is raising teal Paris lias dog dentists. Utah has six woolen mills. Japan has 100 cotton mills. Indiana has 17 cement mills. - Colorado is to can vegetables. Siberia has two silver mines. Japan has 10,000 fishermen. Greece has seven cotton mills. Siberia has 40,000 gold miner. Japan has a bamboo lighthouse. Japan's dyers held a convention. Berlin has 20, 000 vacant houses. Brazil is first in coffee production. Sues canal earns 114,000,000 a year. Ixndon has an undertakers in stitute. KunnWernril in Russian illumi: nant. Silver mining is Teru's leading industry. Texas peanut crop i worth $4,- 000,000. Vienna is to have a "export Acad- demy." Thirty-eight vtvael fly the Hawaiian flag, - . Hilflesbelm baa. a 1 1,003-year- old, rose-bush. :', IMidoa is to have a comroerical information bureau. j; : OXOXOXQXPJ John Bull pays 170,000,000 a year for tobacco and pipes. ' One acre of land will comfortably support four jwrnons on a vegetable diet. . - Entilak Sparla Llnisaent rcmoras all Hard, Soft or Calloused lumps aad Blemishes from horse Wood Kparlns, Curbs, Splints, Swaa- ny. KHur Hone, M tides. Sprain. aU asroUen Throat. Courts, etc Mere at by of on MMe, Warranted the saoat woaaerfai Blemish care erer known. stoM by T. A. At brlcht. dnsiclst, Graham, V. C. The Greensboro Patriot say Tho. Hart, a Guilford farmer, was found dead in the woods Tuesday mom- ' ing. He had been out the day.',, previous hauling wood and failed to return. After a search he wae found beside his wagon dead. There was no marks of violence about his person and it is taken for granted ' that he died of heart failure. - His team of mules stood by the dead body ell night. ' "' WaTb. Truerwottliy aad arUrw -tteii aad ladles to travel foe eespoesib estahltohed house In North Carolina, ateaih lr avu and expenses, raim aveacy. Kefereaoa. Rnrtuee self -add rawed staaa) ed enrntoea. The DuaautfoaUMapaay, iMft- CasohfO. it on. i. . M I SI l ! 1" IM Is Taj W w t-t J lal 1 -a.