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YOIAJME: XYI1I. LENOIR, N. C, THtJESDAT, JAKTJART 86, 1893. NTTMBEB IDA. o Greatest AchieYement. flotbing Like it Before. Oar stock for the Spring Beasou of 1893 is a wonder to -behold,-exceed-ing all former efforts in Volume, Variety and Attractiveness, And embracing many "new articles and superior goods throughout. Times hare changed, old methods hare given, place to new, and it is gratifying-to know that oar policy Of ' ' " Smallest Profits, Low est Prices and Lar r c gest Sales, Is the winning one. The great increase in trade re salting therefrom has satisfied as of its wisdom, and we shall persist in this policy to the extreme limit. Oar customer may therefore ex pect a rare treatAn the, way of It is worth remembering that onr stock is the Largest in the State. Dry Goods, Notions fc'Slioes are our leading departments. In these lines we shall keep fairly in the lead. , See our stock, or ; wait for our, wlesmen before placing your orders; nd make no mistake. It will pay you handsomely. ' ; ' . .. j- t . . t ' ... ...... Yours truly, tTallaco Bros. THE IXlUSUfi&L 13D2ESS. Giurear Can to tltPis?!. of ttt Stiti. Charlotte Observer. 1 , , " "It has been said that the issues oL the war are dead, and that there is great occasion for rejoicing. Ap-. pearances; justified the statement, but appearances are often deceptive.! But I shall follow in the footsteps of t my predecessors end4eclare that the! issues of the war are dead. I ami led to this by the logic of events in i the past two years, and in the last campaign. There were grave doubts! 30 days before the election of Norths Carolina's fidelity to the principles , of Jefferson; f The great events re-; cently were the growth of the Alli ance, its partial disruption an J the ! formation of the Third party. I Re publican misrule has, however, ce mented the Democracy of the Un-. ion, and who after this can say that out of evil no good can come ? The benefits of the recent Democratic victory will be felt for many decades to corner We have comfa out of the fight strengthened. "Bat to speak of the needs of the people relief j is needed. Vigorous . national legislation has been needed for many years. The currency needs extension. Under that great apostle of Democracy, Orover Cleveland, (great applause) a brighter day seems to be dawning for the people of our grand republic. The Demo cratic party fought on the issue of the re-establishment of State banks and won on that measure. There is a piomise of reform of the tariff and of the absolute defeat of McKinley ism. The task before the Demo cratic party is gigantic to undo all the vicious legislation of a quarter of a century and speedily. Yet conservatism should govern us. An extra session of Congress will expe dite this workjwithout hurrying it. It will confirm Democratic good faith and strengthen the party in popular fa7or Our leaders in most cases are tried teachers, in T touch with the people, and the. masses are seldom wrong. Not all are unani mous, for the interests of the mul titude some time conflict." Got. Carr then left national mat ters and discussed,, specially those peculiarly of State interest, saying : "The prospect for the settlement of national affairs is indeed bright. I congratulate the btate upon the of the present Gen Its election preserved high character oral Assembly. inviolate the present system of State and , county government. (Ap plause.) I am sorry to say the masses of the people in North Carolina are not prosperous. Twenty five per cent, of them are engaged in agri culture or kindred pursuits. For four years past, the condition of this class has been peculiarly oppressive. We have felt the hardships perhaps as keenly as any other secUon. The pall of the mortgage hangs over the agricultural section. In parts of the State lands which but a few years ago were valued at $25, an acre now sell under executions, for only $3, and are not sought after at that fig ure. The people justly cry out at these things. Our duty is to heal these differences and unite the peo ple of all parts as, to the material welfare of the State. There is little surplus of farm products, so great is. the demand, yet the profits .of farm work yearly .diminish. The farmers feel that something is wrong. The Legislature has it in its power to do groat good and to instill new life and hope in the ag ricultural classes. Impose as little tax as possible j upon a people who are now groanipg under as much as they can bear. Aid should be given to the agricultural department and college and the various fairs, devel oping agriculture as much as possi ble. The geological survey should receive the care and attention of the State, which the interest of the peo ple demand, and it . is heartily com mended. The : railroad commission merits special mention. The high character of its members insured its success from the very first. Its work is of great value and it has saved large sums to (the people and the Slate I oppose the exemption of corporations from taxation. (Ap plause.) I thipk all should be taxed and bear their share of the burdens AH railroads which belong in any part to the State should set the ex ample by surrendering at once any privileges of exemption. No prop erty should be exempt save that de- voted strictly tQ church and charita ble purposes. f - t 'l ask your attention to the Uni versity, now waxing strong once more It demands your fostering care- -There should be heartf co operation between it and the pnblio schools. Bucb action unbuilds the State I urge yon to.aid the pnblio schools. The State will never bate done its duty until it has compelled with the mandate of the constitution and provided four month school. We are trifling with the most Tital interests of the State in failing to come up to the constitutiona re quirements in this matter. If nnder the recent decisions it oecomea ueo essary, this Legislature .must con sider the ? question- of ? taking -the school tax out of the constitution. (Applause.) An effloient system of public schools is the only hope for the farming population. Its provis ion is an imperative duty. . The pnblio rcej ra tion. Their condition is deplorable. The system is a failure and the roads a; disgrace to civilization. I shall, watch ; with peculiar interest the work of 'the State road congress and will send you a special message on that subject 'The tax assessment avstem in the. State is extremely unequal, and had - 4 ij luouBgeu. ice , itiw . auouiu oe changed so as to reach every class of property. The work of I the State board . of health is commended. That work needs to be upheld, as this year the State is menaced by a terrible visitor, the cholera Take wise precautions to guard against this. " ; "The State Guard deserves your care. Such a military organization is a necessity. "The Guard has serv ed a ; most useful v purpose. J Do nothing to discourage its : patriotic members, who have made it an or nament and bulwark ofthe State. "I am glad to see you have - al ready taken hold of the important subject of a State bank law No question before the Legislature in volves more for the people than this. The amount of currency is not equal to the pnblio needs. I believe there is wisdom enough in this Legislature to devise a system of State banking which will makethe notes as safe as those of National banks. 'I note theaction of my wist predecessor in regard to the use of the direct tax. I believe that of that tax $25,000 will remain uncalled for and so favor the use of that sum ; the Legislature to replace it out of the general fund if it is called for. I will recommend that so much be set apart for the State's exhibit at the World's Fair, rhicb is a matter of great importance to North Caro lina. (Applause.) Having never sought office nor held it I am unac quainted with the routine. Gover nor Holt's administration1 was one of the ablest in the history of the State. It shall act as a stimulant to me. I assure you that if errors do creep in they are errors of the head and not of the heart." (Great applause.) UXCOUt'S FACULTY. Bis Coons Vis Haiti Vita Disersitsiss and Precision. Huqali 4 Ghttnbroa in Seribner! Magazine. Any one bearing him express his ideas or . think aloud, either upon one of the great topics which ab sorbed him, or on an incidental question, was not long in finding out the marvelous rectitude of his mind nor the accuracy of his judg ment. I have heard him give his opinion on statesmen, argue political prob lems, always with astounding pre cision and justness. I have heard him speak of a woman who was con sidered beautiful, discuss the, partic ular character, of her appearance,' distinguish what was praiseworthy frem what was open to criticism, all that with the sagacity of an ar tist. Lately two letters, in which he speaks of Shakespeare, and in particular of "Macbeth," have been published ; his judgment - evinces that sort of delicacy and soundness of taste that would honor a great literary critic. He had formed him self by the difficult and powerful process of lonely meditation. Dur ing his rough and humble life he had had constantly with him two books which the Western settler al ways keeps on one of the shelves of his nut the Bible and Shakespeare From the Bible he had absorbed that religious ooloi in which he was pleased to clothe bis thoughts; with Shakespeare he bad learned to reflect on man and passiona In certain, respects oe can question whether that sort .of intellectual culture be not more penetrating than any oth er, and if it be not more particularly 8ui ted in the development of a gift- ed mind to preserve its native orig inality. - ; " ' ' - These reflections may serve to ex plain Mr. Lincoln's talent as an or afcor. His incisive speech found its way to the very depths of .the soul; his shcrt and clear sentences would captivate the audience on which, they telU To bim ,was given to see nearly all his definitions pass into daily proverb. It is he who, better than one, stamped the character of the war in these well known words, spoken some years before it broke out : "A bouse divided against- it self cannot stand; this government cannot -continue to exist half free and half slave." - Sf sstesa Cases. . S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with Neuralgia and Bheumatisxn, his Stomach vas dis ordered;8 Liver was affocted i0 an alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced m flesh and strength.:" Three bottles of Electrio Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, III, 3 had : a running sore on his leg of eight years' standing. Used three bottles of Electrio Bitters And seven boxes of BucklenV , Arnica Salve, and hi leg is sound and-well. : " John 8peaker, Catawba, O., had 'five large sores on his leg, doctors said-he was incurable. Onei bottle of Electrio Bitters and one t box ot Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him intirely, -Sold by W.iW. Scott, Tto PeaiaUv. ShirtUy' Debate. - House bill 143, a bill to amend chapter 142, act of 1851, relating to the hunting of opossums, came up on its secoadreading. The amend; - y ment was to strike out the county of ' The introducer of the bill, Mr. Watson, of Vance, yielded the' ad vocacy of the bill to Mr. Watson, of Forsjth, who said! he willingly cham pioned the cause of his friend from, Vance. The amendment to exempt' Vance frcm the operations of. the act of 1891 was just. That bill in terferes with the ancient and com-, mon law rights of the people of that. county. - He did not know bow that bill came to pass i other subjects of less importance had received better .consideration. That . was the first time the opossum had . been legisla ted upon in this body. He had been acquainted with i 'possum hunting since his boyhood. He had followed it under the leadership of the only. man who knew how to hunt pos sums. He described the prepara tions for.the hunt, the torches, the noisy barking of the expectant dogs. He could give the whoop as they sallied forth, but this is not the place to give it. He does, not know where the action of this legislation origi nated; in the prolific orain perhaps, from the section represented of dis tinguished biblical knowledge from Buncombe. All j traditions would point to the great abundance of 'possums in old times. They had much connection with the tower of Babel and the origination of profan ity in the building of that tower. Labor was wanted and it could not be had because! of the abundance of 'possums. They hung by their tails from every persimmon tree. The sons of .Ham brought them in, and because there was no other way to get fiddle strings, they got them from the 'possum and danced to the music of the 'possum stringed fiddle, and wouldn't work. Cush was a greater man than Ham. He hunted 'possums in the absence of the 'pos sum dog, but be jwas Bmart enough to get labor to build a town and then passed laws against the hunting of 'possums. The outraged people broke fo the county, ana went ev erywhere and carried the 'possums everywhere. Some went to Austra lia, the long-legged kind, and be came the Kangaroo, which moved so fast that its tail co a Id n't keepup with the body. Our 'opossum came from Ireland, and then took on the prefix O. He had often wondered what was the ambrosia of the gods. He had learned that it was chowan made from the 'possums caught by Diana in the hills ronnd about Hel econ We know nothing about 'pos sums. We get a little knowledge of them from the songs sung to us in babyhood : j; Book fe-bye bbrn the tic top. Whan the wind blows the eradle will rook, Wbeo the tree the cradle will fill, Down come cradle, oaaum and. all. He hoped the House will favor the gentleman from Vance. That will carry blessings to his house and his county. The 'possum law, as tne w mm va gentleman from Vance knei great trouble during the last cam paign. - - Tks Stiti Essd Csagrsss. The State Boad Congress met in Raleigh on Jan. 19tb, '93. Gov. Carr, as his first official act, opened the Congress. More than 300 dele gates were present representing 80 counties. Hon. C. B. Watson, of Winston, was elected permanent chairman and Dr. H. B. Battle per manent secretary. Gov. Holt ad-' dressed the Congress in appropriate ' words. Many papers of great talue were presented and resolutions look ing to the improvement of pnblio roads were introduced and referred to a, committee on resolutions com posed of two from each Congres-' sional district. After full consul tation, this committee made their report, the following being a sum mary. That tbe public roads should be maintained both by taxation and by those subject to road duty, also by the ' convicts I from i the rarious counties through the county au thorities orhe' penitentiarythe expense of maintaining them to be borne by the counties or as the Ueg ialature may direct. Also that each oounty or group of counties should employ a competent engineer or ex pert in road building and own im proved road machinery' 1 :t ; 't - The plan of the National. League for Good Koada was outlined and the organization and establishment of a State Association' and 'Town ship League to co operste' with - the National League was left "with the following committee, Messrs. Chas. McNamee, J. W Wilson, F. H. Bus bee, J. A Holmes, W. E. Ardrey. -This committee was also instruct ed to confer with the committee from both branches of the General Assembly nowiin aessio-:" 9 y-'rVt-, Much enthusiasm and interest prevailed in the proceedings of the Oougress. -Txlt'f. was yr a ; conservative body but was determined on some change looking to the Improvement of the public roads of be State, The : personnel of the body1 repre sented the -heat men-of the.gtate.. Such - interest augurs well fo the future .wdfaxetor iheStaevfor it was conceded that improved roads was ' a question of the first impor tance to all our people : ' : U A TEET SCHST FU!3L : Tts EI::nl Tstss if Sss if til Stttss la Issxtristsls Cssfzsisa. . ,WsJ5HiyoTOir, January 2L-The certificate of all the States of votes cast for President and Vice Presi dent ought to be in the hands of the President of the Senate by Monday next. As a matter of fact, 14 States hare failed so far to comply with the law by tending on their electoral certificates by missenger, and many' of these States which have'complied, with tho law have done so in so slip shod a manner, that if the late elec-: tion had been in any way close official ascertainment of the result under the constitution and laws might have been msde almost im possible and the whole government might have been thrown into chaos. , One of the first things to be noted is that many of the messengers pur porting to bring - on the action of their States have. come utterly un provided with credentials. Kansas' is one of the most conspicuous of fenders in this respect. An eminent Pepulist, delegated to bring on the vote of his "bleeding" State, was presented to- the president of the Senate by Senator Peffer, Congress man Jeremiah Simpson and one of his colleagues, who vouched for him but their voucher, in the absence of the sbghest scrap of writing for the electoral college, was not the Jr.ind of voucher that the Treasury De partment required in order to give him his mileage and per diem for bringing on the tote. As Senator Peffer finally and sorrowfully said : "The only thing left to us is to pay his way back, to Kansas ourselves and trust to the State to reimburse us." This is not the only case of the kind. Many of the packages brought by the messengers have had nothing on the outside to indicate their con tents. Two States sent their votes to the President of the United States instead of to the President of the Senate. Idaho sent her vote to the Secretary of State. It was a marvel or good luck that none of these packages were torn open, and thus rendered invalid. Many States have failed to en dorse on their packages what it contained. Some messengers have been able to say that there was a sealed and endorsed package inside the outer envelope; in that case, the President of the Senate has opened the outer casing and found the duly certified package inside In other cases messengers have said they did not believe there was any sealed in ner package ; in these instances the envelopes nave been put in the Sen ate safe and left untouched. They may contain electoral votes or they may not The President of the Sen ate has only the words of the mes sengers to assure him that these gackages actually contain votes of tatea as represented. Some one might have changed the packages on thenar titai fisU tziti in tis Bill. AabtJUCltiM&. - To anyone born and brought up in a country blessed with good roads, it seems marvellous that any com munity would or could get along without themrTTTTemember when I came to this country eleven years ago (it happened to be raining at the time) I was simply amazed when I first sqt eye, on the roads and saw the poor horses and mules wading through the knee-deep mud. I had never seen a dirt road in all my life before, and had not thought of find ing such a thing in the great United States of America. In Scotland the highways are ex cellent everywhere. Away ap among the moors and mountains where nothing is . grown but sheep and heather you will find macadamized roads as smooth and hard at South Main street. Close by the great cities where the traffic is heavy the same kind of roads prevail and . an swer every purpose. Across the great morass known as Airds Moss in Ayr shire there is a good road made, where, if you set foot off the high way, you would probably sink to the middle Jn black peat moss. The people there have realised that there is no place where a good road cannot be made and no place where it does not pay Jo make it. I have told this tale, over and oyer, again, to hundreds of people in North Carolina, but I do not think I ever met with one person who placed implicit faith in it. Even Captain Patton himself, who now so graphically describes and enthusias tically praises the Scotch roads, ad mitted, when he came back from Bcotfand the first time, that he did not quite take it all in nntil he saw for himself, and then he found that "the . half had not been told him." Captain Patton's plan of sending yoang men over to : see European roads and be convinced, would be a good one if we could afford to send then 11, but yon would have to send every man, woman and child before all would believe- - , . I It'WiU require a large amount of oonsy to. give us good roads all over the country,, but it cannot fail to be good investment At present, even when the ; roads are ; at their beat,- 2.0Q0 pounds is a good load for two pulev whereat in Scotland they never thought of loading a one horse cart with less than 3,360 pounds, and I had a horse once which haul ed a atone weighing 63 cwt, two miles over one of our common conn tryroadt w r-- 1 sincerely hope and believe that at the pnblio meeting on Tuesday, the people will be not only willing but anxious to vote for road reform. v. Scotia. S82i!sr -fusi's fl37l. WOmiacton Stw. ..Senator Vance was one. of the speakers at the Jacksonian banquet in .Washington last Monday night where he delivered one of hit char-' acteristically witty and humorous speeches, pretty good evidence that he has recovered his health, at which every North Carolinian will be re joiced. He concluded hia speech' with a( complimentary tribute to the incoming administration and reit-' crated his declaration made in the interview at Baleigh while on his, way to Washington, that "tho horse , that pulled the plow ought to have the fodder." The Senator has been criticized somewhat for this and called a "spoils" Senator, and yet, properly construed, it is the position that every Democrat ought to hold. Of course Senator Vance does not mean that competent men should be turned out of office and incompetent men put in their places, but that competent Democrats should be rec ognized, and, as. among these, that the men who stood to their posts, worked the hardest, and rendered bhe most service to the party, com petence having due consideration, Bbould have the precedence. If there is to be party organization then the men who do the work are enti tled to recognition when the victory is won, when that recognition can be made without detriment to the public service. Without this there can be no effective party organiza tion. A Slaw Join's Bitcssry. J. B. X. in Chronicle. So Uncle Billy went to work, erected a heavy post in the branch, made him a long trough out of strong timbers, and fixed it so as to work by pivot on the post One end of the trough would fill at or near the spring, but when a certain amount of water reached beyond the pivotal point up went the upper end of the trough and, down went the lower end until the water it con tained was discharged, and then the trough would resume its origi nal position and fill again, and re peat its see saw action ad infinitum. uncle Billy's neighbors and friends often came over when the crops were laid by, sat by the magnificent stream which was soon to become immortalized, drink cider with him, chew tobacco and spit -! Some offer ed suggestions, some smiled, some i'eered in a friendly ' way. Uncle Jilly pursued the even tenor of his way, workeLpn perpetual motion by day and built air castles by night Finally he had his reward and success crowned his efforts. The trough bobbed, up and down, filled, dumped andre&lled. He was happy, and the neighbors came over to know what use he was going to pnt it to. Uncle Billy smiled, fast ened a pestle to the lower end, - hol lowed out a basin in the solid rock below, filled the basin . with corn and left the trough and pestle to convert the corn .into hominy. Heretofore I have failed to i state that Uncle Billy owned a large flock of fine sheep. He was always brag ging on his flock, and well he might, for they gave him wool for winter, and mutton through the year. As bad - luck would have it, or it may have been the evil genius which has so long and successfully guarded the great secret from the toiling in ventors of ; the ages, Uncle Billy's old bell-wether went: down to the branch to get a drink. Of course every other sheep in the flock must drink at the same time and the evil genius appointed to gcard the mys teries of perpetual motion from the impious grasp of mankind, seems to have directed the whole flock to Uncle Billy's hominy basin. The belLwether smelt the corn, he then applied his mouth to tbe corny and then the pestle came down with a murderous crash and Uncle Bil ly's perpetual : motion had trans formed a fine sheep into excellent mutton. : All of us who are at all acquainted with the habits of sheep, know that it is a law. of their na ture to follow their leader, and so each ram, lamb, ewe and wether put their devoted heads under the pestle and when Uncle Billy went down at noon with his half bushel measure to take down more com and. bring home the hominy, - what was his consternation to find that perpetual motion was v not only - a - manufac turer of hominy but a slaughterer of sheep. :,rc-;; - , v . ' " - ; 1 : Escklsa's JLrclst Xxlrt. The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, : ulcers, salt rheum, fever jores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin em ptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It ;is guaran teed to give satisfaction or. money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. FortalebyW. W. Booit6CQe : ATTENTION, BUYERS. We wish to call attention to onr line of second-hand Buggies, Carts, Wagons, Hacks, Harness, &c. They are almost good as new, and Eersons wishing to buy can; secure argains by calling' on us. We have a big lot of NEW Buggies, Wagons, Oarts, Harness, &c, on hand, which will be sold on reasonable terms. If we have not got what you want, we will take pleasure ir getting anything for you in our line. We , buy direct from manufacturers and can, therefore, give you very close prices. We hare a full line of NEW Har nesscollars, bridles,! &c every thing in the harness line. Can beat the world on prices. Give us a call. - HENKEL CRAIG & GO. ' Dr. J. K. 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