North Carolina Newspapers

f YOIiUMB XXI. K- (filial lyjiivi I' o February is gone aud March is go fmg ; bo are the Big: Bargains we put upon upon our counters March 2, To go at cost and less ! "Hard Times" has past and gone A the flow of cash to our store witb n the last few days is any sign. Everybody seems surprised at the big stock we are offering and the price we ask for it We don't want joa to believe everything that you gee printed on paper, but come to our otore and see that the truth has been stated in our circular. These circulars give only a partial list of tbe.rare bargains that we expect to offer for the next 3 weeks. 1,000 worth CLOTHING $1,500 " SHOES $1,000 " DRY GOODS 300 ' HATS are not offered at cost the year round. Come along- and save 25 per cent, oni your money. Oar fertilizers are now coming in and we are rtady to supply our cus tomers with something reliable for growiDg Corn, Cotton, Oats, Peas. Cash paid for Shingles and ;Wheat. 500 Bushels Peas For Sale- MOORE & HOKE, Granite Falls, - - N. O. WE - Don't Want All The : EARTH, But we want our friends to call and see our stock of DRY GOODS, Geaeral Merchandise, Boots and Shoes, ' Olotliing, NOTIONS. GROCERIES, HARDWARE; Lumber and Shingles. Highest Prices paid for Country Produce. The Farmer's Friend Plow, the Hill Side Plow 1 and 2 horse. We make a Specialty of Hardware. We will give you full value fov ev ery dollar you spend with us. M, DEAL & CO., CedarValley, - - - N. O. A HORSE ! A HORSE Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Baggies and! Wagons. AT COST I Next 30 Days I A big lot of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collars, and Everything in Harr ness Line. BON'T FAIL TO BUY NOV? I MtflJK- nn 1 in 0 .1 PL, UlMj fit Aiinivv WWW - i A DBEIU. Jam Wbitoomb Riley. 0hwLt wubufc a dreau I had While the musician played- And here the sky and, here the glad Old I ocean kissed the glade. AdT th!janghing ?ipPi;g ran, ? uh6re the rose8 few That threw a kiss to every man That voyaged with the crew. Our silken sails in lazy folds Drooped in the breathless breeie. As o'er a field of marigolds Our eyes swam o'er the seas, While here the eddies lisped and purled Around the island's rim, And up from out the underwold We saw the mermen swim. And it was dawn and middle day And midnight for the moon On silver rounds across the bay Had climbed the skies of June, And here the glowing, glorious king Of day mled o'er the realm, With stars of midnight glittering About his diadem. The seagull reeled on languid wing In circles around the mast ; We heard the songs the sirens sing As we went sailing past, And up and down the golden sands A thousand faiy tdrongs Flung at us from their flashing hands The echoes of their songs. Why Ha Shaved. Washington Poet. There was a time when Senator Bacon, of Georgia, wore an ornate and lavish hirsute adornment, and pictures taken at the time he was president of the Georgia senate so represent him. Now he contents himself . with a simple mustache How he happened to shear his beard was told by the Senator himself re cently. "It was," he began, "when the roller skating craze broke oat in the south. It struck Macon, and some how it found a victim in me. Ev erybody was going to the skating rink, and consequently I went. I soon acquired a remarkably degree of grace in gliding dreamily over the floor to the pulsation j?f exhiler atmg waltz strains, and my compa ny was in great demand by ladies who were still somewhat distrustful of their own skill. I shall never forget. I was acting as the guar dian angel one evening of a lady whose main support I was in her feeble efforts to prevent a collision with the floor, and we were rather tremulously gliding hither and thither among the crowd, when an invalid on skates approached us from the opposite direction, I saw at a glance that the man had lost his compass and nothing but a blind reliance in providence was defer ring his fall. That moment came when he crushed against me. The collision disturbed the center of gravity in my fair companion, while at the same time it hastened the downfall of the other. Before I knew what was up the man, in order to save himself, grasped hold of one side of my whiskers, while the lady fastened her grip in the other half, and both held on for dear life while their feet were describing geomet rical figures on the slippery floor. Considerations of gallantry prevent ed me from turning on the wretch ed being who was clinging to my beard like the proverbial straw on one side, and there I was with two struggling creatures in the stress of despair dangling pn each side of my whiskers. That experience deter mined me to sacrifice the whiskers and to circumscribe my indulgence in that line to a modest, unobtru trusive mustache, which affords no comfort to unskilled skaters." Bicbly Entitled to It. "John, I think I should like to visit my old home in the 3a it a month or two this summer. "I don't know, Maria. I'm afraid I can't spare the time from my bus iness." T , "I'm not asking you to go, John. I can make the trip myself without any trouble." "You would get homesick, if you were to-stay away from homo as long as that." . , , ... . I think not. I should like to try it, anyhow." "What is the matter with you, Maria?" irritably. "Haven t I been a good husband r . "I am not making any complaint about vou, John, am IP" "Ain't I affectionate enough ( Haven't I always kissed you when I went away from home m the moraing and when I came back in the evening every day for the last "?es! and you'.ve had a chew of plug tobacco in your month every morning and evening for the last 2$ years, too. I think I want a vaca tion, John." tyrcklii's Arnica Sain. The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers U rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and allskiji eruption and positively cures Pales, or no pay reouretf.' t gnranr teed to g Satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25c. per box. For i .. JAUES H. BOLT, JR , RECOILS A Sight sf tbi Rmell Uob BitBralBg From Raleigh Ciesss Hin to Burnt ted Return to tbi Dinocncy for tiiSiknf Decant Gey. iroDBBt ii Msrth Gar cliu. Special to the ObMirer. GoLDgBOJto, May 16. Mr. Jas. H. Holt, Jr., the young cotton manufacturer who recently went over to the Republican party be cause he was an advocate of protec tion, and was made a delegate to the St. Louis convention, is in this city today by chance and here met and viewed the returning Republi can forces from the State conven tion that last night nominated Russell for Governor. In conse quence, he publishes this afternoon in the Goldsboro Daily Argus the following letter, which speaks for itself ; Editor Argus: "It is an old saying, but a true one, that "self preservation is the first law of na ture." Acting on this principle from a mistaken standpoint of view as to in what consisted my preserva tion, as a purely business question I have of late lent my aid and influ ence to the' furtherance of the poli cy of protection championed by Mc Kinley and advocated by the Re publican party, and I have gone so far as to permit myself to be named as a delegate from the fifth, my residence, to the St. Louis national Republican convention. But, Mr. Editor, today in the city of Golds born, on my way home from the session of the Mystic Shrine at New born, I am greeted by a scene that gives me pause and deeper reflec tion than heretofore. I have read of the scenes and experiences of '68 as we read of other dark epochs in history, but, reared since that time, growing up under the benign influ ence of Democracy and enjoying only the blessings and elevated ex periences that appertain to its su premacy, 1 could not comprehend what "the man of old" endured, nor could my mind formulate a picture so dark as their words painted. But today in Goldsboro I am able to approximate from what Democracy has delivered the State and to where we are again tending. I am greeted here by a seething, surging mass of conglomerated hu manity, howling negroes and exult ant white men, arm in arm, bearing aloft a banner with the painted picture of "D. L. Russell, Our choice for Governor," and with Mc Kinley badges on the side. And this is the party with which I have become allied and this is the ilk, negroes and all, with which I am to consort at St. Louis. "My God, Ab ernathy !" Never ! I hereby recant, abjure, abhor my affiliation with this party that fosters and glories in such scenes in North Carolina. I believe, Mr. Editor, in honest money ; sound money if you will ; honest values and in "our" turn at protection to the infant manufacturing indus tries of the South. But what would industry, however much exerted, amount to in a State dominated by Russell and bis mob of howling sav ages ? Yes, Mr. Editor, there is protec tion and there is protection, and for that greater protection I hereby withdraw as a delegate to the Sc. Louis convention, and renounce my affiliation with the Republican par ty, only just begun, J am happy to say, and return, an humble and earest worker in the ranks of Dem ocracy for white supremacy in North Carolina, good government economically administered, und home protection. Very truly, J. H. Holt, Jr. Iliwjwu Draws tha Record. Progressive Farmer. If fusion with the gold bugs then 1894 was all right, in order that we might attain to this high emi nence, then your cry of "middle of the road on principle" is the easy one of the chick who has hia claw full of good things, whose like get ting he would denounce in others. Free silver was just as much a "principle" in 1894 as now. And yet we put up A. C. Shuford against John S. Hendersan, silyer Demo crat, and beat him by the aid of the-gold-bugs. And the Populists of the eighth district actually voted with the gold-bugs for Linney against Bower, a free silverite. In the fourth district Chas. M. Cooke everywhere proclaimed silver, and yet we sided with the gold-bugs and they helped us to elect Strowd. A. W. Graham was beaten by Settle in tha fifth district, an outsnoken gold bug, because we put up D,r. Merritt In the ninth Pearson, one of your gold-bugs, beat Crawford, an avow ed silver Democrat, with Eopulist votes. English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeny, Ring-Bone, Stifles, Sprains, all Swollen Throats, " Caughs, Eta Save $0 by use of one bottle. War ranted the most wonderful BJ013")1 Cure ever known. Sold by V7. W. Scot, DjrugisV A & LENOIR, W. C, WEDNESDAY, COICERIiKS RUSSELL AID THE GDI VENTIOX. Echoes From the Pross. OharlotU Observer. Many Democrats have all th e while hoped that the Republicans would nominate Russell for Gover nor He is so odious that they have felt that he could be beaten more easily than any one eha It may be so, but at the same time he would, as Governor, be so dangerous to the the peace of the State that the Ob server would always rather have chanced a stronger Republican, if a better one. It is frank to say that it would have preferred to see Dock ery, Boyd, Moody or even Lusk nominated. Ii may be best. Rus sell will make a campaign which will greatly inflame his own party, especially the negroes. While do ing this, he will also greatly infur iate the white people against him self and his party. Thus it may be that he will prove an instrument in the hands of God to bring our white people together again and thus ac complish the complete redemption of the State. But a summer of great bitterness is ahead of us and if the campaign should, unhappily, end in the election of this man as Governor, then, indeed, will North Carolina be a good state to move from. Hickory Mercury. It was just as was expected, and as many had hoped. It was, as we see it, a goldbug convention. It not only refused to endorse the free coinage of silver declared for on the stump all over the State, bnt it ac tually endorsed men whom we have every reason for believing are gold bugs and in full sympathy and ac cord with the money power of the North and East. We have but little to say as to the nomination of Mr. Wblser except that he is a bright young man. As to the nominee for Governor, we think they could have done better; but, so far as Populists are concerned, any man nominated by a gold bus: convention, does not suit them; and in our opinion will not be endorsed directly or indi rectly by them. As to the Popu list bolters, they were all at Raleigh but are nowhere now. The Popu lists are for co-operation on prin ciple alone. They cannot afford to be unequally yoked. Their prin ciples are national and as this is to he a national campaign, it would be unwise in them to cripple their fight for general relief by forming entangling and conflicting alliances locally. AsheTille Citizen. In 1888 Daniel L. Russell, Re publican candidate fcr governor of North Carolina, wrote this : "The negroes of the South are largely savages. We with Northern aid and sanction kidnapped them, enslaved them and by most mon strous wrong degraded them so that they are no more fit to govern than are their brethren ia the African swamps or so many Mongolians dumped from pagan Asia." If Russell does not get the votes of these negroes he cannot be elect ed. Will he get them? Most of them, probably. Already they are howling for him, and here is one effect of it : Jas. B. H Holt, Jr , of Goldsboro recently attached himself to I he Re publican party because of its views on protection. Saturday he wrote a letter withdrawing from that par ty and giving his reasons As the situation created and fos tered by the Rapublicans of North Carolina strikas Mr. Holt, so must it strike other decent Republicans. "Russell and his mob" nothing stands between them and North Carolina but the Democratic party. SUteavllle Landmark. The Landmark can but regret Judge Russell's nomination. We had hoped that either Dockery pr Boyd would win. They may be stronger with their party, but con sidering the possibility of the elec tion of a Republican Governor -and such a possibility must be con sideredGod knows we - prefer the reign of either of them o that of Russell. We believe Judge Russell is the meanest man in the State, It is no new opinion with us ; we do not say this now simply because he has been nominated, but we have thought so for years. He is vicious, vindictive and malignant. If he is elected Governor it will be his chief joy to use all the power he can employ to humiliate and degrade the respect able and intelligent people of - the State and to elevate the vicious, the ignorant and corrupt. As to the rest of the ticket, little is to be said. Toung Walser, nomi nated for Attorney General, . is known to fame as the Speaker of the last Legislature. He is a "pleas ant spoken" fellow bu we doubt if he 14 big enough lawyer o be' At torney General. 1 Col. Douglas, nominated for Su preme Court Justice, was once mar shal of this, district Qf his fatness or equipment for the position for which he has hp$n, na.m,e'4 we fenow nolhing. gut we afe satisfied ht& eitfier Boglasg WaJser- is Utter fitted MAY 27. 1806. - - for the places named than isthe nominee for Auditor Ruff. Hen derson, of Wilkes. The office of Auditor is an important and respon sible one. Henderson, we think, is totally unfitted for the office. Just why the Republicans named him for so responsible a position ia unexplamable except on the theory that the Republican party in Nerth Carolina is unworty to he trusted with the State government which is true. Wilkeaboro Chronicle. You should see the smile which the Hon John Ruffin Henderson wears since becoming a candidate for Auditor. He is improving bis habits, too. He now combs his head occasionally, waxes his mustache, and carries cinnamon drops in his left vest pocket. THE FOE THAT JACKSON FEABED- Youth's coz8 panion. 'About daylight of the day be fore the second battle of Manassas," said a Confederate officer at a recent reunion of the blue and the gray, "1 was ordered to report to Gen. T. J. Jackson, with a detail of 100 men, for special orders I had re ceived Gen. Jackson came out, and beckoning me to follow him, rode some fifty yards from his staff and then turned to me aud halted. "Captain do you ever use liquor?" he asked. "No, sir," I replied. 'A smile lit up his rugged face as he said, 'I ssnt for a special detail of 100 men under command of an officer who never used spirituous liquors. Are you that man?" "Yes, sir," I said, "I was detail ed on that account," . "Well, then," he continued, "I have an order to give upon the exe cution of which depends the success of the present movement and tho result of the battle soon to be fought." "If to keep sober ia all that ia needed, general, you may depend upon me," I said. "No," he answered, "that ia not all; but unless you can resist temp, tation to drink ycu cannot carry out my orders. Do you see that warehouse over there? pointing to a large building a little way off. Take your command up to that do pot, have the barrels of bread rolled out aud sent down to the railroad track, so that my men can get them as they pass, and then take your picked men into the ba lding and spill all the liquor there ; dou't spare a drop, nor let any man under any circumstances taste it. This order I expect you to execute at any cost ' " "He turned, and was about to ride back to his staff, when I turn ed and called hastily : "One moment, general. Suppose an officer of superior rank should order me uuder arrest, and then gain possession of the warehouse V "Coming up close to me aud look ing me through and through, as it seemed to me, he said, with a look of solemnity that I never shall for get : " 'Until I relieve you in pe son you are exempt from airest except upon my written order. I fear that liquor more than Pope'a army,' he added as he rode rapidly away. "I took my men down to the warehouse which had become so im portant, and threw a guard around it, placing five men at each entrance with orders neither to allow anyone to enter nor to enter themselves. "The next thing was to roll out the bread, hich we did. Just as we were finishing that task I was called to one of the entrances to find a general officer with his staff de manding that the guards should either allow him to enter or bring him out some liquor. Of course I refused to comply with the command upon which he ordered hid adjutant to place me under arrest. "X told him I was there by Gen. Jackson's personal order, and was especially exempt from arrest He ordered his staff to dismount anl enter the warehouse, and I gave my men the order to level their gun? and make ready. "This made the general halt, in spite of his thi,rst, aad hold a con sultation with his officers. They concluded to try persuapion, since they could not get what they want ed by force. But they lound that method of no more avail than the other. Then they demanded to know my Dame a.nd what command I belonged to. and threatened to re port me for disobedience. "I should never have yielded, and whether they would have pushed things to an extremity in their rag ing desire for the liquor,, I do not know; but just at that moment Geu. A P. Hill came galloping up with his staff and naturally wanted to know what was the trouble. I ex plained the situation, which the quick-witted general tooV in at once and ordered the thirsty squad off. 'Have you orders to burn the building V he asked. 44 No I answered, 4I have aat.' "Without a word he. rode away, and within an hor there came an order from Gen. Jackson to fire the warehouse,, and when it was. well destroyed to report to him, " carried oa.t tfea order to the letter; not a man got a drink ;tmt day. aud fo? that time the foe that tttonewall Jacxaoa moss ureuou n :v 1 TRIBUTE TO GEORGE R. FOLK. a Leadar of tha Old Burks Bar. 0tar".otte Observer. The older lawyers of will give more th:m the State a paeginz thought to the memories of tbe pist when they read or hear of the death of Col. Folk. From 1866, when he settled in Lenoir, to the present year, he was a prominent, and much of the time a dominant figure in whit used to be known as tno old Burke bar, to be a member, even,, of which, was a distinction. When Armfield, Avery, W. P. Bynum, the Caldwells, Davidson, the Erwins, Folk, Gaither, the Mc Corkles, Schenck, Woodfiu and oth ers gathered about the judge, that court was a tribunal fit to be the pride ol any State, and it was dur ing trials conducted by such men that those first principles were laid down, debated and affirmed, which settled the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth through the peril ous times of reconstruction. Civil law had jnst begun again to rule the people when Folk joined, this circuit. New conditions, neith er foreseen nor provided for by our fathers, commanded attention and demanded judicial consideration. The rights of personal liberty and private property had to be announc ed anew after the hurly-burly of war, and courts had to revert to the fundamental maxims of our govern ment again to pronounce upon the state of men and affairs. It waa in the discussion of such questions aud the declaration of these principles that Folk especially distinguished himself. fk old soldier, who had perhaps brought too much license of camp to jtpe peaceful hamlets among the mountains, but what found Folk his willing and earnest champion. Case after case, involving the gravest is sues, came up for judgment, almost as cases of the first impression, and many of them were conducted by him. Such was his knowledge of the great masters of the law, his devotion to the perfect law of liber ty, his unfailing conservatism, and, above all, hi3 amazing industry, that he was almost uniformly successful. Indceu, some of the wisest opinions oi tho Supremo Court when Pear son, 0 J., sat with Battle and Keade A360C:uU;3, will be seen to have adopte i copious extracts from the "learned brief of the defendant's counsel." and quoted them as for cible presentation of the law. Intimate as was his acquaintance with the reports, both State and naticnal, it was his unequalled knowledge of the common law which made him the great jurist he was Never neglecting cases, he relied on the principles, and if a new p Jiut was sprung on argument, with no dec sions at hand to p in', he ii;3k.auiiy rL verted to the maxims is liiJ dowu 10 tho oider commen taries tind argued hi3 views out step by ttep with unfailing reasoning from tho admitted doctrine to his triumphant close. lie had no specialty. Wherever the ommon law ran was his prov ince, and he was as familiar with its rules as if he had given years to its study. lie always knew, on a certain state of facts, what the law ought to be. If the judge at nisi-prius doubted, so much the worse for the judge Constant reading the classics- f his profession "had given his forensic style finish and dignity deservedly admired- " henever the occasion called for it he had always at com maad an eloquence now solemn and lofty, now rapid and impassioned, which clothed his resistless logic with words of fire, and compelled conviction. He waa above all things a student. Ha lived in his books. They wore real. The matters of daily life passed him like a dream He would emerge from his soli tude to do battle for his client, but the contest over and victory assured he went back in his library to his dearer world of thought. He wa3 a man of warm naturt-, generous to give, eager to "claim af fection. His warmest passions cen tered ia his home, where he was devotedly attached to his wife and children. , Most pitifully afflicted by the successive loss of all his offspring, he bore his sorrow silently until the last groat grief was too bitter for h s strength, and he passed on, as he believed, to meet his dear ones where sorrow and pain can no more asaaii. Ho waa born a lawyer, cast in the mould of the giants of old time. In great questions of life and liberty he knew nothing but his cause, and blasa with the very alter fires of freedom. His demeanor then was such, as marked Coke, when his stern and uncompromising assertion of the rights of man stiffened the knees of a quaking Commons, and fright ed a tyrant King into reluctant obe dience to the law. Clinton A. Cilley. Hickory, N. C . May 15:b, '95 Preacher (warmly) -And nQMe my fyearera, look ahe.-ici, I b4p:h you, and what do you se ? Bronson (from t.fc ear), -A boy flirting witl an, old maid, two 8iw bonnoUaaaieatrjmaa aslep. I ft NUMBER 33- For Bilious Headache 44 1 tried a good many remedies for sick headache and biliousness, with which 1 wias troubled lor a a long time, but it was not untu jl uegan laKing Cathartic Pills that I received anything like per manent benefit. A singly box of these pills did the work for me, and I am now free from head aches, and a well man." Chas. Hutchings, Eajst Auburn, Me. Medal And Diploma At Worldis Fair. TOBACCO Natural Sweet, U. J. K. and other brands. i Cigars. Prince of India. Saborosa and other good smbkera. Spring Time is here And you want puro blood and good healtk. We keep a large supply ox Hood S, Ayer's And other Sarsaparillas. Perf dmes, Combs. Hair Brushes n nrl o ft M line of Tootia Brushes. Special Attention Given to compoun) iag Physicians' Pr88crip tioos. Call in And see : Call often and to happy. 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