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GUILFORD COTJIITY SO AD LAW 2li Amended and Incorporated in the Laws of 1899. The new Guilford county road law has just been published in pamphlet form by the county com missioners. From it we make the following synopsis, embracing all its principal provisions or those in which the public generally might be interested: Seotion 1. All roads and ferries that haveTeen laid out or appoint ed by virtue of any act of assem bly or any order ot court, are here by deolared to be public roads and ferries. And the Justices of the peace in each township shall have the- supervision and control of the public roads in their respective townships. , Sec. 2. The board of township trustees shall meet in some place in their respective townships to be agreed upon by themselves, or in the absence of such agreement, to be named by their chairman, on the first Monday of May and No vember, and at such other times as a majority of them may, deem ad visable. They shall ex amine into the condition of the publio roads and highways of their respective townships at least twice in each and every year, and make a report on "the condition of said roads and highways and present said report at the spring and fall terns to the judge of the Superior ooirt. See. a. The township trustees of the several townships shall, on the first Monday of May next, or with in fovr weeks thereafter, divide their respective townships into suitable road districts, and annual ly thereafter may make such alter ations therein as they may deem proper and cause a brief descrip tion thereof. to be made on the township records, and also to fur nish each supervisor with a plot of his road district. The trustees of each township, at their May meet ing, and annually thereafter, shall elect one supervisor for each road district. And each supervisor who refuses or neglects to qualify and serve, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars and costs, to.be coll eo ted by the township trustees in an action of debt. See. 4 relates to the construction of roads. Sec. 5. All able bodied male per sons, and all male persons able to perform, or cause to be performed, the labor herein required, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, except persons permanently disabled in the military service of this state, shall be liable annually te do and perform four days' labor on the highways, under the direc tion of the supervisor of the road district in which he shall reside: Provided further, That if any per son, being named as hereinafter provided, shall pay to the super visor in whose district he may re side the sum of two dollars, the same shall be received in lieu of the four days' labor, and shall be applied by the supervisor receiving the same- to the improvement of the reads of bis district, and ac counted for as hereinafter pro vided : Provided further, That the trustees of the respective town ships, it their annual meeting, may authorize the supervisors of their townships to accept any sum less than two dollars, but not less than one dollar, in lieu of the four days' labor. Sec. 6 It shall be the duty of every supervisor to order out everv such person, resident as aforesaid, between the first day of February and the first day of December an nually, to do and perform the work aforesaid on public j roads within the district, and if any such resi- y warned by by leaving a dent being personal such supervisor, or written notice at his usual abode, shall refuse or neglect, having had two days' notice, to attend by him self or substitute to the acceptance of -the supervisor, or, -having at tended shall refuse to obey the di rections of the supervisor, or shall spend the time in idleness or any inattention to the duties assigned him, every such delinquent shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar for every such olfence. Sec. 7. In case any person shall remove from one district to an other, -who has prior to such re moval performed the whole or any part of the labor aferesaid, or in any other way has paid the whole or any part of- the amount afore said in lieu of such labor, and shall produce a certificate of the same -f rom ' the supervisor of the proper district, such certificate shall be a complete discharge for the amount therein specified. Sees. 8. and 9 relate to the lia bility of persons for labor under the provisions of this law. , Sees. 10, 11, 12, 13 and U relate to the duties of supervisors. -' Sec. 15 relates to penalties. , Sec. 16 relates to duties of the trustees. -' Sec. 17. The commissioner! are authorized to levy, at the June ses sion of their board annually for road purposes not less than five cents, nor more' than fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars valua tion, and the chairman of the county commissioners shall place the same on the tax list of the current year, to be included in and collected in the annual taxes ; if the trustees of any township shall deem an additional road tax nec essary, they shall determine the per centum to be levied upon the taxable property of their respective townships, and shall certify the same in writing to the board of county commissioners, who may levy a special tax, not' exceeding fifteen j cents on the one hundred dollars valuation, and the..commis sioners may levy and assess the same on the taxable property of the township, and the same shall be collected as other taxes, and paid out as herein providsd : Pro vided, That a poll tax on all per sons liable under the general laws be also assessed, at all times pre serving the constitutional equation as to property and poll tax. f Sees. 18 and 19 relate to the du ties of the county commissioners. Sec. 20. Each and every super visor who shall neglect or refuse to perform the several duties enjoin ed on him by this act, shall forfeit for every such offence not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, .to be recovered by an ac tion before any justice of the peace ; and it is hereby made the duty of the township trustees to prosecute all 'offences against the provisions of this section. Sec. 21. It shall be unlawful for any supervisor to perform, or cause labor to be performed, on any road not regularly laid out and estab lished by law. v Sees. 22 and 23 relate to the ac counting for material used on pub lie roads. ' J Sec, 24. Each supervisor shall receive for his services one dollar per day for the time actually em ployed on the roads, deducting the commutation for his four days' la bor. Supervisors having charge of not more than twenty-five hands shall not receive more than six dollars in any one year, and no supervisor having a greater num ber shall receive not more than ten dollars in any one year, and be paid out of the township funds. Sec. 25. At any .time during the year when any publio highway shall be obstructed, it shall be the duty of the supervisor of the dis trict in which the same may be, forthwith to cause such obstruc tion to be removed, for which pur pose he shall immediately order out such number of persons liable to do work' upon the publio high ways of pis district as he may deem necessary to remove said ob structions. If the person or per sons thus called out shall have performed their four days' labor upon the public highways, the su pervisor shall give to such person or persons a certificate for the amount of labor performed, and said certificate shall apply on the labor that may be due from such person or persons the ensuing year. Sees. 26, 27 and 28 relate to rail road crossing regulations. Sec. 29. Whenever any persons shall meet each other on any bridge or road traveling with carriage, wagon, or other vehicles, each per son shall reasonably drive his car riage or vehicle to the right of the middle of the traveled part of such bridge or road, so that the respec tive carriages or other vehicles -aforesaid may pass each other without interference ; every person wilfully offending against the pro visions of this section shall for each offence forfeit a sum not ex ceeding five dollars to be recovered on complaint before any justice of the peace in the county where the offence shall have been committed; and he shall further be liable! to any party for all damages sustain ed by reason of such offence. l ' Sec. 30 relates to the liability of railroad companies. Sec. 31 refersito state or county line roads. j Sec. 32. The county commission ers-shall furnish a sufficient num ber of printed copies of this act for the use of the supervisors and township trustees and the commis sioners shall furnish the necessary oooks and blanks for the use of the township trustees and supervisors. - ."( Secsi 33, 34, 35. 36 and 37!re- late to the laws of 1897 which ap ply to Guilford county roads, j "A word to the wise la sufficient" and a word from the wise should be suffi cient, but you ask, who are the wise? Those who know. Th oft repeated experience of trustworthy persons may be taken for knowledge. Mr. Wj M. Terry says Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy gives better satisfaction than any other in the market. - He has been in the drug business at Elkton, Ky., for twelve years; has sold hundreds! of bottles of this remedy and nearly all ether cough medicines manufactured, which shows conclusively that Cham berlain's is the most satisfactory to the people, and is the bsst. For sale by C. J3t. xxoiion. A T7ITCH0RAFT TRIAL. A Remarkable Story of Ignorance) and Superstition, Unfolded in tne Court House. There was a case tried in Lincoln court this week in which witch craft played an important part. Chris Detter was on trial on an indictment' for: embezzlement and Martin Smith was the principal witness. Smith swore that Detter claimed to be a witch doctor and represented to him that his sister, an inmate of his house, was be witched. After treating her for some time, he said that the whole house and every crack in the house was full of ; witches and that the only way to get rid of them and cure the patient was to burn the house. Smith and his family had such implicit confidence in the witch doctor that the house was set on fire and burned down. Dur ing the burning the doctor stood by with a bier stick to kill the witches as they came out. But af tor the fire he claimed they had es caped up the chimney. 8mith had a large fat hoar and the doctor claimed that the witches had taken refuge in the hog but that they could be driven out by hitting the bog between the eyes. Acting on the doctor's instructions Smith took a big stick of wood and hit the hog on the head while the doctor held the hog's mouth open with a large butcher knife to . allow the witohss to escape. The first lick was not hard enough and the doc tor called for a harder lick. The next blow killed the hoe. Then the doctor said that certain por tions of the hog, if eaten by any member of the family, would cause instant death but' would have no deleterious effect on anybody else. He drew a mark close behind the shoulder blades and convinced Smith that if any of his family ate any of the meat back of this line it would bring sure and immediate death. Smith therefore took the head and shoulders and the doctor the hams and sides. All this was brought out on the witness stand to show the power that Detter bad acauired over Smith. .While all this witoh doc toring was going on Smith was liv ing in Burke county. After the fire and hog episodes the doctor in formed Smith that to get out of the reach of the witches he would nave to leave that section. He advised him to move to Lincoln county and undertook to aot as agent for him in the purchase of a piece of land from William L. Baker. He agreed to make the trade for two dollars. In a few days he appeared with, a deed from himself to Smith In which the price was named at $240, representing that that was the least t '' '..t--l -1 M TT ne ceuia cret me iana lor. no ox- plained that he-had the deed from Baker made to himself as he could buy it in his own name cheaper than he could if Baker had known he was buying it for somebody else, but that $240 was the exact price he had paid Baker. Smith there upon paid him $240 for the land and two dollars for his services. . Smith found out afterward that Detter only pai $175 for the land and had cheated him out of $65. This seemed to shake his confidence in the witch doctor and he plucked up courage enough to consult a lawyer, which led up to an indict ment for embezzlement and a suit to recover his $65. k Thejury found the doctor guilty and Judge Coble sent him to jail. His sentence will probably be a term in the penitentiary. Newton Enterprise. I was reading an advertisement of Chamberlain's Celic,Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy in the Worcester Enter prise recently, which leads me to write this. I can truthfully say 1 never used any remedy equal to it for colic and diarrhoea. I have never had to use more than one or two doses to cure the worst case with myself or children. W. A. Stroud, Popom eke City, Md. For sale by C. . Holton. Macadam Eoads. A macadam-road, when once it is properly constructed, needs but lit tle repairing, and lasts for genera tions,, as has I been indisputably proven in England, and the Euro pean continent. A stone road poor ly built for want of successful roll ing, even with excellent material, can be but a poo? highway at best. Many so-called macadam roads re cently built by inexperienced men, or without proper use of good road rollers, are continually going to pieces by wearing of ruts and the subsequent combined action of water andtravel. Every wagon wheel has a great tendency to dis place the particles of road material by crowding them both downward and" sideward. Hence the neces sity of exercising the greatest pains and the utmost care in thoroughly packing, rolling and hardening any macadam road. Asheville Gazette. Paol Perry, of Columbus. Ga- suf fered asronv for thirty years, and then cored his Piles by using De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. It beals injuries and skin diseases like magic. How ard Gardner. an The Best Cilaco Crops. The principal crops available for silage are corn, clover, oats and psas, millet and soy beans. Corn is the leading silage crop of Amer ica. It can be grown upon a great er variety of soils, and in greater ranges of climate; than any other forage plant. It will also produce a larger amount of food constitu ents than any other of the common fodders. Fifteen to 20 tons of green fodder per acre is a fair yield, although 20 to 25 are not uncom mon. Thtr is great choice in va rieties, but few being especially suited to the climate of New Eng land. Mammoth Ensilage and Learning are two of the most desir able kinds. 'The best variety for any locality is one that will give a large proportion of ears and yet mature before frosts are likely $p occur. The most valuable part of the fodder is found in the ears and leaves, se that the largest growing kinds do not always give the great est food value. Clover, if well stored, makes excellent silage, but has not been widely used for this purpose. It is much more valuable, pound for pound, than corn silage. Owing to the fact that it is rich in nitrogen and protein, certain forms of fer mentation may go on quite exten sively,' and bad smelling silage is sometimes the result. This condi tion has been observed especially in clover stored for a few weeks in the summer and fed during the hot weather of August. To make the best silage, this crop should be har vested -when fairly succulent, per haps before full bloom. It should be finely cut, solidly packed, and after being placed in the silo, be at once heavily weighted. . ! Oats and Canada peas may be stored in the pilo during July. Like clover, this crop has ja larger amount of the more valuable food constituents than corn. Yields of 10 to 12 tons per acre are readily obtained. Millet has also been suc cessfully grown as a silage crop, alp though light yields, have been a common objection. A new variety1, known as the Japanese millet1, gives considerable promise as a for- m - mm mm. 1 I age crop lor silage, it produces very heavy yields, often as high as 15 tons of green crop per acre. Late to bed and early to rise, pre pares a man for his borne in j tne skies. But early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill' that makes life looger and better and wiser. Howard Gardner. A Fortune for Charity. i. i New York, April 15.--The will of the late Caroline E. Hollister, of this city, gives more than $100,000 to charities. To the Ladies' Chris tian Union, of New York city, Mrs. Hollister bequeaths $15,000 ; to the House for Incurables, $5,000; to the Church of the Heavenly Best, $10,000. Various institutions re ceive smaller sums. The residue - - i of the estate, after all ) these bef quests are paid, and a few minor bequests to relatives, in value about $25,000, is left to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Societies . of the Protestant Episcopal Church; and the Women's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands, to be equally divided., Rosebuds Budding wo manhood! What glorious possibil ities! What half hidden dangers I What a time for tender sympathy! At puberty nature generally makes some attempt to establish physical I regularities, but when nature fails to assert itself, develop ments result which injure the health and impair the constitution of the maiden. The timely use of Bradfield's Female Recrulator. the standard retnedv for all (weaknesses and irregularities peculiar to women, is wnai retarded nature needs in all such cases. Sold by druggists for i. books xor women tree. j j THE BRADHELD REGULATOR CO, SI AND mm . . JUL E ; i mi Seed time is here. 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The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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