FHANKL1X COTJItlEK.
GEORGE S. BAKER,
Editor and Propi:ietor.
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All letters addrepsed to
Geo. S. Baker,
FmdaY August- 4, 187C.
PARTY ORGANIZATION.
At a meeting of the Central Execu
tive Commilteo of the Democratic
party it was:
Resolved 1. That the chairman of
.each County Executive Committee be
requested to report to the name and
post office address of each member of
tbo same.
2. That each member of the several
.congressional committees be requested
to roport bis name and address in like
iinanncr; and also to take notice that
he is ex-officio a member cf the State
Executive Committer.
3. That this committee urgently
, calls on the conservative people of
orth Carolina who favor reform in
state and natioual affairs to fcrm. with
out delay Til den and Vance clubs, in
their respective townships ortisighbor
hoods: and the officers of all such clubs
are request 'd to report their names to
the secretary of this committee.
W. R. Cox.'ChmV
S. A, Asue, Sec'y. , ,
IV titiomil Ticlcot,
For President:
rSAM'l. J. TlXDEJY,
OF NEW YORK.
. For Vice-President:
T.
A. Hendricks.
v OF INDIANA.
Democ;rutic TSomiiieois.
For Governor,
Zebulon B. Vance,
OF MECKLENBURG
For Lieutenant Governor
THOMAS J. .1ARVJS,
of Pitt:
. For Public Treasurer :
J. WORTH, .
-of Randolph.
Tor Secretary of State :
.JOSEPH A. ENGLEIIARD,
of New Hanover.
For Auditor :
.SAMUEL L. LOVE,
jot Haywood,
JTor Attorncy-Gcncial :
-TJIOMAS S. KENAN,
of Wilson.
For Supt. of Public Instruction :
J. C. SCARBOROUGH,
,of Johnston.
Electors at Large :
DANIEL G.FOWLE,
' - of Wake.
JAMES MADISON LEACII,
Of Davidson.
District Electors :
2nd District-JOllX F. WOOTEN,
3rd District-J. D. STANFORD,
'4th District-FAB. II. BUSBEE,
5th District-F. C. BOBBINS,
Jith District-R. P. WARING.
Tor Oonfrs-4th District,
Joseph. J. Dayis-
. OF FRANKLIN.
fJouuty TioU'ct.
House of Representatives: "
; 4 JNQ. R THOMAS '
". Sheriff:
. Mr. P. BIUDGEUS,.
Register of Deed:
AV. K. MARTIN Jr.
Treasurer:
B. l CLIFTON.
Coroner:
J. A. STONE.
Surveyor:
M. N. YOUNCJ.
Commissioners:
NORMAN LONG,
DR. R. T. AYEBB,
JOS. FOWLER Sr,
D.TT. GILL, .
pNJ.T. BALLARD.
Have the money refunded, which
has been paid out improperly.
The people hold the commission
ers responsible for the money paid
out to county officials contrary to
law. i
The campaign now upon ns, is
one of vital ''importance to the peo
ple of this nation, State and Coun
tv. but it is a9 it affects the countv
that wc propose to address our
selves to day For eight years .he
administration of the " county gov
crnient has been in the hands of
the representatives of tiic black
race, The white men, the owners of
the property, and the contributors
of the taxes have not been in con
trol. . They have all the time been
in a minority. That part of the
population that elects the men to
spend the money, pay less than one
hundreth part of the tax that is
levied, outside ot the school and
pauper tax, As a consequence wc
have bad a most extravagant sys
tem of county expenditures for all
that time. The taxes have been
enormous, moro than one sixth of
the estimated income of the indus
tries of tho country. With author
itics responsible only to the non
tax-payers, and that class being in
the majority, we have been impo
tent to help ourselves. Rut now
the thing is changed. A brighter
day seems to bo breaking. With a
majority of white voters in the coun
ty, we have only to be as true in the
future as we have been in the past
to briag a speedy and complete de
liveranco from the thraldom that
has borne us down so long. Let
every man jn the county bestir him
sell to elect our whole ticket, and
nothing is eurer than that we will
achieve a great victory in Novem
ber. Let the fine condition of the
counties under Democratic control,
as compared with those under Re
publican misrule, infuse a spirit of
. zeal in our ranks that shall stop at
nothing short of final and complete
redemption. Take the county of
Wake, for instance, which two years 1
i i --- - -- i
ago under Radical rule, was hcavi-
ly in-debt, over-burdened with taxes
and without creta ; jury ticket?, wit
ness tickets and countv orders, were
hawked about the streets and tra- I
ded off in the stores for second hand- I
cd coods at a vcrv hcavv discount. I
just as ours arc now : They elected J
a Democratic Board of Commission-
ers. The county is out of debt.
Money in the treasury. A jury
ticket, witness ticket anjd county
order is as good as a bank check,
as you can get the money for it on
presentation at the treasury.
Do our people want such a
state of .things as this in Frank
nn ; ii so, let tnem elect our
whole ticket, and especially the
commissioners. This is the way to
bring it about. We believe they
will do it. A united and vigorous
effort is all that is required. Wo
must have it.
The county commissioners should
see to it, th at the money paid out
by them to the Register of Deeds,
and other County officers, over and
above what the law allows, is re
funded. Let it come back into the
County Treasurv.
A Fact. If all -the money that
has.been over paid to some of the
county officials, as shuwn bv the
Yarboro and Spencer statement.
was back in the County Treasury
thero would be enough to enclose
iLe wurt square handsomely.
MORE CORRUPTION
AJST FRAUD.
EDITOIt Couriek Deab Sir :
To day . whilelooking over various
orders issued to different persons, I
noticed an oider to myself for services
as juror at March Term 1S6G. Said
order was dated January 22nd 18G9,
and is numbered 183. I vras not a
juror at that Term of the Court, and
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am of the opiniou that I never was a
juror at any of the County Courts,
If you will examine the minutes of that
Term of the Court, you will not find
my name among them, and if you will
examine the minutes of the Board of
Commissioners for January 22nd 1SC3
you will see no order for $2.55
was allowed me, and
furthermore
my Books of surveys, show that I
was in Granville county at that time,
surveying ior tne ueirs ot Stephen
KYKyx. x urn ccrmm iu.ifc no SUCH
order ever came into my hands, aud
that 1 never Siiw or 'heard of it until
to day. Probably a great many more of
the same kind have been issued in the
name of parties who were not jurors.
W. N. FULLER,
LETTER FROM GENERAL M. C.
BUTLER.
Gentral M. C. Batler, whose came
has been mentioned in connection with
the recent disorder in Hamburg S.'C,
has written a letter in which he charges
that the rec-nt troubles are chargeable
to the intolerable outrages of the col
ored outlaws who infest the town, and
declares that there ii no law for white
men in Hamburg. Id conclujion Gen-.
era! Buibr says:
I might have avoided the storm by
flceiug from it. Hut I conceived that I
had certain duties ta perform, and I
was not brought up in that school
whicb allows any man to desert hLs
friends and clients when they are ia
danger, and their families and proper
ty in ieooardv. I am indifferent to
the opinion of those bowling hypo.
crites and ask co favor at their bands
and shall grant none. Their threats of
United States toldiers have no terrors
for me or the people of Edgefield. We
have had these eoldiers with U3 and
have no objection to-their coming again.
We have found the officers gentlemen
as a general thm. and the men orderly
and law-abiding, and they will do no
moie than execute their orders and
enforce the laws. I invite a judicial
: f;nl; -m r,rtr in enhw
t
mit to t&e arbitrament of the law, and
such is the feding, as lar as I have
been able to learn, of every white man I
who is in any degree connected with
the aair, rlhe white men in this coun.
xry nave some ngucs wmcn tne negroes
are bound to respect, They have no
.
fnr thAir In-cnlitv' in niir fsimilipa durinw
the war .and mtv that thev will Der-
J '
mit thtmselve to be made the tools of
bad, mischievous, designing white men
und mulattoes. So long as they obey
the laws every honorable man of the I
country will feel bouud to protict and
encourage them in happiness and pross
iVl v J j
GEN. GRANT TO GEN. SITTING-
BULL.
Gea. Grant Bully for you my
dear brother in mental attributes. I
feel that we were made in the same
mould. We each dolight in rum, to
bacco, dogs, carnage and plunder.
May I ask you to accept this long-
range repeating rifle? It is better
than any I have for my troops. Take
it, my dear chum, but do not use it on
my brother or other thieves. Use it
against those who would investigate
my operations. In a little while I
I will end to vou a few Gcneials and
1 officers I have spite against: I will
kep rny son at home; and when you
warm it to my enemies, whom it will
not do to kill at home, you will know
that you are not spilling any of the
blood of the Grant?. You see. Gen
Setting Bull, that I am a strategist.
Go home now. Take this rifle with
you anu wuen you see an omccr m
mm rv
command of white troops, know that
the one thus sent is my enemy. Go
for him.
Gen. Sitting Bull- Ugh ! Pome-
Toy's Democrat.
the
AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
Ordinance four is in these words:
"An ordinance to amend aeticle
TlIttEE, 6ECTIOX TEN, OF THE CON
STITUTION.
The people of .North Carolina in
Convention assembled do onlain; That
Article three (3), section ten (10), of
the Constitution, be amended so as to
read as follows:
"The Governor shall nominate, and
by and with the advice and consent of a
majority of the Senators elect, appoint
all officers, whose offices arc established
by this Constitution, and whose ap
pointments are not otherwise provided
tor."
Read three times and ratified in open
I Convention, this Cth day of October,
1 1875.
I The Section that this amends reads
I follows:
I "The Governor shall nominate, and
j hy and with the advice and consent of
I a majoiity of the Senators elect appoint
I all officers, wnose offices are established
hy the Constitution, or which shall be
vented by law, and whose appiutments
- 1 are not otherwise provided for, am no
1 suzh officers fhull be ;pncintetl or
elected by the Generul Assembly."
The clauses in italics above arc those
stricken from the Constitution by this
amendment.
Under the old Constitution the Gov
ernor elaimod the power to appoint all
the State officers whose manner of ap
pointments were not clearly defined,
aud pointed out by the Constitution,
and in this he was" sustained by the
Supreme Court. The confirmation by
theSetate was mad-3 entirely nugatory
by the manner in which the Governors
have managed heretofore
In the very last days of the session
of the Legislature the Governor would
send in his nominations to the Senate,
some would bo acceptable, and tome
would not be so to the Senate; some
would be confirmed while others would
be rejected. The Legislature would
adjourn, and these appointments bo
iuw vacant " the Governor would fill
them with the very men that the legis-
lature declined to conSrin. Thus
ovor-riding the will of the people, us
expressed by their accredited repre
sentatives and the authorities des
ignated by the Constitution to make
these appointments in conjunction
with the Governor. By this means
the Governor had tbo absolute control
of the organization of the charitable
and penal institutions of the State, as
well as appointment of State Librarian,
Keeper of the Capitol, and several
other officers. The amendments puts
it in the power of the people's repre
sentatives to coutrol air these institu
tions; and to make the appointments
f r flia nfTinne n a tltnca rPri oa a fa n r f
w
established by the Constitution. This
ture which comes fresh troai the peo
pie every two years, is a much more
fitting department of the State gov
eminent to express the popular will
tbaQ ig the Executlve wuich ia elec.
. i , . r
ted only once in four years, lor
v.. r .i -a . j;
uebl ol lUB amonamenis; as uiveiB
tte ' .Executive of the immense p .t
ruage, that the old Constitution con-
ters upon him, and brings the duties
and powers of that office back to the
times when it was occupied by Dud
ley, Morehed, Graham, Mauly, Reid
and others under whose guidjng hands
tho people of tLe btate flourished and
were happy. Then the Supreme Court
was never or rarely called in to decide
some couflict of authority between the
different departments of the Govern
ment. Then such a thin? as two
Boards of Directors, and two President
and different sots officers undertaking
4
to run tho same Railroad, was an un
heard. of thing. Lot us return to a
system that worked so well and leave
behind the clashing cf the latt few
years.
Franklin County:
la tie SuDcridr Court.
Tom Bramc Plaintiff ) Complaint
Against v For
Milly Bramc Dcfd'
l't.)
Divorce.
It appearing to the satisfaction of
tie Court that Milly Brame the De
fendant above named, cannot after
due deligence bo lound within the
State ot North Caiolina: It i3 there.
fore, ordered, that publication of tho
summons m this cause, be made in the
Frauklin Courier, a newspaper pub-
lished in the town of Louisbarg, once
a week for six weeks successively,
commanaing ine aeienaant ilulv
Brame to appecj before the Judge ol
the Superior Court at a Court to be
held for the County of Franklin at the
Court House in Louisburg on the4tn
Monday after the 2ud Monday in
August 1876, then and there to an
swer the complaints, a copy of which
will be filed in the office ol the Clerk
of said Court within the three first
days of said term, and let the said de
fendant take notice that unless she
a'ppcars and answers 6aid complaint
at said term, tho Plaintiff will apply
to the Corut for the relief demanded
in the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the seal
ot said Court the 23d day ol June
a., u. 104U.
W. K. DAVIS,
Clerk Superior Court.
Franklin Co.,N. C.
Louisburg Female
College;.
LOUISBURG, IV, C,
O
REV. F. L. REID, A. M., President.
Mrs. C. D. Lawrence Associate Teacher,
Miss Annie R, Fuller Teacher of Mnsic
Mrs. A.T. Harris, Matron.
The above school nndei the auspi
ces of the Raleigh District Conference,
will be opened on
Wcduosdny July IStli,
1 fci'T'O. mill contnuo
5 1 -weeks.
Rates of Board and
Tuition.
Board (exclusive of washing and
lights) per month, $ io 00
Tuition, in Primary English, per
Session, 15 oo
Tuition, in Higher English, per
Session, 20 00
Languages extra, 5 00
Music (including use ol itfctra
ent), 13 00
&cj For farther information ad
dres., I
Rev. F. L, Reid,
LOUISBURG, N. C.
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i I A BUXTON, Jscksoo, Engine.
. H CRIMES, Lexlcgtoo; Engine.
Q W GRIMES Reedy Cretk, Saw
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