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SATURDAY,
:-APRILS, 1S84.
ZsWrtd st U rvtOtxx 1 bUtnrW
A Ruii eoorcnUoQ of lb RepoWL
ant will bt held io RafefCb oo Tboradaj
tba flrat day of Ma,
Eacbconotr U eotitkd to twk
many dlagaUt aa It baa member, of
tba HotiM of RepreattUtiTa. Tba
cbalnnan aod aocrtury of tba coooty
-111 ira It credentials
bowing tba prlotnent of dleflea
.WrnftiM and forward tba aama to
IbeSUUCoorenUon.
By order of tbe IUpobulican SUU
Committee. ,
J. J. Mott, Cbairman.
J. C. L. IUBRia, SecreUry.
Llaeral IUU Caite-Uaa.
A Mam Conrentlon of tbe Liberal
party of North Carolina ! called V
meet In Italelch, on Thunday, tle lt
day May, 1834, and all opposed to Boor
boo misrule, the present odious sjstem
of county Royernment, lucresse of taxa
tion, sumptoary laws and cUsa legisla
tion of all kinds, and all who ara In fa-
Tor Oi vne provccuwu ui uiifc m.
and Industry, a Ulr election and an
honest count, tbe free education of the
masses and the aboliiioo of the obnox
ious Internal Revenue laws re cordially
invited to attend and assist in pladng
before the people of the State suitable
candidates fof the various Slate oQiccs.
This being a Mass Convention all
persons attending will be regarded as
duly accredited delegates.
Those favoring the foregoing pnncl
pies are requested to see that tbe various I
counties in the State are represented at
the Convention.
(Signed) W. M. Cocke, Chairman.
F. M. Sorbell, Secretary.
The Liberal Democrats.
While the America is an outspo
ken, straight-forward Republican nsws
paper, and is as it construes a fair and
candid exponent of tbe principles of
that party, yet it feels most warmly
allied to the Liberal party aud is deeply
interested in its fortunes, but it has no
claims upon the Liberals nor does it
wish to be officious in giving them gra-
tultous advice ; it knows for what they
contended two, and even three years I
ago, and presumes they are still in favor J
of the same thines: the Ameiiican is
la close sympathy with tho Liberals In
their commendable fight against the
Bourbons, and will extend to them all
tba ' aid in its power to crown . their
mom and tta purposes and aims with
success. Every incentive that ever act
uated.patriots and freeman encourages
and urges the Liberals to renewed exer
tions and beckons them forward, 'tis for
liberty they strive, liberty
liberty of conscience and liberty
eriy oi ac- i
tion, it is a lofty and noble aim and
should enlist the sympathies and aid of
the conservatives of every party. The
initial move of tbe Liberals, before they
bad a distinctive name among parlies,
was against the Infamous prohibition
law which was attempted to be forced
by a Democratic Legislature upon the
people, so circumscribing their rights
and threatening their liberties ; it was
not a move in the cause of temperance
but of tyranny and fanaticism, and
looked to clothinz the autocratic few.
embraeed in the county government
rings, with further extended and en
larged powers. After prohibition was
crushed by an uprising of tho people,
the Liberals girded up their loins anew
and made a desperate assault upon the
county government rings themselves,
with the timely support and assistance
of the Republicans they were again
well-nigh successful, and were only de
feated by a fraudulent manipulation of
the votes.
The hatred of the Bourbons, nursed
and kept warm, against the Liberals
was bitter and intense, the sarcasms and
invectives hurled at them were biting
and spitefu.', vials of unmixed wrath
were poured without stint upon their
devoted bead, denunciations were heap
ed upon them unmeasured, cruel and
merciless. Can any one of these
Liberals, who has any manhood and
self-respect, forget these persecutions
and like a cur lick the hand that smote
him ? No, a thousand times no. Men,
who for principle were stout and brave
of heart enough to pass through the
ordeal of 1882, will hardly waver and
falter nowwhen victory only waits till
next November to perch upon their
banners. When the Liberals moved
out of the Bourbon camp, knowing that
he never forgave nor forgot, tbey burned
the -bridges behind them. Bourbons
are implacable, .no Liberal need ever
hope to mollify them, they may invite
the Liberals return aud flatter them,
but trust them and confide in them they
will never. Bourbons even suspect
anti-prohibition Democrats and are
chary of taking them into confidence,
they are admitted coldly upon suffer
ance and are ignored and shoved aside
whenthe opportunity affords itself,
utter subservience to the will of the
Bourbons may buy for the anti-prohibitionists
tolerance 'while they are useful,
but their usin" is forever remembered
against them.
Tbe Liberal Democrats feeling that
their cause is just and tbe principles for
wnicatuey contend are right, will turn
, . , deaf ear to Bourbon, vituperation and
uu uu.ttu maxen steaauy on ward
sa?.Ar:
. Mm in iL. frr axd BOlfttt-
i iKr. rirhU. Tb
HJCi IMIW"
Uya of lutioUtk ire tmmbtrtd aad
ibetod U drawlo tsb ; w ahairio
Um oomiaff emmpaJca nt
upoo every C a! l TerT
thail otmoN tbem to foot and arm
to arm, an4 ahall om lb tt
-. . . i
Baurboct ma j cbo to kct ;
Mte Vr 7
down tb lo. Wier r
mnd lb w.j. of prarr, hot k-lo lb
njbt we dara mainUlo it. t i-o a rre
rf prtMloo of oploioo at tba bmltot box
reU tba prrrratloo of oar hUrt
aod tu rnto!'lr r American inUto
llm. aod ooIcm we can bare "a fm
ballot and a fair cmint" liberty 1. a bol-
loW mockery and freedom a bam ; tba
votes of tbe majority most be supreme,
Ibis la all we ask and we will be satisfied
with nothing be. The Liberal Demo
crat stands Ux tbe right, and sooner or
lUr right will prevail and crown bis
cause with victory. Let him contmoe
to stand Crm and nnlinching, he can
not go backwards without dishonor.
The same conditions that made him a
Liberal In 18H2 eiist with the same
farce to-day ; before him are honor and
victory, behind him are disgrace and
disaster.
Ecform It Is.
,
Any roan who will divest himself of
his prejudices and take a calm survey
of the politics of this State, will readily
admit that the Democratic party is one
-f pretense and hollow promise, and has
achievd success by appealing to the
prejudices of the people and parading
ss frightful realities bugbears or their
own creation. Recognizing this fact
and appreciating at their proper worth
gom4 0f the anle-election assurances
amj plages of the Democracy, the Mil-
ton Chronicle, a siauncn icmocraiic
journal and one that has grown venera
ble in the service, says :
"And Senator Vance and Gen. Cox
are not for abolishing the Internal
Revenue but they are for a bill to Re
form the System. So says the Farmer
it Mechanic. Well, Gen. Cox we can
pans on that, he may be consistent.
But ah is it possible that "Our Ze!M
who made his campaign against Settle
entirely in abusing the internal.revenue
and for cutting it up root and branch,
nay who inspired the old daddies on
how It was in the good old times when
every man made his own brandy with
out tax and none of these "infernal red
legged grasshoppers smelling up the
. - t W - A
creek branches." (How the boys
wouii about, and old griczle cheek fel-
lows open -their moulhs like so many
alligators
and holler "Whoo-raw for
I'M We sav veGods! is it dos- I
Bible that "Our Zeb" is now only for lhtV are more competent than a Legis
$5g&& t"-0 wL to . U-eir ruler., rur.
is a Reformer. Cood. Aeain let all who arc more intimately connected
the deodorized doodlebugs and the plate-
eyed pizzirinctums join in the laughing
fehiSt Wha.,da't1l,Cehop7e"fhU.r
mountains to the seashore hollering
azaintit the internal revenue. We rath-
p JLr,i er ,iad an inklin2 at the t,me lhat il of every man who loves liberty and de
of opmion, th! but politician, chaff. . ee man firmlv e8taD,:ghed in
uut men Vance says inai I'oiuics is a
trade."
This is plain talk, truthful talk and
talk that goes to the core of the matter,
it is just such talk as we have been ex
pecting to hear for these many years.
We knew that the people could not al-
ways be blind to the broken promises of
demagogues and that in time they would
tire of their specious excuses, but we
had waited so long and so vainly, that
we had concluded that there was no
manhood in the rank and file of the
Democracy, that thev had surrendered
all independence of thought and speech
and like dumb, driven cattle had bent
their nprltft tct th vntu fnatonorl iirvin I
them by demagogical leaders, who
were only intent, regardless of the
raeaos employed, upon securing to them-
selves office and pelf. The Chronicle
says, "Vance says that politics is a
trade." he should certainlv be authoritv
nnn that s v..-. v. o k I
av uvr iuau lU iiuivu Vclllsit
na has ever plied it more persistently
and selfishly.
We have said over and over again
and we now repeat that the Internal
Revenue has been a source ofnolitiral
loss to the Republicans in North Caro
lina, its existence has been a powerful
machine in the bauds of the Democracy
to stir op and excite the most violent
prejudices of the people ; the Republi
can party would have advocated and
urged its repeal long, and long ago could
it have been done without financial det
riment to the country ; the war and
the concomitants of the war bequeathed
to this country a mighty debt it was a
debt of honor and had to be discharged
fully and honestly, the Internal Rev-
enue waa one of the agencies employed
in its discharge. The Republican party
to advance its aims and ournoaea ia not
so lost to honor and truth, as to advo-
cate the abolition of the Internal Revo-
nue immediately, because the revenues
of the government, exclusive of those
derived from -this annrao m nrt nM
me uvi ouw
cient to defray its absolute current .
penses ; however, the volume of the
debt has been so far reduced and th
pension claims are so nicely adjusted,
that Congress could set aome dpfinii I
day in the , future when the repeal of
tne internal lie venue should go into
effect, this would not be aa donhtf.,1 f
fulfillment or as risky legislation aa was
setting apart some definite day when
Kesumption should go into effect. By
restoring the tariff of 1880 the addition-
al revenues from that source would by
so much shorten the time when the en-
tire Revenue system could be abolished.
We sincerely trust that Congress will
take some action in this direction.
It is hopeless to loot to"the TVmrvmf.
ftfrtteatftoiitir ttot&u
It. TU rbOa-UlL
IetiocraUc lb-ity.
jtart ao tUrv was a iVawjctatir
metcbrr ftf CiStt ol. W ;ttf I
did ooi deaJ4 Ibe esKKLlkal rp! j
of it whtAm I eternal Rrvese jttB. j
To-day. a maoeitf of the Ikmorrals U
lU IIwm i f U aWJitkua 4 war
test aiw! drily crmUtml their UaU
loffs of tl patU What has sd ihx
cbangs ? .Wbo can answer ?" Two
years ago the Ieoris were la a mi
noriiy In tlc IIoe, a4 lty txmlA
ilen, Ur party effrct, adtorale a repeal
of tbe lolernai lUret with Impunity,
now thai they ars in a majority and
can act eStily, thejr Ui their
proteMtons two jears ago. Morri
aoo, Carlisk, Hurd and the other ultra
free traders are io a large majority a d4
are openly and determinedly opnJ io
the repeal of the Internal Revenue.
Senator Vance is in liearty accord with
them and lends them aid and.-comfort
io their free-trade bereie. and then in
tbe vacation he runs to North Caro
lina, and none is so loud mouthed in
opposition to the Internal Rertnue as
he, knowing all the while that the free
trade Democratic irty, of which be is
an exponent, alone favor its retention.
How long will the iople, tb sensible
people shut their eyes to these things ?
How long will they allow themselves t
be used simply as a means to advance
the ends and aims of leaders, who value
their promises only as they wrve to
cajo'.e and deceive ? Tbe .swiftness . of
the Democratic leaders in making prom
ises is only excelled In their slowne of
performance. : If 'the people earnestly
desire and fet store by. the repeal of the
Internal Revenue, they must cut ah IT
from such demagogues and faUitier of
promises as Vance and relegate them to
the umbrageous walks of private life ;
their talk is the veriest "chaff" and talk
is cheap. Senator Vance is a very incon
sequential aud a very, very fallible
Reformer." If the people of North
Carolina have any regard for themselves,
and value in a Kcpresentative decency
and sense, to clownishness and deroa
goggy, they will oust "our Zeb" and
give him an opportunity to "reform."
Tbe Liberal ConTentloo.
We again invite the attention of the
honest, conservative and fair-minded
Democrats of North Carolina, who are
not in sympathy with Bourbon manners
and methods, who are tired of dancing
to the music composed and rendered by
the ring, Mr ho have not as yet lost an
ih..ir manhood, but still believe that
with the every day affairs of the citizen
lhan any olher8 we invite the attention
of a., such to the broad nnd coprc-heu-
sive call for a Liberal mass convention
in the city of Raleigh. It is theduty
-
the exercise of his rights, to be repre
sented in the Liberal convention ; its
objects, aims aud purposes are right
and commendable, and concern every
man, woman and child in the State.
Under Bourbon ring rule, and who
compose that ring in every county in
the State you have oniy io iook arounu
you to be intormed, the citizen has been
stripped of his dearest rights, he has no
more voice in the direction of county
affairs, in the appraisement of property,
in the levying of taxes, in the composi-
tion of juries, in the management and
conduct of elections, in tne management
nf the schools, in the disbursement of
the county's moneys, than a man in. the
jungles or wilds of Africa. In the se-
lection of officials charged with the per-
formance of these several duties, the
citizen is not consulted, and hence these
officials are autocrats and owe no re-
nnnsihilitv to tbe people. Let one of
a J
these officials be ever so corrupt and
distasteful to the people, yet they arc
powerless to compass his removal. Op-
Peed to every principle of American
institutions the creative or appointing
powei is so far removed from the peo
ple, that they are without authority
aud influence and are at the mercies,
caprices and whims of the self-appointed
few embraced in the county rings.
This is all wrong.
We know that this is a government
of delegated authorities, but the spirit
of our institutions contemplated that
those wearing or
powers, should be brought clcsc to the
people and should be directly responsi-
ble to them lor a proper ana iauuiui
performance of the trusts reposed iu
tQeni. The present system of county
government ignores and ruthlessly
tramples under foot this just and broad
principle, and sets them, who should be
the servants, over the masters, the
peophj It makes the creature greater
i t han the creator. It disfranchises the
voter. It creates an autocracy and
gives effect to the un-democratic pnnci
pie, "taxation without representation.'
The only plea set up in advocacy oi the
present system of county government is
the false, hollow and flimsy claim of "ex-
pediency." nooueuwuJF;uig
that it can be defended and maintained
Pn principle, and it is easy of proof
that it has not been "expeaient" ior tne
benefit and weliare oi me counties iu
behoof of which it was originally and
ostensibly created. But even did it
benefit some few counties in the Slate
though, however, it does nobwould
I such a departure from tho old land-
I marks be . expedient Is it, expedient
I under anv conceivable tircttmslance to
&tius tar UJ TO? Of tfa &3
It'.at'ta.:a4 fl4si(w, a j4t itt.
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W write trvmtf t4faay tVl
xatUr. w art ciasf taUeei4 i l t
a.s It Kar!y errra, er;"tiirtis.-'as4
rigbt ' rwfi i W. ; c:-'i
ruttcf.s tW lTttaJ':af t; t b' -:''$ a 4
ward ptfe, kl ett it ia ts, r-
irvf tmt -d tU. ss4 tht j
ptrcldy, to ii waf it nnM j
prlviWeofeleeilj:eii-ry eCLitf tacv4 j
w ttb tba ' . (wtiurmae ' - '.' ay. . pak i
duty. Io tbb a&4 Wt i fcje bse
Tim pepi ar titrig9 as4 lt
must rule. We io rile itK ir4St.
buoetl and lair taoded D--ra:
tbroaxhout the iccglb as4 breaJtb of
lb .aLc bo are n acwtJ with tt
rntlmecta tcuocil4 n lb call ix th
Uberal oof eoii. in IUWUh on May
tbe 1st, to altead the ouotcctioo, Ut
part in it drliWrali'ia ard st before
the people for their toflrafc la Noeem
Ur next a ticket that will cmmend
itself fur iu jUtteeflty, its tr"oal pu
rity ol tharacter and ioUlUtfetw, a
ticket thai will okcluuJ lh cti6ietc,
tbe respect ami esteem of every otr io
North Carolina. Many, a very great
many, who are in hearty accord with
the object of the cmrtniica, wjJ v
lhat they will', vole for its otuih-, but
lhat they are' unable to io ur the ex
jene of at tending, but we say to a ll
who cat possibly attend, that it is a
duty tsey owe to tlicmelire, to pster
ity an) "to the country. It is for "awtet
liberty- we are : -cor. tending,- liberty .of
opinion,.' liberty of connience and liberty
of action.
It is a well known fact that a
unjority of the white votera. uf .Hali
fax, Kdgecoml, Bertie, Craven ami
of all gf the large negro counties i
oppose! to the present system of
County Government. I he ring knows
this. '-. --. - -Vv- '-,-'--.
"Bos, keop telling it." We saw a
fellow the other day whose entire
wardrobe would sell for -.'about 75
cents, whobc breath would be an ele
gant advertisement for a small grog
gery, who did not own a foot of land
or have 25 cents worth of credit, who
had been twice indicted for an offense
we care uot to mention, who docs not
pay his poll'., tax, who can neither
read nor write, nor wants to know
how, who owns three dogs and whips
his wife and as he was just falling in
the ditch with a col o reel boy holding
on to' him' and. trying to get him out
of town, he exe'.a:-ned : "By I
lelong to the white man's party. I
do." And the little negro showed
his ivory and said : "Boss, keep
telling it."
North Carolina booms for Demo
cratic Statesmen don't pan out well.
Four years ago old Mr. Hendricks
(the same who had the big fraud per
petrated on him. Ah 1) was brought
down to Charlotte to open his cam
paign for the Piesidential nomination.
It didn't work. Hancock got it.
Last fall little Sammy Cox, the fun
ny man, came down and lectured for
the-Orphan." Aylum to boom his
dirlacv for the Speakership. That
was also a dismal failure. Now comes
frpp-trade Carlisle, the Democratic
Speaker, and Mr. Civil Service Pen
dleton to make speeches at Charlotte,
on the 20th of May. It won't work.
Standard Oil Payne, of Ohio, and
Cipher Dispatches Tilden have got
the barrels or money,ana cariisie uas
only principle. The bar'ls will win.
Calico politcs : Randall is for
protection and Morrison for free
trade, the Ohio Democrats for civil
rights,and North Carolina Democrats
against it, the Tarboro Democrats
for a negro mayor and the Charlotte
Democrats against one, the North
Carolina Democrats for Sonthern
rights and the Maine Democrats
against it, the Stokes county Demo
crats for the abolition of the Inter
nal Revenue and the New Hanover
Democrats against it, TildeD for hard
money, Vorhees for foft and Bland
for both, Hancock thinks secession
treason and secessionists traitors,
Vance thinks both were eminently
projer, some Democratic papers for
having an issue and some against it,
and yet strange to say they all agree
in an overweening desire to get in.
Music by the band.
Mr. Robeit Toomb?, secretive and
sly, has telegraphed Mr. Carlisle in
Latin that the country sustains htm.
Now as Mr. Toombs is unrecon
structed and is as he claims an alien
in his own native land, some J,he
papers are a little curious to k$ow
to which country the fiery ex-Confederate
refers, not that it is a mat
ter Of any cousequence. If Robert
was referring to this country, it ia the
generally received opinion that he
made a most egregious error,as the
recent Congressional election in Kan
sas and the municipal elections in the
States of New York and Pennsylvania
most convincingly demonstrate, but
if Mr Toombs had England and its
Cobden Club in his minds eye, he
was certainly correct and guessed
right the first time. No, neither pub
lic opinion nor the general welfare
and prosperity of the United States
sustain Mr. Carlisle ; we believe in
protecting our industries and our
home labor against the competition
of the pauper labor of Europe. Com
munism has no home in America,
nor will it ave, so long aa the labor
ing claaaes are aa prosperous and as
contented aa tbey are at present un
der a beneficient and wise protective
policy-. They feel ttat it ia better to
jfcft enough akmfc
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MAIi'S M.cft3a tlillL it.
leUigsUor of tbe I'su tile I -'. b
fesMliff in the dnluf of tjU
Xiuum eri OBofe but rtl-ie tUfa be
vtnl tu tlltl Uu 1 ' "Ot!clTl lb
feWlutiob of inquiry-, ii U tee
c Jratly pfura Ul llie r lo-i
brought on by t IrCii, t.r
teks of tlelitjrraUt'Mt mti t'M ti
fur the purpMr of kib tbe t-gr-inr
away ftoia lb wl. ito
were brought to to t od dititbuUl
amng thuM? who were wiiUug to u
them, and a elccte-d J aity if wLU
lue-tl fwfUJttl tn ""lift of battle. b.U
rl vcrtUv aflr oilr i( iHiiieU
..
iu'jj a t rod of colurel iura im!
children who had gathered out of
vut iity t tfote a buil liug in which
a liiual rurt.ling u being b id. ;
The Drtnociatie wtir- le.larrt ;
that their txutdiou action ,'.
Ukeu through ft nr f an alt si k un ;
the auuleticr by tle Uegror- wbOj
vr gatherttl oulult but t. v! ;
mtt that this audience wn comp-l j
of bOU or VUO of "the lt ( uit
citilen" i( Dauiliet nearly all arm
rd, while the crowd outhle did not
number more than 2u0 or 300-
The sentiment of the white is Ut
indicated by the fact that one of lb
Democratic witnesses objecU-d lo Ihe
ue of the U-rm "murdet" as he did
not consider it murder "to kill a nig
ger." SENATOU IloarliSil but the mmplc
truth, unpalatable to u '.hough, it umy
le, when he said that North Carolina
was al the very tail end of the South iu
point of illiteracy. No wonder Senator
Vance flew into a passion and retaliated
with stale jokes aud bioing'salc, we.
would have hmt our ttnij r tx, had we
like he been thrice tier lid (vfrur nf
the Slate, bad been praiio nlly identi
fied with its Klitical life for twenty
live year, had lived ujkii the bounty of
the tax-payers, had educated our chil
dren off of the same and never lifted our
voice or finger for the education of ihe
children of tbe Slate. To have received
so '.much -and done' so little in' -return
diould make the Senator very re when
be is twitted with it. Vance and Ran
som are more reotib'e for the deplor
able illiteracy existing to-d iy In North
Carolina, than all others ; tbey have set
in their seats and regularly drawn their
salaries, but they have never done - any
thing to Ameliorate or better the condi
tion of the people. The jxroplc are com
mencing. to understand thin, and they
are wanting to know Ike reason why.
Maybe if every voter in North Caroiiua
had been oducated, Vance would never
been elected Governor ; the Senator
perhaps so understands it and that may
explain many things.
The ends of jus. ice have been so long
and so shamelessly defeated in Cincin
nati, and trials by Jury in capital cases
have become such a farce and travesty,
that the citizens have sickened and tired
of it, and finally concluded to lake the
law in their own hands ; as usual in
such instances, though the objects and
intentions may be ever so good and
commendable, the out-come is untold
harm and hurt. Cincinnati has just
witnessed a riot resulting in several
deaths and untold destruction of prop
erty. The immediate cause of the riot
on the 20ih and 3 th ultimo, was this :
William Iierner, a white boy aged 17,
and a mulatto named Palmer were em
ployed as hostlers by W. II. Kirk ; on
tlie night before Christmas Iierner and
Palmer made a murderous assault with
a blacksmiths hammer upon Kirk and
brained him ; they robbed him and
concealed the body ; upon being arrest
ed Berner confessed the crime. It was
a plain, cold-blooded and brutal mur
der. Berner was arraigned and was
found by the jury guilty of murder in
the third degree and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for 20 years. The
citizens of Cincinnati were justly in
dignant and incensed at the character
of ihe verdict and held a meeting and
denounced it. After the meeting,
which had been called by the members
of the Chamber of Commerce, bad ad
journed, and the more quiet and orderly
of the citizens had returned to their
homes, the hot-headed and violent or
ganized a mob and furiously assaulted
the jail, the crowd collected swelled in
volume till a riot of vast proportions
ensued taking control of the entire city.
The jail was badly wrecked, the court
house burned and between u0 and 75
lives sacrificed. Order was restored by
the presence of police and raalitia after
two days and nights of riotinz by the
mob. No one waa lynched. The Jail
at tbe time contained about 30 prison
ers awaiting trial npnn charges of mur
der. Berner was not in the fail, having
nrevioualv been spirited to the neniUn
tikry. Tbe afliiir was truly onfortu-
'anils: in
OLIVER CHILI. WATT i DIXIE PL0V7S.
KEAl'EHS am; B1NDMKS.
Mill (io nls -Saw .Mills
CP, I SP, II THRESHING .MACHINES
I' i surra will II I Ifcelr
h. ir. ii. ui:in
tmni.
rvnTvnffiiiiiirn(Pi?nn
FOR THE SPRING SEASON OF
Is Complete anil Ready (or Inspection
In Hats wo oiler u irreator variety and more
attractive .styles than at any previous time.
Onr Shoe Stock will he lonml a irade bet
ter in quality than last season, and at about
the former low priees.
Hovers would do well to cill and examine
before placing their orders. Our Traveling
Salesmen are now on the road and will call
on the trade with a full line of samples.
.We are also making extensive purchases
of Drv Cioods, Aotins,
pared with a' complete
meuts
within the next
Respectfully,
Statesville, N. C, Jan.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALEES IM
General Merchandise I
o
Our stock is now
partment of new and
w, iwJw.vo flint w
goods nrc lower than they have been for years
with one single exception, and that item ia
cofl'ee. and we look for a decline in the near
future. , .... .
We carry a heavy stock oi almost all kinds
of goods that arc bought and sold ; therefore
you can hardly go amiss in getting what you
call for. .
Our stock-is unusually .heavy m every de
partment, all of which, -r the hulk at least,
has been bought for Spot Cash, which is
an item in buving a general stock of goods,
or anv line of goods. . The cash in hand and
discounts off only enables us to sell that much
lower.
To our many friends and customers: You
will find us at our old stand, ever ready and
willing to supply your wants.
To those who have never dealt with us:
We do believe that if you will call in and
take a look that you will not go out without
something. Wc are,
L-,,
Kndnrs CIns vVr.,
1st let ! ! cll mm4
axn
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hte.t ami will lie pre:
'stock in all
ilcpart-
.iu oav.
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complete in every de
fresh goods.
ean safelv sav that a
truly,