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VOL XVILTHIRB SERIES. SALISBURY, N. C, FEBRUARY 25, 1886. 0
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A Touch of Nature.
MUSIC IS CAMP.
TU;a ),r.niiti!"iil ixicni was written durintr the
war by the late John li. Thomson, a southern
poet, wjio died on the first day of May 18
Two artnies covered bill and plain
"Wheije Ilainmhaimock's waters
; Ran deply crimsoned with the stain
5f battle's recettt slaughter.
ThcSuibuicr clouds lay pitched like teats
h uiads of heavenly aznfe,
And eajsb dread gurf of elements
Slept: iu its hid embrasure.
Tc brejeze so poftly blew, it made
No forest leaf to quiver,.
An9 thjb smoke of the random cannonade
Rolleja slowly from the river.
And nofw where circling hills looked down
WithUannon grimly .planted,
0'er lisless camp-and silent town
The olden sunset slanted ;
When n the fervid air there came
I A atrnin, now rich, now tender
The mijiiiic seemed i tself aflame
With day's departing splendor. .
I A Federal band, which eve and morn
Playibd measure brave and nimble,
Bad juit struck up! with flute and horn
And lively clash! of cymbals.
Down flocked the soldiers to the bank
Till margined by its pebbles,
One wooded shore jwar blue with "Yanks,"
T And;onewas gray with "Rebels."
.Then all was still ; an then the band,
With movement light and tricksy,
Made -stream and forest, hill and strand
Reverberate with ' lUxie."
Th conscious stream, withburnished trlow
Went proudly o'er the pebbles,
But thrilled throughout its deepest now
ffl With yelling of the Rebels.
Again a pause, and, then again
The trumpet pealed Sonorous,
And "Yankee Doodle was tlse strain
; To which the shore. Rave chorus."
The laughing ripples shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles- 1
Loud shrieked the warmirtg Boy3 in blue
Defiance to. the RebeJs.
And yet once more the bugle sang
Above the stormy jript :
No Khout upon the evening rang
There reigned a holy quiet.
THo cod slntv- streum it. a imisle'ss flood e
Pouring oer the glistening pebbles ;
- And silent now the Yankee stood
And iileut stood the Rebels. ,
"Ho unresponsive soul had heard
. That plaintive rtjptefc appealng,
,So deeply "Home StS-'t Home' had stirred
The hidden founts of feeling.
As bytlie wand of jlairy,
inc cottage neatn tnt- live oaa trees,
The .cabin by the prairie;
Or cold or warm his native skies
Bend in their beauty o'er himf
Been thjfougb the tear-mist in Mr eyes
His IdVed ones staiid before him.
P "F f r i. '!'.'
iAs fades the iris after ram
jj In April's tearful weather, t
The vision vanished as the strain
And daylight died together;
I But memory, waked by Music's art,
Kxpresse.il iu simplest numbers, -Subdued
the sternest Yankee's heart,
j Made light the Rebel's slumbers.
Aiid fair the form (f Music shrines
That bright, celestial creature-- f
Who still, "mind war's embattled lines,
Gare this one touch of nature.
The States Bights Killer.
In view of otir constant eopposition
to unnecessary extravagant measures
and appropriations by National, State,
County and City Governments, and the
assaults we have made on that dangerv
ons States-Uights-Killer known as the
"Blair Kducatiamt! Bill,'' we have been
called narrow-minded, little-hearted,
&c. Ve care nothing about such epi
thets, but we coujld reply (without be-
ing consmered boasttul by those who
mow us) that we have spent as much
. money for educational purposes as any
! other man in North Carolina, and have
probably given mray as much money
for charitable ojbjects as any other man
in the State during the last thirty
years. The fellows wlm vote away
other people's money are not always
much in the way of paying donations
or taxes. From such patriots and news
paper Editors as E. J. Hale, Sr., of the
old Favetteville Observer, H. L. Holmes
and W. H. Bayne of the Fayetteville
Carolinian, and Gales of Raleigh, and
Lorihg aiul Fulton of Wilmington, We
learnejHn our younger days to oppose
extravagance and stand up for the
right, without regard to payor praise,
umr we can nor reiuse to ao so now,
when the "new1 ish" is disposed to
make raids on tax payers and the pub-
uc treasury. Home-Democrat.
' lrue enough. The "new ish" don't
know enough. It requires a very broad
basis of ignorance to support such a
parade of conceit, -They cry loudly for
the Blair bill. Let it distribute its
I millions to educate . the poorv they
say. 1 here are no millions to be dis
tributed except as they are wrnngfrom
the tax pay era of the land. E very man
with sense endligh to go indoors when
u tains, knows that this is true. The
Government must collect the money
before it can give it iiway. North
Carolina they say will get seven mil
lions in ten years! But let the people
remember that, during those ten years
tne otate must nav thirtv im inns nf
revenue tax! The. Government can af
ford to swap 7 millions fpr 30 millions,
and have an excuse to continue the in
ternal revenue oppression, but t.he peo
ple cannot afford it: The democratic
party must wipe out the revenue and
cut down the expenses riff th (mvom.
ment, and favoring th Bliar measure
I lie Uarolma Watchman.
s not the way to do it. The money
question is the smallest part of the in
famous scheme. The invasion and possi-
ble disruption of States rights and the
tendency to centralization of power in
the general government is where the
greatest danger lies.
The Marshall Texas Herald says:
But there is a constitutional question
involved in the bill, which will cause it
to meet with strong opposition in the
House. Itri not the simple question
whether the State would not be large
ly benefited by receiving that amount
of money; but is it consistent with true
Democratic principle of Republican
government to thus recognize the pa
ternity of the Federal Government over
the sovereign people of the States.
This is the opposition! to the Blair hi
in its nresent shape, and it will defeat
the measure.
The Wilmington
Star points out
some opposition to the measure in the
Senate, as follows
. In the course of the debate in the
Senate on Tuesday oh the great Feder
al School Teaching in the States bill
two interesting facts were stated. The
able .Senator Coke mentioned the fact
that the great State of Texas had in
convention assembled "denounced" the
Blair bill. Senator iHawley, of Con
necticut, mentioned; that the State
Board of Education; of his State be
lieved that the bill was "unwise." T-here
was never a more unwise and danger
ous bill before the Congress one that
promises to lead to more disastrous and
far reaching results. : Senator Maxey,
of Texas, pointed out the only Consti
tutional way by which the Federal
Government could aid school teaching
in the States, and that was by distribu
ting the proceeds of the public lands
tmong the fetates. I his Constitution
al mode will not suit the demands of
hose who prefer more devious and
dangerous ways.
Level headed views of the Monroe
Enquirer and Express :
We are now told that the surplus
which the official reports have been in
forming us was lying idle in the vaults
of the government treasurv will be non
est when the outlav has been made
which Congress has ordered to be made
in several directions. If this is! ihe
case, then we are no longer to be classi
fied among the champions , of the Blair
bill. Our position in advocacy of the
measure involved as a part of its founda
tion that there was a superfluous fund
in the hands of the government treas
urer. We areopposed to increasing our
taxes in order to raise a fund for dis
tribution by the general government
among the states for the purpose.
Since so many of our statesmen and
valued contemporaries, notably among
them the Wilmington btar, think the
measure would be not onlv unconsti-
tional and undemocratic but also tend
to destroy the characteristics of self-
reliance and selr-respect or our peo
ple, we feel comtortable in view of the
inevitable defeat of the bill. The old
North State has been equal to greatly
trying tasks in-the past, and we shall
be very greatly surprised it she shall
not be equal to the task of . creditable
educational progress in the future. In
the matter ot education, as welt as oth
er things in the light of the past, we
shall expect, in other words, to see the
old State shine. The Blair bill, we
think is doomed to defeat and to it now
wre say farewell.
The Louisville Courier Journal, Ken
tucky's leading Democratic paper says:
The point we make on the JJlair bill
as extended is that, if Mr. Blair one
year can indicate the course ot studv
as it relates to temperance, he may next
vear insist that these bouthern schools
shall adopt certain text books on taxa
tion, on history, on evolution, and fi
nally that no school shall receive any
rederal aid until it has abolished the
color' line. The one course comes just
as clearly within the domain of Federal
legislation .as the other, and no one who
insists that there exists a constitution
al provision for such an appropriation
can point to any line in the Constitu
tion which would prevent Congress
from marking out the course of study
and determining what shall be the con
ditions precedent to such asaistance.
Now in conclusion, let these few
paragraphs from the speech of Senator
Ingalls, of Kansas, be read. If the
blush of shame does not crimson the
reader's face if is because his State
pride is made of the wrong stuff. Thank
heaven there are some in North Caro
lina who spurn this infamy also:
Mr. President, the amendment pro-
posed by the senator trom Alabama
it i it i ,. i-,,-
ana me ouse rvauons matte oy tne sena
tor from Indiana are based upon an
entire misapprehensionof the objects
and the purposes of this bill. It is not
intended for the free Territories of the
Northwest. It is not intended for the
States of the North and the West.
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lhey spurn it. I know, sir. I voice the
Republicans, the people of ihe State of
Kansas, when I say that they spurn in-
dignantly and with contempt any as-
sumption that they desire a donation
from the national Treasury for the
purpose of conducting the system of
common schools within their borders.
us drop disguises, let us come down to
puet us ue jinn, ujjuub uus matter; let
the basis of common sense and common robbery respectable. And these e In
justice, and do not insult the people of meats were all for Blaine and Renubli-
, uiuiciii oiiims. uu not insui.
Massachusetts and IS ew Hampshire and
New York and Illinois and Wisconsin
and Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa
uuv iiuuoiw uuu. ncviujait nuu town I j m i i i - ,
and Dakota and Montana by declaring nd J Cleveland, the corrupt ele
that they want any portion of this dS f the hasten to make
nation of $77,000,000 for the
purpose
of taking care of the common school
system within their borders. We do
not want it.
When the States of the South, for
whom this money is intended, come
here and ask that they shall obtain it,
and that the basis of distribution shall
be the number of illiterates above the
age of ten years without any maximum
they know perfectly well, and the
country knows, that they are obtaining
that money under false pretenses.
CLEVELAND S -REFORM .
One Tear in Office
THE GIANT FORCES WITH WHICn HE HAS
HAD TO CONTEND HOW HE HAS STOOD
THE FIRE.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 14. The
end of the first year of President
Cleveland's term of office is near at
hand. It has been a busy year and one
fraught with great consequences. The
manifold difficulties in the way of the
first Democratic administration upon a
return of the party to political power
after a lapse ot a quarter of a century.
It only comprehends results. Mr.
Cleveland himself was a year ago an
unknown quantity. The country knew
what Governor Cleveland was; of what
President Cleveland would be it knew
nothing. That it believed in him and
trusted him was evidenced by his elec
tion and installation as President. At
the very threshold he was, confronted
by two facts: that a large portion of
the Democratic party, composed of ante-bellum
material, expected him to re
sume administrative power where
Buchanan left off; that a larger portion
composed of the new Dem c ay, ex
pected him to establish his administra
tion on the basis Of reform. The first
named element contained the old line
politicians, the second a new generation
of voters. Long accustomed to facts
of political legerdemain and inured to
falsehood, the politicians met the new
administration with the assumption
that ante-election promises were void
and that now that professions of re
form had served their turn they would
be cast aside as useless.
TAKING THE HONEST COURSE.
The President had one of two cour
ses open to him: to violate his promises
to the country and stultify his whole
record by accepting this presumption
as a fact, or risk the displeasure of this
formidable wing of his party by driv
ing straight ahead and trusting to the
results of a pure administration of
public affairs for his vindication. He
chose the latter and honorable course.
As was anticipated at the first indica
tions of this determination, he was
threatened with the dismemberment of
his party on the one hand and a united
opposition or every corrupt element in
the country on the other. Every mangy
political cur snapped at his heels.
Every spoilsman within and without
hissed them on, and, too cowardly for
open warfare, spat upon his shadow in
the darkness. But the President,
dominating a strong Cabinet in hearty
sympathy with his honest efforts to
give the people good government first
and take care of his party afterwards,
paid no heed to this partisan clamor
nor turned aside from his great purpose.
Gradually, day by day, he felt the ap
proval of the people was his, and it
strengthened his hand to execute. The
curs became tired of barking and re
fired into the obscurity of their ken
nels. The venom of the disappointed
spoilsman dried up.
DISPLAY OF CORRUPTIONISTS.
The elements that viewed the grad
ual change and foresaw the triumph of
honest government with the greatest
dismay were the -elements that profit
most by dishonest government. The
corporations which had their founda
tion in subsides and fraud held their
charters by corruption, which had
sprung from nothing to wealth and
powe.i, which had the public by the
throat and wrung from its purse enor
mous dividends on millions of watered
stock these did not want honest gov
ernment. Such elements of unbridled
corporate pover had put forth every
energy to secure in perpetunity the
politicals authority of the party under
whose administration they had been
born, reared and made fat. They had
formed a syndicate of wealth to put a
man in the presidential chair who was
tainted and tattooed with fraud and
whose prospective administration guar
anteed them immunity and additional
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i i
spoil. They were joined by every cor
runt ring and rmgster. Democrat and
Republican, v in the country, who be
lieved tHat Mr. Cleveland's election
meant honest government. Their can
didate was heralded 3 ''The Thieves
Own" and was supported because of it.
His personal magnetism drew them as
the loadstone draws needles Thev
j swarmed at Chicago by thousands and
j nominated him, against the protests of
honest men, and they poured out
! money like water to elect him. Not
! because Sit was James G. Blaine, but
because he was the representative of a
I corrupt party, under which they had
grown great. Republican rule had made
successful fraud possible; it had made
can rule.
WAB ON THE PRESIDENT.
Having vainly striven against fate
their peace with the new regime. Jav
Gould, the worst of the lot, was the
first to congratulate the new President.
Before the ink of the operator who an
nounced the recount in New York was
dry Jay Gould, controlling the major
ity of the newspapers of bw York,
the Western Union and the Associated
Press, gave in his allegiance to the new
government. Those combihations that
could not see their way sat down and
waited. They were led by their corrupt
venal press to expect an early disrup
tion of the Democratic party under
President Cleveland. They saw his
difficulties at once and waited an op
portunity to take advantage of the
first split. Their hired organs, Re
publican and Democratic fostered the
Bpirit of bitterness between the two
factions; encouraged dissent ions, be
cause in the weakness of the adminis
tration or its total failure their inter
ests might survive unscathed. Their
common energies were devoted to an
effort to force the President from his
reform platform into the gutter of his
predecessors. It was to this end the
discontent was magnified and urged on
to open rebellion. Wrhen it became
apparent that the attempt to create a
diversion must fail, the disappointment
of the jobbers was intense. As day by
day the President grew stronger with
his party as well as with the country
and the success of the reform govern
ment was inevitable, the horde of ras
cal became alarmed and desperate.
The administration had begun to reach
out' for them. The Interior Depart
ment had begun to press the Pacific
railroads for their dues; the Post Office
Department had refused to divide 8400.
000 as a subsidy to steamship lines for
carrying the mails: the Navy Depart
ment had destroyed the Roach at a
single blow and, finally the Depart-'
ment of Justice stepped in and ordered
the telaphone monopoly into court,
At each successive step of an honest
administration the jobbers howled
with rage. They have joined forces
in their hostility to the administration
and the war has at last openly begun.
FACING THE JOBBER S BRIGADE.
If there were no other evidences of
the entire success of the first year of
Graver Cleveland's administration, the
fact that it has arrayed against it all
the political vagabonds, jobbers, corrupt
c, u- wu" rini v i r iwi ii win i h nn i nv
fraudulent stock holdei
thieve .nnd tbo si, hsidi! nrSs would
be a sufficient triumph. Just as an
honest newspaper draws upon the dislike
and hatred or tne criminal classes ot a
community, so honest government at
W ashington draws the fire and f urv of
the jobbers and corruptionists. In this
result President Cleveland is to be con
gratulated. The combination of ras
cals, great and small, against the Dem
ocratic administration before the close
ili : ii a
Lof the fiscal year of its power is a tri
bute to honesty rarely paid by a Chief
Executive of this nation. Here in the
national capital the sentiment is easily
marked. Where most the creatures of
the lobby congregate there will be heard
the angry mutterings against Mr.
Cleveland's administration. Where
agents of rotten corporations sit down
together are heard curses both deep and
loud. In Washington these can le
seen and heard on every hand, because
every fifth man you meet is in some
illegitimate enterprise. During
the
war it used to.be said with
truth, that
while everv Democrat was not arebel.
every rebel was a Democrat. . Now
every man opposed to the adminis
tration is not a jobber, but every jobber
is opposed to the administration.
CALLING A HALT.
Then came in a new administration
an administration that believed in
business principles and honest execu
tion of the laws. It found Roach at
work, on certain vessels for the govern
ment. As soon as one of these vessels
was completed a test was ordered by
the Secretary of the Navy to ascertain
whether she had been constructed ac
cording to contract. The Naval Board
accepted her in the usual perfunctory
way, but the honest Secretary of the
Navy saw from their own report that
the test was not satisfactory and ordered
a second trial. Roach soon saw the
character of the new administration
and. knowing that his work would-m t
stand the scrutiny of honest govern
ment, threw up the sponge and to em
barrass the government as much as
possible went into voluntary bar k
ruptcy. His act was the most pomtod
confession of the fraud of his whole
corrupt career. His cause was seized
upon by every orgau hostile to Mr Cleve
land's adminittration and an impudent
robber was male to pose as a martyr
before the country. .-.
THE GREAT TELEPHONE MONOPOLY.
There never was a p irallel to the out
rageons exhibition of brazen jobbery by
Join Roach. If anything ever ap
proached it, that thing is the Bell Tele
phone Company's complaint against the
administration. The
company was primarily founded in
fraud. It has been a fraud all the way
through, or is reasonably believed so to
have been, its own-actions giving color
to the suspicion. The application for
the Bell patent was hied on the same
day with the application for a patent
on the same invention by an inventor
named Gray. A Patent Office clerk
assumed the responsibility of giving
the right of priority to Mr. Bell, when
it was clearly a case of interference and
should have gone before the examiners
bf interferences. The facts would then
have been brought out that have subse
quently been developed, namely that
the sending of language by word of
mouth over a wire was not original
with either Gray or Bell, and that even
had it been it was not patentable. As
the issuance of the Bell patent was
thus a double violation of the rules of
the Patent Office the natural conclusion
is that it was obtained by collusion and
fraud. Every movement of the Bell
Company since that time has justified
the worst conclusion. The peculair
phase of the Bell telephone fraud is its
general bearing on the public.
EXACTING ENORMOUS TRIBUTE.
Having obtained a patent on a law
of nature by questionable means the
Bell corporation began to exact trib
ute from the whole country. No
other telephone could be invented but
had to pay a royalty to the Bell mo
nopoly, because no telephone could be
invented that did not utilize the law
of nature that had thus been seized
upon and appropriated to the sole use
of the Bell people. In a brief two or
three years the Bell company became
the most gigantic and perfect mo
nopoly of the age. There could be
no competition. Secure in this posses
sion it exacted the most outrageous
tax upon users, charging from fifty
to one hundred dollars per annum for
the use of an apparatus which cost
them from three to five dollars and com
paratively nothing beyond the plant
Nobody could have a telephone with
out this extortionate demand was paid,
and non-users werelaxed indirectly by
users, the whole country beling levied
upon one way or another to fill the
pockets of the stockholders. Stock
which cost next to; nothing jumped to
the highest pitch and dividends were
paid every month. The monopoly grew
enormously rich and its influence ex-
tended to every State in the LTnion
where rights had been sold and sub-
companies organized, and the tax was
brought home to the people. As it grew
wealthy, like other monopolies, it grew
more insolent. It crushed out every
attempt at competition ; successfully re
sisted every attempt to test its right to
franchise. Appeais were made in vain
to the Government which had, under a
lax Republican administration, fasten
ened this monopoly on the necks of the
people of the United States; in vain
until the Cleveland administration came
mt POWer' . 1 hen ? CrV P
pressed found ears to hear
their gncv-
ances.
THE GOVERNMENT TAKES A HAND.
The government having been the
means of committing the wrong, if
! wrong there was committed, was the
! proper party to investigate the subject,
and in the name of the United States
j the Bell Company was ordered into
court to show why their patent should
not be canceled.
A COMBINATION OF MILLIONS.
The Land Office thieves
the reform administration.
are against
The Mormon gang of polygamists
are against the reform administration
and are willing to move heaven and
earth for its overthrow.
The lottery swindlers are against the
reform administration because it is pre
paring to move immediately upon their
works.
Filially, name any wicked and cor
rupt combination, a corporation for an
' "" purpose, f jooueis ui nat-
t :n r ' i . i i i! u i
j eer cnaraciei , tne uiueisaiiu nutuurui
i the same, or those who sympathize
1 with them, and you will find them op
1 posed to the reform administration of
President Cleveland.
It will not do to treat lightly the
combined influence of all these inter
ests. For it is now evident that they
have in a certain sense pooled their is
sues against honfst government. They
represent millions, tens of millions and
hundreds of millions of dollars of capi
tal, real and watered stock. They are
in possession of franchises which are
principalities in resources and which
extend their corporate influences to the
remotest corners of the country where
ever a wire is stretched or a rail laid.
They own newspapers and control to a
great extent the metropolitan pres .
Their salaried agents swarm about Wash
ington and. occupy seats in both houses
of Congress. If the combination of
jobbers embraced no political interests
they would be powerless to produce re
sults. Their hue and cry would fali
upon the public ear like the sighing of
mighty pines of the forest, weird and
unearthly, but harmless.
For tbo Watcbman
Locke Letter.
Mr. Editor: Please permit me a
little space in iour pajer. The Caro
lina W atchman stands at the head of
our political papers. We had some
very cold weather during the past
month, especially on preaching days at
Salem, but not so cold as to prevent
Bro. Shieny from preaching a good
sermon. He preached an excellent
sermon based on Christ's first miracle,
recently. Person's wishing to Aiear
good preaching should come to dear
old Salem, where they have a nice, com
fortable house, warm and pleasant in
all kinds of weather. The school at
! Salem is in the full bloom of useful-
ncss, Miss Molley Julian has her hand:
full, but she is a good teacher, and
can't be beat when it comes to teach
ing. Come one and all and let us
build up Salem's plainJ
While the farmers arte not busy wfth
their crops let them work the roads
leading to Salem. It is one of be
worse patched up pieces of work I efer
saw. The road force rah the county in
debt some $25 or $30 in two days but
they filled the road with pine poles, aiid
so it goes.
Mr. Ed. Seaford is hard at work
picking cotton. He will have the
honor of having the first bale of new
cotton on the market this year. Bully
for Ed ! Mr. S. is a wounded soldier,
but does more work than most youfig
men. He has a gin and is a just aid
fair man He had the honor of put
ting up the heaviest bale of cotton in
Rowan last year. He has the best
molases mill in the State, having tha
capacity of producing as much as 1SQ
gallons of syrup a day.
The Salem people need a new post
office and I hope they will get one. ft
would be a great convenience to the
people of the neighborhood.
John Bost has not gone to parts un
known. He ha gone west a few
miles, and will be back in time for the
planting of the next crops.
1' will-correct the marriage of Mr.
Bean. He did not marry a Miller, but
a Powlas, and she has beans three times
a day. Mr. Al. Bost has them every
day, but that is nothing, Locke has them
always ready.
Bost & Davis stand at the head of
the hog line- yet. If they have any
more lujgs that they can'tcarry let them
Call on Locke township, where they
w;ll find Samson. He lives yearf
Plummerton, Graham street, CriderV
Holly, with '"nothing to eat."
V ery respectfully,
A Farmer.
HAPPY Iff YEAR
Do you hear a big Boise way off, good
people ? 'Hint's us, shouting Happy New
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as, Ark., La., Miss., Alu., Tenn., Va., X. C,
S. C, and Fla., from our Grand New
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which we are just settled in after three
months of ihoTinj; and" regoiating.
Hallelujah! Anchored at last in a Mam
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and immense business. Just what we have
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A Magnificent Diubla Stcrs. Four Sto
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BUSINESS.
and now, with this Grar.il New Mi:su
Temple, affording every facility for the ex
tension of our liuijincs?; with our $1200,000
Cash Capital, oWjjfctOO.OOO Stock ol Musi
cal arcs, our tit isrant-n Houses, our
200 Agencies, our armv of employes, and
our twenty veafs of successful experience, we
are prepared to serve our patrons far better
than ever before, anu givetiiein greater ad
vantages than can be had elsewhere, North
or South,
1 his is witat wc arc, 4vmg lor, and we
shall drive our businyVs from now on with
tenfold ehergv..
With hearty and fincerp thanks to all
patrons for their ;ood will and liberal sup
port, we wisli them all a Ilnppy New Year.
Miu & Bates So. Music Reuse,
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p. 9 II any one should hanpen to want
a Piano, Organ, Violin, Bafijo, co:dcon
liana instrument, nnim. M rings, or anv
small Musical Instrun ci t. or She-t Muftic
Music Book, Pic! ure. Frame, Statuary. Art
God. or Artist' JlnteraK WE KEEP
SUCH THINGS, and will tell von m!1 tbout
the in if von write us.
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Send for New 111 n rated Catalogue for 1 886.
Md prices of Field Seeds. Mailed FKEJE.
T. W. WOOD & SONS,
Wholesale and Retail Seedsman, Richmond, V
ANSY PILLS
Used to-day regularly by 10,000 American
Women. Onaranleed mperlor (o nil
other, or CMk reAwdeJI. Don't waste
money on wortlileaa BMtraiu. Try
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mailed to an y addrew- sena 9 aems ror parucuian.
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MT WIFE!
My wife hss been a great sufferer
Catarrh. Several physicians and
patent medicines were resorted to, yet the
disease continued unabated, nothing af.
peanng to make any impression upon it.
Her constitution finally became i
the poison being in her blood.
I secured a bottle of B. B. B. and
4-:
her upon its use, and to our
improvement began at once, and her
ery was rapid and complete. No
preparation ever produced such a
ful change, and for all forms of
ease I cheerfully recommend B. B. B. aa a
sunerior Blood Purifier.
R. P. DO DOR,
1 ft rd in aster Georgia
From the Athens (Ga.) Banner-1
Uncle Dick Saulter says: Fifty
ago I had a running ulcer on my leg
refused to heal under any treatment.
1-853 I went to California and
eighteen months, and in 1873 I visited Hot
Springs, Ark., remaining three months, bat
was not cured. Amputation was disci
but I concluded to make one more
I commenced taking the B. B. B. about si
weeks ago. 'fhe Fifty-year old sore
my leg is healjjig rapidly, and yesterday
walked about fifteen miles fishing and
hunting without any pain, and befro
using the B. B. B. I could not walk exceed
ing half a mile. I sleep soundly at night
for the first time in many years. TO think
hat six bottles have done me more good
han Hot Springs, eighteen months in Cal
fornia, besides an immense amount of med
icines and eight or ten first class physician,
will convince any man on earth that it is a
wonderful blood medicine. It bat also
cured me of catarrh.
There is a lady living here, Mrs. 1
tas had catarrh for many, many rears. I
iave known she had it for fifteen-or twefc.
t y years, and my father once doctored hex,
fjhs she was then a tenant on our place. For
the last two and a half years she has bean
bedridden, the catarrh or cancer (the nu
merous nhvsicians have never decided
which) during her two years and a half is
the bed. had eaten all the roof of h
mouth out. She was so offensive no oM
could stay in the room; she could not eat
anything, but could swallow soup if it WM
trained. She gave up to die, and cam so
hear perishing all thought she would die
Her son bought the B. B. B. and alu
several bottles, which effected an
euro. She is iow well and hearty. I
hot exaggeratjed one particle.
LUCY STRONG.
18 NOW AT THE
Corner of Kerr & Lee
with k Cull line of DRY GOOD a4
fBOCEKIES. Also keeps a First Cla
BOARDING HOUSE. Call and ate
28qly.
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