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flCTOR tail BRILLS
-KELLERS PATENT,
for sale to the Farmers of Row
an. Cheap for cash or weli
SECURED TIME NOTES.
This Drill stands at the very
tout and is unsurpassed by any
hprin America." It sows wheat !
UIM-
md clover seed and bearded
4o-ether with fertilizers
oats
most admirably .
i fhe quantity per acre can be
changed in an instarit by a
single motion of the hand.
70 j(
Kead what people who have
used it say aliout it.
s
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Mt. VKkxour Rowan Co, N. C.
Sept, loth, 1886.
I have used the Victor Kellers patent
Grain Drill fur several years and I consider
it perfect machine. One can set it in an
iMUntv to sow any quantity of wheat or
ttg per acre, from one peck to four bush
0 It sows bearded oat as well as it does
thrit or clover seed and fertizers to per
fection. I know it to be strictly A No. 1.
Drill and combines great strength, wjth
fei ether good qualities.
W. A.. Luckky.
Salisbury, N. C.
Sept. 15th, 1886.
Ust Spring I borrowed Mr. White
Fmley's Victor (Keller patent) Grain
Drill and put in my oats with it. It sowed
ktrded and non-bearded oats to perfection.
I believe it to be the best Grain Drill I
mr aw. It sows wheat or oats and clover
iced ami fertilizer all O. K., and I have
bought one for this full's seeding of, the
Agent, John A. Boydcn.
RlCUARD H. Cowan.
Salisbury, N. C.
Sept. 17th, 1680.
I have used the Victor Kellers patent
L Grain D 1 Ul for the past ten years aud cun-
Miler it iy lar llic in-st uriu inane. 1 nave
U icd the Bechtbrd & Huffman Drill,
but greatly prefer the Victor, because it is
urh the moat convenient and I believe
obb Vietor will last as lnj as two' IJeck
iiini & Huffman Drills. The Victor sows
i.i kinds of grain satisfactorily.
Frank Breathed.
For sale Vy
JNO. A. BOYDEN.
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PIEDMONT WAGONS!
YES
PIEDMONT WAGONS HADE DP
At Hiciory, Yon Knot ! j
Why They Can't be Beat,
They stand where they ought
tomht Square
AT THE FRONT !
as a Hard Fight But They
Have Won It !
it
I Just read what people say
about them dud if you torant a
wagon come quickly and buy
oae, either for cash or on tinm
Salisbury, N. C.
Sept. 1st, 1886.
two years ago
I bought
a very liuht
o-horiMj Piedmont wagon of the Agent,
an A. Roy den. have used it ne
nearly all
the titue sum c h:ivi- tri-il it. rrlv iin
Mlllinsr saw Inrrn nl it lie r hpavw loud-;
. , " tf . jLZ 1
lllll liavc tint liuil ti Hi'- 11110 cunt 1'nv r.
, " ....V. V W F1.J . V, V. Ill .V..
rr I look upon the 'Piedmont wagon
the best Thimble Skein wagon made in
e United States. The timber used iin
2 i most excellent and thoroughly
K-asoncn.
Turner P. TnoM.vsoN.
Salisbury, N. C.
Aug. 27th, 1886.
About two rears ago I bought of John
Boy ileu, a one-horse Piedmont wagon,
inch has done much service and no part
t has broken or. given away and conse
Vitlj it jj;l8 coat nothing for repairs.
John D. Henly.
Salisbury, N. C;
Sept. 3d, lSt-o.
Eight
-'giiteen months ago I bought of John
Wen, a 2 inch Thimble Skein Pied-
ma. &3n an' bave used it pretty much
I ic
time and it has uroved to be a first
Jm
Wninn Vntliimi
J and therefore it has required no re-
Him.
T. A. Walton.
Sept. 8th, 1886.
bought of the Agent,
I ! months ago I
Salisbury a 2i
midi Thimble Skein
W3 uTthr. M'o I
-....to M- ii u in inmost constant I
m ami , n.I iif.- . ... ..
Ptlfeftt f luu iinve naajcu on it
ago or repuirs. L. R. Webo.
- - " m. . t h ' inn. in
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Lady.
Poet ! ye never saw her like. In all
Your dreaming of fair women came not such
Exqisitc image with unearthly touch
Of that soft, subtle charm unspeakable.
Which grace, for lack of better name, we cjdL
Tune ye the golden Insuring ne'er so much,
Thejr smoothest cadence stumbled on a
crotch
v hich Jain would siag the gentle swell and
fall
Of heT immaculate bosom. And her eyes
Ah, well ! there might have beamed in Eden
days,
Through the dew limpid dusk of Eden skies,
Twin morning stars of love of such soft rays
Not in our heavens. Her heart? God know
eth why
He has made Beauty passionless ; not I.
Okklia Key Bell.
From Heilig's Mills.
Messrs. Editors:- We have had no
ray for three weeks you may know
it is dry with us, when I add that there
no &"nng aone a tne water
There is but littfe oats in the ground
up to this time, and what is sown has
a bad stand.
M. L. Burger had a narrow escape
from death a few days ago. He was
engaged in hauling logs when the
wagon turned Over and the log came
near catching him as it fell.
A. Host has Cut his first barn of to
bacco. He says the worms have dam
aged it badly this year."
Rev. W. R. Brown was installed at
Organ church on last Sunday by Rev.
Mr. Pashaw of Wilmington.
The Sundav school closed at the
Rock shcool house last Sunday.
Obediah Eller is sick with billious
iever. Farmer.
For the Watchman.
Messrs realtors : in answer to in
quires frjbni Sweeetgum Grub we would
hv thailf w h V irnfctp n nrpf.tv widl
over the "airthquake skare," but not S
out of the ibacoa worms yet. They
nave Kept us
1 1
too busy to write for
newspapers
It has been all that the
growers of the weed could do in this
vicinity to prevent them from eating
it entirely up, and despite of all our
efforts they nave got the largest share.
Xhe tobacco crop .will fall short of last
year in quantity, quality, color and
body in our humble judgment. The
close observer will notice that there is
an unusual number of worms of every
description this year.
The orchards
and wotxls are webbed up with cati
pillarrf. We would like for some of
the old observing farmers or any one
else to irive us the cause. Was the
excessive wet spring condusive. Our
best wishes to the General Agents but
think heought to have remembered us
with some cake. Our little friend Jeb
will soon leave W oodle.if for the farm
of Mr. James Burkhead on the
Sherrill ford road near Salem church,
where he expects to engage in mer
chandising. Jeb is a good fellow and
the people of Woodleaf are loth to prat
with him; and he will carry with him
the best wishes of the people of Unity.
Clod Knocker.
Rowan and her Democracy.
IS THIS AN OFF YEAR.
Two years ago the people of these
United States went to the polls and
James G. Blaine of the State of Maine
went to the wall. Then the people as
a nation rested from their labors. This
restful interval will continue, as td the
nation, for two years to come; but are
the people of Rowan entitled to a
rest? We think not, for it is easy to
attest and equally easy to demonstrate
that the election of November, prox.
touches our people more nearly and is
of more vital importance to them than
the one of two years ago.
We can live under a republican gen
eral government if we are put to it;
this we have found upon trial.
We caji not live under a republican
home government; and this we have
found upon trial,
To the latter, testify the bitter years
during which government by them
meant little more than the wreck of
affairs.
Bitter years of which an impeached
an dv disfranchised Governor, an exhaus
ted and debauched judiciary, -a depleted
aud rifled treasury, millions upon mil
lions of fraudulent, dishonest and now
dishonored bonds were issued to burden
the people, legislative halls tilled with a
streaming press of negroes, public insti-
tutions with closed doors, school houses
deserted, desolate and decaying, eoun
ties struggling under the incubus of
1' if a J , L L il Tf'.t r
disproportionate .ueots, me rirK v ar,
the eighty cents on the hundred tax
of 1809, the 1,117,100.44 squandered
and stolen, the Littletield-Swepson steal
and the thousand and one spectre
shapes of dishonesty, debauchery, igno
rance, incompetence, and diWrace.
crowded into them, are unforgotten tes
timonials. Years which are a blot of
dishonor and a horrible nightmare be-
fore our eyes.
Yes, We have tried this drossy amal
gam of negroes and Molt and Keough
"whites1 (save the mark) and found
tliat all mat was not scorca was
it till.
ashes.
We drank to the lees their acrid cup,
which was little more than a solution
of negrogen stupidity and apostate ras-
cality and our teeth are still on edge.
. No fear of our joining their party,
for when we are prepared to do that we
will rent pews in the African churches,
take desk
s for our children in their
i i 1 al 1 ,
se.hoolsn.nd rhim m;iK- a unsM hnn-
est, consistent confession all round.
There is only a fear that wo will
stay away from the polls in apprecia
ble numbers, thus jeopardizing, through
carelessness, the result ojf a vital elec
tion, because we think it an off year.
But is it an off year. We will look
it over careful lv and set?
What branch of the government lies
nearest to the people? How many of
our people have come directly in con
tact and been affected bv an executive
act proceeding from either our Presi
dent or Governor? Hardlv a dnzn.
Who is there among us able to bring
one single enactment of Congress or
t ""1 n
the Legislature home to himself. Very
few.
But, who is there that the judiciary
does not touch and who is not therefore
concerned that our judges be men of
purity, conscience and learning in the
laws? men to whom you can safely trust
your homes, your liberty, your fair
names, and your lives? Democrats of
Rowan, the people of our State are
called upon to select for themselves
nine judges this Fall. Will the demo
crats do this, as is their richt, due. and
duty, or will they waive their privileges
and permit others who are irresponsi
ble prejudiced and ignorant to do it for
them. Chosen by some one they will
be, and we all must abide the choice,
however it falls; and if we place or
suffer a radical judge in a position where
if he chooses and such judges have in
tinies past chosen to do this very
thing he may draw aparty line against
our property and our reputations, we
must submit with what grace we can.
We must say whether we will have
our Supreme Court Bench constituted
as now, of three grand old men whose.
names are synonyms for probity and
learning, or such an other exhaustible
affair as they gave us before.
It is left to you to say whether you
will have a continuance of purity,
capacity and fidelity among the; judges j
wuo come among you rour times a
year or whether you will try an assort
ment of their men with a Greasy Sam
Watts or -two among them. Choose!
The writer of theseHines is able to
stand it if you are, for his interests are
identical with your own. He is a can
didate for self respect alone and for no
office or shadow of an office under the
sun and never will be.
Then, too, your County officers,
your Representative, your Senator and
your Congressman, should come in for
a share of your notice. If you fail to
notice them on election day, after that
day those elected will suffer you to
n 1
puss unnoticed in turn, for thev will
not be of your color in politics at
least. They will be brunettes with
political proclivities varying all the
way from brindle spotted to solid
ebony and warranted fast colors.
In tine. Democrats, this is nut an off
year. For, if you should allow the
election to go by default you will find,
too late, that you have done greater
damage to yourselves, than you could
possibly have done two years ago. Are
you willing for this sweeping disas
trous change? Are you quite prepared
for it? Could you stand it if it were
to come? If so, decline to take notice
of the coming election and pull corn
all day long. Such an apathetic course
as that will insure the parties defeat
and then we will toutrh it out to-
arether,
Apathy and lethargy m our own
ranks are the only means of achieving
a victory, to which the Republicans
can look. Are yon going to allow
them to win by such means. Hardly!
By uYou, of Kowan, 1 mean those
who own her soil, support her govern
ment, maintain her schools, disburse
her monevs, hold the reins of govern
ment. are responsible for credit and
honor, who control all she has and is,
.and who are therefore Rowan.
Ex Committee.
Address of tne
Democratic
mittee.
State Com'
Democratic ST.vxg Executive Com.,
Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 22, 188G.
Another ' campnign is upon us, and it
again becomes the duty of this commit
tee to address a few words of counsel to
those who are to carry the banners and
fiirht the battles of democracy in this
State.
We lyive now so long been accustomed
to the blessings of good government, un
der democratic rule, in North Carolina,
that we may be in danger of forgetting
the horrors from which we emerged when
our partv. by a grand uprising of our
people, obtained control of the legislative
orancn oi tue i?iaio guvcruimeiii uiiceo
years ago. To those who are old enough
to remember the reckless extravagance,
tho unblushing corruption, the detiant
lawlessness ot tne negro anu carpet-bag
sway, which all but ended in war and
bloodshed, it seems like a hideous dream;
aud in the enjoyment of the peaceful
present and in the anticipation of a still
brighter future, they might prefer to put
away the memory of it all forever. But
as history is ever repeating itself, it is
well to be reminded of the past and that
the people who did these things once
will, if opportunity is offered, do the like
again. Undoubtedly the democratic party
is still the party of virtue and intelligence
in this Stntc and so long as the ignordnt
blacks continue to stand together in a
solid phalanx on one side, the intelligent
white men of North Carolina are com
pelled byxevery consideration of prudence
and in sheer self-defence, to stand togeth
er on the other. They must see to it that
they who pay the taxes shall have the
controlling voice in directing how these
taxes are expended. No fair minded man
anywhere can find fault with them for
this. Wo do not contend that we have
made no mistakes in the decade and a
half during which we have had control
of legislation in the State, but we do in
sist that our mistakes have been few and
comparatively unimportant, And that rc
sulta on the whole havo been such as to
commaud the approval of all fai r-miuded
men. Our State, in spite ot the poverty
from which she has not 5et recovered,
has become respected abroad, wnile at
home, peace, contentment and compara
tive prosjerity and happiness nearly
everywhere prevail. We round the pub
lic treasury empty and our credit bank
rupt. We found that the irresponsible
strangers and our late slaves, who with a
few corrupt or ambitious native whites,
had assumed control of our finances, had
in three years run up. in the name of the
State, an immense fraudulent debt to
pay the interest on which they levied
enormous taxes from an impoverished
people, while they were utterly regard
less of the accumulating interest of our
honest debt. We at once declared the
fraudulent debt, $16,000,000 of bonds, is
sued without consideration to those whose
property was to be made to pay them, ;
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as Dinaiug neitner in law nor in con
science, and wiped out the whole -of it.
Then, in view of the fact that the honest
debt had grown too large for. the people
to pay it all, we proCeeli te make terms
with the State's creditors aud effect a-
settlement which was mutually satisfac
tory. By the act of 1879 our unsecured
debted of $12,627,045, bearing 6 per cent
interest, will have been reduced, to $3,
5S9,511, bearing 4 per cent; and the debt
of $2,795;0O0, for which the State's stock
in the Xorth Carolina railroad company
was liable to be sold by decree in the
Federal court, has nearly all been ex
tended for forty years, and the State's
control of our most valuable railroad pro
perty secured to her indefinitely. The
dividends annually paid on her shares
are more than sufficient to meet the in
est on this extended debt. Aud so fair has
the credit of North Caaolina grown un
der the care of her loyal democratic sons
that her 4 per cent bonds are worth par
in the markets of the world, and her 6
per cents are bringing a premium of more
than 25 cents on the dollar. What other
Southern State can boast as much?
We found that during the three years
of republican rule thej had handled and
wasted upwards of a million dollars be
longing to the educational fund, and had
paid less than forty thousand for teach
ing the children of the State. We have
now fully established, a system of public
schools nearly equal to the best, in full
operation, school houses in every hamlet
open for several months in each year,
and the school sessions yearly increasing
111 length, with graded schools and nor
1 1 i i
mat scnoois in wmcn our teacners are
better prepared for their duties, at our
principal centres of population every
dollar of our half a million raised for
school purposes legitimated applied
We found our unfinished railroads, not
withstanding the millions of bonds issued
professedly to build ; them, making no
progress, their ties rotting aud their iron
rusting. Thedc roads are now. some of
them, finished and the others rapidly ap
proaching completion, while new lines
and branches have been begun and fin
ished since the new era dawned in 1871.
Our mileage of roads has nearly doubled
and the public debt not increased. We
have built two new asylums for the in
sane, of large dimensions; and the peni
tentiary, ot sullieicnt size ami strength to
safely keep all the convicts likely to be
sentenced to it, is n earing completion
Autt all tnis witnout an increase ot our
taxes, anil "to pavf as we go'' has been
our motto. No new bonds have been is
sued, nor any deficit made for these great
works. Soon they will be oil-hand, and
our State taxes may be still further re
duced, or, if the people prefer it, the ex
cess maybe applied in the stiil better
education of our children.
It has been and continues to be the
policy of the democratic party to use the
tabor ot the convicts to the penitentiary
in work on railroad and draining the
swamp lands belonging to the State for
the purpose of bringing them into mark
et, and to avoid employing it in competi
tion with the honest labor of the country.
There seems to be agrowing disposition to
have convict labor employed in part on
the public highways, so far as it can be
done consistently with the requirements
ot the constitution that our penal insti
tions must be made as nearly self-sup
porting as possible.
The administration of the executive de
partment of the State government, since
the inauguration of a democratic govern
or iu 1877, has been all that c ould reason
ably be expected. Vance, Jarvis, Scales,
1 1 I r
aoie, wise ana progressive so lar as
progress is consistent with true conserva
tism have done or omitted little for
party friends to criticise or political
enemies to complain of. They have exe
cuted the laws faithfully and fairly, and
with justice to all classes and colors.
As much may be said of the adminis
tration of justice and expounding the
laws by our democratic judges. Their
delicate duties have been faithfully exe
cuted aud their great and increasing
labors conscientiously performed. We
have heard of no suggestion of unfaithful
ness and of no suspicion of corruption
I with respect to any of them. We therefore
couhdently commend the judicial ticket
presented by our late convention Smith,
Ashe and Merrimon for the supreme
court; and Connor, Clark, Boykin, Mont
gomery, Graves, Avery and James H.
Merrimon (the last the only one who has
not heretofore served as judge and his
high character and ability are universally
conceded) to the support of the law-loving
voters of the State; and all such are urg
ed Yo go to the polls and give them deserv
ed endorsement.
It is submitted with all confidence that
President Cleveland has redeemed his
promise made on his nomination and at
his inuguratiou, to conduct the govern
ment of the United States on business
principles. lie has never forgotten that
"public office is a public trust," to
use his own maxim and that one who is
entrusted with the conduct of a great
government, should employ at least that
nieasureof watchfulness, prudence, econo
my, and faithfulness in the discharge of
his duties that is expected of one who
has the direction aud control of the af
fairs of an ordinary person or corpora
tion. Whether it suited political friend
or Xoe he has executed the laws as he found
them in the statute book, in a manner
to command the applause of the law-abiding
of all parties. His courage, industry, faith
fulness and capacity for labor have been
beyond all praise. Millions of money have
already been saved by reform instituted
under bis administration and he depart
ments at Washington have been anil are
being purified of mn ;h rottenness and
corruption which had accumulated under
refu'. I can ad nv nut rat ion. By his recogni-
country, wth equal tight, by selecting
members of his cabim-t and appointing
eign. miuisters from Southern States he has
put n end to sectional ism, we hope, forever.
ti.- Unnj. ' . 1 ' , .
Ibe bloody snrt can never be raised as a
rallying banner aain.
Some, conceding that the present Con-
gres. of which only the lowi-r house is
democratic, has under democratic influence j
done much tor the benefit or the country-
tor Pamrtl muinir luu-n horohv ivor !UI - 1
000, 000 acres ot land granted to railroad
companies on condition and unearned by
them, were declared forfeited and thereby
saved for ac tual settlers; cirtain bins for the
protection oi labor, fcc, vet complain that
the democrats have not abolished the inter-1
nal revenue system ahd reduced the tariff to
a revenue basis, "with only inciedntal pro
tection to our industries. To them we reply,
that the only hope to do these things is in
the democratic party and not in that party
which is rcsponsable for the system and in-
augurated 1 these high protective tariff and
that mm f I ' . ot i rriii" im i. ti 4 tivi f lia Sf af n aft 1
1 CirSirTi. TzZTZ r
bniih unnanA .MfiAMUiUi n
it lecome8 ua to see that gwd democrats
are again sent to Congress, with renewed in-
structions to exert all their influence toward
the attainment of these desired ends.
In our address two years ago we assured
the public that the so-called liberal partv
existed but in name, tven the name is uow
a thing of the past. That device to divide
and weaken our party having failed, our
alvcrsries are trying another plan to dis-
tract and ruin us. Not daring to oppose us
in many sections with republican candidat
es, or those called liberals, they find in our
ranks professed democrats, ambitious, self
ish men who, for some reason, could not se-
enre nomination from democratic conven
tions, and these they persuade to run as i
de pendent democrats. Well they know
that if such men arc successful, they must
of necessity cease to belong to the partv
whose rules thev have ignored and whose
organization thev have attempted to de
strovi and would ultimately loin those to
whom thev owe their o ection. An open
enemy is much to bo preferred to a faithless
menu: aim true aemocrats win see mat
. 1 . I Al-I..
such independents are repudiated and ig
nominiouslr routed.
In 1884 we carried our State tic ket by
about 20,000 majority, and a legislature
over two-thirds democratic was returned,
while we sent democratic Congressmen from
eiyht out ot our nine districts. Ihis was
work. Let
rus now sec to it that our organization is
preserved and let us again go to work. It
is now less man six weeKs to tne aav oi
election, and to make signal victory, at all
points, certain, much remains to be done
Every good citizen owes it to patriotism to
vote, and to vote intelligently and rightly.
He should inform himself aud his neighbors
on the public issues beforehand, and when
the dav of election comes he should give it,
or at least a part of it. to his country. If he
fails in this and bad men are elected or bad
lav,-s made, he lias no right to complain. He
has neglected to do his dutv.
bo. w ith organized work,. We will again
succeed. .Let tne townsmp committees see
that every democrat, and every one who can
bc$ persuaded t vote the democratic ticket,
is properly registered and has the opportu
nity to get to the polls and vote. Let these
committees report frequently and regularly
to the county 'committees, and let the coun
ty committees report to this committee.
Then, on election day, let every democrat
do his duty, and the State will be safe in
democratic hands for two years longer, and
we will be assured of good, conservative
governmen for that period, at least.
U. IT. Battlii, Chairman,
B. C. BKCKWirn, Secretary. .
State papers please copy
Education and Democracy.
Under democratic administrations
the disbursement for teaching the
white and black children of North
Carolina for nine years (excepting
about 5 per cent for, expenses) have
been 3,098,871.63. The University
normal school for whites and the State
normal school at Fayetteville for col
ored people, were established in 1877,
and later eight normal schools, con
veniently located in different parts of
the btate, four for each race, were ad
ded to the two already in existence
Later still the University normal school
was discontinued, and lour others, loca
ted in different sections of the State
and costing the same amount money,
were substituted therefor.
These normal schools are intended to
teach the teacher how to teach most
effectively and that they are of great
value has been shown in the improve-
ment of the public school system and
the better primary instruction that now
prevails throughout the State. Two
thousand seven hundred and twenty
one teachers were last year reached
and benefitted by these normal schools
and three thousand four hundred and
eighty five more were reached by the
institutes established likewise by the
democrats, held in nearly every county of
the State, and paid for with about
$4,500 from the school fund. This
liberal and progressive action, more
over, has secured to the State for six
years past twelve Peabody scholarships,
good each for two years at the Nash
ville normal college, and worth each a
considerable sum. The aggregate a
mount expended annually by the dem
ocrats for teacher training is about
22.000. The whole educational sys
tem has been raised to a high degree of
efficiency. Graded schools have been
established in all the leading towns and
the people generally have ben aroused
to greater interest in public education.
Contrast with the state of things un
der the radical regime succeeding the
war. In 1808, 1809, 1870, the years of
republican misrule, the money report
ed as expended on scho h was $38,
J181.8G. In 1809' the value of school
property was nothing; republican su
perintendent Ashley left a plan a
very handsome brft utterly useless plan
for building school houses and that
was all. Nothing was really expended
for schools bv the radicals daring their
carnival of crime. The school monev
was i used for the purpose of
paying
forlong-ternied and frequent rep u bit
for-lean Wislnturs most Ptra vacant Kiims
AMn --j m;ult,0 Tn 1 C77 1 1
-1 r. n -j t v. iu -
olo.U 1 were paid for school houses: in
1QOo 'co 'ot j 'or . 1 1 -Js oono
HRflr- 0- 84 and 85 a total of 2)3,-
i - tw.io. in 1380 tne value ot school
proper 111 nine counties was $Mo,y00. 11.
The school bouses have been increased
in number and quadrupled in value byl
. . - . W 2 aFTl
H" "V x i ? 4 " a
unur uemocranc ruie one year me
money paid for schools anmounted to
$030,552.32, and in the four years of
1802 - 83- 54 and 85 the amount was
o oon ncu An
All this, too, has been done bv the
democrats without increase of aggre
gate taxation and not only so, but
these disbursements for - schools are
made and the interest on the new f und-
debt is paid, with a tax bill levying
l than one-half the propeitv
w collected bv the republicans before
tfte present school law was n .c'.ed urd
the new bonds issued to fund the Sta'e
debt. Let the people think of these
differences when they come to vote for
members ot the legislature this fall.
and let them bear in mind the fact
that a vote for a republican or for an
independent, who is but a republican
in disguise, is just so much done toward
bringing again upon us the evils of re
publican rule,, which seem now to all
good men, since we have shaken them
off, the most outrageous a people were
ever called upon to liear. Raleigh Xcu s-
Ubserrer.
Items About the State Fair.
Opens Tuesday, the 26th, closes
Friday, the 29th October
The Race track is built upon the
most approved plan under the direc
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tion of Georjje Wilkes, editor of the
New York Spirit of the, Times.
Railroad transportation to and from
the Fair is cheaper this year than at
any time heretofore.
Two hundred Northern editors will
be present to write up the State Fair.
Illustrated papers will send" artists to
make sketches to publish in their
papers.
Articles will 2 transported free of
charge over the railroads from every
section ot the btate.
A Silver Cornet Band wi'.l furnish
music for the Fair.
President Cleveland will be invited
to attend.
Hotels will be very reasonable anr!
ample accommodation for all who at
tend.
Tf you want a premium list of the
State Fair, send to John Nichols, Esq ,
Raleigh, N. C.
The Republican "rump concern," as
Dr. Mott calls it, which met at Ral-
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eigli last week, neeueu to nave provi
ded, if it did not, for filling vacancies;
for declinatures have begun to come m.
Col. Hargrove declines the chainnait-
shin of the State committee 'and Judge!
Rvnnm dWlinpa th nomination far
5V
Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court,
saving:
Having once occupied a scat up the
Supreme Court bench, I am disin
clined to renew my experience there,
and do not think it frank to be
candidate foim office I would not ac
cept if elected to.
Next ! StatesfiUe Landmark.
The merry chestnut-bell jingles in
the Topic 8 ear rather frequently, to
judge from the following.:
The latest nuisance is the "chestnut-
bell,
so-called, a sort of door-be 11
located beneath the lappol of th?
wearers coat and is designed to ring
down a conversationalist in the midst
if his favorite and most cherished
recital. There is one of these things
in .Lenoir. vv e oner a reward lor tne
t xmr . i i i
delivery to us of the inert remains of
the inventor tnereor.
The bee can draw twenty times the
weight of its own bod'. lie can also
lift a million times his own weight. If
you doubt this sit down on one.
A. CAliD.
To all who are suffering from tho errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, &c.. I
will send a recipe that will cure mi, Krek
ok Charge. This great remedy was dis
covered by a missionary in South Ameii a
Send a self-addressed envelope to the B v
Josurn T. Inmak, Station D. A? York
City. 4:ly
Gentlemen Tt 1 due yon to t'ir.t T
ouuu vwui .i-.ii.i.. i ijrcn innwni win. u Try uioe in my late Bince iass t'trinc.
At the begmntu? of cola weather Ivt fall t ra:le a slight atipearuoce. bat went away and
ua nrrer retnrned. S. S. .h. nodoabt hroice It or: at lea.t it pat or Hytem in pr cordiilra
and i pot well. It aleo benefited mywife greatly in ca.e of sick; heilach", aad mode a perfect
cure of a breaking out oa mr linle three jklt old duughrer laar gnniiot-r,
Watk:nvi"ie, O., Feb. J1, 18S6. ttsv. J.vilta V. It. 2I0E2IS.
Treatise oa Blooa and Skin Disease mailed free.
Tas Spt Srrcirm C.. Drawer 3. Atlanta. Ca.
A pioas old lady rcently sen!; ai
wedding presents a pair of nat-irojw; t
rolling pin, and a motto worked onci
card-board, reading, "Fight on."1
ffl&na&rdial ' 1
DYSPEPSIA, moiGESTfON.
WEAKNESS, CHILLS AND FEVERS,
MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT, .
KIDNEY TROUBLES,
NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM.
TT la InvSgorat
ir.g and De
li'MAil to take,
and of great value
T gives NEW
1 LIFE to the
whole SYSTEM
by Strengtheninc
the M uscies. Ton
ing the NT.RVES.
end completely DU
i Medicine lor
weak ar.d Ailing
Women and Chil
dren.
eestine tne
ABork, 'Volina.'
by lea dine
physicians, telling
how to treat dis-eas-9
at HOME,
maifed, together
with a set of hand
some care's by new
Heliotypc process,
on receipt of 10 c,
Minerals, is com
posed cf carefully
selected Vegeta
ble Medicines,
combined skill
fully, msking a
Safe and Pleasant
Remedy.
For ! !t P-BrpNt, n l Cnvr.
von nm krp 1)4,1 IOUDUL, mailt (t.SO, ad lU
OUl wtll tM KUt, LUArKM paid.
rm rAKio oit T
Volina Drug and Chemical Company,
Hi LTIBORL, Ilk, ft a, A. j
CHUfPS"
Who Gather
in I,H'.its at (ho
Expense of
Suffering llumnnty.."
The (Vlarin? Gall Exhibited by Xon.
Professional Fraud.
The country is flooded with bogus medi
cine men, and in a few cases a heavy capi
tal is all they have to sustain their prestige.
Numerous cleverly concocted certiflcatea
are forced upon the unsuspecting purport
ing to have "snatched them (rom-the grave''
some poor victim of blond poison-or other
disease, when to our knowledge the identi
cal persons lay groaning in agony while tho
public were reading their remarkable re
covery. Another serious offense is the publication
of erroneous statements concerning vnrion
drugs, such-as arc prescribed by our heit
phxsicians, declaring them deadly poisons
Iodide of potash, which eeems to rcceivo
their rondemnation, when prescribed by
physicians and in the proper combination
with certain compound", is not only harm
less, but forms one of the most powerful
antagonisTs to blood poison known to tho
medical world. 15. B. B. (Botanic Blood
j Balm) contains iodide of potagh. This com
pany hold hnndreads of genuine certifieatea
lionr persons who have bet n cured of vnri
ous diseases arising from an impure state of
the blood by the use of B. i. B. The ques
tion now is, if iodide of potash U such a
terrible e nemy to health,' why is it that thci
Blood Balm Co. have made within three
yanrs the most gigantic sales ami cure
ever made oa American soii?
A Generous Proposition.
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j We are credibly informed that the Blood
Balm Co. Atlanta Ga., propose to cure any
of the -following complaints for one thtldj
' t he money and in one half of the time rcquir
ed by any known remedy on earth. The dis
: eases embrace all forms of Scrofula and
' Scrofulous Ulc rp :nd Tumors, all stages of
! Blood I'oisbr, Khenmatisiii fatal rh. Skin
ureases ana mimois, Money A net nana,
Chronic Female Complaints, Eczema, etc
Send to them for a book filled-with th
most wonderful cases on record, mailed free
to nny address.-
Wonderful
Atlanta;
Ulcers.
C.a., June .3,1 SSO.
In 1R7S there came on my hand what
was thought to be a carbuncle, which ran
its course several months, broke ar-d finally
healed. The next spring knots or knodes,
came on my arms, which were thought to
be rheumatic, and I took gallons of medi
einc from the best physic ians in Cnthbcrt,
Ga where I then resided.
Almiit tliis time my "left limb below tha
knee commenc ed swelling at a fearful rat,
and finally ramc to a head and broke. Both
hdih were sore, and I could hardly bear my
weight standing, and hardly know how t
managed to live through.it all. About this
timcjwc moved from Cutlibnct to Atlanta.
I began to despair nf ever gctting"welL; the
sore on my limb wn? n regular eating ulcer,
no- alio'it three inehs in length, two inch "
es width, seeming to ,!e down to the bone.
and 'discharging about a cupfu of pu
(matter) a day, my arms still running, my
sleep disturbed, and rometimes thought
would lose my reason.
A friend recommended B. B. B. I coin
menced its nseTand I saw an improvement
from the very first. I have taken dor 9 bot
tles, anil my arms are entirely well, and tha
large ulcer on my limb lmi healed. I now
feel like a new p -rson, thanks to such a
noble remedy, B.B.B
Hits. Fa!?-!f. Ham,.
100 West Baker .St. Atlanta, Oa.
A BOOK OF WONDERS, FREE.
All who fVslf full lafirin.it nn about tbpcios
anl cure or moi l t'olsons sciofuH and SmrulcHM
swellings, Clr-ers, sop s, Mieumntism K14oe Com
pi Unt. cat reti, etc , cm ".' are by ma it. tree, a
coprol our 32 ;: !!: m'- i lvo nt WoiictPf.
BlIoJ with the m-isi troalertul airt taming proof
ever blori ;. now'a.
Adlrcs-v BLOOP B L51 CO.,
Atlanta, Oa.
boa.
CONTAINS B .WJ
no hurtful f i W
ERADICATED.
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