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CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R.
LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY CQUpRY S, THY GOD S5
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VOLUME XXII.
WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, OCTOBER 20th, 1892.
NUMBER 40.
Advance.
The Cash Racket Stores ! georgi astories,
AS TOLD BY HAM, A NEW HUMORIST
ON THE STUMP.
He Is a Second Zeb Vance, and Is a Whirl
wind and a Cyclone Combined He has
Downed Tom Watson He Tells Some
Good Stories.
The pending campaign in Georgia
I has brought a class of men and rough
and tumble fighting which Georgia
j has not known since the days of the
I old Whigs and Democrats.
J The Democratic party has been
I confronted by a new condition of
: affairs. Thus confronted the Demo
j cracy is fighting for life with all that
j implies white supremacy, the con
trol of the State and the political
salvation of the people.
These conditions have resulted in
bringing to the surfaee"a set of bright
j young campaigners who are making
' fun and fight throughout the State.
Down from the mountain has come
a young fellow who heretofore has
been unknown throughout the State,
! only known in his own bailiwick as a
country editor. He had been a mem
ber of the legislature in a quiet peace
ful time when there was nothing to be
done to attract attention. Alighting
i in a county in the tenth congressional
We have the largest CASH district where the brash and breezy
3 Stores in One !
Facts Worth Knowing
THAT
and then to himself. But the cow
went the other way, with the man
hitting the ground in high places.
Another man .saw him coming and
hollered :
-wh
ere are you going !
said
belo
w
SPOT
we
business in Eastern North
Carolina.
That we buy eoods
the market value.
That we -sell them for
cash at a small profit.
That we do just what
advertise.
That despite what other
merchants may say, our goods
in quality wi':! compare favor
ably with theirs.
We njer run down our
competitor's goods.
There is nothing mean about
the "Racket."
We wish them all success.
We are the regulator of low
prices. We should be pat
ronized for this reason alone.
We expect to make them still
lower yet. We feel grateful
for the patronage of the peo
ple in the past. We solicit a
share of it in the future.
Our word is our bond, and
we guarantee our goods as
we represent them.
Far Seeing Fsople Tisit first
The Cash Racket Stores,
WILSON, X. C,
Nash and Goldsboro Streets,
J. M. LEATH, Mgr.
Greene County Insurance Agency
W. J. JORDAN,
SNOW HILL,
MANAGER,
- - - N.
campaign between Black and Watson
had attracted his attention he pro
ceeded to make a speech for Democ
racy that has caused all Georgia to
look upon him as a. wonder from the
' mountains.
H. W. J. Ham is a tall, strapping
smooth-faced fellow with the air of a
comedian.
j Col. Ham is a clean shaved, hard
mouthed looking man, with the merri
est twinkle out of the comers of his
bright eyes while he gets ready for
a big punch into the ribs of other
side that a man ever saw He is about
five feet ten, broad shouldered
; and hunches up his shoulders as he
talk, to get his harness right, as it
were. He never smiles while speak -jing.
He seems not to take it as a joke
! that other people laugh at what he
savs. It is all a very serious matter
to' him.
He declared that he felt, when he
started to speak, in the plight of little
Johnny, whose mother sent him to
get a basket of chips. ' Johnny was a
merry little fellow, and he went and
put the basket down by the wood -pile
and the first thing Johnny knew he
had been down in the pasture half an
houi.and his mother's voice was call
ing him. And the voice had a rising
inflection at the last of it 'John e !'
and Johnny knew what that meant ;
he had heard it before. The way he
got back to the wood pile was astonish
ing. But he was too late. He didn't
have time to get the chips. Into the
house he went. And he was lit onto
with a healthy hickory, and Johnny
was at the business end of it.
" 'Where are those chips ?'
" 'Ah, ah me," Johnny explained,
'you know our bull, old Buck ? Well,
old Buck was at the wood-pile, and
he would put his foot on every single
chip I went to pick up.' "
HOW THE TARIFF WORKS.
This Agency has been in successful
operation for about thifee years, and
the manager has paid Gut thousands of
dollars to beneficiaries ; and his com
panies hold in trust millions more to be
paid when due. The manager is mak
ing big offers to make Snow Hill the
most desirable and cheapest place for
the people to get insurance.
Should you want to carry an accident
policy you can get as liberal- policy in
as good, sound company as can be
obtained anywhere.
If you have a Cotton Gin, Store
House or Stock of Goods, Steam or
Water Mill, Dwelling, Barns or other
Farm Property, you wish insured, you
can get as cheap rates from the Greene
county Insurance Agency as can be
obtained anywhere, in first-class com
panies. Cotton gins and cotton a specialty.
Particular attention paid to corres
pondence, so if you desire insurance
write to the manager and your wants
will be supplied.
Credit : Thirty dayss credit given
on policies when desired.
Yours to Please,
W. . JORDAN,
M'g'r. Greene Co. Insurance Ag'cy.
P. O. Box No. s. Snow Hill. N. C.
DR. W. S. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, n. c.
Offiu: in Drug Store onTarboroSt.
DR. ALBERT ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, n. c.
Office next door to the First Nations
Bank.
Explaining the operations of the
tariff to the Southern people Col.
Ham said :
"There was a colored man down
in Thomasville who sized the tariff up
this way : "I don't know much about
it, but it seems sorter like dis : Dere
is a great big cow, and its head is
down here and we ar' a feedin' it
with hav and stuff. And de tail of
dat cow is up yonder at de Norf and
day is a milkin' her ; dey does de
milkiri' and we does de feedin.' I say
turn her 'roun an' let us milk awhile,
and let them feed awhile.' I have
come here to tell vou that the Demo
cratic party is the only party on the
green earth that is trying to turn that
cow around."
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE.
He said that his good friend Bill
Wiggins, and a friend of his named
Johnwere in Atlanta not long ago.
"And while they were seeing things,
Bill imbibed systematically this At-
the result was
"D d if I know. Ask the bull,"
the man as he hurried along.
WHERE THEY'LL GO.
"You fellows are just following the
bull, and don't know where you are
going to. But I'll tell you where
you are goine to you are going
where Johnny put his frog. Johnny
was a school-boy, and one morning
the schoolmarnm called him up and
gave him this sum : "A frog in a well
forty feet deep attempted to crawl
out. For every foot he crawled up
he slipped back two. How long did
it take the frog to get out of the
well?"
"Johnny figured all over his slate,
and all over his sister's slate and all
the slates he could borrow. That
evening the teacher said to him :
"Where is the frog?" "He is three
miles this side of h 1, and if I had
an hour and three more slates he
would get there." My friends that's
the direction you are going following
after your Third Party."
"The conditions in Georgia now,"
he says, "are significant because all
the old elements which have always
fought Democracy, the rounders,
snollygosters, shoulder hitters, sons
of guns, the discordant elements,
every atom of which is a storm center
of political disintegration, are mus
tered under this piebald banner of so
called reform. They remind me of a
little story :"
AN OPENING STORY.
"Johnny was reading in his third
reader and he came on the story of
the three Hebrew children. Their
names staggered him. The teacher
explained to him they were pronounc
ed Shadrech, Meshack and Abedne
gb, charging him to remember this
as he would probably encounter the
names again. A day or two after he
did, and stalled over them again. The
teacher explained for a second time
and warned Johnny that the next
time he failed to pronounce them he
would lick him. A day or two after,
while reading along, Johnny sudden
ly stopped, raised his fists to his eyes
and began to blubber.
" 'What's the matter?' the teacher
asked.
" 'Them same three durned fellers.
Boo-hoo.' "
LIGHT ON THE PLATFORM.
In discussing the platform of the
new party he tells how they started
out with this St. Louis platform, then
the Ocala platform, the Federation of
Trades at Washington, and finally
the Omaha platform. The Omaha
platform does not represent any idea
of the Ocala platform which is the
pride of the farmers.
"I he Omaha platlorm, says he,
"reminds me of John's pants. John
was going to a party and had bought
a new pair ol hand-me-down pants.
When he tried them on he found
them three inches too long. He
asked Sally to cut them off and hem
them up. Sally didn't want John
to go to the party and vowed she
wouldn't do it. They passed seme
pepper and sauce words about it. The
good mother-in-law learning of the
altercation, thought Sally too hard on
John, so she quietly got the pants,
cut three inches off and hemmed
them up again. The sister-in-law,
who from another room had heard
the altercation, thought she would
take a hand in pacifying matters. She
found the pants and took off another
three inches. Sally after looking af
ter the honsehold affairs, repented
and took three more inches off them.
Then she aroused John from his nap
and told him be had better go on to
the party. John dressed quickly in
the dark and went. When he got to
the party and stepped quickly into
the light, he cut about the same figure
as the Omaha platform when you
turn on the Ocala search licht.
THE LITTLE BOY'S PANTS
"When they talk about their plat
form," says he "you cannot tell what
they mean. It is like the little boy
whose mother made him his first pair
HAD ALL THE BAIT IN HIS POCKET.
A peculiar feature of this campaign
is that the Third Party oratoi s, rely
ing, as they must, largely in the ne-
gro vote, are very careiui 10 say
nothing against the Republican party
This mountain oratorical genius com
ments with great vigor and effective
ness upon this peculiar silence and
then proceeds to explain it by saying
that lust for office is the lever that
moves these fellows. The Demo
crats have the offices. They want
them. Hence the abuse of the Dem
ocrats and silence as to the Republi
cans who have none, and this like
most other things reminds him of a
story.
"A white man traveling along a
sympathizingly asked one of the
party.
"I guess you had better take him
back and set him again for eels," said
the old lady. It's the only thing he's
ever brought into the house."
THE LION AND THE SKUNK.
In describing what will become of
the Third Party he gives this litde
allegory : 4I have somewhere read
a story of k lion who lay asleep in a
forest. There came along a pestifer
ous little animal whose name I do not
call, who with an old grudge against
the lion thought it would be satisfac
tion to slipup and bite him, tor he
thought he was dead. The lion was
not dead. He awoke and simply
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placed hjs paw upon this pestiferous
river road," he says, "came upon an jjttte anima, ard all that was deft of
old darkey and a litde darkey sitting bim wasajasy spot in the sand and
on the bank fishing. Grown weary a little stench.
waitmg for a bite the little darkey was j ,"T want to teji yOU my fellow citi
nodding and suddenly tumbled off zenS) that the Democratic Lion in
the bank into the river. The old Georgia is alive and awake, and in
darkey threw down his pole and j November he will place the paw of
dived down after him. He pulled . his power upon this pestiferous little
him out, caught him by the feet arid skunk of a Third Party and all that
slung the water out of him down j win be left of it will be a little greasy
with a thump and said : 'Now wake
up an' set dar, you lazy little rascal an'
don t you fall in dat water no mo
Winter
"The white man who had stopped,
said admiringly : 'That was a very
brave act, old man the boy is your
son I suppose.'
" 'No,' said the old man indignant
ly, 'de little rascal ain't no kin to me,
but he jist as well 'er been. He had
all the bait in his pocket.' "
WHEN THE CLYCLONE STRUCK HIM.
Illustrating the idea that when the
election is over in the tenth, Watson
will wonder where he was when the
clycone struck him, Ham says he is
reminded of the parrot whose owner
wanted to beak him from curs
ing. He was told the first time the
parrot cursed to throw a bucket of
water on him and whirl the cage
round and round. The next morning
as he went out the parrot exclaimed,
"It's a d d hot day !"
Immediately the man slung a
bucket of water through the cage,
whirled it round and round until the
parrot was almost killed. 1 lie par
spot in the sand and a little stench."
TOM BLOWED fbO I.A1E.
Ever since the Georgia election
there has been a disposition on the
part of the people to secure a liberal
sample of the personal thoughts of
Hon. Thomas Watson, M. C. Wat
son made considerable noise just
prior to the election. He was looked
upon as the managing editor of the
revolution that was about to revolt in
Georgia and sweep the Democracy of
that State off the face of the earth,
but it appears that the Georgia news
paper correspondents have not been
j able to locate Watson. However,
j those who desire to secure a fair idea
I of Watson's present condition are not
' doomed to utter disappointment,
j Orator Ham tells the following story
to illustrate the case of Watson :
"Babe Boston's mule was sick, and
a neighbor advised him to administer
calomel.
" 'How will I get it into him ?'
asked Babe.
" 'Put it into a quill, put the quill
in his mouth, and blow it down his
rot gathered himself together, shook i throat,' responded the neighbor.
lanta whisky. Well,
th. t when Bill and ohn got to the j Gf pants and proudly sent him off to
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Surgeon Dentist,
WILSON, N. C.
Having permanently located in Wil
son, I offer my professional services to
the public.
"Office in Central Hotel Building-
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When in L? Grange and de
siring a first-class turn-out for
any immediate point, come to
my livery stables- Good teams,
careful drivers and reasonable
rates. I have made special ar
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to take all patrons to Seven
Springs. Wayne county's fa
vorite health resort. Call on me!
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7-2 1 -3m LaGrange. N. C.
THE COUPER MARBLE WORKS,
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Monuments, Gravestones, &c
Ready for shipment.
"Designs fre e.
5-14-Iy
denot to come home, bill was pretty
drunk on Atlanta whisky, anc? he had
a bottle of it in pocket. "John," he
says, '(hie) take this bottle (hie) and
don't give me none till (hie) I get to
Jonesville.
"Well, coming don on that train
it looked to Wiggins like he was
never going to get to Jonesville. He
asked the conductor when he came
through the train: "How far is it to
Jonesville?" "Twenty miles." Good
ness, he was hardly out of Atlanta.
He asked again. "Fifteen miles."
The brakeman passed through and
Bill asked: "How (hie) for is it to
lonesville?" "Thirteen miles." Direct
ly the brakeman hollered "Jones
ville." " 'That bottle, John," said Bill,
jumping over to John and drank and
drank until he had drunk half a pint
of that Atlanta whisky. Well, rim
went out on the steps and passed
sometime there, and after while, when
he could, he got up and went inside,
and he said, "Jonesville is the d
dest sickliest place I ever was in. I
didn't stay there half an hour and I
like to died." And I tell you Jones
ville had about as much to do with
Bill Wiggins' sickness as the Demo
cratic party has with the depression
of the country, as the Third Party
tells you it has.
HOW THEY FOLLOW.
"You fellows that are following my
good friend Tommy Watson remind
me of the man and the bull. Up in
the country where I live, there was a
man who wanted to lead a he cow,
and the man tied the rope to the cow
school. He returned home crying
The boys at school laughed at him.
He wanted a pair of store pants for
with these he couldn't tell whether he
was going to school or' coming
home,"
LORD, VHAT A LIAR I AM.
"Mr. Waston, elected as a Demo
crat, abuses the Democrats and says
they have done nothing for the coun
try, but have gone back on every
pledge. When 1 hear a man say
that. I want to tell him the story of
a fellow who wanted to jump a stream
on a Texas prairie. The stream
looked like it was about seven feet
wide. He didn t notice that the grass
drnoned over on either side about
three feet. He went back to take
run and eo over. Here he came
lickety-split. When he came in three
feet of where he thought he was going
tn rise, he went through the water
over his head. He couldn't swim
lick. He cought hold of the wet slick
grass and got his head out of the
watc He thought it was time to
pray. He said, 'O Lord I never
stole a horse.' His hold slipped and
under he went again. He managed
to grab the grass and get his head
above the water a second time. This
time he said. 'Lord have mercy upon
me. I never branded another man's
cow, ran away with another man's
wife, nor burned a house in all my
life.' His hold slipped again and he
went under. Getting to the surface
a third time with great difficulty, he
thought he would be honest with the
Lord. He said, 'But, O Lord God,
what a liar I have been.' "
the water out of his feathers, looked
up at his owner and shrieked, "Where
in h 1 were you when the cyclone
struck us ?"
HAM'S PRIZE MULE.
Commenting on the idea that the
Third Party stands no chance Ham
points out that the best men who
started out with it have returned to
the Democracy. It reminds him of
a man with a mule. He was a long,
lean, lank Georgian with jeans pants,
red shoes and one ga'.lus fastened
with a nail at one end and a button at
the other. He was galloping his
mule up and down in front of a
country doggery. The mule was a
forlorn looking specimen, one tar set
forward and the other backward. His
hip bones stood out like pegs on 'a
hat rack and his ribs showed through
his hide like a hoopskii t through a
calico frock on a windy day. He
was sore-backed and wind galled and
saddle rubbed and harness marked
all over. The fellow would gallop
up and stop and as a sort of general
challenge to the crowd, and would
swear he had the best mule in Georgia.
"Yes," said one of the hangers on,
longing over the balustrade, with
three or four drinks of corn liquor un
der his hickory shirt, "he's a durn
good mule."
How do you know, said trie ri
der sharply.
Because I see the buzzards had
him and he got away."
PERMIT MRS. LEASE.
After jumping on a woman's suf
frage plank he asked the boys in a
confidential way it they have ever
seen Mrs. Lease. "Well, I have,"
says he. "And, boys, she is a plumb
sight. If I had a hound dog that
would bark at her as she passed by
the gate, I'd kill him before night.
She could sit on a stump in the shade
and keep the crows out of a one hundred-acre
corn field without a gun.
She's got a face that's harder and
sharper than a butcher's cleaver. I
could take her by the heels and split
an inch board with it. She's got a
nose like an ant-eater, a voice like a
cat fight and a face that is rank pois
on to the naked eye."
the neiehbor met him two or
three days afterward. Babe was as
thin as a rail, looked right green, and
was all doubled up.
"'What's the matter with you?'
asked the neighbor.
"Babe placed his hand pathetically
over his stomach, gave a sigh like a
blacksmith's bellows with a hole in
it, and said :
" 'The durn mule blowed fust.' "
Orator Ham doesn't throw in a mor
al with this story. It is not necessar'.
The most careless reader will under-
stand that the Georgia democracy
' blowed fust," and that's where Tom
Watson's "at."
It is as good as a show to hear
him. Atlanta Constitution.
North Carolinians living in Balti
more made up a campaign fund of
$1,269.51 and sent to Chairman Sim
mons last week.
Miss Mildred Murphy McPheeters,
of Raleigh, has been chosen to repre
sent North Carolina in the parade of
the 13 original States at the World's
Fair.
The Greensboro North State, the
Republican State organ, was sold on
the 10th to satisfy a mortgage and
was bought by J. F. Wray, Esq.,
Reidsville. '
Mr. D. B. Avera, a member of the
firm of Parker & Avera, cotton buy
ers of Raleigh, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a pocket
knife in the Yarborough House Sat
urday morning. He had been drink
ing. The Fayetteville Gazette says that
in Harnett county there lives a man,
himself one of twins, who married
one of twins. His mother is the
mother often children, five boys and 11 of the Stocks
In The Line !
OUR STOCK OF
Weight
Clothing
nd w
ot. Is
now complete and
is immense in its
completeness.
:o:-
LOOK - AT
SET JOHN AGAIN FOR EELS.
His general wind up on the dema-
S . -. 1
gogue s wno are mistreating peopie
that they will be heard no more In
the future the people will not recog
nize or tolerate them. There will
be nobody so poor as to do them
honor. The people will have about
as much use for them as did the
widow of old John Stoneceypher.
John was no account. He wouldn't
work but lazed around home and
consumed what his industrious wife
and his boys and girls made on a
little farm down in Camden county.
John came up missing one day
Search was made for him, supposing
he was drunk. Finally, in the course
of a week some neighbor suggested
possibly he had been drowned. They
dragged the creek for him and found
him. The remains were in a sad
condition, identification depending
principally upon his apparel. They
brought him home laid him out on
the floor of one small room ot his
late residence. The stricken widow
set her arms akimbo, and looking
calmly down upon him, remarked.
"Well, he's pretty dead, ain't he?"
Seeing something unusual about his
mouth she stooped down, caught
hold of it and pulled out an eel. The
head of another took its place and so
on until she had a half dozen squirm
ing on the floor.
"Well, what shall we do with him ?"
Your correspondent to-night had
an interview with Chairman Simmons
and was informed that postoffice offi
cials have been guilty ot robbery of
the mails in their desire to serve the
Republican party. Mr. Simmons
specifically states that September 23,
he sent each county chairman a seal
ed letter containing instructions in re
gard to registration under the new
election law. Having reason to be
lieve his mail had heretofore been
robbed in transit, he addressed a let
ter to each chairman inquiring if he
had received the letter of above date.
About fifteen replied that they had
not ;the remainder acknowledged re
ceipt. Chairman Simmons says he
is now in possession of direct infor
mation that a number of those which
tailed to reach their destination are
in possession of Chairman Eaves, of
the Republican State Committee, who
being pressed to tell how he obtain
ed them, said some of the Demo
crats to whom they had been sent
had proved traitors and sent them to
him. These letters were only sent
to chairmen, all of whom are Dem
ocrats above suspicion. Chairman
Simmons says he is positive they
were taken from the mails while in
transit. He has formally made com
plaint to the Postoffice Department.
The letters contained nothing save
plain statement of the laws and judi
cial rulings thereon, with instruction
that alt Democrats be properly in
structed Raleigh Cor. Charlotte
Observer.
The penitentiary farms near here
on the Northampton side of the
river have been thoroughly diked
since they have been leased by the
penitentiary authorities, and are now
not subject to overflow except in the
highest freshets, such as was here in
1877. The dikes are larger and
higher than ever before and extend
along the whole river front of these
farms where at all needed a dis
tance of several miles. It has been
reported that Republicans in Halifax
township have threatened to make
trouble and raise a row at Halifax on
election dav because thev are not
pleased with the poll holders appoint
ed for that precinct. A few days
ago Mr. N. M. Lockhart, registrar
for this township, received an anony
mous letter advising and warning
him to resign the position and return
to his farm in Warren county, where
he had spent the spring and summer.
Of course no attention will be paid to
this cowardly means of intimating a"
threat. It must be understood that
there is stul law in the land, and that
the law wiU be enforced. The time
has not yet come in North Carolina
when it can be defied with impunity.
Democrats do not intend to be intim
idated or bulldozed either by anony
mous letters or threats of shedding
blood. Weldon News.
twice gave birth to twins, as did her's
also.
A Raleighite, who has just returned
from the west, says that recently he
visited Dr. Mitchell's tomb, and re
gretted to find that it had been muti
lated and damaged with an axe. As
the News and Observer says : "The
soot is so remote and inaccessible that
proper care can hardly be kept of the
tomb, but it is abominable that any
one should seek to injure it."
A special of the 14th from Wilkes
boro to the Richmond Dispatch is to
the following effect : Some persons
while fishing in Cut creek, near this
town, found themselves enveloped
in flames, their torches having set fire
to the gas which bubbled out of the
water. Since then a more careful
examination has been made. There
appears to be quantities of the gas.
State Geologist Holmes will go to
the place and examine into the mat
ter. The Enterprise says the fishing
season at Morehead now opened
promises to get better and better. A
single day's shipment by rail recently
was 300 boxes and 40 barrels ot fish.
Joseph Fulcher, a 15 year old boy,
caught $4.00 worth in a few hours
with a hook and line and the Willis
crew (sons of Mr. Josephus Willis)
caught $160 worth of Spanish mack
erel in one nieht. Another crew
I maHp ilte and ntViprs Kavp Kfpn verv
successful.
Ciinton, the county seat of Samp
son county, was visited Saturday by
a conflaeation which started in the
Alliance store, that had recendy fail
ed. The prisoners in the jail near
by first saw the fire. They were
taken out. None were burned. The
jail was totally burned. The Cau
casian, the newspaper of Marion But
ler, the Weavente leader in the State,
was burned out W. A. Johnston,
. H. Royal, T. M. Ferrall, Dr. H.
Holliday, R. H. Hubbard, W. F.
King & Co., Alexander Ferrell, Dr.
A. Stevens, rl. ii. iddens, w. rl.
Duncan, Warren Johnson, Dr. G. W.
Moselcy, and J. T. Howard were
burned out. The total loss is esti
mated at $75,000, with but litde insurance
The great event of the past week
was the termination of a case which
had within the past few years began
to cause a great deal ot trouble and
which would have caused more in
the future. Really there were two
.t . . .1 T 1
cases, one being tnat against me rvai-
eigh & Gaston railway and the other
that against the Seaboard oc Roa
noke railway, both being for taxes.
The Federal Court gave judgement
against the latter for $67,500 being
the sum due tor taxes on 14,000
shares, at 20 cents a share, from 1866
to 1892. Against the former road
there was no judgment, the State
and Federal Courts both having de
cided that its charter gave it absolute
exemption from taxation. But, in
the interests of peace and harmony
the officers of both roads have come
forward and made an agreement or
compromise with Gov. Holt, the
Railway Commission and the State
Treasurer, whereby the Raleigh &
Gaston surrenders tor aU time to
come its exemption from taxation,
and the Seaboard & Roanoke road
makes the same kind of a surrender
and also pays into the State Treas
ury $7.50 being the tax for three
years on the shares of stock above
referred to. The State thus gains
the tax on $1,500,000 of property
owned by these roads, or about $15,
000 a year. The only road now hold
ing out against taxation is the Wil
mington and Weldon, which will no
doubt have to "knock " under" next
year, as it wiU then have to ask the
legislature for a new charter for a
connection with Petersburg from
Weldon. So the State has entire
control ot the situation. The addi
tions to the taxable property in the
State have been large in the past two
The Railway Commission is
doing a great work in this respect.
It has now placed before the KjO v- !
. t - t i i
ernor a statement wnicn snows uii
$290,000 is the value of steamboats
plying wholly or in part in JNortn
Carolina waters. In all these years
not one cent of tax has ever been
received from steamboats. The next
legislature will remedy a defect in
the Railway Commission act and give
the Commission the power to assess
the valuation of steamboat property
in town and then come to
we will sell vou 2 s per cent.
see us and
cheaper than you have been offer
ed. Our stock of
DRY GOODS
Is also ready for your inspection and if we
do not save you money, we will
not ask you to buy.
We are still slaughtering them at a little
over half price.
YOUNG BROTHERS.
THE FINAL, GOAL..
O yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins of will.
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;
That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroyed,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God had made the'life complete;
That not a worm is cloven in vain;
That not a moth with vain desire
Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire.
Or subserves another's gain.
Behold we know not anything;
I can but trust tliat good shall fall
At last far on at last, to all,
And eyery winter change to spring.
So runs my dream; but what am I?
An infant crying in the night;
An infant crying for the light;
And with no language but a cry.
I ennyson s in Memonam.
lew Enterprise !
W. A. CRAWFORD'S
Merctont-1
(Nash Street. 1
Wilson, - - H. C.
A 6 year-old boy of Mr. J. J. Store,
near Kittrell. last Friday fell into a
cotton press while it was being filled.
The ein was running and the noise
drowned his cries. Sudddenly the
gin band slipped, the gin stopped,
and the boy was heard and saved.
W.E.WS&Co
FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS,
(Successors to B. F. Briggs & Co.,)
OFFICE OVER FIRST NAT. BANK,
WILSON, N. C
We purpose giving the busi
ness intrusted to us by the citi
zens of Wilson and neighbor
ing territory, our close and per
sonal attention. We represent
some of the best companies in
the world. We want your in-
Come to see us.
surance.
I have fitted up next door to
Herring's drug: store the pret
tiest Tailoring Establishment
in this State and am now re
ceiving and opening up an
elegant line ot goods tor tall
wear, consisting ot latest styles
of foreign imported woolens,
from which you cannot tail to
select a fashionable and satis
factory suiting or pantaloon.
Only first-class, experienced
workmeu are employed, and in
fit and workmanship I guaran
tee to equal any establishment
in this country.
If parties out of town desire
a suit, and will so inform me by
oostal. I will take pleasure in
.calling upon them with a full
1 line 01 samples from which to
select.
W. A. Crawford
WILSON, N. C.
Aug. 25th, 1892. 8-25-301.
Shave, Sir ?
ai in need of a shave, shampoo,
hair-cut, or moustache or hair dyed, if
wanted done in first-class style, call on
The Twin Gastons.
Nash Street Wilson N. C
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Raleigh Cor. to Morganton Herald.
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"The Sales of
'Old Virginia'
Cheroots
Have reached 200,000
A DAY, and are CON
STANTLY INCREAS
ING. They are made
of Carefully Selected
Leaf, and smoke Sweet
to the End. FIVE for
TEN CENTS
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