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VOL. XXII.
WELDON, Ni C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1891.
NO. 3.
THE DOCTORS MEET. ' BOARD OF MAGISTRATES.
ROMANCE IN CRIME.
BALD-HEADED.
THE NECRO NOT WANTED
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THE BOARD OF HEALTH ELECTS A SU
PERINTENDENT AND THE MEDICAL
SOCIETY HOLDS A MEETlNU.
I The lioartl of Health met at Halifax on
f Monday and was tailed to order lv Dr. J.
A. Collins, Chairman, who explained the
tabject to be the election of a Superinten
dent of Health for the term of two years
ensuing from January next.
Dr. II. D. Fuigerson, secretary, called
)tho roll. After the roll was purged of
such names as did not belong on it, the
following responded : 11. W. Brown,
M. II. Clark, J. A. Collins, II. B. Furger-
od, 1. E. Greeu, C. 11. Gurkin, J. S.
Hall, A. S. Harrison, J. C. Hill, J. L.
:vey, K. Leggett, W. 0 McDowell, W.
.1. Neville, J. O'Brien, J. 15. Pope. M. T.
pavage, E. A.Thorne, L. T. Whitaker.
Dr. M.T. Savage said he would place
in nomination for Superintendent of
Health a gentleman for whom lie was
glad to vote and for whom all ought to be
I I glad to vote, a gentleman who was not
only competent but who deserved the
position, because he had always responded
I to calls made upon him by his people
h I he referred to Dr. I. E. Green.
There being no other nomination Dr.
lt E. A.Thorne moved that Dr. Green be
I elected by acclamation, which motion pre-
VJ vailed without an opposing vote.
' The Board of Health adjourned.
t I Dr. Collins, president, called the Coun
1 ty Medical Society to order.
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Un motion it was ordered that names ol
I persons ineligible be stricken from the
1 Election of offi'sew being in order Dr.
W. 0. McDowell was unanimously elected
president by acclamation and Dr. II, B.
tFurgerson was in the same manner elected
ecretary.
Dra. Pope and Green conducted the
president to the chair and he thanked the
society for the honor, lie said the physi
jlans ought to meet more frequently.
The law fixed the membership of the
loard of Health but the society could
iake its own regulations and he thought
should be careful in admitting members,
e also made other valuable suggestions.
't; rDr. Furgerson thought it would be well
S; meet ortener, and moved that the
teetings be held monthly and that the
ext meeting be at Scotland Neck on the
i'rst Tuesday in October at 8 o'clock,
M.
t. Cu'.lius said that at the last full
meeting it was decided that meetings be
eld quarterly on the first Tuesday in
January, April, July and October.
JDr. Furgersou's motion to have month
meetings did not prevail, but his motion
ieet at Scotland Neck on the first Tues-
in October was carried.
The secretary was directed to request
eligible physicians in the county to join
society at its next meeting.
Dr. Furgerson thought it well to ap
sot three members to prepare papers
S discission at the next meeting.
,J)r. Collins suggested that one subject
V'th, Dature and treatment of typhoid,
pho-malarial and continued malarial
?er." Dr. Furgerson suggested that
Yinking water" be another subject.
These suggestions were adopted and
i president appointed Dr. Collins to
( the discussion, alternate Dr Legiictt.
.'ho names of J. C. Hill, C. C. Chris
US Hall and C. R. Gurkin were
psed for membership and ordered
on the rolls.
"e society then adjourned.
k Best Advertising. The most
jilt advertising in behalf of Hood's
parilla is that which comes from the
line itself. That is, those who are
.by it, speak to friends suffering
fly, who in turn derive benefit and
them to try this successful medi
Thus the circle of its popularity
Jly widening from this cause alone,
ire and more are becoming enthu
in behalf of Hood's Saisiparilla as
illy demonstrates its absolute mer
1 that is asked for Hood's Satsa
ts that it be given a fair trial. If
ed a good blood purifier, or buUd
medicine, try Hood's Sarsaparil-
ire over stacked iu shoes and will
f p'iyes to reduce Btock. 1'. N
iik & Brj.
THE INFERIOR court continued and
OFFICIALS ELECTED.
The Board of Magistrates met ut Halifax
Monday and was to called to order by
Col. F. M. Parker, chairman. The roll
was called and 15(5 magistrates were found
to be J resent. The chairman explained
the purpose to be the election of Justices,
solicitor and clerk of the Inferior court.
Col. J. W. Johnston thought the
county could afford to dispense with the
court and moved that the court b'l abol
ished after proper notice, and that the
present officials hold over.
dipt, E. A. Thome moved that the
eh airaian give the three mouth's notice
required by law.
Mr. B. C. Dunn thought the Board
had power to abolish the court without
giving notice.
Col. Johnston said he made his motion
in the interest of economy alone.
We have the best court in the State,
but crime was on the decrease nnd
the jurisdiction of the justices had been
enlarged and there was not as much need
of the court as formerly.
Capt. Grizzard was requested to read
the law. He did so and said the Board
could to-day vote to abolish the court
and meet ugain iu February and abolish
it.
Mr. J. J. Robertson said the opinions
of the solicitor and clerk would be of
value to the Board and asked those gen
tlemen to give them.
Capt. Grizzard said be thought it would
be hard to tell whether it would be econ
omy to abolish the court and thereby
increase jailexpenses. The half fees at
the last term amouuted to 30, consider
ably less than ever before. $250 would
pay the entire expenses of the
term. There is a falling off in the num
ber of smaller offences but an increase in
the more serious crimes, and he doubted
whether there would be a saving of ex
pense by abolishing the court. The
matter of cost is not the sole question.
Speedy trial was the right of every man
and this court enabled them to get speedy
trials. And besides this be hated to see
white men prosecuted by a negro, which
was the case in the Superior Court.
Mr. W. E. Daniel said the only ex
pense that would bo saved by the aboli
tion of the court was the salaries of the
justices and the jury fees. Tho solicitor
and clerk would be paid the same in the
Superior court. He doubted if there
would be any saving at all abolishing the
court.
Capt. Kitchin thought another consid
eration was whether the people of the
county would be benefited and whether
jurors and witnesses would be benefited.
It is hard-on men indicted, jurors and
witnesses to go to court so often and lose
so much time. If after all things are
considered nothing is saved to the county
and people the couit should be continued,
aud if not it ought to bo abolished. No
individuals ought to be considei ed.
Capt. Gr izzard said the time of hold
ing the courts was convenient February
and August, and people would have to
go to the Su perior courts and no time
would be saved. He could express his
views freely because he was not a candi
date for re-election to the solicitorship.
Mr. M. II. Clark moved to proceed
with the election of officers of the court.
The chair intimated that it was carried,
a division was called for and the motion
was carried by a vote of 19 to 12.
Capt. Thorne nominated the present
court and moved that they be elected by
acclamation, which motion was carried.
M 11. Clark nominated for solicitor
Mr. W. C. Thorne, and on motion he was
elected by acclamation.
M. II. Clark nominated 8. M. Gary
for clerk. B. C. Dunn moved that he
be elected by acclamation, which motion
was carried.
A resolution of thanks to Solicitor
Grizzard was adopted and tho Board ad
journed. DR. ACKER' ENGLISH PIfcl.S
Are active, effective and pure. For sick
headache, disordered stomach, loss of ap
petite, bad complexion and billiousness.
they have never boen equaled, either in
Amanita or nHroad
Sold hy VV. M: Cohen, druggist, Weldon,
IT WAS h TRADE.
HE HOT THE LICENIE AND A NICKEL
TO HlOT.
He had a basket ' eggs on his arm
as he went into the holding lookiu" for
"the man that writ oii weddin' licenses."
"I'm from Stony l'tint and I want a
weddin' license," he sail to the clerk at
the desk. "Is this the place?"
The clerk said it, was.
"Might a knowed it, he continued
"fer the feller at the dooi told me it was.
But I've gut doubts about what you city
fellers tells a stranger when he ain't got
no proofs."
"Do you want a license?" asked the
clerk.
"You bet I do, and I want it for my
self, too. I ain't bashful, I ain't. A
feller hain't got no right to be that has
been courtin' a gal fer two year like I've
been doin'. How much air they?"
'One dollar."
"Goramity, Gosh! They ain't that
much, air they? They was that last
year, and I've been readin' as how the
McKinly bill had brought down prices on
all the necessaries of life. Ain't that so?"
"It hasn't got around here yet," ex
plained the clerk.
"Well, I've got to have her, dollar tr
no dollar, but, young feller, I've got
eeven doz-n eggs here worth l'i cents a
dozen. Right fresh out of the hens, too.
Can't you take it out in trade and let me
have the five cents over in cish to buy
some red streaked and striped tody for
the gal? Taiu't much, youug feller, nnd
if you ever come up on Stony, durn my
cats, if I don't board ycr a week fer noth-
in'. Is she a swap with a nickel to boot
lor the weddin present?"
Ten minutes later he went out chuck
ling with the license in the basket where
the eggs had been. Detroit Free 1'res.
Till? GBR A MUM 1)11) IT.
HOW A DEAR LITTLE FLOWER SAVFD A
woman's LIFE.
The father and brother of a dear little
woman died of consumption, and Bhe
firmly believed she would soon follow
them with the same dread disease. She
had a friend who believed the invalid
had inherited her mother's stronger con
stitution, and if she could only be aroused
and the idea banished from her min
that she would soon die she might be
well woman. Arguments were in vain
and as the friend was going away for
years she gave a geranium to the dear
little woman, with the request that she
would take care of it, and also that sin
would work out in the garden throus;!-
the spring and summer two hours a day
"I might as well do it," said the invalid
"for I shall not live but a few weeks or
months at the longest."
Very feeble were her first attempts at
gardening and she would often say on
coming in, "I shall die, now, anyway."
But the next day found her out again.
The gerauium was cared for, and grad
ually other plants were added. She be
came very much interested in gardening,
and her mind was taken up reading the
many good floral magazines and in caring
for her flowers. In the winter a bay
window was full of blooming plants. It
is now three years since sho began this
new cure, and it has worked wonders.
She is a healthy, happy woman now, and
Bays that "women stay in the house too
much, are afraid of their clothes and the
tight lacing makes short broath, and then
they say, "We are not strong enough to
work in a girdtjn.'" Shut up the
pill
boxes and throw away the bottles
Breath the fresh air and take your tued
icine at tho end of a light hoe-handle
and see if you don't save doctor's bills
Yick's Magazine.
IK) Si)TSUKI''ER ANY LONGER.
Knowing that a cough can be checked
in a day, and tho first stages of consump
tion broken in a week, we hereby guar
antee Dr. Acker's English Cough Reme
dy, and will refund the money to all who
buy, take it as per directions, and do net
find our stivpiiient correct.
F'.rsaleby W. M. Coiiuii, Druggist
Weldon, N. C.
A COLORED WOMAN DISCCISED AS A
MAN, KILLS HER WHITE RIVAL.
A iii'H-t remarkable trial has just come
to an end at Kinston, says a Raleigh,'
special. It resulted in the ennvintmn
of Alexander Morton, colored, of the
crime of manslaughter and her sentence
to twenty years in the penitentiary.
Despite her masculine name, Morton is
not a m m, but a woman, and this even
ing, dressed in woman's clothing, was
brought here to the penitentiary.
The story of the crime reads like a
romance. Alex. Morton, the woman
masquerading as a man, was charged
with the murder of Julia Emery, August
12, 1390. She was tried before Jude
Armfield, convicted of mutder and sen
tenced to be hanged. She was ably de
fended by the whole bar of Kinston, ap
pealed to tho supreme court and was
given a new trial.
She appeared in Lenoir county about
fifteen years ao in man's apparel, and
maintained successfully her disguise until
the birth of a child disclosed her sex.
She can read and write, is a fair mathe
matician, very industrious and an invalu
able helper on a farm, having been em
ployed as "boss" on the farm of Chaun
cey Gray for fifteen years. Julia Emery,
her victim, was a white woman, living
on the same farm near the accused. The
principal witness against her was Giles
Parker, a white man, who had heretofore
borne a good reputation among his neigh
bors. He was the lover of both women.
The accused became jealous of her white
rival, and warned Parker, by a letter
dropped in the Kingston postoffice, that
if he did not cease his visits and attentions
to the white woman, that she would "re
move her." On August 12, just after
dark; she went to the house of Julia, and
found Parker standing near her. A gun
was discharged and Julia fell dead.
Parker positively identified Alex. Mor
ton as the murderer, though she stoutly
denied the killing. Her employer's fam
ily believe she is innocent and fought the
case with the best array of legal talent.
She was indifferent to her fate, and amus
ed herself in jail playing pranks on her
fellow prisoners.
SHE FOUND RIPS.
THE YOU NO WIFE WAS QUITE EQUAL TO
THE EMERGENCY.
There is a young manied woman of
my acquaintance whose first wifely ex
perience with the needle has resulted in
a capital joke on her. She found what
appeared to be two immense rips on the
inside of the tails of her husband's frock
coat and while he was down town Bhe
carefully sewed them up. When the
young man came home to lunch his wife
ruet him, coat in hand.
"I've just mended it," she said: "there
were two awful rips in the tail of it."
"Let me sec," said the husband of the
industrious young woman. "I didn't
know there was a tear in it..'
"Yes there was; right there."
"But there are the"
The young man caught tho look of
innocent doubt on his wife's face and
stopped.
' Yes, those were fearful rips; thiugs
were getting in them all the time."
And the young man went down to his
office and picked out the threads in order
t) get at his bank book and few letters
that he had iu those tail pockets.
What It Hoes.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
1. Purili.w the blood.
2. Creates an appetite.
3. Strengthens th0 nerves.
4. Makes the weak ntrong.
5. Overcomes that tired feeling,
fi. Cures scrofula, salt rheum, etc.
7. Invigorates the kidneys and liver.
8. Relieves headache, indigestion, dys
pepsia.
SH3III9 NOHI SiNMOHS
SOMETIIINO NEW IN THE WAY OF COT
TON SEED.
The Spartanburg correspondent of the
Greenville AW says, in a letter written
a few days ago, that the lintless cotton
seed plant whose discovery was announc
ed in the AW aud Courier last
year and was much derided at that time,
'has come to "stay."
Mr. II. T. Ferguson exhibited a stalk
which contained three hundred bolls, each
boll filled with large plump seed. He
lias taken much pains to get tho variety
perfect, and announces that he "will seed
enough this year to plant the entire
State." The estimated yield is four hun
dred bushels to the acre. The product
is easily harvested, but the bolls must be
gathered as they begin to crack, else the
seed will fall to the ground. The yield
of oil, it is further reported, is about one
third more than that of ordinary cotton
seed.
If all these statements are literally
true, it is seen that South Carolina has
developed another new and important
agricultural industry, and will soon be
able to supply the world with a practically
unlimited quantity of vegetable oil, stock
food and fertilizers. It would bo a re
markablo result truly, if the cotton seed
crop should largely supplant the cotton
crop, but it may come to that iu the end.
These are record breaking times and the
cotton plant is as full of surprises as a
monkey.
A hundred years ago there was some
doubt about whether cotton could be
grown in this country. This year there
is considerable doubt whether we can
stop its growing. Twenty years ago the
seed were regarded as a nuisance. Now
they arc probably worth more than the
corn crop, hay crop, wheat crop and hog
crop all combined. Ten years from now
the lint may be a nuisance, and indeed
it is next thing to that now.
Mr. Ferguson, of Spartanburg, is a
good man to keep an eye on. He may
have his "picture" in the school books of
the next generation on the page whioh is
now devoted to Eli Whitney's. It is
just possible that he is hatching another
industrial revolution in his private ex
perimentation. Watch him and bis
bald-headed cotton seed! Charleston
AWs and Courier,
A Change Iu the H eather.
The person who can predict a change
in the weather by means of his aches and
pains may be very interesting to his
neighbors as a walking barometer, but the
position he occupies is not an enviable one.
He needs a course of S. S. S. to make
his bones and his joints weatherproof.
Rheumatism cannot stand before the
attacks of this wonderful blood purifier.
There is no other remedy that has proven
so efficacious in curing this disease as S.
S. S. The testimonials to this effect
cannot be said gainsaid. They speak
for themselves. To test the matter
would not be a costly experiment to the
sufferer, and it is an experiment that will
surely bring relief.
Kate Field declares that the grocer
sells more poison than tho saloon keeper,
and now comes Fraulein Lepper, who
says that next to alcohol the greatest
curse of the nineteenth century is tea.
Shade of Cowpcr! Will some agitator
next discover that cold water is an intox
icant? The First Step.
Perhaps you are run dowu, can't eat,
can't sleep, cau't think, cau't do any
thing to your satisfaction, and you won
der what ails you. You should heed the
warning, you are takiug the first step iu
to Nervous Prostratiou, Yon need a
Nerve Tonio and in Electtie Bitters
you will find the exact remedy for
restoring your nervous system to its nor
mal, heaithy condidm. Surprising re
sults follow the use of this great Nerve
Tonic and Alterative. Your appetite
returns, good digestion h restored, and
the Liver and Kidnev.- resume heahhy
'ict imi. Tiy a boiilo. Price 50c. at W.
M. Cohen's drugstore.
THE PATRIOTIC SUNS OF AMERICA HAVE
FALLEN INTO THE GENERAL SWIM
IN DECLAIUNIl THAT THEY DON'T
WANT THE NKORO 1 N THEIR PATRIOT
IC FELLOWSHIF.
The Patriotic Sons of America have
just closed their national camp in this
city. They devoted several days to a
stubborn wrestle with the ever-perplexing
and ncver io be-settled problem of the
m'gro. By the fundamental law of the
order the man with sable skin, no mat
ter how patriotic a son of America he
may be, is excluded from fellowship.
This grim burlesque of the professions of
the order has naturally inspired an effort
to strike the offensive word from its con
stitution and adapt it to the liberal ideas
and just laws of the age.
There were two regularly pitched bat
tles in the national camp of the Patriotic
Sons of America on the issue of amend,
ing the constitution by eliminating the
word "white." The reform movement
was led chiefly by Pennsylvaoians, who
seem to have dominated the camp on
every question where a majority could
rule, but as the amendment of the consti
tution requires a four-fifths vote, the
most they could do was to cast about 5G
votes in favor of the change to 3G against
it, and 3G being more than one-fourth of
the whole number, the black man was
relegated to the rear again by the solemn
judgment of the national camp.
Of course, the negro is not wanted in
the natioual camp of the Patriotic Sone
of America, and they are simply human
iu not wanting them. In point of fact,
nobody wants the negro cither north or
south, excepting when thtir menial labor
to perforin or his vote is wanted to sus
tain an endangered party. A large ma
jority of the working men of this city are
enthused regularly once or twice a year
to work aud give the negro his rights,
but there is not an organization of me
chanics in this eutire city that will ad
mit a negro to fellowship, nor is he per
mitted to work side by side with the
white mechanic in any of our industrial
channels. They hurrah and vote for
negro rights everywhere but in their im
mediate community or their immediate
industrial associations; and the Patriotic
Sons of America simply followed the com
mon rule of all white classes, conditions
and organizations in the north when they
decided that they don't want the negro
in their fellowship.
It is idle to criticise the Patriotic Sons
of America for doing even what every
body confesses to be grotesquely incon
sistent, when everybody else and every
other organization practically kicks tins
negro out and refuses to have him on any
terms whatever, excepting in menial
positions and when his vote is wanted for
his party. The south, with all its alleged
hatred of the black man, treats him vast
ly better than do the people of the north.
We have seen more in a t-ingle legisla
ture in the Souili, elected by tho demo
crats on regular democratic tickets, thaa
have been ejected in all the northern
States Mnce the adoption of negro suf
frage; and there is not a State in the
South where tho black man can't work
side by fide wi'li white mechanics and
laborers iu every industrial calling.
Long bef .re Republican Philadelphia
clad the negro in clue and gave him the
policeman's niuee, ho was to be seen on
the police force in leading cities of the
South; but in the North he has been os
tracized alike in radical New Eogla- '
in the conservative middle States ar
the overwhelming Republican Sta'
the West. In Pennsylvania, wh
negro holds tfie balance of powe
city and Scate, he has never be
o' as a candidate for any office o.
honor or profit, and the Patriot!
American have simply fallen iu
general swim in deciding that t'''
want their patriotic fellows!
adelphia Times.
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