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'" .1 1 A LA I f J lif' ) 4 I V t t I 4 VOL. I. CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1876. HUilBER' 2. mm v ,.. a a I - - ' I.I,. ' .1 - -' ' . . i ; ' - " " GOVERNiIE3IT WAS INSTITUTED FOR THE GOOD Ox. TIIE GOVERNED. y : " ; - ----" ASHeboro, WORTH - ' ' ' - jut it THE RANDOLPH REGULATOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY : ! . BY ,- , THE jRAXDOLril PUBLISHING CO - 6KFICE 2 IKXnS KAKT OF TIIE court norsn. One Year, po-tnge paid...;.!..,. 2 00 Six Mentha, postage jjaij...... ......... 1 00 RATES OP ADVERTISING. One smiare, one Insertion ......... ......$l 00 brevier advert 'Minted One giuare, two Inertion....'........l 50 ir .J.. a. . .. .i nrt unc Riu;ire- iiin'u inenini? & w One One im2 One One Bq for! nare, four insertions.. ...... .....3.00 uart turec montus. '..u' 00 :iare, six-moiitiH... ......... ......8 00 lare, twelve month... ...12' 00 arirer adverthementji li'H;ral con- 1 niet Will be mafic. Twelve lines solid constant' omi narc. All kind of JOB WORlvdone at the L'LAToit oiuee, in the neatest and on reasonable term..' Uill? for in eonidereil due when pre- r the f( nvres 11 pic of would kropy from the Raleigh Sentind llowin letter in regard to out- aflictctl on the masses of the peo- (!raven county, as the heading indicate; bv the negroes. We have 6nl v to .say that while wo arc not disposed to" dispute the truthtulness of tlie pjcture ; we know of localities, wheroihe negroes arc not so numerous, thatU ticcd l! e picture of the rascalities prac y uarpet-nag omciais, anana- Mivcs jof liglit color outsi(e, , but dark within .i in less k'nowd could not truthfully be drawn odious, and loathsome colors ptter is from the pen of a well North Carolinian ; isi:kii:s of Nkouo Rule Tall Stkaum; Sthaw Bonds Radk.al Kascality Gknfkally. J Kiuf on Si:ntinf.i. :r In the language of Maximilian, "Poor .Craven county." When the .mind' iroes back to the days of fSt'ajiiv, Oaston and.othcr great sons of tliH noble region ; to the! time when livT otllceis an 1 representatives were n')e:i whose inerit t!ie good peopje e , of tt.ie "eon.TCs:slon:il district the State :tt large, delighted to honor! and compare their acts and do ings" witlr those who now lear ride, i -raven mid o what kind of official bonds are taken by the radical board of county com missioners of Craven county, we have prepared the following statement, which will doubtless surprise some of our readers. There are eight securities on the official bonds of the treasurer, sheriff and clerk of Craven county, who ustified to the amount of seventy-eight housand, j. five hundred dollars ($78 500.) In giving in their property for taxation three months previous, these eight person gave in as follows : On real, estate nothing. Value of fowa lois-rnothing. Ioncy on hand, or on deposit in any bank cither in or out of. the State ! For an extension tabic, about f 3,200 on the township, ostensi. bly for the purpose of building and rc pairing bridges, v This amount was afterwards reduced to about $2,000 On examining their official records we find that only a portion of the amount was for lumber, the balance being for their own serv ices and attorneys' fees as per statement : v ! Pay of trustees vices, Attorney fees, Printing, Wood,' 4 Costs- in-suitf - For lumber, for their scr well m av-ttie exclamation. "how arc tlie might' V faMrn," le s pited to them.. Truly her noli!c-he:frted sons, the tax paver ;. have. giv:!t caue, not only to look so, but to be cat down. The bi-: ble .sri.ys "where the -righteous are in authority the people rejoice, but where the wicked bear rule .the people aud never wxxi a saving more able than to the people of Craven , whose fumncial condition is de le n-account of carpet-bag rule. roposc to give some facts in this iion, and aUliough they may inouh npplic inmtY jdoral i p connef seem startling, yet tiVy are true. To fommonce I will take the state taxes of the bounty : In 1870 the amount in round figures was $8,000, ' which ' Mini the people paid to Sheriff Dcnison, but he has1 never ATt paid it into the public treasury; 'although several of the securities on his -official bondare now signing other oflicial bonils, swearing they are worth large amounts of money. This tame tax was again I levied and collected last year from this down-trotl-den aiid oppressed people, and' has not iitrs faid in. ' . This deficit was disco vcrcd by a dcmoci atic member of .(lie late consti tution? I convention, and if it can be re covered by the State will pay nearly oiic lia f of the expenses of the con vention, about which some of these very nien raised such a hue and cry. (leutle iien, disgorge, pay in this money you have twice wrung from the people of Craven county, then 3011 may, with Rome little degree of seeming propriei Jy howl about the unnecessary expense which the convention placed' upon the dear popple. Some of these .identical men, not satisfied with signing the of ficial bonds in Craven, actually sign official bonds hi Wake county, justify ing each in the sum of $3,000, two of them as to unencumbered real estate, 1 i ... i the other as to personal property, when it is notorious that neither one of them owned $ 1 worth of real estate nnen- cumbered, and when an execution is sent 01 1 'a return is made on it, i XOTUIKa TO BE FOUNT)." Read the following on official bonds, from the Journal of Commerce : In onlcr that our -readers mav see notliing. Net amount of income, including in terest on bonds of the United States, or of this State, or any other State or government, or other properly not taxed nothing. On valuation of horses and live stock, $775. On household and kitchen furniture, watches, wearing apparel, etc., $2,150. Stocks of goods, $1,200. Solvent credits in or out of tho State, $1,300. Bank stocks and stocks in incorpo rated companies, $340. Total value of property, $8,773. Amount justified to on bonds, $78,- 500. f i Tax-payers of Cravon-county, exam ine the above figures !" At a meeting of the tax-payers of the county held in the court house, the following resolutions were adopted : " Jiesolved, That this meeting con demns the action of I. E West, pro bate judge, in receiving from John S. Manix his official bond as public ad ministratorone of the most important offices in the county when he mus have known the sathc.jto have been illegal and totally insufficient, for bj- reference to the tax list of 1S73 we find that the principal and two of the sureties did not give in one cent of property for taxation, nor did they pay one cent of taxes, that one paid three lollars and sixtytwo cents poll tax. another fifteen dollars and twenty- nine cents on personal property and hree dollars and sixty-two ceats 0:1 a oll, another one' half of $57.50 being $28.25 on a stock of goods. The whole amount of taxes paid by every one on the bond being $51.28 and it was also inovvn to him that some of the same Parties were on other, official bonds of he county of more than one hundred thousand dollars amount as per cer tificate of register of deeds annexed. llesolved, That we condemn the ac tion of tho board of commissioners in relieving 542 persons from taxation, and pronounce it an act of gross in justice to the tax-payers and a fraud on the county. The following state ment shows the number of votes cast and the number of polls given in for taxation : number of votes demo crats, 1,146 ; republicans, 2,322. Num- For one blank book, Office rent, For collecting $29 1.36, . Serving notices on members of the board, Services of deputy, Clerk of the board, $761.43 300.00 47.00 4.00 68.6a 45.23 25.00 20.00 34.00 36.75 50.00 46.00 26.00 $1,464.09 ' In 1870 they levied a tax of about $2,000, ostensibly for school purposes and in which there was collected in 1870, $411.36 : jof which amount there was paid : For office rent, For salaries to trustees. Cost in suit, Clerk to board, One blank book, One oak extension table, For lumber, Printing, $ 34.00 100.00 42.98 26.00 20.00 25.00 9,87 26.00 $293.85 ' Leaving a .balance which has not been accounted for of 110.51. in- junction was obtained preventing their further collecting an v of this tax. f ' While the first tax alluded to above was being collected an injunction was obtained restramim; them from collec This injunction was dissolved ting it. by Judge Clark. An appeal was taken freedom, in point cf fact, goes around ; with head j down land drooping tail, whenever the condition of the public sen-ice is mentioned. The eagle, being a rw.ucr uiu-iasuioacu uiru no ex clusive interest inany party, and does not perceive the prppnety of disgracing and 'robbing the. country in order to eep a party in power. The proud bird ha& no peculativc proclivities and con siders it quite as mean to; rob the na- ion as to rob a Len-roost, and when it sees pilfering red iced to a science, and encouraged and excused for the sake of party, the- eagle tjls ashamod oits country. j In these; centennial years, it must be confessed, the spectacle presented is not one calculated to make every American heart throb with pride.' We arc known abroad by a set of ministers and consuls, of whom the most con spicuous and important is the eminent writer on the game of Poker, whose relations with the Emma Mine and the Machado claim make it natural for for eigners to ask whether the emblem of the nation he represents should prop erly be an eagle or a buzzard. We have a navy, but to the candid observer it sccm3 to be an institution compara tively useless, except to contractors who want to rob the treasury, and high officials who want to take ladies on an excursion at public expense. Wc have an a my, of which Gen. Eabcock and Col. Fred Grant are rather conspicuous officers. TYe have a Treasury Depart ment, the phief clerk of which has just been conricted, with several other prominent officials, of conspiracy to rob the treasury. AVe have an Interior Department from which a Delano has just-retired, and swindled and long suffering Indians are looking to scv whether Lis "successor means to follow his example. We have a Postal Dc partraent whose chief is justly1 honored because he has been exposing and stop- that they have agree! to wnrk. up opin ion in the south in favor of BrUtow -and Jewell for the nominees of thef republi can party this fall." Th j prolific south ern conwpondeut of the same paper has been canvassing republican senti ment in that region, and :' divides the States as follows, on the assumption that Grant is not a candidate :' '.'Mor- Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South .Carolina and Florida. -Bristow Kentucky ,31issouri, West Virginia and Tcnns&deo. - It would not do to STvcar to this. Tho part of it that may bo considered altogether reliable is that Morton will have the States of Missis sippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.' We copy tho following address from the Daily Sentinel, for the information of our readers : NORTH CAROLINA AT THE CEN TENNIAL. I ities yet lingering in the footsteps of our lata civil war. Its healing an ! soothing influence will be felt from ono extreme of our - country to tho other. And this effect will bo redoubled if ire take proper advantage of the auspicious occasion. All patriotic Americans car worship at the shrine where American liberty, was born ; where our constitu tonGeorgia, Alabama, Mississippi, tion of government was framed and Ixuisiana, Arkansas and Tcxas.-BIaino d-fectcd where Washington receive! ADDUF.SS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . OF TIIE STATE AO II I CULTU RA L , SOCIETY. I to the supreme court and they reversed U,mo U1 raseauue. piuMuuMy pequ- trated therein, tinaiiy, we have a Congress, and the odor of Credit Mo- Judge Clarke's decision, therefore ma kini? the ini miction nernetual. The matter has remained quiet until about i aer uiir3 grah, 1 acific Mail, and I 1 : il n f .lta ; r"-1 o" wuere is me ice : colorcil, 691. Number of polls re leased from taxation; 542." The rascality in the school fund lias also been prominent. There are 1,100 democraatic and 2,200 republican vo ters in the county ; 850 white .polls listed their poll ' tax, and 650 republi cans, ihe radical bo ird of county commissioners, released over 500 col ored voters from the noil tax. thus 7 ; making the white people pay almost the entire amount of money for cduca tional purposes. In distributing thej school fund, the Newbcrn 'Academy, of which Judge M; E. Manly is president, where 300 white children are being taught free of all expense, was allotted by this radical board the sum of $148, while a negro school, within a short distance of the academy , was allotted 1 two weeks ago, jwhen we find the board of county commissioners levied a spe cial tax to pay a portion of the above claim. Will the people submit to snch proceedings ?" I was shown an official statement of a number of persons who arc. on ofiical bonds for large sums, whoj. when listing their taxes, SWEAR THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING AT j ALL. - I saw in the register's office the or iginai tax lists of several of chese bond- ... i signers ; one of them, who is on a bond of $3,000, listed the following taxable property : clothing 5.0, watch $100, frame building 20.0-total $300; anoth er, who is surety on a bond for $13,000, j gives in, personal property $300 ; a nother, who is on for $50,000, gives in person property 300," 2 watches $200, ice $1,000 total $1,500 ; but where Could not Solic itor Moore stir j up some work for the grand jury ? Is the law against per jury repealed ? If not, let it bo enforc ed ! Native North Carolinians, Craven county asks yous to help, and surely af ter reading this, statement, which is a true repsentation of tho facts in the caso you - will arise in all your strength at the ballot box1 and throw off this ty- ranical yoke, more galling by far than that placed upon tho necks of our an cestors by the carpet-bagger Tryon.' VL W. Best. other jobs too numerous to mention, -so pervades the legislatives halls that wc look instinctively for the buzzard to perch over the Speaker's destk. ! . The one bright and encouraging fact in our situation is that certain officials arc making great efforts to clear out these Augean stables. Our most pop ular officials are Messrs. Bristow and Jew.ell, because they have made war upon corruption. But what a lamenta ble condition this fact betrays ! 1 Hon esty, fearless warfare against corrup tion of all kinds, ought to be the rule ; but here, so rare have these virtue been in public servants that those who possesses them immediately become instantly distinguished. We! look with hope to a new House, why ? Be- in order that our State may Improp erly represented at tho Philadelphia Centennial, the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society lias issued an address asking that 100 citi zehs of the State will each subscribe $50 for this purpose. Here is tho id dress: Rooms of the Ag'l Society, ' Raleigh, Jan. 26, 1876. To tlie Citizens of 2iorth Carolina: The Legislature of North Carolina having adjourned without! providing the ways and moans for a proper rep resentation and exhibition of the wealth and resources of tho State at the Cen tennial exposition, and ' none of our public bodies or corporations having made any movement to remedy this strange neglect, the Executive Commit tee of tho State-Agricultural Society has appointed a committee to organize a plan and solicit contributions to carry! it into effect, whereby the reproach of being the only one of the original thir teen States u 11 represented- jat that au gust occasion, shall be spared to North Carolina. In pursuance of the dutv imposed upon the committer thy have alreadv secured the services of Mr. W C. Kerr, our State, Geologist, to take his commission and his sword, and watched over the first steps of our itu fknt nation. '-' -, . ' -,Thc CnUinniaX'Kxhibition has been gotten up to celebrate the facts in : American history in which wo all tako a just pride the South just as tnucli as the North. There is no taint of seci tionalism in its origin, and there will be none permitted in its management. The Governor of North Carolina will commission each subscriber to this fund, and being thus clothed with an official character, ho will be entitled to many ,dcsirablo privileges. j - Please send your check 01 money lo Hon. Will IL Battle, John G.Williams and W. E. Anderson, who will see fo . 1 1 its proper application. . 1 . Hoping to hear from you favorably at your earliest convenience wo are, 1 Very respectfully, Ex. Com. N. C. Ao. Society. I 1 charge of all- the contributions from ms iron : furthei our State ami t' secure spac for their j. exhibition. Iovenior Brogdn has .- i consented to this arrangement, and will cordially co-opjerate with us as the official head of the State. We want every farmer,! mechanic, manufacturer, inventor, miner and landowner, and all crsons whose avo cation ior pleasure it is toj handle or sell the product of 'th)se. varied indus- 1 n . tries of North Carolina, to co-opperate i Cn , thtnL- ?f nnrl-.olnin simnrPi-i witJi us in 'securing such an exhilation We find in the Ilaleigh Sacs of Jan. 30th, the following article quoted from the New York Tribune. TheTribune it is well known, is a Republican pa per : but like some other Northern Re publican sheets. siderations of party, to take a patriot- $850. This rascality was so glaring I ic view of the that it was exposed, and after an cx We commend this article to the atten- rises above mere con- posiire, a change was made in the allotments. Tho rascality perpetrated in the township tax lis is unparalleled, and language fails to depict it Read this! statement from the Journal of Coml move: .' ! It will be rcmembcred that some two years past the Republican Board; of Township Trustees levied a tax of! much as it didJ tion of our readers, not only as a spec men of this kinit ; but also as contain ing truths that all ought to know, and act upon when the time comes for them to pass upon the conduct of the admin istrators of the Government at the ball fotboxi . " We cannot sar that the American Eagle soars, jusit at this time, quite as Tkc proud bird of long-continued r.bues. In the States, wc gladly cheer on a Governor like Mr. Tilden, because lie assails thieves and cares more for the public good than for party success. But how different these from the times when every State Exec utive held it his first duty to protect the public interest ! It is the silver lining of the cloud that the people have begun to sustain with much heartiness, and with unwonted dis'egard of party tics, the public servants who honestly serve the public. It shows tljat behindall murjey ciouus oi panisansnip anti cor ruption there is still some strong regard for the public welfare and honor some genume patriotism. But is it not an ugly fact that, in these centennial years, the most .hopeful fact in the sit uation is that some part of the people realize that the nation has been dishon ored too long, that all branches of the public service -are" tainted with corrup tion, and that there is urgent need of national house -cleaning ? of them as will be worthv of the dig nity and intelligenpo of our common wealth; While mucli ' of the lalxir to An Item wnicii should he Read. We havo probably all of us met with instances in which a word heedlessly ; spoken against tho reputation of a fe male has been magnified by malicious minds until the cloud has been dark enough to overshadow her whole exist ence To those who aro accustomed, not necessarily from bad motives, but . from thoughtlessness, to speak lightly of ladies, wc commend these hints as worthv of consideration: j Never use a lady's name in an improper place, at an. improper, time, or in mixed company. . Utfevcr make assertions n bout her you think untrue or allusions that you feel she herself would blush to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to make use of a woman's name in a reckless and un- principled manner, shun them, for thy arc the worst members of the commu nity men lost to every sense of honor, every feeling of humanity. Many a good and worthy woman's character has been ruined and her heart ; broken by a lie manufactured by some villiau and repeated wh?rc it should not liave been, and in, the presence of , those whoso little judgment could not deter them from circulating the foul and damning report. A slander is boon propagated; and tho smallest thing de rogatory to. woman's character will fly on the wings of the win 1, and magnify as it circulates, until its monstrous . weight crushes the poor uucontciouk victim. . Ilcspcct the name of woman, . for your mother ami sifters are womeri, -and as vou would have their livoa un- embittered by the slanderer's, tongue fivl llio 111 lliflt vrnr n -n vrrd Tna v ' this end will le TK?rformrl lv'-Mr. . . A. ' . ' ,.-, . . j . " Ibriisg uion the mother, the liter, or .A Washington correspondent 6f tlie Cincinnati Commercial gives this iort ceaxt: "For'some ilays jast there has Veen a largo inimber of -southern. federal o fa cials here in Washington, -probably CO in all, from various parts cf the south. ITiey have held several cccret caucuses, together with' several of the prominent republicaa leaders here, and it Is alleged hundreds of our fellowitizons who must aid us in order to make tho un dertaking a success. Wc cannot Iiojks with the most rigid economy to dis charge the necessary exjcnR-s at a less cost than 5,000. The cstM of trani. porting "articles to Philadelphia,' the glass frames for the cxposnrp and pro tection of the same, 'handling, watch ing, printer's bills, and expenses of the superintendent cannot bo reduced with in this limit. Wc therefore confident ly appeal to each cf you to te one of a hundred citizens tf the State to con tribute 50 each for this worthy pur pose, j We a to al 1 very deejJy interest ed in the Buccess of this uridertaking. We hope, to place, before tho eyes of foreigners attending the Centennial Exposition re ch a 'display ofitho natur al and undeveloped rcurccs of "North Carolina as will attract marked atten tion, and induce capital and. labor to come here,! and sec for themtclvcs, the minerals, metals," valuable woods, fci tile lands, wasting watcr-powprs, fruits, llowcn fijdi and game, which abound under our pleasant ami healthful ci mate from the seashore to the moun tains. The occasion will aba be a inoat opportune one fvr softening tiit asper- i ! ' - , '' '' -' : : i the wife of home fed low creature. . Wood Ashes ron Hoes. In these times of cholera every innocent remedy that can be gircn to hogs to keep them in health fcho'hld bo tried. We mako a practice of throwing our ashes into tho hog pastures daily as they aro taken from tho fire-place or stove If hogs are kept penned up, we throw socio ashes into their troughs or into the swill-barrel, and our hogs ncver havo hoil cholera. Whether it is owing to the virtue of tho ashes, or to soma other cause, wo don't know. We seo in some of our exchanges tho tamo rem edy for the discs, where it has appcar ed,recommcnded, aud it is highly spo ken of. It it said this discAMS only oc curs where hogs aro chitCy fed on cont. Farther North, wbre bogs' are fed on eas or small grain, and "where 1 tho swiil-barrcl is largely used iufattenirg tho family supply of lcrk, tliC hoghol era Is unknown, ll.erc is something in our climate or in our feed that can so the disease, and wo mast learn the cause aud avoid it, and learn a remedy when it appears snd uso it, for there will be a loss this yea re a!o&e cf more than $ 1 ,000,000 by hogholcra. This great loss of course will keep up the high price of pork. We hop that if the rea ders of the Rural "Worll have any light to shed on this important qtH-stitm the will not (ail tothedit. Jiural M'oilA
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