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2 SNAKE BITE NO GOOD DRUGGISTS MIST NOT SELL WHISKEY WITHOUT A STATE LICENSE. EXCEPT FOR USE IN SPIRIT LAMPS. At Least That is What Attorney Gen eral Osborne and Treasurer Worth Say About it—The Druggists are Kicking at the Ruling and Protest ing at the Heavy Taxes Imposed upon Them by the Legislature—Fifteen Druggists have Taken out License. It looks now as if the dogs of war will be let slip by the erstwhile peaceful vil lage druggist, and the city druggist too, as for that matter, and no one knows how it will all end. They object to the taxes imposed on them by the last Leg islature and they propose t# tight it out if it takes all summer. The belligerents on both sides are determined and believe their cause is just, a condition of things that usually ends in the complete sub jugation of the vanquished. The druggists feel that they have been made the special objects of persecution in the matter of taxation by the Fusion ists and they don't hesitate to say so. They are holding meetings in all parts of the State and protesting against the clause of the Revenue Act in reference to them and are petitioning the commis sioners in the various counties to relieve them from county taxes on the ground that the taxes imposed by the State alone are exorbitans and more than their busi ness will justify them in paying. While others talk strongly of testing its constitutionality. The matter will also come up for discussion at the State Pharmacists’ convention at Morehead. Section 22 of the Revenue Act provides that “every person who shall buy for the purpose of sell ing spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, drugs and seeds shall in addition to the ad valorem tax on his stock pay as a license tax two per centum on the total amount of his puchase, in or out of the State, for cash or credit, whether such person shall purchase as principal or through an agent or commission mer chant, to be returned and collected as pre scribed in the preceding section; and also all druggists dealing in spirituous, vin ous or malt liquors, shall on or before the first day of June, 1895, and every year thereafter, obtain a license upon payment of SSO to the State Treasurer, and any druggist who allows liquor to be drunk within his place of business shall ,be subjected to all the taxes re quired by dealers in liquors, and any druggist violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided , that this act shall not auth orize any druggist to sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors except upon the prescription of a practicing physician, as now allowed by law.” It will be observed that the druggists are thu3 required to pay a tax ot 4 per cent. (2 per cent, license, and 2 percent. ad valorem to the county) and the town or city allowed to levy another tax equal to that levied by the State which will make druggists subject to a tax of 6 per cent, or 60 time 3 as much as any other mercantile business pays. In addition to thi3 they must, if they sell any spirituous liquors upon physician’s prescription, take out State license at an additional cost of SSO per annum. And it is this latter clause in reference to selling spirituous liquors that has raised the greatest row. For the State Treasurer has decided, upon an opinion rendered by Attorney General Osborne that druggists cannot even fill a physi cian's prescription in which the principal drug is spirituous liquor without taking out a State license. Recently Mr. John R. Smith, of Mt. Olive, wrote to the State Treasurer, ask ing whether he had a right to fill a phy sician’s prescription containing alcohol, whiskey or brandy without taking out State license. Mr. Smith stated in his letter that he had refused to fill a pre scription for an invalid lady for whom doctors, in consultation, had prescribed brandy, and the prescription was writ ten for brandy, compounded with aromat’es, of course brandy being the drug aimed at. In another case he re fused to fill a similar prescription for a child bitten by a rattlesnake, on the ground that in so doing he might vio late the law and involve himself in a suit. Mr. Smith also asked if it were a violation of the law to make emulsion of cod liver oil. The State Treasurer referred this letter to Attorney General Osborne who replied, that “with reference to brandy compounded with aro matics, where it is admitted that brandy is the drug aimed at in the language of the letter, my opinion is a license is re quired by section 22 of Revenue Act of 1895, from the State Treasurer in order that a sale may be legally made “As to the third question with refer ence to emulsions of cod liver oil, my opinion is that no license is required. * “In the first case as brandy is the drug really desired by the purchaser and not the aromatics. It is the same as if pure brandy had been sold. In the other case, brandy is not the drug desired but only a necessary part of the compound.” It must be remembered that to many persons who do not like the atmosphere and associations of the bar-room, drug stores are especially inviting resorts for their usual tipple, while in small villages where local option prevails they are the only oases m the desert— the perennial springs that gush forth from the barren hills, for the healing of the snake bites, cholera morbus and all sorts of ills to w hich the human flesh is heir. But now according to the above decis ion, these fountains must either be dried up or the druggist, who be fore hardly made enough to support his numerous family, must pay the tax of SSO to the State in addition to bis 4 per cent State and oun‘y tax and equally heavy city tax on all drugs and sieis; and even then he can not permit the thirsty victim of snake bite to drink the redolent beverage with in the sacred precincts of his place of business without being subject to all the taxes required of dealers in liquor. This law if enforced, and State Trea; - urer Worth says he will enforce it if there are officers enough in North Caro lina to do it, bids fair to awake a thirst throughout the land that knows no slak ing, save at the moonshiner’s quiet re treat in the dim, unfrequented woods. A drought, a blight, a sirocco of reform, which not the venomous bite of the deadly rattler can relieve, threatens to come upon the land when the beer drinker and the whiskey swiller in the cities and villages will be heard crying for their tipple and will not be comforted. With Kipling they will be saying: “Put me somewhere east of Suez, Where the best is like the worst, And there aint no ten commandments, And a man can raise a thirst.” Or rather that was the prospect until some genius in New Hanover hit upon a substitute for the old time-honored snake bite that will filll all the necessary re quirements, and at the same time evade this wicked law of the Fusionists. And the solution of the problem is so simple that all those who have hitherto been subject to dangerous snake bites are wondering that they had never thought of it before. The solution of the diffi culty came in a letter from the Sheriff of New Hanover county, who begged leave to inquire of the State Treasurer whether “Section 22, of the Revenue Act of 1895, applied to alcohol sold by druggists foi lamps and mechanical purposes, or whether it must be sold only on the pre scription of a practicing physician ?” The letter was referred to the Attorney General, who held that “by Section 22 of the Revenue Act neither the prescription of a physician nor a license is required before a drug gist can legally sell alcohol for lamps and other mechanical purposes. First, as to the prescription of a physician, the only part of the section which could be construed as requiring it is the pro viso: ‘Provided that this act shall not authorize any druggist to sell spiritu ous, vinous or malt liquors, except upon the prescription of a practicing physi cian as cowallowed bylaw.’ This means that whenever the law required the pre scription of a physician before Section 22 was enacted, a 'prescription is now re quired, but when a prescription was not required, then none is required now. In other words, as far as the prescription ot a physician is concerned the law is unchanged by the statute. There never was any law in this State requiring it to legalize the sale of alcohol for lamps or other mechanical purposes. There is, therefore, rone required now. It would be a little singular, to say the least of it, to make it necessary for a doctor to write a prescription for an empty lamp before ODe could buy alcohol enough to fill it. The law can hear no such con struction. “Second, as to the license, the statute reads upon that subject as follows: ‘And also all druggists dealing in spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall, on or be fore the first day of June A. D. 1895, obtain a license upon payment of SSO to the State Treasurer.’ Spirituous liquor here mentioned means liquor used for medical purposes or as a beverage. This is the construction put upon such stat utes by the courts of various States, and is plainly the meaning intended here as will be seen “by, the following clause: ‘And any druggist who allows liquor to be drunk within bis place of business shall be subject to all the tax required by dealers in liquor.’ The words, spirituous liquors are used in this latter clause in the same sense as in the former. Here it uses the words, ‘li quor, to be drunk, and dealers in liquor;’ the last part of the clause refers to such dealers as are mentioned in section 39, ; for we must look to that section to find out the taxes required of them. The dealers of liquor mentioned in Section 33 are those who sell or handle it for drink ing purposes. The proviso also sustains the construction I give the section. It refers to liquor which may be the sub ject of the prescription of a phywjciau, that is, liquor to be used as a medicine. I conclude, therefore, that a license is not required of a druggist to sell alcohol for mechanical purposes as it is not used either as a beverage or a medicine.” Thus it will be seen that the genius of i New Hanover, through the sheriff of his county, has come to the relief of suffer ing, thirsty* humanity, and though the time honored snake bite is a thing of the past and will no longer work, the alco hol lamp, like the fabled lamp of the Genii in the “Arabian Nights,” is to be the open sesame of every drug store in the country. There can be no more use ful article about a household than a spirit lamp or stove for heating all mau ner of things, and high grade whiskey or brandy is said to furnish the best sort ®f fuel for these little generators of heat. llow simple! Though the antiqnated snakebite has been abolished the new and brighter era of the lamp has been inaugurated and drug stores can go on keeping and selling spintuoas liquors without license and thirsty mortals continue to refresh themselves, but without temporarily suf fering from some fatal malady. Though there are nearly 400 druggists in the State only the following fifteen have yet taken out State license to sell whiskey: Raysor & Smith, Asheville; Hicks <k Rogers, Raleigh; W. C. Lank ford, Wake Forest; Lexington Drug Co., Lexington; Wynne &i Birdsong, Raleigh; W. O. Carmichael, Asheville; J. P. Bted man, Oxford; Ashcraft & Owens, Win ston; Burwell <te Dunn, Charlotte; Rem A Robertson, Charlotte; J. G. Hall, Ox ford: T. E. Holding, Wake Forest; Geo. D. Kverington, Laurinburg; W. L. Fields, Louis Walker & Co., Milton. It will be observed that only two drug stores in Raleigh have taken out license. The others declare that their business will not justify the payment of the tax. The druggists of the city now have a pe tition before the 1 oard of county conv missionere asking to be relieved from the County taxes. Hick Headaches Cared. HendEuSON, N. 0., June IT, 1895 -1 have suffered very much with sick head ache for the last two years. I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla this spring and I have not had a sick spell since. Before I began using Hood’s Sarsaprilla I had one every two weeks. E. Marvin Hight. Hood's Pills ture biliousness. The News and Observer, Wednesday, July 3, 1895 Beyond Description Intense Suffering With Muscular Rheumatism. “I hereby certify that for seven years 1 was troubled with my knee. 1 used pre scriptLua and liui:.K-;n, but all /'f to 110 purpose. ft /,i y, Tha t rou Lie kept Ml growing worse Ms iHi and - 0 j° iat ® \t } , \ L’> My knee became \y p), ’ almost stiff and V ,’sl pained me bo I 7 <’ u’.d net rest *> ’ '?■ &»: and night. I l: . find to use -• . Crtstches it times and of* stror Xe:>. ten u would seem asif I v.oc;d have to b.’.c my leg ampu tated as th- pain be. almost unendur able. I E'.: rfeivd hey.••ml description. Fi nally, 1- : i.>g of Hood's Fa saparitla I coF.-i to iry it. Aft'-r I had taken one hot lln I ftii much better and after Inking ri c al bottles can truthfully say I am well, fifty Rr-ee Has Been Cured and i hat I can walk and go around a. well j as any one of my age. lam years old and work ray farm, and my ability to do eo 1 attribute to the beneficial effects of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, i advise ail who are afflicted with rheun a i n in any form to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” KzHA BEN EDICT, Siromsburgh, Nebraska, f lood’s Sarsa \„ £ partita Be sure to get j HOOD'S. Wr : V^ easy to buy, easy to take, * »ouU is k tilo easy ia effect. 26c. PARK HOTEL, Raleigh, N. C. O The undersigned have recently pur chased the above property, believing that auch a hotel in the capital city of the State is enough needed to be worth being well kept and vigorously pushed. Mr. Crawford, former steward of the hotel, is in charge for ns. We desire to assure the public through this notice that we are behind him, and that.noth ing will be spared on our part, or his, to give you the best service possible at reasonable prices. Such changes will from time to time be made as are found necessary for the convenience and comfort of its guests. Soliciting the public patronage upon no other ground than merit, we are PAGE LUMBER COMPANY ABERDEEN. N. O. NO REASON Why anyone should use a Thermometer That is not accurate. The only reason we can think of, is that a stock of Tested Thermometers has never been kept in the olty. We have bought a good stock of aeen rate ones and sell at able prices. Thos.H. Briggs &Sorc!» Raleigh, N. C. HOLLINS INSTITUTE BOTETOURT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA. If’or 175 Young Lady Hoarder*. Th« oldert and most oitonsirely eqniupod in Virginia. Eclectic course* in Ancient and .Modern l.unguuirs literature, Science*) Muhlc» Art and Elo rdtdon. 30 officers end teachers. Situated in Valley of Va.. near Roanoke. Mountain Neenyry. 130 U feet above sea lure). Mineral Watere. 63d eeaeion op«n» Sept 11th, I>*s. For illnu. Catalogue addrees CM AN. 1,. COCK K, Na.pt., lfiulllno, Va. A Teacher Wanted. To lease the Itockingham Academy, Richmond county, C., beginning with next fall session. Applications, &c., must tie in the hand? of the undersigned by July Ist, '95, when the election will lye held. H. S. Ledbetter, Treanureix K. E. & L. Asso’n. JAMES E SHEPHERD. CHAS. M. BUSBEE. PERRIN BUSBEE. SHEPHERD A. BUSBEE, ATTOKNBYS AT LAW, Pullen Building, Raleigh, N. C., Practice In State and Federal Courts and wherever their services may be desired. WE SELL North Carolina Patent flour. Farina Wills. Raleigh, as Fine as the Finest. RECEIVED TO-DAY, One thousand pounds of choice Virginia Hams. WE are just receiving new packing North Carolina Roe and Cut Herrings put up expressly to our order. Everything in Stable and Fancy Groce ries, carefully’put up promptly delivered. Telephone 88. J. R. Ferrail & Co., GROCERS. F B. BAB.BYE <*. A. rHOMF3Of BARBEE l THOMPSON. Cotton Buyers, MEMBERS OF THE RALEIGH CO7~Q EXCHANGE. Raleigh, M. C C xhle Address--BARBET Notice. Valuable Land for Sale As executors of I*. C. Cameron, the un dersigned wiU, cn Friday, July 26th, 1895- ai the court house, door in the citv of Ral eigh, sell to the highest bidder for cash at public auction, the following valuable real estate situate in the city of Raleigh, fo wl t: One lot lying on the south side of Martin street beginning at the northwest corner of the H. Adams lot on Martin street, thence along the south line of said street westward I y thirty one (31) feet to the centre of the wall oi the store on J. R. Williams’ lot, thence southwardly parallel to Wilmington street one hundred and twenty feet, thence eastward parallel to Martin street thirty-one (31) feet to the corneroftbe Den H. Adams lot, thence northwardly along the line of said Adams lot to the beginning. One lot bounded- on the north by Market street, on the east-by lot of W. H. Holloman, on the south by Martin street and on the west by Citizen’s National Hank building and the lots of M H. Brown and W. H. Holloman, one other lot at the Inter-section of Jones and Mc- Dowell streets fronting southward seventy (70) feet on Jones street and bounded on the west by McDowell street, on the north by lot of J. Matthews, on the east by lot ot Mrs. Jordan and on south by Jones street, containing sixi h of an acre more or less. The buildings and improvements on said lots will be sold with the lots. The first two lots will be sold under a mortgage deed executed by George T. Stronach and wife, Martha E. Stronach, to P. C. Came ron and registered in book 79, page 716 of public Register’s office for Wake county, and the last lot under a mortgage deed to P. C. C iineron executed by E. J. Hardin and wife, Sophy L. Hardin, and registered in book 96 page 306 This June 24th, 1895. ANNE CAMERON, JOHN W. GRAHAM, B. CAMERON, R. B. PEEBLES, Executors of P. C. Cameron. VALUABLE Policy of Insurance FOR SALE. By virtue of a judgment of the Superior court of Wake county, rendered on the 27tli day < f March- 1895, in the case of Al fred Williams against John R. Terrell, being Judgment Roll No 6111, of said court, and docketed in Judgment Docket No 8, page 44. and as assignee of John R. Terrell, I will offer for s-rie to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, at the county court house coor, in the city of Ral eigh, N. C., on the 30th day of July, 1895. policy No 179.607 of “The Connecticut Mu tual Life Insurance Company” for one thousand dollars on life of John R Terrell, This jxdicy is a fifteen (15) year endowment Insurance Policy; is dated March 10, 1894 and all premiums on the same up to date have been paid. A. W. HAYWOOD, Commissioner. A. W. HAYWOOD Assignee of John R. Terrell. SCE. Wo again offer from the „ Raleigh Crystal Ice Factory Ice of best quality and at lowest prices, in Raleigh and to near-by railroad points, Ice now ready for delivery in any quan tity. Jones & Powell. Pocahontas Steam Coal is ahead of all others in quality and prices. Jones & Powell, Raleigh Agents. For Grain, Hay, Mill feed, Shingles, Laths, Etc., call on JONES & POWELL, RALEIGH. N. O. 1875 1894 E. F. WYATT & SON, Sncftilery and Hat res Manufacturers. TWENTY YEAfTS OF SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS. I i BECAUSE OF HONEST WORK OUUwtwOrUL AND HONEST DEALING, Lap Rsbss, Stora* Blankets and Turf Goods. • tnv tjNXJrd i- e begin another autumn nuu-on and ask for the continued patron ags of ohr friends end the public Our specialty Is in making COLIAJRS for wholesale and retail trade and we defy •I! o '‘•ore.r-t horns or Abroad, in this or any other department of our bnsineaa E. F. WYATT & SON 103 East Martin St. Ralolgh, N. C. THE SALISBURY LIQUOR COMPANY Successors to the J. B. LANIER COMPANY DISTILLERS! JOBBERS ()F Pure North Carolina WHISKEY AND BRANDY. FINE OLD CORN WHISKEY A SPECIALTY. W. L. RANKIN, Manager. SALISBURY, N. C. H. MAHLER, Silversmith and Manufacturing Jeweler, Sterling Silver Goods. Guaranteed ,000 Manicure Sets, Pen Wipers, Silver Novelties, Tie Holders, Combs, Emery Balls, Paper Cutters, Belts, Match Box est. Ladies’ iShirt Waist Sets, Goar Hangers, Lock Bracelets, Garters, Sleeve Links, Button Hooks, Books Marks, Scissors,- Belt Pins, Hat Pius. 0 I also have the largest and best selected stock of table and case goods to be found in the city. No extra charge for engraving, LINCOLN f ITHIA WATER For the cure of all diseases I BOTTLED AT of the KIDNEYS, BLADDER 1 |THE LINCOLN LITHIA SPRINGS and URINARY PASSAGES. JUJf LINCOLNTON, N. C. Linc lnton, N. 0., April 3,1893. The Lincoln Lithia Water Co.: Miss suffered the most excruciating headaches caused by uric acid, and finally had attacks of renal colic; the attacks were very violent. After keeping the system impregnated with LINCOLN LITHIA WATER some months she was cured and now her life is a pleasure to her: before a torture. Miss bad about one year ago a violent attack of gastritis; following this was catarrh of stomach and bowels. She could not take a drink of water without causing uneasiness, an I sometimes violent ptin, until I placed her upon the L’neoln Lithia Water, which she took in large quantity without causing any pain. Her mqirov meet began at once, and continued steadily. She is now enjoy ing good health. Yours tru’y, * e THOS. F. COSTNEB, M. D. For sale by druggists generally. Price per case of one dozen half gallon bot tles |5.00; 50c. per bottle. “LINCOLN LITHiA INN’’ ° pen a " ,he y **£b.£,'BintS” lnaU 1,5 For pamphlet coutaini g full information apply to THE LINCOLN LITHIA WATER CO., Lineolnton, N. C. Sato cf Valuable City Property. By virtue of a decree of Wake Fupericr ! Court, made Juoe 10th, 1895, in the special proceedings entitled D E. Everett execu tor of J. C. Brewster and Delia S. Brews ter, and Mamie B. Terrell et. als.. 1 will sell at the court house door in Raleigh, N. C., on Monday, July 22n<l, 1895, atl2 o’clock m., at public outcry, to the highest bidder, a certain parcel or lot of land described as follows, to-wit.: situated in the city of Bal eigh on Newbera avenue, beginning at a point on the southern side of Newbern avenue 211 teet fr< m ‘ts intersection with Bloodworth street at the northwest corner of a lot sold to J D. Whitaker by A G I.ee and wife and and by said Whitaker to P. C. Walker and running thence south ward at right angles with said Newbern avenue 210 feet to Morgan street; thence westward with Morgan street 53 feet to the Bradley and Christopher corner, thence northward at right angles with Morgan street 210 feet to Newbern avenue, thence enrtward with Newbern avenue to the be ginning, containing about one-fourth of an acre and being the lot of land conveyed to Delia S. Brewster by A. G. Lee and wlfeby a deed recorded in office of Register of Deeds of Wake county in book 45 page 349. Terms of sale one third cash t balance in two equal payments in six and nine months; deferred payment to interest at six percent and titled reserved until the last payment is made. ‘ ALEX STRONACH, Commissoner. June 19th, 1895. BARNES’ PRINTING OFFICE IN NOW IN THE Academy of Music. o - It is to YOUR interest to know wnor? WE are First-Class Commercial Work at mod erate prices. We respectfully ask a share of the put lie patronage. Barnes Bros., Raleigh N. C. HOW IS THIS? The Spectator of (of N Y) tables for 1835 have appealed, showing the rate of interest earned by the 27 lerding life insurance companies They ihnw that the Union Central Life Insurance Co., of Cincinnati, 0., raiio for 1804 is 7.01 per cent, against 566 per cent, the highest of any or,her com pany, and 4 39 per cent, the general aver age This is an extraordinary showing for the Union Central, being 1 35 per cent above the ratio of any other company. That is to say, on an equal amount of money invested the Union Central earns as much as the best of the other companies and nearly one fourth more Extending the comparison for twenty years, from 187 > to 1894, the average of the Union Central for all that time is 666 against 6 53, the highest of any other com pany, and 5.58 the general average. The Union Central average percent of death claims for thirteen years, compared to mean amount of insurance in force, has been 01>3, or 65 cents for each hundred dol lars iusurCtl. The iowest aver ge of any other company has been 0 78 and the high est 3:10 The average of the twenty four other last companies has been I t 6, The above are the vital potnts of man agement iu a life insurance company, and from the actual records we can giant all aDy other company claims and still have a margin left in our favor. The results of high interest and low death rates are for the btuefitof the in sured. By hese excessive virtues the old Union Central (now with mo e than $13,- 500,000 assets) has been for over eight years paying the full face of their policies to those who Insured with us from 18 to 34 years ago, though they paid us but the same premium usually collected for a pol icy payable only at death. We paid over $135,000 in 1894 to the living holders of these policies, so we have thoroughly de inonstiated that you do not have to “die to win” a cheap life rate policy with the Union Central, though our rivals for 15 years claimed it could not be done 1># T any company. No company excels the liberality of our policy contract as to cash at your com mand, paid-up policy, extended insurance, etc. There Is no lestriction as to residence or travel. State age and write for cost, etc. Agents wanted for impoitant fields. CAREY J HUNTER, Snpt Va and N C, Raleigh, N C Ladies who value a refined complexion must use Poasowi’a Powdbb. It produces a soft and beaptiffcil ■kin.
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