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2 RAILROADS MUSI FACE THE ISSUE (Continued From First Page.) of the plaintiff, or of any of said com plaining railroads or telegraph companies aforesaid, was in excess of its true value, or at a higher rate than the in dividual property of the State is as sessed for like purposes. That it is not true, as alleged by the plaintiff and the other complaining rail roads and telegraph companies, that there has grown up in North Carolina a well recognized and established rule and system to assess for taxation all property other than railroad pnoperty at from 50 per cent to 00 per cent of its true value in money, or at less than its true value in mouey. Nor is it true that property in North Carolina other than railroad property is syste matically, intentionally designedly and arbitrarily assessed at such undervalues by the local county boards of assessors, nor that any rule of intentional under valuation prevails generally through out the State. That it is not true that any such rule or system of reduction or under valuation was applied in the assessment of individual property for taxation un der the Act of the Legislature of 1899 made during the month of June. That they are informed and believe that as a whole, the individual property of the State was honestly assessed by the local Board of Assessors in the several counties of the Stare, as re quired by law, at approximately its true value in money on the first day of June, without any purpose or Intent to discriminate against any class of prop erty, or without any purpose of reducing the proportionate burdens of the expen ses of the State government which each particular county would have to bear. That they deny that it was the pur pose or intent of the Legislature of North. Carolina of 1899, in providing ■and prescribing methods for the assess ment of railroad property and other classes of property, to encourage or pro cure railroad property .to be assessed at a greater relative value than other property of the State, or to Impose upon railroad property of the State more than its fair proportion of the burdens of taxation. That it is not true that an honest ap plication of the different method’s pre scribed by said Legislature for assessing different kinds of property, or that the method applied by the Corporation Com mission in valuing the railroad property of the State, does in fact result in tax ing'railroad property partially, unfairly and unjustly, and in violation of any principle of the Constitution and Laws either of North Carolina or the United States. On the contrary, they submit •that an examination of the several acts of said Legislature with reference to the appraisement and valuation of all kinds of property, liotli private and corporate, will show that it was the purpose of said Legislature to secure a fair, just and equal valuation for taxation of all classes and kinds of property according to its true value in money. In confirmation of this statement, the} not only call attention of the court to the provisions of said several acts of said legislature, requiring assessors of hoth private and corporate property to consider all facts and circumstances which might aid them in arriving at the true money value of property; but they call the attention of the court to th« stringent oaths prescribed l by said legis lature for local assessors, leoth at the time they enter upon the discharge of their duties and when they tile their final assessment with the appropriate officer, as well as the act of the said Legislature, directing the said Corpora tion Commission to so assents railroad property as to require it to hear its share of the burdens of taxation. And they submit to the court that it is apparent from these several provisions that it was the purpose and intent of the Legislature to secure an equal and uniform valuation of all kinds of prop erty ui>on the basis of its true value. In refutation of the suggestion made by the plaintiffs and the other com plaining roads aforesaid, that the legis lature and executive branches of the gov ernment,as well as the general public wel know of an established rule of reduction in the valuation of individual property, and well know that railroad property was valued in excess of its actual value, they call the attention of the court to the act of the Legislature afore '■* said, providing for the revision and re assessment of railroad property, in which the said Legislature inferrential ly, at least, expressed the opinion of that laxly, that railroad property, as then assessed, did not bear Ws fair pro portion of the burdens of taxation, and 'directed the Corporation Commission to .so increase such assessments where i such increase was justified, as would make each part and parcel of railroad property in the State bear its fair pro portion of the burdens of taxation. And they say that this expression ‘of opinion and direction on "the part of the Legis / lature was not a result of any purpose or design on (lie part of that body to cause the railroad property to be as sessed relatively higher tnan other prop erty, hut was an expression of an opin ion which prevailed generally .among the people that railroad property was not valued relatively as high as the Other property of the State. That it is true that they, ns said Cor poration Commission, increased the as sessed valuation of the property of the plaintiff and of some of the other com plaining railroads and the Telegraph Company.* But it is also true, as they are informed and believe, that there has Ix-en a substantial increase of the as sessment of the individual property in the State. In some sections this in crease of individual property has been very marked, and with slight local ex ceptions, has been, general throughout the State. It is true that the ratio of increase of railroad property lias been greater than that of individual property. But it is also true, as they verily believe, from the best information they have been able to obtain, that while individ ual property was assessed at its full value for the previous year, that rail road property of (lie State was assessed • before the said increase far below its value. It is also true (hat while the increase in the income bearing capacity and net earnings of railroads has been rapid during the last eighteen months, there has been but slight, if any, increase in the income 1 tearing capacity and on pet receipts of a large proportion of individual proi*erty, especially farming property. Indeed, during the last eight or ten years there has been a heavy fall in the price of the staple products of the farms of the State, such as corn, cotton, tobacco, etc. But during all the years of this depreciation in farm products the valuations of farm property for taxation have not, as a whole, been reduced. That the increase, both in the net income and market value of railroad stocks and bond® have been rapid and pronounced during the"past twelve or eighteen months, as will Ik* shown by exhibit hereto attached, marked “A,” and made a part of this affidavit. That it is not true that the valuation placed upon the property of the plaintiff and the other complaining railroads and the said Telegraph Company by the Cor poration Commission in their assess ment made in June, 1899, is in excess of the true value of said properties re spectively in money; nor that said valu ations were made with a knowledge of any rule of reduction or undervaluation of the individual property of the State; nor that the said valuation is at a high er rate than the valuation of other prop erty of the State. That in fixing the assessment of the property of the plaintiff and the other complaining railroads, and the said Telegraph Company they desired and endeavored to he fair and liberal, and to resolve all doubts in their favor, and gave tnenii the benefit of every fact and circumstance which, in their opinion, was reasonably calculated to impair the money value of the said properties. That valued upon the basis of the funded debt and capital stock of the said roads and Telegraph company, the valuations of the property of the said roads and telegraph company would have Wen much higher than that placed upm them respectively. That valued upon the basis of the net income of said railroads and telegraph company for the fiscal year ending June, 1899, the valuation of the plaintiff’s property in North Carolina, and that of many of the other complaiuing railroads and the said telegraph company, would have been much higher than the valua tion placed upon it respectively. That valued upon the basis of the cost of construction, with a low valua tion of their intangible property, (based upon the income or market value of bonded debt and capital stock) the valu ation of the plaintiff and that of the other complaining mads, would have been much higher. That a valuation of the plaintiff’s property in this State on the basis of the number of miles of its road in this State, in proportion to the total mileage in the country at large, (ascertaining the value of its entire complaint as a unit upon the basis of the value of its bond ed indebtedness and capital stock) would have been much higher than the valua tion placed upon it. In confirmation of all of which they respectively submit to the court the data, memoranda and calculations taken from the Report of the several railroads to the Corporation Commission hereto annexed, marked “Exhibit Nos. 1 to 27 inclusive, which is hereby re ferred to and made a part of this affidavit. That in valuing the plaintiff’s property and that of the other complaining rail roads, they did not adopt separately or independently either .one of the afore said tests, which would have resulted in a much higher assessment of its prop erty than that actually made as their guide or criterion, but they endeavored to be fair and liberal to the said rail roads in their assessment, and to fix the same upon consideration of all the facts and circumstances which it. was proper for them to consider in arriving at u basis of fair valuation, and which they were directed to consider by law, and with due reference ami regard to all the facts and circumstances known to them, concerning the methods and standards which prevailed in valuing proi>erty for taxation, and in compliance with the law requiring them to ascertain and fix the value of railroad property on a given day, to-wit: The first day of June, a time of the year when pov erty generally brings its lowest value. And they honestly, and to the best of their ability, sought in making said valuation, to he fair and just to the railroads and the public, and'to fix a valuation that would inqxise upon them only their fair proportion of the burdens of taxation. They deny utterly that the valuations so made, discriminate against said com plainants or any of them in favor of any other class or species of property. On (he contrary, the investigations which they have made, and the facts which have been disclosed by reason of tlie above entitled action and the other said actions against the Corporation Commis sion and others, ns to the methods and basis of valuations of railroad properly, competent in other States and approved by the courts of last resort, have led them to greatly fear that the properties of said railroads and said telegraph company, as a whole, are still assessed upon a lower rate than that at which the other property of the State is valued. That they verily believe that the proi>- erty of the plaintiff, and that of the other complaining roads, and that of the telegraph company could he readily sold in open market for much more than the sums, respectively, at which they have assessed them. That in assessing the rolling stock and the other tangible personal property of the plaintiff and: the aforesaid com plaining railroads, they adopted the valuation placed thereon by the plain tiff and the other said railroads, re spectively. That they hereto attach the statement made from the reports of the said rail road companies, respectively to the Cor poration Commission, purporting to be true statements of the value of the ar ticles of rolling stock therein mentioned, marked “Exhibit C,” and made a part of this affidavit, showing the valuations placed, as aforesaid, by the plaintiff and (he other roads mentioned an said state ment on that part of their rolling stock represented by locomotives, passenger, freight and box cars. That they are informed and believe that new locomotives or engines of the class used by the plaintiff, and the Wil mington, and Weldon Railroad and the Raleigh and Gaston Itailroad Company, Seat-board and Roanoke Railroad Com pany, and some of (he other roads on their main lines, cost, when new, be tween SIO,OOO and $15,000 each, and that Ik»x cars of the class so used cost, when new, between S4OO and SSOO, and that fiat cars so used, cosi. when new, about two-thirds as much as box cars; and that first-class passenger cars, such as are so used, cost, when new, between SO,OOO and SB,OOO each. That they are informed and believe THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 14, 1899. that railroads of the class of the phi n tiff and many of the other Complaining railroads maintain their rolling stock a” all times at a high standard of repair and efficiency; and they, therefore as sert with much confidence that the said railroads have no cause to complain Os the valuation made by themselves upon their rolling stock, and that the same is at a rate at least as low .as that at which the personal property of the private citi zens of the State, who likewise generally assess their personal property, is valued for taxation. And they verily believe that, the same is at a less rate than that at which individual personal property is assessed. That with reference to the allegations in the bill of sonic of the complaining railroads aforesaid, that the fanning lands of the State, comprising 28,(HH),<miO acres, were assessed at $110,000,000, with a yielding capacity of from $50,- 000,000 to $00,000,000, while the prop erty of railroads is assessed at $44,009,- 000, they respectfully show to the court, that the gross earnings of the railroads in North Carolina for the year ending June 30, 1898, aggregated $11,542,318. while the net earnings of said railroads for the same period aggregated $4,147,- 908, or more than one-third of the gross earnings. That it is submitted that when you take into consideration the cost of fertili zer, team, farming implements, etc., the immense number of persons employed annually in earning the estimated yield of farm lands, that the gross income from said lands will show that after al lowing these deductions and fair wages to those engaged as laborers directly and indirectly in farming, that there will be very little left to represent the in come of the capital invested in the lands themselves. That as pertinent to the question of the increase in the value of railroad property in North Carolina since the as sessment for taxation in 185)8, they re spectfully show to the court, as they are informed and believe, that the capital stock of the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad sold in open market in the year 1898, at 13c in the dollar; that said stock is now worth in open market 50e in the dollar. That the capital stock of the Italcigh and Gaston Railroad Com pany sold in open market in 1898, at from 30e. to 37c. in the dollar; that it is now worth 80c. in the dollar; that the Seaboard and Roanoke Company’s stock from market quotations shows $1.90 bid for preferred stock and $2.25 asked. January, 1899. the common stock of the last named railroad company was quot ed at $1.25. January 7th. 1899, common stock was quoted at $2.00. North Caro lina railroad stock in 1898, sold m open market at $1.15; it is now worth in open market from $1.55 to $1.(50. That the stock of the Atlanta and Charlotr» rail road was worth in open market in 1898, $1.10; it is now worth hi open market sl.lß. That the preferred stock of the Southern Railway was worth in 1898, in open market, 35c. in the dollar; it is now worth in open market 55c. in the dollar. That the common stock of the Southern Railway was worth in 1898, in oj»en market Bc. in the dollar; it is now worth 13c. in the dollar. As tending to show the value of the proiierty of the Southern Railway tin* basis of its funded indebtedness and capital stock, upon a calculation hasisl upon its miles of road in North Caro lina as compared with its total mileage, they respectfully show to the court: That as shown from its reports for the year 185)5), its funded debt amounts to $103,932,300 That its common stock out standing is 120,000,000 Its preferred stock, out standing, is 00,000,000 Outstanding securities of lease hold estates, upon which the Southern Rail way pays interest in form of rentals 21,508,000 Equipment notes 239,5)5)1 Certificates of indebted ness 2,950,000 Mortgages on real estate.. 58,000 Total value of all lines of Southern Railway on stock and bond basis, esti mated preferred stock tit soc. on the dollar, and common stock at 15c. in the dollar 128,(588,291 North Carolym’s proportion thereof 3(5,388,130 The total assessment of the Southern for taxation for the year beginning June 30. 1899, is only 15,270,813 This calculation is made upon the basis of a total mileage in the country at large, and a- total mileage in North Carolina of 193 miles. The assessment made in June, 1899. upon the North Carolina Mid brad and the S-tate University road is the same as that made in 1898. That after they bad assessed for taxation the property of the plaintiff and the other complain ing roads and the said telegraph com pany, they caused- notice to he served upon each of them to appear before the Railroad Commission and show cause, if any they hadT why said assessment was not just, equal, fair and as required by law. That in pursuance of said notice on the day fixed therein, representatives of the plaintiff and all of the said complain ing railroads and the said telegraph com pany appeared l>efore them, sitting as the North Carolina Corporation Com mission, and they gave to each off them full opportunity to he heard nnd to in troduce evidence, and to show such cause as they had why said -assessment should not stand ns made. And after hearing such evidence and arguments as was respectively submitted by the said roads and telegraph company, they reduced the valuation placed upon the Atlantic and Yadkin railroad, and declined to reduce the assessments made against the other said roads and telegraph company. That neither the plaintiff nor any of the said complaining railroads nor the telegraph company have applied for any writ or writs of certiorari for the purpose of obtaining a review of the assessment so made by them as the said Corpora tion Commission. PR A X KI A X M ’ NBI LL, E. C. BEDDING El ELD, S. L. ROGERS. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9th day of September, 1899. W. M. RUSS, Clerk Superior Court and ex-Officio Notary Public. TIIE A. & X. C. INJUNCTION GRANTED. Judge Si moil ton grants the injunction CASTORIA For In*ants and Children Ihe Kind You Hate Always Bought asked for by the president of the A. I and N. ( . U. R,, through Messrs. W. E. ( lark, Frank Thompson and Owen 11. Onion, attorneys for the road, and will name a time and place where they will be heard in their application for a permanent injunction restraining the State Treasurer. State Auditor, and the tax officers of the counties, cities, towns and townships along the line of their roads from collecting the tax levied by the Corporation Commission. In their complaint, which is very long and em braces much that is in the complaint of the other roads, it is set forth that in 1898 all property in (he State, other than railroad property, was assessed at $239,000,000 while the railroad property was assessed at $33,000,000 and now $44,000,000. The fanning lands of the State, 28,000,000 acres, were, ns it is informed and believed assessed at sllO,- 000,000 with a yielding capacity of from $50,000,000 )•> $00,000,000. Tin* Corporation Commission assessed the property at $734,330.08, and the complaint recite* that "said sum is more than the actual casii value of said property,” and that “then* is a well recognized, custom to assess? all property (and specially farming lands) at eumddernbly less than its actual cash value, to-wll: at from 50 to 00 and 75 per cent of (heir actual value. That the a,' >i meiil in 1898 was $551,440. In fits eider, Judge Simonton restrains all State, county, city, town and town fhi|.s officers from collecting the tax on the assessment of 1899 until a bear ing, and the A. and X. C. R. It., is ordered to “pay to the proiter officers of tin* Stale, counties, cities ami towns at the times, prescribed by law. taxes for 185)9 on the basis of the assessment of 185)8. F. L. MERRITT. COLORED BAPTISTS CONVENE. Nashville, Tcnn., Sept. 33. —The Na tional Colored Bnirtist Convention met in its nineteenth annual session in this city today. Fully 1,500 delegates repre senting nearly every State in the Union were present. An address of welcome was delivered by Governor McMillin. TEL EG ItA PM IC BRIEFS. One new case of fever at Mississippi City. Fourth re-union of the Tyler family in Richmond yesterday. The bark Trojan given up as lost is at San Juan de Porto Rico. Report of tin wiping out of Foureau- Gamy mission said to be a canard. First meeting of the new American Baseball Association next Sunday and Monday. Abraham Greenewald, formerly one of Richmond's most, prominent merchants, is dead, aged 5)5 years. Telegrams front different points show* no abatement in the agitation to boy cott the I’uris Exposition. Morong. on Laguna de Bay has been abandoned by the American troops be cause of its mi healthiness. The funeral of Cornelius Vanderbilt will be held at 10 o’clock tomorrow at St. Bartholomew’s church, New York. A mother and her two sons were mur dered by three unknown men with hatchets, near Pleasanton, Texas, yes terday. The Poe Memorial Association of the University of Virginia, on the seventh of October will unveil Zoluay’s bust of the poet. The new White Star steamship, Oceanic, the largest vessel afloat, reach ed New York yesterday, coming from Queenstown. National Council of Red Men decide to care for orphans and widows of their members through a per capita tax of 5 cents a year on members. Yesterday Senator Platt’s son, asked by the Mazet Investigating Committee how much stock he held in the New York City Trust Company, replied: “It is none of your business.” The Secretary of the Treasury has decided in view of the money stringency in New York to anticipate the October interest. This will amount to $5,55X5,- 52(5, and is due on the four per cents of 1907. First authentic news of the disaster to the Jessie party of 14 persons who perished in Alaska in June, 185)8, luas been received at St. Michaels. It is stated that they were not murdered, as was supposed. The War Department lias been in formed that the steamer Tartar which is returning to the United.' States, from Manila with a large number of sol diers on Ivonrd, has been detained at Hong Kong by the local authorities because she is overloaded. The matter had been referred to Ambassador Choate. The contention of the War De partment is that notwithstaudinjf the Tartar Hies the British hug, being chartered by the United States Govern ment. the assumption of British author ity over her Ls unauthorized. A dispatch from London states that it was not the intention of the British Government to tie the Transvaal down to a time limit of forty-eight hours In which to answer England’s last note. The only part which is at ali aggressive is the reiterated declination of the Brit ish Government to discuss the matter of sovereignty in any shape or form. It is rejmrted that the Transvaal has an offer from New York of 10.(MM) Irish men to volunteer in case of war. The Irish of the Raad have formed to help Kruger. The President ami the Exe cutive Council have met to consider Great Britain’s note. A woman who lias been abroad many times is never popular with women who haven’t bee® abroad at all. The lack of money is the root of a groat many evils. Those who read us like a ’book are generally holding it nijnside down. Bears the Big, r re ON THE DIAMOND. NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 13.—The Phil les made enough errors to lose two ordi nary games, but Cleveland failed to profit thereby, owing to their inability to hit. Attendance, 2.195. Score: Philadelphia ..5000 21 0 0 x—B 12 7 Cleveland .. ..000001001—2 7 0 Batteries: Donahue and 'Douglass; Wilson and Sugden. Umpires, Snyder anld McGarr. Time, 1:50. Baltimore. Md., Sept. 13.—Baltimore won a double-header from Louisville to day. Woods, bad the Orioles shut out until the eighth inning of tflie first game, but three singles and a base on balls gave thorn three runs and victory. The locals won all the way in the second contest. Attendance, 1,995. Score: First game— Bn It i more 0000 00 0 3 x-3 8 3 Louisville .. ..200000000—2 7 9 'Batteries: MeGinirwty and Smith: Woods and Zimmer. Time, 1:40. Second game— Baltimore ...40001 120 x—B 13 1 Tyouisville . . ..000022 0 0 0-4 112 Batteries: Nops and Robinson; Philip pi ami Zimmer. Umpires, Betts and Dwyer. Time, 2:00. (Boston, Mass., Sept. 13.—(Boston took a double-header from St. Louis today. Boston tried out two new men. Sullivan and Kuhns. Both did well. The second game was called at tin* end of the sixth. Attendance. 5,500. Score: First game— Boston 0300 21 0 0 x—G 0 1 St. Louis .. ..00 002 000 1 3 5) 3 'Batteries: I/ewis and Sullivan; Voting and Schreek. Time, 1:51. Second game— Boston 0000 1 4 —5 8 1 St .Louis 0000 0 3-3 5 3 (Batteries: Bailey and Bergen; Sudhoff. and Schreek. Umpires, tManassau and ■ Connolly. Time. 1:25. : Washington. Sept. 13.-'McGee was i easy for the Iteds m the first game today ■ and aided by bases on balls and errors i they waltzed off with the victory. In tile » second the Senators bunched hits on Frisk .in the fourth inning and secured a lead whi<h Oimanual* could not over come in the sixth innings played before darkness set in. Attendance, 2,400. I Score; First game— Washington ..001 0 1200 0— 4 11 3 O wrinmuti 210004 02 5-14 15 0 (Batteries: McGee and Kittridge; Brci tenstein and I’eitz. Time 2:35. , Second game— Washington 1 004 1 o—o 71 Cincinnati 200 001—3 7 2 Batteries: F’field and Roach; Frisk and Kaihoe. Umpire. Latham. Time. 1:39. New York, Sept. 13.—The game today was a farce after the third inning. Mni larkv, late of the Washington Club, did not prove a puzzle for the New Yorks. . Seymour was effective throughout. At tendance. 300. Score: New York ..0 01001 20 0 o—l 319 8 Chicago .. ..11 00 0 0000— 2 71 Batteries: Seymour ami Warner: Mol larkev and Donahue. U moires, O’Day and ’McDonald. Time. 2:00. Brooklyn. N. Y., Sept. 13. —With one run scored, three of tin* P’ttsburgs >n bases, and only one out in rite ninth inning today Swartwood called the game on account of darkness. The score therefore, reverted to the eighth inning, ami Pittsburg was euchred out of a hot finish. The visitors were partly tc blame, as they delayed matters by inde cision as to whether Jcover should but or not. Sparks pitched great ball until the eighth and then weakened. 1141 kept his hits scattered. Attendance. 2.200. Score: Brook Ivn 000 00 1 3 o—4 7 2 Pittsbnrs 0010 02 0 o—3 9 1 Batteries: 1141 and McGuire: Sparks. Leever and Bewerman. Umoires. Swartwood and Hunt. Time, 2:23. DEATH CAUSED BY HER PET. Miss Alice Knott Asphyxiated by Her Parrot. (Washington Post.) There were things uncanny and un paralleled about the sad death from as phyxiation" yesterday of Miss Alice Knott, at 803 Twelfth street northwest. She was killed by a parrot, a little, evil eyed. green thing, that cannot speak a word or fly a yard, but has learned the malicious trick of turning on gas. Hating the rest of the world with a spite that makes its eyes gjeam and its sharp lieak spread threateningly tit the approach of all hut its late mistress, this parrot followed Miss Knott from floor to floor ami from room to room with a ■constancy and affection remark able in a bird of its ugly nature. This parrot turned on flu* gas in Miss Knott’s room early yesterday morning while she lay sleeping, and the young woman was suffocated. She w>ns found dead about 1 o’clock yesterday after noon. and the bird that had brought its mistrees to an untimely end lay half suffocated at the foot of the door, in stinctively seeking tin* fresh air that reached the death-laden room through that aperture only. I)r. Wade H. At kinson. of 805 Twelfth street, was called in as soon as Miss Knott’s condition was discovered, but he found the young wo man quite dead. Arrangements for the funeral have not lteen completed, ns the unfortunate victim her pet’s evil habits has a sister in Arizona, whose wishes as to the time of tin* interment will he consulted. /New York, /Sept. IT—More than half a billion dollars paid up July Ist of the current year, tin* Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Now York, has returned to its members .$5(M>,870,737. Or over half a. billion of dollars and its accu mulated assets on that date were $288,- 530,471. This hows that the company has practically paid out as much money to the insuring public aw any other rw > companies of like character. And that by holding a larger amount in assets than any other company it is beyond question the largest and strongest in stitution of its kind in the world. THE FEVER SITUATION. Washington. Sept. 13.—Surgeon Gen eral Wyman today received official eon- Hrination of the existence of four eases of yellow fever at New Orleans. Dr. Carter is due to arrive there tomorrow morning, and he will have charge of matters in that city. E'n route Dr. Carter stopiied at Port Tampa. He re l>orted conditions there very satisfactory, and his report is concurred in by As sistant Surgeon Trotter, and also by Dr. Brunner, who went to Port Tampa from Savannah. Surgeon General Wy man is very hopeful that the fever will not react the mainland of Florida. MR. BRYAN SPEAKS. Lincoln. Neb., Sept. 13.—W. J. Bryan arrived home from the Pacific coast to day and sjstke <ut the banquet tendered members of the First Nebraska regi ment. Colonel Bryan said he expectedi to start for Chicago tomorrow to at tend the trust conference. Governor Poynton will probably ac company him to Chicago. CENSUS SU PE It VI SOBS. Washington, Sept. 13.—The following census supervisors are to be appointed for Mississippi First District: J. M. Bynani: second, W. A. Mc- Donald; third, Charles Banks; fourth, S. E. Galctran; fifth, It. M. Bordereaux, and sixth, W. E. Moliean. “I suffered with piles eleven years be fore using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve; now my health is fully restored.’’—Con rad Stange, Piorz, Minn. A soothing, healing prepartion of standard merit; beware of worthless counterfeits. Bob bitt-Wynne Drug Co., W. 11. King & Co., Adams Sc Moye, Wm. Simpson. We paste newspnper clippings in scrap books only to discover that the item of value is on the other side. Constipation, Headache, Biliousness, Heartburn, Indigestion, Dizziness, Indicate that your liver is out of order. The best medicine to rouse the liver and cure all these Ills, is found in Hood's Pills 25 cents. Sold by all medicine dealers. You Can Buy the World-Renowned TOP On convenient terms, thus assuring your self that the cost will not be a bur i den, and that your money is providing the best PIANO that’s made. COMPLETE CATALOGUE FOR THE ASKING. REPAIRING AND TUNING GET QUICK ATTENTION. CHARLES M. STIEFF, Warerooms, 9 North Liberty Street, Baltimore. Factory— East Lafayette Avenue, | Aiken and Lanvale street*. j SEaLED BIDS FOR MACHINERY. City of Raleigh. Purchasing Department. Raleigh, N. C.. Sept. 9, 1899. Scaled bids will be received until Fri day, September, the 22nd, at 12 o’clock , for the purchase of the following described machinery, f. o. b. Raleigh: One No. 5 Champion Ro?4c < Vuslwrr com plete, one 40 ft. Elevator and Chain, one 12 ft. Revolving Screen, one 70 11. I’. Locomotive Boiler, 100 pounds working pressure, one 35 11. P. Horizontal Centre Crank Engine de tached. 72 feet 10 inch 4 ply best Rubber Belt, 4 Uliderdelivery Gates for bins. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids. T. P. SALE. Purchasing Agent. The Pure Food Question Is not a new question with ua. We have beeD advocating pure food for more than a dozen and we are rejoiced to s?e other* tatting ic up. We like to see men of science taking hold of it and showing people the necessity of eatinj Only Pure Food, and demonstrating it by analyti cal and other scientific teats, and we think that everybody should read Prof. Wither’* lecture on this important question. We ad vocate pure food buying aud pure food eating, in the only practical way by buying aud sell ing only that which is pure. Our prices may not always be the lowest, but they are as low as the class of goods we deal in cau be bought at. “PURE FOOD IS OUR MOTTO” Thos. Pescud, GROCER. In new quarters—3os Fayetteville St., opposite the postoffice. The Town of Kinston, North Carolina. BONDS FOR SALE Sealed bids will lie received uni I <» o’clock p. in., October lOtn, 1891), at the office of the mayor for twenty-five thou sand dollars of the town of Kinston. North Carolina. 4 per cent, bonds, run ning thirty years from July Ist, 1899, and bearing interest from October loth, 1899. Interest payable, January Ist !Uu i j n ] v lst. These bonds are to be issued for the purpose of enlarging and equipping tin* electric light plant, for drainage and street improvements and towards refunding the existing indebtedness of said town, and are authorized by a ma jority ot the qualified voters at an elee tien held cm the Ist day of August. 1899. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. By order of the mayor and board of aldermen. N. B. MOORE, Town Clerk. Dated Kinston, N. September 9th 1899. D-Mw.
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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