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Efy (ffhalham Record THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1881. H. A. LONDON. Jr., Editor. LYNCH LAW. .We publish elsewhere an account of ' the lynching of some negroes in Ten- tiaakpa. which'fihoiild be condemned by all law-abiding citizens. We do (.not believe in a mob executing sum mary punishment, and taking the law into their hands; and especially in this case it was entirely inexcusable for the accused persons were at the time on trial before a Judge and Jury, indeed the Judge had charged the Jury and the prisoners were being remanded to Jail, when they were seized by the mob. We are pleased to note that the Legislature of Ten nessee (now in session) has condemned this outrage and called upon the Governor to arrest and punish all concerned in it. THE FUNDING BILL. Both branches of Congress have passed, and the President will no ' doubt sign a new Funding Bill Nearly seven hundred million dollars of the ..... t- . national dejbtJSji in bonds&&ing five "isnd sil ver cent interest . This bill ;j$fioss,q: refund these' bondfs in new bqnfls "bearing" only three per centJinteEett,' redeemable in fire and payable in twenty years. I will thus be seen , that the Government will save several million dollars in interest every year. It is thought that the new bonds will be readily' taken. The English consols bear only three per cent interest and these bonds are just as safe an investment. Money must be plentiful when it is invested at only three per cent interest. LEGISLATIVE DOTS. The session of the Legislature is now drawing to a close, the House having adopted a resolution to ad journ on the ' 7th of March, and doubtless .the Senate , will concur. There will not be so much work here after for the committees. Nearly all . their" work has " been done' and. the Legislature is now busy considering the bills reported by the committees, and is every day acting on dozens of them, most of them being bills of a local character. The Durham county bill was in definitely postponed in the Senate by a large majority, and, though a mo tion to reconsider it was made the special ordfrr for to-day, it is thought hat the bill, is defeated. " :The bill has passed allowing de fendants in criminal cases to testify. Ihis'is a great innovation in criminal practice,. but we approve it, as no man should be accused and then have his mouth closed. If a man is allowed to testify in a case wherein his prop erty is concerned, surely he might when his liberty or life is at stake. So that now, the law of North Caroli na allows a defendent in any criminal proceeding to be a witness in his own behalf, and his wife also is now allowed to be a witness. The Senate, by a large majority, defeated the proposed amendment to the State Constitution to exempt manufactories ' from taxation for a limited period. It really seems as if the House had sufficient "backbone" to pass the "dog" law, that is a law to tax dogs and give the money to the public schools. A motion to table the bill was defeated by a vote of 53 to 54, so there is some (bat we are afraid not much) hope of passing it We are gratified to note the manty way, in which Mr. Manning acted, when the bill was under consideration. He declared that he was for the bilj, and and was willing to go upon record on the question. He said we had to choose between sheep and our chil dren' and the dogs, and he was for the sheep and children. The Senate has passed a bill to amend the State Constitution so as j to apply all the poll tax to the. public schools, and requiring the payment of thtax as a prerequisite to1 "voting. Werineerely hope that ;,the House wiU also pass this bill, and that the same jnay-.be ratified by the people. We have heretofore expressed our views o& tjiia subject, and it has een fully discussed by.. fhe ; Press of the Statel " A bill has been, passed making slander an ' indictable . offence. V This is eminently right and proper! : The only'redress heretofore given was in most instances a mockery of justice, as only a civil- action for damages could be maintained, and if a judg ment was obtained the, homestead laws would shield the slanderer. The only way to punish such scamps is to imprison' them, and this can now be done. We are gratified that the Legisla ture has seen fit to appoint Mr. Man ning on the Code Commission, ad we doubt not that hi and his associates, Messrs. Dortch and Henderson will justify the wisdom of their being se lctofotjo important a work. OUR RALEIGH LETTER. From our Special Correspondent. Raleigh, February 22, 1881. Editor Record: Beware of mice and matches. Mr. Rufus H. Jones, a most estimable gentleman, living at Cary, came near having his dwelling house burned a few days' ago. About 10 o'clock in the day it was discovered that the house was on fire between the weather-boarding and plastering, but by'breaking through the plast r ing and a free application of - water the fire was put out before much damage was done, but not before the whole villnge was in a state of ex citement. The fire occurred in a room where there had been no fire for some time, and can only be accounted for on the supposition that a mouse did the damage with' a match. Be ware of both. ' The session of the Legislature draws to a close. The most impor tant bills are coming to the front. The School Bill as reported by the Committee on Education, of which Mr. Merritt is chairman, is consider ed the most liberal that we have ever had. It provides for a four months' school in every district ; for a County Superintendent,for a State uniformity of text books, for teachers' institutes, ana! other much needed ' improve ments. . It is a long step to the front, and we may Took for happy results from its wise provisions, if the Legis lature should adopt . tbem as it is thought it will. Aid is extended by anbther blllj which it is thought will pass, to the University, and also pro riding for additional Normal Schools for both races. The Committee on Education has been a laborious one, and has exhibi ted, a most liberal zeal on this, the most important work of the session. Let the people sustain this effort to educate the teachers of the State and to elevate the children to a higher life ! The Senate passed a resolution on yesterday appropriating $500 for a monument over the grave of Richard Caswell. Governor Caswell was one of the foremost men of his day, be loved and honored by the people. Our terrible struggle for indtpen dence had no firmer supporter, no more patriotic leader than he, yet he has lain these many years in an un marked and almost unknown grave. This mark of esteem for his memory, though late, is eminently appropriate and deserved. Let North Caro'ina never forget the name of Richard Caswell. The Honse of Representatives now hold night sessions to dispose of bills of a private nature. The Senate meets at 10 o'clock a. m. and adjourns at 3 p. m., unless the calendar is sooner disposed of. It is now thought that the Legislature will adjourn sine die on the 7th of March. House Bill to authorize the Com missioners of Chatham county to build a new court house passed its third and final reading on yesterday, and now goes to the Senate. Mr. Manning on yesterday deliver ed a very eloquent defence of lawyers in the House. His speech receives compliments on all sides. It was on a bill to tax suits in the Supreme Court, for the purpose of relieving i that court of many frivolous causes, and to enable the judges to keep up with the business. Glad to 6ee Mr. Hanner occupying the Speakers chair so gracefully. Rev. Mr. Earle still continues his meetings at the First Baptist Church. He conducts services three times a day at 9, 3, and 1 o'clock, and the large church is generally full of in terested listeners. Many have pro fessed conversion and joined the church among them the celebrated Mr. Swepson. Wonder what he thinks of the doctrine of " restitu tion!" Last week a very large audience were badly sold by the so called spiritualist Foster. He did not come up to the programme or to the ex pectations of perhaps a single audi tor. He performed some juggling tricks very neatly, but that was all. I see that a gentleman at Newberrv. S. C, was badly poisoned by tasting the water he had pretended to turn into wine. It is well to give such srririt ualists a wide berth. Color in the Ballroom. From the New York Herald. Washington society, official and non-official, has been thrown into consternation by the intelligence that ine colored brother is buying tickets for the Inauguration Ballbv the thous and, that he means to demand all his rights and privileges under the Civ il Rights bill and express his delierbt at the installation of a rennblican President by tripping it on the color. ed toe in number fourteen pumps to Band. This is an awful condition of wwuouue uiuaic ui me marine affairs, but we cannot see what help iwwo wioru. .mere snouia &e no distinction of race, color or previous condition at an inauguration hall any more than in a national election. and they who do not like the mixture nave the right to remain away. It is all a question of taste. As a mat ter of political right and expediency mere are ten arguments in favor of the admission of the colored man to General Garfield's saltatory glorifica tion io ine one against his exclusion. In the last campaign and in the one mat preceded it the black was the central figure in the fiahL V.Ut Pickston folded in the- loving arms vi mr. ouerman was worth to the party a thousand campaign orators. Now that the battle is fought and won why should the Eliza Pinkstoris of the South be debarred from re joicing over their hard earned victory? uiu us u. me oenate and in the House of Representatives. He is in the diplomatic and consular service, and he is making a hard fight to get into the Cabinet Under these cir cumstances it would be absurd to deny him the nrainna nnnl. being jostled and crushed at an in auguration ball by the Blaines. Hales Congers and other statesmen of the republican party. WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Feb. 19, 1881. After the freeze, came the flood, and Washington was for twenty-four hours, without preparation, but not without warning, converted into an Amsterdam or a Venice,, with street cars for canal boats and gondolas. Skiffs, and other petty craft, plied about on Pennsylvania Avenue, and rescued shoopkeepei s from their in undated homes, through the windows of which could be seen' dining room and kitchen furniture floating near the ceiling of the lower rooms. Street car passengers climbed up into the rig ging, to escape the water, . which in some places, rose as high as the. seats, aud, in one instance, a frightened driver detached his horse and rode to dry land, leaving a solitary passenger to his fate in the car. The novel spec taclewas enjoyed by thousands of transient visitors, and by some resi dents of Washington, but, f r those who lived in or owned property in the flooded district, the inundation was a very serious calamity. It was caused by the floating ice . - from the upper Potomac lodging against the stationary ice below Washington, and thus f orming, with the assistance of the long, low railway bridge, a dam, thai backed the flbd ihroughjthe city, and within a stone's throw of the cap itoL This bridge, consisting in great part of a solid pier or causeway, ex tending far into the river, is the bete noir of Washington, and is as justly regarded with fear and horror as was the shapeless monster, menacing the city and devouring its inhabitants, sung by Sophocles in Antigone. Washington - has long been on her knees before' Congress, . praying for the removal of this bridge, and the death dealing swamps it has planted at the feet of the city. But Washing ton is not a constituency. Congress does not inhale the miasma from the swamp?. National legislators come only in winter, when the insidious malaria is locked in ice, and are away during the noonday of summer, when all who are not able to leave the city inhale circumambient poison. The organization of the "Senate is as definitely se tied as it can be be fore the fact, and probabilities are strongly in favor of a Democratic or ganization. Senator David Davis has expressed his intention to vote with the Democrats, and it is not all prob able that M ah one will do otherwise. Republicans pretty generally concede the organization, but the parties are so evenly balanced, that General Gar field will have far less trouble in se curing the confirmation of Lis ap pointees than the present executive has had. Adulteration of Food Few persons are aware how much of their food is adulterated with pois onous substances. An eminent chem -ist was recently examined by a Con gressional Committee, who testified as follows: "At the request of a highly respec tal le citizen of Chicago I have exam iued fourteen brands of sugar bought, as I understood, in this citv, some granulated, some white, some colored, some coarse, and some fine. I tested them thoroughly for impurities. In twelve of the samples I found tin in the form of a chloride, an active poison. The other constituents I can furnish if you desire. . 1 have exam ined several sirups, made essentially and entirely of glucose, and found in them chlorides of tin, calcium, iron and magnesia, and in quantities which made them very poisonous. In one case a whole neighborhood was pois oned and I was told of one death. I have in several cases found sugar of lead in vinegar. I use no vinegar myself. I look with suspicion upon our vinegar. I use the fruit- acid in place of it, lemon juice anoc. I nev er eat pickles.' I have found in vari ous cases they were poisoned with lead and copper. I have tested to some extent the cheap tinware sold in our markets, and have no hesitation in saying that there is great danger in using fruits, vegetables, meats or fish put up in tin cans of any kind They are liable to contain lead and tin, both active poisons. Terra alba is largely used in cream of tartar, confectionery and pretty universally for adulteration. ; I have found in many baking powders alum instead of cream of tartar, a thing dangeious and injurious in any case. I should say that I have come to expect adul teration and to fear dangerous adul teration in almost every article of the grocery kind. I have had large expe- nence m ine analysis 01 colored poisj pnous articles of clothing, being em ployed by one of the largest dry goods J 11 ' 11 T' ' nrms in ims ciiy. j. examinea, unnK, sixteen samples, and nearly all of them Were poisonous; 1 have also analyzed for other parties. In one case a child nearly died from wearing colored stockings. 1 would like to add that I have analysed numerous samples . of . cosmetics .and powders used on the face and hair.' Peter Cooper. Mr. E. J. Hale, in a recent letter to the Charlotte Democrat, says : "The venerable Peter Cooper cele uiaicu uis umetiem Dirm-aay on Saturday by a large dinner party at his own house and by a gift of a hun dred thousand dollars to the Cooper institute, wnicn ne gave to the city, and to which, besides, he gives an nually ten thousand dollars. His life has been a marvellous one Be ginning as an apprentice to a coach maker at 17, be devoted his, evenings to study, worked: afterwards as a mechanic at a dollar and a half a day, invented some machinery, and mufa the first sucsssql locomptive.oa the BaltiuSoreis Ohio Railroad in 1828. Since that, his business expanded into great iron works, glue manu factories, &c. The New School Bill. From the News and Observer, 15th, Inst The most important bill of theses sion was introduced by Senator Mer ritt, of Chatham, on.Saturday. It was the new public school bill, as agreed on by the committees on education of the two houses, and' which was on yesterday printed and laid on the desks of members. We propose to note a few of the features of this school bill as compar ed with the law now in force. The most prominent of. these are: 1. It gives travelling expenses and clerical assistance to the State Super intendent of Public Instruction. 2. It provides that the State Board of Education shall select and pre scribe a series of text books which shall be used in our public schools, but that onlv one book of an author shall be prescribed. 3. It abolishes the office of county examiner, and substitutes therefor that of county superintendent of in struction. This officer is to be select ed by the county board of education and the board of county justices. He is required . to. examine .candidates who desire to teach ; visit and inspect the public schools in the county; ad vise with teachers as to the bast me thods of instruction, distribute the required blanks to school committee men, collect school statistics, counter hiffn all orders . on .the county treas urer fur school moneys;, hold teach ers' institutes; and make the reports now required r from the register of deeds and county examiner to the State Superintendent of Iustructior For these duties he is to receive compensation of $3 per day for each day engaged to be paid out of the unapportioned school fund of the county. . 4. It requires that the school funds of the county shall be apportioned on the first Monday in January in each year, and shall be based on the ac tual amount of money in the hands of the county treasurer, and not on the amount levied on the tax list as the law now stands. ;- 5. The county board of education may annually apportion $100 out the public school moneys to defray the expenses of teachers institutes and where it is deemed practicable or advisable a number of counties may unite in one institute. o. ine school year is chanced so as to conespond with the county fU cal year, and will therefore end No vember 30 in euch year. 7. Twenty cents is levied on each $100 valuation of property for schoo! purposes, and if this, with the enpita tion tax, fines, &c.,; shall be insuffi cient to maintain one or more schools in each district of the county for four months in the year,' then the county board of education is required to levy a special tax to meet the deficiency 8. Pupils and teachers, during the school term, are exempted from pub lie road duty, and school committee men are likewise exempted during their term of ofhee.- v. Additional safeguards are thrown around the collection, hand ling, and disbursement of school moneys, and school committeemen are required to take deeds for al school house siV s purchased by them which must be regularly probated recorded and deposited with the county treasurer for safe keeping. iu. a;nooi commute cruen are au thorized to pay full cost of schoo house sites, and also full cost of build ing, repairing and furnishing schoo! houses. 11. The State Board of Education is required to apportion on . the first. Monday in August all the schoo moneys in the State .Treasury. 12. Certificates trom the county superintendent of instruction to teach ers will be valid as follows: To first grade teachers for three years; to becond grades for two years, and to third grades lor one year. 13. No teacher can be employed who does not produce a certificate from the county superintendent, and hrst grade teacners cannot receive more than $3 per day : second grades more than $2 per day, and third grades cannot receive, more than $1 per day. Dairy Products. The New York correspondent (Mr. E. J. Hale), of the Fayetteville Examiner, in a recent letter 6ays: "At a meeting ot the Dairy Fair Association of this city, its President declared that the dairy production exceeds the value of the wheat pro ii i mt duction oi this country, xne corn production of 1870 was worth, he said, $500,000,000, but! the exhaus tion of thesoil necessary to its pro duction represented not less than $100,000,000, or 20 per cent of the selling value. 'Wheat and xjorn de pleted the soil" of its' natural wealth, aud, notwithstanding the vastly in creased acreage devoted to these -crops, last year there was a decrease of $26,000,000 in the total market sales. On the other " hand, dairy products not only made up for the improvement oi tne son oy corn in iKy but added SI00,0UU,OU0 to its value. f : . '? :" anotner speaker said ne had a farm in Vermont of 112 acres which nin years ago would winter only tnree ana a nan neaa oi cattle, on which he now winters sixty-nine head, and his ambition is to winter one hundred head. Vermont pro duced more butter and cheese than all the rest of New England combined, although it is not a dairy State. Both the quality and quantity of production nas been so improved that a single cow has produced 800 pounds of butter in a year, although the average is 1P0 lbs per cow per annum, and most Cows run their owners in debt. Some ' of these statements are startling. Have . amy , of your readeis a cow that produces 800 lbs. of butter in a year?" Old and youner, rich and all unite in testifying to the true merit of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. For over a quarter of a century, it has proven itself a true, tried and trusted friend. A Terrible Traffedy. A telegram to the New York Herald from Springfield, in Tennessee, gives the following account of the lynching of nine negro murderers: 'The crime for which these negroes were lynched was the brutal murder of a bachelor farmer named Laprade, who lived alone on his farm near Sadlersville, Robinson county, abont a mile away from any neighbor. He led a sort of hermit life, eccentric, opposed to shedding blood and keep ing no animals or fowls on his prem ises. His neighbors inferred that he had money. The report was current that he and his brothers had fallen heirs to $9000 a few days before the murder. A party of nine negroes went to his house on the night of September 8, 1880. Going in. the rear of his dwelling, one of them knocked at the door, and, imitating the voice of Laprade s brother, ask ing admission, Laprade opened the door without thought of harm. The nine black fiends rushed in upon him, knocked him down and then demanded all his money. He gave them $5, saying that was all he had. This but enraged his assailants. Throwing a rope around his neck they dragged him around his grounds hanged him to the limb a tree re peatedly until he was almost uncon scious, singed his body with torches and lacerated and mutilated him with knives in the endeavor tocompel him to admit that he had concealed mon ey, but always with the same result. Finally Jmade desperate by their repeated failures to'extort from him the place of concealment of his sup posed wealth, the demons proceeded to still more inhuman tortures. With the rope he was dragged about the yard, and nameless outrages were committed upon his person. Finally his legs were cut and hacked, and the tendons torn from their places from the knee down. Then his skull was crushed with an ax, after which the body washidden under some bush es in a neighboring thicket. The discovery of the murder caused intense excitement throughout the adjoining neighborhood; and threats of lynching were freely made against the murderers as soon as they should ne apprenended. suspicion fell upon Jim Higgins, and after being impris oned some days he made a confusion implicating his associates, who were arrested. Higgins who was an old negro, was taken out and his feet burned until, in his agony, he is said to have given the details of the Lap rade murder. The prisoners, includ ing Higgins, were brought to the Nashville ail. Higgins had one of his feet amputated and subsequently uieu in ja.il. Hour nights after extorting the contession from Higgins, namely on me nignt oi September 12 two of the murderers, Bell and Jamieson, were taken from the Springfield jail ana ivncoea. l he work of lynching the colored murderers was resumed last night. The trial of the prisoners had been in progress ail day and in the evening it naa reached a termination in the charge of Judge Strake to the iurv, 1 he hve murderers were delivered to the custody of the Sheriff and that orhcml prepared to Rtert to the jail wituthem. Bill Murphy and An thony Duffy, who testified for the Oi.l. . . ... , i .. oittuj, were set ac noeny ana it is thought that their release led to the terrible tragedy. As the Sheriff de parted with his prisoners he was met at the court room door by an infuria ted mob, who, presenting pistols at his head, rushed upon him and took the trembling murderers from him. Attorney General Bell tried to collect a posse to resist the mob, but failed, and was compelled to make his exit through a window. The mob ordered all the lights out. fired a regular fusilade of shots to in timidate any would-be rescuers, drag ged the five captives to the east door of the Court House, where rones were awaiting them. The ropes were suspended from the veranda above. The five bodies in an instant were swinging beneath the veranda. Jim Elder was the only one who made any struggle, and he was quickly thrown down, bound hand and foot and then hanged with the others. The mob guarded the bodies until they were sure that their work was completed and life extinct. The lead er then gave the order, "Disperse, my men to your homes, and the ex- executioners some 200 in number immediately departed, going on horse back in three different directions. The crowd attending the trial was paralyzed with terror at first, and then jumped from the windows of the court room and rushed off in every direction, uttering cries of affright." A later telegram says : "The work of the lynchers is now complete. It appears that one party rode off last night in the direction of the neighborhood where Leorade was murdered, and came across An drew Duffy, one of the witnesses, who had turned States evidence. His body was found to-day near Guth rie's, showing that he had shared the fate of his wretched accomplices at the Conn House. It is also report ed that Murphy, the other witness, and the last of the gang of black mur derers, was caught and lynched. The excitement in the surrounding districts is intense. The bodies. which - remained hanging all night from the veranda of the Court House, presented a most sickening sight." Senator Elected. John J. Mitchel, republican was elected United States Senator by the Pennsylvania Legislature, on the hirty-fifth ballot. The cool winds chill the heart of the ice cart driver, and he now sits shivering on his box, a blue noeed victim of dispair; the striking words use Dr. Bull s Lough Syrup stare him in the face. COnZlBOPOOTSITCB Mud Lick, N. C, Feb. 17, 1881 En Recobo: Although clouds and darkness are ronnd about ns, there is hope that a bright day will soon dawn upon our noble cause. It can not be denied the. cause of temperance is commanding a more general re spect and attention, nor does it need any Solomon or prophet to assure us that in the near future the manufacture and sale of intoxicants will be abolished from North Carolina But why falter and stop our efforts until a complete consurama'ion is e: fected? A great many have labored too long and ardently to roll the ba to the summit of the hill to prove re creant just as it is nearing the long sought for cribis, to step a side and let it roll back to the low valley again Tne increasing earnestness and number of petitions that have just been circulated show that our coun try is afflicted with a crying and most terrible evil, and that it is the delib erate opinion ot a very large and most intelligent number of the peopl that it can and ought to be remedied immediately by legislation. Again if we look to the prime motive that actuates men in the getting up of these petitions, we wiU find that a! most invariably, those that take the lead in the matter have had some fearful experience with the whiskey curse. It is a fond wife who has had her cup of domestic bliss turned gall of bitterness by the wine cup. is a dotiner father who has seen his bright and promising boy caught the dreadful man-trap; and hurled suddenly into an awful maelstrom of hopeless ruin. It is a loving sister whose heart is breaking with grief a the thought that ner brotner. is hopeless victim of the tipling house It is an aged mother weeping and refusing to be comforted because she has buried her last earthly hope in the crave of a drunken son. Ah 1 it is poor weak hnmanUy crying alond for relief from a great and terrible agony of sorrow and suffering. For every petition that is sent up, there are ten thousand groans of an guisb, and for every name attached there has been thousands of bitter tears that might have beeu spared, if the prayer of that petition had only been heeded by our law makers long ago. Oh ! may they think on the things, as the petitions come in. Perhaps a majority of the members are willing to agree with ns so far, but excuse their inaction by saying "it is not time for this, we must wait awhile." Would yon say wait if the murderer's weapon was placed againt-t your brother s head and the finger pressing th fated t - gger? Would yon stand needlessly by and see an inno cent child step over an awful preci pice to certain death, when you could rescue it by simply stretching forth the htnd ? If so, then perhaps, you can find it in your heart to say wait, when the deadliest of all weapons the wbi-aky bottle is placed to your neighbor's lips, ready to destroy char acter and honor as well as lite: and to withhold your band, when thous ands of your fellow citizens are leap ing, one by one, mto tne awiul abyss of a drunkard s ruin. W. Prohibition in "Arkansaw." A telegram from Little Bock, Ark. dated Feb. 23rd, says : " In the House of Kepresentatives to-day a resolution was passed by a vote oi do to ii, proposing an amendment to the constitution pro hibiting the sale of liquor in the State. In the Senate a joint resolution was passed, by a vote of 18 to 5, fix mx tne pronunciation oi tne name of this State as Arkansaw.' " 'State Slews. atatesviue jjanamaiK: wnen we announced, some weeks ago, the then recent killing of the largest hog in the county, we had not heard of the one which has just been slain by Mr, Boueche, of this place. The history of so remarkable an animal is a matter of general interest, and to begin at the beginning, a guinea pig came upon the premises of Mr. lloueche in August last and gave evidence of a purpose to stay. It had strolled up, from nobody knew where; in defiance of the stock law it loafed around the front gate, and in utter disregard of all the rules of proprie ty and good manners, rooted up its host's garden and front yard. No owner appearing, Mr. Boueche put it up, ted it on slops and began to fat ten it. It thrived amazingly. In the early winter it was fed three and a half bushels of shell corn. It got iat as a seal so fat, indeed, that it could not scarcely see or breathe, and its owner resolved to kill it. He did so, had it cleaned, hung up and weighed. It pulled down the scales at 15 poun Is to an ounce. No 'pos sum was ever fatter but many a rab bit has been bicrerer. The abomina ble little beast didn t half pay for the corn it had eaten. DP.. RXCSARDS. 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D Every Paper contains an account of some Fire. Every day somebody's dwelling, or store or gin Is BUMT UP. 7onrs Slay Be Rest! Be Wse anfl tare in Time! It costs but little and every prudec t man ought to keep his property insured. The I C. Offers to insure all classes of property at low rates, and will pat It It burns. Apply to H. A. LONDON, Jr., Agent, NOV 11 PlTTSBOBO, N. C. SUBSCRIBE NOW TO Every citizen ought to know what his Representati ves in Congress and the Legislature are doing. The Re cord publishes the latest proceed ings of both bodies, and gives the news from Washington and Raleigh. Ihe proceedings of the County Commissioners are always published in the Record, so that the tax-pay ers of Chatham may know how their money is spent. All Home News, State News, and National News will be found in the Record. Everv familv in Chat- i ham ought to have the Record. It is a FAMILY PAPER in whose columns will be found items that will amuse and instruct all. Take Your County Paper ! 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The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 24, 1881, edition 1
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