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H. A. LONDON, Editor.
That the farmers are fewlin?
the effects of the Ifinaucial panic
leas thau people eua:red iu othei
liaes of brines-?, as mentioned in
last week's ltecord, is illustrated
by the condition of the cotton
mills in thi3 state. At a meeting
of the executive committee of thf
North Carolina Cotton Manufac
turers Association, held last Fri
day at Charlotte, it was decided
to recommend that the mills em
braced in the association as well
as all other Southern mills shut
down for sixty days.
If this recommendation is car
ried out, as is probable, many
thousands of cotton mill opera
tives will be thrown out of em
ployment and incalculable suffer
ing1 must necessarily ensue. In
deed, no one can conceive the full
meaning of this action and its
wide-reaching results. Not only
will many thousands of operatives
ba thrown out of employment,
thus rendering not only themselves
and those dependent on them des
titute, but it will also seriously
affect all persons who in auv iy
derive benefit from the waes of
those operatives, such as for in
stance the merchants and others
who furnish them with supplies.
We note also w ith regret that
the hosiery mills at Raleigh and
Durham, and at other places, have
reduced the wages of their opera
tives because of the depressed
condition of their business. Iu
fact wages in nearly all lines o'
labor have been reduced and many
wage-earners are glad to get work
at almost any wages. And yet
strange to say this great depres
sion in business exists under a
high protective tariff and under
the beneficent (?) rule of the He
publican party!
We regret to leirn that some
of th3 Hspublicia leaders in this
eounty, who have pretended to be
for prohibition, are now making
excuses for opposing prohibition
on the 2Gthof May. They are try
ing to make party or political
capital out of the pending prohi
bition bill, but we cannot think
that the honest men of that party,
who are sincerely for prohibition,
will be misled by such demagogue
leaders. We believe that the bulk
of the Republicans in this county
are as much opposed to whiskey
as the bulk of the Democrats are,
and we sincerely hope that they
will vote their honest convictions.
Prohibition should not be con
sidered a political or partisan
question, but it is a great morul
question, in which all good citi
zens should be deeply interested
When such prominent Republican
leaders as Judges Pritchard and
Robinson are canvassing for pro
hibition it does seem that all Re
publicans should realize that pro
hibition is not a political issue.
No bill is likely to be passed
at the present session of Congress
to relieve the existing depression
in business. Of course no re
vision of the tariff will be made
and it seems probable now that
no financial bill will be passed.
The Aldrich bill, which the
Senate passed, may not be passed
by the House. Indeed it is con
fidently predicted by manv that
it is certain to be defeated in the
House. After remaining in ses
sion so many months, if Cocgress
was to adjourn without enacting
some law giving financial relief
the Republican party will have
proved itself incompetent to gov
ern this country
Elections were held last week
in several states under the local
option law and many hundred sa
loons were voted out of business.
In the state of Illinois 1,500 sa
loons were voted out of business
and twenty counties declared for
absolute prohibition, so that near
ly ne-third of that great state is
now "dry." In the states of Michi
gan, Colorado and Nebraska hun
dreds of towns and townships vot
ed for prohibition, and thus the
good work goes-on both at the
North as well as at the South.
The death last week of Prof.
Joshua W. Gore, of the University
of North Carolina, is a great loss
not only to that institution but to
the state." He had been a professor
at the university for, twenty-six
years, and was one of the most
efficient and popular professors
that institution ever had.
Negro Contests Seat in Congress.
.VitMnson Cor. Clowlotte Observer.
Tn fhft House, on the Republi
can side, on a rear seat, sits a coi.l
olack, widdio-aged negro oi me
:orutield type, clad m clerical suit
a-ad celluloid collar.
"Who is the negro memberr"
ask strangers.
' T ilon t know who lie is, rue
iverae Congressman will reply.
I was here nearly three most us
v-for I learned auvthiug about
die o!d darkey. I thought all
doug that ha was an inside duor
ieener. who had the privileges ol
the floor, but recently I was told
chat he was here to contest the
seatvof Representative George h.
fj?gare, of the first district oi
South Carolina.
" The Hon. Aaron P. Prioleau"
i the man in question. He claims
;hat South Carolina lias buncoed
him out of his rights at the polls.
i'iie vote in the district stooa:
Legate, 3,905; Prioleau, 2S, and T.
L. Grant, 1.
The trovernment allows a con
testant $2,000 for expenses. Prio-
ieau has conducted two cod tests
before he started this one. lie
turuished the affidavits and Con
n-ess rave him the 82,000. In all,
after this contest is over, he will
have received $G,000 of Uncle
Sam's cash.
All hands are wearv of such con
tests, and newspaper men do noi
consider news of him good copy
Prioleau served three months in
prison for purloining a letter from
the mails but that does not miii-
t.i te ajainst him, and his standing
j society has been enhanced a
:tle. After all it is just as well
,.r him to contest. Two othei
jeirroes in South Carolina have
contests of the same sort, but
Prioleau is the favorite contest
ant. In the meantime George Le
,'are occupies a seat on the Demr -cratic
side of the House and is
the authorized Representative o!
thf1 first South Carolina district.
Sometimes, when Prioleau for
gets his exalted position, he bows
to Mr. L3gare and says, "Good
morning, Marse George, how is
you today?"
The 2.000 is good all the same.
Battleship Fleet's Arrival.
San Diego, Cal., April 13.
Fete days for the American bat
tleship Heet will begin to-morrow
afternoon when 16 battleships ol
tbe Atlantic squadron cast anchor
in the waters of the Pacific off the
Curouado Beach, 2 miles from San
Diego.
San Diego i crowded with
visitors and sightseers and street
and buildings are d;- n.ted.
triumphal arches have beesi erect
ed at many sireet intersection.
Governor John N. Gillette, of
California, accompanied by hii
staff and a distinguished party ol
guests, arrived to-night in three
-special cars. Governor Gillette
arose from a sick bed in S v.i Fran
cisco to come to extend official
welcome of the State.
Citizens to-morrow will distri
ct utr- 33,000 oranges among the
sailors as a sort of breakfast oi
welcome.
The fleet will cast anchor about
J p. m. and will remain until Sat
urday morning until G o'clock
when it will proceed to Los An
geles. The battleships were only 100
mi!es south of San Diego late to
day and were steaming at 9 knots
m ';iine of squadron" or two long
iine.s of 8 vessels each.
To-morrow's programme con
sists of an exchange of courtesies
between State and city officers
and the flag officers of the fleet, a
private banquet to Rear Admiral
Thomas and the other flag and
commanding officers in the ban
quet hall of iho Hotel Del coro
uado, the illumination of the
ships with tiers "of incandescent
oulbs, a searchlight drill during
the evening and the burning of
red signal fires along the Coronado
shore.
New Trans-Continental Railroad.
Rirmiugham, Ala., April 12.
The official announcement by the
Illinois Central that the new Bir
mingham division will be opened
for traffic April 19th calls atten
tion to the completion of the last
link iu the great Harriman trans
continental route, for by control
ling the Union Pacific, Illinois
Central and Central of Georgia
this system will extend from the
Pacific to the Atlantic. In addi
fciou to supplying the last link in
this chain, the opening of the
Haleyville branch will give the
Illiuois Central an inlet to the
great coal and iron fields of Ala
bama with their immense annual
tonnage.
The Central of Georgia termi
nates here and connects with the
Illinois Central, thus giving a di
rect connection from all Illinois
central points wit'i the sea at Sav
annah over the Central of Geor
gia. Connections of the Illinois
Central with the Union Pacific
thus give a complete system from
one ocean to the other. The con
nection is expected to benefit the
Southeastern States and to , in
crease Savannah's importance as
a seaport, for in addition to mak
ingit the terminal for much of
Alabama's coal and iron, it will
receive much of .the grain and
other traffic of the Mississippi
valley.
Washington Letter.
i'Trom OurSegjlar Jorieai "h-Ik-l.i. j
Washington, D. C, April 2.
The extraordinary position in
to which the Republicans iu the
House have been forced by the
minority ieader. Rep. John Sharp
William.--, and the lengths to
which they are ready to go rather
th.iii respond to the President's
recommendations are the occasion
of amazement net unmixed with
amusement to every one who has
been watching the recent course
of events in Washington. The
Speaker and his colleagues on the
committee on Rules have not
uesitated at anything and the3'
have finally been forced to adopt
rules which demonstrate,' as never
oefore, the absolute autocracy
which the Speaker enjoys and
which so far eliminates roll calls
as to relieve every Republican of
the responsibility of his acts.
The Republican leaders seem to
have realized the ridiculous atti
tude in which they were being-J
placed by. a minority of only 107
members, as against 223 Republi
cans, and they have tried in every
way possible to avoid the adop
tion of these stringent rule, but
they were finally compelled to
tdopt them rather than run the
risk of voting by name against
-neasures which the President has
recommended and which their con
stituents demand.
The President does not seem to
lose heart at all because of the op
position of his party to his poli
cies and he is seriously consider
ing the advisability of sending
to Congress a special message
protesting against the authoriza
tion of only two battleships whan
lie had demanded four with not
only authority to prepare plans
out to make contracts at once.
Every member of the Naval
A flairs committee voted against
the President on this proposition
except Rep. Hobson, who submit
ted a minority report end whose
service in the navy, before he en
tered politics, has resulted in a
loyalty to the floating portion of
the military establishment which
nothing can chill.
The Republicans are greatly
ehagriuned over the defeat in the
House committee on Postoffiees
af the Galliuger postal subvention
oil!, that being the euphonious
name for this year's brand of the
old ship-subsidy bill. The ad
vocates of the measure thought
they had everything fixed for a
favorable report on the measure
when Rep. Ilaggott of Colorado
"folded hrrtent like the Arab and
as silently stole away'" and the
mo.isure was laid on the commit
tee table. The friends of the
measure are not discouraged, how
ever. They now purpose to offer
it as an amendment to the post
,'incc appropriation bin wueu
that measure reaches the Senate
md they believe that in this shape
it will become a law.
The Senate this week passed
rhe army appropriation bill carry
ing a total appropriation of about
l $Dri,O0o,U0l). 1 his bill also pro
vKi. d the increase ot pay lor the
officers and enlisted mtn of the
-iirny and the marine corps. The
olucers will receive increases
varying from 10 to 2-3 per cent,
the higher the grade the- lower
the increase, and the enlisted men
Ail I receive an average increase
of 2-3 per cent, as much as per
cent additional being paid to men
who enlist for the third time, or
more. Democrats as well as
Republicans voted for the in
crease of the pa3' of the army for
the cost of living has so general
ly increased that the pay table
fixed nearly twenty years ago was
by no means adequate to the ex
penses of officers and men, especi
ally now that the foreign service
entails so much expensive travell
ing. After the army bill was passed
Senator Hale made his annual
attack on the cost of the military
establishment, an attack which
would command greater respect
did not Mr. Hale come forward
each year and urge steadily in
creasing appropriations for the
navy. Mr. Hale appears, this
time, to have been misled by an
article stating that Secretary Taft
advocated an army of 123,000
men, although the article was
wholly unfounded, the Secretary
never having advocated this great
increase which is the pet scheme
of the General Staff.
The antics of the anti-administration,
anti-Taft Republicans
are affording a good deal of
amusement for their Democratic
brethren. The anti-administ ra
tion crowd has been breathing
fire against Mr. Taft and declar
ing tbat under no circumstances
could he be nominated. Steadi
ly, however, tbe ground lias been
slipping from under their feet and
the staunch supporters of many
of them have abandoned their for
mer leaders to espouse the cause
of the Secretary of War, or at
least to secure comfortable seals
not too far back on the big Secre
tary's band-wasrbn. Now the
anti-Taft crowd generally admits
that the Secretary will be nomin
ated but insists that he cannot be
elected. Perhaps he cannot.
Very possibly, in fact. ' But there
is no question that he is the
strongest man the Republicans
have. - r- . :
Valuable Railroad Invention.
Sveolul to Ihe Duibam Uev&M
Greensboro, X. April 11
Mr. John Wright, vt lids ciiy, in
ventor and patentee ol lh auto
matic air-brake, whah .-.ulomad
ca!!y uops a trair, ev n lockup
the engine, the mu: ia a whtel iu
any part of. thf train g-ts iff tie
track, is very grea'ly pleas-d :U
the report of the eugite?r, cond ay
tor and general manager of trait;
of the Durham & Ci a'.Dtie rail
road. Sometime brtwenn Gu.'f
tnd Star, a mixed train jioiug at
the rate of twenty miies an hour,
suddenly came to a halt, the en
gine itself stepping, before the
engineer knew anything was
wiong, investigation showed that
the rear car containing passeng
ers had jumped the track, and at
once the Wright brake did the
work, stopping-the whole train
before any damage was done. An
interesting part of the wreck is
the fact that as an experiment last
January was a vear ago, the Char
lotte & Durham road allowed Mr.
Wright to equip its cars with his
safety brake, then just patented.
Ihe things had received no mr-
ther attention, th train crew even
forgetting the attachment was on,
new employes not even knowing
of it.
This actual prevention of dam-
age m its nrst wrecs caused me
officers of the road to write to
Mr. Wrisrbt in enthusiastic com
mendation of his appliance.
Very great improvements have
been made in the air brake since
it was attached to the Durham k
Charlotte trams and the inter
state commerce commission is con
sidering the question of requiring
its use on all trams.
Cut Dawn Cotto.i Acr:a?.
Atlanta, Ga., April 12. Presi
dent Harvie Jordan, of the South
ern Cotton Association, in a state
ment made public today, says that
his association in connection with
the Farmers' Union has complet
ed arrangements to hold the rem
nant of the 1907 cotton crop. The
Farmers Union companies, the
statement says, in Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Alabama
have already perfected arrange
ments with bankers in thosestates
to finance every bale now held in
the Farmers' Union warehouses.
Similar re-suits, continues the
statement, aie being secured for
cotton held bv members of the
Southern Coiton Association by
the central headqu irtersandState
divisions, and at the larger chu
tralized points. President Joidan
concludes his statement as fol
lows: "I cannot too freely empha
size again I ho imperative impor
tance of cutting down tLe cotton
acreage and prevviiting a serious
crisis next wmtei.
Carolina Wins From Georgia.
Chapel Hill, April 10. Carolina
won ,r m Georgia by a vote of 2
to 1 in the second annual cleb.de
held between the two universities
in Gerrard Hall here tonight
This is the twclith debate between
Georgia and Caroliua and in tht
past Carolina has won a large ma
toritv of iho uooates. so that in
- i -i
i his case Georgia was determined
to vi:i from this 'v.diegft of un
beatable delutiuu- teams," so call
ed by The j'ied ai.d tihtch, the
Georgia codge paper.
The qilfi'V v...-:
That the btato shuiu
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Ch:u lotto, de
W. Tiliett, Jr.,
fended the i.iilrm itivo, ri.iA door
ilia's reprehPiitat ive5, Mt-vsiH. S.
O. Smith and Y. i. Smith, defend
ed the negative.
A DeaaiiLI Wcrasn.
Her .-urrcnuwliugn should be in
haniiony, a;.d can Ix'st Lo made
so by a well kept home. The L.
& M. Pure Paint makes tho Lome
beautiful. It preserves it ;ind
prevents decay. Tbe cost per
gallon ready for u.-:e is only $1.20.
It wears fcr ten years and louder.
Thirty-three years of continuous
use is evidence.
W, L. London & Sod, Pittsboro.
The Lambeth-Crutcbfield Co.,
Moncure, L. & M. Paint Agents.
Gov.. Glenn has published a card
announcing that he will not be a
candidate for United States Sena
tor, but will retire to private life
after his term as governor expires.
New Precinct.
At a meeting of the County Board
of Elections for Chatham ounty, held
on Monday, March 30th, 1903, the vot
ing preriacts of Cuuauock and Osgood
were discontinued 'and a voting pre
cinct was e5ablished at Asbury, in
Oakland township, instead.
JACO 15 .THOMPSON,
Chmn. Board of Klectioas
for Chatham County.
Pittsboro, N. C, March 30, 190S.
NOTICE TO C It EDITORS 11 av
quahficd as executors of the last
will and testament of Kev.W.F. Thmn,
this u to notify all persons lioliin?
c amis a-ainsi his estate to presout
'hem t Vlii '.maorsi-ried, or to their
attorneys, on .r ,-efore the 7lh dav of
April, loi,o rihis -olicewitl be plend
in bar o-iheir recovery. All persons
Indebted to s ;ui estate will please set
tle. This April 7, 1908. .
W. F. Sharpe,
James F. Smith,
Executors XV t F. Thorn.
Womack, Hayes & Bynum, Attys.
TiiWi
FOR TORPID LIVER.
A torpid liver deranges tbe wnol
system, and produces
SICK HEADACHE, -
Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheu
matism, Sallow Skin and Piles.
There Is no better remedy for tnese
common diseases than DR. TUTT'S
LIVER PILLS, as a trial will prove.
Take No Substitute.
Publication of Summons.
North Carolina Chatham County
la the Superior Court.
W. 13. Hart:&e
vs.
George YV. Troubieiield and others,
beirs-at-law of (ieorge P. Ilartsoe,
whose n .mes are unknown .
The defendants in the afcove entitled
cause will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been instituted
In tbe Superior Cuurt of Chatham
Cou' ty re urnable to the May Term,
1903, thereof, which term convenes on
the lirst M n ay in May, 1803; the
purpose of the action is to remove a
cioud from tbe title ot the plaintili in
a tract of land in trie said C unty oi
Chatham, State of North Can lina,
lying on New Hope creek and Haw
river, adjoining the lan-ls oi" T o.
Lasater, Alfred Johnson, Oscar iia-
ns. James .b arrel! and others, contain
ing 143 acres, and being ihe lands cfl
he late VVmship llartaw; said ciouiu
be"inr an alleged claim of George V .
Trouolefleld andtheoihtr heirs f Uto.
P. itarlsoe whose names arc unknowu
ana mev are nercuv nouiieu,
momxl and commanded to appear ,
on or before baid term of Court and'
answer or demur umiu lue nrsL
three daws therof to tbe complaint
filed in said actiu.i, or ihe ndist" de
manded m said complaint wid he
granted. Tl n s M a reh 1 J t n , 1 -O S.
JAS. Lj. GiilFFIN,
Cterk Superior Court.
Womack, Hayes & Bj num,
of counsel tor plaintili.
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i INISTRATOR'S NOTICE: nav
h in; qualified as administrator of
Jloyt Hackney, dec ased, I hereby
unify all persons holding claims a
cainst paid decedent to exhibit the
fame lo me on or before the 4th day
of March, 198'J. This March 4, 1908.
John W. Griffin.
Womack, IIaye9, & liynurn,
Attorneys.
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May 12th, 1907.
Dailv
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9.16
9 40
9.55
10 14
1037
10 50
11.02
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6.17 Kipling.
6 36 Lillinsion
6 48 Bnnlfivel."
6 58 Linder .
7.45 Ar. . Fayetteville . . Lv
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n: At it il-i-!i vvitii
Air Lias; at Vanui with Durham
wun Atlantic Uoast Lane Li, it.
JNO. A. MILLS, Pres. and en. Mgr.
sSummons Qy Publication.
.'orth Carolina, In the Superior
Chatham County. J Court.
Addie Haulsey
vs.
Hil.iard Haulsey.
The defendant above will take no
tice that the above entitled action has
been instiiutrd in the Superior Court
of Chatham onnty, North Carolina,
against the defendant for the purpose
if having him declared trustee for
the plaintiff in a tract of land iu Gu f
township, said county and State, ad
joining the la ds of Brantley Oldham,
Ernest Oldham, Archie Mclntyre and
the Uoldston heirs, containing ab ;ut
73 acres and more fully described in a
deed executed by W. T. Dowdy to
Iho defendant, aud also for the estab
lishment of hf r inar.tal rights in any
aud nil property which the defend
ant m y own in this county; and the
defendant will further take notice
that he is h-reby notifiel and siun
monea au 1 commanded to appear at
the &:iid May ierm, 1903, of Chatham
Sui trior t'ourt, which convents in the
court-house in Pittsbrro, N. C, on
the first Monday in May, 1903, wild
answer or deniur to the cornpi-unt
hied therein within the first three days
of the terna or the relief prayed for
wiil be granteJ.
This the 27th day of March, 1908
JAS. I.. GRIFFIN,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
NVomack, Hayes and Bynuir,
Attorneys.
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Ladie. Fiirniah.
find
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a. ui. ji. ro.
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10.06 515
9.50 450
9 40 4 32
9.23 4 17
9.02 3 64
'8.42 331
8 27 3 15
8.17 3 on
7.30 2.15
STATIONS.
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ullers
Springs.
Sjutmrn IUihv.iv iluA s-,hnJ
aud Southern By.; at Fayettevft
Coffins and
caskets::
A full stock of Coffins a
Caskets always on hand ar:
sold at all prices. All kind
and sizes.
B. Nooe,
Pittsborc,N.
Jan. 1, 1908.
EXECUTRIX NOTICE.-Havu
qualified -as the executrix
Tiioaias Horlon. deceased. I h re
notify all psrs ns h idiu? cla'rH
agai.ist said de.eJon to exhibit m
same to me o i o: before the lUh u;
of JJarch, 19 X).
M A 11 Y ELLEN 1IORT0S,
Womack, Hayes & Bynnm,
Attorneys.
This March 11, 1008.
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