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ij I I if iMpiMi i 1 11 V i b iq IP id ig i ft ii r ! a JAMES G. DOYLIN, Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, I S83. PHICE,et.5o a Yen NEW, SERIES-VOL X.-NO. 57. " - Wadesboro, N. C... Thursday. August 12. 1897. WHOLE NUMBER', 858 a n M ' la what gives Hood's Sarsaparilla its great popularity, its constantly increasing sales, and enables it to accomplish its wonderful and unequalled cures. The combination, proportion and process used in preparing Hood's Sarsaparilla ' re unDown to other medicines, and -v make Hood's Sarsaparilla Peculiar to itself It cnres a wide range of diseases because . of its power as a blood purifier. It acts directly and positively upon the blood, and the blood reaches every nook and corner of the human system. Thus all the nerves, muscles, bones and tissues come under the beneficent influence of run Sarsaparilla The One True blood Purifier. r $1 per bottle. -j - ere Liver Ills; easy to alOOa S HlIlS take, easy to operate. 25. R.T.Bennett, Jno. T. Bennett Cbawforb D. Bennett. Bennett & Bennett, .; Attorney s-at-Law, Wwtieauoro, - - - N. C. iX'Jt room on the right in the court bouse. TV ill practice in all the courts of the State. Special attention given to the examination and investigation of Titles to Real Estate, drawjug Deeds and other instruments, Col lection of Claims, the Managing of Estates for Guardians,, Administrators and Execu tors, and the Foreclosure of Mortgages. Will attend the courts of Stanly and Mont gomery counties. Prompt p.ttent.ion given to all business in trusted to them. T. L. ELLIOTT, Honnm&ntal Works. Agent for . 335 West Trade- Street. Charlotte, N. ,C. V.-F. GRAY, D. D. 8., tOfflce is Siinth & L r.nl&p Building. Wadesboro, North Carolina. A OPERATIONS WARRANTED AV ill be at Jloiven first Tuesday in each month. -i fV-; H k.' f H i i"? 5 hi C 4 H al 'M V'XCT ptsulsiir il! ubject tc is. The f'jjjjf rigUt remedy for csioitjj ins especially 'r disorders is Frey's Vermifuge has cured chiWron for CO years. Send for iiliis. look about the ilia ana the h. - S. iT.NT. ra?tuor, MS- 5. MORRISON - DEALER JN 1? mmm, WatriliPB, Clocks EyGlassos. Sptc Ib1-s ntid Jt-welery of all kincU re pair'd on hri nuiico. lipncted Walclies for S A. L. R Ii four years. 1 . FjiirtetMi yars xerie!ic. Can f.unl ir faraway's sioaeoa Ruth crfoi d street. . THE i t i TGUSE Us is or ten the best care. But many pwt'le caimnt affoi d o rest imfpilnitely Worse still the very knowledge that they cannot seriously intei fet es with the best use of the rest they have. Too iftn piing to Hie doct.ir means that the p:itient s'latl stop sli'M-t while ojirs and duties and expenses coHtinun. Mairy, therefore, hisitate ; and 4lKl:iy. Ors Starkly & Palen's Compoiifid Oxy-,ii-Treat.inent present! an easy way out of tlit dilem:na; it has done so for more than a Bcoie of years ami for more tUn; three score thousand popli'. Tlie agent used, i Uie ' Compound Oxyiten. The method puts it ' where it will di the most good-in the lungs Tiw treatmont neiihfr interferes with hau liers or pleasure. Thi simple thiiig has inide multita.ie tif run diwn, over worked. riervou and si-k people as (food as new. F.r furl tier particulars send for lev.k of 2iK) fifn, s'rtt free, Home or Oflic-e Treatment. 1,' t)suIttion frt. Drs, Starkey &l Palen, 15'T A.rcU St., PbihdeVhia, Pa.. The Georgia Philosopher Tl'rites a Strong Letter JCegardius this Practice. I had not intended to write anything more upon lynch law, but recent utterances from the press and the pulpit provoke me to say that the people of Georgia do not deserve the condemnation of friends or foes for their consent to lynchings when the crime is one that is nameless. , Our people areas humane and law-abiding to-day as they were thirty, forty or fifty years ago, and the records of the courts prove it in 1861 tb.3re w ere 2!6 white comicts in the peni tentiary; now there are but 196, and we have a greater population. There is 50 per cent less of felonies in Georgia than in New York or Mas.' achusetts, according to population. Of course, 1 mean among the whites. Now set that down. An Ohio paper has recently investigated the record of that nameless crime for the past ten years in that state and gives the figures which show 324 eases, and the ne gro criminals outnumber the whites six to one in proportion to population. In Geor gia they outnumber tse whites sixty to one and it is because of our scattered and un protected population in the rural districts. Before the war that crime was unknown and almost unheard Of in the south. I never heard of a case in north Georgia. In 1S52 1 had occasion to visit Cedar Bluff in Alabama and my companion, Judge Un derwood, stopped the horse to show me a pile of stones that was heaped up around a dead and blasted tree. "These stones," said be, "mark the place where a negro brute was burned two years ago and also mark the place where he committed the crime and theu murdered his victim." That was the only case that came to my knowl edge. During the war, when hundreds of families the only protectors of women and children were negroes, not a deed of vio lence or a betrayal of trust was heard of from the Potomac to the Rio Grand; and General Henry K Jackson eloquently said of them, "they deserve a monument that would reach the stars." How is it now? Nearly 3,003 colored convicts in the chaingangs and less than 200 whites, and the nameless crime is com mitted by negroes somewhere every day in the year. What is tha. cause of this alarm ing degeneracy of the negro? 1 heard a preacher say' the other day that lynching for this crime or any other-was the evidence of a depraved and lawless public senti ment." He is mistaken. It is rather the evidence of" minds charged, perhaps over charged, with love and respect for wives and daughters, and no man who has neith er is a fit juror to try the case. He is in capable of understanding or appreciating the common peril that, like a shadow, hangs over the fanner's home, be it ever so humble. Tarcntal love 'is' nearly all that these people have to give to their children and they give that and cherish; them and will defend them as a 'tigress, defends her whelps. What is the majesty of the law worth to a man whose child has falien vic tim to a brute? What is it to his neighbor who ail these years has been from time to time apprehending a .similar' visitation? What dees a young man, whether preacher or editor or lawyer, know about it? Jean inrjelow God biess her sweet memory!) makes the old fisherman losav: "1 feel or mariners of stormy nights and feel for wives that watch ashore." Who knows the perils of the deep like fisherman? Some of those learned judges and lawyers arid preachers of Atlanta -have-given vent to language that is bitter and malignant against lynchings for any crime, but it is to be noted that they have long lived in call of the police by night aud by day and with in buick walls and with neighbors at hand on every side. What can they know of the peril of the farmer whesa wife visits a neighbor, or whose children have to go a mile away to school. Perhaps some inquiring mind will ask what do 1 know about it? Twenty years ago I moved from the city iu the country and farmed there for ten years, and all that time the apprehension grew stronger and stronger, for there were negroes aH around me on the farms, and more negroes not far away working in the mines. I never expressed my fears, not even to my wife; but when our boys all left the farm for other avocations, and I had to bo away most of the time, my wife became alarmed, and I immediately left the farm and moved to town for security. So did every neigh bor that I had, and our school was broken' up -and the whole settlement abandoned aud turned over to negro tenants. The school house was a mile away, and I used to look with parental eagerness for the first appearance of the children's hats as they rose into view over the distant hill. Until then 1 never realized the common peril that environs the country people. I have a poor opinion of opinions unless they come from those, who are competent to judge. "Great men are not always wise," saith the scriptures. The nearer the press is to the people, the country people the more ready it is to apohgize,' or even to justify, the speedy execution of this class of criminals. The preachers and the press may fulminate and the governor proclaim, but 1 cannot help rejoicing at every cap ture and every execution. The. law's deU y has nothing to do with it. It is the spon taneous out bust of emotions long felt a;-d long smothered, and those emotions are based upon love love for home and wife and children, love and respect for the wives and daughters of the neighbors. Lynching negroes for this crime is no evi dence of lawlessness anions our neonle. The crime stands out by itself sb an atrocity for which ho law is adequate and no reme dy has yet beeu found. by it should be on the increase in defiance of lynchings we cannot tell. It may be that s:nce the war Northern, philanthropy; i supplemented by southern office-seekers, have so exalted his consequence , and his desire for social equality that his fear of punishment has been; allayed.'. But certain it is that the race has not yet been greatly intimidated by lynchings, and they are considered martyrs by most of. their preachers and teachers and editors."'-.How many more outrages there would be if these lynchings should stop we can only conjecture. Bish op Turner proposed a day of lasting and prayer-for the deliverance of his people from these horrible lynchings, but not a word about.-!be outrages that provoke them, - P.ut it is curious and somewhat amusing to read the different counts in this general bill in indictment against the people who resort to violence. Some assert yehemently that there is a defect in the law's machine ry, and some say hot. One preacher says that 98 per cent of those indicted escape. One more would come square up to Judge Dooly's estimate when lie jBaid; . "Gentle S)mVi!4 .tfeejtt.ry, J charge i Jthe -" ' ' ' ' "......--. - - -" .... .. ninety-nine guilty ones have already es caped." One learned lawyer says that Ry der would certainly have been triad ajnd convicted in September.. Another says he would have been sent to the asylum as a lunatic. Judge Bleckley says the law needs no reforming that it is sight now The Bar association have resolved that it does not need reforning. The preacher quotes scripture that says "The land must not be defiled with blood," but does not give the contest that says "innocent blood," and the further-eontext that says "Deliver him unto the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die, and thine eye shall not pity him." Life for life, hand for hand, etc. "Let them stone him with stones," etc. It seems like a burlesque lor any preacher to go to the old Mosaic law for a text against summary "punishment of heinous crimes. The avenger of blood was on the warpath all: the time and even the man who unwittingly killed his neighbor, not hating him beforehand, had to fly for his life to the city of refuge lest the avenger of blood overtake him, and being hot shall slay him. Tes, being hot shall slay birr.. Those avengers 'of blood must have been blood-thirsty fellows indeed. It was an awful codeof law, but the children of Israel were an awful race to deal with. I wonder what the boys of this generation would say to a law like this; "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or his mother, then shall his father lay hold on him and bring him to the elders and say this, onr son, will not obey our voice. And all the men of the city shall stone him with stones that he die. And Israel shall hear and fear?" What a horrible death was that! And yet it was a common and a frequent punishment. If 1 was a preacher 1 wouldn't go to the Old Testament for a text against lynching. I wouldu't even quote Cain, whom the Lord marked, for it seems very certain that if the Lord had not interfered the people would have lynched him. Jo sephus says that the Lord protected him because of his offering and because he en treated and said: "Is my sin too great to be forgiven?" lo my mind the sum of the whole matter is that neither the law's delay nor its un certainty has anything to do with the im pulses and emotions that control men when they pursue and overtake and identify and esecute a negro for his crime against help less innocence. Every parent and husband and brother in the neighborhood imme diately becomes an avenger of blood. If the brute has already been caught by the officers of the law and securely placed in prison, then lei him stay there and meet his doom according to law. I would not take any prisoner away from an honest and faithful sheriff unless perhaps the victim was one of my family, nor even then un less it could be done without shedding the blood of officers or friends. For all other crimes the laws we have are good enough for all good citizens, and 1 feel no great concern for the bad. I sup pose that at least half the lawyers carry concealed weapons, but they don't carry them for me. Certain it is 1 want no ad vice on this subject from pressor pulpit, from judges or lawyers, and especially from young unmarried men or those who live in rock-buiit cities.. J had rather hear and heed the voice of the women of this southern land, the mothers and daughters who alne are the victims when peril comes, if it comes at all. What do they say ? Brr.T. Ai:p. FOUGHT IX FROST CIILRCII. OF The Cotton Trust Again Baltimore Sun. The new Cotton Trust the New Orleans Tirues-Democrat much anxiety. A process for baling cotton in cylindrical bales, known as the Bessonette process, hits been pat tented and t he patten t is owned by the American Cotton Companjv This company is said to be a child of the Sugar Trust. It has established its presses at a smalltown in Mississippi ou the river, and our New Orleans contemporary is alarmed lest this patent shall give the company con trol of the cotton crop of the South just as the Cottonseed Oil Trust got the cotton seed upon its own terms. The reason of Ibis alarm is that the new baling process possesses such advantages oyer the prevailing meth od that finally cotton will not be readily marketable unless baled by the Bessonette process. ' Should this come to pass the fears of the Times Democrat may be realized. It sug gests that to provide against future abuses of power the company should be muzzled before it becomes too powerful to attack. Hecent experi ence in the Senate and in the Leo-, islature of many States teaches us that the rich trust exercises a power which is as mysterious as it is potent. Aa I:is!ih View of the foMc ; nation of President Autlsews. London Dispatch of the 3!st. 'The Spectator, in a eloomv article, enti- "Aggressions of American Wealth," to the retirement of President An- tled refers Rev. Mr. White Describes tin Moonshiner's Battle iu Stokes I'ontily. Raleigh News and Observer. . Rev. John E. White, . secretary, of the Baptist Home Mission Board, yesterday .brought from Stokes county some additional facts about the moosbi tier's battle at Oak Ridge church. Sunday, at the annual session of the Pilot Mountain Bap tist Association. Mr. "White had been I preaching and members of the con gregation were on the point of leav ing for their respective homes, when George Preddy, a revenue officer, ar rested Jim Taylor, a celebrated blockader. "It was the most desperate strug gle I have ever seen," said Mr. White. "There was a big crowd present, pistols were drawn, women screamed, men looked ugly and it was an-thing else but pleasaut for the most disinterested spectator. I have often had my meetings closed with a shouting but never before with a shooting." Preddy is a newly appointed de puty marshal for Stokes county.. He succeeded Jim Smith, who, while a marshal, Mr. White tells me, was a "pardner" of Jim Taylor, the moon shiner. This being the case, Tay lor openly ran a moonshine corn juicery and kept a barroom, without license, on the public road. But on August 1st Smith's term of office expired and he was succeed ed by Preddy. On receiving his commission Preddy sent Taylor word that he had four warrants for him and that he was going to arrest him. Taylor replied by sending back the message: "Gst four more and put them up to the highest bidder. Preddy was at the Association Saturday, says Mr. White, looking for Taylor, but he was not there. But Sunday Talor came to the Asso ciation with his wife. Preddy w.as on the lookut for him.. As soon as the sermon was concluded Taylor got up and left the church before the congregation was dismissed. His wife followed him. Discover ing that Preddy was present Taylor attempted to leave the grounds in his bugsv before- the '"congregation dispersed. With hi3 wife beside him he drove in front of the chureh and Preddy immediately approached the bursv and commanded him to sur render. Taylor leaped from the bug gy with his pistol in his hand. As he jumped out Preddy shot him, the ball passing through the hand in which Taylor held the pistol and grazing the haud of his wife in the buggy. The woman screamed and a terrible struggle ensued for.teji minutes. Preddy was assisted by four men in trying to tie Taylor, Taylor's clothing was torn frorh his back. After at least ten minutes the officers were still uuable to tie him. Then Preddy said, "Jim Taylor damn you, you have doue enough to justify me in killing jou and I'm going to do it. Stand back!" And Preddy waved his pistol around the crowd and took aim at Taylor's head as he layou the ground. A b37staud- er caught Treddy's arm. Taylor then said, "I'll go." The officers tied him. But by that time he had changed his mind and re fused to get into the' cart Peddy took aim at him again, theatening to shoot him. Taylor then climbed iuto the cart and was taken to Dau- bury jail. . . "The screams of the female mem bers of Taylor's family and the tu mnlt of the crowd present," said Mr. White, "made a scene of great ezcite ment lasting over an hour." Taylor' brother-in-law, a voting LARGE .COTTON tKOP PROSPEtT. Outlook Fine For One of the Largest Crops iu Years The Acreage Is Very' Large aud Frice Will Not lie High Mar ket Shert on Raw Material. Atlanta Constitution, 7th. The prospects are very bright for the larg est cotton crop that has bee i raised in the history of the south. A "larger acreage has been plante'd than heretofore, and the con ditions have been exceedingly favorable. Recent reports from all parts of the south say that the farmers liavB forsaken other crops and are relying in some localities al most entirely for the year's yield on cotton. In the Mississippi valley the recent floods had a tendency to increase the fertility of the soil, and in those places where the wa ters went down soon enough to plant the crop the farmets will gather a third more to the acre. In Georgia the farmers have not heeded the words of the emigration agent, and the reports show more of the soil. of this State to be covered with cotton than ever before. This year it is said that they have only planted enough outside, of the cotton crop for home consumption They are now much encouraged by the outlook of the market and will send in their bales as soon as the crop is picked. . Noae of the raw material is now on hand for present consumption, and many of the mills in the south and in the east have been compelled to shut down for the lack of the raw product." Some of the mills in North Carolina have recently been forced to apply to the eastern markets for enough cotton to fill the orders they have now ou hand. This has caused the market to have an upward tendency, and now stands at 7 cents. The first bale has not yet been re ceived in Atlanta, although the crop is well advanced, and the indications point to a rapid influx when it begins to mature. . COI.OXKL MADDOX ON THE CKOI. Colonel 11. F. Maddox, who is closely identified with the cotton interests of the south, and is thoroughly conversant with the existing conditions of the crop, speaks very assuring!- of a large crop and lower prices. "From what 1 can learn," he said yester day, "the fanners have planted more cot ton seed and tiie conditions of the weather have been favorable for the growth and maturity of the largest crop in ttie-history of the world, for the south is the cotton world to a very great extent. "The acreage in Georgia is very large The farmers Know that cotton is the great est paying crop in this State, and they act accordingly. When a good cotton year comes siong like the present one, they can realize more than any two years on any other crop. Much fertilizer has been used and this has helped to mature an earlier crop than woald have otherwise been. "The whole south is in about the same condition as Georgia, and the yield in other states will be greater , than heretofore. There is no way in explain this other than to say that it just happened so. Tle tarru- ers want money, and they think this is Hie best way to get it. They have learned that cjtton will net more to the acre in this part of the country than any other thing they can plant, and with judicial care it will al ways yield well, provided it is a good season. RAW MATERIAL .SCARCE. "The market now is short on the raw material, and it is in demand. The mi generally are well supplied. The easlern factories betler than the southern ones. understand that the raw cotton has ticen brought from t lie east to supply some of our southern mills. I believe that eventu ally the mills of the east will be brought to the home of the raw product, "Owing to the large production, the price will be corresponding' low. ' It is pow at about 7 cents, or a little aboif. TJiisrice thus early in the season does mot promise well for the price later on. I do Yiot believe the price w'11 reach lo cents this year. If it remains in the neighborhood of 7 or 8 cents, the farmers will be excellently re paid. They Know this, and are not com p'aining. Isr fact" the people who live on the farms were never in' a better condition. They have a sufficiency- of al! they need. They do not want money. They are not borrowing as in previous years, aud 1 be 'lieve that this year vfbeu.the crop are all laid by we will find fhat-ftfey 4iave had a a marvelously prosperous year WHEAT AM SILVER. Atlanta Constitution. The gold organs are now pointing to the divergence between the prh-e of wheat and the price of silver, and declaring with some show of triumph that the recent fall in wheat explodes the argument of the bimet alists that silver and the staple crops rise or fall together. But some very able editors are calling attention to the matter and pounding their tomtoms. And this is all the more singu lar since some of the newspapers engaged in "gloating" over the situation print in parallel columns a complete answer to their own arguments. In one column they say a free coinage fallacy is exploded by the up ward tendency of wheat, and in another column they print a full explanation of the divergence. They print the explanation and then ignore it. The truth is that the providential causes which have cut short the wheat crops in Argentina, in llussia, in India and in Ger many, have temporarily given the advant age to the American wheat growers. The situation is such that the American wheat growers should be getting J1.50 a bnshel for their wheat. They are receiving about 70 cetits. But this is 20 cents more than they woald receive if the world's crop of wheat were an average one. It is plain to be seen, therefore, that the divergence between the trice of wheat and that ;of silver is due to the fact that the American wheat growers are called on to supply the world's demand for the cereal. The particular circumstances that have brought this about are purely providential in their character, and are therefore, out side of alt argumentation. They cannot be relied on to establish a theory or to upset a fact. They may occur again next year, or fail to occur during the next century. Meanwhile, it should be clearly borne iv mind that bimetallists have never contenu ed that wheat and silver, or cotton and sil ver, would rise and fall together untfer all conditions and circumstances. Tlyir con tention, which has been established by ir refutable data, is that, other tfiings being equal, the price of silver and the prices of the staple crops will rise fall together; or, to put it in simpler firm, that the aver age of prices over any wies of years will show that silver and the staple crops rise or fall in the markets together.- Extraordinary -conditions sach as the failure of wheat crops in other countries caunot be fatten into consideration. They are unforeseen and stand apart. When sil ver fell as the result of the closing of the Indian mints, wheat and cotton did not re spond until the following year. Just at present wheat shows an upward tendency because our wheat growers are unexpectedly called on tosupply the world's demand. Is there any guarantee that they will be so unfortunate next year, or ibe year Rfter? Do the cold economists propose to make crop failures in other countries the basis of permanent prosperity? Do they propose to maintain the gold standard by claiming that, among other thingst it is warranted to produce crop failures in ail countries, except Use United Stales. . Along with the increased demand for American wheat, there is a decrease in the demand f-r silver. Japan u no longer a purchaser; the demand fr-nn China is fall en off, and the condition of India is such as to warrant no importations of bullion to that country. Tims we have conditions that explain the tt-nipoiary divergence in price. On the other baud we have with us an object lesson in cotton. With the crop out of the hands - f the farmers aud at the heels of the season, it is bringing not more than 7 cents on the farm. So far as the prices of wheat and silver arc concerned, we can confidently promise o;ir gold economists that they will even up. When competing nations make average it will be found that the price of wheat will fall to the silver level. We would remind the. gold editors that true economists do not attempt to establish theories on the basis of temporary and. extraordinary conditions They knw that data based on these are misleading and wholly untrutw orlhy. SOJIE RELIGIOUS STATISTICS Increase In the Nnmber or Chnrche aud Preaeher of the United States lu Ten Years. New Tork Sun. The United States is the only country in which an official census omits matters relating to the relig ious belief of the inhabitants. In every European country, in Canada, South America, India and Australia, when a census is .taken by govern ment or local authority, inquiry is made into the religious belief of the uiuauiiuiiic, o.uu l lie ;uaiviii ia um- I versal to inscribe to the minor, chil- , dren of a family the religion of tVe parents guardians. In the United States, however, the antipathy to the admixture of religion - withsecular matters has always serve as a bar against inquiries by census officials on religious matter?, tfiid the nearest approach to such information has come, therefore,, from statistics cf church sittings. There is kept, too, but by no oSfcial authority, a record of the number of ministers of each religious denomination, and a com parison of the figures for the last fe vears is interesting as showing Absolutely Purs. Celebrated for its great leaveninz strer.tft! and iiealthfnliHtiS. Assure;!.- f'Hl u'"in.- alum and all forms of adulteration '',ul,i- i to the cheap brand. Koyal Kakix I'OWDEI! Co., NKW "iOKK. AXOTIIER FUSION KLl'SDEK. drews from Brown Ui:iversityt saying: ; "We can scarcely escape the conclusion that a conspiracy exists among the heads of trusts in America tr interfere with the freedom of teaching in the universities, sc far as economic questions are concerned, in order that nothing shall be uttered which has not received the trademark of monopolist approval." The paper pictures the Americans as re duced almost to the situation of litmsia by the censorship of wealthy magnates over the universities, and says: "Capitalists have subsidized the putpits, bought np the press, 'seated well paid attorneys iu the Senate, and finally have reached their hands out to the colleges, which it is an easy thing to capture by such geuerosity as Mr. Rock feller's. Apparently it is their intention to covert the United iStates into a powerful oligarchy, and they will extend the sway of that oligarchy to otller lands when they ci.n." . , Cleveland Slxued For a Saloon. New York World; t The World says thai Grover Cleve land, by sigulng'his name to a paper lias provided I'nncetou witlui saloon. .Twelve liames Were necessary te keep opeu lh saloon, the license of which expired t,he first day of May, aud Mr. Cleveland's was the twelfth. . - . il he Princeton Inn, the resort so "fortunate to get the signature of one'of .the two surviving former Presidents is about 1,200 feet from the corner xt th college campus, and is in the center of " college life at Princeton. When only eleven names had been secured the license for liqnr-sellinff boy about 17 years old, jumped on at tbe inn hati expired, but the place his mine, as soon as tne oliicers start ed to Danbury, and rode off to sum mon aid to help take Taylor from was not closed. gested Cleveland's name . Wis Jlen Know It is folly to build upon a poor foundation, either in architecture or in health A foun dation of sand is Insecure, and to deaden symptoms by narcotics or nerve compounds is equally dangerous and deceptive. The lrue way to build up healUi is to make vour blood pare, rich and nourishing by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Hood's Pim.s act easilvand promptly on the liver and bowels. Cures skk head- the officers. But they did not at tempt it and he was taken safely to jaii at Danbury. "I saw four pistols ;drtiwn in the crowd. I do not know for jvhom they Were drawn, though the sym pathy of the crowd was decidedly in Taylor's favor, except among the very best people. 'Taylor has been a desperado for years. ; He keeps an open bar ou the road, pays no tax for his bar or ou his whiskey an has always defied ar rest. He usually carried with him a Winchester rifle," Doa't Toiaoco Spit aad Sccke Toar Lua Away. If you want to quit tobacco uiiig- easily and forever, beiaauc weil, strong-, niatruetic, full cf new life and vi.or, tike No-'lo-liao, the wonder-worker, that malies, weukmeu .-.tronj. Many gain tin pounds iu ten days. Over 400,000 cured. ' Buy No-To-Bac of your drusrgist. under pnur nteo to euro. 5uo or $1.(4). Booidfi ami sample laafkKi Ireo. Ad. SStrlfag iieme iy CQ..tVi ocprpn Vprlr, Some one then sus- aud when he was consulted he readilv affixed his name. ' . w - t Finger And Tlinmb in a IWgro's I'orbvt. Greenville, !?. C, News., ' A negro vagrant was arrested aud carried before Magistrate O'Shields yesterday. On examination two fin gers Vere found in his pocket. 'The doctors say they were cut from a liv ing person several months ago. They aiso sam one was a thumb aud tne rother a forefinger aud that they origi nally belonged to a woman. If any" reader of the Xews has lost such fin gers lie or she can regaiu them by appearing .before Magistrate O'iShieids aud proving property. First Stranger: ! say, that's my um brella you have!'' Beet.md .Strangeti "1 don't doubt it. bir T J J. ,1 i . r , . x uiti i u.'ui'i ii i uougm u at a juiwn- The I'iclipocliofs Death. Youth's Companion." It is an evident fact that the body when it has long beeu a slave to evil passions, finds its next to impossi ble to break its chains. The mind may. passionately . desire righteous living but the abused nervous system fallen iuto iron habits, refuses the soul's behest. Canon Gore writes that he was once present at the death-btd of a pickpocket, a man who professed himself to be singerely penitent, aod who believed iu the forgiveness of sins. He had said good-by to this world and the clergyman sat by his bed side waiting for his last moment to come. Suddenly the finking ninn exclaimed, iu a hoarse aud painful whisper: "Look out for 3-011 r watch!" They were his last words. He had died iu their utterance, and the clergvmau's watch was fonnd iu his lifeless hand. lie haduot been able to resist the nearness of au article that could be stolen." His enfeebled vill could not prevent the muscles fallingiuto their old habits; but his miui his soul, shall we say pro tested to the last. the changes going on in the various denominations. Ten years agothere were in the United States 38,522 Baptist churches and 23,377 Baptist clergy men. There are now 45,802 Baptist churches and ,31,573 Baptist clerg3' men. Ten years ago there were in the United States 48,263 Methodist churches and 28,075 Methodist cler gymcu. There are thirteen sub-divisions of American Baptists and seventeen American Methodists, but for purposes of ordinary computa tion they are spoken of as Metho dists and Baptists collectively. Ten 3-ears ago there were in the United States 6,910 Catholic churches "aud 7.G58 Catholic clergyman. Ten years ago there wero 7,t'92 Lutheran churches and 4,215 Lutheran clergy men. There are now 9,403 of the former and 5,685 of the latter, the increase being iu a considerable j. i 1 1 -1 . measure co me targe ana steady im migration from north Germany and Scandinavian countries totheL'nited States. Ten years ago there were returned in tho United States 3G9 synagogues ana jvj rabbis occupy ing pulpits in Jewish synagogues. There are now returned 548 syna gogues and 290 rabbis though ob viously the latter number is much too low and the disparity arises from the fact that there are a considera ble number of rabbis who do uot appear in the church records as such, as they follow other pursuits. Ten years ago there were in the United State 12,437 Presbyterian churches and 9,C54 Presbyterian ministers. By the last figures at hand there were 14,530 Presbyterian churches and 13,47G Presbyterian ministers. Teu years ago there were 3,540 Epis copal clinches and 4,139 Episcopal clergymen in the United Slates. There are now 5,979 of the former and 4,580 of the latter. All religious organizations iu the United States haye grown in mem bership and church accommodations during the last ten years, but the gain as the hgures show, has been somewhat unevenly distributed. StrTcliuiue for Oiiiiiinc Cuusrs Two Dentil. Durham Sun. Information reaches Durham of a sad af fair tha happened at Bennehan, a station on the Durham and Northern road, Tues day, by which two persons lost their lives. A colored woman by the name of Mrs. Will Bailey, by mistake took strychnine fur quinine. !;e also gave a d.ise t a child of her sister. The poieon soon got ii its deadly work. The woman's mistake was nut dis covered in time to save their livrs. The Latv Slaking Stufe Itontl or Kqualizaliou is Io;erali Sajs thairman Wilton. News and Observer. It seems that the last Legislature did nothing right. The 'members were st busy creating offices for them selves, that they had no time to look after legislation. Where they wers not currnpt they were ignorant. . Where they were not ignorant, they were so utterly careless and inat tentive to their duties that the- took no notice of conflicts existing in the laws passed. When the law was passed creating a State Board of Equalization, there was a g'ret flourish of trumpets, and the people were informed thht the 'reformers were going to so equalize the burdens of taxation that the in equalities that bad formerly exhte I would hereafter be "conspicr.ons f r their absence." The law was passed the evil was remedied and the news went out that reform was tri umphant aud the wicked tax-doura were no more to be permitted to es cape their just share of the burdens of taxation. In an interview, Maj. James W. Wilson, chairman of the Board cf Equalization, lias this to say iu rela tion to the law: "The act creating this board re quires all the property to be report ed to the Auditor aud given to ns by August 16th, this year. Up to ihis" date only thirty-four counties have made returns. It is inipossib'e t take action until all are in. If aU are here by the 10th, it will givtj only fifteen days to equalize tiud re turn to each county for revision of its lists, and then to return to our board. This is an impossibility. It would require at least two month to correct properly aud make a report, but sheriffs are required to have their tax lists in hand by September 1, aud persons failing on that day tu pay their taxes are liable to imprison ment for such failure. The bill whicji created our board is a copy of the Idaho law, aud ia uot at all suited to North Carolina. In one place it requires the sheriff, and in auother the register of deeds, ta make returns. There is dispute as to which shall do it,.aud as a result, the work is not done bv either. Loiirt-liow's First roetu. mil fixxev's -rrnxir. Longfellow composed the following poem in half an hour, when only U years old. Mr Finney had a turnip, -; And it grew, and it grew. And it grew betibid the barn. Ami the turnip did no harm. And it grew and it grew, Tiil i! could grow no taiier; Then Mr. Finney took it up Aiul put it in the cellar. There it lay, there it lay, Till it began to rot; When his daughter Susie washed if, And she put it in the pot. Then she boiled it, and boiled it. As long as she was able; Thau his daughter Lizzie took it, Aud she put it on the labia. Mr. Fiuney aaid his wife Both sat down to sup; Aud they ale, and they ate, Uuiil they aie the turnip up. Liottm 'Hot. Pills Should be in every fjtnily iwdicine chest and evny trawl W grip. They are qva'uabl ttheii tlie f-tm:irl is out t4 nrdiT; rare hoadatli, Vitiousurss. ih3 Tlie t'olortl I)ea-oustf-'ixuratiro I'rayer. Uoanoke Xews. A white minister, after conducting ser vices at a colored church, asked an old deacon to lead iu prajer. The brother in black offered a fervent appeal for the wliite brother and said: "O, Lord, gib hnu tie eye ub de eagle det he spy oat sin afar off. Lay bis bauds to de (Jospel i-l'ng!., Tie his tongue to de line ob tiuth. Xail bis ear to de Uospel pole. Bow his head way down letwetn his kmna, and !; kirn way iioH 111 nik:k nr.c;ome, uais n:n r.arrer 1 alley w her pi ayir is much wanted b be ' muiie. 'N'oinl hi 111 wid de keneuo lie t 1 jiihtshon and sit him on lire."' Condition Powders for Io:rJvy. The use of pulverized cayenne pepper or capsicum, so often advis ed and resorted to, should be di. coursged on account of its ftror.g, penetrating and almost poiecnous nature. While it may prove effica cious for the moment, after its in fluence has beeu dispelled it' leaves the system more enfeebled than at tbe outset. In its place some reconi menu the follouin compound; Carbonate of iron, one ounce; anie seed, two; powdered ginger, six mustard, one; table salt, two; sul phur, two; licorice, four; powdered, charcoal, fourteen. These pow dered ami mixed thoroughly make two pounds of good condition pow der, and if kept in a tight box will d serviceable for a long time. A te-i-spoonfnl in ten quarts f soft feed or in that proptiiion fed every day iu warm weather, or every other day iu stotmy and cold weather, wii prove of service. For growing chicks, one half tlie amount of pow ders in the tame quantity if feed i sufiicient. A teaspoonfnl of tinc ture of iron to each gallon of drink ing water should be provided in ali bad seasons. Now i.s tLe liaie to sulv-t-rilv fr tlie MK-v-EM.tn AXl) LNTfcl l.!;j;t LU. Jt prints the news. I Jpst try bv-. 1 jjv-j am iA'UtJ ;i orOasr;rfts.H!t finest A Bis: .Mosquito Kile. Wilmington, 1 VI., l:s;air'a, i;id. Samuel lJarnes, of this city, rvrirr?4 fism lkt;ut t'lty, IvKiay, suleiiuj. from a painful wor.uJ cutied by amt.jui tu bit;.. Wlijie litanil'ug u a l.ukd jon k he was bitten lb; j:t;n!r v-ie by a imuiinuxh miju:'o i;. hh) .-.j u.-'.t-d froia lhe-Vfja in Mk-ii hu:ui:;i;cs lUal s?vti'l haiulUvbi"f ttexe .s41ui4d aod Ivii !di:ht i u cowivJ w.ui blood. Whita iiitxno compauioiui rushcj fjr a lim-inr !6 ,hwJ inaa applied a ls piuj!iv t y.- Wool! L, ttl. it'll OttilJ :Sitja(J ihe &vk ut X
The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Aug. 12, 1897, edition 1
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