THE COUNTY UNION DUNN, Harnett County, N. C. Entered accoi ding to postal regula rs at the postoffice t Dunn, N. C, as gions at the postottice tecond class matter. J. P. Pittman, Proprietor, A. M. WoODAIX, Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Three Months .25 Cents. Six Months One Year .. .oO merits. , $1.00. Sent by Mail. Payable in advance Dunn, N. C,, January 25, 1839. To Tobacco Growers. As it is manifestly needful that attention should be turned to some other than cotton, as a money crop, the question of to bacco is being brought promi nently to the front. The lands in Ihis, and adjacent vicinities are as much adapted to the growth of fine tobacco, as it is in the very best tobacco section of the State ; and there is no part of North Carolina or Vir ginia, not even in what is called the "Tobacco Belt;" (where many have made fortunes by it) that boasts can be made of greater possibilities and better prospects of success than in our section. We will never succeed at anything until we try. Many say they have no experience and therefore fear to venture ; don't know how; &c. To such we would say that we have a "tobacco man" in our town, with whom we lrave arranged to publish from time to time (in The County Union, and just as needed, as the crop pro gresses) essays or articles, short, comnrehensive, and to 7 x ' the point ; covering the whole ground from the seed sowing to the delivery on the warehouse floor, just such informartion as .will' insure success if followed up, and the following up be ea sily done. "They Have Glory Enough. On last Saturday in the House of Representatives the bill to appropriate money to publish sketches of North Car olina troops in the Civil War came up for consideration and was passed by a unanimous vote. The bill provides for the printing of 1,000 copies to be bound in cloth, and distributed as follows: One - copy to the clerk's office in each countv, one copy to the State Library. and one copy in each college library in tne btate. Also a copy to any public school libra ry in tne btate. utner copies are to be distributed as the trus tees of the State Library may deem advisable and the balance are to be sold by the Secretary of State Harnett's Representative Hon. D. H. McLean, made a short speech in advocacy of the bill, of which the News & Ob server savs and quotes as fol lows : The debate "Wiis brought to a fitting close by Mr. Dan Hugl McLean, of Harriett, Though his speech was short consist ing of hardly a dozen sentences he has never uttered any thing more truly beautiful more entirelv appropriate. He hoped his rising to sar a wore . would not be construed into an apprehension on his part that this bill would not pass. He knew it would pass without a word from him, without a word from anybody. .Mir. it -i , -e wouiu aisnonor our selves, dishonor the State, if we failed to pass it. The dead and living soldier in that --me mora ble strife we cannot dishonor. They have glory enough, hewn out with their own hands. It is the perpetuation of this rec ord that is asked by this bill. ' 'The youth of the future will read it with pride. They will find recorded there the deeds of their fathers. We need Southern history of this con flict, fori had rather the stars be blotted from the skies than that any son of a Confederate veteran should ever think his father had worn a traitor's uni form." Referring to Senator Butler's bill to pension Confederate sol diers by the United States" gov ernment, Mr. McLean-said : "This man does not - repre sent the genius and sentiment of the South the soldier who has written his name in imper ishable letters on the scroll of fame. No wonder they have spurned it and trampled it un der foot. Thev ask no. alms. i.1 1 ! 1 . 11 I mej asK oniy simple justice. ; jMcKay Bros. & Skinner. Shall the Whites be Taxed to Educate Negroes? This is one of the tangled problems that is now confront ing the learned body of Demo cratic White Supremacy Legis lators at Raleigh. Thousands of poor whites voted them into place and pow er, last November, but they never imagined then, that these same Legislators, when in pow er, would vote awav their mon ey to educate negroes. True, they haven't yet done so, and, may be, they will not. We write from the stand point of the poor white voter and tax payer. ' We have heard them talk, and have listened to their complaint, and we know, that to their minds, the com plaint seeins a just one; and this is the way they speak of it. "Shall I be taxed to educate tjie negro? I, who can barely pay taxes at all, and cannot educate my own children, hard ly can live; at best, shall I be taxed to provide schools tor ne gro children all over the btate t 1 1 most ungrateful and unthank ful being on earth, is the negro, even when he knows that white people are paying for the edu cation of his children. They turn up their noses at poor white children, and, (if they dared) will push them off the sidewalks into the gutter; and, out in the country, along the public highway,, they often ride over poor white people who are on foot, if they are not quick, to step aside, calling them "poor white trash," a favorite ex- nression anion r nesroes for all white people who have to work hard for their daily bread. "Educate the negroes," con tinues our brother who labored and voted for White Suprema cy "educate them," and you "put a, stick in their hands to crack our heads; for, as be fore said, they are, ungrateful,. and most unthankful for favors done them. The more educa tion he and his acquires, through Democratic kindness and liberality, the more he and V 7 they will vote the Republican ticket every time,, and they de spise the hand that bestows them benefits, if it be Demo cratic. There may be excep tions to this rule,, but they are "few and far between." Give the negro a smattering of learning, and . you make a fool of him. Educate . him a little further, and he becomes as proud as Lucifer. Pile a little more book-knowledge into his head, and there'll be no living in the same neighbor hood, town, or country with him. The point of view we take, is that of the poor white man, whose "little ones," in their poverty, will never have the educational privileges, that Democratic legislators, of our own making, will provide, with their money, for the education of negroesT Thereat Book of Books has already spoken, in words of living liglit, concerning the Af rican race, to Canaan, the son of Ham, saying: "Cursed be Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." And this high decree of heaven, reaches down to that race, to day, that live among the white or Anglo-Saxon people, in all lands. Shall the White Supremacy party of North Carolina be the means of thwarting this ancient fiat of the Great Creator? Will they take away , the servitude, of the negro, and, by education, place him in the position of ruler, or master over his white neighbor, instead? We trust not. White people don't need any educated negroes among them. This is the sentiment of a host of tax payers who hesitate to speak openly ; but they bitterly oppose paying taxes for the education of the black race. From the standpoint of the poor white man, it would be a grievous wrong done to thou- sanus 01 wmie cniiuren arounu 1 - e 1 a . i i i i us, and would be so regarded by their fathers and mothers. It is a white man s country -t -1 1 we live m, ana we speak in their behalf, when we say let not our General Assembly at Raleigh, legislate against the To The Public. We are authorzjd to guarantee every bottle of Chamberlaiu's Cough Remedy and if not satisfactory to re und the . money to the purchaser There is no better medicme made for a grippe, colds and whooping cough. Price. 25 and 50o ner bottle- Trv it. ' " interests of the very people who helped them to ride down negro domination successfully, last November and to establish White Supremacy effectually in North Carolina. Let negro tax-money go to build up negro schools. This will afford him education suffi cient to read his Bible, and find the way of salvation. More than this he will not need, while he lives among the whites. We lay down this proposi tion : The white people of the South do not need educated ne groes among them. In a finan cial point of view, it .'will not pay. In a moral point of view it is hazardous ; and in a social point of view, it is so disgust ing as to be absolutely unthink able. Don't do it. Spectator, Bkauty is Bjlood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keep it clean by stirring vip the lazy liver and driving all impurities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boil., blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion br taking Cascarets beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c. 25c, 50c. An Army Post for Raleigh. A dispatch from Washington to the News and Observer of Sunday says : "North Carolina items in the River and Harbor Bill, are as follows: Northeast. (Cape Fear) river, $2,000 ; Cape Fear river, (above Wilmington) $2, 500 ; Cape Fear river (at and below Wilmington), $150,000. Senator-Pritchard to-day in troduced a bill for the estab lishment of a military post at Raleigh. Under its terms not less than 540 acres, nor more than 2,000 acres, to be selected within ten miles of Raleigh, the site to be approved by the Commanding General of the army. The bill .carries an ap propriation of $100,000 for the purpose. The Senator believes there is an excellent chance of securing the establishment of the post. Truth wears well. People have learned that DeWitt's Little Early Risers are reliable little pills for regulat ing the bowels, curing constipation and .-ick headache. They Hood & Grantham don't gripe, Who Will Write It ? Dunn is a phenomenal town ; no other town in this State has made such rapid, progressive strides, aud to-day it shows more life than at any time dur ing its brief existence. Dunn is destined to be a city, and to the few "pioneers" who wTere here during the winter and spring of 1886 and 1887 its past I history is familiar, but 95 per , ,1 I , p , 1 1 4.1 c i- fi, i?T events, that make up the early i,;4. e x- iui. . answer these questions ? Who are those here now that have remained since the winter ofl88G-'87? Who bought the first lot at the first sale of lots? town Who built the first store? Who built the first dwelling? Who bought the first bale of cotton on the Dunn market? Who sold the I first ton of guano in Dunn? Who were the first couple to marry in Dunn? Who was the first child born in Dunn? Who was the first mavor of Dunn? When was the first death in Dunn? ... WhoVlied? When was the first fire in the town? When was the first effort made to establish law and order in the town? Why not gather and keep the records of our early history, part of which would read like a tale of frontier adventure, when our town shall have taken on the garb of a city and the old first settlers shall have lost sight of the incidents of "our early days, it will have been too late to gather up facts as we can now. Let's do something to pre serve a record of those early days. "Citizen." . The Union will be pleased to have short articles, or con tinued articles, on the history of the town. As "Citizen" says, "why not gath er and keep the records of our early history?" It would, in deed, be interesting and in structive reading to all our cit- lzens. v no will give us tne first article on the. history ofj Dunn? j j. - - , .... -' THE LEG IS LA TURE What our Busy Lawmak ers are Doing at che Capital City- Senate January 23rd. There were twenty new bills introduced in the Senate to-day and six bills passed third read ing. Among tha new bills, all of which were of a private or local character were the following : to authorize Rutherford county to levy a special tax ; to pre vent fast riding and driviug in Craven county ; to provide for correcting .defects in Wills in Pamlico county ; to change the manner of electing officers in Hertford county ; to increase the number of commissioners in Perquimans county; to amend laws of 1891 relating to lease of- turpentine orchards ; to regulate the sale of cider and wine in Robeson county ; to amend the charter of the Golds boro Dumber Company; to pro vide for court stenographers ; to amend the stock law of Hender son county ; to prevent the building of barbed wire fences parallel to and in 200 feet of railroads in Henderson county. The bills passed are : To amend chapter 153, private laws of 1893, relating ! to the charter of Fayette ville ; to im prove the roads of Anson coun ty ; to authorize Bertie county to issue bonds : to change the town of Harrison, Pitt county, to Ayden ; to repeal chapter 261, laws of 1897, establishing Chapel Hill School district ; to authorize Randolph county to pay a school claim amount ing to $120. House January 23rd. Fifty-six new bills and nine resolutions were introduced at to-day's session. Of the bills the following are of general in terest : . To define the duties of law yers and give the - judge power to disbar them from practice ; to protect the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina; to- enable a hemesteader to sell his home stead and buy another, provided tlie land sold shall be subject to execution in sale ; to make it a misdemeanor to cut and carry away wood and other perma nent products of land without consent of the owner ; to amend section 2, article 9, of the Con stitution, in regard to schools and taxation therefor ; to regu late the fees of registers of deeds; to authorize the Wil mington and Weldon Railroad Company to change its name to Coast Line. Railroad Company of North Carolina ; to prevent pools, trusts, conspiracies and unlawful combinations. The House indulged in quite 'a lengthv debate on. the bill for ' ih ICl-liiLIlv UCUcllC Ull.lXlO Ull. the payment 01 $120 to A. L Swmson. enrolling clerk of the c . 1 ' . , fe or.- , i fusion legislature of 189 and who was turned out of the office because he would not appoint two negroes clerks under him, and a bill exempting roller ms froni the provisions of the j Code as to public mills. Both I 1 Ml IP i l 1.1 1 i Dins were cieieatect aicnougn Iff l) ha been - reported favora bly by the committees. Four bills passed only two of public interest to remove the disabilities of married wto men as to real estate ; to puuish a sheriff for failure to return a process issued by a magistrate. To Cube Constipation Fok eve r. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. ICc or 25cy If C. C. C. fail to cure drug. jnsts refuna the money. PRIZE FIGHT. NOT KNOCKED OUT BUT STILL IN THE RING and prepared to furnish Beef, Pork, Sausage, Fresh Fish and Oysters in SEASON, cheaper than ever. before, at my same old stand, next door to Hood & Grantham, where I will be pleased to serve you with tlie best the country af fords at prices that can't be duplicated. Thanking my, friends, who have so liberally patronized me for the past four years, and ask ing a continuance of the same, I am yours to serve in the future, as I have been in the past. , R. M, PEAKS ALL- STC ilia Kind Yea Haw Always Bauit Uia&Zck Bears the A jsUKE Thin a fok Yon. A transaction in which you cannot lose a sure thing. Biliousness, sick headaehe, furred tongue, fever, piles and a thousand other ills are caused by constipation and sluggish liver. Cas carets Candy Cathartic, the wonderful new liver stimulant and intestinal tonic are by all druggists guaranteed to cure or money refunded. C C. C. are a sure thing. Try a box to-day; 10c.. 25c, 50c. Sample and booklet free. Sold by all druggists. ' EXECUTOR'S XOTICE. Having qualified as ex.ecutr of Apsy Lucas, deceased, late of Harnett count', N'. C, this is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of said de ceased to exhibit them to the undersign ed on or before the flr.-t day of February 1900, or this notice will be pb ad in bar of their leeoverv. All persons indebted to said estate will make immediate pay ment, ihis January 21, 1&J0- J. w. Lucas, Executoi . Jones & Stewart, Attorneys- Jan-25-Cw-pd. I INDER and by virtue of a decree W of the Superior Court of liar nett countv in a case therein pending entitled lAXly & Gray, Executors of i.. J. Lillv, deceased, vs. O. J. Spears, tt al, the undersigned will expose to sale at public auction at the door 1 of the Court House of Harnett county, Lilling ton, N. C. at twelve o'clock on Monday. 20th day of February, 1S99, the land described in the pleadings in said action, being a tract of land situated in Lilling ton township, said county of Harnett, bounded and described as follows, known as the "Watson Tract" of land and adjoining the lands of W. li. McKay, R. C. McNeill and otheis, and bounded as follows, to-wlt: i By a line begin ning at a sycamore stake in the flat landing on the south side of the Caje Fear river at McNeill's Ferry, and running with the road South 35 AY", one chain and fifteen links to a stake, thence South 75 W. 5 chains and fifty links to a stake, thence South 85 V. 5 chains to a stake, thence Xorth GG VV. three chains and fifty links to a stake, thence North 50 west 2 chains to a stake, thence North 00 W. six chains and sixty-live links, to a stake, thence 66 W. ten chains to a stake on the Lil lingtou road, thence up said road North 54 VV. thirteen chains and eighty-one links to a stake. -at the head of an old ditch, thence down said ditch in its va rious courses thirty chains to a gutn with pointers, near the1 mouth of ditch, being the tract of land described in Heed of C. E. Turner to O. J- Spears, re corded in Book L. page 445 et seq. Reg ister of Deeds office for Wake county, containing three hundred and twenty three and one-half (323) acres more or less. Terms of sale cash, but reasona ble extension will be made for purchaser upon payment of one-third cash. This January 16th, 1S99. xVddress R. T. Gray, Commis sioner, Raleigh, N; C, SALE OF VALUABLE LAND BY COMMISSIONERS. Under aud ly virtue of a decree entered at November Term of Harnett Superior Court in the case therein rending entitled H, W. Lilly, deceased, vs. Gilliam Parker and oth ers, the undersigned, as Commissioners will at 12 o'clock, M.. on the 20th day of February 1?99, expose to sale at public auction at the Court House in Lillington, X. C, all the right title and interest of Gilliam Parker and wife and G. W. Avent, in and to the following de scriped tracts of land, to-wit : 1st tract : A tract of land lying on the west side of Cape Fear River, in Lillingto T o w n s h i p, Harnett county, and bo"unded and described as follows to wit : By. a line beginning at white-oak on the river bank, runs thence S, 30 w. 7034 chains, thence N. 00 w. 56 .3 chains, thence N30 E. 37M chains, thenc down river to the beginning, containing 320 acres it being known as Lot No. 2 in the Mary Mc Lean lands. 2nd tract : A tract of land lying on th west side of Cape Fear River, and bounded and described as follows, to-wit : By a line beginning on the river bank, Bine's lower corner, thence S. 30 w. 240 poles, thence S G0 E. 160 poles, thence N. 30 E. 100 poles to the line in the first tract, the back line of No . 1 tract in the Mary McLean land; thence said line N. 303 E. 150 poles to the river thence as the river to the beginning, known as lot No. 3 in the division of Mary Mc Lead's land. 3rd Tract : A tract of land on the west side of the Cape Fear River, adjoining the fore going described tracts and bounded as fol lows : to-wit: By a line beginning at a red oak, corner of No. 2 in the division of Mary McLean's land: running thence S. 32 E 25 chains to a stake, thence N. 28 E. 30 chains to the lower back corner of lot No.- 1 in said division, or the flrst, above described tract with the line of No. 1 60 w. .twenty chains corner of the 2nd tract, thence as the line of lot No. 2. 30 w. to the beginning. 4th tract : A tract of land containing 150 acres known as Lot No. 5, in the division of Mary McLean's lands, the half adjoin ing No 3 or third tract in the deed. Being the lands conveyed by Gilliam Parker to G. W. Avent by way of mortgage" recorded in Book Q. at page 01, Register of Deeds office for Harnett county. The above lands M ill be sold in parcels to suit purchasers; one of which will be bound ed as follows, to wit : By a line beginning at D. H. McLean's corner on the river bank be low the mouth of Murdock Creek, thence with D. H. McLean's line S. 311-2 w. 43.50 chains to a stake and pointers on the side of the Lillington road at the corner of the road, thence S. 66 degrees E. 43 chains and 90 links to a stake and pointers on the E. side of the road in the field, thence N. 31 1-2 degrees E ox cuauis anu tiu imivs to a sman asn tree on the banks of the Cape Fear river, thence up the various courses of said river to the be ginning, containing 200 acres.j more or less. according to a survey made by J. w. Pipkin on February 15tii, 1838. ierms or sale are cash, but reasonable terms will be made to purchasers. This Jan uary 11th, 1899. R.T.GRAY, D. H. MCLEAN, Commissioner-.S A CLEAR HEAD; good digestion; sound sleep; a fine appetite and a ripe old age, are some of the results of the use of Tutt's Liver Pills. A single dose will convince you of their wonderful effects and virtue. A. Known Fact. An absolute cure for sick head ache, dyspepsia, malaria, sour stomach, dizziness, constipation bilious fever, piles, torpid liver and all kindred diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills UK WE HIE AN STRICTLY BUSINESS Walk in and These goods will positively 5 cent Handkerchiefs for"2 and 3 cents. 50 cent Shirts for 29 to 35 cents. "Ladies Vest 12 cents. -Ladies' Corsets 15 cents and up. Gent's Socks, 3 cents and up. Gent's Suspenders, 5 cents and. up. Children's Hose, 4 cents and up. Gingham, 4 cents. Bleaching, 4i cents. Dress Buttons, 3 cents per dozen. Gent's Collars, 7 cents and up. Pants Cloth, 8 cents and up. Nice Glass Goblets, 15 cents. i Gallon Tin Bucket, 5 X VjrilllULl ZJ.I1 UUUWJl, JLJ CllLS. 2 Gallon Milk Bucket, 10 cents. 1 Gallon Oil Can, 10 cents. 1 Large "Wash Basin, 5 cents. li Gallon Milk Basin, 8 cents. Best 5 pound Bunch Cotton, GO cents. M Knitting Cotton, 14 cents; - Brass Pins, 1 cent. Towels, 4 cents and up. LACES BELOW COST. Good Plaids, 3f cents. River. Side Plaids, 4f cents. Children's Shoes at cost. Good Molasses, 21 cents per gallon. All Calicoes at reduced prices': Lard Stands at lowest prices ever sold in Dunn. i pound Package Soda, 4 cents. Tea Spoons, 4 cents per set. - Baking Powder 4 and 8 cents per pound. J.W.GREGORY. TO THE PUBLIC I J. J. DUPREE, Agent, having assigned his entire stock - KJ U i.1 U 1 Ui ft to me, I am now offering the R rime Anv one wishing; Bargains in DRV GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHIWC, Notions &c., Now is the time to; get them - be fore the stock is picked. THESE GOODS MUST BE SOLD. P. H. C. DUPREE, Assignee. Ml Q i I) (111 SHOPS. I have started up a new Repair Shop in the building known as the A. B. GODWIN SlrlOBS and am prepared to. do all kinds of Repairing on Buggies, Carts and Wagons. I also make Bug- mnc nnrl l.nvfe nciT tli hoct of material and employing the most skilled mechanics to do the work. A pleased customer is my best advertisement. I guarantee all of my work and I make prices to suit the times. I also repair Guns and Pistols. James Johnson, son of Rufus Johnson, deceased, who has the best reputation of any mechan ic in this countrv, is with me and invites his friends to call and see him and to give him their work. I Shoe horses and profess to give better satisfaction gen erally than any other shop iri town. Give me a trial is all - I ask. Most Respectfully, J. W. GREGORY. An Uuecnun Disease. There is no disease morA iinnoi. ? . nature than dysoensia. Phvsi-;nt0 n, tlie BVmmmns nt n n..n, , therefore most difficult to make a comet "'"K"""' io matter now wrr rr .-,.,7, . vriiat dpuisedypepsia attacks you, I Jrowiis' Iron Bitters will cure it. InvnluaW in all Browns' Iron. Bitters is sold by all dealers. see for yourself. be sold at prices mentioned ,; .,v t i I e - I. -. f . t:t -j f. ? V t 1 V Z, 3 K -J ; v v V- I 1 t - r v i't l s ( .V t s- u "7 I f I 7 i C 7 r r- t i 7 r v 7 i f L 7 cents. ! ! V . 7 I l f v 1.7 l 7 r. u . J A of J J.MJL entire Stock at Spout Springs Items. We are sorry to annou;x the death of Mrs.G. W. Bulim nm which occurred in Grc ii-i'"i' on the loth inst. Mr-. Unii raann was a former resident of ! this place, but was rai-! 'at j Hope Mills. She was buri' lat Cameron's Hill nearlieiv. Miss Mamie Smith, a lauii!i ter of Alex. Smith of Ci a:i' Creek, died of heart dix ar( 1,1 the 16th, inst. In the bloom of youth, when life should nnioU its fairest charms, she was ai! l away. Her parents hav the deepest sympathy of .mum ru friends. The "grip" has been j r va lent about here for some naif, but is now be;inninir to r'lax its hold. It is expected that Mr. W. ) Johnson, of the firm of Brin-'ii & Johnson, will remove! hi- fam ily soon to Red Si)rin'fs v.:i he has an elegant re.-id"iia' nearly completed. The Lumber Comnanv i-1' ;lV ing the lands belonging to the same surveyed, and it h"!1 they will perfect arran" - j - with parties in. the fruit j inir business for nlantin- chards and vineyards. T: lo cation ic onnnl trt ffniii ) KtH Southern Pines.' Somo oivl. anU near here bear fruit every -without much'iujui-y by i"--1-Janr 24tiiZ m Beara this " Tll8 Yon Have IAm i Eigijaturo iSffii!! S UJL UUUIIU1 J Cost