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iiimiimi iiMiiipniiwpiimiTTnniimrrirTirfTTTri nil ' VT H m .. , , uuMwM,Mm ' Vx-"' F ii I . i mull..!, I. Mn i n iiiit--mi- i r - v,' . " ' r "4 x. r tf -.i" . ' . . ' . a THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1892. , V f I (.: 'i;i,'- ' . WEEKLY CITIZEN. PUBLISHED BVERY THURSDAY BY THE KANDOLPH-KERR PRINTING COMPANY TERMSi On car, - I1.00 Ix Montha, .... 50 THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1892. THEIR BEST. rilJT POOR. The convention cheered for half an hour for Blaine and then nominated another man ! But let us make no mistake; the repub licans have nominated their strongest man. Blaine's nomination would have hopelessly split the party; McKinley as the embodiment of only the ultra pro tection idea would have been repudiated by the country for that teason; and there was no other name of prominence before the convention except that of Reed who might have been taken up by the Blaine and the McKinley men as a compromise if he had not made too many enemies bv his openly expressed hostility of the administration. Harrison now stands before the repub licans as a president who has turned a sufficient number of democrats out of office to please the men who are in the party for revenue. He stands for the force bill, a republican measure; but he has given the country ao administration free from era ve scandals except the few like the disgraceful conduct of the pen sion office, his intimacy with Ouay and the like which the republican party has come to expect of its presidents and passes by as not unusual ; and he has the confidence of the business men who would like to be sure that the financial policy is not likely to change. There is his strength chiefly .His weak ness a weakness that willdefeat him lies in the fact that he has alienated all the old-time politicians whose wire pulling has been relied on to pull almost any kind of a can didate through. These are the Blaine men. They with their leader, who wrote one letter too many or one too few, will be as dumb as oysters in the coming cam paign. The attacks of Clarksou, Quay. Reed and Piatt have put them outside the possibility of supporting the presi dent, for those attacks have been per; sonal. They were sick and tired of Har rison and they said so. Moreover they supported the nomination of a man wi said he was not a candidate, and who was taken at his word. There was treachery and deceit in that, and forgive ncsss is not for him and them; neither will they ask for it. The fight must be fought without them, and it cannot be won now that they and their followers &re disgusted and disgruntled. In other words, the great Blaine influ ence will not help to pull Harrison through this time, and he cannot reach the goal alone. Wanamaker and Steve Elkins and such small fry these be Mr. Harrison's jewels. Let him make the most he can of them, they cannot com mand the Blaine vote and Harrison will Lave to do without it. He will be de feated by Grover Cleveland. RIGHT WINS. The right has triumphed, decency comes out on top, and there will be no saloon on Patton avenue. The result is worth more to Asheville than we can now estimate. It proves that there is a strong moral sentiment in this town, which, when aroused, will sweep down every man and every meas ure that stands in the way of the city's advancement along all the lines that tend toward a higher civilization. This liquor interest can come so far, and not an inch farther. It can dominate to a certain extent and among a certain class; but there its power ends. It is tolerated within certain boundaries as a necessary evil, but it must not overstep those bounds. On the contrary, it must constantly retreat and become less and less influential, if it but be closely watched, as the city grows in churches, in educational facilities-and in a general uplifting of the be it moral sentiment. The Citizen naturally comes in for a good deal of praise for the result, having undertaken single-handed to arouse the people to a full realization of the offense of the county commissioners, but unless therchad been that latent determination in the great mass of the people to stand steadily for the right, The Citizen could alone have accomplished nothing. It is ia the people, after all, that, under a free government, there rest all hope for progress, all hope for 'reform. Some times they may be slow to act, but when they do act, the men who train with the bad acting as drummers for saloon petitions, for instance must go to the wall no matter what amount of gup posed popularity they may have in their own circle.' - - - Life inAsbevilleis a better, sweeter thing because ei this victory. ' , ".'";'. ' OVU. "JPIMEST." Hy The board of aldermen recently took "one action .that The Citizen has here tofore neglected, to comment oh as becomes the importance of the subject. We refer to the re-election the old force of patrolmen for another term.' '.'" . Unlets a- man bal been too long in public office, if he is fitted for bis duties it la generally a mistake to depose him and get raw material to work over into the finished product. ! v" j'; -j1.',' It is, therefore, with more than usual 1 1casure that The Citizen rejoices in the 1 e-c'.-clion of those finio'hed products of ' " s city, the patrolmru called by the vulgar, in a language of the streets which we hope will never invade 'this vicinity, "cops". The citizens generally must have heaved a sigh of relief when they knew the present defenders of our homes, our altars and our precious lives were to be-etained in the service of the city.. Ever since the new men came in to answer to the high expectations nat urally raised after every election, the splendid discipline of the force has been made manifest in numberless ways. We read in the newspapers of other cities of complaints of policemen loafing on their beats when they have any of smoking, even drinking intoxicating liquors when on duty; of frequenting saloons and other resorts more or less given up to sin of consorting with low characters of, in short general neglect of duty. We are happy to be able to say that none of these complaints have, to our knowl edge, been brought against our policemen by the chief of police. It has indeed, been time and again remarked that it was difficult to become acquainted with our force of blue coats and brass buttons, so engaged were they in those parts of the city where trouble might at any time occur, instead of frequenting the square or hanging about generally as common loafers. It is a matter of common remark, too, that all of the low resorts and dives for merly within the citv limits have been compelled by the wiseand vigilant action of the police to take themselves else where. It is true that this was done under former administrations, but the fact is none the loss creditable to the present one. The city is now clear of all attractions that might be pits for the unwary and we owe it all to the police. , , We can hardly thank them too much. Iu short, the present police force of the city have, in the words of the Wilson Mirror, painted the sky of our hopes with all those brilliant colors that go to make up the rainbow tints of a celestial home on earth and have added to our common existence the cerulean half-tones that lend and impart additionalglory to the rich and glittering tira of American policemanhood or other words to that effect. I.. I.. POLK. In the death of Col. L. L. Polk the third party has lost its most remarkable personality, if not the only man in its ranks capable of holding the organiza tion together. In some respects L. L. Polk was a re markable man, and few can contemplate his death without feelings akin to re gret. Col. Polk was the heart more preemi nently than he was the head, of the third party. It was his remarkable power of swaying men as a public orator, that made even the attempt 40 form a third party on the platform laid down at St. Louis possible. There was enough truth in his speeches to make their con tradiction difficult, and there was enough fallacy in them to make it easy to call him a demagogue. There were few men in the United States who could lay greater claim to being a ready speaker than L. L. Polk. There was never a moment when he could not speak, and speak powerfully for the cause he advocated. He could with ease make the worse appear the better reason, end the means he used was not argument, but rather an appeal to the sentiments and feelings of his aud itors. No man of intelligence, no matter how opposite in opinion, could hear Col. Polk speak without being forced to ac knowlege his power as a platform ora tor. The thinking man he would please, the unthinking he would captivate. That his reputation will lose by his sudden taking off, is doubtful. Could he have lived to see his plans put to any thing like a practical ttat, the failure that must have inevitably followed would have been a severe test. The re markable success that followed his ef forts during the last few years of his life, gave a charm to his personality that must have faded in the hour of defeat. Nothing succeeds like success, is neither more nor less true tban that nothing is so disastrous as defeat. That L- L. Polk 'was a North Carolin ian few will now regret. Ii might have been otherwise had his life been pro longed. THE PATTON AVENUE SALOON It has never yet been pretended that a saloon was established to do good along the lines laid down by Sunday schools, Y. M. C. A.'s, churches or day schools, or in any other way. They are estab lished primarily to make money. In Asheville, unhappily, there is a de mand for the saloon and for liquori but the business is one constantly under sus picion and restricted in its possibilities for mischief by a heavy license. . Enough of these saloons are now in existence on main streets and on side streets so that the man who drinks has every reason able opportunity to indulge bis appetite even to ' become sodden with alcohol if be wishes, to the extent of temporarily parting' with bis reason. .v.;' Nevertheless it is proposed to add to the number of these places by making of Patton avenue a saloon street. ' ; This thoroughfare, one-of , the best business streets in town, 'one that ladies are almost compelled to frequent, within a stone'4 throw of "a " majority t of the churches, is to 'become a . street to' be avoided, a lounging spot for loafers, a menace to the peace and dignity of one of the most Attractive parti of the city. ' ; The county commissioners of, Bun combe have done this thing. They have decided that Patton avenue needs toning down; that it is not easy enough to get a drink in that locality; that the fact that it is now free from all the features that would make a lady avoid it, is a state of affairs that has existed long enough; that it will be a fine thing for the hundreds who throng that ave nue on their way to church to have to pass on Sunday what they always avoid on a week day; that it will be a sort of an off-set to the Y. M. C. A. just across the road; that it will highly edify the school children who pass the spot by the scores to reach the public schools to learn the effect of alcohol on the human system. Of course the intention is to keep a "highly respectable" place; where the common drunkard will be far from wel come, but also where the boy just get ting to the age where he may think it "smart" to learn to drink will be especi ally attracted by just this kind of gilded respectability. No; the proposal to invade Patton avenue with a saloon of anv kind is an outrage. There are saloons enough and to spare in that locality now. No good interest will be subserved by this conces sion to the liquor traffic by the commis sioners. It is a wrong act wrong every way you look at it. MIGHTY POOR POLITICS. Aside from tnc question of decency, it 1 is very poor politics to put into the hands of the prohibitionists and the republi cans the kind ot a weapon the commis sioners have prepared for the use of the enemies of the democratic party in giv ing a permit to open a saloon on Pat- ton flVPTlllP To tVl H.mnfMt,. t'lt.r n( . , ... ... , , 1 Asheville and Buncombe county a liouor party? If not why, this concession to the liquor interest ? There was no real necessity for a saloon on that avenue; no large public yearning that could not be filled as well just around the corner 200 feet away. If the democratic party of Buncombe county stands for law and order and the best interests of our families and homes it will reduce the number of saloons at every possible opportunity instead of increasing them in localities where they are already too plenty. AT HOME TO IDIOTS. If we can believe the New York Sun and it is generally accurate outside of politics, and occasionally there "idiots, paupers, malefactors, contract laborers, and other undesirable immigrants have now very little trouble in entering the United States at this port." It seems that all the severe but necessary restric tions of a few months ago have been re laxed because of rulings of the federal courts to that effect, and now our popu lation is being swelled by the addition of the very worst class of immigrants we could have. Meantime there are bills in congress that would remedy the trouble it they were passed, and as there is no opposition to them it seems like pure neglect not to attend to them nt once. It is a perilous thing to let the doors of the republic stand open to the paupers and criminals of the old world. The Springfield, Mass., Republican says: "In the north there is no public opinion in favor of lynch law." Those northern papers that have been saying that lynching served the Port Jervis brute just right will please consider that thev do not represent their public. It should be added, however, that the authorities of Port Jervis are making an apparently sincere effort to punish the lynchers. They have several of the mob under ar rest, and a trial will probably follow. It is not at all likely that convictions can be secured, but the moral effect of the ar rests is worth striving for. "We commend the spirit and evidence of reform in the civil service and the wise, consistent enforcement by the republican party of the laws-relating to the same." How long is it since Clarkson -topped cutting off democratic postmasters' heads, omtting only for lack of material? In no otuer administration has the civil service commission felt it necessary for the good of the public to arraign a mem ber of the cabinet for unjust removals from office, as Wanamaker has been ar raigned lor his violations of civil service rules in the Baltimore postoffice. "There was nothing more fitting in all the Minneapolis convention than the fate of the colored delegate who said that under the rules of the fifty-first con gress, as he understood them, every con testant had a right to be .beard. The convention, remembering the rules of the fifty-first congress more accurately than did the delegate, promptly shut him up and sat him down. It was just like Reed's congress. ' Charlotte bas the largest auditorium in the state and better and more ample1 hotel accommodations tban any other city vin the state excepting Asheville, and would be most bappy to have future conventions to meet here Observer. , Asheville leads in botel accommoda tions, and ought to have the state con vention a time' or two itself. : If not Asheville, then Charlotte. ; f WV The Minneapolis convention was, more than any other, a woman's conven tion. The gentler sex were out for Blaine and would not be dismayed. . If they bad had votes his nomination would have been made unanimous without taking a vote.- It was a woman who precipitated the half hour' pandemonium , for Blaine, the tame woman' Jxpt it up when the crowd itself would '. have stopped,' and she bad able lieutenant who lacked ber beauty, but equalled her in enthusiasm. It makes one shudder to think what would result if tay one-half of the dele gates had been women, and women of the kind that can sway a crowd of sup posedly deliberative men, as this one did. The probabilities are, the building would succumb to the cyclone of sound, and that the result ot the convention would make the party go out and kick itself when it had regained its senses. It is worth noting that the people of a good many cities where they have had more rain of late than Asheville has, are complaining, not so much at the over plus of water, as at the fact that the signal service continually predicts fair weather. All signs fail in dry weather, is an old saying that all are familiar with. If, now, we must add that wet weather signs are not to be depended on either, the signal service may ..s well go out ot business. There is one thing in connection with the Patton avenue saloon, that the peo ple should know, and know now, and that that is while Mayor Wanton's name did not appear on the petition for the saloon, be did undertake the highly honorable and dignified job of carrying that peti tion around and induced other people to sign what he was afraid to sign him self. This is high ground for the- chief official of Asheville to take! lx Raleigh last week 42 men met to form the third party; in Smitlifitld, Johnson county, only 2'J men could be gathered for that purpose, and in sev eral other counties there were meetings very sliinly attended. In one those pi es sent refused to adjourn on hearing of Col. l'oik's death, though others did and adopted suitable resolutions as well. It-- the republicpn convention could have pointed out any inhuman out rages perpetrated upon citizens in certain southern states for political reasons," as the platform states, it would have been proper to denounce them, along with, for instance, the Port Jervis lynching, but the convention did not mention any such because it could not. The nomination of Whitelaw Reid to be vice-president is one of the weakest that could have been made. It locks up the influence of the chief republican or gan and antagonizes union labor in New York state. Reid is a good editor, was a poor diplomat in Paris, and is the son-in-law ot a rich man, D. O. Mills. The fact that some of the commis sioners were believed to be pledged nafhst the liquor interests, and then turned and voted for a Patton avenue saloon does not set well with anyone who loves honorable things. A two faced man commands 110 one's respect. The Washington correspondent of the New Y'ork World says there is an impres sion among the politicians that Whitney, of New York, may be the best man for the democrats to nominate at Chicago. On a platform of Standard oil ? No; no, Whitney won't do. "I no not believe that individual dis appointments will control the conven tion at Minneapolis," said the President a few days before the convention met. Mr. Harrison was right. The convention was controlled by the office holders, and he controlled them. It seems to have been taken for grant ed by the republicans at Minneapolis who wanted votes th&t the colored dele gate was always in the market. Strange that the negro trains in a party that bas so low an opinion of him! North Carolina was the only state in the whole republican convention that had men so small that it was necessary to v6te them in thirds to give them a proportional vote with the whole men of the convention. The labor organizations have already begun to protest against the nomination of Whitelaw Reid. He will distinctly take from Harrison's strength in New York. A Chattanooga alderman has gone insane. That is unfortunate, but it is not so discreditable as working up peti tions for a saloon license. Did you notice how the office-holders of the south stood up and were counted like little tin soldiers for the man who had created them ? "The burdens of taxation have been lightened," said Chauncey Depew at Min neapolis, but none applauded; the lie was too big. We reckon that the deadest politician in tLe United States today is James Gil lespie Bi une. ' At every other torn of the crank in Minneapolis some republican howled for the force bill , , ; . ; . Alobk? Alger? Alger? There used to be a man In Wisconsin or Michigan of tlUrtame.:-'ii''vr!;;',?!' I Do yon bear the news Messrs. County Commissioners? Ponder the lesson well. It was a typical republican conven tion. Even the gavel was a stolen one. Blaine bas lots of mourners, but they cannot bring him back to political life. , , .hy' 1 if mi 1 j , 11 " , : And Mrs. Blaine-Hbe bitterness of de feat is hers vtx overwhelming measure, f ' Harrison bas won bis last great vie- LETTERS FROM TUB PEOPLE. Tbe Road Law. hditor 1 he citizen: 1 see in your report of the proceedings of the meeting of the joint board of commissioners and justices of the peace for Buncombe county that they decided, through the advice of J. H. Rankin, chairman of the board of county commissioners, not to levy any road tax for the ensuing year on account of the inefficiency ot said law. I know, since the practical workings of the law have been tested that it needs amendment. I knew when I intro duced it in the legislature that it would not be a perfect law. I also knew that we would never have a road law until some member made a beginning, and having no political aspirations higher than to do my best for the prosperity and advancement of North Carolina and especially Buncombe county, and know ing too that good roads are next to good schools in buildiug up our country, and being urged on by the best citizens of our country as well as by resolutions passed by the Buncombe county alliance at their January meeting in 1891, I uudcrtook the task and I did so with a hearty good will and will do so again if opportunity permitted. Now as to the inefficiency of the road law. Let us take a calm deliberate view of the workings of said law and its de mands and see if they are impracticable. Alter I had written and rewritten the act and advised with the attorney gen eral as to its constitutionality I for warded it to chairman of the board of county commissioners, Mr. Rankin, for his approval before I introduced it. His answer was that he thought it would do all right. Section 1 of the act reads as follows: "Thru the bonrd of county commissioners ami justices of the peace of Buncombe county at their regular meeting in June in the year one thousand eight huudrtd and ninety-one, and at each regular meeting thc-eafter shall porvide a fund for the con struction and keeping in repair the public roads iu said county by levying an assess ment not exc-eding fifteen cents ou the hun dred dollars worth of property, subject to taxation lor ttate and counts purposes " The joint board bv their act on last Monday say thev will not obey the above, though they, iu accepting the of fice they now hold, swore thev would maintain and support the laws of North Carolina. I protest against this usurpa tion of power. If the law is not what it should be, let us do what we can in obey ing in until the legislature meets and re peal or amend it. I have been accus tomed to see them use a great deal of power, and they have, I think, delegated to them by ti e laws of North Carolina entirely too much power; but I did not suppose they would attempt to take the repealing power away from where it properly belongs. The law also further provides that the road tax shall be kept in a separate col umn on tax books. It provides that all persons between the ages ofeighteen and forty-five shall work on the road tour days.- It provides that if you work, tbe amount worked shall be credited off of what ever road tax you have assessed against your pioperty, at not less than seventy-five cents for each day worked. This clause was put in because you could not increase the poll over and above two dollars and make it constitutional. And I did not think it right to mike the prop erty work the roads and keep them up entirely. I think all parsons who use the roads ought to help keep them up. It provides for the working the county convicts. It also provides that all per sons who are sentenced to imprisonment for non-payment of court costs in cases of bastardy, or under the vagrant act shall work the roads. It gives the commissioners power to buy improved road machinery. It gives them power to relocate or change the roads when necessary. It gives them power 'to manage and systemize the de tails of the working of the roads through a county superintendent of roads and a supervisor in each township. As to the ineffickney of the road-law I have to say that since the present law has been in force there has been more miles of road made in our county and properly worked than in the ten preced ing years before it became a law. I fear no contradiction of this statement. Con sidering that the 'law has been in operation only one year I think it roust be efficient, regardless of the discussion of the joint board. There is one thing I confess I am sur prised at, and that is that the magis trates of the county outside of Asheville would so readily agree with the view of Mr. Rankin, when, in the failure of as sessing a road-tax they cut themsclvei out of at least $6,000 or more that the tax-payers of Asheville would have paid to help them work the country roads with. I think they trusted the judgment of Mr. Rankin too much this time for there good, though possibly they prefer working them without help. Now, Mr. Editor, in conclusion I will day that I am not done with the road question. I expect to agitate it until we lucceed in getting good roads. M. L. Reed. Mo Picture T Dave Hanks, Sr. Kane Kreek, N. C. 1892 the 13 jane SiTTizEN Edoitur sref yuar a g winter low whiper snapers ter pass theyselves off fer D. Hanks' suns i wil Hang up mi Hank, Ujean rankin nose i ar knot a jesstiss of the peece likewise no kommish uner which i sta at borne & mine mi oan Afares mi Suns kan write beter as 1 kan rite they iz knot sek on dairy kon phewshunal Lunatix like that jphule a ritin & klamin ter Bee D. Hanks' sun s Which my nabors klame that yn so- posed mi likeness in yp paper, i do knot look like i bav a mustash likewise A Gote tea i disremember ov standin in frunt ov A dog House a lookin in the doe which bit seams the dog were done gone. Htar a miss steak mr edditur wu yu pleas sett this matter rite threw yo kol umtdidyu sopose my likeness or Did yn knot be plane. ;, i.i , :t Dave Banks. TIM CIMsan and tbe saloon. Prom a Private letter to tbe Editor 'ififff "With twelve fifteenths of the white people you, have done yourself great credit in attacking the growing popular ity of the corrupt saloon system. Yon have" endeared God's people and the women and suffering innocents generally to you, as an advocate of the public good. - The day is coming in which your manliness in this thing will be a, wreath of honor to you." .. the tattler; SomeThlngt Hence And Heara woh Taikinar About. One's admiration of the administrators of the affairs of Buncombe county is not likely to be heightened by the recurrence of such events as were reported in and commented on fyy The Citizen last week. I mean the election of county commissioners and the subsequent grant in? of license for a rlnfrY..v sn ln avenue. In the first place." a man who can rcau 1 iic uccouni ot tne proceedings? of the meeting of mnmafi.i.t.B nn day without experiencing o, hot wave of oiiauie us uc tuuicDipiaiestneaisgusting, debauched, neruliarlv riior.-,nj.f..i cle, should be sent to the World's Fair. .1 witness 01 tne anair told me that he DOsitivelv knew nf five nr aiir r,f fl,o .nr. istrates who were drunk, made so, of course, by men who had some purpose to carry out, principally the retention in of fice of a set of "wet" commissioners. Of course these men accomplished their de sires. Again, the twofacedness of some of the commissioners seems extraordinary, and without doubt will be remembered' against them in the future. If it is true, as charged, that Mr. Clayton begged votes with the promise that he would vote to license no more saloons in Asheville, his vote on the saloon question shows a most wondrous amount of duplicity and it is anything but creditable to him. Why was the Patton avenue saloon licensed ? Was it needed ? Hardly. There are enough liars here now to supply the demund for "wet goods" m Asheville for years, and instead of adding to the com missioners should try to subtract from the list whenever possible. It took a monstrous amount of pure gall for the commissioners to give out the license after declaring"Ve are prohibitionists!" Prohibitionists! Rats. Such Pharisaical declarations from men who arc expected to do their best for the good of the county make uie tired. It is creditable to Mr. Kankin that he would have voted against the license. Perhaps if we had another commissioner who lives in town things would taVe different courses some time. There is usually squareness among the mass of the farm ing class, but not every man who pulls the bell cord over a mule knows how to resist influence when they get into an important office. I would dislike to have the outside world accept as the Buncombe county standard of reasoning power the argu ment used by Mr. Clayton that be voted for the license in order that the prohibi tion people might be aroused 10 action. Capital, brilliant, don't you know ' But it is rather too much as if you were to kill a lot of people by feeding them on toadstools just to learn another lot of people that there's a difference between toadstools and mushrooms. To bc suVe Ma'ydr BlrfrrttW hMtd take a hand in the business. lie it was who originated the expression "I am satis fied" when one of his men was elected commissioner. But he did not hear the remark of a minister who witnessed the proceeding : "Yes, and the devil will get you for this day's work if you don't mend your ways." The mayor was not satisfied with this work. He had to so licit signatures for the saloon petition. He is not satisfied with running tbe city. and is grasping out for the county and judging from what I hear he is succeed ing tolerably well tor a young man. This brings me down to city affairs but I haven't room for that today. I want to remind every one of my readj ersof the indignation meeting in the court house tonight at 8 o'clock. It is announced that the prospective proprie tor of the saloon savs he will not open the saloon, I wouldn't let that aflect the meeting at all. Make a protest any .way, and show tbe county commission ers what is thought of their action. In my opinion the firemen in the old company have not done themselves any credit bv their disbandment. They acted hastily, surely, for on second thought they would probably never have taken this step.' It is not fair to udopt this course, just on the eve of the firemen's convention, and especially after three of Asbeville's citizens raised for the com pany tbe money for prizes that the com pany's committee had not been able to raise. It smacks of "snap judgment." However, the city is to be congratulated on the fact that another company will fit into the vacancy. t So the bootblack tax was no go. ' Mayor Blanton untied the vote in favor of the shines. Maybe they'll remember ; him when they get old enough to vote. ' . V'-- Z'-? - '' S-" " E. Baird is new in aldermanic harness. . He was active some time ago, I believe, in changing the name of Bridge street to Central aveaue. -.But maybe he has re pented. t . ' The Tattler, . . OVER 85. Mrs. Betsy Emory, widow of John Emory, died in Brassfield on the 22nd of May) in ber 94th year. She was doubt less the oldest lady in thecounty.and was a sister of John Perry, of Dutchville, who has reached the 92nd mile post in life's tourney. He is in the best ot neaitn. it " , w . IJJ - If . is said jura, cmory "nucu ucikii ua never having taken a dip of snuff, a chew ot tobacco or a dose of medicine. -Washington Gazette: Bridge Potter, 93 years old, walked 24 miles to Pamlico court. He bas bad four wives and baa lived with the last 57 years. Marriage ; with her has blessed him with children, grand-children and great-grand-children. Chatham Record : We regret to hear of the death of our venerable country mati.ldr. German P. Guthrie, who died at his residence in Gulf township on the 20th of May, aged 85 years, . : i :". '. fr , : Marion Record :. Mrs, Marthy Mur phy died Tuesday evening, at ber borne 5 three miles east of Marion. She was 89 years old. She, joined the Methodist church when she was nine years old, and was a consistent member thereof until her death." ' :;'.-r;;'a:;''.:v "J V!
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