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daily llii::::. .3 4.00 per Annum, In Adrance. 2 a. 00 for 6 Months, in Advance 3 1.00 for 3 Months, in Advance, '"-WEEKLY EDITION. ' -$l.oo per Annum, in Advance. j 1 i FAYETTEVI LLE; N: 'CrXH U flSDAYrFEBRUARY-1 ,1 906. OLD SERIES VOL LXXINO. 31,899. , NEW SER VOL, XXIII.NO. 11,099, - Prospects r i 1 Wi have namnotnal photographs of cotton fields on which no fertilizer! wwe lined and pictures of Holds on which "othor makes" of furUlizerl war used. HoBults of these drop were dismal failures. There are much "brighter prospects" ahead for the vroirressive farmers of tha South.- two and three bales, to the acre are oaljr ordinary yields where Virginia-Carolina psrtllizcr iv ubcu witD proper uuimvbmuu. Make your cotton piatura early, and thus escape the boll weovllsand other damaarlner Insects. . You can easily do , this, as well as Increase the number of bollB(and their siKeion vnumlanta by plentifully using Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers. This method will tremendously "lnorease your ylelda immure.-- uoni oe luuiea into ouy- Vitf m SUUBULUW. , Vlrglnlasrollna Chamlcal Ce.' Hlehmond, Vs. , Nnrfollr V , 7'. ' . IorUam.K.tt f Charleston. R. fl. - Baltimore, lid. - . Atlanta, Ga. ' Savannah, Oa. Montgomery, Ala. jr ,-. Mernunis. 'ronn. Bnreveport, j PROFESSIONAL CARDS. . NEILL A, SINCLAIR, Attorney-at-Law, . ' 117 Donaldson Street, rAYSTTBVILH, D. T.OATES, , Attorn ey-at Law, Rooms 2 and 8 K. of P. Building, FAYKTTBVILLI, QK. NIMOCKS, ,.. Attorney-at-Law, Office K. of P. Building, 'phone 229, FAYBrntVIIAiy ? ' i M. 0. General law practice; Notary Public. l. H-McD-JBobinsoru John gShaw (Notary Public) ROBINSON & SHAW, Attorney s-at-Law, , Office 121 Donaldson 8tret,Fayetteville. N. C. Prompt attention given to all , Dusiness. :. . - " D. L. McDUFFIE, ' ; Attorney-at-Law, 'K. of P. Building, FAYKTTPVILLK, . H. 1 - JOHN W. BOLTON,; Attorney-at-Law, . Office over Frank Beasley's Store. . Notary Public. ' H. S. AVERITT, : ; Attorney-at-Law, (Notary Public) . Office over Beasley 's Store. Dayetteviue, jn.u. j:h: marsh, m. d., Physician and Surgeon, Office 103 Hay Street, Fayetteville, N. O. DR. SEAVT HIGHSMITH, Physician and Surgeon. OPFlCESi Upetatrs 1 and Sflighsmith ,-. x -. uuiming. - Jt)r. E. L. HUNTER, u- , Dentist, North-east Corner Market Square, Fayetteville, N. C. Dr. J. H. HIGK3MITH, DENTJST. Rooms 6-7 Highgmith Block. Newton H. Smith, General Manager.. SMITH'S D..1 P..... ..a Investment Aaency. Box 626. Fayetteville. N. C. Buys ana sell city houses and lots, farms, water powers, mineral deposits and business opportunities. Refers by permission to , mints orjayettevuie, ust your proper ty with them. .- - i . E.J.HUMPHREY. Plans and Specifications Fnrnlshed on Short Notice for nil kind of bnildintrs. Personal at tention given to all business entrusted . me. I work a good force of skilled labor which guarantees satisfaction; Write or can on . - E: J. HUMPHREY,. 'Phone 25?. psiOCUf,DNDDireNDIO."f arwUia or photo, tor pert CTch ana n-as report. hit iSrk, haw to eoUia pUwts, tmd aucSs, OODTltelds, MO. IM lit COUMTKIES. Bmibutt iBrtct witk WuUmgtom wl Hmt, men? mud afttntiu paimU . - . htsnt and Infrlnpmsnt PnctlM Exclusively. Writs oroonM to us st III Walk Stmt, en. UalM waeHiHOTOW, o. c. - .kaa4 eo YEAR3' 44 EXPERIENCK . i N. d:vh n raanv UaMl Vs. Fff i ' ' - ws- nnsn i m aw AtlTon lendlnf ft tkatob nd dutcrtptlon bit tnloklr woeruin our opinion frw whether u 1 aASkw BitLrrak Aa ilontitHotlTOonadentlsJ. HANDBOOK on P.tents stilt free, Oldert ssenoy for securing psiems. Put. no taken tBroush Munn A Co, rseslv spuloinottes, wlthoat ohsrsa, in the Scientific Jimrlcait silatlon of sny toisntmo InurnsJ. Terms, as a .miiri fourmonths,L SoldbysU nswtdealsrs. Ursnot Offloe. m W St, Wsshlustua, D. 0. HAIR BALSAM OImum and omulinM Ui D lWmttf a miurl.nt Irowtri. It.TM rails to B.rtora Orayl Hair to ua zoumnii yoior. (Jum Maip amMw n.ir 1.11 JOo.anclll.TOM tmi - - 3. 77 BURNING .. OF . JW OBSERVER OFFICE BY SHERMAN . The death ol General Wheeler recalls the capture of Fayetteville by General Sherman on the nth of March,j86s,j and the most . notable : event con nected therewith, viz ! ffle' burping of theOMERVER office, "4v order." The (wo leading incidents of Ae occu pation of Fayetteville, as described by the correspondents of the Northern J . ttf.W.-A .1 man's headquarters, were the destruc tion of the Observer, offjee and later of the Confederate rsenai ; As a his torical event, however, the-burning of the Observer office mustUke pre cedence, byfar,, for it was the only newspaper office 1b the South which was subjected to such treatment; and It was not even an incorporated com pany, but was owned by its editors. The Confederate arsenal, on the other hand, was the natural spoil of war; andi while General Sherman did a foiblilsTf thing, destroy what he must have seen was soon likely to become a valuabre asset of the government. which he was. serving, there was no greater moral significance in the act than in the spiking of guns that can not be carried off the field of battle, This burning of the Observer of fice, by order, is one of the most not able events in all the history of Fay etteville, from' its incorporation as a town in 1782 to the present time. ; It is something which the town, as one of the municipalities of the 'Confeder acy, may ever be proud of that it contained a public journal of such in fluence as well as of such fidelity in those waning days) to the Con fed erate cause, that the all-powerful and then triumphant federal government should have singled it out from the newspapers of the South for deliberate and formal destruction, as if it were an arsenal or a powder magazine. ' The Observer af "thafTtfme was, with -the--possible exception. oL the Richmond Examiner, the most influ ential paper in the Confederacy. Of its issue of over twelve thousand pa- pers, several thousand went to sub scribers along the very line by which Sherman had approached Fayetteville from Savannah. Itseditorials glowed with devotion to the Confederacy, and flung defiance in the teeth of the ad vancing hosts .of the invaders. Its last issue (March nth, 1865) was handed out to the cheering soldiers of Johnston's army as "they swept by its office. When Sherman arrived next day, he was burning with veri geance against the Observer, and quickly issued orders for its destruc tion. Major General Slocum, one of his corps commanders, was entrusted with the -execution of the order, which s carried out by General Slocum himself. The walls were first battered down by his men, and then torches were applied to the contents, General Slocum himself applying the first one. Across the way, seated with members of his staff on a veranda of the old Fayetteville hotel, General Sherman watched the execution-of his order, his officers hobnobbing over wine taken from the cellar of Mr. Hale's residence (the place on Haymount now owned by Mr. W. D. McNeill). Years afterwars, General Slocum sent word to Mf. Hale, by Genera Kings bury, that he-regrttted what he had done; that he was acting under the order of the conniander-in-chief; and that he- would be glad to call upon him if he would receive him. Mr. Hale replied that General Slocum need give himself no concern, and that he and General - Sherman could not have paid him 'a higher compli nient which response closed the in cident. ' -. As our town readers are aware, the old Observer, offices (huff? brick Rnd stone buildings with heavyirbn.shut- ters) stood upon the corner;;of Hay and Anderson streets, : 'here: Mr, Kindley's store -now stands, tunning oacK Deyona reacocic s iruiis sians, Several heaps of brick and stone may still be seen just back of Peacock's which are part of the old Observer buildings that were destroyed on that memorable 12th of March, 1865 There was a large gilt sign over the Hay street entrance to the main build ing ; j'Ohserver printing Office and Bookstore.,'The bookstore was in front, and for many years bad consti tuted a library of reference for this section." The' editorial rooms were behind.; The second story was filled Withpresses, the chief of these being an immense power press, the first ever brought to North Carolina, made by Northrup, of Syracuse. "The third story wa the composing floor; and the fourth was a storeroom for sheets of the many law books printed by the firm. In a detachedbuilding ofjike construction, two stories, high, con nected with the rear of the second story of the main building by bridge,' was a hook bindery belong' ing to the establishment ' The lower story contained offices which, were let to la wyers-f-Mr. . Warren Winslow had occupied the one on the south, and Mr. W. Mel, McKay the: one on the north,: The valued the property in these buildings belonging to E. T, Hale & Sons, which General Sherman then destroyed, was very great The late Mr. Gurdon Deming and ' Mr, Walter Watson were among those who witnessed the destruction of the Observer property. ; - We have before us a time-stained copy of the New York Herald, of Sat urday, March 18, 1865., This was the first issue of a newspaper published after the capture of Fayetteville had opened communication between Sher- man's army and the outside world. 1 columns of its small'type are devo ted to the despatches fromJPayette ville, dated March 12, 1865, of the correspondents attached to the two wings of the great army Mr, D. P. Conyngbani, attached to "The Right Wing," and Mr, U. D. Westfall, at tached to "The Left Wing," and "The Cavalry,", ' ' In -its editorial summary of "The Situation,1' the Herald says:- . ' iy' - -. "THB SITUATION. ' .' '"The eraphic and most interesting despatches of the Herald "correspond ents which we publish' this morning form a stirring narrative ot ueneai Sherman's second triumphant sweep throueb the Southern country, across tthe; entire (jtate of South Carolina id a portion of Northl Carolina.''' The movement of General Sherman's ar my from Savannah was commenced on or about the 4th of January last, and it arrived at Fayetteville fin the' txiu lUDi, iu mi wio luaivM uii with no serious opposition, and the troops fared as bountifully in South Carolina as in Georgia, and were in as fine condition and spirits, when they reached Fayetteville as when they ar rived in Savannah from Atlanta. 1 ! Wr. Westfall's despatches contain the following: "fayetteville captured. "The left wing crossed the path of Hardee, who retreated from Cheraw to Rockingham, and advanced on Fay etteville without let 6r hindrance, ex cent from a small force of cavalry, Baird's division, of the Fourteenth corps, skirmished into town without a halt for a line of battle, and Colonel Morrow, Ninety-second Ohio, hoisted his nag over the Court House in the second city of North Carolina. Guards were posted at every house in town, and at thfejiine I write everything is going on as quietly as ever undef IDS rebel rule., The last-Union., flagi that floated over the Fayetteville Hotel has been brought out, and now swings across the street in front of Gen. Slo cum 'a headquarters. The office of the Observer newspaper has been burned by order. Nothing else has suffered. The arsenal here contains no great amount of ammunition. "' In fact, the captures of rebel property at Fayette ville were far below those at Colum bia and Cheraw. 'The bridge across the Cape Fear is gone, but two cannon were lelt hy the rebels on this side, when Lieuten ants H. W. Howtate and Wm. Lud low, with a party of foragers, drove them across. . These lieutenants, both of Slocum's staff, struggled manfully, with wash tubs full of water, to save the bridge, exhorting the . 'bummers to help and drive the rebels from the opposite bank, but the thing cduld not be done. 'The left wing has travelled. some. thing like fonr hundred miles, skir mished when occasion demanded it, and did not decline a fight at Fayette ville. Gen. Slocum has lost but few men by sickness or otherwise, and his wing of the army is in as good condi tion as when it left Savannah. The interesting part of the campaign in the Carohnas is yet to come, if we at tempt to join the Army of the Foto mac at the opening of the spring cam. paign." Mr. Conyngham's dispatches con-, tain the following, apparently written later : "In our line of march for Fayette ville, after crossing the Great Pedee, the Seventeenth corps branched off to wards Gillopolis, the Fifteenth mov ing by Laurinburg, and crossing Lum ber river, at Gilchrist bridge to Rock Fish creek. The Seventh corps had moved along the plank road, both corps crossing at Davis' bridge. "OCCUPATION OP FAYETTEVILLE, "Fayetteville is a town of some four thousand inhabitants. The first to come into the town was Captain Dun can, commanding the scouts and mounted men of the Army of the. Ten nessee. He was repulsed by Hamp ton's cavalry and himself taken pris oner. His party was reinforced by the foragers, and again atacked the place, ."taking it. General Giles A, Smith 'a Fourth division, Seventeenth army corps, soon came up, also the head of General Slocum's column, and hoisted, the flag over the market house. "The Mayor surrendered the town to Colonel William E. Strong, of Gen eral Howard's staff; then to General Slocum, who had just come up. "As the rebels were retreating- over the river they opened two guns on the town, and then hred the bridge, which was covered with rosin. "Fayetteville is garrisoned by Gen eral Slocum. The best of order and regularity reigns there, The streets are patroled by guards, thus protect ing life and property: Nothing has been' destroyed, or is likely to be de stroyed, except the arsenal and the oh rice of the Fayetteville Observer a lying, truculent sheet that well deserves its fate." -j A Modern Miracle. - "Truly miraculous seemed the re covery of Mrs. Mollie.Holt of this place." writes J. O. R. Hooper, Wood ford. Tenn,',. "she was so wasted by couirhinir - up pusslrom her lungs, Doctors declared her end so near tnat her familv...had watched by her bed side forty-eight hours; when, at my urgent request, Dr. King's New Dis covery was given her," with the. as tonishing Tesult that improvement began, and- continued until she final ly completely ; recovered, ana is healthy woman to-day." Guaranteed cure for coughs and colds. 50c. and $ 1.00 at B. E. Sedberry's Sons, Drug gists. ; Trial bottle free. - , The season of Indigestion is now at hand, Ring's Dyspepsia Tablet re lieve -indigestion, : and correct all stomach disorders. Sold by ,Mc Kethan Ac Co. s BRYAN THE REAL CONSERVATIVE. Immediately after Mr, Bryan's so- called defeat in 1896, the Observer placed his name at the head of its col umns as its nominee for the next Democratic nomination. He received the nomination again, in due course, and again was counted out, or defeat ed, by the money of the ClevelanditeS and Republicans, who had also -per suaded many good people that he was an anarchist aud an agitator. In re ply, we insisted that he was the real conservative, itr whose leadership liy the oountry'a only hope of rescue from intolerable conditions. Sooner than most of his friends believed, the ex posure of the hypocritical grafters whose : . money defeated . him has opened the.people'1 eyes to the truth, and, ' where once he ' was ; discred ited," we find now' sincere recognition of his transcendent 'merit.-'-', a ,'. By what seems almost a miracle so suddenly has the revolution occur red public opinion has ceased to fa. Vor the gilded scoundrels bf "fhe"plu" tocracy and how turns to the, aristoc racy of brains and patriotism. And, lo, evert the Republicans recognize the restored prestige which this state of affairs brings to Bryan. Sur veying the whole field, we believe he will be the next presidential nominee; and, unless the revolution turns back ward, he will be the next president. Here is an interesting article, ' in this connection, from that staunch Re publican paper, the Chicago Journal : We observe among our Democratic contemporaries in all parts of the country a disposition to turn once more towards William Jennipgs Bryan as the party leader and as its nominee for President in 1908. Everywhere Bryan seems to be the only hope of the Democratic party. Even the conservatives wno votea lor Palmer and Buckner find that Bryan is a conservative, too; compared to the wild-eyed radicals who are trying to steal the party machinery. The Parket.wjng hasome to realize that the silver question is dead'beyontl res--urreetio&i tbatthereis bo danger that Brvan will attempt to revive it, or that he could do so, if he tried, and that Bryan is the only man under whose leadership there is hope that the party factions can be reunited. Such Democrats as Mayor Dunne, al so, are turning toward Bryan, in the belief not only that he is the ablest and best equipped exponent of their principles, but also that he is the only possible nominee who has even a slight chance of election. In Denver recently Mayor Dunne openly advo cated Bryan's nomination in 1908. Undoubtedly, Mr. Bryan must be reckoned with. He is a man of abili ty, and he is growing all the time. He ceased to interest the .country for awhile because the country thought it had found his limitations. But his conduct and actions since then show this was injustice. He has outgrown the limitations that used to be appar ent He has refused to led astray by the crazy socialists and anarchists, who cry with a loud voice to-day that they are the only Simon-pure Demo crats. He has kept his balance, and, if he is not a very wise man; he is cer tainly a very sensible man. He may not be the man lor President, but ne is a much better man for President than some others who are after the Democratic nomination. Republicans must understand that next time they will lace a real battle, and will have to fight hard to win. Mr. Bryan is no colorless Parker, support ed half-heartedly; no self-advertising millionaire, depending upon his mo ney, but a foeman worthy of the best steel in the Republican armory. COTTON VS. GOLD AND SILVER OUTPUT. Under the above caption, the Man ufacturers' Record recently issued a very interesting "bulletin," which we reproduce below. Our excellent coneitfporary evidently had in view only the comparison of the value of the South's great staple with the value of the precious metals produced in the same period. But the student of mon etary science may also see in the as cending value of each, a close connec tion between the price of cotton and the total value of gold and silver pro duced, year by year. A like compar ison mieht be made, no doubt of nearly all farm products with the out put of the metals. . Says the Record : COTTON PRODUCTION AND GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCTION. Years. Cotton " Gold including Seed, and Silver. 190C-1901 1901- T902 1902- 1903 1903- 1904 1904- 1905 $554,000,000 $479,017,200 512,000,000 484,684,200 553,000,006 504,642,800 673,000,000 545,898,800 683,000,000 564,609,000 Tetal value world's gold and silver pro duction for five years $2,578,852,000 Total value cotton crop for five years $2,974,000,000 Excess of cotton value . over gold - and silver production for five y'rs $395,148,000 What it means for the South to hold a' practical monopoly of the world's cotton production is not gener ally appreciated nor the potentiality of this fully trrasped..--Destroy corn and you could find a substitute; de stroy wheat, and other grains would furnish bread for mankind; but , cut short the South's cotton crop by one half, and the financial and commercial world would staetrer; destroy cotton, and civilization would be halted. Earth has no substitute for cotton. Cotton, the South's crown f glory, is the ba sis of the greatest industry in the world; it is the -one staple which en ters into every civilized life; it is need ed is the palace of the king as well as in the humblest hut of the peasant; it is the glistening sail alike of the roy al pleasure yact and the ship of com merce; it is as essential in the hospit al where it makes possible the surgery of the day as it is on the tented battle-field: it is the basis of the greatest manufacturing industry of the world, 1 employing more than $2,000,000,000 of capital and annually producing of manufactured goods an equal amount or more than iron and steel; it is the dtnrfin ant power m - commerce; it brings to the South from Europe an average of over $1,000,000 a day for every day in the year. -,,, i The value of our cotton exports to Europe -annually exceeds 1 the total gold production of the world, and the total value of the crop is far in excess of the combined Value of the gold and Silver output of all earth. This, the richest possession which a beneficent Creator ever gave to any. section of earth, is the great prize which the leading nations of earth have strug gled in vain to capture. This . fleecy staple makes the study of the South's weather conditions and its labor sup ply of general interest it every bank? ing house in Europe'and America. And yet how little do w'eshow our ipprtdiatioa.eX. this- mighty king mightier by far than all the royal ru lers of earth! We take this beautiful product, which should be the emblem of cleanliness and purity, 'and with the barbarous saw-gin tear and break its fiber, destroying 75 per cent, of its strength; we loosely cover it with in flammable material and dump it into the-jnud, or let it stand for days and sometimes for weeks in the rains and storms of winter; we treat it as though it were the meanest of all human pro ductions instead of the noblest, as though we despised its dainty and delicate whiteness, rivaling "the whiteness ol the Alpine snow; we gin it wjth the gin made by Whitney more than 100 years ago; we compress it with machiney a century old; we waste its substance and destroy its vi tality ; for a century we have rushed it to market as though eager to be rid of it, and in so doing have permitted Europe to reap the profits which ought to have been ours; and then we have wondered why the bouth has not grown rich out of its monopoly. nui a ueutr uay is dawning, iuis royal kine is comine into his own The-ahlf.st, .S'ieulistSJ3,re seeking, to improve the quality of te seed and the liietfiod of cultivation ; experts are- working on better machinery to gin and clean and compiess cotton; the world is anxious to fill the South's fields with labor that its production may be increased. This king of ag riculture, king of manufactures, king of foreign commerce, this king of civ ilization itself is touching with ma trie wand the life of.thf. South and quickening it with a wealth and pow er worthy -of the country which he has chosen to fix as his' perpetual abode. Here he promises to forever dominate cotton production and cot ton manufacturing, and thus domi nate the wealth and civilization of the world. The jgfeafvalue of cotton to the South under the higher prices ruling of recent years, and which had ruled for a century, with a few brief excep tions, until from 1893 to 1899, shows the vast importance of cotton not alone to the South, but to the world. these figures show that during the last live years the exports of raw cot ton tQ Europe exceeded the world's total production of gold for the same period by over $200,000,000. In other words, if Europe had during the last five years gathered together every dollar of gold produced in all the mines of the earth and shipped it to the South it would still have fallen $206,000,000 short of paying its debt to the South for raw -cotton. No wonder the combined wealth of lEu rope is ever struggling to beat down the price of cotton to the lowest ipos- sible point. But how strange to hnd many ot the financial and nianulactu ring interests of this country allied with Europe in seeking to lessen the South's prosperity for the benefit of l-.urope! when the total value of the cotton crop, including seed, is figured up lor tne last hve years it sums up $2,974,000,000, or $395,000,000 in ex cess of the combined value of the gold and silver production of the world for the same period. CURRENT COMMENT. Time has wrought great changes iu the strength of the Social Democracy in the last quarter of a century, says Malcolm Lincoln, writing to the New York Commercial from Berlin. The progress of the part since 1S81 has been astonishing. Iu that year the Social Democrats had a percentage of 6. 12 of the total vote polled in Ger many. In 1903 their percentage had risen to 31.71. At the elections of that year the total vote polled was a little short of 9,500,000, of which the Social Democrats polled a little more than 3,000,000. At the next Reich stag election it is probable that their percentage will be 40. Indigestion is easily overcome by the ise of Kodol liyspepsia Cure, because this remedy digests what you eat and gives the stomach a rest allows it to recuperate and grow strong again. Ko dol relieves Indigestion, Belching of Oas, Sour Stomach, Heart-Burn, etc., and enables the digestive organs to 'transform all foods into the kind of rich icu uiuuu turn uunaes uewiuuuu Strang .1 1. 1 . 1 . 1. .. 1 1 I., 1 . Sold by Armtield & Oreenwood, Drug- gist. Half the World Wonders how the other half lives. Those who use Bucklen's Arnica Salve ,never wonder if it will cure Cuts, Wounds, Burns, Sores and all Skin eruptions; they know it will. Mrs. Grant Shy, 1130 E ' Reynolds St. , Springfield, 111., sayS: "I regard it one of the ab solute necessities of housekeeping v" Guaranteed by B. E. Sedberry's Sons, druggists, 25c. ' The secret of successfully ridding the system of a cold is a thorough evacua tion of the bowels. Kennedy's Laxa tive Honey and Tar does' this Liquid Cold Cure," drives all-cold' ou-of tbe system. BeBt for Coughs, Croup, eto. Bold by Xrmfleld & Greenwood, Drug gilts. . ; A WARNING TO CHURCH SOCIETIES. A singular case at law has just been concluded in Richmond with the convictionof a man named Burton, who has been sentenced to jail for six months for procuring money under false pretenses. The false" pretenses chiefly consisted of the selling of tick ets to a church- entertainment by the issuing of a circular representing that the proceeds were, to go to the poor, when, in fact they were to be used in liquidation of the church debt Bur ton, who issued tthe circular, appears to have been a professional conductor of entertainments of this sort, and he was assisted by a woman whom he represented as his wife but who was not, and by two "nieces." It seems that a church in Rich mond, of which Rev. Mr. Weston was pastor, was fnneed of money, and that the church and Burton, or the pastor and Burton, entered into a contract to secure money by means of - L r i1 ' - T-l . , a concert, iuncnung tins, Mr. 1 01- lock, for the defense, said : "The minister authorized Burton to do anything and everything to raise much money and that he had ap proved the circular saying the concert was to be given for the benefit of the poor, when he knew the proceeds were to be applied to the liquidation of the church debt. If the circular was fraudulent, as the Common wealth's attorney claims, the jury has no right to charge it all to Burton." Mr. Wise, another attorney for the defense, said : Burton prepared and had printed a circular in accordance with the in formation he bad received from Mr. Weston. He showed that circular to the preacher, and if it was fraudulent and deceptive and a 'tissue of false pretenses,' 4 Mr. Folkes had de clared it to be, the fraud ought to be traced back to its beginning, and it didn't begin with Burton. 'One serious, awful and far-reaching trou ble in this town,' declared Mr. Wise with much earnestness, 'is that the church societies and other institutions are in the habit of rushing around raising money for church and charib- auie purposes wiiuout enquiring tiuse enough'into tbemethodS"eraployed. It is an evil that ought to be cured, but when you start about curing it, for Heaven's sake begin at the right place.' Mr. Wise expressly disavowed any intention of criticising the motives of Rev. Mr. Weston or any one connect ed with his church, stating very em phatically that he believed Mr. Weston was perfectly conscientious in all that he did. The trouble was that he failed to inform himself as to the methods that mighUkflised. Mr. Wise contended that thefoundation of the whole case -was that Burton managed a scheme to raise money to pay off a church debt, while pretend ing that it was being raised to help the poor. "If this be a crime, lay it where it belongs and where it com menced," exclaimed Mr. Wise. The Richmond Times-Dispatch com ments in a leading editorial upon this singular case as follows : BURTON'S LESSON. Let us not be too hard on Burton. He has given the community a valu ble and much needed lesson. lie and his associates knew the system in vogue in Richmond. They knew how easy it was to fleece the people in the name of charity or the church. They knew that if they could only make terms with a charitable organi zation or a church society the rest would be easy. They did make such a deal with the pastor of a church, and they went forth in the nauie of the Dorcas Society-to raise money for the poor. It was a name, to conjure with, and they played the game for all it was worth. If they had not been so greedy, if they had only di vided dollar for dollar with the church, there is reason to believe that they would have escaped the vigilance of McCarthy and would have gone hence to prey upon some other com munity. And what a sweet-scented gang it was to turn loose upon the Richmond public in the name of God and hu manity ! At the head ol it a man who had deserted his wife, his com panion, a woman who lived with him as though she were his wife, and two younger women, whose mere associa tion with Burton and his mistress, put them at least under suspicion These are the persons who canvassed Richmond as the accredited agents of a Richmond church. Of course, the "little minister" didnot know them, or he would have shunned them as agents oi the devil, but the point is that no church should send out agents in a work of this character without knowing them to be at least moral. The community has had its lesson. It will be many a day before another Richmond church makes terms with any gang of professional solicitors to down the people on shares. And while we are at it, let's reform the whole system. Let's put a stop to every species of canvassing which has the flavor of intimidation or blackmail. If it cannot be stopped in any other way, the victims will have to or ganize against it. It has become in sufferable. At this distance, it looks as if the church authorities were as guilty as Burton of the charge upon which the latter was sent to jail. Evidently the jury convictedthestrangeron "gener al principles" in this case, for being an immoral manwHO was an outsi der, just as that English jury con victed Mrs. Maybrick of murder (when murder- was not proved) be cause she was not all she should be and possibly because she was an "American, The editorial of our excellent Rich mond contemporary is eminently proper, and it was a courageous thing to do In the face of the community which was responsible - for such a state of affairs. It is another testimo ny of the value of the press as the ex poser of hypocrisy and humbug, as well as of graft. LETTER FROM SCOTCH LASSIE. She Stirs Up Mm R constructed In Strata : Carellna. " . '', Lamar, S. C. Dear Observer: 'A long time we have thought a something to have sent you" just for the pleasure of treading on familiar ground, if nothing more. But "to morrow, and to-morrow and to-morrow creeps in this petty pace from day, to-day" aud things find them selves still undone. Would you nice to near something of the Lamar Graded School? Well I its primary department, Which num bers at least sixty pupils, is taught by Miss Ersel Ellis, of Greenville, S. C; The intermediate grades, compri sing the third and fourth, fifty pupjls strong, are taught by Miss Daisy Mc- Intyre, of TOanon,. b. C. The other grades the :fifth, sixth and eighth, numbering ,twenty-hve, are the share of your cortespondent So here there sit "Three Sisters evermore, weaving a silken thread." Let us hope that the toiling may bring rejoicing by and by. Last Friday we celebrated the birth days of Lee and Jackson with some rather pretty exercises, which. appa rently gave great pleasure to an ap preciative audience. The decorations of red and white, with quantities of graceful Southern smilax, which grows here to .such perfection, were unusually attractive and formed a fit setting for the splendid pojjfaits of our peerless heroes which were sus pended from the center of the arch. In addition to the programme by the school, which consisted of "the Na tional songs of the Confederacy," to quote a prominent citizen of your town, and the recitations, -'The Con quered Banner" and "The Sword of Lee," a very brief and interesting address was made by Rev. Mr. Phil lips, pastor of the Methodist church. It was quite a pleasant event and at least served in stirring the minds of this people "by way of remembrance, Two of the teachers here for the last three years were northern people, and whatever else they taught, they did NOT teach the South, so this town has been fearfully and wonderfully recon strncted, The school had been taught to sing only America and Yankee Doodle, and not only Would not have - recognized a- Confederate flag-if- they had met rt-m the-road, t but-didn't- know that there was such a thing. We have been trying to enter a wedge by way of unreconstruction and are triad to report that our pupils can now sing all the "National airs of the Confederacy" even ,TWait for the Wagon" and that the Confeder ate flag, as well as the flag with the Southern Cross, are now before their eyes every day. One of the most prominent citizens of Lamar is Mr. M. J. Mclnnis, who it will be remembered by many, is one . of Senty-First's "dispersed abroad." Mr. Mclnnis takes the lead in all the best movements of the town and is held in the highest respect and esteem. Through his activity and energy there has" been built within the last six months a Presbyterian church, which by all odds is the nf cest church building in the town and where services are held twiceamonth. Ditring a recent visit to Bishopville, we had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Kmmett Pemberton, another of Cum berland's "dispersed abroad." We haven't seen a copy of the Ob server since leaving home, as no one here takes it, and we miss it exceed ingly: We have even lost sight of the different correspondents; but we presume it is safe, and hope it is not too late, to wish Scribo and Salma gundi a happy new year. Scotch Lassie LOWER CUMBERLAND NEWS. As we have not seen any news from our section published in the Obser ver of late we decided to write the general topics of the day, to let the many readers of the good old Obskr ver know that if everything has gone in winter quarters they are not dead quite. After some few very warm days the weather has become awful cold and unfavorable again. The little birds, which thought spring was nigh during the few warm days, must really think that winter is 011 hand for awhile yet, so they will have to put off singing their many spring time songs. Messrs. Wade Hall and Buck Hoi lingsworth made a flying trip to Mr J. B. Jackson's last Sunday afternoon and reported a lolly time. Messrs. E. S. Smith and Peyton R Home went to Fayetteville last Sat urday on business and called on some of their good friends on their re turn Sunday. Mr. McB. Hall and wife spent a few days last week with his mother, Mrs. LucyJ. Hall. Mr. Andrew J. Hall spent last Sun day on Turnbull (Tatom, N. C.) Mrs. MarsieE. Starling, of Godwin, N. C, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hall of this section. Mr. Hales, of Sanford, was vis iting his sister, Mrs. S. B. Hales, recently. We regret to report the death of Mrs. Berry Vinson, which occurred a few days ago. Messrs. C. L. Hall and P. P. Smith spent Saturday night and Sunday on Aligator. The talked of smallpox everywhere has turned out to be the old seven year itch. Miss Phcebe Hall spent a week with her mother, Mrs. Lucy J. Hall, re cently. Mr. F. E. Bullard attelWed court in Fayetteville last week. It seems as ii the R. F. D. routes and telephone lines is .all the go now-a-days, excepting the many saw mills, which usually go from daylight until nightfall. v With best wishes to all, especially the. Observer and its good editors, Big Pike. "-vjhe children's jubilee of good health follows the use of Bee's Laxative Ho ney and Tar, the cough syrup that ex pels all cold from the system by act ing as a cathartic on the bowels." A certain remedy for Croup, Whooping Cough and all lung and bronchial af fectiana. Sold by McKethaa & Co. FAYETTEVILLE MftRBLf AND GRANITE WORKS, Strictly First-class :, Work. Call at my yard or write for price, Respectfully, . , E. L. REMBBUKU, Proprietor, , : Fayetteville, N. 0. Housekeepers. Bave 20 cents on every do t .Lara worth of '-Baking Powder purchas ed by using Car olina. For sale by Grocers. Manufactured by H. R. H0RNE & SONS. Announcement' We beg to say to our friends anil tlu Bublic that we have sola our stock of rugs, Medicines, 'Ac., Ac, in the Hote1 Lafayette .building-to .Messrs. ArmrJela and Greenwood, and will from this datr give our entire add best attention to ti e McDuflle Drug Store. We thank you for our successful bus-. ness during the past 14 years, anil will try our utmost to make our service to you this year more pleasing than ever. Your Account made at the hotel store is payable at tit tlcDuttle Urng More, as we did not Kit our books. The King Drug Co. at the McDUFFIE DRUG STORE yol -will find a good combination. Agai thanking the public for their past favors and soliciting a continuance of the kin I patronage, Respectfully, lm - ill - Co. AN INVITATIOH. Accept this as vour personal invitation to come to our store and make it your place for purchasing drug store articles. We take pleasure in waiting on you promptly and cour teously. A. J. (M & Co, DRUGGISTS and PHARMACISTS, (Next door to Postotlice) 'phone Ul, HELP WANTED! To build up the biggest ami best bnir ness in town. WE HAVE THE GOODS, Low Prices, and a desire to treat yei Bqnarely. Will you Favor Us With Your Patronage B. E. SEDBERRY'S SON Palace Pharmacv. Why Suffer With Colds? WE GUARANTEE s Cascara Bromide Quinine to Cure ! No cure, no pay, as we will refund tli. money by your returning the em pty PRICE 25c. teg" Prescriptions carefully filledde livered promptly. MCKETHAIM & CO. . DRUGGli-Ao. 'Phone 331. Night 324. GEO. A. BURNS, Feed and' Sales Livery Department The Best in the State. Polite and attentive drivers, who know all the country roads. First-class Har ness and Saddle Horses always on hand and for sale. Sole iigeni for the celebrated BABCOCK BUGGIES. Fresh tripe, pigs-feet, presieft pigs-feet and beef liver. Tripe and feet loc. per pound, 3 lbs. 25c Liver toe. per pound. Crystal Mir-., kit. 'Phone 143, Gillespie Streets Livery StaDles it t
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