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40c
35c
An,l we still keep the lead oivTotacco at 25 and Flour at
io 05 ncr hundred lb. Come in and we will convince aU
Uo do not know us
RESPECTFULLY.
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No ii Kast Trade Street. E. Moore's Old Stand.
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GOOD BO ADS.
teing a rart oi an aU11" "-"'."
at the Southern Inter-State exposi
tion, 1891, by Col. Wharton J.
Greeu,of Fayettevillc.N. C.
I deem myself favored by the Com
ittee in the assignment of text to-
iy, however poorly me ia. ui uau
Dg it may be discharged.
Favored because it is a subject in
hich T am an d have long been deeply
Sterested, as all should be who ap
eciate community progress and mat-
lal development. The auai oraucu
the suliect is, to my thinking,
Irrelative, if not svnonymous, so in-
inately blended, are tbey. Ut a sure
st one is a sequence of the other,
lood roads good farming, good farm-
g goods road. The slipshod 101
ws with as unerring certainly. No
per old-time' saw than "like begets
e." Tidiness is Dot only taking,
p it is catching; and so likewise the
ipvenjl a regards the last, and so the
Ijective that fits the road is apt to m
e farm contigious. the general
aveller is prone to see in the one in
of the other, and any observation
this aul other lands conforms to tnat
inclusion. A late writer has said
atthe art of road making is a lost
t and it died with the Roman Etn-
p. Certain it is that no other peo-
je have ever carried it to such a
fte of perfection. The nineteenth
fnturv is n rosin to aive itself airs
r i c ,
er Stenhoasdn's new fangled roaa,
psistinor simply of two parallel iron
hieei rail?, which now permeates
e remotest parts of the civilized
bbe.
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pence of fire, wood and water, gives
Irate ot speed ten times greater tnap
nun
pibtedly it is a'marvellous devclop-
ent; but all things considered, it
av be doubted whether it is as much
1 &S Was tU n. infairporaVCtAin Of
Elitary roads whose initial point was
c seven-huied citv on the lmer,
d which came into beinff some score
thATirndtlct 01 thO
Jb i "w t"
uaest race that ever built roaas
or
led
mPn nirap nrnanhn rt t.K A "All-
o-Saxor " v ; r ,? ri .nioa f turn in
e-sential and manly regards.
of all road builders, the men
.ftometake undispated precedence.
R- nie, Imperial, and with uu-
talk about the man who suc-
and al out how successful-
o
for 30c
for 25c
PER. Gil
GEORGIA.
CYPRESS TANKS,
WIND MILLS,
PUMPS, Etc.
COTTON GINS
FEEDERS
CCNDEXSERS
AND PRESSES
GEORGIA.
loai n went, and wherein, in the then
known world, did they not go, they
left a royal highway behind tueni.
Over hills and rivers and mountains
and desert and morass, those invinci
Kl andiprs became williDff road work
era Tor to be more exact overseers of
,;,h rho crift nd in view OI
Rome's sunremaey And so it rc
suited, for inexorable nature confirm
ed the edict by the road builders lul
: minated.
An nrliaf rO.Tils thftV WerC tO UC
sure ! Not mud and slush and brash
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and codurov. such as some of us re
call when running after the Yankees
in the sixties, or as was occasionally
the case, there was a right-about S,
ihe running was reversed. No, their's
were roads even in the remotest parts,
from the pillars Hercules to "farthest
Ind," that would reflect credit on the
purlieus of modern capitals, solid,
substantial, enduring, and oft wide
enough for a phalanx to march
abreast.
Perhaps the wonder may grow the
less when it is taken into accouut that
their limitless slaves, captives and
convicts performed the manual part,
and these stern task-masters the head
or directing simply.
This great iutcgral system of un
paralleled roadways was not only a
most potential factor in the subjuga
tion of other states and holding them
in subjection by rapid massing troops;
but it played a far more amiable and
beneficent part in t'ae feeding of the
great central head. The victualling
of great armies has ever been one of
the most trying, problems with which
k; tnmrnanHerM have had to deal.
The provisioning of overgrown vil
lages like New York, Philadelphifc
and Chicago, even ith their endless
miles of raihoad and steam water
,nmnniiation. causes all who give
the subject thought to stand in mute
i :Armont Flow, then, in the
name of all that is marvellous, could
oWn.d on a little creek, dub-
.irorKu nnnrtesv. doubling the
UCU v m; J .
conjoint populations of all three ot
these, be kept alive a single year or
a single month, some twenty centu
u hirtli of James Watt and
Fulton and Stephenson? Without
her roads she never could nave reacueu
half her mammoth size; or if she had,
u .VtoA of inanimation or
wouiu Uc t.
or starvation long before effeminacy
set in and the Goth .and Vaadal put
man appearance. There s my pane-
gyric upon the tmcacy of roads and
roads of the right sort. There war
the neonle and there, everywhere,
a
their mrijic hignways They had th
best, the yry best.
Now you shall hear which of thr
great, governing enlightened people
of the nineteenth century has the worst.
the very worst. Don't fret or fume
for being told that v the great West
ern branch of the greattst of all races
-'The Anglo eaxon" (modesty for
bids the addition 4,Amcrican).n Id
auroads and inland steamboats, print
ncr nresses and bab carriages, biff
taverns and big broggarts, and a few
other of the elements of material da
velopmeat and stupendosity, we can
easily distance the combined' world.
But oh, how wcfully behind are we
on "the King's Highway." The cx
ensfi for bmnff lasrgard here is at nrst
blush , plausible, viz : immensity 01
national domain, newness of national
existence, and consequent spareness
of Donulation. J his, ot course, ex-
tenuates the non-construction so tar 01
a network of Anpian ways to super
sede our mud cut, gully-washed, hog-
wallow, ricketv-bndged cow-paths.
But It does not justify us in longer
toleration of those last in many, very
many localities. Aboriginal inertness
or terranin nrogress will do for abo-
rigines. It doesn t suit tne genius 01
the acre. Let it be added as stimu
lant and for our encouragement, that
only about a century ago "the ivmg s
hifrhwavs" In the King's own coun-
try (she that we are proud to cau
mother), and which are to-day the
best in the world, were then in as wo
ful a plight as our's are to-day: Think
of the mail coach and six, requiring
six Java in winter to make the round
trip from Edmburg to lilasgw. oniy
fortv-four miles apart. To-day I dare
j . .
say that it could be done by iiKe con
f . . r.
vftvance in as manv hours. Ana te
is where the cheapening effect of good
roads come in. Obssrve speed, on
ftmnrrrencv. ten times greater than on
thi P.ifrhtcenth century road, not rail-
road in either case: double or trepie
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' a .Iff.
th traction cabacitv of a team; thus
enabling one horse or mule to do the
work of two, and. with more ease ana
iftmfArt in tf.A noir brute: add .wear
and tear to the turnout, and mcreaseu
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comfort to the driver or passenger,
ajid without adding other incentives,
methinks that the eoonomist and tne
. w .. ..,
Dhilanthrooist will concur in the pro
priety of stage or wagon-road improve
r , .
ment.
Doubtless the wonderful change for
the better in Eaglish roads is mainly
due'to Telford. Rennie and Macadam,
K ii in xr nnirinpprs each, all of whom
"-"J to t ' . j
gave th,c subject the attention it de
served and that imports tneir unai
viHftd and entire attention. To Araer
icans that brawny old Scotchman,
Macadam, is best known of them all,
and nerhans. deservedly SO, as his 8VS
tem has been more generally adopted
nn this side of the Atlantic than any
other. Jet us hope the day wiH soon
come that wherever granite grows old
Moc's road will follow.
Tt is astonishing by what humble
agencies the grandest result3 are oft
achieved. Certainly no country, since
the "Dark Age" eclipse, has produced
such a galaxy of transcendant intel
lectual giants in every department or
mental measurement as has our cradle
and. Philosophy, theology, poetry,
nnliticsJ eloauence, patriotic heroism,
and last, and, perhaps, the least, the
throat cutting facutty on the wholesale
scale, have each and all produced un
doubted Titans. And jet were i caueu
upon off hand to name her greatest
benelactors; l mucn lucuue w
hat four men, whose very names have
almost pased into oblivion outside of
he scientific world, would De me
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greatest that would irst lonow iqu
martyr patriot, John Hampden. Here
they arc: Jenner, Watt, wacaaam,
Postgate. Let us hope tnat none are
beyond recall. Posterity is under
bonds to each which posterity can
never cancel. Fame or fortune was
foreign to the five, or at least, as pri-
mary mspiraiiuu ur ttopuu.
old Scotch road builder has not been
forgotten in the estimate of merit.
His nountrvman Watt, congener on a
kindred line of thought locomotion
called into being a subtle and suo-
t . L: J Jinn
missive ageni to ao rau o uiv.ufc,
known as steam, more potential, more
beneficent, mere tar-reaching tnan me
monsters worked in fancy by the Arab
gamin, Alladdin, or the tierman aei-
ver, raust. x wo couuiry uucwm
others, one of whom. Dr. Jenner, slew
the dragon f Small Pox," a thousand
m;ii;nns of times more terrible than
that by the good St. George ovar-
thrown. Xne oiuer, u.
slew a kindred monster by man s cu
Slew a Kinureu "j ,
pidity engendered, known as Food
Adulteration. The Buckingham Squire
rr . .
nampaen neeas no comment.
But to return frm pardonable di-
rtra :ci nn . . It la arlmittnrl hn 11 ii.
cious and fair-minded men that some
thing muU bo done in the way of road
improvement to place us nn the nlane
j - r r
of progress now reached by enlight-
enea Hiarppean nations, up to tnu
time we ,4ve been content with tne
old-fashioned "road-working" of oar
grandfathers, which competent critics,
by common consent, denounce as the
mnat t trftvaasnt. nsnlt-Ro innnrntiA
system looking to the end that could
well be devised, First, as to extra v-1
aganee. u Without spec 1 he data, it le
neverthdlesd safe to assume that the
adult mite population of our State,
coming within the militia or road work
ing age,Js in the neighborhood of two
hundred thousand. Assuming further
that this large army 01 broad-winners
are employed in this public service
five dayiin the year, and that their
labor, idV ordinary avocations, is m
trinsicall4 worth one dollar a day, not
to fepeak f loss by being called off at
critical seasons of the crop year, and
we ha7c i grand total as road-tax of
one millwn of dollars per annum, a
-a r m .
sum largely in excess of all of our
other State taxes combined, and about
nhft. twelfth of our auota 1o the Feder
k government under a kindred svs-
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tem 01 senijweao ruuuorjr cuiicubiuu auu
lavish ; appropriation. What arc the
results accruing ? About the same as
under the old militia plan for mikmg
men nrofiaient in the "school of the
soldier" jj; an hour's farcical drill
with corn-stalks in the course or a
vear. A kindred parade of earnest,
brawn v mini bwa t on work but with
no set purpose in view, and but rarely
a competent directing bead, own to
tal nil. ntenothinqt or next thing to
it, a few fabnormal ruts or hog-wal
lows filled with pine-top and loose
sand, and a ditch or gully bridged
with ffnoej rails, the whole liable to be
washed oitft again the first returning
shower, 'lis the game worth the can-
r11 ?' Aliolifih the nresent absolute
road working law. or we will never
have rod. 8ome may say it's better
than notitfig. I aay nay, for as long
as it eonJUnucs we will have this
'Tns much and nothing more.' : ,;
-if ou ask for a substitute my re
nlw is t.hfi nnnitentiarv. Work the
fj r
convict3 on our crunty road.3, inas
much as there will soon be no more
railroads to give them employment,
and thev can be better utilized in that
RaIiI than anv other, and not be
brought in conflict or competition with
honest and legitimate labor. . Let
them be employed under competent
direction and upon a general plan
adoDted bv prizo or under-experti,
with modifications adapted to different
locations, and "Ihe institution can
hv such a w-li directed plan be maJe
snla-sustaininj?. the people relieved
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of most of this oppressive and idioti
oad tax. and tL::r material develop
ment enhanced as by no other suggest
ible process. Two or three well con
structed roads running through each
county, with well selected terminals
and an eye to interlapping or contin
uous connection with those of contig
uous counties, would do more for in
dividual, municipal and commonwealth
development than would a double cot
ton crop or a fat gold or silver mine
in each Congressional district. This
is not fanfaronade. They are the
words of seberness and truth. The
whole system proposed should be
placed under the supervision of a thor
oughly competent or efficient engineer,
with salary attached to the office suffl
cient to command the services of such.
Such an one, in a word, a3 England
found when she gave her national job
to old John McA.dam.
Apropos ! a "brief synopsis of his gen
eral outline will not be out of place in
this connection. Of course in its en
tirety it is practicable only in rocky
localities: "For the foundation of a
road it is not necessary to lay a ?ub
stratum of large stones, pavement, &c,
as it is a matter of indifference wheth
er the substratum be hard or sof ; and
if any preference is due it is to the
latter. The metal for the reads must
consist of broxen stones (granite, flint
or whinstone is by far the best); these
must in no cases exceed six ounces m
weight, and stones from one to two
ounces are to be preferred, xne large
stones' in the road are to be loosened
to the side, where they are to be bro
ken into pieces of the regulation
weight; and the road is then to be
smoothed with a rake, so that the
earth may settle down into the holes
from which the large stones are re
n.nvA(l The broken metal is then to
Ua arefnllv spread over it; and as
thi onpration is of great importance
. li fntnrA nnalitv of the TOad. the
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metal is not to be laid on in snove-
! w . . . . . , . ia
fQls to the requisite derth, but to be
JCattered in Shovelful ftftr fihnunlfnl
till a depth of from six to ten inches.
j
according to the quality of the road,
I 'l ti i mi i .
uas uecu ooiamea. xne roaa is to
have a fall from th nilrl tn tUr
sides of about one foot in sixty, and
ditches are to be dug on 'the field-side
of the fences to a dpnth of & fw
inches below the level of the road."
See how very precise the old fellow
was.
But there are sections in our State.
notably the seaboard, where these es
sentials arc wanting. What then?
The plank-road long since proved an
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expensive iaunre; asphalt, or other ar
tificial material used for paving cities
is too expensive to be thought of on
tJA n . i: i i .i.
wicuucu cuuuirjr uuei-, anu oeocc iuu
problem looks unolvablo at first
glance, if we look for roads after the
Macadam pattern or of kindred excel
lence. Bat we live in an age when
man's iugenuity is usually adequate
iu uiau d ucicroitico. ay rciiauuc 13
on that subtle, wonder-working sci
ence called Chemistry, operating upon
the three most abundant comnonents
t
of the material universe as bases, viz ,
clay, sand and water, to find a combi
nation of ingredients which will turn
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out at smallest cost the requisite ma
terial for successful road huildiuff.
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And what a field of competition for in
ventors ! The man who can nroduce
thQ requisite substitute and enter the
field of competition against Dama IN a
ture in more favored localities for road
buildinghas an almost assured for
tune that will rival that of the nabobs
of the earth. You have the basis ma
terials, gentlemen, as they occur to
me. Combine these with others of
feature's products- naptha, stone, oil,
r what you will to turn out requi
site products and prediction is reality,
whether it gives the world tho plain,
simp'e road of Macadam, or the mie
elaborate recondite one of ielford
aT other's title. A better than either
if better be, will better do. Inal
sence of that better, either of the oth
ers will do. Some of the most essen
tial ingredients are given; supply the
others, ve delvers of the unknown.
and rival Alladdin or Monte Christo
!n rlrnrlnr and fUsnlaV.
Qiir age has evolved a wizard wno
Tar transcends in accomplishment what
priar racou uia iu vuigar lau-oj, wuv.
"Weaves his garland of tne lign
ninffs winsr." and enables man to
talk to his fellow man across a conti
nent, or to bottle up his thoughts in
embodied words so that future gener
ations may hear them as they fall to
his fellow3 bv word of mouth. These
nr hnt a tithe of his marvels. But
let him come down frem the clouds
and light on earth and furnish a sub
stitute at normal cost for one of its
most essential road-making compo
nents. even rock, the eternal rock.
and his previous miracles are eclipsed
in utility to his terrestrial brotners
The conversion of black carbos int?
i s concentrated, erystauzea puruy,
known as diamond, has been the dream
of ages and of sages. When practi
cally discovered, if ever, the dia
mond's value will have ceased to be.
The problem submitted is no dream,
no child of idle fancy, and when
solved will be worth a thousand or
ten thousand "Koh-i noors" for man's
good and for practical utility. Until
it is, let engineering skill make most
of the crude, natural materials at
hand in quarters where rock does not
exist. Out of these they can make
better roads than now exist.
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Cousressional Convention Called for
Lumberton, August 10.
The members of the executive com
mittee of the sixth congressional dis
trict met at te Hotel Richmond at
Rockingham Tuesday at 1 o'clock
and decided upon Lumberton as the
place and August 10th as the time for,
the congressional convention. There
was a tie vote between Lumberton and
Rockingham for the place of meeting,
hut decided in favor of Lumberton on
the second ballot as that place had not
had the convention in ten yerrs. Lum-
berton has two good hotels and a nsn
fry will be on the bill of fare August
10th.
The members of the committee re
port that the Third party sentiment is
dying out in all the counties.
Mississippi Floods.
Press Despatches.
New Orleans, June 3. The levee
in front of the Bell Chase plantation
on the right bank, fifteen ailea below
the city, caved in early this morning
and in a few minutes a crevasse any
f.mr foot: wifle and fcix feet deep ttas
iuu ' k
rafrinir. The break will cause a gna
to nmiY nl ant era on the lower
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coast.
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MR. DIXOX HELD TO ANSWER.
What Ha Savs with RoSDCCt tO
the
Charge Against Him.
The Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., form
erly of North Carolina and now of
New To k, se ms to have become in
volved in a law suit there upon a
charge of libtl. A special from New
fork states that he was held in $1,000
bail in the Jefferson Market Court on
a charge of criminal libel prefered by
Excise Commissioner Joseph Koch,
who claims that the reverend gentle
men libelled him criminally in one of
his recent sensational sermons. ,
Speaking of the action taken against
him by Commissioner Koch, the Rev.
Mr. Dixon is quoted as "saying: "I
have set out on a twenty five years
fight against Tammany Ha'.l. I do
not mind this affair I was a lawyer
before I was a miuister, and I know
the law of libel. I wrote the prelude
to my last Sunday's sermon two weeks
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or more ago. At tnat ume, i neneve,
the indictment against lvocu nad nos
been dismissed. Bat, at any ratf, I
meant that he stood indicted in the
piblic mind, and I stand by it.
I never printed the 'lalK in a
namr.hlet or circular.' It was sent
oat by a news agency, as all of my
sermons are. Why, this man Koch
was drunk at his own trial and rolled
on the floor.
Griffith's Items.
For the Mecklenburg rimes.
Miss Fannie Yarborough returned
nine last Friday from a visit to
'aiends and relatives ip Charlotte.
Miss Katie Kirkpatrick spent last.
Friday and Saturday with Miss Minnie
Yarborough. -
Wo are glad to learn that Mrs. J.
C. Brown of Sharon, who has been
very sick, is fast improving.
We have just learned tnai u. xx
Robinson, who has been quite sick
witn pneumonia is a iiuic uchci.
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, The Rev. G. K. White will preaca
at his church (Ebenezai) next Sab
bath at Bank's chapel at 3 o'clock.
Misses Anna Porter and Minnis
Bingham of Hebron are visiting Mrs.
J. Hugh Griffith this week.
The'Rev. J. C. Boyd will preaelt
at Steel Oreek A. R. P. Church next
Sabbath.
Mrs. Isaac Weaver of Shopton a
visiting relatives here this- week.
Itch on human and horses and all
animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool
ord'a Sanitary Lotion. This never
lib. Sjld by Burwell & Dunn.
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