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VOL. 1. FRANKLINTON, N. C., SEPT. 14, 1893. — ' ‘ ' t*-■ I* No. 32. _■* f LOCAL NEY/S. —Read the new ad. of the Dexter Shoe Co., on this page. —Rev. N. H. D.. Wilson is protracting his meeting at Grove Hill this week. —The recent rainy weather has inter feared with cotton picking and fodder pulling considerably. PERSONALS —Miss Mitlie Wester is visiting rela tives in Henderson. —Mrs. S. J. Allen has returned from a vioit to Durham. ) —Miss Vic Harris has returned after an extended visit at Winston. —Miss Myrtle Timberlake has return ed to her home near Louisburg. —Mr. B. T..Green, of Petersburg, Va», is visiting his brother, Mr. W. W. Green. —Miss Kate Cheatham attended the Lawn Party at Youngsville last Friday night. ':,y. * —Miss Vena Balla-ixLis visiting the family of our popular townsman, Mr. B. W. Ballard. rMiss Mary Morris spent several days ie, the guest of —Mrs. B. IF Holder, and daughter, Miss Minnie, are visiting relatives in Stovalls, Granville Co. —Mt*. Willie Yarborough, of Charlotte, X. C., passed through our town last '1 aesday en route for Louisburg. —Miss Clellie Timberlake who has been visiting Mrs. Dr. Harris, left last Wednesday on a visit to relatives near Louisburg. —Last Tuesday morning the Atlanta Special was “called to halt.” and carried off one of Franklinton’s most charming voting ladies, Miss Ruth Wingate.' _ Miss Ruth lias gone to Hollins Institute, and wiM remain until next June. —We were glad to see our young iriend, W. R. Hunt of Pughs, in town la t Sunday, “Will” is looking tuubh bet ter than we expected to have seen him, a ter so long a spell of fever. We are glad to note thht he will resume his old place at the Racket, Oct. 1st. IDIIEID. God saw proper on Sept. 9th, 1893 to rail home our Brcj, E. B. Furman, who had been ill only a short time with ty phoid fever. We rejoice in his lastwords of hope, and feel that he is only gone up higher to receive the crown prepared for him.* Our warmest sympathy goes out to the bereaved family. REVIEW OF IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD DURING THE PAST WEEK. _ I ■ Business has improved steadily and continues to get better; a pleasing con dition of affairs due in part to the wide spread belief that the Senate will ulti mately vote to repeal the silver-pur- j chase act of 1890. From all parts of the | country comes reliable information as vo the revival of industries that have for j some time past been slumbering because of financial and tariff uncertainties Re liable prophecy as to the date when the silver men in the Senate will permit the majority to reach a vote is not now to be had, but there is an impression albroad that the act desired by so many people will be in the hands of the Pi’esident within little more than a w-eek. Labor Day was celebrated in many cities by parades and open-air meetings of consid erable magnitude There is possibility of serious disagreement between some of the railroad corporations and their employes, efforts to reduce wages have resulted in threats to strike on the Lake Erie and Western and the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul. Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, has appealed to the pub lic to aid the thousand^ who are suffer ing from the effects of thfe terrible hur ricane, which did so much damage1 on. the coasts of South Carolina and Geor gia; the distress is really very great. Ac quiescing in the request of the govern ments of Brazil and the Argentine Re public. .President Cleveland has agreed t9 act as arbitrator in the matter of dis puted territory-.? Tlpe new' German Mini ster, Baron Von Saurms Jeritsch, first to 'epresent Germany as an ambassabor to die United States, and Yang Yu, the new Minister from China, have arrived and iave been formally received. Among he notable dead of the week, were Ham i tjh rush, wWfiias .jeOVeudy oi oiiCfe* vhen Gen. Grant was President; Cot. ferome Bonaparte, Mrs. Elizabeth Mc Nair. and Mrs. Mary Murphy,—the two atter conspicuous only because of their ldvanced age, Mrs. McNair being 110, uid Mrs. Murphy 106. <?■---!-- . LE&SONS FROM THE RECENT PAST. | Everybody has complained lately of bard times, the pfinic has become a household word all over our nation. From the reports in the leading papers all over the land comes the joyous news that the panic is over; even before Con gress has had time to finish its speech making preparatory to prescribing for the patient on its hands unmistakable signs of convalescence appear on all sides. Now thfecquestion is not so much what shall we dp for relief but what lessons can we gather to prevent a return of the siime conditions. In the first place the'-e is evidently a defect in ou£ ma chinery for supplying currency. This is evident to all. It is not so edsy to say what the trouble is and how to remedy it. The average man can talk learnedly a bout financial matters, but very few of them agree as to the cause of the trouble and the remedy for it. What is needed is for Congress to lay aside all prejudices of every kind and make a thorough in vestigation of the whole matter and find the cause and remove it. Very lit tle tilings sometimes produce very seri ous results. Three or four years ago the town of Plymouth, Pa.l was almost de populated by a terrible plague of ty phoid fever. All could see the affects and numerous suggestions were made in regard to the cause and the remedy. Careful scientific investigations showed that during the previous winter away up in the mountains the excrements from a typhoid fever patient had been thrown out in the snow. The return of spring had melted the scow and the w a ter came along down into the stream "rom which the striken city obtained its water supply, and killed its people by the hundreds. Now just what the country wants is a scientific investigation as to the causes of financial disorder and a permanent security against their recur rence. The present system is a failure. No use to follow it any further. Try something else at any rate. Another circumstance connected with the panic, is that the South has suffereo much less than the 'North and West. The number of broken banks and busi ness failures South has beeh much less than in other parts of the /country. This shbws that the condition of this section is very much improved in some respects. It is true that money has been scarce, that the prices of our cottoii and tobac co heretofore our money crops have been so low as to render the production of them unprofitable, this lias decreased the value of farming lajnds, but it has led bs to produce more food products and tbe result is that we ueed less mon ey. It is quite common to hear farmers say 1 have made my crop with less ex penditure of money than ever before. When vve buy no corn, no hay,, little meat not much flour it requires less money, Two 6r three years ago a car load of hay or corn rid often be taken rival by the farmers’ wagons standing waiting for it without ever going into the warehouses. This year not a grain of corn or bale of hay has been shipped here. The same is true all over the Souih. Had this change not taken place our people would have suffered fur f^od and business failures would have ooeur red,-much more extensively. Then too there is another item that has contribut ed to help us. The fruit ana trucking business has been of great aid, Almost every village in this State and we pre sume in others have been shipping vege tables* fruits, melons &c. For twenty miles around Norfolk this is estimated at $503,000 from April 1st to Sept. 1st. At Mobile, Ala., over $800,000 worth of cabbages and irisn potatots were shipped to say nothing of beans, peas aud toma toes &c. The shipments from the vici nity of Newbern, N. C., have been very heavy. One can see at a glance that in the aggregate our revenues from this source alone have been enormous, of course the actual figures cannot be given. In the South cotton is no longer king. Another thing that seems to be indi. cated by the “straws” in recent winds is that JNew lora is no longer tne busi ness eapitol of the United States. The last elebtion revealed the fact that a President could be elected without New York. A western city has the World’s Fair. The cities of the Mississppi valley have called on Europe for gold, and fur nished it to the government when New York had only stocks, bonds, and clear ing house certificates. If this South land will open its eyes, and look across the waters it will become the centre of commerce. We have meat, bread, cot ton &c., always on a parity with gold stocks bonds &c., have to have coupons attached to make them go. The South is rapidly changing and will within the next quarter of a century become the wealthiest section ot the wealthiest na tion on the globe if the lessons of the past mean anything. LOCAL NOTICES. Go to Lowry's for good flour. He sells it cheap. Lowry sells the best quality of meal and more of it than any other dealer in the city. For first-cla fs groceries, call at Lor - ry's. He keeps the best stock in town. 40 Tnorough-bred Duroe-Jersey pigs for sale. One isow alone has 14. W. L. McGhee 11C, ETC., CEE! Your 500 Labels 10 Cts. 500 Firms Want Agents SEND 10'CTS. and we PRINT your full »ui flress on 1.000 (2 color) GUMMED LABELS. 500 pcMtp.aifl for you to stick on your letters papers, &c., and 500 postpaid to 500 agentyr firms, publishers and manufacturers, who will mail you 500 sample books, novelties, pictures, magazines, papers, <Ste. Free with your printed address on each, G. P. Curtiss, of So, Wilmington. C.. writes as follows,: "The FREE sample books, pa pers, &c..i I received from the 500 Arms men tioned if bought would cost $25. Aip de lighted." THE FAST MA XL CO., Raleigh, Nj C. mm FRANKUNTON MARKETS. PRODUCE. Corrected by our leading merchants. Butter, per lb. 25 Bacon ’ N. C. Hog- round, 121 Western Meat, 111 to 121 Sugar Cured Hams. 15 Corn, 80 Flour, family.' . 4,0ft Lard, 10 121 15 as to quantity. Oats, ■ 5# Potatoes, Irish, 1.50 Potatoes, Sweet, 4i Sugar, 5 to 7 Coff ee, 20 to 25 Salt, per sack, ' 1.5t - Chickens, 121 to 15 Eggs, per doz. 10 Beeswax, 18 Tallow, 10 to 16.r Peas, 80 Apples, driedL per lb. 5 Apples, green, per bn. 50 to 1.00 Peaches, dried, K) to 121 Beef, per lb. 5 to 81 Cotton is now in good demand, and our buyers have the cash and wifi pay the highest market value. Inc’p. Capital, $1,000,000. UUlfiD Bliur, w., 1UC p. v“Hi"** *‘~V. BEST 01.50 SHOE IN THE WORLD, “A dollar saved is a dollar earned." ' This Ladles’ Solid French Dongola Kid But ton Boot delivered free anywhere in the U.S., on ^-rrrm receipt of Cash, Money Order, fc, , or Postal Note for $1.50. wHgffiflRial Equals every way the boots sold in all' retail stores for ■BIPKlPllfli 02.50. We make this boot ourselves, therefore we guar HMHB’iyfl antee the Jit, style and wear, and if any one is not satisfied jS'VdHillA. we will refund the money or send another pair. Opera Tee or Common Sense, K&t |ggAvfi. widths C, 1>, E, & EE, la Wmm*. sizes 1 to 8 and had es. Send your size; %se will fit you. Illustrated Cats WMjiM* logue FREE 3 FEDERAL ST., OSTON. MASS. "A dollar saved is a dollar earned. Dexter Shoe Go, Special terms
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