FRIDAY, - SEPTEMBER 30, 1887.
jS^VTTXjtrS CJ5-33®, Editor.
. Subscription Pnee $1.00 a Year nr Advance.
THE RAILROAD AGAIN.
We hear that some of Henderson’s
most iu&uential business' men have
gone to Baltimore to see President
Robinson in relation to the selection
"of a terminus fqr the Durham and
Northern Railway. If these gentle
men have really gone to see Mr.
Robinson, Henderson ha3 gotten the
start of us again. Stili we hope it is
not too late for us. There is hope
that the railway authorities will see
their error before they begin to dig
dirt. The Richmond and Danville
people are evidently sitting back and
laughing at the stupidity of some
people; for they know very well,
that ay hen the road shall have been
built from Durham to Henderson
the^ will still get a large share of
that business and take it from Dur
ham to Richmond via. Henderson,
Oxford and Clarksville.
ine mam onjecttne tacninona ana
Danvilie people have in building the
iline, they are so rapidly pressing to
completion, is to enter the Seaboard
System and strike one of the most
.important stations—Henderson in
that system To meet this the Sea
board men should buiid. as quickly
as possibly, the line from Durham to
Franklinton. By doing this the Sea
board System would strike one of
the I most important points—Dur
ham—upon the Richmond and Dan
ville System. This, however, is just
what: be Richmond and Danville is
working her forces to. prevent, and
it really looks as if she will carry*
J her point. !
We hear that subscription books
•are uow open in Danville, Va., and a
large amount has been subscribed to
build a road from thence to Frauk
linton and on into Eastern Carolina.
If the report is true, we shall come
out all right in the end. Look at
your map, and you will see that
Franklinton is About on an air line
with Danville and Williamston, N.
G. A glance at the map will further
show that there is a large section of
country between Danville and Frank
> linton, and nut a railroad near it.
Franklinton is interested especially
to have some Kue of road come here,
which will compete for business with
Sthe Seaboard System, and thus re
duce freights. We Call the attention
i of our people to the importance oi
agitating for a road that will connect
us with the coast and the great North
west, at one and the same time.
Since Henderson and the Seaboard
„ authorities seem npt to be willing to
let us have a connection with Dur
ham, let us take care of our owu in
terest, by turning our atten'ion in
another quarter. We' -hall refer to
this subject again.
SICKENING.
Society, at Newport, has lately
been getting excited. Tne lion of
the hour is Ins gra e (scapegrace) the
Duke <>f Marlboro. The most fash
ionable people—the very cream of
upperten-dom —have vied with each
other, in the extravagant attentions
which they have showered upon the
Duke. Fathers and mothers, with
/marriageable daughters, have been
delighted to secure any opportunity
to throw the members of their fami
lies into the company of the noble
man from over the water. Husbands
and sweethearts have been nearly
.dead with jealousy, because their
wives and lady-loves have shown such
marked predilections for the society
of the titled straxger. Some of the
post refined and wealthy people of
$ew Kork city, so it is said, haye
given dinners, and balls, and recep
tions, at their, seaside homes, in
jionor of the “Noble Duke.”
What is there about the Duke of
Marlboro to call forth this ardent
worship? Well, he is a decendant of
a great English General, who was
never accused of having too much
conscience, and whose fame has been
dimmed by some reputed transac
tions, neither honest nor patriotic.
He inherits a great name, and is the
master, as we are told, of several de
sirable accomplishments. But com
mon report says, he is destitute of
mora's—is a debauchee and a liber
tine. It is understood, that this
Duke makes no concealment of his
illicit loves, but is proud of them.
Now, if this Englishman were strip
ped of bis titles, and robbed of his
money, and ousted from his estates,
the society that has been recently
dining and lionising him, would not
consider him fit associate with their
grooms and kitchen maids. 13ut pos
sessing titles and money, and own
ing large estates, he is considered St
ing company for the wives and daugh
ters of those men who are said to
stand at the head of the best society.
All this shows most dearly to be
true, what thousands of thoughtful
persons have long suspected, viz :
That the best society.'as the phraze
goes, is rotten to the core. This in
sane worship of this dissolute Duke,
by the rank and file of New York
fashionable, cultivated, and wealthy,
society shows, that, if one desires to
find genuine respect for personal
purity and moral worth anywhere in
this country, he must look for it
among the comparatively poor and
unpretentious masses of our popula
tion. The best society of the United
States wineing and dineing, and
worshipping, a dissolute Duke of
Marlborough ! Ugh ! It makes one
sick!
ENGLISH JUSTICE.
The present long ministry in Eng
land appears to be bent upon goad
ing the people of Ireland into the
commission of crimes in order that
they may be able to plead the law
lessness of the Irish, as a pretext for
using the sternest measures of re
pression. The police at Mitchells*
town, in a recent attempt to sup
press a public meeting, tired upon
an unarmed and defenseless crowd
in a most murderous fashion, killing
two men, and wounding several
others. Mr. William O'Brien, the
plucky editor, who crossed the At
lantic to confront Lord Laudsdowne
with his cruel treatment of the ten
ants upon his Irish estate, is now un
dergoing trial, as a common criminal,
for advising certain tenants to resist
evictions,^until a law for their relief,
then before Parliament, should pass
its last stage, and receive the Royal
sanction. Other leading members
of the National Irish party are ex
pecting to be arrested at ally mo
ment, and sent „to keep company
with O’Brien. Landlordism must be
reduced to desperate straits, when it
finds it necessary to arrest members
of Parliament, and charge them with
infamous crimes because they dare,
to address their constituents upon
questions of public policy, iu which,
not only the Irish, but liberty-loving
people, all over the world, have a
vital interest.
This seems to be a proper time to
ask the stupid Anglomaniacs in Llii'
country, who so constantly prate
about the superiority of the British
Constitution, to point out some of
the particular excellencies of that
much bepraised instrument. The
genuflexions of some American stupids
before the Duke of Marlborough—
the r presentative of the Landlord
interest in England—are specially
significant just now.
Our Washington Letter.
That the action of the Government
in issuing a call for the purchase of
fourteen millions of bonds was wise
and timely, is the opinion of able
and experienced financiers in all por
tions of the country, and the re is also
a general feeling that a financial
crises was narrowly averted—due
directly to the Constant and enor
mous absorption of the currency by
the immense surplus that continues
to accumulate with startling persist
ency. I know of certain staunch and
extensive business firms, in some
great commercial centres of the
Union, that were absolutely unable
to place loans, with the best collate
ral, at %(' per cent. The ready re
sponse to the Treasury’s measure of
relief has been so satisfactory that it
is believed that there will be no fur
ther tightness generally seriously felt
iu the money market until -Congress
will have the opportunity to provide
permanently for the country’s finan
i cial ills, brought on by the canker
worm ofVur body politic—the Treas
ury surplus—our troublesome herit
age from the unsound fiscal policy of
the Republicans. ,
The President and Secretary Bay
ard had a conference, lasting nearly
a day, the past week, during which
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several Congressmen were denied
audience, and it is supposed tbat
some affair of state of grave import
—perhaps a solution of the fisheries
problem—was under discussion,
though noth’nghas yet transpired to
indicate the subject matter of the
consultation. . ♦
ThaXommissioner of Internal Rev
enue is preparing a statement that
will shot^o what extent the Govern
ment receipts would be decreased by
a total repeal of the Internal Reve
nue taxes, and the result, so far, is
interesting in one aspect, as least, as
showing a decided change in their
bibulous tendencies and inclinations
of the citizens of the United States.
It appears that as compared with the
previous fiscal year there has been a
great falhug off in the manufacture
of whiskey—the decreased taxation
amounting to nearly three millions
and three-quarters—the decline hav
ing ‘ been noticed for a num
ber of years past. But, on the
other hand, the manufacture of ,beer
is so rapidly increasing that it may
now be termed the national beverage,
the increased taxation of the past
year showing a gain of about two
million and a lialf dollars over the
preceding year. At an early date
the Commissioner proposes to have
an analytical test made of every
brand of American beer, as it is al
leged that many brewers use more
alcohol in making their beer than the
law allows, hence it is thought the
analysis will cause a sensation. The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
states it as his belief that the steady
decrease in the manufacture of dis
tilled spirits is due to the rapid
growth of temperance reform in this
country.
While all is so quiet in politics—
this being an off year—it may startle
if it does not awe your readers, that
a new Presidential ticker., and a won
derful combination it is, too, linking
as it does two of the great names of
the nation, has been launched here in
.the Capital. And well may Presi
dent Cleveland, as he realizes the
strength of this “combine" quake in
his boots, as lie sees his vision of a
second term vanish into thin air, for
how does he dare to oppose the Pres
idential aspirations of those mighty
men of renowo, those eminent states
men who will favorably compare with
the fathers oli the Republic—Lincoln
and Douglass. Yes, I repeat it, Rob
ert Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
The glorious deed was done at a ban
quet given by Douglass, the intellec
tual giant of the negro race, on the
anniversary of emancipation day,
and though, by a strange coinci
dence, Robert, the son of his fattier,
happened to be in this city at the
same time, lido not know that he is
committed to the movement, 3ret his
presence here on such, an occasion
may be significant.
I he frisky ai)d wayward Riddle
berger, feeling that he has been
snubbed by his Republican Senato
rial associates, threatens to give the
majority trouble next winter by vot
ing with the Democrats and tying the
Senate whenever it suits the whim of
the erratic Virginian, which judging
from his past course, will be quite
often. Riddleberger will be the
pivotal power of the Senate, and he
will make the most of his exceptional
opportunity to keep the Republicans
in a constant state of suspense.
He Has Been Here.
We hope our hard working, honest
colored friends may not lose what
they have put into the following lot
tery or whatever you may call it. A
good many took stock in it, and we
are informed that about one hundred
dollars left with Thos. Canady, for
that is the lawyer’s name.
EXCITEMENT AMONG NEGROES AT
FORESTVILLE AND WAKE FOREST.
“An intelligent looking colored
ma, a lawyer by profession, has been
at Forestville and Wake Forest for a
few day8 and has created a wild ex
citement among the negroes at those
places. He says that he is the repre
sentative of a party of English capi
talists with $30,000 000, which amount
they propose to lend out and invest
in land in North Carolina. The pur
pose is to secure a3 much land as pos
sible and if all the money is not
used in that way it will be loaned out,
and anybody can get as much money
as he wants if he wi.l invest it in land
cud simply promise to pay eight cent
interest on the loan. The capitalists
will take all risk of not being paid
back. As agent of the company
he is going ahead, look inf for land
and receiving applications for loans.
He charges $10 for every accepted ap
plication,and sofar has taken in a great
deal of money. Every colored man and
a few whites are anxious to get on the
‘•application list,” and are skirmish
ing around lively for ten dollar bills.
Several negroes are already bargain
ing for land to be paid for with the
prospective loan money, and some
whites are doing likewise.
The more intelligent white people re
gard the whole affair as a fabrication
on the part of the colored man, and
are troubled for want of labor on ac
count of the demoralization among
the laborers who are now too busy
“building castles in the air” to attend
to and listen to proposals for work.
There is a sort of jubilee excitement
among them, and it is now at a high
pitch.”
I will sell on easy terms Two Tracts
of Land within five miles of Franklinton,
also Two Town Lots with Good Houses
in the 'Tovvn of Franklinton, also Tw o
Mules, Two Horses and One Fine Jersey
Bull Two and a Half Years Old, Two
Cows and One Two Horse Wagon. For
further information call on N. Y. Gulley
or myself.
H. C. KEARYEY. ;
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Having just returned from the
NORTHERN MARKETS
and having purchased a large stoek of
We feel as though it would not he right
if we did not let our friends knowr
that they can save by buying of us
25 PER CENT.
If you are in need of anything that
is kept in a
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Xpu would do well to see us before pur
chasing.
IE DEFY COMPETITION,
and are determined to sell. Do not fail
to call on us.
Very truely,
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FRANKXINTON, N. C.
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Laat week we advertised remnants of Dress Goods and Calicoes at half price
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-WHICH WE OFFER JFOR THE NEXT TEN DAYS:
GENTLEMENS’ LINEN COLLARS AND CUFFS.
25 Dozen Gentlemens fine four ply Linen Standing Collars, sizes:
16, 16|, 17 and 17J at 87| cents per dozen, they are richly worth
$1.75 per dozen—Styles all right. We offer at the above price on
account of the sizes.
BOYS SUITS, AGE 5 TO 8 YEARS OLD AT HALF PIE.
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LADIES LINEN COLLARS AND CUFFS.
A small lot of Ladies Linen Collars, and. Cuffs—Cuffs 10 cents,
worth 25 cents—Coilars 5 eents, worth 10 to 12| cents.
About 1 dozen launderied and dress shirts at $1.00, worth $1.50,
About 4 dozen pairs'Ladies’ Hose for 12| per pair, worth 25 cents.
Quite a lot of Silk Ribbons, at prices away down.
Few Ladies’ Jersey Jackets, at greatly reduced prices.
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1000 yards Laces, at less than cost.
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Few pairs of Ladies’ Gloves at half price.
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Come early and call for the articles advertised at these
prices only, and you will get them just as we have offer
ed them.
We desire to say to the pnblic generally, that we
will leave for the Northern markets next week, where
we will buy a large 3tock of goods—no time or pains
will be spared in the selection of our stock_we intend
to show in Franklinton the handsomest and cheapest
stock (quality taken into consideration) ever shown in
Franklin county. We appeal to the ladies not to send •
North for any goods—we are determined to have every
thing you want at prices as low as yon can buy anywhere.
We will fill up our Grocery department with every
thing in the edible line—and we are going to subpbise
the natives in prices. "Carolina Favorite” will be on
hand at a price that will astonish you—Every barrel
will be guaranteed.
. "STovlts respectful!^
b. v. mm & co.,
franklinton, n. c.
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AND DON’T FORGET THAT
R. F. MORRIS
IS THE MAN TO DO IT
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-AND AT THE
HE HAS JUST RECEIVED
NEW TYPE,
NEW 'T
&c., &c.
The Cheapest Job Printing done in
the State of North Carolina.
8©”G)ve me. a trial and you will see that
my statement is true.
H.S. FURMAN
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ns^i.iT^iXjiasri'oiiT, asr. c.,
do hereby certify that I keep constantly
on hand a fresh Supply of Drugs, Patent
Medicines Toilet articles, Lamp Goods,
Toys, Novelties Confectioneries &c. &c.
Choice brands of Cigars and Tobacco.
Prescnptmns carefully Compounded.
A fall line of Trusses always on hand
WM. B. DUNN,
MANUFACTURER OF
PLOWS 1 PLOW CASTINGS,
SWEEPS 1 HALF $W EPS,
made of the best material—if you want
good Plows and Castings buy them of him
Wm. B. DUNN,
Wake Forest, N* C.
ASSIGNMENT.
C. K. Cooke having* made an assign
ment to the undesigned, of his entire
stock of Drugs, fixtures, notes accounts,
&c., this is to give notice that I desire to
settle the business as soon as possible.
Sw A®* bargains in every
thing in stock will do well to call. Drug
gists wnx do wkll to examine the
stock, All who are in debt to C. K.
save troul>le and expense by
settling at once.
J. A. THOMAS,
Aug. 15, 1887.—tf. ASEl*l‘“