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(A 3! J H ii ill! i! ! J ' 1 , t i J? "WEEKLY mnn a nnn n? a nTH i ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY -AT- DURHAM, N. C. THE HANDSOMEST WEEKLY IN THE STATE ! EVERYBODY SAYS SO! DEMOCRATIC IN POLITICS! ONLY 01-50 A YEAR I Terms: Cash in Advance. THE PLANT GIVES The Latest General News! The Latest State News! The Latest Local News! TLMAGE'S SERMONS Published Every Wee in Large, Cleai Type. '. WASHINGTON LETTER Giving Incidents of Interest from the National Capital. Liberal Advertising Rates ! OUR SPECIAL OFFERS TO SUBSCRIBERS. For $1.50 4n cash we will send The To bacco Plant for one year and mail to the subscriber two pictures Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. These pictures are 21x28 inchee each and are richly worth $1.00. So for $1.50 you get $2.50. For $2.50 we will send The Tobacco Plant one year and make you a present of a nickel-plated clock, six inches across the dial, warranted to keep good time. This clock retails at $2.50 to $3.00, s5 for $2.50 you get The Plant for one year, worth $1.50, and a clock worth $2.50. In other words, for $2.50 you get $4.00. OUR CREDENTIALS. From the many complimentary references to The Weekly Plant by our brethren of the State Press, we append the following : OKX OF THI HXST IS THX STAT I. Winston Daily. The Plabt, which is Already one of the best pa an In the State, will be pushed on to greater im provement and prosperity. eaATxmuG xvnxscx or zhtebpkisc State Chronicle.! We have seen, in North Carolina journalism, no more gratifying evidence of enterprise than that shown by Thx Plaht. , MOT WOXDKBTUX THAT ITS KHTXKPKZBX IS SUOCIS&TCI. Piedmont Press. It is not wonderful that Thi Plakt. with so much enterprise, is successful. KLXOAHTLT FBIXTXD. Franklin Press. Thi Dukhak Tobacco Plakt is one of the most beautiful and elegantly printed papers in the 8tate. KIXD MORS LIXJC IT. Edenton Enquirer. Thx Du&hah Plakt has its opinions and dares express them. Would that ws had a few more such uevtjprs la the State, Wyatt Bro's STOCK OF Spring Field Seeds, AND IS COMPLETE. Give Us a Call When in Need of Such. J.W. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in I AND GENERAL Commission Merchant, Corner Mangum and Peabody streets. DURHAM, N. C. Always carry a large and well selected; stock of Flour, Sugar, Coffees, Molasses of all grades. Hay, Corn, Oats, Bran, Shipstuff, and every thing yon want in the grocery line. Everything bought for spot cash and in large quantities. We are therefore in a position to nerve -our customers THOROUGHLY well . ami we make it our business to study the interest of those dealing with us, and give them every pos sible advantage. We never hesitate to meet the competition of the market; however severe, and we never allow ourselves to be undersold by any j of our competitors. j In view of what we have stated, we cordially invite you to call upon lis and examine our stock and prices, and we feel confident you will give us a liberal share of your trade. j We also have in connection with our business, a branch store in Oxford, N. C, corner Com mercial and Wall streets, consisting of everything that can be found in a firet-class establishment, such as Corn, Oats, Meat, Meal, Flour, Hay, Bran, &c, By the car load, and can compete these vith any liouse in tne State. Thanking our friends and patrons for past favors and hope by low prices and honest and lair dealing to merit a continuance oi the same. Very respectfully, JOHN W. MARKHAM, nich9 Durham and Oxford, X. C. n Selecting a Life Assurance! Com pany, the Considerations of Chief Importance are j Safety and Profit. 1. SAFETY (or permanent protection). This is measured by Surplus and the ratio of Surplus to Liabilities. , ! Of the leading Companies of the world, !. The Eptalle Life Assurance Society has the largest' Surplus and the highest ratio pf Sur plus to Liabilities. 2. PROFIT (or the largest present and future ad vantagesThis is measured not by increase in Sur plus alone, nor by Dividends Paid alone, but by both combined; that is, by ' Surplus Earned." And of the leading Companies of the world, the Equita ble shows the largest Surplus Earnings. I No Policies show such profitable returns as those issued on the TONTIXE PLAN, a system! devised and introduced bv the Equitable Society, j Thtse Policies become ABSOLUTELY I INCON TESTABLE two (or three) vears from their date of issue, and are made PAYABLE IMMEDIATELY upon their maturity. i The Equitable Society, in 1888, exceeded all pre vious records. (For particulars, see Annual State ment.) j ; ASSETS $95,042,922. LIABILITIES . .. . 74.248,207.81 SURPLUS (4 per cent.) $20,794,715.15 Outstanding Assurance .... 1 $549 216,126 New Assurance 153.933.535 Income Surplus Earned in Five Years (1S84-188S) Surplus Earned in 1888 Increase in Income Increase in Surplus (4 per cent.). Increase in Assets 26,958,977 2l.824.7W 5,067,124 ;3,71S,12S !2.690,4ti0 10,664,018 Of the Life Assurance Companies of the world, the Equitable has for nine years transacted the Largest Annual New Business and held the Largest 4 per cent. Surplus; for three years it has held tiie largest Outstanding Business; while its superior financial str-ngth is shown by its high ratio of Assets to Liabilities (128 per cent.) H. B. HYDE, President. JAS. W. ALEXANDER. Yice-Pres t. JAMES SOUTHGATE-, Agent. Durham,. N. C. B. F. ARRINGT0N,LI. D., D. D. S. Dental Rooms on Main Street, Over the Bank of Durham. JKySpecial attention given to the treatment of Diseased Gums, and all diseases pertaining to the Dental Structure. Also to the treatmeitt and pres ervation of Children's Teeth. janl7-diwly LAND FOR SALE ! On the 9th day of April next I will sell at public auction,at the courthouse in Durham.the following tract of land in Durham county, beginning at junc tion of Briggs Avenue with the O'Briant road which leads by F. D. Mark ham. and running thence witb Briggs Avenue south of J. H. Briggs' line, thence east to stake on Briggs' line, thence north with Briggs' line to said road, thence west, with the same, to the beginning, fronting 3ehs. and: 25 links on O'Briant road and 3chs. and 56 links on Brigga Avenue, containing one acre more or less, j Time of Sale 12 o'clock m. Terms Cash. I Y. BALLARD, Trustee. March 9, im. for Q, J. & W. M. Rogei . HEAVY GROCERIES. 1 MIRIAM HEAVY FAnC ERIE FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1889. WEATHER BJXUEAU. The weather prognostications indicate the state of the weather for 30 hours from to-day 3 o'clock, j - j. " ' ' '. Washington, D. C, March 15, 'S9. For North Carolina, rain, warmer? - i I . " Ct REEL Y. . FK03I WASHINGTON. Comment on the President's Ap pointments Walker lilaine's Position 3Iore than He Can Manage The North Carolina A Pilgrims to this Mecca are Reti centNo Fight with Germany. Special Correspondence of The Plant. Washington, D. C, March 14. Most" of Mr. Harrison's appoint- ments so far ceived. But bave been favorably re the politicians are not pleased with crediting such men as Windom and Bussev, Secretary of the Treasury land Assistant Secreta ry of the Interior, to the States to which they are respectively credited. Especially is; there criticism in the latter case by New York men, wfyo say that Bussey is a recent importa tion and should more equitably be booked as a jLouisianian or Iowan. He is a native of Iowa and for some years resided in New Orleans. Walker Blaine's nomination, which the Senate in deference to his father was so eager to confirm without con sideration, is ! the more glaringly out of place, because he is an obscure lawyer and succeeds one of the ablest lawyers and law writers the country has produced. It ought, however, in justice to be stated that in this case Dr. Wharton was greater than the position of examiner of claims in the State Department. Mr. Bayard appointed the learned Doctor be cause he was his personal friend, and the old man was rather tired of prac tice and needed the salary. There is another element of criticism in the case of young Blaine. , The claims he will be called on to adjudicate, may make the relations between some of the countries and the United States pretty touchy and may require some of daddjr Blaine's most brilliant strategy to settle. By the way, isn't it queer that Blaine's son should have been given just this position Blaine who has such a reputation consarllin, of claims? There are many new arrivals North Carolina of gentlemen rom who have just dropped in, you know, to shake hands with the President and see how he looks. 'Among them is ex-Congressman Joseph J. Martin, of the First District. My experi ence and that of friends of mine who have "circulated" among these pil grims is that almost without excep tion they are close as oysters about what they are: after. Even if a ! vis itor admits that he would not refuse a place hie' will give you no clue as to what particular place he would Advices from Samoa show that there is no foundation for the war like rumors. jThe Nipsic still' rides the seas, and the stars and stripes have not been insulted. I 1 .:.! i . ; ! . Ex-Secretary Bayard left the city this afternoon. He goes to New York-where he will join Mr. Cleve land's party and go with them to Cuba. This afternoon the President nomi nated W. W. Phelps, John A. Kas son and Geo. A. Bates to be U. S. Commissioners to the Samoan Con ference at Berlin. Col day. James E. Boyd came in to- Col. W. P. Cannady, who held the umbrella over Harrison while he de livered the inaugural address, has been quite ill. j He was threatened with pneumohia and is not yet en tire! v well. S i ! : News from the State Capital. I Special Correspondence to The Plakt. Raleigh, N. C, March 15, '89. The first Jewish marriage .ever celebrated in this State happened in the town of Asheville, this week, the contracting parties being Mr. Louis Berman and Miss Rachael Snyder. ... j" .: !,-. Judge John A. Campbell, former ly of the United States Supreme Court, who died in Baltimore oh the 12th inst., was the son of a farmer North Carolinian, Col. Duncan j G Campbell, who removed to Georgia some years ago. The Raleigh Casino, an organiza tion for pleasure and profit, has been organized, officers appointed, and is now in working, order. The officers are among the best ladies and gentlemen in this city. j Raleigh is to have another tobac co warehouse. : The enterprise: will consist of stockholders from the to bacco belt and will be known las Farmers' Alliance warehouse. llThe final arrangements are about;: per fected, and it will be ready for op erations by the time the next crop is ready for the market ! Governor D. G. Fowle and his brilliant buttoned staff are taking Wilmington by storm, while en route to Wrightsville to receive a plot of I ground in the name of the State for a permanent encampment for the State Guard. Rev. Louis L. Williams, of the Episcopal church, now at work in Stokes countv, was ordained'to the priesthood "at Christ Episcopal Church, in this citv, yesterday. The Rt. Rev. T. B Lyman, D. D., offi ciating. The Preseott & McLean Dramatic Company played "The Merchant of Venice" here last night at Metropoli tan Hall to a fair audience. A fine soapstone quarry has lately been disco vered four and a half miles southwest of Greensboro, on the C. F. & Y. V. railroad. Slabs of any required length and breadth can be obtained. There is a movement on foot to or ganize an I nter-Collegiate Baseball As sociation. The parties who have the matter in charge are working hard to have the matter perfected as early as they can, in order to play the pres ent season. Commissioner John. Robinson, of the Stat Department of Agriculture is preparing to go out into the sev eral counties of the State for the pur pose of organizing Farmers Insti tutes, which he thinks will be of great practical benefit to farmers. In illustration ot the work being done by the department of immigra tion, in inducing the people to go into canning fruits, vegetables, &c., is the purchase of car-load lots of tin cans, by Mr. James Lanier, of the Salisbury Canning Company, to be used by ihim this season. Last year he opened up business in a small way to test the market ; he is evidently satisfied that it is as broad as it is long. The formation of such an enterprise is being aggregated at Utaleigh and ere soon will be in ac tive operation. ;". The Raleigh Chamber of Com merce and Industry has taken steps already,5 in regard to the new road law, passed by the last General As sembly, A meeting has been held and this, together with the matter of another tobacco factory, has received attention by committees being ap i pointed to solicit stock and perfect other arrangements. The negro exodus has assumed another shape. The last session of the General Assembly passed a law prohibiting the enticing away of servants, upon a heavy penalty and allows suits for damages. Under this enactment, warrants have been issued for the arrest of the "Agents" who are supposed to be acting in vi olation of law. The officers oFthe law are how on the look out for these offenders. TOBACCO DEPARTMENT. Alex. "Walker, Editor. Durham, N. C, March 15, 1889. We are pleased to find good breaks at the warehouses to-day, but we can't boast of the quality.!' .. ' We were pleased to see "Mr. W. G. Poindexter, who represents Messrs. P. J. Sorge it.Co., of Middletown, Ohio. This noted firm ranks high among the large tobacco houses of the United States. We were pleased to meet our friend, Mr. W. T. Lipscomb, of Raleigh, a prominent leaf dealer on that market. ; Demoralized. Why is it that there is so much dissatisfaction among the tobacco men all over the land? Many rea sons . doubtless can be given that would appear plausible. And yet the key to the problem may not have been fulli struck. We have already had many reasons assigned and many seem to be good. We all pos sibly may agree on one thing, and that is, that there has been too much common ; tobacco produced. Poor seasons and bad management have had much to do in bringing it about. All of these are very plausible and come in very well, but still there is something else that has much to do with this perplexing question, for which the tobacco men must shoulder their part of the blame, and it is nothing more than justice that thev ishould. The introduction of thp fancy colors, by means of coal curing and then flue curing, fancy prices were paid4 These fancy prices were published in all the tobacco papers, and other papers caught it up, and it was sent broad cast over the land. The imagination of the people was fired up to white heat, and very nat ural that it should be so. The in quiry was made by people that never had once thought of trying to grow tobacco, "Why can we not make to bacco?" And all over the land the people became crazed on the subject, never thinking for one moment that it was only a very small per cent, of the producers that ever succeeded in realizing these fancy prices, from the fact that there was no blowing of the low prices, and the low prices con stituted much the largest portion of the crop. But as it required consid erable preparation to embark into the successful growing of the weed many went into it, and not being ac quainted with the art, they failed to grow it successfully, but having gone to so much expense, they would then incur still greater expense by trying to get an expert to manage their to bacco crop, and in a majority of cases they failed to get a man that succeeded much better than thev had done before. When we have "good seasons there is more common to bacco made than good, and much the larger portion oi me forjow prices. So you will see that a great man v men hare been de ceived into the tobacco crop, who never can bake a success of it, and all of this lias been done by flaming advertisements, and publishing fancy prices that kiid. not represent five per cent, of the crop. There are many men in thd business to-day that re gret that they ever went into the to bacco growing business. News papers do a great deal of good, but sometimes they-do harm. The Lost Atlantis. mn.ii v cen turies there Fnr mnnv centuries there uas 1 been a tradition of a long lost island called Atlantis, -!. The Greek geographers located it in the Atlantic ocean, west of the northwest part of Africa and the Pil lars ofillercules. The sea-kings of Atlantis are said to have invaded Europe and Africa, and to have been defeated by! the Athenians. I All the legelids agree that it was a vast island of inexhaustible re sources, and inhabited by a race of superior . people. For ages this island has existed only in legenda ry lore. But now, when the light of modern research is turned full upon the investigation, behold the lost At lantis is at pur very doors. So the bigoted medirM fraternity goes groping about in the dark. If they would investigate they would find the lost Atlantis at their very loor. They experiment and dose with their injurious drugs, and with no person or laws to hold them ac countable, they continue their big oted, unjustified practicing, staring into vacancy, imagining that they see in themselves an Esculapius. Wrapped in ancient bigotry, they denounce any new idea advanced by a layman or an opposition school as a fraud. Why? Because benefited ? their specia discoven m inanity will not be Not at all, but because ism did not make the Yet ther Concede that there is no remedy known t( J .heir materia med icathat will cure an advanced'kid ney malady and the disease arising therefrom although many of them know from qrowning proof that War ner's Safe Cure will but unscrupu lously treat Symptoms and call them a disease, wnen in reality they know they are but symptoms A few of the more "honest physi cians admit that Warner's Safe Cure is a valuable remedy, and a great blessing to mankind, but say, in so many words, when asked why they do not prescribe it, that they cannot, according toitheir code. ! The late eminent physician and writer, Dr. J. G. Holland, published in ScribnefslJlIdnthly, and showed his opinion of such . bigotry, and no doubt was . satisfied that Atlantis might possibly be discovered in pro prietary medicine, when he wrote editorially, as follows : "Neverthelsss, it : is a fact that many of the best proprietary medi cines of the (lay were rrsore success ful than many of the physicians, and most of them, it should be re membered, were first discovered or used in actual medical practice When, however, any shrewd person, knowing Iheir virtue,, and foreseeing their popularity, secures and adver tises them, then, in the opinion of the bigoted, all virtue -went out of them. 1 Promptness. First take a cold, then a cough, then con sumption, then death. ."ItookDr. Acker's English Remedy for Consumption the mo ment I began to cough, and I believe it saved my life."-! Walteb N. Wallace, Wash ington. R. Blacknall & Son. Terrihie Forewarning. Cough in the morning, hurried or difficult breathing, raising phlegm, tightness in the chest, quickened pulse, chilliness in the evening or sweats at night, all or any of hese things are the first stages of consump tion. Dr. Acker's Englsh Remedy for Con sumption will cure these fearful symptoms and is so d under a positive guarantee by R Blacknall & Son. " SCHOOL OF MUSIC! MISS L. M. SOUIHGATF, DIRECTOR. tSbS11 6peD SATURDAY. SEP- Terms Per Quarter of Twenty Lessons: va! uJture. half hour lessons, - . mon ocal Culture, hour lessons, - - ' i2"2a Piano, hour lessons . . 15- Organ. hoii lesSn, . " 510 00 and ? FreeClassesin HarmonyandSight Reading rnysical Culture, per quarter, 15 qq MIS3 MARIONS. FULLER, SeCy" Durham and West DurhaSr11 Eafit andTI u.3" 1 "Mt' of collecting accounts mKn0 P- aQd r others on com- and Col;on8dtrff8rWriht bQildie. corner Main M WIRE RAILING And Ornamental Wire Works. o L&et0 gardens guards, wire clotS tieVe fpd2IL uards tree We are not Runningthe -BET WE ARE- To those who do nnf would ask, -'Are you not tired H We have the best LaOW C shoe on earth. lu Our $1.25 boys' shoes are be equal to any $2.00 shop on this market. A genuine Dogola Kid BB f dies at $1.50. Lr uuujii ivui fW " utiuer tion of Durham. " '.."yuuci UU-J ad: A New Lot of Goods JusJ ucivcu num uur own Factories. ' Best goods on earth ana ourpri are a terror to all our competit JOHN T. FRENCH Main St., Next to Posto IF YOU WANT TO PLEASED, . TRY MY - LiuVGSlL'S! Too much cannot be said in favor f w f elian Fowl, when bred PURE. They are It-1 Deaumui, naray, quiet, easily confined, stmi coldest weather well, mature nearly &g Leghorns, make good setters and mothen easily broken up, make the finest table fowjt WILL LAY AS MANY EGGS IN ONE YLtfJ AXY OTHER BREED OF FOWLS. I am n,,t 3 . .yg, ing of a large per cent, of the so-called Lngstc; which are nothing more or less than a croa j tween Langshans and BJaok Cochins, but ihh Langshan, as bred by me. The chicks are hr grow fast and mature early. I believe the k shan to be the best every day fowl we haveiiy country. jEggs for hatching, $1.50 for 13, Jii 26. Send for free circular. Address. I C. D. WHITAKER, Durham, U a DURHAM, N. C. S"A11 prices. work guaranteed and at 8atlste FOR SALE! Eight valuable building lots in the erd part of Durham. For particulars;, call on ort aress, K. 1. kogeks, sec'y & ire&., augl8-tf. Durham Land & Security Ct. BUGGIES. R. I. Rogers , sells the best and easiest ridiDpB; gy manulactured in America, known as "The si Centre Spring. Springs warranted for two j Also, buggy parts of all kinds. " , JKgOmce: Second floor of Wright luEi corner Main and Corcoran streets. jan7-tf It. I. E0GIE J. S. MESLEY, '; Merchant Tai Over Postley's Jewelry Store, Has j ust received his Spring aad Sc mer Stock of Fine Imported and Domestic S All in want of Good Fits, Best 3 manship and Latest Style, invited to call, examine stock and leave measure. PRICES REASONABLE. Full Suits from, $22.50 to .$65.0ftf cording to quality of gooas -selected. Respectfully, mch4-d3m 1 J. S. MESLK TvmTTr!T! ! A 11 . 1 1 tt rr T1arlriri' t - Bank of Durham, miist call at once f A dine, as rurtner indulgence -canuui- are anxious to close up the business s tv , us, we return our thanks for their, prob and to those who are still indebted. quest that thev dt without further delij- : V. BALLABU..! .Trustees of W.TJ ! A valuable piece of property. c?Jcr1 acres of land, upon which is situated cv ' ... ! nouse with five moms and a coolc ro"" f rbor and orchard. The place i ltn two miles from Durham menl2-dif, Only 25 Cents For Edward P. Koe's "Barrier Away," and "An Original Belk r The Shoe Business clfe CONTRACTOR BI - Jy9-dly 1113, ai iuc liuruau ... J. B. Whitakeb, Jb
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