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JUDGE RUSSELL
Brass and Copper.
Carving Sets.
sors in uases.
T7
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Opposite -The
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COME AKD SEE
THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF
LAP
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HARNESS,
ROBES. BLANKETS AND BUGGIES in the city. On
ks, Valises and Satchels we defy competition in quantity,
H. LJ
Few
by and price.
FENNJ3LL, The
Home Milliner,
22 North Front Street.
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HIS VIEWS ON THE
OF OUR NBW RULERS.
TALKS.
policy
He Favors aa Electian Law Witb One
Ballot and One
body Can Get
Man to Get!
Kale I be
of Count j
ment and
Box That Every
To The Black
No Chance to
Judge's Idea
Govern-Other
Matters.
i
In view of the interest in the probable
policy of the Republican-Populist Gen
eral Assemblyr which is to convene
bext month, a Messenger representa
tive on yesterday called upon: Judge j D.
L. Russell, the leading Republican of
eastern North Carolina, wno resides m
him
this city, and
asked
hvould give his views about - the
Ition which the new
rundertake. I
STVEEPIN
if he
legisla-
regime will probably
CHANGES.
j
HAS MADE HIS HEADQUARTERS AT
AVE HAVE NO
grown nn
Bows, IJandkerc
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ca
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13,s2rfSLSiiro
AS USUAL.
peopl
eland littlej folks
ci-isfs, Laces, Gl
CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER STORE. Holiday Presents for
Cloaks. Furs. Hosiery, umbrellas. Mulls. JNeck
Gloves, Dolls, Tovs, Games, Rocking Horses, Banks
"YeR," said he, "I am glad enough for
the chance to express my views because
it is time that our iriends in tne L.egisia-
lure should be thinking strongly about
the policy to be pursued, Of course, I
canm t say what the Legislature will do.
I am not a member
If I had believed
have a majority in
General Assembly,
there for this one time and
willingly given a
The victory of the
Climbed Monkeys, Drums, Tool Chests, Tricycles, Bicycles, Velocipedes, Wagons,
Goat rfulkevs. Fancy Ornaments, and thousands of
of FineiEelt Hats, cost $1.50. slightly soiled. iWiil se
with a new lot Of oOc Corsets for 39c. Muslin Underwear a v fine line of Skirts,
Chemise,
flight Robes, Corset Covers, Drawers. Call
other useful presents A lot
1 them iat 25c each, together
early and make your selec-
. I uons ac w j ; .- i ".!'' ' .
"TOjTSIlcs Bazaar
118 Market
Just received
OUR
Street, Wilmington, N. C.
a new lot Face Veiling. Also an Electric Qlove Cleaner 25c per bottle.
4UTIPUL
STOCK
OF
1 : ' " - f
IS NOW
YOU
OPEN FOR IN
GsrCGCiL
1
SPEGT ON.
No Other Like it in
ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CALL AND SEE US.
Store Will B6 Open Every Evening.
i
1
The
Gity
JOHNSON &
FORE,
MARKET STREET.
Tons.
T IS TIME
Toys.
Girl and Boy was leaving their
Santa Claus for
has to get their presents
THAT
EACH
TODS.
LITTLE
orders with
His Christmas presents. He
makes us his
in bur care.
the little people
of every kind to
gether so that thf y may not be disappointed
Old Santa Claus
; leaves his goods
show them to al
mothers and sisters. We have
of toy you can
think of.!
One Thousand
Christinas - Presents
At "THE BROOKLYN CASH STORE.''
J. H. REHDER & CO.
agents, and
We like to-
and their
every xina
! CALL.'
lc Counter.
A large doll H
A doll 21 inches
A fine Kid Do
18 and 25 cents up to
$3.00 each.
jointed Dolls
6.50 each.
A FulkAsso
Tables, Chairs
Animals, of eve
We want you
Racket Store on
Market House.
Dolls.
inches long, 10 cents
long. 25 cents.
Bisque Head
rom
men
,oo,
ei,5o
land Hair,
2.50 and
5 and 10 cents up to
oi Tool Boxes,
! !
(Tarts, Wagons, Horses ana
y kind, Saw Horses, Fianos,
Drums and every kind of Tpy
hli to come and see us and
Fourth Street Bridge.
HE ; LARQE3T STOCK AND LOWEST
. : i
i PRICES EVER OtfFEKED.
TOYS TOYS.
AND EXAMINE OUR
5c Counter. 10c
23c Counter.
Counter.
Extra Larsre Dolls. 19c and 25c; limbing Mon
keys, 2ec; Doll carriage-", 'I ables, WegoDS,
Chairs, i ac, 2iS' BAutiful line of Cups ad
Saucers, VaeesJMugs, Dressing Case, SilK Haud
ki chiefs, 'labltt Covers, Work Boxes, Faccy
BaskeTH, ic, j
Wh-it is better for a Christmas prpsent than a ,
nice pair .of Mihes or slippers, a t.eantiful Dress !
or C oat, a -tvlisa Hat or fcUfc UmnrelU, a nice ;
Suit of Clothes Kir an (ivercat? v e can supply
you. Special $w prices ia all departoieuts.
; Your-i respectf ul.'y,
or it. l wisn l was.
it possible for us to
both Houses of the
I wt uld have got
would have
winter's work to it.
people in North Caro
lina is the most extraordinary political
achievement of the period, j There are
some of our crowd who are now sayiDg
that they knew it was coming. I do no5
believe that there was one ; thoughf ul, j
experienced and capable politician in the 1
State otV either party who anticipated
such a result. It miraculous. If Bob
Ingersoll were livipg here in the Suuth
ad had been mad to feel and under
stand it all as we dp, he wouid have to
admit thnt there ate miracles and give
lup his fight against the Testament." r
I What do you think, Judged will be the
Iprincipal measures of legislation? ; was
asked by the reporter. !
I "Well first, a new electisn law.
Then the disestablishment of the present
system of county government, and the
creation of a new and better system.
Then the reformation and improvement
of the penal system, and a change in the
road laws, looking to better highways
and to more equitable taxation for their
maintenance and improvement. Possi-
J .Ml 1 i
Diy, one oi me measures win oe me ire
districting of the State for Congressional
and Judicial elections. Possibly a change
in the method of electing Presidential
electors so as to make it absolutely cer
tain that the South canton be solid in
1896, and lots of other changes, all going
to show that in North Carolina the peo
ple are on top and propose to stay there.'
vvnat is your oojecuon ro ice present
election law?
"Oh, no obiectioh whatever from the
standpoint of an unscrupulous partisan
and ot a political charlatan. It is just
lovely in that point o view. All we
would have to do would be to leave it
iust as it is and mlone it according to
its terms and intents and thereby teach
to the democrats .the villainies which
they hr-ve executed upon us. You see
we would just appoint as election officers
our smart raecali and your ignorant
dummies. We would pick up for poll
holders at the precincts ihree of the
meanest and smartest scamps on our side
and two unlettered! and ignorant Demo
crats. Then we wdmid proceed to erect
a den inaccessible to our opponents
land invisible to everybody ex
cept our gang and in this
den we would go through the motion of
holding an election. Our rascals would
take what votes they pleased, rei-ct
what they pleased and. count what they
pleased. Then, if by any mistake or by
the memciency or pur appointed sdamps
at the precincts it should rt suit that our
opponents had beaten us on the precinct
returns, we would prganize at the county
court house a gang of robbers called' a
canvassing board who would proceed to
ditch returns and fling out the Demo
cratic precincts so as to givq, us all the
majorities we wanted. That would be
ju t delightful, and we could do it all
without changing a letter of the present
election law. We would need only to
control the county government and
then by capture the machinery. There
wouid be only one serious trouble about
this plan the Democrats would not
submit to it. They! would probably cut
our throats, Theyl certainly ought to do
it. But it would pe giving them just
the medicine they have given us. And
we submitted to it f or reasons that need
not be now discussed "' I ' 1
! " THE ELECTION LAW.
I What in vour opinion should be
fpro visions of such
iyour party and its
asked the scribe.
I ' It should be bottomed on honesty and
simplicity," said Judge Russell. "The
I more simple the) better. The present
election law, should be torn up by the
roots and not a vesiage of it left to dis
grace the statutes 6f the State. It is to
be hoped that our people who have more
than two thirds of jthe House and Senate
will adopt and submit constitutional
amendments providing for the sanctity
of the ballot and declaring that all bai
jlots at every election precinct shall be
ton one piece of paper, shall be depos
ited in one box, after being counted and
certified at the precinct shall
be returned" to the Superior courts
and there preserved as a i art of the j ar
chives of the court' until all the parties
in interest have had ample time and i op
late all the precinct returns of his county
and certify the result by posting at the
court house door. The returns for Sena
torial. Congressional, Judicial or other
districts comprising more than onecounty
should be certified ,by the clerks to the
the Secretary of State, who should tabu
late and declare the result. There should
be no canvassing board, nor any other
board, except the board of pollholders at
the precincts. The election J offi
cers should have no judicial powers
whatever, but should Te simply minis
terial agents of the law, whose sole duty
should be to certify the facts and the
truth so that the rights of parties can be
determined according to the law of the
land. The attempt of the present elec
tion law to give judicial power to the
board of county canvassers is the most
atrocious outrage of its kind that has
ever been attempted by an English
speaking. people siuce ex post facto laws
and biil3 of attainder were booted out of
the unwritten constitution of England."
COUNTY GOVERNMENT. j
Judge Russell was asked to give his
views on the question of county govern
ment, and in reply he said: j
"We cannot afford to permit anything
that looks like a restoration of the ex
travagance and financial corruption of
the Reconstruction period. It is simple
truth and justice to admit that the Demo
cratic party, representing, as it did, the
great majority of the white people of
the Eastern counties, managed j their
finances better than the Republicans did.
County after county could be named
that was brought to bankruptcy by the
recklessness and . incompetency ; and
sometimes by the corruption of men nom
inated and elected by the colored vote;
and brought back to good credit by the
non-elective policy of the Democrats.
How could it be otherwise? Does any
body expect theagentsof Tammany Hall
to give as good a government as the
representatives of the property holders,
of the tax-payers of the educated classes,
of the churches? Just as sure as we re
turn to the elective system in the eastern
is to ba hoped
in the East will
the towns It
that our j f riendi !
1 I I . i "
liruiiy ro our western members: "You
nave no race problem to contend with.
Almost anything we do for your coun
ties will be accented by your people. If
you want to elect all your township and
county officers, then let us get up a bill
and fix it as you want for your coun
ties. But don't! force upon us in the
East a system to which our political and
social condition are not adopteda sys
tem which ha been tried once and
ended in disaster and one which will
inevitably end in the defeat and humili
ation of our party and in the triumph of
pur adversaries.?'. The-suggestion about
haying county boards of finance and re
quiring bonds from justices of the peace
will not work.! It might helD a little but
it would hot tenipve the real dangers."
what, then; would you propose?
"Why not ! gd iback to something like
the system of pur fathers in the eastern
and central I countie-? Esoeciallv as it
:
would so much delight all truly good
Democrats. They believe in everything
mat existed I Deore the war. Nothing
so sweetens their; good souls as to con
template! our ante-bellum happiness.
One of our institutions then (one almost
as sacred as our divine right to sell
mothers away f fom their babies on the
i auction block) wa3 the county court.
The squires i Were appointed by the
Legislature, i The law fixed no limit to
their number.! jAbout every man of any
property or j local importance who be
longed to ! the! dominant party was
'squire. As soon as a man was elected
to the Legislature he looked around to
see it any pt ins active or lnnuentiai
friends were jnot on ! the roll of
'squires. Those! ! that were not on the
list he caused td be put there as soon as
he got c comfortable in his legislative seat
at Raltigh. ( These 'squires' elected the
County courtJ To this court was com
mitted all affairs of county government.
we! not fill the woods with
Our members in the House
o register applicants j for registration
upon thir taking thej required oath. .
There will be a stringent enactments
against boards of county commissioners
appointing a I man as judge Of election
who cannot read or write, and n nanrii.
dates for office required to render a sworn
return of ! their c;imDaiirn exhnaw.
is the lawj in New York and other States.
Our present system Of county 1 cov-
ernment i will ba changed. I Whil T
haves not given the matter careful study
I am inclined to think that thf office of -
county commissioner can be abolished,
and an election ordered at an karly day
f or county officers, designated as trus
tees.) These Officers should bk
to give bonds' as should also justices of
wuh peace, as is tne law in Iowa, Illinois
auu otner estates. A lustice of th neao
often collects
money in! the
a considerable amount of
and no
way of fines. ett
good reason exists why he should not be
a uonaea' omcer. i
There will be no radical
witn city charters. Evervl
amendment to any city charter will have
v obauu yu iws own uonom, ana. oe cpn-
luereuoaiw owa marits.'
legislation
proposed
North Carolina at i Washington.
The Charlotte Observer of
has the following from its Washington
correspondent:
'Representative Alexander!
treasury to day. . He learned
yesterday
appointaient
Natianal banjk of Wilmington will ! be
Why should
bur 'squires?
and Senate can find men good and true,
wmvy BJot . honest' and capable, in every neighbor-
counties, electing local magistrates by ir T u J . .? .
the township and county governor i ?d w2UaI3
bv the - countv iust so certain ie ww wouiu go io mo
D7.. . ln County, JUSC BO Certain ! J,ftnnf;w nrmr hHiKonnon ft vOQr onrl oWe
J wv 7 M-wv...j jv-u,
Put of their number three or five who
would serve as a county court or board
pf county trustees or board of super
visors. This plan does not add one dol
lar to the county expenses. It popularizes
the present I system of increasing the
number of justices and thus getting
closer to the; people. It keeps down local
rivalries and, jealousies in the dominant
party. It prevents these . local offices
from being the: pause of neighborhood
strife leading tq party divisions and fac
tious contentions. Many of our friends
will not fancy this plan at first sight,
but the more they think about it the
the
an election la w; as
allies should adopt?
J. H. R
NEXT FOURTH STREET BRIDGB.
EHDER & CO.
township
will we have a reign oi corrup
tion and misgovern ment, resulting
inqur repudiation by the white people
andn the restoration of the Democratic
party to power in the State. We have
with us now an actual majority of all
the white people of the State and a vast
majority of the plain people, or the men
who plough their own fields and live
upon the products of their own lands,the
very be st people in the State, These
men will not submit to negro govern
ment, or to any thing that looks like it."
Then do you propose to ignore the
negro entirely to let him do the voting
while you and the other leaders hold the
offi's? "
"Well, as to the offices," the Judge
said, "I have not held any for a long
time or tried to get any ; nor am I now
seeking any. I can get a reasonably
good living out of my Democratic friends
and clients. Wo do not say that the
colored man shall not hold office, but we
do say that their office holding must be
confined to those who are fit for it, and
who are friendly to the whites, and to
such limits as to show that our local
affairs will not be controlled by the col
on d vote. A s to their doing the voting,
we could sweep North Carolina to-mor
row without the aid of a single negro
vote. About the only Democratic coun
ties in this election were the negro coun
ties. Of course, the Democrats stole
them, but it shows the helplessness of
these people when left to themselves."
Then that is all the comfort you have
for the negro?
"That may be about all the provis
ions' there is in it for the professional
'negro,' for the vagabond who hangs
around grog shops waiting for the cam
paign money that is to come in the next
election, for the bummer, white or
black, who expects to get his living by
holding office, now that he sees that the
colored people will be allowed to vote.
But as to the masses of the black people
this victory is the best thing that has
happened to them since the God of bat
tles decreed that they should be no longer
chattel slaves. It means - that the
State is to be governed by men who sin
cerely believe in promoting the material
and moral advancement of the negro.
It means that they shall have their full
share of the school fund according to
population; that they shall not be
cheated ont of it as they have been in
many instances under the present county
government system; that the school
money in the rural districts shall not
be wasted on teachers who cannot read
or write but who got their certificates
by promising to vote the Democratic
ticket; that the young of that race shall
be taught to work and encouraged to
learn trades and to engage in industries
requiring some skill and intelligence and
to employ their time in producing some
thing that will pay them, instead of
spending Sunday in shouting and the
rest of the week in talking politics. It
ought to mean that the little vagabonds
and vagrants of the streets shall
be sent to reformatories where
they will be disciplined and made to
work; and that children shall not be sent
to the penitentiary among hardened
criminals. It means that convicts will
be controlled by humane keepers and not
by brutes who whip them for the fun of
it, order them to work when they are
sick and shoot them down when they are
unable to obey. It means that the in
sane shall be kept in asylums instead of
jails. It means that colored men of fair
education and good morals will be
allowed to sit on juries; that all these
people will be protected in their persons
and property and that their rights will
be passed upon by judges who do not
consider themselves insulted by the
crvlt rF a niJrrn ridintr in a t.nn buOTV Or
- living: in a painted house. It means tnat,
made by the
next week
Judge W. R.
of receiver of!
was at the
that the
the- First
comptroler of the currency
The leading candidates are
Allen, ofi frold'shnrn nnrl
Mr. A. G. Ricaud, of -Wilmihzton. the
former favored by Senator Jiarvis, Rep
resentatives Grady, Branch and Wood-
ard and Mr. Joseph us Daniels; the latter
Representative -
is regarded as
better they will
think of it. I do beg office.
by Senator Ransom and
Alexander. The contest
close. As the comptroller has! heretofore
preferred an outsider to a resident, Rep
resentative A lexander is not without
hopd of overcoming theJ objection on the
ground that the office is merely to wind
up matters nearly completed jby Judge
elect Rdbinson, the present receiver.
The salary will be reduced, j i !
Representative Grady! was assured by
the acting supervising j architect to day
that bids tor proposals to erect in New
. bern a publicfbuilding would pe asked for
k by Christmas. Mr. Grady's patience is
nearly exhausted. He was told that to
morrow Mr. G. H, Robertsori, of New
bern, would be appointed disbursing
agent ana Mr. uurrus superinienaeni ot
the building;
Mr. Grady-recommends Mr. Sallie A.
Hudson for postmaster at Pollocks ville
Jones county L and George A. McDonald
for Postmaster at Wade, Cumberland
county, yiee McNeill, elected to a county
every fusionist in the Legislature to not
commit Jumself against this plan of
county government until he has given it J
thorough study and heard unargued out j
in all its details. ;
l Did you not say the other day that you
thought the Legislature might elect or
appoint a county
countv? i
j "Well, it may be that the mem
bers from certain counties may prefer
that the county board of their own coun
ties may be appointed by the Legisla
ture. There is no legal objection to this.
One thing 1 hope
Sergepn General Wyman has accepted
the report of Dr. G G, Thomas and his
fellow-commissioners appointed to locate
the site of the national quaran ;ine station
at Southport. The site is .the one ap
proved by the State, one or (two miles
above Southport in the Cape Fear river.
board for New Hanover f Building plans are being rriade and Dr.
nomas, presiani or me oiaie ooara ox
health, thinks that work on the station
will b( gin in January. Dr Wyman as
sures him that the station will; be ready
by the next quarantine season
Both Drs. Lewis and (Thomas -participated
zoalously in the work of the meet
ing of the State boards of health, which
adjourned last night, and er jci ; d them
seives while here, leaving tu-day. Dr.
Lewis read a paper the first day which
was one of the features f of trie confer
ence.! There were no North Carolina in
cidents tbe second day.
and believe is certain:
That is that the existing boards of county
commissioners all over the State must go.
There a; e some good men an o g th m,
But as a rule they are intensely odious
to the people. They should not ba al
lowed to live longer than the time re
quired to dig their graves over which
should be written a statutory history of
their crimes so that their infamies may
go sounding down the ages. They are
the gangs of political slaves, who have
appointt d election officers named to
them by their party machines, who re
fused in this last el ection to recognize or re
ceiye with decent decorum t he representa
tives of the Populist party asking for its
rights, a party composed of nearly 1C0,
C00 of the best white men in the State.
They are the dear creatures, some of
them church members, who served the
Lord and their country by appointing at
the precincts their own educated heelers
for their side and) for our side ignorant
negroes who could not read the
or deposit them dorrectly in the boxes.
They are the real) fathers of the robbers
of the returning poards."j
i i
The Churches jTo.day.
RevOL Strinefield. of Raleigh, will
preach at the (First Baptist crjurch this
morning, and at Brooklyn Baptist church
thi3 evening,
The other services will
be conducted by the pastor.
St I Paul's Evangelical Lutheran
church, corner of Market and Sixth
streets, Rev J K Bold f, pastor. Third
Sunday in Advent, English service at 11
a m, ! German service and Holy Com
munion at 7:30 p m, Sunday school at
3 pm. ' . . j ' j-
Services in Seamen's Bethel to day at
tickets S 3 p m, conducted by Rev Dr Garmichael.
be convinced thit we have the largest stock
of Toys and the lowest Prices
everything youri heart may
Holiday - Goods
-rYTE j RESPECTFULLY INVITE
s
friends an the nub'c la
1 A'
Ftont
Street,
and almost
desire at tne
opposite the
&rad($f& Gaylord
ct r - no.
Mere yc
OUR O
giieral to call at our
d V9 Front Street.
u will see a Hole store full of.
Beautiful :: Articles
1 . '!- i !: '
just opened lot your inspe c4lon. Please call and
make joar tseleetiju beiore tlie rush com
mences, j h
SBSRCER'S
LI7fi BOOK AND 21USIC STOUS.
portunity to make j contest, and further j when the State guard (or their successors,
perhaps are to be) shall cnoose to supple
ment the amusement of their summer
encampment by mobbing and shooting
a negro because he obeyed the proper
orders of his railroad employes, there
will be solicitors and judges who willsae
to it that somebody is punished. It means
that in all the legitimate" persuit3 of life,
liberty and happiness, the negro shall
, i - ? . i "
nave a wnue man a tuam-c,
that all elections shall be public and inot
concealed from the voters. Then jthe
statute should provide for dividing up
the wards and townships into election
precincts containing by estimation not
more than 250 voters. Our fo ks will fix
it so that lawful voters wilf not have to
spend a week in hunting for a registrar
who is trying to keep out of their way.
The registrar ought to be required to be
at the polling placti for the required num- j Jlow do you propose to do all this for
ber of davs before the election, and to j your colored supporters and at tbe same
be there all the time during business time prevent hiin from voting in local
hour?, and any registrar who is not there J election-? -when
any lawful elector goes therei to j "Wtlf, you know there may be such a
regier. should be at once j thicg as too much voting. In the west
chucked into the inside of a jnil. . The ! era counties where they are all white
votes should b counted at the precincts they can get along with the elective svs
and one certified rtturn of the vote . im in thoirlncii affairs. There 'is in
should be immediately posted at the pre
cinct tor the inspection of the public.
By this plan the votes might be counted
before eundown arid the result known at
every- precinct. Then a certifL d return
should be made to the clerk of the Supe
rior court of the county who should tabu-
Ex-Congressman Ewart Talks.
The Hon. H. gJ EwartJ we learn, will
reach Wilmingtop to-day and on to-morrow
will (have a conference with the
leading Republicans here. Mr. Ewart is
an ex-Congreesmlan and is a member
elect from Henderson county to the
General Assembly of North Carolina.
He is one ! of the prominent Republicans
in "Western. North Carolina mentioned
for the United States Senate, and no
doubt will be very prominent in shaping
the policy of the new political regime in
this State- In an interview, with .the
Raleigh News and Observer, Mr. Ewart
says: j j - j
I "The battle cry of the fusionists was
'home rule, honest elections.' Upon that
platform ?ve made a strong and success
ful appeal to old line Republicans to
bury their prejudices and endorse the
fusion policy, bat with the restoration
to the people of the right of local self
government) and! the enactment of a
plain and honest (election law these issues
are out of the way, and the cold blooded
issue is presentedj to North Carolina Re
publicans, 'can we fuse with the Popu
lists on National issues?' I stated fur
ther that th0 Republicans have always
stoutly maintained that with the con
trol of the election machinery taken
from the ! partisan Democracy, and an
honest and! simple election law that
North Carolina was as sireiy a Kepuon-
can State as
setts, and if
doing some
Rhode Island or Massachu
this is not so we have been
robust lying! So that It is
really a question whether any real neces
sity exists for fusion in 1896.
i our State Canstitut'on notnmg wnicn
requires the system of c.unty govern-
ment to beuoif rm throughout the State.
! The county is the creature of the Legis
! imire. The Legislature may abolish the
j countv, tear down the court house and
j sell tha biick. And just bo with
"The next Legislature will be one of
the mo3t conservative bodies that ever
assembled in the city of Rileigh. and I
will add, th most economical. Indeed,
I fear that in the latter respect, appro
priations will be hardiv what they ehould
be. There will be no radical or extreme
legislation. Pledges have bden made to
the people to substitute for the present
complicated!, and in many resp?cts un
fair election! lawj a plain and simple en
actment by which every man in the
State can cast one vote and have that
vote counted as cast. -j
"The dangerous power of judicially
canvassing election reiurns will ba taken
from canvassing boards, registrars will
be triads swjrn officers, all challenges to
votes required to1 be settled prior to the
day of election, and registrars required
All seafaring
to attend.
St Matthew
Fourth street
men are special!
y invited
s English Lutheran church,
'above Bladen street. Rev
GDBernheim, pastor, morning service
at 11 a m, evening' service atj 7;30 p m,
Sunday school at 3 p m. Seatb free, and
every person welcome. t
St. James, third Sunday ih Advent.
Holy communion at 7:45 a m morning"
prayer, sermon, anti-communion at 11
a mj evening prayer, Sunday j school at
3;3 ) p m. Public cordially incited, j
Services in j St. Johns, church to-day
bytherectorl Re r. Dr. Carrnicbael at
11 a m and 4:30 p m, and Sunday school
at 3:30 p m.
St Paul's church, Fourth ahd Orange
streets, Rev. F. N. Skinner, rector, third
8unday in Advent. Services j&t 11 a m
and 7:30 p m j Holy Communion at morn
ing eervices; Sunday school at 3:30 p m.
All seats free.
Rey R C Beamon , who is so well known
here, will preach at41 o'clock to-day in
Market Street church. A
tation is civen all to I come
him and be benefited by a good Gospel
preach ac
evening at
cordial
invi-hear
sermon. Mrl Beamon i will
Fifth Street M E church this
7:30 o'clock. j
The Colored Churches.
There will be preaching to-jday at the
First Baptist church e, corner. Fifth and
Carnpell streets. At 11 a in Sabbath
titebool at 1 p m. Pleaching; at 3 p m
and 7,30 p m. Strangers $nd friends
welcome, Soseph Spells, pastor. j j
Shiloh Baptist church, corner Walnut
and McRae streets, P F Malay, pastor. ;
Sunday services as follows: Preaching at
11 a m and 7:20 p m; Snnday School!
bible day exercise 3 p m; Endeavor so-!
ciety at 40 p m; Weekly prayer . meet-
ing, ruesoay ana murpaay mgnt3.
Visitors and strangers welcome! , !
As Christmas is drawing near, I-will state j
to the holiday trade that my line of Men's, f
Youths' and Children's clothing is nowj
complete, having receivetl a large line since
Welcome Week- I also have added largely
to my immense stock of gents' furnishings
and hats. I. Sukieb,
Corner Front and Prince is Streets.
Women Killed by Barirlars.
Jamektowx N. Y. Dec. 15 About 3 o'clock
4his afternoon while Winsiow Saearman.
who lives on a farm in the vilage of Busti,
was at JLake WoodT attending the funeral i
of Mr. and Mrs. Myron bhearuian, who
were kil'ed by the ears at that plioe Thnrs- i
day, burglar3eijtered his home' and killed
witn n hatchet his wife and marrifd daugh
c r, Mrs. - Clinton Davi3. They then ran
sacked the house and fled. There is no
clue. -
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