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f Scrofula Thoroughly Eradicated.
I.HoodCo.,Lowetl,Mass.l . 1
"It U with pleasure UuU I give you the details
I our Bttto May's siokness and her ratnm to
health by the use ot Hood's Baraaperilla. She
was taken down with i i
Fever and a Bad Couh.
following this a aora came on her right aide be.
twees the two lower ribs. In a short time an
- ther broke on the kit side. . Bbe would take
, spells of sore month end when we had suoceed-
en in orercommg uus sue woutu suner wiui as
Uoke ot high ferer and expel bloody looking
corruption. Her head was affected and matter
oozed tram her ears. After each attack aha be
Hood's Gures
eame worse and all treatment tailed to grre he
, relief until we began to use Hood's Baraaperilla.
After alio had taken one-half bottle we could see
that ahe was better, we continued until she
had taken three bottles. Mow she looks like
v The Bloom of Health .
and Is fat as a pig. - We feel grateful, and cannot
say too much In favor of Hood's Sarsaparllla."
Mas. A. M. Adams, Inman, Tennessee.
I Mood'e PHI act easily, yet promptly and
efficiently, on the ttrer and bowels. 2Sc : .
SB, Ik L. 0ASKE1
Stricken Down with Heart Ciscx
- Dr. ltttMedUal Co., SlUmri, Jnd. 'K'
Oektloiri: I feci tt ity fluty, ea well as a
pleasure, to publish, unaolieited, to tbo wo: ki the
Beneflt received from pa. Milcs-BrrtoBTivt
nceirnice. I was stricken di.wn nU lltarr
tiStan and itsoompll. al ions, ar.pid pulro Taiy
ingfmmSO to 140 beam ;.r minute, a tkuMnBor
burojiig sensation Id U'.a wli.il pipe, 01 pa-l( ,
tu m is a im n zSSls
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Hon of the hcert and below lower rib, plu In thtw
arms. chortne of l-rci: h , ,lplcner?cakicsi
amu. snorcnenv oi irvin,iu(.iumir Bwui;a.
and general debility., Itao arteries tn my neck
would thmh vk.lemlv1. tha throbbins of oit heart
potiia do nctira scra a wrse room wiu wwuu
stiiife mi whole body. I was so. ncrrous that X
could mi hod my hand stoedy. I hav aeen
sSfl1 th trmlmmt of mitwiisl
a4 Me takm qaOtrntof fatmt JrMoiiu
without fn Imu bmrJU, A friend recom
mended yrmr- remedies. She waeeured by Dr.
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three bottles of yonrKew CU H E D
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lierrlno. Mr pulse la normal, I have no Dor
Molent throbblnu of the heart, I a sm us
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Ins; ralnable Information and voluntary
tostimoniale. 6ent br extreee.on receipt
of price. $ l M per bottle. Btild eTerywber
. dan Baby ns auk, we gave her vaaSotlaw i
When she was a Child, she cried for Castor's, r,
vThea ahe becaaw Miss, she olung to Castors.
When ahe had Children, ahe gave them Caetorie.
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WlLUtH BlJLKT HaIKKTOK, ' ' '
P.Desiros to call the attention of his
many friends and customer to the tant
that he ia still doins; bnsiness at tha old
stand buck of the court house.. Every
body is treated alike, whether t jwu or
poniitry pople, when tney come to see
r . I - s who demrework done in
i V a 'i be waited on at their homes
ji j r it. Cl(:an toweje, aharp
cit, -..!. i . n fiil a?t(ntion preclude
all dulle r .t t ,.i n tinh. Work ee
eouted in the vt-i y styles. . . .V-
i, A," CLAIUI, rARGER,
A.T cftousE j t:.; ;
I Hve just teflU- ' ' v '' s
i t style and a ; i a
( ? ri!sUJll)('t H t t i
t s ! t :-
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The Qaeettess, ' .
. sra,
tasked her today.
But she gave me no answer,
. Neither word would she say,
; Though I naked her today . ' ' '.
In the most approved way '
' Of the modern romancer. :
' I asked he today,
;.'t , Bat she gave me no answer. . ,.
i ' ' r . . - . ,
He has spoken at last 1 " ' '
- Shall I Uke him or leave him ; :
At my feet be la east; . s ?
He has spoken at last.
. If his hopee I ahoold blast, ' ' . , ,
Would it really grieve him! ; .
He has spoken at last v
I Shall I take him or leave html V
a mamma. - ,
. b he rich, as they say,
Or a pennileaa masker " )
1 must find out today h :: ; r..
' If he's rich, aa they say, ' r '? ."
for sbew not aaid him nay, .
, And sfntln he may ask her. , ,
he rich, as they say,' ' tj f
Or a pennUees maskerf i .t .
-Yankee Blade.
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North CaroUnlaa. "''.-i'"'' V
1 ; The Caucasian complains of the
recent addresses of Hon. J. Ster
ling Morton,- Seoretary of Agri
culture, and says that it amounted
to an insnlt to put him at the
head of the ' Department. It ia
not at all surprising, however,
that the Caucasian should hold
this view, tor, among othei things,
Mr, Morton said ; "The most in
Ridioas and destructive foe to . the
farmer is the professional farmer,
who, as the promoter of Granges
and Alliances, for political pur
poses, farms the farmer." Jf this
doesn't apply to' the editor ;0 of
Caucasian we would like to know
the reason why. It is to such
farming as this blatherskite is
doing farming fljef itr doer that
Mr. Morton is opposed. He is by
no meaDs . unfriendly to the or
ganized interests of agriculture.
i ; - ' ' "'" 's sail f ':') ;
1 Hfa aloaih Srawnarav .... ;
! Black Biveb Falls, Wis., Jan.
19. A very singular case is that
of a young man of this county
named Chandler. For years his
mouth hks shown a tendency to
grow up. Four years ago it. be-
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UBUIS BV BUIStit 1 WB1J ,10IWU UW
would' starve, and a , fund was
raised by neighbors and he was
sent to Chicago, where the mouth
as cut to the natural size and
pieces I of flesh; grafted into the
corners, thus 'hoping to prevent
the closing.?" This has been over
come,, and Jis mouth is .rapidly
growing np again, the opening at
present not being larger than an
ordinary v goose quilt, thiough
which he takes all his nonrish
ment. It is thought that he must
eventually starve to death, as
there seems no way of ? preventing
the complete closing of the moulh.
Otherwise the young man seems
healthy, and is capable o( doing
considerable work, -vii-l t-x-C.
' OMly Teies'"aj,eMnaeBtJ.
Korlh Carolinian. W li;,?; v-'-'; '.
: "An office-3eeker wrote to a cer
tain prominent deputy collector in
eastern North Carolina' and made
application for a position as store
keeper and ganger. After setting
forth hia claims v and Bpeoial fit
nees for the pontiOn the applicant
concluded his letter by saying . ,
' "As to politics 1 am a Democrat
I Was born a Democrat and have
always. boOTy pa. though: I 'have
knot voted but once in six years
and that was at the last eleotion.
I then voted the Popnli6t ticket;
but my connection with them was
only,, temporary and experimen-
It is needless to add that this life
long (?) Democra did not get the
reward he sought, .
, Will Oaly Veie Asraiiaes Vlnssneae.
AsHEvrxxE, .NJ Jan. - 22.
Captain M. E. Carter in an inter
view; toUla'y)statei that Senator
Vance told uim, when he whs last
in, Washington, that he" (Vanoe)
would not contest the confirma
tion of Simmons as collector oi
the eastern district North1 Caro
lina, in the Senate beyond record
ing his own vote against jt- Carter
makes this statement in contra
diction of .dispatches supposed to
have emanated from Baleigh, to
the 'effect that the senator had
told Carter that it was bis purpose
to defeat Kimmons', confirmation
itpOd6iblf.M.M jo i'i '
'. The- estate of the; slate; XelanJ
Stau'oid, of California, has been
apprained at $18,000,000.) This
does not include what he gave
to the nniveuitv he founded,
which will amount to several mU
hon doljurs,
The Adverilnins;
of Hood's Saraupitrilla is always within
the bounds of retison bf'sime it is true;
it always spirals to tiie sober, oommon
Sense of thinking peoi.M beonime it is
, ... . a an A if in al ibuVR flfl . ff Hill llilatA(l
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by endoraemeuts, wbieh in the t rmticial
world would lie aoeepiea wi. noiit i
moment's heeiUition.
IToo'Vn Pills cure liv-r ills, ro: "i
; i 'ttifnwHB, jauuaioo, ait it L-.aJim
i . i a.
ap oaoaAaeEa -'
Some portions ot west . Florida
are still in the piney woods . and
very .lonesome., i Traveling over
land' I found the v. habitations
several miles .apart on the main
road but waB told that the r little
grass-covered roads that branched
off right and left led to someboay'i
house, where olever people 'lived
and cultivated orange trees for' a
livintr. . ? .; . , . , , '
v "This is a great country
a settlor, "where the . climate is
worth $100 ai acre and the land
ain't worth a, darn, , .I, is risky
f jr a, man , to die, cere and be
bnriai 'for -there Is' not enodgh
wirtut) in the soil to make him rise
when Gabriel blows his horn.' .
' '"It seems to produce fine oran
ges," said L i. J!'.,':;.? rX
"yen," said he,.."but what's
oranges ? ' The more oranges he
has got the poorer he is. The
price has got down to abont ,20
cents a hundred on the tree, and
he can't keep np his grove for
that,"
; That men was a pessimist, and
there are thousands of them. I
found Mr.' Starr packing 2,500
boxes of his own crop and he said
that his net profit would be 0
cents a box, and that would pay
him well on his investment. He
is an optimist and is increasing
his acreage every year. ,1 found
Mr. Robinson near Lenard with
20,000,, trees and be is entirely
content' with his; business. .His
twenty acres of bearing trees have
paid all the expenses of increas
ing his acreage and all will be
bearing ia two yean more.. ' like
every other trade or calling, more
depends on the man than on the
business. Mr. 1 1 Simmons ; has
shiped thirty carloads of lemons
and is getting rich. But 1 see
many neglected groves and , some
that have been abandoned. Von
can tell the thrift and industry of
a man by his orange grove. Then
there are hundreds of groves'that
belong to people who live away
off and have got tired. They get
some poor fellow to live in the
little shanty and look after things,
and he, perhaps, was born tired.
Tne other day we came to v where
the road forked and not knowing
which to take we drove to a dirty
little Loose not far away lor direc
tion. "Take the right hand," said
a big, graybearded man with a
newspaper, in hia hand. ' "I have
to tell somebody that most every
day," "Ion : might ' put np a
signboard," said I, "and that
would save - yoa the ' trouble."
"Then they wouldn't drive- down
here to ax ine," said he, ''end I
wonldeht get a chance to see 'em.
No, I, won't put up no board, for
I likes to see folks once in a while,
specially women.", .The poor old
man was living there alone watch
ing a grove.., ,(,.., . ,
With constant care and . atten
tion there is still big money ; in
growing oranges and always will
be. It is a simple business and
is easy and 1 atrraotive, '' Many
citizens add to it in a small and
roiitable way by growing lemons,
mes, grape fruit, "shaddocks,
guavas, mangoesi peentoos, enm
gust oranges and , other tropical
fruits.' I : have seen acres ot
casava, from which tapioca is
made. The peentoos, when ripen
ed on the tree, are said to be the
most delioions ot all peaches. The
trees are now in bloom. Strawber
ries are just coming into market.
The gardens are supplying ua with
all kinds of vegetables. The woods
have been burned off and thous
ands of acres of low bush palmetto
killed, leaving their great roots
piled aorosi eaoh other in promis
cuous confusion. They look like
great snakes with alligator scales
on them, but, of course, they are
not killed and will, soon sprout
again aud cover the earth with
their fan-shaved leaves.
s ' I went ont in the country to see
the fruits and flo vers ot an old
lady1 who lives ' in primitive im,
plicity and loves Florida and her
humble home and cultivates trop
ical plants for the pleasure it gives
her and gives those who visit her.
I cannot give the botanical names
as, she gave them to me, but she
had more curious plants than I
ever saw before. The was thn
date palm and thistle bemp and
camphor tree and rucalyptut that
I remember and there was an ole
ander in in bloom that was nearly
a foot in diameter, and there were
cactus i vines running over the
house aud tea plants, and coffee
plants and many onrions things
that I never saw before. As tor
oleanders,, they ' are common
enough everywhere, and some on
the BulewulL.i in Clanr Water are
twenty f j t 1' aud ' are now
putting on 1 1 " ' ful r
meuts. TLj i 1, rid ii
13 1 " c;:.. it i: t r ;'
take little pride in it What we
grow at home in greenhouses and
pits will grow and flourish here ia
the woods, or even in the big road
it planter there. ' Mrs. Godwin,
of Lakeland, gave ma a bouquet
of the finest rosea I ever saw a
bouquet that an Atlanta swell
wonld have given $5 for to pre
sent to his bestftirL , 1 '
l But the climate the climate on
tha gulf coast the ooast where no
east wind, prevail the east wind
that comes over the Atlantic ocean
and brings aches and shivers and
cold and asthma and catarrh
that east wind that was aconrsed
from way bnik, for Job says, ?'He
tilleth his belly - with the , eat
wind." If our northern brethren
want it on Indian river let them
have it, but I want some of our
southern folks to come down to
Clear Water and take it with its
balmy ' west wind and its odors
from the pines and get well ot
all pulmonary and bronchial af
feotions. I mean just what I say.
We have bought two lots here and
there are plenty more for good
people and I want to colonize
them. My nigger Bob,' wasted a
whole week at a big meeting! up
the road while I was gone away,
and when I complained ot it he
said. ".Well, nowboss, yoa masent
get mad wid me, fot; yon know
how it is you white folks is done
got dis here world and we niggers
is jnst fixin' a trick to get de next
one." Just " so onr northern
brethren have done got east Flori
da, all the way from St. Augustine
to St, Lucie, and now let us fix
np a trick to capture west Florida
and be happy. Of course we
won't rule any clever yankee bnt,
but I toll you right now we don't
want any - stucknp millionaires
from anywhere. There is room
enough from Cedar Keys to tit
Petersburg to locate thousands ot
nnpensioned . sovereigns of the
south, where they can come and
spend the winter and bring their
invalids and be calm and' serene.
We want no palaces to live in, bnt
can build little cottages with
broad verandas, and live on . air
and water, with Jsh and oysters
and oranges thrown in. 1 have
eaten oranges until I am getting
a rich, golden complexion. The
little grandchild is getting fat on
tangerines. , Her bronchial troub
les have passed away and she can
wade in the salt, water on the
sandy beach with perfect impu
nity. Folks go to the springs and
drink sulphur water, bet that
won Vcom pare with the salty air
of the gulf when it is filtered
through the pine tops aud drawn
into the lungs at every breath.
There is ' some grip down here
among th natives bnt none among
the yisitois. I reckon it is : be
cause they gorge themselves with
fruit, s Joe " Alspaugh ! v1' keeps
the girls in fruit JoB is the bully
boy with a glass eye. He lost
one eye in Carters ville and wears
a glass one. Joe is the life of the
little town.. If a bad man 'comes
here Joe gets his crowd and runs
him; out. Joe moves signs and
gates during Christmas. He has
a sailboat and a rowboat and a
horse and buggy and will take you
anywhere for the ton of it. ' Joe
steals oranges and tangerines for
our little girl. He '.went out the
other night to a grove, whose
owners lives in Boston, aud fonnd
a fehow stealing on the other Bide
ot the tree. Joe made a noise and
the other fellow dropped his bag
and ran like a turkey. Joe picked
up the bag and brought it home.
The landlord of the botel told Joe
to get him some ohiokena if he
had to steal them. ' That night. I
Joe stole four out of the landlord's
coop and sold them to him at 25
cents apiece. Joe is a trump, and
and everybody likes him. :
'j Bill Abp.'
,' Thse Year's KleeUeaV .:,. ;
The election in North Carolina
next November will be a. most im
portant one, 8uecg8ora must be
eleoted to succeed Chief Justice
Shepard, Associate Jnstioes Clark,
MoEae and Burwell, ;who were
appointed or eleoted to unexpired
terms..; Lawyers must also be
elected to suooeed Judge Whit
aker, J udge By num , and ' Judge
Battle,' .' of ; the Superior , Court
bench. This election will eUr
miut the complexion ol th Su
preme Court bench and is there
fore, ot fhe. highest importance. ; "
JSinn lnembor of Congrep? re
to heel cte.1.50 State 8rnatois,l 20
members of the North Carolina
Houae o( ReprnsentativM. These
Senators and representatives are
to elect a 'United States- K.-nator
to auc, .1 Lou. II. W. T ..cm,
and a I "loy Comm' - r to
to sn- 1 C it. T. Xi. I on.
Ia t i t t'.9 above t vry
on i J i ia ihe b -atti is o
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Atlanta jennet. . - - - - ' - .
The Journal hat had a good
deal to say about the efforts of the
Southern Coal Minora to keep the
tariff on coal. It seems to ns that
their apprehension that free coal
will injure their interests is not
well founded. The following
statement of the ease from the
Baltimore Sun is strong and prac
tical: v-
But there,i,in tact.noground for
the assertion that free coal will
ruin, Southern mining interests.
Even witb the present dnty of 75
cents per too. and a Canadian
duty of nearly the same amonnt
levied against American coal, our
mining companies are sending to
Canada and selling there at a
profit more soft coal than Canada
is sending and selling to us.
What absurdity it is to say that
our soft coat miues will be olosed,
or that the wages of the miners
working in them must be reduced,
if the dnty is taken off, when at
this moment American sott ooal
is being exported and sold in for
eign markets, in open competition,
and paying a tariff tax to get into
them? Our coal producers are
actually underselling the Cana
dians in their own markets, in
spite of the Canadian tariff, and
yet are asking congress to believe
that they oannot hold their own
American markets ; against the
Canadians without rotection. " In
other words, Amerioan soft coal
can successfully invade Canada in
the teeth of a hostile tariff, but
oannot hold its own at home.
The mere statement of this claim
refutes it. , ,
In 1892 our exports of Baft ooal
to all foreign countries amounted
to 1,709,496 tons ; our total im
ports for that year were 1,309,974.
In 1893 we exported 1,773,556
tons and imported 1,102,232 tons.
Our exports of bituminous ooal
have been steadily increasing for
many years past. In 1886, it a
mounted to 532,846 tons. In
1890 they were more than double
that amount, and in 1893 the total
of 1886 was more than trebled.
And yet, while these figures prove
conclusively that our soft coal is
being Bold in larger quantities ev
ery year, in open competition with
foreigners in their markets, paying
large freights and overleaping ad
verse tarifls to do it, we are coolly
told that nothing but high tax on
every ton of soft coal used in everv
mill and workshop and on every
railroad in the United State,
every cent of which goes to in
crease the prices of manufactured
goods, the rates Of transportation
and the average cost of living
will save the American ooal
companies from ruin and their
employes liom "pauper wages."
They can beat the foreigners and
undersell them in their own ports,
hnndreds of miles away, but they
cannot, forsooth, supply their
own '.; fellow-countrymen ' unless
they are "protected.
. Whenever an , interest is pro
tected it clings to the tariff that is
supposed to favor it even after it
becomes clear that no benefit re
sults therefrom.
Some, wool-growers are now
clamoring to retain the tariff on
wool, when they know that the
Erioe on wool has always been
igher under a low tariff than un
der a high one. The admission
of foreign wools free would stim
ulate our woolen manufactures
and increase the demand tor the
domestic article.
; We have no doubt that the
southern ocal mea wilt see the
folly of their present contention
very soon after coal goes on the
free list. '
Talnkn enasBewa Will (toaarsac.
Wsah. Oor. Winston SeaUnel. - . ' ,
Every North Carolinian who
comes to Washington is button
holed by Cant. J. B. HusPey on
the : politioai situation in the
Stat. Hussey prays every night
for politioai disruption in North
Carolina so he caa find something
to talk and soratoh about He
tries to fan the flame of dissatis
faction with Senator Ransom, and
endeavors to make every ' man
from the "Old North State" be
lieve that the senior Senator is
doomed and that the whole State
agaio8t him. ' It doesn't make
any difference how well iuformed
a North Carolinian might be the
Captain claims to know exactly
what be ia talking about when he
saya Ransom is doomed. That
sam CapUin thinks Simmons
will be defeated for confirmation.
Tom Settle also claims to believe
it. But thf Sentinel r a lers can
pnt it in their pipe and xuioke it
tl.ut SiuiiuOoS will be confirmed. ;
- The best medical author Uiet say tli.
proper waV to treat tf-"ii fa to tn''o a
.1 leojt dy 1, ... $ ioad's t r.
' Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
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BTATC TAXES AsTB TAX ATIOa.
Ralkiqh, Jan 19. In an inter
view to-day State Auditor Farman
gave your correspondent a great
deal of interesting information in
regard to State taxes and property
valuation. ! He says the . report
now in press will show a consid
erable decrease in the property
values, outside, of town and rail
way property, compared with the
report a year ago. .The decrease
in land is $852,000; on money on
hand or on deposit, $969,000; sol
vent oredits, $966,000: farming
utensils and all personal property,
ri.zli.bai; on horses, cattle etc.,
$1,214,000. The : exact total , is
$6,174,844.: The .increase, of
values is as follows : Town prop
erty, $856,000; stock in incorpor
ated companies $964,000 : railway
property, . $4,602,000; the exact
total being $6,322,000. The net
increase was $140,000, - The total
taxes collected, from all sources
during the year were $1,395,879,
Of this the people outside oi the
cities and towns, railways and
stock corporations, in other words,
the agricultural class, paid, all
told, less than $550,000 tor all
purposes levied by the State. The
remainder was paid on town
property, by corporations or stock
companies and in special and
privilege taxes. The expenditures
were, of the sum so , collected,
over $775,000 for public and State
schools, and over $99,000 for pen
sions. Of (jcourse the balk of this
went to the country , distriots.
While the value of property as
appraised for taxation has largely
decreased in the rural distriot and
inoreased in the cities and towns
at d in other , properties, the rate
of : taxation on property for
general purposes has regularly
decreased, until now . the people
in : this State actually pay the
smallest rate of taxation on the
lowest valuation levied and aasess
upon the people of any State in
the Union of similar character
and resources. . The fees aui
special pnvi'ege taxes collected
by the State, executive officers,
creating a fund not at all connect
ed with aireot taxation, are enough
to pay the entire expenses of, the
administration of, the ' executive
department of the State Govern
ment and over half the salaries of
all the judges. Since 4870 a con
stant and successful endeavor has
been made, hot only to reduoC the
burden of taxation on tue people
and to lessen the expenses ot ad
ministration,', bnt . to , place the
burden where it is lease felt aud
dan best be born, and distribute
the moneys where they will do
the most good for the masses and
for objects of charity. In 1868-70,
for publio schools to the amount
of over $350,000 were collected
and less than $40,000 was actually
spent for the education of the
children ot the Estate, at tne same
time the rat of direct taxation
being very bigh. The Legislatures
since WO) nave regularly reduced
the rate of direct taxation and so
appropiated the moneys collected
that last year nearly $000,000 was
expended directly lor the eduo'
tiou ot the children, ol both races,
in the State. ' v '
. A Japeuaoa Iavsaatlea ta MasMr.
An invitation to dinner among
the middle or upper class of
Japan frequently oommehces as
follows : "I beg pardon for thus
insulting yoa in begging ' your
company at my noose to dinner
The house is small and very dirty,
Uur habits are rude and yoa may
not get anything fit to eat, and
yet I hope that yoa will conde
scend to be prevent at 6 o'clock
on December 9th." Upon' arriv
ing at the house you find it spot
lessly clean, tasty in arrangement
and the host and hostess affable,
indeed. The bill, of fare consists
ol ten or fifteen conries, the best
tha maraet can affoard. All the
belf-humihation of the host is the
method adopted to pay you honor.
, . A Sharp Practice .'
yon call it when reading an interesting;
artiole and find at it om-e t'nat you've
read aa advertisement, lion'tom, :.- i
the advertif""-, you won't r lie , u-
narv advert,,
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HOr ABTB) WUMTt. ' '
The repotted offer of $20,000 by x
the Elm City Athleho Club, of
New Berne, to Mitchell and Cor- '
belt to fight in' that city is taid to y
be a scheme for advertising the . '
fair. ;! New Berne pacers aav there '"; .
is no such club in existence, and 1
the' author of the message is un-' '
anown. '
" .'"' i hV' ., mi: i:,t"f . t
1 he President. It annnnra Visa .
evened , np with Senator' Hill 'by ,
vetoing his bridge bill The old '
gentleman knows how to hit back-'-wheU
he ia atrncki and , ennai '(;
generally he does not forget lo do tl
it He has a good deal of hnman
nature in his three, .hundred and
fifty ; pounds of. avoirdupois, w
News Observer. , Y
Seoretary Carlisle has taken the""'
bull bjr the1 horns and has issued" 1
his circular offering Government !
bonds for sale. He hftfl. however , ( -
A 1 J t a. . I S
ucynivon, noiu,. mo, praciicei .
iormer. aaministrations iu , this
retrard and offers the bondu f ri th' '-
people directly."- That is the7 way v"
it was done in France. Relnfcri 1 v
N.-0. Chronicle. ;a ) Ji a tn
A woman calling harn!f T)r'
Catharine Taylor," and claiming
to do a granddangnter of the cele- '
brated Dr, Isaac Taylor; went to
Charlotte last week. Sbe. com-
Sletely took in the people and the , '
octors of that city till Saturday' ' " -bight,
when she went to a bar-' 1 "
room and became heavilv "lonrl. '
ed," and accused a man who bad -'!
Deec witn ner a short while, of
stealing $2,000." She left Monday. ' '
when it was discovered 1 that she
had jnst married a man in Savah- i
nah,Ga after a two days' court-
ship, and remained, with Mm four, ,
davs. At tha
they were separated by the grooms"" '
Your "foreign awnrlinata" filla kr . i , . ,
to a nicety the darkey's charac- '
tenzanon oi tne Whole breed of. '
white man 'mightf uncertain."'
An Enelish syndicate which ' van tti
to have paid, a million dollars on t
-eiA.t . ... ..
tne vaa ot tnis montn for the , ii
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail- ,
road, didn't do it. The Nnrtb'
State Improvement Company,' of
ureensDoro, wnien w part and ' "
parcel of the railroad eombanv.u''i
Went into the bands of a rneniver
last Friday, night, and, Saturday,! ';
mgnt tne rauroaa direotors as a,
body made assifirninenta. ' The list '
embraces the names' of many" of ' -;
the most prominent 'citizens andJ'
nnanomra of th NhAt.a flhorlnMn
Observer. .-..ta-t-r
A.aispatcn says a meeting: has t
been called in Chicago tq prgaai:f
ize the David B. Hill Democratic . !, j ,
Association, and that with' the
organization of the, association,,
"will begin a taighty improvement
to secure fdr Senator Hill ' 'the '
preftideutial nomination ifl'1896.' 1 1"
"We. intend. says Mr( &.i D-i
Keough, a Chicago politician, f'to , -,.
run Mr. Hill for the presidency on y
the broad ' platform that he is a "
Democrat." That; is 'a splendid ,V'l
platform;' and there lis just enough 1
ot it On j ust that platform and
no more, Hill, Adlai or somebody -
else who is ohiyeraally reoognlited ' 1"
as measuring fully up to it could h.v
run in '96 and be elected.-Char-lotte
Observer t ' , ( , j,,.,
Senator Hill defeated the , con
firmation of Mr. Horhblower for ' "'
8ociate 'Justice of the Supreme"1 : v
Court, and there are those who 1 i !
say he did : it because Mr.; Horn-: 1 ;
blower was against bis friend
Judge Maynard. Mr. Hornblower
was very near Mr. 1 Cleveland's
heart Last Saturday Mr. Cleve- ' 1
land voted the bill which provided 1 '''
for the building of a bridge across '
the Hudson river from New York
to Jersey City, and there are those ,
who say be did it because 'Tr.
Hill beat Mr. Hornblower. 1't, ' , '
Hill had, with much labor, si . . j
the I bridge , bill bocc- ' "j
tnrougn both nouses cf Con- '
gress, and it was very i r 1 V '
heart. Thus we ses v;. it t
cousideiation grave i j tf
publia concorcs s: " ; t "
or may tra. C." L .
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