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You Will never R egreT S The ICO You spend by subscribing for Tl?is Paper ' for a Year. Begin To-Day. VOL. XVI. LEXINGTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1897. NO. 10 ..it takes.... rinter's -:- In!: To Make Business Hum. If jon wnt to remain a drone keep your goods, why, 1 . don't use it. Tsrlia ili ' lis Tii r.pS prorea by Uk tient ( laaaV that Dm people bam an abiding MoUaim Is HomTi senapariUm. Great . fHrO PnTed by tbe Tobimarf Rata. uu'v" mtntt ol thousand! ot people, how that Hood's Sanapartlla tua great PauA oleeaae by purtfytna, m- UHCI nrblnt and UuMgoratlni tbe Wood, npoa vbica health and We depend. - Sarsaparilla bOeOw Tnw Blood Purmar. ADdnmglfU. $1. Hood's Pills m!. an tbe only ptUa to take SanavKlUe. VL J, BUCHANAN, . . Tiyslolan and Surgeon. - . Lexington, N. C, -Scxt door to Methodist church. Calls promptly .responded to either in town or country. REPORT T. PICKENS, ' arid GoaneUor at Lav, , : Lexinaten, N. 1 Careful ana prompt attention given to all business intrusted lo him.' Office on yuhlio sqnare in corner of Henderson Block, near Postofflce , JOHN Mil IcCBABY, , .- ItlornBj-at -; : IEXIN0TON, HvC. Practice in alt the courts. Prompt attention given to col lection of claims and settlement un;nr nnnlificd at Public Ad ministrator for the county , of Davidson, and having given a Justified bond In the sum of eight lu..r,A dollars. I offer my ser vices for the purpose of adminis tering on estates in tnc cuuuijr. x Office to rear of Court House. V WA1SER. XBB YWAtSBK viii orn W CIA til Or ilril.ul.lli Attorney! and CouMellw h t La eoa will. "una .U Co.ru M b.r.tofora. S.1 25. WILLIAMS Attorney At Law, Lexington, I. C." A , OrriCRJS COURT H0D8B. . Lexington Llwry Company F. L. Conrad, Manager. n! Tnams. Careful Drivers, Low Prices. Phono No. 16. ' D.J. HIIit.M.D. oel naL,MD. DRS. HILL & HILL, Dr. Payne's Old Stand, Lexington, rt. v. Office Hours: 7 to 8 a, m., an'J 1 to 2 p.m., and 7 to 8p. m CI j. ..mean LEXINGTON, M. C. ' Office in Henderson Block, two doors below post-oiKce. DR. JOIUnWES rra in ilnnt Douse on. Main pti will practice medicine snd sundry in Lexington and sur roHndir.jjeonntry. . ' " ; a Offlce Hours: 8 to 9 .., to 3 n. m., and 7.-30o 8:30 p. m. Culla loft al Srai'h's Drug Btore, will receive promjit atten tion. ' j a ROTIIROCK, dentist, ; nl Tliomnsville, will be in Lftxing- , m V- ' '.'yon tlieC 1 -l J rill t Won each moni'i. use c " , i- r .1 .al woik a be done. THI SCHOOL QUESTION AGAIN CorraapoMlonoi ofTh. Dispatch. Mb. Editor: Thanking you for the space granted me, in your issue of last week, to call attention to the school law as amended by the last Legisla ture and also to the law pro viding for an election by town ships for local taxation in aid of public schools, I now ask further space in your valuable paper for some additional re marks upon these laws. A public canvass and full discussion of them in all the townships of the county would bo more satisfactory,. and I wuld.much prefer to meet the people face, to face and talk with them and to them upon this most vital subject of pub lic education; but as I hear of no movement in. that direction, I adopt this" as the only method open for the presentation of the subject. It is admitted on all hands that general public edu cation is a good thing, and all thoughtful men will admit that it is a necessity in a country and government like ours. I notice in your issue of last week that you ? substantially concede this; although I am sorry to .see you oppose local taxation. - It is also generally, if not uni versally conceded that our pres ent public schools are wholly insufficient to meet the neces sities of the case, and that we can never hope to educate the children without abetter system and mora money, . Look for a moment at the present condi tion of the public schools in this county. The census for 1896 gives the number of chil dren of school age, white 6,792; colored ; 1,864; enrolled in schoolp, white 4,615; colored 802; number of school districts, white 100; colored 81; average length of school "term, white 13 weeks; colored 8 2-5 weeks; appropriated to the schools, white $8,996.64, colored $1,876. 92. From these figures it ap. pears that only about two thirds of the white children and less than that proportion of the colored children or school age attend school at all. That un gle fact is an alarming one to any man ; who loves his State and wants to see it great and prosperous I and free, but who knows it cannot become so while such a considerable pro portion of H population is growing up in ignorance. , These figures further show that for children ot school age there is a district for eery 67 whites and one for 44 colored, and for children enrolled . in school one for 46 white and one for 26 colored. What a misap plication and waste of public money? And even the chil dren who are enrolled attend sohool, during the year, whites about one-fourth and colored about one-sixth of the time, And ; then when we reflect that men and women cannot afford to qualify themselves for teaching and devote themselves to it with such a prospect be fore, them for employment in that most honorable vocation we need not be astonished that much poor teaching is done and that our' schools languish on that account. Look at the fig ures and think, and I believe yoi will join roe in gajrng that our present system u "" inefficient and. unsatisfactory, but it is in fact a burlesque on education 1 - J It being conceded that public education is a necessity for a free State in order that it may continue free and become great ly prosperous, and that our present system is largely a fail ure, the inouiry naturally and inevitably arises in the tnind of every t patriot, what Is to be done tq meet this necessity and remedy this failure? The two laws under consid eration, formulated by enlight ened patriots and i;r;:od by them upon tho lant L J.iture and finally pa;oJ wLl, if en ihrsed by the r'0 !a "J a long ways, in'my iudgiuont, towardu aeiHwerlfj- this inquiry, and w III bo tho beginning of bettor H id lp ' ' r ilnya for our bo loveJ U.ao. For" the first of t! ;( ; laws chap. 108, of tho laws of 181)7. provides for hot- f-' ,r t:. 1 t.i J- -I Prnprittrfll, c. ' r..:-;i:3, i r r educators, ' besides other ' ma chinerywhich ;I have not space, to mention for perma nent - improvement ; in ' our schools and school system. The other law, chapter 421, provides for local taxation by townships, if the people endorse it.'v- ;.v-;. v - ::-:- And here I suppose is the rub. . Money .is scarce, people are poor and find it hard to make both ends meet.' But they ought to be careful, lest getting frightened at taxation they do like the mule, which became frightened at some thing on one side of the bridge and backed off at the other! and ; broke i his . neckt For taxation is not the most frightful thing that can come upon a people, but ignorance is. fen cents on $100 worth of property and 30 cents on the poll is not a heavy tax; ' and yet such a tax added to our present school fund and aided by better location of school houses will al most double the opportunity for tne cnuaren to get an education. : Most tax-payers pay on' a valuation : of 1 property ' under $500 and would therefore have to pay a tax of 50 cents or less; $1,000 would pa v $1; $5,000 5, and so on, with the 30 cents poll tax added to each case where the person is within the poll-tax age. It t does seem to me that men who own but little property would, strain a point lo pay this ax cheerfully; for what else can they give their children but education, and how else can they so cheaply help on their education as -by ;. paying this small tax t r- i, -. ;; . Ana it further seems to me that men of means and large property would most cheerfully .i.f. i i . pny nun mi, not oniy oecause they are nest able to do so, but because it wonld be money profi- tabiyxpenaea in .ne enhance ment of the, valuation of their property by the enlightment "of the community where their prop erty is, besides the satisfaction to be derived from a conscious ness ot having helped to elevate ana bless thtir neighbors by blesssing their children. ' ':: u: Therefore it seems to me that all ought' to vote for this tax in order to put our public schools on a better basis and start our Stnte cm a new- career of pros perity and greatness. - - lo accomplish a work so great as the establishment of our public schools on a perma nent foundation, so that they will secure to all the children of the State the blessings of educa tion, will require some sacrifice and self denials. Of course it will. No blessing so great is cheap. Time, money, co-opera tion ot an the people and na. tience these are the price of so great n boon! Will we nav it? Will we invest something in the minds an J hearts of onr children and thus nreoare them to be. come useful citizens and a bless ing to the State ? That is the question, - How will you vote ou it? Yes or No? ;. ' But this .communication,' even with this insufficient statement of the purport and effects of; those laws, is go wing too long and I must stop. There ought to be public discussion; espec ially of the, question of local tax ation, so that the subject could be presented fully and public in terest awakened to the aproaeh ing election. No question of more importance, in my opinion, was ever submitted to the voters of North Carolina. It is a ques tion affecting the weal of the State, not for the present only, but for all the generations of the long future. As 1 write and think about it the old ,; campaign fires not partisan fires, for it ' is no party question burn within me and . I would relolce to ee the people rally, not to put this or. that man in this or that little office, but rally to decide tbe great question whether their own and their neighbor 8 chil dren shall have more light, more Knowledge, more truth, more character, more fitness for great er usefulness, and in deciding that question, also settle this other, whether North Carolina shall march in the van of civili zation in this county and and contribute her full share to the glories of this grent Republic, Very Respectfully, : . ' V. C, RoniHNS. A 8o for Luok. That choice wit, the local the editor of the Concord Stan dard is the author of the follow ing: ', ,. - - . 'The colored settlement in the upper edge of the county was tbe scene of a high-toned wed ding last-Tuesday. The audieus had been said, and 'the newly parried pair were about enter ing a two-mule wagon at the rural villa of groom, when the best man loped to the front with the conventional old shoe, which in this instance happened to be a case of No. 11 brogan of trie bride's father and weighed four pounds net, to say nothing ot a half pound of dry tnuj that clung to the heel and instep. " 't I he shoe hurler steadied him self and amidst a burst of ap plause, let fly the token of good luck,' His aim was faultless, tbe shoe striking the bride in the burr of the ear and knocking her senseless. ' 'Blood trickled from the wound, and. at the sight of this the groom became, frenzied with rage and made for the best man with a razor. In the gener al tumult the mules took fright and ran away, and the bridal trip thus came to a sudden and unexpected halt, A warrant charging the shoe thrower with assault and battery upon 'the bride is about to be sworn-out at once and the next round in the matrimonii melee will likely be fought with the justice of peace as referee." : . Take No Chanoao. j . ' :. The Chicago r. Times-Herald nrinta a storv about a oeccliar old justice of the peace who for- , ,1 A I meny nem sway in a town in Southern Indiana. His idea of justice, and of the best way of arriving' at it, was no doubt queer, and yet a majority of readers will k&ow how to sym pathize with him. . . On one occasion, after all the evidence was in and the plaint id's attorney bad made an elab orate argument, the defendant's attorney arose to begin his plea. ".Hold on there!" said the court. 'I don't believe I can let you proceed. Mr. Smith. ' I have a very clear idea now of the guilt ot the pnsoner at the bar, and anything from you at this time would have a tendency to con fuse the court.' . I know the man is guilty now, and I don't want to take any chances. IndebtadnM, of our Cltla. Winalon Republican. ' The following is said to be the indebtedness of the principal cit ies in North Carolina Fayetteville, Asheville, Wilmington, Winston, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Greensboro, . Wilson, Newbcrn, $ 49,500 781.500 750,600 '! 400,000 ' 207,000 173.950 175,000 150.000 92,250 48.500 'J SOMB REFORM. " Tho Lasl.laturo'o Id.a of Looal- S.ir-Oov.rnmont- Otntham Soson). The hypocrisy of the "reform ers' in their profession for "local self government" was forcibly lllHstratal in every county in North Carolina on Inst Monday. In the campaign in 1894 and 1806 tbe "reform" speakers and newspapers cried out loudly and lurtly for "local self-government" or, as some of them called it, "for the right of the people to govern themselves" by. electing their' own officers. And yet, strange to say, these "reform ers" have not allowed the peo- Ele of any county in the State to ave a vote or voice in the elec tion of a single, solitary officer of their public schools ! liad you thought or this 7 On the first Monday in Tune a county board of education was elected in every county not by the! people but by the court houke ring" of every county by " J viu uiigoitiai rj biiv register of deeds and the clerk of thethupenor Court. And on last; Monday a supervisor of public schools was elected in every countj not by the people out py the county board ot ed ucation, the register of deeds and the clerk of the court. And also.f on the same day, five school coramittemen in" every township were elected not by the people but by the county board of education. . , And thus' it is, the manage ment of all our public schools in even( county is entrusted to offi cers tot one of whom is elected by the people! And bis is "reform"! Another allustration of the "reformer's" idea of "local self government" is seen in the arbi trary i power given three men in every county the county com missionersto decide whether or not any spiritous liquors shall be sold. Instead of allowing the voters of any township to decide tor themselves whether or not they are lin favor tif prohibition, the late "reform" Legislature has given the arbitrary power to the county commissioners to decide this importont question, So that now, according to this "reform" of our last Legislature. three men in any county in this acate can establish 'prohibition in theiir "county; even if every body else in the county is op posed to it! '" " '"' ; This is "local self government with a vengeance l.1."V,'v;;';;w; OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Bonded indebtedness of the State of North Carolina, $6 Q8Q.000. i ' ; ,' ; N i. r ( -i- l' n-1 ! E t - Lir". U i ' , .,(,' bin .i lo f 3 t ) ave;; . ) lit 1. : fn, V.nm Ht-cu'. n i t 1 1 r t',., I ...v; !. 8 f..r V l u i " hod What a Hor,a Can Do. An ordidarv horse will walk a milo in twenty minutes; and he will gallon n mile in lrora 3 to 4 minutes. ; lie yeu;hs ns tnw as seven ! '- i mid is ns stros ','is five men ; . cm. pull a wi-,Jit of 900 ', .. wiihout whirls on a dead and l, . ell the t SV' .h by J : enn lift GOO tons ten feet hf, i ii a wot king day oi ci'iht llli-n, S. ': .. l.e ! i his grcn? 't size v ' ,i live j .4 i,M; uiua.'v lives i ! cn yt....,, t ut may rt.ua the t j ; c old ne ol twenty-five. Oon't Blsmo them for Fusing. Salltbu? Worid. , Sometimes wc cease to wonder whv the ' Democrats of Wake county desire to fuse with the ropuust. we uuscrvc iiiau juu Young, the black politician and blatherskite, holds the key to the situation in Republican cir cles at Raleigh over the postot- flce contest. A white man would almost be willing to fuse with anything to get out rrom under the dominion of such a sweet smelling crowd as he leads. ; It is reported that at least twenty .cotton mills in the two Carohnas wilL close down for the remainder of the season so soon as the limited supply of cotton is exhausted. 1 hey will await the new crop belore re suming business. This means shut mills to the latter part oi September for North Carolina Kalcign makes a statement tnat explains why this shutting down will come. j- 'The last cron of cotton raised in the Carolines has practically disappeared. Although the cost oi hauling cotton irom new Or leans and Mississippi, where all now used must come trom, has been reduced to the minimum by the reduction of rates hy the railroads, we , find that in the nresent low and unsatisiactory condition of the market it will not pay us to to buy cotton at a distance, and we must, perforce, shut down until the new crop comes in. Whv is "tbis thus" if generM pros;enty is already here f Wi mington Messenger, MooiTsvllle wlllhavea bigMa- sonic picnic on Thursday, Aug ust 5U). Col. lulian S. Carrwill deliver tlie ni tn-s. A collection will be taken tr the Oxford Or phan Asylum. There will be bicycle tournament, a horseback tournament anil a chapter of or phans from the Oxford asylum will give a coiii f tt. Klllod on tho Exoutlon. , When the car inspectors at Salisbury went to look ever the Winston excursion train that spent Monday and most of Mon dnr night of -last week in Char lotte, they found flesh and blood and pieces of clothing dinging to the trucKs and wneeis. : mere was blood on the tender's rear truck; ? This causes the belief that the unfortunate victim eith er fell or was pushed from the tront platform ot the first car. Some railroad men think : the man killed must have been a tramp riding the, "blind bag gage. ' Nobody on the excur sion knew anything about it. The body of a negro was found on ifo track several mile south of Salisbury, the head being split in two, a leg cut off. and the body otherwise mutilated. ; The Salisbury Hun says many "are of the opinion that the man was pushed off as there had been some quarrelling on board the trains" . v." ' The Salisbury World sajs the remains were those of s .negro woman, l"whoie identity is thus far a mystery." , , , This la Too Cruol, . The New York Tribune told its readers that the strike of the miners was due to the heavy im port, i tion of foreign coal induced by' the low rate under the Wil son tariff. The Springfield Re publican answered by showing that the average yearly impot tattoos Increased at a more rap id rate under the Wilson act. After giving the figure in detail, the Republican adds: A "But if the Wilson law reduced the coal duty and so reduced the wages of miners, the new tariff is to advance tha duty to about the old figure, and why then do the coal operators stand out against an immediate restora tion of wages ? Why this resist ance to passing along the bene fits ot the Higher ratesearned to the point of paralyzing indus try, throughout a large section of country t" . This is too overwhelmingly cruel. If the Republican exposes a few more of the Tribune's in accuracies, the Republican party will not even have the semblance Of a case. IHanlis nt tiii-i o;;,ec. Mary bad a little lnmbf that time has rased awnv. No lamb could follow up the pace our R cry sets to-day for now sheri' 4 the air-shod wlu- l, in skirt -i too hort by hail; no latnU-i fc'.wii her airy i--;ht, but you can s e her call'. limes Corretpondenoe ofTu Dufaict. Having been requested by so many of my friends to express my views on the school ques tion, J now begin with this ar ticle to comply with their re quest: . . -,r rhere are some things asserted in regard to the late school law that 1 do not understand. Some saj that every district (town ship) that votes the school, tax will get one dollar for every dol lar paid until it has received $500 from the State, -o . Now we learn from the. law that the State has apprlated on ly $50,000 with which to com ply with its own proposition Let us take Davidson countv for example, say there are 17 town ships in the county .and each township, by voting the tax, gets f4004 then the seventeen townships will draw 6,800. At this rate 96 counties, or the entire State would require an appropriation of $652,800 to comply with her own proposi tion. ;. ',:;,-:.. ; .: ' 1 want to be understood to be in favor of a special school tax that is sufficient to run a five months' school within the reach of every child in North Carolina. But 1 am not favorable to a tax which makes such a wild propo- sition as the above. If the letter and spirit of the law is enforced as Dr. Mclver explains it, its ob ject is to reduce the number of schools and give longer terms and better Qualified teachers at higher salaries. Now suppose the law stands as it now is for 10 years; all the children born now will be ten years old, and all now t, (the age to enter school,) will be 16. Out ot the vast num ber -of children of these ages, there will be a certain per cent.: in almost every township denied the benefit of day's of schooling because of the distance. " Dr. Mclver, in his strong ap peal to vote for the tax, warns us against a violation Of the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you." It I understand this Di vine injunction it forbids selfish ness upon- tbe part of any of God's creature. If I were to vote a tax upon men that would give all td some and none to others I would certainly be guil-j ty of a violation of the Divine Rule. - . : . -We find this other objection to; tbe law It gives township com mittees entirely too much pow er, rl hey can, it ot broad judg-1 ment and sound views on educa tion do a great deal for the bene- fit of our schools. 1 But if we judge from the past we may ex pect neglect and many mistakes, as there is so much work to do for no pay. It is not the tax the people are objecting to so much, as it is tbe law. It takes so much money to run the machine that a large portion of the money is gone be fore it reaches the people. ; Dr. Mclver represents it as a great crime for the1 people to vote down the school tax. Some of us have had a great deal to' do with the people in one public way or another, as well as he, and our experience is that when they are called upon to support a measure that is legitimate and lor the best interest oi all they rarely fail to help support it. " , It is my honest opinion that our people are not guilty of the crime alleged against them for not voting a tax under the exist. ing circumstances , upon them selves. The increased appropri ations to State institutes, and the ruinous changes made in our school law are enough to cause the people to call a halt, and say no to school taxation, - f If we view the whole matter from a fair standpoint it appears only a little less than criminal to men, as some are doing, to vote a tux upon such conditions as have been proposed. , T , r Every reasonable : man must admit that there is a just cause for dissatisfaction . with both white and colored. The colored people once had their school committee without exercising any authority ' over - white schools,. now the present law makes it impossible for them, to have any control over their own without having the same- con trol over the white schools. While there is just reason for complaint ? let us lay all the blame to whom -it belongs, There are none so much in fault as those who dictated and passed the law. : , Let us for the sake of educa tion make the very best of the law we can. Good officers will help the cause greatly and we believe we have as good men as our county affords constituting our county Board of Education: men who will do what they believe to be oest lor oom wiiuc ana coiorca Someone has said, "Lducntion and Christianity pre twin si ti'is." V.'e know, at least, tV-ey hi'-xr a very intimate relations. I' 1 118 rcjui .e I ri .-it r- " " y resting w,i vs, nn-1 d f. ! i 1 onr poi r t rt''cn e t .' ,c.... , ;;..n. J. : '. i rr. DEMOCRATS NOT RESPONSIBLE. The Winston Republican and the Progressive Farmer seek to evade responsibility for the pass ing of the odious machinery act by saying that Democrats, aa weil as Republicans and Popu lists, voted tor it. Mr. J. A. Hartness, editor of the States ville Mascot, who was a mem ber of the House from Iredell, gives the facts as follows, in ans wer to the publications alluded to above: . ' t "As to tbe second proposition, both the members of the House from Iredell and Mr. Wattavof Alexander, . together - with all other Democrats in the House, with one exception, voted against this measure, as can be seen by the recorded yea - and nay vote id the House journal, page 930. now in the Mascot Of fice. It cannot be said , that there wtts not a thorough under standing, ou the tart of the ma jority members ot the House, of the import of sections 52 and 53, which makes' non , payment of taxes indictable; for, while the House was considering the reve nue'act, the matter was discussed and section 52 was stricken out, but reinstated on another read ing by the vote of the majority element of the House.. The bill was then put upon its third and final reading and passed, though every - Democrat present,;, with one exception, voted against it The vote was: --. Yeas B4,; nays 27. So that the1 Democrats are not responsible for the hardships which this law will impose upon the rxonle. Thev d-d their dutv. There should have been more of them." . , , They Cot Him Oood. , , Durham 8un. ' " ' '' i " The kindest editor in the State resides in a neighboring city. One evening last week be attend ed a soc;al given at a. pnvate residence, and during, the even ing the ladies organized a hug ging bee, toe - proceeds to go to the church. Prices were graded according to the person to be huggee. For instance, for hug ging a young inexperienced girl you had to give -tip 10 cents; married , women brought 15 cents and widows, a quartet. Old maids come in a bunch for 3 cents.-. - Well, : our ; friends were blindfolded, , and - giving up 15 cents said he would take a mar ried woman. ' After he had .hug ged 15 cents worth the bandage was removed from ius eyes, - and lo and behold,! he was hugging his own wife. Then he ' wanted his fifteen ctnts back: - 10 REASONS WHY The Fidelity Mutual Life Asso ciation, of Philadelphia, operat ing the "Fouse Plan.",is the best all-around company in which to insure,' V-"."-'-- -h'"? 1 . 1. . Careful selection and man agement have rendered the death rate phenomenally - low, ($7.72 per $1000. mean insurance) and the ratio of assets to liabilities exceptionally high, ($1097, as sets, to each $100. liabilities.) 2. The rates based on past -insurance experience, are about 30 per cent below the "old line" rates. ' " y r , 3. Tbe rates are itemized, with the, expense element sepa rately stated, and limited to les than half the usual charge. 4. The mortality element; of rates; available for current losses is 50 per cent, greater than un der the legal reserve method, and yet the total cost, ot the insur ance is much less. ' '-v; ,, , , B.v Policies as to vcohdttions and terms of payment of pre miums issued to suit all classes- liberal surrender values,jncome for the insnred in case of disable ment, and income to beneficiar ies, if preferred to lump sum at death, . , , ' 6. Ndt an . 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Banks, a member of the Guards, who was taking part in the battle, was shot and almost instantly j killed. It cannot be ascertained who is responsible for the loaded cartridge. It Kerns' thai the cartridges were examined very closely before giv- m; uui uy inc captain, ana nrst and second lieutenants, and ow ing to tbe difference in the weight of a loaded and, a blank car tridge it is hard to account for the accident. -No loaded cartrid ges have, bee given rtut bv the kompany forover; two years. A Noblo Offloor. "x Ajherillirjitino.V- t (- Tberecor8 riSade'ly Sam. L. Rogers in tb office of collector of internal revenue is a record in which 'the Democracy of the Ninth' district can feel' iustlv proud.?. His conduct of the office has been, notably clean and ef ficient and the, records kept by wc- watcniur -agents or Uncle Sam, at Washington wilt bear testimony q the fact ' ,!- X --' ;A Solar EoIlDee: ' " , On the 29tn of this month'one of those- phenomena- will take place that; from time immemora ble have never failed to engage tbe attention of mankind a so lar eclipse. Even those that are quite familiar with tbe causes that produce, it, and may- even be Capable of understanding the intrinsic- calculations neccessary for its prediction, cannot sup press a feeling of awe on behold, ing this most interesting of all the phenomena of nature. The eclipse will ,he h an anular one, visible on this continent as a partial one." In our. latitude it will begin at half-past 8 o'clock in the mprning and vend twelve minutes pastil o'clock.-.., , 1li;i3i;-'Wnr VoarOvralla. ' .:- Kansas Cityj Md.; July ' 19. The police - department of this city began to day working wom en in the chain gang on the streets and "toads, breaking stone the same as the men prls- nnAra. . The tf-ir Ans.firritiAa cgv " . ! " . they consider that idleness is not a sufficient punishment for wom en, and they, most be put at hard iabor,.as the nienare. i y-L The women will wear, coarse overalls, and wilt have no skirts to impede their work'.3 J - Governor Russell offers $100. reward, fbr the arrest of the per petrators 1 of ' a strange crime AprilistM ihe body or an un known man was found .floating in the French Broad river in Buncombe countys 'The coroner held an inquest and the jury was of , opinion that the' body was that of William Vestal, there seems to be no clue whatever to the murderer ot murderes. The Georgia bar rather leans toward lynching. It is certain that lynching will continue so long , as assaulting defenceless white women of character con tinues. Wilmington Messenger. ; At least 80 long as the present legal method;; of, dealing 'with the offender continue to be prac ticed Aq immediate trial, before Only' the-judge jury, ' witnesses and. counsel, toUoweo by execu tion in private-within; twenty four hours after -conviction, would dd more to etam'p out the crime of rape than) any method that could be devised. Winston Journal . ., . .. j---al-''L Beautiful fM fTW doll ir r1?f ; sVs thc wift years st 1 w .-v. tatatifal, willowy fn-JG o TLOM fairocM with every i v. Bt h Mill ia qmeca and hma c par M Who wvars -youth coronal b r.. -: ' 'whom good contracts jiven. The Srnaie re ', put the V'lle on t'-c ' t: tlouU i--; - the C- , ! 'i i t t ' i .r !-' i i i T ' V. 1 ( 1 t
The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.)
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July 21, 1897, edition 1
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