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sTBWS. jl rajiv iviuuiNi aik v VOL. 10. MOUNT A1IIY, N. 0.. TIIUBSDAY, MAY 28, 1890. NO. 15 ,R E G U L AT0Pl7 THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE Is SIMMONS I. IV l':R HrGULVTOR. Don't forget to t.i't- it. Now is the time you need it most to wiikc up your Liver. A alungisli Uver brhiK's mi 'Malaria, Fever and Anno, Hhtutitt.iti im, find many other Ills whti'li sha'ti-r thf constitution and wnvk In.iilh. Don't torjret the word hUilILAt'OK. It i.; !-I.V.AU)NS l.IVI R Ftiilll Ai(iiouv.in'. 'I he word PlU l.'I.Alok Uistir'u;is it ti om all other retnejk's. And,' tv.idi's this, SIMMONS I.IVI.R Kl tiiil AIOf is a Ki'Rulator of the Liver, kn'i'i it pi.'perlyatwork, that your system in iv K" ktpt in f.ood condition. ' FOR itlli Ml 001) tike M,WMON$ LlVP.H KI-.'.il'L AKiR. It is the N-st I lend purifier and C"iiaoi. 1 rv it and note tin- Jmei.Muv. !.o.ik hr the Nil) on every p.u'k.-inv. ) .mi wont tin J it on nay oth-.-i imli-.iitr, and there is no other liver Pirn-lv hie N.ViMONS I.IVrR HHil'I.Aft .1' '.hr K !:..! I Kit Ki'inedies, p.- mi:s mi ,. t it. x .?. II. y,;-INn i , I'hllml.lplilu, l'ft. w. i j. imowx nOTMRY PUBLIC, (orFICK WITH 11EO. W. HI'AKOKR,) Mount Airy, N. C. S. P. GKAYKS, Attopney-at-kaw, MOUNT AIItY, N. C laTrivtlceii n state and Feclcrul Courts. Prompt attention to collection or claims. W. S. XKKDHAM, Attorney "-at-Law, Pilot Mountain, N. C. lir-WIll practice In the Hint Court. Col- lection of claims a spi-claHy. Jniis-lrii GKO. V. SPAKGKH, Attorney-at-Law, MOUNT AIKY, N C. SO GB tiNeifollatlnif Loans and the Cnlleeilnn of Claims a Specialty. Iiimiranre placed 111 stan dunl Companies upon liberal terms. W. F. CARTER, WOOWt AIM, h. C J. R. LtWEUYN, DOtH-O.. N. C Caktkk & Lkwku.yx, Attorneys-at-Law. ri'iai'tli'e In the mate and Federal Court, from pi nttenllou given to all tin .Inew. eulrtiat ed to llielr eare. J. H. Slakemore, PHOTOGRAPHER, MOUNT AIRY, N, O. Is prepared to make all the New and Artistic fttylea, la up with the times and will give jou tlmt-clasa work. COAL! COAL! White Ash Anthracite Coal for Ktovt-a and liraU'H. Ruasol Creek (kml for Stoves and (i rates Pocahontas Coal forKhopx and KiiKines. fSfOrder tilled promptly. T B. MeCAUtiO. Agent for Pocahontas Coal Co. -o- Wben you li ive alone work Ut dn you will find it lo jour iuterent to .ie J. II. Walker, liu will luinish li n;e toil heat granite, lUifr rough or eot. t Vantery work a apncialty. Apr-U-lui JOS. NATIONS, DKAI.KU IS Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Of all kinds, Hewing Maeliinos, Musical Inatrumonts.Afl. Wateheii, Clocks and Jowelry repaired ill ta-st possihle man ner and aatiafaction Knarantcd. If you want t sbv nmiiey ace mo before making your purchas"' or having your work dune. SI Situated on Main Street, OpiKwitf upper end of Franklin, hi-n at the door. New ahoea in atiuk at $3 (XJ and 3.60. Slowa made to order on aliort notice. Hlwe repaired prompt ly. Hatiafactioti guarantocd and work tlo ltvered when deaircd Term caali. L. B. Albertson, Prop. W. H. sifftpson, BROKER, Mount Airy, N. C. Repre-ntir.g Fifteen Houaea On All tbc Best Market. Everything in Heavy and fancy Gro ceries, Fruits and Confections. Lowest market prices given. Ofliee In Joie lil k, at had of t-, on right fcaiid aide, fronting un JIain Mret. r4P(tn(.nf.tiiws Morel.anu will ple eH rit tiV delivered priiM on ail kimls of gnxvnet. 'iaitteg and Country MerehacU eor diaUj lnvill to caii at oiiice. Granite Hod M. Aifj Shoe Shop, Growth of Crime. If any one can doubt as hi tlio growth of crime in the United States no is very hard to lie convinced. Italy is generally thought to IO very much addicted to murders, and it is. And yet lost year while it led all European countries, its murders were but 3,00(1, while tho United States had 10..MH). (treat Pritain, with Hourly 40,000,000 of people had but 250. Think of our own country having forty-two times more murders than (Jreat Pritain and with a population hut 75 or 80 per cent, greater not double. It, is said that in Virginia there is a huge increase of crime. Dr. W. F. Drt'wry, first iissistant physician in the State Central Hospital at Kic.h mond, wiil read a paper before the National Conference of Charities and Correction at (irand Kapids, Mich., which will rather discourage the blowers that crime is decreasing. Ut; says there is a laro incrmso in crime. Punishment hasdiminished. The tendency has been rather in the direction of greater leniency. For certain crimes tho law still demands the life of theptiilty, but their num ber lias been reduced, and less severity is exercised toward offend ers against property. Notwith standing the disposition to temper justice with mercy, however, the in crease of criminals luu been sur prisingly large, and tho evidence of the effect of living under free in stitutions furnished by the colored race is particularly disappointing. Not only do tho negrots furnish a greatly excessive proportion of tho criminals of the btate, but cases of insanity are also getting to be very numerous among them. In 1S71 there were less than COO white insane and 150 colored in the Virginia asylums. Now the num ber of the whito patients is 1,725 and that of eolorcd inmates 25. Seemingly, insanity among whites has nearly trebled, but among the negroes it is five times as prevalent. The increase cannot be attributed to growth in population, fur this has remained almost the name. Positively startling are the crim inal etatisties. The penitentiary contains 1,(116 prisoners 1,2 V.) negroes and 327 whites the ratio being, respectively, 1 to 4!)0 and 1 '0 o,4U0. The number of whito prisoners has remained almost sta tionary since 1SV, when it wits317; that of negro criminals, however, has doubled, it having been o'SO in 18S0. Whither are we drifting; If crimes continue to increase in the same ratio in this land, people who can get to England or Scotland would do well to pull up and go. Is it any better in North Carolina than in Virginia We believe not. Our criminal laws ate mure lax and the courts more inellieieiit. Where lies the remedy i Not inputting the negro party in power. Look at JJaltiinure. The grand jury in its Criminal court reported their work a lew days ago for the January term. The report states that 2,202 cases were brought be fore it for consideration, and that prefentments were made ia 1,221 eases. Among the latter are enumerated 32i) for larceny, 13'.) for murder or attempts to murder. Think of 131) presentments for murder in one city at one term of a court. There were 45 presentments for sale of intoxicating liquors. Wiliii1' gton Messenger. Cuba Tobacco Not to be Sold Here. The order of (ien. Weyler pro hibiting the exportation of tobacco from Cuba, it is believed, was in tended to throw Cubans in the States, especially in Florida, out of employment, with the ultimate end in view of crippling their pocket books and cutting off their con tributions to the buppoit of the Cuban army. It will doubtless have the intended result, so far as de priving many American Cubans of employment is concerned, but it will do more. It will bo viewed, doub'hss ss an unfiiendly measure toward their country by the people of the United States and increase their sympathy for the Cuban insurgents. The press re ports say tho ruling will cut off American custom receipts at the port of Tampa alone, fcl,0lo,(ioo, and the Cuban advocates in ihe Con gress may be expected to make the. most of this argument. Weylei's order may do more than he expected of it Make it a point to see that your blood is purified, enriched and vital ized at this season with Hood's Sar saparilla. The Oldest And the Best "In the 1'all of "ttt, my son, R. li. Hot v.ih, had a liue eitrlmn t lo on liis. luck. The doctor lanced it. hut gave him no per manent hem-lit. L' J Sarsaparilla wa thn renorted to and th n ault m all we could have wihe! for. Th carl ai n l lo-aled murk. Iv, and loa health la now perfect." II. S. Itot zie, Cuauiplaiu, Vfc The Only Sarsaparilla At World's Fair. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. STATE ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE GATH ERED FROM OUR MANY WIDE- AWAKE EXCHANGES. Dr. J. W. Ring has purchased new electric "battery with which he is treating himself. lie says ho is improving Llkin Times. Great damage to crops by a hail storm m the Laurinbiirg section. Crops have been so damaged they will be ploughed tip and replanted. Wilson, Oxford and other pluses hnd severe storms recently. At Wilson a tobacco factory was tin roofed and other losses wero ens. taincd. A report of tho State farms which aro operated by con viets show there arc now 5,000 acres in corn anu 4,0(!() in cotton, and that the con dition of tho crop is 25 percent bet ter than last year at this tune. Tho State board of medical cxami ncrs Saturday gave out tho names of tho applicants who passed and were granted license to practice medicine, ihero were sixty-two successful ones, fifteen failed to pass Mr. Win. Anderson, foreman of the Southern round-house, bus cotno into a snug fortune. His uncle, Major Anderson, whoso death was recorded some days ago, left him an estate valued at $30,000.Charlotte ( )bscrvor. Salem lets cause to deplore the loss of u'tnoKt estimable christian lady in the death of Mrs. Lavenia Mickey, wile of Mr. J. K. Mickey, which occurred early Monday morning, at the ago of G2 years. Wiirston Republican. Governor Carr has authorized the payment of If MO to J. S. Fisher, Sheriff' of Robeson county, for the capture of Archie I 'ray boy, wanted tor murder in that county. 1. ray boy was captured in Cohjuit county, Lieorgia. Raleigh Press. Col. A. 1!. Andrews, vice presi lentofthe Southern railway, says that by the last of this month through passenger trains will be run on the Southern between Memphis and Norfolk, via Raleigh and Rocky Mount. Kocky Mount Argonaut. Mr. J. S. Pell, of FJkiu, a native Cabarrus man and a brother of our townsman, W L. Pell, is in feeble health and has gone to Tarboro for medical treatment. Mr. Pell has many friends in this county who wish for him a speedy recovery. Concord Standard, The car shops nairowly missed a big fire last night. The watchman saw a light in the paint shop and opening the door saw a bundle of waste, saturated witlr turpentine, burning rapidly. lie put out the blHze,stopping what in live minutes longer wuuld have been a great fire. Salisbury Heiald. The World says Sheriff Johnston, of Clay county, passed through Sal isbury one night !M week with three prisoners for the penitentiary. One of them was a young wyman, Eliza Stiles. She was handcuffed to her husband and the two were being sent to the penitentiary for twelve months for stealing tobacco from a barn. The World says the woman seemed to feel her degrada tion keenly and while the prisoners waited tor (he train at Salisbury she hid her face from the gaze of the curious on the breast of her hus band. Toward the euniise stands the modest Orphan's Home ot the I. (.). O. F. This institution is merely an index to what the future is expected to develop. At the rocent session of the (irand Lodge in this city the edict was sent out and the papers signed for the erection of a $10,000 building. The dependent orphans of Odd Fellows throughout the State will here find a home and receive instructions that will prepare them for the great battle -A life. There are several already in this final! in stitution. They Jiave the appear ance of being happy and contented. Those old enough are allowed the privilege of spi nding their idle mo ments in the pursuit of several inno cent games, while the younger ones look on w ith amused countenances, (ioidsboio Argus. A Northern man and a Republi can, a Mr. Paker, of Fall River, Mass , arrived in the city last night with his eyes openc d. Mr. Paker was sitting in front of the 1-aFayette hotel listening t' a number of gentlemen discussing polities. He suddenly arose from his scat and said : "Gentlemen, you are all strangers to me, but if you will al low it, i want to unburden my mind of an humble thought. I was born and reared in Massachusetts, the hot led of abolition, and have been taught to believe all my life that tho Republicans and negrot were badly treated by the Democrats of the South ; in fact that they were still little lietter than slaves. Last Friday 1 stoped in a Southern city, the city of Raleigh, for the first time in my life. I heard that there wag a Republican State convention in session and I went, charged with sympathy for the oppressed Rept.b I leans. J stood and gazed at that bowling, seething, cursing mob, and but a few moments wan sufficient to convince me that if this was Re publicanism in the South, theu God deliver her fiom it. Poy, I am a Southern Democrat in heart and spirit if not by residence." Fay ufWvilU Observer. . Spoiled Children. "Sparo tho rod and spoil the child,'i has a new illustration in the sentence imposed by a New York court upon tho youthful train wreckers who succeeded in derail ing a passenger tram on tho New York Central Railroad, thereby causing loss of life. One boy was sentenced to the penitentiary for life and his two comrades in guilt each to 40 years. It is altogether probable that with proper parental ::nro these three young ruffians and murderers would have never reach ed the maturity of wickedness which culminated in their terrible exploit. How many uncared-for youths who hsvo the license of tho streets and of evil associations aro on tho high road to eiiminal undertakings? Those who are furnished with money to spend have their journey to tho fail facilitated. Comment ing on this deplorable parental lax lty, winch operates as an opportu nity and an inducement to youth fu! wickedness, the New York Tri buno forcibly observes "Iho old-fasliioned stern disci dino and rule of families by fear is not attractive in our day, and a thoroughgoing companionship of elders and children is much to be preferred. Put certainly the stern est of rules was preferable to the indifference that leads children to educate themselves. So left, they aro pretty euro to educate them selves in crimo. The world they have to encounter is bud enough at the best, but here there is develop. ed a special service of the devil for the contamination of youth. The doings of the immoral, tho exploits ot the criminal, and everything morbid and horrible that can ne im agined or discovered aro specially rcpared by sensational publications ior Uiimiuing young passions and debauching young souls. Yet with that scrupulous regard for demo cratic freedom which makes the simple enforcement of a law a mat ter ol public excitement in some of our communities, tho American per mits this propaganda to be carried on. 1 hen he turns Ins chi d loose without observation to absorb suc cessively the habits of the loafer, the sport and the criminal. Ihen he weeps when the boy is convicted of crime." Philadelphia Record. Words of Commendation. Mu. Emtok: I want to express, through vour valuable paper, my sincere thanks to the liberal hearted and energetic Mr. Woodroffo and others who have helped us to build the Mat kock school house. 1 feel in doing this that I am voicing the sentiment of the surrounding coun try. We feel that nothing but a ind providence has sent them aiming us. We have list clofcd a seven month's school with an average at tendance of more than fifty scholars. We had Mr. 1L L. Yoklev at the head of our school, and that is the secret of our success. We intend to run eight months next year. We have a fine Sunday School with an enrollment of eighty or more, and at the ringing of" the bell, at 9 o'clock every Sunday morning, it is delightful to see 80 or lbd little bright eyed boys and girls take their seats in the school. We intend that this school shall be second to none in the State. We have gotten the old folks in-, terested in this work and that means success for the children. In addition to our Sunday School we have preaching very" nearly every Sunday. On last Sunday, May lull, we had tho pleasure of hearing a sermon by Old Father Needham, who is tJ years old. lie preached a practical and forceable sermon for a man ot his age. If he lives four more years he will break the record for age in this country for he will have lived in three cen turies, having been born in the lat ter part of the ) 7th century. We are inspired With new hope in this country and expect to see it blossom as the rose. J. A. D. A Butcher's Experience. Mr. J. W. Herring, a butcher of Phirnix City, Ala., says, May 14th, 1S05: "For five years I had indi gestion, which continued to get worse till my suffering was intense. I spent hundreds of dollars trying to get relief, but grew jvorse nntil the fall of ls;i:;, when I commenced to use King's Royal Germetiier, I took only three bottles, but began to improve from the first nse of it. I bought it ot Dr. D. E. Morgan, and he can tell about my case. 1 cheerfully recommend Germotuer as the best medicine for Indigestion and Dyspepsia," New package. large bottle, 10S doses, $1. For sale by Taylor A: Panner and D. A. Houston. alii i has never failed to Cough. Cold. Hoars Croup.Grippe, Bronchitis, ! Asthma and other Ihroat and Lung Affections. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is worth its weitrht in rold. but costs only 25 cts. T T'l I mp ilMlpr von vint tl)r. Lull's Cough gvnip. fM aacr't Tat tttgt T store t- 4s. as. ( wawa, a c iMrw .C..Imm cure BAD ON THE SEABOARD. THE POSTMASTER GENERAL EXPOSES MEANS WHICH IT IS ALLEGED TO HAVE ADOPTED TO INCREASE ITS PAY FOR CARRYING THE MAILS. I'ostmnstcr General Wilson to day authorized tho publication of the following statement in regard to an alleged attempt to overcharge tne government lor tho conveyance of tho mails in certain Southern States: Every four years the mail trans ported over the various railways in tho United States is weighed for a period of 30 days tor one-fourth of tho country each year. Upon the average weight obtained during the nU days the commission of tho rail 1 a roaa is hoi listed and remains m force for four years. The last weigh mg was conducted in the month of iuarcu, iosjo. uno ranroaa cow I any, the Seaboard Air Lino, whoso main line extends from Portsmouth, Ya., to Atlanta, Ga., attempted to t ike ud vantage of this opportunity to swell the weighing ot mail carried over their system during the weigh ing of the mails by very large ship merits of public documents. About 300 sacks of documents franked' by s United States Senator and a mem ber of Congress were sent to the Uiiious station agents of this com pany, in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The sacks weighed from 100 to 125 pounds each. Two, three, four or even five sacks were sent to one ent. Some agents were furnished bv railroad officials with listsof ad dresses in North Carolina and Vir ginia. Tho division superintendent and road master gave oral instruc tions to the agents under them as to pasting labels or writing ad dresses on the books which were not previously addressed, but the tags of the sacks were addressed. All for " (namely for a railroad agent at t hat point.') The books Wire then it-mailed and again trans- orteu over the route of this com pany to be again weighed. A few agents, not understanding their in structions, gave out tho books for miblie distribution before the fiank libels wcie received. Fifteen sacks wire delivered at Portsmouth, Va., addressed in bulk to the general superintendent. That night the books were ic-addrcssed in the rail road building by his tecretary and a jr. ision superintendent and re-mail- ed the following morning to various persons along the route. A newspa per at Lllciiboro, Is. C. learning of the transaction, published a short ar ticle headed: "A Mistake," stating in substance that a United States Senator in mailing documents to his Minstituentshad bv mistake address ed them to station agents along the fceaboard Air Line Railway. A dt- lou superintendent, learning of the article, proceeded to the town and induced the editor to cut the it.;in out of every copy of his paper, on the ground that it would hurt the road. The "padding" of the mails by this company was investigated by tho Postoflice Department and to pi event tho practice, the Depart ment ordered the weighing to be continued ior 30 days during April. :l l . i :ie ranroaa company men resorted to a new scheme, by contracting with publishers of newspapers for large number of papers to be sent over their line daily, to addresses furnished by the company. At 'ortsmouth, Va., the general super intendent arranged with a Ports mouth paper to send (!,8o0 copies aiy ior ten days, and after that 2,400 copies daily, in bundles of 25 to each address to parties in South Carolina and Georgia on the Sea board Air Line. At Raleigh an official of the railroud arranged to have C,000 copies the first week and 8,000 copies & week afterwards of a weekly paper, sent in bundles ot 45 over the Seaboard Air Line Railroad to stations in Georgia, South Carolina and a few iu North Carolina. At Atlanta, the private secretary of the division superintendent ar ranged with an Atlanta paper for 2,000 copies daily to be sent over the Seaboard Air Line to Norfolk and Portsmouth, l.OoO copies ad dressed to regular subscribers, the other thousand as sample copies. Arrangements were also made with another Atlanta paper to send 5, GiH) copies of the Sunday iseue weighing over half a pound each, to addresses in Norfolk aud Ports mouth. Norfoik aud Portsmouth city directories were furnished to the!iewtpatra from which to print labels for mailing the papers to par ties in those cities. Several of these parties thus addressed had moved trdm those cities or died. .Had the weighing been accepted by the De partment, the Seaboard Air Line would bae received for the next four ytarsa much la-ger conipen sa iou than it ws entitled to. Soma of the newsjajer publish ers were indignant when they found that they had been made parties to such a scheme, and the publisher of one paier at Raleigh refused to cr.d out the fourth shipment of hit paper. Washington Dispatch. Pulmonary consumption, in iti early stages, may be checked bv the use of Ayr' Cherry Pectoral. It stojw the distressing cough, soothes irritation of the throat and lu igs, and induces much needed rc;ufae. Hundreds Lave testiiiod to tho remarkable virtue of this j re j aunt i ou. SIX BROTHERS INDEED. Epitok Nkws : In a recent issue of your paper I seo a history of (he five Jiitncs brothers, and, as they hail from South Carolina, 1 con eluded fo let your readers have i lino of six North Carolina brothers, five of whom were Confederate sol dicrs ittid the descendants of a hero of tho Revolutionary war. These brothers' great-grandfather was wounded at tho battle of King' Moimtain and lived many years in Stokes county. Tho writer, when a boy six years old, having seen him when be visited his son, Frederick Wolff', in Surry county. His namo was Lewis Wolff. Ihesosix brothers aro tho sons of C. Norman, who did not know a letter and who died in 1 880 at the age of 84 years, and Anna Wolff, their mother, who died in 1851 aged 42 years, leaving two daugh ters who married in Surry county and whom are now both dead. They left largo families of children, one nine fiid the other six. The six brothers are all citizes of Surry county, except ono who lives in Allegheny county. They were all born in Surry county, viz: L. J. was bom in 182D: taught school from tho ago of 18 until tho war when bo and D. M. Cooper raised tho 7th and last company from Surry. L. J., 1st Lieutenant, ioiu- ed the Uattallion of that great soldier and salesman, Col. W, J. Green, and on the resignation ot Capt. Cooper was elected Captain and led us company at Gettysburg with 32 guns. I here were 7 killed on the battlefield, himself being woundod. He received another wound at Winchester, and on the 19th of Oc tober, at Cedar Creek, received six wounds from one ball. The ball passing through three finges, his chin and through tho neck, coming out under his shoulder blade. At every light ho would throw down his sword and pick up a guc, and at Spousylvania court house, May 10th, when Col. Prabble, of the 32d, and Maj. Indell (commanding the Uattallion) of the 53d, were both killed, ho mounted the breastworks aud fought for 50 yards on his knees, shooting as fast as his men (from under the breastworks) could hand him their loaded guns. L. J. was dieted Clerk of the Superior Cjurt of Surry county in 1S74; was re-elected in 1S78, beating Col. Callaway, of Elkin, tho regular nominee ot the Democratic party, 1,010 votes, but was defeated for tho legislature by R. R. Gwyn, of Klkin, by 0(5 votes, Surry being Democratic by 450 majority. M. T. was born in 1831. He en listed in Capt. Poring's company of Cavalry as a private, in Grayson county, Va. Capt. P. sent him home to get up some recruits from Surry and 1 adkin, and when he returned he had a company and was duly elected Captain. He serv ed in the 37th Virginia Pat.tallion until the surreuder. On the 9th of October, 1804, below Woodstock, Va., he was shot from his horse in the charge on tho enemy. The ball passing through his left jweket aud out at liis right side. The doctors I at Woodstock hospital cut the caul lat Iroiu the bullet hole aud he lay at Woodstock until February, 1805, wnen lie obtained a fui lough. v hen he arrived homo he found that his wife had died, leaving him five children. He moved to Alle ghany county, where he married the widow Crouse (another soldiers widow;, at which time the had 4 children, now she is the mother of 7 and he is the father of 8, yet there are only 12, ail living but one How is that I Will.am w as born in 1833 and en listed in Capt. R. E. Reeves' com pany, wnica was me 1st company from Surry county. He was elect ed CapUin to succeed Maj. Reeves and served twelve months before coming home. When ordered to report at Camp lialuigh, N. C, he wa made Captain and was then seut to the North Carolina regiment and served until taken prisoner at Keliy's Ford. Va.. and carried to Johnson's Island. Ho was discharg ed at the surrender, came home and has rained a large family of boys and girls. He has served as county surveyor, commissioner and justice of tho peace on the Democratic side of the house. Jackson Norman was one of Governor Vance's pets and took his part iu the mountains of Surry and Wilkes, hunting up the delin quents, lie heard a few bullets, but thinks, perhaps. Lis brothers heard more than he. M. II. comes next. He was born in 1841, had asthma and when 17 years old L. J. gave his father fl-25 for his time and sent Lira to school. When Capt. 11 E. Reeves came to Dobson to raise the 1st comtiativ in Surry M. II. was the first volunteer. He was tketed LituU-naut and served nnder Stonewall Jackson and A. P. Hill all along tho lin. until captured, while out foraging, and taken to Juhnai.m's Island and held nntil the surrender. He was the Republican candidate in 1890 for the legislature and was defeated by iw by 8 votes. In 1894 he again came forward against the bull-dog of Democracy from Surry, J. R. Lewdly n, the Cleveland elector. aud he cleaned him up by the handsome majority of 14S. He went to the legislature an J redeemed every pledge lie made to the people of Surry and is now a nrivata eiti- acn at home with onlr two children eating bog and homin?. r. . u the youngest bey and Highest of all ia Leavening was born in 1814. lie enlisted with James Adams who raised a bogus company, and, instead of marching to the front like a soldier, he raided on the good citizens of Wilkes county until captured by the Confederates and their horses taken from them. F. W., who was ignorant of the force after losing a good horse, enlisted in L. J.'s com pany at Petersburg. ,J' ..o of the six in company li, who sur rendered at Appomattox court! house witli a gun in his hand. He served as justice of the peace under Cleveland until 181)4 and is now an ex justice of tho peace and tho crier of court at Dobson nnder the present sheriff. He is a Democrat from whenco yo came. Iho six brothers are brothers and don't you give them out. They stand by each other through thick and thin. Have never had an angry word with each other since grown, lhreo aro Democrats and three Republicans but they all vote Republican when a brother is the candidate. All six belong to the Paptist church and all sat together last Sunday was a week at the funeral of sister Mays, who was also a Paptist. On the last 1st Mon day all met at Dobson and had their photographs taken. All subscribed for the Mount Airy News. All returned to L. J.'s where his good wife had a sumptions dinner pro. ! pared. When done eating all shook Ultimo niuuiiu iiju tauiu mm pitugu, by the help of God, to meet each other in the sweet bye and byo. M. T., from Alleghany, has spent two weeks with his brothers and is now on his way home. May God bless the six brothers of Surry and not forsake the five brothers from South Carolina, is the prayer of the writer, one who knows a heap about the Six Pkothkrs. The Bankruptcy Law. The House of Representatives has passed the bankruptcy bill, t nd, it the Senate concur, we shall secure a law that will be of inestimable benefit to business men throughout tho country, and save many an honest trader from the ruin that un der existing conditions is almost 6ure to follow any business misfor tuno that may happen to him. The strange antipathy that for so many years has been manifested by Congressmen to the proposition to establish a general bankruptcy law is due to the the sentiment that all such laws are in the interest of credi tors. As a matter of fact they are really in the interest of honest debtors. Another argument con stantly urged against tho proposed law ia drawn from the operation ot the act of 1807, under which the ex penses of administering bankrupt estates sometimes amounted to cm cial confiscation of the property that ought to have been divided among creditors ThoTorrey bankrupt bill now be fore Congress is an excellent nieas nre. Under present conditions the debtor whose solvency is suspected is the victim ot a scramble of eager creditors, who pursue him under State laws. He usually goes down under the mad rush. The distri bution of his property is inequit able. The swiftest of his creditors get all, while others receive noth ing, lie remains under the burden of unpaid obligations, for there la no such relief for him as there would be through a discharge granted to him under a bankruptcy law. The House Committee on the Judiciary finds that since 1879 there have been 171,389 failures, whose liabilities amount to J 2,6 11 ,521,704. If there had been a general bank ruptcy law during all this time, all these insolvents might have taken a fresh start in the world. Some of. the opposition to the pending bill is based on the theory that nuder State laws local credi tors have an advantage over distant creditors, which their Senators and Representatives would like to re tain for them. There is no greater mistake than this, for distant cred itors usually obtain security from a suspected merchant. TneTorrey bill limits involuntary bankruptcy to wrong doers, and provides a cheap and equitable method for winding op the affairs of an insolvent, and leaving him free to start in business agin. Harper's Weekly. PIEFtCE.sr.CUnE OR MAMET RETrMNF.D. For all chronic, ot lingering, Pulmonary or Chest IHmtmm, BrmH'hitu, Liirrnettja, Bwra Coucha, rf.itttrf of Bl.md. I'nins In tint and sidw, l)r. iwmt Ookiee Uodual liTrr i a oTenopi rumady. In AthBw it is nwtfle. lo btuld up bota imh ni strmpth, wVa TvJumd blow tiia r . :j Huaara at , ' ". -J pnsamimi. liara ok smiia ty lung 'mmting ttrmn, H to j y w bmt Natural!. ml E. . Knaaii. ff A V1. 4i9 HH lt tl '-M.U-B to Vr4 Ifryf f ' to Um, r t i '. J I V Id Lit rtuM tiu I 1 am ' tf.O 'I. -l I ' a u to t Ma. ffoatoas. j tu TSfr r GS2 m "va o im tf t Power. Latent U. S. Gov't Report J,"! B 9 I i l if Hi " ;t wua til. r E.A.HAMAH, -1.1U1.3.R l.X- nns 1 Bona! Robes, Slippers, Sc. A full st-iek ef al! i.e an.I iallt.la kept on hand, a. id at reasonable f-teca. Store room, up-at tira over M. li. Patter Son'a store, on Main SlrKt. l!esitlese, fiist house North of railroad, AARON PENN, ' -THE- Fashionable 'Barber, Under (raves Warehouse, Mt. Airy, N. O. Kafy chairs, r7'rs keen; Scissors sharp, linen clean. For a shave jou pay a dime -Only a nickle to get a shine; 8hani)Koor h.:r ;ut Pompadour You ray the sun of 2oc. more. Y W. H. SIMPSON, AGENT JUT MIJS IL iSD EVKBYllllNa IN OFFICE SUPPLE AM S'imlm: M i. lilncf., Ban staiiiin, lir;uv Wiw-i-l ltiiivr. ltiirt!iii IinuMi, l.iii.-.-11'.iiit Mtu-liUi.'. Clirt.k I'roi.-otoi -i. cuii'irt..: i' rum-lira, c.ir-p-iraiion s.-aitt, li.nnt Hand nai.-rt. No- Urtal M' l S, ITlillhi.' Wll.'.-lr,, I'o. k.et M.-H14H, n il and I vi,. i, stauipt). KMtr T)w lii.i.Ts, JfutlT Tip", Unl.tK-r Slump l'...ls. l!ul...er siai"p Ink. Mfii clt, su-u.-ii Ink. sn-u.il Hi usti.'S. stc.'l Stamps, sicl u-'.H.rs and KiK-urss. tn-lt IbWus Slumps, sunup KitrtKiiM. sump Hni-lot, S'ku Marui-rs Wu avals anil Tj iii n n.. r s i.. ti'K. Tiifri- ,v nothing u-m-'I In an fll.- we canaut s.-i'l'l) , ft:..! til lit.; very lowest priia-s Kv.su!.-. for flo.t-cl.ts ir-xt-H. Iiaul.i..r-t. M.'rluti.!,-.. il:iriuuwiimrs an.) all imirc.i-iHHml m-a will fl.j wvii to Bet my pn.4 wtw uuviti); iwa-re. Wit 'au..iiH,...' i a.,.!!. lU'.l, t-p(i-n.lty. Prompt ho Bti.m k1 -o t il oM.-rs. Oitaw in J.jjc" Ut.-. al hvail of &utm. rfirtil-bairi wu. iwutiu 0'i Mala tittt'i, Mount Airy, . C, Lock Box f.t. -Correspondence Solicited. a- Mari-n 5, 16, tf avjtW jCh-A. Jtk jPk A ffk A rfW jAl jfl.V -CALL AT-- EYE RETT'S Ti:sr shop. A- IIEADQUARTERS - foi: Tin anil St- ! Roofing, Guttering limiting. Valley Tin all widths S-hingle (strips, Ac, See., Ac. Water and Steam Fit tines of all kinds kept on hunt!. Tl Old Keliahle Je nkiei tilol & Cheek Vavh-s, Klx'rman Inj.x'torg, De troit LuV.rientor are a few of the many reliable supplies in stock,' (juns, Pistols, Hewing Machine, an 1 Bicycles repaired by the lieft skilled workmen "at short notice. We keep eiood Old FenMon Cof! I'ota, Dish Tan, and ia faet everything Lv the Tinware line. T. Ecrctt & Co. ; fij LIKE y I- fc kS I There U a diTen-noe tietwcea modi- Cines and turd-.cinca. Those of ui-lav. as a rale, differ from thr.se of thti pa.si iu munr r-W-tiw. Fully as rreat is t lis' cUCvrencs be tween Dr. King s ROYAL GEf.r.'.ETUEFl and the ordinary mci-Iui. of to-dy. It ia ualike them la THESE FIVE THINGS: 1. It does not taste like, medi cine. It is as t '. a-ant to tak a lemonade aud ti.ai.t s a most refre&liinf drink . 2. It never nnu-oates the most dr! teste au-miu-h. 3. It Gov not iw ne ft ne di- eae lor a not her. i t dor not wt up one arm of diM-Mj la ordtr to rcikra another as is so of' on the c. 4. 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