! TROY TIMES
The Troy
Times:
Published every Friday
: "" by4- v '
I. M. Deaton and Thos. M. Hall,
TROY, N. C.
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LOCAliS.
Messrs. John L. Hall and W.
C." Douglass are attending court
at Pittsboro this week.
, ... j .
$Ir. L. T. Sills, of Eldorado, in
forms us that pneumonia is prevail
ing in that section.
J. RpBlair, Esq. , of Troy, is visit
ing parents and friends this week at
Monroe, his.former home. ,;.
On last Saturday we
ty-two. subscribers.
Wednesday t wentyj- three,
right send them along.
received twen
and - on last
That's
false prophet
shall have an-
If there is not a
loose in our town we
other wedding in thej near future. At
any rate it's leaked out that they're
engaged. We shall
see.
J. M. Brown, Esq. j of Albemarle,
is in Troy attending to professional
business. It seems quite natural to
see him on our streets, and awakens
pleasant recollections in the minds
of his many friends here.
We have received the first num
ber of the Watauga Enterprise, a
new Republican paper just started
at Boone, N. C, under the editorial
management of Messrs. Thomas
; It is a conceeded fact that eating is
nec3ssary to life, therefore it is the
interest of all to know that Atkins
& Suggs have just received a large
quantity of flour which they propose
to sell, for cash, at lowest prices.
They also have a fresh supply of
field and garden seeds, and as the
time for gardening is near at hand
you would do well to give them a
calk '
A serious affary is said to have;
occurred on last Monday between
Mr. A. R. Morris, a well known cit
izen of Troy, and a large wild tur
key gobler, in which the gobler, be-.
mg unarmed, received wounds from
which he died. We have not learn
ed the status of public opinion in re
gard to the matter, but from ac
counts it appears reasonably certain
that the! turkey was ambushed. It
is said that "Spike" made two shad
ows as he passed through town on
his way home.
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is a
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it on our list of exchanges.
Send your children to . school It
is an obligation yot owe to them
a'cd to your maker. You may not
have a fortune to leave them when
you die, but if you ejlucate and pre
pare them to fight life's batde alone
ypu will have discharged your high
est obligation to them, and one for
which you will rejoice in your dying
hour.
TO OUR READERS.
With this number ends the
first quarter of the existence of
the Troy Times. To those of our
subscribers who started with a
three month's subscription we
will say your .subscription has
now expired, and we beg leave to
insist that you renew at once.
Our subscription list was com
menced during the second wreek
in November, si nee which time it
has daily increased, until now we
have more than five hundred
paying subsreibers, and we hope
to swell t he number, before the
close of another quarter, to at
least one thousand. Th is we can
easily do if our friends will only
take .interest enough in our suc
cess to encourage their neighbors
to subscribe. We have labored
hard to build up a legiinate bus
iness upon strict lylegi mate prin-,
ciples, and, notwithstanding the
hard times and other disadvanta
ges under which we have labored,
we have succeeded beyond the
expectations and prophesied ot
our friends generally. And. al
though we have realized but lit
tle money, we feel to congratu
late ourselves on jour success in
securing the patronage of the
best citizens of the country.
We have sent the paper to many
w-ho.are not subscribers with the
hope that they would respond by
sending us their subscription, and
in this way We have received j
many. Yet there are some who I
Have not responded, and tdmieh
we must say, your papers will be
discontinued henceforth unless
you advise us to the contrary, as
we have given you ample time to
test it for yourselves, and decide
which you can better afford to do
without, the paper, or the small
sum ot one dollar,.
We propose U- run the paper, at
all hazzards, and to publish such
matter as will be of inteiest and
lasting benefit to our subscribers,
at exceedingly low rates, but can
not afford to furnish it absolute
ly free. While the small amount
ot one dollar each would hardly
be missed by our subscribers, yet
enough of these small sums put
together will enable us to run
the paper without embarrass
ment and nlake it self-sustaining,
i Editors.
IT SPEAKS WELL
i i
We are informed by the Regis
ter, of rjeedsj that the number of
Mortgages recorded in his office
during; the present year is far be
low the number recorded during
the corresponding period of last,
and perhaps below that of any
preceding year. This speaks well
for our county, and shows that
our citizens are learning the
baneful effects of the pernicious
practice of Jiving .each,, year on
what is to be raised the next, and
thus keeping at least a year be
hind. No jeonsiaerable amount
of calculating and foresight is
necessary to discover that this
long established and much prac
ticed custom is ruinous to the
farmer, and is sapping the vry
life blood from the poor laboring
Classes generally. It is a well
known fact that the mer
chant j who advances supplies
charges the consumer at least 25
per cent more for them than the
same goods can be purchased for
in cash1, besides the legal rate of
interest, and ; the fees for regis
tering &c., which being added
place the price of the goods at
least P6 cent, above cash fig
ures. It is also a well known fact
that the merchant in making
these advances takes many bad
risks, and hence fails to colect a
la.rge per cent, of the amount ad
vanced onf Mortgages,, which he
must add each year to .' the per
cent, on gdods sold to responsi
ble parties, thereby requiring
customer A. to make up to him
the amount lost on the advance
ment to B.i Thus it is that tlie
merchant is enabled to sustain his
business, arid thus it , is that re
sponsible inen who give mort
gages are made to pay the debts
of their irresponsible neighbors.
So the honest, paying customer
who buys his supplies on time, is
unable to extricate himself from
this financial bondage and assert
his independence.
A common weakness peculiar to
humanity, is an inclination to do
too much trading. Especially
does this tendency display itself
in the buyer who is getting his
goods on time. Time, the mighty
leveier of all things earthly, as
we are accustomed, in abstract
speculation, to speak of it, is, in
.4
veler.
tls up
a not h-
"r. v
Six
If into j
1 fi-oin !
this sense, r he greatest u
in ai tne world, for it luki
one class upon the ruin o
er. We are inc lined to
too much on the lutuW
mourns indulgence, to ii man
who is' hard presx-d for tliejneces-
saries of lite, lengthensitse
an age almost, when vie wet1
nis standpoint of extivn e ne s
sity, but how hort it leiins to
look when the crop on which- a
Mortgage was givcm for supplies
in thespiing, logins j to ujiai ure,
and the meielumt ijotifies him
of the maturity of that Mortgage!
The entire crop that cost him .a
summer's hard work must go to
pay his debts, and he U-g ns to
feel discouraged, and to lose in
terest in his farm, and complain
that farming is a ioor business
anyway. Oftimes the discour
aged and overworked victim of
the crop Lien or Mortgage aban
dons his farm, and seeks emyloy
ment on some public I works
where he can barely arn enoucrh
at best, to support his family, and
or the
later,
store
lays by nothing in store
contingencies of sickness and
other misfortunes that all know
must come sooner or
and reduce him, whose
house is euipty, to extremii want
and actual suffering. Such are
some of the ruinous cllecU of the
Lien and Mortgage syst em .
Much more might be said,
then the half would not
been told. '
It is to be hoped that a
you-go system will take its j)lace,
and that this era ot reform will
date from the 1st of Jan. 1888.
Try it once in your life and see
If it doesn't work like a cl
and
have
jpay-as-
Query Box.
With a view to increasing the interest off Kir pa
per, and to the diffusion of general Information
tunontr its readers, we propose to devote a part of
our pace each week to the publication of questions
and answers, and have therefore named this cor
ner the "Qcebt Box." Any subaertbeij is at liber
ty to ask or to answer through this medium any
question that tend to elicit thought and research
concerning subject and problem of . moral, scien
tific and literary character.
In speaking of that word that,
the teacher said that that, that
that that boy parsed is not that
that that I requested him to analyze.
What part of speech is "that in
each position?
X.
We received another answer to
the Query in our last .issue- con
cerning the faith pf the Syrophe
nician woman, but It came too
late lor our "Sunday Reading"
page, which is as follow:
The most "prominent j charac
teristic" of the Syrophenician
woman's faith seems to have been
that it was Divinely inspired,
probably, lor two special pjerioses,
to wit: . . S j
IstJ To show the Jews that the
Gentiles were not to be excluded
lromthe plan of salvation, and
2nd. To show the Gentiles that
everything having a Jewish ori
gin was not to be despised.
See Mark VII: 2430.
Drew.
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