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' " thecoubjer :;: - published iQ the centre of "a- finetobacco .Awing section, making It one of the-besj advertising mediums for merchants: and i ... Tn v.o orlinininar coantiea. Person Co; Courier,: -. "I PubltsKed Every Thursday . ; K i warenousemcii . j Circulated largely in Person Granvilleand Durham counties In North Carolina, and Halifaxcounty Virginia.! : : r i 7 ' " JOB WOUK;: all descripYion neatly executed on short notice and at reasouable;rice8; When in need of work give the Courier a trial. ;ffACKNEY-& NOELL, r " Eoxboro,. Jf, G. HACRlVirr & NOELL Editors arid Propiietor; home! firM:r6m) m $1.50 Per Year iri Advance. 7 vu vui uue 'i ear- f hj . One Copy Six Months' " - VOK 5. ROXBOEO, NOKWCAROLlKrA -THURSDAY; ; SEPTEMBERT27i 1888,. N0.6i .JRemitanoft mut be soade by .Registered ' ?! LetterPoU Office Order orJPostal Note.;, . r-?f v- r ? ' - t 1 " ' 1 11 ' ' ? ' - "-". New Drug Store. ICE COLD SODA W ATE a AND MILK SHAKES FOUSD ALWAYS OK HAND. '"- Morris Olerritt, Druggists Ksxfcloor to J . And a fine let of A. Long's,: wliere.Ton will DRUS, PAINTS, - BOOKS, STATIONERY, TOBACCO, AT TUB MEDICINES,, OILS . . . . . CIGAPvS, &C-, ScC. RAIL EOAD PEICES. PHTsiciANS P2KSCEIPTIOXS a SPEC fALTt and at SPECIAL LOW hUCES. Call and Bee. Try -ns. MORRIS & MM, Druggists, ROXBORO, N. C. EOFESSOINAL- pAR,DS 1, T. Strayhorn. L. iL Waiiick. MiUon, N. C oxbdro, N. C. S TRAYHORN & WARLICK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice in. all the conrts of the State and in the fedferal courts. Management of estates strictly attended to. . Special attention giyen to cases m Person and Casweil-cpunties. K. C. Stt-udvrick. K. B. Boone ISTRUDWICK & BOONE; ' ATTOIWEIS AT LAW. PRACTICES IN DURHAM, ORANGE AND PKKSON COUNTIES. - A. W. Graham. B. W. Win. ton. G' RA.11AM & WINSTON, ATTORNEYS AT L AY7, Oxford. N. C. ' Practices in all the courts of the State, iri dic wony and inYest the snie in best 1st Mort gage Ileal Kstate Security, settle estates and investigate Cities. . v, VrI'STBAD. , Terry. w INSTEAD & TEltRT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Koxboro, K. C. 4 Prompt attention given to aM hnsinesa emtrnst etoTbenV. Have and will receive money on deposit to loan on real estate in Person. N. LUNS1TOB.D, : ATTORNEY AT LAW, Koxboro, N. C J. VV, Graham, Tio. Rufap GRAHAM & RDFF1N, A Attorney's atlaw. HiHsboVo, N Prictices-in the countiesof AWnVance. Caswe OnrtaS IcVuford. Orange and Person. ,; J.S. Merritt. VV. W, KUchln JEURITT & KITCH1N, ATTORNEYS AT -L A W. Eoxboro, N. C. Proiovt -attention given to the collection of jlaiuu?. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. ' Eoxboro, N. C. Residence, place formerly occupied by Dr. C E. Bradsher. Office over (J. G. iiitchell s drug store.. ' ' " ' DR. C. W. BRADSHER DENTIST, - ' Oaers h! 8 services to the pirt.lie. CalW Prompuy Vrpuded to in Person anA adjoining couutiea. trtilie. Catva promptly -.; lt nusbv Fork, N. C o:c.t. JJR. J. C BRADSHER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, ' ROXBOBO. N. 0. li. 0. G. NICHOLS V " Offers TTle TROFESSIOSAL SEEVICES to th PEOPLE ot rtoxboi o and snrrounding country. Priiotices iH-air the branches of Medicine. Pomona Hill Nurseries, ' -npOMONA, N. C Jvc nnS hilf miles wi-st Greens Vioro N. C: The min line of tbe R. ii, D. R. RJ parses through the ground in within 10(j: feet f tbe ..fnce. 8a lem trains mke rfgul-1 etops twif da'lj ewhway. Tii-'fe. intorescd in truitand fruitgrowing at corliall invited to inspect this the largest nur 8. ry ia tVi 3tate and one ol the larg tm the Rnth. StocK consists; o APPLES, PEACH PKAR. CMEPRY. PLUMS, . APANESE TERIMMON8. APRICOTS, NEC'l A.RIN ES. . M L TiERRlES.-QniNCEj GKAPK. FIGS RASDEiraiES. CURRANTS, CPIE PLANT. ENGLISH V'ALNUTS, PE CAN'S, CUES r NUT?. iSTRA W BElt Rim ROSES, EVERGREENS SHADE TREES, Sec - AU the new and rare varieties ar well a&the old "'juries whi.TIi my new ct. alogue for !88S will shwV Give you order to my natbonzt'd agent or ordf. direct from the nuratry Correspond enco solicited. - Descriptive caulogu. free to applicants. . . Address,- . J. Tan. Lindlcy, PpMONA, "2. C . , Reliable slem'n wnrjtea in,"fv" county.. A sjood pymg ciiioiij-io Will be- given. : ; , . v i.. - BOTTUEJj How dear to my heart is the old village, drug : store." . - . - - - When tired and thirsty it conies to my vloir', rho Vide spreading signs that asked you td "Try Old tJildeckw's bitters and yoiwifuge, too. - Tlie Old niBty swc, and the cuspidor by it;' . .." ,That tittle backroom: Oh: you" ve bcn there ". yom-self, . t - ' .'..1 And oft times have goijp for- the doctor's pre . scription, ; But tackled the bottle that stood on the shelL : - . f ,. The friendly old bottle. ; - ? The plain Jabelodi. tt!e, C The "Hair Tonic? bottle tat stood oa the .: . : shelf -. ;- v - v . - How; oft I have seized it wUh hands thiit vere i r gtowingr, . And puzzled a while ere 1 pet off for hom; . I owned the whole earth that nighf, -bpt next moruinj? - 5 . Tfy head felt as big as the capitol's dome; - y Adu then how I hurried away to rccejve it, The druggist would "smile" o'er his poisonou ..pelf. And laugh1 as he powet out his unuccnpe'! bittera I Atffl Kled-wp'thtUa that stood on tlie suelf. I The unlicensed bottle. Tbe plaiu Uibeled bottle, That "Hair Tonic1' bottle that stood on th shelf. Bow Hackley iu Chicago Iferald. THE FERRY WOMAN. On the bank of a river far nut in the woods tfieie stood a little hut made of logs and rough boards. It was a queer little hut of two rooms that seemed to have been built far apart, but had come together and married each other. Each ! room had a curious mud chimney built outside and looking as if it might have been a mud tower thrown up in the night by some-gigantic crayfish; also each had a door and a window owning i with a wooden shutter that swung out- ward on iiinges made "df, .did' bits of. leather, ancr-wnen in Bnuiter'wouia te closed, which was seldom, itw-asfiistened oy means pi a rougn wooaen aiucion tuai turned ,ona screw.. ... The way these two ; rooms had peen brought together was by means of a plank porch, and between the two roofs the red and yellow trees hr.d neatly and poles of young pine been laid evenly "and tlmtchett over with crisp dead i pine needles. When the wind blew or the pigeons walked over this thatched roof, the needles knit busily one against the other, giving out sharp little crackling noises that were comfort able to listen to. A few chickens picked about the porch or cackled down in the 4 straw under an old shed m a corner of the lot, and an old yellow cow grazed out ou the bare yellow hills. " The hut and garden were inclosed by a rail fence, anti m the rardea, under some plum a l.l j 1 a 3 trees, a icw. cauuages auu uecas uuu onions -ro gi-owmg-. - , me garden was pretty to loos at, ana made one tliinK, as a neat vegetabltf'garfj den " always does make one think, 1 Of a comfortable country heme, and a mid day dinner of pink boiled bacon, golden corn bread, and by way of relish a plate ful of ' silvery- -white onions, tender and crisp and with such gay green tops. Ail about were the forests with the wind forever., moaning in the tree tops, the frogs forever croaking in the dank hollows, lh jay birds forever tap, tap- ping on the jotted trunks of oiu ueaa trees. Not another sign of human life was visible, the mile hut had no rivals in this grand aud lonejsome domain. An ugly, oily riyer, deep, dark and still, flowed through the woods near the hut. Its waters' were bitter and black, stained with steepings of millions of fallen rotted trees. Nothing .was ever seen floating on this river no- dead leaves, nor logs of wood, , nor carcass . of any drovvDed animal, and it. was said that such things would not float, hut were al ways sucked down into the quicksands. Anyhow, ba that as it may, the name of the river was ''Wolf," a'rid sometimes in the night, -when a storm came up and the water moiled by with howling cry. the little tow headed children in the hut'on the bank would tuck their heads down under the pink and white log oabin quilt and cry out to each other, with little shivering thrills in their shrill treble voices, that now the wolf was coming after them for sure. : A road came out of the "pine forest apd "ran down through the shining white ; sand to the brink puthe river. The sand was so wliite hereabout that the children used to calk it the Wolf's fangs.' But fangs are cruel, and ! so. this was not true, for the sand was soft to he m, and pleas - ant to play inland to. build grand castles in, and to dig coo; wells in, and, above all, graves-f or the little birds that died of old age out in, the'iorpst. The road" Ve gan again on the other side fho rifer, and, like a' lonesome rxayefet: who migbt perhaps be waylaid "andrmurdered when night came on, 'plunged off directly into a dismal swamp where tlie trees were hung wJlh moss and where' the. alligator holes were eight or ten feet deep. . To cross .this river there S as a ferry, and the woman who lived with her little children in the cabin on the bank was the ferry woinan. The ferry was only a huge flat bottomed raft, made of pine trees and planks, large enough to carry an ox team loaded with : cotton or wool or chickfjjis. and the way. the ferry .woman goc ine icrry over xne river was uy puu- 1- J 1 . - At - - t It xiiKHu.,;au ner, mig.iu :..uu a. xyiLmi was tied , across stream from :one side to theotlrer. . . ' , ' - ; ; Sometimes at. evening when the wo- niaifsut in her jxirch scratching the fat ) little retthack of the youngest child, who uau oeon piaying'm tue joresc anti was full of httle red woodticks that burrowed uuuei nuw biia wouiu near a w aj;ui l ieaiviiig aiong iue xuuu. .- jlv jiuu a cheerful sound, the body groaning, the rude wheels twisting noisily with a wiry. -THE. HAIR TONIC rusty, tweak tweak - m . their unoiled nws beyond the further bank. -.Asbght; sockets - and then she would roll- he unusuai noise had tarted her.bthe child out of her lap andq down tothebreabi of tw, - sotoethrng brushing ferry, feo as to- be ready when the wagon hy the fungleT)f y ar and hti?mhte nt the came up to ferry it over. : - . ;Uige of the path; and which was not done The.drrvw would pa the time xt b alhgator or - thing of the Woods day wititiher,-liut.raiely-.did.sbeaskJ-ad6a - . - . hinr wliatmight. going on in town, StraminS her eyes and-ears she seemed She t(xk no interest -in i any life or go-. to make two-dark sbapes creeping ings oneway from tAe. huj by the ferry,-' fllon toward thriver8 ,.m Wlienhe would be safely . over ; the .rm i". wcman vhispeTe but fee of -tw -bits ; -and bis-wagon would, L-eard lbe..Iiarr)w-inreBni; and creak off qntjl test Jn ,he forat.,- Some of. oMLgit her task; the times lux fouU look back at ho rov woniari lled lhe fvr oven a he bowJoPrl..J.,nk, fr(5cLed,:tOiv headed mcn tumbled -hrabd laid upon tlx -hildieistaiiding m - the .wlale Snd byj ' lhe - rafC,s rat . eh(i i ho 'ivor . nv fit. . T ho.jii'mr.nn rai tnf. ttf-P ,ack as "s!f .Uainccrhoailj at her huge. feiryV- pulloig it-hackto Jiorft yAnd thowagou vould goout'of Kiht, tho aa.it clown a hill into silence. " JT Sometlnaes -a party of hunters came the ferry -way, or.. the Tillage, doctor iri hia buggy, or a, tramp preacher' who offered to mend jer shoes if she. would ferry him over for .'hotlung.iib; Then itbo, woman? would-laugh and put out a bare footv hard and solid and brown, but' shapely, and ask. him -how her could 'mend thaty but ty hen she ferried him. ovor she "would shake her head "and take no Tee froraliirn at nil.. - f"Hoi It was generatly"sijpposeit m the sparse settlement 'dowritby1 the ; ; Croasroads' store,' find &fy;thecmitoccasionat, travr elers, that - the -'woinan's husband .was dead, s Some "linw ago .he had been "wanle&V v by 'tho sheriff," v had, disap peared, and tlieehe "(took 'to-ferrying. 1 living on Twith.herjVypaflgOnea iu- the cabin,;:and if iheyf or any .others asked any question of the missing man; site , : les'" a. would say sharply and hortly i'xlead. ", lie? cabin -was clearr,ue?cu" her own wood, tha children fished in the river r and she worked her garden,' milked ' her cow, ran the ferry when it was needed which was not more than -two. or thrfie times a month, and sometimes -senfe her two "oldest children to the- crossroads store after meal, coffee and a little sug ar. As for herself she. could not leave the ferry. She watched itjtday snnd night in an eager, expectant way that was, perhaps, born of her lonesome "and unusual situation. - J What a life was. hers 1 ; A. tall, sallow woman who worked in a garden and nnllfvl dt wamtis rtvpr a river in n. rnft. !feiTVi whocuther own wood and du? her potatoes, who could neither read nor write, who lived on catfish and sweet potatoes, and know nothing about the value of being refined and intellectual! But she was a crood mother. She waa like -a hen, scratching and picking for- rner young ones -and sheltering them tjinuer her wmgs, or like a cow staying close tesKte ner . weaK anur beating calfj or like a gentle doe regarding lwith?lond eyes her timid, hungry fawn. Oh, tlie mother is . or ought to ,' be beautiful j wpether she is in a brute s skin, under "a l.rpbe of feathere. Or whether she is in the f irhago of Mary kneeling in adoration be- ore her babe. One day the woman was down on. her knees in her little garden weeding her onion bed. . Overhead -..the plum trees were all in a white feather of bloom and the bees were busy and noisy :in the branches. 'The ground was shady, the soil fine as bread crumbs and moist, and ftfte worker ulucked at her task as daint i jy as a fine lady-might sit at a bit of j Kensington embroidery. For my part I ! ti0 nut know aiivthing bet ter than to bo j AQvru ;n the shade under a bloomin - pjl;:n (reo where Uie Dees are crooning. 1 . - -V ' and nip !itl to siieavs of grass; and weeds from a bed of Jine black earth in which young vegetables aro sprouting. To see the clean space grow under, one's liana, to feel the Sdence of the country all about, to know 'without, looking up that beyond tbe plum Jbltissorns tuere is a blue sky and white .woolly clouds, is enough, it is as good as being 'refined and intellectual At any rate this was cood, and while j woman thousrht it sh veas nofc.happv for only children and young lambs, a bride on herweddinc day, or a mother with her first baby in her arms can truly be said to lie happy- she was content. The childrenwere at play in the sands under the ruins of an old dock, where ages ago some men had. built over schooners for a living, and the fef ry was idly tethered to the bank. -" It was a peaceful time. -".-i Just at this moment there sounded in the woods the ftaying of hounds, 'a noise that heard in a forest always makes one think of the booming of a funeral drum. .A dust was in , the road, the beat of horses' . hoofs and " half ' a dozen men with guns on their elbows rode up and called - to the woman hurriedly. -Two convicts at work in the railroad camp in the next county had escaped and had headed this" way hacr elie seen or heard anything of them? ; The woinaji stared at the men, clasping the peaked railings of her little gate with her hard hands andseeming stricken dumb. Well, she must come and ferry 4hem over the river, the leader said,:and she must keep a sharp lookout for the men, and if they came that way she was to send word at once to the crossroads store. So the men, and the hounds that li.-wl ViAfin fiorrvd-e- lnnnintrdt Hio Kiffor Vater went oyer on the ferry and dashed 1 off mto the dismal. forest.-; And the woman stood wringing her hands and looking after them with anguish iA" her eyfs. Night came on, the children ate their supper of sweet potatoes that had been roasted in the ashei and then went down to the river to wash their feet,' after which they crept off. tobedS But :the ferry woman could not sleep. She opened the wooden - shutters! aud. put a pine knot, flaming' brightly, on: the hearth. It sent ' forth a ' rich, . smoky, joyous light that could be seeii far ' be yond the black, flowing tide of the river. This done-she gathered the skirt 'ofl her pink calico gown up over her head and went down . by the ferry, .watching aiid waiting in a mysterious fashion. Tlie moon came and then ' went. away. The dewy night,, with all its strange noises,- j grew apace. - The watcher looked wiUi a calm; confidinr iraze un into the stars. llieirs were faces -she knew. They seemed to answer her back. .'An owl hootetl off iri the swamp. A bit of cav ing bank fell - with -a splash into the f ,nfprs MmT n. fih leaped up in- mid- j BlrearQ an(j- seemed poised, for a sin t brea(h of time like a Biiver cone in', le the- . Wue laJ.j of t,e night Suddenly the j woman stepped HOftly , , 1 fL -, 4un -j ',. - . . .i. , to&Zi - 1 wait: sped tfT to her 4 . , -- creaking fado.away. fallineoff "cabin, wherfl ,she put outihe light that haa done rjs woric When she" came back she? ctied food and some clothes", two, old wcjrn puita. across her arm. and these she flung at the men. - Not a word was spokep- The woman leaned on the rope - andJiooicea tup at the stars, - that seemed toUpeak back, to. her." :The- two men, Mdii g in 'the shadow-of a yellow bluff; put ft their strange, striped gar ments - for the clothes the ferry, woman had given ..Uiemv;". As s they came forth 6lie pmcdjand pointed the way'off into the ,forestJ rOneof the men crept close to the vyojpau, leaning- orr the ferry rope nuu.xuuiiii . cuiiuiisiy, wmsperea: Why'dihyot-jao it?" . With-a little fstnothftedj oryx ia,; her. thr6at she said: "I though you wuz Bill sure "ez shoot- m . s BULMears them striped things. Go long. Yon's f jist' as welcome as ef you wnz him aiybowvy , The shaitfe sped off .; into the wood and the woman Jiiher knees, irt the shadow of the yellow blulT rolled the cast off gar ments into a huga. bundle and made ns if she-would bury Ihem in the sand. She thought better ofl it, however, and step ping lDto her ferry pulled it out into the middle qf the stream. ..Jbeaningover the edge of the raft soe tossed the bundle fai out mto the water tor a little while it lbbed along on !tbe wave made by the ferry, looking ue tlie-bloated carcass of a drowned Iiog,orj calf, and then stealthily the strange wateite sucked it down. The ferry woman looked up at the "stars, sighed, and grasping the rope pulled her ferry baek to shore. V - : The next afternoon, .mud .stained, travel worn and dirty, the men on horse back and their baying dogs came tack and were ferried over the river. ' 'You seen anything of r them .cursed raskiils?" asked tlie leader, leaning on hia gun-and looking down "on "the bended back of 'the woman straining heavily at the ferry rope, i- , i - ' "Noit 1-lwuH,? 8gid she, not raising her head, and she did not so inuchjis turn her eyestd ' gaze upon; the spot in the river where the black waters still seemed to bubble over, the hideous sunken bundle she had cast into it the night before. Catharine Colein New Orleans Picayune. ' Fod. iSranty and Morality.'' Professor F. T. Miles, of the faculty of the University of Maryland, delivered a lecture to a large audience of young men the other evening on..'Food and Di gestion." In the course of his lecture Professor Milestln speaking" of the effects of an insufficient quantity 61 food, said; 'The fat disappears farst. then the mue Clos waste away, and finally the bones come through the skbw- The brain, the spinal cord and the nerves are nourished to Uio last. Like a king in a bcleagured eity to Whom his loyal subjects give Tip their fsod. the nobier organs are lougesfc- nounslied. . 1 u starvation there is not simple hunger of the stomach, but hunger of the whole body, It is not straiigq that wjien hunger presses on people they wiii do strange things, it produces insanity, nTid they hitve been driven to eatmg what has been called 'strange flesh;' that 13 to cannibalism. There are millions of eople who have not enough to eat. It is at the bottom of anarchy. Tlie pohee. may give them a loaf .of bread, but the whole bqdy is ill nourished and a restless feeling results. - . . .Not much can be done with the grown tip people: of the criminal classes, but tlie .child criminal comes first. The criminal classes, are called ; dirty t lazy and ugly Of course they are'. They are dirty le- oause they have-fro spare heat to let go. lazy, because ujormuscles are weak and nature tells them to keep still when hun gry. You would ibe astonished to know how much of -Ihfff beauty of. the fairest women is made uppf fat; f The criminal classes are ugly, because they : liave no fat. How could a child, whose muscles and nervous system -have been, partly. starved be expected to have ait the sym pathies and instincts of a highei class of society. "An every day Sabbath "school with a breakfast before the lesson would be a capital thing for' poor children. Some say the poor ' tliemselves are to blame for their condition by living too luxuriously. One?of the most intense cravings of the Greely Arctic party -was for sweetmeats. Tea and coffee do more good than harm. J They stimulate not only the brain, buii the 'activities of the5 "whole body." There will be algreat; mis sion to tlie - poor some' day to see tliat they get . enough of good food." Balti more Sun. 7 sfM :f Zf. -.si f""''" - , Tbe Polsoued Key of Padua. . . . f". ; ' Anolher-.'deligbtful relic of the life and times of the tyrant of padua is a simple key aboutrthd Isize ofjm Ordinary door key, It was th-keyjof -tne duke'fi library iii -'ftii"1tfie waiited to get..fid of any of his suite or any jers"on in his household that he. had a bftter f eeliog against he,used to ring bis-knd-askVforMr. John to be'sent to him fancy' namei. of . couise). ; " Wheii J6hn entered the duke would say : "Oh, John,' I Syish' you xVould go to the book- case in : my private yoouiiaiid bring - me theDagjiiet Baliads IJ-Certainly. your gi lace., :.Mri;J61ia ' x'CLfni3&y: he. would trot with the. key ih his hand. :? : V 1 ten he of . to the Tibrary .he" rwpuld put 'the key iri the" 4ocl? of tho lok-case and turn it!:iBMtdirectIy he turneL"it,r out of the handle of the .-.key-shot a Jojrig Kisoned needle, which stabbed the hand of : the 'holder -and: instantly shot back, again.--. John ;woul'diet go of rthe: key and say, 'What the '. deuce was that?'' Hevould look at diis hand, and see -only" a smaJl, dark blue pot.i- He would think nothing of ' it. but all of; a sudden 'he -would begin to feel queer, in' his head. Preset) Uy some one wohlj come iu-'and find., him jn a' fit on : the 'floor.1 at)d the household - would " be. alarmed. ."Mr. John-haf, had -a' stroke or a fit,5 the peopk would "say:-" A-doctor" would be sen t f o r,' bu t Jiiil services would I e of 3 no. hv'aili In r twenty;fourrliours Jir John would e dead,: and -everybody, would think' that i he had - died through a fiL There""" were : no v rxithering ;coi oners in quests to"upset'the plans of clever fellows like . the Iuke Francis 'in those days.-r George Jl. : Sims in. Ixmdbn Referee. -7;' ; ir ' -, '- ' A Practice Ambng CardeneTsl ' ' The -practicj- of -coveringf clusters of grapes by placing "paper: bags about them commenced scmu five years ago; and rc aheU iri m.ucitigruitvwilbpnt.spot or blemish. ;;Retnl!y" beveral gardecera have Imgged toniatoes and -tiie pcaj s pro- d SiJLP recults. TCJimgo Timc?.- . - ;Jr".-;..i r--Z, -' Dochery's Record Ool. Dockery's pblitical- .reeof - m being very thoroughly overhauled One of ths most competent " writer ui the Stife h leisurely Kid v thor oughly bringing out -J he: 'chief 7 facts in. the Pee Pjeeshade-firmer's ;ugly political - record. . ,Ve 'are glad o tma aud .nq tjr.boca.nge . w e Vjiave tbe slightest personal iil-wRj ioi. we have none. ,TBufc DockeryJs .-a con picjoous tharacter'an fewhat remains of tha black andean party in-North UaiouBa.- iie is unquestionably one of the ablest of the survivors, r- He 'a a 5naa of education aad "force -"of brns. - Ha is not a'Ciealf man,-- bnl he is, very unsound, asery-dangerbus politician, r)8.nave n a word t say aboat hiui exceptwiiat comjs.ur.in a political way; - He is a . public i man, and his 'public acts an&.pubhc "titter ancesl are public 'property - and "are proper topics. "' -J W.e 8rppose that of all lladicals in the State, Col. Dockery has' about the worst record for a . politician- the most damaging for succea.J le is committed to three" thiDgs that oughtto damn: him j'rretrjevably,afi a politician tc, What. are. they- Al 1. He tavors the abolition of the - . - - . .. - - - r.-. present system 'of County Govern- ment upon which really" depends the protection of the white 2. He farors the. payment -of the fiaudulent, rascalrjr "Special 'Pax Bonds that would impoverish "the State, and its final results would bankrupt it. '" " 3r He U for more of that Satanic device and poor " man's gin-trap, know as a High Protective Tariff that is unconstitutiGnal according' to' the decision of the Republican Su preme Court "of the United States that is unequal jand unjust in its ad- j istments, being laid with"" reference to the protectionof the rich and for the oppression of the poor rand that lias been a source of constant evil and ruin, destroying commerce - and the merchants marine, 'and creating a few hundred thousand .millionaires and plutocrats to corrupt the coun- trv and lord it over God's heri tage. ' . . . These three things are enough to blast bis prospects and ta consign him to the groves und Gelds of - the Pee Dee. : Bat Dockery's record in the pas is bad, very bad. No man ever lived m North Carolina who showed more dislike for the negro than, he did liis record just there ? would make him very offense to any race upon the earth but the negro race r We heard it intimated by an mtelllgent co red men '.hat Judge Russell's descrip tion of the negro was. allright"-"sav agea'' and "thieves. So iDockery's course towords free - negroes and slaves in the past gtjes no offense to the negroe now.- He perhaps loves him better tiecause'vbefdrlh'ear- he showed hi8to!e'rance of Cuffee and Sim bo. Bui any other race u uder Heaven" would not- hug --the fnan who denounced them . and hold up theaands, that struck them.- ";-j Now 1 et s turn to his record prior to" the war tin the negro question. Let us sec how Dockery felt aud act ed in -the - pi ping- limes peace, Ve referred recently to the abound in g ready ; made 'editorials and : we said that when' we used' them or any part of -them we would " give - due credi t. Col ,: W. LI Sau. ndera is do ng? serviceable " vrjkrpn 3 ppijring sheets containing discussions of im portant questions fororth Carolina voters. An $expehencedJanBtablej journalist jvwitblei8u cratc anumooraiie, ne uas ? sen c. out already articles" that Mre. being welH used and ' well-read, Ve'jcopy ; the following-concerning" Dockery nd ihe negroes: V'V t - . ."But to Coloi.el Dockerys record.' o'In the Legislature" of 1858-'59, in the House of Commons, abiiV;aa introduced ?to free -'persons of . color from the JState'-' 1 he object of.. the Vill, as is plain frm Us title," wa to dot rid of all free -negroes. The in- J finite postpone me fit of. the bil L. was moved, which if douewodld kill the bilL The yeas and naya" .were called mti motion", to" indeGniteJy" postpone was carried , thereby killingi tbev.bill J D 'ut . O. ITSDockrry voted against post poilemeni, See" House ournaT, pages do,-" "and 453, . ;':":ivv'b 'In the .arnff 'Legislature,-.in : the House" of CcnQmqnfVa bill was intro - Lrredto enforce r,the collection of " - ; i from- fiet? negrots, in " this bill tvas.a protission to put up' free! ne groes to public hire forjive years' or esa-pracucawy a saio lor - ine term for which tfo'was bid -off to"4 the" west bidder. "I It was moved to in- deSnilely postpone -the' bill and "? thni o -kill . it, but Col. jDockery - voted 1 against' tlie motion. It was then moved to kill.1 the 'b'iltr61,1.1 farmer. "He! eays ia'Xrtrrk. " ; Uupon the fobIeVanlJr.1ilto nyjaying it upon Dockery again voted -nrSee, Jlodse Joup'ial pages 250. "5f3," and y:feS9'much - for jckery and 'free negroes. . .o Now ' for Dockery and slave?. ' , " - " " "Jn the Ilouseof Wmmons of the sa,m XjegislatumA bill waB In troduo ed Ho prevent the mancipatforr of slates by will. A motion was .made to kill the oill byflaying'Jrupon"Uhe table, Dovlcery voted against itie nioi tion-" A motion was made- to r insert In, the ' bill a provision;'" authorizing free .negroes to become': slaves and Dockery voted for tie nwtioh, and wneniae dui came up w-its final passage it was defeated,' but 6cfc ery vovedfor i; '' See House 'Journal, pages 498, 499 and "500-1- .So" sum it , u p in : a few ' w6fds then Ddckery vwas 'qwte' willing' Mbd make slaves of free negroes, bui"uV tetly. nd willing to make free negroes v.miwu uu 11 , li (is UCilllCO BIO UIO . . , ' . chosen allies. V enly, : water is " not the only thing that will find its' levil; ior.:Doekery lias 'found his. But what a leviil with a lot of fiee ne groes'.'-' K---J - - Hoifie Market 'Sum- We have tried to impress upon- our readers, ana ; especially upon mer chants and farmers, the exceeding absurdity of the Republican cry for a home market. " he Chinese have had a home market for 'some thous ands of years. Their encirslingwall or barbed wire .arrangement was per fect, Tiiey shut bu t all foreign prod tfcta(;tmd tha. ijS.vaU ' home 'made products. lhe result was that a Chinesso laborer received five cents a day for his work. This is the beat example the world has of the opera tions of Protection. Do the South ern people desire such a system, for ibem?"- Withou t- foreign markets open to our agricultural people, they cn have no market for their' aurpius. If f armers wil 1 onjy consider, they r will see that hut for the free trade be tweeri"the States of the Union, "the several States would have no market for their surplus. - Southern cotton, Southern tobacco Southern trucking and so oa,r would be shut up to1 the limits of State lines; Norths Caroli na tobacco most" be sold within the Stated; Butnorlso "There is af fee interchange of commodities. Our products are sent abroad into other States and exchanged or " bartered 1 for the "products -needed "and found elsewhere, and that is commerce; Let the farmers understand -a few fundamentals; and they "will not ; be hoodwinked by Dockery or bamboo zled by- high protective - tariff, - Xet themi ' rCmemberA that exchange- 0 products is" a : necessi ty th at if i prevailed between the drfferent'eoun tnes.there would be larger markets arid betterricea"? Let thenTundrstand that the price of wheat or cotton in Liverpool fixes the price bfjwbe or 6 cotton in New. York-. Ubnder'staud thatiEiii wtpric&jqfJihe surplus sent out fronS tliis country to Europe that uses the price 01 toe product a homelf -wbeatfis ? worth, $l.li)7 in Liverpool f that wjll" determine the price in Chicago, - If cotton, is worth il'cents in Liverpool that will fix the price jn the -Amer.can market;" So it is the prieff of ;flterrcaproducts abroad that determines . the. price , at home :iJherArh"erIcan''fariBer.-'must inevij tably competewith ' the cheap labor of the worlcV-5-in India; 10 .Egypt, - in Russia. South America. - American products must besold abroadsn com petition with tba : pi odacts'of 'cheap labor'abroad, .in Indiar Egypt,- &c. What, then ' How can a high tariff help the farmer?. It ;"makes him pay from 20 to 150 per cent, i higher for articles he needs aed purcbasespand it " does ntt - increase -his pnees abroad.bne cent.i The wy?i,: mind jbu,"mu st-be sold abroad, -and tha sold " abroad fixes the" borne , pric Can a proUcive- tanff help him? It him literallT.of alarge bh.rc of hard "earninga, - ' - TfcH aspect of the qtoestionVhd it y$.: Is surely correct,, moves . farmer m-;'--;'" ixentucjiy a Mrrotective iiemocrat, i at that,;to Wk tKeHeVand4hat hl0ongre8s prote( 6y --oottnrw all " the-surplus xfl ihi VamertBhippd: - coroad. He savs this uv-lhe ont ways by; whicha high tariff saa bene- Th:s bounty added' to Hhe aru laooreru tue tarifl toreigrr 4 owis protects Hie skuiea laborer. - . "A& mattera tfbwr stand.' the farmers is taxed for the benefit 6f the minu . facturer, wail -his.su rnlus- which competed tft&SVtetffr 8pd;-8iaia chOcio labor."- - - ' - tol. Docket; jll,have to approvev of this bounty if hey. ivoald' oe . what ie T pretendar-rihe, farmej'g ?- friend. ue..mu8t ask his- brotherEadicals ia Copgresj to report bill to pay boun ty to Uie farmers upoa every' bou'nd of cot.ton,vTery' bashel-bf corn' or wbeat that ishipped abroad f hat is the only way.aarme canget ben-. i n-8 oonn cy adaea" ; to the -price -realized in. freigru markets anf cbmpe- wti cheap labors wosJd Refect tho'r r.-J. t..l . . . - . . - -- .'; efit from a r reaf Tarff.Ttax . - Tho ' I fvencucKy larmer adds: l - - , I am" a - Drotection 'rbmnnnf r ' T .'V thoroughly endorse .the principle" of " Of proteption to AraeriKia,rntere8is "'" sm Americari labor. But I am o-" posed to the abuseof the' principte. uu. vuo pxtjaeni,. tariff doabusej.the , principle, arid all this abuse suould' 1 "In. no' respect Vthekbsegrfater - : er luuio uujust inaa tn its effects ap tK farmer and farm It'o-pr "'I'Ka ' ' on home market is not protected, and can not be protected until, tha snr- " plus, whlclLfifes the pnV, isprotecu This should be dona if Vthe nric: ia - V protected.-: This shomd ha A,na -.1 . ' the abuses of lhe present4 tariiZ are -to continue '.HU-Ui :l ' "'- The able editor ot' the ' Courier- JottrjioZsaysyin commenting 'upbnVj'- -.t 1 - .nvu u o arncie ; . -" . w-'v ."It the Dries in Naw Vnib. -- - dollar,, the price in Liverpool "is just -; v,-,. v otio nonary to- pay the additional- freight. -This furnishes " - the market for ourvSurplug. 100,000,- ' -000 bushels are sent abroad nd there J ' is no over supply at home.- V ; 1 ' suppose the "LirerbooJ prise fall' 'V to 90 cental theVtho 1nf)n nnrtnnn " bushels do not go abroadr. hnfc air ; r' purchasers at home. This over-sup. V" ply depresses home prices, as is al- - . ways the case when the sumlv: pt.' - r ucuiauu, ana iew xork re ruses to give more thart 90 ceri8 - Thus th price is fixed afc. 9n not simply for .the surplus, but for : all the cron " 1 - - -4 r "Suppose instead, ther"ia a ncaroi: y abroad raod-the price .'-is SLIOV' hen instead of shipng 100,001 ;00a ? ' ... f - . - ---..-.. I' - va win scna. 15.000 OOO., Th. caused a deficiency in toe home sup ply andv prices advance here sufli- '" cently to check exports 'Thus the pricaor. tne or .the entire crop 'is ad- vanced.to the pafd for taetsurnlus.- . ,."1 be rise and iali of ,price.ja.nn- I, , . restricted commerce is a naturaUnrl -as inevitable as the rise "and fall of' the tide. 5 : ' f " f ' ' !'The trouble comes when an U i ) ' tempt is made to regulate such-ma'- "' Chineese Hallison, ? in , his latest , ' 'greatest effott of his life,'? said , that i the. taxesere 'takeW soipdirectly ana sosuotiy tnat;onr plain, people ' don't know that thejare pajmg A them at all' In other words lluVy, ' are systemaeically robbed nd,Vott,f i:, :' tnOW it." . That n3oa"io."" 1 bor rowed .it from.fr couplet from from funh that m Starhw otten qooted. Ar . km it k . : : rN v "Hethit Is taxed, not seafe hnw you tax him. r - --4- - ''.- vr - Let him not know it arid he's" riot tax- T - ed at all" 7: - r. 4 .-.-i. ,; ri ; ' LHatiat the ason,,-perhaps; whyi H ' : ine rooiisn;,iadicals crjrut;fop' mr L Wilrriington jSfar; taxes for a higher tariffWalh :Bdt"- J 1 the' people .:re .earning -and7 w'IIVlK know m0i e before Kovember t c mji. : ' K Blaine la :n IronhloT ilk is'. ji'M; Mills JI would . ruin t ,tha-;ndni tHe8 : Ot, - ZainO. a. V). Warron. Hr n V 1 largest paper manufacturers in tha world'have addressed a letter to their " empl lycs emphatieaily 'contradicting j tne great Uoancierer?Thej say: . T --.roo iar astne toeasuce referred,, to , K affectji the , paper makmh or wood l i' pri 1 p, interea te of Maine.j wtfchTai e ' t :- ' certainly imjioriant, the acove move- : ."1 meiit is-:not iril oar opinioo 4irue: ,7.". "j W Relieve that "the enactment ' of w the bills wou.ld not bjure-aiij'LC- ; of these I'ndastries. We are able; to ' ' sayahat Mr.VVarrea senior held s, the opbion now' ex'preV'ed.VWiliaiiitr. ' ton Stars . rt Ca txVftri Ii14 lft flirl i Ko ri'A ' P' cPhi uaSIaa. r I ley as wasgowsdd.v- 1 3 SV 1V , i.
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 27, 1888, edition 1
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