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THE DEMOCRAT. E. E. HILLIARD, - - - - Editor. Pul.Ii.-ho4 Every Thurwlay. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 23 ". ?. Entered at the Pot-Ojficr nt Scotland Xeck, X. C, as Second Class Matter. Far is i now arranging to have the greatest World's Fair of the century in 1900. The Chicago fair of this year has beaten all previous record, and the versatile Frenchman doesn't want to stay beaten. It is paid that $1,000 worth of gems has leen stolen from the State's e.thil it at Chicago. Thieves nad a fat time of it during the fair, and they did not fail to make use of it. But it is unfor tunate that an opportunity was given them to plunder such a valuable exhib it. Hon. F. M. Simmons has had the necessary papers secured and has given his bond as Internal Revenue Collec tor for the Eastern district of North Carolina. He will enter upon his du ties at once and perform them, notwith standing the fact that the Senate of the United States refused to confirm his aj pointment Jacksonville authorities have de clared their intention of preventing the light between Corbet t and Mitchell taking place in that city. The Gover nor of Florida has issued instructions to the sheriff of Duval county to pre vent its taking place anywhere in that county. Yerily this great American continent is about to Income civilized. Mr. Cleveland will not appoint a successor to the late Judge Bond until after Congress meets. Many applica tions have been filed, and the President is considering them. Senator Ransom could get the place, and he is reported as saying that he wants the appoint ment to come to North Carolina, and that he would take it himself rather than for the State to miss it. PERIOD OF REVOLUTIOXS. Just at this time there seems to be indications of revolution in many coun tries, and there is actual revolution in some. It may bear some resemblance to 1848, when nearly every throne in the world trembled to its foundation. Evidently the masses are restless in more countries than ours. Brazil is struggling in the midst of a revolution that surpasses anything that has yet happened in that land of revo lutions. The outcome of it there, is watched for by four hemispheres, be cause it is expected to decide forever the fate of the western world. Hawaii is, too, in the midst of trouble. The revolution that was accomplished there a -ear ago by which Queen Lieu okalani was driven from her thrown is now about to be reversed. The United States government has withdrawn its unwarranted interference and it is ex pected that the queen will soon be res tored to the vacant throne. She ought to be. It is her right ; and United States Minister Stevens did a wrong thing last year when he influenced the people to dethrone her. Cuba, also, is about to become the scene of another revolution. Rebel lious bands are reported as mobilizing in various places in the island, and the authorities will have to exert their pow er to prevent an outbreak. And Mexi co, poor weak Mexico, is about to keep the ball rolling by getting up another armed opposition to the government. Away over in Africa the English gov ernment has had some trouble in sup pressing an uprising among the Afri cans, and South Africa is thus con tributing to the general disorder throughout the world. In our own land a revolution will doubtless be accomplished within the next year or so. But the revolution that is needed here, and is devoutly to be wished for, will be accomplished by the mighty power of the ballot. After all, the most effective revolutions are the ones that are brought about in that way. Mello and Peixotto can shoot at each other yonder on the other side of the equator ; South African canni bals can pick the bones of their En glish enemies ; the Cubans can fight ; and the Mexicans can quarrel ; but the people of the United States Avill follow no such examples, but will effect their revolution by the bloodless power of the ballot. Don't lose time and make yourself worse with pills and oils. Take Sim mons Liver Regulator. xev.'spapet: fat its. Yerv frequently we see among our, exchanges an article that we consider j of merit; and we clip it and put it! among our ."-elections with due credit to the paper that we got it from. Sometimes we ee the same article in another paper with no credit at nil, and sometimes we see it credited to a different paier altogether. We are at a loss to account for such conduct on the part of a great many newspapers. We can't account for it on the score of ignorance, for we have fxen led to believe that the editors of the State are sensible men. Neither can we account for it on the score of dishonesty, for we can't conceive of a man's stealing from us when we are looking at him and he knows it. We are loath to account for it because of negligence, for we want to believe all editors are careful, painstaking men and would not be negligent about such an important affair. Therefore we say that we can't ac count for it. Now the evils of this hab it are not small. Any one can see them if he will just think for a moment. We see a good article. We attribute it to a man who doesn't deserve it, while the one who does deserve it is left out. That's wrong. It is unjust. No one has treated us that way that we know of. Therefore we are noc a sore-head, writing because we feel un justly treated. Not at all, but we just feel that such a thing is wrong from principle, and are writing about it for that reason. Father your own offspring, brethren, but don't lay claim to anybody else's. AIM HIGH. One of the saddest phases of the edu cational condition of the State, certain ly of the east, is the fact that so many oi our boys and young men have dis carded the notion of higher education, if indeed they ever had the notion. Probably not one in five hundred even have the remotest idea of advancing farther than the mere rudiments of learning. Several causes have been operating to bring about this state of affairs. Sev eral things have tended to produce this indifference on the part ot our young men. One of them is the poverty of the country. Boys are told from their very infancy that a common education is all that their fathers can afford to give them. This i3 a potent reason ; but Ave don't believe it is the chief one. If we will look a little deeper, we will find a reas on that is more potent, more damaging to the cause of higher education than that. It is a cause that may have grown out of the other one, but it is distinct nevertheless, and influences our young men perhaps more than any others. We mean anxiety to get into business. As soon as a young man has acquired education enough to get along, he gets the idea that he must be making some thing for himself. He gets the idea that the great object of an education is to enable a person to make money. Money is the plum that all mouths are watering after, and so he casts aside his notions about completing his education and joins in with the crowd that is scrambling for the dollar. It is a difficult task to convince them that the chief object of education is to elevate the race, and put them on a higher plain of usefulness. Tell them to aim high, and nine out of ten will think that you mean to make a big pile of dollars. It is disastrous for a young man to legin to get an education for the pur pose of making money. That, of course, must come along as a natural consequence ; but it should not be his purpose. He should have a higher and a nobler aim than that. He should desire to equip himself thorough!' to benefit humanity and the community in which he lives. Education is invaluable. It cannot be measured in value by dollars and cents. The young man should not want to get a living's worth of it and stop at that. He should desire to get enough, not only for himself, but also for his fellow men. Are your children subject to croup? If so, you should never be without a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Reme dy. It is a certain cure tor croup, and has never been known to fail. If given freely as soon as the croupy cough ap pears it will prevent the attack. It is the sole reliance with thousands of mothers who have croupy children, and never disappoints them. There is no danger in giving this Remedy in large and frequent doses, as it contains noth ing injurious. 50 cent bottles for sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. city of mrncjiEs. A TOWN OF WONDERFUL GROWTH. Good Schools. Editorial Correspo n fan c.j Poh's, N. (!.. Nov. IS. lSW. A gentleman remarked to me a day or two ago that as Raleigh has J-een called the "City of Oaks." so some day. according to its progress on that line thus far, the town of Dunn may be called the "City of Churches". Just i-even years ago the first sound of the workman's axe was heard in fell ing the timlcr3 in the great pine forest which has 1-een almost wonderfully transformed into the beautiful and thriving town of Dunn. In what is generally considered the "slow plodding South," it is a little wonderful to see, within seven years, a great forest chang ed into a bustling town ; and especially so, where no manufacturing industry" has sprung up to swell the jopulation. Such, however, is the fact about Dunn. There are now a thousand eople in the town and its streets present the daily appearance of a large and thriving bus iness. There is no large manufactory, but the town has grown up and is still supported by the agricultural interests of what is generally termed in such cases "the back country." Among other remarkable things about the town is the number of churches that have been erected and sustained. There are now seven handsome and com fortable churches in the town all of which were completed within four j'ears after the first work was done towards building the town. The seven church es represent the denominational inter ests of the Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Disciples, Primitive Baptists, and Free-will Baptists. Dunn has also been alive to its edu cational interests. There are two hand some and commodious school-buildings in the town in both of which there has been a flourishing school until recent ly, when they combined and both schools are now under the management of Prof. D. B. Parker, assisted by Prof. W. C. Williams. Prof. Parker is a na tive of Harnett county, educated at Trinity College, and Prof. Williams is from Richmond, Ya., and was educa ted at Richmond College. While there is no large manufactory in Dunn, Mr. J. A. McKay has recent ly commenced the manufactory of tur pentine tools and he has already se cured a large patronage South, and pro poses to enlarge his business soon. Altogether Dunn is a hustling town and its people are all that you mean when you say "clever." I spent a night in the pleasant home of Mr. Eldridge Lee, who has an inter esting family, and whose kindness and hospitality, together with that of his charming wife was all that one could wish. I also spent a short while in the home of Mr. G. K. Grantham, editor of the Dunn Times, and the recollections of an hour spent with him and his accomplished wife are pleasant indeed. Leaving Dunn I traveled in compa ny with Mr. T. D, Stewart, a pleasant companion, a few miles toBuie's Creek academy, where a few years ago I spent sometime in teaching what was then a common "old field school." In what was then the wild woods, I drove up to the handsome and well appointed home of Rev. J. A. Campbell. He is one of the playmates of my boyhood, and it was quite a pleasure to me to meet him and his queenly little wife who a few years ago was a pupil under my instruc tion. My entertainment with them for a night and a day was royal indeed. Mr. Campbell is principal of Buie's Creek Academy, which is a flourishing school, having grown up under his man agement and numbering on this year's catalogue nearly a hundred pupils. He is assisted by Prof. W. M. Montgomery and Miss Nolia Benson. I know of no community in North Carolina that has made more improve ment within the past ten years than this, and it is almost all due to the ef forts and energy of Mr. Campbell, w ho, besides doing a great work for his im mediate community, is doing good work for his count' as Superintendent of education for the county. I find the people of this community very enthusiastic on the subject of ed ucation and there are many young men here who promise much for the community and county through their energy and efforts for upbuilding their communities. Of course there are many things to entertain and interest me here which my readers might not appreciate. The county is well sup plied with home supplies and the far mers are independent at their homes. With better prices for cotton and other money crops they would be perfectly independent in all. e. e. h. Getting eial at the Bate :f $1C0 a Helen a, Indpend-: n t. Extravagant stories are tola atout the wealth of fold sprinkled through out the Snake river country in Idaho. As a general thing the gold i- very line the particles eing of t light weight as to le elusive. Save when worked on a large scale, it is difficult to make good wages in recovering the gold. Numerous bars along the river would prove profitable could water te com manded for sluicing or hydraulic pur Ioses. An adequate supply is hard to obtain on account of the slight and gradual fall of the stream and the level character of the outlying hinds. To overcome this lack of water, as well as insure sufficient dumping ground, a big floating gold saving dredge has been constructed and is now at work on the Idaho bank of the Snake river, about 10 miles above Payette. It is a stern wheel flatboat propelled by steam. Substantially constructed, Co feet long and 22 feet wide, it is equipped with a 35 horsepower marine engine and boiler and adapted in every way for navigating Idaho's great water way. With a slight alteration it could be transformed into a steam dredge and used to scoop up sand and gravel from the bottom of the stream. That has never been attempted. As in the past operations are now confined to working bars out of the bed or' channel of the river. The method pursued is to an chor alongside one of these gravel de posits and by the use of scrapers bring the material to be handled within the reach of the gold washing machinery with which the craft is rigged. The gravel is scooped up by buckets at tached to an endless chain. There are 48 of these receptacles on a belt CO feet in length, and each has! a capacity of about 20 pounds of dirt, which is delivered into a hopper. This is also an agitator, and the process employed may be described as a steam rocker, with the exception that it has an end motion instead of one sidewise. The gold is caught on copper plates with quicksilver. The tailings are car m o O Sri o c3 -. pqOQ oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oooo oo oooo oooooo oooooooo OOOOOO oooo oo OUIt BUYER Mr. M. Hoffman, Has just returned from the North ern and Eastern bought the largest 13 (D 0 0 u 0 DHY GOODS, SHOES, ciotiiii, s AND notions ! motions!! motions!!! motions!!!! otions! Motions m Notioxsm! Hotions!!!! that has ever been brought to Scotland Neck. 11 ::::: SPECIAL ::::: Iii liig d Ehoes ws m h the Town. AS USUAL WE SHALL SELL BETTER GOODS FOR LESS MONEY THAN ANY HOUSE IN EASTERN CAROLINA. rH 0 cKooooooooooorxoooaoooooooooooo ooooooocoooooooooooooocxxxxjoooooooo oocmooooooockxooooxjowxkoo:kdookxxxooo 00000OOOOOOOOOOOOrxXXXXXXKXXXOrX)0000"XKX)0 ooooooooooooooxxoooxoo:ooooorsxoocKXKKXor)fxoo 000000000000000X0000 HXXX0000000000K0 xx o OOOCKOOOOOOr)000000:XXXK)00X)0000000000 OC)OOOOOOOOOrX)000003000000000C00XX) 0)OOCKXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCHXX00000 . HOFFMAN & BRO. SCOTLAND 9 22. tf ry ! m.I in sk:kf U).t? bv the force f : ! a Mret.in of -writer of L" miner:! inch-1 ra. !'.mIel bv a China i tinm. run bvf the engine witieh drives a0 the other j machinery. The gravel i worked - i - - . i - i thoroughly that r.o e old icA in! the t "'.i'.ia.:4 th t are dmni'ol into the j riier. An average of 1'' foit of gr.iv-: e! is daily handled and for thi- wo:k three are e in p'oel an engineer, one t work the .cr:te and another who shovels the dirt into a pile o that the buckets can .-coop up a hill load. The bar now being worked ovci.m area of 10 to I" acres. The gold U on top or close to the .-urface and will not pay to handle 'O a greater depth than 1 foot to 18invl.es. ThU show a value of li to 3 cents a pan. A cleanup is ni-nle every night, and the aerage of the runs for the first three days was very satisfactory to Thornton Williams, the owner of the craft. He says he ex pects to take out upward of -f 1(0 a day as long as he works, which will 1-e until cold weather sots in. When he has gone over the bar which now en gages his attention, he w ill tackle an other. Flirting Prevents Marriage. Exchange. It is thought flirtation, which has ad vanced to something like a line art, that many marriageble young folks lose their chance of life. Flirtation destroys confidence between the per sons who indulge in it ; it prevents the natural growth of mutual esteem ; it is not a thing of good faith. It is an error to suppose that love-making and flirtation are indentical. Lovemaking is tender and ennobling, while flirta tion is cruel, foolish, and demeaning. The one is the prelude to wedded hap pines; the other is inimical to it Young men and women should exer cise their reason while on the lookout for suitable life partners ; yet many of them give encouragement to flirters, silly flirters, who are taken up or thrown off, with results that are often grievous, indeed. No other sarsaparilla has equaled Hood's in the relief it give in severest cases of dyspepsi?, sick headache, bil iousness, etc. o oo oooo o too oooo oooo oooo OOOO (f) 0 0 to to GO i O to O o to O Markets, where he; stock of 0 GTQ NECK, N. C. jjT E 1877. N. B. JOSEY. 893, USTErW" G - FalliflWiir! EVEKY DEPARTMENT MUM WHI C 1 1 APE BEING HA Dress : Goods : Department': c ontains i:yi:iiythin; : NEW THAT ISoUTTHlSSLASoN HOIVCH F.RS, i'ANAM AlIS. FLANNELS. CASHMKIU:, FL ANN K LETS, KIUIN K WHIP COUPS, SKKcJF.S, A ( H t x x & m & m - : OUR FARCY GOODS : '.YANKEE : NOTION.' . (KM (HM (KM Well, You 2 X X "smi)Vni)" liii vrs roir FIVE CENTS. A full line of Hi'f!i Art Clitliiir ni;iio. by the WorM-reiioun Clothier o stpa rsi: .( iu:orui:ns. HIGH ART YOUTH, HOYS', MKN SHlC -ozszzzzzczzzzzzzznz hr. Lr.t stock ::' is C:::',;:, Metalic, Cloth covered, Zinc Lined. Walnut. Rosewood, &c. Orders lay Wire Promptly Attended. IIESPKCTFCLEY. N. B. JOSEY, White Cor. M;)in and Tenth Streets, PEA GENERAL ME COMPLETE STOCK OF PLY (, OOPS, NOTIONS ALWAYS IN STOr K FINEST LINE OF CENTS' ITLNISHINO (i(HH EY EE I5KOCOIIT TO THIS MARKET. WE CAKE Charles Heiser's LA PIES' I J 0 : H E ST E I i MADE. I'EKEF.fT FITTINO FINE SHOES. EAKLA- W I ESON S ( 'OLE A ES ANP CUFFS. YOU SHOILP SEE Oflt LINE OF FINE IsTEGK - "WEAR. Our Line of Hat is Complete. Fii.e CJoiJiiii Eeady Ma'Io or M;i!- i-. (,., A LARGE AND V7ELL ASSORTED ST0C2 AL77AxC 111 5TCCZ. . Call and examine goods and prices. Mar 7 Iv. Cultivate i The Habit Of buyin Seeds Carefully ANDERSON, BAG-LEY & CO.. Cotton Factors and General Commission Merchants 13 and 17 Roanoke Dock, NORFOLK, YA. Special attention given to the fale of Country prMuee of eery UtuiffJ HIGHEST MARKET PRICES GUAPAXTEEP AXJt RETUJIXS MADE PROMPTLY, Correal ondence and Consignments Solicited. Reference: Rank Co.mvi:. Liberal Ca--h Advances Made on Consignments. 3 2 J; . OOODS Fall aufl Wiuter ! ! H I. L AM' IM'N N t , y y AT I N 1 1 E l: 1 . IT.!. i l; Trimming: x Department. ;HUrS IN Al.l. MIAltlN. " ,.,., ... l - (I1 i'M.I. , " M:.u;, . .lMl v GLOVE AND HOSIERY ni:r.i! r men t ' " " ' If 1 SliouM Sv It ! X X 1 1 Douglas' Shoes AM' Bay State Shoes, HKAT TIIK U Om.p -FK STYLE M w em: - & Pau.ll, M'OTLANP NECK. N. EELS IN Y IN STOCK Men's Fine Shoes, INSTE A P of :.(. t !,;.; ;.uy j..-. i -ajr'j yoi:r l-;il inerch; it !.-: ;. when you :u-k for k.-1, !.'; ! : t; n.'trne of the grower ; if ir v.,;- - n Ky Ceo. Tail A- Son-, all lih'. ''.? y are not loun'l to take -- x,n k; .v. le.-- ahout .-imjily letu J.- v. a;. sell them. INSIST Uoii hi-;-ett ij.ir !;. -!-you hae founi you m r-."v t.j-.:, : e!.-e tvti'l to u- for our c.-tf.;! ,' .. I' costs yon nothing aral nifhi'o'i - . huy quite n v.ell a- the n.,.n : Ktaii'lf at our counter. J1EMEM1JEU ;:. ..,... : safe arrival of overy jwk. we by mail or exjuf . (ilJ ' T. IT .V .-'A SEEItSMl.;.. ') 10 Iv NOKFOJ.K. Y A mm
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