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Any paiaaa faaUaa Mi'nvtd at aay anooy ' moua eommanjcauon aaa obtain Uia name o ua aaiaor ay application at tola office aud Mfiai waneala the gnavanee exists. ' TTTK .rOTTRN A T . ateUte. at. DiSPER. ulaaaa Sla. ; , . ... l . - - - lfKn BERNE. N.C. MARCH 16 198. T,a:i-f .. ----- "gateeea' at tke Poat ol si H Bu, If a THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. No. J. Finances. " Since the war tbe following bartements hsTe been made. dis : la 16tU.. - 8177.4W7 W la IBM. 173,27.662 ' I 1R7S ISA A7fi (17 . It 1874.... 297,090.85 i. I WW 834,165.14 la 1877 818.818.00 -la 1878 84 627.10 la 1879 326 040 80 la 1880 ssa.twa 66 la 1881 409.653 88 . la 1882 509,786.0J la 1883 683.480.8S la 1884 '. 640,245.20 la 1885 630,553.83 . Ia 1886 671, 115.65 , In 1887 .. 653,087 83 .Tha Constitution of 18(58 reoaired -IhO proceeds of the Bales of swamp lands ard the receipts lrom Does, forfoitares, penalties and certaia Other1 funds to be invested as an Irreducible fund, the interest of which alone was to be nsed fur - Tha Constitution as amended in 1875 .while still requiring receipts from the same source to be used for school purposes, gave to tbe General Assembly the power to distribute all school funds to the counties for immediate use. In 187ft t.hA ftaniiral Assembly nnarled that the irreducible fund should be retained but that it should not bo increased except by the items men tioned in Art. 9, Sec. 4 of the Con stitution from which nothing was receiresl except from tbe sales of Dublic lands, and but little from that source. -In 1881 tbe General Assembly diiested that this fund should be distributed to the counties, and con seanentlv in Auzust 1681 a distri- 'knHAn Al ail S1 or. aa lnQHo and hi November 1883, another of 174,448.75 was made. These amounts were used by the county school antborities daring the years 1882, 1883 and 1884 and swelled too amuuufc jnueu uunug iauee years to school purposes, as will ap pear by.iht figures given above. - - Th6 question is frequently asked why the ooonties now get no money from the State 'fund. The answer is that the legislation now on our et&tute books does not contemplate putting any money into the State Treasury for schools, except each as comei from tax on acts of incor poration by tbe General Assembly and from the sale of pqblie lands. Kecelpts from these son reel bare as yet amounted to but very little. Oar statutes leave all other school funds in the counties where col lected tth$ end that they may be used as ivptdly as possible. "It has not beenttrowghwise or proper for this poor generation to attempt to accumulate a permanent school fand. During the years 1871 and 1872 there was a tax of Gf cents on the 5100 of property; after 1872 and nntil 1881 the tax on property as SI cents on ' filOO of property, and after 1881 it was 12 cents, at which f gure it now stands. In addition to this general prop erty tax the .Constitution applies -1 least threeourthaof all poll tax. in State And county to school rposes. which amouat to an over a of about ono. dollar Aid fifty ats (when.lbe limit-of.t2.00 ig - acbed the exact amount is i each poll that is collected. The statutes apply now, and have r years, the fines, forfeitures, and alties imposed by the Saperiot : rU and toy. the justices of the - re, most of the receipts from -r licenses (til except from the csale licenses), receipt from oneers, estrays, axtioles of ia ratloa issued by ; county u r court, clerkSji and tar on i these 'eources' our school far a they: are levied by c n 1 A seni bly, are derived. and the funds are not pat into the hands of tbe State Treasurer, bat all . are retained in the connties here they axe raised. . . . . : Ia counties Where the State taxes levied in the re venue law audio the levied by the commissioners includ ing school taxes, do not amount to more than 66 .cents on $100 of property. And 12.00 on polls, the commissioners are required to levy enough tax, in addition to tbe rands secured under the general Bute levies as above mentioned, to con tinue the schools four months per annojn, - In most counties, Jhowever, After providing for county expenses, tbe commissioners find no margin left for application to schools. Prior to the Supreme Court decision in Barksdale vs. commissioners ot Sampson county, 93 N. O. Reports, the commissioners were required to have four-months terms whether or not they exceeded 66 cents tax on property and $2.00 on polls. It will be noticed that-the receipts for 1887 were $23,263 98 less than they were in 1886, while the laws were just the same. The fall-off in re ceipts ib to be attributed to the de cision referred to and to the fail n red I think, of an unusually large num ber of persons to pay their poll taxes. Some commissioners are now so managing county matters as to apply all the poU tax to schools, while others hnd that for ordinary purposes they do not need the full margin of 34 1 6 cents now left them by the General Assembly, and so levy something for schools as section 2590 of tbe school law requires them to do. The couaty boards of education press their claims upon the boards of com mis elouers and not unlrequently the commissioners are brought to greater economy in their adminis tration of county matters to the end that the schools may ba brought up to the four mouths that the Constitution requires as a mini mum. I cannot too much commend Buch consideration on the pail of the county commissioners, and can but cherish the hope that, to the end that our sctiool system may be made more effective and more pop ular, all tbe commissioners will do everything in their power to in creaso the funds. Let them do this and go to tbe limitation. The money thus raised and applied, and in(ded all school money under onr system, stays at home in THE COUNTY WHERE EAISED and so does not impoverish either the county or the State. It is not the money we raise and keep at home that impoverishes us, but the money we send abroad a fact north remembering and consider ing. 8. M. FlNGEtt, Supt. of Public Instruction. r AltMS AND FARMERS. Short Talks With the Men Who Guide the Plow. DEPTH FOB rjUAMTlNGl SEEDS. The proper depth for planting seeds is not determined by the greatest depth from which they ill come np and reach tbe surface successfully. A plant may straggle and reaoh tbe surface so exhausted that it never recovers its vigor, and though H may not die, yet never attain perfect development. The conditions ot life whilst ubder the ground, and after it has come up into tbe right and open air, are quite different. Under the ground it lives upon the food stored np for it in the . seed, drawing' nothing from tbe soil, perhaps, but water. Tbe heat in the soil is tbe motive power which excites it into activi ty. When it gets np into the air an entirely new set of operation begins, like everything else it tends to lose moisture by evapora tion : tbe water Which thus escapes is replaced by more absorbed from me sou, ana wun tms aDsoroea water comes into it food from the soil. Its leaves bathed in the air, draw in carbonic acid from the atmosphere, and with the aid of sunlight build np, ont of it and tbe elements of water, new tissues. It thus becomes an independent existence. Whilst under the ground it was dependent upon its mother's milk (the food laid up for it), now it can forage for itself. If planted too deep, tbe food laid up may be exhausted before it can surface ; in that event it perishes ; or it may fall a little short of this, and reach tbe surface with its parts imper fectly developed its leaves small, its stalks slender; or still farther. it may reach ' the surface before its supply of seed food is exhausted, and proceeding to gather food from tbe atmosphere, receive ho check and . not toecome stunted in . its growth. . Nature's mode of seeding is to drop the seeds on tbe , surface, and trust to tnelrUg -covered by rain, or alternate : freezings and tha wings, or "by Insects .disturbing the soil, or other agencies of like nature. Whilst this is an uncertain mode,' And tails for a large amouat of seed, because so great a portion is liable to failure of tsovericg, it indicates very clearly that nature's method is shallow -covering," and; that tbe organization of plants- is adapted to shallow covering. Just enough -covering , to secure the ineoessary moisture is. the plain in dieation. . Especially is this true early ia the season when moisture near the surface is abundant, and heat (tbe motive power) .is greater there than at lower, depths. As the season Advances moisture re tires from the surface and heat penetrates deeper down, and seeds must be planted deeper, bat the loose dry . nature of the soilabove them enables young plants to reach tbe surface more easily than when the soil is wet and cold. So much for' theoretical considerations practice, however, eon firms them careful experiments, with planting seeds at different depths, show that for the larger seed, like corn, wheat, oats, eta, one to two inches cover ing give the most vigorous' plants and largest yield., riant corn uo as shallow as possible. W, L. J., in Atlanta Constitution Analysis f Soils. Some twenty-five or thirty years ago a few of the more prominent contributors to the agricultural press were urging the great impor tance of analysis of tbe soil of every farm, in order that tbe owner might determine for what kind of crops it was beet adapted, also if it contain ed too much of any one substance or too little of anotfrer to insure tbe greatest fertility. The author of hlementa of agriculture, " 1854, de: glared: "The farmer cannot be too stiongly advised to procure an analysis of his soil, and for obvious reasons." The "obvious reasons," however, consisted mainly in pay ing a certain clique of self assumed chemists $5 to $10 for a halfway analysis of a few ounces of soil. Hundreds of farmers believed there was something in the new theoret ical agriculture, and paid their hard-earned cash only to find out that the analysis of a few ounces of soil taken from one place on their farm was of really no practical use in determining the fertility or bar renness of that which bad not been analyzed, if tbe soil of tbe entire farm to the depth of one or two feet could be thoroughly intermin gled and then a ton or more of th is analyzed, we might make a Very close guess as to tbe amonnt of valuable constituents an acre con tained, or was needed to make tho soil lertile.or adapted tothe growth of certain, kinds of plants. But ns tbe chemist only proposed to analyze a few ounces of soil, bis work would be of little value to the practical farmer. New York Bun. THK1R BUSIHKSS BOOMING. Probably no one thing has caused such a general revival of trade at R. N. Duffy's dru store as their giving sway to their customers of so many free trial bottle of Dr. KiDg's New Discovery for Consumption. Their trade is simply enormous in this very valuable article from tbe fact that it always cares and never disappoints. Coughs, Colds, Athina, Bronchitis, Croup, and all throat and long diseases quickly cured. You can teat it before baying by getting a trial bottle free, large sice f 1. Every bottle warranted. For sale, wboleeale and retail, at R. N. Daffy's drag store. FOR A LIFE. TIME. It is strange wliy people who recog nise certain inherited disorders, lot them ran on under tbe vain delution that they cannot be cured. Nine-tenths of 'incurable" diseases can be Cored. Read bow one who had blood-poison from bitth talks: BLOOB TAIHT FROM BIBTH. Boon iviiAB, Ind., January 35, 1887. I atutll iih praksa th day that y oa sDtle mn were born,'aod shall blest the day that you j medicine was known to me. 1 bad blood poison from birth, and so mnoh so that all the doctors of my town said I wookl ba ot-lppled lor life. They said I would lose my lower limb. I eoold not stand ta my elasa to reelte my feeeons. and eleven bottle ot yonr balm enred me sound and wall. Ton ean net) my name as you see OL In my ease there were knota on my ehlnbones as large aa a hen's egg. Tours. Mibtxi la. TiHirsB. srrrEfiiD vrok piles. Baltimoib, February S, 18-7. I hid suffered with bleeding piles for two years, and take Plea rare in stating that 1 have been entirely cared by the use of on bottle of Botanlo Blood DalmfB. B: H.) I cheerfully nuke thla statement tor the bene fit of the pa bile. Cbas. Bniniivr, No, 302S Fountain St.. Baltimore, Md. trie nvai DOCTORS. HAWKissvnxx, Oa., Feb. 2. 1887. .This Is to oertlfy that my wife has been In bad health for eight years. After trying Ave doctors and alz or seren different patent medicines, six bottles of your B. B. B. has enred Her. . Jams W. LascAma end for our Book of Wonders, free to all. It treats of all blood diseases. Address BL'JOD BALM COHPAHY, AtlaataQa. For sale in New Berne at tbe drag stores of B. N. Duffy aad E. H. Meadow. feb For Kent, Safety Deposit Look Boxes, for safe keeping of private valuable papers. In th Yanlt of the National Bank, t mod erate rates. : mS dtf O. ZL BOBEBTS. Oaahier. -MAECB:"a; fiPSCIAXTY Wylle, Smltli & Co,'f. -Wo, M. Powell & Cd.'sy?A Popular Brands of TLOUR, - B OLD ' CHEAP. Also PhUadelphia Butter.', HrDDLE BTEEtT,' .. b diBt ivEw rrr.r'E. n. c. .. y : f royalk: f X . IbdolMtlPure Thla aowdar aarar Tariea. a. -marrel rl Parity, traaath, and wholtaomeBMa. Me e eoonootlael tbaa tbe ordlaary kinds, aad aot be eold la eompetiuoa with tae taaltttade of low teat, aaort weight, aloia or phosphate powders. Sold only lnean. BoTl.BAia Powaaa Oo.. lot wall-at.. Ji. T. norlMrdw For sale in Newborn by Atax. Miller. r George Ash, THE CLOTHIER rJai now consoiidatbd his two store and will, at tbe old eland on Middle street. -next to L II. Culler's, continue That Slaughter" Prices which he coinm- nee J some time before tbe holidays. ' Our Stock baft b.m replenished in every depaitment, and if you are in need of ao thing in Our line, call with out delay and you will wonder at tbe . Bargains We Give You Uf .. .. , Clothing, Boots & Shoes JThi all kinds of DRY GOODS. We are making Special Drives this Month IS Blankets, Shawls', Newmarkets, Walking Jackets, "Ladies' and Men's Underwear. WE DAVE RECEIVED A New Line of Neckwear which is a collection Of captivating beauties, that are being gold at popular prices. Oar fine satin-linad Scarf at 85o. beate any half dollar scarf In other plaoea. 1 ' AH our goods will, please and give" satisfaction, and prices are so low y 00 cannot resist them. David M. Jones of Beaufort silll holds forth at George Ash's, Middle street, Next to L. U. Cutler. We have tbe Agency for Tbe Old Kfaten Island Dyeing EatMbltghment, 09 Duane St. Established 1810. ill goods delivered Xrea of axprees charges. Take Notice ! Our store l filled with Provision, Groceries, Canned Ooodi, Dry Goods,' Crockery, . Etc. We keep a full line of the Celebrated Prison Boots and Shoes. 0. 8. Parsons & Sons Boots and Shoes. Every pair Warranted to give satis faction. . i Country merchants and tea ToplS generally are req ires tod to call and ax amine onr large clock before purchas Ing. We will give yon low figures. We job IriUaxd Bnaff. ROBERTS t'BRO' South Front tt.,tt BenMjV. O J. P. C .Davis; WU0MSALC sVKD &CTAIX DsiLIK Uf ( CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES PROVISIONS. , Beet Qradea-Family Floor -si war In Stock. Best Brands of Tobaoeo - Direct from the Factory r " i '.' . - im. IT.-" f w ' HEAyTv DRY - GOO-OS. 'Call fend vet Sock Bottom Prioeg. '-,.-.. yew Berne, E, C. . "Notice. - ;. ; The walls ot the barber anop on Sooth Front streft hare been renewed, ard a st of cane bottomed chairs sddfd to the stork. Go 1 tf - s fi ' ts t r tecett,rv cv-.s "''. - . t 1 r. v. --". 58.00. - " "THE WOP.LD" TYPE WHITER, ' ENDORSED -BT LEADING BUSINESS: MEN. B . ' - - g . i C; at i - V f ' ihf 'Mm . Agents Wajited. 41, Be Sure and Cpme tW Fair B u y Your G c i H rir r -FUOM- is kv WW rlk M MMr The ntilr orr-lnaivA !lfilliinr on.l , n . - .--v... We will sell the balance of our Winter Stock of Clothing t Cost. ' : New Sprtng Stock of Clothing now arriving. ' r ' ..." 33 Blaek and Brown Cutaway ami Sack Corkscrew Suits at 15, worth ' $18 end $20. . a. . 30. Suits of Middlesex Blue Flannel at $10, warranted not to faie; - C : We have some bargains let t in Winter Underwear..1 An all wool medicated Scarlet (shirt at $1.00, cost iu New York fl.2 They cannot be boDgbt for less than $1.50 next fall. Drawers to match. -; 75o. white Shirts, aolsaudried, at 00c, all sizes 14 to 16V . I - V Lineu Collars and guspendera at reduced prices. Celluloid Collars and Caff d, all sizes. Full btoc.k of IJ. II ose, Handkerchiefs, eto. vNew lot of 25c. Scarfs and Ties. NEW SPlilNG STOCK OF IlATS.Suft sjad Btiff. . Agents for Jas. Means $3 00 and Tbe Diamond and Pearl Shirts. A stock of Oanan & Son's Shoes Trunks, Valises and Shawl Straps. '? ( inr n at7 linA rt f fatf inrra trill ho i rt ui... t ? i Vntn rarf Awri nmrT nX. eltiea. BE SURE AND SEK vx ua uyi( aa-sv va iivi.iuk nasi HOVTARD & JONES, Next Door to National Bant I.." mar4 dwtf ... , v .'. OLDE3T AND LARGEST Walter O. EVioses Co. 1)14 MAIN STItEET i is ... r Oorrec pond encs sol lot led Catalogues oar North Carolina Audit At Mrs. 8. F.Stinly's Book Jual7 dwSm ..... :mi -vy"" jM EINSET ... Girls and Young ; Fall corps of Teachers. Boarders. " Writs for terms to New Building. ' jttAie dwtf 0- m Jk. ISCRIBNER'3 j MAGAZINE 1 1 &A 'Mil j 1 I I Ml ta. , 1 ,lfv'5W'-a'. -. MAGAZINE ivc3 Its readers-literature of lasting inter. -csf andvalue: it illustrated and jtaarx national, ciculati6a xaccccdig' .123.0 n o copies jnonthtyv , PRICE 25 CENTS7A ISUMBeK'-53. A yTF I Lr.zrizs cnbncrs Jony s a j a tA Cffcr SCRIBNEJVS NACAZINC. v. Jcixriiilj -:T- r1 v . a 's f t r ejgV Var a M UBS a y . Hpnta' VnrnjaKirKT Rtrira In Din rtitv. l.OO Sboes. ' to arrive tbis week. 111 pUVrt fcl A v U W 1 f g ttv I Sa Q mm aa VI alv V US. :'- ' ' r . MUSIC HOUSE IN VA. ItljJUMOND. VAj Til - . . f ..... .11. Dlan at fsctorv nrices. Old Instrnmenta taken in exohaoge, bought, rented and 1 repaired. " : Immense Stock afSnBT BH'eIC. i Ina-jnelion Ilooks of all glada, Ppeelal Pla , -count to Teachers and Schools, (felaloguee ' ittleotllun If desired. Htrtnra lor ell Muslnal '-JuBlrunu-nis. A fl-wsllghily psert Planxeaud"' Orgaus uf standard make, from t2& to fMt. a genu of uobson s Frofaasldai ;enu of Uobson's Profaasldaas eUver Bejl I OS. - - v - Eavj's. Vtnlina. A rrinlinn. atijf v.r-vtK f. V lit Musical Line. usloal Line, .. .,...... ( .v mailed free On application at tbe office ot . 8tore, corner Brest and Middle 8tt., . NEW BERNE!' N.v C. Ample accommodations for. JOSEPH kdtsey; .. r . rBtNCI?Alav rF;Hir br L3 txA,. t r s ff f '- m is fully and Jbcautifullj-: has already exuned a i:.zn ttie..i - 'cL;i:u.:rj; c r . i "
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