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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT.

WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT.
Again we feel called upon to ex-
press our dissatisfaction at the tar
dineSs with which our folks move
in Washington. We don't know
precisely upon whom to locate our
condemnation. But it must and
shall rest upon some one. Five
months stand in the rear of Mr..
Cleveland's administration, and
yet but one Republican Post-mas-
ter so far as we are advised, has
been removed in EdgecOmbe, Hall
fax, Northampton and Martin. In
fact there has been so few remOv-
ais in the State, at the same rate,
we would not get rid of the ''ras-
Gals" in forty-one years. Mr.. Ad-
ministration, suppose you had just
thirty days before the first Tues
day in last November issued an
edict and said to the South that if
elected you did not intend to re-
move the scalawag, carpet-bagger,
the negro and the jim,jams from
office. Suppose you had told them
you desired very greatly that the
South should come to the polls and
vote for you, but that you intended
to keep honest Southern blood and
honest Southern Democrats out of
Office, and that you intended to
keep the same set of Republican
f1eas, minks and tycoons in office
which You might find in upon your
assumption OF power; had you
done this, how many electoral votes
do you, or Your cabinet and our
Senators suppose you or they would
have received in the South! 1t
would take man with a very dis
eased mind, and very perverted
nOtiOs Of Southern manhood and
sentiment, to suppose you would
have gotten one electoral vote in
the South. Mr.: President, if you
are keeping these folks in Office
against the will and protest of the
rank and file Of the Democratic
party South, make all you can out OF
your policy for the purposes you
have in view, for you and yours will
be invited to step down and out in
1888, and make room for other and
better men or for other and worse
men. Mr.. Cabinet, if YOU are
standing between the execution OF
the peoples will and their chosen
head, take care that political light
mig doesn't loosen your hide bound
cutlcle before the expiration OF
your terms. Senators are You stand
ing between the people and Mr.
, Cleveland! Are you encouraging
the President in the belief that he
Is giving satisfaction to the South
ern democracy Are you disagree
t ing among yourselves as to whose
friends shall have the appointment
+ thereby retaining Republican Post
, masters all over the Souths Ar,
2 you leading the President to be
} lieve that because the South, that i
= the white people Of the South, sub
1 mitted twenty years to negro rule
l they will submit to the retention O
l the same fellows! If so, we saw t,
you, as to the people, one day i
e not as a thousand years and
: thousand years as one day. Yes
0 your days might be shorter thai
f you contemplate. The people nigh
t discover the fact that there ar
1 other men in the States beside
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
NOTICE,


SO YEARS AT THE BUSINESS
Look to your interest and don,t
DECEIVED.
NEW MAN but an OLD BIS,
NESS. W
R. B. Pierce Ca H. found at N
p. +. Smiths sho} Ewherc he has -
Good Stock Of the best Mater,
which he will make up in Bugc;s
Wagons, Cars, &c. at short not,
and offer the most .reasoa,
Terms. Horse Shoeing
| SPECIALITY.
Call and see me, it will be 10 Wv
Interest.
Respectfully,
| r. j. PIERCE
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
GENERAL GRANT Is DEAD.

GENERAL GRANT Is DEAD.
General Grant died last Thursday
morning at O'clock. Nobody is
disappointed. Every body has
expected al waited for the news
caily for some time past. The NAL
ady was such as to battle the best
skill of the Medical profession.
But death was no more certain
in his case than in Ours-though
i; little more speedy. He was the
military hero of the civil war.
He was the chief executive of our
country for eight years, the choice
Of the Republican party, and he
and his friends sought most des-
perately to over ride the example
set by the father of his country,
and followed by jefferson and all
the Presidents since their day and
foundation OF our government. He
will be known as long as history
Snail speak as "the third te11ner.o
His two administrations will 90
down the stream Of time as the
most inefficient and corrupt in the
annals OF or country. His Militia
~ rule OF the South, with q rod of
cast steel, the full period of his two
terms will ever be remembered bv
the honest patriot as unfortunate
for the hero's reputation for great.
ness, magnaniHlity and statesman
ship. He was not gr ut man.
He was a great fighter, man of
indomitable will power, courage and
neutrality-suspicious. to success. He
was successful, grandly so. And
nothing succeeds like success. His
tory may style him a grand military
rhieftain, equal to Hannibal, Alexan-
der, Cromwell, NAPOLEON or our own
Washington, but those who fought
on the same battle fields with him
and lived the same time he lived
viii know better. His friends will
make all effort to hand him down tn
the coming ages as a great states
lnan, but the effort will I've futile
History must and will speak the
truth, and when his statescraft is
compared with that of Cromwell.
Napoleon, Washington, Jefferson,
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, or our
own Jefferson Davis, it will sink
into lnsignifcance. General Grant
lived too long for his reputation as
q great man or statesman. Had he
been gathered to his fathers when
at the height Of his military glory.
not by the assassins bullet, as Mr.
Lincoln was, but by and through
the providence Of God, his greatness
could never have been measured
and then the historian and poet
could have drawn copiously on thei1
looming imaginations for models Of
his greatness and no one could have
said it would not have been true
had he lived.
Who doubts but Mr.. Lincoln will
live through time bigger man, /.
purer patriot, and lover Of mankind
than he would had he been spared
twenty years more Of life to live
Mr.. Grant was the ideal of the Re
publican party. The demi-god O
the moneyed men, the slave of hi
friends and the unsuspecting tool O
wicked, corrupt, and designin,
men. He possessed some nobl
traits OF character, for these we AT,
glad to be able, without playing tn
role OF the hypocrite, to give hin
credit. He was noble maj
by nature, generous kind hearte,
SOU. He was an honorable, brave
manly foe when at the head OF tn
Union Army. And while he coin
manded the Union forces and ND t
his resignation as commander g
that army, We have in our hear
nothing but admiration, respect an
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
We LEAD, OTHERS FOLLOW

, ow PRICES FOR SEASONABLE AND DESIRABLE GOODS
visit to our Store fully for the Journey where
will find Complete and well Selected Stock of
WHITE GOODS NOTIONS, LAWNS, FINE LAWNS EDGN>
OF VARIOUS KINDS, LADIES COLLARS AND CUFFS, FAM
HANDKERCHIEFS LADIES AND GENTS HOSE CLOTHING
HATS AND LADIES AND GENTS WHITE DRESS sHRA
GLASS WARE CROCKERY WARE, TIN WARE WOODEN WARE
Fu Supply of GROCERIES every Description oso the @
makes OF BOOTS AND SHOES always hand, an' IN fact
thing in first class retail be had at
S. P. BRINKLEY & SONS,
Spring HILL Scotland Neck Branch RE
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30

j. II. Lawrence has for sale the best
Grain Fan and Bigger in use. Call
and examine 1t.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
DAVID A. MADRY,-

nAVID A. MADRY,-
BRICK MANUFACTURER.
Will take contracts for furnishing Brick
as cheap as the next man, and give better
work. Satisfaction guaranteed. The
| best brick in the market made by him al
| lowest prices. Give him trial.
Brick always on hand and for sale IL
any quantity. 1907
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
n ABROAD HOUSE,
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C..

SCOTLAND NECK, N. c.
MRS. LAURA BELL. PROPRIETRESs.
Good beds, polite and attentive servants,
the best table the market affords, and
good water. Neatness one of It's speclal
aims. Stop at the Railroad House.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
"a OTHSCHILD HOUSE.

SCOTLAND NECK, \. {.
I. ROTHSCHILD. PRoPRlElo"' :
This Hotel is situated III the cei and j:
the business portion OF the town, "re Of
specially adapted for the conVei'iS; IL SUP,
the travelling public. The table roonl.
piled with the very best, pieasi'l.'
and attentive and courteous serVan'7'
/ B9 Sample rooms for guests ,,,,or:
Bar Room, stocked with finest LII
attached to the hotel.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
LIFE and FIRE
IN SUR ANCE.

I am representing the strons,e
most liberal, prompt and rcliaT
companies n the U. S. Call at b..
office, take out Il policy AMI SCI,
your property. A policy in.the Eta
Life Co., is more secure than all fl
Bahks in the Union.
j. II. LAWRENCE Act,
Scotland Neck, y G.
GUBSSRlBE TO TUE d EMOCEAr
y $3.50 PER YEAR.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-30
DENNIS ~ EORN

|, DENNIS & EORN'e
Keep constantly on Land bns5 will
Wagons, Carts &c, which taes % re.
sell cheap for CASH, or on time ~ ,tflI
|sponsi5le parties. We are t"s' and
ito our friends for past faVo''
hope a continuance of the salht:<
DENNIS & HORN
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08
BAD FOR THE MORMONS.
The Mexicans Don't Want Them, and q
Judge In Utah Bears Heavily
Upon Them.
paso del Norts tMexico, dispatch.l


The Mexicans have begun active war
fare against polygamy. and people of all
shades of politics. as well as the Catholic
Church. ARE arrayed against its introduction
upon Mexican soil. An emphatic demand
has been made upon President Diaz to
cancel the grant of 100 sitios of land re-
Gently granted to Brigham Young, Jr., in
the northern portion of the State Of Chi
huahua. The Catholic priests are demand
ing that the terms of the agreement, which
stipulate that the Mexican laws must be
fully complied with. shall be enforced as
they are in the United States. This ope-
rates against the Mormons now in Mexico,
and unless they strip themselves of plu-
rality of wives they will have to vacate Mex
lean territory. The Catholic Church, which
is the prime mover in this opposition to the
introduction of polygamy upon Mexican
soil. is backed by a strong public senti-
ment, especially in the Northern States,
and should Brigham Young, Jr., succeed
In locating another colony of Mormons he
will have not only rigid laws, but social
and religious element to encounter which
would make the United States more con-
genial climate for his Latter Day Saints.
The press of the Republic and the poll
ticians have also taken up the cudgels
against the Mormons, and assert that in adj
dition to the pernicious social evil of the
saints other and more serious trouble
might result to the republic through their
colonization. Regardless of the grants
made by President Diaz, the edict has
gone forth in Mexico that the Mormons
must go.
provo (Utah) dispatch.l
Judge Powers, in his charge to the
Grand Jury of this district, instructed them
that separate indictment could be rem
dered for each day which polygamist had
lived with more than one wife since the
passage of the Edmunds act. The penalty
for each indictment is six months impris-
onment and $500 fine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08
POLITICAL.

President Cleveland has decided that
candidates for the positions of weighers and
gaugers in the customs service must undergo
examinations under the civil-service rules.
The President appointed James T.
Healy Assistant United States Treasurer at
Chicago, to succeed Gov. Beveridge; James
Blair, Postmaster at Grand Rapids. Mich,
and Edward A. Stevenson, of Boise City, Gov
ernor of Idaho Territory.
General L. s. Jones, of Bingham
ton, has been chosen to fill the vacancy on
the New York State Democratic ticket,
caused by the refusal OF Mr.. Flower to run
for Lieutenant Governor. General Jones
commanded the famous Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment which was attacked in the streets
of Baltimore, April Is, 1861, while on
its way to the defense of Washing
ton. This was the FIRST blood shed in
the civil war. He subsequently raised
the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts, volun-
teers, and served with distinction in
the Army of tho Gulf. He was brevetted
Brigadier General for mcritorious services
on the field. He ran for Congress against
Thomas @. Plat I'm 1874. but was defeated
and was again beaten two years later for the
same Office by @. r.. Dwight He Is regarded
as a business man purely and not as q poll
tician.
Professor Agassiz declines the APP
pointment OF superintendent Of the Coast
Survey. President Cleveland informed Sur
geon General Hamilton that he would he re-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

Shocking restitution and suffering
children on the Saskatchewan River, in con-
sequence of the killing, fight, or imprison-
ment of the male population. The mission
aries have shared all their provisions with
these people, and they are doomed to star
walton unless speedily relieved.
A Montreal special says: Every
thing is still quiet and no danger is at pres
ent feared. but some of the rioters have ex-
pressed their determination to keep quiet
while the volunt ers remain under arms,
and to renew the attack as soon as there is
any axity in the present precautions. The
returns at the health Office show forty-two
deaths from smallpox in the city yesterday,
six in st. Jean Baptiste, six in st. Cunegonde,
two in Cote st. Louis, and one in st. Henri.
There were 1s4 deaths from smallpox in this
city during the last four days, besides fifty
one in adjoining municipalities"
William Page, formerly President of
the National Academy of Design, died at his
home on Staten Island. Ex-Congressman
Richard j. Hodeman, a brother-in-law of
Senator Don Cameron, expired at Harris
burg.
Transfers transporting goods from
Piedras Negras TO New Laredo, Mexico, were
captured by highwaymen and bound to trees,
while the goods were carried away. Near
Runnells, Tex, boy Is years Of age halted
| a stage, terrorized the driver and passen-
gers, and rihed the mail-bags.
The business failures in the United
States and Canada during the week num-
| bered 22l, as against 1913 during the CORE
spending period of last year. Bradstrect's
Journal in its commercial summary, says:
The check to the activity in business circles
| at the East, noted last week, has become more
pronounced. In New England the distribu.
ton of boots and shoes is as heavy as ever,
| but the demand for wooden and cotton goods
has fallen off Both staples are quieter. Raw
wool is fairly active, and the advance In prices
| previously noted is sustained, but the tendency
| TO an advance in quotations is less marked
| Late sales are less than during weeks in the
| latter part of August and in the earlier por-
| ton of September. There is diminished
| activity in dry goods. Prices are no
| more than sustained. The request for iron
| East and West is of fair proportions, with no
| indication of an advance in prices. Less is
heard of Southern iron at the East than
| formerly. Anthracite coal is frmer and in
moderately better demand Grain is dull and
| low. The export demand is not specially
| improved, and stocks in sight In this country
| are heavier than ever. Flour stocks throughout
] the country are about 30 per cent less than on
July 1, but the staple has been in relatively
light export demand at current quotations
Cotton has advanced. owing TO reports OF dam
| age to the growing plant, and mercantile fall
ures are unexpectedly but little in excess of the
| total for nine months of 1884. Grocery staples
| are without Improvement. In dairy products
butter Is dull and cheese higher
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08
THE CORN CROP.
Probable Yield in the Ten Leading Pro-
ducing States.

tChicago special
The corn crop of the United States hav-
ing passed the critical stage, and whatever
of danger menaced the cereal from frosts
being now ended, owing to the maturity Of
the grain, the Farmers ReUielD Of this city
has called in reports from its / 400 CORE
spondents, giving the area and probable
yield in every county in the ten leading
corn producing States, and has compiled
from these close estimate of the approx
mate yield of the crop of 1885. These
estimates have been based on compare
son with the yield of 1884, taking the fig
ures of the Agricultural Bureau at WASH
ington for the yield of last year. The
reports of the correspondents include not
only the approximate actual acreage, but
also the percentage of condition as COM
pared to last year, and the percentage of
increase or decrease in acreage. This
was done to approximate as closely
as possible to the actual output, the
correctness of which method was demon
strated very fully in the estimate of the
wheat crop on June by this bureau, and
to which figures all the recognized Stats
ticians, including the Government bureau,
have gradually approached. In Indiana.
Illinois, and Kansas the ground plowed up,
owing to the ruinatlon OF the winter wheat
crop and devoted to corn, is closely CON-
puted. In the comparison bv States the
returns show that Indiana, Iowa, Mime
sofa. and Mississippi have a slight increase
in acreage over 1884, and Wisconsin is the
only State showing decrease but both
Minnesota and Wisconsin show decrease
in condition and Missouri also shows a
slight decrease. The other States all reveal
IN improvement and in Ohio, Illinois, and
Indiana the improvement is marked.
This results in the following comparison
by States of the probable yield in the ten
States named:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08
NEWS CONDENSER.
Concise Record of the Week.


At tho meeting of the Northwestern
Anthracite Coal Association, at Erie. no
change was made In the price of coal for
October, and the product for the month was
fixed at 100000 tons.
A decree ordering the sale of the
West Shore Road for not less that than SEE,
000,00e was entered at Newburgh, N. Y, by
Judge Brown. Abram S. Cassidy was APP
pointed referee for the sale of the property.
William j. Coshey, aged Is, and Miss
Laird, IA years old, eloped from Greensburg,
Pa, and, going to Pittsburgh, were married.
The groom was recently messenger boy,
and the bride is the only daughter OF the
editor of the Greensburg Argus.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Caro-
lima, was sentenced to three years in the
Massachusetts, Penitentiary for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
James Donnelly and Edward Berry
INDUCED in a prize-ight near Pittsburgh.
Pepper was thrown in the eyes of Berry
who had forced the lighting, entirely blind
ing him, and he was given the fight, upon
which a general row resulted.
The firm of VIM. Heath & Co., prom
inent New York brokers, has made an as
signment. The collapse is said to have re-
suited chiefly from the failure of Mr.. Henry
Smith, heavy bear operator, TO make good
his margins with the firm. Mr.. Smith mas
also made an assignment.
Pittsburgh dispatch: "A battery of
boilers IN Clarkes Solar Iron Works, at the
corner of Smallman and Thirty-sixth
streets, exploded with fearful force, seven
teen men being scalded, four of them IA
tally. The day force had just come on,
the night turn having been relieved, when
the explosion occurred. The mud-drum of
the boilers giving way was the cause
of the accident. The injured men were
both burned and scalded, while some Of
them were injured, I'm addition, by flying
pieces of iron and bricks. The large num-
Der of boys among the injured is accounted
for from the fact that they were the hoop
iron handlers, who work near the boilers,
where the iron is rolled"
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In the rear OF bis premises. The
names of the victims are Orange Washing
ton, his wife known ms Grace vancc), PatsIe
Gibson. and Lucinda Boldly. From the tes-
timony and surrounding circumstances It
appears that the assassin entered the room
of the sleeping occupants through window,
and before any OF them awoke succeeded in
striking all four OF them on the head with
an az. The author OF the bloody deed, a
negro named Doc Wood, was pursued and
arrested
In street fight at Abingdon, Vir-
ginia, Judge George w. Ward. editor of a
Democratic newspaper, was fatally shot by
DR.. w. M. White, Independent candidate for
State Senator, and two of his relatives. all of
whom were arrested and admitted to bail.
The first shot was fired by DIR. White, who
had been lying in wait for Judge Ward.
Charles Taylor, the 21-year-old
Mayor OF Van Buren,, Ark, shot and killed
Alexander Aaron, of that place, in quarrel
over a woman. Aaron is described as ruff
fan, and his killing is said to have been In
self-defense. Taylor was admitted to tail.
Four negroes, one of them woman,
who were accused of several murders. were
taken from jail and hanged by a mob, in
Chatham County, North Carolina. The cell
doors were broken down and the four negroes
we're each put on a horse with disguised
man astride behind. The men made no out
cry, save to protest their innocence, but
the means of tho woman were heart
rending. mile was quickly travelled, and
the cavalcade stopped in grove. The me-
groes were tied hands and feet and made to
stand upon their horses They were given
FIVE minutes TO make confessions and to pray.
They protested their innocence to the last,
and as they prayed the horses were driven
out from under them, and they were left
hanging to the tree.
At Gallatin, Tenn, livery stable
was fired, supposedly by an incendiary, and
all its contents, including twenty-one horses,
burned
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08

tanned in his present position. Dudley O.
watson has been appointed Collector OF Gus
toms Mt Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Massachusetts, Republican Con-
vention. in session at Springfield, placed tho
following ticket I'm the field: Governor,
George ID. Robinson; Lieutenant Governor,
Oliver Ames; secretary OF State, Henry u.
Pierce; State Treasurer and Receiver Gen.
eral, A. w. Beard; Auditor. Chas. II. Ladd
Attorney General, Edgar L. Sherman.
Senator Hoar who presided over tho conven-
ton, made lengthy speech, in watch he said
that his party, although in favor of restoring
peace and harmony between the sections,
would insist upon the right of all loyal
citizens TO free discussion, unobstructed
suffrage, and an honest counting OF their
votes. The platform indorses the civil
service laws and urges the extension of their
principles TO oil the business Offices OF the
Government; demands the suspension of
silver coinage; the enactment of a general
bankrupt law, and the vigorous enforce
ment OF the Edmunds bill in Utah; favors
reductions or reforms I'm the tariff which
may not be inconsistent with the doctrine of
projection anu appears 10 IN 'arOuSeu pup
lie conscience" TO prevent further suppress
sion of the negro vote in the South.
A convention of colored men of Vir-
ginia met at Lynchburg. NJ. V. Beckey, of
Richmond, delivered an address, saying the
convention had not assembled as Republi-
cans or Democrats, but as citizens of Vir-
ginia, claiming the right of freemen. He
hoped their deliberations would demonstrate
that they were worthy the citizenship The
convention adopted resolutions renouncing
allegiance TO the Republican organization,
and proclaiming absolute independence
henceforth in political matters.
The straight Greenbackers' of Iowa
held a convention at Marshalltown, and
nominated the following ticket: Governor,
Elias Doty, of Cedar Rapids: Lieutenant
Governor, J. X. Clark of Mount Pleasant;
Supreme Judge, NJ. n. Farnsworth, of
Cresco; State Superintendent, j. ID. Guthrie,
of Oskaloosa. j. h. Eckert was chosen a
member of the National Committee, and a
full State Central Committee was appointed.
Resolutions approving the indianapolis ma
tional platform. of 1854 and denouncing
fusion with the Democrats were adopted.