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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10

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THURSDAY MAY 10, 1885.
Advertising Rates.
! column year $4,000
column a year 1870
! column n year 25 90
! column year 1900
For shorter time than one year fifty
per cent added to the prorata yearly rate.
No departure from these terms.
LOCAL ADVERTISEMENTS. "a cents a
line for each insertion.
HOME ITEMS.
Wchave 300 prs Gent Buchard drawers
We Will sell at Bic. until April 25th.
n. b. Josey q Co.
500 yards Garter Webbing for one
month at sc. per I'D. at \. b. Josey u Go.
$50 prs ~ yds cach) Irish trimming at
Zoe at n. b. Josey q Go. 5.
800 Turkish Bath towels worth 25c. at
Zoe at \. 3. Josey " Co.'S.
Packages containing 80 hair pins at sc.
at \. 4. Joscy 4 Co.'s.
Large assortment of Pcrcal shirts
worth 81. 30 to SI.O0 at n. Il. JoseY d Co.
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pcrfumcry in great variety. so Doz
Standard brands only - cents per bottle
at y. Il, Joscy x co.'s,
All shades Of Embroidry silk at lc.
per skein at n b. JoseY y co. $
ladies Opera Slippers for one dollar
only: Misses &c. at y. Is. Josey 4 co.'s.
$50 White Dress Patterns with hand
some embroidery from 10 to 30 at n.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. superior court
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Flower pots of all kinds for little
money at Ednondson 4 Joscy's.
--latest ,tyIc Of shoes at Edmondson K
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Nice line Of felt and straw hats at Ed
,nnndson \ Jo,rv's.
We are AGENTS for the Deer CuItIvator.
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If Won want the host cook stove made
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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10

Oid papcre TO sale at TINS Office
at 25c. per hundred.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10

The counters of NJ. Hoffman 4 Bro.
are crowded with all the nice things im~
agmahle.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10

Shoes Shoes :, Shoes :,
The attest styles, at astOnishingIy low
prices at NJ Hoffman * Bro. S.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
TO MY FRIENDS.

) 10 II.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10

The Enterprise, formerly published a
Dunn. Harnctt county moves to Holl,
Springs, Wake county.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Fourth and Sixth ward Democrats
meet tomorrow evening for organization.
The Republicans viii hold their nomi-
nation in the Third ward at No. 221 Mon
roe street.
The Democrats of the Ninth. Tenth
Eleventh and Twelfth wards meet this
evening for organization and the election
of three members of the executive com
mittee for this hundred.
The Republicans Of North Christiana
will hold a meeting at Breck's Mill on
Monday evening next at s o'clock. Fred
erick +. Bach and others will address the
meeting
Governor Biggs was in Dover last Tues
day and advised all Democrats to stand
by and support the regular Democratic
county and state, as well as the national
Democratic ticket.-Dover Index.
The Republicans of Mill Creek hundred
will hold a preliminary meeting at Hook
essin tomorrow evening Speeches will
be made by Captain d. f. Buckingham.
II. H. Ward and Walter H. Hayes, Esqs.
of this city.
John S. testers term as Justice Of the
peace expires on Wednesday next. Jus.
tice Jester has been one of the best sffi-
cials that has held that office in Kent
county for years. He is an applicant for
reappointment.
The Republicans of the Third ward
met last evening at Fourth and jefferson
streets and organized for the coming
campaign by the election of the following
officers; President John II. Graham
vice president, Frank X. Irons: secretary.
n. r. Benson, Jr. treasurer. w. Il.
Brinton. Meetings will be held every
Tuesday evening to talk over the topics
of the campaign
The Democrats Of the Third ward met
for organization last evening at Dillin's
No 500 West Fourth street Daniel Nc
kenney was elected president: Samue
Durney, secretary, and William II. Blake
Daniel Mullin, Jr., and John J. Kennedy
members Of the hundred executive com
mittee A ward committee Of nine wa,
appointed and the meeting adjourned
until next Wednesday evening.
The star Democratic meeting of the
campaign will be that in the Grand Opert
/ House on Saturday evening next. TIL,
liihNlphi speahelc Will DC tne Hon. Leb
ulen B. Vance, Senator from North Car
olina, and Hon. w. c. p. Breckenridge D
Kentucky The speakers are two OF tn,
finest orators in the country. The repu
tation Of the Breckenridges OF Kentuck,
for oratory has been famous for thre,
generations. Hon. Thomas Z. Bayar,
win be at the meeting. The orators o
the evening will be the guests of Secre
tary Bayard at Delaware Place durin.
their stay in the city. Senator Vance /
one of the most entertaining stump ora
tors in the country The tariff will n
intelligently discussed by the speakers
Music will be furnished.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
rAAIrF TAX.
A rne for somebody 70 chew.


New York Press
Wheeler. Madden & Clemson. saw rran-
ufacturers of sfiddletowu. n. Y. send us
the following, which viii interest the
Post ''The editor of the New York
Evening Post has taken it upon himself
to enlighten its readers as To how the
Mills bill would affect the file and saw in
dustries Being manufacturers Of these
goods we have read his articles with in
terest.
The Post of the 18th inst. says the
file factory at Middletown was started
in 1853 under what the protectionists
call the free trade tariff of 1916 Whether
this was free trade tariff or not. the
duty on files was lower in 1856 when the
Middletown factory was established than
it is in the Mills bill.
1.-THE reason we were enabled TO estab-
lish the file business in 1855 under the
low tariff was owing to the exorbitant
prices the foreigners were charging us
for files, they having control of the
American market They were SO persist
ent in their greed for large profits that
they not only allowed us but others TO be
come established.
Competition among American manu-
that they now reach the consumer under
high protection at cost of less than one
third paid under the low tariff of 1856 /;
and coupled with this is the important
fact for the workingmen to consider.
that we are paying both our common and
skilled labor to-day double the wages we
paid during the low tariff period When
we established our business IN 1856 the
IA
with files at exOrbitant prices to-day
they stand ready to enter their goods in
this market at nearly, If not quite, cost
price to them.
"If the editor of the Post does not
understand, as a matter Of protection
to file manufacturers. that there is an all
important difference between the lower
tax Of 1855 and the tariff proposed by
the Mills BILL then he has not any bust
ness to discuss the question in the public
manner in which he has done. and if he
does not understand the subject thor
oughly then he must be knave.
Here is little new malerial for the
Post to work upon. According to our
books the following are the comparative
wages as paid by us:
1865
Labor, skilled, per day. d.. ...,........ 81 to 81
1888.
Labor, per day, common ,....s.... Sl.l5 to $50
Labor, skilled, per day ................ g. to g.
Saws made and sold now are of de
cidedly better quality and finish than
those of 1856 and reach the consumer at
a cost of about one third the price paid
then.
This is certainly favorable showing
to the workingman and consumer, and
we assert that it is largely owing to the
system of protection now in force aud
challenge the editor Of the Post to prove
it otherwise
I'VE would suggest that if they here
after indulge in the usual amount of alb
use, they do not so far forget themselves
as to term us robbers. for il would be
very inconsistent in this par tic ular
case.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20

Pa. Lady Bennett, ch m. Sol Pippin.
Easton, Nd.
DOUBLE TEAMS, oN-PRoPEssIoNAL DRI-
vERs, HORSES OWNED BY ONE MAN-2
ENTRIES.
Gideon NJ, b G. D. S. Nichols. Phila-
delphia Tempest, b m; Maybel. b m. M.
+. Hayden, Wilmington; Annie v, b m.
3 MINUTE CLASS, COUNTRY HORSES. NON
PROFESSIONAL DRIvERs-6 ENTRIES.
Rocket, g, George Ferguson. VIII
mington; Lady f., b m, J. n. Elliott.
Wilmington; EfIie NJ, blk m. William
6. Mahaffy, Wilmington; Harry c.. b q.
H. G, Mahaffy, Wilmington; Dexter. blk
g NJ. F. Hayden, Wilmington: Minnie
Dale b m, Maple Valley Stock Farm.
Kirkwood, Del.
FOALs OF 1887, TO BE OWNED OK THE
PENINSULA OR THE GET OF A HORsE ON
THE PENINSULA ENTRIES.
Brown Cedar, br colt. Maple Valley
Stock Farm, Kirkwood, Del Jim Ben b
colt, T H. Mccoy, Kirkwood, Del. Sauce
Box, br T, d. f. Stewart, Wilmington.
On the last day of the fair, Saturday.
October 10, there viii be running races.
the classes of which have not vet been
made up. The entries win close on Octo-
Der 1
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
EVERY EVENINGS wHooP.
A Wilmington Paper Strikes n snag on
Arasapha Ginghams.

The Chester (Pa.) Times says. The
Wilmington Every Evening in an editor
iel recently said;
"One of Wilmington's dry goods mer.
chants yesterday called the writer's at
tention to make of cotton goods known
to the trade as Arasapha ginghams.
These ginghams have been manufactured
at the Trainer mills. comprising the
familiar old Patterson stone mill at Ches-
ter and mill Of more recent construc-
tion at Trainers, between Linwood and
Chester These mills have been closed
down, the proprietors alleging that the
Mills bill is responsible for their idleness:
preposterous bit of nonsense for politi-
cal effect which has been thoroughly
shown up by the Philadelphia Times
Up to six months ago these ginghams
were sold to the trade by the iobbing
houses at Al cents per yard" said the
merchant; "and in my knowledge of
these ginghams, going back for five
years, they were never sold for over A
cents. Within six months they have
been put up to ST cents-an advance of Il
per cent. and yet they are complaining
about the Mills bill affecting the profit
on their goods.
The editorial was shown to William E.
Trainer, of the Trainer Company, yester-
Cay. He read it, laughed and remarked !:
That entire article is wrong. In the
first place we don't make Arasapha ging-
hams, and never did. We don't make
any kind Of ginghams. At the Patterson
Mills ginghams are made but of higher
grade and price than the Arasapha make
Again, this editor states that we said we
closed our mills on account of the Mills
bill. We never said anything Of the kind
We did say that the agitation of the tariff
question had so unsettled trade that we
closed for lack of orders
"A Wilmington merchant" continued
Mr.. Trainer, is quoted as saying that
these ginghams We're sold to the trade by
iobbing houses at Al cents yard The
Patterson mill ginghams never sold at 50
low figure. Then he says the price was
advanced to 81, a gain Of II per cent
This man forgets to state that in the
meantime the price of cotton ad-
vanced more than twice that much Now.
who loses-the consumer or the manu-
facturer The Every Evening gives but
one side of the story and accuses us of
pocketing II per cent more profit when in
reality the makers are paying more for
cotton and getting proportionately less
for goods.
'ALL LIE
The article was shown to w. S. Blake
ley, Of the Arasapha Manufacturing Com
pany, whose mills make the ginghams
referred to.
80, yes; I've seen that article before, y
replied Mr.. Blakely. Somebody brought
it here and cut it out and tackled it at
the entrance to the MILL where every.
body could see it, and tackled note above
it saying This is all lie. And Sc
it is.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
wELL-kNowN PERSONS.

Princess Letitias bridal veil is en-
broidered with 800 silver bees and 100
eagles.
Tom Mcguire Of the Fourteenth Street
Theatre has been left a legacy Of
100000
Lord Cranbrook, in good -humored
note contrHdicts the statement that he
prides himself on never having read a
novel.
William Carter, aged "a years. has been
coroner for tifty-one years, and is the
oldest coroner in England. He succeeded
his father.
Nancy Edgerly of wolfboro, N. H.. is
lO5 years old and never had a physician
but once in her life, and then threw the
medicine away
Miss Ella c. Sabin has just been elected
superintendent of the public schools OF
Portland, Ont, and principal of the high
school, with a salary of $4,000
Mrs. Joseph Riggs of Washington is
engaged to be married to Prince Ruspoh,
whose brother has married Miss Cur
tiss sister Of the divorced wife Of the
Marquis Talleyrand Perigord
Miss NJ L. Wallace. who is following
in the footsteps Of Mrs Wistar as trans
later of German classics. has been spend
ing the summer at Richfeld Springs
Guiletta Dionesi is girl 10 years old.
who plays the violin and interprets works
of the greatest musicians in a way that
arouses the widest enthusiasm in Italy.
The important information that the
Prince of Wales and the Gar of Russia
are no mean performers on the banjo is
communicated to a grasping world. The
Prince, it is added can after returning
from opera or opera boufFe pick out the
tunes on the banjo with remarkable abil-
ity
The silent Won Moltke" isn't At al
silent at home. He is. on the contrary
a charming, lively and amiable compan
ion. He is very fond Of the wife Of hi.
nephew, who presides over his household
and of her children. He loves whist anC
roses; and Of these flowers cultivates
great variety.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20

ment, whose annual meetings mark the
real scientific progress OF the year and
furnish the significant contributions TO
professional knowledge
a Few years ago the idea was brought
forward by DR.. Pepper, DR.. Billings. OF
the Army Medical Museum, and other
leading men. Of having all these special
societies hold their meetings every third
year at one time, at Washington. II has
required some time to bring this about,
but at last the scheme has been
perfected and the Congress" Of
the present week is the result.
Thirteen societies are now holding their
sessions at Washington. They are the
American Surgical Society the Associa-
ton of American Physicians. the Opthal-
mological, the Neurological the Otologi-
cal, the laryngological, and Dermatologi-
cal Societies the Association of GenitO
Urinary Surgeons, the American China
tological Association, the Orthopedic
Association the Physiological Society,
the Chronological Society and the
Association of Obstetricans Each Of these
societies carries on its work without
reference TO the others. but in the even
ings there is general meeting for the
discussion of subjects of interest to the
whole profession This constitutes the
congress There are no delegates. no
machinery only an executive committee
Of one from each society taking part, who
selects the subjects and the writer's and
arrange for the meetings and nominate
the president. But every member Of the
congress is Of necessity man of recognized
achievement in some one or more
branches Of the profession and in such a
body nobody is likely to be heard unless
he has something Of value TO say.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Iucher, Painter, 4O6 Shipley street.

Buoher, Painter, 4O6 Shipley street.
At Croydon. England, where a man and
a woman had died in hospital were to
be buried, their bodies got into the
wrong coffins, and the relatives of the
woman followed the man to the ceme-
terry, while the mans family followed the
woman.
Bucher Sign Painter 4O6 Shipley St.
The coolest town in the world is Mer-
choiansk, in Siberia, where the mercury
has sometimes recorded a temperature Of
SO degrees below zero.
Trunks and Harness, bottom prices at
Yergers.
Go to Yerger's for trunks, 407 Shipley.
Gliding on glass, 4O6 Shipley street.
Show Cards, Bucher, 406 Shipley st.
In Texas last week a negro took laugh
ing gas before having tooth pulled, and
astonished the dentist by leaping from
the chair through window, carrying
sash and all to the pavement twenty feet
below, yet strange to say, was only a
little shaken when he came to himself.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
wANAMAKER,s.
PHrLADELPHIA, Thursday, Sept. 20. 1888.

PHILADELPHIA. Thursday, Sept. 20 1888
No mistake about the Bor-
dered Dress Goods. Fashion
puts the stamp of approval on
some queer styles, but this time
she hasn't gone one bit wrong.
Any costume gets a touch of
dashiness from the Border !;
almost any face or figure gains
piquancy from such a costume.
There are dozens and dozens
of these Justin handsome de-
signs. Words are weak to de-
scribe them; and they don't
look right when we hold them
up in the paper. We won't
try-just point at a popularity
sr two as we fit by.
One of the simplest as well
as one of the most striking
effects comes from the wool"
Bordered Ladies Cloth. The
broad fuzzy strip has the SEEM
ing of fur, and the color con-
trasts are Just pronounced
enough to have charm without
obtrusiveness:
green aud gray
roseda and silver brown
gray and black
blue and tan
olive and tan
mahogany and tan
mode and tan
As inches wide, $I.75.
Heavy Ladies Cloth covered
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
NEWSPAPER OPINIONS.
The conrres, ~ phv.,c,an,


Philadelphia Times.
The Congress Of American Physicians
and Surgeons that assembled in Wash
ington yesterday is the most important
and dignihed gathering Of it's kind that
has ever been held in this country. 1t is
quite different from the American Medi-
cal Association, though most Of the mem
bers are also members OF that BODY. The
latter is a sort of constituent assembly
made up Of delegates elected by
universal suffrage among the whole body
of the profession in every state and terri
tory. Il represents, therefore the gen
eral average Of professional advancement
throughout the country, and as the aver
age, in democracy, is necessarily nearer
she bottom than the top-as the centre
of gravity Of py ramid is nearer the base
than the apex-the American Medical
Association has not in recent years CON
tributed much that was notable TO the
advancement Of science, and has gradu.
ally ceased to hold the first place in the
attention Of the leading men in the pro
fession, especially in the large cities.
This was inevitable from the tendency
to specialization in city practice. The
general practitioner, as he is found in the
country, has about ceased to exist in the
large cities. The surgeons were long
since separated from the physicians; then
the advance in surgery required a sub
division of labor there, and medical
practice also tends 10 a division into
specialties, though except in one OF
two broad classifcations the line:
are less sharply drawn here thar
IN surgery. II follows further that
the specialists naturally form asso
Citations Of their own, and ther,
have thus grown up a multitude Of
s'ecisfies drawing their membership from
all parts OF the country and embracing
the pick Of the profession in each depart
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
RECIPROCITY IN FISCAL ARRANGE
MENTS.

RECIPROCITY IN FISCAL ARRANGE
MENTS.
At a meeting Of the Society Of Arts,
held in London on the l1th of May, Gen.
eral Randall Of the royal engineers and a
commander ofth Star Of India advocated
the assumption of the English canals by
government, on the grounds that that
stage in our history has been reached
when the question is not merely
whether our ancient commercial
supremacy is seriously threatened,
but rather whether its very exist
enoe is not imperiled. And, to regulate
the price Of labor, in these days, is
more difficult problem, according to the
General, who continues with this signi6-
cant sentence; 80 long then, as our
continental neighbors shut their eyes to
the benefits Of reciprocacy in fiscal ar
arrangements, the only opening in which
there seems to be possibility of, at all
events, diminishing the odds against our
selves, is in an endeavor to reduce the
cost Of transport, both Of the raw mater
ial and Of the finished product"
The reciprocity in fiscal arrangements
for which the General sighed is known as
free.trade, though it is often called reve.
nue. reform in this country. And the
reciprocity for reducing the cost Of trans
port arises from the fact that the cost of
freight transportation Is from two and
one-half 70 three three times as great in
England as in the United States.
The authority for this statement may be
found on page 32s Of Railway Problems
by J. 5. Jeans, fellow and mem
Der of council of the Statistical
Society English, published ia London
last year. The reading is: 1T is prob
able that the rate on English railways
will not be much II any, under I'D,
which is just three times the amount
charged on the principal American lines,
as already ascertained. If the assumed
English average were now charged on the
American railroads, the income Of the
latter, on the freight carried in 1894.
would have been e20O, 000, 900, more than
ii really was, or 81, 0OO, 900, 000
There are less than 90, 600 miles of
railroad in Great Britain and Ireland,
representing capital Of $500, 600, 900 or
over 5000, 900 per mile, and in this coun-
try there are about 150, 600 miles Of rail.
road capitalized at about $62, 500 per mile.
The dividends on the capital Of English
roads have been nearly Al per cent, and
on American railroad capital At per cent,
but in the words of Mr.. Jeans. the
American railroads have made IAN enor-
nous reduction in rates and fares,
whereas, in the United Kingdom any
reductions that have occurred in these
directions during the same interval (from
1S7l) have been immaterial Page 56.
Hence, 1.-THE benefits Of reciprocity in
fiscal arrangements, which our Revenue
Reform friends are so anxious to extend
to the capitalist of England, are to allow
them, with materials Of about the same
cost as here, and wages at about half the
cost, to continue paying larger dividend.
on the enormous capitalization Of Their
roads than are paid ON the more cheaply
built and better managed roads Of this
country
Revenue Reform, when clearly seen
presents great attractions to an English
man.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
His PRAYER.

God keep you safe, my little love,
All through the night,
Rest close In his encircing arms
Until the light.
My heart Is with you as knecl TO pray;
Good night; God keep you in his care always
Thick shadows creep like silent ghosts
About my head:
lose myself In tender dreams,
While overhead
The moon comes stealing through the window
bars.
a silver sickle cleaning mid the stars.
For /, though am far away.
Feel safe and strong.
10 trust you thus, dear love-and yet
The night Is long;
! say with sohbing breath the old fond prayer,
Good night sweet dreams! God keep YOU
everywhere.
Evening journal., 1888-09-20
rAE AvERAeE REoucTIoN rRlck.
True story Of What Mills Would Have
Said Under the Circumstances.

True story of What Mills Would Have
said Under the circumstances.
There are various ways of PLAYING the
average reduction trick. This is one of
them:
MY bill is not a free trade bill" said
Roger Quixote Mills, prancing around in
a recent speech 1T provides for an
average reduction Of only seven per cent. /"
"Will the gentleman allow me to ask
him a question: said quiet man in the
audience.
"Of course
Your salary as Congressman. Ibelieve.
is $4,000 yearg stated the quiet man.
1T is, replied the great orator.
And the President is $50. O0OY"
eyes. sir "
Making together $50. 00Og"
''Of course, said the great orator, i'm
patiently
Now continued the quiet man. sff
we put you on the free list without dis
turbing the Presidents S pay-iust as YOU
have done with wool without disturbing
rice-that would be an average reduction
Of only trife over nine per cent. How
would you stand that kind Of average re-
ductionY
"Oh, you 60 home and soak yo' head. s.
felicitously replied the great orator. -
Philadelphia Press.