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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-01-26
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~E THE DEADLY POPPY,
Alarming Extent to Which the Excessive
Use OF Opium Prevails.


Use OF Opium Prevails.
The consumption of opium in. its
various forms is practice that is
growing to an alarming extent" said
DIR. M. Gaylord Pingree, a day or two
since The experience of other physi-
clans might prompt them to say other
wise, but am confident that this is the
case. The form in which it is most used is
morphine powders and hypodermic in
jections of morphine Idon't think the
eating OF crude opium obtains very
much since the same effect can be had
in the less Objectionable ways The
people who use the drug habitually fall
into two classes They are, first, people
OF low, lewd habits, and, secondly, so
clety people who are out late at the
aters and parties and feel the need of
something to Danish the consequent
physical discomfort. It is noteworthy
fact, also, that the female users of
opium outnumber the male in about the
proportion of five to one. This is
doubtless because men get stimulus and
narcotic, effects from the use of drink
and tobacco. And let me say right
here that 1 would rather be confirmed
drunkard than a confirmed opium
eater. Opium deadens the moral sense
and makes the user IL driveling, degrad-
ed wretch. You can scarcely find an
opium-eater, for instance, who is not
an uRconscionable liar. I've had ladies
come into my office asking for pre-
scription for morphine, representing
themselves to be from the country and
wanting the drug to deaden a pain with
which they are temporarily troubled.
almost always insist on seeing. their
arms; in nine cases out Of ten find them
Scared from one end to the other from
the use of the hypodermic syringe. /
have actually had patients whose whole
bodies were Scared in the same way.
The outcome of opium-eating is that
often povertystricken women will sell
their honor to get the narcotic drug.
"AN opium cures are frauds. They
all contain opium, and the patient is
merely deceived. Such cures may pos
sibly tend to wean people from the
habit, but the greatest thing accom-
Pushed is to make big sale for aeaiulastccl2
comedy. think physicians arc largely
responsible for this wholesale use III
opium by their injudicious presciip-
tions. 1t would be better for the pub
lie if doctors, when administering
opium, would simply give it without
letting the patient know what it is. |
The thing to do, however. is for the
legislature to pass q law prohibiting
druggists from selling opium and sim
liar drugs except on IL prescription from
an accredited physician. Indiana now
has such law, and only short time
ago amended it by limiting the number |
OF times a prescription containing such
drugs could be renewed without further
instructions from q physician. That'to
my mind is an enactment that every
State should pass. Chicago News.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-01-26
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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
Lemon Hot Drops

DR., IL. Mozley-Dear Sir: / have
suffered for FIVE years with a severe
cough and lang trouble. | saw your
advertisement Of DIR. II. Mozley's
Lomoa Hot Drops and procured .
bottle; having tried every coughs
syrup and lozenge that could hear
of with but little benefit. | derived
benefit from the first dose. My
copgh left me, also the soreness of
my lungs. My cough Wis So severe
as to produce hemorrhages, at the
time I began to use it and the relief
was so great that shall ever feel
grateful to you. Mrs. + SIMMs.
No. 4 Orange st "a tlanta, Ga.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23

al years; once week, before break
fast, about fifty copies. | tell you,
sir, boys worked and obeyed in those
days. | seldom saw iourneymen.
In 1884 | worked for N. ]. Palmer,
Esq, on the Milton ''spectator," and
Joseph G. Meggiason, Esq, on the
Danville Register" In 1885 / was
a clerk in store in Hillsborough,
and on the 9TH of October, 1881, |
came to Raleigh to work in the
"Star" Office. On the first day of
January, 1871, l obtained my law
license, passing with a class of about
twenty, Of whom Rev. DR.. Calvin Fl
Wiley and R. w. Lassiter, ESQ.,, of
Oxford, Survive. In June, 1S43, Ipur-
chased the Standard office Twas new
era good obprinter, but was swift
and accurate composition. | remem-
Der that one Saturday, when | had
been in the Office but a few months.
| had ''set eolumn"by dinner time.
and had taken my proof to be read,
when Mr.. Heartt, after reading it
carefully, and finding but two mis-
takes, said, William you have done
very well. guess you can go home
now" What kind, good man he
was! And he was thoughtful, care
full, scrupulous, conscientious, and
very industrious.
MIR. Heartt had five children, two
girls and three boys. They are all
dead now, with the exception Of the
venerable and most worthy Leopold
Eugene Heartt, of your city Of
Durham.
| have thus given you a brief
notice Of Mr.. Heart and the RECoR-
DER. Your paper dates from 1920
and Is therefore sixty-six years old
trust it may live long, long time
Bear in mind always, sir, its high
moral tone while id the hands of its
founder. | feel sure he never select
ed an article, or wrote a line for his
paper, which, dying, he could wish
to blot"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
Mr.. COwles's Bill.

The bill to repeal the tobacco tax.
introduced by Representative Cowles,
recently, has revived the hope that
the present Congress will do some
thing tangible in this particular
and give the trade a rest from the
continued agitation which has more
or less surrounded this question for
several years past. 1t is to be hoped
so.
As tie Danville Register has 50
well expressed it. I'VE cannot see
wherein the democratic members
would hurt themselves by passing
this bill. 1t is a part and parcel Of
the Mills tariff bill and therefore a
democratic measure. As an advo-
cate Of tariff reform. we have never
thought the democrats would have
been iustifiable in aiding the repub
licans TO repeal the internal revenue.
in order 10 prevent a reduction Of
the tariff, but it has been demon
strated by the democrats themselves
that the tobacco tax can be removed
and the revenue laws modified, a.
provided for in the Mills bill. and
still leave a surplus revenue Of fifty
millions TO be taken from the tariff.
The republicans are pledged TO re-
peal the tobacco tar and they will
control both branches Of congress
after the present session shall be
ended. Why then, again, should
not the democrats anticipate mat
tiers and by their own act remove
this unjust tax: II is a thing that
has annoyed and hamprred tobacco
dealers for several years past and il
IL a hard line indeed that the busi-
ness interest Of the tobacco belt
should continue ~ suffer. because Of
q Senseless quarrel among pOliti-
clans"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
The Durham Tobacco Market.

1t is a fact evident to many of
our readers that there are a number
of persons disposed to run down
Durham and her tobacco market
make assertions preiudicials to the
interests of our town which, il they
were pinned down to the truth of
the matter, they cannot substanti-
ate.
The past week in our tobacco
market has been one creditable to
any market. Our warehouse floors
have presented animated scenes and
prices have rang, d higher than the
week previous, although a very
small proportion of the offering
have been of very high grades.
From five to SIX counties represent
ed has been the daily average. The
farmers have been satisfied. There
has been little or no complaint that
We have heard of and We have per-
sonally mingled with them to some
extent. Much of their offerings
have been of common grades and
of course they do not expect fancy
prices when this is the case.
Our buyers are well equipped for
all emergencies, therefore, it is folly
to listen to all the tales which may
be Matched up that the Durham
market is fat. We tell you that
ssch is not the case. Durham is
Just as wide-awake now as she ever
was and will do as much, or more,
for farmers, than at any time in her
history. This is being realized every
day by the full breaks at our ware.
houses. These breaks speak fol
themselves. So bring on your to-
bacco. Our buyers, dealers and
manufacturers are prepared to han
die all you can bring.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23

The Senate Of North Carolina has
passed a resolution commencing
Representative Cowles and his course
on the revenue bill now before Con-
gress. A dispatch from Washing
ton tells US that nothing has yet
been determined as to when the
committee on appropriations will
take the matter up. but there will
be decided pressure from Southern
Democrats to get the matter before
the House after the tariff bill has
been passed in the Senate.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23

THE Richmond Times says the
Territories. il admitted, will rein
force the Republicans with a suffi-
Gent number of Senators to secure
quite toPlOftieal disregard for the
right of the people. and 1t may he
expected that the q. o. P. will per-
form to the tune of monopoly pro-
lection until the people find out
that they are neing hired out for all
they are worth.
Then the reaction will come. and
all the monopoly money made on
war taxes in time Of peace will fight
to hold the fort.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
Important to Debtors.

A | am instructed to close The &C.
counts Of all persons indebted to the
Assignee Of the firm # Messrs.
Muse Il Shaw in such manner as will
be for the best interest Of the cndi.
tors /: l hereby notify all such debt.
ors that shall endeavor to SEE them
again in person and if their accounts
be not thea sati- factorily closed, il
will become my duty to get judge.
ment against them or else advertise
and sell their accounts at The Court
House door. Please be prepared fol
a settlement when call upon you.
WALTON VI. BUsBEE,
dec. IL for Assignee.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23

The coolest wave Of the season
passed over the northwest Friday.
On the morning named Neche. Oak,
reported az degrees below zero; at
Morris Mimi. il was 30 below;
Grand FORKS, OAK, 2jbelow. There
il no great interruption TO traffic.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23

THE | "v. DR.. J'seph Parker, Of
London. i, gong TO start series Of
smoking sermons. He thinks that
the London workiBgmen may he in.
duced to go 10 church il they ran
find a place where pipe smokinga and
religious services may be pursued to-
gether.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
LEMON ELIXIR.
Its Wonderful Effect on the Liver
stomach, Bowels, Kidneys
and Blood, #...

STOMACH, BOWeiS, hiuneyS
and Blood,
As prepared by Do H. Motley,
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that positively cures all Billiousness,
Consumption, Indigestion or Dys-
pepsia. Headache, Malaria, Kidney
Disease, Dizziness, Colds, Loss of
Appetite, Feqers, Chills, Blotches,
Pimples, all Impurities of the Blood,
Pain in the Back, Palpatation of the
Heart. and all other diseases caused
by disor,lered liver, stomach and
kidneys, the fret great cause Of all ia.
tai diseases, so cents and 81 per bot
tie. Sold by druggists. Prepared only
by Ii. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta, Ga.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
VIII Attend the Courts.

The proprietor Of this paper will
attend the courts in the surrounding
counties. All persons indebted TO US
will please meet US and pay up their
bills.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
WANTED.

WANTED.
w Travelling add local sale men for
Agricultural aud Machiaery Spectalti 10
= II TO thu trade State age, references
amount expected for stlary aud expenses
Address Massey Il Co., M9Diezuma, Ga
Gun
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-23
VALUABLE LAND FOR
SALE.

A)@hA%Ass
Under an order Of the Superior
Court Of said county in the special
proceedings entitled I. ). Vickers
and others VS.. w X. Vickers and 9TH
ers, win sell at public auction at the
Court House door in Durham ON The
18th day Of FEBRUARY 1889 &C IL
O'Clock NJ. two Y luable tracts Of land
in Durham Township, parts Of the
dover land Of William Trics. deceas.
e. as T. lows:
LIST. Tract, containing 100 IS 100
acres. on which is the dwelling house
and outbulidmgs.
End. Tract containing 70 II 100
acres, adjoining above.
Eac'' tract embraces cultivated
land aud woodland, and both are
valuable farms.
TERMS OF SALE: One third cash ;
one third in six months and one
third in twelve nrlihs, with interest
on deferred payment at rate Of eight
per cent per annum fr, m sale day
tIll paid: Title reserved till full
payment.
7. s. VICKERS,
jan 10 IL. Commissioner.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
DRAINAGE TROUBLES

The Chicago drainage business, &C
cording to the local news papers, starts
out so badly as to presage with almost
dead certainty a worse ending. The
two parties have nominated five candi-
dates each for the drainage board, to
consist of nine members. The Tribune,
while supporting the nominees of its
own party, admits that the bOodlers
labored to get dishonest set of candi-
dates for both sides, and ''have been
about as successful as they expected. F"
So which ever party gets the majority
of one in the board, "the bOodlers see
their way clear to have the control of
the work and to make it cost as many
millions as it ought to, with great per-
sonal profit to themselves.
AS a last resort to head off the hood
lers, who are thus far beautifully in
the lead, a citizens meeting has been
called to nominate five ''honest" men
to run against the two partisan hood
Ter tickets. But the puzzle is to find
the five honest men, The boodlers
having proved strong enough to con-
troll the nominations of the political
parties, of course are also strong enough
to control the citizens movement, and
the result, If nomination is made at
all, will be boodler ticket No. 3. Chi
cago ought to make a liberal invest
ment in Diognes lamps and send few
hundred cynics around in search of five
honest men; though even that device
is as improbable of success as the pro-
verbal futile search for sunbeams at
the bottom of a well. They are not
there. is what's the matter.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

The state government Of the South
was then turned over to their own
people. At that time, Georgia found
| Just 5000 colOred children in her
public schools and her school eX-
chequcr bankrupt. To-day she
has over 100000 colored pupils in her
public schools, with her eXchequer eX-
panding and the schools multiplying
year by year. Then there was not IA
military organization in the state; now
in every city and in every section
march coored military organizations
beneath the stars and stripes, recog-
nized by the state authorities, armed,
equipped and enjoying every eXemp-
ton accorded to her most favored citi-
zen soldiery. At the same, all over
that land, in churches and schools,
rise to heaven monuments of the
munificence Of the southern white man
to the southern colored man.
"NOw, my cOuntrymen," said Mr..
Gordon, "tell me, if you please, what
does all this meal? Are all these facts
consistent with hostile intent or pur-
pose to Cypress? Are schoOl-books and
churches, and rifles and artillery, the
implements with which we would arm
IA race which we intend to Cypress?
But, my cOuntrymen, | anticipate
your anxious inquiry as to what is to
become of all this question. 1t is not
much Of IA problem after al. My pro-
foundest conviction is if left or even
If largely left to the two races, to the
people who are most deeply interested
in its peaceful and just solution, whose
homes and civilization depend upon it,
it would be solved in justice and in the
benefit Of both races
Doubtless, with such facts before
them, the American people would be
ready almost with one voice to leave
the question where Gov. Gordon says
it belongs, but for one stout 'wire
fence" in the way; ard that is. that
the plan does not insure to the Repub-
lican party what it has set its heart
upon having, the entire negro vote Of
the south in ore solid block. The
establishment of perfect good feeling
and community Of interest between
the races would be sure death to any
such calculation. There will never be
politically as well as industrially.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
THE SURPLUS.

1t is noted that President Harrison
almost copies the language of Presi-
dent Cleveland in deprecating the
evils of a large surplus in the treasury
agreeing with him "that the collec-
tion of money not needed for public
uses imposes an unnecessary burden
upon the people" But his remedy for
the evil is exactly that in which Mr..
Cleveland said the evil consists. The
great evil he saw in an excessive sur
p'us was that 1t led to reckless and ex-
travagant appropriations and expendi
lures. President Harrison exactly
suggests this "evil" as his remedy
The pension roll, which already in
wolves the enormous sum of 800, 900, 600
a year and under present laws is in
creasing at the rate Of $l0,000,000 a
year, he would enlarge by greater lib
crality, such as passing at once an
" INDECENT pension bill, to be followed
ultimately by a 'service" bill, to in
cude all the surviving soldiers of the
war, or their widows and orphans
Then he would add some $l5, 900 a
year to the annual expenditures by the
passage of the Blair educational bill ;
he would also add large sums for our
coast defenses, for increasing the
navy, for subsidies to build up a mer-
chant marine, and he would cut off
S32, 000, 600 from the annual revenue by
aboishing the tobacco tax, and $685.
100000 more by removing the tax on
spirits used in the arts. Under Cleve-
land the annual surplus exceeded $780,
600, 900; for the past year it had fallen
to $50,000,00O, and under the Tanner
system of surplus smashing the highest
estimated surplus for the current year
is $I3, 100000. Anybody with "half an
eye" can see that with the adoption
of less than moicty of the Presidents
recommendations, the surplus must at
once disappear, and if congress should
act favorably on all his suggestions,
instead of surplus, an inevitable de-
felt of $l00,000,000 at the end of the
year instead of comfortable surplus
Is the pleasant prospect.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
save themselves in time by at once
abandoning the whole drainage pro-
THE MESSAGE,


The Presidents message, delivered
to Congress on Tuesday. contrary tt
abundant adverse newspaper advice
and general expectation, is a docu-
ment of intolerable length, containing
over 5000 words against the 5000 OF
President Cleycland's last message.
It's salient points are:
Depreciation Of a continued exces-
sive surplus in the national treasury,
and recommendation Of its decrease,
lst, by u such a revision of the tariff
that shall tend rather tOincreaSe than
lessen the extent Of the present meas
ure Of protection enjoyed by our man
ufacturers: in other words, to cut
down tariff revenues by enlarging the
prohibition in preference to the prin-
ciple of reductions: and I'd, by the to,
tai repeal Of the tobacco tax.
AS another means of keeping down
the surplus, he would not only contin'
ne, but enlarge the present liberal APP
preparations to the navy. AS another
means he recommends liberal SubSl-
dies toward building up our merchant
marine: and lastly, still in the same
direction, ne recommends increased
liberality in river and harbor appro,
priations.
He Is rather chary In recommends
ti0ns on the silver question; thinks ii
would be unsafe to increase the pres
ent rate of coinage, though he would
by no means abandon it. Upon the
whole, he offers a good word for Secre-
tary WINDOWS plan OF issuing GER
tihcates on deposits Of silver bullion
And lastly, as the only other point
to be noticed here, the President goes
the full length Of the EXTREMIST ne
grophobists Of his party in recommend
ing the strongest measures to secure
by congressional legislation, full eX-
ercise of the right to vote to the ne
grOcs Of the south.
As a whole, the message is unques-
tionably in the interest of the monop-
olists, the pension and the subsidy
grabbers.
1t is Chicago platform Republican,
ism in its strongest and deepest col
ors-just such message as was fore
Swallowed by the election of Reed as
Speaker Of the House.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

and court fees: and as no taxes will be
available for at least two months, the
question is, what is going to be done?
Doc. Norton might help out little in
the way of paying for feeding prison
oners at the Jail by returning that
$1,000, as he ought to do or quit his
bowling about boodlers: but as he will
probably not distinguish himself in
that way, it will devolye upon the
learned and astute members to pro-
vide means to pay the bills that may
be audited during the session. 1t is
of course, to be supposed that the Doc,
who certainly engineered his own
financial scheme very successfully and
the brilliant flnanciers who voted for
that grab who are still left on the
Board, will find way out of the hole
But it is pretty certain that for the
blunder of last years low assessment,
the county treasury is going to go
broke several times before the defic-
iency is finally made up.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
COY. GORDON IN CHICAGO.

The speech OF Gov. Cord IN, of Geor-
gia, at Central Music Hall, in Chicago,
on Saturday evening, is admitted by
ev n the Inter Ocean, to have been lad
mirablc in tone, and took the question
he was discussing out of the ruts in
which politicians are accustomed to
run them" We should say so! Gov.
Gordon iatimotod, (for he did not say so
in terms, THAT after the war the south
had had five years of military rule, alb
solutely in the interest of the negroes,
during which they were marched in
columns, under military leaders, TO the
polls to vote the republican ticket in
solid blocks, the major part of the
white population not voting, either
from choice or because disfranchised as
rebels. 1t may have Dcan well intend
ed for the negro's good, but it was a
misguided philanthropy, serving only
TO estrange the races, sunder the ties
which bind them together inya COM
mon interest. and was as a myriad of
barbed wire fences across the pathway
OF the South In attempting to deal
with the question in the right spirit.