The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-02-01


TIE Tarb0ro Southerner shows that
d Eagrcombe farmers sold butter last year
The amount Of s., 600. They-and the
y facmers II every other county in the State
9 ought to make every pound of butter
. Consumed in North Carolina.
PROF. SHEPHERD says the Wilmington
.s-tar IS the lone literary light Of North Car
{, alina!
q How far that little candle throws his
beams
8 20 shines good deed in a naughty world"
DR.. J. NJ Hays in Oxford News
Il FILL WAS introduced in the North
Carolina Legislature yesterday TO provide
8 whipping as 2 punishment. There are
great many F,So2Ls in the land who de
serve the lash but the bill ought 10 be
Killed on the spot ASheYIle Citizen.
TIE NAN that IS not a candidate for
Railroad Commissioner in North Carolina
9 last now oush; to be caught and sent TO
Btruums museum. They are said to be
swat4ing around the Capitol like flies
about molasses Jug II AsheVllle Citizen.
TIE Wilmington star favors the passage
/. OF SENATOR REDS bill to compel every one
to ray tax Of = 90 for the privilege Of
carrying a pistol or other weapon. The
n. rhinfs with SENATOR REID that the
present law against carrying concealed
weapons is a dead letter
TIE North State says ''the Republicans
4 the legislature have placed themselves
Ia her a ludicrous light, On one night,
meas. they endorsed General Malone
.or 3, place ia tie Cabinet, and three nights
afterwards they met and took it back,
w.th only Two dissenting votes"
THERE Is / ueW member in the North
Carolina Legislature who is tired of the
business OF law making already, and wants
TO 20 home. and says he never wants TO
% back any more Let him introduce a
dog laws. and We'll guarantee ne will stay
At home hereafter W Asleville Citizen.
= D ScHEycK announces that if he
eau 90 an l, 300 Subscribers at 81 90 each,
he proposes 70 publish, at an early day, a
history Of tie part borne by North Caro-
tina in repe-lilg the British INVASION Of
tAe Southern Colonies in 17SO-'e1 The
book VIII be CSC, oound in muslin and
viii contain about $50 pages lie ought
70 nave no difficulty in obtaining the need
"a number of subscribers.
s>
LET THE General Assembly appoint the
irst set Of Railroad Commissioners and
provide for the election of their successors
at general elections The term of office
should be six years; but the first set should
be appointed for two, four and SIX years,
respectively, so that but one commissioner
->coald be elected at each general election,
&c three De the number fixed upon.
The ablest and best business men Of the
state should be selected. and the method
3f election most likely to secure such re
.ult Is the method that should be adopted
Nothing short of this would satisfy either
the people or the railroads. Asheville
Citizen.
meet and select men who will be fair t.
the railroads, just to the people; but above
all, men who wi'l work for the building
np and development Of North Carolina.
You can 40 This, you only. If the rail
-5ad lobby is to have fnll swing you ma,
psil = me chestnuts out of the fire, bu
,o4 }.il not he the monkey bossiug th'
operation.
The S3uth4rner has noticed the name
~ hose named or suggested for the place
ljIt It Is constrained to say that beyonC
the two named by this paper, WILLIS r
WILLIAMS and sgd b. ALEXANDER an,
.SPIER WHiTAKEE there is an odor Of cor
y,orAte influences about chem which make
-hem anything but like Ci,sar's wife.
Cltizeas, you must speak out and a
,suoe. Or hold your peace. - Tarboro South
eruer.{
I THE Wilson Advance suggests that here
after, before retail liquor licenses ar
granted. the name OF the applicant an'
his place Of business shall be ADVERTISE
III newspaper, if one be published in th
county Of the applicant, for thirty days
and if not, that five printed notices b
posted for thirty days in applicants town
ship The suggestion is a good one AM
should be adopted without delay. Unde
the present law party comes before tn
commissioners makes application for Ii