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The news boy., 1896-05-16

Three women, neXt-door neighbors.
in Ornevillc, Me-, are the mothers of
an aggregate of 36 children, all liv-
ing at home. There are lively times
for the other neighbors when school
is out.
A western evangelist said the
other day: Il don't allow bench
warmers to hear me time after time
and year after year. They have
either got to fish or cut bait, make a
confession, start for Heaven, or give
their room to people who will hear. ="
There is tive-year-old girl in De-
troit who plays on the piano and
composes pieces. She wakes up the
family before breakfast and often
arouses them in the middle of the
night. The neighbors are doubtless
dead struck" on the infant prodigy.
Miss Jennie Hilton former school
teacher, is probably the only woman
who is actively and exclusively en-
gagged in mining. She struck it rich
in Arizona and has just sold claim
for $780, 900. We trust this bit of in
formation Won t cause all the women
to 90 WpSt
The news boy., 1896-05-16
Rabbit by the DrOyes.

Poplar Bluff Citizen: Farmers in
the region about Frensno, Cal, are
almost in despair because of the
plague of rabbits. Although many
thousands of the animals have been
killed lately in some way or another
by poison, by shooting, and in rabbit
drives they do not appear todecrease
in numbers. Thousands have been
shot in day, but they come in from
the surrounding uncultivated regions
to feast on the grain fields in in
creasing numbers. 1t is estimated
that three jack rabbits will eat as
much grain as one sheep. A big
drive was held in February and many
thousands of rabbits were killed, but
a month later it was estimated there
were 10000 on the same ground.
Another drive was held the last of
March, but already the rabbits are
swarming in again.
The news boy., 1896-05-16
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Heavy storms swept over Ne ebraska
and Kansas Tuesday afternoon.
ST. Louis boasts of baby that is
six weeks old and weighs less than
two pounds.
The Democrats of Arkansas held
their convention this week and they
are for free silver at the rate of $40
toS.
The tow-boat Harry Brown eX-
ploded her boilers just below Vicks-
burg and eleven men were drowned.
The boat sank out of sight.
A committee of five has been ap-
pointed to investigate Secretary
Carlisle and his recent bond deal.
Vest is member of the committee.
Silver Dick Bland is a great grand
son Of President Monroe, relation
of President Jefferson and a cousin
of Abe. Lincoln. Pretty good pedi-
gree.
A contrivance called a teletroscope
is thing by which we are to see
the person to whom We are talking
at the other end of the telephone
line. How's that, Rube ?
The recent death of George Davis,
who was the Encouragement of the
confederate states, leaves John H.
Reagan the only surviving member
of Jefferson Davis cabinet.
Rev. DR.. Brooks, of St. Louis, pro,
phesies that the most momentious
industrial strike in the worlds his
tory will soon be inaugurated, and
that will overthrow the American
government within the next six
months.
Iowa has law forbidding the
manufacture or sale of cigaretts OF
cigarette material. That State also
has a law prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquor, aud thegovernment
gets more revenue from the sale OF
liquor from that State than from
Missouri. But they've got "Prohi
bition in Iowa, all the same.
At the Republican State Conven
tion, held at st. Joseph this week
Filley had things all his own way
Filley, Warner, Neidringhaus and
Boutwell, were chosen delegates a
large to the st. Louis convention
Filley was also made chairman O
the State committee. B. M. Chand
Ter, of West Plains, was chosen dele
| gate from this congressional district
The news boy., 1896-05-16
jim Albright Gets Away.

It is not the custom for prisoner
to escape without someone finding it
out, but it was not until one Moore,
who was doing time" for carrying a
pistol, was released that it leaked
out that jim Albright had escaped
from Jail about two weeks ago.
Moore told the story in the saloon,
after his release, and supposed every
body knew it. Albright left wearing
a coat belonging to Moore.
Quite a number of our citizens ex-
pressed themselves as surprised.
Ordinarily, when a man escapes Jail
a general alarm is raised and some
effort is made to capture him. We
have witnessed instances here where
prisoners escaped and within ten
minutes twenty men would be scour-
ing the hills on horseback and on foot,
and in every instance the prisoner
was brought back. 1t is true that
a prisoner escaped during the big fire
in October, 1893, but our people were
too busy fighting fire to pay any at
tention to escaping prisoners.
The news boy., 1896-05-16
Were on the War-Path.

Sunday Chas. Randol and JAS.
jolly, of Oran, were up in the hills
above Oran. They had, according to
reports, inbibed rather freely in
snake medicine and wanted to dis
play their puglistic ability on several
OF the citizens of the hills. A war;
rant was sworn out by 7. N. Myers,
charging them with disturbing the
peace, and are now under bond for
their appearance before Squire
Schoen, next Tuesday.
The news boy., 1896-05-16
Stray Notice.

Taken UP by Syrus Harrison and
posted before John r. Gibbs, a JUS
tice of the peace, in Commerce town
ship, OF Scott county, on the 11thi
day of May, in the year 1886, the foi.'
lowing described property: One dark
bay filley, about IA hands high, tw0'
years old, left hind leg white half
way upto hook and appraised twenty
dollars. SYRUs HARRISON.
The news boy., 1896-05-16
DO You Raise Poultry +?
Do your hens lay?

Do your hens lay?
Do your hens pay? =.
If not learn how by taking the
Midland Poultry Journal of Kansas
City Mo. Sample copy free. Price
30 cents year.
Rid your fowls of lice and get
double the number of eggs. Dead
easy Disinfectant will kill the lice
and keep your fowls free from dis
ease, by simply painting roosts and
drop boards. One gallon IS cents,
2 gallons $l.25.
WESTERN POULTRY SUPPLY Co.;
l4ll Main St, Kansas City, Mo.
The news boy., 1896-05-16

Saturdays Enterprise says that
Friday evening at Smithton, Missis-
sippi county, man who boarded a
Cotton Belt freight train at Bird S |
Point was killed by falling under the
train while attempting to climb from |
the box car window to the top of the
car while the train was in motion. |
The unfortunate man had his head
and one hand severed from'his body.
The remains were shipped to his
home, Genoa, Illinois for burial
Bluff Citizen: There is about as
much reason in a merchant s saying
it is too dull to advertise us it would
be for a sick person to tell doctor
that he was too bad off to take mcdi-
cine. Medicine is given for the pur-
pose of stimulating person S sys-
TEN and building it up; and adver-
tising is calculated to perform the
same mission for business that is
afflicted with inactivity. 1t plain
case of ''what S good for the goose
will do for the gander. "
Bluff Citizen: Tuesday a man
whose name we did not learn and
dressed in red suit, caused consid-
cradle excitement by announcing that
he would leap from the highest part
of the city bridge into the river.
After drawing crowd of spectators
and taking up liberal collection, he
proceeded to climb over the banister
by the roadway and very carefully
let his slender body down, hanging by
his hands for a moment, then dropping
about eight feet into the river below.
1t was great disappointment in
deed
Dunklin Democrat: The exper-
ience that Ironton is having with its
woolen factory, is but a repetition OF
what nearly every community ex-
periences when big bonus is given
to secure the establishment of
manufacturing plant. The creamery
men hire shrewd men to sell their
machinery and get them a bonus.
The cannerv schemes do the same.
Both usually start off well enough,
but rarely ever pay. The woolen
factories, stove and iron works, big
lumber-working plants, and all
along the line of manufacturing, pick
out their suckers, demand the big
bonus, put in lot of wornout or in
ferior machinery and a smash-up
follows.
Ironton Register: We understand
that the campaign fund of James
Monroe Seibert has been tapped by
the Marvin Collegiate Institute for
| five dollars, and that of Lon V.
Stephens has been diminished by ten
dollars in the same behalf. We un-
derstand that the Republican mana
gers intend to roll good sized barrel
into this Congressional district this
year in the interest of higher taxes
and less money. If the promoters of
that institution can work the mana
gers of the Republican party as sue
cessfully as they did the last annual
Conference, they may get from them
as much as thousand or fifteen
hundred dollars. They might promise
five thousand votes-which they
would have quite as much at CON-
mand as the twenty-five thousand
dollars they assured Conference they
could place their hands on at any
moment. Why didn't our Woolen
Mill men think of this scheme? 1t
is great scheme! Every candidate
in the State can be worked. Some
scrupulous, old-fashioned brother,
however, might regard it as black
mail of the rankest kind, and kick.
Some people are so unreasonable
The news boy., 1896-05-16
Struck With an Iron POlker.

Tony Heisserer struck Robert Swan
4 severe blow over the head with an
iron poker, in Randol S restaurant, at
kelso, Thursday afternoon.
AS we 90 to press Thursday even
ing) Mr.. Swan is in critical condi-
tion. The flow of blood could not be
checked and it could not be ascer-
tanned whether the skull was frac-
tured or not. Mr.. Swan was fainting
and unconscious.
The news boy., 1896-05-16
Dental Notice;

I will visit Benton Moxs
%01n day q. M, May 18th, and
remain three days only. Teeth OK
tracted without pain. Office at Mfie
Walker s. Il. r: RrFf;
The news boy., 1896-05-16

Our team did not play The last
half of the ninth inning as it was un-
necessary. The feature Of the game
was Pitcher Ancils home run. The
grounds We're little damp, but the
evening was just right for ball play
ing. About 800 people witnessed
ba trn,na
The news boy., 1896-05-16

The favor of the purchasing pub
lie is gained by advertising in live
newspaper that has the respect of
the people:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
srRowD AND poU IN RANDOLPH.
The Democratic Candidate is Getting
Uncle Buck Into Trouble.

Asheboro, N. G.. Sept. o. (Special)-
Pou and Strowd spoke at Randleman
last night and here to-day Strowd
was utterly demoralized. At both
places he involved himself in all sorts
of abuse Pou was collected and had
himself well i'm hand He was at his
best and at times touched the heights
of impassioned eloquence. He put
Strowd on the defensive from the start
by questions.
Strowd said he intended to vote for
Bryan and Guthrie, but would not say
whether he would support gold bugs.
At one time he made an attack on
Bryan. He said Bryan was "hobnob-
bing with Col. Brice and gold bugs
in order to get elected" Pou asked
him why he was in a Republican pro-
cession Saturday. Strowd said because
he wanted to be, and admitted he tried
to get Populists to fall in line, but
they refused. In the next breath he
said Pritchard stood on the gold plat
form and he would take an oath he
had made no trade with him. Pou
pressed him hard for answers to his
questions and asked the crowd if they
would vote for a man who was asham-
ed to tell where he stood.
Strowd's position was pitiful. Re-
publicans say they will not vote for
him and if Massey comes down many
will vote for Pou. Pou's speeches are
magnificent. He attacks Strowd's re-
cord in a gentlemanly manner, alb
staining from personalities. Demo-
Gratis are aroused. Pou makes no
apology for Democrats. His fight is
brilliant and aggressive from the
start. Democrats warm up to the
young man everywhere. Some Popu-
lists say they will vote for him, say
ing they admire his manly course.
He read from one of Strowd' S
speeches in which he said that the
Republicans in Congress were enact
ing the same schemes that lost the
Democrats their power.
us that statement true?" said Pou.
At length Strowd said Eyes" This
has caused Republican dissatisfaction.
Negroes declare they will not vote
for Strowd. 1t seems assured from
these two discussions that Srowd's
chances are very slim, if the canvass
continues. Pou makes a fine presen-
tation of the silver and income tax
QueSDlOnS.
The discussion is amusing. One
moment Pou has his opponent defend
ing a measure and the next moment
attacking it.
Pou charged that Strowd had left
the Democratic party for Office and
would be convicted before an impair
tial jury. Strowd said that in 1892 the
Democrats had offered him the nom
nation.
who offered it to you?" said Pou.
Nobody in particular" said Mr..
Strowd, "but 1 could have packed the
convention and got the nomination. d"
These were his exact words. Pou
is making votes everywhere and is a
brilliant young man.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
STATE NEWS.

Seven Populists joined a Democratic
club in Rutherford county, and one
of them was made vice-president.
The Democrats of Pamlico county
nominated Rev Henry Winfield for the
Legislature, and named a strong coun-
ty ticket.
Mr.. c. G. Montgomery, a prominent
citizen of Concord, has decided to move
to Alabama City, Alabama, where he
has accepted a position with a large
cotton manufacturing corporation.
The Democrats of the Eighth Sena-
torial district have nominated Z. M.
Koonce, of Onslow, for the Senate in
place of Frank Thompson, Esq, who
is the nominee for Congress in the
Third district.
Rev. T. w. Babb, editor of the Per
quimans Record, who is an advocate
of Republican and Populist fusion on
State and Congressional tickets, says:
THE members of the Peoples party
must demand that in each State they
have share of the electoral ticket, or
else put up separate tickets"
The CASTOR county Populists nom
mated S. M. Asbury for the Senate
and Moses Stroup for Representative.
A resolution was passed that they
would vote for no gold standard man.
Good bye Mr., Pritchard.
DIR. Robert d. Jewett, of Whining
ton, was married on Monday to Miss
M. Frances Harden, formerly of Hick-
DRY, Rev. j. A. Weston officiating. The
ceremony was performed at the "Cha-
pei of Rest in the Happy Valley.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
RESULT OF Decentralization.

In 1876 the Democrats won their
first general victory. How did it affect
the farmer? He got 81 cents Tor ms
corn; s1.24 for his wheat, 10 cents for
his cotton and 1914 cents for his tobac-
co. The country did not have panic,
although it was said that the govern
ment would be destroyed and the ne
groes put back in slavery.
In 1892 after the Republicans had
been in power for years of what they
claim were years of great prosperity
what did our farmers get? Let us see.
For corn SIS cents; wheat $1.03; cotton
81 cents; tobacco s.4 cents a pound.
Decentralization had not done its per-
feet work in 1876. 1t had in 1892.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
1--WE WANT LOW PRICES"

The Oswego On. " Palladium gives
the following extract from the speech
of James A. Ward before the Sound"
money club, of Watertown, N. Y:
eve are not going into the cam
paign with any regrets because
prices have fallen; we are not for
high prices, though Bryan and Sc
wall want them. We want low
prices. If the act of 1873, demon
citing silver, has deprecated the
value of commodities, then we
thank God for it,
This frank avowa1 is commended to
the consideration of those orators who
are trying to convince the people that
the free coinage of silver would not
increase the price of cotton and wheat.
Mr.. Ward gloried in the reduction be-
cause he was speaking to consumers in
a town. He thought they had not
enough intelligence to know that their
wages depended upon the prosperity
of the whole country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
THURSDAY, September 10, 1896
MR. BRYAN's- VERSATILITY.

We publish to-day the formal letter
of acceptance of the Democratic NOM
nation for the Presidency of Hon. Will
liam Jennings Bryan. 1t is a clear,
dignifed, and able presentation of the
issues raised in the Chicago platform,
and has a directness and force that
recalls the State papers of the great
founder of the Democratic party. Mr..
Bryan's political faith rests on the
mud-sill foundations of pure Demo
eracy. This letter moreover affords
abundant evidence that he is well
grounded in the fundamental princi-
pies that have made the party of JEFF
ferson and Jackson the only party
that is co-existent with the life of the
Republic.
Yesterday we published his formal
acceptance of the nomination by the
Silver party, and almost every day
since his nomination these columns
have contained one or more speeches
delivered by him to thousands of his
admiring countrymen. The uniform
excellence of these addresses and
state papers have been the marvel alike
of supporter and opponent, and have
marked him as easily the most YER
satile and accomplished man of the
Republic. He has never been heavy
or dull; his speeches have bristled
with point and effectiveness; there has
been no sameness, but an original and
versatile method of presentation of
familiar truths; and tact and judg-
uaent that have made his speeches and
his bearing free from even the criti-
cism of the most censorious. His tours
have been a succession of ovations, alike
from the jewellers in the metropolis
and in the rural sections and he has
drawn to his support not only all the
members of his party who are true to
"the faith once delivered" but thou
sands also of other parties who long
to see the government taken out of
the hands of the syndicates and res
tored to the control of the people.
What is the secret of his wonderful
power over the educated and unedu-
Gated? Why have Republicans and
Populists and Prohibitionists wed
with the Democrats in honoring Mr..
Bryan, and in joining in support
that is unprecedented in our history?
The answer is simple. They know
that Mr.. Bryan is the sincere cham
pion of their rights and liberties, and
that he is as sincere in his war upon
special interests as Andrew Jackson
was in his war upon the United States
bank. They believe in his integrity,
and his singleness of purpose, and
thousands of them believe that he has
been raised up by Providence "for such
a time as this
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
MISUNDERSTANDING BICYCLE RACE
Walter Sanger Beats e. c. Bald in Two
Straight Heats.

Waterfront, N. Y, Sept. 9.-Ten
thousand people saw Walter Sanger
beat E. C. Bald two straight heats in
a mile race at the Riverside Park
course in this city to-day for a purse
of 1000 contributed by the Jefferson
county Agricultural Society. A flying
start was made. Sanger dropped in
behind the tandem and kept this posi-
ton until the three-quarters pole,
when he made his squirt, passing the
tandem and finished two lengths a.
head of Bald. 1t was the fastest mile
ever ridden by bicyclist in northern
New York. Time, 1859 3-5.
In the second heat the men started
neck and neck closely followed by the
tandem. Sanger passed Bald at the
three-quarter pole and finished two
lengths ahead. Time, 1859 AS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
THE FOURTH REGIMENT IN CAMP.
The People of Statesville Gave the
Boys a Cordial Welcome.

Statesville, N. c., Sept. 9.-(SpeciaD
The Fourth Regiment, North Caro-
lima State Guard, arrived here this
evening with full ranks. The people
of the city gave the troops a splendid
almost the entire city being present.
The regiment comprises seven COM
panies, Calling gun battery, band
and drum corps. The temporary camp
is pitched in a charming spot just in
the edge of town and it is thronged
all day with visitors. The hospitabIe
people of Statesville will generously
feed the entire regiment while here.
The march for Charlotte begins at ten
o'clock on Friday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
THE CAUSE OF EVANS DEFEAT.
Editor Ball Says it is a Rebuke to Till
mans Bossism.

. Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 9.--In answer to
a telegram from the Atlanta Journal,
asking for his opinion on the meaning
of FaTle's nomination for the Senator,
Senator J. l.. NJ. Irby wires:
There are many reasons why /
would prefer not to express an opin-
ion to-day"
The Journal prints a signed state
ment from w. w. Ball, editor OF the
Charleston Post, on the result OF yes
terdays primary as follows:
"Charleston, S. c., Sept. 8. To the
Atlanta Journal: Earle's election is
not n victory over the refOrmers. He
could not have been elected without re-
form votes. 1t means, however, the
re-assertion of the independence and
manhood of South Cardinals country
voters. Tillman made personal fight
for Evans. The result is a singing,
deadening blow to Tillman's personal
bossism. 1t indicates, moreover, open
rebellion against the recognition of
the far-reaching and all-pervading rot
tenness of the dispensary system and
involves it's certain and all-pervading
radical modification with the remov-
al of the most Objectionable features,
including the metropolitan police sys-
tenn. Tillman is not utterly destroyed,
he will remain an influential figure in
the State, but he is for time knocked
clean, clear over the ropes. Evans is
like the man hit by a cyclone. There
amt no remains
(Signed) ''W. w. BAIL,
editor Charleston Post"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
HoKE SMITH WILL SPEAK.

Atlanta, Sept. 9.-Chairman Clay, of
the Democratic committee announced
to-day that ex-Secretary Hoke Smith,
had consented to make four speeches
in behalf of the regular Democratic
ticket. He will speak at Dalton on the
10Th, and later at Brunswick, Valdosta
and Augusta. Senator John B. Gordon,
who has just reached his home after an
extended lecture tour, has also tender
ed his services to the State committee
and he will be heard at Buena Vista to-
morrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
YOUR BOY WON'T LIVE A MONTH.

So Mr.. Gilman Brown, of "a Mill
street, South Gardner, Mass, was told
by the doctors. His son had Lung
trouble, following typhoid Malaria,
and he spent 1915 with doctors, who
finally gave him UP, saying: "Your boy
won't live a month"; He tried DR.. Kings
New Discovery and few bottles re-
stored him to health and enabled him
to go 10 work a perfectly well man.
He says he owes his present good
health to the use of DR.. Kings New
Discovery, and knows it to be the best
in the world for lung trouble. Trial
BOTTLES free at John Y. MacRae's drug
store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
CLEVELAND WILL MEDIATE.

Lima, Peru, Sept. ct is announced
here that President Cleveland, of the
United States, and DR.. j. e. Uriburu,
President of Argentina, will mediate
in the Italo-Brazilian question grow
ing out of outrages committed upon
Italian citizens in Brazil.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
BUT COCHRAN HAS DECLINED.

New York, Sept. 9.-Thurlow Weed
Barnes, Republican leader in the
Twelfth Congressional district of this
city, recently wrote Hon. Bourke Cock
ran offering him the Republican NOM
ination for Congress. In the letter
Mr.. Barnes suggested that the Repub-
licans and gold standard Democrats
united can elect whomever they en-
dorse. Mr.. Cochran declined.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10
HE WILL NEVER COME DOWN.
Sewall Again Denies That he VIII Get
Off the Ticket.

Jacksonville, Fla,, Sept. Omitted
States District Attorney Frank Clark
addressed a letter to Arthur Sewall,
last week asking the direct question
whether he would, according to reports
in Northern papers, withdraw from
the Democratic ticket. The following
reply was received to-day:
Bath, Me-, Sept. 5, 1861 have
your esteemed favor of September l.,
and thank you for your kind express
sions. You need have no fear of my re-
firing from the ticket. am the nomi-
nee of the Democratic party. 4 Demo-
crat never steps backward.
Yours very truly,
ARTHUR SENNALL."