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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20
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Henderson Gold Leaf: It
would be well for every house
holder to provide himself with a
ladder to be keep on the premis-
es. They are valuable things to
have especially in case of fire.
This matter ought to interest
each man who owns a house.
Jonesboro Progress: Mr.. J. B.
Mcfarland, who lives about four
miles from town, lost his smoke
house and all its contents by fire
yesterday. The house contained
all Of Mr.. McFarland's meat and
also a barrel of syrup, and the
loss is rather heavy on him at
this time.
Newbern Journal: We have
received from Mr.. W. J. Doughty
of Newport a fifty dollar bill and
seven dollar bill of the Rovolu.
tionary war for exhibition at the
Fair. They are 116 years old.
We have handed them in to Mrs.
Eva Hargett the chairman of the
Curio department.
Greenyille Reflector: There is
large tree on Riverside Nurs>
cry farm that seems to be rens
dezous for opossums. Two were
caught up it not long ago, and
Wednesday d colored man pulled
another from the same tree Oh
len Warren says if folks don't let
his 'possums alone he is going to
do some polling on them.
Asheville Citizen: The latest
news from New York regarding
the condition of DR.. E. Baird of
Asheville is that he is not SO well,
out is getting on about as might
be expected under the circum>
stances. The operation for tu-
NOR Of the jaw was begun one
day and concluded the day fol-
towing, in all requiring four
hours.
Winston Sentinel: The two
outside columns of the old court
house were pulled down to-day.
The jug Of ''corn juice" reports
ed to have been put there by the
late William Church, was not
found. Mayor Hauser, of Salem,
says he worked on the building
when it war erected and that no
jug was ever put in either Of the
columns.
Fayetteville Observer: Tt is
the universal opinion Of exper-
fenced men who have seen the
partly constructed building, that
the Holt Cotton Mill will be the
finest building of the kind ever
erected in the State. It is mass
sive both in construc ZION and
size and is built for future gen
erations of Holts-we hope.
Raleigh Press Visitor: Prof.
Chas. S. Parker, Secretary Of the
Teachers Assembly, and Prof.
Joyner. the President, will go on
a visit to Mt Airy in few days
upon an Invitation from many ci-
tizens Of that place. The citizens
have held public meeting and
are anxious to have the Assem-
bly, with them. Red Springs is
also working for the Assembly
to meet there.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

whenever there is anything
to be done for this country, "
said Major Mckinley to the Chic-
ago Republicans on Wednesday
night last, "it is to the Republi-
can party we must look to have
it DONE" AS a theory, this is al
together lovely. AS q. fact,
Speaker Reed has told the Re
publican House that it mustn't
do anything this session, and the
Free Silver octopus has told the
Republican Senate the same
thing.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

Washington Messenger: Mr..
S. W. Hancock, accompanied by
his family, left this morning for
Newbern where they will in fu
ture reside. Mr.. Hancock, will
practice his profession, the law.
Wasdingto regrets exceedingly
to part with him and family and
wish for him every success In
his new home. AT all times they
will be welcomed back to our
borders.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20
The North PoIeDiscovered.
ST. Petersburg, Feb. 13

A telegraphic dispatch re-
ceived here to>day from Irkutsk,
Siberia, says that Siberian
trader named Kouchnareff, who
is the agent of DR.. Fridtjof Nan
sen, the Norwegian explorer,
who sailed in the Fran June "a,
1898, for the Arctic regions, has
received information to the efs
feet that DR.. Nansen has reach
ed the North Pole, has found
land there, and is now returning
toward civilization.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

There will be some very inter
esting voting done in Congress
in the next few days. Nothing
appears to be of sufficient public
interest to bar the way to a SOS
luton Of the financial question.
The trimmers may squirm, but
the issue must be met. The coun-
try must either make adequate
provision for keeping the cur-
rency at par with gold or surs
render to the assault of the min
ing camps.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

England has issued a Blue
Book on the Transvaal trouble,
and Germany has issued a White
Book on the same subject. In
view of the tendency Of oIher
Powers to rush into print, it
speaks we'll for the reserve of
our Government that it has res
pressed the chromatic instinct,
and has refrained from a Red,
White and Blue Book on Ven-
ezuela.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

JAPAN is about to order six
new war vessels, and Col. Cock.
Grill informs the New York Her.
aid that the United States will
get only one, the rest being or~
dered from England.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

The first batch of the new 4
per cent. bonds just sold by the
Government arrived at the New
York sub-Treasury yesterday
and will be distributed day.
It is understood that the bonds
secured by the Morgan syndicate
have all been placed in the neigh
borhood of 116.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

Out of weakness comes strength when
the 9blood has been purified, enriched
and vitalized, the appetite restored and
the system built up by Hoods Sarsa-
perilla.
Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick head
ache, Indigestion, billiousness. All
druggists. 25c.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO
Lucas County.


Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of f.
J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the
city of Toledo, county and State afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Hall IS
Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day of Decem-
ber, A. D. 1886.
Z SEAL A. W. GLEASON,
- Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Send
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F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

Subscribe to the Weekly Argus
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The local truckers are now
watching for the first sprouts"
and hoping for fine weather.
Saying that the gold reserve
is rising is equivalent to remark
ing it's coming up to expecta-
tons.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20

Henderson Gold Leaf: 1t
would be well for every house
holder to provide himself with a
ladder to be keep on the premis-
es. They are valuable things to
have especially in case of fire.
This matter ought to interest
each man who owns a house.
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HAVE YOU SAVINGS?
Free Coinage Would Take Half of All.
 Act Before It Is Too Late.

Act Before It Is 100 A6les
 At the annual meeting of the Savings Banks association of the state of New York the following resolutions were adopted:
 Resolved, That this association, representing the interests of 1700,0 eco depositors, with de posits aggregating over $7O00O0, 0O00 solemnly protests against any and all efforts to change the gold standard now existing of the currency of the country and affIms its conviction that any departure from this standard will not only impair the prosperity of the laboring classes but that the only classes or individuals to be benefited would be the capitalist and foreign investor who would be quick to take aovan- tape of the rise and ultimate fall in prices sure to follow premium on gold
 Resolved, That in our judgment the future prosperity of the country and the welfare of the people demand not only that the gold standard shall be maintained, but the eur reney system now in shall be so changed and remodeled as to meet and adapt it to the increasing needs of commerce, and equal Ill SC. curity and credit with the best in circulation by any of the civilized nations of the earth.
 Every dollar in these savings banks is worth 100 cents i'll gold and represents labor measured in gold. Free coinage at 1G to 1 will shrink these dollars to about 50 cents Instead of getting back %700. 000 900 these 1,700, GOO depositors would get back $350, 900, 900 ill dollars of present value. Perhaps they have worked and saved for years to see one half of their earnings wiped out by the destructive free silver tornado-more awful than all of the tornadoes and earthquakes that have visited this coun- try since Columbus discovered it.
 The free silver cyclone will not strike us unless we invite 1t to come our way. In fact the 4,875, 000 depositors, who have $1. 800, 900, 900 in the 1,017 saw ings banks of this country, have 1t i'll their power to prevent the invitation. They have but to vote solidly against any party and any candidate that sup ports the free silver robber scheme and their savings will be spared. They can easily obtain the assistance of the l. 550, | GOO stockholders who have $450, 000 QUO invested in the 6,000 building and loan associations of this country.
 Let the 5000, 900 CT 0,O00, GOO who have savings, ill one form or another, clearly understand what 16 to means to them and the jig is up with the cheap dollar agitation. The 5000, 900 or 6, GOO, 900 holders of life insurance poll cies also have much at stake. They have I aid their premiums in gold and are en- titled to have their policies paid i'll gold. All such investors should study this sil- yer question and learn on which side their interests lie before 1t is too late to save themselves If they can see no moral reason why they should not vote for fraudulent change of standards of value perhaps they can see q selfish req son that will cause them to vote for honest money.-B. W. H.
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Free Silver Fits.

The financial humbugs who are trying to throw the country into a panic so that they can have a chance to try their patent silver pills in doses of lG to 1 are very much like the quack doctor who was called i'll to see a sick man. Not knowing what was the matter with the patient the doctor began 10 shout and jump around the bed When asked to explain his extraordinary behavior he said. "Oh. l just want to scare him into fits. Then I can cure him, for I'm death on fits /"
 The silverite quacks think if they can only howl calamity long and loud enough they can scare manufacturers and other business men into shutting down, and thus bring on hard times. Then they fancy that the idle and dis contented workers will rush to the agi- tators, whose threats of debasing the currency caused the business depression, and ask them for their great 90 cent dollar remedy for financial fits. But they are mistaken The American peo- pie do not want to be made i'll merely for the sake of trying some cheap money nostrum. They lnge no confidence in the free silver doctors, and will give them several kind of fits early next No Yember.
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SHOULD TAKE A STAND.
Stevenson, in Straddling the Finan- cial Question, Injures His
 Chances for Nomination.

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12:-It is the opinion of many leading Demo- erata here that should Yice-President Stevenson come out fiat-footed in q declaration for silver, instead of try ing to avoid the currency question, that it will put him several lengths ahead of the field in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. As 1t is, there is no denying the fact that the Stevenson boom is growing apace. This has been curi0Hsly demonstrated this week by the pains the friends of his opponents are talk
 ing to recall the face that Stevenson was n 'greenbacker" when that element was to the fore eighteen or twenty years ago. An unqualified declaration for the white metal is also needed to offset the charges of Bland's friends that the Viee-Presi- dent is fair weahter silver man. 1t would also have an effect in swing ing into line the Illinois Democrats who are looking to Boies since Nor rison has practically declared for gold. Furthermore with exception of Boies, Stevenson is the only one mentioned in connection with the nomination who can command any tangible support outside of his own state. The strength of Bland, Campbell. Mathews and Blackburn iscetined to the limits of their respect i've wealths, though the Mathews boom gives promise of spreading. Stevenson would be ac- ceptable in Kentucky where the can dldaey of Blackburn is not regarded over-seriouslY, and the same is true of Ohio with regard to the Campbell boom. If the Vice President acts on the advice now freely offered him he will speedily be heard from in a sil- yer pronunciamentO well calculated to enlist the full support of the states mentioned, and also of the en- tire South. Georgia, Alabama, Mis- sissippi, Louisiana and Texas express q preference for Boies, but only be- cause the Democracy in these states is sstraightoutfors silver, and the Iowa man is the only candidate who seems in full accord with their views in this regard.
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A Specimen Argument.

The following is one of Judge Crisp's fayorite illustrations of the horrors of the gold standard
 Suppose that you had been owing a debt of $l00 for five years. You could have satisfied that debt five years ago with two bales of cotton. Today it will require three bales of cotton to cancel the same debt. The reason is the supply of money has been reduced and the de- mand has correspondiDgly increased !"
 There are several fallacies ill this statement, says the Atlanta Journal. In tue first place the supply of money has not been reduced within the last five years, either in bulk or per capita
 But if Judge Crisp's argument is good there must have been an immense increase in the currency last year, for while it would have required nearly four bales Of cotton to pay debt of $lOO in 1894, two bales and a quarter would have paid it in 1895.
 :" If Judge Crisp is ignorant on ths subject he is discussing, he should ih- form himself before lie poses as Demo cratic leader If he knows more than his speeches indicate. he should not try to deceive the people.
 When politician, after study ahda thought, changes from being free coin age to sound money advocate. he is tu1ncoat and traitor, but when, to keep in the political swim, he changea from sound money to free silver coin age, Csod bless him. he is statesman and patriot, say all tho silverites.
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 ProsnaritY Not Politics.

It is of the highest importance to the people of Illinois that both state con ventions shall declare clearly and posi- lively for sound money The money question is not one of politics, but of prosperity,
 Two years ago there was large amount of English and Scotch money in this city for investment. 1t was loaned at low rates and on favorable terms It lowered the interest rate in the general money market. It helped to make money cheap as well as abundant.
 As soon as it became apparent abroad that the senate of the United States was dominated by men who believed in free coinage of silver, which means that debts contracted on a basis of 100 cents to the dollar shall be paid at the rate of 90 cents to dollar, this foreign capital. which had been so fruitful for the state, gradually withdrew.
 Its withdrawal contracted available money to that extent and at the same time raised the interest rate, while it frightened the money market even at tho higher rate There is scarcely an in- dustry ill Illinois that has not suffered by this stringency. There is not an in- dustTy in Illinois that will not be bene- tited by the return of this foreign money. The man who needs to borrow to make payment on his little home is as much to be benefited by it as the great merchant, the farmer as much as the manufacturer
 Should either state convention declare for unsound money or qualify it's fnan- cial plank i'll any way so as to seem to lean to free silver coinage the entire state will be the sufferer, and the class upon whom the injury will fall most cruelty will be the wage earners For. with money at a high rate and hard to get, it will be impossible to continue in operation industrial plants that give steadfast employment to hundreds of thousands.
 Let both state conventions therefore speak for honest money, aud speak so that the language shall be universally understood.
 The money question is a question of prosperity, not of politics. os.-Chicago Times Herald.
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Germsn. Ana,nst Fr,s slver.

The Anzeiger des Westens of St Louis, leading German Democratic pa per of the southwest, is disgusted with the free silver plank adopted by the Democratic state convention. It says:
 s'Its authors identify themselves prominently with this 16 to platform as adherents Of the time honored prin- ciples formulated and practiced by Jefferson, Madison. Jackson, Benton and other great and distinguished Dem ocrats However, he who is ill the least acquainted with Democratic history knows that these time honored Dem ocratic principles have nothing in com mon with the modern Populistic adyo- cates of free silver, and that the great and distinguished Democrats, from Jefferson down to Tilden, were one and all sound money men, adherents and champions of honest, full value specie, who would have fought every attempt st depreciation and at fraudulent shift ing of responsibility as being rascally aud criminal. One might as well try to imagine George Washington in the role of the traitor Benedict Arnold as those distinguished Democrats advocates of the proposition for the coinage of 50 cent dollars or compelling the creditors of the nation to take them as payment for 100 cents. Old Hickory Jackson and old Bullion Benton would have driven from his threshold with curse, if net with a lash CT hersewhip, any one who would have dared to approach him with such proposition. ''
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FREE SILVER.
Would Not Remedy the Unequal Distribu-
 ten of Wealth.

Would Not Remedy the Unequal Distribu-
 tion of Wealth.
 It is because of the belief that in soma way free coinage would give the poorer classes some of the wealth now in the hands of the rich that the farmers and workers in some sections of the country have favored tho l6 to 1 scheme.
 The shallowness of the pretense that the silver stondard would help the poor as against the rich can be seen by con sidering the results which it's advocates claim would follow it's adoption. They insist that by measuring values in dol lars worth half of gold dollar the value of all the wealth i'll the country would be exactly doubled. This IS an error arising out of the silyerite confu- sion of value with price Prices would doubtless be doubled as compared with the 90 cent dollar, but the value of all kinds of gocds TeuIa ret be increased ill the slightest degree. Does any farmer think that his implements or his furni- ture would really be worth more to him if their nominal price was doubled?
 Dlll tNGu Il JttGtS WG4t NOtpAEa HUM would that help the people who are poor The man whonow has $1, coo. 900 worth of property would under free silver have $2, GOO, GOO worth. This would benefit him leo times as much, so far as prices are concerned, as the man with SIG, 000 and 1000 times as much as the man with only $1, 900. The men who now have nothing would under free coinage have exactly twice nothing. The gap between the poor man and the mil lionaire would be just as great as it is now. The laborer, who has no goods to sell, would find that the prices of all his food and clothing were twice as high, while any increase of wages would come slowly if at all. In compelling the masses to pay higher prices for all they consume, while doubling the price of the property of the wealthy classes, free silver would make the rich richer and the poor poorer
 Free coinage as a scheme for enrich ing the owners of q few silver mines and getting offices for calamity bowling politicians may be great success. As means of abolishing the differences between the poor and the wealthy classes it is monumental fraud
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Free Coinage Exnlalned.

Coinage at the ratio of l6 to 1 means simply tha: the silver dollar shali welgh l6 times as much as the gold dollar. It does not mean, as some suppose, that the government shall coin IS silver dol lars to every gold dollar. Free coinage means that the mints shall take the bullion presented by individuals and coin it into dollars hand them to the Individual. and he and all others WI , get them can compel their acceptance Tor debts according to their face value The amount of silver bullion reouired 70 make dollar can be bought now for sscas So cents
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 RaseAlly LesislAtlom.

Suppose man of grave phiz and character should in distress apply to his neighbor for the loan of 1, 900 silver dollars with solemn promise on his hon or and truth to repay them ill a month, and ill the meantime ihe tender act un- der consideration should pass into law, and the borrower at the month s end, should tender 1 l,O00 of the new paper dollars iii pay nieiit
 T beg leave here to propose to every member of the assembly who voted for that law and to every other man who is a member of this state what their sea- timents of that action would be, and in what light they would view the borrow CT, who rendered the paper dollars-i. e., two-fifths of the debt--ip payment of the silver ones he reeeiyed--i. e., would they consider him ss an upright, honest man, or shameless rascal? ?'- Pelatiah Webster in Political Essays" Published i'll 11S..
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Condition. nefora 1878.

''The free silver Boulbons. ' says the New Yerk World, "want to restore the conditions rricr to 1913. Let them be- gin by increasing the price of silver frcm C9 cents an ounce to $1S0. Then perhaps ihey will bury cut cf sight the ACC, eco. eco and mere Cf silver dollars coined since ISIS. The next step would be to seal up the great silver mines that have more than doubled our current supply of the white metal. After all this is dcne free coinage could do no harm. But the conditions must be restored before the country can safely go ahead on the Bourbon tkea-= 9
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The magie of the word ..Fres. ;.

It Is difficult to understand how any considerable poltieA of the people can be so ignorant of the most vital question now before them as to believe that
 free coinage actually means that by some mysterious legerdemain the people are to get .omething for nothing And yet 1t Is undoubtedly true that large number of people who are following the free silver ignis fatuus do so because their imagination has been captiyated by that magic word free, The man, therefore, who expects to receive dol lar, whether of gold or silver or paper, must have some product of labor to give in exchange, and no financial system worthy of its own respect has ever claimed anything else. Under free coin- age not cnly must every dollar represent at least an equivalent amount of labor, but 1t will represent twice as much labor and purchase just half as much cefas modities as at present. -Augusta tGa' ) fl r;.ld
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cotton Helt Iionte.

Cheap rates to Stuttgart, annual meeting Women's Foreign Mission ary Society, Stuttgart, Ark, June r to 9, 1896. For the above oc- casion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets at one and one-third fare on the certificate plan. Dates of sale; Certificates issued June lG to 21 only will be honored for return tickets at reduced rates. Return limit: Agent Stuttgart will honor no certificate presented after June 9, 1896.
 E. W. LABEAUME. ]. W. FARLEY,
 G. r. & T. A. Agent.