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A WISE ACT.

Ths Second District Republican Con-
vention yesterday did wise thing in
nominating Hon. Grove L. Johnson to
succeed himself In the House OF Repre-
ssntatives. AS rule IT is In the inter-
est Of good government and efficient
service to return a Congressman a sec
end. third. and indeed several times,
fer the reason that legislation in the ma
tionaI halls is of such an order, the
yastness OF the interests handled there,
and the demands for recognition by the
representatives of 80 many constituent
usually get farther than the initiatory
stage In one term. That Representa-
tive may be best serviceabie to his peo-
pie, 1t Is necessary that he have one or
two terms experience in Congrsss.
In the case of Mr.. Johnson Ii Is true
that this need was not 80 great, be-
cause of his legislative experience at
home, the vigorous and aggressive char
Roter of the man, and of his conceded
abilities which commanded recognition.
80 LIS lSAlA JOAliSOh W uiOIc
recognized, secured more of hearing,
and more impressed the interests of this
district upon Congress than has any
representative man from California In
many years,
OF these facts the people are fully
cognizant and the delegates In yester-
days convention therefore reflected the
wish Of the Republican party when they
with such unanimity named Mr.. John
son to succeed himself; and we believe
that they reflected as well the desire
Of the large majority of the people of
the district. irrespective of party affilia-
ton or attachment
Because he stood In Congress for what
he believed to be right and justice in
the matter Of the settlement of the rail-
road Indebtedness; because he refused
to join in demands unreasonable and
unjust; because he advocated measures
that his Judgment approved as sound
and wise and In the interests of the
people of the whole country; because
he proposed measures OF national BEN
eft others had feared to ofrer. no has
been made the target for ell manna1 Of
personal abuse, caricature and vic1ouA
assault Bscauss m nAsnA en<1An -
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A SAD CASE.
Mrs. Leddy of Washington Meets
With Sudden Death.

Mrs. Leddy Of Washington, across
the river, who was one of the sufferers
by the fire that occurred there a week
ago yesterday, died suddenly of heart
disease last night.
The fire destroyed her home, entail
ing a loss Of some 81 200 and it is sup
posed that the fatal attack was the re-
suit of nervous shock she received
at the time of the fire.
1t is a very distressing case. as she
leaves a family of six children In
straightened circumstances.
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BADLY MAULED.
A Chinaman Attacks a FeIlOw-COun
tryman With Club.

Fong Jong was badly beaten with a
club last night at Fifth and I streets
by a fellow Mongol
1t appears that Jong had hired a bed
and paid for it, but Now took possess
sion of it, and when Jong demanded it
attacked him with a club. The patrol
wagon was sent up and Jong removed
to the Receiving Hospital, where it
was found that both his arms were
broken and his head was badly cut
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Whoop it up! Call the Republican
a gold party, servltor of plutooracy,
and all that-the opposition press will
not make the people believe it by tier
ating the falsehoods. The Republican
party Is the party Of silver and gold;
it Is for the largest possible volume of
a safe, sound, useable currency-both
geld and silver; it is for protection to
American industries whether in the
mills Of the millionaires or the forge of
the solitary blacksmith; whether in
shipyards or market stalls; whether in
planning mills and iron works Of the
carpenter and the field of the farmer.
It is for restriction of undesirable i'm
migration to the edge Of total exclu-
sion, II need be; it is for the perpetuity
Of American institutions and the pres
ervation Of the moral and human right
to labor, to acquire, to spend, to waste,
to save, to hoard, to squander within
the law; 1t is for demanding through
civil service reform adequate service
for official pay, and the retention of
ability and worth in subordinate places
Of Government trust, that public en-
ployes may not consider political bosses
as the custodians of their tenure of
office 1t Is the party that has met
successfully every exigency that has
has come out triumphant In the battle
for right, decency, Americanism, order,
law and all rights of human beings.
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Some He Had Left.

About 10 o'clock last night several
loud reports were heard in the vicinity
of Front and K streets. Investigations
made threw no light on the subject,
and it is supposed some person was dis
posing of bombs left over from the
Fourth of July
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Broke Her Ankle.

About 10 o'clock last night as Mrs.
John O'Brien was crossing Third street
at I, she accidentally slipped and broke
her ankle. An officer called hack and
sent her home, where medical attend
ance was summoned
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True to Lite.

Sue Brett-How did you like Horace's
acting?
Ella Cution-I can't say that liked it.
In that death scene I thought he died
very poor
well, you know, most actors do die
that Way''-Yonkers Statesman.
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OFFICIAL
ORDINANCE NO. IS.

An Ordinance Regulating the Health
of Domestic Animals and the SAME
tary Condition of Diaries, Siaugh-
ter-HOuses, Markets and Other
Places From Which the Food Sup
ply is Distributed.
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OF Course He Fled.

"Spreader didn't stay long this year
in that charming country place he dis
covered last summer"
mo. There had been a girl there CIV
ing the landlady painting lessons in ex-
change for board."-Chicago Record.
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Change of Location.

The corner store in the Golden Eagle
Hotel building is being fitted up for the
drug business of J. A. Green, who will
move across the street September 1st.
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IMPORTANT.
NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Trustees of the City of Sac
ramento, on the 9th day of August, 1896,
adopted Resolution No 323, of its intention TO
viz: That street in this city, from the east
line of Front street to the west line of Second
street, be improved by removing cobbles,
grading and laying a streetway of concrete
SIX (6) inches in thickness, and with a top
coating of asphaltum two and one-quarter
(211 inches in thickness, grouted rock gut
tiers five (5) feet wide, on a concrete foundation
four (4) inches in thickness, altering two (N
old catch basins and, where not already done,
granite curbing with round cor
ners at the alley intersections.
For further particulars reference is hereby
made to said resolution on file in the office of
the City Clerk.
Sacramento, August 10, 1896.
f. j. CROLY,
au1l-6t Superintendent of Streets.
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A Good Bag.

Henry Gerber, Frank Ruhstaller, Jr.,
and J. NJ Morrison, in company with
a Folsomite, went over near Roseville
ON Tuesday and bagged 165 doves.
The record-union., 1896-08-13
Country Dance.

There will be dance at the Union
House, on the Stockton road, next
Saturday evening. Music by Fisch &
Leddy
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gardless of these attacks and shed them
without taking a scratch or suffering
even a ruffling of equaninity; because
he has the courage of his convictions,
and to follow course opposed to the
shout of the irrational and radical he
has been singled out for defeat and re-
tirement. But we apprehend that the
same honest and unanimous judgment
that has moved his party to indorse his
action and reward him by denomination
will move the voters of the Second Dis
trict to give him a verdict of return by
fattering majority.
The Archbishop of Paris has issued an
edict forbidding women to sing in choirs
of churches save in convent chapels.
Now then let the champions Of women's
rights rise up and shout in protest. But
seriously the order of the Archbishop
is ridiculous. If he had said that only
good women, women of pure and holy
lives should sing in the church choirs
and that those from the concert halls
one would have entered protest, though
even then good women might have been
prescribed. But what he proposes is to
set aside the comparatively modern in
novation of female voices in church
choirs and return to the day when boys
in the choirs were alone tolerated, with
few men for the heavier parts; or that
order of beings devoted by cruelty for
ever to the service of the sanctuary
choir, and robbed of the possibilities OF
manhood that the Lord may be served
by silvery voices. 1t is very true that
in the English church the choirs are of
boys and that women rarely lift their
tones in the noble old Cathedrals of that
country. But there it is the rule of Gus
tom, not the edict of a prelate, that
makes the order. Even in that land in
the smaller churches, those in villages
and hamlets, they employ women in the
choirs and there is nothing in the Gus
propriety or of the sanctity Of the sane
tuary Admitted that the surpliced
boys choir, well drilled, is one of the
most effective and delightful of combi-
nations in devotional music; admit that
boys voices are far sweeter and are su-
perior for church service to those of
women, having that indescribable quail
ity that devotional music demands, still
choirs of the Catholic Churches Of Paris,
is a harsh one, smacks of the times gone
by which none would have return, and
suggests the retrogression that leads
backward to the darker and less tolerant
days Of church history. 1t is an arbi-
trary and foolish order and will not in
crease respect for the church.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK.

brought to his aid the money and
influence of such men as DIR. A. Il.
Hawkins, of Raleigh; f. N Edgerton,
J. p. Thomas, w. T. Hughes, G. w.
Ford and others, Of LOaisburg, and
upon ample capital and the business
integrity, sagacity and reputation OF
such men as these, the bank was
founded. Mr.. William Bailey was
elected president and Mr.. J. S. Barrow
cashier. A few months later Mr.. Bar
row resigned the position as cashier,
and Mr. w. j. Byerly, formerly of Lex
ington, N. c., was elected as his sue
cessor.
Mr.. Bailey, the president, is thor
ough going, prudent and popular gem
tlenan, possessed of business qualii-
cations Of high order, he is liberal
in his views and loyal to every in
terest of his new home town, and a
leader in every legitimate movement
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ton of about 1900, L0uisburg has two
banks, each doing profitable and sue
1 cessful business and showing with
each succeeding statement an increase
Of totals.
| Another monument to the prosperity
/ of the town and the public spirit of it's
citizens is the new hotel building-a
splendid and handsome brick struct-
ure, three stories high, and wide e.
nough in front to have besides the ho-
tel Office and entrances three store
rooms-two of them being very large
and roomy with handsome and snowy
ment of the acreage in tobacco. Since
fronts. 1t is just now very nearly com
plete, one Of the stores being already
occupied by Mr.. w. g. Raclxley, who
has moved from Clinton to open large
dry goods store here. But / fOrebear
a reorganization of the various new en-
terprises and lately erected buildings
which attest the rapid growth and
prosperity Of our town. The cause of
this new prosperity and business
activity in the town of Louis
burg and the wonderfully inn
proved condition of the farmers
and laboring classes throughout the
county is not hard to discover. The
dawning of what may be called new
era in the history of the town and
county was contemporaneous with the
opening of the tobacco warehouses in
1890. The market prospered immediate
ly and in a few years the planters Of the
county had generally realized that q
good tobacco crop would do for them
in one year what cotton had never
done, and there was a great enlarge
then there has been seen year after
year larger crops and a better market
until Louisburg has gained a position
of prominence as a market for tobacco
and a safe business point from which
no conceivable accident or influence
can dislodge her. She has had no
'boom" with it's attendant danger of
disastrous collapse. but is growing
steadily, surely, safely, and her future
is bright with promise Of large pros
perity and successful enterprise.
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LOUIsBURG FEMALE CoLLEGE.

Situated in one of the loveliest and
oldest classic groves in the State, Is
Louisburg Female College, the alma
mater of thousands of the educated
women of the State for an hundred
years. There is history in every
branch on every tree that makes the
campus a haven Of restfulness; and
there has gone out from the shade of
the old grove women who have changed
the current of whole communities and
purified it. A few years ago the prop
erty was purchased by the Methodists,
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front rank of business towns i'm the,
State. It's renaissance is now complete
Although we have witnessed no phe-,
nomenal growth of population such as
sometimes makes and often mars the
business future of town, we hazard
the assertion, and our own Judgment
is endorsed by the expressed opinion OF
every travelling man who has visited
US, that more business is done in Louis
burg in proportion to it's size than in
any other city or town OF North Caro-
lima. This is not boast but fact. On
any day during last fall and winter
one had only to stand at the inter-sec-
ton of Main and Nash streets and
watch the great busy throng which all
the day surged up and down and across
these two principal streets, to be con-
WINGED of it's truth. And it was no hol-
iday crowd that he would see, but one
that was buying and selling and MAX.
ing gain. Despite the lugubrious pict-
ures of want and restitution which the
political demagogue has been exhibit
ing, it is an evident and undeniable
fact that the farmers of Franklin coun,
ty as a whole are in a more prosper
Gus condition, owe less money and live
better than at any previous time in
thirty years. The best and surest in
dicia to the volume of business trans
acted in town are the statements Of
its banks and those who do me the
honor to read the F'rankling Times
will have noticed that with a popula-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

and think Mr.. Washington Duke is
now the chief stakeholder, if he is not
the sole owner. Rev. j. A. Green is it's
successful President, and the college
is growing in usefulness and popular
ity. 1t was once the female college
for almost the whole eastern part Of
the State. OF course, with the changes
that have been wrought, it does not
hope to draw from so large territory,
but with the great increase of interest
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
~. NJ. g. THOMAS.

Mr.. Thomas learned the drug bust
ness with that old reliable establish
ment of Williams & Haywood, of Raj
eigh, and is one of the States most
reliable and accurate pharmacists, and
an active, upright and valuable man.
His brother, Mr.. Henry L. Thomas, for
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citated in experience, in judgment, in
general business qualifications and
sterling integrity that from the start
the firm of w. B. Green & Co. has been
winner.
Mr.. w. B. Green may be termed q
thorough graduate in buying ard
handling leaf tobacco. He engaged IN
the business when he was very young
in years at Lynchburg, and by that
close and intelligent application of all
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President Merchants and Farmers
Bank, Louisburg, N. G..
substantial foundations, and organized
into itself a number of the best men
and most potent business influences in
and around Louisburg.
Mr. William Bailey, formerly q
prominent young citizen Of Florida and
more recently Of Raleigh, was the con-
trolling spirit in the Inauguration and
establishment of the institution. He
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how to buy it, how to handle it, how
to classify it--in short, how to thor
oughly prepare it, so that it viii meet
the requirements of those extensive
dealers who entrust their orders with
him. He is a young man yet, and has
but few years Of success back of him,
but the future has in store for him
great achievements in the tobacco in
dustrv.
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that has for its object the advance
ment of the community's interest.
Mr.. Bailey has recently welded a
charming Raleigh lady, Miss Addie
Stitb, and both Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey
have already won the hearts and an
entree into the homes of the best pee-
pie Of Louisburg.
Mr. w. j. Byerly is a young man of
superb business trainingand high char
acter, and is rapidly developing into a
safe and successful young banker.
The success of the first year of the
Merchants and Farmers Bank has been
marked and the benefit derived from
its establishment, to the general inter-
ests of Louisburg has been invaluable.
It's home is in its own handsome build
ing, recently erected, in the heart Of
the business section Of Louisburg.
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tons and saw mills, and is largely in
terested in the new hotel. In fact, he
is part owner in nearly every enter
prise that has been started in the town.
He came to Louisburg, married Miss
Singleton; she died and he married Miss
Lula Stegal. He has been we'll re-
ceived, attended to his own business
and succeeded, and is the kind of men
we will welcome to come and settle
among us.
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IGg Past Br8llHamG History amid It's Now Golden Aqgp

three years. He then came back to
Louisburg, and for several years
clerked for Col. w. Fl. & r.. T. Yarbo-
rough, and in the spring of 1877 he
commenced business on his own ac-
count With a little money he had
saved, and some given him by his
father, and by push and close attention
to business, he made money rapidly,
and is now one of the largest tax
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
Editor Thomas Writes of his Home.
Town and his Neighbors.

am glad to write that within
past few years the workings Of a great
change have been seen. The awaken
ing of our people to new and aggres-
siye activity and an influx of energy
from the outside world have operated
to bear Louisburg rapidly to the very
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learned his lesson well. lie buys for
the company on this market about a
million pounds Of tobacco a year, and
the most of it is bright. he recorders
the greater part of it, and works a
force of twenty-five to thirty hands.
Tie is steady, energetic, and studies
closely the interest of his employers.
Since he has been in Louisburg for the
last four years, his straightforward
conduct in all transactions have gained
for him the confidence and respect of
all the business men.
He was recently married TO Miss
Hattie Mithell, one Of HendersoT's ac-
complished daughters, and we predict
for him happy and prosperous fu-
ture.
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Mr.. GILLIAN HART.

Mr.. Hart, proprietor Of the Riverside
Warehouse, was born and raised in
Henderson, N. c., where he learned the
tobacco business. He came to Louis
burg in 1891, and formed partnership
with w. III. Peasants, and had very
successful year The next year he and
Mr.. G. r. Hughes, as Hughes IL Hart,
run the Riverside. and in 1895 he
bought out the interest Of Mr.. Hughes,
and is now the sole proprietor of the
RiYercide. He is is a shrewd, wide-a-
wake business man, and thoroughly
understands the tobacco business in
all its details, and is one of the few
warehousemen who understands how
to please both buyer and seller of to-
bacco, and consequently his is very
popular house, and he does very large
business. Mr.. Hart is full of push,
energy and vim, and is never idle. In
addition to his warehouse, he does a
big business in harness, buggies,
wagons. He is also one of the town
commissioners, is pubIic-spirited, and
takes an interest in everything that
pertains to the advancement of the
town, and is now building for himself
a handsome dwelling, on Church
street, and it liz just such public
spirited, energetic, pushing men as Mr..
Hart is, that Louisburg welcomes as
citizens. He married few years ago
Miss Jennie Burrows, one of the bellies
OF Henderson. He has bright future
before him.
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FRANK N. EGERT0N.

T. N. Egerton, the senior member Of
the firm of II. N. Egerton 81 R. n. Eyer
ton, is one of the most prominent mer-
chants in the town. He was born on
farm near Louisl,urg. His father not
being able to give him college educa-
ton, at the age of 16 he commenced
clerl1iag for a cousin of his in Warren
county, with whom he remained for
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his disposition, pleasing of manner,
handsome in person, a general favorite
among his associates, and highly es-
teemed in the community.
Tie knows the value Of lot of leaf
tobacco just as soon almost as his WE'LL
trained eve rests upon it. He knows