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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
NEwsY LETTER FROM ALABAMA


CROSBY, Ala, April 9th, 1897.
DEAR EDITOR: We have lust
received the first issue of the Ron.
EsoNIAN under its new manage.
ment. We have always been a
warm friend of the paper and
since leaving the Old North State
we appreciate its visits more.
More SO because it always con
ta1ns good news from home.
: We are having warm weather
now: For about ten. months
previous to February 1st, the
weather had been extremely, dry.
Much Of the water for stock etc,
was hauled for several miles. Fol-
the past two months heavy rains
have set in which still continue.
The ground is SO wet the farmers
have been greatly hindered III their
work.
iAe rivers are all overfowed
The Chattahoochee river is said To
be the highest it was ever known
TO be. Two steamers were wrecked
during the past week. Several
lives We're lost in the wrecks.
There have been: cyclones around
Mere but DO serious damage done
IN the Immediate ncighborhood.
Prospects are good for fine
fruit crop this year. Pears are
raised here in large quantities.
1t Is remarkable that SO many
of the settlers in this part of Ala
bama have emigrated from North
and South Carolina. This makes a
Carolinian feel quite at home here
Hoping you continued success
with the good old RoBEsoN1AN,
and that It's visits may continue
long, I am
Yours truly,
JOHN p. MCNEIL. !.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
Both houses of Conrraa,

Both houses of Congress- last
week week passed bill appropriating
$2O,oOO to aid the flood sufferers
IN the Mississippi valley. Presi-
dent Mckinley recommended the
appropriation and signed the bill
rs soon as it was passed. The ex-
tent OF the'distress attending the.
Hood can be partially understood
when it is remembered that not
less than seven hundred towns n 70
either wholly submerged or partly
no. Not only is the property loss
immense but q number of per.
sons have been drowned. The
prompt action of Congress will DO.
applaudsd.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

Governor Russell intimates
that if he had been better &C
q,,ainted with the Southern rail-
way, he would not have been so
mild. The chief executive must
breakfast on hot t9nlales. dine orf
cold weather sausage and eat red
pepper between meals to keep up
steam in his denouneing depart
ment.-Charlotte News.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

The statement is made that the
annual production of cotton Of the
Inundated territory of the Mississ-
ippi valley is 100000 bales,
worth about $4,000, 900. Unless
the waters soop snbside the crop
viii be lost this year.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
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~NOTtCE!
YALUABLEf LAND FOR SALE

BY virtue OF decree OF the Superior Court of
Robson County in an action in which D. &;
Kitty Ann Gately are defendants. the undar'
Sfgnrd will sell at the. Court House door in
berton, n c.. on May Sd. 1897, tina auble
L County, adjoining the. lands 81 Estate alta
z. Mclean, the Estate of James Mclean. the
Iands MIS- a; J. Cottingham and Others, de-
BEGINNING at a stake about fifty yards South
Oh small cypress pond and also about one
the last corner Of a fifty acre survey granted to
Danlei Mclean November, 26, 17S9 and run n,
IL W. 22S chains to pine (now a lightwooi
Also the beginning corner of.a sixty acre suryer
granted to John Mclean December 10 mi
thence with first line of 81 Ky acres n. 81 ~ Iaa
chains to pine in the first line of 15o &C res sur
vey, granted to Elisha Sweeting, March. II
1858, thence parallel to the Northern aud South
ern line of said $50 acres Z. 6S W. 30 chains TO
the Eastern line of a tract of 200 acres granted
70. John Hawthorn. November, 4, 1883 thence
with that line s. 20 W. LBS chains to the south.
eastern corner of said go acres, thence with
she Southern line of said tract N. 70 W about
chains, thence S. 80 ". to with and beyonJ
the upper line OF 100 acres granted to John
thence down the various courses of the run 81
said swamp until a line of S. IS E. will direct
10 the old pasture fence, thence from said poirt
on said run S. 7S Il. to acd with said pastIIrs
renee to the line OF an II acre survey, thence
with that line S. II w. 4 chains, to Malcolm Me-
rae (now Jones line) then with his line
80 e. about $50 chains to his corner thence
>. 81 4. about chain to another corner of said
II acre tract, thence with anothr line of said IL
corner of John Campbelrs 100 acre suryey
thence n. 20 F. with and beyond the line al
southern line OF his $50 acre survey, thence
with this line s. 68 +. 3S7 chains to its corner
IN the second line of the John Mclean 60 acre
survey, thence with that line S. q W. 1854
ehains to its third corner, thence us its third
nne s. W E. 81 chains to its corner near the
Northwest corner of an old field an old drad
pine pointer, postoak and sweetgum and nine
newly marked. thence as its other line N. "a K
e" chalnS to stake within two pine pointers
Ihehce n 40 ID w. 1872 Chains to the third cor
ner OF Daniel McLean's so acre survey with two
pines FL, - ana one BLACKBURN pointers, thence with
BIB chains to the beginning containing al
acres more or less, this being the same tract of
saha conveyed 9Th day of January. 1891 by John
Gately. Il. 4. McNEItI ''' h'iA
Mch. B1ts5t 's'ioier.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

According TO Rev. DR.. Mayo
The Southern States have spent
$3.50, 100000 for popular cduca-
ton since the war, of which $751;
OO0, COO went to the education of
culored children.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

- A St. Louis woman has
achieved distinction by appropria-
ting $50, 900 insurance money she
got ON her husbands life, to pay
Ing his debts. The insurance was
for her benefit and could not have
bcen touched by the creditors of
her deceased husband, whose mem
DRY sac thus honored. '.a . 81
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

-Rudyard Kipling, the well
known novelist and poet, has
gone to Crete as war correspond
ent of the London Times at sal-
airy of So COO month. 9
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
THE TARIFF SITUATION

Senator Chandler SAID to a Washington
Star reporter with relation TO the tariff
situation that the bill was seriously
threatened by the pressure for increases
Of duties. Ills pressure is enormous
from all parts Ct the country" he said,
and is SO stroiig that there Is some dan
gerthat it might be yielded TO- There is
for Instance, a general demand that tile
wool tariff Shall be increased, SO that, in
stead of rate of S and cents pound
on , Mools we slsail Iava 4o+-or~12.9 The
Yoolen manufacturers want. eo1rlpensa-
tory. rates Which amount to- prohibitive
duties on. woolsns. L ilsewises the Cai-
fornlans ask us to place such duties ON
fruits that all foreign fruits shall be kept
out i'll the intetest of the California pro-
ducts, Indeed, there is great: pressure
from all parts of the country and in the
interest OF almost every industry for pro-
hlbitive duties. If the pressure continues
and is yielded to there's great danger, 1
repeat, that the bill. will not become a
law There will, in. that event, be such
all uprising against the bill that there will
be a majority against it instead of for it.
The margin is: small at best. The Rcpub-
llcans have not a hjority without assist
ance from other parties, and the danger
is that therewill be sucha general revul
sion of feeling as will cause the outsiders
upon whom. we are counting.to not cast
their. votes for the bill. So, at least"
the Senator concluded, "the matter pre-
sents itself to my mind. The Republi-
can members of the finance committee
are disposed to be conservative, but the
pressure is SO strong that they may be
forced to- yisld. The people:who are Great
ing the pressure notwithstanding to pull
down upon their own heads the temple
that shelters tllem.'' -.
When the Rev. David Short was pastor
of the Penn Avenhe Baptist church, at
Scranton, Pa, he was Jealous in the work
OF securing new members. One man
with whom lie had; 1abored exhaustiyelv
was finally persuaded as to his; Christian
duty; but could not make iGp his mind
whetherto become a Baptist or Me.tfho-
DIST Finally he Hit upon rIs; co1,npromise
and wrote o'the doctor that i he had de.
cided to'ariits,!' with the Methodist. but
would ffke'to be fbaaptized in the Baptist
church rby iiiirnsfsioi,. TlMSs e e. exak
peraeed The good doctor that he Sent the
following rfplyaa.e 'I.regrhtlthai I can1sddt1
you, ht,tstii ellufcs, ffoes
not take in washing. ~. 81 :, =.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

1t seems that Mckinley was
the advance agent" of sweeping
Democratic victories throughout
the West and Northwest. News
and Observer.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
LAND FOR SALE,

o..' nacr a decree of the Superior Court of Rob
In ~ 0"unty, IN Hector Mclean and wife et
sfS,, vs. Alex. Mclean ct ais. / will sell ON
" tl lay Sd lSlI.at pablic auction for cash
a. .ur Court Eoils'e door in Luinherton, \. o.
t Ra, ia.,sts IN Rnlrson County. known as the
i nev, hector Mclean place and fully descriised
III me pie@dings is this proceeding. sale
ihaue Tor PARTITION.
A. W. MCLEAN,
Commissioner
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

The RoBEsoNIAN office is eouip-
ped with new type. new p1e.sses-
and other machinery and is ready
to do your work.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
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DON'T DO II

Dill
By NKEe ONCE said: 4ssDo not
attempt to: cheat. IA editor out of
years subscription to his paper;
or any other<suln: y; Clfcat the min.
isteE cheat anybedy and every We
body, but if You have any regard
=, for i: future consequences, don t fool
the editor. You WILDE put up
forroffice some dime,<or want some
public favor. for; yourself or your
friend, and when your luck is. is a
thing Of beauty, q joy forever, the
editor will open. on you, and knock
your castles into a cooked hat at
tire first fire. He'll stbdue you
and'then you'll ctlss your stupidity
for a dr y, idiot, go hire some
man to knock you down and kick
you for falling.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
EXECUTION SALE!

I will sell for cash to the highest bidder at
the. Court House door in Lumberton n C., on
the 18th day OF May, 1897. it being Monday of
the following described tract of land, viz: Ly,
ing in Smiths township in RobeSon COUNTY.
beginning at a stake in said road (Fayettevilfe
the line of No. south IS east. % chains and so
links to stake by a pine and two sweet gums
in pond, thence south 81 west. chains and 90
links to stake in the field. thence north AZ
west. 20 chains to stake in the said road.
thence with said road to the beginning. 70
satisfy a Ven. Ex. in my hands issued out of
matter of John Walker ct al Ex Parte.
]. w. HALL. Sheriff
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

Harry Parlow, the-coIored mail
carrieer' between the post-ofice
and depot at Lincolnton has held
the place for .twenty-three years
apd In all that time he has never
been late with the mail Of missed
a train. This is an EXCELLENT re-
cord, for faithful services.~-
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE !

having qualified as administrators Of W
ENeSSe!t, deceased, late Of Robeson Conntr
~ ms Is to notify all persons having Claims
%S..Ihs. me estate of said deceased to erhiit
a dmein Ia tne Undersigned on or before the 10Th
uaf on April. ISIS. or this notice will he nIead
III DAT OF their recovery. All persons indah,ad
ment. Ae immaculate pay
This 9th day of April. 1897
DARCUS LEGGETT.
PRocTop g. ,,,1v Administratrix.
Apr1-et.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14
u. ]. PREVATl'
ESCAPED THE FIRE!

| wish to inform my custom
toners and friends, generally
that, escaped, from the last
disastrous fire with small dam
age to stock, and can be found
at the N. H. Jones Store with a
Full and Complete Line of
Goods at Lowest Prices.
You will also find our Mr..
Lon Prevatt located in orr
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

Il " "A v Id ~
In the Mrs. Dick wood build
ing, formerly occupied by DIR.
H. T. Pope & Co., with a New
and Complete Line of Goods at
LOWEST POSSIBLE CASH PRICES +!
Thanking our friends for past
patronage and extending our
sincere sympathy to our unfort-
innate fire sufferers in business.
| remain, Yours to please,
WI I DDEU TFN
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14

Approaching the growing demar
especial attention has been given to IL
sI.25 and $3.50 you can depend on Q
offered. These goods are manufactur
Celebrated Pearl Shirt, and to say tt
question. Patronize home institution
Shirt for IS cents eyer made.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-27
COTTON AND COTTON GOODS.
This Schedule Built Practically ON
the Wilson Lines.


In the cotton goods schedule there are few
changes from the present law. except some
goeds The MeKnley n rates are ressorsd
on Eeady-made clothing. on cotton chenille
net otseTwiss pseSidea Tor; ..,a.s,,o. :,
is naas sstrs saa 81
Hosiery values, at not more than q 50 per
e ana
not more re Il than e per dG1en a5 cents ,b per
50 Per dozen 8 per dozen , and 20 per cent
tsn spe s
$50 and not more than 50 per dozen; Is
more than 50 per dozen. 81 per dozen and 80
The present rate remains on cords. braids,
etc; and on all ma ne of cotton not
Flax, Hemp md Jute.
Il, In the flax, hemp and Jute sch he al
w to the
list at Mckinley rates except toy Of hemp.
Jute yarn is ehsnsed from 80 per cent. ad
esSIss sordsgs an s' Vine 1 not oe!ssrSise
binGng tW VIII ere when imported from eoun
gsed dG ssate the sre of
cent Mt per per pound; cables, and eordage of
hemp cents per pound hemp m an b juse
eent bTTlaps except G0t109 baagg me-
5nriap bags for grain. one1half cent
pound and Is per CENT:
higher than No u it is taxed Is cents per
pound and Is per cent; finer than No. IL to
No. 25. q cents per pound and Is per cent:
to No. 49, 40 cents per pound and 30 per
cent: finer than No. 40 to No. 50. 46 cents
TO to No. 60. As cents per pound and 20 per
cent: f9er than No So 50 cents per pouna
or ramie, not inner than 5-line. z cents
ditional for each line; Yarns of hemp.
per pound 8 cents per pound and 10 per
cent; valued at above IL cents per pound,
IL cents per pound and 35 per cent; collars
and cuffs composed entirely Of cotton, IS
cents dozen and Is per cent; composed
Of whole or in part Of linen, so cents per
wearing apparel not specially provided for,
composed In whole or In part of linen, so
per cent
Laces. embroideries. ruchings, trim
mingS, window curtains and other tam
boured articles and articles made wholly
in part of above-named articles, COM
posed of flax, jute, cotton other vege-
table fiber are taxed a co per cent. ad va
loren.
The basket clause in the flax. hemp and
jute schedule imposes compound duty
all manufactures conta lining not more than
100 threads per square inch and so per cent.
on all above 100 threads.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-27
SUGAR.
Ad VaIorcm Rates Changed to Spe-
cffc-The New Duties.

The sugar schedule is specific through
ard in color, tank bottoms. sirups of cane
juice, melada, concentrated melada, con-
the polariscope not above IS degrees. l cent
per pound, and for every additional de-
polariscopic test, three one hundredths of
cent per pound additio5ai; and s on sugar
process of refining, 1875 cents per pound !:
molasseS testing not above Sc degrees, 3
cents per gallon: testing Sc degrees and
above, cents per gallon; sugar, tank
melada, concentrated melada and concrete
any amy eonntrH Wch pays r rne or
rectly a bounty on the export thereof.
as exported therefrom or otherwise. shall
pay in addition to the foregoing rates a
thereof as may be in excess of any tax col col
lected by such country upon such article
pro ata Provided. that nothing herein
Contained shall be so construed as to abro-
reciproeity. concluded between the United
SANDS ON the soth day OF January. f5 on
the Provisions Of any act of congress here
same.
Maple sugar and maple strip, cents per
pound; glucose or grape sugar, IL cents
per pound; sugar cane in its natural state
saeehaTine. s. per pound pound and and Is per cent
tionery and all other articles made wholly
or in part of sugar. valued at Is cents per
or wben en eore af es 6eng
way adulterated, cents per pound and 20
Is cents per pound and not more than IS
cents per pound; II cents per pound and 20
Cents per pound. SO per cent. ad vaiorem n
The weight of paper and other immediate
boses e or coverings other than the outer
packing case or other covering shall be in
cluded In the dutiable weight Of the mer-
chandiSe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-27

per pound.
Spices, ground or powdered, 4 cents per
pound: cayenne pepper, 21z cents per pound;
unground sage, cents per pound
Vinegar. "a. cents per gallon
There shall be allowed on the imported tin
plate used in the manufacture of cans,
boxes, packages and all articles of tin
ware exported, either empty or flled with
duty paid on such tin plate, less per cent.
of such duty, which shall be retained for
the of the United States
Spirits and Wfnea.
The rates in the present law generally
m maintained throughout the entire liquor
schedule, but champagne and mineral
waters are to be used as basis of reci-
procity, with the omission of part of the
duty in return for special facilities for the
Importation of goods from the United
States.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-27
TOBACCO.
Nothing Is Lower In This List Than
Mckinley Rates.

There Is no change from the Mckinley
rates in the duty on leaf tobacco suitable
for cigar wrappers, but all other leaf, un-
stemmed, is Increased from IS cents to 10
cents per pound. and stemmed from so to
90 cents.
Leaf tobacco suita Bile for cigar wrappers.
If not stemmed, 81 per pound; If stem med.
81 IS per pound Provided, that il any
tobacco imported in any bale, box or pack
age or In bulk shall contain exceeding Is
per cent thereof of leaves suitable for
cigar wrappers, the entire quantity of to-
age or in bulk shall be dutiable, IL not
stemmed, at 81 per pound: II stemmed. at
$2-75 per pound
All other tobacco in leaf, unmanufac-
tured and not Stemmed. IS cents per pound; ,
IL stemmed, so cents per pound
Tobacco, manufactured, OF all descrip-
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ii tons not specially provided for in this act.
Snuff and snuff -four, manufactured of
tobacco, ground dry, or damp and picked,
scented or otherwise, of all descriptions. 40
cents per pound
Cigars. cigarettes. eheroots of all kinds;
yalorem; and paper cigars and cigarettes,
including wrappers, shall be subject to the
same duties as are herein imposed upon
cigars.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-03-27
THE FREE LIST.


Acids-Arsenic arsenious, huoric, hy-
picric or nitro-picric. prussic and silicic.
Aeonite a sf,rn agates unmanufaetured:
Any aha be fer
vided, that no such animal shall be admit,
and Sg ff1r that in ae OF
e Inimais breught Int into the Unite Tilted States
temporarily for period not exceeding
competition fo or przes ofrered by any ae
ricultural or racing association; but bond
tions bS the 81 the
their se and aaefle anna the wagons
or other vehicles actually owned by persons
Tnfd Wits fhsr and s1 IN
ton under Such nG repguatie e as c the seere
tary Of the treasury may prescribe, and
geological collections for scientific and edu-
cational purposes, and not for sale or
Annato, roucou. roucoa or orleans. and
Anthony ore, crude su1phite of.
Apatite arrow1oot in its natural state tat,
phide of, or orpiment- Arsenate Of ami
Art edueationa1 stops. composed of glass
and metal and valued at not more than
Articles In a crude state used in dyeing
or tanning not specially provided for in this
Of the sbss and
out having been advanced in value or inn
ufacture or other means: casks barrels,
CARRIERS. bags and other vessels Of Ameri-
can I manufacture n; exported; filled with
returned filled with foreign products, in
Guiding shocks when returned barrels
OF * Shs
which shall have been actually exported
from the United States: but proof of the
der general regulations to be prescribed by
emption Of bags from duty shall apply only
Sa anSY amy .ueS
articles are subject to internal tax at the
time of expectation such tax shall be
ton and not refunded. Provided, that this
paragraph shall not apply to any article
been made, the transportation Of which is
hereby prohibited except upon payment of
duties equal to the drawbacks allowed: or
to any article manufactured in bonded
when Manufactured tobacco which has
terna reSenne tax shall n Be prsimported. Il
shall be retained in the custody of the
collector of customs until internal revenue
be placed thereon
Asbestos. in its natural state as taken
from the earth. not assorted. purified or
Ashes. wood and I've OF. and beet root
ashes.
or otherwise advanced In any manner.
Balm of Gilead.
| Banks. from which quinine may be ex-
tracted.
Barytat-
Rauxite-
Binding Irvine. except such is i'm
ported from a country which lays an import
duty on like articles imported from the
i duty of One-half OF cent Der pound.
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Bells. broken. and bell metal
Birds and land and water fowls.
Bismuth
Bonss- - ,o.,. .+.,-
lnss for the use 81 the MSrafy Of con-
Brazilian pebble.
Rristles. crude.
BuIiion., gold or silver.
Cadmium.
Calamine.
Castor Oil, castoreum
Catgut. whipgut or wormgut-
Ghronate Of iron or chronic ORE
Clay. common blue clay.
Coal tar: crude. and pitch of coal tar and
Cobalt and cobalt ore.
Cocculus tndicus. Ia
Cocoa. Or cacao. crude.
Coins. gold. silver and copper.
Coir and coir yarn
Copper and copper cement 4,
Gorkwood or cork bark.
Cryolite or kryclath.
Curling stones and curling stone handles.
Clutch.
Cuttlefish bone.
pandelion roots
Diamonds and other precious stones
rough uncut
Divi-divi.
Ora CONS blood.
Drugs.
Eggs of birds. fish and insects.
Emery ore.
Ergot.
Fans. common palm leaf and palm leaf.
Feldspar. -
Felt.
Fibrin.
Fish skins.
Flint.
Fossils.
Fruits.
E'urs, undreSsed.
Fur skins.