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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-11-18
THE PENSION BURDEN.

According to the latest figures,
the government has paid out
over four billions of dollars in
pensions since the close Of the
war. Pensioners hardly ever die.
Seven veterans Of the war Of
1912 are still left, and there are
$500 widows of such soldiers. In
fact, there are now fifteen wids
ows of revolutionary soldiers
drawing pensions.
1t is estimated that four billion
dollars more will be paid out be-
fore the country gets through
with the union veterans of the
late war. These figures are ap-
palling, and it is no wonder that
the masses feel this enormous
drain. 1t is especially hard on the
South, as the pensioners live in
the North, and spend their
money there.
Year after year the pension
department grows more extrav-
agaut. It pays deserters, bounty
| jumpers. and recently man was
found drawing 500 a month, who
served only sixteen days in the
war, and broke his ankle by fall.
ing from a wagon. The news
papers should expose this in
. justice and extravaganza, unit
!, the leading soldiers Of the unio1
side will unite in demanding {
|, reform.
The pension roll should be |
roll of honor, but it will neve
be that until steps are taken t,
purge it. Four billion dollar
more for this traudulently con
r Quoted business. That was tn
value of the entire slave prop
erty of the South in 1860 1t is
, monstrous sum ,and three-fourth
of it is an unjust tax.
5 Mon ents are useless If triied away
and they are dangerously wasted
{ consumed by delay in cases whore On
i Minute Cough Cure would bring imme
diate relief. j. H. Hill s. Son, Gold:
boro and Jno. II, Smith, Mt. Olivee
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Executors Notice.

Having qualified as executor Of
Fannie Watts, deceased, late of Wayne
county, N c., this is to notify all per-
sons having claims against the estate
of said deceased to exhibit them to the
on or before the 23rd dav
OF October, 1898, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment.
This 23rd day of Oct. 1897.
eANDREW J. FLANNER,
Executor.
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Notice of Sale (!

IINDMR an order of the Superior
y Court of Wayne county, N. G.,
I shall, on Wednesday, December 1st,
1897, beginning at IL O'Clock a. IN
sell for cash by public auction, at the
ceased, near Goldsboro, North Caro-
lima, the personal property belonging
to the estate of the said w. A. Deans,
consisting among other things o1
horses, mules, cattle, hogs, farming
implements, farm produce, carts,
wagons, buggies, corn mill, spoke
lathe, boiler, pump, pire, household
andkitchen furniture, etc.
SYDNEY DEANS,
Adm. of w. A. Deans, deceased.
Nov 9TH, 1897.
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THE ALL COTTON FOLLY.

The New Orleans Picayune
says that the present price of
cotton, the lowest with one ex-
ception in fifty years, suggests
some important considerations.
The most important of these
is the necessity that the Southern
farmers should raise their own
supplies.
The immense cotton crop of
1894 drove the price to the lowest
point it has ever touched and it
seemed that this bitter expert
ence taught the farmers a valu-
able lesson. The next year they
reduced their cotton acreage
largely and raised greater food
crops. The result was that cot
ton brought nearly twice as much
in 1895 as it brought in 1894.
Not only this but the formers
had less to buy than ever before.
Thus they found double profit
from the wise policy they adopted
in the spring of 1895. The Plea.
yune says:
Zone would have imagined thai
the Southern farmers, profitine
by experience, would have con-
tinued the policy of producing al
supplies at home aud making
cotton as much a surplus crop al
possible; but, with a lack O
prudence which is astonishing
they promptly drifted back t.
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LOCAL BRIEFS

HE county jail is nlllnS up
with subjects for the January
term of Superior court.
The ARGUS regrets to chron-
icle the death of Mr.. Kirby Hill,
II years of age, son of our es-
teemed friend and county man
Rev. Jacob F. Hill, who, we are
sorry to learn, is himself critically
ill.
THE murdercus knife of Sam
Wright was found last Thursday
under the clay root Of the blown
down tree in the woods; just
where he told the editor Of the
ARGUS in his last confession it
could be found.
Mr.. John r. Smith is having
three new rooms added to his
residence in this city and also
water works put in and consider
able painting done with a view
to moving his family back to
their old home here.
The price of cotton is so low
that many travelling men are being
called in by their houses. The
merchants refuse to buy goods,
as they see no hopes Of selling
them. When king cotton is de-
throned, verify the people mourn.
Poor old Editor Dana is dead,
and everybody will join in the
charitable hope that his sins are
forgiven, but the tentacle Of the
great octopus which reaches out
toward the South, in the person
of the New York Sun para
grapher, shows signs of maIig-
nant vitality and fe1ocious activ>
ity.
A LARGE wagon load of home
made hay. nicely baled, was Wis
ible and for sale on this market
Friday. 1t was a gratifying
sight, indeed, and ip the midst of
low cotton, and with rice and pea
nuts also on the market, it was
cheering evidence that our farm
ers are learning the virtue and
value of diversified crops.
POLICEMAN Tudor gave a hog
thief a long chase from New Town
last Thursday, and finally, after
running through back lots and
jumping fences he captured his
man and locked him up. He is
a colcred gentleman and answers
to the name of George Carr. {
had a hog in his possession thai
belonged to Isaiah Artist.
ELDER John w. Gardner, 6
Primitive Baptist divine Of this
city, was called to Greene county
last week to perform the mar
riage ceremony for two couples
who were MIR. Arthur Jones tt
Miss Mary Gray, and Mr.. Johr
H. Ham to Miss Maggie Smith
The happy event occurred at th'
home of Mr.. Perrott R. Gray
and both couples were married a
the same time.
The tax-paying time is at hand
There is no reason in the worl
why people should be so pushe
to pay their taxes. Of course me-
should pay their taxes, but th
payment should be made a
easy as possible. Things will nc
be always thus. The people, yes
the people cannot always be dc
clined. Let good and wise me
be sent to the legislature, and the
will remedy many of the ills ths
we now have,
HIS many friends in this cit
and throughout widesprea
territory of this section will t
glad to learn that DIR. J. S. Bi
zell has returned fro
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ba
timore, completely restored
his wonted health and vigor. TT
doctor is member Of the wei
known and popular firm of Bi
zell Bros. & Co., who enjoy tt
confidence of an army of custoI
ers and a steadily increasir
trade. The tax books show th
they pay the largest Mercha
tax of any firm in Goldsboro.
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: Hood ! s
SarsapariIla
- -,, are the only pills to TAX

Those gentleman who expect
Congress to make quick work of
China question tail to explain how
they will drag the matter out of
the Committee on Rules.
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NOTICE.

Having this day qualified before the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Wayne
County. N. c., as executor of Celfcia
Taylor deceased De- notice is hereby
estate of said Celicia Taylor to make
immediate payment, and to all persons
holding claims against said estate to
present them to the undersigned on or
before Sept. 28th, 1898, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recov-
cry, VIM. T. HOLLOWELL,
Ex'r Celicia Taylor, decd.
Col 1ShorO. N. O.. Sept. 81 ,97
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' To heal the broken and diseased It's
sues, TO soothe the irritatad surfaces,
to instantly relieve and to permanently
cure is the. mission of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. J. Ii. Hill 81 Son. Colds
boro and John h. Ss1k4s- j.. Mt Olive.
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Props. Boston How to Cure Torturng Humors, free
RABS SKIN scalp and T. aa5 pusa Iaa Ss's

The New York Chamber of
Commerce is thinking of exhibit
ing its disapproval of the recent
election by omitting the Mayor
elect from the list of invited guests
to it's annual dinner. Why not
invite Judge Van Wyck to the
dinner and then insult him? This
is a New York idea that was ex-
plotted by the Reform Club on a
certain memorable occasion.
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NOTICE..

HAVING qualified as administra-
u tor on the estate of w. A,
Carr, deceased, all persons holding
claims against his estate are notified to
present them for payment by the first
day of November, 1898, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
Oct. 9th, 1897.
JOHN B. LANE, Admir-.
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derstand how Martin Thorn could
so deliberately hack human being
to pieces evidently overlook the
fact that he is a barber by trade.
When bilious or costive, eat casca-
ret candy cathartic. cure guaranteed
10c, 25 cents.
The friends of Murderer Durrant
complain that the court was too
precipitate in fixing the time for
his execution. The friends of the
late Blanche Lamont feel that
Durrant has had much more con-
sideration IN that line than he ac-
corded his victim.
That is the way all druggists sell
GROVES TASTELESS CHILL
TONIC for Chills and all forms of
fevers-Malaria. 1t is simply iron and
qufnine in a tasteless form. Children
owe it. Adults prefer it to bitter nau-
seating tenics. Price 5Oc J., H. Hill
& Son, g. ,ldsboro, II. G.
Mr.. Grosvenor's explanation of
how it happened got in on sched-
ule time, and is quite entertaining,
but we fear it will not induce Mr. {.
Foraker to enter the realms of
broad Craftsmanship.
Scrofula Is the advertisement of foul
blood 1t may be entirely driven from
he system by the faithful use of Hoods
Sarsaparilla, which thoroughly puri
fies the blood.
Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cure indigestion, bilious
ness. 25.
We infer from the valued Bal
timore Sun that it is beginning tt
fear that Mr.. German will refuse
to stay licked.
Itch or human, mango on horses
| dogs and ali stock, cures in 80 minutes
by Woodford's Sanitary Lotion.
never fails. Sold by M. E. Robinson 1
Bro, Goldsboro, n. G.
With the tempting price O.
$50, 600 on his head Presiden
Barrios doubtless thinks to looi
under the bed before retiring.
Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys
and bowels. Never sicken, weaken o
grippe, 10c.
| Now that Mr.. Hanna has na
tional honor almost preserved, dt
the Ohio people propose to turl
in and undo all the good work?
TO CUREiA COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's, All druggists refund the none
If it fails to cures Csc
Weeds grow of themselves, bu
the best fruits and the sweetes
: flowers are the result of hard toi
Just try 10c box of Cascarets, th
] finest liver and bowel regulator eve
made.
Sam Jones says the Kentuck
minister who declares there is n
: personal devil doesn't know whs
he is talking about. Jones b.
? lieves he has been engaged in
= Graceo-Roman russell with b
particular esteemed contemporar
: for a number of years past.
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[1I!IIIIl!IHlIH

HAVE yOIJ Sore Throat, PIN
ed Spots, Aches, Old Sores, Ulcers in
Mouth, Hair-Falling +? Write Cook
REMEDY Co., 965 Masonic Temple.
Chicago, H., for proofs of cures. Cap
ital, $500, ,0CO. Worst cases cured In Is
to IS days. 1Q0-page book free.
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NOTICE.

Having qualified before the clerk of
the Superior Court of Wayne county,
NC. as executor of the last will and
testament of J. A. Jenkins, deceased
all persons indebted to the estate of
the said deceased are notified 60 make
immediate payment. and all persons
holding claims against said estate to
present them to the undersigned for
payment on Or before October1, 1898, or
this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery.
PETER L. PEACOCK,
EXT J. A. Jenkins, decd.
Eremont N q Sent 3Oth
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NOTIGE.

Having this day qualified before the
clerk of the Superior Court of Wayne
county, N. c., as administrator of w.
A. Deans, deceased, notice is hereby
given to all persons indebted to the
estate of sad w. A. Deans to nc AXE i'm
mediate payment, and to all persons
holding claims against said estase to
present them to the undersigned for
payment on or before Oct. IS, 1898, or
this notice will be pleaded In bar of
their recovery.
SYDNEY DEANS.
6Oldsboro, N. c., Oct. 18th, 1897.
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Notice.
North Carolina, In Superior
Wayne County, Court.
Jane Jones
VS..
Notice..

The defendant above
named will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been commenced
in the Superior Court of Wayne County
to dissolve the bonds of matrimony ex-
isting between said parties; and the
said defendant will further take no.
tice that he is required to appear at
the next term of the Superior court of
said county, to be- held on the sixth
Monday in March 1898, at the Court
house of said county in Goldsboro, N.
c., ard answer or demur to the COM
plaint in said action, or the plaintiff
will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in said complaint.
G. F, HERRING, G. S. c.,
ov 9, '97. Wayne County.
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Andree is staying a long time,
probably collecting data for the
lectures he will deliver on his re-
turn.
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Don't Tobacco Spit and SIN,

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life
Away.
If you amt to quit tobacco using
easily and forever, be made we'll, strong
magnetic, full Of new life and vigor,
take No-To-Bac. the wonder worker
that makes weak men strong. Many
gain ten pounds in ten days. Oyer 40,-
600 cured. Buy NoToBac of your
druggist under guarantee to cure, so
cts or 81. Booklet and sample mailed
Free Ad Sterling Remedy Go. Chi
caeo or New York.
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1t would be good thing if Mrs.
Mack and Martin Thorn should
each cause the other to be electro
cuted.
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any crime he do,
yers appeal from
court to anot
They are bouno
save hinl, if he
be sa we'd. It is
same way with
good doctor wi
his patient sc.
condemned to d,
by disease.
But doctors m
mistakes some
times; they lose
heart too soon.
After they have
tried everything
they know and
the patient is
no better, they
think there is
nothing moro to
be done. They
don't a 1w a Us
get at the root
of the disease.
They frequently
give a patient
up to die of con-
sumption. and
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: J hey All

"There are tads in Come
medicine as well as in ~OltaV
other things" said busy 04oL
druggist, "but the most 9SASA
remarkable thing about Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is that customers who try other
remedies all come back to Hoods, and
this is why the enormous sales OF this
:ssss sss:ss; :s:.s; Il; o :. s,,:f:
"Why is it?" go, simply because
Hoods Sarsaparilla has more real cura-
tive merit than any medicine ever Sold"
This is of daily occurrence in almost
every drug store. Hoods Sarsaparllla
has cured more sickness, and made more
happiness through restoration to health
.ohaa any other medicine.
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Mon ents are useless il ti.ihed away,
and they are dangerously wasted if
consumed by delay in cases where One
Minute Cough Cure would bring imme-
diate relief. J. H. Hill s.. Son, Colds
boro and Jno. r, Smith, Mt. Olivae
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CONDEMNED.

When an innocent man is condemned fos
any crime he doesn't lose hope. His law
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-12-04
Oddities and Observations.

In Worcester, England, a woman
ate tallow candles in the hope and
belief that doing so would improve
her complexion. But she ate too
many OF them and the result is that
her complexion does rot trouble her
any more. She died.
One OF the most curious stones in
the world is found 10 Finland. 1t is
a natural barometer, and actually
foretells probable changes in the
weather. It turns black slowly be-
fore an approaching rain, while in
fine weather it is notified with spots
of white.
A New Jersey man has voted l43
times in seventy years and is proud
of his record. There are men con-
nected with Tammany who would
not regard that as anything to brag
shout. To have voted l43 times in
seventy minutes would have made
the Jerseyman eligible for place in
the wigwam.
1t is said that in twenty-six years
no less than seventeen tons of dia.
monds, valued at about 1915, 000,-
600, have been taken ut OF the
South African diggings, the present
annual output being $l5,000,O00
worth of the precious stones. This
abundant supply would probably de-
press prices were it not for the
enormous annual losses of diamonds
by queens of the drama.
A man out in Kansas obtained
some pills at drug store for the
cure Of insomnia. That night in the
dark be found what he thought was
the pill-box and swallowed, as he
supposed, three of the pellets. He
then slept soundly. In,the morning
it was discovered that be had gulp-
ed down three of his wife's shirt
waist buttons. They can swallow
anything in Kansas, even a story
like this.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-12-04
Turns and Twists.

America exports more carriages
and vehicles of all sorts than any
other country on earth.
A cat got into q ballot box in
Pittsburg, which is said to account
for the numerous scratched tickets
in that voting district.
The report that Durrant. the con-
victed San Francisco murderer, had
reached the end of bis rope, was evil
d emily an error. Some Of the ropes
in California are very long.
A rabbit with well developed
horns was shot by hunter In Kan.
sas the other day. City girls who
spend the summer in the country
have now another terror to face,
They will have to have escorts to
prevent them from being hooked by
rabbits as well as by cows.
A girl baby was brought to q
clergyman in Syracuse to be bap.
tized. The minister asked for the
name of the child, and the father re-
sponded, "Dinah M" "But what
does the M stand for 2" asked the
clergyman. swell. i don't know
yet" the father replied. "Ii
all depends upon how she turns out
If she is nice and sweet and handy
about the house, like her mother,
shall call her Dinah May, but If she
has a fiery temper like mine, shall
call her Dinah Might"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-12-04
Water Drinking.


To keep in health person should
drink from two to four quarts of
water each day. The system re-
quires to be cleansed and its or
gans flooded with water. Besides
its cleansing efficacy water absorbs
effete matter and carries it through
the system. The purer the water
the greater the power of absorption.
Some diseases of the kidneys have
been known to yield to generous
drinking of pure spring water.
Beer, tonics or alcoholic drinks can.
not take the place of pure water. In
many cases kidney and liver trou.
bles have been traced to the use of
beer or alcoholic drinks. It has
been asceriained by the medical ex.
perts that rheumatism, local heart
trouble, indigestion, painful swell
ings, eruptions, liver and kidney dis
orders, are caused mainly by gem
eral or local impeded circulation.
The best tonic and blood purifier is
Natures own medium-pure spring
water.--Hygienic Magazine.
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jon Work.
Of every description, plain or color
promptly done at lowest prices
POSTERS,
PAMPHLETS,
BILLHEADs,
ciRcuLARs,i
LETTERHEADs,
sAt-EslLLs, 90
NAAINEss, TASTE AND DgsPATcH,s'
our motto. Call and ascertain
our rates.
The American "Rushp Habit.


The New York Herald says:
Edward Moran was killed on the
elevated road because be was in a
hurry. To catch train and save q
minute be rushed across the track
to his death.
Moran was typical of the average
American business man, who is al
ways rushing pell-mell to his desti-
nation, and when he gets there usu.
ally finds that he has time on his
hands. The New York man of af-
fairs, from the moment that he
awakens until he reaches his office,
is on one continual scramble toward
his office--drags on his clothes,
tumbles down stairs, bolts his break
fast, buys his papers on the run,
lodges the wagons, plunges for his
street car, chambers aboard, clings
to the rails as though it were the
last car bound ofi1ceward. jumps of
while it is still going, slides for the
sidewalk, elbows his way through
the crowd at the express elevator
and, reaching his Office, cocks his
feet on the desk and leisurely reads
his paper for half an hour or SO, as
though there was nothing in the
world to hurry him toward the
business of the day.
This "rush' habit is purely Amer.
lean, and of all American New
Workers exhibit tho habit in its
worst and most pronounced form.
We are forever rushing and tearing
to business--and taking things leis-
urely when we get there. This is
the land of bolted breakfasts and
| gobbled lnnches,t the land of dyspep-
sia and all its attendant ills.
We wonder why foolish Edward
Moran risked his life to save min
ute; yet we are all doing that daily,
but not on the elevated railway
tracks. That is the only difference.
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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-12-04
A Few FemlnInltIes.


How close sorrow treads on the
heels of happiness.
A night of wakeful thoughts is
the best producer of. wrinkles ever
known.
Real love comes 10 a woman but
once in her life. All other emotions
are only limitations.
Why viii some people persist in
putting wide borders on carpets in
small roomse
The only way to successfully ar
que with a.woman is.to keep silent.
Is there anybody more disagreea-
BILE than the woman who bows gush-
ingly to you one day Eand doesn't
see you the nexts
just as soon as a woman Is told
she has dimple everything re-
solves itself for her into something
worth laughing about.
Don't try to circumvent Mrs.
Grundy. She is much maligned
lady, for despite the seeming irk.
someness of her rules she can be the
best of friends II you will bat make
her so.
If the wife could only cook as well
as her husbands mother, and the
husband could buy the wife as fine
frocks as her father did, matrimony
would be 3 bowling success.
There are many women who are
afraid Of . mouse who are not
afraid to go out at night to meet
men who are capable Of more mis-
chiefthan all the.'..rodents in exist
ence.