The news & observer., 1897-02-05

I Ilna. line ndlu blbtl utd ehAN 'N-S
can destroy Hickory Mercury.
/ Mr.. S. A. Earnhardt, Senator from
| Rowan. who has been at home SICK TOR
more than two weeks, was IN his seat
yesterday, fully recovered from hls long
| illness. He was warmly welcomed back
| by his colleagues.
Senator Ashburn, of Surry, is Of a
versatile mind That he is a preacher, an
orator, a statesman has been seen dur
| ing his labors in the Senate. Yesterday
he took reporter of the News and OBJ
server aside and confded to him that he
was also a disciple of Milton, and, like
Mr.. Weggs. occasionally dropped into
poetry. His poem on the Senatorial
situation will enable him to soar far
above Shep Dugger the heretofore un-
disputed poet laureate of the Brushy
Mountains. 1t appeared in this weeks
Yadkin Ripple, We do not endorse the
political tone of the poem, but print ii
wholly for it's sublime rythm, and its
unique conception. The Senator thus
sings:
JETER AND MARY ANN.
Your Editor, Stanford tonight asked
me
OF things about Raleigh l hear and see,
While / sit by the fire this dark rainy
night,
To sum up a few and sit down and write.
| suppose the election is most in minds
OF the people whose homes this wee pa
per finds
Such cornering and planning, you never
did see
And what it's all for, no reason can be.
The Populists promised just two years
They'd vote for our Pritchard whether
or no;
We all worked together when we began,
The contract was made for Jeter and
Mary Ann.
They loved then like puppies all in play,
They talked and they chatted by night
and by day,
We thought they were married for all
coming years,
They acted so kindly we had no great
fears.
But soon Mary Ann tried to be letters
boss,
And you all can guess that there was
cross,
For Jeter's man who has backbone
And cannot be ruled by the madam
alone.
Then Mary Ann said, I'm not Jeter
hug,
For he is a traitor and gold-bug."
81 this is the way the fuss all began
Between husband Jeter and wife Mary
Ann.
But Mary Ann said / will have recourse,
I'll go down to Raleigh and sue for di.
vorce;
SO the suit is now pending, to-morrow's
day
The things to be settled the people ali
say.
Now a word | must say to both man
and wife,
If you divide up this way you divide up
your life,
For the children you know which belong
to the two
Will then be divided and that will not do.
Some of the children will go with their
Pa,
And some of the children will stay with
their Ma,
And lost in the fracas perhaps win be
Because they can't live in a quarreIsome
home,
The eneiny's watching all in n glee
And saying they hope you'll never agree;
They are using ther power to get you
10 part
And In the great lawsuit they're using
their art.
And when you have parted your children
they'll have
As in former days they'll use them as
slaves;
They'll vote them in bull pens and thus
keep them down
AS poor as a turkey just out of town.
Now Pops and Reps, take my advice
And keep your children free,
For he that parteth man and wife
win always cursed be.
Are we to have another PeedyBee
commission? Yesterday morning, by re-
quest the following petition was intro
duced in the Senate by Mr.. Ashburn, of
Surry:
'Your petitioner most earnestly APP
peals from the courts of the State to
your honorable body for redress Of griev-
ances and maintenance Of right.
''She proposes to show that for a pc
riod of twenty years, she has been per-
sistently seeking, and has been as per-
sistently denied, or robbed and defrauded
of her legal rights in the courts of North
Carolina.
''In the various actions she has insti-
tuted, she has been subjected not only
to causeless delays and expensive re-
movals from county to county, but she
has, at other times, been forced, without
counsel, to ex parte trial without wit
nesses and has been unjustly refused the
rights of summons and appeal
''The means by which your petitioner
has thus been so grievously wronged
consists in part: OF perjury, subornation
of perjury, suppression and Justification
of court records and other papers essen
tial to the establishment and sustenance