The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-02-04
enables the people to elect part Of the

enables the people TO eject part VI oaIc
Guy olriclals, rIle balance DeFug appoAht =
ed by the Governor, the RepuDI1cans
holding the whip hand. 1t is beLeVed
| that even THE substitute bTll WITH be de-
feated by the Populists, as those fops
| from the Pamlico section are Wen kho"u
to look with great disfayor upon any
measure looking TO the overthrow OF une
present system of government I'M EaSuern
cities"
There is strong opposition reported 20
| Governor Russel's message concerning
the lease of the North Carolina railroad
Tt may so develop as to cause the defeat
of the plan to defeat the lease. We had
sunnosed that the repeal would be popu-
lar with legislators and with majority
of white Wilmington Messenger.
will n legislature ever assemble IN
North Carolina that will be brave enough
to take sheep killing dogs by the throat
and say unto these devourers OF other
people's flesh, you shall not wag your
taals in the pastures of other people than
your masters Wv Wilmington Messenger
We see no objection to paying amy ne
groes a pension by the Senate who be-
came disabled while serving the South
I'm the great war A negro Senator has
introduced q bin hooking to this end. We
do not know the number of this class,
hgt whether ten or fifty or more, If ne
eroes were really disabled while IN the
service of the Confederate government
thev should not be overlooked now.
MANY of us know OF the devotion, the
fidelity. the courage of negroes who Tot
lowed their masters to the war.-W1l-
MN gtaa9 Messenger.
A member of the House, who knows u
good thing when he sees it, requests the
News and Observer to give place to the
following poem, entitled Bills in Trou-
BILE" which appeared in the Denver Post:
I've got a letter, parson, from my son
away out West,
An my oil heart is heavy us an anvil in
my breast,
To think the boy whose futur ! had once
so proudly planned,
Should wander from the path o right an
come to SIGH an end!
/ told him when he left us only three
short years ago.
He'd find himself a-plowing in mighty
crooked row
He'd miss his fathers counsels, an his
mothers prayers, too,
But he said the farm was hateful. an he
guessed he d have to go.
/ know thar's big temptation for young
ster in the West.
But | believed our Billy had the courage
to resist,
An when he left l warned him o. the
ever-waitin' snares
That lie like hidden sarpints in life's path
way everywheres.
But Bill he promised faithful to be keer-
full, an allowed
He'd build a reputation that d make us
mighty proud,
But it seems as how my counsel sort o
faded from his mind,
An now the boys in trouble o the very
wustest kind!
His letters came so sudden that sort O.
somehow knowed
That Billy was a-trampin' on a mighty
rocky road,
But never once imagined he would bow
my head in shame,
An in the dust d wallow his oil daddy's
honored name.
He writes from out in Denver, an the
story's mighty short;
just can't tell his mother; it'll crush her
poor oil hearti
An so | reekoned, parson, you might
break the news to her
Bills In the Legislator, but he doesn't
say what fur.
The dispensary system has many advo-
Gates. There are bills pending to estab-
lish one at Henderson, Vance county;
Goldsboro, Wayne county; and Louis
burg, Franklin county. There is some
suggestion. also, that Morganton and
Monroe will try it. The Alabama Leg
islators have a bill pending to establish
a dispensary law for the whole State, and
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