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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-05-05
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Or. II. 4. Norment, il, spent
Sunday in Whiteyilie. |
Mr.. J. A. McCormac, Of Penn
/ lr.d,e, was here Monday.
Capt W. c. Mcphail, of Shan
non, was in town Monday.
Sheriff J. W. Hall went to Lum-
4 Der Bridge last week on business.
Miss Cora Lennon, of Hub, is
4 visiting her uncle ;. Mr., f. Lennon.
Miss Jennie Pitman'has returned
from visit to her aunt at White
vile.
Julian, the youngest sen of the
editor, has been sick the past few
days.
Airs. /. r. Greece is visiting her
son, Mr.. A. Nj. Breeze, at Penn
bio%e.
Miss Maude Pitman, Of Lees;
/ vile, is visiting her brother, Mr..
J. d. Pitman.
Mr.. J. w Carter, a prominent
business man of Maxton, spent
Monday here.
Luby, the little 3-ycar-old son
of Mr.. w. J. Pr.vatt, is quite sick
with bronchitis.
C. b. Townsend, commissioner,
offers land for sale. See notice i'll
another column.
Mr.. W. A. Suit, manager of the
tobacco warehouse at Rowland,
was here Monday on business.
Mr.. l.. Il. Hedgpeth, a young
merchant and cotton buyer of
Rowland, was here Saturday.
Mrs. John Duckett, who has
been very sick the past week, is
improving, We are glad to learn.
The Saddle Tree Items were re.
ccivcd too late for publication in
thi4 issue and will be given next
week. ...
Miss Sallie Smith, one of the
boarding pupils at Robson lnsti
tutc, is quite sick, We are sorry t.
learn.
A young gentleman arrived a
the house of Col. n. A. McLeal
Sunday night. He is welcome
visitor.
Miss Fannie Cobb, who has beer
visiting her parents at Lumbe
Bridge, has resumed her studies il
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o. G. Norment & Co., advertis
n car load of new and handsom
furniture and the daily arrival @
new dry goods, etc.
Editor J. K. Hill, of the Maz
ton Scottish Chief, spent Frida
here on business. We We're gla
to receive call from him.
Mrs. w. C. Fisher, of Medder.
GA, who had been visiting he
father, Mr.. l.. r. Breeze, for son
timo, returned home last week.
Lumberton was we'll representa-
Mt the closing exercises of Ashpo
Institute last Friday. Abo1
twenty of our citizens were Their
Mr.. II. B. Jennings, one of o,
: popular cotton buyers, came
Monday morning from a visit
his parents at Bennettsville, S.
Mr.. r. S. Bond, former Gil
zen of Lumberton, now travelil
for a wholesale shoe house,
Charleston, S. c., was here Mo
day.
Mr.. Weinstein, of the firm
Sherman & Weinstein, return
last week from the northern ma
kets where had been making !
spring purchases.
The RoBEsoNIAN is glad :th
correspondents are sending in The
articles, and hopes soon to ha
regular Contributors from all Sc
tions of the county.
Sheriff Geo. b. Mcleod SC
n large quantity of land for ia,
Monday. The bidding was II
lively and number Of tracts W.
YET 90 to the county.
The Iythian goat had plenty
exercise last Friday night. 7
victims were unruly and hard
manage, but "Bill" soon broue
them around ali right.
There was a small fire in
woods Of Mr.. B. Goodwin, ado
ing and north of the fair groun
dnst Wednesday afternoon. \
much damage was done.
Mr.. W. F. French, Jr., who
been on the road for Fuller 81
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For want Of room our stock is not so large as
usual but every article offer is q bargain and
we invite all to call and see u.s.
Yard wide Percales, best goods usually sold at
10 to 1870. our cut price SIC. Bingham &c. Best
Calicoes sc. Elegant line White Goods, Victoria
Lawns, India Linons, Check Lawns, Etc, sc. up:
Marseilles worth l3c. for 1Oc Swiss Organdies,
Plain Organizes, Fancy Organizes worth 10 to
|12Ac, Our cut price &c. Plain and Dotted Swiss
Mulls beautiful line of Laces and Ernbroideres--
EVERY pattern new. Plain and Novelty Dress Goods
at cut prices in Light and Medium Shades.
1875 Suits Men and Boys Clothing. No room
Ito carry them. We must sell them. Prices never
ESQ low. Every piece New and First-class See them
Hats in the Late Nobby Shapes and Colors. :.
Full assortment Of Groceries at Bottom Prices.
Don't fail to visit our Millinery Department
over DR.. McMllan's Drug Store.
| Thankful for past favors ="
FRANK COUGH.
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Partition Institute Commencement.

Partition Institute commencement.
We return thanks for an invita-
ton to the closing exercises of
Parkton Institute, which will be
held next Wednesday, 18th. The
exercises begin at $50 o'clock, a
M, with music, recitations and
declarations by the school. At II
O'Clock the annual address will be
delivered by Hon. D. T. Oates, Of
Fayetteville. Following this come
dialogues, destinations and reel
tations by the school at 2:30 p
4 M, ana the final exercises at 7 30
! The marsha4s for the day az,
| Wade Davis, chief, of Will
Creek; J. W. Townsend, Hop
Mills; J. J. Cobb, Lumber Bridge
J. D. Cobb, Rex. Marshals TO
the night Henry Underwood, chief
Parkton; Tyrus Thornton, Mingo
M. J. McInnis, Fayetteville; B
Lancaster, Parkton. The lad
managers of the stage are Mar
J Breeze, Fayetteville; Sallie Thorn
ton, Mingo; May ellis, Hop
Mills; leila Lancaster, Parkto1
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NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

PUBLIC NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN
Sacramento. on the 1st day Of February,
1897, adopted Resolution No 500. of it3
intention to order the following strees
work TO be done, viz:
That Eighteenth street. in said city from
the south line OF the alley between and
& streets. to the north line of + street:
from the south line of T. street to north lima
of G street; from the south line of q street
to the north line of II street: from tho
south line of IL street to the north line OF (
street; from the south line of | street TO
the north line of j street: from the south
line Of j street to the north line of N
street; from the south line Of X street 10
the north line of l. street. from the south
line of NJ street to the north line of II
street. from the south line of y street 10
the north line of O street; from the south
line of q street to the north line of u
street: from the south line Of L street to
the north line of q street and from tha
south line of 9 street to the north line OF
Il street be improved by grading and ma
cadamizing. constructing redwood curbins
with round corners and filling in behind the
feet constructing rock cutters three 90
feet wide. laying granite crosswalks at the
alley intersections and at the street inter-
sections of c, D. and r streets and laying
iron culverts at the street intersections OF
c, ID and + streets.
For further particulars reference ia
hereby made to said resolution on file in
the office of the City Clerk
Sacramento, February ;, 1897.
T.. J. CROLY,
fe3-Gt Superintendent of Streets.
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DR.. F. F. Brush in the Popular Sci
ence Monthly believes in treating
criminals as diseased beings. He is by
no means the first alienst to take
that position. We have observed their
expressions upon the subject with in
their views are gradually broadening
upon the subject, and we incline to the
belief that they are drifting towards an
extreme view of the matter There
can be doubt but that in numerous in
stances there are positive evidences of
mental disease just short of insanity
that send men into criminal perform
ance. But how shall such cases be
treated? The subjects must be re-
strained-that is conceded Shall we,
however. make restraint and rigorous
discipline as punishment the remedies,
or the only means of reform? The
merciful spirit is broadening Society
Is more and more viewing with aversion
punishment as the sole corrective. But
ilpN LII Sflili we SO iii IL III
the way of treatment of disordered or
perverted moral sensibilities? DR.. Aus
tin Flint is quoted in his recent address
to the New York State Medical Asso-
ciation as saying:
Scientific progress will lead us finally
TO abandon the ancient idea of pun
ishment Of crime and substitute for it
treatment and correction.
1t is likely that our crimnologists will
stop at n middle ground and discrim-
mate sharply between the so-called in
ccrrigiblesand the morally perverted on
the one side, and the vindictive, greedy
and merciless criminals on the other,
applying treatment where 1t will prob
ably prove a corrective, and sharp pun
ishment as disciplinary and deterrent
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A BRILLIANT RECORD.
What DOCTOR HOPES DISPENSARY Doing for the Sick
HeeGrat Physicians Whose


The record of DIR. Hope and associates
is a credit to themselves and an honor to
the profession they so ably represent. They
have accomplished greater good, relieved
more suffering, gladdened more hearts and
made happy more homes within the past
few months than other eminent physicians
have been able to do in years They make
no pretenSions to perform impossibilities,
but some of their cures do seem but little
less than miraculous. Many of their most
brilliant triumphs have been in the COM
plete cure of stubborn. long-standing cases,
which numerous other physicians have
treated in vain. But their success is not
surprising, their extensive experience, pro-
found learning and skill are powerful fac
tors. Coupled with this, the Dispensary is
supplied with every apparatus, appliance
and instrument known to modern methods
of practice. Their equipments together
with fair, honest and upright methods of
business have brought to DIR. Hope people
from every station of life. DIR. Hopes Dis
pensary is a medical and surgical insti-
tute for the cure of all diseases of both
sexes.
A staff Of competent physicians, gradu-
ates of the best American and English
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colleges, skilled, experienced and able. are
in attendance. The latest improved
methods of surgery and the most recent
discoveries in medicine of Europe and
America adopted. ALL PRESCRIPTIONS
FILLED FREE OF CHARGE. Sufferers
from RHEUMATISM. ASTHMA. CA
TARRH, DYSPEPSIA, Scrofula, Female
Weakness, Heart Disease, Bronchitis.
Eruptions. Salt Rheum, Tape Worms. any
Sexual Disease. Lost Manhood, Malaria,
Urinary Troubles, Piles, Bowel Troubles.
Rupture or any other disease. should call
at once Low charges combined with the
best medical and surgical skill. Country
patients who desire may obtain rooms at
the Dispensary.
All Diseases of a private nature-'NER-
NOUS DEBILITY" Lack of Youthful
Vigor in Men. the result of EXCESSfS,
OVERWORK or ABUSEI-POSITIVELY
CURED. CONSULTATION AND EN-
ANIMATION FREE. The poor treated
free on Friday afternoon.
DIR. HOPES DISPENSARY. corner
Fourth and K streets (Old Postoffice build
ing). Hours-Daily, 8 70 4; evenings. 6 to
S; Sundays. IL to l. only. fe6-2t
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The San Francisco papers say that
ladies' visit murderer Butler in the
city prison and bring him all sorts of
delicacies. In the name of the good
women of San Francisco. we assume the
office of pronouncing that statement to
be a bald faced lie. No lady" ever did
or does any thing of the kind. No true
woman, no one worthy of that designa-
ton, is so degraded as to indulge in such
morbid and disgusting practices. Some
outside the pale of decent womanhood,
may visit the assassin and shower
favors upon him, but ladies'" never.
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Have we not had enough of Butler
least? VIII not the San Francisco press
give the people a rest? There are Cor
bett and FitzsimmOns, whose portraits
more. They would do for change if
nothing better can be discovered.
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NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board OF Trustees of the City Of
Sacramento, on the Ist day of February,
1897, adopted Resolution No. 3,iS, of its
intention to order the following street
work to be done viz
That the alley between I. and NJ streets
ia said city, from the east line OF Fourth
street TO the west line of Fifth street. be
improved by grading and macadamiZing
constructing redwood curbinS and a brick
catch basin 10 be connected 10 the sewer
therein.
For further particulars reference is
hereby made to said resolution on lie in
the office of the City Clerk
Sacramento, February > 1897.
e j. CROLY,
fe5-Ct SUPERINTENDENT Of St~.st-
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Strictly Reliable.

Many do not see as well as they
should; others see we'll, but their eyes
soon become tired. Some suffer with
constant headache, which, because it
comes from eye strain, medicine does
not relieve. The remedy is a good pair
Of glasses properly fitted. f. De Wolfe
optician, Masonic Temple. Of
flee hours, to y, l to 5. Sundays, 9:30
to 10.11
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influences in the other cases. 1t is
altogether too sweeping doctrine TO
say that all idea of punishment for all
crime shall be abandoned for treatment
from the physicians point of view. We
are not prepared to say that Quetetet
was right in saying: Every society
has the criminals that it deserves
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New yiolets for Spring.

The Alpine violet, in the form of rab-
bits ears, natural colors, price 2oc per
bunch; satin violets, six dozen in bunch,
for SOC; the Radjah violet double,
natural colors, 40c per bunch of
six dozen; the pansyviolet, 23c per
dozen. Millinery department Red
House
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These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
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President Jordan deals the San Fran
cisco city and it's suburban reporters
blow distinctly above the belt that
knocks them out. He denies in SO many
words that what they reported him TO
have said concerning religious revivals
is correct report He declares that the
sentences they pretended to quote were
torn out of a context essential to their
understanding. He did not pronounce
all religious revivals hysterical mania
nor rank insanity, nor anything of the
kind. DIR. Jordan politely, but not the
less caustically, says that reporters are
sometimes given to error, but in the
long run the truth leaks through them.
His manuscript, he adds, is at the SER
vice of the clericists and others who
can thus see what he did say. He
then rubs the salt and pepper into the
wound by saying in conclusion that no
intelligent person who heard his lee
ture could have misunderstood him.
That is absolute cruelty; merciless cru
city. The whole tempest in a pulpit
comes of sending men to report scien-
tific lectures whose intellectual meas
ure for such work gives them misfits
on all such occasions. The horse re-
porter would never have made the
blunder of the bright young men"
| who attempted TO wrestle with the ut
| terances of a practical lecturer who
declares that he and his order always
| take especial pains to say just what
they mean, and mean just what they
say. The public owes DR.. Jordan
debt of gratitude for his polite rebuke.
Soberly the methods of reporting en-
ployed by some of our contemporaries
are raw. 1t is not so much the fault
of the reporters, either, as it is charge
able to the compulsion that puts men at
work at that for which they have not
the intellectual capacity nor the prac-
ticed training.
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THE OBJECTION BROKEN DOWN.

The Stockton independent" returns
to the dredging proposition in response
to the Record Union" and we think
albandons it's original footing, and
really comedies the propositions of the
friends of the dredging scheme. The
position of the independent" is now
stated to be simply this, that 1T OPP
poses any dredging of the rivers that
is for the purpose of reclaiming private
property.
There can be no two honest opinions
about that. No one ever has made any
claim for the use of public funds for
tn reclamation of private property. But
let us look at the matter with reclama-
tion as an incident inseparable from
public improvement of that which 1t
is public duty to prosecute. Suppose
that upon the Mississippi River it is
absolutely necessary in order to make
the stream navigable and preserve it a
free highway for all the people, to
deepen a channel and to cast the re-
moved matter upon either bank as the
nearest and best place of deposit, and
by so doing the banks are raised by
two processes, namely, by the lowering
of the bottom of the channel and the
raising of the banks. AS a matter Of
necessity these processes result in pre-
venting overflow Of adjacent lands be-
!, r;,. ,-;of ~,
turn increases their value and renders
them susceptible of cultivation. Now
| because these things follow as a nat
| ural sequence, shall the river not be
deepened and the obstructions not be
removed?
! The independent" says:
1t would be wise for the State to own
a good dredger provided its employ
ment should not be confined to or for
otdden TO any stream or permitted to
be the means of enrIching the owners
| of now worthless lands at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers.
This is we'll meant but too broad
| There must be limitation to use of the
machinery so that it will be employed
only upon navigable streams, since the
initial, central and only purpose Of
the proposed work is to improve nav
| igation and preserve natural drain
ways.
! Finally, the "Indepedent" insists that
Section 10 of the bill shall be stiffened
so as 10 remove any possible doubt
concerning the use of the machine
upon private property. Well and good.
If anyone is so skeptical as to believe
that government authority under the
bill could so divert the use of the ma
chinery, then by all means make it so
clear to the contrary that even the
Stockton independent" may read as it
runs and understand as it reads. So,
too. since our esteemed contemporary
processes to believe that the San Joa-
qliin River is excluded from the bene-
fit of the bill, put in the San Joaquin
affirmatively in full-faced caps.
II is supposed to be a happy condi-
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Weather Forecast. .

Northern California-Cloudy Sunday
and probably showers in northern por-
tions; fresh southeasterly winds.
Hight of river % feet I inches.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money ii it
fails to cure c5c
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1t is supposed to be a happy condi-
ton to have the heart in the right place.
The old sentimental song tells US of the
weak points of the fellow who atoned
for them all by having his heart in the
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EASTERN BUSINESS HOUSES.
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sole agents foreign advertising.
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right place. But here we have an ac-
count Of a lucky fellow in Indiana
whose life was saved by his heart being
in the wrong place. A chap took shot
at him. but he was safe, for While he
was perforated on the left side where
the heart should be, there was con-
genital transpositiono of viscera. the heart
being on the right side. But after ALL
that mans heart was in the right place.
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Alienists assert with positiveness that
considerable degree of the crime of
the day is due to suggestion, having its
origin in the undue and sensational
methods employed a portion of the
press of the country in describing and
illustrating crimes of especial brutality
and hideousness 1t has long been con-
ceded that what we are pleased to term
''epidemics of suicide" are promoted by
the sensational descriptions Of cases of
suicide in the press. 1t is also we'll
known fact that the illustration ana
publication of orgies of crime and
devilment generally in the Police Ca
zettes and flash papers of the day tend
to induce youths especially to engage in
similar scrapes. 1t was on this ground,
| for one thing, that Georgia based her
enactment prohibiting the sale and dis
| play of these slum publications in that
State. 1t is one thing to publish news
and quite another to make criminal news
the means for suggesting crime. 1t is be-
coming a matter of very serious thought
among a great many people whether
society should not interfere in this mat
ter and do something to control these
agencies of evil We undertake to say
| that the grossly sensational methods
employed by some of our contemporaries
| in describing the arrest of Butler and
| illustrating the matter and in elaborat-
| ing upon the crimes he has committed,
will be followed presently by similar
shame we will be fortunate. OF course
any expression of thought such as we
| have made herein will be charged
against US as violative of esprit de corps.
But it is to be replied that this is not a
matter of confraternity, nor of mere
sentiment. The office Of the press is not
alone to criticise others, but to manifest
ability and courage to point out its own
| errors, with the hope of correctives
being applied We do not think that
such control as is suggested by not few
would Of necessity be restriction upon
| the guaranteed freedom Of the press,
| which we nor any others desire
shall be infringed wrongfully or dan
gerously. Upon free expression and
| criticism our liberties largely depend.
We have too profound respect for the
| true office of the press in the scheme OF
| free government and human liberty to
| thought that will trespass upon those
| constitutional and fundamental rights.
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Alex. Holmes. Photo Studio, 1908 10th. =
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THE DAILY REC0RD-uNION.

A SEyEN-DAY Issue.