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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16

Bryan, of Chatham, to include that
county in the provisions of chapter
251, acts 1895; also, bill making it I'M,
lawful to hunt on lands in Chatham
save with owners permission.
McBryde, to include that county in
the provisions of chapter 2O2, acts
1881.
White of Randolph, to allow the
commissioners of r tndolph to select
any certain day in December and June
to hold their meetings of the first
Monday.
Pool, to make Palemon John, w. J.
Griffin, w, B: Culpepper, Hugh Cole
and R. D. Pryor, trustees and mana
gers of the Elizabeth City Colored
Normal School, to elect a principal and
officers, and that the school shall re,
ceive the same appropriation as other
similar schools.
Person of Wayne, to provide for the
election by the county commissioners
of Wayne IF cotton weighers at Ere
mont and Mt. Olive.
Cunningham, to allow certain benev-
olent orders exemption from insurance
tax and supervision from insuE ance;
this includes Masonic, Old Fellows,
Royal Arcanum, Knights of Pythias,
Progress Endowment Guild, Royal
Benefit Society, International Frater
nal Alliance, Knights Of Honor, or
other benevolent associations as only
levy an assessment upon their mem
bers to create a fund to pay to the
family of a deceased member and
make no profit therefrom and have
been Incorporated under the laws of
this State and do not solicit business
through agents.
Person of Wayne, to provide for the
annual election by the commissioners
of Wayne county of q weigher of cot
ton seed at the Goldsboro oil mill, at
$500 annually.
McPeeters, to protect deer in Mitch
ell and Yancey, by making it unlawful
to chase them with dogs. or to hunt
them between December Is and Octo-
Der Is
Dockery, to change the time Of hold
ing courts in the Seventh district.
By Morton (resoIution), that it is ex,
pedient that some method be devised
for the protection of the youth of the
CONTINUED ON SIXTH PAGE
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HOUSE-TwENrY SIxTH-DAY

Maj 1rity and minority reports of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
were submitted on the Mecklenburg
election contest case; the majority
favoring Clanton and Williamson, the
contestants, and the minority favoring
R sid and Ransom, the sitting mem
bers.
Bills and resolutions were introduced
as follows:
Cunningham, for relief of sheriff Car
son, of Person.
Crews, to prohibit the working of
females on the chain gang at Oxford.
Hodges, to allow Beaufort to levy
special tax.
Aiken, to protect the insect eating
birds.
Pagan, to amend the charter of the
Dennis Simmons Lumber Company.
Sutton of Cumberland, to prohibit
the running at large of live stock in
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Classification Of Hides.

No, 1. This class must have no cut, score. OF
or grub hole. Must not be hair slipped, moth
eaten or otherwise damaged
No. 2. This class may have one or two cuts,
scores. or grub hOles-may be partially hair
slipped or moth eaten.
No 8. This class embrace s all inferior to Nc.
2. and are paid for according to extent OF dam.
age
A Flint hide is dried without salt.
AD. d. dry salt hide is sailed frt sh remains
in salt for 10 days, when the loose salt is shaker
or rubbed off.
Toprepare O.. S. hides spread them smoothly
upon a floor in g. cool place, leaving no folds. or
creaSes, and cover them well with salt. It il
better to us9 salt liberalIy-what the hide does
not absorb NAV be used aga n.
To ship o.. 5. b des. put two or three in a
bundle hair side out. 70 l anu tie with a strong
Irvine
Flint and drv salt hides may be put in bales
flesh side out-aO or 300 pounds to the bale.
If hides besO gtng to different parties are
shipped in same bundle or bale, each hide should
be marked plainly with owners name and post.
office
Address the package to T. Tvey. S. B. A. Hills.
boro. n. G., and notify us of shipment sending
bill of lading.
The price we pay will be as much as the sauna
class of hides will net you in the New YOTk mar.
ket We charge DO commissions.
Quotations tO-day-subjecU to market fuctus.
i0ns-f0r hides delivered al Alliance tanBerv:
No. | Flint. 20 pounds and up, per pound
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Hides will be taken in exchange for leather at
market value for each. r.. IVEY. S. B. A.,
HilisbOrO. n @,
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HOU5E-TwENTY SENEFTH DAY.
The following bills and resolutions
were passed:
Hancock, to prohibit the sale of
liquor in one mile of Saints Delight
Freewill Baptist church, Craven Coun-
ty, at any time within IL hours before
or after service in said church.
Cook, to allow the commissioners of
Warren to elect superintendent of
health and fx his salary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26
THE kEFUNpING ORDINANCE

The ordinance to refund $525,00O of
the city debt at four per cent. will
come up again tonight in Council and
an effort will be made to push it
through by the force of partisan ma
jority.
The Register has most thoroughly
exposed this scheme. which is absolute
ly without merit from any point of
view, and it is not necessary now to
go over ground with which the public
and members of Council are familiar.
Suffice it to say that it is scheme to
stretch over period Of thirty-four
Years half million dollar debt so that
it will cost million dollars to pay it.
the only advantage offered in return
being that the $4,000 annually we are
now paying on the principal of the
debt would during the next ten years
be otherwise spent. And during these
ten years we would have paid in in
terest alone $4,000 or forty per cent.
of the whole debt, and at the end of
these ten years the debt would be Just
as large as it is to-day, and to pay it
would cost altogether a million dol
lars.
Under the present arrangement of
paying something annually on the
principal we can cancel the debt alto
gether in half that time and in a very
Few years have a steadily and rapidly
growing annual surplus for improve
ments. AS the principal is reduced
the Interest charge will grow proper
" i'll not only have the principal of our
debt so reduced that the interest charge
will no longer be burden on the peo-
pie, but we will have more than $780,
900 a year fer improvements, and have
it not for ten years only but. perma-
pcn.ly and with no bothersome and
bur6ensome debt hanging over our
heads.
Which plan will the common sense
members OF Council, regardless of par
ty. favor?
The Register believes there are
enough fearless and honest members
of Council who have the city's true in
forests at heart to nip this scheme In
the bud, and thus save the expense of
an election at which the people would
surely defeat it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26
knows. 1t can only increase in two

knows 1t can only increase in two
ways: Cd BY the people authorizing
the issue of new loans. and GU by con-
tinuing the present Republican rule.
which means the piling up of unpaid
bills. Mr.. Forgey gets total debt
for January 1st, next, of S646, 500. but
to do this ne includes one item of SIS
900 twice, and also includes the COM
not proposed to refund, the second
series of Main street bonds, which
cannot be refunded. and the electric
light loan. which will not be refund
ed. All this, Mr. Forgey. is of no
earthly value to the voter who may
wish light on the refunding scheme.
and I have simply waded through your
/ figures to show they are neither ac-
curate nor german to the question be-
/ fore the house.
| AS to the rate of interest, | doubt
if 8 or 31a per cent. bond could be
floated. but believe 81 per cent could
be. At all events, I have heard some
strange surmises as to why the rate
was fixed at 4 per cent. without some
, inquiries as to whether or not any,
thing better could be done.
THE idea of being comparatively out of
debt for ten years seems to apall the fin
anciers of the Register"
Is man Comparatively out of
debt" when he gets his note renewed?
And would you not esteem foolish
man who, owing given sum, and
able by good management to reduce his
debt and the interest charge so much
per year., should get his obligation de-
bo int
the principal, and then have to settle
the whole matter in the end? Every
business man knows the wisdom Of
getting out Of debt and stopping the
drain of interest.
boarded up to excite the cupidity of the
city officials who handle it. This much
money can be spent annually in addition
t era 4 gheats ywhifh is now being spent without
In the light of the experience or the
mast three years, the idea of the people
at the City Hall boarding up any
thing is little funny. But 1t need
not be boarded. Why not reduce tax
alton, if this refunding scheme car
ries? Pledge yourselves to make the
tax rate 45c on the 500 after 1898,
and thus make the burden of the poo
pie lighter But please don't talk
about building new sewers anu paw
ing new streets on $21 900 year. when
YOU are piling up unpaid city orders
at the rate YOU have lately been go
ing. That S21 900 would lust about
keep things straight and the munich
pal ship upon an even keel, under
reform" methods.
| have not time, and you have not
space. to follow up all the windings
and sinuosities of Mr. Forgey's Off
ciaI endorsement of the City Hall
scheme. His letter is the work of an
expert, shrewdly working to aid
measure, while actually doing moth
ing to enIighten the public on an i'm
nortant matter. Why not be fair and
frank, Mr.. Forgey? The public is at
| least entitled to that.
ANTI-LOAN.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26
TWO SAMPLE ORGANS.

When caught in a lie stick to it
and cover your tracks with loud
mouthed abuse of him who caught you
up"
This, evidently, is the first tenet of
faith Of the Wheeling Intelligencer
and the Parkersburg Journal, the two
leading Republican organs of West
Virginia-both deep in debt to Hanna
who were arraigned by the Register
for publishing the Islander that Mr..
Bryan was charging money for his
speeches on the stump (not his lee
tures)-the Intelligencer going so far
as to state that for the speeches he will
deliver in the Ohio campaign he win
receive $500 per speech.
The thing is quite as ridiculous as
1t is false. And what makes the
crime of these partisan sheets-for
their statements are nothing less than
a crime against common honesty and
common decency-still worse and more
inexcusable, is the fact that both knew
beyond the shadow of a doubt that
they were uttering bald, malicious
falsehoods.
craftsmanship in some intellects de-
generates into sort of moral cancer
GUS growth and with the Intelligencer
and the Parkersburg Journal it seems
to have reached the malignant stage.
They can't tell the truth about politi-
cal opponent even when they know it.
The snarling and barking of these
Jackals of partisan journalism has
strong tendency to further elevate Mr..
Bryan in the estimation of healthy
minded men.
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-
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles Of other American peoples to
free themselves from European domina-
tion We watch with deep and abiding in
terest the heroic battle of the Cuban pa
triots against cruelty and oppression, and
our best hopes go out for the full success
OF their determined contest for liberty.
THE GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN HAV-
ING LOST CONTROL OF CUBA. AND
BEING UNABLE TO PROTECT THE
PROPERTY OR LIVES OF RESIDENT
AMERICAN CITIZENS. OR TO COM
Ply WITH IT'S GREATLY OBLIGA-
TlONS. WE BELIEVE THAT THE
OF THE UNITED
STATES SHOULD ACTIVELY USE ITS
INFLUENCE AND GOOD OFFICES TO
RESTORE PEACE AND GIVE TNDE-
PDNDENCE TO THE ISLAND.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26

any or an OF the several companies upon
winch Hen, mortgage or other encum-
Drance paramount to the right, title or in
terest OF the United States for the same
property or any part of the same may ex-
ist and be then lawfully liable to be en-
forced, the Secretary of the Treasury
SHALL. under the direction of the Presi-
oent. redeem or otherwise clear off such
paramount lien, mortgage or other en-
cumbrance by paying the sums lawfully
que IN respect thereof out of the Treas
ury. 1t SHALL BE THE DUTY
OF the Attorney General, under the direc-
ton OF the President, to take all such
steps and proceedings in the courts and
Otherwise. as shall be needful to redeem
suen men. mortgage or other encum-
THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF
THE UNITED STATES in respect of the
matters in this section mentioned, and to
take steps to foreclose any mortgages or
mems or the United States on any such rail-
road property.
Inc President in this matter is the
trustee for the people. He can STOP
THIS GREAT STEAL by simply inti-
mating his intention to do so. There
is no possible shadow of excuse for
him to neglect this opportunity to
save S20,000,0O0 of the peoples money.
instead of making a gift of it to
syndicate OF spectators who gave
lavishly to the campaign fund which
elected him President.
THE LAW COMMANDS PRESI-
DENT M'KINLEY TO STOP THE
STEAL. WILL HE DO IT? There
S only one week for him to answer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26
THE REFUNDING SCHEME
AND THE CAUSE THEREOF

To the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-I have just read City Receiver
Forgey's ingenious but not particularly
lucid letter upon the refunding scheme,
which will come up in Council this ev-
ening on the second reading of the or
dinance, and | am at something OF
loss to know what MY friend from the
Garden Spot is really driving at. OF
course, understand, in a general way,
that he is in favor of the measure
evolved by the statesman from the
Second ward and marked O. k. by that
other statesman, from the Seventh, wno
leads the Republican majority in the
Second Branch; but follow the thread
OF Mr. Forgey's remarks with some
difficulty.
Before I pass to consideret lion Of
Mr.. Forgey's peculiar Il will not say
remarkably paper, wish to make a
passing reference to the preamble plnu-
ed to it by the 1ntelligencer. Tnat
paper says:
the less heed paid to the vaporiEgs OF
demagogues who haven't the true inter
ests of the city at heart, the more IL dp-
peals for the support OF the people;
That is 10 say, II citizens Will hlndly
think as the Intelligencer wishes them
to. they will be labelled as wise men.
full of local patriotism, and worthy of
all commentator; but if they happen,
through whatever process of reasoning,
or in obedience to the dictates OF com
| mon sense, to be opposed to any lntelll-
gencer proposition, then they are
"demagogues," and have not the best
| interests of the city at heart" In other
words. the Intelligencer' ideas, meth
DDS, plans and schemes are always not
| only correct, but the only ones which
| possibly can be correct, and
| for any one to oppose OF
even question them or their
| wisdom is to write himself down an ass
and ..demagogue' The motto of the
+! Inteiligencer is: I'VE are infallible and
| the real thing" For one, decline te
fall down and worship this modern calf
| Now as to Mr.. Forgey's letter. He il
| fairly to be classed as an expert &C
| countant, is thoroughly in sympathy
! with the refunding scheme, and would
| naturally make the best showing h'
| could for the plan. He has not onl,
| m de a poor showing, but | think
do him, no injustice when say he hal
produced no argument whatever. as
] STALL attempt to show a little furthe
1 along, for / wish to first call the atten
Z ton OF the reader to the vehemen
. claim BY the fathers Of this refundinl
1 idea that there Is no politics In It..
I mnintain that II IL nothing but polite
nec ana end q the nthors that Il IA
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26
M'KINLRY'S BUNGLING DIPLOMACY

M'KINLRY'S BUNGLING DIPLOMACY.
1t may have been cowardice or it
may have been simply incompetency,
but the fact remains that whether it
be cowaTdly DunSnng uir1--..oUs
Spain by the action Of the United
States, has been given a. practical
carte blanc to carry on her cruel bar
barous war in Cuba as long as she
may see fit or be able, without inter-
ference from this country.
1t is quite evident that settlement
of the Cuban difficulty upon any other
terms than the absolute independence
of the island is now beyond all
bounds Of hope The tone of the Gu
ban leaders has grown more defiant
with the change of ministry at Mad
rid. They will accept nothing now
but the stern arbitrament of war.
Autonomy is as hateful to them as I'M
conditional surrender. Suggestion of
the purchase of the island from Spain,
and their freedom along with it, eX-
cites their derision and contempt.
Cuba Libre" is now their only slo-
gan By this they will live or die.
Meanwhile the United States must
stand by and allow Cuba and Ameri-
can interests in that island to remain
at the mercy of the Spaniards. Under
Woodfords bungling agreement, as
long as the Sagasta ministry makes a
show at negotiating terms of peace
with the rehellionists the United States
cannot interfere. Gen. Woodford ap-
pears to have been caught by Sagasta
in trap fror? which he cannot extri-
cate himself without doing violence to
The long established principles OF
diplomacy. Mckinley's haste to make
a splutter Of jingoism for effect III the
Ohio campaign has tied Americas
hands. The war will go on in Cuba
as long as either side can hold out
American commerce will continue te
suffer without hope of relief from
the government.
If Mckinley had not prevented thu
adoption OF the 5elligerency resolution
By the last Congress by promising tn,
supporters Of it that he would pursue
a vigorous policy, the war would hav,
been ended most likely months ago
In view Of the present situation, how
like a farce does the following planl
from the Republican national platform
of 1896. on which Mckinley stood s.
bravely, read:
From the hour of achieving their ow
independence the people of the Unite
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Miss CisnerOs visited the White
House the other day and plead with
Mckinley for the women of Cuba.
Poor girl, she wasted much sweet
eloquence. She knew not how little is
Mr.. McKinley's influence in the adj
ministration of governmental affairs
under the present regime. Hanna is
the man upon whom the fair patriot
should have directed her gentle bat
teries.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26

In impaneling a new jury to try
Luetgert it might be worth while ask
ing the veniremen if they have
studied the newspaper pictures of the
defendant. A glance at these pictures
is calculated to prejudice most men in
favor of hanging the original
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DIED..

WARD-On Sunday. October path 1897.
at 10 O'clock D. M. Bridget wife Of the
late Patrick Ward.
Funeral from her late residence. No.
271O Market street. on Wednesday morn
ingn at 10 o'clock Mass at st. Joseph's
Cathedral at 1870 o'clock. Friends Of the
family invited to attend. Interment at
Mt Calvary cemetery.
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AGENTS WANTED


AGENTS WANTED for useful novelty.
sells alike to men and women; large profits:
sample l0c. RAND BROS. Boston, Mass.
my25 tn thu sat qw
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FOR SALE OR RENT-Nice properties
on the motor line, near the city. j. G.
dERVEY. l426 Market street. se24e&dh
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

Notice is hereby given that general
meeting OF the stockholders Of the Enter
prise Enamel Co. will be held AZ the OF
fee of c. A. Schaefer & Co. No. 1900 Mar
ket street. Wheeling. w. Va. on Wednes-
day evening, the 10th day Of November.
1897, at & o'clock. for the purpose o. elect
ing a board of directors. making bylaws
and transacting any other business which
may lawfully be done by said stockhold-
ers in general meeting. ..x,
THEODORE ROSSBACH.
G.. l.. DORER,
JAMES r. DUBOIS,
+. G. CALDWELL.
Corporators.
oe1a.26, novl,10.
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Register
CHARLES H. TANEY, General Manager.
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Index to New Advertisement.

THIRD PAGE.
rne Greatest Charm of Any Piano-Mil-
iigan, Wilkin & Co.
FOURTH PAGE.
Special Sale of Nickel-Plated Copper
Cooking Vessels-Geo w. Johnson's Sons.
Balls Weddings. Receptions-West Vir-
ginia Printing Co.
FIFTH PAGE.
We Will Tell You-Prof Shelf
EIGHTH PAGE.
Last Day of Exhibit of Prof. Schuerr-.
Geo. E. Stifel & Co.
We Thank the Old as Well as the New
.Friends-Stone & Thomas.
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Mathews churcn ana % rourtecutn s.,v~V,-
Roman ribbon belt, with silver buckle.
Return 10 this office. oct25re
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FEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

BUY your round corner, ivory finish die
cut cards, for business and nice social az
Lars, az the office of the WEST VlR-
oc26h
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The REGISTER, embracing its several
editions, is entered at the Postoffice at
Wheeling, W. Va, as second-c1Sss matter
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$3.50 BUYS LOT 50x190 at Echo Point: SIS
cash and $40 per month until paid for.
ROLF q ZANE. No. 30 Fourteenth street.
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WANTED men of good appearance 10
take orders on the Adams plan. Call at
once. l045 Main street reference required.
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WANTED-Barber; hrst-class; must be
sober and steady man; no other need
apply. JACK SNODGRASS, Amos, Mar
ion county, w. Va. oc24esdq
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WANTED-Everyb 10 quit paying
rent by buying a lot at Echo Point al $50
-$25 cash balance on monthly payments.
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WANTED.

WANTED-Manager for branch office In
Wheeling; salary 1920 and commissions;
$3.50 cash capital required, also good refer
ences. 1856 Ellicott Square. Buffalo, n. \.
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