The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-16

EDITOk CAUCASIAN:
DEAR BgoTHER:-I take nv nen
IN hand 10 write you a few lines to
inform you that am we'll and hon.
these few lines will find you epi,y-
ing the same good blessing. This
VIII inform you that our mem ers OF
the Legislature have returned home
and eggs have declined in price like
wise. | would have wrote you some
time back, but since the second dAy
OF this year TO the eighth day Of this
month, the Legislature, that can
boast OF making more promises and
more diff -rent kinds OF promises than
there are kinds Of Democrat, and
you know there are 32-tbe same
number that there is pounds in 4
oushel Of oats, has been in session
and had fears that they might
lmpesch me or change my name 70
Mud or Dennis.
If ] were TO write to my friends ia
Raleigh while they were IN session,
seeing as how ! did not wear a two
and half cent button red shirt or
Kill any negroes last fall. Bill JON
SIN says this county sent the most
promising men than any COUNTY,
whether that be true or not, on.
thing We do know, the people that
sent them have made some promises.
one of them is if the good Lord will
forgive them they will never send
the same crowd again.
Well, they adjourned, and not
~ n q II |, b
the chances OF cyclones, hail, lice in
the cotton, worms on tobacco. chintz
bugs on the wheat aud corn, murrlan
among the cows, cholery among the
hogs. roup among the chickens, too
much rain or too much dry. declines
In the price of eggs. blight in the
simmou blossom and black law crop.
We are to have that body assemble
in in June 1900; now if we must
have such a calamity, why not let
them meet for the next two years as
the county commissioners do, meet
the first Monday in each month, we
favor that, and since We have looked
over their work and find there was
not room at the pie table for all Of
them to get seats after the session
was over owing to the fact that they
made mistake in cutting the tim
Der for the table, when the job was
let out and failed to get 1t long
enough and see some impor-
tant bills that were introduced
and failed to get through for the
want of time We think it very I'M
portaut that they should meet once
a month. Some of their failed to
pass bills that was introduced should
not be allowed to stand long without
being framed and glass over them.
Now, that bill offered to prohibit bar
keepers from having free crackers
on his counter should by sll means
become q law. Suppose some old
rubber-neck dispensary galOote that
had lost all his teeth should 90 into
a bar-room for q throat cleaner, and
want something to kill the taste, he
could not eat pretzel or q cracker
like the fellow with teeth don't you
sect 1t would not be equal rights to
all. The bar keeper would be guilty
of practicing class accommodations.
That bill to stop fOot-paths in Dur
ham county should have been enact
ed into law. Suppose man, woman,
girl or boy was travelling a foot path
aud get stung in the field by a cotton,
tobacco or fodder worm and no dis
pensary near. They might be put
to untold trouble. Make them travel
the beaten road, and if they should
be attacked by singer or a bitter
they have much better chance of
meeting a wagon with little "cam-
phire," or it might occur near a
country store if they were travelling
tee highways. In that case the y
could find DR.. Coughs Bull Syrup OF
some other drug. By all means stop
the foot-paths in Durham coun' y
and else where. And that bill to give
Joe Wrinkles public highway should
have passed and become law if il
had re quired the entire military force
Of the State to carry it into execu
ton. If were in Col. Wrinkles stead
| would sue the whole shooting match
for SANDER if it was not done auG
move where there was a light way
and live on both sides of the public
road and put my COW lot in the mid.
die of the road. Let that matter be
the first act in June.
There we're other bills of just Al
much Importance to the great labor
: ing masses as what We have name(
that failed to become laws. All would
have went through with a whoop bu
for the tussle they had pulling tn
two Wilson's up the Blue Ridge t
Round Knob. and putting the brake
on so they would not slip back OF
the Governor. Give US the MONTH,
sessions.