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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09
THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1900.
H1LIFAX COUNTY ELECTION.

The election held last week was as
quiet in Halifax county as any one
could ask. At every precinct the vot-
ing was regular and without jar.
The Democratic majority has been
given as over 5000, but the official
count had not been recorded in the
Clerks office Monday, and we cannot
give the count by precincts. We shall
give it next week.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09
Letter to nr. Calvin Cray.
Scotland Neck, n. G.

Dear Sir Certainly Linseed oil
should be bought At market value ;
fresh from the barrel, ana not In a
scalded tin can, with paint label
thereon. Did it ever occur to You that
when you buy a thin, liquid paint,
that you are paying anywheres from
$3.50 to $I.75 per gallon for q lot OF
linseed oil? You don't have to do
that with l.. & N. Paint-its q semi-
caste, and add 4 to / gallon of linseed
oil to every gallon of the paint.
Please give Mess. i. T. Whitehead
4 Co. an opportunity to quote prizes
and furnish coler cards.
Yours truly,
LONGMAK 4 MARTINEZ.
F.
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AS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.

Considering the nature OF the con-
test through which the two races have
lust passed in the election on the
amendment, the colored people OF
North Carolina are to be highly COM
mended in their demeanor through it
all.
By no fault OF theirs, they have been
taught by white men ever since their
freedom that their success as free men
consisted In the right to vote and hold
office. This one idea has doggedly
dominated the entire colored race in
North Carolina for more than third
of century. 1t took hold upon them
as race firmly with their first privi-
lege of the ballot, and generation has
been born and grown up in this un-
wagering faith OF their future as race.
No wonder a measure which prom
ised to take the ballot out of the hands
OF thousands and thousands ct the race
stirred them to strong opposition no
wonder they felt that their dearest
rights we're to be torn from them, for
they had been taught by their own race
and by their bosses OF the white race
that this right was inalianeble with
them and ought to be for all time.
Of course every one who thinks a
moment knows why any white man in
North Carolina or III the South any
where should lead these people into
such faith; but that does not alter the
conditions as they touched the colored
people.
Be it said to their credit, the negroes
were more law-abiding throughout
North Carolina than the white people
in some places were; and really the
people who have gained such signal
victory in carrying the amendment
cannot now afford to use it for the hui
initiation OF the negro.
We must treat the race right under
all circumstances, or else we shall belle
the declarations made from every hust-
ings in North Carolina, as we'll as
through the entire Democratic press of
the State. And we doubt not that this
will be done. Better feeling will OBJ
tain between the races than since 1865,
and the colored people already see it
and we believe they are already appre-
ciatlng it.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09

GA Eo1IA.
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09
THE AMENDMENT CARRIED.

IHE a AZ Il IN Nv T. II h1I1AOs
Not in many years has there been an
election in North Carolina which meant
so much to the State as did the election
of August End.
The constitutional amendment was
carried by nearly sixty thousand ma
jority, and Mr.. Aycock's majority is
larger than the amendment majority.
Official returns have not been received.
The election is reported from all
parts of the State as the most quiet
known in the State for many years.
There was no riot nor disorder of a So
rious nature anywhere in the State (;
and the State has really risen higher
in tie estimation of her sister States
because of the peaceable disposition
shown amongst all classes of our citi-
zens.
The contest was bitter one and
partook largely of racial feature, but
calm determination prevailed ON the
one side and commemorate DISPOSE
Al h
OF the wisdom OF carrying the
amendment the whole State will soon
be convinced indeed most white peo-
pie are convinced of It already. Edu-
cation will be greatly stimulated by it (;
industrial progress will be quickened ;
money viii more readily seek invest
ments here, and every interest OF the
State will be UNNECESSARILY helped.
The amendment means to North
Carolina completely changed politi-
cal condition. Now, a mans opinion
will not be guaged every time by a
thought OF race issues, but every man
will soon have the high privilege to
stand by his own convictions and be as
highly regarded on one side as the 9TH
or. This is indeed freedom to the
white men of North Carolina which
they have not had since the negro race
was given the unrestricted power of the
ballot for say what we may, the party
strings have guided and the party
lash has goaded the white people OF
North Carolina many time, yae, all
the time, because of the existing race
conditions here.
The adoption of the amendment
means that much of this passes out
and it cannot fail to be stimulus tc
both young and old alike to study
whatever questions are presented tc
them in the clear light of reason and
common sense. unclouded by prejudice
or race Interest.
A glad day has dawped upon oul
good old State, and may the blessings
OF better government and a higher
citizenship crown the work which ha.
been so manfully and nobly done!
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09
INDIAN FAMINE SUFFERERS

Still the famine sufferers in India
need help. They are perishing by the
millions. Governor Northern, one of
the wisest and best men in the State
of Georgia, was interviewed by the
Atlanta Journal, and among other
things he said:
"some people, to whom appeals are
made, do not seem to understand the
conditions OF the starving in the fam
inc districts of India, nor the plan of
relief under which this State has bean
organized
"lhe suffering extends over terri
tory about seven times as large as the
State of Georgia. There is about six
ty mil lions of people threatened with
starvation and about third OF these
or twenty millions, are nearing the
shadow of death. Pestilence has fol-
lowed close on the famine, and millions
of people, reduced to skin and bones
are now dying from disease that they
have not the vitality to resist. 1 can
not describe the conditions in this
land of the shadow of DEATH further
than to state them.
"The details are too horrible to relate
and the photograph given, can but
poorly furnish an idea OF the awful
suffering.
"For relief, the British government
has appropriated fifty millions of DOL
lars and instituted the most economi-
eel and affective plan OF administration
the world has ever known. Private
contributions from individual citizenl
of the British government have a
mounted to three millions more
Surely, England is doing her dut,
towards her starving subjects. The,
are human and we must help them.
cit is absolutely cruel for any mar
to refuse to give and turn these peopl
over to buzzards, jackals and dogs to b
eaten alive, with the heartless statemen
that England must care for them.
j Several plans of relief have bee,
inaugurated in America. I am coop
Grating with the committee of on
hundred, composed of leading bushes
men in New York"
As Governor Northen says, severa
plans of relief are at work in America
They are all Trustworthy and the fam
Inc sufferers get the money collecte,
Tor them through the United State
Minister and DR.. Hume, a missionar,
there.
The COMMONWEALTH is co-operat
Ing with the Christian Herald, of Ne,
! York city, and urges all who can t
help some, if it is only five cents.
Il We have the following new contri
buttons to report:
Miss Glennie Dickens o
Miss Annie Dickens o!
G. F. White 81
Thos. Shields q
Total g
Previously reported $50
Total $685.
Tho One Day Cold Cure.
j Gold il head ard sore throat Cared By Re!
Mn19's Choco1ates Lag Qninine. Aeea1yt
b 81 s. Chi dre4 81 - - q E &
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09
$500 reward,

We will pay the above reward for
any case Of LIVER Complaint, Dyspep-
STA, Sick Headache. Indigestion, Con-
stipation, or Costiveness we cannot
cure with Liyerlta, the Up-to-Date
Little Liver Pill, when the directions
are strictly complied with. They are
purely Vegetable and never fail to give
satisfaction. 25c. boxes contain 100
Pills, 1Oc. boxes contain 40 Pills, SC.
boxes contain Is Pills. Beware Of
substitutions and limitations. Sent by
mail. Stamps taken. NERvITA Med
1cAL Co., Cor. Clinton and Jackson
SITS, Chicago, Ill. For sale by E. T.
Whitehead & Co., Druggists, Scotland
Neck, N. G.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09

Two base hits, r. Dunn (2), Waugh
an, Pennington, Cheshire, Arnheim.
Struck out by Dunn 2, Arnheim 2.
Bases on balls, Dunn 3. Hit by Arm
helm 2. Umpire, Crouston.
D. p. S.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09

NO0f1CAAS~SAo
But let them pass. They really did
the white mans cause more good than
harm.
Buffers idea of getting up con tests
by number of fusion candidates for
the Legislature will prove farce, even
tusionists here admit. His defeat is
too overwhelming.
CoMMENDABIE CONDUCT OF NEGROES.
One of the most notable and salts
factory features of the election was the
commendable conduct OF the negroes
as whole. They not only behaved
themselves, but appeared to take spe-
cial care Especially here IN Raleigh
not to make themselves Objectionable
in any way to the Democrats fact
that victorious white people should
not fail to remember.
And I do not believe that their pacif-
ic and peaceful conduct was prompted
wholly by fear, but that they we're
actuated largely through their belief
of the statements made by our news
papers and leading campaigners, that
the white people of North Carolina
and by that expression I do not mean
the Buffers and Holtons and Adamses,
but the Democrats and the governing
class OF whites, the best people in other
words not the enemies Of the
black man, per Sc, and mean them no
harm, especially from an industrial
standpoint. That the triumph OF de-
mocracy and the adoption OF the
Amendment would really act benefici-
ally for the industrious and we'll hehav-
ed class of negroes, and the best white
people would not see them prosecuted.
SAYS BUTLER WILL EMIGRATE.
Never was politician so completely
co 1demned and annihilated by the
people OF his State as Marion Butler
the man who has not only committed
political suicide himself, but utterly
killed and disgraced his party in bis
selfish hunt for Office at whatever cost
and consequent alliance with the
negroes.
| There is no future for Butler in
North Carolina, except that of Gin.
nocuous desuetude" and oblivion, and
being still a young man that would be
almost intolerable. What will he dol
Migrate, of course-to some populis-
tically inclined State. as Nebraska, the
Dakotas, or one of either of the hall
dozen western silver-mining and wild
cat greenback "rotten boroughs."
Speaking with an old personal friend
of Senator Butler to-day, man who
still feels kindly toward him personally
he said :
II should certainly advise him te
adopt that course, and believe he will
do so. And if he does, I predict that
he will be heard from again and prob
ably in the halls Of Congress. His
public views coincide with those O
the people, or at least the majority 0
them out there, and having the advan
tags of being still. national chairman
of his party, believe he would mee'
with some political success personally
in that section"
But in the meantime, Butler will
"direct Mr.. Bryan's campaign in thu
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-08-09

ChilIs, levers and malaria yield to
Roberts Chill Tonic if you get the
genuine, with red cross on the label.
25c FER bottle. Money back if it fails.
Druggists.
The colored American., 1900-02-24

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from ambush for charging toll. Whit
= and colored are enraged at the dastardl
deed.
} Charles r. Jackson is postmast a
DarieD, Ga He was first appointed
in 1889 by President Harrison and wa
Darien's first experiment with q col
ored postmaster. Mr.. Jackson succeed
ed and raised the office to the presiden
tial list. October II, 1897, he was re-
appointed by President Mckinley.
A review of a table of statistics re-
Gently prepared by the Government
shows some startling discrepancies in
the argument that the Negro is Ameri.
cas- chief degenerate. Only per cent
Of his number Ia criminal; but pei
cent OF them are insane, and barely 9
per cent of them paupers.
Mrs. Matilda g. Wilson is one of our
leading women of Southeast Georgia.
She holds a state license as school
teacher, and has taught IN the public
school Of Darien for the past ten years.
La 1894 she was elected by the board
of education as assistant principal OF
the city school. She is highly educated
and estimated TO be worth about 50. 500.
"Peg-Leg Williams" a white emf
grant agent we'll known in the Soulh,
has been inducing Negroes to leave
Georgia by the thousands and go to
other States and work for higher wages.
The white farmers grew angry and
threatening, and the officers of the law
had 10 place him in jail to keep them
from mobbing him.
There is q m ovement on foot among
the more influential Of the coIored
population OF Louisville to establish q
savings bank. possibly with an insur'
ance feature in connection, for the
benefit Of the Negroes of the state. The
plan which has been in embryonic
state for some time is ma yuring under
the care of Undertaken William Wat.
son, David Stewart, Prof. ]. E. Simp.
son, Attorney Albert White and
others.
Dempsey D. Butler, very noted and
rich coIored man died at his residence
in Camden, n. J., recently OF paralysis.
Mr.. Butler was born in Virginia in
1920. When Is years of age he engaged
| in contract business and then came tC
Camden in 1S4S and opened a general
store on Kaighn's Avenue, where he
has lived ever since, Mr.. Butler was
estimated to be worth 800, 900, and
owned considerable property in Allan
tic City. He was Past Grand Master
of Masons ana member of The knight:
Templar.
The boys and girls of Frank for
should receive especial inspiration
from the life of the celebrated coloreC
newspaper correspondent, Mr.. Charles
Stewart, says the Blue Grass BugIe
1t has been but few years apt
since Mr.. Stewart was a bare foe
urchln on the streets of Frankfort
To-day, he is the most celebrated col
ored newspaper correspondent in tn,
world employed by the Associate,
Press. and is doing q great work il
moulding sentiment favorable to on
people.
Among the many vice president
elected by the African COLONIZATION
Society for the ensninr vaar fun or
The colored American., 1900-02-24


Workers Union.
Hon. John @. Lawton is Deputy Col
lector of Customs at Darien, Ga.
The Odd Fellows have more lodgel
In Georgia than in any other state in
the Union.
Several colOred bakers and flour
makers are employed by the National
Biscuit Company of P Philadelphia.
The Negro has one clerk, one press
mao and two book binders In the Coy
eminent Printing Office, Washington,
D, =.
Mr.. e. e. Perry owns and operates
mattress factory at st. Joseph, NO.,
employing members Of his race exclu Z.
sively.
The Richland Cotton Mills recently
presented 1000 yards Of cloth to Rev.
Richard Carroll's new Colored Indus
trial Home, near Columbia, s. c.
The paternal grandfather of Editor
a. L. Manly, Of the Washington Daily
Record, was at one time governor of
the state of North Carolina.
Editor Z. J. Perry, OF the PhiIadeI-
p1is TrIblns, has bean Installed q
superintendent OF the Lombard Street
Central Presby terian Sunday. school ms
Philadelphia.
Lieutenant. Governor Caldwell sp.
pointed a young Afro American from
the orphans home at Cincinnati, Is q
page In the Ohio legislature.
Dr.. T. @. Unthonk, graduate of the
medical department of Howard Univer.
sity, was recently appointed assistant
City Physician at Kansas City, Mo.
Il. l. Lee. leading undertaken in
Atlanta. Ga, recently mode some ex-
tensive improvements in his place Of
business, In order to better accommo.
date q constantly increasing volume of
trade.
Out Of ,9s4 cases tried in the court
at Kansas City during 1899. 2,272 were
csses against Negroes, little less than
one third OF all cases tried, while the
Negro population is but one'tenth of
the city's population.
The women of the Negro city of
Langston, o. T., lately raised money
and have lighted the streets with fifteen
gasoline lamps. The funds were Sc
cured by the giving OF socisls and the
selling of fancy work made by the
women.
A conference will be held at Mont
gomery by Alabama men in May to
consider the race problem. Several
Northern orators will be invited. The
present condition Of Southern Negroes
and plans for their advancement Will
be discussed.
In the state Of Maryland there are
5000 cOlored men engaged in merchan.
tile business on their OWN account.
Many are successful farmers IN the vari
ous countries Of the State, some are en-.
gagged ip blscksmithing, wheelwrights
and carpenters.
Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Bsrnett is making
her headquarters for few weeks at the
home of Bishop Alexander Walters in
Jersey City, n. J. She is touring the
North and East soliciting funds for the
work Of the anti 'lynehlng bureau o
the National Afro American Council
The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-11
COTTON SLUMPED HEAVILY.
GOVERNMENT CROP ESTIMATE
SENT PRICES TUMBLING.

CO ton Men Regard the Burenu re-
port Way On-E1ceeds the Average
OF Estimates OF savannah Cotton
Exchange BY over 100000 Bales.
Futures Dropped From - to 30
Points and the spot Market De-
cIined 3. Cent ON the Receipts Of
Government Report-The story Of
the DIaekboards.
Not since the fictitious slump ia Liver
pool cotton futures has excitement run
wilder IN the Coston Exchange than BE-
did yesterday over the governments crop
estimate and a concurrent drop an the
New York cotton futures market Of from
q to 80 points. More Of a stir followed
the announcement because o. che extreme
bearishness OF the estimate So making the
crop 100000 bales from an acreage OF
25.o3i554 The local trade anticipated a
builish bureau. and with few exceptions
none had braecd themselves 10 receive an
estimate OF ten millions.
That the looal trade Is disappointed
over the estimate Is shown by the recen,
polling Of members Of the Cotton tx
change on the size OF this season crop
The average estimate OF thirty-six mem
beers was 3 500 $40 bales with the lowest
guess s.s95.OC0. the highest 1850 90. and
the nearest average sS9sc0o. Fourteen
Of the thiriy-six estimates made the crap
ten millions and over The government
guess IS about the same as the average
estimate Of the members Of the Liyerpoo.
Cotton Exchange. II Is 5000 above
what the members Of the New York cot
ton Exchange looked for u IS 6ooofo
above what Nell OF New Orleans looked
for
The effect OF the estimate was very
pronounced in the cotton futures market.
which yielded moderately at the opening.
but later dropped Ia a sensational man
ner. Drops 81 from 20 - points between
sales We're enough % paralyze long,
many OF whom saw the danger slgnal
and scrambled to dump their holdings
overheard. Aside from tho depressing ef-
feet which this had upon the market.
the downward course OF prices caught
large numbers Of stop-l0ss orders. Whicn
added 40 the effect OF the bearsh bureau
in producing a decline. The story q what
took place is best told IN the following
table showing the range 30 prices for
the day
The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-11
FEAruREs % CRY BUDGET.
Retail Dealer. Want Pawnbrokers'
License Increased.

The Committee o. the Whole Of O. y
Council met last night ana spent nearly
three hours discussing TIE city hu 81, for
is-. % was after % o'clock when The
committee adjourned and Mayor Myers
stated that there was nothing 20 say tx
cspt report pragrc. The departing 20
appropriation under discussion must
have been gone into very carefully as
some q thc heads ~ the departments
who were in waiting were not called into
tho committee room.
Mayor myers stlI tho committee hai
given most ~ l,s time 20 consiIefau g.
10 tar taA ordinance. but he WIS NOT
prepared to Say what changes, h an
nl4 been agreed upon. The comm. fee
has "a lengthy petition before 90 from the
retail business men. asking taal the
license oa pawuhnoklng be raised from
{p1 o. $50 aud BE- is probable that con-
siderable time WIS given O. the discur-
sion of This matter.
one of ths main arguments q tho hls-
mess men Is shat tne pawnbrokers are
NOT sticking go tneir pecuthar liue OK bus
mess. hut that they are competing Win
tine retail trades iu 10 number Of lines. es-
psciuly clothing some 81 the pawubrQk-
.rs doing uu extensive business IN work
lre OH bargain stocks. hruuE Do mere
from oshor citses The pawusnops. 90 Be-
asserted. handle a variety - lines and are
raady e. un3rrseu the regular retailers
ou almost ans article The petitioners
ask thAt the paWnbfokers be- required 10
eounne themselves 60 the business for
which tlsy are licensed and thas they Pc
proHlh.tfI from engaging IN other lines.
The p4wnhrokers now pay a license Of
$50 year AMI there are about dozen
81 them a few years ago the license was
only EEfo and there were less than half
as many pawnbr9kers. The Increase Ia
che license seems 30 have helped the bus
.trss Mayor Myers said ~ did not
think 80 likely that Council would look
wsh favor upon rrohihitive license. The
pawuhrokcrs already pay pretty h!gh
license. d. said. and be confessed him
self in some doubt ~ 60 how the matter
should be- dealt with.
There g. some talk Of increasing the
music hall license which Is now only $40.
some OF the members of Council think
that savannah could get along without
rho music halls. and are in favor Of In
creasing me license. II nothing more.
The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-11
WORKING ron THE FAIR.
Canvassing 90 BeEin Actively To-
ds, ny the Committees.

Tho chalrmcn OF the state Fair Can
vas ius Committees called their commit
toes together yesterday aud prepared for
work some ~ the committees went on
me Warpath az once. while others defer
rod the matter until to-day. The com
mluce which includes the banks cal "a
upon one officers Of these Institutions and
secured thclr promise 20 lay tho matter
before their directors at an early date.
~ was found uecess ury 10 make
changes b. some OF the committees, and
There is one other committee TO be made
un TODAY. Most OF the committees will
be- 20 the field to-day. and u is believed
thai they viii have some good results TO
report hy might A. the committe emcn
ara 40 business men. with affair Of their
own 10 look after 80 may require the
entire week a. make the canvass COM
p.ete While there g. lukewarmness to-
ward the movement IN some quarters.
there is no disposition 90 throw cold
wttri. sud there are many who show a
willingness 20 back their interest 81 the
movement with tho subscriptions.
Tho subscriptions. &c shou q be borne In
mimi. are not donations. but stock sub
srrlpiious Zoo IN enterprise. whi b Is not
only expected 20 pay hack the amount of
capital stock bat TO pay a dividend %
well This has been accomplished in other
cities. and there seems 90 b. no reason
why the same result should not be
achieved ln Savannah