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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
SHOWING UP CORRUPTION.

congressman Moody's private sec
rotary testifies that between four and five
thousand dollars were used trying to elect
Maj. Moody to Congress in the Tenth
district last November. The private sec
rotary, of course, testified only of the
amounts he knew that were spent. The
National Committee poured out money
like water to corrupt the voters in the
Tenth and Eighth districts. Mr.. Gudger
is bringing out proof of corruption by
Republicans in the testimony in the con-
test for his seat which is being conducted
by the clientless lawyers. An admission
OF five thousand dollar corruption fund
is significant of the wholesale use of the
long green"
In view of the lavish use of money in
that district, too much praise cannot be
given to the aggressive Democracy of the
Tenth district for the victorious fight
they made. They arc robust Democracy
of whom it can be truly said they came
up Through great tribulations." But
they came up victorious and will not
be cheated of the rewards of victory.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND.

By virtue Of q decree of the Superior
Court of Wake County, N. c., entered at
the February term, 1903, Of said court in
the case of e. b. Barbee and G. b.
Barbee. trustees of G.. B. Afford ct al VS..
George w. B. Utley ct al, l will offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash, at
public outcry, at the Court House door
in the city of Raleigh N c., on Monday,
the 4th day of May, 1908 at IL o'clock m,
the following described tracts OF lana,
situated in Holly Springs township, Wake
county. n. c., and bounded as follows
First Tract: Known as the old field
tract. described in mortgage to q. b.
Afford dated March eth, 1892, containing
fifty acres more or less, adjoining the
lands Of G. B. Afford N. G. Burns ct al,
and known as that tract Of land conveyed
to G. w 3 Utley by J. w. Adams and
wife, beginning at ]. G. Hunter corner
formerly Marshall Benefits line, run
ming south 80 poles to Wheeler's line,
thence with said line SO poles to the
road thence north 50 poles to stake,
passnore's corner, thence with Hunters
line to the beginning
cooord Tract: Situated in said town
shin and known as the house tract, be-
c,inning in Isaac Hunters old line, run
ninp south 64H poles to stake, thence
cast 10 the Apex road about 10S poles,
thence with said road northward about
~ noJos to corner in the Easter Ann
Pagers line thence west with Mrs.
,rravwick's line to tho beginning, con-
tanning As acres or whereabouts.
Third Tract: Situated In said town
shin. containing one acre, conveyed to
G w. p. Ut1cy by Mrs. p X. Traywicl,
adjoining the Traywick land on the north
end. The said deed from Mrs. TrayEick
is hereby referred to for description.
Fourth Tract: Situated in said town
ship and known as the one acre lot con-
veyed to Pink Utley by G. p. Afford en-
bracing the T. l.. Gates old house, where
lobe Taylor now lives, more fully de-
scribod as follows: Beginning at stake
in the north and south line of G. b. AL
ford's land on tho new road, running
west u poles to a stake. thence south 13
poles links to a stake thence east IL
poles to a stake in the north and south
line Of 1914 acre tract belongin to said
Afford thence with said line north IL
poles and 8 links to the beginning, con-
tanning one acre. 1t being the same lot
that was conveyed by r. J.. Gates and
wife TO G. 3. Afford by deed Registered
in the office of the Register OF Deeds OF
Wake county In book 90 page 50S
w. B. JONES, Commissioners.
March 13, 1908.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
A ROMANTIC CAREER
Story of {. P. Virgin Now in
Jail at Charlotte.
Born in New Orleans He Became Celebrated
Gamester ard Later Pinkerton
Defective.
Special to News and Observer


Ashevile. N. c., April 3.-The story Of
the arrest in Charlotte, N c., of E. P.
Virgin and w p Adams, charged VITA
having blown open the postoffice safe a.
Mount Olive was read with peculiar in
terest by a gentleman in this city, who
has an intimate knowledge of the form
rs career.
Virgin. says this gentleman, was born
in New Orleans, of highly respected pa
rents. He, however, driftcd from under
home influences, and going to GreenVllle'
Miss, became the owner of a gambling
house. which was patronized by the poker
pirates of the Mississippi River. Nlr-
gins fame and notoriety, according TO
story he himself gave this ApheVllle
gentleman, spread the full length OF the
river. and his luck was so phenomenal
that it reached the point at when even
the most expert players feared to engage
in the game with him. Ultimately the
authorities closed down on Virgin. as his
place became too notorious as head
quarters for wine and women.
After his departure from Greonville
Virgin played the races" in New Or
leans, and from that city he went to
Central America, where he remained for
a couple of years, endeavoring to live
down his unsavory reputation.
Returning to the United States, he
went to Chicago, and in answering an
advertisement for a shipping clerk, found
that in reality detective was wanted,
and that the advertisement had been ir-
serted in a morning paper by the Pink
erton agency. After several visits, ex
tending over a period of two weeks, he
was given employment as one of the
Pinkerton men In the Chicago division.
While engaged in this service he had a
number of thrilling experiences, one of
them being an effort to recapture Buck
Davis, a desperate character. who es
capped from the State penitentiary at
Nashville Tenn, along with a score OF
other prisoners, a year or so ago.
Virgin has a wife and a daughter six
years old, who reside near Louisville.
Ky. The daughter is an exceptionally
beautiful child, having been awarded a
prize of $3.50 at a child's prize beauty
show in Chicago.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
FOUR PER CENT BONDS.

The State Treasurer advertises today
for bids for the three hundred thousand
dollar State bond issue, to be opened on
the 2sth OF April. These bonds are to
bear four per cent interest and to run
ten years. The bids for the three per
cent bonds being unsatisfactory, all were
declined.
North Carolina four per cent bonds.
having now seven years to run, are bring
ing S105 on the dollar. These new bonds,
having three years longer to run, will
be worth, so banker said yesterday,
something like s1.os on the dollar. Seven
years hence when the four per cent bonds
mature, the State will probably refund
them in 100 year bonds which can easily
be ioated at three per cent. The State
ought by that time. il all property is
properly assessed, to be able to pay off
the $500, 900 bond issue. and the peniten-
tiary ought to be managed so as to pay
off the outstanding penitentiary bonds is
sued to pay for Fusion extravaganza and
incompetence, and for the purchase of
farms.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
The Strike at Wilson.

Especial to News and Observer.
Wilson, N. c., April 3.-The Brickma-
sons Union here provided money for re-
turn of all the imported masons who
would so and when the contractors ar
rested several of these men for failure
to perform their contract the union also
paid their fines. The union is holding
out for nine hour day, while the con-
tractors insist on the ten hour one Yes
terday afternoon nine men were laying
brick at the Imperial factory, and the
contractors are counting on having forty
men at work there by next week. Mean
while the brickwork at the Wells White
head factory and the Liberty Warehouse
is at a standstill.
The sales of tobacco on the Wilson
market for March, 1903, amount to 639,-
479 pounds against 52,S92 for March last
year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
Protect Their Innocence

Especial to News and Observer
Charlotte, N. c., April 3.-The prelimi-
nary hearing of the two travelling men,
E. p. Virgin and w. f. Adams, suspected
of breaking open the postoffice at Mount
Olive, is set for Tuesday morning The
men talk freely about the case, declare
themselves guiltless, show orders they
have gotten at various places in the
State and say their position is most hui
initiating. They say that but for the
pain it would cause their families they
would telegraph and have them come to
them, When speaking to a newspaper
man of the impossibility of writing to
his wife under the circumstances, Virgin
burst into tears. Both the men declare
they have never been near Rutherford
ton
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
THE INVENTION OF WALLER"
JOURNALS.

The News and Observer has a private
who was present at the famous Unita-
rian club dinner which shows that the
Charlotte Observer has made a mountain
out of mole -hill-in fact, made state
ments that are misleading about Mr..
Page and Mr. Baldwin. 1t is dangerous
thing these days to rely upon anything
published i'm the Charlotte Po-
lice Gazette, which calls itself the Char
lotte Observer. This paper
erred in accepting it's statements. 1t
should have known better than to crt-
cize anybody upon such authority, al
ways jaundicod by its prejudices or its
interests.
The private letter from New York con-
tains the following statement
mo negro dined at the Unitarian Club
dinner the night Mr.. Page dined as
guest of the club and made an address.
The President OF the club has told me
that no negro was invited by the club;
and there was no negro there during the
dinner. After the dinner was over, l am
told that two negro men connected with
negro colleges were admitted by some
member OF the club to the audience TO
hear the discussion, as might have been
done anywhere. There were hundreds
of people present. 1t was a public sort
of occasion. and / suppose somebody who
saw the negroes there afterwards jumped
TO the conclusion that they had dined
there. but they didn't"
1t turns out, then. that the whole pub
LEGATION was made up and disseminated
for the purpose of injuring the cduca-
tionaI work which the Southern and Gen
eral Education Boards are seeking TO
help forward in the South The views OF
this paper upon that work-its import
ance aud its value-are well known
Equally we'll known are its convictions
that any agency that tends TO break down
in the least the necessary barriers be-
tween the races would be disastrous.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
Hanna's Resolution Bearing Fruit.
CTarboro Southerner)

A colored man giving his name as John
Smith. has been arrested charged with
obtaining money under false pretenses.
viz: representing himself as a pension
agent of the United States, and promis-
ing to obtain pensions under Mark
Hanna's ex-slave pension bounty resolu-
ton. A colored man named Joshua Har-
rison. claims that he gave him two dol
lars for the purpose. and so does II. c..
Bournes cook, Amy Pittman. Amy says
that when he was talking TO her in the
kitchen. he said, Don't talk so loud,
what you want the white folks to hear
you?" Amy tells it afterward that she
oughter'n known that somethin was
wrong right then"
Smith said two dollars would get the
certificate and as soon as the certificate
came fifty dollars would follow at once.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
Little Tom Davidson Killed.
Especial to News and observerD

Especial to News and Observer
Charlotte, N. c., April 3.-Tom David
son, the -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Davidson, was instantly killed
this afternoon at o'clock by the work
car of the electric line.
The accident occurred in front of
Avant's store on North Tryon street.
The construction car was attached to one
of the passenger cars and the child was
swinging on the rear of it. He lost his
hold and fell beneath the truck. His head
was horribly crushed and the neck and
shoulders were badly bruised and man
-led.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
Rev. snd Mrs. Lacy Little Coming
Rome From China.

(Yorkville Special to Columbia STATED
The Rev. Lacy Little and rs WIFE, nee
Miss Ella c. Davidson. missionaries to
China, who have been stationed at Khan
ing for some time, left Hang Chow, China,
in the 14th of March on their way home
on furlough on account of the i'll health
Of Mr.. Little. They will stop awhile in
North Carolina, visiting relatives OF Mr.:
Little and are expected here about the
last of May, where they will be the
guests of MIR. VIM Fl. Herndon, broth
cr-in-Iaw of Mrs. Little.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

That New York swell equestrian din
ner served on horseback is demoralizing.
4 Kentucky sport will celebrate his ar
rival at twenty-one by giving a mule
dinner of cornbread and creek water on
muleback. Soon the boys in Rhamkatte
will be giving dinners of raw potatoes
astride of billy goats. The whole coun-
try is society mad and ready to imi-
tate the smart set to the best of their
ability and environment-Rham
Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
CWadeshoro Messenger.)

Perhaps the smallest tax ever collected
by a sheriff of North Carolina was re-
ceipted for recently by ex-Sheriff Gaddy.
Alec Dock Moore, colored, of Morven
township, was the man from whom the
tax-one cent-was collected. No attempt
was made to divide the tax between
state. county and school, but the entire
amount was turned into the treasury for
the benefit Of the general county fund.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
No Power on Earth .


Hon Geo w. Ward solicitor for the
First judicial district of North Carolina,
was interviewed while here this week.
Asked if he would run for Congress next
time he said: Il will not There is no
power on earth that can beat Jno. II.
Small, and even if | had assurance of
nomination l would not oppose him. He
is the man"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

The spectacle of Senator Clark, of
Arkansas, seeking fight with a Con-
gresham of his State, was disgraceful
The Clark Davis combine made 10 retire
James X Jones and James II. Berry fl ON
the Senate is about the worst outi- that
ever crossed the pike. Clark defeated
Jones, but his conduct has Disguised his
people who are longing for chance to
reverse their action. Davis Will not tic
able to defeat Berry. In Jones and Berry
the State of Arkansas was Well repre-
scented. In Clark it has a man of such
temper and buster as to make him totally
unfit. To replace Berry with Davis would
be blasting stigma upon the State.
Clark and Davis would be going back
wards.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
UNSELFISH AND PATRIOTIC ACTION
North Carolina Baptist.

There are three law firms in Fayette-
willie that have made up their minds that
the Cumberland County Prohibition law
shall be enforced. They are Robinson &
Shaw, Oates & Nimocks and Hall & Bull
lard. They do not ask to be paid for
their services in such cases but for the
good of the whole people they will stand
together to see that the law is carried
out. In a case this week before the
mayor these law firms appeared and gave
notice that they would use their best eff
forts to have offenders properly pun
ished. This is most commendable. We
congratulate these lawyers on their I'M
selfish and patriotic action.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

EXPOSURE to a sudden climatic change
produces cold in the head and catarrh
is ant to follow. Provided with Ely's
Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal
Catarrh Price so cents at druggists or
EIv Brothers, Sc Warren street, New
York. will mail it, The Balm cures
without pain. does not irritate or cause
sneezing. 1t spreads itself over an irri-
tated and angry surface, relieving imme-
diately the painful inflammation, eleanses
and cures. Cream Balm quickly cures
the cold.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

There are ten cases against the rail
roads-nine against the Seahoard Air
Line and one against the Atlantic Coast
Line-on the calendar for the April Term
of court OF the cases against the Sea-
beard all are for damages caused by
burning OF woods, except that of Mrs.
Anna NJ Griffin, whose husband was
killed by a train at Peachland some three
years ago. The case against the Coast
Line is for damages sustained by Capt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

Engineer John Wingate, one of the
most popular engineers on the Southern
system. is off duty for several days A
day or two ago Mr. Wingate was hit in
the eye with brake valve and later a
spark from the engine got in his eye and
he has suffered very much with the in
iurcd member since He will be laid off
duty for several days on account of the
accident-Salisbury Sun.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
The Pistol Habit Epidemic.
Roanoke Chowan Times.l

1t required whole week of the pres
ent term of Northampton Superior court
TO try the cases on the criminal docket,
a longer time than at any previous court
for years Many of the cases were for
carrying pistol.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

1.-The News and Observer is an up-to-
date newspaper, well managed and ex-
cellently edited. l hope and believe you
VIII continue to keep it up to its present
high standard" Thus writes Hon. Thos.
G. Skinner in a private letter to the
editor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
Attem pied Rape.


w Ut VUJUU INVUUTW'J
John Russell, colored, of Hawtree
township. was placed in Jail Wednesday,
charged with committing rape on a four
year old colored girl Of the same town
ship We could not learn any thing of
the particulars more than that Russell
was tried before Esquire r. II. w. Pas
chall and ordered to Jail without bail.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

The Cook Ladies' Union" of Denver
has gone on strike and people are liv-
ing on canned goods. That's one strike
that touches very close home.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

There are 1,75O,OO0 children, between
the ages of ten and fifteen, at work in
the factories and mines of the United
States. w. S. Waudby, special agent for
the Department of Labor, writing in Les
lies Monthly for April, explains and
comments upon these appalling figures.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

The verdict in a case in Boston has been
set aside because of 1.-THE warm, ripe
beauty of the plaintiff" She was evil
IDENTIFY a visitor to Boston, suggests the
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

Canton, S. D., has gone regularly into
the divorce business. publicity bureau
will be established to advertise the ad-
vantages of that town for cutting matri-
monial knots. If future North Carolina
Legislatures keep up the recent record,
this State will be far ahead of Canton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
a Little Child Goes Mad.
(Edenton Transcript


Bit by a stray dog the little siX-year-
old son Of a colored preacher named
Williams, living near Sunbury, is ravins
mad. Frothing at the mouth and utter
ing hIdeous cries he is dying-dying in
anguish and pain while a hcart-broken
father hclplessly watches his pitiful pass
ing
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
Spirit of the Press.
THE TENDENCY.

Greensboro Record.
Newspaper consolidation continues to
be the order of the day. The Norfolk
Ledger and the Dispatch of the same city
have pooled their issues and the Ledger
Dispatch is the result. The tendency Is
to fewer, not more newspapers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

The truck crop of the South promises
to become greater than its cotton crop.
The lettuce crop this season has brought
one hundred thousand dollars to Fay
etteville. Last year $50 carloads of
vegetables we're shipped from Mobile.
bringing $4,000 to that city. And the
truck area grows.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
WELL, HARDLYi
Aberdeen Telegram.

Aberdeen Telegram.
The Yadkin Ripple! Did you ever hear
of it before? has changed from a Demo-
cratic to a Republican paper, because
the last Legislature knocked out all the
sow-paw of his county. We suppose the
Democratic party will now have to go
out of business.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
In Memory of His Wife.
(Statesville Landmark. J

1t is stated that Judge Howard of
Tarboro, has given $4,000 for the cree
ton of a cottage at the Barium Orphans
Home in memory of his wife
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
HE DOES NOT LOVE THE DIAMOND
Littleton News Reporter

Every rose is said to have it's thorn,
hence with the coming of nice warm
weather the baseball fever begins to
rise and before long certain newspaper
writer's will simply lie in the shade, wait
for the baseball reports with which to
fill their papers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

] Pierpont Morgan predicts fuller and
long continued prosperity for every
body. Let us hope his prediction will be
fulfilled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

Mr. Ollie Clark. an employee in the tool
room at the Spencer shops, was right
painfully hurt yesterday by the bursting
of an emery wheel. A portion of the
wheel struck Mr. Clark under the chin
cutting a deep cash. Several stitches
we're necessary to close the wound
Salisbury Sun.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

Wealth is something that enables a
millionaire 10 stand up in meeting and
say it is no disgrace 10 be poor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

With his head pillowed on the rails the
form of Gale Copeland. white man, was
found on the Norfolk and Southern tracks
Tuesday afternoon by the conductor and
porter Of train No. which would nave
ground him into pulp had not the alert
eye of the engineer been focused on
the road. Copeland had been drinking
and rendered senseless by rum, had Sc
lected the railroad track a place to sleep
off his iEtoxication.-Ede Transcript
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

w. A. Lilies, sectionmaster at Morven,
who was injured by his hand car being
run into by a rain.-Wadcsboro Mes
sengcr.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

Posters were distributed Saturday in
this county, calling for 100 wagons and
teams and 300 hands to work on the eN-
tension of the Tallulah Falls railroad.
1t is said the engineers are setting pegs
for grading from the old Cannon place,
seven miles beyond Clayton, coming IN
this direction.-Franklin Press.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04
WIZ?

The reason One Minute Cough Cure relieves cough
IN one minute is because it acts first the mucous
membrane right where the cough troubles-in the
throat or decp-5eated on the lunC5' destroying the
microbes or cough germs and clearing me phegm.
ease germs and clears out their poison, but it gives
strength and elasticity to the, delicate membranes
which protect the throat and lungs Opens the air
Causes the blood to receive its natural supply Of
oxygen thus exhiIaratng the pulmonary organs with
tubes become bulsYks against the inception of dis
ease Asthma. Bronchitis. La Grippe. Cold on the
Lungs and all Pulmonary Complaints that are curabls
are quickly cured BY the use OF
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-04

1t is said that the Atlantic Coast Line
is buying land near Savannah so that a
shorter route can be had into that city.
There is so much competition in travel
to Florida that the three great railway
systems are anxious to save every pos
sible minute and the Coast Line is work
ing toward this end by cutting off the
circuitous routes The reduction Of few
miles means much shorter schedule
and as the minutes count the roads are
trying to provide the quickest run posi-
Bile a.