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i SOUTHEM 0ftKO.lt Pllt THE MAIL . IS THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND VKOPLE'S PARTY OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ADVERTISERS Ho you atndy your beat inter etu and patronize thl paper, ft will be appreclau-d by ail tne best farmers, from whom you get trade. .4 Paper Of, By and For the People! VOL. IV. MEDFORD: OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 1892. NO. 36. SOCIETIES OF MEDFORD. K. of P. Talisman lodge No. 31, meets M in day evening at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers al ways welcome. M. W. S&eki C- C. J. A. Whitman, K. of R. & S. A. O. U. W. Lodge No. SS, meets every sec ond and fourth Tuesday in the month at 8 p. m. in their hall in the opera block. Visiting orothers invited to attend. j. A. Whiteside, W. M. G. F. Mkrriman, Recorder. I. O. O. F. Lodge No. S3, meets In I. O. O. F. hall every Saturday at at & p. m. Visiting brothers always Welcome. D. S. YOUSGS, N. G. A. C. Nicholsos, Rec. Sec. I. O. O. F. Rogue River Encampment. Lodge No. 30, meets in I. O. O. F. hall the second and oufth Wednesdays of each month at 8 p. m. W. I. Vawtkr, C. P. B. S. Webb, Scribe. Olive Rebekah Lod-e Xo. S3, meets in I. O. O. F. hall llrst and third Tuesdays of each month. Visiting sisters invited to attend. MR3. D. S. Youngs, N.G. A. C Xicholsok. Sec. A. F. & A. M. Meets llrst Friday on or be fore full moon at S p. m.. in A. O. U. W. hall. N. L. Xabukgan-, W. M. J. S. Howard, Sec G. A. R. Chester A. Arthur Post Nv4". meets in U. A. R. hall every second and fourth Thursdays iu each mouth at 7 :30 p. M. (3. C. Noble, Com. J. H. Faris, Adjt. F. A. & L U. L- U Polk lodge No. S6S, meets everv Tuesday at S p. m. G. S. Briggs, Pres. Epworth League meets each Sunday even In; at 6:30. D. T. Lawtou, president, Julia F tilde, secretarv. Yonng People's Litirary meets Friday even ing of each week, under the auspices of the Epworth League. W. C. T. TJ. Meets at Christian church every Monday evening at 7 p. m. Mas. A. A. Kellogg, Pres. Hue. E. P. Hammond, Scc'y. Y. M. C. A. Meets every Sunday at 3 p m. at M. E. church. W. S. Hally, Pres. M. E. RlGBY, Sec - Secretaries of above lodges will please attend to corrections. Any society wishing to have a place in this directory will please hand in nec essary data. CHURCHES OF BEDFORD. Methodist Episcopal Church E. F Thomp son. pastor. Services the second aud fourth Sabbaths; morning. II a. m.. evening, 7:30 p. m Prayer meeting at & p. m. Thursday. Sunday school each Sunday as 10 a. m. A. K. Johnson, superintendent. Christian Church P. R. Burnett, pastor. Preaching first and third Sundays in month, mornin; and evening. Worship every Sunday morning. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Presbyterian Churen F. J. Edmunds, pas tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and J -JO p. m. .Sun day school at 10 a. m. Y. P. S. C. K., 6:15 p. m. Baptist Church 13 at present without a vas ter. Prayer meeting every Wednesday even ing. Sunday school at 10 a. m Further notice given as soon as pastor is secured. The pastors of the different churches . are re quested to attend to corrections. PROFESSION CHS. EB. PICKEL, Physician and Surgeon Medford, Oregon. OSce: Rooms 2 & 3, LO.O.F. Bldg JB. WAIT, Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Childers' Block. E P.GEARY, Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Cor. C and 7th sts, f. S. JONES, Physician and Surgeon. - Medford,-Oregon. Office: Hamlin block, up stairs. B R. O. F. DEMOREST, Resident Dentist. Makes a specialty of first-class work at reasonable rates. Office in opera house, Medford.Or ROBT. A. MILLER. Att'y and Cuui.skiaor-at-i,aw. Jacksonville, Oregon. Will practice in all courts of the State. , J H. WHITMAN, Abstractor and Attokney- ' At-Law. Medford, Oregon. Office in bank building. Have the most complete . and reliable ab stracts of title in Jackson county TTflLLARD CRAWFORD, Attorney and Cou.nsellor- -At Law. -; . Medford, Oregon. Office:. In Opera block. AUSTIN S. HAMMOND, Attorney-At-Law. Medford, Oregon. Office: LO.O.F. Building. WEAVER IN FRISCO. THE PEOPLE'S TO 3,000 CANDIDATE SPEAKS CALIFORNIANS. Received w!lb 8torms of Cheers Ha ReNpomls In an Eloquent and Forcible Manner The Producer and the Rob hem A Part of the Speech. The Associated Press. In consequence of the conspiracy of silence, sent to the country ouly fonr lines abont General Weaver's magnificent meeting in San Francisco. From the San Francisco pa pers it appears thxt more than 8,009 eager listeners crowded Mechanics pavilion to hear the People's candidate for presi dent discuss the issnes of the day, and many thousands more were turned away from the doors because there was no room for them. The speech was a splen did effortand fully covered all the ques tions of the campaign. The speaker was frequently interrupted by applause and was tendered a perfect ovation at the conclusion of his remarks. About one-third (the earlier portion) of the ad dress follows: Mb. Crairuan. Ladies and Qe.vti.emes If these nu-etins continue to increase iu num bers and cutltnsiasm we will navu to move to make it unanimous and abandon tli cam- laiKn. This canipnJtni begau at incenncs. lnL. on the fist day of July, and now hero wo are at the Golden Uate, and all alone the route clear across the com incut crowds of this char acter and magnitude have assembled to creel us and brig: ua assurance of victory In the ides of November. My f riends, we are iu the utid&t f the most tremendous political up heaval that the world has known anything abuuu When I was a boy I rc:uember the great brenknp that took ldnce between k&S and lrcfi. when the rree boil Democracy and the Free Soil Wiiiss despairing of doing any thing with the iritsiarery 1 dirties, came out and met in the middle of the road and saved this Uuiou. and saved tho spirit of liberty uu- -ierthe consrKuiion and the Declaration of Indrpendcnce. Here we are iu (be same pha&e of the same bailie. What was the underlying philosophy w hich culminated in tho nomina tion of Abraham Lincoln in IMJ? Wendell Phillips said to me In his own resi dence in lioston: "Mr. Weaver, there are but few pcoiile who understand the movement which culminated In the war. That movement was the great battle for the freedom of Libor. bnt it is yet to be fought out on this continent because the result of that war was simply t he extension if that battle, not to conclude with the frwlnm of the black man. but to continue with the moneyed power which began where the slave power lost, and which great battle of labor has yet to be fought out on the American continent. on may live to see it. and probably wiiL but 1 will be called home lonjf before that content will take place. and 1 thank tiod to nbrht that the greut prophecy of a crcat man will be fulfilled at the ballot bcx in November. Now I want the careful attention of the peo ple tonight whllo 1 Interpret tuu question which is now shaking the republic froai center 10 sea. What i!oes it mean? Is there no ini-:i-fic-tion to it? Jty friends, have you en r taken your scat upon the shores of the laci!;e here and watched the great waves as they cba?-e each other lik-j things of Kfe and pnh thus aae the Other? Just m it goes, aud one folio-s nothcr iu this movement of the simple, which 1 wbh to interpret before you tonight. iow. 1 am talking to you aua shall address you as laboring people. Labor produces ell tho wealth of this world. You clothe the naked beck of the world and you fVed its hungry mouth. The world waits for your industry. 1 assert, nithoul fear of contradiction, that you enjoy lrs of it in your homes thnn any other rlau of people living under cur flag. Let us rail ntlcntion nun to a few facts that are indisputable. A statistician of known reputation thet no one will question says that in In-SSU.UO men. heads of families. in this country men wuo have neverearned a dollar of wealth, as laboring men do. in their uvea, and 'he says, after mature del. be ration, be can red ace it to S5.CU0 men own one-half of the wealth of this entire country, or $31,000,- 00U.OU. 1 have no way of proierly conveying lo your mind how much Sol.0U0.0uu.0u0 The war for the suppression of the rebellion cost the government and the south combined about iS.lXXl.iUi.tU), yet these S.0UO men have accumulated f U.UJO.UUO.Uun. They have ac cumulated enough to carry on a war for fonr years and carry out tho work with an ex penditure of lesa than one-third of the wealth they have accumulated. 1 put the question to the critic, to the editor, the lawyer, tie banker. I waut to ak you in the face of these facts dare you say before God and in this presenco that the republic is inahealthycondition when such things cau take place in your lifetime and mine? Ah, my brother, why do you criticise these laboring men? How can you find it In your heart to say that these farmers, these wage workers should be quiet and subservient when they have been having this treatment for years? You might stop to inquire Into the causes of this enormous accumulation of wealth without toil. Oh, my brother, that you should have been casting your vote with the corporations of this country, with the trusts, and thus strengthening their hands to crush out these laboring men and reduce them to serfdom How dare you stand up before these men and say they have no right to organize to protect tiielr own families? 2sow, let me give you an other illustration. A man died in this country a few years ago very rich. His name was Van derbilt. and let me say here that I have noth ing to say against the man God forbid. J only speak against his wealth. This movement is like the Dutchman's heart, who said, I wish all men were rich: it would be better for the poor." I ant all men to be rich. If they get rich honestly. Ho should eat his bread in the sweat of his own face. I do not like any man who insists that it is his right to eat his bread In the sweat of some other man's face. A friend of Mr. Vanderbilt came to his rescue, and he was a rich man, and be said Vander bilt was not worth &7S,O0O,OU, but only $220, 0U0.UU by a conservative estimate, and said furthermore that it took him and his father thirty years to accnmulnteiL Now, I want to illustrate that: 1 want to contrast that fortune with the accumulations of labor. You labor ing men here now, can you on an average sup port your families out of your wages and lay np one dollar ter day? Now let me suppose that the first laborer was Adamand we will suppose he never dies and accumulated one dollar a day over his family expenses for the whole period of Q.lXJO years down to the day before Vanderbilt died, bo would have accumulated g,lM,ua, and yet Vanderbilt accumulated g22n,GGu.U0u In thirty years, and would not have hired Adam for a bostler. Now I will give you another illus tration. There is a class of men In this coun try for whom I have a grcut deal of resiiect, for they ara doing a great deal for the human race. They are called scientists, and they have been very skeptical, and thought a few years ago they were going to pry up the Rock of Ages. They thought they hud discovered a nrehlstoric man who liven before AUam. Bali- nose they were right. Suppose t hey discovered a man su,(HM years before Vanderbilt. Suppose that man worked hard enough, was never sick, and suppose be laid up a dollar a day, how many dollars would be have accumulated? It depends uou how many days there arc. There are Just i&jtmtn days. So you tee Vander bilt could have bought out the prehistoric gen tleman and hud a million dollars with which to buy up the California legislature. Xou- 1 am mentioning Vanderbilt's name with respect. 1 am only talking about his for- tuic 1 presume there is no man here louigiif, nu!uss he has been cuuverted by the People's party, who would uut have doue as audir bilu Now I put the question again to those who have been standing aloof aud wondering if this movement was going to acconiDUsh anything Do you think that this republic- Is Iu a healthy conditlou when such results can lake place within a Mi'utime? Well, that Is whnt the trades unions think about It, and the fanners' Alliance, aud luu wage workers. lo you think you can stop this movement? Get out of its way ur it will run over you as sure as you are living. These are some of the facts that havecaused the people to orgunixe. Our fathers state in the Declaration of Independence, and this movement is to vitalise that declaration, to protect the rights of laborers in this country. Our fathers slate. "Wo hold this truth to be self evident." Whnt is a self evident truth? It is one 1h.1t is as evident as the sun in heaven. We feci It. How broad that is! How like the heart of Gedl How "all men ttre created cimil," one man before another! I stand here deriving my rights from no gov- ern!i:enr, hut from my Creator. What Is an iualienab.e right, a right that can neither be bonght unr sold, no man can buy It, nor can he ell, cither for hiinsolf or his children? There are certain inallcuahle rights his life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To these good governments are so many men deriving their power from the governed. When these governments do not do right it is a duty to holih those governments. Now if that is treason make the most of it. I propose to live to it and teach It as long as I live on this earth. It Is the great alladium of the world. If you have tho right to abolish a government you can blow into flinders these pnriies nhich destroy your riuhts. A party Is only a means to an euu. Well, now 1 am com ing riiit home at you. Yon are either Demo crats, Kepttblk-nusor Pcoplci'a party meu. aud I would not be surprised if up to a month ago the great majority of you had been Democrats or Kepuhlicans. Now tell mo what Is there to hope for from either tho Democratic or Repub lican parties? Why, did you not get tired of the Kepublican party and put it out of lower and put in the Democratic party with Its own legislature? ilien the Democrats shouted themselves hoarse and said, "1-ook out for a real old Jncksoulan party." Was there any chauge? Oh. yes. in the San Francisco postoffice. Well, the people got tired and pot the Kepub lican party back in power the whole govern ment back in the hands of the Republican party. Then the Republicans said now let us show you whnt we can do. They have had It for three years or over, and what have they done? Oh. yes changed the postofllce the same as the other fellows. - Now suppose my frieud here has an old bnggy oith axles sprung and spokes loose, and the boards in the bottom of the bed broken, and tho torn flap flyiug In the breeze. Suppose he should change his driver, would It help the buggy any? And that is what you have been doing, my friend. You have saiti the buggy is all righL but she won't track. It is not a change of drivers wanted, bet a new vehicle. Value of the Dollar. Money is bought with tho products of labor, instead of products being bonght with innnoy. ;ls the common acceptation of the term now implies. When this idea is carefully considered and understood, the full significance of what is ititeuded by the tert'i cheap dollar, or dear dollar, wUI t-e knovru ia its true sensv. For ex-aiupk-, ia IST'J pork sold in Michigan for if-ii dollars pfr HKI pounds. In IS) it fold for four dolinrs rr 103 pijutpi.'j. It rinired jnt at lnncti laltor to raise a l.tu!:i.-l of com in IS?.' a.s it did in IS?!). It toui as tench corn in JiWHo ::ia!:.: a p:iund of tiorU as it did iu IS'X Dunn;;, this ti:ue the dollar lias re mained the sj-.me 23.8 tmius of gold or ii'li gnii-.i.s if standard silver make the c-jim-tl dollar of ISM), as in 1ST0. There has bt-eu 1:0 increase ia its weight or sise. The ttuestioa therefore isi. Why should it require twecty-Sve pounds of pork in ISSU to buy the fame dollar that tin pounds tt pork purchased in I3T0: Can th:3 bo t-splained on any other hy po'.hfris than an increase iu the value of the dollar? Is it uot a fact that fifteen pounds of pork has bnzi added to the value of the do'.lar daring the past twenty years? It this be lrut of pork, is it not also trneof wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and nearly every other prodnct of labor? While 100 pounds of pork would have paid 10 per cent, interest on $100 ia IST0, it will take 173 pounds to pay 7 per cent in 1S90. Who can truly say in the face of thU that a cheaper dollar is not necessary for tho prosperity of labor in production. National Watchman. To Overthrow tha Pivotal Stat. It is estimated that the "fat friers" will spend $2,500,000 to carry the state of Now York for Harrison. Judas Iscariot Sherman is more than ever of the opinion that New York is the battle ground this campaign. While the Plutes are running their 'sham battle in New York tho peoplo will see to it that enough western Re publican states are educated up to the populist idea to offset the Shylocks. Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Col orado, Nevada, Idaho and Montana, for instance, are nearly enough to offset the Tammanyites and, goodness gracious, wouldn't it be u godsend to this nation to knock out New York as a pivotal state! And we are going to do it, honey.- Denver Road. Monej I'nder False Pretenses. The Michigan Tribune asks a "leading question" which comes in handy now that the United States senate has laid the antioption bill to sleep: It is claimed that the deals in specula' tive "futures" amount to nine times as much as the legitimate deals in grains. By this process of gambling the sharp ers are enabled to eliminate the question of supply and demand, and they have the farmer at their mercy. Wouldn't it be a good idea to imprison the man who sells wheat which he hasn't aot for ob taining money under false pretenses? Tons of Surprise. There will be tons of eurprise shipped north after tho 8th of Noyeinber, before which this little anteprandial Alabama matter will dwindle into utter insignifi cance. Virginia, the good old north state; South Carolina, Georgia and Texas-will exhibit tome queer antics qneer as compared with the past, but reasonable aud sober when compared with cottoiaat six cents and silver on a down grade, and cents at that Be prepared for snrprises, ns the Irishman would 6ay. Grand Junction (Colo.) Star. . . - Forty-five Colorado newspapers are supporting Weaver and the Popultt ticket. The goldbug organs' are tho Deliver Republican, Pueblo Chieftain, Colorado Springs Gazette, ti e Leadville Herald-Deinocrat and Glim wood Ava lanche. All - six combined huveu't as much influence iu Colorado us Thump sou's colt. Aspen (Colo.) Times. THE RAILWAYS. They Are Rated at Three Times Thell Cost Government Ownership. The government railway statistics, re cently issued by the statistical bureau at Washington, show the number ol miles of railroad in the United Stater., 107,909; railroad stocks aud bonds out standing, $10.?Gr.620.041; gross earning for the year, $1,138,024,459; net earning! for the year, j3i6,537,8tS3. Theso tremendous figures furnish an eloquent demonstration of the great magnitude of this branch of industry, and clearly show the vast power that lies within the hands of greedy and un scrupulous owners to oppress the people. The outstanding stocks and bonds of a railroad are supposed to represent its cost, and consequently are to be regard ed as so much indebtedness against the people, upon which they must pay in terest. Iu other words, the builders of a railway say to the people of the United States, "We have put so many millions of dollars, as represented by the stocks and bonds we have issued, into the con struction and equipment of this road, and now we are entitled .to and shall levy and collect from you interest on this sum above oDeratinir expenses." When the owners of the railroads of the United States come forward and say, "We have built and equipped 167,909 miles of road at a cost of 10,705. Gi6.041, or $64,110 per mile, as evidenced by the amount of stocks and bonds we have issued," the Oagrancy of the falsehood uttered is potent to every man possessed with even an ordmary degree of knowl edge concerning the cost of constructing and equipping railroads in tins country. Instead of the 107,909 miles of railroad in the United States having cost $10,765, 620,011, or $C4,116 per mile, the actual cost is much less than half this stun. Competent authorities state that $20. 000 per mile ia the average cost of build ing aud equipping railroads in this coun try. This would bring the actual cost of the railroads in the United. States down to abont $3,250,000,000, or less than one-third of the amount claimed by the owners. On this basis, after paying op erating expenses, including princely salaries to head officials and extravagant legal expenditures in constant defense of their nujnst actions, more than 1C per cent remains from the earnings ol the railroads in tho United States the past year for distribution to stock and bondholders. The above statistics show that $6$.7C j out of every jflOO of gros receipts of the j railroads is rvtjnired to meet "operating ' expense." Under government owner-j ship this ratio of expense to income! would bo largely decrease!, for there would no longer be any necessity to pay salaries of $20,000 to $50,000 for the ser vices of individuals to operate them, and the expensive legal departments would 1 cltr.ost wholly di"enscd with. The .reate-st saving to tho people, how ever, would result from the ability of the government to replace all legitimate outstanding indebtedness of the rail roads at miieh lower rates of interest Where is the man who would not gladly exchange tho present bonds of railroads for government bonds even at lower rates f interest? Would not tho stock holders as willingly make a similar ex change? Sunt hern Mercury. A Few Uu Nailed. Tho Leader and other papers have been publishing a statement to the effect that IH-ncrnI James U. Field, the vice nn-sid - n t ial candidate of the People's , v. should have staled to Rev. R. W. Parsons, of Ohio, that he had spent font years of his life ia killing Yankees, in which he took great glory. 1 sent a clip pin from The Leader to General Field, and 1 have now in my possession his let ter denying any such statement The letter explaining his cutiro conversation with Rev. R. W. Parsons is oiu foi perusal by any one interest ed. Another lie traveling around is the one stating that General Weaver, who is pub lishing The Iowa Tribune, was running a "rat" ofdee. A letter to the general on the subject brought an answer deny ing tho report in toto and also inclosing a statement from the Typographical union of Dea Moines denying the state ment A third lie now industriously circu lated is to the effect that the Minnesota Farmers' Alliance had withdrawn from the People's party and would not sup port Ignatius Donnelly for governor. A letter from Mr. Donnelly says that then is no split iu the Alliance and that evert Alliance man in tho state will support him and tho presidential electors of the People s party. Hugo Preycr iu Clove land Citizen. Why General Weaver Is Feared. - No man in America is so feared and baled by tho goldbngs, gold trusts, gold commune. Wall street and tho pin tocracy of the two continents as Gen eral Weaver. And no man is so ad' mired and beloved by the great mass ol the peoplo of tho south, the Mississippi valley and the middle western states. He has made more speeches for the fret coinugo of silver than any other man. He has carried the free coiuago bannef into nearly every state, and is now car rying it to the front on every stump. To mention the names of the two gold' bugs, Harrison and Cleveland, with his on tho same day is nauseating to every true silver man. Winnemucca (NevJ Silver State. On a Gold Dasts. Tho government has just run a train load of $30,000,000 in gold from San Francisco to Washington. It is on ita way from Loudon via Wall street. There was a guard of forty-one soldiers to prod honeHt people out of the way. Plutoc racy U running this government 6u gold basis. Nonconformist. J Yon Like It? You voted yourself into the present Cnauciul conditiou to please your party leaders, and there is no law against your continuing it If you like to sweat four teen hours a day aud take your pay iu rags, patches aud debt, just keep it up. Yon are the boss, Lauear (Mo.) Indus trial Union. HOT SHOT. Culled from Our Exchanges for the Reader of the Mail. Nevada will have o.ilv one elect oral ticket Weaver and Field. More than twenty People's Partv papers have recently sprung up in Oregon. Members of the Illinois National Guard burned Snowden in effigy at Chicago. The Georgia state election is in October. Kentucky, under a new constitution, votes in November. The Democratic split in Teag is more serious than the organs of that party care to acknowledge. Harrison, Cleveland and John Sherman were hanged in efligy at Bachelor City, Colo., one night re cently. Out of over 1,600 sub-alliances heard from in Georgia only three are opposed to entering the new party. Old party voters to the number of ITS have published a resolution declaring for the new party in Clai borne Parish, La. The People's Party in Wyoming has been called to assemble Sept. 7th at Douglas. Candidates for state officers will be selected. In Waco, Texas, the People's Party has filled out a county ticket and raised a fund to start a county paper to be called the Appeal. Seven members of the Demo cratic Executive Committee of Winston county. Miss., resigned and joined the third parly. With two Democratic tickets and two Republican tickets' in Texes, the People's Party ticket ought to have but little trouble to pull out. The latest mortality tables of old ..arty papers shows six daily papers, with a combined circulation of 220, 000, all alive, in the People's Party. Missouri is the only doubtful state in the People's column west of the Mississippi river, and even in that there js fighting show for Weaver, " iiukcr, the Alliance candidate tor governor of Minnesota, has with drawn in favor of the regular People's ticket, which supports Don nelly. At the Republican club meeting held at Denison, Texas, last week, t was unanimously resolved to sup- Nugent, the People's parly nomi nee for governor. The New Nation, in its news summary, gives encouraging reports of People's Party agitation in Con necticut, er lork, .New Hamp shire, Pennsylvania and Massachu setts. Advices from California despite the efforts of the Associated press to conceal the fact, show that Gen eral Weaver's visit to that State set the coast on fire, ablaze with en thusiasm. The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., savs the Democracy is between the devil and the deep sea, and the Republicans between hell and the iron works. And how will it be after November y? Gen. Weaver's met ting at Los Angeles, Cal., was a grand success. Tliev had a procession with over 2000 in line, and 6.000 crowded in to the pavilion where the meeting was held. Official reports show" that oyer 500 rfew alliances were established in Texas during the last year, and that there is now a total member ship of 125,000, with over 100 pa pers advocating the principles of the order. Nomination papers have been filed by the People Party of Maine for Governor, Representatives to Congress, and nine out of sixteen counties have been organized whose tickets will bo placed on the official ballot People's Party state convention of North Carolina nominated a full ticket, with Dr. W. P. Exutn for Governor. row the political pot will surely begin to boil. North Carolina is quite safe to the Peo ple's Party. - One thing the Democrats and Republicans both learned duriug the late session of congress to not undertake to sit down on Jerry Sinipson and Tom Watson. Some of 'em tried it and found a bum blebee in their breeches. T. H. McGill has loosened his hold on the editorial chair of the Northwest Reform Journal at Port land, and H. B. Luce, of Hillsboro, has assumed lhe editorialship. This, we believe, is a good change. Mr. McGill is retained as one of the business managers. In free trade England tho same compluiut comes from labor that we are confronting in highly pro tected America, and when a man savs free trade or protection are at the bottom in either couutry he is cither a stupid ass or a lunatic. Davis & Pottenger, -o Dealers In -: GROCERIES, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, Claware, Wooden & ffioware. GOOD GOODS AND LOW PRICES. GIVE TJS TRIAL Free Delivery to Any Part of the City. FIRST DOOR WEST OF POSTOFFICE. 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