Landmark, The (Newspaper) - March 24, 1882, Statesville, North Carolina THE ISSUED FRIDAY BY Editor and OF CASH IN l one year 1 J J throe months 76 subscriptions aro not paid in ad- 28 cents extra will be THE VOL. N. MARCH 24, 1882. NO. 34 KEW WALLACE BROS N. Invite the attention of the Trade to their WHICH IS Carrying as they do the largest eral Merchandise Stock in the chants visiting them will certainly have t superior advantages in making Our TERMS and PRICES are in com- petition with any JOBBING HOUSE in the Parties finding it venient to will please favor us with their orders through our traveling Soliciting an early WE VERY WALLACE BROS. AT THE SKATING Robert wore his breeches Ol that ho didn't When he put on the roller To show off at the His first endeavor was the He'll put on skates no He to kick the roof all in And sat down on the When Robert the girls all It was an awful And when they had their backs all turned He backed up the wall He called a took off the giving him a Said lend me that long tailed I want to leave this rink An Oregon man full on the icy walk and bruka his aud when he to SUP for damages the held that looks had been thirty per cent. He therefore got nothing Lord Ellenborough once said to a upon his in the midst of a boring it the pleasure ot thB court that I should proceed with my statement Mr. has been out ot the question some but you may proceed Tommy was a little rogue whom hU mother work to Their house In he country was raided a few trom the and to escape a well ran from ills and un- der the 111" father and hearing Hie boy hid taken crept under to bring him As he approached on his hands and Tommy she His Trial tor Complicity Hie fur tile Newton John Ball I live in Wilkes 8 this Ride of 300 or 400 from James I live miles from Solomon John Adams lives from my three Two men came lo my house ou June 17th. They enquired the way Lo the graded Sloop I live in two miles Horn John Two men came to my house one voke me up and asked the way lohn They gaye me a quar er of a dollar to show them the to ihe They were never at any other I had beard i day or two before the murder ol Miss John T live two miles from Lige Church and Dockery were never at my house to They never ran n switch n my They never me my I live in a house built hewn ceiled inside and There is no nole nor auy way by which a switch could be stuck in. Cross examination I hnd talk Jim Jones a tew days after the I told him two men passed my house one night aud heard oue we or shall we go across ihe I never heard that I was charged until Sheriff Church came to arrest me. I did not tell that I had heard of it. I did idi to kill any witness against i but said if I was sent to the and ever got I would I did not make an to kill Dockery while under I did not send word to Jim xei to keep his wife at home fin God's 511 i W. A. I live about 3J from Lige I a named lie left home sun rise ou thp to lo He Walker's In to j he would to go by j I at j I saw Harrison Dockery thai inv bj the n Ihe dii of his -on brought bai k a suck uf I feel certain that it was because I wanted the Hour tor the approaching meeting at Mt. aut meeting which embraced he second Saturday and Sunday in J u n e. Cross examination I am uot tive that it was Harrison Dockery I feaw on the 10th of Gilson On the 10th of June 1 went up to Wilson 1 Elijah Saw lison near the called me and got iu the wagon and rode with me to the Blue I stopped at Wilson got some went on to Wilkesboro and brought some goods back for ery never rede with me at any other Wilson I live half a mile from Elijah I am a On Friday before the second Sunday in June I got to baul a of goods from Emily Dockery I am tbe er of Harrison I saw him get in Gilson wagon the he hauled floods for Wilson This was Friday before the ond R. A. Rector I saw Harrison ery on Friday evening at still The next day I started to I stopped at night in I beard of the murder about 10 o'clock I never saw ery afc the afc any other F. C. Ellis I saw Harrison ery ab distillery on tbe of Laura Han is T live iu Wilkes on about two miles from Lige I saw Lige Church aud Harrison Dockery pass our house on Thursday June 9th. That day I went to my passing Lige Church's between 9 and 10 I saw them at work in Church's That afternoon I saw Dockery afc the same place at work by I passed Elijah Thursday and Mrs. Dockery asked me to go to meeting with her on Sfa which was tbe second day in I did not go to my un- but once that My at- tention was called to the fact Dockery and Church at work that day after about 3 weeks from that The new ground was about 200 yards from the Sidney I saw Lige Church at work on the 10th of about 2 3 and made an agreement turn go to distillery to get n dram that 1 went to the distillery aud saw Church there Lite iu the Jonathan r live in Wilkes about miles Lige I PR i IF Lige Church ou the 9th, 10th, or of as. I went to his father's after some cradles which iie had fixed for me. I met Sidney Summerland ou the same Lewis Welsh Lige Church and rison were at my house on Thursday or Friday night before the June They came to my house late at night and gave me a drink William Beatly I live in Wilkes I know John He has a good I have never seen any place about the jamb which a switch could be stuck in. Ephraim I never had any talk with Lige Church and Harrison Dockery below about ing Thompson's Never ed with them anywhere about that I never went with Church down to Thompson's two weeks I was never 1 went with to and then to I for Ferauson from March to about Ihe of 1 then went to and drew a three months Came back in about four 1 sold the check to Mr. lor got two five dollar gold aud some greenback aud never trot any money from Lige never Harrison Dockery if he had his share ot the I had a with Lige Chuich diew a pistol on me about live 01 six yeara and 1 was arrested in by and Cross exam million I left on of and had not heard of the oi -on before thai I was working at up to that The I heard of ihe murder from a mau by the of who thill nud Harrison were of her and that been This was some lime in I have i ti d three au 1 1 have uot been I live in Am a I uu 818 check om Davis some time I paid him 910 in gold and some greenback and J. Ferguson I live in Wilkes I a stork faim 18 miles Davis was wui king for me in lasl He for mo up to During that time he went by my clock and said he was on lo He came hack iu a few days and had some gold and some I trot n ten dollar gold piece from J. O. I saw John Adams 8100 or Slou some time His is very He always meets hip character is John Hampton I know John Ad- 1 general For aud honesty it is In 1SG4 1 sold him about 690 of old About two laier I him ot the same Many oilier witnesses with repaid to character wore wus thr The of guilty was returned alter which the pronounced Uavis he con- in lor of his The counsel for the and the Monday was removed to the to be until he can give bond for his appearance at the next term uf A 111 i U e. has a which is something to be thankful for in these dull days of monotonous Two years ago a arrived in that and secured em- as a He resented himself as being a Westein was prepossessing in and his general manner was rather He soon won the confidence of the appointed to a municipal and finally a respected young Last week the fact became known that the mau was an having served a term iu our State We rather regret as the tion was so tardy iu reaching it ever got there at The young man had made friends by con- ducting himself in a creditable aud bis future might have for the disgraceful Instead o stealthily leaving when hi history became it would have been better for him had he bravely met the charge aud fairly admitted the promising to redeem his ter bv exemplary conduct in the luture A Profound It is the opinion of gists that the mind is always active even in that this is true not only of the human but of tha modicum of mind bestowed by the Creator on And this is given as the reason why birds are enabled to roost among the and by the unconscious use of their to maintain equilibrium the swaying An incident red in this place recently which to prove that the sleep of turkeys a least may be so profound as to destroy consciousness A turkey gobbler belonging to a citizen of this town was found dead ou the ground below where had been roosting His neck was and the bility is that whilst asleep he lost h. equilibrium and fell headlong from striking his head on the groom and breaking his Mr. the Washington cor- respondent of the Augusta writes the following letter to his date of March 9th. in to a made in the United Slates Senate the other day by Senator Junes of Jones in a opposed to as well as Chinese immigration most remarkable speech of the day was made by Mr. Jones ol He went a long way beyond either Miller or Teller in planting self squarely upon the platform that this ife a white man's and would be all the better if it were pui of all dark Lift proved that the Chinese were not an inventive adept at the pilfering of the discoveries of Western where it suited their None but favored nations like the Caucasian can free The Chinese know uf The people of the Pacific coast would not recognize the equality of Orientals to please New England scouted that the Bible unity ol race in the com- mon acceptance of that as plied the Massachusetts The pursuit of happiness might be an but it must not cross tiie line of another man's happi- The Chinese were not diffused in this but massed in one part ot it. Chinese cheap labor not au lilting up can a American labor had to de- scend to Chinese conditions or noticed that the people who were so much in love labor de- were also advocates of a protective The American borer of the future would an open not but ti labor find poverty are China bail the most cheap aud was the poorest in the England built the only in and that was torn up ihe There is no without The forces of nature are till quickened by the wand of A pollutes a man would welcome lo if not The country would j be belter orl without They j were and are a curse to the and j the South would be incalculably better j she could lid of them r. men would settle in aud make her neb and powerful iit for the presence of the bhu The negro made labor and kept while at a Anybody who ibis em Denied was le lo predict that jin would never again rule am Common ratre a dismal had to an edict of in this country but God was not Omnipotence had made the white man thp It H one thing to aspire to and another thing to have the to maintain in the if left to could not ve their freedom lor ten They would miii barbarism from which had No would ever been to this country It the iic bad ever ol the jl their cnh The would be nil belter nil than the Ninth if i as j in This to Republican but be did not cut e if it vi II as the aud he stuck to it. have excluded the in Ihe wisdom will exclude the because are more dangerous than the All dark races are obnoxious to white He lace troubles and did uot want another civil war but there would br trouble enough without his stirring it. The negro question at the South was no more settled now than when the first gun was tired at speech fell like a bombshell into the Republican but there was no reply to It is oue of the revenges of that the Pacific ators who hail once helped fasten the 14th and 15ih amendments upon the prostrate South were appealing to that section to come to their and protect them from their own in at makes all things A Republican iu the year 1882, has risen in his seat and boldly announced that negroes ought never to have been allowed to vote that their presence is a curse at the South that the white man's is the only one fit for the re- public aud that reconstruction was a blunder and a crime And not in that on the Republican dared stand up aud challenge this bold aud startling Even Hoar sat mum aud If Jones has uot sounded the alarm that rings like a fire bell in. the I would like to know the meaning of his What will come of it we shall soon But it needs no sage to rise from the dead to prophesy that either the Pacific coast is drifting to or that the Republican party is about to is heaven's best gift to man sin sweetly smiling on dough he prudence Una boon by jt of Opinions About I am a peur old Mont much and little F likes to hear de papera read and as I am M vote I thinks I as much right to my matters and things iu as any other So included to write you a short letler as you are mighty good to put in de letters from de ami rind you a of People up m dese parts to think a sight oh DE LANDMARK and 1 hean heap ob clem say soon as m out to ob de cheap trash dat bin is gom Im DE dar is some mighty and squeamish 'bout tu de and from somehow sorter think its dignity hut E guess don't think to take good I papei is to take de day in dese J over In de ob a Sunday and Mars Gus lo read do foi me. 1 heard in in read tother dav whar Mars doun in and fji in bin iu to see Mr. ut Big at and it said had a good talk wid him and after cum doun to de hotel it was i ound Mr. Arthur was gwine to have de old out like dey out Old last Veil see dey 'bout millions oh old debt lorde old Nou wants de old biate out and dey seems to think dat Marts Billy Johnston and Capt. Puce IB de proper men fer du I a of Billy lie was round up iy dese de and he put up wid my old Mars and he thought de world oh De fact oh de is lie is a mighty clover gernman and 1 should be proud to see him up j under at de m Washington bv de side ob Mars Zeb and Capt. he'd suit mighty to till for 1 he will lo tired hy iie limu his time is Den I as Mais Billy and Capt. Pi ice has amu do law dat it he hut dat should be To de de Dey are lo net tie law at Washington and we men to it I was sorter hopen dat niter we gib dem sich a de law and hul it seems UOU dey lo keep in de whole II m r head dat its better foi de u hole country if could make heker like we to do when me and mv old in de old didn't hah any white mau oil us and didn't hah all dem copper pipes and brass locks and for all de licker lo inn has a mau call a lo watch dav or two he open a loom and iu he to ill aw and lie lakes will him a Indian pipe and puts to HUB end mid puts tother end in the bat IT I and gives R Buck to start the laker lo and 1 that lie srives o or big allows no hf out oh his Dey ar oil d an old dalles turn near lo a hou lieker dey uou dem pipes and ot ks don't taste like the sweet mash dat me aud oltl Mars used I should mighty to see de law put on 1 nou 75 years old and 1 se always bin used to bavin a leetle drap of a and tic ole she's to de spells in de r ob de and I lias to a on for I told Mars I going to let you have my notion of things m he vised me Lo do so. I hope it will get you many 1 will iet you hear me agin soon and you will me lor 1113- signing myself Your Uncle NOAH March 13, u Buby A Kentucky visiting her rose m her to the bed where her sister aud her band were took sleeping baby and carried it to her own The parents waking after awhile and missing the were greatly aud the search the somnambulist was when discovered what she had The only explanation was that the visiting sister dearly loved the baby and ed to in her illicit Many miserable people drag about with fueling that nre sinking Into their by using Tonic they a with thu close and vitality anct and surely to ro the Now York A sub-committee of the House com- on the expenses of the Garfield funeral has been engaged for some time in auditing the and the tal amount may at any time be report ed to the House with a request that tlie money be appropriated and The committee has sat privately its work of unless the public or some one in Congress de the details of what seems to have been made a shameless orgy will never become public as they The total amount of the expenditure is about This is for the payment of bills presented by members of the House as your ent whether they were officially of the funeral cortege or To judge by the bills for whiskey cocktails aud cigars the emn occasion would appear to have been made a hilarious and disgraceful scene of debauchery ou the part ol those the Oue item as your correspondent i of paid whiskey and cigars and Three hundred dollars are charged for aud there are said to be nearly as bad as though loss iu It is re- here that the piess was very and peremptorily ex- cluded from the funeral Even the reporters for the associated press were refused leave to accompany the The Philadelphia mentions Mr. J. A. Wai to u of 12IJ N. Twelfth Ihitt an of Jacobs Oil KATEN OF 1 3.SO 3 6.00 fl 8.00 1 1 6.00 8 8.00 12.00 1 13.rO M Column 1 6.10 3 e 1 3 20.'0 6 1 60.ro 1 6 1 l iu itno of to the New York HP The Republican caucus having de- that there shall be no or at any tale a verv trivial one in the internal and the Republicans having also determined that there shall be no reduction in the tariff or nal it results that unless thin policy is broken down by the revolt of some the will be condemned to for two years taxes in excels of all the of the government to the amount of head of an entire or from every maa who has a and three This of aggregating per which Republicans have thus openly mined shall continue to be extorted from the for two yeans to at the will be wasted on jobs and The lobby is here ready to swallow it all Southern war claims and subsidy have crowded to and expensive sending around wine arid using other ments to smooth the way for them i share of the plunder which the Re- publican leaders have now avowed heir intention to continue' to force rom the Meantime the policy of maintaining he taxes unreduced does not Republicans who as does Mr. the chairman of ways nud means that the re- duction of which is be long an excessive in- come will require changes so sudden and so momentous as to convulse our industrial and commercial These are in the judgment of many persons be is Mr. Kelley's plan for reducing the is to abolish the entire internal revenue Hip ed to your correspondent is that a t eduction of the tariff will cause an increase of the revenue from that and that to abolish 'the inter- nal taxes entirely and thus free the lands of homo producers to that ex- tent will not imperil the but will enable them to bear such ions in the as are inevitable in the future would be required to increase ihe revenue from 1'heio is sound sense and ship in hut whether Mr. will endeavor to put them in a shape is not His party have by a caucus de- given him and the ways and committee a very rude They have told Mr. as of the ways and that he is to leaye the taxes as they ind that they will tolerate no from him or his committee to re- lieve ihe tax payers or to decrease the Mr. Kelley has said and what many men agree that ibis policy is ruinous to the best of the but the reply to Mr. Kelley comes from the which wants high taxes because it ivants to fatten on the Mr. Kelley has ou many honorably defied party dictation whero he thought the country's interests were at lie will in this once follow his own judgment of thp country's necessities or whether be will submit to the f the Republican caucus remains to but if he does the latter hs well up his post as man of ihe ways aud for the do not mean that he shall do more than sit still aud keep his mouth A Vile New Haven Jehiel Jasper strolled into the cery store and of one of our buck country villages and after standing around with his back to the tiie he was permeated with said I guess I'll read the news aud get along toward come and he stepped behind the as was his to take it out aud read it. let you see it. said the has sued orders that any postmaster who a to read a sub- paper will lose his You don't tell if that ain't a great idee It's a put up gol conspiracy between these ere newspapers and the merat to keep the multitude in so lhat they can domineer it over the And they talk about this a free It's drifting right into despotism as fast as it can. How in a man to know what's on if he don't now the government's down on all ideas of away that not so bad as said the ment does not say anything against your subscribing for tha paper you 1 for it What take me D'ye suppose that I'm to subscribe for a paper that I've read fourteen years right the stove without costing me a I ain't a to help 'em to oppress me by me in And having got a cheap plug tobacco on the be mogged thoroughly op- pressed An Injunction Home months ago a party sued out an injunction against his restraining him from sowing Johnson grass the petitioner alleging the grass would spread over the adjacent country and destroy the land for The Chancery Court granted the The case was then carried up to tho Supreme Court of the State aud the in- junction was grass is probably what i3 known iu North Carolina as Means
