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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1896
Page
2
In Hillsborough on March 21 1896 Mayor Russ conducts a Raleigh police census with results due April 10. The Durham Sun predicts North Carolina’s next governor will be from Durham and favors Julisa S Carr or another straight Democrat.
State tax rates total 20 cents on the dollar for general purposes and 18 cents for schools. Total 1895 assessed value stands at $255,946,998 with 933,137 in general expenditures. State debt includes 1910 4 percent bonds at 3.3 million and 6 percent bonds mortgage backed by North Carolina Railway stock valued at 2.72 million. Population in 1886 is estimated at 1,719,000.
A Cincinnati Gazette excerpt urges prompt treatment for colds with Chamberlains Cough Remedy and warns of hidden dangers from minor illnesses. It also reports Col Julian S Carrs Newbern fair speech praising his patriotism and potential as North Carolinas next governor.
Review notes a claim for a kidney and bladder cure named New Great South American Kidney Cure. It allegedly relieves urinary pain, retention, and back pain rapidly for both genders. Sold by W A Hayes, Hillsboro NC. Also mentions Grant Monument fund collection and a skin salve sale with a money back guarantee priced at 25 cents per box.
The piece vows a straight Democratic ticket and platform to defeat fusion with the Populists. It denounces Mariann Butler and Dr. Mott as masquerading as Democrats and urges loyalists to oppose any ticket that harms the national party. It calls for unity and warns against mixed loyalties.
In a Lexington Leader item, Brother Wilkins stands before the church to confess a drunken excess. He admits he had more than he could carry and regrets not waking two loads instead of one.
Ex postmaster D Wiley of Black Creek New York suffered severe rheumatism and hobble with canes until using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He reports great improvement and discarded his canes, claiming the liniment did more than all other medicines. Sold by W A Blayes Drugist at 50 cents per bottle.
A fishing crew of five white men from up Neuse river entered Mary Jeddick's eating saloon at the market wharf and consumed a large meal. They ate 89 biscuits 5 muffins 6 pounds of beef steak 8% pounds of pork steak 20 pieces of shad 1 dozen eggs 4 pounds of sausage and 25 half pint cups of coffee at 25 cents per meal.
A dated advertisement promotes Goose Grease Liniment promising relief for all aches for anyone skeptical, with a money back guarantee if it fails. It lists E. A. Rosemond of Hillsboro as seller and the Goose Grease Liniment Co of Greensboro, N. C., and mentions Fitzgerald Georgia as a young growing city of about 8,000 residents.
An old column advertises Piso's Cure for consumption with repeated claims. It then presents a weekly market report listing prices for wheat corn oats meal bacon flour tallow beeswax butter eggs hides wool coffee sugar sassafras fruit and other country produce with varied per unit quotes. This blend shows health ads beside rural price observations.
State briefs note a 40 pound gold brick stamped at the U S assay office in Charlotte dated the 10th. Other items report ex sheriff J M Monger of Moore working as a convict road laborer for three months in Sanford, Basil Manly Jr injuring a arm in an accident, and Mrs Mary E Reade’s estate valued at 60600 with bequests to Barnum Springs Orphanage Albemarle Presbytery and the Soldiers Home.
A Durham Sun item tells of a young woman who discovers her father’s love letters. She reads them to her mother with a swapped name for humor, provoking the mother to forbid any relation with a young man. The room falls silent as the mother reacts with embarrassment and anger.
A humorous Edinburgh anecdote features Dr Abernethy the famed Scottish surgeon known for brief speech. A woman with a badly inflamed bandage prompts a witty exchange about poultices until the patient finally pays nothing, prompting the quip that she is the most sensible woman he ever met.
The Orange County Superior Court Clerk announces establishing multiple voting precincts for the county. Precincts include South Chapel Hill, North Chapel Hill, Patterson's, Cole's Store, East Hillsboro, University, Creek's Crossing, and West Hillsboro with voting sites and boundary lines defined.
The document describes the redrawn precinct boundaries in Cedar Grove and surrounding townships, defining Carrs Precinct Cedar Grove Precinct and Tolers Precinct with their voting areas and polling locations. It preserves existing Orange County and Leasboro township lines and lists the voting places in Orange county as White Croan Cats in Bent ham Caldwell Insta and Jacksons Shop in Little Rover township noting boundaries remain as prior to the current election law.
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