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D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Owner
TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION.
VOL. XVI.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY 1897.
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in collection.
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leopard, before whose the I
visitor watching Ohio ., meeting in which
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the graceful litheness its .
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THE
M.
A man is
tr bis veracity, is the own -i of a
u Prince, which
mi mat of
ability simply marvelous Accord
to
bis i was presented
b her last
birthday. A few days ago
v some
had occasion to remove the little
pi-mo nod several articles of
furniture the yard. Prince
amused himself by up
on the chairs, and finally touched
piano keyboard by accident.
up bis ears at the
and with one
lapped the keys lightly.
After a minutes he to
have mastered keyboard, and
to piny an air, slowly but
the
at once as
Sweet That
when the
returned his wife related the
was brought in
and before the pi i ii
n t only repeated bis
several popular
airs. The Kensington man is
a frame made to support
Prince's weight, so be may
have both free, and is
that a short time
dog will u it only be to play
but will ii i m
of Richard Dorsey , the
African
United Si at s to
z bar, and has been by
him African word
It seems the of
a certain village which Mr.
was were k pt
in terror for the safety then
drink. Men who drink liquor,
like others, will die, and if there
is no rev.- appetite created, our
counters will be empty, will be
cur coffers. Oar go
hungry or we must
to that of some
more remunerative. The
field or the a if
appetite u moo i After
men grown their
by the periodical incur- ever change in
female be needful
who bore away her powerful missionary work
and any oilier x
make suggestion, gentlemen
that nickels expended in
To the People of
Pitt County.
Our energies have never relaxed. Our
forts have never ceased to the best
selected stock
THE NEW NATIONAL
My of
el rest in
bee I sing
Place I ;
where lime is
which I'm
thee I
I CO y nooks
All b
Thy pay long;
All thy hours of
All red
Come now, my soul to please
Atlanta
Speaker. if
to tempt her feline appetite. Tue
consul, accordingly, resolved to j,,
rd them of this nuisance, lo the
haying he. low from a
from his nil, M r
that be bad interest-
U. a seems
fiendish ; yet. whether
young cuD. ibis cub, which
he adopted, was Under
his the animal so
that he followed him about the I
streets like a dog, and finally
accompanied him on a visit to,
spoken or the tact
the exists only
by recruits from among the
a hundred thousand
. ,, , I must be the constant mot o
When the carriage he . . , ,
j. , . ; ; . , , ,. J of this infamous business, t at a
bad taken stopped in front of one . , ,
of hotels Antwerp,
may grow rich and their
children live in luxury while their
the consul sprang out, D
, , . , , ., down iv the
leaped bun, and two
altered the building together.
Th long Intimacy winch bad
depths of degradation and
a ought to
existed between them prevented I
the Steps lo protect their
a whom the
-t Crete who fed
the introduction
Several in
have
exercises,
economy. The
is a ma-
of pupils in these
schools are the children of persons
of moderate of
are the children of wry poor
persons. In the ease of girls
particularly, a public com-
frequently
for dross the parents
ill bu which pride
a natural them
i make- We not
there are instances
parents have spent enough
money on school com-
preparations to give
one of children
of a year at
sensation
unique a pet would create among
the inmates of a
in-taut the
flour office was ed, and
were scaling pillars,
clinging to the
while the proprietor, bis
behind a win-
pa peered forth
of expostulations
s tame a urged
Mr.
But explanations and
ranees were powerless to dislodge
such
on and maidens from
Athens was a saint Ex-
H-s better
Her Rebellious
A mother trying to her
daughter three old to go lo
sleep one
yen try to go lo sleep am
she you haven't
I can't help
Professional Cards,
JAM
. All SKi- AT- h W,
V. C
Practice In ail
Many of my friends have
me, . d a few strangers bad the
emit y to write and inquire,
i- it that you s
of your wile as better
i raised him from a , fa ; j
to explain, and u-e the per-
pronoun that the readers
of the Herald better
de-stand me. for-
to be caged i and, after refusing I she is a fortress capable
MERCHANDISE
Seventh, Eighth and Ninth
Nathaniel of North Caro-
and
Massachusetts
several flattering offers for him
from owners of men a gen s, Mr.
shipped him to America
of withstanding any fusillade; I
but a rill i pit with many
-d gaps in comparison, her
Six mouths upon his ls that of a healthy tree
return to the consul and mine
drove out to the gardens to see I a with
his pet, horrified the man in sprout lends hope of
by jumping over the
railing which fenced in his cage.
he exclaimed, rush-
forward. isn't safe to go
so near. The animal is
don't think he will hurt
replied Mr. quietly,
h s arm the
bars.
you broke
the keeper seizing him by both
you you
will arm
Hut at this instant eyes
fell upon his master. Uttering a
hideous cry of joy be
forward, fawning before
tin out his long red tongue
end licked bis extended
fruition, but so frail that, the first
odd wave of despondency
withers it. As a neighbor
she embodies those qualities
expressed in the words of the
o unto others as you
would do to
I am content to do by him as well
as he has done by me, too
frequently fall short of that stand
ard. As nurse she is a Sister of
Charity reared the Garden of
or in a nunnery of
Nazareth, shedding sweet
shine through the sick room; I
both impatient irascible. En-
almost
energy, she is a living typo of the
buy bee; I not so enriched,
am too frequently a drone of
Harry Skinner. W.
A N t v t-h W.
N. C.
Galloway, B. F.
N. C
N. C
Practice in all the
it. i. L. Jambs
I Si C
over
KING'S NEW FOR
world but
for all forms and I beyond beckons her on as a
I k-H-i despondency darkens
b no equal for w hooping my and obscures from
Hay Fever, view favorable the
of Pennsylvania
Trumbull, of
Connecticut.
A.
Fourth
from which to your purchases.
confidently believe and unhesitatingly claim
that ours is the store of all stores in
from which to buy your goods tor the
coming year. sold on time at close
credit prices to customers approved credit,
Goods sold cash at figures that tell of the
wonderful influence of gold, silver or greens-
back. When enter into possession
they are again converted into the best bar-
gains we can buy for the our many
friends and customers. Do not hesitate or be
led away but cone straight back to your
friends who will take care of your
and work the harder to make you a
stronger customer and friend of
straight honest dealing between man
and man. We are the friend of the poor
man,
are friend of you all Comet o see us, we
will serve you to the best of our ability. Po-
lite attention, best of sen ice and honest
forts shall be yours to command at the
Store.
Women. answered the astonished
I professor.
So great is the influence of a; Well, is b- all
woman those thing all his anxious
around her that it is almost
boundless. It is to her friends
come in seasons of sickness and
spite of the
Wrought by the overflow of the j
Mississippi river there stems to
be no for apprehending
any serious i eduction the
of this year's crop.
As compared with the vast area
of the cotton belt the devastated
portion Mississippi valley
Comparatively
though the flood's
; work is grievous the extreme
, it is no of such a character as to
seriously effect the general re-
Indeed the experience of past
years been that early spring
floods instead of catting the
The following are the speakers cotton crops short has frequently
the House made them larger. This is due
from the First Congress to the to the fact that the floods have
I present enriched the bottom land in
partial atonement for having
swept away the first crop planted
have made the soil all the more
productive for second plantings.
Although it is now somewhat late
in the season it is possible for
the Mississippi valley to
redeem much of what they have
Sedgwick, of j planting a second crop of
in the rich deposits of
sediment which the receding
have left their farming
lands.
vi-w these considerations
it is not likely that year's
Te will be reduced. On
Fifteenth if it exceeds the sine of
Clay, Kentucky. last year's thew will be no
B. j for
of
Clay.
J. Taylor, of
New .
second, Au ,
Stevenson, of Virginia. been a close student of
Bell, of us it is to be actually got her consent to a
Tennessee, overage boy, marriage on the arrival o tho
and Twenty sixth A boy will tramp miles
iv. P. of
happened and may
happen
of Small Coy.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
f t great leavening
loot alum and nil of
to the cheap
York
Scheming for
plenty of women u
observed a
Oregon politician, who is
here to see that the State is not
forgotten the way of patronage
it is within the memory of
of us when women were
very scarce there. We gave it
out that we them for
school teachers and the he, and
encouraged to come out
there, the truth was the men
wanted them for wives. I
once we sent a young man to
where ho was
well acquainted, with orders to
women and to
escort them back to We
guaranteed every one of them one
yearn employment The active
man matter was a tine
looking young
served two terms in Congress
from our State. He spout two
months in selecting the party and
West with them. On the
trip out he courted one of the
school on bis own hook
at Portland. The boys
rabbit hunt and Do bowled considerably about it.
M. T. I limber the evening, when If yon claiming that
the Of the mail, I Banter, of Virginia, and John him to go tho them unfairly
dear said the
professor, yourself; your
sorrow for help and rt. is perfectly well. I saw
soothing of her kindly hut a moment
hands wonders tho I said tho almost
child; words let fall woman, notice
from her tips the ear of a peculiar about Did
sister do to
the load of grief that is
its victim down to the dust in
The husband
home worn out with tho pressure
o business
with world in general, bu
when be outers sitting-
room and sees the of the
bright tire meets his wife's
smiling face he in a
moment to the southing influences,
On,
he look as he ought to
did ho, did
Just then Sylvester
strolled around the corner
the new trousers on, to the intense
relief if his wife the other of Indiana.
professor. Forty-fifth and
, V . Samuel J. of
Way to Cure B, port era
While, of Kentucky.
of Virginia.
W. Davis,
of Indiana,
U.
of Massachusetts.
of
Georgia.
second
Linn Boyd, of
Thirty-fourth Nathaniel P.
Banks, of Massachusetts.
C. O.-r, of
South Carolina.
of New Jersey.
Thirty-seventh A.
of Pennsylvania.
Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and
Colfax, of
Indiana.
Forty -first.
O-
Maine.
Kerr.
ho had treated
having first
borrow a I inch be will choice, but there was a lot of tine,
stiff as a meat bock. marriageable material left- Some
I course he will. And he will go
swimming all day and stay in the
Tho Albany tells a
story of two reporters,
ma.
which act as balm of who were sent by
bis wounded spirit We are
all worried with combating
realities of life. The rough school
boy a rage the taunts
disappointment. The day is never of his companion to find solace in
Grip;, in the Head
and It is for all
ages, pleasant to lake, and, above all,
a sore Ill's always we J to take
Dr King New Life Pills in connection
might show. Thus in all the
nobler attributes of life towers
above me as the forest above
the mother's smile; the little one,
full of grief with its own large
finds a haven rest on
its mother's breast j and so one
may with instances of the
influence a woman
has in the life which
she is is
the city editor of a certain news- I
paper to a Suburban town to
W. of
Ohio.
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth
water three hours at a time,
dive, the next morning be
will that the in-
has been him when ho
is told by Ins mother to wash his
fact; caret illy, so as to leave
the cf the ebb flow so
plain to be soon bis gills.
ho will r about bed of a
dry crook all the afternoon piling
up p. pebble fort and nearly die oft
when bis big sister him to
Pick up a basket of chips for the
stove. ho w ill spend
the biggest part of a day trying to
a mule for a ride, but
feels life's charms have fled
when he comes to drive the cows
homo. he'll turn a ten
field up down for ten one inch
angle worms, wish for tho
voiceless tomb when the garden
demands attention- But all
same when you want a friend
will stand by you cf
the boys.
Dead Girl's Locks a Parlor
that demonstrated
that human hair grows after
was discovered in
N Y. There lives in
B-
with as stunted bush Daring insignificant when com-
tone the stomach SOU i- I .
bowel, w e guarantee I. et cent companionship of over pared bars.
or rt-l Free trial one years
pet John
cents
E. T.
X, O. s.
X.
given to .
and of
n.
N. C.
O and Counselors at Law
i Tact ices in all the Courts.
A for Gov.
papers announced that
Governor will not
the in New at
the dedication of the Grant
Could Lo be
as hi was at the
of by his staff,
who did not go in the procession,
State for
expenses i This is era of re-
and reform, you know.
I have been
sensible to these superior
ties, and I have boon always
honest enough to say so. She
Mail
Thomas Heed.
write up the burning of c n orphan
asylum. Late that when
the news editor was
why no about the fire was
coming by wire, a telegraph
messenger in banded
him a dispatch He it
read i
Sin We are here. What
shall we
It was by the names of
the two men sent tie m
fire.
that town a family named Howe.
those women are today the
leading ladies tho society of
the Mote than three-
fourths bundle were mar-
inside of three years and
in any in less than year. A
few of the lot, are
school there today, not
that they did have any offers,
but they would not
accept any of tho fellows who
offered Now that
Mitchell has about given
up his contest to return as Sena-
tor, he likely be succeeded
by a gentleman who married one
of the party of school teachers to
which I refer- He will bis
wife here with him, and
Washington folks can see for
thorns-jives the kind of ladies we
hail out there for school teachers.
i surpassed, even if
I may be
an intuit though, for
it happens that my wife was one
of the Star.
veil to-do farmers. had u
, -i -i o, sue
and Fifty-third- S companionship-
Chas. Crisp, of Georgia. hair. hen
, , ; , ,,, . , she was stricken with a fever it
a was to cutoff her locks.
Finally she died was buried.
After two years the parents de-
What Her.
It pleases her to be called a
sensible little woman-
It pleases her to a
well dressed woman.
It pleases her to told that
is
It pleases her to be told that
she improves a man by her
The Mount Lebanon Shaken have to tO
vented a many valuable j another place. Tho grave was
v were first brooms by. , ,, , ,,., ,. ,.
machinery, the first CO put up seed in opened. It was found that
The news editor made a few
remarks, which, while
appropriate to the d
not look well in print; then wrote
combines i
quality, in her
assumes the mother,
wife, sister, friend- All in all she
is the of my eye, my best
beloved in whom am well
Such is my wife as
see her have her all
these years- She condoles nay
finds excuses for my
with me
and strengthens mo in
Professor
chased a pair of now trousers
wore them to the university, says
The Baltimore Sun. wife,
who was well aware of his absent
minded habits, knew nothing of
the purchase. An boar or go after
Sylvester's arrival at
tho his wife was
lushing breathlessly the
i street a package
arm.
a telegraph Plank this
out whore the fire is hot-
test and jump
cut , , f .
Now they are eat with method of
hair hail grown to roach
It was as bright and
It pleases to depend on
man nod she is
ruling him.
It pleases her to be treated
and with respect,
to be talked to reasonably.
It pleases her to be treated
sensibly and honestly, to be
oaring dyspepsia by resting the stomach glossy as though its wearer war,
at the i wore cut off. measured
W ho cares for expenses I
not our able and willing j Hence I say ; such she will
to pay for the Governor's staff ever be to Green
having a good
Sun.
the
ton, Ind. Sun a
prescription
and I it tor
ion and us
It no
Mrs,
Ave, was all run down,
could not eat nor food, hail
mum the digestion of other, g f t They wore put into
foods in the In other word,
a glass case in Mr- Howe u home.
where they are to visitors.
the use e Shaker Digestive
a virtually get along
Hie ii.-.- of Ills stomach until n
hi restored to its and
vigor. A cent bottle
give marked relief. Get a
bottle from your druggist and try It.
New York Press.
The Japan have a
it the best for method of pass out tickets,
it in place i which positively transfer-
Oil. I , , ,
able. When a person to
leave tho before close
Mrs. Jewell, aged the with the in-
and of returning, lie In
. , in the and hold out his
Meeting one of the professors, headache which sever left her and felt I This is Mrs. Jewel's fifth
but six bottles of matrimonial and she is
consulted and questioned, and not
to be treated a butterfly, with
no bend nor heart.
It pleases her to be loved and
admired by a man who is strong
to and subdue her
and bis way her way ; to
and take of her.
she hastily and Bred and weary, but six bottles of matrimonial and she is
. ii Electric Bitters rest her health and arid to mother of
you seen Professor no
at J. L. Women's
right Lain . The then,
with a rubber imprints on
the palm the of the
A in George
county woke up the
other night found his
in flumes-. Although bis two
were asleep in their bed,
his thought was of bis house-
hold effects. Twice carried
out as much ho
thou went back lo wake the child-
ran. He was caught by the fire in
the house with them and all three
were burned to death.

THE REFLECTOR
Greenville. N. C.
and
Entered at the poet office at Greenville,
N. C, as second class mail matter.
1897.
EDITORIAL
The U. S. Judge-ship has at last been
-tiled, plum falling to T. K.
Sc Judge Robinson will have to
continue in his position on the Superior
court bench.
The quarterly of th i
n all banks in State, just
completed, makes the loll. in.- show-
The .
resources; the ii- banks
the private
and the C bunks
total, banks and HO
The total loans and discounts arc
United States b Kid l I L
State
and securities j w the man who makes
WASHINGTON
, Our Regular
Washington, April
The gentlemen engaged in attempting
to organize a revolt in the House
against Czar Reed's Way
of things have zeal, will, brains,
fact, everything but the
one thing necessary to succeed ; votes
to outvote Reed's supporters-
There is lots of talk about a large
of republicans bring ready to
join the revolt, but if brought to
an issue it will be found the -large
will be a or
possibly as many as twenty at the
outside. This being the ease it strikes
me that these gentlemen are, with the
best intentions, waiting that might
be put to a use than raising
expectations that cannot be realized
among those who are not fully ac-
with the situation in the
House. That there are enough
in the House who are at
heart opposed to Reed's policy and
to make a majority of the
Mouse when combined with the demo-
mid populists is probably true, but
l.-y all the best committee assign-
they can get and are not going
silver all other
The capital stock paid up
aggregates
undivided profits
deposits Dotted
States deposits
PLAIN BUSINESS TALK.
The following advice from the Win-
Journal to the ladies of the twin
city is equally applicable to oilier towns
ill the State, is scarcely one of
them which is not guilty the lolly
complained And in some
dependent for patronage
upon those who live in this community
are equally as apt as the women to
send away home what they
buy ts equal advantage from the
home merchants. It is more than
probable that persons here in
c under the category named by the
Journal, which is entirely right when
it says ;
wish to say a word to the Indies.
II tiny you are in the habit
out town to buy your pretty gowns,
or other we would ask you to
lake advice cf Punch and
Why Well we will try to tell you. In
the list place right here in our towns
Winston and Salem there are as live,
wide awake merchants, with just as
and stocks of
goods as you can find anywhere in the
country, and they will sell you just as
good material at just as reasonable
prices as you can but
this .- not the chief reason why you
should do your trading at home. The
prosperity of your town upon
the prosperity its business men,
course. We are naturally dependent
upon each other, Bad every dollar you
send to New York, or
merchants is unjustly
your dealer the money,
provided he keeps in stock what you
and he nearly always d
to carry the id a a little farther, in
our plan mutual interdependence,
iii all deals with
hose they also want
the administration, and
they know that is in favor
of Reed's policy. Enough republicans
Majority of the House will
Reed, regardless what they
think.
Mason, of Illinois, this week
his record in Senate as a
by making a speech in favor
of his resolution rule, in
which he the that
august body and charged its
with caring more individual p
than public welfare. Referring
to the failure to act on the Morgan
Cuban resolution he said that it was
to tear down the golden god
of the Senate rules in order to act, and
cl teed by saying would not scuttle
old ship, but I would like to put
her in dry dock enough to have her
bottom
While no gold has
appointed to a prominent place by
he is showing his
gratitude to the gold democrats by
allowing a ; umber cl them to remain in
very desirable Conrad N.
Jordan, Assistant Treasurer of the
United Slates, at New York, is a con-
example, although Senator
and the entire New York machine
made a hot right for his place
II. Roberts, a republican. Jordan
was in this week to renew
his bond that expired at
midnight on the His renewal
of the Lend makes it certain that he has
been assured of his retention in office
for an indefinite period, as a reward for
a gold democrat. And the same
policy is being pursued towards
Johnson, of the
of Engraving; and Printing; ex
Representative Illinois.
Internal Revenue, and
others who fill less imports.
The professional office holders -those
who have been in office b.
secured about nine tenths of the pie
up lo date by
which to that experience Is
or in some way mows money, in .-------
of business, into the hands of as necessary in seeking as in any
father or o other, or husband.
Then is it lair to your home dealer to
scud away to a foreign merchant for
something your local tradesman may
have in stock Why not let him
o. it you Even it he does
a small profit on it will not amount
to more, than or freight.
number that the botcher and the biker
depend upon candlestick
all o them the merchant and he
upon them. Then be patriotic
appreciative to spend your
money at home and let's help to build
up those that us up and in that
way we may build up a town greater
even than we dream now.
F. BAD
to
calling the attention of
Superintendent the convict an; l
the needs the loads from
Swamp to Creek. It is
dent these roads have merit and
to work, but is very much
n error when he says the roads two
miles around Greenville are good
They are simply dreadful in some sec-
The Tarboro toad on the south
side Tar River is in very bad
The road opposite the home o
Col. Sugg has been, and is now
impassable, and unless the overseer
the or some other means are in-
there will be some calamitous
sooner No objection to
having the convict gang do as much as
possible to relieve the county cost
and do the roads good, hut they can do
nine, good work near town for quite a
while yet and at I- cost. X.
It is believed that the farmers o
North Carolina will this season use
gone worth at
and most of the money will out
the State. Of the sold in
North Carolina less half is
in the State and even of
those made here the raw material U,
for most part, obtained where.
It can readily be seen what a drain
the is upon the
cultural wealth the
Times.
other business; but that doesn't
disappointment inexperienced
alter pie.
Senator Morgan has given notice
that he would insist a vote next
Week upon his resolution the
the . y the Cuban-.
The can command a
in the Senate ad right, but there it will
stop, unless Czar Reed sees fit to allow
the House to do some business ct this
session outside of the tariff bill and the
left over appropriation bills-
The adverse decision b- the I. S.
Supreme t m the ease of Chapman
the New x broker who refused In
in the Senate sugar
scandal investigation, leaves Chapman
with only one hope of escaping the
thirty day jail Sentence imposed upon
him when he was found guilty of con-
tempt in a Washington curt. That is,
in his being pardoned by
Strong pressure is being wrought upon
to issue a pardon
Democratic have been
that it they would not force Senator
Vest's resolution, declaring the action
of Secretary Gray in issuing orders for
the enforcement of the retroactive
cf the tariff bill be illegal, to a
vote, that clause would be either made
or entirely before
the bill is reported the Senate. This
confession that the clause in question
was merely put in the bill to blurt
porters is not surprising. It never had
advocates in the Senate.
The Devil's Fur Servants
devil has a great many servants
They are all busy and in all places.
Some so vile looking that one instantly
turns away from in but
some are sociable, insinuating and
plausible that they almost deceive at
the elect. Among latter class arc
to be found four chief
Here are their
No
This
and
All four cheats and liars. They
mean U cheat you out heaven, and
will do it is you to
CITY AND THEIR
PREY,
an Occasional
There are thousands of people
who live in the city by robbing
people in the With the
approval of the editor I propose
to explain some of these robbing
schemes and, perhaps help some
readers to make money by s
it.
One reason why city swindlers
are so thrifty because
who have been duped by them
are ashamed to expose their own
simplicity in being
also because involves
trouble and expense.
The head of a notorious
in Washington Las been
heard to remark that a is
born every minute and that be
looks the as Ilia
particular prey. There on an
average about
each week the name and
address of every patentee is
published in the
Gazette. This gives the patent
sharks in Washington, New Yo k,
Philadelphia, Chicago,
and other cities and wester
towns access to the ear of Hi
They send him
so cunningly prepared ho
thicks they have been written
expressly to him they confirm
his that he has a fortune
in his patent. Their proposition
is to sell the on commission
usually per but the
inventor must -2 to
for It
tor is green and will
them money, which he would
better burn, but if ho is sensible
he will barn their circulars. These
people never sell patents, never
even try to sell them whether
they for the
bulk of the money will fro
their Some of them may
pretend to try to sail the patent
in order Hint if you bring
against them they may defeat
by showing an advertisement, but
do not deceived by
that they wish to work for a
commission. To their
game, offer thorn of the
money in advance, that you will
double, triple, their
commission, or even give them
ninety-nine dollars in a hundred
and see how quickly will
you This will prove to
you conclusively that people
have no intention, means or pros-
of gelling your patent, but
are after the fee only.
I do not believe there are any
honest patent sale no
matter what they publish, claim
and swear, men who go into
that must it to
deceive to get money false
pretense. Patent are not sold
by agents, or that way. Toe
large majority inventions that
bold are disposed of to neigh-
friends, partners or backers
of the inventor before patent is
granted or while application is
pending. the grant of
tho investor his
assignees sell territory or form
companies to manufacture or sell
on But the large majority
o patents never bring
anything to tho or owner
but are like tho larger half of
human
Another scheme is o urge
American patentee to
patents, and is one
western firm that pretends to bear
one half the expense of for
a Gorman design pat-
out or provided
they can have the privilege of
selling the foreign patent claim-
to facilities
for selling- The suggestion of
sale is only a bait What th y
call half expenses or is lour
times as much as the German
costs, and nine
tunes in ten it is not worth a
for will never sell it; or think
about it alter they get the
Do not be with the
references that these people give.
They will refer yon to the
agencies and Brad-
but these agencies only
affirm that they have a commercial
rating, that they have money,
they got it by the deception
which they are practicing on you.
Many with good commercial
rating ought to be in tho State's
prison- Do not be deceived by
their references to
Members of
Congress. It is well known that-
some Senators and Congressmen
in Washington will sign
per that is brought them
provided it is not a subscription
list or a check.
The of patents granted
in the United States
on April All
that were granted years ago
have expired and become public
property- the catacombs
of cities afford a more
suggestive lesson to Hit moralist
than the archives of the U- S
Office, for here are buried
the wildest hopes and struggles
of most progressive people.
Not half as many patents have
been granted by any other conn-
try. What does this mean but
that useless and worthless
patents have been granted- It
also that American
so called, has been
over stimulated and lured by
oilers of prizes, medals, riches
and by fictitious tales about the
value of patents- Very few pat-
and still fewer inventions
bring the owner wealth. They
more frequently than
Our government is very remiss
that it does not lay its powerful
hand on these schemers and stand
between rapacious swindlers and
the ignorant u. There is
hope that the present
will make a record in sup-
pressing frauds. A start
has been made in the
Dean Brokerage lottery on the
Fraud list. The appointment of
lion. as bead of the
Patent Office is understood by
to mean that Patent Lotte-
prizes and so called Bale
must
I and owners patents
have been swindled by
sharks of any kind send
complaints direct to the
General at Washing-
ton. He have the case
and, if it can be proved,
the swindler will tie placed on the
I i it. To shout
is a that every man owes to
his country and to hi kind
ORIGINAL OBSERVATIONS.
The is now a subject for
A good name is better than precious
on the back of a note.
After the question s
shall be speaker the house is
speedily settled.
He who stops to Haws in Others
knitting work drops many stitches
his own.
Many innocent looking are
daily charged with a great deal more
than they ever intend to pay.
It is true that of sorrow
and joy are closely connected. When
you your loot with a croquet
mallet there is always somebody who
laughs.
When you hear a young nun say
the owes a you can
make up mind that he owes the
world's enough to balance the
Observer.
STATE NEWS.
The Journal says a
capitalists have purchased tie
Atlantic bole property at forehead
The Landmark says mer-
chants entered into an agreement
to their stores at 7.30 o'clock
every except Saturday
the summer season.
The statement the
lumber mills at Jacksonville,
the largest in the State, would be re-
moved to Georgia, turns out to bean
A monument is to be creel d in
County to the memory six
revolutionary soldiers who were killed
by Indiana and whoso were eat
by Wolves.
The Observer says Robert Swann,
Mar Charlotte, MM his barn and con-
tents, mules, f. horse, gear, feed
and implements by on
Friday night.
L. K- last at
received
op of faith a man ninety two
years ago. is probably the
old st member ever received in the
State by profession of
News.
Alex. Strickland plowed up a a n-it
of young rabbits a few days ago and took
them to the house as a the
eat. lint cat took the little rabbits
into nest of kittens and is caring
Mid little hi
Commonwealth.
A distressing occurred -Men
day morning South West township.
Mr. Clay Hood threw a large piece of
weed out of it wagon, when the four
year old KM of Mr. Will Tyndall ran
Iron behind a pile ; shingle- and
the Wood as it was tailing. It
crushed the head, killing hint
Free Press.
BETHEL ITEMS
N. C. April
Mi's Eleanor Jenkins, of Tarboro,
Sunday in town.
Miss Li Hammond,
pent last week with her Mrs.
S Harper.
Mrs. Bryan who has been vis-
relatives here the pat week re-
turned home today.
Mr. d Mrs. Levi Harris and
spent Saturday night and
n visiting relatives.
M-s. Julius of Tarboro.
is spending this week here with her
lira J. A. and Mrs.
spent last week
Bethel-
M. O. and W. J.
Whitehurst went to Tarboro Friday;
Col. N. II. went to Ply-
mouth Wednesday returned
day-
Mis Knight went to Tarboro
la-t Tuesday.
Mis Mary Knight went to Tarboro
lest Tuesday.
J. A. Dupree, Greenville, spent
of last week here.
Lamb, of Williamston, was
here Friday.
M. O. went u Williamston
on business Wednesday night and
returned Thursday morning-
Julius of Tarboro, spent
here.
II. W. Whedbee, of Greenville, past
through here
D. D. is conducting a
meeting the Baptist church
here.
The colored Missionary Baptists am
j building a piece to their church.
Bet. B. Strand, pastor of the col-
church here, baptized
persons in the Bay pond, Sun-
day morning.
The citizens of the town will hold u
convention night States
Cherry s old store, at o'clock, the
purpose of nominating candidates to be
voted for next Monday.
Tho Kick- r.
a late number of the Kicker we
referred to the of Blue Hill
City as a of lop should-
subsided, cross-eyed absconders
from the laws of other and to
the itself as a iniquity
founded by We didn't menu
anything serious by this. We were
just slinging or that day on our
editorial page, it struck us that a
little metaphor wouldn't be a bad thin;
for Blue Hill. We hid no idea that any
one displeased until we rode over to
that town Hie other day to up
list subscribers. We felt that our
Welcome was rather mistrusted
n thing until we saw a man a n
Then we back into the
an its we got there a crowd
about people made a rash for us
Our mule put his ears back and lay
down to it, and, though a portion of the
mob followed us for live we got
away. There is no question in our
mind we just missed being Strong
up, and we can't exactly make out why
he Blue wanted to do it. Eve
since the days of one has had a
right to use metaphor, and even in this
country the whom you call a liar
always gives you a chance to explain in
use the turn,
Mayor Harding has a day to spare, we
hope he'll come over and explain.
Of the to b-i i
With Church
May 27-30.
M. sermon
F.
Y.
A. Praise
Our town limy j
A. Rood.
What relations should exist
pastor and people ti. L. I'm h.
P. M. Prayer and Praise.
Baptists and E.
Billiard.
The mission of the Church to the
T. Vain.
P. M. Alder.
man.
A. M. Prayer and Praise
vice.
Our Alderman,
W. Powell.
working members
What shall hi; done with
V. Savage, F P. Wooten.
P. ML Prayer aid song.
Question by R. T.
Van n.
P. M. The Duly of a Church
to its young B.
ton.
II A. M. Sunday
A. M. T.
P. M. Sunday school mass
I, and Others
P. M. V. Savage.
A. W.
Greenville, V C.
BAKER HART
-Headquarters for
Hardware,
Truthful Talk,
If yon increase your happiness.
. forget your neighbor's faults. Forget
the slander you have heard. Forget the
temptations. Forget the faultfinding
and give a little thought to the cause
provoked it. Forget the
of your friends and only
remember good points that mike
you loud of Forget all personal
quarrels or histories that you may
have heard by and which, f
repeated, would seem a thousand limes
worse tiny are. out as far
as all the of Hie
they will come, but they will only grow
larger when you remember them, and
constant thought of the acts
meanness, or worse, still, malice, will
only lend to make you more familiar
with them. Obliterate everything
disagreeable farm yesterday, t out
with a dean sheet only lo
have written upon it the pure and
things of lift-Orange
Observer.
Below are Norfolk
and peanuts
by
chants of Norfolk
Rood
Low
Hood Ml
ToneArm.
Extra
Tinware,
Implements,
Hubs, Building Materials, Paints
Oils and Stoves.
Fair Dealings and Honest Goods at Book,
Bottom Prices.
GREENVILLE, C.
t nave a by which Farmers
CHESTS FREE
I e. In Ant 1-
I ;. i i.-u.-. V r. m .,,,. ,. . i i E
Powell A h, I . . d-l. g
i h
n n, and
If not
or Mood
Pills the
the liver, con-
etc. Sold all
The fills to with
Pills
We have never able to see the
wisdom ii the law against
concealed weapons We have I
do still I it disarms the Ian
biding but does not disarm or restrain
the non law abiding. Self
is the law nature, yet the
law seems to us to say to every
man, you shall not enjoy this privilege
Ike evil whom all
know that legal statutes cannot re-
strain. Thursday
night two unmasked with a
pistol in each hand came suddenly
upon five peaceable, unarmed, law
white men covered them
till they them, including a rife.
They then left, that they
would shoot the man that put his
head out the he use till next
trail left. They made their escape-
Concord Standard.
Attempts were made to assassinate
two rulers of nations Thursday
King of Italy and the President of
Uruguay. The attempt on the King
of Italy was male by a workman out
employment, who jumped upon the
King, who was riding in a carriage,
with dagger. The King avoided the
blow the man was seized.
By
C and Commission
Merchants
NEW YORK
June 7.27 7.30 7.30
A g. 7.27 7.31 7.31 7.37
July 7-1
rows
July 8.571 8.65 8.571
July 4.75 4.77 4.75
Notice
On Monday the day of June
I will at tho door
the town of to the highest
bidder tor J. A. In-
in one tract of land In county
containing about. acres and bounced
as in Carolina town.
and known as use Carney
and, to satisfy an execution in
hands for against J.
and which been levied on Bald
land as the property of sail
W. II It
Sheriff.
Notice
On Monday the day of June A. D.
I will at the Court Boats door
in town Greenville to the highest
one tract of in
county containing about acres and
as at Hot
lie corner on at
a lake, with the said
Wilson's western Hue lo James
Cox's land, thence with sail Jame.-
line to the main run of the SWamp
the main run of the swamp
Bead, thence with said
road to the containing SO
acres, more of the
Louis Cox laud that he deeded to bi-
son, Janus II. ox. and vine on tic
road X Roads lo
to satisfy execution in ray bands
collection James Cox and which
has been said land as the prop-
said James II, ox.
W. II.
Sheriff,
By M. Daniel, D. S.
-----DEALER IN
HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES
N- C.
I will the best goods obtainable and
will sell the lowest prices possible. I
will do all I can to obtain hold your pat-
Come and see me.
M. H.
Next u t.
I W. HIGGS.
J. S. HIGGS, Ma.
THE GREENVILLE BANK
. Has m.
Million Dollars, C.
Wm. T. Dixon, President National
Bank, Baltimore, Mil Wt respectfully solicit the
The Scotland Neck Bank. Scotland of firms, individuals and the general
Neck, N. C.
Biggs, Scotland Neck, N. C. Checks and Account Books furnish
R. R. Fleming, N, C. ed on application.
ii you want to see pretty come
in and look at our complete line of
Cheviots, Lawns, Ribbons, Suitings,
Laces, Silks and Velvet- PLAIDS m la-
lest and WE have them.
Land Sale.
By virtue a decree of the Superior
Court made on the 1st
day of April, in a certain
entitled, Cannon,
administrator of the estate of
Bland, Jr., deceased Mary
K. I will Mon-
day, May sell at sale
before the Court lion-e door in
following tracts of land in
Swift Creek township, County,
One tract on which the said The
Blind, Jr. d at the time of his
Heath, as the Cox
the south by the lauds
L. B. Cox, on the west by lands
known as the place, on north
b the lands J. J. II. Cox and on the
by tho lands iV. Cox, con-
acres or less, subject
ho ever lo the dower Mary E.
Bland, ch covers the entire
One other adjoining the lands
K. I. Meyer
Pied Haul it- Cox and others,
more or I and
known as the Place
And an interest in one other tract
situated in Craven county adjoining
lands of Berry Nelson, J. I. Bland,
J. mid others containing
acres more or less and known as the
Bush Terms of sale cash.
This the 2nd day of April 1897.
JESSE CANNON,
of Bland, Jr.,
Equitable As-
S-K-i of the United
States, strongest of all the Life
want experienced agents to
insurance. Liberal contracts will
be given. Apply in person or by letter
n reference to
CO.,
Agent,
q a a low
Ladies and Gentlemen who will
salary guaranteed
or address ,.,.
W, O.
H.
cm
See
Don't forget our
we are setting and want to sell more. Prices
quality is what talks.
H. M.
The Low Merchant
Dealers, Tobacco Hue
and Bicycle Dealers and
Respectfully offer to We are taking orders for
Tobacco Flues
you to come see us.
L I. C.
Hit MO.

FRANK WILSON
The King Clothier,
Get
THE SHIP.
Tickets at
Office.
Captain's
THIS
After selecting from the hand-
some line of Imported Fabrics
shown by Our line of
CLOTHING
for spring and summer is
height of fashion.
We want you all to inspect
this stock of Clothing it will
sorely pay you.
MY LINE OF
Dress Goods, Shoes
is superb and your inspection is invited.
FRANK WILSON
THE KING CLOTHIER.
Jarvis returned Friday
evening iron Wilson.
H. Moore Thursday
evening from
T. K. Roberts, of City,
Friday evening.
Miss went to
Kinston Thursday evening.
of is
I visiting her uncle, J. While.
Mrs. W. T. of Kinston, is
visiting lira. A. A. Forbes.
Miss Mama Kinston, is
Mrs. If. II.
S. H. it turned Friday even-
from visit to Rocky Mount.
Miss Kate Moore, of
is visiting her grand lather, Allen
Warren.
Mrs. A of
too, is visiting lier Mrs. M.
Ii. Dams.
Jo-; Smith, of is in
town adjusting for the southern
Company
J. S. Goldsmith, of is lute
looking after tones for the Hartford
Insurance Company.
Miss Digger arrived from Warren-
ton Tuesday evening and went out to
Grimesland to visit her sister, Mrs. W.
II. Grimes.
P. Elliott and John of
Wednesday evening
t look loss to their building in
Sunday's the.
F. II. Woolen, who has been in New
Yolk for time taking a course in
pharmacy, to Greenville Sat-
evening.
ton if
Harrington, baa bean mound
ca sticks tor a f MS d by a
sprained
Kid lick, of Suffolk, arrived Wed-
lie was the
if the building destroyed
by Sunday's Hie.
W. U. Wilson look nil of his boys,
Walter, Frank,
Call and Plymouth Saturday
to relatives.
Bank Pitt County.
A meeting, attended by a large
of prominent and representative
business men Greenville and Pit
county, was held in the office of The
Greenville Bank, Tuesday, April
at o'clock, and under n charter
by the Legislature of 1897 The
Hunk Pitt was
with the following
R, K. Fleming A. G
Cox, of G. . Cherry, of
Higgs Bros., of J-
II. Cobb, of Dr B. T. Cox,
Jesse Cannon, of Ayden. Dr
W. H. Bagwell, of Greenville, Abram
Cox, of M. Owens, of
ville, G. Cobb, of , it . II.
Harrington, of G W.
of Greenville, E. Lang, it
A. H. of Greenville, Tl
Neck Bank, cl Scotland
of Scotland Neck, W, T
Dixon, of Baltimore.
At a meeting of the stock bolder of
the of Pitt County, the
i in elected
It. Fleming, Jesse A. G.
Cox, J. W. J. H. Cobb, G. J.
Cherry, Dr. W. II. Bagwell, Dr. T.
Cox and Owens.
alter the adjournment
of the stockholders meeting, a Beating
the directors was held and
were elected
It. R. Fleming, President.
A. C. 1st Vice
G. J. Cherry, 2nd Vice President.
E. It. Higgs, Casi
H. Harding, Assistant Cashier.
the Bank o Pitt County will begin
be open to the
ion and of the public on
the 1st day of June 1897, at which time
The Greenville Bank will dose its
assigning all good will and
interest to Bank County.
THE BASK FALL, SEASON.
The National league Opens the Season
Yesterday Under
he Attendance
THE
Local Reflections
It is time to receive y yarns.
A game leg a
The cycling lend is not easily tiled.
ct oil is said to be
light.
I here is said to be a drop in ashing deed had to we r the same old
lines. coal every day, he would never leave
I the
It a artist t- drawl
In a short in
J. M. ha- sold the
it . I-
Herald J. Lassiter.
there is nothing like telling good
A tight
reports show an advance in
prices today.
A large catch herrings is reported
from the sounds.
The aspiring finis no
in getting his baud in.
An oyster boat up Fri lay.
This may the last of the season.
Mis. A. -I- of Durham, who
has been visiting h r A. A.
BOBS
CariL- accompanying her.
C. E. and bride
Nannie of Va ,
have been a days
with Mrs. id's lather, Jes-e
were
manic J at Berkley last Tuesday and
Greenville a tour.
M. representing II. E.
Co., of Chicago,
those popular King's
Discovery, Electric Bitten and Bock-
Salve, was here his an.
anal visit in to Re
the looks us natural as
ever. He says he came in on the air
North
Col. A. Sugg shows us the most
recent statistics, showing that
North Carolina is the second
State in Union,
Kentucky being the .
North Carolina last year bad
acres in Kentucky had
mad-, in
pounds; Kentucky
the North crop.
Miss j the crop.
Avenge price paid in North Carolina
M per ; in Kentucky,
cent, per pound.
figures are Col.
b book 0.1
Cure,
will be of t pi mil intuitS to
tobacconists.
Pill county grows sen n per cent
North Carolina's crop.
, . , . , . I is like good
I lie chap who shoes with nails . . .
. . tor u tone to
pi them often eels stuck. . r
the voice.
Thee was frost this y, u in which
but not u much as yesterday. little ones learn in out the
lite.
The kid wants to know
if every a The devil is never an about the
man whose hope heaven is his wife's
N dear, are church membership.
not those who v carriages. . ,,. .,, . .
be Hone says
The Kid wants to mU CoX
it small cows milk.
Perch have biting in the- has sept a curious
river and the fisherman are alter them, egg to be added to the
It is fell what
egg but it looks something
like a gourd.
Short men longer
than long men who arc always short.
g tackle is being resurrected,
together the same old Bah s.
would were a that I might
remarked the stranded hotel
A dentist la New York advertises the other,
flavored teeth for sometimes the trunk a tree is
sen -d for
burning near
of the smoke in town Thursday
light.
Pretty girls don't
men but they often turn their
heads,
The reports the assign-
Ponder, a
Tarboro.
Business may be all a mat-
of If there is such thing as
luck, but somehow of other the men
who are most are almost in-
variably the biggest advertisers.
A fund is being raised by popular
subscription shirts tor the
Bough nod Heady Fire Company. The
members c I the company well deserve
such a r cognition of services,
ho man who is always looking tor
something new would It if he Some linguist has said the
pneumonia. English language Was
in the that it enabled so
Ho, Maude, dear, the to their real
hid was., t raised en milk. The that
your I 1,1-hi
judge much by appear-
girl with wings in her
hat isn't an
There was a fry at Hell's
seine, three miles down the river,
Thursday on.
N. a player who
steals bases is not a thief, some
day you'll strain your tunny bone.
that baa been
done on the the Court
the of
things.
War between Turkey and Greece is
now on in earnest and it is believed
a number the powers will be
I in it
ill two ago and practiced it in
their platforms.
When bills tome in, and you must pay
For and most gay
Spring bonnet,
lies there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath
it
S. T. Ponder, general freight and
passenger agent of the Carolina
Northwestern railroad was killed while
attempting to get on a at Lin-
on Friday, lie a of
of the Confederate
my.
Woods Fire.
Sunday bright light seen
across the river in a north-westerly
direction In m town. e ham that it
air
was caused a woods in
Fleming's
did some to
OF
Mil. W desire through
your s to express thanks to
members of the Hope Fire Co. and
Hough and Heady Hook and Ladder
Co. for the splendid work they did in
extinguishing the last Sunday
morning, t other of
who so cheerfully rendered their
valuable aid.
Roll of Honor.
For the month ending April
school taught by Mrs. Minnie Manning
in district No.
Willie
ft I'd, James Joe Harris.
Gluts Harris, Carlie Phi-
lips, Phillips,
Lula Smith. Mollie Smith,
King's Sons.
The stale convention of the North
Carolina brunch of International
King's Daughters and
Sons will be held N. C,
May 25th to 27th, 1807. All who wish
to attend will please send an early no-
of the same to the secretary. Mrs.
Davis will attend the convention. Slate
papers to copy this
Miss How Mm, Sec
Tarboro, N. C.
A Fight.
At Hires Bros. Lumber Go's mills
Sunday Hurry
Whit Gray Henry Fleming, all
got into a row Whit Gray
at a pit if pea.-,
when Fleming made a swipe at Cray
with a his eon hut
from to elbow Watson and
Gray then lunges at Fleming
v it Ii a piece gas pipe and a
Fleming run the shanty to
boiler house and there be slopped, but
was attacked again, and lie again moved
as as the rip but Watson
Gray followed and struck him lour licks
with slicks on the arm before he could
get in an blow over Watson's
head a as pipe. Watson being
aid out with a cracked skull, Gray
from the field of b tile.
Thee was a preliminary hearing be-
Mayor Ti Monday morning
Fleming an were bound
r to in bond, they
Free Praia.
Watson over lo Greenville
Tuesday.
A Accident.
A- S. was seriously
hurt, a a ago, while riding a
bicycle between and
V. I Ion. lie was riding the canal
bank and oil, tailing u distance of
la on some rocks. Ills hip was
broken, two fingers dislocated, wrist
sprained, and some other injures re-
He unconscious after th I
full and mil by two young lady
cyclists passing the same road. Dr
Pendleton is sou of Mrs. V. L.
of and has many
friends in who will regret to
learn of his injury.
Sewage by Frost.
Allen Warren a. Son, Riverside
Nurseries, alter made a careful
investigation, furnish the They are good horses and lovers
Race Given Up.
The nice here Wednesday afternoon
between Mary Lee, owned by
Hooker, and Burns, owned by
Dr. S. T. ho.-on, of Washington,
could not be to the finish.
cause Mary Lee
unmanageable and behaved so badly on
the track that tit the end of the third
heat her owners went before the judges
and Rave up the race to Hums.
Washington, Nation-
L-ague baseball season 1897
opened today the various league
cities under pleasing auspices. The
weather was all that l- desired
and the total attendance reached the
enormous figure of
led h The Sena-
tors and Bridegroom were evenly
Batched an, but
wild throw the sixth inning,
home team w aid bare
won.
A New
journeyed to and
saw the s taken into camp to the
tune of to J. Rusk joined the New
Yorkers today. He Is excellent
condition and will begin p act ice with
the team row.
Ai Baltimore, the de-
the Bostons in of
The season Was
opened by a parade of the home and
visiting teams through the principal
streets the city. The procession was
headed by the Fifth band
and drum and following
came a long line of handsome equipages
Manger Treasurer
Der Heist, a host prominent
who are devotees the game and the
players. A float draped in
red, white and blue held the
cup and the pi mints and
The strong Cleveland team met de-
feat the of Louisville,
league. Toe latter out-
played their opponents both in field
and a the The Cl scored
their first and only I he Bret in-
I. ten innings to decide the
game at Alter a hard light
the Reds won by a score to 7-
The smallest crowd th
gathered at St- Louis, where the Pitts-
burg es defeated the
In all cities there was usual
street d-- and conceits the grounds
They Satan
Willis win hail charge the
to purchase .-bins In-
Hough and Heady Fire Company, tells
has been
raised and requests us to return tin-
a re thanks th to the
contributors their
also added, tell the
that the tin b-
toys will be for
eloquence
II WAS
Henry in,
Audience.
Henry Blount, the silver
orator, delivered his
the Alps Lies in Court
House Friday night under Ike auspices
of the King's Daughters. Mr. W. F.
Harding presented speaker in one
most our
people have had the of listen
to. It was a gem and gave the
audience a foretaste of
that was to follow.
Mr. Blount spoke tor about
and moved upon the feelings of
of his hearers almost will. First he
would have convulsed with
fr and ill a moment would he.
following him through brilliant flights
of el. was an a,
of wit and
He would unlock his storehouse
humor and out its choicest Hen.
tires and then dip his brash the
dye of eloquence and
paint picture as resplendent as the
rainbow. The dosing portion the
lecture was a
He seemed to have been his
gradually up Alps,
letting on peaks here and
and there to view the surrounding beau
ties, and upon reaching the summit
lifted the veil and feasted their minds
upon the grandeurs the Italy
that lies beyond.
regrets tie
audience was so luge as h should
have b-ten. Those to hear
tin it pro do not r how much
they mi s-d.
M Licenses
The Register of Deeds issued five
marriage last week, two to-
and three colored
Will
Miller and Mary J. Dunn.
J. and Whichard.
and Almeda Harris.
Isaac and Ella
Andrews and Cora Beet
It You want a Nice
m.-
OF CLOTHES
C. T.
Where the prettiest y of Spring Clothing
can be
A beautiful line of-
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Furnishings,
to select from.
C. T.
When sweet across the hills
Sets d
When the babbling the rills
Joins with song symphony
it s to we
Turn our thoughts to soda-water.
For balmy April
T s lire nigh
When we the trees,
our are hot and dry.
Then soda fount
fattens up hi- bank account.
our
M. State Evangelist
the Christian church, will en next
begin a series meeting here
The es will be held in the
church. All of the
community are invited to i-o operate
Ii
ca t.
Mr. Coward, Creek
township killed a months old call
today and it lo Greenville to
sell to the The
thing about this call Was its
sire. It measured feet ill
and pounds dressed.
The hide weighed
market any no beef has b-en
brought
Was Very Nervous
Mad and
Not Sleep Doctors Called It
and Indigestion.
bad in my heed, and
shoulders and all through my body but
they were most revere In my left side.
The doctor called it neuralgia and In-
digestion. I was confined to my bed for
eight months. I was very nervous, had
smothering spells and could not Bleep. I
read of cures by Hood's and
of a case similar to mine. My husband
procured a bottle, and I began taking it.
After taking one bottle I felt better, was
able lo rest and my appetite improved. I
continued until my nervousness wan
cured and I was much better every
way. My husband also been
by Hood's U.
Stone, Virginia.
Is the f the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all drug-rials. six tor SB.
Heavy and Fancy Groceries.
At my store you can always find fresh Bread,
Rolls, Pies and Cakes, also Candies. Fruits, Nuts
over out infancy of all kinds. Materials, and a nice line
our first tottering of Heavy and Fancy Groceries. Call and see
the life every Expectant
is beset with danger and all cf ,,,,., , , .,
fort, should be made to avoid
so assists nature
in the chancre
There is no
word so full
of
and about which such tender and
holy recollections cluster as that
of Mother who watched
Mother's i
Friend
g place
c Expectant
ls
that
the
Mother is
bled to look for-
ward without;
dread, suffering or gloomy fore-
to the hour when
experiences the joy of Motherhood, j
Its use insures safety to the lives
of both Mother Child, and she i
is found stronger after than before
short, it I
Childbirth natural and
so many have said. Don't be
persuaded to use anything but i
FINES SHOES of the celebrate Eagle brand.
If you want anything in
Merchandise
d e me. can save you money on
MOTHER'S
wife Buffered more in ten min-
with either of her other two
than -hi- lint altogether with her
last, luring previously used four bot-
of It is a
blessing to any one to be-
come a says a customer.
Illinois.
Of at SI no. of sent, by mall on receipt
Of for hook testimonial
and valuable for ail Mothers, free.
The Co., Atlanta. Gs.
J. R. COREY,
IS-
m COLLARS
A General Horse
Millinery.
Also a nice line
Groceries.
Hoods
, ,, run With
PHIS Hoods
I can now be found in
the brick store for-
occupied
by J. W. Brown.
Come to see
WHITE,
GROCERY STORE
a Grocery to S- T- Whites have a full line of
Cue F km F
AND TOBACCO.
to select from and low down in price. A
extended to all. Come see me, will make it pay you-
JAMES B. WHITE.
While a marriage was
Hoar Danville, Va., a
i j H urn op and about
to when bride seized it and
The is indebted to Mr.
A. A. sail
He it himself and
proceeded.
the in excellent.
know a girl with lantern jaws ;
Her manner is not cold.
Her smile i.- ever bright, because
Her are with gold-
said a teacher in Sunday
School, any you quote a verse
Scripture to prove that it is wrong
a man to have two lie
paused, and alter a moment or two ; a
At bat Saturday's .-mo., of bright boy raised bis band
Maine Methodist Conference the prop- Thomas said the teacher
to admit women lo stood up and. said
was adopted by a vote of man can serve two
Co to Boston Homo Journal.
following report the done
by the frost Wednesday morning
Plums damaged per cent, apples
per strawberries BA per cent,
per cent, grapes nil killed
the James variety included, garden
per cent, peas all
bans all killed, com but
come out again, Irish potatoes
From this report it will be seen that
the damage is very severe.
of .-nun
race.
bad anticipated a fin;
Buy the Standard Sewing Machine
at S. M.
Murder In Nash County.
Near on Sunday two col-
named Ch tries
Joseph Meal, had a
got a gun and shot Neal through
the neck, killing him almost instantly.
Whitaker dragged tho body to a
marsh and hid it, went buck to
where b had committed the deed and
washed up the blood. When
mi his people a and
the body Monday in the
v, inn N bad bid it.
your with
which you an
tone your stomach and
your
a young man who determines
to pursue a literary discovers
that literature is a pretty good
Build More
Our people should not lose sight o
the fact that and a
steam fire would give still further
protection to property. The wisdom
of authorities in the one
cistern we have baa already been amply
proven and others would be beneficial
Too much can hardly be done in
the of the lira depart-
LANG
IS OPEN.
Three complete lines within themselves which
we take in showing and offering
-U the public
Our Clothing department is an attractive
part of our business and in this depart-
we are showing the prettiest Men
and Suits we have ever exhibited.
We are showing the most complete and
up-to-date stock of Dress Goods that we
have ever offered, consisting of Woolens,
Organdies, Swiss, Dot Mulls,
Dimities and
We have a splendid of Footwear for
men, women, boys and children. Our lines
still stand unsurpassed for excellent wear
qualities the styles are up-to-date
RICKS TAFT,
Emporium of Spring Fabrics.

OVER SQUARE MILES .
Forage aid Plants.
Washington, April
cf Statistics of Treas-
Department has made
following report on the damage
caused agricultural interests by
the Mississippi river
Since the publication on April
of a statement relative to the
agricultural interests of the sub-
merged districts of the Mississippi
valley south of Cairo, III-,
area water con-
extended extension
is below Vicksburg, Miss-, but on
right or west side of the river
and is mainly due to break
2.000 feet in width, in the at
The outflow of .-It-rat
this point has totally
tour parishes f Louis-
and partially five
others, while a bk l La
crossing
part of the d -i . tins res
salted in sub. of
additional area
square miles in La j
Terre parishes, in
A re-cent bulletin of N- C
Experiment Station which is now
being distributed, is No. en-
titled new forage,
and other useful
bulletin describes a of
new plants which have been
tested and their value is reported.
Among the more important of
the kinds that are and
worthy of more use, are
the of the
varieties,
a Japanese recent-
imported, allied to Japan
clover, the Canada field and
vetch. Among the plants
been advertised
that do not promise well and are
recommended, are the
weed, so much planted is Florida
the ; the
flat pea The latter
plant is grown the Kid climates
of the middle lower section of the
United States, Ariz-inn and ad-
joining States, for use for
and So far it has not been found
s u value in this Skate. Promising
newly submerged are ramie jute,
was total -f j former especially, and some
in the proportion of I i the roots we distribute
colored persons to one white. for testing
region contained at the last eastern Motion of Suite, where
farms, a total
area of over acres, of
which were improved. Of
it promise- a
tine
growing districts. The only
this last mentioned area drawback has bean that
acres, or over were machinery for preparing
year devoted to over i ho fiber for market has not been
acres to corn, acres known, but recently machinery
to sugar cane, 2.000 acres to hay has been effected which makes it
and to more to accomplish
other crops- The total value of farmers of the State use in-
these farms, fences and i mouse quantities of cotton bag
but exclusive of their gin., fertilizers, etc, if
movable equipment was ISM the material for this purpose
close the
value of the implements ma-
upon was over
On of this
year, they contained live to
the value of so
lately as the first of March they
were estimated to have still
hand about worth of the
crop of last season- The total
value of the farms submerged by
the breaks the levees that have
occurred 10th with
their farm implements, live stock
and crops on baud, is
close upon This
ration produced last year
bales of cotton, over
pounds of sugar, over
bushels of corn, besides
hay. potatoes, eats and other
minor the entire pro-
a value, even
at the price-i that have
of more the
total area submerged at
date is over square
miles. It contained at the last
farm, with a total
area of sea, nearly
h of which was improved, and
a total
otherwise, of If to the
value of i's farms, farm buildings
farm machinery, g to
the census of 1890, there be added
the value of its live stock on
last of
its products of last still on
baud March I, last the
total of will represent
the approximate value of the
a property of the
submerged region. the
products of this legion last
were bales
12.525,645 bushels of
corn-worth
sugar, worth
The total production
including mi. or crops, represent-
a value of the
plantations.
be grown
ed here, it would add another
very important and
would the saving of a large
of A of
the of the is
given it so that
can ascertain subjects
treated. It will be sent to
cants North Carolina who
apply to the Station for it.
A Fanatic.
About a week ago a
individual male his appearance in
and a Ion-runner
tin
asked where hailed Iran, he re
other of ill.- North
I refer.
in his parentage,
he invariably replies be is a son
at was
woman, lull
He claims lo have M I lie
frigid His ideas
the He MOM
with In- Scriptures an-1
it- his theories
hut, when cornered, be makes
i assertions, to have
final
a colored men have
bong on his words are Ix carried
by his He does
profess to he a preacher, hut n teacher,
accordingly, be sits sad allow his
to ink questions, which be
very without any
He says M is a year and
nine month; old. and lives on
and that will not bite him
W Mess eager.
OLD TIME CUSTOMS.
Hull of Warm la
Out- of Then.
Nowadays, with steam radiators,
registers, doors and screens
to guard the aisles from drafts, n
minister is still not surprised to find
bis congregation smaller than usual
upon a Sunday of intense cold or
winter storm. Doubtless in the old
times, too, the weather made a
though in all likelihood, in
that of severe dutifulness, a
less rather than a greater one than
Yet, what hardships our an-
had to endure in winter in
their bare, bleak, bitter cold old
meeting houses
sacramental bread was frozen
hard rattled sadly in ye
wrote Judge Sow-nil in his diary
after a Sunday in the church at
Newbury, with the thermometer
near zero. And it was not
not only in the days of the
grand old justice, but many years
later, for women to faint from
ply cold or to become so chilled as
to he unable to rise or move when
it to hymn and to have
to be out of church and
thawed the nearest neighbor's
Little wonder, poor things I
have only to imagine how a
girl of today would feel if after get-
ting her feet thoroughly wet
half she wrapped in
a heavy r,
her warm flannels her e lit-
outside retiring to
barn, sat up straight
on a hard board for three hours,
with drafts from every crack and
knothole playing freely about her.
We should expect consumption or
pneumonia SB the natural result,
and they the natural result,
and carried many of our shivering
ancestresses to an untimely grave.
Yet, with all that they had to en-
women sometimes voluntarily
increased their misery at the de-
of fashion at least, the win-
brides did so. It was long the
custom for brides on Bret attending
church after marriage to wear
outside garment, whether merely
to let the folks see their new gowns
or as a traditional ceremony
akin to unveiling is not known, but
in tho depths of January or
her they would come to meeting,
with a heroism worthy of a better
cause, in nil the unconcealed finery
of a glossy silk or satin, with not so
much a scarf across the shoulder
for warmth.
A characteristic story of the re
of a Puritan suitor upon a
fair maid who bad married his rival,
relates that- he being the sexton of
the church and she a December
bride-ho purposely managed so
that u bitter wind should blow upon
her from a deftly unstopped chink
arrived the Sunday alter
the wedding in the customary
equate array.
would down the saucy
Though
whether he Intended to do so
through and a red
nose or tragically by means of lung
fever and an early death, the story
does not relate. But in either case
she survived the ordeal.
There were often the
tougher and more rigid members
of the church a who believed oil
this hardship to be a good thing
and who opposed even the popular
little foot stoves as a luxury, while
when stoves were introduced which
attempted to host whole i
they fought them with disgust and
bitterness.
One old woman. Aunt Judy Jones,
made n point sitting near tho new
stove for severe successive Bun
days, throwing off or Ringing open
one layer of wraps alter another and
finally lying hack a state of con-
exhaustion, gasping faintly
and fanning with an
turkey feather fan. But tho
stove continued to glow and the
congregation to be comfort aide, and
before the season ended it was quiet-
observed that Aunt Judy did not
seem to feel the heat more than
people and bad even been known
to go up and warm her feet at the
unwelcome thing itself be-
fore settling down in her pew for
the sermon.- -Youth's Companion.
THE RAILROAD.
Telephones the Country.
A telephone hi a bean
important than it is to
resident a city. To he able to
the in an emergency,
have with beauty does not reach its
the town, to give his order the age of or
par. an a hundred other lb HI i com,,
I he
without leaving his home,
only he and but would pro-
the Instead of
saving a of h mile or less, n it
does in the city, a country telephone
may save n long ride lain and
darkness. In various
in Maturity.
The physical beauty of woman should
last, growing more and more
until the end. That the
., i i ,
women, like that of men, . h- the good v a throaty
determined of ad- j asked Air. who had been
cannot be disputed, I some loading to
U absurd to claim that the rip . rich topics,
,.,,. . . humid to Rape the-
the sweat so- ., ,,.,, M
teem. women live in harmony m
with nature's laws stag beauty wrong. A throaty makes plain
has its own charms. The of as day. fur good
how does it
you tin was two
i ii
. an a throaty
la age v, , , . . , , ,,
I hot we no
It la Required
In- i
Tho Peruvian Central,
or railroad begins six
feet above wafer Callao.
From miles ahead and
foot higher, it winds lip tho
rowing valley of the past
great haciendas and forgotten ruins.
At miles from the sea,
It has gained but feet in
but within tho yard limits of
that station tho I per cent
grade, which is steadily maintained
for 7.1 miles. The gorge be-
comes deeper and contracted,
tho little bays and of
land rarer. At tho hamlet of
Ban serious
begins. Tho overhanging hillside
on the- right displays the first
the characteristic o so
necessary to over, come the
headlong valley.
Tho maximum gradient allowed
by contract of feet to the
has in many places been stretched,
and the actual gradient is sometimes
nearer per cent. But even this
was insufficient to meet the
of the whose floor
often greatly exceeds that slope.
I i o only way to get ahead was to
i back a few furlongs or miles at
till grade and then to shoot for-
upper arm of
Some of back
and forth like sloping shelves
the high walls of the main gorge;
some double and twist far up lateral
valleys. Not to confine tho matter to
single points, Where the road has to
give live miles to gain one, tho total
percentage is astonishing. From
Callao to the length of the
track is of those,
1-2 mile in every are
consumed in overcoming the rise,
and this besides the unprecedented
maintaining of bitch a maximum
grade.
Four miles above San
and its tropic side valley is the great
bridge of the do or
water of warts. This noble
lever. built in New Jersey, has a
length of feet and a height of
The old bridge Was in its day
the highest in existence and was
meant, to To that end the center
pier was sunk in a loot pit. This
pier was washed out
in 1880, and for a year traffic was
maintained by a cage swinging on
Cables across the present
Structure has been left far behind
as to height by the bridge over tho
river Lea, em the mile
lino in Chile the longest of
narrow railroads, and, with
its inch trunk, the tipsiest.
The is not to be
laughed down as n superstition. Of
in those
fill
frightful goiter-, may
too visible proofs in plenty. The
building of the V bridge cost
a terrible mortality, and the
tery of is full of its
This strange and frequently
fatal of the which
haunts many comers of
Minis to have relation to
mineral strata. It is alike-
known, in this part of below
and above feet.--Harper s
Weekly.
cf Mm.
Once it was said that man Is
a hero to his valet do
Mary Gay Humphreys has another
reading for the Baying in
Magazine, for she shows how
man is no hero to his
Tho mystery of men's lives the
world, out of which illusions tire
Spun, has always had a greater in-
in determining the of
women than is readily admitted.
To fool transmitted through the ring
finger tho electric thrill of business,
of of stirring move-
the life of men, gives any
woman vantage ground over others
of sex. in tho actual com-
of business, tho community
of affairs, the wear and tear of daily
life in and elevators, thin
mystery vanishes, a couple of type-
writers at luncheon will illustrate
badly u situation yet too new to be
fairly reckoned up. Over knife and
fork they will match employees as
small boys do pennies.
Out of hours tho boss is only a
man of whoso they may dis-
approve, or of the way he wears his
hair, or perhaps of his grammar,
and it may be ho appears greatly to
the advantage of some young man
at a neighboring machine.
the
was when n
not
and she was . brilliant
thereafter. Cleopatra ,,,,, r lied at you do an
M when she met A Diana do to . ,
was M when sin- won the t do it,
heart II. Toe King was hat
bar age, but his was never
changed. Anne, Austria, am I breach
when described the beautiful throaty my part, you could go
telephone win- i Mend in Mme. ahead an lick me, if WOT able,
liT was when unit d to ; a clear
the rural A traveler,
in a recant magazine article, how-
he went to a in
and finding the farmer did not
understand an inter was
called up by telephone In the
city, so the- farmer and the traveler
carried on a an
n any miles
in Finland l
are In this section the
C have been
In large cities one can
g as us
they desire to Ban they charge
the highest lifts. But in small towns
country there seems
to open field
or Headlight.
Catharine, Russia, awe when she
the and d it
years.
The who loft tho
Democratic party tail
considering the advisability of
a to
ways menus to save that
political a tie
they profess to fear. If
we are to judge by the returns
election
An
During a lecture on tho subject of
Electrical Expel do
before South African
by A. I. Trot-
let and in-
tin . rang up the
Cape Town telephone and
asked if any longer
telegraph lines wore clear. The from tho
Port line was then con-
up a -1 lecturer, observing
that with the extremely
. the government
offices it W n to use
ordinary i for the
signaling to such .- distance us Port
Elisabeth, disconnected tho battery
commonly employed, and, plunging
a steel fork into
an orange, Kent lot signals
by mean . rents thus
1- i .; front
row ii tin lo
and, j th vi I ire lit.
sent signs . their sate
Port d k I
of the .
Pills
Cure All
Liver Ills.
A Strong Fortification.
the j Fortify the body against disease
Democratic party is in j by Liver Pills, an
its old business of saving lute cure for sick headache,
sour malaria,
constipation, jaundice, bilious-
i and all kindred troubles.
of
Your Liver Pills are
the fly-wheel of life. I shall ever
be grateful for the accident that
brought them to my notice. I
as if I had a new lease of life.
Liver Pills
that is more thin some of it
will able to do Wash-
Post
Senator want lo tux Ilia
cargo of every foreign per.
Why nut the lo all
our the
Manned cut
we if in In-
n- task by Ping
knives wit each other. The
Senator only a
I.
; u y. u e u z modern standard Family Medicine Cures the common every-day ills of
Tin- Hull
Hero is a adventure
some of English
survey met with while tour-
in the of In the
of their celling they en.
tort-l a to n crusty
old farmer. Seeing the strangers
looking about in n ho could not I
understand, tho farmer approached.
are yo loitering in the
Hold
v ; to
th
Prayer
At n of the Maine
Conference today,
H- v. Dr. S. t tin- Bast Maine
ill prayer
the r.-ii n
to the Hi t. -Make
the
in. enemy all v i id-
for the right. Hasten the
pray, when ibis will be Ire
inn as it is
the shout-
ed and God, and then
he e in prayer
a good Methodist,
Dr. was tin- prohibition
date
STOCK AN D POULTRY
TOO.
Black is
pared for well a
man, and tor that sold in tin
holding pound
cine .
Lambert, Franklin
March
. kinds of
one package of black
for nil the Others I ever saw
the -stilling tor horses or cattle in
Spring of the vein- will
every time,
Halve.
h- bi st in the rid far Cut
Sores,
Fever Sun s,
hi Mains, Corns, and nil Skin
and cures or no
It to
B or money
price per box.
en.
The postal receipts the past
quarter the en re-
cord.
.
Prof. . .
. specialty
and cur
Minn
living hi.-.
of Cf sCH
cured by
He
valuable
work -n
tills d i s
en which
j he sends
bot-
free lo any sufferers
n to
n. Cedar St.
-------A Hoe of-------
of
Laid,
Flour,
Meal,
and Trade i and nil Pat-
Fits.
land v -ire m MM time
f rein- from Washington. .
Scud drawing or
or n-t,
A V toO
the L. b. and foreign
Of D. C.
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AND
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TRAINS
April IS,
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Kl At
Coffee
Sugar
am
selling so lots
it
Come see too
will
treat yon fair
I at.
D W.
PORK
lug their r- . ill
interest prices before pa
la
all us
AT LOWEST
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Correct For the Bridegroom.
o'clock church wedding,
when tho bride a traveling
gown there w to no
culls for afternoon
dress on port of tho bride
writes Walter Germain in
The Bonn Journal.
should, even if be is going
from to tho train,
frock coat of black, light trousers,
gray gloves, light four in bond or
ascot lift, top hat, just as if the
wedding were to a largo after-
noon
With I-our-.
learning a lovely
dance; but, of course. I don't let
addition to the one see inc. I in a room
vigorous feeder and re-
shoemaker poet, and the
novelist, there is now,
according to Tho Woman at Home,
prince, Albert Edward,
prince of duke of Cornwall,
of count of Chester,
short, tho heir apparent to
tho of Great Britain. It
pears, says the journal just named,
that the queen of England and the
The Dallas News flint
bees in Texas
enough to a
like six p wild
hull i.
IS a
well lo
Oil torn lands the yield consort that each of
increases improves their children should learn from the
,. . r beginning some useful trade. The
Iv with , . .
. . . Prince of Wales chose
containing not under and soon acquired such perfection
I n t-ho art that his be-
g came pride of bis fellow cobblers,
O n j as it was the envy of gentlemen of
F fashion. The prince has never at-
tempted to conceal his talent
A trial of plan costs but does not fail even today to pass with
,. , , . j . a critical eve tho shoes sent
i to lead to
All by
I -11 . ill- L I
in a lull. m will l
I any in A M i
I GERMAN KALI WORKS,
why Albert Edward is tho best shod
gentleman in England.
I gladly
I write far k.
all by myself.
I w. You follow the
system.-
Eminent madam,
your husband is
aberration duo to
The form of bis mania is quite com-
he insist that he is a
millionaire.
Eminent wants to
pay mo fur my advice. We'll
have to humor him, yon know.--
Among tho wore
worn only by women, but among
they were regarded a
military and in
mental inscriptions the number of
or- he is
Often were of thin
plates of or gold.
gold wires spirally wound were
Boom weighing
The this pap will be
pleased to learn that there i- least
one tin ailed that has
been able t cure In all its stages .-mil
i Catarrh. Hall's Cure is
positive cure new to
medical fraternity.
a requires a
Cure is directly
the t-
the tie
giving
by building up the
l in nature In
he lane a
curative powers that
On, Hundred for
case it to Send for
I J. Props
Sold -toe
Hall's I are
Die plane that builds up
joys life
the
1- and liberal men who
in living and let others
life, they got a
don't it until the
goddess of liberty feels as if a
set, laced to the last notch, would
comfortable-.
is What causes bard
Hues and circulation of
American eagle, if it were
fur our
it would be
to l a city.
GROVE
UNDERTAKERS.
n DIRECTORS.
. received a DOS
and lino of
d, metal-
cloth brought to
. t;. Jo
ab f.
Personal attention siren to con
funerals and bodies en-
treated to our will receive
every mark of respect.
lower than over.
We do monopoly but
invite
We can be . any all
times the Julia
Co's bull
BOB GREENE CO.
we bur fr m
; t
k e
we i
ii
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always on sold t
the time. Om bought and
for ac
inn toll at a ire
K. . a Mile. N.
Apr
Selma
A. M.
ll -i
Vt
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for.
the
H,
Wilmington,
SMITH EDWARDS.
fie late
Home.
N. C
store
and in all
kinds
NEW i I i a V
All of me
use skilled labor and good
material and are to five
wink.
CO,
N. 0-
IS---------
MARBLE
A. M.
it i
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s.
Rocky lit
Mi
V. Men
a i
II
Wire and Iron
so work
prices
CHILL
JUST AS
WARRANTED. PRICE
o a an a . Not. lea.
SI.
mt
-TONIC
OLD RELIABLE,
------is AT THE I A LINE---------
P E is cheap
Bops, Blinding Farming Implements, and every
for i general purposes, well
Hats. Dress I have hand. Am d
for Heavy and for N. T.
Qua, and keep and
C I Is VII IF. N. C
SUGG,
Life, Fits and
N. C.
NEAR COURT HOUSE.
All Risks placed in
FIRST-C ASS COMPANIES
current
I AM FOB FIRST-CLASS FIRE PROOF
Train on i Neck Sea
1.1 n. m. ,
i. in., arrives Scotland at ,.
., Greenville p, m., 1.64
7.-0
in. p.
ton
dally
leave
-V 8.80 n, m. and p . in.
Tarboro i in.,
l n. in., , a. m.
iii I i. arrives
I ii. III., p. Daily ex-
els with trains on
to -tI ml
Train leaves c, via
A Raleigh it. it.
lay, at M p. in., Sunday I P. N;
7.11 p, u, m,
Ply daily except
a. a
10.1 and
Midland N. C. leaves
duly, except Sunday. a
in. a in. He.
taming loaves a a. m.
a. m.
Trains on Latta R
., Latia pm.
i m, p n- Returning
eave a m. a n,
7.90 a in, Sun-
Train leaven
r except
I p, or-
ii on m. an i
Train No. makes clone connection
it. points dally, all rail via
else at Mount vita
Norfolk and ft tor
. lie all points North via Norfolk,
K.
V. Manager.
I.
Old Dominion
SERVICE
leave for en
vi I mid Tarboro touching at nil land.
on Tar Wednesday
and Pi lit A. M.
its A. H.
Thursdays and
in
hi
of on
at Washington with
steamers tor Norfolk, Hilt Iron,
Ni w Mini
should
mi
Ni-
Nor-
from Miners
Boston.
JNO. Agent,
N,.