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An Alphabetical Rhyme.
Dr. Cyrus contributes g
Worth Be-I
Drank I
ends the
by rhyme.
describing all the stages of
Lam the lint rip to
grave, which he learned from
a young Man of gnat
ability Una moral perceptions.
whams an Inebriate.
The doctor said his eyes would
stream with as ho recited the
following reran, describing
own career, it
and graphic picture of the
kind been printed;
A for death-like
its
B for Beginner, lakes jut a
sip;
C for Companion Who urges him
nil;
for the Demon of drink is
born;
; for Endeavor he makes to
for who BO loudly
limit that be afterwards
feels;
II fur the Horrors bang at bis
I his Intentions In drink not ill
K for bis Knowledge is
slaves
J stands for follows
his lull;
I, stands for bis appetite
doth rave;
M for convivial Meetings so gay;
x stands for he tried hard t
for the Orgies then to
pass;
P stands for Pride he drowns
III his glass;
for the Quarrels
i; for Ruin
stands for Sights his vision
bedim;
for Trembling that seizes
limb;
I I'm his sunk in the
V stands for Vagrant he quickly
becomes;
for ailing of life that's
dune;
Nil. regretted
Youth of weakness
is crime,
Zealously turn from the tempter in
lime
It was wadding day. gal he
firing hi.- law
he -nil
lag to tab .-i-- r ii. i and bare
h. r nil I. and i won't
get More
said the t of
nm do yea think of
I fancy l stand it if
you r Tribune,
Prevention
better than cure. Liver
Pills will not only cure, but if
taken in time will prevent
Sick Headache,
malaria,
constipation, jaundice, torpid
liver and kindred diseases.
Liver PILLS
ABSOLUTELY CURE.
AND
V-.
HART
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Hardware.
Paints Oils
BRUSHES
Building; Hardware a
Pr r thing
In I n Hi
Oh, this is a quirt
In a
ml if liven not quiet be
nil day as now.
even Sun
day. morning and evening. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening,
N. M. pastor.
p. m. W Harding.
Services third
Sunday,
j. ii. patter. Sunday-
p. in. J. It. Moore u
regular
school
yon have
to of
I I
ti M
bU so Divine service and sermon every
th. v would when Sunday and evening.
at least the
nature are entirely
tin-
I've gut on.
ain't no bad as it
look Yon know, a fellow with that is
generally happy, and. yon
lit to make a living writing
prayer Wednesdays
It., and Litany Friday A.
M. I. A. Minister
in Charge.
Sun
day, morning and evening. Pray-
Thursday evening,
A. pastor.
a. in.
LODGES
fund of you. Hilly, a j
A. K. A. M.
In that tot don't each other I Lodge, meets and
Monday evening. Ii.
when I I'm hard J. M.
dream that lend me some
NOTICE.
having
tins baa issued to the
the estate of
is bare-
by given lo persons
claims the estate of
to I hem to the
on or before the
day Mun-h, or this
will be pleaded in bar of their re-
This day of UM,
L. Smith,
of the Mate of Polite Chapman.
Harding.
The duly
before Court
clerk of Pitt county
the list Will and of
Haywood Knox, is
hereby given to all
d lo the lo make
payment to and
all having
said estate are to present
the fur on or before
the 24th day of March 1900, or
thin notice will in bar of recovery
of same.
This March
A.
of Knox.
The having duly
qualified before the Court
Clerk of Pitt as
the Last Will of
Mrs. I. C. deceased,
is hereby given lo all in-
to the estate to make
mediate payment to the undersign-
ed, and all persons having claims
against said estate are notified to
present the same for payment oil or
before the 24th day of April,
or this notice will lie plead in bat
of recovery of
This 24th day of April,
A. Kicks,
Mrs. I. C. Hicks.
News
my cheat
and an oil
want .
protector, fur overcoat
where on earth yon
HE HAD A BAD HABIT.
Ami ii Him n
In
The n life
piny i tin H r
. i r he
on is
i they getting them on in
tin y are n. Ii.
but they are no to take
in a man who will die i t
the year of two than tiny arc to
lake in a perfectly healthy man
have hazard bill life taking per-
in
I In s
i. member n that
while I was living in
New One of men
had a way i I i liar in Ilia
careless mill man-
and with only the merest or lie
provocation One day he was in our
office and casually mentioned the fact
that he was lo make a trip to
Kentucky
inquired the
ah
en
On it
a I it pair of
man-
r start J wish
Would atop in sod
Went to buy a
horse fur
I want
yon want to arrange
ghoul Isn't it all right
long as yen stay in this
country Pit if yon go down to Ken
we'll hale In the rate
come back
what began the
policy holder holly, when tho manager
Interrupt d hint
Hy tho my dear
he mid gently all right here
and Hie i-. to us; hut,
Jove, can't give you tho name
rate and 1.1 yon go to Kentucky
call men liars Ilka yon
Not much I We got
nun policies In give away like that, and
yon lo it Wash
Star
The ii.-
lei by roles
different ,. an
ea-t aide h rocked all
in the his rest and
sot What were tin i r
palish,
Ii and lire, Ii
Tint only i. ii
He deuce
There eight sure
it them
an- Detroit Free
taking special In
Jim has promised to
take In the
m it ml
the all sorts f things.
to eat and drink. Cleveland
Dealer
Off.
Isn't to marry that
rich after
fell nut her she
the lie
play Record.
Know She mi la Know.
Mrs I should think yon
would he to beg when there
was work In he had.
ma'am,
kin the feelings of a
man.
An.
Chef -Say. can't make wild
this stewed beef.
Steward Haven't
always told i use for
mug of
State Journal.
A inversion
Smart you are the
new gardener, are you look
pretty dirty. I must say
but looks a lot
prettier Punch.
Ha
They say that it is that
makes the world go round
He If that were so I think
that getting married stop U.-
Yonkers
Preach Teacher I yon
package of How yon say
in new r
Children Goody,
Chicago
Smith Is wife of yon
jealous is mi name for it
Why. on trip would
not ii let me
a man. citizen,
in a hank ha
it t-r safe Bill, don't
n i i i-k like that ever yon
kin I Id any money, do like your fa-
tie r r.- yon done it, an
th i f your life over it with
TO
The Clerk the Superior Court
enmity, having issued lot-
lei- of administration to me, the
undersigned, on the 20th day of
on the estate K.
is hereby
given In all persons indebted In the
estate In immediate payment
In tin- undersigned, and lo all
creditors of estate in present
their claims, properly
Bated, In the within
twelve after the date
that or this notice will lie
plead in bar of their recovery.
This the 90th day of
J. L.
on estate of II. V. Harris.
I. P.- Covenant
Meets Tuesday evening.
E. B. M. II. Pander,
Sec.
K. of Lodge, No.
every Friday evening. Dr.
Bagwell, c. K. L.
Carr, K. of It.
It. No.
1606, meets every even
W. It. Wilson, It. M. It.
Lang, Sec.
Jr. O. A. every
Wednesday nigh at in I. l.
O. ball, Q,
A. council.
No. meets every third
Thursday nights in Odd
Hall. M. it. Worthy
Chief; I. S. Smith, Sec.
i. o.
meets second and
fourth Monday nights in odd I'd
lows Hall. W. It. Wilson.
Smith
ft It. It
AND lilt A
AND ATLANTIC COAST LINK
COMPANY OF
CAROLINA.
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-t in ii in. arrive Km
Train dally
at S p m, i IS nm,
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mouth daily, a m Sun-
day U Wain, am.
Train on S leave
. . . ; it iii. arriving;
l in,
m, at In a to.
M leave i .
at hi a in. i p m. arrive
Spring l a m.
in H a in
I V. . II i a in arrive at
M ii II Ma in, In p in
Train on n tut
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Sin. It t at m
p m
i No
H. M.
Pass. Agent
I. K. Manager.
T. M. Traffic
at
Hi dally, all rail v i.
in me
rested, as commissioner,
in case So. Special Proceed-
Docket No. n, entitled M.
and David Dixon by bis
friend Tin H.
I will sell at public sale lie
fore House door in
Greenville, on Monday the 6th day
of June o'clock noon,
all pine, cypress popular
timber of and above Hie size of
twelve inches in diameter at the
base when the may be
together with e privilege of seven
years within which to cut re-
move said Umber, and also the
usual rights way appertaining to
same for the removal of said tin,
bar now standing and growing up-
on two tracts of land situated in
Township, Pitt County,
Carolina, tract
the lands j.
Dixon, Charles and J, w.
Dixon and others bounded as fol-
lows, Beginning big
ditch a light wood slake corner,
running a South west course
In W. C. Dixon line, a Sweet
Until corner, then running a South
course to a knot
on Tar Kiln lied, then run-
nearly a west course
In a pine corner, then a north
course TOO to Sweet Hum
in Long branch, then down
the branch TOO to the be-
ginning, a See
deed from J. W. and wife to
II. M. Dixon H I page to
which reference is made.
other tract,
lauds of W. c. Dixon, John
hers bounded as follows
viz; a pine in John
Elks line a corner between E. M.
Dixon and W. C. run-
in a westerly direction
with a Branch, about
thence With branch to E. M.
Dixon and W. C. Dixon
to the beginning containing about
acres more or
Terms of sale cash.
Wm. H.
Commissioner.
N. May 1800.
OLD DOMINION LINE
ft
SERVICE
Steamers Washington on
Mondays, Wednesdays Fri-
days all A. M. for Greenville,
water permitting,
leave Tarboro at A.
If., Greenville A. M. on Tues-
days, Thursdays and Sat
Sailing hours subject to change de
stage of water.
Connecting Washington with
Steamers for
New York and BoB
Inn, and for all points for Ike Weal
with nil I an Is at Norfolk.
Shippers should freight
the Old S. S. Co.
York Clyde Line from
Hay Line
and Line from
JNO. N. SON,
Washington, N.
Greenville, N. C.
J. B.
------DEALER
A Of
A a nice Line of Hardware.
can now in the
brick store formerly
occupied by J.
W.
COME SEE MB.
J. R.
CAMP FIRES
CONFEDERACY.
other
Southern
The Heroic, Thrill-
lag Side Ibo War,
of II.
. or
rota,
Sea El.
Nan- Over
Good
la rotor., rod Urns. Ad-
1875.
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buckwheat, fancy Ponce
molasses, side meat, hams, should-
coffee, sugar,
snuff, cigars, cigarettes, cheroots,
butter, full
cream cheese, sausage,
oat hominy flakes, cotton-
seed meal and bulls, cotton seed
at i- cents per bushel.
M- KERRY GARDEN SEEDS.
STANDARD
SALT.
BUREAUS.
AT ROCK PRICES.
Come to see
M.
It. win,
Ill A N
Whichard, N. C.
The Stock complete in every de-
and prices as low as the
lowest. Highest market prices
paid for country produce.
Professional Cards
U. . SI. L. Ki, mine- I. Moon.
At-Law.
Greenville, N. C.
tor State,
la ti-
Mills R. Kure,
Tarboro, S. C. M. C.
EURE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Greenville, N. C.
Dr.
DENTIST, , If
Greenville, N. C.
C.
Cobb ft Sons store
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FOR
The Eastern Reflector
Friday
D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Owner TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO Year in Advance.
VOL. XVII
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C. TUESDAY, MAY
NO
I till
OFFER TO PLANTERS THE or A
Perfect Tobacco Formula.
OSCEOLA
TOBACCO
A new tobacco brand by a new
tobacco formula but by
an old house.
Look out for OSCEOLA tinder North Carolina Tobacco this
Season.
ITS GOING TO BE HEARD FROM I
CALL FOR AND TRY OSCEOLA.
RED BY
OLD MIND GUANO CO. Dr. Mil., fa.
And for sale by nil Old Dominion Agents everywhere.
Cobb ft Am represent us at Oilier all
Eastern towns.
We suspected General
who has made such a
brilliant and won his stars
the battles with Filipinos,
though from Kansas, is
really u Southerner by blond. It
is now announced Unit he is a
cousin of Governor Tyler of
grandmother and my
were brother and sis
Governor Tyler. Gov-
Tyler of his kins
man, and that his gallantry in
the Philippines docs credit to his
Virginia blood.
And so it Blood will tell,
a id blood ill particular.
for
Since the above pal in type
we the following in the Raleigh
Christian Advocate of today, which
claims I Be General is a North Caro-
try birth. Dr. Ivey is very
apt to be correct in his diagnosis of
any case.
Carolina is a truly won-
Slate for furnishing rich
for other states. Colonel
who for recent gallantry
the Philippines was promoted
to rank of Brigadier General
by President Is a
live of North His
parents moved to Kansas when he
was quite General
in lending his regiment across
tho in
ii in mi ill inns lire, dis-
played a heroism which was re-
markable. This charge is one of
tho events of the century, and will
live in history. General I blood and mucous surfaces of the
weighs less than MM hundred system. FRANK
but North Carolina is,
pi-mill t In- a ii i Hint is in
him. him to the roll in
which Worth and;
The Revenue Law and the One-
Horse Peddlers.
depositing the voters of
the ballot boxes and
electing the commissioner of labor
collector for City, the
General Assembly waxed it on to
peddlers who insist on the use of
mule or i i their
The revenue law declares
there shall be Imposed In each
on on foot a
tax of on peddler with
horse, mule or ox, a lax of 11.-1; on
each peddler with or more
horses, mule or ox, a lax of
As the law makers failed lo define
the between a peddler
with a and a peddler with
the Auditor, is
bled mind whether to tax such
peddlers or Apparently
the peddler can take his
News and
Stale of OHIO, of I
County, ;
makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
firm of Frank Co., do-
business ill the City of Toledo,
County State aforesaid,
will pay the sum of
ONE DOLLARS for
and every case of t that
cannot be cured by the Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
Sworn tn tin- and
ed presence, this Set day of
December, A. .,
A. W.
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in-
and nets directly the
Toledo, O.
Hull's Family Ix-st.
lute
for Worth and
Post.
Salve.
Keeping In the Public Mind.
The rapidity with which events
nowadays follow each other
broken succession renders it
for busy and women to
Mouse In Ills Pants.
The best salve world for keep in mind all of even most
Cuts, Sores, -Ulcers, Sail important matters which concern
Rheum, Fever Sores, Chap- them personally. This is a
Chilblains ,,,., for f the
all and positively . , , .
cures Files, or no pay It seeking
is to give perfect extend his list of customers. In
faction or money refunded. Price the matter of advertising it is
M per box. For Jno. for hi In to realize that the
L. Woolen, . ,. ., , . .,
an advertisement
only at intervals is nut the way to
increase his business. II is
A Fifth street citizen use of the
night while wins. The public
sitting in his easy chair at home forget today what was
reading. He fell run up, bill today
one leg of his At j Is there are
always of buyers who
He the until be wares
beard its bones crack. in- dully, To
he discovered la to
hail killed Sen I Ba
or,.
CHRISTIAN FAILS.
This town has been greatly st
up to day by news that Mrs.
Charlotte If. who of
dropsy at her home.
Fifth avenue, was a victim
of Christian It is a m.
admitted by the family, that the
woman bad no medical attention,
she had been ill
for three months,
lives, who have faith in the
Christian Science method of curing
illnesses, have Coroner
Banning of the matter and request
el In make an investigation.
The coroner says he will make an
Investigation at once, and that if
it true Km.
was allowed without the call-
in of a physician he will see
that Minn., r is responsible for
such it condition of affairs is pan
The family, that is, Mr.
and Mrs. have bean
dent Christian Scientists for
They have two sous who
do not believe in Christian Science,
and three months ago, w hen
was taken down with drop
these sons urged strongly that a
doctor be called in. Mr.
refused to call a doctor, and his
wife declared emphatically
she would not see one if he was
nailed in. Instead of a doctor Mr.
called in a Mrs. Fowler.
who is one of leading Christian
Scientists this place.
prayed the patient at Ire-
intervals three months,
but Mrs. tank gradually.
neighbors are
indignant because they believe
woman might have
ed at almost any lime during
her illness If proper treat
had bean applied.
Coroner Running said some harsh
things to Mr. yesterday,
but was not the least
disturbed. If Christian Science
could not save bis wife nothing
could, ha He attributed the
failure of method of cure
fact that there is a great deal of sin
in his family and that odds
against Mrs.
for her. Could his family have
been purged of all its sins, he slid
to the coroner, a cure would have
been certain. The coroner was so
indignant over the be-
fore the death with
the bureau of vital statistics he
wrote across I be top of it
as the cause of and under
as a contributing cause,
Science
The Christian Scientists want to
have Mm. body
led at according to
tom, but the coroner Insist upon
holding an autopsy and an Inquest.
He gays that If he will
for Mm.
on He has also
stated he is going lo make an
to break up the practice of
Christian Science in this place and
has asked public to back him
lip In the fight, -Mount
N. v., Dispatch.
V MERCHANDISE, The Work of the Saving
L ORNAMENTAL
everything needful for the home and
appearance in society.
This Week's Attractions
many and varied,
pall
The folks in a
The town has been for a few
years, a majority of the voters
voted for license. At the
lion on the 1st the vote on this
question was a tie. The
contend Ibis leaves the
lion the having
lo secure a majority in favor
of no license. Tho hold
that the burden is on
was necessary for them In
get a order lo Insure
the issue license,
failed tn do BU the situation re
to the condition which ex
license issued
which was dry. It is an
and the courts will
have lo settle Land
mark.
-2 Quality
In Remnants at about halt Regular Price.
White
Colored
PIQUE.
Fill Hit
in black. The kind that are so stylish.
TH.
On stock was never more complete in it
to sec us examine and prices, and we lire
sure of pleasing you.
Jim Crow Cars.
COUNTRY.
Mi-. Chillies
Chester county, N. V.
The Jim crow Inn N, of the
to June I, the dale originally San
fixed by the j.,,,.
The corporation sol .
,, . , . i i inti III
decided had
. a
Brown serve notice b that effect .,,,, , ,
. . . -i inn I.
on all principal Is the,
White attacked in
This notice orders them, by June 1st., killing one and
1st, to provide separate equal wounding two. Several whites arc
for the white arrest,
colored passenger trains v freight train
except express; a burning bridge
trains that Stop all Ariz., killing U
lions and are not used ordinarily
for traveling front
Following are
branches -lo which
order I, . , . . ,, , . ,.
. , . ,. . for a thief, shot him.
Atlantic puss en ,
trains with Alexander -1
Sob. and special . Presbyter an church,
has finally a call
except on lo the Fifth Avenue
branch. York.
Seaboard Air
trains except RoS.
Atlanta Thai Modem scourge, the
Norfolk Western All poisons with Its All genial,
that no home is sale from its
bill
la sure protection Ibis
passenger trains. malady in Dr. King's Men
Norfolk pas-en Discovery, feel a
trains.
South
trains.
Norfolk Suit
earners and New
trains.
North
. i
Life lug i n during I
cal .
most
till .-I
II.- . el of nil
-I-. , i- lie
is and
a a lilt e
value
properly saved
total Millie of
ll titan i In .
involved
-ii .
was Tin- vessels
which were after
Inn
pin,.
the station was The
running into
danger
signals patrols win
These statistics life -f.
Allan
lie.
Since the
Life Service, in
Hi-re have
Double Prices I
l .
.-.-.
The Power
I he old advertising man.
ii-in. i-11 force
In over the public mind,
i- the
I lie century . suggests a
in disasters lo , . . . , ,,
., we shall -nail
ships, less lives
la-ell lost. The properly it
lime
L he a id i-
I pay for ii. ere a for
things which the public never
Hi-, and tie saved ill,. . , ,
it wanted.
. . , .
,, , to a
lo In I- -n ,.
. . . 1- while
during lime.
.,., , v
are . ,
.,.,,., ; mi
she; though ilia
Ii, prate of I be dis-t. I be
brave men who live-
lien e w
followed a ion of
11-
Advertising.
Ml Hi
Tile III 1- ill
mi order to save
Hy,
w ill have
Life ,.,,,. . , , ,,,,,, ,. ,
Service is one of ma nil keep her health. If
of the she is sickly and nil run
i- free from the down she will
. , . . she bus pat
bull so III the . , ,,
I her Impure Mood
brunches l I in ,.,. ,,,., blot lies, skin
Sam's i ice, and nil praise is due eruption mid w
lo hi- i tin best
lice In the world lo regulate
liver and kidneys and lo
the gives strong
nerves, bright eyes, smooth,
v skin, nil complex .
COUNTRY. will
woman a an do invalid.
The will cents Jno. I.
hold reunion
inc. N . M ., on I.
The cruiser sustain
practically no damage in ground
William IS ray, of kill. V
mi- killed by train w II
from a v i-ii his
heart.
Chicago men h set I mil
an appeal for lo
unite gel Congress
James In- b i-n
president of the K
of New
succeed the lute II,
Hyde.
the I ll op
S Kan- 1-
their millet will
of work and
. your lames and j
Carolina -All
Died
I realm
Ill ON Till. HANDS.
For set era tears I stiller
It letter on my hand-. It
Hue pimples
and the itching alums more
I could The ski ii was
Hid the itching would swell
I could hardly lingers,
Sometimes nil hands
raw from scratching or
breaking of hen
was In Ibis ion I tried one
half Mrs. Joe P.-r-
mid line I it my
I nm now
trouble, ha- since
I'll ti.-. Inn
I , lo me or
nit- try more medicine. I am
now well. M.
Burlington, N. May 1890,
OB H vi
lA's STORK,
N. .
in Hie back of the head,
symptoms a
cough you may know you have the
drip, you Dr. King's
New Discovery. It will
cure the worst rough, heal In
membranes, kill disease
germs and prevent
income lax bill, Ides ,,.,. ,,,. ,,,,,, ,.,
Michigan Senate an
a bra of one fourth of I per rent,
nil all income and up
wards. bill applied
an
makes II apply to all
within the state. It is estimated
that the bill the
and i-ii the
lure will
Chicago, II. Villa
T. sister in law of
V Stevenson,
here without medical I
under Christ inn Science
refusing to
w I Burgeons declare would have
eels and Money bin I. not , prolonged life. The-o
cured, A trial bottle tree ill I. have only I
Store. n. her Sal I
Mi. was
1-a m, r of the Christian
I'M
The acid- in Hi,
which cause the disease
thoroughly
laxative mid
In- and convert
several members hi family.
sin- suffered Internal r,
which would prove
relieved.
rial . .-.
Mil .
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tat.
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V C.
D. J.
the Pest
Greenville, N. as Second
Hatter.
THE
i.
sow . .
lam
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token
, It-l
Its
. . .
B, mU arrangement made
years ago
nation f men
ho ix- -I
tarn 111.- of their
fathers, and who claimed the
Of the who. bad
,,.,.,,. allowed
lathed grand old way,
honoring
their fathers more than their pot
year subscription to that paper to
ever n.- subscriber who pays
The Eastern Reflector I year ahead
and the to mad
old subscriber who will pay all bar
ones and one year
papers for the price of ours only.
n order to get the Farm
Ma for payment
right
to the office, for nave
year
to The Form
Journal la on solid foundation
her
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I. ill.
LETTER.
tr m our -I
Washington.
An extra session of Congress will
be .-ailed early in the fall, if pub-
h, opinion object
to frighten Mr.
out of Thai lathe
only reason it ha- not official
j it been de-
Mr.
wished to appear to follow a pub-
He the
was deferred until hi- friends, who
re now talking extra session in
direction, could to work
,,,,,.,,,.,,,.
,,,,,, h,
, am. to make ,
,,
T , of the Gov. of
tin- ,
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the
it
and
so nation was ml
, in twain, in in
There
might be wrought to-ether
WINTERVILlE
or
the
delegation is
pledged, why talk
putting a
I candidate CM Speaker, who the
delegation ran pretend to support
until Quay then to vote for
one the other candidates
An Extra of
Washington, May It. It is now
pertain that an extra.
session of will In-
far a tin of
bar. The want- the
the in re-
to the Philippines other
and
In-fore the next
Now as I I
there. One year Mr. John B.
Daniel set out plants April
on June
lour a part of the crop WM
sold and at good prices. M
cannot In- in
than five during this
time
be each detail, other
a is
Mount Motor.
TO-PAY-8
1-ow
June MS HI MM oM
a m m m
PM aM M Hi
May June.
Opening. flow. lone.
quint . .
Mich
Wheat.
to, t;
ST.
Opening. High Close, j
C. B. I
l-o.
It. It. T.
Manhattan
C. U
The Jim Crow ear U into
Jane b.
are from pro
providing ac-
for the
Opinions in Political Cases
Handed Down.
forever united.
said The Invalid.
pi. e
take two
if cold iron and them up-
he may
until In- l- gray, and
will let the
anoint the lip- of a cold
piping with balm of
The Supreme Court Tuesday
in all the
pending cases.
result the decisions in
president,
tors of Hi.- and North
remain in con-
Edwards
us the public print
era; of the
Agricultural arc at
much directors as the old
Wilson, Re
publican, is
Western Criminal
Rev.
j. i. Burns as i
In the Atlantic and Car
Una Railroad case the
hers wrote opinions,
save Justice Douglass. The
was written
Chief Justice Then
Justice Furches wrote
opinion. Justices Clark
wrote
of justice wrote
Criminal
Court clerkship .-a-.-. Justice
i. -11 wrote opinion
, ii u rote
opinion. A
was written Justice
was hi it-
decisions in Burns h-.-i i a- .
Hi.- public prim in- ease Hi
Agricultural Board contest.
In the case of vs. Hum-.
the held i office
keeper of the was u
BUSINESS
Maj i
are
The brick kiln was closed r
which he knowledge, and
W I House Is baring his lot not heal. But W the heal
cleared off for building. and the to. It
Miss Bessie is at sparkles, and it will with a
Mi W. . let cut
Ibis week.
i;. Mai
An Ohio grocer Invented a
scale that will tell any
thing weighed on it. Mow if he
will invent an Io pay
bills he will add much Io the
of human happiness.
To Ladies
who
until it bleeds, and I offered to take the
rooms at the same hotel,
twin and get it
. i . . .
in the
are boarding to-
W. J. hi- been suffering
for several days
rheumatism bis shoulders.
Manning; Co. have just
,. . ii guano ii.
had better get what few .
bags they want a. the . M h.
Mel. Silas energy
I-,,,,,.,, ,. infused itself into ; 1.-1-. Captain Hart, a b
here Co. It u train from
He I
l On the Good Lady.
stranger who got
on the train Wilmington
day night arrived in this city on
Hie the night with
a about weeks old
and took lodging at the
S-1 Family
racket Mrs. George
Ready again.
I am now straight from
lire and am once more
to serve the of
those wanting the
KINDS OF
Hand
and
Com mi as ion.
Cal R and Hat
w r i
return the- b i to
WE CLEAN AND PRESS SUITS RM
CENTS.
and ff
i. v t- p-r
f. Haw. st
i.
WOW,
K.
The people of are
and get prices, which will be
very low for a few days to
thoroughly ii it rod my work,
at Five Points, op-
Dr. office.
H. W. T.
vex
it will become whole in were readily
,, two a nation and stranger explain-
brought together, in lire and hi- awkward position by saying
,. In- in a hospital
in less than half a that he was on his
bas passed since their bringing but did care to
together nation ha- By and had Stopped over
in action. and grace. morning,
South has imparted Itself He allowed Mrs. to keep
into manners her room during the night
mid yesterday morning he arose
and weal out and never came
brought
. need of fencing
is .
,, ;, ,, .,. W. Parker's prices harmony. U is one nation awl. m.
on ornamental yard fence. 1- the pa, .
p,;., -hep glories, cherishing the
opportunities, and wooing tn
for it.
A Hue 1- nothing new.
you need not think that
Hue.
A i-a you
lint a big of expel
I., cine
A man from ii will do.
it's a line.
iii ill do yon need fear.
any Mae will last one
sec
lo
I bill ours 1.1-1 three limes om
A. Cox Mfg. Co.
good insuring said that he
with the
on Wilmington.
A in Suspenders.
dispatch from
out he know any
than
The Threatened to Strike.
The in. r of seven colored
as a. Man
Shirt and Overall Factory
was cause of some excitement
Io the SI. that yesterday.
under dale of May
A 1111-1 marriage
today. Six
well
Sunday will a named Va
Hondo. While there
were informed somewhere
JOHNSON'S HILLS
Mm-. .
II. Kilpatrick l tin-en
iii.- week.
Mi. ill till his
111.11 SI. John's
In Sunday .
Constitutional office, young ladies -i Junior
legislature a right to will nave an ice cream
-.-I. next night school.
for Burns. room.
n the contest among the Lire- C.
tors of the I the picnic Bethel but
it was held
director i-. L. B. Cox has chopping cot
office, and that the legislature had ton. Hi. crop generally
When the while girls learned
that women were to work
with them, they arose
and went
unless 111.- women were dis
charged would at once walk
out. An animated debate ensued
in neighborhood a young girl managers and
was living as man. wearing men's I which resulted
ordered dot goods at once
and they are now coming in so
all your wants can In-sup
plied. I can be found In the
old stoic
me a call.
J. S.
A FULL LINE TO
SELECT FROM.
WE CARRY A
NICE LINE OF,
DRY Goods
SHOES
HATS
TS
We have just opened at
WINTERVILLE, N. C.
a line of new-------
Fancy Novelties.
to which we invite your attention.
OUR are latest styles and
entirely new
willed , . , , ,,
to do our trimming and H
give entire
Call on us in the new brick store.
We have just opened
MISS HARDY CO.,
ill H.
mm
IN
Heavy and
. C.
Cotton Bagging and always
on
Fresh goods kepi on
hand. Country and
MM. A ill convince you.
D. .
We Carry
Dry Notions.
Shoes. Hats, Hardware,
Crockery. Farm Implements,
Meat. Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
Laid. Tobacco, etc, in fact
every STAPLE ARTICLE
carried in a general stock.
We Also Sell
HAY, OATS,
TON SEED
AND GUANO.
Our prices on everything will be
found as low as a article can
lie sold at. You are cordially in-
lo visit our store.
Highest prices paid for all kinda
produce.
WHITE FLEMING,
S. C.
Alter two years
Premiums have been paid
the right to increase the member
ship of The of
decision 1- the l
will take control of the
inn in June 13th.
The held Id the public
printing I lull Barnes Bros, hail
DO writing, or in lad.
and that the contract with them and they are going North
effect. and elsewhere. Some are going k
Baltimore, but most of Hum are
, j going North. Business
Tramps sleep on the road bed men In Wilmington do employ
with the mantle of for a they can get awhile man
lo do work. In all of
ways the departure of the
is facilitated. On the other hand
while people arc going into
rapidly, and thus a de
. is
Leaf.
, the way
a. n
, ii could more
lie strange woman.
a man and a
lull, who was smoking a
, farmer's name 1-
Sim-. Thinking the n-.-n
Here 1- he
smoking lad was in reality a girl
Lulu Shaw. She i- very
said -he resided at Waco, where
home had been lined. Sims
I hen took charge of her. and she
had learned to love him. She
dressed as a man lo keep
, . . ill went lo, .
from talking about her.
the parties who mode
is now Its
inning. The are leaving
for other parts large
a- man as lo loll a day we are
While 1- crowding
in
DON'T PLANT YOUR CROP WITHOUT IT.
MAKES THE FINEST TOBACCO.
COLUMBIA GUANO CO., NORFOLK, VA
Dr. Win.
Sea w
, were In lawyer- and an Alder
man. who Informed I In-couple I hat
Constipation,
Headache, Biliousness,
Heartburn,
Indigestion, Dizziness,
Hut your
is Tl.-
. inn. run- nil
lilt. In III
Hood's Pills
Sold by all .
The magnitude
at this place can he
when it is stated .,., sill. mm
the pickers alone
they .
-eared at and
ed marry each other.
were given -eats in
carriage, and whole
the woman
overall-, shirt,
suspenders, county Clerk Ban-
was sent and a
marriage license for the couple.
Counts Judge W. I. Hamilton
joined then while they stood upon
curl house steps, surrounded
by the men who had
the mystery. Alter the
groom kissed bride and de
parted for home on foot, followed
good wishes from the crowd.
The baton of the occasion mi
when Clerk Sanderson asked
for the girls, who wen back
In their work, while the colored
help went
rimes.
private letter from Elizabeth
says that the
to a unit against the issue of
bonds for street improve
menU which carried on Monday
last. writes I friend.
an Impediment to progress and
will ever until eliminated from
polities. He received hut whisper,
ed orders and voted as
That is an indictment against
as a outside AM
understand. They gel
elections,
and vote furor against improve-
as directs. Such
i- a danger in any
ugh News and Observer
The Helping Man.
An exchange very significantly
prosperity of a town,
of a or a is not guided
by the wealth of its Inhabitants,
the uniformity with which
they pull together when
duty is to a man
with a thousand dollars his
command and an interest in the
welfare of his town at heart can
no more for and
of II than a
who lock- up his capital and snaps
his finger his home
lift
Newark. N. J.
Your Policy
I.
NOTICE
that
I for their work on
Olive Advertiser,
I Her reply hold up my
of
Value,
Loan Value,
Paid-op Insurance,
Insurance
works automatically,
ii. Will lie re-Instated within
three years after lapse if you are
in good health.
After Second Year
h. incontestable
are payable the lie-
ginning of the second and l each
year, provided the
for the current year paid.
They may Is; used
To reduce Premiums, or
a. To the Insurance, or
To Make Policy Payable OS
an Endowment during Lifetime
of Insured.
J. L.
N.
U P. PRICE,
and
SURVEYS FOR AND
POWER.
r OS
r is no or pair or
OS
I Will ROT St.
LOOK OUT FOR IMITATIONS AND SUB-
Ht
I BEARS THE NAME,
DAVIS SON.
We extend our many
thanks to the good people
of Greenville and Pitt
the faithful help
us in the fire of May,
4th, 1899, and by the hard
and faithful work we lost
hut very little. We will he
glad to see one and all at
our store. We have a com-
line of Merchandise.
Allow us to thank you
once more. Yours, etc.,
I. C. COBB SON.
I am coming.
MERRY MAY.
Meets More People on the Move.
Till
Q. P. of spent
here,
Henry of
boa been i-i.-k the
last two days.
Wilson.
Parker in
not yet a place in which
to open my mi v. from the
hut I ask people t. me n mind.
In a short will be ft a U r
am to give you
a INS THAT
BARGAINS.
En lilt will in out
as as in order i
i p . . ., B. B. left this
begin the e-s If an new
ck.
Mi Mini.
is . Miss on
John, who has been
s mealing
past reek, this
morning for
Friday. WM.
left this morn-
for Suffolk.
i mm
The an warm.
Wilmington had a baby show.
Strawberries lo a
quart.
The recent weather has been line
for crops.
There arc no sheds on J
street
It takes a clever butcher
odds and meat.
Some of our farmers have coin
cotton.
River getting in good shape for
book and line fishing; again.
list all is ready for
Bee
bail storm around Washington I
a few days ago ruined many truck
crops.
lb, Jelly
glass, grated
oil III I I
Two Children Kill Another.
Mr. B. w. a day over
in and on
his return tells of a horrible
crime committed by some children
on the plantation of Mr. T. K. liar-
row. Among the colored tenants
living on his place were Billiard
Anderson and Susan Harper. An-
had a child three years old
and the woman had two children
aged seven and eight. going
out to their work they left the
children together. During the ab-
of parents the Harper
children took sticks ls-at
Anderson child i crushing
its skull with their blows.
who such an deed
are too young to be dealt with by
law.
EXCURSION.
Trip to Washington.
The crowd II
Hand on
Washington. on
Steamer Myers was i bu as
the was
large enough to the lo
all expenses have s one
thing left to add to and d
Those who did are in their
praise of the management
pleasure trip
apt. A. did In
pan in lo this pleasure,
for he always those who
travel him.
steamer reached Washing
ion a little before in
time hand to make music
the lo lead
lo
The exercises
proper in
where appropriate pro
music and recital ions
was carried was
by lion. J. A. in, of
Xe After
m taken to
where the
graves of were
decorated. The order of the pa-
was Osceola Baud, Washing
Mi. II
k Work.
i r.
. . . S. .
for a trip of several days in
Haw Is. of came
Thursday night and is stopping
I with J. Tyson.
A. M. Moore retained this
from where he
had court.
. I. of who
has been visiting his daughter,
Mrs. W. Brown, returned none
today.
lb. w. II. Bagwell
from New York
when- he has spending sever
weeks taking a post graduate
course.
F. M. Hodges and J. White re-
fr. . I
hi 1-
i ling n
i i ;
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. i es i i by
mi
i e.
Ml-s- I I
B. B. El k.
Mas. Iii i
I. ; I . lino,
M. II. V .
A . II.
MKS. H.
I. a
Mas. l. I. J .-ii.-.
Jam.
T.
Mrs. m. a. i r,
II. lb.
V,
J. .
i i v a
i. s. Km hi.
. I IN
has week since
the big Ore and every loss sustained
by in. romp has been
all of my
A B
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By JACOB
No. BOOK
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SWINE BOOK
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FARM I . i
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ton Light Infantry. Trinity
Knights i
THE LIAR ABROAD.
A Lynching; Reported In this
County.
Pythias, veterans,
in;
dinner was to the
veterans and band.
Tom aid I he close all. 1.111
the hand gave an open sir concert
tin- opera house. Hundreds
people gathered around to enjoy
this, awl it was a pleasure heir
many high paid. The
boys made music,
they were net their
because of the sickness of one of
, the principal members and others
Mrs. O.
who has been visiting here, left having lost their notes In the late
this morning. , lire being forced to play from
for which reason sonic of their
when .
u II
II. A. White.
I hey had been
the session of the Grand Lodge of
Odd Fellows.
Saturday,
Miss Wilson is sick.
II. Smith is on sick list.
left ibis morning
to Spend Sunday in Wilson.
Rev. T. H. of Elizabeth
City, come in Friday
P. H. left Friday eve-
for and from there
go.-s to S.
Mrs. of who has
been visiting Mrs. B. A. Move, re-
turned home Friday evening.
The fly paper doe. not insist of Verily, the Bar is again abroad
Bl circulation, but it gets there j ,. and is gelling off H. V. Price left this morn
just same. fake on I for home lo He
The Dukes, of Durham, It got all over the State Thurs ; will
build another cotton then perhaps further,
cost big lynching in
The telephone wires burned down pin doubt the report
days.
one
adjusters who was here
will soon be in I , y . who
tor if
working order again. a sensation. ,.,.,,. this
The First Regiment Hand can- After supper telegrams home in Atlanta.
celled some of its engagements to ask- j
State. I fr particulars mid for awhile the Architect.
lies selections were not given.
what they did give was good
enough, many people so i. was
the they ever heard. The
boys made a great reputation.
The earner Washington
o'clock binding all safe in
ville at On the entire trip
there was perfect order as
on on exclusion, nothing
whatever occurring to mar the
pleasure of any one.
Lender Ola Forbes requests The
to return the thanks of
the boys to the people of Washing-
ton for courtesies shown
Marriage Licenses.
For the two weeks of May
Register of Deeds Moore issued
folio., marriage licenses
WHITE.
A. M. Waters and Mo.-.
IV. L. Brewer Mar. Worn-
B. N. Owens
II. Rood-son
M. Ross and Anna B. Which-
and Kale
and
Williams.
Isaac and Smith.
A mo.-Mills and Fannie Hells.
Mr. Hill of lieu
former
shelter and sign in the I the wires were kept busy letting
business portion of town has know there bad been I who built the
disappeared from the sidewalks, j in has the eon
Jarvis have moved their True there bus been crime tract for their new building and is
law across the street to the ; the county last, now here carrying
We don't have to take
down sign. It hangs
over the
S. E. P-
The place to get your
.,. ;., crop,
1.1 . v than ; v. .-
bi i u i.-p . iii
ii f ; n a sit c ii el
u id. tut l. i.
for inn an cm
. A is short owl
the work.
Lodge
The Ibid
lows In Ibis
week elected following officers
Days at Chivalry Head.
Th.- of of lament-
ed Walter II. of Warren
bin. was sold as a whole in War
There were
several gentlemen present to bid
ii. bill when ii ascertained
Its. as n bidder
rooms formerly occupied by Col. 1.1 w ,,,. , being one , year
A.
The adjusters arc hard at work
straightening out insurance
claims of who lost in
the late lire.
There has some mad dog
talk around town the last day or
two but we have not heard of any
dogs being killed.
It is said that the soldiers who
had taken Hood's Sarsaparilla stood
the long marches Cuba much
better than t he others.
Don't It make folks
feel bad to read about Memorial
Hay observance other towns and
we here never notice day at all I
It will not be long before the
work of rebuilding burned dis-
begins. Already the debris
is being cleaned off in some places.
Mr. Wait Porter, lately
from Cuba, has The
a photograph of one of
the bone yards there about which
wrote in a letter the paper.
people to great but, of the best architects in the State
they prefer to let the law take its and has put up many handsome
course and not slain the
county with a lynching.
The Wilmington Messenger says
that In to the
cotton mill to lie erected by Mr. K.
Holt and his associates, another
cotton mill is to lie erect-
ed Wilmington.
Wise
Than
Wise people are also rich
when they know a perfect
remedy for alt annoying dis-
eases of the blood, kidneys,
liver and bowels. It is
Hood's which
is perfect in its action. It
,,,., ,.,,. ,,,,, so regulates the entire sys-
front of the stores of Patrick tern as to bring vigorous
Greene, J. A. Andrews, Dr.
and H. M. Schultz on
night of the Arc were removed yet-
Last Tuesday there were
along Wilmington
don railroad between Wilmington
and quails of
strawberries, valued at
How is that for one days
buildings in various sect ions. There
is an old and true saying that a
man's work speaks for itself, and
the buildings that Mr.
has erected are bis strongest
While is in Green
ville can take other contracts as
well as one upon which he is
engaged and those who
plate building would
him.
You'll Hear From This.
We know dis
Master. John A. Stevens,
Clinton,
Deputy Brand Master, Marcus
Jacob, of Wilmington.
Grand Warden. Robt. w.
ray, of Greensboro.
Grand Secretary. B. II.
of
Grand Richard J.
of Wilmington.
Grand Warden. Plate of
Grand
bee, of
White and F. M. of
. . 11- are some
men have lender reeling for
widow and are nit so eager for
gain I lull they would forget tin-
widow and orphan, block
their way to their corning a
mi
Price of c -10- 8-
orders ,;
luring, o. N
J. W. I
must be great over I were both appointed on
the fact the cruiser Hal- important
The One Successful Method.
Costly illuminated
and all the thousand outside
methods of advertising do some
in special cases, but in this
progressive age, when the daily
newspaper is read in every home,
the successful method for
; ii custom Is by the wise
use of the newspaper columns.
Philadelphia Times.
health. It never appoints.
nil my n.-i-k, ll.-
me , and
entirely A In
my
mil wan if
me fur
Ina
Street.
Poor M i-r
In bark and
with and
no Used Hood's
and fan work hard all day;
eat heartily and Bleep well. took It be-
cause II my
Kr mi J. Moose Minn.
Makes Strong -I
Si i. f If I
l-i-I II Is III.-
Ii
A. M, Y.
was unable gel up to the
her striking bottom.
Charleston have borrowed
enough water from Wilmington to
get the ship into the
Messenger,
The last week crossed
the burnt the mouth of the
Fear and entered the
harbor. This week trying
the Charleston, she I
nm aground and the Messenger
wanted to loan Charleston some of.
surplus water of the Cape Ken
The Messenger hits hard.
Hotels.
Mr. W. II. will open a
boarding In the
on Dickinson
present Mr II. L. Cow-
ward, about the Brat of July. The
building fourteen rooms.
Mr. Vines, who pro
the King House at
time of its destruction, has rented
the house of Mrs. A.
Third street and will II
hotel This building was
used as a hotel ago.
Died.
Died at half alter twelve today.
Walter infant son of
Walter Alice l-
The funeral will held at
tomorrow Friday Iron.
the residence of Ha. William
limes- Visitor,
. .
The many friends in Greenville
of Mr. and Mrs. Grimes learn with
sorrow on-lit to
Make Her Hum.
You can make Greenville bum
by talking for the town; using your
best efforts for its enterprises;
proving your property and lots;
use paint and push; plant trees
with last.-; remove old fences
These thing help
lo town and impress the
beholder, whether he be neighbor
or stranger. Greenville Is on
upward move. I-et us keep her
going. All can help to do Ibis.
Don't n balky la the
Midi
glorious
hies
iii- ti
What a time fur
tender
At
some attempt
writs result Injure
constitution
use i f.
tin m all
to
names, is s
all such cast. M y for
for .
CO.
A. CA.
Ire Sal .
M. can
HOW Bud me in OH
fourth street where the
office stood before the lire.
my millinery and fancy goods
ed from lire will sold ill
greatly prices, and hats
coat, some goods
even much below will Is-
lo Interest to see these goods
and learn the prices.
M. D.
I win. help
ed move in. fire tho
sol take method m b i i hos much I op
th assistance de
M. store Is all torn up present, hot In u few
will hove everything again.
Invite oil W rail on me.
then I
Keep Waiting;.
Why call the ward
They should If
held nest week and sonic days
notice be give.
the new the town
Hie DO
all the wards, so the chairman of
call the
meetings for all the wards. AI
any a
hold the conventions two weeks
before
I the Ai- s
ill Five Points, want to
Don't wait want bargains,

You May Never but you
Want Job Printing
Coma to us
from a
---Sheer Foster.
I Haw in of
Jo n. t thank
t ,
any all
how . mush to
Ill
all bOOB who mirthfully
with
rd, Hi
Dick n had do m
minion. n their in
,.,. time. They Um
. ,. . life
make the mp
which .- Bale. .-u.
f r
which all the
nil
i i
boy went t. with nil
Tb-
la it. i.
, lie
I i rend
u i,,, . I wed ti Mm
j, I. . o act badly
i to
A . I
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A town n v
bar
but .
lath t a . a
a i i
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I by the
of hi,
the Mat., n to I lb
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the l-n -v
no I BluM
lb If anew i
the time, I
it mm N I
attire,
T m i. opened
door, eh.- race
o bow-
r he art I i
w led
I N
riding Will tin the
card and went away
with .-i decided
of
Record
y,
bad will I hare 1-
Wt
carry a fail line of the
celebrated
Parker
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I ,
n ; estimated
that It. ill- mi
r. ml lb land I
rt, a
the
n anted
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it to I
Two Span-
I , with a re-
. to.,
man m th rid K.
bird, in on deck,
. . ,;.,. n moment bit
up . i sand
. f i
an n red
it is a big hit in n pen
in and is distinctive
N only does it feed the ink
perfectly, soiled
fingers
lei i wen I
, l in
T I I
It ii
n done t all
i; .,. HI hit.
i nil and el
I . it
I . deck and
ml n lilt the Span-
r- t -y
I tin. n
. I
I .- manner,
ship with
. ill roughly
II.
n habit
.
. lint the
i . -1
The Daily Reflector
Gives the home news every
at small price
cf cents a month. Are
yo i a subscriber It not
ought to be.
The Eastern Reflector
. ;
little-
a v, ii
Hi.
It win in . or f the low
that the little woman
ad her tall for
cue night
Will yon have tn
glancing r the Nil tare.
the woman,
m the in vain lo hex
the John. wan i kn
John nodded, and. n he banded bin
order to On waiter, be raid. and
bring n f-r the
naked waller,
with what John more than or-
inter. n. be nodded in th-i
still the waller didn't c-.
the tablecloth with n
rearranged article on
time, while bi- face got
Then be came and t. aloe,
and. v.
haven't been hero long, and
I'm not all Will
lady bare the eh r
Chicago
In
The wife an Ami naval
i at Ti. n lain write thus to a
I friend in ire trip by train
from Ian. lo lake
a half
not palatial, I ill ll ire com ruble.
When yon land, coolie ha-
yon for
bow it ever i--
in The trip i- what
eating. hut rather den late to take alone.
Vi n . i-s i f
Tin of
i . t i- n grant r n leaf
seen.
r dead anywhere
y i-h They In Urge coffin
lb
red v. i with mud and earth This
i- blown and way. and th.-n
are t, A fan
the the
DIRECTORY.
Sun-
Had
N. II.
i. I p. in. W F.
. Bar.
J. Morton. Sunday-
p. in. J. II.
regular
n. m.
um every
Sunday
M at A.
M., A. Minister
in Chugs,
every Sun-
day, morning and evening. Tray
meeting Thursday evening. Kev.
A. pastor.
ft. in.
having
this day issued lo the under-
signed the of
deceased, notice is here
by to all persons
claims against the estate of
to present them to
undersigned on or the
day of March, or this
will in liar of their re-
This the day of March
B,
of estate of
Harding A Harding, Ally's,
The having duly
I In- Court
Clerk of as
the list Will and of
hereby given to all persons
ed lo i to immediate
payment to the undersigned, and
all persons having claims against
said estate are to present
the same for payment on or
the day of March WOO, or
this will in liar of recovery
of same.
This March
A.
of Knox.
J. R. COREY,
IX-
II
LODGES
A OP
HORS
-c-MILLINERY.
Also a nice Li tic of Hardware.
I now lie in the
brick store formerly
occupied by J.
W.
TO MB.
J. R.
CAMP FIRES
CONFEDERACY.
A. A. If.
Lodge, Ho. and
third Monday evening. H.
M. J. M. Boo
1.0.0. Covenant Lodge. No.
Meets every Tuesday evening.
B. B. Griffin, H. L. ft. Ponder,
See.
K. of River Lodge, No.
every Friday evening.
Bagwell, Jr., K. L.
K. of R. and S.
R. Vance Council. No.
1696, meets every Thursday even
W. I. Wilson. I. M. R,
Lung. Bee.
O. U. A. every
Wednesday night at in I. O.
F. hall.
A. . Council,
No. meets every first and third
nights in Odd Follow
Hall. M. U. Worthy
Chief; H. S. Smith, See.
r. o. Conclave
every second
fourth Monday night in Odd
lows Hall. W. B. Wilson. An lion;
S. Smith Sec.
NOTICE TO
The having duly
before th Superior Court
t rut county as
i .-.,.
pi
j. , .
the and of
Mrs. I., c. Kicks. notion
is hereby given to all persons
to estate to make
mediate to undersign-
ed, and all persons having claims
against said estate are to
present the same fur payment on or
the day of April,
or notice will lie plead In bat
of of same.
This of April, 1869.
Executor of Mrs. L. c.
Is only SI a year and c
the news every gives
information to the
pf tin growing
co, that is worth m times
mil than Price.
t,
i ill nil .
. . . .; i a . In a
I nil ;
lay i a i it lib a black
. H,. i, to
n t tail,
.;., till U f
II taking tin u
. n ii.
. . II b i y a
i I d
lid toll I'll
. . . I
it, i . Mi, it um mil nil n to
I, with I lb a
r. i I a
II . i .-.-. I, IV
tail In i
i It if
I . ii rut i-i ,
ii i a fall-
i in. M .
. ; ., ,;. . r is i ring
i mini lb attempt I I kill ii m
with u ell .--.- he km
. ; i i t as
D v ,, . an i
by i I bi
; .
. mimed by lb.
I I i
I .
. . .
I find
let
riv. r come lo tr.--. and . . ,,
It yon of -I land W W H.
of om railroad at go AND BRANCHES
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
RAILROAD COMPANY OF
CAROLINA.
And yon rat a
yon that yon had mi extravagant
tool of a father
That what
what did he V
mid it criminal lolly to
money on a
i a- I mil PI mi
Tb.- term
lb., l v.
applied I military
by an . f
real Ilia father i M t-
All the land
riot more Hi
i if an
ii. . . I
in tin-
; I
II,,,
It
that n
mi . J an
dirt
. ; i. I.
portrait ; i I
did nut
en i i.
Parable.
i in para-
Is I
i i wing
, . A treat
I In-
, f
and so on,
I draw a
the in in who
i I polite
t fail to know
Man Help.
all e, Pr i
what day .-i month i
it To my I c
n Sage It i the -1 Ii Am
-1, i- a
are
to of II.
the and the lung
May
I., Moo
Leave
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Florence
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in
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Hardware.
Paints Oils
BRUSHES
Building Hardware a Specialty-
I. be an.- boot
nor l- R
and drink n month is frill and
generally n- hi in of hi
fork
the lid whom
. I I , r allot d an
.- i I hi- band
;,. In i ; 1- t, my r;.
Lull I a C
II, j ii in Mi
. I i ii folly for
by In, id i into th-
n thud cf treat-
I . in Mi marl. Hi
. ago a i -f Mo .
r. t ft i I.,
i. . i . in. an I In.
I lit K I I I Id
i . , Hi I at lb
,. f. .
full of neighbor The
i ; i i , . th
in. ii and i i r.- ll, in
don't y it month at
giving a ever
The effect of lb blow
month to
SIS Boon P.
Advertising to
Business.
Advertising impetus to
Wide awake do
not tail In lake of this
way to
Ink is the moving power
in any v if the
ill
will return to them four CoM. The
la-st index of a town's is
in t in- column of the local paper
with
Ar Mount
Arrive
Ar
I'M
ti
AM
. .
s in lo
III a H
AM PM I'M
.-, ii ii it i at i it
,. IS II a H
.-
TO
The of Superior Court
of Pill county, having issued let-
to me, the
on the 20th day of
1809, on the estate of H.
notice is
to all persons indebted to
state I., Immediate
to the to all
creditor of lo
their
to the within
twelve months after date of
this notice, or this notice will lie
plead in liar of recovery.
This the 20th day of ISM,
J. I,.
on the estate of If. Harris.
it,,.,
a a, pin. I v
s, N pm. B
inn, I
f i a limn. 111.- W am. Halifax
at I. m. n a in.
Train.
-ii i . B
it in Carmen s
a m V e m. w am
ad I
Train v .
at Main m. I y-
ill. daily, i it SO a m
I.,,,
T i a n.
m.
a a in.
rial
am. a. i in,
lo n n. m . in. HoM la a
i, in ma HOB HOB am
II a m. . p m. dally MB Sunday
Train on fur
dally, Sunday. II m and
p m. . a in and
a p
Train No at
tor all dally, all rail turn
II. M.
Pass.
J. R.
T. M.
By the in
commissioner,
in No.
iii Docket No. entitled M.
on and David by his next
friend Thomas
I will sell at public sale lie-
fore Court House door in
Greenville, on Monday day
of 1890, at o'clock noon,
all the pine, cypress popular
timber of and above size of
twelve inches in diameter the
base when the same may be
together with the privilege of seven
within which to mil and re-
move said and also the
of way appertaining to
same for the removal of
now standing and growing up
On tWO Inlets of land
Township, County,
North Carolina, tract adjoin-
lands old no. J.
Dixon, Charles and J. W.
others bounded as fol-
lows, vim Beginning at the
ditch a wood stake
a south west course
to line, a Sweet
corner, then running a South
course i to a knot
corner on Tar lied, then run-
nearly a west course
to a box pine corner, a north
to Sweet
in the then
branch to the
ginning, a
deed from J, W. Dixon and wife to
R. M. Dixon book to
which reference is made.
Also line other tract, adjoining
the lands of Dixon, John
Elks others a follows
at a pine in John
Elks line E. M.
DiXOn and W. Dixon and run
Ding in a Westerly direction
with a about
thence with branch to E. M.
C. Dixon line thence
lo the containing about
acres more or
Terms of sale cash.
Win. II. Logo,
Commissioner,
N. May
p. Sr
Kb. and
an
I a women.
Heroic, and
Side Ike War,
of
Balds Trait. tie.
------ESTABLISHED 1875.------
WHOLESALE -.-RETAIL
Prepared buckwheat, fancy Ponce
molasses, side meat, hams, should-
coffee, sugar, tobacco,
snuff, cigars, cigarettes, cheroots,
butter, mountain full
cream cheese, sausage,
oat Hakes, hominy flakes, cotton-
seed meal and hulls, cotton seed
bought cents per bushel.
D. M GARDEN SEEDS.
STANDARD Sewing MACHINES
BAGS SALT.
BUREAUS.
MATTRESSES,
AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
Come to see
M. SCHULTZ.
Phone
ii.--it to W, R
OLD DOMINION LING
Whichard, N. G.
The Stock complete every de-
and prices as as
lowest. Highest market prices
paid for country produce.
Professional Cards
I. B. L.
p. I. Moor.
AYCOCK, FLEMING A
At-Law.
Greenville, N. C.
no
In Criminal
yo.
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,.,. lb. f., U
a i-i.-
. . T.
on.
an. at,
SERVICE
Steamers leave Washington on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-
days at II A. M. fur Greenville,
permitting,
leave at A.
M., Greenville A. M. on
Thursdays and Saturdays.
Sailing hours subject de
pending on stage of water.
Connecting Washington
Steamers for Norfolk,
New York and
for all for West
with at Norfolk.
Shippers should freight by
Old Dominion B. B. Co. fro.
Has York; Clyde Line from
Bay Line from Baltimore;
and Line from
Boston.
JNO. N. SON,
It. C.
J. J. CHERRY,
N.
Gilliam, Mills R.
Tarboro, N. C. N C
LAW,
Greenville, N. C.
Dr. D.
DENTIST,
Greenville, N. C.
over j. fr
TOG
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book oh
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FOR
The Eastern Reflector
D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Owner IN PREFERENCE TO per Year in Advance.
ft
VOL. XVIII.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY
NO
I KB
-and
Friday
CASE.
PRELIMINARY TRIAL HELD.
Four Prisoner
Joyner and
Committed to
of
las;
of Prisoner.
No trial has ever drawn such a
crowd into the Court of Pitt
as assembled there Monday
at trial of
the parties arrested in the recent
murder and arson
Since commission of this crime
on the morning of of April
it has the chief topic, of dis
not only in Ibis but in
several counties. Officers
detectives have been constant-
at work on the case, and while
the officers have not done much
talking themselves, there have
been all kinds of rumors
that kept excitement lo a high
pitch.
In all six arrests were made of
parties charged with implication
the crime. These were William
Ellis, white, Elijah
Langley, Ben Dixon, Ben Johnson
and Jim Dixon. These were all
brought to and placed
jail. On Monday of last week
they were taken before a of
Magistrates composed of Albert
Horton, B. M. Lewis, R. L. Joy-
A. II. Raiding,
at which lime on the motion of
Solicitor L. I. Moore was
postponed for a week, as was told
that day in Sat
0th. I.
officer Smith, West Ai Lyons
Detective Police Agency, of Haiti
more, arrived and Is
working on COM. To give
opportunity for developing
was one cause for postponing
the case.
The same Magistrates Silt on the
case heard testimony.
T. L.
of April and
t o'clock in the morning I awoke
and turned over in bed, but being
in a slumber did not open my eyes.
My dog gave one or two barks and
about same time my wife who was
asleep opposite loom with little
daughter, called me. I did not
answer first call and called me
again said what does that light
I jumped up from bed and
looked nut window and
my life the whole store is burning
I ran out just as I got out
of had sad to Did
stop at front door of store, but
got over wall between store old
ware room which was nearest way
to room in which Robert
slept. Went to his room door,
knocked and called him, he did
not answer, when went around
corner to bed room window and
called. Not answer I tore
off shutters to the window, reach-
ed down for a piece of plank and
broke out the sash and glass.
time I Will May
come running his night clothes
and tame to my assistance. I told
him to go in store get my
books and I give him any
amount he might ask. He said he
could go in a he was afraid he
would be burned tn death, but did
succeed window
upon the window sill, but he
jumped down and would not go
any. I climbed the
window myself while he tried to
pull me out. I got inside hail
o Roller's bed that stood
right under window. Smoke was
so severe that I to
back door to let it escape so I might
be able to get in office, as I stepped
off of bed I stepped on
and struck hand with
mine. I called lo Will said
is In here dead, come help
me get him I drugged him
lo window and we pull him
of smoke we could see all
wound. and I told Will to drag
hi in further off while I went hack
in loom, Thought I would go
office and try lo get books, had to
feel my way. and when I got to
between his room and I
found it closed but not I
pulled door open by edge and tried
to enter office and walked against
something, could not tell what. Unit
stopped me. The he it and smoke
was so severe turned back and
left the store.
In the store and con-
were six rooms, used for
main store loom, ware rooms,
sleeping loom, post Sec
save nothing I told Will
logo ring bell while I wen balk
house to dress. Will and
went back. Cinders were fall-
from burning store on my to-
grading house, a ladder was
on this house and I had Will to go
on top of it, of us carried some
water and both of us cried for
help. By this time my wife and
daughter had come lo our assistance
and Langley also came.
Very soon Elijah Joyner came and
their other parties whom I cannot
remember began arriving. They
tearing off side of ware
room that had caught lire. Elijah
Joyner had glove on one hand and
told some of them that he hurt his
hand tearing off the weather board
I could not beat Rob
it's body and did not make any
examination of his wounds. It.
examined In wounds.
When I first hand
he was deathly cold j ll h was j
stiff. Store and j
destroyed, I did not examine, all j
the doors to the binding to see if i
they were fastened. Robert was in
his night clothes, and was very
bloody. My hands were very
bloody from taking hold of him. I
could see that body was badly cut,
two or three large gashes across
veins of neck reach around
jaw, and one severe cut back of
his neck nearly severed his head
from body.
Elijah Joyner said he was home
that Boa Johnson said he
stayed at Martha Green's that
I do not remember what
statement the other defendants
made as to where they were.
The night before murder
burning, about dark, I
mail, the mail boy had a man with
him when he came Before I
opening mail Bob came in
store, having just returned from
Greenville, he came in
as I was finishing mail. Elijah
Joyner was the store about
time. After mail left our supper
To-Day's Arrivals.
WHITE ORGANDY,
TELEGRAM SKIRT
FACING,
BEAUTY PINS,
BELT BUCKLES.
HAMMOCKS HAMMOCKS
and other Summer Comforts
for the home.
Our line of Laces and
Ribbons, White
goods and Colored Wash
goods was
more desirable.
J. B. CHERRY k CO.
ville. On morning .
made up party search
woods to sec we could Ami.
We found another piece of paper
exhibited yard from
where the piece was ft on
then went search
oil lien Johnson's blacksmith shop,
the shop underneath a
we found piece With blood
hair on
While in Held some
one called to come up back of
blacksmith shop and found
mother piece of showing
a bloody knife had been wiped
on ii. I bunted a grail deal
around there. On Friday I found
a vest in house hid
under table, exhibited vest. The
inner pocket and lining had been
torn out. The vest showed clots of
Id., mo I would
a club near the old iron pump.
the club it did sat-
me as being club he had
used. In searching his house in it
hid away by a of rag
I found another
showing a murderous looking
bludgeon with blood stains on it.
On we made up another
party to search further. We went
lo house and
hid in a corner on a sill underneath
the house I found rags nil-
ed with blood, I
look a piece of quill from house
to show that rags matched
little house under n lot of com
shucks I found which has
blood on exhibited
a little boy of
before and asked him
if he the night of
J SEVEN PR
r c
iii.
I- i
i. .- in,
lineal all
Insomnia, Prostration mid
restorative properties are wonderful.
peculiarities. Ml are
Liver
Spring has
Reduced Rates on Rail s.
Hacks to meet every Train.
LINK FROM SPRINGS.
Waterworks in or cold water bath- free to guests.
For terms address
F. SMITH, Prop.
day .
I In-
Was
lire, lie replied was ;
I asked who him lo say
lie said mother told
me if asked me if papa
not
up nearly all that night
lire bilking lo Manila Ann.
I asleep next day I had
I up nearly all night and was so
hearing of lire that I
lid not go I here. Never heard
I Elijah Joy tier or Langley
any it. Have nut
goods that were taken out
Dixon,
John Field
Hi's Jim n
did slay all night bill I
Know what lime lie loll, it lie
I ween when he
loft.
I I ll II
I know any tiling about
murder or burning. I live about
mile from store. That
night went In Betsey Hayes
had to show. They showed me
me this paper lying ten or twelve
feet from wall near a ditch. I stood
looked at it over the wall, did
not get over at Dr. West
drove
We got over wall and the
picked the paper up, we all exam
load it. and concluded that the pa-
per there. Search
had been along there be-
fore. I was present later
oilier of bloody paper
yards away from you can feed Mr. horse in
Another morning will hide in store and
and asked help him gel body
out. I helped gel it out of a
window and carried ii far e
cotton patch lo keep n from
lip. I went back lo Ilia
house and rang bell, then carried
bucket of water on tobacco
to keep from burning. When
I went home to pill n
my clothes.
Saturday lire Joy
nor said to me apple brandy would
go good. I said yes.
where we found piece,
j paper was found In Wood where
I Elijah Joyner told us to look
after he was arrested. Sun-
day morning after the murder
when Mr. Robert goes off I ill
conic out and we ill
was home that night to any place,
I asked him his mother told yards where I lite, and stayed
him she would do if be didn't my couple Went from I here
lie said said hack home and never left he house
would whip night. Heard of
went lo Moses May's about next
f child morning.
had told sill a friendly. I had
heard this child his kill or him.
the morning of had not hail u falling with.
the woman lo whose house I
iii night. Never any
very bloody and
that .
father
the ii
asked him where lie
been all night and that he said money lo gel him I
bad been up the road helping lo her Went toil,,, seen
kill hogs. I child the tire about o'clock next day.
this and he said ii was any talk with l-i
and Elijah's wife started in lo I Joyner about it and never ill
I n hint, I i-
bad door.
When lick was passed I
nut pump door and over
walling at horse tub and
lo shelter, and ii was
very long before
lo whore I was. I
pump I
ore. i nailing
Fields her market told me to gel
Mart mi him n and I it. and
pin a piece of large coarse paper in
lie brought paper
him lie pull
off 111- top shirt and in
the basket untied a
from I his neck and put
in ii. then balk then, oil and
went lo I ho store with I hose
thing-. I carried the and
it under house then
a in ii and poured them
out at home stable, up
the was in bottom of
and I In .-.
I and went home, Co
pints had gone to slots I
did have am more chat
him that night. We lo
gel her next day of
said he was sorry In I
He one
about lo would never give
more asked
me did o his intentions, I told
, , expected he would do
thing- I had
I,,.,., hint lb- told me he
did any bill be
wash his bloody he. that same the woods to where he was ,. . , ., u.
morning. lo give him any money. Mel him missing
. near a day- ., . ,, .,.
house
rang and mid myself
stood and balked a little before go-
to supper. came
in just as we were fixing to leave,
and as we went out Robert
hail better leek the door as
you have a but ho turned
and got his key and looked
the door. I went out Boat. By
this time it was near o'clock.
Ban Johnston was la-st one to come
out of store, and I heard him make
a remark to some one but do not
remember what it was. did not
go to store after supper. Rob-
closed about o'clock. Dwell
about one hundred yards from
store. paper was
Thursday week after store was
burned was in road near gale
leading to gin house and was talk
to Dr. West about guano. He
hail just left me and was
yards away. Some others were
there when Mack Jones stopped
doctor and was get I some
cine from hint. turned off and
started back towards my house.
Mack called- me to up
way, they had something to
show me. went, Alfred Fields
also said something wanting
to show me something. I passed
by Mack and the doctor and went
When I was to go in store lo
build lire and go to feed horse
several of us found tracks would hide in store, I hen when
Elijah Joy house Iowa ids i hitched for Mr. Robert
store were evidently made , he would come over to n
night of the lire right alter the house with some apple brandy. I
The tracks followed straight told this to Langley ft few
path from his house to the store lo Elijah proposed it to
a certain ditch, there gin house Lie. I told was not going to
and mill anything like to get in
here they left main path and Bald to me
out of the way course to another better do I told him I
I Ion the toad near Wilson a
before I was arrested, did give
any money then. I have
n a right -m while bill
never had a chill lo
In
found a piece bloody envelope
addressed lo Mr. ids.
bloody the yard. I
found other testimony bill wit
noises are lure testily.
Here tin- court adjourned for
upon reassembling each Mr. Redding in
the six defendants was gin. mile from
hearing in his own I store. Went lo Martha
I live ill Mr. Redding Field
path. II looked like from
tracks that they were trying lo gel
a view of store before going up.
Elijah Joyner told me he put the
bloody paper where we found it
and said told him
to put it then.
WILT.
I am one who reached the
tWO morning. Am about
old, live on Mr. T. L. Turn
ages place. I slept yards
from store. Mr.
window and hollering for help
woke me up. I Jumped up and
saw store wan burning. I
I do not know about
the murder or burning. The night
it happened I left stoic
the same time of Mr. Turn
had better sense than to do It. got my coal it on.
Sunday after the lire saw my shop and on up
lab and in
Of
woods near tobacco bed talking ll
road. Mel Mr. Hell Moore at
the line gate, opened the gale tor
ether. Later I went to ,,,, and rode as
house lo shave, he had two i,,,,,,.,. i,,
lint one was sharp enough J ,. , be horse
up. then got over walling and
went to Martini Ann I
the store, lie told me all about
h he plan;
lie asked me didn't Hod
paper after leaving him and
did alas with it. I hint I had
burned U . He asked me w us I
ii. I ye. I had
destroyed II, I
total it I gad on any of
the murder I lie rewarded
house that I let en if I was implicated ii my-
wits In the habit doing, she lived ll.-aid he all
,, place. there In me I hill I Hot anything
about II and f on or he said.
Mat's house stayed there all pulled off hi shirt
Xever went to scene hi hands acre very
heard ll am a her shirt he
hanging on tile walling, ll was
not sleeve
night.
lire next
did
iii shave with so he handed me the
other.
The next witness examined was
the detective from
u.
I arrived night
May Saturday morning 1-1
lowing I drove
ran looked over the ruins and ad
Mr.
if I
there In night clothes, He While there
me help him gel his book j May drove down and asked
store I lumped in window but would not go up to woods, us then
stilled me so I got back and was a niece of
told him I could not go. He said
gel and let him go, he got in
window stopped on Mr. Robert
and stayed there nil night.
morning after eating I
went back to the shop and the
new mi load. Did not believe
it when I heard until I
Mr. and Mr. George Moore and
they told inc ii was certainly o,
Ben Jim Fields was the one to
Um ill. mm I n .,. . ,
soon M we to others lo see what said he was dead
a pine
me. Do not know who committed
the murder. No one told who
did it. Do boa the
bloody
when hurl my
seen any new goals, did have
any new i;. ml oil when- I was
hauling logs hiding tin-in. I left
Johnson Martha
that night.
la A ll
I was home early that night by
o'clock, lay down in
and was India ,
k .
my called . I
and went him- He told
Hid with and I
went and woke Mr. I
I., go In and gel some
Went in door lied
left J feet
when lie drew Ilia- whiskey and
paper
me lo too, We went up
and I found bloody
would wipe it on paper coming back and
in
nut, he had a dark pair
I tin- I
piece that Mr.
i, and. and put it morning
t he place and put
iii places iii the
edge the
mo how he had alone In More,
Said that i he
I,,, lamp fell he
a h lighted another
II II. n
in I lie and a
, mi him an up bad
and had in.- fan tells
me where he put a I heard
Mr. niter he was
truck, Went lo look tor the knife
did ii id u lint, then I
I took this piece paper to Farm
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