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from a
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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
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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.
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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-
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t fail to know
Man Help.
all e, Pr i
what day .-i month i
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are
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BRUSHES
Building Hardware a Specialty-
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nor l- R
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generally n- hi in of hi
fork
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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
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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.
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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
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rial
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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.-
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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
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iii.
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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
ON t

ii bum Him.
H. O.
D. J. Owner.
Entered the Office
Greenville. X. as Second
Mail Matter.
Km hay, May m.
CASE.
. FROM
was carried again
it. was
with a razor, for the Mr.
got mine the
other was Ben Johnson's both
had been noose all the time.
Thai morning while the bell was
the lire I did not notice
the first bell, tail when
next
PAY UP A PRIZE.
special arrangement
with of the tapped I noticed ii got up
Journal enabled to oner mil there. a
5-year subscription to that paper to tor and threw ii on top of kitchen,
ever new subscriber who pays comment tearing down shed
The Eastern Reflector year ahead , . ,.;, warehouse. I went and
the same offer is made to in Ibo ashes to show Mr.
m here
old subscriber who will pay all back
one j ear in both
papers for the price of ours
In order to gel the fit
Sea dark, d imp place
I here was id one
told me before lb he did
.;,. i II h u r Mr.
all night. Never heard of the
until next day about dinner. Don't
know why I wee wrested.
I live three or four hundred
yards from Mr. Turnage.
work about dark and to store.
Capt. Bob drove up about time I
Elijah took bone
aid put up
I put my mule in lot, got
over and went home ahead
of mail man. Elijah an I
were then at of
store talking, I
ti bear them. no one else
there, never lien
all. Went on home in u little
while to bed. Did not come
more until next
when woke me up to tell
mi- the store was on fire. An the
paper the is was
I I
floe. Probably
ad in that an
St. Anthony, as
t. then r
and th i i l
Dot
in-i r, i i which I
the urn . m
until M t
ill. Sabbath. . .
unlike
not
Tin- Koran
in it the
lib on
An Excellent Combination.
as a premium for advance would never like any not know who did kill
that be was done .,, l,
or him. ,. ,,
Have not any of the
purpose in going there Unit
. i i-t
was to gel whiskey
I h neat
i live Mr. place
It Th. method
I well
la ,,,, or by the
all I'll tub Fie
, ,,,.,., i approach th obtaining
hi tin principles o plants to
i, and
tor
the I ,,,. It
of Baa in i
ASK
III
Ladies. Z
Si
w. h. Warn,
ill
W. T.
WARRANTED.
We have just opened in the
building with an entirely new
and complete of-------
We Carry
Shot told.
i .
. n v
it will lie necessary to walk up
to captain's for we have
sub-
to I
is on solid foundation whiskey but
perfectly trustworthy. where I run t live
. n-as my slick shown this morning. yards from Mack Join
know how stains came house. nothing
, on it. Hornet lines staid under i burning. The before
and sometimes gel the asked Elijah to go fishing with me
corner. That showed Bight, not go
by there never was he bad some other business. I
on the inside, don't that with my
how ill. lining lorn bad and back o'clock
been since last winter. went to lied. fire
know how blond got on the I next morning. Have not heard
baud the lire and or say anything
ml i .-loci an S
. i S
. .
II,
r I -i I
T ill-- s. LI i . ;, .
S i i-. . a -ii.
nut that National
lee the has set o be
held tin- latter
of this month, a misnomer or a
We fail to see where
peace comes when thousands
of our soldiers are still
the Philippines i-
the verge of a revolt against the U,, m have got the vest it. Elijah came up in a clean
authority of railed States in then. Never said I bad to a shirt that
that island. Peace It bog killing I
i enough lo a smile.
And the is
I a i of
. would
heels in ii- bead lief ire
topped.
Paying.
pay
when be i- railed upon In
municipal, Stale
then. said I bad I
bog killing I home. I
not on a glove
but wore one next day. Will Hay
night before the
i. it he lo sec
from lot store
He .- I i- hi ii Hi
and I called to bold on and
I lie wanted In talk null
. i mill. Here Elijah a
uh ate ding U
Inc.
hi
i- taxes upon, and d. he
details and items of the
several amounts charged against
seem an i h-
yet if the i. made
said be made,
on as being the
the proposition.
A knife us i-.
put n
.,
I live on Mr,
three hundred yards from
lure. Know nothing
at
sunset and left to
home just i-1 Bub was driving
lip Went bark In lire next morn-
Did not goto Elijah's house
either I lie before or alter the
lire. I of
sea.
The which
, , , I
I,,,,., I Id which bad strayed
Hi.; of am are n r-
t- It
j.,. ;. ., Mi
In
Th people
mill of tiger.
Traps, pitfall spring and nets
are into i by The
in min r lead
.,.
j. , , In
ml
i Tin- Per-
,. ,. r
la Journal,
Is
A -i woven
Inti i ill a few I
, . I an in erected In r-pot
,. . , I tin Tin-
,. i-. v . cm ; ii led t i tin
p, ii n pr. with
and
,.,,. or with n n and pointed
. l with n
T II f M I
. in blanket and goo
do time bis
p, ii i. i- v. I j i f-
. ii vainly
. -i a an I m I
Bud an entrance tic
iv
wan instantly
, f tin and
with a resolute of tho spear of
award
bowels.
or irritating make II the Weal
laxative.
the n
are a- they pleasant w
medicinal Hie
are obtained from senna
other plants. By
known to the
Co. only. In order to pi-t
effects lo avoid imitations,
fall name of
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN
t.
k air Is-
a .-
m I. i Ami
m . A
TS
Dry Notions. Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Hardware,
Crockery, Implements,
Meat. Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
Tobacco, in tact
every STAPLE
in a general stock.
We Also Sell
HAY, OATS, COT-
TON HULLS AND
MEAL AND GUANO.
prices everything will Is
found as low as a good article can
la sold at. Yon are cordially in-
cited to visit our store.
Highest prices paid all kinds
of country produce.
WHITE
j K.
ON THE HANDS.
For several years I suffer-
from lotter on hands. It
would come in little watery pimples
and the itching as more
than I could stand. The skin was
tender and the itching would swell
A FULL LINE TO H
SELECT FROM. -in-j----
WE CARRY A
WINTERVILLE. N. C.
line of new------
NICE LINE OF;
V Fancy Novelties. Etc
T s-. Ti O
so I hardly bend linger., i s r i v
hands A
HATS
lo which we invite your attention.
what knife I found in ditch. Ce
p it I there. I said I
put ii hut Ii i lid i
things acre true.
I inn ti . In lit Ii now .
. i.
i , .
hall i e Mr.
the tax a tear v. he h
I arc hi- will ii
In tell a bethel It . I .-.
is local , ,,
of national
in line an
our came in
last night after h lug
the paper ill Ii.- and was
I in i. .
a lax had imposed on
In-
same I'll
be declared, all on
count of this Philippine mil. Here
we sending there
people and our own
people do
ii- tin-
not mi
ml, if I got it piece-of the
meal, that ought lo have
it.
I I I
in- . He
home that night, supper
ii i- . . be there, hi- ale
a, . right down. woke up
i a rung, and
woke me time.
leaded me the store
in-
Michigan
in till i f
why a
come to fail When one
reached ;
Pi
to. reason
ml
creditors
,. mill working
perfectly raw from scratching or
breaking of the pimples. When i
was in this condition I tried one
half dozen Joe Per-
son's Rented and some Wash in
and by the time I took my
hands were cured, and I am now
well of the trouble. It has since
broken out a little at times, but
not enough inconvenience mo
now well. M. B.
Burlington, N. C. May 1880.
I AT
STORE, If
N.
OUR
fall i- kept on
why
lying.
ran out doors and ,,
I hid been haul up. He
I went toe n home I lull
p he steers mil in
1.1 to Muck
and lien
Johnston standing in Went
up . . lie, wen
talking. went to do line-
or lot. Mack
ii I left lo . When I
and I told make basic
i gel ii-- eat.
.- I ale
, , , . home that night.
, ii and I here all I
long until I beard Mi.
n ring next
f and saw
toward
Hie u e
he used or i. . .
war tax cheeks,
and pipers n
The fuel i- ii the i i. 1.1 i .
t Ins pant- and
in More. Here the woman we it
i denial of having her
child what lie
Said
not when detective went
there, but folks
make the children am
M III I II ANN
Witness for lien
I miles from
store. Ben Jo
i and left
morning I bad gone lo
I ii.- witness, also stated that licit
tn r, looking about
bin
in-i v.-
did lake haven-
ti
ion r; thing flown t
l ii-.-i , the mop
V-
I II .
i ;
for,,,, th-
I .
w v paint
el I--
, i. . Lin ll. y
in t I
i . SI I n
I In ill
II
TODAYS
High Low Close.
of
Second Hand Goods
and S
in Id
n-
WE CLEAN AND PRESS SUITS FOR
SO CENTS.
art the latest styles and
will lie sold reasonable
prices. We have a skilled Milli-
to do our trimming and
give entire satisfaction.
Call on in the new brick store.
MISS MARY HARDY CO.,
N.
After two years
Premiums hT been paid
in
of Newark. N. J.
June
August
October BUS
May and June.
Opening. close.
I f i W Ham lo
ii. let
i and
N.
that
to i In
matters and
cm tin-
In- i-1 up ii. I
when the of
comes, when in- .-i or
then i- the protest mi
a hen it is i mil all in
vain.
ii i he
Mr, I .
n . store was on I caught
pair of pant- those he had
i id another old pair put
over I hem and hurt lo I lie
When I there heard Mr. Turn
run In-if mid help me,
ii is killed mid -h
lie told in in
run get same water and help
other a word
In lilt and
Will M. urn lo ha
Tl.- l In
fool of bone to a
great extent h it value,
upon portion of its its
i The
fool of the r i- t
. In ruction. It is cloven through
spent the night at ll. a, each ball curves
3.20
Wheat.
July
Tone.
3.90 steady.
LOW Close.
,;.,.
is not even
I, Slate in Have not talk-
businessmen and in
the
house In tern lie
in-i- sere put
there them. The found
my belonged to Mr, Allen
Hints, a ah Ingle worker, and were
put there with other tools him
sometime ago. know how
the The one
Is instituted before the
are incurred which compel
of the las.
As long as lax
en remain indifferent to those
to control public
there should be no protest
when las comes,
When the
becomes more practical, like the Mr. there.
more business lets WM
the hands of politicians, Turnage and never had falling
then Will I here lie fewer
lax and re-
made visible to the las pay-
from tin- tax he pays, and
some satisfaction in paying tuxes on Mr. Thomas
out w him.
in
I I hill night, I v
about I miles from Mr.
show
Join
New
land. wife and live children
Jim was
I here until May late.
I II i-i.-i- It
At point Mr. ti. James,
w appeared n Moore,
-aid had
but In- hour was so late no
ire would lie introduced.
said evidence appearing that
William Bills, lien Johnston, lieu
Dixon were
State would not ask that they
lie he the
Court to commit Elijah
to to await
trial lei m of Superior
Court. The Court agreed
In I Ins, the tour wen-
discharged and taken
in mil.
Alter the trial was over and the
prisoners were taken kick lo
jail threats of lynching began to
find expression. These so
pronounced that Mooring
that for of the
prisoners it would be to move
them, in linearly part of the
night be had them taken
from the Jail and carried elsewhere
for safe keeping. The cam aroused
considerable
against Joy who is be-
made many false
statements before and during
front, i- slightly
and capable of a
of When
placed on an
h Is difficult to traverse, the
on tracts the t Into sort of
. by which a bold is
ed moving rapidly, the two
portions tin- toot, us is lifting,
strike together, bouts making a
clattering which
may be a dbl
loins , mis peculiarity of the
ii, n, reindeer so sure
n n . ml . valuable in and
v bi n
r an a
u, ,. he. i York
STOCKS.
Opening. High
C. 1311
1313
Manhattan
c. ii. Hi
Tl
Low
1311
Close.
1211
Ready again.
f am now straight from
the Are am mom
to the
wanting the
I ordered now goods at once
are now coming so
all wants can lie sup
J. plied. I can be found the
old store on
me a call.
notice. J.
Policy
Don
i Value,
Value,
i. Paid up
automatically,
lie within
three after lapse if yon are
good health.
After Second Year
No
S. Incontestable.
Dividends are payable at
f ginning of and each
succeeding year, provided the
for the current year lie paid.
They may la- used
To reduce or
To the Insurance, or
To Make Policy Payable as
an Endow during the Lifetime
of Insured.
J, L.
N.
with me and I never left home His examination the trial.
is and will
to be. money
crop of the South. The
planter who gets the most cot-
ton from a given area at the
least cost, is the one who makes
the most money. Good
suitable rotation, and
liberal use of fertilizers ion-
tabling at least actual
Potash
will insure the largest yield
We will Had Fr. upon application
will
planter the South.
KALI WORKS.
The people of arc
work
and gel prices, which will lie
made low for a
thoroughly Introduce my work.
at Points, op-
Hi. Mole's office.
J. P.
D.
IN
Heavy and
Cotton flagging and flea always
on ban .
goods on
hand. Country produce and
sold. A trial will convince
D. ff,
BOOKS
A Farm at
lip-locate, Concise and
Primed and Beautifully Illustrated.
By JACOB
No. lb BOOK
SCUM with ow
a standard
No. BERRY BOOK
All about Small ;
like all
and
No. POULTRY BOOK
All the bl v t
colored
of principal with
No. COW BOOK
All Costs and Dairy I
k; life-like of each
lured, with i, Price,
NO. SWINE BOOK
All about Feeding.
c over lo beautiful half-
and other Price,
BOOKS are
like They
arc an Weal. North
om who a MM
or to
way for BOOKS. The
FARM JOURNAL
la roar made for you sot a It in n year
old; It lathe neat Hie
Ku alter Farm and paper
e paper Called
of
Any of BOOKS, and the FARM AL
.
I am coming.
I not yet secured a place in which
to open my saved from the fire
but I ask the people keep in mind.
In a short while I will be re a- yon
and am to give you
BARGAINS THAT
BARGAINS.
I have Left will he out
as rapidly as possible in order I may
begin fall business with an v new
stock.
mi mm
was a ram
This brings tint
talk.
What has become of the street
sprinkler
The is
into
will
this mi r to neat
and limn
S. Five
RESOLUTIONS
Whereas death baa taken from
our one
and placed
her in tin- heavens where her
MERRY
I Meet. People on the Move.
Kay
N. M.
today.
over
this
Lean King and
are visit Mrs. S.
K . wife, of Kin
stun, are visiting the family J.
S.
visit-
her sister. I.
left this fur
May
J. A. Raleigh, is In
town.
news.
. . In
Bar. If.
morning.
W. If. went up lo the
Suite in today.
Mrs. w. II. baa bean
quite this week.
S. Wilkins
returned
from
tine of
is today.
awaits the coming of her the detective who
work mi the case,
left this morning for Baltimore.
friends tines left behind
whereas the vacant
in the claw to which she belonged
iii the. hearts of those Who
knew and loved her can not lie
Ailed. Therefore be II resolved by
the Greenville Sunday
School.
That ill sub
mission tn will in taking
us Katie Murphy tins
this net of divine providence
for nice job to faith in
Thai i the kind we
His
California Prunes lb, Jelly -V; That this Sunday School ex-
grated Pineapple. , n,,. parents its
l I sympathy in their
Tax list taken are putting ., p.,,,,. the record of
the School lie dedicated to
her memory and that these
W. L. Agency had . a copy
to the family.
I That a copy be furnished
I Greenville for
n it that they will lie ready
the of
of
county, who has been spending
some days with J. re-
turned home today.
II. special of
the Virginia Marine In-
T. T. Hay. special
agent for three other companies
represented I. Suggs
today here adjusting
settling arising from I In-
late lire. All their settlements
were sit to the insured.
May
The little child if II. A. White is
Frank went iii the road
this morning.
MO Involved in the lire,
which within seven
less.
after the things and
the large ones will take care of
themselves. If they the
lice will look after
Hull.
Smallpox and vaccination have
served their day in this
eastern section, and one bean
them mentioned but seldom now.
Registrars and Inspectors.
The following have been
pointed as Registrars and
tors in the several wants for the
town election to held June
The Atlantic Line will sell. Willis Clark
W. P. Jr.
tickets to the National Pence
at C, Hay
at one fare the round
trip.
Pedestrians will lie glad when
the sidewalk along burned dis
are cleared so they will not
have the middle of the
street.
Frank Wilson, clothier, and J.
L. Woolen, druggist, are both
for present portions
of the Ponder store in
building.
office
distance with the public again
since the burned down phone lines
have been repaired. Call n up
and tell us the news.
Not a Picture.
Literature the approaching
meeting of the Teachers Assembly
is being broadly dis
over the State, one page
of a pamphlet seat contains
what purports to be n photograph
of om townsman. Prof. W. II.
who is of the
Assembly. To those who don't
know him the photograph may
as all right, but who do
know can see at a
how arc in
that All the same, the
Professor will make the best
siding the Assembly has
ever had, as those who attend
meeting will out.
Seven Sprint;,
An advertisement of this
health resort appoint in
today. People of this
ion arc part to Seven Springs,
for they know of the excellence of
those health giving waters. Pro
U. F. Smith has made
many the hotel
and surroundings. Water works
have been put in additions
have been mode to the buildings.
There is pleasure as well as health
at Seven Springs, and all who go
to Ibis resort arc
2nd Ward.
Arthur
and W. P.
Ward. L. W.
Lawrence. W. F.
rill and II. If, Tyson.
4th Ward, J.
Whichard. Inspectors, W, I
nines and Bowling.
Ward, I.
Lanier. Inspectors, Forbes
and K. II.
AMI
BUSINESS NOTES.
Max
ii of Ml. Olive.
is here visiting relatives,
There is some talk our having
town.
A. Is building some
stable.-, also building a -I tn
A. Cl. Cox is shipping
brick
per day. Those to
chase me united to examine
them.
lies and wife, of
A ca me on I he I lain
morning, and are visiting Mrs.
here.
was up here yesterday
orders for lines, lit-
thinks to sell a nets,
II. W. Parker is away but
fence is lo stay.
Why people keep coming
Send your
forget your kilt-hen
dining room.
Go. not done so,
received crockery i
tare as well stoves.
Winterville Cigar Co. might
puff its cigars dooms day, and
it would do no good we
is to gel the lo pulling
The bird flea
Through tin- line;
living through,
It lost some Hue.
G the above Is rather
flue than some of yon knew, or at
least are used to; but before you
gel inn Tobacco Flue,
and sec bow that will do,
A. Mi.
Mucked a
in III.- iii
A coll
gill-
gored about face and one eye
lorn out. The was shot and
killed.
A horse in
of i- supposed
bx a
several week- a.
Al I I S. I air. of
commander of tin- North
division of i he
ORIGINAL
by The Va.
TOBACCO
chop it.
MAKES THE F TOBACCO.
CO., NORFOLK, VA
We don't nave to take
down our sign.
over the door of
S. ii. Pi
i .
Solicitor I. I.
Wilson today.
back
evening Suffolk.
It. K. left ibis morning
a business trip to
w. T. Keck, is
here on a visit to bis mother. Mrs.
. Lee.
Dr. home
Tuesday evening from
where he baa been attending
lectures.
II. W. Whedbee returned Tues
day evening from
the Supreme Court had adjourned
he attended another court.
Cherry returned Tuesday
evening from a trip Baltimore.
Mrs. Cherry, who has been visit-
Philadelphia, returned with
him,
Merchant Who How
lo Advertise.
These are limes of enterprise,
Rev. B. of
Miss Payne, of that
town, were married this
for u visit to the groom's
parents in Mecklenburg county.
Intense rivalries and of contentious
aiming men. would,
lie surprising if in business
world, whore and
decisive action arc essential,
lie
alert to adopt the heal
for the of bis
fairs. has said
is a handsome passion;
it Is enterprising, Inn
max be said Ibis cornice
ti hi that the tradesman who should
endeavor lo emulate and also
to surpass competitors
of business progressive
and himself
I in- rear. The of the
keen intelligent merchant arc
worthy of emulation; for he knows
to sell his goods because he
knows how to advertise them.
Record.
Loaded at Both Ends.
This is a snake story right, but
unlike most snake stories, this is a
true one, for a reputable man, Mr.
A. If. of vicinity,
vouches for it. Mr. son
watt plowing a few days ago and
turned up a small green snake,
which lo his utter surprise,
heads, one on each end. The
head at the tail end of bis snake
ship was a little hit smaller than
the other one, but just at perfect,
with eyes, month and all. Ami
what's more, both heads xi ere
their tongues. If any-
body can beat Ibis it's lime for
lo come
Journal.
The Nebraska regiment has
lost 33.1 men In killed and wound-
ed since and have only
men in condition tor
service.
I st it-el i- worse I ban
ruining forks.
Manx men never .
selves except circulating shin
fat girl who kissed her loan
lover said she taking
tat.
Peddlers report their
us being- Ibis
spring.
Manx a i Is poll
lies for of cents, but he tie
Strange Hint people go north for
summer when they have so
much of it the
Some an lender
I hut refuse lo dis-
charge debt .
Take Interest In Matters.
i tax paying voter
in I lo read ill
another
in Tax
heard complaining luxes
to pay. while show
interest whatever in who i-
toxin and lo
An election be
the
i a who
will have control of
I be la hat you Inn c
Now Hie lime your Inter
of lite right
men for Aldermen when j.
i arc held.
and not wait until alter men
are office then complain
when la
liking.
The place tn get your
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A sin it the
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trucks will
right
Pi Ice c
All lb, A . I. Mainline
luring Co., N i prompt
Patent
I HI'S A
consist in r
A . Ill I III I II
I ii mi
COUNTER
tin- week
Woman's
Severest Trial.
recent
trial has bun the bunging of children
into the world.
Today nearly alt the pain,
and dread arc avoided by
who
Mothers friend, wonder-
liniment made by the great
good it hi done. It used externally.
That ii M only and way
to
n, hard or using
I children need no longer
be Friend been
called a by all over
land. .-. drug stores a
and by
The l
i . i
JOHNSON'S MILLS
Hi.
ft. It.
Ville yesterday,
Harding returned
home from her school lust
day.
The ice cream party Friday
success. Mi
it could not
have been otherwise,
M. Johnson and Walter
went to jester
day.
Miss Annie Harding
from Seven
day where she bean
Mr. and of
visiting in this
neighborhood and
day.
The follow delegates and
were elected from HI.
to attend the Council
next Weak I
I. Tucker, Dr. Win.
K. H. Laughing.
house Ii. B. Powell. Altar
mites B, May, W. Laugh
M. and Will
tor
in North
The committee of
the North
and Mechanical College baa deter
ruined to a textile
ill the and it is
that there arc bright
prospects the
a textile school
with college. Ill
arranging for such a department
tn ii feature of the
civil engineering, the authorities
of the college are doing much to
make certain founding of a
school which is much in
I and which, is
recognized, will do much toward
Increasing the efficiency of
as a
The friends of the movement have
been
by the of the to
make the desired appropriation for
it, and it is Imped that by the next
meeting of the lawmakers such a
beginning shall have been made
to make it imperative upon
Stale
Great efforts made I
have the join in
trying to
to come home bx
of by of X.-
York. A bus
lo cost
the i rain
the to bring him
from San to
The republican politicians arc not
In help this idea
all. They are afraid
I. pin
ill ii
ii- I.
ii startling i
iii- i c
it ct Mi
In i.- i pi Ice
i nil,
acknowledges
imitations to the
exercises of the Stilt
Industrial College,
and 84th,
Female 30th
might happen if he was made tin-
of ii of popular in
in n Stall
risen would
in ii, prefer hi- coming
the Id
v.
SHOE
mod
X I'll I
iii bis
which established I lie
beautiful -tun
After
which
ago. papen were found
fact l bat
CLOTHING
DRY GOODS
For Cash forget this
if yon want the goods.
Bile
was tin
In
life, in- being
in life
Marie died
the I
X ,
in year called
the and plant lame
her fax mite limn r. on lie
e on
f Tilt HI IS NO HI Nil Cl I AIM OH
on
k will
OUT foil IMITATIONS AND
THE GENUINE BO
AS THE NAME,
IKE .
PERRY DAVIS A SON. i
III. I U
i ,
i- h,
i in
. I I
t. In tin
In
i-
r. . i it mm.
M i- I v
run. tn it- in I
Ii. to all
b, CO-.
at i
f-
is
Its conic.; . purity. It
frostily I In
I Tho pack-
ago tho Mill that tho aroma i
It I i. i lit flavor.
It left luxury v tho roach of all,
ton
Ni-x i i . II .
None i
If your Grocer

i -M i
You May ever but Sh mid you
Want Printing
to see us
Anything a
Card
Poster,
W. a full line of th i
celebrated
S. Parker
i ten
It is a big hit in u pen
tog and is
Not only does it feed the ink
perfectly, but soiled
What Local Ac
The Wilmington tariff
equal Height rotas
with and ti
point in Central
The
Line
agree Lo make ibis
appeared in the papers to the
leader an no
particular importance.
Ami jet to tin- has
secured the freight giving
business compel
with other named, it is
mil of importance.
I'm low ii or . which
ml organization, of
or of it
mm who have effected so or-
to protect and further
and those
if their place, the above Item is
lull of suggestion.
I in plane whose com
menial interests In- great
helped organization
men, where there may
iv no transportation i i
i- i against the
place, then always less
abuses anal grievance in
transportation, or in
if a single in
content, is
its difficult of
Kai a local
look into
of I lie abuse or
ism mi . there in a
The gall of the contractor
only to of Bo
Alger. It might sup
that would have baas
more than sat to lie
all the bad
Is-el. which report of
of Inquiry
the report
that all good when it
left the ha nil of Main
they arc arc .
actually punish
of GOB. Miles, he
la interval of the men in
army, to say the beef
unfit local. They arc riling
action of the committee of the Oar
man bill
discriminating
proof of the done
the of
lien. Miles. Alger gladly
have Mr. He
hardly lie
will the
anyway, lull hopes
a investigation
he Damped b allowing the
matter to stand just where was
I left the report of the Court
The Hubert K. Lee
ion w as organized Wash-
weak Ear the purpose of
of
Pan, a site overlooking
Arlington, old homestead.
The donated to the
and Booth-
women will the tank
of the money to pay for
DIRECTORY.
inquiry. If the talk of several in
Senators awl
live counts for anything the nut-
let a II In- beard from in Congress.
-Services even sun
morning evening. Prayer
meeting evening, Rev.
M. pastor. Sunday
; p. in. F. Harding,
third
It. Morton, pastor.
p. in. J. It. Moore mi
regular
a. in.
oven
having
to the
the estate of
deceased, notice is here
given to all persona having
claims against the estate of
lo to the
on or before the 6th
of or this
will la- in their re-
This of
I. E. Smith.
of
Harding ft Harding,
The hat log
before
Clerk of Pitt as
the Will and of
hereby given all persons
ed to the estate to make immediate
payment to the and
ill having claims against
said estate arc notified to present
the same for payment on or before
the of moo, or
this in bar of recovery
of same.
Ibis Mania
A.
of Knox.
I ii service and
TUB RAVAGES OP
That
with its fatal
so no home is safe from its
multitudes have found
a sure ibis
malady in Hi. New
When you feel a lore
II. and
and fever,
I It ion, and a in the hack of the head,
n i given Hie
individual arc.
., mid that need Hr. King s
B.,
i. heal the in
11- for those a ho membranes, kill disease
I let them pass, germs prevent the dreaded
of malady.
ii i- i . I l no. if not
Sunday morning and evening. Ev-
prayer Wednesdays at
M., and Fridays at A.
If., Rev. I.
ill
Sun
morning and evening. Pray.
meeting evening
A. Better, pastor.
in.
superintendent.
Gives the home news
at price
cf cents a month. Are
yo a subscriber It not
you ought to be.
The Eastern Reflector
only a year c
the new v pi
information to the
p e rowing ac-
co. is w limes
nice.
pass.
I the lit tempt
Molted and
. .-i. persons know
; l lie bill
a mild Inn
en Us
ml
l Ii 1.111 made
of a local
attend a ill In- properly taken
, lie of. VI Idle
there be upon lie
in
, .
and lo
pi i d
lo-
in there 1-
milt mid nun
tin -1- loan de
III II -Hell ll Ion i
Join ll.
tali
until
I i I N I V ,
I J. makes
j In- i senior
loin Frank
in Toledo,
Stale and
Mill ill
III for
ii n.-I case Ii
, Hied i use of Hall's
I lire, I'll i II IN
Sworn la-fore me and
i-d of
. A. l
A. . 1,1.1
Hall's I lire 1- taken in
. in is direct on
of
II.
Sold
Hall's the
Hied A bottle free I.
W Drug Store.
.-11. a
ll one of the in
which our an-
lie is o allow them
by coolies.
The several week.- ago.
tin- lava
governing to tin-
in Stales lo all territory under
was to mean
I hut t would In-
eluded from and
Hut that didn't
are in till
those islands with and
i had pull enough with the
lie lo get all official
the War
saying that order is-
sued did not
the
mm hart
I I I.- IN
to Young
t . Andrea who perished
lire in New York few ago,
and
owed his large log
i i- for coal as
fuel. Mis ice to young men
every dollar you can
hit nil in I bat has lo
do will Hit ill of
Hardware
Paints Oils f
BRUSHES I
Building H aid ware a
It TO
The Clerk of Court
. lining let
lei- lo me,
. mi
II.
i--. de. d. i-.
Indebted lo the
estate make Immediate
lo and to all
of the lo
their claims, properly
anted, to the within
In- the dale of
notice mil be
. plead in tun- their recovery .
day
NO TO
The woman in face,
in and temper will
but who would In-
keep her If
-he is weak, and all run
n she w ill in Ha
hie. If -he III- constipation or
kidney her impure blood
will cause skill
ions and a wretched complex-
ion. Bitten is lies
in world to
stomach, liter and kidneys and to
purify the blood, It given
bright
skin, rich II
will make a good charm
woman tun run down invalid.
cents at I,.
I ling store.
tin In k The Problem.
When in hate nothing to en
gage lent ion and can't
anything lo occupy your active
avenue for tile escape
mind force try
your band ;. mg the a prob-
tin- South with its attendant
ct rape racial
. When you have work-
id out. please hand
the ion. as we desire to sub
mil it our Northern friends who
in their eugenics- lo solve
questions that pertain to the Booth
nun hide the by
our
Salve.
salve in the world for
Stir, Salt
Rheum, lever Bum.
H-d Hands, Chilblains, Corns,
all Skin null
cures Files, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed lo give perfect
refunded. Price
a. F. . a. M. Greenville
Lodge, No. meets first and
third evening. Ii.
llama, W. M. M. Sec
F. Covenant Lodge.
B. F. ti. L. Pander,
See.
K. of P. Tar River Lodge, No.
every evening, Dr.
Bagwell, c. C; it. L.
Can. K. It. and S.
Ii. Vance Council, No.
every even-
W. II. Wilson. Ii. M. Ii.
Lang, Sis-.
U. A. M every
Wednesday night at in I. o.
II
A. t.
No. meets every first and third
Thursday nights in Odd Fellows
Hall. M. Ii. Worthy
Chief; Smith, Sec.
I.
No. meets and
fourth Monday nights in Odd
lows Hall. W. I. Wilson,
Smith Sis-.
TO
The hating duly
qualified before the Superior. Court
Clerk I'm county
the and
Mr.-. I., c. Kicks, notice
is hereby given to all in
to the estate lo make
mediate payment to the undersign
id. and all having claims
Mid estate are notified to
the same for payment on or
the day of April.
or this will be plead in bar
of of same.
This 24th day of April,
A. km,
of Mrs. L. C. Kirks.
It. It
AND ATLANTIC COAST
Sill III I
I ti
1- M
. ll,
v. in
II,., k in iii m
As II in
ii
m i
if -i-i iv 1- M
Ll
Ar
1.1 v
-l
V. M II
l M
in
II. k
Ar Hi
virtue of the power in mo
rented, appointed
in case No. lulu, Special Proceed
Docket No. entitled M.
and his next
friend .
I will sell public sale be-
fore Conn House door in
oil the
of June 1880, at HI o'clock noon,
all cypress popular
I timber of and above the sine of
twelve inches In diameter at the
I bane when the same may be cut,
together With the privilege of seven
which to cut and
timber, and also the
usual rights of way appertaining to
same for the removal of said I in,
nod growing up-
Ion two tracts of laud situated in
. County,
North Carolina, one adjoin-
the lands
I and J. w.
I and others bounded as
Iowa, Beginning at the big
h a light wood slake corner.
running a south west course
lo line, a Sweet
I limn corner, then a
Count MM to n knot
Kiln Bed, then run
Ding nearly a west course MS
to a box pine corner, then a north
course lo Sweet
in Long branch, then down
the Long branch to the
ginning, a See
deed front J. w, and wife to
K. M. K to
which reference is made.
Also one other tract,
the lands of C. John
and follows
Beginning at pine in John
line a between K. M.
and W. C. and run-
in a westerly direction
with a Branch, about
I hence with branch to if. M.
and W. C. Dixon
to the containing about
III acres inure or
Terms of sale cash.
Win. H.
X. C, Mat 1890,
cents n-r For
the estate of F. Harries. L. Woolen.
Trail en
W. l;. i Ar
Ni- k is inn K
inn. I
; v.
is mi ti
Ii U-r W-h
Jill, in
. i .-. I I , ii. i.
i j. u w ii iv am
; in i.; . . i i o
at p m. lit arrival.
r ii . in i. j. in h-ave
dally. Sun
day am. I i II am.
Train mi Midland N C
; a in
m.
ill a m.
rain h I, II.
inn. I i in.
in iii. in i i. in i-i m a in. I
mi a III
a III Arrive
II Him dally v. -t
Train I Bran- ll ,
dally, II IV
i. I -ii T a and
no i m.
lien u ,
all dally, ail rail Ha ll. I,
II. M. EMERSON,
Fuss. Agent
J. It. Manager.
II. I
OLD DOMINION LINE
Steamers leave Washington on
Mondays.
A. M. for
water permitting,
leave at A.
If., A. M. on Tues
days, Saturdays.
hours subject tie
on stage of water.
at Washington with
for Norfolk.
New York and
and for all points for the West
with railroads at Norfolk.
should order freight by
Old S. Co. from
New York; Clyde Line from
Bay bill from
and from
v SON,
Washington, N. C.
J.
K. C.
J. B. COREY,
IX
I.
A LINK
HORS .-
Line of ware.
I now in the
brick store formerly
occupied by J.
W.
TO MK.
J. ll. COBBY.
CAMP FIRES
OF
CONFEDERACY.
I.
on hr
bran omen, and
The Heroic, ft
Side War,
la
ll.,, .
kit.
M -Over
Bend for
la lad. Ad-
i- .
k,.
Prepared fancy Ponce
molasses, side meat, should-
coffee, sugar,
cheroots,
lull lei, full
cream sausage,
oat Hakes, hominy cotton-
-red meal mid hulls, cotton seed
at I'M cents per
Sewing MACHINE
At IS SALT.
I'll A
AT BOOK BOTTOM
Come lo
M.
lo W. H.
IN
Whichard, N.
The Stock complete every de-
prices its low the
lowest. Highest market
paid for country produce.
Professional Cards
n i. Moor.
AT-
ill.-. N. O.
for
In
F.
Civil u
i-. and
for
Mills K.
N. C. H. C
Q I AM a.
RB- AT- LAW,
Greenville, N. V.
L.
DENTIST,
N. C. T
Office over J.
Cobb Sons stored
H-
i,
i i i
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FOB
The Eastern
ill
and
Friday
D. J. WHICHARD. and Owner TRUTH IN PREFERENCE I per Year in Advance.
VOL XVIII.
GREENVILLE, PITT TUESDAY, MAY
NO
III
A Fatal Throw.
The skill ear old
in a M
in hi tin- evening.
Wild
in the city recently of
of i- of In- u m
looked for bigger game. He i-la
tinned along
near bin
at reel, and prepared to
the engineer of freight train
Aft. The cud of the la no Hod
In- An the engine
came swiftly up the grade a
the loop
the air.
The engineer wax leaning out of
the cab window, of the
at aide of the track,
no-Mart led to
to side-. The
loop of bad fallen with
groat and n the train
forward tho rope jerk-
ed taut, rending the engineer help
The fireman WM
aide of the cab and knew nothing of
the tragedy being
Young thrown off
when the jerk came, mid
able to untie the rope around his
for I
the lour of the train drowning his
Ml rick, lie drawn
the cur wheels. The engineer
freeing and
stopped train, but when the
bay was picked up it was found
that lie was dead. The wheels had
torn the from bin and
mangled
la., Dispatch.
That modern scourge,
poisons the air with its fatal germs,
ho that no home is Hale from
but multitude- e found
a protection against this
malady ill Dr. King's New
When you feel a wire
lies.- in your and
chills and fever, with
in the back of the head,
you may know you have the
and that yon paw Dr.
New It will promptly
the worst cough, heal the in-
flamed kill the disease
genus and prevent the dreaded
effects of the malady. Price
mi Money bark if not
cured. A trial bottle free at J. L.
Drug Store.
High at A Colored Wake.
was a liter of the
well beloved u
lion known as chain gang of
I talon had bean n
by judge to bis
with the gang for the
space of eighteen but like
others who do not know a good
thing when I . be became
of ll and left
when bad
I Like all bad niggers
who are for Mil
look up in Carolina. That
was I a ago. NOW
M it on chain
gang, behind with it
teen or lime, which
be in proceeding to make up.
Howie went to a
few days ago, where Mil was being
detained for t he apace of months
at an institution similar In the one
up here, and him back,
lie indulged inn little
down there which
folks didn't like much. One night
while reading In.- he went to
a wake and woke up tilings.
were singing the last dole
fill dirges over a departed brother.
rolled the earthly remains of
the brother out of the coffin and
lumped on him in true
He I hen made friends and poured
a drink of liquor into the month of
deceased, one lo warm him up,
then pressed it cigar in bis teeth
and lit it. About tins lime the
lo
and out with gun and
cleared out the excepting
himself mid the corpse. Hut in
the begot a ball in his own
leg and a gash from a knife.
mentioned above, for this lit-
he got six months, which
shows Hint they don't think much
Of wakes in South Carolina and
don't give any protection
worth speaking
of
that as soon as the Legislature ad
be w ill a letter to
all the Slates ask-
meeting at .-nine suitable lime
and place with their Attorney
for the purpose of consider-
and agreeing upon an
law, to presented to
different
Salve.
The beat In the world for
Cuts, Sores, Salt
Fever Sores, Chap-
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and
all Skin and positively
cures or no pay required, It
is guaranteed to give perfect
faction or money refunded, Price
Ha cents per sale by
L. Woolen.
A Fakir.
This morning the attention of an
Observe reporter was to
a tall, spare built young while mail
who was in act of handing a
petition to Mr. W. It. Wicker ask
for help for the deaf and dumb.
At that moment another man hap
pencil by mid, seeing the young
man, I thought you
went The supposed
deaf and dumb fellow shot a dead
glance at the coiner and
without ado, swiftly decamp-
ed. It tuned out that, though the
stranger did not know the
he conic up on the train
him the day and they bad
conversed together, during which
his companion bad exhibited a
good roll of money.
Such scoundrels as this should be
locked up wherever
Observer,
If you wish your prosperity to
DO continuous, make your
continuous. One begets the
other. -The Wheel.
SEVEN SPRINGS
of all mineral waters. A positive cure for Indigestion,
Dyspepsia, Insomnia, Nervous Prostration and all Kidney and
Liver Troubles. Its general restorative wonderful.
Spring baa its All are marvelous.
Reduced Rates on Rail Roads.
Hacks to meet every Train.
LINK FROM IO
Waterworks in hotel. Hot or cold water baths free to guests.
For ten add
G. F. SMITH
Negro Denounces
Atlanta. Oft, May -bishop
W. Chaises, one of the most high
U educated and influential
of tho race, in i
sermon on question
pal ill ii i
We la- willing to pay the
if we mote up in the
cit endure
hardships that you may educate
tour children. Mothers,
your girls may goto
school.
if a man wen- charged
with this assault and I had
an X rat from Heaven on
him so I knew he was guilty. I
would willing to turn him over
to the mull.
want to say today I but ho who
for the crime or bus ant
sympathy for the inhuman
who commits this crime, be
black or while, is an enemy to Cod
and a traitor lo his race.
In all the of crime I
can Imagine no deed more
no more foul infernal
than the who would take
from a good woman tin treasure of
her honor, brighter plan-
less than any jewel ever gilt
tared in the crown King, lean
no to express my
tat I'm- such a crime of such
n criminal.
While I hate said this and
would further that with
the most loyal Intelligent white
of Ibis i y lam opposed
Hose
I believe that the
moral effect of punishment
would have been greater bad he
been speedily and legally cunt
and suffered death at the hands of
the law, the danger of mob
law is that sometimes Innocent men
are condemned executed.
There is no danger of a nice
war; all such talk is idle and tool-
With per cent of our race
good what occasion Is there
for vial good men of both
races will mid can gel together, and
peace harmony will
Stale of Oil IO,
County, I
makes
that he is senior of the
of Co., do
the of Toledo,
and Stale aforesaid,
Hi-tit will pay the sum of
HUNDRED for
each and case of Catarrh that
cannot cured Hall's
Catarrh Cure. J.
Sworn In before me and
ed this 8th day of
A. D.
l A. W.
J ; Notary
Hull's Catarrh Cum i- taken in
acts directly on the
null of the
J.
Toledo,
Sold lit druggists,
Hall's the best.
I of Reputation on
Reputation helps to make
Tots- continually telling a
that he a bod boy is more
likely to make him worse than bet
To give R the reputation
of being the worst class
to keep noising it abroad, is
not likely to raise the moral
discipline of the clam. A
who served out a term in orison
for crime finds it hard to show him
self trust win thy,
I rusts him. reputation as an
prisoner clings and. nu
Ii-ks he is strong of
will, reform BOSOM hopeless In
he sinks hack In level lo
which his bud reputation has
depreciating him. As
of others depends largely upon
their we should In-
careful how we handle
S. S. Times,
To-Day's Arrivals.
WHITE ORGANDY,
TELEGRAM SKIRT
FACING,
BEAUTY PINS,
BELT BUCKLES.
HAMMOCKS HAMMOCKS
and other Summer Comforts
for the home.
line of and
Ribbons, White
goods and Colored Wash
goods was
more desirable
POINTED PAR
It's e I,, make lire
Will . ll Is
folly I,, ., re ii
Time en a I Is
of pictures p
All horn bill
are h pi ii to
The inn a a a p mud
bus a large family In
i sh mid ere a
signal w lie breaks the Ice
lovers.
The iii i-i w In. Is in
age is as useless a clock I hut
run-, lo .
Ii . I In give I him
receive but the majority of us
know merely from here- .
Lots of men who have
in their make up -p I
everything let over the
traces,
Saying nothing tile wrong
time is us good us saying
the right the ii slit lime.
New-.
A Most Remarkable Hurled
-i-i-i i who cant
Mr. Joel K. It ,.,.,.,
and highly f would soon And
his
comity . died a few days ago.
He reached an age.
ill a
extensive
i- i per
cure for
i ii, ism, . in the
ii cause
Ill I-
Id. I pin
Ionic.
DI a.
I in was all rigid i.
his curls mid a
Hint her who was afraid he
going course and . . .,,
t r.-p.-ii-inns I
i. morning and Prayer
Well. in. In- said,
arc going In x-
-i I, ii ; i. in. k I. -u
grow
studied the on, -inn a Sen
had spent a life of and varied
his county, ,,,, ins war.-. Hut might
in the w , ,, .,
North Carolina for set
and held other , , ,,,.
of public trust. might In
some lime preceding .
he had been will, a .,,, ., . ,
most rare and within
Seating himself one day ilia ,,, ,,, ,
residence, lie his should be shed
glasses and prepared lo read a ,,,, ,., of
newspaper. Ills the would
is of all , r oven
faculties, and apparently in will show
is-st Opening the paper.
wore attracted i,,,,,,,,. must also
by from him, when
it was that he was
unable to read a line, lie not
only could not read, but the tellers
SO
was as usual, and The woman w In fare.
,.,., .,, i. in w ill s bate
his were a , , , , i a i ,
but one m ho would lie at
doctor. physician ,, If
the trouble as aphasia, or the ob she is weak, and all run
from the mind of
pertaining to Mi. If all has
,,.,, hi impure blind
mil never recovered the lost art ,, ,,,,
the day his deal Ii.- Ia. and ll Ind complex
ion. Hitters is
in the world
liver and kidneys and to
purify blood. It gives strong
bright smooth,
It. lie ill . .
I don't I suppose U- Morion, Sunday
mien man. bill from the Moore
me, I . N.;.,, ., ,,
afraid I'm going to boa In.-u. Sum my
a. in.
i-i. ice and ct
i St illuming evening,
prayer Wednesdays
latest in the M. mid Litany at v.
business is M. Kev. I. Minister
been Charge.
. , ; v i- a ii. sen ii e- v Hum
up,.,, by several t business . , w ,.,.,,.
concerns to ship large ,. ,,.,. r evening. Let.
advertising circulars to w . Sunday-
bulk and have them there, a. in. C. I.
The postage is ii . i-
here, Inn owing to the
there i-
in the A. . linen die
of unmet paid No. and
I, ,
pi be stop
the postal ii lea of the
Slides and act in
conjunction, although then- up
b. be in it.
We hate present
what culled a nun
court t mi
i said lo be eon
i lolled I,, huge extent in all It
does by I'm the sake
politics Supreme
I mill -eeks to put a new rill
I loll oil things and sets
well principles,
In ii Ails i fol i n par
I Supreme t i anal a
it.
Hums, M, M, Sec
. ii. milt I -1 , . N .
I. Mi .-i i
K. S. L. II. Ponder.
K. r.
i Venn g. lb.
II. Jr., v. I.
. K. .-I and H,
Council. No.
meets Ct v i , i
,, . U B. Wilson, It. M R.
,. . See
It. I V M Meets every
iI iv I. Ill I, I i.
II. hall.
II. , I ll,
Nu II, e, I and third
nights in Odd
Hull. M.
Chief; s. Smith, s.-o.
I. i. II.
In. . d
It in i I
i lows Hall. W. II. Wilson, An-I.;
the iii -i ii ml last partisan See.
I ill
know lo annuls
I i
V. TO
The Clerk of the Superior
of Pitt county, hating issued lei
lam of administration to inc. skin, complexion. It
nu the 30th day of will make a
1899, on the estate Of ti. P. ling, U run ii invalid.
diseased, notice is at L.
given to all persons Indebted to lb ii
to immediate payment
to the undersigned, and lo all
of tin- to present
claims, A -i- paper bus
rated, to the the l lb
twelve alter the dale of ll did make lug
this notice. Of this notice Will be mistake, ll ought to hate nil
plead in bar of their
This b day of
ll
mi estate of II. K. Harriot,
Russell. admit
mistake Raleigh News
server.
Through
of the Young Men's
Christian
desires lo remain link mm n has
-ill-, . n In be use
iii shore mil
mid marine in
service in
Key e-l. I and
Kan The lo
l lib -III
lino I , lo ll other tin nil
l in lighten,
Philip, Captain Merrill
v Captain
oilier naval
-Oar ;
, i . ii .-.-, i i i
A yum k. i i A
i Ar .
n. r.
v .
H-
P.
and
. . I . . if Al
Mills
-t . Mi on
f- i i
in N. V.
Ill . I I.
. .
I Mill e HIT IV
have the iii Cobb