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STATE NEWS
Things Mentioned in our State Ex-
changes that are of General Interest
The Cream of the News.
Q. M. one of the larges
merchants in Concord, failed re-
The preferred creditors
amounted to
While the court was getting
ready for business at Rob bins ville.
Graham county, the court house
began to give away, rendering it
hazardous in the extreme. The
church was used to hold court in.
Burlington News One of our
Sowing Machine agents reports
that he found a house in Ala
county in which lives nine
old maids, the youngest being
years of age. We note this
for the benefit of bachelors
and widowers. If he can't find a
mate there he will be hard to
suit.
The Shelby Aurora says that
John Jacob Bomb, a young man
of years of age, carried with
him his little nephew, five years
of age, to Thornburg's
distillery, over the Cleveland line
into Gaston where he
bought whiskey, got drunk and
made the little lad drunk. It is
reported that he treated the boy
shamefully in other ways. The
little lad was unconscious for
four days after this cruel treat-
Mr. Frank Hutchinson's fatten-
hog, in Mulberry township,
was burned to death one night
last week. Mrs. Hutchinson car-
a light when she went to
feed the hog that night, and some-
time afterwards the pen was seen
to be on fire. When they reach-
ed the pen the hog was already
dead and the pen almost
Add an pal I
Washington.
a.
ill I Fat-
acted tar lost HAT PUS.
S-ad model, or photo, with ill
at ft Hi or set,
till patent h
Of PA- Off D. C.
It Should Be Every House.
J. B. Wilson. Clay St., Sharpsburg,
Pa., says he will not be without Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and t it cured bis wife
who was threatened With Pneumonia
after an attack of when
various other remedies and several
physicians bad done her no good. Robert
Bat-bar, of Pa., claims Dr.
King's New Discovery has done him
more good than anything he ever used
for Lung Trouble. Nothing like it. Try
it. Free Trial Bottles at Drug
Store. Large bottles. and SI
THE OF THE WORLD.
Journal of Education.
China has a regular army of
men and a war footing of
Turkey has a regular army of
men, a war footing of
and the annual cost of the
army is
Italy has a regular army of
a war footing of
and the cost of the army
is
Japan has a regular army of
a war footing of
and the annual cost of the army
is
Spain has a regular army of
a war footing of
and the annual cost of the army
is
Russia has a regular array of
a war footing of
and the annual cost of the
army is
France has a regular army of
a war footing of
and the annual cost of the army
is
Germany has a regular army of
a war footing of
and the annual cost of the army
is
Great Britain has a regular
army of a war tooting of
and the annual cost of the
army is
India has a regular
army of a war footing of
and the annual cost of
the army is
has a regular
army of a war footing of
1.125,838, and the annual cost of
the army is
The United States hat a
army of a war footing
of and tho annual cost
of the U
We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling Dr.
New Discovery tor Consumption,
King's New Life Pills,
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell as well,
or that hare given such universal
faction. We do not hesitate to
tee them every time, we stand
ready to refund the purchase price, if
satisfactory results do not follow their
use. These remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their merits.
TRUE SOLDIERS OP THE CROSS.
Men Who Know How to Serve and
How to Oby-Toe Conference.
The Durham Globe writing
about Conferences has
this to say i
Without any preliminary or
special advertising notice, there
is in session at Charlotte that, in
many respects, remarkable body,
a Methodist Conference.
Other gatherings, political, so-
or scientific, have to be
in advance by
and and and other
appliance, but this gathering
meets as s as rose the walls
of Solomon's temple without the
noise of hammers.
In the most exciting political
conventions there, are vacancies
seats are taken by proxies or
but at Charlotte it is
safe to say that the name of every
living member will be answered
to, and as for the dead, their
names will be called too, and
there will be those to answer for
them, as for the Grenadier
of on the field of
The disc of the gathering
at Charlotte is perfect- It always
is at a Methodist Conference.
The face of tho presiding bishop
may even be new to all before
him, but he will take his place
dignified and self-possessed as
all his predecessors have been
and he will with an even
hand. These may the right
of an appeal from his decision,
but it is safe to say that it will
be exercised. The business of
the Conference will proceed in an
order settled by the practice of
years, from tho beginning to the
close, without a ripple or a jar.
less than a week tho Conference
will have transacted more actual
Men may affirm or deny, stand
with these men or against them,
call them fanatics or apostles, the
votaries of a decaying superstition
or the heralds of no
man unless he be so
as to be ruled out from the com-
of the fair and the just con
refuse to them the praise due him
who labors with a true heart for
the good of men, and strives,
though in weakness and tears,
for tho final elevation of the race.
HANDLING STUFF.
A Traveler's on a
Railroad.
Ha la tho
Happened to
a r Who Stumbled
and
WHO TO MARRY.
So long as all hinds and the
cook are having a say about get-
ting married we may as well be
heard, for we congratulate our-
selves on possessing whole chunks
of wisdom in this particular es-
The spirit of the age is
that of is on the
part of the men. This is wrong,
and causes many disappointments
not a few withered flowers.
Young jump in Getting
married is just es easy as rolling
off a log, but don't bother your
head about finding an angel.
think how men as a general
thing would match with angels
But the have all been
taken long ago ; do more in the
market now. Don't marry for
beauty exclusively ; it don't wear
worth a cent; that is if you build
exclusively on it. Don't marry
for love altogether, either. It is
too much like a worth
much without oil. and money
stands for oil. Marry a betwixt
and a between.
Never saw one of that kind
Why, there are lots of them in
the market. In fact, there are
more of this kind than any other.
She is worth more for a wife, as a
general thing, than any angel is
she knows more about
and tho side of life. Au-
business than a State Legislature i gels make bettor heroines for
does in a month.
Most impressive all,
is the implicit obedience with
which the mandates of the Con-
will be obeyed.
Methodist preacher, like the
suit the soldier, asks no
questions, but goes where he is
sent. The associations formed
during one, two, three or even
four years of residence will be
broken without a
word; and the preacher, with his
novels than they do wives. Don't
marry for a family name, unless
it is backed up with batik notes.
Go for a girl with lots of common
sense, some beauty, a good con-
the by-laws
you can arrange them between
a light stepper, a big, warm
heart, and you will got something
I that will keep. Young men, just
look out for this kind of a wife
I and don't go sighing around be-
cause you can't find a novel-angel.
wife and children and house- j They would be the death and
hold with much of you if you got one
wend his way to of
another there to labor
in a new, and, stony
field; to make friends of strangers,
and to leave old friends to be
strangers, thereafter. He will I
feel, it may a sinking of the
heart, as a few Sundays hence,
he arises in a strange place ad-
a congregation in which
there may not be a familiar face;
but whatever he may feel he
will submit himself in silence
to the discipline of his order.
He will do this, too, year after
year, until an old man and
most certainly as poor as old, he
will reluctantly accept a
and even
then his white head will be seen
at each session of the Annual
Conference until the day come
when the earth shall cover his
toil and his time-worn face from
the sight of men-
Other gatherings are of the
to perfect the
plans of men ; to organize parties
for collective or individual
to grasp the
sources of wealth, or to lay the
foundation of gather
like this at Charlotte deal
with none of these things. They
concern not the laying out or con
of any earthly thorough-
fare of commerce, or highway of
the straight and
row path that leads to life enter-
As men and citizens in other
days of the year these preachers
may and do concern themselves
in the division of political parties,
but their business at Charlotte
relates to what they firmly believe
is coming a division of all souls
on the right hand or on the left
on the of
Not one of these at Char-
but feels himself, however
humble as an individual, the am-
of the King of Kings,
with a message which
he dares not, if he would, refuse
to deliver. The discipline, the
obedience, the re he
accepts as a soldier does the
chances of wounds, death and
the ca m
must go on and on.
Cold and Hunger.
Richmond
Biting winds begin to be felt
here. Should we have such a
winter as the last the suffering of
the poor will be great for many
of them are unemployed.
chilling blast should re-
mind us of those whose grates
are empty and whose means
barely suffice to provide them
with bread. And, worse still,
there are others who can get
neither bread nor fuel
Organized charities and
charity must combine to
relieve this suffering. Tho good
manor woman cannot be com
beside a glowing fire or
at a richly-ladened table knowing
near by are people shivering
and starving.
Among the despised tramps
too, are men who are neither
nor knaves. There are
honest men the working
their way from distant parts back
to their homes- Others, madden-
ed by failure to find employment
at home, have started forth tramp-
to obtain work- Some among
these two classes tell pitiful
stories, which carry conviction of
truth with them.
Those whom fortune has bless-
ed must open their hearts and
hands to the cries of the distress-
ed already heard, and destined to
grow louder as the ad-
Times are hard, but we
must try to soften them to the
poor. Active exertion will be re-
quired, and this we should
to put forth
Dispatch-
The reader of this paper will be pleas-
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in nil its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure known to the
cal Catarrh being a
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure
la take- internally, act lug directly on
the blot land mucous surfaces of the
system, destroying tho found
of the disease, and tiring
by building up the con-
a id assisting nature in doing
work. This proprietors have much
faith in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case
it fails to core. Bend for Hat of
testimonials.
Address, F. J. A CO.,
O. Bold by
I was winding in and out among
the hills of Pennsylvania on a rail-
road train when seized with a de-
sire to smoke. The smoking car
was an ordinary one, and about
half-filled with men in blouse and
overalls, smoking clay pipes. When
I selected a seat I found a leather
bag on the floor and gently kicked
it out of the way. It moved in a
grudging way and I sat down and
put my feet on it. I had smoked
my cigar about half up when one of
the miners, having finished his pipe,
knocked the ashes out, lounged over
to me, and
wouldn't down too hard
on the stuff,
the
I wouldn't kick around too
heavy on
some tools in there you
afraid may get broken,
call it dynamite,
Scott, man, but you don't
mean to
it's he
observed, as he sat down beside me
and reached for the bag. sup-
pose you've seen it put up in car-
before now You know how
we use I believe they
that each of these ten cartridges has
tho force
take them I yelled,
shrinking as far away from him as
possible.
course, sir, but there is no
for alarm. I've been handling
dynamite in all shapes forms for
the last fifteen years and never had
an accident. You must have con-
to explode one of these, sir,
and who's going to tap this one with
a hammer, or fire it out of the win-
against a
be careful not to drop it on
tho floor. Ugh Is there any more
of the stuff in this
a tidy bit of it, sir.
There's twelve men of us, and I
guess could scare up about a
hundred cartridges like these if you
wanted to see
No I'll be thankful enough
if I get clear of your ten without be-
blown through the roof. How
much rock, for instance, would one
of these cartridges bring
much rock Well, that
would be according to the lay of
things. If it was a cliff, with a
goodly overhang to it, and this cart-
ridge was placed just right, the
downfall would be enough to build a
fine, large warehouse with a few
carloads of small pieces left over for
making pavement. If it was plumb
up and down cliff without any seams
or crevices, and the stone was hard
and tough, a pieces weighing
pounds or so would be all you
could reasonably expect. It's beau-
stuff, sir, beautiful, and the
who invented it was a
you are digging 3-our own
heels into that I shouted, as
he moved his hob-nailed boots
around without the slightest care.
I was, sir, but as long as
there was no explosion no harm has
been done. It's the law to
throw dynamite cartridges from a
car window or I'd give you an ex-
worth seeing. Tho good
old days seem to have passed
do you mean by the good
old
the time when one could
fling one of these things out of tho
window and make a hole in a ledge
largo enough for the den of a
bear. What brought out a law
it was the mistake made by a
near-sighted man. He threw a
cartridge at a ledge which he sup-
posed was all of thirty feet away,
while it wasn't actually over eight.
The result was that a piece of rock
weighing one hundred pounds
struck the first passenger
smashed its way in, and I believe a
man and his Wife were killed. They
had poor Jim in jail for a year, and
everybody cussed his eyes instead of
feeling sorry that they had deceived
him. That's why they passed the
law, sir, and I'm afraid the good
old days will never return. This
can no longer be called the land of
seen people killed by the
stuff, I I said as he
played with cartridge as if it were a
ball.
a piece of rock weigh-
two hundred and fifty pounds
scraped my cap off as it flew along
to strike my partner in the breast,
but didn't exactly see him die, you
know. He yes. The fore-
man said that if poor Ned had been
struck by tho Pittsburgh city hall
ho couldn't have died any faster nor
boon in worse shape to gather up.
As to about a dozen others, I've
seen standing on a particular
spot, been knocked down myself by
the concussion, and reached my feet
again to find a hole in the ground
broad enough and deep enough to
bury a span of horses in. The per-
sons U. say
whether they went up or down,
though sometimes did find
tho to that
they mostly went
horrible to be wiped off the
of tho earth in that
it's better than being
smothered In a coal mine or run over
a train or cars, you ever see
the big in tho ground over at
Fox
a place worth seeing, sir.
There were fourteen miners in tho
party, I believe. They were carry-
a lot of dynamite and sat down
rest and smoke. One of them
a fire to roast some chestnuts
and it is supposed a stick of
; mite came in contact with
there was none of the
fourteen left to explain matters, you
see. One instant were
; men enjoying their pipes about a
I in whilst the fourteenth
was shoving chestnuts into tho
i In the next there was a boom
which rattled
windows ten miles away, and
people reached tho spot to find a
hole in the ground feet
sixteen feet deep and fourteen
j-feet
grave of
hardly. There was no
need of a grave. I believe they
found some fragments half a mile
away in a tree top, but not enough
have you no fear of such a
the slightest. It's
stuff, as I said
nicer and cleaner to handle than any
other explosive. I was taken with
gunpowder for awhile, but this
beats it out of sight. Fond of wit-
explosions,
indeed, I'm not, and I won't
breathe till you men are off the train.
It ought to be against the law to
carry dynamite around in this
less
More laws it When
tho day comes that a poor, honest
blaster must go on foot because ho
is obliged to carry about a
cartridges I shall want to
leave tho Some of us get
off at this next station, while the
others go a little further down the
I said as I left
the smoker and went back to the
rear coach and to tho last scat in
that.
At the next station the train side-
tracked to let the express pass. Four
of the miners got off and started up
the mountain road in the direction
of a quarry. The man I had talked
with looked along the train until ho
saw my face at the window, when he
held up a cartridge and laughed
gave it a toss in the air. When
he started on again his three com-
were many In advance.
A dozen of us were watching him as
he broke into a trot to overtake them.
He wasn't one hundred feet from
tho train when he stumbled and fell
there was a puff of Game and
car windows shivered
into deafening crash, and
the man the scat ahead of
called
dynamite,
Everybody went up to look at the
spot. There was a in the
ground deep enough to take in a
hogshead, a lot of twisted roots
from tho nearest trees, chips and
splinters of stone and fragments of
flesh, cloth and leather. Nothing
miner had vanished off
the face of the Free
Press.
Pessimisms.
Gossip is the sugar of old women's
tea.
All sour grapes are out of
reach.
Vice is a sponge which sucks in
honor and gives out tears.
The man who fears being taken at
his true value is always on the alert
for slights.
Humility is not necessarily a
virtue. The violet would smell just
as sweet on a tree.
A brigadier general in petticoats
and an old maid in pants are two
things to avoided.
The tears shed for others arc
mellowed by inward congratulation;
those shed for ourselves are brine.
The old man who has forgotten
that he ever was a boy is but a living
tombstone to his buried youth.
A broken pitcher at a fountain
may touchingly symbolical, but
it is not so suggestive as a broken
bottle in an
Much Longer.
Little children sometimes find It
hard to understand that anyone
has had an existence before they,
the ones, were in the world.
Two girls, each seven years old,
were swinging on the gate before
the house of one of them.
lived our said
the little girl who was the visitor,
since before I was
answered the
little girl who was at homo;
lived in this house fifteen years
Youth's Companion.
Ware Kilted.
dispatch to
the from Milan
persons were and in-
in a collision at station.
Nearly passenger on the train
was injured. It is stated that a ma-
of the killed and injured were
emigrants going to America by way of
Laid to aha Tariff.
Boston, December
torn Worsted company, with mills at
Newton, Mass., has formally notified
its operatives the of
the tariff by the law will
make it absolute necessary to reduce
wages or stop the mills. These
have been operated for years
without
MATTERS NOT TO BE OMITTED.
E. Tyler, in Chronicle.
One of the sins of the scribes
and Pharisees, which called forth
stern words of rebuke from the
Savior, was that though they had
paid tithes of mint and anise and
they had omitted the
weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy and faith. Matt.
I have had sufficient acquaint-
with the so-called household
of faith to learn, I am sorry to
say, that there are many who
have but a develop-
of morality. With them to
and sing and go to meeting
seem to be the all-important
things. They can run up bills at
the store, they owe for their rent,
they owe for their religious pa
per, they owe the tax-collector,
they owe the butcher, the baker,
the candlestick maker, and about
everybody else who trust them.
And they seem to be perfectly
easy, perfectly indifferent to these
obligations. Will the Lord
of such loose conduct
No, he will not- A man will be
damned as quickly for failing to
pay his honest debts as for deny-
tho faith or grieving the
Spirit in any other way. I do
think this sin is confined to
tho laity. There are men in the
sacred office of tho ministry who
bills and who fail to
make proper explanations for
their neglect paying. Such
arc dishonest men and unworthy
tho confidence of Christians.
Another matter
omitted is regard to keeping
engagements. A person agrees
to at a certain at such a
time- It is to be expected that he
will do just as he agrees, or
a satisfactory reason going.
Preachers make appointments
fail to keep them or to send a
substitute. Why Bach looseness
of it is disgraceful.
The engagement should
binding as a note, and
often tho consequences are far
more momentous. For where a
preacher is expected and does
appear some soul may
away from tho church to come no
more- We have no confidence
a profession who fails to
keep his engagements or give a
satisfactory reason.
In the days of our father's a re-
man's word was as
his note, men would go
through of weather to
fulfill an agreement. They con-
it binding upon them.
If they could not pay as they
agreed they went just tho same
stated their situation. To-
day, if it is convenient and all
things are favorable, they will
but if not their promise is
ignored and they take the liberty
to do just as they please.
meet some men who seem to have
had no moral training their
youth, and perhaps this is the
for their slovenly habits-
Justice and equity and honesty
occupy a very small place in their
hearts. They may be able to talk
fluently write copiously but
they are poor timber with which to
make good or to fill
pisses of trust and responsibility
We do not like to deal with such
men- It is that there
are some communities still where
such a sense of honor prevails
that this sort of people are not
held in high esteem. No gift nor
grace DOT zeal will take tho place
of strict honesty, integrity, and
personal honor.
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WHAT NAMES MEAN.
Chandler was once a candle-
make
Pointer and had fathers
who made lace.
Skinner's great-great grand-
father dealt in hides.
Tanner comes from the name of
a leather dresser.
Payne, Paine and the con-
tractions of Pagan.
and formerly
entertained travelers.
Seymour the
descendants of tailors.
and Crocker had
who made earthenware.
Stammer and
of physical infirmity.
Winter
keepers of a vineyard-
and Plummer prepared
feathers for hats.
Pear, and
kept pear or-
chards.
and once
the names of manumitted slaves.
was formerly a herd, hence
the and
Block, Blocker and
are the sons of men who fashion-
ed hats.
Reynolds, and
descendants of Rey-
tho fox.
Simon gave us Sims,
Simpson, and
is a descendant of the
or dealer who handled
foreign spices.
Hooper, Hopper and
came from families supported by
was once a herd ;
so also the Coverts
and
Miller, Mills,
Mil ward, all have tho BOOM
Armstrong was once a
given to a soldier
of unusual prowess.
first name was John.
He died in 1337. and his
glad of it.
is a of the
old village watchman; so are
Wake and
Pattens overshoes,
tho
and
was a drummer, and
his sons are tho Tabors
and Tubers of to-day.
is a descendant of him
who clinked daubed the cot-
walls with wot clay.
Johnson, Jones, Jenkins, Jen-
Jacks, Jackson, Littlejohn,
and many
other are the sous of plain John.
Strong, Long. Short,
Little, Lowe, Small, Slight,
Stout, Young, Light and Heavy,
all given as nicknames.
Huggins, Hutchins,
son,
Hughes and
lieu are all sons of plain
Hugh.
A Site Place in a m.
New York
Tho Chippewa say that
the beech tree is never struck
lightning, and whenever a
overtakes them, they
seek shelter under its
Strange to say, there appears to
be some foundations for their
curious belief. The writer
remember ever having seen a
I beech tree that had been shatter-
ed by a and lumber-
men, who have spent most of their
lives in the woods agree with the
Indians ; but no one seems
to give any reason why this
should be so favored. Tho trees
most frequently struck by
are oaks and elms, and it is
wiser to remain in the open and
I get soaked than to
I seek shelter under them, when a
l i is raging.
W. H. WHITE.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
Obi have passed away and all
things have Mn new. My old
stew of good have been sold out
and a new stock has taken its
The old was replaced
by the new because my
LOW DOWN PRICES
the people and keep the goods
moving. Now listen to a few plain
I know times are hard and
money scarce just as well as the man
who raises cotton, corn and tobacco,
awl going to hell goods just as low
as any honest dealer can afford to sell.
tot every dollar spent with me you will
get the. worth of your money. I keep a
complete stock of
General Merchandise,
Dry Goods, Notions
Boots, Shoes, Hats,
Caps and Gents
Furnishing Goods,
Clothing
at any price a man can want. Also a
full stock of
Groceries
Cotton Bagging Ties.

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the following.
The Virgins General Assembly
met last Wednesday, and among
its first business was the election
of United States Senators, one for
a short term to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senate
and the other for a Ion term of
six years. General as
was expected was elected for the
short term, he having been
appointed by the Gov-
It was also expected
that the gallant soldier and states-
man. Gen. Fitz Lee, would be
elected for the long term, but by
some unexplainable
he was defeated, and that too
by one Hon. Thomas S- Martin,
who it seems was hardly known
before except as a lawyer of some
prominence. This was a disappoint
not only in Virginia but
elsewhere. Virginia papers say
there was treachery, and many
of the legislators have been round-
denounced for the course they
pursued. To say the least of it,
the Old Dominion does herself
no credit when she goes back an
a Lee.
We print on supplement to-Jay
Mr. Cleveland's message. As a
paper full of general information
upon the state and condition of
the government both foreign and
domestic it is fine message. As
to its recommendations they are
Very few. The message is very
different from what was expected
but we don't know that this makes
it any the less a valuable paper-
Mr. Cleveland has convictions
and ho dares express them and is
very little influenced by the clam-
ors of the people- In reference
to our financial policy he says
more time is necessary for wise
action- He evidently desires to
see the financial policy of this
government when established by
further legislation to be of such a
character that it will stand the
test and not always be a matter
of contention. He says delay will
enable Congress to act with more
wisdom. In reference to the
Hawaiian matter he fully approves
of the action of Secretary Gresham
and Mr- Blount. but says he will
communicate farther on this mat-
to Congress. He is now writ-
another message upon this
subject. His views upon the
service will find no sympathy
in the South. We believe the
whole thing is a humbug. He
advises strict economy in all pub-
matters. He thinks the pen-
roll should be of honor
and in consequence favors much
reform along this line. Upon the
tariff he is pointed and writes
sensibly. He takes no backward
step but believes it tho most
question before Congress.
The message taken altogether is
not equal to the former ones of
Mr. Cleveland and in consequence
is somewhat disappointing to his
friends. Nevertheless it is a good
State paper and is generally
recognized.
of the officials of the Treasury de-
shown that the de-
in revenue caused by the
reductions in duties
of the free list made by the
new tariff bill would be in
the neighborhood of
which was some more
than had been estimated by
the Ways and Means com-
This, of course,
t revision of the internal
revenue bill, which is to be made
to supply the deficiency caused
by the tariff bill. Among the new
propositions submitted to the
this week was one from
Representative Hatch, of Mis-
to tax the transactions of
the stock and produce exchanges,
instead of tho earnings of
rations, which had been previous-
agreed upon by the committee.
Mr- Hatch thinks such a tax
would be felt less than any yet
proposed.
As there is no estimate for the
expenses of the Bureau of Amer-
Republics in the figures sub-
by Secretary Gresham, for
the next fiscal year, it is safe to
say that there will soon be no
Bureau of American Republics.
It was a sort of a side attachment
to the beautiful-on
reciprocity Its cost
has been annually about
for salaries, and the
it has been to the country
has been Sec-
Morton regards the money
spent at the forty-eight
experimental stations
one in each State and Territory
as largely wasted, and having re
commended in his annual report
that they be abolished he left the
which it would require
to run them out of his estimates
for next year.
The probability of a change in
the Senate rules is very slight,
although there are several pro-
posed amendments now before
the committee on Rules, of which
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
is chairman. The other Demo-
on the committee are Sena-
tors Harris, of Tennessee, and
Gorman, of The ac-
of the Republican caucus in
deciding not to to
vent a vote on the Wilson tariff
bill when it gets to the Senate
has weakened the desire for a
change to a noticeable extent.
Governor elect O. of
Virginia, will retain his seat in
the House until the Christmas
recess, as his resignation will not
take effect until the 28th inst. He
will be inaugurated Governor on
the first day of January and will,
contrary to custom, deliver an in-
address, something that
has been done by only one other
governor of that State the
war. He has been warmly con-
by his colleagues with
whom he is deservedly popular.
Congress got down to work
very smoothly. The regular
in the House is the
bankruptcy bill, which will be
disposed of late this week or
early in the coming week. The
Senate has listened to some stump
speeches on the Hawaiian
and taken up its routine
work in its usually leisurely man-
A concurrent resolution was
unanimously adopted by Congress
accepting the bronze statue of
Gen. James Shields, which was
unveiled by a daughter of Gen.
Shields, in the Statuary Hall of
the Capitol, Wednesday after-
noon, thanking Illinois for
having presented the statue- The
ceremonies attending the unveil-
were imposing and interest-
and were participated in by a
large number of prominent people,
including Gov. whose
oration in honor of the
jurist and made a
splendid impression upon those
who heard it-
It is not probable that any of
the regular appropriation bills
will be reported until it can be
seen from the tariff and internal
revenue bills just how much
revenue there will to draw
against, although Chairman
Sayers of the Appropriations
committee has several of them in
a condition to be reported at an
hour's notice.
so
COMMISSIONERS- MEETING.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
our
D C, Dec.
Secretary has not com-
his annual report and does
not expect to finish it before next
week. It will probably be one
of the longest and most
papers of its kind ever
submitted to Congress, owing to
the bad condition in which the
Republicans left the finances of
the country. The absence of this
although not the only
reason, was one of the principal
reasons for the delay in getting
the mm tariff bill before the
House- It would have been
sufficient of itself, as it is
for that report to be in the
hands of members before they
take up the tariff
Chairman Wilson's present in-
is to report the tariff bill
to the House next Wednesday,
and he hopes to be able to make
public its twin measure, the in-
revenue bill, at about the
same time- The last named bill
would have been ready before
this ha J not the revised
N. C, Dec i,
The Commissioners of Pitt
county met in regular monthly
session on the above date. Pres-
C. Dawson, chairman, S. A.
Gainer, T. E. Keel, Leonidas
Fleming and Jesse L- Smith.
The first business of the Board
was an election of a chairman for
the ensuing year, which resulted
in the re-election of C- Dawson.
The following pauper orders
were issued
Martha Nelson Margaret
Bryan 3.00. H D Smith Lydia
Bryan 2-00, Jacob
1.50, Nancy Moore Susan
Norris 1-50, Susan Briley 2.50,
Lucinda Smith 1.50, Patsy Lock-
Henry Harris 2-50, Ben-
Crawford 1.50,
Smith 1.50, Kenneth Henderson
Eliza Edwards 1.50, Carlos
Gorham 2.00, J H 2-00, Hen-
Sam and Amy Cher-
i-00, Fannie Tucker 1.00, J O
6.00, Alice Corbitt 3.00,
Jordan and Andrews 3-00,
Polly 3-00, Patsy Stocks 1.00,
Easter Vines Martha Bryan
Wm A Jones 2-50, Alex
12.00, David
James Long 14.00, Butts
Taylor 6.00.
The following general orders
were
B S Sheppard 5.03, E A
J A Harrington 5-15, C Kin-
G W Edmondson 1.60,
D C Moore Dr. B T Cox
J D Cox 1.09, W P
2.00, E F Williams G M Smith
1.65, L A Wetherington 2.55,
O Hooker W T Smith 135.06.
Abraham Venable 2.00, W F
Harrington F G Dupree
C V Newton 12-84, E L Worth-
5.60, J B Bullock 6.50, D.
C Smith 1.10, J B Co
2-95 Dr W H Bagwell 23-00, J O
Horton E A Bland 13.26, Dr
F W Brown Dr W E War-
16.00, Dr W E Warren
B S Sheppard
The following persons were
lowed to list their taxes for the
year
township- John
Abrams, loom Austin,
Webb, D S Langley, Ambrose
Daniel, J H Langley agent T B
Tilman, Latham, Bright
Ellis, J J Harris, Dennis Simmons
Lumber Co-
Carolina C Little,
Wm G Whitfield.
Bethel C. Daven-
port, J S Peel, J W Martin.
Beaver Dam
Strickland, James H Beardsley-
Farmville
Tyson, John Joyner, Windsor
Joyner, J J Langley, Val Jordan,
H A Kittrell, Jolly Atkinson.
Falkland C Gard-
agent for B F Eagles,
Joyner, J F Edwards, Mrs Amy
Parker, S M Crisp, J A A Forbes,
Elias Carr agent for Atkinson
heirs, Mattie E Vines, Wm H
Moore, L B Harding agent for M
E Mayo, Elias Carr, R R Cotten
agent for N Colin Hughes, An
drew Joyner agent for A Braswell,
John H Johnson, Elmira Rives
S V Joyner receiver for B S At-
heirs.
an, Moses Whitley, Mrs Mary
Haddock.
Swift Creek township B J
Joyner, Jesse Brown, D W H
Smith, S S Rasberry, David C
B F Hardy, Jesse Hardy,
Chas S Smith, J H John S
Freeman, Wilson. J T Moore.
township. B S
Byrd. Marian Harris, Jas H Jones,
Nelson, Mrs Sarah Ann
ton, Silas W B
Moore agent for Mary E Hardy,
G J Russell, H H Hardy, Henry
Tripp, J J J H Cobb,
W J Slaughter, Caleb Worthing-
ton agent for Wm Cash, Mrs
Mary Haddock, Abram Cox, Pen-
E Tripp, Isaac C Hardy, L J
Chapman Co.
township-J E Warren
Marian Harris.
Greenville
Moore, F Ward administrator of
Brown heirs, Edward Braxton, J
A A Forbes, E
W W R R Co, Louisa King,
Greenville Tobacco Warehouses
J W Allen, Wm J J
Cherry, Jr. Mrs M J Parker.
John N Vaughan, H
C R A Tyson, Carolina
Paint Manufacturing Co,
Randolph, John
ton, Noah W
Tyson, J W Dr C J
for C J Jr,
Dr C J E C Williams,
Wm Murray.
Ordered that the taxes on
D May's land be reduced from
to
The following were released
from the payment of poll
J W Hardy. H D Manning.
Henry Ward, James Stevens, L
B Adams, B F Exum.
Ordered that the valuation of
Mary Peyton's land be reduced
from to
Ordered that the valuation of
acres of land of J D Cox be re-
to
Wm was released
from tax on two dogs.
Dr W H Bagwell submitted his
monthly report as Superintendent
of Health which was ordered on
file.
The Board then adjourned.
SECOND
December 5th, 1893.
The Board re bled and
transacted the following
Warren T was
pointed as deputy sheriff and took
oath of office-
The report of Henry Harding,
Register of Deeds, was received,
approved and ordered recorded.
Cornelius was elected
bridge keeper for the next
months.
W T Smith was elected Super
of the Home for the
Aged and Infirm.
E A clerk superior court,
H Harding, register of deeds, R
W King, sheriff, John Flanagan,
treasurer, presented their annual
reports which were examined,
proved and ordered recorded.
E A clerk superior court
H Harding, of deeds, R
W King, sheriff, W E Warren,
coroner, John B Kilpatrick,
G W Edmondson,
of Bethel township, J A
constable of
township, B J Bullock, constable
of township, Dennis C
Smith, constable of Swift Creek
township, H N Gray, constable of
Carolina township, G M Smith,
constable of Falkland township,
W B Carson, constable of
township, Alfred Joyner, con-
stable of Farmville township,
their several official bonds
which were examined, approved
and ordered to be recorded.
The following were allowed to
list their taxes for
A Ran-
J W Tyson, A J
bridge, Alice L Stancill, R W
Stancill, T J Stancill, Mary V
Forbes, Emma Little, Jas F Stan-
Ella V Stancill.
Lydia Staton, pauper, was
lowed
The following general orders
were
D J 6.00, W B
son 65.00, W S Manning 2-95, J D
Button R W King R
W King 12.90, Blow
W B Carson 1.20, C Dawson 9.80-
Adjourned.
RAY.
December 6th, 1893.
Board re-assembled, S A Gain-
T E Keel and Leonidas Flem-
in
of the chairman S A Gain-
was elected chairman pro tern
Ordered that T E Keel and Le
Fleming be appointed as
committee to examine and report
upon magistrates returns.
Ordered that the Board as a
committee of the whole meet on
the 16th of December to visit the
Home of the Aged and Infirm and
inspect the jail. Ordered further
that the clerk notify C Dawson
and Jesse L. Smith to meet with
the Board on the 16th for the
purpose above stated.
The resignation of Warren
Tucker as stock law fence commit
accepted and Jesse
R Move appointed in his place-
Ordered that J A K
tax collector for 1892, be allowed
the sum of as insolvent
taxes for said year.
J W Hardy was exempted from
poll tax for 1893 and that the
sheriff refund him the amount
already paid for 1893.
Ordered that the room in the
Court House formerly occupied
by the superintendent of public
instruction be rented to Jesse L
Sugg for per month, and that
the same be subject to be revoked
whenever needed for other
poses.
Ordered that the clerk place
upon the tax list in the hands of
sheriff all delinquent tax listers
and charge each delinquent with
double tax upon all the property
listed by them on the tax list for
1892.
The following general orders
were
Albert 5.50, S A Gainer
7.60, T E Keel 18.80, L Fleming
11.50, Henry Harding 152-51.
R W King, sheriff, presented
his report showing that ht had
summoned a jury and laid out a
public road from to
Bethel in accordance with
by the Board at June meet-
the jury agreeing that Mrs
Martha Whitehurst shall have
and W D Manning for
damages to the land of Mrs
Whitehurst and the rent thereof
to the use of Manning. The
Board confirmed the report upon
condition that the petitioners pay
the damages assessed by the
jury as above stated.
ported dangerously ill with
fever. He returned Sat-
night and reported his
condition better.
Our Mayor and Constable
both went to Greenville last Mon-
day.
Our township constable G- W.
Edmondson is now
ed the taxes of Bethel
and Carolina Township.
Miss Eloise of
and Miss Mollie
of Greenville, have been visiting
Mrs. T. T. Cherry the past week-
Mies Mary Whitehead, of Scot-
land Neck, who has been
her sister, Mrs. T. T. Cherry, left
for home this morning.
Mr. Andrew Joyner, of Green-
ville spent Sunday and Sunday
night in town. He delivered an
able and eloquent lecture in
Methodist church Sunday even-
to a large and attentive
on Intemperance. His speech
made a fine impression.
Two white men, Herbert Russ and
Ernest Jones, near Kinston, got Into a
dispute Saturday as to which should
get down load of fodder and open
a gate. After hot words both got down
to light. Russ drew a knife and Jones
struck him with a long cart
ling him with the blow. Jones was
put In jail at Kinston.
Hood's Cures
Annie I. Amer
Of Ky.
More Than Pleased
With Hood's Tot
and Mood
Stronger and Better in
I hare boon more than pleased with Hood's
I hare suffered with totter break-
out on my face and all over my body all my
I never could And acting to do It good
until I began to take Hood's I
have now about eight bottles, and Oh,
done me so much good that I hay the
Hood's s Cures
filth In It and recommend It to everyone. Besides
purifying my blood. It has made ma so much
stronger and better I do not like the
parson at Augusta, p.
Hood's Pills act easily, yet
anciently, on the liver and bowels. Z Jo.
J. B. CHERRY CO.
Wood, postmaster
Hill, was in town
on Items.
Grifton, N. C, Dec. 1893.
Several of our citizens attend-
ed court the past week.
Mr. Green Harper the
pion livery man of Kinston, was
in town Wednesday last.
W.
at Fountain
Friday.
Capt. S. D. Pope, of
was in town Saturday.
The laughing man is still in
town, Mr. E. a nice
little girl.
Messrs Loon Dawson and
Charlie Spier, of Maple Cypress,
were in town Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Johnson, of
Centerville, were visiting relatives
in town Sunday.
Mr. W. J- Pope, of Fountain
Hill, was in town Saturday.
Rev. J. It. Tingle pastor of the
Christian here, filled his
pulpit on Sunday and Sunday
night-
Mr. Clarence Whichard, of
Greenville, spent Saturday even-
till Monday with friends here-
The Ladies of the Christian
church at this place will give for
the benefit of the church debt an
One of Green county's widowers
was in town Sunday, Mr. Thomas
He is a candidate
and one vote will elect him- Look
out girls.
Our clever railroad agent, Mr.
J- J. Rhodes has moved in town,
much to his convenience and took
his family over to Kinston
day evening to visit his parents
till Monday.
We are glad to know that an-
other freight has been put on the
Scotland Neck branch from
don to Kinston. and the traveling
public will not be put to so much
inconvenience on account of de-
trains.
Don't forget that
FRANK WILSON
CARRIES THE FINEST LINE OF
In Town All the latest styles.
-o
A Large stock to select from.
Parmele Items
N. C, Dec , U. 1893.
Master Gus returned
last Tuesday from his home in
Siler City, N. G
Mr. John Crowell. foreman of
the Martin Biggs
Co., of Williamston, was here
last Monday.
Mr. E. of Rich-
paid us a call last
Wednesday.
There was a reception at the
Parmele club house yesterday.
Your correspondent the
turkey.
Miss Allie Little was in town
yesterday.
Mrs. F. Gardner Co. are
moving into their store to-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. F. have
moved in their new house on Sam-
street.
Mr. Lee Bell flower will open a
grocery business in the store for
occupied by Gardner Co.
Mrs. Mobley, of Everetts, is
visiting Mrs. B- F. Gainer.
Mr. J. Little spent yesterday
in Bethel.
Miss Cora Khan has returned to
Parmele
DRY GOODS
NOTIONS
Must go also with the above
All he asked is to come and see his stock and
he will please you.
CLOSING AT COST
OUR ENTIRE STOCK MUST BE DISPOSED
JANUARY 1st,
and in order to do so will close it out at
Cost for Gash.
The opportunity of a life time. Everything must go.
On the 1st of January a oh in our business will take place
and we are to close entire stock out at cost- Come
in look over our stock and see how cheap they are.
GREENE,
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Land Sale.
Mr. L Whitley has been
added to the police force-
By virtue of a decree rendered in a
certain cause pending In the Superior
to Stay until Christ Court of county, wherein
Forbes A Co., are plaintiffs and
Latham Skinner et are defendants,
the undersigned, Commissioner duly
authorized said decree, will sell at
the Court House door In N.
C. for cash, on Monday, Jany
1894, the described real estate
In county of Pitt, certain
tract of land lying in Falkland town-
ship, adjoining the lands of Margaret
Willis B. Williams, Mis.
Mr. William J. Bland had two
before the Mayor last
Saturday for stealing his watch.
They were released because there
was not sufficient proof of their
guilt-
Bethel Items.
Bethel. N. C pea 1893,
Mr. R. F- Gainer, of Parmele
spent Sunday in town-
Mr. T- T. Cherry made a flying
trip to Hobgood to day on
Mr. W. B. Highsmith of
ton, New Jersey, is visiting his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. High-
smith in Carolina Township- He
was in town to-day.
Mr. Ford went to Fortress
Monroe last Thursday to see his
brother-in law who re-
Newton and others, containing by
acres, generally known as
the Adam land; a certain lot or
parcel of lying In the town of
designated as lot No. In
plan of said town and well known as
I he old Thomas Nelson lot; a certain
other lot in the town of Greenville, a
part of lot No. In the plan of said
town, and being same lot which was
Conveyed to Harry Skinner by W. T.
and by deed recorded In
Book II. pages and lot of the
public registry of Pitt county.
Commissioner.
Seeding .
u Is m
aM
To all who want goods that are all right we invite
them to come to see us we will make the prices
all right and satisfactory. We have, often
been told we were a little high in
price on some lines of Goods but
our friends would always add
that the quality of your
goods is better than
the lower priced
goods costing
more and
demand-
priced than the
inferior goods. This
is what we claim That we
will meet competition on the
different lines of Goods carried by
us, quality being Come to
see us, for we have stock a general as-
and can supply your every want.
FURNITURE.
When we say that we have the largest and best lino
of FURNITURE ever kept in our town. We
make no mistake as a to our store will
prove. Numbers of our customers ex-
press surprise at our having such a
large and well-selected stock
on hand. Call on us for
anything you may want
in the Furniture
line. We have
just re-
lovely line
of CHAIRS.
and
ED ROCKERS in Silk
Plush, Ac. These Chairs
make nice Christmas presents
and we would remind our friends
not to overlook them when making
purchases for Christmas as they will please.
Sale of Valuable Per-
Property.
On 20th, ISM, at
home of the late Samuel
will expose to public sale, t the highest
bidder for cash the following described
personal property, to Five horses,
seven mules, about bushels of cotton
seed, fourteen head of cattle, five carts,
two wagon, two buggies and
phaeton, about barrels of
about pounds of fodder, two corn
two grain fans, about nineteen
hogs, about thirty-live bales of cotton
raised the present year, upon the Sam-
farm, and also a lot of
plows, hoes, gear and farming
This sale is made by the power and
authority given In two separate
gages, the first executed by
A. to Jemima Jan.
nary 13th and duly recorded In
the Register's of Pitt county In
Book 476-70; the second
given as additional security, executed
by A. and Samuel
to Jemima
and recorded In Book
MS- page The sale on the
day above mentioned Is by agreement
ind both the mortgagor and
Sale will commence at
o'clock A. M.
JEMIMA
This Nov. 26th,
GUNS.
Call on us for Guns and Gun
Implements. have
nice ones on hand will
make the prices right.
generally a joyous and
Wishing all our friends and tho public
happy Christmas,
We remain, your friends,
CHERRY CO.
ESTABLISHED
A.
-WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
SO Boxes C. R. Side Meat.
Tubs Boston Lard.
barrels Flour, all grades
barrels Granulated Sugar,
barrels C. Sugar,
boxes Tobacco,
barrels Mills
barrels Three Thistle Snuff,
barrels Gail Ax Sniff,
barrels P. Snuff,
cases Sardines.
60.000 Luke Cigarettes,
box s Cakes and Crackers,
barrels ck Candy.
kegs Rand's Powder.
tons Shot,
Broad Powders.
cases Star Lye,
barrels Apple Vinegar,
cases Gold Dust Washing Powder
rolls lb Bagging.
i bundles
Full stock of all other goods carried in my line.
I is Hie a
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LANG'S.
mates attorneys, ox
federal courts and United States com-
missioners should be abolished with
as little delay as possible. It is clearly
in the interest of the community that
the business of the courts, both civil
and criminal, shall be as email and
inexpensively transacted as the ends
of justice will allow.
I also heartily join the attorney
general in recommending legislation
fixing the degrees pf the crime of
within the federal jurisdiction, as
has been done in many of the states,
authorizing writs of error on behalf of
the government in cases where final
is. rendered against the
of an indictment or against
the government upon any other
arising before actual trial; limit-
the right of review of cases of
punishable only by fine and
to the circuit court of
peals and making speedy provision for
the construction of such prisons and
reformatories as may be tor
the confinement of United States con-
IN THE
The of I the postmaster gen-
contains a detailed statement of
the operation of the depart-
during the last fiscal year and
much information touch-
this branch of the pub-
service.
The business of the mails indicates
with absolute certainty the condition
pf the business of the country, and de-
in financial affairs inevitably
and quickly reduces the postal
Therefore, a larger
than usual between the post-
receipts and expenditures is the
and unavoidable result of
distressing stringency which has
prevailed throughout the country
mack of tee time covered by the
postmaster general's report.
The receipts for the last
fiscal year amounted to
its expenditure to
This deficiency would
disappear if less matter was carried
free thorough the an item of
which is upward three hundred
tons of seeds and grain from the
cultural department
The total number of In
the United States on the 30th of June,
1892, was in increase of 1,284
over the preceding year. Of these
were presidential, an increase
in that class of over the preceding
There are now connected to the post-
office establishment who
He in the service.
VALUE OF THE SERVICE.
The head of this department gives
inclusive evidence of the value of civil
reform, when, after an experience
that renders his conclusion reliable, he
the opinion that without the
benefit of this system would be
to conduct the vast business en-
trusted to him.
I desire to commend as especially
of prompt attention, the
of the postmaster general relating
to a more sensible and business-like or-
and a better distribution of
responsibility in his department.
navy.
The report of the secretary of the navy,
contains a history of the operations of;
department during the past year,
exhibits a condition
f the personnel of our navy. He
tents a of the pro-
which has been made in the
of vessels and makes a number
A recommendations to which attention
is especially invited.
f gm distinctly in favor con-
the policy we have
inaugurated of P a thorough
and efficient refrain from
the suggestion that should
carefully take into account the
vessels on hands and the de-
our treasury in con-
the propriety of an
time to begin new work.
SERVICE.
The continued intelligent execution
of hie the
approval people by
are most-gratifying.
I am, if possible, more than ever con-
of the incalculable benefits con-
by the service law, not
only in its upon the public
vice, but also what is even more
in its effect in elevating the
generally.
-TARIFF REFORM.
After tariff reform
attention an not-
so clear presents itself ate
a opportunity tend a duty, an
j- too gratitude of our
citizens and a duty imposed
Upon Hf oft-repeated
and by the-emphatic mandate of
run
men have spoken in favor of this re-
form, and they have confided the work
of its accomplishment to the hands of
those who are solemnly pledged to it.
Nothing should intervene to distract
our attention or disturb our effort
this reform is accomplished by wise
and legislation.
THE BILL.
A been prepared by the
appropriate congressional committee,
embodying tariff reform on the lines
herein suggested, which will be
promptly submitted for legislative ac-
It is the result of much patriotic
and unselfish work, and I believe it
deals with its subject consistently and
as thoroughly as existing conditions
permit.
FOR AN INCOME TAX.
The committee, after full
and to provide against a temporary
deficiency which may exist before the
of the country adjusts
to the new tariff schedules, have wisely
embraced in their schedule a few
internal revenue taxes, including
a small tax upon income derived from
certain corporate investments.
These new assessments are not only
absolutely just and easily borne, but
they have the further merit of being
such as can be remitted without
hut-mess disturbance whenever
the necessity for their imposition no
longer exists.
In my great desire for the success of
chis measure. I cannot restrain the
that its success can only be at-
by means of unselfish counsel on
the part of tariff reform, and us a result
of their willingness to subordinate per-
desires and ambitions to the gen-
good. The local interests affected
by the proposed reform are so numerous
and so varied that if all are insisted
upon the legislation embodying the re-
form must inevitably fail.
IN CONCLUSION.
conclusion, my intense feeling of
responsibility impels me to invoke for
the manifold interests of a generous and
confiding people the most scrupulous
care, and to pledge my willing support
to every legislative effort for the ad-
of the greatness and pros-
country,
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C,
December
THE INCOME TAX,
It be a Feature of the Tariff
Bill.
THE COMMITTEE HAS SO DECIDED.
To Apply Only to Inheritances and
rations-Tho Tax not Fixed-
Ten rents
Only Deficiency.
members proposition
ably.
fate uncertain.
The committee has reached no
as yet, regarding
It is not likely that the tax will be in-
creased beyond ten cents a gallon,
with a fair probability that it may re-
main untouched.
The convention, called by
Bishop Turner, of Georgia, met at
last Tuesday, and was largely
attended. Among the remedies pro-
posed for inching was one by C. H. J.
Taylor, providing for more speedy
legal trial and the death penalty for
rape. Bishop Turner advocated gov-
eminent aid to African emigration.
IN HATS.
BRUNSWICK
Washington, December in-
come tax will be a conspicuous feature
of the internal tax schedules, upon
which a majority of the members of
the ways and means committee are
now working.
The details of the plan are gradually
assuming a definite form.
It will exempt individual incomes
and will apply only in-a general way
to inheritance and corporations.
how it worked
Data furnished by the treasury de-
shows that during the ten
years the tax was in existence, the re-
in round numbers were
The high water mark was
reached in During that year,
the receipts aggregated
in the year following they were
000.000.
The great increase in population
and wealth since then leads the com-
to believe that a tax on
rations alone will furnish a
amount of the revenue needed to
supply the deficit caused by the
in tariff duties.
MILLION
Chairman Wilson now believes that
will cover the decrease in
the revenue from imports caused by
the bill just made public. He reached
this conclusion after a careful
nation of the tariff bill, and this con-
is shared by Secretary
with the chairman has had re-
conference.
TO TAX CARDS.
A tax of ten cents a pack on playing
cards has been suggested, and will, no
doubt, be adopted, as all the
There Is the Air on Account of
of the Fever.
November
Brunswick is alive tonight and en-
runs high. Returned
gees and citizens are joining hands
and congratulating one another over
the end of the epidemic, while Lee
Godfrey, with the county
colored cornet band, is parading the
streets playing for all it is worth.
Everybody is happy and a large crowd
congregated in front of Wallace's res-
while the band serenaded the
proprietor as a token of appreciation
of the aid he rendered the poor
during the siege in the way of free
meals, soups and nourishments for
the sick. Afterwards the band pa-
the streets until o'clock
and brought out a large crowd of
people.
BRUNSWICK, Ga., November
Murray gives Brunswick double
cause for celebrating thanksgiving day
by removing the government
tine around the city. Surgeon Murray
have removed the quarantine.
Any one can enter Brunswick now
without a certificate. A surveillance
will be kept upon any outgoing bag-
gage or household goods. The rail-
roads will resume their regular
tomorrow, and so will the steam-
ship lines. There have been no new
pases of fever among the returning
refugees. The conditions of
wick warrant the statement that the
city is practically
UNCLE SAM'S BOATS.
Secretary Herbert Reports the Condition
of the Navy.
Washington, December an-
report of the secretary of the
navy gives in detail advances made in
the building of the new navy during
the past year. Up to the present time
the grand total of new vessels in
vice, serviceable for war purposes, is
nineteen, with twenty-two building.
Of vessels for war
poses, the United States has sixty-four
in commission, thirteen of them single
turret monitors in such condition of
deterioration as to be practically use-
less for war purposes. The United
States now ranks seventh as a naval
power. Of the old wooden ships, with
the exception of the Hartford and the
both of which are specially
excepted by act of congress, all will
disappear from active service within
three years under the operations of the
per cent limit.
MOT A HOUSE LEFT-
The Terrible Destruction Wrought by the
Earthquake at
London, December second
edition of The Times publishes a dis-
patch from its correspondent at The-
ran, who has just visited the
town which was recently destroyed
by AH earthquake, which caused
loss of life. The Times
says that is a heap of
ruins and that not a house is stand-
He adds that the scene is
Bodies are still being re-
covered and the smell from the
faction is overpowering. The earth-
quake shocks, the correspondent
graphs, were by loud re-
ports. In the westward
of town, earthquake shocks con-
to be felt The adjacent
escaped with little damage.
There is talk of building a new town
to eastward of
Tho Killing of Bright Plumed Birds
for Ornamental Purposes.
Walter Upholds This to
the Demands of English
Woman Also In Defense
of Her Sex.
Again tho cry against the use of
birds and plumage has been raised.
This time the English papers
taken up the cudgels in defense of
the feathered tribe. A certain
naturalist. Mr. Hudson, opened
the ball with a letter to the Times.
That paper forthwith seized upon
the subject as a good theme upon
which to thunder its denunciations.
And then there was an avalanche
from all sides of such phrases as
ex-
miserable perishing of the cal-
low and so on. For all of
which woman, double-dyed guilty
woman, was responsible.
But in the midst of the universal
condemnation Walter has
piped boldly up, ho generally
does, and wants to know if
isn't a grain of unfairness in laying
the whole blame women.
He reminds people that women do
dot the birds at all, and that if
noble, tender-hearted, pitying man-
kind would not go out and enjoy the
dear delight of shooting them, cold
and stony womankind could not then
wear them on its bonnet.
he further remarks, one
is to be governed in fashion by the
principle of wearing nothing that
comes from any slaughtered creature
we should be reduced to wool and
flannel and cotton. Most of tho
of feathers, the sealskins and
furs of every would have
to be laid aside. Some people more
sensitive than others, might even
cry out upon the cruelty of
the cocoon of the chrysalis
that he has, poor
then we should have no silk. Nor is
it more cruel to shoot a bird for its
plumage than for its carcass. Tho
dying bird, I am quite sure, docs
not inquire why it is
And still another defier of tho
present wave of sentiment has her
little say in the same line. Mr.
Hudson, who evidently knows
about natural history than about
fashion, had held forth long and
mournfully on the destruction of
song birds and those with gay plum-
age in order to fill the hungry maw
of fashion. The writer naturally
seizes with great glee upon this
in his protest.
she says, man that he is,
is obviously the merest dabbler in
fashion, else would he know that
quills are the order of the day, while
cock's feathers are ruling the
roost. And we must not en-
courage the interference of man,
mere practical man, with our
devices that make up beauty.
Why, soon we shall have some
botanist writing to accuse us of
all uncharitableness because we
wear flowers that have been cut
from the living stem. After all,
even in this present case, do we not
secure these feathers and these birds
through the means of male purvey-
ors who have bought them from the
men who killed the birds
are not cruel at all; we
simply amiable, adapting ourselves
to fashion; and of fashion it may
be written that her manners are
none and her customs are brutal
She never says your or
you she simply says,
there be and there
preys; there be
and . But
let Mr. Hudson persuaded that
woman is not yearning after the de-
of his beloved birds. Our
simple make raids upon the
quills of the fretful barn-door fowl
and the feather of the ostrich. And
by the way, no one ever utters a
cry on behalf of the ostrich. Yet I
do not fancy that is any
for declaring that he likes to
have his feathers plucked out one by
one. Personally, I am convinced
that he hates the sight of it, and
buries his head in the sand solely to
be able to bear his pain with self-re-
But all the talk for effect of
two writers who defend the slaughter
of innocent, birds,
docs not mask the of tho
practice to every thoughtful, tender-
hearted woman.
As It Is in England.
In London the cigarette habit has
made such progress among tho nice
women that there exists a
women's employment cigarette
which furnishes
gentlewomen with cigarettes. It
was founded a few years ago and is
managed by Miss E. E. Wolff.
arc made order, whatever
brand of paper and tobacco each
prefers being used in her sup-
ply. Only two brands of foreign
are kept in stock, and
those are supposed to be medicinal,
being used for influenza and asthma.
Isn't Haggles a man of very de-
guns yes;
his wife decides all of them for
HIS PET PHRASE.
It Was Good for All Occasions, and
He Used It Accordingly.
In the of Henry Comp-
published in London some
years ago, there is an amusing
story which has an obvious lesson.
Mr, Watlington was a man from his
birth of an even temper and an easy
disposition. Ho went through
with the greatest indifference as to
its cares and its troubles. One
phrase he used on all
may be so, but again it may
On paying him a visit one day,
says the writer, I asked him if he
thought it would be fine.
replied he, may rain, but
again it may
Seeing him reading
I inquired if ho ever went
on a hunting excursion.
said he, did go
once on a bit of a jaunt of the sort,
but I made a sorry set out of it. I
borrowed a gig of a friend, and
started for a day's pleasure, as I
thought; but the horse was a
stranger to me, and so, not having
received a regular introduction to
him, as soon as the chase began, off
he set at full speed, with me inside
the gig.
began to be alarmed. Thinks
danger here; I may go a
little farther without being turned
over, but then again I may
Well, away he tore, over furrow and
field, leaping every ditch and bank
that came in his way. Presently I
saw we were a horse-pond,
and I began to say to may
get past this horse-pond without be-
dropped in the middle of it, but
then again I may
after running a
risk, I escaped a broken
neck that time, and after getting
pretty safely through the remaining
part of the chase, says I to myself,
says I may tempted to
go a-hunting again, but then again I
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THE MESSAGE.
The Important Document Read
to Our Law Makers.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT THINKS
Washington, December reg-
session of Congress convened at
noon today, with a full attendance.
Immediately after organization, the
presidents message was received and
read, as
To the Congress of the United
The constitutional duty which re-
quires the president from time to time
to give to the congress information of
the state of the Union and recommend
to their consideration such measures as
he shall judge necessary and expedient
is fittingly entered upon by commending
to the congress a careful examination
of the detailed statements and well
supported recommendations contained
in the reports of the heads of depart-
who are chiefly charged with the
executive work of the government.
In an effort to abridge this
cation as much as is consistent with its
purpose, I shall supplement a brief ref-
to the contents of these depart-
mental reports by the mention of such
executive business and incidents as are
not embraced therein, and by such rec-
as appear to be at this
particular time appropriate.
While our foreign relations have not
at all times during the past year been
entirely free from perplexity, no em-
situation remains that will
not yield to the spirit of fairness and
love of justice, which, joined with con-
firmness, characterize a truly
American foreign policy.
My predecessor having accepted the
office of arbitrator of the long standing
mission beyond any dispute tendered to
the president by the Argentine
lie and Brazil, it has been my agreeable
duty to receive the special envoys com-
missioned by those states to lay before
me evidence and arguments in behalf of
their respective governments.
THE TROUBLES IN BRAZIL.
The outbreak of domestic hostilities in
the republic of Brazil bound the United
States to watch the interests of our
in that country, with which we
carry on important commerce. Several
vessels of our new navy are now and
for some time have been stationed at
Rio de Janeiro. The struggle being be-
tween the established government
which controls the machinery of the
administration and with which we
maintain friendly relations, and certain
officers of the navy employing the
of their command in an attack upon
the capital and chief seaport, and lack-
as it does, the elements of divided
administration, I have failed to see that
the insurgents can claim recognition as
belligerents.
Thus far the position of our govern-
has been that of an attentive but
impartial observer of the unfortunate
conflict. Emphasizing our policy of
partial neutrality in such a condition as
now exists, I deemed it necessary to
disavow in a manner not to be
the unauthorized action of our
late naval commander in those waters
in saluting the revolted Brazilian ad-
being indisposed to countenance
an act calculated to give gratuitous
sanction to the local insurrection.
THE CHILEAN CLAIMS.
The convention between our govern-
and Chile, having for its object
the settlement and adjustment of the
demands of the two countries against
each other, has been made effective by
the organization of the claims
provided for.
The two governments failing to agree
upon the third member of the
the good offices of the president of
the Swiss republic were invoked, as pro-
in the treaty, and the selection of
the Swiss representative in this
to complete the organization was
gratifying alike to the United States
EGAN's BREAK REVIEWED.
The vexatious question of so-called
legation asylums for offenders against
the state and its laws, was presented
anew in Chile by the unauthorized ac-
of the late United minister
in receiving into his official residence
two persons who had just failed in an
attempt at revolution, and against whom
charges were pending, grow-
out of a former abortive disturb-
The doctrine of asylum as applied to
this ease is not sanctioned by the best
and. when allowed, to
Of the Leading Questions that Affect the
Body Remedies
Recommended.
encourage Sedition aimer no
circumstances can the representatives of
this government be permitted, under the
ill-defined fiction of extra
to interrupt the administration of
justice in the countries to which
they arc accredited. A temperate de-
having been made by the Chilean
government for the correction of this
conduct in the instance mentioned, the
minister was instructed to no longer
harbor the offenders.
AS TO THE GEARY LAW.
The legislation of last year known as
the Geary law, requiring the registration
of all Chinese entitled to residence in the
United States, and the deportation of all
not complying with the provisions of the
act within the time prescribed, met with
much opposition from Chinamen. Acting
upon the advice of eminent counsel that
the law was unconstitutional, the great
mass of Chinese laborers, pending
inquiry as to its validity, in good
faith seemed to apply for the certificates
required. A test case upon proceeding
by habeas corpus was brought before
the supreme court, and on May 15th,
1893, a decision was made by that
sustaining the law.
It is believed that under the recent
amendment of the act extending the
time for registration, the Chinese
laborers thereto entitled, who desired
to reside in this country, will now
avail themselves of the renewed
thus afforded of establishing by
lawful procedure their right to re-
main, and that thereby the necessity
of enforced deportation may, to a great
degree, be avoided. .
MISSIONARY MURDERS IN CHINA.
It has developed upon the United
States minister at as dean of
the diplomatic body, in the absence of
a representative of Sweden and Nor-
way, to press upon the Chinese gov-
reparation for the recent
murder of Swedish missionaries at
Sung Per. This question is of vital
interest to all countries whose cit-
engage in missionary work in
the interior.
THE SURRENDER OP WEEKS.
Costa Rica has lately testified its
by surrendering to the
United States; in the absence of a
convention of extradition, but upon
duly submitted evidence of criminals
a noted fugitive from justice. II
is trusted that the negotiations of a
treaty with the country to meet recur
ring cases of this kind will soon be ac-
In my opinion, treaties
for reciprocal extradition should be
concluded with all those countries
with which the United States has not
conventional arrangements of
that character.
I have deemed it fitting to express
to the governments of Costa Rica and
Colombia the kindly desire of the
States to see their pending bound-
dispute finally closed by
in conformity with the spirit of
the treaty concluded between them
some years ago.
OUR EUROPEAN RELATIONS,
Our relations with France continue
to be intimate and cordial, I sincerely
hope that the extradition treaty with
that country, as amended by the sen-
ate, will soon be in operation.
While occasional questions affecting
our naturalized citizens returning to
the land of their birth have arisen in
our intercourse with Germany, our re-
with that country continue
satisfactory.
The questions affecting our relations
with Great Britain have been treated
in a spirit of friendliness.
are in progress between the two
governments with a view to such con-
current action as will make the award
and regulations agreed upon by the
Bearing sea tribunal of arbitration
practically effective; and it is not
doubted that Great Britain will co-op
orate freely with this country for the
accomplishment of that purpose. The
dispute growing out of the
tolls imposed in the Welland
canal, upon cargoes of cereals bound
to and from the lake ports of the
States was adjusted by the
of a more equitable of charges,
and my predecessor thereupon
pended his proclamation imposing dis-
tolls upon British transit
through our Canals.
A request for additions to the list of
extraditable offenses covered by the
existing treaty between the two
tries is under consideration.
PRANCE AND
A notable part of the southeasterly
coast of Liberia, between the
and San Pedro rivers, which for nearly
half a century has been generally rec-
as belonging to that republic by
cession and purchase has been claimed
to be under the protectorate of France
in virtue of agreements entered into by
the native tribes over whom Liberia's
control has not been well maintained.
More recently, between the
representative
resulted in the signature at
of a treaty whereby, as an ad-
Liberian territory is
ceded to France. This convention at
last advices had not been ratified by the
Liberian legislature and executive.
Feeling a sympathetic interest in the
fortunes of the little commonwealth,
the establishment and development of
which was largely aided by the
of our countrymen, and which;
constitutes the only independently
state on the west coast of Africa,
this government has suggested to the
French government its earnest concern.
lest territorial in Liberia
should take place without her
strained consent.
MEXICO ALL
Our relations with continue to
be of that close and friendly nature
which should always characterize the
intercourse of two neighboring
NICARAGUA'S CIVIL TROUBLES.
Nicaragua has passed through two
revolutions, the party at first success
f having in turn been displaced by
another, and our newly appointed
minister, by his timely good offices,
aided in a peaceful adjustment of the
controversy involved in the first con-
The large American interests
established in that country in
with the Nicaragua canal were
not molested.
The United States are especially in-
in the successful achievement
of the vast undertaking this company
has in charge. That it should be ac-
under distinctively
can auspices and its enjoyment assured
not only to the vessels of this country
as a channel of communication be-
tween our Atlantic and Pacific sea-
boards, but to the ships of the world
in the interest of civilization, is a prop-
which, in my does
not admit of question.
NEW EXTRADITION TREATIES,
An extradition treaty with Norway
has recently been exchanged and pro-
claimed.
The extradition treaty with Russia,
signed in March 1887 and amended and
confirmed by the senate in February
last, was duly proclaimed last June.
CLAIMS AGAINST SPAIN.
More than fifteen years ago this gov-
preferred a claim against
Spain in behalf of one of our citizens
for property seized and confiscated in
Cuba. In 1880 the claim was adjusted,
Spain agreeing to pay
ally, as a fair indemnity,
A respectful but earnest note was
recently addressed to the Spanish gov-
insisting upon the prompt
fulfillment of its long neglected
Other claims preferred by the United
States against Spain, in behalf of Amer-
citizens, for property confiscated in
Cuba, have been pending for many
years.
At the time Spain's title to the Carolina
Islands was confirmed by arbitration,
that government agreed that the rights
which had been acquired there by Amer-
missionaries, should be recognized
and respected. It is sincerely hoped that
this pledge will be observed by allowing
our missionaries, who were removed
from to a place of safety by a
United States war ship during the late
trouble between the Spanish garrison
and the natives, to return to their field
of usefulness.
TROUBLE WITH THE TURKS,
Important matters have demanded our
attentions to the Ottoman Porte.
The firing and partial destruction, by
an unrestrained mob, of one of the
school buildings of Anatolia College, es-
by citizens of the United States
at and the apparent
of the Turkish government to the
outrage, notwithstanding the complicity
of some of its officials, called for earnest
remonstrance, which was followed by
promises of reparation and the punish-
of the offenders. Indemnity for
the injury to the buildings has already
been paid, permission to rebuild given,
registration of the school property in
the name of the American owners
cured, and efficient protection
teed.
special messenger an
investigation of the circumstances
attending the chance of government,
and of all the conditions bearing upon
the subject of the treaty.
After a thorough exhaustive ex-
examination, Mr. Blount submitted
to me his report, showing beyond all
question that the constitutional gov-
of Hawaii had been sub-
with the active aid of our rep-
to that government and
through the intimidation caused by
the presence of armed naval force of
the United States which was landed
that purpose at the instance of our
minister.
Upon the facts developed, it seemed
to me that the only honorable course
for our government to pursue was to
undo the wrong that had been done
by those representing us, and to re-
Store, as far as practicable, the status
existing at the time of our forcible in-
PROGRESS OP
By a concurrent resolution passed by
the senate February 1890, and by the
house of representatives on the 3rd of
April following, the president was re-
quested invite from time to time, as
fit occasions may arise, negotiations
with any government with which the
United States has or may have
relations, to the end that any
or disputes arising between the
two governments which cannot be ad-
justed by diplomatic agency, may be
referred to arbitration and be peaceably
adjusted by such
April the International
American Conference of Washington,
by resolution expressed the wish that
the controversies between the republics
of America and the nations of Europe
might be settled by arbitration and rec-
that the government of each
nation represented in that conference
should communicate this wish to all
friendly powers.
A favorable response has been re-
from Great Britain in the shape
of a resolution adopted by the
July 16th, last, cordially
with the purpose in view and
expressing the hope that her majesty's
government will lend ready co-operation
to the government of the United States
upon the basis of the concurrent
above quoted.
It affords me signal pleasure to lay
this parliamentary resolution before the
congress, and to express my sincere
gratification that the sentiment of two
great and kindred nations is thus
manifested in favor of the
rational and peaceable settlement of
international quarrels by honorable re-
sort to arbitration.
STATE OP THE TREASURY.
The secretary of the treasury reports
that the receipts of the government
from all sources during the fiscal year
ending June 1893, amounted to
and its expenditures to
8459,374,674.29. There was collected
from customs and from
internal revenue 8161.027,623.93. Our
dutiable imports amounted to
an increase of over the
preceding year, and importations
of duty amounted to
crease from the preceding year of
13,455,447- Internal revenue receipts
the year by
of
re-
HAWAIIAN
It is hardly necessary for mo to stats
that the questions arising from our
relations with Hawaii have caused
embarrassment.
prior to the installment of the
present administration, the existent
government of Hawaii had been sud-
overthrown, and a treaty of an-
had been negotiated be-
tween the provisional government of
the islands and the and
submitted to the senate for
This treaty withdrew for
nation and dispatched Hon. James H.
of Georgia, to Honolulu as a
exceeded of
It is estimated upon the basis
the present revenue laws that the
of the government, for the year
ending June 1894, will be
305.38 and its expenditures
in a
On the first day of November, 1893
the amount of money of all kinds in
circulation, or not included in treas-
holdings, was 81,718,544,682. an in-
crease for the year of
Estimating our population at
at the time mentioned, the per
capita circulation was
During the year banks were or-
In thirty-two states and
with a capital stock of
distributed as
Forty-four with a capital stock of
in the eastern states; forty-
one with a capital stock of
west of the Mississippi river, and
with a capital stock of
in the central and southern states.
Within the same period banks
suspended with a capital stock of
Of this number eighty-six
with a capital stock of re-
and sixty-five passed into the
hands of receivers, with a capital stock
of
THE SHERMAN LAW REPEAL.
The recent repeal of the provision of
law requiring the purchase of silver
bullion by the government as a feature-
of our monetary scheme has made a
entire change in the complexion of oar
currency affairs. I do not doubt that
the ultimate result of this action be
most salutary and
In the nature o things, however, it i.
mow av time precisely
What conditions will be brought about
by the change, or what, if any. supple-
legislation may, in the light of
such conditions, appear to be essential
or expedient.
Of course, after the recent financial
perturbation, time is necessary for the
re-establishment of business confidence.
When, through this restored
confidence, the money which has been
frightened into hoarding places is re-
turned to trade and enterprise, a survey
of the situation will probably disclose a
safe path leading to sound
currency abundantly sufficient to meet
every requirement of our increasing
population and business.
In the pursuit of we should
resolutely turn away from alluring
and temporary expedients, determined
to be with nothing less than a
lasting and comprehensive financial
plan.
REASONABLE THE BEST.
In these circumstances I am convinced
a reasonable delay in dealing with
this subject, instead of being injurious,
will increase the probability of wise ac-
THE CONFERENCE.
The monetary conference which as-
at Brussels upon our
was adjourned to the 30th day of No-
in the present year.
The consideration just stated and
the fact that a definite proposition
from us seemed to be expected
the reassembling of the conference
led to express a willingness to
the meeting still further postponed.
It seems to me that it would be wise
to give general authority to the
dent to invite other nations to such a.
conference at any time when there
should be a fair prospect of
an. international agreement
on the subject of coinage.
AS TO A BOND ISSUE.
I desire also to earnestly suggest
the of amending the existing
statutes in regard to the issuance of
government bonds.
-The authority now in the
secretary of the treasury to Issue,
bonds is not as clear as it should be
and the bonds authorized are
to the government, both
to the time of their maturity and
rate of interest.
OUR MILITARY FOOTING.
The secretary of war reports that the
strength of the army on 30th day of
hist was enlisted men
and officers. The total
of the department for the year
ending June 1893, amounted to
181.903,074.80. Of this ram 81,992,581.05
was for salaries and contingent ex-
377,828.88 for the support of
the. military establishment,
for miscellaneous objects and
631.41 for public works. This latter
includes for river and
improvements and
fortifications and other works of
defense.
The total enrollment of the militia of
the several states was on the 31st of
October of the current
officers end enlisted men. The officers
of the army detailed for the inspection
and instruction of this reserve of our
military force, report that increased in-
and marked progress are
rent in the discipline and of
the organization.
It is gratifying to note that we have
to gain results in the
comprehensive scheme of de-
and fortification entered upon
eight years ago. A large Sum has been
already expended, but the cost of main-
will be iD considerable as com-
pared with the of construction
and ordnance. At the end of the cur-
rent calendar the war
will have guns, ten-
inch and guns ready to be
on gun and carriages., and
h mortars. In addition to
the t of the army gun factory,
now comp at the gov-
contracted private
parties fr n the purchase of one hundred
guns of these calibers, the first of which
should be delivered to the
for test, before
w of the military
W st Point and the several schools
the special instruction Of
j, showed marked advance ii the
in the army and a
ambition to fit the for the
D of the country.
THY; LEGAL
The report of the
contains the usual summery of
affairs and proceeding of the depart
of justice for the past tO
with certain r commendations
as to needed legislation on various
subjects.
I cannot too heartily endorse the
proposition that the fee system as
to the thin

Great Reduction
THE REFLECTOR
Local Reflections.
-IN-
PRICES.
In order to reduce oar
Mammoth Stock
We will sell for the
NEXT
at far below regular prices.
MUST BE
SOLD
AT SOME
PRICE.
WE HAVE
TOO
MANY GOODS
AND THEY
Clothing
Clothing
Clothing
Clothing
Our must be sold with-
out regard to cost-
potions
and
the same way, to these we add
gapes
SUES
Cheap to make any reduction.
MY
ANY DAY YOU COME.
HIGGS BROS.,
Leaders of Low Prices-
Greenville, N. C.
SPARKS.
Sell your chickens and
Axes at and cents at D. D.
and lot for sale.
ii. Haskett.
Apply to D.
Children Carriages and Wagons at
J. B. Cherry Co's.
reductions in Hardware for
days at D. D.
Just a large lot of Boots and
Shoes at
Don't fall to look at my axes before
you buy. D. D. Haskett.
When In want of good shoes go to
J. B. Cherry Co.
Breech Loading and Muzzle Gun and
equipments for sale by Cherry Co
The Flour on earth 14.40 at the
Old Brick
Cotton pay cash for
Cotton Seed it the Old Brick Store.
J. C. Cobb A Son have the prettiest
Shoes in town. See our Men's
J. B. Cherry Co Keep a full stock
of General Merchandise and solicit
your trade.
L. M. Reynolds Mens and Boys
shoes are the best. For sale by J. B.
Cherry Co.
Go to J. B. Cherry Co when in need
of Furniture, they keep a full stock and
sell at prices that will please you.
Mrs. has a nice line
of sample Hats, Feathers, etc.
that she will sell cheap. Full line of
millinery goods.
Just received a car load of Bagging
and Ties at J. C. Cobb Son. See them
before buying.
A large stock of nice Furniture cheap
at the Old Brick Store.
Remember I pay you cash for n
Eggs and Country Produce at the Old
Brick Stow.
Look for the swinging sign
eat Cash Store on Higgs
Bros-
Milliner v.
We also you attention to a full Km
of trimming fur, Angora, Satins,
. lines, Madras and Wadding.
Mrs. M-T. Co well Co.
on;
pun paw
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on-
wt
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The grippe is getting around again.
The next Baptist State Convention
goes to Charlotte.
The children are getting up their let-
to Santa Claus.
tail to see James large
stock of Christmas goods.
Mrs. M. D. Higgs has a beautiful line
of goods and novelties.
Higgs Bros are selling at low prices
to educe stock. See advertisement.
A fantastic parade would be amusing
for C day. What say the boys.
Go to your Toys
Christmas Goods and Confections.
Sachet Bisques, Perfume Baskets and
Toilet Bottles at Wooten's Drug Store.
Full assortment of Perfumes and nice
Toilet S--ts at Wooten's Drug Store.
Flagons, Sachet
Smokers Sets, at Wooten's Drug
Store.
Dec. to-day Sweet
Butter at Me a pound, at the Old
Brick Store.
Mr. H. A. Blow has had built a large
platform scale near the depot for weigh-
loaded wagon-.
If you want nice Christmas and
day goods at low prices, go to Jaine
Long's.
Toys Toys Toys The largest
and best selected stock ever in Green-
ville, at
Go select your present for Christmas.
wait until they are picked over.
For the next days beginning
Dec. 1st, I will sell Hardware at greatly
reduced prices. D. D. Haskett.
Only two of the force on
list this week, but the paper
wouldn't show it if we hadn't told It.
Doors windows made Of North
Carolina pine, price reduced for the next
days. D. D. HASKETT.
Don't is
headquarters for Toys Christmas
Goods. Come see them.
The streets took of the
weather and got almost as bad as mud
could make them.
Oranges, apples, nuts, candies, raisins
lemons, toys, bananas,
chestnuts, cakes, for at the
Old Brick Mara.
Owing to the heavy sleet last week
Greenville was without telegraphic com-
for three days.
For the next days I will sell
and inch Rubber Belting at Cost. I
have the best Brand, The Diamond.
D. D. Haskett.
The street committee ought to look
after the bridge crossing the branch on
Sutton It is a dangerous con
Toys dolls, fireworks of all kinds
limits, candies, in fact everything for
Christmas, at just the prices you are
looking for. James
There are two taffy tents in town now.
With these and the number of
stores we have the people ought to
keep sweet.
delay if you want to get the
Eastern Reflector, the Atlanta
and the New York World all
a year for
Applications are now for
dwelling houses for next year. This
reminds us that there to be more
houses in Greenville.
Our offer of three good papers a year
the best opportunity you have
had for cheap reading. See what it says
on top of last on first page.
A life saving crew establish
their headquarters along the sidewalks
now to save people about to get lost in
the mud on the streets.
The bad roads throughout the country
are getting their share of abuse now.
They it, for they re a disgrace
to an intelligent people.
How very near Christmas is to us
only days off. These will pass and
the joyous day will be with us and gone
almost before we can realize it-
For Sale On good
nice Parlor Organ, also some articles of
House furniture and volumes of
Encyclopedia very bes
binding. Apply at once to Isaac A.
Sugg.
There were eight applications re
the Board of County Commissioners last
week, for the Superintendency of the
Home of the Aged and Infirm.
Fob the Little
Arums, wagons, mechanical toys, jump-
jacks, horns, and other things too
numerous to on me for
your Christmas goods. Mrs. M. D
Higgs.
For the sake of the merchants and
holiday purchasers we do hope there
will be some good weather now. It has
been so bad as to interfere with trading.
The Scotland Neck Democrat last
week begun Its tenth volume. Editor
gets out a clean, neat, high
toned, readable paper, and it has done
great good for its town and section.
Scotland Neck ought to be doubly proud
of It.
calendars
jewel caskets, toilet sets, albums,
easels, paintings; vases, work
baskets and boxes, glove and
chief boxes, writing cabinets, perfume
bottle, vases, water sets, and many
other holiday articles at Mrs. M. D.
Higgs.
A Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch says that President
Cleveland stated Saturday that he was
going to appoint Judge Simonton, South
Carolina, to the vacant U. S. Circuit
Judge ship.
Fine Horse Fob will sell
at public sale before the Court House
door on Saturday the 16th of Dec. at
o'clock in. My fine black mare colt
SI months old sired by George
known as Horse a perfect animal
without a blemish Terms cash. I. A.
Personal.
Mrs. C. Stephens has been quite sick
the last few days.
Mr. Josh recently moved his
family to Greenville
Mr. S. V. Joyner, of Kenly is chatting
his friends here this week.
Mr. E. B. M ore of Washington, came
up Monday to spend a few days-
J. C. returned home
Friday from Indian Territory.
Rev. Mr. will
preach in the Court House to-night.
Mr. W. F. of Snow Hill,
engage in the brokerage business here.
Messrs. G. B. King an I C. D.
went to Washington City yesterday.
Mr. W. O. Little has entered the
drug store of J. L. Wooten to learn
pharmacy.
Mrs. B. R. King, Of Falkland, spent
last week visiting the family of Sheriff
B. W. King.
Mrs. Lula Cleve returned Saturday
from visiting the family of Mr. F. Ward,
in the country.
Williams, returned home
last week from a visit to her sister, Mrs
Ru- at Raleigh.
Mr. R. J. Proctor has brought his
family back to Greenville. He is run
a candy tent.
Ex-Gov. T. J- Saturday to
attend the N. at
ton, returning Monday.
Mr. L. D. Ames, of Belleville, Va.,
has been spending the past week with
his daughter, Mrs. W. B. Brown.
Mr. John Matthews, of has
moved to Greenville and taken a
with the John Flanagan Buggy Co.
Miss Warren was among the
visitors from Greenville to the Confer-
at Wilmington. She returned Mon-
day night.
Messrs. Moore, of
of Tarboro, Galloway
of Snow Hill, have been the visiting at-
at Court.
Mr. J. B. who has been living
in for some tune, has returned
to Greenville and taken a position with
the John Flanagan Buggy Co.
Mr. T. K. Randolph returned Monday
night from Pearly. Ga., where he has
been keeping books for a large
tine for the past two years.
The whole number of marriage
issued by Register of Deeds
Harding in Pitt county for the year end-
December 1st, was This is a
decrease of from the number issued
during the previous year.
Mr. II. D. representing the
circulating department of the N. Y.
World, was here Monday In the interest
of that paper. The Reflector office
will supply all wants for the World
either in subscriptions or copies of the
daily and Sunday edition.
Come And See It.
There is a curiosity on exhibition at
the R office the of w
has not before been seen In this com-
It Is a cluster of three cocoa-
nuts just as they were taken from the
tree in the West Indies. They are
by a hull after the manner of the
hickory nut. Miss Bottle Warren brought
the bunch home with her from
ton.
Civil Court-Lone Case.
The business at this term of Pitt
Court, which is for civil eases
only, has moved along very slowly, seven
days of the term being consumed in
disposing of the cases set on the
for the first day. One case, that of
vs. W. W. R. R. Co.
five days, beginning Wednesday
morning and closing Monday evening.
This suit was for damages to laud
for obstructing water course in not
having sufficient culverts and causing
injury to laud. The Jury gave the plain-
tiff a verdict of 1200 damages. The
plaintiff was represented by Messrs. J.
L. Fleming Swift Galloway, the
defendant by Messrs. Latham Skin-
J. E. Moore. There was some
good speeches on both sides.
One attorney was decidedly amusing
in his to sandwich his speech
with Third party doctrine, but he could
not make government ownership of
railroads and corporation attorneys
blend together well, and the points were
pretty much spoiled by council on the
other side remarking in turn that he
didn't think politics had any place in
a trial before court.
Pension Warrants.
Register of Deeds Harding
ed from the State Auditor the warrants
for pensioners In Pitt county and they
can be had at his office. The list em-
braces soldiers and widows, viz
Boothe, William L.
Bryan Buck, Bennett Dunn,
Lewis Edwards, W. II. Gurganus, Gray
Harris, G. Jack on, Isaac Joyner, James
R. Mayo, John II. Nelson, J. B.
Edward J. E. Randolph, T.
M. Rots, Robert Richmond, Jesse
pen, she in Tyson, W. John
Elks, John T. Jones, W. G. Mears, John
Moore, W. F. Mills, C. J. Smith, W.
Dunn, J. C. Wetherington, G. S. John-
son, J. E. Bullock, Phil B. C
Joseph J. Whichard.
A. Carney,
Dudley, Sarah E. Manning, Sal
lie A. Matthews, Eliza
Parsons. Susanna Spain, Lucky Ann
Smith, Nancy Stokes, Sarah J. L.
Clark,
Fleming, M. Mary
Louisa Oakley, Susan M. A.
Elizabeth Warren, E. Craw-
ford, Dew, K. Vt
A. Harris.
J. B. Cherry Co call to
their new goods to-day. If you want
good goods that are all right go see
them.
Revs. T. F. and T. H. Harrison, the
twin preachers and singing evangelists,
will lecture in the Opera House
day and Friday nights.
The correspondents now say that
Elias is not going to resign bis place or
Collector for the Western District, but
that the President will again send
mime to the Senate,
Jim Edmonds horses were left
standing in front of the Fri-
day night, and ran away. They broke
down n telegraph pole smashed the
somewhat.
The cotton market has gone all to
pieces the past week and the local price
is down to This is discouraging.
The receipts at the ports continue
the crop reports are large.
Lang announces on our supplement
to-day that for the holidays he will
make sweeping reductions on all goods
in stock. This is something you will
want to take advantage of.
Our carrier was sick again last week,
and to send the papers around
by another boy who was not familiar
with the route made it later than usual
getting the Reflector to the town
patrons.
Congressman A. B. Branch has
pointed William Saunders, of Beaufort
comity, to the position of page in the
House that was at his disposal. Young
Saunders is a sou of the late Col.
II. Saunders of this county.
We have heard complaint about boys
whistling around church doors during
services. Perhaps the boys never think
of the liability they place themselves
under by such conduct. They should
stop It.
The Pitt county Rifles had their an-
election of officers last Thursday.
The old officers were re-elected, Capt.
J. T. Smith. 1st Lieut. B. F. Sugg, and
Lieut. J. A. Teel. The company Is in
good condition.
On the supplement to day you will
find Christmas
he has an immense line of toys
thing else In the way of holiday goods,
something that will please everybody.
Go make your selection early.
The biggest excitement on the street
Saturday was one of Mr. W. H.
horses running away with a
sulky. No damage was done but two
or three people were given a close shove
when the horse got on the sidewalk.
The John Flanagan Buggy Co. has
added more workmen and the outfit of
their factory is now one buggy a day.
Even at this rate they are unable to
keep up with orders. This week they
turned out an order for a town in Texas.
It is about the season now when
are ordering papers magazines
for another year. Bear in mind that
for any periodical are taken
at the Reflector office and we can
ways save you the trouble and expense
of ordering.
Mrs. Polly Dull, a lady said to be
years of age, died last Friday morning
at the home of her son, Mr. Theophilus
Dall, miles from Greenville, and was
buried Sunday. She retained her
remarkably well for a woman of
such advanced age. Her is now in
bis Both year.
Mills Items.
Mills, N. C, Dec. 1803.
Mr. went to Greenville
on business last Thursday.
Miss Winnie Burne is visiting Mi--
Sallie Patrick this week.
Mrs. Lena spent hist Friday
and Saturday in Grifton.
Miss Nannie school closed
last Friday for the holidays.
Mr. Theo Bland got his knee injured
last week by a horse running away
with him.
There will be a basket party at Tim-
next Friday night, proceeds go to
the church.
Mr. Charlie and sister
returned home last Wednesday after a
pleasant stay in
Mr. L. B. has made about
1590 gallons of cane syrup this fall.
Mr. Job Moore took the premium on
rice at the Columbian exposition. Pitt
county never fails to get there.
Probably the oldest horse in this
county died last week. She was owned
by Mr. Alfred Smith was thirty-
two old.
Cotton and
Below are Norfolk
and peanuts for yesterday,
by Cobb Bros. Co., Commission
chants of
Good
3-10
Low
Good
Extra
-C-i
Extends to each and every one
A MERRY AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS
PREPARE FOE CHRISTMAS I
You cannot have Xmas full of cheer and happiness
without coming to see our mammoth stock of
CLOTHING. CLOTHING CLOTHING.
Ladies,
Men,
I Misses,
Baby.
in fact we can fit everybody in a pair of Solid Leather
Shoes. Only this week we received direct
from the factories
PAIRS MEN SAMPLE SHOES
PAIRS BOYS AND CURLS SAMPLE
PAIRS LADIES SAMPLE SHOES.
PAIRS BABY SAMPLE SHOES.
BE
The subject of this memorial
Mayo was the daughter of Luke S. and
Martha Fleming, born Not. 6th.
1870. She was happily married to
C. Mayo Nov. 9th. 1891. To
them a baby was born May 11th. 1893.
It died July 8th, 1893. She never re-
gained her health after the death of
their baby. with grief for
her child she contracted consumption
and died December the Ind, 1898.
A good woman us.
Gone home to her baby child ;
Husband and relatives in God trust.
We will have to wait only a short while
Fast away this lite doth fleet.
Soon we too will be called to the
other shore.
Let us watch and be ready to meet
The loved ones gone on before.
L. A. M.
HAIR
and
ft
Sit to
to lo
CONSUMPTIVE
and shut up hard-earned dollars in these days of hard times and low cotton and
tobacco. Don't throw your hard earned cash away for things that no earthly benefit but
come to my place of business and buy for your wives, boys, girls and babies an
elegant pair of Hand Shoes, or a Boys Suit, in fact anything you may want the
way of wearing material have trot it to suit you.
MM
Dress Goods Department.
In this department have cut prices than ever.
get our special cut prices.
Come and
CLOTHING.
CLOTHING.
Special Hue of BOYS CLOTHING for the HOLIDAY TRADE. All of our
stock at reduced prices. must go at some
Everybody and look over our lovely stock can certainly please you.
o a n-mm;
for Co., Fremont, Ohio.
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THE CHEAP CASH MAN.
GREENVILLE. N C.

and
Riders of Victor Pneumatics carry an extra inner tube
to be used in case of accident. By simply removing a
inner tube through a hole in the rim,
effected in five minutes by replacing with a new one.
If you are going to ride why not ride the best
BOSTON.
OVERMAN WHEEL CO.
WASHINGTON, t DENVER, SAN FRANCISCO.
DON'T WALK
When it is Cheaper to Ride.
The John Flanagan Buggy Company
t put up their work and will you any kind of
at so reasonable a price that riding is cheaper than walking.
---------Besides a full line of---------
BUGGIES AND HARNESS
They sell the best offered on the market.
Don't Grub and Sweat when you can set the
; .-
and do your work
so much quicker.
better.
This splendid farm
m p e e will
crush, cut,
. level and pulverize
the land all in one
operation. Use
them once and you
will never be with-
out them again.
v We sell these
rows in several
sizes, from feet to
feet.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
IT OF COURSE requires some money to carry on a like ours, and
we request all indebted to m to a early a- possible. Thanking all for
liberal patronage in the past, and hoping to continue receiving your
are to please
The John Flanagan Buggy Company.
J. S. JENKINS CO
LEAF TOBACCO BROKERS
Greenville, N. C.
Ample Facilities for Re-drying. Large Stock
Buys on Order Exclusively.
A Raw Is. Hankers, and Tobacco Board of Trade, Greenville
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES
ind adjoining .
preparation in preparing
HOGSHEADS with inside dressed
your Tobacco when packing
t. use best split Hoops made from White
ii own timber places me in a
promise that I will strive to
yon can find them at any time
Greenville, N. C.
To my Friends and Customers of Pitt
I wish to that have nude
HEAD MATERIAL and
smooth which will prevent cutting or
Also I have made special
Oak. The special advantage-; have I
position to meet all competition.
make it to your interest to use my Ho
either at my factory or at the
Scroll Sawing,
And Trimmings or Houses a
I am prepared to do any kind of Scroll Sawing for Brackets or anything In the
or turning Balustrades for Picket for Stairways. of
including Piazza Balling, and would be pleased to name you prices on
anything la the above upon application.
GENERAL REPAIR WORK
done on short notice. Thanking you your past patronage, I am willing to
to meet your future patronage, and kindly ask you to give me a trial before
elsewhere.
Gr. COX, Winterville, N. C
0-
-Manufacturer of-
PHOTONS, CARTS
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT
O. I. JO X Eastern
LOCAL
NOTES AND
TOBACCO
Is well equipped with the best Mechanics, put up nothing
bat We keep up with the times and the improved style
Beat material in all work. All styles of springs are use., you can select from
Brewster, Storm, Coil, Ram Horn, King
We also keep on hand a full line of Ready Made Harness Whips which w
at the rates. Special attention given to repairing.
J. x.
Greenville, N C
CUBES.
The Eastern was the recipient
of a car load of tobacco from the
and Black Greek sections
of Wilson county last week-
We have seen several new to-
buyers looking after the
offerings of the Greenville market
recently and are informed that
they are doing so with a view to
locating here. right boys
we have got the tobacco you want
it and so that is the thing to do
come here after it.
We see from the Winston
Journal that Wilson has sold up
to date about two million
pounds and expects to sell five
before the close of the season. If
this be true then Greenville
stands a very good chance to
wind up with somewhere in the
neighborhood of four million.
At a regular meeting of the
Greenville Tobacco Board of
Trade last Monday, it was decided
to close the market for the Christ-
mas holidays on Thursday Dec.
and resume again Tuesday
Jan 1894- This gives the to-
buyers a very good
and we will say here,
order to be in time and ahead of
anyone a merry and happy
Christmas to them all.
It is estimated that Greenville
has sold a larger per cent of
wrappers and tine cutters this
year in proportion to the eastern
markets. There are two reasons
for this. 1st, Pitt county pro-
more of this class of
co this year than any other east-
county and 2nd we have
several wrapper buyers and live-
competition in the cutter line.
Farmers listen Here in Pitt,
Greene and counties we
grow and market the brightest
and most silky textured tobacco
in the world and in order to com-
the highest prices obtain-
able for this particular kind of
tobacco, we want you to unite
with our warehouse people and
let's make Greenville the largest
bright tobacco market in the
State.
Cooper's Warehouse, at Hen-
N. C, has been making
the past week, fine sales of new
bright tobacco. All bright to-
free from green is selling
at Cooper's fully as well as at this
date last year. Try him with a
of bright tobacco.
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS.
Coming Revolution In Canal
The substitution of modern
propulsion for the four-footed
article will rob the Erie canal of its
last feature. With the
disappearance of the canal horse
But the Toothache Is One Case In
Which They AU Tail
If there is a test of how much
know It is the toothache. Get
one and you will see.
in hot says A,
it at
You try it and the cure fails.
salt in a says B.
Instantly you order hot salt. The
same result.
of cloves In tho says
is
It is not in your case.
mind says D,
process is very You
you have no pain, and you say
that, anyhow, pain is only
pleasure. In fact you separate
your mind from your body, and as
all pain is felt by the mind You
You say you do. You try this a
little while. Then D returns, with
a beaming smile, and
are you
And she sees that in your eye
which warns her to fly for her life.
After this E proposes a mustard
plaster. When the skin is all off
your check and you have ceased to
dance with pain, you find that the
tooth is worse than ever.
Just then P calls. F is scientific,
and has made a study of animal mag-
He proposes to magnetize
your pain away. After he has fixed
you with a stony glare for some mo-
he makes passes at you
bis hands. At any other time you
would laugh, but in the agony of the
toothache symptoms suggestive of
delirium begin to display
themselves. Your scientific friend,
declares that you are thwarting his
purposes by not becoming
and departs offended.
Inspired probably by the mind
cure and the magnetism, comes G,
out of the kitchen,
and informs you that three hairs
from a black cat's tail worn in a bag
on your chest will prove Infallible;
but the family cat is white, and the
fence cat's gray, and your neigh-;
a tortoise shell, so the hairs
are not procurable.
H prescribes Failure.;
I, at juncture, suggests send-
for a doctor.
Now this is maddening. No doctor
ever took a simply as a
toothache. He always ignores it
tells you it is merely a symptom of
some awful affliction with a Latin
name, and provides you with several,
large bottles of medicine to take;
calls three times a day; gets you
down low; builds you up again, if he
can, and sends in a bill of enormous
length for you to settle; and all the
while you keep your toothache.
Your reply to I is that if the doctor
is sent for you will shoot him. You
have no pistol, and do not know how
to fire one if you had It, but I retires
appalled, and sends you a new
prayer-book, with tho book-mark in
the right place at the command-
shalt not
J, who is very gentle and timid,
knows that, though it is astonishing
to think of, ice-water will stop some
toothaches.
You try it. A moment after, the
heads of all the neighbors are stick-
out of their windows. They
think the menagerie is passing, and
that the lion has roared.
K is sympathetic, and explains
and his driver a canal boat will be .,
no more charming than a street water-as near boiling
car. The general effect will be that
of putting a gas engine into a
gondola. With the horses will
disappear, too, the tow path, the
grass bordered thoroughfare wind-
through the country, and all the
association connected with it, as
embalmed in stories and in songs,
such as Wreck of the
which fifty years ago was heard the
whole length of tho
and which even penetrated
to far western regions. The trolley
will never be surrounded by the
glories which illuminated the canal
horse who pulled the boat, or when
not to the went
aboard the boat and was pulled
along himself. And what electrical
contrivance will supply the of
the human being who guided the
team, and whose picturesque ad-
to the English language re-
echoed among the surrounding hills
like the rattle of a Gatling gun All
must go before the advance of
science and the demands of com-
It would seem now that all
the world's a battery and all the
men and women in it only operators.
Kansas City Star.
A SUBMARINE BRIDGE.
A Project for the Connection of Den-
mark and Sweden.
Rudolph the famous
Swedish engineer, was in Toronto
recently, says the Empire. He spent
two weeks inspecting the work ac-
by the Canadian Pacific
railway engineers in the Rocky
mountains.
There is probably no man. in the
profession so well known through-
out Europe as M. His
latest idea is to construct a
bridge between Denmark and
Sweden under the a
row strait which divides the two
countries. At present there is an
Immense shipping traffic upon the
strait, which impedes the operations
of the ferry and causes great loss of
time in delivering the mails. To
obviate this the Swedish engineer
proposes his bridge,
which, he says, will be half tunnel
and half bridge. The whole affair
will be a gigantic tuba resting upon
piles sunk out of reach of the bottom
of the largest the diameter
being sufficient for two railway
tracks and one driveway. It will be
five miles long, and will cost about
one million dollars. M.
be hopes to see enterprise
completed in 1896. i
as you can end your
But you don't try it.
L is the next one. She is practical
and stumpy. She never gets tooth-
ache. She wears fur car-flaps when
she goes out, a big blue veil and a
comforter. She advises you to adopt
the same costume. Thick boots, in-
soles and arctics outside of all.
This, with double flannels, a cloth
dress and an ulster, with a large
shawl outside of all, and mittens
over your gloves, will keep you from
catching cold, declares, but adds
that nothing cures but
go with she continues,
you'll go and have it
You accept her escort. All you
remember of the scene is a false as-
made by the dentist that ho
hurt Then he stands
before you with your tooth in his
forceps, while you solemnly assert
that he has pulled your whole jaw
out and that you are dying.
You recover, however, but with a
fixed conviction that nobody knows
anything, which conviction remains
with you all tho rest of your life.
N. Y. Ledger.
The River Amazon.
negative, and the missionary asks
the reason.
comes the reply,
is so difficult. You must speak to
The missionary then calls the
young woman to him and
think it is time that you
she replies, do not wish
to
Is a adds the mis-
I have a husband for
is asks the maiden.
The missionary names the
date for her love.
he is not worth anything. I
will not have
suggests the mission-
is a good fellow, and at-
tends well to his house. He throws
a good harpoon and he loves
The Greenland beauty listens at-
but again she declares
that she will not accept the man as
her husband.
goes on the mission-
do not wish to force you.
shall easily find another wife for so
good a
The missionary then remains Si-
lent, as though he looked upon the
incident as closed. But in a few
minutes she if you
wish
answers the pastor;
if you wish it. I do not wish to
Another sigh follows and the pas-
tor expresses regret that she can-
not accept the man.
she then breaks out,
fear he is not
did he not kill two whales
last summer while the others killed
none Will you not take him
yes; I
bless you answers
the pastor, and he joins the two in
Try Cooper, at Henderson, with
some fine white tobacco and he
will please yon. Send your to-
where you can get the cash
for it. Cooper is always
Cooper, at Henderson, pays
you for your tobacco in currency
or his check as yon may desire.
Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Fever Sores, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains Comes, and all Skin
and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It. Is guaranteed to
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded
Price cents per box. For Sale by
WHAT THE
IS
when all
CONVENIENT, ion cu II la Tow
SIMPLE, II a borne remedy.
S J E, became It aid to
SAFE, It leaves no bad
K. because you take no medicine.
IT It causes the body to absorb
OXYGEN, and draws from nature's laboratory the agent of Its
curative effects.
Governor M. HOLT Write us
not good results from tho . .-.
ATLANTIC
I. C.
,, .
OINTMENT
TRADE
MARK
INVITE YOU TO VISIT THEIR
To see the bargains they are offering on a line of
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING
Boots, Shoes and Hats
For Fall and Winter Service.
For its Care of ill Skin
This has been In use over
fifty years, and wherever know ha
been in steady demand. It has been en-
forced by the lending physicians all over
e country, and effected curs where
other remedies, with the attention of
the most experienced have
for years failed. This is of
long standing sad the. high reputation
which it has is owing entirely
its own efficacy, as but little has
ever been made to bring it before the
public. One bottle of this Ointment will
be sent to any address on receipt of One
Dollar. All Cash Orders promptly at-
tended to. Address nil orders and
communications to
T. V.
N. C
We can salt the Ladies exactly on
Dress Goods Trimmings.
-o
A more complete
stock of
NOTIONS
cannot be found on
the market
continue to sell C. B. Corsets at cents
The balance of Lang's stock of Clothing and Shoes
AT AND BELOW COST.
Scrofula, whether hereditary or
quired, is thoroughly expelled from that
blood by Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great
blood purifier.
A CUP
made in three minutes,
Palatable, Pure Re-
freshing and Simulating
Take a cup of
boiling hot
stir a
teas
not of
Company's
Extract of Beef,
Then add an egg and
some y If d
season care full y.
BROWN HOOKER'S NEW STORE
----TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED WORTH OF----
To be sold at reduced
prices, together with a large
assortment of Fall and
winter
Ac. IN SHORT A COMPLETE
STOCK OF GOODS TO BE SOLD
Fundamental
Principle of
Life Assurance
is protection for the family.
Unfortunately, however, the
beneficiaries of life assurance
are often deprived of the pro-
vision made for them, through
the loss of the principal, by
following bad advice regard-
its investment.
Under the Installment
Policy of
The Equitable Life
are provided with an ab-
solute safeguard against such
misfortune, besides securing
a much larger amount of in-
for the same amount
of premiums paid in.
For facts and figures, address
W. J. Manager,
For the Rock Hill, S. C.
WILMINGTON B. P.
and
INS SOOTH.
No No No
Oct. Its, dally Fast Mail, daily
daily ex Sun
Weldon 12,35 pm pm
Ar pm pm
pm
Ly pm
Rocky Mt p mi pm
Wilson
Ly
Ar Florence
Wilson
Goldsboro
Magnolia
TRAINS GOING
No
daily
Mm.
Florence
Ar
Wilmington
Goldsboro
Ar Wilson
The largest river Is the
It rises sixty miles the Pacific
ocean and traverses the whole width
of the continent, a distance of four
thousand miles. It is navigable for
large-sized ships twenty-two
miles from Its mouth. In the
last three hundred or four hundred
miles of its course its width is so
great that from one shore the
site bank is invisible. The strength
of its current carries its fresh
a distance of more than two
hundred miles out to sea.
courtship.
A Where Missionaries and
Figure in the Operation.
the Danish missionaries have
gained the confidence of the natives
of Greenland, marriages in tho far
north are celebrated by the
of the church. In a re-
cent issue of one of the Danish pa-
one of the missionaries gives
the following account of the way
courtship and marriages are brought
Tho man calls on the missionary
and wish to take unto my-
self a
asks missionary.
The man gives bar name.
yon spoken with
bu As a rule the answer in the
A. Rocky Mont OS
Ar Tarboro
Tarboro p m
except Sunday.
Train on Scotland Branch Road
leaves Weldon 3.40 p. m., Halifax 4.40
p. m., arrives Scotland Neck 4.48 p. m.
6.28 p, m.,
Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20 a. m.,
Greenville 8.22 a. m. Arriving Halifax
at a. m., Weldon 11.20 a. daily
except Sunday.
Trains on Washington Branch
Washington 7.00 a, m. arrives
8.40 a. m Tarboro 9.50; returning
leaves Tarboro 4.40 p. m., Parmele 8.00
p. m arrives Washington 7.30 p. m.
Daily except Sunday. Connects with
trains on Scot In Neck Branch.
Train leaves Tarboro, N C, via Alb
A Raleigh R. R. dally except Sun
day, P M, Sunday P If, arrive
Plymouth 9.20 p. m., 6.20 p. m.
Returning leaves Plymouth daily except
6.80 a. mt, 10.00 a. m
arrive Tarboro, N C, 10.25 AM 12,20.
Trains on Southern Division, Wilson
and Fayetteville Branch leave Fayette-
ville a m. arrive Rowland p m,
Returning leave Rowland 1215 p m.
arrive Fayetteville ; m. Dally ex-
Sept Sunday.
Train on Midland N C Branch leave
Goldsboro daily except Sunday, A M
N C, A M. Re
retuning N C AM
Goldsboro. N C A M.
Train
Mount at P M, arrive Nashville
P Hope P M. Returning
Spring Hope A M, Nashville
arrives Rocky Mount
M, daily except
Trains on Latta Branch R. R.
7.80 p. m., arrive Dunbar 8.40 p
m. Returning leave Dunbar a.
arrive Latta 7.15 a. m. except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves
for Clinton dally, except Sunday, at
and leave Clio
ton at A M, and P. X.
at Warsaw Nos. and
Train No. makes close connection at
Weldon for all points North daily,
all via Richmond, and dally except Sun-
day via Bay Line, also at Rocky Mount
dally except Sunday with Norfolk A
railroad tor Norfolk and all
points via Norfolk.
General
J. K. Transportation.
T. V,
CHEAP.
bought my brother out I am to soil ray
tire stock exceedingly close. Come and see for yourself.
Respectfully,
WILEY BROWN.
New Home Sewing and Depositor for American Bible So
RELIABLE
the buyers of Pitt line of the following goods
not to be excelled in this market. And to be and
pure straight goods. DRY GOODS of all kinds, NOTIONS. CLOTHING, GEN-
FURNISHING GOODS. HATS and CAPS, BOOTS, LA-
and CHILDREN'S SLIPPERS. HOUSE FURNISHING
GOODS, DOORS, WINDOWS, SASH. BLINDS, and QUEENS-
WARK, HARDWARE, PLOWS and PLOW CASTING, LEATHER of different
Gin and Mill Belting, Hay, Rock Lime, Plaster of Paris,
Hair, and -addles
HEAVY GROCERIES A SPECIALTY.
Agent for Clark's O. N. T. Spool Cotton which I offer to the trade at Wholesale
jobbers cents per per cent for Bread Prop
ration and Hall's Star Lye it Jobbers Prices. White Lead and pure Lin
Red Oil. Varnishes and Paint Wood and Wood
Willow Ware. Nails a specialty. Give me a call and I guarantee satisfaction.
SPLENDID FARM.
For Rent.
A portion of the John Peebles farm,
lying on Tar river, lies from Green-
ville, one hundred and sixty acres in
field to f, or easily sub-divided to
suit renters. Good six-room dwelling,
tenant houses, excellent
and grapes and water. This land
has rested two years. Is in the heart
of the best tobacco section in the east.
acres capital tobacco land,
barns and large celled pack-house
Fine corn, cotton, peanuts and tobacco
farm. Rails for fencing furnished free
of charge by owner. Apply to
ANDREW JOYNER,
At Greenville.
Notice to Creditors.
The Court Clerk of Pitt
county having issued letters of
to me, the undersigned, on the
1st day of November, 1898, on the estate
of Harmon Harrell, deceased, notice is
hereby given to all persons indebted to
the estate to make immediate payment
to the undersigned, and to all creditors
of said to present their claims,
properly authenticated, to the under-
signed within twelve months after the
date of this notice or this notice will be
plead In bar of recovery.
This November the 6th,
W. H. HARRINGTON,
on estate of Harmon Harrell
Annual Statement.
Of per diem and mileage allowed Board
of Commissioners for Pitt county for
the year ending December
Council Dawson hath attended days.
Jesse L. Smith hath attended
Fleming attended
S. A. Gainer hath days.
T. E. Keel hath attended days.
COUNCIL DAWSON.
days as commissioner, 28.00
days as 20.00
miles traveled, 33.50
are com-
pounded from a prescription
widely used by the best
cal authorities and are
in a form that is be-
coming the fashion every-
where.
but promptly upon
stomach and intestines;
dyspepsia, habitual
cad-
ache. One
first symptom of ind
biliousness, dizziness,
after eating, or depress
spirits, and quickly
remove the whole
may I e re-
of nearest i
are easy to take,
quick to act, and
save many
tor's
a doc-
JESSE L. SMITH.
days as commissioner,
S days as
miles traveled,
81.60
830.00
4.00
13.00
17.00
Send in Your Orders.
We have a nice assortment of
Apples, Pears, Plums,
Peaches, Chestnuts, Pecans, Grape-
vines, J Raspberries, Straw-
berries, Dewberries, and Blackberries.
Also
AID
Shrubs. Roses, Greenhouse Plants,
ah I las Hyacinths. Tulips, Lilies, Ac.
orders solicited and will be
the proper time for trans-
ti n Semi for
ALLEN WARREN A SON,
Riverside Nursery. Greenville, r.
LEONIDAS FLEMING.
days as commissioner,
days as
miles traveled.
10.00
9.00
S. A. GAINER.
days as commissioner,
days as
miles traveled.
T. E.
days as commissioner,
days
miles traveled.
15.00
8.00
31.00
73.90
Total amount allowed Board,
State of North Carolina,
Pitt County.
I, Henry Harding, of
the Board of Commissioners, for the
aforesaid county, do certify that the
foregoing is a correct statement, as
doth upon record in my
Given under my band and
seal of said Board at
office In Greenville, this 9th
day of ember, 1893.
H. HARDING.
Board Commissioner
SOLD
COol MM
YOUNG
Sole Agents,
GREENVILLE, N. C
W. L. DOUGLAS
SHOE
la try a
Mt In the world.
II
4.00
3.50
2.50
2.28
2.00
MR
3.00
12.00
If s las SHOE a I
Mai. to IS, M, 14.00
She filial
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R. L. DAVIS, H. C