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the and Index off Every- 
Worth 
Tho of hauling 
of 1806 boon can-fully 
for or future 
tho of 
Eon. P. P. Mast, O. build- 
mu at Kan.; loss, 
Dr. Marx, famous 
in 
David H. I In 
of Ike at Asbury 
Park, 
ft. Tho Toronto Globe build and 
burned a blizzard; l-s. over 
killed. 
Obituary; K-v. Dr. King, famous for aid 
to escaping Clot ham. Ont.; 
Gen. Philip Sidney a 
Union veteran and a 
from Illinois, in aped 
Uprising in Hawaii in the interests 
of tho deposed queen. 
Fires; mill and elevator 
burned at N. Y.; loss, 
Obituary; Archibald Gordon, newspaper 
critic and dramatist, in Port 
N. . 
Th building and several 
large business houses in 
Factories of the 
Hardware company burned at tit. Joseph, ; 
loss, 
Aaron L. Dennison. tho father of j 
in Birmingham, 
England; aged Si. Gen. Alfred W. Eliot, 
as leader of ram fleet in 
tho Mississippi, at El Dorado, Kan. 
A blaze at O. 
Trolley and conductors 
in 
Fire; St ad t theater, Milwaukee, 
to the amount of 
Ex-Gov. S. F. Chadwick of Ore- 
at Salem; aged Charles C 
active temperance loader, in Brooklyn; 
Explosion of several powder cars 
at Butte, Mon.; killed. injured. 
President of France 
resigned. 
IT. Gen. N. Stile, a Union 
veteran prominent in public life in 
aped Col. John Kean, founder and 
first president of the Central Railroad of . 
Jersey, in New York; 
Francois Felix elected 
dent of France. 
Arrest and confession of 
the bond forger, in New York; amount 
involved, 
Texas Cotton palace burned at Waco. 
20- Prof. C. of 
Columbia college, at Athens; aged 
by trolley strikers 
in Brooklyn. 
CL Tho Kink of 
and private bank of Erastus 
Sons closed th doors. 
Charles noted Swiss 
philosopher, at aged 
The National 
association met at Cincinnati. Militia 
on trolley in Brooklyn. 
Dr. Alfred L. 
professor and practitioner, in Now 
York city; aged Gen. Stephen V. 
Benet, U- S. A., retired; aged . 
Lord Randolph Bony 
Churchill, prominent English politician, in 
London; 
Two masked men held a train 
on tho Cotton road near Ark., and 
plundered the car of 
Five coal sunk in i 
Island Pound; drowned. 
Gloucester fishing Leader wreck- 
ed on the Massachusetts coast; of the 
crew drowned. 
Obituary M. Russian minister of 
foreign affairs for many years, at St. 
aged Gas. Darr, a 
prominent Union v. at no. Pa.; 
aped 
fierce gale along th New England, Long 
Island and New Jersey coasts. 
Mrs. . G. 
Jenny at Morristown, N. 
J.; aged . 
last mar. of, 
in Paris; aged 
Storm struck capsizing 
several sloops; many lives lost. Blizzard 
in Oklahoma. 
Dr. Jam in Strong, widely known 
authority on mental diseases, in Cleveland; 
aged 
Steamship Elbe of th North Ger- 
man Lloyd collided with a small steamer; 
in the North sea and sunk with over 
people. 
Jude r Hoar , 
in Ward 
Bated Ba leader, in w York 
city. 
The twenty-seventh annual con- 
of the American Woman's 
began at Atlanta. 
FEBRUARY. 
Theodore once a 
prominent antislavery agitator, at Hyde 
Park, Mass.; aged 
i . works burned at Mo- 
Pa.; lots, 
Gen. D. Manson, veteran of 
the Mexican and civil wars, at Frankfort, 
Ind.; aped Gen. Rufus Barringer. a 
Confederate Charlotte, N. C; 
aged 
A trolley car plunged through an 
open draw in Milwaukee; killed, in- 
Boardman tobacco warehouse 
mimed in loss over A 
fire in the business district of 
V. 
Denison hotel, Indianapolis, dam- 
aged by fire to the extent of 
A blaze at Evansville, Ind. 
Gen. John M. made lieu- 
tenant 
John L. ex-minister to 
Hawaii, at Augusta, Me.; aged Rev. 
Dr. William Mar hoe Taylor, a prominent 
Presbyterian, in New York city; aged 
men run down by a Pennsylvania 
railroad at 
P. The onion depot and burned 
at St. Ma ; loss, The Con- 
church burned at 
Prof. James R. Boise of the Chi- 
capo one of the noted 
Greek scholars in the country. In 
aged 
The Syndicate block burned In Rock- I 
ford. Ills.; The state printing house 
at 
A store and a factory burned at Rock- 
Die.; loss. 
Judge Charles E. A. due 
r I v N. 
Or Mans; Judge 
prominent writer and lawyer, at Detroit; ; 
SI. Gen j 
veteran, at Alexandria. aged 
is. Fatal fire at Lynn, Mass,; firemen , 
injured. A 9100.000 lire in Salt 
Luke City. 
Silk mill burned at Paterson, H. J.; 
loss. 
Ex-Got. Gray, U. minister to 
in the City of Mexico. 
Richard P. 
n organizer, in Detroit; aped 
Dr. Samuel Spencer Stafford, founder of 
the Stafford Ink company, in New York; 
W. 
Tho Brooklyn trolley strike ended 
on all lines t one. 
Yorke 
actress, in Philadelphia 
by B. Gentry. 
burned at 
N. loss. 
Eliza D. one of Chicane 
old- 
The convention of Sn- 
con- 
in Cleveland. The fourth 
of th Daughters of the Revolution opened 
in Washington. 
ID. Douglass at Washing- 
ton, 
n. Ex-Gov. Benjamin 
of New at N. H.; aged 
The ninth annual convention of 
the News met 
New York. 
Several cottages and boarding 
at Hot Springs. 
Gen. Matt W. Ransom, senator 
from North Carolina, appointed minister 
t-j Mexico. 
Gen. B. Carr, a 
Union veteran, in Troy, N. aged 
of em- 
and acquitted. 
The National Dairy 
mt in annual session at Washing- 
ton. The third annual session of butter 
and makers began Ills. 
Ex-Judge Richard 
once a prominent Fenian, in New York 
city; aged 
L hotel burned at Norfolk, Nob.; 
loan, 
on the Inter- 
railway near the City of Mexico; 
train down an embankment. 
t- business of tho town of 
N. D., burned; loss, China 
company's works burned at Akron. O.; 
lone, A fire at 
Ills. 
Prof. John Stuart of the 
University of Edinburgh, in that city; aged 
A fire in Toronto, the third 
great conflagration in two months; a dozen 
business houses, hotel and church de- 
Electric power house burned at 
Ills.; loss, A 9150.000 
by fire at Salina, Kan. 
W. C Coup, the veteran 
showman, at Fla.; aped 
Rot. Daniel a pioneer mission- 
of China, In San Francisco; aged 
Anna youngest daughter of 
the late Gould, married Count de 
of Fran-e. 
Obituary Col. David Ramsey 
a veteran distinguished in the cavalry 
service, Ills.; aged 
Block if buildings destroyed by an 
explosion of natural gas at Anderson, Ind.; 
loss, 
William E. the noted 
railway magnate and multimillionaire, 
by his wife on statutory grounds in 
New York city. 
ft. Edwin Forbes, n well known 
American artist and veteran war 
lent with tho Union armies, in New 
York aged 
Hyde Clark, famous linguist 
and scientist, in London; aged 
Obituary Frederick E. Sickles, an engineer 
and inventor, in Kansas City. 
The Cincinnati and Now 
packet Longfellow a channel span 
of the Chesapeake bridge at Cincinnati 
and went down in minutes; lives lost 
and about people saved by a tug. 
Canter, Italian historian 
and Liberal, Milan; John F. 
Temple-, noted in Chicago; 
Worth, the famous 
in Paris; aped 
Commercial Mutual Accident as- 
of America held its twelfth annual 
session at N. Y. 
ball and other properties burn- 
ed in Brooklyn; loss, 
riot at New Orleans; I kill- 
-d at their work. 
Large buildings burned in Kansas 
City; loss, 9300.000. 
City hull at Me., damaged 
by fire. 
Rev. Dr. John W. 
dent of the Baptist seminary at 
Louisville, in that aged 
Ho to elevator and ware- 
burned in St. Louis; loss, A 
building occupied by and news 
concerns burned at Cleveland; loss, 
killed and injured at the 
burning of the in To- 
Capt. D. I. president Min- 
exchange, in Denver. 
Business block burned at Perry, O. 
T.; loss. 
buildings burned in Burlington, 
loss 9250.000. 
Gen. Adam Grant's 
biographer, etc., at Ridge- 
N. J.; aged 
A fire at Peoria, Ills, 
On, Philip St. George Cooke, 
prominent army veteran, in Detroit; aged 
miners killed by an explosion at 
Evanston. 
Neal Dow, tho apostle of pro- 
his ninety-first birth- 
day. 
worth of cotton burned in 
the yards of the International Cotton press. 
New Orleans. Warehouse and elevator 
burned at Sioux City, la.; loss, 
Prof. Henry LL. of 
university, at Bethlehem, Pa.; aged 
Richard a prominent 
aged 
deaths at afire in the St. James 
hotel, Denver. 
packing plant In Kansas City 
burned; loss, hotels, a church 
and bank burned at Decatur, Mich. 
Li Bung Chang, China's peace en- 
by a Japanese in 
P houses and other property 
burned loss, 
Prof. James E. Oliver, well known 
mathematician at Cornell university, in 
Ithaca. N. Y. 
buildings burned at St. 
tine, Fla. buildings burned at 
raga, N. Y.; loss, 
Housing, noted German 
editor, in aged Mrs. 
Stevens, noted leader of society, in New 
Yarn 
APRIL. 
Tho business portion of the city of 
St. Charles by fire; loss, 
David M. Stone, formerly editor 
of The Journal of Commerce, in New York 
aped 
workmen killed and injured by 
a boiler explosion at Mass. 
I. Henry noted abolitionist, at 
Conn.; aged Rev. Bar- 
ton H. Cart a pioneer Methodist of 
the west, at Oregon, Ills.; aged Jack 
Wallace, once th- wealthiest landholder in 
Atlanta, died at Sherman, Tex. Captain 
a well known navigator 
of the port, in Mass.; aged 
t. Obituary Ex-Gov. William R. Marshall of 
Minnesota, at Pasadena, Cal.; aged 
d. Thompson a veteran 
of Hawk war and a pioneer of 
Kansas City; aged 
The Am Starch works burned 
at Columbus, Ind. ; loss, 
Anthony M. Cannon, a leading 
citizen of tho northwest, in New York city. 
a fire the railroad works 
at Winslow, A. T. 
Gov. Joshua H. of Dela- 
ware, at aged Gen, James L, 
or Virginia and a 
leader of one of Pickett's brigades at Get- 
in Orange county, Va.; aged 
miners killed by gas explosion 
at Lake Wash. 
W. Jennings founder 
of Magazine and a leader in 
movements, in New York city; 
aged Gen. T. A. Harris, a Confederate 
veteran, at Lodge, near Louisville. 
five story buildings fell in Wheel- 
burying men in the ruins; ft deaths; 
property among victims 
was Vicar General Parke, who was passing 
and was caught by the falling wall, 
A We express wagon rob 
bed of 915.000 in Colorado; the messenger 
fatally wounded. 
Warehouse burned at Colo.; 
loss, 
At Mo., the courthouse 
and all the buildings on one side of the 
public square destroyed by Are; loss about 
Pressed brick works burned 
Glen US.; loss nearly 
James W. Scott, editor and pub- 
of the Chicago Times-Herald, in New 
York aged Prof. James Dwight 
Dana of Yale, at New aged 
Dr. John P. 
Prohibitionist, at Springfield, Mass. 
Earthquake; Heavy shocks in Italy and 
Hon. prom- 
leader, at Brook lino, 
Mass. 
R. C. ex-governor of 
Louisiana, at Ky. Granville 
Perkins, the artist, in New York city; aged 
The fifth international convention of the 
open- 
ed in 
Plains J Charles K. Knox, the well known 
Now York hatter, In that aged 
Eddie Bald lowered cycling 
record a second in California by riding a 
mile in 
Fire in the school of arts at 
France, destroyed exhibition 
models and machines valued 
francs. 
Paul Cooper, son of the 
novelist, in Albany; aged 
Obituary Albert Young, patriarch 
of the people of the 
died at Ross Park, opposite St. Louis; be 
Wan years old. 
Col. Franklin Fairbanks, one of 
Vermont's most prominent citizens, at St. 
Brig. Wesley Merritt appoint- 
ed major general by tho president. Cols. 
R. Bliss and John J. r were 
promoted to be brigadier generals. 
Nat Jones, a veteran 
of the died in Chicago. 
Mrs. Frank Leslie, first wife of the well 
known New York publisher, at 
N. Y. 
Tho tobacco factory burn- 
ed in Montreal; loss, several fatal- 
persons injured. 
Henry H. Scott, a 
and leading Democrat of San Francis- 
co, in that city. 
B Taft, an eminent 
jurist, at Pontiac; aged 
the popular Ger- 
man novelist, author of 
and other notable ; aged 
MAY. 
Maj. John Newton, 
soldier of the Mexican and civil 
wars and engineer of Hell Gate, in Now 
York Gen. S. B. a 
veteran of the Mexican and civil in 
Third annual con press Sons 
of the American Revolution began in 
ton. Tornado in Kansas; 
a. American Powder company's 
mills near Concord, Mass., blown up; 
killed. Sioux City, la., and other towns 
swept by a tornado; over killed. 
James Kelly, a Cook county 
and one of tho founders of the 
go Tribune, at Winnetka, Ills. 
ft. New O., bad fire. 
Strauss tannery and other proper- 
tap in East Buffalo destroyed by fire; loss, 
Ex-Gov. Robert S. Green of Now 
at Elizabeth, N. J.; aged 
Field Marshal Pane, a 
distinguished Prussian veteran and 
governor of Berlin, in that city ; aged 
Ex-Gov. James A. at 
Manchester, N. H.; aged 
The thirty-first international 
convention Y. M. C. A. of North America 
mot at Springfield, Mass. 
Gilbert Elliot, constructor of the 
noted Confederate ram in New j 
city; aged 
Gen. Joseph Colton, 
in tho Confederate army, aft New L 
aged Gen. Charles Sutherland, 
goon U. S. A., in i 
aped at, 
Ex-Gov. Ira J. Chase of Indiana, 
Me.; aged 
Fire Huron, destroy- 
ad a grain elevator and flour mill; loss, I 
At Pratt City, Ala., tho city j 
a hotel and church and dwellings wore 
destroyed by Are. 
Julius H. ex-president of 
Amherst college, in Amherst; 
Chief Whirlwind, noted Cheyenne warrior, j 
died at Fort Reno, O. T. 
Tho sixteenth annual con I 
of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit as- 
began in New York. Biennial , 
convention of the Order of Railway Con- j 
doctors began in Atlanta. 
Duke of Hamilton, twelfth of, 
his line, died in Algiers. Admiral John J. 
U. S. N., retired, in Washington; 
aged Peter H. Burnett, first governor 
of California, in San aged 
business places and dwellings 
destroyed in St. Vt.; loss, 9750.000. 
David S, S. tho well 
known Fire Island in Babylon, 
N. Y.; aged Hiram Barney, collector 
of the port of New York under Lincoln, in 
that city; aged 
EL At Angelica, N. Y., stores, opera 
house and other property burned; loss, 
Franz the 
composer of 
In Vienna; aged Dr. Mary Harris 
Thompson, founder and head surgeon of 
tho Chicago Hospital For Women and 
in Chicago; aged 
Explosion at Cal., of 
pounds of nitroglycerin and pounds 
Hercules powder; killed; loss, 
Tho income tax declared 
constitutional by a vote of to The 
fifth annual reunion of the United 
veterans convened at Houston, Tex. 
Obituary Hon. Hugh secretary 
of treasury to 1869, at Washington; 
aged 
John A. Morris race horse own- 
and capitalist, Tex. 
Obituary Hi Fry, noted wood 
carver, near Cincinnati; aged 
business houses and dwellings 
burned at Mo.; loss, 
Walter Quinton Gresham, 
w of W S 
The seventieth 
muting of the American Unitarian 
held in Boston. The American 
Baptist union began its eighty-first 
convention at Saratoga, 
Pacific Mail steamer Col i ma ran 
upon a reef off Hex., during a 
gale; persona drowned. French steamer 
Dom wrecked off the Spanish coast; 
lives lost. 
Gen. G. M. Union vet- 
at Charleston, Ills.; aged 
JUNE. 
George M. Gray, a Chicago 
in that city; aged 
B. Hon. Vincent D. Markham, a 
very distinguished jurist- of Colorado, at 
Denver; aged 
Miss Emily the Eng- 
economist and philanthropist; aged 
Gen. Rivera, captain general of Mad- 
rid, mortally wounded by a subordinate. 
Samuel Washington Fuller, artist 
and portrait painter, at Saratoga; aged I 
The one hundred and fourteenth annual con- 
clave of the grand lodge of Freemasons 
opened in New York. 
ft. Carriage plant burned at Jackson, 
loss, elevators destroyed 
at Wis.; loss, 
I. Ralph an old j 
lie. r associated with George Stephenson, 
of the near Charles- 
ton, W. Va.; aged 
I. At Minn., feet of i 
loss, 
John A. the circus 
manager, in aged 
Dewing A yard and 
factory, with adjoining destroy- 
ed by fire at Kalamazoo, Mich.; loss, 
The Leonard silk m at Florence, 
Mass., destroyed by fire; loss nearly 
Cameron, W. Va,, almost wholly de- 
by a train from Wheel- 
wrecked and men killed. 
William a pioneer mer- 
chant of California in San Francisco; aged 
II. Obituary Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, LL. D., 
late of the Indiana university, 
Gal.; aged 
professor of ancient languages In the 
of Indiana, at 
aged j 
Christian Endeavor annual 
convention opened in Boston. Destructive j 
storms and tornadoes in Minnesota and 
Oklahoma. 
Henry Cooper, formerly 
a well known New York tailor, in Now 
York; aged gorilla, noted Span 
republican loader, at Madrid; aged 
Rev. A. Minor. D. 
pastor emeritus of the Second 
church and a prominent prohibitionist In I 
Boston; aged I 
A horsepower engine exploded 
Fall Mass., wrecking a story build- 
people killed and 
t Stowe j 
fa r eight; fourth birthday at Hartford. 
ft. At O., lire destroyed j 
drug atom, hotel. banks and 
loss, j 
An fire 
church. offices and several 
stores; -s Jacob's Third Avenue 
The Woman's Christian conference 
opened in London. 
The Harlem ship canal con- 
North river with Long Island sound 
opened with ceremonies. 
W. H. head of the 
great drug firm, in Now York city; aged 
Power house and oars of the street 
railway in Seattle, Wash., burned; loss, 
Henry B. Houston, 
interests in 
In Philadelphia; aged 
Emperor William laid the keystone of the 
Kaiser canal. 
The soldier bicycle courier ended 
his ride from New York to Chi- 
Lord and hit 
ministry resigned. Columbia won the 
angular race at 
Cornell and Pennsylvania. 
Thomas Henry Huxley, the 
England; aged years. 
pi M. D. a pioneer 
In San Francisco; aged 
Philip Phillips, the evangelist, in Dela- 
O.; 
San Francisco swept by the largest 
fire known there in over years. 
Yale defeated Harvard by 
lengths at New London, Conn. 
Prof. Thomas H. Huxley, the 
scientist, at England; aged 
of Brazil, near Rio 
Janeiro; aged Daniel Eaton, pro- 
of botany at Yale, in New Haven; 
sped Gen. Green Clay Smith, a Union 
veteran, at Washington ; aged 
JULY. 
L At Elkhart, Ind., a bridge fell 
under a crowd witnessing a boat race; 
injured. 
deaths in the region west 
of and adjoining tho Mississippi by cloud- 
bursts and lightning. burglars 
Allen and out 
Ludlow Street jail, Now York. Mob at- 
tacked an A. P. A. parade in Boston. 
Alexander Hester, America's 
greatest died at Evanston, 
Ills. 
ft. Lumber plant burned at 
Cab; loss, At Duluth, Minn., I 
loss in a warehouse Are. bust- 
places burned in N. Y.; loss, 
Terrific storm at Chicago and on Lake 
many deaths reported. 
David A. publisher 
Almanac, at New London, Conn.; 
gad 
killed and injured in a real 
end collision on the Grand Trunk at 
Band. Quebec. 
Fatal at deaths. 
Allen father of the. 
Hartford; 
Over people injured at I 
tic City by tho collapse of the old casino. 
Cornell beaten by Trinity hall 
Henley for Grand Challenge cup. 
famous French 
and the original Marguerite, 
at I 
Convention of the United 
of Christian Endeavor opened in 
ton. 
Dr. Norton S. 
emeritus professor of agriculture in the 
university, at O.; aged 
Steamer burned at Lewiston, 
N. loss, about 9250.000. 
M. Business portion of Alta Vista wiped . 
out by loss, 
ex-premier of , 
by assassination, at Sofia; aged 
fireman and injured at 
fire in Cincinnati; property loss, I 
Charles Emanuel Schenck, ex- 
president of Switzerland, at Born ; aged 
Fifth international convention 
of the Baptist Young People's Union j 
America opened in Baltimore. 
Henry Irving. Walter and 
Lewis Morris by the 
loss by of an oil mill 
in 
lives lost by steamboat collision 
in the of Genoa. 
Ex-Gov. Alexander H. Rice of 
Massachusetts died at Prof. Rn- j 
eminent German scholar and 
professor, instructor of the reigning 
at Berlin; aged 
Y. M. C. A. building in Washington 
burned; loss, water- 
works destroyed by fire; loss, 
James Bunn, chief of the 
cock Indian-, at Southampton, N. Y.; aged 
Rev. Edward one of the ; 
famous seven brothers, in Brooklyn; aged
Dr. Anthony Wilson 
I of Winchester, at Surrey, England; 
Col. Alfred M. Wood, mayor 
Brooklyn during the war, in that 
John Minor, LL. D-, 
of common and statute law in the 
University of Virginia at Charlottesville; I 
-d 
Scott, Tex., flooded by sudden 
imitation of rain, 
Richard M. Hunt, noted arch 
at Newport, R. I.; 
AUGUST. 
I I. ; Prof. Ger 
historian, in aged 
I cloudburst in Wyoming. 
I A business block at Lima, O., de- 
r by Arc; loss, 
Thompson, African ex- 
r, in London. 
the seat of Lincoln county, 
d stated by fire; loss nearly 91,000.000. 
Fir Berlin, Md., almost wiped out by 
loss, 
ft. In steamers burned at Cincinnati; 
Charles Foster, actor and 
pi.;. in New York city; Aged 
Charles Foster, an old 
and Manager, in New York; aged Gen. 
M. A. Stovall, a Confederate veteran, at 
Ga.; aged George F. Root, 
the composer, at Bailey's Island, Me.; aged 
Associate Justice Howell Ed- 
Jackson of the U. supremo court 
West Meade, aged 
Di An story building collapsed In 
New York city. British steamer 
thorn. from Sydney for went 
on he rocks near Sydney and sank in 
minutes; lives lost, 
The James Co. stamping j 
Works at Newark. N. J., destroyed by fire; I 
loss, Fire destroyed property val- 
at at Ills. 
Frank M. a veteran 
t, at San Francisco. 
factories, dwellings and other 
properties burned in Philadelphia; loss, 
French explorer and engineer, In Paris. 
William Dean, noted Baptist 
missionary among the orientals, at San 
Diego, aged 
The first national convention 
Of commercial lawyers opened in Detroit. I 
The seventeenth conference of the 
can Library association began in Denver. 
The National Association of Newsdealer 
met in Brooklyn. 
Baron Christian Bernard 
the European publisher, at 
aged Thomas fa- 
artist, at Norristown, Pa. 
American Pharmaceutical association opened 
at Denver. 
P. P. painter of the 
and other 
ed pictures, at Pa, Gen- John D. 
famous Confederate cavalryman, 
at aged 
Gen. Samuel Bell a Con- 
federate veteran and ex-U. S. senator from 
Texas, at Eureka Springs, Ark.; aged 
The thirtieth annual reunion of tho 
of Locomotive Engineers opened at 
William Strong 
the U. supreme court, at Lake Minne- 
N. aged 87- Leonard W. V 
the sculptor, at Wis.; aged 
people drowned at Ocean City, 
from an overcrowded skiff. 
Boiler explosion and destroy- 
ed the hotel. V deaths. 
The Union dock and ware 
house and oil r property in Mil 
loss. 
Luzon B. of Con 
at New Haven; aged 
At N. Y- 
loss, 
H. O. head of tho 
ton publishing house, at North Andover, 
Mass.; aged 
Patrick Gavan Duffy, 
Justice 
at J. 
G. n. Ely S. Parker, an Indian 
who on staff, at Fairfield, 
Conn. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Marshal U. S. com- 
missioner of fish and fisheries, in Washing- 
ton. 
Sedan day, twenty-fifth 
the French surrender 
ed Germany. 
shook in tin- eastern states. 
A runaway locomotive dashed 
Into a train on the Island 
railroad; injured. 
burned in Evans- 
ville, Ind.; lean, 9110.000. 
Boston and wharf and freight 
in Boston destroyed by fire; loss, 
Sven distinguished Swed 
naturalist, aged BY. William Henry 
the American journalist, at Cs 
Italy J aged Gen. A. V. Kautz, 
U. S. A., retired, in Seattle, Wash.; aged 
Peter Styers, a locomotive 
who had boon on the rail years, 
Bethlehem, Pa.; 
Henry Bent of 
local near N. Y.; 
aged 
miners by fire in th 
Osceola mine at Mich.; 
deaths. 
The American yacht Defender 
the first against Valkyrie HI by I 
and 
Bowler's brewery burned at 
dam, N. Y.; loss, 9200.000. 
A. R. met in annual encampment 
at Louisville. 
Harrison Millard, popular song 
writer, in New York aged 
Valkyrie HI foaled the American 
yacht Defender and won by seconds. 
Henry well knows 
paper dealer of Maw in that city 
killed and many in t 
hand end collision on the Great Northern 
near Minn. 
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Hall, prom 
Episcopal divine, in Brooklyn; age 
Sport Lord withdrew the Eng 
Valkyrie III, Riving the race 
cup to the Defender. 
Prof. Sigismund 
instructor and composer, in Brook- 
The Mora indemnity of 91.419,000 paid b 
Spain. 
Tho of Dodge, Nob., 
destroyed by lire; loss, 
A blaze in the business 
of Indianapolis. death and a prop 
loss of in a at Oshkosh, 
Wis. 
Marian one of the oldest 
actresses in America, at 
Highlands, N. J.; born in in 1810. 
A storm destroyed 
lives and worth of in 
The Atlanta exhibition formally 
lumber dry kilns burned at Wash- 
M. C.; loss. 
Charles lo well known 
actor, in New city ; .; Alex H 
Ritchie, formerly well known as an artist 
and engraver, in New Haven; 
Tin Spanish cruiser Sanchez Bar 
run down and sunk in the 
of Havana; officers and sailor 
drowned. 
At Green Bay, Wis., lost by 
fire. 
Prof. Abraham Victor Rydberg, 
Swedish author, at Stockholm. 
Lumbar yards and mills burned at 
Lao, Wis.; loss, 
Paper mill and dwelling burned 
Y.; loss, 
The Catholic Young Men's Na- 
Union began; its 
annual convention in St. Louts. 
Hon. E. W. Bull, a prominent 
originator of the Concord 
grape, in Concord. Mass.; aged 
Prof. Louis of Dart- 
mouth, noted scholar in French and Ger- 
man, at Hanover; 
The French army the capital of Mad- 
At Superior, Minn., the elevator 
the Daisy Flour mill A 
factory fin- at R. I 
OCTOBER. 
In Philadelphia; losses, 
Charles F. Brown, the first malt 
in Chicago, died at 
Ills. 
At Cambridge, O, fire destroyed Lin- 
den hot. Taylor block. 
. a. Orlando U. S. 
Detroit; 
Maj. Gen. Miles ordered to com 
y in place of Lieut. Gen. 
retired. 
Harry Wright, veteran baseball 
manager, died Atlantic City. 
Prof. 
. well known as an author 
and critic, in w York city; 
Prof, lb Maurice 
Yale athlete defeated Cambridge 
at Held, winning B oat of it I 
event-- and the international collegiate 
championship. 
George I. Tyson, president of 
the American News company, at Riverside. 
Conn. Miss Ada the actress, 
died in William 
d American and poet, 
Italy; 
Gen. William a 
Confederate veteran and ex-U. sen- 
from Virginia, at Washington; 
HO people in a wreck on 
the Pennsylvania railroad mar 
Dr. Albert E. Foote, distinguish- 
ed mineralogist, expired suddenly while at 
the Atlanta exposition. 
Radiator works in Bremen, 
Ind., by loss, 
Prof. Thomas Coates, leader of the firs 
circus band in America, died at Easton, 
Pa. 
N. Y., a hamlet In 
county, destroyed by fire. 
William J. 
an of the wars, at 
Ky.; F. L. Pope, noted 
engineer, by a shock in ate 
at Harrington. Mass. 
S and by a 
way- trolley car at 
Gen. a prom- 
Union general at Nice, 
France; aged Be. Clara Bates, the 
in Chicago. Andrew J. 
pioneer of San Francisco, in 
that aged 
Franklin a well 
and successful nurseryman, at War- 
Md.; 
Gen. John elected com- 
r in chief Order of the Loy- 
legion. 
At Ills., Empire Cordage 
mill destroyed by fire; loss, 
At O. stores, AC 
dwellings, banks and Masonic 
hall loss, 9150.000. A fire 
in New Orleans. Fin- swept blocks lo 
Colo., and destroyed property 
el at 9150.000 
Tin national W- C. T. U. convened in Haiti- 
Atlanta suffered a loss of by 
fire. 
John W. Jr., killed while 
racing in 
burned In New Orleans; 
people homeless; loss nearly 
Henry Augustus Loop, well known 
artist, at Lake George; aged 
first woman settler in Chicago, 
died In that city. 
Town of Bagwell, Tex., destroyed by 
loss. 
Gen. Thomas G. Pitcher, A., 
retired, Fort Bayard, N. M.; aged 
Clark D. D., LL. D., 
ed Greek scholar, at Rochester; aged 
Oliver Ames, ex-governor of Massachusetts, 
in North Easton ; aged 
buildings destroyed In Madison, 
Wis.; loss, 9150.000. 
Signor Bought, celebrated Italian 
author, scholar and statesman, at Naples 
Ex-U. ft- Senator Charles H. Van 
of Nebraska, in Washington; aged 
Charles noted pianist-, in 
Lynching mob fired upon by at 
O.; killed. 
inches of snow at Mich. 
hotel burned at Springfield, 
At On,, 
high school and won 
Highest cf all in Leavening U. S. Report 
Absolutely pure 
NOVEMBER. 
Durant of the 
of at Bag Francisco. 
Holmes of the 
of 
killed and or injured in s 
wreck on tin- Baltimore and Ohio 
Wheeling. 
business blocks at Decatur, 
Ills.; loss, 9250.000 to 9300.000. 
Obituary Field, the popular journal 
1st and verse writer, in Chicago; aged 
The Empire bank and Manhattan 
Savings in New York city; 
firemen injured; loss, 
William tabby, partner j 
A. Stewart in Now York city; 
Rachel Cantor, the oldest living actress in 
the United States, at Worcester; aged 
Obituary; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, well known 
actress, at Washington; aged t. 
killed and wounded by at 
explosion in Detroit. Tho Evening Journal 
wrecked; loss, 
Duke of Mai thorough married 
Vanderbilt in New York. 
The Erie railway sold under a foreclosure 
Obituary; Rear Admiral Robert Wilson 
U. S. N. to Washington; aged 
Thirty of the Society For th 
Women met in New Or 
bans. 
single scull race for th ; 
world's won by 
Austin, Tex.
the in surgery, 
Rome, Ga.; aped W. Hill, a not 
eel citizen of Atlanta, that city; aged 
Henry G. Ashton. inventor 
the Ashton safety valve, at 
Mass.; aped 
Tho eightieth birthday of Eliza- 
beth celebrated by a 
gathering in New York. 
The thirteenth Baptist con- 
of the United States opened at 
A daughter born to the czar and 
Russia. 
Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith, 
of in Boston; aged 
An electric oar fell into a draw 
deaths. 
A fire at Meridian, Miss. 
Banner brewery burned at Cincinnati. 
barrels of naphtha burned at 
Whiting. Ind.; deaths. 
Factory building burned at Dallas, 
Tex.; loss, 
Cardinal Bonaparte, grandson 
at 
The Parker block at Lowell, 
Mass.; loss, 
Turkish 
to Great Britain, in London. 
firms burned out in Chicago fire 
many lives loss, 
Sir Henry private m o- 
Victoria, at Eng- 
aped 
Calve-rt a noted 
can landscape found drowned in 
New York bay. Verdict of not guilty in 
lbs sensational murder trial in 
New fork. 
It, deaths in a fin- In the Dry Goods 
Woolen Exchange building In Chicago 
loss, j 100.000. 
M. Bartholemy Saint 
prominent in literature, in Paris 
aged BO. 
noted 
artist, in New city; aged 
Edwin A. Meyers, a vote-ran 
man of in that city; aged 
Yale defeated Princeton at Ne-w 
York; score Pennsylvania defeated 
Harvard at football by a score of to 
deaths by an explosion of car- 
at Barcelona, Spain. 
The eighth annual session of 
the congress in 
ha; 2-1 stat-s and 
Alexandre Dumas, noted 
writer and author of in Paris; 
aged ReV. Octavius Frothing- 
ham, noted in aged 
Gun. Thomas Jordan, a 
e-x V de-rate and Mexican vet. ran, 
in New York aged 
defeated Come at 
score, 
Count Von Austrian 
statesman, in aged SB, 
Explosion at the Tilly Foster 
I. and II injured. 
DECEMBER. 
Harvey Partridge, 
and author, at N, J.; aged 
K. 
opened. 
Oscar Taylor, n Union 
Veteran ho Mo the guerrilla, 
in Y irk. 
W. 
Slates 
hit firms burned out In- . 
fire-men killed. 
Tin- son In state- New 
broke the- 
New York and making tho 
miles an hour. 
ft, W.-E. H. the historian, 
of for tho 
university. 
broke out in the U. S. assay of- 
with in gold bars lying loose 
and 921.000,000 In damage slight. I 
annual of the 
can Federation opened In New 
York city. 
American commercial liberty 
celebration. 
IT WAS A 
Bat It Sh. 
to II. 
She KM pro- 
on not only upon 
tho old 
met, but all tho people 
in the well. 
I yon hail hack 
to Chicago to she said, after 
greetings had been 
really not had time to come to 
see you. I have no 
are tho plague of a 
in 
I suppose you keep n good 
you know, can't get 
them well trained, and it is one per- 
son's work to keep thorn 
well, I haven't had much 
trouble, hut then I only keep two. 
How 
course, my house is large and 
I nm 
are you living now I 
want to to 
tho North Side, only wish 
I could ask you over to dinner, but 
it is impossible so long I nm with- 
out a cook, and I nm particular 
about references I may not suit- 
ed for a long time. 
lucky that I met yon today. 
An old cook of is hunting a 
She will just suit you, for she 
is servant, fond of 
seldom out, 
Have you seen Ellen 
since you 
was going to her 
am so anxious to get Christine t 
and I thought might take 
her, but now that I've mot yon 
shall not Bead to go. I can her 
the best of recommendations, so 
I haven't seen Ellen for a 
longtime, lives plainly, I might 
say poorly, and of course don't 
go out together at 
Now, about the cook; 
shall I send her to you, 
don't yourself; 
is no nil. What is 
your 
mo. I don't believe I have 
a card with mo. I intended to stop 
at tho engraver's today, but tho fall 
things in tho shops were so lovely 
forgot all about it. 
bad. However, I can write 
down your address. You will find 
n treasure, I 
yes; no But I 
am along very well and 
bate to 
you won't need to train 
Christine. I did Hint and I'd 
now only I a treasure 
Do tell mo if you over see 
the 
They have just gone 
to boarding. Christine had been 
with them for n year, and Laura 
was perfectly delighted with her. 
You bad better her at 
Why, isn't that your husband com- 
in So glad to see you, Mr. Van 
Tompkins. I am perfectly delighted 
to see Dora looking so well. Why, 
hasn't changed n bit in five 
hasn't. I think it is 
wonderful too. Six married, 
and tho way that woman has work- 
ed Why, she had a 
in tho house except once when the 
twins had scarlet fever. Why, Dora, 
I haven't soon you blush so at a 
compliment since you were a 
Chicago Tribune. 
nu- . Kind, of 
to enable tho user to 
near at hand or a dis- 
in a variety 
forms. In a common form tho glass- 
es in two parts, at the 
center, tho upper halves of n 
power suited to and the 
lower halves to reading. Sometimes 
a piece is cut out of tho glass and a 
of a different power is put in 
its Sometimes tho 
is made by cementing a of 
glass over a part of tho spectacle 
glasses, and sometimes by grinding 
away a part of tho spectacle glasses. 
also with 
crescent shaped tho upper 
part of the glass being cut out en- 
j the wearer roads through the 
glasses and looks over them to 
at a There are ; 
called clerical glasses, that are like 
glasses with tho upper halves out 
off; the wearer looks down through 
tho glasses to read, and ho can see i 
over them without effort when ho 
looks at tho 
York Sun. 
of Discipline. 
In February, 1748, Lord Robert 
Bertie, third son of Robert, first I 
of Lancaster, afterward goner-1 
in tho army and colonel of the j 
Second regiment of foot guards, re- 
a reprimand, reprimand 
being convoyed to him by tho 
of Cumberland's aid-do-camp. His I 
military was that he had 
blown his nose, as ho relieved guard, 
his grace's window in St. 
James palace; this, and this only, i 
was all ho had done. 
Robert Face. 
Look at his portrait in profile, and 
you will and refine- 
of a virile sort in the 
of tho face and head, sagacity 
in the long but not prominent 
and poetic feeling in the contour of 
tho brow. But in a full the 
was still more remark- 
able. The upper part, 
broad between the eyes, was deer, 
in its gentle serenity, but the 
lower part, very narrow in 
son, was almost in its keen 
alertness, and the mobility of the 
mouth hardly seemed to fit with the 
steady of tho wide, dark 
eyes. But if at first this face 
to contradict itself the reason 
lay, I think, in the fact that 
see tho face of a man who is at 
a lover of action and a lover of 
dreams and of books, an astute and 
yet a most observer of 
life and of men and of the humors 
of the lives of men and besides an 
artist of imaginative 
Louis Stevenson and His Writ- 
by Mrs. M. O. Van 
in 
A Moment. 
the next case, bailiff. 
next yet honor, 
is a liquor. 
the be opened, 
an if it ain't any bettor than tho 
liquor we've been here 
I'll fine the whole business for eon- 
tempt court an adjourn till Sun- 
Constitution. 
In human life there Is constant 
change of fortune, and it is 
to expect an-exemption from 
the fate. itself decays, 
and all things are daily changing.
THE REFLECTOR 
Greenville, N. C. 
J. 
Entered at the at 
X. C second-class m matter. 
Wednesday, 1st, 1890. 
Frank Thornton, the largest mer- 
chant of has made an 
has a by a vote 
of to fl i 
revenue to meet the expenses of the 
government, and to provide a 
The Newport News shipping and 
Dry Dock company gets the Govern- 
contract for constructing both the 
new battleships that are to be Unit, the 
and her unnamed mate. 
is a great triumph for the South 
and another incontrovertible proof of 
her present and increasing magnitude 
of industrial 
Hon. Alfred M. Waddell writes the 
following manly sentiment to the 
Messenger notice- ill the 
proceedings of Congress that a 
offered in the Senate by Mr. Call 
to permit ex Confederates to serve in 
the United States army, a similar 
suggestion in the House by Mr. Mere- 
Virginia, were in the one ease 
Objected to and in the other ignored. 
Under these- circumstances the ex-Con. 
federate who would offer his services to 
the country is a hound of the 
Give a boy a gun and you rim a 
great risk making a out him. 
In most instances a boy is careless with 
a gun and shows but poor 
in selecting an object to shoot at. Two 
brothers at Salisbury, aged and 
years respectively, went out with a gun 
Tuesday evening made a target on 
the side of a powder magazine. They 
were warned the danger of such 
sport but regarded not the admonition 
of older heads. A lead slug from the 
went through the side the mag- 
and a explosion followed 
blowing a hole in the ground. 
trees by their roots worse 
than the severest tornado, breaking 
hundreds of window lights from build- 
in the town near by, and doing 
other damage to property. And this 
is not the worst side of tin- story. The 
older boy was blown into fragments, his 
body being scattered hundreds of feet 
around, every vestige of ; except 
one shoe, small patches of undershirt 
on each shoulder and his be- 
torn off. while the younger boy was 
so badly injured that his recovery is 
doubtful. Tin- magazine contained 
pounds of dynamite and kegs 
of powder. The explosion wan beard 
mid shock felt tor mill's i 
id. 
WASHINGTON LETTER 
Reed uses the Don't 
Like the Civil Service Russia 
Offers to Come to Uncle 
Sam's Rescue. 
JOHN BULL'S CHEAP JACK 
SHOW. 
W. CHAMBERS. 
There wore on 1st, 1894, 
names upon the pension roll. On 
1st. this number had been 
increased to which is regarded 
as the maximum. thou- 
sand pensioners died during the last 
year. One hundred and three 
thousand three hundred and fifty-live 
eases were rejected. Thirty-seven 
thousand new applications were re- 
during the lust year. The 
amount of money paid tor pensions 
dining the fiscal year was 
There are surviving upon the pen- 
non roll twelve widows and daughter 
of revolutionary soldier, while the 
of 1812 is by twenty-one 
survivors and widows. Then 
are survivors of the Mexican 
war. There are in the United Stales 
eighteen pension agencies. Then are 
residing abroad persons who draw 
pensions to the extent of 
1,737 of these living in Canada. in 
Great in Germany. The 
names, ages and residence of the widows 
of revolutionary soldiers surviving arc 
as follows Aldrich. aged nine- 
Los Angeles, Cal. ; Nancy- 
Cloud, eighty-two, Chum. Va.; Susan- 
Chadwick, eighty. Emporium, Pa.; 
Esther S. Damon, eighty-one, Ply- 
mouth Vt.; Sarah 
Chatham Valley, Pa. ; 
Nancy Jones, 
Mayo, eighty-two 
Va.; Patty Richardson 
ninety-four. Bethel, Vt ; Mary 
a. ; 
Ann M. Slaughter, eighty-five. Mitch- 
Station Va. ; Turner, 
ninety, N. Y. ; Nancy 
Weatherman, 
Tenn. 
The Republic ins hi the House 
that their new tariff bill will in- 
crease taxes forty million dollars a 
rear. is a low that tor 
every dollar the Treasury get from 
tariff five dollars goes into the 
packets home Thus 
the Republican measure of is 
an increase of taxation amount- 
to about per or more 
than five million dollars for North Car- 
to pay the year in ad- 
to the present burden of 
This is the we are getting 
from News 
and Observer. 
our Regular 
Washington-, D. C., Dee. 
Speaker Reed's muzzles an- in prime- 
working order. He muzzled the 
of the Ways and Means committee 
and compelled them to report two bills 
prepared by him ; one increasing the 
tariff upon wend, woolens and lumber 
to per cent of what it was in the 
law, and raising the tariff 
everything else, excepting sugar, 
IS per cent above rates, and 
the other providing for the issue M 
three per Cent coin bonds to replenish 
the gold reserve whenever the 
of the Treasury deems it necessary, 
and of three per cent 
I 3-year Treasury certificates, or so much 
thereof as the Secretary of the Treas- 
may need from time to time. lie 
muzzled the objecting who 
wanted the bills submitted to a caucus 
before bring reported to the House, 
and lastly he muzzled the House and 
had his bills passed, notwithstanding 
that the did all the protest- 
they could under the Reed rules, 
against the railroading of such 
legislation through the I louse 
without debate. When one of his own 
party went to Mr. Reed and asked 
that a reasonable time be allowed for 
debate on the bills before they were 
passed Mr. Reed dismissed him by say- 
sharply; House isn't a de- 
bating In fact, for all 
purposes there is no House. Its 
powers have all been usurped by Mr. 
Seed and its only important duties are 
to obey his orders. 
But there are neither Reed rules 
nor methods in the Senate, to which 
bills have now and the 
country may count upon their 
thoroughly debated before they are 
acted upon. It is doubtful whether 
either of them can pass the Senate at 
all. and certain that neither can get 
through without I icing materially 
amended. 
In creating three 
to bounce those democrats whose seats 
are being contested by republicans and 
to give those republicans who are hold- 
seats which are contested by demo- 
a valid title to their seats, Mr. 
Reed overlooked one thing that is 
ready making trouble. The committee 
on elections has but one room, and 
each of the three committee's claim the 
right to use it. 
The union printers are not so glad 
about the extension of the Civil Ber- 
rule's the Government Printing 
as they were. Already four 
non-union printers have secured 
in the building by passing the re- 
quired examination, and there will be 
others, until their number grows so 
that the office will have to be 
classed as non-union. 
The report, although not yet officially 
confirmed, that Russia had offered to 
loan the Unwed 9400,000,000 in 
gold, without interest, has probably 
created greater consternation among 
the European gold kings who have been 
enormous profits out of the 
State's under our bad 
financial system than did President 
Cleveland's announcement in be- 
half off the Monroe doctrine. Already 
an agent t the has been 
to Washington to assure Secretary 
their willingness to furnish 
all the this government might 
need, notwithstanding their assertion 
right after the Monroe doctrine message 
was published that American 
of all sorts had been put on the black 
list. course there is no probability 
that this government will accept 
offer, but it was none the less a 
very friendly and gracious act on the 
part of Russia, and it the ad- 
ministration with a weapon that will 
inspire in the minds of the 
The same game of grab. 
John Bull 
I win and tails you lose 
The old. trick snatch and nab 
Now what's the use, 
John Bull t 
II. 
Your circus tent is runt, 
John Bull ; 
Your thimble game DO longer draws; 
Your old trick lion's not worth a cent ; 
We've clipped his claws, 
John Bull. 
Ill 
We've fixed his paws and claws, 
John Bull; 
We've lately learned a thing or two ; 
Your cheap-jack show i bust because 
We're onto you, 
John Bull. 
IV. 
Your we know, 
John Hull ; 
We've seen you fleece your weaker 
kin 
n ho ventured in to see the show 
You needn't grin. 
John Bull 
V. 
We've seen you rap the 
John Bull ; 
We've seen you throw the Russian 
down ; 
We've seen the take his slap 
And rub his crown, 
John Bull. 
VI. 
The French you've and banged, 
John Bull ; 
worked your green-goods on 
the Dutch; 
But if we're I'll be 
Oh, HO ; not much, 
John Bull 
VII. 
So tack and pack your 
John Bull; 
Pick up your thimble-ring and git, 
And heed your come 
back 
You might get hit, 
John Bull. 
VIII. 
There-fore, enough of bluff, 
John Bull ; 
Your tent, cheap lion and show must 
go. 
The law for thieves is rather rough 
And tough, you know, 
John Bull. 
What use In there in eating food when 
doe you no when does 
harm than good, for such is 
the case if it is not digested. 
If you have a loathing for there 
is no use of forcing it It will 
n-t be digested. Yon must restore the 
digestive to their natural strength 
and cause the to be digested when 
an appetite will come, and with it a rel- 
for 
The tired, languid will give 
to vigor and energy, then you will 
put on your bones and become 
s The f baker Digest Cordial 
as marts the Lebanon Shakers 
Domains food already digested and is a 
digester food as well. Its is 
prompt and its effects 
Doctors preside because it 
has all the virtues of Castor Oil and 
is 
CAROLINA DELEGATION 
burden on cotton-tics and bag. 
which, no he will find 
it hard to make answer to his 
from the Fourth 
District, has voted consistently with 
his party, and seems to be doing the 
bast he can, however, in a body 
of congressmen, can hardly be said to 
be very luminous with promise. But 
he is a of old man. 
Settle from the Fifth, 
is the wizard of the lot, and keeps 
live in behalf of the Speaker's meas- 
seemingly for fear his colleagues 
may suspect that ho docs not 
as solidly with the Czar as he teems to 
think he does. But he is shrewd, and 
has made- a number of friends on both 
sides, and is undoubtedly somewhat of a j 
favorite with Mr. Reed. 
Shuford, from the Seventh, 
ed as a Populist, in spite of which, how- 
ever, he voted tor the tariff bill. Of 
course, be most appear at great 
vantage, following, as he doe's, John S. 
Henderson, who, as chairman of Post- 
Offices and Post-Roads, was, perhaps, 
the most conspicuous of the last North 
Carolina delegation. 
from the Third 
District, fought a three -cornered 
with Spears 
son, a Populist, and now president of 
the State Alliance. There 
arc some Republicans, even, who think 
influences have been brought to bear 
which will cause to keep his seat. 
His counsel is his opponent, 
Spears, who was a Republican national 
delegate in the famous third term Grant 
convention, who is a man of force 
and with his party. But 
Shaw claims, besides, a right to his seat, 
which is undoubted. 
Shaw is a young man, self-made, and 
a clever, fellow. 
It is hardly fair Lr people to judge 
at this stage the game ; it is 
fairly to judge, and yet 
seems to he regarded as of greatest 
promise among the Democrats. He is 
a man of strong sense, and cordial, 
winning personality and presence. He- 
is at present detained at home by the 
sickness his child, who is quite ill 
with typhoid fever. 
The seat of Mr. Woodard, also Dem- 
from the Second District, is con- 
tested by a but 
Woodard s claim seems clear beyond 
all doubt, but he may be said to lack 
that magnetism which might aid him 
before u committee ; and, if he wins, it 
will be on the merits of his case alone, 
and they seem almost undoubted from a 
reading of his ease, an outline of which 
was recently published in the Raleigh 
News and Observer. 
Settle say the whole delegation is 
better fixed as to committees than was 
the last one, and, it would seem, rather 
claims the credit of doing the fixing, 
having asked places on the Elections 
for and on Foreign Affairs for 
Pearson, which they both got. Settle 
got on Interstate Commerce, which, he 
says, was his choice. And this clever 
man is much 
A. 
it 
f-a 
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In Purchasing a Suit or Overcoat 
HEW 
We don't confine you to a few prices. Starting as low as you can buy a good garment for, we 
lead you gradually through more than a 
It is easy to buy from such a large to select to pay for, too. 
Pick out Your Suit and we will Astonish You in Price. 
gold king-, who know by 
what Russia on do in the 
line in to them. Russia 
has not only made itself independent of 
the aforesaid money kings, 
but while doing it his accumulated 
in gold. -More than 
half of this gold, for which Russia has 
no particular use, is deposited in 
banks of Russia. That is 
the gold that she is willing to loan us. 
Its withdrawal from Europe would be a 
knockdown blow for the gold kings 
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. 
Four awn held up a street car in San 
Francisco and a row ensued in which 
three wen- hurt and one 
of a considerable amount of 
money. Three the robbers were 
aught 
Baltimore was visited by another 
large tire on Friday night. Armstrong, 
Qatar Co., were large- losers. The 
fire is estimated at 
The damage by water in is 
at In some 
a famine is feared. 
While a Jewish company 
was in Baltimore, a 
was caused by the cry of fire mid 
were killed and 
By a vote of to th House 
Saturday passed the of 
introduced by the Committee on Ways 
and authorizing the issue of 
cent coin to maintain the 
gold reserve. Forty-seven Republicans 
voted with the Democrats against the 
proposition as did all the Populist. 
From the Richmond Dispatch of 
Sunday we take the following in refer- 
to North Carolina's delegation in 
To take a running at the 
North Carolina delegation, it seems to 
be the prevailing opinion, all politics 
aside, that Republican, from 
the Eighth District, has attracted thus 
far the greatest amount of attention of 
the nine from the Tarheel State. He 
drew sharp notice to himself, when, on 
Thursday, he asked a question by way 
of protest against the rule shutting off 
the debate on the at o'clock- 
Thus it may have happened that he 
alone was sent out by the press dis- 
patches as having voted against the 
gag. But Skinner, from the First, 
and from the Pop- 
voted also with the Democrats 
against the rule. 
is undoubtedly beginning to 
develop symptoms of thinking for him- 
self that are causing the Speaker some 
and should he persist in his 
independent course it is quite likely 
that he will lie returned to his by 
an increased majority. 
Mr. Pearson comes 
from the Ninth District, and readers of 
the Dispatch during the hot p 
fight in North Carolina last winter will 
doubtless recall the persistent 
attempt of Mr. Pearson to have 
Mitchell county taken out of 
district and put into his. Pearson was 
elected by only majority, and as 
many think, he is a congressman more 
for the social fun and distinction of the 
thing than for any great mark he can 
make, it wag quite natural for him not 
to get himself into fashionable Wash- 
at until he had by the ad- 
of more votes, added thus to the 
probability of his return. Hut it seems 
quite likely in the minds of some 
Democrats that his next return 
will be a return home. For the major- 
in his district was to 
from that of several thousand to the 
Republican who him, where- 
as has converted a Demo- 
into a Republican majority. 
Harry Skinner, elected as a Populist 
from First District, has thus far 
distinguished himself mainly by voting 
for the tariff bill, thus putting an ad- 
P. P. P- 
cures all skin 
blood diseases 
1848. 
over 
Surplus over 
------x- 
Physicians endorse. P. P. P. as a 
splendid combination, and prescribe it 
with great the cure all 
forms and of primary, secondary 
and tertiary syphilitic 
P. P. P 
Cures RheumatisM. 
ulcers and sores, swelling, 
malaria, old chronic ulcers 
that hive all treatment, 
P. P. P. 
Cures Blood Poison. 
skin diseases, eczema chronic 
mercurial poison, 
scald head, etc., etc. 
V. V. P. is a powerful tonic and an 
excellent 
P. P. P. 
Cures Scrofula. 
appetizer, budding up the system rap- 
idly 
Ladies whose systems are poisoned 
and whose blood is in an impure 
due 
P- P. P. 
Cures Malaria. 
to irregularities, are 
benefited by the tonic 
and blood cleansing 
ash, Poke root and Potassium. 
P. P. P. 
Cures Dyspepsia. 
ENTIRE STOCK 
MERCHANDISE 
Will be closed out at cost without reserve. There 
will be a change in our business next year and 
these goods must go. Remember everything 
New York cost. Parties owing us must 
make immediate payment so we can settle up 
the business. 
J. O. Proctor Bro., 
N.
tin 
Bros., Props. 
DRUGGISTS. BLOCK. 
Ga. 
Book on Blood Disease milled free. 
Notice of Dissolution. 
The firm of Forbes, Ni 
was ibis day dissolved by 
mutual consent. The business will 
hereafter be conducted by
OLA 
This 31st day of December, 
Notice of Dissolution. 
The firm of J. L. Starker Co., was 
this day dissolved by mutual consent. 
J. L. Starkey purchasing the interest 
of the members of the Arm. All 
outstanding business of the will be 
settled by J. L. 
J. L. STARKEY, 
J. E. STARKEY, 
ZENO MOORE. 
This 30th day of December, 
The Mutual 
Life Ins. 
Company, 
of NEW YORK. 
Security, Profit. 
We got what you Want. A 
Twenty Payment Investment Con 
tract in the largest 
in world, which 
protection to your as well 
as provides for age- 
bent com- 
is company which does 
the most have paid 
to policy 
Our line companies are the. 
best. Among lie found 
the oldest Scottish companies as 
well us American. We do the 
business for the people 
cit your . 
WHITE 
N. C. 
Office on Main 
Differ In their The foremost 
tin. just row is 
tobacco and high prices, while 
the ladle are think ingot 
LATEST oil IN MIL. 
at Lowest Prices. 
If they will call the 
T i will find frill Hue of 
ill flt- 
IS Fancy Hair 
Pin-, Combs, Buckles, and 
other latest goods. 
EVER BUY------- 
Twenty Years Proof. 
Liver Pills keep the bow- 
els in natural motion and cleanse 
the system of all impurities An 
absolute cure for sick headache, 
dyspepsia, sour stomach, con- 
and kindred diseases. 
do without 
R. P. Smith, Va. 
writes I don't know how I could 
do without them. I have had 
Liver disease for over twenty 
years. Am now entirely cured. 
Liver Pills 
GREENVILLE 
IRON WORKS, 
I am t II lit my old with 
workmen ready 
TO U ANY WORK 
on machinery of any kind. Onus, 
Looks. Be wing Machine, or 
any Other repair work. All my work i 
guaranteed. Home Sewing 
sale. 
JAMES BROWN. 
EXPECTANT 
MOTHERS, 
We Offer Von 
REMEDY Which 
Safety 
of Lite to Mother I 
and Child. 
Robs Confinement of its Pain, Horror and Risk. 
My wife used nut be- C 
i or d. not 
from quickly 
I tho critical hour but 
, hail no her 
recovery was rapid. 
E. E. John-ton. Ala. 
Sent by Mall or Express, on receipt of J 
price, f per Book 
mailed Free. 
in. 
SOLO BY ALL 
NOTIONS 
Off I 
CLOTHING. 
II yon do it will you to buy 
thorn of------ 
CLARK. 
He keeps but the best at 
lowest prices, fry him for bur- 
gains. 
H. R 
N . 
For side reduced rates. We have in 
and to .-ii rive a large lot of 
I'm Slid Mil up to 
order according; to 
I ii. 
These are 
ill i- I'll of 
Material 
and the guaranteed to 
u to be Hilt The w arc 
North Carolina Oak Hick- 
and made the State by North 
Carolina workmen. We also carry a 
nil line of 
era and mil mm 
YES YES 
D W. 
ready to oder to the prices 
on good. handle null as 
FLOOR, COFFEE, 
Sugar, Candy, 
Paper mid Paper 
Ac., In job inti- 
I handle 
BAGGING AND TIES. 
I have a nice line 
FINE SHOES 
to suit 
I take Country produce In 
goods. A I 
we offer low rates. 
examine our stock before purchasing fur 
Harding 
GREENVILLE N U sell n cheap
-V r 
THE REFLECTOR 
Local Reflections. 
Now the day will to lengthen 
owly. 
From this day our Children, 
Youths and -Mens 
will be sold per ct. lam 
than New Yolk test at 
THE DYING. 
These People are in the Land of 
the Living. 
Cornelius Stephens is quite sick. 
L. . Moore returned Friday even- 
Miss Doughty has moved to 
Miss Lela Cherry's. 
S. V. King, of dropped in 
had an exceedingly plea Saturday. 
Married. 
evening at o'clock in 
the Methodist Mr. T. L. Han- 
cock and Mary Browning were 
married by Kev. G. F. Smith. 
A Good Kan. 
Kev. N. II. D. Wilson, the pas- 
tor of the Methodist church, preached 
his first sermons here on Sunday. 
Large congregations Wore out to hear 
him morning and evening. He is 
RECORD OF A 
What Greenville Did in the Way of 
Building Improvements in 1890. 
Yon may what a town 
is doing in the way of progress, and 
say it is doing thus and so, hut giving 
the proof of it is sometimes a different 
thing. The ha-s much 
Quarterly Meetings. 
Did. 
Presiding B. I. Hall will hold Mi. M, ;. died T T J I C r I A A A Q 
the first quarterly meeting of Ayden on sitter a V L II I i 
circuit at Bethlehem January and long illness. He a 
At Greenville station January 
12th and lie will preach in 
Greenville on the evening of the 12th. 
Rill Christina.-. 
young begin t 
lean year 
For an easy 
Rocking Chair to your . 
or sweetheart or 
Gall see block both beau- 
at J. ii. 
Co. 
We have eighteen hundred nine- 
almanacs in our -e. 
and call 
J. B. Cherry Go's- 
The little folks not d talking 
yet about what Santa them. 
N. II. Whitfield from Ox- 
t rd Thursday evening. 
J. W. Wiggins returned from 
Mommy evening. 
Miss Nannie King gone to Rocky 
-Mount to visit her sister. 
Warren left Christmas morn 
on a visit i Salisbury. 
of is 
Mrs. II. C. 
W. of 
mine over 
Ur. C. A. hit h ad, of Scotland 
Granger, 
to Bay during the past year what 
, Greenville was doing, has 
a young man of surpassing ability . . 
. . . . . IV new 
a splendid preacher. His church and 
the community generally are delighted 
him. 
No Passengers on Freight Trains. 
The Atlantic Coast Line authorities i 
have passed an order that on and after, 
Monday. January no passengers 
Will be carried on the height trains run- I 
here and there, but to-day are en- 
to give the figures that speak for 
j themselves and show that is no 
myth about the t Green- 
I ilk- is making. 
J. T. Williams, one of our 
contractors, has 
; follows 
Lu;, 
at J. U. Cherry ct Cos Mrs. W. 
save 
Some of I lie turpentine men from 
South Carolina and Georgia are here 
hiring hands. 
Buy your Macintosh Hub 
at J. Cherry V Go's 
eave money. 
This year to the girls and 
one must try catch lier 
she can. 
C. returned Saturday 
evening from county. 
K. B. and wife returned from 
Scotland Neck Friday evening. 
G. Fleming left Thursday for 
to visit his parents. 
between Weldon and 
This rule may take much responsibility dwelling. 
tiff the shoulders of I he railroad I Bros., tenant houses. 
and but we believe will j Jesse 
work a great inconvenience to 
living along the road. 
Journalism Standard. 
A newspaper of one 
a candidate of another party 
the loss of and a 
suspicion of having sold out ; but a good 
lawyer can lake a contract 
to deprive a Democrat of an office to 
which he has been elected, and give 
is as 
C. M. Bernard returned to a and it is regarded as 
A large hue the celebrated 
Ii it G Corsets at J. j ins 
Co s be specially invited 
to them. 
from -Mount Monday 
W. T. Lee, who went to Wilson to 
spend Christmas, returned Friday even- 
The Methodist Sunday School had a 
a gay time at the party in the 
Thursday night. 
Harriot Wire Buckle Suspenders 
all Buckles and fastenings war 
ranted two years, at J. B 
Cherry 
is called to the advertise- 
wife and 
Goldsboro, arc the of B. 
F. Sugg. 
J. I. Jackson. K. F. 
Fountain Cox returned to Wake Forest 
College 
Capt. C. T. of South 
Carolina, is spending the holidays with 
his father, W. T. Lipscomb. 
Mrs. II. L. who was visit- 
of land sale by W. B. her sister. Mrs. J. I., re- 
of J. L. W. Nobles. 
sugar cent per 
pound at J- B. Cherry t Go's. 
The boys touched off the old cannon 
several limes Wednesday night and 
made the windows around town rattle. 
Just received a Carload 
none cheaper and better than that 
offered by J. B. Cherry k Co- 
forty colored laborers left here 
Monday morning for Georgia. There 
crowd around the depot to see 
them off. 
For best Carts and Wagons go 
to A. G- Cox, Co- 
Winterville, N- C- 
Mr. Merchant, let your plans for the 
new year embrace an advertisement in 
the tun. Don't try to do 
business it. 
Beautiful stylish and cheap 
Dress and Trimmings at 
J. B. Cherry Cos- 
It is not to say that it rained, but it 
simply poured down Monday night. 
The young ladies of the town will 
have a leap year party Thursday night. 
Mr. II. M. of Greene county, 
has purchased through Air. Henry 
real estate agent, the Smith store 
building now occupied by Mr. M. K. 
Lang. Mr. will come to Green- 
ville engage in merchandising. 
We will have another lot of horses 
and mules this week. Wail for us. 
R. L. Smith Co. 
easy 
wear for the feet. You can't go 
with them, they are rights 
and left For sale by J. B. Cher 
Co. 
Will you need a ledger for the new 
year's business The Reflector 
Store has all sizes. 
best Flour is Proctor 
Knoll .-obi by S. M. Try a 
lb bag. 
Oiler having purchased the 
store building now occupied by Lang. 
necessitating bis removal to another 
store, he will begin on January 1st. dis- 
posing of bis at cost to save 
moving goods. advertise- 
In a few days I will ha e head 
of fine horses and mules, and they will 
be sold cheap. It will pay you to see 
inc. J. F. 
Granulated cents per 
pound at J. B. Cherry Co's. 
Miss Bet tic Warren will open a 
school in Greenville, on Monday, Jan- 
G, Sec her for terms and 
particulars. 
It is said that the President's 
recognizing Utah a State 
will be issued on January 4th, and the 
terms of the State officers will begin on 
January 6th. 
Prof. opened school Monday 
at the Collegiate Institute. We are 
requested to say that Mrs. has 
charge of the Primary Department, 
and Miss Lizzie Carver of the Music 
Department. Parents cannot do better 
than send their children to this excel- 
lent school. 
FURNITURE cheaper than 
ever before at J. B. Cherry Co. 
Chamois Dress Lining 
and new of Dress Goods 
at J. B. Cherry 
J. C. Greene Edward Greene 
went to Washington on their bicycles 
Saturday and returned Sunday even- 
Jim says that a breakdown and 
prospect of baring to walk miles on 
the trip kinder made him feel 
down in the mouth he 
. rowed a shop, patched up 
and got home in shape. J 
loaned home Saturday evening. 
Kev. N. II. D. Wilson, the new pas- 
tor of the Methodist church, 
by his wife, arrived Friday evening. 
II. B. Sledge, and little son, Tar- 
who were visiting the family of 
I,. returned home Saturday- 
John Ames, of Portsmouth, who 
Christmas here with his parents 
and sister, returned home Friday morn 
Capt. K. M. Pace Monday 
evening from Wilson where he had 
been to the holidays with his 
family. 
J. E. Matthews and daughter. Miss 
Lizzie, of Bertie are 
the family of his brother, J. T. Mat- 
thews. 
F. M. I bulges and wife and Miss 
Betsey Greene went to Washington 
Saturday to visit relatives and returned 
Monday. 
Misses Ada Tyson, Addie Johnston, 
Tripp and Clyde Cox left for 
the N. at Greensboro Mon- 
day morning. 
Joseph Tunstall, of Greene county, 
has moved his family to and 
Occupies one the buildings 
in 
Misses Williford and Flor- 
Vick, of Rocky Mount, who spent 
Christmas with Mies Lena Matthews, 
returned home Saturday. 
Mayor Ola Forbes and family spent 
Christmas with relatives at Grifton. 
Councilman W. L. Blown was Mayor 
protein during his absence. 
J. I. Baker, of the U. S. army a 
j Fortress Monroe, who been home on 
a ten day's furlough, returned to his 
post Saturday morning. 
Miss Mattie Whitfield and little 
May Whitfield, sister and daughter of 
N. II. Whitfield, who have been spend- 
a few days here, returned to Oxford 
Monday. 
Dr. W. II. Savage and wife, of 
Mrs. Savage and Mrs. of 
spent Christmas here with the 
family of C. T. They re- 
turned to their homes Saturday. 
J. B. Cherry, Jr., left Thursday 
morning for Baltimore to lake a 
with Hurst, Co. Jim's 
host of will miss him but wish 
him great success in his new position. 
Miss Mary Alice who has 
been spending the holidays at home, 
and Miss Carrie Dill who was 
her, returned to Monday 
evening. 
Begin the new year right by having 
year name on the 
list. 
J. L. Starkey has purchased the in- 
of the oilier members of the Brat 
of J. L. Starkey Co. and will carry 
on the business individually. Notice of 
dissolution appears elsewhere. 
If you want any magazines for next 
year you can leave your subscriptions 
at the Reflector Book Store and save 
the trouble of ordering them yourself. 
We can give discounts when several 
arc ordered for one person. 
Jesse has purchased the in- 
Ola Forbes in the firm of 
Forbes, fertilizer dealers, 
and ha- associated with Charles Cobb 
to continue the business under the 
firm name of Co. They 
will handle the leading brands of fer- 
lime, will 
make it to your interest to sec them 
before placing orders. 
Co. 
law practice. This is the 
difference between the two great, pro- 
of law and journalism. The 
standard of morality is higher in 
than in any profession short of 
the 
an. 
Marriage 
Were issued so the following couples 
by the Register of Deeds last week 
WHITE. 
Thad Bullock and Mary 
Herbert Dixon and Lucy Nelson. 
C. F. and Nannie Webb. 
T. L. Hancock and Mary Browning. 
Amos Williams and 
son. 
J. II. Stevenson and Clara M. Fair- 
John Hardy and Nellie 
Haywood Spell and Emma Pitt. 
J. M. and Louisa Tyson. 
Turner Mobley and James. 
David and Millie Daniel. 
DYING 
Mb. 
We are told by ancient tradition that 
he swan never sings except when it is 
This is not true, and many of 
the citizens of Greenville can bear 
to truth. heard on 
Friday night a most beautiful Strain of 
a most beautiful living Swan and the 
echoes still linger in our soul. We 
would be delighted to hear this living 
Swan sing in her own exquisite style 
Then You'll for 
surely the good people of Greenville 
will long remember the Swan's down 
in the Xmas holidays X. 
Bun Over and Badly Hurt. 
evening Just before night 
little Leon Pender, son of Mr. L. II. 
went to cross the street in 
front of his father's store when he was 
knocked down by a passing vehicle. 
The horse struck him first, a.- the 
little fellow went lo raise up the animal 
kicked over the right eye, then both 
wheels the buggy passed over him. 
Mr. Pender rushed out to pick his little 
son up and carried him into Wooten's 
drug store where Zeno Brown and 
Charlie were called in 
to attend him. They found a fearful 
cut over his right eye and bad bruises 
about his head and face. Fortunately 
no bones were broken, but he had a 
narrow The little fellow is re- 
ported to be getting along very well. 
THE 
Greeted by a Large and Appreciative 
Audience. 
1,250 
GOO 
l ; i 
1,500 
2.000 
Glorious Drunks. 
A western paper t a fellow who, 
every time he gets on a spree, insists on 
paying a year's subscription to his 
town paper. He has already paid to 
January An effort should be 
made to ascertain of whiskey 
the fellow is using that it may lie more 
generally put on the market. 
Chas. A. Carter, who came over to 
Greenville last fall with a view of 
ting on this market to buy tobacco and 
was unable to secure a factory, went 
back to at which place he 
died last evening of malarial l 
fever, and was buried in Wilson Mon- 
day by the Wilson Light Infantry, of 
which he was a member. 
PRESENTS 
J. K. Moore, hows 
Cobb, store 
Greenville Lumber Co. mill 
and fixtures 
O. Hooker, two prize houses 
Eastern Warehouse Co., en- 
warehouse 
Hooker Bernard, improve- 
lo prize house 
Forbes prize house 
dwelling 
Mrs. dwelling 
J. A. dwelling 
II. C. Edwards, dwelling, 
Brown Co., ware- 
house 
C. T. three dwellings 
Mrs. dwelling 
A. Forbes, school house 
Mrs. Daniel, dwelling 
Dr. C. J. improve- 
Dr. F. W. Brown, office 
Vaults in Court House, 
Elliott Bros., improvements 
D. J. H improvements 
S. M. enlarging store 
Cory Bros, two dwellings 
Joseph Whitty, store 
II. F. Harriss, improvements, 
A. C. Line, enlarging depot 
P. II. Gorman, improvements 
to prize house 
L. I lumber, dwelling 
Small jobs, estimated 
Williams says that 
work represented in the em- 
brace Several buildings put up for col- 
people whose names he could mil 
Obtain and a number of small jobs of 
repairing when- the amount 
was less than There are also I 
several buildings upon which work was 
recently commenced but not advanced j 
far enough to include in report 
Ibis year. 
Upon whole it shows good 
for the and indicates that- 
Greenville is enjoying a healthy j 
growth. 
There may possibly have been i 
omissions from the above list of h 
the will gladly make t 
if our attention is called to 
Stormy. 
That was a heavy wind that 
ibis section Monday night. It pounced 
down in ail its fury about o'clock 
and for sometime lo blow 
most like a cyclone. whistled and 
roared and shook houses with a 
is blown down is about 
the only damage we have heard of 
around here. The storm was followed 
by a decided cold wave. 
Our 
As the is now at its end, the 
takes Occasion to tender 
IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
Matters of Interest Over the State. 
A girl baby born the oilier day in 
daughter 
of a fourteenth daughter of a fourteenth 
record which is thought 
to be unprecedented. 
The Gastonia Gazette says there is 
a man years old in Gaston county, 
who has a blue back spelling 
book for his own use. 
At on the 20th of next 
May, the corner stone of a monument 
to commemorate the Mecklenburg 
declaration of independence will be laid 
under the auspices of the North Caro- 
Historical Association. 
Mr. S. Hoover, of put a 
20-pound watermelon away in the fall, 
to eat Christmas day. He got it out 
and found it had kept all right. When 
cut it was found to be fresh and nice as 
if just Observer. 
The Mt. Airy News says that John 
T. Cook, of Sorry county, is years 
old and is the father of lo children. 
The Herald says that Hay- 
wood Poteet. of Burke county, is 
years old and is the father of lit 
A team of mules belonging lo Kelly 
Woods were drowned at W. A. Bailey's 
ferry on the Yadkin river, in Davie 
county. The animals took fright from 
the master hollowing for the ferryman 
They dashed in the river were 
drowned in a few minutes. 
The town of Liberty, 
County, was visited a very disastrous 
fire Thursday night. The fire started 
i. a ware room, how it is not Court in the case of W. B. Wingate nil- 
, i . of L. W. Nobles, I will 
and as there was no protection what- sell tor cash at the door in 
I ever against it the flames spread until 
was left for them to feed upon. 
stoic in the town was burned. 
FOR YOU. 
A beautiful Xmas line of 
its gratitude to every who has pal- s j A 
ionized i, during, he year. While we O Hi vS 
hank every subscriber for mite he i 
Dress Goods, Clothing, 
NOTIONS, 
C. T. 
has added lo its support, feel cs 
p grateful lo merchants and 
tobacco men for the manner in 
they have stood by the paper. A pa-, 
per must have readers, but it goes 
out saying the liberal advertiser U 
its best friend. Ins been our en-l 
full value for every 
dollar ha- been turned our way 
to every reader full return for the sub- 
price, and to every advertiser 
a benefit fully commensurate with 
amount invested. With sincere thanks 
to all. and wishing every a happy 
and prosperous new year, the 
makes its closing bow for the 
veer. 
NEXT OF BANK. 
Tobacco Flues, 
STOVES 
BICYCLES, 
W e are now taking order for 
Tobacco Flues. Give us 
order for Flues they will 
lie made right. 
sell the Elmo and Gold 
Cook none 
better made. 
Agents for Columbia 
We sell you a 
new 1896 for 
Call and 
S. E. PENDER CO. 
Administrators Sale 
of Land for Assets. 
Ivy virtue of a decree of the Superior 
FOR THE- 
FALL 
k WINTER 
BUSINESS 
and cordially invite you to inspect the largest 
and neatest assortment of 
ever brought to Greenville. Our stock con- 
all the newest and 
DRESS GOODS 
The loss is about with 
a .-c of about one-fifth amount. 
Several dwellings were also burned. 
The 
A Nice Treat. 
office was made 
happy Monday when friend George 
Harrison walked in and handed the i d- 
a box of cigars with the 
of the They are f 
the famous Southern Leader brand 
every cigar wrapped in tinfoil, 
ting in gold and silver color. There is 
no likelihood of our 
from smoking when such delightful 
gars as these are on hand. 
Union at W 
ReV. C. M. returned from 
Washington. He says the union meet- 
there was a very pleasant and prof- 
one. The pulpits of all the 
churches of the town, except the 
were filled by Baptist ministers 
Sunday morning, and they 
together in the Opera House Sunday 
night. A resolution was adopted that 
the Union would take up the 
work and complete the church building 
at Washington. 
Furnishing 
Boots 
and Shoes, Domestics, 
led and 
ed Sheeting and Shirt- 
Calicoes, Fancy 
Greenville on Monday, 27th day of 
January, the following 
land, A tract land situated I 
in Township adjoining the t 
lands of Amos W. II. Stocks, 
Bedding Trip and others, containing 
forty eight acres, more or less. 
Which P 
From general observation who do 
you think has done the best business 
during the past year, those merchants 
who have not advertised or those who 
have advertised regularly is 
something to think over in this. 
A very large audience attended the 
in the Opera House Friday 
evening, and were well, pleased with 
the entertainment. The musical was 
given under the direction of Miss lone 
May, of who was assisted 
by Miss Marietta Swan and Mr. M. M. 
Swan, of York, Miss Petronella 
Pate, of Goldsboro, and Misses 
tense Forbes, Annie Sheppard and 
Sarah Hooker, of Greenville. 
The following was 
Piano 
Misses Forbes and Hooker. 
Flight of Miss 
May. 
Comet Solo. 
Mr. Swan. 
Miss Pate. 
Vocal Divine, Misses 
May and Swan. 
Piano de Miss 
May, 
Vocal Miss Swan. 
Cornet Solo, 
is the Last rose of 
Mr. Swan. 
Instrumental Trio. 
Vocal That Two were 
Misses Swan and May. 
The encores to Misses May and 
Swan mid Mr. Swan were 
Miss Swan having to respond the third 
time. She has a charming voice. Miss 
May deserves much credit for the 
of the entertainment. 
January Weather. 
The following data covered the 
for the mouth named, and should 
prove of value and interest in 
the more important 
elements, and the range within 
which such variations may lie expected 
to keep for the coming mouth of Jan- 
Mean or normal temperature, ; 
the warmest month was that of 
with an average of the coldest 
month was that of with an av- 
of the highest 
was on the 28th, 1870 ; the low- 
est temperature was on the 
1894; average date on which first 
frost occurred in autumn. 
November 6th, average date on which 
last frost occurred in spring, 
March 30th. 
Average precipitation for the month, 
3.94 inches; average number of days 
with of an inch or more, the 
greatest monthly was 
inches, in 1878; the hast monthly 
precipitation was inches, in 1876; 
the greatest amount of precipitation 
recorded in any consecutive hours 
was 3.53 inches, on the 1874. 
Snow seldom falls here in January. 
Average number of clear days, ; 
partly cloudy days, ; cloudy days, 
the prevailing winds have been 
from the southwest; the highest 
of the wind was miles, from 
the southwest, on the 9th, 
Wilmington 
Nervous Prostration 
Could Not Sleep Had No 
Appetite 
C rod In Mind by 
I suffered very much for a long time 
i nervous prostration. I had about 
given up all hopes 
ever getting bet- 
when 
Sarsaparilla was 
recommended t o 
me and I believe it 
my duty to let 
other 
know the benefit I 
derived from it. I 
Could Not Sleep 
out and 
J. Ed. what little I did 
Allegheny, Pa. eat I was unable to 
e-i my stomach. After taking the 
fir t Hood's Sarsaparilla, which 
-d to do me some good, I tried a 
.-. . and continued to better. I 
i. 
Bright and Refreshed 
the morning. I continued with the 
and am cured, body and mind, 
ran p well and better in every 
way. I gladly recommend Hood's 
to J. Edward 
Ave., Allegheny, Pa. 
j- 
Be Sure 
to Get Hood's 
Hood'S PillS 
Sub- 
to the dower of Mary Nobles, 
ow of J L. Nobles. 
Dec. 
of L. w. Nobles. 
SUGG, Atty. 
Sale of Town 
Lot. 
In obedience to an order made by the 
Board of County Commissioners at their 
the first Monday in 
directing me as of 
Beard to advertise for sale lot 
belonging to the County of Pitt, known 
In the p an of the town of Greenville as 
lot number it being the lot now 
used by the town of Greenville as a Mar- 
House with of the 
of County I, 
W M. King, ex of the 
Hoard of I of County, 
do hereby give public notice said 
lot will be exposed to sale to the 
highest bidder, In front of l lie 
House door, at o'clock M. on Mon- 
day the day ; of January 
The terms of sale will be one third cash 
and the balance to be secured in two 
equal payable in one and 
two with six percent interest on 
red payments, With privilege to 
purchase to the Whole at any time 
and take his deed. Title reserved until 
the whole of the purchase money Is paid, 
The Hoard reserves right t affirm 
or said sale, is also 
given the town government will be 
permitted to remove the Market House 
and other buildings on sail lot 
by the town, hi accordance with 
agreement entered into at the time per- 
was given by of 
County Commissioners to the town 
Commissioners to erect and use said 
The lot will be offered In 
three alternate ways which will be 
shown in detail on a plan on in the 
office of the of Deeds and can 
be seen by the public at any time and 
will also be announced on day sale. 
W. M. 
of Com. of Pitt Co. 
Lang's Great 
Clearing Out Sale. 
Owing to Removal I offer my entire stock from 
JANUARY 1st, 1896, A. M. 
At Cost. At Cost. 
In bulk or retail to suit the buyer. 
Now is the time to secure Bargains. 
you 
want or need in that 
line. Hardware for far 
and mechanics 
use, Tinware, Hollow- 
ware, Wood and 
Whips, Buggy Rope, 
Twine, Heavy Groceries always on hand, 
Meat, Flour, Sugar, Salt and Molasses. 
The best and largest assortment of Crock- 
Lamps, Lanterns, Lamp Chimneys and 
Shades, Fancy Glassware, to be found 
in the county. And our stock of 
FURNITURE 
Matting. Carpets. Rugs and Foot Mats is by far 
the best and cheapest ever offered to the people 
of this section. Come look and see and buy. 
Sole agents of Coats Spool Cotton for this town 
for wholesale and retail trade. Reynold's Shoes 
for Men and Boys. Shoes 
for Ladies and children. We buy Cotton and 
Peanuts and pay the highest market price for 
them. Your experience teaches you all to buy 
and deal with men who will treat you fair and 
do the square thing by you. o me and see us 
and be convinced that what we claim is true. 
Yours for business square dealings, 
DON'T FORGET THE 
Hardware Store 
When you want anything in the Hardware line. 
Doors, Sash, Locks, Butts and Hinges, Saws, 
Tools, Paints and Oils, Nails and Axes. 
Corn from to Corn and 
Cobb Mill for Axes to cents. 
Stoves from to King Heaters 
to and Stovepipe, Pumps 
Pump-Pipe, Rope, Belting, always go 
to the Hardware Store where you will get the 
lowest prices. Yours, 
D. D. HASKETT,
costs cotton planters more 
than five million dollars an- 
This is an enormous 
waste, and can be prevented. 
Practical experiments at Ala- 
Experiment Station show 
conclusively that the use of 
will prevent that dreaded plant 
disease. 
Our pamphlets are not advertising circulars Win- 
special but practical works, contain- 
the results of latest experiment, in this line. 
Every cotton farmer should hare a copy. They 
KM free the asking. 
L KALI WORKS, 
St., New York. 
First 
It was return of the to 
simple conditions, and its long so 
in these the pioneer 
period of the middle west, which en- 
it to give us Lincoln, 
first as Lowell called 
him in the deepest inspiration of 
his own life. It can, of course, just- 
be said that the conditions in 
which the race gave us Lincoln were 
rude, but I think that it is not from 
rudeness that tho love of equality 
comes. Otherwise I cannot under- 
stand how the politest society should 
always for equality among 
it members and that within its 
limits it should offer us the truest 
imago of equality now recognizable i 
among as tho Basis j 
of Good by W. D. Howells, 
in 
THE FIRST PSALM IN SCOTCH. 
WILMINGTON B. B. 
AND BRANCHES. 
AND BAIL BO AD. 
TRAINS 
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Train on Scotland Neck Branch Hoar 
Weldon p. Halifax 4.13 
p. m., arrives Scotland at 4.55 p 
Greenville 6.47 p. m., Kinston 7.45 
p. Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20 
a. m., Greenville 8.22 a. m. mu 
Halifax at a. m., am 
except Sunday. 
Trains on Branch 
Washington 7.00 a, arrives Parmele 
8.40 a. m. Tarboro returning 
leaves Tarboro 4.30 p. m , 8.20 
. arrives Washington 7.45 p. m. 
Daily except Sunday. Connects with 
trains on Neck 
Train leaves C, via 
a it Raleigh R. R. daily except Sun- 
day, at p. Sunday P. M; 
Plymouth 9.00 I. M., 5.25 p. in. 
I Plymouth daily 
0.00 a. a u, 
Tarboro 10.25 and -15 
Train on Midland X. branch leaves 
except Sunday. a 
m. arriving 7-30 a. in. Re- 
turning leaves a. m., 
rives at a. m. 
in Nashville branch leave 
at 1.30 p. m. arrives 
Nashville 5.05 p. spring Hope 5.30 
p. in. g leave Spring Hop 
in-, a at 
Mount 9.05 a in, daily except 
Sunday. 
Treble on Florence R. 
K., leave p m, Dunbar 
p Clio p m. 
leave I a m. 6.30 a m, 
arrive Latta 7.50 a daily Sun- 
day. 
Train leaves War- 
saw Clinton except 
in. and 8.50 p. in Returning 
a. m. and p m. 
rain makes com 
at Weldon for all daily, all rail via 
at Mount with 
and Carolina It at for 
MM all points via Norfolk, 
JOHN F. DIVINE, 
General Supt. 
T- M . Manage . 
J R KENLY, 
NORTH CAROLIN 
B. B. TIMETABLE. 
In Effect December 4th. 1893 
College Hotel 
MRS DELL A GAY, 
to depot and to the 10- 
warehouses. 
B-st and 
Splendid mineral water. 
Rooms large and comfortable. Table 
supplied tin; best the market 
fords. 
Terms reasonable. 
When the Emperor Henry in 
captured Salerno, he 
wives and daughters of tho leading 
citizens to be put up at auction and 
sold, and all these unhappy 
were thus disposed of to a brutal 
soldiery. 
There is a sort of economy in Prov- 
that one shall excel where 
another is in order to. 
make them more useful to each 
and mix them in j 
Ohio, City of 
County 
Frank J. makes oath that 
he is the senior partner of the firm of F. 
J. Co., doing business in 
the City of Toledo, County State 
aforesaid and that said firm will pay 
the sum of HUNDRED 
LARS for each and every case of Ca- 
that cannot be cured by the use 
Hall's i Cube. 
Sworn to before me subscribed in 
my presence, this day of December 
A, D. i. 
j seal A. W 
I I Notary 
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken intern- 
acts directly on the Wool and 
surfaces of the system. Send 
l-r testimonials free. 
F. J. A Co,. Toledo O, 
by Druggists, 
Bleat la the man that stock 
In what tho godless 
folk 
Nor walk within their way; 
sits nu in the bin, bow chair 
The like lo fill. 
Bat aye and 
To work will; 
never tines it his 
At or far 
But In an in 
Keeps on God's law. 
That man shall flourish like tho tree 
That grows beside a burn; 
fruit we see aye free 
As r i m in days return; 
leaf shall ne'er be lost 
trees 
An blithe may boast sun an frost 
A glossy robe green. 
That man may gang to soil or bay 
An still good luck 
Yo may rely he try 
Shall prosper in his ban. 
men that lean, 
Satan's rule conform; 
They'll till they gang 
Like stocks afore the storm; 
Nor will rascal be 
In paradise to dwell; 
For God hath but the good 
Shall sit beside 
Toronto Globe. 
A SECTARIAN MULE. 
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STABLES. 
On Fifth Street 
Points. 
Passengers carried to any 
at reasonable rates Good 
Vehicles. 
MERCHANTS 
their supplies will Bud 
their interest our prices before 
all branches. 
RICE, TEA, 
Lowest Ma Trices 
TOBACCO SNUFF CIGARS 
we direct from Manufacturers, en 
you to buy at one profit. 
stock of 
FURNITURE 
always and prices 
the times. Our goods and 
sold for having no risk 
to sell at a close margin. 
S. M. N C 
CREEK 
Male Academy. 
The next session of this v i 
on 
and continue for ten months. 
The embraces all the branches 
usually taught in an Academy. 
Terms, both for tuition and board 
reasonable. 
fitted and equipped for 
business, by taking Hie academic 
course alone. here hey wish to 
I c a coin--, this school 
guarantees reparation to 
enter, w North 
n the State University. It 
refers lose n ho have recently left 
its wall the of this 
statement. 
Any young man w and 
ability taking s course with 
us will be aided in arrange- 
to continue in the 
The discipline will be kept at it- 
standard. 
Neither time nor attention nor 
work will be spared to make this school 
ail that parents could wish. 
For further par s see or ad- 
W. H.
THE MORNING STAR 
The Oldest 
Daily Newspaper in 
North 
The Only Six-Dollar Daily of 
its Class in the State. 
Mountain Animal Had Prejudice Is 
the of Sects. 
As I jogged along the sandy hanks 
of the Poor fork of tho Cumberland 
river, letting ray horse take its own 
head, I up with the 
on also taking his 
time. 
a fine morning for 
says he, 
in a 
don't know that; some 
of tho rides had in 
the mountains been mule- 
case didn't tor 
ride one only when wanted 
do it from it's 
on seems to be 
a pretty good 
oz a ever 
I ho said in a tone 
indicating bis lack of faith in the 
tho matter with 
got his 
are they Notions to kick 
the top rail off the 
he ain't much a kicker; 
he kinder have a satisfied 
sort mind an things 
much oz 
what ails 
I want git over on 
tho fork, an I can't till 
I git up hero about two miles 
a boat, I kin ride over in 
don't you ride him 
what I don't like about 
a mule an I'm a 
This was a poser and quite beyond 
my of comprehension. I had 
beard of religious prejudices, 
they had never gone so far to 
any other animal than man. 
will have to explain that 
says I. too far over 
for 
it's this he said, 
with a short laugh. see, I got 
this critter from a preacher 
that had raised him from a colt, an 
had rid him for seven on cir- 
an wouldn't a parted with him 
fer no ho 
an couldn't tho mule 
along. Ho was a power work, an 
the used tor help out his 
wages tho mule tor people 
when he him. That's 
how I come git him. Well, the 
preacher never said an I 
never axed an the Sun- 
day I got him I rid off tor the 
never 
About a mile from meet- 
in house I had tor ford the fork, an 
the water deep that morn- 
in, but the the way, 
an I lot him have his bead. An, 
by gum, he done it, fer when ho 
got tho deepest he stopped 
in tho crick, tucked his head, 
his heels an sent me 
over his years inter the water 
it four foot deep it a 
inch, an me clean 
ho I asked as 
the mountaineer paused a moment 
to think over it. 
a ho said. I 
come an he 
for me oz quiet 
an I got on an rid 
out. ho concluded, 
I a 
an ho a born an 
raised, ho run his doctrine outer 
mo an soused all ho 
had the He's too good a 
kill, ho over docs that 
I'll kill him shore. not 
him no temptation, I never 
try no more with 
Washington Star. 
favors Limited Free Coinage 
of American Silver and 
of Ten Per Cent. Tax on 
State Banks. Daily cents 
month. Weekly per 
ear. Wm. H. BERNARD, 
d Prop., Wilmington, 
Lincoln's Money. 
at said Mr. 
Wanamaker, under my 
notice at tho department 
that Abraham Lincoln, in his early 
life, bad been postmaster at a small 
Ohio town. In tho changes that took 
place the office was consolidated 
with Salem, and tho man twice 
wanted for president was for once 
not wanted for postmaster. 
afterward it was discover- 
ed that no settlement bad 
Washington of the affairs of that 
little post office. A visit was made 
to Mr. Lincoln and case stated. 
He rose from his desk and walked 
over to a chest of drawers and took 
out a of papers, among them 
an envelope containing and some 
cents, the sum in identical 
money of the government safely in 
keeping until called for. As he band- 
ed it over to agent of post- 
office department he it 
is. I never use any other man's 
Record. 
Ba a Good Thing. 
shouted the funny law 
clerk into telephone. that 
replied the pretty type- 
writer at the ether end of the wire. 
like to to him a mo- 
are asked the girl. 
I'm a good replied 
the funny 
it along, central. 
didn't 
A OF 
They sat together, side by 
He bent her heart on winning, 
is arm embraced her slender waist, 
And the band played Begin- 
Said lie, dear, thee I love, 
My singing bird, my linnet. 
And as lie pressed her slender waist, 
The band played 
Above the heavens were all aglow, 
Bright stars the sky adorning, 
He kissed her band struck 
up, 
Won't do Home Till 
S you to foot the 
bills, 
never want to 
His face grew street 
played, 
Wink the Other 
Orange Observer. 
it Hope or Despair 
The Richmond Dispatch, in referring 
to the large number of marriages of late, 
remarks that is a wonderful 
amount of marrying going on just 
mid makes the mat- 
market so active Is it a sign 
that times are better, or is it because 
many couples have waited and waited 
in vain for times to improve, and in de- 
thereof have brought their court- 
days to a The Press- 
Visitor, speaking for the capital city of 
the North are 
glad to state that times are good, 
that the matrimonial market was never 
This, of course is good news ; 
but, after all, does the condition of the 
times have very much to do with the 
matrimonial market Men have mar- 
in all times and under all 
in war and in peace; in and 
in bad times, and so it will be to the 
end. a man makes up his mind 
to get married and can find the right 
one, hard times does not ways stop 
Virginian. 
Things That Happened on Friday. 
Lee surrendered on Friday. 
Moscow was burned on Friday. 
Washington was born on Friday. 
Shakespeare was born on Friday. 
America was discovered on Friday. 
was evacuated on Friday. 
The was destroyed oil 
The Mayflower was landed on 
was bombarded on 
Friday. 
Victoria was married on Fri 
day. 
King Charles was beheaded on 
Friday. 
Julius Caesar was assassinated on 
Friday. 
Bonaparte was born on 
Friday. 
The battle of was fought on 
Friday, 
The battle of Bunker Hill was fought 
on Friday. 
loan of Arc was burned tit l he stake 
on Friday. 
battle of New Orleans was fought 
on 
The Declaration of Independence 
was signed on Friday. 
By slow and sad degrees country life 
is being robbed of its poetry, as one by 
one the picturesque parts of husbandry 
disappear under the advancing wheels of 
agricultural machinery, the 
Detroit Free Press. The chirp of the 
plowman is exchanged for the silence of 
the electric plow, which drives a swifter 
and a straighter furrows 
at once, in fact. Gone also are 
thresher and his flail, and the gleaners, 
who no longer find a harvest in the 
close-combed There are 
machine hens that incubate chickens 
artificially. Now the English milkmaid, 
with her stool, is threatened by the rest- 
less imagination of the labor saving in- 
The maiden, all forlorn, who 
milked the cow with the crumpled 
will made more forlorn than ever 
when her occupation is taken away. 
Is it not record ten have 
milked in ten minutes by machinery 
at the dairy show And what 
will resist the temptation 
of abolishing the milking stool as he has 
already abolished the churn Someday. 
perhaps, cows will disappear, too, in 
favor of iron beasts, who will crop 
grass more closely and convert it into 
milk with less waste. 
An Excellent Number. 
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filled with a feast of good things, bring- 
pleasures alike to young and old. 
To the entire home circle its weekly 
visits are such a source of pleasure and 
profit, that the small subscription price 
of should head the list of 
household expenses. 
Administrators Sale 
of Land for Assets. 
By virtue of a decree of the Superior 
Court in the case of W. B ad- 
L. W. Nobles, I will 
sell tor cash at the Coon. Howe door in 
Greenville on Monday, the 27th day 
January, 1896. the following tract of 
land, to A tract bind situated 
In Township adjoining 
lands Amos w. H. Stocks, 
Redding Trip and nth. r. containing 
forty eight acres, more or less. Sub- 
to the dower of Nobles, 
ow of J. L. W. Nobles. 
Dec. 1395. 
of J. L. W. Nobles, 
f . A. SUGG, Atty. 
The insurance cases, 
of Beaufort, which have been on trial 
in Jones county for the past two weeks 
have been concluded. There was a 
verdict of guilty in every case that the 
state undertook to convict in. In pro- 
sentence upon those convicts 
Judge Graham said 
the evidence in these cases he 
true, the most stupendous crime ever 
committed in Carolina has been 
unearthed. I suppose there is nobody 
that had any conception of the degree 
to which this had gone. I 
can see how people could be drawn 
into this nefarious business of 
or buying these policies upon these 
dying people and people who were 
likely to die, but few could be innocent. 
In to procure these policies, for- 
false and conspiracy 
were all committed. There has never 
been, within my knowledge, in the 
criminal annals of our whole country, 
a more gigantic conspiracy than this. 
Here we have the greatest crimes 
known except rape, murder, arson and 
burglary. It seems to have been 
on for years, and it has drawn in a great 
many unsuspecting people, and these, 
in order to make money, either by the 
commissions or out of the policies, 
have committed these crimes. There 
has been enough forgery proven against 
Dr. T. to send him to the 
penitentiary for one hundred and fifty 
years, if all the cases for forgery were 
prosecuted against him, and the ex-. 
punishment inflicted on him in 
each case. 
regret circumstances are such that 
these men have not all been convicted 
of crimes for which I could impose pun- 
adequate to the prov- 
en, many cases of forgery and false 
tense being proven though not charged. 
But the crime of conspiracy is a mis- 
demeanor and punishable only by 
in jail and a fine. The 
crimes of false and forgery 
are both felonies and can be 
by imprisonment in the penitentiary, 
and though I regret the same punish- 
cannot be meted out to all de- 
alike in these cast's, still when 
this conspiracy is proven, when false 
arc proven, when forgery is 
proven to have been committed, then 
must discharge my duty in each one of 
cases, under the laws of Car- 
as I find it laid down in our 
statute hooks. 
has been proven that these men, 
Levi T. J. C. and 
den D- were agents this 
fraudulent business; that Dr. T. B. 
was their medical examiner; 
that David Parker and William Fisher 
were their henchmen and went out and 
got the names of those people who 
WOre in the last stages of disease, as 
Parker said, die in or- 
as one of the witness said, 
might make a little 
-In the case of C. Hass-11, if the 
evidence is to be believed he is the 
arch conspirator f the whole lot. lie 
seems to have been encased in this 
business for years, and his success for 
a tine seems to have induced others to 
go into it. Then took it up and 
after pursuing it for a year he takes 
the in with him. They arc 
all induced by the success with which 
he has met to engage in this 
table business. 
Bill Fisher comes in and 
forged the name of Florence 
and others, and David Parker also 
pears as an agent and one of the con- 
Their particular conspiracy 
was to defraud in probably cases by 
the use of the names of a large number 
of people who were in the last stages 
of disease, many of whom were pro- 
before the jury by the State. So 
without going into the details I repeat 
this is the most stupendous crime that 
has been committed in our Slate within 
my knowledge. 
much as I sympathize with the 
families of these defendants in the 
that have overtaken them, 
as much as I regret the disgrace that 
will have to them the balance 
of their days, and as hard as it is for 
me lo pronounce sentences in cases of 
this this is the part 
of a Judge's lite, I am bound to do my 
duty. The of the court is 
that C. It. Hassell be confined in the 
State penitentiary at hard labor seven 
years ; that Bill Fisher be confined in 
the penitentiary at hard labor five 
years; that Selden D. J. C. 
and Levi T. Note be confined 
in the common jail of Craven county 
for a term of two years, and pay a fine 
of three hundred dollars each, that be- 
the limit of imprisonment allowed 
by 
An appeal having been taken, 
sell will give a justified bond in the 
sum of for his compliance with 
the judgment of this court if affirmed 
by the Supreme Court. 
The rest of the defendants will give 
bond in the sum of each. 
The Season. 
Visitor the is 
it that while a lawyer in a court-room 
may call a man a liar, scoundrel, thief 
and so on, nothing comes of it after- 
wards, but if a newspaper prints such 
a reflection a man's character, there 
is a suit or a dead editor 
Able Editor is be- 
cause the public what an ed- 
says, hut passes over the utter- 
of a lawyer as unworthy of at- 
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Bold last year, bottles of 
GROVE'S CHILL TONIC 
this year. In all ex- 
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never sold that gave such universal 
your Tonic. 
Yours truly, 
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GREENVILLE. N. C 
--------DEALER IN 
Stoves, Stoves 
We are laying in a full line of 
also Sheet 
Iron Heating 
Stoves. Best quality, low prices. Call and ex- 
We also are agents for celebrated 
Rambler and 
and have on hand a few second-hand Bicycles 
tor sale very cheap. You may need a Mowing 
Machine, we have them in stock. 
Opposite Drugstore. 
--------IS STILL AT THE WITH A LINE--------
GREEN N. G 
MARBLE, 
Wire and Iron Fencing 
sold. work 
and prices reasonable. 
Notice to Creditors. 
Having duly before 
of the Court of 
comity of the estate of 
O; not lee fa hereby 
given to all holding 
the estate to present them 
to the and properly proven, on 
or before the day of November, 
or this notice will be plead in bar 
of tin recovery, and all persons 
ed to the said estate are requested to 
make 
November 6th., 1895. 
SKINNER, 
Executor of L. C. Lath deceased. 
J. I,. SUGG. 
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Philadelphia. New York and Boston. 
Shippers should order their goods 
marked via Dominion fr m 
New York. from 
Norfolk A Bait 
more Steamboat from Bel 
more. 
Boston. 
JNO. SON. Agent, 
N. 
. J. Agent. 
N. C 
CHRISTIAN'S 
OINTMENT 
-o- 
Rough Heart Framing, 
Rough Sap Framing, ; 
Bough Sap ill Inches 86.-1 
Rough Sap Hoards, in inch.-. 87-0 
-0------- 
TRADE 
MARK 
Tor the Core ill Skin 
This been In use 
years, and wherever know 
been in steady demand. It has been on 
by the leaning physicians all over 
e country, and has effected cures where 
all other remedies, with the attention of 
the most experienced physicians, have 
for years failed. This Ointment is of 
long standing and the high reputation 
which it has obtained Is owing 
Its own efficacy, as but little effort hat 
ever been made to bring It before 
public. One bottle of this Ointment will 
be sent to any address on receipt of One 
Dollar. All Older promptly at- 
tended to. Address all orders and 
communications to 
T. F. 
Greenville, N. C 
Wood delivered to your door for 
cents a load. 
Terms cash. 
Thanking y-u past patronage. 
N. C 
PATENTS 
Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat- 
business conducted for Moderate Fees. 
a Opposite U. 
we can secure patent in less time than those 
remote Washington, 
Send model, drawing or photo., With 
We advise, if or not, of 
charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. 
A How to Obtain with 
cost of same in the U. S. and foreign 
sent free. Address, 
i OS. D. C. 
. 
mm 
Real 
Estate 
and 
Rental 
Agent, 
Reuses and lots for Rent or for sale 
easy. Rents, Taxes, inn 
and open accounts and any other 
of debt placed in my hands for 
have prompt attention 
Satisfaction guaranteed. I solicit 
patronage. 
 
         
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