JOB PRINTING
The Reflector is
pared to do all
of this line
NEATLY,
and
STYLE.
Plenty of new mate-
rial and the best
i of Stationery.
HOW THIEVES ARE
la to Bee Bad Steak
Gang.
An interesting account of the way
in which young children are
ed to enter the is given by
Dr. de a
who has been studying the
its of criminals. The at
Naples, like the Mafia in Sicily, is
an organization of criminals and as-
of criminals that is
old. The begins its
work with the infants who are
abandoned by their parents, or who
are lent out to the impostors who
beg in the streets of Naples. These
children, for the most part those of
persons in prison, are taught to beg
for the end of a cigar or a and
the In winter they
in holes and stables, in sum-
mer on the church stops, under arch-
ways or on the benches in the public
gardens.
When they are or years old
they are instructed in bogging and
thieving by older children. At
years of age the little
or little thief, becomes a
Ho must know how to
song to the girls and
reply with an extemporaneous verse
to the verse of a companion or of an
antagonist. In Naples there are
two armies of belong-
to the streets in the older part
of the city and one to those of the
west end. They constitute the
of the and compete
in passing their examinations
night in the streets. They choose
for the subject of their chants any-
thing that takes place in the city,
and very often the object of derisive
songs is an old man or a poor idiot.
The better class hear these scoffs,
but do not interfere and often laugh
at the wit which is scarcely ever
missing. The two bands are
great rivals, and once a year
at least they defy each other to a
series of battles in which stones arc
the weapons, and at the close of the
fray knives too often into play
practice of battles with stones
among the boys can traced back
as far as for at that period the
Duke of Alva caused
to arrested in Naples.
which is
not certain. After the conies
the challenge in of a verse,
to which the enemy responds like-
wise.
Then the young boys commence
the attack. The passersby flee, but
at no great distance stand old
young men, who incite the rival
bands and if necessary rescue one
the other of them from an arrest by
the police. Two years ago there
was a famous battle of kind in
Piazza which ended in a
fight between the police and the
stone throwers, during which
trams were stopped for time.
This duel ceases at first drawing
of blood. A slight scratch received
by one of the members of tho two
parties puts an end to tho battle.
wounded boy is surrounded by
, his friends and taken to his mother,
real or adopted, to be bound up and
nursed. The songs sung by the boys
have always a chorus, and generally
there are two soloists, who sing a
verse in turn, which is ended by a
refrain sung by tho chorus, a
oh Ah, In poetical
form these youths express the
knowledge they have of the worst
evils and vices of human life, but
the verses are realistic and without
tho least gleam of
don News.
A The of the boys is
the derivation of v
Store Brodie's Ideals.
Answering a question asked by a
Chicago paper, Steve
I had the first
thing I would do would to build
a home for the newsboys in
large city in the United States; also
a home for working girls, a Keeley
for drunkards, a workingman's
i library in every city; have the Chi-
river water washed; have the
end of South Clark fenced in,
so they all be by
pay some of your Chicago aldermen
money enough to retire, so that they
never be candidates again;
give what money is lacking to keep
the streets clean; pay an honest
man to see that the appropriations
are put where they belong, and
last, but not least, buy the street I
so dearly love, for my own use, the
The Eastern Reflector.
D. J. Editor and Owner
TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION.
per Year, in Advance.
VOL. XV.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL i, 1896
NO.
IF WE HAD THE
The Country
If I had the time to a place
Ami .-it mi- down lull face to face
With better half that cannot
show
In my daily life that rushes so;
It be then I would see my soul
still toward Inning
goal,
aright he nerved by the
sublime
It I hail the time.
It I had the time to kt my heart
Speak out and take in my lite a pan,
To look about and stretch a band
To a quartered in no luck
land ;
Ah. God if I ought but just sit still
And note of the whippoorwill
think that my wish with God's
would rime
If I had tin- lime.
K I had the time to learn from you
How much for comfort my word would
And I then of my
will
To kiss your feet when J did you ill
If the tears of the coldness
feigned
Could and the wrong be quite ex-
plained
Brothers, the souls of us would
II we had the time.
Richard Burton.
will operate with greater
force in some instances than rigor.
It is, therefore, my great wish to
have my whole conduct distinguish-
ed by
A lawyer tells the following story
in The Green time ago
he bad under cross examination a
youth from the country who
name of and whoso
replies were provocative of much
laughter in the court. so,
questioned the barrister, wish
the court to believe that you are a
peaceably disposed and
kind of that
yon have no desire to follow in
stops of your illustrious namesake
and smite
I've answered the witness.
if I had the desire I ain't got
the power at yon,
you would be unable to cope
successfully with a thousand
mies and utterly rout them with the
jawbone of an answer-
ed the ruffled Samson, might have
a try when yon done with the
About the Eye.
The upturned eye is typical of
devotion.
Wide open are indicative
f rashness.
The eye is really a
table telescope.
Side glancing eyes are always
be distrusted.
eye.- should not be used it
weakness or sickness.
Bi eyes are said by
to be the strongest.
Small e cs are commonly sup-
posed to
people almost
ways have prominent eyes.
The proper distance between
the eyes is tho width of one eye
There are from four to sis
of aqueous in
aye.
The downcast eye Las all
ages been modesty.
Many eyes supposed to b-
are only a deep
brown.
Eyes rapid and constant
betoken anxiety, fear or
care.
People of melancholic temper-
rarely have eyes.
The eyes of fish and are
round, with no angles at the
is almost
reptile provided with an
deal really weeps, its
provided with lachrymal
glands.
Whenever blue occurs in the
it is generally
color-
Eyes v. it h long, sharp corners,
indicate great discernment and
penetration.
Homer attributed a protruding
eye to Juno lie called her the
Juno.
all nocturnal animals the
eyes are placed to look forward,
as in the case of man.
The eye of the octopus is said
to be black, large and as vicious
as that of a snake.
The white of the eye showing
beneath the iris is indicative of
nobility of character.
The eye of the seems
to have expression of intense
hatred
A bit of gold leaf part
of an inch square can be
by the naked eye.
Two Papers for
We have made
to furnish
the Reflector and
Worth Carolinian for the
above amount. This
campaign you
should take the two
leading papers.
THE CHILDREN.
The country editor is a com-
of the entire staff of .-.
newspaper sphere of
is quite as s
that of the great
His weekly i-
miniature the f per
week of His
constituency is most
moral and high minded If 0-
found in the cf history.
He reaches the homes of
and that to the col-
and cities the great, well-
balanced in on of the age. He
may not uproot expos,
corruption, tear down religious
and political create em
pins or crush dynasties, but he
reaches and influences the ma-
of army of boys
in after yea., fight the great bat
ties of life tho pulpit, at the
bar, in the hospital, and be
come his must co
workers j
The country editor take
wood and potatoes fur his sub-
price, but he u lies
about his circulation Ho may
mention detail the i of
construction of barns and j
the if j
but he makes do attempt.
to build bis tunes
homes, twaddle, and
undue prying into private
Lie may write wretched
and deplorable grammar, but he
talks
and f-j
fort. He publish three pages ;
of patent to one
-natter, but he never steals the
brains of others because
a geographical difference cf time
favors his location- He may set
bis own type turn the crank
of his press, but he never
scales down the --vases of em-
nor treats printers like
cattle nor pays starvation wages
to reporters, lie may deplore
local usages want of
appreciation of his columns by
business men, but he never
Only to heap them so,
Harm, young ;
The wee, feeble fingers.
The babbling tongue.
lean that we kiss away,
Smiles that we win ;
Careless of knowledge,
As guiltless .-
Only to keep so,
Frank, true and pure,
full wisdom
So lovingly sure.
Our frown all they shrink from,
Our tint their law ;
Our More, whence all gladness
They fearlessly draw.
Only to keep them so,
Sweet hands that cling,
Sweet lips that laugh for us.
Sweet tones that ring ;
Curls that we train to wave,
Feet that we guide.
fresh step a wonder,
new word a pride.
Only to keep them so
Women and men
Are the ties Circled us
Lovingly then.
Gentle and to us.
Patient and strong.
Guarding our weakness,
Hearing us along.
mocking us.
Old thoughts and ways,
That keep measure
With rapid days.
f to
Our sunset shows fair
Hut, only to have them so,
as they were
OBSERVATIONS.
Alway due as you wished
be dunned by.
to
Loafing is not resting, nor is
sues people who have no means
for reply with vindictive hate, with
vile cartoons -ltd outrageous per-
to the He is m-t There is line that every
a life wrecker, nor a family wreck- delights to
or, not a monger, nor a
petty political poltroon, nor a
bribe nor a washer of dirty Heaven is this side of the grave
lib us well j s the other, if we so
ludicrous exhibitions at it.
times, the country editor is
honest, painstaking one We may never love a he, c
of the most potent factors the flower, but we worship the
higher civilization of the age.- heavy dower.
New York Dispatch- Nobody looks for a mail
. . . lime this its
f male
How truly grand the honest
of those who practice
what they are
The girls at Vassar are so thin
this year that the came is about
to be changed to
Frozen kisses the latest
They tire good raw at a church
fair or warmed the parlor
tire.
the
of Corsets.
most pitiful sight tie
human category is the woman who
will not submit, gracefully to her
years-
Pockets, the duplicate of those
in the masculine trousers, are seen
the new tailor made skirts.
Tea cloths of
colored centers,
special in art em-
Don't with your
A Dead Kan Drove The Team.
A big beer wagon rumbled down
West Side avenue, Jersey City,
drawn a heavy team at a smart
The who the
teat had set that pace at the be-
of The
homes were kept it
up
He on the high seat, looking
neither to the right nor to the
I-ft. His head was bowed. He
might have sleeping, or
ply staring before him a brown
study.
Other drivers cursed him as they
turned out only time to avert
collision, lie did not curse back,
and each had who passed him
wondered about that as he drove
through the storm.
The snow whitened his
beard his eyebrows, swept
his eves and Ids coat
collar- He seemed to feel it.
He just drove scattering
hides, f right pedestrians.
heed to the rules of the
road- acting, in short, like a man
who could of some
which had whelmed him
and was his work rue-
A policeman saw the big horses
the other
Vets sweating, watching the
beer
driver wax drunk,
The policeman into the
street shouted. The team did
not stop. The driver did sot
heed.
The policemen seized the bridles
brought the up sharp-
y. The swayed his
Seat.
you the policeman
said angrily. do you
mean
The driver any-
thing- He was dead-
His heart stopped as he
drove for many blocks there-
after his dead bands held the
reins New York Herald,
AN INDIAN POMPEII.
Highest of in Leavening U. S. Govt Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
the or India, bat Now a
sadder or more beautiful
exists in India thin tho deserted
city of There it
stands, some miles from Agra,
much as it stood years ago when
Akbar decreed the stately pleasure
house. It was built to
rate blessing of tho holy Salim
tho hermit, who dwelt
among tho wild boasts in his cave THE LITTLE PAPER.
at and who had foretold that
son, born on that spot, j It's not the paper
should live to succeed him on tho i i . .,
,,.,., . . . . hat pounce upon Hie first;
splendid throne. The saint did v ., , ,
foresee that the infant would grow
up into that unmitigated lo the wont,
whose orgies amazed the little country paper
Thomas Roe, and whose potent From the place I to live,
liquor caused that virtuous j is most
to sneeze incontinently, to the ; -i ,
.,,., . Sal a fellow can
of the whole court. But
heroic toper did not his fa- . You read the locals over
palace city, which must hove j an eagerness zest
been deserted soon after its found- ,,, ,;., , , , ,
. . .,.,,. . , it s like shaking hands wit neon la
s death, for when William Finch; .
visited in be it I
lying like a waste district very though there's little in them
dangerous to pass through St night i Still name is like a face.
it has remained ever sines, And the past beams down upon roil
and abandoned. No
white with Solid
among the
Orange has a charity bawl
band on tbs street. The Bight.
enjoys tho fan, but it doesn't; me
its estimation one
raise yon
bit.
i something to
A western doctor has succeeded
All balls in England teaching several mute women
popular- The women present . to talk. Their husbands
pear varying shades of a single him a quack,
tint that has been chosen by
hostess. are that God
Engagement gilts are now quite puts record in our favor, while
as as wedding, Christ-
mas, birthday of Easter offer-
Large French veils of wash nets
are used for smart babies place
of the worsted conceits of former
years.
The summer girl is already
planning Puffed
sleeves will not be of its beau-
ties, as formerly.
A modern young woman won-
why the Clerks
when she inquired if the green
candles gave a green light.
The Who Build.
Some years ago a comic opera
was produced in York city
which required that two cf the
male members of the com pan v
should impersonate women. The
day before the opening night
there was a dress rehearsal, at
which they appeared in their
feminine attire, and, for the first
time in their live, wearing
sets, which, costumer declared
were laced no tighter than the
woman would wear them.
One of the singers found it
possible to make himself heard
beyond the front rows. The
a muscular baritone, quietly
fainted away, and only recovered
consciousness when released from
unaccustomed restraint-
If there is anything the face
of the earth that makes us long
for eternal rest and deep, damp
solitude, it is a man who comes
to a town or county, builds up a
big paying business, grows rich,
and then squats down on his gold
a hen on a door knob, and is
too to let the gravel
grind in his own gizzard.
A real, genuine, 18-karat,
selfish man cannot be honest,
and if he ever sets to heaven and
has wings, he will them up
and walk for fear that he might
ruffle a plume or lose a tail feather.
The kind of men who
a town or a county, and enjoy life
and make beat citizens are
energetic, enterprising and liberal
men; who believe in living and
letting live, and who, when
they get a dollar, don't squeeze
it until the goddess of liberty feels
as though she had on a corset.
Such squeezing is what causes
the hard and stops the cir
of the American eagle.
If it were not for the broad-
ganged, enterprising men, it would
be impossible to build up a pros
city. Life would be one
big game of grab, and the devil
take the hindmost would be
the words go by unnoticed.
Sin cannot defined
An act that would be justifiable
or even commendable one
sou would be absolutely sinful
another.
True religion has nothing of
intolerance in it, nor will it ever
seek to interfere with man's
right to rind a religion or
a form and expression thereof to
suit himself.
The best time for a young man
to take his girl sleighing is curing
a Then
he can both his arms to hold
her in the sleigh and let the snow
do the
In the beginning it took but one
rib to make a woman. these
progressive days it takes all the
contents of several millinery-
stores to make the average fem-
beauty, not counting the
false teeth, paint, wrinkles and
Va-I Observer.
you have been having a
pretty dry time oat in Kansas
Well, rather. Why, th
air was so dry cut there that the
moon used to fairly raise a dust
as it went through the sky, and
the moisture was all evaporated
out of the Milky Way, until it
looked like a long trail of
did you get water for
yourselves and
was a hard matter.
We used to have to the well
through clothes wringer every
morning to get water for cooking,
and we would go and throw a lot
of little pebbles on the barn to
make the horses think it was rain
falling on the roof, and that
order of the them from getting dis-
Told of Children.
Jack explained a
the other by saying ; mis
Little Helen discovered her
pulse while she was ill with a
fever, cried O I've
the my
Baby had bumped his head.
-Does it feel asked
said baby,
some but an tho
better
you lose my thimble for
slowly shook her head
I've lost it from
With a sorry face she said.
A little girl who had
learned, a of abbreviations in
common use, was asks I lo spell
tho name of one of our best
know rivers. Thy answer came
r-s-i p in
Little went to
when her pastor next day,
ruler of India has over dared to
Akbar's Versailles, just as no
of India has over climbed to the
heights of Akbar's genius. In the
empty palaces, wonderful
mosque, sacred tomb, baths,
the every turn we recognize
some memory of tho greatest of In-
emperors. may even en-
tor his or
of see tho very
screens of beautiful tracery,
tho very Persian con plots, tho
decoration in gold and ultra-
marine upon which Akbar feasted
his eyes during the long sultry aft-
cf tho Indian plains. We
may walk into tho houses of
and tho laureate and the
premier of his empire, who sang his
glory and chronicled his reign. We
may see that building, tho
with central pillar
odd galleries, which some
have sought to identify with the
famous hall metaphysical de-
took place every Friday night
under the emperor's personal
and philosopher and
orthodox and
battle for their creeds or doubts
till they ended, long the
by bandying and
to the disgust of an
willing austere Ba-
The associations of
of not its only
claims to interest and respect
Its beauty in desolation excited the
Imagination of and
stirred the critical enthusiasm
who says of the
sultan's which still over-
looks the court where
bar is fabled to played his
games of living chess, that it is
possible to conceive anything so
in or any building
so richly and wonderfully carved
without least exaggeration or
bad taste Equally exquisite is the
celebrated St. Salim
ti, built in with its pure white
wishing to be social, she said to j cenotaph, its red sandstone
heard speak your dome and its veranda by
piece you V he, delicately pierced screens of fair
d. j mM fine lace sot in
did you like it was the And for grandeur what can compare
honest but reply, to tho stately
of tho which
I crowns rocky plateau, and which
the historian of architecture cites as
beyond portal in India,
perhaps in the
James u
made me
Youth's
A Woman's Devotion.
A man named
somewhere, undertook to a
little difference with his by
shooting her three times. He was
arrested, but the obstinate woman
persisted in living, and much to
the surprise of the doctors got
well, then as much to the
prise of of tho law
she not only refused to testify
against her would be slayer, but
testified in his behalf to get him
out of jail.
Mr. Lincoln was once asked as
to the proper length of a man's
legs, and after some ion of
concluded by saying
should always be long
enough to reach from his body to
the
For all practical purposes chat
strikes us as being about the
proper length, certainly tho
settles a very
question.
A Pennsylvania man recently
presented his wife with a piano
lamp which she said she would
call after him. asking
she dear,
it has a good deal of about
it, it is handsome looK at, it is
not remarkably brilliant, requires
a good deal of attention, is liable
to flares up occasionally,
is always out at bedtime and is
to
The Democratic party was
founded by Jefferson in
1796. and it will celebrate its
this fall by sweeping the
country wiping out mug
as well as Republicans.
Raleigh Press
Editor Sweat, of says
never a man by his outside
A shabby may
a newspaper publisher,
while a wearing a
plug hat and sporting a gold cane
Com.
thins Will occasionally
happen on railroads. Not long ago
a Fort freight conductor, on
looking over oars of his train,
was surprised to seven cars tho
numbers of which were in
rotation. Ho
that through chance such a
thing happen, but there were
the cars, with tho first next to
the engine numbered and
others back to a seventh with
numbers in the ascending order
in correct position. In their wan-
about from place to place the
cars got shuffled by
numbers were as
described above. According to the
laws that govern tho operations of
chance such a thing is not
occur again in years.
A Fearful Situation.
said
shall again make fun of
between
duty sometimes happen in
weal life. You know how the girl
Grants to a young man who
with bet father on
tics and goes to war on the
knows
make sport of
Suppose this
try were to have. a. war Eng-
land, Which would I do, wave the
flag and whistle
or up my pantaloons
Star.
was to die any man-
of death. sermons
toll how starved on tho cross
for the redemption of
As the lines you trace.
see the childhood,
the little country store,
And the face of your old s
In vine embowered
And the old school and your piny,
mates
with the local read.
Notwithstanding some are married,
Notwithstanding are
I here s the forest long departed,
And little swimming hole.
And the past crowds in upon you.
rilling mind eyes and
And the little country paper
From the crude and distant press,
With freight of homely items.
like a caress.
C. L. in Ark. Star.
DIXIE IN THE
The blizzard blows on Dixie ;
Hooray
Git away
Hut folks can't freeze in Dixie land
With big trees on every hand
Hooray
Git away
While the blizzard blows on Dixie
The blizzard blows on Dixie
Blows high,
Oh, my
I'll pond is frozen all in spots.
Hut we've got a load el knots,
Hooray
away
While the blows on Dixie
Oil, I wish hot in Dixie,
Hooray
Git away
I wish hot as a summer's sen,
a dollar hall a
Hooray
away
While the blizzard blows
Atlanta
ON THE WING.
A Word to The Scornful.
not, O proud of earth, the lowly
born,
Because thy lot h cast among the
great.
If God should exercise that selfsame
scorn,
What think thou indeed would be
thy
coins, many of which
tho
in large Mi London and
tho
ml S A
A in the Rhone.
Below the Rhone breaks out
from its upper valley into its
broader lower valley through the de-
file of Here the foot hills of
the Alps the foot hills of the
come together, and behind this
dam there must have been ancient-
a great Hum which extended to the
northward of where now is Valence.
The is a veritable canyon that
would be quite in place in Sierra
On each side of the sharply narrow-
river the walls of rock rise to a sheer
height of feet. The rush of the
water is In midstream,
surrounded by eddies whirling
waves, is the
against which the boat of a luckless
party of travelers struck and was shat-
a hundred years ago. Indeed, so
dangerous was this passage held to be
old, when faith was stronger and
boats were weaker than in our day of
skepticism and compound engines,
that it was to tie the
head of I he defile for grace to
come through it safely; but nowadays
the same practical they
put extra men at the tiller and clap on
more in
tin- First Star,
now then on anecdote
to. the front showing that our
first president liked the theater as well
tis do his followers of to-day. Tho point
is mentioned in one of the the-
stories narrated In that new-
Heroines on the
Says the author of the
Philadelphia Portia of this same
season of 1703 1704 a
noted family, being none other than
Mrs. the sinter of Mrs.
and of the In Eng-
land, at the age of she had made her
London debut as the heroine of
OB February 17-3. and, though
somewhat masculine in face and
yet displayed so animated
and so graceful a a to win a
moderate of favor. A few years
coming to this land she enjoyed
the distinction of playing the first
engagement on the American
engaged for a benefit to
play at theater in October.
There she repeated her Portia,
contending with the f
Mrs. Powell's a
season. had the honor of
playing, before. Washington In
News.
The late bishop of Winchester is
to have possessed among his m M other
qualities that of A good story
is told of n, made to the late Lord
who. his way
back to his room to take on Ida robes
after rending prayer In the house of
lords, apologized for having loon
sent from the ceremony. kneel
down it gives me palpitation of the
said Lord it
would not respectful for me to
stand while your lordship was pray-
Bishop perhaps know-
almost as much about the old bar-
sanctity did lord him-
self, answered measured
do not mention it. Lord
I am sure your lordship can be
equally devout you
kneeling, or
ploy old judge after-
inquired who hart read prayers
that afternoon, and, on being told re-
marked, with S sparkle In his I
Ya.
Km nut one who
is interested in the prosperity of your
spirited, enterprising town and county,
it is indeed pleasing to note the
and pluck that has been displayed
since the recent tire. It
doc s,.,., from the is
being manifested by your people, and
especially those who were sufferers
largely, that your town really has been
blessed and it will demonstrated in
a very few months, that for tho town
in general great good has been done.
Doubtless your town to be a
would have slept in the
of the past, no
would have been taken for a sufficient
water supply to guarantee the security
of so prosperous and progressive a
town, as yours most surety is. It was
suggested and even predicted that fail-
would follow the tire, but instead,
there is demonstrated u
and pluck that shows to the com-
world that you have a tine
country to back up a good town, and
your people are becoming aware it.
I was specially impressed with tho en-
of new men, who had just
began business, Messrs. Baker Hart,
and Messrs.
these the support, gen.
and strong of the community,
should be given . With a first-class
wafer System, and electric lights in ft
town with such a tobacco market and a
country supplied, and will con-.
thine to supply, a first-class market
ail the staple productions so plentifully
grown in Pitt county, the future of
town is hard lo estimate. It
must indeed be a rapid growth for the
next few years. It is most delightful
to hear traveling men,
Sealers, and all those who of the
the State as applied
to what a few. weeks ago scented
most broken up. The good that year
water works and electric lights will add
to i he general prosperity Bin only
by the lapse time, and a short
time too. The tobacco columns of
paper are worth ten limes the
price. The keen intelligence, the
energy, your tobacco editor, Mr. Joy-
is bringing the attraction of the
growing sections to the
markets, is attractive and stimulating,
and should bring union to the prosper,
and of the town and
specialty to that particular feature of
business. Only a short while and you
will see manufacturing enterprises
start. They are the natural sequence,
of pluck and when backed by
solid material cannot fail to follow.
I hope to see many improvements on
my next trip in large howl
one
IN CAROLINA.
Of Interest Over the State,
The latest addition to Wilkes
freaks is a 12-year-old mother.
Andre r Carnegie,
steel magnate, is Asheville, with a
large of friends.
The Baptist churches of Wilmington
will invite the Southern Baptist
to meet in that city next year.
Capt, R. A. sect with
quite a accident Friday morn-
While walking on
front the A. C. L. depot he sapped
on the and fell, dislocating his
a fallow I braised about
Words. I the body.

THE REFLECTOR
Greenville, N. C.
C I Editor
Entered at
K. C, as second-class
TOBACCO JOTTINGS.
by o. l.
April 1896.
We notice that the Charlotte
Tr, the leader In the
single standard agitation -this State,
to considerable
reprinting anything from a paper with
a silver leaning say that
its individual opinion will be held in
abeyance to the Democratic National
Convention, and whoever that
nominates for President- will re-
its support. Wen, that, is good
Democratic doctrine, and if any Demo-
paper in the State has said that
if the National Convention should
a man not exactly in accord with
its way of thinking on the money
it was going to bolt and not sup-
port nominee, we have failed to see
such declaration. However, the Re-
would like to ask the
a Suppose, contrary
the Observer's belief, land a
thing is the Democratic Na-
Convention at Chicago should
nominate for President a man commit-
to the free coinage of silver, will the
Observer give such nominee its
If such should be the result of the con-
the Observer is paving the way
either a or to the kitchen where
the crow-eating goes on. But we would
like to read its own answer to the
A COMMON VIOLATION.
In making his charge to the grand
on Judge E. T.
spoke at some length upon the
of the oath the jurors had just
taken, and instructed them that before
entering upon their duties he desired
them to get a copy of the Code, read
the oath over and make a study
f it for themselves. Then into
a brief analysis of certain crimes to
which he wished to direct their
the first he mentioned was per-
jury.
Judge said that this was be-
coming one of the most common crimes
in North Carolina, and it is almost
appalling to note the frequency with
which perjury is committed. He said
there is not a Court in the State, and
scarcely a day in any Court, in which
some witness does not violate the oath
taken when going upon the stand. He
said that even spectators in court can
sec, from the fact that two witnesses
will give entirely different testimony
about the same thing, that one or the
other of them has sworn falsely. It
has become so common, he said, as to
endanger justice, really there- can be
no justice without truth.
It is to be regretted that such a state
of affairs exist, and that many men
have so slight regard for truth, but the
facts as stated by Judge are
undeniable. It is no hard matter for a
spectator to tell Alien wit-
. making contradictory state-
both of which cannot be true,
or to tell in many instances when they
are violating the oath taken. Men are
sometimes guilty of this who would
scorn, and become indignant at, the
the accusation of having sworn
Note the nature of the oath a witness
it is to truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the
To violate this oath it is not
necessary that a falsehood shall
be told, but it can be done by
or keeping back part of what should be
told. When a witness does not want
lo testify to a certain thing he will by
every possible evasive answer keep
back the truth. Especially is this true
under cross examination.
And the is frank to ex-
press its belief that in some instances
the lawyers themselves are responsible
for the violation of the oath on the
part of witnesses. While we are
initiated in the method of conducting
trial, it is reasonable to infer that if a
case is of much importance the lawyers
are acquainted in advance with what
the witnesses on their side know about
it, and they drill their witnesses as to
what shall be told and what be
kept back.
This violation of oaths, all of which
is perjury in a greater or less degree, is
an evil that should be corrected. We
believe the Judge himself could
vent it in some measure it whenever
he saw a witness by evasive answers
was trying to withhold the truth, would
immediately take such witness in hand
and compel him to give direct answers
in accordance with his knowledge of
the facts, and in strict adherence to the
SOfa has taken.
There are men, a few and very few
of them in Greenville to-day, that are
still mouthing and quarreling mostly
with themselves because there is a to-
market here and our farmers
have seen proper to cut loose from the
infernal mortgage system and assert
their independence. There is a mer-
chant in this, town, one who has seen
the time when he carried the
per cent of the farmers of this county
on a mortgage in his overcoat pocket,
but has lost his grip and the time
has gone now who has been heard
to say within the last few days that he
wished that there was not an acre of
tobacco planted in the county and that
the merchants of Greenville had never
been benefit one cent from the to-
market, that there was as
much money made to-day by the
of the county and that the mer-
chants of Greenville did not sell as
many goods to-day as they did ten of
twelve years ago when there was no
tobacco planted in Pitt county, and
closed by saying that the farmers told
him that the tobacco men were the
toughest men to of
in the country and that if his
way about it he would not plant a
stalk this year. Well Well Well
the Greenville tobacco market will
certainly have to close if this man
fails to plant tobacco.
sold his Greenville and if he fails
to plant this year we be ruined, of
course.
Through the kindness of Messrs.
J. B. Cherry Co., the writer was
furnished a comparative estimate of the
number of bales of cotton that W
grown in Pitt county since 1880,
from that statement we believe
that this firm have as accurate an
mate as can be found in the
take the greatest number of bales of
cotton grown in any one year
place the price of the cotton at ten
cents a pound and the to-
market paid out last year a
much money for tobacco as was
for cotton when the greatest
of bales were produced in one
year at the largest average price that
cotton has sold tor in fifteen years. This
statement is not produced here for any
other purpose than to give the
facts to those who may not know them.
As the merchants have
increased their sales they will decide,
but it is so plain that there were nearly
twin as many goods sold in
ville in as was sold ten
years ago that a way-faring man though
a fool might see it. It is not doubted
at all that there may be some men
town who arc not selling as many
goods as they formerly did, but this is
because an era of comparative prosper-
has loomed upon the farmers and
they are allowed to trade where they
please, and the day also has passed
when one. two or three men constituted
Greenville, and the man who made
this remark, whoever he
sooner or later realize that the
business of Greenville is not by
means vested in one man. It is
that he is very behind the
times as yet or he would not have
made the and if such is the
case then it is only natural for him to
think that Greenville is not selling as
many goods as formerly because he is
not.
That the tobacco market has done a
great deal toward developing Green-
ville no intelligent man will dispute,
and that some of this man's property
who made this remark has been in-
creased in value in some cases as much
as per cent no man that knows
dispute. In conclusion want to
say that ordinarily these things would
not have been noticed, but recently
this thing has become not only odious
but is calculated to do harm and it is
only injustice to those engaged in the
tobacco business that any attention
is paid it.
I have seen quite a number of plant
beds during the last few days and they
show up very in the
absence of plants, though it is to be
hoped that a few warm days will bring
them up.
Farmers v. ho expect to plant to-
could do nothing more beneficial
to the than to thoroughly prepare
the land before the tobacco is trans,
planted. Land that is thoroughly
will make a much better yield
and it is not half the trouble to
There is no class of men that re
mere benefit from
of various kinds than farmers, and yet,
as a general they take but little
interest in improvements of this kind
because they feel no direct interest in
them, when if they will reflect for a
moment they are probably
more than other class of men. The
following clipping from the n
Star is timely and contains facts that
are worth considering. Every farm-
should feel deeply interested in the
establishment of and
they have as much right and should
show an interest in such things as much
so as men of other professions. It is
on account of this neglect of such
things that has dragged down
the agricultural profession and causes
everyone that can get anything else to
do to it, when in point of fact it
should be the most desirable and one
the most lucrative professions.
a general thing farmers take bat
interest in the establishment of
and yet there h no class
of people who derive more benefit from
than the farmers. If the
be numerous enough to
give employment to a large number of
people the farmers in the vicinity are
more by them than are the
people to whom the give
employment or the who
draw annual or semi-annual
This may seem to some thought-
less or extravagant assertion, but it can
be easily shown and is being practically
shown wherever in any
considerable number exist.
increase population f
consumers of what is produced upon
the farm. The greater the number of
the greater the increase
of population, wherever
center there cities spring up and
grow. Why is it that farming lands
near a city are worth so much more
than hinds at a greater distance In
point of fertility and capacity to pro.
duce a variety of crops there may be no
difference between them, but the land
within a mile or two of the city may
command a hundred dollars an acre or
more while the same character of land
twenty miles distant, unless on a rail-
road line, might not bring ten dollars an
acre. The reason is of course apparent
to every one. The farmer near the
a market at his door which he
can roach in an hour or so, and every
day find sale for something, for
thing that is worth cultivating or
There are gardeners within a few
of New York city who on few
acres of land make from eight o ten
dollars a year. And there
are others near other large cities who
do as well.
course depends on the in-
methods, industry and
of the man, for some men wouldn't
make money if they had charge of a
mint, bat the majority of the gardeners
or farmers near cities do. If they be
and slipshod in their manage-
and foil to make money by
or gardening they make it on the
enhanced value of their property.
the city is to the
country in the way of affording a con-
and constant market for a
of products the is
in u less extensive way, every one added
to the number increasing the number
of consumers, the capacity to consume
and the for what the farm pro.
If these work
the raw materials that are produced
upon the farms as staple crops, such as
cotton, wool, hemp, tobacco, then
the always has a home market
for them where he is sure of getting
the highest market price and where ho
can deliver with the least loss of time
and the least expense.
an illustration of this we know
of lands near tobacco manufacturing
towns in this State which ten MM
have been bought for an acre
which couldn't be bought for an
acre now, because now the tobacco crop
can be marketed to advantage and with
profit when it could not be then, and
the owners can find profitable sale for
many things now that then they couldn't
find sale tor at all. There are
of places where something
this might be said as the result of the
establishment of some kind or kinds of
manufacturing
WASHINGTON
Washington, D. C. March
From our Regular Correspondence.
Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey. S.
A., retired, who has been in charge of
the construction of the Congressional
building since it was died
very suddenly Wednesday afternoon.
Gen. Casey was the engineer in charge
of the erection of the State, War and
Department Building, and of the
Washington Monument.
It looks like the Cuban business was
ended so far as Congress is concerned.
Bot to many who did not catch the
drift when the Senate sent l lie Cuban
resolutions back to things
did not look promising. But soon
saw that the conference had only to
agree to the original Senate resolutions
and the House to do likewise to end the
affair.
The equestrian statue of Gen. W S.
Hancock, which is to be erected in
Washington, has arrived and will be in
position inside of two or three weeks.
The unveiling of the statue is to be
made the occasion of a big public
military and civic, under pa-
auspices. Art critics; say
statue will be the best of its kind at
the National Capital. The date for
the formal unveiling has not been
definitely set, but it will be on or about
May Gen. Hancock had many
admirers and they will
all be glad of an opportunity to honor
his memory.
BEAST TO REPORT.
And the Matter How Bests With
Town Council.
The water works committee
had a meeting Thursday night to hear
the statement of Engineer J. L.
low, who had taken a preliminary view
of the town, relative to the cost of a
system of water works.
Mr. Ludlow stated that the location
of the town is good for the establish-
of the system and it can be put in
at moderate exceeding
for a system abundant
water for fire protection and for do-
use. He said that any-
where on the river front would be a
site for the stand-pipe and that
about three-and-a-half miles of piping
would be sufficient to cover the town.
When questioned as to what he
thought of Tar water for do-
use, he said that by means of a
filterer it would be made as excellent
water for nay purpose as any town in
the State could show, none better could
be wished for.
After discussing the matter fully the
committee decided unanimously to
mend to tin-Town Council the immediate
of a complete system of
water works, both for lire and domestic
accordance with the suggestion of
Mr. Ludlow.
The will make its report
and to the Council at
the meeting of that body Wednesday
night, April 1st, and it is expected that
the Council will take immediate action
on the matter.
At the joint meeting of the citizen
and Board of held in the
Court House on the night of March
3rd, Mayor Forbes stated that the
Council was ready and would take
just such steps to secure water works
as the citizens of the town desired.
A committee of our best business men
was selected to represent the citizens
of the town, and it was unanimously
agreed that the decision and
of the com should be
therefore the Reflector feels satisfied
that Greenville will at an early day
have a complete system of water works
as recommended by the committee.
The committee has perform-
ed its work well, and we believe every
citizen of the town will heartily approve
the decision reached.
Now, Messrs. Councilmen, let the
water works be forthcoming.
BOARD FOB
VILLE.
The Salisbury Herald takes up about
one-and-a-half columns of space to give
a different enterprises
that exist that town. We are in-
to believe that the Herald was
through its or that the
editor had got off his bearings and
imagined that he was writing about
Chicago, New York or London. We
do not feel at all envious of that town
because a railroad shop has
been thrust in its lap, but that Salisbury
has even the half of the enterprises
claimed by the Herald we do not be
Hem. There is a very true saying that
town is judged by its newspapers,
the papers of Salisbury fail to verify
any such claim as tin Herald makes.
The Reflector exchanges with two
daily papers from that town, and we
read them every day, the
showing of both papers indicate that
Salisbury two shoe stores,
store, about three dry goods
stores, three drug stores, a lawyer, a
doctor, two real estate agents, two
a barber, a stenographer and a
few other odds and ends. An outsider
would think by at the
columns of the Herald and World
that those papers were wasting their
energies in across roads
The Reed and
cans are now at daggers points, so to
speak, and they are growing more bit-
towards each other every day.
side is charging the other with
being guilty of all sorts of disgraceful
tactics. The men are
charged with frying the fat out of
manufacturers in order to buy
gates, and the Reed men are charged
with species of duplicity m con-
wit the favorite son scheme,
the latest being that originated
the story of a combine to
Harrison so as to prevent the Indiana
delegates committing themselves to
The average democrat re-
it merely as of
pot calling the kettle and feels
like shouting it it
Tom and enjoying the fight all the
way through without caring a
how it ends.
Editor Reflector a few
days ago the writer heard a discussion
concerning the town of Greenville. A
very intelligent man remarked that
while the people of Greenville were
plucky and energetic and the town
generally was famous, it was a wonder
and an astonishment to the business
world that with the means and men
young, active, hard working, pushing
was not a first class Board
of Trade in the town. A medium
through which the business world could
make any inquiry concerning the
vocations or business, and in fact
everything that a should want to
inquire about a town and community.
There are active, energetic, intelligent
young business men in Greenville who
would take pleasure in looking after
and letting the world know what re-
sources, advantages and inducements
Greenville and vicinity offer to bring
capital and brains to invest here. This
gentleman remarked, it Was the only
town in the State of advantages
that did not have a Board of Trade.
Will not the business men take
mediate steps to organize a Board of
Trade, that we may get the great
fits to be derived therefrom Doubt-
less many do not know what it means
but they would soon familiarize them-
selves and feel the great good that will
accrue. Now is the time to start.
Will you not have some one cal a
meeting and make the
This is just along the line upon
which the Reflector has been arT
tor sometime, and the wonder
is, that after so suggestions have
been made the town is still without a
Board Trade. The Reflector
be glad to publish an announce,
inept for a meeting to be held to effect
such an
THE CHANGE A BAD ONE.
NORTH CAROLINA,
tatters Of Interest Over the State.
Mr. Robert Emmet Carr, brother of
Col. Julian S. Carr and Dr. A. G.
Carr, died in Durham i lay night.
According to the Elkin Times, a
young man came all the way from II.
Chester, Maryland, to Wilkes county re-
to marry a young lady with
whom he had been corresponding but
when he arrived the girl had married
another man the day before. The
poor fellow returned home the next
day with a sad and heavy heart.
An old vault set in the walls of the
State Treasurer's -e at Raleigh, was
opened Thursday, and two interesting
finds were made. One the last
warrant drawn by B. Vance
as war Governor, on the State a
It was for for the last
quarter of his salary its Governor, and
was dated April 1805. The
find was of old funding bonds.
denominations of and
They are worth in new bonds
and it held by private parties
the State could be compelled to re-
deem them for that amount.
T. WHITE
C. A. Whites old
-------DEALER IN-------
Oakley, N. C. Mar. 30th, 1890.
Editor wish to
say a word through your columns in
regard to the voting precinct of this,
township, and of moving the
polling place to Turner School-
house. A more unfit place could not
have been found in the township for
these There is only a small.
ant not another within a mile
that could be used for the
of the election. Suppose a school
is going on, as is usually the case, will
it stop for the election to be held And
again, suppose committee says you
cannot bold the election in this house,
what then P Again, suppose it is rainy
on that day I ask in common sense
what the people do Stokes is
two miles southeast and Oakley is one
mile north of said schoolhouse. Both
of these places are on the and
the people could have been provided
for at either place with shelter in case
of rain. We have seen people from all
parts of the township and they all with
one accord condemn the action of Mr.
I venture the assertion that
there is not a man in Carolina town-
ship, b Democrat or Re-
publican, the re-
of advising the removal of
the polling place to Turner
schoolhouse. H.
The apt description
of a mortgage is taken from
It A mortgage
makes a rustle, and it keeps
him poor. It is a strong
to action and a wholesale
reminder of the fleeting months
and years. It is fully as
in its meaning as the hour-
glass and scythe that mean death.
A. mortgage represents industry,
it is never idle, night or It
is like a bosom friend, because
the greater the adversity the
it sticks to a fellow. It is
like a brave soldier, for it never
hesitates at charges, fears to
close in on the enemy. It is like
a sand bag of in
application, but deadly in effect.
It is like the band of Providence
it spreads all over creation, and
its influence is everywhere visible
It is like grasp of devil
longer it holds the
greater its strength. It will ex-
feeble energies, and lend
actively to a sluggish brain ; but
no matter how work,
mortgage works harder still.
A mortgage is a good thing to
have in a
ways, it is somebody else's
Cotton and Peanut.
Below are Norfolk prices of cotton
and peanuts for yesterday, as furnished
by Bros- Commission Mer-
chants of
Tinware, Crockery and Hardware, Heavy Groceries, all
T. of Shovel warranted
Axes, Plows, etc., a specialty. Call to see ran and get my prices be-
fore purchasing. Car load Flour, Hay, Lime, Seed Irish Potatoes
received- I also handle all brands of
Fertilizers for Cotton and Tobacco.
OUT AT
ENTIRE STOCK
MERCHANDISE
Good Middling
Middling
Low
Good v
11-16
5-1
Prime
Spanish
Greenville Market,
Corrected by S. M.
at cost without reserve. There
will be e in our business next year and
these goods must go. Remember everything
goes at New York cost. Parties owing us must
make immediate payment so we can settle up
the business,
J. O. Proctor Bro.,
GRIMESLAND, N. G
THE OLD RELIABLE.
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TEARS EXPERIENCE taught me that the best is the Cheap
Hemp Rope, Building Pumps, Farming Implements, and every
ting necessary for Millers, Mechanics and general house a- well a
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quarters for Heavy Groceries, and jobbing for Clark's N. T.
Cotton, and keep courteous and clerks.
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LOOK FIRES.
Editor Reflector there
is much being said about the
of the water supply of the town,
and all eyes and tongues are eagerly at
work looking and talking for water
works, there a very great work being
left undone which and be
attended to by the authorities of
town, and one that will cost so little
that it is not to be counted. It is
ply outrageous to see the condition of
many of the back lots in town,
back of the stores on main street.
All the old trash, paper, rotten wood,
boxes, and in fact everything that goes
to the start a great
can be in many places,
where the police have fa look
after and where they should go every
day. The lot between the post-office
and Proctor's bar is a most inviting
place tor starting a big
back of the stores on main street, back
the racket store many other
places, where the simple dropping the
stump of a lighted cigar or cigarette,
a spark falling would quickly set
the town ablaze. Persons owning
these sites should be required to have
them cleaned and keep them so. This
is in the strict province of the town
authorities and to then the people of
the town look, and have a right to
look to enforce this great and
work, The weather is dry and die
winds high, ad great care cannot
be taken in this matte. Besides the
health of the town requires it as
sanitary measure. It should not be
allowed to go another day A few
days work may save the of
the town and also save the health of
the people. There is no excuse for
further delay and bat little expense at-
ached.
Thousands have tested the great
of Hood's
and have fount renewed strength,
vigor and vitality in its use.
The judicial appropriation bill, which
passed the Senate provides that the
salary of the United Status marshal
and district attorney in the Eastern
district of North Carolina shall be
and in the Western district
PAPERS FOR
This Chance Does Hot Come Every
Day.
The Reflector has just made
with the North Carolinian,
Raleigh, whereby can furnish
both weekly, a whole year for
Our readers are well acquainted with
both these papers. No paper ever
published in Pitt county contained as
much news as is now found every
week in Tug Eastern Reflector,
while the ranks as
the best weekly paper the State.
If you want the home, State and
general news these two papers will fur-
it to you. Remember this is cam-
year and you could not subscribe
at a better time.
Rocky Mount, N. C.
January
F. S. Royster.
Dear enter my
order for tons of your
Tobacco Guano,
think I will need tons for
my own use. I have used
Orinoco for two seasons past
and I like it. It's a splendid
Respectfully,
It. H- RICKS.
Mr Ricks has made a large
fortune raising fine tobacco.
Hi commendations of a
is worth something, as
he knows what he Is talking
about.
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Greenville, N, C
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Poultry Netting and Fence
Wire and
of every
description. You will find me a
Five Points where I am selling
low for the cash. I buy
for and Boll for cash-
to see
Truly
D. D. HASKETT
N.
COBB BROS CO.
Vet.
COTTON AND
AND
Stock, Cotton, Grain and Provision Brokers.
and Progress Building, Water
Bagging, Ties Peanut Sacks at Lowest Prices.
and Consignments Solicited.
Code, used in Telegraphing.
Tobacco
Flues.
Ready For
Lite In-
Having secured a shop Policy in that
old and reliable com-
the
on Dickerson Avenue
near R. L.
J am prepared to fill
your orders for
STEEL FLUES
at same price as com-
iron. Have put
in new machinery and
guarantee first class
work. Look to
interest and give me
your orders.
A. B. ELLINGTON,
A gent tor Wall Paper.
UNION
CENTRAL.
Remember we also have
also added to our list of
Fire Companies the
GEORGIA
HOME,
of Columbus, Ga., as-
sets over
WHITE
Office in building.
STOLEN.
On Thursday, March a
dirk bay mare, with white star In her
forehead, about hired
by a white man, giving his name a
George Williams, from my stables. In
Greenville. was a medium
steed man, clean with red face,
had on white hat and blue suit of
clothes. I will pay a reward of f r
information loading lo the recovery
said mare.
KING,
N. C.
Notice to Creditors.
The Superior Court Clerk of Pitt
County having Issued Letters of Ad-
ministration tome, the undersigned, on
the 24th day of February, on
estate of deceased, no
tie is hereby given to all persons In-
to the Estate to make Immediate
payment to the undersigned, and to ill
of said Estate to present their
properly to the
within twelve months
after the date of this Notice, or this No-
will be plead in bar their re-
Jay of March 1806.
on the Estate of Belcher.

New
Spring
Styles
A Mrs- Hopkins Boy.
HIGH
yon a
nor complete stock the
Everything needed
high dross prices
that are surprising. They
ASK WITH THE BEST
that the country affords.
For durability and near
I defy competition. I
have just from
tie northern markets
stock of SPRING
CLOTHING which for
style and fit
cannot be equaled in a
first class store
A SUIT IN STOCK
that is out of style. I
sold very close last sea
son and have no shelf
worn offer you.
Everything date. I
i can suit you
I have a number of years
experience in the
business and under
stand the taste wants
of you all. Give mo a call
HEN IN
an
NEED OF
in
FURNISHINGS look
over my stock and you
will buy The line is
complete and
N THE GOODS LINE
I am up to-date have
the late t PRINTS to select
from. I was careful in my
selections and can show you
some beautiful effects My
LINE OF HATS ARE
surpassed. I have a Hat
for every man and boy in
Pitt county. Every
and shade imaginable
have a hat chart of styles.
HOES. YOU CAN BE
suited in any make,
or quality. I make a spec
of tine Shoes for both
Ladies Gentlemen
will make close figures.
ONLY THE LATEST IN
NOT are kept in
stock they are of tho
highest A will
THE
Local Reflections.
Court is in session.
One more day in March.
This is the last week of Lent.
In a part of Cleveland county eggs
are selling at C cents a dozen.
Charleston Rice cents a pound at
J. S.
XV THE
People See Their Faces and Straight-
way Forget What Manner of
Ken They Are.
Sparing Club and Golden Seal
Cigars, at J. S.
and herring have become
somewhat more plentiful, but are still
high in price.
The acknowledges re-
of the report of the State Auditor
for the past year.
It is much easier to waste
space by using to little than by
too Ink.
At S. M. Schultz, Link Sausage
Butter.
N. L. of Warren ton
Business is moving very nip Sunday and here.
idly in Court, as the long list of cases
Master Pearce is quite sick.
J. M. has been sick
days.
Edward Greene returned to Norfolk
Monday.
Capt. Swift Galloway, of Snow Hill,
is here at court.
Mayor Ola Forbes returned Friday
evening from Richmond.
T. R. Moore has moved into his new
house in
R. E. returned from
more Thursday evening.
Adrian Savage returned from Rich-
Thursday evening.
T. F. Haskett. of Scotland Neck, is
visiting in town.
J. II. Blount returned Wednesday
from court.
Nice Barber Shop.
Herb-rt has moved into
his new barber shop, between
store and the Reflector office, near
Five Points. He has put in entire
new furniture and has the handsomest
shop ever opened in
Died.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. E.
M. Cheek, whose illness was mentioned
in Tuesday's Reflector, died Tues-
day evening about o'clock. The
remains were taken to Raleigh this
morning for burial. The family have
the sympathy of our people.
Mending the Fences.
E. A. Holton, chairman of the
State Republican Executive Committee
spent Sunday afternoon and night here
giving pointers to of the under-
lings. He had a caucus with Claude
Forbes and Tom both colored,
at the depot Monday before taking
his departure.
the most
cal of this fact. Remember
OW IS THE TIME TO
have a Suit to
My samples are all
in and are beauties Fit
given in every case
tried one day will snow.
Herbert invites to visit
Ids new barber shop, near Five Points.
Nicest place in town a shave
It is not believed that the prospect
of a good fruit crop in this section has
been injured any cold weather.
It Greenville had a canning factory
it make fruit vegetable grow-
in much more profitable.
Choice prunes, cleaned Currants and
Corn Starch at S.
Cod Fish. Irish Potatoes, Prepared
Buckwheat, Oat Flakes, Cheese, Mac-
P. R. Molasses, at S. M.
Schultz.
J. B. Cherry Co. must get in
a ear load of chairs a week, from
the number we see unloading around
their place.
No town in the State its size can
show a batter health record than
Greenville. There is lit-
sickness here.
I am off after more homes. Wait
return if you want a good animal.
My customers are always satisfied.
Something New and Sweet, Peanut
1-lakes at S. M. Schultz.
Mrs. King says there are more
now than she has ever
known at this time of year. Her house
has been full every day of late.
It is reported that the widow of one
ct the who was killed at the
lumber mill at Parmele, some months
ago, ha sued the company for
Brick and plaster from the burned
buildings has been placed on main
greet down Five Points the work
is being carried on out Dickinson ave-
It i hut little over a month now to
the next town election. A progressive
Board of should be elected
and it is time t be looking around tor
the right men.
An esteemed heads an
editorial, -Let the
Most men are willing to obey that in-
junction, but the trouble is the d
won't let them alone.
Mayor Forces says that wherever
he went on his recent trip he. found
people talking about Greenville. All
were eager to know about the enter-
prises going on down this way,
Brick Co., has put in a
large machine for making pressed brick
and has begun work- hose wishing
to buy good brick will do well to place
orders at once with A. Q. Cox
general manager, N. C.
The boys had a good one on the Re-
old man this morning. He
went in his garden to plant corn, dug
the holes and brought the shelled corn
dawn town in his pocket.
Mr. Godwin will place the old
parsonage building, which he is
having moved, on Dickinson avenue
near Presbyterian church, instead
of on Pitt street. He will make two
houses out of the old one.
We hear that a party of prospecting
a visit to Green-
ville within the next few days. Our
business men should take them in
hand and otter aver inducement to
get them to locate here.
The Old Dominion Steamship Co.,
will give excursion rates on Steamer
Tar River to the races in Greenville,
April and The Steamer
will be held at Greenville on the
until after the races.
Mr. W. J. has taken the con
tract to build brick store for
Mrs. M. A. Jarvis on the site where
her other stores were burned. He tells
us that the new stores will he much
better buildings than the old ones.
One day last week a young man
his name as George Williams, hired
a horse at J. F. King's livery s to
go in the country. Neither Williams
nor the horse have been heard from
since. King offers a reward for
of tire
Mrs. John S. Congleton returned
home from Haleigh Thursday evening.
A. S. a tobacconist of Dan-
ville, arrived Monday evening.
Ex Senator T. J. Jarvis
returned from Raleigh Wednesday
evening.
C. S. Hamilton, of Me., is
here on a visit to his brother, S. C.
Hamilton.
Dr. R. L. Carr, of Snow Hill, re-
returned from Baltimore, spent
Sunday here.
J. B. Cherry returned Friday even-
the north where he had been
purchasing new goods.
W. T. Lipscomb returned Friday
evening from a trip to several of the
Virginia tobacco markets.
W. II. of this county, who
has attending Richmond Medical
College, in home last week for
the summer.
We regret learn that T. Erwin,
who is alien bug
at Nashville. Tenn., is quite sick. His
father has written tor him to come
home.
II. B. returned
evening from the north where he hail
been to purchase goods. Mrs. Clark,
who was visiting in Scotland
also returned home.
-A Mrs. Hopkins
The
Clothier,
Hookerton Items.
N. C, March
Tax Collector was in town today.
The League is progress-
fine now. Will elect a pres-
Friday night.
Messrs. F. A. Mosley, Paul Koonce,
Wiley Miss Mattie Ed-
wards, J. H. Dixon and wife, made a
visit to the Institute Sunday.
W. M. Edwards Prof. Stanford
are contemplating building a brick
house. They were over Sunday exam-
and counting brick in a certain
brick dwelling near Edwards Bridge.
We are sorry to loose our townsman
Prof. Junes Stanford. He leaves to-
day to conduct a lumber
yard. Hope him success.
Superior Court.
The April term of Pitt Superior
Court convened promptly at o'clock
Monday morning, his honor, Judge
E. T. Boykin, presiding.
In selecting the grand jury of
those drawn were excused from serving
two tor being members of the State
Guard, two for having suits
and two because of sickness in their
families. The jury is composed of the
D. D. Haskett, Foreman,
Robert Staten, Lafayette Cox,
do Brown, G. B. Spencer
Harriss, L. B. E. P.
Joshua John J. Mason, M.
Z. M ore, Joseph Pittman, J. C.
id, Jas. K. James
W. J. Kilpatrick, Jerry Mi-
A. A. Joyner.
The charge of the Judge, which was
an excellent one, occupied most of the
of the morning. We were
particularly impressed with his remarks
in to perjury, and propose
have something to say on that subject,
later.
The regular jury tor this week
is composed of T. R. Moore, J. J.
Evans, W. J. Jackson, J. W. Higgs,
D. J. Holland, Henry Williamson. A.
Cooper, Caleb Cannon, Win,
J. A. Thigpen, Asa Bullock,
Tyson.
The following cases on the
. . i . . .
locket disposed up to. noon
D. C. Stokes, pleads guilty,
judgment suspended upon payment
costs.
Alfred Milliard at id Stan ton,
F. and A- plead guilty, Milliard sen-
months in jail, Stanton fined
and costs.
Cory and Richard Vines,
fray, plead guilty, judgment suspended
upon payment of costs.
R. L. Joyner, J. P. failure to re-
port, pleads guilty, judgment suspended
upon payment of costs.
David injury w personal
properly, guilty, judgment
pended upon payment of costs.
Thomas Hudson, carrying concealed
weapon, submits, lined and costs.
William Gardner, failing to list poll,
pleads guilty, judgment suspended upon
payments of costs.
Henry T. King, assault with deadly
weapon, pleads guilty.
larceny, pleads
sentenced one year in penitentiary.
D. S. affray,
suspended upon payment of costs.
Richard Wingate, carrying con-
weapon, not guilty.
Bagley and Will Pippin, affray,
plead guilty.
Teel and William Whichard,
affray, Teel pleads guilty.
Alex Bailey, affray, guilty, sentenced
five months in jail with leave to Com-
missioners to hire out.
George
guilty, judgment suspended
upon payment of costs.
Edward Moore and Albert Freeman,
affray, not guilty.
Haywood Smith, assault with deadly
guilty.
Haywood carrying concealed
weapon, and
Excursion Sates to the Races.
The Atlantic Coast Line has made
excursion rates over its roads lo the
s of the Greenville Driving
April and Kith. The
rates will be one first-class fare for the
round trip from any point and ticket
will be good through the entire wee
in which the races occur. I
Soon Be Beady.
Mr. S. C. Hamilton informs us that
work has commenced on the building
tor the electric light plant. The
rival of the machinery for the plant is
expected daily and we may now expect
for all to be in readiness for turning en
the lights within a few weeks. This
will be a substantial improvement for
Greenville.
Street Talk.
There is talk of opening Fifth street
to the branch east of town and ex-
tending the roadway in a straight
course on through Mr. W. II.
property. If the plan is
carried out it will ii number of
splendid building lots on Mr.
ton's place. There is no better prop-
anywhere convenient to the town.
Seven Last Week.
of Deeds King issued nun
licenses to seven couples last week,
two for white and five for colored BOO.
WHITE.
F. O. Cox Maggie Cox.
H. C. and Franklin
COLORED.
Julius Redmond and
man.
Win. Pippin and Mary Smith.
Atkinson and
Moore.
Peter Boyd and Laura Nobles.
John Chapman and Lang-
Soldier's Picnic.
The Confederate soldiers of Pitt
county have a picnic and fish fry
at Bluff on April -24th All
are very earnestly requested to carry a
basket and plenty bread. Every old
soldier is expected to get word to all
other comrades so that all may be
advised in time. The table will be
under the supervision of that true and
tried old veteran, Willoughby,
who will be by W. II.
son, A. D. Hill, Elder Samuel Moore,
Albert Jones. C. D. Rountree, Elihu
Briley, Ferd Ward, L. W. Lawrence,
Paul Harrington, T. A. Nichols and J.
A. Bullock. Let the old veterans come
out and make this a pleasant day.
Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mr. William in Edge-
county, Mr. Zeno Moore, of
and Miss Eloise
of Edgecombe were united in marriage
by Rev. M. T.
The were John Hearne
with Miss Blanche Lyman
with Miss Lucy Dunn, Dr.
Frank Whitehead with Miss Ch
L. D. with Miss
Lena Taylor, P. Rasberry
Miss Annie Bass, John
with Miss Fannie
The bridal party reached Greenville
on the evening train and a
was held at night at the home of the
groom on Dickinson avenue.
Among presents, which were
beautiful and handsome, were the fol-
lowing
Mr. and U. M. silver
berry stand.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Forbes set knives
forks.
J. rug.
Paul holder.
J. S. Higgs, picture.
J. A. Ricks, pa. lamp.
Rev. M. T. vase.
I. D. silver butter knife.
G. C. Moore, silver cake stand.
Lyman rug.
J. L. Starkey, chair.
Chas. Forbes and J. E. Starkey.
handsome clock.
J. R. J. G. J. A. An-
and J. L. Little, very handsome
Turkish rug.
Master Fred Forbes, silver sugar
spoon.
Clans and Hearne, silver nap-
kin ring.
soap stand and
pickle dish.
Lee Stewart, pair towels.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dunn, Scotland
of orange spoons.
John and Hearne. large rock-
chair.
Gloom
Of ill health, despondency and despair,
gives way to the sunshine hope,
happiness and health, taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla, because it gives
renewed life and vitality to the blood,
and through that imparts
M vigor
and energy MK to the whole
body. this
helped me wonderfully,
changed sickness to health, gloom to sun-
shine. Mo pen can describe what I
I was deathly sick, had sick head-
aches every few days and those terrible
tired, despondent feelings, with heart
troubles so I could not go up and
Sunshine
down stairs without clasping my hand
over my heart and resting. In fact, it
would almost take my breath away. I
so I did not care to live, yet I had
much to live for. There is no pleasure in
life if deprived of health, for life becomes
a harden. Hood's Sarsaparilla does far
more than advertised. After taking one
bottle, it is sufficient to recommend
J. E. Smith, Beloit, Iowa.
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blond Purifier. All druggists, f I.
Prepared only C. I. Hood Co., w. d I. Mass.
. cure all liver ills,
S headache,
Dr. C. picture.
Arch Braswell, Sr,. pair blank-
Miss Hortense Forbes, chair.
Miss Ida Moore, silver napkin ring.
Misses Helen and Glenn Forbes,
butter knife.
Miss Novella Higgs and sister, card
receiver.
Mrs. D. M. Dunn, Scotland Neck,
set of desert knives.
Miss Lena Taylor, Whitakers. break-
fast caster and sugar moon.
M Margaret handwork
and silver butter knife.
Miss Sadie Short, mat.
Miss Lena Harris, set fruit knives.
Miss Hackney, Wilson,
spoon.
Miss Fannie sugar spoon
and berry spoon.
Miss Annie Bass, silver napkin ring.
Miss Ellen Moore, set silver tea-
spoons.
Miss Lizzie
set.
The joins host of
friends in extending best wishes in
welcoming the bride to Greenville.
Goes to Asheville.
The Executive of the
Teacher's have that
the next session will be-held in Ashe-
ville. The meetings have been held
for the last nine years at
We are inclined to believe that the
crowd at the Assembly would be larger
this year if it had been held at
again. Our people will
lie sorry to know that it has gone so
far. Greenville has tarnishing a
large at each session the
body for several However, it
will be a nice, cheap trip to
rifle. The hotels have put their
rates at one dollar per day.
TEN
Moore, handsome glass
Bethel Items.
X. C. March -24th, 1890.
The telephone line from Conetoe
here, was completed last night, and
we communicated with Conetoe
Tarboro. We learn the line will be com
to Parmele in a days.
Bethel is to have a new railroad de-
pot, something that US long been
needed.
John Brown, col., was committed lo
jail today, upon a charge of In
default bond by W. J. Teel, J.
P.
Me. G. Bullock wen; to Greenville
this evening.
A part of my stock was Damaged by the
fire and I am determined to dispose of them at
Greatly Reduced
Prices.
In fact no reasonable price refused.
NEXT TO TYSON BANK.
FOR
Our tools were de-
fire but we
have ordered more and
will be ready to furnish
all the Tobacco Flues
you want. They will
be made of Steel and
you may depend on it
our flues will be made
right as heretofore. For
the present you will
And us near our old
the warehouse
formerly used by J. C.
Cobb Son, first floor.
S. E. FENDER CO.
Mar. 1st, 1896.
John Wilson, assault
battery,
Training Stables.
Mr. J, II, Sunnier,
P-a., arrived in Greenville Friday night.
Mr. Sunnier is a member of a firm of
horse trainers and was looking for a
place in a good climate where there is
a good track, to locate his training
Only a short while here was
necessary to convince him that
is the place he was looking for,
and he has arranged with the Green-
ville Driving Association for the use
their track tor twelve months,
tells that he
in his charge seventeen young
horses belonging to rich northerners
and he has already ordered these r-
shipped lo Greenville. lie will
build stables for them out at the track
and will put the track in thorough con-
for these horses.
DRESS
To buy a Dress is
To I tn a stylish and s aide
Dress is another thing.
Two Splendid Sermons.
Those at the
church Sunday certainly hard
two elegant sermons. The subject of
he morning discourse was
It was thought-
tender, pleasing and instructive
sermon. At night the theme
at the Gate of
These conditions as they exist at pres-
in our strongly
Tho evils which are
ard which will continue to result from
these extremes were shown in a man-
which carried conviction to every
bearer. Lastly were
with force and
We don't know when we have
a more timely than this
Rev. Wells is growing upon
hi., people, aid his congregation is
more than delimited, with him as their
, ill I
Just new supply of Job
material. Some beautiful linen letter
heads. Come, let us put you up a
thousand c- two.
LANG'S DRESS GOODS
Are always
stylish and
No store
U such
a variety of
To
We invite
you to
-We ave been selecting Dress Goods for the. past
Our experience is at your
LANG
SELLS
CHEAP.
Mrs. corner
But we have come again.
Tho late fire just as we were business in Green-
ville, out we have built a to the Reflector
office, below ft and are now ready to
serve the
IS OUR
SPECIALTY
HARDWARE
But we carry a complete line of
Farming Implements
W-e buy CASH and soil consequently defy
competition all goods in our line- Come to see us-
BAKER HART
FIVE POINTS.
FALL 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,
Furnishings
Boots-
Slices, Domestics,
ed Sheeting and Shirt-
Fancy
Cotton Dress Goods
everything you will
want or need in that
line. Hardware for far
and mechanics
use, Hollow-
ware, Wood and
Whips, Buggy Robes, Collars. Rope,
wine, Heavy Groceries always on hand,
Meat, Flour, Sugar, Sat and Molasses.
The best and largest assortment of Crock-
Lamp Chimneys and
Shades, Fancy Glassware, to be found
in the county. And our stock of
FURNITURE
Carpets. Rugs and is by far
the and cheapest ever offered to tho 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
and deal with men who will treat you fair and
do the square thing by you. Come and see us
and be convinced that what we claim is true
Yours for business square dealings,
GREENVILLE, N. C , Feb.
J. Agent Victor Safe Co-,
Greenville, N. C
Dear am pleased to say the Vic
tor Safe you sold me some five e six years ago
preserved in tact all its contents in the late fire
in Greenville on the The safe stood
at a point in office in the Opera
block have been cue of the hottest
parts in tho great conflagration. It contained
many papers and other things of When
it was out of the ruins and opened, son
twelve hours after the Are, every thing in it was
found to be preserved and in good con-
I cheerfully make this of
facts in recognition of the valuable service
me by this and you are at liberty to
make such use of it a yon may Mt
J. JARVIS.
The Victor Safe is made in Jail sizes,
for home, farm, office or general business
use. Every Safe sold with a guarantee to be Are
proof. Prices range from up.
J. L. SUGG, Agent,
N; C.

ESTABLISHED 1875.
PORK SIDES
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS
their year's supplies will
their interest to get our price before
chasing else where.
n all Its brandies. I
FLOUR, COFFEE,
RICE, TEA, Ac.
always t Lowest
TOBACCO SNUFF
we buy direct from Manufacturers, ens
you to buy at one profit. A core
stock of
FURNITURE
always and prices
the t Our goods bought and
fold for having no risk
o run. we sell at a dose margin.
S. M. N C
F.
Celebrated Russian Gal
Violin Strings
he Fines in the World.
Every Suing
for fill. E. 8th St.
MING K. h.
AND BRANCHES.
FLORENCE RAIL
Mar.
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m. p. up.
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Rocky
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Train on Scotland Meek Branch
eaves 8.55 p. in., Halifax 4.1
arrives Scotland Neck at 4.55 p
m., Greenville 6.47 p, m., Kinston 7.45
p. in. Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20
a. m., Greenville 8.22 a. in. Arriving
Halifax at a. m., 11.20 am
except
Branch leave
Washington 8.00 a. and 3.00 p . m.
arrives Pamela 8.50 a. and 4.40 p
m., Tarboro 9.46 a. in.,
Tarboro 3.30 p. in., Parmele 10.20 a. m.
and p. m arrives Washington
11.50 a. m., and 7.10 p. m. Daily ex-
Sunday. Connects with trains on
Neck Branch.
Train leaves S C, via
Raleigh R. R. except Sun.
day, at p. m., Sunday. P. M;
arrive Plymouth P. M., 5.25 p. m.
returning leaves Plymouth daily except
y, 6.00 a. m., Sunday 9.30 a
arrive Tarboro 10.25 and
Train on Midland N. C. branch leaves
daily, except Sunday, 6.05 a
m. arriving 7-30 a. m. Re-
turning leaves Smith Held 8.00 a. la ,
rives at 9.30 a. m.
Trains in Nashville branch leave
Rocky Mount at 4.30 p. m,. arrives
Nashville 5.05 p. m., Spring Hope 6.80
p. in. Returning leave Spring Hope
m., Nashville a in, at
Rocky Mount 9.06 a m, daily except
Sunday.
Trains on Latta brunch, Florence It
leave Latta 6.40 p m, Dunbar
7.50 p m, Clio 8.05 p m. Returning
leave a m. Dunbar 6.30 a m
arm c Latta 7.50 a m, except Sun-
day.
Train Branch leaves War-
law for Clinton except
11.10 a. m. and 8.50 p, m- Returning
leaves Clinton at 7.00 a. m. p m.
Train Sol S make dose connection
at points dally, all rail via
at Bo. Mount with
Norfolk and it for
all points North via Norfolk.
JOHN P.
bur.
MAN'S WILL
Managed as m Each Ob
B Basils.
Judge Carpenter was spend-
a vacation in the country, he
bad occasion to look at some records,
and bis attention was directed to a
whimsical He arranged for a
copy of it as a literary
the satisfaction with
-which Mr. Darling proceeded to
all his relatives and insert a
ting into each bequest, well know-
that before their anger began to
rise he would be where even a ca-
in a suit for damages could
never commented the
judge, as he gave it to a reporter to
The testamentary clauses of
the documents are as
William Darling, in
in the township of , county and
district of------, western Canada, es-
quire, being in sound health of body,
and my mind Just as usual, which
friends who flatter me say is no
treat shakes at the best of times, do
make this my last will. and
as follows, revoking, of course,
all former
leave the property of Grant-
pees, and all other landed property
I may die possessed of, to my sisters
Ellen------and Betsey Darling, the
former because she is married to a
minister whom help she
the latter because she is
married to nobody, nor is she likely
to be, for she is an old maid and not
market ripe. And also I leave to
thorn and their heirs my share of
the stock and implements on the
farm, provided that the
round my brother's grave be re-
served. And if either should die
without issue then the other shall
inherit the whole.
leave my brother Andrew my
big silver son of old James, as the
representative of the family. I
would have left it to old James,
himself, but he would molt it down
to make temperance medals, and
that would a sacrilege. However,
I leave him my big horn snuffbox.
He can only make temperance horn
spoons of that.
leave my sister Jessie my Bible,
and when she knows as of the
of it as she does of the letter,
she will be another guise Christian
than she is.
leave my late brother's watch
to my brother Jerry, exhorting him
t the same time to give up
radicalism and all other sing
that do most easily beset him.
leave my brother Andrew my
big silver snuffbox, as I am informed
he is rather a decent Christian, with
jolly face.
leave Parson------the snuffbox
I got from the militia, as a small
token of my gratitude for the
ices he has done the family in
a sister that no man of taste
would taken.
leave John Carson a silver tea-
pot, to end that he may drink
tea therefrom to comfort him under
the affliction of a wife.
give my silver cup, with a
in it, to my sister Jane, be-
she is an old maid and pious j
also my snuffbox, as it
looks decent to an old woman
taking Press.
the Cs of
Every one knows the anecdote in
which the thought
was something inside of a pig, mean-
probably tho part that furnishes
lard, is known in some rural
as flair, in as flick
the latter word is well known in
But this story is
passed in simplicity by the follow-
A woman in a village in Kent
lost three children by
and when the clergyman's wife went
to condole with she railed
against the and said she
couldn't think how they could go to
and say that prayer, and
then go and practice on the people
as they did. In answer to the
what prayer she meant, she
aid, pray to he
from false doctoring, heresy
and schism, and they go about
and do false doctoring and kill tho
and Queries.
Why the Boiler Maker Called.
you said Mr. Grate-
bar, for a long I couldn't
imagine what brought our neighbor,
Mr. Anthony in to see
so often. Mr. was a
retired boiler maker. He had been
a journeyman boiler maker and then
a boss, and having made a modest
fortune he had retired to enjoy it
He lived only two or three doors
from us, and he used to come in of-
ten evenings. He seemed
to like to hear the children
play on the piano, and if didn't
play be would always ask to have
them. I used to wonder at this, be.
cause I never had any idea that Mr.
was especially fond
and one day I asked him
about it
you said Mr. Ham-
suppose that every man
has a feeling of affection for the
trade or profession that he was
brought up in. I know that I have
that feeling for my own, and when
I hear your children play duets on
the piano with the hard pedal on all
the time, it makes me think of the
ear old boiler
York Sun.
In the of Alabama
there are employed hands,
who turn out annually
worth of product
Noah Webster, from first to last,
pent years on his of
the English
A RUNAWAY TRAIN.
out PLANTS BY i straight and sooner,
may begin earlier and
the cultivator run closer to
The Fuller ft Johnson Trans-1 plant. The machine Hie
of Its Work, j m the row felting, the
i weeds are killed, this equal
to cultivating. The cut
worms are in some degree
The tobacco grower pro-j off immediate
W Southern
It Bad a Clear Track a Goal
Headed
A railroad official, speaking of I
some of his experiences,
lived many years ago in a small
Massachusetts city and managed j
road where every employee, from i
Bill up, was personally to be enamored of The glower is
known to me, and railroading was I tedious, pendent of labor escapes a
more of a pleasure than it is here, I of setting out plants by hand lain back. Asa it docs
where the roads are so vast and long whose veracity is work better than when done
that one hardly knows the members above This part of tho
work of tobacco culture,
by hand; it its owe seasons;
it insures tobacco more
of his own office staff. My office
windows, I remember, looked out
directly the principal business ,,
street of the place and the entrance to trembling far the cheapest in every way.
,. , a i for it approaches, i The farmer who gets the
arduous labor, which
the old method of transplanting is of ill the work cultivating and
adhered to, always j of harvesting is less, mid it is by
to the Union depot the street cross-
the tracks at right angles not
feet from the great station
entrance. Every hour or two New
York and Boston express trains ware
arriving and departing, and it was
always an interesting sight the day
before Thanksgiving, when every
train was running in two or three
actions, and each one drawn by two
locomotives, loaded down with pas-
anxious to get to tho old
farm in time for the Thanksgiving
dinner.
One snowy, blustering day I sat
waiting to see the train pull
In from Boston, for somehow I
kind of danger, as a railroad
man often does. I knew the train
was a heavy one, the rails slippery
and that before it the cross-
To the arduous labor, winch
with groans and
lamentations there is the
of a season when plants
are ready, and altogether it is a
worrisome business,
is offered up
it is over done with.
Blessed is the man who invent-
ed the transplanter The
of the machine is not yet fully
appreciated, but it is beginning
to be so. More and more of them
are coming into use every day,
and the day is not far distant
when great labor saving de-
vice will be looked upon as of no
less importance to the tobacco
raiser than bis curing barn- In
some sections it is already so re
and it is pushing its way
it came down a heavy grade four popular favor in the South-
miles long. Out at the other end of
the depot was a great long bridge
carrying the train off to the west
and also the tracks south
to New York. On both these tracks
stood huge locomotives blowing off
steam and seemingly in baste to
couple on to the coming train,
was destined for both the south and
west, and hurry it off to its
Well, to make a long story
short, that train got the best of the
that day, owing to some
defect in the and there
was of the most hair raising
train runaways I guess I will ever
witness. A mile the grade
heard old Seth the engineer,
making old No. whistle for
brakes in a way that made me turn
cold. Almost at the same time the
train came tearing down over the
street crossing and into the depot
going miles an hour, and I re-
member to this day and always will
how cool looked as ho dash-
ed by, blowing his whistle for dear
life as a warning to give him a
they would even get those
engines at the other end of the
out of the way I thought was
There
were cool men about that place that
day, and No. great Crawford
whistle had given the warning. The
witches were hastily set straight
on to the bridge, and away dashed
the waiting engine in a race to get
out of the way of the runaway train.
It was a close shave, and it
ed me for a week, but luck saved
the day.
runaway ran four miles be-
fore it and tho engineer
with the light engine tearing along
ahead of it was beginning to wonder
If the tracks were dear way out to
Buffalo, when the brakes worked
and the runaway was brought to a
stop. For years I boon wonder-
how that train ever dashed down
that grade and through the
depot, following the switches in and
out, without a most frightful smash
up.
Seth when he step
down from the cab after back-
back, regarded it as a huge joke,
but it soared everybody else within
a mile of the station out of a week's
Sometimes it is the wise words of
an infant that impress us more than
those carefully thought out by the
age. Therefore we quote the words
of the most innocent of mothers who
has in charge a beautiful
will not interfere with mar-
though I do not exactly
prove of the man she has
All have to abide by the fate
they make for themselves. I would
have preferred some one else, but
her heart has for her, and
Cupid, after all, is the best
Mothers, sisters, friends, take this
lesson to heart. You will never be
thanked if you interfere, and no
matter whether a marriage turns
out well or ill the adviser, the third
party, is seldom considered.
in business may love it does
not count Remember this and save
yourself time and annoyance by
keeping to yourself any wise re-
marks that you think the occasion
requires or your own conscience
Bands. o.
The advantage of using the
famous Fuller Johnson
Transplanter, which we illustrate
on page, are manifold, and
will be readily seen when the
work it does is understood- The
is drawn by a pair of
horses, and requires to
it besides the driver, two boys
great-
est returns from his crops is he
who is progressive, and adopts
agricultural machinery that have
proved successful lime, and
money save. H in an
is I he Tr.-u s-
planter manufactured by the
A- Johnson
Company, of Wis. The
Journal abundant reasons for
that it is nil ill it is
claimed for it, and we fully re-
commend it to our growers. In
to use in setting out to
it will also transplant to
cabbage, etc The price
of the machine is reasonable and
it is strongly constructed. With
proper care it will last a lifetime.
It will pay for itself in a year,
often several times in year.
We append a few testimonials of
Southern farmers who have used
the Transplanter;
The Bern is Tobacco Transplanter
is a perfect success. It sets out
the plants more regularly, leaves
the ground in better condition to
cultivate, the plants grow more
uniformly can be set at any-
time where the land been pro.
Bilious and Intermittent Fevers
which prevail in dis-
are invariably
by derangements of the
Stomach Liver and Bowels.
The Secret of Health.
The liver is the great driving
in the mechanism of
man, and when it is out of order,
the whole system becomes de-
ranged and disease is the result.
Liver Pills
Cure all Liver Troubles.
SMITH EDWARDS, Props.
the
late
Com t mi-i .
store near
GREENVILLE, N. C
Manufacturers and dealers in all
kinds of
CW, m
FINE BUGGIES a SPECIALTY
All kinds of repairing done
We use skilled labor and good
material and are prepared to give
yon satisfactory work.
E. Moors. Ia. L
Greenville
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
miller Opera House. Third S
N. C.
Pia tees in all the Courts.
a specialty
w.
II, LONG,
Greenville. N. G.
GROVES
CHILL
FOR ADULTS.
WARRANTED. PRICE
Ii ls. Not.
Paris
mild last of
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MARBLE
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sold. First-class work
and prices reasonable.
II.
President,
Sec. t
Practices in all the
of Ohio, City of
Lucas County j
Frank J. makes oath ilia
he ii the senior partner of the firm of K.
J. Co., doing business In
the City of Toledo, State
and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED
LARS for each every case of Ca-
that cannot be cured by the use
Of
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December
A, D. 1686.
OLE A SO
Notary Public.
Of what consequence is it that
anything should be from
man Nothing is hidden from God;
he is present in our minds and
into the midst of our thoughts.
Comes, do I say As if he were ever
to drop the plants. It plants one
row a time, and can set from
throe to six acres a day. A the
plants are set they are watered;
that is, the machine makes a
small furrow in which water in
exactly the right is pour-
ed automatically, the plan's
are set in water so that the roots
are thoroughly The fur-
row is then closed and the earth
packed nicely around plants
by the packing plates, the rows
thus left in a The
packing of the earth is regulated,
may be done hard or as
desired- The machine adapts it-
self to the of the
face of the land, enabling the
operator, just as he pleases, to
set the plants deep or shadow.
The plants may be set ready,
no matter how dry the ground
may The fertilizer attach
which is peculiar to the
Fuller v Johnson Trans-
planter and not to be had else-
where, distributes the fertilizer
in the row and puts in just as
much or as little as may be want-
ed.
By the use of this transplanter
these results are obtained super-
to that follow hand sett-
The roots are doubled
up, the plants start better
and grow and mature more evenly
and quicker. A crust is not form-
ed on ml the roots, as is often
the case by the old process where
the ground is wet and water is
applied. The plants being set
prepared, the last being
decided advantage as every to-
grower
L- F. Evans, Greenville, N. C-
Yours at noted. I
have been setting my tobacco
plants with a machine for two
years, at the same time have
been experimenting with hand-
plants. I greatly prefer to
have my crop set by machinery
under any circumstances A part
from the better work
can be than it is possible to
do with the hand- find that the
plant thrives better, it grows off
quicker, evenly, and more
uniform v. Of the ma-
chines you have sold in this sec
this season, I hear but one
a perfect
success.
F. M. Roof-rs,
Florence, S. C
I consider the Tobacco
Transplanter a great success, and
am satisfied had I used it to set
my crop of acres last season it
would save more than tho cost of
the
per cent of plants set with it will
live grow off so quickly that
it will be ready for cutting from
six to tan days sooner that
set by hand.
H. D. Lucas.
N. C.
The Transplanter is sold
in Pitt County by Spain,
at the Eastern Warehouse.
Swift Galloway, B. K. Tyson,
Snow Hill, N- V. Greenville, N. C.
GALLOWAY TYSON,
AT N K Y-AT-1 W,
Greenville, X. C.
Practice in all the Courts.
H. W-
ft
O Successors lo Latham Skimmer,
N- O-
John E. Woodard, K. v.
Wilson, X. C. Greenville, M. I
HARDING,
Greenville, N.
Special attention given to
settlement of
GOOD FOR STOCK AND POULTRY
TOP-
lie Upturned From
The man, who
also walked into
tho organ was forth
a long, low melody that scorned to
In the of heaven. And as he
listened to it his air grow more
a light not of earth came
Into his all the better
I of bis nature were moved
I have used all of medicine, but, the melodious strains,
pared especially for stock, as well
man, and for that purpose sold in tin
cans, holding one-half pound of I
cine for cents.
Lambert. Franklin Co., Tenn., I
March
I would not give one package of black-
for all the others I ever saw.
It is the bast thing for horses or cattle
the spring of the year, and will cure
chicken cholera every time.
R. Boylan
Yard was once any rod or
pole. The expression is still used
with this meaning when applied to
various parts of a ship's equipment,
as and the
Tommy Suggests a Remedy.
can say of neighbor, Hark-
observed Mr.
he gives away a great deal in char-
and that bis left hand never
knows what his right hand is do-
doesn't be take boxing lee-
asked
A tired to very much like a
sprained ankle. If you from any
of the symptoms of your
Is tired. It needs a crutch. We
must relieve of all work for a time,
or until it restored to Its natural
strength. To do this we
must use a food which is already digest-
ed outside of the body, and which will
aid the digestion of other foods that
may be taken with It. Such a product
the Shaker Digestive Cordial.
The Shakers have the
principles present in plants for the
manufacture of this article, and its
success has been truly phenomenal
You can try it for the nominal sum of
cents, as sample bottles are sold by
at this price.
Ball's Catarrh Care Is taken Intern-
directly on the blood
surfaces of the system. Send
for free, U the medicine lit c
F. J. CHEN BY A Co,, Toledo, Doctors it in p.
. rOB.
RIP-A-N-S
The modern stand-
ard Family
cine Cures the
common every-day
ills of humanity.
J. L STARKEY,
-AGENT
CITY ELECTRIC
WILMINGTON. N. G.
This Laundry does the work In
r. Month, and are low. We
make every Tuesday. Bring
work to our store on Monday and
-t will be forwarded promptly.
furnished application.
and for that moment he was not of
earth.
Then walked into his pew and
started to take off his overcoat. Sc
was he that he did not
realize be was pulling off bis other
until he stood there in bis shirt
sleeves in full view of the worldly
tittered so it
could be beard.
Then the man who bad been in
heaven a moment before came sud-
and his feelings were
like unto those of the suffering souls
in Post.
Content.
The fountain of must
spring up in the mind, and he who
has so little knowledge of human
nature to seek happiness by
anything but his own
position will bis life In fruit-
less efforts and multiply the griefs
which he purposes to remove.
Tl.
American Book.
The was
published at Cambridge, Mass., in
1640, was for many years supposed
to be the very first book printed on
the continent. Of late it
has been discovered persons who
ought to have been acquainted with
the facts from the beginning of the
that books were print-
ed in Mexico a long century before
the ever saw a of
fie Fernandez's
published
t Toledo, Spain, in 1611, plainly
States that first book published
in America was a of Antonio
In the of Mexico in the year
Louis
D. L.
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DR.
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DENTIST.
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Always in tho market
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Cash at market prices
Can also fill orders
for Bough Dressed
L n in lie r promptly.
Give us your orders.
C HAMILTON. Manage.
Cotton.
With careful rotation of
crops and liberal fertilizations,
cotton lands will improve. The
application of a proper
containing sufficient Pot-
ash often makes the difference
between a profitable crop and
failure. Use fertilizers contain-
not less than to
Actual Potash.
is a complete specific
against
Our pamphlet fire circular
special t.-i t bin contain-
the result a f in line,
cotton farmer should have a copy. They are
tent free for the asking.
GERMAN RAM WORKS.
Nassau St., New York.
NOTICE.
By virtue of the power contained la
court
Pitt in IS entitled. W.
II. fell, and trading
Hie of A Co., in
own behalf and In the behalf of all other
creditors Moore.
who Will join and hear the
Plaintiff, D.
Executor is Moore,
l. Individually and as
guardian of W. w Moon- and
Bruce M. Murphy, wife of said
said w w. Mo re and Brim
M W. iii wife,
Helen Perkins as
of ids said wife, John N. Vaughan
and I. Barnes, trading as
Vaughan Barnes, Sarah Moore and
Oliver Moore, as defendants, will sell
before the Court House Door in the
town of Greenville, N. C, on Mon-
day, the sixth day of April,
the following real
entire undivided half Interest
a t of land lying and being In
fort township,
adjoining the lauds of David Smith,
James Henry
an others, situated Creep-
nineteen
acres more or less and known
as tin a or
Is of land. is
to the Will if I K . record-
ed in the book of wills of Beaufort
county at pares and and a deed
v. II. and wife to Mar-
Ins Moore and I on Which
deed Is n c In tin- Register a
c Book at
page
so one other tract or parcel of land
situated in the of Halifax, ad-
joining the of John .
Henry Baker, Pope and others
and Known as tin- or
land, containing tour hundred
acres more or leas and being the
same land Dawson,
Sheriff, to Moore on third
day of February, and In
the Register of Office of Halifax
in Book at pages and
Terms of sale cash,
Mai 1-9.
II.
Commissioner.
so much more
r you
f fatal diseases result from
-f trifling ailments neglected, i
f Don't play with Nature's
f greatest
.-.
O.
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Hardware tore.
GREENVILLE
Male Academy.
The next session of this will
begin
SEPT.
and continue for ten months.
The course embraces all the branches
usually in an Academy.
Terms, both for tuition and boa id
reasonable.
Boys well and equipped for
business, taking the
course alone. Where they wish V
pursue a higher course, this school
guarantees thorough preparation to
enter, with credit, any College in North
the State University.
refers who have recently
Us wall the truthfulness of Saw
statement.
Any young man with character ant
moderate ability taking a course
us will aided In arrange-
to continue in the higher school-.
The discipline will be It-
present standard.
Neither time nor attention
work will be spared to make this
I that p could wish.
For fin particulars see or ad
dress
W. H.
July 80,1890-
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