JOB PRINTING
The Reflector is
pared to do all work
of this line
NEATLY,
and
IN BEST STYLE.
Plenty of new mate-
rial and the best
of Stationery.
The Share.
A respect looking
will not mention lib
with his wife in a re-
mote quarter England, was delayed
by defective service, and was
The Eastern
D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Owner TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. per Year, in Advance.
VOL. XV.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1896.
NO.
unable
I until ten
o'clock the lie had left
the railway train at a small station
where there was a restaurant, and had
hired a coach to carry him with hi
wife and bi baggage to lb little village
where be was lo spend the night.
When the drew up at the
Philosophies.
the Jury.
are glad to note that The Free
tor a sucker I'd hunt Press and Greenville have
alias that
I.
Two Papers for-$1.50
OM . .
We have made
to furnish
the Reflector and
North Carolinian for the
above amount. This is
campaign year and you
should take the two
leading papers.
It I was
a teller
he's nobody's tool
It has alias seemed to me to be
mighty thin consolation for a poor
man declare that riches don't make
happiness.
Somehow or oilier we don't appear
to extract much comfort out his life
as we really Perhaps it's be-
cause my the ma he
should be.
till. who Mortgages his
Th
old-fashioned inn ill the village street I to a Ids house has gut
they were very weary and faint with
hunger. They had eaten nothing since
their early
As so ill rooms had been
gaged and the baggage stowed
the husband sent for the portly landlord
and said
are hungriest pair you ever
aw. We have lo-t our train
delayed at stations where
food was For this reason
We lave neither luncheon nor din-
Now must do best
us. We want ii hearty
T. e id murmured that it was
very late, and h had not been exporting
any on- but that he would go
down and talk with the cook. He re-
turned in ten With troubled
face.
ha.- taken us by surprise, he
said with apologetic air. -The mar-
stalls are closed and nothing can be
had in the shops at this hour. This is
only ii modest, quiet country inn. I
have been talking with the cook and
find that the pantries are quite
-Have you no asked the
anxious husband in a tone
I regret to answered the
there is only one mutton-
chop in the house, but I think that is
a good-sized
The husband at his wife and
then at the landlord.
What is my wife to have he a-k-
ad grimly after an awkward pause.
The matter-of-fact way in which this
lord of creation appropriated for his ex-
use the only chop, revealed his
idea of the relations of the sexes. The
stronger halt of the family was to be
served Brat, whatever might be the
the weaker half.
Of curse, the affectionate wife pro-
tested that she was not very hungry
and would be satisfied with a little toast
tea. as slit needed sleep more than
anything else.
The brute ate the chop and grumbled
when he finished it because his hunger
not satisfied.
This true incident makes a Tery
satisfactory study of the kind of martial
chivalry that is sometimes found in this
closing decade the nineteenth
Companion.
Be Just to Yourself.
In casting about for a place to locate
in business, or in seeking a change
you hope will bring better of
success, do not permit prejudice to
blind your eyes to the truth nor stand
in the way your prosperity. The
days of our earthly pilgrimage are few,
and intended with many tribulations,
so it behooves us to avail ourselves of
every aid to peace and progress. It
may be that home is the one thing
lacking to reconcile you to your lot in
life. Lo not condemn the country on
hearsay, nor believe all that you read
to its detriment, but take our advice
and sec it. This can be done at little
expense, and you find business
here that arc not found else-
where. You will be able to secure, at
a nominal cost, lands that will yield
surprising returns for the attention be-
stowed upon them, and enjoy a climate
that will be a benefit and a
charm. You will that artesian
wells ice factories have revolution-
the domestic economy of the en-
tire South, and that what used to be
luxuries are now everyday
The pride that comes from
here swells the breast of the
i-- his growing
as . .
. , and the
fields blooming v.
smiles as she surveys her
thriving garden and heavily laden vines.
This is no picture, but an accurate
of scenes that greet the eyes of
every visitor to the sunny South.
To the the merchant, the
manufacturer, the young man brains
mid the old man of eminence,
new empire of the South presents a
field of boundless for
home-getting and wealth getting, The
climate and great variety of resources
make much easier o gain a
hood and acquire a tone there
in the less favored regions of the
Northwest, with its limited capabilities
and lack of diversity in the matter of
Sunny South.
to try awful hard to find any music in
the strings.
I believe in my as
myself until he begins to kill my
hens. Then I'm to buy lace
curtains and upholstered cheers to
make him feel as he possibly can.
I like to have a man dump up and
down with me, even to me a liar.
An man is like a pimple on
arm ; you've git to keep waiting to
see what it Trill develop.
Even if we never say a word to him
about it, it is only human to feel
sort tickled to know that our nay-
bur's fence is two feet over on our line.
and we can raise a row any time we want
to.
I never went to a man and
him to gimme advice without I had
my mind made up to believe him a tool
he didn't think as I did about it. If
he was a lawyer, however, and charged
me ten dollars, why, that altered the
ease.
heard a heap men talk about
luck in my time, and so I fur as have
been able to keep track of individuals,
those who was corn for a dollar
a day instead of on the grocery
sups have got ahead the fastest.
Now and then you meet a man who
has soured on the world and can't see
no good iii nor nobody. In
such cases up and
Mud ii chap so all fired mean a
dog wouldn't toiler
II ever there was a time in the
history of Democracy when wise
should prevail it is now. There is
the greatest necessity for concerted
action on the part of the Democrats
Duly not only to the party but to the
country should shape the conduct
every true patriot. Let us rise above
factional quarrels and personal
and look only to the common
good. No equivocating ; no straddling
of important questions; no dickering
with the enemy ; no compromising of
principle for the sake of Let us
summon our best judgment to the
task before us and we will not only
succeed, bu posterity will bless us for
our Sun.
spoken in no terms on the
much needed in our jury system.
The many evidences witnessed by
above editors, where the jury system is j
a stupendous fraud, have caused the j
most sober reflections and the nus. so-
Have You a Boy to Spare
I'd saloon
have boys, or it must shut up
must
shop.
. Can. you In
nous not only on the j.
,,,,. ,. is a great, strong factory. Unless it
the editors, but all the friends
an get about boys every gen-
ii, as is said, money is the life blood
of Commerce, the feeble pulse of the
patient now indicates a weakness that
it cannot much longer survive, it the
present conditions continue to be
posed. The quack doctors of financial
woes are so numerous and Ignorant that
instead of relief, they only further em-
the situation. Dr.
insists on taking the legal tender notes
out of circulation, while another says
that this would mean contraction of the
currency, and that what we want is
more money. Ma trouble with us
is that the policy of the government,
if it has a policy, is by
of little or no sense,
and the U kept in a state of
apprehension and unrest, without the
confidence of the people, which is the
first great essential to prosperity
Durham Sun.
The royal family Is one of the
expensive luxuries of England. A re-
cent bit of information on this point
that Beatrice
to draw her income of a
year, as it was made a life grant at the
time of her marriage. By the death of
the duke of Clarence his brother and
sisters gained in income, as the
a year voted for the prince of
children continued all
same. This must serve hem
during the present reign, whether their
state ho married or single. with
or without, Me of York
had no allowance en his marriage, in
spite of his important position the
direct line. The deaths which lost
money to royal of
the late prince whose yearly
ceased; that of Princess
Alice, a year, as queen's
daughter, was not continued her
children, and that of the duke
Albany, whose 12.1.000 n year, as
queen's son, dropped immediately,
was but replaced by a
year from the nation to his widow.
good government and lovers just-
ice before the law beginning to de-
that the guilty be punished and
the innocent acquitted. It is some-
times true, that when the
of justice, which come under the
mediate observation the unit
parties calls forth the strongest con-
but is forgotten as
age casts its mantle over the crime-
What is needed, is constant agitation
before the people, until there is such a
moral sentiment awakened in behalf of
jury reform, that our legislators will be
forced to enact into law such u system
as will remedy the evil that threatens
the destruction of our republic. Who
can be surprised at the many lynch-
that fill the columns of oar
big dailies, when there is hardly
a probability of the guilty being
punished at all Lynch law is danger-
and should not be encouraged at any
time and upon any of
the nature or character of the
Should such a law become popular,
mobs will be organized and the innocent
will suffer tor the crimes the guilty.
lint what will prevent the dangerous
law from becoming popular As much
as all may wish to see the oner tried
before the civil courts how can the wish
be gratified when our civil courts fail to
punish Watch-
Tower.
from somebody's home for raw
material, some these factories must
close down, and the money in the pub
lie treasury grow less.
Sam J ones on Politics.
If I wanted to ruin a would
run him and elect him. A
man asked me if I was a Dem-
I said no. No.
Populist you take me for a fool
You Democrats needn't laugh I was
U gentleman. You Republicans needn't
never was low enough to
belong to gang. The last Dem-
Congress couldn't pass any-
thing; not even a saloon.
cans had charge of the country thirty
years and turned it out whiskey soaked.
Your old party needs a dose of -rough
on I am a Prohibitionist. They
arc like the fellow that had the calf by
the stop him. but may hold
him back a little. don't believe that
God will run with the preacher who
runs with a political gang.
A Tempe Lesson
A cavalryman had for the second
time returned to the barracks in an
intoxicated condition.
His comrades saw a chance the sec-
lime to give him a little lesson. He
had gone to bed and thrust his bare
loot out from under his blanket ; and
they fastened one of his spurs on his
naked heel. The trooper lay in a
heavy and motionless sleep a long
At last he stirred, changed his
position and dug the spur into his oilier
leg,
Help he shouted.
Then he started up. struck a light, and
looked at the spur fastened on his bare
heel.
he said. that doesn't
make me out a helpless idiot When
look off my boots last night I forgot to
take off one of my spurs. I'll never
drink a drop again Com-
have been persuaded to accept it. But
now Spain is scarcely likely to consent
advice, that would seem
to savor of duress ; and as for the Cu-
ban.; themselves, the have gone too far
to recede voluntarily. They have set
their stake for independence, and
short of it will suit them. At least
from our point of observation, and with
such information as we have been able
to secure, there would s m to he
henceforth no stable for
Cuba except separation from
Spain. President's intimation to
Spain that America desires to mediate
i should meet with rebuff, it would re-
main open for President Cleveland to
The paid for two glasses o ad in accordance with the earnest
would pay for one peek of quest of Congress and acknowledge
WANTED
TWO MILLION BUYS
is the notice we might read over every
distillery, brewery and One
family out of every five in the world
must contribute one boy to keep up the
What It Would
The money paid for one glass beer
would pay for one of bread.
The money paid for one glass of
key would pay for one pound of beef.
Cuba Will Have Nothing
Freedom.
Short o
A Nut For Joe
There his .
strong party hallucination that it has been
to the retention of the Democratic force, keep-
allegiance provided Cuba can bu j together, like a Texas ranch-
delivered from the horde of Spanish
office-holders and from the an I setting on ii
regiments of Spanish soldiery that are j spaniels to bark at tin heels
always quartered in Cuba at the one housed
of Cuban revenues.
Highest of all in Leavening U. S. Repast
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
vi sin iii
year bull-pen.
Before it win
ago, or even six months ago, it is armor and boast so
if Spain could have been i. of services, it ought
to grant autonomy, Cuba of as
seen by others, and look the truth in
the lace.
toes.
The money paid for two glasses of
the of the Cuban
gent. The quick support of Congress
r the policy
I naturally In have inclined
the by way of lemming -lie
The money paid three o compliment, o concur if possible in the
beer would pay for a quarter of a pound Congressional policy respecting
From Progress of the in
. ., ., . of Reviews.
I he money three classes i
Whiskey would pay for l dressed fowl.
What War Must Mean for Spam,
Cents to Carry Tour
Wheel on a Train.
The railroads in the Southern Pas-
Association will charge cents
hereafter carrying a bicycle in the
baggage car. This is a uniform rate
for all distances. The roads have been
considering this question a long
time. argued a bicycle
is personal baggage just as a trunk, and
should ho carried But
the road answered that it is more
to handle bicycles. They are bulky
and unless packed are in danger fall-
down and being injured. Then bi-
cycler, have diminished the number
some claimed, but this is
true Southern lines, or not to
t true. In
the north. At the meeting of the
the Southern
Association on Tuesday this
finally decided by fixing the
uniform charge of cents on each
bicycle checked, on a passenger ticket.
Salisbury Herald.
The money paid for four glasses of
beer would pay for two dozen eggs. . . . ,. ,
I bus when, really effective
The money paid for four glasses of modern warfare, our
whiskey would pay for three pounds flees is compared with of
butter. Spain, it Is not extravagant to estimate
that ours is quite three or four limes as
The money paid in one month , . ,., ,
J , powerful. Our Atlantic squadron
two glasses beer a day would pay , , , , ,, ,
alone, now under the command-of
toll ,, t i i r ii .
The money paid ill one with aid of two or oilier of
two glasses of whiskey a day would pay easily suffice
for a suit of clothes. Spanish navy. The
war, if were declared, would probably
A Cold Water Story. i. brief one, consisting of
ii naval engagement or two in the gen-
Somewhere lives a farmer such so- vicinity of Cuba. The
habits that his coming home which the Cuban
was once no unusual thing. His derive hostilities between Spain
wile urged him in vain to the United States would enable
he would say, don't like to them to make speedy work with Gen.
break off at once; it isn't wholesome, end troops, The outcome,
The best way is to get to a then, of n declaration of war
thing by degrees against the United Slates would seem
well, old his would unquestionable. Spain would lose her
join, now it you don't fall into a navy and would Cuba too, In a few
hole one of these days, when you Can't disastrous days. Ye it has for months
take care of yourself, and nobody near been the opinion of the most
to take you Sure enough, as if tent observers of mailers diploma, and
to verify the prophecy, a couple of days that the recognition of
after, returning from a glorious frolic. the belligerency of the Cuban
the old fellow reeled into his own well, gents by our government would be met
and alter a deal of useless scrambling with a prompt declaration of war on
shouted for light of his to Spain's part. seems
come and help him out. I ready to fight us. From The
The arrogance, the abuse and
paper firm
gave to the Populists more recruits
from the Democratic ranks in Cabarrus
Catawba, Cleveland, Iredell. Alexander
and Democratic
ties in which its circulation was largest
than the combined efforts of all the
Populist papers and propagandists.
II Mr. Holton, chairman of the Re-
publican Stale executive committee, de-
sired to direct, the policy of the Char-
Observer in the interest of the Re-
publican party, he would not care to
cross a or an by way of
changing its present policy, or would he,
according to a recent utterance, change
a single in the Hopping letter
of his late antagonist, ex-Congressman
John S. Henderson. As long as it eon-
its present course, the
cans need no daily organ the State.
The Observer is making more votes for
them than a straight Republican taper
could make Raleigh News and
Weather Crop Bulletin.
N. C. Monday, April
The reports of correspondents if the
Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin, issued
by the North Carolina State Heather
Service for the week ending Saturday,
April 1890, indicate very favorable
conditions. The temperature continued
very high until Wednesday, when cool-
in, the temperature has
not been below normal. Showers
occurred on 21st, and pretty heavy
rains on Friday, 24th, with some hail,
but only slight damage two or three
counties. The rain-hill, greatest in the
east, has been of incalculable benefit,,
and has broken the drought every-
where, except a few western
ties. There was more than th
amount of sunshine
week.
DISTRICT.
nor-
the
IT'S COMING.
It's long, good people, it's
sweet to toll.
From water-tank lo steeple, the
melon in the well
You know it's ripe juicy, and it's
cool as cool kin be,
jest the finest that
ever made fer me
The melon
that kin tell
One half the sweetness
melon in the well
You know when you have seen
the cool fence corner there,
W Idle the sweet birds sang above it
made music in the air ;
And the field-hands left the
the daises in the dell
To the of
melon in the well
tell you said the good soul, showing
her can frill over he edge of the
pet. got into a hole at last,
and its only lucky I'm in hearing, or
you might have
she continued after a pause, letting
down the bucket, and up
he came higher at every turn, of
windlass, the old lady's grasp
slipping from the handle, down he went
to bottom again. This
more than once made the temporary
occupant of suspicious.
in fury at
the last splash, doing that on
purpose. I know you
now I responded his old
an tranquilly, while winding him up
once more; didn't tell me its best
to get used to a thing by degrees I'm
if I was to bring you right up on
a sudden, you wouldn't it whole-
The fellow could not help
chuckling at her application of his
and protested that ho would
sign the pledge on the Instant if she
would lilt him fairly out. This she
did, and packed him off to
wet as he was.
of the, in of
Reviews,
Just at time it seems pretty hard
to preserve the parity between of
the Populists holding and
who are not in
Farmer.
Exactly so. What they all want is
to get In.
The editorial pages of the Review
of Reviews -for May are especially
strong in their treatment of current
foreign and international topics.
The Cuban war and its relations to
Spanish politics, the boundary difficulty
between Brazil and French Guiana,
other South matters, the
sent status of Canadian politics, Amer-
the
England's among
the Powers with reference U Egypt,
the British alliance with Italy, Russian
internal in Abyssinia, rising in
and the Budapest Rx-
arc subjects which fall within
month's survey and which are in-
discussed in the de-
of Progress, the
Give the Farm a Name.
It has been frequently suggested, that
great good would result each, mix
mer placing his name and that of his
farm in a conspicuous place on hi., barn
or road gate. Not only would persons
driving tor the first time lo the place
more easily find it, would add
much and Interest to people
driving from place to place. This lat-
result would have especial effect
with regard to well kept pretty
houses. An observing will
a farm without a
desire to know who is its enterprising
owner. If such a practice were
id. ii marked, in the
of our farms, and therefore
our country, could not fail, result.
Every tidy man would feel a heighten-
ed interest in making his farm front
roadsides, etc., more beautiful, knowing
that every passer by would commend
him as the owner. It would also have
a good effect upon untidy man's
farm, because the between his
slovenly and his neighbor's well-
kept home would shame him into fence
repairing, tree planting and other
of improvement. The idea of naming
the Is certainly
He is Years Old.
The St. Petersburg rays
Russia has oldest man on earth.
Its Moscow tells of him
thus
appeared in the
of police surgeon an aged man
who wished lo have his injured hand
The surgeon up
Wound and then began talking with the
patient, lie learned, eventually, from
documentary evidence, that the man
was in 1757, during the reign el
the end, therefore,
is The old man, whose
name i said he was a native
of Moscow, and from his 20th lo his
year had been a coachman.
his With year, however, he had upset
his master, a count, and the
brother, had hint both seriously,
had been sent q Siberia, where he had
lived until In that year he de-
to return home, and lie arrived in
Moscow iii He at once Started
tor on a pilgrimage,
he had just come hack- lie was much
grieved, to that all the friends
his youth were dead.
eyesight is
hearing i good and ho a, splendid
walker, as Id-, pilgrimages have shown
L-p his year be had
tasted whiskey, but now he allows him-
self an occasional
Reports this week are generally very
favorable. The breaking of the
drought just time, greatly benefiting
all crops, has put farmers in good Just thump her with your fingers, when
its. and I hey are working with
The old melon
that kin tell
One-half the juicy sweetness
Of the melon in the well
Seeds already planted will now sprout
farmers arc now planting cotton as
rapidly as possible. Corn where up is
looking well, some young com has
been for the first lime. Trans-
planting tobacco has begun. Gardens
and vegetables, which were injured
most by drought, are backward, but
rain will bring them nut considerably.
Setting out cabbage, tomato
plants, etc, is Planting
rice has just begun. Much complaint
about potato-bugs which are nu-
II; His
on two days ended drought,
which continued almost unabated up to
the 24th, and, though many places did
not receive quite sufficient rain, there
was enough lo put new lite into
and to Cause seeds to germinate.
damage by hail was reported in
Alison and counties.
Cotton planting now i
rapid progress; in south cotton is being
; stand irregular. Some young
corn has been worked, and planting of
remaining crop is being pushed. Win-
oats are thin ; spring oats have
proved. Tobacco plants are plentiful,
though damage is reported by insects;
a few farmers took advantage of good
season to commence transplanting.
The appearance of potato bugs, cut
worm i and bugs is reported.
she's got that stripe,
you almost hear her through
the green rind ; am ripe
then your knife conies from
its heart so sweet.
Where the wild make
a carpel at your feet
old melon
Thar's that kin tell
One half the juicy sweetness
the melon from the well
in Constitution.
AN
The Proposal Addressed to the
Mother of his Lady Lover.
A quaint offer marriage, written
more than one hundred is
preserved in the family of the
voting descendants. ad-
dressed not lo the young woman her-
self, but most respectfully and decorous-
lo her parents. The lather of the
i iv to her parents.
referred to had tell daughters
and as he was a clergyman fifty
years in a small New town,
may be surmised his affirmative
answer to spare his was as
quickly assenting as it was final. The
wooer was also a clergyman, and he.
his Betsy passed their entire
lied lives same minis-
of those days and dying
with their ducks. Hen; is the lover
plea
At Newport News. Tuesday
mg, the Old Dominion Steamer
bound to New-
York, collided with the Stales
Cruiser Columbia while the latter at
anchor. The was badly
damaged and sunk hour after
the co Iii-inn. She had
on board, all of whom believed to
have laved but lost their baggage
and wearing apparel. The Columbia
also sustained considerable damage and
will have to go to the navy yard for re-
pairs.
The Hen Prefer, ed an Elevation.
A hen belonging to Mr.
II. Adams, of Bowling Green,
has a head of her own invents
strange ways doing things. She
was raised as a house and was
ex peeled course to pat on n little
more style than the common fowl
hatched under the corn-crib and brought
up with nothing more than barn-lot
manners, but ii was not expected that
he would have such original ideas
about laying and When she
was old enough to of keeping
house for herself she began laying but
not a nest. She perched on
a pole about seven feet from the
ground and setting of eggs from
that position. Strange as anything else
is the fact that none the eggs were
broken by the fall but were all
When she was ready
she sat on the pole, A this seemed to
be iv slaw a box was Bailed up
near the pole, a nest was made, some
fresh eggs put in, and Miss
invited to take a seat and make herself
at home. This she did at seeming
proud to know that she had caught on
to the cone, t Gazette.
The editor the Salisbury Herald
says that never heard, H Democrat
speak hi his life, and he
has heard hundreds of Democrats speak
in his time. Neither has any other
man in North Carolina until 1896,
will he hear such the
. News
and Observer.
The News and Observer says live
Democrat have
id by hold
their county 20th.
And Pitt will show her patriotism on
that day, too.
The showers which occurred
district less amount than
other portions of the State, a few
counties are still suffering from drought
but US a whole crops have been greatly,
benefited. A good stand of both cotton
and corn is reported at many places
and planting is making good
Potatoes are up and bugs beginning
their destructive work. Clover is doing
well. In the north-west counties break-
land and preparations for corn is
making good headway. the high
plateaus in the mountain section the
woods are just showing green. Plant-
oats, Irish g stuff,
etc,, while the Condition
of fruit seems exceptionally good.
Quickly
A county superintendent of schools
in northwestern Minnesota, where a
fourth township is a school district
relates a peculiar On a lour
Of one school
that had only one family in it, and the
head that family was a homesteader
who as not required to pay taxes.
He was of course the school director
of that district.
The Other lands in the district Were
owned by speculators who lived in St.
Paul and elsewhere, and paid the
taxes.
reverend sir and worthy maiden,
wedlock's first was talked
heaven ;
When man in alone.
The smiling God, a spouse did form
bone
friendship might souls
inspire
And knit their hearts in a seraphic
fire.
With wedlock chain I wish myself to
bind.
If from your lips the answer should
prove;
Betsy, your seventh. I wish you lo
part
That we may join our hands as well as
hearts,
And live in love and share each
cares.
While fleeting time whirls on with roll-
years
Till grizzly death dissolves the silken
chain
That we may rise and mingle souls
again.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
He Was Gallant.
Thu other day a handsome lady
stepped out of her carriage to go into a
dry goods store on ave-
in Washington. The enterprising
violet sellers were on of
course and one of the smallest of the
Street hurriedly pushed his waiter
of purple flowers in front of her. She
The wife of the homesteader was j
from the county forty dollars a in his waiter and took
per month as school-teacher, and
ante pupils were her own two children.
Being asked who appointed her. she
replied, school and be
asked who he was, she
My
up a small bunch violets. The
very honest, and after
back and git your
The lady paid no attention
to him, but hurried into the store.
Another violet seller hurried to the
The and wife, school scene, however, and said to his colleague
were Norwegians- in breathless haste at
Bad yet there an persons who think bar so; that's Mrs. Cleveland, fool;
that do not on to our she don't want change,
as rapidly as they should. I'd that I'd to her
for replied the boy.

THE
Greenville, N. C
I J,
sake, ft your children's sake, for your
country's sat- e, for God's sake Weep
down
as was deli- in this hall by Daniel
L. last night. The white man
and the. black man live bore in this
together, it is our country
homes arc here our interests and
I our firesides are at stake. We have no
I wars with our white friends. We don t
May 1890.
Anderson,
W. Va., takes a rosy view of Demo-
in that State, lie
-The Democrats of my state are going
to wake a great fight this year to re-
deem the from
and I think they are going to win. It
It is going to be a pretty excellent con-
test, hot our party h united, and the
conditions arc all favorable to
North Carolina the
with great this season.
At Danville, Va., the University o
North Carolina base ball
University of Virginia dub and defeat-
ed them in a score of I to This
victory gave the North Carolina boys
the championship of the South. The
Wake Forest club also met the club of
University, of South Carolina
at Greenville, S. C, and defeated them
in a score of to So it goes with-
out saying that North Carolina ran
play ball.
want any and it is our duty to any
man who attempts to arouse the
dices of one race against the other.
condemn such vile utterances. I de-
them and any man or men that
them, and if I was God, I would
forever damn the man who utters them.
Dr. Scruggs was terribly in earnest and
man present, white and black
cheered every sentence. It
to the white men present to hear a
denouncing a white man for in-
the race prejudice the
but thanked him for
WASHINGTON
Ayden Election.
N. C. May 5th,
election here passed off quietly
yesterday and the following ticket was
A. Harrington.
Commissioners J. J. Stokes,
It. W. Smith, Josephus Gaskins, H. S.
Hardy and It. Tingle.
Below we give the minority letter l
the Populists who disagreed Sena-
tor in reference to It
will be seen that Col. Skinner signs
first, and yet it will be remembered that
a few ream he would not be a can-
tor Governor he should
have the privilege of withdrawing if lie
should fee that a Republican was going
to be elected. Now he is in favor o
fusion dimply a division of
No man's purpose was ever more
fest than the Colonels in this desire to
fuse. He ewe a snap of your in-
for the voters so be is noted
Watch him. He will never hold
offices. His own people will re-
him.
To the of North Carolina
-As your central
State executive which con-
in on the April.
we desire to make for your
the following statement
at o'clock p. m., the com-
held a conference with visiting
representative M Of
more from the various sections of the
State, from which it was evident from
the of opinion there ex-
pressed that the Populists of North
Carolina are opposed to co-operation on
the electoral ticket, but are in favor
of co-operation with the Republican
party on State and local
Governor being to the
lists. This opinion was based the
belief that the general results would
mean more for silver than a straight
fight, which, in the opinion the sub-
would mean either the
or loss of the results of 1894 or a
complete Republican victory which we
deprecated. At in room in
the Park Hotel, there was held an ex-
meeting of the committee,
in sentiment as expressed, the
committee Steading to against co-
operation any terms that did not
pledge the Republicans to vote for the
principles of the Populist party and
not to vote for any man for any office
who would vote for a single standard
subscribing members of your
c intended for what they
knew was the consensus of opinion of
afternoon conference and what we
to be the Populist sentiment of
the State. We were overruled by a
majority the committee, and as this
is a matter of grave importance to the
Populist party, we deem it proper, in
justice to ourselves and to the people,
and for the purpose of securing liar
v in our ranks, to make the simple
statement and to refer the matter of
co-operation to each county and dis-
and to the Populist
for its determination.
Skinner,
Y.
White,
II.
Raleigh, N. C, April
we publish from the News and
a few remarks made at a pol-
meeting in Raleigh a few nights
g W a We commend them to
the careful consideration of all whose
sole argument in advancing their own
interest is to white men and arouse
all the animosities possible between the
races. We wonder what will be the
feelings of some white men when they
read aid ponder what this has to
gay along this What a contrast
between his remarks and the speech of
D. I- Russell the night before in the
same hall.
called
Dr. L. A. Scruggs was next
for. He resisted the call at first but the
crowd yelled louder for him. So he ad
to the stage, and before he had
three minutes he had created a
am no said
I desire to register my
eternal and everlasting protest against
the effort that was made here last night
to array the black man against the whit
man. It is wrong. It is wrong; it is
unwise, it is unjust, it is dangerous and
the speaker, and
the crowd went wild. your pol-
if you wish he con-
if yon desire
to, u I am, but for your sake, for my
From our Regular Correspondent.
D. C. May,
Senator speech protesting
against Republican pro-
for an expenditure of
when the estimates of the govern-
receipts for the next; fiscal year
are only was a notice
nerved upon the Republicans that
the coming campaign the people
should be fully posted upon Republican
intentions, not avowed, but surely
by the action of their leaders in
both branches of this Congress, to in-
crease Federal taxation all around, in
order to raise the money to meet need-
The men who are
in control of the Republican party
wish to put this upon
a European basis in the matter of ex-
and In other ways-
Now, Mr. Gorman and other leading
democrats that a majority an
overwhelming, majority, of the plain,
everyday people of this country favor
the American idea of economy in
expenditure, and public ex-
in any and every form ; and
they intend to see that the facts are
J placed before the people.
Not a little amusement has been
caused by the testimony He. An.
drew Carnegie, before the Senate Na-
val committee in the investigation as to
the cost of armor plates for our fight-
vessels, which although given
time ago was not made public until
this week. Mr. Carnegie had the
nerve to tell the committee that he con-
making the armor for the gov-
at a ton a work of pa-
The public is wondering
what Mr. Carnegie calls the contract
ha made with the Russian govern-
to furnish the same kind of armor
for a ton. Abuses brought to
light by that investigation caused the
Senate to amend the Naval
bill so as to prohibit the employ-
of naval officers by private con-
tractor after June While
nothing positively criminal was shown
in connection with such employment
enough was engendered to
make it desirable to put a to the
practice.
The Senate evidently is not afraid of
the A. P. A., whatever its other faults
may be. After to
on the life and character of
Father by Senators
and Mitchell, of Wis., and Kyle, of
South Dakota, who, by the way, is a
Protestant minister, it adopted a joint
resolution offered by Senator Palmer,
of accepting the status of Father
new in Statuary Hall, and
thanking the state Wisconsin. It re-
mains to be seen whether the A. P. A.
can prevent the House adopting this
resolution. It is understood that it will
make the attempt.
Representative Clark, who was the
unsuccessful Democrat-
candidate for Gov. Alabama, has re-
turned to his seat in the House, and he
brings good news. He
matter how much we may differ on
questions, Democrats of
Alabama are harmonious in agreeing
that Best interests of the State require
that it shall remain under democratic
control. We arc all together in the
of the ticket just nominated and
will elect it fairly and
That's the way for a democrat to talk.
There is no sore head that man's
hat.
manager mole a march
on Reed when they captured that
state convention, even if they
failed to get everything they wanted
from the Illinois convention. U begins
to look as though and had
undertaken a task of gigantic
in trying to keep from
getting that nomination. Their latest
scheme uniting all the opposition to
on Harrison is not at all
pleasing to Reed, who hates Harrison.
One of Reed's friends speaking of this
scheme and
can't Beat without taking up
Harrison they can't heat him at all.
Just remember what I say. If these
men try to stampede the convention to
Harrison will be
and the man who will do most to bring
it about will be Tom Reed. Reed
wants the nomination himself, and next
to getting it he wants to Harrison
out of
Oakley Items.
N. C. May
Eliza House, of Scotland Neck, is
spending some time here visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Andrews.
Miss A. Moore after a long
and painful illness, died at her home
Wednesday.
W. H. Williams left on Saturday
morning's train to spend a few days
with his daughter, Mrs. J. E.
Rocky Mount.
Mr. Charlie Little and Mrs. Maggie
Everett were married Thursday even-
last at the home B. Everett.
Our people are all for silver, You
may look for a silver delegation from
township-
IN LOVING
TA C
BY P. C. D.
Dear Bert, thy toils, thy cares are
over,
You have entered the portals of rest,
Thy ties to earth are rendered asunder
And in Christ's arms you are
Brighter and purer in heaven she reign-
Fairer even than a beautiful star,
Lovingly and tenderly God will guide
her,
AngeL will hold the gate ajar.
North Carolina Poetry.
Bethel Items.
Bethel, N. C. May
H. Blount, of Greenville, passed
through town Sunday.
H. W, of Greenville, was
in town
Mrs. Wilie Pierce, of Falkland,
peat Sunday in town visiting her sis-
Mrs, Bryan.
Rev. J. W. Powell filled his regular
monthly appointment at the Baptist
church Sunday morning and night and
preached two sermons.
The following were elected at the
municipal election held here to-day
C. Moore.
Blount,
W. J. Rollins, J. D. Bullock, A.
Ward, J. J. Carson.
In her dying hour she lisped
Bidding her loved one who had gone to
wait,
To tarry a minute and she would be
ready
To enter the golden gate.
Weep not fond husband and parents
Fur her whom you dearly love,
Think what a treasure you've resigned
to heaven
For the beautiful home above.
Call her not back for peaceful she's
sleeping,
Sleeping the righteous sleep the
just,
Only awaiting to be resurrected
To be severed from the cold damp dust.
We loved her and would asked
Oh God, to stay thy hand,
In mercy not to take this loved one
As yet, to thy band.
Then sleep on Bert, thy beautiful sleep
of peace
Your place we never can fill.
And on last triumphant day.
Rise unchanged and be an angel still.
The Charlotte Observer says ibis of
the volume of North Carolina poetry,
which was compiled by Rev. II. C.
Moore, of Monroe
A most excellent compilation of
North Carolina poetry is the volume
edited by Rev. Hight C. Moore, entitled
Poetry of North
We have referred to it more than once
before. The only similar work ever
published in the State, its learn from
the preface, was Notes or Car-
by Mrs. Mary Bayard
Clarke, of which appeared
in 1834, least two decades before
our best poetry was The
volume of Mr. Moore, published in
1894, is therefore a valuable one. The
best portions of Angel in the
by Edwin W. Fuller, are here
to lie found, with the choicest
from John II. Boner, Mrs. Mary
Bayard Clarke, Thomas N. Crumpler,
Thee. II. Hill, Christian Henry
Jerome Stockard and many others, in-
of course, Joseph W. Holden's
superb which Henry
Stockard considers peerless
among North and
which was, until Professor
Stockard himself won the favor of the
Muse.
But Mr. Moore's book has not met
the reception from the North Carolina
reading public which its merits entitle
it to ; he finds a large of copies
his hands. It is a worthy little
volume, and every family in the State
ought to have a copy upon the parlor
table. The price has re-
to
Cuban Butchery.
Jacksonville, Fla., May Mr.
Southern Baptist missionary ex-
from Cuba by in a long
interview, tells appalling Stories of
cities being committed by Spaniards. In
the last two weeks, in the rural districts
of San Miguel
Mr. says, Col. has had
more than one hundred persons butch-
and then reported them to the out-
side as having been killed in bat-
Among those killed were children
and years of age. The victims
were compelled to dig their graves
before being shot. As the steamer was
leaving Havana, Mr says word was
brought on board that twenty-seven
more peaceable citizens had been butch-
by Col. troops near
Havana. Col. is one of
favorites and is acting under
the Captain General's orders.
-------A large assortment of the celebrated------
Eagle Brand of Fine Shoes
-------just received. A complete stock of-------
General MERCHANDISE
always on hand.
T. WHITE,
C. A. Whites old
N. C, May 4th,
She weather has been quite rainy
for the past few days.
The around near here are
right busy setting out tobacco.
Mrs. N. II. of this place has
returned home from relatives
near Greenville.
Alonzo Jones and wife spent last
Sunday with relatives Mar
It. Johnston, of Greenville. Spent
Sunday and Sunday night with Mr.
Whitmel of this place.
Mrs. Jones is very sick. We
hope to soon see her well.
Walter Pollard has just returned
me from a trip to Washington City.
University Commencement.
The faculty have changed the date
of commencement day from
day, June to Thursday, June 4th,
in order to accommodate Vice
dent Stevenson, who has found that
the wedding of his daughter will
vent his coming earlier than June 4th.
The Vice President, with Mrs. Steven-
Miss Stevenson and Mr. Steven-
will arrive at Greensboro at
son,
son,
o'clock Thursday morning, June 4th
and will be escorted from there to the
University by a delegation the
tees and alumni. It is hoped to give
this distinguished a reception
worthy of them and of the State.
At commencement the Vice
dent will deliver the diplomas to the
graduates and make an address, and
will also be given a public reception,
where everybody will have an
to greet him and his family.
T.
President.
Items.
N. C, May 1896.
A, Cox and wife spent one night
last week in Kinston and returned with
a new buggy.
The Misses Wesson have open-
ed a millinery store B. F. man-
and are doing a business.
Mrs. Bettie of Goldsboro.
is visiting the Misses Wesson.
W. L. Nobles and sister spent
day night here, the guests of Mrs.
rah Evans.
The examination of the fourth month
f Miss Fannie Cox's school closed
last Friday, the following
on the roll of honor
C. Vincent, E. F. Tuck-
Fountain V, Co. Louis Manning,
Luther Wingate, Cleveland Vincent.
Rosa Lee
Cox, Tessie Maggie Brown,
Mabel M. Cox, Minnie Cox, Lula
Smith.
Invitation to Veteran.
The Ladies Memorial Association of
Beaufort county respectfully extend an
invitation to the members Bryan
Grimes Camp of United Confederate
Veterans of county, to participate
in the exercises on Memorial day in
Washington on the 11th of May 1896.
Mrs. W. H. Call.
Ladies Memorial Association, Beau-
fort, Co. X, C,
The Douglas Resolution.
Among the visitors to the city this
week is Deputy Sheriff Gran-
ville county, lie is the first
sheriff seen in Raleigh since the
days when Radicalism flourished, and
was quite a lion. But it was not this
distinction that made him the biggest
man in town in Radical circles
sell of fame not
He is the Representative who intro-
the resolution that passed the
House of Representatives to adjourn
that body in honor of Fred Douglas.
The resolution was as follows
The late Fred Douglas
departed this life on the 20th instant,
and
We greatly deplore the
s use ; now, therefore,
That this House adjoin n
at o'clock to-day in honor of the de-
The author of this resolution, the
passage of which will forever remain a
stigma upon the State, has been re-
warded, and is now in authority over
the while men of Such is
News and Ob
server.
COUNTY
A Convention of the Democratic par-
of county will be held at the
Court House in Greenville on
day, May 20th, at o'clock M.
tor the purpose of appointing delegates
to the Suite Convention to be held in
the city of Raleigh on June 85th.
The Democratic voters of the several
townships are requested to meet at the
usual place of in the township
on Saturday. May 10th, at
o'clock. P. M. for the purpose of
pointing delegates to said County Con-
According to the plan of organization
the townships are entitled to appoint the
follow number of delegates and alter-
each, to-wit
Beaver Dam
Bethel
Falkland
Greenville
Swift Creek
By order of the Democratic
of Pitt County.
It. Williams, Alex. L. Blow,
Secretary. Chairman.
To meet the demand from growers of fine fur a HIGH
GRADE FERTILIZER, have placed on the market which
is destined to fill the bill of a perfect Fertilizer. We use High Grade
Sulphate of Potash in the manufacture of these goods, which is ab-
free from Chlorine.
Guaranteed minimum
Ammonia 3.00 to 8.50 per cent.
Available Phosphoric Acid 8.00 to 9.00 per cent-
Insoluble to 3.00 per cent.
Total
Potash
For sale
WHITE,
Greenville, N. C-
10.00 to 12.00 per cent.
to 3.50 per cent
Manufactured by
Columbia Guano Co.,
Norfolk, Va.
At Durham Saturday morning a
buggy in which A. G. Bauer and C.
II. Norton were riding was struck by
a train on the Southern road. Bath
gentlemen were hurt.
being
Diocese of East Carolina.
H. C, April
The Thirteenth Annual Council of
the Diocese of East Carolina will meet
in St. Church,
Thursday, May 21st, 1896.
The usual reduced rates have been
neared on all railroads.
Tickets on sale May 20th and 21st,
limit May 20th.
N.
Secretary of the Council.
The rate from Greenville will be
We Otter You
REMEDY Which
INSURES Safety
of Life to Mother
and Child.
A FOB, BO
The Wilmington Star says that a
Chicago man in Washington who
wanted to see the President to show
him two inventions he had made, one an
boat which would run a
hundred miles an hour, and a gun that
would kill forty-eight at one shot
was so disappointed because he
not see the President he hanged
himself in the cell to which he was
committed as a crank. This
man was a specimen of those who go at
the pace that kills.
Hookerton Items.
X. C, May
Dr. H. D. Harper filled Rev. D. W.
appointment here Sunday, he be-
engaged in a protracted meeting at
Wilson.
Misses Swan, of and May,
pf Farmville, were the guests of Mrs. H.
L. Coward Sunday.
The Hookerton correspondent to the
Kinston Free Press of April refers
to roe as a I will say here, and it
can be proven, that I help support
more papers and pay twice as or
more subscription for newspapers than
he. the Hookerton Itemizer, does. He
only takes the Free Press and of course
he pays his subscription with his items.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate comes
to a member of his family if I am not
mistaken, or been informed right.
These two constitute his papers. Doubt-
less the editor of the Free Press books
shows I have paid more for subscription
to tin Free Press than his
Itemizer has. I been a subscriber
to the Free Press but my
expired and has not been renewed. The
Greenville is a good paper
w everybody ought to take
their home paper, Hookerton
to Kinston Free press far
and quit borrowing it to read
the Hookerton Items. I think the
itemizer to the Free Press has got a
little too personal in calling M a beat,
and a doubt I read more papers
and for them, than anybody else in
Hookerton. He says he has
my case, so I have investigated his.
primaries
are now called to meet on Saturday the
to send delegates to the county
convention, and from there to the State
convention, and from the State
to the National convention and for
no other purpose. Under the plan of
as published by the central
committee, balloting shall be had for
candidates, and all the votes returned to
the county convention, but as there are
no candidates to be voted for the issue is
or sound money
delegation be that
honest representation should be ac-
those favoring either side of the
issue. In every strength
should be ascertained, and delegates
accordingly, giving both sides
their relative strength, otherwise the
plan of organization adopted by the
central committee would be a fraud and
a make-shift. The primary is intended
to find out the sentiments of the voters
of the precincts. If the majority rule is
to be adopted in the primaries and
chosen accordingly, the
of the will not be reflect-
ed only as to Therefore
it is but just that delegates should he
sent to the county convention represent-
both sides according to their strength.
There are a great many Democrats in
Pitt county n favor sound money
principle as opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and while
they may not be the majority it i
Democratic they should have
share among the delegates chosen to the
county convention. Unless this is done
there will not be harmony in the party.
Negro Magistrates.
In conversation with a Democrat
recently, one of the leading Populists
in this county claimed that the last
Legislature had elected only two
colored men magistrates and that
were elected by an
names being similar to of two
white men whom it was intended to
elect. The Landmark is astonished
that so intelligent a man would deny
what is a matter of record. As a
matter of fact the fusion Legislature
elected about magistrates.
Only one was elected for this section of
the C. of
in the east they are plentiful.
We have only a partial list those
elected but the list have shows that
there arc ten in Edgecombe county.
one one in Cabarrus. seven
in one in Greene, twenty in
New Hanover of these being in the
city of Wilmington thirteen
Warren, two
six in Wake, fire Bertie, four in
Richmond, nine in one
Martin and one in Hertford. This
makes a total of
There were also magistrate.
elected for other counties, among them
Halifax. Northampton and Vance, bat
we haven't a list these.
This is the record of the Legislature
on the colored magistrate question and
the Populist who denies it only makes
himself Land-
mark.
EXPECTANT
MOTHERS,
Robs Confinement of its Pain, Horror and Risk.
My wife used c-
per child, she did not
suffer i
i at the critical hour
, little-she had no pains afterward and bar
recovery was rapid.
E. E. JOHNSTON, Ala.
. Sent Mall or Express, on receipt j
bottle. Book -To
. mailed Free. .
CO., Atlanta, -a.
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YEARS has taught me that the best is
Hemp Rope, Building Pumps, Farming Implements, and every
necessary for Millers, general house purposes, well a
Clothing, Hats. Shoes. Dress Goods I have hand. Am bead
quarters tor Heavy Groceries, and tor Clark's N. T.
Cotton, and keep courteous and attentive clerks.
FORBES,
GREEN TILLS. N. G
J.
Life, Fire and Accident Insurance.
GREENVILLE, C
OFFICE AT THE COURT HOUSE.
All placed in
FIRST-C ASS COMPANIES
At lower, current rates.
first-glass
Pitt Co. N. J.
T.
COBB BROS CO.
COTTON AND
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I Stock, Cotton, Grain and Provision Brokers.
-02, and Progress Building-, Water Street
Bagging, Ties and Peanut Sacks at Lowest Prices.
and Solicited,
Code, In Telegraphing.
v a, TobaCCO
Dr. H. F. TAYLOR,
Of
California Optical Mite,
la at the House and
consulted free of for
one week only- All the
are used great care
taken in difficult cases-
and see tine assortment
of tinted lenses, these are
recommended for resting
eyes when reading at
ONE DOLLAR
Remember first quality Crystal
Lenses, up-
Reduced
Flues.
, Ready For Delivery
Having secured a shop
about sixty days I will mo
my stock of Hardware and
might be called artificial ears
are now being used upon the strainer
Alabama of the Bay Line. The
are located upon the upper of the
their use a officer of the
vessel can sit in the or
other and locate the whistles
of steamers, or other several
miles distant. The Baltimore Steam
Packet Company has decided to
this invention, which Is the idea o a
Mr. F. De La for
use in its service. The instrument,
which is called will be
of assistance and a great safe-
guard in navigating the vessels in thick
weather, or at night when it is difficult
channel
and other vessels.
to one the brick stores now be
per
from
TOBACCO
Rocky Mount, N. C.
January lo,
F. S. Royster.
Dear can enter my
order tor too of your
Tobacco Guano,
think I will need fifty tons for
own use. I have used
Orinoco for two seasons past
and I it. It's a splendid
Respectfully,
RICKS.
Mr Ricks has made a large
e raising fine tobacco,
of a
is as
he knows what he is talking
about.
For sale by G. M.
Greenville, N,
and my 20.00 New Lee
Pumps, Doors, Sash and Nails,
specialties. Axes and
I am offering ray Corn
and Sewing Machines at cost.
I have just received a lot of
barbed wire.
All my axes will go tor
Try one of my axes,
early bring the Cash.
Five Points, Greenville, N- C
GUANO CO,
in new machinery and
guarantee first class
work. Look to
interest and give me
your orders.
NOTICE
WISH TO STATE TO
A gent Wall Paper.
time i R, L.
reduce the price on my . .
cent and on prepared till
your orders for-
FROM TO EACH STEEL FLUES
will sold com,
; My Stoves for
iron. Have put
in the Brown Hooker .
cordially solicit the a
having business to do, and
be glad to serve yo.
J. S.
j. w.
John T. Patrick says that every State
in the South will be represented at the
Northern Convention, at
Southern Pines, next week. He says a
great many visitors from the North will
also lie
Wanted-An Idea SSH
GREENVILLE, N. C.
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We respectfully solicit the accounts of firms
individuals and the general
Sr Check and account books famished on application.
TOBACCO FLUES,
We. the undersigned,
purchased or used Tobacco
made W. C Madison last sea-
son and unhesitatingly say they
are A- both in workmanship and
are easier put together than
Flues usually made. All joints
riveted or hinged-
J. J.
W. G Grist,
L. Gui ST.
S- D. Callis.
We are now taking orders for
next season and will guarantee
quality the best and prices as low
as any. Correspondence solicited.
Give correct size of of barn
and we will make flues so you
can put up in fifteen
W. C. A Son.
Washington, N

FRANK
WILSON,
Just received another
supply of Spring and
Summer Suits and
now ready
to supply all
your wants.
If it is
the
feet
fitting, neat
finish, every-
to-date
kind
of
why you want to come
the King Dealer and
be satisfied both in ma-
and price.
Straw
CHEAP.
I have also a complete
stock of
Dry Goods,
Notions,
Shoes,
Furnishings
and will be pleased to
show them to you and
if once seen you will be
sure to buy. Come and
see me.
Frank
Wilson,
The King Clothier.
THE REFLECTOR.
Local Reflections.
May.
Fifth month.
I; are blooming.
Cotton is coming up.
Weather most too cool for crops.
May has knocked April clean out.
The oyster has gone into summer
quarters.
These dark nights make a body wish
the electric ht.
I land-Picked Date-, packages
at S. M.
Some This Way, Some That Way-
Read the List.
When y u want a good
to Morris Meyer.
This kind of weather grass grows
faster than anything else.
The Free Press says truckers around
shipping
The protracted meeting in the Moth-
church closed Sunday night.
A large sturgeon was caught Monday
at the seine three s below town.
The Greenville Bank opened
Friday. See advertisement.
On May there will be an
from to Kooky Mount.
month we had May weather and
this mouth we are having April
There will be a May ball in Smith's
ball, at Falkland, on the evening the
There i much complaint among
housekeepers over the
Commencement invitations will soon
he making their presence It-It in the
mails.
FOB About empty
Hour barrels. Apply at
office.
Councilman II. C. Hooker has the
nicest potato patch we have seen this
season.
Fight persons were received into
membership of the church on
It is estimated Florida will de-
vote acres t tobacco culture
this year.
Mrs. It. Parker is sick.
Prof. J. L. of Raleigh, is in
town.
J. A. returned from Norfolk
Friday evening.
Capt. G. J- has returned
Washington.
F. M. Meadows mid wile, of Wilson,
arrived Friday evening.
Mrs. Zeno Moore is visiting her
father in county.
Miss Jennie left Friday
Dunn to visit relatives.
An exchange
pretty
that the Lest
sidewalk is to walk by the side a
Sunday's weather had a had effect on
the attendance Sunday schools
churches.
They are trying more dirt on main
to see it the mud can be done
away with.
Dr. II. Taylor, late of California
Optical Institute, is at the King House
for a week only. See ad.
It would be living in
world it lucre were not so
in it. hut more to make a living.
The bard rain about noon on Sun-
day gave many people returning home
church a considerable
No matter how bad a husband may
lie. the true wife will never let
say a worn against him in her
A drunken woman was pulled
out a about II o'clock, Sunday
night, given quarters in tin-
lock-up.
The acknowledges an
invitation to the Southern Night
of Vine Hill Academy, Scotland
Neck, on May
There is a young colored man here
who is quite an expert with harmonica
and guitar. lie is a whole band
himself and makes good music.
A portion of the Register of
has been railed off for the County
Commissioners. They were behind
the bars in their Monday.
Joe horse has developed a
fondness for onions. The animal
cleaned up his pa eh and then wallowed
all over where they had been planted.
J. S. spent Sunday in
Greene county returned Monday.
He tells us that crops over are line
and farmers are about through setting
out
The recent rains interfered
with the telegraph line and we
not get any weather report for
row. Our prediction is that it will
either be fair or rain.
Between o'clock
day John Wilson, one of the convicts
at work on the dam in charge of Capt.
J. T. Smith, gave the officer the slip
and hie escape.
April was not much of a month for
showers this year. It rained the first day
and the last day, but apart from this
and the heavy rains last Friday it
could be called a dry month.
Write it on the work-house gate,
Write it on the slate,
Write it on the copy-book.
That the young may on it look
Where there's drink there's danger.
Selected.
Henry of Sampson county,
an inmate of the State hospital at
committed suicide by climbing a
tree and throwing head first vi
the was
Col. E. Stilley us that
cotton seed meal is poisonous to hogs.
That alter hogs have been fed on it for
a short time it produces symptoms
similar u
appreciation of the efforts of
home merchants to home needs
by giving them your patronage. Con-
advertising columns of the
and you will know where to trade
to best advantage. i
Some advertisers lots of money
in beating about the bush instead of go-
capturing In plain
this means a
money spent In of one sort and
another, when a like sum spent in news-
paper advertising would hove brought
infinitely greater returns.
Miss Eliza Harding, of Centerville,
is visiting Miss Harding.
B. E. Parham returned Wednesday
evening from Durham and
Silas a prominent tobacco
warehouseman Richmond, is here.
J. G. Rawls. of Wilson, arrived
Thursday evening to visit brother,
W. S. Rawls.
J. C of Rocky
came down Thursday evening to look
alter tobacco.
S. M. and
J. T. Worthington, of spent
Monday here
R. Hyman came down from Scotland
Neck Saturday evening and returned
Monday morning.
W. II R. Redditt. of
Suffolk, spent last night here looking
after building
W. I,. Cooper, representing
Hill Nurseries, is ii for a days.
We had a pleasant call from him.
J. R. Nichols, who has been home
on a furlough, for his post
in the army ill Fortress
W. W. Moore, of arrived
Thursday evening to visit relatives
here at his old home. All are glad to
see hint.
S. M. Merrill, of Atlanta, who
has been spending sometime with her
Mrs. S. B. Wilton, left Friday
morning.
Mrs. J. D. Murphy and little
of Asheville. arrived Thursday
evening to spend some days with Mrs.
A. Forbes.
Rev. E. C. of is
ill. understand he is suffering
an attack nervous prostration.
--Newborn Journal.
W. G. Lang and wile and Mrs. S. M.
of who came down
Saturday to attend the silver wedding,
returned home Mommy.
The best Cigar is North
Carolina hand-made at S. M
I am prepared to Ice Cream
to families in any quantity. Give me
your Mounts
If you Ice Cream, Soda Water,
Milk Shakes, Coco Cola, Lemonade
and Sherbets call on Morris Meyer.
Coil Fish, Irish
Oat Flakes. Cheese, Mac-
P. O. Molasses, S. M.
The lint Would soul-
it- to write only on
one side of the paper, and always sign
their name on one Her of the letter.
Marriages for April,
Register of Deeds King issued
teen marriage licenses during the month
of April, seven of which v ere for white
couples and eleven for colored.
Caught at Newborn.
A telegram from tells of
the arrest of a who had escaped
from the convict squad here. He gives
his name over there as Frank Pell, but
it is no doubt John Wilson who gave
Capt. Smith the slip one day last week.
King will go alter him.
Will Open a Branch Here.
J. G. Rawls, of Wilson, who is
here visiting his brother, tells us that
he contemplates opening a branch,
lie was one
of pioneers of the Rawls jewelry
business in this town, being located
here for several back in the
and still has a great many
friends among our people. Mr, Rawls
recently went to New York to Jake a
special optical course, and received a
in that line which he will also
practice in connection with
Town Election.
The town election here Monday was
so quiet as to be almost void of interest.
In fact the nominations made in the
different wards on Friday night were
I considered is equivalent to an election,
there being only one ticket in each
ward. The only instance where there
was the slightest deviation from voting
for the regular nominees was m the
third ward where a colored man run as
an independent candidate, hut he
only live votes.
The following
in the different
First Clark Jr., and
James Tucker, both colored.
Second C. Hooker.
Ward-S. C. Hamilton, Jr.,
end J. f. Move, the latter colored-
Fourth WardS. T. While,
The now will meet next Mon-
day to and elect a Mayor and
other officers. The Hoard Stands just
as it did last Democrats and
four Republicans, three of the
Drive out the impurities from your
blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla and thus
avoid that tired, languid feeling and
even serious illness.
Administrators Notice.
waving this jay qualified
Sylvester deceased, late
Of the county of Pitt, State of North
this it to notify all persons
claims the estate of said
deceased to the under,
n or before day May
1897 or this will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make
payment. This 6th day of it
1598. P. A. WAYNE,
Bernard Cox, Attorney.
Harried.
At o'clock Wednesday afternoon at
of Mrs. Susan
of the bride, two miles from Green-
ville, Mr. J. F. Harrington and Miss
Gaither Tucker were married by
T. X. Manning. We extend best
wishes.
Improvements at Ocracoke.
Mr. George Cradle, of Hyde
who sometime ago purchased the ho-
tel property at Ocracoke, is reported to
be making extensive improvements
down there in preparation for the com-
season. Ocracoke is one of the
most delightful resorts on the coast and
very popular with Greenville folks.
Will Try Sweet Potatoes.
Daniel King, a colored man living
about live miles above town, tells us
that he is going to put six acres in Nor-
ton yam potatoes this year, expecting a
crop 1,200 bushels. He is a success
fill farmer and Sticks closely to his bus-
The Green vie Bank.
Until we can secure better
which will be soon, will occupy rear of
store formerly occupied by
now by Ii. M We are now
ready to In gin banking and with ample.
means and facilities for transacting the
banking business both local and foreign
and assuring you our very best vices
in your behalf, I am, yours truly,
J. W. President.
Check and account books furnished
on application.
Improving the Street.
It looked like a working bee Thursday
morning among many of the close
to Five to see
tin-in out with shovels and smooth-
the clay they recently put on main
street to keep down the dust. Capt.
White was bossing the squad and for a
while was a lively contest between
Henry Willis Fleming and
Jim M bite as to which could work
the fastest. It wasn't long before they
found out it was more comfortable back in
the shade. That part of the street over
which the clay was placed is showing
considerable improvement.
He Caught On.
A modest young lady wanting to
make a purchase Stepped in at Jim
and addressed him thus
is my desire to obtain a pair of circular
elastic, appendages, capable of being
contracted or expanded by means
burnished steel appliances that
sparkle like particles of gold leaf set
with Alaskan diamonds and which are
utilized for retaining in proper position
the of the lower extremities,
which innate delicacy forbids me to
Jim looked puzzled for a
minute but got of the dilemma by
savings. guess you can find some
garters at Clark's, light next
The following is the standing of the
clubs including Saturday's games
Per
Won
Philadelphia.
Boston.
Washington.
Chicago.
Cincinnati.
Brooklyn. Ii
St. Louis. G
Cleveland.
New York. i
Republican Convention.
The Republican county
was held here Sat to select
gates to the State and Congressional con-,
of the townships
were represented,
A committee of seven was appointed
to retire and select the delegates and
alternates, which they did as follows
STATE
M. Bernard, C. C,
Forbes, Perkins, Joseph
sou. V. Cox, Cicero
Dawson, John Thompson, T. W. C.
Moore.
V. Cox, Manning
Moore, J. J. Perkins, J. T. Move.
M. Bernard, C. C.
Forbes, T. ML
While the committee was out E. V.
Cox was called for and responded in a
speech that was delivered as if under
pressure, evidently not knowing exacts
what to say, of afraid that he
might say something he ought not
It was misusing to see. how he
would to venture p assert
SILVER WEDDING.
carving sets, celery and fruit stands,
j spoons, ladles, fancy forks,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Forbes Celebrate is. butter dishes, water pitchers,
the of
Happy Marriage.
On the 2nd day of May, 1871, Mr.
Alfred Forbes and Miss Clara J.
stood at Hymen's Altar and
made man and wile. This was the
beginning a happy weeded life.
Twenty-live blissful years
The roil joins their host of
friends in wishing they may live to
their golden wedding without
the family circle broken.
over them, their union being blessed
with seven children, and it is a remark-
able fact that in all these years the
Marriage.
At Ml. Pleasant church, four miles
Greenville, on Wednesday even-
April 89th, at l o'clock, Mr. J. A.
Teel and Ali-s M. Spain,
of Mr. S. II. Spain, were married
circle has not been broken and their by Rev. J. W.
is not a vacant chair in the home.
On Saturday evening, May 2nd,
The attendants were W. T. Fleming
and Miss Claude W. S. Briley
Our Special Effort
ML,
SPRING OF 1896.
Mens Snits for 5.00
at their palatial home, they Miss Lizzie Spain, J. S. Spain
their silver wedding with one the
most enjoyable receptions known to the
and Miss Elbe Smith, W. J.
and Miss Emily I,. F.
It Needs Fixing.
circles of Greenville. A and Miss Lucy Briley, J. V.
number of friends called to congratulate M's Nora Briley, John
them and wish them many more yearn and Miss Olivia Johnson, L. N.
of uninterrupted happiness. j Briley and Miss Ward, William
The decorations their home were Fleming,
magnificent. The hall was draped in Charlie Briley and
yellow and red with evergreens, Andrew
front parlor in white and blue, the sea- elegant sup-
parlor in pink, the dining room in
yellow, with an abundance flowers
and silver sprays life be filled win
house the guests
received in the hall by Miss Hortense
Forbes and Mr. C. F They were,
then ushered into the front parlor
and desperate of
assisted the host and hostess in
Mr. and Mrs. Forbes st,. ft h
neath an exquisite silver arch studded
with twenty-live wax
the years of their married life. At
one end of the arch was 1871 and at
the other 1896, while from the center
was suspended a large bell
of the valley and rare white
,.,. damage.
Mrs Forbes was attired an
mint dress of black brocaded silk,
med with white satin, black chiffon
and jewel Mr. Forbes
very dangerous condition and
damage occur, the would be
pen represent- . .
. , ,.,. lite much
cost making the road passable. Capt.
Smith with his convict gang could do
j some good work on this road and save
the public much
Nervous
and
People find just the help they so much
need, in Hood's Sarsaparilla. It fur-
looked his best in a suit
seemed equally as happy as when . by purl-
lust claimed Ins .-harming bride twenty.; lying, vitalizing enriching the
live years age. ; blood up the
In the second parlor the guests the stomach and regulates the
received Mr. and Mrs. M. II. whole system. Read
Mm Sallie Rountree and want to Hood's
Clara Bruce Forbes.
Tl
; My health run down, and I had the grip.
After that, my heart and nervous system
were badly affected, so that I could not do
my own work. Our physician gave me
some help, but did not cure. I decided
to try Sarsaparilla. Soon I could
do all my own housework. I have taken
Cured
in the conservatory and made deli Hood's Pills with Hood's Sarsaparilla,
music as the missed to and Sn St J
not be without them.
, bottles of Hood's through
blessing of God, It has cured me.
I worked as hard as ever the past sum-
mi.-. On the of the large
in the dining room a pyramid
lie punch room was presided
by Ella King, Margie
and Novella and the
room by
and W. F. Burch and Misses Annie
Sheppard, Delia Marshall, Car-
and Florence Williams.
The Forbes Orchestra was stationed
9.50
10.50
11.50
1250
13.50
; Youths
. f
j 6.50
8.00
Boys
3.00
5.75
2.00
no equal
We have the above Suits in all sizes and the goods have
for the money.
We have a full line of
the latest designs. We carry n full line of B
Shoes, h. P. Reed Fine Shoes, F. Fine She
We are a position to save you some
to us.
Fine
Shoes,
a spring. Come
o. t.
NEXT TO TYSON BANK.
nests passed
from the dining room.
sapper was elegant and
He
of
evergreens mid fruits upon which
burned taper- in brilliant
circles.
Mr. and Mrs. Forbes were the re-
a number of
presents, the high in
which are held, by their friend.--.
They were all of silver male
elaborate display indeed. Al
them were nut bowls, bet
terry
an
KIWIS,
mer, and I am thankful to say I am
well. Hood's Pills when taken with
Hood's help very
Mas. SI. SI. Freehold,
This and many other cures prove that
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is tho One True Blood Purifier. All druggists.
Button, Button,
Who's got the Button
We have got it, Th
identical Buttons are for to match
Press or Shirt Waist.
Lang's Buttons
are just light for this season's fashion-
Some Big Ones,
Some Little Ones,
All Intermediate Sizes.
Everything else that you need to finish dress.
re mm
IN TOWN. EVERY ARTICLE
TO FINISH UP HAND-
SOME DRESS YOU
AND ALL THAT ARE
POPULAR.
Corner.
Is f ill of tho jars the dollars and
I Ins fact joined to the, truthful assertions, the largest stock, most
beautiful selections, best values, make our store the most
satisfactory place for you to trade. Come a lock at
the. many attractions which we offer you. They
cannot fail to elicit your admiration and make
you our patrons. A stock full of Bargains
day during each season, but
before any better, more
beautiful or better selected
stock than this Our
bought for the
Cash, added to
the
of years
experience, we offer a line of
Merchandise
that has never been excelled or scarcely in this town or
county. Our st-re is the homo of tare bargains,
merit, honest goods, square dealing, attention,
and the place for to We have
them here and call upon every buyer
to examine them store
is full to
of the
following
Dry Goods, Ladies, Children
Goods, Shirt Waist i Goods,
Dimities, ail
Black Dress Goods, Ripples,
Cotton Goods.
Linen Fabrics,
Ducks.
Piques, White and Colored Lawn s
Muslins, Ginghams, Calicoes and other
Stylish things too to mention. Our Lace, Ribbons, Silks,
Brains, Buttons, Velvets and other Trimmings the hearts, of
ladles glad to behold them. Kid Gloves, Hosiery, Combs,
and Hair Ornaments are beauties. Shoe immense for
Ladies, and Hen and Boys. The most complete
and hue of Ladies, Misses Children Oxford Ties ever
offered here.
Furnishing Goods
embracing many articles, such Collars, Cuffs, Ties, Scarfs, Bows
Dress Sunday and
every day Undershirts and Toilet Articles. Fur, Wool and
Straw Hats for and Boys. Caps for men, Boys children-
Plain, Pure, Heavy Groceries.
Flour, Meat, Sugar, Lard, Salt, Snuff Tobacco. Hard
ware and Farming Tools, Plows and Casting, Tinware. Toilet
and many articles in that line. The Best line of
Crockery that have and that is saying much- Our Tea
and are beauties. Our Plates, Cups and Saucers, Dish
es and Bowls are here in Vase and Par-
Lamps, plain and fancy patterns. Now a word about our
FURNITURE
Store, more magnificent and grander than ever before. Oak
Suits, Parlor Suits, Couches, Lounges, Plush, Upholstered, Reed,
, and Oak Rocking Chairs, and Oak Dining Chairs- All
culmination of the Art up to date. Separate pieces,
Bureaus, Bedsteads; Tables, Towel and Hat
Tin Safes, Beards, Spring Mattresses, Cots, Wash
stands, Shuck straw Mattresses, Mattings, Carpet, Cur
Lice Curtains, Window Shades and other house furnish
Hand Hags and Satchels. Woo
and Willow Ware. Buckets, Tabs. Market and Fancy Lunch Bask
And many other things that you need. Don't come to
ville and leave seeing your friends, the Leaders
ors-
a easily,
HOOdS PillS
act easily, promptly and
bang Sells Cheap. J, B. CHERRY
tiling null k himself with the
remark that it was too early. The
burden of hi- remarks was to the
to organ in lie ready j
lake advantage
might arise, He did venture to say
though, that he would not be found
anywhere but with the Republican
whether it was a mixed or straight
ticket. Continuing he that Le
would U doing much for
those who preferred a Democratic to a
Republican legislature, would re-
sit the defeat q
et. by. telling the.
They might go. home and talk
about L about It, but they
see the Republican party on lop
next November.
Noising was said p ; endorsing
anybody and no reference was made to
any candidate.
PENDER
Good
r- BAKER HART
Proprietors of
The New Hardware Store.
Ii HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL
-----KINDS OF-----
FLUES
I am happy because I bought my-
Hardware from Hart.
brother and do likewise. i
-A FULL LINE OF
My brother is happy and I
I SCREEN WIRE, for summer use be excelled in
v and price. Come and see near Five Points, below Reflector

ESTABLISHED 1875.
SIDES
their year's supplies will inn.
their interest to get our price
is
ii all rt branches.
FLOUR, COFFEE. SUGAR
El
we direct
tiling you to buy at o A com
stock of
FURNITURE
sol lat prices
times. goods bought ind
sold for CASH therefore, having n risk
to sell at a
S. M. N C
F.
CELEBRATED
all
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE,
Guitars. Banjos.
all kinds Strings,
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Train on Scotland Neck Branch
Weldon 3.55 p. m., Halifax 4.1
p. m., arrives Scotland Neck at 4.55 p
a., 6.47 p. m., Kinston 7.45
p. m. Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20
a. m., Greenville 8.22 a. m. Arriving
Halifax at a. m., Weldon 11.20 am
except
Trains on branch leave
Washington 8.00 a, in., p . m.
arrives Parmele 8.50 a. in., and 4.40 p.
m., Tarboro 9.45 a. in.,
Tarboro 3.30 p. m., a. m.
and 6.20 p. m arrives Washington
11.60 a. m., and 7.10 p. m. Daily ex-
pt Sunday. Connects with trains on
Scot in ml Neck Branch.
Train leaves C, via
A Raleigh R. R. except Sun-
day, at p. m., Sunday P. M;
Plymouth 9.00 P. M., 5.25 p. m.
Returning Plymouth daily
Sunday, 6.00 a. m., Sunday 9.30 a m.,
arrive Tarboro 10.25 and
Train on Midland N. C. branch leaves
daily, except Sunday, 6.0 a
m. arriving 7-30 a. m. Re-
turning leaves 8.00 a. m.,
rives at 9.30 a. m.
Trains in Nashville branch
Mount at p. m,. arrive
Nashville 5.05 p. m., Spring Hope 5.30
p. in. Returning leave Spring Hope
8.00 n. m., Nashville a in, at
Rocky Mount 9.05 a m, daily except
Sunday.
Trains on Latta branch. Florence R
at., leave 6.40 p m, Dunbar
p Clio 8.05 p m. Returning
leave a m. Dunbar 6.30 a m,
arrive 7.50 a m. except Sun-
day.
Train Branch leaves War-
jaw for Clinton except
11.10 and 8.50 p. Returning
m. and 3.00 p m.
Train No. makes dose connection
at Weldon f points daily, all rail via
also at Mount with
Norfolk Carolina R R for
. all points North via Norfolk.
JOHN F. DIVINE,
General
M. -r.
R Manager,
OF NEW YORK.
Important Persona In
Wives Who Are Cooks.
wore men of pay and
much distinction in old Greek days,
and they have come to be persons of
consideration in modern Now York.
When a man, lunching at a the
other day, a particular dish
especially to his taste, he asked,
with some hesitation, whether the
cook be persuaded to reveal
the secret of its composition. The
head waiter thought he might and
undertook to be the diplomatic in-
between the dining room
and the kitchen. There came in re-
ply an inquiry from the gentleman
below stairs as to whether the gen-
above stairs could read
French, and when this query had
been answered in the affirmative
there came from the nether region
the recipe, neatly written and well
expressed in that language, upon
the note paper of the club. The club
member sent his and ac-
to the invisible
of the kitchen, and thus an
agreeable came to an end.
Nearly all clubs and considerable
hotels have French cooks, male, of
course, though it is usual in small
clubs to employ as second cook a
woman. The chef in a large club has
as many as be demands
and is a personage of the highest
consideration, well paid, much de-
to, and, as far as possible, con-
Ciliated. Cooks maintain their an-
reputation for ill temper, and
the company in the luncheon room
of a Fifth avenue club was startled
one day to see some sort of kitchen
burst into the apartment
actively pursued by the raging cook,
butcher knife in hand, bent upon
doing execution upon the frightened
offender. A club cook costs
from to and there
some who receive much higher
salaries.
One finds in some of the smaller
French restaurants a woman cook,
perhaps the wife of the proprietor,
a tireless creature who labors late
and early and manages by her
gift to confer a special
the place. A wife such
that is an treasure to
any restaurant keeper, for not only
docs she do the work of a skilled
and well paid man and keep it up
for twice as many hours as ho can
be induced to stay in tho kitchen,
but, above all, the cooks that are at
the same time wives, whatever their
traits and however ill their
tempers, do not notice The
services of such a can hardly
be valued in and widowed
indeed is the man that loses her.
A pleasing feature of a restaurant
that has now, alas, the old
French quarter for the now was the
occasional presence of the cook, clad
all in white, his paper hat on his
head, in the dining room among the
guests. He knew some of the
patrons, and it was his custom
to honor one another by taking a
seat at his side and entering into
conversation. Tho chef in most
clubs, hotels and restaurants is an
object of awe to all his fellow
ants, if indeed the cook may, even
by implication, be called a servant.
His moods are watched; his moments
of rage indulged. The waiter
that must carry to the kitchen a
dish that has been rejected in the
dining room sneaks in with fear and
trembling and endeavors to
ate him whose art has been called in
question. The cook comes in for a
large share of the Christmas at
every club. Though he may
known by sight to any member of
the and a stranger even to the
house committee, he is known by
his deeds, and he stands firmly for
all his rights and privileges. To dis-
miss so great a man is a duty that
care to take upon themselves,
and to admonish him is tho most
delicate and diplomatic of tasks.
New York Sun.
A Tongue Twister.
Try it yourself, very and
until you can say it easily;
then pass it along to your friends.
Here it
stood at the gate,
him
Ten to person trying to pro-
the sentence for tho first
time will fumble it laughably.
These tongue twisting sentences,
however, good elocutionary ex-
They give you control of
your vocal organs, so that you can
enunciate properly, just as finger
exercises on the piano or organ give
of the fingers.
What an immense amount of me-
does it require to
establish anything like a close
between the brain and the
physical organs
The Ass Predicted.
An Ass who heard a Goose observe
that the Water in the Pond was get-
ting very Low, at once offered his
Services to Rain. This
been Noised about, the Hens
asked for continued Dry Weather,
the Foxes demanded a snowstorm,
the Oxen wanted frosty mornings,
and the Mule, the Wolf, the Dog and
the each demanded that he
be Favored with Weather made to
order. As a result tho Ass could
Please no one, and as his Failure
was charged to his Obstinacy, tho
Whole Crowd fell upon him and
Wounded him almost to Death. He
was Complaining of this to the Peas-
ant When the latter He
who seeks to Please all will end in
Pleasing nobody at
Free Press.
Catarrh Cannot be Cured.
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the seat of the dis-
ease. Catarrh is a blood or
disease, and in order to cure it
you must take internal remedies. Hall's
Cure is taken and
acts directly on the blood and mucous
Hall's Catarrh Cure is not quack med-
It was by one of the
best physicians in this country for
years, and is a regular prescription. It
is composed of the best tunics known,
combined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous surfaces.
The perfect combination of the two
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The American Father.
In what I have seen of English
homo life it has Beamed to me that
the English father is on of a
acquaintanceship with his
daughter than is the American
father. This may be due to the fact
that tho American father is
more occupied with his business,
and also to tho additional fact that
tho American daughter has more of
self reliance in her disposition,
which renders her to a certain ex-
tent more independent and capable
of looking after her own interests.
In a certain especially as re-
monetary and matrimonial
matters, it might that the
English father acts for his daughter,
while the American father allows
her to act for herself. Those who
have made a study of the American
girl have doubt that this
independence is good for in both
a mental and moral sense, though it
does not follow that tho same course
of treatment would good for the
English Times.
Kind.
there is any-
thing in this reincarnation theory, I
don't know but that I would like to
be a good, comfortable hog.
Hogs seem to enjoy life so.
as I understand it,
reincarnation one becomes some.
thing different from what ho was.
Indianapolis
Irish Newspapers.
In Ireland, as far hack us the mid-
of tho seventeenth century, a
printed news was sold, called
The Warranted Tidings From Ire-
land, regularly
journal in was
about tho ye when
appeared cap-
ital and existed tor more than half
CATARRH.
His Worst Enemy Defied by
P. P. P.,
Great Remedy.
Or DRESS.
We all know that any tired muscle
can be restored by rest. stomach
h a muscle. Dyspepsia its Banner
of saying tired. Give me
rest the stomach you must do its
work outside of the
This is the Shaker's method of curing
indigestion, its success is best at-
tested by the fact that these people are
plastically free from what S without
the meat prevalent of all disease.
Digestive Cordial net
contains digested food is prompt-
toed without taxing tired
organs, but it Is likewise an a d
to the of other foods in the
A cent trial bottle will
convince you of Its merit, and these
yon can obtain through all druggists.
is the best medicine for
Doctors recommend it in
of Castor Oil.
FOR THREE YEARS HE SUFFERED -COULD
HARDLY BREATHE AT
NOSTRIL CLOSED FOR YEARS.
Mr. A. M. of DeLeon. Texas.
Has a sufferer from Its
form. Truly, his description of his suffer
lugs seem little short of marvelous. In-
stead of his couch, glad for the
nights coming, he went to It with terror,
that long, weary, wake-
night and a struggle to breathe was
before him. He could not sleep on
side for two years. P. P. P.
Great cured him In quick time.
DE TEXAS.
Messrs. Ga.
I have used four bottles
of P. P. P. I was from the crown
of my head to the soles of my feet. Your
P. P. P. cured my of breath-
smothering, palpitation of the heart,
has relieved me of pain. One nos-
was closed for ten years, but now
can through It
I have not slept on either side for two
years; In fact, I dreaded to see night come
Now I sleep soundly In position nil
night.
I am years old. but expect soon t
be able to take hold of the plow handles.
I feel gad that I was lucky enough to gel
I. r. P., and I heartily recommend it to
my friends the public generally.
Yours respectfully.
A. M. RAMSEY.
THE STATE OF Of
the undersigned nu
on this personally appeared
A. M. Ramsey, who, after being
sworn, says on oath that the foregoing
statement mode by him relative to lit-
virtue of P. P. P. medicine is true.
A. M. RAMSEY
Sworn to and subscribed before me
August 4th, 1801.
J. M. LAMBERT. N. P.
County. Texas
Catarrh Cured by . P. P.
Great where all other
remedies failed.
Rheumatism and distorts your
hands and feet, its agonies are
but speedy relief and a permanent cure
Is coined by the use of P. P. P.
weakness, whether nervous or
otherwise, eon be cured and the system
built up by P. P. P. A healthy woman is
a beautiful woman.
Pimples, blotches, and all dis-
of the skin are removed and
cured by P. P. P.
P. P. P. will restore your build
your system you In every
P. P. P. removes that heavy, down-
feeling.
tor Blotches and Pimples on the face,
e P. P. P.
for and organic
take P. P. P., Great
and get well at once.
SOLD BY ALL
Notice to Creditors.
Having been appointed and only
as administrator of the estate of
C. House deceased, all person- hold-
claims against Paid estate arc here-
by notified to them lo the under-
signed for payment, properly
on or before the 10th day of April
1807. or this notice will be plead In bar
of their recovery. persons Indebted
to said estate are requested to make
mediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 7th day of April 1896.
D. K. HOUSE,
of W. C. House,
Notice to Creditors.
The Superior Court Clerk
Count-v having issued Letters of Ad-
ministration tome, the undersigned, on
the 24th. day of February, on the
estate of Belcher, deceased, no-
is hereby given to all persons in-
to the Estate to m immediate
payment to the and to all
creditors of said Estate to present their
claims properly authenticated, to the
undersigned, within twelve months
after the date of this Notice, or this No-
will be plead in bar of their re-
This the day of
J B.
on the Estate of
Commissioners Sale.
In pursuance of a decree the
court of Pitt county made at
April term in an action therein
entitled W. G. vs Moses
and T. W, Can-
I will on Monday, June 1st 1800
before the Court House door in Green-
ville, sell at public sale for cash, a tract
of land lying in township
Pitt county in the fork of
Middle Swamp and Sandy Hun ad-
joining the lands of A. J. Flanagan E.
A. Richard Carr S. V.
Whitehead and containing acres
more or less.
JAMES A. LANG;
Commissioner.
This the day of
LAND SALE.
Hy virtue of a decree of the Superior
Court of Pitt made at March
term 1896 in an action therein pending
entitled J. N. By executor of R. A.
Bynum versus K. Ii. at
will on Monday, June 1st, sell at
public sale, before the Court House
door in Greenville, to the highest bid-
the following tracts or parcels of
land situate In Farmville township, Pitt
county, described in the last will and
-lament K. A. as
One tract beginning at ash in
the run of Gideon's or Jacob's Branch
and running with the various courses
of the Frank Moore land up lo where
ditches cross, then up the ditch that
leads to the old road, then with the
Frank Moore land to the Greenville
and Wilson road to the m of the
avenue leading from the road to Dr.
then South East poles
to a small drain or branch, then down
said branch South East poles,
then down said branch South East
poles then down said branch North
East poles to a certain white ash,
then South East poles to a
small water oak the run of Black
Swamp, then down the various courses
of said Swamp to the of Gideon's
branch, then up the various courses of
said branch to the beginning, contain-
by estimation five hundred acres
or less. It being the same land
devised in said will to R. B. Bynum.
tract known as the Davis
land the bought of Allen By-
containing acres more or
less. It being the same land devised in
will to William Boyce and wife
for life with remainder to
Higgs.
of laud known as the
Askew land containing acres
more or It being the land de-
vised in said will to the children of
John T. deceased.
All of said lands will be sold
to such Improvements placed
since the death of R. A. Bynum.
Terms of
ALEX. L. BLOW,
Commissioner
Greenville, N. C April 22nd law.
BROTHERS, APOTHECARIES,
SOLE PROPRIETORS.
Block.
For sale by J. L
gist, next door to S- T- White's.
Characteristics of the A of
European Women.
It is strange that whereas in every
of among the high-
well as among the peas-
a distinctive peculiarity of
exists, is absolutely
nothing of tho kind in North Amer-
Tho newness of the country
does not explain this, as in South
American states, which are younger
than our nation, a national costume
Is the rule.
The Russian is one
of tho most charming of
adornment in Europe. It originated
among the peasant
en, but has been adopted during this
by the ladies of the court,
who have elaborated it into a red
velvet cap embroidered in precious
stones. It is worn with the red
vet court
brought out on state occasions,
and more than the plumes
and veil worn at tho English court.
Tho Spanish mantilla is well
known and has been somewhat
on the comic stage. The
dross of has
that fate. Carmen Sylva always
it when at homo. It consists
of a white linen sleeveless garment
made with few folds as possible
and somewhat resembling the
It is thickly em-
in a cross stitch arabesque
in bright red, sky blue, orange,
low and black silk, intermingled
gold and silver threads, a band
of similar embroidery encircling the
waist, with streamers of rib-
falling therefrom in a shimmer-
cascade. The hair is braided in
four plaits loosely tied with chains
of sequins and the feet are
in kid slippers strewn with
seed pearls,
In Poland and peasants
wear around their throats several
rows of huge coral beads, and so
loath to part with these supposed
bringers of good luck are they that
when a dame is arrayed for
a ball and is obliged to put on pearls
and diamonds she carries her coral
beads in pocket.
In is found the
greatest divergence in the matter of
costume. Tho garb of the Hungarian
peasant is so fetching that the
wealthy ladies copy it when on their
estates. It consists of a short puffy
skirt of crimson yellow, a small
sleeveless bodice imprisoning
a snowy shirt, stiffly starched and
embroidered in contrasting colors,
and an artistically knotted head
scarf from which escapes a
braid of hair entwined with
ribbons,
In tho plains of Provence and in
the Normandy lands the wealthy
still cling to their little lace cap, the
of which is some
times inestimable, made as they are
of rare point lace fastened down
with quaintly golden pins,
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Epilepsy, has without
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I have all kinds of medicine, bu
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