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THE AMENDMENT.
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one of the tor
Pin County. We handle ohs on the
the public schools and ran supply what-
ever have
COPY BOOKS,
slant and vertical, double practice writing books,
cap paper, pens, pen slates, white
crayons, colored crayons, inks, companion boxes, etc.
Some if Cur School
C pencils cent, plain lead cent,
l rubber tipped lead pencil l cent, a nice tablet with
pretty cover l cent, crayons, with metal bold-
in nice wood cents, i sad pencil, -late pen
and pan, and rule, all in nice wood box. S
cents. A great big wide cents Bottle f best
ink on the market, cents. Copy books u in cents.
While crayons, gross in box. Dents. Good fools cap
in cents per quire.
For the Business Man.
We a aloe I'm- of double and single entry ledgers,
long day books, journals, counter books, memorandums,
order books, receipts, draft and note books, tune looks,
fee.
For People,
have all kinds and styles box papers, card and
envelope eels, visiting cards, note pipers and tablets.
The Parker fountain Pen
The following i amendment
U article I of the Slate
d ill- as
and be submit
to voter lot
ii- August
l- Tani
of Carolina lie
out the same is hereby abrogated
ad lien shall
the following article of said
ARTICLE VI.
I AND TO
AN
Section I. Every male
born in th Stales, and
every male who has
o First, all persons sh
deny the being of Almighty Cud
Second, nil persons who shall have
been convicted or their
guilt on pending;, and
whether or not,
any
felony, or other crime for
the punishment lie
in the penitentiary,
since . of the
I Tailed fates, or corruption
in unless such
person shall lie restored to the
lights of in a
by
Sec. S. This set shall be force
from and after its ratification.
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Arrest
disease by the timely use of
Liver Pills, an old and
favorite remedy of increasing
Always cures
SICK HEADACHE,
stomach, malaria,
. torpid liver, constipation
and all bilious diseases.
Liver PILLS
Writes flight
And when it comes to
The Reflector Office Can't Be Beat.
I .-Foil ANYTHING IN
Books, Stationery Printing;.
TAKEN TO ALL
MAGAZINES,
Seven Springs Hotel.
UNDER SEW MANAGEMENT. P
The line-- mineral waters. Each spring has a different
analysis, Especially recommended for kidney, liver
and bladder troubles All seven have wonderful restorative
properties. HACKS MEET EVERY TRAIN AT
La Grange, O.
Water free to People boarding at oilier hotels or
boarding and using Seven Springs will be charged
per week. A number of have been a
since last season, among them the bath being com-
a professional barber in hotel, and others too
numerous to mention. For terms and other information
address
W. F. Proprietor.
even Springs, N. C
The makes the lit.
The Fit S.
The Suit
makes
so fur
It is pride that no expend
tare is spared In respect In
material or workmanship.
High Art
With name has identified
Garments oil made in our
person-
Win and retail Grocer and
Furniture Dealer. Cash paid for
Hides, Cotton Bead, Oil Bar-
Turkeys, Egg, etc. Bed-
leads, Mattresses, Oak Baits, Be
I;. Carriages, Go Parlor
Tables, Lounges, Safes, p,
and Gail A
Tobacco, Weal Cheroots,
American Beauty
. Cherries, Peaches, Apples,
Pine Apples, Syrup, Jelly, Milk,
I Flour, Sugar, I Heat, Stan,
Magic Food, Hatches, Oil,
Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls, Gar-
den Seeds. Applet,
Dried Apples. Peaches,
Currents, class
mid China Tin and
Ware, and Crackers, Macs
Cheese. Beat Butter, Stand-
ard Sewing i and nu-
other goods. Quality and
Quantity. Cheap for cash, Come
to see me.
election precinct with
the polling place at May's Chapel.
township
shall constitute
one election precinct with the poll
place at Talker's School House
near Gnu Swamp church.
towns i i
Bethel
one precinct with the poll
lug place in of Bethel.
Carolina Township shall i-
lute one election precinct with the
polling place at Stokes on the W.
W. B. K.
I'll II TOWNSHIP
one election precinct with the poll
lug place Block Jack.
ram
i Township la hereby
i two ejection
PRECINCTS.
Voting Places For the August
Election.
In with
years of us of
age, and the for county, at
in this article, held on the 7th day of
be entitled to rota at an election I the into
, . . . . . precincts
the people la the State, except L
as otherwise provided.
Bee. lie shall have resided in Beaver Dam Township shall eon
the Slate of
years, in the six months,
and in the precinct, ward or other
election district in which be offers
to rote, four mouth next proceed
lag the Provided. That
removal from one precinct, ward
or oilier election district
the same county, shall not
rate lo deprive any person of the
right lo rote precinct, ward
or other election district from
which he has removed, until four
after such removal. Ho
person who has been convicted, or
who baa his
court upon indictment of any crime
the punishment of which is. or may
hereafter be, imprisonment in the
prison, shall lie permitted to
vote, union slid person shall
be firs restored to in
manner proscribed law.
Sec. Every person offering
vole shall lie at the lime a I
registered voter as herein
ed the manner
provided by law, and the General
Assembly of North Carolina shall
enact general registration laws to
carry into provisions of
this article.
Every person presenting
himself for registration shall be
able lo read and any section
of the constitution in the English
language; and. before he shall be
entitled to vote, have paid on or
before the day of March of the
year which he proposes to vote,
his lax as prescribed by law,
for the previous year. Poll taxes
shall be a lien on assessed
properly, and no process Shall issue
to enforce the collection of same
except against property.
See. Ho mule person who was.
on January I, 1807, oral any lime
prior thereto, entitled to vote
the laws of any State in the
United Stales wherein he then re-
sided, and lineal descendant
person, shall lie denied
the right to register and vote at
election this Slate person
if his failure to possess the
qualification proscribed in
section this Provided,
he shall have registered in accord
with tile terms of this section
prior to December The
General Assembly shall provide for
a permanent record all pea-suns
who register under this section 1.11
r before November and
Content
divided
viz.
Precinct No. All that part
so the lying west and
of the following fine lo
Commencing at the Beaver Dan
Township Hue on the old Plank
Road, near Warren's Chapel, and
running with the public road lead-
by Chapel, to the
forks of the road the old
Prank Tucker homestead, thence
the public road leading to the
Greenville and road near
thence with
the and road
a course to the branch
culled mill run near
C. I. residence;
down said branch or mill run
Swift Creek, thence down Swill
creek to the public road leading by
C. C
road to Hancock's
House; thanes with public road
leading by Caleb to
Fork swamp; shall constitute
No of Content Township,
with the polling place in the town
of
No. All that part of
said township lying east and north
of the above line shall constitute
Precinct So. of
ship with polling r iii the town
of
Falkland Township snail
one precinct with
polling place in the town of Falk-
land.
shall
precinct
place in town of
Greenville Township la hereby
divided into two election precincts
No, I-All that part of
the township lying of Tar
divided two
as
No. All that part of
the township lying south of Swift
Hank shall
place at
No. All that part
of township north of
Swift creek shall constitute
No. with the
at the public school house near L.
B. P.
Chairman Co. Hoard of Elections.
Sect. Co. Board of Elections.
A Words
Suffering
Women.
No but yourselves know of the
you go Why do
suffer It isn't necessary. Don't
c your and beauty, the
loss one is followed die
v Use lie Don't weak
and worn Impure blood is
the of all your trouble.
QUART
will your and bring
the bloom of health back into you
cheeks. Each bottle
quart.
Painful and
it-e life In matron or maid, find relief, help,
real panacea for headache, pain in la
aid, palpitation of the heart, hand and feet,
pal n. backache, U
of breath, abnormal Uh pain
of the
which make the Ufa to I
want
Detroit, Mich.
at of heart.
W ha a I
to U U- The la
I Little- U-r Pill.
SOLD
nil hall be entitled with that port
Tailoring Co.,
Main Street, N. V. bl
1.1 and vote at all elections
people in tins unless
article Provided,
shall hare paid their
quired by Ian.
Bee, ii. All the
shall ballot, sad oil
shall be
Bee voter in
as in this article
shall eligible to of-
the, lint the
of he shall lake
mid the
do
I will support and
maintain the laws
of the the con-
laws North
ilia not inconsistent therewith, and
that I will faithfully the
Mo help me,
Its. . The following classes of
persons be disqualified for t reek Township is hereby
of
lying be-
Tar river
line, town. Tar
mil at the of the branch
the eastern boundary of
tow and up
branch lo Third street, a
With Third street
lo Till Street, a southerly
course street to
avenue -11 III westerly to
the
a northerly with said
Hue lo Tar river; shall
i. m I In-en
with the polling
place the Court House in
ville.
No. the remain-
of shall con-
No. i, with the
place at the
town of
shall
one election precinct with the
place Village of
K lo Each.
It is to know that
some of ablest clergymen had
to be whipped for going to
Sunday school when they were
boys.
Are incomes ill
gain I
The tennis court sometimes leads
to alter.
Ten mills make one cent, lull
race for wealth i not a mill race.
Hot weather would be much
more lie-arable if there were fewer
thermometers.
When one girl doesn't to
another girl, and wants to cut her,
looks daggers.
It's a wise man who anticipates
the seasons. In hot it's
well to have a coaled cellar.
The politician lights for spoils
and pugilist spoils for light.
The taxidermist makes an hon-
living at a skin game.
Lots of are found out
when you go to call on them.
No man needs lo lie
the art money.
Maude, dear, garden hose
should be worn at a lawn
party.
If some people try the
work cure perhaps there wouldn't
be mush need of the rest cure.
When a woman gels old Mid bald
she sighs with regret over the locks
of hair she used to give away so
indiscriminately.
There ought to lie a society to
punish men who wear
by I hem presents
diamond studs.
There wits a man who had
of the brain didn't
think he was in love.
Every man, at some time in his
life, has treated some woman so
badly he ought to be scalped.
airs are not it with
popular heiresses.
The without a beau is like
the homeless wanderer. Neither
haw a place to lay their heads.
jump at
the reason they
always turn to the last chapter of
a novel.
NOTRE.
Pitt
Victoria vs. Move.
above will lake
notice an entitled at above has
Court
county to obtain a from
matrimony; the
will further lake he in required
at the next term of Hie
Court of said county lo lie held on
Monday after the tint Monday S.-it.
not, being the day Diet.,
the Court House in N. C.
an answer or demur to complaint In
action, or the will lo the
for relief demanded in MM
This day of Nay 1900
M.
Clerk Superior Court
for pig.
THE BEST CHILLS
and fever is a of Grove's
Tasteless hill Tonic. It is simply
Iron and quinine In a tasteless form
No pay. Price
CUBE CHILLS MALARIA,
and night Sweats with Robert's
Tasteless Chill Tonic per
to lake.
refunded if ii fails. up
petite, and makes
you well. None other as good.
guaranteed at the drug
stores of
REWARD
We will ii,,, pan
of
or m en
not the I to
when Hie
. with They -in- Iv
r. i . eon-
f, ill- II,
h I II
Co. I r.
sire. I- lit, Ill
J I. N C
VOTERS.
Notice i. lbs of
f no
will iron. o'clock A.
M. lo Thursday
June filly . 1900 in-
for
of of the
Ami on Ii Saturday
the and the id
will be open polling place
at Five Points in town of
June Mil
I.
to
The k of Court Pit
county, Inters t
to on the
day of May, on the estate
J, Notice
all persons indebted to the lie
to make payment to n.
to all creditors of said or
their claims,
lo the undersigned, twelve
after the date of ibis or
notice will I i i bar of their recovery.
This the day May,
on J.
NOTICE TO CREDITOR.
Max duly the
Clerk Pin county as
of the I-i.-i Will and of
notice hi hereby given to
all to said lo make
immediate payment to the
all claim- against said ea-
are hereby to present the same
for payment on or before 38th day of
April, or Ibis will ho plead m
bar of recovery.
day April, woo.
of Wallace.
all from m-
any of our lands along
the of fishing with net
Any one o will
lie to law-
l. R. It. T
A Mill.
OLD DOMINION LINE
RIVER SERVICE
Steamer leave Washing-
ton daily A. M. for
ville, leave daily at
P. M. for Washington.
Steamer leaves
Greenville Mondays, Wednesday
and Fridays A. II. for Tar
leave
Tuesdays, and Saturdays
at A. M. carries freight
Connecting at Washington with
Steamers for Norfolk, Baltimore,
New York
ton, mid for all for
with railroads at Norfolk.
should order freight
the Old dominion B. Co. from
New York; Line from
from
Line from
Boston.
N. O.
J.
N.
DIRECTORY
CHURCHES.
school
a m.
Services every 4th
Sunday morning.
every Sun-
day, morning and evening.
evening.
Rev. J. N. t.
C. D.
day, and evening.
meeting Wednesday evening. Rev.
N. M. pastor. Sunday
p. m. W F. Harding, bu-
thin
Kev
J. II. pastor. Sunday-
a. in. E. B.
at
Opera House every Sad Sunday
morning and night. Rev. W.
Davis, pastor.
regular service.
LODGES
A. V. A.
Lodge, No. meets first and
third Monday evening. It.
W. M. J. M. Retus. Sec
I. O. O. Lodge, No.
Meets every Tuesday evening.
I. Handier. N. E. E Griffin,
Sec.
K. of River Lodge,
meets every Friday evening.
It. M. Mum-. C. C.-, T. M. Hooker,
Iv. of It. andS.
It. Vance Council, No.
1690, meets every Thursday even-
W. B. Wilson, R. M. R.
Lang, Sec.
O. U. A. every
Wednesday night I. O.
O. B. White,
eel
A. O. Council,
No. ti, meets every first third
Thursday nights Odd Fellows
Hall. J. Z. Gardner Worthy
Chief; D. S. Smith, See.
H. Conclave
No. meets every second and
forth Monday nights in Odd
Hull. W. Ii. Wilson
See
W. R.
IN
Whichard, C.
The Stock complete every
prices m low as
Highest market
aid produce.
The Cold Cure.
Cold In and , n h
moll I At lo
Vol SO MIS W
III Mil V.
M, mill this I-
by all u-
a,
All .-.-i-l to
open
t Ky.
PATENT
invent or
free
ADVICE AS TO I
tn
II-w lo
nU. N-fr.-lit,
i i. i
j. a. to,
cum WASHINGTON,
IN-
LINK
Also a nice Line of Hardware.
COM i; MK.
J. B.
POE
The Eastern Reflector
mum
D. J.
II.
-AT-
XIX
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 1900.
NO
Ed. H.
I SALE RETAIL
O-
IF YOU WANT TO Bit HI JUT AMI
AT THE SAME TIME BUT IDS
THEN COME TO THE
YOU WILL HONEST
LY GOODS.
Ed. H.
THE
OUR NOMINEES
State Ticket.
B.
of Wayne.
Lieutenant
of Iredell.
For Secretary of
of Pitt.
BENJAMIN It. LACY,
of Wake.
For
B. K. DIXON,
of Cleveland.
Attorney
ROBERT D. GILMER,
of Hay wood.
Superintendent Public
THOMAS
of
SAMUEL L. PATTERSON,
of Caldwell.
For
In
Suffrage a Fail-
The of n . an a
factor North
which will be done by the vote
cast in the election August,
the correction m suffrage
the which in his
hands has proven a failure.
Among dispassionate persons,
North or Booth, there is differ-
of In-11 in n of
suffrage, that the
of elective franchise to
the voter, upon the same
terms exercised by whites, has
proven a practical and dismal fail-
That the white people of
South have been the chief sufferers
needs no argument, and now
the sufferers, knowing the
characteristics so well, the
correction and elimination of the
a political factor, a force
which has ruled the South, and
thwarted any expression of its
opinions, unsettled its social
development, Its
progress, this correction and
elimination of the can best
come through the agency of the
people of the South.
In North Carolina the
amendment, to be voted
Commissioner Labor and
HENRY B. VARNER,
of Davidson.
For
SAMUEL L.
of
FRANK
of New Hanover.
Presidential Electors at-Large.
DAN HUGH
nil.
LEES. OVERMAN,
I tow an.
County Ticket
Concerning the Foil
Federal office holders
are going
Amendment howl-
themselves hoarse over
poll tax provision. They make
the false claim that if the amend-
is thousand
white men will In on
account of failure to pay their
tax by March first of the year
which they propose to rots.
This argument is one of the
most absurd ones yet
scheming Radical politicians. They
know full well that the poll tax
provision will catch only
grass who do all in their power to
evade the payment of this poll tax,
that is why the Republicans
are laying so much on this
clause. know that the poll
tax provision w ill eliminate a f.
their
rotors.
Sheriff than whom
there DO sheriff in the
Stale, says of every of the
insolvent are Mr.
Raper, a member of Hoard of
County Commissioners of Wilson
county, says in his county
of every insolvents an
The Constitutional Amendment
was framed lo gel the out of
politics and object is to
every one possible without in-
with the franchise of
white man. Thai is why the poll
lax provision put in and
less the pays his poll lax
better than heretofore many thou-
sand of his race will be
under
Herald.
TO THE OF
PITT AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.
LEI
We
an the of the race after your patronage
you the best selected line oft
General Merchandise
to be in any store in Well bought choice
selections, the creations of the best of America
rope. Seasonable all year round, Spring, Summer
and Winter. We are at tit yours our mutual ad
vantage, it is our pleasure to show you what you want to
sell you if we can. We offer you very polite
attention, and the with a well
established business built up strictly on its own merits.
When you come to market you will not do yourself justice
if you do see our immense stock before buying elsewhere.
Remember us and the following lines of general merchandise.
Goods and Notions,
Hats;
Jacket.- mil Capes. Carpets, Mattings and
Shoes.
Men's, Women's Children's
Harness, Horse Blankets and
Groceries.
Floor, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Laid.
Hardware,
North Carolina
Moving Upward.
Washington, June Post-
master General has issued an order
making Raleigh a class post-
July This is done
her postal receipts have in-
creased and is
of her commercial progress.
advanced from to
first class are Charlotte and Win-
Salem. At each of these of-
upon August, is the menus pro- l he post master will receive
Its constitutionality haw
passed upon, and its provisions are
to just to the
privileges to the who
arc entitled to bar-
ring from suffrage those
who are a menace lo every inter-
est, so long as they have the
their possession.
It has been the practice of other
sections to make light of the coin-
or over. This makes with
Wilmington four first-class
in the State. The advances or in-
creases Asheville, to
Concord, 1,700
to Hen-
to High
Point, lo Littleton
to Marion,
to Newton.
Salisbury, to
Shelby, to Wash
to Wilson
plaint coming from the thickly
of Bast-
For the Senate,
F. G. JAMES.
For
W. J. NICHOLS,
T. H.
For Sheriff,
O. W. HARRINGTON.
For Register of Meeds
T. R.
For Treasurer,
J. B. CHERRY.
For Coroner,
C. HE.
For Surveyor,
J. D. COX.
For
C. J. TUCKER,
B. L. DAVIS,
W. O. LITTLE.
populated portions
em Carolina, that ignorant
wan a menace and a burden lo
the whites, while he had his Iran
But now that the is crowd-
into other sections, is no
further talk of that kind, for it
discovered by how
genius is this ignorant
vote.
The people the North also
feeling the burden, with
the thousands of
moving into northern states,
section must soon feel that the
burden is theirs, and they must
settle it, us the South has and will
do, by the safest method
is, and in the interest of the white
people, and yet without Injury to
the Journal.
TAKE CHILI
per bottle. Cures Chills and
Fever, Malaria, Night Sweats and
Money if it doesn't.
No other as good. Get the
with the Red Cross on the label.
Sold and guaranteed by Woolen,
Bryan and
Castings
fixtures, Nails and
Furniture.
for Furniture and everything in
We buy strictly for Cash, but soil for Either Cash or on Approved
Credit. Our motto is Honesty, Merit and Pealing.
Your Friends,
to
BOO; to
to 91,000-
to
to Mon-
roe, to Raleigh,
to
to to
Waynesville. to
Winston Salem.
Charlotte;
mo;
Hick
to
to
Mount Airy lo
to
Nook, to
to
Weldon, to
ell ville is third
to class. is
gated from second to
He only office in to show
a decrease.
Business Advertise-
Through the assertion
follows is the sub-
of perpetual argument, ii cm
not be denied follows
the advertisement. Business is
hard headed,
even unpatriotic; knows no
Dag and no country. find- a
market wherever there are
and obtains customers
ever people advertisement.
Every who advertises
gets an immediate return for the
money ha invests in publicity.
Philadelphia
Basil
man who is
best friend gels
A tree is
Ike Word i Means.
The Boxers an called In
Chinese as we learn
from a contemporary, T Ho
Interpreted, The
Pence which indicates
were primal
to resist in pugilistic style
what they conceived to lie wrong
done In the name of right. North
Advocate.
Young of New York,
paid for an English bull
dog, and may now pride on
being the owner of the ugliest dog
In star.
Suicide Attempted by
Yesterday evening Sail ii
as Sides,
tempted the rope
but the attempt was
She then made a trial water
route but tins as also
fill and the would lie suicide was
still in of the living
Bun,
pot, nod yet ii leaves every spring.
It's man with an elastic con-
science who stretches the truth.
No. Maude, dear, the Japanese
play gull in gardens.
reason Wear hair
lit probably because there is no
cut
The prisoner at bar
I plead to a charge, but when
comes to paying a line
have charged.
Silence may be but gold
en hair is usually loud.
It's funny our oldest photos
make ii-, look youngest.
It's hard a man who
triplets at home to believe
I lo got
of hoc fellows is to lend I
The chronic
make friends tut as he break
I hem.
A glaring a
College graduates are gelling
their lesions in diplomacy,
i, n seven lest a woman's
love to have loll
The Venus Mile must have
been to
hand
The man In postage
lamps makes his mono go a long
Lots of women a mush
room lover and then have
got n toadstool
W i.
It we haven't sufficient
in pines to
k, j, Filipino I
are we going
a of them China to help the
Europeans i
I hat is the
p -i ii i b t Mr.
Mi K ink j ml hut And
after this government helps the
European government
the rat up a I
in -i- what come
Thai . blew a lib
may . the very future, i
front people.
i-
for I In i I I
more Asiatic Have u t
ready i. sort of tub
than i- I
The Admit was
I by ;.
t,, people I
Gen. E. S. I His, t
pains to ad I lo ii
.-j l i. i u by lilt i
. Y. hi- home city.
Secretary the full Ma-
Hand, public exp- . . d
s-.-i
a. Joe Win-, let. ii
the
army, c to to
enthusiasm to the
Mr. has
made to real
public toward ,. His,
hit Philippine policy
i. w people, with the
ha- come alarm. Hi
in the p know
for pull O
command the I t
keeping cw
ill. position
bad up, i
Win. and he learn
i people a ill be us indifferent
I- him clot as
they have shown to be
towards Otis now. Tin of
doubt bus Mr,
companion.
Nicholas editor of
the leading
who W . it
few day-, re has been
in; other brunches .
the Cuban us well
Hie brunch, lit
gave I he Senate Committee u
that should be
when be w i-i .- could
have a
oil sail-
and works. Such
an investigation some
Interesting facts. The
fraud lion
wot ks are
int. and investigation might ho
a great deal of
I, i- . .;
i- i on
t o is nil t
out a trust died
have as u result
In price; n ll i
the i. i of l he eon ii are pay
mot
i , . it . i I hey
by V. r-
young I on
h pudding.
There i- less devotion to
that to appetite.
ti. wild youth turn to
the bi manhood.
i e lea of the many fur-
for the few.
The entreat of hale will wash
,,,,, iii. fountain of love.
If win I were wisdom the world
i a philosophy.
in June the maiden -et- her
the sonic
by .
best thing passed by Goa.
a us the I of adjournment
which look place week.
are Hi furrows a
i ; the face, when it
Bad the
i i .,
ii is world i- a school-house
learn I be lessons of life.
I will be awarded when
., e nest world.
Love's dripping showers of sun
beams doth lint each gloom,
and makes the earth with the
eel ever bloom.
A Customers.
II are thy of dealing at
a an of which
they know nothing and the pro-
r of which appears to
Ill give them desired in-
They prefer to deal
with a merchant who by daily ad-
ll makes himself, his store
its contents known to every-
Advertising always brings
to the merchant who
u.
Democrats have
nominated ex-Judge A. W.
ham and W. II. P. Jenkins tot the
ll.-,
Th re arc newspapers ill
North Carolina. Seventy-two use
mailer, and the cow
on i by machine.
twenty-six dailies,
in
. Ill ll
.- lilies, I semi-
ft The politics
can, independent, I Populist,
arc at Odds.
This is time of the year when
tin mail who is attempting lo raise
a ii on very good terms
with his neighbor who fancies
i Herald.
Catarrh Cannot He Cured
tilth local applications, as
I reach seal of the dis-
ease. Catarrh is a blood or
order to
everything cure ii must lake Internal nm-
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken
re in n i
i ration ii l I.---,
lost since Man h I, I
by the line i in i u in
the sum
III
u In M i.- i en Gould els
th., in I ml
In i keen the cranks and
away. sh. ought lo buy young
bull dos
mil i . act- on Hie
and mile ins Hall's
Catarrh Cure is not
. it by one of
iii, best physicians in this country
; i in-, i- u regular
. It i- composed the
in-t combined with
i c-i hi net
on mucous surfaces. The
, n of the In-
i- what produces such
,.,, fill results in t
Send tree.
F. i. Props.,
druggists, Hall's
Pills are best.
print criticism upon Dr. D. L.
army, all tho editorial of DENTIST,
i c de Mexico wen seal hi
on for at the of
Mexico.
in. N. C
over W

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D. J. come u.
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Entered at the Post Bl
Greenville, H. C, as Han.
Mail Matter.
LETTER
Work of
Ute of all
Enacted
session ll
Week.
The object of the Constitutional
Amendment is to place govern-
MM of North Carolina
. i in
void Other -m-
If 1st Q
the fund one half of June
months salaries voted lo The while HI who h
j,, beta, ;,.,. ,. ti,.,, vote for the
adoption of the
voting of money, which tins ,
to i ,,., , i. to ass the
a national m tin- beat. Ii rote hi Ike
Act empowering presiding judge
of Superior court to issue
liquor in Northampton
county, and taking from county
commissioners this prerogative.
incorporation of
Memorial Hospital charity for
ANOTHER JAIL DELIVERY.
Two White Prisoners Escape.
Monday night half past
o'clock two prisoners, J. W. A.
and J. W, Harrington, con
The Royal
Hospital i . ., , .
poor people, of the broke
Iteration of am made their escape.
Theophilus White's
as shell commissioner, etc.
. ,, a tilt pure and simple without personal of
is else he is so densely ignorant as to
b U no, . ,,.,.,, ., .,,,,,
then, whit-man Can be teach of all
opposed to ill
If Senator Marion Mauls
another -blooded Waif to la-
over he might go to Kim
City and procure the one
near there to take with
him In his anti cam-
but is always earned over and love of
beads. Never before, however, , v these words
which voted it, turn- a. them, after carefully
ed around and demanded that hall
White.
Toe prisoners escaped by
rev locking the .-ell in which they were
confined and also the door
To print and distribute by Com-
missioner of
amended Election U, and
copies of the Amendment.
To repeal chapter r-V private
laws of
To repeal chapter public;
Elastic Felt Mattress,
The Best Mattress Made-
with wooden bad Made
and out.
hi beard the prisoners out
called to some one on
Mr. W. three blood;
hounds were secured and an effort
made to re capture the prisoners
but did not run the frail, the
of I
To furnish certain Supreme Court dogs being too young, not
Norfolk Virginian Pilot has
published a splendid illustrated
edition of
pages showing what
what advances have been
made in the last decade, the
advantage it oilers Investor. It is
papa and shows up its
city well.
of it should In turned over for
uses. A few ago the
Republican employees Congress
letters inviting them to
call on Mr. who was as-
of the Congress-
Committee in the last cam-
When the employee call-
ed they were asked for campaign
and any Inquiries
to amounts, were answered with
Ike Suggestion their ex-
pay would be
but that contributions would
be voluntary and the giver could
any other amount. The
amounts given ran all the way
from to one instance
to a whole mouth's salary. Many
employees learning from others
purposes of sent them
did not call, so that the total con-
was muck smaller than
expected. I has since turned
that before Ike of
appropriation for
salary. House
acre given to understand
would ; to t.
some proportion of amount
. impugn committee
political purposes. This makes
W bile attacking to the
making all the
s; ; n, on
enemies of the Constitution-
Amendment are no stone
unturned to bring about the defeat
of that measure if possible. They
are going among the ignorant and
uninformed telling them
amendment will disfranchise white
men and in other ways
the facts In order to
dice them it. They are also
circulating malicious literature to
help tin in purpose, Verily,
the White Supremacy
lime t idle I
now and elect
considering the
pose effect of the
as U stands today, after the changes
by Hie Legislature last
week.
A PATRIOTIC
the present Legislature only
boat a score of the
anti Democrats, less
than Senators are
licensor Populists. Most of the
not appear in their scats
at the extra closed; ban
all were prompt-
on hand, with only a
down exceptions, and of these
have learned that all had best of
ex. uses t explain their
Of the round
only two Called to heart-
be reached u p i. ten.
year-old I
hos
would
After lamenting and
over the for some a
white inform-
cl the . r
a . the
of the wily lulled ii
feel, ion ii
showed that
. M white folk.-.
and now has
become a public matter, the
; managers who were con-
in it are busy with
nations.
If wire
i I
The
ah nit opens I fire
I he awl
latter returned
with the two
forts were blown and others
forced to Russian,
and
American ships all took a band i
the There are o
many reports of massacres at lute
points that much Is
fell for missionaries and other
in China, as well OS
Subjects of of her countries there.
Che Republican National Con-
holding the boards
this seek.
for several days been
pi luting I matter about the
convention and the in
attendance. found the fol
lowing some of its tide
l i-M, In
bail fl. hi- is tail
. and am whether
ii no they'll a
typical Southerner, as he chewed
upon an cigar ill front of
the Ills audience
to grasp the of tail-
and the
from the proceeded to ex
plain that down bis
, i a I the year upon
the revenues derived from picking
huckleberries and bag at the
hunt. The huckleberries, be ex-
plained, mi bashes about
of a hunting dog's tail, and
to prevent the bounds from sweep-
off ail the lea as run
under the their tails
erect lb-- natives amputate the
this season of the year,
hence the anxiety of the gentleman
There is work for every
man to do between now and
August election. If you Hickory, X. C.
who are not
go to
and explain it so they may
understand that it Is best
best for their home In-st for
their Stale that the Is-
adopted. And see that everybody
in your neighborhood registers,
An entire new registration will be
made, no man can vote unless
he registers. It mutters not how-
old be is, nor how many times he
has and Voted the
past, he must register this year to
be able to vote. The books open
June and continue for twenty election.
days counting Sundays.
Doubtless fellow wrote
ibis he was getting off
smart, perhaps be
did not know he was giving a fair
specimen of the Intelligence of the
components of the Republican par-
in North Carolina, To get rid
of that class as voters is the
pose of the Constitutional amend-
Just think the matter over your-
self and talk it to your neighbor,
that every man must register be
fore ho can vote in the August
endorse the amendment and to
participate cheerfully In the
respecting it and the new
Election Law, these two being He-
of Brunswick, and Rein
Lincoln, both members
the House.
That these men should
to Raleigh, not only without
and without price, at the
expense of valuable time and
lorn, at one of the busiest
seasons of the year applied
themselves so and hon-
to the work hand, only
furnishes line proof of
patriotism and love
of their State, but gives to the
world the bast and most convincing
evidence of the and
desirability Amendment it-
self. If it wasn't right honest
and best for the whole people of
the State, of every class and con-
these men would not have
been ken. The evidence is com-
and incontrovertible and the
vindication of the Amend men
overwhelming
After a three work the
Legislature to meet
24th
it docs not necessarily follow,
however, that other extra
will be held, ii becomes
necessary or highly advisable on
account subsequent develop-
The Republican Supreme
Court, which appears to have
so much delight in overturning the
work of former session of the
i Assembly, in
lure until the Legislature got
ready to adjourn the longest term
iv.-i held, when the court also
the BUM day.
The check partisan Judicial
Interference which was put by a
new provision of the amended
Election Law may save
from the necessity of again
coming to Raleigh month.
LIST
The following list includes alt
the measures resolutions,
succeeded in passing
both branches Of General As-
amended Election Law.
Tin- amended Constitutional
Amendment.
Act to pay ex Railroad
out of
by Supreme salary
for time he served.
Act amending Western Criminal
Court District, taking
111111001111 and Madison counties
therefrom, also eliminating
after January adding
Barry, Haywood, and
ties.
Act empowering more definitely
the Railroad Commissioners to as-
railroad property taxation
purposes.
Act providing pay services
of defunct shell fish commissioners
old Democratic board ousted
by
Reports to State law-
school .
To of Dispensary
or Dispensary to voters of
Swain at the coming
election.
To establish stock law certain
portions of Jackson, Bailey and
Ferrell
To the of County
Treasurer of
To regulate the manufacture
Macon
county.
To establish graded schools
Lexington, N. C.
To pay expenses of funeral
Senator Jackson, etc.
Directing printing report o
special investigating committee
relative to Stale Agriculture
Department. .
To direct the commissioners of
county draw a jury
list.
To pay and other em-
mileage for their attend-
upon the present sitting of
General Assembly.
For relief of certain teachers
and the Treasurer of Craven
To print Senate House
laws.
To amend chapter of the rub-
lie Law of relating to the
Oyster Industry.
To enable the Commissioners of
county to use surplus
tax fund for county purposes
election of A.
of the Deaf and Dumb
at Morganton.
OF
During the of the Leg-
committee appointed
at the last of
Senator Brown of Columbus,
Representatives of Orange.
and Patterson, of to in-
the of the Stale
Prison and the Department of Ag-
made their
covers two years of mis-
rule, extravagance, Incompetence
and corruption. report is one
of the most caustic and terrible
of the fusion in
charge assertion
all 1- warranted and proved by
the facts adduced during
In the cell were found
unfinished wooden keys, which
they doubtless had been at work on
for some time, also a letter address-
ed to the Sheriff him that
father had failed to get
his bond, he would have to leave in
the manner he did.
Cahoon is the party who forged
the names of school I
to vouchers over near Bethel and
was awaiting trial at September
court. was in
jail on a peace warrant.
Sheriff Mooring says he had used
unusual care in seeing that
was locked in his cell every night.
Of late, he says, strongest lock
had been put cell and
he WM kept in his cell both day and
night.
Mr. Howell Cobb, new Guilford Hotel of Greensboro,
bought of our ELASTIC FELT MATTRESSES for his elegant
new hotel. We take the liberty of quoting from a letter he wrote
under date of April the beds Well, none know them
but to love i or them but to praise. The tired out and the
critical traveler, dyspeptic the chronic grumbler, all join in
one chorus praise, of the
Best Bed the 20th
guarantee this mattress to lie superior to any hair mattress.
trial, if entirely satisfactory, money will be
refunded,
ear If your local dealer does not handle the Royal Elastic Felt Mat-
write to us for descriptive
BOY ALL BORDEN,
GOLDSBORO, N. C.
Get a good Safe
CONDITION IN
What Our Say.
i he Victor safe is made in all sizes con-
for home, m, office and general use
Every sale with a guarantee to be fire
Prices range from up.
Sunday's Raleigh Ob-
server had brief statements
nearly all the Democratic members
Assembly at the re-
cent special session, relative to
political conditions their
and the prospects of
carrying the Amendment.
will be found what
Pitt county members said
Senator F. G.
have a good people and we
ally do the right thing
Representative T. II. Barnaul;
people are very much inter-
In the campaign out my way,
and the light they get on it
the surer they are to vote right.
Our county will go Democratic by
Representative J.
the Amendment WM first
submitted there was some division
among the white people of our
county, but when they learned
no native white man, however poor
or illiterate, was to
they looked the Amendment
with more
J. L. SUGG,
Greenville, N. C.
Hard to
A gruff old bachelor was beard
to remark other day
Once was I am old,
and I've never seen a girl
to her mother that ever came
Mr. E. Victor Cox of
is making speeches in western
part of the Stale for the
Amendment. The
correspondent Charlotte Ob-
say s of bis speech in
Mr. E. V. of Pitt
who is a straight-out Republican,
spoke in I be academy here last
night for the amendment. He
a fairly good crowd bis speech
was timely and well delivered.
Coming as it did from a Republican
portraying the conditions of
the eastern counties, as exists
He Not Speak Her
the appointment being
made for Adams to speak at
there is an
The making appointment for
Adams this part the State was
left to Claude Bernard. Adams
preferred the appointment of that
day should lie Greenville instead
Parmele, but Bernard objected,
and represented to Adams it would
lie unsafe for him to speak
Greenville. -Our states
Bernard is such bad repute in
Greenville, his old home, and has
so little influence the vicinity be
WM to parade his
before Adams, and made
the above statement to keep
Adams from speaking in
Greenville. We believe since
Adams has spoken
was given a respectful hear
regardless of the
lion district
Messenger.
dealer
GREENVILLE, K. C.
Cotton Bagging and Ties always
on ban i
Fresh goods kept constantly en
hand. Country produce and
sold. A trial will convince you.
D. W.
in be a one-eyed button to
her II isn't a guess. It I under the domination of rule
isn't exactly in the Bible, but it is an government, it weakens there
written large and awful enough in
the miserable life of n misfit home.
I'm talking for the boy this lime.
If one of yon ever come across
a girl her face full of roses
who says as you come to the door,
can't go for thirty minutes, for
the ire not yet you
wait for . girl, right
down on I be door step and wait for
her, a one other may
come along and carry her of,
right there you have lost an angel.
Wait r her stick to her like a
bun-1.- i male's
Correct.
North Carolina has too many
worthless dogs, and also a super-
abundance of legislators without
the backbone to put a tax the
Advertiser.
Course, Hies arc attracted
by molasses, sharper arc
together where there is op-
for plunder. Paris is
overrun by rogues of all nations.
It is said the sharpest among the
sharpers are in the
gent. This is not a matter to brag
of. It discredits country's
morality; the only consolation being
in reflection that superior
wickedness is. Use all the other
superiorities, the outcome of a
mentality.
publicans and the Dem-
The Board of County
of
Kan., abolished the poor-
house, there no more
in the county. One old sol-
is the only dependent person
in the county, he is being
cared by popular
hence the may be said to
lie Ten years ago
there were over five hundred
In Wichita county, but the
crops have so large since that
everybody has made plenty of
money. No tramps are allowed to
remain idle the They
must work or leave.
coons look alike to la
song that Marlon Butler sings
the mountains Raleigh News
end Observer.
Is very bum the
log of a flower. Its beauty salt
depends
chic bestowed
parent.
should the care.
They all worry
and They should
plenty of good find
take tun hue This
S ill go a long way toward
their health and beauty
s well as that of the little one to
conic. lint to absolutely sure
of a short painless
use
Mother's
Friend
in month of
lion. i-
It to bu . II
vii.-r In d
in Legal Terms.
were to give you an or-
said Judge Foote of
would simply say, I give
you the should the
transaction be to a law-
to put in he would
adopt hereby give,
grant and convey to yon all my in-
right, title advantage
of and in said orange, together
with its rind, skin, juice, pulp and
pits; and all rights advantage
with full power to bite,
suck, or otherwise eat same, or
give away with or without the
rind, skin, juice, pulp or pits, any-
thing or in any other
deed or deeds, instruments of any
nature or kind whatsoever to the
contrary la any wise
City Journal.
pr.-.
which used M
When
Prim I. cl
whale. r.
lie at th.
Bl Be
bk dim i ii co.
ATLANTA.
t i.
An
A leading Republican was talk-
privately to us the other day
and said as for himself he wished
I every the was
excluded from the polls; that
ought to vote now, neither
should the right ever have been
given them. But said he, we
pass this new law the Republican
party will be dead in North Caro-
for twenty years, and we men
who are the leaders can't afford
Hot a question of what is
best for the State, bat a low,
fish desire to hold and that
at the expense of the whole Com-
Times.
The Herald says a Durham man
who is supposed to be a million-
listed his tax and gave in hie
cash on a person m cents.
Putting Money
A Savings Bank
To PUTTING IT INTO
Our Spring Suits,
that awaits your selection. You draw interest on the
former and you draw satisfaction and comfort from what you buy here
because it is always the best for the money expended, and that is why
we are looked upon as the
Responsible Clothing House
OF THIS TOWN.
ERG
You will find them here, made up especially for our summer
trade. Graceful, stylish and comfortable, not the cheap you may-
see advertised but of quality the best, and in make the durable, in
the most fashionable, in single or double breasted, all swell in
appearance elegant in quality.
EASTERN REFLECTOR
NOTICE.
If there is a CROSS MARK
in the margin of paper it
so to remind you that you owe
tor for
subscription and we request
you to settle as early as
We need what YOU
owe us and hope you will
keep us waiting for it.
This notice is for those who
find mark on their
paper.
LOCAL REFLECTIONS.
Wanted Car load sheep
T. Tyson, Greenville, N. C.
cattle. G. T. Ty-
son, Greenville,
The Masons have decided not to
have a picnic next mouth, as was
at one time intended.
Married.
At o'clock this in
the law office of Harding Hard-
Mr. J. T. Everett and Miss
Jacky Ami were married.
Peace W. H.
There were a few wit-
to the ceremony.
Henry Blount Coming-
Arrangements are being made
by the members of the Patience
Circle of the King's Daughters to
have Mr. Blount, of Wilson,
to deliver an address here
Thursday, for
fit of St. Home for old
ladies, Raleigh. Mr. Blount
has already been heard from and,
agrees to come on that date.
Radish.
Mr. D. O. Moore, of
sent The huge rad-
It the white variety
measures length
inches circumference at the
The potato raiser does part. Down near the root
the vegetable had divided into
not smile much when he gels re-
turns from his shipments.
Rev. J. N. Booth will preach at
the County Home Chapel next
Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Raising potatoes for shipment is
like grabbing a never
know what you are going to get.
Every white man Pitt county
who can do so should come to
Saturday, to hear
Glenn speak.
Trinity College offers splendid
advantages to young men desiring
an
in another and write Dr.
for
I have just moved my new
photograph gallery Dickinson
and am now better prepared
to take your photograph than ever
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Roy Evans.
When you want your photograph
taken, go to Roy on
several which
were all twisted together like toes
on a deformed foot.
Major's Court.
Mayor J. G. disposed of
two cases during the past week.
Louis Washington, jumping on
off the passenger train and
around the depot, guilty,
fine one penny cost, amounting
to
intoxication,
guilty, one penny and cost
amounting to 32.16.
HOWDY DO.
Some Speak to Me, Some to Von
Monday, June IS,
Nobles spent Sunday in
Hunter left this morning
for Elm City.
W. B. Brown left this morning
for Belleville.
.;. Morton limed Ibis
morning to
Ernest Forbes returned this
morning
Miss Sauna Harris returned
this morning from den.
E. A. Coward h-fl this morning
for h'S health.
W. G. Leggett came up this
from Washington.
W. W. Shaw, of Washington,
spent the day
W. J. Nichols returned this
morning from City.
Ex-Gov. T. wife left
Saturday evening for Morehead
City.
Little Miss Emma Bullock, of
is visiting relatives
here.
Foster left this morning
a few days Beaufort
C. B. and wife return-
ad Saturday from a visit to Hat
Adrian Savage daughter
Miss afternoon
L. B. J. Pulley and
Marion Tucker spent Sunday in
Greene county.
Misses Minnie Dot
Flanagan and Robert
spent Sunday Greene county.
Judge A. M. Moore left Saturday
for Wilson, via
be holds court this week.
Rev. B. H. left Saturday
for Ayden, where he held services
Sunday. He returned Sunday
evening.
It. D. Hamilton and
came this morning from New
Bern to visit the family of D. D.
Gardner.
Dr. Charlie after
spending a few days here with Dr.
h. A. Move, returned tins
to Chapel Hill.
W. S. Bernard who has recently
been elected at the
returned to Chapel Hill to
take charge of his duties.
Rev. J. w. Jenkins of the
Orphanage at Raleigh, came
Saturday and held services in
the Methodist church Sunday.
Bowling, H. King. Prof.
W. H. H. M. Wat
son and Dr. W. II. Bagwell return-
ed this morning from Morehead
City.
Tuesday. l, 1900.
j Norman has bean lick since
Saturday.
Harry Walls left this morning
W. W. Moore of Asheville came
Tuesday evening to spend few
days Greenville.
Charlie John retained
Tuesday from a trip to Washing-
ton and other points.
Misses Sidney and Panic
port, of spent the day
herewith Miss Sophia Jarvis.
Misses Josie Louise
wick. of near stopped
in Greenville this morning on their
way back from Morehead City.
ens Forbes returned home rues-
day evening from below Washing-
ton, where he been holding a
position a large lumber mill.
S. i install and two
Misses Katie and Mamie
Ruth, left ibis morning lo spend a
collide of days in Greene county.
On
I'll-
who
dress.
V II -lit
rt . s ; I
tin. I I
Ibis particular
is
ml
My Stock
is Complete
Jim.-., floods, Hate. Caps.
The manufacturing interest of
prices that will suit you,
COME AND SEE THEM.
till II i. Of
are of i u of i i
of
i . i y on
her glow s con
Unit who pa i i without
die h
-v, r I. . i.
drew ,. oilier
She nil ball of time
at lier ii
Is in of
i; .- knows
n lieu be i. lo
Mies to every feeling, I be-
i in I-, do with
Ann
l t we were going
boll -i- of A
woman w-e had
we bail m funeral,
down 11.- I my
but sorrow too fresh
me in n milt anything more
a of recognition, a
we walked side by l .-aid.
alive well
week ago, mi I Dow and she's goner
answered my Mend blandly,
wasn't she dressed
It wits a to
Press.
A Mailer
one's mother had L
doctor, if there Is any
was great on
by lbs will for
you at once. As you know, have a
thermometer take
without troubling
you to In for Just
I Ails gulag to bad I was
by n Mag the and. bas-
to the door, a do.
who
Ir, do come round t once Mar-
worse. Missus said I
tell you her temperature is and It
waiting to put on my bat. I
lo of my little
patient and the whole
awaiting
the end of poor little the
lier In agony
and crying
ii I
m.-t in my
s Hie
dared i l- darling
It i i M, and Is
ways And broke down
win more lime l
turned down I lie I Ii I and .
that the thermometer had beer. II
between the .- I i
h.- bulb In n fr . i ed
Journal.
this plane will demand a good
many rs another season,
and wishing lo arrange for
positions would do well to
getting homes here soon as
ii n A boy or nun
bus some experience as
trimmer, also a man for wood
shop. CO.
Then be Of peaches
year, the way they lire
in this early.
Hill, of Washington,
drove up here yesterday, lie is
handling and
wagons, brought an order for
each,
See US, write us or us lot
anything in our line at any time.
please.
A. i. Co.
A good understanding have
those shoes of B. Man-
Co. They have just made
a large increase In stock.
Mr. Mill, came up from
Washington yesterday, was expect-
to the barbecue here to-
day, tie said a good ninny
others were mistaken in the time,
would be here from Washing-
ton. We down there
however, reminded them that
our grand barbecue speaking
on
Tobacco coming,
Cheroots going,
Bands a making,
Trade a
Everything
a fair show
Co.
The an-taking it by turns
going out different directions
of have
been going in lime so fair,
may have to lime
for it before they gel the
number.
for Wilson.
Walt Pound.
Mr. S. W. Andrews, now of Bin
City, was Greenville today and
told us that a infant bad
been abandoned by its her was
found near Elm City Tuesday.
Some who were plowing
He has just moved in- heard peculiar noises when they
came up to the end the row near
the rail road track, and going to
investigate a new born child
in sack thrown in some bush-
es. WM taken charge of
WM started for
human mother.
son avenue
to his photograph gallery
and guarantees satisfaction. Just
across the street from W. B.
Greene's residence.
Frank Wilson has his show
window a pair of Duchess pants,
one leg of which is lied near
ceiling and the. other
down with a keg of nails weighing
pounds tied to it, to prove that
the will rip. It is a
pretty good test.
W. W. Shaw, of Washington,
left morning,
Kev. F. A. Bishop returned
home Monday evening.
Rev. J. W. Jenkins returned
this to
ReV. X. M. Watson
for Gales county.
Mrs. u. J. Cobb returned this
morning from Morehead City.
left this
.
on Menu I
For several days I n
ii
hotel and did
There Is a
, mile.
Heed the word
bill of fare at
know what It
wine
Fair New Libel Law la Ohio.
Hereafter, the state of
in a suit
libel charges malice on the
the publisher, the burden of
is upon him. not upon the
newspaper man, as past.
Tardy justice basal last been done
the Buck-
eye the passage of
is known as the Harding
amendment lo the statute, I e
section reading as
in the actions mentioned tin
proceeding -section the defendant
may allege and prove the truth
one of the vineyards with that
and I supposed it was perhaps
same thing referred to,
It was difficult lo understand why it
Should appear among the desserts
the at the dinner table on
bills of rare for I The
best way to find out such
la to try them, and next morning,
being an mill mood, I or-
a which, to our
was ordinary
cake. Then It upon dull
perceptions that spelled
pancake. I called attention of lb
i head waller to the discovery,
W. T. returned astonished, lie could
lay evening from a Hip Io well to be
fan I with the of America,
he did not
l WASH-
X. 1900
Sunday 10th lust, the crew
of the steamer W. killed
a bear. The steamer was going
liver near month and
found the bear crowing.
Mrs. ii- Latham, of
passed town for
her old borne near where
-ii, expect to s. id summer.
On He- afternoon of I the
old k fire and was
down, the
was old the loss was
perhaps if insured do not
know
of this place,
and Mr. of Tarboro,
were married St. Peters on the
lib ill o'clock.
They morning train for
Niagara, N ills other
The Sunday school
had their annual picnic on the 13th
and the on the B
went down river spent the
day along lion .
Hot and . the Main Mar
he, is, very
in , . Hi streets. Those
living elsewhere can gel hone
fit if will go on thus- el reels.
We glad lo learn of
of Dr. W. Bi lbs
of who i.-is i
ill days.
I have heard th it
of potatoes are shipped from Bel
haven per day. The story may lie
I expect not.
Dr. H. excellent den
has returned from a re ill i in
graduating which
from
j ears since
A boarder a certain hotel in
Carolina went in
unoccupied room
as his room
Rued did not he, the
presented I'm lodging was only
cents for . In the
To See Ms.
Al the old Marcel I us Moore store.
Five Points, where n-e have
just opened a new and
of
Heavy and Fancy Groceries
Consisting of Meals, Flour,
Sugar, Coffee, Canned Goods,
Tobacco, Snuff. Cigars,
Fruits, in fact everything
to be found iii up-to-date
We pay the highest market
pries for all kinds of
Country Produce,
i in barter. When
you want to Bell or when you
come to see us.
To all who favor us with their
promise entire sat-
T, F. CHRiSTMAN Ca
at Five
THE HEW YORK
It at the price
than any other newspaper publish-
. I in news service
covers all globe and is equaled
ii of few dailies. Its reports
the war not
thoroughness
promptness, and with the
iii not in
it HI be Invaluable. Its political
i- ans impartial. This
makes d of to
you it I iii time.
The weak Worlds leg
subscript Ion price is only f 1.00
per year. We offer
twice-a-week one year for
Co., Wash
St., New York say that the
Potato market continues
say that the supply is
so great that nothing but low prices
can them into the hands of
consumers. They also state that
Virginia will begin shipping this
week quite largely and in two
weeks Long Island will lie market-
potatoes ; so pros-
now for an The
sire of I he Is beyond all
Cotton Mill.
There was a meet this after-
noon of the subscriber to stock in
the Cotton Mills. Cu-
the letters of incorporation a
meeting was to beheld
was to elect a ma-
of the Board of Directors,
these to open books of subscription
to the amount of stock to
when work will begin.
The meeting this afternoon was to
elect the directors, R. L. Davis, O.
Hooker, T. Hooker,
J. A. Andrews and W. A. Harden
being elected.
B. E. Griffin left this morning to
a few days at his old home
in Ivor, Va.
Little Edward Hearne. of Wash-
is visiting his grandfather
Allen Warren.
Miss Kay Moore, of Washington.
came Monday evening and is visit
Miss Bertha Patrick.
1800.
Miss Julia is sick.
Sanford Tuesday
evening.
S. W. Andrews, of City, is
in Greenville.
Lee Ibis morning for
Panacea
J. returned Tuesday
evening from Morehead City.
H. L. Coward and wife returned
this morning from Morehead City.
Miss Hue Clark,
Tuesday evening to Miss Put-
tie
Miss Etta Clark returned
home Tuesday evening from a visit
to
Iii my rather
think be wrote Ike bill of fare himself,
for lie remarked In n surprised
What do you call a pancake in
Chicago Record.
on Die
Miss Jennie Let, the famous ii
actress, was ploying ill
land. was In of the long
narrowing death scene of p. Jo.
The stage was darkened, and the lime-
light Illuminated pale
death stricken boy. People were
all over
Suddenly, In IT c. Ml
I.- heard limelight i
Ins her a brawny Scotch whisper.
audible t. half the
quick, Ml i
in. roared i
did ill.- I- l ii- I
of a i h
never I,
I hi- r
of Hi. an k ll
governor of Irons-
to bin the Duller Hi
bl.-, lbs of . Ii U . But-
b-r wrote leaf as folios
Ii I.
I t I a t
tune. I w. In.
III v.
torn.
matter charged as
proof of the truth of same
shall be complete defense to
any claim for damages, and In every
ease the defendant prove
mitigating circumstances to reduce
of damages. If shall
appear the trial that the
cation of was mad.- in
good faith, through mistake
with reasonable ground
for believing the statements
contained therein were true,
that the publisher, upon
and within
after, published a full and com
retraction as public U man
in which -aid original
was made,
of malice attaching
out of publication
slid matter shall lie then
provided nothing
contained in this act shall prevent
person from alleging
proving actual
putt of the publisher and
damage to there
Publishers of Ohio newspapers
my in.-
now placed on n footing of
with other
Publishers he held to
other men. for the
commission of but U is
duty of newspapers to expose
violations of law and crimes
-i society, the protection
forded all of being
until proven gull-
in tires.
I D buggy.
I- Mi The bill has
no; paid,
has ii there
a steamer on from
and ample
vision ban been in for guests.
General King, of
Southern
a day or two and order-
ed moved. The mill
men will if this be true, for
there is perhaps more than four
million In stock there.
Mrs. L. M. is
visiting her
Mr. It. T. has
. enterprise in
gallery on
Dickinson avenue. He has put up
in building for his
recently moved Into it.
i building in two stories. The
has two rooms, one a
room the other a
dug room, From the hall be-
these there is a winding
to the story, where
in- ins ; large operating room,
lighted and well
lie is nicely for bis
work.
Snooting; on the
A shooting affair occurred near
Grove church, seven
from Greenville, Saturday
evening, between Mr. Bill
i named Clayton Barrow.
From we learn both par-
in bad been to Greenville and
e were returning home when Mr.
Harrow and another
N. e i. insulting re-
., about Mr. got
Mr. of Bern, ,
. . . . Ills and went back to
here, died suddenly on
, ., ,,,,,, by
Sunday lie mil be bin
Bel
meant by the
Insulting language. The
of wagon and fired
Mr. who
pistol and fired
here.
Mis. Mini ha M. a sister twice
i r In turn drew hi-
died inst., alter an Harrow. Neither par-
. received n wound. One of
bullets came so close to the
us tear his pants leg but did not
. ii he lie
illness several we
as years of ago.
ii an ii novel silver
They pi wed a
palm
in, and ion
i i in
good
II
t apt. Bullock.
Mount, Conductor R
Mas i
a or since,
his log.
was arrested and
taken Justice of the Peace
ii for trial. was
i, , over to and brought
evening and
jail
I,
S .-i i. .
Ira.
Mr. Hooker ha purchased
for hie
is a very pretty
men fail because
I lo that
which, according to the old
saying, conies to each us
. With the
i ii is By
aid of a good advertising medium
be can make opportunities and lie
ready to take advantage of then,
gives daily
to achieve
Philadelphia Record,
on.

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AMENDMENT.
THE of
APPOINTED THE
turn M
m I HAVE
i -t the
as Amended.
Supplemental to u
As one of depositories Public School Books in I
Pin County. We handle the books designated on the
state list for the public schools and cm supply what-
ever you need. We also have
COPY BOOKS
slant doable ruled practice writing books,
tablets, fool's cap paper, pens, pen slates, white
crayons, colored crayons, inks, companion boxes, etc.
Some of S i i p m .
Entitled la to Amend
of
February ISM, the
Two
of the Public am
of 1899.
elections by the General
shall be viva
Sec Every voter North
Carolina, except in this
shall eligible to of-
lint entering
lead pencils l cent,
a nice tablet with
c pencils l cent, plain
rubber tipped lead pencil l cent,
pretty cover cent,
in nice wood box cents
and pen, and rule, all nice wood box, R
cents. A great big wide tablet cents. Bottle of best
ink on the market, Scents. Copybooks to dents.
White crayons, gross In box. cents. Good fool's cap
paper cents per quire.
For the Business Man.
We a nice of doable and
long day books, journals, counter books,
order books, receipts, draft and note
Ac,
For Society People.
We have all kinds and styles of box papers, card and
envelope sets, visiting cards, note papers and tablets.
he General Assembly of North
Carolina do
Section i. That
Public of 1899, entitled
Act to amend the Constitution of
be amended so
as to make said act read us
That article of the
of North Carolina lie, and
same i hereby abrogated, and in
pen thereof shall be substituted
crayons, with metal following article of said Con-
ad pencil, slate pen- as an entire and
plan of
entry ledger
memorandum
lime
Parker Fountain gen
Eight
And when it comes to
-JOB
The Reflector Office Can't Beat.
ANYTHING IN
Books, Stationery Printing.
TAKES TO ALL
MAGAZINES.
Tobacco
We want your Orders for Printing
IN POSITION
FOB Tin-;
Manila Floor Tags
IN POSITION SPECIAL PRICES
FOR
In
Bills
lots of per
lots of cents per
In lots of per
In ills of at per
In u.-
At prices as Bills-
You ran v your orders now an I have work delivered any
time before the open t 1st. Work Guaranteed.
The Reflector Printing Office.
S. M. Schultz.
front now
will no
until
1st
suspended Wholesale and retail and
Dealer. Cash paid for
Hides, Fur, Cotton Bead, oil liar
Turkeys, Egg, etc. Bed-
-leads. Mattresses, Oak Ba-
by Carriages, Parlor
Suits, Tallies. Lounges, Safes, I.
mi Gail A As
Meal Key West Cheroots,
American Beauty Can-
Cherries, Peaches, Apples,
Pine Apples. Syrup, Jelly, Milk,
Flour. Sugar, Coffee,
Lye, Magic Food, Hatches, oil,
Cotton Seed Meal and Gar-
of TAILORS to den
when will bi-
ll full line of
with
Woolens,
keep up the work.
Greenville Tailoring Co.,
a, Apples,
Candies, Dried Apples, Peaches,
Prunes. Currents, Glass
and China Wan-, Tin and Wooden
Ware, Cakes and Crackers, Mara
Cheese. Putter, Stand- the regulation of the suffrage, with
ard Sewing Machines,
; other goods. unit
Quantity. Cheap for
, to see me.
VI.
AND TO
Section l. Every male person
in the United Stales, and
every male person who has been
naturalized, twenty one years
age, and possessing the
set out this article, shall
be entitled to vote at any election
by the people In the State, except
as herein otherwise provided.
Sec. He shall have resided in
the state Ninth Carolina for two
years, in the county six months,
and in precinct, ward or other
election district iii which be offers
to vote, four months next proceed-
tin election; Provided, That
removal from one precinct, ward
or other election district
the same county, shall not ope-
late to deprive person Of the
right to vote ill the precinct, ward
or other election district from
which he has removed, until four
months after such removal. No
person who has been convicted, or
who has confessed his guilt
court upon Indictment of any crime
the punishment of which is. or may
hereafter is-, imprisonment in the
Male prison, shall be permitted to
vote, unless the said parson shall
be first restored to citizenship In
the manner prescribed law.
Sec. Every person offering to
vote shall be at the time a legally
registered voter as herein
ed and in the manner
provided by law, and the General
Assembly of North Carolina shall
enact general registration laws to
carry into effect the provisions of
this
Sec. i. Every person presenting
himself for registration shall be
I able to read and write any section
of the constitution in the English
language; and, before he shall be
entitled lo vote, be shall have paid
on or before the day of May, of
the year in which he proposes to
vote, his tax for the previous
year as prescribed by Article B,
Section i, the Constitution.
no male person, who was, on Jan-
Ni or at any time prior
thereto, entitled to vote under the
laws of any State in United
Stales wherein he then resided, and
no lineal of any such
shall be denied the right to
register and vote at any election in
this Slate by reason of his failure
to possess the educational
cation rein described
ed, he shall have registered in ac-
with the terms of
I section prior I, 1908,
The General Assembly shall pro
registration of all per-
sons entitled to vote without the
educational herein
prescribed, and shall, on or before
November let, 1908, provide for
the making of a permanent record
of such registration, and all
sons so registered, shall forever
thereafter have the right to vote
all elections by the people in
this State, unless disqualified
Section of Pro-
such person shall have paid
his poll tax as above required.
See. B, That this to
the it is presented
adopted as one Indivisible plan for
duties of the he shall take
and subscribe the following oath
do swear
I ill support and
maintain the constitution laws
of the United Slates, the con-
and laws of North Caro
inn not inconsistent therewith, and
that I will faithfully discharge the
So help me,
See. S. The following classes of
persons shall lie disqualified for
office First, all persons who shall
deny the being of Almighty God
Second, all persons who shall have
been convicted or confessed their
guilt on indictment pending,
whether sentenced or not,
judgment treason
or felony, or any other crime for
which the punishment may be
the penitentiary,
since citizens of
United or corruption and
malpractice in office, unless such
person shall lie restored to the
rights of citizenship in a manner
prescribed
Sec. That this amendment to
the Constitution, shall go Into
on the first day July, 1902,
called the mill run near
C. Hooks, residence; thence
down said branch or mill
Swift Creek, thence down
creek to the public road leading by
C. i hence with pub-
road to Meeting
House; the public road
leading by Caleb Worthington's to.
Km k swamp; shall constitute
t No t of i Township,
polling place the town
of
No. Si All that part of
said township lying cast north
of the above line shall constitute
Precinct Ho. of Town-
ship with polling place In the town
of
Township
Falkland Township snail
one election precinct with the
polling place in the town of Falk-
land.
Township I
one election
the polling place
Farmville.
precinct
the town
TOWNSHIP
if a majority f the votes at
the next general election shall with Pitt street
cast In favor of amend
Greenville Township is hereby
divided two election precincts
Precinct that part of
the township lying north of Tar
river, together with that part of
the town of Greenville lying be-
tween Tar river the following
line, to Commencing on Tar
river at the mouth of the branch
forming eastern boundary of
said town, and running up said
branch lo Third street, thence a
westerly course with Third street
to Pitt street, thence a southerly
to
son avenue, thence with Dickinson
avenue a south-westerly course to
Sec. II. This amendment to boundary of said town
. .,;, ,. , ,, , . . , . thence a northerly course with said
Constitution shall be submitted at boundary line to Tar river; shall
the next general election to the constitute Precinct No.
voters of the State, in the villa township, with the polling
same and under the same
rules regulations as is pro I , T ,, . n.,
,,.,, , . , the remain-
the law of Mid township shall con-
elections in this State, and at said Precinct No. with the
elections those persons desiring to, polling place at Five Points in the
vote for such amendment shall cast Greenville.
a written printed ballot with the
Suffrage Amend-
thereon; and those with a
contrary opinion shall cast a writ-
ten or printed ballot with the
words Suffrage Amend-
thereon.
TOWNSHIP
US Township shall
one election precinct with the
polling place in the village of
lotus.
TOWNSHIP
Swill Creek Township is
See. III. The votes east at said into two election precincts
election shall be counted,
returned and canvassed, and
the result declared
under the same rules
and the same manner as
the vote for Governor, and if a ma-
of voles east are in favor
of the said amendment, it shall lie
the of the Governor of the
State, being notified of the
result of said election, to certify
said the seal of
the state, who shall enroll the said
amendment in certified among
permanent records of his office.
Sec IV. This act shall lie
force from and after Its ratification.
ELECTION PRECINCTS.
Voting Places For the
Election.
August
W. T. Lee Company
Will tell in this
space Thursday. Phone
the intent and purpose to so con
the different parts, and to
make them so dependent upon
ea h other, that the whole shall
stand or fall together.
Sec. ti. All elections by the
pie shall be by ballot, and all
i with Chapter SOT,
Law- 1800, the county Hoard of
Elections, for Pitt county, at a
meeting held on the 7th day of
May 1900, divided the county
election precincts and designated
the polling places as follow
DAM TOWNSHIP
Beaver Dam Township shall con
election precinct with
the polling plane at May's Chapel.
TOWNSHIP
shall constitute
one election precinct the poll-
place Parker's School House
near Gum Swamp
TOWNSHIP
Township shall constitute
one election precinct with the poll
place of Bethel.
Carolina Township shall
one election precinct with the
polling place at Stokes on the
W. i;. B.
fill
township shall constitute
one election precinct with the poll-
place Blank Jack.
TOWNSHIP.
is hereby
two election precincts
Precinct No. All that part of
the township lying south of Swift
shall constitute Precinct No.
with the polling place at
Precinct No. All that part
of the township lying of
Swift creek shall constitute
No. with the polling place
at the public school house near I.
B, F.
Chairman Co. Hoard of Elections,
Co. Hoard of
A New York merchant, who had
an income of shot himself
a few days ago of
He probably depress-
ed with the thought that he might
never he as rich as Rockefeller.
Wilmington Star.
THE CELEBRATED
FARQUHAR
Machines,
Simplest. Most Durable,
and Perfect in use. Wastes
no grain; Cleans it ready for market
Threshing; Engines Horse Powers,
Saw Mills and Standard
Send for Illus-
A. B. Lid.,
SO at York, Pa
livid
viz.
Pus So. that part
so the township west
tooth following line to
Commencing g the Beaver
Township line on the old Plank
Road, near Warren's Chapel,
running with the public road lead-
by Warren's Chapel, to the
forks of the road near the old
Frank Tucker homestead, thence
with the public road leading to the
Greenville and road near
Lorenzo thence with
the Greenville and road
mi.
. m . w
HI
la
Book
a course to the branch
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and night Sweats with Hubert's
Tasteless Chill Tonic at per
Pleasant to take. Money
if it fails. Restores
petite, blood and makes
you well. None other as good.
Sold guaranteed the drug
Bryan,
A Words
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Women.
No bat yourselves know of
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suffer It necessary. Don't
lose your health and beauty, the
of one U
Don't
. and worn Impure blood is Si
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In o. mid, all Sad help, lilt
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THE Detroit, Mich;
Urn Ilia ac.
SOLD BY
t u ,
In Court.
vs. Move.
Tin- defendant above named will take
notice Hint an action entitled as above
the Superior Court of
Pitt county to obtain a divorce from the
of matrimony; and the defendant
will take notice that he is required
to appear the next term of the Superior
Court of county to be held on the sec-
Monday after the first Monday in Sept.
next, being the 17th of Sept., 1900,
Si the Court House in N. C.
mi answer or demur lo the complaint in
ran the plaintiff will apply to the
Court fur the relief demanded in com-
plaint.
This the 80th day of May 1900.
C.
Clerk Superior Court.
F O for
CREDITORS.
The of the Superior Court of Tit
county, having lamed Letter t
lo me. the undersigned, on the
day if May. on the estate
I. deceased. Notice is Iv
given to ill Indebted to the
lo make Immediate to the
am lo all creditors of said estate or
present claims, properly
to the twelve
after date of this notice, or this
will lie plead in of their recovery.
This tin- 7th day of May; 1900.
Jambs
on the estate of Thomas J.
TO CREDITORS.
Having dub the
or county as
Will and of Nancy
Wallace, notice is hereby given to
all to said estate to make
i to the undersigned, and
all persons claims said ea-
BIS to present the same
for payment on or the of
April, or this nodes will he plead in
bar of recovery.
day of April, 1900.
Executor of Nancy Wallace.
POSTED.
hereby warn all persons from en-
upon any of our lands along
the purpose of with net
or hunting. Any one m will
W according lo law,
E. I It. T
A. J.
M i- .
OLD DOMINION LINE
OF VOTERS.
Notice is hereby given that the hooks of
registration fer precinct NO.
Township will .-i from A.
M. to sun-set of each day from Thursday
June July 1900 in-
for the n
of legally voters of the
precinct And on each Saturday during
said the said hours
the books will be open at polling place
at Five Points in the town of
June
Registrar
PATENTS i
FREE
SERVICE
Steamer leave Washing-
ton daily at A. M. for Green-
ville, leave Greenville daily at
M. for Washington.
Steamer leaves
Greenville Mondays, Wednesday
and Friday at A. M.
leave Tarboro for Greenville
Saturdays
A. M. carries freight only.
with
for Norfolk,
New York and
ton, for all points for the Went
with railroads at Norfolk.
Shippers should order freight by
I lie I s. B. Co. from
New York; from
Bay Line from Baltimore;
and Line from
Boston.
JNO. SON,
Washington, N.
J.
Greenville, N. C.
DIRECTORY
CHURCHES.
s m. superintendent.
Lay Services every 2nd and 4th
Sunday morning.
every Sun-
day, morning and evening. Pray-
Wednesday evening.
Rev. J. N. Booth, pastor. Sunday-
school a. m. C. D.
superintendent.
M every Sun-
day, morning and evening. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening. Rev.
N. M. Watson, pastor. Sunday
school p. m. W F. Harding,
II
thin.
Sunday, evening. Rev
J. B. Morton, pastor. Sunday-
school a. m. E. B. so
at the
Opera House every 2nd Sunday
night. Rev. W.
Davis, pastor.
regular services.
LODGES
A. F. A. M. Greenville
Lodge, No. meets first and
third Monday R.
W. M. J. M. Sec
I. O. O. Lodge, No.
Meets every Tuesday evening.
R. I. Humber. N. G. E. E Griffin,
Sec.
K. of River Lodge,
meets every Friday evening
R. M. C C; T. M. Hooker,
K. of K. andS.
R. Vance Council, No.
1696, meets every Thursday even-
W. B. Wilson, R. M. R.
Lang, See.
Jr. O. U. A. every
Wednesday night at In I. O.
O. F hall. J. B. While, Conn-
A. O. Council,
No. meets every first and third
Thursday nights in Odd Fellows
Hall. J. Z. Gardner Worthy
Chief; D. S. Smith, Sec.
I. O. Conclave
No. meets every second
Monday nights in Odd
Hall. W. B. Wilson
Smith Sec
IN
Whichard, N, C.
The Stock complete in every de
part and prices as low as the
Highest market prices
aid produce.
The One Day Cold Our.
Cold In and sore throat cured by Ker-
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cry
MEN WANTED, with fair duration
L-.-t lo
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for free
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A GENERAL LINK OF
A lap a Line of Hardware.
COME TO SEE MK.
J. B. COREY.
FOR
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The Eastern Reflector.
D. J. EDITOR
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VOL XIX-
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE
NO
IRE I
-AT-
Seven Springs Hotel.
NEW MANAGEMENT. W. F Po
The finest of mineral waters. Each spring has a different
analysis. Especially recommended for stomach, kidney, liver
and bladder troubles. All seven have wonderful restorative
HACKS MEET EVERY TRAIN AT
La O.
Water free to guests. People boarding at other hotels or
boarding houses and using Seven Springs w In-charged
per week A number of improvements have been added
since last season, among them are the bath houses being com-
a professional barber in the hotel, and others too
numerous to mention. For terms and other information
address
W. F. Morrill. Proprietor.
Seven Springs, N. C.
OUR
State Ticket.
CHARLES B. AYCOCK,
of Wayne.
Fur Lieutenant
WILFRED I. TURNER,
Of
For Secretary of
GRIMES,
of Pitt.
For
BENJAMIN It. LACY,
For
B. F.
of Cleveland.
For Attorney
ROBERT D. GILMER,
of Hay wood.
For Superintendent Public
THOMAS
of Robeson.
For Commissioner
SAMUEL L. PATTERSON,
of Caldwell.
For Commissioner and
HENRY B.
of Davidson.
For Corporation
SAMUEL L. ROGERS,
of
FRANK
of New
DAN HUGH
of Cumberland.
LEE OVERMAN,
County Ticket
For the Senate,
F. G. JAMES.
For Representatives,
W. J. NICHOLS,
T. H. BARNHILL.
For Sheriff,
O. W. HARRINGTON.
For Register of Deeds
T. R. MOORE.
For Treasurer,
J. B. CHERRY.
For Coroner,
O.
Surveyor,
J. D. COX.
For Commissioners,
C. J. TUCKER,
R. L. DAVIS,
W. LITTLE.
A Needed Incentive.
North Carolina needs an
to education. We
have set forth time and again the
distressing condition of our free
schools; and now the tide is
in their favor it is highly
desirable that we strike at the
root of illiteracy In OUT Common-
Wealth. The percentage of
in North Carolina has not been
wholly chargeable to the
common schools; for they
have been many years,
ways, to teach lo
read and write. That is to say,
anyone who desires to learn to read
and write can do so in schools run
for two or three months during
their school This being so,
it stands to reason Ilia I many have
declined to embrace their
and it is well established
that one who will scorn or
a slight opportunity will despise
a larger one. For this we
have felt of a compulsory
school-law, though know the
people are not yet regarded as
ready for it. Knowing that this
is out of the we arc glad
for the prospect of another
open chance to learn to
read and write, open several
and then a penalty if that chance
neglected. We believe this will
bring the children out of darkened
homes by the thousand. will
learn to read rather than forfeit
their right to vote. They will till
our free schools, such
dance will reported as has not
been dreamed of. This will serve
many purposes. It will be light
where light is most needed; it will
hope to those hopeless;
it will emphasize the value of the
free and plead eloquently
for their improvement, and it will
give new impetus to the
movement now so
parent North
cal Recorder.
Unique Bargains.
The most unique political prop-
yet made and accepted is
that batman Mr. Charles B.
cock and a Mr. Crisp, of Lenoir.
When Mr. Aycock concluded
able speech there a few days
J. A. Crisp, the well-known Re-
publican postmaster, said to Mr.
Aycock that if he would
sign an affidavit that the amend-
would not disfranchise white
men because of their illiteracy,
other words that the
meant what it says, he
would obligate himself by
to vote for the amendment.
Crisp is a Republican local leader
and it is thought this
proposition for a bluff, or to test
whether Aycock really believed
what he asserted in his speech.
Then and there the presence of
a magistrate the affidavit was
drawn up and duly sworn to and
signed by Aycock. There was
nothing left for Crisp to do but
keep his part of the agreement and
sign the affidavit to vote for the
which ho did.
Crisp claimed to lie favor of
while supremacy but opposed to
the amendment. He now
logical position of being
favor of both.
His proposition its
reminds one of the arrange
between a local politician of
Charlotte a Democratic
date. The Republican worker dis-
the statement there
were forty magistrates
Hanover, and at last offered
to go to to
gate for himself; the Democrat to
pay his expenses, and the
to change his politics if he
found the statement true. Re
went to Wilmington, found things
much than they had been
represented, and wrote a card iii
I lie papers saying He stood to
his bargain, changed his politics
and worked the rest of the
News.
TO THE FRIENDS AND
PITT AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.
arc still in the forefront of race after your patronage
offer you the best selected line of
General Merchandise
to lie found in in Pitt Well bought choice
the creations of the best manufacturers of America
and Europe. Seasonable all the year round. Spring, bummer
We are at work for yours and our mutual ad
vantage. It la our pleasure to show you what you and to
sell you if we ran. We offer you beat service, polite
attention, and the most liberal terms with a will
established business built up strictly on its own merits.
When you come lo market you ill do yourself justice
if you do not son our immense stock before buying elsewhere.
Remember us and the following lines of general merchandise.
Goods and Notions,
Hats ac i and Dross Trimmings Ladies
Jackets Carpets, Mattings and Oil
No Blood but Some Bluster.
is too much talk of
this campaign. We
are a to have a peaceable and
light the greatest
which ever entered pol-
of any State. That matter is
going lo be settled by a majority of
the voters at the polls. you
hear any political of wad-
through blood to bin mouth,
and boasting how he is going to
to Winchester titles and die
in his cause, you may put it down
in your note book that there is
a that fellow,
if it were necessary to face bullets
and endanger life that same fellow
would lie under the bed
out of danger. Oh, these
blood and thunder fellows. We
have hoard racket it is
always and ever a racket and
nothing
Subscribe to The
Cases
Pretty much everybody in the
central purl of city knows by-
sight the sawed-off boy
of Western Union Telegraph
Company h hose tits him
about as well as a coffee sack
would. Last Sunday night
Observer man and an of
the met him marching up
street, aimless in appear-
with his eyes lightly
They stopped him, Inter-
him and shook him,
found that he was When
he woke up he said he thought he
was asleep on the bench the
Western Union office- A few
years ago one of the best known
physicians Charlotte appeared,
one morning, about i
o'clock, on street, with
on but his night shirt a
pair of slippers He had walked
a block half when he was
in his
by a couple of his night -hawk
friends, who naked him where he
was He replied,
that it was none of their
blank but they managed
to detain him until they found
that he was asleep, then
woke him up. He returned through
his light to
his room, laughing all the
way.
Is not a good
habit. Any who is ad
dieted to it should break himself
of it. It is liable to lead one into
any sort of complication. Char-
Observer.
Shoes.
Men's, and Children's Shoes. and
Horse Blankets and
Groceries.
Flour, Meal, Sugar, Bead ts,
Hardware,
Plows, Costings and Plow Fixture, Nails and Rope.
Furniture.
for Furniture and everything in Hue.
We buy strictly fur Cash, sell for lather tush u Approved
Credit. Our motto is Honesty, Merit Dealing.
Your Friends,
Use Good Plows.
have just received n lot o South
Chilled Single Double Call and Me
them before buying. We also n
Tools,
A reporter of The Stat -at the
division of the
Bureau for more than hour
to get Idea of the work be
It was a sail experience,
for there came t the
an of unemployed,
unused Lo breakers
of this bard, cold world, all
search employment.
wanted something to something
to take Hun minds from
i and give them u
to supply
Some of the stories
pitiful, and it was
;. i- a woman burst into
tears. f the crowd that
waited in respectful deference to
the presentation her case. Now
and then a stray member
crop can
grow with-
out Potash.
Every blade
t ., grain
i I all Fruits
and Vegetables
must have it. If
i is supplied
y. mi a full crop-
it too little, growth will be
I. all ,
t t They cost
;. . .
No
A -mi In Each.
Maude, dear, would
lie to refer to the
gross, who bad left over, came . .
inmates of ti cattle ear as trained
animals.
in stormed to
his Constituent had lint
. once, tin
mindful of the i In census
bad just begun, and
there are other i i
other promises and few places.
difference, it
seems, for after n person once pas
-i- an i in there is a i
grind at headquarters for
appointments, and all sorts of in-
net is n bent t.
official recognition a- a clerk
census.
Watches a
and eye over I lie whole
dilution, and be refuses
people lo plan- when
there is no need for them. There
arc
works everybody's
survives are appreciated accord-
bis when
So, Mamie, dear cowboy
does always cross the ocean in
the steerage.
a woman can usually gel straight
in point except when she tries
a pencil or drive a nail.
It doesn't take a man with a call
in hi- eye In cast relied ions.
A man may make his murk
ti. world making it a
mark.
A man never bow many
I. an- he spends In bed until lie has
hen the ball reaches first base
the runner it is natural that
feel put out about it.
dog may have his day, but
they an- mil all daisies.
Seine people always
for while others can't get
from It.
occur, they arc by
infrequent, it ran lie put Ts
a- a safe the
promotion has been is
a business census, conducted on
business principles b business
men no fears
Washington star.
lever is a bottle of
tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply
mi a i ii i a form
pay. Price
Plow
The while people North Car
realize much
win In the . mo
i It- for blessing
;. mil government, for peace,
of the women
and outrage, till banner
went down In defeat
of them grew weary old -i.
at tin- carnival of terror it ml
corruption followed
can in demanded
new Marion Duller saw
bis opportunity u com-
which resulted in the defeat of the
democratic party, There was no
rule, he said, The
was all a blind to divert
the attention of the people
live economic II took
four years of fusion rule in open
had In
try bitter experience
republican is incapable of
. lie state a n man's .
because three fourths of
its is made lip of
Ii is a .
the tenders
ran get the lowest to win the
the
rAKE ROBERTS TASTELESS CHILL
per bottle. Cures Chills and
Fever, Malaria, Sweats and
back if it doesn't.
No us good, the kind
with Red Cross on the label.
guaranteed by Wooten,
i and druggists.
speakers everywhere
ought to call attention to the pet-
sound of the Stale and ticket.
Aft. rail that is said about plat
the character of
dates has mm ti in do with the re-
The have
be.-t of pa-
character -and a
will In-
duce t. vote for the Demo-
because are looking for
i be lie; men for the position.
Raleigh News and Observer.
The average is not hit fas
much afraid of gossip as i he is of a
mouse.
Headquarters For
Builder's Hardware, Ready
Paints, Pumps, Nails Garland Stoves, World's
BAKER HART.
No.
N. C.
Weekly.
Catarrh Cured
with local applications, as
reach scat of the dis
ea-e. is a blood or
ill-ease, and in order to
cure ii internal
Catarrh is taken
, and ails mi
Mi. Hall's
Cure Is not a quack
i was prescribed
the beat In this country
years, is a regular
It is the
ii. with
. a the mucous surface. The
perfect combination the two in-
is produces such
in lining
ill Send ho
tin Props.,
Hold druggists, . Hall's
Pill-, arc the
The i- a in on III
that i the w hilt i-
i an. I him I Inn is tin middle
ground. A- the Mate stands,
the bite man i- the men n
who climb into paw
nil
thinking rid of
i and till men, sleeted
white men, will power
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Dr. D. L. J i ,
M N .