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THE BEST
That is tho
kind of work the
patrons of the
tor Job Office say they get.
CiT This Office for Job Printing
NORTH CAROLINA.
Things Mentioned in our State Ex-
changes that are of General Interest
The Cream of the News.
Windsor A little
child of Peter colored,
was cut by some tho
and bled to death yesterday
morning from the wound.
Mount We
are informed that a shad, was
caught with a hook and line in
the river near here recently by
Wright Taylor. It appears that
tho shad swallowed the hook.
A correspondent informs tho
Statesville Landmark Mr. N.
A. Douglas cut his initials in a
terrapin's shell in The
same terrapin was found a few
days ago near the same place.
A buzzard
was seen flying near Walker's mill
a few days ago with a steel trap
and a chain about three feet long
attached to its foot. It seemed
to be flying without much
Edin-
charged with an
attempt to take tho life cf his own
child saturating her clothing
with oil and setting them on fire
been arrested and lodged in
jail to await tho action of
Cumberland Superior Court next
week.
Mr. J. D. Clayton Sr-, one of
Person county's oldest most
highly respected citizens died at
his homo last Saturday, he was
tho year of his age. and
leaves children,
and
to mourn his death, says the
Courier.
Plymouth Beacon A very sad
accident occurred near Roper on
the N. S. road on Monday. A
number of workmen were on a flat
car going up in the swamp when
the car was thrown from the track,
one of the men. Wm. Pearce. col-
fell on the track and five
cars ran over his body killing him
almost instantly.
Mr. Jacob S-
Lewis, of sold a wagon
load of good apples on the Le
market. last Thursday.
Rather late for apples, though
Mr. W. Coffey usually keeps
apples till May and apples are
generally peddled at the May
term of court.
ally they small, insipid and of
an earthy taste.
North
Carolina Lumber Company has
about completed their plant at
It is the plant of
the kind in Eastern Carolina and
the company will carry on a most
extensive lumber business, giving
employment to a large force of
hands, We learn that they will
erect quite a number of
at that place and that the
town is to be greatly improved-
Goldsboro The prices
returned for peas on tho North-
markets are the poorest ever
known thus early the season.
In fact, they are so poor as to
fall below the cost of putting the
truck on the this,
too, the face of the shortest
crop ever produced in the whole
of the pea growing section. It
looks like something is radically
wrong in the
of sales.
The mellow goose , tho mallard
duck, the blackbird and the crow,
will soon be here, from southern
lands to watch our cornfields
the hungry hawk and
will also come
along, and join their cheerful
-racket with the tuneful
song. All nature will don her
garb of green and
snow and ice and coal bills
too, will sadly fade away. The
farmer's boy sent out to plow,
will find a stack of hay, lie down
upon its sunny side, and sleep for
half the day. The dry goods
clerk, with doleful
in bales of two-
cent calico will rest from morn
till night- A gentle languor
steals upon the bravest and the
best, and printers are tho only
ones that can't find time to rest-
Orange Observer.
A few days ago a Maryland
farmer made a very narrow es-
cape from being swindled out of
by two sharpers who
tended at first that they wanted
to buy his farm and afterwards
roped him into a little
game- They were loaded down
counterfeit money and offered to
let him have of it for
of good money. He went to
the county seat of his county to
get the cash and met a friend to
whom he told the story. The
friend said the whole thing was
a a notified the officers
but they failed to catch the
scamps. It is indeed very
strange there are still men to be
found who will allow themselves
to lie swindled by this old trick.
If they read the newspapers they
would know
Sun.
II. B. Randolph, limns wick, Ga.
was the care of nine
, dint-rent doctors, one did
that Botanic has done
The Eastern Reflector.
D. J. WHICH ARD, Editor and Owner
TRUTH IN TO FICTION. per Year, in Advance.
VOL. XII.
GREENVILLE PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY MAY 1893.
NO.
FiShES.
One Species Remarkable for
Bird-Like Habits.
was so
at the sight of him that, fearing
for his life, the man left the place.
But the injured animal had
his time, and after fifteen years of
waiting had terribly punished his
The Whistling of a
Railway
Elephant's Revenge After
teen Years.
The remark-
able for the fact that they build
nests like birds. At tho breeding
season pair each
selecting a spot among water
plants, forming a nearly
spherical nest, composed of a
liar kind of Halting weed which
grows in tufts on the surface of
the ponds, and plastered with
mud. The nest is usually about
six inches in diameter, its
occupying the fish for five or
six days. where they are
gated their task is made easier by
in tho water branches of
to which bunches of the
grass referred to are attached.
The take this grass
with it make their nest in the sub-
branches of bamboo. When
it is finished, tho female deposits
her eggs in it to tho number of
from eight handled to a thousand.
While the eggs are undergoing
tho process of Incubation, tho par-
guard their nest watchfully,
rushing fiercely any intruder;
and this care for the safety of their
young is continued after the latter
are hutched. During infancy
young ones find refuge in the nest
from a thousand dangers which
would otherwise threaten them,
tho grass composing the nest
furnishes them with their earliest
food. When they are a few days
old, tho small fry begin to
short excursions from the nest,
ways in charge of their parents,
and swimming close together in a
shoal. This is continued until
they are able to look out for them
selves.
In Nubia there are groves
acacia extending hundred
long. Tho most conspicuous
species, says Dr. is
the Acacia fistula. Its Arabic
name is meaning flute
pipe. From tho of
which have worked their way
the inside, their ivory-white
are often distorted in form and
swollen out at their base into a
globular, bladder-like ball,
one inch in diameter. After tho
insect has emerged from a
hole, this thorn-like shoot becomes
musical instrument, upon which
tho wind as it plays produces the
regular sound of a flute. On this
account the natives of tho
it the
The death is announced of a
member of tho staff of the
Eastern railway, namely,
the collie dog long
familiar to at the.
station. This well-
known animal appears to have or-
appointed himself to
the duty of starting the trains, but
time and habit seem to have fully
ratified appointment. By a
instinct tho collie, it is
said, seemed to know the exact
time at which a train should begin
its journey, and a restless excite-
characterized him as the
pointed moment drew near. As
the bell its first sound, he
would scamper down the platform,
and, planting himself close to the
engine, bark furiously until the
wheels to move. Satisfied
apparently in this respect, he
would next make a move for the
van, and to his post
As the train passed out of the
ho retired, and no more was
seen of him till a similar operation
had to repeated on tho
of another train. No other
bell than that used for starting
purposes would bring the animal to
view.
A few miles out of the city of
is a mineral spring,
near it a bungalow much
by the Europeans of the
city. One evening a gentleman
was alighting from his howdah at
the As soon as he had
dismounted, his elephant was
moved to one side, and a driver,
who was seated on the head of an
elephant, ordered it to advance.
Tho instant he spoke, the animal,
which had moved aside to make
room for us, flapped his great ears,
and turned sharply round facing
tho driver. Suddenly, without
tho least warning, he stretched
out his long trunk and wrapped it
the body of the man. Then,
before anyone had time to inter-
he raised him high in the air
and brought him to the around
with tremendous force As the
fellow struck the earth his
ones cracked. But the elephant
was not done with him. The next
moment he had placed his huge
foot on the head and chest of the
prostrate driver. When he raised
it again, all semblance of life was
gone from the crushed, mutilated
body. The gentleman whose
had committed the terrible
was greatly distressed. He
said that he had purchased the an-
from tho king's pen, that it
bad always been exceedingly gen-
and well-disposed. The
was blind, one eye having
bf ti put out by an
teen years previous. It ma the
driver who had put out the
eye. He was at the time
one of the guards at the king's
stock pen, and for some
committed by the
j bad thrown a stone which struck
be creature full in eye. Vet
NEW YORK'S
In tor tin Details of Its
Annual
The most interesting details
which can of the Now
York relates to the
amount of transacted in
each division, for only this man-
can a true idea of tho import-
of this office be obtained.
For instance, tho international
money orders received and
to Europe in 1891 numbered
nearly a million, and aggregated
Tho European country with
which the York
had tho largest transactions
through its money-order depart-
Great Britain, the items
amounting to nearly a half mil-
lion. The Bahamas wore at the
foot of tho list with only items.
Tho total number of items in the
registry department was S,
Nearly items of mail
matter were handled by carriers;
and the sale of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes, etc., amounted
to
were
forwarded to and nearly
received from foreign countries,
the New York easily
handling over three-fourths of our
foreign mail. We should lose
faith in tho intelligence of tho
man on learning that in this
one office misdirected and
insufficiently addressed letters
were received, did we not learn at
the same time that of these
letters were corrected and for-
warded by other members of the
human race. Tho items of mail
matter handled averaged for each
day and the number of
pouches, the aggregate for
the year being 428,973.500 letters
and pouches.
The postmaster receives a salary
of a year, a very small sum
when tho business of tho office is
considered. But then ho doesn't
have to receive, face, postmark,
sort and distribute every letter
himself. In fact, he doesn't even
drive a mail wagon. For he spent
in 1891 for
and an express company does the
carting under
Transportation By S. Vessels.
In 1856 American vessels trans-
ported 76.2 per cent, of the value
of all the merchandise exported
from and imported into the United
States. In 1886 transported
bat per cent. Between 1858
and the mercantile marina of
the United States and its ocean
tonnage declined in a far greater
ratio than that of any other
time nation. Between 1855 and
1860 there was a decline
per cent, in the number of
in this country. In 1861 we had
ocean steamers anywhere on
the globe except on our own con
Large families.
Miss Lucy E. Dow. who ii
about to issue n of
N. H., to which her
father and herself have devoted
fifty years of laborious research,
famishes instances of large
families in the early days of the
Nathaniel grandson
of the Rev. Stephen
founder of the town, was twice
married had seventeen
His son and grandson had,
respectively, twelve and thirteen,
and a great-grandson reared a
family of thirteen. In later gen-
there were families of
thirteen, twelve and fourteen.
Samuel Dalton, a of
the town's second minister, had
fourteen children, and his sou an
equal number. The grandsons
had each ten. Tho Rev.
rattan on record that his
fourteenth was Oct.
about of clock in ye morn-
and baptized Oct.
and was named Wade in
honor of his Grandfather Wade
to put him mind of wading
through all to heaven, he
dyed was buried Oct.
John Hussey named his elev-
child Hope, his thirteenth
Patience and his Char-
Then came a daughter and
a son, and the seventeenth and
last- he named Content.
Edward was tho father of
thirteen children, his son and
grandson of and res-
Miss at whose
house Whittier died is his
first president
of New Hampshire, was one of
thirteen children. Page
and Deacon Joshua Lane had each
sixteen children. Samuel Brown,
eighteen, and the notorious Gen.
fifteen. Three genera-
of in direct lino
were blessed with families of four-
teen, sixteen and fifteen
respectively.
Empress Beggar.
The Empress of Austria, who is
making a tour in Spain, has
following the-example of Haroun
and with
very humble folk. A few days
ago Her Majesty entered a con-
shop in Seville, followed
by a poor woman, begging. The
Empress. the woman sit
at and eat cakes
her, talking freely the while.
HOW TO GET TWENTY-FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR
NOTHING.
The Winner has a Clear Gift of a Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them in Still More.
competitors should fill out the
following blank, and forward it
with their application i
1893.
Would you like to make twenty-
five- hundred dollars If you
would, read carefully what follows
and you may see a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company de-
votes much attention to patents. ,,, K, p.,,.,. ,,. ,,,,.
It has handled thousands of Press Claim Company's offer is
for inventions, but it something entirely different. Each
would like to handle thousands t person is asked merely to help
more. There is plenty of himself, and the one who helps
submit the within described
invention in competition for the
Twenty-five Hundred Dollar Prize
offered by the Press Claims Com-
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.
This is is a competition of rather
unusual nature. It is common
to offer prizes for the best story,
or picture, or architectural plan,
all the competitors risking tho loss
of their labor and the successful
one merely selling his for the
amount of the prize. Bat the
himself to the best advantage is
to be rewarded for doing it The
prize is only a stimulus to do
something that would be well
worth doing without it. The
whose competitive plan
for a club house on a
is not accepted has his
labor on something of very little
use to him. But the person who
patents a simple and useful de-
vice in the Press Claims Company's
competition, need not if he
fail to secure the prize. He has
a substantial result to show for
his that will command
its value in tho market at any
time.
The plain man who uses
article in his daily work ought to
know better how to improve it
than the mechanical expert who
Studies it only from the
cal point of view. Get rid of the
idea that an improvement can be
too simple to be worth patenting.
The simpler tho bettor. The per-
son who best
simplicity popularity, will
get tho Press Claims Company's
twenty-five hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this com-
may judged from the fact
that its stock is held by about
three hundred of the leading
newspapers of the United States.
Address the Press Claims Com-
John
attorney, F. N. W.,
Washington. N. C.
talent at large in this
try, needing nothing but
to produce practical re-
That encouragement the
Press Claims Company proposes
to give.
AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as
an appallingly formidable thing.
Tho idea is that an inventor must
be a natural genius, like Edison
or Bell; that he must devote years
to delving in complicated
problems and that ho must
spend a fortune en delicate expo-
before ho can get a new
device to a degree of
perfection. This delusion tho
company desires to dispel. It
desires to get into the head of the
public a clear comprehension of
the fact that it is not the great,
complex, and expensive
that bring the best re-
tarns to their authors, but tho lit-
simple, and cheap ones the
things that seem so absurdly
vial that the average citizen would
feel somewhat ashamed of bring-
them to tho attention of the
Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he
has received from the patents on
all his marvelous inventions have
not been sufficient to pay tho cost
of his experiments- the man
who conceived the idea of fasten-
a bit of rubber cord to a child's
ball, so that it would back
to the hand when thrown, made a
fortune out of his scheme. The
modern sewing-machine is a
of product of
the toil of hundreds of busy brains
through a hundred and fifty years,
but the whole brilliant result rests
upon tho simple device of putting
the eye of the needle at the point
instead of at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VAL-
Comparatively few people re-
themselves as inventors, out
almost everybody has been struck,
at one time or with ideas
that seemed calculated to reduce
some of the little frictions of life.
Usually such ideas are dismissed
without further thought.
don't the railroad com-
make its car windows so
that they can slid up down
without breaking the
exclaims the traveler.
I were running tho road I would
make them in such a
was the man that made
this saucepan thinking of
tho cook. never bad to
work over a stove, or ho would
have known how it ought to have
been
such a collar, button
growls the man who is late for
breakfast. I were in the
I'd make buttons that would
not slip out, or break off, or
gouge the back of my
And then the various sufferers
forget about their grievances and
to think of something else.
If they would sit down at -the
next convenient opportunity, put
their ideas about car windows,
saucepans, and collar buttons into
practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find them- to become their own.
selves as independently wealthy were innocent enough to
as the man who invented the iron I the army owned the earth
The Mississippi River.
Whilst nearly all tho world is
looking to Chicago, the of
threatens the people who
reside upon its banks with ruin
and desolation. As the watershed
of tho upper Mississippi and its
tributaries is of its forests,
and undergrowth, tho Mis-
bottom will troubled
with floods constantly
more destructive. The
pi has hundreds of tributaries in
Virginia and West Virginia, not to
mention other States. Whenever
there is a rain of long continuance
extending over this immense re-
the Ohio must rise the
Mississippi is apt to follow the ex
ample. And if all the forests of
Virginia and West Virginia were
cleared from the ground the Ohio
would rise vastly higher than ever
before. As the water-sheds of any
stream are cleared of leaves, brush,
logs, and other obstructions, the
stream will naturally and
rise higher. There is no
remedy for this condition of
operation of
laws- Even in Virginia the
pine forests and other forests per-
form for the present tho service of
keeping back rain-water and thus
preventing freshets which would
otherwise be much more
than
Dispatch.
The Savannah Morning News
very pertinently says Re-
publican party is remiss in its
duty toward those squat-
at James City, N. C-
were settled upon land belong-
to somebody else by federal
officers who told them the
umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To people to keep track
of their bright ideas and see what
there is in them, the Press Claims
Company has resolved to offer a
prize.
To the person who submits to
it the simplest and most
invention, from a commercial
point of view, the company will
and could apportion it at pleas
and they looked to the Re-
publican party to see that their
rights of ownership were not en
upon afterward. And
the party has always taught them
to regard it as their protector.
Now the proper thing for the Re-
publican party to do, inasmuch
as the courts have decided that
the squatters are trespassers and
must be removed, is to bay the
land in question and make it a
JAMBS CITY.
Expense of James City State
Ought not to Bear it.
Kinston Free Press.
We see it stated, on Treasurer
Tate's authority, that the
of the James City war will
fall on the State. This being true,
the Free Press wishes to make a
few remarks ; we had taken it for
granted, before Treasurer Tate's
statement, that the expense was
borne by Craven county.
It is, as we understand it, an
outrage upon the tax payers of
North Carolina- The on
Mr. J. A. Bryan's land never did
offer any forcible resistance to
the execution of the law, and the
sheriff of Craven county never
made any determined attempt to
eject any of the occupants, if we
are correctly informed. He went
over there to serve, or pretend to
serve, writs of and
found the houses locked up and
the inhabitants in the streets, and
because he feared violence he did
not attempt to eject any of them.
If he had a man of deter-
we believe he would
have had the trouble settled with-
out any bloodshed and without
having troops called to the place.
We understand Sheriff Lane
said he would resign before he
would use force to eject the
from the property.
The expenses of the soldiers
going to put Mr. Bryan in posses-
of his property, we see it
stated, will amount to As
Mr. Bryan had listed the proper-
for taxation at only val-
are informed, it
pears to have been a big fuss
over a very small matter.
Sheriff Laue, understand, is
a very clever man and there is
considerable sympathy for him.
The fact is, he was placed
very trying circumstances,
but he should not have shirked
his duty, thereby rendering
necessary so much trouble and
GIGANTIC REPTILE
Some of the Monsters at One
Time Inhabited the Deep.
Tho Rev. Dr. Gordon, of Boston,
has recently made a study of the
gigantic reptiles which are sup-
posed to have been the ancestors
modern snakes and lizards.
Ono species, the was of
enormous size, attaining a length
of forty-five feet. Another, the
was nearly
twice as big, measuring when full
grown not less than eighty feet.
Yet larger was the hugest
of all the mighty saurians of that
vanished era; which has a long
muzzle that is surmised to have
been used as a ram in fighting.
creatures, in
form resembling eels, plowed the
waters with four paddles and pro-
tail, in pursuit of the
fishes which were their food. Their
heads were largo and flat, and
swallowed their prey whole, being
able to take in animals of greater
girth than themselves, owing to
the arrangement of their jaws,
which were provided midway in
their length with hinges.
When lived this Continent
was lower than it is now. New
Jersey and Delaware, as well as
most of the Southern States, were
under water and the Rocky
in places feet less
elevated than at present,
as a range separated from tho Val-
of the Mississippi by a broad
expanse of salt water, that was, in
fact, an inland sea, teeming with
animal-
In those days real sea serpents
not only existed, but their
were almost as it
proved by their bones left behind
in tho rock of subsequent
and in many cases so per-
preserved that en
tons have been found and mounted
in the museums. Prof. O.
Marsh, of New Haven, speaks of
having seen as many as six of these
fossil monsters in view at the same
time in one small valley out West.
After all, the question is merely
one of size, inasmuch as marine
in some parts of tho world.
They swarm in tho Indian Ocean,
and it naval officer was telling mo
tho other day that ho had seen
them in shoals of thousands to-
in the Gulf of Siam. So
numerous were they that it was
necessary to thread the cables,
while at anchor, through barrels
in order to prevent the reptiles
I climbing up the ropes and coming
tn I aboard while the ship was at an-
expense to the State. We do not snakes are very plentiful at
know in what form this matter will
placed on the Superior Court
records, nor what the law is on
the subject, but in our opinion
common justice demands that the
cost does not fall upon the
if it can avoided.
is some censure of Mr.
Bryan tho matter, but however
much ho may be to from a.
humanitarian point of view
not agreeing to sell tho property i
to the unfortunate at a, Nor m R precaution by
reasonable and on easy means superfluous, owing to
terms, the property was his, to do tho fact that m may
with as he chose. Ho may have, by turning to the Nat-
made a business mistake in not g those serpents are
to sell, but that is bis most dangerously poisonous. They
business. there is one thing ; evidently traveled in great
about it that tho public has some-j together. The seas from
thing to do with, that is Madagascar to Panama, and from
it be listed for taxation at its Japan to New Zealand are thickly
worth. We been informed infested with them. Dr.
that the offered him tho reptilian expert of the Smith-
for it and that he hooted at Institute, that they
tho idea and said it was are among the most poisonous of
three times as much. If this be j all known serpents, their venom
true the property should be list- being not less deadly than that of
ed at much more I tho cobra or rattlesnake.
Furthermore, they are
fierce and aggressive and will
commonly attack human beings if
. , , . , i they got a chance. They do not
There is too much love in tho ; frequent the shallows, unless
world said some the other for breeding, but live in the
day. There is too much of a j open ocean. When full grown
great many things in this world, they are from six to eight feet
but not too much of that. Fishermen in the waters
There is too much bad temper, j where they are found are
Too much scandal. afraid of them. Their bodies are
Too much evil thinking. flat, and the inside of them
Too much hard judgment.
twenty-five hundred dollars I to the squatters. But that
in cash, in addition to refunding
the fees for securing the patent.
It will also advertise the
free of charge.
This offer is subject to the fol
lowing
Every competitor must obtain
a patent for his invention through
the company. He must first
ply for a preliminary search, the
cost of which will be five dollars.
Should this search show bis in
to be he
can withdraw without further ex-
Otherwise be will be ex-
to complete his application
and take out a patent in the
way. total expense, in-
Government and Bureau
fees, will be seventy dollars. For
this, whether he secures the prize
or not, the inventor will have a
patent that ought to be a valuable
property to him. The prize will
be awarded by a jury consisting
of three reputable patent
of Washington. Intending
tho party will not no. It will per-
its James City charges to
fer disappointments similar to
those that fell to the lot of the
blacks who were promised
acres a during the re-
construction
This is well put in, and it might
be added that the Republican
party has had thirty years in
which to rectify the imposition
practiced upon the by
supposed Federal authority. If
the Republican party had done
this it would have saved the
State of North Carolina the
of having to order oat a whole
regiment of troops to maintain
the rights of one of its citizens,
and would at same time have
done square thing by
fortunate News
and Observer-
iv Mk
really for
Too Much.
Too much impertinence.
Too much weakness
Too much coveting.
Too much pretending.
Too much ingratitude.
Too much sham friendship.
Too many women who support
their husbands.
Too many liars.
Too many bores.
Too many books written to sell
and not to read-
Too there are not too
many babies ; and while these are
plenty of babies and plenty of
will be plenty of hap-
in the
Courier.
flat, and the inside of them is
almost wholly filled by the lungs,
which are largo, in order that they
I may be enabled to stay beneath
tho surface for a long time without
coming up to breathe. They have
eyes modified for seeing in the
water, so that when they are taken
out of their native element they
seem blinded and wildly.
Their fangs, those of the cobra,
re always erect.
IT PATS
That is what
the merchants say
who advertise in the
Eastern Reflector, -ft
This Office for Job printing
Paying i
BOTANIC
BLOOD MOM
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OLD DOMINION LINE.
TAR RIVER SERVICE
Steamers leave Washington
aw at all
on Tat River Monday,
and Friday at it A. M.
leave at A A.
Thursdays and Saturdays
Greenville days.
These departures are to of
water on Tar
Connecting at Washington
of The Norfolk, Newborn and Wash-
line for Norfolk. Baltimore.
Philadelphia. New York and
Shippers should order their
via Dominion
New York. from
Norfolk
more Steamboat from
more. Merchants Miners from
Boston.
JNO. SON.
Agent,
Washington N. C.
J. J. CHERRY,
Agent,
Greenville, N C
An Affecting Scene.
There was an affecting scene in
one of the churches last evening
after the prayer meeting. Dur-
the services a gentleman was
called on to lead in prayer, and
he prayed for those who have re-
been bereaved, especially
the motherless children. After
the services were over and the
congregation had started out, a
little boy whose mother was re-
taken, across the
aisle and throwing his arms
about gentleman's neck said
thank you so much for that
Sun.
you are alt worn t
inc. It fee
iron
It win obi your liver, and
Try
A Little Girl's in Light,
house.
Mr. and Mrs. Lo-en are keep-
era of the Go v. Lighthouse at Sand
Beach, and are blessed with a
daughter, years Last April
she was down with Measles, fol-
lowed with a dreadful cough turn-
into a fever. Doctors home a in
at Detroit treated her, hut in vain, she
grew worse rapidly, until she was n
mere of Then she
tried Dr. King's New Discovery and
after the use of two and a half bottles,
was completely cured. They say Dr.
King's New Discovery is worth its
weight in gold, yet yon may get a trial
bottle- free at John L.
The Gossip Corner.
Mrs. Annie of Mount
Pleasant, Tex., is the only woman
who acts as the President of a
National bank in this country.
Mrs. Oliphant receives about
for a story, and she writes
several every year in. addition to
other literary work.
The Ann Arbor
on a stormy day not long since
came out in force wearing the
Miller rainy-day dress.
The skirt reached half-way be-
tween the knee and ankle. Long
gaiters covered the shoe tops and
extended to the knee.
ESTABLISHED 1875.
S. M. SCHULTZ.
AT THE
OLD BRICK STORK
MERCHANTS BUT
their year's supplies will And
their Interest to get our prices before
Is complete
n all its branches.
PORK
FLOUR, COFFEE,
RICE, TEA, Ac.
at Lowest Market Prices.
TOBACCO SNUFF A, CIGARS
buy direct from Manufacturers,
you to buy at one profit. A com-
stock of
always on hand and sold at prices
the times. Out goods are all bought and
sold for CASH, therefore, having no risk
to sell at a close margin.
S. M. SCHULTZ,
N C.
CHILD BIRTH
MADE EASY
is a scientific-
ally Liniment, every
of recognized value and in
constant use by the medical pro-
These ingredients are com-
in a manner hitherto unknown
A Card.
Having changed my location from
to I offer my pro-
services to the people of the
town and surrounding section. Thank-
my friends and the public generally
in and around for their kind-
nets during my stay there, and service
whenever needed, am
Respectfully,
DR. W. H. BAGWELL
Notice.
I desire, to announce to my and
the public generally that I have opened
an for myself just across the
from residence and on the old Dr.
Blow lot where I can be found at any
time.
FRANK W. BROWN, M. D.
DENTIST,
Jas. L. Fleming. Andrew
JOYNER,
A W.
Greenville, N. C.
Prompt attention to
at Tucker Murphy's old stand.
L. BLOW.
BLOW,
ATTORNEY S-AT-L A W,
GREENVILLE, N. C.
in all the Courts.
I. A. SUGG.
TYSON,
B. r.
A W,
I If C Prompt attention given to collections.
FRIEND
WILL all that is claimed for
it AND MORE. It Shortens
Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to
Life of Mother and Child Book
to FREE, con-
valuable information and
voluntary testimonials.
price per
CO.
ALL
LATHAM.
MARRY
SKINNER,
W,
N. C
U G.
ATTORNEY-AT-LA W,
N C.
in l. he Collections a
THE REFLECTOR.
Greenville, N. C.
,, I. Editor
WEDNESDAY. MAY 10th, 1893.
En
M. C. m second-class null matter.
t Announcement.
THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OP
The U per
A One
Tear, one-half column one year
; one-quarter column one year,
Transient inch
one week, ; two weeks, one
month Two Inches one week, 1.50,
weeks, 5- ; one month,
inserted in Local
column as- reading items. cents per
line each insertion-
Legal Advertisements, such as Ad-
and Notices
and Sales,
Summons to Non-Residents, etc. will
be charged at legal rates and must
BE rAID FOB IN ADVANCE.
Contracts for any space not mentioned
Above, any length of time, can be
mad by application to the office either
in person or by letter.
Copy tor v Advertisements and
all changes of be
anded in by o'clock on Tuesday
in order to receive prompt- in
the following.
The of Oxford, in Gran-
county, was visited by a
cyclone on last Wednesday
about b o'clock in the afternoon-
Considerable damage was done-
Four or five large prize
one immense brick tobacco
and some smaller
were entirely demolished. One
tobacco warehouse bad both ends
blown out. One boy was
killed, and it is almost a miracle
that many were not killed. There
was quite a number of persons in
the buildings and no one knows
how they ever escaped alive.
Cyclones are new things for these
parts and the people in Oxford
were much frightened and
at this unwelcome
so destructive to life and property-
Mr. A- D- Jones, of
was on Saturday appointed by
President Cleveland as Consul
General to China. He
is spoken of as an excellent man
for the position.
Sunday's Richmond
gave a good bird's eye view of
the World's Fair buildings. The
Dispatch is usually to the front
in matters of enterprise- Accord-
to a recent announcement it
is now having made one of the
best presses in
that can illustrate in colors when
is taking other steps
for the improvement of
A number of failures
large Wail Street operators and
stock brokers, last week, came
very near causing a panic in New
York. However much we might
regret the occurrence of financial
disorders and panics, there are
doubtless few people in this part
of the moral vineyard who would
care how soon the whole bottom
dropped out of Wall Street and
that quarter entirely lose the grip
it has on shaping or interfering
with the financial policy of the
country.
The middle of May of last year
while we were on the way to Cal-
we remember crossing
the Mississippi river at St. Louis
and noticing the great damage
being wrought by the flood that
was then deluging so much of
that western country. During
the bust few days similar scenes
are again witnessed. Both
the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
have been to an unusual
flooding the country for
miles and miles. These annual
overflows destroy a great amount
of property and are proving very
serious to the towns and people
along the rivers.
Bulletin No- of the North
Carolina Geological Survey,
which treats of Road Material
and Road Construction in North
Carolina, has proven so valuable
that a second edition of it has
been printed. The work is com-
piled by Prof. J. A- Holmes, State
Geologist, and Prof. William
Cain, Civil Engineer. One can-
not read this work without
a greater interest in the pub-
roads of our State. A glance
at the miserable excuse have
for public roads ought to con-
any one that better are
needed, and their construction
would result in the saving of
much time, labor and expense.
The Bulletin treats fully the sub-
of road making, gives illus-
of several kinds of road-
ways and shows that abundance
of suitable material for construct-
them can be found in almost
every section of the State.
The Mount Olive has
not been long launched upon the
boisterous sea of journalism, but
its editor evidently has. the
idea of navigating his bark
and shows that he bolus a good
grip on the helm. Hear what he
If you agree with the editor in
the opinions lie expresses, you have the
privilege of the columns of this
paper to air your own views. get
a fool notion in your head that by stop-
ping your paper and depriving us of a
revenue of two a week you will
bring the editor up with a short turn,
and make think as you do. or break
the paper. The paper will be issued on
schedule time, unless some unforeseen
accident occurs.
U Joyner SO, W A Taylor
H M Mack Doyle
H W G
Sarah Smith W T
Smith T A Carson E
A James Long
Dr W E Warren Dr Samuel
Morrill T J Stancill
John A Ricks B S
Edwards
David C
Andrew Robinson R
R Gotten W C Dudley
Greenville Stock Law territory
J C Tyson CO, C H Johnson
W G Stokes J B
and Swift Creek
Stock Law
Lawhorn John A Smith
Joseph 75-
Lewis H com-
plained to the Board that he is
charged in both Swift Creek and
Greenville townships with two
tracts of land, one containing
and one containing acres,
while the land lies in Swift Creek
township and should be given in
only in one township. There is
in one tract acres and in the
other acres and no part of
lies in Greenville township.
Upon the proper
was ordered made.
Report of the Grand Jury for
April term of Superior Court was
read and ordered filed.
A petition for a public road
leading from the town of
Martin county, on the South
side of the Scotland Neck branch
railroad and running south west
over the lands of R Tillery, John
Eubanks, M C Bryant and John
D Bryant in Pitt county to the
county road near J D Bryant's
was read and ordered to lie over
until next meeting.
Mrs- Harriett Thigpen,
township, and Tyson, Con-
township were allowed to
list taxes for 1892.
On motion the Board adjourn-
ed until Tuesday morning
o'clock.
The train bearing the remains
Jefferson Davis will pass through
this State on the 30th of this
month. The body will lie in State
at Raleigh for three hours and
preparations are being made to
appropriately honor the
dead- An escort will
meet the train in Charlotte and
accompany it through the State.
In Raleigh all will have an
to show that we still
hold in memory the great and
good men who so nobly stood by
the South in the late struggle.
No man was a truer Southerner
than Jefferson Davis and it will
afford North Carolina much pleas-
to do honor to his memory
while his body is being borne
through the State to its last rest-
place in Richmond the Capital
City of the Southern Confederacy.
Representative Grady and ex-
Speaker Rose, of North Carolina,
called upon Postmaster General
last week and asked for
the removal of the post-
master in Fayetteville who was
appointed about a year ago. They
showed that he had several
women, relatives of his, in the
office, and that the whole crew
were very distasteful to tho
of the town- Mr. in-
formed them that unless some
charges of incompetency were
preferred against him that he
would be allowed to continue in
the place until he had served out
his time, about three years longer.
Messrs. Grady and Rose had
their temper somewhat aroused
in the conversation. They said
some plain things to the Post-
master General but he remained
obdurate and if any thing is done
it will be after the matter has
been referred to Mr. Cleveland.
His attention will undoubtedly
be called to it and it is to be hoped
that the President will not force
the good people of Fayetteville
to be burdened with one of Mr.
Harrison's appointments for the
almost entire term of his
This is carrying civil
vice too far and makes evident
the fact that it is a humbug, any-
way.
The Wilmington Messenger and some
other papers suggest that Congress
should buy homes for the dispossessed
at James City. The Messenger
will be just and humane, and
will be generally approved. Mr. Bryan
ought to be willing to sell at a
price under the circumstances. Lands
entered at can not be intrinsically
worth more than now, we would
suppose. The have improved
thereon and they are entitled to share
in the
The Free Press thinks that if
attempted to buy James City for
the the owner would want a
very large sum for it. have been
told he refused an oiler of re-
marking that it was worth three times
as much. If Congress does take any
action in the matter it might be well to
buy homes for the poor in a
cheaper Free Press.
The Reflector has heard it re-
reported as coming directly
from a colleague of ex Congress-
man F. M. Simmons, that he said
while a member of Congress he
could have easily secured the pas-
sago of a bill appropriating
or to pay for the prop-
and allow the to re-
main there undisturbed, but when
the matter was mentioned to Mr.
Bryan he wanted for it.
If Mr. Bryan thinks the property
worth that much he ought to be
made pay taxes on it accordingly.
He has caused the State to be
put to enough expense without
trying to swindle her by falsely
listing his property for taxation-
MEETING.
Greenville, N. C, May 1st,
The Board of Commissioners of
Pitt county met this day in
session, present, C- Dawson,
chairman, T. E- Keel, Leonidas
Fleming, Jesse L- Smith and S.
A. Gainer.
Minutes of last meeting read
and approved-
The following orders for
were
Winifred Taylor Martha
Nelson Martha Nelson
Margaret Bryan H D Smith
Lydia Bryan Jacob
Nancy Moore
Susan Susan
Briley Lucinda Smith
Patsy Henry
Emily Edwards
Crawford Polly Ad-
ams Smith
Easter Vines Kenneth Hen-
Eliza Edwards
Carlos Gorham J H
Henry Sam and
Amy Cherry Fanny Tucker
J O Proctor Alex
Alice Corbitt Win-
Chapman Polly
John Ham
The following orders were is-
sued for general county
Joseph Jones R E Jones
J J May T A Thigpen
John Flanagan J H
Manning H W Whedbee
James Teel H
Brown W A Knox
Francis White James Brad-
C F D C
Smith W H Nichols
Julius Braddy Christiana
SECOND WEEK.
The Board met according to
adjournment, all the members
present.
The following orders were
John Flanagan E A
Move R W King J
A K Tucker John E Wood-
ard B S Sheppard A J
M Z Moore D S
Spain D C Moore W B
Moore A F Pittman A
L Harrington J B Bullock
W H Wilkinson R W
Smith Ford J A
Harrington W S Manning
R W R W King
R W King R W
King B W King B
S Sheppard S A Gainer
T E Keel Jesse L Smith
C Dawson H Harding
For and
tie Andrews 00-
and Swift Creek
Stock Dawson 00-
The Board then proceeded to
take action in the matter of the
petition of J B Davenport, R R
Fleming, Rufus Tucker and
for a public road across the
lands of Elizabeth Grimes known
as the Avon farm in town-
ship, which was filed at a
meeting of the Board. It
that the said petition was
regularly filed and that proper
notice to Mrs- Grimes had been
served and returned, and upon
the hearing, the petitioners being
represented by Latham Skin-
attorneys and Mrs. Elizabeth
Grimes being represented by P.
G. James, attorney, upon petition
and answer, and the affidavits
filed and evidence introduced the
Board doth adjudge that a public
road across the lands of Eliza-
beth Grimes known as the Avon,
in township, with a termini
at a point on the Greenville and
Washington public road, where a
gate is erected to the entrance of
a farm path across said land lead
in a northerly direction to
Tar River, and the other termini
at a point on the south side of the
River directly opposite
wharf on the north side of said
Tar River, is necessary and would
be convenient and useful to the
public.
And it is ordered by the Board
that an order be issued to the
Sheriff of the county directing
him to summon a jury of five free
holders to lay out a public road
between the herein men-
according to law.
It is further ordered and ad-
judged that the said Elizabeth
Grimes be permitted to erect and
maintain gates across such road
until the 1st day of Oct. 1893, and
after that date she shall remove
the same within days alter no-
to do so from this Board-
It is further ordered and ad-
judged that all costs, damages
and expenses that have been or
may be hereafter incurred by
reason of the filing of this
and the laying out of such
road shall be paid by the petition-
J. R. Davenport, R. R. Flem-
and R- S- Tucker, who by
their counsel, Latham Skinner,
consent to the taxing of costs,
expenses and damages against
them.
From which order the said
Elizabeth Grimes appealed to the
next term of the Superior Court
of Pitt county. Notice of appeal
given before the Board. Notice
waived by petitioners. Appeal
fixed at
Ordered that T. E. Keel and
Leonidas Fleming be appointed
a committee to make settlement
with J. A. K. Tucker, late Sheriff
and Tax Collector for the taxes of
1892-
Ordered that the Clerk of this
Board notify each Justice of the
Peace of Pitt county to meet with
the Board of Commissioners at
the Court House in Greenville on
the first Monday in June, 1893, to
levy taxes for 1898, elect a Board
of Eduction, and transact such
business as may come before
WASHINGTON
our Regular
D. C-, May
President Cleveland and every
member of his cabinet are again
at their desks, all feeling better
for their although
none of them got any r st. Still
it was a change, and everybody
needs an occasional change. They
were one and all pleased to find
the Government finances in such
a satisfactory condition and with
prospects of continued improve-
The free gold now amounts
to about and there is a
very marked decrease in the de-
for gold for shipment to
Europe, while offers of gold con-
to be made to the Tr
It is now also known at the
close of this fiscal year find
the Treasury with a of
nearly available, cash,
instead of the deficit which was a
short time ago feared.
There have been so many
statements printed about
the amount of gold in the United
States that the official figures in
the latest statement, issued this
week, are herewith presented.
The total amount of gold coin
known to be in this country is
and of gold bullion,
the most of which is in the U. S-
Treasury, making a
grand total of Of
this gold National banks hold
and private, firms
according to the last
report of the Director of the U S.
Mint.
Senator who is a
member of the Senate Finance
committee, has been watching the
situation very closely, and he. says
of do not believe there is
anything in the money situation
that will necessitate the calling of
an extra session of Congress ear-
lier than the President intended
about September 15th. The
financial condition of the country
is all right if the people will only
let it alone- The Secretary of
the Treasury has tho confidence
of the public, which believes that
he will be able to meet any con-
that may
Congressman DeWitt Warner,
of New York, isn't one of those
who think it will require six
months or more to get the new
tariff bill through Congress. He
see no reason why a
tariff bill should not be put through
in a month or six weeks after the
organization of Congress. The
people put the democracy in
power with a definite
that purpose should be carried
out If you hired a to
build a house within a specified
time, and he failed to keep his
agreement, would you not look
around to get somebody else to
finish it Of course a reasonable
time should be allowed for debate
on a tariff measure, but all
forts at obstruction should be,
and I believe will be, promptly
There are yet some very
places in both the diplomatic
and consular service to be filled
by and it is expected
that most of these appointments
will be made by President Cleve-
land within the next few weeks.
In this connection it may be in-
to note how the
already made in these
branches of the public service
have been distributed among the
States. The diplomatic appoint
have gone to the
Alabama, Tennessee, Now Jersey,
Delaware, Missouri, Vermont,
New Hampshire, California, Mas-
Dakota and Illinois, one each;
Indiana, Georgia, Louisiana and
New York, two each ; North Caro-
four and Minnesota five The
Consular have gone
one each to North Carolina,
Illinois, Michigan and Maine;
two each to Massachusetts, Mis-
Mississippi, Ohio and In-
and four to New York.
that will probably have
little to do with the President's
selections, the candidates from
those States not mentioned above
appear to be more confident than
those from the States that have
already secured some of these
President Cleveland has made
a few general appointments and
appointed a large number of post-
masters this week, and it is be-
that he is now considering
the claims and qualifications of
the long list of candidates for the
very important position of Public
Printer. The lucky man who gets
it will have about three thousand
places, outside of Civil Service
rules, at his disposal.
DO YOU
Latest Styles and Best HOODS
The Lowest Prices.
------If you do we have them. We have just opened the-----
Largest Stock of Goods
ever brought to
Greenville this Spring.
On account of being
late we bought them at very
reduced prices and now that
bought too many, so we are going to sell them at
much less than regular prices. If prices an object to you it
will you to examine our stock before you make your purchases
On and Dress Goods we can save you from to cents
on every dollar you spend. We will save you cents on the dollar
on SHOES.
We also carry a full of Groceries and will sell you Good Coffee
for cents per pound. Good Tobacco for Good Flour
for cents per pound, and the Best Laundry Soap for cents a cake.
are agents for Martinez's celebrated PAINTS
Call and see
GREENVILLE, C.
A little drop of printer's ink,
Sometimes causes people to think.
, want to impress upon your minds that have
I ------received our new------
SprinG-.-StocK
------and can now show a
BEAUTIFUL LIKE OF
Our intention is to sell good at the lowest possible
prices. We have the largest and most varied stock
kept in town. We keep almost every thins
needed in the household or on the farm and
invite inspection and comparison of our
goods. We can and will sell low for
cash. We want your trade and
will be glad to show you the
following lines of
DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, i
NOTIONS, WHITE GOODS.
NICE LINE
AND PIECE GOODS FOR
MAKING MENS AND BOYS
SUITS, ALWAYS IN STOCK.
j HATS, SHOES, CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE, TINWARE,
j WOOD AND WILLOW WARE,
HARDWARE, PLOWS AND
FARMING UTENSILS,
HARNESS AND WHIPS,
Hood's Cures
R R Peace of said county may con-
Sifter the advisability of
for Pitt
Annie L. Amer
Of Ky.
More Than Pleased
With Hood's
and Blood Impurities
and Batter Awry
I been more than pleased with Hood
I hare with
lat out on my face and all my body all my
We. I Dud anything to do It good
I began to take I
hare now mod about eight bottles, and On, It baa
dona good that I tho utmost
Hood's x Cures
Besides
partying my blood. It has mad me much
stronger and better I do not feel like the
at
FARMS FOR SALE.
Prices Low,
Terms Easy.
The J. L. Ballard Bea-
Dam township, adjoining the lands
of G. T. Tyson and Cobb. A line
farm of about acres, with good build-
and adapted to corn, cotton and to
A fine marl bed.
A farm near Ayden and ling
mediately on the own-
ed by Caleb acres of which
are cleared. Good neighbor-
hood, churches and a school within
miles. Plenty of marl on the adjoin-
farms
A farm of three miles
from Farmville and miles from
ville, with large, substantial dwelling
and out houses, known as the L. P.
Beardsley home place, fine cotton land,
good clay subsoil, accessible to marl.
A smaller farm adjoining the above
known as the Jones place, acres,
dwelling, barn house, land
good.
A farm of acres
ship, about miles from
acres of the Singletary tract
Part of the Noah Joyner farm,
acres, adjoining the town of Marlboro,
an improving section
and can be made a valuable farm.
A small farm of about, acres,
about miles from Greenville, on
Well house, etc., for-
owned by G oil ford
ALSO TIMBER
A tract of about acres near Cone-
the station, with cypress timber well
suited tor railroad ties.
A tract of about in
township, near the Washington rail-
road, pine timber.
A tract of acres near Johnson's
Mills, pine and cypress Umber.
Apply to Wm. H. LONG,
Greenville, N. C.
CRYSTAL LENSES
faulty n ass Always.
JAMES LONG,
Dealer in------
General Merchandise.
Has exclusive sale of these celebrated
glasses in Greenville, N. From the
factory of Moore, the only
complete optical plant in the South,
Atlanta, Ga, Peddlers are not sup-
plied with those famous glasses.
MM
Boggy
GREENVILLE, K. C.
Can still be found
at the Old
stand.
pared to do
FIRST-CLASS WORK
on anything in the
mm SM urn
Fine Vehicles Specialty
Greenville, C.
In the CORNER HOUSE
New Cheap Store.
NEW STORE. NEW GOODS.
Prices Lower Than Ever.
FIRST QUALITY GOODS
MEN'S AND
CHILDREN'S SUITS,
HATS, SHOES, SHIRTS,
Notice these remarkable
Men's Suits as low as and up.
Men's Pants as low as and up.
Children's Suits as low as cut
Shirts as low as rents and up.
Men's Shoes as low as cent and
Shoes as low as cent and up.
Other goods correspondingly cheap.
We arc the place for LOW PRICES
and solicit the of the people.
Groceries, Flour a specialty. We have tho largest and ,
. ever kept in our
line of FURNITURE Consisting in part
Top Walnut Suits,
Solid Oak Suits, Imitation Oak Suits, Imitation Walnut
Suits, Bureaus, Tables, Buffets,
of different Children's Cribs and
Mattresses, Tin Safes, Bed Springs, a full line of
Tables, Children's Carnages, Keep also a nice
of Lace Curtains and Curtain Poles, Matting and Floor
Oil Cloths. We cordially invite all to come to see us
when in want of any goods. We will try to give you
at all times-
SPOOLS COTTON AT WHOLESALE PRICED
J. B. db
Doors,
HASKETT.
HASKETT.
HINGES, NAILS, AND AXES,
Rope, Belting and Packing,
MECHANIC'S TOOLS,
PUMPS and
Tinware.
Stove Pipe, and Chimney Pipe,
Paints. Oils, Glass and Putty, and
many other articles kept in a first-
class Hardware Store. Call to
me if want goods cheap for
the cash.
D. D. HASKETT.
GREENVILLE N. C
THE
It is with pleasure that I announce to
the citizens of Greenville and vicinity
that have Just from the
Northern Markets where I visited
all the openings and am now
receiving the most beautiful and
stylish selected stock of Millinery ever
opened in this market. Come to see
me and you will get nothing but the
latest fashionable good. Low prices
and act ion
Mrs. Georgia Pearce,
EN VILLE, N. C.
Next door to Old Brick Store.
Happy and content is a home with
a lamp with the light -l the morning.
Me Tour Own Hay
The New Stocking
Outwears the old shape.
Doesn't deform the foot.
Saves discomfort.
Saves darning.
Co.
NOSH'S . j
H. ft m
Repairing done prompt-
and in best manner
For Sale by
BROWN BROS.
N. O.
WE CAN SELL YOU THE
BEST MOWER IN
THE WORLD FOR
CUTTING IT.
CALL ON US WHEN IN
NEED WARE,
COOK STOVES,
PAINTS, OIL.
PLACE YOUR ORDERS for TOBACCO FLUES.
S. E. PENDER CO.,
o.
-ALL
THE REFLECTOR.
Local Reflections.
RushinG
-AFTER THOSE-----
Beautiful to Lovely
In all the Shades and Trim-
to match-
ClothinG
We have a beautiful line of nice
and genteel
Spring Suits
for Boys and Young Men, to fit
anybody and suit all
SHOES
Slippers.
Shoes and Slippers match
dresses and at
very low prices, at
HIGGS BROS.,
GREENVILLE, ML C
BRIGHT SPARKS.
Call on B. C berry Co. when you
want good Flour cheap for cash.
Many flower yards are now
places of beauty.
I will sell Ice Sundays from to
o'clock A. M. ONLY. Ed.
J. B. Cherry Co. have a nice Hue
of Ladies Slippers.
They are here. Strawberries and
Fruit Jars at the Old Brick Store.
Bad are about as popular as
spring apparel.
Get the best Butter and Cheese that
money can buy at the Old Brick Store.
Seed Peanuts and at the Old
Brick Store.
Lace Curtains and Curtain Poles at
J. B. Cherry Co's.
Long has started his fountain
to
Buy tics from
Bros.
First of the County Cab-
at the Old Brick Store.
I nm selling Choice Clean Bran at
Norfolk quotations per ton.
w. it. S. Washington.
Nice line of Floor Oil Cloths and
Matting at J. B. Cherry Co's.
I pay you cash for Chickens
Eggs and Country Produce at the Old
Brick Store.
For breakfast, dinner or supper
and Cheese at the Old Brick
Store.
Mason's Lined Fruit Jars
at J. B. Cherry
The May apple, colic and paregoric
harvest will soon be ripe.
ink, red ink, violet ink and
mucilage, cents a at Reflector
Book Store.
J. B. Cherry Co. have a nice line of
Children's Carriages.
Simple over
alls from cents up, at Higgs Bros.
A. large stock of nice Furniture cheap
at the Old Brick S ore.
Fob Sale A fine black Marc Colt
M months old. Sired by George
Apply to L A.
It is not what its proprietors say but
what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells
story, CURES.
Genuine Climax and Stonewall Cotton
Plows for sale by J. B. Cherry A Co.
A fall line of Castings kept on
hand.
Arbitrator Flour at at J. B.
Cherry A Co's, guaranteed the equal
of any on the market. Money returned
it not O K.
At fob the Next Days-A
I expect to make a change in my
and have so many notions, pictures, Ac
on hand win sell my entire stock at cost
Hats, Ribbons. Flowers, in tact every-
thing positively at cost strictly for cash.
Superior Court In this week.
Checker boards are coming Into play.
John Handy, a colored
man, died here last week.
In a few days the malls will be full of
commencement invitations.
The rains have put enough water In
the river to make boating good.
We have had some cool days the past
week in which fires and heavy garments
were comfortable.
Memorial day. Let the graves of
loved ones be remembered with
floral offerings.
The first and second Regiments of the
State Guard will have their encamp-
this year near City.
Other towns around us arc passing
laws in reference to dogs
specially. Take a hint, Greenville.
A friend tells us that a heavy wind
a cyclone passed. in the
vicinity of Williamston last Thursday
and did considerable damage.
The Economist-Falcon says that Mr.
John B. the Nags
Head hotel. What pleasant recollections
we have of that delightful place-
Maj Harding says setting out tobacco
plants gave many a man the back ache
Thursday and Friday. The season was
fine for transplanting and good use of it
was made.
From an announcement in the New-
Journal we see that the steamer
Greenville, that used to operate on Tar
River and was named for this town, is
soon to commence on
river.
The remarked recently
that this office was the place to get
invitations. A man came in the
other day and said he'd like to have
one, as he felt like he could enjoy a good
picnic now. He had us.
The Baptist Sunday School is
to have an excursion to Yankee Hall
and picnic there, probably on the 18th.
The school first thought of to Scot-
land Neck and spend a day there, but
the figure set by the railroad folks for
was enough to stagger
such intention.
It almost makes us jealous to read re-
ports of the establishment of so many
new cotton factories in the Piedmont
section of the State, some of them in
small villages. And we hear a
word about one in Greenville.
It is time the dogs were holding a
day caucus to decide how they will
receive the penalty the new Town
Council has in store for the canine. We
believe the days in which the cur is to
have the privileges of the town is
Mr. W. II. Fleming, a young man
from this county who is at Fort Worth,
Tex., sends us a copy of the Gazette of
that city, which contains a full account
with illustrations of the terrible cyclone
that visited and almost swept the
entire city away. Many people were
killed and hundreds of buildings com-
demolished. The details of the
disaster are horrible.
Died.
Mr. J. L. Ballard, a highly esteemed
citizen of Beaver Dam township, and a
most excellent gentleman, died on Mon-
day morning after a few days Illness.
Mr. Ballard was years old. He was
the father of Mrs. John S. Congleton, of
this town,
Rules Adopted by the N. C.
The sum of less than five cents
per line will be charged for of
of and
obituary poetry; also for obituary notices
other than those which the editor him-
self shall give as a matter of news
Notices of church society and all
other entertainments from which rev-
is to be derived will be charged
for at the rate of five cents a line.
All the Rage.
The Columbian craze is getting tacked
on to everything this year, in
to all kinds of Columbian entertain-
we see that the advertisers
are offering Columbian this and
that for sale. Next thing one
knows Columbian spring chickens will
be offering on market. Already
some eggs have appeared whose smell
indicates that they were products of the
Columbian or some other equally an-
age.
The Old, Old Story.
A merchant, bent on economizing,
Decided to cut off his advertising.
costs me ten thousand a he
said,
I'll come out Just that much
His appeared in the papers no more,
HI customers went to an
store;
His business unheard of ran steadily
down,
And now there is one less in
the town.
Colored Odd Fellows Celebrate.
Last Friday the colored Odd Fellows
of this town celebrated their
Visiting lodges from Washington
and Tarboro came to part in the
exercises. Bands from Hookerton and
Washington were here, and these with
the home band made the day lively with
music. The lodges and bands paraded
the streets and made quite a large pro-
cession. A more orderly assemblage of
colored people has at no time been seen
here. The orator of the day was Rev.
W. J. Solomon, now of Hookerton but
once a pastor in Greenville. He is an
intelligent colored man who is ranch in-
in the race problem, and gives
his people good advice at every
Among other things, he told
them Friday that the white and colored
people had always here in the
South together and they must continue
to do so ; that occupying an inferior
stage his race must look up to the whites
for guidance; that the best way to get
along well together was to conduct them-
selves creditably, act honorably,
or to make good and useful citizens, and
Personal.
Mrs. Nellie Williams returned home
Monday from Kenly.
Mr. Robert has been spend-
some days In Virginia.
Mr. S. F. Dunn, of Scotland Neck,
it spending some days in this section.
Mrs. Nottingham, of Va., is
visiting her father, Mr. Wm. Murray.
Mrs. J. B. Cherry is attending the
State meeting of King's Daughters at
Oxford.
Mr. J. E. Langley, of Richmond, was
here Sunday and Mon day with Dr. D.
L. James.
J. W. E. Warren and
W. H. Bagwell are attending the State
Medical Convention at Raleigh.
Messrs. John H. Small and R. B.
Smith, of Washington, were here two
days last week.
Messrs. J. White and W. L. Brown
are attending the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows at Raleigh.
Elder a Primitive
preacher from Alabama, will preach
In Greenville to-night, and lit Great
Swamp to-morrow.
Rev. J. N. II. postponed
his appointment here until the third
Sunday, at which time he will preach in
Elliott Hall.
Take the Case.
There is a saying we sometimes bear
in speaking of a man whose veracity is
undoubted that word is as true as
There is a firm to which
this saying may well be applied, and to
any assertion made by J. B. Cherry
Co. you need not hesitate to give your
fullest confidence. In all their
in the Reflector no man can
point at any word say it was
true. And just what they say in this
advertisement a visit to their store will
verify every time. Read it to day, and
go see that they will do just
what they say.
Don't to call for Jelly. strive to raise themselves in the
of their white neighbors.
In the Grass.
When planting time arrived we staked
out our intentions, fenced our plans,
grubbed up our calculations, and
that the editor's garden this season
eclipse anything south of the
Academy branch. But, alas, the best
set plants of folks gang
rather get nipped in the bud by a potato
bug or down by a cut worm.
As to our crop, verily, we are in it. If
of grass, preponderance of
cut worms abundance of bugs count
for anything we are ready to roll up our
legs and compete with anybody.
Our was the patch,
and now that is running up to seed.
Struck With a Chair.
An unfortunate difficulty occurred
here on Friday night. We get the fol-
lowing particulars of it from one who
was an eye Alex. Harris, col-
was leaning on a chair talking to
Dr. Warren in front of the latter's of-
Mr. W. B. James was
down the street and inn
against Harris, who turned and asked
what he meant by it. Mr. James ex-
plained that it was unintentional and
he meant nothing by it. Harris seemed
not satisfied at this and cursed James,
when the latter picked up a chair and
struck him a blow that fractured his
skull. Harris has since been in serious
condition but was reported better at last
accounts. Mr. James left town next
morning.
A Day Pleasantly Spent.
Several ladies and gentlemen
went three miles down the river in row
last Thursday, to enjoy a fish-fry
and picnic. In the party were Misses
Jennie Williams, Hortense Forbes, An-
Perkins, Bessie Jarvis and Estelle
Williams, Messrs. W. H. Long, R. fly-
man, H. W. J. L. Fleming,
E- Buck and some others. They feasted
on fish fresh from the seine and the nice
lunches taken along by the ladies, with
apples, oranges and lemons for dessert.
After dinner, by the kindness of the
he lumber road officials, the party took
a ride of about fifteen miles on the rail-
road. The sweet singing of the ladles to
guitar accompaniment made the
all the more enjoyable. The
of young lawyers along is a
tee that the and re-
full attention. The party re-
turned home late in the afternoon and
voted many thanks to Mr. Buck, to
whom they were indebted for so ranch
enjoyment.
The Board Organizes.
The retiring Board of Town
held their closing meeting Monday
afternoon to get the affairs of town
ready to turn over to new Board-
The incoming Board met Monday night
and were sworn In by Mayor F. G.
James.
The Board is composed of the follow-
let colored.
2nd Ward-W. H. White, J. S. Smith.
3rd Ward-R. J. Cobb, J. S.
ton.
4th colored.
Councilman being unable to
write his name requested Mayor J runes
to sign the oath for him and his
at the outset of his official life.
Upon ballot for Mayor, J. I,. Fleming
received votes and F. G. James Mr.
Fleming was sent for, was sworn in and
after a neat speech of a few minutes
entered at once upon the duties of bis
office. The retiring Mayor, Mr. James,
held the position for ten years and
always filled it with credit to himself
and honor to the town. He has a worthy
successor in Mr. Fleming.
Councilman Cobb moved that the of
flees of Clerk and Tax Collector be con-
Upon a ballot for this office
Henry Sheppard received votes and
W. B. Greene J. Mr. Sheppard was
sworn in and entered at once upon his
duties.
Councilman W. H. White was elected
Treasurer.
Councilman Smith moved that only
one policeman be elected. J. T. Smith
was placed la for policeman
received the unanimous vote of the
Board and the oath of office was
Moses colored, wag placed
in nomination Lamp Lighter, J. H.
banded in a petition to he
pointed to this position. Williams re-
the unanimous vote of he Board.
i. L. Daniel was unanimously
The Board then adjourned.
Protracted Meeting.
Rev. G. F. Smith commenced pro-
services in the Methodist church
Sunday. By special request Rev. J. H.
preached for him Sunday and
Monday nights, the congregation being
highly pleased with his sermons. Rev.
R. A. Willis, of who Is to
conduct the meeting arrived yesterday
and preached last night. Services will
be held twice each day, at A. M. and
P. M. The meeting begins with good
interest and we trust ere it shall close
many will be lead unto salvation.
School Committeemen to be Appointed
In Jane.
The last General Assembly of North
Carolina made a change in the school
law in respect to the time for electing
school committeemen, and also for the
beginning of their term of service. The
law is amended so that public school
committeemen shall be appointed the
first Monday in June and whose term of
office shall begin the first in
July thereafter. The Board of
of Pitt county will be in session the
first Monday in June next for the
pose of appointing committeemen in the
several school districts and it is desired
that the people In each district
themselves In recommending suitable
names to till said office. Much of the
success of our public school system Is
dependent upon committees in the
various districts, and the wishes of the
people in the form of petition or other-
wise will greatly assist the Board at Its
June meeting in making proper and
satisfactory selections.
G. B.
County
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Armory Pitt Co.
Greenville, N. C, May 1803.
Our drums are muffled, our arms re-
versed.
For death who knocks with equal hand
at the door of the palace and cottage
has been busy at his appointed work.
But this lime he does not seek the leaflet
or bud of spring, nor docs he pluck
the golden fruit of autumn. In the quiet
home of peaceful happiness the grim
monster invades the tender field,
bivouac where heroes dwell and there
not content with the to
his cruel fangs are sunk into the manly
form of our gallant leader while mount-
ed at the post of duty, and as the storm
burst crushes the sturdy oak so is he re-
snatched away at the noon-
tide of his proud heroic manhood.
We deeply mourn the loss of our val-
Lt. Col. David N. Bogart. With
the kiss of loved ones at home still warm
upon his lips he goes from his of
duty to his heavenly home to receive
the rich fruition of his well done labor.
His manly form is in the dust. His
soul is with his God we trust. To his
loved ones and friends we feel a near
kin and mingle our tears of sorrow with
those who loved him so well.
Therefore be it resolved by Company
U, 1st N. C. Guard, that we
tender our heartfelt sympathy to his be-
family in their sad hour.
That by his death the State Guard
has lost an able The
State North Carolina a patriotic
useful citizen and Ills family a loving,
kind and generous husband father.
That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family of Col. Bogart, a copy
sent to the Washington Gazette and
Progress and Eastern for
publication.
O. L. JOYNER.
Warren,
B. F.
Commit
GENERAL
AND DEALERS IN
firm, Potatoes, Poultry,
Oysters, Fish, Caviar and
All Country Products,
Nos. Dock, Norfolk, Va
Reference Son Co.,
Notice to Creditors.
The undersigned having duly
as administrator of Mary
ton, deceased, notice is hereby given to
all persons indebted to the estate to
make immediate payment, and all per
sons having claims against the estate
must present the same for payment
or before the 1st day of May, 1604, or
this notice will be plead in bar of re-
This 1st day of May, 1883.
J. S. KEEL,
of Mary
Notice to Creditors.
The undersigned having duly
as administrator of W. A.
deceased, notice is hereby given to all
persons indebted to the estate to make
payment, and all persons
having claims against the estate must
present the same for payment on or be-
fore the day of April, this
will be plead In bar of recovery.
This day of April.
B. S.
of W. A.
Land Sale.
By virtue of a decree of Pitt Superior
Court made at March term, the
case of tier Smith and wife vs. Sam-
Cory, the
will sell, for cash, before the Court
House door, in Greenville, on Monday,
6th day of June, 1893, the following
described piece or parcel of land,
in the county of Pitt, and in
township, adjoining the lands of Jo-
Henry
Samuel Cory and others, containing
acres, more or less, being piece on
said Turner wife lived
in 1885. This April 30th, 1893.
A. L. BLOW A F. G. JAMES,
Commissioners.
COLUMBUS
DISCOVERED
And the people have discovered that
they can get bargains by trading with
WHITE
MY NEW SPRING GOODS have
rived and are ready for examination.
I want every lady to see the nice Dress
Goods, every gentleman to see the
nice CLOTHING and
GOODS contained in my stock. Bring
along the boys and girls, too. as I have
j what Is needed for every one of them
GROCERIES.
Speaking of Groceries, I have fresh
rivals of such things as every house-
keeper needs. Examine what have
and you will be tare to bay.
Yours to serve,
H WHITE.
WASH GOODS.
. In our Dress Department
WE WANT YOUR We have the right goods at the low-
. est prices and guarantee satisfaction-
Bedford Cords, Suitings,
plain goods in all prices. Trim-
of all kinds. A line of China
and Plain Silks.
In Irish Lawns, Scotch Cambrics,
Black Lawns, Figured Lawns, Fig-
Mulls, Big Bar-
gains in Ginghams and
reduced from and cents to
c White Goods from cents up.
. In Clothing. If you will look
WE WILL HAVE YOUR our styles and good fitting
TRADE Suits for Men, Boys and Children.
. Boys Suits cents and up.
You will be sure to buy our Ladies
. Shoes Ties, in nil colors, if you
SHOES. SHOES- see them. Gents Patent Leather
Shoes, and Shoes of all grades
and prices.
. And everything in the Notion line.
FURNISHINGS. Big line of Stiff, Felt and Straw Hats.
sold at the lowest prices.
C. T.
GREENVILLE, C.
RACKET STORE
BULLETIN NO. I.
TN OUR DRESS GOODS DE-
we will show all
of the Colors in Silk
Bedford Cords in Heliotrope,
Pea Green, Cream and all colors.
pieces all spring
shades.
HAT
is
complete- Alpine Fedora
in all spring shapes.
CLIPPERS FOR LADIES in
O Tan, Red, White, Duck,
Black.
FULL LINE OF CALICOES.
only Ginghams,
Pants
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS
DEPARTMENT. Standard
Brands of Collars and Cuffs, White
Shirts, Shirts, in all the
spring colors shapes.
of SUSPENDERS
and and Shirts
that must sold.
OUR WHITE GOODS LACE
DEPARTMENT is complete.
Just received a full line Point De
Gene Laces which we are
very cheap.
HOSIERY and UNDERWEAR
DEPARTMENT. We carry
the largest sad best assortment to
be found in tho city.
Come to the Racket Store and look at our Great Bargains in all of
our different departments. No trouble to show goods.
Store,
WELCOME
You bring us balmy air and blue skies.
Under your magic influence nature
wakes to a fresh beauty and productive-
People yield to your Influence and
their pulses quicken. Everybody and
everything Is awake and the watchword
Of the season is I have just
returned from the Northern markets and
am now opening a beautiful line of
Dry Dress Ms, Notion,
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes and
Furnishing Goods,
which I shall offer to the public at a close margin. We do no blowing, our goods
talk for themselves. I will be glad to sec my old customers and friends.
CLOTHING
SPRING SUITS are doing duty to-day. Grand, good ones they are.
They've got In quality. I desire to gel ahead, for I am always
trying to do better. All the colors, all the cuts, proper lengths, and nothing but a lit.
I am located in the store formerly occupied by Mr. W. II. Cox. Not one
piece of goods in the store. Give trial I am sure I can please you.
FRANK WILSON,
GREENVILLE, N. C.
New. t
Straight
Clean
Large
We are still making a specialty of
All SHIES.
We have a first-class assortment and sell close. Do not fail
get prices
and ports for all kinds of machines are sold by us.
Respectfully,
L.
MACHINE WORKS,
Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton U.
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO REPAIRING.
THE BEST IN THE WOULD.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Write for
and prices before buying elsewhere
A few Second-Hand Engines for sale.
ESTABLISHED 1883.
WHOLESALE AND
TAIL-------
GREENVILLE. N. C.
BO Half Bolls Bagging,
Bundles New Arrow Ties.
Small Full Cream Cheese.
Tubs Choice Butter.
Tubs Boston
I'd Boxes Tobacco, all grades.
Boxes Cakes and Crackers.
Barrels Stick Candy.
New Com Mullet.
Barrels Gail Ax Snuff.
Barrels P. Snuff.
barrels Railroad Mills in.
Barrels Three Thistle
Car load Rib Side Meat
Car loud Seed Oats.
Car load Flour, all crate.
Kegs Powder.
ons Shot.
OnO old Virginia Cheroots.
Full line Case foods and
rise kept in a first class grocery
a ,
p. V
too
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p.
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fig
Wishing to thank my many.
friends for their liberal
for both Merchandise and differ-l
articles which I manufacture,
I take this method of
that while I thank you all If
am also striving hard to secure
advantages that I give yous
in order to further merit
patron ago.
fl
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B-f
For other articles our line
as Church Pews, Cart
Wheels, Brackets
Tobacco Hogsheads and Genera
Repair Work, you will do well
to correspond with me before
ranging with any one else. I can
you some advantage.
A. G- COX,
Winterville,
in
ill
COBB BROS CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
Commission Merchants,
STREET, NORFOLK, VA.
and Correspondence Solicited.
THE OF C
to the buyers of Pitt and surrounding counties, a line of the following
not to be excelled in this market. And to be
pure straight goods. GOODS of all kinds, NOTIONS. CLOTHING,
FURNISHING GOODS. HATS and CAPS, BOOTS and LA
and CHILDREN'S SLIPPERS, FURNITURE and HOUSE
GOODS, WINDOWS, SASH and BLINDS, and QUIRKS
WARE, HARDWARE, FLOWS and PLOW CASTING, LEATHER of
kinds, Gin and Mill Belting, Hay, Rock Lime, Paris, and Plat
Hair, Harness, Bridles and addles
HEAVY GROCERIES A SPECIALTY.
Agent Clark's O. N. T. Spool Cotton which I offer to the trade at Whole
robbers prices, cents per dozen, less per cent for Cash. Bread
ration and Hall's Star Lye at Jobbers Prices, White Lead and pure Lin-
seed Oil, Varnishes and Paint Colors. Cucumber Wood Pumps, Salt and Wood
Willow Ware. Nails a specialty. Give me a call and I guarantee satisfaction.
JACK WHITE
IS AGAIN
BEFORE YOU.
Bring me your
CHICKENS, EGGS,
TURKEYS, DUCKS,
GEESE, GUINEAS,
BROWN BROS.,
Depositors for American Bible Society
And in fact everything that is raised in the country and I will pay
as much in cash as can be had anywhere in Greenville. I will
handle on a small commission anything that my customers may
me to. my headquarters is at tho old Marcellus Moors
store, right at the five points crossing, the most convenient is
town- Come to see me.
Yours to please,
JACK WHITE, C
J. L. SUGGs
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE
GREENVILLE, N. C
OFFICE JAMBS STAND
All kinds Risks placed in strictly
FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES
At lowest current rates.
AGENT FOB A FIRST-CLASS FIRE PROOF
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by O. L. JOYNER, Proprietor Eastern Tobacco Warehouse.
FIRST LOVE.
We met not in a crowd, but where
Mid sunny woodland ways,
A chosen few, we upon
The mayonnaise
Yours was part of food or
Ton were not of the few ;
But of the grass, sometimes I think.
There was some part In you
Those happy days How fair was life
How green the world and I
How eagerly I you, dear
How very anxiously.
I watched the sparkle of your eye.
Your color go and come
How Bad was I at parting, dear I
How sad and sick and dumb
Again we met, and as of old ;
You were all warmth and lire ;
While I was cautious, dear, and cold,
For all my great desire
I growing love, nor told
The world a word of it;
And yet the flame that in you glow d
I knew I that lit
In many a place, by many a name.
With titles manifold
And get up you came,
And I waxed ever bold.
Yet through all changes still the same
Still constant have you been ;
Ard how the world may know your
name
My Lady Nicotine.
R. to where all arrived pendent and he described their
in safety P. M., j system of farming which if put in
standing the fearful tales told by operation here in the South would
operators all along the line. liberate a great many who are
At the depot and along the to-day laboring under a heavy
streets scores of the dusky war- burden of debt. In substance he
gathered and gazed with as- said that their truckers rarely
mingled with ever planted more than seven or
at many eight acres and they put on this
cam here fur land from two to four tons of
We were marched to the some good commercial fertilizer
grounds where we were given I which cost them from thirty to
comfortable and spacious fifty dollars per ton. To us this
in the floral hall and here it j of course seems almost incredible
must be said our comforts ceased- but when we take into
But as privation, hardship, star- that they realize from three
sickness and death are the i to six hundred dollars per acre
portion of a soldier, a true one and do it at about the same cost
LOCAL
NOTES AND
JOTTINGS.
TOBACCO
Mr. R. W. Royster is again con-
fined to his bed with ear-ache.
A good many farmers tell us
they are through setting out
their tobacco. Mr. Warren Tuck-
them-
Certainly we have the most
God-favored section in the State-
While the Central State planters
are boasting of having tobacco
leaves as large as a half dollar,
numbers of our eastern planters
are through setting.
Mr- D. A- Owen, of Winston,
N. C, was in town last week look-
after the plug tobacco
interest- He says this
is a fine country and a factory is
what is needed. Nothing how-
ever has yet been accomplished-
Mr- S. A. White, who for the
past four years has been trying
to get the people of Wilson to en-
gage in the manufacture of plug
tobacco, passed through here a
few days ago and says that he in-
tends visiting Greenville again-
We have thus far sold five
tobacco and
without a single exception we
are that they are
entire satisfaction. Improved
farm machinery always pays a
handsome profit besides it marks
the owner ad a progressive and
wide farmer-
Talk about your wide awake
get up and get business men but
Bob Royster is one of them, and
that he is hard at work trying to
build up the tobacco interest of
Greenville goes without saying.
About two months ago when
the Confederate was in-
in Richmond by the
southern women and each south-
State was asked to send con-
of its products which
after the exhibition should be sold
and the proceeds applied to the
purchase of a monument in
of the Confederate dead, Mr.
Royster was one of the first to re
with forty pounds of choice
tobacco which cost him more than
fifty cents a pound, marked from
Greenville, Pitt Co., N. C, with
his business card attached, his
object being to contribute to so
noble a cause and at the same
time advertise this section of the
State before the southern
Ho also has a fair sample
of eastern tobacco at the
in Chicago. If
we had a few more like him
Greenville would soon get on her
Sunday dress It is already feel-
his presence.
THE GUARD AT
As most of the
readers Know the writer of this
department spent most of last
week in Being a
member of the State Guard we
were ordered to that place to as-
in carrying out the laws in
the case of Bryan vs. James City
with which is perfectly
familiar- And while the object
of this department is not to
stories of travels or how to
conduct a campaign yet at
this time for the want of a better
subject we beg the indulgence of
our readers for a short while and
we shall endeavor to briefly speak
of oar trip what we saw and
heard, and some of the
of the horn guard.
The State's summons and the
departure of the Rifles has before
been told so to begin we find our-
selves on the road speeding rap-
idly along to the of action.
At Parmele we were joined by
the Washington Light Infantry,
at Tarboro by the Edgecombe
Guards and in Rocky Mount n
other companies of the 1st.
Regiment steamed in and by the
time we reached Goldsboro all of
the companies expected arrived
and the special ordered for the
occasion took the entire regiment
over the old North Carolina
should not complain, hence in this
particular at least we shall en-
to comply with the
sites.
After being assigned a room
and depositing our blankets,
it was the writer's
good fortune to be first placed on
guard duty. It is not always a
good plan to stand at the head
the company. Everything pass-
ed off pleasantly, however, until
about half past one o'clock, at this
hour all was quiet save now and
then the husky voice of a sentinel
on his midnight beat speaking to
some straggling passerby who all
at once coming direct from the
course of James City, the familiar
roll beat of the kettle drum was
heard, we stopped and leaning
a tree listened to be sure
that we were not mistaken.
There was no mistake, James
City was preparing for battle and
we were about ready to get some-
body else awake when an old
came to our rescue and in
reply to our question what all
that noise was said, de
to de Great
didn't we feel good In a
short while he had all the tobacco
he wanted and wended his way
onward. Nothing of interest
curred until Wednesday evening
when orders were received that
the guard would leave the next
morning, all arrangements
been made for a settlement with
James City. But this was only
short lived however, for the order
was soon countermanded and in
its stead the report was circulated
that we would be ordered to
James City next morning which
produced a singular effect upon
some of the boys. It made them
so deathly sick that the doctor
was summoned, but about the
only medicine that proved
was the signing of the
of agreement between Mr.
Bryan and James City and when
the order for dinner was given,
canned beef and soda crackers
held their own. Our mission be-
finished without trouble or
bloodshed, before leaving next
morning we were ordered on bat-
drill through the of
the city and but for the sad
dent that occurred on this drill,
everything would have passed off
quietly and pleasantly. Every-
body has heard of the painful
news death of
our Lieutenant Colonel, David N.
It is to say
that the State Guard has lost an
able and efficient officer- His
was that of a Christian
gentleman and a true type of a
Southern soldier- The State
Guard mourns his loss and
with his family in this sad
hour of their bereavement
At o'clock next morning we
were all at the depot anxious to
see the home bound train which
took us from the city about
and bore us home ward amid de-
parting cheers and waving hand
kerchiefs from numbers of the
pretty sparkling eyed maidens
with whom that city so
abounds.
Now in conclusion, those who
like Judge Furches in his speech
here last fall, think the State
Guard appropriation should be
stopped and every company dis-
banded, ought to hide their faces
in shame- The ordering of
the State Guard on this occasion
was not a question of love of
home, family or country patriot-
ism, heroism or the glory and
honor of war, but simply a
of duty in which there was
very little pay. Long live the
State Guard and may that party
remain in power that will give us
an appropriation that will justify
a larger, better and more power-
one of which our State can
feel proud.
of cultivating that we do, it is
thus explained how they make
money farming. Now it must be
remembered, however, that they
have the advantage of a market,
where they sell their stuff without
having freight and brokerage to
pay. We would not suggest that
the South go into track farming.
This idea is only mentioned to
show the application that
be made with the crops that we
are now growing. Say for in-
stance that A, who has been
planting twenty acres in tobacco
and sixty in cotton, reduces his
acreage on both crops and plant
just half and uses the same
amount of fertilizer on it that he
has been using on double the
acreage. The result is obvious.
He cultivates this land with just
half the expense and uses just
half the horses, and reaps
fully two thirds as much as if he
had double the acreage
the first year, and in a
while he can reap just as much
on half the land as he formerly
has on the full number of acres
Meanwhile this other land has
been resting or planted in grain
and is ready for the next year.
Farmers who are just g
the cultivation of tobacco had
better watch carefully and the
ground early and
when the plants first to
grow. In fact it is a crop that
under skillful management can
be rapidly pushed to maturity.
If the ground is not worked
around the plants when they first
begin to take root it will button
too soon and thus amount to
while if the ground is stirred
deep and continuously it prevents
this It is generally considered
by the best tobacco farmers that
deep and thorough cultivation is
the best means of forwarding a
crop. A cotton king, while it is a
failure in cotton, is the best
to go to a young crop of
tobacco with, because you can
get up right close to the plant, by
taking off the right wing and
there is no danger of covering up
or breaking loose the roots of the
plant. Intensive cultivation both
in fertilizing and cultivating is an
idea that our southern farmers
are slow in taking hold of, never-
it is a progressive and
philosophic one.
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Frederick J. the
New York City pipe
who recently made an assign-
expects to soon make a fa-
settlement with creditors.
The common and preferred
stock of the American Tobacco
Co. are quoted very close to each
other, the common wavering a
little below par while
goes a very little above.
The Warren Cigar Co., of Flint,
Mich-, will have the exclusive
right to sell Cigars in the
building at the World's Fair,
and claim to be the only Cigar
firm from Michigan that will have
an exhibit-
The Person County
N. Courier says A. S.
sent a handsome cab-
of fine Tobacco to Mr. T. K.
Brunei-, Raleigh, N. C, last week,
to be exhibited at the World's
Fair. Mr. is one of
our largest leaf dealers, and hand-
a high grade of tobacco-
are glad that he was so thought-
as it will be the means of Per-
son county having an exhibit of
her bright tobacco at Chicago.
He has received a very
letter from Mr.
as to the quality of the
Judges and Wallace,
of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals at New York,
Tuesday last handed down de-
in the case of
Co., vs. the Collector of New
York, and vs. the Collector
of Hartford, Connecticut. In
both cases the doctrine that the
bale was the unit, and not the
leaf, was upheld, and thus the
United States Government will
have to refund the difference be-
tween and cents per
charged on the Sumatra tobacco
of those importers, as well as pro-
on all other tobacco on
which the cent duty was
and paid by protest on the as-
that tho leaf was the
unit.
with a plenty of energy TED
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whom a good contract will be given.
For terms, etc.,
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District Agent for Eastern X. C.
SNOW HILL.
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References type samples furnished on application.
THE WAREHOUSE
O. L. JOYNER, Owner Prop.
To my friends and customers who have so liberally
bestowed their patronage on me during the past
year, I wish to say that I have purchased the entire
Warehouse interest of Mr- Alex. and I
earnestly solicit a of your visits with
heavy loads of the yellow weed and I will
tee to get you just as much money as can be had
anywhere on any market.
With this I am before you. Now give me your
co-operation and in less than five years Greenville
will take her stand among the foremost of North
Carolina Tobacco markets-
Yon rs to serve,
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with a gentleman from New
and in the course of the con-
we asked him if the
New Jersey farmers were op-
pressed and mortgaged up, if
they traded on time or paid cash
for their supplies t He said they
knew no such thing as the
gage system, that the as
a general thing were very
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can patents in less time than
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and Schedule
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
No No W, No
April, 18th, daily Fast Mail, daily
daily ex Sun
Weldon 12,80 pm pm
Ar pm pm
3-5 pm
Tarboro 1261 pm
Rocky Mt pro am
Ar
No
daily ex Sun.
Ar
am
Magnolia
Ar m
Ai Rocky Mont
Ar Tarboro
Tarboro
Daily except Sunday.
Train on Scotland Neck Branch Road
leaves Weldon 3.40 Halifax 4.00 p.
m., arrives Scotland Neck at p. in.,
Greenville 0.28 p. m., Kinston 7.03
Returning, leaves 7.20 a. m.,
Greenville 8.22 a. m. Arriving Halifax
at a. m., Weldon 11.20 a. m. daily
except Sunday.
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington 7.00 a. m., arrives Parmele
8.40 a. m., Tarboro 9.50; returning
leaves Tarboro 4.40 p. m., Parmele 6.00
p. m arrives Washington 7.30 p. m.
Daily except Sunday. Connects with
trains on Neck Branch.
Train leaves Tarboro, N C, via
Raleigh R. R. daily except Sun-
day, P M. Sunday P M, arrive
Plymouth 9.20 p. m., p. m.
Returning leaves Plymouth daily except
5.30 a. m., Sunday 10.00 a, m-
arrive Tarboro, N C, 10.25 AM 12,20.
Trains on Southern Division, Wilson
Branch leave Fayette-
ville a arrive Rowland p m.
Returning leave Rowland p m,
arrive Fayetteville p m. Daily ex-
Sunday.
Train on Midland N C Branch leave
Goldsboro daily except Sunday, A M
rive Smith Held, N C, A M. Re
N C AM
Goldsboro. NO A M.
Train
Mount at P M, arrive Nashville W
P Hope PM. Returning
slaves Spring Hope A M, Nashville
8.85 A M, arrives Rocky Mount A
except Sunday.
Trains on Latta Branch R. R. leave
Latta 7.80 p. m., arrive 8.40 p.
t. Returning leave a. m.,
arrive Latta 7.15 a. m- y
Sunday.
Train Clinton Branch leaves
for Clinton daily, except Sunday, at
leave
ton at A M, and P. St.
at Warsaw with Nor. and
Train No. makes close connection at
Weldon for all points North daily. All
rail via Richmond, and daily except Sun-
day via Bay Line, also at Rocky Mount
daily except Sunday with Norfolk
railroad for Norfolk and all
points via Norfolk.
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is well equipped with the best Mechanics, put up nothing
but FIRST-CLASS WORK. We keep up with the times and the improved styles
Best material used in all work. All styles of springs arc you can select from
Brewster, Storm, Coil, Ram Horn, King
We also keep on hand a full line of Ready Made Harness a no Whips which we
ell at the lowest CW Special attention given to repairing.
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Fools Cap sizes only cents.
You pay for these
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Slates cents to cents.
Pencils con's per doz.
Fancy Colored Crayons
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Spencerian Pens cents per
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Fine Assorted Pens cents
per dozen.
Plain Lead Pencils cents
per
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cents per dozen.
Pen Holders cents per doz.
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Novels at cents. These embrace books by the best writers,
a list too large to mention. Any book wanted that is not on hand
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