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STATE NEWS
Things Mentioned in our State Ex-
changes that are of General Interest
The Cream of the News.
are students at the
A. M. College, Raleigh.
Mr. Morrison has been appoint-
ed postmaster at
A railway has just been com-
to Jackson, Northampton
county.
Stephen H. Lane has been
pointed collector of customs at
Hon. Hoke Smith will deliver
the address at the nest
at Chapel Hill.
Dan Carlos Harrill, a prom
farmer of Bertie county, aged
years, has married his ninth wife.
Frank Newell colored, was shot
and killed in Cumberland county
by other the result of a
row over a dog.
Secretary has awarded
the contract for the erection of
the life saving station at Ports-
mouth, N. G, to W. J. B. of
Beaufort, N. C at
Salisbury Herald It is talked
on the streets that the city fathers
will follow the example of Char-
and Greensboro and place a
license tax on
James Boylan, of Raleigh, has
invited all Carolina owners
of running horses to meet there
February 14th, for the purpose of
forming a State association for
handicap racing.
Mr. James A Bryan, one of the
wealthiest citizens of is
to be married at Princeton, N. J.,
on the 18th instant to Miss Wood-
ruff- It is quite a romantic mar-
She was his sweetheart
while he was at college there
twenty-five years ago.
Paul C- Humphrey and Marion
Butler had a lively scrimmage in
Hotel Kennon, at Goldsboro, on
Sunday morning. The trouble
originated about a certain seat
Butler was occupying which was
claimed by Humphrey for his
wife, and which Butler refused to
give up.
Charlotte Rev. Mi-.
of the Episcopal church,
paid his respects to the Roman
Catholic Church in a very em-
way Sunday. Among
other things, he said that it was
a shame Charlotte Protestants
had given to help build a
Catholic church in this city.
R. P. Howell, who up to the
first of January was cashier of
the Bank of Wayne, at Goldsboro,
made an assignment Wednesday.
It was a great surprise. The
liabilities are said to be
The bank is the largest creditor.
The assignment caused a decided
sensation. Capt. Howell is one
of leading citizens
and has the finest farm in Wayne.
He gave up all his property.
Last month a desperate attempt
was made to wreck a passenger
train near Hillsboro, on the
North Carolina division of the
Richmond and Danville railroad.
Sills were placed on the track and
the engine was disabled. De-
were put at work and
William Merritt, an eighteen-
year old white boy, was arrested
Saturday week. Other arrests of
white persons living near by will
follow.
VOL. XIII.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
NO. I
Written for the
THE KICKING MULE.
JOHNNIE.
of great men all remind
can make our lives- sublime.
And. departing, leave behind us
Foot-prints on the sands of time.
that perhaps
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and ship-wrecked brother
Boeing, shall take heart again.
us then, be up and doing,
With a heart any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
to labor and to
We desire to say to our citizens, that
or years we have been selling Dr. King's
Discovery tor Consumption, Dr.
King's New Life Pills,
Salve and Bitters, and have
never handled that sell as well,
or that have given such universal
faction. We do not hesitate to
tee them every time, and we stand
to refund the purchase price, if
satisfactory results do not follow
use. have won their
great popularity purely on their merits-
The Durham Sun tea that
American Tobacco Com-
has notified all of its buyers
on all markets to cease buying
the grades of tobacco of which
cigarettes are made, one of the
reasons being the action of the
ways and means committee in
increasing the tax on cigarettes.
This is characteristically
Every trust in the country whose
profits are to be affect ed by the
Wilson bill is making a great big
bluff at Congress, and the shut-
down of mills is a piece of
he same business. When they
can neither persuade nor buy a
Congress they try to bully it
Charlotte Observer.
Seeing a congregation of
people of nil descriptions com-
tilling the street opposite
my boarding place one day, as I
returned making the matron
sad on account of the quantity of
luxuries that I myself
of, I deliberately proceed
ed to the of the attraction
In the midst of this variegated as-
of people, I saw
of quite a stubborn
that persistently refused to
go ; but was flying his heels pro-
and insisting upon keeping
himself near fences and trees,
while his would be master was
mercilessly applying with spurs
and every mode of
persuasion, to induce him to
plod his weary
But all in vain- The kicking
mule held his ground with his
fore feet, and yet kept two a good
part of the time trying the
of the atmosphere
As I joined the spectators I
asked myself whether the people
or the mule was the better
with the fun. The mule was
evidently the fool for the occasion,
and received all the physical pain
inflicted by his would-be-rider.
In his failure to see himself as
others saw him, ho failed to see
the joke.
Our country is of just
mules, except they stand erect on
two feet. A good part of the
world's fun is obtained at their
expense. They laugh and
to enjoy it. They laugh because
they think they do something
smart, while the people laugh at
what is wanting.
Considering the mule as an in-
stage in Darwin's
Theory of Evolution, I am almost
compelled to agree with him, or
else believe that some men are to be true,
rapidly declining in a
scale to this sphere occupied
by family. Instead of
evolution it may be involution.
Had Darwin selected such a
character for his subject, I am
sure he would have changed his
views and taken the opposite
The stubborn bipeds, whose
character show itself so
prominent in their actions, are
not confined to any particular sec-
of country nor restricted to
any one profession. In every
avocation of life, in every com-
and on every question
that comes before the minds of
the people this smart fellow is in
the midst kicking for all his life,
and not kicking at any particular
thing. He kicks because some
more of his family is standing
near to laugh.
His small cranium affords the
nearest vacuum ever known to
man- A seven and a half hat
would get only one side of his
head, while the other side would
be exposed to the ridicule of men
of heads. What's gained
in space is lost in density. Like
his his head is quite
long with prominent top, while
his ears rise high to catch the
first sound in public opinion.
He is an old fogy and all his
ideas are stale to the better class
of men. He has not learned that
the world extends beyond his
realm. He considers everybody
opposed to him cranks and fools-
He clings to his fogyish ideas
with the same love that the miser
does his purse, still he fails to
hoard up precious jewels in his
sacred treasure. As the ancients
believed the earth the of
the universe that old Sol
submissive went in his daily
journey around, to do obeisance
to their mighty planet; so
old fogies still fondly cherish the
vain idea that they are the
of all the thinking world around.
Nothing new is ever prepared
by them. Like the mule they are
not progressive, but re-
fuse to advance, or let those, who
may wish to do so, move the
wheels of progress. Because
they did not propose the theory,
or discover the truth, or make the
invention, they at once determine
to oppose it. Their opinions are
all the public ever gets from
them. The absence of deep
thought is replaced by the ego-
whirl of the upper lip, and
the sudden contraction of the
lower jaw, to give their opinion
the proper air, tempered by their
words.
Bat their opinions
they lack depth, soon pass away.
Their bray that is sure to follow
their kicking is the last sound
that dies on the
public And short lived with
their opinions the promoters soon
pass away ; and the best said of
them is, they were, but are not.
They leave behind no one to
mourn their fate. No bier is at-
tended to their last resting place.
No sacred spot is ever strewn
with flowers to remind friends of
dear laid away to rest.
Dear reader, lets stop kicking.
Lets progress, and lets join with
Longfellow in his Psalm of Life,
remembering that
TO REPRESENT THE
AND REAL ESTATE IN-
OF THE SOUTH.
to thousands that
THE OLD COLLECTOR AND
NEW.
THE
Does Wealth Rule
Burke it is
has sought to impress the
President his view of the danger-
of an income
tax. A zealous monopoly organ
says in effect that no Northern
Democratic State or
district could be carried for
such a tax.
Has it really come to this, that
money counts for more than men in
D wealth rule
Is there any basis for the as-
that a tax large
incomes, at the most
not one voter in a
according to official
defeat tho party
responsible for it
If these things are true, are
already living under a plutocracy
the of wealth.
The World does not believe
It believes that
a fractional tax on incomes from
to and a slightly
graded tax on in
comes above the latter sum,
would be not only just but
It would oppress no one,
wrong deprive no one of
any necessary or even of an ha
luxury.
Money may decide, as it some-
times has decided, a closely con-
tested election by throwing its
weight into the balance- But it
cannot, in a republic, condemn at
the polls an equitable tax which
affects only the large incomes of
fortunate small class. Men count
for more than money. Justice is
stronger than York
World.
Autopsy of a Grip
The case of Mr- J. K.
was one that puzzled the doctors.
were confident that there
was some affection of the brain,
and they treated him in general
for the grip. His was a well de-
fined of that malady. It was
determined that in the interests
of to hold a post
examination and it was conducted
by
and Robert Gibbon, Jr. The
autopsy revealed the deadly char-
of the grip.
There was a gangrenous spot
the right lung; an effusion of
water on the brain ; an atrophied
gall bladder, and the liver and
spleen were affected. Mr.
Creight was seized with his illness
on the Saturday night before
Christmas. During the first
stages of his sickness he was
conscious, but ho became
conscious and remained so until
within a short time of his death.
Charlotte News.
Salve.
The Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Sores, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains t and all skin
cures Files, or no
pay required. It Is guaranteed to give
Perfect, satisfaction, or money refunded
price cents per box. For Sale by
Satisfying Him.
have said the cap-
critic, find out what
son you can give for representing
the new year as a nude small
is responded the
the art editor, the year
does not get its close till the
of
Then the captious critic went
out and broke his nice new pledge,
because Journal.
The announcement last week
that Mr. Elias had with-
would if there from the contest of the
one to start the ball is what a .,
New England farmer writes to the , of this district did
Southern States magazine, of take tho of paper
Baltimore. From Minnesota by more
comes a letter giving a long list news that Melvin E. Carter,
of names of farmers who want to f. had been named as
go South, and with it is
ed the hope, God give j scarcely needful that we
you success in your laudable work d anything to what we said last
for the benefit of us frozen n to this change,
of the cold case in which we can with-
a . t. a . . t ilia
SHE FIGURED ON DIAMONDS.
the editor
THE DAIRY.
Kindness and confidence be-
asked, as entered the room, the
says tho Chicago She was profit.
And from the same State a on insincerity both the
have got and am and to him
ting more good points re-
the South from one copy
of the Southern States than I
would have been able to have got
whose race is The
shared fully the general
gratification felt in the State
when Mr. Elias was appointed
in a long, long, long time had I He had been so good
not chanced to have it- The so active a Democrat, and
South will beat California for
fruit. I have lived California
and know whereof I
Such letters as the foregoing
are coming to the Southern
from New England, from
the West and from tho North-
west in an eyer increasing
We confess that we have
been amazed at the number of
these letters and at the great in-
that is being aroused in
sections among farmers and
others who want to go South, and
for tho demand for information
about the South. The cry of
promises to swell to great-
volume even tho
of the past ever reached, if
the railroads and the
the South will now promptly
vigorous work to
age this growing tendency and
do it on tho same broad scale as
has characterized the work of the
Western States for many years.
Because of these facts the South
em States magazine will hence- be
forth devoted mainly to the
immigration and real estate inter
of tho South, at the same
time presenting every of
tho South's general attractions
and advantages for the home seek
the investor with the same
energy with which the
Record has for ton years
labored to push forward the in-
growth and interests of
the South. The Southern States
magazine will fully this
field- It will continue from
mouth to month to publish the
letters of Northern and Western
farmers who have settled in the
South, telling of the advantages
of this section compared with
their former homes. These letters
are attracting great attention in
the North and West- It will
forth the attractions of tho South
for fruit culture, as well as for
every branch of agriculture; it
will publish special illustrated
covering tho attractions of
the South for tho pleasure and
health-seeker. Especial attention
will be given to the real estate in-
of the whole South,
reports made of all important
sales anywhere from Maryland to
Texas.
Tho leading of the next
issue wilt a general
of how to develop immigration, by
some fifteen or twenty of the moat
prominent railroad officers of the
South. Mr. R- H. Edmonds,
tor and general manager of the
Record, is also
editor of the Southern States
magazine.
She is After Him.
Congressman can
truly sing After for
Madeline Pollard, who has a
breech of promise suit against
him, has not compromised the
case. She is making a still hunt
in the district with her friends,
and they propose to make it
warm for the colonel. Miss Pol-
lard has been in Cincinnati
evidence of her visits there.
She claims that three times she
was an inmate of lying-in
during the period of her
relations with the Congressman.
The Sun, one of the
most influential papers in the
Ashland district, contains an
advocating the election of
W. C- Owens to Congress. The
has heretofore been a zealous
supporter of Colonel
ridge, but now declares that the
Pollard scandal will destroy his
usefulness in Congress- Evan E-
has announced his
against Colonel
ridge. The Colonel is making an
active canvass.
had really accomplished so much
in the conversion to Democracy
of the formerly Republican conn-
ties west of the ridge, and is, with-
so amiable attractive a
gentleman, that there a gen-
oral fooling that his reward had
bees well and, among
those who know him, a sense of
personal gratification that he ha
received it. conduct of the
office during tho brief period he
held it was entirely credible and
gave promise of an
would satisfy tho
and amply justify the appoint-
Ho estimated at its full
worth the honor tho President
had done him We are sorry he
lost it. This much we feel dis-
posed to say, feel disposed
to say nothing at all as to tho
rest.
So far as the choice of his
is concerned, it was made
great wisdom. Capt- is a
gentleman of whom almost all
Ho is
very able man, a tactful n
skillful politician, a business man,
a luau of elevated character. In
all tho district is not a fitter
man for this place- Ho will not
only mean to administer
great office in the interest of the
government and at the same time
with scrupulous regard for tho
rights and tho welfare of tho
but he will know how to do
it. He is that sort of a He
not only has ability but he has
sense- The Observer presents its
compliments to him in the full as-
that his administration of
the will give
sis to everything it has said of
him in the foregoing and that it
can speak as cordially of him
when ho goes out as it does now
that ho is just going in. And, to
wind up in good form, it can say
for tho President that, although
his administration is not yet a
year old, he has given tho west
district of North Carolina two
good collectors and we hope he
will not find occasion to give it
any Observer.
a determined looking
with sharp air that
seemed to know my
if I am from tho
am tho society said
the young man at the corner desk.
can I do for
I'm said,
in a business like way.
to be married P ho
asked.
she replied. you
think I came up here to toll you
I was engaged as a
no; not at ho assured
her. you'll give me
name tho name of your
mind tho name just
interrupted.
printed something about plain
gold engagement rings being
I remember snob, a para-
Jim tell you to do
Jim
the man I'm engaged to
Jim
I don't even known him.
should not filled
full of cream. If it is,
batter will not come quickly.
The cellar which milk is set
must not smell musty. Tho air
must pure or the milk will ho
spoiled.
It
IS just OS necessary now aH
The F i tends After Death.
put you up to
word.
I my
ho
printing that f
you my
why do you ask
sometimes
doubts about Jim. He wanted to
boy me a plain gold ring, bat I
told him diamonds were none I o
good for mo. Then he said
plain gold was the correct thing,
but I told him could not pull
the wool over ray eyes with that
kind of a story. It had got I be
diamonds or the engagement was
off. Ho seemed kind of con
then, but the next day he
brought mo that paper of yours
Baying that plain gold was
and I thought likely he'd
come hero and gave
a dollar to print
wouldn't have printed it
for if he
You can't
those items put in for
said with a sigh-
suppose it'll have to be plain
gold then, but I'd sort of figured
on I reckon I took the
wrong season to gel engaged.
Seems hard, doesn't it
in to tho dairy
and then wash them with cold
water-
It is claimed by that add-
old cream to cream that is not
sufficiently ripened will make tho
butter oily.
Butter must tho eye.
Speaking for our selves, and we
are like other people, we would
not buy white butter.
Butter that is in a granulated
slate should washed until the
liquid that comes from it is
of all milky color.
If butter is colored too deeply
it looks nasty. believe in
coloring butter tho con-
sumer wants it yellow. But too
much butter is bad.
Do not apply salt to butter
carelessly. Weigh the butter and
then add salt at tho rate of three-
quarters of an or an ounce
to the pound and work it
An of the Missouri State
Dairy Association has propound-
ed a large i umber of
for dairymen to answer, re-
minds us of our public school sys-
in Chicago, under which the
teacher is paid to teach, but
i doing it, asks the scholar
questions which he takes home
for the parents to answer. This
officer should give instructions
and not ask questions. Perhaps
lie is pot able to answer his own
questions.
The American Cultivator. hits
the nail on the head when it says
when it more and
trouble to sell butter than it does
to make it is evidently me
thing wrong in the
may be in the animals, the
or water, the stable arrange-
the manner in which the
milk or cream is handled, or the
condition in which it is put up
and Bent to market. Usually the
man of the place is responsible
for all but one of the e points.
Farmer's Voice.
Dick Mason's Dream.
people do not
attach any importance to dreams,
although some things happen in
that line which cannot under.
stood. On Saturday before the
Sunday morning on which the
late Chief Police Dick Mason j
Skin Crafting,
Perhaps tho most noteworthy
e of skin grafting in a
has been performed at Mercy
under tho direction of
Prof. E. assisted by
Do Silva and Dudley. The
subjects were ox State Attorney
George W. W. Blake and Mrs.
Blake, of Ottawa, III., who came
A father once related to his
children the following
The of a certain island
was once summoned by his lord
the king to render an account of
his government. Those of his
friends on whom ho hail placed
the greatest reliance suffered him
to depart, and did not move from
their place; others in whom he
had not a little confided went with
him only as far as the ship; but
some in whom he had scarcely
trusted at all, accompanied him
through the whole of the distant
journey, to the king's throne,
spoke in his favor, and obtained
for him the grace of the king.
The children did not understand
who these friends could be. Their
father, therefore,
also has three kinds of on
earth j which, however, for the
most part, he does not learn to
know rightly till the time when
he is called from this world to
give account of his actions and
omissions. The first class of
these friends, wealth and posses-
remain behind. The second,
his relations, accompany him only
to the grave. The third, his good
works, follow him into eternity,
even to the throne of God, where
it will be to each
according to his and
where even the cup of cold water
which is given to one who thirsts
will not be
How thoughtlessly, then, does
the man act who does not concern
himself in the least degree about
true I
died, he had a dream which has
been talked of considerably, and
tho superstitious believe that it
was that evening
Mr. Mason from a short
sleep and told the friends with
of a dream he hi He
said ho dreamed he, John
J. M. Garrison
had taken a j to-
They stopped at a hotel
in a strange city and while there
agreed to not got separated.
became separated de-
spite all their efforts to stay to
gather. Then he walked
out on tho streets to o if ho
could find either of his friends or
any that ho know. walked
down tho a considerable
way and noticed an old lady stand
on a coiner. was rubbing
her nose, and beckoned with the
other band for him to come to
her. He obeyed and when he
mot her his grand
had been dead twenty-
years and in life had a on
nose. the dream
wore both glad to each other,
but had any
the Chief waked from his
slumber.
and Garrison were
both sick at the of the dream
and the Chief himself died early
next morning- In less that a
week the three men had indeed
gone on and were
in a strange
Nows.
to Chicago two weeks ago. The
operation consisted in the removal
of 7- square of cuticle
from tho thighs of Mr. Blake In
strips of one and one-half inches
In length and half to three
quarters of inch wide, and
grafting them upon great spaces
of raw flesh on Mrs- Blake's arms.
The skin had been burned away
at their residence in Ottawa early
last fail, and the lay be-
tween grafting and the
of both arms.
Mr. Mrs. Blake were pot
under the influence of ether and
placed upon tho operating table
side by side. As each piece of
skin was cut from Mr.
thighs, it was passed a dis-
infecting solution, and then care-
fully transferred to Mrs.
arm, until sufficient number of
Square inches had been secured
to insure a now growth the
raw surface.
Several days ago the bandages
were removed from Mrs. Blake's
arm, and it was found that each of
the pieces had adhered taken
firm growth, making the opera
absolutely
Dispatch.
A contemporary, in its
report, says is weak and
brandy is Mix them and
find a happy medium.
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Why He Didn't Shoot.
A man with a wife who has
own ways about things
catches her now and then.
ho said the other
morning as he was dressing,
think you were right when you
told me last night that there were
burglars in the
W asked nervously.
all tho money that was
in my pocket when I went to bed
is she said with
an I-told you-so air, you had
been bravo got up and shot
tho wretch you would have Lad
all your money this
my dear, ho
said gingerly, I would
been a
She laughed then, and
gave half of it back to
don
It Should Lo in Every House.
J. II. Wilson, clay st.,
Pa., nays do will not be without Dr.,
King New Consumption,
Colds, it
who threatened with
after tn attack of when
various ether remedies several
ins bad done her
Barber, of Pa., claims Dr.
King's New Discovery has dona him
more good than anything ha ever used
for Trouble. Nothing like It, Try
I. Free Trial at Drug
store. Large bottles. and Si
There is lately nothing
that will help you bear tho ills of
life so well as a good laugh.
Laugh all you If tho
line if tho cat tips over
the milk and the dog elopes with
the roast, if tho children fall
mud simultaneously with tho
mix out of clean aprons, if tho now
girl quits in the middle of
cleaning, and though you search
the earth with you find
none other to take place, if
the neighbor in whom you have
trusted goes on you and
keeps chickens, if the chariot
wheels of tho uninvited guest
draw near when you out of
provender and the gaping of your
parse is like tho unfilled
month of a robin, take courage if
you enough sunshine in
your heart to keep a laugh on
your lips.
State of Ohio, of
County.
Frank make ho
i i he senior of the Ann -i.
Co., in the
i In of Toledo, and States afore-
I bat -a ill will pay the sum
of one hundred for each
of Catarrh can be
the use
sworn to before me in
my this 8th of December,
A. D. 1886.
. ,,, A.
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Curs is taken Internally
Oil the
surfaces the system. Bend for
free.
f. .;. Co., Toledo,
r, by Me.
It is high time for tho A limn-
to drop the Hawaiian
affair and make an effort to
some of the mistakes of the
Harrison Administration
were made nearer home-
Andrew I. Davis, a lately do
coaxed Montana man . of groat
wealth, was not noted for his
liberality as a rule, but to a friend
who was in financial straits he
once sent a check for
with tho message, me if you
can ; if yon cannot, never mention
Child Birth Easy, i
Shortens Labor,
Lessens Pain,
. by the Leading Physicians.
REGULATOR CO
ATLANTA, CA.
BY ALL.
DENTIST, t
ATTORNEY
N. O.
Prompt ion to
at Tucker old
J.
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m BLOW,
N. C.
In
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all As a
county, fortunate in-iced will the
Greenville, N.
JANUARY IT, l-94.
at at Greenville,
N. C as mail matter.
If there is any man who deserves
a I the commendation of the people
little mistaken just now when we; of this community, that man is
said that knew of no Solicitor Woodard. In the stand
whom would more gladly he has taken to break down
than Mr. Simmons. We do vices that have long existed
know of one, and that man is Col.; here, and which have been the
J. Bryant Grimes. We have cause of leading many boys into
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known him only to admire him,
and ho is one of the best men in
Pitt county and he knows we think
thus of him, so we are sure that
he did not construe our article as
has done. Col. Grimes
will honor any position which
may be given him and we con-
Mr. Simmons and the
people of North Carolina that
his administration is to have
so honorable and worthy a gentle-
man as Col. Grimes to assist in
the execution of its laws. Pitt
county loves to honor a son so
noble and true to Democratic
principles as he, and the
to says now that Mr. Simmons
has not made nor will make a bet-
appointment than Col Grimes
assure that we are
not criticizing nor will we do so
as long as the offices are filled by
such men as Hon. P. M. Simmons
and Col. J. Bryan Grimes.
OUR NEW VOLUME.
This is the birth-
day. This journal has made its
visits through an even
dozen years, and this morning
greets its patrons with the first
number of the thirteenth volume.
It is customary whenever these
come around to let the
public know it, and have a bit to
say about the past and make what-
ever promises may seem desirable
or necessary for the future. The
Reflector does not feel called
upon to-day to rehearse any
of the past, but
those things that are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things
which are we let the past
alone, except to profit by its ex-
and apply our thoughts
to the duties of the immediate
present. He that his duty
to-day hath no regrets of
day, and not to trouble
what over to-morrow may bring.
As to the future,
his not one solitary new promise
to make. If its twelve
earnest work in Pitt county is not
enough to let the people know
what it is and what it is here for,
then we know not word more
to say that will convince them.
Judge cur future by our past.
That we feel gratified to all who
have given us patronage, whether
little or much, and to all who en-
courage us with kind words of
approval, need not be told. e
treasure the offerings of the for-
mer in our pocket, and of the lat-
in our heart, feeling richer in haven't
purse and heart in proportion to
the offering, endeavoring to give
value received in labor and good
will to both. Permit this much to
be said, that we candidly believe
the Reflector has to-day more
friends and better friends than it
has ever had, and we shall try to
continue worthy of their esteem.
One after thought, as we re-
member that people are some-
times averse to putting their
into an enterprise unless they
know it is
owes not a dollar but what it can
pay on call, and its laborers are
not permitted to go home
day nights without their wages.
Come on with your dollar and
get the paper a whole year for it.
evil, he should have the support
of all people who love good
and good government. There
are fathers and mothers in Green-
ville who will thank Solicitor
Woodard for what he is doing.
the wrong construction.
We publish a communication
to-day signed that needs
some comment upon at our hands.
When we wrote the little editorial
squib referred to by we
did not notice that it was capable
of the construction that he puts
upon it.
We cheerfully give space to his
communication as it gives us
opportunity to write more
in reference to the matter.
There had been some talk in the
county in reference to the few-
of the appointments that Mr.
Simmons had made in this county
and in referring to those remarks
we meant to understood as
saving, that though this might
seem yet Pitt county Demo-
were not, as says,
for revenue but
were always on hand when
come on. We have not the
slightest disposition to
any act of Mr. Simmons The
course of the Reflector in
to his confirmation the
time he was nominated will con-
all that we believe that he
is th right man in the rip-lit place,
and we of no man whom
this paper will more gladly stand
by than Mr. Simmons. We know
patronage is small and his
territory is largo, and in
there must some
on the part of many
who to Mai friends lion
but far he it from us to com
plain who is doing his
work as Mr If
all his appointments are as good
as the one he from this
The banking capital of the
United Stated is estimated at
the greatest in the
world. The total dividends paid
by the United States national
banks in 1892 were
That portion of the World's
invested in banking is
at The total
net earning of the national banks
in this country in 1892 was
This term of Pitt Superior
Court is being presided over by
Judge John Gray Bynum. And
the above sentence may be taken
for just exactly what it says, as
those having any business about
the Court, or even going there as
spectators, are not long in dis-
covering- Ho has his own way of
expressing things, and does not
waste much time, nor a great deal
of breath, in coming to a point.
In fact, he says himself that he is
a plain man and calls things by
their right a thing is
white ho says its white, and if its
black he says its black, and has
no parleying about it. While he
has his own method of running
the Court, the opinion is
that he is doing it well-
His charge to the Grand Jury
at the of the term
about an hour and a half,
and though out of the ordinary
line of charges had plenty of
points of law in it and showed
the jurors their duty very plainly.
He put a clincher on the jury at
the outset by telling them he had
noticed in some counties
on the part of the jurors to
gazing about the Court room
and putting their attention on
everybody and everything except
what the Judge was to
them, and said I see
this I stop right short, and don't
waste breath on any such men,
for if they haven't got sense
enough to listen at what is being
said for their instruction, they
got sense enough to
serve on a Grand It is
needless to add that he had the
undivided attention of the jury,
and not a man of them went to
sleep-
the course of his charge
Judge Bynum said a great many
good things. A few of them we
jotted down and give them as
near as we can quote him. Of
course we give these disconnect-
and in type they lack the
Judges forceful expressions. He
said Carolina has the best
people in the world. There may
be people more highly educated,
but no where can be found a
more honest or more loyal people
than we have here in the Old
North
Carolina has twelve
Superior Court Judges on the
Bench and about two or three
thousand off of it, and these latter
are always ready with their ad-
vice and opinions as to how the
Courts ought to be
In analyzing the oath the
had taken, that they should
present no one for envy, hatred
or malice, he are
three very small words, if they
could be entirely blotted out and
there could be removed from our
being all the characteristics em-
braced within their meaning, and
along with them remove all the
mean whiskey, and there would
no more need of Criminal
More harm is being done to-
day to the rising generation by
the sale of cigarettes than by the
sale of
The seducer is the meanest
man God in His providence ever
created and allowed to live on the
Men who sell liquor without
license are thieves, and the big-
nuisance in the State. The
money paid for liquor go
to the fund for educating the poor
children of the State, and the
man who sells liquor and puts
that money in his pocket instead
of paying the license steals that
much from the poor children.
the back for
years, you will find that M
out of cases upon the criminal
docket would not have been there
but for
The amount of costs the County
Commissioners pay for
canned by liquor is four times an
much as is received for license
doctor who signs a false
prescription for a man to get
whiskey on is u contemptible
character and not belong
to the
The Governor of Florida says
that there shall be no prize fight
between Corbett and Mitchell,
and the sheriff of county
says that he will not permit it.
The next week will reveal the
quality of backbone carried by
these two gentlemen.
Seventeen fine Guernsey cattle
belonging to ex-Vice President
Morton are to be killed this week
in New York, ordered by the
State board of health, they having
been found to be suffering from
tuberculosis.
Edward Dunbar, the author of
the hymn a Light in the
Window for Thee died
a few days ago in the jail at
Kan., where he had
plied for lodging as a tramp.
It is politically rumored that
Elias will be a Democratic
nominee for Congress in the
ninth district.
A CARD.
In a short editorial in the
Eastern Reflector of January
3rd this statement
the numerous appointments Col-
Simmons is making to fill
the various revenue positions
under him, we notice that Pitt
county is conspicuously out of
How the editor, who is usually
clear in judgment and also con-
with current events, could
make such an enormous state-
I am unable to understand.
The editorial in question not only
does Collector Simmons an
but in some respects might
be construed as an inflection upon
a most worthy and intelligent
citizen of Pitt county. It is well
known to the reading public that
Pitt county was recognized
among the very first appointments
made by Collector Simmons. Mr.
J Bryan Grimes, of this county,
was appointed General Store
Keeper and Gauger, which place,
I am informed, carries a salary of
at least a thousand dollars per
In selecting Mr. Grimes
for this important and
position Pitt county was hand-
recognized. Of course we
would have been glad if other
from the county had also
met with success. But after
this county one good appoint-
and considering the
counties that had like claims
for patronage, we could hardly
expect more than we have re-
Mr. Grimes is an industrious,
intelligent, progressive farmer,
and one thoroughly identified
with the industrial and political
interests of the county. He is a
thorough going Democrat, loyal
and true in his devotion to his
party, and in every campaign his
influence and patriotic services
are felt. He has been, and I
think is now, chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee
of the banner township of the
county, and is the present
for this county, of the Con-
Executive Committee
of the first District. I can see no
reasonable cause for any Pitt
county Democrat to complain of
Mr. Simmons. There are not
to give every one a
place. I am led to say, Mr. Editor,
that much of the criticisms we see
have no justification, and that the
many of people
the Democratic party are
Democrats not revenue
from principle and their
faith in the great doctrines
and wise policies which our grand
and noble party has ever pro-
claimed. Citizen.
January 1894.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
our Regular
Washington D. C, Jan.
President has just
given a practical demonstration
of his earnestness in turning
the settlement of the Hawaiian
complication over to Congress,
by putting the official dispatches
just received from Minister
Willis at its disposal. No one in
Washington seriously believes
that any danger is to be
from the reported prob-
ability of British marines being
landed at Honolulu. It is Well
known to the British government
that the United States will not
tolerate any by any
foreign government with Hawaii.
The Democrats of the House
have much more than held their
own in the tariff debate this week,
although some of their bent posted
men have purposely made no
in favor of the Wilson
bill. With the exception of Rep-
Tom Johnson, of
Ohio, who opposes the bill be-
it too much
and who favors free trade
without any ifs, or hut's, no
Democrat has spoken against the
underlying principle of the bill,
even Representative of
New York, who represents the
Troy district and who has been
quoted as being strongly opposed
to the bill, admitted in his speech
that he would vote for it if the
schedule affecting the industries
of Troy was amended to meet his
wishes. Next week he and others
will have an opportunity to offer
any amendment they may desire
and the House will decide
whether they shall be adopted or
rejected. It is not thought prob-
able by any member with whom
I have conversed that any mate-
rial amendment will be adopted
before the bill is passed by the
on the 29th of January.
It is in the Senate that the friends
of the measure fear it will be
amended almost beyond
Washington is now full of
Carries interested in having the
ill amended and they are all
basing their hopes of success on
the Senate and not en the House.
The Senate Finance committee
will begin to give hearings to
those as soon as the
bill passes the House.
The Republican leaders of the
House were very cleverly taught
a little lesson by the Democrats
this week which would convince
men with less conceit that Reed,
Burrow Co., have not secured
a corner in parliamentary
edge- If was the intention of
the aforesaid Republican leaders
to get at least two days debate
out of the questions of the power
of the House to have members
arrested, and of the right of
to vote while under arrest,
when the motion for the discharge
of the arrested members came up.
This of time that properly
belonged to the consideration of
the tariff bill was not
by the Democrats who
easily defeated it by haying the
make his report
at a time when the
leaders were off their guard. It
did not take a moment for Rep-
Catchings to ask
unanimous consent for tho dis-
charge from custody of arrest-
ed members and for Speaker
Crisp to declare them discharged,
there being no objections. By
that time the know-it-all
cans had discovered what was
going on, but it was too late-
Senator of New
Jersey, who has been widely ad-
by Republican papers as
a tariff has been com-
by a troublesome throat
affection to take a trip to Florida
in search of relief, but before go-
he addressed a letter to Sena-
tor which effectually
disposes of any doubt as to his
towards tariff reform.
e says in that or-
that you and my other Demo-
colleagues on the commit-
tee may know what to expect
from me I here state that the
Democratic side of the committee
on Finance must make the tariff
bill and then every member of
said committee must stand by the
work done. To do otherwise is
to confess that we are not fit to
govern. I write thus plainly, as
I see the newspapers have placed
me in the list of those called ob-
I have not denied
the report, as I never deny any-
thing the newspapers say of me,
but I will always try to speak for
myself when the time
Secretary
this week to the members of the
Senate Finance committee and
those of the House Ways and
Means Committee the immediate
necessity for legislation to pro-
the money to meet the
deficit now staring the
Treasury in the face. His object
was not to argue in favor of the
recommendations made in his an-
report, but to impress upon
the minds of his hearers the
for action, leaving them
entirely free as to the nature of
the legislation and asking only
that it provide the money
to meet payments and
serve the credit of the govern-
It is the object of the
members of both committees to
agree upon a bill that will not
arouse sufficient opposition to
cause an extended financial de-
date in either the House or the
Senate. They recognize that
such a debate at this time would
be dangerous if not actually hurt-
to the country.
Representative says
it has not been definitely decided
whether the income tax shall be
offered as an amendment to the
tariff or as a separate measure.
BY A
Of eager buyer. The props have fallen and prices have dropped
down to actual of production. We ore not
after profits now, our sole object is to unload our shelves
and turn our enormous stock into money. Your dollars
will be more now than ever before or ever again.
Mr a. L. Townsend
Good Family Medicines
Mood's and Hood's
Pills.
regard Hood's and Hood's
Fill, the Terr belt medicines, and we
are never without thorn. I hare always
A Delicate Woman
began taking Hood's
years ago for that tired feeling. It built me up
FRANK WILSON
WILL SHOW YOU HIS SPLENDID LINE OF-
CLOTHING
Dry Goods
NOTIONS
If you will give him a call. No trouble to show goods, its a pleasure
See him this week without fail.
It it to my children whenever
with their blood, and it
little boy likes it so well hi
does them
. cries for It I
cannot find words to tell how highly I prize it
We use Hood's Fills In the family and they
Act Like a Charm
I take pleasure In recommending these
dues to all my Mends, for believe If people
Hood's x Cures
would only keep Hood's and
Pills at hand as we do, much sickness and
would be Mas. L.
Sun,
DON'T WALK
When it is Cheaper to Ride.
The John Flanagan Buggy Company
to put up their first-class work and will furnish you any kind of
at so reasonable a price that riding is cheaper than walking.
--------Besides a full line of
AND HARNESS
They sell the best AG ON offered on the market.
Don't Grub and Sweat when you can get the
and do your work
so much quicker,
cheaper and better.
This splendid farm
implement will
crush, cut,
level and pulverize
the land all in one
operation. Use
them once and you
will
out them again.
We sell these
rows in several
sizes, from feet to
feet.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
IT OF COURSE requires some money to carry on a business like ours, and
we request all indebted to us to settle as early as possible. Thanking all r
liberal patronage in the past, and hoping to continue receiving you r
orders we are Yours to please
The John Flanagan Buggy Company.
RELIABLE
to the of and surrounding counties, of the following
not to be excelled in this market. And all guaranteed to be
pure straight goods. DRY GOODS of all kinds, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, GEN
FURNISHING GOODS. HATS and CAPS, BOOTS, SHOE., LA
and CHILDREN'S SLIPPERS, FURNITURE, HOUSE FURNISHING
GOODS, WINDOWS, SASH, BLINDS, and QUEENS-
WARE, HARDWARE, PLOWS and PLOW CASTING, LEATHER of different
Gin and Mill Belting, Hay, Rook Lime, Plaster of Paris,
Hair, Harness, Bridles and -addles
HEAVY GROCERIES A SPECIALTY.
Agent for Clark's O. N. T. Spool Cotton which I offer to the trade at Wholesale
jobbers cents per percent for Bread Prep
ration and Hall's Star Lye at Jobbers Prices, White Lead and pure Lin
Red and Paint Wood and Wood and
Willow Ware. Nails a specialty. Give me a call and I guarantee satisfaction
Pills M yet promptly i
on toe bows.
AGENCY.
The undersigned most respectfully
announces that he has now established
an agency in Greenville the purpose
of buying and selling Real Estate in and
around the town of Greenville on reason-
able commissions, and will make the col-
of Rentals of Property a specialty,
and will say to all those who own proper-
to rent out that will do well to
place the same in my hands, as I am de-
to collect the same or keep
the houses in my charge vacant.
I am also prepared to make complete
abstracts of title to real property on
reasonable terms. Also a Notary Pub-
for Pitt county.
A live-room house, dining room and
kitchen attached, a splendid well of
water convenient, a large lot with
J nines grape vines years old. Terms
reasonable.
A five-room house on Pitt street,
convenient, a fine garden spot,
barn and stables.
A three-room house on 4th street,
kitchen convenient, a good garden spot.
For lots town, and
two fine farm- about six miles from
Yours truly,
HENRY SHEPPARD,
Real Estate Collecting Agency-
Land Sale.
By virtue of a decree rendered in a
certain cause pending in the Superior
Court of county, i
W. S. Forbes Co., are plaintiffs and
Latham Skinner are defendants,
the undersigned, Commissioner duly
authorized by said decree, will sell at
the Court House door in Greenville. N.
C, for cash, on Monday, Jany 22nd,
1894, the following described real estate
in the county of Pitt, a certain
tract of land lying in Falkland town-
ship, adjoining the lands of Margaret
Mathews, Willis R. Williams, Mis.
Newton and others, containing by
acres, generally known as
the Adam Corbett land; a certain lot or
parcel of Ian i lying In the town of
Greenville, designated as lot No. in
of said town and well known as
the old Thomas Nelson lot; a certain
other lot in the town of Greenville, a
part of lot No. in the plan of said
town, and being the same lot which was
conveyed to Harry Skinner by W. T.
Marsh and wife by deed recorded in
Book H. pages and of the
public registry of county.
DONNELL
Commissioner.
For Malaria, Liver
BROWN'S BITTERS
Notice.
By virtue of a decree of the Superior
Court made in the civil action wherein
R. J. W. is plaintiff
and Mrs, Julia Barrett and others are
defendants, I will sell at the Court
House in Greenville, N. C, on
day the 17th day of January, 1894, the
following described One
tract of land situated in Farmville
township, Pitt county, adjoining the
lands of Wm, Barrett, J. W. Bynum
and others, it being the land whereon
I. J. Barrett lived at the time of his
death, acres more or less.
The dwelling together with acres
of land contiguous thereto, is covered
by the widow Julia Barrett's dower.
Terms cash. JNO. F.
Commissioner.
Land Sale.
By virtue of a Decree of Pitt Superior
Court made at December term 1898 by
Hi- Honor W. A. Hoke Judge presiding,
in the case of Susan against
Jesse P. Brown and others, the
Commissioner will sell tor
cash before the Court House door in
Greenville on Monday the 5th day of
February, 1894, the following described
tract of land situated in the county of
and In Township, known
as the Ida Warren land, adjoining the
lands of Betsy Phillips, Benjamin Cobb,
John A. Cobb, O. B. Hathaway, J. W.
Clark and others, containing seres,
more or less.
F. G. James.
This Jan 1894. Commissioner.
Mortgage Sale.
By virtue of a power of sale contained
in a mortgage deed executed by Fer-
Brown and his wife Ann M.
Brown to the undersigned on the Elev-
day of February 1884 and duly
In the Registers office of Pitt
county in Book F on pages 86-87-88.
I shall sell before the Court House door
in Greenville, N. C. at U M. on
the 6th day of February 1801 to the
highest bidder for cash, the Real Estate
described in said mortgage.
B. J.
January 5th, 1894. Mortgagee.
Notice to Creditors.
Having duly qualified before the
Court Clerk of Pitt county as ad-
of the estate of J. I.
ard, deceased, notice is hereby given to
all persons Indebted to the estate to
make immediate payment to the under-
signed, and those claims against
the estate must present the same for
payment before the 27th day of
1894, or this notice will be plead in
bar of recovery. This 27th of
T. H.
of J. I. Whichard.
RY
To all who want goods that are all right we invite
them to come to see us we will make the prices
all and satisfactory. We have often
been told that we were a little high in
price on some lines of Goods but
our friends would always add
that the quality of your
goods is better than
the lower priced
goods costing
more and
demand-
b e e r
priced the
inferior good. This
is what we claim i That we
will meet competition on the
different lines of Goods carried by
us, quality considered. Come to
see us, we have in stock a general as-
and can supply your every want
FURNITURE.
When we say that we have the largest and best line
of FURNITURE ever kept in our town. We
make no mistake as a visit to our store will
prove. Numbers of our customers ex-
press surprise at our haying such a
large and well selected stock
on hand. Call on us for
anything you may want
in the Furniture
line. We have
j u s t r e-
lovely line
of CHAIRS,
and
ROCKERS in Silk Plush,
These Chairs
make nice Christmas presents
and we would remind our friends
not to overlook them when making
chases for Christmas as they will please you.
GUNS
Call on us for and Gun
Implements. We have some
nice ones on hand and will
the prices right.
Wishing all our friends and the public generally a joyous and
happy Christmas,
We remain, your friends,
J. B. CHERRY CO.
ESTABLISHED 1883.
HEW;
WHOLESALE AND
GREENVILLE. N. C.
Boxes C. R. Side Meat,
Tubs Boston Lard.
barrels Flour, all grades
barrels Granulated Sugar,
barrels C. Sugar,
boxes Tobacco,
barrels Mills
barrels Three Thistle Snuff,
barrels Gail Ax Snuff,
barrels P. Snuff,
cases Sardines.
Full stock of all
Duke Cigarettes,
boxes Cakes and Crackers,
Ml barrels ck Candy.
kegs Band's Powder.
tons Shot,
Bread Powders.
cases Star Lye,
barrels Apple Vinegar,
eases Gold Dust, Washing Powder
rolls lb Bagging.
bundles Arrow Ties .
other goods carried in my line.
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES
-IN-
To my Friends and Customers of Pitt and adjoining
I wish to say that I have made special preparation in preparing
HEAD MATERIAL and propose giving you HOGSHEADS with inside dressed
smooth which will prevent or scrubbing your Tobacco when packing
Also I have made special arrangements to use best split Hoops made from White
Oak. The special advantages have in cutting my own timber places me in a
position to meet all competition. cheerfully promise yon that I will strive to
make it to your interest to use my Hogsheads and you can find them at time
either at my factory at the Eastern Tobacco Warehouse, Greenville, N. C.
Sawing, Making
And Turned Trimmings for Houses a Specialty.
I am prepared to do any kind of Scroll Sawing for Brackets or anything in the
line, or turning Balustrades for Piazzas, Pickets for Stairways. dings of
any kind, including Piazza Railing, and would lie pleased to name you prices on
anything In the above upon application.
GENERAL REPAIR WORK
done on short notice. Thanking you tor your past patronage, lam willing to
to meet your future patronage, and kindly ask you to give a trial before
t elsewhere. Respectful
-A-. Or. COX, Winterville, NO
N C Joshua
COBB BROS. CO.
Commission Merchants,
FAYETTE NORFOLK, VA.
and Correspondence Solicited.
J. L. SUGG,
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE AGENT,
GREENVILLE, N. C
OFFICE SUGG k JAMES OLD STAND
All Risks placed in strictly
FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES
At lowest current rates.
FOE A FIRST-CLASS FIRE
ill Salt
Great
THE REFLECTOR
Local Reflections.
Vol. XIII. No.
birth-
-IN-
PRICES.
In order to reduce our
We will sell for the
at far below regular prices-
MUST BE
SOLD
AT SOME
PRICE.
WE HAVE
TOO
MANY GOODS
AND THEY
This is the
day.
bales of Tobacco
cloth at
widths
Beaufort county is building
new jail.
Floor Oilcloth in four
at Lang's.
promises to be a better
year than 1893.
Eggs were selling from to
cents here last week.
Green pork was
cents by the pig.
test White Oil at
at D. D.
selling for
cents
per
Clothing
Clothing
Clothing
Clothing
Our must be sold
out regard to cost-
with
OTIS
and
the same way, to we add
Cheap to make any reduction.
ANY DAY YOU COME.
BROS.
Leaders of Low Prices.
Greenville, N. C
Carriages and Wagons at
J. B. Cherry Co's.
When in want of good shoes go to
T. B. Cherry Co.
Breech Loading Guns and
for sale by J. B. Cherry Co
t j at the
for
The Best Flour on earth
Old Brick Store.
Cotton pay cash
Cotton it the Old Brick Store.
J. B. Cherry Co Keep a full stock
of General Merchandise and solicit
your trade.
L. M. Reynolds Mens and Boys
shoes are the best. For sale by J. B.
Cherry it Co.
Go to J. B. Cherry it Co when in need
of Furniture, they keep a stock and
sill at prices that will please you.
Fob room dwelling house
in kitchen and dining room
attached. Apply to
Come on while you get the Re-
the Atlanta Constitution and
the New York World, all three papers a
year for
A large stock of nice Furniture cheap
at the Old Brick Store.
Orders for the New World Al-
for 1891 should be left at the Re-
office. Our subscribers can
get them less than the regular price.
Remember I pay you cash for Chicken
Eggs and Country Produce at the Old
Brick Store.
Appointments for Greenville C
Salem on the first Sunday at eleven
o'clock and Jones Chapel at three
o'clock.
Shady Grove on second Sunday at
eleven o'clock and School
House at o'clock.
Ayden on third Sunday at eleven
o'clock and Tripp's Chapel at three
o'clock.
Bethlehem on the fourth Sunday at
eleven o'clock, and Lang's School
House at three o'clock.
Everybody invited to attend.
Notice of Sale
By virtue of a power of sale
In a mortgage deed executed by W. N
to E. A. Little, dated 13th day
of Sept. 1887 and recorded in the Regis-
office of Pitt Co., in Book V page
which is herein referred to, I will
offer for sale at public auction at the
Court House door in Greenville Pitt
Co., N. C, on Tuesday the 13th day of
1891 at o'clock noon all the
pine and timber, of and above
the size of inches in diameter at the
stump, standing or growing upon
tract of land situated in Pitt county
and described as follows, to
tract of land adjoining the lands of J.
T. Mobley, A. A. Baker, T. J. Shep-
herd and others, known as lot No. in
the division of the B. F. lands;
for full description see the division be-
tween the heirs of B. F. about
the year 1872; together with all the
rights of way and other privileges con-
in a deed from E. A. Little to
said W. N. dated 13th day of
Kept 1387, and recorded in the Register's
office of Pitt Co. in Book T page
which is herein referred to. Terms of
This the day of 1884.
E. A . LITTLE, Mortgagee.
Jno. H. Small, Attorney.
Fob seed oats at
J. B. Cherry
Mr. Elijah W. Bawls has been
made of Tarboro.
Steel Nails at cents
pound at D- D- Haskett s.
Keep this in Work for
your town, talk for your town.
The Perfect Kelly Axe, all steel
for cents at D. D.
Lang is determined to sell out
his winter goods at very low prices
The Celebrated Red Warrior
Axe for cents at D. D.
The way of the transgressor is
their sins are found
out.
If you want Hardware and
Stoves -heap, see D D. Haskett
before buying.
The young colored men the
town are getting up another brass
band.
We are closing out our entire
stock of winter clothing at greatly
reduced rates at Lang's
Shad have been m both the
and Washington
markets.
Houses fob to
Henry Sheppard, Real Estate
and Collecting Agent.
Don't mention the public roads
are just not
talking about
A nice drove of mules came
on last Thursday s train. They
belong to Mr. Bob Smith.
Shoes, Hats, Trunks and Gen- j
furnishing goods will be
sold at a great sacrifice at Lang's.
de
personal.
Mrs. V. L left last
week for Warrenton.
Mrs. G. F- Smith is visiting
relatives Beaufort.
Miss Minnie of Hal-
was visiting friends here last
week.
Mr. J. F. Joyner has moved his
family to his farm live miles from
town.
Miss Pat Hardison, of Williams-
ton, has been visiting Mrs. E. II
the past week.
His friends here were
glad to see Mr. Alex.
in town past week. Alex, has
a position in New York and likes
city life.
Greenville had two weighty
visitors last week, Capt. W. W.,
of Lenoir, and Mr- H. I
of South
The latter was here organizing a
lodge of Chosen Friends, and
obtained a number of members.
Our old friend Prof. W. H.
formerly of
has been elected Superintendent
of Public Schools in Pitt county.
He stands in the front rank as an
educator and we congratulate the
good old county of Pitt upon
such an gentleman
to look after her educational
Ledger.
Miss Lissie Moore, who was for
some weeks at attend-
Mrs. J. R. Davenport, re-
turned home last week, Mrs.
Davenport's friends are glad to
know that she has very much
proved and hopes to soon be
recovered from her recent long
and severe attack of fever. We
are glad to learn that her mother.
Mrs. Sydney Fleming, has also
greatly from the injuries
she received in a fall.
Messrs. John A. Purvis and
Peter R. two farmers from
near Hamilton, were here
day. Mr. Purvis called the
aDd said everything
looks a great deal more lively and
progressive around here than over
in his section. He is thinking of
moving to some town in order to
give his children better
advantages, and we would
glad if Greenville could claim
him. Mr. was for some
years a citizen of Pitt
Doing Away With Pistols.
If the importation and sale of
pistols in the State could be
stopped, and all the Judges would
adopt the plan of Judge
in a short while there would be
fewer pistols in the State than at
present In the convictions at
this term of Court for carrying
concealed weapons the Judge has
made it a condition of suspend-
judgment upon payment of
costs that the defendant make
the Court a present of the pistol-
When the pistol was brought it
was turned over by the Judge to
the Sheriff with instructions that
he take it down and break it in
pieces and return the fragments
to the Court. Several wont be-
tween the anvil and hammer
this order.
Dress goods and trimmings
have been marked down
and we will sell them
cheaper than eyer at Lang's
The has received a
copy of the report of the State
Railroad Commission, a nicely
bound book that contains much
information.
Sunday was as pretty and
a day as could be
Not so Monday.
We are requested to announce
that the Pitt County Alliance will
meet in Greenville on the last
Thursday in this month, 25th, at
which time a full attendance is
Mr. Chas. W. Taylor has been
made Postmaster at Washington, j The returns thanks
Let the good work proceed. I to Messrs. W- C Jackson and Joe
I for an invitation to first
You can get a very pretty j annual oratorical contest for a
Hood s calendar by medal at the A. M. College,
calling at Wooten s drug store. The invitation is
The Rifles had a meeting beautiful work of art-
day afternoon, but ii was so cold
they engaged in no out door drill.
We learn that Mr. T. E. Keel,
of Farmville, lost a large pack
house full of tobacco by lire one
night last week.
Everybody was glad to see the
bright day Friday, and they did
not mind the cold coming along
with the sunshine.
Despite the bad weather the
ladies were right successful at
their festival, last Tuesday night
and realized a good sum.
The farmers speak
of their small grain crops.
The winter has thus for been
favorable to wheat and oats.
Only a few of those beautiful
and stylish Cloaks and Caps left
which we are determined to close
at starvation prices at Lang's.
Mr. W. S. Wooten, cf Swift
Creek, was out hunting, the other
day, and at seventeen shots got
fourteen partridges and a fox.
The past week has given an-
other strong evidence of Green-
need of a good hotel. But
every day shows the need of it,
as to that.
A Charlotte minister forgot
that he had an appointment to
officiate at a marriage and kept the
couple waiting an hour. He had
to be sent after even then.
A carrying a large goods
box on his shoulder, the other
day, dropped it against one of
the windows of J. B. Cherry
Cos. store and smashed a largo
glass.
Do you want it New York
World Almanac for so
subscribe to the your-
self and bring us one new sub-
scriber and you get the book free.
A body that did not know they
had big sales might wonder what
was going to be done with all
that flour before W. H. White's
and J. A- stored last
Friday.
The subscription of many of
our town patrons has expired,
and we have as yet been too busy
to the round to see them.
We will appreciate it if as many
who can will drop in at the office
and renew without waiting for us
to call on them.
I have reduced the price on my
popular selling Stoves as
Seminole No. from to
Seminole No. from
to
to No. from
to These prices good
March 1st 1894. Haskett.
One night last week Mr. John
Elks, of township, lost
his barns, stables, forage and
one hundred and twenty-five bar-
of corn by an incendiary fire.
He his team by very hard
work. The fire occurred about
midnight
The feels decidedly
encouraged over its prospects for
the new year. More new sub-
have been enrolled since
the first than for the correspond-
period of any year as far back
as we have figures for comparison-
All who a blue cross mark
after their names on margin of
the are thereby
that their subscription has
and they are invited to
come and renew. At our low sub-
price we cannot afford
to send the paper on credit
Henry Vines and Cherry
who were convicted at court
last Wednesday and placed in
jail, ended their imprisonment by
getting married that night. The
marriage took place in the Sher-
office, Rev. G. F. Smith
ting.
The wholesale indictments by
the Grand Jury of persons for
selling whiskey to minors, and of
many others for gambling, caused
no little consternation among
those who had been participating.
The eradication of such evils
from the community meet
the approval of all right thinking
people-
Stop Borrowing.
The man who is too stingy to
subscribe for his county paper
certainly should be too proud to
borrow, it from his neighbor.
One would never think of
ling a neighbor week after week
for the loan of hoes, plows, cook
stoves, wash tubs, and such, when
he is amply able to buy them for
himself. You should be just as
far from continually troubling a
neighbor for the loan of a paper
which he pays for. This item is
for the borrower.
A Fraud.
Rabbi John Israel,
claiming to be a Christian Jew,
came to Greenville last Friday,
and occupied the pulpit of the
Methodist church Sunday morn-
and evening. Sundays
papers published a
lengthy expose of the Rabbi and
gave evidence that ho is not what
he claims to be. He is represent-
ed as a gross We are
sorry that our people should have
been by the Rabbi,
but the evidence against him
came just a day too late-
Married,
On Tuesday evening, Jan-
at o'clock, in the home of the
bride's father, Mr. J. L. Wilson,
near in the presence of
invited friends and relatives, Mr.
J. R. Overton and Miss Mary J,
Wilson wore united in marriage
by Rev. J. H- pastor of
Greenville Baptist church. Soon
after the ceremony was over Mr.
and Mrs. Overton went up to
where they will occupy the
beautiful residence formerly
by Dr. W. H. Bagwell.
May God's blessings abide with
them through life. J. L
A Mink Kills Pigs.
Mr. John F- Whichard, of Caro-
tells us of the peculiar capers
of a mink in his
The mink stole a litter of pigs
from a sow and killed them. The
sudden disappearance of the pigs
led the owner to a bear
had got them and a hunt for
bruin was inaugurated among the
neighbors. While the hunt was
in progress one of the dogs was
noticed coming out of a ditch
with a dead pig in his mouth.
An examination disclosed a
low under some roots from which
the dogs brought three other
dead pigs. The hollow was too
small for a bear, and all were
puzzled as to what sort of var-
could have put the pigs
there. A steel trap was set at
the mouth of the hollow and the
result waited for with interest.
Next morning there was a big
mink in the trap.
Some Do This Way.
A Northern man who sees the
every week and takes
notice of its advertisers, expressed
some that the advertising
patronage of the paper was small-
since Christmas than during
the fall. He said it always looked
peculiar to him that any business
man should want to advertise
only three months in the year,
just about long enough to begin
getting himself before the public,
and then throw away the benefit
he would receive from it by stop-
ping the advertisement and letting
the people forget all about him.
This gentleman expressed a sen-
view of the matter. It is
much easier for a man's business
to be forgotten than it is to make
it known.
Superior Court.
The following cases upon the
criminal docket were disposed of
to Monday afternoon
John Bell, Jr., C W., pleads
guilty, judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
George Darden and Rena Dar-
den, larceny, not guilty.
Mary Grimes and Isaac
F. A., not guilty.
Henry Vines and Cherry Bell,
F. A A., guilty, judgment
on payment of costs.
Ernest Carney, A- with D- W.,
not guilty.
Ricks James, A. with D. W.,
guilty.
Richard Burney, A. with D. W-,
pleads guilty, judgment suspend-
ed upon payment of costs.
Robt Cog-gins, J. E. Mayo,
Robinson, Edward Warren,
larceny, Mayo guilty, others not
guilty.
John Norman, injury to stock,
guilty.
Augustus Harrell, C- C- W-, not
guilty.
Augustus Harrell, A. with D.
W., pleads fined and
costs.
Henry C. C.
judgment upon pay-
of costs-
Henderson West and Walter
affray, guilty, judgment
suspended upon payment of costs.
Henderson West pointing gun
or pistol, pleads guilty, fined
costs.
Elder David House.
The subject of this sketch was
born August 14th, 1816, and died
at his home three miles from
Greenville, on Thursday, January
11th, 1894. In his death Pitt
county loses one of the best men
who ever lived within her borders.
His walk was always that of an
upright Christian gentleman. Ho
had the respect and love of all
who knew him, and no man could
ever say aught against him. On
the fourth Sunday in July, 1847,
he was received as a member of
the Baptist church at Great
Swamp. Six years later, on the
fourth Sunday in November, 1853,
he was ordained to the ministry,
and served bis church faithfully
until enfeebled by old age. At
the time of his death he was the
oldest member of the
Association.
Elder House was twice married,
first wife was Miss Felicia
Fleming, to whom he was married
in February, 1836. To this union
twelve children were born, seven
daughters and five sons. The first
son died at the age of thirteen
years, and all the other children
are now living. They are Mr. M-
J. House, who lives in Martin
county, Messrs. W. C House, G.
T. House and D. E. House,
ding in Pitt, Mrs. Little.
Mrs. Naomi Lawrence, of Hamil
ton. Misses Bettie, M., Sue,
Felicia and House, all
of the latter living with their
until his death. Any man
might well feel proud of raising
such a family as did Elder David
House.
His second wife was Mrs. Caro-
line Jones, to whom he was mar-
in 1881, and who now survives
him. No children were born to
his second marriage.
Elder House loved truth and
honesty in everybody. Politically
he never countenanced anything
but Democracy. He was a just
man and his memory will be bless-
ed.
To make room for his
Falkland Items.
January, 15th, 1894.
Miss Jennie Williams, of Green-
ville, opened a school of twenty
five pupils here last Monday.
Mrs. V- E. French, of Jasper, is
visiting relatives near Falkland.
Miss May Harris went to
Goldsboro last week to attend
the of her friend, Miss
Lizzie Giddens.
Mr. William Harris, has been
quite sick with the grippe but is
Greenville, N. C-, December 26th, 1893.
We have this day formed a co-partnership to conduct a General
Mercantile Business, sell Fertilizers and buy Cotton, Peanuts and
Rice in the town of Greenville under the firm name of Boswell,
Co. W. I. BOSWELL,
JESSE
C M. JONES.
Greenville. X. C. Dec. 1893.
Referring the above card we have
his day sold our entire business,
of n and fertilizers, store fix-
and good will to Mess. Boswell,
Greenville, X. Dec. 1893.
beg to announce that having
chased the business formerly conducted
Mess Young at this place,
we shall continue to occupy the same
Darling Haddock, A- B., not able to be out.
guilty.
W. H. from
Mayor's court, guilty.
Wade Butts and Wilson Stan
Butts pleads guilty,
Stancill not guilty.
William Staton, larceny, guilty,
judgment suspended upon pay-
of costs.
John Taylor, A. with D. W-,
guilty.
Will Taylor, C. C W-, pleads
guilty.
William Baker, burning barn,
guilty, sentenced years in
W. R. Baker, L. R, pleads
guilty, judgment suspended upon
payment of costs.
Henry Smith, L R., pleads
guilty.
W. Thornton, George Rob-
and Shepherd Page, affray,
Thornton not guilty, others guilty,
Roberson fined and costs,
judgment suspended over Page
upon payment of costs.
Jones, Sr., and
Jones, Jr., larceny, plead guilty,
Judgment suspended as to Jones,
r., Jones, Sr., sentenced to
for two years.
John Daniel and Andrew Lane,
affray, guilty, judgment suspend-
upon payment of costs-
Wiley Dupree, A. with D. W.
pleads guilty, fined and costs.
Mark Patrick, larceny, pleads
guilty-
Moore, larceny, guilty,
one year in
Allen Gray, larceny, guilty,
sentenced one year in
Lewis May, Robert May and
James Moore, affray, Moore not
B. R. King went to Baltimore
on a business trip Monday and
returned Saturday.
Cotton and
Below arc Norfolk ton
and peanuts for yesterday,
by Co. Commission
chants of
Good
9-16
Low
Good 7-1
Extra
Notice of Sale.
In pursuance of an order of Court I
will sell at public auction before the
Court Home door, the town of
Greenville, on Monday, February
1894, the following described tract o
land Lying in Greenville township,
adjoining the lands of W. K.
the lauds heirs, and
others, containing thirty-one acres,
more or less. Terms of sale cash.
W. H. HARRINGTON.
of A. D.
Co. They will and shall be pleased to have all
to net the business formerly car- of our friends to sec us. shall he
on by us at our old stand. They re- j very thankful a continuance of the
the control for this territory of those patronage of their former customers and
brands of fertilizers formerly sold by shall strive to merit their confidence
us, National, Capital and trade.
and Beef, Blood and Bone. They will; Having bought the of
continue to buy cotton, peanuts and disc of Mess. Young at a very
rice, and are prepared to pay the high- liberal discount from first New York
est ma prices. we arc enabled to offer many
We desire to return thanks to and shall continue to sell
man;, -friends who have so kindly pat-stock at greatly reduced prices. We
Mated us in the past and to them and i are also now receiving a large stock of
die public generally we most just bought the lowest
recommend the firm which succeeds we are
us, and with our intimate j to save you money on any
of man wears with each of them, know- Purchase may make, will pay
lag their strict so of honor and in-
carry a full stock of Dry Cloth-
we lee justified in r, Hardware,
continuance of your patronage Implements and Groceries. We
we can assure they will appreciate haw also arranged to continue the
those well established brands of
Utilizers, National, Cap.
Mr. c. Vi. will fettle up and Beef, Blood and Hone, also
business of Young and hi.-, Acid Phosphate and We
address after January 1st will be
,, , , ,,., ,, . . . and are prepared to pay the highest
Buchanan s Wharf, Baltimore, ltd,, in market prices,
care of The Fertilizer Co. Trusting u be favored a liberal
Yours truly, V w are
c J ours truly,
YOUNG A CO.
m; ;
Notice of Sale.
By virtue of a power of sale contained
in a Deed of Trust executed by W. N.
to the undersigned, dated the
day of 1893 and recorded in
the Register's Office of Pitt County In
Book M pages to inclusive,
is herein referred to, I will oner
for sale at public auction at the Court
House door In Pitt county,
N. C, Tuesday the 13th day of
1894, at o'clock noon, all
that certain standing timber upon the
lands hereinafter described, situated
Pitt county, to
the pine and poplar
of and above the size of Inches in
diameter at the stump standing or
growing upon a tract of laud adjoining
land- of J. T. Mobley, A. A. Baker
known as
the
-TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED WORTH OF-----
To be sold at reduced
prices, together with a large
assortment of Fall and
winter
Ac IN SHORT A COMPLETE
STOCK GOODS TO BE
CHEAP.
ft
--Hi
Having- bought my brother out I Ma determined to soil my en-
tire stock exceedingly close. Come for yourself.
Respectfully,
WILEY BROWN
Home Sewing Machines and Depositor for American Bible
s-
guilty, others judgment J- Shepherd and others,
upon payment of cost, i
FT , , r, m of B. K and rally
C. L. Patrick and C- T. Savage, described in said division, which hi re-
disposing of liquor to minor, to; eight hundred
entity. more or less; it b the lame
t i n conveyed by K. A. to W.
John Daniel, C. 0- W-, pleads by deed dated of
guilty, judgment upon 1881 and recorded in
payment of costs, , of Pitt county in
Andrew Dane, C. G, W-. plead. I
guilty,
-MANUFACTURER
of p
The Grand Jury on
day of last week found a true bill
G- F. Smith. Judge By-
ordered that a of one
hundred be summoned from which
to select the jury and set the case
for Monday morning of this week.
The hundred men were on hand
Monday morning, but because of
some irregularity for the
challenged the entire
and objected to the jury be-
selected from them. Then by
agreement another of one
hundred and fifty was drawn from
the regain jury box and the
for
rs
page
mi all, the rights of nay and
conveyed in said deed, winch
1- referred to.
certain lot of Pine timber
not exceeding one. feet, standing
or growing upon a tract of land ululated
the South side Tar adjoin-
the lands of Augustus on Ike
the lands of Jno. Randolph on
West, the hinds of Thomas
James C. on the
and bounded the by the main
road leading from to Tar-
containing seven hundred acres
more or less; being the panic conveyed
by J. F. wife to W. N,
by deed duly recorded In the
Registers office of Pitt county in Book
V i CO, together with all the rights
of way and privileges therein contained,
which, is referred to a
of the land of which said timber is I
located and the rights and privileges
therein conveyed, terms of sale
This the day, of UM. J
JNO. SMALL,
-ALE KINDS OF
REPAIRING SHORT
W. H. WHITE.
Old thing- have pasted away and all
thing have new. My old
Of goods have been sold out
and a has taken its
place. The old was replaced
by the new because my
LOW DOWN PRICES
the people and keep the goods
moving. Now listen to a few plain
I know times arc hard and
money scarce just as well as the man
who raises cotton, corn and tobacco,
and am going to sell goods just as low
as any dealer can afford to sell.
For every dollar spent with me you will
get the worth of your money. Weep a
complete stock Of
General Merchandise
Goods, Notions
Boots, Shoes,
Caps and Gents
Furnishing Goods,
Clothing
at any price a man can want. Also a
full stock of
Groceries
Cotton Bagging Ties.
ESTABLISHED
S. M. SCHULTZ.
AT THE
OLD BRICK STORK
-1- their year's supplies will
their interest our prices before
It complete
n nil its branches.
PORK
FLOUR, COFFEE, SUGAR
RICE, TEA, Ac.
at Market Pricks.
TOBACCO SNUFF A, CIGARS
we boy direct from Manufacturers,
you to buy at one profit. A com
stock of
u u
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
Respectfully,
S. M.
N,
OINTMENT
TRADE
MARK
For Cure a all losses
This has in use
tidy and wherever know ha
been in steady demand, it hat been
the leading physicians all
country, and d cures when
all other remedies, v the attention
the experienced physicians,
for years failed. This Ointment la
long standing and the high reputation
which It has obtained Is owing
o it- own efficacy, as little effort
ever been made to brim; it before the
public. One bottle this will
he -em to any address on receipt of
Dollar. All Cash Orders promptly at
tended to. Address all orders and
communication- to
T. r.
N. C
OLD DOMINION LINE.
TAR RIVER SERVICE
villa and Tarboro touching at all bind
lugs on Tar Monday,
and Friday at A. M.
Returning leave Tarboro at A M.
Tuesdays. Thursdays Saturdays
Greenville A. ht. same days.
These departures are subject to stage of
water on Tar
Only first-class workmen and material allowed in my shops- The many
will testify to the and durability of buggies
vehicle guaranteed. line of
at with steam
era of The and Wash-
Norfolk. Baltimore
Philadelphia. New York and
Shippers should their goods
marked vi-i Dominion iron
Hew York. from
Norfolk
more from Ball I-
i lore. Miners from
Boston,
JNO. SON.
A t
Washington N. C
J. J. CHERRY,
Agent,
Greenville. N. C
Come and sea us at Bros,
old stand, where we are ready
to serve you a full line of
who have used my work
turned out at my shops.
HARNESS
i .
EACH OTHER.
Ghost Stories Work on the
of Two
Hew the Twit- of a Winter Evening
Incitement Our
Heroine Clutch at the
of Their
It was a winter's evening.
just such a one as nature gives for
the proper coloring to stories of the
imaginative character. Ghosts could
be seen dancing Mid holding high
carnival on the glistening snow-
banks outside, and fairy forms
hobgoblins seemed to burst at
every crack of the bright logs in the
big open grate.
As we sat there in the parlor of
the big farmhouse, watching the
glowing logs, we fully bent ourselves
to the surroundings and our
had sway. Uncle Fred
related long and blood-curdling
yarns which he had heard in the
west; the girls told some wonderful
ghost stories and I fairly let myself
loose in anecdotes of crime which
hail come under my observation as
a police says a
dent of the New York Journal.
When at last we went to bed our
minds were keyed up to a very high
pitch, and I noticed that the girls
used precautions that night in
locking the doors and windows. The
fact that a couple of suspicious-look-
tramps had been turned away
in the evening by my grand-
father tended to make us more
than usually careful.
The girls retired to a V room, just
at the head of the stairs, a great big
chamber, such as is always set aide
as the spare room, furnished with a
big double bed, with four
high posts. My Uncle Fred
and I slept in the low-ceiling
in the other wing of the house. A
long, narrow hall, winding around
the top of the open staircase,
rated the two apartments.
Uncle Fred and I had been asleep
about two hours when we were sud-
awakened by the sound of a
struggle. For a moment we listened
and then we heard a high soprano
which we recognized as Flora's
Help There's a man in
the
At the same instant another voice
which we knew at once was Minnie's
gave another and even more
yell of He's killing
Free was on his in an instant
and as he pulled his pistol out of
drawer I grabbed the lamp. It only
took us a minute rush out into
the hall, but in s seconds of
space we heard enough to convince
us that a most horrible sight would
meet our eyes.
Around the ball we bounded and u
kick from Fred sent the door of the
girl's room bounding inward. He
cocked the and I shoved in the
light. As the rays from the lamp
shone round the apartment we failed
to discern any traces of the man. A
glance at the bed told the story.
girls were sitting upright
Flora had a tight grip on Minnie's
bangs and Minnie was clutching
Flora's hair with I Both
were screaming at the Lop of their
voices and both were f . ;.
It didn't take as long to solve the
mystery after getting the girls
awake. Flora, la her slumbers,
dreamed of burglars, and tossing
about had grabbed Minnie by the
hair. As she did so she d
she had caught a burglar and yelled.
Minnie, who was also thinking of the
ghost stories, instantly surmised
that a robber had her, and self-
defense she had grabbed i
hair. Doth had pulled for
had yelled at the same time.
When the matter was explained at
the breakfast table next morning
grandfather put an emphatic em-
oil an- more ghost stories.
SAILOR LOY'S FORTUNE.
From Beggary California to a
Competence in England.
of Wild Adventure Lead a Tooth to
Away to Life
. of
the Inheritance.
Thomas Stone, an eighteen-year-
old English sailor, who has been
I a hand-to-mouth existence in
Oakland during the last seven
months, fallen heir to the estate
of his father, valued at over
says the San Francisco Examiner.
It was an early hour of a stormy
morning last March when a
and woman young man
plied at the home of Michael
for a meal. He told a
ward story about deserting his ship
in the bay the day before, and said
he had slept under the bridge all
night. Mr. took compassion
on the desolate sailor, and supplied
him with food and warm clothing.
As Stone proved willing to work, and
there was a good deal of labor to be
performed about the place, Mr. Rig-
permitted him to remain, and
since then he has made the
homo his headquarters.
During his leisure hours Stone
spent his time instructing a young
son of the in the trade of
boat building. In a lot adjoining
the house he established a miniature
shipyard, with cradle, blocks and
ways, and there he built a full-sized
steam launch, which lacks nothing
but an engine to make it complete.
The tale the stranger told was about
as Five years ago he was a
schoolboy in England and had a
penchant for reading tales of
His reading made him so
long for travel that he ran away and
went to sea. When he home
his father took him to Liverpool and
bound him over to a sea captain for
a voyage to and from Australia. He
was signed for two years, but long
before the voyage had been finished
the boy's dreams had disappeared
and ho had determined to desert.
When the vessel reached San Fran-
on the homeward voyage he
accordingly got ashore and stayed
there. He was penniless, hence his
application for charity at the homo
of the
During the voyage from England
to Australia the sailor's father died,
leaving him a fortune of more than
thirty-two thousand pounds. But
the news to this effect came only
very recently.
Young Stone wrote from Oakland
to his father several times, but re-
no response, so when Walter
Seawell, Oakland contractor, left
for a visit to England a few months
ago, he was commissioned by the
young man to hunt up his father and
see why ho failed to respond to the
communications addressed to him.
Mr. Seawell found that the elder
Stone was dead, and notified the son
of this fact and of the further fact
that ho was no longer poor. The
news has since been confirmed by
the British consul at San
Auntie Didn't Know.
Power of a Whale.
An interesting study of the horse
power of the whale has been made
by the eminent anatomist, Sir
Turner, of the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, in conjunction
with Mr. John Henderson, the equal-
eminent Glasgow ship builder. The
size and dimensions of a great whale
stranded several years ago on the
shore at furnished the
necessary data for a computation of
the power necessary to propel it at
the rate of twelve miles an hour.
This whale measured eighty feet in
length, twenty feet across the
flanges of the tail, and weighed
tons. It was calculated
that one hundred and forty-five,
horse power was necessary to at
the speed mentioned.
Which
Orders had been given to the
to arrest all mendicants
whom they found on the street. In
obedience to his instructions a Nine-
district policeman took into
custody an old colored woman, whom
he found soliciting alms at Eighth
and Chestnut streets. When she
arrived at the station house, the
geant in charge looked at her over
desk in surprise. She was old,
and her hair had faded to gray, but
her eyes shone brightly. She made
a queer lit tie bow, and
After had given her
name, the police officials asked her
age.
sake, I know. Been
putty long ago since my mammy
me, I clean gone She smiled
and so did he.
you married or
came the answer.
The sergeant looked up
founded.
don't queried he.
said she, shaking her
head.
don't you
a grass re-
Press.
Deacon Randolph's Philosophy.
de eat no
remarked Deacon Ran-
the other morning.
feel replied the
Randolph heir-apparent. eat
sum lobster salad night it
agree
The deacon fixed him for a mo-
with his glittering eye and
then
got a delicate
a young buck Was
it lobster salad made tack
all de street an hour, like
de Puritan in a head wind,
cud de gate Was it lobster
salad made fall up do
front so hard oat wake up
Did lobster salad
hang shoes on de gas
burner, on de
go bed hat on Go
had said
gin was de den
bin as good a man as
but now no
A lady leading a St. Bernard dog
passed the window of a club at which
some of the member, were sitting,
when one of them exclaimed, loud
enough to be a
beautiful
Feigning resentment, she turned
to a policeman and
hear that insolent man He called
me a beautiful
think you are mistaken,
replied the policeman; referred
to the
Has Telescoping Masts.
A queer craft is the British steamer
which has completed her
maiden voyage to this port, says the
New York Herald. She now lies
anchored near Robbins reef.
The is the first vessel to
arrive here which was
built to go through the big ship
canal from Manchester to Mersey in
England. Her lower masts are
low and of iron.
Her wooden topmasts are so
ranged that they can be made
telescope into the lower masts.
She can go under the bridges over
the Manchester canal without
The vessel is schooner rigged, and
comes now from East Indian ports.
She is laden with sugar and spices.
SIMPLY A GAMBLING AFFAIR.
History of Postage Stamps.
Mr. II. A. Kelly, of the stamp
vision of the post office department,
wrote a brief descriptive history
the different United States stamps
issued since we have had stamps, for
the annual report of the third
postmaster general. It is the
first story of the stamps which
included them all. Mr. Kelly
pretty nearly everything about
stamps. He has been a long time
in the stamp
Capitol.
Did Not Improve Matters.
A newly married couple boarded
the train from Boston at
amid a shower of
that resembled a November snow
storm. The bride removed a white
bow from the coat of the groom
threw it away. Then the
entered, picked up the discarded
ribbon and asked the groom if it
belonged to him, whereat
the train smiled, and two of then
I Transcript.
Is The Fight.
The week of prayer service was
held at the First Presbyterian
church last night. Rev. Mr.
tin could not be present, so the
duty of lea ling and talking de-
entirely on Rev. Dr.
His theme was for Na-
Rulers Governors, the
suppression of the liquor traffic,
opium and slave From
his remarks were taken the fol-
lowing
are to pray for rulers ; that
is, that God will give us Christian
rulers. Then we to pray that
they may rule for the prosperity
of our laud, both moral and
We not simply to
pray, but we are to help thorn
execute the law to this
this connection I would say
that it is sad that there is not
a more outspoken and decided
stand taken by the good people
of our laud on the side of the
Governor of one of our sister
States his efforts to sustain the
law and prevent the brutal prize
light published to take place in
defiance of the Governor's pro-
tests and the decision of the At-
General. Such a right
must be revolting to the mind of
every Christian man and woman
of our regular gambling
affair and brutal in the extreme.
We need not pray for ourselves
with our lips if we do not lift a
finger or raise our voice in pro-
test against these outrages against
society and Christianity.
men, Governor and Attorney Gen-
have spoken ; they ought to
be heard and helped.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
the arrangement of themes
f the week, without pro-arrange-
it seems to have fallen to
my lot, by providential direction,
to talk on the question which I
have had to discuss
in this sup-
of the liquor traffic. I
do not shrink from it. If there is
any other one thing that does
more to retard the interests of our
land, temporally or spiritually,
than intemperance, I do not know
what it is. I do not by in-
temperance tho man, only, who
drinks to what is culled excess ;
that and falls, but tho
also who takes his regular
drinks day and night I believe
the who gets and
down, has his spree, and then
stops, for a period at least, will
out better in the end than
the who takes his two, three,
or six drinks every day. The one
is like a man sick with fever or
other disease from which he re-
covers and gains his usual
strength. The other, who prides
himself as a temperate man, is
like a consumptive or cancer
patient, without hope of
or cure, his life being
away day by day. Oh the
blight, promising young men of
our country who are walking
surely and steadily this
fearful road to ruin and death
The committee who arranged for
this week of prayer wore
ed of various denominations and
they saw and felt the importance
of putting in this topic, and well
they might.
us look at our own city.
I feel proud of our City.
So many beautiful temples for the
worship of God ; so many church-
going here. My heart
bounds with joy and gratitude on
Sunday mornings as the side-
walks are thronged with our
on their way to church, and
I sometimes think that, though
unheard by mortal ears, tho an-
join tho anthems of praise.
But stop there is a sad picture
besides this one. and perhaps
there are fiends from the lower
world who clap their hands with
hellish glee along tho streets and
in the alleys, every day and night
as they see the many saloons
open an their victims, in our
city. Though we have many
churches, there are more saloons
with their pictures, music and at-
tractions for the young, and each
man pays more for the privilege
to ruin than many pastors
get for the service rendered the
Church. I charge in par-
but there is a wrong
somewhere. If the Christian
people of this city would say the
word, the saloon would have to
go. Then why not say it It
causes more broken vows to the
Church, to tho bride at tho altar,
the mother and to God, then any-
thing else of which I have heard
or known.
may not be suppressed;
some say it will not. I think it
will. But one I do
if it is not, there will be broken
hearts, ruined lives,
death, and a drunkard's hell while
time shall last. But God bus
that to the
shall be written on the bells
of tho horses, and on the door
posts and lintels of the
I believe that will take the place
of gilded signs and word
Let us Bias for it, and
may God hasten the
Observer.
A ROLL OP HONOR.
The Grand Army Gazette and
National Guardsman, a monthly
magazine published in New York,
and largely devoted to inter-
est of the soldiers and sailors of
the late war, the army, navy and
National Guard of the United
States, puts in a strong plea for a
correction of the pension abuses
which have made the pension
list a roll of dishonor instead of
one of honor. In the number for
the current month the Gazette
gives extracts from official
the abuses, and
says
a quarter of the truth as
to the way the Pension Office was
by the Tanner and
regimes has been told to tho
Some of the papers have
been afraid to speak for fear they
would called copperheads or
and attacked by such
fellows the so-called colonel
really bass drum pounder and
hospital
of the who
goes around with a chip his
shoulder, eager to attack tho hon
records of men who are in
finitely Ins superiors as soldiers
citizens, in honesty and
dare tell the truth, for our
record as a soldier and a citizen is
too well and too clean to
be smirched by lying stories
Base -Drum-Pounder
Pharisaical sheet or in any other.
Nothing they can say shall deter
us from doing our duty in assist
to purge the pension roll and
again make it the roll of honor it
used to
Of course, the editor of the
Gazette stands in great danger of
being read out of the G- O P. be-
cause of his manly utterances,
but all the same he will have tho
satisfaction of knowing that
sentiment of the people accords
in this matter with his own and
that it is
Ran Away With the Money,
like a women will
say when they read this.
He hails from Rockingham.
He courted a girl, got ready to
get spliced, didn't have the money
to buy a license, so tho of
tho tho girl,
gave hi in five dollars to buy it-
Ho took tho boodle and ran
away.
Sat down cried did she
Not much. She got a on
The ascertained whether he
had gone and followed him.
He came to this
Deep River she
found him, had him arrested, put
in jail this morning officer
took him back to Wentworth to
answer a charge with
five dollars instead of with a girl.
Ho went away singing
girl I left behind but about
the time he the State prison
he will sing another tune. He
will be for obtaining
under fake pretenses
Record.
No other has equaled
in the relict it gives in severest
of dyspepsia, sick headache,
etc.
Up to Date Proverbs.
It takes a giddy woman to dis
the equanimity of men.
No girl ever leans much at
school she begins to press in
her books the flowers the boys
give her.
The scolding whose
band is a chemist wants to look
out for his retorts.
Some people take advice all-well
enough, but never any of
it-
One of the safest clubs
a man can belong to is family
The fool thinks he must get mad
because somebody him.
Kind nature warns man o
approach of fate.
When a man has no right left
then he begins to assort his
wrongs.
Lovers fancy that the universe
is merely a candy factory.
will it and no Airs.
Nellie N. J. uses this
emphatic language. have Dr.
Ball's Syrup in my house three
yens would not. lie without it. It
cured my which I months.
I will always use it and no
Same For North Carolina.
We have said before, and we
beg leave to remark again, that
the Democrats of Virginia want
all of the offices which they are
entitled to by reason of the
of November, 1892-
Tho Congressional elections
occur this fall, and long before
even the preliminary canvass is
opened the Democrats should be
in possession of the fruits of
won in 1892, but to a large
extent undelivered yet.
Our have patiently
borne the know that
Mr. Cleveland and Mr.
have been very the
time for action has now come.
Further delay will be
Richmond Dispatch.
The greatest cure for pains of all
kinds, whether proceeding from cuts
and burns, or from other ailments such
neuralgia and rheumatism is
Salvation Oil. popular
and effective remedy continually
gained in the confidence of the people
until it has e a household
No dwelling is completely
equipped without It.
Julian Hawthorne is soon to re-
move his family and his from
the of the Seven
at Sag Harbor to establish them for
a year or he
yields to the fascination of the place
as Stevenson has to the charms of
the island of Jamaica in
the West Indies. From there, us-
Kingston, perhaps, as
he expects to roam about with
a freebooter's freedom in the old
haunts of pirates and to make an ex-
to the Sargasso sea, the
gulf stream's dead center, where the
congregate.
The Only Tune Harrison Likes.
During the darkest days of the
war, when military tunes and
lads were sung everywhere till
were about sick of them, there
was played in New York, says tho
Press of that town, a soldier's
march which was immediately pop-
all over the country. It was
tho late Charles Gounod's Sol-
from and
after a year or two America got as
tired of it as it recently did of
Ex-President Harri-
son first heard it played by one of
the army bands in Sherman's army.
It is the only air he ever liked. In
the of most tunes he did not
know one from tho other, and he is
probably the only person in the
United States to-day who hears the
played and feels
inspirited by it.
The piano-organist had put
whole soul into his performance. A,
small coin was thrown and he
accepted it with a bow and a smile.
Then an expression of doubt swept
over his face, and he advanced to
within speaking distance.
he said, you
tell me one ting, if you
is
sec, you new customer of
mine. I you to tell me If you
pay for tune or for me to go
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in best manner. Offices
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The deaths from cholera in
Constantinople average five per
day-
A royal decree has proclaimed
Sicily to be in a state of siege,
owing to anti-tax riots.
A heavy fall of snow has com-
interrupted the horse car
omnibus service throughout
Rome.
St- will hold an in-
exhibition in 1903, the
200th anniversary of founding
of the city.
The French wine vintage of
has reached
double tho yield j
of any previous year since 1880.
Extreme cold weather prevails
in England and on the Continent.
The gale on the English Channel
i is so severe that the mail boats are
to cross.
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Notice.
Allen Warren, of Manning
against
w. J. Manning, Jesse Baker and wife.
Addle, Henry A. Manning and
J.
To Job. J. Manning one of the above
named
Yon are hereby recognized, to appear
and answer or demur to the petition
Bled in thin special proceeding before
Clerk of the Superior Court of Pitt
county, at his office in Greenville,
at February, purpose of
this proceeding Is to Cave
of court to sell the lauds of B. K.
for I he purpose of
Which to debts of tile
said e and no other relief is
sought defendant
This of December. 1893.
B. A. MOVE,
Superior Court.
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and Improvements
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to be used in case of accident. By simply removing a
inner tube through a hole in the rim, repair is
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first symptom ind
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Oct. Us, daily Fast Mail,
daily ex Sun
Weldon 12,35 pm pm MUD
Ar pm pin
pm
SI pm
Mt p m pm
Ar Florence
Wilson
Goldsboro
TRAINS GOING NORTH
No No
daily daily
ex Sun.
Florence
Fayetteville
-19
Ar Wilson II
Wilmington
Magnolia
Goldsboro
Ar Wilson p m
Ai Rocky Mont
Ar Tarboro
Tarboro
except Sunday.
Train on Scotland Neck Branch Road
leaves Weldon 3.40 p. m , Halifax 4.40
p. m., arrives Scotland Neck 4.48 p. m.
0.28 p. m., Kinston p. in.
Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20 a.
Greenville 8.22 a. in. Arriving Halifax
at a. m., Weldon 11.20 a. m. daily
except
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington 7.00 a, arrives
8.40 a. in. 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 Scotland Neck Branch.
Train leaves Tarboro, N C, via Alb
Raleigh R. R. daily except Sun
day, P M, Sunday PM, arrive
Plymouth 9.20 p. m., 5.20 p. in.
Returning leaves Plymouth daily except
6.30 a. m., Sunday 10.00 a. m
arrive Tarboro, N C, 10.26 AM 12,20.
Trains on Southern Division, Wilson
and Fayetteville Branch leave Fayette-
ville a m, arrive Rowland p m,
Returning leave Rowland p m.
arrive Fayetteville p m. Daily ex-
Sunday.
Train on Midland N C Branch leave
daily except Sunday, A M
rive N C, A M. Re
C AM
Goldsboro. NO A M.
Train
at P M, arrive Nashville W
P Hope P M. Returning
Spring Hope A M, Nashville
8.86 arrives Rocky Mount A
M, except Sunday.
Trains on Latta Branch R. R. leave
7.80 p. m., arrive Dunbar 8.40 p.
in. Returning leave Dunbar a. m.,
arrive 7.15 a. m. except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw
for Clinton except Sunday, at
Clio
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at Warsaw with and
Train No. makes close connection at
Weldon for all point North daily.
-ail via Richmond, and dally except Sun-
day via Bay Line, also at Rocky Mount
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W. L. Show re easy fitting, give better
satisfaction at the pries advertised than any other make. Try one pair and be con-
The of W. L. name and price on the bottom, which
guarantees their value, saves thousand of dollars annually to those who wear them.
Dealers who push the sale of L. Shoes gain customers, which helps to
increase the sales on their full line of goods. They can to at at
and we believe yon ran mt. money having all footwear of the dealer
tree upon application. W. X. DOUGLAS,
R. L. DAVIS BRO., N. C
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