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GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH
and Atlanta
Constitution a yr.
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NO. World all for
a year.
CUBA.
a Pitt County toy Saw and
Heard la Cub.
Havana, Feb. 23rd,
While sitting room
one those fir famed
in my month, my thoughts
wander tack over the
southern laud passed
through, where the air is
with the orange blossom
held, are forever car-
in c i with i s loveliest
If v mi will grant me the
space in valuable paper,
will endeavor to Icy and tell your
of are my
fr what I saw heard
my third visit to Cuba I
lift Richmond Va. on
nod cam, direct to Charleston,
C. alter which I visited Columbia,
Augusta and
came across into Fen id t. the laud
of flowers, I
from the blossoming tree
and enjoyed
which always every
thing. I Indeed ii laud
I n- i m an kissed by the
mi
of you who never visited
rid i would on at
the hotels and, too, at
tho bill dim pays ho leaves.
I i ached St Augustine and
registered at do Leon
in v turned to
an I elegance of tint hos-
in which was a guest
almost me. Every de-
tail about the beautiful edifice
was as carefully arranged as
though it WK palace. The
looms, and pat lots are
superb in their appointments,
table was hi pi v divine.
W bile traveling St
from to San-i
ford I saw animators of
sizes along the b inks tho j
stream.
of the which i- very much j
like tho Tar, boat very
close to tho shore, in fact a
few feet tho hanks.
The next I reached was
Tampa, a beautiful little city of
18,00 souls. Here we find the
largest hotel in the States,
the renowned ill. hotel,
which is just as more
so, than tho Leon-
This hotel is feet think
of it I
From Port went by
water I not have
cone any way unless I had
engaged to Key West, m
distance of miles Oar
age down the gulf took about
hours and was a pleasant trip.
The first thing greeted us d our
arrival about or little j
boys only in atmosphere i
and swimming out in tho
gulf to meet the the
ship them the little natives
beg in to solicit
and pennies from the passengers
who would throw them the
water to see the little fellows dive
for them, and they would get
every one of them. They followed
the ship kept this up for a
quarter of a mile or more- Key
West, Island has
about people who are
largely Cubans. little
is there- The Island
is miles long, miles wide
is feet above tea level.
Its commercial Industries are
principally cigar manufacturing
and sponge Ashing. While there
I saw a vi i tree the United
States barracks, the only tree of
its on American soil. It is
a native of
Having
we for Cuba, a
of M
as not to get
to Cuba before sun lite, as no
foreign ships are allowed to pass
Mono Castle to
after sun down or before
gun This is a law of the
Spanish government. Then the
ship is not allowed to land but is
anchored out about, a mile from
shore where it is mot by a score
of email boats which f c one i
they a
and his baggage to the shore-
The e cutters ate each man-
aged by one man and yon would
be amazed at the number of i
pie and the tremendous amount
of baggage they carry., The
boatmen, to add to the horror of
the passengers, run races to the
wharf and their skill in navigation
is quite wonderful The hist I
thing I saw in Havana that at-1
traded my was the way
they serve milk. the I
cows to your door milk what
you want, then to the next
door, so i ii, until they have I
gone around. Tho man who does
the milking is dressed in pure
white linen, an-t looks very neat
and clean.
And to-day the thermometer
at while in Richmond
the snow is fifteen inches deep-
Havana is a city of
composed of Spaniards,
Negroes Chinese, many
of whom are the lowest order of
humanity- The lower strata of
the citizens do not appear to make
any distinction of race and mingle
together in perfect social equality.
In of the larger cigar
which I visited saw Cu-
bans, Negroes and all
sitting side by side making cigars.
The workmen in those factories
do not sing as do the factory
bands in oar country, bat they
and Chi-
intermarry and
have men who read to them con-
throughout the day.
These readers are paid by the
operatives who make small con-
for the purpose. When
one tired another takes his
place and thus they
hour after hour. The arrival of
myself and those who the guide
were showing the factory
at the same time did not stop the
reader the least, he merely
raised his eye-t when we
but continued his irksome work.
Of course I. like all other
cans who visit Cuba, laid in a
supply of Havana cigars which
are d the world over for
their excellence. I found the wood
much cheaper than in America and
the most fastidious smoker can be
pleased at a small out of cash,
say five cents in money,
which means four cents in our
money-
All the a an I life of
a gay city are to be found in
Havana. I naturally want
ed to see everything c old while
here so I to the
the Al Then
ties At the former pi iv house;
souse of morality was some-
what shocked at some of the
which beheld. One of
the peculiarities of the I
struck me particularly. If the
play had three acts spectator
purchases a ticket which would j
only entitle to him to see ore,
act. the other baud if he
oared to it through he
purchase a ticket for the whole
performance. The admission
a e Hip in f r each act I
attached and as the net ends
man goes around among audience
the coupons.
The Cuban desecrate the
bath with those blood
barbarous entertainment, known
as bull lights, which have always
been so much by our
people, yet ever so anxiously
sought them. It is very
amusing hi hoar the
speaking cant
speak a word The
bootblacks, the most ready of
linguists, have but one of our
words in their vocabulary
that is
Many of the
i in Cuba
their pr the
the of earth-
what I could learn better
class of Cubans are all heartily
favor of annexation with the
United States. The Spanish gov-
saps the very life out
the. by excessive taxation
the inhabitants
ground down by their oppressors.
Cuba population of
and pays an annual Ml to Spain
of No is
lowed to hold office, not
lowed to own a gun or even to
shoot any of fire arms.
is so afraid of an
of the Cubans that she keeps
a standing army of troops
here all the from Spain.
The Cubans are the worst ground
st-t of slaves on earth.
I was about ten miles in the
country yesterday to a
farm. While out there I visited
seven farm just to see
how the natives live, and I never
saw such abject poverty in all
my life. I'll man who manages
of the large pine-apple farm lived
in a little hut made from the bark
the tree covered
with straw with no floor but the
earth- one corner was a
slender wire bed with one quilt
on it. another was a
lot of straw the
children sleep there. In the
of this there was a
with clue on
which they did their cooking.
This is about all the utensils I
pot, one
stew and frying pan, several tin
some forks and
bowls, two or three old knives,
but no sign of a cups
and I can safely say
you could buy all this man do
sensed or earth for
clothes and all, and man had I
a wife and three children, lie
was considered one of the big
dogs, because he was manager of j
a large pineapple farm- Oar
bought about a dozen
pine apples from him I asked
him through my interpreter if he
got the benefit of what he
and be said no, he had to
for every one of them. The poor
in Pitt c unity lives
like a lord to these poor,
trodden Cubans-
There are many things
places of interest around
Havana. There is
s the
Central Park, the the
Capt. General's
mer residence and garden, the
the Tomb of
bus in the Cathedral, tho sugar
plantations, the pine-apple farms,
the trees of
the and many other
things too numerous to mention
now, for I nave already taken up
too much space- Hoping each of
yon may some day have the pleas-
of a visit to Cuba,
I am very truly yours,
J- E.
Condensed News,
Small pox is still t at St
Louis with signs of abatement
The gold in the
has picked up to
Ten thousand men in the Pitts-
coal district are
a strike.
Fire almost destroyed the Beth-
el Military Academy at
ton, Va.
A natural gas explosion at An-
Ind., destroyed a whole
block of
The Massachusetts Horst of
Representatives defeated the
woman's suffrage bill.
Count Secretary of
the Italian died
cholera at Constantinople-
A man at
Jacksonville, Fla , killed bis wife
while carelessly handling a rifle
The Com-
has absorbed
Baltimore firm, Ellis , man
of cigarettes.
The wife of William K- Vander-
granted a divorce
from bun. Money don't always
make wedded life happy-
Tl e freshman and junior class-
es at Johns Hopkins
in a free fight
Several Students were badly hurt
Two little colored playing
With a tun, one killed the
then there was one. This
occurred at Danville. Va. Same
old story.
Dr. S IV- Jackson, of Norfolk,
was arrested an charge of at-
tempting a criminal operation on
a woman. The patient died in
his while being operated
upon.
The boycott against the Sea
board Air has caused that
road to cut in two
rates between southern points and
northern cities. The S. A- L- is
expected to got the better of the
boycotting roads-
The New York stock and pro-
duce exchanges had a regular
jollification over the adjournment
of Congress, engaging in dancing,
singing, blowing whistles, yelling
and raising a racket generally
when the hour to adjourn was
noted.
Bandits attempted to rob a
bank at Ad el, la., in broad day
light They shot the cashier,
wounding him badly, but ho bad
presence of mind to shut the vault
door and throw the combination.
The robbers were pursued, one of
them killed and another captured
STATE NEWS.
EARLY
The bet Salve In the world for Cuts
Brake. Ulcer, f-t
Fever Sores,
i Chilblain, Corn, and all Skin
and positively cure or no
pay required. It t guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded
Price cents per boa. For by
Wooten,
Little Curious Notes.
The average annual amount of
ivory received in London from
the African wilds is Inns.
The average is per
ton-
Lake Switzerland,
has water of three different col-
ors. On the east,
north, pure green ; south, deep
blue-
Tho Lick telescope re-
veals 100.000.000 stars, and the
astronomers declare that each is
probably a sun as large as our
own.
In parts of Ireland there is a
superstition to the that a
belt women's hair will pro-
the wearer from all
The deepest gold mine in the
world is at depth,
mi OS a
Carson City, Nev., depth
feet.
says that the
tic statute which be presented to
tho United States
of his mother, and
According to the late Dr. Brown-
the of man.
n pressure of the ears will
control a severe fit of
The highest velocity attained
by a projectile fired from a mod
rapid-fire gun is feet
per second, something like
miles an hour-
According to one of the textile
journals, it lakes 7,000.000
miles thread every year lo
tho people of the United
States in their
Snaps.
Economy la the half way
between parsimony and prodigal-
The lesson of life is
that if he would comfortably live
it he must diet
Pasha,
Egypt, is dead.
of
Miss Gould and the French
count were married
in New York at noon Monday.
The original estimates of tin
duration of the deluge are prob
ably of Noah-count-
The man who gets his nourish
from eggs should
follow the example of the wise
particular in his egg
sorting.
How Won a Foremost In
S. R- Co . general f th World's Navies.
oh ants, of Wilson, hive I When the Americans, acting on
., i , , ,. the recommendation of the
Ear shocks were felt at i ., ,. , ,,,, ,
Ti . it; of war of April 1794, proposed
Winston and mi
night
It But well, a
II, a
minister,
died Tuesday He
was years old.
Two charged bur-
have been arrested at
sou. Several dwelling
stores that town have re
broken into.
Tho recent freeze
worth of nets in Pamlico
river.
At Ring wood, Halifax
a mad dog bit other
and the result was that
live were kill. d.
Age Improves It.
The Companion has
entered upon its year
of and us says
who has been a constant reader
of its columns for more than
thirty has steadily
proved year by Its articles
to-day cover the whole field of
experience, furnishing a
vast amount of valuable en-
reading of a character
not found elsewhere, of to
a variety that the
ion interests alike IT ember
of the family.
The Prospectus for the volume
of an unusual
array of
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stories, anecdotes,
sketches, adventures, science and
me timely editorials
on all unpin taut questions,
two hundred original
poems of the highest class.
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copies free application.
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every week. Finely illustrated,
The Youth's Companion; Boston,
Mass.
Stub of Thought.
hat one heart
another.
Art is the of the
artificial.
Au impulse should kept
ice for a lime.
A woman's doesn't empty
into her heart-
trust a man who is too
ready to trust you.
Advertisements are the legs
that walks on-
s a lone way and
always gets back on time-
i to build frigates combining great
; speed with heavy armaments, they
j encountered much ridicule at the
hands of the French and English, so
that when the group of
can warships appeared in the West
Indies they aroused a good deal of
interest and not i little covert mer-
the European
officers of that station. The Eng-
particularly were emphatic In
predicting the of the
and
carried in these ships, and many a
mess-room rang with laughter over
the anticipated mishaps that would
befall these presumptuous attempt
at naval architecture by sub-
as the Americans were gen
rally regarded their friends, the
English, at that time. The result,
of several naval actions between
American and French cruisers did
much toward changing the tune of
their laughter. But British officers
were still anxious
built frigates really could sail with
any respectable speed, and to satisfy
themselves on that point the com-
of a British
ship, while on duty off St. Domingo,
sent a challenge to Capt. Silas
bot, of the Constitution, lo all-
day race, wagering of wine on
the result. As the British Alp had
the reputation of being one of the
best in the West Indies, the
younger American officers
were on their mettle, and
urged Talbot to accept the
wager, and, as making an agreeable
break in the monotony of the cruise,
he consented. The first lieutenant
of the Constitution was Hull,
afterward her famous commander.
Even at that time Hull had won a
reputation for being one of the most
skillful navigators in the service, and
the sailing of the frigate on that
was to him. The
race began at daybreak and lasted
until sunset, tho Constitution
it all her own way from the
first. As the sun was going down
she fired her evening gun, the signal
that the race was ended, and,
to, waited for Englishman
The British commander
handsomely his de-
feat, and, lowering his barge, sent
the cask of wine aboard. Hod this
captain lived n years longer
the mortification of its defeat would
have been diminished by learning
that eighteen lb. frigates and
several ships of tho line subsequent-
endeavored to overtake the Con-
similar want of sue
Budget.
SIXTEEN OR FIFTY.
Lucy Elliot Keeler Wishes
Were a Girl
She
some of She V. .
Some of the Thing She Not
Is Never Too
to
George Washington In Mourning.
The statue of George
Washington that has so long
stood serenely looking down
Fayetteville street, wore a new
costume yesterday morning.
The statue
the broad white black
from
In.- figure. hung them there
or whether George did it himself
AN ARTIST-S MEASUREMENTS.
What He Considers .-. Perfect Model
of the Female Form.
An artist is authority for the fol-
lowing measurements, which he
claims are necessary for a perfect
model of physical beauty of the
male meet the require-
of a classic he says, a
woman should be feet four and
three-quarter inches tall, thirty-two
inches bust measure, twenty-four
inches around lbs waist, nine inches
from armpit to waist, long arms and
A woman, however,
the keeper of the capitol does not fr
know. a great many people
here thought it about time for and half Inches
the of his
to put
and Observer-
Items.
N. C, March 5th,
We had a nice little SHOW
Sun-
day
Mr. II. P Johnson home
from school
Mr. J. P. to Kin-
Sun day.
Miss Annie Jones,
is visiting Misses
Bailie Cox.
inches over the hips, eleven and a
half Inches around the ball of tho
arm, six and a half around
the wrist, hands feet not too
A similar authority lays down tho
that, no colors should be worn
save those have o duplicate in
the hair, eyes or complexion, and ho
claims that a woman with blue-gray
eves and a thin, neutral-tinted com-
never looks so well as when
dressed In blue shades which are
mixed with gray. A brunette should
wear cream color, as produces
of Kinston, the tints of her skin; while florid
Myrtle and j complexions look well In plum and
heliotrope, also in dove gray, as
Mr. Pearce, of Green
ville, was here Saturday.
Mrs. J. Smith and Jen-
of Trenton, are vis-
in this week-
ho to th land of
the weed, the Colton and
the Tobacco, and Pork
It used to be westward the star of
Empire look her way. It seems
that the human race has fol-
the moon or something
else in that direction from time
immemorial, from the day when
i on went in pursuit of the
i to that other me
i able occasion Horace
advised Young America
to go west. South, young
has been better said. For-
tune smiles with the flowers, and
the mocking bird is trilling with
the bum of machinery, and
of these we will have a great
country down this
a hint of pink, and so
well with the face in which
there is a good deal of
Sensitive.
An excited individual climbed
three flights of stairs in great leaps
the
Nobody owned to the distinction.
me tho he demand-
ed, shaking a paper in his hand at
arm's length.
In piped an
office boy, who had been hired
to answer tho telephone.
The man with a grievance bolted
Into tho room designated without
knocking. He shoved the paper
under the editor's rose, and, point-
to a marked portion,
The ed i tor Mrs.
my Interrupted the
angry visitor.
continued the ed-
a violet luncheon to her
friends
tho matter with
asked tho editor.
the matter Look at
and he indicated tho word.
The editor with sinking heart
read Apologies
not enough. The man could
only be by a present of a
Some days ago a North
Republican was in
Danville, He wanted to see;
it North Carolina paper, step-,
up to a stand ml asked
the little freckled face i if
he a North Carolina i
yearly subscription, which Included
and was as I the weekly colored supplement. In-
Sir, don't sell any Fred
Douglass
Alas, poor North
If I were a girl some
fairy should touch with
her wand and girl i
and I should feel bursting over mo I
the generous impulses, the
the buoyancy, the ambition,
that belong to
I should do, and some things I
should not. do, to make me at fifty
the person whom now at fifty I
like to be.
First of all, I should study self-
control of body, of
speech, of temper; a power best
learned in youth, before the current
of habit has deepened the current of ,
self-will and impetuosity that seems
to be Out Id every human heart.
should count one hundred, like Tat-
before I would allow my-
self to utter unkind, impulsive
words; I should scorn to burst into
tears because of some petty
or grievance; I should learn to
sit quietly, to close n door gently,
lo walk calmly, even when my
thoughts were boiling within me.
I should shun, if I were a
again, the tendency to be sensitive
and suspicious. my friend
talks to another person, or because
a group of acquaintances seem to be
enjoying themselves apart from me,
I should not fancy myself neglected.
I should not construe thoughtless-
into intentional slights, nor ab-
into Indifference. I should
friend
did not see that I was here; she has
not heard of my return; she is busy
with her music; she is tired after her
journey. I will trust in her friend-
ship, just as I would have her trust
in
If I were a girl again, I should be
more careful about my conversation.
I should beware of slang and gossip
and a tendency lo drop into silence.
I should avoid sarcasm like ft plague,
remembering that the person who
uses it shows her sense of her own
inferiority. Nobody ever had so
many enemies as Disraeli; and It is
to be remembered that, sarcasm was
his most, powerful weapon. I should
practice I he art of such gay repartee
as is free from satire and
learning to tell a story well,
and to dwell upon what is kindly and
happy. I should be more ready to
express my appreciation and thanks
for rendered; be quicker
with my praise and tardier with my
criticism I should cultivate a dis-
enunciation, enlarge my
and remember Lord Ches-
utter one
word, even in common conversation,
that should not be the most ex-
and the most elegant with
which the language could supply
If were a girl I should be
a better student. I should worry
less over my lessons, and potter less;
but I should think as study, and
try to understand statements in one
reading, rather than by saying them
over and over, like a parrot. I
should be more thorough, not pass-
to one lesson until I had mas-
the last; end I should lie
ashamed of poor spelling or illegible
handwriting or faulty
should be more scrupulous about
I making and keeping engagements; I
should be less daunted by obstacles
defeat, and be less, I hope, the
I slave of petty but annoying habits.
These things I should do if I were
i a girl again. But suppose I have
I passed my Suppose I am
thirty. Still, shall I not at fifty
wish that I could retrieve the past
twenty years Should I not em-
ploy thorn differently Again, say
I am fifty. At seventy I not
better use those precious years of
preparation There is always a
golden age, soon to be behind us,
which at every period of our life Is
before as to-morrow's yes-
is still to-day So we may
all take courage. It Is never too
late to Elliot Keeler,
His Serious Mistake.
A Harlem man who works in a
down-town decided a few days
ago to try bicycling. He thought
tho exercise would help his
A few evenings ago he came home
in a cob with a bandage over his
eye, an arm In a sling, a of
court plaster on his check and a pro-
limp In his walk.
As soon as he got Into the house
his wife began excitedly to question
him.
did It happen, dear; run
over by a she asked.
replied her husband.
out of the office
down the
down by the cable
fall on
you fall on
did happen, dear Why
don't you tell
been practicing on a
you poor darling. Why
didn't yon use a Y.
Herald.
Highest of all in Leavening U. Gov
Powder
COLLECTION OP
The United States Trying Secure a
Specimen of Issue.
The office department tins be-
pun the collection of stamps of till
the foreign countries of the world,
as well as the United Slates.
Capt. Brooks, superintendent of the
foreign mail service, has two large
stamp albums, containing places
for every stamp Issued, and makes
requests of the various nations for
a set of their stamps or specimens.
There are in all about
Stamps issued, and up to date about
have been secured. A great
difficulty in securing a complete set
arises from the fact that certain
principalities of Europe, now in-
in the domains of nations,
continue the use of their individual
stamps. For instance, Bays a Wash-
correspondent of the Now
York Times,
linden, In Germany, use the
stamps they did governed by
their grand dukes. These pass only
In the principalities named and are
not good even over the rest of Ger-
many. This fact causes much con-
fusion, extra expense to tourists
traveling on the continent. If an
American In buys a
stamp of that and mails
it in or even
to anyone in America, the I -Mer
reaches its destination, but an extra
charge of cents is made before
delivery.
A dozen years ago each depart-
of the United States had a dis-
issue of stamps, which, since
the use of the penalty frank on en-
have to all appearances
gone completely out of existence.
Those that have not been destroyed
have found their way in I he hands of
stamp dealers and stamp
There are but few I
left.
A Good MM,
I. amendment bitched
on to the civil appropriations bill
employee or the two
of Congress a
extra pat will cost 150.-
As some of the Congress-
men have no clerks, or employ
members of their family,
looks lite a little steal
which the aggregate amounts
to a pretty big steal. Liberality
is all light but liberality at the
expense of the people, in the in-
of dependents or
is not all
Star.
id His Foot
Homo U years ago M. A- Jen-
kins on a piece of lamp
chimney Five years Ida
fool pained him and upon
ii piece of glass was
found jut under the skin on top
of the foot. For several days the
same foot has been him
some trouble. after-
noon he called upon a
to see what the was-
Another piece of glass, as large
as the end of his little finger,
was rein from bi tween the
large toe and the adjoining
it-
The room was full of students reg-
and paying for tin- courses
elected by them or their parents.
As a tall from the woods
the desk the clerk looked
up, wondering a little what this boy
had in mind. He found out.
want to take he an-
He meant chemistry.
the college was not homeopathic.
Here was a to
They a haul tale on a man
who does in this
The citizen question bought
worth of for his
I -i and sent a boy to his
hie to ft ed the horse- The
back, and shell asked
much ho gave him, said.
The pale
have mercy, .,
was enough to last him a
The boy made his
how
that
That skinning and dissecting
i Hay gate tile
bill was a beauty. He is
capable of doing things that
way.
In the list
of bridal present we fail to see a
pickle or butter knife.
However, was a few pecks
of diamonds and pearls.
GREAT
Why President Hayes Wore n Com-
Silver-Plated Watch.
President Hayes was always noted
for his thrifty habits, but some-
things which impressed the multi-
as signs of meanness were real-
nothing but ordinary prudence.
Per example, everyone wondered
why he would persist, while drawing
a salary of fifty thousand dollars a
year, In wearing a silver-plated
Waterbury watch, worth possibly
three dollars, observes Kate Field.
He was aware that his practice was
known, and any astonishment
amused him instead of
him angry. In answer to a look
of surprise he would think
that is a plain watch for a president
of the United States to carry, but it
is good American if as-
that this fact would counter-
act the effect of the the
article.
Tho truth was that almost weekly
deputations of western Indians
called upon him, always bringing
presents of some kind to the great
father. Of course, be was
to give something in return, and the
object was to find something cheap
at the same lime acceptable.
Watches were a novelty to the
to present a chief with a
watch which the great father him
self hod been carrying always
pressed him greatly. Having
this, and not caring
gold watches, or even sliver ones,
Mr. Hayes hit upon the expedient of
buying nickel watches thirty-six
dollars a dozen, and always made it
convenient to have one with him
against any
Post.
Left Out the
death, but
It victim In misery
Heed's dyspepsia
nil -loin-i It troubles.
Harris
, A
Ni w lot Spectacle and
DB. D. L. KS.
M. C.
V w
DR. II. A. JOYNER,
DENTIST,
O.
Office over E. Penile-
TYSON,
N.
attention giver to
K. L. Moors,
at
N. C
Office under House. Third St.
The Worcester Gazette
tells a story of Rev. Dr. Bancroft,
father of George Bancroft, the his-
and once pastor of the First
Unitarian church of Worcester. A
carpenter was to
two tablets, on which the Ten
Commandments were to be painted.
The carpenter made the tablets of
knotty boards, perhaps not
their use. When Dr. Bancroft
directed the painter not to let the
knots show, the man, who was a
waggish character of the day, paint-
ed tho Ten Commandments
left spaces where the
ought to stand. Dr. Bancroft had
a sense of humor, and It is believed
ho laughed, or perhaps smiled,
then told the painter he had mis-
understood him, and hod better re-
store tho
;., ii. i tins,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
i ti H A A V I I. I. F. V t.
collections
J. H. MOUNT. J. I.
BLOUNT A FLEMING.
at-I, a w,
n. c.
Practice in ah the Courts.
LT I Y
r .
AW,
A BLOW,
M it- All the Courts.
Garden planting has been the
popular thing the last few days.
John E. F. C.
N. Greenville, If. c ,
A II
attention to
and
THE REFLECTOR
Greenville, N. C.
J. Editor and
Entered at
N. as mall mat tor.
WEDNESDAY 13th,
Spencer Blackburn
Russell selected by
Republicans to fill other two
on the Code Commission.
It will therefore be
Blackburn and Russell.
Fred white wife and
colored children are
hi.-. will Can't the
appoint u committee to reconcile
the mutter not have its idol-
Fred, brought disrepute by
the facts that may be brought out
the contest. They might
ford to remain session another
day to the memory of then
darling Douglas.
Another place has made
for a A new
Court has been established
composed of six or of Hie
counties and Cook, of
is to be the Judge. The
Populists continue to vole to make
places tor Republicans yet
two years they wore abusing
and said this party
was responsible for nearly all of
our ills. There never was a great
fraud the Populist party
The Legislature has abolished
State adoption for Public
books given the to
County Board of Education to
adopt books they may see
for that county. Any man will,
intelligence can see
this is not a wise law- It has
been brought about purely by
book firms that wanted t- gal
their books used Share ban be. u
no among the people
to the present
of adoption. It will seen
that the law will be a failure ex
for certain book
The passed a
Saturday to remain
all the bills on the cal
were passed but it is gen-
believed that the body will
adjourn to-day.
Wonder if the little spurt in the
cotton market so close to planting
time is not for the purpose of -u-
the farmers to put in more
acres of it they had intended
Farmers will do well to handle
the cotton crop lightly this year.
Populist say
anything about caucuses, fur
body ever met before this
that had to caucus on
that came them, j
is when yon j
to do what they did be-
cause it could not be expected
Populists would ever
vote for such measures, without
being whipped into it.
If i day tin
history of North Carolina upon
which she is to be
it is to-day. occasion for
this congratulation is that the
of which
has for th
sixty days tearing t pieces the
admirable system of government
which State has had for the
past fifteen or twenty years, will
be known no more
the Slate the capacity which
have disgraced it during
their session at the Capital.
is not a patriotic citizen of the
State who will not rejoice that
this hits and that the
majority in this Legislature will
go H
turning to their homes
and
whose
will tie t mourn for their beloved
Fred Douglas, and keep the day
his which they so boo
by
above ell other d the
A Living Shadow.
E TRANSFORM A-
OF A NORTH CARO-
LINA MAN.
True, from the
Lumber of a Southern
by Personal
he world is full of
Seldom a day
pusses which there fails
to occur something about which
the people
ed. There are great to
wonder at and little things to
be over, but it often
occurs that some of the greatest
surprises glow out of what
accomplished by the least
things. is a very small
something during the
few has made itself fa-
in many putts of the
world, and it has made such
marvelous changes in people
that there is no end to the talk
it. So much talk it
reached the ears of the
tor that we determined to in-
and Bee what merit
there was in some of the cases
reported. There was talk about
a young man of our
being transformed from
almost a shadow to a stout,
healthy man, so we looked him
up to inquire into it. This man
is Mr. A- Baker, overseer
Tor Col. I. A Sugg, who had
been cured of typhoid fever and
dyspepsia by Dr.
Pink Pills Tor Pale People.
We asked Mr. Baker to tell s
all about this, which he did as
follows
That was a time before
the committee
the report to the
the appointment of Mag-
The met
Friday demands
some
white mi n be down
put in their as
at this meeting two
white who had
won Blood id
two put in their
Many hard things were by
of candidate and
another. Nobody ever saw
a scramble for as h is Bern
before this Legislature-
It looks now as the m n m
going to win th
the to the
dead. The bill appropriating
ten thousand dollars for put-
pose has already passed Sen
ate, readings in the
and i some
law. We notice that
did all he could it.
Wednesday night's
Phillips to have b
present Be is not
us having ;.
taut We him.
He has left for his bates
This is certainly what he ought to
h done-
The by
bill to amend lo some other
things have For our
part we believe that
are entitled lo mm particle f
I th-.- Town
taken from the
might be
profitably read s. times r
by the
Either run a town vim or
I out and
who all time trying t gut
out f basin out of town
never try to build up either.
of the two an be
run the far all it is worth.
up st. am and keep up, or quo
the whole thing, slide out and I
nature take its l- yea
want Bid I r
to t r
who do
n D a prosperous
town, whore p
are to
Then do away, bury from sight at
W work
more lorn ft w but nil
together for a n pro-
mutual bought. Wake
your eyes, roll up your
. an I go to work. Don't
work with fear trembling, but
take it that
Leave results with them-
borrow no trouble but ail
to make is the kind
city.
Below we a
tract from th Legislative pro
coed tugs of the night of March the
sixth Head judge for
selves- W you will
that Pitt tot very much
brake the speech of
Phillips de-
having bean cue of per-
throughout the
semi drama, now. had not
Phillips said to II off ma u in the
of and Bu
by
report
bought up.
Phillip, Bay to
Young arose.
f him
ii , .,,. ,. emphatically unit Phillips
it down once, . , r ,
. ., his
it it not bean lot p.,,,,,,.,. that th
mat was been bought up
ha
th
them
If
needed show th fact that
is I only
it will f
they elect
He hi
already b.
wk that means he is to
elected or it will be a new
in the present Legislature. I
is reported that fifteen
the caucus g the
never vote f r him bu
th tier
he minority
lie called
upon u
to nay h the. or not i.
true, was n pause
Bay standing. Phi Hips
Mr.
rum Pitt there a
little while ago the of
the aisle and raid to Mr.
just by me. that
up, I call upon
Mr. Huffman to Bay whether he
Mr-
slowly and every n.- in
inning drop-
into wee
about to when he v st-
rapped down by the Speaker,
who him out if
Mr- in
we mis a w
repent and his friends
h nominated the t the ruling that he be allowed
Butler pres.-at in but he
, ,. . sat without
the us and the main
ported and defender of Wilson.,
Think of one of the Senators of
North Carolina a caucus A syndicate h.-is
bating the of a
law breaker for a position of
honor trust I A self con ; T steamers in the
who. if he had re.
his deserts would now among
of dam
are three things the people r
never overlook or forget Has battle. the dead
th , j
of a , f hi.-k
in Fro Dong its supply of
last hut the The be dies bad been in
of Wilson tho flesh
was living in Beaufort
county, and the 2nd day of
October, 1898, I was stricken
down with typhoid fever. I had
the best physicians to attend
me and the day of Jan-
I nary, I was allowed to get
I was emaciated, weak
I had no appetite. I could only
drag along for a short distance
and would compelled to
down and rest. This continued
for some time and I began to
give op hope of ever
well. I lost my position in
I Beaufort county and having
one in Pitt county, clerk-
in a store, undertook it,
i but was so weak I could not do
work and had to give it up.
j The disease settled in my knees,
legs and feet. was taking first
one kind of medicine and then
another, but nothing did me
any good, was mighty low-
spirited. moved out to Col.
about lour or five months
ago and commenced taking Dr.
Williams Pills. took three
day for about three months.
began to regain my appetite
a week's time, and then my
weakness began to disappear,
and hope sprang up with a bless-
that is beyond all tell-
At the expiration of the
three months was entirely
cured and could take my
and go the woods and do as
good a day's work as any man.
I was troubled with dyspepsia
and that has disappeared. It
is also a splendid tonic for
weak people. I Mr. Editor,
God bless Williams, may
he live for a long time, know
I be up yonder to reap
his reward, for he has done a
wonderful lot of good. Tell
asks about
Dr. Pink Pills for
Pale People that if they will
come to me I can certainly sat
them as to their merits I
always carry a box of pills with
; me and when ever feel bid
I take one.
t I did not com-
i taking them sooner for
would have been worth
where am worth
We were forcibly struck with
the earnestness of Mr. Baker
and think one can rely up-
on what he says.
Dr Pills for
Pale have an enormous
from all quarters come
m glowing reports of the ex
results following their
use. An analysis proves that
j they contain in a condensed
form all the elements necessary
i to give new life and richness to
j the shattered
nerves. They are an unfailing
I specific for such diseases as
ataxia, partial par-
St. dance,
rheumatism
headache, the after effects
i of la grippe, palpitation of the
I t, pale and sallow complex
lions that tired feeling resulting
from nervous prostration ; all
diseases resulting from vitiated
humors in the blood, such as
etc
They are also a for
troubles peculiar to females,
such as suppressions,
ties and all forms of weakness.
They build the blood, and
restore the glow of health to
pale and sallow cheeks In
men they effect a radical cure
in all cases arising from mental
overwork or excess of
whatever nature are no
ill effects following the of
this medicine, and it
can be given to children with
perfect safety.
These Pills are manufactured
by the Dr. Medicine
Company, N.
and are sold only in boxes bear
the firm's trade mark
cents a box or six
boxes for and are never
sold bulk.
THE
MONDAY.
The most important new bills
introduced in the Legislature to-
day were To prohibit the boy-
of railways in North
to make the State
Geologist Commissioner
of Emigration; to k
tors against fraudulent
of property.
A bill passed the Senate to
make the Board of Agriculture
trustees of the Agricultural Col-
A bill passed re-
the annual appropriation
to each company of the State
Guard from to and
striking out the
for encampment, and
the salary
to The bill to ore the
office of com in
was tabled, us was also it hill to
appropriate for the
men's exhibit at the At hint Ex
position. The bill to create a
new criminal circuit of New
and five
other counties passed.
Tho House noted the ma
chin act, adopted an
amendment requiring foreign
building and loan associations to
list for taxation their stock
by citizens of this State.
TUESDAY.
The Senate took from the table
the bill it placed
yesterday to allow licensed
dredging for by natives
and paused tho bill. It is claim-
ed it yield revenue to
the State- It also passed the
bill providing for and
not State adoption of school
books.
The most important new bills
introduced To define
societies to
increase the of directors
of the
Bills also passed the Senate
amending the charter of Ashe
ville tho
Shelby railway to
incorporate the People's Eire In-
Company ; to change the
county-seat of from
to Forest
A resolution was laid before
the House, adopted by tho Mar-
Post of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Ashe
ville, commending tho Senate for
passing the bill making an
for the Confederate
urging the House to
pass it.
Bills passed H lase
the
and
Northwestern the
Atlantic, and
ville railway, and tin At-
Endowment Company.
A bill lo extend tho of
e N-w York, Norfolk
railway was tabled.
The much talked of bill to
change the present system of
county government passed just as
it came from the Senate, the
voting down all the
amendments which the Democrats
introduced.
The passed also by a
patty vote the bill
providing for the election of three
additional magistrates by the
people at the next election.
WEDNESDAY.
Iii the Senate to-day a bill
providing for the
ten by law within two years after
sale under execution-
There was a very heated
cal debate on the bill to elect
nine additional directors of the
Penitentiary and abolish the
office of Superintendent. It was
openly announced that the
pose was to to put
control.
A Democratic Senator said
that as per cent of convicts
were Republicans, he thought
that party to control-
The amendment to reduce the
of the manager to
was defeated. Also to re-
duce the per diem of directors
from to The bill passed
3- to ti. Democrats voting nay.
The session of the House was
to consideration of
the revenue act. The
license tax and tax of one
per cent on tobacco warehouse
men were stricken out. Drag
gists who sell whiskey are taxed
as license, and are
not allowed to sell save upon leg-
physician's prescription.
The cigarette tax is made five
instead of ten cents a thousand.
Boarding houses are taxed fifty
cents each bed. Lawyers are
taxed and franchise tax is
imposed on all corporations save
banks, railways and
In the Legislature to day an
unfavorable report was made on
the bills to punish boycotting by
railways being found that the
railway commission has ample
power as to that matter.
A favorable report was made in
the House on the Senate bill to
establish a for youthful
Bills passed to prevent prefer-
by insolvents and require
pro of debt; to
amend the charter of Wilmington
and continue its present is
nation until 1897.
A bill to amend Raleigh's char-
pasted the to 15-
Populists and one
voting nay with. the Demo
Bill passed the House
for the
Western Hospital for the Insane
at Morgan ton, and an
for the insane asylum at
Raleigh.
was intense interest in
lake debate the House on the
Senate appropriating
to complete Confederate
It passed second
to 38-
pension-tax to 91-3 cents, and
the tax on real property to
cents. Clubs which sell whiskey
are required to pay a liquor-tax,
druggists who sell whiskey
are taxed just us liquor dealers.
Building loan associations
wore from double
The on in-
companies was made
A bill to incorporate the West
Carolina railway from Bristol,
Tenn , to the South Carolina line,
was introduced.
The bill to appropriate
for regular and for
annual appropriations to the
Normal and Industrial
School passed its third reading,
as did also bill to amend
charter of and th
bill to appropriate to
complete the Confederate
There was debate
the bill to abolish the Criminal
Court Circuit of New
Mecklenburg, a
new circuit seven Au
amendment to except New Han-
over, Mecklenburg,
Halifax was voted
down. with one ex-
voted against the bill, as
did twelve The tax
and
was made half of
cent per pound.
SATURDAY-
In the Senate to-day the
act was considered Com
of the Whole Amend
were adopted
to th
The Senate to-day again con-
Committee of the
Whole the revenue-bill. Amend-
were adopted
tax to C per
thousand; taxing
half of tor cent- per pound,
to apply to dealers only;
license tax dentists ;
making the tax on dealers in
organs not to apply
to resident dealers-
The Republicans made
fort to have a assess-
of property until two years
but the Populists defeated
so the assessment will be
made this year
The Senate voted to
here the is cleared.
Th. House passed on final
reading bills appropriating
for new buildings at the
Dumb and Institution,
the Elon,
railway ; to
annually to
the to
annually to the
Agricultural and Mechanical
College, for new and
heating apparatus, and to amend
the of Raleigh-
The Legislature elected Otho
Wilson, of Wake Bail
way Commissioner, the
solid-
for him. Democrats voting for
Thomas W the present
elected Charles A- j
Cook, of
Judge cf th new Eastern
seven counties
He, too, -jot the solid Fusion vote I
Bland Jr J D
N H Tripp
Ross and S. F.
released from poll tax
for 1894.
Ordered that valuation of lands
of R.
township reduced for 1894
from to
Ordered that valuation of lauds
listed by Louis Billiard in Falk-
land township be reduced for 1894
from to
Ordered that L. C-
township, be reduced from
payment for 1894.
Ordered order be issued
to Mrs Sue M for
the sumo having been erroneous-
charged tho tax books
the j the years
that a draft drawn the
Stale Treasurer for which
amount is due her from the Slate
for seals.
James L Little, Treasurer elect,
presented his two official bonds
which were approved and oath of
office administered. bond
for J A Andrews, J
R G J J Nobles,
G M Tucker. W S Bawls, James
Long, A C Cox, It F Patrick, G
M Mooring, L Davis, W G
and Smith as sureties.
One for with R A
Tyson, J L J A K Tuck
R H Oscar Hooker,
J B Galloway, J R Moore, W
House, U T House, F Patrick,
W H White, D E House,
R M Spier sureties.
E H was allowed
to retail Leer at his place
. J S Keel was allowed to move
his plane of business from Hill to
Bluff.
Report of Dr W H
Supt of Health, read hied.
A petition signed by G F
and others tor a public road
township across
lauds mentioned in petition was
read, having been duly ad-
tho Sheriff was ordered to
lay according to law-
Mrs and
Cannon allowed to
I list taxes for
Doctors Say;
Bilious and Intermittent Fevers
which prevail in dis-
are invariably
I by derangements of the
I Stomach Liver and Bowels.
The Secret of Health.
I The liver is the great driving;
I o o
in the mechanism of
man, and when it is out of order,
, the whole system becomes
I ranged and disease is the result.
Liver Pills
Cure all Liver Troubles.
Wanted
the Democrats voting for
of
J. IX
COMMISSIONERS MEETING.
to sell elm
Sink which i in WorM.
All new HO tie-at well u
varieties of Fruit ant ii-mm. 1-
Salary and traveling expenses paid.
Vt for tern s. age.
A THOMAS,
Maple
N. C-, Mar 4th,
The Board of
for Pitt met day,
sent T. E. Heel, chairman
S. M. Jones. L Fleming J L
orders for
Smith.
Tho
were issued
M Nelson 00.11. D Smith
La whom
Nancy Moore I Susan
Smith l Patsy
Harris
and Hettie
Eliza Edwards Carlos Got-
ham J- H
Dad and
Fannie Tucker J O
E Alice Corbett
Easter Vines Alex
Taylor Lydia
John Ham H
Parker J G Nelson
Winnie Chapman St,
Adams 5-i. J W Crisp W
F Williams John Crisp
wife Long Amp
Edwin Haddock
it E Mizell John
Buggy Co 00-
The
oral purposes issued
Smith Woody Me
Joyner Ben t um-
Sue M
j Smith
Louis lives IS,
Lewis S K 2- S II
Boss E A o TO, C M
Bernard John
I J D John R
Tucker S H
John Pierce IS, D J Holland
A Jas L
J L M, E A
R R T
Hodges W F Harrington
W H Bagwell J A
Lang J A Lang V M
King B S Sheppard Co
B Ed-
wards R W J A
Jess L Smith I
S M L Fleming
T E Keel 70-
Greenville Stock Law Territory
JR H Tucker
II M Harris K.
Swift Creek and
Stock Law B John-
ton J A Smith
I Factors
Commission
NORFOLK VA.
Personal Attention Riven to
Weights
They quote .
Norfolk
Middling cotton, Peanuts, to J
Irish Potatoes,
Swift i
IS Teas, to
Corn, lo 4-.
CHILL
JUST AS FOR ADULTS.
WARRANTED. PRICE
His., Not. K,
St.
-id lost year of
your. oar ex-
I In
nu-
U jut Your-
. A CO-
I-.
Office at Warehouse.
O.
HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS.
S us buying and get our tor or on inc. will
nil th follow well know
Capitol Tobacco Beef, Blood Bone,
National Durham Bull,
Peruvian Mixture,. Acid Phosphate,
Alliance Official, Lime,
Very Truly,
. v i , FORBES.
BUYING
Watch for my
. v--
SHIP YOUR
gutter and
OTHER PRODUCE TO
. . . . DAVIS, HILL CO
10th Street N. W. WASHINGTON. D. C.
will Cash We bay outright or
on
I and Prompt
live per cent, for Price
Get Your Fines Where Yon Can Get i Bast
GREENVILLE, N. C.
have large M
s iron
res saw. and Tot is. Wt ill make a
as iii
S. E. Co.,
in Stoves,
T.
ESTABLISH
K. C.
Just Received Cars Rock Lime.
KEGS N
N Ca-cs
Soap.
Boxes Cakes
Cases
Luck Ratting low
Sacks
Molasses
Tons Shot.
i n Floor,
Meat.
J May.
lbs
l l i Bo
W P.
Hail A Ax
SO It. It. Mills Snug.
st
MS
100.00.1 V. M. T.
OM v. i
J. SUGG,
N. C
OFFICE AT COURT HOUSE.
All kinds Risks placed in strictly
FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES
At current rates.
AM FIRST-CLASS FIRE PROOF-
sit
pp
Ms Wei
THESE ARE LENT.
M Least Are, to Hake
News Cur
Mr C. W. to
Baltimore Saturday-
Miss Ada returned Mon-
to Littleton-
Mr. J W.
Monday
Mrs Fannie left Sat
this morning- for Conetoe.
W. C- Las moved into his
new house on Second street.
Miss Dora James returned to
her home at Saturday.
Miss Bessie Jarvis is visiting
Miss May Harriss near Falkland.
Misses and
son are visiting in Greene county.
Mr. l;. L. Smith has gone to
Norfolk and Richmond to buy
Miss Bettie Warren is back
from a visit to relatives at Wash-,
Una Katie Moore returned
Monday from a visit to her home
in
Miss Clan Lancaster, of Ital
is visiting the family of Mr.
J. S.
to Salem to school, her health
watered.
M is. Lancaster, of
is visiting the family of
Mr. J. S-
Mr. S. Bernard was here from
visiting his mother
Saturday and
Master White, who was
a page m the Legislature, return-
ed home Saturday night.
M. Lang left yesterday
morning for the northern cities to
make his spring-
In
There was a total eclipse of the
Sunday night, caused 1-;
the patch passing between the
sun and the Persons
church about o'clock
noticed the shadow coming
on the This continued to
and by a little past
the entire face of the moon was
covered. It was t beautiful sight
o'clock clouds shut oft
view.
Pastor Called.
At the close of the services in
the Baptist church
the church a conference
extended a call to Rev. C- M.
Billings, of Virginia, to the pas-
of the church. Mr. Billings
accepted the call and left for his
home this to prepare
for moving here. He will return
to Greenville the latter part of
i his week. We believe
church has made a wise selection
in calling him
Greenville Always
We notice the list of
awarded at the fair at
published the
that Son.,
proprietors of Nurser
were awarded for the best
collection of cut dowers- The
same gentlemen were awarded
one of the special premiums, a
silver offered by L II
Cutler it Co., for the best display
of cut flowers, hyacinths and
Protection is Needed.
The town of after
almost being away by
tires, considering question
of procuring a and
providing for water. Enough
properly has destroyed
there wit h the last year to equip
departments for towns.
Would not Greenville do wise
to note this and make some pro-
vision tire before a con-
is not the best
policy to stable door
after the horse has
Th Office
It looked Monday like every
body was well enough satisfied
with Dick King being Sheriff, as
no else seemed to want the
office when an opportunity was
offered for occupying it a short
while. The bond suits came up
again in court that day to be tried
before a jury.
Items.
N. C-, Mar.
short bout the horse
here div One gray mule
was sold for cents.
The Daily Reflect, n i enema
many compliments in ion.,
A. G- Cox and wife spent yes-
here.
has been
a Notary Public for this place.
Bethel Items.
C- Mar- -Mi
Go. spent
Sunday So-day night
town.
Mr. J. H- Johnston, who has
been spending some time at
Scotland Neck and Weldon,
returned home last week.
Post S. A- Gainer and
Mayor Moore went to Green-
ville to day.
Miss Malena and
sister, of Edgecombe, were
ting relatives and around
Saturday and Sunday.
e had two shows here last
The telegraph wires here were i
kept warm Saturday. The local
had the operator busy
sending messages to the members
of the Legislature at Raleigh ask-
for immediate action on the G. P. Roberson
to change of Ward Bros- Friday night
den. other by Harry
many friends of Mr- E. C j Bra
Blount regret very much to
of his death, which occurred at
The question then arose as to
of this township and leaves m m y
who be to act as warm fiends. A telegram was
D. u. nil M
THE REFLECTOR
Local Reflections.
Look for A- B. Ellington's a 1-
Car load fresh Flour, ins
D. W.
Orinoco is King
of the Golden Belt-
ti . his
another slight advance.
Cotton Set d wanted for Cash
at the Old Brink Store.
Orinoco Tobacco Guano is
King of the Golden
Handsome and cheap Oak Sets,
up stairs, Old Brick Store-
D- M- Ferry's Sew Garden Seed
at the Old Brick Store.
New Millinery goods received
week at Mr.-. L
I can take your
nave you a suit of
clothes made to order. Fit
Frank Wilson.
Just received Iron Drive
Pumps and feet Galvanized
pipe- D. D- Haskett-
Mr. B. Brown, of the firm
of A Hooker, has gone
north to purchase new goods.
Mrs. D. left Wed-
to spend a few days in
Grifton returned Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg, of
Norfolk, arrived Monday
to visit Mr. and Mis. M. It. Lang-
Mis P. E left
day evening for Newborn to visit
her daughter, Mrs. L. E
R. M. little
Edward, of ate vis-
the family of Mr. Allen War-
Mrs. Harry Martin, of Greens
is visiting her
Jarvis and Mrs. P. C. Mon-
Mrs. Foil, t, of Durham, who
was Miss Martha O la-
Monday morning for
Mr. H- Taft,
who been
here, left Monday for
I Miss Dora
I teaching in Female
New Office rs
At the meeting of Pitt
Rifles, held Friday afternoon,
J- T. Smith announced th-
following of
for the
1-t T- Hooker.
-H- C- Hooker.
3rd M Snuggs.
4th W. S-
C-
1st N. Briley-
2nd F. Evans-
3rd Corp. E- F. Forbes.
4th Whichard.
A special drill of the
is ordered for Friday, 22nd lust-
A Success.
The birthday party given
night by the ladies of
the Methodist church was a
in ever; way. The
dance was largo and the supper
Mrs. F- G-
kept door and received the
sacks of told the re-
porter she was in possession of lots
of secrets, the ages of some
pl., bat would not give
away. Two handsome bachelors
had a shrewd, way of covering
up ages by each putting a
half dollar his sack. re-
from party were about
Buy
Triumph
Old Brick Store-
Seed Meal and
Potatoes at the
Remember I pay yon cash for Chicken
Country Produce at the Old
Brick Store.
Spring Hats in the
shapes at Mrs. L-
A man is most likely into
a brown study when he's blue-
Just received car load of best
Flour, lowest
D- W-
Bring your cotton seed to
Henry Sheppard, and buy your
Meal and Hulls- Car load of each
just arrived tor sale cheap.
A large stock of nice cheap
at the Old Brick Store.
A- G. Cox has ordered a car
load of Iron for Tobacco Flues
and to make Winter
ville headquarters for best -To-
Flues- Those in need of
Flues this season will do well to
remember this.
The Indian rubber man doubt.
leis began life as a bouncing boy-
First of the
Spring Oats, at the Old
Brick Store.
are the best in
the for cents.
J. L- Starkey Co.
N. C, Jan 1894.
Mr. F- S. Royster, Tarboro, N. C
My crop of tobacco has bean
the talk of the neighborhood-
My net yield whore I used your
Orinoco is per acre- I sold
one lot of pounds at
per hundred. I used pounds
of Orinoco per pounds
when I planted and a second
plication of pounds-
Very truly,
J. O Bryan-
Seminary here, has to
her Canada.
Mr. Will Blow has gone to
Nashville make his with
there life host of
friends here will miss him.
Mr. R. J. Proctor took his
to Wednesday even-
to spend a lays with rel-
He returned Monday.
Miss Clara Bruce Forbes Mid
Master Fred Forbes were visiting
their sister, Mrs. M. H.
in but returned
day.
Some Poets Among Us.
Thursday as the ladies
were opening the penny sacks at
the birthday party, they found
one from charming
that contained the following
verse
Ladies, dear, these pennies I send
lust even thirty
I E one represents one year of
Miss Nannie King returned
home from Rocky Mount, Wed
evening, where she had
been visiting sister, Mrs.
Miss Moselle Pollock, of Km-
who was visiting Mrs. J. L
returned home Tuesday
evening Her father was one of
the. sufferers by the last tire there.
my age,
And trust Co.
more-
pass as many
The ladies handed it to the
and requested that
their compliments be returned to
the young gentleman in the fol-
Sheriff summon jurors,
a party to the suit debarring
from performing this
duty. Counsel for the defense
called the attention of the Court
to the fact that the Coroner was
the proper person to act as Sher-
under circumstances,
when counsel for the
thinking the other side some-
what anxious for the Coroner to
serve objected to him, the fact
coming out the argument that
with his other good traits
character, he was a
Then the amusing spectacle fol
lowed of everybody suggested by
one side being objected to by the
Other while ail who were
suggested by the asked to
be excused from serving- Mutters
went on way until Court-
adjourned for the day.
This morning at the opening
of Court Judge Coble
ex Sheriff Allen warren to as
Sheriff the continuance of
the trial. By noon recess the jury-
was selected is composed of
the M. A- James,
W. G- J. L- Moore. J. B.
Galloway, G. W. Stokes, R B.
W. Lewis
Hudson, M. E J. H-
Beardsley, J. B- L- W.
La wren co-
received from his brother. Mr- A.
R; Blount. New York, that he
would arrive to attend
the funeral.
The regular jury v
for the exhausted with-1 at Kid M.
out getting a jury for the case. He was . useful
Sunday and Sunday night.
Mr. N- H- Tripp went to
Sunday and yes-
Miss Lola Butler, of Craven
county, is here.
Dr. Waring, of Mills,
Saturday and Sunday here
Miss Addie Butler returned
home Sunday after spending
sometime in Craven county.
Miss Nita May is visiting
the city.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Laughing
house went to Friday
and returned Sunday.
years
Kind friend, we trust the
you wish.
-May be meted out to yon;
And ere they pass, some lo-,
lass
May win your heart, moat true.
Died.
Mr. E C. Blount, of a
township, died
at o'clock. Mr. was a
prominent man this county for
many years. He represented Pitt
term the Legislature, was
at time a Justice of the In-
tel Court, several
years prior to his death served as
a Magistrate. He had large
connections and a great many
friends who regret -is death.
r Joy nor, of the
U-st and most highly esteemed Sunday morning at
citizens of the died at his Margaret Murray, wife of
home near William Murray, died at
afternoon- His widow, the only I home in this town, after an illness
remaining member of bis j several months. She was in
ate family, has the warmest i 61st mar-
of all our people. forty years. A and
five daughters, three of them mat-
here were many gazers ; are left to mourn their loss.
Sunday night. family moved hero from
son about three, years ago, and
made a host of friends who
, I with them in their be
in the river and the water stilt;
the Methodist cemetery,
Ribbons, Baby Caps, ; vices held in the M- E
new and cheaper over of which she was a mom
Mrs L and at the gr by Rey. G
The. public school Mon-
day forty pupils.
A team of six oxen pulling a
large was seen on tho
street Saturday.
The Greenville Lumber Co.
making several improvements
around their plant.
Better be well advertised and
under stocked than under
and over-stocked.
The handsome monument to
the memory of Gov. Caswell, at
was ruined by fire-
Tho Wilmington pipers have
caught on to the
coming time unite
F. Smith.
and miss
The young woman
does not object to a young man
stealing something from under
her very nose.
Mr. John L. of
showed us a hen egg Saturday
that weighed ounces.
night the colored folks
were asking most everybody
they met de matter
de moon , a .
We beard a little girl tell her
father she bad planted some
not hulls and would give the
to him they
lo the
A story is of one
pointed farmer who had allowed
himself to be deluded into tho
belief that the result of the No-
election would increase
Hie price of cotton. A
Republican it
seems had just
the election that the price of
cotton would go up. to
cents a pound. The farmer
heard of this talk and having
much confidence in the aforesaid
Republicans foresight he be
it- So when he brought
his cotton to town a few days
ago and was offered cents by
a regular dealer he jeered him.
He knew where he do bet
Blank the
Republican by would
give more for his cotton-
Thereupon he to
up Blank deal in
cotton at and when he found
him Blank wouldn't talk to dim.
shame-faced the
came back and sold his to
the buyer had offered him
cents. landmark.
OTHER
Our readers who in search
of should look into
tho advertisement of
Thomas, print else-
u in this issue.
How are prop., to know they
should trade you unless you
tell them- Try tho
advertising columns and yon
will the people-
The Wilmington and Weldon
railroad offers to contribute
twenty-live per cent on all freights
material sent to rebuild
burnt district in Kinston
Did you ever know a merchant
to advertise old shop
worn goods Guess
chants that advertise alway
out their before the styles
change.
Now that he has got married
after many year of hard efforts
in that direction,
of the Washington Gazette, is
advising all his bachelor friends
to go and do likewise.
We saw a fine lot of few to-
day at M. R. st-ire which
he had just from Mr.
W. Bland. The
otter skins, foxes, minks
raccoons. ,
We heard a drummer say that
in all his travels, and his territory
covered several States, he did
not as good a table for the
board as is spread at the
in Greenville.
Tho large engine taken out of
town Saturday was left standing
tho road about four miles
from here, and frightened a
number of horses that were being
driven to Red Banks Sunday.
At a meeting held at Red
Banks church, four miles from
town, Messrs. J. R.
Williams and H. B. Tucker
were ordained to the ministry of
the Primitive Baptist church.
Both are excellent men.
Mr. J. W. Tyson tells us that
he has an pig which
has gained in weight a half
pound a day for the past month-
At one month old pig weigh-
ed and at two months
old pounds.
WALL PAPER.
If you to beautify
at samples, be
at store of S. E. Co., or
I will to your if you
will notify I for of
largest Healers United
States arid cart give you low prices.
A. B. ELLINGTON.
TO NOTIFY
their friends and the
trade that they have
bought out the
Store and
will engage in the gen-
GOODS, SHOES
and Clothing business.
We are receiving
II.
Everybody invited to
all and see us.
Respectfully,
TAFT CO.,
GREENVILLE, N. C.
HI swim
OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF
SPRING GOODS
arriving by every boat and train. Received
this
lot Suiting, suitable for early spring
wear. lot All-Wool Serges, per cent, less
than last season. lot Silk and Wool
cents. lot Insertions,
lot Serpentine Crepes, all shades.
Our Spring line of
Fine Shoes are
the prettiest ever shown.
All size, width and toes
known shown to the trade.
F. Shoes
or Men. Every pair is
warranted.
Notice to Creditors.
The having ii be-
fore the Superior Court of Pitt
pointy to the estate of
D. W. notice is
hereby Riven to all persona Indebted to
of said decedent to make
payment lo the
all claims
th- Mid must the game
before the day Mar. 1890. or tills
notice be plead in bar of recovery.
8th of Mar.
LORENZO
D. W.
f.
THE CLOTHIER.
Next to Tyson Rawls, Bankers.
BUILD
t GO,,
By Home Enterprise.
of DURHAM, N. C,
m Hue Che-
and a can be found on
the market. Their leading brands are
OF
a cigar for n Nickel, band made
Havana till. d.
a Hue Sumatra
Havana filled, hand
Named in honor of Col. Black-,
well, v
a line live cent Cigar, Sumatra
hand made. Havana tilled, sine, win-
Named in honor of Col. J, S.
Can-, if
Co.
SADIE
cents.
CHUNKS
cent. The line t for
money.
NORTH STATE
Three for cents. hummer that
pleases.
stick to home and send or-
Special brands put up when de-
sired.
Durham, N.
Offer the best selected line of
to be found in Greenville. Comprising
goods at reasonable prices.
Dry Goods, Notions. Shoes, Hats and Caps,
Furnishing Goods, Crockery, Wood
and Plows and
Agricultural Implements. A full line of
Heavy Groceries, Sugar, Molasses, Meat,
Flour a specialty. The largest and most com-
line of
be found in Pitt county. Ladies, men, children,
farmers, mechanics and laboring people of any
and every profession come to see us and get
fixed in your minds before you
try to buy elsewhere. Black and Spring Oats
and Seed Potatoes on hand and to arrive.
Yours for dealings, good quality and low
prices, J. B. CHERRY CO.
As T have decided to change my business I am now offering stock of------
Best
on Pro
by Squire
The following testimonial comes
Esq., who is well-known throughout Ken-
court Justice and Justice of the peace
Bath county. His words should Invoke the
confidence of all who read his
I. Hood Co., Lowell,
will say for Hood's I belle
R to be the best medicine In the world. In the
winter w I had a bad case of the grip which
left my system In bad shape. I tried
I could find and got no relief. In the fall
of the same year I bought a bottle of Hood's
The first dose I took
Mad Decided Change
the better. When I began taking the first
bottle my weight was pounds, the lightest
manhood. By the time the second bottle
had been need my weight was pounds. I
owe all this to Hood's and I gladly
It to all
Justice of the Peace, Kentucky.
Pill a liver
jam i lee, aM I
Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps, Shoes
Furnishing Goods
in fact my entire stock of Merchandise
first cost, mm
This does not mean per cent, added to bill, but strictly AT COST FOR CASH.
I have new Spring Goods bought at the lowest prices Here are some of the low figures
am offering Yard-wide
wide Bleaching 1-2, Barker's
Yard-wide Homespun to Checked Homespun 1-2 to Fruit yard-
7-8, Best Calicoes to 1-2, Simpson Calico
I have a reliable line of Shoes and will sell all odd numbers even below cost.
Notions. Notions.
Every one knows when these are sold at cost that the reduction is great. Buttons that
sold at cents per dozen you can now get at t 1-2 to those selling at cents are now 1-2
to Novelties in Cotton Goods very cheap, goods formerly selling at 1-2, now
These prices are quoted that reading people may know I mean what say. I desire to
close out the entire stock by June and will give you bargains in order to do this. Don't wait
but come while you can get a good assortment. I thank my friends for their liberal pat-
in past years, and am glad to now offer them goods at first cost in these hard times
Respectfully,
.-
This I
Hit You
The management of the
Equitable Life Assurance
Society in the Department of j M
the Carolinas, wishes to
cure a few Special Resident
Agents. Those who are fitted
for this work will find this
A Rare Opportunity
It is work, however, and those
who succeed best in it possess
character, mature judgment,
tact, perseverance, and the
respect of their community.
Think this matter over care-
fully. There's an unusual
opening for somebody. If it
fits you, it will pay you. Fur-
information on request.
W. J. Manager, J
Rock Hill, S. C.
1875.
VT THE
OLD BRICK STORE
FARMER AND T
their supplies will
their interest to our prices before
n all its
PORK
FLOUR, COFFEE SUGAR
at Market
TOBACCO SNUFF
we buy direct Manufacturers, i a
you to buy at A
stock of
FURNITURE
on hand a i so id it to i
he Our goo Is are bought . d
old for CASH therefore, having no i i k
O sell a close margin
M.
X. C
In
Poor
Health
means so much more than
you and
fatal diseases result
trifling ailments neglected, i
Don't play with Nature's i
greatest
If yon arc f
of sons, weak
and generally ex-
no appetite
and can't
begin at
the most J
strengthening
is J
Brown's Iron Bit-1
A few bot-
comes from the
very first
stain your J
and it's
pleasant to take.
Cures
Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver
Neuralgia, Troubles,
Constipation, Bad Blood
Malaria, Nervous ailments
Women's complaints.
Get only the bus crossed red
lines on the wrapper. others are sub-
On receipt of two stamps we
will send set of Ten Beautiful World's
Fair Views and
BALTIMORE. MD.
CHEMICAL CO.
A VICTIM OF HABIT.
The Temperance Lecturer
He Had an Example.
Administrators Notice.
d as administrator of
the estate if R. Ii. Morgan, deceased,
notice is hereby given to all persons
laid estate to
sent them tome authenticated,
on or before the day
or this notice will lie plead in In- of
recovery. Parties indebted to the
estate are to male
payment.
This
F.
WILMINGTON B K
AND
AND FLORENCE ROAD.
t o .
TRAINS
Dated
Leave Weldon
A r. Ma
A. M.
M.
Tarboro
Rocky Mt
Wilson
Selma
Ar. Florence
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Oil
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l. M.
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Magnolia j
Ar Wilmington
A. M
SB
A. M
tuna
Dated
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s. Z
A. M. P. M.
Selma
Ar n
Wilmington
Magnolia
Wilson
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Ar Rocky
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Ar 12-14
P. M,
Notice to Creditors.
Having qualified b Sn
Court Clerk of Pitt
Administrator of the estate of J. L
W. Nobles, deceased, no ice i- hereby
given to all I lie es-
to make immediate p to the
undersigned and all sons g
claims against .-aid estate mu-t
the ante payment on or before the
7th of January is or this notice nil
be plead in bar of recovery.
W. It. WINGATE.
of J. L. W. Nobles
This h day
Notice to Creditors.
The undersigned baring duly
Bed before the superior o
t county as t
Warren deed. I o is given to
all n s indebted of
Bald to make p y
to the and all per
sons ii g i lain s ;
most same
day r 1886 or hi-
will he plead in bar of recovery.
W. R. WHICH ARD Jr.
of William
Notice to
undersigned having duly
as Administrator de of
A. notice is here-
by given to aW indebted t the
tit e lent to make
ate payment to the and
all having against the
said must present before
January this notice will be
lead in bar of it
Ibis January th 1885.
F. M. WHICH ARD.
de of A Atkinson,
Notice of Dissolution.
The m of J. A. Rick Co., trading
the Furniture A Racket was
this day by mutual consent. J.
A. Rick the interest of C.
P. The will be con-
by J. A. Ricks, to whom all per-
sons indebted to the make
J. A. RICKS.
C T.
This 22nd of Jany
Train on Scotland Neck Read
leaves Weldon 3.40 p. m., Halifax
p. m., arrives Scotland Neck at p
n. Greenville p, m., Kinston M
p. Returning, leaves Kinston 7.80
a. m., Greenville 8.22 a. in. Arrival
Halifax at .-00 a. m . Weldon 11.98 am
., daily except
Trains on have
Washington a. in., arrives
8.40 p. m. Tarboro 9.50; retaining
leaves Tarboro 4.50 p. m., 8.10
p. in,, arrives Washington 7.35 p. m.
Daily except Sunday. Connects with
trains on Neck Branch.
Train leaves Tarboro, N C, via All e-
A Raleigh R. R. daily
day, at p. m. Sunday P. M
arrive Plymouth P. M-, p. in.
Returning leaves Plymouth daily
Sunday, 6.30 a. m., Sunday a in.,
arrive Tarboro 10.25 a. m., and
a m.
Train on Midland N C Branch
daily except Sunday. a.
m. arriving a m. Be-
leaves a. m.;
arrive a-. Goldsboro, a. in.
Trains on Nashville Branch leaves
Rocky Mount at 4.30 p. in., arrive
Nashville p. in-. Spring Hope
p. m. Returning leaves Spring Hope
a. m., Nashville 8.35 a. arrives
at Rocky Mount m.,
Trains on Latta Branch, R
R.- eaves 6.50 p. m arrive
bar 8.00 p. m. leave Dun
bar a. m. arrive Latta 8.00 a. m.
Daily
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War-
saw for Clinton daily, except Sunday
at a. in. Returning leave
at 1.00 p. Warsaw with
line trains.
makes close connection
a. for all points North daily, all
via and daily
Sunday via Portsmouth and Bay Line
also at Rocky Mount with Norfolk A
railroad for Norfolk daily and ;
North via Norfolk, daily ex I
cent Sunday.
JOHN F. DIVINE,
General
KENLY, Manager.
ON. Traffic
NOTICE.
North Superior Court
Martin Co. before
Dennis and Joseph Early
vs.
Z. P. Vincent and Lucy E. Vinci
The defendants will take ice that
have begun an
them in this court for the
pose of for a division that
of land in this comity of which said
and defendants are tenants in
common, known as the Williams
and the said defendants are re-
quired to appear at my in
on the 9th day of March. 1895
The Chains of Iran That a
Laborer Wars Not Those of
Drink lint Honest Labor
habit, habit; how it binds
a man with chains of ex-
claimed the temperance lecturer out
of a job, dramatically.
that's right, com-
the son of toil, according to
the Buffalo Express.
my friend, you seem to have
had some experience with
said the lecturer.
bot I replied the
other. what causes all the
misery of my
The lecturer glowed with pleas-
Here right before him was a
horrible example, and he proceeded
to draw the man out.
have felt the irresistible
craving which drags you down,
while all your better nature is cry-
against
have realized that your
habit was hurrying you to the grave
at breakneck speed and yet you have
felt that you could not resist
has robbed you of sleep and
robbed you of food, and made you
bleary-eyed, nervous, and physically
and many a night, sir, I
have gone without sleep just from
thinking of it, and it has got to be a
common practice to go for long
spells without eating when the pleas-
have starved your family
and let your children go in rags be-
cause of
hardly that. My besetting
habit has taken care of my family in
pretty good
don't mean that you are a
The son of toil looked puzzled, but
he
I see; you have not yet
reached the lowest stage of
and you think to escape it.
But let me warn you, my friend, you
will not unless you overcome your
habit. Resolve to conquer it. You
can if you
I don't know. I sometimes
think it would be pretty dull living
if I should break it
no, no. You would be a free
man. You would feel such joy as
you never before had felt in your
Your wife would fall on your
neck with tears of thankfulness.
Come, my friend; the demon has not
yet an unbreakable clutch upon you.
Sign the pledge never to
Why, I never drank a
drop in my life. What are you
I thought you said you knew
the power of habit; that you had felt
the craving which you could not re-
that you had nights with-
out sleep and days without food; that
you were being dragged down to an
early
have, but the drink
habit. What's done all that to me,
preacher, is the habit
I've had ever since I was a boy of
Heavy-Grade Locomotives.
Two big locomotives have been
turned out of the Schenectady
locomotive works, in fact the
largest and heaviest ever built
at the shops. These engines are
for the Central Pacific railroad,
are to used in heavy
work. They have four
pairs of drivers and two pairs of
truck wheels. One of these
weighs pounds. The tender
weighs, when loaded, pounds,
and carries gallons of water
and tons of coal. The boiler is
inches in diameter and con-
over flues. Its size can be
imagined from the fact that a six-
foot man can stand upright inside
of it. The cylinders are and
all other dimensions are in
Journal.
GAVE AIM A LESSON.
A Traveling Man Who Annoyed
the Wrong Girt
Extraordinary Kleptomania.
One of the strangest cases of
ever heard of has come to
light in Paris. A lady named Bide
has, it appears, such a passion tor
smoking, and in particular for col-
meerschaum pipes, that she has
been for a long time past stealing
pipes of this description at
stores. In the flat which she
pied found no fewer than
two thousand six hundred pipes, not
one of which, it is believed, she had
and answer or demur to Hie complaint paid for. They were neatly arranged
said The will
lake notice that if they fa to ear
and answer or demur IO said complaint
the relief by said plaintiffs
will
VI my official hand and
at in N. C-. this 28th
of
N. S. PEEL,
Superior Court.
The Charlotte
OBSERVER,
North Carolina's
FORE HOST N E W SP A
DAILY
on racks, and thirty-nine were well
colored. The ninth court, before
which she was indicted, would hear
no excuse about the state of her
mind, but sent her to prison for
eight Daily News.
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Independent and fearless ; bigger and
more attractive than ever, it will be an
invaluable visitor to the
the club or work
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and its dependencies
an area of square miles,
or as large as Florida, Georgia and
Carolinas
Four Sis
Having the needed merit to more than
make good all the advertising claimed
for them, the following four remedies
have reached a phenomenal sale. .
Dr. King's New Discovery, for con-
and Colds, each bot-
tie Bitters, the
great remedy for Liver, Stomach and
Kidneys. Salve, the
best in the world, and Dr. King's New
Life Pills, which are a public pill. All
these remedies are guaranteed to do
just what is claimed for them and the
dealer whose is attached here-
with will be glad to tell you more of
them. Sold at L. Wooten's Drug
Store.
The of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that baa been
able lo cure in all its stages, and that Is
Catarrh, Hall's Cure la the
only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a
disease, requires a constitutional
Hall's Catarrh Cure is
taken Internally, acting directly on the
blood and mucous, surfaces of the sys-
thereby destroying the foundation
of disease, giving toe patient
strength by building up the
and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any ease
that it fails to cure. Bend tor list of ,
The Was Ob of a Kind Always
to the
to the Occasion.
As the drummer came the
smoker a man in the corner got up
and went out rather hurriedly.
seem to have a bad effect on
that remarked a man from
Chicago.
laughed the drum-
mer, doesn't like to see me
is
don't know his name, but I hap-
to sec him utterly to rout
on a train once, and now when he
sees he feels better to g. t out of
the
was it Tell us about
came in chorus.
one of the kind of traveling
men who are always discreditable to
the profession, and I think be
els for some third-rate house in New
York. never saw him until the
day I saw him get what he deserved,
and from what I have seen of him
since I should say it had taught him
a valuable lesson. It was on a train
going out of Louisville, and there
was a pretty girl aboard, who was
of the type that into virago-
hood, perhaps, but of that let us not
talk. In any event, she had a sec-
in the middle of the car, and this
fellow came in, and. after looking the
territory over, sat down where he
could look into her face. There was
no other person on that side of the
car, and only two old ladies and my-
self on the other. He had just be-
to ogle the girl by grinning and
gazing at her, when she changed her
place and turned her back on him.
minutes he had taken the
seat beyond and had begun his
again. She stood it some time
and changed her position again. He
did the same, waiting quite a little
while, so as not to attract too much
attention. She changed again and
he went to the smoker. Then I
stepped over and asked her if she
needed my services in stopping the
annoyance. She thanked and
said she would attend to it herself.
Pretty soon be came back and sat
down facing her again, with a smile
as if he thought he was
having a great joke. She changed
again and so did be. This time I
could see her cheeks redden and
could almost hear her eyes snap as
she reached over and opened a little
handbag by her side. She took from
it a revolver, and as she looked up
again she nodded and smiled as if
she wanted him to her. But
she didn't, though it looked that way
when she got up, and taking a few
steps stood in front of him. Then
she shoved the revolver close to his
face.
she said, loud enough
for us all to hear, loaded, and
if you look at me again I'll put a
of its contents into your ugly
trembled so as she spoke
that the revolver shook in her hand,
but she turned and, walking firmly
back to her place, sat down again,
and the remarkable part of it was
she sat so if he raised his face he
would look directly at her. But he
didn't raise his face. He slunk out
toward the smoker and he never
came back. I've met him several
times concluded the drum-
mer, I have never seen him s-o
much as look the second time at a
lady on a
STRUGGLE WITH A LION.
Account of an English Surgeon's
Death in Africa.
The British Central Africa Ga-
gives particulars of the death
of Dr. surgeon on board her
majesty's ship Pioneer, who was
killed by a lion October It
pears that the doctor was left by the
Pioneer for a few shooting at a
village near the southwest corner of
Two days later he started
with three boys to shoot elephants.
After walking for some hours they
came to a pool of water, and, seeing
a lion lioness a few yards dis-
Dr. Bred twice at the
lion. He wounded it and both
made off for the jungle. Two
of Dr. native attendants
ran away, but the doctor and the
boy, went in search
of the wounded lion. They espied
the beast, crouching down fifteen
yards away; fired at the
lion's bead. At that instant the lion
sprang upon the doctor with a
roar, and a deadly struggle
took place. Dr. lost hold of
his rifle in endeavoring to keep the
lion off his throat. The beast seized
bis left arm in its jaws and clawed
his right. The doctor kicked at the
lion, which threw him down and be-
to tear his flesh. He then called
to my arm is broken;
my leg is broken; bring the
to it, and unable to
hold it up, made sit down and,
resting the rifle on his shoulder, shot
the lion dead. A rough stretcher
was made and Dr. was car-
into camp. He suffered much,
and died on the 26th.
A man.
It is said that a man in
Ind. who has been married three
times, is supporting all three of his
mothers-in-law and that they live
harmoniously together.
snow Registers
Up in the cold north a weather ob-
server wants to find a man who will
invent an instrument to measure the
depth of snow correctly. AH sorts
of mechanical devices have been de-
vised to measure rain and fog
sunshine, but nothing smaller than
a level ten-acre lot has been pro-
to show the correct depth of
snow, and even that device, if the
wind happens to be out for a
isn't of much use scientific
poses. If anyone has an idea for a
machine of this kind he will receive
the grateful thanks of the observer
by communicating with him. He
to issue a snowdrift bulletin
that average up the depth of
snow in fence corners and open
fields.
CARDS AND A COMPLIMENT.
How Sir John Extricated
Himself from a False Position.
Sir John the proprietor
of the was spend-
a holiday in 1853 at the de
a private hotel in Paris.
Charles the well-known
newspaper writer, was a visitor in
the same hotel, and was invited to
Sir John's private room to play a
rubber. His partner was Lady
a sharp, active old woman,
over eighty years of age, but still
preserving traces of her youthful
beauty.
She revoked and was accused of
the crime, but met the accusation
with, vehement denial; and when the
proofs of the charge were produced
treated her accuser with
disdain and not very polite contra-
diction Sir John lost his patience,
and rising from his chair, rasped out
with abrupt you
are a Her eyes flashed fire;
she rose from her chair and advanced
toward the offender.
By this time he had recovered his
coolness and presence of mind and
was only bent on extricating him-
self from a false position.
madam, I repeat cheat
and in the course of a long
he added, laying his hand upon
his heart, have invariably no-
that the handsomer a woman
is the more she cheats at
This compliment to her person at
the expense of other qualities pro-
the desired effect. She re-
her seat with smiles mantling
her and Whist Players.
How the Now Popular Train Robberies
Can Be Circumvented.
It may safely he assumed that the-
of is the engine and
then the express car, Why, then,
not separate them as much as
by putting the express car the
last in the train Have alarm bells
in each coach and sleeper, which can
be rung by the express messenger
when he is directed or requested, at
this unusual time and place, to open
the door of his car. In each coach
and sleeper have, in a glass front
case, similar to those now in use for
the ax and saw, two repeating shot-
guns, each magazine containing five
buckshot cartridges, thus giving
from six to twelve most effective
weapons into the hands of the train
crew and passengers. The alarm
bells should be electric, though it is
believed the ordinary cord bell
could be made to serve the
pose.
When the messenger sounds his
tocsin of war, there would soon be a
sufficient force of brave men at the
express car to give the robbers a
warm welcome. For the latter to
cover the engine cab and each door
and side of each coach and sleeper,
would require a force of men too
great in numbers make
profitable. Besides, the
greater number of accomplices or
principals, the greater the chances
of capture and the possibilities of
some one turning
Under such an arrangement in the
make-up of a train, should the rear
or express car be the sole point of
attack, then the first step would be
to cut this car loose from the train,
and then loot it. The automatic air
brake would give the alarm to the
engineer, and he, in turn, to the
coaches; or, better still, the con-
electric wire could be so
ranged as to sound the alarm when
the car parted from the train.
Should the engine, as in the past, be
the first point of attack, then the
crew passengers have
the advantage of being between the
forces of robbers, and, with every
probability, can throw the greater
number in the fight, and, Napoleon-
like, repulse or defeat in detail.
First Lieut. J. T. Knight, United
States army, in North American
Review.
CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL.
A Few Figures Showing the Amount
Per Head in Various Countries.
In 1885 the consumption of beer
In England was gallons per head
in Scotland, and in Ireland,
the consumption of cider in Eng-
land, 0.4, and none at all in the
other two countries; the
of spirits in England. 0.8; in
Scotland, 1.9; in Ireland, the con-
of in England, 0.5
in Scotland and 0.2 in Ireland. The
English drinker's partiality for beer
and the Scotch and the Irish drink-
preference for spirits is clearly
When these amounts are convert
ed into their equivalents of alcohol,
we see that Ireland consumes least
1.4 gallons per head, Scotland
comes next with 1.6, and England
heads the list with 2.13 gallons of
alcohol for each man, woman and
child of the population; this, by a
curious and undesigned coincidence,
is just under one ounce a day per
head, the quantity which so many
medical Authorities assume can be
safely taken the physiological
quantity which the country has
heard so much of late years.
Children seldom touch alcohol,
most women take little, and many
men do not take any at all; so that
the habitual consumers of alcohol,
whether they drink to excess or not,
get through three or four times the
amount which the leading medical
authorities assert should not be ex-
the Year Round.
Paul Grove.
A FOOT.
Daniel W. Howland, of Boston,
wrote a letter to the navy depart-
asking information as to the
whereabouts of the grave of John
Paul Jones. Acting Secretary
tells Mr. Howland that the
famous sea fighter was probably
buried in the Protestant graveyard
of Paris, back of the Hotel
that in 1851 the United States ship
St Lawrence war ordered to South-
to bring his to this
country for Interment, and that it
was then ascertained that the
ancient graveyard had been sold and
devoted to other uses. Whether the
bones were dumped a pit or dis-
posed of in the catacombs of Paris
the navy does not know.
Its Owner Also Possessed tho Only
Other Like- It.
This Ii Not the of Hat of
a Woman Who Had
Corns and Two
Bunions.
Two or three weeks ago a ranger
put at. Milton,
and hung out a sign informing the
inhabitants of the place that he was
DR. ANTON
CHIROPODIST
and that his mission was the pain
less removal of corns, bunion-, and
other abnormal annoying things
from the bet of persons who were
afflicted with them. If Dr. Anton
had not stopped at Milton
that lively
remained in ignorance of fact
that there walked its
body but the owner of them knows
with how much pair of
feet undoubtedly were world
beaters the way of corn-., writes a
correspondent f the York Run.
Th belonged lo the daughter of
the lea-ling of Milton. She
was the first patient that Dr.
had. When she took off her
right, shoe and Stocking the doctor
was amazed. It took him a long
time to get with it, for he
had to remove twenty-live corns and
a bunion from foot.
is most Dr.
was moved to say.
replied the patient, who
evidently had read
is only one other foot like that any-
left
From the left foot, Dr.
separated twenty-two corns and a
bunion.
your bill to said
the patient, as she tripped away.
Dr. sent bis bill to father,
and it was through that bill that the
fact became known that Milton had
the champion corn raiser. The bill
was for two hundred and thirty-five
corns and two
dollars per corn, the
bunions seeming to have been over-
looked. When the leading citizen,
father of the girl with the amazing
feet, read the bill he said something
like
Jackson.
Ann Why don't you go into the
business for the market
This is more than I got for the hull
ding crop this farm last
And he refused to pay the bill.
Then Dr. sued him for tho
amount and then the revelation was
made that held the record on
corns. The lawsuit was heard be-
fore Justice the Peace
There were no precedents to go
by, as the market price of corns had
never before been made a question
of legal adjudication, but, having a
few corns himself, and calculating
what their absence would be worth
to him, the justice assessed the
value of the leading citizen's
owing to the removal
of her groups of corns and bunions
accordingly, and gave Dr.
judgment for twenty-four dollars
and fifty cents, or just four shillings
a corn and a bunion. The doctor
seemed satisfied and the bill was
From a letter by Rev.
Mich., we
a-e to make thin
I have no hesitation in
Dr. King's New Discovery, as the re-
were in the
of my wife. While I was pastor cf
the Baptist Church at Rive Junction
she was down with Pneumonia
succeeding with La Grippe. Terrible
of couching would la-t
hours with little and it
seemed as if she not survive them.
A friend recommended Dr. King's Hew
Discovery; it was quick in its work and
highly satisfactory in Trial
bottles free at John L. Wooten's Drug
Store. Regular ate and
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Their wear are
The prices are uniform on
From to other make.
If your dealer cannot supply you we can.
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Terms cash.
Thanking you for past patronage.
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FAYETTE STREET NORFOLK, VA
---------IS AT THE WITH A I
MERCHANDISE,
YEARS has laugh, ,,. ,., u j
Bore, Building; Fanning
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Shoes. Ladies Good, i ,, K ,
for Heavy Groceries, and for O T s
a. as J I K V
Cotton, and keep and
FORBES,
GREENVILLE. N. C.
Notice to Ci editors.
The be
fore the of Pt
comity to the
Fernando Fleming, e U
hereby given to all Indebted to
lit of decedent to make
mediate payment the
and nil persons having claims
said must present the
before 26th Dec. or this
notice will in bar of recovery.
day of I
SYLVESTER Fl
of Fernando Fleming.
Real Estate
and
Rental Agent.
Houses and lots for Rent or for Sale
terms easy. Rent, Taxes.
open accounts and any other
of debt placed in in- hands for
have prompt attention,
faction guaranteed. I solicit your
patronage.
GREENVILLE
NILE Hi,
GREENVILLE, N. C.
The next Session of this will
begin on Tuesday the 4th day of
and continue weeks.
MONTH.
Primary English
Intermediate English 82.50
Higher
Languages
The instruction will continue tin
Discipline mild nut firm. If necessary
an additional teacher will
Satisfaction When pupil-
enter early and attend regularly. For
informal inn ply to
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C. MM,
COTTON SlED.
K WANT ONE MILLION
ELS t Oil OX
fill pay the highest cash prices, either
in small or large lots. We have
sale Cotton seed Meal and Hulls.
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In December 4th.
GOING EAST.
GOING WEST
Pa.
Sun.
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OLD DOMINION LINE.
OINTMENT
TRADE
MARK
For Ii Cars ill Skin
This baa In use over
years, and wherever know baa
been in steady demand. It has been en-
by the leading physicians all over
e country, and has effected cures where
all other remedies, with the attention of
the most experienced physicians, have
for years failed. Ointment Is of
long standing and the high reputation
which It has obtained is owing entirely
x Its efficacy, as but little effort hat
ever been made to bring It before
public. One bottle of this Ointment will
be to any address on receipt of One
Dollar. All Cash Orders promptly at-
tended to. Address all orders and
communications to
T. T. CHRISTMAN,
SERVICE
Steamers leave Washington for Green
ville and Tarboro touching at all land
on Tar River Monday, Wednesday
and Friday at
Returning leave Tarboro at A. M.
Thursdays and Saturdays
Greenville days.
These departures are subject to
of water on Tar River.
with steam-
of The Norfolk, Wash-
direct line for Norfolk, Baltimore
Philadelphia. New York and Boston.
Shippers should their good
marked via Dominion
New York. from
more Steamboat from
more. -Merchants from
Boston.
JNO. SON. Agent,
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J. J. Agent,
P. M.
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train West,
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