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TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. per Year, in Advance.
A SIGHT WORSE.
A old and cranky.
Was sitting in his room,
His toes soul
Ami lib face gloom
lit him,
noise ii wise was
Iii bet, from the attic to cellar
Was quiet as could
No medic d aid was lacking
The answered his ring
beard iii- orders,
And supplied with everything.
lint there a something wanted
Something he command
Tin- kindly words of
touch fa gentle
VOL, XV.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1896.
We have
to furnish
the Rep and
above amount. Tin's
campaign year and
NO. toe
papers.
THE PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.
As Amended and Changed by the
State Executive Committee.
be as brow grew
And he mag for the binding
marriage may lie a failure
Bat this is a Mini-I eight worse
Boston Courier.
MEWS FICTION.
A great deal is constantly said about
the enterprise the newspapers in
earing into, mat ion from rs
the globe, and a good deal of e com-
which lids re-
is deserved. But what readers
of newspapers rave to-day is not
so much news as truth. They are
weary of nailing telegraphic
reports ml then finding the next morn-
that their time been wasted on
a tissue of misrepresentations, or on
fiction. A proportion of the
st- ailed news matters in many of the
newspapers is mainly fabrication. It
IS on a basis of hut so
deader that a searching examination
often foils to reveal it. Very often it i-
made out of whole cloth. In this mat-
as in the expression of editorial
opinion, there is a lamentable of
sense of responsibility among many
American editors. Not long ago, when
there was a real tension of feeling be-
tween this country Great Britain,
the. report was started that the Hying
was to visit American
and in turn was followed by
the report that Great was
for the purchase of Cuba.
Both reports were preposterous on
their face, and yet they were gravely
spread out, head-lines. As a
matter of tact, they were unqualified
lies. They were deliberately
tared for the purpose of tilling news-
paper columns
with something
We publish herewith a carefully
copy of the Democratic of
Organization in North Carolina, an
amended and changed the recent
id the Slate com-
All Democratic conventions
hereafter will be held, all Demo-
candidates will be nominated ac-
to this amended plan, and
therefore . should read
and learn its pro Visions. It as
MISSIONARY WORK
elected shall be entitled to seals in
said Provided. of woman's Work for
every county shall have at least one Missions.
each of said conventions.
ha vi
vote in each of said conventions.
Provided further. That in all
. , , on
conventions in which delegates shall
be selected to attend any Mate. Con
Judicial or
The unit of County organization
shall voting precinct. In each
precinct there shall be an executive
committee, to consist of five active
Democrats, be elected by the
Democratic voters of the several
in the meetings first called by
the County Executive Committee. And
said committee elected shall elect
one of its members as chairman, who
shall preside at all committee meet-
The chairman the several
committees shall compose the
County Executive committee, which
shall meet at the same time Bud place
as the county conventions held in
each election year, and elect a chairman
of said county committee, who need not
a member of the committee, and he
shall preside at all meetings of said
committee, and shall hold bis place
until his successor shall be elected.
A majority of said precinct chairmen.
in person or by prow, shall constitute
a quorum. The county committee shall
likewise appoint a central committee of
five, who shall act in its stead when the
county committee is not in session.
In ease there shall be a failure on
the part it any precinct to elect its ex-
committee for a period of thirty
seen something of the or-
of the principal
missionary societies, and wish to call
, i attention to important de-
r oilier
. . mission
a vale-hall in accord-
woman s work for women. Woman's
with the plan of organization
,. the gospel was secondary only
cs may or r
i that she Was not made an apostle
be presented to county , .
, . was not called to preach. In all other
selected
relations she held a first place the
service she rendered was graciously ac-
by her Lord. Her burst of
extended from Anna, the prophet-
who Spake of Christ to all that
looked for redemption in Jerusalem to
that elect lady who trained her children
to walk in the truth. Women minis,
to their substance,
Samaritan woman gave her
the mother her
faith ; the woman that was forgiven
much, her love and her learn. Woman
was truest to him, most unselfish and
most constant in her faith and service.
When the disciples, save John, had fled
and left him ill his shame and agony,
the women were there. They saw him
gory with his own blood, reviled, in-
rejected and loved and trusted
him. She was last at the and
first at the tomb, and first to find a
risen Savior, and lo carry to the
church and the world the news of his
resurrection.
In the early Christian church, as
shown by die New Testament the
writings of the early Christian lathers,
some women were especially set apart
as deaconesses to care for the poor and
sick, and give private instruction to
those of their own sex who could not be
taught by men. Widows were often
employed this work. They were in
fact the genuine missionaries that
age, when the state of society and o
family life, especially, among the Greek
resembled, many respects, what we
find to-day in southern lands. This
office was merged into men, when
human inventions took the place of
vine order and finally disappeared
church history.
The work of the Moravian church,
as lo the candidate- whoso i
to
lion. The delegates shall b
from the friends and supporters
each candidate voted for proportion
tr. the number of vies lie shall receive
such county convention, no
other instructions shall given Pro-
further. Thai when only one
candidate is presented and voted for
at such county convention, it shall be
lawful to instruct tor such candidate.
At every county convention, he-
fore delegates to State, Congressional
Judicial, Senatorial or oilier
lions arc chosen, there shall be a vole
taken tor the different candidates for
office, whose names -may be presented,
and the delegates shall vole their re-
counties ; with
this vole is to each candidate
shall receive in the Slate, Congress-
Judicial, Senatorial, or other
conventions, the pro; of vote
to which the may be entitled
which be received the county con-
The chairman and secretary
of the county convention shall certify
to each convention the vole received
by candidate at the county con-
and no oilier shall
lie given Provided that where only
one candidate is presented it shall lie
lawful to instruct for him.
Ai the State and district conventions
tin delegates from the different
counties may disregard the vole of
their respective counties to any
date, provided two-thirds majority of
ail hi- voles the county consent
hereto.
the county executive committee
shall appoint committee from the The chairman, or in his absence,
voters of said precinct. any member of the county, senatorial,
The members the precinct com- judicial and congressional committees,
shall elect to any vacancy shall call to order their respective con-
-aid committees. and hold chairmanship
The County Executive committee of until the convention shall elect its the only church that gives more minis-
These reports were no sooner
printed than they were denied, this
sort of thing has now gone on so long
that newspaper readers are Incoming
skeptical they read. The
intelligent of them no longer be-
anything in the way of a news
statement until it has been confirmed.
They have been misled too often. In
the run this kind of humbug is a
bad from a business point of as
every other kind of humbug. It reacts
In the hardened incredulity of the read-
and defeats itself by destroying the
very possibility of excitement which
the newspaper editor wishes to produce.
The matter is net worthy of discussion
from the ethical side, for the element of
dishonesty in it is too evident to need
thing more than plain
What does need in
to reach a many of the men
who sow falsehood broadcast as if it
were truth, is the fact that it it very bad
policy. Nothing pays a newspaper bet-
than to establish a tradition for
truthfulness; nothing harms it more in
the long run than to create the impress-
ion of untrustworthiness. There are
great opportunities in this direction at
the present Outlook.
shall call all necessary county chairman.
lions by giving at least day's notice The executive committees of the
by advertisement in public. senatorial, congressional and judicial
places in each precinct, at the court districts, respectively, -hall, at the call
house door, and any Democratic of their respective chairmen, meet at
newspaper that may be published in some time and place in then-respective
a d county, requesting all Democrat- districts designated in said call. And
of the county lo meet in their j it shall be their duty to appoint the
live precincts on a common day therein time and place for holding conventions
slated, which sail day shall not be less in their respective districts, and the
than three days before the meeting of j chairmen of said respective committees
the county conventions, for purpose shall immediately notify the chair-
of electing their delegates to the county men of the different County executive
conventions from the voters of committees of the said appointment,
so held shall elect their delegates to and the said county executive corn-
represent the precincts in the county shall forthwith call
conventions from the voters of the re- t ions of their respective counties in
voting precincts, which conformity to said notice, to send
or such of them as shall attend, I gates to said respective district con-
shall vote the full Democratic Strength
of their respective voting precincts on
all questions that may come before said
conventions. In case no meet.
STATE CONVENTION.
The Slate convention shall be com-
What Causes The Hard Times.
Judge Hubbard, of Iowa, says it is
the existence of corporations.
Gould says it is the hostility
o corporations.
The farmer says it is the low price of
wheat.
m I n say it is the action of
Wall street.
The Wall street men say it is the ac-
of the silver men.
The manufacturer says it is the fear
of free trade.
The consumer says it I tariff.
The debtor says it is the creditor.
The Democrats say it is the
The Republicans say it is the D.-mo
The Populists say it is both.
The soy it is whiskey.
The preacher say it is the
ow, what have you got to say about
and Driver.
shall he held in any precinct o appointed by the
of said ell, or no election shall
be made, the precinct executive com-
shall appoint such
Sec. C. At every precinct meeting
there shall, before delegates to the
county conventions are elected, be a
vote taken for the different candidates
for office, whose names may be present
ed. and the delegates shall vole in the
county convention their respective
precincts in with this vote ;
that is to say, each candidate shall re.
in this county convention that
proportion the vote to which the
precinct may be entitled which he re-
in the precinct meeting. The
chairman and secretary of the
meeting shall certify to the con-
the vote received by each can-
the precinct
Each precinct shall be entitled to
cast in the county convention one vote
for every twenty-five Democratic votes,
and one vole for fractions thirteen
Democratic cast by the township
at the last preceding Gubernatorial
Provided, That every voting
precinct shall be entitled to cast at least
one vote, and each precinct may send us
many delegates as it may sec fit.
The chairmen of precinct commit-
tees shall preside at all precinct meet-
In their absence any other
of said committees may preside.
AID CONVENTION'S.
The enmity conventions
shall be entitled to elect lo their Sena-
Judicial and Congressional con-
one delegate and one alternate
for every fifty Democratic votes, and
one delegate for fractions of over
Democratic votes cast at
the hist preceding
HOME RULE FOR CUBA.
To Be Fut Into Execution Within
Next Four Weeks.
Washington, April Spanish
within the next four weeks
STRANGE IN ROME.
an ml ran Has
O In Ma
Perhaps it is true
which Rome makes upon a
man vary more accord-
to the. wind and the time cf day
than feels in other cities,
put execution a too, is no capital in
Rive system et home rule, or autonomy all the world which baa such con-
Highest of all in Leavening U. S. Report
for island Cuba.
There is good reason that
the Slate department has received from
Madrid information to this effect. In
any event it is beyond question that
this important move is assured. It
promises to bring to a sudden
tin.; irritation and friction which
Baking
Powder
I railway station and the new
has existed for months between j tho busy hours of tho
to show within a each
might almost say within a
a stops. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Ono of tho most crowded
of Homo, for instance, Is to Meet in the City of Raleigh
the Via which is tho 1896.
only between the
and hills, from there- X. April in,
of toward tho A Convention of the
ABSOLUTELY PURE
LIFE IN NICARAGUA.
North Carolina is hereby
day a carriage can rarely I called to assemble in city of Raleigh
through its narrower portions any on the day of June, the
faster than at a foot and tho purpose of nominating candidates for
insufficient thronged and the other officers of the lower class wear no clothing
and Presidential electors tor the State la or H yrs old, and in the
the States Spain and to re-
place this feeling with one of a friendly
amicable nature,
The law which will be put In a measure, tho
effect was signed by Queen Regent I of Rome corresponds to
of the of th
Going
Tho of daily life in
is much simpler than in colder
climates; there no to
gather dust and moths, and la
very little furniture
and to dusted and
cleaned. Tho clothing of tho children
is also much simpler, and tho
Ions not variable Tho children
of Spain, lo, 1896, and will be
followed up rules and regulations de
the present of reforms,
By time Queen Regent makes
her address the Spanish Cortes,
which assembles in one month, the law
in Constantinople. In
tho course of a most of tho
population of tho city must have
passed at least through tho
crowded little street, which some-
how in tho rain of millions that
lasted for two years did not manage
and long expected policy of home
for Cuba will lie realized.
The law is very its pro-
visions. Tin- element of home rule is
secured by of two
local bodies, drawn largely, if not en-
from residents of Cuba. One of
these is to be known as the
Chamber of Deputies and the
as the Council of Administration.
The latter has appellate Jurisdiction
over former. Large powers
ranted lo the council of
in Hie internal management of
public affairs, hut Governor Gen
will continue as the supreme rep-
res. Spain on the island and
will have direct charge of military,
naval international
will In-promulgated throughout Cuba to attract to itself oven tho little
sum which would bate sufficed to
Widen it by a yards, it is
though tho contents of wore
daily drawn through a keyhole. In
the to soon daily
magnificent equipages, jammed in
the string, milk om-
and barrows,
coded by vans and follow-
ed by miserable cabs, smart dogcarts
and high country vehicles
driven by booted men wear-
green lined cloaks and looking
like bandits. Even saddle
horses are sometimes that way,
to save time, and on each flow
two streams of human beings of
typo to be found between
Angelica and San Giovanni,
A of tho holy Roman em-
past n troop of dirty
school child ran and is almost driven
into an open barrel of salt o
tn tho door of a poor by a
black faced charcoal man carrying
a sack on his head more than ball
high himself. A party of jolly
, . ,. . m-M . young Gorman tourists in
And its Unsurpassed Hospitality at , ., , , , .,
, . . with red books in their
The Time of the Greenville , , . B n i i
I hands and bang.
I by straps their shoulders.
This modest little town, the try to rid themselves of tho flower
seat of Pin, has for many year, J dressed in sham COB-
. J and utter exclamations of as-
pied as the home a admiration when
her of distinguished men, notably, ; they themselves almost run
Jarvis. the late Louis Latham and nth- down by a of tho giant
and more recently has become con-, grenadiers, each feet or
tobacco besides inches or so of
. . . n. . crested helmet aloft, gorgeous,
in tie State, bum was reserved for I t- , .,
and spotless.
the recent week of races, say the Clerks by the dozen and liveried
tors, to earn another distinguishing ii- messengers of ministries
being the most hospitable I in the ladies gather their
town in North Carolina. skirts closely and try to pick a
, . . dainty where, indeed, is
roe New contingent who at- nothing word which Dr.
tended the races, every one of them of Johnson confesses that ho could not
whom is a Past Mast in art of en find in any dictionary, but which
and he thinks might
as to express correct opinion- on the . girls, smart children with
nurses and hoops going up to the
GREENVILLE, N C.
at large; for purpose of electing
delegates to the National Democratic
convention at Chicago and for the trans
action of such other business as may
properly come before it.
The several counties of the Slate
will select delegates to the Con-
accordance with the plan of
organization this day promulgated.
Done by order of the Stale Demo-
Committee
Id. N. C.
upper class garment, a sort of
shirt, is enough for homo and
Children sometimes go on the street
hi this simple garb. What marketing
not brought to the door is dona
by tho master of tho house, and so
tho women to loll in their
hammocks and nurse
delight of going shopping
unknown. If anything in
tho dry goods lino is wanted a
ant is sent to tho shop, who brings
armful of whole pieces of
tho desired If of those
suits, or if tho desires to look
at others, those carried and
another and another armful are
Weather Crop Bulletin.
brought. This servant can be
papers are requested to trusted to pay for whatever
bought, for very honest in
money matters, only indulging in
-mall One of tho servants
at the college to go to
tho treasurer every month to draw
the salaries of the teachers, and she
have each one's money
wrapped op in a different part of her
dress, and she never a mistake
by giving wrong sum to anyone.
While tho women are very
X. Monday April
The report-of correspondents of the
Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin, issued
by I he North Carolina State Weather
Service, for the week ending
April 18th. 1890, indicate an
warm, week, wild an excess of sun-
shine, average mean temperature i
for the Slate for ibis week was I
if death Invades homos
you do not tho despair and gloom
that so often reign us. in
affliction; scorn to thoroughly
in their religious belief that
their dear ones urn translated to hap-
than per day pier scenes that separation
county
shall entitled to elect one delegate
and one alternate for every one
and fifty Democratic votes, and
one delegate for fractions over seventy-
five Democratic votes, cast therein at
the last preceding gubernatorial
and none but delegates or alter
so elected shall be entitled to
seals said contention ; Provided,
That every county shall have at least
one vote in said convention.
At conventions the delegates
shall be selected, as near as may be,
from the friends and supporters of the
candidates voted for.
Such alternates of
absent may be present at
any convention, shall be
allowed lo cast the whole vote to which
their precinct or county may be
In all conventions provided for by
this system, after a vote is cast there
shall change in such vote until
the final result of the ballot shall he an-
by the chairman of said con-
All Democratic executive commit-
tees shall have the power to till any
occurring their respective
o. The chairmen of the
county conventions shall certify the list
of delegates and alternates to the differ-
district and Stale and
a of said delegates and
to the State convention shall
he sent to the secretary of the State
central committee.
G. It be the of the county
and of its chairman, to fur-
such information and make such
ten to the Foreign than to the Heine
field, has observed this primitive order.
Their bear their part very
much its Phoebe and
bore in tic first Christian mis-
This order came hack in
form, with all the churches in this
of missions, all the churches have
their woman's missionary societies, and
boards, and their missionaries in all the
foreign mission fields. This ts
because the great majority of
heathen women are absolutely out of
the reach of the ministration of men,
and because all of them stand specially
in need of such womanly
. . t . . . I mill ill
Christian women alone can give, to raise subject, weary that. , back washerwomen,
all their lives they were never so royally big of clothes on their
entertained as upon this occasion. soldiers
The hospitality was not of that per- uniforms; priests, friars,
. . , , of boot and thread,
nature, that devolves a . ., . . ,,
. , vegetable pushing handcarts
or select to otter, but was of green in out among the
spontaneous, universal, and of the most horses and vehicles with amazing
hearty generous character. All. and yelling their cries In
every class sought to outdo the oil.-; high is
in the manner and earnestness of, no end to the multitude.
If the day is showery, It is a sight
attentions, and the result, eras one in tie
continuous round of and j when of every age, ma-
enjoyable entertainment, I and color ore all opened at
The attentions of Skinner, the while the people who have
. . , . . . . crowd into tho codfish shop,
hotel proprietor, were pronounced and , j.
are especially earnest j with tho traditional
and courteous treatment of his guests of or entering when
being from a hotel standpoint, as j they do not mean to buy anything,
tying as they are elsewhere unusual, for tho Romans mostly civil
I people and fairly good natured. But,
To sum up, the occasion was a or at tho busy
of generosity, a carnival of place is always crowded to overflow-
a of pleasure and the with every description of
cf North Carolina's great- I and every typo of
per
above the normal. Temperature of la only temporary. Tho women of
to on Saturday j the family do not goto the
. n i , , -i with their dead; only f ho
breaking all previous records tor April. , . , J .
. . , bare and friends. no
I he was very small, is homo on
drought prevails everywhere. Reports j their shoulders,
however, arc not as discouraging as ed by different relays every little
anticipated. Farm made good way. Colored coffins are used for
progress, and are doing people, being
color. I no is usually rented
well. If good -hewers occur
by tho lower class just, for
them from the degradation into which
they have fallen, and fit for filling
their rightful place in the Christian
the Christian church. No
movement or work has been productive
of so much good, both at home and
abroad. G. A.
RAM'S BLASTS.
Warning Calling the Wicked to
Repentance.
their respective counties, and the of the State
inc. hat W
Turn a thinker loose, and you shake
the world,
Old men because young
men drink.
We rob God when we give our
neighbor light weight.
The man who is not a friend, will
utter need one.
When the Church is awake the devil
is afraid lo sleep.
The sin we have no mercy on,
soon have no mercy on us.
A golden opportunity never knocks
at the door twice.
The hardest wound to heal id the
one inflicted by a friend.
This world is a tad world only r
those who have bad hearts.
Treasures laid up in heaven, always
enrich somebody on earth.
If good seed is put in good ground,
some of it will be sine to grow.
The devil is the only gainer when a
boy is whipped to make him go to
church,
F. L. who is in the city
spending a few days with his family,
reports that his baggage, consisting
large commercial trunks, was
held up by robber, near
shortly after nightfall night lust
week, but the highwaymen were fright-
away by the approach of other
vehicles before they could accomplish
their purpose. Mr. went ahead
of his baggage and bad passed the point
of bold up before
Headlight.
week everything will be excellent mid tho body is removed at
condition. Vegetation has made mar- the grave and interred in
growth, and trees barely showing With nothing to preserve it from
any green a week ago are HOW nearly contact
in full leaf.
Be
have vaults, or In tho brick,
wall surrounding the cemetery, but
only n-n and it is
out of eighty-six correspondents
showers on
day, which occurred chiefly in J
central-east portion of the district.
Drought prevails generally. The
weather was favorable for farm work,
except plowing and planting stiff land;
suspended seeding
on account of Corn-planting
is nearly over, and hi earning up with
good stand. Tobacco plants have
rapidly and are nearly large
enough lo transplant. Cotton, peanut-
melons are being planted. Potato
bugs have appeared. Truck crops are
looking well, considering the
and shipments continue. A fair crop
of strawberries will be shipped
than- will lie a good fruit crop.
In this instance the town is
named, as the ville will long
Green in the memory of those
good fortune it was to share its
and unbounded hospitality of Race
Journal.
The die Banner.
Spring is with us once again ard, as
usual, we have lost our umbrella.
If it wasn't for the there u
a good rain in this world the
wouldn't have any water to
drink.
Everybody would enjoy
songs spring if it wasn't for the fact
that so many people are continually
predicting the failure of the fruit crop,
may be hot weather in Ibis world.
brethren, but if you'll only pause
long enough to think the hot w
hereafter you'd keep powerful cool
The man who gets our vote in this
year of political grace glory hits
got pay more than a dollar. Bret
we need Con-
ion Crawford in Century,
Light of
Tho thing about tho groat
republic is, all, that it is
big, but intaglio, at
Delphi or is of more inter-
est, in way, more
fascinating. Tho opprobrium of
newness lies upon the
loan continent, are
of Americans who would ex-
change, all Now York, and
into tho bargain, for
monastery or for-
tress of the past. transatlantic
cousins a and delight-
but they cannot show a
antique, unless
ported it from tho old world- It la
not surprising, then, that as soon as
they have their or are
on tho way to making it, tho first
thing Americans think of is a visit
to Europe, and, most of all, to the
old land, It has been said that the
strongest wish of every American is
to mi Englishman, lint, if they
only knew it, they are
Standard.
Like If,
When a stops taking a nows-
just because its opinions and
is are unlike, it is like his refusing
to enter into conversation with a
friend because the two have differ-
ideas on the same subject. Troy
A Nation of Readers.
Out of 41.000 newspapers and
in whole world, the
States Those nearest to
are France, ;
; Austria, ; Italy,
; and Canada, All of South
America has but KM ; Asia, Ml ;
Africa, Nearly three billions of
copies of newspapers and other
lire issued in the Untied Slates in
one year's time. The State of New
York alone prints more papers that all
the lying south of the Sena-
tor.
There is hid in the print-
evangelist of unrivaled
power. His sway is growing daily
Type Founder.
SHORT ITEMS OF
Six hunters have trapped foxes
within ten miles of Me.,
during the pa.-it winter.
unusual to rend an advertisement
in tho paper that the relatives of
such and such a do not pay the
rent of the vault, the body will be
removed by such a date.
After a death in n house, tho piano,
if the family is rich enough to own
is removed from the or
parlor, to the back of the house, and
though ii may be moved in a room
or two nearer its former station
the ye it Is not opened for that
length of time. tho death of
tho of
daughters lent their piano to Mrs.
tho of tho
minister to this country, who had
Jest come a bride, so that
it might used during their year
of mourning and not be spoiled by
being shut up and gathering damp-
for during tho rainy season
mildews is not ex-
posed to sunshine occasionally.
Transcript.
Superstition
If you drive through a Russian
village about p. m., you will be
struck by the absolute quiet that
I ho scone. Not a creature,
r dog, is visible moving about;
the place has tho of a deserted
Tillage. Suppose by rare unto-
ward you come n group
of -landing together, apparent-
in you will notion
that -peak in subdued tones
and whispers, and wait so long
you you will never hoar them
The is simply
These Russian peasants in
evil spirits; but, unlike the Chinese,
believe that are attracted,
not frightened, by sounds. And so,
if unlucky decree that the
out of doors lip. m.,
he is a painfully man. This
feeling also extends to some of the
southern towns. tho holy
of is a model in this respect.
After p. yon may practically
have the streets to
wood's
Poet.
Starling Savage, of Irving College, return of contributions will
if n stamped
la read the poet
Tenn, taken from his bed, by
meshed moonshiners and hanged.
Mrs and her infant
daughter were fatally hunted in a
house fire at Cincinnati.
Walter Crawford, a fugitive
ally from tho printed slip which
his rejected manuscript.
Who wants to
return I'm mine
back any faster than
they do if I had n private
pigeon And gloomily
convict, has three, persons the five the ballade
since be escaped from the Memphis j into a fresh
prison, and a posse is in ope and sent them off on their nine-
i round
THE REFLECTOR
Greenville, N. C.
should all the studying every
I improvement possible to make.
Entered at the Greenville
as m n p mat
Weds a
T, April
Salisbury World has enlarged
five to six columns and added the
press to its news
The World U only eight
months old and all along shown
much enterprise and given its patrons
rood service.
papers are now ad
mining that it looks like the Democrat-
National Convention will be
ed by the this may
be so. That a majority of the State
the free silver, and
that without waiting for any
agreement, becomes more
every day. Let this country lead
off, and nations will not be slow to
follow.
Some weeks ago the New York
Legislature passed a bill combining all
the cities immediately adjacent to New
Yolk in one municipality under the
name Greater New York. The
Mayors of both New York city and
Brooklyn refused to sign bill-
went buck tin and that
body again passed it over the vetoes of
these two Mayors. The bill now goes
to Governor is
he will sign. Chicago has been
ii g such rapid gains in population on
New York that something had to be
to keep the latter at the head
American cities. If the Governor
makes the bill a law it will give Greater
New York over three mil-
ion population.
LOCAL NOTES AND TOBACCO
JOTTINGS.
. JOY
Tobacco transplanting i- now going
on all over the county.
Last week we spent a few in
Lenoir stopped over a
in on our way back.
There are no more clever greater-heart-
ed people on earth than the tobacco
Lenoir and it is a genuine
pleasure to sit down and talk with such
of progressive as J.
Granger, W. Canady and others
with the interests
there.
K. Dibbrell, editor of the South-
cm and
Record, Richmond, ha- contributed
quite a lengthly and very
paper to the Sunday issue of the Ha-
News and Observer, from which
take the following extract which
will be interesting and instructive to
of our readers. especially
the attention of our farmer friends
to the latter part this extract as it
gives a very clear insight into the cause
of the low prices of tobacco and the
future for prices.
prosperity of North
Carolina to-day is doubly derived from
the comparatively recently acquired
culture of bright tobacco her light,
quick and productive level land,
cleared hinds which have far more than
doubled in value in a few years, when
every other species of property
has suffered stagnation and a
decline. There Hie tenant
and tobacco without ea.-h or
it, or land or house, content to go bare-
footed four or live years is
in many cases the of his own
implements, a home and out-
humble, though some may be.
yet are full of rich food stores and
stocks with something ahead of taxes
up for a rainy day, and no
if any, that ain't be
these people, still too unlettered
people perhaps grown up the
yellow clad tobacco fields, towns of such
growth M Wilson, Rocky
Mount, Greenville. Louisburg and
etc. with banks and ample depot
its to mutually the business
and the The merchant
has quadrupled his stock in stores. In
place of the stitch down or brogan
o.- the cheap split leather woman's
which were sold a years
go, when cotton was alone king and
many poor, and the plantation
mortgaged, we see with the diversity of
tobacco culture the separation of the
general country town store into
rate and stores. A shoe store
on its own merits and a clothing
dry goods store has customers to
these special lines, therein is
variety good growing selections to
keep puce wit h demand of the people
prosperous and able to pay for better
tilings of fashionable tastes and dates.
Debtor to bright tobacco arc many of
the tine farms, stocks and the
which see in the new to-
belt, while tobacco has the lead-
of all farm products in paying
qualities. to lose this prestige,
act to progress, means that we
Spread of acre age is not what is
reeded. Tl ere is too much tendency
that way There are big
in Carolina and South Car-
to-day for the 1896 crop ; the
spreads early and rapidly. Let no
one attempt than he is fully able
to attend to. Every pound of common
tobacco made debases the better
co sold.
In the olden times Virginia the
common tobacco unfit for export was
burnt up at the planter's expense, later
on it was branded not up
to standard. It would be much bet-
to-day if we had such inspections
to maintain a high standard, rather
than ruinously down one
Let it be also
thin the nearer a planter comes to
classing and grading at home
his tobacco will sell on the
warehouse leer. L a clear
eye colors to a crop right,
and this is what manufacturers are
just M about as a woman is
in matching dress colors and trimmings.
in the plug is needful; the
consumer expects to get the same color
and quality in the brand always.
The planter may assume one leaf to be
as good as another, but the order buy-
factories will show a
that would astonish the planter, and if
the hitter followed his tobacco up to the
plug factory and saw his wrapper again
he would at once see the
close classification, a to
color, size texture, etc.
The dissimilarity of tobacco leave
and different crops of tobacco is pro-
but just here the wise
of grading comes in as a paying
j, j property of leaf tobacco. There is
much in the texture of
heavy bodied tobacco is not the best
or the is the tough,
silky, and soft velvety full medium
size leaf of lemon or orange color that
pan best, or highest values. Jut no
it is true that mahoganies are most in
demand ; the temporary cause being
the rivalry among factories for standard
brands of plug, using a rich dark ma-
grades very scarce in the 1895
crop, destined to be in demand in
the crop, these may male
best on rich low land more body
than that used for bright wrappers.
Common wrappers sold well in
because of cut prices on common plug,
a sort requiring heavy pressure on the
wrapper. The grades of wrap-
are less ill demand because of the
Hie- grades of plug being less sold or
able by virtue of the
of common cut-price lug
The same and effects to
cutters; the finest grades,
ding newly opened
war against the Tobacco Trust, are less
high six months past, while the
mm and grades are
higher than six months the bulk
of the latter selling relatively highest,
more than offsets the decline in the
lesser quantity of tine cutters. The
competition is over the common and
medium grades of cigarettes and the
demand for medium cutters grew
stronger and prices went higher.
Though we do not know what a day
bring forth, yet the outlook is de.
good for our 1890 crop if it be-
fine quality. The cigarette and plug
war may end in consolidation of both
and a greater monopoly than
ever must ensue. A compromise may
be effected, and the Trust go on t-
only the smaller factories, but the
latter will soon have the advantage of
released patents on cigar-
machines and other advantages,
which will cause many small leaf and
order cigarette factories to start up. and
the buyers, to supply these, will again
be as glad as ever to speculate, or buy
on order, as rivals on all markets.
Tobacco crop statistics are extremely
important to the planter and dealer
alike. In all staple crops but tobacco,
acreage, pounds, prospects, etc., pro-
are published upon
authentic official and reliable data, but
tobacco alone is left to the guess, if any
and all interested in the trade figures
are used to suit any fancy or purpose of
the inventor ; it is there very
that the of Virginia
and North South Carolina should
frame and enforce laws requiring plant-
and dealers to of tobacco
made, sold and on hand. The
yield, etc., should come direct
from the county commissioner, or com-
missioners or tax to the State Adi-
tor. The warehouse offerings may be for
from one to four or more times sold
over, not counted as resales, and arc
totally deceptive as statistics as a State
or county's crop, We speak of an av.
crop in comparative terms, and
yet we have no standard or criterion in
Virgina or North Carolina of date.
community are responsible for g
men drinking, but I do not think the
business men are as much responsible
as the ladies. I have often heard
men say that a young man who drank
was thought as much by the ladies
as one who did not drink, and the ac-
of a great re any young ladies
proves that their assertion is true. I
do not intend to go for the ladies too
heavily, but those that the cap fits must
wear it. have attended a great many
dances and amusements various kinds,
and have scan young ladies corner off
young men under the influence of
key in preference to those that were
sober. Of course young men no-
such things and I certainly would
like to know what kind of encourage-
that is to young men who do not
drink. They see that those around
them who drink seem to be preferred to
themselves. Soon the two meet, at an-
other dense and the drinking young
man says to the other, lot's have
a The sober young man s in.
span to take something, lie
pauses a few seconds, and thinks of the
dance before, what a pleasant time
his friend had, and he at once makes up
to follow his friends example.
So it comes, don't care, set
f the young lady is not responsible for
that young man taking that drink, I
would like to know who is.
we reverse the thing and
find the young man in the ball room
under the influence of whiskey and his
lady friends not even treating him with
ordinary politeness, then the sober
young men would see that the ladies
preferred soberness to drunkenness,
and it would be encouraging not
to drink.
I often hear young ladies say
would not marry a man that drinks
for anything in the Now let
me tell you, my young lady friends,
you don't who drinks and who
doesn't, and if the sun were to sudden-
rise over your town some night
about twelve or one o'clock you all, and
brother too, would think that
every town in our country had been on
fire. Now let me tell you something
else my lady friends, you all had better
use your influence and stop this drink-
among young men, if you don't
there is no telling what will become
us all. You say you will not marry a
man that drinks. If you will no, this
country will be overstocked with old
maids in a very few years.
I was very much surprised a few-
days ago at a lady asking the
question, is the most injurious,
whiskey or I thought that
whiskey had caused enough in
almost every household for every in in.
and child to know that it is the
greatest evil on earth. Look at the
WASHINGTON LETTER.
University Stun mer School for
s. Chapel Hill, N. C.
various crime that are daily commit-
Whiskey is the cause nine-
tenths of them ; and this being cam-
year we know that whiskey will
be freely drank, we may expect an
increase of crime. Young ladies, you
all have a friend who drinks, and you
have some influence over that friend.
Why not try to stop him by kindness,
and if you first fail, try again, don't
give him up. You have nu idea how
much influence you have over your
young men friends, and your influence
may save him, his father, mot her and
sisters many years of sorrow.
AVe have before us political parties
that claim to be the interest
of all, but there is only one party who
has the real interest of the people at
heart and this party is the
Could they get in power,
the good would be felt from the oldest
gray haired man to the little infant in
the cradle and would add happiness to
thousands of homes, but we need not
for assistance from the political
parties. are all sidling on the
same boat and at the end of their
they all drink at the same saloon. I
am sure that somebody will say
that's some fellow who wants
That's correct, that is
exactly what I want, am not
alone, and I have the great pleasure of
knowing that the majority of the ladies
and the better class of our people are
all with me, and if the ladies would use
their influence towards helping the
Christian people reform the young men
and let them see their error, they too
would s be I was read-
a few days ago an account of a lot
of drunken Indians at Mexico,
killing many ladies and children.
Whiskey was the cause of those lives
being lost. We have not the Indians
among us, but we have the whiskey on
every side, with the increase of
drinking and the increase of crime, ere
many years the Mexicans will be read-
just such accounts right here among
us. Are we to sit still with our
folded until reformation will be
It is to be hoped not. Then
let us go to work with God as our
leader try to carry happiness to
every home. M.
SOCIAL DRINKING AGAIN.
More Advice to the La-
dies.
Item.
N. C, April
Joe Archer was in our town
day.
show failed here on ac-
count of rain.
Mrs. Sarah Hart has been right sick
some days-
Dr. T. M. Jordan and family are off
on a visit to Goldsboro and vicinity.
W. F. made a visit
day to his grand daughter,
D. C. April,
From our Regular Correspondent.
The people are sometimes quicker to
see the of proposed
than the Congressmen are, and
in election years, if at no other time,
the expressed disapprobation of the
people is quickly deferred to by the
men who control Congress. A case in
point is the Pacific bill which
has been reported to both House and
Senate. Now, although this bill in-
an enormous amount of money,
and that it is much more favorable to
C. P. Huntington and his ring of
than to the government, as was
so ably shown by the protest written by
Senator Morgan, from a sick bed and
presented to the Senate as a minority
report, it was proposed to railroad it
through Congress during the last days
of the session. This had
the support of Speak t Reed of
leading men in the Senate, and was
being whooped up by Huntington and
his lobby. The bill has been so
ally condemned by the people that a
halt has been called in the
and it is now said that the bill will not be
acted at this session of Congress,
If it ever is in its present shape.
President Cleveland assured the
to the National Arbitration Con-
which met in Washington this
week, who called on him. that he was
thoroughly in sympathy with their aim
lo bring about a of
arbitration disputes not
ting the of nations.
The unseating of Representative
Cobb, of Alabama, in favor of Good-
the Populist who contested the
seat, by the Republican majority of the
House, was a part of the deal through
which it is expected to carry Alabama
this year by a Republican-Populist com-
This was so palpable that a few
Republican members refused to vote
for it, but not enough to defeat it.
The danger of putting young men with
more egotism than parliamentary
knowledge in the Speaker's chair was
exemplified during the debate in this
case. Speaker Reed desiring to con-
with some of his called
Representative Barrett, of
setts, to the chair and retired to his
private room to figure on his chances
for the Presidential nomination. Mr.
tangled up, was about
to get the House in the biggest sort of a
row by attempting to shut off Mr. Cobb,
who had allowed one hour to speak
in his own Fortunately some,
body for Mr. Reed and he returned
to the chair and out mat-
He also tried to let Mr. Barrett
easy by saying that he had
the agreement under which
the House was acting, but
Bailey, of Texas, promptly called
him down by shouting not
This man hopes
to be Speaker of the next House, if
Reed becomes a President and the
House remains
Senator Smith, of New Jersey, has
probably been scratched off Audy
Carnegie's list of if he was ever
on it. The reason is an amendment
which Mr. Smith wishes to have at-
to the Naval appropriation bill.
This amendment instructs the
of the Navy to make no contracts
for armor plate for the battle ships
provided for in that bill unless the price
be at least as low as a ton of
pounds. Carnegie is no- making
Uncle Sam pay a ton tor armor
plate, but has promised to reduce the
price, to prevent the government
to make its own armor.
Senator Smith wants to make sure that
the reduction is what it should be. and
yet there is no injustice in the figures
he names as that is the price at which
Carnegie and his associates have taken
a Russian contract. It remains to be
seen whether Carnegie's friends in Con-
can head off that Smith amend-
There has been some excitement in
Congress this week on account of a
statement made by Representative
of New York, to the effect that
Walter a young American
recently imprisoned by the Spanish
had been executed.
Mr. information came from
Cubans in New who got it direct
from their on the island. Sec-
thinks there is a mistake
about it, as he has the promise of the
Spanish authorities that young
would be given his liberty and allowed
to leave Cuba. If investigation proves
that execution story to be true Spain
would better look out for serious
third session of the School will
begin Tuesday, June
Twenty courses are offered in
DEMOCRATIC
A Convention of the Democratic par-
of Pitt county will be held at the
Court House in Greenville on
Psychology, History, English j Jay, May at o'clock M.
Civics, Modern languages,
Latin, Algebra, Ni lure Work, Music,
Drawing, Vertical Writing and all the
public school branches.
Fifteen instructors from the Faculty
of the of the State Normal
School, University of Louisiana, Clark
University and the city schools of
Charlotte, Winston, and
Prof. Austin C. of Trenton,
New Jersey, the f teacher of Sci-
will have charge of the Nature
Work.
Miss Belle Thomas, of the Cook
County Normal, will have charge of all
Primary Work.
Miss Little and Professor
teachers of Chicago and
will give instruction in Drawing
and Vertical Prof. New-
lands is the pioneer of writing in
America,
Dr. C. Smith, of
will conduct the courses
Literature.
Full courses by Professors Alder
man, Toy, Noble, Graham,
and others will be given daily.
Mr. Ellis, of Clark University, will con
duct a Psychological Laboratory.
The Library, containing
volumes, will be open every
day, affording unusual for
reading and intelligent research.
Free access to the Scientific
will be given to the students of
the Summer School.
Chapel Hill is delightfully situated in
the Hill Country of North
with a most climate. The
campus of acres, well shaded, the
spacious buildings and libraries, and
the beautiful offer a most at-
tractive place of summer residence.
Tuition fee admits to all courses,
is reasonable, from to
per mouth. Cheaper rates of board
and arc offered to coining
in clubs.
A neat containing full
formation as to all details will be sent
to any applying to Professor Alderman,
the
In the
tor the purpose of appointing
to the State Convention to be held in
the city of Raleigh on June 26th. 1896.
The Democratic voters of several
townships arc requested to meet at the
usual place of in the township
on Saturday, May Kith, 1896, at
o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of
pointing delegates to said County Con-
According to the plan of organization
the townships are entitled to appoint the
follow number of delegates and alter-
each,
Heaver Dam
Bethel o.
Carolina
Falkland
Greenville
Swift Creek K.
By order of the Democratic
of Pitt County.
R. Williams, L. Blow,
Secretary. Chairman.
for
THE BEST INTEREST
THE TOWN.
OF
Roll of Honor.
Of Greenville Public School, taught
by Mrs. J. L. Sugg and Miss Sadie
Short, for month ending April 24th.
Bryan, Mary Harris,
Mary Ada Clark, Jessie
Holiday, White. Nettie Spain,
Dell
Forbes.
Rountree, Foster
Milton White, Johnnie While, Johnnie
Congleton, Bruce Raker, Tuns-
tall, Closs Daniel.
Congleton, Mat
Downs. Frankie Harris. Julia Harris,
Mary Johnson, Nannie
Johnson, Maud Lanier, Carrie
Alma Tucker, Rosa
Tally, Mattie Allie Spain.
r Bar-
Peter
Roy Hearne, House, Archie
Joyner, Charlie Tucker.
Harry White.
------A large assortment of the celebrated------
Eagle Brand of Fine Shoes
------just received- A complete of
General MERCHANDISE
always hand.
T. WHITE
C. A. old
TOBACCO HI
To meet the demand from growers of T for a HIGH
GRADE FERTILIZER, we have placed on the which
destined to fill the bill of a perfect Fertilizer. We use High
Sulphate of Potash in the manufacture of these goods, which is ab-
free from Chlorine.
Guaranteed
Ammonia to 3.50 per cent.
Available Phosphoric Acid to per
2.00 to per cent.
Total
Potash
For sale
WHITE,
Greenville, N. C
to 1200 per cent-
to 3.50 per cent.
Manufactured by
Columbia Guano Co.,
Norfolk, Va.
EDITOR was in-
deed a pleasure to me to read the
of in Thursday's
and I assure him it was for the
interest of all that prompted me to
write the article on -Social
As says, I knew that it
would not meet with the approval of
the because the is what
always though sometimes things
that are untrue a great deal
I heartily agree with when I wanting such work done to
he says he men and of a
M'S. Jessie
at Greenville.
We have good ruins and people
arc very busy planting tobacco this
week. There will be more planted
here than last year, per cent more.
There will be a Knights of Honor
picnic here May 0th. All Knights arc in-
to come and bring a basket. The
Grand Dictator will deliver an address.
think the Free Press a
very good paper, but we think the
Greenville Reflector equally as good.
And we know the does
the nicest job work for as little money
as any paper in the State. advise
TWO PAPERS f 1.50.
in
Monday's contributed his
article to the series of inquiries as to
the best thing to do to help Greenville
he would have been entitled to the
premium. Of course it docs not meet
with the approval of many, but what
good thing does And some of the
are regarded as the best
of the community. It is indeed
refreshing to read the article and
there is more truth than poetry in it
all. Business men and the young
ladies of any town or community are
more for drinking among
young men than all the
factors that makeup a community. If
they would try they could put a stop to
social drinking. If men would
require it as a qualification to employ-
as clerks and employers of every
kind the habit of social drinking would
not be formed, or if formed would be
before it had grown so far
on young men as to be hard to lie broken
up. ladies would decline to
receive the attentions of young men
whose breath was flavored with whisk-
and whose very word and manners i
indicated drink, young men could not
gain admittance to society who drank
There is no excuse for social drinking.
It leads to debauchery in the end. The
spectacle presented after almost every
such as the morning
after the late fire, gave utterance to
its toleration by the community.
I was at the fire and got exhaust-
and after the lire, many were
exhausted for two days. Young men
who go to balls and take drinks
while the dance is in progress, usually
revel after the ball is over for the
of the night, or a portion of
it, and carry the signs the next day.
There is nothing that affects the good
of a community more than the
social drinking. It is without
any excuse whatever. leads to
other habits and vices that would never
be thought of, which lead to ruin
and shame. It is to be hoped that
will pursue his argument against social
drinking further. Never was there a
better time, and hi will have done the
young men the greatest kindness
should he bring about a reformation in
this line. Fathers and mothers who
have sous and daughters will honor and
bless him. M. X.
There's nothing the matter with the
Democratic party in North Carolina.
All that is necessary now is for the
doctors to let it alone. a
dose of fusion medicine
would do it harm. All the
of North Carolina needs is a good
tonic, that will come by telegraph
from Chicago on the 7th or July-
Star.
THE OLD RELIABLE.
--------IS STILL AT THE WITH A LINE--------
TEARS taught me best is the
Hemp Building Pumps, Farming Implements, and every
ting necessary for Millers, Mechanic; and general house purposes, as well a
Clothing, Hats. Shoes. Ladies Dress Goods I have always on band. Am head
quarters tor Heavy Groceries, and jobbing agent tor Clark's O. N. T.
Cotton, and keep courteous and attentive clerk I.
GREENVILLE. N. C
J. L. SUGG.
Life, Fire and Accident Insurance.
N. C
OFFICE AT THE COURT HOUSE.
All Risks placed in strictly
ASS COMPANIES
At current rates.
O. Cobb, Pitt Co. N. C.
T. J. Southampton Co., Va
Mrs. Anna Gage, wife of Ex-
Deputy ll. S. Marshal,
Columbus, Kan.,
was delivered
of TWINS in
less than min-
and with
scarcely any pain
after using only
two bottles of
DID HOT SUFFER
jeans
muled free.
BEAD FIELD CO., GA.
SOLD BI ALL DRUGGISTS.
COBB BROS CO.
COTTON HE R I ANTS,
AND
Cotton, Grain and Provision Brokers.
Progress Building, Water
Ties Peanut Sacks at Lowest Prices.
and Consignments Solicited.
Code, used in Telegraphing.
Commissioners Sale.
In pursuance of a decree
court of county made at
April term In an action therein
pending entitled If. G. Lang v Moses
R. I and T. W. Can- Ac.
will on Monday, June 1st
before the Court House door in Green-
ville, sell at side for cash, a tract
of land lying in township
Pitt county, immediately in the fork of
Middle Swamp and Sandy Hun and ad-
i lining the lands of J. Flanagan E
A. Richard Carr S. V.
and containing seres
more or less. , .
JAMES A. LANG;
Commissioner.
the day of
This Chance Does Not Come Every
Day.
The has just made
with the North Carolinian,
whereby we can furnish
both papers, weekly, a whole year for
Our readers are well acquainted with
both these papers. No paper ever
published in Pitt county contained as
much news as is now found
week in The Eastern Reflector,
while the North Carolinian ranks
the best weekly paper the State.
If you want the home, State and
general news these two papers will fur-
it to you. Remember this is cam-
year and you could not subscribe
at a better time.
Rocky Mount, N. C.
January
F. S. Royster.
Dear cm enter my
order tor tons of your
Tobacco Guano,
think I will need tons for
my own use. I have used
Orinoco for two seasons past
and I like it. It's a splendid
guano.
Respectfully,
R. H. RICKS.
Mr Hicks has made a large
fortune raising fine tobacco.
His commendations of a
is worth as
he knows what ho is
For s de by G. M. Tucker,
Greenville, N. i.
GUANO CO
NORFOLK
ii-s--
LAND SALE.
virtue of a decree the Superior
Court of Pitt made at March
term in an action therein pending
entitled J. N. executor of R. A.
versus It. B. et ale,
will Monday, June 1st, sell at
sale, before the Court House
door in Greenville, to the bid-
the following tracts or parcels of
land situate in Farmville township,
county, described the last will and
H. A. as follows
One tract beginning at SO ash in
the run of Gideon's or Jacob's Branch
and running with the various courses
of the Frank Moon to when-
ditches cross, then up the ditch that
leads to the old road, then with the
Frank Moore land to the Greenville
and Wilson road to the m of the
avenue leading from the road to Dr.
Sooth East poles
to a fin drain or branch, then
said branch South East poles,
then down said branch South East
poles then down said branch North
East poles to white ash,
then South East poled to a
small water oak on the run of Black
then down the various courses
of said Swamp to the mouth of Gideon s
branch then up the various courses of
said to beginning, contain-
by estimation live hundred acres
more or less. It being the MM land
devised in said will to K. B. Bynum.
I, tract known as the Davis
laud the bought of Allen By-
acres more or
less. It being land devised In
said will to William Boyce and wife
for life with remainder to Bennie
The tract of land known as the
Askew land containing acres
more or It being the de-
vised in said will to the children of
All of said lands will be sold subject
to such improvements
since the death of R. A. Bynum.
Terms of
ALEX. L. BLOW,
Commissioner.
Greenville, N. C April 22nd 1896.
In about sixty days I will move
my stock of Hardware and Stoves
to one the brick stores now
built. Until lime I will
reduce the price ray
per cent my Stoves
from
Tobacco
Flues.
Ready For Delivery
Haying secured a shop
on Dickerson Avenue
near R. L.
I am prepared to fill
your orders for
I ft FLUES
Stoves will be as
; My Stoves for pi ILL
Have
Pumps, Doors, Sash mils,
specialties. Axes
I am offering my Corn
and Sewing Machines at cost.
I have just received a lot of
barbed fencing wire.
All will go
Try el my axes.
Call early and bring the Cash.
Five Points, Greenville, N. C
Notice to Creditors.
Having appointed and
lied as administrator of the estate of
W. C. House deceased, all persons hold-
claims against said estate bore.
by to present them to the under-
signed for payment, properly
on or before th 10th day of April
1897, or this notice will be plead In bar
of their recovery. Al. parsons Indebted
to said are requests I to make
mediate the
This the day of April
B. HOUSE,
of W. House,
in new machinery and
guarantee first class
work. Look to
interest and give mo
your orders.
Agent tor Wall Paper.
Notice to Creditors.
The Superior Court Clerk
County having issued Letters of Ad-
ministration to me, the undersigned, on
the 24th. day of February, 1896., on the
estate of Belcher, deceased, no-
is hereby given to all persons In-
to the Estate to make
payment to the undersigned, and so ell
lied tors of said to present their
claims properly to the
within twelve months
after the date of this Notice, or this No-
will be plead In bar of their re-
This Jay of
on the Estate of Ber-J. Belcher.
TOBACCO FLUES.
We. the undersigned,
purchased or used Tobacco Flues
last sea-
a and unhesitatingly say they
are A- both in and
are n pot together than
Flue usually made. All Joints
riveted or binged,
J. J.
W. G
S. L.
S P.
We now taking orders for
next and wilt
quality the best and prices as low
as any. Correspondent solicited.
Give correct of barn
and we will make flues yon
can put them up in fifteen min-
W. C. Son.
Washington, N
New
Spring
Styles.
THE REFLECTOR.
Local Reflections
White Onion Sets at S. If.
The early gardener arc eating rad-
When yen want a real good smoke
to Morris
The material the telephone ex-
change has arrived.
LOST IN THE MUD.
And We Could Not Find Much of a
String; of Personals Today.
There was some hail
afternoon.
south of town
Friday's rain mudded the river
started it on a rise.
and
A Mrs. Hopkins Boy.
SPRING NOV-
you find a
more stock the
Everything needed
high dress and prices
that are surprising. They
WITH the best
that the affords.
For durability and near
I defy competition. I
just returned from
the northern
stock of SPRING
CLOTHING which for
assortment, style and
he equaled a
first class store anywhere
A SUIT IN STOCK
that is out of style.
sold very close last sea
son have shelf
worn goods to offer you.
Everything up-to-date. I
I NOW I CAN SUIT YOU
I have a number of years
experience in the Cloth-
business under
stand the taste and wants
of you all. Give mo a call.
IN IN NEED OF
anything in
FURNISHINGS look
over stock and you
ill buy. The line is
con pit to
THE GOODS LINE
I am up to-date and have
the late t PRINTS to select
from. I was careful in my
elections and can show you
some beautiful effects My
LINE OF HATS ARE
surpassed- I have a Hat
for every man and boy in
Pitt county. Every shape
and shade imaginable I
have a hat chart of styles.
YOU CAN BE
Baited in any shape
or quality. I make a spec
of Shoes for both
Ladies and Gentlemen and
will make close figures.
LY THE LATEST IN
N IONS are kept in
stock and they are of the
order. A call will
convince the most
c of I bis fact. Remember
NOW IS THE TIME TO
have a Suit Made to Or-
My samples are all
in and are beauties. Fit
and
given in e very case
Several Of the clerks are hiking it by
turns going fishing.
Things have grown out ill
the tobacco quarter.
As it begins to turn warmer the smile
of the ice returns.
If the weather slays lair you may
look for it to be warmer.
Joe Evans can show the finest Rid
of the season so tar.
Half the wickedness in the world is
gossip by good people.
It is unwise to enter into an
beyond ability to fulfill.
good
population.
Sunday was a
added to Greenville's
A Salisbury boy died of
brought on by smoking cigarettes.
It is easy for a man to promise to be
good when he is too sick to be bad.
There is to be a big excursion from
Washington to Norfolk on May 27th.
It is time for snake yarns.
liar the biggest one of season
so far.
The tailor who essayed editing found
that it was easier to press the suit than
lo suit the press.
says the guinea pigs
Ashley stock farm are
from sun stroke.
There is to be a big wedding at Ml.
t church, four miles from town,
on Wednesday evening.
Mr. C T. is giving one of
houses, occupied by
Mr. a new dress of
you want Ice Cream, Water.
Milk Shakes, Coco Cola, Lemonade
and call Morris Meyer.
We hear that a boy near town
was playing with a puppy, Sunday,
and the bit him through the lip.
t am prepared to furnish Cream
to families any quantity. Give me
your
The offices of Dr. W. TL Bagwell
and which were
burned the fire, arc being re-
built.
We hear two more handsome
for Dickinson
with the that work will begin
at an early day.
Leap year is nearly one-third gone
and the girls seem to be making mighty
poor use of it will be eight rears
I c
before another leap year, too.
is increasing meeting
I the Methodist church. There were
several penitents at services this
morning.
We heard a man say Saturday
lie once took a mortgage on
a coffin, and had to threaten a fore-
closure l his pay for it.
The Republican primary here
day was on the tame order, nothing
done but naming delegates and select-
a precinct executive committee.
fifteen empty
flour barrels. Apply at
office.
advertisers are showing
in editing the paper
What they say is to the point and the
reader should look closely every col-
The Odd Fellows are negotiating
with Mr. W. II. Long to have n new
ball for their use in the upper story of
the new Tyson block to be built by
Elliott Bros.
Cod Fish, Irish Potatoes,
Buckwheat, Oat Flakes, Cheese, Mac-
P. It. Molasses, at S. M.
The in the Methodist church
continues this week. Mr. Wilson
held three services on Sunday, preaching
a very enjoyable sermon to the children
in the afternoon.
Will James was telling Saturday
that he caught a four pound carp with
hook Mild line the river. lie Bays he
thought lie struck a sturgeon from
the way the pulled.
North Carolina, unquestionably the
greatest State in the Union, has plenty
of room for every class of good people
desirous of coming and living among us.
Henderson Cold Leaf.
On the first Sunday in May the
News and Observer will issue a
special edition under the auspices of the
North Carolina Teacher's
promises to be a splendid number.
We regret to learn of the death . f
Mrs. W. Dixon, of Widow Green,
, which occurred Saturday night.
Mr. Dixon many friends here who
deeply sympathize with him in his be-
E. Harrison is sick.
W. T. Haydn, of Washington City,
is here.
I. K. Davis, of was here
Monday.
W. A. Burnett, of spent to-
day here.
J. It. Davenport, of was
here Friday.
I. F. King has been quite sick the
few days.
Married. Boll of Honor.
Mr. T. Worthing-tn and Miss month of the public
Mary L. were married Wed- taught at King's Roads,
at the of Mrs. S. M.
Hanrahan, near
E. left tor
day g.
Fri-
Jarvis Sugg left Thursday for
on
O. C. Nobles, of was here
here Monday.
Col. Eugene of is
c business.
J. F. returned home Sat-
Georgia.
It. L. Smith returned from Richmond
Thursday evening.
A. returned to Kin-
evening.
C. D. returned from
burg evening.
C. T. is stopping with his
Congratulations.
O. L. Joyner returned from La-
Grange Saturday morning.
Deputy Sheriff II. T. King returned
from Thursday night.
J. of
was here Saturday afternoon.
Solicitor C. Al. Bernard left Sat-
Van.-e court at Henderson.
Mrs. M. II. of
came over Monday lo visit her parents.
Walter Pender and Forbes
went lo Tarboro Saturday a tandem
wheel.
Capt. i. W. Joyner, once a citizen
of Greenville, is here a visit to
It. Ball, a cotton buyer of
is making his headquarters here
for a while.
Franklin Edwards, of
Sunday with his
J. IV. Blown.
Mis S. M. and children
have returned home a visit to her
parents in Rocky
Louis Meyer returned to Greenville
from Tarboro evening
will remain here with his brother.
Mrs. W. bite, Hobgood, who
has been visiting tho family of her
brother, R. L. returned home
day.
Glad to see Engineer George Smith
on his run the passenger train,
after being oil a week on account of
sickness.
Mrs. Dr. D. W. Bullock, of
and Mrs. Helen of
are visiting their sister, Mrs.
Andrew Joyner.
V. L. Stephens, of Dunn, arrived
Saturday evening and remained until
Monday with his parents hue. His little
son was with him.
Mis. Fannie of New
York, who has been spending a few
days with the family M. R. Lang.
left Saturday morning.
Mrs. Julian Timberlake, of Raleigh,
who has been visiting her parents at
took the train here Sat-
morning home.
C. Moseley and wife, who have
been spending sonic time with their
daughter, Mrs. W. T. Lipscomb, loll
Friday morning for Wilmington.
Mrs. E. S. Green, Miss Betsy
Greene, J. S. Tunstall and R. Greene
went to Greene county Monday to at-
tend the funeral of Mrs. J. W. Dixon.
Miss Jennie Williams returned home
Thursday evening from a several
weeks to Washington City and Raleigh.
She brought her little Bettie
Russ, home with her for a
Don't This.
Any voters who have moved to town
since last election, or who have changed
their residence from one ward to an-
other, should look alter their registration
if they desire to be qualified to vote in
the coming town election-
Bethel Items.
Bethel, N. C, April
J. II. Blount, of Greenville, was in
town Sunday.
V. L. Stephens, of Dunn, was in
town to-day.
Miss Mum Barnhill is visiting
in town this week.
M. C. S. Cherry and W. J. White-
went lo Williamston Sunday.
Bro. have moved lo their
brick store at the hotel.
Julius was the happiest
man in town last a girl.
Waters was on the sick list
week. We are glad to see him
out to-day.
Miss Bessie of Martin
spent last week with her sister, Mrs.
Jesse W. Carson.
The switch at the railroad depot is
being extended preparatory to building
the new depot.
Big Worm.
Friday Ernest Forbes and II.
were digging tor fishing worms, in the
rear of lumber's machine shop, and
found some unusually large grub worms.
They were as largo around as a man's
thumb and four of them weighed a
quarter of a pound.
A Fire Near Neck.
News received here Wednesday of a
destructive fire about a half a mile this
side of Scotland Neck, in the saw mill
On by Mr. It was
totally destroyed and was valued at
about We could not learn if
was any insurance.
Census of School Districts.
Register of Deeds W. M. King re-
quests us to give notice to the School
the several dis-
of the county, to lake a census
within the next month of the children,
of school age respective districts-
and make return of same to his office
according to law. Sec section
School Law as amended by act of 1898.
by Miss Bessie Tyson
Little, Maggie Little,
Nannie Smith, Eva
Smith, Maud Tyson, Annie Tyson, Sue
Tyson, Martha Ma
Mary
and Abrams.
Needle in His Foot for Years.
Mr. Samuel C. Garrison is year,
old. When hoy of 1.1 lie got a
in his foot. The physicians did
what they could to get it out but to no
avail. From time to time since
has caused him pain, and lately had
gotten quite troublesome. Mr. Gar-
located by the pain as near the
top of his foot Yesterday, after
all night he went to Irwin
Our Special Effort
Moore, Gray
i if ii i t the need- CT T
John Hugh Smith, J I
. , , , ,; , I. the help of X near I .
Cleveland Barker ranter v
the lop of the loot and brought it out
nearly whole, just as it went
Observer.
It might be well to stale that no
pupil is the honor roll who was not
present both days of the examination.
Fire in Kinston.
There was another fire in Kin; ton
Wednesday mailing about o'clock.
The store of S. Co. was
with a total loss of contents.
The loss on stock was about
with an insurance of from to
A Handsome Brick Block.
Mr. W. II. Long tells us he has re-
specifications for a new block
f buildings which Elliott Bros,
put up where the Tyson block was
burned, on the east side of the street.
He tells us this new block u to be a .
. . . Mr. and who
very handsome structure, two stories; .,,.,
,. , . . ., . . in bark the store, bad
high. Hie ground floor will contain; , , ,
. , . narrow escape and were saved by per-
five stores en trance to
,. , ,. ,. . sons passing on street who saw
upper story, entire
second floor will lie made into nice
the rear will be connected with
the stores below for use by the
pants. Work will commence
soon on this block and it is expected to
be complete by August.
Marriage Licenses.
Last week Register of Deeds King
issued four marriage licenses, all for
white couples They were for M. L,
and Cathrine P. J.
T. Worthington and Mary L. Mew-
horn, J. W. Taylor and Lee.
W. Douglas and Hannah L.
Jones. These are the only licenses for
white persons issued so far during this
month.
County Convention May 20th.
The Democratic Executive Com-
county and several of the
township committees held a
here Saturday. They ed-
May 20th, as the date for hold-
county convention to select
to the State convention. The
township primaries will be held on Sat-
May 10th, to select delegates to
the convention.
The
King
Clothier,
Three stores going up for Mrs. Jar-
vis, the contract let for tor Elliot and Robinson, whereby tin
Governor Carr has sanctioned ex-
change of courts between Judges
Bros., and every one of them engaged,
before the laying of the first brick.
This shows something of the demand
for houses in Greenville.
Pure blood is the safeguard of
Keep the blood pure with Hood's
it you would always b
Special Sale Eight head of
Young Horses and Mules will positively
be sold without reserve Saturday,
May 2nd. to close business.
GEORGE. M.
No of opposition or danger can
deter the true man from doing what he
I to be his duty.
will preside over the May term
Beaufort, and the latter over the Slay
term of Halifax court-
The cheapest magazine we have yet
seen is Magazine, by Russell
P Co., Boston. The price is
only cents a number and it is
how so excellent a magazine can
be published at so small a price. The
illustrations matter equal in eyer
reflect the higher publications.
t is worth many the price.
Gone to yen.
The two boys, The. Jenkins
and Jenkins, who at the last
term of Pitt Superior Court were con-
of murder ID the second degree
and sentenced to twenty years each in
the penitentiary, were taken to Rah
to-day- At the close of the trial no-
of appeal was entered for them,
but as the appeal was not carried out
they to serve their sentence.
Lightning Strikes a Church.
During the storm. Friday afternoon,
struck the
The bolt struck near the bell
in the tower considerably shattering
the woodwork breaking one of
windows. The damage done to the
building is estimated at about
Lightning also struck the large walnut
tree in front of the residence Mayor
Forbes, on Greene street, about fifty
yards from the church.
Fire m the Country.
Mr. Ricky Moore tells us
a tenant his place, live
miles below town, was
by tire Wednesday afternoon.
The house Was occupied by a colored
family, all of whom but three small
children were out at work at the time.
Parties out in the field saw the
and went running to the house, reach-
there in time to save the two
smallest children. Nothing at all could
be saved from the house, the occupants
losing every thing they had.
The Atlantic Hotel.
The Newborn Journal says hat Mr.
W. P. Campbell will have the manage-
of the famous Atlantic Hotel, at
Morehead, the coming season. For
sevens years past Mr. Campbell has
been chief clerk there, and he is pleas-
remembered by the many guests
who went annually to that delightful
resort. like a convenient
railroad schedule can be secured we have
doubt that there will be many people
going to Morehead the
coining slimmer.
Whichard Items.
N. C, April slat, 1896.
The weather continues fine for the
farmers. Fair and hot, but getting
rather dry. Cotton is coming up a
little.
W. A- Fleming, was here
again Saturday. lie must be getting
some encouragement here in his line of
business, insurance.
is not on but three
new houses store and two dwell-
arc going up here now.
W. It. Whichard went to Greenville
last Friday. On his return, When in
about live miles he was taken
very sick at his stomach, which lasted
two or three He says tell the
Editor take any more
deviled crab in
The Johnson Lumber Co.,
are getting on fine with their work.
They are moving about a quarter-mil-
lion feet of logs per week.
J. W. Roberson, General
of tie G. J. L. Co. here, visited
his family Martin county, Saturday
and Sunday. His little son, dishing
is with him this week.
Four Assessments May.
Mr. S. M. Schultz, Financial
Re-
flames aroused inmates.
The tire is supposed have resulted
from the explosion of a lamp which had
been left burning. The building be-
longed to Mrs. Hunter, of
and hi badly damaged. The brick
walls an-all right, but wood work
is The firemen did good
vice, in three minutes from the time
porter of Insurance Lodge, No. began play on the Are they had
Knights of tells us the it control But the firemen
Supreme Secretary of the order has that escaped the
sued for the month of May four of last fire would have
to meet the payment
death losses to date. The past winter .
. . e can t have free coinage
excessive rate all over . . , , . , . . .
unless international agreement,
the country. These four ,. hues. Did ire have an
cover averaging the agreement when the
will make Independence was proclaim-
out one month. To meet this
members, estimated at will
pay each, making which
shows that the order is collecting during
the month more than
is needed to pay the losses. Many of
the members think such extra payment
of assessments is unnecessary.
ed, or
adopted Ex.
Constitution was
Items.
is here at last.
Mis. I. of Greenville, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. K.
of is
Miss Little
Id. is visiting friends and relative at
this week.
Mrs. Emily and
Miss Olivia, Ridge Spring, spent
Thursday with Mrs. N. II.
Herbert and wife, of
spent Wednesday with her
parents here.
was a huge crowd at the M.
Bank
President Isaac Lewis of Ohio,
is highly respected all through that
lived in Clinton Co.
years, and has been president of
the Sabina Bank years. He gladly
testifies to merit of Hood's
and what he says is worthy
attention. All brain workers find
Hood's peculiarly adapted
to their needs. It makes pure, rich,
red blood, and from this comes nerve,
mental, bodily digestive strength.
am glad to say that Hood's
is a very good medicine, especially
as a blood It has done me good
many For several years I
greatly with pains of
Neuralgia
Suits for 5.00
9.50 6.00
7.00
10.00
You
.,
8.00
I Boys
2.00
3.00
1.28
2.00
the no V
We have a full lino of
tho latest designs We a full Hue of Bros Fin
, E. P. Reed Roe Shoes, F.
to Com.
O. T,
NEXT TO TYSON BANK.
here are
In one eye and about my temples, es-
at when I bad been having
a hard day of physical labor.
I took many remedies, but found help only
E. church at lo hear Rev. in Hood's which cured me of
Mr. last Sunday.
The farmers around
very hasty in out
near this place,
h. i lice i very ill for several months.
We are glad to know that he is the
mend.
Mrs. X. II. of this 1-
going to spend some time this
with friends and relatives near
ville.
RUN DOWN AT THE HEEL-
SPLIT AT THE TOE-
BUSTED AT THE
TO THE SOLE.
ch i f tho above troubles have Slippers
Are made by a reliable who every pair.
I Why
DOt try
them
they
aVe sure to please. We have them in every size and style. Some
for tho infants, some for the grandmother, all intermediate sizes and
widths.
Try our line, plenty of
variety to select
from.
Lang Sells Cheap.
Coiner.
Is fill of tho Bargains jars the the purchasers dollars and
I his fact joined to the truthful assertions, the largest stock, most
beautiful selections, best values, make our store the most
satisfactory for you to trade. Come take a look at
the many attractions which we offer you. They
cannot fail to elicit your admiration and make
you our patrons. A stock full of Bargains
every day during each season, but
before better, grander, more
beautiful or better selected
stock than this season. Our
bought for the
Cash, and added to
the judgment
of years
experience, we offer a Hue of
Merchandise
that has never been excelled or scarcely in this town or
county. Our store in tho home f tare bargains, genuine
honest goods, square dealing, polite
and the place for to We have
them hero Gal upon every Inner
to examine them Our store
is full to
of
following lines
Dry Goods, Ladies, and n Die
Goods, Shirt Waist Silks, White Goods,
Dimities, ail woo.
Black Dress Goods, Ripples,
Novelty Cotton Goods.
Linen Fabrics,
Ducks,
Piques, White and Colored Lawn s
my bowels and like the pills ., , i l -r
Isaac Lewis, Sabina, Ohio. I
Stylish things too to mention. Our Laces, Ribbons, Silks.
Braids, Buttons, Velvets nod other Trimmings make hearts of
the ladies glad to behold them. Kill Gloves, Hosiery, Side Combs,
and Hair Ornaments are beauties. Our Shoo is for
Ladies, Misses and Children, of en and most complete
and line Ladies, Misses and Oxford Ties ever
offered
Furnishing Goods
embracing man articles, such Collars, Cuffs, Ties, Scarfs, Bows
v, Suspender, Dress and Sunday and
every day Shirts, Undershirts and Toilet Articles- Fur, Wool and
Hats for Boys. Caps for, Boys and children-
Plain, Pure, Heavy Groceries.
Flour, Meat, Sugar, Lard, Salt, Snuff Tobacco. Hard
ware Farming Tools, Flows and Casting, Tinware. Toilet Sets
and many household hoe. The Best line
Crockery that have ever had and that is saying much. Our
and Dinner Bets are beauties- Our Plates, Cups and Saucers, Dish
es and Bowls are hero in quantities and Vase and Par-
Lamps, and fancy patterns. Now a word about our
FURNITURE
more and grander than fiver before. Oak
Suits. Parlor Suits, Couches, Lounges, Plush, Upholstered, Reed,
Willow, and Oak Rocking Chairs Oak Dining Chairs. AH the
culmination of the Manufacturer's Art up to date. Separate pieces,
Bureaus, Bedsteads; and Dining Tables, Towel and Hat
Tin Safes, Side Boards, Spring Mattresses, Cots,
Shuck Mattresses, Mattings, Rugs, Carpet, Cur
Poles, Curtains, Window Shades and other furnish
Maud Hags and Satchels. Woo
Willow Ware. Tubs. Market Fancy Lunch
other things that yon need. come to
villa and leave without your the Leaders and
rheumatism, neuralgia and headache.
Hood's Sarsaparilla has proved itself a true
friend. I also take Hood's Pills to keep
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood All
Prepared only by 0.1. Hood Co. Lowell. Mass.
,, are prompt, efficient
easy In effect,
J SLIPPERS
ors
J, B. CHERRY Co
-THE-
I bought goods at the
HARDWARE.
I but will time.
Do you want to PAINT your house, if so let us figure on your
bill of paint and save you money. Our stock of Harrison's Ready
Mixed paint is complete. It is among best made. If you want
Lead and Oil we've got it. Wire Screen Paint, Varnish for fur
and of all colors.
EAR FIVE POINTS.
GREENVILLE, N
A LAUNCH.
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An Made
the Block Are Laid.
It has often been said that man
begins to die the moment that be
TAKING THEIR OWN MEDICINE.
THE GREAT WHITE SCOURGE.
The Landmark hits heretofore
plained the changes made in the
county government law by the last
begins to live. It might also be said the old law the
that a ship begins to be launched j county commissioners could not
the moment she begins to be built sum exceeding with-
The first thing in the con-
is to arrange the keel
SIDES
ANTS BUT
their year's supplies will Mud
their interest our prices before
Our stock
n all its branches
FLOOR,
Ac.
always
we direct from mm
Wing you at o-e A e m
stock of
FURNITURE
prices to oil
th i t mies. got an-all bought and
sold CASH having no risk
to sell at a close margin
S. M. J C
blocks on which the ship is to rest
while she is They must be
j placed at distances apart,
and each must be a little higher
than its neighbor nearer the water.
These blocks are usually of the
stoutest oak and are placed from
two to three apart. They most
i have a regular inclination, or the
ship cannot be launched. In vessels
j like the St. Louis the incline is
about half an inch in height to
i a foot in length. In smaller vessels
it is often more than one to he
l I foot. Larger vessels have so much
j weight that a sharp incline is not
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RAIL ROAD,
-we Hie
SOUTH.
Dated
Mar.
m;
Leave Weldon
Ar.
A. M.
A. N
Tarboro
Rocky Mt
Lt Wilson
Ar. Florence
Wilson
Goldsboro
Magnolia
Ar Wilmington
O s
M.
I OS
P. M.
fl
TRAINS
Dated
Mar.
1806.
Florence
Fayetteville
Selma
Ar
Lt
Magnolia
Lr Goldsboro
Ar Wilson
Tarboro
A.
Mill
o a
A. M.
Wilson
Ar Rocky Mt
Ar Tarboro
Tarboro
Rocky Mt
Ar Weldon
P. M.
P. M.
P. M P. M,
Train on Scotland Meek Branch Road
Weldon 8.65 p. m. Halifax 4.1
arrives Scotland Neck at 4.55 p
o., Greenville 6.47 p, m., Kinston 7.4-5
p. m. Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20
a. m., Greenville 8.22 a. m. Arriving
Halifax at a. in., Weldon 11.20 am
except
Trains on Branch
Washington 8.00 a. in., and 3.00 p . m,
arrives Parmele 3.50 a. m., and 4.40 p.
Tarboro 9.45 a. m.,
Tarboro 3.30 p. m. Parmele 10.20 a. m.
and p. m,, arrives Washington
11.60 a. m., and 7.10 p. m. Daily ex-
Sunday. Connects with trains on
Scotland Neck Branch.
Train leaves if C, via
ft Raleigh R. R. except Sun-
day, at p. m., P. M;
Plymouth 9.00 P. if., 5.25 p. m.
Returning leaves Plymouth daily
6.00 a. m., Sunday 9.30 a m.,
10.25 and
Train on Midland N. C. branch leaves
daily, except Sunday, 6.05 a
m. arriving 7-30 a. m. Re-
turning leaves 8.00 a. m,,
rives at 9.30 a. m.
necessary as with smaller ones.
The keel of the ship is laid on these
blocks, and as fast as the sides of
the vessel are built up great props
are placed against them to
sure that by no accident will the
vessel topple over.
At length the hull of the ship is
completed. Then it is that the
launching apparatus is prepared.
This consists of two parts, one that
remains fixed on the ground and
cue that glides into the water with
the ship. The part that goes into
the water is the cradle. It is that
part in which the hull of the vessel
rests snugly, and probably that is
why it is called a cradle. When the
time comes for the launch, long
row of blocks is built under each
side of the ship at an equal distance
from the keel and of the
same inclination. On those blocks
rest first the stationary
These consist of broad planks of
oak from to feet wide, capable
of sustaining a weight of from to
tons to the square foot. On top
of ways the
of nearly the same breadth,
and between the two the tallow is
placed.
A narrow cleat runs along the
edge of the stationary ways so that
the sliding ways shall not slip off as
they carry the ship along. Above
the sliding ways is what is called
the This consists of
pieces of timber packed close against
the curving sides of the vessel to
hold it firm to the sliding ways be-
neath. The curves in the hull vary
so much that it would be impossible
to fit the sliding ways to them, and
so, by means of packing, the ship is
fitted to the ways instead. The pack-
and the sliding ways constitute
the cradle, and it is fastened to the
ship by stout ropes. Along its length,
at intervals of about are
big wedges, the points of which are
inserted between the sliding ways
and the packing. A rope about the
thickness of a clothesline runs from
wedge to wedge, so that none may
be lost when they float into the
We are now ready for the launch.
Tallow to the thickness of about an
inch has been spread between the
ways as they were put in position,
nearly barrels being
for a ship like the St. Louis. The
cradle sets snugly against the ship's
bottom. The vessel, however, is still
resting on the keel The task
now is to transfer the ship from
these keel blocks to the launching
supports and to take away the keel
blocks. Then, when the weight of
the ship rests on the ways
alone, all that is is to saw
away the at the bow,
where the stationary and sliding
ways are fastened together, and the
ship by her own weight will
slide into the water. If she needs
a start, several using
power are ready beneath the
keel to lift her a trifle and give her
i a Great
by Franklin Matthews.
Cats,
Cats are susceptible to little at-
as spreading a rug or
laying a cushion for them, and ex-
tenacious of their rights
of possession. Besides their baskets,
each of mine has a cushion, which is
kept in one place, on which she is
trained to lie to prevent her cover-
the furniture with hairs. Only
two have been completely broken of
the habit, and has so exclusive
a sense of property in hers, which
is in the corner of a sofa, that if she
sees a human being resting his head
or elbow on it she posts herself on
the floor before him, looking him
out of countenance until he moves.
Once a visitor threw her cushion in-
to a chair and sat on it. As ho dis-
regarded her protest she walk-
ed away, but would not lie on it for
weeks afterward. This jealousy of
anything like a privilege or
itself in them
Why He Stopped HI Paper.
A recent subscriber to a Georgia
newspaper writes to the editor to
stop his paper and makes this ex-
think people to spend
their fur pa mi daddy
didn't and everybody he was
the man in the
and had the smartest family of
that ever dug
Trans in Nashville i branch leave
Mount at 4.80 p. m,. arrives
Nashville 5.05 p. m. Spring Hope 5.80
. m. Returning leave Spring Hope
m-, Nashville a m, at
9.06 a m, daily except
branch. Florence R
A., If aW p in. arrive Dunbar
7.50 p m Clio. p in. Returning
leave 6.30 a m,
Arrive 7.0 a m, except Sun-
day-
Train Branch leaves War-
for Clinton except
11.10 n. m. and 8.50 p, m- Returning
leave-din-on at n. and 3.00 p m.
Train makes close connection
at Weldon points dally, all rail via
sirs at Mount with
Norfolk and Car oil R for
all points North via Norfolk.
JOHN F. DIVINE,
General Supt.
M. EMERSON Manager.
That Same Old
asked tho earnest youth,
is the more pleasurable,
realization or
said the Cummins-
sage, whether you allude
to gutting a tooth pulled or getting
Enquirer.
out the con-ant of a majority of the
magistrates of the county. the
new law given us by the
the power the commissioners is
practically absolute,
county has this year an ex-
ample of the operations of the new
law.
That county needed a new court
house and lad long needed one, but
the old law the magistrate-,
who had often been called together lo ,
lake action in the matte, had re-
refused to authorize
building of one.
After the law was changed the
commissioners took the matter into
their own hands and decided to issue
to build a new court house.
Their right to do this was in
the courts and the Supreme Court de-
in had the
Id court house torn down and then
some difficulty arose about disposing of
the bonds. This matter has now
been adjusted, we believe, and the
has been let the building
of the new court house.
Considering that the action of the
commissioners was authorized
by the Legislature, it is quit.-
amusing to read in the Winston
week alter week, severe
of the commissioners. only
does the Republican itself and
condemn them, but the Alliances in
have adopted resolutions con
the action of the commission-
and Populists and Republicans
have held meetings at various places in
the county and adopted resolutions of
same tenor, sonic of them urging
that an action for damages be brought
against the commissioners. And all
this because the commissioners have
simply taken advantage of the law
which these same Populists and
helped to make. It is all very
funny. the Democratic system
of county government, so much de-
such a state of things would
have been impossible. These Forsyth
however, do take their own
medicine with very wry faces.
We have adverted to this to show
the workings of the new order of
things. Under it the
for instance, could tear down
our present court house and jail, if they
were so minded, and build new ones
under some such arrangement as the
Forsyth commissioners have and
none could say them nay.
This is We want the
to think about it and keep it in
mind this Landmark.
CATARRH.
His Worst Enemy Defeated by
P. P. P.,
Great Remedy.
Catarrh Cannot be Cured.
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the seat of the dis-
ease. a blood or
disease, and in order to cure it
you take internal remedies. Hall's
Catarrh Cure Is taken and
acts directly on bled and mucous
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not med-
It was by one of the
beet physician in this country for
years, and is s regular It
is composed of the best t known,
combined with bet blood purifiers,
acting directly on the
The perfect combination the two
is produces such won-
results in curing Catarrh. Send
for testimonials, tree.
F- J. ORKNEY
Bold by druggists pries
Mr.
The Old Kan's Opinion.
began Johnnie.
your napped
rattling his paper.
you said Johnnie.
snorted the old
man.
broke into my reading for-
times to-night. Why don't ye
your head and quit bothering
I ask you one question
Johnnie.
What is his father
violently. is it you've got to
know that's so vital you can't let me
have a minute's quiet with my
told m to ask sniffed
out with it, command-
ed the old man, impatiently.
you said Johnnie, -that
Niagara can be damned
Mr. flung his paper to the
floor and ground his heel into it
can for all of me he roared.
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Matters Of Interest Over the State.
Bob Chambers a preacher, was
tied to a tree and shot to death by a
mob at Cranberry, N. C. He had at-
tempted to chloroform and feloniously
assault a Mrs. Wilson.
A great many people from
sections of the country will visit South-
Pines May 5th, the occasion of the
gathering of Northern Settlers.
A rather remarkable incident, occurred
on our streets yesterday. Two sows
began to fight and one threw the. other
against the corner of a house and broke
her neck, killing her
Union.
Jesse Gannon has poultry that pro-
flat eggs. He was in town Fri-
day when about three dozen of the
eggs were sold, most all of which were
flat on one or both
Standard.
We all know that any tired muscle
can be restored by rest. Your stomach
U a muscle. Dyspepsia is Its manner
of saying am tired. Give me
To rest the stomach you must do its
work outside of the body.
This is the Shaker's method of curing
indigestion, and Its success is best at-
tested by th fact that these people ere
practically free from what without
doubt the most prevalent of all diseases.
he shaker Digestive Cordial net only
contains digested food is prompt-
absorbed without taxing the tired
organs, but it is likewise an ad
to the digestion of other foods in the
A cent trial bottle will
convince you of Its merit, and these
you obtain through all druggists.
and Formidable
It I to Mankind.
In order to see how formidable an
enemy we have in tuberculosis let
it with some other dis-
eases are even more dreaded.
Leprosy rare in most
countries; even in Asia Minor it
causes less than per cent of the
total death rate. Typhoid aid soar-
let fevers are held responsible
for per diphtheria and
for per cent each. The
deaths from consumption alone,
omitting tubercular troubles as
hip joint disease, disease of
the spine, some forms of
tis, intestinal caries of
bone and many abscesses, make
according to one authority, a
per of the total death rate of
this country. It is estimate I that
one-third of all deaths occurring in
the medical wards of hospitals are
duo to and that a fifth
of all surgical oases
of are tubercular.
We may bring these statistics
home by saying that you and I were
born with one chance in five of
of some form of tuberculosis. If
chance of being instantaneously
and decently killed by an electric de
in inn BROS., Ga.
SHOOK Were in We turn I u, nearly four
the wheels of progress back p- F. i afflicted from the crown
M . i, . . my head to the soles of my feet. Tour
rather than allow an light p. P. p. cured ray of breath-
trolley car to threaten our safe
No pains and no expense are closed for ten years, now
., , . . . breathe through It readily.
thought too great in maintaining a i aTe on for two
quarantine against cholera,
tho sensible part of the
community is already vaccinated J
and the like. I
appropriations are made, friends and the public generally.
that may be tried a yet
proved defense against diphtheria,,
but to the insidious the
FOR THREE YEARS HE
HARDLY BREATHE AT
NOSTRIL CLOSED FOR YEARS.
Mr. A. M. Ramsey, of DeLeon. Texas,
was a from Catarrh in Its worst
form. Truly, his description of his
Inga seem little short of marvelous. In-
stead of seeking his glad for the
nights coming, be went to with terror,
that another long, weary, wake-
night and a struggle to breathe was
before He could not sleep on either
side for two years. P. P.
, cured him In quick time.
expect soon to
bandies.
of
t undersigned an-
numbers its dead by hundreds S
. , A. M. Ramsey, who, after being
where these other open foes sworn, says on oath that the foregoing
made by relative to
theirs by scores we are blind.
time that the veil should be drawn
. virtue of P. P.
P. medicine is true.
A. If. RAMSEY.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
from the loathsomeness of the August 4th.
great white scourge, that the false;
sentiment which poetry and prose
have thrown over infection, blood
poisoning, suppuration and decay
should be
Considered as a Contagious Rheumatism twists and distorts your
hands and feet. Its agonies are intense.
Catarrh Cured by P. P. P.
by A. L. Benedict, M. B., in
Monthly.
the Sun.
Acquaintance the street
Hello, I haven't seen you
you got your last book out
How you anyhow in
that paper
Struggling roast
don't mean the
brown paper. I mean the paper yon
ire reading.
Struggling Author evident
a roast in that
Tribune.
When I, with the other
crusaders, took all the no-
and good looking women of the
town were carried off. were
afterward ransomed, the great-
rt were held blares by their
but speedy relief and a permanent cure
Is gained by the use of P. P. P.
Woman's weakness, whether or
otherwise, can be cored and the
built up by P. P. A healthy woman Is
a beautiful woman.
Pimples, blotches, and dis-
of the akin art removed and
cured by P. P. P.
P. P. P. will restore build
up your system and regulate you la every
way. P. P. P. remove that heavy, down-
feeling.
Tor and on the face,
take P. P. P.
for and thorough organic
take P. P. Great
Remedy, and get well at once.
A French Wanted.
There was an interesting episode
one day in n well known Washing-
ton . The proprietor has a
chef in his employ, and
result is that the menu cards can lie
guaranteed to any American.
Two gentlemen sat at a table. One
was from tho west, and his French
education had been neglected. The
other had but recently come to
Washington from Paris. After read-
tho menu the said to
the can't read French.
Bring me a good
Meantime tho Frenchman was try-
to out tho words.
don, ho said, not
e Francois. not
I know not what Zero cos
soup. French for rat.
I want not rat soup. cos
Tho proprietor heard it, and upon
investigation found that his
was correct. o is a new French
chef, who understands tho French
Star.
Two Hen In One.
A member of tho Royal
society, London,
to the Society For Psychic-
Research a proof that man
two distinct consciousnesses.
This ho explains by the fact that
persons under tho influence of an
not con-
at the of operations,
sometimes after a few days, to
describe tho details of the
operation, instruments used, etc.,
though informed as to these be-
fore or What ho calls the
was ab-
sent at tho time, but tho
is that which was
present during the operation, and
which not only felt, but saw, what
was going on. Hence
would seem to postpone rather than
destroy the functions of the latter
kind of
GROVES
CHILL
J AS FOR ADULTS.
WARRANTED. PRICE
C Ills., Nov.
Paris Medic,,, Co., t-f. Mo.
last year. of
TASTELESS CHILI, TONIC and have
three this year. In our ex-
pend, o or In the
never universal
Tonic truly.
m ,., co-
Bold A guaranteed
costs cotton planters more
I than five million dollars an-
This is an enormous
waste, and can be prevented.
Practical experiments at Ala-
Experiment Station show
conclusively that the use of
will prevent that dreaded plant
disease.
Our pamphlets are tint circular boom-
fertilizers but are practical works, contain-
the results of latest experiments in this line.
Every cotton farmer should have a copy. They
tree fur the asking.
GERMAN WORKS,
St. New York.
SOLD BY ALL
BROTHERS, APOTHECARIES,
SOLE PROPRIETORS.
Block.
For by J. L. woolen. Drug-
gist, next door to S. T- White's.
Sympathy.
are who never take a
out of tho way, never put any
into any com-
fort into sorrow. But there are
those, too, who much of the
milk of human kindness, whose
hearts tuned to tho key of ten-
whose faces beam and scat-
H. Moore.
to Be Don.
Scrupulous Valet finding a
franc piece in the pocket of his mas-
new a thou-
sand pities for tho waistcoat,
there's nothing else for it. I must
ft hole enough for tho
money to slip Pa-
role.
S MITE EDWARDS. Props.
the
late
Court
near
GREENVILLE, N. C.
from
Prof. W. H. who
makes a specialty cf
Epilepsy, has without
doubt treated and cur-
ed more cases than any
living Physician; hi
la astonishing.
heard of cases
of standing
cured by
him. Ho
val
work on
this dis-
ease, which
he sends
with a
large bot-
of his absolute cure, free to any sufferers
send th P. O. and Express address.
We advise wishing a cure to
n. F. i., Cedar St Hew York
Manufacturers and dealers in all
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All kinds of repairing done
use skilled labor and good
material and are prepared to give
satisfactory work.
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THE TOBACCO DEPARTMENT, WHICH
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IS ALONE WORTH MANY TIMES THE
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G.
ATTORNEY-AT-LA W,
N. C.
Practices in all Courts. Collection
w.
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Greenville, K. C.
Practices In all the Courts.
Swift Galloway, B. F. Tyson,
Snow Hill, N. C. Greenville, N. C.
GALLOWAY TYSON,
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Practice in all the
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Wilson, N, C. Greenville, N. .
ATTORNEY
attention given to collection
and settlement claims.
DENTIST,
O.
Office over Old Brick Store front room
R. D. L. JAMES,
DENTIST,
N. C.
GOOD FOR STOCK AND POULTRY
TOO.
pared especially for stock, as well as
man, and for that purpose is sold in tin
cans, holding one-halt pound of
cine for cents.
Lambert, Co., Tenn.,
March 1892.
I have used all kinds of medicine, bu
I would not one package of
for all the others I ever saw
It is the best thing for horses or
the spring of year, and will cure
chicken cholera every time.
R. R- Boy Ian
for ii
h.
Worn.,
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OINTMENT
has
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TAR RIVER SERVICE
Steamers Washington fur Green
ville and Tarboro touching at all land-
on Tar River Monday, Wednesday
and Friday at A. M.
Returning leave Tarboro at A. If.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
Greenville days.
These departures are subject to stage
of water Tar River
Connecting at Washington with
steamers for Norfolk, Baltimore,
Philadelphia. New York and Bo-ton.
Snippers should older their goods
marked via Dominion fr
New York. from
Nor-
folk Baltimore Steamboat
front Baltimore. Merchants Miners
Boston.
JNO. SON. Agent,
H. C
J. J. CHERRY,
Gr- N. C
to lit tut Hi M n.
This Preparation been In use for
fifty years, and wherever know has
been In steady demand. It been en
the leading physicians all
country, and hat effected cures
all other remedies, With the
the most experienced physicians, who
for years failed. This Ointment is of
Standing and the high
which It has
o its own but little
ever been made to bring It before the
One of ibis
be sent to any address on receipt of One
Dollar. All Orders at
tended to. Address all order to
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The course all the blanches
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H thorough preparation to
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