am
now oaring v on. of
Interring Observations sad
Comment On Measure
inn In
1901.
week the
GOODS.
g HATS. PASTS pissed
CUTLERY
TABLE
at reasonable prices. My line of
i. of ,,
When to a mat.
know best.
TAX
That of the
taxation or of dons is
to the early this session,
Thursday of this week the Gar-
bill to levy a tax on canines
will be discussed. Its advocates
say that it ran be made to raise
to for the public
school Its opponents claim
but we are all familiar that
old store.
. White.
bar of more or less acts,
while as many more are in the
hands of committee or the
of the two houses. Some
of the most bill
of general character yet to be
bill for the cs-
of a School for
by
Senator of Wake,
h, the intention of the two commit ,.,., .,,.
ma on Penal to-
Murphy asks for
appropriation this for
hospital for
A portion of it is wanted for u
A Fortification.
Fort he body against disease
by Liver Fills, an
cure for headache,
sour stomach,
alien, jaundice, bilious-
nil kindred troubles.
Fly-Wheel of
Your Liver Pills arc
the -wheel of life. I shall
grateful for the accident that
brought them to my notice. I feel
as if I had a new lease of life.
I. Fairleigh. Cannon. Col.
Liver Pills
Ar
L Rocky Mount
l v- WIN
Lr
Lt
Ar
Lt
UP.
A portion y u is
, , . A t with crooked
ltd pOW-M two
tho l a Jg
. months. call
Get a good
early this week and give ibis
are and ear-
nest roll is
and believed that a
that will meet
.,,,.
The Victor safe is made u. all sizes
office general ,,,,. I
for , provide in
Every Bale with a guarantee to
proof range p
of the I have
heard will ask for more than
One half that NUB, including an
for additional female
ward building to cost about
if the splendid of
this institution is to be maintain-
ca.
m f -r
mil my
of W. I.
N. C. Jan. 1901.
ATLANTIC LIKE
Rana
it at
4.- x-l
ii
am n ah r
II w
i a
ti in
mil m
miS it-
t K. II
it m
r a am
; M
Ill IN
I'll AM I M
indigestion
dyspepsia
biliousness
and the hundred and one
ill caused by impure Wood
or inactive liver, quickly yield
to the purifying and
properties contained in
St
U prohibit sale of
within two Of
Ike town S
s. C Tab Jan ;, MI.
Lt
Ar K.- K j
Ur Tarboro
Lt Rock; Mom I
Ar
It cures permanently by acting
naturally on all organs of
body. Asa blood-cleanser, flesh-
builder, and it
ha no equal Put us in Quart
Bottles, and sold at Si each.
SOLD BY ERNUL.
L.
N. C.
one of as
; another and
a -and I Bod upon
Legislators, of all
I part lea, an to vote us
as Ilia State
to provide.
, Hal.
a meritorious bill
lo provide four
in not now having
UP.
A mile SO pounds
The beat century while marked
. . . I .
is a move to pay your debts.
and sunny when
your pocket's full of money
In every soul there i a
in which hi buried
patted hope.
The average lawyer will wort
on ii appear to
tie
There arc tome c pa
this country, but
will be
People o lie any bet-
in the new than they
were the old -some are even
worse.
round hole in right ear. Una up
abort
Owner It hereby lo
and, Rt hog and
Four north
Jan
OLD DOMINION LINE
COPY BOOKS.
Wholesale Hatters,
VA,
proposed act.
BOOKS.
i hill I -t Friday
in of Wayne to
As one- of the in .,., r
U. designated on . free Q T
State I for the public schools and can supply la highly mi-
ever you We also have That
is to be
generally and this bill, with
some or a similar one. We carry all style Hats, Al-
slant double ruled practice writing fan- pro
tablets fool's can paper pens, slates. among other things made II. f Hooker
a Slate our distributer tor Greenville
of the Governor Is to be aDd you will Bud a full line of
with the State I Tucker at
three of the state Board
as the other
are to be received
IN
J. W. PERRY CD.
Norfolk, Va.
Cotton Factors and handlers of
Bagging, and Hags.
and shipments
solicited.
rayons, colored crayons, inks
Some of Our School
are to
pencils l cent, plain lead pencils cent, bidder
rubber tipped lead pencil cent, a nice tab. ,.
cover cent, ii assort-1 crayons, with metal
. . i,. -late pen . ,
OSTEOPATHY.
E. S. D.
pretty cover i cent. crayons, with metal be Henry Clark House, Aral
in nice wood box B cent. pencil, slate pea- of Ii. list
and pen an-l . all . lamination and
White box,
con's per quire.
be required to use the
Look- adopted, etc. All this
mean cheaper school j Tobacco Flues, Tin Hoofing, Si
AT POINTS,
with a food of
of meal,
Hour, sugar, coffee,
tobacco, cigars
snuff, canned goods and
anything Usually found in
a grocery store. Thank-
you for your liberal
patronage in the past and
hoping by fair dealing to
merit your favors iii the
future, I am
fully,
AM r-M
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It ii
MM
t as ii
tr it n
rm
I I It II i
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II
it it n
IS
Yadkin
Mai d t bl
Ma a M in
leave. Vi ft, m. c
p in. arrive S p in
lave Ben-
a a m,
a m,
rive leave
p m, Hope Mills p n.
Bad pro, Maxtor. P
arrive p m
with train No
M the
Line and
Railway the Durham an.
Train on Sec
l I'm. Halifax I IT
S. Neck l p m.
om. M
f M am, arriving
u a m, II at am.
Trains OS Branch leave .
f loam arrive i
leave I Line
a n p m. a a. .
T hop
Train leave. dally Sandal
at SO p m, Sunday II p n. arrive
leave; lit-
and Sin
day am. m. II Op am.
Tram C
dally, Sunday. III. .
m, leave.
en.
Train on Branch leave
Mount all. H p n. arrive He
l-i iii. ion I'm. II
am. Sprint; Hone Ilk.
II IS a m.
Mount except Bond
Train Jot
dally, except Sunday,
at am.
10-vi pa.
Trull. Wei;
don all dally, all via
m.
Agent,
J. B. Manager.
T. M. Traffic M after
Steamer leave Washing-
ton daily at A. M. for Green-
ville, leave daily
M. for Washington.
Steamer leaves
Mondays, Wednesday
and Fridays at A. M. for Tar-
leave Tarboro for Greenville
and Saturdays
at A. M. carries freight only.
at Washington with
Steamers for Norfolk,
New York and
ton, and for all points for the West
with railroads at Norfolk.
Shippers should order freight by
the Old Dominions. Co. from
Line from Baltimore;
and Line from
Boston.
JNO.
Washington, N. C.
J.
Greenville, N. C,
0.1.
th Business
S . -a-. .-
Good fool's I he proper distribution of
I books nil public
We carry a tin l and sin
long day books, Journals, books,
order books, and wile In
., .
N.
IF. I
PILLS
tort Lott
virtue- of I lie of natal in
,. I. c
. i, dune in . ill now
that la what has beau ah , .
, ,. . kinds and work
X ,. tor many . of guns a
For Society People
IV k nil kinds and if box pap i-
, i-i -.- visiting cards, In
The Famous Parker Fountain
Right r.-
Pet
TO AM.
Mice a, II ion among publishers,
it i. hoped, will be lively despite ; for The Oliver pen rile.
the far trust
nit include all the school book
I believe
II OF
Tuesday the will
lion. -M.
Senator and lo s.
will begin March
I. A i I he he
re. the vole
present. Senator
was railed t. his old
home Friday
death his mother, who
has been ill for some lime, but ill
tot urn in a few days,
The Republicans will bestow the
empty of their votes none
lion. Richmond
Whether
rill vole Is not known, j
and the
present, Pearson will receive
of the
I mid if Kips
rive voles for Butler, Pearson two
not gel more
Five voles fur Butler What a
change in condition from ex-
in 1808.
angry
Satisfy Your Appetite the
a ii .
Dinner from
J kinds meat, I kinds
Vegetables, Bread, and
all for cents.
B. W.
DEALER
and
builder. Urn f.
pink flow lo
or By
per box.
S.
4-------
Cotton Bagging and always
on has .
Fresh goods kept constantly en
hand. Country produce and
gold. A trial will convince you.
D. W.
art a --aw Pt .
18.60, with our to
or the money paid. Send fur circular
J copy of our bankable bond.
in
v I, Mills,
u, I Mills sad Mrs i l of i.-
the 4th U
In-fore in
Greenville, lo
the bed piece or parcel
land. o win II l tract
Ike J- T.
tad. lb of A Ty-
m and acre,
more or . and Wing
m re I ass I.
H. lo
Mil
W,
4th,
Immediate
core for of Power,
or
awl U
of
Be mall tn a
money paw.
CHICAGO, ILL.
For talc J L
N U
W. R, WHICHARD BRO.,
IN
any OM U
lo hunting with
or doe st and tapping,
ruling
or on foot, .
known a
the John ill
1500
We Hie above for any east
Sick
we ,
will. Mill,.
when the are
. are purely and
never con-
Ilk contain lo
contain II Beware of i
and Sent mall, taken.
CO., Clinton and
Jackson in. sale
L N c
Whichard, N.
The Stock complete in every de
part and prices as low as the
lowest. Highest market prices
paid for country produce,
in
Manager. h a,
and sad oilier
Norfolk, Va.
lying in tide of Tar river.
OB known and
ram. in Falkland
Ike
on south Tar
will be protocoled.
It. J.
The present of Hie
native i lo make
the g
bus had, In all our history, in
Cotton and Brokers
i and
ions. i Wires to New York,
Chicago ii I New Orleans.
NO
And it comet to
JOB
a great All cure-no pay
to the
will he made to the Leg
lo town of
t-. Mayor
j. Clerk.
January,
THE B ST
and fever is a of Grove's
I Chill Tonic. It is simply
respects -or else , iii a form
Price SOc.
One Day Cold Our.
For cold in the head and
I the Hist prediction, and the
. a Fur cold in acre . Kev.
. eat; . ;, I sat ion the hopes belief gUM,
The Reflector Can't Be Beat.
The Commoner
WILLIAM J.
ft Publisher,
Advance.
One Tear Months
Three Sing.
No traveling canvassers arc cm
ployed. taken t
Weekly and
will lie teal together
one year for or Tin.
one year for payable in ad-
i-i. i a in .-it 176.---------
. iii,
null and
Dealer. Cash paid for
Hides. Fur, Cotton Seed, Oil Bar-
Turkeys, Egg, etc.
steads, Suits, Ila
by Carriages, Parlor
Suits, Tables, lounges, Safes, P.
A Ax Sn u it,
Meat Wast
American Can-
Peaches, Apples,
Pine Apple, Jelly, Milk,
Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Meat, Soap,
Lye, Magic Food, Matches, Oil,
Cotton Seed nil.-, Oar-
den Heeds,
Candies, Dried Apples, Peaches,
Prunes, Currents, Glass
and China Ware, Tin Wooden
Wine, and Crackers,
mil, i Ii w, Kent I in lie. Stand-
ard Sewing Machines, and nu-
other goods. Quality and
Quantity. Cheap for wish. Come
to see me.
Ph me
IN-
A LINE OF
A a Line of Hardware-.
COME TO SEE MB.
J. B. COBBY.
PATENT
MM PATENTS
C. CO.
WASHINGTON. DO,
T-
III
The Eastern
D. J.
hi i
-AT-
VOL.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Of ill ill till
it Pitt
together with ill Receipts lid
Slid tor the Fiscal ending
3rd, 1900.
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Hannah Dupree .
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Mary Brown .
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Maria Price .
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drizzle .
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Allen .
Belcher .
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Henry Johnson
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M. .
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Matthews .
Louis Noble wife.
Prank a wire.
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Q. T. Tyson .
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Polly .
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Hannah Dupree .
.
Amanda Dunn .
Sam Cherry .
c. Horton .
John Wilson .
Hardy .
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David .
K. Neal .
Chaney .
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daisy Lang .
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EASTERN REFLECTOR
GREENVILLE,
office i
Mail Mutter.
i ii.- i; of the
to iii- Charlotte
will be
interest I la Ml of Inform
One of I lie rural mail car-
be-
in hi- one
. C. Second Cleat , ., .,,
paper;
an Then only tea
took paper; now take
i i that a
C off
assembly
I in Law arc Do-
the
where hi- -ti; is-
man in
railway, five.
Mr. of unit from of the
to life . v Ii, i- in touch with
wonder j
here i a on
popular education,
to and yon have
the scientists are II . ,. problem solved A
ling p can be
to figure elixir of -in. reading people are
being educated all
while. A patron some time
county .
. . north more all the i
A new pet mil i,.,, ., ;.,.;,; that I
is advertised inventor. ; . ;,, that grew
who declares that it can l run by j to read after
a boy. That i e the paper M.
perpetual motion, sure enough.
i Several other we
weigher in all
in Pitt comity.
By An act to
late return of
Most of the bill at this session
were of load character.
A petition was introduced by
Warren from citizens of New Item
against the sale of cigarettes; one
For the relief Arrington stock law in
of North far h Alexander from
forth, deaf and of Mecklenburg for a tax on
, dog.
Among the new bills introduced
were
M.
The following were among
mi lull.- i rod
By To collect and
a display of North
for
the scientists are arguing
respective claims of sail and
life. In either cu-e it i-
th it life must be well seasoned.
dumb and blind.
By To authorize Pitt
to elect cotton weigh
for
By To protect owners of
The election of United States
Senator was gone into when Sim-
mons received vote and Pear-
son s Ml the Democrat, voted
for Simmons
and one Populist voted for
Pearson.
By Sugg, to authorize Snow Hill
to to the capital stock of
the Eastern Railroad Com.
By lo per
son who have beau or
confined in asylums lo manage their
n property.
-lames, lo allow Bryan Buck.
In an alleged race war
lone armed soldier, with
Borne of the new introduced
By Travis, to the fees
By To tor recording
tried a readers have told in . Wash- chattel mortgages.
have
an;
a hundred -hot- were
the would u pa-
I per tin- .
and no one hurt, whereas, s
K editor disgustedly n
mark- I an occurrence
wouldn't even paw tor fun
his
I n i a few ago
the harbor
bill was under
the subject of establishing an in-
live miles
id passing except
; be ill, ire is
growth
Good
mail I ii in i i bring
do ii om pi ill-- wins
education-
I To provide home
rule for Carolina
To punish of-
of assault w th deadly
on it la to kill.
By to regulate the board
of internal Improvements; to
late the keeper
Senator Mel re stated that Ir.
I. M. Curry would speak a
noon and he moved that the Sen-
WASHINGTON LETTER.
.
Democratic Senator are DOW
called upon to decide whether the
Ship subsidy bill, which i again
the of
shall pass or shall fail
reach a vote It is admitted
friend foe the bill if
THE SYSTEM.
Having amended
requiring an educational
qualification to vote, it becomes
our duty to sec every while
child in North Carolina has op
to e an
sufficient to qualify them to
and vote intelligently. think
the way to do so is to abolish
the democrats choose they can system and re
easily prevent its voted
upon. The course of the democrats
is not vet certain. There arc two
sides lo the question. Sonic con-
tend that on general principles it
is the duty of the democratic and
populist Senator, M
of people, to defeat such
a vicious bill, while others are
the districts as they were
regardless of township lines. The
township system has many
place it does
away with school houses on town-
ship lines and cause the children
those districts to be assigned to
district in their respective town
ships entirely beyond their teach,
A joint to extend an at in order
invitation to Dr. Curry, agent of Unanimously ear-
the fund, to address the ,
standard. , provoked dis-
opposition from a, bill was by
of N J., the statement that Dr. Curry bad to few in court;
John II. Small, of e a soldier, was re his influence for Pearson and to reduce coat of printing public
House on the contest for
he went home the seat Congress the ninth bills in the
were of a local nature.
At noon was bad
t hear the speech of Dr. Curry.
mil hi in I
laud along the Atlantic . . . bi.,. If with Incredible
Mr. Small's plan is , , ,,; bun-.
would result in national to in
is carried out. Bud d
;. in, i and was
through North I'm 11-
v. enable vessel- lo puss
till . Inland and avoid the
much loss of life
occur every year. Mr.
Small showed where i
few I re an In-
;.,. ; c. had from
Cape Cod iii the of Mexico.
imagination can hardly grasp
the Immense it would be lo
all and business
cats.
The Landmark in
quirts of What about the
but insane persona who
denied and treatment for lack
i on ill the Slate
Toe answer is easy. We i
iv i- to the pin.
ii refuge I ltd ; raj i ;
p able do so to
support their
and open lb doors wide to
with Asylum- for the
that they arc used for the cir i
and morphine t
t i of an
Constitution
mis Lo wall lo
bate their insane oared
free; but the m
i etc .
V I irk ill
its usual flank .
district.
23rd.
the following were sonic of the
now
Long, Joint of re-
to the memory of Queen Vic-
Great Britain, ordering
flag on capital building placed at
. are
and Joseph .- . Dime muse
inn m . who engaged i
,.,. of fat women will fr
in this incident a valuable Marshal, to amend th
suggestion. ion of N. C. Judiciary Com-
This bill is designed to
.,. j. i-. but reapportion the membership of the
. , i i ., better law for . purely
, i,,, i . debt North
Aim ;. man, it indeed not
. . . v e hat spoken to on
i- el that the State
needs a new law along tin.- line.
I especially are
f to it. All
of our need it. The moral
.; lb p demand it. The
i if we are to be a
Salisbury
This Is An
I aw is a very queer
but
i it colored, b id vis-
. her home In
f j . veiling.
I'll . . id In i a bottle of
white basis.
to amend the
of the Methodist
Henderson, providing for
certain eases of divorce.
By James, to
Buck peddler's tax.
By Lindsay to enforce the
lion of rents.
In the election of United States
Senator in the House the vole was
Simmons Pearson This
made the vote on Joint ballot, Sim-
mons r. Pearson W.
Representative of
son, offered a resolution
presumption is that it is
ways right. Perhaps. Yet it some
lime., works a great hardship. A
In the Superior Court
afternoon illustrates it. The
used to for the Register
of Deeds to sign up a marriage
license and place them in the
a magistrate or two in re-
mote ports of the county, so that
when a couple took a notion to get
married I hey could do so without
so much expense. This was done
tot perhaps thirty or
forty years, but it will not be done
any more, at least while A. O.
is in office.
Several J MIS. ago a magistrate
in one of the lower townships had
some of the signed documents
baud and a man came along who
wanted to get married. His
denoted I hat he was of
. requisite age and he secured
coveted paper and was duly
. spliced. Not long thereafter
equally confident that as a matter depriving them of any
of party policy the the
ought not to stool in the way of And it creates a
the placing of such a millstone I township committee which MS
around the neck of the republican , the
party as ibis subsidy bill would Bond the district
likely to prove, if to often causing great
come a law. There is some talk of , new i
what shall is
the democratic policy toward this men in different
j townships the position.
It is customary for Senators who But the worst feature of the
indulge in bod language toward , township system, and the one that
each other to apologize to the Sen- may become most dangerous to
ate, if not to the blackguarded Sen-; White Supremacy alter 1908, is
but Senator Hawley has made j the in which the school
no apology for having called Sen-j fund is apportioned to the different
a liar at the secret I townships. The money is
session of the Senate that confirmed. to the township according to
the nomination of Justice number of children of school
sou to be attorney General of j age, and a township having a large
several sago. population gets more, and
incident was brought about by the sometimes twice as much, as an
reading from a pamphlet written township,
by twenty-odd years the adjoining township may
ago, by Senator Pettigrew, of a bare more territory pay more
statement that Justice was taxes, thus
given his place on touch in those thickly populate
work done as a member of a poll-1 townships a much longer school
sent to Louisiana term than the white children in
by Hayes, that Hawley, who the adjoining township.
was a member of the same our Nation gives thousands of
was to have received the dollars of our money to t he
of r. s. Commissioner j Indiana. State makes large
to the Paris Exposition of as appropriations the State
a reward for bis work, but declined versify and industrial schools.
It because It didn't enough And yet there are hundreds of
salary. Chandler's only reply bright little girls whose
that Hawley's age Irresponsibility i contribute to those funds
prevented his feeling any resent-1 have no of going
and that he stood by his lo a free school, because of this vi-
statement, strong township system that
point is not of personal. in mind of
insults. Joe Blackburn once was enacted into law by Fusion
tweaked his nose in a committee ; Legislature,
room in the presence of seven or A.
eight Senators, and be didn't
make an lo resent the in- Thanks Mr. Nichols,
ult. Editor
A review of the work of U. We see the papers that om
Office for 1900 show the handsome Mid popular Rep-
of the know bow into Mr. has
A single firm
the death
. , ,. . . o her similar ease occurred and not
I made Outlaw Victoria, and extending
. . ,, , i I-,. . . , ., ,. ., a while after this a suit was
war old beat wishes to the new king, h .
. iii. ii,. ,,.,. , . . brought against Mr. to
nut he drink, ward VII, which was by a . . . , .
, , ., , . , . . . a of for
lo sleep could lie rising vole. . ,
. The resolution is entitled g a license to a man under the
ii mi d. Dr. Ii iv
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do
of Sorrow and at W. this another
j, the Death Her Majesty, kind was brought
hi did Queen of Great Britain hearing the fact
the borne.- Kin Ireland, Empress of
, . Press. by the House of Rep
General
K ins-is seem t, he v
it-
I'll Mary Lease Mr. 111-
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Mary applies
mi Mr, Lease . .
her. -i in
. in. i contest. t
in . it . Toe latest .
the iii i--
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two ms ii
a-1 Mrs, N a urn tied
I Hi sheriff's i v. i ,
polled In- curs. dispatch
does not I.
The sheriff
beaded
. i lo pay w
I They fail
III the rate of
b ml up- j
n .- more
I I ha a it bl
it a nice
. ii too
the firmer w
i iii lead of the
growers of
natural product will bear
d i then- i- any corn-
; in be
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of lb the Senate
ire -iii Is .-
ab n
l bill ii pr i . i ale
the of is ii i
nm a
of upon I lie bare
back. m
wide it
Telegraph,
in i the name
f i and i- it title indicates,
In the
t it ion all props
. . to This i-
bound,
lust d, nil every farmer should
ii i ins library. It ran
ll , I ii i; from lbs
N. tit
St., Ne i ,
v on, in in -e i new
free the In glass
it is Hint
lb lie so nun h in.
in tie world.
I Th ii sympathy of the
, Sol th is with
the family of her late majesty and
tie the of the Em-
In their sorrow at the death
great good Quota Vic-
Thai people of this
Slate lo His Majesty Ed-
ward their good wishes, They
hope for long and happy
reign, n ml I hey hope that during
his reign lies of long
between the people of Ibis
republic and of the mother conn
In be multiplied and
pence,
and prosperity may ever bless the
empire over which II i his
big i dun to reign.
a copy of this
lie lo Ills
pi at Washing-
The following were among the
i 1-
Se-i. An act
coll lo appoint
that both men were under age.
Mr. Kirk man made a statement of
exactly how it occurred and the
case went lo the Supreme Court
body held
and yesterday he did not re-
list a Judgment, for II was useless
of the Supreme Court's de-
The two amount to
with the cost will make at least
reality filched from the
pockets of an honest, upright
It should be mentioned that
joined in holy wedlock are
living n peace and
o a- any evidence shows.
Greensboro lb-cord.
NEWSY AND
NOTE.
a. C. Jan.
Important foots for
of d kinds of fence per
yards.
Cost of rail for years.
rails for yards or rails
per
Splitting rails at
per 3.00
ft timber at per m. 1.20
Hauling and putting up rails 1.00
Shrubbing fence per year
for years
Total cost for years l
Making total cost for rail fence
in years 116.50 per yards to
say nothing of loss of bind
taken.
Cost of walling.
feet at per
hundred delivered 17.50
post at each, delivered 2.00
lb nails at per lb
of making walling 1.00
Patent is, c. A. Snow
of Washington, secured for their
clients during the year, 1407
of many of which
had been previously rejected.
lo change article nine of the con-
of North the
purpose of which is lo justly
the school taxes of white
and colored races so that the whites
Appropriation bills private not be required to pay for the
bills, including one tor the relief of education of the
Boom people believe iii lot-
ling Hull right hands know that
their left bands never do anything.
Joyner, who has
i i for a
of ye i . will move to Littleton
Weak He done much
good in the section In which
he resided and those people will
sustain it loss his leaving.
His health the health of his
family i the cause for his leaving.
He has done n great deal for
people in hi in the way of
inspiring them to educate
children both heart and head.
The wishes of our people will
follow in his new home.
Washington Progress. J
that struggling plant
maintained by the have
occupied the House
all this week.
on
Instead reporting the
Revenue Reduction bill this week
as expected, seems to have got
things awfully up by
amendments it baa decided to
make to the House bill and by
what it has refused to do. The
brewers are Worse
ever and demanding that
made to then when they were ask-
ed to contribute to the campaign
hall be lived up to, and they have
got some of the Senators badly
frightened,
Mrs. Nation's Latest Racket.
Enterprise. Kan., Jan.
street light occurred here lo day,
between women, led on one side by
Mis. Carrie Nation, the saloon
wrecker, and on the other by Mrs.
John shilling, wife of the manager
of the wrecked yesterday.
Mrs. Schilling was backed by a
half female friends.
Mrs. later swore out
warrants Mrs. Shilling
her husband Mrs. Win.
charging them with assault,
Mayor Huffman snore out
Mis. i
her Die
All were They were
taken before Judge re-
leased, but Nation being
on Mis. Nation
not
We believe every white man
Pitt, politics, would
vote inch
can get the opportunity.
We know Mr. Nichols -will
do all be can to get a favorable re-
port bill, if it is obtain-
ed we believe that the people will
have an opportunity to vote on it.
If it docs not get through the
Legislature now, we believe it will
eventually, to Mr. Nichols we
should send our most hearty con-
for putting ball
rolling. J. W. Smith.
Licenses.
of Deeds T. K.
issued marriage licenses to the
following couples this
WHITE.
Joseph W. Bullock and Millie
Council.
Stephen W. and
A. Owens.
A. Singleton and Hattie M.
Little.
S. W. and Bertha Crisp.
W. and Mollie
William Lela Bar-
Purser and Lena
Robert Verbal and Mary Can-
non.
Mamie Carney.
Patience Bad-
Mr. J. A. Kicks gave the little
folk a Friday
afternoon, complimentary to her
union Misses Josephine and
Harris, of Wilmington.
Average cost of plank
Wire fence
yards at per
post at
lb staples at
Putting up
12.15
Your rail fence takes a
row that is worth something
year and your fence is subject
to be thrown down by stock, blown
down in storm, or burned when
Are gets to it.
Your plank fence is a strong
fence, but is subject to be burn,
and when your post decay some
the force of wind against plank
will break posts off before en-
rotten The wire fence la
fire storm proof and stock can-
not throw it down as they a
rail fence. The posts will last
longer the storm has no
power on wire, and will last
years instead of years with re-
pairing of posts.
This wire fencing can be had by
applying to the Wire
Co., N. C.
BILLS
Will Seat To General
The Board of Aldermen met at
the office of Jarvis Blow, Thurs-
day night, to hear read the bills
prepared to be submitted to
General Assembly asking that
Greenville be allowed to vote on
the proposition of issuing
of per cent 30-year bonds for
public improvements and graded
schools.
are two bills, one
for issuing the bonds and
the other for the graded schools.
Elections both are asked to be
held on the first Monday in April,
the voting to be In two boxes, one
for the other for schools.
In event that both measures
are carried at the election,
of funds derived from the bonds
will be devoted to erecting and
equipping buildings
and to establishing
water works, electric lights, street
sewerage drainage and market
facilities. If the schools
should be defeated and the bonds
curried, whole will lie
devoted to the improvements.
Alter hearing the bills read the
Beard approved them instruct-
ed that they be forwarded to our
Representatives with
the request that they be Introduced
the General Assembly as early
as possible. will
publish the fall text of the bills
after have been passed the
Assembly.
believe that every voter in-
in the progress of Green
ville should be favor of both
measures and vote for them.
The man who tries to live on
n and hope will wind up by
on charity.
I WANT ROOM FOB A LABORS
OF CLOTHING AND GENTS
AND WILL CLOSE OUT MY
S COST.
They are going at these prices.
Calicoes
Oil Colors in Solids
Gingham
Silver Star Homespun
Plaid Homespun
Denim
Mills 10-4
wide, and
Chester Cotton Flannel
Bleached Cotton Flannel
Heavy red twilled Flannel all
wool, at
Heavy twilled Jeans
Mills Bleaching
yard wide
yard wide
yard
Fruit of the Loom yard wide Tic
i i yard wide heavy
unbleached Sheeting
I Arlington
wide all wool
Sicilian Suiting;
, inch Henri-
inch all I
I Double width Cotton Plaids
piece double
width kind.
I piece good quality
Manhattan for Lining
Full Hue of Percales fast col-
ors yard wide
R. O. Corsets at 1.10
Towels at your price just a
few left.
lie
THE KING CLOTHIER.
NOTICE.
If there is a CROSS MARK
in the margin of this paper it
so to remind you that you owe
Eastern for
subscription and we request
you to settle as early as pas-
We need what YOU
owe us and hope you will not
keep us waiting for it.
This notice is for those who
find the cross mark on their
paper
LOCAL REFLECTIONS.
B. F. Patrick is having his stores
hotel wired electric
lights.
Maybe a bit of steady cold
in place of the changeable
would do a why the grip.
J. A. Andrews has opened a
feed store in the building below
Five Points formerly occupied by
The steamer Tarboro which ran
upon a snag and sank in Grand
Turn, before last, has
been raised and is on her run again.
Not much more of January left,
but weather folks tell us there
will be plenty of time in February
and March to get some weather to
remember.
We are off after a lot of line
horses and mules and have a
special sale at our stables Fri-
day and Saturday, 11th 12th.
Greenville Livery Company.
H. Hardy, Salesman.
South people enjoy-
ed a delightful open air concert by
the Hand Wednesday
night. band was out in honor
of Mr. J. M urn lay family,
of Newark, and Mr. Samuel
of New York, who are the guests
of Leader Ola Forbes.
Cards have received in
Greenville to the marriage of Miss
Bruce Roberta Sutton, of Lenoir
county to Mr. Wallace
Dixon, of county,
Jan. 29th, o'clock, P. M. at the
home of the bride's parents.
His Finger.
Mr. J. B. White while shelling
corn a Thursday
some way got his right
baud caught in the mill and ground
a portion cf the middle linger. His
injuries were exceedingly painful.
Light Turned On.
Thursday afternoon the gas en-
dynamo in Mr. B. F.
Patrick's new hotel were tested
the electric lights tinned on in
building. Everything worked
nicely at night another test
was made to try the lights after
dark. A large number of people
went around to sec the lights.
I STATE NEWS.
Happening In Carolina.
A severe outbreak of smallpox
is reported in county.
I. Walters, of New Bern,
while out bunt ducks fell dead
in hi-
Got. Aycock baa
It. s. to be Adjutant
of State Guard.
bad wont fire
in its history night.
oral stores were burned, loss
going over
J- N. Shaw, of
died on Tuesday of at
the University where he was a
student in the freshmen class.
Hon. Dan Hugh of
Harnett, will probably succeed
Ii. Adams as secretary
treasurer of the North
Two boat loads of fish, mostly
trout, were brought to this market I
yesterday and sold for us.
they arrived in city
Bern Journal.
The dry kilns at
Wharton station, on toe Washing-
ton branch of the Coast Line, were
burned Wednesday evening. The
loss is to
The pardon issued by Gov.
Aycock was to Oscar Smith, of
Stokes county, who was serving u
two years sentence on the roads for
assault with deadly weapon.
A Charlotte lawyer turned over
to the court the day some
funds which bad been paid him
on reflection the
lawyer had concluded his client
did not come by honestly which
the circumstances his con-
would not allow him to re-
Is millennium at baud.
Statesville Landmark.
A few days ago a colored woman
about years of age living a raw
miles from town, went on a visit to
her sister, W. M.
wife, carried with her
children, the youngest about
years Old. After spending a day
with her sister, she slipped away
Well may the good people of ills and surrounding country
be proud of their Big Store and the wonderful bargain,
that come from great institution. For third time this season
has the buyer been north, scouring the New
and Philadelphia markets and snapped up all
This was securing n leading manufacturer's fall shipment
of line clothing for men and boys intended i clothier in Galveston,
Tex., but which was countermanded of tin Hood. The re-
is, we can offer men- and boys high grade g at one-
half time clothier's price. They will be ready and placed on
the tables
Four Car Loads Bought
Work.
is prepared lo
have tilled orders for
invitations and cards.
We have samples and prices from
one of the finest engravers in the
country. They can be seen at the
office.
He Has Tried It.
The manager of a St. Louis
manufacturing company, Mr. M V.
Kelly, has toe results of bis
experience these
advertising, as in everything else,
will Ive tried it.
I know it. There Is not an article
of any merit whatever that
be sold through advertising
take Held over products that
are not
Record,
Start With Children.
A license was issued
today for O. E. and Mrs.
Lucy Crews both of Old Town.
Both arc years old. The
is a widower with eight children
and the latter is a widow with six
children. So they start out with
MEN'S SUITS.
Dark colors, double and
breasted, wool cheviot, kind
now
BOYS WOOL
and led I children, and at last j 11.26 kind now Boys wool
pants 91.50 kind
SHOES.
kind now HI, 8.50 kind
now 2.98, 1.00 kind now
PANTS.
92.70 kind now 91.58, 1.50 kind
now About pairs left.
Our
accounts nothing bad been
from Banner.
It
It is only six to spring.
Think of that and throw all your
long winter
to the March get out your
last season's straw hat linen
duster; laugh at the wood sellers
who want fancy prices for small
loads of combustible material, and
prepare for a long, hot summer,
Weldon News.
A Tall Family .
There are in Asheville two
Texas twins, visiting relative.
They stand six feet three inches
height, arc in and
are still growing as they arc only
years old. There arc thirteen
children in the family and the
dwarf of the family measures six
feet. Their are North Caro-
who moved to Texas, where
all the children were This
shows North Carolina stock
can do when It ha- plenty of room
to elongate.
Deranged From Fear
pox.
Register of Deeds Lindsay re-
a message this afternoon
from requesting him
to telephone to Dr. W. P. Dicks at
to to Kernersville
to sec his sister, Mrs Mattie Ker-
who had become deranged.
Mrs. Kerner has for the
several days been attending her;
nephew, Charlie Kerner, who has
the smallpox. It seems that as she
is a frail woman, strain
too much for her and she broke
down could not restrain her
Mrs. Kerner is a very estimable
woman and ill will extend
thy in this sad
Journal.
LA MADE SUITS
910.00 kind now 90.45.
HOSE.
kind now
, . kind now
leave n t if is not a .-nap. vim or go, about
any other business in Greenville, It is do -SKIRTS.
secret. The dry good- and clothiers arc sleeping, waiting 87.50 kind now
tor you to come and pay tin per cent, profit. Will now 2.00. 3.00 kind now
Or will you trade with a live, progressive
ms
that is working like a Trojan and making your
worth, we have doubled business since we are in our new 91.50 bind now kind
log already, and now want to i
STORK GROWING.
What has made our store such
a busy place I What advert
we do. The daily
the store is the very best evident c
hat we rather understate
otherwise the remarkable value
have to sell.
kind now 1.98.3.50
Kind now 2.98,
Greatest of All
Every price is so low that it ea-
record for itself and is
the reach of the
I 5- competition within
Holiday Goods.
o -1 -J e.-i loads of fancy goods suitable presents.
, big Everything you can think
Is right here. And
mile-
A Novel Courtship.
A certain young man in town,
who for some time has been trying
to ask a certain young lady the all
important question, but who
ways that the words stuck
his throat whenever he attempted
to acquaint the fair object of his
best affections to the
sensations at his heart called love,
hit upon a novel idea asked
her bow she would sec their
name sin print a hyphen
them. The wedding cards
will soon
News.
Money In Cotton Seed.
The farmers of Mecklenburg
county are making a deal
money out of the sale of seed
and are coining to a full
if the marketable value of an
that only a years ago was
considered as only so much waste
material. The seed from a bale of
cotton is now worth 98.50.
the cotton crop a basis of
bales, any good
who has a pencil and a
long slip of paper can figure out the
that will come lo the planters
by the sale of seed alone.
Charlotte Observer.
3rd Northern Trip Successful.
Bear Bit Him.
The bear and deer I hut have for
a long time been kept in shed
near Smith Hooker stables were
shipped by express this
to New York. While the
was being ready for ship-
he hold of the linger of in
colored and bit it nearly off.
Daily
Now somebody claims that pep
per, as well assail, is a great
agent. Mustard has always
considered so. by all
that is ease of disease,
will be to hive recourse cruet
Sun,
MEN'S OVERCOATS.
now 11.78.
LA COATS JACK
and prices.
BLANKETS.
lo I wool
kind
cousins.
Kind now kind now
BEDSTEADS.
All styles. prices.
OUTING CLOTH.
and heavy
GOODS.
lo per yard on
PLAID DRESS GOODS.
kind now lie.
COUCHES, SIDE
CHIFFONIERS.
SHEETING.
yards lo select from.
Everything Imaginable Here. Our Big Store a growing plant, increasing
every day. Truth tolling soiling always go band in baud lure. Our sole
desire and ambition is for your For you work.
Big New Store.
Open Nights.
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Gun mill work
first lass, lie stocking of gnus a
specialty.
for The Oliver Typewriter
TUCKER CO.
Wholesale Hatters,
NORFOLK, VA.
We nil -style lints, Al
Hals, of nil
shapes, in fact anything in the
line.
We. have II. Hunker
sole distributer for Greenville
yon Will a full of
lints at his More.
I CO.
TO THE PEOPLE, FRIENDS AND OF
PITT AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.
No. To Whom Issued.
M H. T. King .
ii. M. Mooring .
ill House.
Flanagan Co.
V. J. .
Hank of .
Hook Job
Hook and
Priming
27.8 J. F. King .
D. J. .
Hook Job Co.
Q. M. Mooring .
37.7 .
Book and Job Co.
fit J. L. Sugg .
It M. Mooring .
Hook
H. T. King .
J, L.
1313 B. L. .
1441 Hook Job Co.
17,32 Book Job Co.
John .
D, J. .
1764 Town of Greenville.
Horn.-
.
Jail .
Conveying Prisoners in Jail. .
Witness Court
Jury .
of
Coroner .
Court Coat .
Sheriffs .
i .
Solicitor .
Justices of the
A .
clerk Court.
of Deeds.
.
i House .
.
.
.
Tax Lists .
.
.
II
On
on
ii a
ii
1.581
1.631
1.002
1.492
PO
3.132 SO
7.0
SI
1.153
Total
STATEMENT SHOWING AMOUNT OF RECEIPTS AND
DURING YEAR
ENDING
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Liquor
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Conn.
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STATEMENT Knowing of at the
l,. r M, have not
of 1.19.68
STATE OF
OSTEOPATHY.
V O.
Henry Clark House,
I North of Hat tint
free
I, II. Ham,
la t, In tin- . i. h
m Mk if in mi Hie n
T. R. of
and .
T in for Hie o
of the of Pill la
if
f a
retail
Dealer. for
Hides, Fur, Cotton Bead, Oil Bar-
Turkeys, Bed-
Oak Suits, Ra-
by Parlor
Tallies. Lounges, Safes, P.
Meat Key West Cheroots,
Beauty Cigarettes, Can-
Cherries, Apples,
Pine Apples, Syrup, Jelly, Milk,
Flour, Coffee. Meal, Soap,
Food, Oil,
Meal Hulls,
den Apples,
Dandies, Apples, Peaches,
Prunes, Currents, Raisins,
China Till
Ware. Cakes
Rest Hatter, Stand-
ard and
other goods. Quality
for Come
to tut.
y m
Phone .
Vitality, Vise end
Men-
nil
new and
A nerve tonic
blood 1-. .
pink slow to
youth. By
per boxes for
with our
or refund the money raid. Bond for
copy of our
Results
cure for of
or
Fit, and too
of of
. in- r. By mail in plain parka-m a
for our bankable
to In or refund
money paid.
MEDICAL CO.
Jackson St,,
tn l I.
N C
will pa; tor any
of sic
Tn u-i., we ran
oil Ills I . i.
fill, I lie- .,.
, I an and
fall to
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lad I v
Ml . Cur. and
sir.-, i III. Fur sale by
i I. Woo Eli, C
are still in tho of the after your
We ofTer you the selected line of
General Merchandise
to be found in any store in Pitt County. Well choice
the of the best of America
Europe. Seasonable all the year round, Spring, Summer
Winter. We are work for yours and our mutual ad-
It is our pleasure to show you what you want and to
sell you if we can. We offer you the very best service, polite
attention, and the most liberal terms consistent with a well
established business built up strictly its own merits.
When you come to market you will not do yourself justice
if you do not see our immense stock before elsewhere,
us the following lines of general merchandise.
Goods and Notions,
Hats and Silks and Satins,
Jackets Carpets, Mattings Oil Cloths.
Shoes.
Men's, Women's and Children's and
Harness, Horse Blankets and Ousters.
Groceries.
Flour, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Lard, Send ts,
Hardware,
Plows, Callings Plow Fixtures, Nails and Rope.
Furniture
for hi nit hit and in that line.
We buy Strictly for Cash, but sell for Either Cash or on Approved
Credit. Our motto is Honesty, Merit and Square Dealing.
Friends,
Wilkinson
1901.
Can we not serve you Banister's for
man, for ladies.
NOT
The cheapest, but the best goods will be kept at
our store. A complete stock of everything and we
you to
Arc angry
Satisfy Appetite at the
Carolina
door to
and Clean.
fine, Anything mi to Fit.
Dinner from
-33 Can . .
Soup, j neat, t kinds
Vegetables, Coffee lie-
nil for cents.
W. K HACK
Manager
BROS. I fit
Norfolk, Va.
Cotton and Broken
Stocks, Cotton,
ions. ate Wiles Io New York,
Chicago and New Orleans.
on anything wanted in the dry goods line. No
trouble to show our merchandise. Every day we
are receiving new goods. A new line of Hamburg
A new and complete line of men's,
and shoes. A new line of hats in
the shades and blocks An up-to-date line of
Clothing for men, youths, boys at prices to suit you
RICKS WILKINSON.
For anything Aral dry goods store.
will tin
In r lbs tun n of
-t. I. . Miner.
C. Oil,.
January lilt MM
The One Day Cold
I in h,
, ii , use I
Oil OM CM I
Times The Value
OF ANY
TH K AS I Kit.
Aleuts all d
territory.
Company,
Atlanta, Oh.
For sale by
S. T WHITE,
The Eastern Reflector.
D. J, EDITOR
-AT
VOL. XX
COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I
NO
NEW
AUK NOW COMING IN.
We sell the Celebrated
The only corset that will not
break down at the sides. Our line Bu-
Tables, and Wash Bland Covers is
beautiful very cheap. Bee us for ham-
burgs, swiss, val laces.
W. T. LEE
I Time's Own Clock.
transmitting clock at the
Naval Observatory, at Washing-
ton, is the absolute monarch of
writes
in the Feb-
Journal.
the year except
Sunday, by one
it speaks directly and
to every city and consider
able town between the peaks of the
Rockies tho pines of Maine,
saying them that on the seventy
tilth meridian it is high noon
to the fraction of a second. A
duplicate mechanism, stationed at
the Naval Observatory on
Mare Island, performs a similar
service for the people of the Pacific
slope. And this one clock at
the National capital with
its duplicate on the is set
nearly every timepiece in the
United States and Cuba, most
those in Mexico many on the
bottler of Canada- A number of
three to three thous-
nearly every city and
large town are wired together into
a local family, and, by means of a
switch-key at the telegraph office,
are p-i into contact with
the parent clock at the National
capital. So that the instant the
electric touch is given from Wash-
every dock in the circuit
whether it be at
of New a new
day la perfect accord with its
School
The sudden disappearance of Dr
Geo. Wharton, the Lothario-like
president of Hillman Female
College has created a profound
in religious
circles throughout Mississippi.
president de-
parted for his old home in North
Carolina even before the board of
trustees of the college could take
the testimony of the ladies
who had charges of at-
tempting to bug them. Not less
than s dozen young who had
been submitted to indignities by
left the college before th
matter became public, the
due liberties became so
marked that the exposure followed.
ton is about years of age
and anything but a Romeo per-1
He is an or-
minister of the Baptist
church and had been charge of
the college for several years. The
board of trustees has not yet named
his successor. About young
ladies are on the student roll of the
Miss.,
in Atlanta Journal.
Now Subjects Taxation.
If of the
committee lower house of the
Legislature could have his
appointment tn that position,
might have gotten from the
hooks of other States a good deal
valuable information as to subjects I
of taxation which it is probably too
late for him to accumulate now.
There must lie in North Carolina a I
good many things, of one kind and
another, which could justly stand ;
taxation, which are not on the tax
books now. It would seem that if
a good financier had before him
revenue act of every State in the.
Union be would find them in-
i crest i subject of inly
could gather from I hem
many ideas which, if applied
State, would largely augment
the public revenues without work
lug hardship to any individual or
An State
who made the duties of his of-
a subject of study, could do
the work and incorporate the re-
of his investigations in his re
port to the Legislature, in the
form of recommendations. Of
course we speak for the
for, as above suggested, if this
has not already done it is too
late to do it for the present
Perhaps, even, it has been
done, though we cannot so,
for it is certain that other States
tax a great things which
North Carolina does not. With
the system of which is
open and flagrant in this State
though perhaps not more
in is not to be wondered
at that the visible property is put
on the tax books at an average of
halt to three-fourths of its actual
value. There seems to be
prospect of an this
state of things, unless sub-1
of taxation re found the de
upon the public Treasury
for legitimate needs are likely In
continue to nut run the i
Charlotte Observer.
nudity The Libel Law.
is much to lie hoped that
Legislature will pan the libel bill
which has been reported
by the Senate judiciary
existing law the
newspapers are at a great
vantage, as will doubtless be point
ed out the discussion of this
bill the two A news
paper which persistently traduces
honest men is to no
thy from legislators or
deed, it is the interest and the de-
sire of the decent justice
should be meted out to such paper
but the greatest wrong and hard-
ship may lie flailed, under the
libel law, upon most in-
and newspaper
and all fairness the Legislature
should provide a way Aw its es-
cape. . For instance, a paper may
publish a false charge against a
will a of
whom it never before and
against whom it can therefore have
tin malice. information may
have been derived from
correspondent or from some
other equally trotted source,
its corresponded or reporter may
have misinformed, he
exercised due in the matter
and acted good faith. Where
there was no there should
be no punishment when a
is made and the person
grieved exonerated. Hut, it may
be said, that case of
of a nature the news-
paper should verily the
before publishing it. That is fie-
entirely out of the
if a paper slops to verify
statement it prints, it would
rawly ever print any news, for an
item which awaited this slow pro-
would cease to be
verification were established.
We take it the original purpose
of a libel law was to punish
sins character who used a
paper or other medium to blacken
men whom they wished, for
some reason, to take vengeance. It
be believed that the law
ever intended to visit severe penal-
ties a writer or
who made a mis without
evil intent, and be believed
in all good conscience that what he
was writing or publishing was the
Observer.
J. CHERRY
TO THE OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS OF
PUT ADJOINING COUNTIES.
We arc still in I lie forefront of the after your put ruling
We offer you the best selected of
No, Maude dear, there is no
a battle ship a
tug of war.
When it comes to buying
few women think have
enough pin money.
Negro MID Labor a Failure.
The owners of the Vesta Cotton
Mills, of this city, decided to
the property and move
the textile machinery a
mill at Ga. nil
is made that the
of labor for cotton
mills U a failure, this is known
after a fair test. Two years ago
Vesta Mill began operation
the reorganization with
labor. The experiment was
the first made the South
and was watched with by
mill people. said
today that the were trilling
and lazy and would not stick to
Borne the mill
would start and would be short a
hundred operatives. This was
destined to wreck the property and
the owners The majority of
the stock is owned In New York.
Charleston, C, Dispatch.
Sketch of the New Mug.
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
now King Edward of Great Britain
and Ireland Emperor India,
is in his 60th year. He
feet high, rather
stout. As the Prince of
dressed very neatly but plainly.
The character and capacity of
the King are said to lie different
from what is, perhaps, the popular
idea of his personality in this
For over a generation his Blind
has been developed by contact with
the In -t authorities all subjects.
His mental ability is declared to
be accurate, comprehensive and
profound, and predictions have not
been made that the
event of his ascension to the throne
the world would see no ordinary
sovereign over England.
He speaks French, Italian and
German.
March he was mar-
to Princess Alexandria of
Pi k. Their living
the Duke of
York, who married Princess May
of the Princess Louise,
married the Duke of Fife, and the
Princesses Victoria and Maud, the
latter the wife of Prince Charles of
Sweden. One child died in
the of Clarence, the
oldest sou, January, 1802.
You can't a girl who
has waited until she is that it's
unlucky to get married on Friday.
General Merchandise
to be found in any store in Pitt County. Well bought choice
selections, the creations of the beat manufacturers of America
and Europe. Seasonable all the year round, Spring, Summer
and Winter. We are at work for yours our mutual ad-
vantage. It is our to show you what you want to
sell you if we can. We oiler you the very best service, polite
attention, and the most liberal terms consistent with a well
established business built on strictly its own merits.
you come to market you will not do yourself justice
if you do not see our immense stock before buying elsewhere.
Remember us and the following lines of general merchandise,
Goods and Notions,
Cape, Silks and Satins, Dress Trimmings
Jackets Capes, Carpets, Mattings and Oil Cloths.
Shoes.
Men's, Women's and Children's and
Harness, Horse Blankets Dusters.
Groceries.
Flour, Meat, Sugar Coffee, Molasses, Laid. Send Is,
Hardware,
Plows, Castings and Plow Fixtures, Nails and Rope.
Furniture.
r Headquarters for Furniture and everything In that line.
buy strictly for Cash, but sell for Either Cash or on Approved
Credit. Our motto is Honesty, Merit and Square Dealing.
Your Friends,
In New Quarters.
My Friends and can now ma in
the store-formerly occupied by Mrs. Lea
get, opposite the Alfred with
i full complete line of
Goods and Notions.
WK HAVE RECEIVED A COMPLETE OF
MILLINERY
Trimmed Sailors, Silks and Velvets of
I v carry complete lines of Millinery to
be found . town. Mrs. M. B, will have charge of tho mil-
department and will lie glad to all her old and
customers call her.
Story Of To
a writer, as a poet, there
were few In ho literary world of
London forties who had
if it heard Adams,
the gifted woman in whom nil
Christendom Io day pays homage
in its love for her immortal hymn,
My Hod, lo writes
Clifford Howard in the February
Home Journal, was
Written in 1840, and hail
been set tn Bliss
Flower, included a
lien of hymns
I'd by within
that year bad hook of
and published, and
the u was destined to In-
spire world had been heard
but or twice, and within the
walls of a single
Palace Chapel
was not, however, until
d in a .
en and v V
nil . . . .
. I. i . I ; .
IN K I
AU -I . M. .
How's This
We offer One Hundred Dollars
for ease of Catarrh
the when the pie- ,, ,., , ,.,., ,,.,.,
sent well known tune was Cure.
Dr. Lowell Mason, oft Co., Prop. Toledo O.
New York, that the hymn attained We the undersigned, have known
He widespread popularity. Up to for the last
to that lime had alt reeled but
little notice. Through spirit of
music
ii was quickened Into glorious life
and within the reach of
every congregation and every
Christian lint this was
after the author of hymn
had Mated away. She died in
1848, Without knowing the
believe him perfectly honor-
able in all business
and able In carry out
any obligations made by their
Weal Wholesale Drug-
gists. Toledo,
V Marvin,
Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O.
Hall's Cure is taken
In acting directly upon the
blond mucous surfaces of the
system. Price per bottle.
If you want stoves or ranges upon
scientific principles which are economical, durable,
and convenient, us well as beautiful and look
for the
trade mark, which is shown upon every genuine
stove or Range, and do not be deceived
by worthless imitations and substitutes,
lead all others in yearly stiles and popularity,
Sold by all Druggists.
i mph the glory awaited free,
her work. grave the little Hall's Family Pills are the best
village of her birth is
monument to her
Hum Sufferers,
Sold Exclusively by
BAKER HART.
We see in a exchange
the to the
in human bosoms an ocean station
of I i- rolling and tossing affected by the
billows fiercest fury, forcing its given the as milk is
spray at times through eve . Why
lids in tears; but so brave- Tho is easy of
and so silent so ; Tho
la it borne that no one dreams Stanly, full of all know-
of trials that ale singing beasts, birds and fowls,
roaring in the hidden depths with- Democratic
in. That beautiful calm of of 1888, a number
which mantles brow of b delegates remaining In Bel-
such lovely serenity, and that soil l all over and to en-
mild light cheerfulness, railing be a party
like sunbeams fr. Heaven and discourse upon
over the features in such a l etc. other
glimmering the chickens
would seem to whisper were far
all is peace and rest the and ad-
reefed eaves of But, county. Why,
not so. We dive through a wheat and
the shining surface and sec the cotton county. The
nick-mi the bottom, which lived largely on the
the waters strike and loam and found in
in all their tern-
Balds about the
Building.
N c
hie fury. So, that is and it Richmond hail
Is given unto the bean alone worms, which were
know and feel its throes and
agonies. Many a smiling of Mr.
over a heart whose l with the
dream la broken whose sun. of the Stale experiment
light has gone out even as a Charlotte Observer.
In sky sometimes droops Its
Iridescent beau. of above
a dark and sobbing and black looks are apt to make
Va Observer I blue.