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STATE GOVERNMENT.
If red M. Scales, of
M.
man. of New Hanover.
Secretary of
of Wake.
of Wake.
P. Roberts, of Gates.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Sidney M. Finder of
Attorney F. David-
Mn, of Buncombe.
SUPREME COURT.
Chief N. H. Smith, of
Wake.
Associate S. Ashe. of
Anson ; Augustus S. Merrimon. of Wake.
JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT.
I J-
Stop, young maiden, in the race
For pleasures fleeting charms.
That perish ere they are won.
And leave for thee no smiling trace.
To tell thee they are gone
Seek thou that priceless bliss
Of a world more than this.
Stop gay youth in the pursuit.
Of Folly's dear-bought Joys;
She smiles deceitful, to allure;
She gives sweet flowers, but the fruit.
When all the ;
Seek thou the joys that rise.
Upon the eyes in Paradise.
Woman, pause the world give
No return for toil;
But for a short, swift, flying
To mock us while we live.
Now try to find the peaceful way,
Where all is happiness and love.
Like unto that coming from Above.
Strong man desist from weary care.
Plan no more for and power;
They vanish like the dews of morn,
And leave the heart dry and sere
And the days drear and forlorn.
Seek, seek for the flowers that bloom
In the beyond the tomb.
were they sure he was starving,
could they see him, was his miser-
able case placed exactly beneath
benevolent noses, would, I
have given him sufficient to
keep him in clover the rest of his
lite. Bat then it takes so long to
bring these miserable
the noses of the benevolent ones,
that myriads die whilst Hie at-
tempt is being made, and only one
out of the many
It seemed to him that he mast
have dozed awhile, us when next
bis dim eyes looked with discern-
upon the world, the dark-
to. the famished boy that
he fainted at the eight of
then For a
let his feast itself upon the
rich display and then slowly open
ed his dirty, emaciated little hand
to look a the talisman that
give him bra share of the
of night was falling. The that sixpence at the same moment.
Letter Georgia. rapidly than do the streams
in North Carolina. I was told
Dawson Ga., Nov. 7th 1387. the Chattahoochee rose us
Editor Reflector twenty-five feet in one day and
My time for the past two weeks, night the rains last sum-
or since my last letter, has Take this fact into consul-
taken op with and also another, that the
j ting different towns in this j banks of the river are very steep,
things he craved. His silver or Georgia. I have found a being from fifty to one hundred
lay upon his palm, and deal to interest and fifty feet higher than the low
child's eyes grew bright again, half but have fail- jet to find a water mark, and one can readily
conquering the death sleep clever and hospitable people see that such a vast volume of
had so nearly closed them only j or a finer section of country than towing a narrow
now, aB he stared at it. A whole,
whole sixpence
Alas two other eyes beheld
For the Reflector.
What Should be the Ideal of a
Nation.
The chief object of many
has been to obtain glory.
They have fought like bubble toss-
in the wind for a considerable
length of time, and did seem as
if their object was obtained. But
the nation
MEG
GOOD NEWS FOR A J
he nation that et rives for glory is OUR
a o -the-wisp that flutters,
for a while in the breeze and then
found in and around channel is bound to produce a very , h
In fact, this is; the best place I rapid and dangerous Ah- have gone
have yet found in Georgia, and it However the water was low when d h , M -f
is with a feeing of regret I, I the river, the night a on the
IS READY.
too, was heavier, and through A great; rough, villainous looking realize that in a few days I must beautiful moonlight one, and I
it the lamps that lit the wretched
where lie crouched
with a lurid light.
The little dog was dead, but
the child did not know it. I
always glad to think he did not
i know it. He held it still fondly,
clasped to his breast,
i the body was yet warm it
did not dawn upon his dulled
mind that life was gone from it.
He sat still, his head droop-
somewhat forward, and one
could see that his face have
creature, halt boy, half man, peer- leave for other fields. My stay no danger whatever
of fame. Others have been
Let the People Rejoice to
Such Wonderful
gone
Poor Jerry A sensation as of a the Old State, then I know of no seek either in vain, tor scarcely should
deadly chill ran through him, and better home for them than can bad my head touched the pillow i. . .
for a moment he reeled heavily j found Hi this county.
against the bars of the window.
But alter that it seemed to him
that he thought no more of it, be
gave in, and though not conscious
be a lesson
But I seem ere lost in a dream- i u
have never
had such an elegant
i of fine, latest style D
Goods, buttons a n
been pretty but for the stamp of j of the fact, quietly surrendered
death present and of misery, now I himself to death. It was all over.
can people
, , , . mad over the subject of money, i
to give a short sketch of my wan-, eyes ere I was and told . stranger the first
hat we we in sigh my ,. j
Ala. The
m as if the
have gone rampant filings to match.
He was starving i Not hungry nearly passed, that disfigured it. No hope, no was left the good county in which they
gnawing feeling within
him, a young man came swing-
down the dingy
young man, gaunt to emaciation,
with hollow cheeks and deep set
as you or might be, had we fast-
ed for ten or hours at a
stretch, but literally dying for
want of food. He lay back in the
dingy door-way exhausted, half
Shepherd, of unconscious, his one friend clasped
Beaufort. to his breast. His face was dirty,
Second Philips, of of a leaden hue, the pale eyes, and altogether a face
i ,,. h. were as the I of famine. It was not a good
Heavily fell the rain upon the
of darkening street ; the chill, bitter
fog of the December night grew
momentarily deeper, and through
it the raindrops pushed their way
By and by, as he still sat there j Perhaps, indeed, he scarcely knew live, and while I could truthfully
faint and sick because of the things went with him for i say both desist or this
have forgotten the object restful slumber. And it ,
at when I began this letter-ed fiat hardly closed
Our stock of Sh
. . s Boots was nevi
is the the f gold in house Instead of, on , Ai
l-Hos he a good moral and religious , aS it
character If he has them both i IS.
the past two
have started out in an article
the people of this town and
i purple, and his hands were as It was not a
Third G. Connor, of Mil- The
claws some untamed I
line here and there in
curves round the thin lips, a mock
Clark,
A. Gilmer,
on
Wake.
Fifth
Sixth
Sampson.
Seventh C.
Cumberland.
awhile, but instinct at least led his j letter too long for
dying footsteps hack to the horrible your columns,
loathsome cellar in the my subject I will say
squalid court. With faltering that two weeks ago to-day I board-
feet, with a dull stupid despair up- tram here
sage in one to leave shipboard in
another. I reached about
half past eleven o'clock at night,
and was driven to the St.
tor room and rest This is
a house and is kept by Maj.
and, after a ride W-H. of Washington,
on half dead face, with the a over two boon arrived D- clerk is a Dawson boy
If he has them both
he is all right of course. A Na-
is only an aggregate of her
sons. If they are
minded who their duty latest Styles and
nation is all i
In Hats we have
now cold and stiff puppy pressed at Fort the county seat of
to his heart, he descended the; Clay county. The rule was devoid
stone steps, and like a wild thing j interest, and only one or two
stricken sore, sought his lair. things will make memorable to
light in the eyes, a matured i Inside all was still, all was dark. I correspondent. Fort Gaines
expression of scorn towards the J A horrible silence very on a branch of the Rail-
world general. He looked as if j blackness of darkness that might Tarboro and Scotland
sluggishly. Jerry, lying in he were always carrying on a bit- be felt, lie began to be frighten- Neck on the W.
Eighth j. i shade of the door- j warfare with his kind. ed, horribly frightened. He put road is the roughest and
j way scarcely heeded ho the His clothes were threadbare, hie the dog down and pressed the bumpiest I have found in the State, i J see I dais poured down upon
F- moisture came that saturated shocking. Beneath his of his hands ft reminds me very much of the having minutes the mad
wretched rags that his i he hugged a handful of shabby against his eyeballs that he might Washington Jamesville morning after
frame books as if his very soul ; not see the shapes of being a little better than that. I writing a letter home, donated
M. of j For two long days no food had he would have scorned a belief in which the dread gloom seemed full. J however. I arrived at the town a at the
n Merrimon passed his The deadly was centered on shapes that ever just before and town. And I was well
quarters and getting my I what The place bears
per, proceeded to become
know and do it, the
right, but just so as her sons beat the
grow tat and proud that
they will not bow their head
the Supreme Being that rules
m p
a most clever
I am speaking of hotels
let digress long enough to say the , verse, then they will surely
that no town its size the whole j ft on J
country can beat Dawson in the ,
excellence of its inns. are mt ,, and
three here every one of them ,,., f, of MUS he A
word
them and know whereof speak. , Goths d y
A visit to our
will convince you x
f Buncombe. that had seized on him a fortnight indeed it was. A student ever, and drew nearer, and
re ago. whilst with him. had killed ; out at elbows, penniless touched him as he
B. Vance, of Meek- the sense of hunger, but yesterday I what have we here times his hair, and now
Matt. W. Ransom, of him, just at the break said abruptly before
and with its had the half insensible boy and poking
House of District us j r
Louis c. Latham, of Pitt come a wild craving for food of i him with his stick.
And then the harsh racking
every mark of a prosperous, Me-;
mg town, and has a number of fine but , sun
It being of no in toe Bay of
some price in order
I them from
from the make room for
mountains and bowed among them
like a tree in a storm and thus re maS Goods.
the country to scorn and
contempt. Spain armed herself,
with blood-hounds to extirpate
ed with some of the people and to
their as to insurance.
Among the first men I met, and X could not form any idea , than the to and wealth
Second M. Simmons, any sort Wearily he
J. Green, of h
Cumberland. the miserable pillow damp
Fourth R. Cox, of j sacking that supported it to ask
feeble tones for drink, for meat, dull eyes and turned ti j to press them to that side where
It the pain-was most cruel ; bat he
starveling Come, speak
child ; what ails you, eh his little frame so roughly
Roused by this rude address and j its rude grasp that he had to
dreading all things, Jerry lifted take down his hands from his eyes
cough that had been his for a a most clever business down there. I was Armada on the rocky
twelvemonth caught hit.
Greenbacks saved
buying from the
LEADERS
Fifth W. of Rock-
i to find himself in that
Sixth T. Bennett, of I cellar
. , It was a horrible shock to the
S. Henderson, ,.,,,,,,
of Rowan. child, lie had lam unconscious
Eighth H. H. Cowles, j caught by the fever's deadly clutch,
Ninth D. Johnston,
Buncombe.
whilst the woman with whom he long, blows had been his portion.
ant smile upon his questioner.
was a woeful little smile, entreat- kept his eyes fast closed lest
imploring and openly be should see these weird awful
the blow that he so plainly creatures dancing and there
expected. AH his poor little life i in the obscurity.
GOVERNMENT.
Superior Court A. Move.
M. King.
Register of H. Wilson.
B. Cherry.
S. Congleton.
P. Redding.
Commissioners-Council Dawson. Chair-
Guilford Mooring. J. A. K. Tucker,
W. A. James, Jr., T. E. Keel.
Public School
Latham.
of F. W. Brown.
TOWN.
J. Perkins.
C. Forbes.
He was cold He shiv
and shook with terror, and
with something last
dread icy chill that every moment
crept closer and closer to his heart.
And after awhile he sat down and
had lived ever since he could re I said the evil looking
member anything had succumbed j young man with a sinister smile,
to that same fever's influence, and eh I was right,
had died and been buried. A mis- i He stared at the child as if mus-
drunken creature, in a way before one, lies a dis-
kind to him when sober, brutal to j atom of the vast mysterious
i him when gin overpowered her, whole. Here, too, lies a striking
but as she was, the only protector, example of the absolute truthful-
he knew. Whether she was his that charming little fable
mother, or whether fate had just so sweet to the well fed good
drifted him into her path the child man's ear. The divine mercy
never knew-, but the sense everlasting love that will not
she
him
knew .
his in the early gloom of that win-; I av is an admirable illustration such as you and I have finely located ; has fine fa
morning, when his parched M woodcut, lot us say, an in- yet seen,
had cried aloud without j significant with a glance One
and of the few clever men I net that the amount done was of England. Does this
m Fort Gaines, was a native North, immense, and judging from the j ca the
Carolinian, whose brother is well cotton I saw at the depot, and to
known to many of your readers. I near the should ; Docs this the words
The gentleman is a Mr. information was not j that. uttered to
is brother to Mr. W. p. I greatly exaggerated. if the Kings of the Ab-I
of Washington. I also at . and Peruvians have any gold
met another Carolinian here, a
Mr. Edwards, who left Greene more than two hours I arrived-at
a few years ago, and had j feeling almost like I was
long talk with him. lie- j home, and being ranch
sides these two parties and a pleased to get back here. I to-
others, whose acquaintance ate Tuesday of last
week, when I again took a flying
OF
LOW PRICE
et them bring it to me, for I
my brothers of Spain have a
ease at the heart that gold i
When men have no higher motive
in life than to accumulate all the
gold they can get, they are no
more than brutes, A ex-
made and who us cleverly.
I have very little to say in regard trip oft, taking in portions of of the history of
. to Fort Gaines and its I i counties. I will surely convince us
let himself fall quietly backwards , remained there for nearly a three days in of , lot
until his poor tired head lay upon j but as it rained every day while I i a small town Randolph ; the amount of gold and
the damp pavement He put out j rM the town and as I was that is in the treasury hut in
a feeble hand, and finding the unwell while there, I expect is not. than on
dead dog, mechanically drew it my opinion of the place is rather of Games, b
its abundance live
nearer to him.
And then a wonderful thing
opinion place is rather or Raines, out;
one-sided. At any rate I i fr t as n point.
glad to leave there, and did so j And all the people I met there,
energetic,
g men.
was lost to him forever filled so much as one sparrow fall to happened. All at once the soon H I possibly could arrange j men, citizens and farmers For the
with an awful dread. He the ground to which the little it seemed to him, grew full business satisfactorily. The are lever, courteous and polite. A Word for
w it when no voice answered , ores are so especial dear Here, light. A light, strange, awful mar-, town of Fort Gaines is an old one I read in the that
And in it stood
B. Cherry Ales. tongue
Ward. T. A. Wills j response. When he had dragged at the miserably shrunken little A most figure
Truth is a precious gem; Its
cannot, be estimated.
Card
M.
GREENVILLE, N.
AUG. C M
BERNARD,
W,
C.
Practice in the State and Federal O
snow fell in Greenville last Mom
for freight, both i , a
and water, has considerable back the are all going barefoot, H youth has been lost in society by MI
Tall, a from which to draw trade it has not been cold foolishly throwing ft away and
J H TUCKER
J MUS
a his to the pallet of the child at his feet. He little bowed and clad in a long ad should be a thriving and pros-; enough yet to kill the potato vines; equivocation, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
m j. h. smith, 3rd w art, a. m. , . . J . ,. t i . r . the leaves on the China
Moore and J. J. Cherry.
CHURCHES.
First
and
she used to lie and found she was
no longer there, weak as he
and crushed by this sudden
morning and night. his own
D. D., Rector.
bed, and with nervous, feverish
laughed aloud ; a laugh that cut garment, than which no snow fresh-1 place.
like a on of cold, cruel steel into fallen was ever half so white me as
Instead
place
impress-1
fallen was ever half so white me as place of are busy
the heart of the cowering boy. I And the shall tell the i business, the had a dead cane and boiling
Was the blow coming now ; divine fairness it j and very little seemed
die if you don't look; Little Jerry could not have to be going on. True, as stated
above, it rained nearly all the
hands there for something I said the strange man after i scribed it then, but as he gazed on
every lie could another prolonged glance at he knew all at once the fullest
Wednesday Rev. F. A. Bishop. , a b- followed by a shrug. He thrust I meaning the words and
Baptist-Services every Sunday, morn- bing fashion, and at last, languidly, his hand into his pocket
tag night. Prayer a tiny shaggy soft thing crept to brought out three coppers and a
night. Rev. J. W. J J hie with six penny bit. catch
the puppy, only and most pas- said he, chucking the sixpence to
prized possession in his the boy, who by a superhuman
Greenville Lodge, No. A. F. A. arms, he groped his way to the fort, caught it. and then turned c
M., meets Thursday door and found himself upon the glance of passionate up
night after the 1st and Sunday at . . . . K . . f I,.
Lodge. M. King. w. M. street just as the first faint streaks, to his unknown
Greenville R. a. Chapter. No. so meets of dawn grew in the sullen east. the latter, with his
-h That was yesterday. He had unpleasant laugh. expect I've
O. O. met a slattern on emerging from done you the worst turn of any. It
I.; his lair and had stayed her to ask i was a liberty on ray part to
seek to prolong days. You
Beets every Tuesday D.
June, N. G. I eagerly
Insurance Lodge, No. K. of H., i j . . j
first and third night. and she had
D. D. Haskett. D. answered
of the right to
After given the fever as
room every Monday night, at j her. Got along a ye ye young
Mass meeting in the Court House varmint.
got along, and all d
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
in the Reform Friday
each -week. Mrs. V. H. Which-
ard,
Band of Hope meets m Reform Club
Boom every Friday night. Miss
y, op-
pressed with the weight of the
idea that he had killed that
man, and oppressed, too, by the
weakness that held him as its prey,
be sat in the doorways or gaunt
archways, hardly knowing that
the demon hunger was gnawing at
him. Not heeding either, because
hardly able to bear the winnings
will 1-issued from to l and of the puppy he held to
. I him with such a tenacious grasp.
Bethel daily Sun- a
a. K., an at a. p n. the next day broke he
mail arrives Sun- knew be wanted and a
at . and departs sickening desire for it arose with-
fling that sixpence into the
And the figure stooped and
gathered to his breast the little
frozen boy. and suddenly a soft
delicious glow ran through his
numbed veins. And Jerry let his
tired head fall gently back against
that tender bosom.
And heavier and heavier grew
the weary then sudden-
time that I was there,
should ha
there even
weather
there ten
ago, is an improvement on
to tarnish his character. N. C.
Truth Hal ways ennobling. Never. L c harry skinner.
I have be ashamed to keep it upon your l BL
seen a little of it going on, but not Profanity is a mark of low L
enough to give anything like an breeding. Mark the man who
accurate description of it. If X commands the meet respect. An
there It of more closely never trembles on his tongue T V.
es
, I was there, but there more oath never trembles On his t
ye been more business matching the method of making a profane word never
n taking the I tell you of it in Read the of
into consideration than Inter letter. I stated in the be- in the the vi
years
Fort
crime Attorney and at
N C.
ob, so light and presently he pally went there good
felt himself lifted up
carried
Add never more did little Jet-
ginning of this that I expected intemperate, vile, wicked, thieves, I
soon to leave Dawson for other; robbers, murderers, and probably
Gaines, and latter is quarters. Nothing preventing you will not find one among them
nearly as large a town as go to Albany to-morrow who is not profane. Think of
Greenville of to-day. I expected or Wednesday. I do not this fact, and never let a vile
know how long I will remain in word fall from lips
that town, or which place will lie; frankness, generosity, virtue,
visited after I leave there. I ex-1 blessed t What priced I Bat t
to visit The and j less pearls lie these yours, I
to do work for the milling section of the State soon, j and you shall never You
ti and finding that learn that there are quite a re watched by those who are old-
to spend a few more days in the
town than I did, but fortunately I
managed to secure I
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Will attend all term of Pitt
Hones- j Court, from the first to last day
nearest gutter if you have a grain know cold or hunger or fear or
POST
Office boors a. K. to p. m.
Older lour- a. M. to P. K
Money
No or-
mail daily
at h. and depart at i. M.
leave tor Ridge Spring and
ad Friday at a. . n ti r. M.
man Friday, at r.
g,
in him. Bat bow to get it in
II that big, grant city of
who was there to give meat to
poor, Not
It was
of sense j if not, make it last for
two days. It is more than I shall
have to live upon for that
lie paused and then said
a shop round the
The boy had dragged himself
by the lintel of the door with a
view to thanking him properly u,
spite of his contemptuous
but with his last words the
young man Hong himself round
despair, and never again did dark-
trouble him, for
shall be no night
Author of in Lou
don Society.
For the
Good Temper.
Good temper is like a day,
it sheds its on every.
and into the middle of the M No trait of character is
. n . .
crowd, carrying his eager, wild
cosing face into the turmoil the
great city.
Jerry, still hugging to his It seat
the dead dog, moved slowly and
painfully down the street, turned
the comer and stopped at heat be-
fore the lighted of the
shop to be hod
directed. A
came from the door, the
to yea or hat
valuable than the
of good tamper. It is flow-
-springing op in oar pathway,
reviving and
words looks are the outward
and
are with
in. Anus W.
Bethel, N
I a foot that the
could take passage on one of the
plying the Chattahoochee
river Saturday night, I availed my-
self of that opportunity of get
ting away from the town. I ac-
settled my bill at the
hotel, boarded the steamer Naiad
shortly after supper and was soon
steaming the river. The
is not a wide stream
but is quite deep and rapid, and is
navigable for about three hand red
miles. On account of the swift-
of its current it considered
of the dangerous of the
navigable streams in the South.
Several disasters to boats have
happened on it, and all ware at-
tended with loss of life. The teat
consequence occurred et
Fort about two ego,
a boat ran against the bridge
and sank, and thirteen persons
were drowned.
at night and there wee a
of North Carolinians
More anon.
J. R. Whichard.
mm always freshet in rivet.
all river
Lexington One
the rs Hiram Ha per, a color-
ed citizen of the north-eastern sec-
of the county, got between a
poet and the sweep of a cane mill
and was torn clear from hie
head.
downier. Men of business have their
eyes on you. If you are profane,
vulgar, they will not
I want you. If you are upright,
of steady and you will
Wilmington There is a
who bus a very
common memory. lie can not
read bet lie can do this he driven
a wagon and he can
soon find good places with pros-
of a useful life before you.
Adrian W.
Index A
man who attempted rape upon a
little colored girl near Rich
Square, was shot by the
at this week be-
fore he be arrested. The
wounds were not fatal, and the
i prisoner was taken back to North-
W. B. I. A. K. O. J
SUGG A
to
N. C
d y after day loads of goods for for trial.
a or twenty families and
never make a mistake. He can
beat that ; he can forty pass-
books and deliver them correctly
Tell, him once of a
new hook end to whom it goes
and chat enough All the hooks
look alike hat he makes no mis
take
Eden ton and
Mr. John aged and
Mrs. Venn OS Hart on, aged
were married Saturday evening
last, Nov. 12th, rear Eden ton
The bride's mother is still living at
the age of Le the old,
well m the young, enjoy them-
Collections a
e the Superior, Federal
JOY
Attorney and at
N.
Will in Court of
Greene, Edgecombe and
ties, and the Supreme Court.
Faithful attention given to all I
entrusted to
DR. H.
n. c.
Surgeon Dentist.
Tender kin services I
public.
Teeth extracted pain I
Nitrous Gas.
i . YELLOWLEY,
N. C
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Hew York City wants the
Democratic National
next year and is making
bids therefor in a lively manner.
Verily, the Metropolitan City is
not without its attractions.
The daily papers contain full
accounts of the meeting of the
Baptist State Convention at Dur-
ham last week. It was a
did meeting and largely
by persons from all over the
The President is preparing his
message to Congress, which as-
early in December. The
document is looked forward to
with no small degree of interest,
as it will doubtless treat upon
topics of vast importance to the
Nation. It has been said the
forthcoming message will be
brief and directly to the point.
How much we have to be
thankful for What
blessings surround us
Though many of us may
possess but little yet
how much better, yea, far better,
is our condition than hundreds
of others around us Reader,
ponder upon this to morrow. It
is Thanksgiving Day. Render
thanks to Almighty God
His inestimable blessings, and
show your appreciation of hie
manifold mercies by generously
opening your heart and making
glad some poor creature who has
not been so bounteously blessed
as yourself.
The small boy and cigarette
got in another expensive days
work on Monday of last week.
A boy dropped a lighted
in a cotton compress in
Little Pock, Arkansas, result-
in the destruction of the
compress and other buildings that
applicant may
accept a commonplace person, and
in fact, she often does. Bat, to-
the contrary, we scarcely need
mention that such men as Noah
Webster and Samuel J.
have been seat away, by her frown.
Men try to fathom the depths of
woman's mind and, when they are
most certain, are nearly always
bitterly disappointed in their
forts. This seems strange first
thought, but when we think how
different is the mental action with
tho opposite sexes we see a
of the problem, for neither
rarely, if ever, conceives the
of the other's mind quite
correctly.
Speaking in general terms, it
may be said that man reasons out
his results, while a woman never
With her what comes to
her on the spur of the moment she
does. She feels it and as moods
and feelings change oftener than
logical reasonings the difference is
readily apparent. We do net take
the ground that a woman is
of reasoning and that the
use of logic is unknown to her.
Far from it. We are conscious
that this would be throwing down
the gauntlet, defiantly, at the feet
of those who are capable of entire-
demolishing all the logic ever
learned by the wisest ; and, too,
because we know some of them
can reason. But we speak in gen-
terms and fear no
for the mutability and
of woman's mind have
grown into frequent proverbs and
poems. Shakespeare
are soft, mild, pitiful and
And in Scott's we find
him, who was so gallant, so
at all times, saying, that
she is
coy, and hard to please
And variable as the shade
By the light, quivering aspen
Pope says, not sarcastically
either,
at best a contradiction
And it is well known that those
traits of her make-up are never
more strikingly illustrated than
they are when marriage is
ed. It has been said one never
knows exactly how this issue will
be decided. A man may know a
young lady for years ; he may have
received from her decisive
of regard that he translates
as love for himself ; his company
may always have seemed to him
acceptable to her, and yet, if he
asks her to mate with him, to
his partner for life, he is general-
apt to get a sudden revelation
that is surprising to both . sides.
Was any woman ever proposed to
was not surprised, even
self, When a man tea
to a woman for a year or
one else is that
he proposes to her. No other
man that is aware of the dream-
stance is in fact, but she always
is.
The fearful uncertainty of what
a woman will say when her hand
is sought for in marriage makes
the ordeal a most difficult
. It seems that the roost
natural and easy thing for a man
to do, when he loves a woman, is
to tell her so. Not so, however.
To ask a woman to marry you
when you do not wish to marry
her is easily done, but to ask the
right is the hardest
performance. For the
age refusal always imperils. There
are men who would rather have
been with those who held the pass
at than to march up
and ask a woman to marry
Many and mysterious are the ways
in which men try to spell out the
secrets of their adored one's heart,
but they can only know by
lute trial, by putting the fated
question point-blank. There is
absolutely no preparation that
leads to this. Putting the
is like jumping a wide chasm
you are not certain that you will
land in safety on the other side.
If it fails, the curious and
will be to leave mat-
worse than they previously
were. The young lady, premising
to be your still, is less a
friend before, because she
actually retreats, to some extent,
from the intimacy and friendship
that were before so graciously
tended and accepted. She grows
shy of you, and feels it
to step backward in order to check
a possible new advance.
It seems as if women, even
when the man of their choice
pears, wish to make the capture of
themselves difficult. Whether
they rejoice in this momentary
power, or expect to be prized more
highly ever after for exercising it,
or both, it is a practice and a
they almost invariably adopt.
A woman sometimes loses the very
lover she covets by tripping him
up once ; for the very best man is
often the one that will never put
himself in the way of a second re-
from the loveliest object. At
the same time one less sensitive
and will stop at nothing;
and after a triple discomfiture in
succession, will out do the rule,
and make three negatives equal to
an affirmative answer. Tops.
and nearly five thousand bales I though she was seeking such a
of cotton. The aggregate loss is nae And why p
summed up at And and marry ; but if you
this calls to mind the heavy
Goldsboro sustained, not a great
while since, all caused by a boy
and a cigarette. There seems to
be no abatement of tire nuisance.
Every boy caught with a
in his mouth ought to have
about forty lashes applied to his
bare hide.
Since Col. Harry Skinner was
suggested, a few weeks ago by a
correspondent of the News and
Observer, as Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Commit-
tee of the State, we have seen
numerous endorsements of the
suggestion in our exchanges,
many of them referring to his
ability to fill the position in no
uncertain words. The Elizabeth
City Economist has to this
we could spare Harry
Skinner for a few months when
the State canvass opens next
year to stay in Raleigh and to
manage the Democratic
Committee he'd show you
a canvass such as has never
been in North Carolina.
exactly man. if we can spare
him. the phrenologist,
said there was more executive
ability in that head than in any
he'd ever had his hand
There is not the slightest
that as an organizer and leader
Col. Skinner has no superior.
However, we can ill afford to
spare him from down here for so
long a time as it would require
his absence, yet the best inter-
of the party must be served.
The Marriage Refusal.
It deems a little strange
such a topic should be discussed
by one who has never yet
its effect, and yet a theory
is good so far as it is true. And if
theories are proven to be
are not worth as much
to us as actual experience And
theories surely cannot the
mind so long as it is not dictated
to by them, but remains unbiased,
free, and controls hie theories. Bo
here goes. It. has been aptly said
if a woman has little choice or
in the matter of seeming a
husband, she baa one opportunity
tremendous power as
will look into it you will find that
they have not learned the ways of
society. They have not learned
to put on her veil and drop into
marriage in a natural and easy
manner that is refreshing as the
dews of Bummer to a parched laud.
If they once wait till they have
reached the age of twenty-five
years and have had any real taste
of society experience, they become
hardened, set themselves up as
critics and are hard to please.
The woman of experience is a
great stickler for the mere
of etiquette and convention-
She would not have it
known for the world that she had
made an step towards
matrimony and led the on in
the slightest possible manner.
Some women never do, from a fear
of what Mrs. would say or
from natural timidity as the case
may be. When a has re-
ah offer of marriage the
first thing she does is to consult
her mind and see if she can re-
member having done anything to
lead the man up to the proposing
point. If she has ever done a
pleasant thing for him, pinned a
bouquet on his made
him a trifling present, or
him at times, it all comes
back to her in this torturous self-
examination. What if some one
should think she had tried to cap-
him If she has a suspicion
he thinks so, she has an idea that,
if she accepts him, he will despise
her the balance of her life. If she
thinks another woman thinks so
of her, she imagines she is to be
the perpetual target for scorn
henceforth. Some women have
such delicate ideas of propriety
just along this line they had
reject a suitable offer, lire and
die an old maid, than to marry
and give ground to the idea that
management had any part in
such result. A perfectly frank
woman in the matter of marriage
is a marvel. No matter bow
truthful she is under ordinary cir-
how lovely char-
the tradition that
are In vague her to a
W. J
The Supreme Com-
of he in the
wise dispensation of His
baa fit to Tint oar
ranks and remove therefrom
John J tune, one of
therefore be it
Resolved That we, the officers
and be of Greenville Guard,
Company 1st N.
bowing in bumble obedience
and submission to the command of
Almighty God, acknowledge with
tea lings of sorrow the great loss
that has befallen as. In the death
this brother in ranks Company
B. loses one of its faithful
and each soldier a true friend
and comrade
That we to the family
of our deceased com token
of our earnest, heartfelt sympathy
in the sore affliction they have
sustained. While our hearts are
bowed with sorrow at our lost,
truly theirs are torn and bleeding
because of the severing of the
circle and the removal forever
of one of its beloved number.
That as a further
of our grief we wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days
That these resolutions be
spread upon our record books, a
copy sent to the bereaved family
of our departed comrade, and cop-
be furnished the Eastern Re-
and Democratic Standard
with a request for publication.
T. B.
S Com.
W. Parker,
AND HEAD
and STUDY WELL
Clothing, Dry Goods,
Boots and shoes,
Notions,
AT LOWEST
MY FOUR
MY PRICES
MY PRINCIPLE I
MY GOODS
MY GUARANTEE
My prices are low down. My goods, the best.
My principle, the fairest. My guarantee is, that
is misrepresented; and I promise to
give you full value for your money, so consider
well and come to buy your goods of
Guss
NEXT DOOR TO TERRELL'S TIN SHOP.
Mr. Editor speech
Jackson made down in
not long ergo seems
created rite smart Digger
impression up hit did
down here. In fact, I believe
Senator one or too
threatened do
fur on
hit. I thought at
start war be-
case Jackson had made
speech agree
Hit seem strike em
in de eyes de law Jack-
son just es loyal man now
es em, an has jest es much
right speak in of State
Rights es John Sherman has
speak in favor of high tan All
dis sorter reminds me
story I read not long
go. When Butler in
command New Orleans
good rebel down
shout kick up his
heels jigs time de
army got
made Butler mad,
so he had de arrested.
When him up, de great
spoon collector eyed him
one eye den fur
So So, what am
de mean monkey shines
up time our
my meets misfortune
Mr. So k So he
bout hit, sum-
bin on him, but he
couldn't fool Ben, so he got de
choice jail or de
oath allegiance. de two
evils be chose de latter, an
he'd bin sworn be turned
loyal man
now in de eyes de Government
or else,
de
I kin talk es much es please can't
I de
now twixt you
de Bob Lee give
us at
day De South
am in jest de same fix
rebel, we wanted git
out de Union an not have
do hit but de
let us, now we are
back in de eyes de law
got jest es much right talk as
anybody Thurman, John
Sherman, The Judge nor nobody
else can't help hit so jest es
well cool off take things
easy should find them-
selves warlike am de
spirit of Anarchism seems
rite in de
Northern States on which they
moot satisfy their martial
boat
tor dis an dis subject is
or I will
Pan P. K.
T. R. Club Room,
Nov. 1887.
In the wisdom Almighty God
He hath taken from our midst
bro. J. J. Harris, and whereas, in
the death of bro, Harris we have
lost one of our most valuable
; one who was aver zealous
for the cause he had espoused ; one
who was faithful to his pledge
even unto death,
Resolve, That we bow with
humble submission to the will of
God knowing that he all
things well.
That we extend to his
our deepest sympathy in
their sore affliction, and pray that
God who has stricken the blow,
stretch forth bis healing hand
bind up the broken hearted,
and comfort the distressed. And
may the light of His wisdom
pear unto them brighter and sweet-
far than the sorrow that now
surrounds them.
That a copy of these
be spread upon our minutes,
and sent to bis family, to the Tern-
Advocate at Washington
and our papers tor
E. C.
C. F. Wilson, S Com.
D. L. J
Letter.
Special to Reflector.
Washington, D. 19th,
A census of the next House
I of Representatives shows the
j complexion of that body, to
be as follows Democrats, ;
Republicans ; and
dents In the Democratic
it will require votes to
At present no contest is
apparent except over the office of
door-keeper, though it there should
be a change in that position,
graphical considerations would
probably lead to a complete change
House officials. It is of course
conceded that Mr.
bis own successor without
in his own party. It is
ed that the contest for the Ex-
Speaker's seat will not amount to
anything. His intimate friends
give out that when the House as-
and organizes, and the
contest is being considered, Mr.
will vacate the chair
call the veteran Pennsylvania Re-
publican. Wm. D. Kelley, who is
known as the of the House,
to preside during the
of his title, a course that will
generally be commended for its
fairness.
A recent decision of the Supreme
Court adverse to the patentee of
fills the hearts of
millions of farmers with gladness,
because it the verdict had been
favorable to the inventor he would
have reaped a royalty of ten
each on the three million drive
wells in the United States-
amounting to The
issue gained was only the idea
making a well by driving an iron
pipe the water. The State
Granges of Iowa and Minnesota
voted to fight the patent.
The probability that at present
the postal business of the count
is on a paying basis, speaks vol-
for the ability and economy
of the reform administration which
President Cleveland is giving the
nation. For many years past the
deficiencies have amounted to from
eight to fifteen million of. dollars
per ; but for the fiscal year
ending June it was
since then this was re-
to about and for
the year just past, the deficiency
was reduced to one million dollars.
At this ratio of -red not ion. the
Poet Office Department will be
running at a profit before
the of the year. The carry-
of the business mail of the
my of office-holders of the country
annually costs Government
the immense of two million
dollars. Then, it ought to be a
matter to pride to all Americans
to remember that their postal ear-
is the moat
world.
A FULL LINE OF HARDWARE of
every description will be kept on baud
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
DOORS
LOCKS, BUTTS,
MECHANIC'S TOOLS,
Nails, etc.
FURNITURE has been added and a
full line will be kept, of
BED ROOM SETS,
Bed Steads, Mattresses,
J,
CHILDREN'S CHAIRS,
Round Tablet,
Our limited will prevent our
keeping in stock at present flue furniture,
but have
and will take orders and guarantees
faction.
M. A. JARVIS
N. C, Sept
Tar
Greenville, President
B.
J. Greenville,
N. M. Tarboro, Gen
R. F. Washington, Gen Alt
The People's Lino for travel on
River.
The Steamer J is the finest
and quickest on the river. She has
been thoroughly repaired, refurnished
and painted.
Fitted up specially for the comfort, ac-
and convenience of Ladles.
POLITE ATTENTIVE OFFICER
A first-class Table furnished with
best the market affords.
A trip on the Steamer Is
not only comfortable hot attractive.
Leaves Washington Monday, Wednesday
and Friday at fl. o'clock, am.
Leaves Tarboro Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday at o'clock, a. M.
Freights received dally and through
Bills Lading given to nil points.
V,
Greenville, N. C.
HARRY SKINNER
L C. LATH
SUCCESSORS TO JOHN H, k CO
THE LEADERS IN
Ml kinds of staple goods.
Our Fall and Winter stock of Dry Goods,
Clothing, Shoes, Hats, etc., have arrived, and all
friends and customers are invited to call and ex-
goods and prices.
Having t he entire of John H. Con
Co, including notes, book Mild all evidence of debt
merchandise, solicit their former and Increased
Being to make all For getting advantage of the
discounts, will lie enabled to sell a cheaply as any one South of
Norfolk,. shall retain in our employ D as general
superintendent of the business, with nil former partner Skinner
as assistant, who will always he glad to and serve their old customers
A special branch of our business will be to furnish rash at
rates to farmers to cultivate and harvest their crops, in soma
to with approved
NEW
JEWELRY STORE.
I have Just opened a Jewelry Store at
the stand of O. I., and will
keep on sale a nice line of
WATCHES, C
and Jewelry.
Am also prepared to do all kinds of re-
pairing on Mich articles In a
manner.
MOSES
DYAN
DOWN WITH LONG
One Price Goods sold on a Credit
Every Bargain we get we give the public the
benefit of it.
J. Li,
INSURANCE AGENT,
BUILDING OPPOSITE
GREENVILLE, C.
All kinds placed in strictly
FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES
At lowest current us n call when in need of KIM
ACCIDENT and LITE stock INSURANCE,
E. C. GLENN.
STANDARD GUANO. ACID PHOSPHATE,
PULVERIZED OYSTER SHELL,
SHELL LIME, DISSOLVED BONE,
COTTON SEED MEAL AND
Tennessee Wagons, for sale.
GREENVILLE, N. Mar. 1887.
is NOW i
OLD R LIABLE CARRIAGE
FORMERLY BELONGING TO FLANAGAN d WILLIAMSON
AND INVITES ANYONE WISHING TO PURCHASE
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, HARNESS
or who hart r needs repairing, to cam, on him.
All STORM, -Oil,, or
lbs desires, and all work warranted,
to nil tor past I HUM la so-
J. D. WILLIAMSON.
LITTLE, HOUSE k BRO.
DEALERS IN
DEALING WITH ALL
NO GOODS MISREPRESENTED.
is our Motto.
Brogan Shoe price
Quality price to
Dress Shoes, usual price to
Better quality, usually
Children's Pebble-Grain Button generally 1.26 to 1.50
Women's Shoes, and
Men's Pants cents, usual price to 1.50
Men's Pine Dress Shirts, to a piece, usual price
to 1.00
Fine Hose, usual price to
Colored Half Hose usual price
Fine Hose usual price to and others lower than
any in the market.
Dr. Gilbert's patent Corset usual price 1.25 to 1.50. We keep
other Corsets at to cents.
Collars, linen, all sizes and styles, for cents
Cuffs from to cents, good linen.
Hats from cents up
Caps for cents, usual price to cents
Kid Gloves usual price 1.25 to 1.50
Lisle Thread to
Winter Shawls from to price to 1.00
Silk Umbrellas 2.25, usual price 4.00
Common cents up
Buttons cents per dozen, usual price
Pearl Buttons per dozen, usual price cents
Lead pencils for cents
Sifters cents Scissors cents Nice, large, tin dippers Sets
Any amount of Tin Ware, prices to suit all
GIVE US A CALL AND BE CONVINCED.
GETTING IN GOODS BY EVERY BOAT
TROUBLE TO SHOW
Full Standard
PRINTS
at Sf cents
Do not fail to
our
did stock of
full line
and
Before purchasing
A nice line of
DRESS GOODS
of various kinds.
WILL SELL CHEAP.
i h
AT MOST
ANY PRICK
COME AND
a pair.
YOU IT
NOTICE TO
Clerk of Pitt county
Letter of to
the undersigned, on day of Oct.
upon Hie of Catharine Harper
notice U hereby given to all
indebted to Mid to make
creditor o
claim, properly
or the 24th day of October,
or notice will be plead lit bar of their
recovery. ThU the 34th day of Oct. 1888
E. II.
estate Catharine Harper
I all of
i. L. ELLIOTT. J. P. JOHN NICHOLSON
COTTON FACT
authenticated, to me, on
BALTIMORE U
NORFOLK.
in Baltimore In 1870.
Will open n Homo In
In September, 1887, for the handling
ale of cotton, thus giving our
flu lo
THE
EASTERN REFLECTOR,
THIS PAPER
AT P.
A.
AD-
may be It I
Cotton to
Thanksgiving Day to-morrow.
We hoar rumors of another wed-
ding. .
Almanacs for 1888 almost ready
to pull.
There was plenty of ice Monday
morning.
Just one month and two days
to Christmas.
Hough rice brings to cents
in this market.
The State Grange meets in Tar-
next month.
Sunday was the coldest day of
the season thus far,
The heads of the Thanksgiving
turkeys go off
Our Thanksgiving turkey has
not put an appearance.
Do something for the poor and
the orphan
Innumerable drummers have
been in town the past week.
The schools will observe to-
Col J. A. has been very
for several days.
Nannie is visiting rel-
in Wilson and Nash.
Miss Nina Cherry returned lust
Thursday from visit to
Mr. J. L. has moved m
to the Knox building on Greene
street.
A little daughter of Mr.
Flemming, of visiting
the family of Mr. James Lung-
Icy .
were glad to see Mr. T. J.
Bernard, of Haleigh, formerly a
resident of Greenville, in town
Monday.
Mr. A. J. Griffin has moved in-
to the dwelling on Fourth street,
lately occupied by Mr. Andrew
Joyner.
were glad to see our young
friends Messrs Stephen and Sta-
ton Purvis, of Martin and Frank
Knight, of Bethel, in town Sun-
day.
Rev. J. W. Wild man, pastor of
the Greenville Baptist Church,
preached in Goldsboro Sunday.
lie reached home yesterday on
his return from the Baptist State
Convention.
In Six. Church
near Wednesday
evening, Nov. 16th, Mr. J. W.
and Miss Lena
rick wore married, Rev. Nat.
ding They were attend-
ed by Frank Wilson and Miss Annie
Harding, Bryan Mis
Josie Claude
and Miss Sallie- John
and Miss Mattie Moore,
Joel Patrick and Miss Mary
King, C. L. Barrett and Miss Fan-
Brooks, L. A. Williamson and
Miss Mary F.
ding and Annie Powell. The
happy couple have the best wishes
of the for a long and
joyous wedded life.
ts Come.
Sheriff King keeps right on
with his business of hauling in the
law breakers. Seven new coons
have been placed in the county ho-
tel our last report a week
ago, placing the total number now
at Henry Baily was
arrested but gave bond for his
and released. The
seven were all imprisoned for
four had been stealing cot
ton and three had tried to eat too
much fresh hog that belonged to
to somebody else. They were
Milly Ann
Day.
This Why, in the afternoon,
trying to keep up with it. have a large hearing.
Solomon
Rev. h. Jones, a quaker Amos Dixon, Sarah Den-
evangelist and temperance reform-; Bradley Phillips, John Per-
of much note, will be in Green-
ville next Sunday and entertain
our people at the temperance ma.-s
He
use
Miss Purvis, who was
kins and Spencer Cannon. If the
Sheriff keeps on catching them at
that rate the County Commission-
will have to build a larger jail
I for bun to put them away m.
The street hands were cleaning , y L Ste
the drains on street last Sunday ,
near Hamilton. Her many friends
here regretted her departure and
would be delighted to see her
again in Greenville.
week.
The ladies of the Baptist
Church will hold a festival Friday
night.
Do not forget the temperance
mass meeting next Sunday after-
noon.
Sunday Schools flourish at this
season of the year. Christmas
pear.
The street lamps are poorly
looked after. They give very dim I Every week bring the
when in use. a few new subscribers. While
Again we inform our friends in is
-the country that the stores in town
colored men who
play upon, the harmonica, flute and
guitar, respectively, have been in
tow ii a few days making some de-
fill music. The harmonica
We have received i player in the cripple John-
oral very complimentary letters was m Greenville some
concerning the all of weeks ago and who attracted
which are highly gratifying. It attention by his wonderful
, .,. k,.
always buoys one to renewed
energy to know that his efforts are
appreciated.
will be closed to-morrow.
A nice lot of business and
cards have just been
ed at the office.
We are ready for that wood de-
were going to
being us. Cold weather is here.
Christmas comes this year on
and circulation continues
to larger. If all our friends the hands that occasional-
playing. The other two with him
this time are Lee Stevens who is
an excellent performer upon the
flute, and William Johnson
gets as much music out of a guitar
as any one have heard perform
that instrument. The three
make music Squally as beautiful as
Don't let the rush keep you away, but call in
and secure your
BARGAINS.
The Latest Novelties in
Dress Goods Trimmings,
Shoes, Clothing,
LICHTENSTEIN.
would help us there is no telling j through this section. They
what we could accomplish.
The old gallows upon which Ir-
Lang was hanged still stand-
near the wharf, but for what
pose nobody knows. Will not the
Board of County Commissioners
have it removed By so doing
Sunday, if it don't rain If it town of a
does, it will be on a rainy day.
The will be closed to-
morrow- except at the hours of re-
g and dispatching the mails.
The birds will have a dreadful
frightening to-morrow. The
The stockholders of the Tar
Transportation at
their meeting here last Friday, de-
to purchase hugs new
steamer for Tar liner. Mr. N. M.
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION ;
woods will he full of hunters, you Lawrence, the General Manager,
know.
On next Wednesday the N. C.
Conference of the M. E. Church,
South, will convene in Fayette-
ville.
Let every heart be lifted up in
grateful thanks to Almighty God
for the many blessings of the past
year.
The Rocky Mount fair, unlike
most of the other fairs held this
season, is reported to have a
success.
In order to get full benefit of
the Reflector this week be sure
to read everything in both paper
and supplement.
Thanksgiving Services will be
held in the Baptist, Methodist and
Episcopal Churches to morrow
at o'clock.
Postal cards may now be return-
ed to the writer. They will also
be forwarded from one address to
another upon request.
Telegraph office hours
row are from to a. m. and
from to r. m. Patrons of the
office please take notice.
more blessed to give than
to receive. Remember this, read-
and make glad the heart of
some mortal on to-morrow.
Work has been resumed upon
the Baptist Church. We
hope to see the building entirely
completed at no far distant day
Our excellent neighbor, the
Snow Enterprise, began its
third volume last week. It is a
good paper and deserves a large
patronage.
The Reflector office will be
closed to-morrow. Come in to-
day if you have business with the
office that can not be postponed
Friday.
A Baptist Sunday School was
lately organized in Bethel. We
also learn from the Washington I shimmer and glisten like so many
papers that one has been organized brilliant diamonds
in that town. Ball of Honor.
The Band of Hope are having 1st quarter, Fall session
is now in Baltimore looking after
the purchase of the steamer.
Woman's Work, a. of Do
Economy, is the name of a
new monthly published at
ens, Ga., edited by Mrs. Ella R.
of Marietta. Ga., and
owned T. L Mitchell, of
ens. The first number has been
received at this office. The sub-
price of the journal is on-
cents a year.
Last week we sent out a large
supplement giving our readers
columns of additional reading
matter. To-day we send out an-
Thanksgiving supple-
We will send sup-
out from time to time.
We are striving to make the Re-
meet the wants of the
people and in this we ask the aid
of every reader.
We Are
Greenville should be proud of
her school and its able principal,
Duckett. have been
enrolled, which is the largest en-
in East excepting the
Davis School, we are told.
came in the Reflector office and
gave a serenade Monday after-
noon.
New
M. L. Slaughter Co. are go
on I of business and offer goods
at cost.
B. F. Keel, of Marlboro,
a lost note and wains persons
against trading for it.
Allen Warren, administrator
of be estate f John
Tuft, has a notice to creditors in
this is
Several new medical advertise-
appear this week. They
will be found upon the supple-
Bates, of Savannah,
; offer music at wonderfully low
during the holidays. See
i advertisement.
The long established
firm of T. U. Cherry Go , are
closing out their business and offer
all goods in their line at cost, with-
out reserve. They also notify per-
sons indebted to them to make
mediate settlement.
Our Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Dress Goods, Notions,
Hardware, Harness, Tinware, Crockery,
will be sold at
New York Cost,
WITHOUT RESERVE
Our must be closed by the first of
January next and these goods will be sold
of Price
Bargains Will Be Given For The Cash.
I, R.
BY THE GOVERNOR,
and
HEADER OF LOW PRICES
in
PITT COUNTY
In presenting- this,
my annual
to the people of
Pitt and vicinity, it
gives me pleasure to
return thanks for your
patronage during the
past, and by honest dealing
I hope to merit the
same in the future.
I have given personal
attention to the
chase and management
of my stock, and only a
call is needed to con-
you that
HARD TIMES
things of the
PAST
John has a special no-
in this paper which concerns
all persons to him. He
contemplates moving in the
try soon and all accounts not paid
before he leaves will be placed in
the hands of a collector.
Heft.
Death has again invaded the
realms of our town, this time re-
moving one strong in the vigors
of young manhood. Truly Death is
no respecter of persons, but lays
his icy hand upon young and old
alike. On last Thursday morning
the 17th inst. at about o'clock,
That brother what he the soul of Mr. John James, aged
talking about. He has been
is
here and knows something of the
excellent school we have. Verily,
Greenville is proud of it.
At Night
These are moonlight nights, and
when clouds do not interfere and
hang their drapery o'er her
face fair Luna sends a flood
of mellow rays down upon the
earth to brighten up the dark
and dispel the deep gloom
caused by darkness. What
thoughts come- upon us as we
stroll along and lift our eyes to
this beautiful queen of night that
reigns Heaven's own blue,
while around her twinkle and spar-
myriads of bright stars that
of
meetings. They have
a debate every Friday night and
there are some witty speakers
among the little fellows.
Every bonded officer of the
will have to renew their
official bonds before the Board of
County Commissioners at their
meeting on the first Monday
December.
Superior Court
convenes in Washington next
Monday. A representative of the
expects to be in town
day or two looking after the in-
of the paper.
Friend John Wheeler says-there
is not much fan to be bad by go-
fog in swimming on a cold day,
j with your
fie got a partial ducking at the
Greenville
HIGHER DEPARTMENT.
Boys W R Mayo, A D John
son, Boy Flanagan, S T White, Z
Z Moore, G Tucker, John Ran-
Joyner, Erwin,
W O Little. Cox,
Estelle Williams, Mattie Moore,
Annie Harding, Belle Greene,
Hortense Forbes, Bessie Jar vis,
Ada Leggett, Mary Terrell, Bessie
White, Julia Foley, Lee Foley,
Leroy Mooring, Emma Taft,
Allen, Minnie Moore, and
Mary Cannon.
PRIM DEPARTMENT.
Leta Go wan, Lin a
Mamie and Annie
The highest averages were made
by Miss Nannie Cos in the fa town
department, and Miss Leta
ed from earth to appear before
Him sits upon the great
white throne on high to judge the
quick and the dead lie was a
son of Dr J. G. James, late pro-
of the Macon House He
was a victim of typhoid fever,
having been taken with that dis-
ease about three weeks before his
death. Thus a life just fairly be-
gun is to an early close.
His remains were interred Friday
morning in Cherry Hill Cemetery.
Deceased was a member of the
Greenville Guard and Was buried
by the Company with military
honors. Rev. F. A. Bishop con-
ducted the funeral service. The
pall bearers were J. S. Smith, L
E. Cleve, J. C. Chestnut, Frank
Wilson, J. F. Joyner and D. J.
Whichard. The attendance upon
the funeral was unusually large.
The grief caused by his death falls
heavily upon the family, and the
entire community extend to them
heartfelt condolence this boar
of severe affliction. May God who
has torn their hearts asunder send
His Holy Spirit to comfort them.
Among the many sea-
wares I am of-
will be found
GRAND MAMMOTH DISPLAY
OF
FALL ail WINTER GOODS
We have values that will bear inspection
throughout our bright, new Stock, which has
JUST ARRIVED,
EMBRACING THE FINEST QUALITIES,
the LATEST STYLES, most COMPLETE AS
and the LOWEST PRICES.
OUR DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Our Velvet, Satin and Trimming Department
Consists of all Colors and Shades of Silk and Cotton Velvets and
Velveteens, from the cheapest to the finest qualities, in striped,
plaid and plain designs. Trimmings in all colors, from
inch to yards wide. Braided and beaded
Hamburgs and Laces and thousands of other articles in
this line that want of space forbids mentioning.
Our Ladies and Children Wraps and Cloak
Department.
We can show you a line of Ladies, Misses and Children's gar-
in Russian Circulars, long and short Jackets,
of the latest designs and style, in qualities such as Brocaded
vets, Diagonal, striped in all colors. Plush,
Beaver, We have, this season, the largest stock of Ladies
Wraps that we ever carried and our price will enable you to make
a purchase.
We can show you a fine line of Striped, Check and Plain
hams of all grades, 7-8, 4-4. Drown and Bleached Homespuns
small and large check. Plaids wide. Blenched and Brown
Sheetings. Pall Styles of Striped Seersucker. and stylish
lines of Calicoes, Tickings, Curtains, Flannels of all colors,
Please Read This.
Any friend having books from
my library will greatly oblige me
by returning them to the
TOR office. I cannot recollect all
books loaned, nor the parties to
whom they were lent adopt
this method of collecting them in.
Please read this list of hooks,
examine yours, and if my name
Appears written on the title page
deliver as above
Library of Universal Knowledge.
Vote. ; Chamber's
English Literature, volt.
S ; History of The
Popes Vol. ; Memoirs of Cele-
Characters, Vol.
I ; Life Poems, Vol. ;
Origin of Species, Vol. ;
Shakespeare Vol. ;
British Poets,
Vol. ; Dun Quixote. Vote.
Cruise of The Betsy, ;
Letters of Von ;
War Experience, Orpheus C. Ken
Years in Congress, Sunset Cox ;
Speeches of Chatham and
; The Spellbound Fiddler,
Georgia Scenes ; Flush
Times In Alabama and Mississippi;
Humorous Phases of the Law ;
Tales ; Reveries of a
Bachelor ; Bacon's Essays ; The
Federalist; French Revolution,
; Dr. and Mr. Hyde;
Poetic Treasures; Major Jones
Travels ; Genesis Geology, Dr.
Hughes.
This list does not include books
loaned to Reform Club Library.
Very respectfully
A.
Senator Vance met with a pain-;
accident on Saturday a week
ago, by falling from a wagon in
which he was riding He
ed an ugly cut on the head but
is getting along well. The
dent happened near his home in
Western North Carolina.
CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES,
Don't go anywhere else for them but
to
croup Wife
reliable Carriage Factory in
Greenville. Go there if you want first-
class Buggy.
ill
And on Saturday evening an-
other home in our midst was tilled
with gloom and. sadness because
one of its loved ones had been
called away. Little Brace Pee-
ten-year old eon of Mr.
Peebles, died of typhoid
been sick a weeks.
The remains were interred Sunday
afternoon at the family banal
grounds, six mites above town.
services were conducted by
Rev. F. A- Many per-
the to-
with
new.
Gowan the j tin
J. PROCTOR ft BRO.-1
GRIMESLAND, N. C.
DEALERS IN
General Merchandise.
We Veep constantly on baud a good
stock of Ready Made Clothing, Boots,
Shoe, Hats, Dry Goods, Dress Goods,
Notion, Hardware. Tools, Pro-
visions, Light and Heavy Groceries, To-
Cigar , Liquors which will be
We pay the very highest market prices
tor Cotton and all kinds of Country Pro-
dace.
We have five inch Shingle which
will be at per thousand
at Perry.
All owing us are Te-
to make immediate
Dent and that
YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED.
Manager.
D. Lichtenstein Co
AT THE
OLD STOKE.
AND MERCHANTS BUY-
J- their year's supplies w ill find it to
their interest to get our prices before
chasing elsewhere. is complete
in all its branches.
FORK SIDES SHOULDERS,
FLOUR, COFFEE, SUGAR,
TEAS,
always at Lowest Market Priced.
TOBACCO SNUFF CIGARS
we buy from Manufacturers,
you to buy at one profit. A com-
stock of
. KT ML El
always on band and sold at prices to suit
the limes. Our goods are all bought and
sold for CASH, therefore, having no risk
to run, we at l margin.
Respectfully,
D. LICHTENSTEIN CO.
N. C
AND
Hardware Dealers
GREENVILLE, HI
WHEN YOU WANT
Wagon, and Material,
Paints,
Om BUT Cotton Gins. Steam Engines
and Boilers, or any goods Id ibis line
CALL ON
BEST GOODS. .
LOWEST PRICES,
i i inn y
Rugs. Floor Oil Cloth in -1. 6-4 widths. purchase
until you have inspected our beautiful stock, as it will pay you to
until
do so.
OUR CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
Having for years been the Leaders in the Clothing trade we are
ready to show you a full and complete line of New and Stylish
for Men, Youths, Boys and wear,
embracing Single-and Double Breasted Round and Straight
Cut Sacks and Frocks in Fancy Checked, Striped and Plain all
Wool, Cashmeres, Cork Screws, Diagonals, Broadcloths, ; also
a full line of Single- and Prince coats and
vests of our own make. We guarantee to give you a fit, from a
child's to the largest man's sizes. An inspection of our stock in
this line will satisfy we are the leaders. Also a full line
of ULSTERS and OVERCOATS.
OUR HAT CAP DEPARTMENT
is complete in all Styles and Shapes. Those who wish to possess a
nice head ornament should inspect this line.
Our Carpet, Rug and Oil Cloth Department.
my What beautiful carpets was the remark of a con-
that passed our store Prior to this we had some-
what neglected this Department but, owing to frequent calls from
our custom- i.-. have invested largely in this line of goods. We
i .-., can show you a lull line of Brussels 8-ply, plain and fancy, in wool.
and hemp carpetings, also a full line of Smyrna and fancy
t vi. s a a k a a a
Cashmeres. Flannels,
Suitings. Plaids and
Stripes, Blanket Cloth, Dress
Silks both Black and Colored,
beautiful and
en too numerous to mention.
and Trimmings.
of every
Braid and Braided Sets and
Panels, Watered Silks and Sat
ins, Sultan, Satins, Astrakhans,
Fur, and all other Stylish Trim-
Clothing.
Gents Cheviot Suits in all sizes
and colors, Gents Double-Breast
Prince Albert Suits, Fine Dress
Overcoats, and everything else
that comprises a First-Class
Clothing Department for Men,
Youths and Boys.
Boots Shoes.
Ladies Fine Buttons Kid
Boots, Gents Fine Dress Boots,
Heavy Boots, Ditching Boots
and all other kinds for Men and
Boys. Ladies Gents Fine
Dress Shoes of Standard makes.
The Frank Adler Shoe
in Button, Lace and Congress.
Gents Furnishing
Hats, Caps and
everything else to be
found at the
ONE PRICE STORE.
Manager and Proprietor.
N.
OUR BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT
We can safely say we have never shown such an assortment as
we are ready to show now. We have a Large and Varied Stock of
Men's, and Children's Shoes, in Lace, Button,
Congress and other Styles of all qualities ; also Men and Boys
Heavy Boots at exceedingly low prices that will induce you to make
your purchase of us.
Our Merchant-Tailoring Department
We have added, this season, to our Large Establishment a
rate Department in the Merchant-Tailoring line, embracing the la-
test Styles from our new Fashion Plate of this season in Cashmeres,
Worsteds, Cork Screws. Diagonals, Doe Skins, of all de-
signs, and give you a SAFE, SECURE and
RY guarantee in FIT and STYLE, as our reputation for the past
years has proven such to all who have tried us. All kinds of
Men's Garments CUT to ORDER.
In Addition to the Above Departments We Carry
a full and complete assortment of Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags,
Blankets, Comforts, Picture Frames, and thousands of other
articles which for want of space we have omitted to mention.
We wish to call the attention of public to the fact that we do
not carry any second handed or old stock goods, nor is it necessary,
with our reputation, to quote prices ; but an inspection of our
Mammoth Display of New Goods will convince
you that we are offering
Rousing, Rattling
BARGAINS
throughout our new, complete and extensive
stock. An inspection of our stock will convince
you of the above.
A.
MRS. E. A. SHEPPARD
HAS JUST TO HER STOCK
Millinery Goods, and has secured
the cervices an
All orders can row be filled on the short
notice. Dry and Wet Stamping tor
painting and embroidery neatly executed
While in the Northern markets she
careful to select the best mm
latest style goods in the Millinery line, ant
Is prepared to offer purchasers special
FREE DELIVERY IX TOWN
OF
KEROSENE OIL.
By JAMES A. SMITH
deuce.- and
RESORT
GRAND EMPORIUM
For Shaving, Cutting and Hair.
AT TE GLASS FRONT,
Under the Opera House, at which place
I have located, where I have
everything in my line
NEW, CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE,
TO MAKE A
MODEL BARBERSHOP
with all the improved appliances; new
and comfortable chafe.
Razor at reasonable figures
for work outside of my shop
promptly executed. Very respectfully,
EDMONDS.
T THE STOCK OF NEW
MILLINERY GOODS
arriving at
MRS. COW ELL'S
will convince they are without a
parallel in market, both as quality
and price. A new lot of the latest style
goods every few days.
N. C
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
CONVENIENTLY LOCATED.
LARGE SAMPLE ROOMS.
TABLE SUPPLIED WITH OF
MARKET.
Good rooms servants.
Feed Stables in
. s. Proprietor.
HOTEL
V DELIVER, DAILY, Tr
to parties Kerosene Oil, as
pod as any in market and at j rooms. Best
Price now paid at the stores. j , affords. When In the city
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED stop at the
time, money and trouble by per- L
mining us to fill your orders at rest-
on Main St. N. C.
Notice to Creditors.
Having on the 9th day of August 1887,
qualified as executor of the estate of W.
H. deceased before E. A.
Clerk of the Superior Court of Pitt county,
all persons having claims against the
said estate are notified to present them to
me for payment on or before the 12th day
I of October or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery. All per-
sons indebted to said estate are
to make immediate payment to me.
This 11th day of October
W. F.
Executor of W. H.
SALE OF LAND.
v to a decree of Pitt Superior
at June Terra 1887. Wm. White-
head against L. V. the undersign-
ed Special will sell at pub-
sale at Court House door in Green-
ville on Monday 2nd day of January next
th tract of land in said county.
at the bridges on the Green county
road, cross Middle Swamps, thence
the run of said Swamp to the month of
Reedy branch, thence up the Canal
said branch to Allen's corner,
thence North East pole- to a light-
wood stake in the of several small
maples in Thomas line, thence
West rates to a stake, HUM by
small Joyner's
thence South I West poles to a
pine near the county road, thence
i South t-64 W poles to a stake in a
bend. Aaron corner,
West to the Green county road. Jas.
corner, thence a Southerly course
along the of said road to the be-
ginning, containing by estimation
twelve hundred acres more or be-
the lands formerly belonging to Dr.
Noah Terms cash
AUG. M. MOORE
Nov. 7th. Special
She her cress
And rained upon Out creature's nose
A storm of sweet;
The swell reclining at her feet
Remarked, as ha looked up,
wish that I'd been born a
Then smiling coldly from her throne
She said were yon fall-
grown
STEAM
and all other machines repaired at
notice. M home or at shop. Iron and
Brass Turning done in the best manner.
Cylinder- bored. Models made to order,
Locks r. paired. or fitted. Pipe
and threaded. Gins repaired in best
manner. work. General
Jobbing done by O. P. DUMBER,
Greenville. N. C.
WILMINGTON
and
R. R.
Schedule,
GOING
Boat, No No
Dated June daily Mail, daily
daily ex Sun.
Weldon Ba pm
Ar Rocky Mount
Ar
St
Ar pin
Ar
Ar
Ar
No
daily
ex Sun.
Wilmington S am pm
Magnolia am
Ar Warsaw
Ar Selma
Ar Wilson
Wilson run
Ar Rocky Mount
Ar
am
Ar Weldon pm
Daily except Sunday.
Train en Scotland Neck Branch Road
leaves Halifax for Scotland Neck at
Returning, leaves Scotland Neck
A. M. daily except Sunday.
Train leaves Tarboro, N C, via
A Raleigh R. R. Sun-
day. P M. Sunday M, arrive
N . P . P M.
leave- Williamston, X C, daily
except Sunday. A M. A
M, arrive Tarboro. N C, A M.
AM.
Train on Midland N C Branch leaves
except Sunday. A M,
X C. A M. Re-
turning leave- Smithfield. X A M.
arrive N C, M A M.
on Nashville Branch leaves Rocky
for Returning
leaves Nashville A M. daily, except
Sunday.
Train on Branch leaves Warsaw
tor Clinton, daily, except Sunday, at
P M. Returning leave Clinton at A
-M.
Southbound train on Fayette-
Branch i No. Northbound is
No. Daily except Sunday.
Train No. will stop only at
Wilson. Goldsboro and Magnolia.
Train No. makes close connection at
Weldon for all points North dally. All
rail via Richmond, and daily except Son-
day via Bay Line.
Trains make close connection for all
points North via Richmond and Wash-
AH trains run solid between
ton and Washington, and have
Palace Sleepers attached.
JOHN F. DIVINE,
General
J. R. Transportation
T. M. EMERSON. Passenger
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
O county.
Minnie Sherrod, Nina E. Cherry,
husband, N. P.
James and
band. F. G. James
vs.
Willie Sherrod, Defendant.
To Sim-rod
You are hereby notified that on
1st a petition was filed in
my office by the above named
praying a division of the lands described
in said petition of which you arc an heir.
You are hereby to appear at my
office either in or guardian on the
23rd day of December to answer,
plead or demur to said and
should you fad to so appear a guardian
will lie appointed to answer for
you and judgment rendered in accordance
with said petition, witness my hand at
office in Martin comity
North Carolina.
. T. FORD
Clerk Superior Court.
TO
duly qualified on the 12th day of
1887, as executor of the rotate of
Tatar Fleming, deceased, before E. A.
Clerk of the Superior Court of Pitt
County, notice is hereby given to all per-
sons having claims against said estate to
present them to me for payment on or
the 18th day of October. or this
notice will be plead in bar of their
All persons indebted to the estate
arc requested to make immediate payment
to me. R. R. FLEMING,
of Peter Fleming
What let I U ft r
The symptoms of are
happily too well known. They differ in
different individuals to some extent. A
hill ions man is seldom a breakfast eater
Too frequently, alas, he has an excellent
appetite for liquids bat none for solids of
a morning. His tongue will hardly bear
inspection at any time; if it is not white
and furred, it is rough, at all events.
The digestive system is wholly oat of
order and Diarrhea or Constipation may
be a or the two may alternate
There are often Hemorrhoids or even loss
nut If twain
it b
Stand did any thing
notable. Talk good, bat
do, posh, drive are better.
No city there are
no worker. Great undertakings
come from energetic and
Great rein Its follow
intense activity and combined en-
The New Orleans
a lesson
advantages do not,
make a great city. The little old
city of Portland, Me., he the fin-
est harbor in the world, so roomy
accessible that the biggest
ships from the sea, with canvass
spread, can to the wharves
without pilots or with
water so deep that the Great
tern tied up there years ago ; yet
Portland will always remain of no
of blood. There may be giddiness and
often headache and acidity or flatulence , . , .
and tenderness in the pit of the stomach, j importance
To correct all this if not effect a cure try many inland country villages. A
BUY
OB
EIGHTEEN SIZES AND KINDS
ILL PURCHASERS CAM BE SUITES
Green's A Flower, it costs but a trifle
and thousands attest its efficacy.
Freight Rates,
Wilson Advance.
The demand for freight
that will allow North Carolina
people to trade with each other
goes up from every section of the
State. The manufacturer who
sells goods to the people of the
State must first ship his goods out
of the State he can secure
freight rates at which be can do
business with the people of North
Carolina. Is this right We
think not. The of the
State are given ad-
vantage. The people of the
counties have paid largely
for their construction. Is it fair
then
charge the business men of North
Carolina such an rate
of freight that they are thereby
prevented from doing business
with their own people The in-
every section of the State
demands that this injustice shall
not longer exist. The need for
a railroad commission must be
to every well wisher of the
State. Could not a commission
accomplish something in this line
We so.
Yon cannot afford to waste time in
when your lung are in
Consumption seems, at first,
only a cold. Do not permit any dealer
to impose upon you with some cheap
of Dr. King's New Discovery tor
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, but be
sure you get the genuine. Because he can
make more profit he may tell yon be has
something as good, or Just the same.
Don't be deceived, but insist upon getting
Dr. King's New Discovery, which Is
to give relief in all Throat, Lung
and Chest affections. Trial bottles free
at drugstore. Large size
The Advantages of Early Mar-
risk of
young fool
you
Isaac Co.,
L. C. TERRELL,
GREENVILLE. N. C.
SEND FOR A SAMPLE COPY.
, THE STATE
Successor to the Farmer A Mechanic and
the
MANAGEMENT
BRIGHT AND CLEAN
PP WITH THE TIMES
The will be what its
name State paper. It is Dot
the Raleigh and not be
local or sectional. It will aim to keep
the current newt from Murphy to
or as the politicians put it, from
Cherokee to
It will be the of no man, a
no section, no It will be
Democratic in but will not
to criticize Democratic and
Democratic
THE WILMINGTON STAR.
REDUCTION IN PRICE I
Attention is called to the following
rates of subscription, cash in
THE STAR.
Six Months,. . 3.00
Three Months,.
One
THE WEEKLY STAR.
One
Six
Three Months,.
Our Telegraph News service has recent-
increased, and it Is
determination to keep the up to
I the highest standard of newspaper excel-
Address,
Wm. H. BERNARD,
Wilmington, N. C
Om terM
I he v
are
Judge.
Yon don't run the
an old maid.
It is better to be a
than an old one.
The unmarried girl feels she
growing old too quick.
If you make a bad match
can blame it to inexperience.
When you ate getting old no
one will take you but a widower.
It prevents your married friends
from sympathizing with you.
If you wait till you are thirty it
is hard to get a young husband.
The man who marries an old
woman always wants something
thrown in.
You are apt to get shop-worn if
you remain long on the
market.
You have a better chance to
catch a second husband if you
happen to lose your first.
If you catch a millionaire's son
you will have him before he has
blown in his fortune.
You avoid the pleasure of to him by the
all your girl friends tell you
how happy they are with their
husbands.
great city is made by the and
bustle, and energy and get-up-
and-get of the people who ate
willing to
THE CURE.
The theory of the mind cure may do
some hysterical cases, but for chronic bow-
el troubles, croup, colic
tery, Dr. Huckleberry Co.-dial is
the surest and best cure. Keep it.
Men of Worth to a Town.
The only men who are of worth
to a town or community, says an
exchange, are those who can for-
get their own selfish ends long
enough, and who are liberal
enough in their ideas to en-
courage every public mind and
private are ready
with brain and purse to forward
every project calculated to build
up the town and enhance its
A town might, as well
prepare tor its funeral as to be-
come indifferent to tho industries
and enterprises in its midst. Men
who come to town to make it their
future home, who can't see tar
enough before to see that
money placed judiciously in a pub
lie enterprise of their own will
bear hundred fold in the
of their own property, are to
be pitied. They are not the men
who put their shoulder to the
wheel and help build up a town.
They belong to a class who are
ready to take all they can of
some one else's building and en-
but. are not willing to do
anything themselves. It is the
town that has tho most
in it that grows most
rapidly.
THE EFFECT of SLEEPING in CARS
is the contracting of cold, which often re-
seriously to the lungs. Never neg-
a cold, but take in time Taylor's
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
great cough medicine.
One of the most encouraging
signs of the times is the apparent-
thrifty and prosperous
of the Press of the State. We
might mention dozens of
that have lately bought new
the old hand-
press and purchased tine power
presses. There is nothing that in-
the prosperity of a people
so much as the public press. Show
us a live and sprightly newspaper
and we will point you to an en-
lightened, enterprising and go-a-
head people, and
Rocky Mount Phoenix.
have been the cause of much bronchial
troubles. Coming out into the open air
a slight cold, followed a severe cough
is contracted. Take in time Taylor's Cher-
Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein.
Here is the way the old Ger-
man Emperor kills his lie
site in an easy chair the
are driven along in a herd
at a distance of less than twenty
yards from his gun, which hand-
the as they
approach. This is doing better
than some hunters, who buy their
Star.
SwaM Legal
E. Munday, Esq., County
Atty., Clay county, Texts,
used Electric Bitters with most happy re-
My brother also was very low with
Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but was cu-
red by timely use of this medicine. Am
satisfied Electric Bitters saved
Mr. D. I. of Horse Cave,
Ky. adds a like testimony, saying
positively believes he would hive died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off, as
as cure all Malarial Diseases, and for all
Kidney, Liver and Stomach disorders
stands unequaled. Price and at
ding store.
is the great remedy
correcting all of the perverted processes
of this Important organ. Sold by all
druggist. Price only cents.
The d stressing ailments of early child-
hood are promptly relieved and cured by
the use of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price
cents.
News Observer.
He of in Ire-
dell county, to have a cotton
factory. The citizens of that town
have gone to work and, with the
assistance of State immigration
Agent J. T. Patrick, have secured
it. Some time since Mr. Patrick
originated and adopted a plan by
which any or city in the
State can easily secure any kind
of a factory it may want, and the
real live towns are taking
of it The plan has
published before. It is about as
follows .
Mr Patrick is in almost daily
correspondence with factory men
and capitalists who desire to come
to this State to make in vestments;
but the capitalists want
some encouragement and evidence
of good will. Mr. Patrick's plan
determine by inquiry what
kind of factory would be most
profitable in a certain place, if the
citizens want the factory and if so
how much they want it. He has
had prepared blank forms for this
purpose which may be explained
as follows It has been
a good location
for a cotton factory. The citizens
of--------have declared they would
like a factory in their town, but
they do not wish to invest large
amounts in one know
about the business ; but some
are willing to make donations in
order that the factory may be es-
in the town. The form
sets forth that the citizens of such
town will give one half acre of
land for the site of the factory
and will also give certain amounts
in money each, ranging from
to any amount. They subscribe
their names and write the
amounts they propose to give.
This list is returned to Mr. Pat-
rick, who submits it to some com-
seeking investments, and
points out the inducements offer-
ed by the town of Of
course cotton factories would not
be paying institutions in every
place, but a different kind of
might be badly needed in
some town, a canning factory in
another, a spoke and handle facto-
in another, an iron foundry in
another, and so on. For every in-
of this and many other
kinds, competent men are seeking
locations. With the lists which
Mr. Patrick proposes to up,
he can show any bod v a desirable
field for any manufacturing enter
prise and show just what, kind of
a reception and how much
will be given to the en-
He is always in
with parties who desire
such information and who will act
on obtaining it.
One of these blanks was sent to
the town Mooresville, and the
citizens once agreed to invest
about in a cotton factory
and that amount has been
bed. This list was submitted by
Mr. Patrick to Messrs. Godfrey
Co, of Providence, R. I., and they
will at once put in all necessary ma-
for a first-class cotton
and commence operations.
Similar measures for establish-
various other kind of factories
in the State are in progress, all of
which will probably result in the
building of various industrial en-
Asheville Some gen-
from Michigan, after pros-
in Madison, secured an op-
on a piece of mountain land
for sixty days. These sixty days
expired this week, and the result
of the investigation is that the
party bought sixty acres, for which
paid in cash. The
trade has been concluded, and the
cash paid.
Men should learn a lesson from
the moon for it never gets too full
to rise when the time comes.
ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE.
here,
Murray
It is Well to Remember.
Headlight.
That happiness is not perfection
unless it is shared.
That great possessions may
bring great misfortunes.
That a foolish friend does more
harm than a wise enemy.
That the hardest thing to
out of the heart it conceit.
That it not necessary to be
mean because one a man of
means.
That good temper, like a sunny
day, sheds its brightness over
That one of the causes that
leads us to misfortune Is that we
live according to the example
others.
To the Proprietor of
Thou hast built a living
A cure for hurts with tittle noway mast
o, the
. a domestic or
M.
hen
egg
sue-
the
still
Goldsboro Mrs J.
this city, has a
cross between a
that has laid an
for over one hundred days in
cession, having begun laying
last week in July, and is
attending to business. Any
one having returns that can beat
this will please send them in.
Sylvia Not withstand
the very short supply of the
apple crop there has been shipped
from this point, by freight, since
the 1st of October, pounds
of chestnuts. pounds ; cab-
pounds ; Irish
toes. pounds ; onions,
pounds; and one mixed car-load,
for Augusta Ga. of pounds,
aggregating pounds.
Salisbury i A young
roan named Carter, county,
to town a horse toot
day to swap off. But Mr trying
the market all day without a trade
during which he
freely, night came on and he took
his horse in the rear of the Boy-
den House and oat its throat and
Oar
about W that
sight as be wet dying.
get baa no
s know the
is
pun u
win
M A
STOW U
pen
-a -j
K. .
CASKETS
We mass W cannot
This we all know. But do we all
know we die by t It is
said we dig graves with our
teeth. Bow foolish sounds.
Yet it fearfully true. We air.
at the approach the cholera
and fever, yet there is a dis-
ease constantly doors and in
Our houses far more dangerous
destructive. Most people have
their own n poison, more
but fatal as the germs
of those which sweep men
into eternity by thousands without
warning in the times of great
lint it is a mercy that, if
we are Watchful, we can tell when
we are threatened. The following
are among the yet they
do not appear in
tho same v. nor are
tho same in There
a dull r.-. Risen a bad
in Has in the
morning; the appetite
able, poor and again it
seems as the could
not eat enough, and x-i no
appetite at all j dullness and slug-
of the mind; no ambition
to study v more or head-
ache and in the head;
dizziness on tiring to the feet or
moving ; furred and coat-
ed tongue; n of a load on the
stomach nothing removes; hot
dry skin at timed; tinge
in the eyes; scanty mil colored
Hour fasts in lbs mouth,
attended fey palpitation of
impaired vision, with
spots that seem to he swimming in
the air before the eves; a cough,
with a
ration ; poor rest; a sticky
slime about the teeth gums;
hands feet cold and clammy;
irritable temper and bowels bound
up and This disease has
puzzled the physicians and still
them. It is the commonest of
ailments and yet tho most
mysterious. Sometimes
it is treated as consumption, some-
times as liver complaint, and then
again as malaria and even heart dis-
ease. But its real nature is that of
constipation and dyspepsia. It arises
in tho digestive organs and soon
affects all tho others through the
corrupted and blood.
Often the whole
the nervous literati;,
starred, even there is M
emaciation to tell the sad
Experience baa shewn that there is
pot one remedy certainly
cure this in r. stages,
namely, S -I of Hoots or
Mother s Syrup. It
never fails mi, time
should be lost in trying other so-
called remedies, tot will do no
good. Get this great vegetable
preparation, I by a
able nurse whose name is a house-
hold word and be sure
to get the tide.
GIVEN i BY
Shaker of Hoots or
gel's Syrup ha raised me to good
health after seven doctors had given
me up to with consumption.
So writes R. F. Grace,
ville, Todd Co., Ky.
HEARD OF IT IX TIME.
had been about given up to
die with when I first saw
tho advertisement of Shaker Extract
of Roots or Syrup. After
using four bottles I was able to at
tend to my business as well as ever.
I know of several cases of chills and
fever that have been cured by
So writes Mr. of
Geneva Co., Ala
WORTH DOLLARS A
Mr. Thomas P, Evans, of the firm
of Evans Merchants, Horn-
town, Co., Va. writes
that he had been with digestive
disorders for many years and had
tried physicians and
without He to
use Shaker Extract of Roots or
gel's Syrup about tho 1st of Jan.
1887, and was so much better in
three weeks that he considered him-
self a well man. He
have at this time one bot-
on hand, and if I could not get
any more not a ten
dollar Mil for
All druggists, or Address A. J.
White, Limited, Warren St N. T.
virtue of the
given In a Deed Trust made by
W. A. Barrett Co, on the 6th day of
March. 1886, and recorded in the Regis-
of Pitt county in Book
pages and 6-, the undersigned will sell
at the Court House door In Greenville on
Monday the day Dec., 1887, the fol-
lowing described real estate, situate in the
County of Pitt, township That
tract of land on which W. A. now
resides, lying on Black Swamp and
Creek ml joining the lands of
B. A. I. Barren, G. W. Bar-
and others, containing acres more
or less tract Is subject to the home
stead of said W. A. Barrett, described as
Beginning at a stake near Tar-
road, G. W. Barrett's corner, thence
down the branch to tho swamp, thence
down the Swamp Greenville road,
thence with said road to cross fence,
thence with fence to Creek,
thence down Creek to cross fence
site to dwelling house, thence with said
fence a straight line to Greenville road,
thence to Fork Tarboro, thence with said
Tarboro load to the beginning, contain-
Also the store lot in the
town of In said County upon
which the said W. A. Barrett A Co. done
business. Terms made known on day of
sale. J. A.
November 1st, 1887 Trustee
Sugg A James
C. B. N. .
Edwards N,
Printers and Binders,
KT. O.
We have the largest and most complete
establishment of the kind to be found In
the State, and solicit orders for all classes
Of Commercial, Bail-
road or School Print-
or Binding.
WEDDING STATIONERY READY
FOR PRINTING INVITATIONS
BLANKS FOR MAGISTRATES AND
COUNTY OFFICERS,
roar
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and can obtain patents iv
less time than more remote
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unless obtain Patents.
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AT JACKSON'S.
GREENVILLE MARKET. To this
They Were Grateful Thank
mg Day.
Corrected weekly by D.
CO., Wholesale and Retail Grocer.
and friends,
likewise Mr. Jackson,
am now gathered
this
board to discus.- our f
Thanksgiving dinner,
and to keep the in our hearts what
we is of by this bountiful
my dealt and likewise you,
we is each of us to our
in turn, soy what we is thankful
for. For myself, the oldest, I kin
that I am thankful for everything;
most that I is over that
rheumatics that mo so, and that
Mrs. Jackson keeps in good and
plenty of and that my is
all to school and is up nice
and Now, Jackson, it's your
gives thanks to Lord for all his
but I would to say that I
Is very glad that there ain't no ornery,
low down, white trash what can boat me
nor nor in looks
when I gets my Sunday close
said the old man, re-
ain't in order, but
that long as it's so, ye ain't no wise
to blame. Now, Cleopatra, let's
from
paw, I don't like to say, but I is
thankful all the with a look at
Mr. Hawkins, who smiled back
as if he had t he same reason for giving
special thanks.
Abraham Jackson, tell
paw and all the company what you is
the said the old
father in Israel to the youngest member
of the family, after all the rest had ex-
pressed themselves.
is thankful that there ain't no
more of us, if day
wouldn't go
Let us say
A THANKSGIVING SERMON.
Of all the days that have set apart
as sacred to the people of two
stand forth in holy radiance as the out-
come of the purest sentiments. Tho
Is Decoration day. and tho other Thanks-
giving. The one was born in loving
of the dead, ard the other in gratitude
to the bountiful Giver of all we enjoy.
The flowers we lay upon tho graves of
soldiers and lost ones are not sweeter than
the thanks offer today. Some, indeed,
may not give articulate sound to their
thanks, but it is safe to say that in all
this broad land there is not one person
whose heart, whither it is weighed down
by sorrow or light with joy, does not send
at least one grateful thought toward the
source of all good, though perhaps they
are hardly conscious it.
Gratitude for favors given is a and
ennobling sentiment, and meet Is
this youngest and most signally blessed
country should set apart one day wherein
the whole nation, as one soul, should
to silent thanks for all the bounties and
blessings we enjoy. receive the feast
to the spirit of a reminder that these
blessings are but a part cf the abundant
store; and with He testing tin. thanks-
giving rises like incense. Let there be no
empty tables In the land, that not one
single heart fail to oiler its meed; and let
us an the Load for bis good
works, for his mercy
An Old Dinner.
The following i the of Hie dishes at
Thanksgiving on a Pennsylvania
farm. with the exception of
the was placed the table at
once, to obviate the of rising, as
the dear old hostess was none too strong
and kept no servants, and yet cooked it
all herself. Al the head of the table
a large chicken pie, in the middle two
roast chickens, and at the foot was an
turkey, and opposite the chick-
ens a roasted There were fourteen
pies of different kinds, three large cakes,
crullers, preserve.-, pickles of four kinds,
boiled onions, mashed potatoes, and
nips, cheese nuts. custard, head
cheese, lilac nit, brown and white bread,
and lastly n big plum pudding, coffee.
All this for thirteen persons. This dinner
was twelve years ago, and all the diners
still live.
A Thanksgiving; Sentiment.
the historian, when asked
for a Thanksgiving sentiment wrote
man today earns more money,
wears better clothes, cats better food and
of more kinds, lives in a more comfortable
home, knows more of the world, holds
broader views than be could possibly have
done when the Nineteenth century came
The Pie.
rhubarb pie in early spring.
in June;
And Christmas time its rich
night and noon.
the royal for
is pumpkin, golden y
Ah that's the kind for me. If not
For any other fellow
Quern Victoria travels she is
supplied with a special lime table, printed
elegantly in mauve, on thick white
bordered with gold and surmounted
the royal arms.
For I lie
Against the gloomy, J
All stark and dim the tree tops lie,
And loud the chattering robins cry
Spring to remember.
Untiring arc the Winds that blow,
O'er the bills and low.
Breathing promises
November.
The summer flowers arc withered, dead.
The maple leaves, of flaming red,
That clothed the wood with lire, have fled.
Leaving the ember.
The pines arc drear
Cadences In Winter's car-
Dirge o'er tho the dying year
Pork
Bulk Side.
Shoulders
Bacon Sides
Bacon Shoulders
Pitt County Hams
Sugar Cured Ham
Flour
Coffee
Brown Sugar
Granulated Sugar
Syrup
Tobacco
Snuff
Lard
Butter
Cheese
Eggs
Meal
Corn
Irish Potatoes
G. A. Salt
Liverpool Sail
Hides
Rags
Beeswax
Bread
Star Lye
Kerosene Oil
worth wanted
this winter at the Old Brick Store-
New and Nuts,
Dates, Figs, Applet, Candies,
Cakes, Oranges, Lemons,
and at the Old
Brick Store.
Have your Clothing out
by A. the Mer-
chant Tailor, and get a
good fit.
We have just new
toW auk to go of samples Custom
of business for hat reason offer Made Clothing, consisting of the
finest and line of Import-
ed Goods A
A CITY
14.75 to
to
MA to 5.50
to
M to
to
to
to
PRICES
Cost
name In the
leaven on n tree.
Her there for fellows
like you
Oh are breezes,
An wanner lithe town;
Bo upper.
My me cornea down.
to
to
HO to
1.00
to
3.40
Moll
our stock of
GROCERIES
FOB pure bred Jersey
t John Fleming, Greenville, N. C.
Be Wise by getting full value
Pore hand made cigar tor Sets
the Old Brick Store.
Lost.
COST.-
Come to see us early if you wish to secure
BARGAINS.
M. L. Slaughter Co.
For suit of on layout
Of turkey, and pies;
to lit oar ate
Ami we no
An- nary
Wore thankful, for It
one hole year.
See Here.
On the hist., a note for five
red pounds f lint cotton or value In
money, given Robt to II. F,
Keel, payable oil the first day of a TO CHANGING MY Lang's
All persons are hereby forbid-
den from buying or trading for the same.
H. F. Keel,
MARLBORO, X. C.
NOTICE TO
qualified on the day of
as administrator on
the estate of John Taft, notice is
hereby given to all person having
against said estate to present them, prop-
authenticated, to for payment on
or before the 10th day of November. 1867,
business on the 1st of 1888, I
now oiler my entire stock of goods
that will suit everybody. I only ask
an examination of my stock to
you that I mean what I say. All notes
and not paid by the of De-
put in train of collection;
also I shall proceed to collect all accounts
not paid by the 1st day of by law
J. R. Davenport,
X. C.
, . . ,
Dry Goods, Boots and To ,.,,,, your
Shoos, readers I hat. I have a positive remedy for
Carpets, Oilcloths and Ladies, named disease. By Its timely
of hopeless cases
at SI. Li. permanently eared. I shall be glad to
send two bottles of my remedy to
any of your readers who have
if hey will Rend me their express
post once address. Respectfully.
T. A. Slocum. M. C, Pearl it., Y.
or Ibis will be plead in bar of their j AN , .
All persons indebted to said Superior Court of Pitt County,
estate are requested to make
made a certain Special
The the Boss Fatuous
Lunch Milk Biscuit over six
months previous lbs, yon
know at the Old Brick Store.
One the celebrated Stew
Coffee Pots given to every
chaser of an Excelsior Cook Store
Are you looking for Bargains,
salve.
The best Salve in the world for
Bruises. Salt
Sores, chapped Hands,
Cuts,
Corns, r ml all Skin Erupt I on
and cures or no pay re-
It Is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded, Price,
per box. tot sale by
HUSH
payment to me. S a something that will the eye
S. T , , f , , ,
Special Notice. Rid Court as ease number I will, on
All persons indebted to me by note or
account are requested to call and settle
same immediately.
Further indulgence cannot nor will not
be given. When move in country I
place all my Claims in the
a Collector instructions to collect, ho-
ping the collection of but few will have
to be paid for. FLANAGAN.
Greenville X. C.
IMPORTANT.
A IX PERSONS TO THE
FIRM
T. R. Cherry Co.,
are hereby come forward
once and settle accounts. This is
important, as the business of
must closed up.
Friday, December 16th, 1887, at pub-
sale before the Court House door in
Greenville all that piece or parcel of land
situated in town-hip and known
as lot in the division of the lands of
deceased, among his heirs
at-law and which to Marina
The Nicest, Largest and Cheap-
est Stock of Furniture at the Old
Brick Store, which invite you
to examine before buying.
W. S. Bawls has just received
And then the sweetest raptures reign,
When the door is closed and die -hades
arc dropped;
For lovers I hen pure bliss attain.
glued lips go Hop.
Wilson Mirror.
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FATHER, AND HOLY GHOST
BOTTLES AND RAGS.
A THANKSGIVING STORY.
Bottles hail been declaiming from the
top of a barrel which stood among other
merchandise upon the dock, when a slim
mite of n girl en me toward him from the
other side of the Bottles jumped
down from the barrel, and, with a stag
approached the girl. They an a
quaint pair; he a gatherer of empty bot-
she a picker. If ever they had
names they are now no spoken, for
they are known among the quarters they
as Bottles Rags. They were
Boston street waifs.
Bottles is one mass of tatters and flit-
from hat to torn shoes,
through which his frost bitten toes peep.
And the girl, if anything, is more ragged
than he. As he grasps hold of the hand,
the spirit of the man within him
little Rags cold as a honk of
lee. Where you what you got and
what you to do with it If you've
and got and can't do any-
then come with father. He's
got ten cents, and ten cents buy a plate
of fried cakes,
It was interesting to study the
of utter trust which came upon the
girl's face while the Boy is speaking. Her
tether That was only a pet term he was
wont to use, expressive of his guardian-
ship over her.
said the girl, after a short
Cause, the moat money you ever
in all
do mean,
let me see; I last
Christmas I had as much as one seventy-
will the band and the
piles and
out of as the
sailors down at the Hum sex.
row's Thanksgiving,
that.
day set for big
responded Rags.
say, Rags, did one see yon pick
It
I seen it kinder jammed down
in a big crack. I it was ducats,
and, when a thing of that sort, I
made sure no one was when I
lifted
a good lift it was, Rags.
That one lift means big fur you
and I with the swells. If there's
ducats left we'll get sum new togs
and board round a spell
down to bis now, here comes
the old
The with the pitcher of
beer. The waRs went to the snuff box win-
and gazed out upon the chilly look-
roofs and the slippery street below.
The old woman drank the beer, after
which she rolled herself in a tattered
blanket, laid down upon a creaking bed,
turned her face to the wall, and was soon
loudly snoring.
gone up, Rags. Now fur it, but
hang a rag over the keyhole said
the boy. The girl did as he requested,
then came and sat down by him. He
poured the clinking pieces upon the soap
box under the window sill.
I reckon there's ducats here
to buy a hull house from bottom to ca-
BOTTLES AND RAGS.
poor thing too poor fur me to
broke in the girl, as she
drew her ragged skirt away with mock
pride.
here, Rigs, you've
with father. You've got sun-
thin on mind. tell me the hull
thing cut you off with ten cents,
not the
your eyes on said the girl,
holding out the hand which she had con-
behind her.
The boy fell back a step or two as he
gazed upon the article which she held.
I brought you up better
this You, you who I picked out the
gutter Oh it's sharper than a snake's
tail to have a
I didn't prig the quickly
exclaimed Rags.
spoken like me own dutiful child.
I say. Rags, is the puss well
looked; it's heavy, though,
it jingles. I only found it while
over on India wharf. I ran all the way
to find
Bottles took the purse in his hands. As
he felt t he magic touch of its contents
through the silken meshes it drove all
thought of cold or hunger away.
In the purse was more money than
either had ever touched. In it
was warmth and victuals, though Bottles
gave no thought to either, so overjoyed
was he in the possession of the precious
money, real gold and silver, for he could
tell that by its clinking.
The two waifs finally, cold and tired,
reached the tumble down structure in
South street, where they lodged. They
climbed up the rickety stairways, passed
through the narrow, dark and ill smelling
halls until they reached the attic door,
upon which Bottles tapped softly.
A small circular disk in one of the
upper panels slid back, and a thin, beak
like nose with a pair of red rimmed eyes
appeared in the opening, as a sharp, raspy
voice
responded the boy.
The door was opened the pair passed
Into the low, musty smelling room.
asked the raspy voiced
female.
returned the boy. The purse
In his pocket seemed determined to jingle.
This would have been a dire calamity; for
the old woman would have pounced upon
it like a hawk.
asked the woman, turning
toward Rags.
The girl held her hands out, palms down
and open.
pair. No bottles, no
rags; got Can't stay here to-
yes, forgot. I've got
a dime. Can't you let u. stay fur
broke in Bottles.
dime small me
the said the woman.
Bottles laid the piece upon her out-
stretched palm. She threw a bag hood
over her iron gray locks, and taking a
pitcher from the window sill,
went out
She's gone fur beer. When
he drinks beer she sleeps, and when
sleep, we counts the contents of this puss.
Rags, I say, kid. we'll have a -daisy time
to-morrow. Bid yon know to-morrow
was the day fur big It's a
y. and all us rich coons
have to do but OUT-
hear your father talk I
much on the count, but I guess I can
strike it within a few hundred.
here's else in the
puss. A ring. Bah I don't take no
stock in them things. Can get
cartload like it down in Salem street
for ten cents a one. Put her on,
The ring, evidently designed for a child,
just fitted the dirty little finger over which
the girl slipped it
fur the ducats. Rags, ducats is
the root hog die; I'm porker
miff to root into One, two, three
grand and here's
ten double buzzards. Them stands
fur two of is and so on
Here goes fur a count. One,
two, three, four, five. That's an even
Phew rich is no name fur it Put
finger on that pile. Rags,
down Does it burn fingers
I'll even up with that pile
there's Two hundred dollars and
other chicken feed too numerous to men-
exclaimed the boy, sweeping the
money into the purse. drop the
sparkler in. If the old woman on to
It, good ducats, sparkler, big
and all. I reckon we'd better get
sum sleep
Bottles, I'm hungry. I want
to eat said Rags, turn-
her big blue eyes up at him.
on that then, you poor little
hungry kid yon. All I got. Eat
Rags; I can stand it till till
dinner
The boy lay down upon a pile of rags,
and after the girl had eaten the sods
cracker which he had given to her she
too lay down near him and was soon
wrapped in slumber. They awakened
early, rose and stole from the attic,
the old woman still asleep.
Rags, this old scrum-
mumbled Rags, as she took
great bite of bread.
here, kid, don't be wast yet
on common grub as bread.
Sail into the beans and and ham
and sass
Turkey is the bird of freedom
urged Bottles, helping himself in
tarn to each of the dainties as named.
Perhaps the Crawford was never graced
by such a pair during the whole of its ex-
tent of entering to the public,
Bottles had purchased two regular din-
checks, and chosen a table in the
so as to be as free as possible from
the hungry crowd which thronged the
place. The faces were washed
clean; they were as tidy as their
dated garments would permit.
A new yellow ribbon held Rag's curls
back from her really pretty face, with its
roguish, big, blue eyes, cute little mouth
and turn up nose. And Bottles, he had
laid out a portion of the wealth on a paper
collar, green tie and huge, glaring, red
glass pin. The ring which the purse had
contained was upon Rag's forefinger.
up, whispered the boy,
touching her foot with Ills; lick
fingers. I learned yon better
that I'm to make a lady of you,
kid, and I'm hound to have yon git on to
them small
right. Bottles; I guess right.
I up in as this, and you
must
the wine list. Do we want
ain't fur as us, Bot-
I has started oat on
the racket, and it the
thing fur us to use
in a right toot now.
Rags. I only mentioned the tack far fun.
Can't yon smuggle one of them tarts,
it asked the girl,
looking quickly.
on, Rags; pot the solids la Act,
you'll smash the
A smile over each face as
waifs loaded their bag with the remains
of the meal.
let me git my hat on all
She arranged her headgear to suit her,
and followed Bottles to the door.
this brightness turned to
clouds, for a tall, blue clad form, with
doable rows of brass buttons upon the
breast, stood there.
with me, said the officer,
taking hold of each by the shoulder.
don't mean I say, boas,
you've got the wrong party. We
done have we,
Bat poor little Rags was crying. The
blue coats had always been the terror of
her life. She had heard terrible stories
about them. Now, she and Bottles are in
the care of one, and she is ready to drop
in fright
the racket, asked Bot-
He, too, was troubled; but he most
put on a brave face for the girl's sake.
a purse. Come
And this was the end of the poor little
grand dinner. On the way to the
station house with an officer.
A curious crowd of street boys, news-
paper bootblacks and the like
followed the policeman and his two little
prisoners to the station house.
His honor was taking dinner; would not
hold court today, and the two waifs were
pot into a comfortable cell upstairs.
Rags cried herself to sleep, while Bot-
hero like, sat by her side upon the
cot and kept cheering her up by telling
her that it would be all right in the
morning.
And down stairs, under lock and key,
the unlucky purse and ring were lying in
the desk drawer.
The two waifs, Bottles and Rags, were
pushed forward until they stood in front
of the before his honor.
me what's this Little ones,
what are yon doing asked the kind
faced judge, beaming down upon the pair,
through a set of gold bowed glasses.
Bottles knew it was not proper for him
to speak, and Rugs could not
what is the charge against this
asked the policeman
who had made the arrest.
a purse,
that is a
sir,
mind, my little man; your turn
will come. Let the party who made the
complaint stand forward.
A tall man, clad in clerical garments,
with long drawn visage, stepped for-
ward. The corners of his trap like
month were drawn down In a
most solemn expression. He clasped
his hands in front of him, and turned
his eyes upon the little waifs, as though
even their presence was unholy to his
cloth.
uttered the judge.
Abraham
Bottles could hardly hold in the titter,
which, notwithstanding the solemnity of
the occasion, was ready to bubble from
his lips.
arc a minister, are you
The reverend gentlemen bowed.
you may state your
case in as few words as
sir. Day before yesterday after-
noon, I purchased a ring for my daughter.
I put the ring into my purse, and walked
down to India wharf upon business.
Upon returning to my hotel I found that
my purse was gone. I retraced my steps;
bat to no avail; I could not find my
parse. Yesterday afternoon at dinner in
the hotel where I was stopping I saw
the ring upon the finger of this girl.
I recognized the ring, and knew
at once that she must know of the
parse. I left the dining room, found an
officer had him make the arrest. The
girl picked my
of that, Mr. asked
his honor.
must have done so. I certainly
could not have lost responded the
reverend gentleman.
the purse and ring found upon
the person of the asked the judge
of the officer.
ring was upon the girl's finger,
the purse in the boy's
case. Now, my little man, tell
your
you please, sir, I'm only a boy,
rough and all that, sir. I swear sum-
times yon wouldn't believe
me. She'll tell you all it. You
see, she's only a little girl what
got no friend in the world Bottles
Bottles is me, sir. Rags is her name.
She never swears never picked
his pockets. I know that, I'm her
father, you
Bottles had found his tongue and he de-
livered the foregoing in a straightforward
way, which made the judge smile good
Rags, tell it all. Don't be
The gospel sharp can't hurt
whispered Bottles to the trembling girl by
his side.
With frequent sobs and choking
Hags told her story, which you
already know. She also told how good
Bottles had been to her; how he had often
gone without anything to eat so that she
should have food. In all, she gave a faith-
picture of the peculiar life which
surrounded the pair.
THE CHOICE.
THIS OLD
it the court knows I
paid for all that comes to this table in the
way of grub. I own all, but them dishes,
spoons, forks and and hold
I'll go put a flea in this feller's, ear
who sold me the Bottles root
and went to the cashier's desk. A
expression came upon his face as
the boy spoke to him. Then he reached
down under the desk and handed out a
paper sack. The boy's face was wreathed
with smiles when he back.
all right. Rags. I told him as
how I reckoned we'd have to make this
last till next also
that we wasn't bloated bankers and had
bard grub. He give me
has, and said I could take all that we
couldn't eat it
I should smile. Here's two Jam
t,
SHALL IT BE, JOHN, WHICH SHALL
IT BET
I LOOKED AT AND JOHN AT
A COUNTRY THANKSGIVING.
Is borne. The bins an full.
The are running o'er;
Both and fruits we've cornered in
Till we're no space for more.
We've worked and tolled through heat and cold.
To plant, to sow, to
And now for All this bounteous store
Let us Thanksgiving keep.
The nuts have ripened on the trees,
The golden pumpkins round
Have to our Industry
Their wealth from out the ground.
The cattle lowing In the fields.
The horses in their stalls.
The sheep and fowls all gave increase,
i I our very walls
Are bending out with Rod's good gifts.
And now the day is here
When we should show the Giver that
We hold those mercies dear.
take our lives, our joys, our wealth,
every day;
If we deserve or we do not.
The sun it shines alway. a
So In this life of daily toil.
That leaves short time to pray,
With brimming hearts all humbly
One true Thanksgiving Day.
And if there be some sorrowing ones,
Less favored than are,
A generous gift to them, I think,
la just as good as prayer.
THE THANKSGIVING.
wanting in display. Some families
had brought a few household relics from
their homes, and these were set
to do honor to the day of rejoicing.
The dinner over, the pilgrims turned to
the homes they had left. As the day
closed and darkness came creeping In
from the pine woods around Plymouth,
the settlers trod once more, in fancy, the
green lanes of England or the busy streets
of Leyden. They sang the psalms and
songs that had been sung around their
English firesides, and mingled memories
Of tie past with thankfulness for the pres-
and hope for the future.
Hark An Indian shout followed by
a challenge from one of the guard. A
sharp rattle of a drum, and every man
grasped his and rushed out in
alarm. Nearly a hundred savages were
pouring into the village with shouts and
cries. But there was no occasion for
alarm. It was his braves
coming in to thank the white men for
their assistance and to share their
ties. They brought with them five deer
and a good supply of other as their
contribution to the feast.
So the feasting was con-
another day. By daybreak the
were again set going and the work of
roasting, broiling and boiling was re-
This time venison was added to
the turkey.
While the feast was preparing the In-
performed their dances, startling
the white men and frightening the young
folks and women with their wild yells and
fierce gestures. When they rested Capt
Standish ordered out his soldiers full
armor and put them through their
exercises, winding up with the dis-
charge of a volley from their muskets,
and a salute from the great cannon on the
hill top and the little cannon before the
governor's door. The crash of the mus-
and the roar of the ordnance
the savages, and they begged the
that he would not
again, lest he should kill them all.
On the third day the feasting was re-
the Indian hunters going out
before daybreak and returning early with
game for the day's feast. A council fire
was built, and around it speeches were
made new pledges of friendship ex-
changed. Then, with great ceremony,
took leave of the governor, his
the great captain, the other
chief men of the town. Standish, with
the troop of musketeers, the In-
a short distance from the settlement
and gave them a parting salute.
Thus, with prayer and feasting, with
godly psalms and Indian dances, with
joyous songs, rowing artillery and Eng-
shouts mingling cheerily with Indian
whoops, was celebrated the first New
England Thanksgiving. H. Maria George
In Magazine.
A BRAKEMAN'S THANKSGIVING.
sured of her truth, and after she had
ceased, he
evident that the girl has told what
is true. Is there any one in the room ac-
with the A sleek, fat,
jolly looking man stepped forward and
know them, honor. I keep a
butcher shop down in South street A
newsboy came and told me last night that
Bottles and Rags had been arrested. Your
honor, I stand here to say, from the bot-
tom of my heart, that I know both of
them to be honest, square and upright
They are unfortunate children of the
street who make an honest living. I
hope your honor won't be hard on the two
poor little
are both discharged. Mr. Clear-
starch, yon will get your purse and ring of
the clerk. One thing not find
the whole amount The cashier of the Craw-
ford restaurant just sent ma a note, tell-
how the two little unfortunates en-
joyed their Thanksgiving dinner at his
place yesterday. Of course, having re-
covered your property, you will willingly
donate that dinner for charity's sake.
The Rev. Abraham got his
purse and ring, and want en his way.
And Bottles and Rags In a kindly
stranger who had been present a friend in
whom philanthropy was
oped. The pair are, this day of Thanks-
giving, eating n noble dinner at a home la
one of our great western states.
At lost the two waifs, Beatles Rags,
are safely harbored from the sterner
S. la
How It Wan Observed by Dinette of
Governor Bradford.
The Pilgrim Fathers landed at Ply-
mouth, as we all know, on Monday, Dee.
Under favorable auspices the first
vest was gathered. With hearts of joy
they secured the bountiful crop of Indian
corn which had ripened in the fierce heats
of August and the warm haze of
As they looked on the heaped up.
first fruits of their toil in the
new hearts swelled with
thankfulness that the Lord bad so
fully eared for them, and that, though
sorely smitten with pestilence, they were
now blessed with health, peace and free-
from the dread of famine.
Mindful of the Providence to whom
those blessings were due stern, bold
men were very Governor
Bradford proclaimed a solemn
feast, and ordered that preparations
should be made for celebrating it with
such festivities as were in their power.
Four men were dispatched into the woods
to shoot wild fowl, and though the game
had been scanty throughout the summer,
the quartet of returned at night
staggering under their burden of turkeys,
geese pigeons sufficient to provision
the entire settlement for a whole week.
There was rare labor done by the good
Puritan dames, plucking and dressing the
game, pounding corn and baking it, get-
ting out and polishing the tin and pewter
table services brought from England and
Holland, and scrubbing the wooden
trenchers that served the poorer pilgrims
In lieu of tin or pewter.
The roar of one of the great guns on the
hill top announced the commencement of
Thanksgiving. It was Oct.
a little less than one year n f tor their
rival In Cape Cod bay. In the different
dwellings and over lit in the open air
began the work of roasting and boiling.
When all had assembled the sergeant
stepped forward, and the men, three
abreast with firearms shouldered,
marched orderly and silently toward the
meeting house. Behind came Governor
Bradford in his long robe of office, walk-
gravely, as befitted n governor. On
his right hand walked the venerable
Brewster in his preacher's cloak, bear-
The judge was as- the Bible reverently in his hands. On
we have any Thanksgiving at our
replied the echoing an
engineer's Inquiry. I should say
we did. I had a lay off that day. The
night before came near mo off for-
ever, too. Didn't you hear about that
Funniest thing that ever happened
on the As I was coming in
on the last section of I having the
rear end, I went up ahead to speak to the
conductor, who was on the engine. It
was as dark as a stack of black cats before
the moon rose. As I was going back I
slipped on a broken foot board right at the
end of one of those infernal refrigerator
cars, and fell. I couldn't see a hand be-
fore me, but I knew I was going down. I
clutched for the hand rail, but failed to
reach it, lost my balance, and went down
between the ears, breaking my fall by a
one hand grasp on the brake rod. I
knew what that meant It came over mo
like a flash. It was death, I knew it.
My first thought was of my wife and
what a dinner
they would have with the turkey the
superintendent had sent us, and me
in the little front room all cold. I
can't tell you all I thought in that second,
and I wouldn't if I could. It was awful.
I can remember striking the ground.
I struck on my feet, my efforts to
grasp the hand rail and my half
grip on the brake rod having started
my feet down first. The horror of that
shock. Quicker than you can wink the
thought ran through my brain that in the
next instant I would lie crushed by the
wheels of the cars behind me. But I
wasn't. I fell headlong on the ground and
rolled over and over, bruised and stunned,
but conscious. I couldn't realize why the
other cars didn't run over me. I waited for
them, second by second. It seemed hours.
Soon I roused, scrambled to my feet,
found that there were no cars after me. The
train had broken in two and I had fallen
off the rear end. One of my arms was
terribly sprained, also my left ankle, and
I was bruised a good deal, but I could
walk. There was my lantern by me.
Just then I remembered that the through
express was following our section,
and that there was one on the ca-
to flag it. I hobbled, almost
crawled, back about three-quarters of a
mile found our missing cars standing
In a curve and a cut where the express
surely have telescoped and got
there just in time to signal the express
and stop it. Next day I was able to sit
in bed and eat turkey and receive the
superintendent, who called to say that I
should be promoted the first of the
the governor's left was the military chief
of the colony, Miles Standish, his heavy
armor laid aside for a short cloak, his
trusty sword at his side, and a small cane
In his hand as a mark of office. Proudly
he watched the Arm tread, sturdy frames
and serviceable weapons of the little troop
before him, and was half regretful that
among the subjects for the day's thanks-
giving was the blessing of peace with all
the tribes them. It was also a pity
so many good muskets should be used
only in shooting wild fowl, so doubtless
ha thought; for the sturdy little captain
was, as he had said, a man of war, half of
whose thirty-seven years had been spent
In knocking about the world as a soldier
of fortune.
The sermon of Elder Brewster was
to the occasion. Never was he
known to preach a better discourse or a
shorter one, though it would lie thought
long enough now, particularly If the
steam of roasting
the nostrils of preacher and con-
as It did them.
It was a Thanksgiving dinner, and no
mistake about It -TO be sure the tables
were of the rudest, and there was not
much display, nor were there the many
little delicacies that can often be found
now on Thanksgiving tables. the
turkey was there In all his glory of
browned skin, rich gravies and palatable
stuffing, and so were a number of other
birds, great and small, roasted and boiled
and baked over the embers. There was
earn bread and hominy and puddings,
and several little such as skillful
house wives wold, make the
and Humility.
Once upon a time two turkeys went to
roost on a tree.
am the finest bird that re-
marked one, complacently, nothing
Is too good for So he picked out a
nice, soft, springy limb at the top
of the tree and went contentedly to sleep.
The other one had been brought up to
consider modesty a great virtue, and
humbly am content sleep
near our dear Mother Earth.
before a who knows but that a
storm may come and blow my ambitious
companion to the ground, thus breaking
his vain
So he took a sent on the lower limb.
A storm did not come, but the owner of
the turkeys did, the one on the lower
limb was caught, and on Thanksgiving
day was eaten.
comes as often from
below above.
The first Thanksgiving day recorded
was in Leyden, Holland. Oct.
1878, because of deliverance from siege.
Such observances were not unusual In
Europe. The first New England
Thanksgiving was held by order of
Governor Bradford, at Plymouth, in
1681, they might after
more special manner rejoice
There were thanksgiving days in New
England from nearly every year, for
special purposes, In the New
During the revolution
lands from
the observance was general, after that
was confined mostly to New England,
rials it