Ca . j i um mm. YEAR SIX EVER PUBLISHED IN GREENVILLE LARGEST CIRCULATION. D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Proprietor. TRUTH IN TO FICTION. TERMS Year, in Advance. VOL. GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25.1888 The Eastern Reflector, GREENVILLE, N. C. THE ANSEL THE WELL. D. WHICHARD, Editor and JAMES CHESTER ROCKWELL. One Summer I came to draw Published Wednesday darling Tittle sweetheart Nell. THE LEADING PAPER IN THE Ell TO Subscription Price. SI JO per year democratic, but will not to men and that arc not consistent with the true principles of tho party. If yon want a a Within my arms I clasped my love Ah. bow her eyes began to glow ,. And held her dainty form above The liquid mirror below. Ail Mr and cloudless were the skies. The water clear beneath her eyes; And leaning o'er she said, see An Angel looking up at Sweet childish fancy, yet how true It Is the image. Nell, of you ; And well think no cherub's face i Can show c sweeter, purer grace. O God, forbid that bitters tears Should ill-own the smile that lingers now. semi for the mark of cruel cares tor. SAMPLE I REE . on bro Central STATE government. my is all your Mrs. Duncan declared. would have Mademoiselle did not look like a fright. When Count de entered the reception- room, his beauty-loving eyes sin- out at once a slender, curving figure, in antique brocade which bad grown yellow with age, but was so unmistakably distinguished- looking that all the Indies were wild with envy. Mrs. Duncan in- him. said the court- young lion, bending his tine bead to look at the face him, am charmed meet lovely a countrywoman in a foreign laud Is it possible that we have met before Your face reminds me of one I have seen think Valerie answered, with pleasure at the of a voice that spoke her tongue so perfectly. J have been in America for twelve am mannered can always claim some favor on the score of an old Just then Mrs. Duncan's ; tel butler came in, with a ed bow and announced is served Count de glanced at saw that lie was to j take Mademoiselle La out to dinner. His pleasure was They were soon chatting Angeline Mrs. Duncan,; Angeline Duncan us she fluttered into her daughter's Sent next to them. She put in a what shall I do I've word now and then random, of just received a from Mad- for she couldn't understand a word your face seemed so familiar to me. Mademoiselle La you and I ought to be good will do ray said Vale- warmly. And the count, having taken The Printer's Desk. Elisabeth City Economist. Education is the most popular of all public Enterprises. It is re- as a panacea for all the ills ft considered as the best was much now I the of Valerie was nippier now to be the that she had found a ,. , m. , ,, , that on locks success. This her own countrymen. The J evenings slipped by gaily. The count took her to the opera, and had many pleasant jaunts her. It was one morning in February that Mrs Duncan called upon Ma- to announce to her that her services would be no longer required as a governess. is the This is to some extent true, but in some untrue. Education sharpens the mental thought, concentrates the mental multiplies the inventive resources, suggests new employ- and adds untold values to unimportant material objects. A which Dr. How Our Money Goes. brow her dear feet along the path Of purity and perfect peace; Shield tier f every storm of wroth. An, bid the of sorrow cease. Sweet Nell, when years begin to wane. And you are older, wiser grown, God grant yon may come back again. Ami find the Angel has not flown j And when your sun is low Behind the mountains of the west. M. Scales, of Guilford M. man. of New Hanover. of of Wake. W. Bate, of And to go P. Roberts, of Gates. , lam, of Superintendent of Public Instruction Sidney M. Finger of Catawba. When yon arise and soar away. Attorney F. David- Perhaps the Angel will not stay ; son, of Buncombe. And when you stand before the Throne, The Angel's face will be your own. Chief Justice N. II. Smith, of Wake. Associate S. Ashe. of Anson August its S. Merrimon. of Wake. JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT. First E. Shepherd, of j Beaufort. Second Philips, of Third District II. G. Connor, SOU . Clark, Wk. , T . which j I cannot offer any encourage- i ,, j,.,,,. ;, ; . , . several years ago in different behaves as you the the pecuniary value Of portion of our population which Elizabeth City Falcon. Few realize the enormous amount of money spent for evils. The revenue returns for last year are not much if any, larger than the previous ones, but it is well to take a look at the mutter once in a while, to see how we are drifting. It is apparent that to tho liquor , there is plenty of work yet to do. the . I the Missionary Baptist STATE NEWS. A WEEK'S GLEANING The State Over, From Our Many Exchanges. Happenings in and Events Concerning the North Our People Are Doing and Saying. Wilson I Church at this place. Rev. P. the ti.-i cigar are smoked in country to to inhabitant, besides several ct-j Rev. T. J. agent of col- throe and a quarter portage of the North Carolina con- pounds clawing It is estimated the cost to American people of drinking and smoking, if equally dis among that. does drink and smoke, would give an average cost to each of or enough to buy all the food they can consume in a year. The army illiteracy and rations costs the government were in proportion ; as were Per annum, and it gives the sol- j wealth and education. his has made- Durham headquarters Kinston Press Our farm- Mr S. Abbott, killed five hogs one day this week, which made, in the aggregate, , of meat Patronize Home. Patronize home schools thus keep your money at home, and by so doing you will give the town a real genuine, solid, Mirror. Yes, patronize home schools and home everything. Patronize home industries, home and everything that you consume, that yon can possibly get at homo, get it there. Don't send your money off to other places, where you will not have a chance to got any of it again, but buy everything at home. By so doing you will not only help to build up the town and make your neighbors more prosperous but will help yourself in the same Free Press. Graham A couple was married in this county in which the ages the bride and groom were and no Place Like Home A Remarkable Person. Greensboro Patriot. There is an old Indy living in the Northern part of Stokes aged years, who The Governess. mm . . t k . lam and I don't were saying. But the A- the world I am to do puzzled Sixth T. with the Sampson sure he is Seventh C. of , . . led Angeline, anxiously. Eighth J. yes He's all t, . dear lei low I had the sweetest. Ninth F. Graves, , r. i ;. . . u Yadkin. i from bun, saying he Tenth C. A very, of would be charmed But now that . .,. . Madam isn't coining, there will he no one who can talk Angeline, ii Twelfth District of Buncombe. it. Merrimon, Representatives in ; your French to him. Angeline, I wish you would give a little more attention Sena B. Vance, of Matt. W. Ransom, of North- House of District Louis C. Latham, of Pitt Second M. Simmons, Craven. Third W. of Fourth Nichols, of Wake Fifth W. Reid, of Rock- have just been taking a son, Angeline replied. La has taught a new verb this after- Mrs. Duncan glanced at the lit- French governess, hitherto noticed, and said, patronizingly I hope will take great T. Bennett, of paint with her pronunciation, Ma- S. Henderson, Rowan. Eighth II. IT. Cowles, Wilkes. Ninth D. Johnston, Buncombe. GOVERNMENT. Court A. M. King. Register of II. Wilson. B. Cherry. Surveyor Abram S. Congleton. P. Redding. Commissioners-Council Dawson. Chair- man, Guilford Mooring. J. A. K. Tucker, W. A. James, Jr., T. E. Keel. Public School Latham. of F. Brown. TOWN. J. Perkins. C. Forbes. Tyson. B. Cherry A Alex. Ward, T. A. and J. P. 2nd Ward, Ty- son and J. S. Smith; 3rd Ward, A. M. Moore and J. J. Cherry. CHURCHES. First and Third Sundays, morning and night. Rev. N. C. Hughes, D. D., Rector. Methodist-Services every Sunday, I always said that French did not amount to much without a is no language which replied the little governess, quietly. course not Angeline, are you through with your lesson Those laces have come from Kay's, and I do want to talk to and pardon pardon soon silenced her. As for Valerie, she was growing animated. Her face flushed under the admiring gaze, and she was quite oblivious to the javelin glances hurled at her by Mrs. Duncan. The count had hardly looked at Angeline. was that pretty girl I took out to dinner he asked, later in the evening La said Hit. Duncan, coldly. it you admire her, count She is not much of anybody. We just had her to make up the Duncan was angry, or she would not have said such a thing. As for the count, he saw that he had made a mistake; but Ma- La was wholly unconscious. Shortly after, coffee was served, the guests departed, and Valerie came up to the hostess, hen the party had dispersed, to ask she might not go home. and stay retorted Angeline, angrily. dared you presume t flirt with a guest of my mother's You Mad- Valerie was utterly taken back but before she could reply, a j the of , . . countries was unvarying pro- courtly appeared in . .-. J t I. t. . u; portions to the condition of doorway, it was the count him-i. ,,. , ;, self. and This washier more then they he can portion of years, respectively. need of your patron k . JUt, doe. not make facts our population consumes enough, Henderson Gold r i H . . n d w old not question it. We tobacco and whiskey to buy John Booth killed four hogs Tues- . he would ,,,. t edited , And Valerie soon found herself j standing alone, bewildered, in the middle of the room, while man she loved was holding , hand and saying, tenderly will of wealth. me that promotes I ill n you not heart. W title and me . ,, ,, I love you with all my address ourself to HI you take it, and my of Ed- I want you so in the school room alone. It is often not Valerie, it could not the best education that is the best education that is ed in schools and colleges. all And as for Valerie, it not have been that she answered, for two months later, at the Ho- tel Valentine, in Paris, were reg- the names of the Count and Countess de day Sam Jones on Dancing. Kansas City Times. me, boys, girls, young la- dies of Kansas City I used to I It ., j,, the and higher with the girls of our town. Hear of No of scalding water, as reported in the Dispatch lust week, died on Thursday alter a week of intense suffering. He was sixty five old. Francis is said to have been the first man to use you about this dinner Yes, Ma- that you are not here as you may-go now ; but you must not forget that you are to translate my bill of fare into French-will madam, I will not a social equal. We did not ex you play any of your games upon Count de Duncan, cried Valerie, She the room with a growing deadly pale. yon have bow and bearing that showed she i not acquired the right to in- had not always been a mere me French to young children and said Mrs. Duncan. giddy girls. Indeed, there had family had stood to all Fro- a low tone, be too hasty. been a time when the old Lev that it is hard to get a me. It I was a fair average can work at a man, and I think I was, then good newspaper office, without impure can go out on the being an accurate speller, without floor and dance another set. A good grammarian, a good Young woman, rhetorician, without an accurate knowledge figures and their uses and without having a memory stored with the richest treasures of English literature and without being an accomplished gentleman. In proof of this there is no occupation from which have sprung so many bright lights in public life as from the printer's desk. There is no more sure road to distinction and usefulness among men. Tobacco Meat Iron and Sawed Cotton ., Buttons an the great schools of education out- Sugar and the torpedo in naval fare. He side the schoolroom, we are of Public, education came i an old North opinion from a close observation Home and Foreign ; family, and n graduate the many years that there is none Academy. to the printer's Edenton Fisherman and Won This week one of our citizens who we want ha been married about four had forgotten his wife's Christian Orange Observer. ; ad , ,, Innovate is the order of the; , and find it out. day. and many old are being transformed. They have not only j Hendersonville Mrs. changed mode of whose death was mention- even the way of spelling, ed in our last issue, bad two in to years. does not employ a cook, or wash woman, spins and weaves, and makes her own cloth besides doing the work for a family of four, and thinks there is no place like home. There is no education more rate, more particular, more easy, more thorough, more cheap, more natural or-more compulsory in its operation upon the mind than the education obtained at the printer's as a type the bluest blood terms. good governess mademoiselle's of France. But the war had made a beggar the once rich family, and left Valerie with a widowed mother, who soon died of grief. said the fair Ange and night. Meeting every , line, as she watched the slender, Wednesday Rev. F. A. Bishop. figure out of sight, Baptist-Services every Sunday, morn- get and night. Meeting every Belle ill the place of the Wednesday night. screamed Mrs. Dun- can. the place next to Count de to a govern- LODGES. Greenville Lodge, No. A. F. A. M., meets every 1st Thursday and Mon- B. A. Chapter. No. meets She is well-enough look- every 2nd and 4th Monday nights Ma- and knows how to nail. F. W. Brown, H. P. Knew how to It was . Covenant No, I. O. O. F. ,, e a p i- . . in k r u u j every Tuesday night. D. for the fr Angeline's plans thought you don't cried Angeline, bursting into tears. kept Count de away from me all the said the little governess, with much dignity, assure you that I had no such an will do, mademoiselle Mrs. Duncan, coldly. can go So the poor girl hurried out of the room, and met the Count de waiting, hat in hand, in the hall. She saw his face that he had heard all. thought you had gone she stammered. waned for he answered meets James, N. G. , that mademoiselle did Insurance Lodge, No. K. of. H., not hear shall sit one side the said Angeline, course he will talk to me a great deal, and if I get stuck, every first and third Friday night. D. D. Council, No. A. L. of H., meets every Thursday night. C. A. White. C. Temperance Reform their club room every Monday night, at o'clock. meeting in the Court House can help me out. Oil the fourth Sunday of each month, at S o'clock whole, I think that is a union i . Madam meet in the Reform Club Room vat- could have of week. Mrs. V. H. Which-1 hint. You know she is crazy after Room every Friday night. I lumber, Miss Eva POST OFFICE. Office hours A. M. to P. X. Money Order hours A. w. to H r. if. No or- will be Issued from to P. M. and to p. u. Bethel mail arrives dally San- at a. u., and departs at P K. Hasps mall arrives daily Sun- at M. and departs at p. M. mail arrives dally at IS t. and departs at P. X. Mail leaves for Ridge and Inter- mediate offices, Mondays, and mall arrives Fridays at S p. Departs Saturdays at a. if. H. A. P, concluded Angeline, too late to ask anybody else suppose it said Mrs. Dun- can, ruefully. And it was decided that they would have Mademoiselle, who was commanded to accept the in- on the pain of losing her situation Angeline was enraged because the stubborn governess would not borrow dress of them. will look like a guy, ma. She can't have anything fit to no escort. May I have the honor seeing you home, have no carriage faltered poor Valerie. is at the door. Allow So the little governess found her- self rolling home in state. ought not to let she said, hurriedly. am not one of Mrs. Duncan's ; I am only her name of La is very dear to said coo gent My father's best friend was a If ranch general, who was killed- at and that was his name. A brave fellow he was, too father cried Va- Father was General La Oh, know him de should say I did saved my life I of Joy, but I way if you but follow the young man, after be has seen you home, to some bar-room or club, and hear the discussion of your form and person, and your virtue itself, you'd never lose your respect and go on a ballroom floor. The dudes get mad at me in some places and talk about wanting to slap my jaws. Laugh- But I say. to their credit, they know better than to slap. not afraid to drop down into a hundred acres of dudes, and not a thing to fight with, and all of them armed with six shooters Laughter. tendency of the nine- century is to You dress a young buck out, part his hair in the middle, an eye glass, give him pants which look as though his legs bad been and poured into put on toothpick shoes, and every girl in town admires Prolong ed merriment God help you girls rather see my daughter dead to-night than sitting in the parlor talking to a dude. The good bishop of New York says the confessional shows that nineteen oat of twenty meet their downfall in the ball room. all my observation I never knew a poor, ruined woman who did not go to ruin through the ball room and the Life's Mistakes. Somebody hat condensed the mistakes of life, and arrived at the conclusion that there are fourteen of them. Most people would say. if they told the truth, that there was no limit to the mistakes of life that were like the drops the ocean or the sands on the a gallon. All Right to Tax Whiskey, All Wrong to Tax the Necessaries. Philadelphia Record, Den. All reasonable persons admit that a repeal of the tax of whiskey would reduce its cost by the amount of the tax ; and it follows at the same time that the Trust, organized to control production, would be broken up. The Trust made by reason of the internal tax on as the Sugar Trust, the India Rubber Trust, the mer Steel King, the Coal and many other rings and com- to plunder American consumers, have grown up under the tariff laws. If the whiskey tax should be whiskey would become very cheap and abundant, as the tax is a great, re- as the duties on clothing, blankets, flannels, salt, lumber, rice, coal, and iron increase the cost and sen the consumption of these com- Should the tax on key be repeated the smoke of the still would rise once more In every valley of and the re tail price of whiskey would be re to the old rate of cents The simplest words ate being tam- with. And now these crazy spelling reformers are trying to persuade people to spell kiss with one The tempt will be a fail- The who lifts a finger so to speak, to shorten a kiss will bring upon himself the execration, of all the love-sicken lads and las- in this great land of liberty. The tendency is to add more s's. That is, to make the kiss a yard and a half or two yards long, or as long as a strong young man can hold bis breath. If tin kissing spell is shortened, other to fringe intuits will ho made and the first thing we know wooing and cooing and all those other little endear- which make up that blissful dreaming which antedates the union of two souls with but a single thought, etc., will be removed from the period known as courtship, and the whole process of love will be consigned to the agency of the telephone. shore in number ; bat it is well -to be accurate. Here, then, are fourteen great mistakes It is a great mistake to set up our own standard of right and and judge people accordingly ; to meas- the enjoyment of others by our own ; to expect- uniformity of opinion in this world ; to look for judgment experience in youth ; to endeavor to all dispositions alike ; to yield to material trifles ; to look for per- in our actions; to worry ourselves and others with what he remedied ; not to ate all needs alleviation as tar as lies in our power ; not to make allowance for the infirmities of ; to consider everything that cannot perform ; to believe only what poor finite minds can grasp f to expect to be able to understand everything. The greatest mistake to live for any But the question is whether the cost of whiskey should be reduced and the deprived of a large fiscal revenue, or Congress repeal the bur- taxes on the raw of industry and the necessaries of American households from which the Treasury derives small revenue in comparison with the taxes imposed consumers The proposition to repeal the whit- He Too A few years ago at a regular Wednesday evening prayer meet of one of the churches of Bib- mark, the pastor Rev. Fair- child, come into the chapel and found about a dozen ladies pres lie looked around a mo- and said; can you tell me the cause of this remarkable absence of the gentleman who been in the habit of attend- our regular meetings hadn't yon beard about it replied the lady addressed. Spotted-Front grocery ad- to give free samples of a new brand chewing tobacco this evening, and the gentleman have gone said the worthy pastor, as he removed his spectacles and buttoned hadn't ed the announcement Just ex- me a moment, ladies, ; I must step down to the Spotted- Front myself. I haven't had a food chew of eating tobacco since left Fargo and he shot out at the side door. A lesson that was impressed with peculiar force upon almost every one last year was land that is well drained and manured key tax for the sake of maintain- i does not suffer much from bad see the tax on articles of is a base bribe to the appetite which every self-respecting Amer- citizen should reject with scorn. Why those who desire to obtain an abundance of cheap whiskey favor a repeal of the law apparent ; bat, why Prohibitionists should favor cheap whiskey can be understood only when we bear in mind the cal and irrational spirit with which they discuss the temperance sons. A well known gentleman a resident of our city, says that be made last year pounds of cotton on acres. should teach our people every where to plant only so much land as they can manure and drain. Let rest He out, or plant it in rye or To say that we know g about farming, does yon no good. We with you and as are rely disinterested we are in a position to give you good and thirty-five grand and great-grand children. She was years old, and her mind was clear and vigorous up to the hour of her death. Winston The news from tho county is growing decidedly more cheerful. Farm hands are arranging for tho year's work. The supply of corn and meat is greater than in many years, and if the seasons are propitious, 1888 will bring property to all tillers of it. During the year 1887 there were established this State car- and wagon works. cigar and tobacco factories, cotton and woolen mills State lead- in this flour and grist railroads, street railways wood working es- Elizabeth City George Esq., of county, is years of age, and yet has not a hair, can read without glasses, and do much work as one considerably younger, says one who knows him.------ Wild ducks and geese are m the Currituck sounds and hunters reap- Goldsboro On last Wednesday at Mr. A. L. son's a hawk killed a but could not carry it away, and Mrs. Swinson set a steel trap bated with a part of the and the hawk. On Sunday last another hawk came and curried off of the dead hawk, which had in the meantime been nearly con- by the buzzards. Did the hawk wish to eat or bury its com- The people in the country are generally better than they were this time last year, we should say upon the information given us by the merchants. They have bought less and consequently have paid nearer out than they have done in the past years. A few more years of such econ- and hard work will put our people on their feat son Advance Here is the Tarboro Southerner's candidate for Governor . CokE Merrimon JArvis Steadman Cox. HowArd Fowle here is talk of having cent patsy as some papers have it, we have that and we would like to See it come. One cent per ounce will pay. At first there would but so it has always been when there has been a reduction. Forty-five years ago I you had to pay cents on a let- at delivery. We hope the in- instituted by Senator Heck be prosecuted by tho Commit- tee on if there is any good reason for believing that the reduction will to the est of tho people and will he near- self-sustaining, then let it come, why not If the Government can convey letters one cent without loss, it will be a blessing u great saving to all but tho rich and boastful Of course a re- should not occur it it would embarrass for any great length of time tho operations of Star It is gratifying to read such items as this occasional in the papers leading wholesale dry goods dealer of Lynchburg, Va., states that whereat a few years ago in bis sales of a certain lino of cotton goods per cent of it was the product of Northern mills, now per cent, of sales of the same grade of goods the production of Southern cotton JAMES K, GREENVILLE, N. C. C M BERNARD BERNARD, A W, X. C. Practice In the State and Federal Courts J. E. MOORE. J. H. TUCKER. J MURPHY TICKER A A T-LA W, N. C. HARRY SKINNER. A. L. J SKINNER BLOW, N. C. F V. Attorney and at Law W. B. A. K. U. JAMI HUGO A JAMBS, NO. Successors to Jarvis N. s. Collections u Specialty. Practice the Superior, Federal and Supreme courts. A JOYNER, . Attorney and at Law GREENVILLE, N. C. Will practice In the Courts Pitt, Greene, and Beaufort ties, and the Supreme Court. Faithful attention given to all business entrusted to him. DR. H. SNELL, WASHINGTON, K. C. Surgeon Dentist. Tenders his professional services to public. Teeth extracted without by the use of Nitrous FREE-t J. B. YELLOWLEY, ATTORNEY-AT-L AW, W. C i.