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In Spring
And all Oilier
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Eastern Reflector
Kit
THE
D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Owner TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. per Year in Advance.
VOL. XVI
xi. I i
A wild night a terrible
It is for X
people-
College i
this No college in
the has grow -o s that enacted at
in past b w his a Trinity. ,, Friday i
years ago it beta
. Miss
ii i property ; a
the mills j
this arose the
a drink water,
went stars go In
the the accidentally
upon cat. which
ear aged at the;
ankle, lie.
teeth MM I MOM
i he i .
mother, who ca lie to
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N C, WEDNESDAY JULY 1397.
NO
to buy or -oil, lei
wants he told through
tied at lour hundred
dollars, it is a
off Hie North
the college of the
the follow-
of are
and van colleges.
iii-i.
MB MOM
if tee
. v than in any
S ale. It is not
rt the --t modern
methods fed neat II e d
tie j cats
,.,, h el and cue lL-i. ,, ;,
ii .; I.
L.- OF THE AXE.
Poet
ill us em d
MM the e i me
President
not waking
mere tiny
that it is Mi-k
and n-t who is
out the
is n too much
nu Ins an s. a-re tn-
legislation
with made
l Louis MM a
bis time is
to I- i it
i-l Talk
w.
it-
b g v d e all c-e
. f the
A ii w C was
of be
h u the g
, .; the Si f -i
i only ma-
college i ill- Slate that
u and it
Us
wider ii more
Hi other
r Stale. is a-j
t seam i
a circle of men- The
a vantage of awarding a r
i i a c v cannot be
T e an tn
inn -ii with heel life
pr of
-lay Hie of
of for
ma is known and
end is the the city of
in which the is
The at their
Met all
e .-s of the to
for
A cur
the
summer f. r
of and will be
in readiness th- of
Sud
for a and album of the
A of
State.
I pee
i; was
if ii
to N W
up to meet all
has started for N.
city, her
thorough
Tin cud of cat
Men secured be I
New for to
was the condition of the
a the it
Ch
PEOPLE'S
the People
Pitt County.
Our energies hive never relaxed. Garcia
r. L
N v.
In.
may
upright with
mud- The
down in tr-t
f river
lie best the t
Mapped 1-.
and all kin
and rare- Pi M oil
j. It a .
or money refunded
Fer sale y
to pry s
K , ,, taken up by
m op u s,. to the .
. , n tiers who believe rt-com-
the teeth his
, ., , ., ,, will have
a; n i
. . , , weight
lie m
t with Mink direct-
Put ii not to
to call
fact that,
who while
g nothing a
a for tie is
tone,
i r
as
has
class of which
there some sixty and odd
the
has office a
over three mouths, but
period he t as l been idle.
have
swift
BOse that it
get one to keep A
the said
day that it was his to
beat he record of alibis
ii m i-t be
i i is in a fair way to do
The first beadsman to
attention to himself was
X Vice E
n-cu. Cleveland's
General
had fourth
and he didn't do a
thing to th Where
ever he Haw a publican fourth
class head he g
Ii s Democratic ave after the
of Jackson- And the
the
his
And thus it was v c.-cu
himself to the party.
Had fie been Cleveland's place
Is but that the
would be in power
t-day. With the advent of
administration Gen-
assumed the position
of beadsman, and in the matter
f Democratic
masters be beat
by nearly Thee
came Maxwell from New York.
He was a silent man he said
little. I think he must have
used two for ho outdid both
Lit in the number
of retrievals. It is these records
that headsman is
surpass. unless Pres-
calls him
the from bleeding Kansas
toils have never
selected stock
ceased to on the best
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
go-
cool
tin; has roused to Man
And H
watch the MM
keen
mil d light
you're day and night
And in
birds sin-, right and
v-i a single thing
and
sigh you sing
not the MM
he hot next spring
keep cool
YEAR'S
The news cornea India
that nearly n
Calcutta has injured by
I here, that
still has been
done the villages of the in-
is not unexpected; is.
while we did cot of
earthquake in India, I bad no
special to expect one, it
was quite certain, from all
I hat we would sooner or
later hear of a serious earthquake
somewhere. Seismic
always occur at nearly the same
time at widely different points of
the earth- We of United
States apparently least subject
to them. When, therefore, an
earthquake occurs here we may
be quite sure of hearing the
I next few days of a far more
The poultry
division of the Experiment Sta-
give, this mouth's
the
for chicken
ch I disease that
h c with the average farm ck
at this time of the year i
The feat step to be taken is
eh out the
whitewash every
an I corner, all over
tear, put kerosene oil on the
Ban ail mm
swab out MM of
LeM with kerosene oil,
TL- of put new
m of pine MM. or
stems latter is
from which to select your purchases. We
that ours is the store all stores in our
t . , j i A crash among New
to buy your the but
coining Goods are sold on time at close
. , i the quarter's
credit prices to customers of approved credit. would have been than
Goods sold for cash at figures that tell of
wonderful influence silver or greens-
back. When they enter into our possession
they are again converted into the best bar-
I. i
a in at
ah on the
was -r-- morning
tide and very so i the
met t down standing flock improved. A
When this is done go over all
tie fowls at
the Station has used
for
of lice is composed of half
gallon of tar, one-fourth gallon
oil, and
waste oil,
rent returns f the commercial
agencies might be
highly encouraging,
. . R O- Pun Co., these
gains we can buy the of our many failures in one month ex-
friends and customers. not hesitate or be
ii i I i , i a in ho whole country for three
led away but cone back to your entire previous years.
friends who will take care of your interests m the of this
and work the harder
stronger customer better friend of
straight ward, honest dialing between man
and man. We are the friend of the poor
man, we are the friend rich man, we
are friend of you all. Come to sec us, we
will serve you to the best of o ability. Po-
lite attention, best of service and honest
forts shall be yours
pie's Store.
1.1.
Mi
,, l a to solvency
n general The worst
disasters of quartet and of
the half were due to the
effects of depression and
losses previous years, from
which many had not bad time to
With improving
conditions throughout the
subsequent records
of commercial insolvencies old
steadily e more
Philadelphia
to command at the
et point ti is
and when
jumped b tank
the mud. ; for
f be rose
alter leaping into the ,
Messenger.
also to the fowls- Tour into
a cu,; a ;
dip a cotton rag into if,
and by raising the feathers
the dampened r-g MM Um
a- pears on the
MM
of a silver dollar will do the work
Seed
MM over
million packages of
field seed have d
Why Smokestacks Escape
Professional Cards
-M. J. I.
H A
X. C
all th i c
N. C
Tract in ail courts. Collection
D not use too Try it
accomplish bis
purpose. to date
or fowls pace Hit
. has made a little over
yet the
n a coop for several then
examine and see if
are there. If so. use the least bit
on next treated. Young
chicks not feathered abound only
touched two places, or. top
of head and over vent.
ridding the fowl of lice
and supplying them with fresh
drinking often, invasion
of need not be
Han; II
to
N K W.
K. C
Mexico will give us early tips
-wot Galloway, B. K. Tyson, cyclones and the
N. C
for the ex-
change of weather reports
twee the and
ilia at oats one
city gateway through the
can border, with Jesuit that
appointment of fourth class
postmasters North Carolina is
getting her officials
as fast as an;.
APHORISMS
11.1 N- C.
X. C
Practice in all the Conn.
It.
N. C
Office over J.
i A
E. Y. C.
Wilson, X. V.
M.
attention to
and
on time
II. v. H.
Greenville,
O Attorneys and at Law
in all the
like- This courtesy will be re-
paid with timely tidings of cold
waves dropping down from
northwest- A system so
cent so inexpensive ought to
have international extension
around the globe-
At vile. Ohio, a few
days ago J-J- drop-
dead on the street from
While C- W.
undertaker, and David Miller,
barber, were preparing the corpse
for burial lightning struck the
house and killed Miller and Ralph
When a man is wrong and
won't admit it, he always gets
I nu-
ll there U any person whom
you that is the of
whom
Cecil.
We control the evil
tongues of but a good life
enables us o disregard them.
Cato.
The cheerful live longest
years, and afterwards in our re-
Cheerfulness is the oil-
shot of goodness.
He is incapable of a good
action who finds not a pleasure
in contemplating the good actions
of vat or.
Be calm in arguing, for fierce-
makes error a fault, and
truth calmness id
great
Do not judge from mere
for light laughter
bubbles on lip often
over depths of sad-
and the look may
be sober veil that covers a
divine i and joy.
bosom caL beneath
a blithe
one in some of the great
Business failures in the d o the word-tile
quarter the present year archipelago, South
or
of larger amount I While, therefore, no one could
confidently believe t
the past few weeks been
to bear
earthquakes somewhere-
This will go as an
earthquake
has been so far loss
o life from these
bu they have been excel
and widely
They have been severe, I
free from s life
more by accident, it seem
than from cause, for
there is no of
against damage of these
convulsions of earth.
So far in the lam, weeks
they h occurred Canada,
Mexico, Italy, Japan, the
central part of the
and, all, in India, it is
be,. -I. generally throughout
h Last Our ,
quake, extending the
of the with its
point in u
was a one
we hr e the
shaking up and down at
There was a deal o
damage done, but fortunately the
worst shocks were in a wild
mountainous country, sparsely
sell Id. where there were lame
towns to suffer damage.
News from India is still
it may prove, when we get
the it turns from far away
districts, in it the has
been even creator than at
and accompanied by some lots
of life. At Calcutta walls were
cracked, and a number of them
ell. The earthquake was ac-
companied by those phenomena
peculiar to them- It was followed
by an amazingly red and brilliant
said by the seismologists
to due to stirred
by the fall of houses, and by the
list n of the
a space of miles. The air
was tilled with sewer gas
fumes, the former
natural enough when it is con-
that the drains were
broken, tho sewers clogged
and choked by the falling
buildings.
Nor is there reason to
believe that tho
are yet over, for they
generally wind tip in severe
shock before the eat th rearranges
itself. sued disturbances
however, we are reasonably safe,
for United States seldom
more than a alight seismic
shake, and New Orleans and the
country around scarcely fool it-
New Orleans
POWDER
Absolutely
Celebrated it it Ml
alum and all .
common to cheap brands
Man, York
of
According to the report of a
view in a Yew
paper, Sherman has an-
Statistics show that of that he is opposed lo
stacks three ate struck i and other combinations in
by each year, while of of trade Mich an
by th- De- church spires sixty-seven, i coming
This of of windmills out
has given to ally. Au r has been made
of Congress- packages his by
seed, at a cost if f discharged
Over a million of these seed the takes the
flower seed- and assembled around the
field d, the re- building along it him in his doubly
a variety of the an the source of now shadows of old
John may mean that
he is in favor of them.
who are familiar with his public
career know confidence
can be placed in
he may make. This, which was
vegetable seed. In ft r spark
nearly every variety is only diminish-
of vegetable to the but disappears. This
distributed- it is said, why
age and oblivion are gathering
over bis mind and memory.
la the author
the secret which
i f the country kindle a j demonetized silver, which
ten of beats, twenty
of carrots,
of of
b; thirty of lettuce,
of muskmelons, seventeen of
fifteen of
Tue entire of seeds
distributed to
an of square mile
I of f .
a is approaching.
Possibly it has been reserved
for a Hillsdale
parson to solve problem of
He
has adopted the plan of having
collection taken up by
an area . and most popular
is largest of ,
of s; eel ever mm fa
, and i , either
the up going to altogether,
country are camp laming that b, ,,,, Jg
they do not make sales to young ladies or I hey must
and because the latter
are getting all the seed they need
from th i department. The dis-
proper bas-
d the belle around
Temporarily, at least, there is a hie.
has made trusts in this country
possible. He now says that the
anti law c n be so amended
as to destroy the trusts, but this
is a statement that
Trusts are the natural
of the of
business, trade profile due
to the contraction of currency.
theory that prohibitive law
can be made effective is a fallacy
on face of it, for currency
contraction drives all business
and all capital into concentrated
channels, and movement is,
in nature of thins a ti-
the nine-year-old
son of Mr. and brooches; many
injured heart dances under coarse wool
I E- H.
of amount-. he
ed to packages for each Economist.
member of Congress, at a
cost of in each
congressman got packages
the entire cost to government
being in 1895
i i . I his is the best iii
of packages of seeds was the, for of , n ,
same as in be preceding year, for Con Every b Is
KING NEW FOB
CONSUMPTION.
but cost was reduced It will cure and
men go
. In 1806 the congress- H has no equal Whooping Cough.
ii. each. ever. Pneumonia, Bron-
lot- These statistics will give
tome idea of the enormous ex-
oft be government seeds
a very small item
M Will,
Va-, July
board of trustees of Mary
Baldwin Seminary met today and
it found on reading the will
of late principal. Mary is a weeping away General
Julia Baldwin, who died on soldiers with great rapidity.
Thursday, she endowed the Id Havana there are twelve
Seminary with a lest of one thousand soldiers of the
hundred and seventy-five thous- Spanish army in different
and dollars. military hospitals.
and for It U safe tor
ages, pleasant to take, and, above nil
a aura cure. It always to take
Dr. King New Lite Pills in co auction
with Or. New Discovery, as they
regulate and tone the stomach and
bowels. We guarantee s
or money. Free trial bot-
at John I.
Regular size cunts and
Malignant yellow fever in
rapidly increasing i Cuba, and
for .
At the opening of Sunday
morning's service at the
pal Rev- Dr. F- J.
offered up in his a petition
for rain. Before the services
were concluded was raining,
Dr- Murdoch then offered up a
prayer in for the rain-
The incident created consider-
able comment among those
were World.
in
While attending school at
Chester, Pa, a few days ago a
child of Abel in
contact with a schoolmate who
had been ill. The
Abel child returned home and
some chewing she
had in her mouth among
brothers sisters- Next day
the entire family was n
with and the la
now under
Record-
Every treasures
in its memory names of its
friends. People who show the
newspaper man never
make a better investment or one
more sorely a
hundred fold sooner or later-
has been truly said, comes
a time in life of man
a word said by a newspaper
has a good deal to do with
making of the individual
--t Ir.
All illustration how Hie Texan
on the
may lie seen
says in Meteor-
In I In- Ms a
When was a very immature you, g
man openly tit a id
I find in my year, licit the
MM hang tn
I lie with no abate-
and acorn. I it
not lime MM
made against
MM Ilia
and
I, for one, lo make
by
of n There is not a drop
in my hot i
I allied t in or is say
I owe no Jew a dollar,
any owe me. f
as an absolutely man,
by i except
the to help right a great
The prejudice the Jewish
people arises in almost every
objectionable personality
and not Iron char-
the entire race mass
I Jews arc almost invariably judged
by the It outrageously
How would
estimation unprejudiced in
lot us were
by our criminals sneaks, Al
ask lo M by our nobles
but in turn cannot mm our
eyes above the level Dickens
type of Jew when we come lo consider
that people in . the I it
shows an narrowness of mind
It doesn't take average
Chinaman long to get stock on
this country after be baa sampled
it. A hundred and seventeen of
the fellows imported to
late about the Nashville
A Kansas editor who has been
figuring on it has discovered that
it coats people the United
States a year to be
born, a year to be
married and a year to
be buried. Judging from this
if we could get along without be-
have town to born, getting married or
deportation when their being might materially
wet no longer needed.
Editor Worthing
ton, Ind. Sun writes. You have a vat
prescription Electric Bitters
mid I cheerfully recommend it
and sick headache, and as
a general system tonic It has no
Mrs. Annie MM Grove
was all run down,
not eat nor digest fond, had a
headache which never her and felt
tired and weary, but six
Electric. Hitters restored her health and
renewed her strength. Prices SO its
and l per bottle at L
ding store.
The Raleigh correspondent of
tho Charlotte Observer, writing
recent in the
Department,
ho mailing clerk used to be a
little boy. Now a well salaried
man that work. A clerk at
a year used to what three
men at an aggregate of some
are doing- At museum
the usher used to be U year
old boy, per month. Mow
he a kid in knickerbockers, at
Ob, well, reform
voted for, isn't it Well, we are
getting it in large and frequent
doses, and let us be
Landmark.
Is it that ha this
count i y with nervous ,
that takes the flesh off their bones
vitality from their blood, and makes
i fit-in feeble, emaciated and
No. It bad cooking, overeating
Indigestible stuff, and other health-de-
Tho remedy is an artificially digested
food the Shaker Digestive
dial. Instead of irritating the
inflamed stomach the Cordial g a
to rest by nourishing the
itself and digesting other food
with It. Ho flesh and strength return.
Is not the Idea rational f i he cordial
palatable and relieves Immediately.
No risked to decide on It
cent trial bottle that.
b A X Is best medicine for
Doctors recommend It tn
Castor Oil.
REFLECTOR
Greenville, N. C.
Meter
at post office at G
S. C, M class mall matter.
Wednesday Jolt
teems to be same way
thinking about local taxation in
county. No one favoring it.
utter lolly to raise any money to
put into the present ft of
public Those who lot
taxation under other circumstances
c never be induced to vole for it at
present. public
two years are d mined to be a
failure. They will continue .-. H long
as they are in politic are u.-ed to
the
This i the of the
these in to just
now.
Senator G. Harris, of Ta
died in on Thurs-
day of this week. He was somewhere
eighty years old. For many
years it is said that he would net give
the date his birth publication in
the Congressional Record. He had
been in public lilt for a long time, and
no man ever died with as long a
life against less could be
than Senator Harris. He ha
held almost every in the t
the people and in none them did h e
ever bring discredit If or his
constituents.
He was the best parliamentarian in
America, and this reason, became
of the Senate
the Democrats came into control in
He was a Confederate soldier
and the war Governor, of Tennessee,
in which posit on he ranked along up
with our own Vance. At the close
the war he disappeared a time
with the valuables ax d a large
sum money, even risking, it is
said, his to save these. Parson
the Military Governor who
him advertised him of-
a reward for hies apt When
it could be safely done. Senator Harris
allied into the office one and
delivered to Ike the
and the money which he had thus
saved to the Slate. He was a man of
of character, and the entire
n a loss in his death.
WASHINGTON
Our Regular
Washington, July 1897-
Another proof Las been given of
the power of the money kings over
administration. Mr.
has virtually been send a
special to Congress, asking
fr legislation to carry out the v
the the appointment
a to report what financial
the country needs.
most know that the I J B
and his parliamentary somersaults
as Representative
cornered him this week when he
moved to suspend the and
the Morgan Cuban resolution, are
sufficient to prevent any action by the
the Republican Senators are
trying to bamboozle the voters of the
country by a little bun-
This week Senator Lodge,
the committee on Foreign Re-
reported a resolution author-
the President to use fore, if
necessary, to compel Spain to pay the
indemnity demanded by two naturalized
American citizen who were illegally
in Cuba in 1895. If there
were any intention to put through
Congress, it would be a commendable
thing to bring it forward, a Spain has
refused to pay any attention to
demands for this indemnity for
two much wronged of the
United States, but to bring it forward
with no real intention of having it
adopted by both blanches of Cong
merely as a political play, is adding
insult to the injury already received by
the two unfortunates.
some unexplained mm the
members of the Senate committee on
Foreign Relations have their
minds about not reporting the treaty
for annexation of Hawaii until the
regular session, and will report it at
once a recommendation that it be
ratified An attempt is being made to
get the consent of the opponents of the
treaty to a vote at this session, it
been that the necessary
votes to ratify can be obtained.
It is not surprising that men of or-
comprehension should find it
difficult to understand the theory of
upon which the
can tariff bill, th-j Senate
this was constructed, f
for instance. The duty on foreign
coal is advanced from forty cents to
sixty-seven cents a ton, yet Senator
interested in
coal mines, says the increase will not
result in adding one cent to the pay cf
the miners, although he admits that the
price of coal to the consumer will
undoubtedly be advanced. In other
words the cents a ton added is a
gratuity to the mine owners. Senator
Jones, of Ark., thus himself
on this coal miners
would be justified in asking and ex-
higher wages after the n-w
tariff goes into t if the
cans were sincere in their arguments
n of higher taxes. The
burden of their speeches on the coal
duties, a d on every in the
bill, was higher rates news-,
to protect American labor
the competition of cheap foreign labor
and to enable American to
pay higher wages, but every. sue
knows that is not tariff was
increased for. It was to give the coal
mine owners and other employers
labor large Notwithstanding
the increase in the duty on coal from
to cents a ton, the miners will
he fortunate if wages are not
r of increased. Con-
will have to pay more for coal,
o to the mine
rs ard the railways. The
was not increased for the benefit of the
wage earners, notwithstanding
declaration of the protectionists that
the high duties were for if
American
AND POLL HOLD-
Gaiety at Pen
Some ago the convicts at the
penitentiary participate at a swell
administration building,
but on the Fourth they went on
as social functions these day
give place everywhere to athletics
They had a match game I and the increase will
between the two cruet teams of the
State prison. The catching and
pitching were of game
The stick work was not so good as
usual. Some brilliant catches were
and the score was Kept down
close enough to make the anal a very
exciting one.
After this came a very elaborate
dinner, complimentary to the day, by
Superintendent Smith. This was
by a minstrel show, for which
the convicts have been making very
great preparations.
has not yet been announced
what the next social attraction at the
penitentiary will be, but whatever it is
a great time is anticipated. It is
hinted that it will be a watermelon
treat, ice cream and cake walk.
Raleigh News and Observer.
II g on the
will be looked upon by criminals as a
of recreation instead of punish-
Already there are who
attach very little fear to going there.
Following are the Registrars
and Poll Holders for the school
election to be held Aug.
BEAVER DAM.
Case, Marion
Geo W Hem by. Poll
Manning, A S
Walker, Geo Jefferson.
T Hodges-, W U
Rives, E P Norris. Poll Holders
Stancill, J Randolph,
Randolph.
BETHEL.
H Bryan, W J
Henry Poll
R A Cher-
Randolph Best.
CAROLINA.
A H
G Nobles. Levi demons. Poll
C James, W H Will-
isms, J J Chance.
No W Smith
W L Smith, John Poll
J H C
Venters. Walter h
No Registrars- L H White,
No Tug-
well, J N Geo Gay. Poll
A Morgan, W E
Barrett, J R
No. CHines,
L W Lawrence. S P Humphrey-
Poll M Daniel, B F
Tyson, J P
No. 2-
hill, James Brown, Sam Mayo.
Poll T Godwin, W
L Brown,
No S
F M Fred Jenkins. Poll
J J C
Rich Forbes.
No 4- Registrars- John F
Boyd, W Fleming, Manning
Moore, roll I Flem-
L A Mayo, B J Wilson-
T Mobley, W R
Jr, Chas Spain- Poll
H J R
Dennis Daniel
swift creek-
No S
son, M C Smith, J S Brow-.
Poll Johnson, L
B L C
No
man, N R Cory, Fred Cannon,
Jr. Poll
W Cos.
Best Spring Medicine in the Makes
People Well.
TOBACCO ACRE AGE
Letters P. Con-
the 1897
O. I.
Fluttering and
co crop reports, its enormity and a
a hundred not based alto-
on Nets and circulated in many
instances without a strict regard
truth, told the purpose of increasing
and inducing and booming
one's particular town or has in
many instances during recent years
acted as a boomer lag to reporter.,
and their section.
The writer has along
that exaggerated reports the number
of pounds of tobacco .-old on any par-
market hurt the patrons that
market more turn the boom and boast
did rood in drawing capital and in-
Av den, N. C, July
Ms. O. L.
Grenville, N. C.
Dear letter 1st
asking the condition of the
crop of tobacco, also the acre-
age with one year ago re-
The condition the a f has
wonderfully in the past week
in consequence of the recent rains, but
the rains toe late to save a good
many crops.
There are belts the
which we are familiar with that have
had no mm to do any good in lour or
five weeks and these crops are acting
badly. We do not think the condition
the. tobacco crop is more per
cent compared with last rear even
dates. The acreage has b. en d
in our section fully per cent.
J. W. Bro.
Willow Greek, X. C, July G,
O. L.
Greenville, M. C.
Dear Yours received. think
it a good idea, f here is a decrease in
acreage iii this section at least
per cent if not more. hits ,.
damaged the at percent; i De for diseases t from a debilitated
e , . nervous system, and that is Paine's Celery Compound, so generally
wan of the county the by physicians. It is probably the most remarkable
damage by is at least p r remedy that the scientific research of country has produced,
cent. was in Snow Hill Monday and If Edward E. Phelps, M. D-, L. L. D., Dartmouth college
saw farmers from all parts ct the what is now known the world over a Paine's
. ,,,., ,, ., a positive cure for dyspepsia, biliousness, liver
and they all that the tobacco complaint, neuralgia, rheumatism, all nervous diseases and kidney
crop is very poor. Should the troubles. For the latter Celery Compound has succeeded
set in now am the opinion again ard again where everything failed.
there would be but little change in some
the crops in ti s I
heard a very prominent the
rain not do his crop any good
now, it Vat too gone.
Taking the as a whole my j
county it is very poor. don't think
I should miss it far were I to say there
will not be over half a crop made in tins
county. During the month of June
we had but very little ran. Some
the funnels commenced priming la-t
week. It can't be ripe, is just patched
up from the
V. T. Cask.
BAKER HART
Hardware,
Tinware
Spokes, Hubs, Building
Oils and Stoves.
Fair Dealings and Honest Goods at Book,
Bottom Prices.
N. C, July
O. I-
Greenville, X. C
your
of c 1st, as to the reduction
in the acreage and condition the
tobacco crop in our section as compared
ii With this in view, J with lust year this We will
we that j have to that so
make r ard ; that ii may a cm incredible. I
the done j the decrease must be as as
EASTERN
TOBACCO
MAIN
GREENVILLE, N.
OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE.
years present -1 but year.
J- A College Preparatory with l
and and He-i
Kitting in South. healthful and I .
Tor
Profs. J. A N.
so a not to form an exaggerated i lea
our eastern crop.
During the last few year ,
of the tobacco trade turned
to the eastern North Caro-
From them the trade gets its
finest wrappers, most silky cutlers and
-i strips. Then how important
it is that the should be properly
as to what they cm gel I om
this, by far the
in the Sooth. Over
estimated crop reports of the acreage
and its condition anyone can easily see
has the to t
price of the p. A
interview two or three firmer who
have above acreage and
publish to the trade that there is the
crop in eastern Carolina that ever
ore out of soil. Such as this is
not untrue but really and seriously
damaging to the farmers to the
trade.
Realizing that there was a
reduction in the acreage in the the
writer determined to get as near an
accurate report the acreage and its
so I wrote to
several farmers
Greene, and K
ties asked them to write as
as they could judge, just what
acreage was this as compared
with last, also the condition the crop
as compared with same period one
year
A few have th re-
are published herewith. As
as we get others will publish then . and
we trust that to whom we
wrote will t t their hist
N. C, July
MB. O. L.
Greenville, N. C.
in asking for
concerning tobacco crop re-
1st. As to the acreage. In my
mediate neighborhood there is about
Gil per cent of a crop, not to
exceed in the
2nd. The condition crop the
northern and eastern section the
the weed is not so large as
j last year but the is very
per the is
below last refer, as much in oar opinion
cases Oil
cent caused by the continued j cool
in the followed by
extreme dryness, premature
growth and forcing the
without life or size
if rain does not come
to tell what the result will be.
N. C. July 8th,
O. L.
Greenville, X. C.
letter of a
d ago to hand and I would have an-
sooner but have been making
some inquiries the
to enable me to better answer your
question. In reply would state that
the acreage in tobacco per
cent from last year, while the
condition of present crop could not
possibly be less than not
short of last year, owning perhaps to
the late cold spring and the recent
drought, and I add that if we
have rain soon the tobacco will
all the more for it is a crop that
imp last or fast according
the seasons. There are several barns
where furnace tires will not be
lighted at all this year without
better pi ices than we've had past
two years there will be many more
in the JOSH to come.
It.
Old Man GUS EVANS O. L. JOYNER
the two oldest most experience
Greenville,
and OSCAR HOOKER, Owners
We always lead in Prices
consequently we lead in
Pounds.
Don't take word it but after
August 1st come down and see for yourself
which way the straws blow.
Your friends,
EVANS, JOYNER CO.
J O Proctor, Davis- Poll free from flea bugs and worms
Senators not allow this
to be voted upon l session; if lie
doesn't, he will very soon learn if
attempt is made push in
Senate.
Tim Senate this week pas ed the
the House ac-
the Senate amendments, and the
document is now in the
hands committee. The
agents of the various
trusts are in Washington in force to
see ii interests are taken care
by tit conference The
length of that the bill remains in
will upon
strength of the that will be
made against some the extraordinary
s the trusts.
Grime. J H
No
H S Hardy, Geo I. Poll
Holders- W B J R John-
son, J D
No Registrars
Wm Horace Boys-
Poll C Kirk-
man, Chas Robt
Sparkman-
FALKLAND.
E F F u
Poll Molders II S C C
Vines, John Pell.
No
Three and Make ;.
he of only
marriage third
July, as
and
James Briley.
John
T B W II Poll
Knowing the will Ree I . r, u-n
, . , . . D Hill, M
H utter disregard the t q Burnett
Mid southern part
as the C there
has rot been any rain to wet he
since May 1st until June Ti.
crop there is very low and sorry; they
won't make third of an average
crop.
I commenced curing this
we. k. J. J.
N. C, July
Mu. O. L.
N. C.
Io band. In n.
I will say that in the last few
days I have seen or heard
large portion
in this section. tan
the in
reduced per cent ard condition
Kr or thin that,
than one year ago.
Acreage about the as two years
condition per cent less.
Easy to Take
to Operate
Are features peculiar to Hood's Pins. In
size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one loan
Hood's
never know
tare taken a pill till It Is all i I I
-w. C. I. Co., III
Proprietors. Lowell, Mass. a
The only pills to take with Hood's
L F. EVANS.
A. H.
R. S- EVANS
PROPRIETORS OF THE OLD
pioneer of the Greenville and best lighted
house in State-
Will be in time for the opening cf the season. An
1st-, and we are coins to hum.
We have plenty of money,
Experienced Force, Ample Room,
and will be leaders in high prices
As soon as your tobacco is bring it to as-
EVANS CRITCHER CO.,
Greenville Warehouse.
Property to Sale.
ELECTION.
In to previsions
IT APPOINTED and the public School Law f
a Receiver of the Green- j there will lie an election held
for the purpose after the in
of settling the nM Company, in each and every School
I tor sale the real estate in ii Pitt for
purpose of levying a Special Public
School Tax of on the Poll and
cuts on the of properly.
election every voter, in favor
and adjoining the town of Greenville
belonging to said Company. This prop-
will be sold on reasonable in
lots to suit purchasers.
For further information see or ad-
dress
LOVIT HINES,
Receiver ; X. C.
North Carolina
College Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts,
Will open Sept. 0th, 1807.
Thorough academic, scientific and tech-
Special-
in every department.
Expenses per session, including hoard.
For County Students a M
For all other Students Oil
y for to
ALEXANDER y.
Raleigh,
of SPECIAL TAX shall vote a
written or Witt the word;
every r
to the Special School
vote a written or printed ballot with
the words
election shall be held under
regulations prescribed for the
election of members of the Gene
Assembly of North
By order Commissioners of
Pitt Co.
I. PERKINS.
of Deed
buildings and
grounds in a Healthful Location with
splendid climate. Stands at the very
front in Education. Thorough,
in its Courses. High Standard
its high moral and
in its intellectual influences
and
Very reasonable pile s. Se for
to JaS. M. A.
bought out
the of Silas Lucas Moore
the brick .-. I s, ii Brick-
now hand very cheap. I can deliver
at short notice at any on
the Lint one
hundred miles of towns Wilson
and Lucama, N. C. Address all com
ample rs in future to
I. F. N.
Co.
FOR
S. E PENDER CO.
K. C
COLLEGE.
Opens Se or
full courses of study.
ii mu of full chairs
Women admitted to all classes
One
to the during the
present year. Only male literary college
in C is in a
city
business course offered in
the slate. Mini for album and
A c.
Durham, N . C
PAY.
hat is war all sell
GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TON-
for Fever and all
Malaria. It i simply Iron and Quinine
In a Children love
Adults it to bitter,
Tonics. Trice,
R. R. FLEMING. Pits. E. B. HIGGS, Ca
COX,
G. I. CHERRY.
The Bank of Pitt County,
Bank wants your friendship and a share
A if not all, of your business, and will grant
every favor consistent with safe and sound
banking. We invite correspondence or a per-
interview to that end.
HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES
N. c.
I will the best goods an d
will sell them at the lowest price possible. I
will do all I can to obtain and hold your pat-
Come and see me.
M. H.
Next door to Jeweler. THE LIVE
CO.
Si Dealers, Tobacco Hue
and Bicycle Dealers and
to f
Tobacco Flues
and you we will as make beat of
for lea-t price. All our work is and we to
repair our Hue from a to u
to come sue PA
mm x co.
Lit
DON'T DECEIVE
with the idea you can buy
Pi
The University.
Board
a man h, three Brief Ce w,
three Full Courses, Law
Mu nil a School of Pharmacy.
open to Women.
fr
mill Loan for the Needy.
Address,
Hill, M. C.
or more of them for a Dollar elsewhere, than at
H. M.
They keep the best and a great cut has been
made in price. We are determined to sell cheap
.
f-
box of
Oh All
In.
J w. ran
two Friday evening.
Tar-
A. -M. Moore d
C. even
from a visit to .
Energy, experience and hard cash
win even time. You arc invited
to an early inspection of low priced
and very complete stock of
Gents Furnishing Us.
Trade with means sure
success in securing tor yourselves
the widest range for selection.
Frank Wilson,
F. and Bert James
lo on a
THE KING
LI I OF
-k
an
Dress Coeds, Shoes
Furnishings
is superb inspection is invited,
FRANK WILSON
The King Clothier,
I. wile went to
today in visit r.
H. L Smith returned
a trip up
A. M. Mi-ore and H. W.
Tuesday evening on
cal business.
book for
A return
Monday evening;.
Miss Lizzie of
arrived Wednesday evening to visit
Miss Bessie
Miss Woodward, Durham,
Wednesday evening to visit her
Woodward.
Adams, Boston, Mass., and
Voter Tarboro, are
Patrick, just of
Mis. M. Moore and children, cl
id, t the train here
fir to
relatives.
A iron. J. U. Moor.- returned home
Thursday His Miss
e Moore,
far a visit
Mrs. It. L. and little sou,
Mrs. ti. V. and Miss
See left Wednesday evening
Beaufort to some we-ks.
Miss B of Kinston,
who ha., been visiting Miss
Friday evening. M Dot
d her home tor a visit in
V. M. King and wile, W. If.
and nib-, Urn. James Mr . C.
M. Tucker, W. L. Forbes and wife,
Myrtle Wilson,
Virginia Manning and
J. J. C. D. e, II.
Tinker and Wilson lift on
t Saint-Hay
A in Each
dined to Vote to
The of were nearly
all day Tuesday the
for t the n dis-
in the county. Under the new
w old lines arc abolished and
each township now constitutes a school
district. Five are up-
p in each of these and ha-e
charge all the schools in i re-
townships
THE POOR OAK LOVE.
Though Deprived by Poverty of Other
Joye.
The old saying has been re-
that at lock-
Love has
to prison Mini an instance
has occurred which dun
that it can remove paupers
the poor house.
A few weeks a young man
n lined James Raw I- was Taken sick.
He was a stranger, and seemed lo
have home and no nils. he
physician win, was called to him re.
cured his admission lo tin- Count
Home, and lie was there. In
THE
Local Reflections
Let's h i re ;
in
para-J
oil hoof,
His each.
Bi ; th. ditch and iii up
T. has Made
improvement in his dark
j property oat on Dickinson
Lot.
A. J. who is in
charge Cherry Hill Cemetery, has
just bad tie- trees the enclosure
primmed the
at all cl lined lie says if the
lot will lots
cleaned the cemetery will present a
attractive
he all who
their loll will
not it in the walks.
, . , ;
A tie- pi-sent , .
lean
j.
There are printer, who ham
is by work
a until creditors in-
them lite and
Printer.
i ,
It- was opened today.
w Mi ilk In e ; i ii Table will be supplied with best the
its. M. Call
i on a good meal
I lie leader ah. . in in.-1 I .
is i a at. .
lie mi th i has
Tie r ii at t.- p.- i. I, -t at lea-l years
; c j Th- reason i. that good oil
. . ,., ,. promised I-- of
J. Co. are ma ten- a ,.,,,.
cut in a s
After serious ill km Hood's
cl
i ti wins are
Id I Winter
up
sent the
a nice cm i
was a good one. let
the drop.
mi-hi imitate what
ban
ft the blood and
Mora perfect
The man whose advice is worth
having u to dish to
Knowing ones who are
telling how should b- run,
do well to bear fact in mind.
and
A barroom bat in
the Planters
towns are a law I, . , .
. , I nous-. ii- i i in, ii
to keep oil the . . .
r a as tins
That school for girls a tone, but the p that be
young ladies, allowed it to no in on
in in paper. Send ,,. . ,
a is the
by an n printer s journal,
Tier- were thirty WM which goes on to say no type or
for lie granted th- is Country
of Moo-l In wit i
., are a good de like the
and .-. that are
each bad n load
are
lack local flavor.
is the to be,
brought to market.
While the County . Election ,
U, a target practice at
in Which W. S. Briley was poll holders
Hi- Mora wan HI Ike townships
. . ,. , i to hold th- local taxation election on
M -s i vs-i i g. a
the In
election of
boat rid--. Friday night, i
o her Miss Olive I the
I legality and it is not that
line to and j ft
Friday j to the county, is lit In
evening. A line w I. Mr. Ii r the county in this and
F. ; is ,, .
A and I boy,
A a crash, basted lay.
up u the cottage d
n I hare turn m
i here s a huge at th
School party in
Mr. J.
and v had n time.
Mi-- Dot Flanagan gave a party to
a Thursday evening. It
was given
i The lax payers that
they are already burdened
, in this direction, and under the present
do not like
iii -u-
still heavier up-n
Mini
In r guest,
i f
Thirty-one i-i
last the
of several counties in the Slate
to giant licenses. Things
don't that way down ill
Fill, but lo s wish they would.
It we had a dollar every
his b en asked us the pant I
week --I, it hot cough f. r you we Pardoned,
would have enough lo II, an has. pardoned
ion do who was serving a twelve
mouths term jail
A game ill was played h-re with d. He has
Tuesday th- colored already six months the time.
second nines and
law was lo i i of i-umber be Handy.
tin home Scarcity lumber has in a measure
, made operations here proceed
he hears some p C , ., , . ,.,.
.,.,. , ., r. slower than When I lines
the march in D . n . . , .
m. i . i . r Br--s Kinston, get their lumber
certain quarter, but almost tears to it . . . . .-
, . H yard here in troubles this
wont m.-ans. of
A Preacher But Again.
Ignite La incident, without accident,
occurred on tins morning
The esteemed o the Methodist
was riding down th- street on
his bicycle, and a passing mule took
fright at the wheel. The Pastor grace-
fully and the companion
went on his way. There
upon the r mounted his wheel
again, but His lime the bike be
came frightened at down
came Pastor and all, bin no
damage to either, A pass-
remarked that even n
might
The brother somewhat a due time young regained Ins
them the way the and and it while there he fell
e some making
appointments. To him
oil the possibility
In in- used again to advantage e n
net voting tin-e comes, and too
of on the committees might
a rupture and trouble, because f the
tact under this groat new law the
and colored
together and the colored has
just an much controlling the
white schools as does th- while
b.-r. There was of pulling
two roes on in certain
but Una the compromise was made
of just tacking on one in each, right
straight through.
Alter the list was made out it
was placed Mora the Hoard for
c when member, Can-
non declined to vote for it, his
bring be could not vote f-r the
The of the
being the I at was
tied.
Following are the of the
Beaver Smith,
S. P. H.
T George W
J. T.
Hodges, Nathan W. II. Reeve
K. P. Norris, col.
Bethel C Moore, Jas. II.
an., O. J C Taylor,
C. L. col.
B. N
s, U. T. W. M. lard.
col.
t L. II. White,. W. Smith,
F. Carroll, . S.
P. Davis, col,
G Cox, Asa
B. E. C. J. Adam
o. I.
Farmville K. A. Ii.
f Ii. AI. J. D. Jones,
Vines, col.
A. Cobb, U.
F. Edward, Joseph Lang,
Charles Cooper,
Taylor, M. O
J. White, J. L. n.
Wan en col.
M. Jones. T.
G. L. Moore, T. H. Si-
col.
Stokes, Na-
U. II. Garris,
col.
BETHEL
N. July 12th,
Miss Bertha Briley, t
is spending this week her
Mrs. Andrews.
Miss of
spent k
Jesse W. Carson.
Mr.-.
in love Miss Mary Briley,
inmate of the Home, . gained her
love well.
Tuesday be
Bryan that he was ready to leave Hie
Home, and if Bowed to d so he
would lake Miss Briley with him and
assume the responsibility of providing
her in future. The Superintendent
inform- d i in if he show
capable caring for the young
he would give them both a discharge
and they could get married. It de-
the young man
money and he also claimed to
have some land ii
Today Superintendent
them a discharge, brought the couple
to town, and himself applied to
Deeds Perkins for a marriage
license for The
went to the Court Ch
where they were married by
the Pane It. S.
ceremony had an amusing
feature about it. When the usual form
had been completed
wife, th-y still
held on lo other's and
more. The Justice el wed
his book and mil I
that's the end of This
inn and
aid ought to have
them it the
The couple r.
and took their
Miss Hale who has been
Mrs. W. H, the
returned to this
miss Annie Clyde Ham
is visiting friends Bethel town-
ship.
Constable Bryan went
o Ta
R. A. Bryan and S. L. Peal
and Sunday here, re-
turned lo this
There will quarterly meeting in
the Methodist church here next
day Sunday.
Dr. of Jamesville, fast
Ft day here.
Prof left Friday
he c.
Prof. B. F. left last Friday
to visit his parents at
county and friends in mid
Plymouth.
It Y u want a Nice
SUIT OF CLOTHES
EGO
G.
town today, looking after the
Beaten war-house.
was in
interest
Legra Turkey,
Mr. C. B. of town-
has something that the
Tint will go a no man In
Carolina can -how a to. It is
a turkey gobbler with a leg.
Three months ago got
with one of the feet this gobbler. The
trouble kept until Mr.
concluded lo c it the lame I
oil. The operation was and
healed I and after it was well Mr.
the gobbler u wooden leg
and fasten it to the The
gobbler gets on his n
leg us lively as any of the fowls.
Installation.
On night the
A-era of Ho. iii,
A. F. A. M. installed
Master
J. M. W. M.
K. Williams, S. W.
J. . Hart, J. W.
C. T.
L. I. Moore, Sec
J. II. Barrio, S. D.
O. J. U.
R. W. King and C. Laughing-
C. B. Whichard, Tiler,
The d got in .-one
licks mi the high
let noon.
ill It let Be
a few of my
lately drove twice across your
county, found good roads, saw
homes farms, received the
kindest hospitality; but, sis I started
from up the river, soon
dime lo a told fork in the toad with no
sign right soon to another
meet to n bold with nothing
to tell a which way and how
far u, This is hard on the
stranger and bis horse.
I wish to present lo your County
rs th J appeal Moses
to know the heart of
Praying that you and, your
may your way to Heaven's gate,
I am most sincerely yours,
A. D. Bet is.
COUNT X
Following is a synopsis o the
transacted by the of
Commissioners at their July meet-
Total i-mount if ill- aW n or
outside -f County Hi me,
for lifting taxis th-. several
townships, County Home ex.
County
Jail expenses, f 1111.80;
sundry claims,
paid in Swift
and Stock law territory
Greenville stuck law
Petition H. C. and
for new road in Falkland town-
ship was
was exempted from
poll tax
The I.-Hi win- as jurors
for Sent
First Week . S. Williams, Wm
Allen Jackson, Joy
W II Woolen, L II
Is vie John B Smith, It W
Bailey, C T Kittrell, W J
Israel Moore, J W Burney, F
J W Cox, J B Fred
Phillip-. John A Lang, J L Sugg, J
S Clark, John J White iv J
Set Tucker, John
ii D C Fl Stan-
Warren, J E Page, II H Gray,
Wm W Manning, D Joy-
G G Whitehurst, J K Buck, J K
Second B. Hardy,
ard Hardy, ii S T
U Hyman, S I W G
W F Harrington, B W
Tucker, O K, en, W R Burney,
W S W V. Pittman, T C Can-
non, Alfred Moore, David
W W Owens, C C Little.
The jury list for th was
revised.
Got Dot;.
Mr. E. B. has recovered his
pointer dog which from
in in j last week.
leaving that city he offered a liberal
Masai d the recovery of the deg, and
the animal mine lo him by express
Monday night-
Still
A large grading and prizing nun
is being built adjoining the Eastern
Warehouse, is always the
Word with the proprietors of the
tern and they in the
are
in -s, f the coming
season aid expect lad the
market.
Back from Camp.
Pitt returned Friday
from where they have been
in camp for a few days. boy.
pretty well tanned. say
w most pleasant trip the com-
has ever taken. They bad
plenty of liberty and fished, sailed and
bathed to their heart's content. Most
BUG
At t in
of the Big.
I bur
-day evening little M,, My
caught a June bug. Se tied
the bug o one end if a string and las-
tuning the other end to a amused
at the bug Hy. When the
supper bell rung she put the nick,
string hug in the yard until
she should Coming back out
she went to look for her toy. There
win ll ; stick and one end of the string,
hut tint other end and bog 110-
sight. Sin-gave the string
pull but other end fast.
Calling a one in-, t-i her a
harder pull was given -he when
out the oilier end from the
with a dandling to it.
May did not like this kind of a
play thing and lost nu time in pulling
all between her and
the frog. While she was in at tappet
the fr g had made a meal the June
bug, but not get away with the
string and slick. Her brother
Alfred d that this was good
to keep and that he was going to tell
about it.
Veterans union.
Bryan of Pitt
will hold their
annual at the grove, in
West on
of this month. It expected to make
great day the mil
are r. Well fill-u
baskets lot the dinner. S
will he made.
speeches
In
Mrs. Tall, tern
Oct. 22nd, 1843, lo Allen
died at Green
villa, N. C, July 1st,
Five children survive her; to th -m
she leaves the record a life well spent
in of King. For many
years she was a m of the
Methodist church until had
her physical strength a
all inlaid up-n its altars.
On June she
was her around the tap
per table, and retire h-r own
room. When the morning and
went lo call her, there was no
the silence the mid-
hour tin el hail come and
her bond and without a struggle
the spirit had lied th- earthly house
and d Best,
Far, like at evening
pealing
The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and
sea-
And laden souls by thousands meekly
Shepherd, turn their weary
to thee.
Angels Jesus, of light,
Singing to the pilgrims of the
night.
THE DANGER
to which the Expectant Mother
exposed and the foreboding and
dread with which she looks for-
ward to the hour of woman's
severest trial is appreciated by but
few. All effort should be made
to smooth these rugged places
in life's pathway for her, ere she
presses to her bosom her babe.
MOTHER'S FRIEND
allays Nervousness, and so assists
Nature that the change goes for-
ward in an easy manner, without
such violent protest in the way of
Nausea, Headache, Etc. Gloomy
forebodings yield to cheerful and
hopeful passes
through the ordeal quickly and
without left strong and
vigorous and enabled to joyously
perform the high and holy duties
now devolved upon her. Safety
to life of both is assured by the
use of and
the time of recovery shortened.
know one lady, the mother of three
children, who suffered in the
birth of each, who obtained a bottle of
of me before her
fourth confinement, and relieved
quickly am easily. All agree that their
labor was shorter and less
John G. Macon, Ga.
no PER at all Stores,
or sent by mall on receipt of price.
BOOKS Information of
i. all women, will be sent to
anal any address application, by
V CO. O.
C. T.
Where the prettiest line of Spring Clothing
can be found.
------A line
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes
Furnishings,
to select
C. T.
A Great Reduction Sale.
Owing to the rapid advance of the season
and finding ourselves largely overstocked
we propose to inaugurate a sale
this week and continuing a month
the largest reduction sale
ever
Court
Near John Hill shot and
hilled hit-
son drove over seven stalks
corn belonging Hall,
In Feebly Health
Unable to do Her Work
and Tired All Troubles
Cured by Hoods
For the four years I have been in
feeble health, and for two yearn post,
owing to change of el inn to, I have not
been able to do my I was nervous
and had a was under I he
treatment of physicians, bat I continually
worse. My husband Insisted on my
trying Hood's and I finally
consented, and began taking it the first of
June, 1806. The first bottle did me so
ranch good I continued with It, and
after taking four bottles and one bottle
Hood's Pills I am able to do my work,
and the tired, la entirely
N. Ga.
Hood's
s;
. I Tanner. Sold by all
people who went along with .
the soldier boys returned home also. Hood's B
Summons for Relief.
Men lit,
vs,
Hay wood Men
Hag State of North Carolina,
The defendant above name will
notice that entitled as above
his been commenced in Superior
Court. Ir the defendant Is
to appear before the of
our Superior at a Court to be
held the County of Pitt at the court
house Greenville, on the second
Monday after the Hist Monday of
next, the of Sept
answer the complaint which w ll be
the of the if
the Superior of Mi
the days of laid term,
let the said defendant fake that
If he full to answer or the said
complaint within the time by
Mai will to the
for the relief demanded In the
complaint.
Given under my hand and Re of
this 7th day of July
K. A Clerk S i.-our-.
Ft; hr
The State Normal
and Industrial School,
N. C
Offers of the State
thorough prof
cal, and i education
Annual expenses to
of members. More than
sin Practice school of pupils
for teachers. More than 1,900
n presenting every In-
state three. In-
from those desiring competent
trained To secure board in
dormitories all free tuition applications
must be made before A -gut 1st. for
and information,
D.
rated in e propose to CUT
pi ices on all Stock. A cordial
invitation is extended to all to pay our
store a visit, and examine goods and prices.
Lang Sells
Cheap.
J. R. COREY
mm in-
HARNESS
AND COLLARS
A Horse
Millinery.
Also a nice line
Groceries.
I can now be found in
the brick store for-
occupied
Brown.
Come to see
IN THE SWIM.
If you want anything in
Merchandise
call and c me. L can save you money on
FINES SHOES of the celebrate Eagle brand
WHITE
NEW STORE.
Opened a text to 8- T- White's and have a full
Choice
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
to select from fresh low in price. A
din to nil. Come see me, will make it pay you
JAMES B. WHITE.
Great Reduction
All Summer Goods
Under the
Also
are slashing on all Summer
Goods we are determined lo
out. No reasonable price refused, before
it is too late.
Emporium Spring Fabrics.
Crop
The pat been extremely
warm North Carolina,
with maximum temperature
and on every day and
eight degree per day above
lb normal. weather baa also
been very dry, but beneficial local
shower occurred in portion of the
following Eastern district,
Hyde,
Craven and Tyrrell;
district,
Chatham, Moore, Person, Durham,
Franklin Warren; western district,
Mitchell, Henderson,
In
counties the week generally
been favorable. In general,
however, the heat and j-ht have
considerably injured pa, h-a on
high and sandy lands; arc every-
where rain. Ci. is doing
however; it is and growing
rapidly; stand very
quite not yet -ring
rain. Corn need badly; it
is small and the the dry
is to make it silk and la.- too h .; it
has good color, but is t.
lard; bugs
some damage. Tobacco seems b i
uttering some drought;
leaves have cured in the
Gardens and are
a serious t back by the
dry, hot weather in those
where no local showers occurred.
Stand of peanuts is not very good.
Many have hem planted. Melons
getting ripe. Threshing wheat con-
Oat all cut in eat; Rome
still to be out in west portion.
doing well. Splendid weather for
The blackberry season i at
its crop is very small.
All crop are clean well
enable them to stand the
drought much I than other-
wise
STEPHEN
from a Snake Bite.
On Tuesday morning while
who lives steal east
Hendersonville, cradling rye,
ion. Burton, i lo, was
him. binding. The father cut over
where a large was lying,
and when the son came to hind the
grain the snake sunk its fangs into
him. It was between and o'clock.
Whiskey was given boy. but only
a pint at and a messenger
was sent Dr.
about When th
doctor got boy was
and died about o'clock.
Hendersonville Time.
Fumy j unction Case.
This l notable year for injunction
ones in this State, but the
of them came up at Durham Mon-
d i; . A colored Baptist church, claim-
it had first employed a
play ail a Fourth of July festival,
obtained an injunction to restrain the
band playing for another church
of the Mime denomination.
Dr. M. B.
Rev. Di. M. H. Mo
I Va., one of the most
divines in the South, ha
the pastorate the Free-
mason Street church to accept
a call to of
church, of Baltimore, which i now Ins
brother's charge.
of French silver five-
franc pieces annually disappear from
circulation. according to an
official announcement just made by the
French government, is to a queer
belief. When the great
Napoleon first put these coins into
it was difficult to induce
adopt th-m. Accordingly,
he caused a story to be circulated to
effect that on of the coin con-
in its interior a check for
written on asbestos paper, and
the bank of France to pay
the finder the money all in five-franc
silver pieces. It is in the hope of
discovering this mythical check that so
many thousand of five franc pieces are
broken in half every year.
The proprietor of a large New York
dry good store women
are the buyers, and I that most
of them care more the
m-in than for the It would
be i the mark to say that many
look on the advertisements as
n a good advertisement
ways is.
Am Old Tim of Crater
Remarkable
doubt if any man ever a
more singular
Colonel once fell to
the lot of my old friend, Stephen
who formerly lived in
Center, Vt. Mr.
like of us, had his
the most conspicuous,
perhaps, his habit of always
carrying umbrella. No matter
what the weather or what the
signs might lie, he never went out
without an umbrella. He knew it
would be sure to rain. if did.
Where he got this impression
know. He may have been out
some time in his youthful days in
his best clothes without an umbrella
when it came on to rain.
years ago, when they be-
making the curious and costly
experiments in the arid regions of
tho far west, firing explosives from
balloons, and one tiling another,
to produce rain, Mr.
standing one day with his umbrella
under his arm, in the
Center perusing the news-
paper which tie had just taken from
the mail,
do they mate all this
money in mere experiments when
i hey could rain with certainty
and at a far less cost Why don't
Mad for
could you asked a
neighbor who was standing Bear.
I could go out without
my said Mr.
and, as it may seem, it is
not the less certainly a that be
wrote to the mayor of a town near
which some of these experiments
had been conducted offering to go
there and produce rain for his
It shows the consuming de-
sire for rain on the part of the
people, and their readiness to take
any chances to get it, that they
mediately sent Mr. a
draft for the money to come on
with, without even asking him how
he was going to produce the rain.
Sir. arrived
at the town, he was met at tho rail-
road station by a delegation of
who escorted him to the hotel.
Later he was waited on officially by
tho rain committee of the town
council, who, in the presence of the
reception committee and a large
Dumber of other interested citizens,
asked Mr. his plans.
had had some queer people
in this town at one time and an-
other, but Mr.
to them to be tho most useless per-
son they had ever had there. At
first they thought they would kill
him at once, that there would at
least be slight saving ship-
ping him back as freight; hut Ste-
was so obviously a well mean-
man that finally they thought
they would give him a trial, which
they did on the following day.
was a day on which any other
man in the world would have left
his umbrella at Ironic, anyway. Ste-
to leave
his at homo for the first time in
many years, and he was equally
confident of what would happen.
He had been a little shaken, person-
ally, by the of the people
after his simple plan had been
folded, but his confidence in the
success of his plan was quite
broken. He laid his umbrella care-
fully across the foot of the bed in
room at the hotel, looked at it
lovingly and then went
down to meet tho committee.
walked, Stephen ahead,
the rain committee and the
next and after
the people, along the dusty road.
it No, no, no. It
seemed to Stephen, and it seemed
to the people, too, that the corn
shriveled up as he passed and that
the last blades of glass withered.
gave him one more trial
the next day, with the same results,
and then they took him back to tho
railroad station. They had taken
him away from the station in a car-
carried him back on a
rail, but this was a matter of detail
that almost Stephen's at-
at the time, glad was he
to get back at all.
the day after Mr.
return to Center he
went out without an umbrella. He
bad had a great experience, he
had been somewhat d by
it. Possibly be had been
all these years, and he thought he
would see. But that day there came
a storm that swept away every
bridge in the comity, and which
washed away, too, whatever
the extraordinary
in the arid regions had made
upon the mind of Mr. Stephen
until be died, Mr.
umbrella
ways, as m as ever in tho belief
that it would rain if be went out
without York Sun.
Notice
Texas will raise this year ore
of the
crop bi tho largest in
history of the while, th
Is hereby given that nil
I e made to the Board if Commissioner
harvested ,
tie lice between and large and U ml at
Ins townships in with
day filed with said
G. M. i
II. S. f Carolina
M. a. township
of
J township.
W. B-
J. B.
II. W.
Notice of Sale.
By virtue of an order of the
Court, made on the 7th day of
July. will sell to the
bidder, tor cash, at the Court
door, in the town Pitt
county, N. C. on the 28th day of July,
11-97, the following described
and notes and evidences debt
to the i state of A. Clark,
teased,
Note due January 1st, 1891,
j. Staton, for secured by
gage . the life estate of J A Staton i
ii on certain realty and certain
property.
Note due January 1st, 1864, fr, m Mi
Dickinson and Jas Clark lo.
Two notes due January 1st,
from E S Green for each.
Note due May 25th, 1871, from u
A. Adams for
Note due August 1367, from Ab
for
Note due Is, from
Boyd and J. S. Clark M
subject to certain credits.
Note February 3rd,
Boyd tor o.
Note due 9th,
Bod, for
Note duo March 1st. IS -7, from
Boyd, for
Note due Kb,
Boyd, for
due 1st. 1854,
Bowl,
Note due 1st, 1852, from
for
due May Mb,
Boyd, for subject I certain
credits,
Note due 1853, from
A Boyd, for
Note due March Gill, from
Boyd, for 89.70.
Note due December i
Boyd.
Note due April 2nd, MS, from A bier j
Boyd. for .
and twenty six
of stock in the Port
Company, issued
hot of Confederate States f Amer-
bonds. Issued between
IS
Lot cf Stale Worth
famed 1880 and
This July 7th, 1897.
W. It.
Executor of a. M, Clark, deceased.
is a vigorous feeder and re-
well to liberal
On corn lands the yield
increases and the soil improves
if properly treated with fer- j
containing
not under
actual
Potash.
A trial of this plan costs but
little and is sure to lead to
profitable culture.
All ab
i. . hi
in a b
face m
New
CHILL
TONIC
IS JUST FOR ADULTS.
WARRANTED. PRICE
it Not.
MUM Co. Pi. Urals, Mo.
lost Tear,
TONIC
II In the
n.-vi r nil
Application tor a
There are now on file tit the
House leading
written
for office, west i f
by or
influential politicians- Homo of
are by entire
State delegation,
Senators. still
in at of about
a day. Each application is
several letters
of and the whole
forms an mass of
Treasury
Department show that
New Iris most of the seek-
The applications tor office
in Treasury by leading State-s is
as New York,
Ohio,
District of Columbia,
Louisiana, California,
and Texas. 127-
SEE THAT
w t, .
t I I I
What Is It
is a picture celebrate
PARKER
Best in use
The outfit no business man is
complete without one.
The Reflector Book Store
has a nice assortment these Fountain Fens
also a beautiful line of Pearl Handle Gold Fens,
will be astonished when you see them and
earn how very cheap are.
You may never,
But should you
Want Job Printing
Come to see us.
REWARD,
The readers this paper will be
pleated to learn that there i- at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able ti cu-e in all its stage and
is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
the positive cure now to
Catarrh
a disease, requires a con-
treatment.
Core Is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and surfaces of
the system, thereby the
foundation of the and giving
the patient by building up the
and assisting nature in do-
work. The proprietors bare so
its curative powers that
they filer One Hundred Dollars for any
ease that it foil to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
F. J. . Props
Toledo. O
by druggist price
the
Not n Welcome Topic
was just three years ago
tonight that yon proposed.
what did you want to
bring that up for on only night
of the week that I have away from
business
A Story of
Sidney Smith said of the great Dr.
master of Trinity college,
that was his forte and om-
his On
two fellows of the college,
thinking to get his range,
read up the subject of Chinese meta-
physics and then disputed about it
in lie listened
in silence for n time, and then oh-
served, I see you have
reading a paper which I wrote for
an of science
Chinese dictionary authorized
by the imperial government con-
classes of words, of which
include the more important.
This famous dictionary, the most
ancient of any recorded in literary
history, was arranged by Pa-out-
he, who lived about B. C.
r Job Printing
Anything from ,
Poster,
The Daily Reflector.
A CELLAR FIRE.
New York Fireman's
of
There is article on Risks
n a Fireman's T.
Hill in St. Mr. Hill
While of cellar fires, let
me relate an incident that happened
to some in tho down
town district a fire of this de-
It occurred in Barclay
street, in the of a crock-
and glass warehouse, amid th.-
straw used to pack the glassware.
It sent forth a dense, stifling smoke
and was an ugly fire to light. I
will relate it in the rather
way in which it was told
mo by a fireman one of the com-
that were to sub-
due it. The Story gives an idea of
what the firemen in the business
part of a big city may have to face
at any time.
station came in one night at
We rolled, and found file
in Barclay street in a crockery
warehouse. Burning straw, jute,
excelsior and all that sort of
In I never
saw such smoke since been in
the business. We went through the
building and found the fire hadn't
gut above the cellar. We tried to
get the line down the cellar stairs,
but it was no use; no one could live
on that stairway for a minute. The
chief then d us up, sent out a
second second and we
sailed in to drown it out; en-
got the rear; T engine the stair-
way, to it from coining op,
and our company, got the front.
We pried open the iron cellar door.-
on the mint, only to find that
the elevator used to carry freight
to bottom had been run up to
the top. Here were four inches of
Georgia pine t, cut through And,
phew, such work in smoke
we got through this, opened
it up it tame No flames,
just smoke, and with force
to suffocate a man in a second. We
backed to the gutter and got a
fresh air in our lungs and
went tit it again. We brought a
foot bidder r from the truck and
lowered it
found we couldn't touch bottom I
A -15 foot ladder Was put down and
only three rungs remained above
the sidewalk. This showed that
there was over feet of cellar and
And down in this place
we had to go with the line.
the sooner got at it tho
sooner it was over. Shifting the line
over the top rung of the ladder, so
it Wouldn't get caught, n we
started. It only feet, but I
can tell you it seemed like be-
fore we got to bottom. course,
when we got then it wasn't so bad;
the smoke lifted and gave us a
in cellar shaft where we
could work, and we soon drove the
lire away lo the and out, but
going n we got it dose of
remember to our last,
The company working in the rear
fared even worse than the other.
They had to descend into a narrow
court only -1 feet Wide, about feet
long width of tho
and feet deep, merely a shaft to
give light and air to the cellar and
When the company in
front got to work, they drove
the fire to the rear with such
that this company was com-
to ascend rapidly to the
street floor to save their lives.
yon may he known. .,
Continue that yon may be fl
known. Stop year t Mil o I
will soon All
A I All
Liver Ills.
Doctors Say;
Bilious and Intermittent Fevers
which prevail in dis-
are invariably
by derangements of the;
Stomach Liver and Bowels.
The Secret of Health.
The liver is the great
in the mechanism of
man, and when it is out of order,
J V . becomes de-
ranged and disease is the result.
PHIS
Family GROCERIES, Cure all Liver Troubles.
-----Consisting
ITS
To the Editor have an absolute
remedy for Consumption. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cared. So am I
of its I it my duty to
hollies to those of your readers
who have Bronchial or
Lung Trouble, if they will write me
express and address. Sincerely,
T. A. SLOCUM. M. C, IS Pearl St. Hew York.
Tho 11.1 . .
ltd. J-in-
of------
Flour,
Meat,
Meal,
Ac.,
Lard,
Sugar
which i am
selling so low
that it causes
surprise.
Come see inn
and will
treat you fair
Tho modern stand-
ard Family
cine Cures the
common every-day
ills of humanity.
it and nil
lot
. pot in time in-n
-t n.
Bind drawing r
Va II Dot,
i I patent
A I with
of in V. S.
lice. Add . I
i Or. o. C.
A It. K
AND
TRAINS SOUTH.
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W,.,
A. M.
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UNDERTAKERS.
We have- u- t a no
hearse line of Co
tins in met
lie and cloth r
We a tn
in
riven to
funerals and an
to our care will
every mat .
Our prices tower
We do not. monopoly bin
invite
We can be found a. any and all
times
Go's
BOB GREENE CO.-
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i Mr
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i I i; i-i ill.
. mm-
in will tin
their pried re Ml
all it-
LU i .
bay from m
I in v i i iv a on , V i u
etc stock of
FURNITURE
always on rad
tho Irate, nut and
for CASH therefore. mo i
l run wt -i-
. M N.
ban t--i tin. and
it I,.
FOR
It leading
c-i-i-. it
a hi .
Hi-- . . it
and th.- womb.
It , and relieved
M II.
is nil rot about pure grit
sank a fortune- a grindstone
factory. Free
TI.-
the
toy of all wan the doll.
girls play with doll everywhere,
and always done so. Indeed,
among the and
at the present married
carry dolls until they
by real children. There
in for its a curious
about u doll, altogether
unaccountable to other How
may be observed that a
ii unit,
D shilling waxen beauty, with its
gorgeous and cling faithfully
to the disreputable, wreck
of rugs that has its favorite
hitherto. causes other
children lie-idea Helen's babies to
dislike even to tho
preference for mi article made of an
old towel. This something, what-
ever it is, is doubtless a great com-
fort to the small girls of
It is an innocent, armless of
affair, without any such
as waist or shoulders might
cause, no knee joints to get
and nothing, at the end of
to cause the shoe-
maker's. As regards dress, it is
whole suit of
consisting of a piece of string thread-
ed through a bole humanely bored
ST
A Props.
late More I
N. C
and
or Life it In the
is
during and to
bring into i. i
year. It
whole sys-
great i
to all v Why
any v. . another minute
with relief
o Cartel
-tore.
in en t Airer
A i i
I-,
Re. J. . SMITH. C,
falling of and It
cured
dealer- ID J
of
NEW SPECIALTY
Ai kinds of done
We labor and good
material are prepared to
work.
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Wire and Iron Fencing
sold work
prices reasonable.
every afternoon the
small price of cents a
month. Arc you a.
scriber It
ought lo be.
The Eastern Reflector.
s only a year. Ii
the news every
week,
to the farmers, es-
those growing
tobacco, that is worth
many times more than
subscription price.
core flatulence.
pleasant laxative.
tor
bad
Tabula ear
at
cur
ear
THE OLD RELIABLE.
is the with a
taught the beat i-
II i mi i . i-h-i
tor Millers, a- well
Hat Goods I bare on band. Am baa
for Leafy Groceries, for Clark's O. X. T.
Cotton, and keep
N. Q
N. C
NEAR COURTHOUSE.
All Risks placed in strictly
FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES
current
U PROOF
i .-, t,
u.,
arrive p
la.,
i. hi.
i. Greenville a. n.
at a. m., 11.40
daily
leave
a. in., and I.,., n . ,
11.10 a. m Mo p.
a., Tarboro Ml a. m.,
in., m.
mil p. m,, arrives
a. m., 7.20 p, in. Daily ex.
with train- on
Branch.
Train N C, via All,.
Raleigh K. K. i,.
lay, at p. I V
live Plymouth 7.11 p. ,;.,,,. ,.
let leave.- Plymouth daily
in.,
II.
Train on Midland c.
dally, except 8.01 a
T. ,. j,.
leave- I ii a. m ,
at MO a.
Trains on Latta R
. leave p
in, Clio p m. Returning
eave in. a m
7.50 a daily except Sun-
Train leaves War-
for Clinton except
a. m. and p, m-
leaves a. m.
Train makes
point, dally, all rail via
ale at R Mount
Carolina It R for
ill . int- North via Ni folk
JOHN K.
BU l
I. M . EM Man in
I.
Old line
rs
SERVICE
Steamers
ville and lead
Tar River
Friday at A. M-
leave Tarboro M.
Greenville IS a. M.
lb M I- lure- are t M me
of water on Tar River,
Connecting t with
steamer. for ,
New York and
Shippers Ir
via h .
New York.
Nor-
folk A Baltimore Ci
Miner.
Boston.
SON.
J J. Agent.
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