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X. C.
D. J. WHICH Ed. A; Owner.
A Cordial Welcome
A Christmas Service In Santa
At Santa
there is old Spanish church in
which the people worship only
Christmas eve. Externally it
looks like a stable has no far
except a brass
chandelier. The walls
are of stone and on the eastern side
there is a manner, looking through
the ban of which the
scenes of the Nativity, with the
towers of palaces in the
distance. In tin- foreground the
Virgin sits by the manger holding
the infant Saviour, with tit. Joseph
leaning over her the w men
offering sheep, oxen various
ions gifts. Outside of in
tenor stable there are of
men carrying; sheep and calves on
shoulder-, hastening to I hi
In this chapel war
remain all Bight their
kneel. This manger aide of the
old church the east wall,
high upon which is the only win
in the so the Ural
rays of the morning sun irradiated
the scenes of the Nativity, which
conic as a roseate glow .
I this reaches the
they leave the church, light their
cigarettes and begin
I thought I was on to all the
strange and picturesque ways of
making a living that could be
thought a Weal Philadelphia
restaurateur observed, there
was an old fellow along here yes
who gave me a pointer had
never dreamed of. lie came in and
offered to patch up all the bad
places in my wall paper, and so
skillfully that I couldn't
place after it was done. Well, I
hadn't an patching to do. but I
bet the old chap a quarter and his
dinner that he couldn't do what he
aid. I lore a patch out of tin
wall paper, and when In-
through eating he went to work.
The thing he did was to cut a
piece of blank paper big enough ti
cover the hole and paste it over.
Next he took a brush and painted
a ground the same us the other pa
per. Then, kick if he didn't
brushes and colors and
paint in the design of the paper. I
willingly yielded up a quarter with
the dinner, was when
I saw the alacrity and case with
which the fellow did his work.
Philadelphia Record.
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J. B. CO.
TO THE PEOPLE OF PITT AND ADJOINING COUNTIES
STOCK AMI WE WILL SHOW
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JUST FOR FUN.
shown IN
You can select your New Year while here
take it home with you. you a full line of
noons and notions. shoe-.
HA IS. II IV. Ac., it is no
trouble to shot goods. We extend you all a cordial
nation.
which make our
homes of real and of
and uplifting calm. It It I
pardonable failing to pride
in the beautiful things which our
we must not
let that feeling take the place of
the the home itself exerts
on those who make it or live it
at live in and know aw own
home-, and get the advantage of
that restful calm, than w
keeps us younger or more sure
h the trials of the day.
If mothers ill be calmer we shall
Mi- our girls becoming lest nervous
more restful. Every
should have a central figure of rest
fill Then would the
Influence go out to the children.
Hut that can only lie done by gel
ting away from the Confuting rush
of too many duties; by arranging
a- to have time for
hearth light rest being at
me with by keeping the
work of the home inside and
world outside within ;
by giving ourselves time to meat
lire labor with it.- results; look
into es, and anting w hat
how much we can do
T i.-a priceless possession
to manor woman. It Is worth
many a to enjoy it. to
gain that of heart which
w ill enable us to drink deep and
long of love and
politics, as everything else. A gentleman remarked
the future is uncertain, but it that bud a ranger or outsider
now at If William Bryan will Is- c to North and made
Democratic for the cures among our people that
dent IMP. That he is now east- Mrs. Joe had
made, the people would been have
stirred us never before. this
the for the nomination is
apparent. The principles which
he and all party enunciate and suppose a
the honest views and the needs of Eleven years ago I had a child
Hie great majority of the people of that was delicate from birth, and
the Slates and these j for six months she was under
must prevail the He- care of the best physician
public is safe and a sense of t bad in our town. Hut his
is the common heritage of cine seemed powerless to control
ts citizenship. With the trusts; the Ism el trouble, which had be
and dollar aristocracy wedded to conic chronic dysentery. She also
the Republican there must from some aggravated blood
be another great trouble, which caused large sores
American manhood and and and risings to break out on her
OLD DOMINION LINE
Steamers leave Washington on
Mondays. Wednesdays and Fri-
days at ti A. M. for Greenville,
water permitting,
leave Tarboro at A.
M. Greenville t A. M. on Tue-
days, Sat Unisys.
Sailing hours subject change
on stage of water.
at Washington with
Steamers for Norfolk,
New York and Bus-
man hood must win or the future time there would lie as ton, and for all points for the West
a ill In- dark to the great body of
the people. With the restoration
of white supremacy at home. North
will be nerved for the
great struggle of and will do
their part towards the
chains that arc binding the
Sentinel.
A to Reach the
If the Congressmen who declare
that they want the Ami Trust
made more severe arc in earn
they cm strike blow at many
Trusts w invoking the aid of
the Courts, which move so slowly.
Thai is to reduce the customs duties
on article- the domestic production
of which is controlled by Industrial
Combines. Then foreign
will curb the rapacity of
home monopolies. If tinplate
manufacturers or sugar
combine, lower the tin-
plate and sugar. The
Welsh tinplate manufacturers and
German will not en
into a conspiracy with
can producers, and the latter will
be forced to reduce their price-, to a
reasonable There are many
ways of bitting at Trusts it Con
really desire to do so.
Tribune.
Two heads may be than
one. bill not the morning after.
The imprudent skater i n man
of great faith, for he attempt.- to
walk on the water.
A South street merchant
Uses down quilts are
but outs are way
you kissed the proud
beauty
Hie I was
the missile toe when her father
propelled me through the
Nell going to give ;,
diamond
The St thing
What I Well, what
of a man give two pins
for you
De Poppers,
whose wife writes those articles on
How to treat a Baby. Old Honk
Not much variety that subject.
Milk's about the only drink you
can oiler it.
Aunt do you
your Aunt Tommy Tom
ins was
Mr. Lilly, a prominent it
of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a
wonderful deliverance from a I
In telling of it
was taken Typhoid Fever, I
run into Pneumonia,
became hardened. was to
weak I couldn't hardy sit up In bed.
Nothing helped me. I expected
soon die of Consumption, when I
heard of Dr. King's New
cry. Due I sit tic gave great relief.
I eon tinned to use it, and now am
well strong; I say
much in its This marvel-
medicine
cut cure Hie world for all throat
and lung I Regular lite
Trial bottles free
J. L. Drug Store; ,
cry bottle
Must Hustle.
The statement i- made that
will be Invested in
enterprises in
next year. It it safe to say
that these Investments did not, or
w ill not. drop into the lap of
without any effort on tin-
pan of that city . What effort is
being made by Raleigh, or by other
of this State to attract in
There are town-in this
State with excellent facilities for
enterprises, but and to take from
arc never brought lo the
cut ion of men with money to In-1 would be cut ting that
lest. The i- the in I salary half in two.
Richmond or pass Tin-re are those who believe
Slated Chairman.
Those who claim lo be on the in-
side of things say that the
will abolish the railroad com
mission establish in it- place a
commission of railroads, banking
and insurance.
my informant will
like the present railroad
of three members. The
chairman, however, will be required
lo live ill Raleigh and be continual
at For tills service he
receive a salary of a
year. The other two commissioners
like the present railroad
may reside where they like
so they attend the meet-
of board. For this
vice they will la- paid a
year.
It is claimed also that
is slated for the
chairmanship and that the other
members of will be men of ex-
and recognized ability.
In addition to the duties now de-
upon the railroad
the of railroads,
banking and insurance would, as
its name indicates, have charge of
the banking and insurance
of the State. The and
examination of banks is now in Ho-
of Treasurer,
I ho insurance is cunt roiled
by the Secretary Stale.
To take from the Treasurer the
banking business would relieve
be appointment of two ex
Set
of Slate the insurance
. I
To Lead The World.
the leading
agencies in their latest
in the year just closing the
trade of the United States was by
far largest its history . This
more remarkable w hen
I he only war we have waged
thirty -live years came within the
year.
Statistics -how United
States is the greatest pro-
country in the world pro-
more than even
Britain, The reports for the year
show that New York has taken
place commerce as the
world's leading port. And it la
also shown the United states
has in a year gone from seventh
place in the world's naval powers
to fourth place, being excelled only
by England, Russia, and France.
The country has made wonderful
in many lines in the last
decade.
run pills .
Send to II. E.
A Co. d git u sample box of Dr
New tits Pills. A trial
convince yon of their mains. These
pills are easy in art ion are
hi the curs
lion Sick Headache, t-or
and they i-en
proved They are
u lie from every
substance and to be purely
vegetable. T do by
their action, but by giving tone to
bowels greatly invigorate
per box.
sold by druggist.
Two weeks ago the Record
that Mr. and Mrs. II
had the
anniversary of their marriage.
One weak ago we announced the
de-alb of Mrs. and now
we regret to announce the death of
Mr. who died last
Tuesday. Thus, having lived to-
so long, this aged couple
most died together. Of them
may well t in their
lives and In death not
Pittsboro
as or We
to at different
limes, but re-ached her
case-. They would lance the
bid as as one was cured
with railroads at Norfolk.
should order freight by
the Old Dominion S. S. Co. from
New York; Clyde from
Hay Line from
and Line from
another broke out, mid doctors
gave DO hope of her cure.
she laid a life of agony
suffering for six mouths. I was in-
spired lo try Mrs. Joe Person's
Remedy. There was a change for
tIn- better in twenty four hours, it
seemed lo check the once,
and after using a few my
child was entirely cured, and has
never since had any sign of trouble
and is now in health. A
few years after this bad
to break out on my ankle, and
strange I did not think of
Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy. I was
under of doctors for
three but the aorta continued
N. SON,
Washington, N. C.
J. J.
Greenville, N. C.
UNDERTAKERS,
; AL
EMBALMERS
on through to Atlanta or other
further South. We are
aware that some of our towns do
not pursue the sit down wait
policy, bill perhaps docs all
that can to bring enterprises
New-and
Cure
Liver Ills.
ave Your Money.
box of Tint's n
dollars in
cure all
w- .
Reckless
c i an
ass, a million end
Liver
sonic such arrangement as the above
would be much more satisfactory
than the creation of a separate
Independent office for the manage
mi-ill of insurance business.
Raleigh News and Observer.
The Restful Calm of Home.
is high time our women
should lead calmer
Edward
Hie January
Home Journal. should
getaway from the notion what we
call in these days de-
that they shall till their
thoughts and lives with at
the cost of their health or peace of
mind. Our homes must a
more of a restful calm,
wives must lie lured into
haste forget by
wrong ambitions or foolish ideas of
what the world of than.
There must lie left to every woman
a clearly defined interval of leisure
the of those
The Director of Hie Mint is
for the statement Hie
States now hold
in gold. This is an of
count; for there are no data avail-
able lo determine the amount held
by depositories other than
Slates Treasury Sub
the tin
clearing and I lie national
banks, and the holdings of
do not by a very considerable per
vantage reach Hie total
estimate is
correct, however, the
gold in Stales would by
far the held here
any lime heretofore. Tile
sum of gold held in
Slab's in any ions year, accord-
lo Mint estimates, was
in The stock
of the precious metal held in
principal countries of in
Australasia and in Hie
in
According lo the Director of
Mint Hie present slink of gold is
is more
than the total
of gold silver the same
countries
PATENT
j a .-1
for free soil
BOOK ON PATENTS
C. A CO.
Salve.
The beat in world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, ricers. Sail
Rheum. Fever Bores, Chap-
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and
all Eruptions, and positively
Piles, or pay required,
is guaranteed to give perfect sails
faction or money refunded-
cents per by Jno.
I.
American and European Work-
shops.
There are many machine shops.
both in England on the
will supply complete
plants of machinery.
tore within their own walls
engines, shafting, bangers,
pulleys, small tools, all sorts
large and small,
While this state of affairs may be
explained historically, cannot lie
defended as an economic principle,
ill light of modern practice.
The very opposite policy is follow
ed by most makers of
machinery. Many concerns devote
themselves entirely to one line of
machinery, have hesitation
Whatever In refusing orders for
anything which have not made
a special study , A natural
occurred all the
and science's, and the American
idea of specializing in
failure of machine tools is but a
practical application of this
European nation must fol-
low same lines, if they hope lo
K. I. Circuit, in
Engineering
We have just received a new
and nicest of
Coffins and Caskets, in wood,
lo get worse until they had eaten brought
to toe bone I then thought of Greenville.
trying Joe Person's Wash and We are prepared to do em-
did so. and is almost useless lo i all its
say a cure. Personal attention given to
I wish I could speak so and bodies entrusted
cry mail, woman and child, to our care will receive very
Carolina could hear, that i mark of respect.
might tell them what Mrs. Jot Per- lower than aver.
son's Remedy and Wash did for
mine. I one of my
friends who had he-en a terrible
for longtime,
sore mouth. She used Remedy
Wash, anon inside a
cure.
I have recommended it to ever
so many of my friends, for
other ailments, and I have
never known lo fail lo cure
There is to it.
Long.
son Co., Oct. S,
do not want monopoly
but com petition.
We can be found at any and
all times in tho John Flanagan
building.
B I N e, I O
DIRECTORY.
-AT-
Vases,
Wagons, Shoo
Air Figures,
Fire Works, Toys,
and Saucers,
Candies, Mixed Nuts,
Raisins, Is,
every Sun-
day, morning slid evening. Pray-
-meeting Thursday evening. Rev.
A. W. pastor. Sunday-
school a. C. D.
regular Oranges,
Apples,
a. Chairs. Tablet,
every Mattresses,
day. morning and evening. You will never
evening. Rev.
N. M. Watson, pastor. Sunday Standard Sewing Machine. .
p. m. w . F. Harding, s . s,.,,,,,
SAMl M.
third
Sunday, Rev.
J. II. Morion, Sunday-
l. R. -ll-
VI All
colored man killed
wife. by hang
lug bar.
The chief of police of Charlotte
killed colored day
while trying to arrest him.
Wilmington and Marion
have cases of smallpox.
from jail a nights
sign.
Usury Wolfe, of a
of F., First
Carolina Regiment, was
at
CATARRH I
with
cannot reach Hie seat of
. Catarrh is a blood con
-111 ill disease, and in order to
cure it you must take Internal rem-
ill Cure is
en internally, acts on
tho blood mucous surfaces.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack
was prescribed by
of the beat physicians this
country for years, is a regular
prescription, ll is compose-d of I In-
best tonics combined with
the -1 blood acting
oil .-111 cs. The
combination of two in
is what produces such
wonderful results
Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. Co., Props.
Hold druggists, Toledo, O.
Hull's Fills arc the best.
LODGES.
A. V. A. M.-
Lodge. -HI. meets
third Monday evening. R.
W. M. J. M. Sec.
Lodge, No.
I Meets every Tuesday evening.
w. r. n. ti. p. d. Over-
toil, Has.
K. of P. Tar River
every Friday evening. Dr.
B. A. Jr., C. II. A.
White. K. of R. and S.
It. Vance Council, No.
meets every Thursday even-
W. II. Wilson, It. M. R.
Lang. See.
O. II. A. every
Wednesday night I. O.
F. hall. I,, it, Hargrove,
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Fencing
only work
prices reasonable
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Whichard, N.
The Stock complete in
every department and
prices as low as the low
eat. Highest market
prices paid for country
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The Eastern Reflector
D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Owner TRUTH IN FICTION TERMS per Year in Advance.
VOL. XVII.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, J
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LETTER.
Oar
I. Jan.
Mr. it so anxious for
i lie Senate to promptly ratify the
treaty he took occasion
to broach the subject to a
of senators who hands with
at the New Year reception, at
the White House, today. It is the
antics believed to
have both Spanish German
which are causing Mr.
anxiety. He
Senators his hands were tied,
outside of the territory already
by our troops, until
treaty was ratified.
opposition to treaty itself has
almost entirely disappeared, but
democratic opposition to our keep-
the Philippines permanently
appears to lie Increasing. Present
indications are that whatever de-
lay there may lie in reaching a vote
on treaty, which will go to
this week, will come from
Republican senators, such as Hoar,
Hale Perkins. Nearly all
democrats say that the treaty
should be promptly ratified be-
cause it does not commit this
try to seeping and
delay may result serious trouble.
Colonel lie by, one of the
members of the War
Commission, dropped a
hint that indicates a surprise for
somebody when the report of the
is made, which will be
inside of four weeks, he thinks.
He said they make their
report I think that all fair
people will admit that they have
performed conscientious-
and that it is not so much of a
whitewash commission as many
persons have imagined.
The magnates of the beef trust
have trying to scare General
Miles since he I old the
gating commission that the
to Cuba and
was utterly unfit for
use and expressed the opinion,
backed up by that of physicians,
that the enforced eating of it had
responsible for much of the
sickness, but they have not
and ore not likely to. As
a feeler, they threaten to sue Gen-
Miles for heavy but
the lineal was dropped
when General Miles said that a
court of law was precisely where
he would like to get the men who
gold that beef to the
War Department. Swift Co.
and Armour members of
the beef trust, have tent com
inn inns to the commission, tell-
how good the beef was that was
condemned by General Miles
other officers, and an of
volunteers, ill the employ of
the overdone the
thing by testifying that the beef
tent to Cuba and eaten by hit
was better than molt of the
men have had since they were
mustered cut. This tame witness
was made to admit that a lot of
f issued to his regiment was con-
by physicians, but tried to
qualify the admission by saying
Unit In- didn't tee anything the
matter with the beef. A Hoard of
Survey, composed of army officers,
has been appointed to investigate
the beef, both canned
furnished the army.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, is the
latest republican senator to declare
expansion. He
am not expansionist, but I
the treaty will be ratified at this
session. The ratification of the
treaty, however, will not commit
this country to the expansion Idea.
The retention or disposition of the
Philippines and other matters re
to expansion will have to lie
settled later on. The subject is too
big to be passed upon hastily. I
admit that popular sentiment seems
to be in favor of the expansion idea
at present, bat later I look for a
Change. The apparently do
not comprehend
The announcement from
York that Mr. had selected
as a
date for Speaker of the next House,
e. in-lit I leader of the
democrats that body, was not
received any too by
democrats in Washington. There
is no personal objection to Mr.
who is extremely well like
considering the short lime lie has
been but
is expressed towards Mr.
to with this mat-
There has been more or less
talk democrats about this
or that man selected lo till
the place the next Congress that
Representative of Texas,
I'M-.- iii the present House, but, ac
to Mr. friends, he
will lie the man. Representative
Swanson, of Virginia,
of Mr, have made
a most careful conservative
of I he democrats lo
next House. He has pledges
and assurances from more than
ninety and when the time comes
will get more than votes. Out-
side of about twenty-five men he is
the second choice of all those who
will vote for other candidates on
account of local considerations.
Pressure upon the administration
was strung enough to cause
cabinet to instruct Secretary Hay
lo s. I lie Pacific Cable Com-
by exercising his right lo
disapprove the for a
cable monopoly obtained by this
company from the lull-Government
of Hawaii, inside of six mouths
from date of The six
mouths expired today. This Is I he
company wanted this Govern-
to grant it at subsidy of l
a year for twenty years
enough to the -for the
free use of the cable from California
lo
Care For Confederate-
Auditor Ayer is receipt of a
letter from the Chief of the
office, General Marcus A.
requesting the names of the Con-
federate cemeteries in
the number of veterans Inn led in
hem.
Auditor Ayer the
and he desires that those
persons who cm give the facts de-
sired by the War Office,
write him once.
While General Wright did not
state bis object requesting
information, it is believed that be
Is following up. President
utterance; at Atlanta, in which
he declared that the time had come
when the government should care
for the graves of the Confederate
dead.
The gathering of this infirm i
is very likely the beginning of
a movement on the part of the ad-
ministration to carry into effect the
President's
The Naval Engineer In Battle.
If you scale up a heated
iron tank floating on the sea and
hammered at by missiles which
now and tin-a lei in daylight
splinters, you would get a dim idea
of lot of the engineer's men
a in action,
the engineer's have to work in
the you would go
mail in your tank. The enemy's
shit pounds the ship, but the en-
and his men know not where
the enemy is or where the ship is
heading. And they can't stop to
think it.
smother in oil. drown it in
water it cool, or the game's
up The men on deck can let the
splinters lie where they fall, but
the men in the engine room ban-
to keep the splint oil
Steam Bind
mend em. Crawl behind the
and stop that leak.
possible to shut anything.
Never mind. It's all in
day's work. Don't let the
water down. Pass the coal lively.
And, while you're about put
out that fire bunkers,
the lower engine rooms the
shows degrees front
of the ventilating blowers; fa the
upper engine-rooms,
Arthur The
Magazine for January.
South must raise own
supplies, or it will never lie
pendent . If every farmer North
Carolina would raise his own wheat,
corn, and this year
there is hardly one in I he who
cannot do no mailer what the
price of next fall, our
will independent and happy.
They will have enough to eat and
can sit back and laugh at the cot-
ton speculators. Pour or
means ruin lo the South, if she
alone. As long us
the planter's smokehouse is in
his yard Chicago
and his flouring mill in
he cannot cotton at a
News.
Why the White Man Rules.
The white man rules he
is the proprietor, because he owns
the lands, conducts the industries
pays the tuxes. The
man may win a voice in
some day upon same
terms, but he will never win it by
force of impudence and
The spectacle of a race
representing next to nothing in
of material possessions and
financial responsibility ruling over
the race which represent it all is
not likely to witnessed this or
any other country. No such
anomaly has ever been
h -tiled to civilized people.
Washington Post.
-IS
J. CHERRY CO.
TO THE PEOPLE OF PITT AND
It AND SHOW
LINK OF---------
in Church.
LIFE, to be
and healthy must
Temple.
was
people anxious
to hear l
Ill-own. tin- hi --iii-
sermons-The and Mortal
The
was The Uriah
The said in
Mow an loyal Christian hi,
his n sake. the .
society, end for of right
e do than totally ab
slain Croat all I- me
a I mm supplied with Potash.
how Is p.- fut any Christian
lo , . and lo
drink with the bate and
I trill go farther and say
man using the vile stuff
slyly and ,. encouraging speak
attics, while lo be a
Christian far worse than the
Mini seller who slyly defies lite law
good of bit fellows.
Potash
Phosphoric Acid and Nitrogen,
essential elements arc
plants, what bread, meat and
water are to man.
Crops flourish on soils well
Our la buy and apply
fertilizer,, and arc free all.
MUM KALI WORKS.
vs -t N
Worth i .
have believed he was Gist
a drunkard. In fact, ii
would grieve and astound him
how much of a drunkard be
already i-. I have bail good friends
of mine me
warning
A dispatch from New
officers of torpedo boat
attached lo the North Al
would have prepared a
memorial for Worth bag
b who was tIn
Oral American officer to fall in the
war Spain.
Tin- memorial fas made by
and is to placed in
chapel of
seemed pointed. But, friend- can at Annapolis.
I possibly I. too pointed in noting The tablet la nude of bra- and
ravages of intemperance; fun has a of antique oak. The
its paint it- lean,
slain- and blast,
be
Let it never be forgotten I he
drinking man is always known.
lie may by lent ; ill wind that blow-
tho Italy's hat off yours,
lull rid limy always will at
result-. Hum bloat-the face, red-. game and often be out of
dells nose. the lip-,, packet.
deadens mill- the The man usually
lion, chills life and hi- the
blasts u lawyers gel it.
FOR II N.
shown in
can select your New Year Gifts while here and
take it home with you. We can show you u full line of
GOODS and NOTIONS, SIKH'S,
HATS, GLASS ., and I no
I to show We you all ll cordial
Million,
BAKER HART
DEALERS IN
am now ready
In hold this position against the
There, now,
may just as well not expect to be
admiral.
NO BIGHT TO
The who is lovely in face,
form temper will always have
but one who would be at
must keep her health. If
she is weak, sickly and all run
down the
If the has constipation or
kidney trouble, her impure blood
will cause pimples, skin
erupt ions unit a wretched complex-
ion. Electric Hitters is the
medicine the world to regulate
stomach, liver kidneys to
purify the blood. It gives strong
nerves, bright eyes, smooth,
rich It
will make a good-looking,
lug, woman of a run-down invalid.
Only cents at Jno, L,
More.
Butler's Action Condemned.
New York, Dec.
federate veteran of New York
has passed a resolution offered by
Comrade of North
nu, which says that camp con
demos unmeasured terms the
effort of Butler, of North
who is not a Confederate
1-111.111. to the
of the South by seeking to obtain
pensions
from the United States, and that
any similar effort by Southern
of Congress will
rent to this camp and meet with
ii i ii I nab lied
General
CANNOT I
with LOCAL
cannot the seal of the
disease. is a
till ill and order lo
cure it hike inlet lent
ill line is las
en internally, act- directly on
the blood surfaces.
Hall's Catarrh Cure i- not a
Ii was prescribed by
oar of the best physicians
country for and regular
ll id tile
in-t tunics known, combined with
the best blond purifiers,
oil the surfaces. The
perfect two
is what produces
wonderful results in
Send for free.
In., Crops.
Mil by druggists, Toledo, o.
Hall's family the best.
he
Hunts I Ian- has one
not granted to other notable
-capes the kissing epidemic,
says Brother
entirely ignorant ob
this Is about at flue u
I presume
that it i- an
no; domestic i
begun tho star
boarder, bill he stopped when he
caught the gleam in Mis.
eye. Sir.
she said, with icy pleasantly,
Ural let me state I was assured
of this steak being prime
then, perhaps the cw
joyed a remarkably long
Win i. h Hi,, mini with dug,
a l,
t it-
unit i. i
Hardware,
Just a carload
Salve.
The salve the world for
Cuts, Salt
I; hen in. Teller, Chap-
Chilblains, Coins, and
all Skin and positively
cures or no pay It
is to give
faction or money refunded. Print
M cents per For sale by Jno.
L. Woolen.
I the lint woman you ever
she asked after
The war hero knew
that it Would be useless to reply
be said
i y nil will be I he
And then she
he had indeed Won him I'm her
ow n.
Professions Cards
it . -i i.
T .
. I. Maura.
At
N. C.
III ti-
the season When you
never mis- the water till the pipes
A Mills I.
v e. N
AT LAW.
dream N. c.
Garland stoves the
manufacturers in world arc used by
many millions.
MAIN , N.
ins was
Mr. Lilly, a prominent ell
Hannibal, Mo., had a
wonderful deliverance from a
Ill of It
I was taken Typhoid
inn into My
I to
weak hardy sit
Nothing helped inc. I
to die of I when I
beard of Ur. King's New
gave relief.
I to now am
well and I cant say
ill This
oil- I in-
cure iii world for all throat
troubles. Regular site
bolt let free
L. Drug n
In.
DENTIST,
I i lit-,
r.
i Son- store
Ha ill
n,
II,
ALLOW A IN SON,
I y H I LAW,
N. C.
in all I on its.
W . lines,
N mi in.-, N. c
OILMAN
v t I .
Practice wherever is de-
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X.
D. J. A Owner.
Entered at the Post at
Greenville. X. a-- Second
Mail Matter.
Is.
Ban never i
new year feeling happier it
at the of
an- always glad when a year's la
there is ion in looking
Ami In
some it was hard year, it
was a year almost
work, it hail its trials is haul
ships, lull these were all overcome
the march ha forward
knows lull well
success is mil line alone to
lull
it is In
with the liberal pat
they give it. week-
this paper has Urn go
to the people for seventeen
they have an
it
men of have been
liberal supporters of the paper
have shown their in Our
endeavor has always been lo merit
the or of our patrons,
integrity being deemed of more
value than making of money.
We shall continue this
As starts
upon lieu year's work
is lo return sincere thanks to
the patrons who have la it.
we may bring
AXE WAITS FOR BERNARD'S
HEAD.
District Official Days
Arc
Washington, M.
States
i- here. It will
U- his hist visit here in his
He of his n
will leave
tomorrow.
For two Mr. has
bean his in the wait
room of Attorney
not. when this
dispatch a.- Bled, succeeded in
seeing him. Hi- hail seen several
of the in the
of Justice tried to
plain certain
against him One of these officials
was by The
live if he hail hail any
with Bernard. He
answered i only
Mi. Bernard hereto ex-
plain away, a damaging
report against him
Chalmers, an expert of the
of Justice. It is against
Carolina
affairs. It is straight.
Bin I
Later in the following
special, tearing win for
upon the was received i
Washington.
The correspondent hail a
talk with
b telephone tonight repeated
to him is reported
have said, That de-
entire
With his conduct of his
The Attorney
If Bernard stale
meal he for not I.
have made no on
The general said he had
not seen Bernard while hare
expressed groat surprise the
Put correspondent had become
acquainted with facts
in eon-
report.
Among
ii is no surprise Bernard is to
U- dismissed tram or allowed
lo resign. Intimate friends
Senator
CONNOR FOR SPEAKER.
Legislative Names
special
Raleigh, Jan tAt the
caucus lust night Sena
B.
was as President protein of
C. of
sun. chief clerk; Waller Murphy.
clerk; J.
doorkeeper
of Wilson.
was chosen as Speaker of the
Sonar. Both branches of the
Legislature met today and the
above of the can
ens were endorsed. Jamb.
Him
AND
NOTES.
The
platform woman never has
a credit lo. but ever a blot
upon. American womanhood. I
make this emphatic statement
Jan. . from a personal knowledge of the
Mrs. Mary Smith was visiting homes which these women leave
her daughter Mrs. Johnson, here, behind when go to their
writes Edward in
A. . Cox wants all your cotton the January Home Journal.
seed and bushels field peas. have seen the rooms of their
Miss Clyde Cox home homes left disorder; I have
from Dunn, where she has seen their servants sitting in idle-
to make report public,
but report is severe on Bernard.
It states, among other thing,
when Chalmers railed, the only
person in who seemed ha
know anything affairs of j
the office was a
the docket was kept in the
most confused unintelligible
manner, and that general
was apparent even where.
Mr. Bernard brought with him
a great mass of books and documents
from his office to refute the charges
made, inn he has tailed in
the Department of Justice officials.
Among North Carolinians here his
days are considered numbered.
The correspondent saw Mr.
Bernard at his hotel this afternoon
to each and every one a year
great prosperity and happiness.
OVER THE
James u New York
laborer, who killed his with i-
cause she drank is under arrest.
Two tramps who had been given
shelter by John of La-
Minn., murdered their
benefactor.
The office of the Governor of
Illinois at Springfield was entered
on Saturday and stolen
from a drawer.
The remains of the late Senator
Merrill and those of his wife were
placed in a at
VI.
ii. of runs
month, Va., recently elected
Bishop of
Idaho, has declined the honor,
George K. of
X. V. has been found wandering
the streets of San
Oil., well with money.
Antonio
of a of
Dominic in Sew York.
getting stabbed him
Miss Nellie Ziegler. clerk to
of Agriculture,
Denver, Col., was fatally
an explosion of gas at the
was killed
near O., by John
who then committed
in a quarrel over a crop of
tobacco raised by
farm.
The daily pallet's arc filled with
of casualties Incidental in
Christmas, fire-
arms firewater are responsible
for nearly every disaster,
The Order of Odd Fellows owns
twenty-two homes for orphans in
the United States, surrounded by
acres of land valued at
II is said when lieu.
died he left his widow and
in poverty, and patriotic Cu
bans arc now raising a fund for
I heir benefit.
he was appointed,
do not hesitate lo nay Ber-
appointment is the
and worst one made in North
Una. This sentiment reflects
ion high up in official circles, and
removal is looked upon
as a foregone
Carolina
Post, 1st.
The- Atlantic Coast Line.
The purchase of Cape
Yadkin Valley Railroad by the
owners of the Atlantic Coast Line
is a guarantee to the people living
along the line of I hat road that it
is in the hands of wise,
visiting, last night.
One bushels of its for
sale b K. Manning t Co.
of was
evening. He said derision of the
became kg rail ft urn No in a happy
in he must have, home ever lo
with work on every hand lo
do; I have seen the children neg
and left to
I have heard speak in
motives of their
on No. -j.
J. It. Jackson and brother
left yesterday morning for Wake
Barest College. Bryant hopes lo
graduate Ibis session if possible.
The man who smokes and does not
smoke
The Cigar
Is like man who does know
That this is a New Year
simply behind the lime.
To Have you
decided yet which fence you will
build, wire fem-e or rail fence t If
not call or write and get one of
Winterville Fence Co's circulars.
The teachers are and school
again with it new
pupils. The ringing of the school
new life lo
MICH IN LITTLE.
Sum- butterflies have as main as
distinct eves.
Many hear breathe
with the same apparatus.
There are throe newsy little
American papers in Manila.
The Salvation Arni was thirty
three years old other day.
The London
--the the far
one has exported a Ion of
Irish turf for an Irish fair at San
Francisco.
all skin diseases are sup-
posed to be canted by
insects.
The pantries at and the crowds of
Contain gold and silver plate v j passing seen to add
mil at place.
The American Bible Society has The old year is gone you cannot
it but you can get
listen lo these parasites of her sex.
Fortunately, the platform woman's
is steadily on the wane.
She was never a power. She was
never even picturesque. Her worst
injury was wrought upon certain
weak women who for the lime she
deluded. Hut even them she
was soon regarded wonder
rather than with interest; with
suspicion rather than
bans and less has she
able to get listeners, and it is
that in places where sin-
has spoken during the sea-
son she has seen
The disappearance of platform
woman is a case of a blot
blotted
TO-DAY'S MARKETS.
as quoted by
W. A. A CO.
B. C.
under the management of
W. G.
Office over Baker Hart's
Hardware Store.
COTTON.
Cotton High Low Close.
January 5.49 5.53 5.40 5.51
May MO Ml MO
August 5.68 5.73 5.67 5.611
and February.
Opening. Close. Tone.
M Quiet Sternly.
YORK STOCKS.
High Low Close
1481 1431 1471
Sugar. 1251
St. Paul. 1211 1201 1211
MARKET.
Wheat. High Low Close.
May
January
endeavored to learn something sire and conservative railroad man-
his visit here. Mr. Bernard
treated him in the r
slid there was no new- in
his visit. The fad that he is on
of decapitation
have accounted for his churl-
action. Tin- correspondent
was of the
fads herein stated which Bernard
did deem to the kind of
news he wished his to
know to Raleigh Cost.
BERNARD'S DENIAL
While in his office
Dr. John,
last
tor of the North Carolinian, of
City, was stricken with
paralysis, had to be carried
home, lie is now improving.
The general of the
army will this month the
work of bringing hack In
Hie of
soldiers ho died in
and the
Attorney General Says He Made
No Statement.
When District
reached Weldon after-
noon on his return from Washing
Ion. In- was surprised to learn
The had preceded him with a
report of his fruitless efforts I
obtain an audience Attorney
He was not only
surprised, but chagrined The
accurate information ill
to his approaching
decapitation and the reasons there-
for. Apprehending
felt by
in Mr. Bernard
wired the following lo B.
A. Johnson, his colored assistant i
1808,
A.
iii Raleigh untrue.
Department expressed entire Balls
M.
The message was sent between
and o'clock yesterday afternoon.
presumably was delivered
promptly, to appear hasty in
so trivial a matter, District
Attorney's leisurely
meandered Into the Inner
of The an hour or two later
and exhibited the telegram, The
only remark lie deigned to
was; had better curb your
Washington
If the correspondent had Beaded
curbing, he would have la-en curb
forthwith ; but before applying
the curb it was to
him With the of
Mr. Bernard's and give
him an opportunity to heard,
Thai act ion was taken, and with
reasonable promptness the follow-
answer
1890,
Peal
in Bernard dispatch Friday night
e lines from a high -in the
Department of who is
sent Span
in Santiago, Cuba.
If a man were to leap as far
proportion to his size as a flea,
could jump seventy-six miles.
LOCAL MARKETS
As reported by
CO.,
Of KICK AND
H. C.
Cotton
Beat
to
Hands the beat in the world of the
A. G. Cox Co. Call for the
Economic
ages. will manage it not
alone for the of the stock-
holders but also for develop-
of the section through which
II runs.
This is the first railroad the At-
Coast Line owns or has
chased runs from
to the mountains. To show how
successfully it has operated,
how handsomely has all
stockholders, we give the results
on their mainline, the Wilmington
ft Weldon After the
war. the stock in road sold for
in dollar, and most of
t in-present stockholders purchased
at that figure. After ii was
chased by the present capable own-
it began lo rise until it was
soon above par. Since time-
in less than stock-
holders have received dividends
are as large, if not larger than
have been paid by railroad in
America. The first dividend was
one of too per cent, on
tic Coast Line stock. The second
dividend was per cent, in de
lire bonds. The third was
percent, in the Atlantic
Line stock. The is now
Virtually four times what it was
original and hereafter dividends
will be paid mi for every
original stock or on every in-
vested in the purchase of the same
i he present holder.
This year that road has paid a
div of percent, on the
Weldon stock. Ii pet
cent, on the Atlantic Line
issue stock, interest on per
cent, and in ad-
this year I hey have issued
in and stock of
per cent, and a second issue
of Atlantic Cons Line stock of
per is -3 per
cent, has been paid this year on
every share of which, as
each have cost less than on an
average is per cent, on the
invest
In of we do
not know an investment that bus
paid so handsomely. Men who
have done this in eastern part
of Stale will soon make the
Cape Fear A Yadkin Valley sys-
strong and
News Observer.
Santiago Transformed
Captain Brady of the signal
vice, who has been building
Advertising a Study.
Many business men little
attention to the preparation of the
Men who arc par-
to employ the salesmen
graph Una in eastern Cuba, says represent them will get up most
that Santiago has undergone a com advertisements and
transformation since place them in papers that
Wood put into the American n reach their trade or have no
methods of municipal regulation, prestige. An advertisement, to a
Instead of being able to tell what certain extent, answers the and formality and roil
part of town you were in by the purpose as a salesman. It when he
Senor Romero Dead.
Senor Romero. Mexican minister
died Friday morning from
He was lo have been re-
by President as
an January and the
arrangements for his official
on that date practical-
completed. The President
looked forward to the event with as
much pleasure Senor Romero,
for he had the greatest respect for
Mexico's representative While
the right to treat with the
dent direct is accorded only lo an
Senor Romero was
welcome at the White House at
IKE A
A lame excuse sometimes works
by amusing sympathy.
Doctors are harvesting an extra
large crop of colds.
The pursuit of wealth often
I men on a wild goose
borrow trouble ; lend what
yo i c.
particular odor greeting your MB- attractive and forcible, just
Mia, Captain says, the city salesman should able to gain the
is now free from odors and is us attention of a customer. It is a
clean, orderly and well regulated waste of money to pay high rates
many American cities of its advertising and then not
of Cubans, most of them pare the ads that will be most
former Cuban soldiers, are at work It is like paying high
dally laying pavements, and soon I prices for material and then not
city will have paved avenues putting properly together or
and streets instead of the long buying a of goods and then
stretches of tilth. not trying to dispose of
morning the street cleaning Farm Machinery,
also composed of Cubans. .
give the reels a scouring, hasping Stand Together.
the ditches Open and the sewers
Unshed. no more rowdy- it is a fact that should always
lam and noisy he borne in mind by the people of
The health conditions have town whatever helps the
proved with the cleaning up pro-1 town helps each
and when Captain left in town. It is
was not a case of yellow lo locate enterprises or in-
or small pox in the city, a record so that each will prove of
almost without precedent, as official I equal tat all because
reports have shown that such is not possible furnishes no
bad these diseases almost excuse for apathy or op-
position. It is narrow minded mid
selfish to light or oppose
prise that may lie started, the
sole grounds that no immediate
; accrues lo individual
who opposes If there is a
chance for one portion of the city
to helped forward let us all get to-
and push it forward. It
will soon come our time when we
will want the other to help
us lo push, and if we have opposed
or neglected lo do what we could
for them, what right will we have
for expecting their help when our
time comes dig cities are
by concert of action, by the con-
effort of the people all
direct at one time on some given
object.
The future expansion of towns
have often strangled and
their growth dwarfed by narrow
selfishness, by the little
lies-, of soul that lei I men to oppose
everything that did not promise
some immediate to them.
The phenomenal growth of At-
is, we think, largely if not
entirely due to the absence of that
mean, selfish spirit that we have
already alluded to. We do know
that the patriotic loyalty de-
of the Atlanta people to
every move and measure that
meant Atlanta's advancement
and development along
lines has resulted in making of Al
i wonder of the new world.
Winston Journal.
EXCELLENCE OF OF FIGS
is only to the
of Hie but
to the ears with which it is
processes
known lo the
Co. and we wish lo impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true- and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the Co.
only, a of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthiest
imitations by other par-
lies. The, high standing of the
Co. with the
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine of Figs has
given to millions of families, nukes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of Its remedy. It la
far in advance of all other
a it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken-
them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. I n order to get Its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
as oat.
B. M. ram, . r.
desired to see and talk with the
President.
Secretary as the personal
representative of the President,
went to the Mexican legation, and
presented the President's deep
regrets.
The year celebrations were
not wholly given up to revelry.
One touching incident of the ob-
occurred at Havana on
Sunday lust when a party of blue-
jackets from the Texas
pulled out to the wreck of the
Maine hoisted the Stars and
Stripes to her peak. It was a ten-
reverent act, and one that
illustrated some of the most
trails of American manhood.
The cry of the
in so far us it was invocation to
passion a ml hate has been forgot-
ten with the buried year; but the
tender remembrance that was man-
by the crew of the Texan
will long outlast the century, and
recurring Decoration day will
give proof of its
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DRY GOODS, Notions, SHOES,
DRY GOODS, Notions, SHOES,
DRY GOODS, Notions, SHOES,
Hats, Trunks and Pauls.
Huts, Trunks and Pants.
A full line of
FAMILY SUPPLIES.
All goods delivered free to any
part of the city.
R. B. BROS.,
R. B. JARVIS ft
C.
Did It Ever occur, to
That when yon buy it is
economy to get the beet t
Five Persons Whose Aces A
f rafts Nearly Years.
It would be hard to find
near together live persons whose
ages aggregate more than the live
persons whose names we give
low. They all live in the south-
western part of within a
radius less than yards and
their ages aggregate nearly
years.
Mrs. Emily Holt, widow of the
late in M. Holt, was years
old in September last; Hon. Giles
will be years old on
of January next; Mrs. Long,
widow of the late Jacob Long, was
old on the June
lust; Mr. Wat, Turner was HI years
old on mil of August last; and Mrs.
Mebane was years old on
h this month. These aged
people retain all their faculties,
in good health not-
withstanding their advanced age.
Mr. Mebane was feeling well
enough In milk up town Monday
and made sonic
Gleaner.
j That is what we hare,
The best of thing.
Yon may need.
We can supply all your needs in
Fruits of all kinds,
Nuts, Raisins, We have Fine
CIGARS. in a box, put up es-
for us.
J BRO
W.
IS
Heavy and
GROCERIES,
GREENVILLE N.
Cotton Bagging and Pies always
on bun i
Fresh goods kepi on
hand. Country produce
sold. A trial will convince y on.
D. W.
K-
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GOOD BYE,
old um
You've been a great one
Great for this country Great
for humanity Great for the
world, except Spain
You've been a great year
for FRANK WILSON too
We've made great advances in
Fit till
of our Clothes.
All Wool, Fast Color Suits
and Overcoats as low as the
lowest.
FRANK ON,
THE KING
N. E. -Open every evening until o'clock
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LOCAL
new year.
mouth, year.
Travel heavy.
The town is full of hogs now,
dead ones.
You ought to take
tor this year.
The faces of the are turn
toward
Let us all sec boa- much we can
do for Greenville Ibis year.
The new year's cold did tar-
long, but more will come.
There is u big crowd at the de-
pot every time the train conies.
Don't neglect advertising and
then complain of dull business.
Don't forget that Satan is always
polite to his new acquaintances.
People who have just killed
meat don't like these warm days.
Don't judge a woman's bank
the crest on her stationery.
By express fresh Mountain But
cents per pound, at M.
Kev. J. Nelson, of Golds
Monday night. He
old.
Drummers arc merging from
their holiday spell getting
back the road.
Attention is called to the notice
to creditors by Herbert
executor of the estate of Jennie
Boyd.
Mrs. M. A. Stephen's house and
lot near the bridge was sold Tues-
day, Mr. J. A. Andrews
purchaser.
Mr. Allen has purchased
an interest in the Barnhill machine
shops on Dickinson avenue and the
firm will hereafter Barnhill
Allen. They are prepared to do
all kinds of work in their line.
TO CURE A COLD IN A DAY.
Take Quinine Tub
lets. All druggists refund money
if it fails to cure. He, The gen-
has L. II. Q, Tablet.
Work For Them.
To keep all the other of
Greenville moving briskly the
town ought to have some factories.
They would do well here and
money paid out for labor would help
eve., other branch of business.
Died.
At o'clock Monday night Mr.
G. A. died at his home
near after an illness of
three months. He was
old leaves a widow and
eight children.
Notice.
Owing to the Band concert in the
house Thursday night the
regular monthly meeting of the
Tom III ill lie post one
week, until Thursday night, 12th
Mayor.
On. Month.
From the 5th to the of De
of Deeds T. E.
Moore issued sixty-five marriage
licenses. Thirty seven of them
were for white couples and twenty
eight for colored. This was a big
record of marriages for one
The sympathetic of s
j it everything to an
mother, especially during her tint
ordeal. George Lay ton, Esq., a
Bent of Dayton, O.,
following
A of mine, whose wife bat
bat of before con-
alter of
remedy, If she had. In h ordeal
again, and there were but four
was per bottle, she
Would have them.
Mother's Friend is a scientifically
Compounded which affords
relief in the various ailments
ceding childbirth, assures proper
elasticity to the cord and muscles in-
In the final ordeal.
H sold by
expressed on receipt of one
Valuable book, Baby Is
milled free on
tUt to.
NEW LEAF
Over- Some The Writ
A. M. went to Weldon
today.
Hines, of spent
today here.
Johnson went to Scotland
Neck today,
K. I. of
spent Sunday bare.
Harris came this
morning Ayden.
Harry Skinner left
this morning tor Washington City.
Mrs. F. . Whaley ha returned
from a stay of several weeks in
Virginia.
T. c. Gary returned Saturday
evening from his holiday visit to
Henderson.
Mrs. who has
visiting at returned
home this morning.
John of Portsmouth, who
has beat visiting his sister, Mrs.
W. It. U-ft this morning.
C. D. left this morning
for He is a candidate for
doorkeeper of the Senate and we
hope he will get it.
January
F. Kind went to to-
day.
G. E. of is
here.
W. of
is town.
W. II. Wilson returned
evening from Plymouth.
G. B. Hughes returned Monday
evening from all .
returned this
morning
K. Brown returned to
Monday evening.
Herbert Harris returned
day evening from Wilson.
returned Mon-
day from
returned Monday
evening from his holiday trip.
of Baltimore, was
here Monday but found it too cold
to
Harry Skinner, Jr., left this
morning for Oxford to attend
school.
E. i ham and Mrs.
returned Monday from
Durham.
Pat Gorman is kick again from
Richmond ready to do the hand-
shaking.
J. B. Lightfoot returned Monday
evening from his holiday trip to
Richmond.
Charlie Skinner and Raymond
Tyson left this morning for Oak
Ridge to attend school.
Mrs. L. C. King, of Norfolk,
who has spending sonic days
here, left this morning.
Miss Martha Hurtling of Center-
ville, passed through this morning
for Raleigh to attend school.
V. L, Stephens, of Dunn, came
in Monthly evening to see his
mother, Mrs. II. A. Stephens.
II. Is. Can-has moved his family
to Greenville occupies the
house street.
E. K. and J. L.
of Winterville. passed through
returning to school at Wake Forest
Miss Smith returned Mon-
day evening from Norfolk here
spending the
days.
Miss Willie returned
Monday evening from Chase City,
Va., where she been spending
the holidays.
II. C. has moved his
family here from Greene county
occupies the Swindell house,
corner Third and Greene streets.
Senator F. James mid
W. J. Nichols left this
morning for Raleigh.
joined them up the
load.
J. A. I went to Hamilton
today.
F. Whaley left morning
for Halifax.
W. G. Alley left Tuesday even-
for Washington City.
T. M. Anderson returned from
Wilson Tuesday evening.
Miss Eva left this
morning for Henderson.
Rev. II. II. returned
Tuesday from Dunn.
II. returned from
Henderson Tuesday
Mrs. S. returned Tuesday
from a visit to her son in
Wilson.
Misses Helen Perkins and Beetle
Tyson returned Tuesday evening
from Wilson.
Mrs. F. M. Hodges returned
from a v to
Washington.
Mi's. Susan of
Neck, who has visiting here,
left this morning.
Mrs. c. T. returned
evening from a visit to
relatives in
S. who during fall
clerked for Prank Wilson, left this
morning for Oxford.
II. P. Hauling this morning
for Chapel Hill lo up his
studies at the
s. j. of Chattanooga,
who baa bean spending few days
here, left this morning.
Mrs. r and
Miss Panic, returned
evening
Km, B. M. and children
returned Tuesday Iron a visit to
her parents In Mount.
K. B. returned
evening from his holiday trip lo
Washington and points in
Mrs. Pat lie Wins cad. of
Mount. who was visiting her moth-
Mrs. W. M. King, returned
home today.
A. j. Moore came over from
Bethel Tuesday evening, will
assist his father in the Superior
Court Clerk's
Misses Sarah Hooker, Clara
Bract Forbes, Bessie
Patrick and Barnhill left
this return to Greens-
Such Weather.
The old year went out calm
quiet enough Saturday night, but
the few hours of the new year
gave us some weather to talk about.
It rained and it it hailed
and it snowed, the
tor tumbled down like bottom
had fallen out.
Turkeys Sin.
Pint North
Carolina Regiment now Havana
to up with the home custom
and eat turkey for Christmas, but
when they went to market mid
found the price to Is- to
a single gobbler I hey decided
turkey was not food for
dinner.
New Piano.
The piano that was placed in the
the opening of the
building proved nut lo lie as good
as desired, and it has
ed by a finer instrument. The new
one is of the make
and was sold by A. W.
bridge.
Cruelty.
now and then a crowd
turns a rabbit loose on the
and goes after the
animal with a yell. It is cruel to
torture an animal way. Some
towns will not permit such cruelly
line on
any one guilty of it.
December Was Colder.
Many people spoke of Mislay
morning as the coldest of the
wilder so far. but Mr. E. War
tells US that It lacked two tie
gram of being as cold as it was one
morning in the December snap.
Monday morning the
registered while in December
ii reached
New Norfolk Firm.
II. F. wholesale
dealers in tobacco, cigars
Norfolk. is the heading of
a letter we have just received. It
tells that the
an and Ben, who have ban so
popular with the men-hunts
this section while they
were traveling for other houses,
are now in business for themselves
in Norfolk. They have leased a
large building and will carry the
stock in the tobacco and cigar
line. We predict that their
friends will turn some
nice orders over to them.
One county In the returns
the item on its tax ah
The
is, how dill gel hall
a Jack News Bad Ob
server.
. PROGRAM.
But a Feature Much Enjoyed.
In-fore the
the opera
Friday night, came to a close, Mrs.
I. bell ill of those
who taken in ii. presented
Messrs, Bertram and Willard with
a basket of Rowers, ex
appreciation each held
for the kindness, courtesy and pa
Hence exhibited by these gentle
men
This took the gentlemen
surprise, but tin- presentation and
responses tame In so nicely the
not have told lull
what it part of the program,
Messrs. Bertram and have
twits- for
purpose of giving entertainments,
and in even proved
themselves to be gentlemen of the
truest type, people
will In-glad lo know that the arc
to return hen- and give another
entertainment In February.
will be given u cordial we
conic whenever come.
CHANGING
Among Business Houses.
A stroll tin- business
houses shows of
changes to have taken place
new year.
Ii. for
with While, is now
clerking for II. M. Harden.
T. II. Tyson, formerly with
W. is now with T.
J. E. who years has
been with Alfred Forbes, la with
his own I. iV;
W. M. Moore has taken a
I ion as deputy in Hie Register
Barber, who was once
with W. but slopped to
attend school a year, is back with
him again.
W. Mayo, of Grimesland, has
taken a position with J. A. An
draws.
Norman, who year was
with Patrick Greene, will engage
in business for himself in the
Stores in the building.
A Fine Piece Color Work.
experienced art critic gives
it as his opinion there will be
no handsomer piece of work issued
this year than Hood's
Calendar 1809. It is not
useful, but artistic and beautiful,
and up to dale. The charming
American whose
face appears with a delicately
printed nag in the background,
makes a pleasing feature which
anyone will lie pleased lo have
before him the whole of 1800. We
suppose druggists will have this
calendar, or a copy may
by sending ii cents Hood
S Co., Lowell, Mass.
MI ill-mill or Smith sec that check i I i. to
I sires i crop, made from nine acres, from
lured the F. s. fin
I have used for four years and have never
failed a
hate heard a ORINOCO I
and have made up my mind to use it myself next I stand
live cent
t .
F. s. Royster Guano
We have ha in I if i Orinoco bran I of year
put ii on i in- market, wherever it bus been used ii is
wanted again. hut Orinoco is tin
most popular of brand we handle. Very
R. I.
J. L,
Fire and I
Accident Insurance.
Represents only First Glass
iii Building opposite Court House.
QUEEN VILLE, C.
J,
f W S
Don't.
rush out of single bliss
into double blisters.
Don't think a Boating
Hill II a light one.
Don't think hind work kills as
many people as worry does.
Don't insist upon hearing
sides of bass
I rums.
Don't blame a witness
memory when testifying before
twelve men who have no opinions.
Don't imagine a man pays Ml
bills every lime he meets them.
Don't whine. If you're well
whipped acknowledge ii like a
man.
Don't think it's better to gel
drunk drugstore whiskey than
is to get lull a
News.
I J
My Fall and Winter took
Cotton lagging and and a lull line
Heavy Groceries have arrived and we will put
the so low to you until it will compel you
buy. Ii you once pee goods and hear the
price you are my customer
James B. White
Greenville, N
Loom to Wearer
IX-
s m I
A OF
o MILLINERY.
nice
I can now lie found ill the
store formerly
by
w. Brown.
COMB TO MB.
J. II. COBBY.
Clothes
Choosing.
such u hard mutter, for the
eye pattern and
lit. But clothes Inlying is
what harder, because yon
good as to values
and sonic
show until usage Don I
know place In where
you're less liable lo amiss than
in our store, the clothe are our
weaves, and clothes our make, and
small
our mill coat. Men's. Young Men's
and t under
K AUK GOING TO BELL,
RICKS TAFT STOCK
------It must lie sold
JANUARY 1st, 1899
And in older lo do this will lie sold
AT COST THAN POST
AT COST AND THAN COST IF
Thin is no lake. Come mid price goods and see that we
what we say. Thia is a HALE, not auk for credit.
HP i
lit KIM
GREEN X.
D. J. WHICHARD,
Southern Farm
Published upon the
that farmers are interested
subjects than any other class of
the Southern F-rm
in its January issue enters upon a
wilier of improvement than
ever before. Determined t. aid as
far as possible the healthy
toward
as a of the problem
it
notably two by CoL J. B.
brew V.
lag the progress already made
fruit.
; and the cereals,
The Sun says that Christ
mas there have ten failures in
New York of concerns made
a specialty of Roods intended for
the holiday trade, it is a
that of the ten none of
them I III I lead, while the stores
did were to
the last minute mid did tho greatest
business
valuable hints for additional
These two
by virtue of their life work, are
thoroughly equipped with beta,
and arc in close daily touch with
events that are placing the South
upon a higher and
plane every j ear. and their
are consequently
especially valuable.
Side side with greater variety
of
multiplying and becoming mm
and more To help
this development capital be
Particularly timely,
Is an article Gov-
Virginia,
In which ha forth
dearly and the bane-
ac ruing to from a wise
on operation with capital In the up
building of industries, small and
real, the extension of railroads
and the opening of
endeavor.
Other
for bay, the
pan Banning, among stock,
the manufacture of starch from
experimental
and other topics appealing to
the intelligence while
the departmental features are up to
their standard of Interest. They
contain reading for I he family
debits of Suit humor,
oil and mailer for the child-
ran. comment upon
in literary world, with careful
of leading new
hints about special crops
of the South and the record of tin
movement of a sturdy population
to the from other regions
the country less Inviting. Reflect
as it does, the life of the South,
the magazine meets the needs of a
number
thoughtful readers.
The Southern Farm Magazine is
published monthly the Mann
Record Publishing Co.,
Baltimore, Md. Pries a year.
The total
bonds, real and other pro-
the Slate. Private
of this state
creased the passed year from
on
10,536,900.30 on September 90th,
1888, making
create for the year. We referred
to this gratifying in-
crease in the banking facilities of
our Slate daring the past year.
without giving the exact of
Mich increase. This is one of the
best Indications of the steady
In business conditions
and prospects of OUT people. The
old State la gradually but
looking Peat.
J s
Cure
ave Your Money.
box of Pills will save
dollars in Mrs
Reckless Assert
sick
constipation and I
Legal
-II
I INF
The Journal
upon a recount of the
it is
found is Dem-
by majorities ranging from
to .
The Spaniards have ailed us
pigs. But just wait until
the Court of St
American
It'll certain one dollar Silver
In the hands of
taut States Treasurer
at the Sub-Treasury, could
speak it would probably unfold a
tattling of some kind, or,
perhaps, it would only be able to
record the freakish action of some
On the back of
the bill, written in nil ink dis-
characters,
The last one I have.
Take ii You took
all the and with
it my soul. May it
scorch your fingers
when you touch it;
may what you buy
with damn you for-
ever.
w it to you. You
pit teat. I hope
you
So far as human Ingenuity could
do so bill was traced back from
to bunk until it was
located at a bank had received
it from the treasurer of a
He had received it from two young
ladies who were strangers to him.
One of them remarked an
It exchanged for admission
tickets that there blood on that
Those w ho have had it
their possession since declare
while they carried the bill some
kind of bad luck was sure to conic
to the
is to open a
la Havana. This is a tine
in favor of keeping all the
islands possible.
A gentleman remarked recently
that had a stranger or an outsider
come North Carolina, and made
the cures among our people that
Mis. had
made. people would have
stirred as never before. Head this
and suppose
Eleven years ago I had a child
I hat was delicate from birth, and
for six mouths she was under con
slant rare of the physician we
had our town. Hut his
cine seemed to run,
the bowel trouble, which had be-
come chronic dysentery. She also
front some aggravated blood
trouble, which caused large sores
and risings to break out on her
body. Oft time there would be as
many as SO or We had
doctors to treat her at different
times, but nothing reached her
case. would lance these
lugs, but as soon as one was cured
another bloke out. and the doctors
gave me no hope of her cure.
she had led a life of agony and
suffering for six mouths. I was in
spired to try Mrs. Joe Person's
Remedy. There was a change for
the better in twenty-four hours,
seemed to check the once,
and after using a few bottles my
child a a- entirely oared, and has
never since had any sign of trouble
and is now in perfect health. A
few years after this I
lo break out on my ankle, and
strange to say I did nut think of
Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy. I was
under treatment of doctors Car
three years, but the sores continued
to get worse until they had eaten
the bone, l than thought of
trying Mrs, Joe
lid so. and is almost useless to
any it soon made a cure.
I wish could speak so that
man. woman and
Carolina could bear, that I
might tell them what Per-
son's Remedy and Wash dill for
me and mine. I one of my
friends who had been a terrible
sufferer for a long time, with nurses
sore month, sin- used the Remedy
and Wash, and soon made a
cure.
I have recommended it to ever
many of my friends, for
and other ailments, and I have
never it to fail to cure yet.
There is no medicine equal to it.
it ii nil. Reads Long,
Roxboro, Co., cm. N
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By virtue of the
of Pitt made
the day of December
pending,
Public administer-
the estate of Warren
deceased against
and I will on
January 12th, ISM, at o'clock
M., of the Court House
in of sell
at public side to the highest bidder
five-sevenths Interest in e
track of land situated In
township. Pitt ad
joining the lauds of
horn, the Sam Manning land and
Others, M acres more or
less. Terms of sale cash.
This Dee.
Public
estate of War-
deed.
OLD DOMINION LINE
You May Never but
Want Job Printing
it
ii II. Y
I'll-
sin l
By virtue of an order of the
Superior Court of Pill county made
in a Special Proceeding
therein pending, entitled,
and Sarah Cox against C. A.
and I will on lion-
day, February 6th, at
public before the Court House
door in Greenville, to the highest
bidder, a certain tract Of parcel of
land in the county of Pitt adjoin-
the lands of A. C. Tucker.
Thomas Nobles,
containing one honored sod
lift seen inure or less and known
as the formerly
belonging to M. L.
ed. of
This the day of December,
L.
Steamers leave on
and Fri
days at ii A. M. for
water
leave at A.
M., A. M. OB Tues-
days. and
hours subject to change OS-
pending on Stage of water.
Counts-ting at with
Steamers for Norfolk.
New York and Boa-
ton, and for all points for the West
at Norfolk.
Shippers should elder freight by
the Old Dominion B. s. On. from
New York; Clyde Line from
Bay from Baltimore;
and from
Boston.
N. MYERS SON.
Washington, N.
J.
Greenville, a. c.
Tome to see us.
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M.
DOLLS,
Air Figures,
Fire Works, Toys,
Cans and Saucers,
Candies, Mixed Nuts,
Sweet Florida Oranges,
Apples, Bananas, Lemons,
Chairs, Bedsteads, Tables,
Mattresses, Bureaus, CM.
You will never
Anything a
Visiting Card
SAMUEL M. SCHULTZ.
Bugs Salt.
NOTICE TO
The undersigned having duly
before the Court I ., Sewing
Clerk of counts as
Last Will and Testament of
E. Little, deceased, notice hi here
by given to all persons Indebted to
the estate to make Immediate pay-
to the undersigned, and all
persons having claims against said
estate are lo present the
same for payment on or before the
day of December, 1899, or this
notice will lie plead liar of
cry of same
This Dec. 81st, 1808.
Executor of II. E Little
ii
E S.
NOTICE TO
Having duly qualified before the
Superior Court Clerk of Bill county
as Executor Last Will and
of Jennie Bold, deceased,
is hereby given to all per-
sons indebted to the estate to make
Immediate payment to under-1
signed, and all persons having j
claims against the estate should
present the same for payment on
before the Sod day of January,
1900, or this notice will lie plead
in bar of recovery of same.
I his 2nd day of January, 1899.
Herbert mis,
Executor of Jennie Boyd.
row, Mat .
Tn r and be mar
lull of Ufa. I.- r- and lake No lo
II.
-s-d ii A m
o . do or N-r
In- n leave
fin arrive at i o
pm Dally except
n i i means a akin.
r Cat,
. I'M II -.-Hi. I,
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V- i. ., . I, via AIM
in t dally
M . p. m., Sunday I u. a
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a. m., 1.00 i a
in, ind Ii
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for
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WASH I
Ml
i leave
I I arrive I
I M pm Hope pm
Ins leave dry Hope
luck. Mill III
-o on x. i, i
except y,
a. a. K
timing; a
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Clinton Lilly, n
III ii. at. and t. IS p, in
lea rt am. and
H VI
I It N i
M I hi uses, Man
DIRECTORY.
every Sun-
lay, morning and Pray-
meeting Thursday evening.
A. W. pastor. Sunday-
school a. in. H.
regular services.
a. m.
every
day, morning and evening. Prayer
meeting evening.
N. M. pastor.
school p. F.
third
Sunday, Rev.
J. B. Morton,
p. m. J. Moore
A. F. A. M.
Lodge, No. meets and
third Monday R.
M. J. M. See.
F. Covenant Lodge, No.
every Tuesday evening.
a i
W. F. Burch, N. G. D. V. Over-
Ion, Sec.
K. of River Lodge, No.
every evening. Dr.
K. A. Jr., H. A.
White, K. of H. and
R. Vance Council, No.
meets even-
W. B. Wilson, R. M. R.
Lang, Sec.
Jo. O. V. A. M.- Meets every
night at in I. O.
F. hull. I,. L.
Vehicles, all
Farming
, I in short
Brackets,
etc., made to
order,
on Dickinson Avenue.
J C. LAMER It CO
VILLE. N. C
DEALER IN
EB i II
MARBLE
Iron Fencing
only work
prices reasonable
lo W. B.
Whichard, N. C.
complete in
every department and
prices as low as the low
Highest market
prices paid for country
produce
to
Sheet Poster.
We carry a line of the
celebrated
Geo. S. Parker
Fountain Pen
It is a big hit in fountain pen
and is distinctive Parker
Not only does it feed the ink
perfectly, but prevents soiled
fingers.
The Daily Reflector
Gives the home news every
afternoon at small price
of cents a month. Are
you a subscriber P It not
you ought to be.
The Eastern Reflector
Is a year and contains
the news gives
information to the
these a rowing
co, that is worth many times
A-
WEEK
-FOR-
The Eastern Reflector
D. J. Editor and Owner TRUTH IN PREFERENCE. TERMS per Year in Advance.
Friday
VOL. XVII.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY lo,
tin
Cut Down The
The when it meets in
lo lo much more it,
or other can do.
lint one thing it do, that
in reduce mime of few DOW
paid to our officer. Thin is
wherein our most
signally failed to do their duty and
lo fulfill their oft
es.
one of
favorite campaign cries so-
called was the promise
to all fees salaries to
correspond with the low prices of
farm
loudly our public officials
were receiving as for
work as they ever did, while the
farmers were not receiving over
half as much for their work. But
when these pretended
got the power lo keep their promise
they signally failed to do so, and
did not reduce Buy fees or salaries.
Now, while the of our
Democratic Legislature did not
make any such promise in last
campaign, we would impress
upon the propriety care-
fully considering the fees allowed
all our public officers and reducing
all that seem proper to reduce.
And there is no doubt that many
fees ought lo lie red need. A
committee the reduction of
fees salaries ought to be up
pointed by the Legislature and our
present fee-bills carefully scanned
so proper reductions may be
He Wanted
A man came from sonic dis-
the country this morning
who reported lo clerk of tho
Superior Court that he had been
summoned by a deputy sheriff to
court as a juror.
He was told that Court was on
the first Monday month.
He said that was all right, but he
had been sum to appear
the first Monday in January and
said be was prepared to swear to it
and to prove it. He said he did
not know when the courts were
held and was particular to ask
when he should
He was turned over to Sheriff
as it was one of his
ties who summoned him. His
name was on tho December list,
but he failed to appear nothing
was done about
Ha A Remedy Been Found.
The trusts arc about to take the
country. Hardly a week passes
that the formation a new one
loot announced. The people are
entirely at their mercy the ab-
as at present, of legal re-
either as to the price they
choose to exact for their products
or the quality of it.
in the last issue of The Landmark
the inferior quality of I lie kerosene
oil which is now sold in this
town, but Oil Com-
controls this product if
complaint were made to it, it would
perhaps snap its fingers in the face
of the customer ask lino.
are yon going to do
He isn't going lo do any-
thing at all he can't; he
will use Standard Oil kerosene or
he won't use any at all. So with
hundreds of other articles, some of
them the very necessaries of life.
The subject is suggested by read-
decision of a local court
Missouri last week which very
nearly to the root of the trust evil-
is, in brief, that an organization
formed upon any article, for the
purpose of controlling its price.
under the laws of Missouri,
collect a debt. That is taking a
pretty hold, and some ob-
may lie found to this
of dealing with trusts,
the grounds of morals, but it
may as a matter of
lighting the devil with lire, if
this Missouri decision w ill stick,
every State in the might
well adopt the Missouri trust
law, and by its application these
iniquitous organizations at
last lie reached and broken up, for
even a trust cannot hope to do a
cash business and doing a
credit business when the creditor
lid not have lo pay, would lie en-
Land
mark.
Receipt Taxable.
Assistant Attorney nil
has rendered an opinion which
he holds that all receipts given for
goods, or property
held storage a regular ware-
house require the stamp provided
for by the war revenue act. The
contention made by the warehouse-
men was in order to tax-
able a receipt given mer-
or property held on
storage in a warehouse must be a
negotiable paper. This contention
Mr. Boyd holds is untenable. This
opinion is in accord with the ruling
previously made by
sinner of internal revenue.
To those who live in communities
whew all can employment all
the time, it
that people should anywhere be
forced to beg for employment.
And few of the persons in any
community who find constant em-
at the hands of others
fully appreciate toe tact that where
they have a mind to labor can
do so and receive pay for it. In
the large cities many persons who
are cold and hungry in these win-
days would be glad, indeed, lo
have toe opportunity to labor every
day for food and only a little more.
The possibility of constant employ
for those who are dependent
on is a privilege which
many laborers do not properly
Com-
Our
1899
JANUARY
1899
OF t-
and
arc
be of year and
cordially to attend. For
Ins
The Wile and Her
is a cause of amazement to
me that a man can go on, year in
and year out, toiling for a family
show no interest
in his work further than to spend
the money he makes, and who
look upon him as the family
writes Frances in the Jan-
Home Journal.
firm belief is that had he, the
Brat flush of married life, talked
over his business and ambitions
with bis wife, she would have be
come interested in both, first for
his sake, and afterward for her own
and their children's. Think of the
that lies between a man and
woman united in marriage when
he never speaks at home of the
affairs which absorb his entire day
Mutual interests will bind people
together even when
Indifference, that dangerous bridge
of sighs, has swallowed up
Just at the ending of one of the
most prosperous years the his-
of the country comes the
fortunate of the fail
lire of the Manufacturing
big Boston wool house
including
of capital stock,
to over three million dollars.
Undoubtedly the wool and woolen
business the United States is
not in a satisfactory condition.
The props put under it by the
tariff have not availed for
the purpose intended. The
try would have off if
there had DOM no Government at-
tempt to bolster
Record.
There were lynchings
United States territory during last
year, according to statistics com-
piled by The Chicago Tribune
whites and
Of the number I are
credited to Southern States, while
occurred the This is
a black and ugly record, although
the aggregate of mob murders is
less than for any year since 1885,
except 1800, when the Dumber
was the same as in
and the general ad-
verse public sentiment have ex-
little influence, to all
in breaking up the
lynching habit in those sections of
the country it hits long been
prices have been away down
from regular selling prices on nil Fine
Rush Too Hard.
In the January Ladles Home
Journal deplores the
tense of rush that has
the American women,
and emphasizes
condition
our family life he
around own
look into look
into the families we know, and tell
me If I am so tar wrong hen I
what our American families
need more than anything else is
mole lime each none
together; more moments
i ;. din a
peace
c from those material sin
rounding each so earnest
for, and all are to., much
satisfied in strive for lo
possess, and nothing more. We
arc all too much in a hum in
America of our knowing
each our lives
are too full with things which
ought lo be and which
ac have allowed lo dominate
Wears all too men
women, girls us.
Hush and haste are too much upon
us, Toe sweet balm of peace and
quiet Is an unknown delight In
thousands our people. And
much of cause, disagreeable as
it is tn say lies with our women
who have of Into allowed their
I,, become too full. I w ill not say
that hove neglected, to any
alarming extent,
But I do Bay that the danger of
doing so the very near future
exists, mail an Instance, ii
things to go
ban-
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MM Address this way
Julius Hines Son,
BALTIMORE,
of
In the penitentiaries of Kansas
there are at the present time fifty-
nine convicts under sentence of
death for murder. Signing of
death is optional with
Kansas Executives, and DO Gov-
of the State has seen lit,
the law, to affix his signature
to such a document, it is proposed
now to correct thin weakness of of-
temper by a mandatory act
compelling Governor to sign all
death warrants; hut even this may
fail, in view of the general
of the people to see
death penalty enforced.
The city clerk of Lewiston, Me.,
who always demands the written
con-cut of parents before marrying
minors, recently received the fol-
lowing
that girl of mill she want to be
I done care darn. She
got a feller they earn ten
a week He good
She all right. You will
for me, be much
the
We have a nice variety choice styles
yet and you can low pet a
When you come t see our Spec-
Counter.
J. B. CHERRY O
BAKER HART
in Norfolk.
situation here is considered serious
although most
pi-is to print
the disease. its lbs
was to the
population. Now it ha- broken
out a. the while-. How lo
stamp it out a problem.
to the present there not
been danger of an epidemic,
bill the situation will near watch-
The weal board of
says is doing all in its power to
prevent the spread of the disease.
but judging by now cases develop
its efforts so far
been of little avail. There arc
now nearly one hundred case- at
the smallpox hospital, all
except two.
The time to from
other is when people are first
married, when life is still a play-
ground to and when Ionian
lie love combines what in later
years might seem nagging or
lug criticism.
of habit. Ii we gel used lo the
business partnership of matrimony
In our youth becomes second
lure, and B haul-hip a
If people would
lake lime Io understand each other,
and to cultivate
hull much life would
fact, all life To be
sure, we bear of unhappy
marriage, while great numbers of
people plodding together
and happily. there is
friction to warrant Ibis
kind consideration, bee even
i an- In nil
might make more of life
if looked upon marriage as an
equal ins
in January
mil.
IN
year several persons in
were infected with
by parrots. A few weeks ago
two persons in died of the
same disease, Investigation
developed the fact that it own
from two parrots in the house.
more than the price.
Sal v.
The lies salve the world for
Data, Bruises, Horn, Salt
Fever Chap
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and
all Skin Eruptions, and positively
Piles, or no pay required. It
to give
or money refunded. Price
cents per box For sale by no.
L.
NO BIGHT TO
The woman who is lovely in face,
form temper will always have
friends, but one who would lie at-
tractive must keep her health. if
she is weak, sickly all run
down she
If she has constipation
kidney trouble, her impure blood
will cause pimples, skin
eruptions and a wretched
ion. Electric is the best
medicine world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys to
purify the blood, it gives strong
nerves, bright eyes, smooth,
skill, rich complexion. It
will make a good-looking, charm
woman of a rim down Invalid.
Duly wills at Jim. L. Woolen s
Drug store.
General
The Disappointed.
ins was
Mr, J. B. Lilly, a prominent cit-
of Hannibal, Mo., lately hit I a
wonderful deliverance from a
death. In telling of II
I was taken Typhoid
inn Into Pneumonia, My
lungs hardened. I was so
weak I couldn't lip ill bed.
Nothing helped., I
lo die of lieu I
aid of Dr. King's New
One bottle gave relief.
I continued to mm it, and now am
well and strong; I cant say
much in This marvel-
medicine
eat cure in the world fur all throat
and lung troubles. Regular
mill Trial bottles
J. L. store;
en guaranteed,
Hardware,
Just received a carload
CANNOT BU CUBED
I hey cannot reach the seat of the
disease. Catarrh is a blood arena-
disease, and order to
cure it you must take internal ran
Catarrh Cure is Ink
internally, and acts directly on
the blood mucous surfaces.
Hull's Catarrh is not a quack
medicine. It was by
our of the best physicians in this
country for years, and is a regular
prescription. II
best tonics combined with
the best blood purifiers,
redly on the mucous surfaces. The
perfect combination of the two in-
is what produces such
wonderful results in curing Catarrh.
Semi for testimonials, free.
F. J. Co.,
ii a-l
Garland are the.
manufacturers in tho world and used by
many millions.
have been iii Raleigh In
the past few days many
for positions ill tho General
who nave been disappointed in
securing position desired.
are good men who have
worked for the and are
loyal men who in spite of defeat
arc as good as if I hey
succeeded ill
Their efforts were
mental in securing
which brought the people of
North Carolina are
lied to the thanks of the Stale.
As a gentlemen remarked yes
the difficulty was the
good Democrats were unlimited
and the positions were limited and
parity between them could
maintained,
who succeeded arc he
congratulated, but Who failed
are no less worthy, Until will lie
found the tut inc. a- in
working tor government
Their and devotion does not
depend upon reward, but upon the
great principles govern their
lives. Sows and
Professional Cards
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N. C.
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