Eastern Reflector

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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. IS EXTENDED BY- J. B. CO. TO THE PEOPLE OF PITT AND ADJOINING COUNTIES STOCK AMI WE WILL SHOW A 1.1 SE 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, Tm i C. LAMER k CO VILLE, V. IS . . , . I r M , I. . join I Hi. tint i. a , i- fully l in r. It a I hi ii III it fut I. I- Mia. U v ill f r THE f CO. H. Ct MARBLE Fencing only work prices reasonable lg W, B. IN Whichard, N. The Stock complete in every department and prices as low as the low eat. Highest market prices paid for country IN . I III A- -FOR- 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 NO and s Friday r- km 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-

i mm 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 II. . . . II.-ant. . . t II . r i , ., M . in ii-. v. flaps . i,. , . . ., , . ,. r . II.- . .;. -n, i . . W; I- . . -i . r I a i. if j . N w Cl J 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- ., i 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 i mm 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 u.,. --i Y N. l. ii. 10.11 n. 11.1 in. Store . ii net m. p p p in. Richmond i in. i en II.- ii i ID, , York m. Y Mi Doe v- in. .- p m. ,, m. p in. ; m. I lock v Mount M in. 1.-18 m. tell. a i. 1.1 I I n. Ml I in. Bull i mi- . a n-. a -a v J. l p in 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. be r J It as in, V Marion i ii-, 7.1.1 p m, Sun- ii. f m, i. a Align ii 7.-V- a m, 11.1-1 a n Atlanta 18.35 p m. -mi pin. ii. 7.30 a a 11.- a. i . i i . A V . HAD i HI . , . . 1.0.1 pm. mow York II i.-l am, i am, a am. N 11.30 in, pin. pm. Ho., born pm. t-i i-i I pm. V M. Nev an,, I pin pm, 2.2.1 pm, nil ;. n pi. -inn in pm Mount M an,. f t am. I i J Sen . Ii Ii, . Tl is hi No. P. M. pm. pm Savanna 1.4-1 night. Chart ton am, Atlanta am, am, 4.17 pin. ii am, Florence ma, am, am, Luke H an. I on Weldon p. at. x 4.3. m., arrives Neck st d. 0.17 p. p. D Returning, ft. m., a. m. i i at a. 11.33 an Branch 8.30 a, m., ml 2.30 p . m Ar m i Ii -AT- 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, I . ; V- i. ., . I, via AIM in t dally M . p. m., Sunday I u. a . I-. M., p. I , a. m., 1.00 i a in, ind Ii v--.--. v i also for re 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 a, in. on c 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- NO factory lo i Bo, u. I I ; . lit. I I . M i v I I ft , baby I . . Mm.,,. Tin ,;, yell from to w i M ;. I . Art -i-d I -e i. i elect i- r m mm m r ill. the Col III Drawer Stile., Why have wt in every pan I . I IV. even ,. for .-. i Afr. Send ft 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. 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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 K. FLEMING A At Law, N. C. fur ,., i-r.- ii- , Mills H i no. AT LAW . ilia-. N. C. Hi. H. 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