,Nmyname ig ee A aie gees Beg£ aeeS :%Subscription, 25 cents per cigaceaaie!oBatered as second-class mail matter.AN aGETP RUIN nv. 2 aut 96ae,oThe General Assembly of North: jon I Thator decisis trust which are exected to secure any debt oubzaiod. |"note or bond wuich give paptog:ences to any creditor of the maershali bu absolutely void as tu}' eXisting creditors.oSection 2. That all laws iyconflict with this act are herebyrepealed. eection! 3. That this. act shal}beim force from aud after its rati |fication.oRatified the 13th day of March.. 1895,�The ahove act has just beendiscovered passed by the Fneionlegislatars. We belieye we hay«given it the right heading. Justthink.of the effect of .this._law.it prevents entirely a man. frowberrowing money, getting hi-_ fertilizers or eyen supplies unless}* he has the money to pay for themIt makes mortgages worthiess.It strikes the poor man dow. atone blow and he will find 1t so, axsoon as Our basiness m3n learpthe effect of the act. In RaleighWednesday men came twenty~miles to get guano and were toldthat it coald not be sold on time.Those who have taken mortgagessince MarchT 13th are much exercised over the consequences. " aaLOCAL NOTES AND TOBACCOJOTTINGS. .�,�" nnBI O. L. JOYNER. .Ja al@ost-every aicibiees of theomnes Dares Ore!) i ptinnal had eae watch theirocorks this year and not over sia lfselves. Five | acres well cal-lus a few evenings ago that from& crop of ten acres of tobaccoaby: a Mr. Collins, fromance county, on one of his farms| Thisira 5 Se) et ponditipant Aitionin. ufort county, sold fort five hundred odollats.the_way to make moneyout of a tobacco crop.There will ba several new ~adtoT_the Greenville tobac-.market the coming year. Quitea pumbes .of new men to fill va-laces will be located here.Tancotuabae that the eyes of thetobecco world are turned to}Greevville aad the people of theeld town will» before very longsee.a thriving hustling city growap in spite of the phrophecies ofsome a gaa people a year.or soag 0.Sinee the passage of the billidaetite the warehonse chargesyn *leafotobaeco -uumbers = andpumbers of the best representa:tive farmers of this and other :d-joining counties have voluntarilyziven us their views on the meas-ure. And we wapt to say righthere before the sapporters of thebillengege tn any farther harshcritcism. of those farmers whouave expressed themselves; opposed to the pill, as has ~been~tone to our persoual knowledge,by some who w so fur us to saythat. the. farmers. who. were op.posed to the bill were bought urand willing tools ot the ware-housemen, that a great maty ofthese nen were rank strangers tuthe writer and the only reasovthat we'can ussign to their coming to us was an account of theuctive pars that we tock in ~oppo:sition to the ~bill. It is bitterlyunkind, unjust and vicious to putsuch a false accusation on someof the best and most thoroughlycause # man just doesn't happen~to agree with. another as to tneao means of promotiug the pub-be gnad: it is nothing more veeson oevaee that ree. th | _ men AS, onysaw prceper to opposactuatedhonest men that we have. Be-~Boa anew ee PFUERBERT, EDMUNDS,ariter some ~day and heniche wi fm list ofenced tha i ees of. the accuserif he has a spark of manhood. Jeftthat has not been blighted andextinguished by the foul endputrid faculty - which. seems. topredominate his whole nature.We. write these lines becausethe report hasT been circulatedthat we were going around beg-ging. farmers:to sign a: petitionasking the legislature to pass nolegislation in regard to this mat-ter and further that: a great manyof thore who signed. such. peti-tions ;not only for us but other| warehousemen in this State didso in the interest and suggestionof the warehousemen alone.It is pnrely on this accout thatwe haye written the above. In re-gard to our. action in the matterwe have no. apology to. make toanyone but siwply wish to say sofar as begging farmers to sign thepetition is concerned that is. abso-lately. fal-e.. We explained thebill to a few farmers but the mostof our petitioners offered to signit of their ~own volition and ofthose we asked not a singie intel-ligeot farmer refused. to sign itand the list we sent to the legis-"lature was.a representive one: ofnot only Pitt but the adjoiningcounties.: EEEScotland Neck is establishing» chewing gum factory.TO THOSE.VAs Sane TO EXCHANGECotton Seed for Meal,I will give 1 Ton Meal. for 2, Tons Seed.Come quick or you will be too late.\ HENRY SHEPPARD, .Barbers.ee eeAMES A. SMITH,' TONSORIAL ARTIST,GREENVILLE, N.C.Patronage solicit aurest-of: auras Cured eall and! @ Under Opera Hutse: