- Jobn Miller, Jr., has been4 » elected cashier of the-CharE bank to succeed the defaulter-o"Pidland,- wlio bas been ~sent tothe Albany penitentiary.~Judge Hoke ia lying in bed atohis home in Lincolnton . with a~broken arm. || coeThe trial of Shemwell at Lex-ington contnnes from day ASolaneantiyyowately and with rth analics afore-|C38thought came up behind Dr.Payne and shot him. The de-|blessing. to yuurself ay orerz1 bes bean amin Sra ao|push it, talk it Up, write it up,manu pr akwell of its enterprising men, aodoe can't say something good,gay nothing. If you have themeans invest in something; employ'domebody, be a bustier. ~Besure and be courteous to all vis-itors so that they may leave ouralee th ee satemtiv4) prosperous and ba ahead town. Extend a hearty welcome, sad? en-courage all who contemplate lo-catiag amiong you as it takes peo-| ple to wakeT a ton, NeverT fail{to haves good word to say forthe man who puts up the mostbai ae be yore 2.down abootbhsioacs te is al-wer a ah to our businessfence will oendeavor to showthat it was plainly in self. de-fence and that the Paynes hadconspired together te kill Shem- |well. The case will be a longone and is hotly contested onboth sides.pTThere were 6,857 commercialfailures In the first half of 1895,a 7,039 in the first half of1894, and 6,401 in the first halfof 1808. These commercial fail-ures involved liabilities of $88,-830,944 this year, against $101, -- 780,306 last year, and $168,-064,444 in, 1893. The detailsshow 4 décrease in évéry class offaildres in the second, compar-' ed with the first quarter of 1895* both in the number and magni-�"� ¢ude, tle defaulting liabilities- averaging $34, against $40 for_. every firm in business and $3.04. for every $1,000 solyent pay-2 Ipents.© There were 197 failures re-_ ported throughout the United_ ~States last week. as comparedmen.any necessary improvements be-cause it doesnTt happen to benefityou as much or more than itdoes anybody else. Let thegood of the town be your highestconsideration and you will alwaysbe liked and honored by thewhole community and your namewill never die, bat five long afteryou are dead aud gone.When a man or firm has to cur-tail expenses the first thing hejumps on is the town newspaper"the organ that devotes its timeand energies to the upbnilding ofthe town in which it 1s published,Bat when it comes toe economiziagthey forget the free advertisingit does for said town, and the lo-cal paper gets it where the chick-on got the axe"in the neck.Every business should be rep -resented in the local paper. if onlyby a two or three inch advertise"ment."Darham Sun. ;eeA lady teacherT in one of thepublic schools, in trying to ex-plain thé nicaning of the owordoslowly,� itlestrated it bg aeacross ihe! 18 iow eren{., | oteenized: I Fé Srésident of thecompany is Mr. L-. A. Carr, ofDurham, who is president of theNorfolx asd Durham FertilizerCompany. Col. Julian 8. Carr, ofDarham, 18 secretary and treas-urer, and Mr. George. W. Wattsof Darham, ofthe American To-bacco company. is one of the di-rectors. The other gentlemennamed above are also directors,along with Dr. P. D. Fabrney andMr. James E. Walker, of Mary.land.About one hundred thousanddotiars will be invested im build-ing the system. The Wilming-ton Messenger learns that threehundred miles of wire has alteady been ordered, and thatWilmington, Winston, ~Raleigh,Goldsboro, Durham, Greensboroand Charlotte will be connectedwith two trunk wires, and thateventually the principal towns inNorth Carolina and Seuth Caroli-na will be embraced in one_ longdistance system. It has been theintention to commence on thewotk between Wilmington andWinston at once."Durham Sun.DYSPEPSIA MAKES MEN BALD.Disordered Digestive Organs Said toBe a Great Hair Puiler.Dyspepsia is one, of the mostcommon causes of baldness. Natureis a great economizer and when thenutrient elements furnished by theblood ~are insufficient to~ properlysupport the whole body she cuts offthe supply to.parts the leest vital,like the hair and the nails, that theheart and lungs and other vital or-gans may be better nourished. Incases of severe fevers this economyis pertienlarix noticeable, A singler is asortof history of the physic-al condition of the individual duringthe time it has been growitlg, ff onecoud read it closely enough. Takeaa bair from the. beard or from thebead and scrutinize it and you wiilindicating that at some: ot itsT Rtowts the blood oaruwith 215 the previous week, sokes p. clone arty Tai es strength of its root is insufBcient to264 in the first week of July) prog sustain its weight any ang a4 ; 319 in 1893 and 152 in the/class ep _ foot, of the ave wee we take ite_ place sinlesslike week of 1892. ma'am- oan anak a . asee that it shows some attenuated| ofthe @ ; feel!tips of the cance firmly upon thescalp and then vibrate or mové thescalp while holding thesteadily. This will stimulate theblood vessels underneath and bringabout better nourishment of © thebair. A brush of-unevenly tuftedbristles is also excellent to use uponthe scalp, not the hair. " Hall'sJournal of Health.| + BC RF IoSHERIDAN'S RIDE.�The General Himeelf Got Tired ofHearing it.Speaking of how.weary and sickof oBen Bolt,� its author, ThomasDunn English, had lately become be-cause of the ~~TrilbyT�T craze, a wom-ano said: oIf Gen. Sheridan werealive, Mr. Enylish would be sure ofthe general's sympathy, ~for if evér atired.of..«"poem,"_it".swas~PhilT Sheridan of ~SheridanTRideT *"~ Mrs. oSheridan was éetedrecently to tefi'the story of the fam-ous ride as the general himself usedto tell it. Mrs. Sheridan answered:**He wasnTt in the habit of telling it.It was told to him oftem enough.Wherever he went somebody recitedthat poem. Whenever be was in-vited to entertainments: or suppersor dinners some boy or girl told himhow he rode. It went on for years,and the yeneral would come home» disgusted that he often deciarad.uv never would accept another. in-.vitation for reunions or celebrationsj unless promised that he shouldn'tbe recited at aud told how he.» rade.~The .only time I know of. whenGen. Sheridan himself told the storyin public was one night at a dinnerst Mrs. Hale's house. Ewsaves the best for the wife of thesenator from Maine, antl one night I| was surprised to hear the generalfinishing the account of that FsBut it was told so quietly that onlythe group about him knew what wasgoing on. He heard it too'oftdntaéver want to tell of it himeself.�"N.¥. World.A Division of of Responsibiiity.On the outsbirts of one of oursouthern citiesT there used to be unold colored blacksmith. .who. did athriving basiness, but. who, in gaevil hour, took to, himself a youngman. as partner, �,� mone marters of the'concern soon b e soinvolved that the old ~man begredfor a velease; but the young» maaTassured him that the law in thecacepartnership was so pecuiter thasit couldnTt be broken, Six Amonthslater, when the ther wasaway, the old man consulted s friend,