D. J. WHICHARD, Editor.Subscription 25 cents per Month.paar_Entered as second-class mail matter.y._a The case against Mrs. PatiieD. B. Arrington for tibel hasnm continued until next Jan-uary. She wiT! plead her owncase and promises some start-IT2 evidence.s """"EEeyeyw EsIt is said that preparationsfor a big silver meeting at Clin-ton on the 7th of August arebeing made. Hon.A. M. Wad.dell, Maj. W.A. Guthrie andSenators Pritchard and Butlerhave been inyited to speak.Col- Waddell-has not as yetac-epied and we predict thathe wi'l notT be caught in theirap of speaking at a thirdpar-y meeting under the nameof a Silver Assemblage. The)plan will not work though itit beirg pushed by SenatoroFowler.EVERY AFTERROON (excEPT SUNDAY)[A~The jury in the case of theWater Works in Raleigh de-«© ded that the ~~PondTT is anuisance and must be removed.They stood 11 tu 1 al! night,but next morning agreed and~brought in a verdict accord-ingly. Anappee! will betaken.-- Ifthe Supreme Court confirmsthe decision of the lower court- 1t will be quite a hardship tothe company. Itis. estimated.that it will cost at least $25,000- to remove and pat in new ma-_~ehinery besides an. additional~ yearly cost of $1,50 or $2,000.EEE& B. A. Milliken, the privatew» Secretary of Senator Harris, of_ Tennessee, entered the house of'"Judge Philips, of Washington,), C., on the night of the 4thof July, and went tothe room_ Of his danghter, Miss Gertrude._ When she roused fromsleep he[wes eunding over ner with ao|imfluchoe ofwhiskey. Thesult was that he - went to oheeroom that night as stated above.The youn lady and her sistergave the arm when he fied,but was persued and arrested.He mag taken jo the stationhouse, and there made theStatement that -+he oaccidentallystumbled iuto the room whileunder the influence of whiskeyand was released upon his ownbond. He then made his es-cape and has not been heardfromsince. Miss Phillips is stil]very sick from nervous pros-tration. The family of Millikenare trying to hush the matterup with money but Juage Phil-lips declares that he shall -bepanished to the fullest extentof the law. Judge Phillips" iswe!l known in North CarolinaTOBACCO MEN IN SESSION.The Tobacco GrowersT Associ-ation. met at the Ccart House 1DGreenville, July 13th, 1895, aidwas called to oder by G.-F. Ev-ans, Esq-, Vice-President.Minutes of last meetingread aad approved.Mr. O. L. Joyner stated thatthe committee to be appointedunder the By Laws, on oInformation� he thonght should be attended to as time was of someconsideration in the matter of).their daties.The chair appointed J. BryanGrimes. Grimesiand ; J. S. Har-wereville: W. A. Darden, Hardees-ville; R. 8. Eyans, Greenville ; T.;Bland, Jr., JohbnstonTs Mill. Thesection under which they are call-ed to act is as follows:oThere shall be appointed atjthe annual meeting in Jane acommittee to be known as the~Committee on Information,T to becomposed of six members, resid-ing in different sections of the tobacco growing territory, whose|!business 1t. shall be to observeclosely the crop. condition, to noteas nearly as possible the mean)tem perature and average Fain-fallfor the immediate section in whicheach lives, to. make note of any rav,_ |age that may cy segps hn to-ach| piace to Bleep.�aes io eee report of any « oth-ris, Falkland ; G- T. Tyson, Green- apot Aee " ¥= sti rs seOS a. ee, 2 TMMr. C. D. Rountree spoke uponthe subject ablic roads lead~ing vat Gteatitie ~Speciallythe approaches from the otherside of Adams� bridge it needed tobe trevselled, to make it passabiedaring a rise in the creek.Mr. O. L. Joyner stated he hadthought of bringing the matter tothe attention of the County Com-missioners.Mr. W. A. Darden said thebridge had recently been put ivrepair and was itself alf right, butthe trouble was the approach fromthe Greene county side whichsadly needed attention.Mr. G. T. Tyson said jhe wasglad to see the feeling that r-omp-t|ted this association to take thepublic roads under their protect-ing wing, and gave some infurma-tion relative to the standing ofthe AdamsT bridge matter beforethe last Legislature, and cited an-other im t roadway thatshould be opened to save the people a great distance in reachingthe market.Mr.J.S. Harris moved that acommittee of three, which was atterwards increased to five, be ap-pointed to make the prover efturtto secare the co operation of theland owners through whose landthis proposed ~would run,with power to act before theCounty Commissioners. The chairappointed G, T. Tyson. J. W. Al-lev, Thos. Allen, 8. Harris anaO. L Joyner.Mr. Sugg pee he was heartilyin accord with the mers andwas sure if the pro steps betaken thit the gen prea interest-ed would took at the matter frombusiness point of yiew.' No further business a appearingthe association adjourned to meetSaturday before 4th Sunday. inJ ae G. F. Evans,Pace, Vice-President-Secretary. "Forsaken Boom Towns in Kansas,According to the Wall StreetNews o~there are twenty well-builtto in Kansas without a singleitant to waken the echoesof their deserted streets.� It issaid that Saratoga, one of thesedeserted villeges, has oa thirty-"thonsand-doilar opera house, alarge brick hotel, a twenty-thous-and-dollar school house and 4a\|side,number of fine dienes: bousianl Oreswith nobody to ciaim even aAll of this camecapitel without resources pastas aetheir|to pay the anterest. People mov-~te-led away -from these towns as anew o¥. of paying old debts.Died Alone in the Woods. -arene neienenilWilliam Quate, who servedthrough the late war and was agood soidier, and who lived aboutfive miles North of Greensboro,on a farm, went out Monday «af-ternoon to the woods te do somechopping. At night he had. notreturned and his wife - finallyaroused the neighbors and searchwas made for him, but not antilyesterday morning were thesearchers successful. About day-light his dead body was foundbeside a log upon which he hadbeen at work. There were noevidences of violence and it is sup"posed he died 1n a svasm, as hehad been subject to epilepsy foryears. The Record says he «asabout 55 or 60 years old.Too Common in the Profession.oSir,� she said, ~I am a womanwith a past.�The theatrical manager shook hishead.~~The woods,� said he, ~~that is tosay, the wood wings, is full ofTemno w.T**But,� the fair creature pleaded,~~not only have ] a past, but it hasbeen centinued without cright up to the present time.� _But the manacer was obdurate -Advantage of Pyblicity.He"Well, I must be off, Goingto the station to meet wifeTseldest sister. ina. She"But she can find her way toyour house.He"She can. But if I meet herin public I won't have to ki«e her.]The steamer Aurora leaves Washing-ton every Saturday night at 11 oTclock, "arriving at Ocracoke Sunday morningat 7 oTelock. Returning ~leaves Ocra-coke Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, ar-riving at Washington Sunday at12 o'clock. Fare for the trip~~ IEWEEK TRIP. 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