5MA4~NORTH CAROLINA. R.L.DAVIS,PresTt.One hundred bieycles were sold) 88 Ee UN Ps, teeorai ~ ae? wy * iGREENVILLE, N. C.Atjthe Close.cf Business March 9th, 1897.RESOURCES. " LIABILITIES,in Henderson last month. "The Wadesboro Messenger sayslightning strack the chimney ofthe house occupied by Jean Smithcolored, and not only demolishedEsuffering from some ailment, andthe farmer started for the sea-shore with a jug. ,The farmer had never seen the*-Sata | ~ |the chimney, but came near kill- . Ioans and Discounts $41,761.19 § Capital stock paid in $23,000.00 .; ,SURSCRIPTION RATES. ing two of SmithTs children. ocean and must have had an ide@| Over Drafts 133,275 § Surptus and Profits 2.332.66oyehr, ee ps _ |that 16 was priyate property. | Premium on Stock 1,090.09 Deposits subject to Check $5,691.14 ..~month, - «& ~ ey Goldsboro Argus: Much in- Else he decided that doctors apd ve engT ee: ee . peed var oeRO ee . : : : Tego : ~~ | Furniture and Fixtures 1,500, SOICIS VBOCHS OFTStANCING | ...eeeejjvered in town by earriers without terest 18 being manifested � the} neyer prescribe anything that is |Current Expenses nonT 985,52 5 Time Certificates of Deposit 355.00oextra cost. ron Ae revival services commenced inthe| free, at any rate, he walked into | 02s! ttems 2,083.12 Tota! nap_Arlvertisng rates ave liberal and can be Presbyterian church last nicht by|, store on thabeach and asked| casi hati ree se eedee aan to the editor or a : ta"pad on application to 6 Rev. E. W. Oakes, whose reputa-|,. . jugtul of sea water. The Total $112,974.50theoffice- a )-- We desire a itve correspondent atavery postoftice inthe covuty, who will~gend in brief items of NEWS as it occursta each neighborhood, Write plainlyead only on one side of the paper.tion as an evangelist is weilknown to the people of Golds-boro.proprietor looged him over audtold him to go down and heiphimself. When the farmer askedhim how much the price was, thetrader nearly tumbled over, buthe recoyered and charged aquarter. |We study carefully the separate needs of our patrons, and shall be glad to haveyour account, promising every accommodation consistent with good banking..t | 8ieeeFayetteville Observer: Weregret to learn that Dr. D. Sin-Siuclair, the venerable father ofour esteemed townsman, N. A.Wehavealarge =»STOCK UFtnWrpnespay May 12, 1897.rors "|Sinclair, Esq., happened toavery| About a month afterwards the "~|AE POSTAL SERVICE TOO EX- painful accident on Thursday farmer showed up again with his UNDERTAKERS,PENSIVE. night last near his home in Robe-| jug and was told to go out as be-" sen county, by ai left | fore and help himself. Ki EINERA PE GTARS AN}e Arena for May Judge shoulder was dislocated. Hewas| But the tide was out this trip "~ale Clark, of the Supreme/riding in his buggy when his|and the old man was obliged to EMBALMERS.horse became frightened at some walk about a quarter ot a mile ee ,Gourt of North Carolina, has anarticle on the maladministration We have it received a newobject in the road and refused to .hearse and the nicest line of Cof-across the flats. As he was pay-GOODSof thesummatiPostofice Departmenwhich we see very interestinglythe RichmondoTimes. The government, we arotold, opays to the railroads forzed iDtravel. Dr. Sinclair alighted andcatching the horse by the bridlerein, when suddenly the horsejumped to the road side, throwingthe doctor violently to the ground.ting a quarter on his return, hepointed with his taumb at thedistant water line and remarked:oBy Jim Hill, what a gosh-darnavion of a trade you've boenjust arrived. Comeandgee us.fins and Caskets, in weed, metal-lic and cloth ever brought toGreen\ ile,We a9 prepare... Jo embalm-ing in al, its forms.haying since 1 was here tast ?�"Personai aivention given to con:Lewiston (Me.) Jouraal.ducting funerals and bodies en-trusted to our care will receiyeevery mark of respe2s,Our prices are 1oWer than ever.We do not want monopoly butinvite con. petition.We can be found at any and alltimes in the John FlanaganBuggy CoTs building.BOB GREENE & CO.CITORS WANTED forS QO tL Dr, Talmages ~TheEarth Girdled.�? or his famous touraround the world,a thrilling story ofsavag¢ and barbarous lands. Four mil-hou ~almageTs books sold, and ~*TheEarth Girdled� is his latest and grand-est. Demand enoromous, Everybodywants this famous book, only $3.50. Bigtook, big commissions. a gold mine forcury, todide potash, and still have aches ang(WOrker. Credit given, freight paid,sine, Mucous patches ih month, Sore Throat, iouttit free. Drop all trash and sell theany part ot the Pay, Mair or Eyebrows falling | kidg of books and make §300 a month.Address for outtit and terri ory, Theout, it is this Secondary BLOOD POISO}we guarantee to cure. We solicit the most obstis | |) ominion Company, Star Buildiug., Chi-cago.: 4 othe rental cf postal cars $3,600,000annually, asum more than enoughto build outright nearly doublethe number of postal cars it hasinuse. Phere are £00 of thesecars, Judge Clark adds, costing utthe ontside $4,000 each, and theiraverage life is tweuty years, 60that, according to his figures, thegovernment is paying $72,000,000for what it could acquire for $2,-000,000. On the PennsylvaniaRailroad, be says, the governmeat3 pays nearly $37,327 per car for therent of 69 cars, which could eachbe bought outright for less thanhalf the money.� These figuresaro startling enough, but uot sostartling as the other statement,made in the same article, that theaverage cost of carrying the mailsis 8 cents per pound for an aver-age distance of 448 miles, making$29 000,000 per year for transportution in addition to the $3,600,000for car rent, whereas the SouthernExpress Company gets a freightrate of about 4 cent., or 74 centsthe better of the government:If the facts are as Jucge Ciarkhas them,they are outrageous,andin view of them our Richmondcontemporary suggests that oifthe government would farm outto a private corporation the con-tract fur carrying the mailsputiing it to the lowest responsi-ble bidder, tt would save millionsof dollars in the course of a yearand get~a better service.� ThisdoesnTt appear to be a very prac-tical idea. ~The thing to be doneis for the Postoflice Departmentand Congress to take bold of thisevil and remedy it by bringingthe railroads down to a business basis in the {premises."CharlotteObserver.Raleigh News and ObserverTHarry Skinner is getting in hiswork in getting Democrats re-moved and having new postmasstera appointed in the first district.Last week M. M. Alexauder wasremoved at Creswell, Washingtoncounty, and C. T. Spruill appoint-ed; D. 8, Poweli removed atParmele and Wm. Powell ap-pointed; Warren Brickhouse wasremoyed at Columbia, Tyrrellcounty, and Maynard Davisappointed, and J, T. Hyman hadto bite the dust at Coaoho;Martin county to make room forJ. L. Hines.Ha.aLondonTs fire chief, who is acommander in the royal navy, wasmarried recontly in style"aprocession of 100 firemen in fulluniform and a police bandascompanving him and his brideto the church.MK IRpooonaseivesBefore the end of this yearevery one of the 508 towns inConnecticut will be connected bytelephone.caren aneePrimary. Seawie F f ¢{ A SP ECIALI Y codary orienr watiary BLOGD POISON permancatlysmcuredin 15t035 days. You can betreated athome forsame price under same Fueran-\Vibiog 4A ty. Ifyou prefer tocome hero we willconsit ~ tractvo pay railroad fareand hotel bills,andnocharge, if we fail to cure. If you have taken merePainted woodwork is more de~sired than natural finish for bed-rooms or wherever especiallydainty effects are desired.FT NER CTSNET~ ""Southern Jottings,Ex-Senator Coke, of Texas, isdelirious. It is said he cannotrecover.ANEXCURSION!"Train will leave"WASHINGTON, W. ¢.=the morning of"Wednesday, May 19th, :For NORFOLK, Va.connecting at Farmele with train fromGreenyille. Parties at Greenville, andpoints between Greenville and Parme-le, can secure these remarkably lowrates by paying local fures to Permeleand there buying excursion " ticket.There will be ove of t e greatest racemeets ever held in Virginia in progresswhen this excursion reaches Norfolkand three of the fastess horses of thissection are entered, Lucy Ashby andBird Eye taom Greenville, and RobertBurns from Washington. Parties wi'lhave halt of the day on the 19th andhalf of the z0ih, ~Train will leaveNorfolk at 1 P.M. on the 20th mak.ing connection at Parmele with trainfor Greenville. Yours truly,C. T. CORDON.nate cases and challence the world for apase wecannotcure. This disease has alwaysaffled the skill of the most eminent physi-cians. $500,000 capital behind our uncondi-tional guaranty. Absolute proofs sent sealed onapplication. Address COOK REMEDY CO,,803 Masonic Temple. CHICAGO, ILL, "Minister Powell layton, © of sarbers.Arkansas, has arrived at the Cityof Mexico.AMES A. SMITH,TONSORIAL ARTIST. (82GREENVILLE. N. C SifPatronage solicited. (Cleaning, Dyeingand Pressiug Gents Clothes a specialtyThree thousand five hundredminers in eastern Tennessee and |southern Kentucky are on astrike bacause of a proposed re-duction in wages.neeFa CHBERT EDMUNDS,FASHIONABLE BAREBK. &Special attention given ro cleaningGentlemensClothing. ~James H. Aldrich, the paymas~ter of the Kansas City, Fort Scottand Memphis railway, who stole$27,000, was sentenced to twoyears at Kansas City, Mo.Ho NIGHOLSON,: J. A, BuRGEss, Mgr.Washington, N. C,{Dallas will today nonor thememory of the private soldier ofthe confederacy. No braver,more self-sacrificial or uncom-plaining patriot ever shonldereda gun in defense of his home andrights in all the history of nations,than the private soldier cf th®southern confederacy.aq: This Hotel has been thoroughly renoSaha ~vated, several new rooms added, elec,~tric bells to every room. attentive servanis. Fish and Oysters seryed dailyTPatronage of traveling puvlic solicited�etcESTABLISH 1875.CREENVILLEMale Academy,The Arkansas Senate last weekee rejected, 16 to 14, a bill for the : | LGold standard prosperity 18 an creation of a railroad commission, ® 5 AM. M. SCHULTaboration. Conceived in the|The failure of this bill at the reg- The Sign oiular session and the failure of thegeneral appropriation bill was tothe calling of the present extrainterest of organized wealth, andagainst the welfare of humanity,it was brovght torth in the lastPORK SIDESGSHOMLDERSuperiority, JARMERSAND? MEKUBANTS BLY ,campaign to fill the screeching |*68S10n. ' F ing their yearTs supplies will tind The next session of the school willmouths of partisan howlers with ES of Columbia bleycles 20 fe- thelr interes toxer gar valoede rain pe open on !8 ee ie i say 3 as ° ~ ~othe rallying cry of osound money} =, Child With Three Byes, miliar to everyone is the well- inane mm rgknown Columbia name-plate.The 1897 Columbia name-plate is of oxidizedsilver and appears on the tp head ofevery Columbia bicycle. It marks the highesttype of bicycle ever offered to the public,and prosperity.� while it robbedtheir stomachs of needed foodand thei: backs of raiment. And:the Dinglev tariff monstrosity is- qghother child of the same Sarentage. and the trusts who| ed the swaddling clothesa ERO,A remarkable birth has just oc-curred in the family of JohnHiggs, at Glenham, N. Y., his].wife haying become the mother| "of three bouncing babies of tenpounds each. What is still moreMNDAY SEPT. 7, 1992FLOUR, COFFEE, SUGAR+ ALWAYS AT LOWEST MARKET PRICES| The terms are us follows.them being just above}| |the bridge of the nose, while the |other two eyes are in their nor-mal position. pee a number of |people have viewed the threeeyed child and pronounced it alyale eee :for the first, and the campsign|romarkible about this event and} ~ Tobacco, Snulf, &o, | |Primary Enelisn per mo. oe» to make the latter possible,|a fact which is puzzling the medi-| STANDARD oF. }we buy dirocifrom Mathtact.. 4 en|{ntermediate o anesCe ~rodfathers."Brevard cal profession is that one of the THE WORLD, ane ta: von to buy at one pfol, A sunt Higher era 93.00:oa: infants has three eyes, one of| _ Martford BI ~ane cte stock of : :vs ae located habe a ans Gy) = Languages (each) o #1 00oCatalogue free if you call, By mail fora 2-c. stamp,FOR SALE BY oeE PENDER & 0O., lsd tordasittGREENVILLE, N.O- | "s'yI"ScE*The work and disclpline of the sehoolwill be as heretofore,_ Weask a contianance of your pas}, WH RAGADALB.e summer girl, in her coolyist,) causes the Macono: oWho said theri \apis bud