# THE DAILY REFLECTOR D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Owner. | TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. | TERMS: 25 Cents a Month. --- | --- | --- Vol. 7. | GREENVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1898. | No 994 **The Ladies** of Greenville are cordially invited to inspect our beautiful line of Hamburg, Swiss and Nansook EDGING just received. Also a lovely line of Torchon, Torchon, and other Laces. We have just received a complete line of Jewelry, -:- Jewelry, Jewelry, -:- Jewelry, consisting in part of Ladies Shirt Waist Sets, Gent's Cuff and Stud Buttons in all the latest styles. Winter--Goods--Winter Winter--Goods--Winter that must be sold to make room for Spring **Ricks & Taft.** *** ### WASHINGTON LETTER. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, Feb. 28, 98. Shall the most dastardly piece of treachery perpetrated in the nineteenth century be condoned for a cash consideration? That is the question Mr. McKinley raised when he sent Secretary Sherman—at last the old man is given something to do, but it was a nauseating job—to circulate among his former colleagues of the Senate, for the purpose of informing them that the administration had decided, if the naval court reported that the Maine was blown up by intention, to demand a cash indemnity of Spain. If Mr. Sherman correctly reported some of the remarks made by Senators with whom he discussed the matter Mr. McKinley must have blushed. Ever since it has been practically known that the court had found unmistakable evidence that the Maine was wrecked by treachery, the administration has been gradually, through divers newspaper interviews, and by other methods, preparing the public for this indemnity business, by dropping hints about the injustice of holding Spain responsible when it disavowed the crime or any knowledge of it, and of the probability that the crime was committed by some Spaniard who was an enemy of the present Spanish Ministry, etc., etc. The Spanish charge d'affaires in Washington also took a hand in the attempt to have his country let down easily by officially stating that no mines or torpedo have ever been planted in the harbor at Havana. The fact that this fellow was once associated with de Lome was enough to prevent belief of any statement he might make. There is not the slightest doubt that an overwhelming majority of Congress believes with a majority of the people of the country that Spanish blood should be shed to avenge the poor devils who were the victims of Spanish treachery in Havana harbor; but there is also a strong desire in Congress to act in concert with the administration, if possible, in order that it cannot be said by the Spaniards, or other foreigners, that there is a division of sentiment in the United States. This desire may result in Congress allowing the demand for a money indemnity to be made on Spain, but it will be, even then, largely because of the belief that Spain could not pay the indemnity and would not if it could, and that war would be the result, anyway. Although Mr. McKinley continues to talk peace, his actions, through his subordinates, show that he believes with almost everybody else in Washington, that war with Spain is inevitable, and, to his credit be it placed, he is taking vigorous steps to see that we are fully prepared to do our share of the fighting when it once gets started. The more promptly and vigorously he acts upon that Maine report, which is expected this week, the better he will stand with Congress and the people. Mr. McKinley must have been a little bit afraid that the well-known scrapping propensities of Teddy Roosevelt made him a dangerous man to have in charge of the Navy Department at this time, or secretary Long would now be taking several days rest and Teddy would be in charge. Long announced his intention of going away for three or four days, but Mr. McKinley persuaded him to change his mind. Most persons would rather see Teddy running the machine just now. Representative Sulzer, of New York, who has been somewhat harshly criticised because of his objection, when unanimous consent was asked in the House that the bill, already passed by the Senate, providing for the enlistment of two additional regiments of artillery, be taken up and considered until disposed of, immediately after the passage of the sundry civil bill, says he did so because he thought there was no necessity to increase the regular army, and that he regarded the bill as an attempt on the part of the plutocrats to take advantage of existing conditions to increase the army and thus still further entrench themselves against the people, as to the special needs of these men now to fight Spain, Mr. Sulzer said: “Why, if war should be declared, I would resign my seat in Congress in 24 hours and would raise a regiment in my district. I would get a thousand young able-bodied fellows who would fight and we would go to the front under some Federal brigade commander; and there would be no lack of such regiments.” The defeat of the Republicans by the combined votes of the Democrats and Populists several times recently, when the House was in committee of the whole, has so aggravated the Republican leaders, that they have notified the Republican members that they must be more regular in their attendance and have given them a hint that if they are not, a list of the absentees will be daily published, as was done in the forty-seventh Congress. *** ### BETHEL ITEMS. BETHEL, N. C., Feb. 28th, 1898. Rev. G. L. Finell spent Saturday here. Jesse W. Thomas spent Sunday in Tarboro. G. W. Blount, of Williamston, spent Sunday here. Rev. A. W. Setzer spent Saturday and today here. Farm work in this community is progressing finely. J. R. Bunting went to Tarboro twice on business last week. A. Ward made a business trip to Washington last week. C. M. Bernard and Dr. J. W. Perkins, of Greenville, took the train here Sunday morning. Rev. K. H. Basmajian, of Boston, an Armenian, preached two excellent sermons in the Baptist church Sunday morning and night to large congregations. He will lecture at the Academy tonight on Armenia, Turkey and Constantinople. *** ### Mrs. Cotten Honored. The New Haven, Conn., Palladium gives a full account of the brilliant reception in that city given by Mrs. Godfrey Dunscomb in honor of the Colonial Dames from which we make the following extracts: “The special feature of the reception was the recitation by Mrs. Cotten, of North Carolina, of an original poem, ‘Virginia Dare.’ The poem, itself is really a remarkable bit of literature and Mrs. Cotten recites it beautifully. It is long, occupying an hour for delivery, yet not once does the author refer to her notes, and throughout the entire time, her enunciation is delightfully clear and the attention of the listener is never lost. Mrs. Dunscomb heard Mrs. Cotten recite in Washington and induced her to come here. “At the close of Mrs. Cotten’s recitation, she was presented with a huge bunch of bride roses tied with blue and yellow ribbons, by the Colonial Dames.” *** A drawing of a shoe # SHOES. SHOES. SHOES. ## A FULL LINE OF # SHOES. SHOES. SHOES. ### FOR ### Men, Boys, Youths, Infants, ### Men, Boys, Youths, Infants, ### Men, Boys, Youths, Infants, ### Ladies, Misses and Children. ### Ladies, Misses and Children. ### Ladies, Misses and Children. When you trade with us you have the assurance that you always get full value paid for same. 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Residence Phone 98. **JAMES & WILEY BROWN, Proprietors.** *** R. L. DAVIS, Pres't. | R. A. TYSON, Vice-Pres. | J. L. LITTLE, Cashier. --- | --- | --- REORGANIZED JUNE 15th, 1896. | | # The Bank of Greenville, ## GREENVILLE, N. C. ### At the Close of Business Dec. 15th, 1897. RESOURCES.LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts $42,004.8Capital stock paid in $23,000 0 Over Drafts1,650 64 Undivided Profits 8,797. Premium on Stock 1,000.07 Deposits subject to Check 103,291.8 Due from Banks 44,598.0 Due to Banks 100.0 Furniture and Fixtures 1,515.25 Cashiers Checks outstanding 867. Current expenses 2,116.57 Time Certificates of Deposit 960.0 Cash Items 7,867.51 Cash on hand 30,455.77 Total $132,118.6 Total $132,118.61 We study carefully the separate needs of our patrons, and shall be glad to h your account, promising every accommodation consistent with good banking. DAILY REFLECTOR D. J. WHICHARD, Editor. AFTERNOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY) Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year. $3.00 One month. .25 One week. .10 Delivered in town by carriers without extra cost. Advertising rates are liberal and can be had on application to the editor or at the office. We desire a live correspondent at every postoffice in the county, who will send in brief items of news as it occurs in each neighborhood. Write plainly and only on one side of the paper TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1898. Signs of Thrift in the South. There is manifest throughout the South at this time, in spite of the depression which prevails elsewhere, distinct signs of industrial and commercial growth. This happy condition of things is due in part to the wideawake and enterprising spirit of our people, and in part to the varied and exhaustless resources with nature has endowed our soil. The Constitution has already called the attention of its readers to the gratifying review of southern industrial conditions which appeared recently in the New York Journal of Commerce. In line with this review is the interesting comment which one of the staff correspondents of the Chicago Record makes upon recent and prospective railway development in the South, Says the staff correspondent: "A boom in railroad building seems to have struck the Southern States. The indications are that the year 1898 will be notable for the largest increase of mileage south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, and more track than will be built in the rest of the United States and Canada Down below Mason and Dixon's line the surveyors, graders, and tracklayers are very numerous. Wherever you go there are gangs of men with triangle and sextant runing lines through plain and valley, over hills, and across rivers, while closely following them are graders, track layers and bridge-builders. A conservative estimate promises 3,000 miles of new track, which is 30 per cent, more than was constructed in the entire country last year, and four times as much as was built in the South. This activity is not confined to any particular section, but includes all the States south of Mason and Dixon's line." Of course, the South may not make good during the present year the predictions of the staff correspondent. To do this she must exceed 1,200 miles the record made by the entire country during the past year; and she must exceed her own record by 2,100 miles. But who can limit the enterprise of this section! Before the present year expires the South may have considerably eclipsed the figures cited by the staff correspondent, besides making her activities strongly felt in other directions. While it may savor of enthusiasm to declare that in latent possibilities the South is unsurpassed by any other section of the country, yet such is undeniably and absolutely true. Slowly but surely capital is beginning to realize this fact, and to improve its opportunities for investment in this section. Within the next few years vast changes are destined to occur in the commercial and industrial status of the South. Everything seems to point clearly in this direction; and, cheered by the prospect which the future holds out to us, let our people put their shoulders together and do all within their power to make the prospect real. --Atlanta Constitution. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, be made well strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigor, get No-To-Bac, the wonder worker that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Over 400,000 cured. Buy No-To-Bac from your own druggist, who will guarantee a cure. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Senator Lindsay's Wish. "If I had plenty of money to do with as I wished," said Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, to a party of friends, at the Hotel Wellington the other morning. "I'd have music played at all my meals and get cigars made at $50 a hundred. Those are two luxuries I would most surely indulge myself in. I'd have the music played by a small orchestra, say a horn and two or three violins, and a flute and a bass viol, and I'd have it play soft, harmonious airs while I ate and now and then I'd have some vocal music given by colored voices. There's a peculiar harmony in a negro's singing tone. I'd have them sing such things as 'When the Watermelon Hangs Upon the Vine.' That's a song calculated to inspire the most sluggish appetite. I remember hearing it once on a Mississippi river boat. A lot of us were aboard and in the party was Hooker, of Mississippi. There were some negroes aboard, who played instrumental music with banjos, guitars, and a fiddle. I asked them if they ever sang, and they said they did sometimes. Well, they struck up 'When the Watermelon Hangs Upon the Vine.' Hooker had never heard it before, and it nearly set him crazy." Family of Four on $200 Per Year. A. H. Zander contributes an article to the March Ladies Home Journal in which he tells how he maintains a family of four persons, his wife, two children and himself on $200 per year. He is a school teacher and is paid a salary of $405, out of which he saves and puts out at interest $200 yearly. Living in a small Wisconsin town he has advantage of cheap rents, his other expenses are: provisions $94.82; clothing and foot-wear, $38; magazines and newspapers, $5; incidental, $10. "Our meals," Mr. Zander writes "we find abundant in quantity and variety. For breakfast we have coffee, coffee-cakes, bread and butter, with eggs or fried ham occasionally. For dinner we have boiled potatoes with butter gravy, boiled cabbage or other vegetables, and pudding or pie, and coffee. Sometimes we have pork and beans, and sometimes some egg preparation, as potato pancake, dumpling, etc., For supper we have the remains of our dinner with fried or baked potatoes, and eggs. We have coffee with every meal. On this fare we thrive well." Cascarets stimulate liver, kidney and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe. 10c. The woman who reads her Bible and the advertisements in papers that reach her, can always be depended upon. --Profitable Advertising. Sam Jones Platform. Atlanta, Ga., Feb 21.--Rev. Sam Jones today announced his platform as a candidate for Governor. He made the announcement in a public address. Next to himself the evangelist favors Allen D. Candler for Govenor, and he fires hot shot into the opponents of that gentleman. Speaking of the crusade against corrupt politicians, Mr. Jones said: "When you shoot in the hole where they are they will come out a-humping and swear they were not in there. But they are full of shot all the same. You can tell the hole by the gang that ran out and hollered. United States Senator Steve Clay swears he was not in there, and I don't believe he was. And Dubignon swears he was not in there. General Evans said that the hole was so full he could not have got in if he wanted to. Gentlemen, I know the hole was full from the great crowd that came out of there in the last few days. "The platform on which I stand and have stood for twenty years and more is simple, unadulterated, unpurchasable, unballied manhood." As to the financial issues the evangelist said: "I am sick and tired of the average little politician racking around over the State preaching gold buggery or championing silver diggery, which he uses simply as a blindfold to hide from the eyes of the people his own inefficiency for the office he proposes to fill, or to raise enthusiasm on a question about which he himself has views that he could not sell for 10 cents a dozen in any intellectual market". Summing up, Mr. Jones thus concludes: "Let's pen up the jackasses for a while in the back lot and rot out some thoroughbreds." "The Army and Navy Year Book" rates the navies of the world as follows: 1, Great Britain; 2, France, 3, Russia; 4, Italy; 5, United States; 6, Germany; 7, Spain; 8, Japan; 9, Austria, and 10, Netherlands, but, under present naval contracts, according to the New York Tribune, Japan in 1899 will go to the fifth place, crowding down the United States and Germany one point. When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c, 25c. An eccentric character who lives near Derby, Conn., has been engaged for some time past in making violins for the angels. He is an expert wood worker, and these instruments are said to be finely constructed. No money will tempt him to part with his instruments; he declares that God ordered 1000 violins from him. Just try a 10c. box of cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. Secretary Long says that the Navy Department knows no more about the Maine disaster than it did five minutes after the receipt of Captain Sigsbee's first Dispatch. Evidently the Department hasn't read the sensational newspapers. Everybody Says So Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most wonderful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. today, 10, 25, 50 cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. CANDY CATHARTIC CASCARETS CURE CONSTIPATION REGULATE THE LIVER ALL DRUGGISTS New Bern Fair. FEB. 28 TO MAR. 5 '98 Better and more attractive than ever. New Features Throughout Fine - Racing. Purses Aggregate $4,000 Liberal Premiums in all departments The exhibits of Fish, Oysters, Game, Live Stock, Poultry and Agricultural Products will be the finest ever displayed. The Ladies Department is unusually large The Greatest of all Attractions Free! Free!! THE KEMP SISTERS Hippodrome and Wild West Shows. A thrilling and realistic exhibition of Wild Frontier Life, enacted by Genuine Western Cow Boys and Girls with the ponies, mustangs and trappings of every day life in the far West. The entire performance takes place on the race track every afternoon during the fair, and is absolutely free. Don't miss seeing it. For premium list or other information address the Secretary GEORGE GREEN, NEW BERN, N. C Greenville Market. Corrected by S. M. Schultz. Butter, per lb15 to 20 Western Sides5 1/2 to 7 Sugar cured Hams10 to 12 1/2 Corn40 to 50 Corn Meal50 to 60 Flour, Family4.75 to 5.70 Lard8 to 10 Oats35 to 40 Sugar4 1/2 to 6 Coffee8 1/2 to 15 Salt per Sack65 to 150 Chickens12 1/2 to 15 Eggs per doz12 Beeswax, per7 Cotton Seed, per bushel10 to GREENVILLE Male Academy. The next session of the school will open on MONDAY SEPT. 6, 1897 and continue for 10 months. The terms are as follows: Primary English per mo. $2 00 Intermediate " " " 2 50 Higher " " " 4 00 Languages (each) " " 1 00 The work and discipline of the school will be as heretofore. We ask a continuance of your liberal patronage. W. H. RAGSDALE. DIRECTORY. CHURCHES. BAPTIST--services every Sunday, morning and evening. Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Rev. A. W. Setzer, Pastor. Sunday school 9:30 A. M. C. H. Rountree, Superintendent. CATHOLIC--No regular services. EPISCOPAL--Services fourth Sunday morning and evening. Lay services second Sunday morning. Rev. Greaves, Rector. Sunday school 9:30 A. M. W. B. Brown, Superintendent. METHODIST--Services every Sunday, morning and evening. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Rev. N. M. Watson, Pastor. Sunday school 9:30 A. M. A. B. Ellington, Superintendent. PRESBYTERIAN--Services third Sunday, morning and evening. Rev. J. B. Morton, Pastor. Sunday school 9:30 A. M. E. B. Ficklen Superintendent. LODGES. A. F. & A. M.--Greenville Lodge No. 284 meets first and third Monday evening. J. M. Reuss W. M. L. I. Moore, Sec. I. O. O. F.--Covenant Lodge No. 17 Meets every Tuesday evening. J. V. Johnson N. G. L. H. Pender, Sec. K. of P.--Tar River Lodge No. 93, meets every Friday evening. H. W. Whedbee, C. C. A. B. Ellington K. of R. and S. R. A.--Zeb vance Council No. 1696 meets every Thursday evening. W. L. Wilson, R. M. R. Lang, Sec. K. of H.--Insurance Lodge No. 1169 meets every Friday evening. John Flanagan, D. Henry, Sheppard, R. A. L. of H. Pitt Council 236 meets every Thursday night. J. B. Cherry C. Q. Sec. Cotton and Peanut. Below are Norfolk prices of cotton and peanuts for yesterday, as furnished by Cobb Bros. & Commission Merchants of Norfolk. COTTON Good Middling 5 7-16 Middling 5 3/8 Low Middling 5 1/4 Good Ordinary 4 3/4 Tone--steady. PEANUTS Prime 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 Extra Prime 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 Fancy 2 3/4 to 3 Spanish 55c bu Tone--steady. I. H. BATEMAN PRACTICAL TIN AND SHEET IRON WORKER. 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When it fails, words can supply its need, and so he can present his idea before the world at a tremendous advantage. It seems as if he must be better fitted than any one else for that presentation of what he means. He has lived and moved with his characters. He has eaten and drunk, slept and wakened with them, and they are visible personalities. But let him describe them, however minutely and accurately, and they will not be impressed on the mind of the casual reader as they would be if he saw them in a picture, or, if the reader is imaginative enough to clothe those characters with a body, it is probably not at all what they were really meant to be. How intensely interesting it would have been if Poe, like Blake, had been able to imagine out some of those strange visions that filled his brain not only in words, but in actual lines as well, or if Cervantes had left us some idea of how Don Quixote and his Spanish squire really looked, however roughly drawn they might have been! It is under the Byzantine emperors that the earliest manuscripts of modern Europe were produced, and they exist in great numbers and are of surprising splendor. A timid suggestion may indeed be ventured that the Byzantine scribes were less careful of their calligraphy than of their paintings. That may be true, and it may yet remain true that the Byzantines had a splendid calligraphy of their own and a splendid notion of how to adorn their pages. The Irish monks of the sixth and seventh centuries, the English monks of the ninth century and the French of a somewhat later time were the fellows for beautiful lettering. The splendid manuscript which is called by the name of King Knut and which lies in the British museum contains lettering which is so beautiful in its strange modification of the classical Roman letter that even the splendid renaissance work of five centuries later scarcely equals it. Every one knows the “Gothic” character of the twelfth and thirteenth century manuscripts, a character which the modern German typographer has preserved for our sins and to punish the eyes of those who would fain study German thoroughly, but few persons know the pre-Gothic character; the beautiful lettering founded on the antique forms, which was preserved in the north and in the south, alike in Lombardy, in France, and in England, down to a time at least as late as the year 950. Take any initiated page of a tenth century manuscript, northern or southern, and see how much more beautiful is the writing than are the figures of men and animals which are supposed to adorn it. The ignorance shown in drawing these visible objects is great, and the absence of any power over their forms is really ugly and offensive, but the power of abstract form, of making a letter into a beautiful thing, is, however, so great as to be quite inconceivable to a race of people like ourselves, who have lost the trick of decorative design.—Independent. Of the 119,900,000 old copper cents which were sent out from the mint only the 900,000 have ever been accounted for, and only now and then is a stray one of the remaining 119,000,000 seen in circulation. ### The Hyacinth. For more than a century, from 1559 to 1680, the tulip had an undisputed reign till a rival appeared in the shape of a double hyacinth. Rea says of the “hyacinth, or jacinth:” It is “of divers sorts, and many of them of small esteem.” Some double varieties were, however, known at that time, three being mentioned by Bauhin, but the double kind from which modern ones have been derived was raised at the end of the seventeenth century by Dirk Voorhelm, a celebrated Dutch florist. The hyacinth was never quite such a rage as the tulip, though during the height of its popularity great prices were paid for bulbs in Holland, it is said as much as 2,000 florins, or about £150, was given for one root by some enthusiastic Dutch collector.—Longman’s Magazine. *** # DOG ELECTED MARSHAL. **A Four Footed Candidate That Polled Thirty-one Votes Over His Opponent.** Forty years ago a man in Aurora, Ind., owned a huge Newfoundland that was known all over the town by the name of Bob. The man was Jim Kelso, a conspicuous character of those days. The dog possessed wonderful sagacity and would do almost anything within reason that its master directed it to do, and when told to “take him” would throttle and down the strongest man and hold its victim without harming him seriously until ordered to release him by its master. So great was the reputation of this sagacious animal for police duty that in the spring of 1859, at the city election, the dog, under the name of Bob Kelso, was voted for at the polls and beat for the office of city marshal Clint Theetge, the principal candidate, by a majority of 31 votes. Old Captain Weaver and several other wealthy citizens of that period promptly proposed to have the dog properly invested with the rights of the office to which such a decisive majority had duly declared at regular election a preference for over its human competitor and prepared in legal form an official bond in the sum of $50,000, signed by numerous sportive parties and with a certificate from the election board, that Bob had received a majority of 31 votes over Candidate Theetge. They presented themselves before Mayor Starks, with the dog wearing an officer’s star on its breast and carrying in its mouth the official bond, certificate of election, etc., and then, ordering the canine to stand on its hind feet and hold up its right paw in position to take the oath of office, requested the mayor to swear the animal to faithfully discharge the duties for which it had been elected, as required by law! The mayor refused, regarding the proceedings as a joke, but the backers of the brute asserted their sincerity in the matter and insisted that the dog be recognized as the city marshal, or they would defeat the mayor for re-election. The determination of the parties kept his honor in a quandary for several days until Theetge could invoke the aid of the law to put him in the position, but he afterward became so disgusted over the affair that he resigned and moved to Missouri and died there soon after. Kelso met with misfortune and committed suicide and the dog became the property of Tom Wainscott, who enlisted in the army at the breaking out of the war and made a gallant soldier of the Eighteenth Indiana volunteers. Wainscott took the dog to the war with him, and whether on the march, in the camp or amid the thunders of battle he was never separated from his four footed companion. At the battle of Pea Ridge Tom Wainscott was shot to death. The next day when the detachment of soldiers sent to bury the dead appeared on the sanguinary field they found the devoted animal standing guard by the side of its lifeless master, and no efforts could induce it to leave the body or allow any one to touch it. Finally a soldier seized hold of the corpse to drag it away when the dog attacked him with such ferocity that his comrades, in fear of his life, ran it through with their bayonets to rescue him from his peril, but in recognition of the undying devotion of the faithful creature to its dead master they buried it at his feet in token of their respect for its fidelity. Thus heroically perished this brave brute, a martyr to its instincts of duty. ### A Narrow Escape. One day a mother who had been to a country house near Marseilles was returning at twilight to the city with her son, a child of 3 years, who had been put in a peach basket borne by a donkey, and the mother, fearing the child might catch cold (it was in November), had covered him with a thick brown shawl. Tired with running around the country all day, cozy and warm under the thick shawl, the child was soon asleep and hidden by the sides of the basket. There is a local custom house at the gates of Marseilles, and when the inspector surmises that any package contains contraband articles he thrusts a sharp steel pick through it. He was preparing to do this with the basket when the mother, some distance behind, saw his intention and shrieked out that her son was in the basket. It was Adolphe Thiers.—Exchange. *** # Atlantic Coast line Schedule in Effect Jan. 17th, Departures from Wilmington **NORTHBOUND.** DAILY No. 4—Passenger Due 9.02 a. m. Warsaw 11.02 a. m. Goldsboro 12.05 a. m. Wilson 12.55 a. m. Rocky Mount 1.40 p. m. Tarboro 2.45 p. m. Weldon 4.43 p. m. Petersburg 6.22 p. m. Richmond 7.13 p. m. Norfolk 9.03 p. m. Washington 11.30 p. m. Baltimore 1.06 a. m. Philadelphia 3.50 a. m. New York 6.53 a. m. Boston 3.00 p. m. DAILY No. 40—Passenger Due 7.15 p. m. Warsaw 9.10 p. m. Goldsboro 10.10 p. m. Wilson 11.06 p. m. Tarboro 6.45 a. m. Rocky Mount 11.57 p. m. Weldon 1.42 a. m. Norfolk 10.30 a. m. Petersburg 3.14 a. m. Richmond 4.50 a. m. Washington 7.41 a. m. Baltimore 11.25 a. m. Philadelphia 2.13 a. m. New York 6.00 p. m. **SOUTHBOUND.** DAILY No. 53—Passenger Due 1.10 p. m. Waccamaw 3.09 p. m. Chadbourn 3.41 p. m. Marion 6.43 p. m. Florence 7.23 p. m. Sumter 9.10 p. m. Columbia 10.30 p. m. Denmark 6.12 a. m. Augusta 7.55 a. m. Macon 11.15 a. m. Atlanta 12.25 p. m. Charleston 10.30 p. m. Savannah 1.50 a. m. Jacksonville 7.30 a. m. St. Augustine 10.30 a. m. Tampa 5.25 p. m. **ARRIVALS AT WILMINGTON—FROM THE NORTH.** DAILY No. 49—Passenger—Boston 5.50 P. M. 1.08 p. m. New York 9.00 p. m. Philadelphia 12.03 a. m. Baltimore 2.50 a. m. Washington 4.30 a. m. Richmond 9.05 a. m. Petersburg 10.00 a. m. Norfolk 11.32 a. m. Weldon 12.12 p. m. Tarboro 12.47 p. m. Rocky Mount 3.37 p. m. Wilson 4.15 p. m. Warsaw 4.24 p. m. DAILY No. 41—Passenger—Leave 11.00 A. M. Boston 12.00 night. New York 9.30 a. m. Philadelphia 12.09 inn. Baltimore 2.23 p. m. Washington 5.46 p. m. Richmond 7.30 p. m. Petersburg 8.12 p. m. Norfolk 2.20 p. m. Weldon 9.43 p. m. Tarboro 6.01 p. m. Rocky Mount 5.40 p. m. Leave Wilson 6.22 a. m. Goldsboro 7.01 a. m. Warsaw 7.33 a. m. Magnolia 9.00 a. m. DAILY No. 31—Passenger—Leave 12.15 P. M. New Bern 9.00 a. m. Jacksonville 10.50 a. m. This train arrives at Atlantic street. **DAILY FROM THE SOUTH.** DAILY No. 54—Passenger—Leave 1.20 P. M. Tampa 8.10 a. m. Sanford 1.27 p. m. Jacksonville 7.40 p. m. Savannah 1.45 night. Charleston 6.53 a. m. Columbia 6.00 a. m. Atlanta 8.20 a. m. Macon 9.00 a. m. Augusta 3.10 p. m. Denmark 4.25 p. m. Sumter 8.05 a. m. Florence 9.43 p. m. Marion 11.36 a. m. Chadbourn 11.58 a. m. Lake Waccamaw 12.00 a. m. Trains on Scotland Neck Branch Road leave Weldon 3.53 p. m., Halifax 4.30 p. m., arrives Scotland Neck at 5.20 p. m. Returning, leaves Scotland Neck 7.50 a. m., Greenville 8.52 a. m. Arriving 11.18 a. m., Weldon 11.33 a. m. Washington branch leave Washington 8.20 a. m., and 2.20 p. m., Parmele 9.10 a. m., and 4.00 p. m., Tarboro 9.43 a. m., returning leaves Tarboro 3.30 p. m., Parmele 9.35 a. m., and 6.20 p. m., arrives Washington 11.00 a. m., and 7.20 p. m. Daily except Sunday. Connects with trains on Scotland Neck Branch. Train leaves Tarboro, N. C., via Albemarle & Raleigh R. R. daily except Sun., at 5.30 p. m., Sunday 4.15 P. M.; arrive Plymouth 7.40 p. m., 11.10 p. m. Returning leaves Plymouth daily except Sunday, 7.50 a. m., Sunday 9.00 a. m., arrive Parboro 10.05 a. m. and 11.00 a. m. Train on Midland N. C. branch leaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday, 7.10 a. m. arriving Smithfield 8.30 a. m. Returning leaves Smithfield 9.00 a. m., arrives at Goldsboro 10.25 a. m. Trains on Latta branch, Florence R. R., leave Latta 6.40 p. m., arrive Dunbar 1.50 p. m., Clio 8.05 p. m. Returning leave Clio 6.10 a. m., Dunbar 6.30 a. m., arrive Latta 7.50 a. m. daily except Sunday. Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw for Clinton daily, except Sunday, 11.00 a. m. and 4.15 p. m. Returning leave Clinton at 7 a. m. and 2.00 p. m. Train No. 78 makes close connection at Weldon for all points daily, all rail via Norfolk and Carolina R. R. for Norfolk and all points North via Norfolk. H. M. EMERSON, Gen’l Pass. Agent M. EMERSON, Trav. Pass. Agent R. KENLY, Gen’l Manager **ALL ABOUT** A handsomely illustrated book of 200 pages descriptive of Texas and the resources of that great state will be mailed to any address on receipt of eight cents to cover postage. D. J. PRICE A. G. P. & T. A., I. & G. N., R. R. Palestine, Texas. East Texas lands are attracting considerable attention. Mention this paper. # DAILY REFLECTOR. ## ANOTHER MONTH Rolls in and the News Rolls Out. March. Third month. Last winter month. In the mud—the Maine. Odd Fellows meet tonight. One-sixth of the year gone. Lots of attractions at the Newbern fair. There are many cases of pneumonia in the county. March may have time to give u some wintry weather. Cotton Seed Meal and Seed Oats cheap at S. M. Schultz. It’s having to “plank down” that makes a man dislike boarding. W. F. Morrill will continue in the brokerage business. See notice. You may lookout for the winds to blow the dust off the face of the earth. The excursion train to the Newbern fair will pass Greenville at 8.07 Thursday morning. Beautiful line sample Tam O’Shanters and Children’s Straw Goods, at Mrs. Georgia James’. The Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist church will meet at the residence of Mrs. W. H. Bagwell tomorrow at 3 o’clock. Have your laundry ready to go off Wednesday morning. You get the best work done at the Wilmington Steam Laundry. W. F. PREDDY, Agent. “Walt Whitman, the National Poet,” is the title of a series of interesting articles announced in “The National Magazine” of Boston. The article will give the personal side of the good gray poet and contain romantic phases of the poet’s life, concerning which nothing has ever been published. Subscriptions taken at REFLECTOR office. ## MARCH HARES Were the Running Kind, but These Folks Go Slower. H. B. Clark went to Parmele today. J. W. Higgs went to Scotland Neck today. L. H. Rountree, of Ayden, spent today here. Maj. H. Harding is attending Snow Hill court this week. G. B. Hughes came in Monday evening from Louisburg. H. M. Hardee is spending a day or two in Greene county. J. B. Galloway and son, Jimmie, left this morning for a visit in Chatham county. R. J. House went to Grifton Monday evening to serve as railroad relief agent for a few days. Rev. A. W. Setzer returned Monday evening from Williamston where he had been to preach Sunday. R. P. Davis, of Winterville was here today making farther investigations into opening a cigar factory. Miss Maggie Moore, of Kinston, who has been visiting Mrs. John Spares, returned home Monday evening. Dr. C. J. O’Hagan, S. T. Hooker, H. C. Edwards and R. L. Smith left Monday evening for Newbern to attend the fair. ### Fakes It is strange what sensational reports can come out from Cuba. In the last day or two Gen. Lee and Capt. Sigsbee have both been assassinated, on paper. ### Dissolution W. F. Morrill has withdrawn from the Greenville Supply Company, J. W. Higgs now being sole proprietor. See notice of dissolution published in this issue. ### Depot Improvements Agent J. R. Moore has had stoves placed in the waiting rooms at the depot and discarded the use of open fire places. The change will be more comfortable for people waiting for trains. ### Cutting Scrape. Last night about ten o’clock, Finn Tilghman, white, of this place, and Henry Forbes, colored, of Greenville, N. C., got into a difficulty in Perkin’s bar, in which Tilghman got a slight cut over the left eye.—Kinston News. ### The Boys Are Ready. Several South Greenville kids armed with air guns were out on parade the other day. They said they were getting in trim to go lick Spain. Possibly the boys would be about as ready to go as some of the elder folks. ### Afraid of War. Capt. J. T. Smith worked a joke on some of the boys of the Pitt County Rifles, Monday evening, by telling them the company was ordered to report in Wilmington in twenty-four hours. And they do say that one of the soldier boys actually cried. If war should be declared you would see more people taking to the woods than could be found out in the open. ### Notice of Dissolution. The firm of the Greenville Supply Co. composed of J. W. Higgs and W. F. Morrill is this day dissolved by mutual consent, W. F. Morrill withdrawing from the firm. J. W. Higgs will continue the business under the same firm name and assumes all liabilities and all accounts are to be paid to him. This Feb. 28, 1898. J. W. HIGGS, W. F. MORRILL. ### Notice. I wish to inform the public that I will continue in the Brokerage business, and will carry a full line of all kinds of groceries and fruits. Thanking my friends for the patronage given me in the past, I solicit a continuance of their orders. Office at present in S.T. White’s store. W. F. MORRILL. ## T0-DAY’S MARKETS. As Reported by THE GREENVILLE SUPPLY CO., Cotton Buyers —and— Wholesale Grocers Cotton sold in Greenville, 5 3/8 NEW YORK. COTTON Opening Noon Close March6.056.056.09 May6.126.116.16 August6.206.196.24 CHICAGO. WHEAT Opening Noon Close May104 1/2110 5/8105 1/4 PORK. May 1042 1/2 1035 1042 1/2 RIBS. May 510 512 1/2 517 1/4 --- **AT WHOLESALE ONLY.** 50000 LBS MEAT, 3000 LBS LARD, 500 BARRELS FLOUR, 200 BOXES TOBACCO, 100 CASES BAKING POWDERS, 100 CASES SOAP, 100 CASES LYE, 100 CASES WASHING POWDERS, 25 SACKS COFFEE. We also have in stock Sugar, Butter, Cheese, Canned Goods, Snuff, Wrapping Paper and Bags and many other things to numerous to mention. Send us your orders. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Agents for Standard Oil Co. **The Greenville Supply Co.** --- ## Look Ye People. **WE ARE THE GROCERS** **Who want to supply your needs.** Here are some of our specialties Best Table Butter 25 cts, finest Cheese, all kinds Crackers, Candies and Fruits. Best selected Canned Goods, Pickles and Dried Fruits. Cigars and Cigarettes of best makes. Fresh Vegetables and Flower Seeds. Selected seed Irish Potatoes. Car load of Corn in sacks. And when it comes to such staples as Meats, Flour, Sugar, Coffee, etc., we occupy the front row. Come to see us and let our fine goods and low prices talk for themselves. **J. L. Starkey & Bro.,** The Leading Grocers. --- ## Here I Am! I wish to inform my many patrons and the public that they can now find me in the **NEW - MARKET - HOUSE** where I am ready to cater to all their needs in the way of **TABLE SUPPLIES.** I keep the best Fresh Meats, Sausage Fresh and Salt Fish, nice Groceries, &c. Send me your orders. Goods delivered promptly anywhere in town. **E. M. McGOWAN.** Phone 41. --- Syrup of Figs advertisement **ONE ENJOYS** Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, Headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste, and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. **CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.** SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y. --- **Weather Bulletin.** Fair tonight and Wednesday, slowly rising temperature. --- **2.0 CULF-NO PAY** That is the way all druggists sell GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC for Chills, Fever and all forms of Malaria. It is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. CHIL-DREN love it, nauseating Tonics. Price, 50c. --- **When the hour hand points to nine,** **Have your washing on the line.** Nine O'Clock Washing Tea advertisement **NINE O'CLOCK** **WASHING-TEA** CLOTHES WASHING, DISH WASHING, HOUSE CLEANING, HARD OR SOFT WATER. FULL DIRECTIONS ON EVERY PACKAGE. $500.00 GUARANTEE. ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS. Will not injure hands or fabric. No Washboard needed, can use hard water same as soft. Full Directions on every package. An 8-oz. package for 5 cts. or 6 for 25 cts. Sold by retail grocers everywhere. “When the Hour Hand Points to Nine, Have Your Washing on the Line.” **NINE O'CLOCK** **WASHING TEA.** Recommended by the best housekeepers for Clothes Washing, Dish Washing, House Cleaning. 5 Cts Package Try it. For sale by **J. B. CHERRY & CO.** --- Sam M. Schultz advertisement ESTABLISHED 1875. **SAM M. SCHULTZ** —Dealer In— **Pork, Sides, Shoulders** Farmers and Merchants buying t year’s supplies will find it to their interest to get our prices before purchr elsewhere. Our stock is complete al, its branches. Flour, Sugar, Coffee Always at lowest market prices Tobacco, Snuff, Cigar as we buy direct from manufacturer. A complete stock of **FURNITURE** always on hand and sold at prices to suit the times. Our goods are all bought and sold for CASH therefore, having no rise to run we sell at a close margin. **S. M. SCHULTZ.** We have a large **STOCK OF** **FALL AND WINTER** **GOODS** just arrived. Come in see us. OATS HAY AND FLOUR A SPECIALTY **J. G. CORR & SON** **BOB GREENE & CO** **UNDERTAKER** **FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND** **EMBALMERS.** We have just received a new hearse and the nicest line of Coffins and Caskets, in wood, metal-lic and cloth ever brought to Greenville. We are prepared to do embalming in all its forms. Personal attention given to conducting funerals and bodies entrusted to our care will receive every mark of respect. Our prices are lower than ever We do not want monopoly but invite competition. We can be found at any and all times in the John Flanagan Buggy Co’s building. **BOB GREENE & CO.**