~ Vol. 1. GREENVILLE, N. C., MAY 10, 1896. Local Trains and Boat Schedule. Passenger and mail north, a' rives 8:22 A. M. arrives 6:37 P. M. North tound Freight, arrives 6: 45 A. M, leaves 10715 A. Mi. South Bind Freight, arrives 1:51 P -, leaves'2:11 P.M. DSteawer Myers arrives from Wash ington Monday, Weunesday and Friday leaves for Washington Tuesday, Thure day and =aturdav. tratin going Going >euth, Writren for R fiector. A LONELY FRIEND'S LAMENT. BY THE OLD BOY. Lost friendship leaves ite blighted bud On every Eden's bough, And parting etamps the sign of grief in furrows on the brow. But fancy brings her f:iry train ‘To such a soul uu lest; And wh spers—yes, but whispers what? They lull vet him to rest. They tal& of one Ll] know no more, My always trusty frien: ; Who gave me peac : or yave me joy, Or strangely made them b'eud. Atten:led me to all the shows, And to kK me out to tea; And gave the belle at many a ball ‘Lo pour her Ou me No friend like this could e’er suffice o drive away the blues, Who paid alike my Garten bill And wy religious dues. And bade me welcome, made me friends - ©. *gvality’’ and *‘rank’’ Or ra s-d me to a millionaire When with the like I drank. But since that time how things hive chanyed ! This frien ! has pasee | away ; How bitterly I mourn the truth Th t*‘friendships must dec:1y ~° J hear the oll men sigh for yo.th, Old maids their firs: love ‘*mash;’’ But. m.racles—I xsk bunt o e— @h, give me back my cash ! NOTHING BUT SLEEVES. Nothing but sleeves; the young mn grieves Ove: a prospect dim, Last night to his dear one he tried to propose, Bat the words so sweet on his white lHip= froze, For ah! she seemed to him Nothing but sleeves. Nothing but sleeves; the young man grieves Onn a biighted hfe. Though his love may be stroig a d fast— Warrantei for six months to last— How ca” he have a wife Nothing bunt sleeves ? p.infally Mr. E. B. Bell, of Lake Com fo t, haa rented the Ocrasoka|and Hotel for this year, avd will open oat that not on snak es. Yesturds four in his yard. Tw and two she carried in the house to play with.—Oharlotte Observer. IN NORTH CAROLINA, -_ What is Happening Over the State. Mr. Jones Bone bas a Maltese caiches rats but she caught o she killed Kev. W. H. H. Lawhon owns a horse, 22 years old, that he has been driving since 188” in travel- ing to his appointments, and in that time has traveled over 40,000 miles. The horse, notwithstand- ing his age, is apparently as good as ever and ‘can travel 40 miles a day.—Pittsboru Record. She Knew it Was a Man. A little girt ip Greenville was studying ber lessons, an evening or two ugo, and after completing h>r task went inthe room where the older members of the family were guthered, and asked: “Mama, who is Procrastina— tion?” “There he sits,” replied her Mama, pointing to the head of the family with a smile. “TJ told sister it was a man, as serted the little Miss positively, |? “for I -aw in my grammar tbat ‘Procr astination is the thief of "The k h a good e joke was such a one on the old man that he almost exploded with laughter. a Killed by a Train. Monday morning, about 8 o’clock, while the “Sho fly” train on the Wilmington and Weldon railroad, was running into Faison, Mr. John Cook, a resident there, saw some of his hogs on the track, fell. off, stumbled an The en- and in his attempt to drive them. ~ Consider... Yourself personally invited to spend as - much time as you like examining goods, even 1 if you never buy a cent’s worth. This store is — a store; yet it is an exhibition. There are many things here—Clothes, Hats, Furnishings—. that will please the eye and grace the person, with a touch upon the pocketbook so light as |to never irritate. FRANK WILSON, The King Clothier. Plowed Up a Skeleton. Mr. G. W. Dann, of Gulf town- ship, informs us that as he was plowing in one of his fields on last Saturday he plowed up a and peanuts for yesterday, as furnished by Cobb Bros. & Co., Commission Mer- chants of Norfolk : large rock, and as euch. a thing | Good Middling 6s was rather unusal in that part of | Middling 65-16 | his farm he thought he would Sosa Ordeal ei examine into the matter, and Tone_lower and quiet. + upon fifting i partly from its PEANUIS resting place, discoyered and | Common 1to4 exhumed vortions of a human: Prime 4 skeleton. How longit had lain | Extra Prime Aart. there, whose it was or bow it) spanish ae came there he does not know.—j; Tone—steady. Pittsboro 2ecord. Turee weeks there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zerck.es, living near Decatur,@§il., three girl babies. The parents named the children Ruth, Esther, and Frances A neighbor of tre Zerck ee ete —Firm. + E. arf Bis ra 2,57 | Black and oss. to 2.75 per bag. 1.40 te 1.75. to 1.00 per bushel. Greenville Market. Corrected by 8. M. Schalts, at the Ol Brick Store. Ot ~ Below are Weltellt gelie attéton = ‘it about June $th.— Washington Gazette. gineer saw his peril and did all|les wrote to President Cleveland, | Butter. per Ib - 19 to 25 he could to stop the train, but}:nforming him of the facts, and | Wester Sides 6.60 to7 not*before the unfortunate man|Monday the father of the children | S9s*" cured Hams Uwe was ran over and his body literally |received a draft from the Presi- Fae Meal pred cut in two. He was about 40\dent for $500 to be used for the | (cabbage years old and leaves a family.—|education of the children. Don’t | Flour, Family 300 to 34y Goldsboro Headlight. all name your babies Ruth, Eeth-| L«r4 6 to 19 er and Frances, now, silthe Bher | Potatoes Irish, per bbl 800 va 880 | We Can’t Hit It. a — oe a PE Sar, | Potatoes Hwout,per bu . an uo 4 Joe Evans says he can’t see Coffee 16 to 20 why we. don’t let the weather The celored Odd Fellows had r Sack 80 to 200 ulone. He says if we write any-|, celebration to-day. par. Chile ns 123 to 20 - thing in the forenoon about its|Sded eo begereiaet thc Eggs pei doz — 10 .|being fair it is sure to cloud UP /headed by Smith's band. seventy Kerosene, 15 to 20 chek Fouts is|Odd Fellows in regalia being in | Pease,per bu 1 00 out, So ell we will say about itiiing Ex-Congreesman Cheatham | 2t!!*, per ton . _— today 1s wasn’t the -weather/delivered an addess to them.|face Hees pretty this morning ? Some visiting kdges werehere. Minks 95 ot 35 | Capt. E E. M. Pace is now w making| a thorough teurpef “ghe > L {VERY APYERNOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY) |COUnties in thé interest of the a jnew warehouse of Kountree, STS Entered bys seeond-class mail matter. 2:4 - Phere i is uel speculation as! 4 ryewho will succeed eolector|® fie: Carter in the Western District’ setting by the 15th of May. of this Stale. There are. many {1 Greeaville -has more, natural ‘anditates and most of them ®dvanfages, wpe Phaptn ground | -- ~ more tertitory, and by the openin nrg Of 9R Hacking, "lof the comming tohdeco yoat! wal | have as good, facilities for Ahand- hig tobacco after it is void “as the other dyiy in the pladtion ot |#2Y market ino the eastern section. officers before the Alderman of The North Curolina crop re- that. city.- ‘He! did not: hesitaré| Ports of the, American Agricul j to untie with a good deal of turist says the tobacco acreage pest the various ballots -all ‘of #Fonnd Br-cky Mount will be. in- which tearly ware = tic Unless creased fro. 10 to 15 per cent. tert chin dg Tl Ruse’ cag vf reparte the plants badly; be Zo ere tiiscaxed bt uss cen hind bat growing finely since the be counted oa to Keep the city’ . . warm sunshive ef the, past few »f Raleigh Democratic, pure , tie ‘f Magor RaséiJof Raleigh,. cast} some good" Democratic votes, Gays. Ino our section of the State ipa aes > x for ay, qo" da: a in ra Vv van ONC od Qbigct tt fa The State | ot ‘South ‘Carolina have hel p! cite of warm ote sinastate of éxcitemert. and. 3, i ndiguacioa. The registration Jt is said that during the rack- aws of jhe S- ate baye been de- ‘et t between Japan aod China} dared nal! and yoid 2ad.in eon. some Japanese. divers were sent} eynence ihe ballot bux is open |\dewn to remove some. torpedoes, oevery oue regardless of qua]-/and' Chinese divers were «sent fications. Governor Evans de-! ‘down to” step’ that business. ‘ares that he w'll noc eall the. ‘There was @ submarine fight with zegislataure together to enact; Kuivgs,, and as. tne Chinese ew ones. - Then, too, the court. ‘eonk'n’t rug, down there.the Jap: 1as derided that the dispensary S0?8¢ tid them: pre erin: aw is U iconstitniional so far as! HEHE Dt thot Rika ~ ns a, Yee {relaies to liquor being is ulte r o8 secord, ‘a nto the State, ana that any- _ hadaps, prove that they sonld yady who wants tocan send as -nob Only fight on. water, but under it.—Wilmiogten Srar.. auch liquor as they please into. —_—— a; ts borders. Governor . Evans! Mr. PSlinan’ “a “model .town” ays he will pay no attention to, | gots anotiier, hard: thrust. from:-a he-decisiof but. i will 2ontinne! committés: ‘Of Chicago ‘clergymen © seize the liquor so that a case| who fiive been nese it. The} nay get into the Sc preme Court! Rey: Dr. Rusk “It is a f the Unired States. Tirese|whited sepulchre Hei wit, dead hings are creatiag some excite |men’sibones;. Withvat it sis fair nent mixed with indignaticn'tolookapon, batatter® you pass in the Palmetto Siate., ithe mposing frou there is much '|ta-:be;; condemned. We, went bropah the alleged. ‘model flate,” iand~ found. -that:a’ .ramshackle a OCAL NOTES AND TOBACCO JOTTINGS. eosnaiaeitinienaennsll ' BY O- L. JOYNER. 2% ‘hick yards, which. denies are. : the-equalid creatires-who inhabit |ii Epes ae etvetpts for a> af Rt. rae Farmers are not com plaining is year on account of dry. oath, for transplanting. - Mr. a J. Laughinghouse told raha itte, Observer, the New that money is still. flowing from the: interior to that city, of * twenty - -seven millions.” that is what is the matter. massés. oft he affair On ‘thé ap fidor rented * for for. Spags SAP $23. Why, i in the. sheds at the |the: and. Who ie wholly free of itt—of| - Sold For Fifteen Ponies, > £ pretty young Bem, as pupil of the © ~Schovul, has been in-|80ld by her father to her ‘sister’ ap uncanny things creep over him ? The first articte ithe May For um is one by Cot Theodora A. Dodge’ én” “Bismaiek; Whom’ he cbharacteri zes as ‘personality’ _ “the strongest since Napoleon” ‘properly so characterizes, ne doubt.,. Yet. he telis..us .that “Bismark i is rathes: superstitious | a ina mild’way* “‘He-. put’ off the completion of the, Bazajne, nego }tiatious;:one day... because. .,.b> would pot sigu-them.on the: 14th of October, thé: ‘anfiversdi y of | Hoch Biroh aud Jeia. He be lieves, in. the .1pfluence of the neon on the growth, of vegeta tion. He is stated ‘not ‘to like thirteen at table, nor to under. ake important things. on Fridays —though he’ himself denies this e|Aod he really believes. that hel, had. once seen a..superpatural|, vision.” If these: things be: true ofthis gréuat; “strung: ‘wan, then the remaiddér df 8 néed “hardly oJush for our “mild” ‘superstitions We areibora uate.them,any. way, aod with atl that» education ‘dan do it cannot’q dite eradicate 't! them. We published, the other day, a dispatch giving ‘Preasury. figures which showed that the | ‘per, capita circulation of money in the Unit- ed States at this tims is between $22 and $23.‘ Phe péried during which. this cotititry enjoyed : ‘the greatest! degree of “healthy pros: ‘| perit y, it ‘has’ ever know, -was one in which. the .per..¢ .cireula- ticm ; rangeil - about. $16.:,. Some- thing more than a darge ‘volume Of mofé¥ is’ necessary to make. ‘By péople prosperous, | we read. .in York Herald, < of Monday, - “where there: ie already” hun idle. surptus And ‘The? seep. are Ptoteed ft ‘hile the-yaults of trust com panies! of company | the mowey centres are | i bareting 188), -babitations, with it.'* It ties there! ide,» ‘wait g wife an 1d t. re 3 Femaderative | invest- & F232 dogs, jt, nof come}. ae Asi is. ofraid “to.--Cherlotte “and” husband fer 15 ponies.-® indian whose wife she .is ‘to bes come-is 70 years:old,:am! already ‘has other wives: She is but 17 years of age. TLe girl has appealed to Pro. fessor Montgomery, of the Caddo >chool, to suave her from such 4 tate, and he is’ exerting every evérgy to ‘assist ber. He has made an appeal to the citizens of |El Reno’ aud a popular subscrip- \4.0B 38 ap-in 40 raise a sufficient sum tJ pay her traveling expenses.to, Washiaog- ton, where she desires to go thut she may take: a personal appeal tothe Piesident. The girl's father is inexorable and her aged lover insists ‘upon the co Wichit: (K 48.) Disnatch. [rtcreaninrntcmee Old ‘Timey yeast. A party, in Gelerade has » aigni- fied thy» intention of. Jenri g there io théold fashioned | waf—cover- ed . sens Guprsdebtimatase, North Carolina. They say itis:cheaper than paying railroad fare. They bring stock: household’ aud other persunal property- bowy s | festioner,-inventéd the sugited vio- - Cc of Saree a in - ae reg eg me oe om | Stgnificatios of This Most Beauti- | let as a benbon. “But not only was COUNE® OFFICERS. ful Flower of the ‘Spring. the purple violet a la mode, but the Saperior Court (Yerk, E. A. Moye. porte wi igs —— : ~~ Marrs anee aaa a : 3 sue Sheriff, R. W. King. Pe bev pert ts ps FENG Flower uae e brated novelist and. post,-retired to You every day , ae Register.of- Deeds, W.M. King. Mioonsy Mt Whe! Wetheh © "|" Tine ‘where he devoted; himself to : | ‘Treasurer, J. Dehittle. a ee tess the culture of flowers. He raised “Coroners Dro > C.- Ou . ‘Laughing. N ,1~| these: Indian violets in such ‘4@‘quan- . : Hitt. ff owle; 4% > ry Po Tm ever were violets so fashionable |.. pplied every morn Sine oe © men a jin New York as for the latter part Ae at Bese ing in the month of © : the principal flower stores of the | — of winter and early spring just past, benitad re inca boxes caraeed Leones noners—C. Dawsen, chm'n | sav the New York Herald, Onej jh) wadding, in which thesa flow- edas Fleming. T. K. Keelj Jesse Lt aciiar was not ‘unusually charged for | i Bindi ~é in “3 = Smith and 5. M. Jones, 7 yedurad:: ers arrived as fresh as when &ath- Ma that if & small bunch of thesé modest little ered from his‘ gardens. V Sup’t. Health, Dr. W. H. Bagwell. flowers that grew by. the myriads in : Sup’t. County Home, J. W. Smith. fields and woods, hiding tbemselves Georgia has:sold.100,000 acres Board Education—J, R, Conglelon, | Sy dozens under a fluttering leaf, just | o¢ lana to .a colony of 40,000 ~ ¢hm’n, F, Ward and R. c. inon. like young chicks under the pro- northern settlers. The Empire ou hav Sup’r. Pub. Ins., W. Hy Ragsdale. tecting wing of & mother hen. State is keeping pace with the ~ 7 : 3 Not :only do women wear violets times: . Why can't: (North: Caro- jase 5S on hats, in bodices and belts; they lina, induce a colony of two tol. - gar TOWN OFFICERS. have bunches fastened to their muffs, |take some of her valuable’ and! . our Pri tin ‘do Mayor; ‘J. L. Piemis | and whén théy are raised toward the cheap farming lands? They: are y rm = done yor, J. L. B- face they soften the brilliancy of the unexcélled. All we nee d is to let Clerk, G. E. Harris. - | complexion and serve to make more|the world kuow what we have, Treasurer, J. 5. Smith, attractive those who would other-\and citizens of the cold, ~ barren Police—W. B, James, chief, T. R.| Wise pass unnoticed. and blizzard Swept porth west | wil! at the Moore, aset; J. J,, Daniel, night. | In Paris where spring comes ear- flock te our sunny clime.—Char- Councilmen—J. 8. Smith, B. Cc. lier than in New York, the Boule- lotte Ti . ~ Pearce, L. H. Pender, W. J. Cowell, T.| vards are beau tified by masses of ~. A. Wilks, Dempsy Raffin. ~ fresh violets sold from flower stands LISHE REFLECTOR in the open air. During the second ESTAB D 1875. } —— . empire the residents of the American yp 7 CHURCHES. : Stott Bada? be on Washington's © g: e chultz - Bapsist. Services every Sunday (ex-| birthday un era brilliant sunshine . Tr; cept LY ae ee and ay prayerlin idy attire. ore bunches of vio- AT THE J OB =. OFFICE. meeting Thursday, Reve C. M. fasbened ‘Ve aide ‘Billings. pastor. inday Schvol a; 9-an| 'ets fastened b rib 8 of red, A. M. U. D. Rountree, Sup’t. tte aod blue. he viol : ; ; ' a; f . crime Rormr jon, | Tiyan se voctoae OLD: BRICK STORE! 7, .. 7 Episefal. phd a Radiwn Sun-| the Napoleonie flower, and Ameri- - It will be done right, day morning and night. Rey. A, ; cans were quite at home in Paris and ARMERS AND MEKUHANTS BUY e. ie ae Rector. Sunday School at 9:30} at court during the reign of Napo- F ing their year’s supplies will tind 4. 4. W. B. Brown, Supt. leon ITI. ' The “emperor retained a | Cheir interest to get.our prices before pu. Methodist. Services every Sunday} warm friendship for those whom he | chasing elsewhere. Our stock is complete morni d .ight. P eti ps gi pied cai o allits branches. e Wednesday night. Rev G, F. Hauge | "ad Kiowa when he! resided in the It will be done in style Dv Sunday Xehool at 9:30 4. M. a_| Vicinity of Bleecker street, in New BeRilington Supt? . a York city: The Beck withs, Posts, PORK SIDES&SHOMLDERS, Presbyterian. Services every Ist and| Pennymans, Dodges and many pth- |, ; Go STRAT 3rd Sunday sey nee aoe ni, he. Preyer ers bag well eeclas in Tain cir- FLOUR; FF EE, SUGAh meeting | uealay , night. ev. Archie/ eles. ring Lent it was good form re ON A tty PSOE. Sunday Sebool at for men in evening dtess' to wear a RICK, TEA; &e. ef ene Ae Byes, Sup’t. black ‘tie and a smal! boutonniere of si lati iaie ah | | ) fe paniere alwuys at LOWEST MARKET PRICEs; oo — violets with a wreen leaf anda Small ‘These - oints are | robe the valley, And eanih oF lilies of| TOBACEO SNUFF & CIGARS Pp Covenan’ Lodge No. 17. E. U. O, Fi, |." : ith ii, on buy direct from Manufacturers, ena : to te ‘Taesday night. Dr. W. H | Yersary of the last emperor's, death, | rf ers, 4 Bear — y night r a fomerai service is held in the Church | bling ret? at one profit. “A com * e ° ‘“reenville Lodge No, 281 A. F. & A,/0fSt-Augustine,in Paris.. Theeburch ; , weil a 2 M.,-areets first and third Monda vights | iS usually filled with people insmourn- 774, mF , Ww. M. Kiug,.W. MM y ing, all wearing small bouquets of| — FU RN ITU RE and it alwavs suits. -well--worth weighing gy | ‘2 Sympathy with the aspirations, or | the times. Pt ater teniyee boaght and ‘in-an ‘sort 5; at least: with the sorrows; of this sold forG4Si. fore, having no ris y P| family. . | to run, we. sell at a elese margin. ‘ : %, “Inthe morning of March 20, 1815, Respectfully, gaa s °) | Navdieon, who ‘had been ‘banished 8. M. SCHULT2. f k b t Ea B| bythe aliies'to ‘the island of Elba, _@reenville. N.C Ol work, bu - . Qi) upon returning suddenly to Paris} —_ . ; atl’ oN? . i for his reign of 100 days was wel- |= — Se EP eS | Comes. by the Somen of Haxte with Barbers. .. . ——TO THE—— . showers Violets. li memory. of} —— — . ey ee ee é ob Gd iPepee £ithis attention on. the .part of JAMES. A. SMITH, above ‘all thing's in penn Wea soar ot Your Job Printing. OUR: - - ATTENTION [is CALLED 10 THE ELEGANT —LINE OF — ESS GOODS, SILKS, LACES, bbons. Gloves, Mitts, &c., carried by B. OMERRY & Ol) —this season. Our Stock of — S.H.O.E.S. —AND— Ladies & Childrens SLIPPERS ! the largest and cheapest ever of- red in this town, come and see for urself and be copuinced. ABY CARRIAGES, FURNITURE, attinys, Window Shades and Lace irtains. Goods sold on their merits andt= Tees made accordingly.