Vol. 2. GREENVILLE, N. C., JUNE 12, 1895. No. 158 Local Trams Passenger and mail — train north, arrives 8:22 A.M. Going arrives 6 :37 P. M. North Bound Fre oat + arrives 6:45 A. M; leaves 10:15 A. Routh. Bound t, arrives 1:51 P «, leaves 2:11 Evga Steamer Myers arrives from Wash ington Mondgy, Wednesday and Friday leaves for Was lingtou Tuesday, Thure day and Saturday. Weather Bulletin. Cloudy. Thursday.. - COMMENCEMENT. PITT FEMALE SEMINARY. A Successful Closing Entertainment— Distinctions and Scholorship—Prof It was a large and well haved audience that assembl the Opera House, ing, to witness the closi cises of Pitt Female This institation has given a num- ber of very pleasant entertain- ments to our people, and this closing one fell behind none of the others in interest. ‘The following programme was rendered with utmost precision and in perfect order : PART I.—PRIMARY. Ho! for Carolina, Chorus Sehoo). Piano >olo—Soldier’s Joy, Bissell Misses James, Rawls and G. Forbes, Piano Duet—Schottiche, Bellak. Misses Proctor and Muvore. Character Song—Tommy Tompkins, Primary Class. Piano Solo—Summer, Lichner. Miss Rawls. Recitation—Little Saowdrop, Bradley. Miss Berthu Patrick. Piano Duet—Alpine Waltz, Mack. Misses Rawls and Neil Skinner. Piano Solo—Flower Song, | Lange. Miss James. Metion Song—The Owl, Primary Class Piano Trio—Norma March, Bissell. Misses B.Patrick, K. Proctor, M. Tucker. Dumb-Bell Drill, Class. - PART ti.—LVFERMEDIATE. Pole Drill, Physical Culture Class. Piano Solo—La Traviata, J. Ascher. Miss sheppard. Searf Drill, | Physical ‘Colcure Classi, pues 8. Bur Jackson. Misses B. ieee ae ene and Boat Schedule. { Recitation—Aux Italiens, Miss Sheppard, Pidno Solo—Les Rameaux, Leybach. Miss mesewen Panto7oime l’s Serenade. M'seee B, Patrick ant M. Hines, Study in Attitude, Class. Tambourine Drill, Smal] Girls. Valedictory, Miss Blow. Announcement of Distinctions. Sweet aad Low, Chorus Class. Every piece was full of interest and presented ina faultless man- ner. Theaudience was especial!y delighted with the drilis and ex- ercises by classes. It was almost marvellous to see the smaller pupils go through their parts so accurately, but it shows what can be accomplished by thorough training. It was evident on every hand that the work at the Sem-— inary has been of the very highest A order. ANNOUNCEMENT OF DISTINCTICNS. Jast before the last number on the programme was rendered "| Prof. Goode made the following announcement of distinct.ons for the term, none of those mention-— ed falling below 85 on exam- ination : Latin—Ist class, Maud Biow; 2nd class, iAAddie Johnston. History—ist class, Ellen Par- ker, Mamie Hines, Pat Skinner; 2nd class, Mamie Tucker, Bertha Patrick, Sallie Galloway, Janie ‘| Tyson. Arithmetic—Il1st «class, Mamie Hines, Daisy Tucker, Bruce Forbes; Ellen Parker, Bessie Pat- rick; 2nd class. Ella Anderson. 3rd class, Bertha Patrick. Physicial Geograpy--Ellen Par ker. Analysis—Bessie Patrick, Pat Skinner, Mary Harris, Daisy Tucker, Ellen Parker, Mamie Hines, Maggie Ormond. English Grammer—Ellen Par- ker. Algebra—primary, Ellen Por- ker; higher, Maud Blow, Addie ‘|Johnston. — Rhetoric-Addie Johnston,Maud | Blow. Higher History- Mand Blow, O. Meredith “SKEETERS.”” _ Are alive to the fact that I carry a nice iine of SPRING--SUMMER CLOT EIN CG S22 AND 3e—=:- FIDE Gents FArMishing bans, Prices within the reach of all. FRANK WILSON, Patrick, Bertha -Patrick, Mamie Tucker, Nina James, Velma Rawis, Lina Sheppard, Leta Mc<- Gowaa. PBIMARY DEPARTMENT. Arithmetic—l1st class, Mamie Tucker, Nina James, Georgia Anderson: 2nd class, Helen Forbes, Burt James, Walter Pat- rick, Bailey Moore. Grammar—Janie mie Tucker. Geography—Daisy Tucker, Ma- mie Hines, Pat Skinner. Elementary Geography—Geor- gia Anderson, Nell Skinner. Spelling—Lena Anderson, Ben Brown. Primary Spelling -Hennie Rags- dale, Bailey Moore, Burt James. Reading—Nina James, Velma Rawls. The scholarship for higest average in all English studies was won by Miss Addie Johnston by only one and a fraction over Miss Maud Blow. assistants returned thanks to the: patrons and announced that this Tyson, Ma- ait Fichvee Acithaolic- Addie Jéhe-\beve,- a8, he had decided to go "ston, Maud Blow. jelsewbere. ihe reason given for THE KING CLOTHIER. : “ln nn Bessie | this decision was that a aren here did not draw patronage from elsewhere, and that the local pat- ronage was not sufficient to sus- taip it. | The ReEritEcror believes the people of Greenyille are malang a mistake in allowing Prof. Goode to leave. There has been no bet- ter teacher here, and no better advancement has been made by the pupils than under his in- struction. Heis justthe kind of man needed to carry op a good school, and that the patronage given him was not. sufficient to | Maintain it does, speak well for the town. - Cotten and Peanuts, Hp rtabiewre a prices of cotton and pean for yesterday, as furnished by Cobb. Bros. & Co., Cantatenicn Mer. chants of Norfolk : COTTOR. Good Middling 71-16 Low Middling 6 a . Tone—duli. ot PEANUTS, Prime 4 2 Extra Prime 34 0c. but Tone—steady. —10 cts.— Firm. - Peas—best, 2.50 to 2.75 pian Der bags Black and Clay, 90 to to 1.00 per bushel- ptdocipucms 28 cents ‘per mn _Batered 4s second-class mail matter. " ‘EVERY iat (EXCEPT acta « = & . = Latent = = _ That true Odd Te aaa e - “false i in the opportunity. for doing | S good and following the .princi- ples. as .atght inrogr= order; 73) . -ghown by the. following. whiéh| _3we notice in ene National _ fe- ; de the. ; Odd Fellow living in Eaglewaod, IIL. happened on an evening i e October. She was left alone with her baby boy; whea in attempting’ “t to Fabtia kerosene lamp it ex- =p setfing firgto ber. cloth- ‘ing. In an instant she ran screaming from the housé, - After yunwing a few rods she re- membered her baby, whom inthe, - first moments of fright and agony she had forgotten, and retracing her steps she entéred her home, now almost deyeloped in flames, and catching up a blanket she wrapped it about ner baby, but “upon looking around she found the door had closed upon her and there remained nothtne for her to do but to jump. from a Window to the ground, several we able tobe about | the , rag, therclere = call upon - them, then almost strangers; for so-¢reat “a favor. But as soon as the doctor's desire as -knoewn,;-a bundred Odd F P-preséntedt ‘thomeelves, we “brother, even to give their flesh and blood. 'The “Wwonderfal operation “of skin grafting has been going on in this Gass) ever. siace October, and thé Brotfrer’s~ wife-is now til far ffom we : spared, through’ é-noble déeds eOdd. Follows. Over 5,000 pieces of skin have been = grafted upOa the ‘arms, sh back of the suffering sister; taken} from nearly‘ea¢ hundFed persons. “Brother Fitzgerald has’ been obliged to.give his.entire time in attending his beloved wife, and the Odd. Fellows have dene all in’ {their power €o aid him darisg the long months of anxiety. Who can; ‘being cognizant of such facts, and it’s only one of many, say that Odd Fellowship amounts 4o nothing.— Three Links. = The Word ‘‘Wiefe.’’ amie minite What do you think the beaati- ful word “wife” comes from? It - feet below, which she did ana was}is the great word with which the _ picked up by sympathizing friends and neighbors. English and Latin languages con- quered the French and Greeks. The baby was found to ‘avell hope the French will one day! escaped unharmed, but the poor mother was most horribly burn- ed, nothing remaining of hér' clothing but the bands of her skirts around her waist and parts of her corset which aided in pro- tecting thespine, to which it ‘is claimed she partly owes her fife. ; Bro. Fitagerald has been a member of the Second Regiment, National Guards, for sometime, and when the doctor who had charge of the case, and who took a special interest in it, said that if a sufficient number could be feund that would volunteer he -_- would attemp the difficult opera- fron of skin grafting. .~ Among the members of thé - Second regiment none could be found. Bro. Fitzgerald had been member of the Order of Odd _ Fellows-but a short time, and during that time he had been get a word for it instead of . that of “femme.” But what does it come from? The great value of the Saxon words is that they mesh something. Wife’ means “weaver.” You must either be housewives of house moths, re— member that. Inthe deep sense, you must either weave mén's for- tunes and embroider then,” or feed upon and bring thém to de- cay. “Wherever a trae wife: comes; home is always arouod her. The stars may te oyer her head, thé ‘glow-worm in © the night's cold grass may be the fire at her feet; but home is. where’ she is, and for a noble woman, it stretches far aroutid ‘her, better. than houses ceiled with cedar, or painted — with | ‘ vermiltion, shed= ding ite quiet life for headreaeds are homéless:’- This I Believe:“is|/ Dt! elected sécretaty of his lodge, but wonlan’s true place and power=« Gulderg and| ay m4 er: > we F r4¢imépgibary-) | wrong. the politician would be called fa- religious world. od. the light of heaven. (Sip) 5 SSS SRIRESSA eee ce Sam’s Salary. Se tema that Sam Jones ooliakl other excitement. Ee are harrying themselves to seem to be laboring under the con. ou eir finishing what th take in hand. Who sha life? at. least. supremely impo cannot slight it without ferteiting some part of his self-respect an Shuman spirit but ~| ti detertiont ja irartageon Maey-0 of our roatost sconedes It is easier to do Tight than to find plausible excases for doing The enthusiasm ‘displayed by fnaticism in the religion of the Men who spend their time in talking about the faults of their =a | {neighbors make poor servants of life is|' y Men who are realty in earnest about serying God never quit be- cause somebody else does wrong. The man who serves God alt nis life will at death pass out of the shadows of this world iuto} It pays to be an evangelist, af- ter the order of men. It is said conducted a meeting in St. Louis three-weeks and in that time collected nearly $6000. After paying all expen- ses he netted a trifle over $1,100 per week. It. will thus be seen that.there is big money in evan—|! work as.conducted after. the methods of Sam Jones. Buatj, “my, my,” poor sinners, how that amount woald have helped out). the.tocal fellows who have to hus- tle around to get. up their salary. before Conferesce. Bat people) ge wild in times of religious. ex— citement as much so as in any Nensis all the best. men we know. get thr ough some kind of tagk. They|> viction that a great deal depen ds ey here | corn prepaien reap Bay John E. Woodard, this isnot a woble view to: take Of ‘The very-soul of daty isin‘ it. Every man’s.work is:for. bine d wees Pe aT THE “OW BRICK STORE’ PPABMEES AND MEKUHANTS BUY ing their year’s supplies will om their.interest.to get our prices before elsewhere. Durstack ls comp te n allits branches. PORK SIDES&SHN I1LDERS. ‘FLOUR, COFFEE, SUGAR — _ RICE, TEA, Oe a: ways at Low REET PRI “TOBACKO 5 UFF & GARS: we buy direct from Manufacturers, ena bling youto psy at one ‘profit. A com plete stock of FURNITURE always ‘onhand and soid at prices to suit ~ the t ioe ret te: nav and sold tom yg norisk to run,we sell at a close ‘margin. data ye eo Srecdivile. N: Cc Professional Cards. B. F. T¥SON, Attorney and Counselor at-Law Greenville, Pitt County, N.C. Practices in all'the Oourts ~ Ciyil and ¢@rimimal Business Solicited. + Makes a special of fraud diyorce,dam- ages, actions to recover land, and col- ections. Prompt and careful attention given all birsiness. - Money to joan on sbirercs eon wite Terms easy- J« He BLOUNT LOUNT & FLEN ING - ATTORN aT-Law, : @HERN VILLE; N. C. ar Practice in all the Courts, LC. LATHAM. - HARRY SKINNER. po arias & SKIN Nik, ATTORNEYS. Ola houses chanzed tc rnv p22 desired. Plan and s,ec icaticr ~ “arefully made at short notice. A"! work guaranteed first-cless in every respect. Prices made very > 1{07. , and 7 Greenville Market. Corrected by 8. M. Schultz, at the eo Old Bricx stere. . _ Butter. per Ib Batter kept in refrigeratorp at See e|J- L. Starkey &O0o’s. LZ. - Western Sides 6.60 to 73| Masonic lodge. Mr. Larry Moore left morn-| _ Sagar cured Hams bed Mrs. J. F. Speight has moved|ing for Whitakers. - Corn Meal 50 to 80|ut0 the Eborn house near the To keep cool bay summer Coats ab 525 tos ee pererr —_ ‘ land Vests at Lang’s. ° or thin, cool Dress zo 6 to 10 ri Rev. G. F. Smith returned yes- oain|O lara 5 an terday from Durham. ? Miss Blanche Barde y- : Seen ‘0 month ots neg been vAigog tho, Minas Mrvile and Lillie. Wa. 20 to 25| family of Mr. W. B. W fe"! Bethel to-day to attend the com- 10 turned home to-day. ndiitieesent. - , | Meeting of H ) : 134 ° = to-macerow sighs pi heen : Rev. L.-L. Nash, D. D., of New- 3% son Mrieetett en tee ee Methodist| 20 00 a y : of Foreman B beasic greene . ! wes ad early that it is not ina healthy floor inside the st showing Newbern this morning. into the Cory house near see tobacco buttoning out this condition and when any crop is not growing in a healthy state the best results can’t possibly be expected. One of the best tical for early buttoning, we have heara old and expe- rienced tobacco farmers say, is to absolutely change its growth. Check it so to speak, which can be done in several ways, but the best is by deep and close plowing. By doing this you up-set the top roots and at the same time loosen the dirt and form a new and mellow dirt for the feelers to start off in. A great many times such deep plowing is so socessary that really the tobacco looks like it is ruined, but don’t tear up the roots and it willdo the work. Ladies, now is the time to buy Slippers, at Lang’s. Mr. L. Hines returned from Finest N. Y. Fresh Butter. Best Blended Tea 25cts per Ib. at be Old Brick Store. Policeman Fred Cox has mo The |Forbeston. Apply to A. Forbes. MORE FLAMES. INCENDIARIES BURN ANOTHER HOUSE. Store Broken Into and Attempt Made toe Burn That also—Negro Arrested. | [Special to Reflector.) Kinston, N. C., June 12.—This morning about 2:15 o’clock the honse of Mr. Sol Oettinger was discovered on fire, and in forty minutes it was burned to the ground. It was set on fire and the flames had made such head- way when discovered that they could not to extinguished. The house was worth $3,000. Most of the furniture was saved, but in a badly damaged condition. While the fire was in progrees at Mr. Octtinger’'s the store of P. BR. Borden was broken into. Blood was found on the ground outside the window and on the that the party breaking in the store had cut himself on the broken giass of the window. Some burned paper inside the store indicated that an effort was also made to fire this building but it was not successful. No goods were missed from the store except some Cigars and cigarettes A negro boy named Henry Sanders was arrested last night for breaking in the house of Mrs. H. Cummings on Saturday night. He was given a hearing before the Mayor to-day and held in a $500 bond. The bond was not given.up to 2 P. M. Boys, don’t forget ’s Wash Suits, they keep you 2 Mr. F. J. Corwin went to Bethe ¥ « For Rentr—House and lot in y Rey. A- McLauchlin went to Parmele to-day. oO LV S.Cq@YwourwNoWw ib '$G009 ONIHSINUNS