. praesent ea Pi Ion a crate ome page isa runs ne sare: wie Ra D. J WHICHARD, Editor and Owner. TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION, TERMS: 25 Cents a Mf oth Vol. 6. ‘GREENVILLE, N. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1897. No, 860 FISH ALWAYS. SHIM 10-4 FULL HEI Weal d Viner ele We the and most complete have sock of Fall and Win- ter 9) thy —AND ~~ AentsE urnishing: ever brought to Greenville We bought a —large stock aud there- tcre can sell low’ we ‘fyou want good and 347lish goods come and see us. It is no trou- dle to show goods and we take pleasure in 80 toing. Ps Ge ek ne ata tus iat? od fli BETHEL ITEMS. bernet, N.C. Sept. 20th, ’97 Jas. R. Gaskiil, of Tarboro, was in; town teday on business, F. B. Knight, John Mayo, Beverly, J. T. Whichard ere Greenville this week, Mrs, S. Williamston this moruing, B. A. Nelson and J. M. attending A. Gainer retureed from) where she: Visiting had been relatives the pas sf | week. Mrs Virginia Gurkin end childzen, of Jamesville, are visiting Mrs. J. R. Jenkins. i WV. A. James, of Asheville, arrived Saturday night to spend a few days } ad! largest | les. with bits fatbe and friends. | ' Bethel y Wiis well y It p: SELLE d 0 the yt arly ineetings af st oe ( 3 . . i VOnelor. SUNGAY thre Te Were large } i . 4 ’ . ; CPOWGS ds VObL plates. { haying OG | t . 1 i brick and lumber and W. a. Taylor ar hauled toe | » ry large brick store next to S. T. sr wegmas OAKLEY ITEMS. Oak ry, N.C., Sept. Mors. J. Ie.) Hine: and ‘Gordon, et Roe ky Mount, are spending some tine here Visiting ber | Mr, nod Mes. W. 1. | | Z. ¥, om with typboid a. his mother’s. Mis. parents, | Williams. Higbsunith, of Dethel, | M. dbehemith, near here. spent saturday night here hamaly ct W, H. Williams eady mecting at Hickory Grove Quite a number of our All | sunday, peo- Pepe et j ple attended, | | time. J. L. Ferkias has been We are v “ | quite Sick | with typhoid. ji8 fast Imptoving* To the Ladies li you have lace curtains that need, Price Goous sent off every | | | | | | | amme aundering send them to me. 00 cents a pair. Wednesday morning, and deturned Saturday evening. C. B, WHicHarD, | Agt. Wilmingtcn Steam Laundry, Two Good Runs. EK. E. Griffin went over Monday. He made the kome run, 37. miles, in 44 hours. G. J. Wocdard hed some importan, business in Tarboro, Monday, and 2 hours and 40 minut:s. Taking the sandy condition of the roads into consideration these were both good runs. | court at! her sister, | cho y (rrove and beild a Carson, | 20th, 1807, { ttle sen! Is Very) Ca Capt. d. BE. Pines, of Rocky Mount, . { ae the | a pleasant: fad io KNOW he! 10 Wilsen, | Sunday, on his wheel and returned | made the rup over there, 25 miles, in|, ! "SUPERIOR COURT. |e ases Tried on the Crininal Dock. { s et ® Henry ‘Vatt, failing to list faxes, { ry ‘pleads guilty, Judgment suspended upou payment of costs. Luther Joyner, tailing to list taxes, pleads guilty, jadgment suspended — up. ‘on payment of costs, \ Wilham Lucey, failing to list taxes, pleads guilty, judgment suspended up- lon paymens costs. Jolin Kirtreli, fling to list pleads gt TAXES, ulty, jadgment suspended upon payment of casts, BoM. W. and James Keel. affray nlead guilty, James, Chester Jatres judgment suspended upon payment of Costs, Hattie Savage and €. J. Jonson, hot und Jolson guilty, larceny receiving, Savage euilty; J. FF, Carraway, lareeny aod reeciy- ing, not guilty. M, A. James and R. W. King, a’ ray, submit, judgment suspended upon payment of costs. John L. Stocks, assauit with deadly weepon, pleacs guilty, judgment evs ‘pendea upon payment of costs, John Mannivg, failing te list taxcs, ‘not guilty, Sim Page and Bryant Andrews, al-. fray, Page net guilty, Andrews juilty. Doe Move, hou, not wullty. assault with deadiy weap- J.B. Pittiaan, eruelty to animals, vot culty, STATE NEWS, Sete iietadiiinadl | | arte cemenen A young man walked all the {ron Waynesville ts Capel Hill to the University. way lenier Ou Sunday Rev. N. Harding c-m- pleted ris 24th year as Rector of St | Pecer’s Epise ropal eburch av Washing fol. The News says it is against the law | ito Keep pigeons in Elizabeth City Friday night, Four build- jing 8 were S.rucK by lightning. | A siovm ac Beautort, ‘cid considerable damauye. ‘Tie negroes arg nsing politically in Saturday night im solemn to cut loose Kdenton. conclave they resolved trom Ke; ublican apron strings and be thei* cwn men and their own They denounced hiazry Skinner out of reach —Elizabeth City Economist. party. | A letrer to the Durham Sun says ‘lust Wednesday evening Turner B. Morgan, who lived seven miles from Chapel hill, was oat wich bis gan and iy jumping across a ditch, he allowed the gun to slip trom his grasp. It tell in such w way as to cause it tobe dis charged, and the load toot: effect in his lett side, some of the shot passing through the heart. Death resulted, of course, almost irstantaneously. le thats stn mamta s 8 19. Other. goos "ALFRED Bay State Shoes $1.30 up. Handsome. Buggy Robes from $l 20 up. uette Rugs, 52x27, for in® = proportion. ‘LET the WORLD ‘canters the choicest and best things in Suits, \Underwear and Furnishing Goods. Ideal styles inte Serhan nite int nha ieneistninSea._ ssbdihdanli einai aire einen “hfe nit eens Sm me “= deinen a ee Men and Boys | Fine Clothing. ~ Know the Truth. The lingerino days of September are sul-> try, but therising mercury doesnot inter- tere with the wholesome intere:t that in our Clothes selling. We are daily supplying needs of the near future. have justreturned from their summer vacation, who are entering school, young fellows who are going away to college area con- spicuous among those who come here to secure Mats, in Clothing atlow prices are the attractions. PRANK WILSON, TUE KING CLOTHIER I have 4 special Departments, ballad Meealineda de ted ssa a ead Ne iedinetinedsinde dh tn oo ne tT DRESS GOODS. CLOTHING. 1 have more patterns: My line of clothing iis ‘ and more bolt goods}. much mo than ever i In more complete the latest colors bothiau L can suit vou in plain and fancy ''r ae iay worsted, caeviots, mings to match t injand faney plaids trom bra.ds, sets velvets, $3, 00 to 15.00. Spée- silks, and Jet. cial orders taken. PPL LANL Ny PLINY a ih hh kaa LLLP AIL EP Wee all SHOES : HATS. Prices from .75 : . have hats rom 50 Ot Ny ‘shoes’ Mens $3, shoes guarantee’ Ajalpine, stiff, sp esta line (9° or bere ‘Abe: line e shoes. _ [eaps and Te amosha $2.50 ladies yuarenteed, — Give us a call and we will do out. ‘baa é satisfy you. eee | ow i a i nee i fa PORSES. M. HARDE “ RARDIN aw 2 een i All classes’ of buyers arerallying in our aisles. Men who men who are preparing to travel, boys’ $4. Hamilton Browns to $3,00 in felt ana stiff, any style, crush, bo som ae ne. mere siiy. red In town by carriers without actly reitisng rates are liberal andean be voppteation to the editor or at We ceshe x Wo corresponvens at gee y postofiice in the county, who will gend in brief itews Of NEWs as it occurs ‘& each neighborhood. Write plainly gad ony oy one side of the paper: ; ection cneshininnaetintnes ‘sane Tuxrspay. SEPTEMBER 21, 1897. Yhere has been nO littie talk ‘emione eome Republican and Populist ‘eaders that the last A Legislatare diu not pass any law to fine and’ imprison people fa the non-paymen’ “f texes. All the same muny sheriffs and tax collectors have given notice that all wko are delinquent after the first of November will be guilty of a misdemeanor and will be reported to the solicitors for prosecutin. Read chapter 168, sections 52 and 53 of the laws of 1897 and you will seo whether such a law “was passed or not avd all the contradictory state- ments cf the aforementiosed leaders cannot explain it away- INSTANCE AND COMPARIZON That vasa pathetic story re- _printed from a New York paper w the ()bserver of : yesterday. Maggie McMahon lived with her parents on East One Hundred ard Sixth street. She was 15 year: old, Her father never had avy luck and was out of work. Her wother went out to work when she could. Maggie had the care of her five younger brothers and sisters and worked out be- sides. All her lifeshe had been an old wowan, She got up early, dressed the younger children, | gave them breakfast and atarted them to schoo!. Then ske went to herown work. Thres months ago sbe lost her job and for three months sought in vain for anoth. er. The other day she said to a neighbor, did this old child. “The dead are better off than the living.” Wednesday they found ber ina .com apart from those occupied by the other members of tne fawilv, a small vial clutch- ed in her hend. She had gove to to be with the dead. The story is one of many. Life bad brought to this child none of its pleasures, Noue of Gud’: —gocd gifts haa come to her. She worked and fought with poyerty until she realized that sho was engaged in an unequal contest. The burden became intolerable end she resolved to lay it down. Her last state may be worse than her first, and yet who knows? At all events, she wus willing to chance the change. There was - pothing fcr her here; yonder. She knows now. he mird’s eye runs over North 8, its ri nge—the barbaric |reared high in alr ; no churches |, the evidences of wealth. But, ‘cought Mr. McAdoo, Taking 4 there ert be something, there might 9 rest, for instance, for her, over Cerolina ; its townn, its cities, its Sountry districts, its sea-washed vers, valleys and . cs, and we think of » who inhabit this id and then think of i We haye here none ) lings which made up New York finds no buildings, with marble front, | whose spires touch heaven; no miles and miles of dazzling streeis, betraying to every glance thank God, we have simple plen- ty and every man is his neigh- bor’s neighbor. Nong of us can starve to death, nor take our lives through fear that we mav starve to death. Hach of us has friends and~ neighbors. who we know will see that we do not need to. And this iscanse for grati- tude. Weare not rich. We do not need to be. Perhaps it is better that we are not. We have onough, and that is better. And there are no Maggie McMahons among us.— Charlotte Observer: neta ARL NEE A Klondike Find. ‘,is fiiends have been having eonsiderabie fan ont of Mr.C. N. McAdoo. He has a small farm not many milés from Greensboro, upon which a tenant resides and looks after the tilling of the goil. Yesterday afternooa this tenant came to town out of breath, and him to one side he confided his secret to him. In a second Mr. McAdoo was ali excitement, and bouncing on the back of bid fast saddle horse, be struck out for the country. Exactly how it leaked out 18 not krown, but it was soon learn- ed that something unusual was on baad and bis friends were vot long in ascertaining what caused the excitement. His hired map nad been plowing avd while he was plowing be all at once turned up an old iron pot, deep down in the ground. The man scraped the dirt out, saw what he thought was some gold at once came to town and told his story. The pot was opened by Mr. McAdoo when he got there but it wes a small jack pot—it con- tained nothing but dirt.—Greens- boro Record. TEE Don’t Tobacco Spit ana Smoxe Your Lite Away. a If you want to quit tobacco using easily and torevsr, bo made well strong, magnetic. tull of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac, the wonder- worker that makes weak meA strong. Many gain ten pounds’ in ten days. Over 400,000 cure’. Buy No-To-Ba rom your own druggist, who will guarantee a cure. isookiet and sample mailed free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York aaa It ie G@afficult to grasp the full meaning of an arrav of figures. For instanca, we do not get a fal! conception of what is meant when we are told that the United States pays annually for pensions one hundred and forty million dollars. We come nearer, perhaps, taking in the enormity of the amount when it is figured out that this som is equal to four hundred thousand dollars a day, or fifty thousand dollars an bour for the eight-hour working day. The Louieville Post, which presents the matter in this light, says: “This 18 quite a lot of money, but it is only ten doiiars a year for every family in the United States, and just think wuat an effect it has in keeping the Re- publican Party solid.”-Winston Sentinel. cations are that Orange county and dollars from their apples. A gentleman near Winchester has sold his crop for $6,000 while a farmer in Albemarle refused a cash offer of $15,000 for his crop of pippins. A number of Albe- marle farmers have sold their apple ctops for from $3,000 to age stamp is soon to be changed, aa will be sen from the following: ury and the Postmaster General, aiter consultation with the Pres~| ident, have decided to change the color of the curren} postage staiap from carmine to} green of the shade now used on covernment notes. The ten-cent postage stamp which is printed ip green, will be changed to some other color, carmine. green is @ more desirable color than carmine, besides saving the government about difference iu cost between the two inks.” done. knows. She proves her case in The Ladies’ Home Joarnal for October. This seems to be a golden year for apple-growers, and the 1odi- farmers will realize many thous-| Green Postage Stamps — The color of the two-cent post- “The Secretary of the Treas- two cent now e 25+ 50¢ ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED f9,cure any eS ee See SPO PPE SD ease of constipation. Cascarets are the Ideal Laxa- erip or zripe. but cause easy naturalresuits, Sam- ple and booklet free. Ad. STERLING REMEDY CO., Chicago, Montreal, Can., orNew York, — 217, | ns possibly It thought that 18 $10,000 in She gives twenty-one your account, promising every accomm R.” A. TYSON,. Vic-ePres. REORGANIZED J STATEMENT IOF ITH The Bank of Greenville, GREENVILLE, N. C. R. L. DAVIS, Pres’t. Jee. LITTLE, Cash’er UNE 15th,"1896. rae — AtjthejClosejcf Business July 23rd, 1897. » Ten Dollars a Week fer Eight. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. ° — Joans and Discounts $50,273.62) Capital stock paid in $23,000.00 lt does not seem possible that) Over Drafts 11580,18 Surplus and Profits 503.19 th t | | fo toht Oo le can be Premium on Stock 1,000.00 Deposits subject to Check 48,289.50 ihe table for elght peop Due from Banks 2630.5) $ Due to Banks 795.28: provided for tun dollare, a week.| Furniture and Fixtures 1,605.00; Cashiers Cheat ee eee Dat Mrs. Rorer, the most famous j Vash Ivemaa . ATBAES Pie Uoreiioare®® ON ee 2 a ; Oash in Vault 9°". 0) 14,528.54) me ao — cock in America, says it can be ci ion Votal 2 872,796.04 She has tried it and Total =~ $72,796.04 of We study carefully the separate reeds of our patrons, aud shall be glad to have. odation consistent with good banking. CH menus covering a week's ‘meals, and gives fall, prac‘icai directions br which any woman can make as attractive meals as Mrs. Rorer explaine, for thiy swall sum of ten dollars. Samar RN ARRER rE IE They Stole the Chnrch Itis not an uncommon thizg to hear of a Bible baing stolen out of a church. Now and then 4 communion service is the subject of thefi, but a special to the St. Louis Globe Vemocrat shows that Texas goes all pievious ras- cality one better. is from Kauffman,Texas, and says. The church, also used as a school building, on Spide’s Prairie, eleyen wmi'es east, was stolen bodily and moved ten miles, Residents in the neighborhood are incensed over the matter, and money is being raised to prose- cute the thieves. Everybody Says So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most wonderful medival discovery of thé age, pleasant and refreshing to the jaste, act gertly and poritively on kidueys, lizer ana bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipat on and biliousness. Please buy and try a box cf GC. u. C. todav. 1f, 25, 50 cents. Sold and guaranteed to cura by all druggists. The Farmer and the Press ‘Gov. Mount, of Inciana, in a little talk to the old settlers of the Hoosier State the otier day surorised iia rural aaditors by a passing enlogy of the press. The Governcr grew up on 4 farm, and passed the larger part of his life there. He confided to his compatriots that all that he knew, all his success in life, he attribut~ ed to the diligent reading of newspapers.—Philadelphia Bul- letin. ae ee iba sities The Fayetteville Observer says the cotton crop will not exceed a two-thirds ayerage crop in Cum- berland county, and the farmers are greatly disappointed at the small crops. — eae Jus. ry « M.. bux of cascarcts, the finest liver and : hE maut |. . : f ; © aes eM a Se gt Ri ae ee wat ie ' ao. f , : ue ‘Bom & FLEMING, “ATORNEYS-AT-LAW, 9) Gresaviitbe lO!!! fun Wehave alarge > The telegram|jyst arrived. Come and gee us. 1. Tg tor ge ee an . } bay 4 trom Mamuactua. > en bewal segu ator ever Tine co buy at exe profit. A eou - yg: J..L, Fleming. | SOCK OF i GOODS 1 HED 1875 SCHULTZ SAM. M. PORK yg SIDES & SE OULDER PABMERS ANI) MEKUHAN'I'S BUY their year’s supplies will ting ; ie rinvterest toget our prices before pu be ngelse where. Qurstock is -oraplete FLOUR,COFFEE, SUGAR ' fs ’ Q- meneame % # ‘ if A coo, Snuff é&°, cs Jo ee he a you thd ‘eee: . i ‘ ‘) : Ph, ” ial if sr y OF those massiy Me oe Le |$5,000.—Orenge Va., Observer. ei i \ : f i ‘ « " ics ne ¢, a ——r pee cae ont >. Baie leaves Kinston 7.40; Make no Bl O00 & ia Charge, if a. m., Greenville 8.52 a. w. Arriving YS fell to Wi vay pp Tate ONT . . ’ * vou have taken mer § cury, lodide potashand Hali «x at 11:20 a. m., We'don 11,40 am stil! have aches and i poet Macoss Deve j ’ ‘ . jr th, § mples, Copper-Color- daily excert Sunday. oa pate, Uloera eet, oy rot the bouy waalror Padad of tastvil (cation flee gat BE yh ane shni eel ondary or ‘tia i | airing, weniden rand low arctan ean ee : o6V Ay Ul, 4 OU p. Mie cases and ehallonge meagre tac wor’ orn cane WO i ‘ | cannot eure. This dis- ease has always bafie arrives ENED dt a. a. and 20 p | the skill of the moxt eminent. physicians, ., Tarboro 9.45 a, m., returningleaves | Porwany years we neve io 5 4 i ; | treating this disease with our O¥ PHELE Tarboro 3.30 p. m., Parmele 10,20 a, Mm, | have $500,000 capital behing our, unconditional i ; ‘ naran * us tor 11.40 a. m., and 7.20 p. m. Daily ex- $07 Masonic Temple, Chicago, Milinois. ept Sunday. Connects witb trains on! Seotland Neck Branch, . Train leaves sarooru, N VU, via Alve- | marie & Raleigh R. 4. daily except sun- | day, at 560 p. m., Sunday 405 P. M;| attive Plymouth 7.40 P. M., 6,00 p. m. | GO Returning .zaves Plymouth daily excep" | » Sundoy, 7.50 4, m.. Sunday 9.00 a m.,, a arrive Tarbore 10.15 am and Ll. 45, Train on Midland N. 0. branch leaves | # Golé%boro daily, except Sunday, 6.05 a & m, arriving Snaithtield 7:30 a, um. Rew’ ax turning leaves Saithtield 8.00 a. m,, ar- # rives at GoldshPors 9,30 a, m. Trains on Latta branch, Florence R| ac Sa leave fact Hah Ryeiys | Dunbar | «7660 p m 05 p w. turning x leave ( 028,10 a m, Dunbar 6.30 a 4 a Latta 7.50 a m, daily except Sun- PRACTICAL i Offers his services to the 3 citizens of Greenville and the 2 public generally. ROOFING, GUTTERING, _ Spouting ard Stove Work, eats 4 specialty ry in Satisfaction guaranteed or ¢ ? no charges made. ‘Tobacco 9 40 Flues made in season, Shop Se on Dickinson Avenue, — | Se * | ee a) . ‘Drain onClinton Branch leayes Wai~- saw for Clinton caily, éxcept Suuday, | @ 10.00 a.m. and 8.50 p, m- Returning | ( -eaves Cinton at7.00a. m. and3,001 m.| & Train No. 78 makes close connection | % at Weldon forall ead oy all rail a a Hiehmone, alse at Rovky Mount with | a Norfolk and CarolinaR RK for Nontolk -ne al) points North viaNorfolk. —s_ || be JOHN F. 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KILGO, Dorham, N.C. |THE MORNING STAR S| rt Ble thal cable Newseaoer ta ty will (ary.tila. aii Che Onie Five-Dollar Daily 4 we ie \ 4 - its Class in the State. “YM. BMERBONsTee r Menage | J RKENLY. Gen"! varbeers . WH, cERNARD nn school 9:30 A. M.! 7 | ©, D. Rountree, Superintendent. Biecleoce " ej i Rk pasa i. ¥ age ul a ; 4 eu? ? 4 wht ce ‘ ; 1 SEE THAT? ecb jan What Is It ? Ww —> => It isa picture ot tae celebrated a . a “PARKER. FOUNTAIN. FFAG Best in use. The outfit ot no business man Is complete without one. : The Reflector Book Store has a nice assortment ot these Fountain Pens also a beautiful line of Pearl Handle Goid Pens You will be astonished when you see them and earnhowvery cheapthev are. a You may never, But should you ever3@=<=- “Want Job Printing ==> Come to see US.