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$1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE.
CLAUDIUS F. WILSON,
EDITOR & PROP R.
"LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIm'sT AT, BE THY COUNTRYS, THY GOd's, AND TRUTH'S.'
VOLUME XXI
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Under and by virtue of a decree
fo the Superior Court of Wilson county
rendered at the June Term 1889 in the
case of A. J. Galloway, Trustee, vs Ru
ins Bass, et al we will sell for cash to
the highest bidder at the Court House
door m Wilson on Monday, Oct. 5 1891
tnat tract or parcel of land lying and
being situated in. Wilson county, Black
creek township, adjoining the lands
of Warren lomhnson, Rchard Ruffin,
the G. W. Barefoot land and others, it
being the land sold to Rufus Bass by
CM T T . . J
ouas mLdb, jr., containing o acres
more or less, for a full description ref
erence is maae 10 Book No 18, o n 60
u oct in me vv usuu county Kegistry
Also at the same time and place un
der a decree in the case of A. J. Gal-
loway, l rustee vs Kichard Ruffin et al
we will sell for cash to the highest bid
der that tract of land adjoining the
above lands, the MrKinlpv riarHen
land, Warren Tomlinson and others, it
being the land sold to Richard Ruffin
oy suas Lucas Jr., containing 86 acres,
.1Uic ur less, ior a tun description ref
erence is made to Book No 16 p p 630
u, me registers omce ot Wilson
touniy.
Jno. F. Bruton,
F. A. WOODARD.
Commissioners.
Sept 1st 1891.
ki nrriniinr i wmm" - f " t. i j 1 - i i i i i . i h i i v u r 1 u
THE GEORGIA CRACKER HOW
CAME INTO EXISTENCE.
HE
Freeman of the Schools, the Georgia
Cracker Brooked Neither Restraint of
Fashion Nor of Law, But Grew up
Untrammeled A Delightful Sketch.
Not to go back in history further
than my own time and recollections,
let me venture upon some unoccupied
territory and tell how Cherokee,
Georgia, became the home of that
much-maligned and misunderstood
individual known as the Georgia
cracker. I have lived long in his region
and am close akin to him.
There is really but little difference
between the Georgia cracker and the
Alabama or Tennessee cracker. They
all have or had the same origin, and
until the Appalachian range was open
ed up to the rest of mankind by rail-
roads and the schoolhouse tnese
crackers had ways and usages and
a language peculiarly their own.
It will be remembered that until
835 the Cherokee Indians owned and
occupied this region of Georgia
portion lying west of the Chattahoo
chee and north of the Tallapoosa
rivers. They were the most peace
able and civilized of all the tribes, but
they were were not subject to Georgia
aws, and had many conflicts and
disturbances with their white nabors.
seemed to be manifest destiny that
they should go. "Go west, red man
was the white man's fiat. They went
at the point of the bayonet, and all
their beautifnl country was suddenly
opened to the ingress of whomsoever
might come. Georgia had it survey
ed and divided into lots of forty and
160 acres, and then made a lottery
and gave every man and widow and
orphan child a chance in the drawing.
But the cracker dident wait lor the
drawing. The rude, untamed and
restless people from the mountain
borders of Georgia and the Carolinas
flocked hither to pursue tlieir wild
and fascinating occupation of hunt
ing and fishing for a livelihood, i hey
came separately, but soon assimilated
and shared a common interest. There
are such spirits in every community.
There are some right here now who
would rather so up to Cohutta
mountains on a bear hunt than to go
to New York or Paris for pleasure.
I almost would myself, and I recall
the earnest cravings of my youth to
go west and find a wilderness, and
with my companions live in a hut and
kill deer and turkeys, and sometimes
a bear and a panther.
But for my town raising and old
field school education I too would
have made a very respectable cracker!
This was the class of young men and
middle-aged that hrst-settled among
these historic hills and valleys and
climbed these mountains and fished
in these streams. By and by the
fortunate owners of these lands re
ceived their certificates and many of
them came from all parts of the state
to look up their lots and see how
much gold or how much bottom land
there was upon them; but gold was
the principal attraction. The Indians
had found erold and washed it out
of the creeks and branches and
traded it in small parcels to the
white man, and it was believed that
every stream was lined with golden
sand. This proved an illusion, and
so the squatters were not disturbed or
else they bought their titles lor a
sone and then sane "sweet home" of
their own. They built their cabins
and cleared their lands and raised
scrub cattle, and with their old
lashioned rules kept the family in
game. Many ol these settlers could
read and write, but in their day
there was but little to read. No
newspapers and but few books were
found by the hunter's friends. Their
children erew up the same way, but
what they lacked in culture they sup
plied in rough experiences and hair
breadth escapes and fireside talk,
and in the sports that were either
improvised or inherited. Pony
races, and gande rpullings had more
attractions than books. How they
got to using such twisted language
as you' uns and we'uns and Inguns
and mount and gwine and all sich" is
not known, nor was such talk uni
versal. When such idioms began
in a family they descended and
spread out among the kindred, but
it was no tcontaeions. I know one
family now of very extensive connec
tions who have a iolk-lore oi their
own, and it can be traced back to
the old ancester who died half a
century ago. But these corruptions
of language are by no means peculBr
to the cracker, for the English cock
neys and the genuine yankee have
art idiom quite as eccentric, though
they do not realize it and would not
admit it.
The Georgia cracker was a merry-
hearted, unconcerned, independent
creature, and all he asked was to be
let alone by the laws and the outside
The justice court of his beat was
quite enough limitation for him. He
had- far more respect for the old
spectacled 'squire than for the highest
court in tlie nation. Prom this home
made tribunal he never appealed until
the young iawyers began to hgure in
it, and seduced him into the mysteries
of the law ' and the wonderful per
formances of the writ "Sasherary
Nevertheless they looked upon law
yers as suspects and parasites, and
their descendants have the same
opinion still. The old 'squire was
specially "foment them and looked
upon the sasherary as an insult to his
judicial capacity. Some times he
would let two young limbs of the law
argue a case before him for half an
hour, and then quietly remark,
"Gentlemen, I judgmenticated this
case last night at home," and would
proceed with his docket. That old
WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N.
squire ana the preacner were quite
. M
enough to pilot these people through
life and across the dark nver.
A lew years after they had settled
down as the successors to the Indians
a class of more substantial citizens
began to look in upon this beautiful
country. They purchased the valley
lands and the nver bottoms, and soon
the forests began to fall before the
ax of the pioneers. Some ol them
brought slaves with them and erected
sawmills and framed houses with
glass windows to live in, and the
school master came along, but the
crackers were in the majority and
lived along in the same old primitive
way. As late as 1847 they had
gander pullings, and one that I
witnessed that summer lasted for two
hours and the original Bill Arp was
the victor. I could have seen more
of them, but I did not care to just
for the same reason that a kind-heart
ed man does not wish to see but one
hanging.
One Saturday morning when we
arrived at Blue Gizzard courtground,
the clans had gathered in unusual
force. As preliminary to the more
important contest that was soon to
come on, some 01 tne Doys were
shooting at a small piece of white
paper that was pinned to a distant
tree. Some were gathered around
the spring. Some were trying old
mother Tutten's fresh cider and
ginger cakes that she offered from
the hindgate of her little wagon and
some were sampling the corn whisky
that was kept in a jug in the little
log courthouse hard by. We soon
perceived the central and most at
tractive spot to be a small tree
with a limb forking about ten feet
from its base. A long, slender,
springy pole was resting in the fork
with the large end pressed to tne
ground and fastened with stobs
crossed on either side and driven
firmly in the clay. This incline
raised the long end of the pole quite
high in the air, and to that end was
looped a plow line, and to the lower
end of the line another loop was
slipped over the crimson feet ol a
venerable gander and lelt mm
swinging, head downwards just high
enough for a horseman to reach it
easily as he rode underneath. 1 he
doomed bird gave an occasional
squawk, and, with wings half open
and neck half bent, looked unquestion
ed alarm upon the proceedings.
The feathers had been stripped from
its neck and a thick coat of grease
put on instead. The undergrowth
had been removed and a running
path for the horsemen carefully
cleared of all obstructions, lhe
tournament began at 1 1 o'clock.
Twenty sovereigns, mounted on
their plow nags, ranged themselves at
one end of the path and awaited die
call of their names by the squire,
who had them written on a fly-leaf
in the back of his docket. No man
. , . 1 . -i 1 t 1
was allowed to nae until ne uau
planked up a dollar. The old
'squire had contributed the gander
just out of good will to the boys, he
said, and he was nominated as
treasurer and umpire and earned
the bag, and on his decision the
whole sum was to be awarded the
victor. He had adjourned his court
for two hours to see the fun and keep
down any disturbance of the peace
Eieht "whippers were mustered in
four on each side ol the course. They
were all armed with good long
switches or hickorys, and their willing
duty was to see to it that no man's
nae moved towards the gander with
.
less alacrity than a gallop. "Now
boys," said he, "not a lope that would
keep a nag a-lopin' half an hour in
the shade of a tree, a right lively
gallop, and ll the cntter slows up
any, you must peartin him up
little especially as he s a-mghin
owards the gander."
The boys were true sovereigns
They were not knights. 1 hey were
arrayed in their home-made pants
and home-made shirts and home-
knit ealluses. Iheir shoes were
made at the tannery and their hats at
the hattery. Coats and vests were
not on their regalia. All the nabor-
hood were their spectators including
many women, some with infants at
the breast and some with sons in the
tournament.
The gathering people exchanged
salutations and smiles and gave the
family news and gradually drew near
the place where the anserian struggle
was impending.
The old squire had participated in
some oid-iasnioneo musters in ms
day, and so, when everything was
ready he stood on a log and, raising
his right hand, exclaimed : "Ten
tion company ! In the proceedings
that we are about to proceed with it
are expected that every men will con
duct his behavior accordin' to what's
fair and honest no man are to take
any disadvantage of ary other man
nor of the gander. Thar he are
hanein' without a friend. Tote fair
boys, tote fair ; and put him out of
misery as quick as you ken, in rea
son. Jack Pullum three paces to
the front now ready aim charge"
As Jack struck his heels in his
pony's flank the crowd shouted:
"Charoe 'em. Tack! Charge 'em!"
But Jack's critter wasn't used to
charging. He rebelled at the go and
the "whippers in" had to come to
his support. He dashed in and out
of the path wildly, but finally took
the bit in his teeth and started down
the line on a desperate run for free
dom amid the shouts and cheers ol
the multitude. He steered well until
he suddenly eyed the great white
bird just ahead of him. He stopped
as if on the brink of a precipice, but
Jack went on. That clapped the
climax of tumultuous hilarity. The
like of that was what they came for.
3k. .. - . '
Jack caught on his hands and feet,
and was soon remounted and took
another start, and his nag behaved
better, but still did not come in reach
of the gander, and Jack lost his
chance until the second grand round.
"We uns ham t got no geese at our
house," said he, "and my animal
never seed one afore as I knows on."
"Samuel Swillin, to the front," call
ed the 'quire. "Ready, aim, charge."
Sam's critter was more tractable and
Sam got a fair grab, but the grease
was to slick for him, and as he slip
ped his hold the poor bird swang to
and fro and flapped his wings and
squawked loud and long at the terri
ble squeeze and the more terrible
elongation of his ' oesophagus. Sam
was congratulated on his eftort.
He wiped his fingers " on a pine top,
and said : "Yes I'll be dadburned if
I 'wouldn't have got him, but the
ding thing was so allfired slickery. I
was in hopes that Jack Pullum would
have got the fust grab and sleeked
often some of it."
"Rube Underwood to the front
ready aim charge." Rube had
a big mouth and was freckle faced
and red headed, and rode a flee-bit-ten
gray, that had been taught to
dance and prance around and to go
sideways "jest to show smart," as
the boys said and it took the ani
mal some time to be convinced that
dancing and prancing wasn't in order
at this particular time. A walloping
lick just as he neared the goal caused
him to make a learful leap right under
the bird, and as Rube had to use both
hands to hold his seat, the gander's
head collided square in Rube's face
and some swore he got it in his
mouth and "eften he had jest shet
it he would have had the prize." He
retired in good order and awaited his
second turn. One by one the riders
came as they were called. One after
another got some of the grease and
wiped it on their horses' manes, but
the muscles of the gander were old
and tough, and every one of the
twenty had gone his round and fail
ed, when the squire called a halt and
ordered another greasing. It was
evident, however, that some damage
had been done the bird, for his wings
hung droopy and his voice was fail
ing him. There was a laceration of
sinews going on, and but for the fresh
greasing the sport would have soon
ended. " 'Tention, company," said
the squire. "The proceedinses will
now take a Utile recess. Boys, you
can light and look at your saddles,
and ef you want water you can go to
the spring and get it, but don't wait
ong for my old gander are hangin
there without a friend and suflerin'."
The tournament was soon resum
ed. Bill An was the tenth man of
the second round. He was the tenth
of the first, and many predicted then
that he would break that gander's
neck or plow line or the pole, for his
grip was like a vise and nis aguity
notorious, but somehow the gander
ducked at the critical moment and
Bill grabbed his head instead of his
neck and made a miscarriage
As Bill's turn came again the
crowd ejaculated : "Now, watch him
boys. "Can t he nde, though r
See how he sets on his critter
"Blamed if he ain't tarred to his nag."
Look at his eye. "No whippers
for him." He's a gwine to carry that
gander's head a half a mile before he
stops." "Farewell, goose, I'll preach
your funeral. "Good-bye gander.
And sure enough Bill got the right
grip this time and in a trice had given
the neck a double twist and some
thing had to break as the pole and
line swiftly followed his motion. For
a moment it seemed uncertain what
would break or what had broken for
the strained tendons poppe'd like a
whip as Bill's nag went on at full
speed. For a little while the quiv
ering, headless body swung back
wards and forwards and was then at
rest. Then came the shouts and the
wild hurcah. Bill was game and so
was his critter, and as they came
round to the front the crowd gathered
round to see the gander's head that
he held high in his hand the warm
blood trickling from the arteries.
After the jubilee was over Bill invited
the nineteen and the squire to old
Mother Tutten's wagon, and having
purchased her-stock of cakes and
cider and the jug in the court house
he "gin 'em all a treat." There was
not a tight nor a luss in all the "pro
ceedinses." In a lew minutes there
after the voice of the bailift was heard
crying "Oh yes, oh yes the honora
ble court of the 825th deestrict are
now met kordin' to adjournment.
God save the State and the honorable
court."
These rough rude people were the
original Georgia crackers. They
constituted a large proportion of the
population of Cherokee half a century
ago. They were -generally poor, but
they enjoyed life more than they did
money. They were sociable and
thev were kind. When one of their
number was sick they nursed him
when he died they dug a grave and
buried him, and that was the end of
the chapter. Ihere was no tomo
stone, no epitaph, no obituary. Their
class is fast disappearing from our
midst. Civilization has encroached
uoon them, and now their children
have assimilated with a higher grade
of humanity
Bill Arp
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C, SEPTEMBER
SOME POLITICS TALKED BY SOME
PEOPLE WHO KNOW SOKE THINGS.
Hatch and the Hog Tariff Mills Will Take
a Hand in Ohio Fester's Finances Ma
hone Working the Virginia Alliance
Benton McSUUIn Unsheaths his Sword
The Pension Steal as a "Distributor of
Wealth," The "Nigger" Won "What are
Here for Flanagan," OlVen a Flace
Tracey Mulched.
(SPECIAL COR. THE ADVANCE.)
Washington, bept 7th, 1891.
Secretary Rusk appears to be about
the only Republican in Washington
who did "lose his head" over the re
moval of the restrictions upon the im
portation of American hog products
into jGermany. While others were
indulging in fool-talk about the tri
umphs of American diplomacy, Sec
retory Rusk, who knows that it was
the meat inspection law and not
diplomacy which carried the day in
our" favor, was giving the credit
where it properly belonged to a
Democrat, by writing" a letter to
Representative W. H. Hatch, of
Missouri, which closed with the fol
lowing paragraph that tells the whole
story: "The thanks of the farmers
of this country are due to you for
your efforts in their behalf, and
especially your advocacy before the
House of Representatives of the
Fifty-first Congress of the meat in
spection bill, without which the above
result (removal of the restrictions)
could not have been obtained."
Representative Mills who is now
in Washington, will make his first
speech in the Ohio campaign on the
1 7th inst. Tariff reform will be his
subject.
Secretary Foster s expectation that
the four-and-a-half per-cent bonds,
upon which the interest ceased on the
2nd inst., would be presented for re
demption very slowly was wrong, as
at the close of business Saturday
there had been $19,000,000 of the
27,000,000 outstanding presented
for redemption.
Ex-Senator Mahone s scheme of re
gaining power by the aid of the Farm
ers Alliance 01 Virginia, is not relish
ed by all of the members of his party
in that State, as is evidenced by a
well-attended meeting of Republican
county chairmen held here several
days ago. Col. Parsons, a warm
personal friend of Secretary Blaine,
is at the head of this movement,
which has for its objects the dethrone
ment of Mahone as State chairman
and the control of the State delega
tion to the national convention. Ma
hone is to be asked to call a mass
convention, and if he refuses the coun
ty chairmen will call it and elect a
new State committe.
Representative McMillin has de
cided to join the distinguished mis
sionary party of Democrats in its
tour to the State ol Washington, but
owing to his campaign engagements
in Massachusetts and elsewhere, he
will be unable to remain with the
party through the whole trip. . He
will make a tariff reform speech at
Spokane Falls to the representative
of the Democratic clubs of Wash
ington. A story is told here which shows
the opinion privately entertained by
prominent Republicans of Pension
law. Secretary Foster, as the story
eoes. said to a personal friend: "If
it was ndt for the pension grab, we
would have an abundance of money;
but I suppose that is about as good
a way as any for scattering the money
around among the people."
John S. Durham who was yester
day appointed Minister to Hayti, is a
Philadelphian by birth, 31 years of
age, ana graauatea at tne university
1 ..V TT"
of Pennsylvania m 1800. Until his
appointment to San Domingo in May
1890, he was a member ot the edito
rial staff of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
He is ol ngnt complexion ana a
Caucasian cast of countenance, and is
reoorted to be a vouncr man of unu
sual ability, integrity, and tact
And so the "nigerers" won the
fight over the appointment of a sue
cessor to hred Douglass, notwith
standing men close to Secretary
Blaine have stated that a white man
was to be sent. Durham, who has
been for some time U. S. consul at
San Domingo, was recommended by
Mr. Wanamaker, ex-Senator Bruce
and ex-Representative Lynch, all
Federal office holders, and his ap
pointment shows very plainly that
Mr. Harrison feared the threats of ne
groes more that he did the displeas
ure of Mr. Blaine.
And that is not the onlyr ecent anti
Blaine appointment. Webster Flana
gan, of Texas, who obtained a nation
al notoriety in 1 880, while in attend
ance upon a Republican national con
vention, by asking significantly when
some speaker had been talking of the
evils of scrambling for office, "What
are we here for' and who has always
been a strong anti-Blaine man, has
been made Collector of Cus
toms at El Paso, Texas, in place of
I Clark, who was recentiy whitewashed
j by
the Sreasury Department
in an alleged investigation 01
numerous charges, including un
dervaluation and other skulduggery.
This does not bear out the story that
Mr. Harrison is oreoared in certain
' contingencies to retire in favor of
Blaine, it looks more like he was pre
panng to contest the field against
Blaine or anybody else.
r rr 1 1 1 1 r
secretary iracy nas naa a on 01
bad luck m which he has neither de -
served nor received any sympathy.
Early in the summer he placed a
man who was his valet on the rolls of
the Navy department as a messenger,
a little scheme which is entirely too
common among Republican officials,
to avoid paying his personal bills,
etc., and the other day Mr. Tracy
17, 1891.
was surpnsea to learn tnat Dins were
1 . 1 , . ...
not paid which he had given his valet
the money to pay months ago. The
valet is discharged from his dual po
sition and the Secretary is out several
hundred dollars.
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In them are being cultivated the
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walk in life. How essential is it that
these minds should be united to
stroug healthy bodies. So many
children suffer from impurities and
poisons in the blood that it is a won
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men and women. Many parents
cannot find words strong enough to
express their gratitude to Hood's
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their chiidren. Scrofula, salt rheum
and other diseases of the blood are
effectually and permanently cured by
this excellent medicine, and the whole
being is given strengh to resist at
tacks of disease.
The greatest learning is to be seen
with the greatest plainness.
A Wonder Worker.
Mr. Frank Huffman, a young man
of Burlington, Ohio, states that he
had been under the care ol two
prominent physicians, and used their
treatment until he was not able to
get around. They pronounced his
case to be consumption and incurable.
He was persua4ed to try Dr. King's
New Discovery for consumption,
coughs and colds and at that time
was not able to walk across the street
without resting. He tound before
he had used half of a dollar bottle,
that he was much better; he continued
to use it and is- to-day enjoying good
health. If you have any Throat,
Lung or chest trouble try it. We
guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle
free at Rowland's Drugstore.
Learning is wealth to the poor and
ornament to the rich.
Ijamon Elixir.
PLEASANT, ELEGANT,
For biliousness and
take Lemon Elixir
RELIABLE,
constipation,
For fevers, chills-and malaria, take
Lemon Elixir
For sleeplessness, nervousness and
palpitation of the heart, take Lemon
Elixir
For indigestion and foul stomach,
take Lemon Elixir
For all sick and nervous headaches,
take Lemon Elixir
Ladies, for natural and thorough or
ganic regulation, take Lemon Elixrr
Dr Mozley's Lemon Elixir will not
fail yoh in any of the above named dis
eases, all of which arise from a torpid
or diseased liver, stomach, kidneys or
Dowels
Prepared only by Dr H Mozley, At
lanta, Ga.
5oct and $1.00 per bottle, at druggists
Lemon Hot Drops.
Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
bore 1 hroat, Bronchitis, Hemmor
rhage and all throat and lung diseas
es Elegant, reliable
25 cents at druggists Prepared only
Dy ur ri Mozley, Atlanta, Ga
We may be as good as we
if we please to be good.
please,
For Over Fifty Years i
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
has been used tor over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething, - with perfect, success.
It soothes the child, softens the gums
anays an pain, cures wina colic, and
is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It
will relieve the poor little sufferer im-
meaiateiy. soia oy uruggists in
every part of the world. Twenty-five
cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp,'
and take no other kind.
Measure your life by acts of good
ness, not by years.
Backlen's Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruise, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rhuem, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chap
ped hands Chilblains, Corns, and al:
Skin Eruptions, and positively cur"es
Piles or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to give satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price 25 cents per box
For sale by A. W. Rowland. ,
By good nature half the misery
human life might be assuaged.
of
Mirtie M. Tanner, Boonville,
writes : "I .had blood poison
Ind.
from
birth knots on my limbs were as
large as hen eggs. Doctor said
would be a cripple but B. B. B. has
cured me sound and well. I sha
ever praise the day the men who
vented Blood Balm were born."
in
1 he only way to cure lever and
ague is either to neutralize the pois
ons which cause the disease or to ex
pel them from the system. Ayer's
Ague Cure operates in both ways. It
is a warranted specific for all forms of
malarial disorders, and never fails to
cure.
Try it
To be good is to be hapy.
No child will have a rosy complex
ion as loug as worms exist in the in
testines. Shriners Indian Vermifuge
will destroy the worms and restore
the health of the child.
For bracing up the nerves, purify
ing the blood and curing the head
ache and dyspepsia there is nothing
tQ Hoods Sarasparllla.
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That pain under the shoulder
blade is dyspepsia. Take -Simmons
Liver Regulator.
Simmons Liver , Regulator is a
most excellent appetizing tonic.
Saml. S. Pentz, Chap, to Bishop of
North Carolina. .
STATE NEWS.
BRIEF CONDENSATIONS INTEREST
INGLY GATHERED TOGETHER.
Some of the Things Being Done in the "Old
North State" That May Prove of Interest
to Yon.
Newbem will soon
street cars. Hurrah
City."
have electric
for the "Elm
Halifax county has 100 pubile
schools in operation 46 white and
54 colored.
Col. John S. Cuningham, of Per
son coumy, has been appointed Chief
Marshal ol the State Fair.
Last Saturday while attempting to
board'a movine train. C. LFisher.
of Durham, fell and broke his left
arm at Weldon.
Mr. D. B. Nicholson has been elec
ted cashier of the Clinton bank. He
succeeds Capt, Wm. A Johnson, one
of Clinton's best citizens.
The assessed value of all real and
personal property of Wayne countv
will exceed half million dollars in
comparison with last year.
The Gastonia Gazette has been in
flicted with a radish that-
inches in length and nVi in
circumference. The "editor has been
dining on it for one week.
John Henderson, a negro oTMeck-
enburg county who has voted the
Democratic ticket ever since the war.
is dead. His body showed numer
ous scars, all received in the cause
of Democracy.
Robt T.; Baker, of New Bedford.
Mass., read the Bible through for the
first time in 1880. Since that date
he has read it 99 times. It usually
takes him two months to read it from
beginning to end.
A man in Oakland City, Ind.,
boasts that he never wore a pair of
socks until he was so years of aee;
that he has made three overland trips
to lNew Orleans, and that he has al
ways voted the Democratic ticket.
We regret to learn that Nahunta
Academy, off from Fremont, in the
Northwestern section of our county
was destroyed by fire Friday night,
the 4th, the work of an incendiary
or so supposed. Goldsboro Areus.
A washout occurred on the Western
North Carolina railroad, near Marion
ast week. A fill 65 feet long and
25 leet high was washed out. A
negro man discovered it just in time
to nag the west bound train, and
thus averted another accident.
R. B. Brown was arrested at Wil
ming Saturday, the Messenger says,
uy a uniteu states tommissioticr ior
using the United States mails for the
purpose of purchasing a Louisiana
Lottery ticket, and bound over to the
November term of the United
States District Court.
1 he Goldsboro Headlight tells 01
bie loss bv holding cotton. After
holding 346 bales of cotton for a high
er market, for which he was offered
last November 9 cents per pound but
refused, George W. Best sold the en
tire lot for 74 cents, sustaining
a loss of nearly $5,000.
In the suit against the Wilmington
& Weldon R. R. Company, which
was tried here last week, brought by
a Mrs. Clark for the killing of her
husband in 1889, the jury gave a ver
dict against the company for $1,200
in favor of Mrs. Clark. Smithheld
Herald.
The freshet in the river has subsi
ded. All crops on the river that
were not ruined by the freshets be
fore were destroyed by this one as
the water was up about a week.
Turner Wilkins, a white man
in jail here from Harnett county by
order of Judge Whitaker, serving a
sentence for cost, has served the al
lotted time in "jail and if he would
take the insolvent oath could go free
but he owns some property and can
not take it, and he says he will stay
in jail until the moss grows on his
back before he will pay the cost. He
was only fined five cents and cost.
Smithfield Herald.
A eenius at Muhlenberg:, Pa
has
completed a marvelous clock for ex
hibition at the fair. Around the
dial is a railway track, on which a
minature locomotive makes a round
every five minutes, it requires a
maenifvine elass to see the delicate
machinery. The oil cups at the jour
nals are so small that nothing larger
than a hair can be inserted. There is
a headlight and bell, flae-holders on
the pilot whistle, and everything con
nected with a locomotive. It has
a link motion under the eneine to re
verse it. The weight of the locomo
tive is 1 Dounds. and it has been
named "The Gem."
It is reported that trouble is brew
ing at the Pamlico oyster grounds.
Gen'l Gaston Lewis has been survey
ing entries in Hyde county and has
just left there and gone to Pamlico to
continue his work there of locating
the plots that had been taken up for
the purpose of engaging in the oys
ter culture. Those who are opposed
to such measures made threats that
they would shoot him, so it is said at
the first-stake he stuck to mark a
boundary. Dr. F. P. Gates of Bayboro
and Hon. W. T. Caho, of this city,
who have taken up grounds there are
also included in the threats. Need
ing certain plots and documents from
Bayboro, General Lewis went over
after them, leaving his boat at Vande
mere, and while he was pone thirteen
rifle balls were fired through the sloop
he was using. The sloop is Capt.
Frisbie's. It is intended to arrest
some, who made threats. Newbern
Journal.
NUMBER 35.
WINSTON HOUSE,
SELMA, N. C.
MRS. G. A. TUCK,
PROPRIETRESS.
DR. W. S. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, n. c.
Office in Drug Store on Tarboro St.
DR. ALBERT ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, n. c.
Office next door to the First Nationa
Bank.
DR. E. K. WRIGHT,
Surgeon Dentist,
WILSON, N. C.
Having permanently located in Wil
son, I offer my professional services to
the public.
"Office in Central Hotel Building.
DR. R. W. JOYNER,
DENTAL SURGEON,
WILSON, N. C.
I have become Dermanentlv identi
fied with the people of Wilson : have
practiced here for the past ten years
and wish to return thanks to the gener
ous people of the comniunitv for the
liberal patronaere thev have siven me
tW I spare no money to procure in
struments that will conduce to the com
fort of my patients. For a continuation
of the liberal patronage heretofore
bestowed on me I shall feel deeply
grateful. -
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ter by taking it than any other newspa
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J. R. WHARTON, Prop'r. '
H. W. WHARTON, Editor.
8-6-2t.
Ellis & Wi
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We have bought out the
horse business of John Selby
may be found at his old stand,
adjoining Bob Wyatt's tin
shop, where we will be pleas
ed to see his friends as well as
ours and serve them.
Mules, k Horses
for sale or trade. We are
better prepared than ever to
serve you. Call and see us.
ELLIS & WIGGINS,
5-ji-3m. Wilson, N. C.
S. H.
DEALER IN
COAL,
Richmond, Va.
9-3-3m-
J. D. BARDIN,
ATTORNEY-AND-
COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW,
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
WILSON, N. C.
Office in rear of Court House.
.-Practice in all the State Courts.
Claims! Collected. Estates Set
tled. Lands Bought and
Sold.
Parties having houses to rent in Wil
son would do well to place them in my
hands. Taxes paid, rents collected
and promptly paid over at the end o(
each month, without trouble to owner.
If you have lots in Wilson, or farm
ing lands in Wilson county, to SELL,
or if you desire to PURCHASE real
estate in Wilson county or the town of
Wilson, it will pay you to. communicate
with me.
I have several bargains in lots and
farming lands. One brick store on
east.side Tarboro street for sale.
All enquiries answered enclose
stamp
VTOTICE.
Having qualified as Executors
of the last will and testament of Cortis
H. Glover, deceased, all persons hav
ing claims against said deceased are
hereby notified to present them to us,
or to our attorney for payment on or
before the 20th day of August 1893 or
this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to said
deceased are requested to make im
mediate payment.
Zilpha Glover,
W. N. Glover,
John E- Woodard, Atty.
LOST
Between this place and my farm yes
terday morning, September 9th, my
pocket-book ft contained $2 in money
and papers of value only to myself A
liberal reward will be paid for its return
tome. E. BARNES, JR.,
9-10-tf Wilson, N. C.
ggms.
HWES
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