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VOLUME XXVII
WILSON, X. C, JULY 29, 1897.
NUMBER 29.
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DIRECTORY.
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS. i
local trains: .
Between Florence and.Weldon.
.q No. 23.
r r T oi'Ps Wilnn 2!ns P. M.
THK NORTH AMERICAN GOLD F1KLH.S.
Between Wilmington and Norfolk:
No iS. No. 49-
p. jvi. weaves av ubun, .j. x .
i::4s
"Shoo Fly" Wilmington to Rocky
Mount:
No. 41.
Leaves Wilson, 6:15 A.M.
No. 4-
P.M.
THROUGH TRAINS'.
Between Florence and Weidon:
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No "2. lNO .XV
r22 X. M. Leaves Wilson, ii:iS P. M.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:
R. S. Clark, Chairman.
Shade Feltox, 1 J. H. Newsom.
W.J. Cherry, blieiiri, .
I. D.Iardin, Clerk of Superior Court.
. H. Griffin, Kegister 01 weeub,
S. H. Tyson, Treasurer, 1 ' r
Ym. Hakriss, Coroner,
I. T. Revel, Surveyor:
t : ) w n f v i k us.
aldermen:
J. B. Lee,
. A. Clarr, ,
U. H. Cozart,
Geo. Hackney,
. T. Ellis.
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
5th
Ward.
?. B. Deans, Mayor;
Jxo. R. aIoore Town Clerk;
V.'. E. Deans, Collector.
police:
W. P. Snakenberg, Chief.
Ephriam Harrell, Frank F elton
"James Marshbourne.
ChristmXn, St. orntnissioner,
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St.
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Charlotte Observer.
The. discovery ol ;he extensive,
rich gold fields in the northwestern
portion. of the continent has caused
an excitement in America unequaled
since the days ofsUq, when Californ
ia's hidden wealth sfc published to
the world. The stories ibf the rich
ness of gold in the Klondike placer
minings district are doubtless not
greatly exaggerated, for the verifica
tion comes along, in the way of sacks
and boxes of gold dust and nuggets
and in the report of geologists who
have studied the formation of the
northwest country. - X
The Klondike mining region is not
in Alaska, and hence not within the
domains of the United States. It is
in British North America,' from 35 to
100 milts from the Alaskan bound
ary. As the Baltimore Sun remarks,
"the existence of this gold in English
instead of our territory' is another ev-
idtrce cf B.ilish greed and perfidy
which should excite cur senatorial
j .11 goes to the 'highest pitch of right
eous indignation and lorm the basis
for inflamatory and warlike resolu-
tions." Thev -region gets its- name
from the Klondike, a river emptying
into the Yukon- It was discovered
by a poor miner named George Mc
Cormick, and the first -claim was
staked on Bonanzi creek on thei7th
ot August of last year. Eight hun
dred claims have been staked oft
since then, and the camp, which th'e
miners call Dawson City, has a popu
lation of 3,000. Of course it is on a
boom and miners and laborers make
a? high as $15 a day. The country
is wild and only the hardy and stout
hearted can brave its hardships, One
of the returned fortune seekers says ol
it : .
'It was 6S degrees below zero last
winter and the ground was Irozen to
the depth of forty feet. The snow
doesn't fall to any great depth, three
feet being the greatest, and that was
light and fleecy frost. 4 All the gold
is taken out of the ground by thaw
ing in summer. There, are nine
months ot winter. It "is a horrible
country to live in, but it is healthy. I
am satisfied to stay away from Klon
dike, although I did well;"
Not only is it a rough and tumble
life in the place but the region is ex
tremely inaccessible. The- trails to
the gold mines are treacherous and
snow-hidden even to an unencumber
ed man, and it is with great difficulty
that -sheep are driven through the
mountain passes to appease the hun
ger of the dwellers there. It is fear-
not more than $30,000,000 prior to law governing the postal service
184. In 1853 the aggregate annuaP which forbids the franking privilege
production reached $160,000,000. ... . . . p"vncge
California alone oroduci fi,om. to publications containing advertise-
. a ,
000 in that vear. THp nnrW'c r ments.
duction for 1895, according to csti- j Under this arrangement, the" pub -
mates Irom United States Treasury ishing department of the bureau . has
reports, was $203,000,000 Recent- Rained a newTease of life, its last
ly the silver mono-metahsts have 4, , , .. . . .'
been telling us that the, world did not monthly bulletin containing thirty
produce enough gold for its financial PaSes of advertising. Business
and commercial needs, but with every houses in all parts of the United
step in tKe development ot trade States are receiving letters under gov-
7Ce anufkctures lnat"re r ernment trank, soliciting their adver
seems to open her purse to the de-1 - . ' , . . .
mands ot human energy and enter-j tlsements' and the Circulation of the
prise. Her reosources of all kinds ? bulletin has been very much increas
are inexhaustible, anil we are probably ed. The publishers ot trade journals
stiil only upon the threshold of which compete lor the same class of
dtscovenesn f numerous .directions business-are becoming very much ex
The opening of this bountifully hilled , , , ,
strong 'box in the frozen domains of asPerated that the government has
the North seems' to indicate that entered their field, and, bygiving the
thefe is no region of the earth, how- j bureau the franking privilege, put
ever, forbidding . or unattractive, ! them 'to a still lurther disadvantage.
which may not be rich in some ele-'i Vu . .1
v j , I The injustice is so apparent that the
ment valuable to human develop-
ment and progress. j numeroU3 requests now being sent to
- , i congressmen to introduce bills limit-
i ing the franking privilege to the pur
! poses for which it was originally irv
bpeer's Unfermented Grape Juice! tended, should be promptly heeded
is so perfectly divested oall ferment
ing, principle by electricity and fumi-
Ahst-lntniy Pure Grape Juice.
gation, that if uncorked and half a
bottle used, and well corked up
again immediately and placed upside
down ina cocl
months : but
Nevvspaperdom
s
A Check to I'opulism.
The decision ot the North Carolina
Railway Commission, in the matter
place, it will keep for j of reducing railrcad rates in the
if allowed to come in! State, deciding as it has that the pas-
contact with the air in a warm tern- j senger rates in North Carolina are
perature it will absorb the fermenting ! lower than in any other States in pro
germ irom the air, and will not keep portion tovthe population per square
good, but .will ferment aVid become ; .mile, and that the freight rates are
slishtly alchoholic. For sale bv -fatly as low, is a decision that 'will
meet the hearty approval of every
business man and sensible person in
Tele- tne btate.
x This decision is not merely one
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A Remarkable Georgia Story. -
A gentleman just returned from
Bellville, Ga., tells a most remarkable
phenomenon which at present is al
most running the negro population
wild down there. It is something
like this : t
A lew days ago several negroes,
were playing 4seven up' in a little
village about fifty miles from Bell
ville, and one of them having bad
luck, with only, one dollar Idt, said
that if he lost that he would curse the
Lord. He lost and fulfilled his vow ,
by cursing the Lord vehemently. He !
had hardly completed his dreadful
denunciations when from out his
mouth, nose and ears shot forth ;
streams of fire. When his compan
ions recovered, half an hour later
from the insensibility into which they
were shocked, the man was still sit
ting in the same place, on a log, and
the streams cf fire still continued to
pour forth. .
The frightened men tried to re
move him from the log, but he
could not be budged, he was stuck
fast. They then procured an axe, in
tending to cut the log away from
around the man, but at the first
stroke of the axe, blood gushed from
t lie wood and they fled in terror.
This story is. believe by thousands,
ot negroes, and they are flocking to
see the "accursed man' Monday
riiorning a big excursion from Bel
ville left for the scene. TV
druggists
i KV1I Hat1.
Timothy's Episcopal . church,
F. C. Bavliss, Priest-in-charge.
Services: Sdndays "at n a. m. and 7:30
p. m., Sunday Scho61 at 3 p. m., Week
Jays Wednesdays and Fridays at 4 P
m, Holy days at 10 a.Vm. Celebra
tion of Holy Communion'on 1st Sun
day in each month at 11 a. m., other
Sundays at 7:45 a. m.
Methodist Church, Rev. J. B. Hurley
Pastor; services it 11 a. m. and 7:30
p.m. Sunday School, 5 p. m., J. F.
Bruton, Supt. Prayer meeting Wed
nesday night at 7130. i
Disciples Church, Rev. D. W. Davis,
Pastor; services every Sunday, 11 a m,
7:30 p m. Prayer meeting Wednesday
night. Sunday School at 3 o'clock, p.
m., Geo. Hackney, Supt.
Presbyterian Church, Rev. James
Thomas, Pastor; services on the First,
Third and Fourth Sunday in every
month and at Louisburg Second Sun
day. Services at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p.
m. Sunday School at 5 o'clock, p. m.
Baptist Church , service as follows: , e tat 2o,ooo, or 30,000 adven
turers should flock to the frozen spot,
Preaching Sunday jnornin2 at 11:00
Pastor. Prayer meeting Wednesday as is possible, there will be a famine
evening at 8 o'clock. Sunday School and many will die of hunger. Juneau
U5 p. m., I. S. Boykin Supt.
rrimitive Baptist Church, preachin?
northwest of Sitka, is the point which
miners fit out their exoeditions. The
on 2nd Sunday by Elder Jas. Bass; on 1 . . .. .
rA c j C , , t c Urail from Juneau is 700 miles over
3rd Sunday by Elder Jas S. Woodard; ' v J ,
the4th"Sunday and Saturday before the mountains iv xviouuikc. xue
by the pastor, Elder P. D. Gold.
vicesbegin at n a. m.
Ser-
LODGES.
Regular meetings of iMt. Lebanon
Lodge No. 117 A. F. & A. M. are held
n their hall, corner of Nash and Golds
boro streets on the 1st and 3rd Monday
nights at 7:30 o'clock p. m. each month.
C. E. Moore, W. M.
'Regular meetings of Mt. Lebanon
Jhapter No. 27 are held in the Masonic
every 2nd Monday nignt at 7:30
0 clock p. m. each month.
W. H. Applewhite, H. P.
p Regular meetings of Mt. Lebanon
-ommandery. No. 7 are held in the
Masonic hall every 4th Monday night
at 7:30 o'clock each month.
R. S. Barnes, E. C.
Regular meetings of Wilson Lodge -K-
of H. No. 1694 are held in their hall
over the 1st National Bank every 1st
ursday evening at 3:30 o'clock, p. m..
B. F. Briggs, Director.
1 Regular meetings of Contentnea
nge' No- 87 K. of P., are held in
udd Fellows' Hall every Thursday
ght Visiting members always wel
come. V ' 3 t ;
t egular meetings of Enterprise
age, No. 44, are held every Frday
n'2ht in Odd Fellows' Hall.
other route is" by steamer from Seat
tle to St. Michael's and then by river
The State railroad commission at 1
its meeting at Round Knob decided
to require the railroads of-the State
to pay an increased tax, and the tele
graph companies to send messages at
a reduced rate.
The commission increased the val
uation ot railroad property in North
Carolina $3,000,000 over the assessed
valuation in 1896. and the railroad
companies will therefore be required
to pay taxes on s greatly increased
return.
In the matter of cheaper telegraph
service the commission placed the
rate for a message of ten words or
less at 15 cents. The rate has here
tofore been 25 cents.
The railroad commission is very
careful to be just and fair in its decis
ions. xIt has made the most pains
taking investigation into these sub
jects and we have no doubt that these
two decisions were justified by the
findings of the commission, and they
will undoubtedly be applauded by the
people of the . State. Charlotte Ob
Kverybxly Say
of Fever in ONE DA Y.
A Franking Abase.
eei
Why take Johnson's
Chill & Fever Tonic?
Because it cures the
boat up the Yukon to Dawson City, moSf stubborn Case
1,700 miles lurther. jby tne latter
route it takes forty days to make the
trip. Neither route can be travelled
after the middle of September.
The Baltimore Sun says':
It is impossible, as yet, to estimate
the probable output of these new gold
fields, but there seems little .doubt
that, making all reasonable allowance
lor exaggeration, they must be reck
oned with as important new factors in
the world's financial resources. .b&er
since the gold discoveries in Califor
nia in '48 the annual production of the
metal has greatly increased. Ac
cording to authoritative statistics, the
average product ot the California
mines up to 1870 was about $45,000,
000 annually. Then followed from
time to time the opening up of new
fields in Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa. The aggregate annual
product ot gold, exclusive ot that of
Asia, is put by some authorities at
The Government has long
competitor of the job printer in t
printing of envelopes, and much m
ited criticism has been heaped upon
the government printing office on this
account. Now the government has
gone into the advertising business
an,d become a competitor of the trade
journals of the country. When the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill passed Congress, last February,
it contained an amendment, innocent
in appearance, extending the
Iranking privilege tcf all official
mail matter of the. Bureau ot Ameri
can Republics. - This action was a
direct reversal of the well established
road, but it is a decision which is a
check to the spirit of Populism, alto
gether too prevalent in North Car
olina, The cry ot - death to the railroad
kings, and -judgment against, every
corporation, is too readily brought
forth to serve the politician.
The continued building up of a
hostility to railwav companies, based
chiefly upon the ground that they
have money, and therefore must
have acquired it at the expense of
the public, and should be made to
disgorge, has been used so much
that it ought not longer to deceive
the people. . ' .- - ' -
The fact that the Railway Com
mission has decided in favor ot no
reduction, after a critical hearing of
both sides of the case shows that
its members are practical men, and
have not been affected by the appar
ent populist sentiment which inspired
the action to bring about reduction
of railroad Ireight and passenger
rates in this State.
If it can be shown that railroads,
and corporations have a right to live
and do business in North Carolina,
without being at the mercy ol Popu
list officials, Judges, or newspapers,
the State will have made a stride to
wards removing the odium which in a
measure- hangs over her at present.
If it. can be seen that charges
brought forward, inspired without
any practical reason, against those
doing business, legitimatelyand
that these charges will receive the
disapproval ol every right minded
tribunal then North Carolina may be
considered on the road to a better
Statehood, one not shackled by Pop
ulism, but ruled and controlled by
the highest type of a pure and con
servative Democracy.
May such a Democracy prevail in
a State whose past record is so illus
trioos; as North Carolina's. Newb era
Journal. ,
That the VVines and Brandies of
the Speer, N. J., Wine Co., Paiac,'
N, J , are leading all others, in public
favor. Their Brandies are unexcelled
for delicacy ot flwor, and are pro
nounced by the most capable jndges
to be the very best on the market,
while their fine Old Port Unferment
ed Grape Juice are superior to all oth
ers for the sick room and Communion
Table. For pure grape Brandy their
Old Climax, vintage 1S76, is admit
ted the best to be had. Vineyard and
cellars at Passiac, N. J. . -
Sven Thought.
More fliec are caught with honey
than with vinegar.
If you wbuld not be known to do a
thing never do it.
It may be said that yesterday sug
gests to-morrows promises, but to
day accomplishes.
It is difficult to say who does the
most mischief, enimies with, he worst
intentions or lriends with the best.
There is a great struggle between
vanity and patience when we have to
meet a person who admires us but
who bores us.
Beware of prejudice. A man's
mind is like a rat 'trap prejudices
creep in easily, but it is doubtful if
they ever get out again.
A good and wise man may at times
be angry with the- world, and "also
grieved at it ; but no man can ever,
be long discontented with the world
if he does his duty in it. N. Y,
Weekly.
OASTOH IA.
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QCROFULA
O yields to the b
in "-its worst form
yields to the blood cleansing" power
of Hood's SarsaDarilla. Thousands of
Acred Ex-Cofafbderate "Dead,
Savannah. Ga., July 26. General La
fayette McLaws, the oldest; Confeder-
ate major general but one, was buried
yesterday with military honors. The
First regiment infantry, Georgia vol
unteers, F.irst battalion, Georgia vol
unteers, the Chatham artillery (the
oldest artillery company In the coun--try
except one), and one troop of the
First regiment of cavalry, the famous
Jeff. Davis Lesion, and two divisions
of naval militia, escorted the remains
cases have been perfectly CURED. I lrom tne.cnurcn ,0
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