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I k ' ; Y 1' IT mm 'Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." Vol.. 6. DUIMJM, IM. C, SEPTEMBER 15,1897. No. 36. i - ' 1 , I II! -------- I ' i - i - ' . g riitfs Fiiis Cure All Liver Ills, To those living in malarial districts - Tutts Pills are indispensible, they keep the system in perfect order and are an absolute cure for sick headache, indigestion, malaria, torpid liver, constipa tion and all bilious diseases. 'Cult's Liver Pills PROFESSIONAL CARDS. K. W. POTJ' Attorney-at-Iaw. - SMITHKIKLD, N. C. ( iiivf ii :il icntion to :iny civil matters ini i u-ir-l to 1 1 is caix in the courts of U.inictt County H L Godwin, Attorney at Law. Dun it. - otliri.-oiL Ijn;knov Square, N. V. II p':iclic' in tlie courts of Harnett :i.li'iiniuir counties and in tlie :ni i.i! 'units. t attention "riven to all b usines ' W- E- Murchison, JONESBOliO, N. C. J'i ari ires T.aw in Harnett, Moore and iiii!-i- I'tiiiiitit's, hut not for fun. F. I.. -20 lv. Isaac A- Murchison, FAYETTEVILLE, If. C. riai-tii i - Law in Cninbei land, Harnett ami ,ui u licie services are wanted. J, C CLIFFORD, Attorney at Law, I 17 XX. x. c. w;: Slalf, lra-tiiM' in all tlie courts wlwre services desired. of the TOWN DIRECTORY. CHURCHES. M.'tlm.list Church. Rev. E. C Sell, Pastor. S. r in s first Sunday night, and fourth Sun day iiii.riiiiij,- and nipht. Prayermeeting i vi ry Wednesday night. Sunday schcl i vi ry Sunday morning1 at 10 o'clock, O. K. i rant in uiieriutendeut. nai.tlst Church.-Rev, L. R. Carroll, pastor j s.-rvn-i's every second Sunday morning ana inirlit. l'rayermeetlng every Thursday night S'jinlay School every Sunday morning, R. G T;i 1 r Smu-i-iiiteiident. l'r. sl.yti rian Church. Rev. A. M.Hassel l'.-ist,,r. s-rvices every first and fifth Sunday la.irniiig and night, Sunday school every Sunday morning, M. L. V ade Superintendent. Ii-M ille -church Rev. I. W. Rogers, ias- t.u an. t-rvices every third Sunday monii jht. christian Endeavor Society every Tii.'s.hiy night Sunday school every Sunday veiling at .i o'clock, McD. Holliday Supt. Free Will Baidist Church. Elder R.. C :laekson. pastor. Services every second Sun lav u ruing and night. I'l iiiiitive Raiifist. Church on Broad street Kl'l-r V. (J. Turner, Pastor. Regular servt ci s (jii the third Sabbath morning, and Satur l:iy liefore, in each moiith at - 11 o'clock. El li i- V. k . Uold, of Wilson, editor of Zion's I aiiuinai k, ireaches at this church on the f"in Hi Sunday evening in each month at 754 iwk. livi'rybouy is lnviiea 10 aiieim m services. tl ting Mens' Union Prayer meeting every ...lay evening at 4 o'clock and Friday night a ; o'clock. All are cordially invited to I ntti-nd these services An invitation is ex-! tended to the visitor LODGES. 1 .11. know Lodge, No. 115, 'i. O. O. F. Lodge r " in over I . n. Barnes' store. Hegular meet iinr hi every Monday night. L. II . Lee, N. G.; '. li. Sexton, V. !.; Ci. K. Grantham, Secre tin. Ali Odd Fellows' are cordially invited t". attend. l'alinyra Lodge, No. H" A. P. & A. M. Hall v. r Free Will Baptist church. F. P. Jones M ; V. A. Johnson, S. W.; E. A. Jones W.; J. t. Johnson. Secretary. Regular " iniiiuiiications are held on the 3rd Sat ur jlay at Id o'clock A. M., and on the 1st Friday' T:."n o'clock i. mih each month. All Ma Mil's U a, in good standing are cordially invited utend these communications. County Officers . . Mioriir,J.II. Tope. . n.'i-k. p. M. McKay. Register of Deeds, J. McK. Byrd. Treasurer; G. I. Spence. ' 'oroner, J. J, wilsou. Surveyor,Mj. A. O'Kelly. ' County Examiner, Rev. J. A. Campbell. " I'oinnussioners : J. A. Green, Chairman H. N. Bizzell and Neill McLeod. TOWN OFFICERS. II. L. Godwin, Mayor. Commissioners . K. f. Young. J. J. Dupree, J. II. Fope K. Pearson. . F. Snead, Policeman. and SINLESS CLOTHES WIRE. Tlie Pinless Clothes Wire is a necessity in every home. ino pins are needed. No tearing of garments -and' no rust. The wind mav blow but the gar-j ments do"' not blow off. This ! wirn i tlm nhont .wire to beilum, ana iouua iu ume p.- had. Buy no other. For sale by J . F. r. Stewart. Dunn, N. C. EDWIRJ PURVIS MUST HAWG. Found Guilty of Murder in he First Degree- DAY - OP EXECUTION THE EVIDENCE Ed Purvis, the mulatto tramp, who shot and killed W. J. Blackwell, of Florence, S. C, a flagman on the A t bin Hp HaoJ Line, in the early morning of August loth, near. Dunn, was tried last week at Lillington and convicted of murder in the first degree 'by a jury of twelve good and lawful men. The jury got the case Wednesday evening and remained1 out all nignt. returning 1 Yfivrl inf. rf guilty: early Thursday morn- The prisoner had no counsel and the Judge appointed Messrs. J. C. Clifford and W. E. Mur chison to "defend him, and each made a strong effort for him, but the evidence was, too strong against the prisoner. TIip prosecution was represented by Hon. E. W. Pou, Solicitor, and Geo. M. Rose, Esq, of Fayette ville, both or whom made strong speeches. mi. .i. . i Atie cnain oi evidence wasH completely linked and present ed in a most convincim- mnn- ner. The first witness called was John M. Donlan, the engi neer in charge of thex train on which Blackwell was killed, testified as follows : Left Rocky Mount on time, were troubled with tramps at Rocky Mount and Wilson ; put oil' tramps at Kenly ; stopped at Mingo for water and after leav ing tank saw two men walking on top of cars coming toward engine ; one was DlacK, the oth er liprht either a white man or mulatto. I blew the whistle and stopped the train. The light fellow got1 off and walked back to the rear of the train ; was some 30 feet from him. He told flagman Blackwell repeat edly to get back on ; a pistol was fired and he said take that damn you. Blackwell said I amishot : I went to him, found him kneeling down with noth- jn lig lian(l jjut njs lantern. It wasthe light man that did the shooting. Don't think I could recognize him, but think I can recognize the voice. Have since talked with prisoner and his voice and the voice of the man who did the shooting are identically the same ; his ap- pearance, size ana coior cor responds with him. I saw flash pf pistol, the man had on same color of pants as the prisoner now has on, and had on black coat. It was either averyiignt man or a white man. 9 W. J. Hill was the next wit- ness ana lestineu : i am a cou- CIUCIOI aHU iiiui ciiuii;t. ui nisi mail train going south on the nigllt OI AUgUbl 11U1. iiaiii i, i 4 j. -i ill. t-: ,ft JlopVv Moilllt at 10 :o4 I . . . iiai irouoie wini 11 iiiup, .juk off tramps at Kenly ; soon after leaving Mingo waiter tank the train stopped and we found two men on top the cars. The por ter said get down off there ; the tramp said not for your life ; porter said hurry up; tramp saiu, who in the hell are you hurrying? Heard somebody say "get baqk quick," then said "God damn you, take that" and shot. Blackwell lived 10 or 1.2 minutes. Can't say which one shot ; . I only saw one, heard his voice, and have heard the same voice since. It was same voice as prisoner's. I think prisoner is the saine man that was on the train ; saw him on top of sleeper as I stood on the ground. Think - he .had on a cap and shoes, don't remem ber about his shirt. R. G. Mera testified : Was beating my way on train "that night, got on at Rocky Mount. At Wilson Purvis got on. I fonnd Purvis on the steps of the baggage car, just opposite the steps ui mo ""v was 'sitting. Purvis pulled a pistol from his pocket and said keep still. He soon went up on top of the car, I followed ties up there. Some one shot a pistol. Purvis was taking out J his pistol all along and saying OCTOBER 13TH, 1897. IN THE CASE. Ed Purvis is a mulatto, about 18 years of age, and says he' has eight other brothers, says he has been tramping since he was nine years old. I don't care a G D, let'em come. Four of us were put' off at Kenly; stayed at Kenly about an hour : saw nothing of rurvis alter train left. Grant Cobb, colored, . testi fied r was on train that night ; am a porter ; after leaving Min go tank train stopped ; I rah back ; saw a man raise up on top of the car ; ordered him down; he said "not on your life," "who in the hell are you hurrying." He climbed down off the car on the right side, saw him after, he came down. Heard him order Blackwell to get back on train ; heard pistol fire; Blackwell said "I am shot." Think I would recog nize his voice. Have seen Pur vis several times at different places. I was not positive pris oner was the man until I heard him sjieak. Ed Lomax, colored, testified ; I work on material train : was beating my way on fast mail to Fayetteville ; at Wilson I saw the prisoner on train ; I got on top of car; prisoner was walk ing about on top . of the train, I told him to keep quiet or they would put us off; he pointed a pistol at 1113" breast, I begged his. pardon . At Kenly the train stopped, prisoner and I got off and got behind some logs., two white men got off also. When train started the prisoner and I got on again ; prisoner sat up on top of car, I told him Donlan would see him and put him off ; we rode on to Mingo and was on train when ' it stopped. Prisoner got off on the ground, I was hid in a dark place on the; car; heard the flagman say "come this way, come back." Heard prisoner tell the flagman to get back on train, saw pris oner pull his pistol, flagman said "don't do that man," then Purvis shot him. Purvis was standing up on the hill and shot down. Flagman said "I am eoinjx to get on." I was in thej shade on car and was the rear df the looking rifrht at him when he shot. I got down off the car and ran into the woods, staved there awhile and walked on down the road passed Dunn and met some men three miles below Dunn and asked them for a match, and walked on down the road some dis tance when a man came, up on the track ahead of me. He asked me if I was the man that was on the train last night, I said yes. He asked me if I thought he killed the man, said he would not have done it for anything in the world ; said he had drunk a gill.- We went on to -near .Fayetteville, met a man who said you had better mj.nd how you go up in town, a man was killed last night and. the whole town is in a stir and said blood hounds have been sent out, I-said I was riot going in town ; saw a train coming, Purvis said you are going to betray-me, we ran off. I went in Fayetteville Sunday night; I live there, I told my mother about the killing, did not tell the officers, 'I owed a bill of cost and knew they would take me. I was arrested at Rocky Mount and taken to Fayetteville and nut in iail for a witness. I ' 1 1 1 took to the woods wncn tne Shooting took place for I knew W h j they would find me and I j not know what they would did do. rurvis had a 38 calibre brake lock pistol. He said he was sorry he ever got a pistol, his temper was too great for him to tote a pistol. -If have' been indicted three or four times ray- sen. Tom Johnson, colored, testi hed : I live in Cumberland county. On that Sunday. pris oner and Liomax ( witness) came to my house, got a watermelon and dinner for which' they paid ; stayed there for some time ; prisoner had a bundle which he left in the front yard ; a crowd gathered near my house for Sunday school ; Purvis asked me to get his bundle for him which I did and I felt a pistol in it. Lomax was nearly naked. They left ; Purvis said his name was Freeman. Dr. Archie China, of 'fU-i in ter,- S. C, was next witness put on and testified : I had Black well's body exhumed and ex- amnuea it; iouna tlie, ball at lower part of the back-bone could not trace ball fully for blood, tlie ball ranged down ward and went through the abdomen, and lodged4 against the back-bone. He introduced the bullet taken from the body and it was, shown the Jury that it would fit the pistol. Sam Cromartie, colored, tes tified : Prisoner was put in the cell with me in Fayetteville jail; I amJn there charged with fighting: Had a conversation with prisoner and he' said he was the man that killed .the flagman flagman said that he told the to get back on the train and he did not and he shot him. Prisoner was sick and suffering very much ' and said tha't he did not want to die with a lie on his lips. James Jackson, a young mu latto who was in jail at Fayette ville and testified that he heard the conversation in jail between Sam Cromartie aiid the pris oner and that the prisoner ad mitted that he shot the flas- man. J. J. Wilson, Coroner of Har nett county, was the next wit ness called and he identified Ed Lomax as the negro he met on Sunday morning near the water tank at Black River and gave a match. J. L. Grady was witness and said : Cumberland eountv - passed me Sunday the next I live in Two men afternoon : prisoner is one of them ; he ask ed me if I had heard anything about a, man getting shot; said he had heard that blood hounds had been sent up. I saw a train coming.' Lomax ran off through the woods and prisoner follow ed after me through the field. Nelson Williams, colored, testified : I live at Manchester. Heard a man ...halloaing; out near the railroad Monday morn ing and went to him ; the pris oner is the man ; he was com- "plaining and said he was mash ed. I took him to my house ; his coat was wet, he asked for a knife and said he wanted to kill himself, then asked for his pistol which 1 took out of his pocket. I kept the pistol in my house and gave it to a "gentle man, Mr. Turbeville. Mr. Turbeville, detective for the A. C. L., was put on the stand and testified : I got a pistoU from Nelson Williams after flagman was shot, one chamber was loaded, and one chamber showed recent firing ; gave pistol to W. W. ,Autry, depty slieriff of Cumberland county. W.'W. Autry produced the pistol in court and the jury ex amined it and the ball taken from the body of Blackwell. On Friday morning the priso ner was brought into the court room to hear the sentence' of death passed upon him. He was ordered to stand up while the clerk of the court proceeded with the usual ceremonies : "Edwin Purvis,. you stand be fore this court convicted of murder, what say you to " the charge." Purvis replied, "my council will speak for me." Mr. Murchison then said a few words after wfiich the Judge said: 4 You stand before this court convicted of the sheding of your fellowman's blood and the Bible says : "Whoso shed deth man's blood, by man shall in the man." - j You have had a fair trial and from the evidence the jury could not do otherwise but find you guilty. Owing to your physical condition I shall make the time, of vour execution a week later than I otherwise would. I would suggest that you spend vour time in earnest prayer that you may be prepar ed to go out into the, next world God is able to save the vilest sinner and I am sure-the chris tian people will be glad to aid you and pray with you. . The sheriff will take you from the jail' on Oct. 13th, to the ' place prepared for your execution, and there between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p.m. hang 3Tou by the neck until you are dead." GolH'S Pistol Eaten Up by Add Among the many supersti- tions in tne old world, is one -t- ii i which requires the- destruction or rather the annihilation of a weapon used in assassinating an illustrious ' personage. The re volver with which Golli killed Spanish Premier Canovas was placed in a bath of sulphuric acid in its most powerful form. and evei'V trace Of the Pistol has ,. " i Liis.ippeaitu.. blllpilUriC aCld has been Used for such purpose in Spain since 1852. when the priest Martin Merino tried to murder Queen Isabella as she was entering the Metropolitan church of the at frocha to undergo the ceremony of churching after the birth of her eldest daughter T1p Oiiopn' vn5 spvfii'filv wounded by the dao-er of the priest, who subsequently was put to death. When the poniard was taken in hand for the purpose of being ground to pieces it was found that the blade was of such nat tne oiaue was oi sucn tely tempered steel it re- svery file and stone. The exquisi sisted ev superstitious Spaniards became so excited the ministers were forced to destroy the knife with acid to remove the impression that there .was something-supernatural 'about the dagger. 1 There have only been two other occasions when sulphuric nYMd hn bppn npd for this nur. r-i -v I his blood be shed : for j image of God made he nose in spam, une was iorL"! ""iu vmuuu juuw "uiu the pistol used by the man who tried to shoot King Alphonso a .... . . XII and his first wife as they ,ivivinrr tlirnno-li thp nnlnro gate at Madrid. Ihe other was when an endeavor was made to kill King Amadeus in the public gardens of thelletiro. There was no trial ; the only reference to the. accident made by the government was a semi official announcement that the pistol found on the corpse had been destroyed by sulphuric acid. Ex. An Old Engineer. Col. Fred A. Olds, the corres pondent from Raleigh to the Charlotte Observer, contributed this item to that paper last Sun day: In one of the parks today your correspondent met the ven erable Albert Johnson, with his long stick, stooping shoulders and rosy face. He is the. oldest locomotive engineer living. Here is his history, in life : Age 85. Baptized in 183 1A Be came a Mason in 1837. Began to run a locomotive in 1830". In 1832 aided in putting up the first locomotive in Virginia, at Petersburg, the . 4 'Roanoke," which ran from Petersburg to Bradley, N. C, three miles from Weldon, and was the first to run into North Carolina. The Roanoke had an 8-inch cyl inder, with 16-inch stroke, 54 inch drivers, and only a pair of them, 36-inch pilot wheels and only a pair of them, and could run 15 miles an hour, drawing four cars, the latter being the English style, in compartments, and holding 24 people to the car. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Is n Tiry T f-ft- ' W01LWS COLUMN. Items of Interest to tiik La dies, FURNISHED RY OUR Correspondent. a s nun: is tr.vi'itii:. I ait at my desk 'mfd the city's din . The throng and hustle, the heat and glare. Where the hot nun Mazes on roofs of tin Ana me dust of the pavement clouds all the air. Bn', I know of a siot in a woodland cool. Just at the foot of a feriuf ringed hill. Where there is lying a shady j.oI Fed by the trickling stream of the r'll. And where the alders their thick shade fling I catch the gleam cf the farm-house spring. A blue-fly buzzes against the pane. Which looks on a square of the brazen sky. Ofor the cool, fresh dash of the rain! Or even a white cloud drifting by. But I loaf in fancy upon that hill. The leaves tell secrets above my head; rar-otfaud faint comes the roar of the mill. Where the fresh spraydashes ltsrocky bed. nd close by my side does a mockingbird sing ado ciose oymysiue uoesamocRlnir-b rdslno- To the drip, drip, drip of the farm-house spring. The sun is sinking a ball of Are. In a sea of molten heat in the west. And thousands are longing wild dep Ire For the stifling darkness which brings scant rest. But All night long the bird-song fill The air, and the silver waters gleam And gurgie slow -round the foot of the. bin stream Where the blue-bells dip their hei-ds in the All night long 'cross the starown fcky. The c,oud9 be trailing their snowy fleece. All night long shall the moon-Ilght lie On the quiet slopes like a dream of peace O over the weary miles I bring Refreshment and joy from the farm-house spring. ' IRENE NORMAN McKAT. Finances in the Home. A lack of sound business un- derstanding between husband and wife has been the ruin of more homes than poverty. yVhen a miin anci woman enter into a marriage mat most important partnership in life both mem- oers in tne new. arm should . vi,.., .t,;il,uihiuh u the financial situation, and, a the years pass, the firm's profit nve a distinct appreciation of as ts and losses should come within the equal knowledge of both. So would be avoided much of the unhappiness that arises from the husband's thinking his wife extravagant, or the wife's thinking her husband stingy. Nothing is more dis couraging to a man tnan to see li i o o tr O innl til aji at? 4-1 txr 1 1 ii i - , i recKiessiy away on luxuries ne feels that only the families of ncner men can anord, nutoiten this expenditure is due, not to wilfulness on the wife's part, but td simply not knowing how much her husbund can alford to have her spend. He is often over indulgent. She-tells him of two bonnets ; one is five dol lars more than the other, and she doesn't know whether she ought to get it "but it is a dear of a lxmnet," she adds, and he, too weakly loving, tells her "to buy it and look pretty," and then when the bill comes in, he broods over his expen ses. ' At another time she asks for money ta buy a certain piece of bric-a-brac, and meets with a refusal, and, at a loss to recon cile her husband's. former ; gen erosity with the present denial inwardly decides that he is "clo-e." ' - Both of these misunderstand- ?s are due to a want of mu tual advice and confidence con cerning the household treasury. The wav to avoid the unhap piness, that such misunderstand ings', invariably brings about, isfor the wife to have an allow ance for household expenses, owing exactly what ratio this allowance bears tqjier hus band's whole income. Wheth- er tne allowance oe large or small will really matter -very little in a home 'that is estab lished on the above sound-mon-ev basis. Dixie Farmer. Dined in Mournino Although the culinary art has in the last twenty years made rapid strides, still there is a cer tain sameness about dinner par ties which, to the habitual diner-out, comes but little- short of dull monotony. Now and again however, one comes across a hostess whose imagination, or nrfnntrifitv. is the means, of providing a meal for her guests j - - upon lines other than those upon which the ordinary dinner is given. Such a one was a Tetter. Siitr-Itheum and Kciemc. Tlie intense itchine and Rmnrfinrr Inci dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed by. applying Chamber Inin ' W Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases havQ been permanently cored by it. It is equally efficient for itching piles ami a favorite reniedv for"or ninn1 chapped hands, chilblains, frost 'bites - ana enronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box. Dr. CadV Condition IWdcra. just what a horse needs when in bad Jondition. Tonic, blood purifier and .renn if up. They are not food but Jiedicine and the best in use to tint a !ioree in prime condition. Prica 25 cents per package. For sale by N. B. Hood, Drue- gist, Dunn, N. 0. lady who lived in the neighbor hood of Kensington, and who every year gave what she term ed a memorial dinner, on tlie anniversary of her husband's death. The room in which the din ner was ill veil w:m drnnotl fi for the Occasion ill IliaUVP Hid ui .i if ? J,Itu . - " AW4 lw. : muii-h,- no oiuer colors being vis ible. The tablecloth wise of mauve silk, while the only floral decorations in use were violets. The lady guests arrayed "in either black or mauve dresses I the footmen were dressed in bl.ipk ilnl, breeches, mauve, silk stockings aild black COatS. Oil dinner l)C- ing announced the hostess took the head of the table, but on either side of her, seated upon two stools, sat two black noodle dogs, excellently clipped after the approved French fashion, and with mauve colored ribbon on their heads. These two dogs had been great pets of the lady's husband during his lifetime, and it was for this reason that they were allowed a seat among the guests at the dinner table. The menu was remarkable for uiu auseuce oi anv color in the viands, save mauve, the rest either black or white. Thus the soup was white, like wise the fish and entrees. As regards game, the lady got over the difficulty, or at least met it half way, by". providing black cock. The sweets were either mauve colored or white, while at the end of the dinner black coffee was served." Tf fae limlU of ' lira mry vrarpn. Japanese Civilization- As illustrating his claim that the Japanese , arc a more civil ized people than the Americans, a gentleman at a recent Boston dinner . table cited Professor Morse's statement that if, in a Japanese city, one picks up a stone to throw at a dog the dog does not run, because he has never had a stone thrown at him, and does not know what the action wieans. Manifestly, if such a state of universal gen tleness and kindness prevails in Japan that not even a stone is thrown at a dog by a boy, thero must be a very high and thorough civilization, perme ating all classes of the popula tion. This argument may not be accepted as complete by the sociologists, who would doubt less maintain that it requires something else than gentleness and humanity to make civiliza zation. But certainly the fact is to be taken as an excellent item of evidence in making out a case of high civilization for the Japanese; And it is a sig nificant fact that it was reserved for our own European-American civilization to introduce the completest refinement of cruel ty to animals. Lihtkxkk, in Boston Transcript. J W. Bjgeett. of Oak Grore, FU , bad an attack of mettles. Dear ly three years agn, and the disease left bio? with vrrj erfre pains in the chest. "I thought I would die.' be writes "but to my grat joy, I was aared by Chamberlain's Pain Balm " Pains in tbe cbent nearly always indicate tbe approach of pneu monia way by promptly applying this hnimtnt " oo a fltoiel cloth, which bould be bouod on tbe chest, an attack of pneumonia may be pre vented It always prompt and cf fectual. For sale it 25 aud 50 cetiti ' r-r but )e Sold j by N B. Hood, drnggiit Duon. N. C rrt y TT ii i llE LOUNTY UMON IS onlyj paper published in Harnett county. Subscription price $1. 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