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ILZthe headlight. . ' iiOSCOtYEIij Editor; "11E11E SlLiLL TUB PRESS TIIE PEOPLE'S EIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." TV. P. DATIS, Publisher. VOL. I. NO. 40. A J. ONE. jn,i yon, my ihirl nz, my darling, li i' i :ul its luirn low on the licarib; .,,1 -till i ti- mir tf the lionsf.-liohl, Aii.l i.n-L.'.l is t lie v--.iv.-e of its mirth; X!:, rain i'l;tli-s fast on (lie terrace, Ti v.isi.l 'it tin- l.itti. ts mo:-.ii; Aii-i lu'.-lni.-h -lii:nci! out limn the minster, A 1 1 I I an) iiloite. I w;..!:t yo'i. my darling iny clar'in, I alii 'lli'l with t-are :v::l with fret; I .'iil.i ii.-i-tlc in silenee le:-iiie you, An 1 Imt y..ur 'i eMiiec f n ;t. .; ?; 1'iish of tlu haj'j'in. given, T - :!i '-i -whi tlmm-h tin.-tin have grown Tn ;!, fnllin t-s of love in contentment, T1!' I aui alone. 1 yon my darling m? darling; M T-.'i. e ei'hoi's l'ueli on my heart; f.;: t.-li my amis out ( yon in louglngj A.i 1 1..: tlu-y Tall cnq fy", aiart. I w! i-i'tr the sweet wor.ls you taught mo, Tin "oris 11i.it we only have known; TIP. the 1 lank of the duinl) air is bitter r ! : in alone. j ii. 1 you. my il u lin, my iaiihi, l-Vitli its y.-ai nin i.iy very heart aches; T! !! that tlni.h s m v,t iph.s harder, f -'iiink tioni the jar that it makel t'i ! - it"h rise up to t e.et nie, 'ill ilouhts make my sjiirit tin ir own; (!:. .-onio through the darkness and save me, lr I am alone. r.nhert J. EurJitk. The Miiham Children's Tramp. BY R. II. STKARXS. II FiN Lizzy Mimam came home from school one day phe brought her mother a letter with a utrange post mark. Rut, in deed, any let ter at all was Mich a novelty to the family in me jituo brown house that they all gathered around Mrs. Miiham as she" looked it all ver on the outside, with main' specula tions as to whom it had come from, and at last cut away the end of the Envelope and drew it forth. "Read it out, read it out, mamma !" chorused the three excited children; aud po their mother begun, slowly and won deringly: "Jii.rK (YnxEKs, August S, 18--. " 'Ii!:si'K.-ri:R .Niiyi; JIf.tsky' ( Who on earth can it he from ?) ''This is to inform you that my late hnnstk epcr, Cynthia T-vown, (lenartod thin life three witks last Wednesday. "Jk-ing in sore m-ed of some oho fo Jill her place, ami bearing: from mutual )ii.-n.!rf that you wei-e in reduced ircnmsluncvn, 1 would 1"' ploase-1 to Visit you m-xt week Saturday, if agreeable and see if satisfactory at rangc inento can he made between us. I hear that you have three children, hut hope to hj aide to" endure them, unless too noisy and iulo. Kespect fully yours, " 'Hakwoou I'Arrmisox.' "Well, of all tho things!" F.aid Mrs. Miiham, as she came to the end of tho p;ige; "this really looks like a special providence !" "Who is it, mamma? What does he want.'" cried the children, wild with cu riosity as their mother sat back ill her chair, deep in thought. Jt did seem as if these children, with their bright, earnest faces and a fleet ion -nto way.-, would be any thing but a drawback to any one's happiness. Yet ic was with much misgiving that Mrs. Miiham surveyt d them and meditated upon the effect of their entrance into Mr. llnrwood Patterson's jieculinr household establishment. "Who is it, cliildivn? Win, it's j-our gr. at uncle Patterson, your father's un cle, that lives in Jlue Corners, up North. He's an old bachelor, rich, but ely queer. lie has always lived alone, with nobody but a housekeeper, in a great t ig house. I never faw him but just once right after your father and I wei-j married. He ."-e.rued then to take quite a fancy to me; talked to me more than ho ws accustomed, folks said. So now his old housekeeper is iltad, and he wants me to go live with him and keep house for him! Audit all depends on vhether he takes a notion to you, chil dren. Ho is coming to see us next week. "Will you be very quiet and lady like and good-natured, so that ho will be willing to have you go back home with him?" "Oh, yes, yes! ' cried the children. "We'il be au-fi'l dood,'' said Bess, the youngest. "I guess yui'd better look out for yourself, Miss Pess," said Carry. "I tu"-s if von g. t one of your naughty screaming spells, Undo Patterson will leave you behind." "He won't, neither,"' retorted Pess. Put these symptoms of an outbreak were quickly dispell' d by Mrs. Miiham. "There, there! What a bad way to begin ! Cany, don't you tease Pess about that, now. All of you had better keep practicing to be quiet and good all the week-, so that you'll be perfect in it next Sunday." It did si ein a providence that the let ter came just at the time it did to this family. Mrs. Miiham was a widow with hose "tin eo little girls; the oldest eleven years old, the youngest four. For two years she had been struggling on, trying to make both ends meet to pay her rent Hnd bring up lit r ehildren respectably. Put it was a hard light with these three hungry mouths to feed and these grow ing bodies to clothe, and the outlook for the coming fall a nd w ilder was very dis couraging. Warm clothes were yet to be bought, and woodshed and potato bin to be tilled, and it was hard to lay by anything from the small wages that she was able to earn by her daily work. And now there was a chance for an easy and respectable situation where her children might be warmed and fed and clothed and get a good education! And yet, from what she knew Piul had heard of this old uncK all depended on the way in which he might be first impressed by those children. They were, plainly, tho only doubtful point in his mind. 'Jiit I'll never give them up," said Mrs. Mil ham to heiself. "I'll starve myself first, and Uncle Patterson can keep house for himself. Put oh ! if I can only get them to keep quiet aud not offend him ! It's the first time, really, that I ever wished they didn't havo quite so much lifa in them. (ioodiiOF.s only knows what they' oii't take it into their heads to do aad tfy 1 Well; 1 suppose I can trust the iMiw ao what light, and needn't worry too much about it. "We've been cured for thus far, and we will be still.' In tho meantime the children, in a etate of great jubilation, were discussing the wonderful prospect which had so suddenly opened before them. To go and live in Blue Corners a very me tropolis compared with their little vil lage to live in a big house with a rich uncle what more in life was left to bo desired ? "It's like a fairy story," said Lizzy. "Don't you know how the fairy god mother came to Cinderella and changed her old dirty clothes to a silk dress, and gave her the glas3 slippers and took her off to tho ball i I always thought some thing of that kind was going to happen to us.' Lizzy was ft gteat reader of and very fond of day-die.tming. "Will. Unble Patterson give fit orios, us silk uressef! r asked Carry. , "I shouldn't -"tender," answered Lizzy, confidently. "I think he'll take a great fancy to us we'll behave so ladylike you know and just give ns lots of things; 'most anything we want." "I'm doin to make him dive me a set 6' dishes," struck in Bess, "'ml a white silk dwess, and a gweeu pawasol, nd " . ?He won't give yoii. anything, Bess Miiham;" said Carry, "if you don't Lave a cleaner face when lie comes than you've got now." "He will, too," replied Bess in a high key. "If you two don't stop quarrelling, Ik; surely won't like either of you," said their mother, looking in the door at that moment. Don't get your ideas too high up, my children," she went on: "but to bo sure, Uncle Patterson has got a nice house, and a big barn, and cows and chickens and horses, and we shall live in clover, if lie makes up his mind to have us. Ko, if you want to go, remem ber you must all behave so like little ladies when he first comes that he'll say to himself, 'Those children won't be any trouble to me; I'd rather have them than nob"' "We surely will, mamma," Fnid all three little gills; and, indeed, they meant it, That was ft very long week, but the eventful day came at last. Saturday dawned clear and dry and warm. There was no danger Jest Uncle Patterson should change his mind oil account of the weather. They might expect him by the stage, he had written. The stage came by at live O'clock in the afternoon. He would stay all night, of course, So Mrs. Miiham had been giv ing their one little spare room an extra cleaning and arranging, A natural good taste and skill at needlework had made the room, even with its old fash ioned furniture and white walls, very attractive. The led-spread and pillow cases and towels were spotless. To a man who had eyes to observe, everything in the room was the strongest recommendation cf the housekeeping abilities of the one who made it ready. There was, of course, to be something a little extra for supper. Bess had gone so far as to suggest frosted cake, but the others were not so daring. The children were thoroughly drilled and posted as to nil their duties, and had made most solemn resolutions to observe all the good old rules about be ing seen and not heard, not speaking unless spoken to, and so forth. Nothing should bo found in their words or ac tions that the most precise and critical of uncles could find fault with. Lizy had been out to the village for something that morning, and when she came back she had news to tell that al most drove their own great event out of their minds. "Oh, mamma, what do you think" she cried, rushing in breath less. "Now, last night there was a hor rid old tramp came to Deacon Johnson's and nob.xly but Mrs. Johnson was home, and he was awful ugly. He made her give him supper, and then he want ed some money, and said he'd knock her down if she didn't Rive it to him and only that Deacon Johnson came home and chased him with a horsewhip, sho thinks ho'd have killed her. And he hasu't been caught yet, though some men from the city have been after him." "Mercy on us:" said Mrs. Milhamc "If there is one thing I'm afraid of, it's a tramp. I hope to goodness ho won't wander out here. I don't know what we should do." "Ile'il take Bess first," suggested the ever ready Carry. "She's so fat he can cat her when he's hungry." "No, he wont, neither," roared Bess, and burst into an agonized wail at the prospect. People said that Carry's nose was badly put out of joint when Bess came, aud that she never got over being a little jealous of her. Certainly there never was a very long space between them. "Why! why!" said Mrs. Miiham. "There, Bess," nobody is going to touch you! Carrie, I'd be ashamed to tt.ise her so! Just think, you two quarreling, Hid Uncle Patterson coming only this evening!" This was enouah. The two rombatauts subsided, and tho tramp tdarm was swept out of the children's minds. Afternoon came, and it gottobetlnve o'clock. Never had the hours seemed to move on so slowly to the little girls. Their clean, white dresses Jay on the bed in their mother's room, reserved to put on at the lasi, moment, so that by no mishap could a speck of dirt soil them, riaying was almost out of the question. They could only watch tho clock and long for tho time to hurry on. "Well, I declare," exclaimed their; mother, Jiurrvitig suddenly out of the closet, "if I didn't forget to tell you to' got .sugar this morning, Lizzy! There isn't a grain in the house, I do believe.; Here, you run down to the village no,: I can "go quicker myself. There'll be p!entv of time before the stage comes." She hastily put on her suubonnet, but just as she was going out of the door an uncomfortable recollection crossed her mind. "That tramp what if lie should come here while I am away!" She turned to the children. "Lizzy," she said, "I want you to le very careful while I 3in gone to keep the door shut and locked. Don't let anybody in uul ss it is one of the neighbors. If any strange man should come, looking like that tramp, and knock, keep quiet and don't pay any attention, so that he'll think there's no one at homo aud go away." Tho caution was enough. Tha ehi! dreu'a faces grew scared aad their vyea GOLDSBOKO, N. large nt the suggestion. They had come to think of a tramp as an awful bej ng combining the worst qualites of the . Ruost; the lion, and the ogre of the j h'i-ry stories ii creature whose very . least offense was defo'uiing children j alive. There was no danger of iheif pot keeping their promise io be Careful in Luis matter. , . Their mother went away, and Lizzy immediately locked and bJlted the door, shut all the blinds, and fastened tlie windows. They even talked in low Whim. r a tones for & time, lest the horrible tramp should be somewhere lying in wait ami should heaf them, until Carry Could hot resist the temptation to tell Bess, win) ! was sitting by the wood-box, that a great long crm was reaching out of it to grabber. ... : The, shriek, with which she greeted this announcement and ihe. commotion! that ensued in getting her quieted rather broke the spell of alarm, and they boon began to play together more naturally than t hey had all day. But Bess and Carry could not longer agree, and, despite all Lizzy's attempts t.) quiet them, they soon squabbled moro vigorously than they had in a week past. In despair, Lizzie longed for her mother's return. In vain slio reminded them of Uncle Patterson's displeasure; for the time even that had lost its ter rors. The hands of the clock moved on to four. By that time Carry had got Bessfa doll, and was standing on a chair holding it above her head, while Bess Itelahored lier as high as she cotild reach, and in the utmost wrath tried to pull her down by the dress. Lizzy was almost distracted hetween them. "Ah haj Bess Miiham' cried Carry, In her most aggravating tone, "I wish Uncle Patterson could see you now. Wouldn't he think you was a nice, lady like iittle girl !" "I don't care,'' screamed Bess, resist ing all Lizzy's efforts to pacify he'r. "I wish an old tramp would come and carry you off. I eto " At this moment the front gate clicked. "TJiere !" said Lizzy, "there's mamma coming back, and I'm glad of it." She ran to the window and peeped through the blinds, but ran bae'e in a moment with a white face and crietl in a tremb ling whisper, "Oli, no, it isn't it's the tramp! it's the tramp!'' And at that moment there came a thundering knock at the door. The children stared at one another in silent terror for a moment, and then Carry began to cry. "I don't care, Bess," she whimpered. "It's yonr fault ! you went and wished he'd come.'' And for once in her life Bess was too frighteno 1 to resent the charge. But Lizzie's courage rose to the occa sion. " Husli, hush, children !" she said, in a whisper. "Don't say a word, and he won't know we're here. He fan't get in, and mamma will soon be home. Let him knock. The blinds and windows are all locked, and perhaps he'll eo away when he finds he can't get in. Come, let's get under the table liere and pull the cover down, and then he can't see us even if he does look in." They hurriedly crawled into their hiding-place, and sat in a silent, trembling heap, while tho knock at the door was repeated once or tw ice, and then a deep, o;rnff voice called, "Hi ! hallo ! is any body home?"' "No!" pipes Bess from under the table, in a very sliaky tone. "Hush, Bess Miiham !" said Lizzy. She was evidently not heard, for the strange man knocked again as if he would beat in the door, and they heard him say, " I must get in somehow; this sun is too hot for me out here." Then one of the window blinds turned, and they saw the horrible monster look ing in. He was rather an elderly man, with a brown, hard-featured face, iron c:rav hair, and a verv grim and decided- i looking mouth, faded coat aud vest, and had on Iiis head a high beaver hat of the style of forty years ago. It was set well down over his ears, as if it. were a little too large for him. He gazed into the room intently, but could not see the children peering fearfully at him through a hole in the table-cloth which hung over them. He muttered something to himself and shook the blinds, but they were fast. Then they heard him go around the house, trying one window after another, imt thev all resisted his efforts. Then all was "silent for a few moments. "I guess he's gone away," whispered Lizzy. But hardly had the words been spoken when there came an awful sound from the pantry the sound of a window- leing raised ! And at that moment it Hashed over Lizzy's mind that there was no fastening to tlie pantry window And, in fact, that she had forgotten it altogether. The tramp had found that one undefended point; he was getting in throurh the window ! J "What should they do? Should they .unlock tho front door and run? No, the bolts were nam to move, ana mo man would be in before they could get out, and, besides, he could easily catch them. ' There was but one thing to do, and in a spirit of genuine heroism Lizzy de termined upon it in nu instant. "Carry," she cried, "the tramp is getting in the window! Yon take Bess and open the front door and run, and I'll keep him back till you get away," and so saying, she scrambled out from under the table, eaudit up the nearest availab'e weapon, w hich happened to be the best broom, and rushed into the pantry. Did Carry and Bess follow out her directions? Not exactly ! They did indeed follow her out from under the table, but got no further than the mid dle of the floor, where they stood hand in hand, making the rafters ring with their screams. But their dauntless champion, -when she threw oen the pantry door, found her worst fears realizf d. The strange man had indeed got the M-indow raised, anil wag on his way in. He had pitched an old fashioned corp6t taok and large faded umbrella through before ttim, and 11 bps m ma C, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1888. htd then himself climbed laoorioitifljand betimatieally up through th? wlndowr. At th6 moment when Lizzy arrived cn tha scene Le hfid in fact, got his knees and hand's together on the sill, and id that critical attitude looked np at het with immense surprise and the dawning 6f a .grin on his face, as she burst in up Qii hixd -ftlth her weapon brandished. For the .fraction of it second thay faced one another thus. Buf Lizzy did not stop for question1 or parley, "frith" one scream that would have done credit t(f rf Comanche Indian, she lifted hef broom and brought it down on the top of thai ancient beaver with a whack that sent the hat not only down over its owner's eyes and ears but over his nose as well, and even over his mouth. Her victim gave ona protesting roar as his extin guisher came down over him, but his subsequent outcries were buried in his hat. He lifted one hand to tirto pull It off, bnt, in so d-"ng grew unsteady uu the tvindow sill, and, aided by a second blow from" the Dioom. fairly lost his bal ance and toppled over in a struggling heap, hut, unfortunately, not on the ground outside but tmiJe on the pantry, floor. At this unforeseen disaster even Lizzy's Cotirflge .failed her. She dropped her broom and fled to unbolt the front door. The two children ill the kitchen 6et up a louder ecream, if possible, at the sound Of the tumble in the pantry. Ths rin fortunate intruder grunted and groaned, and, writhing ink a sitting posture, tugged at the hat, which stuck to him as if ho had been melted and run into it, , ''For goodness giacioti3 sake," cried MrS. Milhafil's voice, as she hurried up the front walk; Tthat i. going on here ?" 1 A scream from' all , (hreo children as they rushed to her for protection waif her only answer, but, looking tu'roflglf the open pantry door, she saw a remark able sight. There sat the strange man on the floor. He had at length succeed ed, not in getting his hat back over his inose, bodily, but in tearing the stiff brim from the upper part, and freeing his mouth so as to get a breath of air. Fiery red in the face with exertion and suffocation, his short gray hair standing Up all over his head, his eyes dilated with amazement and indignation, the iim of the hat hanging; round his neck like an old-fashioned ruffhe was a eight to frighten any one. And yet it was something different from fear that made Mrs. Miiham f-tart hack and then stand as if she were para lyzed, staring at the stranger. "Good landy compassion!" she gasped. "Uncle Patterson !" The children stopped their screaming, and gazed from her to the tramp, uncer tain. Lizzy was the first to realize the situation and to see1 what 6hs had done. This was no tramp ! This was thd very uncle on whose coming they had beert counting so long; and whom they were going to receive! n such a polite ami lady-like way ! xhis was the rich uncle who had come meaning to take them home with him to "he in clover," and this was tho way she had welcomed him ! All the lofty castles in the air which she had been buihling during the past week were shattered to pieces and tumbled to the ground, so to speak, by the blow of a broom. It was too dreadful ! Slio cast one despairing glance at the w recked hat and the red face, and then, sobbing out, "Oh, mamma, I thought lie was the tramp 1 1 thought he was the tra-a au.p " buried her own face in her mother's dress, and cried as if her heart would break. The other children joined in the chorus, Bess loudest of all, and it seeraetl as if Bedlam had broken loose to tlie distracted Mrs. Miiham. She finally got voice enough back to begin, "Well, really, Uncle Patterson, I don't know how to apol " but at this point she was interrupted by a new de monstration on the part of their peculiar guest. At Lizzy's cry, "I thought he was a tramp," his angry and surprised expression had changed to a grin a new light seemed slowly to dawn on him, and finally ho broke in upon Mrs. Milham's confused excuses with a tremendous "Ha ! ha ! ha !" that fairly shook the little house. Even Lizzy stopped crying in wonder at the sound. Tlie old man's amusement was irresisti ble; even Mrs. Miiham, in all her morti fication, could not help joining in. The children began to think it all very funny when their mother would laugh, and made almost as much noise this way as tliey did before in tiieir alarm. At last Uncle Patterson gathered himself up slowly from off the floor, and said: "Don't ye say another word ! Thought I was a tramp, did she? Haw! haw! haw ! Never mind, little gal, ye've got right good spunk, and I like spuDk wherever I see it. (Join' to knock me on' the head, was she? Haw! haw! Never mind, don't ye cry; served me right for comin' in on ye that way ! And there ain't no harm done, except to tlie hat, and I gue3 it won't do me harm to git a new one any way." "Ye see, Betsey," he went on, taking a chair in tiie kitchen, "I got a chance to ride over with one of your neighbors by Ihe name o' Johnson, and walked over from his house. Thought I'd save the stage tho trouble. But when I got here it was so hot that it seemed ns if I must git in somewhere or roast. So, thinkiu' nobody was to home, I made fiee to climb in your window, but I got caught in my burglarizin" " hero he looked with a twinkling eye at Lizzy, who hid her face "and good enough fer me !" What a merry time they had together that evening ! Tlieir peculiar introduc tion took away all stiffness between them. The children played about in their usual way, and Mr. Ilarwood Pattersou softened and warned to them to a de gree that astonished even himself. And ut last, when Carry and Bess had gone to bed, and he and Mrs. Miiham and Lizzie eat in the moonlight together, he said : "Wa'al Betsy, I gpess we might as well settle it about your comin' to live with me ljefore we sleep. If you're jgreeable, I am. lleally, I don't see how I've got along without vour company so "ar. And I hain't the feast objection to the children. The other two is nice little gals, but I want Lizzie hero very special. Because, ye see, when she's iround everything'll be all safe. At least I can bo sure that thero won't Qever be any danger from tramps!" Christian Union. A bund man died recently in Chiches ter workhouse, England, who bad been n inmate of that institution for seventy, years, lie en tera J at the age cf nine aud passed his whole life thertv THE TWIN STATES. KOKTIT CAROLINA. Winston experienced a devastating stctfm Monday. A bey named John Hinson. six years eld, was kicked in the head by a horse Monday morning, at Bbelby, from which he died in a short time. . A large ratification meeting and torch light procession was held Tuesday night under fhc enspices of the Shelby Demo cratic campaign chib. The Democrats of Hiltherfordton have organized a Democratic caroptign club with Dr. W. D. Ljnch as President The Undertaker's Association of the State held its annual meeting at Ash ville on Tuesday. Track-laying on the Carolina, Knox ville and Western road has reached a point two miles beyond Greenville's city limits. It is thought certain that the road will be completed to 3Iarietta, twenty miles, by the last of the month. SOnn CAROLINA. Chester is to have a cotton mill with a capacity of -300 loonii. The South Carolina Railway company furnished free transportation for 200 Sunday School children Saturday, who enjoyed a picnic at Pleasant Hill Mineral Springs. The next Ftssion of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Temp lars of Soii'h Cwrolina, will be held in Hamburg, Tuesday, July 17. J. A. Balch, a young white man 22 years of age, died on Sunday from hy drophobia, at Kidgeway, the result of a bite ffclr rat. A Suit Against North Carolina. A suit for $000,000 brought by Mart on, Bliss & Co., against the State of North Carolina, is now pending in the Supreme Court. The banking firm wants the State to make good $900,000 worth of Iwnds which Morton, Bliss & Co., lnxigbt while North Carolina was being run by the wild cat government that prevailed soon after the war. If their $900,000 is good the State will have to pay $115,000,000 more on the same issue of bonds, and as some profound sages remark, "the Re publicans of North Carolina won't hump themselves in the cause of a man who tn iy Ihj the means of saddling $115,000, 0000 on the State." It is thought that this will dispose of Levi's chances in North Carolina. Democratic Jollifications. The series of 'ratification meetings to be held at different points in the State during this month has bsen arranged on the following schedule: Wilmington, Mondav, July 9th; New Berne, Wcdne&- j day, July 11th; Ooldsboro, Friday, July PHh; Fayettcville, .Monday, July loth; Raleigh, 'Wednesday, July ltth; Greens Iwro. Fridav, July 20th: Charlotte, Mondav, July 23d; Asheville, Wcdncs- uay, juiy -nu. The chairman of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committee of the county in which each one of these demonstrations is to be held is exacted to take charge at once and proceed with all necessary arrangements. Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Tia-.k laying on this railroad has been completed to Blacks, S. C, and it iscx expected that Roc kville will be reached by September 1st. The grading to Blacks, which is 01 miles from the present end of the track at the Catawba river, has been completed, and the rails for the track purchased. From Blacks to Ruth erford ton, forty five miles, the road is in operation, and a continous line of road, 290 miles from Charleston to Ruther fordton, is expected to be opened early in September. The locating survey from Rutherfordton through Marion. N. C, and Johnson City, Tenn., towards Ash land, Ky., on the Ohio River, is ncaring tonipletio.i. Let the People Decide. The proposition to submit to the peo ple of the several States a constitutional amendment to prohibit the liquor tiaffic in the United States has been favorably reported by Senator Blair from the Com mittee on Education in the U. S. Senate. The proposed amendment reads as follows: Section 1. The manufacture, impor tation, exportation and sale of all alco holic liquors as a beverage shall be hereby forever prohibited in the United States, in every place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall enforce this article by all needful legislation. The report accompanying the bill says: It is proper to sty thst there are mem bers of the committee who concur in the report recommending the submission of the projosed amendment to the States who do not by such action indicate their approval ofthe adoption of the amendment as a part of the Constitution, nor that they would themselves advocate its ratification by the Legislatures of the States. All Arkansas Town Bnrned. Twenty-two business houses and resi dences in the town of Paragould, Ark., were burned on Saturday night. The heaviest losers are Berley Bros., dry good . Lois $20,000; insurance $9,000. W. H. Maxey, grocery. $5.0C0; no in surance, llobman biock. $0,000. Total losss $02,00)2; insurarce light. A New York State man U making a kite larse enough to draw a buggy, and Lo proj o-c8 to be drawn around tho country in that manner this summer. The New Y'ork Chamber of Commerce is the most prosperous institution of the kind in the United States. It has now nearly 1000 members. The value of the annual output o! butter in Iieland 'u estimated at not less than ftgf.cOfi.iii The Amcriaii system of arabulanci turcica baa beeo introduced la ParU. Selling ir. I hereby notify the public that I have picked out EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS worth of Spring and Summer Goods, which I have put on sepeiate tables. I shall sell them at ANY PRICE, no matter what you offer me, the go ids are ycurs I don't lielieve in carrying over goods from one season to another, and put camphor in thm I woul l rather sell them at ten cents on the dollar. 3IY MOTTO IS: ."QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS" to ktep the whiels ielling. Below I will give you a few prices which will tell the t ile. 150 Rolls of Straw Matting from 15 to 25 cents per yard, worth 50 cents. d0 OHO worth o! SILKS and SATINS, in all shades I shall disposj PJ)JJJ at 35 cts a yaid; the real value is $1 .40 everywhere. Cf Pieces Plain and Fringed SATTEENS at 14 cents pel yard, llll regular price 25 cents. 9 R fl icsrrer tsrw&rm- .ir ht m w faUU Fine SILK PARASOLS to be sjld at any price. .JSS M Pieces of SCRIM for window curtains, 13 4 yards wide, at 10 cents a yard, worth 28 cents, in eight differnt shades and patterns. Clothing, Clothing, 150 MENS' DUSTERS at 45 cents a piece. 1,500 MENS', YOUTH'S and BOY'S ALL WOOL SUITS, in Sack and Frocks, the regular pike $12.50, they are now moving at $4.75. 2,500 Pair of Durable WORKING PANTS at 75 cents a piir. Furniture! Furniture!! Furniture!! I HEREBY notify the pufclic that I am scLIng out my entire stock of FURNITURE AT ANY PRICE, and will not kep it any more. My other departments require my entire time and attention an 1 com pel Is me to make this move. I am determined that the Furniture MUST GO. FOR CASH Oil ON TIME. ALL the goods I have mentioned herein will be so'd, snd MUST BE SOLD for cash or on ti nc. WHEN you leave home with the intention to vi.it my store don't be misled by drumers; come where you intended to go. ALL these gods were bought for SPOT CASH, and I can gite them away if I chose to d; so, and considering th5 ab ve prices it begins to look very much like it. Remember the sign in front of my store. Joseph Edwards, "The Champion H. WEOL&BROS.,. Wholesale and Retail Hcrchanto, G0LDSB0R0, N, C. IN ECONOMY THERE IS WEALTH! IN THE .JUDICIOUS EXPENDITURE OE MONEY THERE IS ECONOMY! In buying ; cur goods of us you will find that you are expending your money JUDICIOUSLY. HAVE YOU VISITED Our Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Depsrtment. If not, depend upon it you're " behind the times in knowledge of the prevailing ttyles. 'VE MAKE A SPECIALTY Of our Merchnnt Tailoring Department, and have your garment made by famous Northern Tailors. We guaraates to please all. OUR DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT is pre no inced the most extensive in the citv. They are NICE; they are NEW; they are NEAT. REMEMBER TIIE ONE PRICE SYSTEM When tou enter our Shoe Department. We are a dlirg only Shoes of well-known n anufactun r.-, and guarantee Bitisfaction as to PRICE and QUALITY. WE WILL DUPLICATE BILLS From any Market in our Wlule-alc Department. Call and be connced. "Children's Carriages ?n the most unique stales. CARPETS, MATTINGS, OILCLOTHS, ETC. A large assortment of rew aud exclusive p litems, at Lowest Prices. IT WILL COST NOTHING To look through pur Stock and convince yourself that wo carry the meat com plete line. H. WEIL & BROS. Subscription, 81.00 Per Year. of Low Prices. r : : .i I ' i 4 1 ' ft i i' M v - tfil u Mi
The Goldsboro Headlight (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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July 19, 1888, edition 1
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