North Carolina Newspapers

GOLDSBORO nflRIAT fTTl il il. JL-J )LIG ESTABLISHED 1887. GOLDSBOHO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1894. YOL. VII. NO. 26. The Old Friend An.l the 1 :,', frioii'l, that r.c-ver fails you, is Simmons Liver llegu l;ito; (the lid Z) Hints what vou li ir at the mention of this excellent Liver nio'li.-iii", :r-i people; shonl-l not c pcrai lac that anvtamg ei.se will do. It h the King of Liver Medi- cine.-;: is Letter than l and tak.--.-j the place of Quinine md l-:a Calomel. It a:-t.? directly on the Liver, Kidneys and Lewis, and gives new life to the whole .sys tem. This is the medicine you want. S-jM Ly all Druggists in Liquid, or in 1'owder to Le taken dry or made into a tea. JSF.VF.KY PACKAfiK -i 3 lias tlic Stump In r'(l on wi)H-r, J. II. ZJ:it.l-" Si CO., i'liiloJeli.liia, ii!-: I vi the U-'..tu!:m: .- .-. rvT-ex"ri. !.: Y...r. :' 1 Toti.-.n-o, Ci ( r J.",. Misery, "ct,-jn tn.ii. tl a ! ...; t; for t:,; v, !i . rrfui.il in. --y. 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Iie rs o: i.!iv-ti.-niu.Uiir.ary Or aii?:, re-imr'S no change ot diet or pons, mcrf'irjr.i or pfi-onous med sto be Ui'm n intcnialiji. Wliea tm A U-i as a 513 i-U. i T.; r' -V: ,rr :. Koi.iu- X.C. JST.it.U- i ot w" i LLrfiKii FEMALE X SS:ibii. t ree m rin. liJ.KKT, 1.1 1 j'A Sin.. At l.ru:.i i lure. , and ail A I ! 1 I 1:1 V Cur.' for li'-N i m:i: !ii:.i .--ltanre.s. N'eii.Ti-al Iiisr-ases. a.!. In -n fur 1.00. I.:ine.iter. llii -a .-- ly Fi;rNon. chio nil re- lialilo mail. cure im rli ' Uenuine s; tL-tt by M. K. II isoll V Pro.. ( i To. X. A Happy Yelcome I S (;r.KAN"!T.K!) l) TIIOSK WHO wil! i-;tll :it my -ali-on. wlii.-h is stock. -.1 ;st lim.s v, it!i tho i-lioi.-c.-t of Doiiu'-lii- and Iiiin-.i-o-d .Liquors and AVines ! All th -t d! .S (oninoiiii.li. I led ami -! I.v -killi'id men. Cigars, A XI) A LAK(iK LOT bar,-:.. I'.,,- IV.iv Corn Wlii-kev mv okico Mr. C.ilo-ii Ib.w'rli i would be pl.-as.-il to OF 1-1 XK TO "ith Carolina i- Ilea.!. jnart.Ts. - witli me and bis friends. Jas. L. Dickinson, At John (iinn's Old Stand. L. G. Wsuldoll, Contractor ii And Builder, ;olis;;oi:, x c CS 'Specially on Cottage: -timates fm-ni-l.e.l on am Plans and at ion. t, V- J BM ifc V i Jv.vr V-. iS, B iff Dr. E. C. Wcs's Kc-vo ami Brain Treatment I i l,i n.li-r v '"ilivo ffi nu-r uiutrtmlw, l-v imllior-1..-.I it.rc.ii . ..:.iv, M cum V.V:.:. M.vimr.v; ! of J;r:iiiimrl i".f 1 x- r; f.o.-i M :.':lrHi; y:ii.-I;ne..-; .OSS Of l'dWi.T LADIES DR. FELIX LE e 01 ILL The Country Editor's Wife. You have heard of the country editor's life, With its care ami worry :uil doubt. Of the shabby genteel of his seedy clothes. Of his diamond pins. a;il his calm repose, His haiiness. money and gout. Hut av have vim heard of the editor's wife? Of that silent copartner, who. Willi a Mending of sentiment, beauty a:i.l skill, With The temjierate knowledge, witli tact and will. whole of his labor can do'.' It i- die who embroider the garments worn l'v the editor s hard old chair, Now dressed with cushions, soft and neat And trimmed up w ith tidies and ribbons sweet. Which once was so poorand bare. 1 f t he In u itor's sick, or away or behind, 1 of more hands and more haste, She directs his wrappt thev can le And writes his leaders right out of her head. And i f 1 1 1 1 irl v make pa.-te. paper Sn ids t!: magazines and books. As the cradle si While the editor . With his lingers softly rocks; is in his easy chair, thrust in his tangled hair. She quietly mends his Hicks. ! Then he reads the adds with the euitor, dust to tind what each has paid, "i'.ut the column ad. of the jewelry, there." So he says, "and t lie harness, and human hair. Must be taken out in trade!" She wears the corets he rets for ads, And rattles his s,.vin; machine: She uses the butler and ci'i's and thinjis, The country subscriber so faithfully brings, With a cheerfulness seldom seen. Hut h.-r life so full of merry delight. Has one dark cloud, alas! Though she shares his ticket to circus and play. To lecture, and neiiro minstrels, ray, She can't use his railitoad pass! When time lianas heavy on his hands, She beguiles t lie hours away. With joke and lauifhter. music and sonr, And pleasant talk, and thus ripples along The whole of each leisure day. Oh. w ho would exchange this sweet con tent. This simple and trusting life, For that of a queen of royal birth? J'or t he happiest woman on all this part h. Is the country editor's wife! Ma!;;.m:kt Ani!?i:ws Oldham. Why Hotil lMlIs ('(.imp Ili-jh. Loadino- American hotels carry up on their annual expense account from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars chargeable to paper, envel opes, matches, and toothpicks sup plied to quests and strangers. Stran gers use more of them than the o-uests. A s.piare box, in which are kept a dozen necessary things such as cards, matches, envelopes and tooflipicks stand on tho counters of most hotels. This box has to be constantly replenished. The roprietor of a larye New York hotel furnishes some interesting in forniiition regard in j the way in which his hotel is systematically robbed by quests and strangers. Five hundred envelopes and one thousand sheets of paper are requir ed daily. Stra7ners appear at the deslc. and with the utmost coolness ask for writing mate-rials; which are usually furnished if the person is respectable in appearance. It is a (.ommon tiling to see stran gers enter a hotel writing room and till their fountain pens from the ink bottles. Wotting paper o-iven away costs ten dollars a month.. Every visitor to a hotel believes himself en titled to toothpicks and matches. He takes a handful of the former and this ins pocket matchbox with the latter. It costs fifteen dollars a month to supply these trifling arti cles. Pens and penholders and bot tles disappear at the rate of a dozen a day. Kvery one seems to consider that hotels and their belonjjins are public property, and that the pro prietors have no rights worth con sidering. "Women who are models of thrift and neatness in their own homes are constantly careless here. I have seen a mother stand her children up on t ft y dollar chairs to look out of the windows, and. laurh at them when they jump up and down on two hun dred dollar sofas. Furniture up holstered in the most delicate colors and textures will be used in the most reckless manner. A woman will slam h-r street shoes or damp um brella on it: put empty plates on it when meals are served in her rooms: or throw oranges or bananas on it when she comes from the dining- room it is all the same. Did you ever notice what a dis tinctly weary appearance hotel fur niture soon assumes? These are ; some of the reasons. And these are Some of the reasons why hotel bills come hiy-h. j Worn iiiul YV:ii an.! Wt-iik and Weary. ' Ho! ye women, worn and weary, wiiii nan faces and so indescribably weak. Those distressing, ih-ao;gino;-dowii pains, and t hat constant "weakness and worn i n.'ss ami weariness can be cured. For . all .-ulTercrs. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription is a panacea of inestimable , value. As an invigorating tonic, it im- parts strength w the whole system. For i overworked." worn-out,"' debilitated j teachers, dressmakers, seamstresses, ! "1 1 op-girl." housekeepers, nursing ! im .! Iiim s i tul f.-i-l.l." wonipn o-eiici-:i !lv. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is tht greatest earthly boon, being uncqualed as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. Asa soothing and strengthen- ing nervine, '-Favorite Prescription" is iiti.-onaled and invaluable in allaying and momng mv ous e-iuioimv, ex- i a'rS:;; ! 1 hysteria, spasms nervous svmi- turns, commonly attendant upon fune- j suffered from the cold, for I was thin tiona! and organic disease. It induces , , , -. , , , , , , refreshino; sWd an.l relieves mental 1 3r clad and had lost my cloak on the anxiety ami despondency. A NEW (iKOLOtJY. Arp (iives His Theory f the Creation of Florida. This is a strano-e land. It seems to mc that in some jreat convulsion nature upheaved the peninsula just barely above the waters. It was a mighty struggle whether it should be land or sea and all around the South ern borders from Key West to the main land nature failed to uplift her burden and so left a thousand islands to mark her lack of power. Indeed, the whole State marks her weakness her last great struggle in "divid ing the waters from the waters." If all the lakes and bays and rivers and inlets and swamps of Florida were measured the dry land would hardly exceed them in area. It is water, water in sight almost everywhere, and the railroads and wagon roads have to wind around and dodge in between to find a way from place to place. Some of these lakes are as large as whole counties in Georgia. I have just circled lake Apopka, which is sixty miles around a lake that is bordered with early settlers some of whom found it just after the Semin oles were driven away and some who came just before the late war, but more who came since the war and they have lived upon the fruits and vegetables that luxuriate upon- its rich banks. Ijiever saw such a growth any where, not even in tho sugar cane regions of Louisiana. I never saw the acres of cabbages so dense and luxuriant. I could almost hear the big heads whisper and say: "Lie along, get further, don't scrouge me." for they did touch each other in the rows, and the ground could not be seen under them. They are sold by the carload and hurried away to northern markets. The farmers used to realize four and five hundred dollars per acre, but are content with half that sum now. Alternating with these cabbage fields are orange groves that are just immense. Most of the fruit has been gathered and shipped, but there is still enough left to show how bur dened were the trees. I saw one tree that was loaded to the very ground with fruit, and two oranges of the naval variety that I plucked from it and bnv.ioi.t bom., were n r-n- riosity even to old Floridian. I i measured and weighed them one was eighteen inches in circumference ana tlie outer was eighteen and a half. The two weighed five pounds: j who can beat that for oranges? One ! of my little cousins, Chester Norton, from Louisville, Ky., had a birthday party last night at the Seaview ho tel, and these oranges were my gift, and when cut gave a good-sized slice to all the little folks. I saw a natural grove at Oakland for the first time. It was down in a hammock that bordered on Lake Apopka. They had all been budded, of course, and there were no rows or reg ularity, and as the trees kept grow ing and spreading in that rich soil, the axe and the pruning knife have to be used. The growth all around Oakland was a revelation to me. Weeds grow in the muck around the lake that reach fifty feet in height in one year's growth and are as large as a barrel. The Oakland people prepared one last year for the World's Fair and cut a hole in its stump and tied a coon in it, but they could not get transportation. Oak land is the headquarters of the Or ange Belt railroad, now called the San ford and St. Petersburg a road that is a blessing to the gulf coast for it is the only one we have. It is, I believe, the only road in the State that charges only H cents a mile, and j it is very popular with the people. Mr. Macleod, its general manager, is a young Scotchman who began at the bottom and has worked his way up by that diligence and integrity that marks the highlanders as a peo ple. The road belongs, I think, to Phil Armour, or else he has the con trolling stock. j How these Northern millionaires j do spy out this Southern land and I plant some of their money in paying j enterprises. That's right, let them ; do it. If this road had not been built there would have been no Tar pon springs, no caitlierlanu or jjune din or Clear "Water harbors. "While at Oakland I was the guest of Mr. Wise, an old Georgian who married into the Spear family, a familj' well known in Georgia. Judge Spear lo cated 2.000 acres here with land uarrams aim now ms uesceuuaius and their Kinureu are profiting oy his wisdom. He kept open house here for many years and many pioneer shared his hospitality. I j wish that he was now living 4;o see 1 the development of Oakland and the thrift oT her schools and churches and the shipments of her fruits and vegetables. I found the little town of Apopka a few miles further on around the i lake. It is made up pretty much of j (. oorf?;alis and there T foun( the " , Andersons and Woffords and Luis i nn.l otber; of mv own cmntv of Bnr- , Tf . ... T . . f j ' " j the tail of the blizzard and 1 actually j railroad. I had to get up at 3 o'clock to take the early train for Orlando. The train did not come till near 7 o'clock and I liked to have frozen, for there was no fire. A getiteel darkej' who sported a second-hand beaver and a brass watch and chain, came up with a polite bow and a scrape of his hind feet. ."Gwine to Orlando?" "yes," said I. "Lowed to go myself, but I is embarrassed wid peculiar circumstances." Then he came near er and whispered, "Is you a Mason, sir?" "No," said I. Then he paused awhile to work his wits. "Does j'ou live in Floridy, sir?" "No," said I, "I live in Georgia." Then he bright ened up and said: "Jesso, I was shore you was a Southern gentleman. Somehow I can alwaj's tell 'em from all other kinds of peoples. I would like mighty well to go to Orlando this morning', but the fak is sur, I jes' lack half a dollar of the money, and that's why I remarked that I was embarrassed." His game didn't work on me, but I saw him on the train all the same. Orlando is the same beautiful town it was two years ago. From there I journeyed to Kisshnee, a little gem not 3-et in its teens, but it has what no other towu lias got. Her broad streets are paved with bermuda grass as are the suburbs. The sand is hidden everywhere. I wonder if other towns can't propagate it. This town fronts the beautiful lake that is the head waters of a continuous chain of lakes that find their winding way to the gulf and are navigable for 300 miles. I did not find time to visit St. Cloud, where Hamilton Disston is growing cane and making sugar on such an immense scale. Disston works there, but lives at Tarpon, on the gulf side. This week I go north to Inverness and Crystal river aud Brooksville, where Georgians abound and old soldiers dare to hold veterans' camps and talk over the war. I am going to see the big live oak tree, the oldest and largest on the continent. Two horsemen can ride into its hol low abreast and circle round and ride out in military style. That is what folks tell me. Bill A up. A Dmnnr.er in the Washington tiuzetto. A very mortifying circumstance occurred at the Methodist church Sunday night. A large audience was Pent including quite a sprinkling of Episcopalians and Presbyterians, who had gone there to hear Rev. Mr. Moorman. An ink drummer, Wil liams by name, led Mr. Moorman to believe that he was a duly authorized minister and that he had preached in Norfolk, and invited himself to preach. We were not present but understand that his utterances were frivolous, ridiculous, absurd. His attack upon other churches was un called for, unjust, unkind, and de serves the severest censure. The position in which he placed Mr. Moorman and the Methodist Church was very embarrassing, and they all regret the circumstance as much as possibly can be and condemn this man of gall in unmeasured terms. Everybody in Washington regrets the occurrence, and we trust that Williams may not palm himself off on any other people. Mf - Generous Highway Robbers. Lt-xinfiton I2isiit-h. On last Saturday night Mr. Lee Hanner, of Lexington, while return ing from Thomasville, and when about one mile from Lexington, was attacked by two men, whom he met in the road. One stepped in front of his horse and ordered him to halt; likewise to throw up his hands. Both men pulled out pistols, stuck them in Mr. Hanner's face, and demanded his money. They searched his pock ets and got between $20 and $23. They left him $1.03 with which they assured him he. could pay his hotel bill. When he left Thomasville, Mr. Hanner had over $200, but fortunate ly had placed all but the above amount in one ef his shoes. He did not, he said, recognize the men, but says they were white and had their faces blackened. The Sexton Illustrated the Sermon. iJurion Hi-cord. Rev. W. II. White delivered a very logical and forcible sermon last Sun day night at the Methodist church on the subject of the horrors of hell and the unquenchable fire. A good and attentive audience was present; and it would not be out of place, we trust, to sav that the sexton illus- trated U) some oxtent the subject by having the church red hot and twice full of smoke during the. entire ser vices. All for a Itarley Corn. LaFontaine, in one of his fables, tells of a barnyard fowl that scratched up a gem, -while scratching for corn. Not knowing its ahu he gave it to a stone-cftTHu- for a barley corn. Thus do many persons throw away the priceless pearl of health. A "trilling" cough is neglect ed, then conies consumption, then death. Stay the cough, or look out for a cotlin. Dr. Pierce's (iolden Medical Discovery will eim; catarrh in the head, bronchial or throat affections, or lung scrofula (commonly known as the consumption of the lungs). If taken in time, ami given a fair trial, it will cure, or the money paid for it will be refunded. It is the only guaranteed cure. M. E. Robinson & Bro., druggists re commend Johnson's Oriental Soap for j all skin and scalp diseases. Try it. A NATION'S DOINGS. The News Ysmn Everywhere Gathered ami Condensed. Quiney, 111., had a $200,000 fire Sundaj'. The town of Geneva, Ala., is under water, and the river is still rising. Colorado railroads are blocked by the heaviest snow fall in twelve years. Cold with a heavy fall of snow is killing hundreds of cattle in Okla homa. Six cases of small pox have been found in a New York tenement house. Fire destroyed twenty buildings at McDonald, Pa., Saturday. Loss, $100,000. A combat between 23 miners at HazlMon. Pa., Monday, resulted in the killing of two. Four wood-choppers caught in a snowslide near Verdi, Nov., Thurs day, were suffocated. Suicide ended the career of Dr. It. S. Addison, Friday, one of the oldest of Chicago's physicians. The premature explosion of dyna mite in a coal mine at Jeansville, Pa., Saturday, killed two men. Terrible famine and destitution exists in Starr county, Texas, and many people are living' on roots. Despondency caused Miss Mattie Arnold, of Watkinsville, Ga., to kill herself Tuesday night, wilh strych nine. Five men were killed and several others seriously injured by a boiler explosion at Compte, La., Thursday night. White caps tlogged two inoffensive farmers near Charleston, W. Va., Tuesday night, for informing on coun terfeiters. At Hackettstown, X. J., Saturday, Barney Moonoy had his head torn from his body by the sudden starting of an elevator. At Oxford, Neb., Tuesday, M. B. Plant, a prominent merchant, was attacked by a bull on the street and gored to death. Caught asleep by flames in a New York tenement Saturday night, Wil liam Loeders, a young butcher, was burned to death. Jealousy induced Ii. E. Burdge, a merchant of East Waterford, Pa., to kill his wife, Friday night, and then cut his own throat.. Dying in her poverty stricken home. Monday, Mary Connolly, a New York scrub woman, was found to have SJ.233 in bank. A San Francisco doctor is sen tenced to the penitentiary twenty five years formal-practice on a young lady, causing her death. At Trenton, N. J., Friday, Ezra Martin returned home in an intoxi cated condition, killed his wife with an ax and cut his throat. Inability to secure work induced Jacob L. Swenk, of Norristown, Pa., to blow his brains out Saturday, in the presence of his family. Six prisoners made good their es cape from the jail at Thomasville.Ga., Friday, after shooting and killing Tom Singletary, the jailer. A negro variety theatre at Hous ton, Tex., was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Lee Taylor, an old man, and a negro woman were burn ed to death. An altercation between Doctors T. J. Holloway and Joseph I learn, both prominent physicians of Bishopville, Md., on Monday, resulted in the kill ing of Hearn. Fire destroyed the Home for Fee ble Minded Children at Vineland, N. J., Sunday. Two employes, Fred It. Sage and wife, of Philadelphia, were burned to death. The residence of Simon JaCobson, a San Francisco money lender, was entered by burglars iuesday night, while the occupant severe asleep and robbed of 12,000. Bobbing his employers of 4,000, and being arrested soon after, Eu gene (. Crockett, of Philadelphia, shot himself dead on Friday to es cape imprisonment. The house of John West, a farmer living near Murfreesboro, Ark., was burned Saturday night, and West, his wife and five children perished in the flames while asleep. After looting the store, Richard Prior, colored, shot and killed Chris tian Elder, the owner, and his wife, at White Oak Run, Pa., Friday night, to escape detection. A priest's refusal to preach a fun eral sermon at Nanticoke. Pa., Thursday, caused a riot, and the mourners stoned the windows of the church, convent and parochial resi dence. An old feud between William Nor ton and Jmes Breckinridge- near Nanofalia,, Ala., Saturday, resulted in the deatli of both. They met at a country' store and opened fire on each other. Erastus Wiman, formerly mau- iager tor n. ii. Iran x to., mercan tile agency, and a leading financier, was arrested in New York, Thurs day, charged with forgeries araount- I ing to $220,000. Last Week in Trale Circles. Special Correiiondt.'nce. - New York, Feb. 2G, 1S04. Business during the past week has been interrupted by the recurrence of a general holiday; but trade con ditions have not essentially changed. There is still a noticeable disinclina tion to extend operations into the future, and in most branches the ventures of traders are limited to the supply of current requirements. Even on this conservative basis there has ' been a necessary expansion of business in some departments, owing to the depletion of stocks; but the increase has been small as yet, and the volume of domestic trade ap pears to be at least a third less than it was a year ago. Enterprise in many directions is crippled by the delay of tariff legislation, and prompt action by the Senate would clear the way for more confident movements by all classes of business men. The financial situation is without improvement. Surplus bank reserv es have been depleted by recent pay ments for the new Treasury loan; but the supply of idle capital is still largely in excess of the present needs of business, and interest rates con tinue low. Merchandise exports have apparently decreased, but the decline of 818,002 in the money val ue of shipments from New York dur ing the last three weeks has been due mainly, if not wh'olly, to the low er prices now ruling on breadstuff, provisions, cotton and other pro ducts. Imports continue compara tively light, and so far during Feb ruary the entries at New York have been 17,240,008 less than for the corresponding period last year. Business failures during the last week numbered 3."0, as against 230 for the corresionding week last year. R. G. Dun & Co. say: '"Both in num ber and in magnitude commercial disasters have diminished, and in the first half of February the liabilities thus far reported of all firms failing amount to only 8,310, 008, of which j 3.070.813 were of manufacturing ; and 4.33'J,373 of trading- concerns. The aggregate of liabilities was 0,-040,2- in two weeks of January." The cotton movement has contin ued moderate, but has not decreased in proportion to expectation; and the ample stocks and unsatisfactory demand from domestic spinners, to gether with weaker reports from Liverpool, have combined to depress prices I of a cent per pound. Ex ports of cotton continue liberal for the season, and since September 1 have exceeded those of the previous crop year by 873.000 bales. But spinners' purchases so far this month have been comparatively small, and for the season Northern mill takings ! have fallen 214.000 bales below the total for the corresponding period last year. Southern consumption, however, has increased 13,000 bales, and all reports from that section in dicate that mills are fully emplo3-ed. Price concessions have been the in centive to larger purchases of some lines of cotton goods; but, except when thus stimulated, transactions have reflected the immediate wants of buyers. Prices of wheat have advanced 3 cents per bushel in Chicago and 11 cents in New York. The recovery in values has been due chiefly to in creased activity in the demand for actual wheat from Northwestern millers, and to more confident buying by speculators. Owing to the fact that stocks held in the Northwest had been largely sold against for May delivery, the larger sales of cash wheat have necessitated considera ble covering of future contracts which would have otherwise been unprotected by holdings of actual grain. At ruling low prices the market has naturally been very sen sitive to the effect of any increase in the legitimate demand; but the larg er buying for domestic mill consump tion has been an unexpected source of strength, in view of the recent de pression in the flour trade. Receipts of corn at Western pri mary centres have moderately de creased, but are still in excess of what they were a year ago, while the shipments thence have continued comparatively moderate. Prices of corn have been well maintained at Chicago; but are to 2 of a cent per bushel lower on the seaboard. The trunk line R.R.com panies.it is report ed, have agreed to reduce the sched ule rate on grain from Chicago to New York to a basis of 20 cents per 100 pounds, the change to take effect February 27. The lower rate has been secretly in force on some roads for some time past, and there are intimations that even lower rates have been made by roads which haul grain from Missouri River points for export via Newport News and other Southern ports. In provisions there has been very little speculation. The Spring Medk-Ine. "All rundown from the weakening effects of warm weather, you need a good tonio and blood purifier like Hood's Sarsaparilla. Do not put off taking it. Numerous little ailments, if neglected, will soon break tin the system. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now, to exjiel dis ease and give you strength and appetite Hood's Pills are the lest family ca thartic ami liver medicine. Harmless, I reliable, sure. ALL OVER THE STATE. A Summary of Current Events for the Past Seven Days. The trustees of the State Universi ty have resolved against foot ball. A Rowan county farmer has swap ped his horse off for a brass watch. Union and Mecklenburg counties have ' home-made'' bicycle factories. There is a four-year-old in Cabar rus county who smokes and chews like a veteran. Two Reidsville cotton mills have shut down, owing to the depressed financial condition. A white infant was deposited on the porch of J. M. Stedman, at High Point, Tuesday night. The shops of the Carolina Central railroad will shortly be moved from Laurinburg to Hamlet. Frank Hart, a merchant of Tar boro, made an assignment Saturday. Liabilities about 10,000. Eight white men charged with "white capping," were tried in Rich mond Superior court last week and acquitted. While fishing in a creek near Ox ford, Wednesday, a white boy pulled up a sack in which a white infant was sewed. Eli Perkins failed to ''get there"' with the Henderson people. His lecture there one night last week made them disgusted. TL P. Hevener, a cripple, took in a number of Greensboro citizens last week on an alleged "write-up," and decamped for parts unknown. The house of James Flynt, colored, in Stokes county, was destroyed by fire Sunday, and his wife, who was in bed sick, was burned to death. While picking the gravel out of some coffee, Monday, Mrs. T. J. Mar riner, of Halifax county, found in the coffee a very valuable uncut dia mond. David D. Draught), who has been in an Atlanta hospital several weeks unable to remember his name, it is alleged, has three living wives in this State,, Two Wake county murderers, Or ange Page and Mary Smith, both colored, were captured Thursday near Rocky Mount by two negro de tectives. Daniel Slaughter, who murdered Bare and Long in Alleglnny county a few weeks ago, was taken from jail at Snarta Thursday nurht by a mob and lynched. To relieve a severe cold, Mrs. Mil lard Grant, of Wilkes county, took strychnine in mistake of quinine, Tuesday night, and in half an hour she was a corpse. Three stores at Smithfield were en tered by burglars Wednesday night. In each instance they were after nothing but money, of which they secured very little. A boiler explosion at Gulf, Chat ham county, Thursda-, killed twone groes and badly injured several oth ers, caused from pouring cold water into the hot boiler. At a negro "festibule" near Ma rion, Friday night, Joe Pat ton, col ored, shot and mortally wounded a negro by the name of Cowan. A wo man was the origin of the trouble. In his attempt to cross a mill pond on a narrow plank, Tuesday, James H. Robinson, of Vance county, lost his balance, fell into the water and was drowned before help could reach him. Alonzo II. Monday, aged 20, was ground to death beneath a street car's wheels at Asheville, Wednes day. While jumping off a car he was struck by one on the adjoining track. Burlington is stirred up over the action of the Morehead Banking Company, until recently doing busi ness there, in suing various parties there, who have overdrawn their ac counts. I. II. Foust,, ex-cashier of the First National Bank of Salisbury, was tried there Friday on the charge of embezzlement, found guilty and sentenced to two years in the peni tentiary. II. E. Satterfield, a butcher, of Salem, eloped Friday with Miss Lula Shore, a 17-year-old school girl, tak ing with him all the money he and his partner had. Satterfield has a wife in Salem. At Raleigh, Wednesday, Louise White, the twelve-year-old daughter of Luther N. White, was thrown out of a wagon while turning a corner, sustaining injuries from which she died soon after. As a result of a debauch, in the progress of which lie had lost over 100 of his, employer's money, and besides being "kicked' by his sweet heart, Elbert Yannoy, aged 23, of Ashe county, took laudanum on Sun day and killed himself. The joint commission of the two Methodist conferences of this State, at a meeting in Greensboro, Thurs day, consolidated the two Methodist papers of the conferences and order ed it to be published at Greensboro, A joint stock company, with Rev, F. L. Reid as president, has been formed. A MIRACLE INDEED. AX INTERESTING STORY TOI.I) KADER CREECH OF MICRO. P.V A d'reat Sufferer For Years. Under Constant Treatment by Physicians Without Success. How He Was Relieved. One of the niot resjH'cted citizens of Johnston County, X. .'., is Kader Creech of Micro, where he has lived for a loug while. Mr. Creech's word is as good as his Iximl, so say W. R. Oliver, and 15. CrockVr, Merchants of Pine l-evel, X. C. and many others who know him well. Kader Creech has I teen for years past a great sufferer from a disease that seemed to bailie the best medical talent, and it has only Keii recently that he has at all enjoyed 1'fe. Through the aid of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Reme dy, made at Rondout", X. Y.. a medicine that is now lieing prescribed by the most noted physii-ians everywhere for the diseases for which it is prepared. Mr. Creech licgan to improve, and witli hardly a spark of life left in him. Favor ite lienntly built him right up. Mr. Creech, in writing to l)r. Kenne dy of his case, says: "In the Fallot 1!. I was taken down with a severe pain in my back and hip, and remained in that condition for over four months. The physician who attended me, called the disease Sciatica, up till the time my hip iHffau to break and run. which con tinued for about ten months, the sore then healed, leaving the llesh wasted away, ami mv hip bone sticking out against the skin. All this time I suffer ed the most excruciating pain and was reduced to n mere skeleton. One day Mr. II. 1. IVarce, of Selma. X. C, call ed upon me and sjoke so highly of your preparation. Favorite Remedy. I pro cured it and commenced to take it. I must say 1 hail little Imjies of ever get ting U tter, for I could not raise my head otT my pillow. After usnii; favorite Kcniedv about twenty days, I discovered I was gaining in strength, and wasabletosit up nearly i half a day at a time, 1 linallv improved so I could an a!ut on crutches, and feel that Favorite Remedy will pt nnaneiitly cure me. 1 lie great T(mkI it iias done me (a hopeless ease it seemed) has gained for this valuable medicine a powerful reputation."' Yours truly. Kapeu ( UF.KCll. 1. O. Micro. X. C. Appended to Mr. Creech's letter is the following: "We hereby certify that Ka- ler Creech is a reliable man and that the above statement is true. Seal) J. X. Or.iVKK. Johnston Register Deeds. Superior Court, W. S. Stkvkns, (State) N.C. Clerk Suicrior Court. The alwne statement, coming from such a reliable source, lead us to impure i little further about this remarkable medicine, ami we found that Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Hemedy was in no sense a patent meuicme, as many sup pose, but is the result of the patient toil and experiment of David Kennedy, M. D., of Rondout. X. Y.. who was a lnein Imt of the Klectoral College of Xew York State, which cast their vote for President (Jrover Cleveland. Dr. Ken nedy has recently been re-elected Mayor of the City of Kingston, (Rondout), X. Y., where lie resides and prepares his medicine. In speaking of Dr. Kennedy's Favor ite Remedy, one of our physicians says: "It ranks with the medical profession as the most perfect of all blood and nerve medicines. It will cure all dis eases of the skin, liver and kidneys. It restores the liver to a healthy condition, and effectually cures the worst eases of habitual constipation. It is a certain cure for all diseases and weaknesses pe culiar to females, and affords great pro tection from attacks that originate in change of life. It cures scrofula, tetter, salt rheum, boils, scald head, ulcers, tu mors, rheumatism, dysjH-psia, all kid ney. Madder and urinary diseases, grav el. dialH'tis and Ilright's Disease. In this last disease it has made many cures where all else has failed. Evi dences of its great curative power are daily brought to the notice of physic ians", from privace and hospital practice, where it has entirely supplanted tin old time methods in the treatment of the alx)e mentioned diseases. It is also particularly effective in all cases arising from mental worry or over-work, ner vousness, or loss oi sleep. Dr. David Kennedy s tavorue Reme- lv is for sale by all dealers in medicine it $1 a bottle, or six bottles for Full brections accomnanv each bottle, so that an- one can readily understand just how to take it for the Uitlcrcnt com plaints. t Nashville is the tirst citv in the world for hard wood IuiiiImt. and the largest milling city in the South. I've tried all sorts of Motd-purifi- ers, said an out iauy 10 a --cuuer, -aim -ou can't persuade "me that any other sarsaparilla is as good as Ayer's." There's where site had hnn. She knew that Avers was the liest and so did he, but it paid him liettcr to sell a chcajHT brand. Tapper Lake, X. Y., has America's biggest saw mill. Sx- im ii Ca-. S. H. Clifford, Xew Cassel. Wis., was " troubled with neuralgia and rheuma tism, his stomach war disordered, his liver was affected to an alarming de gree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced in tiesn ami xirengin. Three liottles of Electric Hitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Ilarrisburg, lib, had a running sore on his leg of eight years' standing. Us"l three bottles of Electric Ihtters and seven lioxes ot Rucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is soiiiid and well. John Speaker, Cat aw i.i. O.. had five large fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One lxttle Electric Hitters and one box IjUCK- len's Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold by J. IL Hill & Son's Drug Store. Artificial wood for furniture, roofs, insulators, etc., is now made by burn ing niagnesitc. together with wood, shav ings, sawdust, cotton, hair, or wool. Balance Powder JlPsoJutey Pure A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. Latest U. S. Government Food Re port. Royal Baling Powder Co., 10G Wall St., N. Y.