North Carolina Newspapers

GrOLDSBORO EADLIGHT KSTA'HLISIIED 1887. GOLDSBOHO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1894. VOL. VII. NO. 30. The Old Friend l.cvcr v r Iloau- 1 Z) that's wl.;;t vou li.-;:r at tho i.;enti.;:i oi 1 las excellent Liver medicine-; :i 1 people. sliouM not be cr.-'-::a ' th.it iiiiytLiji ' el.-so will do. It is tho King of Liver Medi cines; is L-tter than 'il!s, and tak.-.s the j.l.-t'-.-o- of Quinine rnl Csilomel. It :vts directly on tho Liver, KiJiv-ys and Bowels and gives new life to tho whole fys tVm. This is the medicine you want. Boll by all 1'nurgists" in Li.juid, or in I'owdor to be taken dry or made into a tea. CJ-EVEKV PAfKACK i i 1 1 an the ' Mhiiii ti rul on viH;jtr. J. 11. ZKll.l.V Jt CO., Viiil.-uMphia, I'a. BEFOP.E. AFTf IK3 i Dr. C. l-es i.!.-r I Tfeatrrer.t I-;.- itu'lior- I; N.-rvi l;f till' vi- l -eof l.-iul to liy mail. 'Inborn,, Mistr, C 11 n bus; refund ir , l."n 1 Vi.: h. ;iritt'i 1 : l 1 rtiiin A-thl:i lu-bitis Croup, i. St.' i iiroa'. 1'ii-ii-i.iit lo t:iK CL'AUANTKiJS issut-d a!y by mi - Hi-o.. CoM-boro. N. ('. Jl iliu, uc M. I". i: " : -THE NEW YORK: j RACKET - STORE! '1'lle liariler t In' lillie ihe n hir lieeoine-i the New 'ni'k l.'ai qill- Mi When a mail h;is hi- pockets full of money lie will trade a!n.-t anywhere and pay very liiile aiteiiiion to the H ire. Not so w he:: Money is Scarce And Hard to Get, lell out lOlltr v the our W th mari hill'' dailv iiiji We Give You a Eargsin in tveryttiing you buy ! Ami ante articl repre- I a van! I cl'is to J buvino;. ! seined. We iric :! and 1v! for :i dozen, pve us a call w hell men All start out A.M. SHRAGO & CO., Prop'rs. MAGNETIC KERvTneT Is sold with written guarantee to cure N ervous Prostra tion, Fits, D:zzi- riessjlli'ii'liiclionud it'iiral-ria aiiii Wak--fulness, rcuil Lyei- -,.iv..i-....fl ,,illTT jry ioii:i?co nivi aico- .3k. v.; ; ' ... v. ,:;:' BEFORE - AFTER ,in.'softer.inef t'io Brnin, cnuincr Misery, Insanity :in:l Death; narnmi'ss, Impni'Tiry, Lost Power in ciilivr fcx. Premature Old Ajte. luvi-.iu-.itary Losses, cau-eil l.v iver-i;ic-.!U'i'ii-, nvei-i'xei'tton of the Brain an.! Errors of Youth. It t:ivesto Weak Orunns tln-ir Natural Vigor and iloul.ies the joys of life; cares Lucorrlifea niul Female Weakness. month's trent lnent, in plain package, by mail, t any it.lilre-s, 1 1 -. r luix. ti l)xes5. W ith every ?." order we u'ive i Written Cuarantee to cure or refund tin nn'iiey. ciri'ulurs free. Ouarantou issued only ly our ti i ;u-ivo HL'trit. M. K.Ki bro.. (, X.C.i eit of i ito-L'riniry Or. r.r poisonous mnl. :i:crualiy. Whca TSEVEKTiVE x it u i'i!w:Koto!!tnirt ;.- I :r.ir,'II.TCty AyLICTK -a..-,::-:vi, .l.M.,,1 N.C. .'hi yc CR. FELIX le n: STEEL m FESS1 lire the o. n vV 1 tf, FHfr 'e't. !'! lUiili. Vi.'llUlIK' .M. K. KoLin- WclCOiTlG A Happy IS(;I A1:aNTI:K1) T() Tims!: WHO - ill e;ill at my saloon, which is ked:itallti - w it li ! he choie.-t of l.mie-ti I (ill! Li(iiors and Wines ! All the drinks ated bv eoaipoiiiided ami ki!l!'iil men. Domestic and imported Cisars A- Nl A I. i;;i LOT OF FiXK TO-i baeeo. Tor or I'tire North ( 'aroiina j mv phiee i lieadipiarters. : liout-11 is with me ami ed to see his friends. ! Corn hi- !;ev mv Mr. Oil would l. Jas. Ji. Dickinson, At .John ; Old Stand. And 'the best friend, that fails V'.'i, is Simmons Li s". .1. fm f. fT T rv KUPTrRE C-URKD!'dat,'s th" mvm'r of tllc fowlmust pay a line of two dollars. If such a WITHOUT CUTTING OPERATION. X(t loss of time Necessary to Uiiderofu treatment. I)K. JNO. SPrCE'U, GOLDSBOHO, N. 0. Asfiifti a TArr'-iiuutS'SiTREE Tho Way of the World. L:mjlh, ami the world laughs with you. Weep, ami von weep al For tlie brave oM earth must borrow its mirth It has trouble ciioaL'ii "f its ou n. Sing, and the liills will answer. Sigh, ami 'tis lost on the air: The echoes rebound to a joyful sound Ami .-lu ink from voicing eare. Hejoiee. and men will seek you. (irieve. and they turn ami go: They want full ' measure of all your pleasure, Hut they do not want your woe. He r!ad. ami .your friends are many, lie sad. and you lose them all: There none t decline your ncctared wine. Hut alone you mu-t drink life's rail. I'ea-t. ami your halls are crowded, l'a-t. and' the world goes by: Forget and forgivi it helps you to live. Hat no man can help you to die! There is no room in the limits of pleasure For a long ami lordly train, Hut. one bv one, we mint all man It on Through the narrow ai.!cof pain. Keeping Company with iiris. A young man writes to tho Balti more Sun to inquire ''if it is proper or etiquette for a gentleman visiting j I a lady with matrimonial intentions ; to ask her for her regular company : previous to their engagement." Al- though the correspondent in ques tion speaks of his friend as "a lady with matrimonial intentions." wc take it for granted that he did not mean to be so unallant as to inti mate that she has '"matrimonial in tentions," but that he meant this part of his sentence to refer to him self. If the lady with regard to whom he is cheri.shino- "matrimonial inten tions" is like the average rirl of the day. she will not allow him. to have her for his "regular company" until he has come to the point, if lie means by "regular company" the riht in any way to monopolize her society. If he undertakes to do that without asking her, she will be likely to ask him. either by words or actions, if he means business. If lie actually has the temerity to propound that question to her and she consents, he may wake up Inter to tho realization that he is enfjaoed. for it seems that the courts have made rulings on this subject that are interesting to peo ple with, or without matrimonial in tentions. In a recent breach-of-promisc case in Chenango county. Xcw York, a j jury o-ave the fair plaintiff three I thousand dollars for her broken j heart and blasted affections, although j j there was no claim that there was a j verbal promise of marriaire. It was : ' i I simply a case in which the youn j j man had been keeping ' "regular com-' pany" with the young woman for a! long time, and "the court left it to j the jury to say whether or not they I would infer that there was an en- j gagenieiit of marriage." The doctrine of "implied engage-! meats." says a New York contempo- rary, was laid d..v,n twenty years' ago by the New York Court of Ap- ! peals in the following language: ! "Con tracts of marriage are unlike all others. They concern the highest interests of human life and enlist the tenderest sympathies of the human heart, and the acts and declarations of the parties negotiating- them are often correspondingly delicate and emotional. As a matter of law the learned judge in the court below was clearly right in holding that no formal language is necessary to con stitute the contract of marriage. If the conduct and declarations of the parties clearly indicate that they re gard themselves as engaged, it is not material by what means they have arrived at that state." In other words, a young man has no right to become the "regular company" of a young lady, drive off all other competitors by attentions which can have but one construction, and after enjoying the monopoly of all this sweetness for several months or years. sheer off in pursuit of some anrl to. i 01 !,'r l5,'tty girl with the declara eeiit by j tjon t!at i1( moaut nothing by it. N. C. ' P''tty girls of the present will , ,, , , j not aow this sort of thing, and ' .voun men who attempt it will find ! that thev have made a mistake. It will be better for them not to keep I , . 1 regular company with young la- j dies unless they are prepared to keep ; company through life with them, or ! to answer for their deceitful conduct ' in a court of law, where Cupid al , ways becomes a satirist, and where the delinquent lover has to stand a : lire of ridicule as well as a verdict : of damages. (iolilsboro. Too, Needs It vtnvillu l.ViUrtur. Kinston has an ordinance requir- ing people to keep their fowls shut up from March 15th to June 15th, and if one's chicken is out and dam- . ! ages another's garden between those law existed in Greenville there might be a sweeter disposition between neighbors about (rnvfonnic -time For a fact it is mighty provoking to 1 get a good garden started oiT nicely and then see it scratched all to piece's ! by a lot of stray chickens. . ! a- M;ttriiMl little granules thos tiny su - i . i I'.ui'ii i eiii'is 01 in . i HTif ! scarce I v larger than mustard seeds, vet powerful to chit aetive, vet lmUt in operation. The best liver pill ever in - vi. hi. ..I i l- l, 1....1... const ipation. One a dose. Whole vial '2-" cents. SHAIIkS AM) GIRLS. Hill Arp Discusses 3Ianea(f-rs in and .Out of Water. It was about ! o'clock and the moon was fshinin! bright v.ton the tlanciii(o; waters, when old man lira em. the old soldier who followed Colonel Frazer all through the war. and follows him still, was heard to cry for help! help! help! away down at the long dock that leads out from the colonel's home on the beach. And so they ran ran down the bluff and on to the gangway, one and all, armed with pistols and guns and thresh poles. Hut youth and blood and beauty will tell and so Miss riiebe Frazer outran the rest and with her pistol in hand, got to the channel just as the old man was about to give up the contest. lie had hooked a large shark and had struggled with him hard and long before he cried for help, bat help came lust in tue nieK 01 aine, ior Phebe. who is a sure shot, fired from the dock as the malicious beast I lifted himself from the water to make another plunge for freedom. The shot was fatal. It struck the, fish in a vital part and he sank limp and languid in the foaming water just as the old man had fainted upon I the floor. They seized the line from i his grasp and pulled the shark into the shallows and tied him to the ! railing. He was dead and when all i hands raised him to a perpendicular i he looked to be about seven feet long and as big and white as a Christmas I hog in killing time. His back was a i dove color, but three-fourths of his I body was as white and velvet' as a i bridal glove. Even his b'g, yawning j mouth was white inside and outside j and his thousand teeth shone like I pearls cut into triangles. I said a ! thousand teeth, for besides the front j row that line a curve of two and a I half feet, there are four rows more : that lie flat behind them and are on ; ly elevated when needed for crush j ing its animal food and making mince j pies for dinner. These four rows lap J on each other like layers of saw teeth i and look about as venomous, j And yet they say that this species of shark are not man-eaters and will ' Miy away from a boy in the water. ! Miss Phebe is a mightv prettv girl and deserves a medal, ami so like a rood newspaper man. I mouestlv ad dressed her with pencil and pad in my hand and said: "Your name, please?" "Phebe Frazer," she said with a i Jook of surprise. i "Your age. please," said I: She I did not reply, but her look said, '"It j is none of your business," Instinct I that is feminine instinct. A girlish j girl who is yet in her teens begins to I be shy of her age because because ! possibly she may not be wanted un- til her age becomes uncertain, and I so to keep it an unknown quantity she begins early. I wonder if a wo : man ever gets so old that she is willing for her age to be known. I never heard my wife tell anybody : how old she was. but I know. Ten : years before we were married I was ! twice as oici as sue was and now we I have just passed our forty-fifth wed- ding day. "What lad or lassie can tell our ages? j Put sharks are not all the horrible ; things that navigate these waters. The other day some fishermen har ! pooned a monster that carried the ! boat five miles out in the gulf and i got awav at last. It is a species of j devil fish that will L'ulp down a keg ! of jiils as quick as if it was a nigger j baby that's what the fishermen say. ! To-day I was shown the sting bone : of a large stingaree that was killed ! yesterday. It was four inches long i and was awful to look at and awfuller j to feel of its poisonous barbs. When i l ., ' ; .. . .. . ! ana n vou aon i nave it cut out in stantly you will die of lockjaw in fifteen minutes by the clock stand ard time. That is what a fisherman told inc. I saw a young octopus yesterday with its hooks and grubbers and manacles and tentacles squirming around like a fish bait and its goggle eyes and jelly mouth. I wonder what all these horrible creatures were made for. Old Uncle Sam says "the debil made 'em. The Lord made everything that is purty and good and He look at it and say it was all very good, and so de Lord He was tired by Saturday night and went to sleep and slep all day Sunday and shore enuf de old debil cum along Sunday morning and make up a lot : of snakes and spiders and scorpins and sharks and debil fish and stinga- rees and pisen oak and tread safts and so on and hides 'em and mixes em all up with the good things and dat's how dey come here sho." But the world is very lovely any how, and I'm thankful that I live. I I nave oeen turee monins in t loriua. ! uni1 fou"d but three unpleasant days. T huve not beard a mosquito, norfelt ; a 1!ea 5,1 Clearwater, though my wife I savs I am a little deaf and unfeeling. I The mocking birds sing all the day ; and the whippoorwills all the night. My wife has been to the islands sey- i erai limes anci never tires oi pic-King ; up tne beautiful shells that line the j Sulf skl of tllt? beath- But she has lone more than this. She has been bathing in the surf. Hush! Don't mention it. Tell it not in Gatli. Publish it not in Ajalon. There was. nobody there but the girls and some other female women, but the scandal has leaked out. The maternal ances tor has been buffeting with the foam ing billows of the deep blue sea. She has riddeupon the waves and sang ''Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep." I was away off on the heel of the island, and thought the tide was ris ing out of its time, but I understand it now. It was hard work to get her down here, but she is enjoying every da' and every night, and I'm afraid will not go home with me by the 1st of April. Nevertheless she still brags on her home in Cartersville. Well, this is indeed a love'y spot, and if I was rich enough to have a winter home here T would have it. Why not? It is certainly the place for health and comfort. It is a never tiring feast to the eye to look upon its beauties. It is a cheap place to live. It is secluded from the temp tations of city life, and the exactions of society. A railroad from Tampa to Clearwater lias just been project ed, and that will, of .course, add to our opulation and bring us in close connection with a city and a grand hotel and a few thousand Cubans and Colonel Hall's circus. Our people can then glide over there in an hour and see the finery of that country and return before the sun goes down, but they will never be happier than they are now. Hut we want the rail road. We need it and it looks like we are going to have it. Hill Arp. When' Hie Smith's Money (iocs. llaltimore MaiuifiittureiV liecord. Under the above heading the Sa vannah Xews preaches a sermon against the disposition of Southern people of all classes, from cotton planters to cotton commission mer chants, to speculate in cotton. The News very trulj' says that speculat ing in cotton on the part of Southern people is almost as much a waste of money as investing in lottery tick ets. Prices are not regulated bv the law of supply and demand, ex cept in the long run covering a peri-1 ou oi years, w nen xney may iuoe up or clown on a general average, as i suj;oi aim ueuiauu nui.) uuiau, but the speculator who attempts to make money on short-time operations is verv ireneral v lett. The South annually dumps intoj Wall street millions 'of dollars of I good hard money to pav for cotton ! losses, and yet very little is heard I of it. It is within bounds to say that within the last twenty years ! the South's net losses on cotton spec ulations have run up to hundred million or more. This mone had it been kept at home and invested in , Sutherland, a war veteran, of Lynn, development of enterprises would j Mass., coughed up a bullet, Satur have added vastly to the wealth of day, shot into him iil years ago. the whole South, furnished employ-! p.y the burning of a livery stable meat to many thousands of hands j al jorsoy city , N. J .. Friday , Micha and brought profit to those who j ol .'anvii? a coachman, perished in owned it. Producing as the South j tho 1!ames with tiive fine horses. does not far from $2,oO.OuO,oilO of agricultural, manufacturing and milling products a year, there ought to be a very large surplus, and this surplus will constantly increase as j speculation in cotton futures de- j crease. Conldh't Resist His Sliortcomiti. Winston Hejiublican. An old colored man called at Mr. Heeson's store, this count-, the other day and bought some eggs a dozen. Mrs. Heeson waited upon him. One egg appeared questionably out of or der and she told the darkey to go by a house a short distance from the store and at a certain point he would find a nest and several eggs therein, and to take one and thus complete the dozen. The darkey went as di rected and found the old hen doing her duty and thinking no one saw him, wrung her neck and tossed her over the fence. Mrs. H. saw him. unobserved. That night he returned when the lights were out and parties in watching nabbed him as he lifted the hen. He first denied, then ac; knowledged his guilt, and finally, our informant says, begged off, with a profusion of promises for the better. Where the I.auirii Came In. MnrRiintoii Herald. One of our local pastors whose name we need not mention, just as he had given out the closing hymn one night recently, attempted to sit down on a chair which at that mo ment happened to be absent without excuse. Picking himself up the best way-he could he turned to his con gregation who were bravely trying to keep their faces straight and said: "My friends, there are oec-aions upon which laughing is right and proper, and this is one of them. Laugh just as much as 3-011 please." The congregation took him at his word. I'eruliitr to Itself. So eminently successful has Hood's Sarsaparilla been that many leading citizens from all over the United States furnish testimonials of cures which seem almost miraculous. Hood's Sarsaparil la is not an accident, but the ripe fruit of industry and study. It possess merit 'peculiar to itself." Hood's Pills cure nausea, ache, indigestion, biliousnes sick head Sold l.v I all druggists. A NATION'S DOINGS. The Notts From Everywhere Gathered and Condensed. A twent3-one ounce girl baby was born Saturday, at Montpelier, Vt. Forest fires still rage on the Con neltou mountain, in West Virginia. Lightning killed Mrs. Hosea Joslin at her home in Millville, N. J., Thurs day. A destructive cyclone swept over Curtisvillc, Ky., Friday. No lives lost. Twelve stores and a hotel were de stroyed by fire at Poplar Hluff, Mo., Saturday. Falling plaster from the ceiling killed five-weeks-old Adolf Desh, at Ph. il adel ph ia, Friday. il-'avy frost has nipped the bloom ing fruit in Tennessee, Northern Missippiand Western Alabama. Struck by a trolley car, Thomas W. Kinsey, a Cincinnati business man, was instantly killed Friday. Knocked into a slate quarry at Delta, Pa., Saturday, Hugh Evans was crushed to death by the rocks. A morphine dose, taken purposely, killed William II. Hart, a New York drummer, in a Chicago saloon, Fri day. The little town of Money Point, Va., five miles from Norfolk, was wiped out by fire Friday. Loss near ly S.VM),0oO. Angered by his infant's cry, Andro Hartelly, an Italian of Scran ton, Pa., pitched it in the fire Saturday, with fatal result. Crazed by jealousy, John Sanders, of Mid vale. Pa., on Saturday, shot his wife, child and boarder. Lynch ing is feared. While on her way to churc h, Mrs. George Griffin, was struck by a train at Montrose, Pa., Sunday, and hor ribly mangled. As a result of their father's death, Daniel and Frank McDonald, two boys of Fall River, Mass., went vio lent ly insane Friday. The executive mansion of theCher- ee Nation at Talequah, I. T., oecu- pk,d by Chk.f Harris' family, was hurm Tuesday night. , " . . . . lower Mississippi The lower Mississippi river has overflowed the lowlands near Mem phis. Tenn., sweeping bridges awa- itml usicliin tr rmt rrilrnnd C;:-c- "'5tb d voh- binr a landlady of ?H0, at Waverly, Va- FrWa.v' '"Dr-" Mar-V Henderson is un(ll'r arrest at IVtersburg. Preparations have already begun for the unveiling in Richmond on May :i0th, of the Confederate sol diers' and sailors' monument. In a coughing fit, Augustus H. i At San Antonio, Tex., Satuixkn', ' Mrs. Rosa Hrown and her son died suddenly from poisoned food. A dis charged servant has been arrested. The women of Enterprise, Kans., held a mass meeting Monday night and nominated a full town ticket. They propose to purify the city poli tics. Near Norfolk, Thursday, Fred Watts, aged 18, was shot and killed by Mrs. Henry Hugo, whose lC-year-old daughter Watts had criminalh' assaulted. At a convention in Dallas, Tex., Thurscbry, the divided fac tions of the Democratic party agreed on a basis for harmony within the party. Both sides went home satisfied. Reports from the blizzard iu Wy oming are to the effect that several herders and many head of cattle and sheep have perished. Snow drifts thirty feet high are reported. A dynamite explosion that shook the earth for miles around demolish ed the Acme Powder Company's dy namite works at Black Run, Pa., Friday, and killed five persons. While in a fit of mental derange ment, Mrs. Fannie Moore committed suicide at her residence in Clarks burg, W. Va., Monday, by blowing out her brains with a shot gun. In a fight between the Cobb and King families at Three Notches, Ala., Thursday, John Cobb had his throat cut and was killed and Dave and Brad King were badlj wounded. ' The residence of Eli Clark, near Hartford City, Ind., was destro3 ed by an explosioffof natural gas, Mon day. A child was burned to death and six other persons were seriously injured. The public school building at South Evanston, 111., caught on fire Thursday and was completely de stroyed. Several of the panic-stricken pupils jumped from the third and fourth story windows and were se verely injured. Because a serenade of cow bells and tin cans was tendered him, William Ingram, living near Evergreen, Ala., who was married Monday night, ran to the door and hurled an axe into the crowd, striking a young man named Jim Dixon, causing his death. Last Week in Trade Circles. Sjiecial t'orrospondence. New York, March 2(5, 1804. Business during the last week has maintained the previously noted tendency to improvement. Trade at retail has been quickened by fav orable weather, and there has been a considerable increase in the dis tribution from first hands. The in dustrial output is steadily expand ing; but there is still a large capaci ty awaiting a further enlargement of demand as an incentive to resume operations, and in most departments valuta remain low and unprofitable. Speculation lias been somewhat re strained by uncertainty as to the action of the President with regard to the Bland bill for the coinage of the seigniorage, and also by the ad vent of the Easter "holidays and the growing probability of anti-option legislation in Congress. While the distrust engendered by the latest currency legislation has modified the buoyancy of the Stock Exchange markets, values have shown consid erable strength owing to evidences of reviving business activity, more. encouraging net earnings of the rail roads, and a general expectation that the Seigniorage bill would be vetoed. Some foreign buying of securities and liberal e.'iorts of merchandise have combined to check a further outflow of gold. Merchandise ship ments from New York alone in three weeks of March have been $(,2C2,1WG larger than they were last year, and imports in two weeks have decreased $(1,842,240, which indicates a large addition to the already heavy balance of trade in favor of the United States. Trade growth is shown by a smaller decrease in the gross earnins of rail roads in recent weeks, which is the more encouraging because it has oc curred in the face of a shrinking "rain and cotton movement and of comparatively low rates of freight. The failures during the last week throughout the United States and Canada aggregated 211 4, an increase of 57 as compared with the total a year ago. The cotton movement to the ports has slightly decreased, but has con tinued to maintain a favorable con trast with that of last season; and there has been but a slight accession of bullish confidence in the markets. Prices have advanced 1-Klth of a cent, but speculation has been of a hairing character, owing to the un satisfactory demand from spinners and the prospect of Congressional I action against trading in options. Northern mills' takings since Sep tember 1 have fallen 202,000 bales short of those of the previous season; but exports in that period have in creased 0S.", 770 bales, which is 200, 000 bales more than the total increase in the amount of cotton which has come into sight during the crop year. There has been more activity in the cotton goods trade, but no improve ment in prices in any line, and in ex ceptional cases the increased busi ness has been at the expense of frac tional concessions. Wheat prices have again declined J to ri of a cent per bushel as a result of large stocks and an indifferent de mand. Visible stocks are slowly running down, but all the statistical data point to an excess of supplies over probable requirements prior to another harvest. The abnormally low prices discourage aggressively bearish operations bT speculators; but, lacking evidence of crop dam age, or an3r urgency in the foreign demand, traders find little incentive to take the "long" side of the mar ket. The interior movement contin ues: moderate, and since January 1 receipts at Western centres have been 14,420.000 bushels less than thc'3r were during the corresponding period last year. Although there is no activity in the foreign demand, the exports of wheat, including flour, compare favorably with those of last season. Prices of corn futures have frac tionally declined, while the market for near deliveries has ruled a shu'.e stronger. Western receipts have fallen off, and there has been a well- sustained demand for exjiort. Ship ments in three weeks have aggregat ed 4,4(!0,500 bushels, as against 2,"22,21G bushels for the corresponds ing weeks last year. Values of provisions have fluctu ated within narrow limits, and as compared with figures current a week ago Chicago prices show ad vances of 12J cents per barrel on pork and 1 to 10 cents per 100 pounds on lard and short ribbed sides. Domestic trade distribution has continued moderate; but exports have been liberal, the clearances last ., , , . week of both meats and lard having been more than twice as large as they were during the corresponding week last 3ear. The Milidest man in Texas. The wickedest man on earth. The solemn-most saint in t'hu-s?o. Anil the dearest "Fair Maid of Perth" WiU "pool" their issues when ever it couics To petting their money's worth. And thev are wise. Scrofula, bron chitis, liver ailments, consumption, dj-s- jK'psia, and weak kidneys put one en tirely out of the humor of fooling along, wasting health and wealth on humbugs, when a reasonable sum expended for Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery would restore their lxxlies and "put money in their purses." ALL OVER THE STATE. A Summary of Current Event x for the Past Seven Days. The Bank of Fayetteville ls changed officers. There will be no city election at Raleigh this year. Charlotte has a new pants factory on an extensive scale. The Methodists of Smithfield are con templat ing erecting a new church. Chas. E. Crabtree, of Durham, dis appeared very mysteriously, Thurs day. Yale defeated the University of North Carolina nine at Greensboro, Friday, by 7 to 3. Strawberries grown near Wilming ton were offered for sale there Sat urday at 4.1 cents per quart. Farmers of Guilford county are complaining greatly of the visitation of an insect that is ruining the oat crop. The farmers of Mecklenburg coun ty have organized a company to in sure themselves against fire, wind or storm. A child of Dave Stephens, in Meck lenburg county, was bitten Tuesday by a mad dog, and is in a critical condition. A thief broke into the pastor's study of the First Baptist church at Raleigh, Tuesday, and stole a part of the communion service. The Imperial Pine Product Co., of Wilmington, is in trouble. All its property has been attached to satis fy claims of nearly $34,000. A child of Henrietta Hobgood, colored, was burned to death in Granville county, Saturday, while being left alone by its mother. Her clothing igniting from the fire place, the 0-year-old daughter of Pet er Miller, colored, was burned to death in Iredell count-, Monday. While playing with fire, Monda', Minnie, the four-year-old daughter of J. E. Clontz, of Gastonia, was so badlr burned that she died soon after. While sitting in her house a color ed woman in Rowan county was struck and killed by lightning, Sat urday. This is the first of the sea son. All the cases against the officers and directors of the broken Bank of New Hanover, were nolle pressed Friday in the Wilmington criminal court. The falling limb of a tree which he was cutting down struck an old ne gro named Harris while at work iirn regular form after discovering the Beaufort county. Saturday, killing him instant by. Franklin, the county seat of Ma con count lost several stores and houses by fire Frida' night, caused from a defective flue. Loss about $13,000; no insurance. Lee Williams, a negro lx3' 11 3-ears of age, while stealing a ride on the bumper of a shifting engine, at Char lotte, Friday, slipped and fell under neath and was ground to death. While stealing a ride, Joseph Pink nev. colored, of Salisbury, fell under I th whods of th(J mQ . tram - t before it entered Greensboro, Mon day night, resulting in his death. John II. Baker, a clerk in the store of W. C. & A. B. Stronach, Raleigh, missed his footing and fell down a flight of stairs, Monday sustaining injuries from which he died soon af ter. A sensation was created in Ral eigh, Fridav, by the reported flight of a well-known and prominent 3'oung law3-er to Oklahoma. His property has been attached, by local creditors. f John R. Crowder, of ' Cleveland count3', who, on various occasions, tried to kill himself, made another unsuccessful attempt, Friday, to cut his throat with a pocket-knife. - He j is demented. J. B. Wall, of Johnston county, committed suicide, Tuesdays by shooting himself in the temple with j a pistol, ; house of He was visiting at the his son-in-law, J. H. A. j Cook, and said he was in trouble. Prof. Arthur Abernethy, son of ''My God" Abernethy, of Rutherford College, has written a novel which bears the rather singular title of ''The Hell You Say." He also says that he will write another, the title of which will be: "In a Devil of a Fix." Another evangelist has come to grief. "Rev." John Marston, who claimed to be a Campbellite preach er, of Chicago, after converting man3r sinners at Waynesville, was locked up there Monday night on the charge ''ilrnnt fi rwt l.-kn TTt TMYwlllim- ; , . , ,', . .1 led that he was able to whip the whole town. Three stores were destrov'ed by fire at Benson, Saturda' night. Bennet Barber, a public school teach er, made a confession that he was 1 hired by Mangum, Barber & Nabors to burn their store which wis well insured. Goods were found secreted in the house of Rev. Lewis Mangum, a Baptist preacher. The members of the firm and the implicated par ;:t";:X.yrerU Royal Baking Powder Co., claim the full insurance on the goods. ' 10C Wall St., X. ties have been arrested. Their ob JIarrU'd on Short Acquaintance. Lexirigt'tn Dispatch. Last Thursday evening, at the res idence of Mrs. J. D. Cutting, in this city. Dr. D. J. Driver was united in marriage to Miss Mattie Cutting. Dr. Driver's home is at Little Rn-k, Ark. He had nexer visited Ixxing ton or seen his bride until he came to marry her. The happy event came about under somewhat peculiar circumstances. About two years ago a daughter of D. L. Trexler mar ried a gentleman from Little Rock, and when she went to her home in the west, took a photograph of Miss Cutting with her. Dr. Driver saw the picture and was smitten with the tender passion. Corresiondence was opened and was continued until it culminated in matrimony. Woman and Money (iono. Salisbury Herald. Mrs. Doyle, the dressmaker, was robbed Thursdaj' morning. A negro woman was employed to do some washing and when the work was done came into the room to get her pay. Mrs. Doyle took the money from her purse to pay the woman and then put it back where she usu ally kept it. The woman saw where the purse was placed and when Mrs. Doyle left the room she took it. ap propriated the money and left. Soon aft?r the woman left Mrs. Doyle en tered the room and was passing the window where she saw hc-r purse on the ground and asc ertained that her money was gone. She does not know the name of the woman. Misbehavior in ( loircli. Ixiuisliurg Tillies. Of all the bad habits that young people, (and we might say older ones too) indulge in. we can imagine but very few that deserve more condem nation and punishment than "misbe havior in church." The Times regrets exceeding that any of the young people of Louisburg should be guiltj of this crime and, the repeated re proofs b3r the pastors of the church es do not seem to check them. If it is not stopped, however, the author ities say the3T will deal with the guiltT parties, and the extreme limit of the law will be enforced. Novel Mode of Swearing. Albemarle News. We see it stated in the papers that the jurors drawn to serve the first week of Buncombe Superior court were sworn op the Methodist Discip line instead of the Bible, and that Judge Mclver had them sworn again mistake. We assisted in the trial of a case of perjury at Troy a few 3'ears ago in which the jurors and witness es were sworn on a histor3r of tfie United States, and the mistake was not discovered until after the trial had ended. The accused was ac quitted. March, April, May. March, April and May are the arches of a bridge which bind the season of ice to that of roses. Therefore, the spring is a trying time for the average ponton. The system at this season of the year simply needs cleansing; remove the im purities from the blood, cure that grow ing trouble, constipation, anil yon will be able to battle with the coming sea sons in jx'i fect health. Dr. David Ken nedy's Favorite Keinedv', more than any other'nh-dicine will do this for j'ou. It will purify and dissolve the excess of uric acid in the blood, disoll that worn out feeling, make vou sleep and eat well. It is prescribed by physicians ev erywhere for just this purpose. Drug gists sell it for $1 a lottle. The man who considers buying on credit an easy way to get things, is not a safe man to trust. Investigation blazes the wav for hu man progress. Rule 15, which prevent ed the admission .f patent medicines at the World's Fair, caused an investiga tion of all the blood-purifiers presented for exhibition purposes. The result of this examination by scientific: men, proved that Ayer's Sarsaparilla was the only remedy of the kind entitled to the confidence of the committee, and worthy of their endorsement. Directness of aim is of more inqtor tancethan loudness of report. 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