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A Tragedy of the Dismal Swamp. According to the preen dis patches a colored citizen of thin Commonwealth fell asleep a few days ago in the Dismal Swamp, having- solaced his soul and grati fied his apjietite with u refrection i-onsisting of several bottles of beer and several boxes of sar dines. He sat against a tree, happily somnolent, filled with food and fluid, careless of the work of the Constitutional Con vention or his future suffrage prospects. His mouth had fallen apart in an appalling aperture, when along came Coluber Constrictor, (the official name of a black snake), exploring the swamp for amusement and profit, presum ably a young and ambitious rep tile seeking an opening. Hefound -it in Hamulus Americo-Africanus and proceeded to introduce him self. According to the dispatches, .he did it by crawling down the throat of our replete fellow-citi xen, lieing not the first reptile in this State to get deeply into an unobservant colored person. Investigation of the negro has usually resulted disastrously to the negro, and this case was no exception to that rule. It is also true that the colored brother on "former occasions, as on this, has gotten it in the neck because of this open disposition and that those who have confided in him too far have been stuck. Coluber Constrictor choked Americo-Afri canus to death by obstructing his wind-pipe but found that he had made 11 bad bargain?had, in fact, been taken in, although not completely; for he could no ?further go nor no deeper pene trate. The negro was left in the unusual position of a dead man telling the cause and manner of his death by a tail from his own ? lips. The tragedy in some respects resembles that related by the late fnnes Kandolph in which a negro and acatfish (1'ilodictisOlivaris) were found drowned together leaving an unsettled question? Whether the nivrwt r h tlshm' had jrone Or the fish had Rone out a niiwrin'. In this transaction, however, there seems to be 110 doubt which was the aggressor. It is not known whether Coluber Con strictor was incited by idle curi osity, by philosophical thirst for knowledge and exploration, an ignoble thirst for beer or other considerations. He was undoubt edly an intruder, but instead of disturbing the sleeper by wrap ping 011 liis outside put him for ever at rest by stopping off the ?4itmosphere from his inside. I're sumably Coluber Constrictor was -slain after he had been extracted. Therefore both parties are equally punished and tfie Dismal Swamp is deprived of two of its orna ments.?Richmond News. To Save Her Child From frightful disfigurement Mrs. Nannie (Jalleger, of Lu Grange, Ua., applied Iluckleu's Arnica Salve to great sores on her head and faee, and writes its ouick cure exceeded all her hopes. It works wonders in Sores, Bruis es, Skin Eruptions, Cuts, Burns. Scalds and I'iles. 2.',c. (^ure guar anteed by Hood Bros., druggists. Corn Crop's Great Loss. New York, .1 uly 27.?Telegraph ic reports received from BOO points in the eight, corn and wheat ptoducting States col] t ively indicate that this year - corn crop will hardly exceed I 200,000,000 bushels, against 2.1 or,. 1(12 alt; bushels la-i ye n This means that 000,000,000 bushels have been burned up in this summer's heat. Last year's prices were 7 a bush, I Tm financial loss to corn I erscan be easily compared. Even grant ing that corn is higher now than last year, the lessened produc tion will still mean a loss to the growers of not lv i r 000,000. This season's crop is the smallest in eleven years. But there is a bri lit side to this crop picture. The yieid ol wheat is going to be larger in quantity and better in quality than flie most sanguine had hoped for. It will far exceed last year's crop of 5tf2,220,.">or> bush els, worth f32B,.">l.">,l 77, and, furthermore, a short wheat cro| in Europe is causing an extraor dinary demand for the America! product. F. T. Thomas, Sumterville.Ala. ?I was suffering from dyspepsir when I commenced taking Kudo Dyspepsia Cure. I took severe bottles andean digest any thing.' Kodol IlyHwpsiaCitre is the onl> preparation containing all tin "natural digestive fluids. Itgivef weak stomachs entire rest, re storing their natural condition Howd Bros , J. ft. Ledbetter, Han & Hon. A Literary Flirtation. It Is-gun by the literary girl sending what she thought was a joke to the editor of the comic monthly, nays the Smart Set. He promptly returned it w ith a single word scrawled across it in blue pencil?"<id." "So are you," she answered by postal the same day. "Do you think so?" he scrib bled under a photo of himself that lie sent to her. "Not at all!" came the shy answer, after she had admired its good points. "Are you? ' Evidently this edi tor wanted to know things. "What woman is?" was the enigmatic sentence on the postal. "Prove it." This youngeditor was nothing if not insistent. "Here 'tis." And the photo- ? graphs of some literary girls ure not half bad. "Very tine," was as much as he dared say by postal. "Hameto you!" And the girl thought t lie queer matter closed. "Why don't you write at length?" "Can't." "Why not?" "Am otherwise engaged." "To whom?" "My future husband, you silly! My postalshavegivenout. Uood bye!" Their Secret is Out. All Sadieville, Ky., was curious to learn the cause of the vast im provement in the health of Mrs. S. P. Whitaker, who had for a long time, endured untold suffer ing from a chronic bronchial trouble. "It's all due to Dr. King's New Discovery," writes her husband. It completely cured her and also cured our little grand-daughter of a severe at tack of Whooping Cough. It positively cures Coughs, Colds, l.atirippe, Bronchitis, all Throat and IRirig troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Hood Bros, drug store. people Who Live to a Kipe Old Age. I have alluded previously to t he great ?of persons living in This vicinity. Miss Margaret Shaw, residing with her niece, Mrs. Flora McNeill, near Red Springs, was horn in Cumberland count v, January 1, 1803, and is now iii her b'.ith year. John Mc Neill, near Mt. Tabor church is i , 0J{; M rs.Cam obeli, near St. 1 aul s i is'.Mi: ltev..lolin.Mclntyrereached the great age of 102 years. He was born in Scotland in August 1750. and died in ltobeson coun ty in November, 1H.?2. Hisfatuih record attests the fact. 1 inter viewed Lewis llardin in_l?<?>. tie was born July 4th. 1 < ib.and died in 1SK0. In bis 100th year he attended a political meeting at Sterling's Mills, in Robeson county, and listened attentively ito the speiniies made on that occasion. If you would live to a 'real age vou must com? to Robeson. Tom Shaw, a negro, was purchased by John Mel lier son, a noted Scotch tory.of < uni berlnnd. n? 1775, and the bill of sale gave his age as 14 years. He accompanied iiis master to Moore's Creek in "7??. He rode a ? mule to the election in IS12 and voted the Democratic ticket, lie died in December, 1S72, near the residence of Daniel McUugan, F,su.,in Lunil r bridge township. |1 sprircs Cor. Wilmington Messenger. 1 on't be satisfied w it h tempo .;uv relief from indigestion. Ivodol Dyspepsia Cure pernio uentlv and completely removes ; this complaint. It relieves per manentlv because it allows the tired stomach p-rfet t rest. Diet ing won't rest the stomach. a turn received supplies from the food we eat. The sensible way . to help the stomach is to use Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which di gests what you eat and can t helu but do you good. Hood , Bros.. Hare & Son, J. R. I-edbet Iter. Cost of Demagogy. The number of pensioners add | cd to tlie roll during the fiscal t vear ending June .10. thirty-six j years after the close of the war, .was 40,292. The total number added in the vearlS72, seven years aft* r the end of tile w ar. when, in the opin ion of the Pension Commissioner [ then in office, "practically all the 1 old soldiers who had suffered any I grave disabilities might be suj> ' posed to have put in their app.i r cations," was 13,712. ? That is to say, the additions > to the list have increased three . fold in twenty-nine years. The total number of pensioners > now on the list is just, about a round 1,000,000, n<rain?t 282. 000 in 1N72. The anuuul coat in nearly *1+0,000,000, or *110, 000,000 more than in 1872. And the greater partofthis enorinons increase in due to the demagog ism and cowardice of the pol iticians of both parties. They have voted pensions, Iwith gen eral and special, for every con ceivable cause, with an eve to the "old-soldier vote," until now the cost of the roll exceeds that of any standing army in Europe and the combined pension lists of all the rest of the world.?New York World. In cases of cough or croup give the little one < )ne Minute Cough Cure. Then rest easy and have no fear. The child will !>e all right in a little while. It never fails. Pleasant to take, always safe sure and almost instantane ous in effect. J. It. Ledbetter, Hood Bros., Hare A Son. Beauty's Advantage. "I wouldn't be so concerned about my looks, Kthelinda," said the homely husband, crossly. ; "Beauty is only skin deep." "I know it, Melchoir," snapped the pretty wife, still inspecting the effect of her new hat in the' mirror, "but ugliness goes clear through.''?Chicago Tribune. If the action of your bowels is not easy and regular serious com plications must be the final re sult. DeWitt's Little Early Ri sers will remove this danger. Safe, pleasant and effective, .f. It. Ledbetter, Hare & Son, Hood Bros. Ruskin's Love Failure. The story of two love failures are written out in the September number of The Delineator. Thpy tell of Buskin's loveless life and also of the cheerless home of Fitz gerald, the Persian scholar. These two loves that failed are sketched by Clara E. Laughlin. James White Bryantsville, Ind., says DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve healed running sores on both legs. He had suffered t! years. Doctors failed to help him. (let DeWitt's. Accept no imitations. Hood Bros., Hare & Son, J. It Ledbetter. North Carolina s Area. North Carolina is n great Stute. It is long, too. From Currituck to Cherokee is 500 miles. Take j a cord and put one end at Cur rituck county and the other end at Cherokee, and holding thumb j on string at the former and turn ing t he string directly northward it will put you in Lake Champ-j J lain, New York. It has +8,."HO | square miles of land and 8,070 water area?total 52,250 square! miles. It has some fifty rivers I and u ith its numerous sounds and lakes it is as well watered a State as any in the I nion. Robe son county is largest with 1,0+8 miles; Bladen second, 1,013; Cumberland third, 1,008; New j Hanover has but 10!) square ! miles. Clay lias 185, and Chowan ] is smallest with 171. Camden is ! very small also, with 218. The 07 counties average something j over 500 square miles.?Wilming ton Messenger. Healthy Mothers j Few mothers are healthy, because the!* duties are so exacting, the anxiety of pregnancy, the shock of childbirth 5 and the care of young children, are severe trials on any woman. But with Wire of Cardui within her grasp, every mother?every woman in the land -can pay the icbt of personal health she I owes her loved ones. Do you want 11 robust health with a!! Its priv;Teges anci y | pictures? Wine of Caraui will give it |k WWII j strengthens the female organs and invig orates weakened Unsetiotis. For every ftihale ill or weakness It is the best medicine made. Ask voar druggist for * $1.00 bqttle Wine of O&Pdoi, and take m substitute under any circumstances. Mr*. Rdwin Cue, Gormr Mirki "When I E? commenced u-sng Wine of Gardui I was hardly abl< to w alk across the bouse. Tno wid| after I walied t l.aif a mitt aijd Ffrfccd sfrawbechefc When my <7i<* <&ild wes^orh I aftffered Vflh tRjor r,' -s /2l l.our*. ai tad lb r<ysc him Otl? HWIa because I had ? r.o i.nik. After mmg the Wine during pregnancy k this tot I asve btsih Lrtt month 1b a baby girt, anS I was >? febor only two hours, with but Vic pain E tjfi 1 hpve/fleufy// Inilk. For?d^rcat improve' K nianfnn mfhefllh UttmkGod snd^Finc ofGardii." I For adeic* in a?c* re<*drG\g SpeHsJ dimf^ons. f addrw*. gvtng ?mtnn*. The^taA^' f | snutaSii Quttwooa*. T?na 11 nmmiii How's Your STOMACH? Does It properly Digest wholesome end nutritious food? Good Digestion >? neceoary to j ?1???perfect health. | Perfect health is essential to happi ness. If Dyspepsia has a hold upon you, | you are unfit for life's work. Cast | off this dread disease. Coleman's Gua.ra.ntee will positively cure all fortns of in digestion and dyspepsia. Hundreds ! of users attest its curative powers. It will do for you what it has done for | others. One dose gives reherf. PRIQE &Oo. A BOTTLE. If your druggist doesn't sell it get another druggist. COLEMAN REMEDY CO.. Omllle, ?!., U. S. t. For Sale by hood Brothers. If you want pood Cook Stoves at very low prices, po to Snipes Bros., Selrna, N. C. Saved His Lite. Hon. J. A. Oates, Mavor of Di.nn, N. C., says: ' I am sure Dr. Worthington's Remedy saved my life It was prescribtd for me in a very severe case of cramp colic by Armstrong, of tbe Confederate army in 1 63. and it gave me instantane ous relief. Since that da' I have used it continually, and think it tbe greatest remeuy on earth and it sheuld be kept in every home." Price 25 cts at llood Bros. Ladies, Misses and Children Ziepler Bros, fine shoes sold by W. (I. Yelvinpton, every pair war ranted to pive satisfaction. If jTou want advertisinp of any kind done, excursion or fair bills posted or distributed, very cheap, call on, or address: Robert E. Snipes, Selma, N. C. I have used I)r. F. E. White's Worm and Condition Powders as a blood purifier for horses. It improves the appetite, fattens the horse, expels worms and pives a plossy coat. Dome Gardner. Guaranteed and sold by Allen Lee, Druppist, Smithfield, N. C. TO MAGISTRATES:?The Herald office is the place to buy your blanks of all kinds. cash counts. I want to remind you that 1 carry a full line of Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions, Hats, Tinware, Groceries, Canned Goods, And will sell cheap for cash. X X X GOOD SHOES A SPECIALTY. Country Produce bought for cash or barter. Don't forget me when you come to town. J. W. CANADAY, July 84-331 BENSON, N. C. pine Painting, I am in the painting bus iness and want to do your work. Am Fully Prepared to do it. Prices low and all work guaranteed. Frank F. Holmes, Smithficld, N. C. Smith's A Bakery. At Smith's Bakery you will find Loaf Bread, Rolls, Cakes and Pies. Also Fruits, Confectioneries, Canned Goods and Fancy Groceries. My br< ad is handled by J. W. Idles. Selmn; 11. E. Creech, Four Oaks; J. W. Canaday, Bauson. Your j>atronjr?> nsked. W G. SMITH, ?I ir.-lm. SmithHcId, N. C, JlSStSISSISSISSISSSSXSMStlSISJSSBSJSMM# | OUR LINE! ? Jr * Ji m ? We carry the largest, best selected, most varied, fi cheapest line of M | ....FURNITURE,... | g ever carried in stock in Johnston county. We carry J in stock ORGANS from two of the most famous man- ^ ? ufacturers of the United Stat- s. We carry tLe 3 * WHEELER AND WILSON No. 9 j* 2 AND THE NEW ROYAL 5 ? SEWING MACHINES. J g We guarantee to meet any and all competition in if Jf goods and prices. We will sell you a good sewing ma- if M chine with a guarantee for $20. We will sell you a if m good organ 78i inches high, 45 inches wide with a if m guarantee for $50 cash. if g We will tiike cows, hogs, sheep, horses, mules, corn, fod- ? g der, or any marketable country produce in payment for 5 g any of our goods. We will sell to good parties 3 H ON INSTALLMENT PLAN, Xj (EASY PAYMENT) X g Call and 6ee us. We will please and save money for you. if 2 The Smithfield Furniture Co. NOW X READY. A MODERN FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKING PLANT IN DUNN. Metal Working in ail its Branches. Ten thousand feet of floor space, crammed with brand new and ponderous machinery direct from the manufacturers. WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE JAEQUHAR, ENGINES J11TD BOILERS Of all Styles from 4 to 600 horse power. I ALSO Threshing Machines, Saw Mills, Etc. WRITE FOR Catalogue and Prices. All Kinds Steam Fitting? Constantly on Hand. TOBACCO FLUES, ALE STYLKS. Everything Guaranteed. Freight rates equalized witb other points. We are in it. Don't forget us. The John A. JVIcK^sg jVH's Co., i dunn. n. c. WE KEEP A HARDWARE STORE WITH A WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF HARDWARE, CONSISTING OF Stoves, Ready Mixed Paints, Oils, Lead, Guns, PISTOLS, AMMUNITION. TINWARE, GLOBE CULTIVATORS, WAGON MATERIAL, NAILS and HORSE SHOES, POCKET andTABI, CUTLERY, FIRST QUALITY BELTING, SASn, DOORS, BLINDS, LAMPS, Extra 11 avy Team Collar*, etc. Devoe's Old Reliable Paints tind Colore in Oil. Every Gallon Guaranteed. Also Sherin Williams' Paint, Osborne Mowers and Reapers for Saie. 14-FINGER GRAIN CRADLES. nnatre FAAri Wire Poultry and F1 PI (III O I vvtl? Wii Acme Powder Guns for Tobacco. Clayton Hardware Company, C. W. CARTER, Owner and Proprietor, 1)10?tf. CLAYTON, N. C. ? NEW BAR! COME!! I * - tit 'f\ FOLLOW TIIK HUSH TO if. E. CREECH'S FANCY \fc. rt\ BAR ANHGROCERY SfORE. THERE Vol ?L i\ WILL GET S ? ICE COLD BECR, $ n\ And Fancy Liquors of All Kinds. T " : . - vi \m & 1* My Line of Groceries is Complete, tit The Freshest you Ever did eat. ^ I If tit tfi l>on't Forget me When yon Come to Town. m R. E. CREECH. * J FOUR OAKS, N. C. tig $Ju1* rv Am. ft
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