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VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELI), X. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1001. ND.37.
STATE NEWS.
Short Items ot Interest Clipped and
Lulled From Our State
Exchanges.
T. L. Covington & Co., of Rock
ingham. have gone into volun
tary bankruptcy. Liabilities
f22,000; assets $18,000.
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy, in session in Wil
mington last week elected Mrs.
J. A. Rounsaville, of Rome, Ga.,
president.
John Felmet, an aged ex-Con
federate soldier, was run over
and killed byaSouthern Railway
train, at Leton, near Asheville,
Thursday.
Two dwellings were burned in
Raleigh Saturday?one occupied
bv Mr. J. B. Rice, the other by
Mrs. Blalock, on Firwood avenue.
Loss $2,500.
The State Board of Education
is considering a proposition to
sell the timber on 10,000 acres of
land it owns in Hyde county at
the rate of 50 cents a cord for
juniper.
It is said that ex-Senator Jar
vis will be a candidate for the
nomination for congress in the
first district. It is reported that
Gen. J. S. Carr will bea candidate
again for the U. S senate.
Mary Slagle, the young girl
who recently shot Houston Mer
riman in Asheville, who she
charges with seducing her, and
who has since been in custody of
the officers, has been released on
a $300 bond.
A charter is granted the Caro
lina Shingle Mills, at Wilmington.
Their product will be .">0,000 a
day. Seventy persons will beern
ploved. Operations will begin
on Janury 1. A charter is also
granted the brown Furniture
Company, of Salisbury, capital
$20,000.
The semi-annual stile of Jersey
cattle and Herkshireswine on the1
Yandesbilt estate took place last
week. The Asheville Cit zen says
(30 Herkshires were sold at an
average of$61 each, the highest
price pttid being $201. The high
est price paid for Jersey cows
was $2(52.50.
Governor Ay cock has employed
James E. Shepherd, James H.
Merrimon and George Rountree
to aid Attorney-General GUmer
in representing the State in the
suit to be brought by South
Dakota against North Carolina,1
involving the pay ment at par of
certain bonds of the Western
North Carolina Railway.
The State Superintendent of
Public Instruction has given out
a summary of this year's statis
tics as to negro education in
North Carolina. There are 21!),
(>77 negro children of the school
age. The enrollment is 141,1 HO,
against 130,005 last year. The
average attendance is HO.747,
against 64,505 last year.
Tliot'o ii-ou ci irotini'o I 1.1 .1 /lulixr
* UCI C ?? ?lin Hi KCIIU1UI |(III urn ? -
erv at Louisburg Friday night.
Five people were in the prison
at the time and they wrecked one
of the steel cages and then broke
through t he outer burners One
of the prisoners, Hen. Foster,
was under sentence of death for
murder, but had taken an appeal
to the Supreme Court. All of
them were colored.
.1. T. Broughton was seriously
wounded by the accidental firing
of a gun by .1. S. Gray while
hunting Tuesday afternoon near
Raleigh. The entire load entered
the back belowtheshoulder blade
and came out on the right breast.
His condition is very serious.
Gray slipped and fell while crow
ing a ditch with the gun-trigger
sprung.
The board of trustees of Wilson
Christian College met Friday
night and elected l)r Daniel K.
Motley, of Asheville, president, i
Prof. Joseph Kinsey, who lias
been for many years one of the
leading educatois of the State,
and who has donemorethan any
other person toestablish acollege
at \\ llson, was unanimously
elected professor of I^atin and
mathematics. |
Fire early Tuesday destroyed
the Holton block at Charlotte
and caused a loss of $100,000.
The principal losers are H. U.
Link, groceries, $110 000; It. H.
Field, groceries, $l.r>,000; 15. K.
Mryan, groceries, $48,000;
Oglesby Bros., dry goods. All
were insured. The fire broke out
in (Igletby's store, at the corner
of Trade and College streets, and
gained headway on accouutofan
accident at the pumping station
of the waterworks, which tem
porarily cut off the watersupply.
My the time other buildings were
in flames the water supply was
restored, and the flames werecon
tined to the buildings in the block.
Prices Must Advance.
When any manufacturer wants
low priced tobacco and tries to
buy it at the same time, is just
what makes high priced tobacco,
and this is exactly the process
that has been goingonfor a year
or more in our markets; it
is less that low grades have been
abnormally scarce, than the fact
that everybody has to be doing
: their best to make a bad grade
| of tobacco at a low price. Now
i that this part of-the crop is prac
tically totally exhausted, with a
short new bright crop, what can
be expected but higher prices, or
what is to be had in the better
grades that will push each other
up higher? However, as we ex
plain elsewhere, there are other
causes for higher bright tobacco,
and still none so useful or so pop
ular or cheap or in better demand
can be produced. The trust pro
cess of buying has made low
prices so long that the trade has
become so much accustomed
t hereto that a fair advance looks
like a much greater one.?South
ern Tobacconist.
A Shooting; Attair.
At Wilson's Mills last Monday
Remus Frazier was shot twice 1
with a pistol by Walter Lassiter.
Both of them are colored. It
seems that Lassiter used some
improper words to a daughter of,'
Frazier. The two men met last j'
.Saturday night and had some ,
words over the mattter. Sunday
they met at church and had a ;
quarrel. Monday they met again |
and a tight occurred. Frazier
was the first to begin the fight 1
and was met by Lassiter with a
ball in one of his wrists which 1
broke one of the bones. Frazier 1
turned and started to pick up a
brick, but while he was in a
stooping position Lassiter shot ,
him in tlie back.
The balls have been progued
for by physicians but have not
been taken out. His case is con- 1
sidered serious. Lassiter made |'
hjs escape and has not yet been j'
caught. Both these negroes are '
industrious andhavefamiliesand
this affair is a surprise to the 1
community.
Turner's Almanac.
I
Turner's North Carolina Alma
nac, 64th edition, published by
Knniss Publishing Company,
Raleigh, N. C., is on our table.
Turner's Almanac is an old and
established State institution,
and because of its reliability, is
popularly styled the "Old Relia
ble." It is the standard of local
astronomical time by which to
set our clocks and w itches, also
as to all officers of our State
government, salaries, etc.. public
works, penal, charitable and
educational institutions, Courts,
members of Congress, Judges,
Solicitors, etc., It contains
many interesting facts and sta
tistics of North Carolina, valu
able for reference, with household
and medical receipts for the
family. It is a very useful publi
cation, and commends itself to
all our people. Price only 10
cents, and for sale by merchants,
postmasters, druggists, etc., all
over t he State, or by the publish
ers, Knniss Publishing Company
Raleigh, N. C.
The Best Prescription for Malaria,
Chills and Fever is a bottle of
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It i
is simply iron and quinine in a 1
tasteless form. No cure?no pay. 1
Price 50c.
BRIGANDS HAVE NOT REPLIED.
Ultimatum, Stating Amount of Ran
som, Favored In Sofia.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 17.?The
brigands who abducted Mies
Ellen M. Stone, the American
missionary, and Mine.Tsilka,her
companion, have nor yet replied
to the latest proposals of Mr.
Dickinson, diplomatic agent of
tiie United States in Sofia. This
is believed to be due to the fact
that the band has many leaders,
and that the latter are unable to
agree amo >g themselves.
There is a general impression
here that time is being frittered
away while waiting for the b. ig
ands to reduce their demands. It
is felt that the only means by
which matters can be brought to
a head is to inform them as to
the sum available for ransom and
to declare that this cannot be in
creased for any consideration
whatever. Such an ultimatum
might ?ndanger the life of Miss
Stone, but it is more probable
that the .brigands will accept this
condition.
Besides every day's delay im
perils her life, not so much on the
score of the brigands themselves,
but by reason of the exposure
and strain she is undergoing.?
Washington l'ost.
Martin-Vick.
At Selraa Wednesday evening
was celebrated a beautiful lioine I
wedding. Miss Eudora, daugh
ter of Mrs. Dr. J. VV. Vick, was
married to Rev. Alexander Mar
tin, formerly of North Carolina,
but now'resident at Summerville,
S. C.
The bride is one of the most
charming and accomplished
young ladies we have ever known,>
and is right worthy of the devo
tion of the best of men. The
groom is a young Presbyterian !
divine, just recently ordained and
called to minister at Summer
ville. lie is a splendid specimen
of modern Christian manhood,
and will undoubtedly do great
work and achieve a high promi
nence in the nc blest of all voca
tions.
The ceremony was performed
by Rev. lv. I). Holmes, of the;
Methodist church, according to
the rite of Ihe Presbyterian
church, at R:30 111 the beautifully
decorated parlor of the home of
the bride.
Miss Nannie Richardson and
Miss Margaret Etheredge, of
Selina, received the guests at the
loor. Miss Charlotte Drown, of
Washington, sang some choice!
selections while the party was
gathering. Miss Margaret Long,
jf Roxboro, played from Wag
ner's Lohengrin Bridal March
while the bride and groom enter
ed, preceded by Miss Bessie
W harey, of Mooresville, maid of
honor, with Mr. Roger Martin,
brother and best man to the
groom.
\ftiir Kiaintr nnifurl lit* t ha Kaon
bilul ceremony of the ring the
bride and groom leparted on
the eleven o'clock train, s >uth
bound, for their future home.
Before the marriage took place
the bridal party and other guests
svere entertained at the home of
Mrs. it. A. Ashworth with an ele
?ant luncheon prepared by her
and served in her inimitable man
ner. At seven o'clock they were
received in Mrs. Ashworth s par
lors and conducted to the dining
room, where until nine o'clock
they were regaled with course
after course of rare dainties, the
arder being oysters on the half
shell, turkey with cranberry
<auce and celery salad with
breach dressing, entreeof banana
litters and cream, orangeade,
punch and sweet wafers tied with
souvenirs of hand-nainted white
ribbon, cake and cream a Dughi,
rheese and wafers with coffee,
dives, salteei almonds and other
?elishes being fully discussed be
:ween the courses. Violets were
ieco rations.
There was a quiet simplicity
ind elegance about the. whole
ivent that was thoroughly en
oyed by all, and all were earnest |
n expressions of good wishes for
inppiness and success.
Sknex. |
GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the Week's Hap
penings Throughout the
country.
Democrats will have 00 ma
jority on joint ballot in the Ken
tucky Legislature.
A Northern Central express
train was dynamited near \ork,
Pa., but no one was injured.
Prof. John lv Oilman, of Chi
cago, claims to have discovered
in the Roentgen ray a cure for
caucer.
Noah Raby, of Plainfleld, .V J.,
who claims to be 120 years old
and has hitherto had excellent
sight, is now totally blind.
The 17 buildingsof the Charles
ton Exposition are ready for ex
hibits, and every foot of avail
able space has been allotted.
The report of the Commissioner
of Immigration shows that the
steerage arrivals during the year
ended June 30 last numbered
487,018.
Some friends of A. P. Gorman
intimate he may decline the Sena
torship with a view to securing
the Democratic Presidential
nomination in 1004.
The Methodist committee at
Pittsburg appropriated 43 per
cent, of the missionary money
for home missions anu 57 per
cent, for foreign missions.
The Louisville A .Nashville rail
road authorities have announced t
that beginning December 1st the
wages of all mechanics in its shops
will be advanced 10 per cent.
Fire at New Haven Saturday
ruined the finest of the Yale stu
dent's dormitories?the Hutchin
son?which was erected a few
years ago at a cost of $200,000.
()rders have been issued bv the
War Department directing the
Twenty-seventh infantry to sail
for the Philippines as soon as
transportation can be provided.
It is said that the expense of
the court of inquiry to Admiral
Schley is over $52 000 and that
the expense has absorbed all his
means, including the prize money
he won in the Spanish war.
President Williams, of the San
Francisco Board of Health,
recommends that the famous
"Chinatown" be burned to the
ground as a safeguard avainst
infection from Oriental diseases.
Sena tor McLaurin, in a speech
to the Southern Cotton Spinners'
Association, at Atlanta last week,
declared for the isthmian canal
and building up merchant ma
rine as aids in extending foreign
trade.
The Hardwick bill, providing
for the disfranchisement of a
large portion of the negro voters
wasdefeated in theCeorgia House
of Representatives Tuesday bv a
vote of lid to 17. The same
measure was Introduced and met
a similar fate two years ago.
AM O 1 ni! 1 -i.L Tt_! 1J
.(irs. naraii rnizaoeui ( nswuiii
Morse, widow of I'rof Samuel F.
U. Morse, inventor of the tele
graph, died in Berlin, Germany,
on Thursday, at the home of her
daughter. She was I'rof. Morse's
second wife, and was married to
him in 1818. She was born in
1822.
Naval Constructor Richmond
I'earson Hobson, of Merrimac
fame, has been ordered detached
from the bureau of construction
and repair in Washington and
assigned to duty in connec
tion with the management of the
government, naval exhibit at the
Charleston exhibition.
The only gold medal author
ized by Congress for neroic con
duct (luring 1 he Spanish war was
forwarded Friday to Lieut. Frank
H. Newcomb, at l'atchogue, N.
Y. Lieutenant Newcomb com-!
manded the revenue cutter Hud
son and rescued the officers and
crew of the torpedo boat Wins
low off Cardenas. Cuba, during,
the action of May 11. 1898, at!
which time Worth Bagley, of
North Carolina was killed. The
medal contains about $750
worth of gold.
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Items ot Interest From the Nation's
Capital.
Joseph Jtfferson, the venerable
actor, was a caller at the White
House Saturday.
Strong influence is being ex
erted to have the President recom
mend the re-enactment of the
Chinese Exclusion act.
Mr. Herbert H. I). Peirce, the
newly appointed Third Assistant
Secretary of State, appeared at
the State Deparment Saturday
and was received cordially by
Secretary Hay and his assist
ants. The oath of office was ad
ministered to him and Mr. Peirce
entered upon the discharge of his
ifuties.
The cabinent meeting Tuesday
lasted about two and a half
hours. The whole time was spent
in the reading of the President's
message and in commenting on
its various features. The mess
age is long a ad is said to be vigor
ous in tone; in that respect at
least, quitecharacterist icot Presi
dent ltoosevelt. No other busi
ucno tiaunautni.
Representative I). B. Hender
son, Speaker of the last House
and practicallv assured of re-elec
tion, reacned Washington Satur
day and took up his residence at
the Normandie Hotel for the win
ter. Mrs. Henderson is visiting
relatives in California and will
not reach Washington for several
weeks. Her two daughters will
spend the winter abroad com
pleting their musical studies.
The new pair of bays that were
bought in Baltimore by Presi
di nt Roosevelt for the use of his
family have proved entirely satis
factory. They are being put to
the best use by the ladies of the
family who drive behind thein
these brisk mornings. Thesurrev
without a top is the favorite
vehicle and is used more frequent
ly than any of the other carriages.
This is lined with tan cloth. The
colored driver and footman
served for the late President and
Mrs. VlcKinley.
President Roosevelt entertained
at dinner Saturday the Secretary
of War and Mrs. Root, the At
tornev-Heneral and Mrs. Knox
the Postmaster-General and Mrs.
Smith, the Secretary of Agricul
ture and Miss Wilson, the Secre
tary to the President and Mrs.
Cortelvou, the Lieutenant Gene
ral of the Army and Mrs. Miles,
Mr. and Mrs Winston Churchill,
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hague, Mr.
and Mrs. Brock, Miss Roosevelt
and Vlr.Murchie. The decorations
were white chrysanthemums.
Selmi Graded Scnools Arhor Day.
BY A STUDENT.
On Friday, Nov. 15, 1001, the
Selma Graded Schools celebrated
their Arbor Bay, first, by giving
an entertainment, which was
verv much enioved.
, ? - - -~4 - -
After the exercises, the pupils
in coin puny with the teachers
went to the woods in search of
trees. The second, fourth and
seventh tirades went m one direc
tion, and the first, third, fifth
and sixtli in another.
Selecting as many trees as were
wanted, all returned to the school
house, each one carrying a tree,
which was set out on the school
grounds.
The seventh grade sang and
danced around theirs for good
luck. The trees being set out and
lunch being eaten, the remainder
of the time was devoted to play
ing on the campus. Several
games were plaved, and all felt
that the day bad been well spent,
especially as to setting out the
trees.
Don't Sutter.
The languishing tortures of
Dyspepsia, you can't stand it.
Take "Coleman's Guarantee," a
positive cure for all forms of dys
jiepsia and constipation. A cured
man says: "1 take 'Coleman's
Guarantee,' eat what I want, and
am happv." Price 50c. large
bottle, at druggists. Forsaleby
Hood Itros. and Henst 11 Drug Co.
NORTH CAROLINA'S COTTON
CROP.
Estimated at 328,040 Bales, Against
a crop ot 542,000 Last Year.
The News and Observer on .Sun
day morning printed letters from
nearly two hundred correspond
ents in all sections of the cotton
belt of Xoith Carolina, answer
ing questions as to the cotton
crop in the State this year as
compared with last year's crop.
These letters show that the cot
ton crop of North Carolina this
year is 05 1-12 per cent, of last
year's crop, which will {rive 328,
040 bales, against 542,000 last
year. There is yet remaining in
the fields, according to these
correspondents, who are all cot
ton planters, manufacturers or
buyers, 10 1-10 per cent, of the
crop. The reports show that
the average amount of lint cotton
produced per acre is 141 % pounds.
The News and Observerin an edi
torial claims that ninety per
cent, of its information is based
upon actual knowledge and only
ten per cent, of estimates.
Obituary.
The subject of this sketch wus
Sarah, the eldest daughter of
Joel J. Hudson and wife, and was
born on the 19th of October,
1866. She was united in mar
riage to John VV. Wood on the
25th of March, 1SS7, and died
November 1st, 1901.
She had been sick for several
months of heart dropsy, and all
that kind friends, skilled phy
sicians and an indulgent husband
could do was done, but for some
time it was seen that the end was
near, so the Death Angel entered
while she was resting, quietly
resting in the arms of her hus
band and gently bore her spirit
away. None were surprised.
Her sufferings were borne with
patience and fortitude. She had
learned to look to Jesus to lead
her safely through the valley and
shadow of death. Her only re
gret seemed to be at parting with
her dear husband and six little
children. In her death they have
sustained an irreparable loss, but
may He who doeth all things well
be their comfort in this the dark
hour of their bereavement. Al
though she can never come back
to them, may they so live that
when their stay 011 earth is ended,
that they can meet her in the
Spirit Land to dwell forever in
the " House not built with hands,
eternal in the Heavens."
Sympathizer.
The Youth's Companion in 1902.
To condense in a paragraph
the announcement of the Youth's
Companion for 1902 is not easy.
Not only will nearly two hundred
story writers contribute to the
paper but many of the most emi
nent of living statesmen, jurists,
men of science and of letters,
scholars, sailors, soldiers and
travellers, including three mem
1 r ! 1 t ? ? l ? ? 1 ?
uers 01 trie rresuient s uaDinet.
In a delightful series of articles
oil military and naval topics the
Secretary of the Navy will tell
"How Jack Uves;" Julian Ralph,
the famous war correspondent.,
describes "How Men Feel in Rat
tle," and \N inston Spencer
Churchill, M. I'., whose daring
escape from a Boer prison pen is
well remembered, will describe
some experiences "On the Flunk
of the Army."
And this is but a begintiirg of
the long list. A com pie ?
nouncement will lie sent to any
address free. The publishers also
announce that every new sul>
scriber who sends $1.75 for 1902
volume now will recive all the is
sues for the remaining weeks of
1901 free from the time of sub
scription: also the Companion
calendar for 1902?all in addi
tion to the 52 issues of the Com
panion for 1902.
Thk Yoi th's Companion,
135 Columbus Ave., Boston,
Mass.
New Club Shells at 40 cents j>er
box and cheaper in lots of 10O.
Also one-horse wagon for sale
A good two-horse wagon tirst
class in every res|>ect for sale,
cheap. Call at the Clayton Hard
ware Co., Clayton, N. C.