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VOL. 28. SMITHFIELD, X. C.. FRIDAY JANUARY 27. 1905. NO. 47
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest to North
Carolinians Clipped and
Culled from the State
Papers.
A charter has been issued to
the Bank of Southern 1'iues, with
a capital of 10,000.
Kernersville is to have a $2?v
000 knitting null, employing
about two hundred operatives.
Representative Kluttz has in
troduced a bill appropriating
$7o,000 for the construction of a
public building at Mt. Airy.
A marriage of great contrast
took place in Forsyth county a
few days ago, the groom weigh
ing pounds while the bride
held down the scales at 2,'17.
The memorial volumes of the
writings of the late I. E Avery is
now uuder way. The board of
editors meets in (ireensboro on
February 4th. The proceeds of
sale will be devoted to a memorial
scholarship at Trinity College.
The jury in the case of Murray,
on trial for murder at Durham,
gave in a verdict of manslaught
er, and Judge Peebles sentenced
the prisoner to two years on the
roads. A motion for a new trial
was over ruled. Au appeal to
the Supreme Court was taken.
Col. Allen T. Davidson, aged
84 years, died at his home in
Asheville Tuesrday uiorumg at
11 o'clock, lie was one of the
few surviving members of the
Confederate Congress, having
been elected from the western
district of North Carolina during
the civil war.
Mack Mowty, a well-to-do farm
erof Coddle Creek, Cab irruscoun
ty, committed suicide on Sunday
afterno m by cutting his throat
with his pocket knife, in an old
field on his farm. He had about
seventy-five bales of cotton, and
it is believed that the low price
was the cause of the act.
The Newbern Lumber Com
pany will erect a large doublecir
cular saw mill at a cost of about
$40,000 at James City, on the
Trent Kiver, opposite Newbern
The authorized capital of the firm
is $125,000, and it is their inten
tion to build one of the fastest
and most complete mills in that
section.
The commencement sermon at
Trinity this year will bepreached
by Rev. Richard Wilkinson, pas
tor of the Rayne Memorial M. E.
Church, South, New Orleans. The
ad Jress will be given by Dr. Al
bert Shaw, editor of the Review
of Reviews, and Dr. G. T. Rowe,
of Concord, will deliver the alumni
address.
Fire a Hamlet Friday night,
destroyed Hinson's stables,
Armor's saloon, Lackey's saloosn
McLeod's saloon, Spreight's
grocery store, Mrs. Stull s board
ing house, Thomas' beef market,
Thomas' restaurant and J. I).
Godwin's store. The fire started
in Hinton's stables. The loss is
estimated at $2.j,000 or more.
Ed. Hughes, who was shot by
J. L. Kennedy in Kinston about
two years ago, died the other
day, never having recovered from
the effect of the shooting. Ken
nedy died on the witness stand
while testifying about the shoot
ing. Kennedy's sod, who was im
plicated in the shooting and sen
tenced to the chain gang for a
year, escaped in a short timeaud
his whereabouts are unknown.
I'olicemanH. B. Donnell Tims
day afternoon shot and killed
a negro in Greensboro, charged
with stealing a shotgun and rifle
from the Southside Hardware
Company the night before, three
balls From his pistol entered the
negro's body and producing
Instant death. The officer was
in pursuit of the theif and over
took him at the old Nane Mill,
three miles northwest of the city.
When accosted, the negro drew
the shotgun and fired at the
officer, who knocked the barrel
of the gun aside and beg in Bring
his pistol. The negro attempted
the other barrel, but again
missed the officer, whose aim was
better.
The Mother of a Governor.
The papers of the State for the
last three or four days have beeu
printing splendid eulogies of
North Carolina's new Governor.
The description of the inaugural
ceremonies occupied several col
umns and the successof the event
is still a topic for discussion.
Hut one little sentence has beeu
ovei looked by the leading jour
nals of the Old North State. It
was a simple one, and hardly
calculated to attract uiucn at
tention, but now after the ex
citement has subsided, and the
inauguration is fast becoming a
memory, the sentence referred to
speaking out in dulcet tones.
Down toward the bottom of the
column we rescued the follow
ing from the inaugural report of
a Italeigh paper:
'His mother (Governor Glenn's)
was an interested ^spectator."
That was all, but what a world
of love and maternal pride it
unfolds! A silver-haired and
sainted mother sat among the
cheering multitude feasting her
eyes on Her Son?now holding
the highest office in the State.
What matter to her at that mo
ment the years of tender solici
tude and heart yearnings? Upon
her knee iu the long ago the f'u
ture Governor of North Carolina
had lisped her name. To the
people of a gieat State he was
The Governor?to her he was
still her Robert. Happy mother!
Noble sou!
Some years ago the same son
was an honoreti member of the
General Assembly of North Caro
lina. Au important measure
was pending iu the Senate; but
when the fury of debate was at
its highest Robert Glenn was
caught calmly writing a letter.
When asked how he could evince
such indifference tne Senator re
plied: "1 have thoroughly con
sidered the question and am now
WRITING A L.KTTEK TO MOTHKK,
as is my daily custom " h n
any wonder then, that the State
Senator found fortune sirnlling
on his path as he advanced, and
that he is now the Chief Execu
tive of the grandest old State in
the Union? Is it cause for sup
prise that his gray-haired mot h
er should feel the maternal spirit
welling up withiu her as h - stood
bare-headed before thousauds of
| men wno loved nun as only a
I lo.yal people can love true rnau
| hood? What cared she if her
eyes swam with tears of joy; per
haps she could not see him, but
she knew that her boy was there,
and that was enough for her
So it is fitting and proper that
when we shower honors upon
our new Governor we should re
member the mother who gave the
State such a son. We have often
in the garden seen the smiling
rose; how perfect its foliage, how
entrancing its form! We have
' stooped to gather to ourselves
its license-like like fragrance and
softly kissed its tinted petals
Hut few of us have ever remem
bered the training hand of the
?gurdeuei! Lost in admiration
j for i he result of his labors, we do
not recall the anxieties and cares
eudured by him, that tne world
might be made sweeter and fresh
er. The mother of the Governor
was the patient gardener, whom
! The Citizen congratulates to-day.
The mother service is the uuheard
whisper which in future years
speaks aloud in human charac
| ter. The echoes of that gentle
tongue have reached the highest
i peak, her smile has shed a radi
ance in the lowliest cabins of the
earth. And thus it comes that
| "the hand which rocks the cradle
rules the world."?Asheville Citi
zen.
Sickening Shivering Fits
of Ague and Malaria, can be re
lieved and cured with Electric
Hitters. This is a pure, tonic
medicine; of especial benefit in
malaria, for it exerts a true cura
tive influence on the disease, driv
ing it entirely out of the system.
It is much to be preferred to
Quinine, having none of this
drug's bad after-effects. E. S.
Munday, of Henrietta, Texas,
writes: "\lv brother wns very low
with malarial fever and jaundice,
till he took Elect rie Hitters, which
saved hislife. At Hood Bros drug
store; price 50c., guaranteed.
TERROR IN ST. PETERSBURG.
Troops Fire Upon Strikers and Shoot
Down Men. Women and Children
?Snow Crimson With Blood.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 'J'J.?Revo
lution was rife in tbe Russian
: capitol to-day. A bloody confict
I between striking workmen and
troops occurred early in theatter
nooo. The beaten snow around
j the Winter Palace is red with
blood and the gravest apprehen
sions for the safety of the mon
archy are entertained. At 9:30
o'clock to-night it was believed
1,(500 people had been killed or
wounded. Popular rumor said
that many thousand must have
fallen. At that hour troops were
bivouacked around camp fires
here and there in the streets.
One detachment of infantry re
fused to fire on the people and
laid down their arms, but Uhlans
and Cossacks attacked those the
infantry would not.
barricades erected on t he island
of Vassili Ostrov late to-uight
were destroyed by troops almost i
immediately, with the loss of
thirty workmen killed. The sym
pathy of the middle class is witli
the workmen.
If Father Gopon, the master
iniud of the movement, aimed at
open revolution, he managed the
affair like a genius to break the
1 faith of the people in the " Little j
Father," who, they were con- i
, v laced, and whom I ather Gopon ]
had taught them, would right I
the wrongs and redress their
! grievances. Gorky, the Russian
novelist, expressed the opinion
t lat to-day's work will break
tins faitn of tne people in the
Emperor lie said this evening:
" To-day inaugurated revolu-i
tioii in Russia. 1'lie Emperor's I
prestige will tie irrevocably shut |
I ti red by the sueucling of iriuocen1
blood. He h is alienated himself j
lorever irora his people. Gopin
taught the workmen to believe
hat an appeal direct to the 'Lit
tle Father'Would be heeded. They
have be--n undeceived. Gopon
is now convinced that peaceful
means have failed and that the
I only remedy is force. The first
I blood has been shed, but more
will follow. It is uow the people
against the oppressors, aud the
battle will be fought to .the bit
ter end."
A workman who wasintroduced
to speak in Fat her Gopou's name
made a tierv <? peeeh. lie appealed
to Liberals to furnish arms. The
meeting adopted a letter deuounc
ing the officers and regiments
that fired on the workmen bnd
auother extolling the Moscow
regiment, which refused to fire.
A memoer of the Emperor's
household is said to have made
the prophecy that the uprising
will end the war with Japan, and
that the Czar will be forced to
give the people a constitution or
lose his head.
Quiet at St Petrsburg.
Kt. Petersburg, January 25.? i
Quiet continues in St. Peters- (
burg. Evidence accumulates
that the strikers are supplied
with money to meet their present
needs. All sorts of stories are
afloat as to the siz-? and origin
of the fund. Money is undoubted
ly being supplied by the Liberals.
It is said that they have a fund
of $2,000,000. some of which
was supposed by German
socialists, but there is no way
of verifying the stories. It
is seriously believed in some I
quarters that money is being \
furnished from Japanese-British
sources to bring on a revolution
or such internal complications as I
will compel the government to
make peace. |
Greatly in Demand.
Nothing is more in demand than
a medicine which meets modern
requirements for a blood and sys
tem cleanser, sue', a. lJr King s
New Life Pills. They are jus'
what you need to cure stomach
and liver troubles. Try them.
At flood Bros, drug store, 25c ,
guaranteed.
Judge Phillips, who died at his
home at Turboro a fewdnvsniro,
left an estutevaluedat $210,000.
ANTI-SALOON WORK IN VIRGINIA.
Seven Hundred and Sixty-Seven
Saloons Closed In Two Years.
Lynchburg, Ya , Jan 20th.?
Seven hundred and sixty-seven
saloons closed in two years, was
the nispiriug note of the annual
address of 1 >r. James Cannon,
president of the Virginia State
Anti-Saloou League, in session
here this week. The money ex
pended in the two years amount
ed to $8,100. The average cost
of closiug each saloon is shown
to be (10.80. The reports in the
State Auditor's office show the
following facts:
Retail liquor licenses issued in
1902, 1,866.
Retail liquor licenses issued in
1903, 1,300.
Retail liquor licenses issued in
1004, 1,106.
These facts show the great
progress which has been made in
temperance reform. The official
reports give the following facte:
There are seventy counties and
three cities, in which there is not
a single licensed saloon. 747 of
the 1,100 saloons are in cities,
and 173 are in the territory con
tinguous to cities. Of the remain
ing 180, all but 31 are in 10
towns and summer resorts, the
other 31 being scattered in the
thirty counties of the State. The
saloons are distributed practical
ly as follows in the cities:
Richmond, 246; Norfolk, 140;
Newport News, 38; Alexandria,
37; Petersburg. 42; Portsmouth,
41; Lynchburg, 30; Roanoke, 34; [
Manchester, 22; Charlottesville,
17; Staunton, 14; Fredericks
burg, 11; Bristol. 10; Radford, 7.
The tv-ports show dispensaries in
ten places iu the State. Thereare
about 40 social clubs in Rich
mond, and about 20 in Norfolk.
A Social Event.
Four Oaks, N. (J, Jan. 23,
1905.?On Saturday night, 21st
iusiaut, a number of trie friends |
of Mr. and Mrs. E-roin Johusou, I
who live near Four Oaks, gath
ered at their hospitable home to
meet several guests of t he family i
who wereou uvisittnere. Among;
those pre*eiityour reporter noted J
trie following: Misses Floy John
son, Clay ton; Eva Wellous, Pine
Level; Beruice Jones, Asbeville;
Bessie Bandy, Greensboro; Lou-1
ella Lassiter, Mattie Lasssiter, |
Bertie Lassi er, Daisy Lassiter,
Liunie tlobt s and Nellie Lassiter;
Messrs. Chester Lassiter, Ben.
Johnson, Calvin Lassiter, Wal
ton Johnson, Lester Barnes,!
Boy Johuson, Charley Creech,'
Paul Johnson, Tom Hardy and !
Junius Hobbs.
Games aud plays were the
order of the evening, and all
present had a gay time of it. At
10 o'clock refreshments were
served, aud at 11 o'clock, after a
few pleasant words of apprecia
tion from Prof. I). L. Ellis, |
principal of Clayton High School j
the party left for their homes,
expressing the pleasure they had
enjoyed at the home of their!
host aud his admirable wife.
Johnson Taylor
Wednesday at 12:30 o'clock ati
? he home of the bride's father, |
Mr. I. W. Taylor, at Dunn, his|
daughter, MissCallie, was united
in marriage to Mr. Alison John-:
son, of this place. The ceremony |
was performed by Itev. J. V\ |
Suttie. Immediately after thej
ceremony Mr. aud Mrs. Johnson
left for the home of the groom's j
fath r, Mr Marion Johuson,
uear SmithOeld.
Mr. Johnson is a popular and
energetic young man who has a
good position here with the
Cotter-Underwood Co., while his
bride is one of Dunn's charming
young ladies who has a large
host of well wishing friends.
They will make Smithfleld their i
future home.
Dr. C. L. Baper. of the econom
ics department of the University,
has been asked bv the Carnegie
Institution at Washington to
write, or direct the writing of,
The Financial History of North
Carolina, also. The Industries of j
Monev ami Banking in North j
Carolina.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Some of the Important Matters Be
fore the General Assembly, Con
densed From Ueports in
the Dally Papers.
A bill to abolish '"bucket shops"
iu the State haw been introduced
in the General Assembly; another
to make passenger fares 3 cents
a mile and abolish second class
fares; another to require a bond
of $1,000 of cider wholesalers
that their goods shall be the pure
product of apples, and that the
alcoholic strength shall not ex
ceed 8 per cent.; another for a
license of $500, with $5,000 pen
alty, Irom manufacturers of pat
ent medicines desiring to sell in
theState, such medicines to heap
proved bv the board of Health,
no manufacturer to sell any pat
ent medicine containing alcohol,
opium, or other dangerous drug
without a license.
Still another bill was intro
duced Monday to forbid liquor
distilleries in towns of less than
1,500 population and the sale of
liquor in towus having less than
two policemen with a full town
government.
A bill to adopt the Virginia
plan of summoning special venires
from other counties to try cases
where an application for removal
to anothercounty has been made,
has been favorably reported to
the General Assembly.
Governor Glenn has sent a
special message to the legislature,
stating that the Supreme Court
building is pronounced unsafe,
on account of the weight of
books in the library on the third
floor, and urging the erection of
a new building to store the State
records and provide committee
rooms and offices for the Insur
ance Commissioner Senator Fil
ler introduced a bill appropriat
ing $75 (KM) for such a building.
Senator McLean introduced a
Itrill which will deprive the A. and
M College of $10,000 a year fur
nished by the State Department
of Agriculture.
Representative McQueen, of
Moore county, has introduced in
the House by request a bill pro
viding for the establishment of a
new county, to be known as Lee
county. The bill provides that
parts of Moore, Chatham, and
Harnett shall be cut off to form
this new county, and Sanford
shall be thecounty seat. Twenty
seven square miles of the upper
part of Harnett will be taken off
if the bill passes.
Representative Gower, of John
ston, has introduced a bill to
establish a home for wbiteepilep
tics and idiots at the State Hos
pital in Raleigh. The bill pro
vides that each couuty shall pay
for the maintenance of each per
son from that couuty.
Long Strike at End.
Boston, Mass., Jan. 1G?The
strike of the cotton mill opera
tives, at Fall River, which af
fected about 25,000 prsous and
has been in progress for six
months, to the great hardship
and suffering of Fall River's
people, was settled today
through the mediation of Gover
nor William L. Douglas. Under
the terms of an agreement ac
cepted by both manufacturers
and operatives, at a conference
held at the State House to-day,
the strikers will return at once to
work under the 12 12 per cent,
reduction, against which they
struck last July and with no dis
crimination because of thestrike.
Rev. 0- A- Oglesby killed In a Train
Wreck.
Aberdeen, N. C., January 25 ?
One of the most fatal wrecks in
the history of the road occurred
on the Aberdeen and Asheboro
Railroad near Troy yesterday.
As a result of the wreck Rev.
G. A. Oglesby, a well-known
Methodist minister of this place,
is dead and several others injured.
All passengers on board, save
two or three, were hurt to some
extent.
The wreck was caused by
spreading of the rails on a curve.
1 he two cars went down an em
bankment teu feet high aud were
demolished.
Temperance Work to be Done.
Petitions are being circulated
iu different parts of ttie county
for tue signatures of qualified
voters who u>k by these petitions
that the legislature p&ssalawfor
prohibition for the entire county,
rite indications are that niore
than three-fourths of the voters
will sign the petitions if the peti
tions can be presented to ttiem.
Iu some sections nearly ? very
body signs If every voter is seen
and the matter presented the
work will succeed, otherwise it
may not. It is hoped that every
man who receives a uetition will
work to get voters to sign it If
you want a petition to canvass
with write to M. \V. Nash, Selma,
N. C., and it will be mailed to
you or you can get a large sheet
of paper and write the heading
on it and go to work. As soon
as the work is done send the pe
tion to Mr. Nash or you can
bring it to thecouuty convention
which meets at Sinithtield next
Monday. Every fi t-nd of tempt r
auce should <io his best now. The
heading of the petition is as fol
lows: "To the (iencral Assembly
of North Carolina, We, the un
dersigned voters of Johnston
Count", petitiouyour Ilouoiable
Moby to pass a law prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of
liquor in Johnston County and
euruestly pray that you will
graut our request." Signed:
Blizzard Along the Coast.
New York, .Ian 25.?Not since
the blizzard of 1888 by which ull
storms are estimated as great
or small, h;.e New York been so
completely snowbound as it is
to-night. Thexaty itself is lying
under a foot of snow, that in
many places has been banked by
the wind to a hen.ht oi several
feet. Surface travel early in the
day was abandoned, oviihead
transit was irregular and slow,
and it remained for the under
ground roads to carrv home, so
far as they could reach within
the city limits, hundreds of
thousands of workers from the
down districts. The entire coast
from the Deleware capes north
i has been iu the grasp of the
| storm. Reports of disasters to
shippiug are coming in and with
the rapidly falling barometer
much suffering must ensue. So
severe was the storm iu this city
that even during the day hours
several persons were frozen to
death or ditd from exhaustion.
Trains on the N, Y. Central were
annulled for the night.
Five Killed by Indians.
Nogales, Ariz, Jan. 21st.?Four
Americans and one Mexican were
killed by Yaqui Indians on Thurs
day afternoon, the 19th, four
miles east of Cobachi, thirty-five
miles east of La Colorado, State
of Sonora, Mexico.
The dead are: I>r. It. C. Coy,
of Chicago; John K. Mackenzie,
of Chicago; M. A Call, of Toledo,
O ; Walter Stubinger, of Ivewanee,
11) ; Mexican driver, name un
known.
H L Miller and a man named
Tarleton, both of Chicago, and a
second Mexican, Cochero, escaped
and made t heir way to Cobachi,
thence to La Colorado. Miller
was slightly wounded but the
others were unhurt.
Protect Your Cotton.
In view of the unusually large
amount of cotton which is held
on farms and at gin houses this
season, it is more than ordinari
ly necessary that the cotton
should be properly housed and
protected from the weather in
order to avoid great damage,
especially where owners contem
plate holding for a lengthy period.
It is often the case tnat cotton
exposed for any length of time
will he damaged to the extent of
tifty or more pounds per bale.
In cases where it is impossible
to put cotton under shelter, it
should be kept from the ground
by poles, rails, or something of
the kiud The bales should be
turned every week or two.
Pretty line Caps for school girls
aud boys. Watson.