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VOL. 25. SMITHPIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 17, 190(1. NO. 24.
USELESS NOMINATIONS.
About 23 Radicals Name Can
t didates to Get Left.
Judge W. S O B. Robinson Will Run
Against Armistead Jones?Ed. Pou's
Opponent is Berry Godwin.
Two coijveutioos were held in
Raleigh to-day. although the
fact was hardly noticeable to
any but close observers and Re
publican politicians.
The conventions were the Re
publican Congressional conven
tion of the fourth district and
the Republican judicial conven
tion for the sixth district. The
utmost harmony prevailed at
both. It was asortofa"skidoo"
affair, there being about twenty
three present.
The net results are that Berry
Godwin, of fine Level, Johnston
County, will do the "skidoo"
stunt for Ed. Pou, and ex-Judge
W.8.0'B. Robinson will perform
the same kindly office for Armi
stead Jones. There was not
enough speechifying to hurt.
At twelye o clock, ttie dour lor
convening, there were live men
in the hall besides a newspaper
reporter. Fifteen or twenty min
utes later nearly a baker's dozen
came in, and about the mystic
number of twenty-three was the
final gathering. The "skidoo"
part will come later.
In the absence of F. 1). Jones,
of Gulf, chairman of the Con
gressional Executive Committee,
the convention was called to or
der by J. H. P. Adams, who was
designated by telegram from Mr
Jones.
On motion of Cnited States
Commissioner Nichols the temp
orary organization was made
permanent, Mr. Adamschairman
and W. W. Green secretary.
The convention got right to
work, and Commissioner Nichols,
in a very hopeful speech, placed
Berry Godwin, of Johnston, in
nomination.
Mr. Godwin's nomination was
seconded by Thomas Massey, of
Johnston, a former populist.
Ex-Populist Congressman J.
VV. Atwater moved that the
nomination be made by accla
mation, and it was done, but the
acclaim was not a mighty one.
The executive committee for
the Congressional district was
then chosen, as follows, one from
each county and one at large:
Chatham, Dr. H. T. Chapin;
Franklin, (V. VV. Green; Nash,
Mack Brantley; Johnston, James
D. Parker; Vance, S. E. Satter
white; Wake, Claudius Dockery;
at large, J. C. Standi, of John
ston. The committee organized
with J. C. Stancil chairman, and
W. G. Briggs secretary.
Immediately after the Con
gressional convention had ad
journed, Commissioner Nichols j
called to order the convention of!
the sixth judicial district, and
designated A. L. Barefoot, chair
man. Mr. Barefoot is Republican
nominee for the seuate for the
district comprising Johnston,!
Harnett and Sampson.
The business at hand was the
nomination of a candidate for
solicitor.
.1. F. Dobson, former postmas
ter at Goldsboro, nominated ex
Judge VV. S. O'B. Robinson. The
nomination was seconded by
J. D. Parker, of Johnston, and
on the latter's motion the nomi
nation was made by acclama
tion.
It was decided after several
motions and amendments that
the executive committee should
consist of two members from
each of the four counties?Wake,f
Johnston, Harnett and Wayne,
and one at large.
The following were chosen: J.
W. Harden and H. P. Harrell of
Wake; 8. G. Pate and 8. O.
Holmes of Wayne; J. B. Hol
land and J. Nl. Coates of Har- 1
nett; H. F. Peeden and Doc
Stephenson of Johnston, and
John Nichols at large.
The committee organized with
John Nichols chairman, and As- ,
sistant Postmaster J. B. Leon
ard secretary.?Condensed from
report in Wednesday's Haleigh
Fvening Times.
North Carolina Journal ct Education.
The State Associationof boun
ty Superintendents last Decem
ber passed, unanimously, a reso
lution pledging itseutiresupport
to the establishment aud main
tenance of a Journal of Educa
tion for all the teachers and
friends of education iu the State.
The resolution was presented to
the other departments of educa
tion at the Teachers' Assembly
iu -June.
Each department passed the
resolution and appointed a rep
resentative to serve with the
other representatives as an Ad
visory Hoard. This Hoard con
sists of the following representa
tives:
From the State Department of
Education, J. Y. Joyner, State
Superintendent, Chairman.
From the Teachers' Assembly,
W. T. Whitsett, President.
From the County Superintend
ents, VV. H. Ragsdale, of Pitt,
and A. C. Reynolds, of Bun
combe.
From the City Superintend
euts, \V. H. Swift, of Greensboro.
From the High Schools, Acad
emies aud Colleges, VI. H. Holt,
of Oak Ridge Institute
From the Primary Teachers,
Miss Leah Jones, of the State
Normal and Industrial College.
The Advisory Board was em
powered to select a publisher.
After careful examination of the
various propositions submitted,
that of Mr. H. E. Seeman, pro
prietor of The Seeman Printery,
Durban^ .V. C , was considered
the most liberal, and the Board
entered into a contract with him
to publish the North Carolina
Journal of Education, he to!
assume the entire responsibility
of its publication.
The next step was to select the
Editor-in-Chief. Superintendent
E. C. Brooks, of the Goldsboro
Public Schools, was unanimous
ly elected, and a Board of Asso
ciate Editors, whose names will
be announced later, was also
chosen. Superintendent Brooks
began work immediately and his
time will be spent the remainder
of the summer in planning the;
work and collecting material.
The first issue will appear Sep
tember 15, and the magazine
will appear semi monthly, on the
1st aud 13th of each month.;
The subscription price is One'
Dollar a year?a school year of;
ten months.
Some reasons why every North
Carolina teacher should be a t
subscriber to this Journal:
1. It will deal with real prob
lems and conditions in the North
Carolina schools discussed by!
those who are daily dealing with
them successfully: therefore, it j
will be of more practical value to;
North Carolina teachers than
any other educational publica
tion.
2. As a medium of communi
cation on educational subjects
between the heads of the State.
and the county school systems,
the public school officers and the
teachers it will be almost a neces
sity to them
3. All teachers should aid
by their support in establishing
and maintaining a powerful and
helpful agency for the promo-!
tiou of all sorts of useful educa
tion in North Carolina.
Lost His Life To Save Others.
Allentown, Fa., Aug 14.?In
his successful effort to save the
lives of two women, Daniel Colt,
aged 21 years, a brakeman on
the I ronton Railroad, lost his
life to-day. His train was back
ing through a cut when he saw
the women. The space was nar
row between the track and the
banks and Colt fearing they
might be caught signalled to the
engineer to stop. Colt's gesticu
lations caused the engineer to
shut off steam so suddenly that
the train was violently jarred.
Colt was thrown under the wheels
and killed.
The I nited States District At
torney has taken steps to prose
cute the two bucket shops which
aided and abetted Faying Teller
Chislom to embezzle $150,000
fiomthelirst National Rank of
Birmingham, Ala.
General News Items.
Odell defeated Governor Hig
gins by one vote iu the New
York State Republican Commit
tee Wednesday.
William J. Bryan is to make a
trip to Australia after tlie
Novemher election and will be
absent 10 weeks.
Gems valued at $50,(100stolen
during the St. Louis Fair were
found by a laborer wrecking one
of the buildings Wednesday.
Stewart Battaile, telegraph
operator for the Atlantic Coast1
Line at Acre, near Petersburg.!
was killed by lightning Tuesday
evening.
After an uuexplained absence
of 31 years, Prof. Chas. H. Rye,
of Chicago, returned to his wife
Monday and presented her fifty
$100 bills.
The (irand Army of the Repub
lic paraded at Minneapolis Wed
nesday and a number of the vete
rans were overcome by the heat,
two of them dying.
Alex R. Chilson, paving teller I
of the First National Rank of i
Birmingham is an embezzler to
the amount of $100,000, having j
lost it in bucket shops.
It has been resolved, as a
means of avoiding more trouble
over two fares to Coney Island,
that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit i
Company shall allow rebates.
Though Henry H. Lippart bid j
$5,000 less, the contract for 40-,
000 army blankets was awarded 1
to the American Woolen Com
pany, the so-called Woolen
Trust.
A passenger train was wrecked
on the Southern Railway near |
Cnion Level, Ya., early Tuesday!
morning, the coaches turning
over and six passengers being
injured.
Johnston County Republicans.
The .Johnston County Republi- j
cans held their convention here j
last Saturday. It was called to |
order by J. C. Stancell, chairman \
of the executive committee, J.
D. Parker, Postmaster atSmith-j
field, was made permanentchair-j
man.
The principel speech of the oc
casion was made by Willis (1. |
Biggs, (slated for Raleigh's next
Postmaster) who had been tm- (
ported for the purpose. The
burden of his speech was praise !
for President Roosevelt.
The following ticket was nam
ed:
Senate?Allen L. Barefoot.
House?W. C. Lassiter and A.
B. Hocutt.
Sheriff?Gibson Fitzgerald.
Register of Deeds?Joseph W.
Neighbors.
Clerk of the Court?,T. I). Par
ker.
Treasurer?Zack SteDhenson.
Coroner?Dr. G. E. Parker.
County Commissioners?Berry
Godwin, W. J. Morgan, A. F.
Barbour, Robert Sanders and j
Wesley Batten.
A Day or Bloodshed and Tnrmoll In
Russia.
In three different parts of War
saw bombs were thrown at po
licemen and nearly 100 persons
were injured.
Conspirators shot 17 police
men, 4 gendarme and 7 infantry
patrolmen, soldiers filling 15
of the crowd and wounding 180.
The police station at Lodz was
set afire by a bomb and troops
fired several volleys, killing and
wounding maDy persons.
Three police chiefs and one
Erovincial police captain have
een assassinated in different
towns.
Great popular indignation has
been aroused at St. Petersburg
by the brutal lashing of Mile.
Simirnoff, a refined young ladv,
who made a sarcastic remark
about soldiers, and the newspa
pers are demanding that the
officers and men guilty of the1
outrage be tried.
Investigation into the attempt
to assassinate Grand Iiuke
Nicholas shows that ball cartri- J
dges were used iu U0 rifles of the
sharpshooters.?Ifaltimore Sun.'
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS
What North Carolina Editors
Are Talking About.
Short Items of Interest to The Public
Clipped and Culled From Our
State Papers.
rkereiettilkiL fireensboro of a
life insurance company wite
000,000 capital
Miss Sallie Fridtfeu, who was
said to be 10." years old, died at
her home in Lumberton a few
days ago.
in Wilson county Thursday
Kobt. Stuckney shot and killed
Oscar Colie. Both colored. The I
slayer escaped.
It is believed that oil has been
fouud in Stanly county. A Pitts,
burg corporation has leased 4,-j
000 acres of land five miles from !
Albermarle and will bore for oil.
Robt. Lineberger. colored, of
Catawba county, died recently |
and left an estate of $700
worth of personal property aud
three farms. A colored man is j
administering on the estate.
Wednesday Kirb Leak, 10years j
old. was drowned while bathing I
in Parson's mill pond, in Anson j
county. He was unable to swim
and got beyond his depth. Two j
companions were with him but
as neither could swim they could
not help him.
A report on the penitentiary
shows the number of convicts to |
be 625, of whom 106 are in the !
penitentiary at Raleigh, 287 on
she State farm. 141 on railways,1
41 on the turnpike between Jeff-!
erson and Wilksboro and 501
near Wilmington. This is the
smallest number of convicts in j
34 years.
Lpwis Lewark, Currituck coun
y's famous large man, is dead
of typhoid fever. He was the!
largest man in the State, weigh-!
ing before his sickness 735
pounds. He was the strongest!
and most active man in his coun
ty, and had traveled all over the!
country to fairs and exhibitions, j
At death he was 27 years old.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, has j
notified Senator Simmons that
he will speak in Statesville dur
ing the campaign, at a date yet;
to be fixed. The Senator will
also speak at one or more other j
places in the State. Senator Bai-!
iey is not only an oratorofgreat |
ability but he is one of the ?
very ablest men in the United
States.
At Greensboro last week about
a score of persons met and for
mally named ex-Lieut. Gov. Rey
nolds, postmaster at Winston,
as the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Fifth District
against W. W. Kitchin. Rey
nolds made the race two years
ago and as he has a good job it
is supposed that his fellow par
tymen thought he should pull
the plow again. Only about
half the counties in the district
were represented by delegates at
the convention.
President Roosevelt has grant
ed a respite until November 1st
of the execution of the death sen
tence in the case of Robert Saw
yer and Arthur Adam, negroes
who are confined in the Wil
mington jail, having been con
victed of mutiny and murder on
the high seas. The stays were
granted because of the confes
sion of Henry Scott, who said on
the scaffold, just before he was
hanged, that he alone was guilty
of the crime for which all three
were convicted.
^ Mystery Solved.
"How to keep off periodic at
tacks of biliousness and habitual
constipation was a mystery that
Dr. King's New Discovery solv
ed for me," writes John N. Pleas
ant, of Magnolia, Ind. The only
pills that are guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction to everybody
or money refunded. Only 25c.
at Hood Bros', drug store.
AttSt. Petersburg Monday, at
the point of a revolver a railroad
cj.shier, was robbed of $10,000
by a women.
Death of Mrs. Edwards.
After a heroic tight?that wax
so brave as to give hope even iu
the face of despair?Mrs. Pauline
Broadburst Edwards, beloved
young wife of Mr. Hubert H. Ed
wards, died at their lioiue iu this
city this afternoon at 2:1 W
o'clock, and the heart of our en- j
tire community, who are always
as one in the hour of sorrow and
in the ordeal of need, is brim
tniug with sympathy for the be
reaved and loving husband, tin*
fond brothers aud sisters, tne
heart-broken parents, Capt. aud
Mrs. D J. Broadburst, in this so
sad crucible of death with which
God in His infinite wisdom has
seen tit to visit them.
Her death is the tirst in a fami
ly of ten brothers and sisters.
These are Mrs. John Farrior and
Miss Lila Hroadhurstand Messrs
Rowland, John.!., Walter, Frank,
Edgar, Hugh and Charles Broad
hurst, all grown.?(ioldsboro
Argus, Tuesday.
-Mrs. Edwards was a sister of
Mr. Frank Broad hurst, teeter a:.v
and Treasurer of the Smithtield
Cotton Mills.
Adopted Lad She Wanted to Wed.
Dee Moines, la., August 14.?
Cherles Lockhart, of Fonda, 10
years old, came to lies Moines to
day leading by the hand blush
ing Mrs. Jennie Gregsou, who
has not quite reached her 50th
birthday. A marriage license
was sought and obtained.
To the office of Judge Zell G.
Koe, the couple then wended
their way. \Vheu apprised of
the mission of his visitors the
Judge started in amazement.
Recovering himself, the magis-i
trate looked Mrs. Gregson in the
face and said: "Woman, it's not j
a marriage license you need, but
papers permitting you to adopt I
the lad."
After listening to a solemn dis
sertation on the evil of mismat-!
ing, the woman took the Judge's
advice and said she would adopt!
Charles and see that he got a
finished education to give him a
good start in life.
Married Her Twice.
Four and a half years ago Ira
Jernigau, a sou of Louis Jerni
gan, married Mittie Nasser, a
daughter of Isaac Nasser, who:
lives near Mount Olive. The li-1
cense was obtained and thej
marriage took place in Nampson
County. They lived together
from Sunday until the following |
Thursday. Her father visited
them and before leaving asked |
his daughter if she would not \
like to go home with him and !
get her clothes. She went with
him but was not allowed to re
turn to her husband. About a
year ago her father got a di
vorce for her. For the past three [
years she had heard nothing!
from Jernigan until a few days
ago. When she heard that he
was living in Bentonville Town
ship, Johnston County, she ar
ranged to slip away from her;
father the second time and come j
to him. She arrived Saturday j
evening, August 4th, at 5:30.
On Monday they were married I
again and are now happy to-1
gether. She is now nineteen
years old.
The End of the World
of troubles that robbed E. H.
Wolfe, of Bear Grove, la., of all j
usefulness, came when he began |
taking Electric Bitters. He
writes: ' 'Two years ago Kidney |
trouble caused me great suffer-1
ing, which I would never have
survived had I not taken Electric
Bitters. They also cured me of
General Debility," Sure cure
for all Stomach, Liver and Kid
ney complaints, Blood diseases,
Headache, Dizziness and Weak
ness or bodily decline. Price
50c. Guaranteed by Hood Bros',
drug store.
Within the last twelve months
the wealth of the south has in
creased at an averageof $3,000,
000 a day. or over f 1000,000,
000. Its people are prosperous,
factories are crowded with work,
and its lands are enhancing in
value.
A
Judge Peebles Scores Lynching.
Charlotte, Aug. 15.?it seeuis
that the Superior Court judges
of the State are going to make
it hot for the lynchers on every
occasion hereafter. Strikingly
relevant to the point in question
was the charge to the grand jury
delivered to day at the opening
of court by Judge Peebles.
< >u this subject the judge said,
in part: . <
"Included in the crime of mur
der is that of lynching. The
Confederate army of North Caro
lina was famed for the great
number of men she sent to the
front, and uot a braver body of
men ever lived, I believe. But
are we to think that violations
like lynchings and lawless deeds
committed are going to furnish
the State with brave men? In
lynching there is no bravery or
courage. The reputation of the
brave troops of the State will
suffer when the State depends on
men who believe in lynching.
But men with property and
thinking tueu will believe in law
and rise up and see that an end
is made to this."
Sudden Death In Kinston.
Mr. aud Mrs. .lohn E. Hudson
were called to Kinston early Sun
day morning on account of the
sudden death of Mrs. Hudson's
mother, Mrs. (J. T. Randolph,
which occurred Saturday night.
Atthetiuieof her death two of her
daughters, Miss Annie Laurie,
and little Miss Hilda, were here
on a visit to their sister.
Mrs. Randolph was the wife of
a prominent carriage manufac
turer of Kinston and her death
came as a great shock to her
family and friends.
Compromises in Married Life.
If marriage meant the wedding
of a saint and an angel there
would be no problems to solve,
no perfection to attain, no prog
ress to make. This m\y be why
there are no marriages in Heav
en. On earth, it is different;
husband wife are strongly hu
mau. No matter how lovingly
united or how sweet their accord,
they never have the same tem
peraments, tendencies of tastes.
Their needs are different, their
manner of looking at things is
uot identical, and in varying
ways their individualties assert
themselves. At any critical mo
ment if both express at the same
time, a desire to defer to the
other's taste, the result is fore
ordained for happiness. This
makes matrimony uot merely
union, but unison aud unity.
The spirit of compromise does
not mean a continuous perfor
mance in the way of self surren
der and self-sacrifice; it does not
mean ceasing to be a voice and
becoming an echo; it does not
imply or justify the loss of indi
viduality; it means simply the
instinctive recognition of the
best way out of a difficulty, the
quickest tacking to avoid a col
lision, the kindly view of toler
ance in the presence of weakness
aud errors of another, the cour
age to meet an explanation half
way, the generosity to be first to
apologize for a discord, the large
ness of mind that does not fear
a sacrifice of dignity in surren
dering in the interests of the
highest harmony of the two
rather than the personal vanity
of one.?September Delineator.
Galveston's Sea Wall
makes life now as safe in that
city as in the higher uplands.
E. W. Goodloe, who resides cn
Dutton Street, in Waco, Texas,
needs no sea wall for safety. He
writes: "I have used Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption
the past five years and it keeps
me well and safe. Before that
time I had a cough which for
years had been growing worse.
Now it's gone." Cures chronic
Coughs, L a G r i p p e, Croup,
Whooping Cough and prevents
Pneumonia. Pleasant to take.
Every bottle guaranteed at Hood
Bros', drug store. Price 50c.
and #1.00. Trial bottle free.
The Texas Democratic State
Convention has declared for
| Dryan for President.